Accurate spot detection and quantification is a challenging task that must be performed effectively in order to properly extract the proteomic information from two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis images. In Morris et al., Bioinformatics 24:529-536, 2008, we introduced Pinnacle, an automatic, fast, effective noncommercial package for spot detection and quantification for 2-D gel images, an...

In this paper we introduce a novel hash learning framework that has two main distinguishing features, when compared to past approaches. First, it utilizes codewords in the Hamming space as ancillary means to accomplish its hash learning task. These codewords, which are inferred from the data, attempt to capture similarity aspects of the data’s hash codes. Secondly and more importantly, the same...

The slot asynchronous communication mechanisms (ACMs) have been studied in qualitative detail in their main properties  data coherence and data freshness. Certain other properties have so far been regarded as inevitable consequences of synchronisation-free data communications via shared memory and not studied. In this paper, possible methods and techniques for the investigation of these proper...

The international studies program offers a varied interdisciplinary humanities curriculum, global in scope and designed to increase students’ knowledge about the cultures and traditions, languages, literature and media, history, values, concerns, and aspirations of peoples in different countries and regions of the world. The goal of the program is ultimately also to both broaden students’ compa...

In this article we address the task of automatic text structuring into linear and nonoverlapping thematic episodes at a coarse level of granularity. In particular, we deal with topic segmentation on multi-party meeting recording transcripts, which pose specific challenges for topic segmentation models. We present a comparative study of two probabilistic mixture models. Based on lexical features...

In this paper we focus on classi cation of colour texture images The main objective is to determine the contribution of colour information to classi cation performance Three relevant approaches to greyscale texture analysis namely Local Linear Trans forms Gabor ltering and Co occurrence are extended to colour images They are evaluated in a quantitative manner by means of a comparative experimen...

Sign language recognition can be considered as an effective solution for disabled people to communicate with others. It helps them in conveying the intended information using sign languages without any challenges. Recent advancements computer vision and image processing techniques leveraged detect classify signs used by manner. Metaheuristic optimization algorithms designed a manner such that i...

The article provides an innovative, comprehensive quantitative analysis of legal integration and differentiation in the European Union (EU) from 1958 to 2020. Building on a streamlined analytical framework new or revised datasets EU primary, secondary EU-related international law, it challenges qualifies several aspects received wisdom integration. Specifically, delivers first-ever estimate ter...

pistachio is a major agricultural export commodity in iran. nowadays, it ranks first among iran’s agricultural exports. this paper focuses on the comparative advantage in pistachio production and the export market in iran. a policy analysis matrix (pam) framework and revealed comparative advantage (rca) index are applied to 2000-2004 data to study iranian government policy regarding pistachio p...

in the introductory stages of language learning, students are exposed to parative forms explicitly taught in their textbooks. as knoch (2004) mthis is accomplished by teaching the comparative form of the adjective generally directly followed by a than clause. this study aimed to compare between native and nonnative material developers with regard to the coverage of comparative forms. in doing s...