M anaging microbes from urban watersheds can be a daunting task, as bacteria are usually present in high concentrations during storms, come from many different sources, and follow many complex pathways to reach receiving waters. In this article, we examine whether it is technically feasible to reduce microbes in urban stormwater to maintain drinking water, water contact recreation and shellfish...

Wikis were originally designed to hide the association between a wiki page and the authors who have produced it. However, there is evidence suggesting that corporate wiki users require an attribution mechanism that would automatically record (and present) the relative contribution of each author. In this paper we introduce an algorithm for assessing the contributions of wiki authors that is bas...

the sources of output growth of iranian agriculture over the years 1986-2001 has been examined, using a decomposition method within the input-output (io) framework. the three comparable io tables of 1986, 1991, and 2001 have been employed as the main data sources. output changes from a demand side perspective, and decomposition of the growth of output into components attributable to consumption...

Simple and fast decoding is one of the main advantages of LZ77-type text encoding used in many popular file compressors such as gzip and 7zip. With the recent introduction of external memory algorithms for Lempel–Ziv factorization there is a need for external memory LZ77 decoding but the standard algorithm makes random accesses to the text and cannot be trivially modified for external memory co...

It is routine for audiologists to fit nonlinear hearing aids by using one of several current prescriptive formulae. While such an approach might result in acceptable fittings for single-channel analog compression hearing aids, its direct application to fitting current multichannel compression hearing aids may result in less than an optimal fit. In this paper, the effects of filter bandwidth, nu...

This section provides additional details for some of the ablation studies reported in Section 6. Pooling type. In the context of binary networks, and because the output is restricted to 1 and -1, max-pooling might result in outputs full of 1s only. To limit this effect, we placed the activation function before the convolutional layers as proposed in [5, 9]. Additionally, we opted to replace max...

Four major factors govern the intricacies of community extraction in networks: (1) the literature offers a multitude of disparate community detection algorithms whose output exhibits high structural variability across the collection, (2) communities identified by algorithms may differ structurally from real communities that arise in practice, (3) there is no consensus characterizing how to disc...

Original data envelopment analysis models treat decision-making units as independent entities. This feature of data envelopment analysis results in significant diversity in input and output weights, which is irrelevant and problematic from the managerial point of view. In this regard, several methodologies have been developed to measure the efficiency scores based on common weights. Specificall...