Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Feeling Half-Half? Exploring Relational Variation of Turkish-Heritage Young Adults’ Cultural Identity Compatibility and Conflict in Austria

ABSTRACT Growing up in multicultural environments, Turkish-heritage individuals in Europe face specific challenges in combining their multiple cultural identities to form a coherent sense of self. Drawing from social identity complexity, this study explores four modes of combining cultural identities and their variation in relational contexts. Problem-centered interviews with Turkish-heritage young adults in Austria revealed the preference for complex, supranational labels, such as multicultural. Furthermore, most participants described varying modes of combining cultural identities over time and across relational contexts. Social exclusion experiences throughout adolescence related to perceived conflict of cultural identities, whereas multicultural peer groups supported perceived compatibility of cultural identities. Findings emphasize the need for complex, multidimensional approaches to study ethnic minorities’ combination of cultural identities.
To Weight or Not to Weight : Incorporating Sampling Effects into Model-Based Survey Analysis

The two fundamental approaches used to analyze survey data, designand model-based, differ in how they incorporate complexities of the sampling design, such as stratification, clustering and/or unequal probabilities of selection, into the survey analysis. The design-based analysis uses the sampling design as the sole source of the variability, which necessitates the use of survey sampling weights. Model-based analysis includes a model which generated the data in addition to the sampling design, which makes the role of the sampling weights questionable. The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the use of sampling weights in model-based analysis, and to that end, the proposed work has three major components. The first component investigates two current proposals for incorporating sampling weights to robustly estimate mixed-effects models in the presence of model mis-specification and/or informative sampling (Korn and Graubard, 2003; Pfeffermann et al., 1998), comparing their advantages and disadvantages in various situations. The second component addresses the role of sampling weights when the survey design was not formulated according to particular statistical model of substantive interest, and will consider models other than mixed-effects models to see how the work generalizes across model-based techniques. This component will consider using estimating equation methods (Binder and Patak, 1994) as a bridge between model-based and design-based analyses. Both of these components will be explored analytically, through simulation, and by considering examples involving current research questions of interest on large national surveys (such as the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being and/or the National Long Term Care Survey). As part of the thesis, guidelines regarding the use of sampling weights in model-based analysis will be proposed. The third component of this work will be to develop these recommendations as a set of publishable tutorials that serve to clarify these issues and methodologies for survey analysts.
A Classication of Design Steps and Their Verication

Hardware design using the hardware description language VHDL has to consider three independent property scales that in uence the design process from an abstract level to the gate level, namely the design view, the timing aspect, and the value representation. Considering this classi cation, a systematic way for design steps and their veri cation with special emphasis on VHDL is presented in this paper.
Approaches and Applications of Semantic Web utilizing Resource Description Framework ( RDF )

The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines. Semantic Web can be seen as a huge engineering solution but it is more than that. We will find that as it becomes easier to publish data in a reprocessable form, so more people will want to publish data, and there will be a knock-on or domino effect. A large number of Semantic Web applications can be used for a variety of different tasks, increasing the modularity of applications on the Web. Due to the widespread importance of integration and interoperability for intraand inter-business processes, the research community has tackled this problem and developed semantic standards such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). RDF is a standard for creating descriptions of information, especially information available on the World Wide Web. What XML is for syntax, RDF is for semantics? RDF provides a clear set of rules for providing simple descriptive
Creating views for debugging parallel programs

An extensible parallel debugger helps programmers create new views of their programs' behavior. This paper describes the features of the Panorama parallel debugger that programmers can use to design a variety of specialized debugging views. A graphical tool for designing elements of a display simplifies the most tedious steps in creating program views. Programmers can incorporate these new views into Panorama using a modest amount of code. <<ETX>>
The chromosomal passenger complex and centralspindlin independently contribute to contractile ring assembly

The chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) and centralspindlin are conserved cytokinesis regulators that localize to the spindle midzone, which forms between the separating chromosomes. Previous work placed the CPC and centralspindlin in a linear pathway that governs midzone formation. Using Caenorhabditis elegans embryos, we test whether there is a similar linear relationship between centralspindlin and the CPC in contractile ring constriction during cytokinesis. We show that simultaneous inhibition of the CPC kinase Aurora B(AIR-2) and the centralspindlin component MKLP1(ZEN-4) causes an additive constriction defect. Consistent with distinct roles for the proteins, inhibition of filamentous septin guanosine triphosphatases alleviates constriction defects in Aurora B(AIR-2)-inhibited embryos, whereas inhibition of Rac does so in MKLP1(ZEN-4)-inhibited embryos. Centralspindlin and the CPC are not required to enrich ring proteins at the cell equator but instead regulate formation of a compact mature ring. Therefore, in contrast to the linear midzone assembly pathway, centralspindlin and the CPC make independent contributions to control transformation of the sheet-like equatorial band into a ribbon-like contractile ring at the furrow tip.
Product-driven workflow design

