Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Scene classification using pLSA with visterm spatial location

This paper proposes a novel scene classification method that represents a scene as a latent aspect distribution using the probabilistic latent semantic analysis (pLSA) with visterm spatial location and determines the class label of the input image's latent aspect distributions using the support vector machine (SVM). The proposed scene classification method consists of two stages; training and test stage. The training stage performs the following tasks; (1) we extract local feature descriptors of training scenes using SURF or SIFT. (2) we cluster local feature descriptor using k-means clustering method to obtain visterms. (3) we make spatial weight map of each visterm. (4) we make visterm-image co-occurrence table using spatial weight map. (5) we learn latent aspect probability P(zjI) and visterm probability P(vjz) from using EM method, and we obtain support vector of aspect features P(zjI). The test stage performs the similar procedure with the training stage to obtain aspect features P(zjIin) and determines the class label of input image using k-NN or SVM. Experimental results show that the classification rate of the proposed scene classification method is about 86.19% on the 1,239 scene images.
Easy Mesh Cutting

We present Easy Mesh Cutting, an intuitive and easy‐to‐use mesh cutout tool. Users can cut meaningful components from meshes by simply drawing freehand sketches on the mesh. Our system provides instant visual feedback to obtain the cutting results based on an improved region growing algorithm using a feature sensitive metric. The cutting boundary can be automatically optimized or easily edited by users. Extensive experimentation shows that our approach produces good cutting results while requiring little skill or effort from the user and provides a good user experience. Based on the easy mesh cutting framework, we introduce two applications including sketch‐based mesh editing and mesh merging for geometry processing.
La calidad de la enseñanza universitaria desde la perspectiva de los profesores mejor valorados por los alumnos

Analizamos el concepto de docencia de calidad partiendo de los resultados de la evaluacion efectuada por los alumnos del rendimiento docente llevado a cabo en la Universidad de Sevilla. Para ello se selecciono un profesor por Facultad o Escuela, hasta un total de veinticinco docentes, cuyas puntuaciones se encontraban entre las mas altas logradas en sus respectivos centros. Los profesores seleccionados se distribuyeron en tres grupos que se reunian para examinar en que consiste "un buen docente". El analisis de los discursos producidos revela una concepcion de la docencia de calidad que se articula en cuatro grandes dimensiones, a las que denominamos oficio, arte, condiciones estructurales y sociales y, por ultimo, dilemas y paradojas del ejercicio docente. Del conjunto de variables incluidas dentro de estas dimensiones, pueden derivarse implicaciones para la formacion y la evaluacion de los profesores universitarios
Granisetron versus tropisetron in the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting after total thyroidectomy

Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are frequently encountered after thyroidectomy. For PONV prevention, selective serotonin 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 (5-HT3) receptor antagonists are considered one of the first-line therapy. We report on the efficiency of granisetron and tropisetron, with that of placebo on the prevention of PONV in patients undergoing total thyroidectomy. Methods: One hundred twenty-seven patients were divided into three groups and randomized to receive intravenously, prior to induction of anesthesia, tropisetron 5 mg, or granisetron 3 mg, or normal saline. All patients received additionally 0.625 mg droperidol. All episodes of postoperative PONV during the first 24 h after surgery were evaluated. Results: Nausea visual analogue scale (VAS) score was lower in tropisetron and granisetron groups than the control group at all measurements (P<0.01) except for the 8-h measurement for tropisetron (P=0.075). Moreover, granisetron performed better than tropisetron (P<0.011 at 4 h and P<0.01 at all other points of time) apart from the 2-h measurement. Vomiting occurred in 22.2%, 27.5%, and 37.5% in granisetron, tropisetron, and control groups, respectively (P=0.43). Conclusions: The combination of the 5-HT3 antagonists with droperidol given before induction of anesthesia is well tolerated and superior to droperidol alone in preventing nausea but not vomiting after total thyroidectomy.
A practical strategy for the routine use of BIOMED‐2 PCR assays for detection of B‐ and T‐cell clonality in diagnostic haematopathology

