nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
RepFinder: finding approximately repeated scene elements for image editing
Venue: SIGGRAPH 2010
Year: 2010

Repeated elements are ubiquitous and abundant in both manmade and natural scenes. Editing such images while preserving the repetitions and their relations is nontrivial due to overlap, missing parts, deformation across instances, illumination variation, etc. Manually enforcing such relations is laborious and error prone. We propose a novel framework where user scribbles are used to guide detection and extraction of such repeated elements. Our detection process, which is based on a novel boundary band method, robustly extracts the repetitions along with their deformations. The algorithm only considers the shape of the elements, and ignores similarity based on color, texture, etc. We then use topological sorting to establish a partial depth ordering of overlapping repeated instances. Missing parts on occluded instances are completed using information from other instances. The extracted repeated instances can then be seamlessly edited and manipulated for a variety of high level tasks that are otherwise difficult to perform. We demonstrate the versatility of our framework on a large set of inputs of varying complexity, showing applications to image rearrangement, edit transfer, deformation propagation, and instance replacement.
Methodes et compositions pharmaceutiques pour le traitement du cancer de l'estomac a cellules en bague a chaton
Year: 2017

La presente invention concerne des methodes et compositions pharmaceutiques pour le traitement du cancer de l'estomac a cellules en bague a chaton. La presente invention concerne egalement une methode de traitement du carcinome gastrique a cellules en bague a chaton chez le patient le necessitant, comprenant l'administration au patient d'une quantite therapeutiquement efficace d'au moins un inhibiteur de PD 1 ou d'au moins un inhibiteur de l'IGF1R.
Kinematics of Rotary Dobby and Analysis of Heald Frame Motion in Weaving Process
Year: 2008

In this study, a mechanism model is introduced then kinematic design and analysis equations are presented for a rotary dobby. Heald frame motion curve is obtained and analyzed. Mechanism parameters affecting heald frame motion are discussed. It is shown that heald frame motion characteristics were mainly determined by the design of modulator mechanism. Eccentric mechanism of a rotary dobby also had a significant effect on heald frame motion.
Efficient and secure data storage operations for mobile cloud computing
Venue: 2012 8th international conference on network and service management (cnsm) and 2012 workshop on systems virtualiztion management (svm)
Year: 2012

In a mobile cloud computing system, lightweight wireless communication devices extend cloud services into the sensing domain. A common mobile cloud secure data service is to inquiry the data from sensing devices. The data can be collected from multiple requesters, which may drain out the power of sensing devices quickly. Thus, an efficient data access control model is desired. To this end, we present a comprehensive security data inquiry framework for mobile cloud computing. Our solution focuses on the following two research directions: First, we present a novel Privacy Preserving Cipher Policy Attribute Based Encryption (PP CP ABE) to protect sensing data. Using PP CP ABE, light weight devices can securely outsource heavy encryption and decryption operations to cloud service providers, without revealing the data content. Second, we propose an Attribute Based Data Storage (ABDS) system as a cryptographic group based access control mechanism. Our performance assessments demonstrate the security strength and efficiency of the presented solution in terms of computation, communication, and storage.
Graph theory and the analysis of fracture networks
Venue: Journal of Structural Geology
Year: 2019

Two dimensional exposures of fracture networks can be represented as large planar graphs that comprise a series of branches (B) representing the fracture traces and nodes (N) representing their terminations and linkages. The nodes and branches may link to form connected components (K) which may contain fracture bounded regions (R) or blocks. The proportions of node types provide a basis for characterizing the topology of the network. The average degree relates the number of branches |B| and nodes |N| and Euler's formula establishes a link between all four elements of the graph with |N| |B| |R| |K| 0. Treating a set of fractures as a graph returns the focus of description to the underlying relationships between the fractures and, hence, to the network rather that its constitutive elements. Graph theory provides a wide range of applicable theorems and well tested algorithms that can be used in the analysis of fault and fracture systems. We discuss a range of applications to two dimensional fracture and fault networks, and briefly discuss application to three dimensions.
Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real time Quantita Tive Pcr and the 2 Preanalytic Error Tracking in a Laboratory Medicine Department: Results of a 1 year Experience
Year: 2006

Weikert S, Christoph F, Schrader M, Krause H, Miller K, Muller M. Quantitative analysis of survivin mRNA expression in urine and tumor tissue of bladder cancer patients and its potential relevance for disease detection and prognosis.   Acar H, Kilinc M, Yildirim MS, Kaynak M, Cenker A. Evaluation of chromosome 8 and 11 aneuploidies in washings and biopsy materials of bladder transitional cell carcinoma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2003;142:25 9. 7. Vet JA, Hessels D, Marras SA, van de Kaa CA, van der Poel HG, Michalides RJ, et al. Comparative analysis of p53 mutations in bladder washings and histologic specimens.  Analysis of relative gene expression data using real time quantitative PCR and the 2 C(T) method.  2001;25:402 8.
Evolutionary computation approaches to the Curriculum Sequencing problem
Venue: Natural Computing
Year: 2010

