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Texas Design Journal, Volume 1
No full textTable of Contents: ABOUT -- The Team / p. 01 -- Editors' Note / p. 03 -- IMMERSE -- Food Insecurity Among College Students / by Rohit Dinesh (p. 05) -- User Personas in Design Thinking / by Sean Feng (p. 08) -- Implication of NFTs on the Art Community / by Parth Ghawghawe (p. 11) -- Humanitarian AI and Vulnerable Populations / by Devina Parihar (p. 13) -- Making Sense of Chaos / by Eshna Parikh (p. 16) -- Student Experiences in Design / by Tanvi Shah (p. 20) -- Instructional Design / by Riya Solanki (p. 24) -- IDEATE -- Imagining the World of Engineering in Color / by Wis Escher (p. 28) -- Light the Way / by Ivy Lee (p. 30) -- Inclusive Multimodal Design / by Amy Li (p. 32) -- Austin Bus System Prototyping / by Corey Li (p. 34) -- Rethinking the Study Space Experience / by Neil Potnis (p. 36) -- PRODUCT ANALYSIS -- Understanding XR / by Celine Low (p. 42) -- Microtransactions in Gaming / by Bruce Luo (p. 44) -- Agile Development / by Ranjan Veludandi (p. 47) -- Robinhood: An Unworthy King / by Roger Zhong (p. 50) -- REFERENCES p. 53Undergraduate Studie
Reversing The Twenty Questions Game
No full textTwenty questions is a widely popular verbal game. In recent years, many
computerized versions of this game have been developed in which a user thinks
of an entity and a computer attempts to guess this entity by asking a series of
boolean-type (yes/no) questions. In this research, we aim to reverse this game
by making the computer choose an entity at random. The human aims to guess this
entity by quizzing the computer with natural language queries which the
computer will then attempt to parse using a boolean question answering model.
The game ends when the human is successfully able to guess the entity of the
computer's choice.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, This paper is a graduate course
project for North Carolina State University, written for the Natural Language
Processing class in Fall 2021. The paper was submitted to and graded by Dr.
Munindar P. Sing
Electrochemical screening and surface analysis of environmentally friendly corrosion inhibitors for aerospace aluminium alloy
No full textFor the past few decades, the aerospace industry has been actively looking for measures to tackle the problem of localized corrosion of aluminium alloy 2024-T3. One such measure was the use of hexavalent chromium salts as corrosion inhibitors. However, recent studies have reflected the environmental concerns and health impacts associated with these compounds. Since then, there has been a quest for alternatives that can be used as corrosion inhibitors for AA2024-T3. This thesis is aimed at studying these compounds by testing their inhibitive properties. Selecting an inhibitor from a set of compounds and recommending the best one is a crucial process. The research focuses on the screening of these inhibitors through various electrochemical techniques such as Potentiodynamic Polarisation(PDP), Linear Polarisation Resistance(LPR), and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy(EIS). The electrochemical experiments during the first 24-hour exposure of AA2024-T3 to inhibitors exhibited that 2,5-Dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole acts as a corrosion accelerator, while Na-Mercaptoacetate and Mercaptobenzimidazole showed the most inhibitive performance among the tested organic compounds. On monitoring their nature during 24 hours, it was observed that they show stable polarisation resistance values after 6 hours. Among the inorganics, Cerium compounds were seen to have better inhibitive properties than the Lithiumcompounds. Additionally, surface studies such as Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed the presence of thiol/mercaptan and carboxyl groups on samples exposed toNa-Mercaptoacetate. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) showed oxides of Cerium on samples exposed to Cerium Nitrate. Finally, the correlations between the inhibition efficiencies calculated from different electrochemical testing methods were illustrated using Pearson’s correlation method.Materials Science and Engineerin
Foundations of the law on industrial organisations in Russia and the former republics of the USSR: 1985-1990
No full textThe industrial organisations introduced into the law of the USSR from 1987, and thereafter
into the law of the former republics, developed upon a foundation that was rooted in Soviet
law and was constructed during the period from 1985 to mid-1990.
While this study focuses on the industrial economy, certain aspects of the agrarian economy,
and in particular the early history and structure of the collective farm, are considered where
appropriate.
