Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Teaching with video

This paper focuses on the uses of audio-visual material in the context of University lectures. It aims to demonstrate the breadth and variety of the visual and audio material available; and by so doing stimulate the 'audience' to think about ways in which audio-visual techniques could be applied to their own areas of instruction. This journal article is available in Overview University of Wollongong Teaching & Learning Journal: http://ro.uow. edu.au/overview/ vol5/iss1/5 Teaching with video Philip O'Alton This paper focuses on the uses of audio-visual material in the context of University lectures. It aims to demonstrate the breadth and variety of the visual and audio material available; and by so doing stimulate the 'audience' to think about ways in which audio-visual techniques could be applied to their own areas of instruction. While it may be an old and rather trite statement that: 'a picture is worth a thousand words', it is difficult to overestimate the IMPACT of visual material. We are, as humans, extremely visually oriented, and making use of this fact means that learning can be maximised. However, it needs to be both thought through and prepared very carefully, or what you end up with is a mishmash of visual material which hinders rather than aids the learning process. TIming, spacing, delivery and juxtaposition of the different forms of material is crucial. The lecture presentation, the 'doing', is the carrier of the message. The 'telling'; the pedagogical analysis, (which provides the rationale, explanation and justification), both informs the presentation and is the basis for its evaluation as to relevance.
Hardware thread management modeling for precision timed processors

Studies recently and currently in progress address timing demands for Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) applications. Certain areas of research seek to modify modern computer architecture to meet the needs of CPS applications. Moreover, specific modifications in current computer architecture have produced newer computer architectures and processors, such as precision timed (PRET) processors. This thesis focuses on identifying, modeling, and simulating thread management methods in hardware used by the current open-source PRET soft processor, the MultiFire.
The Future of Life

Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting themes--unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril--have originated during the past two decades of research. In this timely and important new book, one of our greatest living scientists describes exactly what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and what we can do right now to save them. Destruction of natural habitats, the rampant spread of invasive species, pollution, uncontrolled population growth and overharvesting are the main threats to our natural world. Wilson explains how each of these elements works to undo the web of life that supports us, and why it is in our best interests to stop it. THE FUTURE OF LIFE is a magisterial accomplishment - both a moving description of the world's astonishing animals and plants and a guidebook for the protection of all its species, including our own.
Specialist knowledge and its management

A method for systematically analysing text is outlined for use in the acquisition of specialist knowledge. Such knowledge can typically be engineered in the knowledge bases of hydroinformatic systems. A synthesis of work in the corpus-based studies of language and in the literature on Language for Special Purposes is presented. This synthesis forms the basis of semi-automatic analysis of texts for extracting terms, elaborating terms and identifying heuristics.
OFDM-MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATES IN A RAYLEIGH FADED ENVIRONMENT

The invention relates to a mixture-compressing internal-combustion engine with secondary-air injection and with air-mass measurement as well as with an injection valve sequential fuel injection and air assistance, the air line provided for air assistance being equipped with a shut-off valve opening in the starting and the warmup phase of the internal-combustion engine.
Iterative Decoding Trajectories of Parallel Concatenated Codes

Mutual information transfer characteristics for soft in/soft out decoders are proposed as a tool to better understand the convergence behavior of iterative decoding schemes. The exchange of extrinsic information is visualized as a decoding trajectory in the Extrinsic Information Transfer Chart. This allows the prediction of turbo cliff position and bit error rate after an arbitrary number of iterations. The influence of code memory, generator polynomials as well as different constituent codes on the convergence behavior is studied for parallel concatenated codes.
DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT IN A MIXED-INITIATIVE, COOPERATIVE, SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEM

This paper describes a dialogue manager for a spoken language system which allows people to access their email by making a telephone call. The dialogue manager accomplishes three tasks: 1) it controls interactions between the Natural Language Processing (NLP) components; 2) it coordinates inputs from the speech recogniser, requests to and from the database query module and outputs to the text-to-speech module; and 3) it dynamically builds a model of the conversational structure and interprets the dialogue at a higher level than individual utterances. The model of conversation enables mixed initiative dialogues where either the caller or the system can take control. Callers can converse with the system, asking it to search for and read out email messages and to perform a number of common email tasks such as forwarding messages, replying to messages, deleting messages, and filing messages in folders. Anaphoric references and ellipses are resolved by referring to the component of the conversational model which records the dialogue history. When the dialogue manager cannot find exactly what a user is looking for, it is able to send out a cooperative reply. This reply will give the user some extra information which we hope will be more helpful than just saying "none found".
Evaluation et développement d'un modèle de la mémoire épisodique reposant sur un processus de mise à jour égocentrée

