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Visual Importance and Distortion Guided Deep Image Quality Assessment Framework (2017)

In this paper, we tackle the problem of no-reference image quality assessment (IQA). A learning-based IQA framework “VIDGIQA” is proposed, which extracts quality features from the input image and regresses the visual quality on these features. Since different distortions lead to different visual perceptions in the human visual system, distortion information is adopted to guide the feature learning process together with the human quality scores. Besides, a regression method is proposed to model and estimate the visual importance weights of all local regions, which can effectively improve the performance. More importantly, all these operations are integrated into one deep neural network, so that they can be jointly optimized and well cooperate with each other. Experiments were conducted to demonstrate the power of the proposed method on several datasets, including the LIVE dataset [1], the TID 2013 dataset [2], the LIVE multiply distorted IQA dataset [3], CSIQ [4] , and the LIVE in the wild image quality database [5]. The proposed method achieves 0.969 and 0.973 on the LIVE dataset [1] in terms of the spearman rank-order correlation coefficient and the Pearson linear correlation coefficient, respectively, which outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
A 5-Gb/s Automatic Sub-Bit Between-Pair Skew Compensator for Parallel Data Communications in 0.13-$\mu{\rm m}$ CMOS (2013)

This paper presents a between-pair skew (BPS) compensator for parallel data communications. It can detect time skew between two independent data sequences using continuous-time correlations and then automatically align the two using a wide-bandwidth voltage controlled data delay line. A 5-Gb/s sub-bit BPS compensator in 0.13- <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">$\mu{\rm m}$</tex></formula> CMOS occupies approximately 0.038- <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">${\rm mm}^{2}$</tex></formula> active die area and dissipates 22.5 mW.
Grants Branch Community College (1980)

The project comprises Phases II & III of a community college branch of New Mexico State University, serving Western New Mexico
Adversarial autoencoders for novelty detection (2017)

In this paper, we address the problem of novelty detection, i.e recognizing at test time if a data item comes from the training data distribution or not. We focus on Adversarial autoencoders (AAE) that have the advantage to explicitly control the distribution of the known data in the feature space. We show that when they are trained in a (semi-)supervised way, they provide consistent novelty detection improvements compared to a classical autoencoder. We further improve their performance by introducing an explicit rejection class in the prior distribution coupled with random input images to the autoencoder.
Effect of Some Alkaloids, Flavonoids and Triterpenoids, Contents of Japanese-Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicines, on the Lipogenesis of Sebaceous Glands (1993)

The effects of some alkaloids and flavonoids, which are major ingredients in some of the Japanese Kampoh drugs (Japanese-Chinese traditional herbal medicines) experientially known to be efficacious for the treatment of acne vulgaris, on the lipogenesis in the sebaceous glands of the hamster ear, an excellent animal model for the human sebaceous gland, were studied. Lipogenesis was assayed by determining <sup>14</sup>C incorporation into sebaceous lipids extracted from the sebaceous glands which were preincubated with <sup>14</sup>C-acetate. We found that the lipogenesis in the hamster sebaceous glands was suppressed 63 and 54% by 10<sup>-4</sup><i>M</i> berberine (an alkaloid) and wogonin (a flavonoid), respectively. We suggest that the therapeutic effects of some Japanese Kampoh drugs experientially used for acne vulgaris could be due to inhibition of lipogenesis by their active ingredients such as berberine and wogonin.
An Approach to Reduce Load on the Acid Leaching Circuit of the Commercial Uranium Recovery Plant at Jaduguda, India (1998)