BIOMED‐2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for clonality analysis of immunoglobulin (IG) and T‐cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements were evaluated in routine haematopathological practice where paraffin‐embedded tissues constitute the majority of specimens. One hundred and twenty‐five fresh/frozen and 316 paraffin specimens were analysed for DNA quality and clonality. Seventy‐nine per cent of paraffin specimens yielded PCR products of over 300 bp. These specimens and all fresh/frozen specimens were analysed with the complete set of BIOMED‐2 reactions for IG (8 reactions) and/or TCR (6 reactions) gene rearrangements. The rate of detection of clonality was 96% in mature B‐cell neoplasms and 98% in mature T‐cell neoplasms and there were no significant differences in these rates between paraffin and fresh/frozen specimens. As the value of sole use of any individual BIOMED‐2 reaction in clonality detection was limited, we assessed combinations of reactions that gave the greatest sensitivity with fewest reactions and were applicable for both fresh/frozen and paraffin specimens. For IG gene rearrangements, three reactions combining one targeting the IG heavy chain framework‐2 region and two targeting the IG kappa locus achieved a 91% detection rate. For TCR gene rearrangements, the two TCR gamma reactions gave a 94% detection rate. We therefore recommend this strategy as the first‐line assays for routine B‐ and T‐cell clonality analysis in diagnostic haematopathology.
DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS ASPECTS OF INSURANCE MARKETS OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: THE EMPHASIS ON MONTENEGRIN INSURANCE MARKET

Insurance is a key form of risk financing that is in close interdependence with the economic development. The development of insurance that accompanied economic development and changes in the social system, in the countries of the region, had certain common characteristics because of the shared history but also there are differences in the economic development that have led to a different level of competitiveness and the overall development of the insurance market. The focus of this paper is the development of insurance in Montenegro, the analysis of the insurance market in the region of former Yugoslavia, a comparative analysis of the market situation and an analysis of the competitiveness of the insurance sector in the region.
The Rating Systems for Media Products

Parents have raised many concerns about the potential impact of the media on their children. Most of these concerns have pertained to media content that contains violence, sexuality, offensive language, and graphic horror. Today, 95 percent of American parents believe that exposure to media violence contributes to increased aggression in children, and 95 percent believe that sexual content contributes to children becoming involved in sexual situations before they are ready (Rideout, 2004). Parents also believe that it is important to protect their children from exposure to explicitly graphic, violent, or sexual content (Nathanson et al., 2002). Yet it is increasingly difficult to do so in a media world that is filled with multiple technologies in the home, 24-hour television networks, media in children’s bedrooms, and websites that are unrestricted and often quite explicit. In an effort to help parents navigate these terrains, media industries have developed a number of rating systems to label the content of different products. The movie rating system has been in existence for over 30 years. Other systems have developed more recently, in response to newer technologies or to controversies over explicit content that children are exposed to. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of these different rating schemes. The chapter will begin with a brief description of the stated goals for the various rating systems. The next section will describe the different systems that exist, comparing and contrasting the historical factors that lead to their creation as well as their resulting structures. The third section will discuss seven major limitations of the rating systems as they currently exist: inconsistency in the assignment of ratings, ratings creep, lack of content-based information, incongruence with scientific research on harm, lack of agreement with parent ratings, lack of publicity and clarity of the ratings, and the forbidden fruit problem. The final section will offer some suggestions for improving the ratings of media products in the United States. 9781405144179_4_023. qxd 14/03/2008 11:26 AM Page 527
The aftermath of political violence : the Opposition's second generation in the post-coup Chile and its familial memory

This thesis is concerned with the aftermath and afterlife of violence (Gomez-Barris 2009) in post-coup Chile from the perspective of the second generations of victims of state violence perpetrated during the dictatorial period (1973-1988), the modes of inheritance of family political memories and the mechanisms of inhabitation of such family legacies. Drawing on Plummer’s ‘documents of life’ approach (Plummer 2001)and Avery Gordon’s theory of haunting (Gordon 2008), the research is based on thirty one family life story interviews and two group interviews. This thesis critically dialogues with the Holocaust tradition and its legacies for the memory field, arguing for a critical awareness of ‘what is helped and what is hindered’ by its lens (Huyssen 2003). Departing from the widespread belief that trauma is something ‘other’ to everyday life, this thesis is based on Das’ assertion that political violence unfolds in the everyday life and its modes of inhabitation (Das 2007). Denaturalizing the family as a site of ‘pure memories’, the thesis is focused on family political memories of state violence and their modes of remembering and transmission to the second generation. It explores the way in which political violence has been passed on to the second generation in the form of familial legacies and embedded in local patterns of political, social and family relationships. The thesis draws attention to the context in which these memories are produced, but also sheds light on how they are transformed into stubborn memories through their familial transmission. Basing itself on this double perspective, the thesis illustrates how, as a consequence of the politics of fear, opposition memory became invested as a family possession. It explores how political memory was at the same time both something to conceal and something to inhabit and own, triggering a sense of loyalty and belonging. The thesis also shows how not every experience is rendered as a family memory but those that are undergo a process of selection in which gendered models of family relationships also play a role. Examining the production of family countermemories, the thesis concludes that the second generation makes of family memory not only a place for tradition and affective ties, but also for contestation, moral interpellation and rupture.
Characterization of the Two Small Subunits of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA Polymerase δ*

