The use of the visible implant elastomer (VIE) tagging system in zebrafish (Danio rerio) was examined. Two tag orientations (horizontal and vertical) at the dorsal fin base were tested for tag retention, tag fragmentation and whether VIE tags affected growth and survival of juvenile zebrafish (1-4 month post hatch). Six tag locations (abdomen, anal fin base, caudal peduncle, dorsal fin base, pe...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular segmental wall motion analysis is important for clinical decision making in cardiac diseases. Strain analysis with myocardial tissue tagging is the non-invasive gold standard for quantitative assessment, however, it is time-consuming. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial feature-tracking (CMR-FT) can rapidly perform strain analysis, because it can be employed...

In order to achieve fast and high quality Part-of-speech (PoS) tagging, algorithms should be high accuracy and require less manually proofreading. To evaluate a tagging system, we proposed a new criterion of reliability, which is a kind of cost-effective criterion, instead of the conventional criterion of accuracy. The most cost-effective tagging algorithm is judged according to amount of manua...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is capable of noninvasively measuring blood flow by magnetically tagging the protons in arterial blood, which has been conventionally achieved using instantaneous (PASL) or continuous (CASL) RF pulses. As an intermediate method, pseudocontinuous ASL (pCASL) utilizes a train of discrete RF pulses to mimic continuous tagging that is often unavailable on imagers due to...

While recent progress has been achieved in understanding the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about the underlying user motivations for tagging, and how they influence resulting folksonomies and tags. This paper addresses three issues related to this question: 1.) What motivates users to tag resources, and in what ways is user motivation amenable to quantitative ...

Part-of-speech tagging, like any supervised statistical NLP task, is more difficult when test sets are very different from training sets, for example when tagging across genres or language varieties. We examined the problem of POS tagging of different varieties of Mandarin Chinese (PRC-Mainland, PRCHong Kong, and Taiwan). An analytic study first showed that unknown words were a major source of ...

Controlled experiments were conducted to assess the effects of T-bar and DST tagging on postrelease survival and growth of European hake. In this study, two groups of each 30 hake were considered: small fish (SF, average total length: 29.9 cm ± 2.2 cm) and large fish (LF, average total length: 36.4 cm ± 2.5 cm). Within each size group, fish were randomly assigned to one of 3 treatment groups: c...