Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Technical note - Linear Inflation Rules for the Random Yield Problem: Analysis and Computations

In this paper, we propose a simple heuristic approach for the inventory control problem with stochastic demand and multiplicative random yield. Our heuristic tries to find the best candidate within a class of policies that are referred to in the literature as the linear inflation rule (LIR) policies. Our approach is computationally fast, easy to implement, and intuitive to understand. Moreover, we find that in a significant number of instances our heuristic performs better than several other well-known heuristics that are available in the literature.
City of God

Well over a millennium and a half ago, Augustine distinguished between two cities: the Heavenly City and the Earthly City. While one was the site of all that was holy and spiritual, the place of faith, the other was foul and wicked, the realm of the flesh. Such dichotomies, expanded into a full‐fledged binary logic, persist in the way that we think about cities today. But as Bülent Diken shows in these reflections on João Fernando Meirelles' film—entitled, appropriately enough—City of God, cities today are bound up with the very things they try to exclude: ghettos, slums, and shanty‐towns. Binary urban logics in fact produce more grey than they do black and white. The notorious favela outside of Rio that is the subject of Meirelles' film is simultaneously included and excluded from all that Rio represents. It is at once a dumping ground for the city's byproducts—the (human) waste generated by its own development—and its products. It is a zone beyond the civilized city, which, as the city's inverted, carnivalesque, image, makes the very idea of civilization possible. It is, in other words, the lawless state of exception that proves the law. In this careful and original analysis of Meirelles' stunning film, Diken employs the work of Žižek and Agamben, among others, to illustrate the ways in which the favela—the state of urban exception, the space supposedly outside the law and outside civilization, where life is reduced to mere existence—is not outside the city, but within its very center. ‘All contemporary urban space,’ Diken explains, ‘is organized according to the logic of the favela’.
Parallel Algorithmic Techniques: PRAM algorithms and PRAM simulations

Acknowledgments First, I would like to thank my advisor Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide. He was a great advisor, collaborator, who greatly innuenced my research in Paderborn. I would like to thank Wojciech Rytter, my rst advisor during my stay in Warsaw, who took care through rst years of my research. He built basis for my research and advised me to work on parallel algorithms. I would like to thank Volker Stemann. We spent a lot of time on joint discussions and (fascinating) joint research. Special thanks to Leszek G asieniec. He always innuenced me by his fresh ideas and I beneeted greatly from many hours of joint discussions. Endre Szemer edi was always ready to discuss and to explain me the beauty of mathematics and theoretical computer science. His innuence is much beyond this what one can nd in the thesis. It was Krzysztof Diks who rst suggested to think about algorithms and computer science. He was always ready to discuss with me. Special thanks to Alan Gibbons for valuable discussions and his hospitality during my stay in Warwick. It was two and half year ago when Mirek Kutyy lowski suggested me to apply for studies in Paderborn. Since then we spent a lot of time discussing about research, Germany, and many other not less important aspects of life. I would like to thank my colleagues with whom I did the research: Bog-Most of all, I would like to thank my wife and daughter. Without their constant support, help and persistence I would never be able to nish the thesis.
Gender Classification with Bayesian Kernel Methods

We consider the gender classification task of discriminating between images of faces of men and women from face images. In appearance-based approaches, the initial images are preprocessed (e.g. normalized) and input into classifiers. Recently, SVMs which are popular kernel classifiers have been applied to gender classification and have shown excellent performance. We propose to use one of Bayesian kernel methods which is Gaussian process classifiers (GPCs) for gender classification. The main advantage of Bayesian kernel methods such as GPCs over SVMs is that they determine the hyperparameters of the kernel based on Bayesian model selection criterion. Our results show that GPCs outperformed SVMs with cross validation.
Improved Max-Min Scheduling Algorithm

In this research paper, additional constrains have been considered to progress a holistic analysis based algorithm based on Max-Min algorithm, which work on principle of sorting jobs(cloudlets) based on completion time of cloudlets. The improved algorithms here also reviews the job characteristics in method of size, pattern, payload ratio and available storage blocks in particular cluster of contribution of file systems. The observations show no significant overload due to addition of these constrains, as sorting operation remains
Generalization bounds for learning the kernel

In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic generalization bound for learning the kernel problem. First, we show that the generalization analysis of the kernel learning algorithms reduces to investigation of the suprema of the Rademacher chaos process of order two over candidate kernels, which we refer to as Rademacher chaos complexity. Next, we show how to estimate the empirical Rademacher chaos complexity by well-established metric entropy integrals and pseudo-dimension of the set of candidate kernels. Our new methodology mainly depends on the principal theory of U-processes. Finally, we establish satisfactory excess generalization bounds and misclassification error rates for learning Gaussian kernels and general radial basis kernels.
Improvement of Power Quality by mitigating harmonics in single phase AC distribution

