Internal self-diagnosis and external evaluation of the obtained results are of major importance for the relevance of any automatic system for practical applications. Obviously, this statement is also true for automatic image analysis in photogrammetry and remote sensing. Recently, automatic systems for the extraction of road networks reached a state in which a systematic evaluation of the resul...

Topic models can learn topics that are highly interpretable, semantically-coherent and can be used similarly to subject headings. But sometimes learned topics are lists of words that do not convey much useful information. We propose models that score the usefulness of topics, including a model that computes a score based on pointwise mutual information (PMI) of pairs of words in a topic. Our PM...

We demonstrated the growth of carbon nanocoils (CNCs) via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using Au and K metals as the catalysts to assist the thermal decomposition of C(2)H(2). Typical CNCs (wire diameter: 50-80 nm, coil diameter: 110-140 nm, pitch: 100-200 nm, tens of micrometers), identified as amorphous coiled carbon fibers by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron mic...

Evaluation is a key factor of creativity: for this reason it should be integrated into a cognitive architecture of a creative artificial agent. The approach illustrated in this paper uses the Psi model, and describes the framework for introducing internal and external evaluations, and how they influence demands and motivation of the artificial agent. Internal evaluation mechanisms drive the cre...

V. Conditions Associated with Genetic IGF-I Resistance in Humans A. African Efe Pygmies B. Leprechaunism and other genetic disorders associated with severe insulin resistance C. Deletions of the distal arm of chromosome 15 D. Rare examples of “idiopathic” short stature associated with elevated circulating levels of IGF-I VI. Conditions Associated with Acquired IGF-I Resistance in Humans A. HIV-...

A general method for solving the Cosmological Einstein’s Field Equations (EFE) in vacuum is presented, and is applied to the Bianchi Type III vacuum cosmology. As a result, the entire space of solutions for this model is found. This space is composed of two distinct, disconnected ,three-parameter families. Both of them admit four Killing vector Fields and no homothetic vector. One family repres...

A team of experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted an independent external assessment of Taiwan's capabilities under the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR), using the IHR Joint External Evaluation (JEE) tool adopted by the World Health Organization and the Global Health Security Agenda. In this article we describe the methods and process of the assessment, id...

A dual stage process of depositing bamboo-like carbon nanotubes (BCNTs) by hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) and coating Si using Radio frequency sputtering (RFS) technique. The films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and electron field emission studies (EFE)....

Skin and garment constitute a dynamic contact system for human body comfort and protection. Although dermatological injuries due to fabric actions during human body movement are common, there is still no general guidance or standard for measuring or evaluating skin/garment contact interactions, especially, during intense sports. A three-dimensional explicit finite element (EFE) model combined w...