Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A distributed network monitoring framework for wireless networks

Multi-hop wireless networks are emerging as a viable alternative for building access networks in areas where conventional solutions (cellular, fiber) are neither feasible nor attractive from an economical standpoint. The management of such networks represents an overly complex task because of the time-varying nature of the radio channel, the mobility of users and the presence of adaptive, self-configuration features. Various solutions are currently being researched, whereby network management functionalities are performed autonomously at the network nodes themselves. Such approaches require a monitoring framework able to bring network-level information to the relevant decision points in an effective and robust manner. In this paper, we present a distributed network monitoring framework, specifically developed for wireless multi-hop networks. The system architecture and the protocols are presented together with results obtained using a prototypical implementation over a real-world testbed. Experimental results show that the framework generates a limited amount of traffic, and that the system is able to consistently recover from node failures.
The disputed legacy of Ninian Smart and phenomenological religious education: a critical response to Kevin O’Grady

The aim of this article is to respond to Kevin O’Grady’s critique (in BJRE, 27, 2005, pp. 227–37) of my interpretation and assessment of Ninian Smart’s contribution to religious education. I begin by dealing with a range of issues that lend themselves to fairly summary discussion and then address two further aspects of his critique in more detail. First, the nature of the influence of the phenomenology of religion over phenomenological religious education is considered within the context of recent critical discussions of the fundamental assumptions of religious phenomenology. Secondly, O’Grady’s positive account of the continuing relevance of Smart’s thought to the issue of hermeneutics in religious education is both qualified by attention to its limitations and complemented by reference to the work of the French hermeneutical philosopher, Paul Ricoeur.
A novel positioning tolerant inductive power transfer system

Inductive power transfer (IPT) systems significantly depend on magnetic coupling and coil characteristics. To achieve maximum coupling in case of an air gap and misalignments, different coil shapes were investigated. Based on this research a special orthogonal coil system and arrangement was designed. The magnetic design is presented along with FEM-simulations and measurements. With its mechanical structure the presented IPT system is positioning tolerant and interoperable with a huge variaty of car models. It requires a minimum of space while maintaining high flexibility and efficiency. Corresponding illustrations and analysis are provided to clearly show the design of a bidirectional resonant converter. Measurements of the entire system at full load (3kW) are made.
The psychic disequilibrium of adoption: Stories exploring links between adoption and suicidal thoughts and actions

Abstract Past literature has identified mental health issues for adopted people. Equally, research reveals that birth parents have ongoing mental health issues related to adoption grief that increases rather than decreases over time. Limited literature explores links between adoption and suicidal thoughts and behaviours. This exploratory study aimed to provide a space for narratives describing perceived links between adoption and suicide to be aired. Narratives from a purposive sample of 20 participants revealed six themes in relation to the study focus: reality denied, prescribed self, powerlessness, suicidal logic, suicide and turning points. A theoretical discussion is developed in relation to the findings, drawing on Girard’s concept of sacrificial violence, Butler’s notion of performativity, and Kierkegaard’s notion of pathology of spirit.
Reversion analysis of [psi-] mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Mutants of [ psi ] a cytoplasmically inherited factor in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were isolated after treatment with a variety of agents including conventional mutagens and a number of compounds which cause loss of [ psi ] at high frequencies, namely methanol, KCl, dimethyl sulphoxide and guanidine hydrochloride. In [ psi − ] mutants the suppressor SUQ5 does not suppress ochre mutations such as ade.2. 1 . Reversion analysis of the [ psi − ] mutants revealed three classes: (1) a class of agents producing [ psi − ] mutations which could readily revert to [ psi + ] (methanol, KCl and dimethyl sulphoxide belong to this class), (2) those which could not be shown to revert (GuHCl) and (3) the conventional mutagens which produced both revertible and apparently non-revertible [ psi − ] mutations. We conclude that GuHCl causes a deletion or loss of the [ psi ] factor. Methanol may cause an alteration of ‘state’ for example, of a promoter, and KCl may be selecting or inducing low copy number variants of [ psi + ] strains. It is possible that DMSO may be involved in regulation of [ psi ].
Knowledge Representation Representation Formalisms in Machine Learning

We begin with what seems a paradox. The world of experience of any normal man is composed of a tremendous array of discriminably different objects, events, people, impressions.But were we to utilize fully our capacity for registering the differences in things and to respond to each event encountered as unique, we would soon be overwhelmed by the complexity of our environment. The resolution of this seeming paradox . is achieved by man’s capacity to categorize. To categorise is to render discriminably different things equivalent, to group objects and events and people around us into classes. The process of categorizing involves . an act of invention. If we have learned the class “house” as a concept, new exemplars can be readily recognised. The category becomes a tool for further use. The learning and utilization of categories represents one of the most elementary and general forms of cognition by which man adjusts to his environment.
Low Complexity V-BLAST MIMO-OFDM Detector by Successive Iterations Reduction

