Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Freshmen and Five Hundred Words

This article shares two National Writing Project Teacher Consultants' interest in examining student engagement in writing flash fiction using mentor texts. Our two-week unit centered on two high school freshmen classes (one class identified as “at-risk” and another class identified as “college prep”), and we found the use of mentor texts assisted both classes in writing in an unknown genre: flash fiction. We begin by describing flash fiction as a genre and the benefits of teaching it in high school writing, share research on mentor texts, and then describe instructional lessons, noting specific texts and procedures employed. We also share samples of students' writing that resulted in a class anthology of their flash fiction pieces. The article ends by sharing differences between classes and implications for writing in high schools.
Verifying Compliance of Trusted Programs

In this paper, we present an approach for verifying that trusted programs correctly enforce system security goals when deployed. A trusted program is trusted to only perform safe operations despite have the authority to perform unsafe operations; for example, initialization programs, administrative programs, root network daemons, etc. Currently, these programs are trusted without concrete justification. The emergence of tools for building programs that guarantee policy enforcement, such as security-typed languages (STLs), and mandatory access control systems, such as user-level policy servers, finally offers a basis for justifying trust in such programs: we can determine whether these programs can be deployed in compliance with the reference monitor concept. Since program and system policies are defined independently, often using different access control models, compliance for all program deployments may be difficult to achieve in practice, however. We observe that the integrity of trusted programs must dominate the integrity of system data, and use this insight, which we call the PIDSI approach, to infer the relationship between program and system policies, enabling automated compliance verification. We find that the PIDSI approach is consistent with the SELinux reference policy for its trusted programs. As a result, trusted program policies can be designed independently of their target systems, yet still be deployed in a manner that ensures enforcement of system security goals.
Disambiguation-Free Partial Label Learning

In partial label learning, each training example is associated with a set of candidate labels among which only one is the ground-truth label. The common strategy to induce predictive model is trying to disambiguate the candidate label set, i.e., differentiating the modeling outputs of individual candidate labels. Specifically, disambiguation by differentiation can be conducted either by identifying the ground-truth label iteratively or by treating each candidate label equally. Nonetheless, the disambiguation strategy is prone to be misled by the false positive labels co-occurring with ground-truth label. In this paper, a new partial label learning strategy is studied which refrains from conducting disambiguation. Specifically, by adapting error-correcting output codes (ECOC), a simple yet effective approach named Pl-ecoc is proposed by utilizing candidate label set as an entirety. During training phase, to build binary classifier w.r. t. each column coding, any partially labeled example will be regarded as a positive or negative training example only if its candidate label set entirely falls into the coding dichotomy. During testing phase, class label for the unseen instance is determined via loss-based decoding which considers binary classifiers’ empirical performance and predictive margin. Extensive experiments show that Pl-ecoc performs favorably against state-of-the-art partial label learning approaches.
SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE

Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a current research topic in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with wide range of applications. The speech features such as, Mel Frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCC) and Mel Energy Spectrum Dynamic Coefficients (MEDC) are extracted from speech utterance. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used as classifier to classify different emotional states such as anger, happiness, sadness, neutral, fear, from Berlin emotional database. The LIBSVM is used for classification of emotions. It gives 93.75% classification accuracy for Gender independent case 94.73% for male and 100% for female speech.
A Reactive Security Framework for operational wind parks using Service Function Chaining

The innovative application of 5G core technologies, namely Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), can help reduce capital and operational expenditures in industrial networks. Nevertheless, SDN expands the attack surface of the communication infrastructure, thus necessitating the introduction of additional security mechanisms. A wind park is a good example of an industrial application relying on a network with strict performance, security, and reliability requirements, and was chosen as a representative example of industrial systems. This work highlights the benefit of leveraging the flexibility of SDN/NFV-enabled networks to deploy enhanced, reactive security mechanisms for the protection of the industrial network, via the use of Service Function Chaining. Moreover, a proof of concept implementation of the reactive security framework for an industrial-grade wind park network is presented. The framework is equipped with SDN and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) honeypots, modelled on (and deployable to) an actual, operating wind park, allowing continuous monitoring of the industrial network and detailed analysis of potential attacks, thus isolating attackers and enabling the assessment of their level of sophistication.
Formalizing Emphasis in Information Visualization

We provide afresh look at the use and prevalence of emphasis effects in Infovis. Through a survey of existing emphasis frameworks, we extract a set‐based approach that uses visual prominence to link visually and algorithmically diverse emphasis effects. Visual prominence provides a basis for describing, comparing and generating emphasis effects when combined with a set of general features of emphasis effects. Therefore, we use visual prominence and these general features to construct a new mathematical Framework for Information Visualization Emphasis, FIVE. The concepts we introduce to describe FIVE unite the emphasis literature and point to several new research directions for emphasis in information visualization.
Bayesian wavelet analysis with a model complexity prior