In manufacturing the interaction between the design of a product and the process to manufacture this product is studied in detail. Consider for example Material Requirements Planning (MRP), which is mainly driven by the Bill-Of-Material (BOM). For information-intensive products such as insurance, loans, permits, and many other services, the relationship with the supporting workflow process is often neglected. Typically, the workflow processes are designed without careful consideration of structure and characteristics of the product. In this paper, we present a method for designing efficient and effective workflows based on the products generated by the process rather than subjective interpretations of managers, consultants, and IT experts.
NATIONAL DATA ARCHIVE ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT THE NDACAN Volume 13 , Fall 2002

NDACAN provides data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) to researchers. The AFCARS is a federally mandated data collection system containing case-level information on all children protected by Title IV-B/E of the Social Security Act. Under AFCARS, participating states collect data on all children in foster care for whom the state child welfare agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision. In addition, states collect data on all adopted children placed by the state’s child welfare agency or private agencies under contract with the child welfare agency. The use of administrative data, such as those provided by AFCARS, has become increasingly common in the study of how children are managed within child welfare services. Administrative databases possess advantages for child welfare research. They offer investigators the opportunity to address questions about child characteristics and outcomes using data for entire populations of children served by child welfare systems. Such data are relatively inexpensive for the investigator to obtain and are provided in files that are easily read using basic statistical packages such as SAS or SPSS. Moreover, administrative data systems such as AFCARS surpass survey methods with respect to the collection of difficult-to-obtain information. Using survey research methods, it might be difficult to obtain interviews with parents involved in the child welfare Family Life Development Center, New York State College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
Single-Carrier Transmission with Joint Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding and Frequency-Domain Equalization

Abstract—The performance of the single-carrier (SC) transmission in a frequency-selective fading channel degrades due to a severe inter-symbol interference (ISI). By using frequency-domain equalization (FDE) based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion at a receiver, the bit error rate (BER) performance of the SC transmission can be significantly improved. Recently, Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) has been attracting much attention as a preequalization technique at a transmitter. In this paper, we propose a joint use of THP and FDE and evaluate its achievable BER performance by computer simulation. Keyword-component; Single-carrier, frequency-domain equalization, Tomlinson-Harashima precoding
Data Platforms and Cities

This section offers a series of joint reflections on (open) data platform from a variety of cases, from cycling, traffic and mapping to activism, environment and data brokering. Data platforms play a key role in contemporary urban governance. Linked to open data initiatives, such platforms are often proposed as both mechanisms for enhancing the accountability of administrations and performing as sites for 'bottom-up' digital invention. Such promises of smooth flows of data, however, rarely materialise unproblematically. The development of data platforms is always situated in legal and administrative cultures, databases are often built according to the standards of existing digital ecologies, access always involves processes of social negotiation, and interfaces (such as sensors) may become objects of public contestation. The following contributions explore the contested and mutable character of open data platforms as part of heterogeneous publics and trace the pathways of data through different knowledge, skills, public and private configurations. They also reflect on the value of STS approaches to highlight issues and tensions as well as to shape design and governance.
Undergraduate Students with Nonapparent Disabilities Identify Factors that Contribute to Disclosure Decisions

Abstract The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the reasons university students with nonapparent disabilities gave for formally disclosing their disability and seeking the university’s disability services or not and the consequences they associate with their decisions. Conducted in a Mid-western four-year university, nine students with self-identified nonapparent disabilities participated in the study. Qualitative semistructured interviews were conducted to gather in-depth data from participants. A five-stage approach to qualitative data analysis was adapted to analyse the data. The findings indicate positive experiences with formal disability disclosure, but revealed barriers impeding students’ desire to disclose. Recommendations challenge colleges and universities to create an inclusive ethos for all students with disabilities by removing barriers impeding their full participation in academia.
A comparative study of adaptive, automatic recognition of disordered speech

