21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…Students explore race and ethnicity in personal essays, pieces of cultural criticism or analysis, or (with permission of instructor) fiction. …”
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Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Workers in China by Wu, Di

“…With deep knowledge and lived experience of the social issues they advocate for, disabled activists in China approach technology as a puzzle piece, not a magic bullet. They make technology useful for their lives, work, and activism by returning the technical to the social. …”
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Balancing waiting times in sequential servers appointment system using distributionally robust optimization by Goh, You Hui

“…To reduce its problem size, we investigate the problem of minimizing the number of pieces in the piecewise linear approximation of the separable concave minimization problem. …”
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A cost-aware utility-maximizing bidding strategy for auction-based federated learning by Tang, Xiaoli, Yu, Han

“…Based on this analysis, jointly optimizes in a novel end-to-end framework, and then executes the proposed return on investment (ROI)-based method to determine the optimal bid price for each piece of the data resource. Through extensive experiments on six commonly adopted benchmark datasets, we show that outperforms eight state-of-the-art methods, beating the best baseline by 4.39%, 4.56%, 1.33%, and 5.43% on average in terms of the total amount of data obtained, number of data samples per unit cost, total utility, and FL model accuracy, respectively.…”
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Oxygen suffocation for firefighting in underground cavern by Yeo, Wei Liang

“…In the simulation, setting a polyurethane chair (a very common piece of furniture) on fire, the heat release rate (HRR) and temperature reading directly above the fire source (Device 8, XYZ = 10m,40m,3m) in hypoxia environment are lowered at 2900 kW and 700ºC, respectively, compared to 4000 kW and 850ºC, respectively, in normal environment. …”
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Managing risks to the media from emerging networked technologies by Shere, ARK

“…</p> <p>Therefore, this thesis comprises a multi-piece toolkit that enables members of the press to identify threats from IoT devices to themselves and their work, and then identify the countermeasures best suited to their context.…”

ESBL producing E. coli in chickens and poultry farms environment in Selangor, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study on their occurrence and associated risk factors with environment and... by Aliyu, Abdulrasheed Bello, Jalila, Abu, Saleha, Abdul Aziz, Zunita, Zakaria

“…Thus, the findings of the study can assist to serve as a piece of useful information to veterinary authority in designing evidence-based mitigation strategies for the control of ESBL-EC in poultry farms.…”

探 = In search of harmony by Ng, Woon Lam

“…In this restrictive period, old master artists discovered through practical experience, what I regard to be the most brilliant piece of knowledge in the history of color painting - the optical behaviour of colors. …”
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Modelling laser-induced vapour bubbles for lithotripsy treatment of kidney stones by Abrahams, S

“…Within the kidney, laser pulses are fired at the stone to break it into pieces small enough to flush out. During the procedure, laser energy is also transferred to the surrounding liquid, resulting in localised boiling and the production of vapour bubbles. …”

A sociological analysis of Iranian popular music in the 21st century by Safideh, Mohammad Rezazadeh

“…The other objective of this research attempts to answer the questions of what are the social factors involved in making a piece of music that is all of a sudden massively consumed in the given place and time. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…He carried the synthesis of CdS single crystal by physical vapor transport method using cadmium shots and sulfur pieces. Growing condition covers different temperatures and different ratio between Cadmium and Sulfur. …”
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Relationship of sperm protamine content with bull breeding soundness evaluation and sperm DNA damage by Mohamed Abbad Alfadel, Fatima

“…No significant correlation was found between AB positivity and mid piece (MP) or swollen acrosome (SA). Sperm protamine deficiency was significantly (P < 0.01) correlated with SDF. …”
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GPU-Oriented Algorithms for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport by Ridley, Gavin

“…We then identify a variety of algorithmic optimizations that improved the performance of the baseline CUDA application, and identify areas for further development. 3 Based on experience adapting a full-physics continuous energy MC code for GPU, we identify two pieces of the simulation which can be improved for GPU computing: resonance upscatter handling and unresolved resonance modeling. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Our SpGEMM algorithm efficiently enumerates all the work done during a computation to achieve perfect load balancing, and also uses a randomized algorithm to nearly optimally partition the matrix into pieces small enough to be operated on using the fast but limited amount of shared memory. …”
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Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…This thesis consists of five pieces of work, each of which presents a new learning-based approach for synthesizing images with plausible content as well as visually realistic appearance. …”
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Critical events detection and management in complex networks by Yu, Yi

“…As a natural extension of the first piece of work, in this part, we seek to understand the dynamics of infection spreading and control in networks with community structures. …”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…In this study, both untreated and degraded LDPE and EPS pieces mixed with sand to simulate landfilled MSW, which experienced one-dimensional abiotic compression under vertical stress of 100-800 kPa for 1-300 days. …”
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