İpek Oğuz: Groupwise Shape Correspondence with Local Features. (Under the direction of Martin A. Styner) Statistical shape analysis of anatomical structures plays an important role in many medical image analysis applications such as understanding the structural changes in anatomy in various stages of growth or disease. Establishing accurate correspondence across object populations is essential ...

We report on some recent results within the string/gauge theory correspondence, both in the conformal and in the non conformal cases, for a recently found class of N = 1 dual pairs. These results provide the first cross check of AdS/CFT and field theory techniques like a-maximization. Moreover, they furnish new examples of cascading gauge theories and the first instance of 4d dynamical supersym...

Throughout the course of several years, significant progress has been made with regard to the accuracy and performance of pair-wise alignment techniques; however when considering low-resolution scans with minimal pairwise overlap, and scans with high levels of symmetry, the process of successfully performing sequential alignments in the object reconstruction process remains a challenging task. ...

In this study, two novel learning algorithms have been applied on Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) to approximate the functions with high non-linear order. The Probabilistic Evolutionary (PE) and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) techniques are proposed to significantly minimize the error functions. The main idea is concerning the various strategies to optimize the procedure of Gradient ...

Dear Sir,?Some years agOj wlien at the General Hospital, Allahabad, I had occasion to destroy a monkey, (a common brown one), and for this purpose I selected hydrocyanic acid. Having had the monkey's month opened, about a drachm, or so, of the hydrocyanic acid was poured from the bottle into his pharynx ; but, to my great surprise, without any fatal effect. The monkey fell down in a semi-insens...

Given a local quantum field theory net A on the de Sitter spacetime dS, where geodesic observers are thermalized at Gibbons-Hawking temperature, we look for observers that feel to be in a ground state, i.e. particle evolutions with positive generator, providing a sort of converse to the HawkingUnruh effect. Such positive energy evolutions always exist as noncommutative flows, but have only a pa...

Service. In an article published on the 12th instant, it complains in bitter terms of the conduct of the authorities, and quotes many passages from your " leader" on the question, in support of its views. The Lancet, on the contrary, by some perversity of intelligence, looks at the matter in quite an opposite light, and has actually approved of the new Warrant as one calculated to be of benefit...

We model a general choice environment via probabilistic choice correspondences, with (possibly) incomplete domain and infinite universal set of alternatives. We offer a consistency restriction regarding choice when the feasible set contracts. This condition, ‘contraction consistency’, subsumes earlier notions such as Chernoff’s Condition, Sen’s α and β , and regularity. We identify a restrictio...

Synaptic properties of thalamic and intracortical inputs to layer 4 of the first-and higher-order cortical areas in the auditory and somatosensory systems. Number of text pages: 27 Number of figures: 8 Number of tables: 2 Running Head: Thalamic and intracortical inputs to cortical layer 4 The thalamus is an essential structure in the mammalian forebrain conveying information topographically fro...