background: the opening and closing of the implantation window is important for successful pregnancy in eutherians. the recent study demonstrated that the window of uterine receptivity was prepared by the sole action of progesterone in mice, but the mechanism to close the window remained to be elucidated. methods: the pregnant mice were ovariectomized on the evening on the third day of pregnanc...

creating and preserving large patches in land use configuration and satisfying compactness and contiguity in land use configuration are nature-prescribed and nature-inspired criteria that can be used in land use planning better that before. accompanying compactness and contiguity as the important landscape metrics in land use planning and land use configuration is close to applying proactive ap...

Object visual tracking aims to determine the image configuration of a target region of an object as it moves through a camera's field of view. The visual tracking process consists on matching the target region in successive frames of a sequence of images taken at closelyspaced intervals. Visual tracking has become an important process on various applications as: vision-based control (Hutchinson...

This paper will apply the generic objectness measure to sample windows from a given image and then feed them through a human pose estimation pipeline. The Objectness step will provide windows in the BUFFY and PARSE datasets and some of them will contain people. This approach would be better than a scanning window technique in terms of computational speed as the filter convolution step of the po...

Successful command and control (C2) of autonomous vehicles poses challenges that are unique to the marine environment, primarily highly restrictive acoustic communications throughput. To address this, the Unified C2 architecture presented here uses a highly compressed short message encoding scheme (Dynamic Compact Control Language or DCCL) to transfer commands and receive vehicle status. DCCL i...

Current governance of regional scale water management systems in the United States has not placed them on a path toward sustainability, as conflict and gridlock characterize the social arena and ecosystem services continue to erode. Changing climate may continue this trajectory, but it also provides a catalyst for renewal of ecosystems and a window of opportunity for change in institutions. Res...

A window of opportunity to promote organic farming is open for the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) that joined the EU in 2004. The development of organic farming has the potential to decrease the amount of nutrient leaching to the Baltic Sea and could help to stop the environmental degradation of the Sea. However, this requires a diverse set of institutions. This paper explores th...

Detecting changes in multidimensional data streams is an important and challenging task. In unsupervised change detection, changes are usually detected by comparing the distribution in a current (test) window with a reference window. It is thus essential to design divergence metrics and density estimators for comparing the data distributions, which are mostly done for univariate data. Detecting...

Search engine query log is a valuable information source to analyze the users’ interests and preferences. In existing work, click graph is intensively utilized to analyze the information in query log. However, click graph is usually plagued by low information coverage, failure of capturing the diverse types of co-occurrence and the incapability of discovering the latent semantics in data. In th...