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Ultrasonic Sensors Supervision of Petrochemical and Nuclear Plant
Get PDFVimal Upadhyay; Krishna Kant Agrawal; Mukesh Chand; Devesh Mishra, Ultrasonic Sensors Supervision of Petrochemical and Nuclear Plant, HCTL Open International Journal of Technology Innovations and Research, Volume 1, January 2013, Pages 41-49, ISSN: 2321-1814, ISBN: 978-1-62776-012-6.Vimal Upadhyay; Krishna Kant Agrawal; Mukesh Chand; Devesh Mishra, Ultrasonic Sensors Supervision of Petrochemical and Nuclear Plant, HCTL Open International Journal of Technology Innovations and Research, Volume 1, January 2013, Pages 41-49, ISSN: 2321-1814, ISBN: 978-1-62776-012-6
The benefits of growth for Indonesian Workers
Get PDFIndonesia's adopted development model has proved to be the most successful in alleviating poverty and benefiting workers in developing countries. The government's development efforts focused on agriculture, education, and transport infrastructure. It emphasized providing productive employment opportunities and gradually improving the labor quality through education and training. The wage, employment, and income growth rates were left to market forces. Although the rapid growth of labor-intensive manufacturing has led to more jobs and higher wages benefiting workers, workers employed in these industries have expressed growing dissatisfaction. They complain about problems of child labor, the denial of centrally mandated wages and benefits to workers, poor working conditions, and the abuse of young female workers. The government has tried to improve worker's wages and working conditions by centrally mandating higher labor standards, relying principally on minimum wages. Enforcement has improved and, despite low compliance, minimum wages are beginning to bite. Indonesians are debating whether they need labor intensive industries and whether it is a mistake to base Indonesia's growth on cheap labor. They argue that if labor is more expensive, manufacturers must substitute some capital for labor. However, if labor-intensive industries are rejected, the capacity of the economy to absorb plentiful workers will be reduced. The main alternatives are to push up wages now, or to let wages be determined by market forces and strengthen institutions that could improve working conditions, such as labor unions. The author recommends maintaining flexible labor markets and allowing market forces to set the pace of change, while strengthening labor unions.Environmental Economics&Policies,Public Health Promotion,Labor Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Work&Working Conditions,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Banks&Banking Reform,Work&Working Conditions,Municipal Financial Management
TTL-Chord: A Chord-based Approach for Semantic Web Services Discovery
Get PDFRecently, P2P-based discovery methods for semantic Web services
require special attention from collaboration and interoperability in distributed computing environment. In this paper, we present an approach for semantic Web services discovery through a structured P2P network based on Chord. This protocol is chosen because it is scalable and still achieves very good resilience and proximity performance. However, because the discovery of Web services is made semantically, the search time will be significant. For this reason, we integrate a proposed algorithm into original implementation of Chord, where we mark the sent requests by a TTL (Time To Live). After this proposition, we present some experimental results wherever we analyze and discuss the influence of the TTL on the discovery operation and on the network stability
Inter State Disparities under Economic Reform Period - Comparative Study of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh
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Efficient inference of convolutional neural networks on general purpose hardware using weight repetition
Get PDFDeep Neural Networks (DNNs) have begun to permeate all corners of electronic society due to their high accuracy and machine efficiency per operation. Recent work has shown how weights within and across DNN filters have large degrees of repetition due to the pigeonhole principle and modern weight quantization schemes, and that this weight repetition can be harnessed improve DNN inference efficiency in an accelerator/ASIC context. This thesis develops new techniques so that weight repetition leads to an efficiency gain on general-purpose and programmable SIMD-based architectures such as CPUs equipped with vector extensions. We show how to write high-performance software that does not require hardware modifications and can cope with the irregularity introduced by weight repetition schemes. Overall, our highly parallel software kernel achieves up to 1:51 speedup in runtime of inference over state-of-the-art baseline.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-05-01The student, Rohit Agrawal, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-23 at 21:40.The student, Rohit Agrawal, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-04-23 at 21:43.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-04-24 at 15:53.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13851 on 2019-08-22 at 16:23:40Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:48:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Algorithm Selection as Superset Learning: Constructing Algorithm Selectors from Imprecise Performance Data
Get PDFRole of Risk Stratification and Genetics in Sudden Cardiac Death
Get PDFSudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major public health issue due to its increasing incidence in the general population and the difficulty in identifying high-risk individuals. Nearly 300,000-350,000 patients in the United States and 4- to 5 million patients in the world die from SCD. Coronary artery disease and advanced heart failure are the main etiology for SCD. Ischemia of any cause precipitates lethal arrhythmias, and ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation are the most common lethal arrhythmias precipitating SCD. Pulse-less electrical activity, brady-arrhythmia and electromechanical dissociation also result in SCD. Most sudden cardiac deaths occur out-of-the-hospital setting, so it is difficult to estimate the public burden, which results in overestimating the incidence of SCD. The insufficiency and limited predictive value of various indicators and criteria for SCD result in the increasing incidences. As a result, there is a need to develop better risk stratification criteria and find modifiable variables to decrease the incidence. Primary and secondary prevention and treatment of SCD need further research. This critical review is focused on the etiology, risk factors, prognostic factors and importance of risk stratification of SCD.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Water Birds: Compositional collaboration with clarinets, wireless sensors, and RTcmix
No full text"Water Birds" is an interactive composition for Bb and bass clarinet, computer music and wireless sensor system by Mara Helmuth and Rebecca Danard. A wireless sensor network with infra-red sensors responds to the clarinetist’s movements, and sends data into MaxMSP for signal processing control. The wireless sensor configuration was developed by Jung Hyun Jun, Talmai Oliveira, Amitabh Mishra, Ahmad Mostafa and Dharma Agrawal, and extended for this project in collaboration with Helmuth. MaxMSP Mxj Java objects were created to receive data from the programmed tmote sensors. Helmuth’s score consists of four sound-generating ideas. Her Max patch and RTcmix scripts process the clarinet sound with spectral delays through the rtcmix~ plugin for Max5. Danard created a working score solidifying her decisions about materials played and order of events. Helmuth and Danard’s interactive compositional process allowed to piece to evolve organically into a work commenting on the interaction of people, nature and technology.Conference PaperPre-prin
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