Most of today’s buildings will still be in use 2050 and upgrades should therefore contribute to reducing energy consumption carbon footprint. This paper addresses a challenge for upgrading basement exterior walls single-family dwellings, where ordinary retrofit insulation can lead the wall protruding from existing outer wall. For some, this an aesthetic barrier upgrade (an “ugly” solution). Sup...

Current approaches to aesthetic image analysis either provide accurate or interpretable results. To get both accuracy and interpretability, we advocate the use of learned visual attributes as mid-level features. For this purpose, we propose to discover and learn the visual appearance of attributes automatically, using the recently introduced AVA database which contains more than 250,000 images ...

This review presents a brief account of the most significant biological effects and clinical applications of botulinum neurotoxins, in a way comprehensive even for casual readers who are not familiar with the subject. The most toxic known substances in botulinum neurotoxins are polypeptides naturally synthesized by bacteria of the genus Clostridium. These polypeptides inhibit acetylcholine rele...

During the last several years, we have witnessed “the best of times and the worst of times” in the embryonic field of gene therapy. Rapid advances in human genomic sciences, the development of novel mouse models of human diseases, and the construction and characterization of new vector systems for in vivo gene transduction have significantly expanded the potential feasibility of human gene ther...

The aim of this paper is to make a qualitative analysis the intensifiers used in Spanish and American opinion columns. topic chosen has been Weinstein's scandal publications during next weeks by different sources. method followed will be Albelda Marco (2014) which she divides into lexical, semantical expressions. Euphemisms also considered due relationship it corpus with intensification. Conclu...