Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KAJIAN AWAL: E-LEARNING READINESS INDEX (ELRI) SEBAGAI MODEL BAGI EVALUASI E-LEARNING PADA SEBUAH INSTITUSI

Desain dan implementasi e-learning umumnya melibatkan 3 komponen, yaitu:People (dosen dan mahasiswa), Process (interaksi proses pembelajaran serta sistemnya) dan Product (content pembelajaran, output), hingga saat ini belum ada sebuah model komprehensif sebagai alat untuk evaluasi implemnetasi elearning. Sejumlah model evaluasi yang ada masih bersifat parsial hanya untuk komponen tertentu saja. Untuk kepentingan itu diusulkan konsep eLRI (e-Learning Readiness Index) sebagai model bagi evaluasi e-learning di sebuah institusi. Model yang dibangun mengadopsi konsep NRI dari GITR yang setiap tahun selalu mengeluarkan analisa terkait dengan kekuatan dan kelemahan TIK disebuah negara. Data dan analisis eLRI akan dikembangkan dalam sebuah web based application. Adanya e-learning readiness index diharapkan akan menjadi masukan pada banyak aspek dari e-learning itu sendiri, diantaranya sejauh mana penerapan e- Learning telah sesuai dengan tujuan awalnya. Mahasiswa sebagai pelaku utama dari aktivitas e-learning, dosen sebagai penyedia materi yang juga menjadi pelaku utama e-learning serta institusi sebagai penyedia sarana dan pengelola sistem e-learning masing-masing harus dievaluasi secara khusus agar e-learning bisa sesuai dengan tujuannya. Selanjutnya berdasarkan hasil evaluasi dapat direncanakan sejumlah program yang mendukung pada upaya peningkatan kualitas e-learning di lingkungan institusi tersebut. Kata Kunci: e-learning, readiness index, evaluasi
Synthetic off-line signature image generation

This paper proposes a novel methodology to generate static/off-line signatures of new identities. The signature of the new synthetic identity is obtained particularizing the random variables of a statistical distribution of global signature properties. The results mimic real signature shapes and writing style properties, which are estimated from static signature databases. New instances, as well as forgeries, from the synthetic identities are obtained introducing a natural variability from the synthetic individual properties. As additional novelty, an ink deposition model based on a ballpoint is developed for realistic static signature image generation. The range of the static signature generator has been established matching the performance obtained with the synthetic databases and those obtained with two public databases.
An Empirical Study of Multi-Point Constructive Search for Constraint-Based Scheduling

Multi-point constructive search (MPCS) performs a series of resource-limited backtracking searches where each search begins either from an empty solution (as in randomized restart) or from a solution that has been encountered during the search. We perform a systematic study of MPCS to evaluate the performance impact of various parameter settings. Results using job shop scheduling instances with two different optimization criteria, demonstrate that MPCS-based search is significantly better than standard chronological backtracking and randomized restart while raising a number of questions as to the underlying reasons for the observed performance.
Births in Great Britain resulting from assisted conception, 1978-87. MRC Working Party on Children Conceived by In Vitro Fertilisation.

OBJECTIVE--To describe the characteristics at birth of children conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or by gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) and to assess whether they differ from those of children conceived naturally. DESIGN--Survey of children resulting from IVF or GIFT and comparison of their characteristics at birth with national statistics. SETTING--England, Scotland, and Wales from 1978 to 1987. SUBJECTS--1267 Pregnancies conceived by IVF or GIFT, which resulted in 1581 liveborn or stillborn children. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES--Sex ratio, multiplicity, gestational age at birth, birth weight, stillbirth rate, perinatal and infant mortality, and prevalence of congenital malformations. RESULTS--The ratio of male to female births was 1.07:1; 23% (249/1092) of the deliveries were multiple births compared with 1% for natural conceptions; 24% (278) of 1015 deliveries were preterm compared with 6% in England and Wales; 32% (406) of 1269 babies weighed less than 2500 g compared with 7% in England and Wales. The high percentage of preterm deliveries and of low birthweight babies was largely, but not entirely, due to the high frequency of multiple births. The rate of stillbirth, perinatal mortality, and infant mortality were twice the national average, these excesses being due to the high frequency of multiple births. One or more major congenital malformations were detected during the first week of life in 35 (2.2%) of 1581 babies. This figure is comparable with population based estimates of the prevalence of congenital malformations. The types of malformations reported varied, and the number of each specific type was small. The health of the children was not evaluated beyond the perinatal period. CONCLUSIONS--Multiple pregnancies often result from assisted conception and are the main determinant of the outcome of the pregnancies and of the health of the children at the time of birth. Congenital malformations are comparatively rare, so larger numbers of children need to be studied before firm conclusions can be drawn. The pooling of data from different countries is recommended.
Chapter 38 , Design Automation for Microelectronics , Springer Handbook of Automation

