This paper introduces the Multimodal Multi-view Integrated Database (MMID), which holds human activities in presentation situations. MMID contains audio, video, human body motions, and transcripts, which are related to each other by their occurrence time. MMID accepts basic queries for the stored data. We can examine , by referring the retrieved data, how the different modalities are cooperativ...

–The purpose of this study was to develop a framework for understanding the antecedents and components of athlete brand. Based on a set of 21 interviews conducted in three different countries, a detailed framework is proposed including five antecedents and two components of athlete brand. The antecedents are media (social media, mass media, video games and major sport events), oral communicatio...

A two-dimensional self-consistent fluid model was employed to investigate the spatiotemporal nonlinear behavior in an argon glow-like/Townsend-like dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD) at atmospheric pressure. The discharge is characterized by a major current pulse with a residual one ahead per half cycle of the external voltage. The two current pulses are operated in glow mode, but with Townsend...

The present study focusses on German polarity particles as responses to negative assertions. In such responses, the German response particles ja and nein are not used complementarily − similarly to their roughly corresponding English counterparts yes and no. Rather it seems that both ja and nein can be used to affirm a negative antecedent (e.g. A: Jim doesn’t snore. B: Ja./Nein. (=He doesn’t sn...

PIN proteins are auxin export carriers that direct intercellular auxin flow and in turn regulate many aspects of plant growth and development including responses to environmental changes. The Arabidopsis R2R3-MYB transcription factor FOUR LIPS (FLP) and its paralogue MYB88 regulate terminal divisions during stomatal development, as well as female reproductive development and stress responses. H...

INTRODUCTION In MR guided interventional procedures, image planes are required to include the needle path accurately. For the purpose, an optical or electromagnetic tracking system has been used. The optical tracking system precisely works in the strong magnetic fields, but line of sight must be maintained. Surgical procedure and instruments easily obstruct the light path and applicable angles ...

Seventy-seven patients who had PAP smear cytology and colposcopic examination in a 2-year period between 1988 and 1989 were reviewed. Those with findings indicative or suspicious of malignancy were subjected to biopsy. All 50 patients thus biopsied were confirmed to have preclinical cancer on histological examination. Compared against histology, PAP smear cytology gave an accuracy rate of 90% (...

During infectious disease outbreaks, data collected through health institutions and official reporting structures may not be available for weeks, hindering early epidemiologic assessment. By contrast, data from informal media are typically available in near real-time and could provide earlier estimates of epidemic dynamics. We assessed correlation of volume of cholera-related HealthMap news med...

Static security analysis of software has made great progress over the last years. In particular, this applies to the detection of lowlevel security bugs such as buffer overflows, Cross-Site Scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Complementarily to commercial static code review tools, we present an approach to the static security analysis which is based upon the software architecture using...

Whether early school stratification is conducive or detrimental to scholastic performance has been subject to controversial debates in educational policy and science across many countries. We exploit a unique exogenous variation in Lower Saxony, Germany, where performance based tracking was preponed from grade 7 to grade 5 in 2004, i.e. with the completion of primary school. In particular, we m...