Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Static mapping by dual recursive bipartitioning of process architecture graphs

The combinatorial optimization problem of assigning the communicating processes of a parallel program onto a parallel machine so as to minimize its overall execution time is referred to as static mapping. This problem is NP-complete in general. We introduce a mapping algorithm based on the recursive bipartitioning of both the source process graph and the target architecture graph, whose divide and conquer and modular approach allows the handling of many topologies and bipartitioning heuristics. Mapping results on hypercube, binary de Buijn, and bidimensional mesh graphs are presented in order to illustrate this feature. <<ETX>>
Predicting and discovering linguistic structure with neural networks

In the field of natural language processing (NLP), recent research has shown that deep neural network models are quite brittle and can only model linguistic principles to a limited degree. In order to build NLP systems that can generalize and work well in practice, it is important to integrate linguistic knowledge into such systems as well as investigate the ability of current models in capturing linguistic phenomena. This thesis attempts to address those two aspects from four different angles. First, this thesis demonstrates that neural network models enable the integration of morphological knowledge seamlessly into phrase-based machine translation systems without any feature engineering. Second, this thesis investigates what linguistic phenomena are implicitly captured by recurrent neural networks by augmenting them with an external memory. This thesis also studies the impact of recurrent vs non-recurrent architectures in modeling hierarchical structure. Third, while neural networks are well known to be powerful supervised learners, this thesis investigates whether they offer the same benefits for unsupervised structure learning. This thesis proposes an unsupervised Neural Hidden Markov Model for the purpose of part-of-speech induction. Finally, this thesis asks whether neural networks can induce meaningful structure from non-annotated text. This thesis proposes structured attention models that induce a dependency-like tree representation of the input sentence for the purpose of translation and shows that the models learn some basic elements of the source language grammar.
Plyometric muscular action tests in judo- and non-judo athletes

The majority of explosive actions during the Judo fight occur when the athlete is trying to overcome his/her adversary via rapid execution(s) of (isolated or chained) technical manoeuvres. The aim of this study was to compare the results of two plyometric muscular action tests (i.e., Squat Jump – SJ, and Countermovement Jump – CMJ) between judoand non-judoathletes. The investigation involved a cross-sectional examination of 102 subjects (age, 21.9 ± 3.4 years) divided into 3 performance groups: a) Senior top elite judo athletes (n = 50), b) Junior elite judo athletes (n = 26) and c) Adult non-judo athletes (n = 26). Thirteen biomechanical variables (including jump height, velocity, power, force in SJ and CMJ; time to peak force, to peak power and between peaks) were examined. The dataset was analysed using a Univariate analysis of variance. No significant differences in anthropometric variables were observed between groups. However, significant differences were observed in: a) jump height and peak velocity (SJ, CMJ), b) peak power and peak force (SJ), and c) peak eccentric force, peak eccentric power and peak concentric power (CMJ). We conclude that: a) the center of mass displacement achieved in the CMJ is higher than in the SJ; b) the optimisation of coordination between the eccentric and concentric phases of muscle action is not the primary determinant of performance of Judo athletes; and c) the main pre-requisite for success in elite judo athletes is superior peak eccentric power.
Buildings and Bibles Between Profanization and Sacralization: Semiotic Ambivalence in the Protestant Dutch Bible Belt

Abstract Based on an ethnographic case study of three recently erected church buildings in the Dutch Bible Belt, this article demonstrates how orthodox Reformed congregations in the Netherlands define church buildings—especially the auditoria—and bibles as simultaneously profane and mediating the sacred. These at first glance ambivalent discourses are informed by a particular semiotic ideology, which maintains that material spaces and objects like these are sacralized if, and only if, individual believers can meaningfully relate them to their personal spiritual experiences. This ideology makes a primary attitude of profanization of material forms indispensable, because any preexistent sacredness of matter would precisely rule out these personal spiritual experiences.
Embodied Energy and Design: Making Architecture Between Metrics and Narratives

