Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Measured Pace: Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance

Although the theoretical importance of dance has always been recognized, dance has been relatively neglected in the philosophy of art. In this sequel to Off the Ground, in which Professor Sparshott focused on the concept of dance in general, A Measured Pace considers the recognized classification of dance as art, its values, and relationship to the other arts. Sparshott begins with an explanation of the philosophical importance of the major classifications of dance and their basis. He examines dance as a mimetic and expressive medium, and reviews the major dimensions of dance form. He then explores the relationship of dance to three related fields: music, language, and theatre. Sparshott also discusses the major philosophical problems of dance as an art: the specific values of dance; the relation between the way the audience perceives dance and the dancer's self-perception; the ways in which dancing and dances are learned; the division of artistic creation between choreographers and performers; and the ways in which dances are identified and retain their identity through time. A concluding chapter on how dances are recorded considers how the media may change the nature of dance. A Measured Pace is a wide-ranging and substantial contribution to a philosophical understanding of dance.
HIGHER ORDER THINKING BERBASIS PEMECAHAN MASALAH UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR BERORIENTASI PEMBENTUKAN KARAKTER SISWA

Abstrak: Penelitian tindakan ini ditujukan untuk meningkatkan aktivitas dan hasil belajar siswa dengan berorientasi pembentukan karakter. Pembelajaran menggunakan higher order thinking berbasis pemecahan masalah. Subjek penelitian adalah siswa kelas XI-3 program IPA. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hasil belajar siswa meningkat menjadi 73,84 (melebihi target). Siswa yang telah menguasai materi ada sebanyak 96,87%. Skor aktivitas adalah 83,81 (melebihi target). Karakter dan respon siswa terhadap pembelajaran termasuk pada kategori baik. Kata Kunci: higher order thinking, hasil belajar, aktivitas belajar dan karakter PROBLEM-SOLVING-BASED HIGHER ORDER THINKING TO IMPROVE LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH STUDENTS’ CHARACTER BUILDING ORIENTATION Abstract: This action research study was aimed to improve the students’ learning activities and achievement through character building orientation. The teaching used the higher order thinking and problem-based instruction strategy. The subjects were the XI-3 students of the Science program. The findings showed that the students’ achievement was 73.84 (higher than the target). The students who had mastered the lesson was 96.87%. The activity score was 83.81 (higher than the target). The students’ character and response to the teaching process belonged to the good category. Keywords: HOT, PBI, student achievement, student character
NU-ResNet: Deep Residual Networks for Thai Food Image Recognition

To improve the recognition accuracy of a convolutional neural network, the number of the modules inside the network is normally increased so that the whole network becomes a deeper network. By doing such, it does not always guarantee that the accuracy will be improved. In addition, adding more modules to the network, the required parameter size and processing time are certainly increased. These then result in a significant drawback if such network is utilized in a smartphone in which the computational resources are limited. In this paper, another technique called Identity mapping, which is from the Residual networks, is adopted and added to the network. This technique is applied to the Deep NU-InNet with a depth of 4, 8, and 12 in order to increase the recognition accuracy while the depth is kept constant. Testing this proposed network; that is, NU-ResNet, with THFOOD-50 dataset, which contains various images of 50 Thai famous dishes, the improvement in terms of the recognition accuracy is obtained. With a depth of 4 for NU-ResNet, the achieved Top-1 accuracy and Top-5 accuracy are 83.07% and 97.04%, respectively. The parameter size of the network is only 1.48×106, which is quite small for being used with a smartphone application. Moreover, the average processing time per image is 44.60 ms, which can be practically used in an image recognition application. These results show a promising performance of the proposed network to be used with a Thai food image recognition application in a smartphone.
RELIEVING LABOR PAIN BY ICE MASSAGE OF THE HAND

Background: Labor pain is the worst pain experience during women's life. The management of labor pain is amongst the leading goals of maternity care. Unrelieved labor pain may adversely affect both mother and the neonate. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Hoku point ice massage on pain intensity in primiparous women during labor. Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 60 primiparous women who were expected to have normal childbirth in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekord. All participants were randomly assigned in two groups (n = 30): ice massage (treatment) and sand bag group (control). The severity of the basal pain was measured at the beginning of active phase (4 cm cervical dilation) based on Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Then, after two groups received intervention, the severity of the labor pain in 4, 6, 8 and 10 cm cervical dilation was measured. In the case group, the crushed ice twisted in a terry bag was rocked on the web of skin between thumb and forefinger. The massage was carried out in Hoku point throughout three contractions. The sand bag tactile massage in Hoku point was served in the control group. The data were analyzed using SPSS software and descriptive analysis using Mann- Whitney, x 2, paired and independent t tests and P<0.05 was considered significant. Results: After completion of intervention, the pain intensity in the treatment group was significantly less than the control group P<0.001). Also, mean duration of active phase of labor in treatment group was significantly less than the control group (P<0.05). In the treatment group, the difference between the mean of the pain pre and post intervention was significant just in 4, 6 and 8 cervical dilation (P<0.001). Conclusions: Regarding the ice massage as a cost-effective and noninvasive nursing intervention and considering high satisfaction of patients, we recommend this safe and easy-to-use technique for alleviation of the labor pain
E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age

