Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Operating System Auditing and Monitoring – Thesis Proposal

Auditing and monitoring is an important system facility to aid in monitoring correct system operation and as a means of detecting security problems. We present a monitoring architecture which allows one to examine the behavior of programs and the operating system to quickly identify the root causes of program error or performance bottlenecks. The system should be reliable, extensible and efficient. That is: (i) the system can be safely used by not only the super user but also any normal user; (ii) programmers can write different auditing programs for different tasks; (iii) auditing should not bring too much performance overhead. We have designed and implemented a prototype which allows one to write monitors to receive all the interesting events based on an event specification and a process specification. The monitor itself is simply an arbitrary process which receives events and deals with them. Although the prototype is currently neither complete nor optimized, we can already compare our system with some related existing systems. Preliminary experimental results show that the current implementation is 8 to 200 times faster than other monitoring systems. ∗Under the supervision of A.P. Roland H.C. Yap
Quantum games with correlated noise

We analyse quantum games with correlated noise through a generalized quantization scheme. Four different combinations on the basis of entanglement of initial quantum state and the measurement basis are analysed. It is shown that the quantum player only enjoys an advantage over the classical player when both the initial quantum state and the measurement basis are in entangled form. Furthermore, it is shown that for maximum correlation the effects of decoherence diminish and it behaves as a noiseless game.
Short Outburst Radiator Classification Based on LS-SVM

A short outburst radiator classification algorithm based on LS-SVM (Least-Square Support Vector Machine) is presented in this paper. The theory of feature extracting and LS-SVM are introduced. And then¿the classifier used in short outburst radiator is designed with cross-validation and grid-search to obtain training parameters. A multi-classifier with three coding schemes is also designed. Compared with C-SVM, the simulations show that the performance of LS-SVM is better than C-SVM, and the accurate recognition rate is above 90%, which demonstrates that the classifier is feasible and effective.
TRANSLATION AND CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF UCLA LONELINESS SCALE – (VERSION 3) FOR THE ELDERLY IN BRAZIL

Objective: to carry out the translation and cultural adaptation of a loneliness scale in a sample of elderly in Brazil. Method: This is a methodological study of translation and cultural adaptation of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (version 3) to the Portuguese of Brazil. The process of translation and cultural adaptation of the scale involved the following steps: initial translation, synthesis of translations, back translation, expert committee and pre-test. The data relating to pre-test were analyzed using SPSS, version 21.0. The analysis of reliability of the scale was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha. The significance level adopted in this study was 5%. Results: the methodological framework used in this study has allowed to preserve the characteristics of the original instrument while also made it possible to obtain an instrument adapted to the Brazilian culture and, nevertheless, showing to be semantically, idiomatically, culturally and conceptually equivalent to the original version. Conclusion: the adapted version of UCLA Loneliness Scale (version 3) proved to be reliable, easy to use and to understand by the elderly
Title of Document: Is Test Anxiety a Form of Specific Social Phobia? Is Test Anxiety a Form of Specific Social Phobia?

Title of Document: IS TEST ANXIETY A FORM OF SPECIFIC SOCIAL PHOBIA? Tyish S. Hall, Master of Arts, 2005 Directed By: Samuel M. Turner, Ph.D., Department of Psychology Test anxiety is characterized by a fear of negative evaluation, specifically in academic domains. This evaluative fear is often driven by social concerns that are consistent with those that are found in individuals with social phobia. The current study was designed to determine if test anxiety is a type of specific social phobia. 57 subjects completed a battery of self-report measures, underwent a semi-structured interview, and participated in a behavioral assessment task. Results showed that test anxious individuals were similar to socially phobic individuals in personality characteristics, in subjective ratings of anxiety as well as in the prevalence of feared situations. However, despite these similarities test anxious individuals did not show significant functional impairment during the behavioral assessment task as evaluated through level of performance, number of negative cognitions, and psychophysiological reactivity. Based on these results, test anxiety cannot be considered a type of specific social phobia. IS TEST ANXIETY A FORM OF SPECIFIC SOCIAL PHOBIA?
Quantitative Analysis of Pork and Chicken Products by Droplet Digital PCR

In this project, a highly precise quantitative method based on the digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) technique was developed to determine the weight of pork and chicken in meat products. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is currently used for quantitative molecular analysis of the presence of species-specific DNAs in meat products. However, it is limited in amplification efficiency and relies on standard curves based Ct values, detecting and quantifying low copy number target DNA, as in some complex mixture meat products. By using the dPCR method, we find the relationships between the raw meat weight and DNA weight and between the DNA weight and DNA copy number were both close to linear. This enabled us to establish formulae to calculate the raw meat weight based on the DNA copy number. The accuracy and applicability of this method were tested and verified using samples of pork and chicken powder mixed in known proportions. Quantitative analysis indicated that dPCR is highly precise in quantifying pork and chicken in meat products and therefore has the potential to be used in routine analysis by government regulators and quality control departments of commercial food and feed enterprises.
Kinetics of Reactions in Solution Kinetics of Reactions in Solution