Within the field of e Learning, a learning path represents a match between a learner profile and his preferences from one side, and the learning content presentation and the pedagogical requirements from the other side. The Curriculum Sequencing problem (CS) concerns the dynamic generation of a personal optimal learning path for a learner. This problem has gained an increased research interest in the last decade, as it is not possible to have a single learning path that suits every learner in the widely heterogeneous e Learning environment. Since this problem is NP hard, heuristics and meta heuristics are usually used to approximate its solutions, in particular Evolutionary Computation approaches (EC) In this paper, a review of recent developments in the application of EC approaches to the CS problem is presented. A classification of these approaches is provided with emphasis on the tools necessary for facilitating learning content reusability and automated sequencing.
Study of a stable hybridization method to couple FVTD,GD scheme with FDTD/FEM scheme
Year: 2019

The purpose of this paper is the study of a stable method for coupling two types of schemes using or not numerical fluxes for the resolution of Maxwell's equations in time domain. The methods considered in the hybridization process are Finite Volume (FV) Finite Element (FEM) Finite Difference (FD) and Discontin uous Galerkin (DG) We give the principle of the hybrid method and by the study of an energetic quantity, one specifies the conditions of stability of it. Finally, one example is given to validate the proposed hybrid method.
Evaluasi perubahan penggunaan lahan dari pertanian ke nonpertanian dan pengaruhnya terhadap besarnya resapan air di Kota Malang oleh Nurul A'dhom Fahrur Rosyid
Year: 2019

Perkembangan Kota Malang yang sangat pesat sudah tentu akan membawa konsekuensi pada peningkatan akan permintaan lahan untuk berbagai kegiatan usaha maupun permukiman. Pengembangan permukiman umumnya menggunakan lahan yang belum terbangun, baik berupa sawah, tegalan ataupun lahan kering lainnya. Perubahan penggunaan lahan tersebut berpengaruh terhadap besarnya resapan air. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perubahan penggunaan lahan selama 10 tahun yaitu tahun 1993 dan tahun 2003, dan perbedaan resapan air antara lahan pertanian dengan lahan nonpertanian, serta perubahan jumlah resapan air akibat adanya perubahan penggunaan lahan di Kota Malang. Penelitian ini berbentuk deskriptif dengan menggunakan metode survey dan plot. Metode pengambilan sampel menggunakan metode purposive sampling yaitu lahan pertanian berupa sawah dan tegalan dan non pertanian berupa permukiman atau kawasan terbangun. Untuk mengetahui besar resapan masing masing penggunaan lahan digunakan metode plot. Dari metode plot di buat tabel untuk menghitung tebal hujan, intensitas hujan, volume limpasan sehingga diketahui besar resapannya. Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa terjadi perubahan penggunaan lahan dari pertanian ke lahan non pertanian dengan luas 602,772 Ha atau 5,48 Besar resapan pada masing masing penggunaan lahan berbeda yaitu pada lahan tegalan rata rata sebesar 97,49 pada lahan sawah sebesar 67,8 pada lahan permukiman atau kawasan terbangun sebesar 29,3 sisanya berupa semak belukar rata rata sebesar 96,47 rumput rata rata sebesar 88,21% Besar resapan lahan pertanian di Kota Malang sebesar 82,65 sedangkan lahan nonpertanian sebesar 29,3 sehingga terjadi pengurangan sebesar 53,35 Terdapat pengurangan resapan air akibat adanya perubahan penggunaan lahan dari pertanian ke nonpertanian dengan perubahan seluas 602,772 Ha menghasilkan resapan sebesar 8.938.839 m3. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disarankan Pemerintah Kota Malang diharapkan memperhatikan perubahan penggunaan lahan, untuk menambah nilai resapan disarankan pemerintah Kota Malang menerapkan teknologi teknologi yang bisa digunakan untuk memperbesar resapan air hujan, terutama pada lahan permukiman yang sangat kecil resapannya.Untuk penelitian sejenis selanjutnya diharapkan menambah berbagai faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap resapan dan limpasan.
Mediating Role of Self efficacy and Usefulness Between Self regulated Learning Strategy Knowledge and its Use.
Year: 2019