La publication de l’ouvrage collectif dirige par David Benjamin, Embodied Energy and Design : Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives, fait suite a une conference organisee par l’Universite de Columbia, a New York, le 22 avril 2016. Il s’agit du premier ouvrage scientifique sur la question des energies grises, repondant de ce fait aux interrogations complexes que peuvent se poser les architectes d’aujourd’hui. En effet, les energies grises ou energies intrinseques sont tres diffici.
Stability Analysis for Delayed Neural Networks via Improved Auxiliary Polynomial-Based Functions

This brief is concerned with stability analysis for delayed neural networks (DNNs). By establishing polynomials and introducing slack variables reasonably, some improved delay-product type of auxiliary polynomial-based functions (APFs) is developed to exploit additional degrees of freedom and more information on extra states. Then, by constructing Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional using APFs and integrals of quadratic forms with high order scalar functions, a novel stability criterion is derived for DNNs, in which the benefits of the improved inequalities are fully integrated and the information on delay and its derivative is well reflected. By virtue of the advantages of APFs, more desirable performance is achieved through the proposed approach, which is demonstrated by the numerical examples.
VLOGGER DAN KONTEN VLOG YOUTUBERS PALU: MOTIVASI MENJADIKAN YOUTUBE SEBAGAI MEDIA BEREKSPRESI

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui motivasi vlogger yang membuat konten vlog di YouTube sebagai media berekspresi, melalui kebutuhan yang memunculkan dorongan motivasi yang timbul dan menghasilkan perilaku untuk memenuhi kebutuhan yang ingin dicapai pada informan vlogger komunitas YouTubers Palu. Konsep penelitian ini menggunakan teori kebutuhan dan motivasi. Kebutuhan yang ingin dicapai yaitu, Existence (Keberadaan), Relatedness (Hubungan), dan Growth (Pertumbuhan), dan melalui kebutuhan adanya dorongan motivasi yang timbul dapat berupa, motivasi intrinsik dan motivasi ekstrinsik. Tipe penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif dengan dasar penelitian studi kasus. Informan dalam penelitian ini berjumlah lima (5) orang yang dipilih melalui purposive sampling. Dengan menggunakan analisis data kualitatif serta teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi, wawancara mendalam dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa dalam memenuhi kebutuhannya dengan menjadi seorang vlogger membuat konten vlog sebagai media dalam berekspresi. Diketahui bahwa kebutuhan informan tidak terbatas pada kebutuhan yang bersifat konkret (nyata) tetapi juga bersifat abstrak (tidak nyata). Misalnya kebutuhan ekonomi, rasa aman, ingin dihargai, atau dihormati. Dari hal tersebut informan ingin mencapai hirarki kebutuhan, existence, relatdness, dan growth. Melalui ketiga kebutuhan tersebut pada kebutuhan existence informan belum dapat memenuhi kebutuhan secara fisiologis yaitu kebutuhan dasar manusia. Karena informan belum menjadikan aktifitas vlogger adalah profesi utama dalam pemenuhan kebutuhan tersebut. Akan tetapi aspek lain kebutuhan existence tercapai dalam membuat konten vlog sebagai sarana yang tepat dalam berekspresi dan memaksimalkan potensi diri mereka. Sedangkan untuk kebutuhan growth, diketahui bahwa selain alasan kebutuhan media dalam berekspresi, para informan juga memenuhi kebutuhannya dengan peningkatan baik dari segi kemajuan ekonomi yaitu pendapatan iklan dan endorsement, dan dari segi kualitas melalui apresiasi dari orang-orang. Adapun pencapaian kebutuhan relatdness, informan berhasil membangun kesukaan dan relasi terhadap para penonton dan kelompok sosialnya. Melalui kebutuhan tersebut dorongan motivasi yang timbul kepada para informan memilih menjadi seorang vlogger dominan didasari oleh motivasi ekstrinsik yaitu adanya dorongan dari luar sehingga merangsang informan memilih YouTube dan membuat vlog melalui contoh keberhasilan, dan pencapaian yang telah diwujudkan oleh vlogger lain yang telah suskes sehingga menjadi dorongan kuat pada diri para informan.
The relation between variable active galacticnuclei, their immediate environments, and theconditions for star formation