The commercial uranium recovery plant at Jaduguda, Bihar, India, currently treats around 900 tonnes of ore per day from the Jaduguda mine, containing around 0.05% U 3 O 8 . Subsequent to removal of the sulphide minerals present in the ore by flotation, nearly 95% of the tailings are being treated in the acid leaching circuit to recover the uranium values. Laboratory investigations on the bulk flotation tailings revealed that around 63% of the uranium values are associated with feebly magnetic material of the tailings. The magnetic product obtained on wet high intensity magnetic separator gave rise to a product containing 0.1% U 3 O 8 . The rest of the uranium values were found to get enriched to 0.15% U 3 O 8 in the –20 µm fraction of the non‐magnetic material thereby giving scope to retrieve the uranium values by recovering the slimes. Necessary unit operations needed to be introduced in the plant flowsheet to reduce load on the acid leaching circuit of the commercial uranium recovery plant are discussed.
Interleukin 10 Increases CCR5 Expression and HIV Infection in Human Monocytes (1998)

The immunosuppressive and antiinflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL) 10 selectively upregulates the expression of the CC chemokine receptors CCR5, 2, and 1 in human monocytes by prolonging their mRNA half-life. IL-10-stimulated monocytes display an increased number of cell surface receptors for, and better chemotactic responsiveness to, relevant agonists than do control cells. In addition, IL-10-stimulated monocytes are more efficiently infected by HIV BaL. This effect was associated to the enhancement of viral entry through CCR5. These data add support to an emerging paradigm in which pro- and antiinflammatory molecules exert reciprocal and opposing influence on chemokine agonist production and receptor expression.
FlexRadio: fully flexible radios and networks (2015)

When a wireless node has multiple RF chains, there are several techniques that are possible; MIMO, full-duplex and interference alignment. This paper aims to unify these techniques into a single wireless node. It proposes to make a wireless node fully flexible such that it can choose any number of its RF chains for transmission and the remaining for simultaneous reception. Thus, MIMO and full duplex are subset configurations in our design. Surprisingly, this flexibility performs better than MIMO or full duplex or interference alignment or multi-user MIMO.

This paper presents the design and implementation of FlexRadio, the first system enabling flexible RF resource allocation. We implement FlexRadio on the NI PXIe 1082 platform using XCVR2450 radio front-ends. FlexRadio node networks achieves a median gain of 47% and 38% over same networks with full duplex and MIMO nodes respectively.
Human brain glial cells synthesize thrombospondin. (1986)

Thrombospondin, a 450-kDa multinodular glycoprotein with lectin-type activity, is found in human platelets, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, monocytes, and granular pneumocytes. Thrombospondin interacts with heparin, fibrinogen, fibronectin, collagen, histidine-rich glycoprotein, and plasminogen. Recently, thrombospondin synthesis by smooth muscle cells has been reported to be augmented by platelet-derived growth factor. We present evidence that thrombospondin is present within and synthesized by astrocytic neuroglial cells. Heparin-Sepharose affinity chromatography of material derived from a human brain homogenate yielded a protein that, when reduced, had an apparent size of 180 kDa and comigrated with reduced platelet thrombospondin on NaDodSO4/PAGE. Immunoblot analysis with monospecific anti-thrombospondin confirmed the presence of immunoreactive thrombospondin. Indirect immunofluorescence of cultured human glial cells indicated the presence of thrombospondin. Metabolic labeling of glial cell cultures with [35S]methionine followed by immunoprecipitation with monospecific anti-thrombospondin revealed synthesis of a 180-kDa polypeptide that comigrated with platelet thrombospondin on NaDodSO4/PAGE. Cultured human glial cells were incubated for 48 hr in serum-free medium with purified platelet-derived growth factor at concentrations up to 50 ng/ml. Aliquots taken at intervals were analyzed by a quantitative double-antibody ELISA. The growth factor stimulated the release of thrombospondin into the culture medium by as much as 10-fold over control cultures. The presence of thrombospondin within glial cells of the central nervous system and the augmentation of its synthesis by platelet-derived growth factor suggest that thrombospondin may play an important role in regulating cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions during periods of cell division and growth.
A bottom-up approach for handling unseen triphones in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (2002)

Presents an extension of bottom-up state-tying towards improved handling of unseen triphones. As opposed to the usual backing-off to diphones and monophones, the current method aims at finding a triphone model that has proven to exhibit some similarity with the unseen triphone. It is based on a probabilistic mapping of unseen contexts to clusters of triphone states observed in the training data. This algorithm has been applied to dictation tasks for three languages with vocabulary sizes ranging from 20k to 64k. The results compare favorably with those obtained using standard back-off rules. This technique also offers an alternative to top-down decision-tree procedures which are frequently used, especially for their generalization capabilities.
Dopaminergic neurons in the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> (1975)

