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2. Comparison of Vitis-AI and FINN for implementing convolutional neural networks on FPGA
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Nicolás Urbano Pintos, Héctor Lacomi, and Mario Lavorato
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fpga ,cnn ,finn ,vitis-ai ,cuantización ,Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,TK1-9971 ,Computer engineering. Computer hardware ,TK7885-7895 - Abstract
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are essential for image classification and detection, and their implementation in embedded systems is becoming increasingly attractive due to their compact size and low power consumption. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have emerged as a promising option, thanks to their low latency and high energy efficiency. Vitis AI and FINN are two development environments that automate the implementation of CNNs on FPGAs. Vitis AI uses a deep learning processing unit (DPU) and memory accelerators, while FINN is based on a streaming architecture and fine-tunes parallelization. Both environments implement parameter quantization techniques to reduce memory usage. This work extends previous comparisons by evaluating both environments by implementing four models with different numbers of layers on the Xilinx Kria KV260 FPGA platform. The complete process from training to evaluation on FPGA, including quantization and hardware implementation, is described in detail. The results show that FINN provides lower latency, higher throughput, and better energy efficiency than Vitis AI. However, Vitis AI stands out for its simplicity in model training and ease of implementation on FPGA. The main finding of this study is that as the complexity of the models increases (with more layers in the neural networks), the differences in terms of performance and energy efficiency between FINN and Vitis AI are significantly reduced.
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- 2024
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3. FPGA Implementation of Pillar-Based Object Classification for Autonomous Mobile Robot.
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Park, Chaewoon, Lee, Seongjoo, and Jung, Yunho
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OPTICAL radar ,LIDAR ,ARM microprocessors ,AUTONOMOUS robots ,MICROPROCESSORS - Abstract
With the advancement in artificial intelligence technology, autonomous mobile robots have been utilized in various applications. In autonomous driving scenarios, object classification is essential for robot navigation. To perform this task, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, which can obtain depth and height information and have higher resolution than radio detection and ranging (radar) sensors, are preferred over camera sensors. The pillar-based method employs a pillar feature encoder (PFE) to encode 3D LiDAR point clouds into 2D images, enabling high-speed inference using 2D convolutional neural networks. Although the pillar-based method is employed to ensure real-time responsiveness of autonomous driving systems, research on accelerating the PFE is not actively being conducted, although the PFE consumes a significant amount of computation time within the system. Therefore, this paper proposes a PFE hardware accelerator and pillar-based object classification model for autonomous mobile robots. The proposed object classification model was trained and tested using 2971 datasets comprising eight classes, achieving a classification accuracy of 94.3%. The PFE hardware accelerator was implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) through a register-transfer level design, which achieved a 40 times speedup compared with the firmware for the ARM Cortex-A53 microprocessor unit; the object classification network was implemented in the FPGA using the FINN framework. By integrating the PFE and object classification network, we implemented a real-time pillar-based object classification acceleration system on an FPGA with a latency of 6.41 ms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Recent fire occurrence and associated emissions in Southern Brazil
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Teixeira, Nathan Campos, Chaffe, Pedro Luiz Borges, Chagas, Vinicius Bogo Portal, Ribeiro, Camilo Bastos, Rodrigues Rodrigues, Regina, and Hoinaski, Leonardo
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- 2024
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5. On the RTL Implementation of FINN Matrix Vector Unit.
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ALAM, SYED ASAD, GREGG, DAVID, GAMBARDELLA, GIULIO, PREUSSER, THOMAS, and BLOTT, MICHAELA
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CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks ,IMAGE recognition (Computer vision) ,GATE array circuits ,SOFTWARE engineers - Abstract
Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)--based accelerators are becoming increasingly popular for deep neural network (DNN) inference due to their ability to scale performance with increasing degrees of specialization with dataflow architectures or custom data type precision. In order to reduce the barrier for software engineers and data scientists to adopt FPGAs, C++- and OpenCL-based design entries with high-level synthesis (HLS) have been introduced. They provide higher abstraction compared with register-transfer level (RTL)--based design. HLS offers faster development time, better maintainability, and more flexibility in code exploration when evaluating several options for multi-dimension tensors, convolutional layers, or different degrees of parallelism. For this reason, HLS has been adopted by DNN accelerator generation frameworks such as FINN and hls4ml. In this article, we present an alternative backend library for FINN, leveraging RTL. We investigate and evaluate, across a spectrum of design dimensions, the pros and cons of an RTL-based implementation versus the original HLS variant. We show that for smaller design parameters, RTL produces significantly smaller circuits as compared with HLS. For larger circuits, however, the look-up table (LUT) count of RTL-based design is slightly higher, up to around 15%. On the other hand, HLS consistently requires more flip-flops (FFs; with an orders-of-magnitude difference for smaller designs) and block RAMs (BRAMs; 2x more). This also impacts the critical path delay, with RTL producing significantly faster circuits, up to around 80%. RTL also benefits from at least a 10x reduction in synthesis time. Finally, the results were validated in practice using two real-world use cases, one of a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) used in network intrusion detection and the other a convolution network called ResNet, used in image recognition. Overall, since HLS frameworks code-generate the hardware design, the benefits of the ease in the design entry is less important. As such, the gained benefits in synthesis time together with some design-dependent resource benefits make the RTL abstraction an attractive alternative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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6. Utilisation FINN data version 2.5 for forecasting PM2.5 during forest fire 2019 in Sumatra by using WRF–Chem
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Hana Listi Fitriana, Emmanuel Adetya, Wiwiek Setyawati, Waluyo Eko Cahyono, Alvin Pratama, and Prawira Yudha Kombara
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FINN ,forecasting ,forest fire ,PM2.5 ,positive IOD 2019 ,smoke ,Meteorology. Climatology ,QC851-999 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
In 2019 there were forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, which co-occurred with a strong positive IOD. The forest fire disaster caused the thick smoke containing dusts such as particulate matter with a size of 2.5μm (PM2.5). In this study, a model simulation was conducted to predict the distribution of PM2.5 using the WRF–Chem model when forest fires in 2019 occurred. The prediction was produced by adding the latest version of fire inventory from NCAR (FINN) input data, version 2.5. The prediction result was verified and compared with ground station data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) station and NASA’s EOSDIS satellite imagery. There are three ground stations that were used for verification: the Jambi, Palembang and Pekanbaru stations. Of the three stations, the prediction results at the Palembang station are the best in correlation and RMSE value. Spatially, the distribution of PM2.5 from the model result is similar and can follow the pattern of smoke distribution from satellite imagery observations. Even though, generally the WRF–Chem model equipped with the latest FINN data still cannot produce an accurate prediction for the 2019 forest fires event yet in Sumatra region.
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- 2023
7. An Analysis of Prescribed Fire Activities and Emissions in the Southeastern United States from 2013 to 2020.
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Li, Zongrun, Maji, Kamal J., Hu, Yongtao, Vaidyanathan, Ambarish, O'Neill, Susan M., Odman, M. Talat, and Russell, Armistead G.