From the Publisher: It isn't just the promise of impressive technology that is driving people to e-learning. Business need to get rapidly changing information to large numbers of people faster than ever. They need to lower the overall costs of creating a workforce that performs faster and better than the competition, and they need to do this around the clock. It's no longer a question of whether organizations will one day implement online learning, but whether they will do it well. Most organizations that need to train their employees are experimenting with some form of Web-delivered learning. But most organizations have focused on the technological challenges, buying the right software, getting enough bandwidth allocated for Web-based training, designing courseware, etc. These are important steps, but the larger strategic issues remain unsolved: how to make e-learning part of the daily work culture and fully implement its power. E-Learning is the first book in this exciting new field that addresses not just the technological challenges of Web-based training and knowledge management, but how to develop a comprehensive organization-wide learning strategy. Author Marc Rosenberg discusses the technological issues but, more importantly, assesses the dramatic strategic, organizational, and political issues involved in the process of making e-learning a reality. Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in workplace learning, E-Learning takes a broad, strategic perspective on corporate learning. This wake-up call for executives everywhere discusses: Requirements for building a viable e-learning strategy; How e-learning will change the nature of training organizations; Knowledge management and other new forms of e-learning. E-Learning explains the basic principles of a comprehensive Web-based learning strategy -- how to link your organization's Web sites, Web-based training, courseware, and all the other components of online learning. With an underlying focus on the "why" -- and not just the "how" -- Rosenberg provides a roadmap for growing and sustaining an e-learning culture that's based on his twenty years of observations, best (and worst) practices, and conversations with leaders in the learning technology fields. Divided into three parts, E-Learning offers an essential balance between building great e-learning (design and technology issues) and implementing it (acceptance and support issues). Within each chapter, examples illustrate many key components of an effective e-learning framework.
Defining virtual reality: dimensions determining telepresence

Virtual reality (VR) is typically defined in terms of technological hardware. This paper attempts to cast a new, variable-based definition of virtual reality that can be used to classify virtual reality in relation to other media. The defintion of virtual reality is based on concepts of “presence” and “telepresence,” which refer to the sense of being in an environment, generated by natural or mediated means, respectively. Two technological dimensions that contribute to telepresence, vividness and interactivity, are discussed. A variety of media are classified according to these dimensions. Suggestions are made for the application of the new definition of virtual reality within the field of communication research.
Inflammation and NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Initiated in Response to Pressure Overload by Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II &dgr; Signaling in Cardiomyocytes Are Essential for Adverse Cardiac Remodeling

Background: Inflammation is associated with cardiac remodeling and heart failure, but how it is initiated in response to nonischemic interventions in the absence of cell death is not known. We tested the hypothesis that activation of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II &dgr; (CaMKII&dgr;) in cardiomyocytes (CMs) in response to pressure overload elicits inflammatory responses leading to adverse remodeling. Methods: Mice in which CaMKII&dgr; was selectively deleted from CMs (cardiac-specific knockout [CKO]) and floxed control mice were subjected to transverse aortic constriction (TAC). The effects of CM-specific CaMKII&dgr; deletion on inflammatory gene expression, inflammasome activation, macrophage accumulation, and fibrosis were assessed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction, histochemistry, and ventricular remodeling by echocardiography. Results: TAC induced increases in cardiac mRNA levels for proinflammatory chemokines and cytokines in ⩽3 days, and these responses were significantly blunted when CM CaMKII&dgr; was deleted. Apoptotic and necrotic cell death were absent at this time. CMs isolated from TAC hearts mirrored these robust increases in gene expression, which were markedly attenuated in CKO. Priming and activation of the NOD-like receptor pyrin domain-containing protein 3 inflammasome, assessed by measuring interleukin-1&bgr; and NOD-like receptor pyrin domain-containing protein 3 mRNA levels, caspase-1 activity, and interleukin-18 cleavage, were increased at day 3 after TAC in control hearts and in CMs isolated from these hearts. These responses were dependent on CaMKII&dgr; and associated with activation of Nuclear Factor-kappa B and reactive oxygen species. Accumulation of macrophages observed at days 7 to 14 after TAC was diminished in CKO and, by blocking Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 signaling, deletion of CM Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 or inhibition of inflammasome activation. Fibrosis was also attenuated by these interventions and in the CKO heart. Ventricular dilation and contractile dysfunction observed at day 42 after TAC were diminished in the CKO. Inhibition of CaMKII, Nuclear Factor-kappa B, inflammasome, or Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 signaling in the first 1 or 2 weeks after TAC decreased remodeling, but inhibition of CaMKII after 2 weeks did not. Conclusions: Activation of CaMKII&dgr; in response to pressure overload triggers inflammatory gene expression and activation of the NOD-like receptor pyrin domain-containing protein 3 inflammasome in CMs. These responses provide signals for macrophage recruitment, fibrosis, and myocardial dysfunction in the heart. Our work suggests the importance of targeting early inflammatory responses induced by CM CaMKII&dgr; signaling to prevent progression to heart failure.
A Data-Driven Approach to Client-Transparent Access Selection of Dual-Band WiFi

