Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Scaling number of cores in GPGPU: A comparative performance analysis

The Single Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) architecture based, Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are emerging as more efficient than Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) architectures in exploiting parallelism. A GPU has numerous shader cores and thousands of simultaneous fine-grained active threads. These threads are grouped into Cooperative Thread Arrays (CTAs). All the threads within a CTA are further grouped as warps. Though warps within a CTA are scheduled for execution on the same core, only one warp is executed at a time due to hardware constraint. The subsequent way in which a GPU exploits parallelism is by employing multiple shader cores to execute multiple warps simultaneously. We explore latter way of exploiting parallelism by increasing number of cores and its impact on different types of applications. We first categorize a number of general purpose GPU workloads into the ones that consumes less (L) DRAM bandwidth and the ones whose bandwidth requirement is heavier (H). We observed that the workloads that get boost in its performance are under type-L when number of cores increase. Whereas type-H workloads experience performance degradation. The maximum performance gain in terms of instructions per cycle (IPC), is 2.03x for type -L workloads. We then observed the impact of scaling on percentage of good cycles for all workloads. Our results show that additional pressure on bandwidth caused by scaling number of shader cores is detrimental for type-H workloads and a boost to type-L workloads at the cost of reduction in percentage of good cycles in both types.
A simple score for assessing stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is usually assessed using FEV(1) to establish the diagnosis and the severity of the disease. However, COPD is now considered a systemic disease. AIM To evaluate the utility of the Health-Activity-Dyspnoea-Obstruction (HADO) score for classifying the severity of COPD and predicting outcomes. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal clinical study. METHODS We studied 611 consecutive patients with stable COPD in five out-patient clinics of a teaching hospital. We measured dyspnoea degree, pulmonary function (by spirometry), self-reported level of daily physical activity and overall health condition. Outcome measures included health-related quality of life (HRQoL) parameters (as measured by the generic SF-36 Health Survey and by two specific questionnaires, the St George Respiratory Questionnaire and the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire) and mortality at 3 years follow-up. RESULTS Based on the HADO score, COPD was classified as mild in 26.7% of patients, moderate in 53.3%, and severe in 20%. There were statistically significant correlations between these three levels of severity and HRQoL parameters and vital status. After adjustment for relevant covariates, the HADO score reliably predicted survival and vital status. DISCUSSION The HADO score can be easily obtained in an out-patient clinic, and distinguishes groups of COPD patients by their disease severity. The HADO score is better than FEV(1%) alone for predicting mortality at 3 years.
Efﬁcient and Scalable NIC-Based Barrier over Quadrics and Myrinet

An efﬁcient barrier operation is important for parallel programs to obtain good parallel speedup and achieve ﬁne-grained computation. Modern intercon-nects often have programmable processors in the network interface that can be exploited to support collective operations such as barrier. This paper explores different schemes for ofﬂoading the barrier operation to the network interface cards (NICs) over two high performance interconnects, Quadrics and Myrinet. Accord-ingly, with our proposed collective processing scheme, we have designed and implemented efﬁcient and scalable NIC-based barrier operations on both intercon-nects. Our evaluation shows that, over a Quadrics cluster of 8 nodes with ELan3 Network, the NIC-based barrier operation achieves a barrier latency of only 5.60 (cid:6) s. This result is a 2.48 factor of improvement over the Elan-lib barrier operation when Quadrics hardware-based broadcast is not available. Over a Myrinet cluster of 8 nodes with LANai-XP NIC cards, a barrier latency of 14.20 (cid:6) s over 8 nodes is achieved. This is a 2.64 factor of improvement over the host-based barrier algorithm. Furthermore, an analytical model developed for the proposed scheme indicates that a NIC-based barrier operation on a 1024-node cluster can be performed with only 22.13 (cid:6) s latency over Quadrics and with 38.94 (cid:6) s latency over Myrinet. These results indicate the potential for de-(cid:7)
The Folders We Live In: What We Need and What We Can Get

This paper reports one part of results of a qualitative study conducted in an information institute. By investigating how people creatively organize their information items in current hierarchical folder systems on computers, we try to identify what people need from current hierarchical folder structure and what they can get from the current structure. Specifically, people need two types of grouping in addition to ordering and highlighting, and especially better support on derivative relationships between items or groups of items. Current organization systems can provide overview and implicit contextual and workflow information. The impact of derivative relationship on multiple classification mechanisms is noted, and the connections between folders, tags and their possible use are discussed. The study provides implications for information organization system design.
How Employees Assess the Quality of Physical Work Settings

