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SlamCraft: Dense Planar RGB Monocular SLAM
Venue: 2019 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA)
Year: 2019

Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approaches have progressed significantly over the last two decades. However, keypoint based approaches only provide limited structural information in a 3D point cloud which does not fulfil the requirements of applications such as Augmented Reality (AR) SLAM systems that provide dense environment maps are either computationally intensive or require depth information from additional sensors. In this paper, we use a deep neural network that estimates planar regions from RGB input images and fuses its output iteratively with the point cloud map of a SLAM system to create an efficient monocular planar SLAM system. We present qualitative results of the created maps, as well as an evaluation of the tracking accuracy and runtime of our approach.
Secure Search on the Cloud via Coresets and Sketches
Venue: ArXiv
Year: 2017

\emph{Secure Search} is the problem of retrieving from a database table (or any unsorted array) the records matching specified attributes, as in SQL SELECT queries, but where the database and the query are encrypted. Secure search has been the leading example for practical applications of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) starting in Gentry's seminal work; however, to the best of our knowledge all state of the art secure search algorithms to date are realized by a polynomial of degree \Omega(m) for $m$ the number of records, which is typically too slow in practice even for moderate size $m$ In this work we present the first algorithm for secure search that is realized by a polynomial of degree polynomial in \log m$ We implemented our algorithm in an open source library based on HELib implementation for the Brakerski Gentry Vaikuntanthan's FHE scheme, and ran experiments on Amazon's EC2 cloud. Our experiments show that we can retrieve the first match in a database of millions of entries in less than an hour using a single machine; the time reduced almost linearly with the number of machines. Our result utilizes a new paradigm of employing coresets and sketches, which are modern data summarization techniques common in computational geometry and machine learning, for efficiency enhancement for homomorphic encryption. As a central tool we design a novel sketch that returns the first positive entry in a (not necessarily sparse) array; this sketch may be of independent interest.
Domestic and public violence in Chrysostom s community
Year: 2017

Having both grown up in the Eastern Cape province, Jan van der Watt and I have known each other since our school days. Jan became an accomplished scholar of the New Testament, and I would like to honour him for his friendship, collegiality and scholarship with this article. Drawing on information from my field of specialisation, I might shed more light on the world in which the New Testament was embedded. It is commonly accepted that the world of the New Testament was characterised by relative peace and prosperity (Furnish 1984:365) and yet the New Testament contains several references to violence. Jesus told his disciples that should anyone slap them on the right cheek, they should let the person slap their left cheek too (Mt 5:39) Selvidge (1984:214) points out that 'there are many statements in Matthew that contain violent implications, both physical and verbal' adding that 'readers of the gospel are not normally aware of (much less outraged by) the violent traditions preserved in Matthew' In a parable Jesus refers to disobedient servants being beaten with many blows (see Lk 12:35 48) Paul describes how false teachers slap the Corinthians in the face (2 Cor 11:20) We also read in Acts 23:1 that the High Priest (of all people) ordered those who were standing close to Paul to strike him on the mouth. We can interpret some of these instances metaphorically, but the reality is that violence was quite common in the ancient world. Peter Brown (1992:50) describes late antiquity as 'a world characterized by a chilling absence of legal restraints on violence in the exercise of power' Pinker (2011:xxi) even argues that 'today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence'
Towards Interpretable Deep Neural Networks: An Exact Transformation to Multi Class Multivariate Decision Trees
Venue: ArXiv
Year: 2020

