Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The role of the native language in second-language syntactic processing

The present thesis investigates in how far properties of a reader’s first language (L1) have an influence on syntactic processing in a second language (L2). While the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982, 1987, 1989, MacWhinney, 1997) predicts that syntactic properties of the L1 can have an influence on L2 processing, the Shallow-Structure Account (Clahsen & Felser, 2006) suggests that an L2 speaker’s representation of an L2 sentence is shallower, lacks syntactic detail, and is therefore not detailed enough for properties of the L1 to have an influence on L2 processing (Papadopoulou & Clahsen, 2003). In two sets of studies, I investigate whether L2 speakers of English activate syntactic information from their L1 while processing English sentences. In Experiments 1-4, native speakers of German, and control groups of native speakers of French and English, are confronted with English sentences consisting of a word order which exists in both English and German, but which represents different underlying syntactic structures in both languages. Results suggest that native speakers of German activate syntactic information from their L1 while reading such sentences. Experiments 5-7 represent an attempt to address both the issue of L1 influence and the issue of shallow processing within the context of the same experimental design. Native speakers of German, and a control group of native English speakers, read grammatically incorrect English sentences with a word order which would either be grammatically correct in German, or grammatically incorrect in both English and German. In this set of experiments, we found evidence against an influence of syntactic properties
Reservoir simulation : mathematical techniques in oil recovery

List of figures List of tables List of notation Preface 1. Introduction 2. A glossary of petroleum terms 3. Single-phase flow and numerical solution 4. Well modeling 5. Two-phase flow and numerical solution 6. The black oil model and numerical solution 7. Transport of multicomponents in a fluid and numerical solution 8. Compositional flow and numerical solution 9. Nonisothermal flow and numerical solution 10. Practical topics in reservoir simulation Bibliography Index.
UML for Database Design

From the Publisher: The Unified Modeling Language (UML), the standard graphical notation for modeling business and software application needs, has emerged as an effective modeling tool for database design. When used as a common modeling language for the many facets of system development, the UML can serve as a unifying framework that facilitates the integration of database models with the rest of a system design. This pragmatic guide introduces you to the UML and leads you through the process of UML-based database modeling and design. The book presents the different types of UML diagrams, explaining how they apply to the database world, and shows how data modeling with the UML can be tied into the Rational Unified Process. UML for Database Design is structured around the database design process: business use case modeling, business object modeling, database requirements definition, analysis and preliminary design, and, finally, detailed design and deployment. For each phase of development the book describes the overall objectives and workflow of that phase, the status of the case study, the relevant UML constructs, and the nuts and bolts of database modeling and design with the UML. Drawing on their extensive industry experience, the authors reveal the trials and tribulations of database development teams, lessons learned, and pointers for success. Topics covered include: The business use case model Activity and sequence diagrams for modeling database functions and tasks Moving from the business to system model Class diagrams and statecharts Mapping classes to tables Transformation of attributes Rational's UML Profile for Database Design Creating tables from classes DDL scripts, component diagrams, and deployment diagrams Jump starting the database design process A case study runs throughout the book to illustrate key concepts and techniques, and appendixes containing the actual UML models from this case study are used to catalog the type and extent of models that would be developed for such a system. Practical, concrete, and based on real-life experience, UML for Database Design brings you exactly the information you need to begin working with the UML and take full advantage of the technology for high-quality database modeling and design.
A Framework for the Adoption of Assistive Technology

A framework for analyzing the problem of high frequency abandonment of assistive technologies by users with disabilities and their caregivers has been proposed. The framework is the product of a collaboration between researchers at the University of Colorado’s Cognitive Levers Group 1 (Depaula) and an assistive technology specialist from the Boulder Valley School District (Kintsch). The framework identifies recurring features of abandoned technology and how to avoid it derived from a review of empirical studies and direct observations. ABSTRACT This paper proposes a framework for facilitating the successful adoption of assistive technology tools used by people with disabilities. It identifies the participants in the adoption process: the users, those involved with the user on a daily bases (caregivers), designers and assistive technology specialists. Each of these parties must bring certain attributes to the process in order for adoption to occur. Together, a complex and often difficult collaborative process of designing, selecting, personalizing, learning and integrating must be accomplished.
Inclusion: The Dynamic of School Development

Contents Series editors' preface Preface 1 Traditions of thinking about learning difficulties 2 Developing inclusive schools: theory and evidence 3 Downland School: learning difficulties or learning potential 4 Sealey Cove: pupil ability or the presentation of the curriculum? 5 Pedagogical discourse: a theoretical model Bibliography Index
Channel estimation and non-linear transceiver designs for MIMO OFDM relay systems

Multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems deploy multiple antennas at either end of a communication link and can provide significant benefits compared to traditional single antenna systems, such as increased data rates through spatial multiplexing gain, and/or improved link reliability through diversity techniques. Recently, the natural extension of utilising multiple antennas in relay networks, known as MIMO relaying, has attracted significant research attention due to the fact that the benefits of MIMO can be coupled with extended network coverage through the use of relaying devices. This thesis concentrates on the design and analysis of different aspects of MIMO relay systems communicating over frequency selective channels with the use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The first focus of this thesis is on the development of training based channel estimation algorithms for two-hop MIMO OFDM relaying. In the first phase of channel estimation the relay-destination channel is estimated using conventional point-to-point MIMO estimation techniques. In the second phase, the source sends known training symbols to the relay, which precodes the received symbols and forwards them to the destination. In order to estimate the source-relay channel at the destination, an iterative algorithm is derived, which involves sequentially solving a number of convex optimisation problems and has guaranteed convergence. Since the proposed iterative algorithm may be too computationally complex for practical systems, a simplified approach is also derived where the channel estimation processors can be calculated in closed form. Under the assumption of perfect channel state information (CSI), we then develop non-linear transceiver designs for MIMO OFDM relay systems, focusing specifically on decision feedback equalisation (DFE) and Tomlinson Harashima precoding (THP). The optimal source and relay precoding matrices are derived that minimise the arithmetic mean square error (MSE) subject to source and relay transmission power constraints, when either a zero forcing (ZF) or minimum
Water as a driver of evolution : the example of aquatic snakes

L’environnement dans lequel les especes animales vivent joue un role important dans leur evolution. Les contraintes physiques sont particulierement interessantes car elles induisent souvent une pression evolutive qui pousse les especes, meme eloignees, a developper des reponses adaptatives similaires. Les contraintes physiques liees a la vie en milieu aquatique ont un impact important sur les trajectoires evolutives des especes et notamment sur leur comportement et leur morphologie. De nombreux cas de convergences ont ete demontres, comme l’evolution d’une forme profilee chez les poissons, les mammiferes marins et certains oiseaux aquatiques. Ces contraintes, appelees contraintes hydrodynamiques, sont particulierement presentes lors de la realisation d’un mouvement. On peut caracteriser deux contraintes principales : la trainee et la masse ajoutee. La trainee est la resistance que le fluide oppose au mouvement de l’animal. La masse ajoutee elle, est la masse d’eau deplacee lorsque le corps se met en mouvement donc lors d’une acceleration. Ces contraintes sont particulierement presentes lors de la capture d’une proie dans l’eau. Ainsi, beaucoup d’animaux aquatiques ont developpe un systeme de succion qui leur permet d’aspirer leur proie afin de limiter ces contraintes. Cependant, certains animaux, comme les serpents, ne peuvent pas developper ce type d’adaptation. Pourtant, plus de 200 especes de serpents attrapent des proies dans l’eau. A travers ce travail, nous nous interessons aux strategies adaptatives developpees par les serpents aquatiques afin de devenir de performants predateurs. Deux hypotheses sont explorees : l’adaptation morphologique de la tete des serpents ainsi qu’une adaptation comportementale qui permettraient de reduire les contraintes hydrodynamiques. Des analyses morphologique et comportementale sont realisees sur plusieurs especes de serpents aquatiques afin de tester ces hypotheses. Les contraintes associees aux differentes formes de tete et comportements mis en evidence sont caracterisees a l’aide d’experiences d’hydrodynamique. L’interdisciplinarite qui est le cœur de ce manuscrit permet d’apporter un regard nouveau sur ces questions qui intriguent tant les biologistes que les physiciens.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN READING COMPREHENSION BY USING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES STRATEGIES(A Classroom Action Research at Grade VIII G Students of SMP Negeri 1 Alian, Kebumen in the Academic Year of 2012/2013)

The study discusses about improving students’ motivation on reading comprehension by using Multiple Intelligences strategies. The objectives of the study are explaining 1) the problems faced by the eight graders of SMP N 1 Alian, Kebumen in reading comprehension, 2) the implementation of Multiple Intelligences strategies in motivating reading comprehension for the eight graders of SMP N 1 Alian, Kebumen, 3) how Multiple Intelligences strategies improve the motivation of the eight graders of SMP N 1 Alian, Kebumen in reading comprehension. In order to achieve the objectives, the researcher held an action research at SMP N 1 Alian, Kebumen on 16th of March- 9th April 2013. There were 2 cycles in which 2 meetings held for each cycle. The subject of the study is the second graders of SMP N 1 Alian, Kebumen. The numbers of population are 32 students. The instruments used were observation sheet, questionnaire, and CARI. The result of the study is the problem in motivating students to read. This can be solved by using Multiple Intelligences strategies which combine students’ intelligences with fun learning activities by Multiple Intelligence instruction. Based on the questionnaire, all of the students said that the strategies used were interesting. In line with the questionnaire result, the observation sheet also showed excellent result on students’ study habits. There was improvement on students’ comprehension, it can be seen from the mean of CARI I which was 89.06 point and CARI II which was 95.6 point. In this study, I suggest that the teachers should be able to use the Multiple Intelligences strategies as an alternative in motivating students and creating enjoyable learning experiences.
Fault Detection and Network Security in Software-Defined Networks with OpenFlow

