Reports on PEL chapter activities and meetings worldwide.

Reports on PEL chapter activities and meetings worldwide.

Reports on PEL chapter activities and meetings worldwide.

Many applications of intelligent systems require reasoning about the mental states of agents in the domain. We may want to reason about an agent’s beliefs, including beliefs about other agents; we may also want to reason about an agent’s preferences, and how his beliefs and preferences relate to his behavior. We define a probabilistic epistemic logic (PEL) in which belief statements are given a...

We present a new fast motion estimation method useful for high speed video encoding. Most of the motion estimation methods for video coding can be classified as Block Matching (BM) methods or Pel Recursive (PR) methods . Majority of the current fast motion estimation methods belong to block matching category. These methods try to reduce the number of search locations. Our proposed method is bas...

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A low-cost yet highly sensitive colorimetric sensor array for the detection and identification of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) has been developed. The sensor consists of a disposable array of cross-responsive nanoporous pigments whose colors are changed by diverse chemical interactions with analytes. Clear differentiation among 20 different TICs has been easily achieved at both their IDLH ...

The presence of tumor-specific microRNAs reflects tissue of origin and tumor stage. We show that the absence of miRNAs likewise can be used to determine tumor origin (miR-155) and proliferation state because tumor suppressor miRNAs (miR-222/221, let-7 family) were significantly down-regulated in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and in Kaposi sarcoma (KS), an endothelial cell tumor. PEL and KS ar...

This paper evaluates the impact of the technology node on the area, performance and power consumption of a configurable VLSI architecture for Sum of Absolutes Differences (SAD). Such architecture may be configured to take benefit from pel decimation, trading off quality for energy. The proposed architecture was synthesized for 90nm and 65nm technologies assuming both nominal and Low-Vdd/High-Vt...

Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare condition, which accounts for approximately 4% of all human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated non-Hodgkin lymphomas. PEL has a predilection for body cavities and occurs in the pleural space, pericardium, and peritoneum. Without treatment, the median survival is approximately 2-3 months, and with chemotherapy, the median survival is approximately 6...