Yeast DNA polymerase δ (Polδ) has three subunits of 125, 58, and 55 kDa. The gene for the 125-kDa catalytic subunit (POL3) has been known for several years. Here we describe the cloning of the genes for the 58- and 55-kDa subunits using peptide sequence analysis and searching of the yeast genome data base. The 58-kDa subunit, encoded by the POL31 gene, shows 23–28% sequence similarity to the 48-kDa subunit of human Polδ and to S. pombe Cdc1. POL31 is allelic toHYS2 and SDP5. The 55-kDa subunit is encoded by the POL32 gene (ORF YJR043c in the yeast data base). Very limited sequence similarity was observed between Pol32p andSchizosaccharomyces pombe Cdc27, the functionally analogous subunit in S. pombe Polδ. The POL32 gene is not essential, but a deletion mutant shows cold sensitivity for growth and is sensitive to hydroxyurea and DNA damaging agents. In addition, lethality was observed when the POL32 deletion mutation was combined with conditional mutations in either the POL3 orPOL31 gene. Pol32Δ strains are weak antimutators and are defective for damage-induced mutagenesis. ThePOL32 gene product binds proliferating cell nuclear antigen. A gel filtration analysis showed that Pol32p is a dimer in solution. When POL31 and POL32 were co-expressed in Escherichia coli, a tetrameric (Pol31p·Pol32p)2 species was detected by gel filtration, indicating that the two subunits form a complex.
Validation of the Three-Component Model of Organizational Commitment in Pakistan

This study examined the construct validity of Meyer and Allen’s (1991) three-component model of organizational commitment (OC) in a Pakistani context. Three separate studies were conducted using data from public sector organizations. Study I was a pilot study conducted to determine the readability, and ease of understanding of the measures being used. In the study II, three component organizational commitment (OC) scales (Meyer and Allen, 1991) were translated into Urdu. In the final study, data were collected from 228 employees of a large public sector organization of Islamabad. Five LISREL models were developed to test the best fitting model from the derived data. Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) were conducted to examine the relationship of various constructed models. The results of CFA indicated that a three factor oblique model fit the data best, consistent with the previous research. Reliabilities of the affective and continuance commitment scales were adequate, however, normative commitment scales exhibited relatively low internal consistency reliability. Finally, the present study found that affective and normative commitment were higher in Pakistani and Chinese employees than in previously published samples from South Korea and Canada. Continuance commitment in Pakistani and Chinese samples was lower, however, non significant differences were found between South Korean and Canadian samples on continuance commitment.
Impact of location history collection schemes on observed human mobility features

Human mobility knowledge is key for urban planning or mobility models design. Therefore, estimating reliable mobility parameters is crucial to lay an unbiased foundation. However, most works estimating such features rely on datasets made up of the history of mobile network cells where the user is located when she makes active use of the network, known as Call Data Records (CDRs), or every time the her device connects to a new cell, without taking into account cell changes not caused by movement. Could we accurately characterize human mobility with such datasets? In this work we consider three approaches to collect network-based mobility data, propose three filtering techniques to delete cell changes not caused by movement and compare mobility features extracted from the traces collected with each approach. The analysis unveils the need for a filtering step to avoid important biases, and the negative impact that using CDRs may have in estimating mobility parameters.
The Role of Organizational Support in Improving Employees Performance

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of organizational support through its dimensions: (organizational equity, leader's behavior supporting subordinates, and participation in decision making), in improving employees’ performance. To achieve this purpose survey questionnaire was developed based on the related literature, and distributed to 175 employees working in researched Jordanian maritime transport companies. The statistical package for social science (SPSS) for windows was utilized to analyze the results. The research revealed that there is statistical significant role at the level of (5%) for organizational support in improving employees’ performance. Furthermore, the research recommended that working managers in Jordanian maritime transport companies to reinforce their abilities to train and educate the employees on the participation in decision making.
The Right Side? Under Time Pressure, Approach Motivation Leads to Right-Oriented Bias

Approach motivation, a focus on achieving positive outcomes, is related to relative left-hemispheric brain activation, which translates to a variety of right-oriented behavioral biases. In two studies, we found that approach-motivated individuals display a right-oriented bias, but only when they are forced to act quickly. In a task in which they had to divide lines into two equal parts, approach-motivated individuals bisected the line at a point farther to the right than avoidance-motivated individuals did, but only when they worked under high time pressure. In our analysis of all Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup penalty shoot-outs, we found that goalkeepers were two times more likely to dive to the right than to the left when their team was behind, a situation that we conjecture induces approach motivation. Because penalty takers shot toward the two sides of the goal equally often, the goalkeepers’ right-oriented bias was dysfunctional, allowing more goals to be scored. Directional biases may facilitate group coordination but prove maladaptive in individual settings and interpersonal competition.
Injury evaluation of the Turkish national football team over six consecutive seasons.