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly labelled as black boxes lacking interpretability; thus, hindering human's understanding of DNNs' behaviors. A need exists to generate a meaningful sequential logic for the production of a specific output. Decision trees exhibit better interpretability and expressive power due to their representation language and the existence of efficient algorithms to generate rules. Growing a decision tree based on the available data could produce larger than necessary trees or trees that do not generalise well. In this paper, we introduce two novel multivariate decision tree (MDT) algorithms for rule extraction from a DNN: an Exact Convertible Decision Tree (EC DT) and a Deep C Net algorithm to transform a neural network with Rectified Linear Unit activation functions into a representative tree which can be used to extract multivariate rules for reasoning. While the EC DT translates the DNN in a layer wise manner to represent exactly the decision boundaries implicitly learned by the hidden layers of the network, the Deep C Net inherits the decompositional approach from EC DT and combines with a C5 tree learning algorithm to construct the decision rules. The results suggest that while EC DT is superior in preserving the structure and the accuracy of DNN, C Net generates the most compact and highly effective trees from DNN. Both proposed MDT algorithms generate rules including combinations of multiple attributes for precise interpretation of decision making processes.
Patent term restoration for top selling drugs in the United States.
Venue: Drug discovery today
Year: 2019

Patents temporarily protect brand name drugs from generic competition, but some of the 20 year patent term is used up before marketing approval. To compensate for patent life lost to clinical testing and regulatory review, current law provides patent term restoration (PTR) of up to 5 years. Examining 170 top selling drugs with a first generic equivalent approved between 2000 and 2012, we found that 49% (83 drugs) received a PTR extension (median extension: 2.75 years) yielding a median total exclusivity period of 13.75 years, compared with 10.0 years for the 87 nonextended drugs. Because PTR substantially prolongs market exclusivity periods, policies that extend non patent exclusivity periods (which generally run concurrently with patent exclusivity) for less than the extended patent terms of drugs will have little practical impact.
Quadruply Stochastic Gradient Method for Large Scale Nonlinear Semi Supervised Ordinal Regression AUC Optimization
Venue: AAAI
Year: 2020

Semi supervised ordinal regression (S$^2$OR) problems are ubiquitous in real world applications, where only a few ordered instances are labeled and massive instances remain unlabeled. Recent researches have shown that directly optimizing concordance index or AUC can impose a better ranking on the data than optimizing the traditional error rate in ordinal regression (OR) problems. In this paper, we propose an unbiased objective function for S$^2$OR AUC optimization based on ordinal binary decomposition approach. Besides, to handle the large scale kernelized learning problems, we propose a scalable algorithm called QS$^3$ORAO using the doubly stochastic gradients (DSG) framework for functional optimization. Theoretically, we prove that our method can converge to the optimal solution at the rate of $O(1/t) where $t$ is the number of iterations for stochastic data sampling. Extensive experimental results on various benchmark and real world datasets also demonstrate that our method is efficient and effective while retaining similar generalization performance.
KonTra at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Predicting Eye Movements by Combining BERT with Surface, Linguistic and Behavioral Information
Venue: CMCL
Year: 2021

This paper describes the submission of the team KonTra to the CMCL 2021 Shared Task on eye tracking prediction. Our system combines the embeddings extracted from a fine tuned BERT model with surface, linguistic and behavioral features, resulting in an average mean absolute error of 4.22 across all 5 eye tracking measures. We show that word length and features representing the expectedness of a word are consistently the strongest predictors across all 5 eye tracking measures.
Entre logique de production et de preservation l'evolution de l'information environnementale dans les domaines de l'eau et de la foret
Year: 2016

La gouvernance de l'environnement depend de la maniere dont les acteurs se representent l'evolution des milieux et des ressources naturelles. Dans ce contexte, l'information environnementale peut constituer un appui pour justifier ou remettre en cause des modes de gestion. Quand elle est produite dans ce but, l'information est un instrument d'action publique qui vehicule elle meme certains cadrages, plus ou moins favorables a des logiques de production ou de preservation. Cet article s'interroge sur le lien entre l'usage de certains indicateurs pour l'action publique et la logique de production ou de preservation qui motive cette action. En retracant l'histoire de la regulation dans les secteurs hydrauliques et forestiers en France, nous montrons qu'il n'y a pas d'equivalence entre l'usage d'indicateurs ecologiques et la logique de preservation. Dans le domaine forestier, l'information sur les milieux a plutot servi les logiques sylvicoles et elle est principalement produite par les acteurs du secteur qui cherchent a mieux valoriser le bois. Dans le domaine de l'eau, l'information ecologique a ete un appui pour des acteurs qui denoncaient les exces d'une logique productive centree uniquement sur la ressource.
Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Differences Between Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Venue: Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Year: 2017