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PRESCRIBED burning , *SATELLITE-based remote sensing , *FIREFIGHTING , *FUEL reduction (Wildfire prevention) - Abstract
Prescribed burning is a major source of a fine particular matter, especially in the southeastern United States, and quantifying emissions from burning operations accurately is an integral part of ascertaining air quality impacts. For instance, a critical factor in calculating fire emissions is identifying fire activity information (e.g., location, date/time, fire type, and area burned) and prior estimations of prescribed fire activity used for calculating emissions have either used burn permit records or satellite-based remote sensing products. While burn permit records kept by state agencies are a reliable source, they are not always available or readily accessible. Satellite-based remote sensing products are currently used to fill the data gaps, especially in regional studies; however, they cannot differentiate prescribed burns from the other types of fires. In this study, we developed novel algorithms to distinguish prescribed burns from wildfires and agricultural burns in a satellite-derived product, Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN). We matched and compared the burned areas from permit records and FINN at various spatial scales: individual fire level, 4 km grid level, and state level. The methods developed in this study are readily usable for differentiating burn type, matching and comparing the burned area between two datasets at various resolutions, and estimating prescribed burn emissions. The results showed that burned areas from permits and FINN have a weak correlation at the individual fire level, while the correlation is much higher for the 4 km grid and state levels. Since matching at the 4 km grid level showed a relatively higher correlation and chemical transport models typically use grid-based emissions, we used the linear regression relationship between FINN and permit burned areas at the grid level to adjust FINN burned areas. This adjustment resulted in a reduction in FINN-burned areas by 34%. The adjusted burned area was then used as input to the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework to provide long-term, three-dimensional prescribed burning emissions for the southeastern United States. In this study, we also compared emissions from different methods (FINN or BlueSky) and different data sources (adjusted FINN or permits) to evaluate uncertainties of our emission estimation. The comparison results showed the impacts of the burned area, method, and data source on prescribed burning emission estimations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Drink-Music: The ‘ól’ in Brian Ua Nualláin’s ‘!CEÓL!’ (1932)
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Joseph LaBine and Tobias W Harris
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CEÓL ,Music ,Cartoons ,Joyce ,Finnegans Wake ,Finn ,English literature ,PR1-9680 - Abstract
In the illustration accompanying ‘!CEÓL!’ (!Music!), Brian Ua Nualláin’s 1932 Irish-language story about radio and gramophone music, Ua Nualláin uses an established but outdated spelling of ‘ceol’ to suggest a polysemantic pun. This pun is significant given the story’s subtitle – ‘Eachtra an Fhir Ólta’ (The Tale of the Drunkard) – because it places ‘ól,’ the Irish word for drink, inside the word for music, ‘ceol.’ The resulting portmanteau in Ua Nualláin’s illustration is interfusional in Thomas King’s sense, because it blends the textual with the oral. The orthography Ua Nualláin uses for his visual representation of ‘!CEÓL!’ draws attention to how the word is spoken, and the stress on the second half of the word makes it sound drunken. We argue that the story’s implied title, ‘Drink-Music,’ thematises intertextual play in ways that anticipate Ua Nualláin’s Middle Irish Joycean pastiche ‘Pisa bec oc Parnabus’ (1935/1938). This note provides the first critical discussion of the ‘!CEÓL!’ illustration, observing the presence of Ua Nualláin’s initials in the bottom right-hand corner of the image.
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- 2023
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9. Exploration of Hardware Acceleration Methods for an XNOR Traffic Signs Classifier
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Przewlocka-Rus, Dominika, Kowalczyk, Marcin, Kryjak, Tomasz, Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series Editor, Gomide, Fernando, Advisory Editor, Kaynak, Okyay, Advisory Editor, Liu, Derong, Advisory Editor, Pedrycz, Witold, Advisory Editor, Polycarpou, Marios M., Advisory Editor, Rudas, Imre J., Advisory Editor, Wang, Jun, Advisory Editor, Choraś, Michal, editor, Choraś, Ryszard S., editor, Kurzyński, Marek, editor, Trajdos, Paweł, editor, Pejaś, Jerzy, editor, and Hyla, Tomasz, editor
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- 2022
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10. A Numerical Analysis of the Changes in O 3 Concentration in a Wildfire Plume.
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Kim, Dongjin, Jeon, Wonbae, Park, Jaehyeong, Mun, Jeonghyeok, Choi, Hyunsik, Kim, Cheol-Hee, Lee, Hyo-Jung, and Jo, Hyun-Young
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ADVECTION-diffusion equations , *NUMERICAL analysis , *AIR pollutants , *WILDFIRES , *SOLAR radiation , *PRODUCTION losses , *WILDFIRE prevention , *COMMUNITIES - Abstract
This study analyzed the characteristics of changes in O3 concentration in a plume induced by a wildfire in Andong, South Korea, from 24 to 26 April 2020, using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Fire INventory from National Center for Atmospheric Research (FINN) emissions data were used for the wildfire emissions. The increases in the concentrations of primary pollutants (CO, NOx, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)) due to the wildfire peaked near the source at 09 LST and, as the plume was transported, the reduction in the supply of pollutants from wildfire, as well as chemical reactions, advection and diffusion, and deposition, caused the concentrations to continuously decrease. In contrast, O3 concentration showed a sustained increase during transport due to photochemical reactions caused by precursors (e.g., NOx, VOCs) emitted during the wildfire, peaking (1.40 ppb) at approximately 1 km at 13 LST over 60 km from the source. To analyze these results, a process analysis was conducted. Integrated process rate (IPR) analysis results showed that the production rate of O3 and loss rates of NOx and VOCs peaked at 09 LST due to the photochemical reactions of NOx and VOCs emitted due to wildfire. Then, as the plume was transported, the loss rates of NOx and VOCs that contributed to O3 production continued to decrease at 11 LST. The O3 production rate also decreased at 11 LST but increased at 13 LST due to increasing solar radiation. This indicates that the O3 concentration is complexly determined by O3 precursors and solar radiation. Additionally, IRR analysis revealed that NO and NO2 emitted during wildfire and solar radiation contributed to the production and loss processes of O3; the production reactions of O3 were predominant, and O3 was accumulated and transported in the plume, leading to the peak O3 concentration at 13 LST. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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11. Embedded Object Detection with Custom LittleNet, FINN and Vitis AI DCNN Accelerators.
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Machura, Michal, Danilowicz, Michal, and Kryjak, Tomasz
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GRAPES ,DRIVER assistance systems ,ARTIFICIAL neural networks ,CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks ,VIDEO surveillance - Abstract
Object detection is an essential component of many systems used, for example, in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) or advanced video surveillance systems (AVSS). Currently, the highest detection accuracy is achieved by solutions using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). Unfortunately, these come at the cost of a high computational complexity; hence, the work on the widely understood acceleration of these algorithms is very important and timely. In this work, we compare three different DCNN hardware accelerator implementation methods: coarse-grained (a custom accelerator called LittleNet), fine-grained (FINN) and sequential (Vitis AI). We evaluate the approaches in terms of object detection accuracy, throughput and energy usage on the VOT and VTB datasets. We also present the limitations of each of the methods considered. We describe the whole process of DNNs implementation, including architecture design, training, quantisation and hardware implementation. We used two custom DNN architectures to obtain a higher accuracy, higher throughput and lower energy consumption. The first was implemented in SystemVerilog and the second with the FINN tool from AMD Xilinx. Next, both approaches were compared with the Vitis AI tool from AMD Xilinx. The final implementations were tested on the Avnet Ultra96-V2 development board with the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU3EG device. For two different DNNs architectures, we achieved a throughput of 196 fps for our custom accelerator and 111 fps for FINN. The same networks implemented with Vitis AI achieved 123.3 fps and 53.3 fps, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. Fluidization Prediction of Liquefiable Cargo: Based on FINN and UBCSAND Constitutive Models.
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Zhang, Jianwei, Qian, Weiwen, Lu, Jinshu, and Chen, Gechuan
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Fluidization mechanism of liquefiable cargo is similar to that of sand liquefaction. But the cargo is subjected to more complex external loads during sea transportation. Based on two different constitutive models, numerical predictions were conducted in this study. And the effects of ship motions including motion acceleration, frequency and relative density of cargo on fluidization was investigated. By comparing with available the experimental data, validation is carried out. Results show that the roll motion is the most important one related to cargo fluidization. When the motion acceleration increases, the possibility of cargo fluidization increases. The higher of the cargo density the lower of the possibility of cargo fluidization. The effect of frequency on cargo fluidization is not unique, and it exists a critical value. The fluidization behavior of cargo could be described both by UBCSAND and FINN models. And the comparisons were discussed and summed up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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13. Impact of biomass burnings in Southeast Asia on air quality and pollutant transport during the end of the 2019 dry season.
