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ISD: Self-Supervised Learning by Iterative Similarity Distillation
(2021-09-10)Recently, contrastive learning has achieved great results in self-supervised learning, where the main idea is to push two augmentations of an image (positive pairs) closer compared to other random images (negative pairs). ... -
Backdoor Attacks on Self-Supervised Learning
(2021-05-21)Large-scale unlabeled data has allowed recent progress in self-supervised learning methods that learn rich visual representations. State-of-the-art self-supervised methods for learning representations from images (MoCo and ... -
Cyclic Sparsely Connected Architectures for Compact Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
(IEEE, 2021-09-15)In deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), model size and computation complexity are two important factors governing throughput and energy efficiency when deployed to hardware for inference. Recent works on compact ... -
DAHID: Domain Adaptive Host-based Intrusion Detection
(IEEE, 2021-09-06)Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important with the explosion of attack surfaces as more cyber-physical systems are being deployed. It is impractical to create models with acceptable performance for every single ... -
Tolerating Adversarial Attacks and Byzantine Faults in Distributed Machine Learning
(2021-09-05)Adversarial attacks attempt to disrupt the training, retraining and utilizing of artificial intelligence and machine learning models in large-scale distributed machine learning systems. This causes security risks on its ... -
RescueNet: A High Resolution Post Disaster UAV Dataset for Semantic Segmentation
(2021-09-22)Due to climate change, we can observe a recent surge of natural disasters all around the world. These disasters are causing disastrous impact on both nature and human lives. Economic losses are getting greater due to the ... -
Cyber-Physical System Security Surveillance using Knowledge Graph based Digital Twins - A Smart Farming Usecase
(2021-08-31)Rapid advancements in Cyber-Physical System (CPS) capabilities have motivated farmers to deploy this ecosystem on their farms. However, there is a growing concern among users regarding the security risks associated with ... -
Plasma neurofilament light as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline in a longitudinal study of middle-aged urban adults
(Nature, 2021-08-21)Plasma neurofilament light (NfL) is a marker for neurodegenerative diseases. Few studies have examined the association of NfL with middle-aged changes in cognitive performance, and no studies have examined differential NfL ... -
Clinical Evaluation of Non-Contact Infrared Thermometers
(Research Square, 2021-08-18)Background: Non-contact infrared thermometers (NCITs) are being widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic as a temperature-measurement tool for screening and isolating patients in healthcare settings, travelers at ports ... -
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Problem-Solving with Quantum Annealers
(2020-01-20)We show how to advance quantum information processing, specifically problem-solving with quantum annealers, in the realm of artificial intelligence. We introduce SAT++, as a novel quantum programming paradigm, that can ... -
The English-Only Movement and the Political Legitimacy of Linguistic Minority Rights: The Case of Spanish in the United States
(2020-01-20)This interdisciplinary study is a contribution to the field of sociolinguistics, intercultural communication studies and related major field of research. Its contribution consists of addressing the problem of recognition ... -
Historical Simulations and the Mechanics of Conquest: How Game Mechanics Tell Stories About the Past
(2020-01-20)Over the past decade, historical simulations have become one of the most popular genres of video games. With audiences in the millions, these historically themed games represent mass-market works of popular history. This ... -
Heads and Hearts: Interactive Relations of Left Ventricular Mass and Sociodemographic Factors on Cognitive Outcomes in Urban Dwelling African American and White Adults.
(2020-01-20)Degree of hypertrophy of the left ventricle, indexed by greater LVM, is a measure of subclinical CVD that is prognostic of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Much is known about the relations of select subclinical CVD ... -
Rapid Detection of Bacteria in Blood
(2020-01-20)Sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals. It is usually caused by an acute infection in the bloodstream, and treatment requires the timely prescription of antibiotics. Rapid detection of bacterial presence ... -
Security Issues in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing Protocols.
(2020-01-20)With the rapidly increasing demand for portable and flexible communications which has led to an evolution in networking between unmanned aerial vehicles, the potential attack surface for unmanned aerial vehicles has also ... -
Synthesis of Acyclic Flexible Nucleoside Analogues Against Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases.
(2019-01-01)Flaviviruses, such as Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses, represent a severe health burden due to their ease of transmission, propensity to become epidemics, and the development of unexpected pathologies. While there ... -
Functional analysis of the rlsA gene in Volvox carteri
(2019-01-01)Multicellularity is arguably one of the most important evolutionary innovations of life on Earth, however, its origins are not fully understood. The volvocine green algae, a clade of algae that includes Volvox carteri, are ... -
One Man Trance
(2020-01-20)Where we humans spend most of our time becomes representative of our subconscious. Our everyday movements and mannerisms are recorded in our environments. Your self becomes the space. Your rooms become your existing knowledge ... -
Factors Affecting Thermodynamic Modeling of Aerosol pH
(2019-01-01)Aerosol acidity (pH) is a fundamental property of aqueous particles that affects many chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere. Overall, aerosol pH is a vitally important but ultimately poorly represented parameter ... -
Structural and Molecular Analysis of Melanopsin Phototransduction Activation, Deactivation, and Re-sensitization
(2020-01-20)The visual pigment melanopsin is expressed in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in the mammalian retina, which regulate non-image forming visual tasks such as circadian photoentrainment and pupil constriction, ...
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