375 research outputs found
Universal fluctuations in growth dynamics of economic systems
The growth of business firms is an example of a system of complex interacting
units that resembles complex interacting systems in nature such as earthquakes.
Remarkably, work in econophysics has provided evidence that the statistical
properties of the growth of business firms follow the same sorts of power laws
that characterize physical systems near their critical points. Given how
economies change over time, whether these statistical properties are
persistent, robust, and universal like those of physical systems remains an
open question. Here, we show that the scaling properties of firm growth
previously demonstrated for publicly-traded U.S. manufacturing firms from 1974
to 1993 apply to the same sorts of firms from 1993 to 2015, to firms in other
broad sectors (such as materials), and to firms in new sectors (such as
Internet services). We measure virtually the same scaling exponent for
manufacturing for the 1993 to 2015 period as for the 1974 to 1993 period and
virtually the same scaling exponent for other sectors as for manufacturing.
Furthermore, we show that fluctuations of the growth rate for new industries
self-organize into a power law over relatively short time scales.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figure
Piece of Cake: It’s Just a Small Structure Replacement Right?
Successfully delivering a project, task, or even a group decision requires effective collaboration skills, and the great thing about skills is that they can be learned. With collaboration, you can effectively lead a team toward decision making and deliver results. In this session, we will analyze different methods of collaboration to help you build this skill and make you a more persuasive and compelling project manager
Anti-TB and Antibacterial Activities of Natural Products Extracts
Samples of numerous plant species were received from the southwestern part of the USA from Richard Spjut, and plant samples were collected here in Illinois. All were extracted with typical solvents, giving crude residues, some of which were subjected to counter-current or flash chromatographic methods. Some of the crude extracts and chromatographic fractions had anti-tuberculosis and/or antibacterial activity.
In a general way, bioactive natural products are dealt with very well by Liang & Fang, 2006. More specifically, the southwestern part of the United States has a large variety of indigenous plants, many of which have not been investigated for their medicinal potential, and only very few have had their extracts separated into the individual compounds they may contain. But some information is available for Native American herbal uses (Moerman, 2003)
Natural Language Video Processing (Machine Learning-based Identification, Search, Extraction)
The systems and methods described herein provide for a natural-language to generative video process using language-classification and knowledge graph identifiers to find frame segments within a codex of videos that depict the scene described. The mechanics necessary for converting speech to meaningful entities that can be matched to non-text images/videos serve as an underlying basis for generative video
Graph Contrastive Learning for Materials
Recent work has shown the potential of graph neural networks to efficiently
predict material properties, enabling high-throughput screening of materials.
Training these models, however, often requires large quantities of labelled
data, obtained via costly methods such as ab initio calculations or
experimental evaluation. By leveraging a series of material-specific
transformations, we introduce CrystalCLR, a framework for constrastive learning
of representations with crystal graph neural networks. With the addition of a
novel loss function, our framework is able to learn representations competitive
with engineered fingerprinting methods. We also demonstrate that via model
finetuning, contrastive pretraining can improve the performance of graph neural
networks for prediction of material properties and significantly outperform
traditional ML models that use engineered fingerprints. Lastly, we observe that
CrystalCLR produces material representations that form clusters by compound
class.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, NeurIPS 2022 AI for Accelerated Materials Design
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Great Power, Great Responsibility: Recommendations for Reducing Energy for Training Language Models
The energy requirements of current natural language processing models
continue to grow at a rapid, unsustainable pace. Recent works highlighting this
problem conclude there is an urgent need for methods that reduce the energy
needs of NLP and machine learning more broadly. In this article, we investigate
techniques that can be used to reduce the energy consumption of common NLP
applications. In particular, we focus on techniques to measure energy usage and
different hardware and datacenter-oriented settings that can be tuned to reduce
energy consumption for training and inference for language models. We
characterize the impact of these settings on metrics such as computational
performance and energy consumption through experiments conducted on a high
performance computing system as well as popular cloud computing platforms.
These techniques can lead to significant reduction in energy consumption when
training language models or their use for inference. For example,
power-capping, which limits the maximum power a GPU can consume, can enable a
15\% decrease in energy usage with marginal increase in overall computation
time when training a transformer-based language model
Leader Development and Emotional Competence: Authentic Leadership, Self-Awareness, and Personal Integrity
Can leadership be taught? (Doh, 2003) The dramatic growth of leadership academies, institutes, and programs from political science to business and psychology to reserve officer training corps for U.S. military services makes this a compelling question. We say yes and then: How can it be taught? And how are leaders developed? Ours is a developmental theory for teaching leaders and suggests that emotional competence is at the heart of developing authentic leaders with personal integrity
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