The reporting of outputs from health surveillance systems should be done in a near real-time and interactive manner in order to provide decision makers with powerful means to identify, assess, and manage health hazards as early and efficiently as possible. While this is currently rarely the case in veterinary public health surveillance, reporting tools do exist for the visual exploration and in...

The problem of ancestral sequence reconstruction is the statistical inference of sequences that correspond to internal nodes in a phylgenetic tree [1]. Joint reconstruction is the task of seeking the most likely set of ancestral states corresponding to all the ancestral taxa, while marginal reconstruction aims at inferring the sequence in a specific internal node. In simple probabilistic models...

Modern microscopes produce vast amounts of image data, and computational methods are needed to analyze and interpret these data. Furthermore, a single image analysis project may require tens or hundreds of analysis steps starting from data import and pre-processing to segmentation and statistical analysis; and ending with visualization and reporting. To manage such large-scale image data analys...

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Computer-aided diagnosis through biomedical image analysis is increasingly considered in health sciences. This is due to the progress made on the acquisition side, as well as on the processing one. In vivo visualization of human tissues where one can determine both anatomical and functional information is now possible. The use of these images with efficient intelligent mathematical and processi...

It is well known in the computer science education community that is important to encourage students to acquire programming skills and become creators and not only mere consumers. Different students have different needs and learning styles when introduced to programming and making activities, however it is challenging to accommodate all these needs while you design a workshop activity. In our a...

ed through the Sensor–Actor unit concept. These Sensor–Actor units realize hardware or simulator access and hide the low-level communication from higher-level layers of the robot software. On the mid-level, robot capabilities, such as perception, planning, and motion generation, are implemented in a network transparent way. The high-level layer comprises a set of robot skills, realized as state...

Chronic inflammation is a risk factor for lung cancer, and low-dose aspirin intake reduces lung cancer risk. However, the roles that specific inflammatory cells and their products play in lung carcinogenesis have yet to be fully elucidated. In mice, alveolar macrophage numbers increase as lung tumors progress, and pulmonary macrophage programing changes within 2 weeks of carcinogen exposure. To...

The microsound synthesis framework in the LC computer music programing language integrates objects and library functions that can directly represent microsounds and related manipulations for microsound synthesis. Together with the mechanism that enables seamless collaboration with the unit-generator-based sound synthesis framework, such abstraction can help provide a simpler and terser programi...

Programing is difficult for beginners because they need to learn the new language of computers. Developing software, especially complex software, is bound to result in problems, frustration, and the need to think in new ways. Identifying the learning behavior behind programing by way of empirical studies can help beginners learn more easily. In this study, a flipped classroom combined with the ...