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New shape descriptor in the context of edge continuity

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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology 2019年第2期4卷 101-109页

作者： Seba susan Prachi Agrawal Minni Mittal Srishti Bansal Department of Information Technology Delhi Technological University Bawana Road Delhi 110042 India

The object contour is a significant cue for identifying and categorising objects. The current work is motivated by indicative researches that attribute object contours to edge information. The spatial continuity exhibited by the edge pixels belonging to the object contour make these different from the noisy edge pixels belonging to the background clutter. In this study, the authors seek to quantify the object contour from a relative count of the adjacent edge pixels that are oriented in the four possible directions, and measure using exponential functions the continuity of each edge over the next adjacent pixel in that direction. The resulting computationally simple, low-dimensional feature set, called as ‘edge continuity features’, can successfully distinguish between object contours and at the same time discriminate intra-class contour variations, as proved by the high accuracies of object recognition achieved on a challenging subset of the Caltech-256 dataset. Grey-to-RGB template matching with City-block distance is implemented that makes the object recognition pipeline independent of the actual colour of the object, but at the same time incorporates colour edge information for discrimination. Comparison with the state-of-the-art validates the efficiency of the proposed approach.

关键词： contour objects approach

Biased activity of soluble guanylyl cyclase:the Janus face of thymoquinone

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Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2017年第4期7卷 401-408页

作者： Charlotte Detremmerie Paul M.Vanhoutte susan Leung Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy and State Key Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicinethe University of Hong KongHong KongChina

The natural compound thymoquinone, extracted from Nigella sativa(black cumin), is widely used in humans for its anti-oxidative properties. Thymoquinone is known for its acute endotheliumindependent vasodilator effects in isolated rat aortae and pulmonary arteries, depending in part on activation of adenosine triphosphate-sensitive potassium channels and inhibition of voltage-dependent calcium channels. The compound also improves endothelial dysfunction in mesenteric arteries of ageing rodents and in aortae of rabbits treated with pyrogallol, by inhibiting oxidative stress. Serendipitously,thymoquinone was found to augment contractions in isolated arteries with endothelium of both rats and pigs. The endothelium-dependent augmentation it causes counterintuitively depends on biased activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase(sGC) producing inosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate(cyclic IMP) rather than guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. This phenomenon shows a striking mechanistic similarity to the hypoxic augmentation previously observed in porcine coronary arteries. The cyclic IMP preferentially produced under thymoquinone exposure causes an increased contractility of arterial smooth muscle by interfering with calcium homeostasis. This brief review summarizes the vascular pharmacology of thymoquinone, focussing in particular on how the compound causes endothelium-dependent contractions by biasing the activity of sGC.

关键词： Thymoquinone Endothelium-dependentcontraction Nitric oxide Soluble guanylyl cyclase Cyclic IMP NADPH:quinone oxidoreductase

Knockouts of high-ranking males have limited impact on baboon social networks

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Current Zoology 2015年第1期61卷 107-113页

作者： Mathias FRANZ Jeanne ALTMANN susan C. ALBERTS Department of Biology Duke University Durham NC 27708-0719 USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544-2016 USA

Social network structures can crucially impact complex social processes such as collective behaviour or the transmission of information and diseases. However, currently it is poorly understood how social networks change over time. Previous studies on primates suggest that ＇knockouts＇（due to death or dispersal） of high-ranking individuals might be important drivers for structural changes in animal social networks. Here we test this hypothesis using long-term data on a natural population of ba- boons, examining the effects of 29 natural knockouts of alpha or beta males on adult female social networks. We investigated whether and how knockouts affected （i） changes in grooming and association rates among adult females, and （2） changes in mean degree and global clustering coefficient in these networks. The only significant effect that we found was a decrease in mean degree in grooming networks in the first month after knockouts, but this decrease was rather small, and grooming networks re- bounded to baseline levels by the second month after knockouts. Taken together our results indicate that the removal of high-ranking males has only limited or no lasting effects on social networks of adult female baboons. This finding calls into question the hypothesis that the removal of high-ranking individuals has a destabilizing effect on social network structures in social animals [Current Zoology 61 （1）： 107-113, 2015].

