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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2013,
held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 16-18, 2013. Proceedings. The
16 revised papers presented with 20 poster papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized
in topical sections on image and video capture; visual attention
and object detection; self-localization and pose estimation; motion
and tracking; 3D reconstruction; features, learning and validation.
The formation of placenta can be viewed as a controlled process of
inflammation or cancer development in which cell proliferation,
invasion, and immune surveillance or evasion are promoted in a
time- and space-specific manner. This suggests that the functions
of prostasin are mainly active in pathophysiological conditions,
more so than those in basic or normal physiological conditions. The
uniqueness of the prostasin serine protease is its membrane
anchorage via a glycosylphosphatidylinositol moiety. This anchorage
exposes the entire prostasin molecule to the outside while still
being immobilized on the cell membrane and gives prostasin a better
chance to be used as a biomarker or drug target. As presented in
placenta development, the equilibrium between growth and
differentiation dictates healthy and disease states.This book
provides readers with an integrated knowledge on serine protease
prostasin, starting with its discovery, protein isolation, cDNA,
and gene cloning, to its functions in physiology and
pathophysiology, and to its application in the development of
therapeutics. This is the first-of-its-kind book that covers the
history, present state of knowledge, and future perspectives of the
prototypic glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored epithelial
extracellular serine protease prostasin, which is a key player in
the regulation and maintenance of the extracellular fluid
homeostasis. The chapters encapsulate all that has been learned
about prostasin in the technical sophistication, but more
importantly, also highlight a critical analysis on the problems
with the current state of research and outline the challenges for
the future.
This book uses detailed qualitative method to explore the
implementation of task-based learning and teaching in an Elementary
School English learning classroom in Taiwan. This paper examined
the process of task implementation by analyzing the data from
intensive classroom observations, on-going interviews with the
teacher, in-depth interviews with the students and their reflective
journals. This study identified the issues that were not addressed
in previous studies. Previous studies have tried to show the
effectiveness of task-based learning and teaching. The overall
results of the present study have shown the implementations of
task-based learning have shown to be challenging for both the
teacher and students involved; however students enjoyed working on
the tasks at different levels and the difficulties that were raised
were able to be adjusted over a period of time with the exception
of one. The results suggested that Taiwanese Elementary Schools are
unique contexts in which careful considerations should be taken
when using the task-based learning approach. Suggestions were also
made for the implementation of task-based learning in an Elementary
School context.
Mei Mei Chen has a story to tell: A story of a Chinese woman's
unique journey; a tale of love and tragedy, of betrayal and
redemption, of a journey where hope still counts, despite all of
life's drawbacks. April was a university professor in Shanghai, and
her husband, David, the president of a law firm. Together they had
an adorable, two-year old son. Their life seemed in order until she
decided to go abroad to pursue her ambition. Circumstances brought
her to America. On the campus of the University of New Hampshire,
she met Jason, who was adventurous and filled with a deep longing
for the ocean. Two lonely people turned to each other for comfort
and fell in love. Torn between passion and obligation, sacrifice
and desire, April had a choice to make. What steps would she take
that would reel her heart with ache and change her life in ways she
had never expected? In a New Hampshire setting, the story unfolds
like a kaleidoscope and paints a vivid and compelling picture of
April's life that stretched from her hometown, Shanghai, throughout
Germany to several cities of United States, with backdrops of her
extraordinary multicultural background.
Are you a computer scientist working on image analysis? Are you a
biologist seeking tools to process the microscopy data from
image-based experiments? Computer Vision for Microscopy Image
Analysis provides a comprehensive and in-depth discussion of modern
computer vision techniques, in particular deep learning, for
microscopy image analysis that will advance your efforts.Progress
in imaging techniques has enabled the acquisition of large volumes
of microscopy data and made it possible to conduct large-scale,
image-based experiments for biomedical discovery. The main
challenge and bottleneck in such experiments is the conversion of
"big visual data" into interpretable information.Visual analysis of
large-scale microscopy data is a daunting task. Computer vision has
the potential to automate this task. One key advantage is that
computers perform analysis more reproducibly and less subjectively
than human annotators. Moreover, high-throughput microscopy calls
for effective and efficient techniques as there are not enough
human resources to advance science by manual annotation.This book
articulates the strong need for biologists and computer vision
experts to collaborate to overcome the limits of human visual
perception, and devotes a chapter each to the major steps in
analyzing microscopy images, such as detection and segmentation,
classification, tracking, and event detection.
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