Speech-driven assistive technology can be an attractive alternative to conventional interfaces for people with physical disabilities. However, often the lack of motor-control of the speech articulators results in disordered speech, as condition known as dysarthria. Dysarthric speakers can generally not obtain satisfactory performances with off-the-shelf automatic speech recognition (ASR) products and disordered speech ASR is an increasingly active research area. Sparseness of suitable data is a big challenge. The experiments described here use UAspeech, one of the largest dysarthric databases available, which is still easily an order of magnitude smaller than typical speech databases. This study investigates how far fundamental training and adaptation techniques developed in the LVCSR community can take us. A variety of ASR systems using maximum likelihood and MAP adaptation strategies are established with all speakers obtaining significant improvements compared to the baseline system regardless of the severity of their condition. The best systems show on average 34% relative improvement on known published results. An analysis of the correlation between intelligibility of the speaker and the type of system which would represent an optimal operating point in terms of performance shows that for severely dysarthric speakers, the exact choice of system configuration is more critical than for speakers with less disordered speech.
Approche multi-agent pour la simulation urbaine

RESUME. Le but de cet article est de montrer quelles sont les potentialites qu’offrent les outils de simulation multi-agent en geographie. En effet, la simulation multi-agent ajoute aux techniques dont elle est l’heritiere (en particulier, la microsimulation, les approches orienteesobjet, les automates cellulaires), des proprietes encore peu exploitees et particulierement utiles a la geographie. Nous presenterons les plus interessantes : la gestion d’entites heterogenes, l’integration de differents modeles et la prise en compte de plusieurs niveaux d’analyse. Notre propos sera illustre par la presentation de MMINUS, outil de simulation dedie aux migrations intra-urbaines, qui permet d’apprehender la complexite urbaine selon les 3 axes de comprehension espace-temps-social en integrant differents modeles issus de domaines lies a la recherche urbaine (economie, demographie, sociologie, geographie). Dans MMINUS, nous avons choisi une approche hierarchique mixte, les entites "sociales" (individus et menages) evoluant sur, et pouvant interagir avec des entites "spatiales" (logements et secteurs). Dans cette perspective, un "modele" est vu comme un ensemble de comportements applicables a certaines des entites mises en jeu. Nous detaillerons par l’etude des interactions (entre entites d’un meme niveau, entites de differents niveaux mais aussi entre modeles) l’interet d’une telle approche dans une perspective d’application a la geographie.
Achieving Transparent and Real-time Collaboration in Co-AutoCAD Application

In order to support the real-time collaboration between geographically distributed designers, the single-user application AutoCAD is required to be transformed transparently into groupware system by adopting fully replicated architecture. As the core issue to maintain the consistency of the distributed replicas, traditional consistency maintenance algorithms (such as Operation Transformation and Address Space Transformation algorithms), however, support only linear data model, and may lead to low algorithm efficiency and small operation types when adapted to the collaborative design field. In this paper, a novel layered document model is proposed to abstract the document model of AutoCAD, and the AST algorithm is adapted according to the model to achieve transparent & real-time collaboration. Moreover, the Update conflicts resolution based on child-precedence strategy, and the database listening technique used to grasp the semantics of interface operations to realize operation adaptation are also presented. Efficiency analysis of the Layer-AST algorithm is given, showing the improved performance of the algorithm. Finally, the system architecture of Co-AutoCAD using this strategy is detailed to guide the application.
Overview: Information Extraction From Broadcast News

Broadcast news is a rich domain for information extraction, but one that presents new challenges for evaluation. In this paper we present an overview of the first evaluation of information extraction from broadcast news that was conducted as part of the DARPA-funded Hub 4 1998 workshop. We discuss the work that was required to design and administer the evaluation, describe some of the challenges that we encountered, and summarize the results of the evaluation.
Inhibition of vesicular stomatitis virus in cells constitutively expressing an antisense RNA targeted against the virus RNA polymerase gene.

To study the effect of virus-specific antisense RNA expression on vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infectivity in cultured cells, a HeLaS3 cell line constitutively expressing antisense RNA complimentary to a portion of the VSV large RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene (L) was established (HeAntiL). At an m.o. i. of 0.01 or 0.1, the HeAntiL cell line was able to reduce virus titre and delay virus-induced cell death by 9 or 5 h, respectively, when compared to a HeLa cell line stably transfected with the expression vector devoid of antisense sequence. Ribonuclease protection experiments showed a 10-20-fold reduction of hybridizable virus L mRNA in infected HeAntiL cells compared to infected control cells at various times before cell death. These results indicate that the antisense RNA approach can significantly reduce VSV mRNA transcription and virus production for a reasonable period of time. The robust growth rate of VSV eventually overwhelms the available antisense RNA and leads to delayed cell death.
Low-Power Analog Integrated Circuits for Wireless ECG Acquisition Systems

