03 2013 档案
摘要：In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.It will know you really meant to hit the 'K' key on your screen when you hit the 'L' key. Maybe even one day, there won't be a traditional keyboard at all, if some
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摘要：Ursula Burns, who started as an intern at Xerox Corp., eventually rose through the ranks to become the first African-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.During a talk at Catalyst's annual awards conference on Tuesday, the 54-year-old CEO recounted how her mother, who raised Burns in New
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摘要：The mobile-apps industry is still in its infancy, but it is already taking on giants.infancy:婴儿期，幼年 Apps are cheap to make and easy to distribute, forcing many old-line industries to rethink the way they do business.With a single click, millions of Americans are comparing prices, hailing taxis an...
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摘要：Memory allows for a kind of mental time travel, a way for us to picture not just the past but also a version of the future, according to a growing body of research.The studies suggest that the purpose of memory is far more extensive than simply helping us store and recall information about what has
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摘要：Four years ago, Gao Shangming was convinced that his son Yueqing needed to remain in the family's one-room apartment and help harvest corn rather than go to college. 'Our financial situation wasn't good,' the 50-year-old peasant farmer says.But Gao Yueqing was determined to escape th
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摘要：A wave of recent research has pointed to the risks of overpraising a child. But for parents, drawing the line between too little praise and too much has become a high-pressure balancing act.overpraise：过度夸奖 Cara Greene, a mother of three children ages 1 to 8, is wary of deliberately pumping up her...
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摘要：1.AliBorji,LaurentItti,ExploitingLocalandGlobalPatchRaritiesforSaliencyDetection,CVPR20121)系统框架：2)算法思路：① 图像表示：本文通过1500张图像中，在各通道提取出的8*8的patch，学到了一个自然图像的字典。使用这个字典以及一系列的系数α就可以重组任何一个patch。各通道分别进行。因此，在学习了字典，并且使用Matlab中的LARS算法进行了稀疏编码系数α的估计之后，每个patch通过系数表示成一个矢量。② 显著度计算：在这些矢量上进行局部和全局显著度的计算。局部显著度为两个图像块系数向量在特
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摘要：American women may be starting to outearn American men, but personal investing is a different matter: Many of them, even powerhouse female executives, hate dealing with it.powerhouse：精力旺盛的人，经济体 Darline Jean, president and chief executive of the About Group (which owns About.com), says that she does.
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摘要：For years, America's childhood obesity crisis was viewed as an insurmountable problem, one that was too complicated and too entrenched to ever really solve. According to the conventional wisdom, healthy food simply didn't sell─the demand wasn't there and higher profits were found elsewhe
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摘要：Too much work, too little money and not enough opportunity for growth are stressing us out on the job, according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association.stress out：过度劳累，紧张 One-third of employees experience chronic stress related to work, the survey found. Women report higher leve
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摘要：1.MingmingCheng,GlobalContrastbasedSalientRegionDetection,CVPR20111)HC：基于直方图对比度的方法，每一个像素的显著性值是由它与图像中所有其他像素的颜色差异来确定，得到全分辨率显著性图像；2)RC：基于局部对比度的方法，先将图像分割成小区域，采用的分割方法是基于图的分割，基本分割思想是将每个像素点作为无向图的顶点，两个像素点之间的不相似度作为边的权重，要求连接相同区域内的两个顶点的边的最大权重要小于连接不同区域的顶点的边的最小权重，在迭代过程中进行顶点归纳与区域合并，具体参见论文Efficientgraph-basedimages
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摘要：There's a technology revolution in the auto business, and it involves more than streaming radio apps and voice-activated Facebook updates.streaming：流媒体，流动 exotic：异国的，外来的Consumers who haven't shopped for a new car for five or more years -- and that's a lot of people, since the average U.S
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摘要：At the 1997 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs was asked why he slashed a program that some in the audience had worked hard on.This is how he responded: 'You've got to say No, No, No and when you say No you piss off people.'The reason, he said, is that 'Focusing is abou
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摘要：When it comes to exercise, many people seem to fall into two distinct camps: those who love a vigorous, sweat-soaked workout and those who view it as a form of torment.vigorous：有力的，精力充沛的 torment：痛苦，折磨 With hopes of getting more people up and moving, scientists are looking at the body's biologi..