Zusammenfassung Die Kerne der meisten aktiven Galaxien (AGN) - wenn nicht sogar alle - beherbergen in ihren Zentren ein super-massives Schwarzes Loch (SMBH). Dieses SMBH entwickelt sich zusammen mit dem Bulge (der zentralen Verdickung einer Spiralgalaxie oder das Innere einer Elliptischen Galaxie). Die Korrelation zwischen dem SMBH und den Entwicklingsprozessen der Gastgalaxie ist bisher jedoch noch nicht vollst ndig verstanden. Das liegt unter anderem a daran, dass bisher in vielen F llen Beobachtungen eindeutiger Hinweise auf eine solche En- a twicklung fehlen. In dieser Arbeit trage ich einige Teile des grossen Puzzels zur Entwicklung und der Physik aktiver Galaxien bei. Diese Arbeit ist in drei Hauptabschnitte unzterteilt: Erstes Projekt: In diesem Projekt behandele ich eine Doppel-Keulen Radiogalaxie (’Double - lobe’) die ideal dazu geeignet ist, die Wechselwirkungen der einzelnen Komponenten der Radiostruktur mit dem intergalaktischen Medium (IGM) und dem Interstellaren Medium (ISM) der Gastgalaxie zu untersuchen. Die Quelle SDSS J080800.99+483807.7 ist von uns zuf llig a bei der Analyse von 18 cm Beobachtungsdaten des MERLIN Radiointerferometers als Doppel- Keulen Radiogalaxie entdeckt worden. Da es sich um eine schwache optische Quelle handelt waren Basisinformationen, wie linearer Duchmesser, Masse des zentralen Schwarzen Lochs, Rotverschiebung und Quellstruktur bisher unbekannt oder unvollst ndig. Weiterhin gabe es keine optischen Spektren in zug nglichen a a Archiven. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es die grundlegenden physikalischen Eigenschaften der Quelle SDSS J080800.99+483807.7 zu ermitteln und die M glichkeit einer Welchselwirking zwis- o chen Radio-Jets (D senstrahlen aus dem Kern der Galaxie) und dem ISM der Gastgalaxie zu u untersuchen. In diesem Projekt habe ich radiointerferometrische und optische Spektroskopiedaten benutzt. Die optischen Daten wurden mit dem Multi-Objekt Doppel-Spektrographen (MODS) am Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) gewonnen. Die Radiodaten, bei einer Wellenl nge von 18 cm, a stammen von dem Radiointerferometer MERLIN. Die Rotverschiebung der Galaxie betr gt z = a 0.2805±0.0003, und ergibt f r den Durchmesser der beobachteten Radiostruktur etwa 26.3 kpc. u Zus tzlich zu dem Infrarot- und Kontinuumsspektrum weisen die opischen Emissionslinien a auf eine hohe Sternentstehungsaktivit t hin. Die Masse des zentralen Schwarz Lochs kann als a log (MBH /M ) ≈ 6.9 abgesch tzt werden. Schliesslich ergibt sich aus den optischen Bilder des
Measurements of spatial signature of an antenna array

A spatial signature is a response vector of an antenna array to a mobile unit at a certain location. The mobile subscribers at different locations exhibit different spatial signatures. The exploitation of spatial diversity (or difference of spatial signatures) is the basic idea of the so-called space-division-multiple-access (SDMA) scheme, which can be used to significantly increase the channel capacity and quality of a wireless communication system. Although the SDMA schemes have been studied by a number of researchers, most of these studies are based on theoretical analysis and computer simulations with ideal assumptions. Not much experimental study has been conducted on spatial signature variation due to nonideal perturbations in a real wireless communication environment. The purpose of this paper is to present our preliminary experimental results of spatial signature variation using our recently developed antenna array testbed. The results to be presented include the spatial signature variation with time and frequency and in several typical scenarios: (1) the mobile unit is stationary, so are its surroundings; (2) the mobile unit is stationary, but the surroundings vary; (3) the mobile unit moves in several different directions.
Romanticism, the Avant-Garde, and the Early Modern Innovators in Arts Education

