Inner Workings: Tarantula tint inspires new ways of making colors.

Tarantula - A Scalable and Extensible Web Spider

Web crawlers today suffer from poor navigation techniques which reduce their scalability while crawling the World Wide Web (WWW). In this paper we present a web crawler named Tarantula that is scalable and fully configurable. The work on Tarantula project was started with the aim of making a simple, elegant and yet an efficient Web Crawler offering better crawling strategies while walking throu...

Techniques. A new window on the cell's inner workings.

Opening the Black Box: the Relationship between Neural Networks and Linear Discriminant Functions

Over the last ten years feed-forward neural networks have become a popular tool for statistical decision making. During this time, they have been applied in many fields, including cytological classification. Neural networks are often treated as a black box, whose inner workings are concealed from the researcher. This is unfortunate, since the inner workings of a neural network can be understood...

Unconstrained web-based color naming experiment

This paper describes an ongoing web-based approach to collecting color names or color categories. Previous studies have tended to require a large number of observations from a small number of observers. These studies have also tended to limit responses to one-word or monolexical replies. Many studies have also focused on response time or levels of intra-observer agreement in order to identify f...

Overview of the popular image techniques and services in biomedicine

Imaging is one of the most important information sources in medicine and biology, as it opens up new ways to see the inner workings of the body, measure biological functions, evaluate cellular and molecular events using less-invasive procedures and makes the diagnostic processes more effective. At the same time, there are now possibilities to share huge quantities of medical information between...