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Duc, Hiep Nguyen, Bang, Ho Quoc, Quan, Nguyen Hong, and Quang, Ngo Xuan
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BIOMASS burning ,AIR pollutants ,AIR quality ,WEATHER forecasting ,METEOROLOGICAL research ,CARBONACEOUS aerosols - Abstract
At the end of the dry season, March and April in Southeast Asia (SEA), agricultural refuse burnings occur over the region, mainly in the countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, in preparation for the wet rice plantation. In this study, the impact of biomass burnings at the height of the burning period in March 2019 in mainland SEA on air quality and pollutant transport is modelled using the Weather Research Forecast WRF-Chem air quality model with emission input from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Fire Emission Inventory from NCAR (FINN). FINN is derived from satellite remote sensing data and species emission factors. A simulation of the dispersion of pollutants from biomass burnings from 13 to 19 March 2019, when the burnings was most intense, was performed. Validation of the model prediction using observed meteorological and pollutant data such as AOD measurements on ground from AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) and data from MODIS and CALIPSO satellites is carried out at various sites in the region. The results show that impact on air quality was most pronounced in Thailand and Laos but the effect of biomass burnings in mainland SEA at the end of the dry season is widespread in terms of pollutant dispersion and population exposure over the whole region and beyond. It is also shown that the transport of pollutants from biomass burnings in SEA to southern China, Taiwan and beyond is facilitated by the Truong Son mountain range, when under westerly wind, acting as a launching pad to uplift the pollutant plumes to higher altitude which then can be dispersed widely and transported farther from the biomass burning sources in Thailand and Laos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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14. Quantitative analysis of sulfate formation from crop burning in Northeast China: Unveiling the primary processes and transboundary transport to South Korea.
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Kim, Dongjin, Choi, Yunsoo, Jeon, Wonbae, Mun, Jeonghyeok, Park, Jaehyeong, Kim, Cheol-Hee, and Yoo, Jung-Woo
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CARBONACEOUS aerosols , *CROPS , *NITRIC oxide , *CHEMICAL decomposition , *HYDROXYL group , *SUBURBS , *PARTICULATE matter - Abstract
The substantial amount of pollutants produced by crop burning leads to particulate matter (PM 2.5) formation through chemical reactions in the atmosphere. In this study, we quantitatively examined the characteristics of PM 2.5 component concentration changes and the production mechanism of sulfate (SO 4 2−) due to crop burning in China, during a period of high PM 2.5 concentrations in South Korea. Crop burning emissions were obtained from the Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN), and simulations were conducted using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. The concentrations of PM 2.5 , nitrate, ammonium, organic carbon, and elemental carbon caused by crop burning were the highest in Northeast China, while the SO 4 2− concentration was higher in the Shandong Peninsula and the Yellow Sea. SO 4 2− was mainly produced through the oxidation reaction by hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) (H 2 O 2 + S(IV) = S(VI) + H 2 O) (1.44 μg/m3, 80.49%). H 2 O 2 that contributed to SO 4 2− production was primarily produced through the self-reaction of hydroperoxy radical (HO 2). Moreover, HO 2 , which contributed to the production of H 2 O 2 , was mainly formed through the decomposition of peroxynitric acid (PNA), which is produced by nitric oxide (NO x) emissions from crop burning. SO 4 2− in the Yellow Sea was reported to be predominantly produced by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide (SO 2) by hydroxyl radical (OH) (OH + SO 2 = SULF + HO 2); however, our study suggests that the PNA formed by NO x emissions from crop burning could contribute to an increase in H 2 O 2 , which subsequently promotes SO 4 2− production. The produced SO 4 2− was then transported across the Yellow Sea, impacting the elevated PM 2.5 concentrations in Jeju Island, a suburban area of South Korea. These findings demonstrate that the mechanisms of SO 4 2− production by crop burning emissions differ from those of anthropogenic emissions. [Display omitted] • Characteristics of transboundary transport of SO 4 2− concentrations induced by crop burning were investigated. • The SO 4 2− due to crop burning was primarily produced by the reaction of H 2 O 2 with S(IV), differing from that by anthropogenic emissions. • The H 2 O 2 was produced through the self-reaction of HO 2 , which was formed by the decomposition reaction of PNA. • The transported SO 4 2− contributed to an increase in the proportion of SO 4 2− in the PM 2.5 concentrations in South Korea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. Embedded Object Detection with Custom LittleNet, FINN and Vitis AI DCNN Accelerators
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Michal Machura, Michal Danilowicz, and Tomasz Kryjak
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DCNN ,AI ,FPGA ,FINN ,Vitis AI ,GCIoU ,Applications of electric power ,TK4001-4102 - Abstract
Object detection is an essential component of many systems used, for example, in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) or advanced video surveillance systems (AVSS). Currently, the highest detection accuracy is achieved by solutions using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). Unfortunately, these come at the cost of a high computational complexity; hence, the work on the widely understood acceleration of these algorithms is very important and timely. In this work, we compare three different DCNN hardware accelerator implementation methods: coarse-grained (a custom accelerator called LittleNet), fine-grained (FINN) and sequential (Vitis AI). We evaluate the approaches in terms of object detection accuracy, throughput and energy usage on the VOT and VTB datasets. We also present the limitations of each of the methods considered. We describe the whole process of DNNs implementation, including architecture design, training, quantisation and hardware implementation. We used two custom DNN architectures to obtain a higher accuracy, higher throughput and lower energy consumption. The first was implemented in SystemVerilog and the second with the FINN tool from AMD Xilinx. Next, both approaches were compared with the Vitis AI tool from AMD Xilinx. The final implementations were tested on the Avnet Ultra96-V2 development board with the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU3EG device. For two different DNNs architectures, we achieved a throughput of 196 fps for our custom accelerator and 111 fps for FINN. The same networks implemented with Vitis AI achieved 123.3 fps and 53.3 fps, respectively.
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- 2022
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16. Healthcare professionals on the move: Investing in learning a new language for work.
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SCHLEICHER, NÓRA and SUNI, MINNA
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MEDICAL personnel ,FOREIGN language education ,LANGUAGE policy ,PROFESSIONAL identity ,LANGUAGE & languages ,SECOND language acquisition - Abstract
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- 2021
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17. COMPANIES INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE LEASING OR RENTAL (FINN) AS POLAND'S REIT - THE CONCEPT OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE.
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Papież, Renata
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REAL estate business , *REAL estate investment , *REAL estate investment trusts , *REAL estate agents , *STOCK exchanges - Abstract
The planned incorporation into the Polish legal system in the near future and, consequently, the introduction of Companies Investing in Real Estate Leasing or Rental (FINN) into the Polish capital market will result in an institutional change within the financial system. Similarly to closed-ended investment funds and real estate joint-stock companies, the FINN companies will specialize in investing capital in the residential real estate market, and later perhaps also in the commercial real estate market. The principles of FINN's activities included in the legislative draft are modelled directly on the legal regime of the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), therefore, they will be subject to numerous prohibitions and limitations, introducing organizational controls and restrictions to the investments, which however is rationally justified. These procedures aim at creating an entity with a structure of a relatively neutral, passive real estate broker or intermediary, focused solely on generating benefits for investors-shareholders. The initiation of the FINN market in Poland, and thus the scale of the ensuing institutional change, will be determined by the inclination of joint stock companies from the WIGNieruchomości index (Warsaw Stock Exchange Real Estate Index) to transform into FINN companies. In turn, this inclination will be determined by the conditions of institutional change - mostly of a legislative and market-driven character. With this in mind, the aim of this study is to conduct a preliminary analysis of the conditions of institutional change and present a forecast of the development potential of the WIG-Nieruchomości companies, which, due to their very similar scope and form of activity, constitute the main functional basis for the emergence of the FINN market as a new, separate segment of the capital market in Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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18. Neural network partitioning for resource-limited environments
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Geel, Patrick (author) and Geel, Patrick (author)
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The demand for implementing neural networks on edge devices has rapidly increased as they allow designers to move away from expensive server-grade hardware. However, due to the limited resources available on edge devices, it is challenging to implement complex neural networks. This study selected the Kria SoM KV260 hardware platform due to its affordability and sufficient hardware capabilities for creating a resource-constrained environment. By leveraging the hardware acceleration capabilities of the FPGA for specific nodes of the MobileNetv1 model and offloading other nodes to the onboard quad-core ARM cortex-A53 CPU, it was feasible to implement a neural network on a hybrid combination of CPU and FPGA. Results showed that when executing the MobileNetv1 model in a hybrid configuration, a total runtime improvement of 2.8x over a pure CPU implementation can be achieved. The study concludes that node-wise partitioning of the MobileNetv1 model is a practical solution. This approach offers a cost-effective solution for users who seek an accessible way to run neural networks without the need for expensive server-grade hardware., Computer Science
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- 2023
19. The dissolution of ancient Kvenland and the transformation of the Kvens as an ethnic group of people. On changing ethnic categorizations in communicative and collective memories.