Most of the complications of kinetics and rate processes in liquid solutions arise from the much higher density of the liquid phase. In a typical gas at atmospheric pressure, the molecules occupy only about 0.2 per cent of the volume; the other 99.8 percent is empty space. In a liquid, molecules may take up more than half the volume, and the "empty" spaces are irregular and ever-changing as the solvent molecules undergo thermal motions of their own. In a typical liquid solution, the solvent molecules massively outnumber the reactant solute molecules, which tend to find themselves momentarily (~10 –11 sec) confined to a "hole" within the liquid. This trapping is especially important if the solvent is strongly hydrogen-bonded, as is the case with water or alcohol. When thermal motions occasionally release a solute molecule from this trap, it jumps to a new location. The jumps are very fast (10 –12-10 –13 sec) and short (usually a few solvent-molecule diameters), and follow an entirely random pattern, much like Brownian motion. UC Davis ChemWiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Analysis of the behavior of coaches in basketball after shot.

Resumen: La presente investigación analiza las conductas de los entrenadores de baloncesto después del lanzamiento a canasta (tanto de los jugadores de su equipo como del equipo contrario) en situaciones de competición en categorías de formación. Intervinieron en el presente estudio tres entrenadores, todos poseen la titulación española oficial necesaria para entrenar en las diferentes categorías. Se han analizado 9 partidos oficiales de la Liga Gallega (3 por cada uno de los 3 entrenadores participantes) y se registraron 1196 conductas tras lanzamiento. El instrumento utilizado para la recogida de datos procede de una adaptación del Coach Behavioral Assessment System (Smith, Smoll y Hunt, 1977; Cruz, 1989) y del Sistema de Observación de las Conductas del Entrenador (Montero, 2004). Tras los resultados obtenidos, se puede afirmar que las conductas de inhibición (“ignorar el error” y “no reforzar”) son las más frecuentes y que el resultado en el marcador está asociado a cambios en el comportamiento de los entrenadores. Palabras clave: datos de comportamiento, muestra, variables situacionales. Abstract: The study presented below is an analysis of the behavior of basketball coaches after the shot (players of both teams) during the competition in youth categories. In this study, three coaches participed, everybody have the official Spanish qualifications needed to train in different categories. It was analyzed 9 official games of the Galician league (3 each of the 3 coaches participants) and 1196 behaviors were registered after shot. The instrument used for the data collection was an adaptation of the Coach Behavioral Assessment System (Smith, Smoll & Hunt, 1977) and of the Sistema de Observación de las Conductas del Entrenador (Montero, 2004). After the results obtained, we can say that the inhibition behaviors (ignore mistake and not reinforcement) are the most frequently and that the score is associated with changes in the behaviors of coaches.
Successful Sexual Aging: A Feminist Gerontological Examination of Sexual Behavior and Health

As gerontology has shifted from emphasizing the problems of aging to exploring how older adults can thrive, researchers have increased their attention on new issues including sexuality and aging. A sometimes explicit, but often implicit assumption in this research, is that sex is good for you—that it is an integral part of a full and healthy life or successful aging. Although successful aging is one of the most commonly cited theories in social gerontology (Alley et al. 2010), it has not gone without criticism (Martinson and Berridge 2014). Using an unrefined successful aging framework for sex research has the potential to promote aging and sexuality in narrow ways and privilege certain groups over others. This research examines the relationship between sexual activity and health from a feminist gerontological perspective. In particular, I explore differences in what counts as sex and how gender and social location influence the relationship between health and sexual activity. Using a nationally representative sample of community dwelling older adults (3005) from the first wave of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, I find that older adults engage in a wide variety of sexual activity which differs by social location (e.g. gender, race, and class). Furthermore, gender differences in sexual behavior are not merely due to a lack of access to healthy partners for women. Much of the gender gap in sexual behavior can be explained by disparities in sexual interest and desire. In addition, using more inclusive definitions of sex, partnered sexual behavior is associated with health even after accounting for demographics and relationship factors. In conclusion, existing models of aging and sexuality, relying on successful aging or a correlation between continued sexual activity and health, may limit our understanding of the experiences of women and sexual minorities. A feminist gerontological approach provides a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between health and continued sexual activity. INDEX WORDS: Sexuality, Aging, Feminist Gerontology, Successful Aging, NSHAP SUCCESSFUL SEXUAL AGING: A FEMINIST GERONTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH
Generalising multiple capture-recapture to non-uniform sample sizes

