This work reports baseline results for the CLEF 2008 Medical Automatic Annotation Task (MAAT) by applying a classifier with a fixed parameter set to all tasks 2005 – 2008. A nearest-neighbor (NN) classifier is used, which uses a weighted combination of three distance and similarity measures operating on global image features: Scaled-down representations of the images are compared using models f...

Acknowledgments The larger portion of this paper was written during the first author's stays at the Department of Psychology and the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. We thank Michael Tomasello, Elena Lieven and Bernard Comrie for providing enormously stimulating working environments, Patricia M. Clancy for comments and discussion, and the anon...

Anteroposterior (AP) pelvic radiographs only give a 2D projection of what is a 3D shape. Depending on the position of the patient while the radiograph is taken, the 2D projection of the shape may vary. This paper investigates the short-term variability of projected proximal femur shape using AP pelvic radiographs. We train a statistical shape model of the proximal femur based on a set of 87 rad...

The vast majority of variability in the instrumental surface temperature record is at annual frequencies. Systematic changes in the yearly Fourier component of surface temperature have been observed since the midtwentieth century, including a shift toward earlier seasonal transitions over land. Here it is shown that the variability in the amplitude and phase of the annual cycle of surface tempe...

4 The vast majority of variability in the instrumental surface temperature record is at annual 5 frequencies. Systematic changes in the yearly Fourier component of surface temperature 6 have been observed since the mid-20th century, including a shift towards earlier seasonal 7 transitions over land. Here it is shown that the variability in the amplitude and phase of 8 the annual cycle of surfac...

the aim of this study was to determine the extent of metal pollutions and the identification of their major sources in the vicinity of the sangan iron mine occurring in ne iran. soil samples were collected from the vicinity of the mine site and analyzed for heavy metals. in addition, the chemical speciation of these metals was investigated by means of the sequential extraction procedure. the st...

Rats were mated for two or 15 hours and variability of day-12-embryos in weight, protein content, and [3H]thymidine incorporation was compared in the long mating period (LMP) and short mating period (SMP) groups by a 2-level nested analysis of variance. Variability in day-20 fetal weight was similarly compared. In both groups day-12 embryonic weight was relatively more variable than day-20 feta...

ABSTRACT Variable γ-ray emission from blazars, one of the most powerful classes astronomical sources featuring relativistic jets, is a widely discussed topic. In this work, we present results variability study sample 20 blazars using (0.1–300 GeV) observations Fermi/LAT telescope. Using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) methods, find that probability density functions best describe blazar flu...