Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
La laicidad positiva como garantía institucional de la presencia de símbolos religiosos y culturales en los centros docentes públicos

Die Anerkennung der gleichen ideologischen Freiheit aller Burger und die Migrantenstrome von Staatsburgern aus Drittstaaten mit unterschiedlichen Identitaten haben dazu gefuhrt, dass die spanische Gesellschaft sakularer, aber auch gleichzeitig, vom ideologischen und kulturellen Standpunkt aus betrachtet, pluraler wurde. Ein klares Abbild dieser Situation ist die religiose Vielfalt, die in den offentlichen Lehranstalten zu finden ist. Die Regelung dieser kulturellen Fragen sollte durch den Druck der positiven Laizitat auf die Unterrichtsanstalten erfolgen, damit das in der Verfassung grundgelegte erzieherische Gedankengut wirksam zum Ausdruck kommen kann.
RISIKO INFEKSI MENULAR SEKSUAL PADA ANAK BUAH KAPAL DI PELABUHAN JUWANA PATI

ABSTRAK Â Infeksi Menular Seksual adalah penyakit yang ditularkan melalui hubungan seksual. Dari data profil Kesehatan Jawa Tengah tahun 2012 jumlah kasus IMS sebanyak 8.671 kasus dan diprediksi akan terjadi peningkatan terutama pada kelompok beresiko seperti anak buah kapal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengetahuan tentang faktor risiko IMS pada ABK di Pelabuhan Juwana. Penelitian kualitatif ini dilakukan dengan metode wawancara terstruktur. Waktu penelitian adalah Â tanggal 6-13 April 2017. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah anak buah kapal di pelabuhan Juwana sebanyak 89 orang yang terindikasi IMS dari pemeriksaan KKP Juwana dan informan terdiri dari 5 orang yang diambil secara acak. Hasil penelitian ABK belum mengetahui apa sajakah faktor risiko Infeksi Menular Seksual. Dari hasil penelitian tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa ABK perlu mengetahui faktor risiko Infeksi Menular Seksual sehingga dapat melakukan pencegahan penyakit tersebut. Â Kata kunci : Faktor Risiko, Infeksi Menular Seksual, ABK
The Impact of National Culture on E‐commerce Acceptance: the Italian Case

Despite the internationalization of e-commerce, it is our contention that national cultures still play an important role in affecting online customers' behaviours. Nevertheless, few researchers have studied the impact of national cultures on e-commerce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the role that culture plays with respect to consumers' acceptance of e-commerce in Italy. Using a previous model as a foundation on our work, we study the effect of culture on perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, trust and intention to use of e-commerce in Italy. Moreover, by employing Hofstede's cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation) as moderators, our empirical results show that power distance and individualism affect significantly the relationship between trust and intention to use e-commerce in Italy. Contrary to expectations masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation have no significant effect on the diffusing of e-commerce. Lastly, a comparison with a similar study carried out in China provides a further support of our results and underlines the influence of national cultures on e-commerce acceptance. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Modelling the hydrodynamics of swimming fish, from individuals to infinite schools

Empirical measurements of hydrodynamics of swimming fish are very difficult. Therefore, modelling studies may be of great benefit. Here, we investigate the suitability for such a study of a recently developed mesoscale method, namely Multi-Particle Collision Dynamics. As a first step, we confine ourselves to investigations at intermediate Reynolds numbers of objects that are stiff. Due to the lack of empirical data on the hydrodynamics of stiff fish-like shapes we use a previously published numerical simulation of the shapes of a fish and a tadpole for comparison. Because the shape of a tadpole resembles that of a circle with an attached splitter plate, we exploit the knowledge on hydrodynamic consequences of such an attachment to test the model further and study the effects of splitter plates for objects of several shapes at several Reynolds numbers. Further, we measure the angles of separation of flow around a circular cylinder and make small adjustments to the boundary condition and the method to drive the flow. Our results correspond with empirical data and with results from other models.
Discrete and continuous optimization for motion estimation