Physical conditions of work remain a hidden dimension of organizational life (Hall, 1966). Historically, physical conditions of work have received relatively little notice in the study of organizations, at least since the Hawthorne Studies appeared to suggest that the manipulation of objective factors was less consequential than the impact of social relations in work settings. Organizational ecology (Steele, 1986), the patterns of reciprocal relationships between individuals and features of their work surroundings, is not well understood. Contemporary interest in the influence of physical settings is on the rise. This is partly because "sick buildings" are common and cause employees to experience chronic fatigue, headaches, dizziness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and Legionnaires' disease. Sick buildings can injure and kill. The quality of work environments also influences employee morale, productivity, and turnover. It is important for employees and organizational administrators who have to deal with the productive and legal consequences of the neglect of this issue. Recently, Charles Goodsell (1990) categorized physical settings issues as administrative ethnography and identified this as an important emerging area of research in the field of public administration. More research in this area would contribute to greater understanding of the dynamics of administrative life, the influences of organizational cultures within bureaucracy, and the development of crucial work attitudes. What follows is an empirical test of a theory of how person-environment relations work in organizations. The study explores how workers make sense of their surroundings and relates that sense to overall job satisfaction. This research tests two hypotheses. First, employees judge physical work factors based on assessments of a work setting's adequacy, arrangement, and symbolic features and of how much power they feel they have concerning their design and use. Second, employee evaluations of these elements result in an overall
Fully Automatic Assessment of Speech of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate

Cleft lip and palate (CLP) may cause functional limitations even after adequate surgical and non-surgical treatment, speech disorder being one of them. Until now, an automatic, objective means to determine and quantify the intelligibility did not exist. We have created an automatic evaluation system that assesses speech, based on the result of an automatic speech recognizer. It was applied to 35 recordings of children with CLP. A subjective evaluation of the intelligibility was performed by four experts and confronted to the automatic speech evaluation. It complied with experts’ rating of intelligibility. Furthermore we present the results obtained on a control group of 45 recordings of normal children and compare these results with those of the CLP children.
The Effects of Transformational Leadership and the Sense of Calling on Job Burnout among Special Education Teachers

This article examines the effects of transformational leadership of supervisors and the sense of calling on job burnout among special education teachers. A total of 256 special education teachers completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory and rated their supervisors on the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. The results reveal that transformational leadership was negatively related to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and positively related to personal accomplishment. Moreover, the present study indicates that the relationship between transformational leadership and teachers’ burnout was mediated by the sense of calling. This finding suggests that transformational leadership indirectly affects job burnout by developing a sense of calling in followers or helping them find meaning and purpose in their experiences through transformational leadership behaviors, which can ultimately protect followers from being exposed to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and enhance the feeling of personal accomplishment.
Efficient design of radar waveforms using novel multiobjective optimization technique

Optimal choice of the parameters of stepped frequency train of linear frequency modulated pulses (SFT-LFM) can substantially improve the detection potentiality of radar target. In this paper this challenging signal design problem has been formulated as a two objectives optimization problem. A minor variant of existing MOEA/D known as multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on normalize Tchebycheff decomposition (MOEA/NTD) is developed and employed to achieve various best possible combinations of these parameters. Through simulation study the effects of the chosen parameters on mainlobe width, grating lobes and sidelobes of compressed SFT-LFM have been demonstrated. The comparison of the simulation results exhibit that the optimization performance of proposed MOEA/NTD is superior to those obtained by the MOEA/D based method.
Functional descriptions as the bridge between hypermedia APIs and the Semantic Web

The early visions for the Semantic Web, from the famous 2001 Scientific American article by Berners-Lee et al., feature intelligent agents that can autonomously perform tasks like discovering information, scheduling events, finding execution plans for complex operations, and in general, use reasoning techniques to come up with sense-making and traceable decisions. While today more than ten years later the building blocks (1) resource-oriented rest infrastructure, (2) Web APIs, and (3) Linked Data are in place, the envisioned intelligent agents have not landed yet. In this paper, we explain why capturing functionality is the connection between those three building blocks, and introduce the functional API description format RESTdesc that creates this bridge between hypermedia APIs and the Semantic Web. Rather than adding yet another component to the Semantic Web stack, RESTdesc offers instead concise descriptions that reuse existing vocabularies to guide hypermedia-driven agents. Its versatile capabilities are illustrated by a real-life agent use case for Web browsers wherein we demonstrate that RESTdesc functional descriptions are capable of fulfilling the promise of autonomous agents on the Web.
Compumetric forecasting of crude oil prices

This paper contains short term monthly forecasts of crude oil prices using compumetric methods. Compumetric forecasting methods are ones that use computers to identify the underlying model that produces the forecast. Typically, forecasting models are designed or specified by humans rather than machines. Compumetric methods are applied to determine whether models they provide produce reliable forecasts. Forecasts produced by two compumetric methods-genetic programming and artificial neural networks-are compared and evaluated relative to a random walk type of prediction. The results suggest that genetic programming has advantage over random walk predictions while the neural network forecast proved inferior.
SEMANTICALLY CORRECT INTEGRATION OF A DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL AND A 2 D TOPOGRAPHIC VECTOR DATA SET

