We present a novel learning framework for pipeline models aimed at improving the communication between consecutive stages in a pipeline. Our method exploits the confidence scores associated with outputs at any given stage in a pipeline in order to compute probabilistic features used at other stages downstream. We describe a simple method of integrating probabilistic features into the linear sco...

High-performance next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are advancing genomics and molecular biological research. However, the immense amount of sequence data requires computational skills and suitable hardware resources that are a challenge to molecular biologists. The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) has initiated a cloud computing-based analyti...

In the oil and gas industry, the pipeline is a major component in the transmission and distribution process of oil and gas. Oil and gas distribution process sometimes performed past the pipeline across the various types of environmental conditions. Therefore, in the transmission and distribution process of oil and gas, a pipeline should operate safely so that it does not harm the surrounding en...

Performance of a gas turbine mainly depends on the inlet air temperature. The power output of a gas turbine depends on the flow of mass through it. This is precisely the reason why on hot days, when air is less dense, power output falls. The objective here is to assess the advanced systems applied in reducing the gas turbine intake air temperature and examine the merits from integration of the ...

A pipeline CAMAC controller with PC/104-Plus single board computer has been developed. The architecture of the pipeline CAMAC controller is completely different from that of traditional CAMAC controller. The pipeline CAMAC controller adopted truly pipelined command and data paths from/to computer memory to/from CAMAC. The pipeline method enabled the controller maximum speed of CAMAC, approximat...

Regulatory authorities in many countries are moving away from prescriptive approaches for keeping natural gas pipelines safe. As an alternative, risk management based on a quantitative assessment is being considered to improve the level of safety. This paper focuses on the development of a simplified method for the quantitative risk assessment for natural gas pipelines and introduces parameters...

The occurrence of the severe slugging phenomenon in multiphase pipelines can cause serious and troublesome operational problems within the receiving process facilities. This paper describes: the pipeline operability studies on the Dunbar to Alwyn multiphase pipeline regarding riser-induced severe slugging; the control scheme selected to prevent this phenomenon; and the subsequent operating expe...

This paper addresses the mechanical behavior of buried steel pipeline crossing subsidence strata. The investigation is based on numerical simulation of the nonlinear response of the pipeline-soil system through finite element method, considering large strain and displacement, inelastic material behavior of buried pipeline and the surrounding soil, as well as contact and friction on the pipeline...

This chapter examines the superscalar pipeline Fast Fourier Transform algorithm and architecture. The algorithm presents a memory management scheme that avoids memory contention throughout the pipeline stages. The fundamental algorithm, a switch-based FFT pipeline architecture and an example 64-point FFT implementation are presented. The pipeline consists of log2N stages, where N is number of F...

This work presents a modified version of the cube pruning decoding algorithm used for machine translation. Our pipeline-tolerant decoding algorithm allows multiple translation hypotheses to be scored at the same time. We demonstrate the benefits of scoring multiple hypotheses simultaneously using a pipeline for language model scoring. Our pipeline builds on top of previous work on memory prefet...