This research is focusing on the radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering process, a physical vapor deposition technique which is widely used in thin film production. This process requires the optimized combination of deposition parameters in order to obtain the desirable thin film. The conventional method in the optimization of the deposition parameters had been reported to be costly and time...

Five formerly unidentified peaks in the column chromatogram of urinary compounds giving the Sakaguchi reaction appear to be proteins or polypeptides containing arginine. If these substances, salts, and creatine are first removed, then guanidinoacetate (GAA), guanidinosuccinate (GSA), and creatine are readily measured in urine. This technique was applied to the urine of 17 healthy men and 10 hea...

Physically-based radiative transfer models (RTMs) help understand the interactions of radiation with vegetation and atmosphere. However, advanced RTMs can be computationally burdensome, which makes them impractical in many real applications, especially when many state conditions and model couplings need to be studied. To overcome this problem, it is proposed to substitute RTMs through surrogate...

We propose an attention mechanism in deep learning networks for gender recognition using the gaze distribution of human observers when they judge people pedestrian images. Prevalent mechanisms spatially compute correlation among values all cells input feature map to calculate weights. If a large bias background images (e.g., test samples and training containing different backgrounds) is present...

Ti6Al4V alloy is widely used in aerospace and medical applications. It classified as a difficult to machine material due its low thermal conductivity high chemical reactivity. In this study, hybrid intelligent models have been developed predict surface roughness when end milling with Physical Vapor Deposition PVD coated tool under dry cutting conditions. Back propagation neural network (BPNN) h...

This paper presents a novel heuristic optimization method to solve complex economic load dispatch problem using a hybrid method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and gravitational search algorithm (GSA). This algorithm named as hybrid PSOGSA combines the social thinking feature in PSO with the local search capability of GSA. To analyze the performance of the PSOGSA algorithm it has bee...

s: Asante, J., and D.K., Kreamer, Basin Hydrochemistry and Related Flow Systems: Integrated Data Analytic Methods. GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, October, 9-12, 2011 (abstract and oral presentation) Asante, J., D.K., Kreamer, and C.L Cross, Enhancing Multivariate Statistical Characterization of Hydrochemical Groundwater Data: A Comparative Analysis of Clustering Methods. GSA Joint Rocky Mount...

This paper describes a compiler framework that enhances the detection of parallelism in loops with complex irregular computations. The framework is based on the static analysis of the Gated Single Assignment (GSA) program representation. A taxonomy of the strongly connected components (SCCs) that appear in GSA dependence graphs is presented as the basis of our framework. Furthermore, an algorit...