Steady Improvement of Cybersecurity Safeguarding Capacity

Southern California, with a coastal population of 12 million people, releases about 4.4 million cubic meters of treated waste water into the Pacific every day via outfalls that discharge three to six kilometers offshore at a depth of 60 meters. Diffusers cause each liter of waste to be diluted by 150 liters of deep cool water preventing it from reaching the surface except for short periods in winter. Data on the constituents of the four largest waste streams are presented and a brief account of the research done by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project is given. Although the waste water now discharged meets rigorous state standards (with minor exceptions) and the steady improvement in sea conditions over a decade has been well documented, there is a continuing debate over whether our coastal waters are adequately protected. This is primarily because the damaging effects of DDT and PCBs that were discharged more than 14 years ago have been slow to go away. Although the amounts of DDT and PCB in sea animals are only one- tenth what they were a decade ago they tend to obscure the value of the improvements and the present discharge practices. The alternatives to sea disposal seem likely to cause greater damage to the overall environment.

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Dynamic Acoustic Unit Augmentation with BPE-Dropout for Low-Resource End-to-End Speech Recognition

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21093063 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (9) ◽

pp. 3063

Author(s):

Aleksandr Laptev ◽

Andrei Andrusenko ◽

Ivan Podluzhny ◽

Anton Mitrofanov ◽

Ivan Medennikov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Speech Recognition ◽

Error Rate ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Computational Cost ◽

Vocabulary Size ◽

Word Error Rate ◽

Low Resource ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

End To End ◽

Asr System

With the rapid development of speech assistants, adapting server-intended automatic speech recognition (ASR) solutions to a direct device has become crucial. For on-device speech recognition tasks, researchers and industry prefer end-to-end ASR systems as they can be made resource-efficient while maintaining a higher quality compared to hybrid systems. However, building end-to-end models requires a significant amount of speech data. Personalization, which is mainly handling out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words, is another challenging task associated with speech assistants. In this work, we consider building an effective end-to-end ASR system in low-resource setups with a high OOV rate, embodied in Babel Turkish and Babel Georgian tasks. We propose a method of dynamic acoustic unit augmentation based on the Byte Pair Encoding with dropout (BPE-dropout) technique. The method non-deterministically tokenizes utterances to extend the token’s contexts and to regularize their distribution for the model’s recognition of unseen words. It also reduces the need for optimal subword vocabulary size search. The technique provides a steady improvement in regular and personalized (OOV-oriented) speech recognition tasks (at least 6% relative word error rate (WER) and 25% relative F-score) at no additional computational cost. Owing to the BPE-dropout use, our monolingual Turkish Conformer has achieved a competitive result with 22.2% character error rate (CER) and 38.9% WER, which is close to the best published multilingual system.

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Changing Profile of Congenital Heart Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.83.5.790 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 83 (5) ◽

pp. 790-791

Author(s):

D. WOODROW BENSON ◽

James Moller ◽

Donald C. Fyler ◽

David E. Fixler

Keyword(s):

Congenital Heart Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Surgical Treatment ◽

Congenital Heart ◽

Considerable Change ◽

Diagnostic Methods ◽

Younger Patients ◽

The Past ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

Complex Lesions

In the past 20 years, considerable change has occurred in the profile of congenital heart disease regarding both diagnosis and treatment. The profile has changed from older to younger patients; the essence of this change has been from pediatric to infant to neonatal cardiology. There has been a shift from palliative to more definitive surgical procedures and a change from invasive (cardiac catheterization) to noninvasive (echocardiography) diagnostic methods. The profile has changed from definitive surgical treatment limited to simple lesions to surgical treatment of the most complex lesions. There has been steady improvement in the recognition of cases of congenital heart disease. Of all children admitted to hospitals for treatment of congenital heart disease, the portion less than three days of age has increased from 24% in 1969 to 1972 to 33% in 1982 to 1986.

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Steady improvement of production

Glass and Ceramics ◽

10.1007/bf00677618 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 32 (8) ◽

pp. 550-551

Author(s):

B. V. Zhbanov

Keyword(s):

Steady Improvement

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Extra-pontine myelinolysis secondary to hypernatremia induced by postpartum water restriction

The Neuroradiology Journal ◽

10.1177/1971400916678246 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 84-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

A Chhabra ◽

R Kaushik ◽

RM Kaushik ◽

D Goel

Keyword(s):

Postpartum Period ◽

Resonance Imaging ◽

Water Restriction ◽

Delta Waves ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

Pontine Myelinolysis ◽

History Of ◽

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri ◽

Electroencephalogram Eeg ◽

Progressive Weakness

A young adult female with restricted water intake during the postpartum period presented with history of progressive weakness, dizziness and tendency to fall with generalized slowing of movement. On examination, patient was anaemic, febrile and stuporous. Investigations revealed hypernatremia, delta waves in electroencephalogram (EEG) and features suggestive of extra-pontine myelinolysis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain. After correcting hypernatremia and instituting anti-cholinergic therapy, there was a gradual but steady improvement in neurological symptoms of the patient over a period of one week and the patient was discharged in a conscious, oriented and ambulant state. As such, neuroimaging findings can be crucial in diagnosing hypernatremic encephalopathy in the postpartum period.

