The Tokyo Institute of Technology team participated in the high-level feature extraction, surveillance event detection pilot and Rushes summarization tasks for TRECVID2008. In the high-level feature (HLF) extraction task, we employed a framework using a tree-structured codebook and a node selection technique last year. This year we focused on the position information of each object-related HLF....

At Florida Institute of Technology, intelligent systems is one of the main areas of research in the Computer Sciences department. The focus in general is on (i) how to make computers more intelligent as well as (ii) how intelligence can change the ways we compute. Speci cally , one investigates algorithms that can help computers reason (constraint reasoning, spatio-temporal reasoning), learn (m...

1 Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany, [email protected] 2 Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems(IAIS), Schloss Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany, [email protected] 3 Université Paris-Sud, INRIA, Bât 490, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France, [email protected] 4...

Hyperpolarization-activated Cyclic Nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels are important regulators of excitability in neural, cardiac, and other pacemaking cells, which are often altered in disease. In mice, loss of HCN2 leads to cardiac dysrhythmias, persistent spike-wave discharges similar to those seen in absence epilepsy, ataxia, tremor, reduced neuropathic and inflammatory pain, antidepressant-li...

BACKGROUND The postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoprotein (TRL) concentration is a recognized independent cardiovascular disease risk factor. Diet is the natural approach for these postprandial alterations. Dietary polyphenols and long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCn3s) are associated with a lower cardiovascular disease risk. OBJECTIVE This randomized controlled study evaluated, in...

Chronic fish oil intervention had been shown to have a positive impact on endothelial function. Although high-fat meals have often been associated with a loss of postprandial vascular reactivity, studies examining the effects of fish oil fatty acids on vascular function in the postprandial phase are limited. The aim of the present study was to examine the impact of the addition of fish oil fatt...

The APOA1/C3/A4/A5 gene cluster encodes important regulators of fasting lipids, but the majority of lipid metabolism takes place in the postprandial state and knowledge about gene regulation in this state is scarce. With the aim of characterizing possible regulators of lipid metabolism, we studied the effects of nine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) during postprandial lipid metabolism. E...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality for patients with type 2 diabetes, despite recent significant advances in management strategies to lessen CVD risk factors. A major cause is the atherogenic dyslipidemia, which consists of elevated plasma concentrations of both fasting and postprandial triglyceride-rich lipoproteins (TRLs), small dense low-density...