With the proliferation of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms for mobile processing, limited precision quantization has become an essential tool CNN efficiency. Consequently, various works have sought to design fixed and quantization-focused optimization techniques that minimize induced performance degradation. However, there is little concrete understanding how decisions/best pr...

Capillary barrier system (CBS) was developed as a slope protection method to prevent rainwater infiltration into the underlying soil based on principle of unsaturated mechanics by harnessing distinct difference in hydraulic properties fine-grained layer with those coarse-grained soils. The CBS is commonly designed and constructed using gravel material fine sand material. However, due scarcity n...

In a Grid environment applications are executed on distributed resources. Applications can be divided into separate parts for distributed and sequential execution. Typically, complete applications consisting of many parts may be executed on both local and remote resources. Computing resources may expect some form of payment in exchange for services used. In this situation there are two scenario...

Brain age prediction based on neuroimaging data could help characterize both the typical brain development and neuropsychiatric disorders. Pattern recognition models built upon functional connectivity (FC) measures derived from resting state fMRI (rsfMRI) data have been successfully used to predict the brain age. However, most existing studies focus on coarse-grained FC measures between brain r...

The quest to improve performance forces designers to explore finer-grained multiprocessor machines. Ever increasing chip densities based on CMOS improvements fuel research in highly parallel chip multiprocessors with 100s of processing elements. With such increasing levels of parallelism, synchronization is set to become a major performance bottleneck and efficient support for synchronization a...

Fine-grained data provenance ensures reproducibility of results in decision making, process control and e-science applications. However, maintaining this provenance is challenging in stream data processing because of its massive storage consumption, especially with large overlapping sliding windows. In this paper, we propose an approach to infer fine-grained data provenance by using a temporal ...

the strength of concrete is a function of the proportions of the constituent materials, namely, cement, water, fine and coarse aggregates. the conventional methods used to determine the mix proportions that will yield the desired strength, are laborious, time consuming and expensive. in this paper, a mathematical method based on modified regression theory is formulated for the prediction of con...

dependency parsing is a way of syntactic parsing and a natural language that automatically analyzes the dependency structure of sentences, and the input for each sentence creates a dependency graph. part-of-speech (pos) tagging is a prerequisite for dependency parsing. generally, dependency parsers do the pos tagging task along with dependency parsing in a pipeline mode. unfortunately, in pipel...

The semi grained bituminous concrete BBSG intended for wearing layers, known by the name BB 0/14, generally is prepared mixing two components: aggregates and bitumen. design of this material considers several criteria related to one hand aggregates, namely mechanical characteristics, shape, cleanliness stones, blue value fine, particle size mixture (% passing through), choice bitumen grade perf...