Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
New Techniques for Power-Efficient CPU-GPU Processors

of “New Techniques for Power-Efficient CPU-GPU Processors” by Kapil Dev, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017 Power is one of the key challenges for improving the performance of modern CPU-GPU processors. Research efforts are needed at both design-time and run-time of processor to improve its power efficiency (Performance/Watt). To improve the run-time power management, accurate measurement based power models are needed. Further, the power efficiency of CPU-GPU processors for different workloads depends on the type of device they run on and the run-time conditions of the system [e.g., thermal design power (TDP) and existence of other workloads]. So, an online workload characterization and mapping method is needed. Furthermore, for future massively parallel processors, the low power techniques, like power gating (PG) should be evaluated for their potential benefits before going through the cost of implementing them. This thesis makes the following contributions towards improving the performance and power efficiency of CPU-GPU processors. First, we propose new techniques for postsilicon power mapping and modeling of multi-core processors using infrared imaging and performance counter measurements. Using detailed thermal and power maps, we demonstrate that in contrast to traditional multi-core CPUs heterogeneous processors exhibit higher intertwined behavior for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and workload scheduling, in terms of their effect on performance, power and temperature. Second, we propose a framework to map workloads on appropriate device of CPU-GPU processors under different static and time-varying workload/system conditions. We implement the scheduler on a real CPU-GPU processor, and using OpenCL benchmarks, we demonstrate up to 24% runtime improvement and 10% energy savings compared to the state-of-the-art scheduling techniques. Third, to improve the performance and power efficiency of future massively parallel GPUs, we provide an integrated solution to manage leakage power by incorporating workload/run-time-awareness into the PG design methodology. On a hypothetical future GPU with 192 compute units, our results show that a PG
HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN KELUARGA DENGAN PENGOBATAN KANKER SERVIKS

Kesehatan adalah keadaan sejahtera dari badan, jiwa dan sosial yang memungkinkan setiap produktif secara sosial dan ekonomis. Kanker Serviks merupakan momok bagi wanita karena kanker serviks menyerang pada organ wanita, penyebab kanker serviks ialah adanya Virus Homan Papiloma (VHP). Pengobatan kanker serviks yaitu operasi, kemoterapi dan radioterapi. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan dukungan keluarga dengan pengobatan kanker serviks di RSUD Dr.H. Abdul Moeloek Bandar Lampung Tahun 2016. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain cross sectional. Teknik sampling total sampling dengan sejumlah 67 responden. Analisis statistik menggunakan Uji Chi-Square. Hasil analisis bivariat ada hubungan dukungan keluarga dengan pengobatan kanker serviks di RSUD Dr.H. Abdul Moeloek Bandar Lampung tahun 2016 (Pvalue 0,008). Di harapkan kepada petugas kesehatan untuk mengadakan pendidikan kesehatan kepada responden tentang pentingnya dukungan keluarga terhadap pengobatan kanker serviks.
Clear quantum-confined luminescence from crystalline silicon/SiO2 single quantum wells

Crystalline silicon single quantum wells (QWs) were fabricated by high-temperature thermal oxidation of ELTRAN® (Epitaxial Layer TRANsfer) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. The Si layer thicknesses enclosed by thermal SiO2 range from 0.8 to 5 nm. Luminescence energies from such QWs vary from 1.77 to 1.35 eV depending on the Si layer thickness, without evidence for interface-mediated transition seen in earlier work. The ability to detect quantum-confined luminescence seems to arise from the use of ELTRAN SOI wafers, from suppressed interface state luminescence by high-temperature oxidation and, possibly, from interface matching by crystalline silicon oxide.
Caracterização geoquímica e geocronológica do complexo Granjeiro Sul, província Borborema, NE Brasil: implicações para a evolução crustal paleoarqueana do distrito ferrífero de Curral Novo do Piauí

