Asthma is a complex, chronic inflammatory disease of the lower airways affecting people of all ages. Approximately 300 million individuals are currently suffering from asthma worldwide. The prevalence of asthma is estimated to range from 3% to 38% in children and from 2% to 12% in adults. The disease causes lost school and work days, limitations in daily activities, and sleep disturbances. Lung...

Our ultimate goal is a system capable of on-line 3D reconstruction from a monocular video and running on commodity hardware. One intrinsic module in such a system is a fast stereo algorithm, which produces depth maps from given views with known camera calibration and pose. Plane-sweep stereo algorithms are well-suited for real-time GPU implementation and can easily be generalised to true multi-...

For NTCIR Workshop 7 UC Berkeley participated in both IR4QA and the Patent Mining Tasks. This paper summarizes our approach to Patent Mining. Our focus was upon the US Patent collection, and our methodology was to treat patent mining as an information retrieval task and to aggregate multiple patent classifications from retrieved patent documents. The performance was relatively poor, possibly be...

Baseline glucocorticoid (cort) levels are increasingly employed as physiological indices of the relative condition or health of individuals and populations. Often, high cort levels are assumed to indicate an individual or population in poor condition and with low relative fitness (the Cort-Fitness Hypothesis). We review empirical support for this assumption, and find that variation in levels of...

We present a novel approach for establishing multiple-view feature correspondences along an unordered set of images taken from substantially different viewpoints. While recently several wide-baseline stereo (WBS) algorithms have appeared, the N-view case is largely unexplored. In this paper, an established WBS algorithm is used to extract and match features in pairs of views. The pairwise match...

The objective of this paper is to examine the application of single-baseline polarimetric SAR interferometry to the remote sensing and measurement of structure over forested terrain. For this, a polarimetric coherent scattering model for vegetation cover suitable for the estimation of forest parameters from interferometric observables is introduced, discussed and validated. Based on this model,...

The Wikipedia XML documents are considered an interesting challenge to any XML retrieval system that is capable of indexing and retrieving XML without prior knowledge of the structure. Although the structure of the Wikipedia XML documents is highly irregular and thus unpredictable, EXTIRP manages to handle all the well-formed XML documents without problems. Whether the high flexibility of EXTIR...

In the last decade, the study of flavor oscillations with neutrino long baseline experiments has been an extremely effective way to get information on the mass (up to an unknown scale) and the mixing between weak and mass neutrino eigenstates. In particular, accelerator driven experiments have determined precisely the so-called 2-3 sector and are beginning to tackle the 1-3 sector. Within a dec...