AbstractBackground NLRP3 inflammasome is a multimolecular cytosol complex that, when activated, contributes to the cleavage of pro interleukin (IL) 1b to IL 1b.AimsTo investigate NLRP3 inflammasome activation in inflammatory bowel disease.MethodsPeripheral blood mononuclear cells from Crohn's disease (CD) ulcerative colitis (UC) patients and controls were stimulated with LPS in the absence or presence of MSU. After incubation, concentrations of IL 1b, IL 6, and TNFa were measured in cell supernatants and concentration of pro IL 1b was measured in cell lysates. NLRP3 activation was defined as more than 30% increase in IL 1b production after MSU addition. In separate experiments, PBMCs were lysed for RNA isolation transcripts of IL 1b, TNFa, NLRP3, and CASP1 were measured by RT PCR. DNA was isolated from CD patients for ATG16L1 gene genotyping. ResultsNLRP3 inflammasome was activated in 60% of CD patients compared to 28.6% of controls (p 0.042) no significant difference was detected between UC and controls. Among UC patients, NLRP3 activation was associated (p 0.008) with long standing disease >1.5 years) IL 1b levels were significantly higher in CD patents in comparison with controls (p 0.032) No difference was detected in the levels of IL 6, TNFa, pro IL 1b and in the numbers IL 1b, TNFa, NLRP3, and CASP1 transcripts among groups. IL 1b production was similar between carriers of wild type and of SNP alleles of the rs2241880. ConclusionsNLRP3 inflammasome is activated in CD patients and in UC patients with long standing disease.
Are Personality Types Related to Cyberbullying Behavior Trends in Adolescents?
Year: 2020

Adolescent growth and development is influenced by 2 factors, namely internal and external factors. Internal factors are factors that influence the fulfillment of developmental tasks originating from within the individual, both physical and psychological, while external factors are factors that influence the fulfillment of developmental tasks originating from outside the individual self. There are several examples of external factors, namely biological and physical environment, psychosocial and depression, family and cultural factors, and economic factors. Psychosocial factors involve psychological and social aspects. The social aspect can be done without having to face to face directly or can be done online using social media. the freedom of a person to use social media causes various abuses of social media, for example cyberbullying. Cyberbullying in adolescents is influenced by several factors, namely personality type, perception of the victim, the role of parent and child interaction. The research aims to determine the relationship of personality types with the tendency of cyberbullying behavior in adolescents. The study was conducted on 10th grade high school teenagers in Malang. The sample was 126 students with a purposive sampling technique. Data was collected using Eysenck Personality Questionare and cyberbullying instruments. Data were analyzed using Chi Square test. There is no significant relationship between personality types and the tendency of cyberbullying behavior in 10th grade teenagers in Malang with Asymp. Sig 0.128 or p value> (0.05)
Indonesian humorous status in social media: An application of script based semantic theory of humour
Year: 2020

This paper aims to analyse Indonesian humorous status in social media by applying the Script Semantic Theory of Humour (SSTH) and the parameters called Knowledge Resources (KRs) of the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) It is conducted by applying a qualitative method since the purpose of this study is primarily to describe and to establish the variation in a situation, phenomenon, problem, or event without quantifying them. The data is taken from Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp account followed by the first writer of this study for eight months. There are 17 statuses to be analysed, in which, seven statuses consist of 21 phrases analysed by applying SSTH theory, while the other 10 statuses consist of 14 phrases as set up stages, 18 phrases, and three pictures as punchline stages analysed by applying GTVH theory. From the data being displayed, regarding the Superiority theory, it is found that people generally laugh because of other people's misfortunes, and it emphasizes one's superiority to the shortcomings of others. The people will laugh at individuals who are inferior or ugly, because they feel happy, and feel superior to them. Based on Release/Relief theory, humorous status also stems from regenerating something painful into something light hearted. It is an indication of the misfortunate aspects of life. From the Incongruity theory, it is found that humour appears when there is an oddity between the concepts prepared in certain situations and the real events that are thought to be related to the concept. The paper further elaborates the findings and discuss them in detail.
Tribological Behaviour of Aluminium/Alumina/Graphite Hybrid Metal Matrix Composite Using Taguchi's Techniques
Year: 2011