The thesis presents an entirely new understanding both of the nature of these developments
and of the significance of the law on ownership. The foundations of the law on industrial
organisations are conceptualised within specific heuristic models which are elaborated in an
attempt to consolidate and highlight the key steps in this history. It is argued that Soviet law
did not contain a concept of the "generic owner" or a developed understanding of the
ownership of a juridical person, in particular by multiple owners holding "ownership
interests" of that juridical person; and that their absence critically impaired a rational and
coherent structure for the foundations of the law on industrial organisations both within the
Stalin economic settlement and the new economic constitution of 1990
SN-18/SE-Homework-2b: v1.1.0
No full text<p>Updating LICENSE information- Added MIT License</p>
<p>Updating README.md- Updated README.md to reflect project information</p>
<p>Updating Code of Conduct- Updated our Code of Conduct</p>
<p>Updated src code- Added a src code folder to include python code to be executed</p>
<p>Added Data/Calculations- Added data/calculations folder</p>
Cross-language high similarity search using a conceptual thesaurus
No full textThis work addresses the issue of cross-language high similarity and
near-duplicates search, where, for the given document, a highly similar one is to
be identified from a large cross-language collection of documents. We propose
a concept-based similarity model for the problem which is very light in computation
and memory. We evaluate the model on three corpora of different nature
and two language pairs English-German and English-Spanish using the Eurovoc
conceptual thesaurus. Our model is compared with two state-of-the-art models
and we find, though the proposed model is very generic, it produces competitive
results and is significantly stable and consistent across the corpora.This work was done in the framework of the VLC/CAMPUS Microcluster on Multimodal Interaction in Intelligent Systems and it has been partially
funded by the European Commission as part of the WIQ-EI IRSES project (grant no.
269180) within the FP 7 Marie Curie People Framework, and by the Text-Enterprise
2.0 research project (TIN2009-13391-C04-03). The research work of the second author
is supported by the CONACyT 192021/302009 grantGupta, P.; Barrón Cedeño, LA.; Rosso, P. (2012). Cross-language high similarity search using a conceptual thesaurus. En Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics. Springer Verlag (Germany). 7488:67-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33247-0_8S6775748
Continuous Space Models for CLIR
No full text[EN] We present and evaluate a novel technique for learning cross-lingual continuous space models to aid cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). Our model, which is referred to as external-data composition neural network (XCNN), is based on a composition function that is implemented on top of a deep neural network that provides a distributed learning framework. Different from most existing models, which rely only on available parallel data for training, our learning framework provides a natural way to exploit monolingual data and its associated relevance metadata for learning continuous space representations of language. Cross-language extensions of the obtained models can then be trained by using a small set of parallel data. This property is very helpful for resource-poor languages, therefore, we carry out experiments on the English-Hindi language pair. On the conducted comparative evaluation, the proposed model is shown to outperform state-of-the-art continuous space models with statistically significant margin on two different tasks: parallel sentence retrieval and ad-hoc retrieval.We thank German Sanchis Trilles for helping in conducting experiments with machine translation. We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the GeForce Titan GPU used for this research. The research of the first author was supported by FPI grant of UPV. The research of the third author is supported by the SomEMBED TIN2015-71147-C2-1-P MINECO research project and by the Generalitat Valenciana under the grant ALMAMATER (PrometeolI/2014/030).Gupta, P.; Banchs, R.; Rosso, P. (2017). Continuous Space Models for CLIR. Information Processing & Management. 53(2):359-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2016.11.002S35937053
Economic Development, Environmental Economic Practices and Environmental Management in Gujarat
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Triple mesh technique in repair of recurrent lumbar incisional hernia
No full textLumbar hernias occur infrequently and can be congenital, primary (inferior or Petit type, and superior or Grynfeltt type), post-traumatic, or incisional. They are bounded by the 12th rib, the iliac crest, the erector spinae, and the external oblique muscle. Most postoperative incisional hernias occur in nephrectomy or aortic aneurysm repair incisions for which various surgical method in context of meshplasty are available. In this case 60 yr. male hypertensive patient presented to the outpatient clinic of institute with recurrent left side lumbar incisional hernia, patient was previously operated for left side nephrolithiasis 15 years back and onlay meshplasty 2 years back for incisional hernia. The patient was operated under high risk for recurrent incisional hernia repair by triple layered meshplasties in the same sitting. Lumbar incisional hernias are often diffuse with fascial defects that are usually hard to appreciate. Computed tomography scan is the diagnostic modality of choice with adjuvant clinical findings, which allows differentiating them from abdominal wall musculature denervation atrophy complicating flank incisions. Repairing these hernias is difficult due to the surrounding structures for which our surgical approach included a triple mesh repair consisting of underlay, inlay and onlay meshplasty thereby anticipating further such incidences of incisional hernia
25 Attitude of healthcare workers towards psychiatry: A cross-sectional study
No full text<p>24A | 38 | JAN 2022 | IJABMS</p><p>Medical Journal Research Article</p><p>25 Attitude of healthcare workers towards psychiatry: A cross-sectional study</p>