V-BLAST detection method suffers large computational complexity due to its successive detection of symbols. In this paper, we propose a modified V-BLAST algorithm to decrease the computational complexity by reducing the number of detection iterations required in MIMO communication systems. We begin by showing the existence of a maximum number of iterations, beyond which, no significant improvement is obtained. We establish a criterion for the number of maximum effective iterations. We propose a modified algorithm that uses the measured SNR to dynamically set the number of iterations to achieve an acceptable bit-error rate. Then, we replace the feedback algorithm with an approximate linear function to reduce the complexity. Simulations show that significant reduction in computational complexity is achieved compared to the ordinary V-BLAST, while maintaining a good BER performance.
Developmental psychopathology: A paradigm shift or just a relabeling?

Abstract Developmental psychopathology is described as a conceptual approach that involves a set of research methods that capitalize on developmental and psychopathological variations to ask questions about mechanisms and processes. Achievements are described in relation to attachment and attachment disorders, autism, schizophrenia, childhood antecedents of adult psychopathology, testing for environmental mediation of risk effects, gene–environment interplay, intellectual and language functioning, effects of mentally ill parents on the children, stress and vulnerability to depression, ethnicity and schizophrenia, and drug response. Continuities and discontinuities over the course of development are discussed in relation to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, antisocial behavior, eating disorders, substance abuse and dependency, pharmacological and behavioral addictions, and a range of other disorders. Research challenges are considered in relation to spectrum concepts, the adolescent development of a female preponderance for depression, the mechanisms involved in age differences in response to drugs and to lateralized brain injury, the processing of experiences, the biological embedding of experiences, individual differences in response to environmental hazards, nature–nurture integration, and brain plasticity.
Impact of routinely employed procedures for tissue processing on the proteomic analysis of formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue

FFPE (formalin fixed, paraffin embedded) tissue cohorts represent an enduring archive of clinical specimens. Proteomic analysis of FFPE tissues is gaining interest for the in‐depth analysis of aberrant proteome composition. Procedures for FFPE tissue processing are standardized but there is diversity regarding the different processing systems. This work focuses on three different processing methods commonly used in large European pathology institutes.
Inference in particle tracking experiments by passing messages between images

Methods to extract information from the tracking of mobile objects/particles have broad interest in biological and physical sciences. Techniques based on simple criteria of proximity in time-consecutive snapshots are useful to identify the trajectories of the particles. However, they become problematic as the motility and/or the density of the particles increases due to uncertainties on the trajectories that particles followed during the images’ acquisition time. Here, we report an efficient method for learning parameters of the dynamics of the particles from their positions in time-consecutive images. Our algorithm belongs to the class of message-passing algorithms, known in computer science, information theory, and statistical physics as belief propagation (BP). The algorithm is distributed, thus allowing parallel implementation suitable for computations on multiple machines without significant intermachine overhead. We test our method on the model example of particle tracking in turbulent flows, which is particularly challenging due to the strong transport that those flows produce. Our numerical experiments show that the BP algorithm compares in quality with exact Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms, yet BP is far superior in speed. We also suggest and analyze a random distance model that provides theoretical justification for BP accuracy. Methods developed here systematically formulate the problem of particle tracking and provide fast and reliable tools for the model’s extensive range of applications.
ECOC-ONE: A Novel Coding and Decoding Strategy

Error correcting output codes (ECOC) represent a classification technique that allows a successful extension of binary classifiers to address the multiclass problem. In this paper, we propose a novel technique called ECOC-ONE to improve an initial ECOC configuration by including new dichotomies guided by the confusion matrix over exclusive training subsets. In this way, the initial coding represented by an optimal decision tree is extended adding binary classifiers forming a network. Since not all dichotomies have the same relevance, a weighted methodology is included. Moreover, to decode we introduce a new distance to attenuate the error accumulated by zeros in the ECOC-ONE matrix. We compare our strategy to other well-known ECOC coding strategies on the UCI data set achieving very promising results
Inclusivity as an Olympic Event at the 2010 Vancouver Winter games

This study examines the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and focuses on the theme of social inclusivity. From the perspective of local low-income communities, the Games absorbed resources that might have addressed homelessness and other service needs. However, given the priorities of the governments elected since 2000, it may be argued that by drawing attention to the needs of the region's poor and First Nations, the Olympics helped deliver funding that would have gone elsewhere. This is not a statement in support of hosting the Olympics, but a personal observation as a former senior planner with the City of Vancouver who joined with others in calling for national and provincial housing and urban infrastructure strategies. The main argument here is that it should not be necessary to host a mega-event in order to address urgent social and environmental issues.
G-STUDIO : un logiciel pour l'étude en temps réel des paramètres temporels de la production écrite

