Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants generated during combustion. Dibenzo[def,p]chrysene (DBC) is a high molecular weight PAH classified as a 2B carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. DBC crosses the placenta in exposed mice, causing carcinogenicity in offspring. We present pharmacokinetic data of DBC in pregnant and nonpregna...

This paper presents the integration of color histogram and DBC co-occurrence matrix for content based image retrieval. The exit DBC collect the directional edges which are calculated by applying the first-order derivatives in 0o, 45o, 90o and 135o directions. The feature vector length of DBC for a particular direction is 512 which are more for image retrieval. To avoid this problem, we collect ...

In this paper we introduce a novel approach to continual planning and control, called Dynamics Based Control (DBC). The approach is similar in spirit to the Actor-Critic [6] approach to learning and estimation-based differential regulators of classical control theory [13]. However, DBC is not a learning algorithm, nor can it be subsumed within models of standard control theory. We provide a gen...

Connecting genotypes to image phenotypes is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of cancer. To learn such connections, new machine learning approaches must be developed for the better integration of imaging and genomic data. Here we propose a novel approach called Discriminative Bag-of-Cells (DBC) for predicting genomic markers using imaging features, which addresses the challenge of summa...

Light-evoked excitatory cation current (DeltaI(C)) and inhibitory chloride current (DeltaI(Cl)) of rod and cone depolarizing bipolar cells (DBC(R)s and DBC(C)s) and AII amacrine cells (AIIACs) in dark-adapted mouse retinal slices were studied by whole-cell voltage-clamp recording techniques, and the cell morphology was revealed by Lucifer yellow fluorescence with a confocal microscope. DeltaI(C...

This paper presents a new approach to constructive induction, Discrimination-Based Constructive induction(DBC), which invents useful predicates in learning relations. Triggered by failure of selective induction, DBC finds a minimal set of variables forming a new predicate that discriminates between positive and negative examples, and induces a definition of the invented predicate. If necessary,...

Let X → Y → Z be a discrete memoryless degraded broadcast channel (DBC) with marginal transition probability matrices TY X and TZX . Denote q as the distribution of the channel input X . For any given q, and H(Y |X) ≤ s ≤ H(Y ), where H(Y |X) is the conditional entropy of Y given X and H(Y ) is the entropy of Y , define the function F ∗ TY X ,TZX (q, s) as the infimum of H(Z|U), the conditional...

We present the Distributed Batch Controller DBC a system built to support batch processing of large scienti c datasets The DBC implements a federation of autonomous workstation pools which may be widely distributed Individual batch jobs are executed using idle workstations in these pools Input data are staged to the pool before processing begins We describe the architecture and implementation o...

Despite the potential of Design-by-Contract (DbC) for increasing the reliability and robustness of software, it has to date experienced only limited use. One reason for this, is that each DbC solution targets a single language (or language run-time) and thus employs different syntax and implementations for specifying contracts for each. Given that modern applications increasingly employ multipl...

AIM The new budget system for Dutch hospitals makes use of patient groups that are highly homogeneous in terms of diagnosis and treatment combinations (diagnose behandeling combinaties (DBC)). These DBCs are the Dutch DRG variants. The DBC mainly concerns medical care; nursing care is almost regarded as a constant factor. In this study the DBC is linked to the nursing minimum data set for The N...