BACKGROUND The aim of our study was to evaluate the incidence, mechanisms and anatomic sites of injuries of the Turkish National Men's Football Team over six years. METHODS The affected anatomic site, incidence rate, type of injury, and applied treatment procedures were recorded by the medical staff. Official and friendly games and training sessions over the period January 2000 - December 2005 were documented daily. Cross- tabulation, frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, and chi-square test methods were used in statistical evaluations. RESULTS In total, 52 official and friendly games were played and 208 training sessions were conducted. The total number of injuries recorded in this period was 108, and the averages per match and training were 1.0 and 0.27, respectively. The most commonly affected anatomic site was the thigh (25%), the most common injury type was contusion (32%) and the most common applied treatment procedure was physical therapy and rehabilitation (89.8%). CONCLUSION Our results provide valuable information about the incidence, affected anatomical site, and type and severity of injuries in football. This study can serve as reference data for future scientific studies in the field, and also provides information regarding the prevention of injuries.
AQA: Aspect-based Opinion Question Answering

With the rapid growth of product review forums, discussion groups, and Blogs, it is almost impossible for a customer to make an informed purchase decision. Different and possibly contradictory opinions written by different reviewers can even make customers more confused. In the last few years, mining customer reviews (opinion mining) has emerged as an interesting new research direction to address this need. One of the interesting problem in opinion mining is Opinion Question Answering (Opinion QA). While traditional QA can only answer factual questions, opinion QA aims to find the authors' sentimental opinions on a specific target. Current opinion QA systems suffers from several weaknesses. The main cause of these weaknesses is that these methods can only answer a question if they find a content similar to the given question in the given documents. As a result, they cannot answer majority questions like "What is the best digital camera? " nor comparative questions, e.g. "Does SamsungY work better than CanonX? ". In this paper we address the problem of opinion question answering to answer opinion questions about products by using reviewers' opinions. Our proposed method, called Aspect-based Opinion Question Answering (AQA), support answering of opinion-based questions while improving the weaknesses of current techniques. AQA contains five phases: question analysis, question expansion, high quality review retrieval, subjective sentence extraction, and answer grouping. AQA adopts an opinion mining technique in the preprocessing phase to identify target aspects and estimate their quality. Target aspects are attributes or components of the target product that have been commented on in the review, e.g. 'zoom' and 'battery life' for a digital camera. We conduct experiments on a real life dataset, Epinions.com, demonstrating the improved effectiveness of the AQA in terms of the accuracy of the retrieved answers.
White Teenage Girls and Affirmative Action in Higher Education in South Africa.

This is an initial and exploratory comment on the pilot phase of a study into adolescent female white identity and socio-sexual desire in post-apartheid South Africa. In the course of this pilot it became apparent that historical issues of race and racism are openly discussed in these girls’ classrooms. Yet, despite these everyday interactions the sensitive current day politics of race, specifically related to Affirmative Action in Higher Education, are not spoken about in a personal way in public spaces such as the classroom. Findings from this phase in the study revealed an inability, and lack of opportunity, to openly discuss race politics that are pertinent to these learners’ presents and futures. In this brief commentary I argue that the nonracial ideology, espoused by the post-apartheid government cannot become naturalized if these learners are unable to work through some of the contradictions of their present. One of these contradictions is the continued salience of race in their lives and futures as they enter the university, while having intimate social relations, which seem to belie this reality. I argue for an exploration of participatory mechanisms – ways for the youth to find a vocabulary of their own in articulating the challenge of race. Part of the struggle in establishing this vocabulary is what Nuttall (2001) has identified as a duplicity in white identity, which is in part a complicity in maintaining the hegemony of whiteness. How does one come to understand the production of a racial sensibility in South Africa? How is race instantiated into the ways in which young people think about themselves, their relationships with each other and their place in society? In this brief essay I work with a few transcripts of interviews conducted with Grade 12 female learners who are about to enter the university. The interviews focus on their responses to the admissions policies of the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town. They were conducted as part of a larger study into white identity and socio-sexual desire. The purpose of the study is to understand the nature of the inscription of race in texts, such as laws, into the consciousness and the bodies of young white women. The participant in this initial interview is a matric learner at a formerly white government school in a once white working class suburb (in which she has always lived), in the northern suburbs of Cape Town. Both the neighborhood and the school are now thoroughly racially mixed in a demographic sense. 1 I quote, at length, an extract from one of the participants in the study.