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	Author	Zhanwu Xiong
	Title	A Pompd Model for Active Camera Control			Type	Report
	Year	2010	Publication	CVC Technical Report	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	156	Issue		Pages
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Master's thesis
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ Xio2010			Serial	1356
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	Author	Xavier Otazu; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
	Title	Towards a unified chromatic inducction model			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Journal of Vision	Abbreviated Journal	VSS
	Volume	10	Issue	12:5	Pages	1-24
	Keywords	Visual system; Color induction; Wavelet transform
	Abstract	In a previous work (X. Otazu, M. Vanrell, & C. A. Párraga, 2008b), we showed how several brightness induction effects can be predicted using a simple multiresolution wavelet model (BIWaM). Here we present a new model for chromatic induction processes (termed Chromatic Induction Wavelet Model or CIWaM), which is also implemented on a multiresolution framework and based on similar assumptions related to the spatial frequency and the contrast surround energy of the stimulus. The CIWaM can be interpreted as a very simple extension of the BIWaM to the chromatic channels, which in our case are defined in the MacLeod-Boynton (lsY) color space. This new model allows us to unify both chromatic assimilation and chromatic contrast effects in a single mathematical formulation. The predictions of the CIWaM were tested by means of several color and brightness induction experiments, which showed an acceptable agreement between model predictions and psychophysical data.
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	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ OPV2010			Serial	1450
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	Author	Wenjuan Gong; Andrew Bagdanov; Xavier Roca; Jordi Gonzalez
	Title	Automatic Key Pose Selection for 3D Human Action Recognition			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	6th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6169	Issue		Pages	290–299
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	Abstract	This article describes a novel approach to the modeling of human actions in 3D. The method we propose is based on a “bag of poses” model that represents human actions as histograms of key-pose occurrences over the course of a video sequence. Actions are first represented as 3D poses using a sequence of 36 direction cosines corresponding to the angles 12 joints form with the world coordinate frame in an articulated human body model. These pose representations are then projected to three-dimensional, action-specific principal eigenspaces which we refer to as aSpaces. We introduce a method for key-pose selection based on a local-motion energy optimization criterion and we show that this method is more stable and more resistant to noisy data than other key-poses selection criteria for action recognition.
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	Publisher	Springer Verlag	Place of Publication		Editor
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-14060-0	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	AMDO
	Notes	ISE			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ GBR2010			Serial	1317
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	Author	Umapada Pal; Partha Pratim Roy; N. Tripathya; Josep Llados
	Title	Multi-oriented Bangla and Devnagari text recognition			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal	PR
	Volume	43	Issue	12	Pages	4124–4136
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	Abstract	There are printed complex documents where text lines of a single page may have different orientations or the text lines may be curved in shape. As a result, it is difficult to detect the skew of such documents and hence character segmentation and recognition of such documents are a complex task. In this paper, using background and foreground information we propose a novel scheme towards the recognition of Indian complex documents of Bangla and Devnagari script. In Bangla and Devnagari documents usually characters in a word touch and they form cavity regions. To take care of these cavity regions, background information of such documents is used. Convex hull and water reservoir principle have been applied for this purpose. Here, at first, the characters are segmented from the documents using the background information of the text. Next, individual characters are recognized using rotation invariant features obtained from the foreground part of the characters. For character segmentation, at first, writing mode of a touching component (word) is detected using water reservoir principle based features. Next, depending on writing mode and the reservoir base-region of the touching component, a set of candidate envelope points is then selected from the contour points of the component. Based on these candidate points, the touching component is finally segmented into individual characters. For recognition of multi-sized/multi-oriented characters the features are computed from different angular information obtained from the external and internal contour pixels of the characters. These angular information are computed in such a way that they do not depend on the size and rotation of the characters. Circular and convex hull rings have been used to divide a character into smaller zones to get zone-wise features for higher recognition results. We combine circular and convex hull features to improve the results and these features are fed to support vector machines (SVM) for recognition. From our experiment we obtained recognition results of 99.18% (98.86%) accuracy when tested on 7515 (7874) Devnagari (Bangla) characters.
