Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Non-invasive measurement of core body temperature in Marathon runners

Long-term accurate measurements of core body temperature are essential to study human thermoregulation in ambulatory settings and during exercise, but they are traditionally carried out using highly-invasive techniques. To enable a continuous unobtrusive monitoring of core body temperature on ambulatory patients and exercising athletes, we have designed a wireless wearable system that measures the tympanic temperature inside the ear, as well as skin and environmental temperature, and that allows remote monitoring of the collected measurements. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the system and show that it can be used to identify the circadian rhythms of core body temperature, as well as to detect the variation in core body temperature due to prolonged physical exertion. We further describe the lessons learnt during a pilot deployment of our telemetric system on several athletes during the 5th Lübeck Marathon, and discuss the impact of environmental parameters such as temperature and wind on the accuracy and meaningfulness of the measured values.
Bhattacharyya distance feature selection

A recursive algorithm called Bhattacharyya distance feature selection for selecting a real-optimum feature under normal multidistribution is presented. The key of this method is to change the problem of minimizing the criterion of the sum of the upper bound of error probability of every two class pairs in subspace to a problem of solving a nonlinear matrix equation in a multiclass problem under an orthonormal coordinate system. The recursive algorithm is considered as finding the optimal solution of a transformation matrix from the nonlinear matrix equation. The theoretical analysis and experimental results show that under normal multidistribution the performance of the proposed algorithm is superior to the performance of any previous one.
Combining Supertagging and Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar Parsing ∗

In this paper we study various reasons and mechanisms for combining Supertagging with Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) parsing. Because of the highly lexicalized nature of the LTAG formalism, we experimentally show that notions other than sentence length play a factor in observed parse times. In particular, syntactic lexical ambiguity and sentence complexity (both are terms we deﬁne in this paper) are the dominant factors that affect parsing efﬁciency. We show how a Supertagger can be used to drastically reduce the syntactic lexical ambiguity for a given input and can be used in combination with an LTAG parser to radically improve parsing efﬁciency. We then turn our attention to from parsing efﬁciency to parsing accuracy and provide a method by which we can effectively combine the output of a Supertagger and a statistical LTAG parser using a co-training al-gorithm for bootstrapping new labeled data. This combination method can be used to incorporate new labeled data from raw text to improve parsing accuracy.
Multi-view face recognition by nonlinear tensor decomposition

We discuss a new multi-view face recognition method that extends a recently proposed nonlinear tensor decomposition technique. We use this technique to provide a generative face model that can deal with both the linearity and nonlinearity in multi-view face images. Particularly, we study the effectiveness of three kinds of view manifold for multi-view face representation, i.e., the concept-driven, data-driven and hybrid data-concept-driven view manifolds. An EM-like algorithm is developed to estimate the identity and view factors iteratively. The new face generative model can successfully recognize face images captured under unseen views, and the experimental results provide the new method is superior to the traditional TensorFace-based algorithm and the view-based PCA method.
Exploiting narrow-width values for thermal-aware register file designs

Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we perform a detailed study on the thermal behavior of a low-power value-aware register file (VARF) that is subjected to internal fine-grain hotspots. To further optimize its thermal behavior, we propose and evaluate three thermal-aware control schemes, thermal sensor (TS), access counter (AC), and register-id (ID) based, to balance the access activity and thus the temperature across different partitions in the VARF. The simulation results using SPEC CINT2000 benchmarks show that the register-id controlled VARF (ID-VARF) scheme achieves optimized thermal behavior at minimum cost as compared to the other schemes. We further evaluate the performance impact of the thermal-aware VARF design with the dynamic thermal management (DTM). The experimental results show that the ID-VARF can improve the performance by 26.1% and 7.2% over the conventional register file and the original VARF design, respectively.
Nonconserved Ca2+/Calmodulin Binding Sites in Munc13s Differentially Control Synaptic Short-Term Plasticity

