Context. User Interfaces (UIs) intensively rely on event-driven programming: widgets send UI events, which capture users’ interactions, to dedicated objects called controllers. Controllers use several UI listeners that handle these events to produce UI commands. Objective. The first objective of this work is to show empirical evidences that the code that describes and controls UIs can be affect...

We report on the discovery of a z = 3.16 Lyman-α emitting blob in the GOODS South field. The blob has a total Lyα luminosity of ∼ 10 43 erg s −1 and a diameter larger than 60 kpc. The available multi-wavelength data in the GOODS field consists of 13 bands from X-rays (Chandra) to infrared (Spitzer). Unlike other discovered Lyα blobs, this blob shows no obvious continuum counterpart in any of th...

We summarize our axioms for higher categories, and describe the "blob complex." Fixing an n-category , the blob complex associates a chain complex B(*)(W;C) to any n-manifold W. The zeroth homology of this chain complex recovers the usual topological quantum field theory invariants of W. The higher homology groups should be viewed as generalizations of Hochschild homology (indeed, when W = S(1)...

This paper generalizes Lyaponov functionals to the local setting, and it is shown that they may serve as a connection between Florack's et al. pseudo-linear scale-spaces and Koenderink's et al. local soft histograms. A generalized scale-selection method is proposed based on local Lyaponov functionals and local soft histograms, and it is shown that the method includes Lindebergs's Blob-detector ...

Human observers were trained to criterion in classifying compound Gabor signals with symmetry relationships, and were then tested with each of 18 blob-only versions of the learning set. Generalization to dark-only and light-only blob versions of the learning signals, as well as to dark-and-light blob versions was found to be excellent, thus implying virtually perfect generalization of the abili...

This paper presents a system to segment and track multiple body parts of interacting humans in the presence of mutual occlusion and shadow. The color image sequence is processed at three levels: pixel level, blob level, and object level. A Gaussian mixture model is used at the pixel level to train and classify individual pixel colors. Markov Random Field (MRF) framework is used at the blob leve...

A coarse-graining strategy, previously developed for polymer solutions, is extended here to mixtures of linear polymers and hard-sphere colloids. In this approach, groups of monomers are mapped onto a single pseudoatom (a blob) and the effective blob-blob interactions are obtained by requiring the model to reproduce some large-scale structural properties in the zero-density limit. We show that ...

Background: Accurate voxel phantom is needed for dosimetric simulation in radiation therapy for malignant tumors in female pelvic region. However, most of the existing voxel phantoms are constructed on the basis of Caucasian or non-Chinese population. Materials and Methods: A computational framework for constructing female pelvic voxel phantom for radiation dosimetry was performed base...

Introduction: Voxel based morphometry is a type of statistical parametric mapping that can be used to investigate the effect of diseases such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease or other agent such as skills on brain structure (white matter, gray matter and cerebrospinal fluid). The aim of this study is evaluate the effectiveness of this method in detection of differen...

This paper presents an application for semiautomatic repositioning of bone fractures that allows the merging of several fragments. This application has been developed with regard to orthopaedic surgeons who want to simulate the position and orientation of bone fragments preoperatively. The interactive algorithm includes volumetric collision detection for intuitive navigation and coarse manual p...