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PVFS over InfiniBand: design and performance evaluation (2003)

I/O is quickly emerging as the main bottleneck limiting performance in modern day clusters. The need for scalable parallel I/O and file systems is becoming more and more urgent. We examine the feasibility of leveraging infiniband technology to improve I/O performance and scalability of cluster file systems. We use parallel virtual file system (PVFS) as a basis for exploring these features. We design and implement a PVFS version on InfiniBand by taking advantage of InfiniBand features and resolving many challenging issues. We design the following: a transport layer customized for PVFS by trading transparency and generality for performance; buffer management for flow control, dynamic and fair buffer sharing, and efficient memory registration and deregistration. Compared to a PVFS implementation over standard TCP/IP on the same InfiniBand network, our implementation offers three times the bandwidth if workloads are not disk-bound and 40% improvement in bandwidth in the disk-bound case. Client CPU utilization is reduced to 1.5% from 91% on TCP/IP. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first design, implementation and evaluation of PVFS over InfiniBand. The research results demonstrate how to design high performance parallel file systems on next generation clusters with InfiniBand.
Field effect transistors with layered two-dimensional SnS2−xSex conduction channels: Effects of selenium substitution (2013)

A thorough characterization of field effect transistors with conduction channels made of SnS2−xSex nanocrystals having different selenium content is presented. The main effect of increasing the selenium content is a suppression of the drain-source current modulation by the gate voltage. The temperature dependence of SnS2−xSex conductivity for all compositions is characterized by an activation energy that gradually decreases with x. A simple donor model, with parameters of SnS2 and SnSe2 deduced from density functional theory, suggests that the change in the activation energy is mostly due to enhanced dielectric constants that accompany the band gap reduction in SnS2−xSex.
<title>Active camera control from compressed image streams</title> (1995)

In this paper we describe a new framework to control an active camera platform in order to improve the performance of tasks such as active stereo vision. This framework encompasses both calibrated and uncalibrated operations. We show how to control the camera system by making measurements as much as possible on compressed video streams. Coarse depth information, object segmentation, and focus and zoom control can be obtained from JPEG/MPEG streams without complete image stream decompression. When better accuracy is required, finer resolution depth maps can be reconstructed in the usual way by completely recovering the pixel information in the frames of the video stream. Our experimental results show the potential of these strategies for active vision systems.
Feedback stabilization of an injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser (1985)

Get PDF Email Share Share with Facebook Tweet This Post on reddit Share with LinkedIn Add to CiteULike Add to Mendeley Add to BibSonomy Get Citation Copy Citation Text Larry A. Rahn, "Feedback stabilization of an injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser," Appl. Opt. 24, 940-942 (1985) Export Citation BibTex Endnote (RIS) HTML Plain Text Citation alert Save article
Tremor suppression through impedance control (2000)

This paper presents a method for designing tremor suppression systems that achieve a specified reduction in pathological tremor power through controlling the impedance of the human-machine interface. Position, rate, and acceleration feedback are examined and two techniques for the selection of feedback coefficients are discussed. Both techniques seek a desired closed-loop human-machine frequency response and require the development of open-loop human-machine models through system identification. The design techniques were used to develop a tremor suppression system that was subsequently evaluated using human subjects. It is concluded that nonadaptive tremor suppression systems that utilize impedance control to achieve a specified reduction in tremor power can be successfully designed when accurate open-loop human-machine models are available.
Local treatment of cancellous bone grafts with BMP-7 and zoledronate increases both the bone formation rate and bone density (2011)

An anabolic drug like BMP-7 can be combined with an anti-catabolic bisphosphonate as local bone graft adjunct, and the combination increases the amount of remaining bone after remodeling is complete.
The sources, fate, and toxicity of chemical warfare agent degradation products. (1999)

