We compare Temporal Difference Learning (TDL) with Coevolutionary Learning (CEL) on Othello. Apart from using three popular single-criteria performance measures: i) generalization performance or expected utility, ii) average results against a hand-crafted heuristic and iii) result in a head to head match, we compare the algorithms using performance profiles. This multi-criteria performance meas...

The goal of the study reported in the paper was to determine whether rendering style (non-photorealistic versus realistic) has an effect on perception of American Sign Language (ASL) finger spelling animations. Sixty-nine (69) subjects participated in the experiment; all subjects were ASL users. The participants were asked to watch forty (40) sign language animation clips representing twenty (2...

Picture 1. Biopsy of the neck lymph node. (A) Difuse medium cel lymphoma (mantle cel lymphoma) (HE stain). (B) Positive immunostaining of lymphoma cels with anti-cyclin D1 antibody. Picture 2. Formalin-fixed (A) right and (B) left lungs showing major bronchi with marked thickening of the wal and a pencil lead caliber. MB, main bronchus; ULB, upper lobe bronchus; MLB, middle lobe bronchus; LLB, ...

aLaboratório de Dinâmicas Ecológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Av. Cel. Francisco Heráclito dos Santos, s/n, Jardim das Américas, CP 19020, CEP 81530-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil bLaboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Av. Cel. Francisco Heráclito dos Santos, s/n, Jardim das Américas...

BACKGROUND Thermochemical pretreatment of lignocellulose is crucial to bioconversion in the fields of biorefinery and biofuels. However, the enzyme inhibitors in pretreatment hydrolysate make solid substrate washing and hydrolysate detoxification indispensable prior to enzymatic hydrolysis. Sulfite pretreatment to overcome recalcitrance of lignocelluloses (SPORL) is a relatively new process, bu...

The impact of colonic fermentation on postileal absorption of Ca, Mg, P, Cu, Fe, Mn, and Zn was investigated in 8 ileally cannulated grower pigs (initial BW = 29.1 ± 1.6 kg) according to a double 4 × 4 Latin square. A semi-purified diet was supplemented with 5.20% low viscous, low fermentable cellulose (CEL), 6.25% high viscous, low fermentable carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), 8.95% low viscous, h...

CEL-SCI Corporation (AMEX: CVM) is a biopharmaceutical company involved in research and development of immune-boosting drugs and vaccines. Three products in various stages of development are Multikine, L.E.A.P.S., and HGP/30W. These products dramatically enhance normal immune responses against cancer cells and infectious agents. The immunotherapy company that succeeds in redirecting and augment...

Description logics (DLs) are an important family of formalisms for reasoning about ontologies. CEL (Classifier for EL) is a free (for non-commercial use) LISP-based reasoner for the description logic EL [2], supporting as its main reasoning task the computation of the subsumption hierarchy induced by EL ontologies. The most distinguishing feature of CEL is that, unlike other modern DL reasoners...

We present a method for applying complex textures to hand-drawn characters in cel animation. The method correlates features in a simple, textured, 3-D model with features on a hand-drawn figure, and then distorts the model to conform to the hand-drawn artwork. The process uses two new algorithms: a silhouette detection scheme and a depth-preserving warp. The silhouette detection algorithm is si...