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Learning To Learn Variational Semantic Memory, Xiantong Zhen, Yingjun Du, Huan Xiong, Cees G.M. Snoek, Ling Shao

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

In this paper, we introduce variational semantic memory into meta-learning to acquire long-term knowledge for few-shot learning. The variational semantic memory accrues and stores semantic information for the probabilistic inference of class prototypes in a hierarchical Bayesian framework. The semantic memory is grown from scratch and gradually consolidated by absorbing information from tasks it experiences. By doing so, it is able to accumulate long-term, general knowledge that enables it to learn new concepts of objects. We formulate memory recall as the variational inference of a latent memory variable from addressed contents, which offers a principled way to adapt the knowledge …

Resource-Saving Technology For Reducing Silk Thread Winding Defectiveness On Twisting Machines, Jasurbek Oripov, G N. Valiev, N G. Valiev, M Turdiyev, V O. Khomidov, P Yuldashev

Scientific-technical journal

The analysis of the quality of winding on twisting machines has been carried out, the reasons for the formation and ways of eliminating winding defects and reducing the waste of raw materials during the processing of crepe yarns of natural silk have been established. Developed resource-saving technology for reducing silk thread winding defectiveness on twisting machines.

Degree Outcomes By Program 2020-21, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Student Outcomes

This is a Student Outcome and Retention Report produced by the SWOSU Office of Institutional Research.

Chronology Of The History Of Eastern Washington University, Charles V. Mutschler, Jay W. Rea, Steven Bingo

University History Resources

This chronology of the history of Eastern Washington University has been compiled by many persons, under the direction of the University Archivist. Intended for use by persons at the university, the chronology was originally created for use by the EWU Centennial Committee in 1981. The university was then planning activities to commemorate the centennial of the opening of the institutions’ predecessor, the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy.--from the Foreword.

Retention By Program Fall 2021, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Student Outcomes

This is a Student Outcome and Retention Report produced by the SWOSU Office of Institutional Research.

Net Geochemical Release Of Base Cations From 25 Forested Watersheds In The Catskill Region Of New York, Sara C. Nieman, Chris E. Johnson

Civil and Environmental Engineering - All Scholarship

Chemical weathering of minerals is the principal mechanism by which base cations (Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, K⁺, and Na⁺) are released and acidity is neutralized in soils, bedrock and drainage waters. Quantifying the release of base cations from watershed soils is therefore crucial for the calculation of “critical loads” of atmospheric acidity to forest ecosystems. We used a mass-balance approach to estimate the rate of release of base cations in 25 headwater catchments in the Catskill region of New York, an area historically subject to high inputs of acid deposition. In 2010-2013, total net …

Jason Fetter V. Maersk Line Ltd

2021 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Notch Signaling Represses Cone Photoreceptor Formation Through The Regulation Of Retinal Progenitor Cell States, Xueqing Chen, Mark M. Emerson

Publications and Research

Notch signaling is required to repress the formation of vertebrate cone photoreceptors and to maintain the proliferative potential of multipotent retinal progenitor cells. However, the mechanism by which Notch signaling controls these processes is unknown. Recently, restricted retinal progenitor cells with limited proliferation capacity and that preferentially generate cone photoreceptors have been identified. Thus, there are several potential steps during cone genesis that Notch signaling could act. Here we use cell type specific cis-regulatory elements to localize the primary role of Notch signaling in cone genesis to the formation of restricted retinal progenitor cells from multipotent retinal progenitor cells. Localized …

A Systematic Study Of Photoionized Emission And Warm Absorption Signatures Of The Nls1 Mrk 335, Dirk Grupe

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

We present an analysis of all the archival high resolution spectra of the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 335 obtained with Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) on board XMM-Newton. The spectra show rich emission and absorption features in low and intermediate flux intervals. We model the emission lines with the pion_xs grid and try to find any possible correlation between the properties of the emitting gas and the source flux. Current data does not allow detailed trace of the response of the line emitting gas to the X-ray flux of Mrk 335, but the flux of the X-ray lines is significantly …

High-Throughput Design Of High-Performance Lightweight High-Entropy Alloys, Rui Feng, Chuan Zhang, Michael C. Gao, Zongrui Pei, Fan Zhang, Yan Chen, Dong Ma, Ke An, Jonathan D. Poplawsky, Lizhi Ouyang, Yang Ren, Jeffrey A. Hawk, Michael Widom, Peter K. Liaw

Mathematical Sciences Faculty Research

Developing affordable and light high-temperature materials alternative to Ni-base superalloys has significantly increased the efforts in designing advanced ferritic superalloys. However, currently developed ferritic superalloys still exhibit low high-temperature strengths, which limits their usage. Here we use a CALPHAD-based high-throughput computational method to design light, strong, and low-cost high-entropy alloys for elevated-temperature applications. Through the high-throughput screening, precipitation-strengthened lightweight high-entropy alloys are discovered from thousands of initial compositions, which exhibit enhanced strengths compared to other counterparts at room and elevated temperatures. The experimental and theoretical understanding of both successful and failed cases in their strengthening mechanisms and order-disorder transitions further …

2021-July-15-Ecu Supports Etsu's Roan Scholars Summer Experience Program, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

p xmlns:ouc="https://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables">(July 15, 2021) Eastman Credit Union (ECU) recently announced its support of $125,000 to sponsor East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Roan Scholars Summer Experience Program.

