nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Online Multi object Tracking with Siamese Network and Optical Flow
Venue: 2020 IEEE 5th International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC)
Year: 2020

Simple Online and Realtime Tracking with a Deep Association Metric (DeepSORT) is a method of multi object tracking combined appearance features with motion state of objects estimated by Kalman Filter which has a promising performance. However, maintaining the identity of targets becomes formidable when the objects have a similar appearance and complex patterns of the movement. To address these issues, a novel Online Multi object Tracking with Siamese Network and Optical Flow is proposed. We utilize the Siamese network structure to obtain our appearance feature extractor. Furthermore, optical flow is introduced into the scheme to promote the accuracy of motion prediction from the Kalman filter. Our approach combines appearance and motion features in a tracking framework. The experimental results evaluated on the public MOT dataset illustrate that our method has the better performance in comparison with the DeepSORT algorithm.
Use of clinical and neuroimaging characteristics to distinguish temporal lobe herpes simplex encephalitis from its mimics.
Venue: Clinical infectious diseases an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year: 2015

We describe the spectrum of etiologies associated with temporal lobe (TL) encephalitis and identify clinical and radiologic features that distinguish herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) from its mimics.  We reviewed all adult cases of encephalitis with TL abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) from the California Encephalitis Project. We evaluated the association between specific clinical and MRI characteristics and HSE compared with other causes of TL encephalitis and used multivariate logistic modeling to identify radiologic predictors of HSE.  Of 251 cases of TL encephalitis, 43% had an infectious etiology compared with 16% with a noninfectious etiology. Of infectious etiologies, herpes simplex virus was the most commonly identified agent (n 60) followed by tuberculosis (n 8) and varicella zoster virus (n 7) Of noninfectious etiologies, more than half (n 21) were due to autoimmune disease. Patients with HSE were older (56.8 vs 50.2 years; P .012) more likely to be white (53% vs 35% P .013) more likely to present acutely (88% vs 64% P .001) and with a fever (80% vs 49% P .001) and less likely to present with a rash (2% vs 15% P .010) In a multivariate model, bilateral TL involvement (odds ratio [OR] 0.38; 95% confidence interval [CI] .18 .79; P .010) and lesions outside the TL, insula, or cingulate (OR, 0.37; 95% CI, .18 .74; P .005) were associated with lower odds of HSE.  In addition to HSE, other infectious and noninfectious etiologies should be considered in the differential diagnosis for TL encephalitis, depending on the presentation. Specific clinical and imaging features may aid in distinguishing HSE from non HSE causes of TL encephalitis.
Environmental Sensitivity and Paranormal Experiences
Year: 2008

The physical environment affects every individual differently, however past research suggests that certain individuals exhibit a greater susceptibility to environmental factors than the general population (Jawer, 2006) According to Jawer (2006) these environmentally sensitive individuals are also significantly more likely to report paranormal experiences than non sensitives. The current study set out to test the hypothesis that environmentally sensitive individuals will report more past paranormal experiences as well as more haunt type experiences in a natural setting. The study also looked at whether subtle differences in electromagnetic fields (EMFs) led to an increase in reported haunt type experiences among sensitives.  Participants (N=251) completed a questionnaire which categorized them as either environmentally sensitive or non sensitive and were then led on a guided tour of an allegedly haunted location where they reported any unusual phenomena that they experienced. EMF readings were taken of the rooms visited on the tour and based on those readings the rooms were either designated as 'High EMF' rooms or 'Low EMF' rooms.  Sensitives reported significantly more past paranormal experiences and haunt type experiences in a natural setting. Overall there were significantly more haunt type experiences in 'High EMF' rooms than 'Low EMF' rooms suggesting an association between increased EMFs and reports of haunt type experiences. Further analysis showed that sensitives reported significantly more haunt type experiences in 'High EMF' rooms than 'Low EMF' rooms; however there was no significant difference in reported experiences between rooms among non sensitives which suggests that sensitives could be picking up on subtle EMF differences leading to an increase in reports of haunt type experiences. Environmental Sensitivity and Paranormal Experiences
Statistical Model Checking for Distributed Probabilistic Control Hybrid Automata with Smart Grid Applications
Venue: ICFEM
Year: 2011