The study of motion estimation reaches back decades and has become one of the central topics of research in computer vision. Even so, there are situations where current approaches fail, such as when there are extreme lighting variations, significant occlusions, or very large motions. In this thesis, we propose several approaches to address these issues. First, we propose a novel continuous optimization framework for estimating optical flow based on a decomposition of the image domain into triangular facets. We show how this allows for occlusions to be easily and naturally handled within our optimization framework without any post-processing. We also show that a triangular decomposition enables us to use a direct Cholesky decomposition to solve the resulting linear systems by reducing its memory requirements. Second, we introduce a simple method for incorporating additional temporal information into optical flow using "inertial estimates" of the flow, which leads to a significant reduction in error. We evaluate our methods on several datasets and achieve state-of-theart results on MPI-Sintel. Finally, we introduce a discrete optimization framework for optical flow computation. Discrete approaches have generally been avoided in optical flow because of the relatively large label space that makes them computationally expensive. In our approach, we use recent advances in image segmentation to build a tree-structured graphical model that conforms to the image content. We show how the optimal solution to these discrete optical flow problems can be computed efficiently by making use of optimization methods from the object recognition literature, even for large images with hundreds of thousands of labels. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Computer and Information Science First Advisor Camillo J. Taylor
Comments on "Optimal Retransmission Control of Slotted ALOHA Systems"

A controlled Markov model of the slotted ALOHA system in which the control parameter is the retransmission probability and a set of controls is the interval [0, 1] is considered. Numerical results are presented which show that the policy which maximizes the system's expected packet flow per time slot is not optimal. It is shown that, although it is not optimal, this policy can be considerably better than the optimal two-action control-limit policy.
Processing and analyzing large medical image sets

Medical images analysis today requires high end computing infrastructures to face the growing need for computing power and distributed medical data management. Medical applications increasingly require the federation of large data sets distributed over the image acquisition centers and their processing (e.g. for epidemiological studies, statistical construction of atlas, medical image analysis procedures validation.). We are interested in the use of production grids which represent affordable computing infrastructures, externalized for the non-specialized clinical centers. Furthermore, grids foster collaborative work by easing the sharing of data, processing, data analysis procedures, and so on. Exploiting grid infrastructures for medical data analysis require to fulfill specific requirements associated to medical image processing such as data protection, large data sets manipulation and easy set up of multiple data analysis procedures. In this defense, we will show how we came from medical image analysis procedures validation to the exploitation of grid infrastructures. We will analyze the needs related to this application area. The work we are doing to interface clinical storage with grid data management systems and to represent and efficiently process data-driven application workflows on a grid infrastructure will then be presented. Probabilistic modeling of the grid execution will be proposed and strategies to schedule and efficiently execute data-intensive workflows on a grid will be derived. Results will be shown on the Bronze Standard, an application to medical image registration algorithms assessment, exploiting both the EGEE production grid infrastructure and the Grid5000 National experimental grid.
Overview of MUC-7

Abstract : The tasks performed by the systems participating in the seventh Message Understanding Conference and the Second Multilingual Entity Task are described here in general terms with examples. On the level of entity extraction, Named Entities (NE) were defined as proper names and quantities of interest. Person, organization, and location names were marked as well as dates, times, percentages, and monetary amounts. The annotation was SGML within the text stream. An example from MUC-7 (New York Times News Service) in English follows. The ENAMEX TYPE=LOCATIONU.K. /ENAMEX satellite television broadcaster said its subscriber base grew NUMEX TYPE=PERCENT17.5 percent/NUMEX during TIMEX TYPE=DATEthe past year/TIMEX to 5.35 million The Named Entity task was carried out in Chinese and Japanese (MET-2) concurrently with English (MUC-7).
The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud

Contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction - Music in the Cloud Chapter 1 - A Copyright Industry Chapter 2 - Inside the Music Industry Chapter 3 - Music and the Media Chapter 4 - Making Music D An Industrial or Creative Process Chapter 5 - The Social and Creative Music Fan Chapter 6 - Future Sounds Notes References Index
Digital beamforming-an emerging technology