Design automation or computer-aided design (CAD) for microelectronic circuits has emerged since the creation of the integrated circuits (IC). It has played a crucial role to enable the rapid development of hardware and software systems in the past several decades. CAD techniques are the key driving forces behind the reduction of circuit design time and the optimization of the circuit quality. Meanwhile, the exponential growth of circuit capacity driven by the Moore’s law prompts new and critical challenges for CAD techniques. In this chapter we will introduce the fundamentals of design automation as an engineering field. We begin with several important processor technologies and several existing IC technologies. We then present a typical CAD flow covering all the major steps in the design cycle. We also cover some important topics such as verification and TCAD. Finally, we introduce some new trends in the design automation field.
EMI Measurements from ESD between Charged Insulators

We present an experimental study of the emission from electrostatic discharges between dielectrics, focusing on the role of extended conductors close to the discharge region. In the absence of an antenna capacitively coupled to the arc, the electromagnetic emission is negligible, while with rod antennas of different lengths electromagnetic transients can be clearly measured. Analyzing the spectrum of such transients and setting the data with a simple lumped parameter model, we obtain an estimate of the capacitance in series with the rod antenna during the discharge. Furthermore, we have developed a technique to uniformly charge the dielectric plane used in our experiments, to make a quantitative study of the charge transfer possible
Adjusting to Social Change: A Multi-level Analysis in Three Cultures

Abstract : The last three decades have witnessed considerable interest in the psychology of migration between nations, with a number of factors (e.g., personality, age of migrant, national policy of the adopted country) seen as contributing to the migration experience. However large-scale internal population movement also presents a major challenge too many societies, although this has been less studied. In this report we document an analysis of two studies in which data was collected from three cultures across three continents with very different histories and present presses on internal migration. This diversity of countries allowed us to examine the impact of different motivations for migration, the relative 'fit' of these migrants within the local communities, and the influence of both regional and national policies towards migration. By incorporating recent developments in the appraisal of change and the theory of social axioms our work provides new understandings of the manner in which societal sub-group and culture interact in the appraisal of internal migration, and the implications of this appraisal for specific behavioral and attitudinal responses. In the first part of our report we present the results of the analysis of quantitative survey data collected from a total of 799 respondents from across three countries: China, Georgia and the U.S. We provide new models linking individual and group level characteristics of the migrants with perceived evaluations of the success of their move and consequent outcomes. In the second part of the report we turn to the ways in which reactions of particular official representatives help frame this migration experience. Combining our questionnaire data with in-depth qualitative interviews provides us with unique opportunities to match migrant appraisals with community responses to migration in these three cultural settings, allowing for a more integrated analysis of the impact of internal migration across groups.
Prevention of diabetes in Bangladeshis in East London: experiences and views of young people

Abstract Background and Objectives Type 2 diabetes is common amongst Bangladeshis, and prevention strategies are needed. Little is known about the views of younger people concerning diabetes prevention and the risk factors. We aimed to explore the experience and views on the prevention of diabetes amongst young Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets. Methods Semistructured interviews involving 40 young Bangladeshis. Results Participants were aware of diabetes being a major health issue and its link with poor diet. Many had a relative with diabetes, and some had negative experiences, such as suffering poor control, complications, or hypoglycemia. Knowledge of diabetes was predominantly gleaned from school. Many felt that older generations were at higher risk due to lack of exercise and reliance on traditional diets. Participants recognized that the Westernized diets also increased the risk of diabetes. Views on prevention of diabetes were strong, including increasing diabetes awareness in schools, rewards for healthier lifestyles, reducing costs of exercise, reducing advertising of poorly nutritious foods, and tackling the proliferation of fast food outlets. Conclusions Young Bangladeshi people showed good knowledge of diabetes and its causes and have cogent ideas on its prevention. The views of young people should be considered when developing diabetes prevention strategies at the local and national level.
Modeling Evolution of Ideas in the Web of Science

When reading on a new topic researchers need to get a quick overview about a research area. Especially when reading a publication in an unfamiliar area, the reader is interested in how this publication is embedded in the web of science. The goal is to give the reader an overview of the evolution of ideas leading to the examined publication. We want to analyze this evolution by inferring and visualizing the strength of topical similarity between linked publications in the neighborhood of the initially examined work.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion strains with complex DNA content profiles.

