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...

the kashkan formation (paleocene to middle eocene), consists of conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone in the zagros folded zone, southwest iran. type of the sedimentary facies, architectural elements and trace fossils show that kashkan deposits were formed in a low sinuosity braided stream system, with north to south flow direction. the formation displays coarsening-upward succession reflects ...

A physical model of high-strain rate deformation metallic materials has been developed to describe the evolution microstructure during process. The is based on representations mechanisms grain boundary sliding, strain-induced growth and dynamic fragmentation coarse grains in framework theory nonequilibrium boundaries. These are modified for description high-speed flow supplemented by a recrysta...

An important characteristic of sketches, compared with text, rests with their ability to intrinsically capture object appearance and structure. Nonetheless, akin to traditional text-based image retrieval, conventional sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) principally focuses on retrieving images of the same category, neglecting the fine-grained characteristics of sketches. In this paper, we advoc...

We address fine-grained entity classification and propose a novel attention-based recurrent neural network (RNN) encoderdecoder that generates paths in the type hierarchy and can be trained end-to-end. We show that our model performs better on fine-grained entity classification than prior work that relies on flat or local classifiers that do not directly model hierarchical structure.

This paper presents a system for classifying disaster-related tweets. The focus is on Twitter data generated before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy, which impacted New York in the fall of 2012. We propose an annotation schema for identifying relevant tweets as well as the more fine-grained categories they represent, and develop feature-rich classifiers for relevance and fine-grained categori...

to Develop Fine-grained Measures of Interactive Teaching in Undergraduate Science Classrooms (WCER Working Paper 2013-6). Retrieved from University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin Center for Education Research website: http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/publications/workingPapers/papers.php Exploring the Use of the Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol to Develop Fine‐grained Measures of Interactive T...

In recent years, question answering (QA) and reading comprehension (RC) has attracted much attention, most research on QA focused multi-hop task which requires connecting multiple pieces of evidence scattered in a long context to answer the question. The key is semantic feature interaction between documents questions, widely processed by Bi-directional Attention Flow (Bi-DAF), but Bi-DAF genera...