Digging up an Archaeologist

The renal archaeologist: digging for clues in archived tissues to understand diabetic kidney disease.

Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of end-stage renal failure in the Western world; in the USA, ̃ 40% of adults with diabetes have some degree of chronic kidney disease [1]. Current treatment strategies for diabetic nephropathy include lifestyle improvements (cessation of smoking and dietary modifications), glycaemic control, cholesterol management and reduction of blood pressure [1]. How...

Digging up the Dirt on User Generated Content Consumption

Knowledge-sharing online social networks are becoming increasingly pervasive and popular. However, consumption of user generated content in these networks has not been studied extensively despite its significant influence on many social network behaviors. In this work, we study data gathered from digg.com and ireport.com for studying the creation and consumption behavior. We build on our prior ...

Quarry: Digging Up the Gems of Your Data Treasury

The design lifecycle of a data warehousing (DW) system is primarily led by requirements of its end-users and the complexity of underlying data sources. The process of designing a multidimensional (MD) schema and back-end extracttransform-load (ETL) processes, is a long-term and mostly manual task. As enterprises shift to more real-time and ’onthe-fly’ decision making, business intelligence (BI)...

Occupational health and the archaeologist.

Virtual Archaeologist: Assembling the Past

This paper describes a semi-automatic system for the reconstruction of archaeological finds from their fragments. Virtual Archaeologist is a system that uses computer graphics to calculate a measure of complementary matching between scanned data and employs optimization algorithms in order to estimate the correct relative pose between fragments and cluster those fragments that belong to the sam...