Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis and evaluation of visual information systems performance

This dissertation investigates the system-centred evaluation of visual information retrieval from generic photographic collections. The development of visual information retrieval systems has long been hindered by the lack of standardised benchmarks. Researchers have proposed numerous systems and techniques, and although different systems clearly have their particular strength, there is a tendency by researchers to use different means of showing retrieval performance to highlight the own algorithm’s benefits. For the field of visual information search to advance, however, objective evaluation to identify, compare and validate the strengths and merits of different systems is therefore essential. Benchmarks to carry out such evaluation have recently been developed, and evaluation events have also been organised for several domains. Yet, no efforts have considered the evaluation of retrieval from generic photographic collections (i.e. containing everyday real-world photographs akin to those that can frequently be found in private photographic collections as well, e.g. pictures of holidays and events). We therefore first analyse a multitude of variables and factors with respect to the performance and requirements of visual information systems, and we then design and implement the framework and resources necessary to carry out such an evaluation. These resources include: a parametric image collection, representative search requests, relevance assessments and a set of performance measures. In addition, we organise the first evaluation event for retrieval from generic photographic collections and report on its realisation. Finally, we present an analysis and the evaluation of the participating retrieval systems as well as of the evaluation event itself. Filling this particular gap by making possible a systematic calibration and comparison of system performance for retrieval from generic photographic collections constitutes the main scientific contribution of this research. This dissertation thereby enables a deeper understanding of the complex conditions and constraints associated with visual information identification, the accurate capturing of user requirements, the appropriate specification and complexity of user queries, the execution of searches, and the reliability of performance indicators.
The Design of the Spoken Dutch Corpus

In June 1998 the Spoken Dutch Corpus project was started, a five-year project aimed at the compilation and annotation of a 10-million-word corpus of contemporary standard Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands and Flanders. This paper describes the corpus as it is currently under construction. It discusses more specifically the various considerations that have guided its design.
Minimization of Inspection Cost in a BLU Inspection System Using a Steady-State Flow Analysis

In this paper, we address a problem for minimizing the number of items inspected in a back-lightunit (BLU) inspection system, which includes a K-stage inspection system, a source inspection shop, and a re-inspection shop. In order to formulate our objective, we make a steady-state flow analysis between nodes (or shops), and derive the steady-state amount of flows between nodes and defective rates by solving a nonlinear balance equation. We provide an enumeration method for determining an optimal value of K which minimizes the number of items inspected. Our methodology could be applied and extended to similar situations with slight modification.
Automatic generation of ontology editors

Metalevel tools can support the knowledge-engineering process by assisting developers in the design and implementation of domain-oriented knowledge-acquisition tools. The use of ontologies as a basis for automatic generation of knowledge-acquisition tools simplifies the tool-specification process by taking advantage of ontologies defined as part of the knowledge-engineering process. One of the drawbacks of this approach is that it separates ontology definition (in ontology editors) from instance editing (in knowledge-acquisition tools). Because many application tasks require ontology definition by domain experts, we have experimented with extending the Protege framework to generate ontology editors in addition to knowledgeacquisition tools for instances. We have explored different approaches to ontology-editor specification in a series of prototype extensions to Protege. Here, metaclass and metaslot definitions are the basis for ontology editors, which can be embedded in knowledgeacquisition tools and can be used by domain experts.
Deriving and applying facet views of the dewey decimal classification scheme to enhance subject searching in library OPACs

Classification is a fundamental tool in the organisation of any library collection for effective information retrieval. Several classifications exist, yet the pioneering Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) still constitutes the most widely used scheme and international de facto standard. Although once used for the dual purpose of physical organisation and subject retrieval in the printed library catalogue, library classification is now relegated to a singular role of shelf location. Numerous studies have highlighted the problem of subject access in library online public access catalogues (OPACs). The library OPAC has changed relatively little since its inception, designed to find what is already known, not discover and explore. This research aims to enhance OPAC subject searching by deriving facets of the DDC and populating these with a library collection for display at a View-based searching OPAC interface. A novel method is devised that enables the automatic deconstruction of complex DDC notations into their component facets. Identifying facets based upon embedded notational components reveals alternative, multidimensional subject arrangements of a library collection and resolves the problem of disciplinary scatter. The extent to which the derived facets enhance users' subject searching perceptions and activities at the OPAC interface is evaluated in a small-scale usability study. The results demonstrate the successful derivation of four fundamental facets (Reference Type, Person Type, Time and Geographic Place). Such facet derivation and deconstruction of Dewey notations is recognised as a complex process, owing to the lack of a uniform notation, notational re-use and the need for distinct facet indicators to delineate facet boundaries. The results of the preliminary usability study indicate that users are receptive to facet-based searching and that the View-based searching system performs equally as well as a current form fill-in interface and, in some cases, provides enhanced benefits. It is concluded that further exploration of facet-based searching is clearly warranted and suggestions for future research are made.
The catering theory of dividends: the moderating role of firm characteristics, corporate governance factors and corporate ownership

