Introduced by Dr. Charles Kelman in 1962, phacoemulsification machines have undergone constant improvement, ever increasing both their complexity and safety. There is one principle, however, that remains unchanged. All phaco machines consist of a computer to generate electrical signals and a transducer to turn these electronic signals into mechanical energy. The energy thus produced is passed t...

We introduce the Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus (SARC), a large corpus for sarcasm research and for training and evaluating systems for sarcasm detection. The corpus has 1.3 million sarcastic statements — 10 times more than any previous dataset — and many times more instances of non-sarcastic statements, allowing for learning in both balanced and unbalanced label regimes. Each statement is furthe...

The radon chamber at Bowser-Morner was designed to ensure that the concentration of radon throughout the chamber is uniform. Nevertheless, it is important to demonstrate this uniformity periodically with measurements. To that end, 36 continuous radon monitors were simultaneously deployed in the chamber in a statistically balanced pattern and were exposed for a period of 48 hours. The resulting ...

Syncretism is the area of the morphologysyntax interface where morphology fails the syntax. Inadequate treatment in the design of a morphological analyzer can lead to unbalanced performance of the analyzer either at generation, or at analysis. Furthermore, adequate and consistent treatment of syncretism is needed if the analyzer is to be used for language modeling, especially modeling of the sy...

To ascertain whether the form of managerial compensation affects a firm’s long-term operating performance, we track IPOs for five years after the expiration of the stabilization period. New public companies perform better when managers receive a balanced combination of stock option grants and equity ownership. Firms with unbalanced compensation arrangements, large option grants and little equit...

The purpose of this study is to propose a theoretical framework based on a balanced scorecard (BSC) for performance measurement in the water desalination supply chain (WDSC). The reason for choosing this context is that the supply chain (SC) of water desalination has received a great amount of attention, due to issues related to the increased need of fresh water for agricultural, industrial and...

A function f (X 1 ; X 2 ; : : : ; X n) is said to be t th-order correlation-immune if the ran-ally, if all possible outputs are equally likely, then f is called a t ?resilient function. In this paper, we provide three diierent characterizations of t th-order correlation immune functions and resilient functions where the random variable is over GF (q). The rst is in terms of the structure of a c...

During emergency response, individuals observe only part of the picture, sharing of information is needed to get the required complete picture. The aim of our study is to get insight in the collaborative mapping process in order to derive requirements for a map-sharing tool. First, we analyzed the domain to assess the mapping processes, to identify general problem areas of the assessed processe...

In this note we prove the following theorem. For any three sets of points in the plane, each of n ≥ 2 points such that any three points (from the union of three sets) are not collinear and the convex hull of 3n points is monochromatic, there exists an integer k ∈ {1, 2, . . . , n− 1} and an open half-plane containing exactly k points from each set.

We construct Abel maps for a stable curve X. Namely, for each one-parameter deformation of X to a smooth curve, having regular total space, and each integer d ≥ 1, we construct by specialization a map αdX : Ẋ d → P d X , where Ẋ ⊆ X is the smooth locus, and P d X is the moduli scheme for balanced line bundles on semistable curves over X. For d = 1, we show that αX extends to a map α 1 X : X → P...