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Elenius, Lars
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ETHNIC groups ,GROUP process ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
The aim is to trace how the ethnonym Kven and the interrelated imagination of Kvenland changed over time in Nordic political discourse from the Viking Age to the mid-eighteenth century. In the negotiations over fixed borders between Sweden, Denmark and Russia, recognition of ethnic groups played an important political role in legitimating the territorial claims of the states. It brought the history of ethnic groups to the table and in the process made visible ethnonyms and names for provinces used previously. The continuity of the ethnonyms is investigated as a chronological chain of communicative and collective memory. The ethnonym and the territory of Kvenland were used by the Norwegians to maintain an ethnic boundary with the Finnish speakers in the upper Bothnian area. The names Kven and Kvenland were never used in Sweden. The investigation shows that the Kvens constituted a group of Finnish speaking people existing in continuity from the Viking Age. Their core territory was situated in the upper Gulf of Bothnia area. When this was integrated into the Swedish kingdom the inhabitants were designated Finns by the Swedes. The Finnish speakers in Tornedalen, thus, kept their linguistic and cultural continuity but lost their western Scandinavian ethnonym Kven. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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20. Were the “Kainulaiset” in the Kalix River valley Finnish or Swedish-speakers?
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Elenius, Lars
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INDIGENOUS peoples ,ETHNOLOGICAL names ,FINNISH history ,HISTORY of Norway ,ETHNICITY ,KVEN - Abstract
The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first millennium AD. A tacit truth held today is that the ethnonyms represent the same ancient Finnish-speaking group, only named differently by Norwegians and Finns. The aim of the article is to find out whether the ethnonyms have been used to designate different groups of people. The Finnish-speakers in the nearby Tornedalen has called the lower part of the Kalix River in northernmost Sweden the Kainuu River and the upper part Kaalas River after the original Sámi name of the river. According to theories on ethnicity they called the lower part the Kainuu River [Fin. Kainuunväylä] because they wanted to mark out the Swedish speakers of different ethnicity, who they called Kainulaiset. The latter mainly settled the lower part of the river in the Middle Ages and Finnish-speakers the upper part. The article reveals that the Sámi variety Gainolâš was used by the Sámi for depicting dominant majority populations of different ethnicity, especially Scandinavians, but sometimes also Finns. It also argues that Finnish settlers in southern Finland and the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia used Kainulainen for depicting Swedish settlers when the two language groups first encountered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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21. GMA PLAY OF THE DAY.
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NORMAN, JANAI
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JANAI NORMAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) We are back now with our "Play of the Day," and, oh, baby. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2024
22. Editors’ Introduction for NANO Special Issue 12: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters, Media, and Event
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Jason W. Ellis and Sean Scanlan
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Star Wars ,The Force Awakens ,comparison ,hero ,transmedia ,Rey ,Finn ,Kylo Ren ,Luke Skywalker ,George Lucas ,Poe Dameron ,Introduction ,History of scholarship and learning. The humanities ,AZ20-999 ,Language and Literature ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
The Force Awakens enables, even fosters comparisons: is Rey a worthy hero? Is Finn believable as a once-Stormtrooper turned good resistance fighter? Is Kylo Ren anywhere close in power and ability to his role model, Darth Vader? Readers can glean my opinion from that evaluative sentence. Are the scenes parallel to earlier movies? This movie, the new characters, the new poster, the toys, the novelization (by Alan Dean Foster, the science fiction writer and film novelization specialist who served as ghost writer for George Lucas’ Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, 1976, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2016), and the countless viewing parties, the information sites such as Wookieepedia, and wonderful spoofs such as YouTube’s Bad Lip Reading enable me to say that this film is far beyond simple nostalgia and money-making scheme—though both of those are in play here. It is not the completeness and closure of The Force Awakens that compelled the editors to select that movie and those experiences for a special issue. Instead, it is the excitement that this jump-start has created. The structure at the center of the Star Wars universe has held, and the future looks bright for more new characters and also more wars. The battle for political and economic control on Jakku has something to do with our current Earth-bound problems about inequality and migration and war. But more locally, for Issue 12, questions about identity come to the fore: Who gets to create new Star Wars characters? Who gets to play those new characters? Who gets to play with storylines? Who gets to be the hero and villain? Who gets to voice opinions about the new shape of the First Order? These questions lead to “how” questions—especially how should new viewers and readers understand The Force Awakens. These questions motivate the four articles and one interview in this special issue.
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23. "ONE WISH PROJECT".
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BENITEZ, GIO
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And welcome to this morning's Ray of Sunshine. Gio is downstairs. Hey, Gio. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2024
24. A Numerical Investigation of Dynamic Behavior of a Unit Cell of a Loose sand Reinforced by Stone Column Under the Effect of Gravity Using Finn Model
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Noui, Abdelkader, Karech, Toufik, and Bouzid, Tayeb
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- 2019
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25. A machine-learning approach for identifying dense-fires and assessing atmospheric emissions on the Indochina Peninsula, 2010–2020.