El objetivo de este estudio es profundizar en el conocimiento de la politica de dividendos, especialmente en el seno de la novedosa corriente fundamentada en los sentimientos del inversor y la consiguiente teoria del catering. En concreto, vamos centrarnos en los siguientes objetivos especificos: 1. examinar la validez de la teoria del catering como explicacion del reparto de dividendos. Por un lado, a traves del analisis de los determinantes de la politica de dividendos corporativa, centrando la atencion en una novedosa medida de los sentimientos de los inversores a nivel de empresa. Por otro lado, analizando la influencia que ejercen ciertas caracteristicas de la empresa (como sus activos liquidos, sus oportunidades de inversion y su cash flow libre) sobre el efecto catering de los dividendos. 2. estudiar la existencia de una relacion entre los factores que caracterizan los diferentes contextos institucionales y la politica de reparto, mostrando que el efecto catering es moderado por dichos factores institucionales. 3. estudiar el efecto de la estructura de propiedad, tanto en la dimension de propiedad directiva como de concentracion accionarial, sobre la decision de dividendos de las empresas de la zona euro, especialmente a traves de su influencia en el efecto catering. Es necesario senalar que todos estos objetivos estan fuertemente relacionados, y que el estudio de la politica de dividendos puede encontrar en esta tesis una base solida para investigaciones de futuro, validando o ayudando a promover la definitiva incorporacion de los sentimientos de los inversores en los modelos explicativos de los dividendos, teniendo en cuenta ademas la potencial influencia de factores institucionales sobre dicho efecto de catering de los dividendos
IEEE 802.16 based last mile broadband wireless military networks with quality of service support

Future Department of defense warfighting concepts leverage information superiority and will require vast improvements in information transfer in terms of higher bandwidth, Quality of Service (QoS) support and connection to a high speed backbone. The new IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access system is a viable alternative that can meet such requirements. In addition, this network can be swiftly deployed to interconnect the military theater, emergency response, and disaster relief operations to the backbone. Due to the diverse multimedia traffic with different priorities and QoS requirements, it is a well know fact that it is imperative to provide QoS support in military networks. However, the IEEE 802.16 provides only signaling mechanisms, but does not specify any scheduling or admission control algorithms that ultimately provide QoS support. In this paper we introduce a new scheduling algorithm for IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard. The proposed solution which is practical and compatible to the IEEE 802.16 standard, provides QoS support to different traffic classes. To the best of our knowledge this is the first such algorithm. The simulation studies show that the proposed solution includes QoS support for all types of traffic classes as defined by the standard. We have shown the relationship between traffic characteristics and its QoS requirements and the network performance. This study will help network architects to decide the system parameters as well as the kind of traffic characteristics for which the network can provide QoS support.
A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words and in the process explains many facts about English - such as why we can say I wish to go, I wish that he would go, and I want to go but not I want that he would go. The first part of the book reviews the main points of English syntax and discusses English verbs in terms of their semantic types including those of Motion, Giving, Speaking, Liking, and Trying. In the second part Professor Dixon looks at eight grammatical topics, including complement clauses, transitivity and causatives, passives, and the promotion of a non-subject to subject, as in Dictionaries sell well. This is the updated and revised edition of A New Approach to English Grammar on Semantic Principles. It includes new chapters on tense and aspect, nominalizations and possession, and adverbs and negation, and contains a new discussion of comparative forms of adjectives. It also explains recent changes in English grammar, including how they has replaced the tabooed he as a pronoun referring to either gender, as in When a student reads this book, they will learn a lot about English grammar in a most enjoyable manner.
Co-compounds and natural coordination

