Lichens are increasingly used worldwide as air quality biomonitors because they are efficient, easy and cheap, but validation studies of the methodology are scarce. Three foliose lichen biomonitoring methods were compared by field tests (in the tropical urban habitat of San José, Costa Rica) and laboratory simulations: (1) the 100 uniform squares template traditionally used in North America, (2...

The authors describe the application of a methodology for developing representational models for loosely structured medical domains. The methodology is subdivided in two interrelated tasks: terminology acquisition and template generation. The methodology is applied to the domain of chest radiology, producing a domain-specific lexicon and a series of templates to represent all the relevant clini...

Multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO(3)) nanotubes have been synthesized using a modified template methodology and characterized by a number of techniques, including XRD, SEM, TEM, HRTEM as well as EDX and SAED.

A variety of algorithms have been developed for catalytic residue prediction based on either feature- or template-based methodology. However, no studies have systematically compared these two strategies and further considered whether their combination could improve the prediction performance. Herein, we developed an integrative algorithm named CRHunter by simultaneously using the complementarit...

Several methods aimed at effectively speeding up the block matching and template matching tasks have been recently proposed. A class of these methods, referred to as exhaustive due to the fact that they optimally solve the minimization problem of the matching cost, often deploys a succession of bounding functions based on a partitioning of the template and subwindow to perform rapid and reliabl...

Detection of template and noise blocks in web pages is an important step in improving the performance of information retrieval and content extraction. Of the many approaches proposed, most rely on the assumption of operating within the confines of a single website or require expensive hand-labeling of relevant and non-relevant blocks for model induction. This reduces their applicability, since ...

A procedure to improve the convergence rate for affine registration methods of medical brain images when the images differ greatly from the template is presented. The methodology is based on a histogram matching of the source images with respect to the reference brain template before proceeding with the affine registration. The preprocessed source brain images are spatially normalized to a temp...

Molecular imprinting is a methodology used to create recognition sites in synthetic polymers by copolymerising a functional and a cross-linking monomer in the presence of the target analyte. This imprint molecule acts as a molecular template by the interaction with the complementary groups of the functional monomer and arranges the cross-linker to resemble the molecular shape. In the pre-polyme...

We present a generic programming methodology for expressing data structures and algorithms for high-performance numerical linear algebra. As with the Standard Template Library [14], our approach explicitly separates algorithms from data structures, allowing a single set of numerical routines to operate with a wide variety of matrix types, including sparse, dense, and banded. Through the use of ...