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Zhong, Yaoqian, Ning, Ping, Yan, Si, Zhang, Chaoneng, Xing, Jia, Shi, Jianwu, and Hao, Jiming
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MACHINE learning , *WILDFIRE prevention , *AIR pollutants , *CONSTRAINT algorithms , *PENINSULAS , *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) - Abstract
Persistent and intensive wildland dense-fires (DFs) release substantial amounts of airborne pollutants, resulting in a sharp increase in emissions and leading to serious impacts on the environment and human health over extensive geographical areas. It is challenging to thoroughly investigate patterns of fire occurrence and fire distribution for predicting wildfire behaviour, and it is especially difficult to distinguish the characteristics of human-caused and climate-driven fires. Here, we identify and assess dense-fire (DF) from the perspective of spatiotemporally integrated processes using a machine-learning method based on a density-based clustering algorithm with noise constraint ratio. DFs represent collections of fires with homogenous behaviour and therefore allow the study of their internal features, which can reveal fixed patterns of fire occurrence and distribution as well as the evolution of fires over time. We estimated and labelled thousands of fire clusters on the Indochina Peninsula between 2010 and 2020, most of which occurred between December and May. For large-scale DFs, the number of fires contained and amount of atmospheric pollutants emitted were accounted for throughout most of the region, and the time, location and scale of their occurrence each year were relatively stable and predictable. Furthermore, the results of a secondary cluster analysis of fire interactions over the past decade showed two extreme fire events, labelled"north" and"south" groups, whose activities significantly impacted the atmospheric environment of the Indochina Peninsula. Additionally, we predicted their start/end dates and daily emissions. The study also found that the recurrence of high-density fires and the correlation between the DF edge and administrative border suggested a positive anthropogenic influence. To the authors' knowledge, this study is the first to analyze fires in a spatiotemporal Euclidean space by using density-based clustering, with high-density fires as independent subjects to study fire behaviour. The method proposed in this study can provide a reference for wildfire prediction and emission forecasting and fire control work. [Display omitted] • Propose a new concept for studying high-density fires based on density algorithm. • Indicate the predictability of large-scale dense-fire distributions and emissions. • Anthropogenic influence is one of the important factors in fire distribution. • Two large-scale intensive fires dominate the emissions in the Indochina Peninsula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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26. Improving the usability and scalability of FINN, a DNN compiler for FPGAs
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Vimal Kumar, Uma Maheshwari (author) and Vimal Kumar, Uma Maheshwari (author)
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FINN is a framework developed by Xilinx Research Labs that compiles Deep Neural Network software descriptions into fast and scalable dataflow architectures for inference acceleration on FPGAs. The dataflow architectures are network dependent, sized according to the user-defined throughput requirements, and constrained by available resources on the user-specified FPGA board. Synthesising large neural network designs with a high degree of configurability leads to large build times, spanning from hours to days, to build an entire network. Thus, the first objective of this thesis is to explore and propose a modified FINN accelerator construction methodology that can substantially reduce the build times. The main idea behind our proposal is to reduce the granularity of the architecture to reduce the size of synthesis jobs and to enable logic reuse within and across neural network layers. Using this method, up to 12× speedup in High-Level Synthesis times and up to 2× speedup in end-to-end build times of accelerator networks are achieved. The second limitation that this work addresses relates to the performance scalability of FINN generated architectures. There are two modes of parallelism in FINN that currently provide performance scaling in convolution operations. The first factor, which modifies the number of Processing Elements (PEs), parallelises along the input channels of a convolutional layer and the second factor, that modifies the number of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) lanes present in each PE, parallelises along the number of output channels of the convolution. Computations are currently not parallelisable across the non-depth dimensions of images, i.e., the side containing pixels of images that faces the viewer. This limitation can restrict the achievable performance for networks that contain layers with large image dimensions and shallow depth dimension. The second part of this work leverages the fine-grained construction methodology
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- 2021
27. Integration of a convolutional neural network for speech-to-text recognition in an FPGA compiler flow
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Mrahorović, Mirza (author) and Mrahorović, Mirza (author)
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Deep Neural Network (DNNs) have increased significantly in size over the past decade. Partly due to this, the accuracy of DNNs in image classification and speech recognition tasks has increased as well. This enables a great potential for such models to be applied in real-world applications. However, due to their size, the compute and power requirements are often too large to deploy these models on edge devices. This prohibits applying such models within a rich field of application demanding high-throughput and real-time execution. Deploying quantized DNNs on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) overcomes this problem. FPGAs are well known for their low-latency, high-throughput, and low-energy capabilities. However, creating hand-tuned FPGA designs requires expert-level knowledge of the underlying hardware domain. Especially for mathematicians or software engineers that develop new quantized DNNs, but also for experienced hardware designers that want to implement a large DNN on an FPGA, the implementation burden is often too large to reap any practical benefits from accelerating the application on an FPGA. The open-source FINN compiler, introduced by Xilinx Research Lab, provides an excellent bridge between the software and hardware domain by allowing quantized DNN inference FPGA accelerators to be generated from a high-level description of the quantized DNN in the widely adopted open-source ONNX format. Due to lower-level implementation details being abstracted away, the question is how this affects the performance of the generated accelerator. This work examines whether FPGA implementations of CNN-based models for speech-to-text inference can be generated automatically by means of FINN. For this purpose, a sub state-of-the-art CNN for speech-to-text recognition, named QuartzNet, is targeted for FPGA acceleration. To achieve this, extensions to the FINN compiler are proposed to enable generating 1D CNN inference accelerators for F, Computer Engineering
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- 2021
28. Quantized neural networks on the PYNQ development system
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Grekšić, Petar and Mlinarić, Hrvoje
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PyVerilator ,PYNQ ,Docker ,Vivado ,ONNX ,TEHNIČKE ZNANOSTI. Računarstvo ,Brevitas ,neural networks ,razvojna pločica ,verifikacija ,TECHNICAL SCIENCES. Computing ,konvolucija ,neuronske mreže ,cppsim ,convolution ,kvantizacija ,development board ,quantization ,PYNQ-Z1 ,verification ,Xilinx ,FINN ,Pytorch ,Python - Abstract
Popularnost korištenja neuronskih mreža u modernim računalnim sustavima svakim danom sve više raste, kao i kompleksnost problema koji se rješavaju uz pomoć tih neuronskih mreža. Poznatiji problemi koji se rješavaju uz pomoć neuronskih mreža uključuju prepoznavanje uzoraka na slikama ili video signalu, prepoznavanje teksta, pretvaranje teksta u govor ili obratno, klimatsko predviđanje i mnogi drugi manje poznati problemi. Međutim, kako istraživači povećavaju strukturu neuronskih mreža kako bi klasificirali komplicirane probleme uz veliku preciznost, moderne neuronske mreže mogu zauzimati nekoliko GB memorije u parametrima i zahtijevati nekoliko milijardi operacija za klasifikaciju jednog ulaza što je nepovoljno za izvođenje na računalnim sustavima koji imaju ograničenja u područjima memorije i potrošnje energije, primjerice ugradbeni računalni sustavi ili računalni sustavi koji zahtijevaju veliki stupanj skalabilnosti. Na sreću, dokazano je da neuronske mreže s parametrima u obliku brojeva s pomičnim zarezom sadrže veliki stupanj redundancije, odnosno da se isti problemi mogu, uz prihvatljiv gubitak na preciznosti, klasificirati uz pomoć neuronskih mreža s kvantiziranim parametrima. U sklopu ovog diplomskog rada opisan je postupak treniranja kvantiziranih neuronskih mreža korištenjem programske biblioteke Brevitas, prevođenje treniranog modela kvantizirane neuronske mreže iz ONNX podatkovnog formata u oblik pogodan za Vivado HLS sintezu uz pomoć skriptnog prevodioca FINN i izrada pokaznog sustava koji se izvodi na PYNQ-Z1 razvojnoj pločici. Pokazni sustav se sastoji od dvije Jupyter bilježnice od kojih prva služi za testiranje performansi dobivenog akceleratora, a druga omogućava klasifikaciju slike dohvaćene putem USB kamere. Korisnik upravlja s pokaznim sustavom tako da se spoji na poslužitelj Jupyter bilježnica koji je pokrenut na PYNQ-Z1 razvojnoj pločici koristeći web preglednik. The popularity of using neural networks in modern computing system grows with each passing day, as does the complexity of the problems which are solved with aforementioned neural networks. Some of the more known problems that are solved by using neural networks include pattern recognition in images or video signal, text recognition, text to speech conversion or speech to text conversion, climate change prediction along with many other less known problems. However, as researchers increase the structure of neural network sin order to classify more complex problems with great precision, modern neural networks can take up a few GB in memory for parameters and require a few billion floating point operations just to classify a single input which is not suitable for deployment on computing system with limitations regarding memory or energy consumption, such as embedded computing systems or computing systems with high scalability requirements. Luckily, it was proven that full precision floating point neural networks contain a lot of redundancy, or in other words it was shown that quantized parameter neural networks can be used to solve the same problems, albeit with acceptable accuracy loss. This masters thesis describes the training of quantized neural networks using Brevitas, exporting the neural networks from ONNX model format to a form which is suitable for Vivado HLS synthesis with the help of the FINN script compiler and construction of a demonstration system which is executed on a PYNQ-Z1 development board. The demonstration system consists of two Jupyter notebooks of which the first is used for testing the performance of the accelerator and the second is used to classify the image taken by the USB camera. Interfacing with the demonstration system is done by connecting to the running Jupyter notebook server on the PYNQ-Z1 development board with a web browser.
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- 2021
29. Dimensions of third party policing.
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Mazerolle, Lorraine and Ransley, Janet
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A central part of contemporary police work is forging partnerships with individuals, groups and organizations in an effort to regulate, control and prevent crime (Sparrow, 2000). Police team up with property owners, building inspectors, environmental regulators, education department representatives, community groups, insurance companies, business leaders, local government personnel and anyone else who is motivated and able to work with police. But what happens when police co-opt and coerce organizations and/or individuals to help the police pursue their crime control and crime prevention functions? What happens when organizations and/or individuals are unmotivated or unwilling to go outside of their routine activities to take on a crime control or crime prevention responsibility? In our caravan park example described in Chapter 1, the park manager was unmotivated to deal with the multitude of problems stemming from his caravan park. It was not until the police found a “lever” (in this case the “lever” was a local council regulation and an insurance policy) – to “motivate” the park manager (a “third party”) into altering his practices. This process of using legal levers to regulate, co-opt and coerce third parties is central to what we describe as “third party policing” (see also Buerger and Mazerolle, 1998: 301). Third party policing exists in many forms. In about 30 percent of all third party policing initiatives, the police use coercion or persuasion of third parties to solve ongoing problems within the context of their problem-oriented policing program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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30. Was Huck Greek? The Odyssey of Mark Twain.
