Vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC) is the primary cause of hospitalization of patients with sickle-cell disease. Treatment mainly consists of intravenous morphine, which has many dose-related side effects. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs have been proposed to provide pain relief and decrease the need for opioids. Nevertheless, only a few underpowered trials of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs f...

We report on the methods used in our recent DeepEnsembleCoco submission to the PASCAL VOC 2012 challenge, which achieves state-of-theart performance on the object detection task. Our method is a variant of the R-CNN model proposed by Girshick et al. [4] with two key improvements to training and evaluation. First, our method constructs an ensemble of deep CNN models with different architectures ...

Nanocrystal quantum dots (QD) show great promise toward improving solar cell efficiencies through the use of quantum confinement to tune absorbance across the solar spectrum and enable multi-exciton generation. Despite this remarkable potential for high photocurrent generation, the achievable open-circuit voltage (Voc) is fundamentally limited due to non-radiative recombination processes in QD ...

We present an evaluation of sources, sinks and turbulent transport of nitrogen oxides , ozone and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the boundary layer over French Guyana and Suriname during the October 2005 GABRIEL campaign by simulating observations with a single-column chemistry and climate model (SCM) along a zonal 5 transect. Simulated concentrations of O 3 and NO as well as NO 2 photolys...

On- and off-road mobile sources are the dominant contributors to urban anthropogenic volatile organic compound (AVOC) emissions. Analyses of gasoline samples from California for both summer and winter indicate significant differences in liquid fuel and vapor chemical composition due to intentional seasonal adjustments. Ambient concentrations of 55 VOCs were measured via in situ gas chromatograp...

Kinetic and mechanistic data relevant to the tropospheric degradation of aromatic volatile organic compounds (VOC) have been used to define a mechanism development protocol, which has been used to construct degradation schemes for 18 aromatic VOC as part of version 3 of the Master Chemical Mechanism (MCM v3). This is complementary to the treatment of 107 non-aromatic VOC, presented in a compani...

To tackle the challenging dataset presented in this challenge, we use the highly successful appearance-based detector of Felzenszwalb et al. [1] and augment it with rich contextual cues extracted from the image to further improve its performance. Specifically, we train detectors to obtain the confidence that a window contains an object based solely on global scene statistics [2, 3], nearby regi...

Levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the indoor environment can be decreased by use “air cleaners”, devices that remove VOCs sorption and/or oxidative degradation. However, efficacies these technologies for removing tend to poorly constrained, as does formation oxidation byproducts. Here, we examine influence several oxidation-based air cleaners, specifically ones marketed consumer-gr...

Iron ore sintering flue gas containing large amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can form secondary photochemical smog and aerosols, thus posing a serious threat to human health the ecological environment. Catalytic combustion technology has been considered as one most prospective strategies for VOC elimination. This paper focuses on review studies catalytic removal typical VOCs (tolue...