Mechanical Turk

In 2010, the Haystack group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed Soylent, a word-processing interface that lets users edit, proof, and shorten their documents using Mechanical Turk workers. 

CSIC is demonstrated as a proof of concept by using it to find public and private keys for the RSA asymmetric cryptography system (Cormen et ak, 2001). The algorithm used in CSIC is a multi-objective genetic algorithm (Coello, Lamont, Veldhuizen, 2007). The human users will use CSIC through Amazon s Mechanical Turk service. 

Hadzi, D., M. Hodoscek, D. Turk, and V. Harb. 1988. Theoretical Investigations of Structure and Enzymatic Mechanisms of Aspartyl Protcinascs Part 2. Ab initio calculations on some possible initial steps of proteolysis. J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem) 181, 71-80. 

Aksoy Y, Balk M, Ogus I et al (2004) The mechanism of inhibition of human erythrocyte catalase by azide. Turk J Biol 28 65-70... 

Turk MB, Thompson MM, Corjay MH, Owens GK (1991) Mechanisms of angiotensin II- and arginine vasopressin-induced increases in protein synthesis and content in cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells. Circ Res 68 288-299... 

Shi, X., Rock, S.E., Turk, M.C., et al., 2012. Minimizing the effects of galvanic corrosion during chemical mechanical planarization of aluminum in moderately acidic slurry solutions. Mater. Chem. Phys. 136, 1027-1037. 

Turk, M.C., Simpson, D.E., Roy, D., 2013b. Examination of salicylaldehyde as a surface modifier of manganese for application in chemical mechanical planarization. ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol. 2, P498-P505. 

Hsu FF, Turk J. Electrospray ionization with low-energy collisionally activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry of glycerophospholipids mechanisms of fragmentation and structural characterization. J Chromatogr B. 2009 877 2673-95. 

Terman GW, Bonica ]]. Chapter 4 Spinal mechanisms and their modulation. In Loeser ID, Butler SH, Chapman R, Turk DC, eds. Bonica s Management of Pain, 3rd ed. Philadelphia LippincoH Williams Wilkins, 2001, pp. 125-138. 

Hsu, F.-F. and Turk, J. (2005) Electrospray ionization with low-energy coUisionaUy activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry of complex lipids Structural characterization and mechanism of fragmentation. In Modern Methods for Lipid Analysis by Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry and Related Techniques (ByrdweU, W.C., ed.). pp. 61-178, AOCS Press, Champaign, IL... 

The objectives of the study carried out by Turk and co-workers [15] were to rank polymer thermo-oxidative stability via accelerated thermal techniques and to correlate these results with the long-term, high-temperature stabilities found via weight loss techniques. In particular, they used TGA, IGA, TGA-FTIR and IGA-FTIR to characterise the degradation pathways of four thermally stable PI and to determine their E. Three accepted mathematical methods were used to examine for correlations of accelerated ageing and real-life ageing of PI. Acceleration of the decomposition is obtained using elevated temperatures that can introduce additional decomposition mechanisms when compared with actual use temperatures. 

B. Bradaskja, J. Koruza, M. Fazarinc, M. Knap, R. Turk, A laboratory test for simulation of solidification on Gleeble 1500D thermo-mechanical simulator, RMZ-materiais and geoenvironment, 55 (2008), 31-40. 

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