In realizing video retrieval system, the crucial point is how to provide an effective access method of video contents. This paper focuses on Japanese cooking instruction utterances and describes a method of analyzing structure of them, which leads to a summary of video. We detect a hierarchical structure of video contents by using linguistic and visual information. We found that the integration...

Innovation has been a topic of considerable interest to researchers and practitioners. Particularly, the networks within which firms operate and their properties (e.g., structural holes) are suggested to affect firms’ innovation performance. One stream of research finds that structural holes are conducive to firms’ innovation because of the heterogeneous information about alternatives that firm...

We classify a certain class of minimal actions of a compact Kac algebra with amenable dual on injective factors of type III. Our main technical tools are the structural analysis of type III factors and the theory of canonical extension of endomorphisms introduced by Izumi.

We have determined the hydrogen-bond geometry in liquid water from 0 to 80 degrees C by combining measurements of the proton magnetic shielding tensor with ab initio density functional calculations. The resulting moments of the distributions of hydrogen-bond length and angle are direct measures of thermal disorder in the hydrogen-bond network. These moments, and the distribution functions that ...

The given article deals with a quantitative analysis of English compounds in six novels of the first half of the twentieth century. The objective of the article is twofold: a) we are intended to reveal the most frequent structural patterns of the English compounds statistically; b) it is necessary to determine and measure the cohesion for the English compounds. The material of the research is r...

More than 60% of the current drugs are based on G protein-coupled receptors. Paradoxically, high-resolution structures are not available to facilitate rational drug design. Difficulties in expression, purification, and crystallization of these transmembrane receptors are the reasons for the low success rate. Recent individual and network-based technology development has significantly improved o...