Due to the rigid architecture of most switches and routers, which provide functionality only for a certain application scenario, the flexibility of deploying new network functions is limited. The advent of programmable networks, which is described as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), allows the extension and control of networks based on a flexible control plane, which is based on software and acts as a network operating system with network applications running on top of it. In this thesis we focussed on SDN based on the concept of the OpenFlow protocol. In order to deploy such networks in operational environments and datacentres, the challenges concerning network management are still lacking a sufficient analysis and are further investigated in this thesis, which examines the reliability and maintainability of SDN, as well as new security issues that are introduced with this architecture. The second contribution of this thesis is to provide solutions to some of the addressed challenges, with a focus on fault detection and network security. With regard to fault detection, we discuss the information content and monitoring aspects of flow entries that are located on the network devices, but are managed from the network controller. This involves applying methods from information theory to determine faults and attacks by observing the logical topology, and correlation facilities to determine errors that relate to the data plane. In network security, current approaches mostly rely on security appliances that are deployed at different locations in the network. We analyse the extend to which SDN can be leveraged to provide new ways of thwarting network attacks, and investigate the possibilities for controller-based packet inspection to detect malicious communications in the network. This includes the extraction of hidden communication patterns originating from a stealthy backdoor. The freedom of extending controller software to meet new network service requirements comes at a high cost. Since the reliability of the network must be assured, tools are required to debug and test the software after each alteration step. We propose a solution that instruments network applications with additional code for logging purposes, guaranteeing certain correctness properties. In combination with a database system, our framework can be leveraged to allow network debugging or anomaly detection.
An analysis of the generative user interface pattern structure

Current business information systems extensively rely on graphical user interfaces (GUIs). These sub-systems enable the interaction between the end user and application kernel services that are essential for the business process instances. Due to dynamic and rapid changes of both business processes and their required services, a strong need for the quick adaptation of GUIs to the occurring changes arose. As both efficiency and usability are essential for the GUI adaptation, model-based development processes that involve patterns and their instantiation for specific GUI contexts have been suggested by ongoing research. Being based on human computer interaction patterns, the new kind of pattern needs to be formalized in order to enable the automated processing of configurable instances by generator tools. However, current research is still at the edge to express the concepts for such generative user interface patterns. Crucial factors and impacts of those patterns have not been described sufficiently yet so that a standardized format for the expression of variability is still missing. With our work, we briefly review the current state on modeling user interface patterns and their requirement aspects. The ultimate objective of this paper is the development of an analysis model that is able to express both the structure and variability concerns of user interface patterns in detail. To evaluate and illustrate the analysis model concepts, selected user interface pattern instances are modeled via object models. As result, a detailed description of generative user interface patterns is achieved, which can be applied as a basis for the verification of recent approaches of model- and pattern-based GUI development or even the synthesis of a dedicated user interface pattern language.
Knowledge sharing by Canadian non-profit organizations (NPOs) with community stakeholders

This paper presents results of a nation-wide online survey of Canadian Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) on their knowledge sharing approaches when engaging with the general public, including volunteers and other community stakeholders. The findings presented in this paper are based on qualitative and quantitative data analyses of over 1200 responses received. The findings reveal that NPOs use different approaches such as emails, text-messaging, formal and informal in-person interactions and social media to share knowledge with various community stakeholders. Cet article presente les resultats d'une enquete en ligne a l'echelle nationale aupres d’organismes canadiens sans but lucratif (OSBL) sur leurs approches concernant le partage des connaissances lors de leurs rapports avec le grand public, y compris les benevoles et d'autres intervenants de la collectivite. Les resultats presentes dans le present article sont fondes sur l’analyse de donnees qualitatives et quantitatives provenant de plus de 1200 reponses recues. Les resultats revelent que les OSBL utilisent differentes approches telles que le courriel, la messagerie texte, des interactions personnelles formelles et informelles ainsi que les medias sociaux pour partager des connaissances avec divers intervenants communautaires.
True Digital Control: Statistical Modelling and Non-Minimal State Space Design