ABSTRACT Munc13s are presynaptic proteins that mediate synaptic vesicle priming and thereby control the size of the readily releasable pool of vesicles. During high synaptic activity, Munc13-1 and its closely related homolog, ubMunc13-2, bind Ca2+/calmodulin, resulting in enhanced priming activity and in changes of short-term synaptic plasticity characteristics. Here, we studied whether bMunc13-2 and Munc13-3, two remote isoforms of Munc13-1 with a neuronal subtype-specific expression pattern, mediate synaptic vesicle priming and regulate short-term synaptic plasticity in a Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent manner. We identified a single functional Ca2+/calmodulin binding site in these isoforms and provide structural evidence that all Munc13s employ a common mode of interaction with calmodulin despite the lack of sequence homology between their Ca2+/calmodulin binding sites. Electrophysiological analysis showed that, during high-frequency activity, Ca2+/calmodulin binding positively regulates the priming activity of bMunc13-2 and Munc13-3, resulting in an increase in the size of the readily releasable pool of vesicles and subsequently in strong short-term synaptic enhancement of neurotransmission. We conclude that Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent regulation of priming activity is structurally and functionally conserved in all Munc13 proteins, and that the composition of Munc13 isoforms in a neuron differentially controls its short-term synaptic plasticity characteristics.
Speaker specific phrase break modeling with conditional random fields for text-to-speech

In this paper we present a new cascading condi­tional random field based phrase break model for text-to-speech systems, trained on the speaker specific acoustic data that the text-to-speech voices are trained on. The training phase does not require any manually labeled phrase break tags, as these are derived directly from the speaker specific recordings used for building the synthetic voices. We present objective evaluations on various corpora, and show that the proposed model compares well with state-of-the-art data-driven phrase break models, with the added benefit of being in a unified framework.
51-Preajttentive texture discrimination with early vision

We preEent a model of human preattentive texture perception. This model consists of three stages: (1) convolution of the image with a bank of even-symmetric linear filters followed by half-wave rectification to give a set of responses modeling outputs of VI simple cells, (2) inhibition, localized in space, within and among the neuralresponse profiles that results in the suppression of weak responses when there are strong responses at the same or nearby Jocations, and (3) texture-boundary detection by using wide odd-symmetric mechanisms. Our model can predict the salience of texture boundaries in any arbitrary gray-scale image. A computer implementation of this model has been tested on many of the classic stimuli from psychophysical literature. Quantitative predictions of the degIee of discriminability of different texture pairs match well with experimental measurements of discriminability in human observers. leiI J.
Evaluation of pollination syndromes in Antillean Gesneriaceae: evidence for bat, hummingbird and generalized flowers

1 Current views about the predominance of generalization of pollination systems have stimulated controversy concerning the validity of pollination syndromes. In order to assess the extent to which floral characters reflect selection by the most important pollinators we evaluated pollination syndromes in a florally diverse plant group, the tribe Gesnerieae, a monophyletic plant radiation from the Antillean islands. 2 The study species include representatives of three groups of floral phenotypes, two of which chiefly correspond to ornithophilous and chiropterophilous syndromes. The third group includes subcampanulate flowers (characterized by a corolla constriction above the nectar chamber) with combinations of traits not fitting classic pollination syndromes. 3 Pollination systems were characterized for 19 Gesnerieae species in five Antillean islands between 2003 and 2007 and supplemented with observations of four Gesneriaceae species from Costa Rica. Pollinator visitation and frequency of contact with anthers or stigmas were used to calculate an index of pollinator importance. Eleven floral traits including morphology, phenology and rewards were used to assess clustering patterns in phenotype space. 4 Multidimensional scaling analysis of floral traits resulted in two clusters comprising: (i) tubular, red to yellow‐flowered species with diurnal anthesis, (ii) bell‐shaped‐flowered species; two groups of floral phenotypes were evident within the latter cluster, campanulate nocturnal and subcampanulate flowers. Correlations between pollinator importance values and floral axes revealed strong associations with the expected pollinators, hummingbirds for tubular flowers, and bats for campanulate flowers; subcampanulate‐flowered species had generalized pollination systems including bats, hummingbirds and insects. Discriminant analysis of the multivariate set of floral traits correctly classified 19 out of 23 species into the predicted pollination categories. 5 Synthesis. This study provides support for classic hummingbird and bat pollination syndromes, demonstrating the importance of pollinator‐mediated selection in the floral diversification of Antillean Gesnerieae. However, there was evidence for generalized pollination systems in species characterized by a unique morphological trait (corolla constriction), but with variable combinations of other floral traits. These findings suggests that floral phenotypes might also evolve under selection by various functional groups of pollinators, and underscores the importance of considering the presence and effectiveness of all floral visitors in pollination studies.
A Survey of Active Video Game Literature From Theory to Technological Application

