Background: Negated biomedical events are often ignored by text-mining applications;however, such events carry scientific significance. We report on the development of BioN∅T, a database of negated sentences that can ...
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The combination of testing techniques is considered an effective strategy to evaluate a software product. However, the selection of which techniques to combine in a software project has been an interesting challenge i...
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The combination of testing techniques is considered an effective strategy to evaluate a software product. However, the selection of which techniques to combine in a software project has been an interesting challenge in the Software engineering field. This paper presents a proposal extending an approach developed to support the combined selection of model-based testing (MBT) techniques, named Porantim, applying Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization strategy by determining the smallest dominating set in a bipartite and weighted graph. Thus, a local search strategy algorithm is proposed generating solutions aiming at maximizing the coverage of software project characteristics and skills required by the testing team to use the techniques and minimizing the eventual effort to construct models used for test cases generation. A preliminary evaluation analyzes this new approach when compared to the Porantim's original version, and the results indicate improvements in the MBT techniques selection.
Popular sorting algorithms do not translate well into hardware implementations. Instead, hardware-based solutions like sorting networks, systolic sorters, and linear sorters exploit parallelism to increase sorting eff...
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Reliability and accuracy in personal identification system is a dominant concern to the security world. Biometric has gained much attention in this subject recently. Many types of personal identification systems have ...
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Reliability and accuracy in personal identification system is a dominant concern to the security world. Biometric has gained much attention in this subject recently. Many types of personal identification systems have been developed, and palmprint identification is one of the emerging technologies. This paper presents a novel biometric technique to automatic personal identification system using multispectral palmprint technology. In this method, each of spectrum images are aligned and then used to extract palmprint features using 1D log-Gabor filter. These features are then examined for their individual and combined performances. Finally, the hamming distance is used for matching of palmprint features. The experimental results showed that the proposed method achieve an excellent identification rate and provide more security.
Many theories have sought to explain the evolution of sex, but the question remains unanswered owing to the scarcity of compelling empirical tests. Here we summarize the results of two of our published studies investi...
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Performing closed-loop modifications of a brain-machine interface (BMI) decoder is a technique that shows great promise for improving performance. We compare two algorithms for implementing adaptations that update dec...
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Performing closed-loop modifications of a brain-machine interface (BMI) decoder is a technique that shows great promise for improving performance. We compare two algorithms for implementing adaptations that update decoder parameters on different time-scales (discrete batches vs. online), and present experimental results of a non-human primate performing a standard center-out BMI task. To ensure that our experimental training models are representative of a broad range of paralyzed patients, our decoders were initially trained using neural activity recorded during subject observation of cursor movement. We find that both closed-loop adaptation algorithms can be used to boost BMI performance from 20-30% to 80%, yielding movement kinematics similar to natural arm movements. Based on insights derived from the performance of each algorithm, we propose that a hybrid of batch and online decoder adaptation may be the best approach.
Many animals are known to maintain an internal estimate of their orientation in the environment. In the absence of external sensory cues, this estimate inevitably exhibits drift. When sensory information is available,...
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Many animals are known to maintain an internal estimate of their orientation in the environment. In the absence of external sensory cues, this estimate inevitably exhibits drift. When sensory information is available, associations between sensory landmarks and the internal estimate can be used to correct for drift. In this paper we present a neuromorphic system to model such associations between sensory landmarks in the environment (as provided by sonar) and the activity of a hardware-based head direction cell system (HDS) that continuously integrates angular velocity signals to maintain an estimate of the orientation. These associations are shown to correct for drift errors that are encountered in the HDS.
Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) decoding algorithms are often trained offline, but this paradigm ignores both the non-stationarity of neural signals and the feedback that exists in online, closed-loop control. To addres...
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Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) decoding algorithms are often trained offline, but this paradigm ignores both the non-stationarity of neural signals and the feedback that exists in online, closed-loop control. To address these problems, we have developed an Adaptive Kalman Filter (AKF), a Kalman filter variant that adaptively updates its model parameters during training. For a Kalman filter decoder, batch retraining methods require completely re-estimating the parameter matrices from sufficient data to perform regression accurately, even if only small changes are necessary. Conversely, the AKF is designed to update the decoder parameters continuously and more intelligently. We simulated a population of 41 neurons learning to control a 2D computer cursor. The AKF yielded significantly faster skill acquisition and better robustness to perturbation and neuron loss than a standard Kalman filter with periodic batch retraining.
This study investigated the low latitude nocturnal ionospheric irregularities at India-Arab longitudes using phase fluctuations of the global positioning system during solar maximum. The results showed that the low la...
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Due to the semantic gap between low-level image features and high level concepts, content-Based image retrieval (CBIR) systems are incapable to provide the effective results to the user. To address this problem, we ha...
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Due to the semantic gap between low-level image features and high level concepts, content-Based image retrieval (CBIR) systems are incapable to provide the effective results to the user. To address this problem, we have presented a framework for effective image retrieval by proposing a novel idea of cumulative learning using Support Vector Machines (SVM). It creates a knowledge base model to increase the training samples by simply accumulating the samples based on user interactions. As we know relevance feedback (RF) is online process, so we have optimized the learning process by considering the most positive image selection on each feedback iteration. To learn the system we have used SVM. The main significances of our system are to address the small training sample and to reduce retrieval time. Experiments are conducted on 1856 texture images to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
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