Automated Illustration of Text to Improve Semantic Comprehension
Millions of people worldwide suffer from aphasia, a disorder that severely inhibits language comprehension. Medical professionals suggest that individuals with aphasia have a noticeably greater understanding of pictures than of the written or spoken word. Accordingly, we design a text-to-image converter that augments lingual communication, overcoming the highly constrained input strings and predefined output templates of previous work. This project offers four primary contributions. First, we develop an image processing algorithm that finds a simple graphical representation for each noun in the input text by analyzing Hu mo-ments of contours in images from The Noun Project and Bing Images. Next, we construct a da-taset of 700 human-centric action verbs annotated with corresponding body positions. We train support vector machines to match verbs outside the dataset with appropriate body positions. Our system illustrates body positions and emotions with a generic human representation created using iOS’s Core Animation framework. Third, we design an algorithm that maps abstract nouns to concrete ones that can be illustrated easily. To accomplish this, we use spectral clustering to iden-tify 175 abstract noun classes and annotate these classes with representative concrete nouns. Fi-nally, our system parses two datasets of pre-segmented and pre-captioned real-world images (Im-ageClef and Microsoft COCO) to identify graphical patterns that accurately represent semantic relationships between the words in a sentence. Our tests on human subjects establish the system’s effectiveness in communicating text using im-ages. Beyond people with aphasia, our system can assist individuals with Alzheimer’s or Parkin-son’s, travelers located in foreign countries, and children learning how to read.
探討抗憂鬱症藥物phenelzine對於發生在小鼠巨噬細胞中的細胞凋亡所產生的保護作用及機制
之前有研究指出，使用一些單胺氧化酶(monoamine oxidase, MAO)的抑制劑如pargyline和clorgyline，皆可以保護serum starvation所導致的細胞凋亡，表示MAO可能在細胞凋亡的路徑中扮演重要的角色。 本研究著重於一個臨床上被拿來當抗憂鬱症藥物的MAO抑制劑苯乙肼(phenelzine, PZE)對於沿著腫瘤壞死因子-α (tumor necrosis factor-α, TNF-α)途徑而產生細胞凋亡的小鼠骨髓巨噬細胞(bone marrow-derived macrophages, BMDM)所產生的保護作用。 本研究的結果顯示PZE的確可以保護循TNF-α途徑死亡的細胞，同時使活性氧化物質(reactive oxygen species, ROS)的量下降。我們推論造成此現象的原因是PZE藉由抑制MAO，使得ROS的量下降，進而保護細胞。
Biodegrable Roof
It became necessary to implement a project for the use of vegetable waste generated in the process of handling plantain cultivation, harvest and postharvest, since in Mexico at harvest large quantities of vegetable waste is produced, since only the fruit is used wasting the Pseudostem with leaves and spine. Based on this information, you can take advantage of banana fiber as raw materials in the manufacture of biodegradable sheets and support options that are feasible and possible to make alternative. This is an inexpensive process, also friendly with the environment, so that thousands of banana plants that bear fruit after they become sterile and are discarded without realizing their Pseudostem.
An optimal-route algorithm for an intermodal Metro Manila trip planners using multiple parameters
Parameters of traffic, road availability, and fare were integrated into a web-based application for determining the best public transport routes within Metro Manila in order to assist commuters in their travel planning, whether for business or for pleasure. A user-friendly interface was developed to obtain a user’s place of origin and destination, as well as preferences in travel time, mode of transportation, and cost of journey. By accessing the traffic roadway network of the metropolis, a real-time situation of road availability was obtained, and used in a modified Dijkstra’s shortest-path algorithm to produce a model of a real-time adaptive transport network of Metro Manila. From the model, an optimal route that considers the user’s preferences can be determined. This project will be immensely useful in helping both businessmen and tourists in planning their routes that will save on time and money.
攜手共解圓-扭結理論之探討
此篇研究發現在任何一個結中，都可以利用「牽手順序」和「交錯點編碼」兩種結的資訊直接看出一結化簡後的圖形。利用從「Reidemeister moves」所衍伸出的四種化簡方法{α, β, γ, δ}能更有效率的簡化結，並證明只需{α, β, γ, δ}就可化簡任何結，也利用{α, β, γ, δ}來驗證HOMFLY多項式是結不變量。由圖形及結的資訊我們發現，可使用「牽手順序」和「交錯點編碼」，搭配所討論出{α, β, γ, δ}的通式，依照步驟及通式簡化任何結。 本篇最重要的成果為：只需利用{α, β, γ, δ}即可化簡所有的結，而且比Reidemeister moves更有效率，因此可用{α, β, γ, δ}取代Reidemeister moves。 不管是一個封閉曲線或是兩個以上封閉曲線，都會遵守前述的規則，可利用{α, β, γ, δ}簡化圖形。文中也討論了較特別並具有規律的結──「星星結」，發現星星結只需使用「牽手順序」即可簡化，最後利用星星結的結論，發展出牽手遊戲中特殊的牽手遊戲情形。
Interaction of the unsaturated sulfones with azinium ylides
1. Introduction In Japan the energy self-efficiency is very low: only 6%. Hydrogen (H2) has been expected as a new and alternative energy source to imported one, such as petroleum resources. Now hydrogen energy comes into the practical use in the field of the fuel cell. Hydrogen must be extracted from other sources, for example, water, fossil fuel, and so on. Hydrogen is obtained from water by using electronic or thermal or photo energy in most cases, whereas it is well-known that hydrogen is given by the oxidation reaction of silicon in alkaline aqueous solution: Si + 2OH- + H2O → SiO32- + 2H2 Free silicon (Si) is not only used in the steel refining, aluminum-casting in the field of fine chemical industries but also is used as a material in semiconductor electronics. However, a lot of used silicon is thrown away as a waste, being not reused and recycled. In this study we try to apply a waste silicon to obtain hydrogen based on the above reaction. The purpose of the study is to develop a safe and convenient manufacturing method to generate hydrogen for an energy source of the fuel cell.
IMPACT OF FIRE WOOD COLLECTION ON WEATHER AND CLIMATE OF JIRDIN VILLAGE
Climate is the average weather in a place over a long period. The changes in climate may be due to natural forces or from human activities. There is growing concern among the scientific community regarding climate change. Biodiversity, forest, monsoons, weather are now at risk due to climate change. Today climate change is happening at an increasing rapid rate. One of the causes is deforestation. Firewood collection in one of the major means the felling of trees. Excessive emission of CO2 by burning, which is a green house gas, responsible for increasing the temperature and causing drastic climate change. Hence, to know the impact of firewood collection in drastic climate change we have undertaken a project entitled, “Impact of firewood collection on weather and climate of Jirdin village.”