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摘要：Kelly was a bright woman in her early 30s: whip-smart, well qualified, ambitious─and confused. Even a little frightened.tyranny：暴政，专横 She worked for a female partner in a big consulting firm. Her boss was so solicitous that Kelly hoped the woman─one of just a few top female partners─might become ...
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摘要：Why make up stories when life is so ridiculous?bureaucrats：官僚，官僚主义者As a bureaucrat, author Wang Xiaofang says he came across a rogue’s gallery of real-life characters: a woman who had plastic surgery on her backside so she could sleep her way to the top; a flooded apartment filled with cash owned by
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摘要：On this year＊s Women＊s Day, a host of Chinese media outlets are trumpeting a new study that finds China＊s businesses rank the highest in the world for employing women in senior management roles.The proportion of women in senior management in China has climbed to 51% this year, up from 25% in 2012 an
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摘要：China’s most beloved microblog, Sina Corp.’s Weibo is often described as a virtual town square where Chinese people can publicly discuss issues from politics to pop stars with a level of freedom not available elsewhere in the country.If that’s the case, a new study suggests the square isn’t nearly a
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摘要：Operating in a country where something as modest as opening a cigar shop can be fraught with difficulty, Chinese entrepreneurs are renowned for being able to find creative solutions to a wide range of everyday problems. But that resourcefulness won’t serve China’s economy in the long run, according
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摘要：At 7 p.m. on a Sunday in Hidden Springs, Idaho, the six members of the Starr family were sitting down to the highlight of their week: the family meeting. The Starrs are a typical American family, with their share of everyday family issues. David is a software engineer; his wife, Eleanor, takes care
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摘要：China has the world's largest number of billionaires and 700 million peasants. In between is a surprisingly thin and unhappy middle class, which poses a big social and economic challenge.billionaires：亿万富翁 Among the 3,000 delegates of the 2013 National People's Congress, the percentage of blu
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摘要：Everybody knows what IT is, but how about MT? Manufacturing technology including computer numerical control (CNC) devices, robotics, 3D printing and other additive technologies, and machine vision is an important collection of tools that, until recently, did not get much attention in the media. But
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摘要：C++本身只支持 xml、yml 的数据文件读写功能，并且其xml文件与构建网页数据所用的xml文件格式不一致，在Matlab中无法读取。我们可以通过以下方式将数据保存为txt文件，再导入到Matlab中。1.C++保存Mat矩阵 Mat_<float> sal = saliency.saliency( im );ofstream fout;fout.open("sal_value.txt");fout<<sal.rows<<endl;fout<<sal.cols<<endl;for(int i=0;i<sa
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摘要：For increasing numbers of young Chinese professionals, the first day back at work after the Lunar New Year holiday is the day they quit.lunar：月球的，月亮的，阴历的The number of new online job applicants and resumes on Zhaopin.com, a leading recruitment website, increased 36% year-on-year in the first week aft
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摘要：David Li possesses a can-do work ethic and a willingness to zip around Beijing's harrowing traffic on an electric scooter. That makes him highly valuable to a multibillion-dollar Chinese electronic-commerce industry struggling with how to deliver goods to demanding customers.In 2011 Mr. Li left
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摘要：Turns out a good night's rest is good for business.snooze：小睡，打盹One-third of American workers aren't sleeping enough to function at peak levels, and that chronic exhaustion is costing billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School.chronic：慢性的，长期
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摘要：China’s economy has only just turned the corner after seven consecutive quarters of slowing growth, but people are already looking for signs of overheating.property market：房地产市场 turn the corner：拐弯，转危为安 A key worry is the housing market. Unable to easily move their money overseas and distrustful ...
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摘要：For more than three decades, Chinese women have been subjected to their country's brutal one-child policy. Those who try to have more children have been subjected to fines and forced abortions. Their houses have been razed and their husbands fired from their jobs. As a result, Chinese women have
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