High-resolution stereo satellite imagery is widely used in environmental monitoring, topographic mapping, and urban three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. However, a critical issue in these applications using high-resolution stereo satellite imagery is to improve the accuracy of point geo-positioning. This paper presents a framework for comparison of the performance of the three-dimensional (3D...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate preoperative T and N staging and retroperitoneal surgical margin (RSM) involvement in colon cancer using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). METHODS In this retrospective study, preoperative MDCTs of 141 patients with colon adenocarcinoma were evaluated in terms of T and N staging and retroperitoneal surgical margin involvement by two observers. Results were...

In many scientific and engineering fields, there are a number of data sets uncontrollable and hard to handle because the nature of measurement of a performance variable may often be destructive or very expensive, which are known as sets of noise factors. Although these noise factors, which may not be controlled by manufacturing and cost reasons, are merged as a key problem of data mining (DM) a...

2. State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, P.R. China Abstract: The small sample size (SSS) and the sensitivity to variations such as illumination, expression and occlusion are two challenging problems in face recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel method, called semi-random subspace (Semi-RS), to simultaneously address the two problems. Different from the trad...

Hemp nut is commonly incorporated into several food preparations; however, most countries set regulations for hemp products according to their cannabinoid content. In this study, we have developed an efficient microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) method for cannabinoids (i.e., Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, and cannabinol) in hemp nut. Optimization of the MAE procedure was conducted throu...

Optimal parameter selection is a crucial step in improving the quality of electronic packaging processes. Traditional approaches usually start with a set of physical experiments and then employ Design of Experiment (DOE) based response surface methodology (RSM) to find the parameter settings that will optimize a desired system response. Nowadays deterministic computer simulations such as Finite...

AIMS Probiotic milk-based formulations were spray-dried with various combinations of prebiotic substances in an effort to generate synbiotic powder products. METHODS AND RESULTS To examine the effect of growth phase and inclusion of a prebiotic substance in the feed media on probiotic viability during spray-drying, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG was spray-dried in lag, early log and stationary ph...

Protein families typically embody a range of related functions and may thus be decomposed into subfamilies with, for example, distinct substrate specificities. Detection of functionally divergent subfamilies is possible by methods for recognizing branches of adaptive evolution in a gene tree. As the number of genome sequences is growing rapidly, it is highly desirable to automatically detect su...