As so far, most of the information on the internet are designed for computer display, which can achieve the desired effect at 800*600 or higher resolution, but the normal TV’s resolution is much lower, so the web page looks abnormally on TV. Furthermore, it also can’t be browsed by phone and PDAs as PC does. Based on the analysis of the display principles of TV and computer, a new method which ...

The asymmetrical inheritance of plasmid DNA, as well as other cellular components, has been shown to be involved in replicative aging. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, there is an ongoing debate regarding the mechanisms underlying this important asymmetry. Currently proposed models suggest it is established via diffusion, but differ on whether a diffusion barrier is necessary or not. However, no st...

How would you best represent a high resolution original image given a fixed number of pixels for an image thumbnail? Is it possible to create better thumbnails than the standard computer-generated thumbnails that apply filtering and subsampling? In this report, these questions are addressed by manually generating thumbnails that attempt to well-represent the original high resolution images. Thu...

We describe a free-form stroke-based modeling system where objects are primarily represented by means of variational surfaces. Although similar systems have been described in recent years, our approach achieves both a good performance and reduced surface leak problems by employing a coarse mesh as support for constraint points. The prototype implements an adequate set of modeling operations, “u...

Our immune system evolves under continuous selection to protect us against pathogens, a trait that can be used to deploy the immune system or its component parts for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in cancer. What follows is a thumbnail sketch of the logic that underlies immune recognition, so that those not directly active in thefield of immunologymay grasp both possibilities and pitfalls ...

Aryl azides were treated with allenylmagnesium bromide to generate 1,5-disubstituted butynyl 1,2,3-triazoles in a domino fashion, which upon Cu(I) catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with aryl azides afforded novel bis-1,2,3-triazoles in quantitative yields. The final products were analyzed for their antimicrobial activities against a panel of bacterial and fungal strains which revealed the pro...

In this paper we present an audio thumbnailing technique based on audio segmentation by similarity search. The segmentation is performed on MPEG-7 low level audio feature descriptors as a growing source of multimedia meta data. Especially for database applications or audio-on-demand services this technique could be very helpful, because there is no need to have access to the probably copyright ...

Torralba (Visual Neuroscience, 26, 123-131, 2009) showed that, if the resolution of images of scenes were reduced to the information present in very small "thumbnail images," those scenes could still be recognized. The objects in those degraded scenes could be identified, even though it would be impossible to identify them if they were removed from the scene context. Can tiny and/or degraded sc...