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Deneen, Patrick J.
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STORY plots , *LITERATURE - Abstract
Based on archival evidence, the essay suggests that Twain was conscious of the similarities between "Huckleberry Finn" and Homer’s "Odyssey," and further suggests grounds for their comparison beyond apparent plot similarities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
31. Primjena FPGA programabilne logike za ubrzanje rada neuronske mreže za prepoznavanje gesti ruke
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Jerković, Nikola and Kovačić, Zdenko
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Jetson TX2 ,FPGA, duboke neuronske mreže, Vitis AI, FINN, Jetson TX2, DPU ,deep neural networks ,DPU ,TECHNICAL SCIENCES. Computing ,Vitis AI ,TEHNIČKE ZNANOSTI. Računarstvo ,duboke neuronske mreže ,FPGA ,FINN - Abstract
U radu su obrađene mogućnosti implementacije duboke neuronske mreže na Xilinx edukacijskoj platformi PYNQ Z1. Prolazi se kroz načine rada različitih rješenja, njihove prednosti, mane, načine postavljanja na platformu i poteškoće koje dolaze s tim. Krajnji rezultati su dijelom dobiveni eksperimentom, dijelom teoretski te se uspoređuju s alternativnom platformom nVidia Jetson TX2 koja umjesto FPGA sklopa koristi nVidia GPU s CUDA akceleracijom. Jetson TX2 se za svoju cijenu pokazao drastično jačim, konzistentniji u performansama te daleko lakši za razvoj i eksperimentaciju s puno širom podrškom. In this work we look at the possible implementations of deep neural networks on Xilinx's educational platform, the PYNQ Z1. We go through the way different solutions work, their advantages and disadvantages, setup procedures and the difficulties that come with them. The end results are part eksperiment, part theory and are compared to an alterntative platform, the nVidia Jetson TX2 which uses an nVidia GPU with CUDA acceleration instead of an FPGA circuit. The Jetson TX2 proved to be drastically more powerful, consistent in performance and far easier to develop and experiment with while alos having far better support.
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- 2021
32. Were the 'Kainulaiset' in the Kalix River valley Finnish or Swedish-speakers?
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Lars Elenius
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Cultural Studies ,010506 paleontology ,History ,Sociology and Political Science ,Etnologi ,Kven ,Norwegian ,01 natural sciences ,Historia ,Ethnonym ,nationalism ,0601 history and archaeology ,Finn ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Reinterpretation ,River valley ,060102 archaeology ,Sámi ,06 humanities and the arts ,language.human_language ,Nationalism ,Anthropology ,language ,Viking Age ,ethnicity ,Ethnology ,Kainulainen - Abstract
The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first millennium AD. A tacit truth held today is that the ethnonyms represent the same ancient Finnish-speaking group, only named differently by Norwegians and Finns. The aim of the article is to find out whether the ethnonyms have been used to designate different groups of people. The Finnish-speakers in the nearby Tornedalen has called the lower part of the Kalix River in northernmost Sweden the Kainuu River and the upper part Kaalas River after the original Sámi name of the river. According to theories on ethnicity they called the lower part the Kainuu River [Fin. Kainuunväylä] because they wanted to mark out the Swedish speakers of different ethnicity, who they called Kainulaiset. The latter mainly settled the lower part of the river in the Middle Ages and Finnish-speakers the upper part. The article reveals that the Sámi variety Gainolâš was used by the Sámi for depicting dominant majority populations of different ethnicity, especially Scandinavians, but sometimes also Finns. It also argues that Finnish settlers in southern Finland and the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia used Kainulainen for depicting Swedish settlers when the two language groups first encountered. Recalling the Past, Silvermuseet, Arjeplog
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- 2018
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33. Star Tracks.
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The article presents photos of celebrities at various events as of August 17, 2015, including actress Emmy Rossum in Malibu, California, actress Lena Dunham in Sag Harbor, New York, and actress Tori Spelling with her children in La Jolla, California.
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- 2015
34. Warmup.
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Gaudiosi, John and Andres, Patrick
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DESIGNATED hitters (Baseball) ,CHAMPIONSHIPS - Abstract
The article reports on developments relating to professional sports in the U.S. as of June 2015. Topics include whether the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs needs a designated hitter, an interview with National Basketball Association player Stephen Curry and on how collegiate baseball teams make it to Omaha, Nebraska to play for the national championship.
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- 2015
35. Small wonder.
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Lennon, Christine
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INTERIOR architecture - Abstract
The article evaluates architectural design of Architect Isabelle Duvivier's bungalow in Venice, Italy, which she converted into a water-saving power-house.
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- 2015
36. ‘Sweet analytics’: Athleticism and Elementary-School Football Associations.
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Kerrigan, Colm
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SCHOOL sports ,SOCCER for children ,SOCCER associations ,ATHLETIC ability ,ELEMENTARY schools ,HISTORY - Abstract
Copyright of International Journal of the History of Sport is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2012
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37. 'A Potent and Pervasive Ideology': Athleticism and the English Elementary School.
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Hickey, ColmFintan
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Copyright of International Journal of the History of Sport is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2011
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38. MYSTERY ILLNESS IMPACTING DOGS.
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ROBERTS, ROBIN and LENGHI, MOLA
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ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It certainly is, Michael. But now we have a new alert about a mystery illness that can be fatal for dogs. So far at least 30 dogs have reportedly died in Michigan from this illness that appears to mimic a known dog virus. Mola Lenghi joins us now with more on all this. Good morning, Mola. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2022
39. Were the 'Kainulaiset' in the Kalix River valley Finnish or Swedish-speakers? : A reinterpretation of ethnonyms in Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia area from the Viking Age and onwards
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Elenius, Lars and Elenius, Lars
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The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first millennium AD. A tacit truth held today is that the ethnonyms represent the same ancient Finnish-speaking group, only named differently by Norwegians and Finns. The aim of the article is to find out whether the ethnonyms have been used to designate different groups of people. The Finnish-speakers in the nearby Tornedalen has called the lower part of the Kalix River in northernmost Sweden the Kainuu River and the upper part Kaalas River after the original Sámi name of the river. According to theories on ethnicity they called the lower part the Kainuu River [Fin. Kainuunväylä] because they wanted to mark out the Swedish speakers of different ethnicity, who they called Kainulaiset. The latter mainly settled the lower part of the river in the Middle Ages and Finnish-speakers the upper part. The article reveals that the Sámi variety Gainolâš was used by the Sámi for depicting dominant majority populations of different ethnicity, especially Scandinavians, but sometimes also Finns. It also argues that Finnish settlers in southern Finland and the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia used Kainulainen for depicting Swedish settlers when the two language groups first encountered.
