This paper reports a novel single-step wafer-level fabrication of superhydrophobic micro/nano dual-scale (MNDS) poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) films. The MNDS PDMS films were replicated directly from an ultralow-surface-energy silicon substrate at high temperature without any surfactant coating, achieving high precision. An improved deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) process with enhanced passivat...

In this work we report on the long-term stability of black silicon surfaces passivated with atomic layer deposited (ALD) 20 nm thick Al2O3 films on pand n-type FZ c-Si substrates. The results are directly compared with random pyramid textured counterparts. The effective surface recombination velocity Seff has been measured within a time frame of one year after activation of surface passivation....

The pyramid method for content evaluation of automated summarizers produces scores that are shown to correlate well with manual scores used in educational assessment of students’ summaries. This motivates the development of a more accurate automated method to compute pyramid scores. Of three methods tested here, the one that performs best relies on latent semantics.

In DUC 2005, the pyramid method for content evaluation was used for the first time in a crosssite evaluation. We discuss the method used in creating pyramid models and performing peer annotation. Analysis of score averages for the peers indicates that the best systems score half as well as humans, and that systems can be grouped into better and worse performers. There were few significant diffe...

Halyomorpha halys (Stål) is an invasive pest that attacks numerous crops. For growers to make informed management decisions against H. halys, an effective monitoring tool must be in place. We evaluated various trap designs baited with the two-component aggregation pheromone of H. halys and synergist and deployed in commercial apple orchards. We compared our current experimental standard trap, a...

A mirror pyramid consists of a set of planar mirror faces arranged around an axis of symmetry and inclined to form a pyramid. By strategically positioning a number of conventional cameras around a mirror pyramid, the viewpoints of the cameras’ mirror images can be located at a single point within the pyramid and their optical axes pointed in different directions to effectively form a virtual ca...

This paper presents a novel image representation, which incorporates the principles of Laplacian Pyramid into the irregular graph pyramid. The drawback of the regular Laplacian Pyramid is their lack to keep the topological structure of the image, due to the contraction process in building the Gaussian Pyramid. Irregular graph pyramid is able to hierarchically represent the topological structure...

We present a new supervised framework that learns to estimate automatic Pyramid scores and uses them for optimizationbased extractive multi-document summarization. For learning automatic Pyramid scores, we developed a method for automatic training data generation which is based on a genetic algorithm using automatic Pyramid as the fitness function. Our experimental evaluation shows that our new...