Resume ; Certaines recherches visent a analyser en temps reel la mise en œuvre des processus cognitifs impliques par l'activite d'ecriture, tel celui de planification. Elles recourent tres souvent a l'enregistrement video des deplacements du crayon, suivi de l'analyse, image par image, des pauses, reperees grâce a une horloge electronique incrustee. Ce depouillement est tres couteux en temps et susceptible d'erreurs. G-Studio est un ensemble de programmes qui permet d'enregistrer en temps reel tous les mouvements d'un crayon (non relie par un câble) et de «rejouer» ensuite ces mouvements, et donc de reconstituer l'ensemble des traces graphiques (approche «video»). Pour ce faire, l'activite graphique est realisee sur une feuille ordinaire, posee sur une tablette a digitaliser pilotee par un compatible PC; tous les mouvements sont alors enregistres avec leurs coordonnees et leurs dates absolues (echantillonnage: 205 releves par sec). Un module appele «magnetoscope» permet ensuite d'obtenir sur l'ecran, soit la page complete d'ecriture, soit la reconstitution en temps reel de l'ecriture. Il permet aussi automatiquement de visionner toutes les pauses, filtrees ou non, selon un seuil de duree, et reperees sur le texte lui-meme par leur numero et leur duree, de les categoriser, et de sauvegarder les donnees sous un format ASCII. Le logiciel permet de traiter des textes de plusieurs pages, meme si environ 1 000 pauses par page sont enregistrees. ; Mots clefs: logiciel, etude en temps reel, ecriture, processus cognitifs, pauses.
Emerging literacy in children with delayed speech and language development: assessment and intervention

Emerging literacy in preschool children has been shown to be inter-related with spoken language acquisition, particularly in joint picture-book reading with parents (PBR). In earlier studies of normally developing children a develop mental continuum of skills was described and then used to develop a checklist for assessing PBR in clinical populations. The checklist was used to study PBR in 11 language delayed children with varying degrees of attention control. The five children with receptive/expressive delay and difficulty with attention control were delayed in PBR but those with expressive difficulties were not. Suggestions for intervention are provided.
Optical Flow Motion Detection on Raspberry Pi

This paper presents the implementation of Optical Flow Motion Detection algorithm on Raspberry Pi. The Lucas-Kanade method was chosen for the implementation. The algorithm works by comparing two successive image frames. To find out a displaced object, the algorithm tries to guess the direction of displaced object rather than scanning the second image for the matching pixel. This can be done by solving for the optical flow vector by assuming that the vector will be similar to a small neighbourhood surrounding the pixel. The algorithm was simulated using Python OpenCV. The implementation of Lucas-Kanade algorithm was successfully done on Raspberry Pi.
The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases

Andrews and Thomson worked in Belfast on the liquefaction of gases during the 1860s and early 1870s but much of their work was, for several reasons, not published until many years after it was done, and then only in part. Their surviving notebooks and letters show that their results anticipate some of the better-known and more systematic work of the Dutch school of van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes in the 1890s. The dating of the experiments and ideas of Andrews and Thomson on the continuity of the two fluid states and on the unusual behaviour of gas mixtures on liquefaction is the subject of this paper.
A Novel Framework for Robust WCDMA Planning under Changing Spatial Traffic Distributions

This paper proposes a novel framework for developing advanced frequency planning algorithms in WCDMA scenarios under changing traffic conditions. It is based on an analytical model that captures the influence among the different cells by means of the derivatives of the corresponding cell load factors. Then, the cells having the largest influence can be considered as candidates to operate with a different frequency. The proposed algorithm is compared by means of simulations with an algorithm based on load measurements, revealing that the proposed approach is able to capture the relevant cells more accurately
Utilisation of preharvest dropped apple peels as a flour substitute for a lower glycaemic index and higher fibre cake

Abstract Fibre-enriched materials (FEMs) obtained from preharvest dropped apple peels were utilised as a source of dietary fibre in baked cakes and their effects on the textural/nutritional qualities and starch digestibility (glucose release behaviour, starch digestion fraction, predicted glycaemic index) of the cakes were evaluated. When FEMs were incorporated into the cake formulation (3 g and 6 g of dietary fibre per serving (100 g)), the volume of the cakes seemed to be reduced and their texture become harder. However, 3 g of FEMs did not degrade the cake qualities. The use of FEMs in cakes significantly reduced the levels of rapidly digestible starch and slowly digestible starch, while the levels of resistant starch increased. Additionally, the cake samples prepared with FEMs exhibited a lower predicted glycaemic index. This study may give rise to multi-functional bakery products with acceptable quality and low glycaemic index.
Size variation and collapse of emphysema holes at inspiration and expiration CT scan: evaluation with modified length scale method and image co-registration