Tribological behaviour of aluminium alloy (Al Si10Mg) reinforced with alumina (9% and graphite (3% fabricated by stir casting process was investigated. The wear and frictional properties of the hybrid metal matrix composites was studied by performing dry sliding wear test using a pin on disc wear tester. Experiments were conducted based on the plan of experiments generated through Taguchi's technique. A L27 Orthogonal array was selected for analysis of the data. Investigation to find the influence of applied load, sliding speed and sliding distance on wear rate, as well as the coefficient of friction during wearing process was carried out using ANOVA and regression equations for each response were developed. Objective of the model was chosen as 'smaller the better' characteristics to analyse the dry sliding wear resistance. Results show that sliding distance has the highest influence followed by load and sliding speed. Finally, confirmation tests were carried out to verify the experimental results and Scanning Electron Microscopic studies were done on the wear surfaces.
Abstract A075: Preclinical analysis of combinatorial glioblastoma therapy with the prodrug mediated gene therapy vector AdV TK and immune checkpoint inhibition in GBM therapy
Year: 2016

While the brain has traditionally been considered to be an immune privileged site, evidence supporting the use of immunotherapeutics has been rapidly accumulating. Given that virus based cancer therapies can be immunostimulatory and immune checkpoint inhibitors block tumor induced T cell exhaustion, the combination of these two approaches offers a potentially synergistic interaction. One of the molecular underpinnings of T cell exhaustion is the expression of Programmed Death 1 (PD1) on T cells that recognizes its ligand PD L1. AdV tk is an immunostimulatory virus based approach, known as Gene Mediated Cytotoxic Immunotherapy (GMCI) that involves the intra tumoral delivery of a non replicating adenoviral vector carrying the Herpes virus thymidine kinase gene(TK) followed by administration of an anti herpetic prodrug(ganciclovir GCV) and recently showed encouraging results in a Phase II trial in glioblastoma(Wheeler et al.,2016) To provide a rationale for this therapeutic combination we investigated PD L1 expression during GMCI therapy in human and mouse glioma cells in vitro and found that there was a consistent increase in cell surface PD L1 levels. Interestingly, this was not associated with an increase of mRNA or protein. We also show that GMCI induces a type I interferon response, and that the release of IFNb is at least partially responsible for autocrine/paracrine PD L1 up regulation. In vivo studies using an intracranial GL261 model showed high levels of long term survivors in the GMCI/PD1 combination (11/14) compared with GMCI (6/16) anti PD1 (5/12) and controls (0/11) In addition, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes after GMCI showed an increase in CD8+ CD8+/GranzymeB+ and CD8+/IFNg+/TNFa+cells suggestive of cytotoxic T cell activation. However, there was also a significant increase in CD4+ CD4+/FoxP3+ and IL 10 indicating a significant infiltration by Tregs, releasing immunosuppressive cytokines. Additionally, there was a significant increase in PD1+/TIM3+ T cells, indicative of an immunosuppressive microenvironment. Overall, our data show that GMCI/anti PD1 combinatorial therapy is effective in a syngeneic tumor model, and strongly support clinical trials of GMCI/checkpoint inhibitor combinations in glioblastoma patients.  Maria Carmela Speranza, Kazue Kasai, Franz Ricklefs, Sarah R. Klein, Carmela Passaro, Hiroshi Nakashima, Johanna Kaufmann, Agnieszka Bronisz, Estuardo Aguilar Cordova, Brian W. Guzik, Gordon J. Freeman, David A. Reardon, Patrick Wen, E. Antonio Chiocca, Sean E. Lawler. Preclinical analysis of combinatorial glioblastoma therapy with the prodrug mediated gene therapy vector AdV TK and immune checkpoint inhibition in GBM therapy [abstract]  Translating Science into Survival; 2016 Sept 25 28; New York, NY. Philadelphia (PA) AACR;
Person centered encounter and its facilitation in terms of fundamental theory
Venue: Person Centered Experiential Psychotherapies
Year: 2019