relation to society. Early in their careers, the individuals who initiated this revolution were avant-garde artists, not professional educators. But their attention turned from their personal involvement with art to the new possibilities they saw in the creative process as an educative force not for the professional elite, but for humanity in general and for children in particular. Outlining the history of a major change in ideas is a difficult task, and the complex elements of that history can best be seen reflected in the lives of individuals. I have set out here to illustrate the unfolding of these new ideas through an examination of the contributions made by some of the major avant-garde innovators who worked to establish the creative process as an important means of human education.
“What Happens [in Vegas]”: Performing the Post-Tourist Flâneur in “New York” and “Paris”

This essay explores Las Vegas as a stage-set for tourist performance. Initially, I outline Walter Benjamin's notion of the flâneur as a framework for my study before addressing two foci of this paper: (1) the site of Las Vegas as “omnitopian” enclosure and (2) the performance of Las Vegas through post-tourism. Following this analysis, I discuss consequences of inauthentic post-tourist play as imagined by critics of “mere pleasure. ”
Differences in Prevalence, Treatment, and Outcomes of Asthma Among a Diverse Population of Children With Equal Access to Care: Findings From a Study in the Military Health System

KA Stewart, PC Higgins, CG McLaughlin, TV Williams, E Granger, TW Croghan. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164(8):720–726 To assess possible racial and ethnic differences in asthma prevalence, treatment patterns, and outcomes among a diverse population of children with equal access to health care. In the Military Health System (MHS), children 2 to 17 years of age were enrolled throughout 2007 in TRICARE Prime, a voluntary health maintenance organization–type benefit provided by the US Department of Defense. More than 75% of children in the MHS are enrolled in TRICARE Prime. This was a retrospective cohort analysis. The sponsor parent's race and ethnicity were used as a proxy for the child's …
Family planning knowledge attitudes and practice.

Results of a knowledge attitude practice study in Comilla Bangladesh were discouraging. Less that 1/2 of the respondents could name a method of contraception and about the same proportion approved of family planning. Only 4% indicated they were currently using contraception. Such a low percentage will have minimal effect on future fertility. There is a direct relationship between the number of living children and knowledge of family planning. The women whose fertility will make the least difference in the total are the ones most knowledgeable about family planning. The IUD the most effective contraceptive was little known. Childless women have much lower proportions approving family planning. About 40% of the respondents indicated that they would not want more children. This group is a natural target of family planning educational programs. In a male-oriented country like Bangladesh focus should be on male acceptance of family planning.
Where are the patients in decision making about their own care

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Men and abortion: Lessons, losses, and love

Field research involving 30 abortion clinics from New England to California was conducted over a 2-year period to learn how the men who wait respond to the entire situation relating to abortion -- from the news of the conception through the months that follow the abortion; what the range of their feelings was during the ordeal especially through the obvious fact of relationships strengthened weakened or broken by this trail. Of the 1000 male respondents from the 30 clinics studied 60% were single 18% were married 12% were "living together" and 10% were formerly married men (87% of the married men were accompanying their wives). Even among the singles the relationships were relatively stable (22% of the single men were engaged and 57% were dating their partner on a steady basis). Thus it came as no surprise that waiting room males show genuine concern about the well being of their lover fiancee or wife many interrupting clinic staffers with anxious questions about the woman at every opportunity. Those aged 21 or younger comprised 35% of the sample and these 22-25 made up 30% of the sample. The men also reflected the black/white distribution in America (10% and 87% respectively) while slightly understating the proportion of Hispanics (1.5%) and Asian-Americans (0.8%). The primary data gathering tool was a 5-sided 3-page questionnaire of 102 questions. Several chapters focus on how men react to the news of an unexpected pregnancy how they share in resolving the couples dilemma how they feel and behave before and during the actual abortion appointment. Chapter 2 deals with the social patterns that characterize the preabortion process. Chapter 3 concentrates on the clinic visit itself. In chapter 4 attention is directed to 2 specific types of males within the entire group -- the 20% who were especially critical of abortion per se and the 25% who were abortion repeaters. The next chapter focuses on black males. Chapter 6 explores the aftermath of the crisis. The remaining sections of the book present information on the nonattendees "men who wait elsewhere" and reform possibilities.
Site-Specific Dance in a Corporate Landscape