Algorithms in distributed information retrieval often rely on accurate knowledge of the size of a collection. The "multiple capture-recapture" method of Shokouhi et al. is one of the more reliable algorithms for determining collection size, but it relies on samples with a uniform number of documents. Such uniform samples are often hard to obtain in a working system. A simple generalisation of multiple capture-recapture does not rely on uniform sample sizes. Simulations show it is as accurate as the original method even when sample sizes vary considerably, making it a useful technique in real tools.
Keyword Matching in Historical Machine-Printed Documents Using Synthetic Data, Word Portions and Dynamic Time Warping

In this paper we propose a novel and efficient technique for finding keywords typed by the user in digitised machine-printed historical documents using the dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm. The method uses word portions located at the beginning and end of each segmented word of the processed documents and try to estimate the position of the first and last characters in order to reduce the list of candidate words. Since DTW can become computational intensive in large datasets the proposed method manages to significantly prune the list of candidate words thus, speeding up the entire process. Word length is also used as a means of further reducing the data to be processed. Results are improved in terms of time and efficiency compared to those produced if no pruning is done to the list of candidate words.
A new scheme for packet coding in wireless sensor networks

We propose a new method for encoding information in wireless sensor networks. In addition to forwarding packets, routing nodes mix (i.e. code) packets from different sources to increase the information content for each transmission to neighbor nodes. We investigate the improvement in network throughput/lifetime via simulation programs. We implement the new method on different wireless sensor network topologies and show that coding and multicasting packets increase the network throughput and lifetime based on a prior knowledge of the local network topology. We report the method and its implementation. Simulation results for different topologies are included.
Assessing Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Community-Dwelling Older Patients Using the Updated Version of STOPP-START Criteria: A Comparison of Profiles and Prevalences with Respect to the Original Version

Emerging and changing evidence made it necessary to update STOPP-START criteria, and version 2 was published recently. In this study the objectives were to determine the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication prescribing (PIM) in primary care using STOPP versions 1 (v1) and 2 (v2), as well as 2012 AGS Beers criteria, and analyze the factors associated with inappropriate prescribing according to STOPP/START v2. A cross-sectional study was carried out including community-dwelling older adults over the age of 65. Sociodemographic, clinical, functional and comprehensive drug therapy data were collected. The primary endpoint was the percentage of patients receiving at least one PIM. This variable was measured using three tools: STOPP v1, 2012 AGS Beers criteria and STOPP v2. Similarly, the percentage of patients receiving at least one potential prescribing omission (PPO) was calculated using START versions 1 and 2. A total of 1,615 prescriptions were reviewed. The median number of medications per patient was 7.1 drugs (±3.8). The prevalence of elderly people exposed to polypharmacy (≥5 medications) was 72.9%, whereas 28.4% of the participants took ≥10 drugs regularly. PIM were present in 18.7%, 37.3% and 40.4% of participants, according to the STOPP v1, 2012 Beers criteria and STOPP v2, respectively. According to STOPP v2, the number of medications taken (OR: 1.14, 1.06–1.25), the presence of a psychological disorder (OR: 2.22, 1.13–4.37) and insomnia (OR: 3.35, 1.80–6.32) were risk factors for taking a PIM. The prevalence of PPOs was 34.7% and 21.8% according to version 1 and 2, respectively. In conclusion, STOPP-START criteria have been remarkably modified, which is evidenced by the different prevalence rates detected using version 2, as compared to version 1. In fact, the level of agreement between version 1 and the updated version is only moderate. Special attention should be paid on benzodiazepines, which keep being the most frequent PIM.
Epicardial conduction properties and electrocardiographic characteristics of premature ventricular complexes or ventricular tachycardias that originate at the aortic cusp