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Study on the Difficulties of Building a Service-oriented Government——A Case Study on the Satisfaction of Public Service Quality of Guizhou Province in 2019

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123502031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 235 ◽

pp. 02031

Author(s):

Siyue Liu

Keyword(s):

Service Quality ◽

Public Service ◽

Guizhou Province ◽

The Public ◽

Key Points ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Speed Up

This paper explores the difficulties of building a service-oriented government by taking the evaluation results of public service satisfaction of Guizhou province in 2019 as an example. This paper finds that building a service-oriented government is the process of improving the quality of public service in an all-round way. With the steady improvement of the public service quality in China, the public’s expectation of the public service quality has been improved by changing from the original “yes or no” to the current “good or not”. In order to speed up the construction of service-oriented government, government departments should pay attention to the change of public demand and take the comfort, richness and transparency of public service as the key points of quality improvement.

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Discussion on the Reform of Basic Computer Teaching of Non-Computer Majors in Colleges and Universities

Advances in Higher Education ◽

10.18686/ahe.v3i2.1417 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 79

Author(s):

Ting Li

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Social Environment ◽

National Economy ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Current Situation ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

Computer Teaching

<p>The rapid development of information technology and the steady improvement of the national economy have promoted the increasing popularity of Internet hardware equipment. As a compulsory course for undergraduates, computer basic teaching is of great importance in the current social environment. In view of the current situation of basic computer teaching in non-computer majors in colleges and universities, this paper focuses on the research and discussion of the specific reform ideas of basic computer teaching, in order to provide scientific theoretical basis for the cultivation of compound computer talents.</p>

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A Brief Review on Viral Variants of COVID-19 Infection

Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International ◽

10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60a34457 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 73-80

Author(s):

Ishank Panchal ◽

Sunita Vagha

Keyword(s):

Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽

Distress Syndrome ◽

Structural Features ◽

Nucleotide Polymorphism ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Mutational Pattern ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

Probable Role ◽

Therapy Strategies

SARS is a type of acute respiratory syndrome. Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV2), highly contagious, affecting people worldwide. Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID19) leads to a rapidly spreading respiratory distress syndrome. It has caused a global pandemic and severe health crisis in most countries. Due to its continual evolution, further research into the virus's pathogenicity and virulence mechanisms and the development of efficient therapy techniques are urgently required. The current paper summarises what is known about the virus's evolutionary and structural features to comprehend better its mutational pattern and probable role in the current pandemic. In December 2019, the Coronavirus Disease (SARSCoV2) began a destructive path toward a global pandemic in Wuhan, China. Since then, several SARS CoV2 variants have been discovered. Despite the speedy development of a COVID19 vaccine and ongoing mass vaccination efforts around the globe, the discovery of the latest SARSCoV2 variants could undermine the substantial success till now in stopping the spread of SARSCoV2.This review aims to characterize the different SARS CoV2 mutations and investigate the associated morbidity and death. Due to the virus's steady improvement, with its various unmarried nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) versions and lineages, figuring out SARS-CoV-2 infectivity is extraordinarily hard. but, similarly research into the virus's pathogenicity and virulence mechanisms, as well as the improvement of green therapy strategies, is urgent present-day The present day contribution summarises existing expertise regarding the virus's evolutionary and structural homes to clarify its mutational sample and ability function inside the ongoing pandemic.

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Asymmetry of Cerebral Function

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.107.448.431 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 107 (448) ◽

pp. 431-437

Author(s):

William Gooddy

Keyword(s):

Nervous System ◽

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Living Organism ◽

Factual Knowledge ◽

Cerebral Function ◽

Reflex Action ◽

Steady Improvement ◽

Morbid Anatomy ◽

The Law

It is the custom of our times to explain neurological, and, to some extent, psychiatric disorders by reference to a static or diagrammatic conception of the physiology of the nervous system, linked with the findings of morbid anatomy. But, in the words of Riese (1950), expressed in his Principles of Neurology:“Can the behaviour of a living organism be interpreted as purely mechanical? Though the organism remains submitted to the law of mechanics and physics, and though it is to the benefit of a steady improvement of our factual knowledge to explore the mechanics to the maximum possible, we must recognize that in a living organism mechanics are not left to themselves (which means to chance), but that they are at the service of a directing agency best described as the organism's welfare. The reflex must be conceived as an instrument of this agent. All disorders analysed and described in terms of reflex action are only instrumental ones. Neither the physician's task nor his possibilities extend beyond this limit. The directing forces of the organism will be withheld forever from the physician's acting power, if only for the reason that these forces are just ideas or principles of interpretation, but not perceptible realities.”

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