—Childhood obesity is a major phenomenon that has been dramatically spread in different countries. This prevalence draws the attention of researchers to find the reasons that help increase this problem. One of the main contributing factors for increasing the children and adolescent weight is the sedentary nature of their life. With the advent of technology these days, many children and adolescents are engaged in different seated activities and drawing them away from physical activities. Hence, finding a way to attract and motivate children and adolescents to exercise needs to look at the activities they most prefer. Playing video games is one of the favorite activities for children. However, this activity is defined as a seated activity that helps increase the sedentary behavior. Literature revealed that time spent in playing video games is linked to children’s obesity and the decreasing levels of physical activity. From this finding, the idea of converting this passive activity to active one has been developed. The new form of games called active video games (AVG) promises innovation for active life style. The new generation of video games which require players’ physical interaction provides the opportunity for children to play their favorite leisure activity and exercising in the same time. Before one can effectively conduct research into this realm to provide innovative and useful AVG’s a very diverse number of disciplines and fields need to be surveyed. This paper represents a comprehensive literature review conducted over a number of areas that include video games, engagement, active video games, and available technologies for AVG development.
Presubmission Checklist for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

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Association between Cognition and Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 in Middle-Aged & Older Men: An 8 Year Follow-Up Study

Low levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), an essential neurotrophic factor, have been associated with worse cognitive function in older adults. However, few studies have assessed the prospective association of serum IGF-1 with cognitive function. We aimed to determine the association between serum IGF-1 on concurrent and prospective cognitive function in a population sample of men aged 40–80 years. Blood samples were assessed for IGF-1 levels at baseline and neuropsychological assessments were performed at baseline (n = 400) and at follow-up after a mean duration of 8.3 years (n = 286). Linear regression analyses were carried out to determine the associations between quintiles of IGF-1 and cognitive function at the baseline and follow-up visits. Results showed that those in the top quintile of IGF-1 had lower processing capacity and global cognition scores at follow-up after controlling for cognitive function at baseline and other confounding factors. Additional analyses exploring associations with IGF-1 separately in middle-aged and older participants, and with quartiles of IGF-1 produced similar results. In those older than 60 years, high IGF-1 levels were also associated with lower baseline processing capacity. These results suggest that high IGF-1 levels are associated with worse long-term cognition in men. Together with past studies, we suggest that both, high and low levels of IGF-1 may be associated with poor cognitive function and that optimum levels of IGF-1 (quintile 2 and 3 in current study) may be associated with better cognitive function.
The Relationship between Movie-watching Activity and Listening Skill

i ABSTRAK. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. iii CONTENTS. v LIST OF TABLES. vii LIST OF FIGURES. viii LIST OF APPENDICES. ix CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION A. The Background of the Study. B. The Identification of the Problems. C. The Limitation of the Problems. D. The Formulation of the Problems. E. The Objective of the Study. F. The Significance of the Study. 1 6 6 6 6 6 CHAPTER II : THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK A. Listening Skill. 1. The Nature of Listening. 2. The Views on Listening. 3. The Kinds of Listening. 4. The Teaching of Listening. 5. The Teaching of Listening at the Department of English Education. 6. The Difficulties in Listening. 7. The Definition of Listening Skill. B. Second Language Acquisition Theories and Hypotheses. 1. The Acquisition-Learning Distinction. 2. The Natural Order Hypothesis. 3. The Monitor Hypothesis. 4. The Input Hypothesis. 5. The Affective Filter Hypothesis. 8 8 10 12 13 17 18 20 21 21 22 22 23 24
On privacy preservation in text and document-based active learning for named entity recognition