A novel approach of size-based emphysema clustering has been developed, and the size variation and collapse of holes in emphysema clusters are evaluated at inspiratory and expiratory computed tomography (CT). Thirty patients were visually evaluated for the size-based emphysema clustering technique and a total of 72 patients were evaluated for analyzing collapse of the emphysema hole in this study. A new approach for the size differentiation of emphysema holes was developed using the length scale, Gaussian low-pass filtering, and iteration approach. Then, the volumetric CT results of the emphysema patients were analyzed using the new method, and deformable registration was carried out between inspiratory and expiratory CT. Blind visual evaluations of EI by two readers had significant correlations with the classification using the size-based emphysema clustering method (r-values of reader 1: 0.186, 0.890, 0.915, and 0.941; reader 2: 0.540, 0.667, 0.919, and 0.942). The results of collapse of emphysema holes using deformable registration were compared with the pulmonary function test (PFT) parameters using the Pearson’s correlation test. The mean extents of low-attenuation area (LAA), E1 (<1.5 mm), E2 (<7 mm), E3 (<15 mm), and E4 (≥15 mm) were 25.9%, 3.0%, 11.4%, 7.6%, and 3.9%, respectively, at the inspiratory CT, and 15.3%, 1.4%, 6.9%, 4.3%, and 2.6%, respectively at the expiratory CT. The extents of LAA, E2, E3, and E4 were found to be significantly correlated with the PFT parameters (r=−0.53, −0.43, −0.48, and −0.25), with forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1; −0.81, −0.62, −0.75, and −0.40), and with diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide (cDLco), respectively. The fraction of emphysema that shifted to the smaller subgroup showed a significant correlation with FEV1, cDLco, forced expiratory flow at 25%–75% of forced vital capacity, and residual volume (RV)/total lung capacity (r=0.56, 0.73, 0.40, and −0.58). A detailed assessment of the size variation and collapse of emphysema holes may be useful for understanding the dynamic collapse of emphysema and its functional relation.
On the nonoptimality of the foreground-background discipline for IMRL service times

It is known that for decreasing hazard rate (DHR) service times the foreground-background discipline (FB) minimizes the mean delay in the M/G/1 queue among all work-conserving and nonanticipating service disciplines. It is believed that a similar result is valid for increasing mean residual lifetime (IMRL) service times. However, on the one hand, we point out a flaw in an earlier proof of the latter result and construct a counter-example that demonstrates that FB is not necessarily optimal within class IMRL. On the other hand, we prove that the mean delay for FB is smaller than that of the processor-sharing discipline within class IMRL, giving a weaker version of an earlier hypothesis.
Adapting an Emerging Empirically Supported Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adults With ADHD and Comorbid Complications

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is commonly considered a disorder that affects children and adolescents; however, follow-up studies of those diagnosed with ADHD indicate significant continuation and impairment into adulthood. For these adults, pharmacotherapy is effective in some cases, but residual symptoms and secondary problematic behaviors resulting from ADHD symptoms (e.g., depressed mood) are typical. Several researchers have identified cognitive-behavioral approaches as a promising adjunct to pharmacotherapy. In particular, a recently manualized cognitive-behavioral therapy has demonstrated significant reductions in ADHD symptoms in a controlled study. The primary purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of this approach. To do so, we review two case studies of adults diagnosed with ADHD to illustrate (a) the heterogeneity associated with ADHD cases and the unique challenges they present, (b) issues related to comorbid disorders and symptoms with ADHD, and (c) how to adapt this emerging empirically supported treatment.
People First: Probation Officer Perspectives on Probation Work

The Probation Service has experienced massive changes during the past 10 years, including the way in which its probation officers are trained. Whether or not the espoused intention of this latter change was to introduce a `new breed' of officer more versed in control than care, the three studies reported here all demonstrate the same finding, namely that individuals enter the training to work with people, and that they continue to achieve most satisfaction from this. The studies focus variously on newly qualified officers, those in training, and those applying for training. This article reviews these studies and offers a critical analysis of their key findings.
Applying Webmining techniques to execution traces to support the program comprehension process

Well-designed object-oriented programs typically consist of a few key classes that work tightly together to provide the bulk of the functionality. As such, these key classes are excellent starting points for the program comprehension process. We propose a technique that uses Webmining principles on execution traces to discover these important and tightly interacting classes. Based on two medium-scale case studies - Apache Ant and Jakarta JMeter - and detailed architectural information from its developers, we show that our heuristic does in fact find a sizeable number of the classes deemed important by the developers.