From 19 February 1999 through 31 October 1999, 16 (8.6%) of 185 patients who underwent median sternotomy developed infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Seven patients had mediastinitis, 5 had deep sternal wound infection, 2 had superficial sternal wound infection, 1 had prosthetic valve endocarditis, and 1 had sepsis. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed that all 13 isolates that were ...

In complex ecosystem models, relationships between species include a large number of direct interactions and indirect effects. In order to unveil some simple and better understandable relationships, it is useful to study the asymmetry of inter-specific effects. We present a simple approach for this based on stochastic food web simulations from previous studies. We refer to the Prince William So...

Recent evidence shows that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, people who are pressured to think fast are also less likely to provide a heuristic judgment when heuristic and logical considerations point to conflicting answers in a conjunction fallacy task (Vallée-Tourangeau & FaureBloom, under review). The present study explores this finding using an eye-tracking methodology. Eye movements f...

An image sequence is a series of interrelated images. To enable navigation of large image sequences, many current software packages display small versions of the images, called thumbnails. We observed radiologists during typical diagnosis sessions, where image sequences are examined using photographic films and sophisticated light screens. Based on these observations and on previous research, w...

For the browsing and retrieval system, images are represented by thumbnails and video shots are represented by histogram representations. In order to achieve better visual quality and retrieval performance, the representation estimator is expected to be accurate and robust. From the statistical perspective, representation extraction can be treated as central value estimation. In this paper, we ...

Asymmetrical gene flow is an important, but rarely examined genetic parameter. Here, we develop a new method for detecting departures from symmetrical migration between two populations using microsatellite data that are based on the difference in the proportion of private alleles. Application of this approach to data collected from wild-caught Drosophila melanogaster along a latitudinal body-si...

This paper proposes asymmetrical step-impedance resonators bandpass filters (ASIRs) for suppressing a wide stopband, ensuing in size reduction and ease of fabrication. The filters have been designed at the operating frequency around 2.0 GHz using halfand quarter-wavelength asymmetrical step-impedance resonators. The concept of existent oddand even-mode characteristics is used to approve the pro...

Music Genie refers to audio processing technologies for quick and easy music browsing and discovery. We built research prototype software that allows users to quickly generate playlists from a collection of thousands of songs. Our software provides an interactive, content-adaptive, thumbnail-based presentation of music. The software accepts user inputs interactively during use, and it consecuti...

We present an empirical evaluation of the contribution of pictorial image and spatial location information on the retrieval of previously stored web pages. Subjects were given 100 snapshots of web pages that they stored in spatial locations on an inclined plane in a desktop 3D environment (Data Mountain). We had them return and try to retrieve their pages again, using a variety of retrieval cue...

There is an increasing interest in music information retrieval for reference, motive, or thumbnail extraction from a piece in order to have a compact and representative representation of the information to be retrieved. One of the main references for music is its melody. In a practical environment of symbolic format collections the information can be found in standard MIDI file format, structur...