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Philosophy of voltage-gated proton channels

In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...

JPEG Privacy and Security framework for social networking and GLAM services

philosophy of this emerging specification is outlined along with typical use cases, main requirements as well as examples of potential technological solutions. The upcoming specification guarantees backward ... and Security standardization framework, and Section 1.4 details JPEG Systems philosophy and technology in which the aforementioned framework will be integrated. Next, Section 1.5 illustrates the core

Critical transition between cohesive and population-dividing responses to change

important phenomena, from political polarization to the evolution of distinct ecological traits, may be cast in terms of division of populations, we expect our findings and method to be useful and applicable ... Arab Spring and the European debt crisis in 2011 have paved the way for major restructuring of the political, economic and social systems around the world. Such rapid social changes, punctuated by

A Senator Speaks on Society, Law, and the Family

they really need to do is look for someone who agrees with their general political philosophy, someone in whom they have confidence in their judgment and in their integrity. I have never met anyone I

Relevance relations for the concept of reproducibility

science, consciousness studies). It is evident that, according to the authors professional profiles, many areas of human knowledge, such as economics, law, political science, history and others, had to be ... philosophy of science and in communication theory, we propose the concept of a relevance relation as an effective tool to distinguish relevant from irrelevant features of a system at a given level of

Remote sensing scene classification based on rotation-invariant feature learning and joint decision making

identity mapping based on the philosophy of VGG Nets and have shown significant performance on various computer vision tasks compared with state-of-the-arts. 2.2 Data augmentation In many classification

Towards synthetic biological approaches to resource utilization on space missions

from scratch that directly manufacture the desired products efficiently. 2.4. Problem solution philosophy Because carbon dioxide and nitrogen compounds are the dominant available resources, organisms ... bioproduction designs, selected for its high CO2-fixation efficiency and biomanufacture viability (see 2.5). Our design philosophy involves (figure 3) (1) using acetogens and methanogens to efficiently convert

Full Issue

political participation than of the Church are encouraged to participate as Southern Baptists and Catholics who have the active members of the community by prayerfully same level of religious involvement.8 ... constitutional right of expression on political and social issues, the Church reaffirms its long-standing policy of neutrality regarding political parties, political platforms, and candidates for political office

Now That I've Kissed: A Look at Gender in Creative Date Invitations

understood the naturalness of ‘invented traditions,’ of traditions invented not for political purposes of ordering experience, of making meaning, and of managing relationships. (140-41) While the first young

Superpixel-based image noise variance estimation with local statistical assessment

tessellated into a number of blocks followed by noise variance computation in a set of homogeneous blocks [ 5, 17, 19 ]. The philosophy underlying this approach is that a homogeneous block in an image is

Memories for life: a review of the science and technology

in some other knowledge acquisition exercise (Cowan et al. 1999). In sociology, the forgetting of aspects of the past strongly affects the political myths in a society, and so the investigation of ... wider social and political processes can be very far-reaching; so much is in agreement. However, it is equally true to say that there is considerable disagreement over how social memory or collective

Exploiting Speech for Automatic TV Delinearization: From Streams to Cross-Media Semantic Navigation

providing catch-up videos on the Internet for their key programs. The growth and the impact of nonlinear Internet TV diffusion however remain limited for several reasons. Apart from strategical and political ... final tf-idf weight of l in d is then defined as t f (l, d) × idf (l, C) Sd(l) = maxx∈d t f (x, d) × idf (x, C) . Following the same philosophy as in [ 22 ], the weights Sd(l) are modified in the case

Integer fast lapped transforms based on direct-lifting of DCTs for lossy-to-lossless image coding

, (San Diego, 12 Aug 2008 ), p. 70730 17. W Sweldens , The Lifting Scheme: A New Philosophy in Biorthogonal Wavelet Constructions , in Proc. of SPIE Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing III

Geometric bounding box interpolation: an alternative for efficient video annotation

already annotated image collections. In [ 4 ], von Ahn and Dabbish took advantage of the Games With A Purpose (GWAP) philosophy to develop an online game which allows image annotation while the users are

Predicting the Sixteen Personality Factors (16PF) of an individual by analyzing facial features

major role in Daoist philosophy and was thought to reveal information about the mental and physical state of an individual [ 1 ]. Although this practice was disputed throughout the Middle Ages and up

Patches in Vision

philosophy of these workshops. We refer to a “patch” agnostically as an ensemble of spatially adjacent pixels/descriptors which are treated collectively as a single primitive. Patches fall between the two

An ontology of scientific experiments

use of formal languages is rarely disputed in the philosophy of science. Formal languages promote semantic clarity, which in turn supports the free exchange of scientific knowledge and simplifies ... entities are relevant to an application domain and the relationship between them. EXPO is based on ideas from the philosophy of science (logical, probabilistic, methodological, epistemological, etc.) An

Parents Do Matter: Combating the Myth that Parents Don't Matter

argument stems from the notion that only genetics and peers matter. According to this philosophy, whatever genetics isn’t accounting for in development should be attributed to peer-group influence, not to ... has a similar effect on children, or differential treatment of children that yields similar outcomes. For example, siblings are more likely to adopt the religious values and political orientations of

Distributed video coding supporting hierarchical GOP structures with transmitted motion vectors

encoder side. However, DVC-based encoders have the philosophy of low complexity at the encoder side. In the proposed algorithm, the PSI can be reconstructed with the received motion vectors; thus, it is

Synthetic biology: history, challenges and prospects

, even projects that appear to be inherently beneficial such as biofuel production have regulatory, ethical, social and political issues associated with them. Yearley (2009) reminds us that along with the ... framework may be too limited as this form of principlism is non-political, and is hence not suitable for addressing ecological/environmental issues or how to check the power of the mighty. Studies in basic