The current status of digital beamforming (DBF) technology is reviewed. Particular attention is given to the advantages of DBF, including improved adaptive pattern nulling, superresolution, self-calibration, and array element pattern correction. DBF implementation is examined, and examples of DBF systems are mentioned. <<ETX>>
Validation results of a GTD based propagation prediction model and comparison with conventional models of propagation

A comparison is made between currently used propagation models for the prediction of path losses at UHF frequencies and GTD based models. Conventional models can be classified as empirical, theoretical and semi-theoretical. Given the need for higher prediction accuracies the suitability of GTD based models is being evaluated by several research groups amend the world. In the present paper a signal level prediction study using a GTD 2D model implementation is presented and its advantages and shortcomings over traditional models are analyzed. <<ETX>>
NoiseOFF: A Backoff Protocol for a Dynamic, Noisy World

Randomized exponential backoff is a widely deployed technique for coordinating access to a shared resource. A good backoff protocol should, arguably, satisfy three natural properties: (i) it should provide constant throughput, wasting as little time as possible; (ii) it should require few failed access attempts, minimizing the amount of wasted effort; and (iii) it should be robust, continuing to work efficiently even if some of the access attempts fail for spurious reasons. Unfortunately, exponential backoff has some well-known limitations in two of these areas: it provides poor (sub-constant) throughput (in the worst case), and is not robust (to resource acquisition failures). The goal of this paper is to fix exponential backoff, particularly focusing on the case where processes arrive in an on-line, worst-case fashion. We present a relatively simple backoff protocol Re-Backoff that has, at its heart, a version of exponential backoff. It guarantees expected constant throughput with dynamic process arrivals and requires only an expected polylogarithmic number of access attempts per process. Re-Backoff is also robust to periods where the shared resource is unavailable for a period of time. If it is unavailable for $D$ time slots, Re-Backoff provides the following guarantees. When the number of packets is a finite $n$, the average expected number of access attempts for successfully sending a packet is $O(\log^2( n + D))$. In the infinite case, the average expected number of access attempts for successfully sending a packet is $O( \log^2(\eta) + \log^2(D) )$ where $\eta$ is the maximum number of processes that are ever in the system concurrently.
Personal Best Oriented Particle Swarm Optimizer

Optimization problems are frequently encountered in many engineering, economic or scientific fields that engineers or researchers are seeking to minimize cost or time, or to maximize profit, quality or efficiency, of a specific problem. For example, economic dispatch of power generation, optimal allocation of resources for manufacture, design optimal plant to maximize production, and so many which are unable to enumerate completely. In addition, many optimization problems are very complex and hard to solve by conventional gradient-based techniques, particularly the objective function and constraint are not in closed forms. Thus, the development of a good optimization strategy or algorithm is of great value. In the past decade, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm [Eberhart & Kennedy 1995, Kennedy and Eberhart 1995] attracts many sights around the world due to its powerful searching ability and simplicity. PSO simulates the swarm behavior of birds flocking and fish schooling that swarms work in a collaborative manner to search for foods as efficient and quick as possible. There are three different types of PSO which are frequently encountered in literature. They are constriction type PSO, constant inertia weight PSO and linearly decreasing inertia weight PSO. Each of them has been successfully applied to many optimization problems. While empirical studies have proven PSO’s usefulness as an optimization algorithm, it does not always fit all problems. Sometimes, it may also get stuck on local optimal. In order to improve the performance, many variants of PSO have been proposed. Some of the proposed algorithms adopted new operations and some of the modifications hybridized with other algorithm. Although they are claimed better than original PSO algorithm, most of them will introduce extra mathematical or logical operations, which, in turn, making algorithm more complicate and spending more computing time. Especially, they, in general, did not present any theoretical models to describe its behavior and support such modifications. Many researchers have devoted to study how PSO works. They intended to discover the implicit properties of PSO and its weakness and strength via theoretical analysis. The first attempt to analysis PSO is made by Kenndey [Kennedy, 1998]. Meanwhile, Ozcan and Mohan showed that a particle in a simple one-dimensional PSO system follows a path defined by a sinusoidal wave with random amplitude and frequency. However, the effects of inertia weight are not addressed in that paper [Ozcan & Mohan, 1999]. In order to analyze
Holographic Reduced Representation: Distributed Representation for Cognitive Structures