The most commonly used topographic vector data, the core data of a geographic information system (GIS), are currently twodimensional. The topographic objects are modelled as points, lines or areas with additional attributes containing different information about function and dimension of the object, possibly including height values. Height values may also be added to the objects by using a digital terrain model (DTM), i.e. by integrating vector data and DTM. In general, however, discrepancies exist between the two different data sets. These discrepancies are caused by different object modelling and different surveying and production methods. In the vector data set, for example, a road is often modelled as a line or a polyline. The attributes contain information about the road width, the road type, etc. If the road is located on a dam, the corresponding part of the DTM can be modelled as an elongated, horizontal plane of some width with two slopes at the sides. Differences between the attribute road width of the vector data set, and the width of the horizontal plane in the DTM may cause discrepancies when integrating these data sets. Additionally, the data are often produced independently. The DTM may be generated using laser scanning or aerial photogrammetry. The topographic vector data may be based on digitized topographic maps or orthophotos resulting in differences in 2D location. As already mentioned, the topographic objects of the vector data are two-dimensional. But there exist various objects which contain implicit height information. A lake, for example, represents a horizontal plane, and all height values of the lakes’s area must be the same, the neighbouring banks, however, have to be higher than the water. To give another example, the slope of a road along and across the road direction must not exceed a certain maximum value. This paper describes an algorithm which uses this semantic information for a semantically correct integration of DTM and 2D topographic vector data. It is based on a inequality constrained least squares adjustment formulated as the linear complementary problem (LCP). The algorithm results in improved height values of the DTM. First investigations were carried out by using two different data sets representing two classes of objects. The first simulated data set represents a tilted plane, the second data set is a real data set of the German ATKIS®. First results using these data sets are satisfying.
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF CHRISTIN CHIN CHOU for the MASTER OF SCIENCE (Name) (Degree) in FOODS AND NUTRITION presented on December 8, 1971 (Major) (Date) Title: THE LIPID COMPOSITION OF CANNED AND FROZEN SHRIMP Abstract approved:

approved: Elisabeth s/Yearick The lipid composition of raw frozen, cooked frozen, and canned shrimp was studied. The total lipid content of the shrimp samples ranged from 0.89 to 1.40% of the wet weight. On the average, about 75% of the shrimp lipids was in the form of phospholipids. Cholesterol was the second largest lipid component ranging from 17-24% of total lipids. Most of the cholesterol was in the free form. Triglycerides and non-esterified fatty acids accounted for about 2% and 7% of the total lipid weight. On the basis of dry weight, the small canned shrimp contained less total lipid, phospholipid, and triglyceride than did the large frozen shrimp. Cholesterol constituted 0. 90-1. 05% of the dry weight of the shrimp samples. Two extraction procedures were compared; neither procedure offered an advantage with respect to lipid yield. Recovery of added pure lipids averaged about 86%. The Lipid Composition of Canned and Frozen Shrimp
Extracting Multilingual Relations under Limited Resources: TAC 2016 Cold-Start KB construction and Slot-Filling using Compositional Universal Schema

We describe the UMass IESL relation extraction system for TAC KBP 2016. One of the main challenges in TAC 2016 is to extract relations from multiple languages, including those with relatively low resources like Spanish. To mitigate the problem, we integrate multilingual and compositional universal schema from Verga et al. (2016) into our slot filling and knowledge base construction pipelines. The flexibility of our universal schema framework allows us to extract high quality Spanish relations based on English training data, and easily incorporate various types of data collected from Internet. Finally, we show how the improvements of each component contributes to the final scores of our submissions.
Testing and analyzing TCP performance in a wireless-wired mobile ad hoc test bed

TCP is the most used connection-oriented transport protocol in the Internet today. However, TCP has a number of problems when the connections are running over wireless links. This paper addresses some of them for wireless-wired ad hoc networking. We have made a real-life testbed for experimenting and analyzing TCP connections from a multi-homed ad hoc network into the global Internet. Through a set of experiments, we show how TCP behaves when switching gateways. The experiments are carried out in a mobile ad hoc network running a pro-active routing protocol, namely the OLSR protocol. The testbed and initial results are our first step for making an improvement to TCP for ad hoc networking.
Fixed point theorems for nonconvex valued correspondences and applications in game theory

In this paper, we introduce several types of correspondences: weakly naturally quasiconvex, *-weakly naturally quasiconvex, weakly biconvex and correspondences with *--weakly convex graph and we prove some fixed point theorems for these kinds of correspondences. As a consequence, using a version of W. K. Kim's quasi-point theorem, we obtain the existence of equilibria for a quasi-game.
A Robust Framework for Forensic Speaker Verification