La memoire episodique donne la capacite de voyager mentalement dans son propre passe. En cela,elle permet de faire fi du temps qui passe pour pouvoir revivre des evenements passes. Ce travail dethese evalue l’hypothese selon laquelle la memoire episodique et la sensation de revivre un evenementpasse (i.e., conscience autonoetique) sont basees sur une fluence dans la reconstruction de l’episode,reconstruction impliquant une mise a jour egocentree. Cette proposition est developpee dans le modelede Gomez et collaborateurs (Gomez, Rousset & Baciu, 2009) qui propose que la mise a jouregocentree permette de re-instancier un point de vue spatialise egocentre sur l’evenement rememore.Ce travail de these a amene de nouveaux arguments en faveur de ce modele, en evaluant a la foisl’approche attributionnelle de la memoire episodique et le lien fonctionnel entre la mise a jouregocentree en ligne et la memoire episodique. Une premiere serie d’etudes met en evidence uneinfluence de la fluence du processus de mise a jour egocentree sur la conscience autonoetique.L’augmentation artificielle de la fluence de mise a jour egocentree, lors de la reconnaissance,augmente le sentiment de conscience autonoetique et ce uniquement lorsque la reconnaissanceimplique une reconstruction. Une seconde serie d’etudes permet de mettre en evidence un effetd’interference du processus de mise a jour egocentree en ligne sur la recuperation episodique.Actualiser sa position dans l’espace lors d’un deplacement a beau etre un processus automatique, celaralentit specifiquement le rappel de source. Enfin, une etude impliquant des patients atteints de lamaladie d’Alzheimer, met en evidence une dissociation entre les competences en mise a jouregocentree chez ces patients. Ces resultats sont discutes dans le cadre du modele de Gomez etcollaborateurs et en regard d’une conception incarnee et situee de la cognition.
An Iterative Temporal Error Concealment Algorithm for Degraded Video Signals

SUMMARY Error concealment is an essential part of reliable video communication systems because transmission errors are inevitable even when the coded bitstream is highly protected. The problem of temporal EC can be factored into two parts regarding candidate motion vectors (MVs) employed and the matching criterion to evaluate the fitness of each candidate MV. In order to obtain more faithful EC results, this paper proposes a novel iterative EC algorithm, in which an efficient way to provide candidate MVs and a new fitness measure are presented. The proposed approach for candidate MVs systematically utilizes all the available neighboring MVs by exploiting a well-known spatiotemporal correlation of block MVs. Also, in order to remove the dependency of a damaged block’s quality of concealment on the already concealed adjacent blocks, we develope a new matching criterion. The objective of the proposed fitness measure is to minimize the total boundary matching errors induced by the whole corrupted blocks. Simulations performed using an H.263 codec demonstrate a significant improvement on the subjective and objective concealed video qualities, especially when the corrupted area is wider than a single row of coding blocks.
Self Paced Learners Meet Social Software: An Exploration of Learners’ Attitudes, Expectations and Experience

Social networking and communications tools have become widely used in entertainment and social applications and there is growing interest in their use in formal education applications. Distance education and especially those types that are based on self-paced programming models may be the biggest beneficiaries of the use of these new tools to provide previously unavailable capacity for student-student and student-teacher interaction. However, little is known about students’ interest, expectation and expertise using these tools. In this study the results of an online questionnaire (n=967) completed by undergraduate students enrolled in self-paced distance education programming are presented. The paper concludes that these students have very diverse views and experiences - however a majority are interested in using these tools to enhance their learning experiences. We also describe the relationship between expertise and expectation - the greater use and experience of learners, the more they expect and desire to have educational social software used in their formal education programming.
Student perceptions of a self-regulatory approach to second language listening comprehension development

