Clinical associations between Crohn's disease in humans and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) have been suggested but not confirmed. Cattle could be sources for MAP, but little information on MAP prevalence with beef has been reported. Samples of ileocecal lymph nodes and swabs of hides and carcasses from 343 animals at cull cattle slaughtering facilities and 243 animals at fed ...

Recurrent Self-Organizing Map (RSOM) is studied in temporal sequence processing. RSOM includes a recurrent difference vector in each unit of the map, which allows storing temporal context from consecutive input vectors fed to the map. RSOM is a modification of the Temporal Kohonen Map (TKM). It is shown that RSOM learns a correct mapping from temporal sequences of a simple synthetic data, while...

In this paper we present a method for simulating physical behaviour and rendering of water drops in real-time. Our algorithm is based on processing water information stored into a texture resembling a height map. Thus calculation on the Graphics Processing Unit is possible. Texels on the height map retrieve how much of their current water amount remains and how much water is provided from texel...

MapReduce is an emerging programming paradigm for data parallel applications proposed by Google to simplify large-scale data processing. MapReduce implementation consists of map function that processes input key/value pairs to generate intermediate key/value pairs and reduce function that merges and converts intermediate key/value pairs into final results. The reduce function can only start pro...

This paper introduces a new concept to the processing of graph structured information using self organising map framework. Previous approaches to this problem were limited to the processing of bounded graphs. The computational complexity of such methods grows rapidly with the level of connectivity, and are restricted to the processing of positional graphs. The concept proposed in this paper add...

various geological units in an area often exhibit different magnetic properties. due to this distinction in magnetic properties of the geological units, a correlation between the type of a geological unit and its magnetic response can be established. to determine the lateral and vertical extents of geological units from the magnetic data in a survey area, a number of filters for processing magn...