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Phylogeography, hotspots and conservation priorities: an example from the Top End of Australia
No full textAbstract not availableD.F. Rosauer, M.P.K. Blom, G. Bourke, S. Catalano, S. Donnellan, G. Gillespie, E. Mulder, P.M. Oliver, S. Potter, R.C. Pratt, D.L. Rabosky, P.L. Skipwith, C. Morit
Elastic-DF: Scaling Performance of DNN Inference in FPGA Clouds through Automatic Partitioning
No full textCustomized compute acceleration in the datacenter is key to the wider roll-out of applications based on deep neural network (DNN) inference. In this article, we investigate how to maximize the performance and scalability of field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based pipeline dataflow DNN inference accelerators (DFAs) automatically on computing infrastructures consisting of multi-die, network-connected FPGAs. We present Elastic-DF, a novel resource partitioning tool and associated FPGA runtime infrastructure that integrates with the DNN compiler FINN. Elastic-DF allocates FPGA resources to DNN layers and layers to individual FPGA dies to maximize the total performance of the multi-FPGA system. In the resulting Elastic-DF mapping, the accelerator may be instantiated multiple times, and each instance may be segmented across multiple FPGAs transparently, whereby the segments communicate peer-to-peer through 100 Gbps Ethernet FPGA infrastructure, without host involvement. When applied to ResNet-50, Elastic-DF provides a 44% latency decrease on Alveo U280. For MobileNetV1 on Alveo U200 and U280, Elastic-DF enables a 78% throughput increase, eliminating the performance difference between these cards and the larger Alveo U250. Elastic-DF also increases operating frequency in all our experiments, on average by over 20%. Elastic-DF therefore increases performance portability between different sizes of FPGA and increases the critical throughput per cost metric of datacenter inference. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Computer Engineerin
Trans-biome diversity in Australian grass-specialist lizards (Diplodactylidae: Strophurus)
No full textComparisons of biodiversity patterns within lineages that occur across major climate gradients and biomes, can provide insights into the relative roles that lineage history, landscape and climatic variation, and environmental change have played in shaping regional biotas. In Australia, while there has been extensive research into the origins and patterns of diversity in the Australian Arid Zone (AAZ), how diversity is distributed across this biome and the Australian Monsoonal Tropics (AMT) to the north, has been less studied. We compared the timing and patterns of diversification across this broad aridity gradient in a clade of lizards (Strophurus: phasmid geckos) that only occur in association with a unique Australian radiation of sclerophyllous grasses (Triodia: spinifex). Our results indicate that overall genetic diversity is much higher, older and more finely geographically structured within the AMT, including distantly related clades endemic to the sandstone escarpments of the Kimberley and Arnhem Plateau. Niche modelling analyses also suggest that the distribution of taxa in the AMT is more strongly correlated with variation in topographic relief than in the AAZ. The two broad patterns that we recovered - (i) lineage endemism increases as latitude decreases, and (ii) endemism is tightly correlated to rocky regions - parallel and corroborate other recent studies of habitat generalists and specialised saxicoline lineages occurring across these same regions. Early Miocene diversification estimates also suggest that, soon after Triodia grasses colonised Australia and began to diversify in the Miocene, phasmid geckos with Gondwanan ancestry shifted into these grasses, and have subsequently remained closely associated with this unique vegetation type.This work was supported by a linkage grant from the Australian Research Council to PMO, Michael Lee and Paul Doughty, a McKenzie Postdoctoral fellowship to PMO from the University of Melbourne, and an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award to PMO
Hydrodynamical turbulence by fractal fourier decimation
No full textWe present a systematic numerical investigation of high-resolution 3D isotropic and homogeneous turbulence resolved on a decimated set of Fourier modes. Fractal decimation acts to decrease the effective dimensionality of the flow by allowing triadic interactions only in a set of Fourier modes N(k) proportional to k^DF for large k. While keeping the symmetries of the original 3D Navier-Stokes equations unchanged, a dramatic change in small-scale statistics is detected at decreasing the fractal dimension DF . Already at fractal dimension DF = 2.8, a global self-similar behaviour is observed in the inertial range of scales, the consequence of such transition are the restoration of the scaling symmetry and vorticity distribution that becomes close to Gaussian. We relate the results to the different roles of local vs non-local interactions in the energy transfer range
'Response by the author, Daniel F. Vukovich.'
No full textResponse by the author (Vukovich) to a review of Illiberal China (my 2019 monograph
DF AND HF LASER SPECTRA
No full textW. B. Roh and K. Narahari Rao, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 49, 317 (1974).""Author Institution: Department of Physics, The Ohio State University; Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State UniversityA pulsed laser was used as a source to study DF and HF infrared laser spectra with a grating spectrometer. The rotational structure observed for the 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2 bands of DF, and the 1-0 and 2-1 bands of HF has been measured by following a procedure similar to that used for the CO laser Molecular constants derived by combining these laser measurements with other available data will be presented
OPTOACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT OF DF LASER ABSORPTION BY METHANE
No full textAuthor Institution:An optoacoustic system has been constructed for measurement of absorption of DF laser radiation. Absorption by methane in Argon and Nitrogen has been measured at 15 DF laser lines in the 3.6 – 4.0 region. Construction and calibration of the spectrophone will be discussed
Comparison of system architecture and converter topology for a solar powered electric vehicle charging station
No full textAccepted Author ManuscriptOld - EWI-ESE-DC&S DC systems & StoragePhotovoltaic Materials and Device
Simulation of a surface-transverse wave (STW) biosensor for DF-1 cells
No full textA 250 MHz Surface-Transverse Wave (STW) resonator is employed as a sensor element for the
detection of DF-1 cells. STW belongs to the shear-horizontal acoustic plate modes (SH-APM) waves’
family where it has attracted plenty considerable interest. STWs are horizontally polarized shear waves
which are generated and detected by the interdigital transducers (IDTs) similar to surface-acoustic wave
(SAW) resonators [1]. Detection of chemical and biological agents in aqueous solutions is a difficult
problem, especially when the detection technique has to be sensitive, power-efficient and very handy.
Acoustic plate mode is a mode of vibration where particle motion is parallel to the surface. This makes it
possible to produce a sensitive sensor capable of operating in fluids [2]. This paper presents the biosensor
prototype utilizing STW resonator
Period changes of two contact binaries: DF Hya and WZ And
No full text33rd International Physics Congress of the Turkish-Physical-Society (TPS) -- SEP 06-10, 2017 -- Bodrum, TURKEYOrbital period variations of two contact binaries DF Hya and WZ And are analyzed with the least-squares method by using all available minima times. It is shown that the period variations of these systems are due mainly to the LightTime Effect (LITE) due originates from gravitational influence of a third body. New LITE elements such as, orbital periods and minimum masses of possibility third bodies are given.Turkish Phys So
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