Site-specific performance relies on the terms space and place as markers for discussing a performance's engagement with a site. However, practitioners and researchers are often disgruntled by the limitations such terms impose upon site-specific performance – as was Melanie Kloetzel, in the creation of The Sanitastics, a site-specific dance film created in the Calgary Walkway System. In this article, Kloetzel examines how theorists have struggled with space and place in the last four decades and how bringing in the perspective of the body allows us to reassess our assumptions about these terms. As she analyzes her creative process, she discovers the restrictions as well as possibilities in space and place, but she also notes the need for Marc Augé's idea of non-place to clarify her site-specific efforts in the homogenized, corporate landscape of the Walkway System. Kloetzel is an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the artistic director of kloetzel&co, a dance company founded in New York City in 1997 that has presented work across North America. Her site-specific films have been shown in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, and the United States, and her anthology with Carolyn Pavlik, Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces, was published by the University Press of Florida in 2009.
Comparison of intrapulmonary percussive ventilation and high frequency chest wall oscillation in patients with severe COPD

Background We test the hypothesis that adding IPV or HFCWO to the best pharmacological therapy (PT) may provide additional clinical benefit over PT in patients with severe COPD. Methods Sixty patients were randomized to three groups ( 20 patients in each group) : a group was treated with PT and IPV, a group with PT and HFCWO and a group with PT alone.Primary outcome measures included dyspnea scale (MMRC),breathlessness, cough, and sputum scales, as well as daily life activity evaluations (CAT, BCSS). Secondary outcome measures were pulmonary function testing, arterial blood gas analysis (ABG), and hematological examinations. Results Both patients in the IPV group and in the HFCWO group showed a significant improvement in the tests of dyspnea and quality of life assessment (MMRC, BCSS,CAT) compared to the control group, as well as in pulmonary function tests and ABG. However, in the group comparison analysis for the same variables between IPV group and HFCWO group we observed a significant improvement in the IPV group MIP, MEP (p≤0.01) and BCSS (p≤ 0.001), CAT (p≤ 0.02). Discussion The two techniques improve the quality of life and lung function in patients with severe COPD. IPV demonstrated a significant greater effectiveness in improving some pulmonary function tests linked to the respiratory muscle strength and quality of life tools (BCSS,CAT) than HFCWO.
Efficient substructure sharing methods for optimising the inner-product operations in Rijndael advanced encryption standard

The Rijndael advanced encryption standard (AES) contains two paired important transformations, MixColumns (inverse MixColumns) and SubByte (inverse SubBytes), the most crucial operations in the AES encryption /decryption processes. They consist of XOR-based inner production operations in GF(28). In the paper, two substructure sharing methods are proposed to reduce the area cost of implementing these transformations. The first method exploits pure bit-level sharing with two optimisation stages, while the second method combines both the byte-level and bit-level techniques to further improve the area /speed performance. Comparisons in both the architectural-level designs and the technology-dependent cell-based implementations are given. An AES processor with iterative architecture is implemented using both a 0.18 µm UMC cell library and a Xilinx FPGA device. Experimental results show that the whole AES processor based on our proposed method can reduce area cost significantly compared with Synopsys area-optimised synthesis results or other previous implementations.