Develops a true digital control design philosophy that encompasses data–based model identification, through to control algorithm design, robustness evaluation and implementation. With a heritage from both classical and modern control system synthesis, this book is supported by detailed practical examples based on the authors’ research into environmental, mechatronic and robotic systems. Treatment of both statistical modelling and control design under one cover is unusual and highlights the important connections between these disciplines. Starting from the ubiquitous proportional–integral controller, and with essential concepts such as pole assignment introduced using straightforward algebra and block diagrams, this book addresses the needs of those students, researchers and engineers, who would like to advance their knowledge of control theory and practice into the state space domain; and academics who are interested to learn more about non–minimal state variable feedback control systems. Such non–minimal state feedback is utilised as a unifying framework for generalised digital control system design. This approach provides a gentle learning curve, from which potentially difficult topics, such as optimal, stochastic and multivariable control, can be introduced and assimilated in an interesting and straightforward manner.
Teachers Make a Difference.

Every word to utter from the writer involves the element of this life. The writer really shows how the simple words can maximize how the impression of this book is uttered directly for the readers. Even you have known about the content of teachers make a difference so much, you can easily do it for your better connection. In delivering the presence of the book concept, you can find out the boo site here.
Geochemical investigations of salt marsh pore waters and sediments at Langeoog island in course of a simulated transgression

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die geochemischen und sedimentologischen Auswirkungen eines simulierten Meeresspiegelanstieges auf ein ruckgedeichtes Salzwiesengebiet der ostfriesischen Barriereinsel Langeoog untersucht. Hierzu wurde die Geochemie des Porenwassers und des Sedimentes bis in eine Tiefe von 5 m analysiert. Die marinen Sedimente, die aktuell ins Untersuchungsgebiet eingetragen werden, wurden ebenfalls hinsichtlich ihrer Geochemie und Sedimentologie untersucht. Die Studie belegt, dass im Zuge einer Transgression grose Mengen an Fe, Mn, PO43- und NH4+ ins Porenwasser freigesetzt werden konnen. Die Untersuchungen des Sedimenteintrages und der Vergleich mit Holozanen Kustensedimenten belegen, dass sich die ruckgedeichte Salzwiesenflache auf Langeoog in einem fruhen Transgressionsstadium befindet. Die Schwebstoffe des angrenzenden Wattenmeeres stellen die Hauptquelle des eingetragenen Materials dar. Diese Studie dient nicht nur als Informationsbasis fur zukunftige Szenarien sondern unterstutzt auch die Interpretation geochemischer Signaturen in Holozanen Kustensedimenten.
Meeting Extension Programming Needs with Technology: A Case Study of Agritourism Webinars

As clientele needs diversify, Extension educators are examining new technologies, including online tools, to deliver educational programming and resources. Using agritourism as the educational topic, the study reported here sought to evaluate participants' acceptance of online educational programming (webinars) and the effectiveness of the technology in meeting the needs of participants and Extension educators. Overall, results provided favorable support of webinars for online educational programming and illustrated the effectiveness of this technology in reaching diverse audiences. Findings suggest webinars can enhance the value, availability, and sustainability of Cooperative Extension programming.
Faculty Collaboration: How a Wiki Enhanced Communication, Organization, Accessibility, and Management of Writing a Book.

Faculty members have collaborated on research studies, manuscripts, books, teaching pedagogies, and ideas for years. From exchanging marked-up paper copies to exchanging email attachments, as technology has progressed so have the techniques and methods of collaborating. However, often, faculty adhere to traditional methods of sharing work and thus may be unwilling to try new, innovative methods of co-creating writing products, which can be more efficient and manageable. Most recently, a technology appropriately named “wiki” (in Hawaiian, wiki-wiki means
Providing Reliable Route Guidance using Chicago Data

In this research, the problem of generating reliable route guidance is modeled as the reliable a priori shortest path problem (RASP). The RASP problem aims to find a priori paths that are shortest to ensure a specified probability of on-time arrival. Previous studies have given the mathematical formulation for the RASP problem, examined the analytical properties and designed various solution algorithms. The goal of this research is to resolve the relevant implementation and deployment issues in order to move the techniques one step further to practice, and potentially commercialization. To these ends, three key issues are identified and addressed. The first is acquiring necessary data to prepare inputs for the RASP. Most important of all are road travel time distribution data, which are not directly available from existing traffic data collection and archiving practice and therefore have to be constructed from raw data. Second, the benefits of reliable routing over the conventional routing modes are demonstrated using real data. Finally, through comprehensive numerical experiments, this report verifies the feasibility of existing solution techniques in generating reliable route guidance on very large regional networks.