Dopamine is the putative transmitter of eight neurons in the hermaphrodite form of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. These include the cephalic and deirid neurons, which are believed to be mechanosensory. The male has an additional six dopaminergic neurons in the tail. Mutants have been selected which have defects in the formaldehyde induced fluorescence and lack dopamine to varying degrees, but they are not insensitive to touch. The dopaminergic neurons of C. elegans are compared with the homologous neurons in Ascaris lumbricoides.
Plasma-polymerized polyaniline films: Synthesis and characterization (1998)

The radio-frequency plasma polymerization technique was used to polymerize aniline onto polymer substrates including perfluorinated ethylene propylene copolymer. The plasma-polyaniline films were characterized by ultraviolet/visible absorption spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, electron spin resonance, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and contact angle measurements. Preliminary conductivity measurements were also carried out. It was demonstrated that the chemical and physical characteristics of the plasma-polymerized poly-aniline films changed significantly with discharge conditions, indicating the possibility for tailoring the structure and properties of the polyaniline films by optimizing the discharge conditions. In particular, the contents of quinoid sequences and aliphatic crosslinking moieties were found to increase with increasing power input and/or discharge duration. By contrast, the number of free radicals trapped in the polyaniline films and their mobility were shown to increase with decreasing the power input and/or discharge duration within the plasma conditions covered in this study. Furthermore, a correlation was found between surface hydrophilicity of the resultant plasma-polyaniline films and the atomic ratio of C to N. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 36: 633–643, 1998
SELECTIVE BLOCKADE OF ADRENOCEPTIVE BETA RECEPTORS IN THE HEART (1968)

On the basis of a study of the activity of five sympathomimetic amines, Ahlquist in 1948 classified adrenoceptive receptors into two main types, which he designated alpha and beta. This classification has been vindicated by the development of drugs which specifically block the effects of stimulation of one type of receptor but not the other. Classical adrenergic blocking drugs such as phenoxybenzamine, dibenamine, phentolamine, tolazoline and dihydroergotamine block the effects of stimulation of alpha receptors but not beta receptors (Nickerson, 1949; Levy & Ahlquist, 1961 ; Moran & Perkins, 1961). These drugs are now described as adrenergic alpha receptor blocking agents. Recently several compounds have been described which block beta receptors but not alpha receptors. These, adrenergic beta receptor blocking agents, include dichloroisoprenaline (Powell & Slater, 1958), pronethalol (Black & Stevenson, 1962), INPEA (Teotino, Friz, Steis & Della Bella, 1963), H 13/57 (Corrodi, Persson, Carlsson & Roberts, 1963) propranolol (Black, Duncan & Shanks, 1965), MJ 1999 (Lish, Weikel & Dungan, 1965), I.C.I. 45763 (Kc 592) (Shanks, Wood, Dornhorst & Clark, 1966) and H 56/28 (Johnsson, Norrby, Solvell & Ablad, 1966). Structurally these compounds are closely related to each other and may be considered as derivatives of isoprenaline; in each case the side chain is identical with that of isoprenaline, or as in the last three com- pounds differs by the addition of an -OCH2 group. The blocking activity of these com- pounds is similar qualitatively, in that they block all beta receptors, but differs quantitatively. Another group of compounds, which block some but not all beta receptors, has recently emerged. These compounds include N-isopropylmethoxamine (Levy, 1964) which blocks beta receptors in the rat uterus; N tertiary butylmethoxamine (Levy, 1966a), and dimethyl isopropylmethoxamine (Levy, 1966b) which block beta receptors in the rat uterus, canine intestine and peripheral blood vessels. None of these compounds blocks the cardiac inotropic or chronotropic actions of cate- cholamines. Structurally these compounds are characterized by having a methyl group attached to the alpha carbon atom of the side chain. These observations suggest that beta receptors are not a homogenous group and may be capable of division into sub-groups. This hypothesis is further substantiated by the present paper in which
Interactions of quadrupolar nematic colloids (2008)