We include in this review an assessment of the formation, environmental fate, and mammalian and ecotoxicity of CW agent degradation products relevant to environmental and occupational health. These parent CW agents include several vesicants: sulfur mustards [undistilled sulfur mustard (H), sulfur mustard (HD), and an HD/agent T mixture (HT)]; nitrogen mustards [ethylbis(2-chloroethyl)amine (HN1), methylbis(2-chloroethyl)amine (HN2), tris(2-chloroethyl)amine (HN3)], and Lewisite; four nerve agents (O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate (VX), tabun (GA), sarin (GB), and soman (GD)); and the blood agent cyanogen chloride. The degradation processes considered here include hydrolysis, microbial degradation, oxidation, and photolysis. We also briefly address decontamination but not combustion processes. Because CW agents are generally not considered very persistent, certain degradation products of significant persistence, even those that are not particularly toxic, may indicate previous CW agent presence or that degradation has occurred. Of those products for which there are data on both environmental fate and toxicity, only a few are both environmentally persistent and highly toxic. Major degradation products estimated to be of significant persistence (weeks to years) include thiodiglycol for HD; Lewisite oxide for Lewisite; and ethyl methyl phosphonic acid, methyl phosphonic acid, and possibly S-(2-diisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothioic acid (EA 2192) for VX. Methyl phosphonic acid is also the ultimate hydrolysis product of both GB and GD. The GB product, isopropyl methylphosphonic acid, and a closely related contaminant of GB, diisopropyl methylphosphonate, are also persistent. Of all of these compounds, only Lewisite oxide and EA 2192 possess high mammalian toxicity. Unlike other CW agents, sulfur mustard agents (e.g., HD) are somewhat persistent; therefore, sites or conditions involving potential HD contamination should include an evaluation of both the agent and thiodiglycol.
Solubilization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Organic Solvents without Sidewall Functionalization (2007)

Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) may be made soluble in a range of organic solvents without sidewall functionalization via their reduction by Na/Hg amalgam in the presence of dibenzo-18-crown-6. The [Na(dibenzo-18-crown-6)]n[SWNT] complex has been characterized by UV-Visible, Raman, and AFM and is consistent with no additional sidewall functionalization as compared with raw SWNTs, while MALDI-MS shows the presence of the [Na(dibenzo-18-crown-6)]+ ion. Solubility is greatest in CH2Cl2 and DMF being comparable to surfactant dispersed SWNTs, however, measurable solubilities are also observed in hexane, toluene, and alcohols. Reaction with alkyl halides (bromohexane, 1-iodododecane) yields alkyl functionalized SWNTs (i.e., C6H11-SWNTs and C12H25-SWNTs) with an C(SWNT):alkyl ratio (ca. 40:1) significantly lower than that observed by the analogous reaction of alkyl halides with reduced SWNTs formed by the Billups method in liquid ammonia.
Maximum likelihood mapping of quantitative trait loci using full-sib families. (1992)

A maximum likelihood method is presented for the detection of quantitative trait loci (QTL) using flanking markers in full-sib families. This method incorporates a random component for common family effects due to additional QTL or the environment. Simulated data have been used to investigate this method. With a fixed total number of full sibs power of detection decreased substantially with decreasing family size. Increasing the number of alleles at the marker loci (i.e., polymorphism information content) and decreasing the interval size about the QTL increased power. Flanking markers were more powerful than single markers. In testing for a linked QTL the test must be made against a model which allows for between family variation (i.e., including an unlinked QTL or a between family variance component) or the test statistic may be grossly inflated. Mean parameter estimates were close to the simulated values in all situations when fitting the full model (including a linked QTL and common family effect). If the common family component was omitted the QTL effect was overestimated in data in which additional genetic variance was simulated and when compared with an unlinked QTL model there was reduced power. The test statistic curves, reflecting the likelihood of the QTL at each position along the chromosome, have discontinuities at the markers caused by adjacent pairs of markers providing different amounts of information. This must be accounted for when using flanking markers to search for a QTL in an outbred population.
Sampling rate influences saccade detection in mobile eye tracking of a reading task (2017)

The purpose of this study was to compare saccade detection characteristics in two mobile eye trackers with different sampling rates in a natural task. Gaze data of 11 participants were recorded in one 60 Hz and one 120 Hz mobile eye tracker and compared directly to the saccades detected by a 1000 HZ stationary tracker while a reading task was performed. Saccades and fixations were detected using a velocity based algorithm and their properties analyzed. Results showed that there was no significant difference in the number of detected fixations but mean fixation durations differed between the 60 Hz mobile and the stationary eye tracker. The 120 Hz mobile eye tracker showed a significant increase in the detection rate of saccades and an improved estimation of the mean saccade duration, compared to the 60 Hz eye tracker. To conclude, for the detection and analysis of fast eye movements, such as saccades, it is better to use a 120 Hz mobile eye tracker.
Mathematical Notes (1941)

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Joint Extraction and Labeling via Graph Propagation for Dictionary Construction (2013)

