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Michigan State University
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About: Michigan State University is a education organization based out in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 60109 authors who have published 137074 publications receiving 5633022 citations. The organization is also known as: MSU & Michigan State.
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TL;DR: This work presents a fingerprint classification algorithm which is able to achieve an accuracy better than previously reported in the literature and is based on a two-stage classifier to make a classification.
Abstract: Fingerprint classification provides an important indexing mechanism in a fingerprint database. An accurate and consistent classification can greatly reduce fingerprint matching time for a large database. We present a fingerprint classification algorithm which is able to achieve an accuracy better than previously reported in the literature. We classify fingerprints into five categories: whorl, right loop, left loop, arch, and tented arch. The algorithm uses a novel representation (FingerCode) and is based on a two-stage classifier to make a classification. It has been tested on 4000 images in the NIST-4 database. For the five-class problem, a classification accuracy of 90 percent is achieved (with a 1.8 percent rejection during the feature extraction phase). For the four-class problem (arch and tented arch combined into one class), we are able to achieve a classification accuracy of 94.8 percent (with 1.8 percent rejection). By incorporating a reject option at the classifier, the classification accuracy can be increased to 96 percent for the five-class classification task, and to 97.8 percent for the four-class classification task after a total of 32.5 percent of the images are rejected.
639 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that women express slightly greater concern about climate change than do men, and this gender divide is not accounted for by differences in key values and beliefs or in the social roles that men and women differentially perform in society.
Abstract: This study tests theoretical arguments about gender differences in scientific knowledge and environmental concern using 8 years of Gallup data on climate change knowledge and concern in the US general public. Contrary to expectations from scientific literacy research, women convey greater assessed scientific knowledge of climate change than do men. Consistent with much existing sociology of science research, women underestimate their climate change knowledge more than do men. Also, women express slightly greater concern about climate change than do men, and this gender divide is not accounted for by differences in key values and beliefs or in the social roles that men and women differentially perform in society. Modest yet enduring gender differences on climate change knowledge and concern within the US general public suggest several avenues for future research, which are explored in the conclusion.
639 citations
University of Minnesota1, University of Maryland, College Park2, Iowa State University3, University of Oldenburg4, Utah State University5, Spanish National Research Council6, Wake Forest University7, University of Washington8, United States Department of Agriculture9, Colorado State University10, Michigan State University11, University of Queensland12, Trinity College, Dublin13, University of Toronto14, Lanzhou University15, University of California, San Diego16, Imperial College London17, University of Wisconsin-Madison18, University of Colorado Boulder19, United States Geological Survey20, Queensland University of Technology21, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill22, University of Oxford23, University of Nebraska–Lincoln24, University of California, Berkeley25, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign26, University of Guelph27, University of Kentucky28, University of Melbourne29, Oregon State University30, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation31, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research32, Lancaster University33, Duke University34, University of California, Davis35
TL;DR: Testing the hypothesis that herbaceous plant species losses caused by eutrophication may be offset by increased light availability due to herbivory demonstrates that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant diversity through light limitation, independent of site productivity, soil nitrogen, herbivore type and climate.
Abstract: Human alterations to nutrient cycles and herbivore communities are affecting global biodiversity dramatically. Ecological theory predicts these changes should be strongly counteractive: nutrient addition drives plant species loss through intensified competition for light, whereas herbivores prevent competitive exclusion by increasing ground-level light, particularly in productive systems. Here we use experimental data spanning a globally relevant range of conditions to test the hypothesis that herbaceous plant species losses caused by eutrophication may be offset by increased light availability due to herbivory. This experiment, replicated in 40 grasslands on 6 continents, demonstrates that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant diversity through light limitation, independent of site productivity, soil nitrogen, herbivore type and climate. Nutrient addition consistently reduced local diversity through light limitation, and herbivory rescued diversity at sites where it alleviated light limitation. Thus, species loss from anthropogenic eutrophication can be ameliorated in grasslands where herbivory increases ground-level light.
639 citations
TL;DR: Five new zwitterionic hydrogen ion buffers are described for the first time, all N-substituted 3-amino-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic acids, which appear to be equivalent to or better than any other buffers heretofore available.
638 citations
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific1, Michigan State University2, Texas A&M University3, University of Warwick4, Vanderbilt University5, Tumaini University Makumira6, University of Malawi7, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme8, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine9
TL;DR: Autopsies in 31 children diagnosed with fatal cerebral malaria found that 23% of the children had actually died from other causes, and retinopathy was the only clinical sign distinguishing malarial from nonmalarial coma.
Abstract: To study the pathogenesis of fatal cerebral malaria, we conducted autopsies in 31 children with this clinical diagnosis. We found that 23% of the children had actually died from other causes. The remaining patients had parasites sequestered in cerebral capillaries, and 75% of those had additional intra- and perivascular pathology. Retinopathy was the only clinical sign distinguishing malarial from nonmalarial coma. These data have implications for treating malaria patients, designing clinical trials and assessing malaria-specific disease associations.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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| David Miller | 203 | 2573 | 204840 |
| Anil K. Jain | 183 | 1016 | 192151 |
| D. M. Strom | 176 | 3167 | 194314 |
| Feng Zhang | 172 | 1278 | 181865 |
| Derek R. Lovley | 168 | 582 | 95315 |
| Donald G. Truhlar | 165 | 1518 | 157965 |
| Donald E. Ingber | 164 | 610 | 100682 |
| J. E. Brau | 162 | 1949 | 157675 |
| Murray F. Brennan | 161 | 925 | 97087 |
| Peter B. Reich | 159 | 790 | 110377 |
| Wei Li | 158 | 1855 | 124748 |
| Timothy C. Beers | 156 | 934 | 102581 |
| Claude Bouchard | 153 | 1076 | 115307 |
| Mercouri G. Kanatzidis | 152 | 1854 | 113022 |
| James J. Collins | 151 | 669 | 89476 |