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Change detection in metal oxide gas sensor signals for open sampling systems
No full textThis thesis addresses the problem of detecting changes in the activity of a distant gas source from the response of an array of metal oxide (MOX) gas sensors deployed in an Open Sampling System (OSS). Changes can occur due to gas source activity such as a sudden alteration in concentration or due to exposure to a different compound. Applications such as gas-leak detection in mines or large-scale pollution monitoring can benefit from reliable change detection algorithms, especially where it is impractical to continuously store or transfer sensor readings, or where reliable calibration is difficult to achieve. Here, it is desirable to detect a change point indicating a significant event, e.g. presence of gas or a sudden change in concentration. The main challenges are turbulent dispersion of gas and the slow response and recovery times of MOX sensors. Due to these challenges, the gas sensor response exhibits fluctuations that interfere with the changes of interest. The contributions of this thesis are centred on developing change detection methods using MOX sensor responses. First, we apply the Generalized Likelihood Ratio algorithm (GLR), a commonly used method that does not make any a priori assumption about change events. Next, we propose TREFEX, a novel change point detection algorithm, which models the response of MOX sensors as a piecewise exponential signal and considers the junctions between consecutive exponentials as change points. We also propose the rTREFEX algorithm as an extension of TREFEX. The core idea behind rTREFEX is an attempt to improve the fitted exponentials of TREFEX by minimizing the number of exponentials even further. GLR, TREFEX and rTREFEX are evaluated for various MOX sensors and gas emission profiles. A sensor selection algorithm is then introduced and the change detection algorithms are evaluated with the selected sensor subsets. A comparison between the three proposed algorithms shows clearly superior performance of rTREFEX both in detection performance and in estimating the change time. Further, rTREFEX is evaluated in real-world experiments where data is gathered by a mobile robot. Finally, a gas dispersion simulation was developed which integrates OpenFOAM flow simulation and a filament-based gas propagation model to simulate gas dispersion for compressible flows with a realistic turbulence model
Transformer-based Multistage Architectures for Code Search
No full textCode Search is one of the most common tasks for developers. The open-source software movement and the rise of social media have made this process easier thanks to the vast public software repositories available to everyone and the Q&A sites where individuals can resolve their doubts. However, in the case of poorly documented code that is difficult to search in a repository, or in the case of private enterprise frameworks that are not publicly available, so there is not a community on Q&A sites to answer questions, searching for code snippets to solve doubts or learn how to use an API becomes very complicated. In order to solve this problem, this thesis studies the use of natural language in code retrieval. In particular, it studies transformer-based models, such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), which are currently state of the art in natural language processing but present high latency in information retrieval tasks. That is why this project proposes a multi-stage architecture that seeks to maintain the performance of standard BERT-based models while reducing the high latency usually associated with the use of this type of framework. Experiments show that this architecture outperforms previous non- BERT-based models by +0.17 on the Top 1 (or Recall@1) metric and reduces latency with inference times 5% of those of standard BERT models. Kodsökning är en av de vanligaste uppgifterna för utvecklare. Rörelsen för öppen källkod och de sociala medierna har gjort denna process enklare tack vare de stora offentliga programvaruupplagorna som är tillgängliga för alla och de Q&A-webbplatser där enskilda personer kan lösa sina tvivel. När det gäller dåligt dokumenterad kod som är svår att söka i ett arkiv, eller när det gäller ramverk för privata företag som inte är offentligt tillgängliga, så att det inte finns någon gemenskap på Q&AA-webbplatser för att besvara frågor, blir det dock mycket komplicerat att söka efter kodstycken för att lösa tvivel eller lära sig hur man använder ett API. För att lösa detta problem studeras i denna avhandling användningen av naturligt språk för att hitta kod. I synnerhet studeras transformatorbaserade modeller, såsom BERT, som för närvarande är den senaste tekniken inom behandling av naturliga språk men som har hög latenstid vid informationssökning. Därför föreslås i detta projekt en arkitektur i flera steg som syftar till att bibehålla prestandan hos standard BERT-baserade modeller samtidigt som den höga latenstiden som vanligtvis är förknippad med användningen av denna typ av ramverk minskas. Experiment visar att denna arkitektur överträffar tidigare icke-BERT-baserade modeller med +0,17 på Top 1 (eller Recall@1) och minskar latensen, med en inferenstid som är 5% av den för standard BERT-modeller
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Parallel orthogonal deep neural network
No full textEnsemble learning methods combine multiple models to improve performance by exploiting their diversity. The success of these approaches relies heavily on the dissimilarity of the base models forming the ensemble. This diversity can be achieved in many ways, with well-known examples including bagging and boosting.It is the diversity of the models within an ensemble that allows the ensemble to correct the errors made by its members, and consequently leads to higher classification or regression performance. A mistake made by a base model can only be rectified if other members behave differently on that particular instance, and provide the aggregator with enough information to make an informed decision. On the contrary, lack of diversity not only lowers model performance, but also wastes computational resources. Nevertheless, in the current state of the art ensemble approaches, there is no guarantee on the level of diversity achieved, and no mechanism ensuring that each member will learn a different decision boundary from the others.In this paper, we propose a parallel orthogonal deep learning architecture in which diversity is enforced by design, through imposing an orthogonality constraint. Multiple deep neural networks are created, parallel to each other. At each parallel layer, the outputs of different base models are subject to Gram–Schmidt orthogonalization. We demonstrate that this approach leads to a high level of diversity from two perspectives. First, the models make different errors on different parts of feature space, and second, they exhibit different levels of uncertainty in their decisions. Experimental results confirm the benefits of the proposed method, compared to standard deep learning models and well-known ensemble methods, in terms of diversity and, as a result, classification performance. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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