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In this paper, we describe a recently developed method for assessing perceived image quality, Maximum Likelihood Difference Scaling (MLDS), and use it to assess the performance of MS-SSIM on compression distored images. MLDS allows us to quantify supra-threshold perceptual differences between pairs of images and to examine how perceived image quality, estimated through MLDS, changes as the compression...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating virtual view synthesized images in the multi-view video context. As a matter of fact, view synthesis brings new types of distortion. The question refers to the ability of the traditional used objective metrics to assess synthesized views quality, considering the new types of artifacts. The experiments conducted to determine their reliability consist in...
The security of railway and mass-transit systems is increasingly dependant on the effectiveness of integrated Security Management Systems (SMS), which are meant to detect threats and to provide operators with information required for alarm verification purposes. In order to lower the false alarm rate and improve the detection reliability of threat scenarios, event correlation capabilities need to...
The canoe is an event that athletes use a paddle on one side of the boat to row, by harmonizing muscle groups in upper- and lower-limbs and trunk, so research on the cooperation among human, oars and boat is most important to improve athlete's technology and performance. In this paper, we measured 7 kinematic parameters, such as force and angles (pitching and upset) of oar, speed and angles (pitching...
Biological monitoring for arsenic(As) was usually based upon a determination of urine and blood arsenic concentration, however, saliva had been suggested as a non-invasive biological matrix for assessing exposure. To further evaluated the potential utility of saliva for arsenic biomonitoring, Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry(AFS-230) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) were used...
In order to examine the diagonostic and prognostic significance of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and interleukin-12 (IL-12) in acute leukemia (AL), we measured the serum levels of VEGF and IL-12 in 25 patients with AL at different stages. Study indicates that serum levels of VEGF are higher in the untreated and recurrent AL patients than in healthy examinees. IL-12 levels are much lower...
In real-time video transmission, the loss of packet results in visual quality degraded for the succeeding frames. This paper proposes an efficient full frame algorithm for depth-based 3-D videos. Each frame can be regarded as combination of objects. True motion estimation (TME) and depth map are exploited to calculate the motion vector (MV) for each object. In this paper, the object is defined as...
Objective: To study the expression of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) and the angiopoietin receptor (Tie-2) in colorectal cancer tissue, and analyze the correlation between their expression levels in colorectal cancer tissue and the histological differentiation of colorectal cancer; and to discuss their roles in the progression of colorectal cancer to provide new targets for the clinical...
Cognitive scientists, psychologists, and other researchers have endeavored over the past three decades to identify the cognitive functions underpinning human navigation and its possible correlations with other characteristics. The answer to the basic question of how/why some people are good at following directions and some people are not, is yet to be determined conclusively. The scope of this research...
There are several applications in which humans and agents jointly perform a task. If the task involves interdependence among the team members, coordination is required to achieve good team performance. Coordination in human-agent teams can be improved by giving humans insight in the behavior of the agents. When humans are able to understand and predict an agent's behavior, they can more easily adapt...
Visfatin was a new adenosine, expressed highly in adipose tissue of viscous organs of person and mouse, the level of visfatin in plasma usually increased as the fat degree rising. visfatin had the effect as insulin to capitulate the glucose level and mend insulin resistant. research had found that visfatin had important relation to metabolism syndrome and some disease correlation to metabolism such...
Personal and organizational implicit human capital could be effectively transformed into each other and this process is the basic key aspects of knowledge-based economy. Each person the subject of the implicit human capital is the source of value creation. And the organizational implicit human capital is the amplifier of the productivity. Personal implicit human capital transform into the dominant...
Using the listed company's accounting report of Shanghai, we explore the determinants of CEO compensation. Based on the traditionally studied determinants, CEO human capital characteristic and the characteristic of the firm for example, we investigate the effect of firms' network on CEO compensation especially, and the relationship between them. We find that the scale of the firm and the number of...
Performance measurement has become the focus in local government's public service quality management. This paper attempted to establish an index system to measure its performance from four dimensions: operation performance, customer satisfaction degree, financial performance and human resource performance. The methods of membership degree analysis and correlation analysis were used to systematically...
This paper aims to estimate the regional disparities and spatial autocorrelation of the tertiary industry development in China from a spatial econometric perspective. It delineates the trend of Chinese regional disparities and its spatial dynamics from 1998 to 2006 based on an exploratory spatial data analysis. The findings are as follows: (1) there exists an interregional inequality and weak correlations...
There have been many literature and studies confirming the effects of trainee characteristics on transfer of training during post-training stage. On the contrary, there are relatively fewer studies on factors having expected influences on transfer of training. This study adopts Holton's Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI) to analyze trainee characteristics during pre-training stage. There are...
The book "China Industrialization Progress Report" shows that China has entered to middle stage of industrialization. One of the prominent features of the industrialization is development of industry and continuous increasing of employee number for industry in the total employee number. Through relevance study it is proved that mutualism relationship exists between the industrialization...
Currently, the researches on technological spillover effects in China mainly overlooked the spatial effects to them from transportation infrastructure, so this paper introduces transportation infrastructure stock into Romer's model, then it tests and confirms the assumption of the spatial dependence of the technology spillover effects by using Moran index. Furthermore, based on the extended Romer's...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships MBTI personality traits and career success, 147 employees were assessed. The results were as follows: (1)There was a significantly positive correlation between extraversion and career success.(2) Career success is not significantly different between 16 MBTI types.
This study constructs a buffer effect model of organizational socialization and employee performance based on the psychological ownership approach. The study result of 312 employees from South China shows that psychological ownership is a mediator between organizational socialization and employee performance, which means organizational socialization not only affect employee performance, but also affect...
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