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	Publisher	Elsevier	Place of Publication		Editor
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	Notes	DAG			Approved	no
	Call Number	DAG @ dag @ PRT2010			Serial	1337
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	Author	Thierry Brouard; A. Delaplace; Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman; H. Cardot; Jean-Yves Ramel
	Title	Design of Evolutionary Methods Applied to the Learning of Bayesian Nerwork Structures			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2010	Publication	Bayesian Network	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	13-37
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	Publisher	Sciyo	Place of Publication		Editor	Ahmed Rebai
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN	978-953-307-124-4	Medium
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	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ BDL2010			Serial	1461
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	Author	Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu
	Title	3D Texton Spaces for color-texture retrieval			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	7th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	6111	Issue		Pages	354–363
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	Abstract	Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in an useful visual descriptor is not an easy problem. One way to combine both features is to compute spatial texture descriptors independently on each color channel. Another way is to do the integration at the descriptor level. In this case the problem of normalizing both cues arises. In this paper we solve the latest problem by fusing color and texture through distances in texton spaces. Textons are the attributes of image blobs and they are responsible for texture discrimination as defined in Julesz’s Texton theory. We describe them in two low-dimensional and uniform spaces, namely, shape and color. The dissimilarity between color texture images is computed by combining the distances in these two spaces. Following this approach, we propose our TCD descriptor which outperforms current state of art methods in the two different approaches mentioned above, early combination with LBP and late combination with MPEG-7. This is done on an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.
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	Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg	Place of Publication		Editor	A.C. Campilho and M.S. Kamel
	Language		Summary Language		Original Title
	Series Editor		Series Title		Abbreviated Series Title	LNCS
	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	0302-9743	ISBN	978-3-642-13771-6	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICIAR
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ ASV2010a			Serial	1325
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	Author	Susana Alvarez; Anna Salvatella; Maria Vanrell; Xavier Otazu
	Title	Perceptual color texture codebooks for retrieving in highly diverse texture datasets			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	866–869
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	Abstract	Color and texture are visual cues of different nature, their integration in a useful visual descriptor is not an obvious step. One way to combine both features is to compute texture descriptors independently on each color channel. A second way is integrate the features at a descriptor level, in this case arises the problem of normalizing both cues. A significant progress in the last years in object recognition has provided the bag-of-words framework that again deals with the problem of feature combination through the definition of vocabularies of visual words. Inspired in this framework, here we present perceptual textons that will allow to fuse color and texture at the level of p-blobs, which is our feature detection step. Feature representation is based on two uniform spaces representing the attributes of the p-blobs. The low-dimensionality of these text on spaces will allow to bypass the usual problems of previous approaches. Firstly, no need for normalization between cues; and secondly, vocabularies are directly obtained from the perceptual properties of text on spaces without any learning step. Our proposal improve current state-of-art of color-texture descriptors in an image retrieval experiment over a highly diverse texture dataset from Corel.
	Address	Istanbul (Turkey)
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	ISSN	1051-4651	ISBN	978-1-4244-7542-1	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICPR
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ ASV2010b			Serial	1426
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	Author	Sophie Wuerger; Kaida Xiao; Chenyang Fu; Dimosthenis Karatzas
	Title	Colour-opponent mechanisms are not affected by age-related chromatic sensitivity changes			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics	Abbreviated Journal	OPO
	Volume	30	Issue	5	Pages	635-659
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	Abstract	The purpose of this study was to assess whether age-related chromatic sensitivity changes are associated with corresponding changes in hue perception in a large sample of colour-normal observers over a wide age range (n = 185; age range: 18-75 years). In these observers we determined both the sensitivity along the protan, deutan and tritan line; and settings for the four unique hues, from which the characteristics of the higher-order colour mechanisms can be derived. We found a significant decrease in chromatic sensitivity due to ageing, in particular along the tritan line. From the unique hue settings we derived the cone weightings associated with the colour mechanisms that are at equilibrium for the four unique hues. We found that the relative cone weightings (w(L) /w(M) and w(L) /w(S)) associated with the unique hues were independent of age. Our results are consistent with previous findings that the unique hues are rather constant with age while chromatic sensitivity declines. They also provide evidence in favour of the hypothesis that higher-order colour mechanisms are equipped with flexible cone weightings, as opposed to fixed weights. The mechanism underlying this compensation is still poorly understood.
