IME (input method editor) apps are the primary means of interaction on mobile touch screen devices and thus are usually granted with access to a wealth of private user input. In order to understand the (in)security of mobile IME apps, this paper first performs a systematic study and uncovers that many IME apps may (intentionally or unintentionally) leak users’ sensitive data to the outside worl...

Existing manifold learning methods are not appropriate for image retrieval task, because most of them are unable to process query image and they have much additional computational cost especially for large scale database. Therefore, we propose the iterative manifold embedding (IME) layer, of which the weights are learned off-line by unsupervised strategy, to explore the intrinsic manifolds by i...

Chinese Input Method Engine (IME) plays an important role in Chinese language processing. However, it has been subjected to lacking a proper evaluation metric for a long time. The natural metric for IME is user experience, which is a rather vague goal for research purpose. We propose a novel approach of quantifying user experience by using keystroke count and then correspondingly develop a fram...

This paper describes the construction of a Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) system for mobile devices, using the largescale Web pages. We provide the training process of our IME model, n-pos model for local Kana-Kanji conversion and ngram model for online cloud service. Especially, we propose an online algorithm of mining new compound words, together with the detailed post-filtering process t...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of inspiratory muscle exercise (IME) on metabolic and hemodynamic parameters, cardiac autonomic modulation and respiratory function of older women with metabolic syndrome (MS). For this, sixteen older women with MS and 12 aged-matched controls participated of the present study. Two days before and 2 days after the main experiment, fast...

We report on the versatility of A-GAP for supporting different types of accuracy objectives. Previously, we considered accuracy objectives expressed in terms of the average error. In this paper, we focus on percentile error objectives. A-GAP is a protocol for continuous monitoring of network state variables. Network state variables are computed from device counters using aggregation functions, ...

BACKGROUND Inspiratory muscle training has been shown to improve performance in elite swimmers, when used as part of routine training, but its use as a respiratory warm-up has yet to be investigated. AIM To determine the influence of inspiratory muscle exercise (IME) as a respiratory muscle warm-up in a randomised controlled cross-over trial. METHODS A total of 15 elite swimmers were assign...

Niteen N. Kadam, Anandhan Tamilselvan, Lovely M.F. Lawas, Cherryl Quinones, Rajeev N. Bahuguna, Michael J. Thomson, Michael Dingkuhn, Raveendran Muthurajan, Paul C. Struik, Xinyou Yin, and S.V. Krishna Jagadish International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, The Philippines Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AK Wageninge...

1 Department of Technology and Innovation, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, 2 Laboratório de Evolução Aplicada, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, 3 Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique Pour le Développement, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France, 4 Université Montpellier II, UMR AMAP (Botanique et Bio...