Interventions designed to improve academic self regulation must consider the importance of motivational variables and the relationship between them to improve the self regulatory strategies use. The main aim of this study is to analyze how training in self regulated learning strategies is related to improvements in knowledge of those strategies, self efficacy in using those strategies, their perceived usefulness, and their effective use in academic learning tasks. In addition to direct effects, we explore how those multiple determinants interact directly and indirectly with each other. We used a quasi experimental pretest posttest design with a control group (n=206) and an experimental group (n=167) of university students. Control group students followed their usual instructional processes. Students from the experimental group received training in self regulated learning in addition to their usual instruction. The intervention produced a statistically significant improvement in knowledge of self regulated learning strategies, which was associated with a significant improvement in self efficacy in using those strategies. However, increases in knowledge and perceived competence in use were not associated with an improvement in perceived usefulness of the strategies. There were no previous studies that have examined the mediating role played by both student self efficacy and perceived value for strategy use. Significant implications for teaching and intervention planning were extracted. Competent behavior largely depends on acquiring knowledge and skills, but knowing, training, and be motivated is not enough in self regulating learning.
Sentence BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT Networks
Venue: EMNLP
Year: 2019

BERT (Devlin et al. 2018) and RoBERTa (Liu et al. 2019) has set a new state of the art performance on sentence pair regression tasks like semantic textual similarity (STS) However, it requires that both sentences are fed into the network, which causes a massive computational overhead: Finding the most similar pair in a collection of 10,000 sentences requires about 50 million inference computations ~65 hours) with BERT. The construction of BERT makes it unsuitable for semantic similarity search as well as for unsupervised tasks like clustering. In this publication, we present Sentence BERT (SBERT) a modification of the pretrained BERT network that use siamese and triplet network structures to derive semantically meaningful sentence embeddings that can be compared using cosine similarity. This reduces the effort for finding the most similar pair from 65 hours with BERT RoBERTa to about 5 seconds with SBERT, while maintaining the accuracy from BERT. We evaluate SBERT and SRoBERTa on common STS tasks and transfer learning tasks, where it outperforms other state of the art sentence embeddings methods.
The power of negative publicity on the fast fashion industry
Year: 2020

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of negative reporting in the media (hereafter negative publicity) about the fast fashion industry on the attitude of (potential) consumers towards fast fashion apparels. This is done on the basis of three experimental studies. These studies also analyzed if visual and written publicity about the working conditions in the production process and environmentally related information, e.g. environmentally unfriendly externalities of the fast fashion production process, can influence the attitude towards fast fashion apparels, i.e. intention to buy, liking, attitude towards the brand. Furthermore, the studies investigated if differences between consumers (e.g. attitude towards slow fashion, fashion involvement, and ethical and environmental consciousness of consumers) significantly influence the impact of such information on consumer attitudes. The findings of the three studies show that negative (audiovisual and written) publicity about the environmental impact and working conditions of the fast fashion industry significantly negatively influence consumers' attitudes towards the fast fashion industry. The "power" of negative publicity is also significantly stronger than that of positive publicity and is enhanced by the consciousness of consumers towards the social and ecological impact of the fashion industry.
Advances in Forensic Data Acquisition
Venue: IEEE Design Test
Year: 2018

all know this from watching CSI: When a crime is committed, usually some form of digital evidence is left on devices such as computers, mobile phones, or the navigation system of a car a suspect has used. Indeed, law enforcement agencies are regularly interested in data from personal devices to find evidence, guide investigations, or even act as proof in a court of law. This tutorial article by Felix Freiling et al. mentions the San Bernadino case as a prominent example. But how do police investigators go about accessing this evidence? Is what is shown on TV realistic? Whereas, in times of classical hard disks, accessing data was quite easy due to the non volatility of the memory device. However, this is getting increasingly difficult because of developing technologies like SSDs, other forms of flash storage, and, in particular, for volatile memory such as RAM, with the major problem being to read out data while guarding "authenticity." In the past ten years, there has been some substantial development in the area of forensic data acquisition, which is summarized by the article. It gives clear indications of what currently can be technically done and what cannot be done by police investigators. So, if you watch CSI again and the cops need to access some digital evidence, you can tell truth from fiction. Jurgen Teich, Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg
Programmable Design of Self Organized Patterns through a Precipitation Reaction.
Venue: The journal of physical chemistry. B
Year: 2020

Nature uses self organized spatiotemporal patterns to construct systems with robustness and flexibility. Furthermore, understanding the principles underlying self organization in nature enables programmable design of artificial patterns driven by chemical energy. The related mechanisms are however not clearly understood because most of these patterns form in reaction diffusion (RD) systems consisting of intricate interaction between diffusion and reaction. Therefore, comprehensive understanding of the pattern formation may provide critical knowledge for developing novel strategies in both natural science and chemical engineering. Liesegang patterns (LPs) are one of the typical programmable patterns. This study demonstrates that appropriate tuning of gel concentration distribution is a key programming factor for controlling LP periodicities. The gel distribution was realized in bi or multi layered gels constructed by stacking agarose gels of different concentrations. Thus, exceptional LP periodicities were achieved locally in bi layered gels. Furthermore, RD simulations revealed that the nucleation process modulated by the gel distribution determines the LP periodicity in bi layered gels. Finally, based on this concept, desired LP periodicities were successfully realized by programming gel distributions in multi layered gels. Thus, deep insights into the fundamental role of nucleation in designing LPs can lead to the practical applications of LPs and the understanding of self organization in nature.
Engineering Applications of Cohesive Sediment Dynamics
Year: 2009