Dual-band WiFi which supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz has been widely deployed, aiming to expand wireless capacity, and eliminate serious interference in 2.4 GHz. As the proportion of dual-band APs and clients increase enormously, how to select which band to access to achieve considerable user experience is becoming essential in wireless network. Clients’ native decisions that tend to prefer 5 GHz will consequently cause serious interference in 5 GHz and leave 2.4 GHz notably idle. Through analyzing a unique dataset in the wild, we quantitatively study the impact of various WiFi factors on the wireless delay. We propose a decision tree approach to intelligent access selection that decides which band to access dynamically according to prior learned schemes. A prototype of the access selection system named LazyAS, which only requires modification at AP side, is realized and deployed in a production WiFi network. Evaluation results demonstrate that LazyAS reduces the 90th percentile of wireless delay in the production WiFi network from 32 ms to 12 ms.
Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life

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Dimensionality of Social Capital and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Information Systems Project Teams

ABSTRACT Knowledge sharing and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) among project team members are crucial for project success due to the particularities of information systems (IS) projects. Bonding social capital is known to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration. However, the influence of bridging social capital on knowledge sharing is unclear. The interplay between bridging and bonding social capital is especially interesting in a collectivistic society such as South Korea where in-group ties are particularly strong. In this study, we examine the effect of the sub-dimensions of the above constructs (i.e., bonding, bridging, OCB) on knowledge sharing. The results suggest that bonding and citizenry behavior improves knowledge sharing. Bridging improves knowledge sharing by increasing organizational citizenry behavior. Unexpectedly, the effect of citizenship behavior on knowledge sharing differs from the effect of its sub-dimensions. Only helping others is positively related to knowledge sharing. Similarly, the sub-dimensions of bridging and bonding influence knowledge sharing and citizenship behavior differently than the first-order constructs. For example, shared team mental model positively affects OCB, but has no direct influence on knowledge sharing. Conversely, shared vision is the only sub-dimension of bridging that positively affects OCB. Thus, the results suggest that project managers should facilitate shared project vision and team mental model to encourage team members’ citizenship behavior and control the potential adverse influence of bridging social capital.
Surface treatment for enhancing optical and opto-electronic properties of multicrystalline silicon

In this work we report on a new and simple process used in order to enhance optical and opto-electronic properties of multicrystalline silicon. We present investigation on surface texturisation, and porous silicon and silicon nitride treatments as antireflection and passivation coatings. The reflectance of the produced surface was measured by PerkinElmer Lambda 950 spectrophotometer equipped with an integrating sphere. The topography of the treated surface was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the effective diffusion length was evaluated from the Laser-beam-induced current (LBIC) technique. Consequently the minority carriers difusion length in the multicrystalline material was enhanced from 138 μm to 443 μm after combining porous silicon and silicon nitride treatments and the total reflectivity of the sample is reduced from 24% to about 6%.
Not ideal: Collingwood’s Expression theory