To identify Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes required for the proper timing of cell cycle transitions, we previously reported a systematic examination of the DNA content of homozygous diploid deletion strains. However, deletion strains with complex DNA content profiles were not examined in that study. Here, we report S. cerevisiae genes that when deleted give rise to DNA content profiles consistent with roles of the corresponding gene products during DNA replication. We also identified a set of genes whose deletion leads to increased DNA content, consistent with defects in mitosis, cytokinesis, or cell separation. Finally, we examined known interactions between the gene products of each group, placing these gene products in functional networks. Taken together, the data we present further validate the roles of the corresponding gene products in these processes, facilitating efforts to delineate gene function critical for genome replication, maintenance, and segregation.
An MMT based heterogeneous multimedia system using QUIC

MPEG has developed a new multimedia transport protocol namely MMT for heterogeneous network transport. Considering the characteristics of both broadcast network and internet, MMT has many advantages compared to traditional transport protocols like MPEG2-TS, RTP and so on. Although MMT has defined a detailed transport protocol for broadcast delivery, the broadband transport protocol of MMT has not been implemented specifically. Nowadays, HTTP is the first choice in most MMT systems. In this paper, we develop a new MMT system using QUIC which is developed by Google as a transport protocol atop UDP as the broadband protocol. This system combines the advantages of MMT and QUIC, thus can achieve better performance than existing MMT systems. We also conduct experiments to compare the performance of the two systems. The experiment results verify that using QUIC in MMT can improve the broadband media transport in MMT system.
Dichotomy method in testing-based fault localization

In practice, testing-based fault localization (TBFL), which uses test information to locate faults, has become a research focus in recent years. Dichotomy method is presented to perform on TBFL. First we optimize the test information itself from three aspects: searching scope localization using slice technique, redundant test case removal, and test suite reduction with nearest series. Secondly, the diagnosis matrix is set up according to the optimized test information and each code in failed slice is prioritized accordingly. Thirdly, the dichotomy method is iteratively applied to an interactive process for seeking the bug: the searching scope is cut in two by the checking point cp, which is of highest priority in searching scope; If cp is wrong, the bug is found; else we will ignore the codes before/after it according to the result of cp. Finally, we conduct three studies with Siemens suite of 132 program mutants. Our method scores 0.85 on average, which means we only need to check less than 15% of the program before finding out the bug.
Glucose kinetics in gluconeogenesis-inhibited rats during rest and exercise.

To evaluate the role played by gluconeogenesis in blood glucose homeostasis, female Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with mercaptopicolinic acid (MPA), a gluconeogenic inhibitor. Glucose kinetics were assessed by primed, continuous infusion of [U-14C]- and [6(-3)H]glucose via an indwelling jugular catheter at rest and during submaximal exercise at 13.4 m/min on level grade. Blood samples were taken from carotid catheters and analyzed for glucose and lactate concentrations and specific activities. Tissue glycogen samples were obtained from rats after exercise as well as from unexercised animals. When compared with the sham-injected animals, MPA-treated animals had 22% lower (5.92 +/- 0.36 vs. 7.62 +/- 0.21 mM) and 44% higher (1.90 +/- 0.11 vs. 1.32 +/- 0.09 mM) resting arterial glucose and lactate concentrations, respectively. Resting glucose appearance (Ra) rates were 20% lower in the MPA-treated animals (57.2 +/- 7.5 mumol.kg-1.min-1) than in the sham-injected animals (71.1 +/- 12.1 mumol.kg-1.min-1). During exercise, Ra increased to 174.7 +/- 32.8 mumol.kg-1.min-1 in sham-injected animals. In the MPA-treated animals, there was a 35% increase during the first 15 min of exercise, followed by a decrease to the resting values. MPA-treated animals had no measurable glucose recycling at rest or during exercise. Exercise decreased blood glucose concentration (35%) and increased blood lactate concentration (160%) in the MPA-treated animals. Exercising sham-injected animals had increased blood glucose (9.8%) but no change in blood lactate concentration. Moderate depletions in liver and skeletal muscle glycogen contents were observed after exercise. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Development of the Patient Harvey Bradshaw Index and a Comparison With a Clinician-based Harvey Bradshaw Index Assessment of Crohn’s Disease Activity

Goals and Background: The objective is to develop a patient-based Harvey Bradshaw Index (P-HBI) of Crohn’s Disease (CD) activity and to compare it with the clinician-based HBI of CD activity in CD outpatients. Study: Consecutive patients with CD randomly completed the P-HBI either before or after the consultation. The gastroenterologist assessed patient’s CD activity on the same day. Overall agreement between HBI and P-HBI was calculated with Spearman’s &rgr; and Mann-Whitney U test. Agreement regarding active disease versus remission and agreement at item level was calculated by percent agreement and Cohen’s &kgr;. Results: One hundred eighty-one (response rate 88.3%) CD patients participated. P-HBI and HBI showed a large correlation (rs=0.82). The medians (interquartile range) of the total HBI (2; 0 to 4) and P-HBI (4; 1 to 7) were statistically significantly different (z=−8.411; P<0.001). Fortunately, in 82.6% of the cases this difference between clinicians and patients was not clinically significant (<3.2). The percentage agreement between clinician and patient, judging CD as active or as in remission, was 77%, rs=0.56, &kgr;=0.52, indicating a moderate agreement. P-HBI and HBI on frequent extraintestinal manifestations in CD varied from less than chance (&kgr;=−0.02) to a perfect agreement (&kgr;=1). Patients tended to report more symptoms while completing the patient-based questionnaire compared to what they reported to the clinician during consultation. Conclusions: The P-HBI is the first step in developing a potential promising tool given its adequate agreement with the original HBI and its feasibility, especially in patients with low scores. Future research is necessary to develop a validated patient-based version studied in several patient populations.
Eleven diverse nuclear-encoded phylogenetic markers for the subfamily Panicoideae (Poaceae).

