The current Ebola outbreak poses a threat to individual and global public health. Although the disease has been of interest to the scientific community since 1976, an effective vaccination approach is still lacking. This fact questions past global public health strategies, which have not foreseen the possible impact of this infectious disease. To quantify the global research activity in this fi...

We study detecting cell events in phase-contrast microscopy sequences from few annotations. We first detect event candidates from the intensity difference of consecutive frames, and then train an unsupervised novelty detector on these candidates. The novelty detector assigns each candidate a degree of surprise. We annotate a tiny number of candidates chosen according to the novelty detector’s o...

Conventional Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems usually use 1D and 2D input/output (I/O) devices for 3D shape modeling. These devices require mapping processes between I/O devices and the modeling space, resulting in a nonintuitive, complicated design interface and low throughput between the designer and the system. To overcome these deficiencies a new approach for geometric modeling in a mult...

The AGRIS Network is an international initiative based on a collaborative network of institutions, whose aim is to promote free access to information on science and technology in agriculture and related subjects. The paper illustrates how the Open Access (OA) and the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) models can be used within the AGRIS Network as a means of solving the problems of dissemination and...

Variational RNNs are proposed to output “creative” sequences. Ideally, a collection of sequences produced by a variational RNN should be of both high quality and high variety. However, existing decoders for variational RNNs suffer from a trade-off between quality and variety. In this paper, we seek to learn a variational RNN that decodes high-quality and high-variety sequences. We propose the S...

Many forms of digital memory have been developed for the permanent storage of information. These include keypunch cards, paper tapes, PROMS, photographic film and, more recently, digital optical disks. All these “write-once” memories have the property that once a “one” is written in a particular cell, tbis cell becomes irreversibly set at one. Thus, the ability to rewrite information in the mem...

International collaboration in science continues to grow at a remarkable rate, but little agreement exists about dynamics of growth and organization at the discipline level. Some suggest that disciplines differ in their collaborative tendencies, reflecting their epistemic culture. This study examines collaborative patterns in six previously studied specialties to add new data and conduct analys...

This paper presents the use of an XML grammar for two complementary projects--CHAMELEON (Cooperative Hypermedia Adaptive MultimEdia Learning Objects) and EIT (Enabling Informal Teamwork). Areas of applications are modular courseware documents and the collaborative authoring process of didactical units. A number of requirements for a suitable document format are identified. After comparing exist...

the present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of iranian efl learners. the participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in english translation and english literature at islamic azad university, north tehran branch, who were taking “reading comprehension ii” course. in ord...