It is time something was done to defend Collingwood. As an aesthetician, he is widely associated with the so-called Ideal theory of art, itself widely regarded as untenable. He is also associated with an Expression theory of art: he gives an account of what artistic expression is; and he holds that such expression, wherever found, is definitive of art, or, as he puts it, of "art proper. " Collingwood himself certainly regarded the relevant chapters of The Principles of Art'-the one on imagination (where the socalled Ideal theory is said to be set out) and the one on expression-as complementary parts of the same whole. But, if the relations between the two are not properly understood, it is all too easy to identify the former with its most apparently objectionable aspects and then to dismiss the Expression theory as somehow dependent upon them. The desuetude into which Collingwood's account of expression has fallen among recent aestheticians2 is almost certainly due to this-a state of affairs perhaps reinforced by Richard Wollheim's powerful demolition of the so-called Ideal theory in Art and its Objects.3 But Collingwood's aesthetics, as I hope to show, cannot be so easily dismissed. What I want to do here is to advance two lines of defense. One of these shows that Collingwood's Expression theory is a thoroughly valuable theory whose legitimacy depends upon nothing that is illicit in his so-called Ideal theory (I take up this line of defense in section III). The other shows that Collingwood ought never to have been seen as espousing the so-called Ideal theory in the first place, no matter how easily some of his remarks might lend themselves to that construction (this line is explored in section II). In effect, I am urging that we read The Principles of Art more carefully and more charitably.4 At the minimum, I think I can show that if the author of the rest of Book I of that work intended his chapter on art as imagination to be a statement of the so-called Ideal theory, then he did so in a spirit of inexplicable perversity. And I am fairly confident that I can show that if one takes his Expression theory seriously, and if one makes a (careful, charitable) effort to see how it might fit in with the chapter on imagination, the temptation to read Collingwood as defending the so-called Ideal theory at all should evaporate.
Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Co-Infection and Challenges in Their Diagnosis

Objective: To screen HCV infection in HIV infected individuals and to compare the genotype and viral load of HCV in these co infected patients versus HIV negative individuals. Methods: Serum samples from 70 HIV infected patients and 70 HIV negative individuals who enrolled in the ART center were retrospectively analyzed for the presence of anti HCV antibodies and for HCV RNA. Genotyping and viral load were further determined in HCV RNA positive patients. Results: HCV infection (either positive for anti HCV Ab, or HCV RNA or both) was found in 8.57% HIV infected cases as compared to 2.85% individuals in the HIV uninfected control group. HCV RNA levels were higher in HIV infected subjects versus HIV negative individuals. Among the HIV positive cases, out of the three HCV RNA positive cases, two individuals had genotype 3 and one individual was found to have mixed genotype (1+3) as compared to genotype 1 and genotype 3 in HIV negative healthy controls. Conclusion: In our study, HCV infection was found more frequently in HIV infected individuals as compared to HIV non infected individuals. Therefore a routine screening test followed by a confirmatory test should be made mandatory in co infected patients.
Photonic single nonlinear-delay dynamical node for information processing

An electro-optical system with a delay loop based on semiconductor lasers is investigated for information processing by performing numerical simulations. This system can replace a complex network of many nonlinear elements for the implementation of Reservoir Computing. We show that a single nonlinear-delay dynamical system has the basic properties to perform as reservoir: short-term memory and separation property. The computing performance of this system is evaluated for two prediction tasks: Lorenz chaotic time series and nonlinear auto-regressive moving average (NARMA) model. We sweep the parameters of the system to find the best performance. The results achieved for the Lorenz and the NARMA-10 tasks are comparable to those obtained by other machine learning methods.
Rammefaktorenes betydning for opplæringen i de praktisk-estetiske fagene - en casestudie

Kunnskapsloftet har til hensikt a bidra til at det gjennomfores systemendringer i grunnopplaeringen. Formalet med denne artikkelen er derfor a undersoke hvordan ulike rammefaktorer pavirker skolens tilrettelegging av opplaeringen i de praktisk-estetiske fagene pa 6. trinn. Studien er en sammenlignende casestudie. Data ble samlet inn pa to barneskoler og inkluderer observasjoner, intervjuer og dokumenter. Resultatene viser at spesielt skolens forstaelse av det pedagogiske rammesystemet og hvordan skolen utnytter handlingsrommet knyttet til de administrative rammene og de ressursmessige rammene kan forklare hvordan den enkelte skolen tilrettelegger opplaeringen i de praktisk-estetiske fagene. Resultatene viser ogsa hvordan tilretteleggingen varierer mellom skolene. Videre viser funnene at de praktisk-estetiske fagene i liten grad er prioritert i skolens implementering av Kunnskapsloftet. Artikkelen diskuterer ogsa hvordan rammefaktorene pavirker kvaliteten i opplaeringen i de praktisk-estetiske fagene.