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40. ENINTYN, CRUTHIN, FER BENN, FINN
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Boucherit, Gilles, Le Coadic, Ronan, Service Commun de Documentation - Université Rennes 2 (SCD Rennes 2), Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC Rennes), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), and Ronan Le Coadic
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Pretani ,Afanasievo ,Bell Beakers ,Scythes ,Cruthin ,Hittites ,[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology ,[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics ,Buile Suibhne ,Yamna ,Evenks ,Finn ,[SHS.RELIG]Humanities and Social Sciences/Religions - Abstract
International audience; Evel ma tisplegan ma unan e derou al labour enklask am boa savet e stumm un dezenn dindan renerezh Francis Favereau, on « deuet da gregiñ en danvez studi-mañ dre zegouezh peogwir edon e soñj ober war-dro tem an Den Gouez da zigentañ. En ur bleustriñ "Gwerz Skolan", pennad brudet Donatien Laurent e-touez studierien Kevrenn Geltiek Roazhon 2, on bet hentet dre hir-ober da bleustriñ un oberenn hollvrudet all, un tenergan Iwerzhoneg eus an daouzekvet kantved, anvet "Buile Suibhne". Dre forzh studial, n'em eus ket gallet herzel ouzhin da lenn ar poz seizh hag hanter-kant rannbennad daou-ugent m'eo chomet a-sav ma spered war ar werzenn-mañ: "A mathair na groidhi-si" troet gant James George O'Keeffe (1865-1937) evel-hen: « O mother of this herd ».Ne oan ket engortoz kejañ gant ar pezh a anvan un azeul karv e-kerz an tenergan, a zo eus an trizekvet kantved G.K. a vije gwell skrivañ hiziv : lakaat an 12vet kantved en titl evel prantad amzer da Buile Suibhne evel ma vez lakaet ordin, n'eo ket gwir penn-da-benn peogwir e-giz ma skriv an embanner e-unan, an tenergan a c'hell bezañ bet savet nep koulz etre 1200 ha 1500. Din da c'houzout, 1200 a zo derou an trizekvet kantved.Goude sellet ouzh an arouezioù marzhoniel a gaver en destenn, e tizoloimp ez eus lod a zo tost a-walc'h ouzh re marzhoniezh an Evenked, daoust d'an hed ha d'an amzer a zo etre an daou sevenadur. Komz a raimp eus divroadur Afanasievo ha eus sevenadur Andronovo, menel a raimp a sav un herradig ouzh o studial en abeg d'an daou zarvoud bezañ perzh e dont war wel an arouezioù marzhoniel lavaret en Europa. Poentoù boutin a vo kavet ivez etre marzhoniezh an Evenked ha kelc'h al Leinster dre ma vezo empleget ennañ bláthnat, ur vaouez heizez a roio buhez da Oisin mab Finn. Komzet e vo pelloc'h eus ar C'hruthin ha neuze eus ar bPretani diouzh ur sav-poent nevez, hini ar c'heltieg o tont eus ar c'hornog. Ar sav-boent nevez-se a eilger goulennoù a harpe ouzh hor studiadenn da vont war-raok, da lavaret eo kudenn an amzerañ dreist-holl met ivez hini donedigezh an dud war aodoù an Inizi Keltiek d'ar mare-se ha dougen ganto en o speredoù un azeul karv.; Evel ma tisplegan ma unan e derou al labour enklask am boa savet e stumm un dezenn dindan renerezh Francis Favereau, on « deuet da gregiñ en danvez studi-mañ dre zegouezh peogwir edon e soñj ober war-dro tem an Den Gouez da zigentañ. En ur bleustriñ "Gwerz Skolan", pennad brudet Donatien Laurent e-touez studierien Kevrenn Geltiek Roazhon 2, on bet hentet dre hir-ober da bleustriñ un oberenn hollvrudet all, un tenergan Iwerzhoneg eus an daouzekvet kantved, anvet "Buile Suibhne". Dre forzh studial, n'em eus ket gallet herzel ouzhin da lenn ar poz seizh hag hanter-kant rannbennad daou-ugent m'eo chomet a-sav ma spered war ar werzenn-mañ: "A mathair na groidhi-si" troet gant James George O'Keeffe (1865-1937) evel-hen: « O mother of this herd ». 1 Ne oan ket engortoz kejañ gant ar pezh a anvan un azeul karv e-kerz an tenergan, a zo eus an trizekvet kantved G.K. a vije gwell skrivañ hiziv : lakaat an 12vet kantved en titl evel prantad amzer da Buile Suibhne evel ma vez lakaet ordin, n'eo ket gwir penn-da-benn peogwir e-giz ma skriv an embanner e-unan, an tenergan a c'hell bezañ bet savet nep koulz etre 1200 ha 1500. Din da c'houzout, 1200 a zo derou an trizekvet kantved. Goude sellet ouzh an arouezioù marzhoniel a gaver en destenn, e tizoloimp ez eus lod a zo tost a-walc'h ouzh re marzhoniezh an Evenked, daoust d'an hed ha d'an amzer a zo etre an daou sevenadur. Komz a raimp eus divroadur Afanasievo ha eus sevenadur Andronovo, menel a raimp a sav un herradig ouzh o studial en abeg d'an daou zarvoud bezañ perzh e dont war wel an arouezioù marzhoniel lavaret en Europa. Poentoù boutin a vo kavet ivez etre marzhoniezh an Evenked ha kelc'h al Leinster dre ma vezo empleget ennañ bláthnat, ur vaouez heizez a roio buhez da Oisin mab Finn. Komzet e vo pelloc'h eus ar C'hruthin ha neuze eus ar bPretani diouzh ur sav-poent nevez, hini ar c'heltieg o tont eus ar c'hornog. Ar sav-boent nevez-se a eilger goulennoù a harpe ouzh hor studiadenn da vont war-raok, da lavaret eo kudenn an amzerañ dreist-holl met ivez hini donedigezh an dud war aodoù an Inizi Keltiek d'ar mare-se ha dougen ganto en o speredoù un azeul karv. Buile Suibhne Da gentañ-holl eo gwell gouzout eus petra emaomp o vont da gomz: an tenergan anvet Buile Suibhne a zo diwar-benn Suibne roue an Dál nAraidhe, a zo bet milliget gant sant Ronan da gentañ evit bezañ nac'het dezhañ sevel un iliz war e zouaroù. Keloù brezel a vo diouzhtu war lerc'h etre 'Domnall son of Aodh, and Domnall Brecc a zo Congal Claon mab Scannlan ha Suibne roue an Dál nAraidhe, kevredidi dezhañ. Suibne a lazho unan eus psalmourien Ronan a glaske degas peoc'h etre an daou lu. Treiñ a ra Suibne da foll gant ar braouac'hus m'eo an trouz e derou emgann Mag Rath, ha nijal kuit eus an dachenn evel ul labous. Kantren a ra dre ar c'hoadoù ha c'hoarvezout a ra dezhañ avañturioù a bep seurt gant tud eus e veuriad a glask lakaat an dorn warnañ. Met tec'hout kuit a ra atav ha bevañ en diene brasañ en abeg da milligoù ar sant. A-benn ar fin, Noblañs Dál nAraidhe a deu a-benn da dapout an den foll. Staget eo ken na vo deuet e skiant vat dezhañ. D'ar mare-se e vo lezet 1 A mamm ar bagad-se!
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41. Simulation of Forest Fires Smoke Using WRF-Chem Model with FINN Fire Emissions in Sumatera
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Danang Eko Nuryanto
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Smoke ,CO ,Meteorology ,smoke ,Weather Research and Forecasting Model ,Climatology ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,forest fires ,Satellite ,WRF-CHEM ,FINN ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
The forest fires smoke event of 7 March 2014 in Sumatera-Indonesia has been simulated using WRF-Chem with the Fire Inventory from NCAR (FINN) fire emissions dataset. These simulations begun 6 March 2014 at 12 UTC until 9 March 2014 at 00 UTC. The results show that the smoke moved to southwest direction covering Riau Province. Moreover, the source of the smoke was also detected from Malaysia which could be seen from both satellite images and the output model. This simulations model have revealed most of the location of forest fires and the spreading of the smoke were properly captured.
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- 2015
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42. PLAY OF THE DAY.
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NORMAN, JANAI
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JANAI NORMAN (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Any chance we get to play this song. We are back now with our "Play of the Day." And what's better than some football with your dog on Sunday, right? How about combining the two? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2021
43. Jim has dark sides: Jim's possible affair with Miss Watson in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Jim ,Huckleberry ,Watson ,Finn - Published
- 2008
44. The Reconsideration of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Jim's'white inside'
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Jim ,Huckleberry ,white ,Twain ,Finn - Published
- 2001
45. THE SECRET IN THE SUITCASE.
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ROBACH, AMY
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AMY ROBACH (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) What's the last thing you remember saying to him? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2020
46. PLAY OF THE DAY.
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HOLMES, T.J.