This study investigated: (1) the effects of a process-based, self-regulatory approach to second language (L2) listening instruction on language learners' (a) metacognitive awareness, (b) self-regulatory abilities, (c) listening comprehension strategy use, and (d) overall success in listening comprehension, (2) the interrelationships between language learners' metacognitive awareness, self-regulatory abilities, listening comprehension strategy use, and their overall success in listening comprehension, and (3) language learners' perceptions and attitudes towards a self-regulatory approach to L2 listening comprehension development. The participants came from two small groups of native anglophone Canadian federal government employees enrolled in a mandatory French as a L2 learning program. One group, at the beginner-intermediate level, had been assessed by the learning institution as low-achievers; the other group, at the intermediate-advanced level, had been assessed as high-achievers. Six data collection instruments---questionnaires, stimulated recalls, think-alouds, interviews, listening note-books, and observation---were cyclically used to complement, explain, and verify the findings elicited by each instrument in the investigation of the research questions. In addition, at the end of the study, the students and their instructors completed individual summative reports of evaluation of the pedagogical method investigated in this research. All sources of data concur in indicating that low- and high-proficiency students responded positively to the pedagogical approach examined, and that this method exerted beneficial effects on low- and high-proficiency students' metacognitive awareness, strategy use, and on their confidence and interest in L2 listening. The beneficial effects of this approach are most evident in the case of the low-proficiency students, whose think-aloud protocols reveal a considerable improvement in listening comprehension success over the course of the nine week listening training. This study provides detailed insights into the components of metacognitive, self-regulatory, and strategic knowledge---as well as individual listener characteristics---which influence L2 listeners' comprehension, and into the intricate interrelationships among these factors. The study also provides detailed insights into the advantages and drawbacks of the various instruments which can be utilized in L2 listening research. These methodological findings underscore the necessity for rigorous data triangulation in the investigation of the covert processes underlying listening comprehension.
A tool for generating test cases

A temperature sensor for a temperature limiter is made up of an outer tube and a number of inner component rods. The temperature sensor extends transversely over the top side of a moulding of a heating system for a glass-ceramic cooking unit. The heating system comprises a central heating surface and an outer connectable heating surface disposed in a circle therearound. Disposed in the zone of the central heating surface is an inner component rod whose coefficient of expansion is lower than that of the outer tube, while in the zone of the connectable heating surface the component rods have a higher coefficient of expansion than the outer tube.
Does a video diary help recall? in a

The purpose of this paper is to determine the value of video recording in aiding the recall of work activities. A Video Diary System is described and the results of a preliminary evaluation of the system are presented. The memory experiment provided subjects with several different memory aids. The use of a Video Diary increased the number of activities which were recalled compared to using only a written diary. People and objects were particularly valuable cues in aiding the recall of work activities. Although the Video Diary was very useful, it clearly does not completely capture the events of the working day.
Self-Regulation and Approaches to Learning in English Composition Writing.

It is hypothesized in the present study that when learners are tasked to write a composition in a second language (such as English language for Filipinos), they use specific approaches to learning and eventually undergo self-regulatory processes. The present study tested a model showing the shift from process to outcome in writing (Zimmerman & Kitsantas, 1999) by assessing the path from approaches to learning to self-regulation (using path analysis) as used in composition writing in English. The Academic Self-Regulated Learning Scale (A-SRL-S) and the Revised-Learning Process Questionnaire (R-LPQ-2F) were administered to 294 college students major in English, communication arts, literature, mass communications, and journalism from different universities in Manila, Philippines. The results showed that: (1) Deep approach significantly correlated with the factors of self-regulation except for environmental structuring and seeking assistance while surface approach did not, (2) deep approach and surface approach was also significantly correlated, and (3) deep approach significantly increased the variance in all self-regulation components while surface approach only increased the variance in memory strategy. Further theoretical implications of the path model were explained.
An Introduction to RP-Testing

This paper reviews the concept of Reproducibility Probability and makes a brief introduction to RP-testing. The RP-based version of some common parametric tests is provided. Moreover, a particular attention is devoted to the well-known nonparametric Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test. A comparison between the properties of the RP and the p-value is made in order to evaluate the practical utility of these stability indicators. It turns out that the use of the RP to perform the tests and to interpret their results, requires more technical analysis, but it provides more interpretable direct information on the stability of the test results.
Graphical Multi-Task Learning

We investigate the problem of learning multiple tasks that are related according to a network structure, using the multi-task kernel framework proposed in (Evgeniou et al., 2006). Our method combines a graphical task kernel with an arbitrary base kernel. We demonstrate its effectiveness on a real ecological application that inspired this work.
KOREAN L2 WRITERS' PREVIOUS WRITING EXPERIENCE: L1 LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOL

Contrastive rhetoric studies have explored how lang uage and culture influence the rhetorical organization of second language (L2) writing throug h text analysis. In recent years, contrastive rhetoric has begun to investigate socia l contexts surrounding the production of written texts as potential sources of differences b etween texts written by native English speakers and L2 writing. Since writing is usually l earned through formal education in school, L2 learners’ schemata for the organization of writt en discourse are very much likely to be developed throughout schooling in their mother tongue and the schemata might affect the process and product of L2 writing later on. The pur pose of this study is to investigate Korean L2 writers’ previous writing experiences in school in their mother tongue in order to better understand their current knowledge about writing an d how their prior knowledge and experiences would affect L2 writing. To those ends, a questionnaire was administered to a total of 251 high school 11th graders in Korea. The main topics of the questionnaire included student perceptions of instruction practices in ter ms of reading and writing, text types, writing processes, and assessment criteria. Implica tions of the findings obtained from the questionnaire for L2 writing pedagogy at the post-s econdary level are discussed.
Evaluation of a Flipped Classroom in an Undergraduate Business Course

This study examined the results of a flipped classroom trial conducted for Business 1112, an introductory business course at Mount Saint Vincent University in the fall semester of 2012. Dr. Findlay-Thompson taught three sections of Business 1112 and used the flipped classroom style for one of the three sections and the traditional lecture-style teaching methodology for the other two. Post-term interviews were conducted with the students in the flipped classroom to gather information on their views of the learning environment in a flipped classroom. As well, a comparison of the quantitative results of the grades between the three sections was used to compare the academic outcomes between the two teaching methodologies. Student views on the flipped classroom were mixed and the academic outcomes were identical between the three classrooms. These findings are discussed in terms of how the flipped classroom teaching methodology needs to be implemented properly and whether or not it is an effective way to engage students in the learning process.
Fusing range and intensity images for generating dense models of three-dimensional environments

This paper presents a novel strategy for the construction of dense three-dimensional environment models by combining images from a conventional camera and a range imager. Robust data association is first accomplished by exploiting the Scale Invariant Feature Transformation (SIFT) technique on the textured images. The two-dimensional feature locations are then identified in the range images and the full 3D information is in turn employed to calculate the relative registration between consecutive camera poses. Finally, the information from the range images is combined with the newly obtained transformation to form a single model of the environment. Validating results from a robot operating in a rescue scenario are presented. This is a typical scenario where the technique can be most useful as robot odometry, if present, is often highly unreliable and other means of locating the robot are necessary.
Stock Price Reaction to Public and Private Information

A plasma display device capable of selectively displaying several fixed, picture-type images which may extend over the entire display area of the device. The device includes a cavity plate having cavity location areas arranged thereon in parallel rows and columns in a grid-like manner. Cavities associated with each of the fixed images are regularly located at periodically spaced rows and columns of the cavity location areas, and horizontally positioned and vertically positioned electrodes, aligned with the cavities, are used to energize the device. Each image to be displayed is produced by first making a half-tone transparency film of a picture to be displayed. The transparency film has "data dots" thereon, and these "dots" are then used in forming the cavities associated with each image.
Georgia Tech Time Warp (GTW Version 2.3) Programmer's Manual

Use of this program shall be restricted to internal research purposes only, and it may not be redistributed in any form without authorization from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Derivative works must carry this Copyright notice. This program is provided as is and Georgia Tech Research Corporation disclaims all warranties with regard to this program. In no event shall Georgia Tech Research Corporation be liable for any damages arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this program.
A novel model of neural networks for fast data detection

Neural networks have shown good results for detection of a certain pattern in a given image. In our previous paper, a fast algorithm for object/face detection was presented. Such algorithm was designed based on cross correlation in the frequency domain between the input image and the weights of neural networks. In this paper, a simple design for solving the problem of local subimage normalization in the frequency domain is presented. Furthermore, the effect of image normalization on the speed up ratio of pattern detection is presented. Simulation results show that local subimage normalization through weight normalization is faster than subimage normalization in the spatial domain. Moreover, the overall speed up ratio of the detection process is increased as the normalization of weights is done off line.