Background and Objectives: Premature ventricular contraction (PVC) or ventricular tachycardia (VT) that originates from the aortic cusp (AC) has a similar left bundle branch block (LBBB) pattern with a inferior axis as those LBBB patterns originating from the right ventricular outflow tract, but the electrocardiogram (ECG) characteristics are distinct. We sought to characterize the ECG morphology of PVCs or VTs from the AC and to assess whether these foci exit out to the surrounding epicardium by preferential conduction, resulting in an ECG with epicardial foci. Subjects and Methods: The study subjects were ten patients (M:F=6:4, 40.9±11.6 years old) with VTs or PVCs that originated from the AC and they underwent radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA). We performed simultaneous activation mapping at the AC, the anterior interventricular vein (AIV) and the anterior mitral annulus (AMA). The conduction velocities (CV) between the successful ablation site to the epicardium in the AIV, and the endocardial earliest activation (EA) site at the AMA were calculated by triangular algebra at right anterior oblique (RAO) 35° and left anterior oblique (LAO) 35°, respectively. Results: Successful ablation sites were above the left coronary cusp (LCC) in 7 patients, above and beneath the right coronary cusp (RCC) in 1 patient each, respectively, and beneath the LCC in 1 patient. The QRS width was 149.2±19.9 ms, the maximal depolarization time (MDT) was 88.9±14.9 ms and the ratio of the MDT to the QRS was 59.5±5.7%. The PVC from the LCC had rS or S waves in lead I and R or RS waves in V1, whereas those from the RCC had R waves in lead I and an rS wave in V1. The CV between the successful ablation site at the AC to the epicardial EA site (1.7 ±0.8 m/s) was faster than that to the endocardial EA site (0.8±0.4 m/s, p<0.05). Conclusion: Most of the PVC/VTs from the AC originated from the above LCC and they displayed a faster CV to the epicardial side of the AIV than that to the endocardial side of the AMA. This suggests the existence of preferential conduction from the AC to the left ventricle (LV) epicardium. (Korean Circ J 2007;37:616-622)
McDonald Criteria 2010 and 2005 Compared: Persistence of High Oligoclonal Band Prevalence Despite Almost Doubled Diagnostic Sensitivity

The 2010 McDonald criteria were developed to allow a more rapid diagnosis of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) by only one MRI of the brain. Although cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is not a mandatory part of the latest criteria, the evidence of an intrathecal humoral immunoreaction in the form of oligoclonal bands (OCB) is crucial in the diagnostic workup. To date, the impact of the 2010 McDonald criteria on the prevalence of OCB has not been investigated. We retrospectively evaluated data of 325 patients with a clinical relapse suggestive of demyelination that were treated in a German university hospital between 2010 and 2015. One hundred thirty-six patients (42%) were diagnosed with MS and 189 patients with CIS when the criteria of 2010 were applied. The criteria of 2005 allowed only 70 patients (22%) to be designated as MS. In contrast, the prevalence of OCB was marginal affected in MS patients with 96% for the criteria of 2010 and 98.5% for the criteria of 2005. In conclusion, OCB are prevalent in most MS patients and reflect the chronic inflammatory nature of the disease. We recommend CSF examination to exclude alternative diagnoses and reevaluation of the diagnosis MS in patients with negative OCB.
A tactile synthesis method using multiple frequency vibrations for representing virtual touch

This paper presents a useful tactile display method that can control multiple tactile sensations such as roughness, pressure, and friction sensations using simple vibratory stimulations. Our concepts are based on two points: frequency range selection for making selective stimulation on different tactile receptors types and timing control of the stimulation in response to hand movements. The selective stimulations were realized by selecting reactive frequencies of vibratory stimulation based on temporal response characteristics of tactile receptors. For representing roughness sensation, vibrating frequencies were modulated in response to hand velocity considered as a temporal coding perception of FA I type receptor. Two reactive frequencies were also selected for representing pressure sensation and friction sensation corresponding to SA I and FA II type receptors respectively. A wearable tactile display using ICPF (ionic conducting polymer gel film) actuators verified our proposed methods. Finally, we conducted a total texture feeling display combined with our methods for roughness, pressure, and friction sensations in a parameterized manner. Comparison with real clothes showed that some combinations of multiple tactile sensations could express texture feels of the expected materials.
HARDWARE ABSTRACTION LAYER FOR NON-OPENFLOW CAPABLE DEVICES

This paper describes a viable and experimentally-tested way forward for augmenting legacy network elements with software-defined networking control. Following and implementation-driven approach we have explored the possibilities for adding SDN-based interfaces to devices which are not compatible with OpenFlow. OpenFlow is arguably a leading control-place protocol for the upcoming generation of operator networks. Yet not all domains will be equipped from the very beginning with compatible supporting frameworks. To address this gap, we introduce the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for non-OpenFlow capable devices which tackles this problem. We discuss the advantages of the proposed approach and explain how a HAL-based architecture can support different classes of network devices.
Investigation and Application of Extension Data Mining in Subdivisions of Telecommunication Enterprise Brands

The advanced management idea of "Take the customer as the center" manifests fully in the customer segmentation. Customer segmentation may meet customer need at whole hog enable the enterprise to achieve the maximal profit. Extension data mining is an advanced effective data analysis method. Its Application to enterprise brands segmentation will help the enterprises to gain their ends on the best way. Finally, how to tap new customers and how to recommend an appropriate brand to new customers, Research result indicates that extension data mining can provide effective decide support for the Decision-making of enterprise.