In this paper, we present an approach that jointly infers the boundaries of tokens and their labels to construct dictionaries for Information Extraction. Our approach for joint-inference is based on graph propagation, and extends it in two novel ways. First, we extend the graph representation to capture ambiguities that occur during the token extraction phase. Second, we modify the labeling phase (i.e., label propagation) to utilize this new representation, allowing evidence from labeling to be used for token extraction. Our evaluation shows these extensions (and hence our approach) significantly improve the performance of the outcome dictionaries over pipeline-based approaches by preventing aggressive commitment. Our evaluation also shows that our extensions over a base graph-propagation framework improve the precision without hurting the recall.
Curve-based stereo: figural continuity and curvature (2002)

An edge-based trinocular stereovision algorithm is presented. The primitives it works on are cubic B-spline approximations of the 2-D edges. This allows one to deal conveniently with curvature and to extend to some nonpolyhedral scenes to previous stereo algorithms. To build a matching primitive, the principle of the algorithm is, first, to find a triplet of corresponding points on three splines. This is provided by the bootstrapping part. Second, the algorithm propagates along the three supporting splines to find other matching points. This provides a set of ordered point triplets along these three splines, for which all the matching constraints are verified. This primitive constitutes a trinocular hypothesis. The set of all hypotheses is obtained by propagating from all the point triplets provided by the bootstrapping process. A criterion based on the size of the hypotheses is then used to choose among them a compatible set with respect to the uniqueness constraint. Results of several 3-D reconstructed scenes are shown.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Gaelic Harps (1996)

May: Commission meeting in Paintsville; reports from health committee of Appalachian Advisory Council and civic leadership working team July: Governor Patton expands membership of commission with himself as chair and William Weinberg (Hindman) as vice chair and managing commissioner Ewell Balltrip hired as first executive officer of commission with an office in Hazard Commission meeting in Hazard; reports from Children & Families and Civic Leadership Working Teams Gaelic Harps Let Gaelic harps commence, let bairds pluck heartstrings of lap harp, Celtic harp, auto harp, ancient lyre and lute to quiver and sing bonnie, merry tunes deep from my folk— Scots, Irish, Welsh with Highland pipers, marching drummers, fifers, laddies and lassies dancing a jig, reel, or fling, regale Alleghanies with pipe and string hymnody, summon Erato and Echo atop Appalachian Mountains, so cliffs resonate to musicians' flexing sinews, humming strings of harps. —David Finley Moore 48 ...
Visible Imaging of Global MHD on MAST (2014)

Eulerian video magnification is a video processing technique for amplifying subtle temporal oscillations in video footage. Applying this technique to footage of an H-mode plasma shot on the mega-ampere spherical tokamak, a global magnetohydrodynamic mode is amplified, and its spatial structure is made readily visible. This technique has broad applicability across plasma physics.
Design and analysis of multi-band antenna for mobile handset applications (2009)

Multi-band antenna covering GSM850/GSM900/DCS1800/PCS1900/UMTS2100 in mobile phones is presented. The proposed antenna is kind of a modified PIFA which consists of PIFA and T-branch. The bandwidth in low and high band is achieved using gap coupling between low and high band arm. And also bandwidth in low-band is improved by the coupling between T-branch and metal ring along the edge of the housing. Experimental and simulation results using SEMCAD are presented.
Incremental algorithm for updating betweenness centrality in dynamically growing networks (2013)

The increasing availability of dynamically growing digital data that can be used for extracting social networks has led to an upsurge of interest in the analysis of dynamic social networks. One key aspect of social network analysis is to understand the central nodes in a network. However, dynamic calculation of centrality values for rapidly growing networks might be unfeasibly expensive, especially if it involves recalculation from scratch for each time period. This paper proposes an incremental algorithm that effectively updates betweenness centralities of nodes in dynamic social networks while avoiding re-computations by exploiting information from earlier computations. Our performance results suggest that our incremental betweenness algorithm can achieve substantial performance speedup, on the order of thousands of times, over the state of the art, including the best-performing non-incremental betweenness algorithm and a recently proposed betweenness update algorithm.
ASR — A real-time speech recognition on portable devices (2016)

This paper presents the implementation of real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR) for portable devices. The speech recognition is performed offline using PocketSphinx which is the implementation of Carnegie Mellon University's Sphinx speech recognition engine for portable devices. In this work, machine Learning approach is used which converts graphemes into phonemes using the TensorFlow's Sequence-to-Sequence model to produce the pronunciations of words. This paper also explains the implementation of statistical language model for ASR. The novelty of ASR is its offline speech recognition and thus requires no Internet connection compared to other related works. A speech recognition service currently provides the cloud based processing of speech and therefore has access to the speech data of users. However, the speech is processed on the handheld device in offline ASR and therefore enhances the privacy of users.
Characterizing microdroplet evaporation using diffraction phase microscopy (2014)