The power industry is currently moving towards a more dynamical, intelligent power grid. This Smart Grid is still in its infancy and a formal evaluation of the expensive technologies and ideas on the table is necessary before committing to a full investment. In this paper, we argue that a good model for the Smart Grid must match its basic properties: it must be hybrid (both evolve over time, and perform control/computation) distributed (multiple concurrently executing entities) and allow for asynchronous communication and stochastic behaviour (to accurately model real world power consumption) We propose Distributed Probabilistic Control Hybrid Automata (DPCHA) as a model for this purpose, and extend Bounded LTL to Quantified Bounded LTL in order to adapt and apply existing statistical model checking techniques. We provide an implementation of a framework for developing and verifying DPCHAs. Finally, we conduct a case study for Smart Grid communications analysis.
TA Rancang Bangun Sistem Kontrol Suhu pada Kandang Brooding Ayam Berbasis Fuzzy Logic Menggunakan Arduino Uno
Year: 2017

Indonesia merupakan salah salah satu pusat domestikasi ayam di dunia setelah Cina dan India. Negeri ini kaya akan sumberdaya genetik ayam lokal yang tersebar di seluruh Indonesia. Layaknya unggas lain berbagai jenis ayam lokal dimanfaatkan untuk konsumsi, terutama ayam kampung. Sayangnya, secara genetik ayam kampung memiliki pertumbuhan yang lambat dan pengkondisian kandang pada cuaca curah hujan yang mengakibatkan anak ayam kampung atau DOC (Day old Chick) dapat mudah terserang penyakit dan sakit. Pada Penelitian ini maka penulis membuat suatu penilitian yaitu rancang bangun sistem kontrol suhu pada kandang brooding ayam berbasis fuzzy logic menggunakan Arduino Uno. Dengan kontrol suhu pemanas melalui pemancar lampu dan mengontrol kecepatan fan yang berfungsi sirkulasi udara yang agar tidak terjadi pemanasan udara pada kandang brooding. Berdasarkan Pengujian akhir dilakukan pada tempat berbeda yaitu pada ruang terbuka dan tertutup sebanyak 30 kali dengan terdapat beberapa kali kegagalan suhu tidak mencapai setting point yang ditentukan dari keypad sebagai input suhu dengan metode Fuzzy Sugeno. Untuk batas atas dan batas bawah selisih error 3degC, selisih waktu yang dibutuhkan kurang dari 4 menit. Dengan rata rata error pada keseluruhan pengujian pertama 0,76 dan keseluruhan pengujian kedua 0,56 derajat error. Pengujian keseluruhan selama 24 jam dalam 30 data pengujian di dapatkan dengan rata rata error 1,4 derajat error.
Integration of Spectral Histogram and Level Set for Coastline Detection in SAR Images
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Year: 2019

This study proposed a novel algorithm for coastline detection in single polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images based on the local spectral histogram (LSH) and the level set method (LSM) The proposed algorithm includes two main steps. In the processing step, a rough land/sea segmentation is done by utilizing a texture based segmentation using LSH. In the postprocessing step, the region based LSM is used to refine the previous segmentation and extract the coastline accurately. The level set (LS) function is initialized using the results of LSH segmentation. This prevents the development of spurious contours, becoming trapped in the local minimum, eliminates the manual support, and also speeds up the LS evolution. A hierarchical LS regularization is proposed using two Gaussian kernels, which is compatible with noisy images and able to detect very narrow regions. The proposed algorithm is able to detect a coastline at the full resolution of the input SAR image and is also robust to noise. A criterion to quantify the accuracy of the results was also proposed. The experimental results for a number of real high resolution single polarization SAR images demonstrate that the proposed method is robust to noise and efficient for the coastline detection in different coastal and sea environments.
Study on Nutritional Composition on Firmness of Two Gherkin Cucumis sativus L. Varieties (Ajax Vlasset) on Brine Fermentation
Year: 2017

