Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enhancing manageability of execution and data for GPGPU computing

ing scheduling control at the level of warps can provide great flexibility but may turn out to be counter-productive due to the extremely low-level monitoring information needed to schedule efficiently. For example, heavy instrumentation is required to identify long latency load and store requests. Symphony, thus, focuses on abstracting scheduling control at the granularity of thread blocks of application kernels. To eliminate the effects of destructive interference as far as possible, we have chosen to use a homogeneous distribution of thread blocks among the available SMs where any given SM only runs thread blocks on a given SM are from the same application kernel. 5.2. 2 Hardware thread block scheduling ignored or software supervised? Today, the hardware thread block scheduler in GPUs is not a directly programmable unit that can be reconfigured during the execution of an application kernel. For the sake of argument, even if that is implemented in the future, we believe that a software entity on the GPU-side needs to exist to manage the reconfiguration to best adapt to co-running applications’ performance goals. The device driver approach of the host operating system will simply not scale to support such fine-grained control without incurring a huge amount of overhead. In Symphony, we have used the software supervisor approach where a supervisor kernel cooperates with the hardware thread block scheduler to schedule application kernels on the SMs. Due to current hardware limitations, the hardware thread block scheduler’s role is reduced to starting the supervisor kernel(s). Thereafter, the rest of the scheduling responsibility is undertaken by the supervisor kernel without any assistance from the hardware thread block scheduler. However, it is possible that a future version of the supervisor kernel could delegate scheduling responsibility to a compatible hardware thread block dispatcher momentarily to avoid the overhead of software control.
Learning control theory for robotic motion

A new concept of learning control for the improvement of robot motions is proposed, which can be referred to a mathematical modelling of learning and generation of motor programmes in the central nervous system. It differs from conventional classical and modern control techniques. It stands for the repeatability of operating a given robotic system and the possibility of improving the command input on the basis of actual measurement data acquired at the previous operation. Hence adequate conditions on the repeatability and invariance of the system dynamics are assumed, but no precise description of the dynamics is required for construction of the learning algorithms. Two types of iterative learning algorithm are proposed: one uses a PD-type (proportional and differential) update of input commands and the other a PI-type (proportional and integral) update where velocity signals are regarded as outputs. It is shown that in both types a better performance is realized at every attempt of operation, provided a desired motion is given a priori and the actual motion (velocity signals) can be measured at every operation. Further, the robustness of such learning control algorithms with respect to the existence of perturbed errors of initialization of the robot, disturbances and measurement noise during operation is analysed in detail. It is shown that in PD-type learning laws such errors are neither amplified nor aggregated in later consecutive trials of operation. In the case of PI-type learning laws it is shown that such a robustness property is assured if a forgetting factor is adequately introduced into the repetitive learning law.
Incidence of urethritis in Bangladesh.

: Urethritis is either gonococcal or non-gonococcal. This paper describes the investigation of 286 cases of urethral or vaginal discharges, dysuria or urethral irritation. Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) was found to be the commonest form of urethritis accounting for 65.05 per cent of cases. Gonococcal urethritis (GU) and abacterial urethritis were accounted for 24.47 per cent and 10.48 per cent of cases respectively. No history of sexual exposure was found in 21.27 per cent of cases with NGU, whereas this was invariably present in cases of GU. This may indicate that in at least some of the patients with NGU, the disease may not be sexually transmitted. This point needs further study.
EFFECT OF TIME OF SOWING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SOYBEAN (Glycine max (L.) MERRILL) IN PUNJAB

The experiment was conducted at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab) during kharif 2008 and 2009 to study the effect of time of sowing on the performance of soybean. It was comprised of nine treatments with three sowing dates (June 5, June 15 and June 25) as main plot treatments and three genotypes of soybean (SL 525, SL 744 and SL 790) as sub plot treatments and replicated four times. The highest grain yield (2537 kg/ha) was recorded in June 5 sown crop which was significantly higher than June 25 sowing (2169 kg/ha) but statistically at par with June 15 sowing (2386 kg/ha) in 2008. In 2009 June 15 sowing (1811 kg/ha) recorded highest grain yield which was statistically on par with June 5 (1704 kg/ha) but significantly higher than June 25 sowing (1350 kg/ha). As the sowing date delayed, the thermal heat units were found to be reduced for 50% flowering and maturity. The variety SL 744 gave the highest grain yield, which was statistically at par with SL 790 but significantly higher than SL 525. The oil content was the highest in variety SL 525 which was statistically at par with SL 744 but significantly higher than SL 790.
Few Matches or Almost Periodicity: Faster Pattern Matching with Mismatches in Compressed Texts