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T.J. HOLMES (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Back now with our "Play of the Day," And fetch is a very easy game. You toss something, the dog gets it and brings it back. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2020
47. Antiheltinnen. Eller: Tro kan flytte fjell
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Kahrs, Julia Lossius
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hvit ,Trisse ,sørgespill ,Linde ,skam ,narsissisme ,Petterson ,Skjul ,ironi ,Muecke ,Andr ,Heidi ,sorg ,Pym ,Finn ,Skårderud ,antiheltinne ,Freud ,person ,Sigmund ,Tredje ,Julia ,entall ,antihelt ,melankoli ,anomi ,Kristeva ,Vigdis ,Benjamin ,Green ,Gejl ,Hjorth ,Walter - Abstract
Flere har den senere tiden påpekt fremtredelsen av en pøbelaktig kvinneskikkelse i litteraturen. Velkommen til antiheltinden og kvinden som skvat skrev journalist Mette-Line Thorup 4. september 2008 i Information. Skvat er en person som mangler mot eller viljestyrke, skvat er den lille mengden væske som skvulper over kanten. Det ble skrevet om grenseløse kvinner og kvinnerollens begrensninger. Og nå er hun altså her: antiheltinnen. Men kvinnen i litteraturen har jo sprengt grenser før, og likevel ble det altså fremhevet at antiheltinnen er ny. I Litteraturvitenskapelig leksikon blir antihelten definert som en litterær helt med negative egenskaper. Lilian Furst og James Wilson skriver i essaysamlingen The Anti-Hero: His Emergence and Transformations at man vil bli skuffet dersom man leter etter et entydig svar på hva en antihelt er. Summen av essayene sirkler likevel rundt en del samlende prinsipper. Antihelten har en passiv natur og drives av lystprinsippet. Han har en uvilje mot å forandre både seg selv og verden. Men passiviteten er aldri dødbringende; han evner å beholde håpet. Det er gjerne en del ironi implisitt i optimismen, og Furst hevder selvironien er det konstituerende for antihelten. Ved å vise gapet mellom det reelle og det ideelle latterliggjøres heltens strev, og antihelten blir stående som en opprører mot rådende verdier. Han kommuniserer med samtiden og gir en annen erfaring av å være menneske. I denne oppgaven har jeg søkt å finne antiheltinneligheten i tre forskjellige litterære karakterer. Jeg har lagt to kvinnelige pøbler under en psykoanalytisk lupe og studert deres annerledeshet. Fanny Frandsen fra Trisse Gejls Skjul (2008) er blitt sammenliknet med den grenseløse Hulda Kråkefjær fra Tredje person entall (2008) av Vigdis Hjorth. Både Fanny og Hulda eksemplifiserer pøbelvirksomhet i større eller mindre grad. Fyll, forbrytelser og selvdestruktivitet gjorde det relevant, i lys av den senere tids påpekning av lite flatterende kvinnekarakterers fremvekst i litteraturen, å undersøke deres likheter og ulikheter. Psykoanalytisk teori har vært et velegnet middel til å forstå hva annerledesheten deres har bestått av. Målet har vært å granske Huldas og Fannys annerledeshet for å finne hva som bidrar til å plassere noen i en antiheltinnekategori. Hva er en antiheltinne? Og er hun virkelig ny? Hvorfor trer hun i så fall frem først nå? Ved siden av Fanny og Hulda plasserte jeg elleve år gamle Pym fra Pym Pettersons mislykka familie (2012) av Heidi Linde. Pym og Fanny er, i motsetning til Hulda, blitt definert som antiheltinner. Med god hjelp fra blant andre Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, André Green, Walter Benjamin, Søren Kierkegaard og D. C. Muecke har jeg funnet det antiheltinnelige. Én kvinne trer over i sørgespillet. Å spille med sorgen blir hennes nøkkel til nytelse, der den hvite sorgen både iscenesettes og brukes som skalkeskjul for å slippe å gjøre noe. Den andre kvinnen forblir i tragedien. Og antiheltinnen trives ikke i tragedien. Å være en pøbel er rett og slett ikke tilstrekkelig for å få benevnelsen antiheltinne. Videre har jeg studert de tre i lys av samtidens anomiske risikolandskap. Jeg plasserer dem i et lukket rom, et åpent rom og et annet rom. Antiheltinnen gir en annen erfaring av å være menneske. Fannys erfaring eksemplifiserer overlevelsesstrategier for å mestre et indre og ytre Arktis. Hennes kompass er det ironiske, tvetydigheten, som frigjør fra fasiten. Huldas erfaring er tilværelsens ufrihet. Hennes skjebne viser at en hendelse gjerne begynner et sted der man ikke kan gripe den. For Hulda er smerten det sanneste. Antiheltinnen viser at det er tanken som teller, og at tro kan flytte fjell. Hun gestalter i det hele tatt frihet i en anomisk samtid fratatt fasit, og kan på (nesten) ingen måte sies å være en heltinne. Antiheltinnen er blitt sagt å være en ny litterær karakter, og det er jeg villig til å si meg enig i. Kvinner har vært katastrofale før, men lystprinsippet blir styrende for antiheltinnens annerledeshet, slik at den likevel blir annerledes i all sin annerledeshet. Den er verken ledsaget av håpløshet eller dødelige moralske følger fordi alle former for misnøye kolliderer med velbehaget.
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- 2014
48. PRP-2014: Parallelle, faseoppdelte og rekursive algoritmer
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Eidsvik, Peter Ludvik
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PRP ,triangulering ,variabler ,multikjerner ,delte ,finn ,største ,felles ,data ,parallellitet ,programmering ,Quicksort ,parallell ,Java ,tall ,Delaunay - Abstract
Parallell programmering blir mer og mer viktig ettersom vi får flere prosesseringsenheter i en datamaskin. Derimot kan slik programmering være vanskelig, fordi det kreves ekstra administrativ kode for å sette i gang parallellitet. Programflyten er også vanskeligere å se for seg, når forskjellige oppgaver i programmet kjører selvstendig i parallell. Derfor er Java PRP(Parallell recursive procedures) laget for å være et program mellom brukerens sekvensielle program, og kompilatoren. Java PRP lager et parallelt program, basert på det sekvensielle programmet, uten at det har noe påvirkning på resultatet. Dette gjør at man kan muligens oppnå bedre kjøretider, uten at man må ta for seg den administrative koden selv. Denne versjonen av Java PRP har sett nærmere på påvirkningen av delte variabler i parallelle programmer, og hvordan dette kan håndteres. Løsningen er at Java PRP tar for seg faseoppdelte programmer, der hver fase har en parallell del og en sekvensiell del, der vi kan håndtere delte variabler i den sekvensielle delen, og dermed få full parallellitet i den parallelle delen. Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg tre eksempler, hvor vi sammenligner en sekvensiell versjon og Java PRP sin parallelle versjon. De to første, nemlig finn største tall i en mengde og Quicksort, er ikke kjørt i flere faser, men baserer seg på én metode. Det siste og største eksempelet er Delaunay triangulering, og er et større program i tre faser. I alle tre eksemplene får vi en speedup. Selve Java PRP programmet kan man finne på http://folk.uio.no/peterlei. Her finner man filen under navnet JavaPRP.java.
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- 2014
49. Sverigefinne duger nästan, sverigefinska finns inte än... : Tankar om språkbevarande och sverigefinnars identiteter
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Lainio, Jarmo
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multiple identities ,Finne ,Languages and Literature ,minority ,sverigefinne ,minoritet ,Sweden Finnish ,Språk och litteratur ,sverigefinska ,multipla identiteter ,Sweden Finn ,Finn - Published
- 2005
50. CHRISTMAS GIFTS 101.
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ROBERTS, ROBIN and WORLEY, BECKY
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ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It was special when she was here before, and now again. But first we have our gift guru. Becky Worley is here to show us how to get those high tech presents you're unwrapping under the tree. Becky, you have two, do you have any special assistance with you at all? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2019
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