Gherkin (Cucumis sativus L. is an important cucurbitaceous vegetable. The pickling type gherkins are produced in Sri Lanka since 1988 for export market and it expanded over several agrological regions. Locally grown two gherkin varieties (Ajax and Vlasset) were tested for proximate composition (moisture, dry matter, ash, mineral, protein, fat, dietary fibre and carbohydrate) of raw fruits (AOAC methods) and within 6 month of brine fermentation, firmness measurements (FTA) were recorded and varieties were evaluated. Vlasset and Ajax varieties contained 96.30% and 95.54% moisture, respectively. The ash, protein and fat were higher (p) and dietary fibre, carbohydrate lower in Ajax. Mg, K and Zn content were higher (p) in Ajax noted as 16.60 1.47, 194.0+ 7.80 and 14.69+ 0.40 respectively while Vlasset was noted lower values. Ca (10.62+ 0.59 and Na (13.46 0.43) were greater in Vlasset while Ajax was given lower values. Both varieties showed K to be highest followed by Zn, Na and Ca while Mg amount was secondly highest in Ajax and lowest in Vlasset. Firmness variation of both exocarp and mesocarp of Vlasset has shown same pattern while giving maximum reading in the 2nd month after fermentation. Firmness variation of exocarp and mesocarp of Ajax was not followed same pattern while maximum value was recorded in 5th and 2nd month respectively. These findings indicated that Sri Lankan gherkins have similar nutrient values as cucumber. Even initial moisture content is higher in Vlasset than Ajax variety the better textural quality is apparent in Vlasset supported by physicochemical properties of higher dietary fibre, carbohydrate, minerals (Ca, Na) and having higher firmness in mesocarp tissue than exocarp.
Conservation and sustainable use of Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture country report of the Netherlands for the 2nd State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture executive summary
Year: 2014

The updated Dutch national report on conservation and sustainable use of Animal Genetic Resources summarizes the state of national implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources. Seven strategic priority areas have been identified, dealing with remaining or future challenges. At national level conservation strategies will be strengthened to halt the loss of farm animal genetic diversity and to protect our bio cultural heritage. New technologies will be adopted and further developed for characterization, conservation and breeding purposes. The Netherlands will contribute to the global agenda by generating knowledge and development of improved breeding material for sustainable development of the livestock sector and future food security.
Utilizing Non Parallel Text for Style Transfer by Making Partial Comparisons
Venue: IJCAI
Year: 2019

Text style transfer aims to rephrase a given sentence into a different style without changing its original content. Since parallel corpora (i.e. sentence pairs with the same content but different styles) are usually unavailable, most previous works solely guide the transfer process with distributional information, i.e. using style related classifiers or language models, which neglect the correspondence of instances, leading to poor transfer performance, especially for the content preservation. In this paper, we propose making partial comparisons to explicitly model the content and style correspondence of instances, respectively. To train the partial comparators, we propose methods to extract partial parallel training instances automatically from the non parallel data, and to further enhance the training process by using data augmentation. We perform experiments that compare our method to other existing approaches on two review datasets. Both automatic and manual evaluations show that our approach can significantly improve the performance of existing adversarial methods, and outperforms most state of the art models. Our code and data will be available on Github.
The Anatomy of Friendship
Venue: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Year: 2018

Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well being, and happiness. Creating and maintaining friendships is, however, extremely costly, in terms of both the time that has to be invested and the cognitive mechanisms that underpin them. Nonetheless, personal social networks exhibit many constancies, notably in their size and their hierarchical structuring. Understanding the processes that give rise to these patterns and their evolutionary origins requires a multidisciplinary approach that combines social and neuropsychology as well as evolutionary biology.
Interfacing of Sensors and Signal Conditioning
Year: 2013

In this chapter, a few signal conditioning methods to interface analog and digital signals to processors, microcontroller, microprocessors etc will be introduced. The readers will get a good idea about different stages required to make an intelligent sensing and measurement system. The process involves passive and/or active devices and use circuits such as filters, current to voltage converters or vice versa and so on. The main purpose of this chapter is to provide some fundamentals of interfacing the signals obtained from different sensors to be available to the digital processor for the necessary computation. The digital signal may be directly connected to a digital input of a processor provided it is within the required voltage range. The analog signals are usually connected to the Analog to Digital converters of the processor.
An investigation over inbound open innovation in SMEs: insights from an Italian manufacturing sample
Venue: Technol. Anal. Strateg. Manag.
Year: 2020