1. Introduction 2. The Marking Patterns of Natural Coordination 3. Tight Coordination 4. Co-compounds as a Lexical Class Type 5. A Semantic Classification of Co-compounds 6. The Areal Distribution of Co-compounds in the Languages of Eurasia 7. Some Considerations about the Diachronic Evolution of Co-compounds 8. Conclusions Appendix References Index of Persons Index of Languages Index of Subjects
Analisis Regresi Double Hurdle terhadap Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Partisipasi Perempuan Kawin dalam Kegiatan Ekonomi di Jawa Timur

Partisipasi angkatan kerja merupakan keterlibatan seseorang dalam bidang ekonomi, dibedakan menjadi bekerja dan tidak bekerja. Persentase perempuan yang bekerja sebagian besar adalah berstatus menikah (istri), untuk selanjutnya disebut perempuan kawin. Faktor-faktor yang diduga berpengaruh adalah faktor internal dan faktor eksternal (kehadiran anak dan suami), sehingga penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui karakteristik perempuan kawin dalam kegiatan ekonomi di Jawa Timur dan juga untuk mengetahui model double hurdle pada partisipasi perempuan kawin dalam kegiatan ekonomi di Jawa Timur. Sumber data yang digunakan adalah data Susenas 2011, terdapat sembilan variabel independen yang digunakan, yaitu umur, pendidikan akhir, jumlah anggota rumah tangga, jumlah anak bekerja, jumlah anak balita, jumlah anak sekolah, umur suami, pendidikan akhir suami, dan status kerja suami. Pada pemodelan didapatkan lima variabel yang berpengaruh terhadap keputusan partisipasi perempuan kawin dalam ekonomi, yaitu umur, pendidikan akhir, jumlah anak balita, pendidikan akhir suami dan status kerja suami, sedangkan variabel yang berpengaruh pada persamaan konsumsi yang digunakan untuk memprediksi pendapatan perempuan kawin yang berpartisipasi dalam ekonomi adalah umur, pendidikan akhir, jumlah anggota rumah tangga, jumlah anak bekerja, jumlah anak balita, umur suami, pendidikan akhir suami, dan status kerja suami.
Sistem Pakar Penentuan Jenis Kulit Wajah Wanita Menggunakan Metode Naïve Bayes

Kulit merupakan organ pada tubuh manusia yang memiliki luas paling besar dan terletak paling luar yang berperan penting bagi manusia dan menjadi aset utama dan prioritas bagi kaum wanita. Saat ini, kaum wanita sering menggunakan produk perawatan kulit wajah namun tidak didasari dengan pengetahuan dan pemahaman tentang jenis kulit yang dimiliki dan produk perawatan yang sesuai. Hal itu mengakibatkan banyak kasus kesalahan dalam pemilihan produk perawatan kulit wajah yang akhirnya merugikan kaum wanita itu sendiri. Oleh karena itu, pengetahuan analisa kulit wajah sangat diperlukan untuk menentukan jenis kulit serta produk perawatan yang sesuai dengan jenis kulit tersebut. Sistem pakar merupakan sistem yang mengadopsi pengetahuan dari seorang pakar dan dapat berperan layaknya pakar dalam menangani proses konsultasi. Dengan demikian, sistem pakar dapat menjadi salah satu solusi dalam menentukan jenis kulit wajah berdasarkan ciri kulit yang dialami. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan sebuah sistem pakar penentuan jenis kulit wajah wanita dengan menerapkan metode Naive Bayes. Metode Naive Bayes digunakan sebagai metode perhitungan dikarenakan metode Naive Bayes dapat memperkirakan parameter yang diperlukan untuk klasifikasi dalam menentukan jenis kulit wajah apa yang dimiliki. Hasil keluaran dari sistem ini adalah jenis kulit yang dimiliki dan rekomendasi produk perawatan kulit wajah. Berdasarkan pengujian dengan 10 data uji terhadap 30 data latih didapat bahwa sistem yang dihasilkan dapat menentukan jenis kulit wajah dengan tingkat keakuratan sebesar 100% dan dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa sistem memiliki kriteria sangat valid. Kata Kunci — Analisa Kulit, Jenis Kulit, Naive Bayes, Rekomendasi Produk Perawatan Wajah, Sistem Pakar.
Robust and risk-averse routing algorithms in road networks

