Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Automatic Generation of Sport Video Highlights Based on Fan's Emotions and Content

With the widespread use of social networks, sharing emotions has become easy and accessible to anyone with a smartphone or a computer. In this paper, we present a system capable of generating automatic highlight videos of sports match TV broadcasts based on the emotions shared by the spectators during the match, the audio, the analysis of the movement and manual annotations (when available). Our system also allows for the user to query the video to extract specific clips, such as dangerous attacking plays of a certain team. Our preliminary results were encouraging, showing that the creation of these summaries can be successfully done in very short time.
Compilation Part Notice ADPO 1 1881 TITLE : Two-Dimensional Model of the Intrinsic Point Defects Behaviour during Cz Silicon Crystals Growth

To order the complete compilation report, use: ADA399287 The component part is provided here to allow users access to individually authored sections f proceedings, annals, symposia, etc. However, the component should be considered within [he context of the overall compilation report and not as a stand-alone technical report. ABSTRACT Two-dimensional mathematical model of the intrinsic point defects recombination during Cz growth of dislocation-free silicon single crystals is developed. The results of its verification are compared with the data of the one-dimensional model supposing the "fast" vacancies and interstitials recombination near the liquid-solid interface. For various growth conditions and with using of the calculated two-dimensional temperature fields in Cz silicon crystals the resulting distributions of these intrinsic point defects in a crystal are analyzed.
Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981–2004

We report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world for the period 1981–2004. A clear trend decline in the percentage of people who are absolutely poor is evident, although with uneven progress across regions. We find more mixed success in reducing the total number of poor. Indeed, the developing world outside China has seen little or no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably sub-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in all regions after 2000, although it is too early to say whether this is a new trend. We also summarize results from estimating a new series incorporating an allowance for the higher cost of living facing poor people in urban areas. This reveals a marked urbanization of poverty in the developing world, which is stronger in some regions than others, although it remains that three-quarters of the poor live in rural areas.
Inhibition of antibody‐dependent stimulation of lipoteichoic acid‐treated human monocytes and macrophages by polyglycerolphosphate‐reactive peptides

By itself, lipoteichoic acid (LTA) obtained from S. pyogenes, S. aureus, or E. hirae poorly stimulated cytokine production by macrophages, whereas in the presence of anti‐polyglycerol phosphate (PGP), the cells secreted significant amounts of IL‐6. Two peptides constructed from the deduced sequence of the selected anti‐PGP phage‐antibody’s complementary‐determining region 3 of the variable heavy chain (VH‐CDR3) reacted specifically with PGP. The monomeric form of the peptides markedly inhibited cytokine production by macrophages pretreated with LTA and anti‐LTA. In contrast, the polyvalent form of biotinylated peptides complex with streptavidin‐induced cytokine production by the LTA‐treated macrophages. The data taken together support the concept that cross‐linking of macrophage‐bound LTA by anti‐PGP is required for cytokine release by these cells. Importantly, these studies identified small, PGP‐reactive peptides as potential tools in reducing this proinflammatory process.
TAKE Scientist's Workbench: Semantic Search and Citation-Based Visual Navigation in Scholar Papers

We report on recent advances in the project TAKE on the Scientist's Workbench, a platform demonstrating the use of natural language processing (NLP) to support scientists or other knowledge workers in fast and better access to digital document content. We focus on sentence-wise NLP analysis of electronically available scientific paper texts. With the generated NLP annotations, we are able to provide two important, novel applications, (1) robust semantic search in paper content and (2) document navigation based on citation classification. In contrast to previous work, we now provide semantic search on the full textual content of scientific papers instead of just abstracts and use a fall-back strategy to maximize NLP robustness on every sentence. We extend the workbench with a novel visualization and navigation facility that aims at helping scientists to quickly adapt to research fields and topics. It is based on NLP-assisted classification of citation sentences to compute a browsable, typed citation graph.
Dyadic Cross-Sectional Associations Between Depressive Mood, Relationship Satisfaction, and Common Dyadic Coping

ABSTRACT The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the mediational role of common dyadic coping in the links between depressive mood and relationship satisfaction. We estimated two competing Actor–Partner Mediator Models, in which the dyad is the highest unit of analysis. The first model specified dyadic coping as a mediator in the association between relationship satisfaction and depression, whereas the second model specified dyadic coping as a mediator between depression and relationship satisfaction. Analyzing data from 198 couples, our findings provided a plausible approximation of the second model, representing the interactional model of depression. They showed that common dyadic coping mediates the link between depression and relationship satisfaction for men only.
Recent progress in efficient hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells

Abstract The efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has been improved from 9.7 to 19.3%, with the highest value of 20.1% achieved in 2014. Such a high photovoltaic performance can be attributed to optically high absorption characteristics and balanced charge transport properties with long diffusion lengths of the hybrid lead halide perovskite materials. In this review, some fundamental details of hybrid lead iodide perovskite materials, various fabrication techniques and device structures are described, aiming for a better understanding of these materials and thus highly efficient PSC devices. In addition, some advantages and open issues are discussed here to outline the prospects and challenges of using perovskites in commercial photovoltaic devices.
Advice conditionals about tips and warnings: interpretations and inferences

ABSTRACT Two experiments examine how people interpret and reason about advice conditionals, such as tips, for example, “if you study more your grades will improve”, and warnings, for example, “if you stop exercising you will gain weight”. Experiment 1 showed that when participants reason about whether a tip or warning could be true in different situations, their judgments correspond to a biconditional or conditional interpretation on about half of all trials, but to an enabling or tautology interpretation on many others. Experiment 2 showed that participants make few modus ponens and tollens inferences from tips and warnings, and more modus ponens inferences from tips than warnings. The implications for alternative theories are discussed.
A Case for a Value-Aware Cache

Replication of values causes poor utilization of on-chip cache memory resources. This paper addresses the question: How much cache resources can be theoretically and practically saved if value replication is eliminated? We introduce the concept of value-aware caches and show that a sixteen times smaller value-aware cache can yield the same miss rate as a conventional cache. We then make a case for a value-aware cache design using Huffman-based compression. Since the value set is rather stable across the execution of an application, one can afford to reconstruct the coding tree in software. The decompression latency is kept short by our proposed novel pipelined Huffman decoder that uses canonical codewords. While the (loose) upper-bound compression factor is 5.2×, we show that, by eliminating cache-block alignment restrictions, it is possible to achieve a compression factor of 3.4× for practical designs.
Impaired peripheral nerve regeneration in a mutant strain of mice (Enr) with a Schwann cell defect

Schwann cell-axon interactions in the development, maintenance, and regeneration of the normal peripheral nervous system are complex. A previously described transgene-induced insertional mutation (BPFD#36), now referred to as Enervated (Enr), results in disrupted Schwann cell- axon interactions. In this report, after a crush or transection injury to Enr peripheral nerves, we demonstrate impaired nerve regeneration. There are fewer myelinated fibers per mm2 and thinner myelin sheaths surrounding regenerating axons in the nerves of homozygous mutant mice compared to wild type mice at 28 d after crush injury to the sciatic nerve. Abnormal Schwann cell-axon interactions remain in Enr/Enr animals as evidenced by the relatively frequent ultrastructural finding of unmyelinated large diameter axons in the regenerating nerves. Additionally, nerve graft experiments indicate that the impairment in regeneration is due to a Schwann cell defect. Morphologic and morphometric findings in conjunction with molecular analysis of regenerating nerves suggest that the Enr defect causes a disruption in the ability of “early ” Schwann cells to differentiate to a more mature phenotype. In mutant homozygous and wild type nerves at 7 d after crush injury there are similar levels of mRNA for the low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor, but in the mutant homozygous regenerating nerves there is 11-fold less mRNA for glial fibrillary acidic protein, a more mature phenotypic marker of Schwann cells. This Schwann cell differentiation defect likely accounts for both the peripheral neuropathy and impaired nerve regeneration observed in Enr mice.
CRC-Cards and Roleplay Diagrams--Informal Tools to Teach OO Thinking

CRC-cards (Class,Responsibility andCollaborator) are a lightweight approach to collaborative object-oriented modelling that has been developed as a tool for teaching object-oriented thinking to programmers [1]. They have been used widely in various teaching and training contexts [2, 6, 7, 10]. A CRC-card (see gure 1) corresponds to a class. A responsibility is something the objects of a class know or do as a service for other objects. A book object in a library application, for example, might, among other things, be responsible for checking itself out and knowing its title and due date (see Book in 1). The responsibilities of the objects of a class are written along the left side of the card. A collaborator is an object of another class helping to ful l a speci c responsibility. A book object, for example, can only know whether it is overdue, if it also knows the current date. In gure 1 this information is provided by a collaborator object of class Date. The class names of collaborators are written along the right side of the card. The back of the card can be used for a brief description of the class' purpose, comments and miscellaneous details.
Unsupervised Segmentation of Multispectral Images with Cellular Automata

Multispectral images acquired by satellites are used to study phenomena on the Earth's surface. Unsupervised classification techniques analyze multispectral image content without considering prior knowledge of the observed terrain; this is done using techniques which group pixels that have similar statistics of digital level distribution in the various image channels. In this paper, we propose a methodology for unsupervised classification based on a deterministic cellular automaton. The automaton is initialized in an unsupervised manner by setting seed cells, selected according to two criteria: to be representative of the spatial distribution of the dominant elements in the image, and to take into account the diversity of spectral signatures in the image. The automaton's evolution is based on an attack rule that is applied simultaneously to all its cells. Among the noteworthy advantages of deterministic cellular automata for multispectral processing of satellite imagery is the consideration of topological information in the image via seed positioning, and the ability to modify the scale of the study.
Research advances in microhandling and-assembly – “ Special ASSEMIC Session ”