“The mission of the Roan Scholars program perfectly aligns with ECU’s desire to make our communities and region a better place to live, work, and raise families. These students are leaders with a passion to make a difference, and it’s a privilege for ECU to support the Summer Experience Program,” said Kelly Price, ECU’s President and CEO.

The Roan Scholars Leadership Program, which is funded primarily by private donations, empowers students to be …

The Human Right To Science And Disability, Anne M. Bryden Phd

Societies Without Borders

No abstract provided.

Beyond Degrees: Longer Term Outcomes Of The Kalamazoo Promise, Brad J. Hershbein, Isabel Mcmullen, Brian Pittelko, Bridget Timmeney

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

We estimate the effects on workforce and location outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous, place-based college scholarship. Drawing upon administrative unemployment insurance wage records merged with individual-level education data, we identify Promise effects by comparing eligible to ineligible graduates before and after the Promise’s initiation. We supplement this quantitative analysis with surveys and interviews. Despite earlier research showing that the Kalamazoo Promise substantially increased degree attainment, we find little evidence that the program affected average earnings within 10 years of high school graduation. However, the Kalamazoo Promise may have increased the likelihood of eligible graduates having earnings, within Michigan, …

Riverbed Dune Morphology Of The Lowermost Mississippi River – Implications Of Leeside Slope, Flow Resistance And Bedload Transport In A Large Alluvial River, Shuaihu Wu, Y. Jun Xu, Bo Wang, Heqin Cheng

Faculty Publications

Dunes are critical for understanding riverine sediment transport, deposition, flow resistance and channel flow processes. Although previous studies have examined the riverbed micromorphology of the Lower Mississippi River in the USA, our knowledge of detailed quantification of dune morphology in this and other large alluvial rivers is still limited. It is also not well understood how dunes in a straight channel reach and a meander bend differ in their characteristics, as well as how dune morphology may have been affected by human activities (i.e., river engineering). In this study, we utilized multi-beam bathymetric measurements over four 1.6–8.0 km long reaches …

Clemson Trustees Minutes, 2021 July 15, Clemson University Board Of Trustees

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Viability, Yield And Expansion Capability Of Feline Mscs Obtained From Subcutaneous And Reproductive Organ Adipose Depots, Amy Wysong, Priscilla Ortiz, Douglas Bittel, Lindsey Ott, Francis Karanu, Michael Filla, Lisa Stehno-Bittel

Faculty and Staff Publications

Background:

The source of multipotent stromal cells (MSC) can have a significant influence on the health and expansion capacity of the cells. As the applications for allogeneic MSCs in the treatment of feline diseases increase, the location of the initial donor tissue must be analyzed. To date, comparisons have only been made between feline MSCs collected from bone marrow or abdominal fat. This is the first report to compare cells obtained from different adipose depots in the cat with a focus on clinically relevant donor tissues. The tissue was collected from 34 healthy cats undergoing spaying (fat around the ovaries …

Adaptive Mobile Eeg Noise Cancellation Using 2d Convolutional Autoencoders For Bci Authentication, Tyree Lewis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals can be used for many purposes and has the potential to be adapted to various systems. When EEG is recorded from users, these studies are performed primarily in an indoor environment, while the user is stationary. This is due to the levels of noise that are experienced when recording EEG data, to minimize errors in the data. This thesis aims to adapt tasks that are performed indoors to an external environment by removing both noise and artefacts in EEG, using a 2D Convolutional Autoencoder (CAE). The data is recorded from subjects is passed into the 2D CAE …

Taylor V. Taylor Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 48380

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Taylor V. Taylor Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 48380

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Cultivating Knowledge, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Search For Anisotropic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds Using Data From Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo's First Three Observing Runs, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, A. Adams, C. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, D. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, T. Akutsu, Tiffany Z. Summerscales

Faculty Publications

We report results from searches for anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. For the first time, we include Virgo data in our analysis and run our search with a new efficient pipeline called pystoch on data folded over one sidereal day. We use gravitational-wave radiometry (broadband and narrow band) to produce sky maps of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and to search for gravitational waves from point sources. A spherical harmonic decomposition method is employed to look for gravitational-wave emission from spatially-extended sources. Neither technique found evidence of …

A Theory Of Vicarious Liability For Autonomous-Machine-Caused Harm, Pinchas Huberman

