JAABA: interactive machine learning for automatic annotation of animal behavior

We present a machine learning-based system for automatically computing interpretable, quantitative measures of animal behavior. Through our interactive system, users encode their intuition about behavior by annotating a small set of video frames. These manual labels are converted into classifiers that can automatically annotate behaviors in screen-scale data sets. Our general-purpose system can create a variety of accurate individual and social behavior classifiers for different organisms, including mice and adult and larval Drosophila.

Holocene flood frequency across the Central Alps

The frequency of large-scale heavy precipitation events in the European Alps is expected to undergo substantial changes with current climate change. Hence, knowledge about the past natural variability of floods caused by heavy precipitation constitutes important input for climate projections. We present a comprehensive Holocene (10,000 years) reconstruction of the flood frequency in the Central European Alps combining 15 lacustrine sediment records. These records provide an extensive catalog of flood deposits, which were generated by flood-induced underflows delivering terrestrial material to the lake floors. The multi-archive approach allows suppressing local weather patterns, such as thunderstorms, from the obtained climate signal. We reconstructed mainly late spring to fall events since ice cover and precipitation in form of snow in winter at high-altitude study sites do inhibit the generation of flood layers. We found that flood frequency was higher during cool periods, coinciding with lows in solar activity. In addition, flood occurrence shows periodicities that are also observed in reconstructions of solar activity from 14C and 10Be records (2500-3000, 900-1200, as well as of about 710, 500, 350, 208 (Suess cycle), 150, 104 and 87 (Gleissberg cycle) years). As atmospheric mechanism, we propose an expansion/shrinking of the Hadley cell with increasing/decreasing air temperature, causing dry/wet conditions in Central Europe during phases of high/low solar activity. Furthermore, differences between the flood patterns from the Northern Alps and the Southern Alps indicate changes in North Atlantic circulation. Enhanced flood occurrence in the South compared to the North suggests a pronounced southward position of the Westerlies and/or blocking over the northern North Atlantic, hence resembling a negative NAO state (most distinct from 4.2 to 2.4 kyr BP and during the Little Ice Age). South-Alpine flood activity therefore provides a qualitative record of variations in a paleo-NAO pattern during the Holocene. Additionally, increased South Alpine flood activity contrasts to low precipitation in tropical Central America (Cariaco Basin) on the Holocene and centennial time scale. This observation is consistent with a Holocene southward migration of the Atlantic circulation system, and hence of the ITCZ, driven by decreasing summer insolation in the Northern hemisphere, as well as with shorter-term fluctuations probably driven by solar activity.

Osservazioni critiche sopra le antichità cristiane di Cingoli.

Errata, p. [946].

National Potato Grade Labeling Act. Hearings before a subcommittee, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1315 and S. 1393, bills to authorize the National Potato Grade Labeling Act, which provides quality requirements for, and the inspection, certification, and labeling of Irish potatoes. May 21-22, 1957.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts: : Part I--The principles of drawing in pencil, Part II--Colouring and shading in india ink, Part III--A treatise on perspective; : consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Poem "The colours" by E. Van Blon, part 2, p. [65]-66.

Lyra sacra; canticos a Nosso Senhor.

Imprints of vols. 1, 2, and 4 covered by labels reading: Livraria catholica portuense de A. Gomes da Silva, Porto.

Questions and answers relating to the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act and regulations.

"April 1986."

Bulletin de presse [microform].

Title on labels: Bulletins de presse.

Dictionnaire universel de la France : contenant la description géographique & historique des provinces, villes, bourgs & lieux remarquables du royaume : l'état de sa population actuelle, de son clergé, de ses troupes, de sa marine, de ses finances, de ses tribunaux, & des autres parties du gouvernement : ensemble l'abrégé de l'histoire de France, divisée sous les trois races de nos rois : des détails circonstanciés sur les productions du sol, l'industrie & le commerce des habitans : sur les dignités & les grandes charges de l'état : sur les offices de judicature & emplois militaires, ainsi que sur ceux de toutes les autres branches de l'administration : avec un grand nombre de tables ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Rules, regulations, statement of general policy or interpretation and exemptions : under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act /

"Issued September 30, 1972.

[Quality standards for consumer goods. Miscellaneous articles]

Mimeographed.

Illustriertes Jahrbuch der Naturkunde.

Front fly-leaf of v.3 faintly ink stamped.

Young girl ... : and other poems /

Bound in marbled paper boards; white paper shelfback; printed paper labels on front cover and spine; decorated endpapers.

Memories /

Bound in gray paper over boards; printed paper labels on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed.

A vision of Giorgione; three variations on Venetian themes.

Bound in pale purple paper boards; printed paper labels on front cover and spine; pale purple endpapers. Dust jacket.