Building on the Open Innovation (OI) framework, the purpose of this paper is to examine the R&D inbound model of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) Specifically, we focus on the impact of different horizontal R&D collaborations on product innovation and innovation performance. Hypotheses are tested using a Probit/Tobit regression on an Italian sample of 2591 manufacturing SMEs. Our analysis shows that collaborating with different horizontal R&D partners brings to different innovation outcomes. In particular, R&D collaboration with universities has a positive impact on product innovation, but not on innovation performance. Whereas, R&D collaboration with research centres and other private companies has a positive impact on both product innovation and innovation performance. Our findings provide implications for SMEs managers and entrepreneurs who have to decide between R&D partners for their innovation strategy. Avenues for future research are discussed.
Pengaruh Terapi Musik Pengiring Belajar Terhadap Perkembangan Kognitif Anak Usia Pra Sekolah Di Tk Babul Jihad Bima
Year: 2017

Pertumbuhan dan perkembangan mengalami peningkatan yang pesat pada usia dini, yaitu 0 5 tahun. Masa ini sering disebut juga sebagai fase "Golden Age" Golden Age merupakan masa yang paling penting untuk memperhatikan tumbuh kembang anak secara cermat agar sedini mungkin terdeteksi. Stimulus yang adekuat sangat dibutuhkan untuk membantu anak mencapai pertumbuhan dan perkembangan yang optimal. Salah satu stimulus yang dapat diberikan pada anak adalah dengan menggunakan musik. Anak anak mudah memberi respon fisik terhadap musik, bahkan responnya relative spontan dan anak anak cenderung bebas menggerakkan tubuh dan anggota tubuhnya. Aktivitas motorik ini merangsang pertumbuhan anak, khususnya pada awal masa perkembangan. Irama musik yang didengar pada awal kehidupan akan menjadi irama musik yang sangat bermakna dalam kehidupan selanjutnya. Irama musik tertentu akan mempengaruhi detak nadi mereka, sehingga menjadi selaras dengan musik tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh terapi musik pengiring belajar terhadap perkembangan kognitif anak usia pra sekolah di TK Babul Jihad Bima. Penelitian ini merupakan jenis Pre Experimental one group pretest posttest. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh anak didik di TK Babul Jihad Bima. Pengumpulan data diperoleh dari hasil observasi langsung dengan partisipasi guru dan orangtua anak. Analisa hubungan antar variabel dengan uji statistik wilcoxon match paire test. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan ada perbedaan rata rata perubahan perkembangan kognitif pada anak usia pra sekolah sebelum dan sesudah diberikan terapi musik pengiring belajar di TK Babul Jihad Bima Hal ini di dukung oleh hasil uji statistik wilcoxon didapatkan p value 0,000 a 0,05, maka H a di terima menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh terapi musik pengiring belajar terhadap perkembangan kognitif anak usia pra sekolah di TK Babul Jihad Bima.
Contemporary theory of enantioseparations in capillary electrophoresis.
Venue: Journal of chromatography. A
Year: 2018

The first separation of enantiomers in capillary electrophoresis (CE) counts slightly longer than three decades. Fast development of the practice and theory of chiral CE occurred in the past 30 years and today one can consider this technology to have a solid and mature theoretical background. The goal of the present review is not only to summarize the history and contemporary theory of enantioseparations by using CE but also to present the authors personal view where shall we head to with this attractive technology not only from the viewpoint of separation of enantiomers but also for better understanding the mechanisms of non covalent (enantioselective) interactions in chemistry, biology, medicine and related disciplines.
POTENTIAL OF MICE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATION
Year: 2019