In this paper Bayesian methods for the selection and shrinkage of wavelet coeecients are considered. The wavelet coeecient are assigned a zero mean normal prior with precision matrix. This allows for a more general model than has been previously studied and uncertainty in can be controlled through a hyperprior. It is argued that model interpretability is improved by foresaking the conjugate Wishart prior in favour of a non-conjugate hyperprior that penalises the degrees of freedom of the model. The degrees of freedom provides a single intuitive measure of model complexity that accommodates both the number of coeecients and the extent of the shrinkage on them. We compare three diierent sampling strategies and comment on their performance.
QTc dispersion predicts cardiac mortality in the elderly: the Rotterdam Study.

BACKGROUND Increased QTc dispersion has been associated with an increased risk for ventricular arrhythmias and cardiac death in selected patient populations. We examined the association between computerized QTc-dispersion measurements and mortality in a prospective analysis of the population-based Rotterdam Study among men and women aged > or = 55 years. METHODS AND RESULTS QTc dispersion was computed with the use of the Modular ECG Analysis System as the difference between the maximum and minimum QTc intervals in 12 and 8 leads (ie, the 6 precordial leads, the shortest extremity lead, and the median of the 5 other extremity leads). After exclusion of those without a digitally stored ECG, the population consisted of 2358 men and 3454 women. During the 3 to 6.5 years (mean, 4 years) of follow-up, 568 subjects (9.8%) died. The degree of QTc dispersion was categorized into tertiles. Data were analyzed using the Cox proportional hazards model, with adjustment for age. For QTc dispersion in 8 leads, those in the highest tertile relative to the lowest tertile had a twofold risk for cardiac death (hazard ratio, 2.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.6 to 4.0) and sudden cardiac death (hazard ratio, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.0 to 3.7) and a 40% increased risk for total mortality (hazard ratio, 1.4; 95% CI, 1.2 to 1.8). Additional adjustment for potential confounders, including history of myocardial infarction, hypertension, and overall QTc, did not materially change the risk estimates. Hazard ratios for QTc dispersion in 12 leads were comparable to those found for QTc dispersion in 8 leads. CONCLUSIONS QTc dispersion is an important predictor of cardiac mortality in older men and women.
PARG is dispensable for recovery from transient replicative stress but required to prevent detrimental accumulation of poly(ADP-ribose) upon prolonged replicative stress

Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation is involved in numerous bio-logical processes including DNA repair, transcription and cell death. Cellular levels of poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) are regulated by PAR polymerases (PARPs) and the degrading enzyme PAR glycohydrolase (PARG), controlling the cell fate decision between life and death in response to DNA damage. Replication stress is a source of DNA damage, leading to transient stalling of replication forks or to their collapse followed by the generation of double-strand breaks (DSB). The involvement of PARP-1 in replicative stress response has been described, whereas the consequences of a deregulated PAR catabolism are not yet well established. Here, we show that PARG-deprived cells showed an enhanced sensitivity to the replication inhibitor hydroxyurea. PARG is dispensable to recover from transient replicative stress but is necessary to avoid massive PAR production upon prolonged replicative stress, conditions leading to fork collapse and DSB. Extensive PAR accumulation impairs replication protein A association with collapsed forks resulting in compromised DSB repair via homologous recombination. Our results highlight the critical role of PARG in tightly controlling PAR levels produced upon genotoxic stress to prevent the detrimental effects of PAR over-accumulation.
The treatment of social phobia: a critical assessment

This article critically reviews the effects of psychological treatment (exposure, cognitive restructuring, social skills training) and pharmacological treatment (MAOIs, reversible MAOIs, anxiolytics and SSRIs) of social phobia. Only controlled studies have been included, and their outcomes were assessed for improvement in anxiety and avoidance, social functioning and clinical status. Both psychological and pharmacological treatments resulted in a significant and meaningful reduction in anxiety and, in most cases, a weakening of the tendency to avoid. Although useful, the effects were not of such a magnitude as to result in remission. Reduction in anxiety was long‐lasting in patients treated by psychological methods. The lessening of anxiety did not necessarily lead to meaningfully improved social functioning. The combination of psychological and pharmacological treatments was disappointing, and did not exceed the effects of psychological treatments alone. However, the most promising medications were not tested. Subtype of social phobia and additional diagnoses did not determine the response to treatment.
Precision phenotyping of imidazolinone-induced chlorosis in sunflower