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	Notes	DAG; IF: 1.259			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ si @ WXF2010			Serial	1826
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	Author	Simone Balocco; O. Camara; E. Vivas; T. Sola; L. Guimaraens; H. A. van Andel; C. B. Majoie; J. M. Pozo; B. H. Bijnens; Alejandro F. Frangi
	Title	Feasibility of Estimating Regional Mechanical Properties of Cerebral Aneurysms In Vivo			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Medical Physics	Abbreviated Journal	MEDPHYS
	Volume	37	Issue	4	Pages	1689–1706
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	Abstract	PURPOSE: In this article, the authors studied the feasibility of estimating regional mechanical properties in cerebral aneurysms, integrating information extracted from imaging and physiological data with generic computational models of the arterial wall behavior. METHODS: A data assimilation framework was developed to incorporate patient-specific geometries into a given biomechanical model, whereas wall motion estimates were obtained from applying registration techniques to a pair of simulated MR images and guided the mechanical parameter estimation. A simple incompressible linear and isotropic Hookean model coupled with computational fluid-dynamics was employed as a first approximation for computational purposes. Additionally, an automatic clustering technique was developed to reduce the number of parameters to assimilate at the optimization stage and it considerably accelerated the convergence of the simulations. Several in silico experiments were designed to assess the influence of aneurysm geometrical characteristics and the accuracy of wall motion estimates on the mechanical property estimates. Hence, the proposed methodology was applied to six real cerebral aneurysms and tested against a varying number of regions with different elasticity, different mesh discretization, imaging resolution, and registration configurations. RESULTS: Several in silico experiments were conducted to investigate the feasibility of the proposed workflow, results found suggesting that the estimation of the mechanical properties was mainly influenced by the image spatial resolution and the chosen registration configuration. According to the in silico experiments, the minimal spatial resolution needed to extract wall pulsation measurements with enough accuracy to guide the proposed data assimilation framework was of 0.1 mm. CONCLUSIONS: Current routine imaging modalities do not have such a high spatial resolution and therefore the proposed data assimilation framework cannot currently be used on in vivo data to reliably estimate regional properties in cerebral aneurysms. Besides, it was observed that the incorporation of fluid-structure interaction in a biomechanical model with linear and isotropic material properties did not have a substantial influence in the final results.
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	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BCV2010			Serial	1313
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	Author	Simone Balocco; O. Basset; G. Courbebaisse; E. Boni; Alejandro F. Frangi; P. Tortoli; C. Cachard
	Title	Estimation Of Viscoelastic Properties Of Vessel Walls Using a Computational Model and Doppler Ultrasound			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Physics in Medicine and Biology	Abbreviated Journal	PMB
	Volume	55	Issue	12	Pages	3557–3575
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	Abstract	Human arteries affected by atherosclerosis are characterized by altered wall viscoelastic properties. The possibility of noninvasively assessing arterial viscoelasticity in vivo would significantly contribute to the early diagnosis and prevention of this disease. This paper presents a noniterative technique to estimate the viscoelastic parameters of a vascular wall Zener model. The approach requires the simultaneous measurement of flow variations and wall displacements, which can be provided by suitable ultrasound Doppler instruments. Viscoelastic parameters are estimated by fitting the theoretical constitutive equations to the experimental measurements using an ARMA parameter approach. The accuracy and sensitivity of the proposed method are tested using reference data generated by numerical simulations of arterial pulsation in which the physiological conditions and the viscoelastic parameters of the model can be suitably varied. The estimated values quantitatively agree with the reference values, showing that the only parameter affected by changing the physiological conditions is viscosity, whose relative error was about 27% even when a poor signal-to-noise ratio is simulated. Finally, the feasibility of the method is illustrated through three measurements made at different flow regimes on a cylindrical vessel phantom, yielding a parameter mean estimation error of 25%.
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	Notes	MILAB			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BBC2010			Serial	1312
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	Author	Simone Balocco; Carlo Gatta; Oriol Pujol; J. Mauri; Petia Radeva
	Title	SRBF: Speckle Reducing Bilateral Filtering			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology	Abbreviated Journal	UMB
	Volume	36	Issue	8	Pages	1353-1363
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	Abstract	Speckle noise negatively affects medical ultrasound image shape interpretation and boundary detection. Speckle removal filters are widely used to selectively remove speckle noise without destroying important image features to enhance object boundaries. In this article, a fully automatic bilateral filter tailored to ultrasound images is proposed. The edge preservation property is obtained by embedding noise statistics in the filter framework. Consequently, the filter is able to tackle the multiplicative behavior modulating the smoothing strength with respect to local statistics. The in silico experiments clearly showed that the speckle reducing bilateral filter (SRBF) has superior performances to most of the state of the art filtering methods. The filter is tested on 50 in vivo US images and its influence on a segmentation task is quantified. The results using SRBF filtered data sets show a superior performance to using oriented anisotropic diffusion filtered images. This improvement is due to the adaptive support of SRBF and the embedded noise statistics, yielding a more homogeneous smoothing. SRBF results in a fully automatic, fast and flexible algorithm potentially suitable in wide ranges of speckle noise sizes, for different medical applications (IVUS, B-mode, 3-D matrix array US).