Diffraction phase microscopy is a non-destructive in-situ characterization tool with nanometer height resolution that can measure 3-dimensional topography. We apply it to characterize microdroplets during evaporation without any a priori assumptions about the droplet geometry.
Different susceptibility of B19 virus and mice minute virus to low pH treatment (2004)

Our data show that B19V is much more vulnerable toward low pH conditions than MMV. Together with the previously reported susceptibility of B19V toward wet heat conditions, low pH is the second treatment where erythrovirus B19V is less resistant than viruses from the parvovirus genus.
Secondary Electron Emission of Pyrolytic Graphite Cleaved in a High Vacuum (1963)

Pyrolytic graphite was cleaved in a high vacuum to obtain clean surfaces, and the secondary electron emission properties of these surfaces were determined. Pyrolytic graphite has a maximum secondary emission yield of 1.0 at 300-eV primary electron energy for electrons incident normal to the basal plane. The most probable energy of the emitted secondaries is 2 eV, with one-half of the secondaries having energy in excess of 8 eV. A maximum secondary emission yield of 0.75 at 350-eV primary energy was measured for normal incident electrons on a face that was perpendicular to the basal plane. The backscattered fraction for pyrolytic graphite was found to be 0.05. No differences were observed in the secondary electron emission properties of single-crystalline pyrolytic graphite and pyrolytic graphite that was less well ordered.
Robust Myocardial Motion Tracking for Echocardiography: Variational Framework Integrating Local-to-Global Deformation (2013)

This paper proposes a robust real-time myocardial border tracking algorithm for echocardiography. Commonly, after an initial contour of LV border is traced at one or two frames from the entire cardiac cycle, LV contour tracking is performed over the remaining frames. Among a variety of tracking techniques, optical flow method is the most widely used for motion estimation of moving objects. However, when echocardiography data is heavily corrupted in some local regions, the errors bring the tracking point out of the endocardial border, resulting in distorted LV contours. This shape distortion often occurs in practice since the data acquisition is affected by ultrasound artifacts, dropouts, or shadowing phenomena of cardiac walls. The proposed method is designed to deal with this shape distortion problem by integrating local optical flow motion and global deformation into a variational framework. The proposed descent method controls the individual tracking points to follow the local motions of a specific speckle pattern, while their overall motions are confined to the global motion constraint being approximately an affine transform of the initial tracking points. Many real experiments show that the proposed method achieves better overall performance than conventional methods.
A Trusted IaaS Environment with Hardware Security Module (2015)

With the proliferation of cloud computing, security concerns about confidentiality violations of user data by the privileged domain and system administrators have been growing. This paper proposes secure cloud architecture with a hardware security module, which isolates cloud user data from potentially malicious privileged domains or cloud administrators. Within a securely isolated execution environment, the hardware security module provides essential security functionality with only restricted interfaces exposed to vulnerable management systems or cloud administrators. Such restriction prevents cloud administrators from affecting the security of guest VMs. The proposed architecture not only defends against wide attack vectors but also achieves a small TCB. This paper discusses our hardware and software implementation of the proposed cloud architecture, analyzes its security, and presents its performance results.
Matching sets of 3D line segments with application to polygonal arc matching (1997)

In this paper, we consider two sets of corresponding 3D line segments of equal length. We derive a closed-form solution for the coordinate transform (rotation and translation) that gives the best match between the two sets; best in the sense of a least-squares distance measure between the sets. We use these results as the basis to construct efficient algorithms for solving other problems in computer vision. Specifically, we address the problem of matching polygonal arcs, that is, the problem of finding a match between a short arc and a piece of long arc.
Neural network ensembles: combining multiple models for enhanced performance using a multistage approach (2004)

Abstract: Neural network ensembles (sometimes referred to as committees or classifier ensembles) are effective techniques to improve the generalization of a neural network system. Combining a set of neural network classifiers whose error distributions are diverse can generate better results than any single classifier. In this paper, some methods for creating ensembles are reviewed, including the following approaches: methods of selecting diverse training data from the original source data set, constructing different neural network models, selecting ensemble nets from ensemble candidates and combining ensemble members' results. In addition, new results on ensemble combination methods are reported.