In this work we propose a new automatic image annotation model, dubbed diverse and distinct image annotation (DIA). The generative model DIA is inspired by the ensemble of human annotations, which create semantically relevant, yet distinct and diverse tags. In DIA, we generate a relevant and distinct tag subset, in which the tags are relevant to the image contents and semantically distinct to e...

Resistance to the anabolic effects of growth hormone (GH) occurs with severe caloric deficit. This study examined whether moderate caloric deficit (50% of daily intake for 7 days) in the adolescent rat exceeds a critical threshold for GH action and whether a combination of GH and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) would have enhanced anabolic effects on the diaphragm (Dia). Five groups of rat...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION AND CASE DESCRIPTION: Desmoplastic infantile astrocytomas (DIA) are rare intracranial tumors of infancy with distinctive clinical and radiological features. Despite their radiologically aggressive appearance they tend to follow a benign course with favorable prognosis even after subtotal resections. Non-infantile cases are rarely encountered with only four cases reported...

The bulbs of Allium sativum (ASE) and leaves of Lagerstroemia speciosa (LSE) are traditionally used to treat a variety of health disorders in the southern part of India. DIA-2 is a herbal formulation developed to contain fixed ratio (1:1 w/w) of ASE and LSE. In the present study, the phytochemical analysis of ASE and LSE was carried out following standard protocols. Also, a simple, rapid and re...

The effects of muscle contractions on the profile of postcontraction resting intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) accumulation in Type 1 diabetes are unclear. We tested the hypothesis that, following repeated bouts of muscle contractions, the rise in resting [Ca2+]i evident in healthy rats would be increased in diabetic rats and that these changes would be associated with a decreased cytoplasmic Ca2+ -...

The performance of DIA methods was influenced by the number of DIA windows, the scan resolution, the gradient length and the sampling of the chromatographic peaks. Additionally, the MS1 scan of the DIA method had an important influence on the performance. To optimize quantification on MS1, we evaluated the following conditions. We established a comprehensive spectral library by measuring tripli...

The authors describe a rapid and simple dot immunobinding assay (DIA) for detection and identification of equine herpesvirus-1 antigen in field samples from cases of abortion, stillbirth, perinatal foal mortality and paralysis. The assay employs a nitrocellulose membrane to which antigen is adsorbed as a dot. Antigen is identified as a coloured dot using a procedure based on the principle of en...

An overview of MPEG-21 standard together with the application of the rate distortion theory in modeling for network adaptation is provided. The first section introduces parts of this standard as well as motivation and objective for all of them. Next section deals with Digital Item Adaptation (DIA) as a part of the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework. DIA specifies metadata for assisting the adaptation...

Qualitative representing and reasoning for road network moving objects are key works to put spatiotemporal reasoning into practices, but those are still open problems. We propose a new spatial algebra for road network moving objects based on Interval Algebra theory. Renz had developed an algebra DIA to represent one dimensional moving objects by giving time interval a spatial interpretation. Ex...