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	Notes	MILAB;HUPBA			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BGP2010			Serial	1314
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	Author	Shida Beigpour; Joost Van de Weijer
	Title	Photo-Realistic Color Alteration for Architecture and Design			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Proceedings of The CREATE 2010 Conference	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	84–88
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	Abstract	As color is a strong stimuli we receive from the exterior world, choosing the right color can prove crucial in creating the desired architecture and desing. We propose a framework to apply a realistic color change on both objects and their illuminant lights for snapshots of architectural designs, in order to visualize and choose the right color before actully applying the change in the real world. The proposed framework is based on the laws of physics in order to accomplish realistic and physically plausible results.
	Address	Gjovik (Norway)
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	CREATE
	Notes	CIC			Approved	no
	Call Number	CAT @ cat @ BeW2010			Serial	1330
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	Author	Sergio Vera
	Title	Finger joint modelling from hand X-ray images for assessing rheumatoid arthritis			Type	Report
	Year	2010	Publication	CVC Technical Report	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	164	Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Rheumatoid arthritis; joint detection; X-ray; Van der Heijde score
	Abstract	Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune, systemic, inflammatory disorder that mainly af- fects bone joints. While there is no cure for this disease, continuous advances on palliative treatments require frequent verification of patient’s illness evolution. Such evolution is mea- sured through several available semi-quantitative methods that require evaluation of hand and foot X-ray images. Accurate assessment is a time consuming task that requires highly trained personnel. This hinders a generalized use in clinical practice for early diagnose and disease follow-up. In the context of the automatization of such evaluation methods we present a method for detection and characterization of finger joints in hand radiography images. Several measures for assessing the reduction of joint space width are proposed. We compare for the first time such measures to the Van der Heijde score, the gold standard method for rheumatoid arthritis assessment. The proposed method outperforms existing strategies with a detection rate above 95%. Our comparison to Van der Heijde index shows a promising correlation that encourages further research.
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	Corporate Author				Thesis	Master's thesis
	Publisher		Place of Publication	Bellaterra 01893, Barcelona, Spain	Editor
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	Notes	IAM			Approved	no
	Call Number	IAM @ iam @ Ver2010			Serial	1661
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; R. M. Martinez; Jordi Vitria; Petia Radeva; Maria Teresa Anguera
	Title	Deteccion automatica de la dominancia en conversaciones diadicas			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2010	Publication	Escritos de Psicologia	Abbreviated Journal	EP
	Volume	3	Issue	2	Pages	41–45
	Keywords	Dominance detection; Non-verbal communication; Visual features
	Abstract	Dominance is referred to the level of influence that a person has in a conversation. Dominance is an important research area in social psychology, but the problem of its automatic estimation is a very recent topic in the contexts of social and wearable computing. In this paper, we focus on the dominance detection of visual cues. We estimate the correlation among observers by categorizing the dominant people in a set of face-to-face conversations. Different dominance indicators from gestural communication are defined, manually annotated, and compared to the observers' opinion. Moreover, these indicators are automatically extracted from video sequences and learnt by using binary classifiers. Results from the three analyses showed a high correlation and allows the categorization of dominant people in public discussion video sequences.
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	ISSN	1989-3809	ISBN		Medium
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	Notes	HUPBA; OR; MILAB;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ EMV2010			Serial	1315
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	Author	Sergio Escalera; Petia Radeva; Jordi Vitria; Xavier Baro; Bogdan Raducanu
	Title	Modelling and Analyzing Multimodal Dyadic Interactions Using Social Networks			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2010	Publication	12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction.	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
	Keywords	Social interaction; Multimodal fusion, Influence model; Social network analysis
	Abstract	Social network analysis became a common technique used to model and quantify the properties of social interactions. In this paper, we propose an integrated framework to explore the characteristics of a social network extracted from multimodal dyadic interactions. First, speech detection is performed through an audio/visual fusion scheme based on stacked sequential learning. In the audio domain, speech is detected through clusterization of audio features. Clusters are modelled by means of an One-state Hidden Markov Model containing a diagonal covariance Gaussian Mixture Model. In the visual domain, speech detection is performed through differential-based feature extraction from the segmented mouth region, and a dynamic programming matching procedure. Second, in order to model the dyadic interactions, we employed the Influence Model whose states encode the previous integrated audio/visual data. Third, the social network is extracted based on the estimated influences. For our study, we used a set of videos belonging to New York Times’ Blogging Heads opinion blog. The results are reported both in terms of accuracy of the audio/visual data fusion and centrality measures used to characterize the social network.
	Address	Beijing (China)
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	ICMI-MLI
	Notes	OR;MILAB;HUPBA;MV			Approved	no
	Call Number	BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ ERV2010			Serial	1427
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