I have researched the effect that selection for the function of the High Osmolarity Glycerol (HOG) pathway has on the evolutionary stability of the pheromone response pathway in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. I first set out to demonstrate that, because the pheromone and HOG response pathways share protein components, selection for HOG function will enrich a population for cells capable of...

Regulating corporate hog farms is one of the top issues confronting the Iowa Legislature in 1999. Two key Iowa Supreme Court decisions and a new governor favoring local control will reheat the debate over who will control the regulatory process. Federal, state, and county governments want control over regulating hog farms. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency claims oversight control und...

We hypothesize that hog production can be characterized by complementarities between new technologies, worker skills and farms size. Such production processes are consistent with Kremer’s (1993) O-ring production theory in which a single mistake in any one of several complementary tasks in a firm’s production process can lead to catastrophic failure of the product’s value. In hog production, mi...

Our system performs late fusion of several features whose weights have been optimized on UCF50 dataset. The fusion is done over the following features: 1) Our newly developed fast local descriptors for HoG and HoF, both grey-scale and RGB. In RGB-HoG/HoF we compute the dense HoG and HoF descriptors for all color channels and concatenate them. To obtain a single vector per video, we use the Fish...

Face detection algorithms are widely used in computer vision as they provide fast and reliable results depending on the application domain. A multi view approach is here presented to detect frontal and profile pose of people face using Histogram of Oriented Gradients, i.e. HOG, features. A K-mean clustering technique is used in a cascade of HOG feature classifiers to detect faces. The evaluatio...

The paper describes a novel segmentation system based on the combination of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) descriptors and linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification for football video. Recently, HOG methods were widely used for pedestrian detection. However, presented experimental results show that combination of HOG and SVM is very promising for locating and segmenting players....

Cattle, fat (of which no more than 0.1 ppm is tetrachlorvinphos per se) ..................................................................... 0 .2 8/18/13 Cattle, kidney (of which no more than 0.05 ppm is tetrachlorvinphos per se) ............................................................. 1 .0 8/18/13 Cattle, liver (of which no more than 0.05 ppm is tetrachlorvinphos per se) ...................

In this paper we propose a human detection framework based on an enhanced version of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features. These feature descriptors are computed with the help of a precalculated histogram of squareblocks. This novel method outperforms the integral of oriented histograms allowing the calculation of a single feature four times faster. Using Adaboost for HOG feature sele...

We evaluate the performance of the TLD algorithm using AdaBoost and SVMs with HOG, CNN, and raw features. We improve runtime performance through algorithmic and implementation optimizations and are able to achieve nearrealtime frame rates of over 10 FPS for selected videos. Our SVM-HOG implementation achieves an average overlap of 54% and 60%, and an average MAP of 67% and 66%, on the validatio...