We propose a content-based soft annotation (CBSA) procedure for providing images with semantical labels. The annotation procedure starts with labeling a small set of training images, each with one single semantical label (e.g., forest, animal, or sky). An ensemble of binary classifiers is then trained for predicting label membership for images. The trained ensemble is applied to each individual...

With the increasing of the number of digital television (TV) channels in Thailand, this becomes a problem of information overload for TV viewers. There are mass numbers of TV programs to watch but the information about these programs is poor. Therefore, this work presents a personalized recommendation system on mobile device to recommend a TV program that matches viewer’s interests and/or needs...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the nephroprotective potential of resveratrol and piperine at same dose on cationic bovine serum albumin (cBSA) induced immune complex glomerulonephritis (ICGN) in BALB/c mice. MATERIALS AND METHODS Female BALB/c mice were divided into five groups. Group I served as normal control (complete Freund's adjuvant + Saline). Two weeks later, Gro...

 County-level housing net worth shock: We cannot make the exact county-level housing net worth shock used in our analysis publicly available given restrictions in our agreements with Equifax and CoreLogic. However, we can make a CBSA-level data set available that replaces Equifax debt with county-level debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and replaces CoreLogic house price growth fr...

The cystathionine ß-synthase (CBS) is a critical enzyme in the transsulfuration pathway and is responsible for the synthesis of cystathionine from serine and homocysteine. Cystathionine is a precursor to amino acid cysteine. CBS is also responsible for generation of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from cysteine. Mutation in CBS enzyme causes homocysteine levels to rise, and gives rise to a condition cal...

We demonstrate PBIR , an integrated system that we have built for conducting multimodal image retrieval. The system combines the strengths of content-based soft annotation (CBSA), multimodal relevance feedback through active learning, and perceptual distance formulation and indexing. PBIR supports multimodal query and annotation in any combination of its three basic modes: seed-by-nothing, seed...

Idiopathic membranous nephropathy (MN) is an autoimmune-mediated glomerulonephritis and the most common cause of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in adult humans. A tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α)-mediated inflammatory response via TNF receptor 1 (TNFR1) and TNFR2 has been proposed as a pathogenic factor. In this study, we assessed the therapeutic response to blocking TNF signaling in experimental...

Globalization, coupled with environmental requirements, has spearheaded new levels of requirements for product end-of-life, the last phase of product lifecycle management especially for product remanufacturing and recycling which involves product disassembly to retrieve the desired parts and subassemblies. Selection of optimal disassembly schedule is a major challenge for remanufacturing and re...