UNLABELLED Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a heritable disease characterized by chronic, polymicrobial lung infections. While Staphylococcus aureus is the dominant lung pathogen in young CF patients, Pseudomonas aeruginosa becomes predominant by adulthood. P. aeruginosa produces a variety of antimicrobials that likely contribute to this shift in microbial populations. In particular, secretion of 2-alky...

A blockwise distortion measure is proposed for evaluating the visual quality of compressed images. The proposed measure calculates quantitatively how well important visual properties have been preserved in the distorted image. The method consists of three quality factors detecting contrast errors, structural errors, and quantization errors. The proposed method outperforms PQS for a set of test ...

This paper describes a network flow analyzer that is capable of attribution and aggregation of different flows into single activity events for the purposes of identifying suspicious and illegitimate behaviors. Flows are correlated with security events using the Process Query System (PQS) infrastructure. We show results from initial experiments and describe plans for extending the effort. The co...

In the case of Navy, if some co-pilots are included in long-term promotion process due to limited number co-pilots, operational flight and administrative tasks will be added not rest Pilot commander process. Therefore, solve this problem, co-pilot who has passed PQS step-by-step minimizes personnel gap operation unit through a system that evaluates whether it is possible perform its duties as a...

User interfaces are important for process modeling and detection systems. This paper discusses the user interface design and implementation for the innovative Process Query System (PQS). Discussion focuses on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) editor, model validation, process query types, and result visualization. A log likelihood indicator is used to evaluate and visualize the goodness of model-ob...

Light-induced 9,10-phenanthrenequinone-electron-rich alkene (PQ-ERA) photocycloadditions are an attractive new type of photoclick reaction, featuring fast conversions and high biocompatibility. However, the tunability reaction was hardly investigated up to now. To this end, we explored influence substituents on both partners rate between PQs ERAs. We identified handles for functionalization dis...

This paper exploits independent component analysis (ICA) to obtain transform-based compression schemes adapted to specific image classes. This adaptation results from the data-dependent nature of the ICA bases, learnt from training images. Several coder architectures are evaluated and compared, according to both standard (SNR) and perceptual (picture quality scale – PQS) criteria, on two classe...

Abstract Soybean seeds were germinated on an industrial scale after soaking for 0–56 h to produce a special additive food use. The germination process of three soybean varieties was monitored with near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy based changes in the amount, status, or character water. This paper evaluates “waterless” NIR spectra sound, germinated, and heat treated try follow fine details proce...