This chapter discusses the engineering applications of cohesive sediment dynamics. Problems related to cohesive sediments can be classified in three general categories of hydraulic engineering design of open channels safe against scouring and deposition. These categories are control of deposition in closed conduits is also a related problem, prediction and control of shoaling in navigable coastal and estuarine waterways for maintaining desirable navigable depths, and control of environmental pollution. It is in the second category where the erosional and depositional behavior of cohesive sediments is particularly applicable. The need for a rational control of shoaling in estuarial navigable waterways is one of the primary motivations for most of the recent fundamental and applied research work on the subject. In the discussion of the physicochemical aspects of cohesive soils, it becomes apparent that several factors may drastically affect the erosive resistance of a soil of a particular consistency. Chemical composition of the water, desiccation, compaction, and disturbances of various kinds are some of these factors. Changes of sediment distribution due to dredging and to various other solid waste disposals may have several unfavorable environmental impacts, of which two are the most obvious: excessive deposition on the feeding grounds and an increase in turbidity to a point prohibiting sufficient light for the development of plankton, one of the basic nutrients for marine life. Interaction of suspended cohesive sediments with organic matter and various dissolved chemicals from industrial and domestic sewers may become a major problem. The very same physicochemical forces acting on the surfaces of the fine particles are responsible for flocculation.
You should/mustn't be a mother: intersectionalities of gender and sexuality within non heteronormative women families
Year: 2018

You should/mustn't be a mother: intersectionalities of gender and sexuality within non heteronormative women families In this paper I aim to illustrate the intersectionality of sexuality and gender within non heteronormative women families with usage of intersectionality framework from the classical text of K. Crenshaw Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color which analyzes the structural, political and representational intersectionalities. Taking into consideration the impossibility to embrace all identity constructs and intersections between them, I'm going to focus on two dimensions: gender and sexuality, which, as I will try to illustrate, are crucial for studying realities of inequalities faced by non heteronormative women parents in Poland. Powinnas/Nie wolno ci byc matka: intersekcjonalnosc gender i seksualnosci w rodzinach nieheteronormatywnych kobiet Celem artykulu jest przedstawienie intersekcjonalnosci seksualnosci i gender w rodzinach nieheteronormatywnych kobiet w oparciu o metodologie klasycznego tekstu K. Crenshaw Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color w ktorym analizie poddana zostala intersekcjonalnosc strukturalna, polityczna i reprezentacyjna. Biorac pod uwage niemoznosc uchwycenia wszystkich konstruktow tozsamosciowych i ich wzajemnych relacji, skupie sie na dwoch aspektach: plci kulturowej i seksualnosci, ktore jak postaram sie zobrazowac, maja decydujacy wplyw na nierownosci napotykane przez nieheteronormatywne kobiety rodzicow w Polsce.
Diagnostic validity of self reported measures of sleep bruxism using an ambulatory single channel EMG device.
Venue: Journal of prosthodontic research
Year: 2016

Self reported measures have been widely used to indicate the presence of possible and probable sleep bruxism (SB) in both research and clinical situations. However, few studies have attempted to assess the diagnostic validity of this approach. The aim of this study was to estimate the diagnostic validity of self reported measures of SB using an ambulatory single channel electromyographic (EMG) device.  A total of 115 participants were enrolled and examined by standardized Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) including two questions related to SB: self reported SB and morning jaw symptoms. An ambulatory single channel EMG device (GrindCare3(tm) Medotech A/S) was used for measuring jaw muscle EMG activity during sleep for seven consecutive nights. Cut off values for different measures of EMG activity (average, maximum and minimum) and the coefficient of variation (CV) were selected to divide participants into two groups, with higher or lower EMG activity or CV values. The sensitivity and specificity for each question and combination of them were calculated.  Self reported SB had the highest sensitivity (compared with morning jaw symptoms) for all measures of EMG activity and CV, although the values were low to modest (average: 76.0% maximum: 76.9% minimum: 77.3% CV: 61.0% The specificity was low for both the questions related to the different measures of EMG activity and CV (35.1 52.4%  This study indicated that the diagnostic validity of self reported measures of SB was low to modest using an ambulatory EMG device assessment as a reference. Using only self reported measures for the assessment of SB may not have a high validity, which should be taken into consideration in the clinical evaluation of patients.