The Streets That Matter

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

A Vision System that Recognizes Objects on General Streets

This paper describes a vision based monitoring system which (1) classifies targets (vehicles and humans) based on shape appearance, (2) estimates their colors, and (3) detects special targets, from images of color video cameras set up toward a street. The categories of targets were classified into {human, sedan, van, truck, mule (golf cart for workers), and others), and their colors were classi...

It's the holes that matter

Patterns that matter

Pattern mining is one of the best-known concepts in Data Mining. A bigproblem in pattern mining is that humongous amounts of patterns can be minedeven from small datasets. This makes it hard for domain experts to discoverknowledge using pattern mining, for example in the field of Bioinformatics. Inthis thesis we address the pattern explosion using compression.We argue that t...

Showing that Neighborhoods Matter

A long-standing contradiction has posed a critical puzzle to urban sociologists: On the one hand, a wealth of ethnographic studies make the point that the kinds of neighborhoods people inhabit profoundly shape their fortunes; on the other hand, statistical analyses of “neighborhood effects” have often failed to confirm that claim. From the earliest studies of the Chicago School, through classic...