A fundamental problem on strings in the realm of approximate string matching is pattern matching with mismatches: Given a text t, a pattern p, and a number k, determine whether some substring of t has Hamming distance at most k to p; such a substring is called a k-match. As real-world texts often come in compressed form, we study the case of searching for a small pattern p in a text t that is compressed by a straight-line program. This grammar compression is popular in the string community, since it is mathematically elegant and unifies many practically relevant compression schemes such as the Lempel-Ziv family, dictionary methods, and others. We denote by m the length of p and by n the compressed size of t. While exact pattern matching, that is, the case k = 0, is known to be solvable in near-linear time O (n + m) [Jez TALG'15], despite considerable interest in the string community, the fastest known algorithm for pattern matching with mismatches runs in time [MATH HERE] [Gawrychowski, Straszak ISAAC'13], which is far from linear even for very small k. In this paper, we obtain an algorithm for pattern matching with mismatches running in time O((n + m) poly(k)). This is near-linear in the input size for any constant (or slightly superconstant) k. We obtain analogous running time for counting and enumerating all k-matches. Our algorithm is based on a new structural insight for approximate pattern matching, essentially showing that either the number of k-matches is very small or both text and pattern must be almost periodic. While intuitive and simple for exact matches, such a characterization is surprising when allowing k mismatches.
Investigating the relationship between maternal diet and infant adiposity

The role of fetal programming in the early development of obesity is an important area of focus for chronic disease prevention. Maternal diet during pregnancy represents a specific in-utero exposure with the potential to impact fetal development. Little is known in human populations regarding the association between maternal diet and offspring adiposity. This thesis addresses this knowledge gap using data from the Healthy Start study, a diverse, pre-birth cohort of 1,410 mother-infant dyads. In addition, there is little information as to what specific nutrient exposures affect fetal fat accretion. Here, we propose a novel pathway linking maternal dietary niacin consumption during pregnancy with neonatal adiposity at birth. The micronutrient niacin, specifically its amide form, nicotinamide, has been linked to increased adipogenesis through inhibition of Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) protein and activation of PPARγ in cell culture experiments. Within a translational framework, this project incorporates population-level analyses to explore the relationships between maternal diet quality, and the dietary composition of fat and niacin and fat mass at birth, as well as examine potential clinical markers. Further we employed cell culture experiments to elucidate the protein mediators of the hypothesized association. We analyzed the impact of overall diet quality, dietary niacin and high-fat diet on percent fat mass (%FM) of neonates in the full Healthy Start cohort and found that both a low-quality and high-fat diet, but not dietary niacin, are associated with higher %FM in the neonate without influencing the total mass or fat-free mass (FFM). Further,
Multiple networks for function learning

In the case of learning a mapping, it is proposed to build several possible models instead of one, train them all independently on the same task and take a vote over their responses. These networks will converge to different solutions due to using different models, different parameter set sizes or any other factor related to training. Two training methods are used, i.e., grow and learn (GAL), a memory based method, and backpropagation. Several voting schemes are investigated, and their performances are composed in the case of classification on a real world application (recognition of handwritten numerals) and a two-dimensional didactic case. The weights in voting may be interpreted in two ways: the certainty of a network in its output, and in a Bayesian setting, the plausibility, i.e., the prior probability of the model. In all cases tested, the result of voting is better than the results of all of the networks that participated in the voting process. <<ETX>>
Evaluation of immunomodulatory efficacy and safety of Septilin syrup, as an adjunct in solid malignancy pediatric patients on chemotherapy: a prospective, randomised, controlled, phase III clinical trial

