In this paper, we describe the system jointly developed by IBM Research and Columbia University for video copy detection and multimedia event detection applied to the TRECVID-2010 video retrieval benchmark. A. Content-Based Copy Detection: The focus of our copy detection system this year was fusing three types of complementary fingerprints: a keyframe-based color correlogram, SIFTogram (bag of ...

PURPOSE To study the safety, technical efficacy, and histopathology of the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL) embolic mixture in an animal model. METHODS Microcatheterization of the rete was performed in 29 swine. The clinical, angiographic, and histopathologic consequences of superselective injection of the two principal embolic mixture components (EVAL and dimethyl sulfoxide [DMSO]) we...

Processes controlling preservation and accumulation of organic matter (OM) in marine sediments are highly sensitive towards both natural anthropogenic impacts. Thus, the sedimentary OM is considered a key proxy for characterization recent past environments . Along Peruvian continental margin (PCM), high primary production an intense oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) favor sediments. Spatial variations ...

This paper dealt with the controlled release of two kinds of drugs, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and hydrocortisonum (Hydro.) and loaded poly(ethylene-vinylalcohol) (EVAL), which composed 5-FU/EVAL and Hydro./EVAL matrix systems. The results were analyzed using the pseudo-steady-diffusion models coupled with the fundamental concepts of percolation theory. The percolation thresholds for the two systems...

Delta-oriented programming (DOP) is a modular approach for implementing software product lines. Delta modules generalize feature modules by allowing removal of functionality. However, DOP requires to select one particular product as core product from which all products are generated. In this paper, we propose pure deltaoriented programming (Pure DOP) that is a conceptual simplification of tradi...

This study describes an integrated workflow designed to quantify detrital input into lacustrine deposits in terms of regional extent and total organic carbon content. includes (a) geochemical data such as Rock Eval palynofacies (b) palaeogeographical maps. was applied the immature Barremian source rocks from Lower Congo Basin because a large available set describing complex sedimentary record. ...

The unsaturated soil hydraulic functions involving the soil–water retention curve (SWRC) and the hydraulic conductivity provide useful integrated indices of soil quality. Existing and newly devised methods were used to formulate pedotransfer functions (PTFs) that predict the SWRC from readily available soil data. The PTFs were calibrated using a large soils database from Hungary. The database c...