Power Quality in the Distributed network is poor due to heavy use of semiconductor devices like fluorescent lamps, computers, mobile chargers and automatic devices particularly in home and small offices. Harmonics are developed due to these devices which have adverse impacts on power system. Life of the appliance is also decreased due to presence of harmonics in power. Active power filter for single phase distribution network developed for mitigating the harmonics generated. This also improve power factor of the system. The developed active filter consists of a MOSFET inverter. Current is injected at point of common coupling through inductor. This made source current sinusoidal and in phase with source voltage. The validity of the proposed model is confirmed by simulation in mat lab results. In developed model THD dropped from 80% to 20%. The developed active filter can offer reduction in power loss and improve power quality. Hardware is buildup for the same with load up to 1 KW and tested with personnel computers and results verified on power analyzer.
The determination of relief amplitude's best window and its application in soil and water conservation

According to the real need, we used GIS technology through the window analysis method and find the most suitable window. In the window under extraction relief amplitude, and the analysis of the Chinese and the distribution of relief amplitude and its regional soil and water conservation in the application. Research shows that: The majority of the relief in China has a low altitude without much fluctuation, with western areas higher than the east, and northern areas lower than the south. Best window of relief amplitude in Dongbei is 5×5; Best window of relief amplitude in Hengduanshan is 9×9; Best window of relief amplitude in Jiangxi is 7×7; Best window of relief amplitude in Sichuan is 5×5; Best window of relief amplitude in Shandong is 7×7; Best window of relief amplitude in Shanxi is 11×11, The best window of relief amplitude with universality throughout the nation is 5×5, Relief amplitude is a more appropriate regional soil and water loss evaluation index of the terrain.
In Vivo Visualization of White Matter Fiber Tracts of Preterm- and Term-Infant Brains With Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Objective:The goal of this study was to test the feasibility of visualizing a 3-dimensional structure of cerebral white matter fiber tracts in preterm infants, postconceptional age (PCA) 28 weeks to term, by using volumetric diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) data. Materials and Method:We combined tractography algorithms and visualization methods, currently available for adult DTI data, to trace the pixelated principal direction of a diffusion tensor originating from regions-of-interest with high fractional anisotropy. Consequently, white matter fiber bundles from the genu and the splenium of corpus callosum, the corticospinal tracts, the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi, and optic radiations were visualized. Results:Our results suggest that major white matter tracts of preterm infant brains, with PCAs ranging from 28 weeks to term (40 weeks old), can be successfully visualized despite the small brain volume and low anisotropy. Conclusion:The feasibility of fiber tractography in preterm neonates with DTI may add a new dimension in detection and characterization of white matter injuries of preterm infants.
Cohort Profile: the INMA--INfancia y Medio Ambiente--(Environment and Childhood) Project.

Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM), 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologı́a y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 08003 Barcelona, Spain, Division of Environment and Health, Centre for Public Health Research-CSISP, 46020 Valencia, Spain, School of Nursing, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain, Departamento de Sanidad Gobierno Vasco, Laboratorio Normativo de Salud Pública, 48010 Bilbao, Spain, Laboratory of Medical Investigations, San Cecilio University Hospital, University of Granada, 18012 Granada, Spain, Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDÆA-CSIC, 08034 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Departamento de Sanidad Gobierno Vasco, Subdirección de Salud Pública de Guipúzcoa, 20013 San Sebastián, Spain, Departmento de Salud Pública, Universidad Miguel Hernández, 03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain, University of Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain, IB-Salut Menorca Health Area, 07701 Mao, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Fundació Caubet-CIMERA, 07110 Bunyola, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain and Pompeu Fabra University, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Design and Development of Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Implementation in Urban Roads

In the present day world, a lot of research has been going on in the field of unmanned vehicles, which includes unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) and unmanned water vehicles (UWVs). The UGV technology grows rapidly. Generally UGV is developed for military purpose. Now a days, many universities and research institute are researching in new UGV technology for commercial use such as transportation service. The UGV system generally consists of four parts such as vehicle control system, navigation system, and obstacle detecting system and traffic signal monitoring and detection system. In this project, we have designed and implemented a prototype of UGV using PIC 16F57 microcontroller on board the Board of Education (BOE) development board designed by Parallax Inc, USA. This UGV prototype was used to simulate acts performed by a real car on urban environment which include navigation, obstacle avoidance, collision avoidance at intersection of two roads, traffic signal detection and feed backing the current coordinates of the vehicle to the control room for tracking of the vehicle. For implementing the navigation part of the robot, a novel algorithm was adapted which we named as r-θ (r-theta) algorithm which is explained latter in this paper.
Scientific Personnel in Antarctica: Their Recruitment, Selection and Performance