Oznachena stattia prisviachena pitanniam osoblivostei organizatsiyi MICE podorozhei, shcho okhopliuiut' organizatsiiu dilovikh zustrichei, insentiv turi, provedennia konferentsii, vistavok, podiievikh zakhodiv ta yikh bezperervnii suprovid. Vivcheno svitovi tendentsiyi MICE podorozhei, rezul'tatom chogo stalo viznachennia lideriv biznes trevel v 2018 r. SShA, Nimechchina, Ispaniia. V 2018 r. naiprivablivishim mistom v sviti dlia provedennia MICE viznacheno Parizh. Z'iasovano, shcho infrastrukturni resursi turizmu i mozhlivosti yikh vikoristannia dlia dosiagnennia tsilei MICE staiut' pidg'runtiam priiniattia rishennia pro zdiisnennia podorozhi. Okharakterizovano potentsial Nimechchini, Velikobritaniyi i Frantsiyi v organizatsiyi MICE turizmu, rozglianuto perspektivi OAE v segmenti MICE podorozhei. Z'iasovano, shcho organizatsiia ta suprovid MICE podorozhei potrebuie spetsialistiv z osoblivimi znanniami i navichkami, naslidkom chogo stala poiava printsipovo novikh posad v mizhnarodnikh turistichnikh kompaniiakh. Viznacheno kharakterni risi MICE turista vidpovidno do dzherel finansuvannia podorozhi, yiyi meti i ochikuvanikh rezul'tativ, shcho vimagaie dotrimannia politiki podorozhei kompaniyi iak samim turistom, tak i turistichnim pidpriiemstvom. Obgruntovano, shcho zdiisnennia turistichnoyi diial'nosti v segmenti rinku MICE vimagaie personifikovanogo pidkhodu do organizatsiyi i suprovodu podorozhi. V Ukrayini v tsii nishi rinku pratsiuiut' transnatsional'ni kompaniyi <American Express Global Business Travel> <BCD Travel> <Carlson Wagonlit> <Hogg Robinson Group> ukrayins'ki monoprofil'ni turoperatori <S&T Group> <YanaEvent> <Life Tour> <ART of MICE> <Okraina> i bagatoprofil'ni turistichni pidpriiemstva, v asortimenti iakikh ie MICE. Okresleno umovi efektivnoyi organizatsiyi i suprovodu MICE na osnovi vikoristannia suchasnikh informatsiinikh tekhnologii, zokrema spetsial'no rozroblenikh mobil'nikh dodatkiv, iaki ie intelektual'noiu vlasnistiu providnikh turoperatoriv. Osnovnimi funktsiiami mobil'nikh dodatkiv pri organizatsiyi MICE viznacheno operativne planuvannia podorozhi, reaguvannia na zmini zovnishn'ogo seredovishcha, shvidkii poshuk al'ternativnikh rishen' v iakisnomu obslugovuvanni, optimizatsiia marshrutu i vitrat, zaoshchadzhennia chasu turista bez vtrati iakosti turistichnogo servisu. Vstanovleno, shcho MICE turizm maie perspektivi podal'shogo rozvitku v sviti i vimagaie postiinogo udoskonalennia organizatsiyi takikh podorozhei.
Journalistic Roles and the Struggle Over Institutional Identity: The Discursive Constitution of Journalism
Year: 2017

The study of journalistic roles tends to be descriptive and is thin on theory. This article advances an understanding of journalistic roles as being discursively constituted and builds on the notion of journalism as a discursive institution. Journalistic roles are negotiated in a relational structure the discursive field where journalists, news outlets, and media organizations struggle over discursive authority in conversations about journalism's identity and locus in society. Journalistic roles are articulated and enacted on 2 distinct levels: role orientations (normative and cognitive roles) and role performance (practiced and narrated roles) The process model of journalistic roles proposes a circular structure, where normative, cognitive, practiced, and narrated roles are connected through processes of internalization, enactment, reflection, normalization, and negotiation.
Quaid e Azam Solar Power park: Prospects and challenges
Venue: 2015 Power Generation System and Renewable Energy Technologies (PGSRET)
Year: 2015

Optimum yield of PV systems is primarily governed by installation parameters (altitude, tilt and orientation) and geographic location (solar insolation and latitude) of instillation site. However, current studies have shown that dust has significant influence on PV system performance (efficiency and output) and PV efficiency deficit due to dust can be up to 70% Quaid e Azam Solar Power (QASP) park is located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, is first large scale solar power generation project in Pakistan with capacity of 100MWp in first phase and additional 900MWp in next two phases. QASP Park is covered by desert of Cholistan. Climate of Bahawalpur is hot and dry with annual rainfall of 200 220 mm. The site of QASP Park is very complicated for solar power generation. This paper provides an appraisal on important climate factors of QASP Park and their impact on PV systems performance. Climate factors of prime important that will dictate performance of PV Systems in QASP Park, have been discussed in this paper.