The Curral Novo do Piauí iron district, located in the Transversal Zone of the Borborema Province, is hosted by the Granjeiro Complex. In this district, banded iron formations have an average grade of 27.5% of Fe in resources of more than one billion tons. Field, petrographic, isotopic, geochemical and geochronological data allowed the characterization of an association of gneisses and migmatites with TTG affinity and a Paleoarchean greenstone belt sequence with evidence of ocean floor exhalative activity. The TTG suite of the Granjeiro Complex includes magnesian rocks of calcic to alkali-calcic affinity and low content of mafic minerals. These rocks have a low concentration of LILE and HFSE elements, significant fractionation of ETRL (La/YbN = 9.78–139.12) and slightly negative Eu anomaly (Eu/Eu* = 0.62–0.97). These characteristics are similar to that of magmas generated from low-pressure sources. LA–ICP–MS U–Pb zircon ages obtained in TTG gneisses indicate magma crystallization at 3,349 ±15 Ma (MSWD = 0.62). The Granjeiro metavolcanosedimentary sequence comprises metamafic and metaultramafic volcanic rocks and banded iron formation. These rocks derived from basaltic and komatiitic protoliths with chemical affinity to those formed in modern island arcs. The banded iron formation has (magnetite–quartz) and silicate (grunerite–quartz) facies, with strong impoverishment in HFSE and ETR and negative Ce anomaly (Ce/CeN = 0.04–0.37). Post-collisional A2-type syenogranites (2,651.8 ±8.9 Ma; MSWD = 1.5) crosscut the Granjeiro Complex. The syenogranites are ferroan, metaluminous to peraluminous and have a high-K calc-alkaline affinity. They have a slight enrichment of ETRL concerning ETRP and high contents of LILE and HFSE. Hydrothermal alteration processes present in the banded iron formations and associated volcanic rocks include silicification, albitization, potassic alteration, carbonation, sulfide formation and iron reconcentration. Sulfur isotopes signatures (S = –3.11 to 2.03) of hydrothermal sulfides suggest magmatic sulfur sources associated with the hydrothermal system. The rocks of the Complexo Granjeiro still recorded metamorphism in the Riacian (ca. 2.2 Ga), and strong crustal reworking during the Paleoproterozoic until the Staterian (ca. 1.7 Ga).
Monochromatic imaging instrumentation for applications in aeronomy of the earth and planets

Monochromatic imaging instrumentation has been developed that uses narrow-band (12 A FWHP) interference filters or plane reflection gratings for 2D imaging and imaging spectrograph applications. By changing the optics in front of the filter or grating, the field of view of the instruments can be varied from 180 deg to 6 deg. In the case of the 2D monochromatic imager, the 12 mm-diameter filtered image is formed at about f/1 on the input photocathode of an intensified CCD camera (380 x 488 pixels). The sensitivities of the systems are about 50-100 R s (S/N about 2). Examples of data taken with both of these instruments include detection and mapping of Jupiter's sodium magnetonebula and stable auroral red arcs in the terrestrial ionosphere.
Roles of Risk Managers: Understanding How Risk Managers Engage in Regulation

Inside companies that produce significant risks, risk managers play a key role. They manage the connection between the risk regulation regime, which stresses public values, and the company, which pursues a broader array of organisational goals. This makes the role of risk managers ambivalent. To better understand this ambivalence and identify the means, motives and strategies that risk managers employ in response to this ambivalence, this article conducts a concise review of (classic) organisation and regulatory literature. Based on this review, we propose a typology that distinguishes four roles of risk managers: risk managers as supporting staff; risk managers as professionals; risk managers as boundary spanners; and risk managers as agents in regulatory communities. Each type subsequently describes how risk managers employ different strategies in their attempt to connect the risk regulation regime and the company, ie translating policies to practices, tailoring policies to practices, explaining and framing policies and practices, and (re)interpreting policies and practices together with regulators. The typology enables researchers and practioners to emphasise and more thoroughly analyse the variety and complexity of risk managers’ work, and can help regulators to broaden and fine-tune their strategies to improve connections with the various roles of risk managers.
The impact of import on inflation: an ARDL analysis for the Turkish Economy

Diger makro ve mikroekonomik konularla karmasik ve onemli iliskilere sahip oldugundan, yuksek enflasyon duzeyinin sebeplerinin belirlenmesi ekonomi politikasinin ana hedefleri arasinda neredeyse ilk sirada yer almaktadir. Son donemde Gordon (1997) tarafindan gelistirilmis olan Ucgen Modeline gore enflasyon atalet, talep ve arz adi verilen uc dinamikten kaynaklanmaktadir. Diger taraftan Paracilar ve Yapisalcilar enflasyonun nedeninin sirasiyla asiri para arzi ve maliyet arttirici faktorler oldugunu ileri surmektedir. Bu kapsamda calismanin amaci, uygun bir esbutunlesme analizi kullanarak, Turkiye ekonomisinde 1961-2017 doneminde ithalat hacminin yurtici enflasyon orani uzerindeki etkisini incelemektir. Bulgular, Turkiye'de enflasyonun temelde parasal gelismelerden kaynaklandigini ve ayni zamanda ithalat tarafindan da yonlendirildigini gostermektedir. Bu nedenle, politika yapicilarin Turkiye’de genel fiyat duzeyi istikrarsizliklari ile ilgilenirken bu ikili yapiyi dikkate almalari yararli olacaktir.
HOW IN-CLASS ELECTRONIC COLLECTION OF STUDENT EVALUATIONS IS PROVIDING TEACHERS AND MANAGERS WITH BETTER INFORMATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING

This paper investigates the impact of Evaluate, an in-class electronic collection of Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) data, across a large UK university. It focuses on how Evaluate has enhanced the data provided to teachers and managers. Key features include immediate access to data and provision of mean and aggregate scores for individuals, schools and faculties. The results of this study showed a lower response rate for Evaluate compared to paper-based questionnaires, although this difference was small and the Evaluate response rate increased each year. Mean scores dropped initially but rapidly returned to a similar level. There was a significant difference between schools in the response rates achieved indicating that practice varies in terms of how Evaluate is used and promoted. The number of student responses and number of surveys completed increased by over a third with Evaluate compared to paper. A large number of written comments have been received which are now available to managers as well as teachers. Feedback from managers shows strong support for the enhanced data provided, but further improvements in both functionality and use are needed. Evaluate has transformed the processing and speed of release of results as well as improving the comparative data provided.
Designing a CRM Framework for online & offline sports footwear retailers

The use of Customer Relationship Managers to foster customers loyalty has become one of the most common business strategies in the past years. However, CRM solutions do not fill the abundance of happily ever-after relationships that business needs, and each client’s perception is different in the buying process. Therefore, the experience must be precise, in order to extend the loyalty period of a customer as much as possible. One of the economic sectors in which CRM’s have improved this experience is retailing, where the personalized attention to the customer is a key factor. However, brick and mortar experiences are not enough to be aware in how environmental changes could affect the industry trends in the long term. A base unified theoretical framework must be taken into consideration, in order to develop an adaptable model for constructing or implementing CRMs into companies. Thanks to this approximation, the information is complemented, and the outcome will increment the quality in any Marketing/Sales initiative. The goal of this article is to explore the different factors grouped by three main domains within the impact of service quality, from a consumer’s perspective, in both on-line and off-line retailing sector. Secondly, we plan to go a step further and extract base guidelines about previous analysis for designing CRM’s solutions focused on the loyalty of the customers for a specific retailing sector and its product: Sports Running Shoes.
A study on knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) towards contraceptive use among married women attending a tertiary care centre

In the Indian society, various factors other than mere knowledge have shown to have a more significant impact over contraceptive usage and choice such as educational levels of women, marital duration, cultural and social factors, and exposure to mass media. This study focuses on assessing the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of contraceptive use among married women. A cross-sectional study was conducted among married women aged between 18 to 49 years attending a tertiary care hospital in the city of Chennai from June to September 2018. A total of 146 women were interviewed, and the KAP parameters were assessed using a pretested structured questionnaire. Though 97.9% (n=143) of the women in this study had knowledge about some form of contraception, only 24.7% (n=36) practiced them. Among the users (n=36), the decision to adopt contraception was made by the husband in 69.4% (n=25). Among the non-users (n=110), the major reasons for not practicing contraception were lack of interest in 37.2%(n=41) and fear of side effects in 35.5% (n=39). This study demonstrates a significant gap between the knowledge and practice of contraceptives in our population. Improving doctor-patient relationship and encouraging a positive attitude of the husband towards contraception are the key factors in promoting adoption of the contraceptive practices.
Essays on Aggregate Performance and Competition

This thesis examines various forces that a ect aggregate performance. In particular, it focuses on competitive pressures and analyses their determinants. It also analyses the importance of the human capital portfolio composition for aggregate performance. Speci cally, in the rst chapter, it o ers an endogenous growth framework, where it models knowledge (patent) licensing among high-tech rms. In such a framework it evaluates how di erent types of competitive pressure can matter for innovation in hightech industries. In the second chapter, it o ers empirical evidence that the country-wide uptake of telecommunication technologies increases competition in services and goods markets. In turn, in the third chapter, it de nes two types of human capital and suggests how the human capital portfolio matters for long-run growth and welfare. In the rst chapter, I present an endogenous growth model, where the engine of growth is in-house R&D performed by high-tech rms. I model knowledge (patent) licensing among high-tech rms where licenses are essentially permits for licensees to use the knowledge of the licensor in the R&D process. I show that if there is knowledge licensing, high-tech rms innovate more, and economic growth is higher than when there are knowledge spillovers, or there is no exchange of knowledge among high-tech rms. Conditionally that high-tech rms innovate, I show that increasing intensity and toughness of competition in the high-tech industry increases innovation. When there is an exchange of knowledge among high-tech rms, in terms of licensing or spillovers, increasing the number of high-tech rms also increases innovation. However, when there is no exchange of knowledge, the relationship between innovation in the hightech industry and the number of high-tech rms has an inverted-U shape. Finally, endogenizing the number of high-tech rms I show again that when there is knowledge licensing, high-tech rms innovate more and economic growth is higher than in the latter two cases. However, the number of high-tech rms is lower. In the second chapter, co-authored with Anna Kochanova, we use evidence from 21 EU countries to investigate the relationship between the country-wide uptake of high-tech goods such as telecommunications and the level of product market competition in services and goods markets. We nd that the uptake of telecommunication technologies signi cantly increases the level of product market competition. Our result is consistent with the view that the use of these technologies can lower the costs of rm entry. This result contributes to the ongoing debate about the impact of telecommunication technologies, as well as information and communication technologies on aggregate performance. In particular, since competitive pressures matter for allocative and productive e ciency, our results imply that the bene ts from a particular type of ICT, telecommunication technologies, may come not only from direct use (e.g., email
Amnesic Syndromes in War