This monograph is concerned with the men who conducted the scientific programs in Antarctica during the winters of 1957 and 1958, as part of the U.S. program for the International Geophysical Year ( IGY). It is divided into three sections; one, a brief review of the literature on the selection of personnel for polar duty, two, an account of the IGY selection program, and three, an evaluation of this program against subsequent performance of IGY personnel in the Antarctic.
Cloud computing platform for GIS image processing in U-city

Ubiquitous city (U-city) is a city with ubiquitous information technology that enables citizens to access the converged information anywhere and anytime. A lot of compute power are required in U-city, because large amount of data should be processed in real-time. Cloud computing enables users to use the abstracted and virtualized computing resources and to process huge amount of information without having their own computing power. This paper presents a GIS image processing platform that uses cloud computing. It finds and selects optimal computing resources for applications and run virtual machines to execute the applications. In this paper, we explain the parallel air pollution map generation as a use case for the suggested platform and show how efficiently it processes the massive data.
Effects of the grammatical representation of number on cognition in bilinguals

Research investigating the relationship between language and cognition (Lucy, 1992b) shows that speakers of languages with grammatical number marking (e.g. English) judge differences in the number of countable objects as more significant than differences in the number or amount of non-countable substances. On the other hand, speakers of languages which lack grammatical number marking (e.g. Yucatec) show no such preference. The current paper extends Lucy's (1992b) investigation, comparing monolingual English and Japanese speakers with Japanese speakers of English as a second language (L2). Like Yucatec, Japanese is a non-plural-marking language. Results show that intermediate L2 speakers behave similarly to the Japanese monolinguals while advanced L2 speakers behave similarly to the English monolinguals. The results (a) provide support for the claim that grammatical representation may influence cognition in specific ways and (b) suggest that L2 acquisition may alter cognitive dispositions established by a first language (L1).
The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction

End-to-end evaluations of conversational dialogue systems with naive users are currently uncovering severe usability problems that result in low task completion rates. Preliminary analyses suggest that these problems are related to the system’s dialogue management and turn-taking behavior. We present the results of experiments designed to take a detailed look at the effects of that behavior. Based on the resulting ﬁndings, we spell out a set of criteria which lie orthogonal to dialogue quality, but neverthe-less constitute an integral part of a more comprehensive view on dialogue felicity as a function of dialogue quality and efﬁciency.
School Participation and Social Networks of Children with Complex Communication Needs, Physical Disabilities, and Typically Developing Peers

The aim of the study was to describe and compare the school participation and social networks of children with physical disabilities and complex communication needs (Group CCN), children with physical disabilities only (Group PD), and children with typical development (Group TD). The 39 participants, 10–15 years of age, were observed for 4 hours at school. School staff and the parent and/or child provided information on children’s social networks. A striking observation was that, while participants in Group TD continuously conversed and socialized with peers inside and outside classrooms; those in Group CCN rarely used aided AAC, were provided with limited communication opportunities at school, and had fewer acquaintances and friends. Findings warrant intervention at the participation level at school and in the community.
High Performance Mixed Signal Circuits Enabled by the Direct Monolithic Heterogeneous Integration of InP HBT and Si CMOS on a Silicon Substrate

We present recent results on the direct heterogeneous integration of InP HBTs and Si CMOS on a silicon template wafer or SOLES (Silicon On Lattice Engineered Substrate). InP HBTs whose performance are comparable to HBTs on the native InP substrates have been repeatedly achieved. 100% heterogeneous interconnect yield has been achieved on daisy chain test structures with CMOS-InP HBT spacing (interconnect length) as small as 2.5um. In DARPA COSMOS Phase 1 we designed and fabricated a differential amplifier that met the program Go/NoGo metrics with first pass design success. As the COSMOS Phase 2 demonstration vehicle we designed and fabricated a low power dissipation, high resolution, 500MHz bandwidth digital-to-analog converter (DAC).
Issues and Party Preferences in Hungary