While neuroscientists garner success in identifying brain regions and in analyzing individual neurons, ground is still being broken at the intermediate scale of understanding how neurons combine to encode information. This book proposes a method of representing information in a computer that would be suited for modelling the brain's methods of processing information. Holographic reduced representations (HRRs) are introduced here to model how the brain distributes each piece of information among thousands of neurons. It has been previously thought that the grammatical structure of a language cannot be encoded practically in a distributed representation, but HRRs can overcome the problems of earlier proposals. Thus this work has implications for psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science and engineering.
Exact analysis of class E tuned power amplifier at any Q and switch duty cycle

Previous analytical descriptions of a Class E high-efficiency switching-mode tuned power amplifier have been based on the assumption of an infinite Q or the minimum possible value of Q . This paper presents an exact analysis of the Class E amplifier at any Q and any switch duty cycle D , along with experimental results. The basic equations governing the amplifier operation are derived analytically using Laplace-transform techniques and assuming a constant current through the dc-fed choke. The following performance parameters are determined for optimum operation: the current and voltage waveforms, the peak collector current and collector-emitter voltage, the output power, the power-output capability, the load-network component values, and the spectrum of the output voltage. It is shown that all parameters of the amplifier are functions of Q . Therefore, the high- Q assumption used in previous analyses leads to considerable errors. For example, for Q at D = 0.5 , some errors are up to 60 percent. The results can be used for designing Class E stages at any Q and switch duty cycle D . The measured performance shows excellent agreement with the design calculations. The collector efficiency was over 96 percent at 2 MHz for all tested values of Q from 0.1 to 10.
Introducing knowledge into learning based on genetic programming.

This work examines various methods for creating empirical equations on the basis of data while taking advantage of knowledge about the problem domain. It is demonstrated that the use of high level concepts aid in evolving equations that are easier to interpret by domain specialists. The application of the approach to real-world problems reveals that the utilization of such concepts results in equations with performance equal or superior to that of human experts. Finally, it is argued that the algorithm is best used as a hypothesis generator assisting scientists in the discovery process.
Kendini Toparlama Gücü ve Stresle Başa Çıkma Stratejilerinin Mutluluk Düzeyini Yordama Gücü

Bu arastirmanin amaci, universite ogrencilerinin kendini toparlama guclerinin ve stresle basa cikma stratejilerinin onlarin mutluluk duzeylerinin anlamli birer yordayicisi olup olmadigini belirlemektir. Arastirmanin calisma grubunu Recep Tayyip Erdogan Universitesi’nde ogrenim goren 300 kisi olusturmaktadir. Arastirmanin verileri Terzi (2008) tarafindan olusturulan Risk Faktorleri Belirleme Listesi, Saricam ve ark. (2012) tarafindan Turkceye uyarlanan Kendini Toparlama Gucu Olcegi, Turkum (2002) tarafindan gelistirilen Stresle Basa Cikma Olcegi ve Akin ve Satici (2011) tarafindan Turkceye uyarlanan Oznel Mutluluk Olcegi ile toplanmistir. Veriler SPSS 23 programinda analiz edilmistir ve veri analizinde Pearson momentler carpimi korelasyon katsayisi, coklu dogrusal regresyon analizi ve bagimsiz grup t testi tekniklerinden yararlanilmistir. Arastirmanin bulgularina bakildiginda; Ogrencilerin mutluluk duzeyleri ile stresle basa cikma stratejileri arasinda pozitif yonde orta duzeyde anlamli bir iliski bulunmustur. Yine ogrencilerin mutluluk duzeyleri ile kendini toparlama gucu arasinda pozitif yonde orta duzeyde anlamli bir iliski bulunmustur. Mutluluk duzeyleri cinsiyete gore incelendiginde; mutluluk cinsiyete gore anlamli bir farklilik gostermemektedir. Son olarak kendini toparlama gucunun ve stresle basa cikma stratejilerinin, ogrencilerin mutluluk duzeylerini anlamli bir sekilde yordadigi, kendini toparlama gucu ve stresle basa cikma stratejilerinin modele anlamli bir katkisi oldugu sonucuna ulasilmistir. Calismanin bulgularina bakildiginda ogrencilerin stresle basa cikma stratejileri ne kadar yuksek ise mutluluk duzeylerinin de o kadar arttigi gorulmustur. Mutluluk duzeyleri ile pozitif bir iliski gosteren degisken ise kendini toparlama gucudur.
How attention influences the emotional evaluation of complex objects