We present experimental and theoretical study of colloidal interactions in quadrupolar nematic liquid crystal colloids, confined to a thin planar nematic cell. Using the laser tweezers, the particles have been positioned in the vicinity of other colloidal particles and their interactions have been determined using particle tracking video microscopy. Several types of interactions have been analyzed: (i) quadrupolar pair interaction, (ii) the interaction of an isolated quadrupole with a quadrupolar chain, and (iii) the interaction of an isolated quadrupolar colloidal particle with a two-dimensional (2D) quadrupolar crystallite. In all cases, the interactions are of the order of several 100k(B)T for 2 microm particles, which gives rise to relatively stable 2D colloidal crystals. The experimental results are compared to the predictions of Landau-de Gennes theory and we find a relatively good qualitative agreement.
Adaptive Reshaping of Excitation Currents for Accurate Torque Control of Brushless Motors (2008)

Accurate torque control of a brushless motor requires the motor's torque characteristics, which follows a periodic function of motor angle. This brief presents a direct adaptive controller for torque control of brushless motors, which estimates the Fourier coefficients of this periodic function based on the measurements of motor phase voltage and angle. It will be analytically shown that the proposed adaptive controller achieves torque tracking regardless of the trajectories of input signals. Moreover, the adaptive controller does not rely on the modeling of the mechanical load, so that control implementation is simple and modular. Experimental results obtained from the McGill/MIT motor have demonstrated that motor torque converges to the command torque.
Meta-Learning Acquisition Functions for Bayesian Optimization. (2019)

Transferring knowledge across tasks to improve data-efficiency is one of the open key challenges in the field of global black-box optimization. Readily available algorithms are typically designed to be universal optimizers and, therefore, often suboptimal for specific tasks. We propose a novel transfer learning method to obtain customized optimizers within the well-established framework of Bayesian optimization, allowing our algorithm to utilize the proven generalization capabilities of Gaussian processes. Using reinforcement learning to meta-train an acquisition function (AF) on a set of related tasks, the proposed method learns to extract implicit structural information and to exploit it for improved data-efficiency. We present experiments on a simulation-to-real transfer task as well as on several synthetic functions and on two hyperparameter search problems. The results show that our algorithm (1) automatically identifies structural properties of objective functions from available source tasks or simulations, (2) performs favourably in settings with both scarse and abundant source data, and (3) falls back to the performance level of general AFs if no particular structure is present.
New Latex Bead Agglutination Assay for Differential Diagnosis of Cattle Infected with<i>Mycobacterium bovis</i>and<i>Mycobacterium avium</i>subsp.<i>paratuberculosis</i> (2004)

Extensive studies have shown that the current assays used to identify cattle infected with Mycobacterium bovis or Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis are not sufficiently sensitive and specific to detect all infected animals, especially animals recently infected with the pathogens. In the present report we show that these limitations might be overcome with a latex bead agglutination assay (LBAA). With the specific immunodominant epitope (ESAT6-p) of M. bovis, we developed an LBAA and enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for that purpose and compared them with the "gold standard" culture method and skin test for their efficacy in detecting bovine tuberculosis. When sera from control healthy cows (n = 10), M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis-positive cattle (naturally infected, n = 16; experimentally infected, n = 8), and M. bovis-positive cattle (naturally infected, n = 49;experimentally infected, n = 20) were applied to an EIA and an LBAA developed with ESAT6-p, the two tests showed similar sensitivity (97.1% by EIA, 95.7% by LBAA), high specificity (94.2% by EIA, 100% by LBAA), and a positive correlation (kappa value, 0.85; correlation rate, 93.2%; correlation coefficient, 0.64). Receiver operating characteristic analysis of EIA results and comparison with the culture method determined a suitable cutoff value at 0.469, with an area under the curve of 0.991 (95% confidence interval, 0.977 to 1.0). As LBAA didn't show any positive reactions with sera from uninfected control cows or M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis-infected cattle, which were confirmed to be free of M. bovis by culture or PCR, LBAA using the ESAT6-p can be a rapid and useful M. bovis diagnostic assay. The data suggest that rapid, sensitive, and specific assays can be developed with peptides containing immunodominant epitopes present in proteins uniquely expressed in M. bovis or M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis for differential diagnosis of cattle infected with M. bovis or M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis.
The economic espionage act: Turning fear into compliance (1997)

