Significant changes in population and cultivation of farmland in Western U.S. over the past 200 years has required the use of extensive irrigation to sustain crop growth in the region. This irrigation has altered the land surface processes in the region and subsequently the local climates by increasing soil moisture levels higher than they naturally would be if no irrigation had taken place. An...

administer effectively the "promise of punishment", that is, discipline, isolation, and rehabilitation, given budgetary constraints and the prevalent view in free society (and even in the Penitentiary Administration itself) that criminals, once tainted by the experience of prison, were inevitably doomed to become social pariahs. The most stimulating chapter in the book, although the most scanti...

3D reconstructions allow cultural institutions such as museums and historic sites a tool to vividly illustrate the past while educating the public about competing interpretations of history and change over time. 3D technology also offers many practical benefits including low cost, flexibility, and the potential for collaboration. This paper presents potential applications of 3D reconstructions ...

We describe a setup and experiments where users are checking and correcting image tags given by an automatic tagging system. We study how much the application of a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) method speeds up the process of finding and correcting the erroneously-tagged images. We also analyze the use of implicit relevance feedback from the user’s gaze tracking patterns as a method for ...

New microbial genomes are constantly being sequenced, and it is crucial to accurately determine their taxonomic identities and evolutionary relationships. Here we report PhyloPhlAn, a new method to assign microbial phylogeny and putative taxonomy using >400 proteins optimized from among 3,737 genomes. This method measures the sequence diversity of all clades, classifies genomes from deep-branch...

The widespread diffusion of synthetically generated content is a serious threat that needs urgent countermeasures. As matter fact, the generation synthetic not restricted to multimedia data like videos, photographs or audio sequences, but covers significantly vast area can include biological images as well, such western blot and microscopic images. In this paper, we focus on detection These are...

Radiotherapy treatment planning relies on the use of geometrically correct images. This paper presents a fully automatic tool for correcting MR images for the effects of B(0) inhomogeneities. The post-processing method is based on the gradient-reversal technique of Chang and Fitzpatrick (1992 IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 11 319-29) which combines two identical images acquired with a forward- and a ...