In the absence of oxygen human life is measured in minutes. In the presence of oxygen, normal metabolism generates reactive species (ROS) that have the potential to cause cell injury contributing to human aging and disease. Between these extremes, organisms have developed means for sensing oxygen and ROS and regulating their cellular processes in response. Redox signaling contributes to the con...

The commitment to social justice is an essential feature of professional nursing practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008). Social justice involves critically evaluating major determinants of health, including an individual’s personal attributes, acquired health behaviors, health care accessibility, as well as social, economic, and cultural resources and environments (Reutter...

Laughter is a very complex behavior that communicates a wide range of messages with different meanings. It is highly dependent on social and interpersonal attributes. Most of the previous works (e.g. [1, 2]) on automatic laughter detection from audio uses frame-level acoustic features as parameters to train their machine learning techniques, such as Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), Support Vecto...

Decision trees are arguably one of the most popular choices for learning and reasoning systems, especially when it comes to learning from discrete valued (feature based) examples. Because of the success they acquired in their area, there have been many attempts to generalize the method to better suit working with real-valued, numerical attributes, but also for missing values or even numerical o...

Source code reuse becomes popular using software component retrieval system (source code search system) because of the recent growth of open source software development. Use-relation between components, which is acquired by analysis of source code, is effective information for making reuse efficient. However, existing retrieval systems analyze use-relation between components insufficiently. The...

The Open Source Software(OSS) movement has attracted considerable attention in the last few years. In this paper we report our results of mining data acquired from SourceForge.net, the largest open source software hosting website. In the process we introduce Association Rules Network(ARN), a (hyper)graphical model to represent a special class of association rules. Using ARNs we discover importa...

Providing new generations of airbags with reliable information about the vehicle inner space occupancy in order to minimize inappropriate inflation is a real challenge. Within this paper 2 techniques to rebuilt the 3D cockpit scene, are presented; beside the well-known stereoscopic vision principles, 3D reconstruction based on matricial sensor combined with an infrared structured light emitter ...

The land-acquisition problem involves selecting multiple discrete parcels to be acquired for a particular land use. In previous models, typical selection criteria have been land cost, land area, and spatial attributes such as contiguity and compactness. Here I introduce a new spatial attribute, convexity. I develop a way to approximate convex shapes in continuous space with `cellularly convex' ...

Cutaneous malignant melanomas share a number of molecular attributes such as limitless replicative potential that define capabilities acquired by most malignancies. Accordingly, much effort has been focused on evaluating and validating protein markers related to these capabilities to function as melanoma prognostic markers. However, a few studies have also highlighted the prognostic value of ma...

This paper describes results and lessons learned from research activities designed to develop data mining and machine learning methods for remote sensing and Earth science data sets. These data sets are acquired by Earth observing instruments onboard polar orbiting satellites, in-situ observations, and model reanalysis and provide a rich source of information related to the properties and dynam...