360 research outputs found
A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability
No full textThis book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of mother earth. This everyday mysticism of the world as spirited and sacred serves to re-enchant a world disillusioned by the unsustainability of destructive economic systems that have spawned the current ecological crises.
Author Jojo Fung offers insight from his lived-experience and this book represents his effort to correlate the indigenous spirit world with Catholic Pneumatology and articulate the activity of God’s Spirit as the Spirit of Sacred Sustainability
Sex-specific associations between alcohol consumption, cardiac morphology, and function as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging: insights form the UK Biobank Population Study
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging following peer review. The version of record: Judit Simon, Kenneth Fung, Márton Kolossváry, Mihir M Sanghvi, Nay Aung, Jose Miguel Paiva, Elena Lukaschuk, Valentina Carapella, Béla Merkely, Marcio S Bittencourt, Júlia Karády, Aaron M Lee, Stefan K Piechnik, Stefan Neubauer, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, Steffen E Petersen, Sex-specific associations between alcohol consumption, cardiac morphology, and function as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging: insights form the UK Biobank Population Study, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, jeaa242, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa242
is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa24
Distributions of fluorescence decay times for parinaric acids in phospholipid membranes
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Minimally Supervised Techniques for Bilingual Lexicon Extraction
No full textNormally, word translations are extracted from non-parallel, bilingual corpora, and initial bilingual lexicon, i.e., a list of known translations, is typically used to aid the learning process. This thesis highlights the study of a series of novel techniques that utilized
scarce resources. To make the study even more challenging,
only minimal use of resources was allowed and important major linguistic tools were not employed. Thus, this study introduces some novel techniques for learning a translation lexicon based on a minimally-supervised, context-based approach. The performance of each technique was measured by comparing the extracted lexicon to a reference lexicon based on the F1 score, which is a weighted average of the precision and the recall. The scores may range from 0 (worst) to 100% (best). Analysis performed on the proposed
techniques showed that these techniques had recorded promising F1 scores, ranging from 57.1% to 80.9%, which indicate moderate and best performances. Overall, the �findings of this study further reinforce the use of techniques in exploiting words from small corpora, suggesting that words that are contextually-relevant and
occurring in a similar domain are potentially useful. This thesis also presents a technique to deploy extra (i.e., additional) data, which are harvested from the web, and a novel method for measuring similarity of features between two words of different languages without involving the use of initial bilingual lexicon
Data on the histological and immune cell response in the popliteal lymph node in mice following exposure to metal particles and ions
No full textAbstractHip implants containing cobalt–chromium (CoCr) have been used for over 80 years. In patients with metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants, it has been suggested that wear debris particles may contribute to metal sensitization in some individuals, leading to adverse reactions. This article presents data from a study in which the popliteal lymph node assay (PLNA) was used to assess immune responses in mice treated with chromium-oxide (Cr2O3) particles, metal salts (CoCl2, CrCl3, and NiCl2) or Cr2O3 particles with metal salts (“A preliminary evaluation of immune stimulation following exposure to metal particles and ions using the mouse popliteal lymph node assay” (B.E. Tvermoes, K.M. Unice, B. Winans, M. Kovochich, E.S. Fung, W.V. Christian, E. Donovan, B.L. Finley, B.L. Kimber, I. Kimber, D.J. Paustenbach, 2016) [1]). Data are presented on (1) the chemical characterization of TiO2 particles (used as a particle control), (2) clinical observations in mice treated with Cr2O3 particles, metal salts or Cr2O3 particles with metal salts, (3) PLN weight and weight index (WI) in mice treated with Cr2O3 particles, metal salts or Cr2O3 particles with metal salts, (4) histological changes in PLNs of mice treated with Cr2O3 particles, metal salts or Cr2O3 particles with metal salts, (5) percentages of immune cells in the PLNs of mice treated with Cr2O3 particles, metal salts or Cr2O3 particles with metal salts, and (6) percentages of proliferating cells in the PLNs of mice treated with Cr2O3 particles, metal salts or Cr2O3 particles with metal salts
Green Roofs for a Growing World
No full textAn analysis of rooftop greenery as applied to an on-campus animal shelter at Rutgers UniversityFall 201
Robust Line Detection and Association in Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
No full textPiping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) are graphical representations utilized in chemical engineering plants. Due to confidentiality reasons and legacy drawings, these diagrams are sent in PDF format. Piping engineers need to make a material take-off (MTO), a document containing all the components of a P&ID from these drawings. Today, this is done manually, which proves to be time-consuming and laborious. A piping engineer spends approximately 36 hours per 10 P&IDs, with an average of 500-1000 P&IDs per project. Given the expertise and value of process engineers, this manual counting process incurs substantial costs and a repetitive workload. Consequently, there is a growing motivation to automate this process.In response, this thesis introduces an innovative deep learning model, PandID-Net, designed specifically for P&IDs. PandID-Net uniquely integrates symbol detection, line detection, and text recognition into a single model, diverging from previous methods that relied on separate models and rule-based techniques. It is the first method that uses deep learning for the line detection task in P&IDs. This all in one approach not only simplifies the processing pipeline but also enhances computational efficiency in detecting and pinpointing symbols, lines, and text, as well as their interrelationships.The optimal configuration of PandID-Net is found by an ablation study where the performance of individual components is tested in isolation. This optimized configuration is then evaluated and benchmarked against a prior study by Paliwal et al. on the same dataset. PandID-Net achieves a performance in F1 scores of 92.89 and 94.48 for line detection and keypoint detection respectivelyMechanical Engineering | Vehicle Engineering | Cognitive Robotic
ON THE GLOBAL STABILITY OF CHOLERA MODEL WITH PREVENTION AND CONTROL
No full textIn this study, a system of first order ordinary differential equations is used to analyse the dynamics of cholera disease via a mathematical model extended from Fung (2014) cholera model. The global stability analysis is conducted for the extended model by suitable Lyapunov function and LaSalle’s invariance principle. It is shown that the disease free equilibrium (DFE) for the extended model is globally asymptotically stable if Rq0 1 for the extended model or R0 > 1 for the original model and the disease persists at a positive level though with mild waves (i.e few cases of cholera) in the case of Rq0 > 1. Numerical simulations for strong, weak, and no prevention and control measures are carried out to verify the analytical results and Maple 18 is used to carry out the computations
Erratum:Micro-RNA Clusters Integrate Evolutionary Constraints on Expression and Target Affinities: The miR-6/5/4/286/3/309 Cluster in Drosophila (Molecular Biology and Evolution (2020) 37:10 (2955–2965) DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa146)
No full textThis is a correction to: Qu Zhe, Wing Chung Yiu, Ho Yin Yip, Wenyan Nong, Clare W C Yu, Ivy H T Lee, Annette Y P Wong, Nicola W Y Wong, Fiona K M Cheung, Ting Fung Chan, Kwok Fai Lau, Silin Zhong, Ka Hou Chu, Stephen S Tobe, David E K Ferrier, William G Bendena, Jerome H L Hui, Micro-RNA Clusters Integrate Evolutionary Constraints on Expression and Target Affinities: The miR-6/5/4/286/3/309 Cluster in Drosophila, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 37, Issue 10, October 2020, Pages 2955–2965, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa146 Upon original publication, the term ‘microRNA’ was incorrectly given as ‘micro-RNA’ in the title, Key words and throughout the main body of the paper. In addition, the name and surname of author Zhe Qu were inadvertently transposed. These details have been corrected only in this correction notice to preserve the published version of record.</p
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