Few technical fields are so multidisciplinary and present so challenging demands as microtechnologies. The Research and Training Network “Advanced Methods and Tools for Handling and Assembly in Microtechnology” (ASSEMIC) addresses this research field at a European scale. ASSEMIC brings together a consortium of 14 participants, focusing their efforts in microhandling and microassembly. This paper summarizes some of the latest results achieved in this project.
Comparison of ILP and Model Checking based WCET Analysis Research Report 72/2008

Abstract In this report, we present our new worst-case execu-tion time (WCET) analysis tool for Java processors,supporting both implicit path enumeration (IPET) andmodel checking based execution time estimation. Eventhough model checking is signiﬁcantly more expensivethan IPET, it offers new possibilities, such as modelingpipeline effects. Experimental results using UPPAAL in-dicate that model checking is fast enough for local analy-sis (single methods) and small applications, but sensitiveto the size of the input data. To obtain a tool which isable to cope with larger problems, we suggest to combineIPETandmodelchecking,analyzinglocalfragmentssep-arately. 1 Introduction Worst-case execution time (WCET) of tasks is needed asinput for schedulability analysis. Measuring the WCETis not a safe approach. Therefore, real-time tasks have tobe analyzed statically. We present a WCET analysis toolfor Java. The ﬁrst target processor that is supported bythe tool is the Java processor JOP [25]. A future versionwillalsosupportthemulti-threadedJavaprocessorjamuth[28]. The WCET analysis is performed on Java bytecodes,the intermediate representation of compiled Java pro-grams. A Java virtual machine (JVM) executes bytecodesby either interpreting the bytecodes, compiling them tonative code, or executing them in hardware. The latercase is the execution model of a Java processor. Usingbytecode as the instruction set without further transfor-mation, simpliﬁes WCET analysis as the execution timecan be modeled at the bytecode level.The primary method for estimating the WCET is basedon the standard IPET approach [21]. Besides comput-ing the WCET for single methods and using that time atthe call site we also include a simple form of interproce-dural analysis of the method caches. The tool addition-ally targets the
Objective Localisation Measures in Ambisonic Surround- sound

When designing sound spatialisation systems, localisation accuracy is of great importance, i.e. how well the reproduction of the sound source corresponds to the original recording particularly with respect to source positioning. Ambisonic surround-sound is one such spatialisation system. In this work the two major psychoacoustic mechanisms Interaural Time Difference (ITD) and Interaural Level Difference (ILD) have been chosen in order to investigate whether they may constitute objective measures for verification of a horizontal Ambisonic surround-sound system. The two mechanisms are effective in different frequency ranges, where ITD is most effective in the low frequency domain up to approximately 700 Hz and ILD works best above 700 Hz. Three recording sessions were carried out for seventy-two different source positions, i.e., a new position every 5° in the horizontal plane, in order to capture data that rendered the possibility to compare the interaural time and level differences in relation to source positioning. The first session A, constituted recordings of monophonic Impulse Response signals using a, for the Ambisonic system characteristic Soundfield microphone. In session B, the sound field generated from the same monophonic source, was binaurally recorded using a KEMAR (Knowles Electronics Mannequin for Acoustics Research). In the third session, C, the signals recorded under session A were decoded and reproduced over a square Ambisonic loudspeaker array with KEMAR positioned in the middle, for a binaural recording. In obtaining the ITDs for each angle of incidence, measurements on the binaural signals from first peak (left ear) to first peak (right ear) were carried out. Concerning ILD, peak level measures in the time domain on left and right ear respectively were carried out and then subtracted in order to obtain the difference. A second more detailed approach, spectral ILD, was also carried out. In comparing the interaural time and level differences for session C with session B, results reveal how well the captured sound-field for every angle of incidence in session C corresponded to the sound-fields captured in session B. For the ITD, good agreement was found between the field from the original point source and the field reproduced over the Ambisonics loudspeaker array. Hence it could be concluded that the psychoacoustic mechanism ITD may constitute a reliable objective measure for verification of horizontal Ambisonic systems in general. For the ILD it was found that ILD for a point source is adequately reconstructed on the far side of the head, but that the …
On the impact of irregular radio propagation on coverage control and sleep scheduling in wireless sensor networks