This paper discusses the application of automatic speaker verification systems in forensic casework. A framework for reporting the system outcome is proposed. Specific system requirements to properly cope with forensic idiosyncrasies are analyzed through a series of simulations. Results suggest that the design of a forensic speaker verification system not necessarily match the settings of current state-of-the-art systems.
Intrinsic Network Connectivity Reflects Consistency of Synesthetic Experiences

Studying cognitive processes underlying synesthesia, a condition in which stimulation of one sensory modality automatically leads to abnormal additional sensory perception, allows insights into the neural mechanisms of normal and abnormal cross-modal sensory processing. Consistent with the notion that synesthesia results from hyperconnectivity, functional connectivity analysis (adopting independent component analysis and seed-based correlation analysis) of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data of 12 grapheme–color synesthetes and 12 nonsynesthetic control subjects revealed, in addition to increased intranetwork connectivity, both a global and a specific (medial and lateral visual networks to a right frontoparietal network) increase of intrinsic internetwork connectivity in grapheme–color synesthesia. Moreover, this increased intrinsic network connectivity reflected the strength of synesthetic experiences. These findings constitute the first direct evidence of increased functional network connectivity in synesthesia. In addition to this significant contribution to the understanding of the neural mechanisms of synesthesia, our results have important general implications. In combination with data derived from clinical populations, our data strongly suggest that altered differences in intrinsic network connectivity are directly related to the phenomenology of human experiences.
An Intelligent Unmanned Aircraft System for Wilderness Search and Rescue

In this paper, we presented a wilderness search and rescue (WiSAR) system based on DJI M100 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a ground station to search and rescue the survivors in wild. We combined infrared and optical target detection to increase the detection speed and accuracy and used multiple sensors to make this system can autonomous avoiding obstructions and landing on mobile platform. For further increase the Average Precision of SSD, we build a field people dataset UAV-PP and use ResNet-101 as the base net. The actual flying test have been conducted in multiple situations to verify the feasibility of our WiSAR system. Our WiSAR system laying a solid foundation for building a more intelligent search and rescue system based on UAV.
Galaxy morphology to I = 25 mag in the Hubble Deep Field

The morphological properties of galaxies in the range 21 < I < 25 mag in the Hubble Deep Field are investigated using a quantitative classification system based on measurements of the central concentration and asymmetry of galaxian light. The class distribution of objects in the Hubble Deep Field is strongly skewed towards highly asymmetric objects, relative to distributions from both the HST Medium Deep Survey at 1< 22 mag and an artificially redshifted sample of local galaxies. The steeply rising number count-magnitude relation for irregular/peculiar/merging systems at I < 22 mag reported by Glazebrook et al. continues to at least 1=25 mag. Although these peculiar systems are predominantly blue at optical wavelengths, a significant fraction also exhibit red U - B colours, which may indicate that they are at high redshift. Beyond Glazebrook et al.'s magnitude limit, the spiral counts appear to rise more steeply than high-normalization no-evolution predictions, whereas those of elliptical/SO galaxies only slightly exceed such predictions and may turn over beyond I '" 24 mag. These results are compared with those from previous investigations of faint galaxy morphology with HST, and the possible implications are briefly discussed. The large fraction of peculiar/irregular/merging systems in the Hubble Deep Field suggests that by I '" 25 mag the conventional Hubble system no longer provides an adequate description of the morphological characteristics of a high fraction of field galaxies.
A Transgenic Prox1-Cre-tdTomato Reporter Mouse for Lymphatic Vessel Research

The lymphatic vascular system plays an active role in immune cell trafficking, inflammation and cancer spread. In order to provide an in vivo tool to improve our understanding of lymphatic vessel function in physiological and pathological conditions, we generated and characterized a tdTomato reporter mouse and crossed it with a mouse line expressing Cre recombinase under the control of the lymphatic specific promoter Prox1 in an inducible fashion. We found that the tdTomato fluorescent signal recapitulates the expression pattern of Prox1 in lymphatic vessels and other known Prox1-expressing organs. Importantly, tdTomato co-localized with the lymphatic markers Prox1, LYVE-1 and podoplanin as assessed by whole-mount immunofluorescence and FACS analysis. The tdTomato reporter was brighter than a previously established red fluorescent reporter line. We confirmed the applicability of this animal model to intravital microscopy of dendritic cell migration into and within lymphatic vessels, and to fluorescence-activated single cell analysis of lymphatic endothelial cells. Additionally, we were able to describe the early morphological changes of the lymphatic vasculature upon induction of skin inflammation. The Prox1-Cre-tdTomato reporter mouse thus shows great potential for lymphatic research.