Drawing from Carl Rogers' theory of interpersonal relationship, a definition of person centered encounter is offered in terms of attempting what he termed 'improving relationship' Within this, facilitation is seen as necessarily integral to encounter, based on his consideration of the facilitation of group tension and conflict. The concept of congruence is examined in the context of encounter rather than therapy. At the same time, the overlap with therapy and the potential for activation of processes involved in personality change are considered. This underpins the integral nature and need for facilitation. Congruence is also considered in terms of a theory of learning which sees a more spontaneous 'being' tempered and strengthened by a more consciously considered 'doing' A generalized example of group dynamics based on personal experience is given to link theory to practice.
Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century
Year: 2011

Citation Symonds, William C. Robert Schwartz, and Ronald F. Ferguson. 2011.  Meeting the challenge of preparing young Americans for the 21st century. Cambridge, MA: Pathways to Prosperity Project, Harvard University Graduate School of Education.  Accessed February 25, 2016 11:38:10 PM EST
Political Correctness: the Twofold Protection of Liberalism
Venue: Philosophia
Year: 2019

As understood today, political correctness aims at preventing social discrimination by curtailing offensive speech and behaviour towards underprivileged groups of individuals. The core proponents of political correctness often draw on post modernism and critical theory and are notorious for their scepticism about objective truth and scientific rationality. Conversely, the critics of post modern political correctness uphold Enlightenment liberal principles of scientific reasoning, rational truth seeking and open discourse against claims of relativism and oppression. Yet, both the post modern proponents and their Enlightenment liberal critics make up two sides of the same phenomenon of political correctness. Both sides intend to protect a liberal value system from illiberal truth claims, which is the function of politically correct regulation. While post modern advocates attempt to promote liberating tolerance, Enlightenment liberals place liberal values above the open ended search for truth. Despite appearances to the contrary, this socio academic debate is not about two sides favouring and opposing political correctness. In fact, it is a debate about the type of politically correct regulation that can better guard liberal values.
Effect of imidacloprid 17.8 SL against whiteflies and thrips in cotton
Year: 2019

Two field experiments were conducted to assess the effect of imidacloprid 17.8 SL against whiteflies and thrips in cotton. The treatment schedule included three different doses of imidacloprid 17.8 SL at 15, 25 and 50 g a.i. ha along with standard checks viz. imidacloprid (Tatamida) at 25 g a.i. ha and methyl demeton at 125 g a.i. ha and their efficacy was compared with untreated check. The preand post treatment counts were recorded on 1, 3, 7, 10 and 14 days on the incidence of whiteflies and thrips. The results revealed that the order of efficacy of different insecticides against whiteflies and thrips were as follows: imidacloprid 17.8 SL 50 g a.i. ha imidacloprid (Tatamida) 25 g a.i. ha imidacloprid 17.8 SL 25 g a.i. ha thiamethoxam 25 g a.i. ha imidacloprid 17.8 SL 15 g a.i. ha methyl demeton at 125 g a.i. ha (whiteflies) and imidacloprid 17.8 SL 50 g a.i. ha imidacloprid 17.8 SL 25 g a.i. ha imidacloprid (Tatamida) 25 g a.i. ha thiamethoxam 25 g a.i. ha imidacloprid 17.8 SL 15 g a.i. ha methyl demeton at 125 g a.i. ha (thrips) Though the double dose of imidacloprid 17.8 SL 50 g a.i. ha showed higher efficacy against whiteflies and thrips, the recommended dose of imidacloprid 17.8 SL 25 g a.i. ha was found to be effective in controlling whiteflies and thrips in cotton followed by thiamethoxam 25 g a.i. ha.