corrosion of reinforcing steel and other embedded metals is the main cause of severe deterioration in reinforced concrete structures which subsequently imposes adverse effects on ultimate and serviceability limit state performance of the whole structure. in this paper, a new corrosion detection method for reinforced concrete beams, based on wavelet analysis is presented. to evaluate the capabil...

background university of pennsylvania smell identification test (upsit) is one of the most common smell identification tests to assess olfactory function. objectives the study was conducted to assess the accuracy of university of pennsylvania smell identification test (upsit) in iranian population. materials and methods university of pennsylvania smell identification test was performed on 30 (5...

alpha toxin derived from clostridium perfringens was used for diagnosis of streptococcus agalactiae (st.agalactiae) by rapid and spot camp tests. the selected cl.perfringens strain was cultured in optimized conditions; the supernatant of culture was concentrated by ultra filter and purified by deae cellulose chromatography. the efficacy of both purified and crude α-toxins were examined by rapid...

We present langid.py, an off-the-shelf language identification tool. We discuss the design and implementation of langid.py, and provide an empirical comparison on 5 longdocument datasets, and 2 datasets from the microblog domain. We find that langid.py maintains consistently high accuracy across all domains, making it ideal for end-users that require language identification without wanting to i...

One challenge in spoken language recognition is the availability of training data. In this paper, we propose a virtual example construction method to derive artificial training examples from the existing training data. Using the proposed method, both target virtual examples and non-target virtual examples can be derived from the available training samples. An iterative virtual example selection...

In this paper, we describe the approach of the ItaliaNLP Lab team to native language identification and discuss the results we submitted as participants to the essay track of NLI Shared Task 2017. We introduce for the first time a 2-stacked sentencedocument architecture for native language identification that is able to exploit both local sentence information and a wide set of general–purpose f...

We present a system for automatically identifying the native language of a writer. We experiment with a large set of features and train them on a corpus of 9,900 essays written in English by speakers of 11 different languages. our system achieved an accuracy of 43% on the test data, improved to 63% with improved feature normalization. In this paper, we present the features used in our system, d...

Introduction: Smell Identification Tests (SIT) are routinely utilized for the clinical evaluation of olfactory function. Since Iran consists of various ethnic subgroups, the reliability and validity of this test as a national SIT are required to be evaluated across the country.   Materials and Methods: This cross-sectio...