The preservation of the privacy of persons mentioned in text requires the ability to automatically recognize and identify names. Named entity recognition is a mature field and most current approaches are based on supervised machine learning techniques. Such learning requires the presence of labeled examples on which to train; training examples are usually provided to the learner on the form of annotated corpora. Creating and annotating corpora is a tedious, meticulous and error prone process; obtaining good training examples is a hard task in itself. This paper describes the development and in-depth empirical investigation of a method, called BootMark, for bootstrapping the marking up of named entities in textual documents. Experimental results show that BootMark requires a human annotator to manually annotate fewer documents in order to produce a named entity recognizer with a given performance, than would be needed if the documents forming the basis for the recognizer were randomly drawn from the same corpus. The investigation further indicates that the primary gain obtained by BootMark compared to passive learning is in terms of higher recall. Thus, it is argued, the recognizers are suitable for use in privacy preservation applications.
Identity recognition based on palm vein feature using two-dimensional linear discriminant analysis

Research on biometrics continues to grow. Various studies conducted to increase the performance of personal identification based on physical and behavioral characteristics. Palm vein recognition became an interesting field lately. Palm vein feature covered underneath the skin so that it hard to forge and more resist to external factors than fingerprint and face features. In this research, recognition process consists of preprocessing, feature extraction and matching. Feature extraction has been done using Two-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis. This method could reduce dimension by maximizing between-class scatter and minimizing within-class scatter. Two-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis obtained a good performance for CASIA palm vein dataset. The configuration of parameters needs to be determined in order to increase the system performance. The best performance obtained 8% in term of EER and Recognition Rate 94,67% with threshold 0,4933.
Enhancements and applications of the SimpleScalar simulator for undergraduate and graduate computer architecture education

This paper describes enhancements and applications of the SimpleScalar simulator for undergraduate and graduate courses on computer architecture. The enhancements include additional instruction profiling statistics, visualization of data hazards, visualization of memory access behavior, and multiprocessor capabilities with visualization of cache coherence. The applications include prediction of pipelined execution time with stalls for hazards and cache misses, instilling deeper insight into cache locality, parallel programming, and a greater appreciation of cache coherence interactions for multiprocessor programs.
Introducing Power in Organizational Learning : The Notion of Dispersed Learning Communities

The concept of Organizational Learning has gained much currency in recent years and has attracted researchers of different disciplines (Easterby-Smith, 1997). It is quite common in the existing literature that learning at the organization level has been described using models of information processing (Hedberg, 1981; Huber, 1991). Organizations are said to search and acquire information in ways similar to what individuals do. Therefore, our understanding about organizational learning is largely built upon the analogy of individual learning (Romme and Dillen, 1997). While individual learning is closely linked with organizational learning, they are quite different from each other (Argyris and Schon, 1978, 1996; Fiol and Lyles, 1985; Kim, 1993; Dixon, 1994). This has not only led to the problem of anthropomorphism but also unnecessarily restricted studying of organizational learning in a fairly narrow way.
Extended Acceleration in Slot Gaps and Pulsar High-Energy Emission

We revise the physics of primary electron acceleration in the "slot gap" (SG) above the pulsar polar caps (PCs), a regime originally proposed by Arons & Scharlemann in their electrodynamic model of pulsar PCs. We employ the standard definition of the SG as a pair-free space between the last open field lines and the boundary of the pair plasma column that is expected to develop above the bulk of the PC. The rationale for our revision is that the proper treatment of primary acceleration within the pulsar SGs should take into account the effect of the narrow geometry of the gap on the electrodynamics within the gap and also include the effect of inertial frame dragging on the particle acceleration. We show that the accelerating electric field within the gap, being significantly boosted by the effect of frame dragging, becomes reduced because of the gap geometry by a factor proportional to the square of the SG width. The combination of the effects of frame dragging and geometrical screening in the gap region naturally gives rise to a regime of extended acceleration, which is not limited to "favorably curved" field lines as in earlier models, and the possibility of multiple-pair production by curvature photons at very high altitudes, up to several stellar radii. We present our estimates of the characteristic SG thickness across the PC, energetics of primaries accelerated within the gap, high-energy bolometric luminosities emitted from the high altitudes in the gaps, and maximum heating luminosities produced by positrons returning from the elevated pair fronts. The estimated theoretical high-energy luminosities are in good agreement with the corresponding empirical relationships for γ-ray pulsars. We illustrate the results of our modeling of the pair cascades and γ-ray emission from the high altitudes in the SG for the Crab pulsar. The combination of the frame-dragging field and high-altitude SG emission enables both acceleration at the smaller inclination angles and a larger emission beam, both necessary to produce widely spaced double-peaked profiles.