In this work we explore the potential role of music album cover arts for the task of predicting the overall rating of music albums and we investigate if one can judge a music album by its cover alone. We present the results of our participation to the Linked Data Mining Challenge at the Know@LOD 2016 Workshop, which suggest that the the cover album alone might not be sufficient for the rating p...

Digitizing cultural information is a complex endeavor. Not only do users expect to have access to primary information like digital music files; it is also becoming more important for digital systems to provide contextual information for the primary artifacts contained within. The Liner Notes Markup Language (LNML) was developed to provide an XML vocabulary for encoding complex contextual docume...

In this paper, an MPEG-7 based album system for managing consumer-generated photographs is introduced. Face detection and recognition technologies are adopted to implement the query-by-face functionality of the content-aware album. A convenient face database construction and training mechanism is also provided. By utilizing both user attention model for visual objects and face information, the ...

BACKGROUND Arsenic in groundwater and its accumulation in plants and animals have assumed a menacing proportion in a large part of West Bengal, India and adjoining areas of Bangladesh. Because of the tremendous magnitude of the problem, there seems to be no way to tackle the problem overnight. Efforts to provide arsenic free water to the millions of people living in these dreaded zones are bein...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate antidiabetic activity ethanol extract leaves Flax plant (Linum usitatissimum) in streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic rats. Ethanol Linum usitatissimum (EELL) or glibenclamide administered rats orally daily for 28 days. Blood glucose levels at weekly interval and on 29th day, serum biochemical parameters were carried out its effect glucose, creatini...

A method of rotation invariant texture classification based on spatial frequency model is developed. Features are derived from the multichannel Gabor filtering method. The classification performance is first tested on a set 1440 samples of 15 Brodatz textures rotated in 12 directions (0 to 165 in steps of 15 degrees). For the 13-class problem reported in [13] we got better classification with o...

This study examines the effect of pH changes on photosynthetic characteristics and the role of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in determining the dominance of three species of macroalgae Chaetomorpha linum (O.F. Müller) Kützing, Gracilaria verrucosa (Hudson) Papenfuss and Ulva sp. in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon. Fluctuations of pH were measured in the lagoon in summer. Water column CO(2) an...