Abstract Recent works have shown that Markov chain theory can be used to model and realistically describe road network dynamics. Properties of the Markov transition matrix such as the Perron eigenvector, the second eigenvalue, and the Kemeny constant have nice corresponding interpretations in the road network counterparts. Our objective in this paper is to use this modelling paradigm to develop new traffic management applications. In particular, our framework is particularly suited to routing algorithm development, offering new approaches to this old problem. This is the focus of the present paper.
Improved identity-based key sharing system for multiaddress communication

An identity-based key sharing system was published by Chikazawa and Inoue in 1990. Simbo and Kawamura developed an attack against the protocol of this system which can obtain the secret information of entities in the system. An improved identity-based key sharing system for multiaddress communication is proposed to counter their attack.
Gibbs Measures and Phase Transitions

From a review of the first edition: "This book [. ] covers in depth a broad range of topics in the mathematical theory of phase transition in statistical mechanics. [. ] It is in fact one of the author's stated aims that this comprehensive monograph should serve both as an introductory text and as a reference for the expert. " (F. Papangelou, "Zentralblatt MATH"). The second edition has been extended by a new section on large deviations and some comments on the more recent developments in the area.
The correlation between code coverage, cyclomatic complexity and fault frequency

The quality of software gets more and more important as software is introduced to systems that are important to the infrastructure of modern society. This thesis studies one such code base developed at Ericsson AB, that is a vital piece of software for our infrastructure. With an increased need for quality in software, it is important that we have quantifiable metrics that can be used to steer the development of software in a direction that leads to fewer faults. We look at the software metrics cyclomatic complexity and variations of code coverageand analyse how these metrics correlate to faults in the code. We find that code coverage has a weak negative correlation at best, but can have a weak positive correlation at worst (such that faults increase as coverage increases). The cyclomatic complexity metric has not been found to have any correlation at all to software faults.
Key management for large scale end-to-end encryption

The Digital Signature Standard (DSS), which has been adopted by the United States Government, has both public and private components, similar to a public-key cryptosystem. The Digital Signature Algorithm of the DSS is intended for authenticity but not for secrecy. The authors show how the use of the Digital Signature Algorithm combined with both symmetric and asymmetric (public-key) encryption techniques can provide a practical solution to key management scaleability problems, by reducing the key management complexity to a problem of order N, without sacrificing the encryption speed necessary to operate in high performance networks. <<ETX>>
A design methodology for fixed-size systolic arrays

The authors present a methodology to design fixed-size systolic arrays. It allows a systematic and hierarchical mapping of full-size arrays to fixed-size arrays. Two processor-clustering techniques are described. They can be used to achieve the following design objectives: (1) transforming inefficient arrays into efficient arrays, (2) reducing the size of an array, (3) reducing the dimension of an array, and (4) balancing local memory and external communication of processors. A technique is described to cluster processors in such a way that the number of I/O pins of the resulting processor is independent of the number of processors that are clustered. The approach presented unifies and generalizes array reduction techniques. <<ETX>>
Curriculum planning and development

While doctoral students in education are taught research skills in their programmes, they are rarely explicitly taught how to plan and develop effective curricula, the types of guiding questions which are important to consider or how to study this process in order to improve practices. In an attempt to address this, the authors use Jackson’s (1968) framework for reflecting on teacher planning. The following questions are addressed: how does a teacher educator plan and develop a curriculum for student teachers? How do teacher educators critically examine their curriculum planning and development practices? What are the central questions, areas of focus and principles essential for consideration in such planning and development? For each phase of the planning process, a series of questions is presented. The principles derived from these questions may serve as a useful heuristic to guide the work of new teacher educators.
Communicative Language Testing

Reflecting the shift which has recently occurred in approaches to languages testing in response to developments in teaching, this book highlights the importance of context, purposiveness and realistic discourse in testing, as in teaching. Discrete point, integrative and communicative approaches are all considered, together with their limitations in terms of validity, reliability and efficiency. Guidelines are given for monitoring tests, and samples of the tests considered to represent the best of current EFL testing practice in the UK, are provided.