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polyploidy is common in the grasses and low-copy nuclear loci are needed to further our understanding of phylogenetic relationships. METHODS AND RESULTS Genetic and genomic resources were combined to identify loci known to influence plant and inflorescence architecture. Degenerate primers were designed and tested to amplify regions of 11 nuclear-encoded loci across the panicoid grasses. CONCLUSIONS The primers designed in this study amplify regions of a diverse set of genes within the panicoid grasses. Properly employed, these markers will allow the identification of allopolyploid taxa and their diploid progenitors.
Apparent role of Tribolium orthodenticle in anteroposterior blastoderm patterning largely reflects novel functions in dorsoventral axis formation and cell survival

In the short-germ beetle Tribolium castaneum, the head gap gene orthodenticle (Tc-otd) has been proposed to functionally substitute for bicoid, the anterior morphogen unique to higher dipterans. In this study we reanalyzed the function of Tc-otd. We obtained a similar range of cuticle phenotypes as in previously described RNAi experiments; however, we noticed unexpected effects on blastodermal cell fates. First, we found that Tc-otd is essential for dorsoventral patterning. RNAi depletion results in lateralized embryos, a fate map change that by itself can explain the observed loss of the anterior head, which is a ventral anlage in Tribolium. We find that this effect is due to diminished expression of short gastrulation (sog), a gene essential for establishment of the Decapentaplegic (Dpp) gradient in this species. Second, we found that gnathal segment primordia in Tc-otd RNAi embryos are shifted anteriorly but otherwise appear patterned normally. This anteroposterior (AP) fate map shift might largely be due to diminished zen-1 expression and is not responsible for the severe segmentation defects observed in some Tc-otd RNAi embryos. As neither Tc-sog nor Tc-zen-1 probably requires Otd gradient-mediated positional information, we posit that the blastoderm function of Tc-Otd depends on its initial homogeneous maternal expression and that this maternal factor does not provide significant positional information for Tribolium blastoderm embryos.
Efficient Multidimensional Blocking for Link Discovery without losing Recall

Over the last three years, an increasing number of data providers have started to publish structured data according to the Linked Data principles on the Web. The resulting Web of Data currently consists of over 28 billion RDF triples. As the Web of Data grows, there is an increasing need for link discovery tools which scale to very large datasets. In record linkage, many partitioning methods have been proposed which substantially reduce the number of required entity comparisons. Unfortunately, most of these methods either lead to a decrease in recall or only work on metric spaces. We propose a novel blocking method called MultiBlock which uses a multidimensional index in which similar objects are located near each other. In each dimension the entities are indexed by a dierent property increasing the efciency of the index signicantly. In addition, it guarantees that no false dismissals can occur. Our approach works on complex link specications which aggregate several dierent similarity measures. MultiBlock has been implemented as part of the Silk Link Discovery Framework. The evaluation shows a speedup factor of several 100 for large datasets compared to the full evaluation without losing recall.
MobiBone: An energy-efficient and adaptive network protocol to support short rendezvous between static and mobile wireless sensor nodes

To ensure long network life-time, the duty-cycle of wireless sensor networks is often set to be low. This brings with itself the risk of either missing a sent packet or delaying the message delivery and dissemination depending on the duration of the duty-cycle and number of hops. This risk is increased in wireless sensor applications with hybrid architecture, in which a static ground wireless sensor network interacts with a network of mobile sensor nodes. Dynamicity and mobility of mobile nodes may lead to only a short rendezvous between them and the backbone network to exchange data. Additionally, such dynamicity generates complex and often random data traffic patterns. To support successful data delivery in case of short rendezvous between static and mobile wireless sensor nodes, we propose MobiBone, an energy-efficient and adaptive network protocol that utilizes data packet traffic to characterize the sleep schedule. Our simulation results show that compared with network protocols with fixed duty-cycles, MobiBone offers a good trade-off between energy consumption, latency, and detection rate of mobile nodes (which indicates awakens of the backbone network at crucial times of mobile node presence).