Research in the wireless sensor networks field has been plagued by difficulties in realistic simulations. These difficulties are often the result of non-realistic assumptions which need to be removed from the mathematical models. Especially, radio propagation models are often simplified and do not take into consideration irregularities such as fading, shadowing, and temporal non-stationarity. In this paper, we investigate the effect of radio temporal irregularities on sensor deployment and sleep scheduling. We show that existing scheduling algorithms suppose that the sensor coverage range does not vary according to time, which is not true because the available energy decreases. We analyze the impact of this shortcoming on the performance of sleep scheduling algorithms and propose an alternative scheme that guarantees a uniform density distribution despite of the presence of radio temporal irregularities.
Optimal Coordinated Control of Power Extraction in LES of a Wind Farm with Entrance Effects

We investigate the use of optimal coordinated control techniques in large eddy simulations of wind farm boundary layer interaction with the aim of increasing the total energy extraction in wind farms. The individual wind turbines are considered as flow actuators, and their energy extraction is dynamically regulated in time, so as to optimally influence the flow field. We extend earlier work on wind farm optimal control in the fully-developed regime (Goit and Meyers 2015, J. Fluid Mech. 768, 5–50) to a ‘finite’ wind farm case, in which entrance effects play an important role. For the optimal control, a receding horizon framework is employed in which turbine thrust coefficients are optimized in time and per turbine. Optimization is performed with a conjugate gradient method, where gradients of the cost functional are obtained using adjoint large eddy simulations. Overall, the energy extraction is increased 7% by the optimal control. This increase in energy extraction is related to faster wake recovery throughout the farm. For the first row of turbines, the optimal control increases turbulence levels and Reynolds stresses in the wake, leading to better wake mixing and an inflow velocity for the second row that is significantly higher than in the uncontrolled case. For downstream rows, the optimal control mainly enhances the sideways mean transport of momentum. This is different from earlier observations by Goit and Meyers (2015) in the fully-developed regime, where mainly vertical transport was enhanced.
Multi-epoch infrared photometric study of the star-forming region G173.58+2.45

We present a multi-epoch infrared photometric study of the intermediate-mass star-forming region G173.58+2.45. Photometric observations are obtained using the near-infrared JHKL'M' filters and narrow-band filters centred at the wavelengths of the H 2 (1-0)S(1)(2.122 μm) and [Fe II] (1.644 μm) lines. The H 2 image shows molecular emission from shocked gas, implying the presence of multiple star formation and associated outflow activity. We see evidence for several collimated outflows. The most extended jet is at least 0.25 pc in length and has a collimation factor of ∼10, which may be associated with a binary system within the central cluster, resolved for the first time here. This outflow is found to be episodic, probably occurring or being enhanced during the periastron passage of the binary. We also find that the variable star in the vicinity of the outflow source, which was known as a FU Ori-type star, is probably not a FU Ori object. It does, however, drive a spectacular outflow, and the variability is likely to be related to accretion, when large clouds of gas and dust spiral in towards the central source. Many other convincing accretion-outflow systems and YSO candidates are discovered in the field.
Design and Implementation of a Learning Outcomes Authoring Tool: Supporting the Educator to be Learning Designer

Educators usually face difficulties while authoring the learning outcomes of a lesson. The well-designed learning outcomes are a key-factor in creating an efficient educational process, and, on the other hand, the dearth of such services is one of the main/common reasons for the failure of, most otherwise, well-established courses. The available LMSs, though, do not sufficiently support the learning outcomes creation. In this paper, the Learning Outcomes Authoring Tool (LOAT), a web based tool that comes to overcome this common addressed issue is presented, along with its architecture. The novelty of LOAT is that it applies emergent web technologies, initially designed for advanced web environments, to support (non-specialist) educators in creating effective learning courses. More over LOAT comes along with a number of pedagogical theories, organized as Taxonomies of Learning Domains. LOAT is designed so that it can be used as a standalone application or as a service into worldwide popular LMSs, such as Moodle, LAMS etc.
Development of omnidirectional self-balancing robot

The omnidirectional self-balancing robot or otherwise known as ballbot belongs to a special class of balancing robots. With only one contact point with the ground, ballbot is able to achieve a higher degree of agility with a lower footprint than most mobile robots. While practical applications of balancing platforms such as Segway PT have gained much traction over the last decade, directional limitations in movements are still prevalent in wheeled robots. To achieve omnidirectional motion, a ball is used as a replacement to wheels. Similar to the concept of inverted pendulum, self-balancing is achieved using a closed-loop control system. In this paper, we propose the implementation of a minimalist and low cost ball-balancing robot that utilizes off-the-shelf components that are widely available in the market with the aim to create an affordable platform to study and design control strategies for ballbots.
k-coherence of measures with non-classical weights

The concept of k-coherence of two positive measures μ1 and μ2 is useful in the study of the Sobolev orthogonal polynomials. If μ1 or μ2 are compactly supported onRthen any 0-coherentpair or symmetrically 1-coherent pair (μ1, μ2) must contain a Jacobi measure (up to affine transformation). Here examples of k-coherent pairs (k ≥ 1) when neither μ1 nor μ2 are Jacobi are constructed.