关键词： Social network analysis Social network dynamics Knockouts Baboons

Contribution of national bioassessment approaches for assessing ecological water security： an AUSRIVAS case study

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2013年第5期7卷 669-687页

作者： susan J. NICHOLS Fiona J. DYER Institute for Applied Ecology and MDBfutures CRN University of Canberra Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

River managers in Australia are managing in the face of extremes to provide security of water supply for people, production and the environment. Balancing the water requirements of people, environments and econo- mies requires that water security is viewed holistically, not just in terms of the water available for human consump- tion. Common definitions of water security focus on the needs of both humans and ecosystems for purposes such as drinking, agriculture and industrial use, and to maintain ecological values. Information about achieving water security for the environment or ecological purposes can be a challenge to interpret because the watering require- ments of key ecological processes or assets are not well understood, and the links between ecological and human values are often not obvious to water users. Yet the concepts surrounding river health are inherently linked to holistic concepts of water security. The measurement of aquatic biota provides a valuable tool for managers to understand progress toward achieving ecological water security objectives. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the reference condition approach to river health assessment, using the development of the Australian River Assessment System （AUSRIVAS） as a case study. We make the link between the biological assessment of river health and assessment of ecological water security, and suggest that such an approach provides a way of reporting that is relevant to the contribution made by ecosystems to water security. The reference condition approach, which is the condition representative of minimally disturbed sites organized by selected physical, chemical, and biological characteristics, is most important for assessing ecological water security objectives.

关键词： ecological water security biological assessment river health

Tibetan Classical Literature and the *** of Congress:Preservation of Knowledge

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中国藏学 1992年第S1期 361-372页

作者： susan Meinheit

Tibetan classical literature Of all the world’s rich classical literary traditions, that which is preserved in the literature ofTibet, is probably one of the most outstanding and also the least well--known. Of the thousands oftexts once available inside Tibet, only a fraction have been translated into Western languages, andthe number of trained scholars capable of making accurate translations is very small. Nonetheless,

关键词：罗山才艺

The ecological consequences of temperament in spiders

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Current Zoology 2012年第4期58卷 589-596页

作者： Jonathan N.PRUITT susan E.RIECHERT Department of Biological Sciences University of PittsburghPittsburghPennsylvania 15260USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of TennesseeKnoxville TN 37996-1610USA

Ecological and evolutionary studies on spiders have been featured prominently throughout the contemporary behavio- ral syndromes movement. Here we review the behavioral syndromes literature devoted to spiders, and identify some ways in which behavioral syndromes can impact the function of spiders in ecological communities. We further highlight three general themes within the behavioral syndromes literature for which spiders have served as front running model systems：（1） how trait correlations beget performance trade-offs, （2） the influence that behavioral trait variants have on interspecific interactions and （3） mechanisms that aid in maintaining behavioral variation within-and among-populations. Research on behavioral syndromes con-tinues to grow at an impressive rate, and we feel the success of behavioral syndromes studies in spiders bodes well for their con-tinued prominence.

关键词： Animal personality Behavioral type Behavioral syndrome Social insects Social spider

Safe acupuncture and dry needling during pregnancy:New Zealand physiotherapists' opinion and practice

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Journal of Integrative Medicine 2019年第1期17卷 30-37页

