In this paper we address the orthogonalization of independent component analysis (ICA) to obtain transform-based image coders. We consider several classes of training images, from which we extract the independent components, followed by orthogonalization, obtaining bases for image coding. Experimental tests show the generalization ability of ICA of natural images, and the adaptation ability to ...

Gram-negative bacteria produce outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that package and deliver proteins, small molecules, and DNA to prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The molecular details of OMV biogenesis have not been fully elucidated, but peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane proteins that tether the outer membrane to the underlying peptidoglycan have been shown to be critical for OMV formation i...

Pairwise forces between particles in cosmological N-body simulations are generally softened to avoid hard collisions. Physically, this softening corresponds to treating the particles as diffuse clouds rather than point masses. For particles of unequal mass (and hence unequal softening length), computing the softened force involves a nontrivial double integral over the volumes of the two particl...

A Process Query System (PQS) is a generic software system that can be used in tracking applications across a variety of domains. As in most other tracking systems, multiple hypotheses about which reports are assigned to which tracks must be maintained. Since the number of hypotheses that are possible can be exponential in the number of reports, some technique for managing a pool of the best can...

The quadrupole splittin values of the species produced from 'the 57~o(~~)57~e process were investigated in the various 58Co-labelled Werner-type co-ordination compounds. One of the two components of the decayed species found in the emission Mijssbauer svectra was assigned to high-spin species of Fe(I1) pr_oduced after the EC-decay based on their large quadrupole splittings and isomer shifts. Th...

In the past decades, we have advanced significantly in our knowledge of intonational meaning, but few studies have tested experimentally the way in which discourse contexts affect intonational meaning. In this work we were specifically interested in how listeners use both intonation and discourse context to infer information about speaker belief states. We examined the effect of five bias types...

Ablon JS, Jones EE: How expert clinicians’ prototypes of an ideal treatment correlate with outcome in psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Psychotherapy Research 1998; 8:71–83 Summary: A panel of internationally known experts in psychodynamic (PD) and cognitive-behavioral (CB) therapy used the Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS) to produce prototypes of an ideal treatment in each of th...