Until recently, the only examples of inverted biomass pyramids have been in freshwater and marine planktonic communities. In 2002 and 2008 investigators documented inverted biomass pyramids for nearly pristine coral reef ecosystems within the NW Hawaiian islands and the Line Islands, where apex predator abundance comprises up to 85% of the fish biomass. We build a new refuge based predator-prey...

The objective of Cartoon Style Rendering is to produce a cartoon looking rendering out of a 3D scene. Instead of rendering photorealistic images the focus lies on artistic and stylistic characteristics. In this paper we give an overview of the common methods to generate cartoon looking scenes. We describe the basic techniques for the silhouette edge detection and the shading of the interior. Th...

This paper investigates how structures of pairwise pixel interactions are changing at subsequent levels of Gaussian or Laplacian pyramids representing spatially homogeneous image textures. Structural differences between the parent and child levels of the pyramid are analysed using the modelbased interaction maps (MBIM) describing relative interaction energies in a generic Gibbs random field mod...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this research was to study whether a fast-paced television show immediately influences preschool-aged children's executive function (eg, self-regulation, working memory). METHODS Sixty 4-year-olds were randomly assigned to watch a fast-paced television cartoon or an educational cartoon or draw for 9 minutes. They were then given 4 tasks tapping executive function, includ...

The pyramid evaluation effort for the 2006 Document Understanding Conference involved twenty-two sites on twenty document sets. Each pyramid content model (one per document set) was constructed from four human summaries. Peer systems were scored using the modified pyramid score introduced in DUC 2005. ANOVAs with score as the independent variable and nine factors yielded three significant facto...

This paper studies the model of minimizing total variation with an L-norm fidelity term for decomposing a real image into the sum of cartoon and texture. This model is also analyzed and shown to be able to select features of an image according to their scales.

The 6S pyramid has provided a conceptual framework for searching information resources for evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) and is used in medical education and clinical informatics applications. This model has evolved into EBHC pyramid 5.0 which adds systematically derived recommendations as a major type of information and simplifies the overall framework to five major layers of information ty...

Support for economic resource allocation in Application Layer Networks (such as Grids) is critical to allow applications and users to effectively exploit computational and data infrastructure as a utility. The evaluation of resource allocation strategies plays a major part in the selection of a resource allocation method. This paper presents an evaluation framework for resource allocation metho...

introduction: nutrition plays an important role in the protection and promotion of health. to plan and implement programs aiming at improving community nutritional status, a knowledge of the existing situation is essential. the aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine food and nutrient intakes of the inhabitants in tehran university of medical sciences population laboratory. methods: ...

In this paper, a novel idea is proposed for fabric defect detection. Defects are detected in the fabric using steerable pyramid along with a defect detection algorithm. Various steerable pyramid of four size 256*256, 128*128, 64*64, 32*32 and with four orientation bands 0,45, 90, 135 are used. Utilizing a Steerable pyramid proved adequate in the representation of fabric images in multi-scale an...