A great deal of computation for JPEG2000 encoding is a redundancy when the compression rate is high. That is because many coded bit-streams will be truncated after the rate control of JPEG2000. In this paper, an effective scheme for JPEG2000 rate control is proposed. Through this scheme, the computation complexity for JPEG2000 entropy coding, that is, EBCOT Tier-I, can be greatly reduced almost...

Along with the spread of social media, it has become possible to extract events occurring in the real world in real time. A benefit of analysis using data with position information is that it can accurately extract an event from a target area to be analyzed. However, because social media data include few data with location information, the amount to analyze is insufficient for almost all areas:...

Navigation through large microscopical images is a potential benefit for histology or pathology teaching, quality of diagnosis in pathology or communication between pathologists in some telemedicine applications. However, the size of this kind of images is prohibitive for navigation with conventional techniques. This paper presents a system which constructs large microscopical images and descri...

Panelists respond to the question, “What does industry need from simulation vendors in Y2k and after?” The panelists include software vendors, simulation modelers from industry, simulation consulting, and academia.

606. Noroviruses (NoVs) as a Cause of Diarrhea in Immunocompromised Pediatric Transplant Recipients Hoonmo L. Koo, MD; Xunyan Ye, PhD; John Van, BA; Paula Revell, PhD; Mary K. Estes, PhD; Robert L. Atmar, MD; Flor Munoz, MD; Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Baylor College of Medicine and Texas ...

In this survey we determine an explicit set of generators of the maximal ideals in the ring R[x1, . . . , xn] of polynomials in n variables with real coefficients and give an easy analytic proof of the Bass-Vasershtein theorem on the Bass stable rank of R[x1, . . . , xn]. The ingredients of the proof stem from different publications by Coquand, Lombardi, Estes and Ohm. We conclude with a calcul...

Andrew E. Epstein, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS, Chair; John P. DiMarco, MD, PhD, FACC, FHRS; Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS; N.A. Mark Estes III, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS; Roger A. Freedman, MD, FACC, FHRS; Leonard S. Gettes, MD, FACC, FAHA; A. Marc Gillinov, MD, FACC, FAHA; Gabriel Gregoratos, MD, FACC, FAHA; Stephen C. Hammill, MD, FACC, FHRS; David L. Hayes, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS; Mark A. H...

Experimentos do fluxo da água usando um meio poroso não saturado compoto por diferentes sistemas de aalumina molhada não-saturada indicam que a carga superficial da partícula diminuiu com o aumento da água movimentada. O movimento máximo de água ocorreu quando a carga superficial era zero. O movimento da água foi afetado pela espessura da dupla camada elétrica no pH em que as partículas têm car...

A semiótica propôs um esquema narrativo canônico segmentado em três grandes nichos: da manipulação, ação e sanção. Os estudos as análises cada destes nichos têm avançado muito, embora Greimas desejasse que, paralelamente a estes, uma teoria que assimilasse consoantes entre lógicos semioticistas pudesse enfim surgir: competência. Considerando toda performance pressupõe competência do sujeito de ...