Both diet quality and socioeconomic position (SEP) have been linked to age-related cognitive changes, but there is little understanding of how the socioeconomic context of dietary intake may shape its cognitive impact. We examined whether equal adherence to "prudent" and "Western" dietary patterns, identified by principal components analysis, was associated with global cognitive function [Modif...

We present a fast image comparison algorithm for handling variations in illumination and moderate amounts of deformation using an efficient geodesic framework. As the geodesic is the shortest path between two images on a manifold, it is a natural choice to use the length of the geodesic to determine the image similarity. Distances on the manifold are defined by a metric that is insensitive to c...

We report results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search { a survey for planets around 200 solar-type stars in the southern hemisphere, which is being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. Limiting Doppler precisions of 3ms ?1 have been demonstrated from the rst 2.5 years of operation, making this the highest precision planet search in the southern hemisphere. From these data we ...

High-quality motion blur is an increasingly important and pervasive effect in interactive graphics that, even in the context of offline rendering, is often approximated using a post process. Recent motion blur post-process filters (e.g., [MHBO12,Sou13]) efficiently generate plausible results suitable for modern interactive rendering pipelines. However, these approaches may produce distracting a...

Tracking the position of a robot in an unknown environment is an important problem in robotics. Iterative closest point algorithms using range data are commonly used for position tracking, but can be computationally intensive. We describe a highly parallel occupancy grid iterative closest point position tracking algorithm designed for use on a GPU, that uses an Extended Kalman Filter to estimat...

Rhizobium rhizogenes-mediated plant hairy root induction is a convenient method for functional study of root-specific genes. To develop an optimized tobacco system and gene function in nicotine biosynthesis, we investigated by three R. rhizogenes strains, R1601, K599, LBA9402, on different media with leaf discs from plants ages, observed that the strain LBA9402 used explant infection exhibited ...

Our previous calculations of the seaand valence-quark mass dependence of the pseudoscalar meson masses and decay constants is repeated on a 163 · 32 lattice which allows for a better determination of the quantities in question. The conclusions are similar as before on the 164 lattice [1]. The two light dynamical quark flavours we simulate have masses in the range 1 4ms < mu,d < 2 3ms. The sea q...

The Active Wavelet Network (AWN) [9] approach was recently proposed for automatic face alignment, showing advantages over Active Appearance Models (AAM), such as more robustness against partial occlusions and illumination changes. In this paper, we (1) extend the AWN method to a view-based approach, (2) verify the robustness of our algorithm with respect to unseen views in a large dataset and (...