The taste of 30 compounds was studied in the golden hamster with three different methods: single-fiber recordings, two-bottle preference (TBP), and conditioned taste aversion (CTA) tests. On the whole, the results showed that the sense of taste in the hamster differs in many respects from that in humans because, of 26 tested compounds known as sweet to humans, 11 had no taste or tasted differen...

Building intelligent systems that are capable of representing or extracting high-level representations from high-dimensional sensory data lies at the core of solving many A.I. related tasks. Human action recognition is an important topic in computer vision that lies in high-dimensional space. Its applications include robotics, video surveillance, human-computer interaction, user interface desig...

This treatise, published as Vol. LXXI of the Advances in Chemical Physics series, is an enlightening introduction to the new and rapidly developing field of molecular dynamics of proteins. Written in clear language, with relatively few equations and a comprehensive reference list, it discusses methodology and numerical procedures applied, elaborates on the major results obtained to date, and co...

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In this paper we are interested in analyzing behaviour in crowded public places at the level of holistic motion. Our aim is to learn, without user input, strong scene priors or labelled data, the scope of “normal behaviour” for a particular scene and thus alert to novelty in unseen footage. The first contribution is a low-level motion model based on what we term tracklet primitives, which are s...

Digital fingerprinting of multimedia data involves embedding information in the content signal and offers protection to the digital rights of the content by allowing illegitimate usage of the content to be identified by authorized parties. One potential threat to fingerprinting is collusion, whereby a group of adversaries combine their individual copies in an attempt to remove the underlying fi...

Control of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection could be influenced by the timing and magnitude of CD4+ T cell responses against individual epitopes. We characterized CD4+ T cells targeting seven Pan troglodytes (Patr) class II-restricted epitopes during primary and secondary HCV infections of a chimpanzee. All Patr-DR-restricted HCV epitopes bound multiple human HLA-DR molecules, indicating the p...

We propose a hierarchical modeling approach for explaining a collection of point-referenced extreme values. In particular, annual maxima over space and time are assumed to follow Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distributions, with parameters μ , σ , and ξ specified in the latent stage to reflect underlying spatio-temporal structure. The novelty here is that we relax the conditionally independen...

A fundamental task of reconstructing non-rigid articulated motion from sequences of unstructured feature points is to solve the problem of feature correspondence and motion estimation. This problem is challenging in high-dimensional configuration spaces. In this paper, we propose a general model-based dynamic point matching algorithm to reconstruct freeform non-rigid articulated movements from ...