Major advancements have been made in the field of object detection and segmentation recently. However, when it comes to rare categories, state-of-the-art methods fail detect them, resulting a significant performance gap between frequent categories. In this paper, we identify that Sigmoid or Softmax functions used deep detectors are major reason for low sub-optimal long-tailed segmentation. To a...

Fuzzy rules optimization is a crucial step in the development of a fuzzy model. A simple two inputs fuzzy model will have more than ten thousand possible combinations of fuzzy rules. A fuzzy designer normally uses intuition and trial and error method for the rules assignment. This paper is devoted to the development and implementation of genetic optimization library (GOL) to obtain the optimum ...

Mitochondrial hypervariable region I genetic data from ancient populations at two sites from Asia, Linzi in Shandong (northern China) and Egyin Gol in Mongolia, were reanalyzed to detect population affinities. Data from a total of 51 modern populations were used to generate distance measures (Fst’s) to the two ancient populations. The tests first analyzed relationships at the regional level, an...

The advent of online social network and mobile multimedia communication has made content sharing in social network easier and more efficient. It is very important to combine fingerprinting and encryption for social multimedia content protection. In this paper, a parallel JFE (joint fingerprinting and encryption) framework is proposed. Firstly, the multi-level social fingerprint code is produced...

Electronic health records (EHRs) facilitates the healthcare process. However, it can also cause serious security and privacy problems. While various conventional encryption mechanisms can solve some aspects of these problems, they cannot address the illegal distribution of decrypted medical images. To protect decrypted medical images from being illegally distributed by an authorized staff membe...

Predictive models for the exponential growth rate (EGR) and germination, outgrowth, and lag times (GOL) of Bacillus stearothermophilus previously developed in our laboratory were expanded to include higher salt (1.5%) formulations. The expanded models were validated in 7 military meals-ready-to-eat incubated at temperatures from 45 °C to 60 °C, and tryptic soy broth incubated from 37.5 °C to 70...

Several bacteria use glycerol dehydrogenase to transform glycerol into dihydroxyacetone (Dha). Dha is subsequently converted into Dha phosphate (Dha-P) by an ATP- or phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)-dependent Dha kinase. Listeria innocua possesses two potential PEP-dependent Dha kinases. One is encoded by 3 of the 11 genes forming the glycerol (gol) operon. This operon also contains golD (lin0362), wh...

events were considered, reflecting the year 2015. All outcomes were discounted at 3.5% annually. Results: Regarding the AS subpopulation, the total treatment cost for IFX, ADA, CZP, ETA, GOL and CC was: € 67,736, € 38,914, € 38,721, € 38,290, € 35,338 and € 4,110; and the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) were: 10.031, 9.882, 9.949, 9.933, 9.903 and 9.360, respectively. CZP dominated ADA and ...