Though there has been much advancement in treatment modalities, the prognosis for advanced pediatric solid malignancies continues to be poor. Leukopenia and immunosuppression are the commonest complications, which frequently lead to intermittent cessation of chemotherapy. This study was planned to evaluate the immunomodulatory efficacy and safety of Septilin syrup, as an adjunct, in pediatric solid malignancy patients undergoing chemotherapy. This study was a randomized, stratified, controlled phase III clinical trial and was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. Thirty-eight pediatric patients of advanced solid malignancy (Wilms’ tumor and neuroblastoma), in whom the diagnosis was confirmed by FNAC, and whose parents/guardians were willing to give informed written consent, were included in the study. Patients requiring immediate blood transfusion, and those who were unwilling to give informed written consent were excluded from the study. Informed written consent was obtained from parents/guardians of all the patients. All patients from the Septilin group received Septilin (5 ml, thrice daily), for 6 weeks, starting 48 hours prior to commencement of chemotherapy and the other group received only chemotherapy. At each follow-up visit, all patients were clinically evaluated for the response of chemotherapy, toxicity of chemotherapy, need for in-between postponement or stoppage of chemotherapy and requirement for blood transfusion during the course of chemotherapy. The immunological status was assessed by measuring the IgG, IgM and IgA levels, before initiation and on the ninth day of the chemotherapy. The predefined primary efficacy end points were improvement in immunoglobulin (IgG, IgM and IgA) levels and symptomatic improvement. The predefined secondary safety end points were reduced incidence of adverse reactions, reduced requirement of blood transfusion, reduction in chemotherapy, discontinuations and overall patient compliance to the drug treatment. Statistical analysis was done on an intention-to-treat basis.
Requirements for large-scale adoption of rapid manufacturing technologies

Abstract Despite the use of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies in a lot of applications including the production of some high-value products for end use, it is still very much an untapped potential. There is an increase in usage of AM technology for the manufacture of end-use products (Rapid Manufacturing (RM)) in recent years, but mass use of the technology in terms of speed, cost and quality, which is acceptable by the general consumer, is still not widely in existence today. The concept of RM as a viable production process is still not understood by many businesses/consumers, with thinking still dominated by the AM technologies for Rapid Prototyping (RP) applications. A key difference between RM and RP is in the supply chain. The RM supply chain is much more complicated than the RP supply chain. This research conducted a Delphi Study to identify the requirements or pre-requisites necessary for the use of RM technologies as a viable means to manufacture end used products (RM application of AM) in mass scale. The paper identifies 36 requirements or pre-requisites and classified them into various classes of importance in order to highlight their significance. In addition to supply chain issues, the requirements unearthed are factors or features about RM technology (equipment), materials and processes that need modification, upgrading or creation.
Nutritional Status among the Urban Meitei Children and Adolescents of Manipur, Northeast India

Purpose. To determine the nutritional status (underweight and overweight) among Meitei children and adolescents. Methods. Cross-sectional data on 854 subjects (384 boys and 470 girls) were collected during the months of May 2009 to August 2009 following house-to-house survey. An anthropometric rod and a weighing scale were used to measure height and weight. The presence of underweight and overweight has been evaluated using the international cutoff points for children and adolescents. MS-Excel software was used for all statistical analyses. Results. A high prevalence of underweight (30.21%) and overweight (3.12%) in the present study was found among children and adolescent boys, respectively. Among girls, the prevalence of both underweight (33.86%) and overweight (5.18%) was reported higher among children than adolescents, and the differences in the distribution were significant at 0.05 levels. The overall prevalence of underweight (28.29%) was found more or less the same among boys and girls, but overweight (5.10%) was reported higher among girls than boys (2.34%). Conclusion. The possible reasons for both forms of malnutrition among Meitei children and adolescents could be traced through poverty, low dietary intake, socioeconomic condition, nutrition transition, and changing lifestyles. The other possible reasons could be due to peer pressure, eating habits, or emotional factor.
Combating Examination Malpractices in the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in Ghana

annual basis, WAEC furnish Ghanaians with a stunning number of candidates who are caught cheating in their examinations. WAEC cancels the results of such candidates and even hand some culprits over to the Police for prosecution at the courts. But cheating continues and in most cases, increases year by year. There has been allegations and counter-allegations as to how and why these examination malpractices is on the increase in Ghana. In an attempt to unravel the mysteries of malpractices surrounding the conduct of the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE), funding was sought from education-oriented Non- governmental Organisations (NGOs) and recruited thirty fresh graduates from Ghanaian universities and guided them to gain teaching appointments in schools that are noted by the community to indulge in examination malpractices, but for one reason or the other, has never been caught red-handed. The accounts of these thirty recruits spread across all the ten regions of Ghana forms the basis of this paper.
Measuring the Impact of the International Fellowships Program (IFP) in the Area of Education: Development of a Valid and Reliable Measurement Instrument