Chlorosis level is a useful parameter to assess imidazolinone resistance in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). The aim of this study was to quantify chlorosis through two different methods in sunflower plantlets treated with imazapyr. The genotypes used in this study were two inbred lines reported to be different in their resistance to imidazolinones. Chlorosis was evaluated by spectrophotometrical quantification of photosynthetic leaf pigments and by a bioinformatics-based color analysis. A protocol for pigment extraction was presented which improved pigment stability. Chlorophyll amount decreased significantly when both genotypes were treated with 10 μM of imazapyr. Leaf color was characterized using Tomato Analyzer® color test software. A significant positive correlation between color reduction and chlorophyll concentration was found. It suggests that leaf color measurement could be an accurate method to estimate chlorosis and infer chlorophyll levels in sunflower plants. These results highlight a strong relationship between imidazolinone-induced chlorosis and variations in leaf color and in chlorophyll concentration. Both methods are quantitative, rapid, simple, and reproducible. Thus, they could be useful tools for phenotyping and screening large number of plants when breeding for imidazolinone resistance in this species.
Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus Genome Persistence

Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) has an etiologic role in Kaposi’s sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma, and multicentric Castleman’s disease. These diseases are most common in immunocompromised individuals, especially those with AIDS. Similar to all herpesviruses, KSHV infection is lifelong. KSHV infection in tumor cells is primarily latent, with only a small subset of cells undergoing lytic infection. During latency, the KSHV genome persists as a multiple copy, extrachromosomal episome in the nucleus. In order to persist in proliferating tumor cells, the viral genome replicates once per cell cycle and then segregates to daughter cell nuclei. KSHV only expresses several genes during latent infection. Prominent among these genes, is the latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA). LANA is responsible for KSHV genome persistence and also exerts transcriptional regulatory effects. LANA mediates KSHV DNA replication and in addition, is responsible for segregation of replicated genomes to daughter nuclei. LANA serves as a molecular tether, bridging the viral genome to mitotic chromosomes to ensure that KSHV DNA reaches progeny nuclei. N-terminal LANA attaches to mitotic chromosomes by binding histones H2A/H2B at the surface of the nucleosome. C-terminal LANA binds specific KSHV DNA sequence and also has a role in chromosome attachment. In addition to the essential roles of N- and C-terminal LANA in genome persistence, internal LANA sequence is also critical for efficient episome maintenance. LANA’s role as an essential mediator of virus persistence makes it an attractive target for inhibition in order to prevent or treat KSHV infection and disease.
Design of an Effective Charge Pump-Phase Locked Loops Architecture for RF Applications

and mixed architectures design with high performance suffered from many difficulties due to low power supply, consumption, and the trend toward reducing the size of the circuit. Currently, these performances are considered one of the main constraints in analog design. Characterized and designed of mixed circuits such as Charge Pump-Phase Locked Loops (CP- PLLs) is a challenge in mixed-signal integrated circuits design. In this paper, an effective CMOS CP-PLLs architecture for RF applications that operates at a low power supply 2V into a large range frequency is presented. The proposed CP-PLLs architecture has two novel design blocks which are respectively Phase Frequency Detector (PFD) and Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). The key advantage of the two novel designs is that uses a simple circuit, provide more stable operation compared with other structures recently used and reduce the chip area overhead. Also, the novel VCO design solved the problems caused by recent structures. The CP-PLLs is designed and evaluated using electrical simulator tolls (ADS) with 0. 35μm AMS CMOS technology. Simulations results show a good performance and the effectiveness of the proposed structure.
Comparative Immunogenicity of HIV-1 gp160, gp140 and gp120 Expressed by Live Attenuated Newcastle Disease Virus Vector

The development of a vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) capable of inducing broad humoral and cellular responses at both the systemic and mucosal levels will be critical for combating the global AIDS epidemic. We previously demonstrated the ability of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) as a vaccine vector to express oligomeric Env protein gp160 and induce potent humoral and mucosal immune responses. In the present study, we used NDV vaccine strain LaSota as a vector to compare the biochemical and immunogenic properties of vector-expressed gp160, gp120, and two versions of gp140 (a derivative of gp160 made by deleting the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains), namely: gp140L, which contained the complete membrane-proximal external region (MPER), and gp140S, which lacks the distal half of MPER. We show that, similar to gp160, NDV-expressed gp140S and gp120, but not gp140L, formed higher-order oligomers that retained recognition by conformationally sensitive monoclonal antibodies. Immunization of guinea pigs by the intranasal route with rLaSota/gp140S resulted in significantly greater systemic and mucosal antibody responses compared to the other recombinants. Immunization with rLaSota/140S, rLaSota/140L rLaSota/120 resulted in mixed Th1/Th2 immune responses as compared to Th1-biased immune responses induced by rLaSota/160. Importantly, rLaSota/gp140S induced neutralizing antibody responses to homologous HIV-1 strain BaL.26 and laboratory adapted HIV-1 strain MN.3 that were stronger than those elicited by the other NDV recombinants. Additionally, rLaSota/gp140S induced greater CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell responses in mice. These studies illustrate that rLaSota/gp140S is a promising vaccine candidate to elicit potent mucosal, humoral and cellular immune responses to the HIV-1 Env protein.
BACANAL: Short Length Random Walks For Lexical Analysis, Application to lexical substitution (BACANAL : Balades Aléatoires Courtes pour ANAlyses Lexicales Application à la substitution lexicale) [in French]

