Face clustering is a task to partition facial images into disjoint clusters. In this paper, we investigate a specific problem of face clustering in videos. Unlike traditional face clustering problem with a given collection of images from multiple sources, our task deals with set of face tracks with information about frame ID. Thus, we can exploit two kinds of prior knowledge about the temporal ...

Gameplay in real-time strategy games seems somehow to be confined to a de facto standard where economical micromanagement is equally important as combat strategy, if not more important. To enable stronger combat-oriented gameplay without sacrificing other key aspects of the genre, we propose an automated system for scheduling unit training, which we believe may allow the exploration of new para...

In this paper we consider the classical problem of dividing a land among many agents so that everybody is satisfied with the parcel she receives. In the literature, it is usually assumed that all the agents are endowed with cardinally comparable, additive, and monotone utility functions. In many economic and political situations violations of these assumptions may arise. We show how a family of...

1. Definitions 1.1. Types of Aridity 1.2. Levels of Aridity 2. Paleoperspective 3. People and Land Use in Arid Lands 3.1. Foragers/Hunter–gatherers 3.2. Agriculturists 3.3. Pastoralists 4. Geomorphology of Arid and Semiarid Lands 5. Biological Diversity in Arid Lands 5.1. Arid and Semiarid Lands Plants and their Uses 5.2. The Future of the Conservation of Wild Plants in Arid Regions 6. Climatic...

We consider whether current notions about superstring theory below the Planck scale are compatible with cosmology. We find that the anticipated form for the dilaton interaction creates a serious roadblock for inflation and makes it unlikely that the universe ever reaches a state with zero cosmological constant and time-independent gravitational constant. Superstring theories have been extensive...

Executive summary: We scrutinized peer-reviewed literature, technical books, and key reports in order to detect any evidence for a differential ability between public and public lands to protect imperiled species in the United States. Limitations in data availability and/or in study scale limited our comparison mostly to certain contrasts of federal public versus mostly private lands. At a nati...

Although Lands' cycle was discovered in 1958, its function and cellular regulation in membrane homeostasis under physiological and pathological conditions remain largely unknown. Nonbiased high throughput metabolomic profiling revealed that Lands' cycle was impaired leading to significantly elevated erythrocyte membrane lysophosphatidylcholine (LysoPC) content and circulating and erythrocyte ar...

The general intent of these studies is to assess whether or not a slope is considered to be stable and, if not, to provide a “safe” set-back distance from the slope crest behind which structures and other facilities can be constructed. Unstable slopes and the land located between the unstable slope and the set-back line are called “Hazard Lands.” In a broad sense, Hazard Lands are those at risk...

Active zones are the sites of neurotransmitter release, but their assembly mechanisms are poorly understood. In this issue of Neuron, Graf et al. perform a genetic screen in Drosophila and uncover a novel role for the Rab3 GTPase in organizing the active zone at the neuromuscular junction.