The article compares proximity and Rabinowitz/Macdonald directional models of issue voting according to their ability to predict preferences for the six Hungarian parliamentary parties. It was assumed that in a relatively new democracy directional models should perform better, since voters would have more difficulty recognizing the exact positions of parties on different issue dimensions. Furthermore, it was assumed that political sophistication would influence the observed relationships. The analysis is based on a Hungarian national random sample, and an additional survey of members of the Hungarian parliament. The data include voters’ and representatives’ expressed preferences concerning eight specific policy issues, as well as their positions on the left-right dimension. Although voters’ issue preferences appear as relatively weak predictors of vote choice, the directional model generally outperformed the proximity model, the difference being greater in the less politically sophisticated group. In addition, the vote is better explained by positions on the left-right scale than on specific issues.
Dynamic modeling and input shaping of thermal bimorph MEMS actuators

Thermal bimorphs are a popular actuation technology in MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems). Their operating principle is based on differential thermal expansion induced by Joule heating. Thermal bimorphs, and other thermal flexure actuators have been used in many applications, from micro-grippers, to micro-optical mirrors. In most cases open-loop control is used to difficulties in fabricating positioning sensors together with actuator. In this paper we present several methods for extracting reduced-order thermal flexure actuator models based on experimental data, physical principles, and FEA simulation. We then use the models to generate optimal driving signals using input shaping techniques. Both simulation and experimental results are included to illustrate the efficacy of our approach. This framework can also be applied to other types of MEMS actuators, including electrostatic comb drives.
Mental Paint and Mental Latex

The greatest chasm in the philosophy of mind -maybe even all of philosophydivides two perspectives on consciousness. The two perspectives differ on whether there is anything in the phenomenal character of conscious experience that goes beyond the intentional, the cognitive and the functional. A convenient terminological handle on the dispute is whether there are "qualia". Those who think that the phenomenal character of conscious experience goes beyond the intentional, the cognitive and the functional are said to believe in qualitative properties of conscious experience, or qualia for short. The debates about qualia have recently focused on the notion of representation, with issues about functionalism always in the background. All can agree that there are representational contents of thoughts, for example the representational content that virtue is its own reward. And friends of qualia can agree that experiences at least sometimes have representational content too, e.g. that something red and round occludes something blue and square. The recent focus of disagreement is on whether the phenomenal character of experience
Efficient optimization of microwave structures through design specifications adaptation

Direct simulation-based design optimization of microwave structures involving numerous electromagnetic (EM) evaluations is typically impractical because of its high computational cost. Co-simulation [1] is only a partial solution because the circuit models with embedded EM components are still directly optimized. Efficient simulation-driven design can be realized using surrogate-based optimization (SBO) principle [2], where the optimization burden is shifted to a surrogate model, computationally cheap representation of the structure being optimized (fine model). The successful SBO approaches used in microwave area are space mapping (SM) [3], [4] and various forms of tuning [5], [6]. Both approaches can be efficient, unfortunately, their implementation is not straightforward. In particular, substantial modification of the optimized structure may be required (tuning), or additional mapping and more or less complicated interaction between auxiliary models is necessary (SM). Also, SM performance heavily depends on the selection of the surrogate model.
Teacher Participation in Curriculum and Pedagogical Decisions: Insights into Curriculum Leadership:

In recent years, teacher participation in school decision making has become an important topic for discussion in the field of early childhood education in Hong Kong. The purpose of this article is to discuss the theoretical significance, difficulties and issues of greater teacher participation in curriculum and pedagogical decision making in local preschools. It begins by setting out the key concepts relating to teacher participation in the process of school decision making. This is followed by a contextual analysis of the recent development of the field as the background for discussion. The third section re-examines Alutto and Belasco’s typology for participatory decision making in order to outline the analytical framework of this article. Based on that framework, the fourth section examines the decision-making process of actual and desired teacher participation in the local context and discusses the factors that foster the movement towards the ideal condition of participation in decision making. It is a.
Simplification of Service Functions Based on Growth in Scale of Networks

As a network evolves from initial deployment, service functions on the network remain diversified through the openness of the network functions. This indicates that appropriate selection and discarding of diversified service functions are inevitable for self-organization of an evolving network to achieve the required scalability. While the screening of service functions is performed by users and the market, several service functions on an evolving network can be simplified based on the growth in the scale of the network itself. This paper verifies the simplification of service functions derived from the evolution of the network itself. First, the principles that serve as the basis for simplifying the service functions are explained using several practical examples. Next, a simulation model is proposed to verify the simplification of service functions in terms of the priority control function for the path routing and load balancing function between multi-paths. From the results of a simulation, this study clarifies that the simplification of service functions is actually realizable and the required service performance can be reduced as the network evolves from its deployment. When the simplification of service functions can improve network quality, it accelerates the evolution of the network and increase in the operator's revenue.