A tale of two interfaces: vitrivr at the lifelog search challenge.

The past decades have seen an exponential growth in the amount of data which is produced by individuals. Smartphones which capture images, videos and sensor data have become commonplace, and wearables for fitness and health are growing in popularity. Lifelog retrieval systems aim to aid users in finding and exploring their personal history.

Interactive video retrieval evaluation at a distance: comparing sixteen interactive video search systems in a remote setting at the 10th Video Browser Showdown.

The Video Browser Showdown addresses difficult video search challenges through an annual interactive evaluation campaign attracting research teams focusing on interactive video retrieval. The campaign aims to provide insights into the performance of participating interactive video retrieval systems, tested by selected search tasks on large video collections. For the first time in its ten year history, the Video Browser Showdown 2021 was organized in a fully remote setting and hosted a record number of sixteen scoring systems.

Complications of influenza in 272 adult and pediatric patients in a German university hospital during the seasonal epidemic 2017-2018.

Background: The influenza season 2017-2018 of the northern hemisphere was the highest since 2001 and was caused predominantly by influenza B virus.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of all patients in a university hospital in northern Germany with laboratory-confirmed influenza during the winter season 2017-2018 and analyzed underlying conditions, complications, and outcome.

Results: A total of 272 cases of influenza were diagnosed: 70 influenza A (25.

Next-generation applications in healthcare digital libraries using semantic service composition and coordination.

Healthcare digital libraries (DLs) increasingly make use of dedicated services to access functionality and/or data. Semantic (web) services enhance single services and facilitate compound services, thereby supporting advanced applications on top of a DL. The traditional process management approach tends to focus on process definition at build time rather than on actual service events in run time, and to anticipate failures in order to define appropriate strategies.

[Experimental studies of the pathogenesis of hypertension immediately following kidney transplantation].

To investigate pathomechanisms of the hypertension originating immediately after kidney transplantation, acute model studies were performed on binephrectomised hypertensive dogs receiving a cold-stored autograft. Comparative determinations of freely circulating renin-angiotensin und catecholamines were made after transplantation of canine and human kidneys, showing a corresponding post-anastomotic increase in plasma levels. For estimation of the vascular contractile response to the high plasma transmitter concentrations, antagonists having different pharmacological characteristics were infused in the dogs.