This paper presents low-power analog ICs for wireless ECG acquisition systems. Considering the power-efficient communication in the body sensor network, the required low-power analog ICs are developed for a healthcare system through miniaturization and system integration. To acquire the ECG signal, a low-power analog front-end system, including an ECG signal acquisition board, an on-chip low-pass filter, and an on-chip successive-approximation analog-to-digital converter for portable ECG detection devices is presented. A quadrature CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator and a 2.4 GHz direct-conversion transmitter with a power amplifier and upconversion mixer are also developed to transmit the ECG signal through wireless communication. In the receiver, a 2.4 GHz fully integrated CMOS RF front end with a low-noise amplifier, differential power splitter, and quadrature mixer based on current-reused folded architecture is proposed. The circuits have been implemented to meet the specifications of the IEEE 802.15. 4 2.4 GHz standard. The low-power ICs of the wireless ECG acquisition systems have been fabricated using a 0.18 μm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CMOS standard process. The measured results on the human body reveal that ECG signals can be acquired effectively by the proposed low-power analog front-end ICs.
Linguistic Rights and Conceptual Incarceration in African Education

In 2014 the cultural agency of the United Nations issued a dismal assessment of education in Africa. The report noted that while, globally, a quarter of a billion children are failing to learn basic reading and math skills, resulting in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion per year, the situation in Africa could only be described as catastrophic. Education on this continent had failed so miserably in its mission that ‘four in 10 African children “cannot read a sentence”’ (cited in Daily Nation 2014: 1). This equates to 40% of children, compared to 25% in other poor countries. The report attributed this situation to the fact that ‘fewer than three-quarters of existing primary school teachers were trained to national standards, while 120 million primary age 1 This paper was prepared as an invited keynote presentation in the Language Panel at the 10 Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 20-22 September, 2016. I thank Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite, Herman Batibo, Hatem A. Bazian, Langa Khumalo, Patricia Kwok, and David Kyeu, for comments. I am grateful to Jarvis Givens, Jessie Kabwila, Monica Kahumburu, William Kamkwamba, Pascal Kishindo, Wokomaatani Malunga, Francis Moto, Thoko Mtchona, Al Mtenje, John Mugane, Deo Ngonyani, and Matthews Sapemba Tisatayane, for discussions. Thanks to Judith Khaya and Renée Khaya for comments on education in Malawi. All views expressed are my own. In American Canyon, California, Flora Suya provided emotional support; Collin Domingo, José Flores, Savannah Garcia, Carole Lonzanida, Nicolas Rapacon, Scott Turnnidge, Teri Urrutia, and Vilma Wakin have always offered cheer when I needed friends.
Optimized error protection of scalable image bit streams [advances in joint source-channel coding for images]

This article focuses on FEC for scalable image coders. For various channel models, we survey recent progress made in system design and discuss efficient source-channel bit allocation techniques, with emphasis on unequal error protection. This article considered JSCC (joint source-channel coding) at the application layer only. Recent research has studied cross-layer optimization where JSCC is applied to both the application layer and the physical layer. The basic task here is to minimize the average distortion by allocating available power, subcarriers, and bandwidth among users at the physical layer and source-channel symbols at the application layer subject to a total resource constraint. Most of the JSCC systems covered in this article can be readily extended to transmit scalable compressed bit streams of video sequences and 3-D meshes. Due to the stringent delay constraints in video communications and the fact that MPEG is currently exploring a scalable video coding standard, fast JSCC algorithms are expected to play a bigger role and bring more performance gains. This article is also expected to stimulate further research efforts into JSCC and more importantly, prompt the industry to adopt some of these JSCC algorithms in their system designs, thus closing the cycle from algorithm development to implementation.
Enhancing the cache strategy of a cluster-based DSM system using an adaptive approach

In a previous article, we presented a per cluster logical cache strategy for a software distributed shared memory (SDSM) system for interconnects of loosely-coupled machine clusters. We assume that inter-cluster links are slower than intra-cluster ones. We propose an adaptive strategy that aims at increasing the efficiency of our first cache solution. By exploiting sharing access pattern of applications related to locality within the same cluster, the adaptive cache reduces the number of messages generated by our previous cache solution. Performance evaluation results show that the former outperforms the latter. We also present a new barrier algorithm, which is integrated with the adaptive cache and more adapted to the communication latency hierarchy of the platform.