Nous proposons ici des methodes de desambiguisation semantique par substition lexicale pour la tâche 1 de l'atelier SemDis2014. Les methodes exposees dans ce papier sont toutes bâties a partir de balades aleatoires courtes dans des graphes unipartis ou bipartis construits sur diverses ressources. Certaines de ces methodes n'utilisent que des graphes construits automatiquement a partir de corpus (methodes non supervisees), d'autres utilisent des graphes construits a partir de ressources produites « a la main » par des lexicographes ou par les foules (methodes supervisees). Abstract. In this paper, we propose word sense disambiguation methods based on lexical substitution and used for the task 1 of the SemDis2014 workshop. This methods are run by using short random walks on unipartite networks or bipartite networks. Some of these methods only use graphs automatically built from corpora (unsurpervised methods), others also use graphs built from handcraft resources filled by lexicographers or by the crowds (supervised methods). Mots-cles : desambiguisation semantique, substition lexicale, reseaux lexicaux, balades aleatoires courtes.
SWRL-based Access Policies for Linked Data

Social applications are one of the fastest growing areas in the Web. However, privacy issues ensue if all information of all users of these applications is stored on a single computer system. With small extensions to Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data concepts, a distributed approach to the social web is possible, where users retain fine-grained control over their data and are still able to combine their data with users on different systems. We describe our concept of a Policy-enabled Linked Data Server (PeLDS) obeying user-defined access policies for the stored information. PeLDS also supports configurationfree distributed authentication. Access policies are expressed in a newly developed compact notation for the Semantic Web Rule Language. Authentication is performed using SSL certificates and the FOAF+SSL verification approach. We evaluate our concept using a prototype implementation and a distributed address book application.
Some new insights into the semantics of English N+N compounds

This thesis focuses on English N+N compounds and the primary purpose of the study is to investigate the way in which compounded structures acquire their meaning and to check the way in which the semantics of each of the constituents contributes to the overall meaning of the structure. The way in which such contributions are made should be inferable from the linguistic analysis of the structure and meaning of compounds. In order to do this, the thesis looks first at the morphological productivity of the constituents comprising a compound. The second aim is to identify whether the productivity of a compound constituent on the morphological level coincides with the productivity of the semantic relation realised in the constituent family. The discussion of the results obtained from a corpus study provides plausible explanations for the regularities noted in the course of the analysis by using some of the relevant principles from the complex of approaches including the Construction Grammar and Cognitive Grammar approaches. Examples of compounds were collected from the printed media (NZ broadsheets) and the BNC. The analysis of the data used both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative analysis of the data confirms two hypotheses: (1) that a constituent is more productive in just one of the positions (modifier or head), and (2) the more productive a constituent is, the more likely it is to realise a single semantic relation in a constituent family. The qualitative analysis involves consideration of the semantic content of the concepts in each constituent in order to see how this content is reflected in the semantic relations realised by a constituent. It is discovered that the semantic content of the head is a stronger predictor of the relation realised in a compound than that of the modifier. The study is important in order to better understand the factors that govern the formation of compounds and the patterns that speakers use in the process of coining complex lexical items .
Image browsing for efficient image annotation

Image annotation is a work intensive and difficult task. Approaches for automatic image annotation are not sufficiently mature yet to be used in practise. In this paper, we show how an image database visualisation and browsing tool can be used for efficient and effective annotation of image databases. In contrast to other approaches, which typically present images in a linear fashion, we employ a visualisation where images are arranged so that visually similar images are located close to each other. Organisation on a grid layout prevents image overlap and hence contributes to a clear presentation. Large image databases are handled through a hierarchical storage structure where each image in the visualisation can correspond to a cluster of images that can be expanded by the user. Experimental results indicate that annotation can be performed faster on our proposed system.