A method of rotation invariant texture classification based on spatial frequency model is developed. Features are derived from the multichannel Gabor filtering method. The classification performance is first tested on a set 1440 samples of 15 Brodatz textures rotated in 12 directions (0 to 165 in steps of 15 degrees). For the 13-class problem reported in [13] we got better classification with o...

This study examines the effect of pH changes on photosynthetic characteristics and the role of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in determining the dominance of three species of macroalgae Chaetomorpha linum (O.F. Müller) Kützing, Gracilaria verrucosa (Hudson) Papenfuss and Ulva sp. in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon. Fluctuations of pH were measured in the lagoon in summer. Water column CO(2) an...

As plant fibres are increasingly used in technical textiles and their composites, underlying principles of wound healing in living plant fibres are relevant to product quality, and provide inspiration for biomimetic healing in synthetic materials. In this work, two Linum usitatissimum cultivars differing in their stem mechanical properties, cv. Eden (stems resistant to lodging) and cv. Drakkar ...

linum album l. is containing pharmaceutical composition podophyllotoxin(ptox) which is currently being used as a precursor to semi-synthetic anticancer drugs etoposide, teniposide and etopophos. cell culture is as an important source for the production of ptox. several strategies, including treatment with elicitors have shown for enhanced production of secondary metabolites in cell culture syst...

Ethanolic and aqueous extracts from five plant species used in Turkish traditional medicine were evaluated for in vivo hypercholesterolaemic and antioxidant activities: Agrostemma githago L., Potentilla reptans L., Thymbra spicata var. spicata L., Urtica dioica L. and Viscum album var. album L. We assayed the effects of the administration of plant extracts on serum total cholesterol, triglyceri...

Viscum album L. is a parasitic plant that grows on various trees, in our days, mistletoe extracts are widely used in addition to the treatment of cancer. The aim of the present study is to asses the efficiency of mistletoe extract in combination therapy with doxorubicin chloride, a widely used chemotherapeutic agent. The Viscum album (plant raised from the apple tree) was harvested from Cluj ar...

This paper examines the interrelationship between music blog buzz and album sales, examining both time precedence and the contemporaneous relationship between the two. Using the Granger Causality methodology to examine time precedence, we find evidence of bi-directional causality for the full sample of music albums we are examining as well as for both independently released and major-label rele...

The rock album form, advantageously suited for the artistic expression of intrapsychic experience, has been virtually ignored by analytic writers. Remain in Light by Talking Heads is presented as an example of an album that effectively utilizes the potentialities of this form to give powerful and disconcerning musical expression to a variety of psychotic and schizoid experiences, bringing to li...

We address the problem of end-to-end visual storytelling. Given a photo album, our model first selects the most representative (summary) photos, and then composes a natural language story for the album. For this task, we make use of the Visual Storytelling dataset and a model composed of three hierarchically-attentive Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs) to: encode the album photos, select representati...