作者： Jillian Marie McDowell susan Heather Kohut Debra Betts Prohealth Physiotherapy School of Clinical Sciences Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences Auckland University of Technology New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Objective: Acupuncture guidelines have advised caution when treating women during pregnancy,because historical ‘‘forbidden" acupuncture points are believed to stimulate miscarriage or early *** recent research demonstrating that acupuncture is a useful and safe treatment tool for pregnancy-related low-back pain(LBP) and pelvic girdle pain(PGP), it is postulated that fear of miscarriage and subsequent blame by association, restricts its provision. More recently, an increase in dry needling(DN) courses for physiotherapists has potentiated the rapid growth in DN practice in New Zealand(NZ). Many dry needlers do not consider DN to be a form of acupuncture; it is unknown if they have similar safety ***: NZ registered physiotherapists practicing acupuncture and/or DN were invited to participate in an electronic survey to examine their practice and level of understanding in regard to safe needling during ***: Of 124 respondents, only 60(48%) would needle pregnant women, with a further 66% of those still expressing safety concerns. NZ physiotherapists practicing DN only, were more likely to needle areas related to ‘‘forbidden" points in all trimesters. However, overall, NZ physiotherapists were less likely to needle ‘‘forbidden" points than their UK ***: Conflicting literature and a ‘‘fear of blame" influences NZ physiotherapists' decisions to offer needling(both acupuncture and DN) during pregnancy. Further training in this field is recommended to ensure safe practice and adequate provision of acupuncture treatment options for pregnant women suffering musculoskeletal pain, such as LBP and PGP. Further research, particularly into DN, for women during pregnancy, is warranted.

关键词： Physiotherapy Acupuncture Dry needling Safety Pregnancy Trigger point therapy

Social distance integrated gravity model for evacuation destination choice

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International Journal of Digital Earth 2021年第8期14卷 1004-1018页

作者： Yuqin Jiang Zhenlong Li susan L.Cutter Geoinformation and Big Data Research Laboratory Department of GeographyUniversity of South CarolinaColumbiaSCUSA Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute Department of GeographyUniversity of South CarolinaColumbiaSCUSA

Evacuation is an effective and commonly taken strategy to minimize death and injuries from an incoming *** decades,interdisciplinary research has contributed to a better understanding of evacuation *** destination choice modeling is an essential step for hurricane evacuation transportation *** factors are identified associated with evacuation destination choices,in which long-term social factors have been found essential,yet neglected,in most studies due to difficulty in data *** study utilized long-term human movement records retrieved from Twitter to(1)reinforce the importance of social factors in evacuation destination choices,(2)quantify individual-level familiarity measurement and its relationship with an individual’s destination choice,(3)develop a big data approach for aggregated county-level social distance measurement,and(4)demonstrate how gravity models can be improved by including both social distance and physical distance for evacuation destination choice modeling.

关键词： Big data disaster management evacuation social media social distance

Initial impacts of rain gardens＇ application on water quality and quantity in combined sewer： field-scale experiment

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2017年第4期11卷 127-138页

作者： Isam Alyaseri Jianpeng Zhou susan M. Morgan Andrew Bartlett Department of Civil Engineering Al-Muthanna University Alsamawah Al-Muthanna 72001 Iraq Department of Civil Engineering Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville IL 62026 USA Graduate School Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville IL 62026 USA Agricultural Statistics Laboratory University of Arkansas Fayetteville AR 72701 USA

Green infrastructures such as rain gardens can benetit onsite reduction ot stormwater runott, leading to reduced combined sewer overflows. A pilot project was conducted to evaluate the impact of rain gardens on the water quality and volume reduction of storm runoff from urban streets in a combined sewer area. The study took place in a six-block area on South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. The impact was assessed through a comparison between the pre-construction （2011/2012） and the post-construction （2014） phases. Shortly after the rain gardens were installed, the levels of total suspended solids, chloride, total nitrogen, total phosphorous, zinc, and copper increased. The level of mercury was lower than the detection level in both phases. E. coli was the only parameter that showed statistically significant decrease following the installation of rain gardens. The likely reason for initial increase in monitored water quality parameters is that the post-construction sampling began after the rain gardens were constructed but before planting, resulted from soil erosion and wash-out from the mulch. However, the levels of most of water quality parameters decreased in the following time period during the post-construction phase. The study found 76% volume reduction of stormwater runoff following the installation of rain gardens at one of studied sites. Statistical analysis is essential on collected data because of the encountered high variability of measured flows resulted from low flow conditions in studied sewers.

关键词： Rain gardens Bioretention Combined sewer Stormwater quality and quantity