La, A., Q. Zhang and Z. Gao. 2014. Determining tolerance to odour annoyance in communities near hog operations. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 56: 6.1-6.11. Quantifying the impact of odour from livestock facilities has been a challenge to researchers and environmental regulators. Physical and sensory odour attributes are commonly used to define the odour impa...

We produced anti-hog renin antibodies using as antigens pure hog renal renin that either had been insolubilized or conjugated to tetanus toxoid. High titer antibodies were obtained, which demonstrated different cross-reactivity with renins from other species. A direct radioimmunoassay for renin was developed using antibody, monoiodinated 125I-hog renin, and various methods for separating free a...

Elucidation of the mechanism of intrinsic factor (IF)-mediated vitamin B(12) (B(12)) binding to ileal binding sites has been hampered by the use of crude or only partially purified preparations of IF in previous studies. We have used homogeneous human IF and hog IF isolated by affinity chromatography to study [(57)Co]B(12) binding to ileal mucosal homogenates. The following observations were ma...

Robust and fast human detection in static image is very important for real applications. Although different feature descriptors have been proposed for human detection, for HOG descriptor, how to select and combine more distinguish block-based HOGs, and how to simultaneously make use of the correlation and the local information of these selected HOGs still lack enough research and analysis. In t...

Most of the commercial nighttime pedestrian detection (PD) methods reported previously utilized the histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) or the local binary pattern (LBP) as the feature and the support vector machine (SVM) as the classifier using thermal camera images. In this paper, we propose a new feature called the thermal-position-intensity-histogram of oriented gradient (TPIHOG or T π HOG...

Document recognition is required to convert handwritten and text documents into digital equivalents, making them more easily accessible convenient store. This study combined feature extraction techniques for recognizing Yorùbá in an effort preserve the cultural values heritages of people. Ten were acquired from Kwara State University’s Library, ten indigenous literate writers wrote version docu...

We present an image retrieval system for the interactive search of photo collections using free-hand sketches depicting shape. We describe Gradient Field HOG (GF-HOG); an adapted form of the HOG descriptor suitable for sketch based image retrieval (SBIR). We incorporate GF-HOG into a Bag of Visual Words (BoVW) retrieval framework, and demonstrate how this combination may be harnessed both for r...

Feral hogs (Sus scrofa) negatively impact the environment in most places around the world where they have been introduced into the wild. In many places, hog removal is essential to protect special habitats, in particular, wetlands. This paper describes techniques developed for use in adaptive management approaches to enhance hog removal efforts in Florida, as well as methods to evaluate the eco...

Gradient features play important roles for the problem of pedestrian detection, especially the Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) feature. To improve detection accuracy in terms of feature extraction, HOG has been combined with multiple kinds of low-level features. However, it is still possible to exploit further discriminative information from the classical HOG feature. Inspired by the symm...

Rapid growth and the concentration of hog production in North Carolina have raised concerns of a disproportionate impact of pollution and offensive odors on poor and nonwhite communities. We analyzed the location and characteristics of 2,514 intensive hog operations in relation to racial, economic, and water source characteristics of census block groups, neighborhoods with an average of approxi...