Loss of memory is much commoner in soldiers in war-time than in civilian practice in peace. From the previous records of some of our patients, it seems that the condition is often overlooked in civil life; in the Army a stricter routine and discipline make this impossible. Attention in the past has been mainly directed to states of fugue, and civilian practice suggests that behind these there often lies a criminal act or a situation from which an immediate, even though an illusory, escape is desired. Cases occurring in war, however, indicate that other causes, such as terror, bomb blast and exhaustion, may produce not only fugues both at the time and subsequently, but also large gaps retrospectivelv in the patient's memory of the past.
Study of trends and variability of atmospheric water vapour with climate models and observations from global gnss network

Water vapour is a key component of the Earth’s climate system, and its distribution and variability are sources of uncertainty in climate models. The use of long-term integrated water vapour (IWV) observations and reanalyses can help in their assessment. This work pioneered the use of reprocessed GPS IWV data for 1995-2010, converted from estimates of Zenith Total Delay. The conversion was assessed, with the goal of producing a high quality long-term IWV data set. Due to uncertainties in the GPS observations and homogeneity concerns, a global comparison with ERA-Interim reanalysis data was made. Although a general good agreement in means, variability and trends was found, issues in both data sets were highlighted. In GPS, gaps and inhomogeneities in the time series were evidenced, as well as representativeness differences in coastal areas and regions of complex topography. In ERA-Interim, too strong trends in certain regions were found. ERA-Interim was also compared with other reanalyses (MERRA-2, ERA-20C, 20CR), and differences were found in the IWV trends over Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. Finally, GPS and ERA-Interim IWV were used to assess four configurations of the LMDZ atmospheric general circulation model with two different physics and with or without nudging towards ERA-Interim wind fields. Impact of the model physics on the IWV mean was found, with the new physics being moister at tropical latitudes. Overall, the model free runs in both physics have difficulty reproducing the trends and variability observed in ERA-Interim and GPS. This is improved with the nudging, which confirms the importance of large-scale dynamics on IWV trends and variability.
PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS ’ LEVEL OF RELATING MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS IN DAILY LIFE

The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice elementary mathematics teachers’ ability of relating mathematical concepts and daily life context. Two research questions were set; what is the preservice elementary mathematics teachers’ level of relating mathematical concepts and daily life context regarding to their education year and their Grade Point Average? and is there a relationship between preservice elementary mathematics teachers’ level of relating mathematical concepts and daily life context and their self efficacy towards mathematics? A survey research was designed with 194 preservice elementary mathematics teachers. A scale and its rubric were developed. Data analyses revealed that preservice mathematics teachers’ level of relating mathematical concepts in daily life context is increased throughout their year of education. Furthermore all participants were found as efficacious towards mathematics and a correlation was captured between their self efficacy towards mathematics and level of relating mathematics in daily life context.
Australia’s deep-water reserve network: implications of false homogeneity for classifying abiotic surrogates of biodiversity

Williams, A. , Bax, N. J., Kloser, R. J., Althaus, F. , Barker, B. , and Keith G. 2009. Australia’s deep-water reserve network: implications of false homogeneity for classifying abiotic surrogates of biodiversity. - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 214-224.Australia’s southeast network of deep-water marine reserves, declared in July 2007, was designed using a hierarchy that represented the distribution of marine biodiversity as a nested set of bioregions. In this hierarchy, geomorphic units, individual or aggregations of seabed geomorphic features, are the finest scale used in the design process. We evaluated the interaction between two hierarchical levels (depth and geomorphic features), using video survey data on seamounts and submarine canyons. False within-class homogeneity indicated that depth, size, complexity, configuration, and anthropogenic impact need to be added as modifiers to allow geomorphic features to act as surrogates for biodiversity distribution. A consequence of using unmodified geomorphic surrogates, and of not correctly nesting geomorphic features within depth, is the diminished recognition of the importance and comparative rarity of megafaunal biodiversity of the continental margin (<1500-m depths). We call this area the zone of importance, because it is where targeted marine impacts coincide with the greatest megafaunal biodiversity. Refining the geomorphic classification is desirable for future biodiversity characterization, but an alternative approach is to define patterns in biodiversity and abiotic variables jointly, and to utilize finer scale information and provide a classification that preserves the maximum information of both datasets.