Businesses must show that they have taken reasonable measures to protect their proprietary trade secrets in order to invoke the protection of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines can be a roadmap for meeting this requirement, since they provide instructions on how to design, implement, and enforce an effective program to prevent and detect violations of the law. By complying with the seven steps outlined in the Guidelines, businesses can show that they have exercised due diligence in seeking to prevent and detect criminal conduct by employees and other agents. The author discusses each of these requirements as applied to the EEA. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Recent developments in diffractive optics (1985)

On passe en serre la theorie de la diffraction par des hologrammes epais et par des structures a relief de surface
EL IMPACTO DEL DESARROLLO DE HABILIDADES SOCIO AFECTIVAS Y ÉTICAS EN LA ESCUELA EL IMPACTO DEL DESARROLLO DE HABILIDADES SOCIO AFECTIVAS Y ÉTICAS EN LA ESCUELA (2009)

Resumen:El presente artículo analiza y sistematiza los resultados de investigaciones realizadas en Estados Unidos e Inglaterra sobre la aplicación de programas escolares de desarrollo socio afectivo. Después de describir las investigaciones, explica los ámbitos donde impacta este tipo de programas: mejora la disposición del contexto escolar para el aprendizaje, el apego a la escuela y la consecuente actitud disciplinada, la actitud y habilidad para aprender, el rendimiento académico, la salud mental y auto cuidado y naturalmente, las habilidades socioemocionales y ciudadanas.Los resultados permiten relevar la importancia del desarrollo de la dimensión socio afectiva y ética al interior de la escuela pública chilena y latinoamericana, como un modo eficaz para enfrentar los desafíos de la educación del siglo XXI. Siguiendo las recomendaciones emanadas de las intervenciones exitosas, se sugiere no desvincular la dimensión social y emocional de la intelectual, resignificando esta doble dimensión de la escuela, que actúa como un círculo virtuoso.Abstract:This article analyzes and systematizes the results of researches developed in The United States and England about the application of school programs of socio affective development. After describe the investigations, the article identifies the areas where this type of programs have impact: improvements of the school context for the learning, the attachment to the school and the consistent disciplined attitude, the willingness and skill to learn, the academic performance, the mental health and self care and naturally, the socio emotional and civil skills.The results highlight the importance of development of the socio affective and ethical dimension inside Chilean and Latin-American public school, as an effective way to face educational challenges in the 21st century. Taking into consideration the recommendations coming from these successful interventions, it is suggested not to separate the social and emotional dimension from the intellectual one, re-meaning this double dimension of the school, which acts as a virtuous circle.
Practical aspects of hydrogenation and soybean salad oil manufacture (1981)

Abstract Most edible oils are hydrogenated in batch‐type slurry converters similar in basic design to those employed when the process was first commercialized in 1911. One major company uses a proprietary continuous slurry process. Other novel batch and continuous slurry systems are available but have not enjoyed significant commercial success. Fixed bed hydrogenation has not been seriously investigated but offers intriguing possibilities. Energy economy is assuming ever greater importance in the design of hardening systems. The accelerated growth of hydrogenation since the 1940s parallels the rapid increase in soybean oil use. In part, it reflects the flavor instability of soybean oil caused by its linolenic ester. When this triunsaturate is lowered by hydrogenation to ca. 3%, a high‐quality soybean salad oil can be produced. Standard hydrogenation and separation techniques work well. New separation equipment and processes are entering the marketplace.