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The possibility of autonomous-machine-caused harm generates doctrinal and theoretical challenges for assigning tort liability. With emergent capabilities, autonomous machines disrupt the structure of interpersonal rights and duties in tort law, framed by conditions of foreseeability and proximate causation. Where algorithmic processes are unintelligible, self-modifying, and unpredictable, the concern goes, algorithmic harms will be untraceable to tortious human agency. As a result, their costs will simply lie where they fall—on faultless victims. This outcome would be unfair and objectionable: A failure of tort’s mechanisms of corrective justice means faultless victims would disproportionately bear the accident costs of autonomous machines. This article …

Accessibility Of Library Resources At Kiet Group Of Institutions, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India., Ravi Kumar .. Annabathuni Dr., Raja Suresh Kumar .. Pitla Dr., Doraswamy Naick .. B. R. Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper highlighted the availability and accessibility of library information resources and services, library user attitude, working hours of library, physical facilities of KIET(Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology) Group of Institutions libraries, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. The collection, library membership, students and faculty strength, opening and closing timings, library automation, sources and services offered, and accessibility of online resources are also examined. A well-structured questionnaire was circulated to Nine Hundred and seventy-seven Under Graduate and Post Graduate students to collect the primary data from respondents. Total number of Nine Hundred and Fifteen filled-in questionnaires were acknowledged, showing on the whole …

Collaborative Co-Design For Community Change, James Lipuma, Cristo Leon

STEM for Success Resources

This presentation will discuss several large-scale collaborative concepts like partnership alignment, collective impact, and collaborative infrastructure as they relate to collaborative change initiatives. These actions can be applied on a small scale at the individual level across an entire organization or at the system level involving multiple organizations.

Handy Magazine, Memphis, 1:2, 1977

Documents

Vol. 1, No. 2, of "Handy Magazine", Memphis, Tennessee, published by Pat Miller in September 1977. Includes articles on Jaguar, Junction, Elvis Presley, Target, Zorro, Radio Station WDIA, Eddie Floyd, Con-Funk-Shun, and Cottonmouth.

Students' Information Literacy Skills At The School Of Communication, Public Management And Tourism (Polytechnic Institute Of Bragança, Portugal): Evaluation And University Library Role, Marisa Borges, Liliana Esteves Gomes, Clarisse Do Céu Pais

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Having Information Literacy (IL) skills is essential for the student's academic, professional and personal development. According to the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area, abilities and skills related to research, evaluation, management, use and dissemination of information are required. This research aims to present the results of the study carried out at the School of Communication, Public Management and Tourism - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. The following data collection instruments were used: IL-HUMASS questionnaire and interviews. The questionnaire sample obtained represents 94.4% of the student’s population enrolled in the academic year 2018/2019. Results reveal that information research is ranked …

We Are Partners! - Connecting Through Collaboration And Engagement With Communities At Smu Libraries, Wei Xia

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Increasingly today, libraries are competing for attention in the digital world and need to demonstrate their value to their communities. Singapore Management University Libraries (SMU Libraries) proactively initiate, engage, and collaborate with its internal and external communities and expand easy access to relevant, responsive resources that furthers the needs of the SMU community. These initiatives are aligned with the university’s strategies of integration, industry, innovation, and internationalization. Research librarians at SMU Libraries too, are re-inventing themselves by working closely with their faculty, students, and the external community to make significant impact on the quality of research, teaching, and learning. They …

Investigation And Statistical Modeling Of The Mechanical Properties Of Additively Manufactured Lattices, Derek G. Spear, Anthony N. Palazotto

Faculty Publications

This paper describes the background, test methodology, and experimental results associated with the testing and analysis of quasi-static compression testing of additively manufactured open-cell lattice structures. The study aims to examine the effect of lattice topology, cell size, cell density, and surface thickness on the mechanical properties of lattice structures. Three lattice designs were chosen, the Diamond, I-WP, and Primitive Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMSs). Uniaxial compression tests were conducted for every combination of the three lattice designs, three cell sizes, three cell densities, and three surface thicknesses. In order to perform an efficient experiment and gain the most information …

Militarized Picnics: A Comparative Analysis Of Peace Parks At The U.S.-Mexico And U.S.-Canadian Borders, Barbara Zaragoza

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Division Of Household Labor And The Psychological Wellbeing Of Women In The Middle East And North America, Rawda Tomoum

Psychology and Counseling Theses

The purpose of this study was to compare the division of household labor (HL) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and North America. I also examined the impact of gendered division of HL on stress, depression, and anxiety levels. As predicted, division of HL was more gendered in the Middle East than in North America. Also, as predicted, gendered division of household labor was associated with higher levels of psychological distress among women. Looking across regions, there was a moderate association between HL and psychological distress among Middle Eastern women. HL and childcare combined were strongly associated …