We present CoMIRVA, which is an abbreviation for Collection of Music Information Retrieval and Visualization Applications. CoMIRVA is a Java framework and toolkit for information retrieval and visualization that is licensed under the GNU General Public License. At the moment, the main functionalities of the toolkit include music information retrieval, web retrieval, and visualization of the ext...

Prevailing ambient temperature during the reproductive phase is one of several important factors for seed and fruit set in different plant species, and its consequences on reproductive success may increase with global warming. The effect of temperature on pollen performance was evaluated in sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.), comparing as pollen donors two cultivars that differ in their adaptation ...

In a prospective study of 38 patients, who were initially selected as being at an early stage of sickling retinopathy, three developed circular black chorio-retinal scars (black sunbursts) during a period of 6 to 24 months. These lesions appear to be the sequelae of intraretinal and subretinal haemorrhage. They occur in the fundus periphery and do not interfere with vision.

Information visualization offers an opportunity to provide quick overviews and support exploration of the information landscape. However, there are many visualization techniques and layouts to choose from and some designs work better than others. The poster presents four hierarchical layouts developed in our FrbrVis prototype to display bibliographic work families and looks at user’s perception...

The sunburst diving beetle, Thermonectus marmoratus, ejects a milky fluid from its prothoracic defensive glands when disturbed. Two major volatile components of this secretion are steroids; cybisterone (structure 7) constitutes about 20% of the volatiles, and a new steroid, mirasorvone, about 50%. Mirasorvone is assigned an 18-oxygenated pregnane structure (structure 9) on the basis of extensiv...

In this paper we present PIERINO (PIattaforma per l’Estrazione e il Recupero di INformazione Online), a system that was implemented in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to analyse the citizens’ comments given in #labuonascuola survey. The platform includes various levels of automatic analysis such as key-concept extraction and word co-occurrences. Eac...

The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression (EMAGE) publishes the results of gene expression experiments on the mouse embryo. Whilst this resource uses visual mechanisms to display the result of a single experiment, it currently provides no technique for the visual navigation of data. Ideally, a semantic visual navigation mechanism would exist. Our work focuses on trying to understand the requ...