Humans are not always privy to the mechanisms that drive their decisions, choices, or preferences. In situations where ability or motivation to evaluate an object is lacking, heuristics can be applied to the situation allowing past experience to influence current decision-making. The objective of this thesis was to explore whether the distractor devaluation effect (Raymond et al., 2003) might be one such heuristic. In a series of nine experiments I demonstrated that inhibiting an object could have detrimental effects on the emotional evaluation of another, similar, object. In Experiments 3,6 and 81 replicated the distractor devaluation at the individual (inhibited object) level. In Experiment 41 found evidence that distractor devaluation could generalise to objects of same basic-level category as the inhibited item. In Experiments 7 and 81 used inand out-group faces to show that members of a subordinate category can also be devalued. In Experiment 91 used branded products and demonstrated that distractor devaluation can generalise within superordinate categories of objects. To account for these findings, and in line with the 'devaluation-by-inhibition' hypothesis, I propose that in cases where the initial to-be-inhibited object is not successfully individuated, an inhibitory tag can be associated instead with a whole category representation. This inhibitory tag can be subsequently used to guide the evaluation of a previously unseen member of that category (the generalisation effect). I also propose that the situational demands at the time of inhibition determine the extent of this generalisation process. Chapter 1: Introduction 2
Error Correction in ESL: Learner's Preferences

This paper reports the findings of two studies which attempt to identify the preferences and expectations of intermediate and advanced ESL learners regarding error correction. These are compared with some popular opinions of linguists and ESL teachers which have influenced error correction in the language classroom in recent time. Certain important differences are observed between learners' preferences 1. IN1RODUCTION and expectations on the one hand, and the opinions and practice of linguists/ teachers on the other. The paper concludes that, if the error correction is to be effective, classroom practice cannot afford to be based rigidly on any standardized practice derived from the opinions of linguists and teachers alone, but it must be flexible enough to incorporate the preferences and needs of the language learner.
Can L2 learners learn new ways to conceptualise events? Evidence from motion event construal among English-speaking learners of French

This study tests Slobin’s (1996) claim that L2 learners struggle with conceptual restructuring in L2 acquisition. We suggest that learners can find themselves in four different reconceptualisation scenarios: the TRANSFER, RESTRUCTURING, CREATIVE/HYBRID and CONVERGENCE SCENARIOS. To test this proposal in the field of event conceptualisation, a comprehensive analysis was made of the frequency distribution of path, manner, caused motion and deictic verbs in narratives elicited from intermediate (N=20) and advanced learners (N=21) of French, as well as native speakers of French (N=23) and English (N=30). The productions of the intermediate level learners were found to correspond to the creative/hybrid scenario because they differed significantly in their motion expressions from English as well as French native speakers, except for path, which was verbalised in target-like ways early on. Advanced learners were found to be able to reconceptualise motion in the L2, as far as manner and path are concerned, but continued to struggle with deictic verbs and caused motion. The clearest evidence for transfer from the L1 was found in verbalisations among intermediate level learners of events which involved a boundary crossing.