This present study was conducted on behalf of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) as a pilot study in order to develop a valid and reliable instrument that could measure the impact of the International Fellowships Program (IFP) in the area of education of countries selected in the program. IFP is an educational program that provides fellowships for graduates who lack access to post-graduate education and who are resident of developing countries or territories. The instrument (IFP Ed-instrument) was developed through four steps. In the first step, 11 indicators and 23 variables were pre-selected from literature and interviews conducted with academics and practitioners specialized in the field of education as well as experts in the field of impact assessment. A two rounds Delphi method was used in the second step to evaluate the relevance and measurability of the pre-selected indicators and variables. Evaluations were conducted with experts through mail questionnaires in the first round and through structured interviews in the second round. Content validity indexes (I-CVI) and content validity ratio’s (CVR) were then computed for each of these individual indicators and variable. The content validity of the overall IFP Ed-instrument was estimated in the third step by experts through mail questionnaires. The Fleiss multiple rater kappa was then computed to estimate the degree of agreement between experts during the third step. Following refinement the IFP Ed-instrument was further field tested through mail questionnaires in Senegal in the fourth step. Results of this sudy show that seven indicators and 21 variables are content valid measures of outcomes and impacts of IFP with I-CVI values higher than 0,78 and CVR values higher than 0,75. The developed IFP Ed-instrument was found content valid by consulted expert with a multiple rater Fleiss kappa value of 0,36. It is recommended to further field test the IFP Ed-instrument in triangulation studies in order to establish its construct validity and its reliability.
The Influence of Company Size and Audit Fee on Audit Quality

The need for transparent and accountable financial report makes a number of rules require companies to present audited financial report. Audit quality is measured by Kasznik's discretionary accrual model. This approach was adopted by Siregar who found that in Indonesia the Kasznik model had the highest adjusted R2 and coefficient prediction compared to several other models. The purpose of this study is to provide about the influence on company size and audit fee on audit quality at manufacturing companies sub-sectors various industry and consumer goods industry which listing in Indonesia Stock Exchange within 2012 to 2016. Research method which in this study used verificative. The initial data on this study is 381 data, using the purposive sampling method that makes the data of sample become 122 data. The data used is the annual report of the sample companies are published on www.idx. co.id. This research using multiple regression of SPSS version 24. The results show that company size and audit fee have an influence on
Does adding telemonitoring to optimised management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reduce hospital admissions? Randomised controlled trial

Introduction Previous trials of telemonitoring in COPD have been confounded by additional supportive clinical care in the intervention group. It is unclear if telemonitoring alone will improve clinical outcomes Aim To determine if telemetrically supported self-monitoring of COPD prevents hospital admissions when both groups receive optimised care. Trial design Researcher-blind RCT. Setting UK primary care. Methods Patients with a COPD admission in the previous year were centrally randomised to telemetric or normal monitoring. The primary outcome, assessed at 1 year, was time to first hospital admission with a COPD exacerbation. Other outcomes included number of days in hospital, deaths and health-related quality of life (St George9s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)) Results We randomised 256 patients (128 telemonitoring): baseline characteristics were similar. Using an intention-to-treat analysis, there was no difference in time to admission between the groups (adjusted hazard ratio for admission (reference=tele-group) 1.04 (95%CI 0.73 to 1.50). 61 patients in each group had an admission. There was no significant difference in the mean number of of admissions/person (tele-group: 1.2 (SD1.9), control: 1.1 (SD1.6)); bed days (tele-group: 9.4 (SD 19.1) vs usual 8.8 (SD 15.9)); deaths (tele-group: 16, control 21. p=0.38) or SGRQ at 1 year (mean difference: 1.5 (-1.4 to 4.5)) Conclusion When both groups received optimised care, telemonitoring did not reduce the time to a hospital admission or increase quality of life. ISRCTN number: 96634935 Funding: Chief Scientist9s Office of Scottish Government.
Conversations Storied: Meeting New Students Who Arrive Carrying a Suitcase of Memories and a Backpack Over-Stuffed With Emotions

Welcoming new students into schools and classrooms is a common occurrence in the lives of Canadian educators. The profile of the new student varies as does the reason for the school move. Some students may make many school changes; some students may only move once. Regardless of the reason or number of moves, they will all experience being the new student. This research study seeks to inquire into the experience of being a new student and opens with my own experience of a school move in the third grade. Literature is presented about mobility and considerations for researching with children. To better understand the experience of being a new student I met with five participants ranging in ages from 8–15 and engaged in conversation with them. I asked the participants what was helpful or not helpful for them as they sought to navigate their new school environment. In addition to our conversation, two of the participants chose to illustrate their first day experience. These participants indicated that this first day was not easy and had suggestions as to how to make the first day experience better. The purpose of this study is to help those of us who work with young people reflect on our practice, on our attitudes, and how we welcome new students into our classrooms. Suggestions from the research and children’s ideas are provided; however they are not answers, as each situation is unique.