Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Older Adults' Risk Practices From Hospital to Home: A Discourse Analysis.

PURPOSE To understand risk-related practices of older adults returning home posthospitalization. RESEARCH DESIGN Qualitative methods informed by critical discourse theory, designed to uncover linkages between broader social practices and peoples' talk and stories, were used. METHODS Eight older adults, screened as high-risk from an inpatient cardiology unit, and six partners were interviewed face-to-face within three weeks of discharge. A discourse analysis of participants' accounts of risk was conducted: the cultural and social understandings or conceptual frameworks used to understand risk were identified. RESULTS Ableism, a discourse in our society that privileges abledness, was found to permeate the data. Participants underscored that being abled was normal and being disabled was abnormal. Ableism, as a discourse or conceptual framework, compelled participants to appear and act abled, or to perform "compulsory abledness. " That, in turn, produced their responses to risk: a pressure to preserve ableist identities created internal and external tensions related to objects and situations of risk and forced participants to use strategies to diminish and minimize risk. Participants created a new response-a position of "liminality" or in-between-where their accounts portrayed them as neither abled nor disabled. This discourse of liminality allowed them to reconcile tensions associated with risk. IMPLICATIONS Critical discourse analysis sheds new light on older adults' risk practices. This approach challenges accepted ways of acting and thinking about what constitutes risk and produces possibilities for alternate ways of representing the same reality.
Identity formation among novice academic teachers – a longitudinal study

ABSTRACT This study reports findings from an in-depth, longitudinal investigation of the formation of 13 novice tutors’ professional identities as academic teachers. The study spanned tutors’ first two years in-service, while they were also participating in a teacher development course. Discourse was analysed across 65 time-series coursework texts, completed as part of the tutors’ reflection on their teaching practice. The analysis captured the use of explicit identity positioning cues by tutors across the texts. Four discreet identity positions were catalogued: academic insider, class teacher, teaching course participant and young academic. The study illustrates how these tutors developed more complex identity narratives with enriched coherence over time as they reported negotiating challenges and dissonance between initial expectations and actual teaching experiences. This finding offers explanatory support for previous research regarding the value of longer term teacher development programmes and illuminates existing theoretical models with practitioner perspectives.
Paper No . 101 Authority in the Age of Modularity

This paper builds upon on-going research into the organisational implications of ‘modularity’. Advocates of modularity argue that the Invisible Hand of markets is reaching activities previously controlled through the Visible Hand of hierarchies. This paper argues that there are cognitive limits to the extent of division of labour: what kinds of problems firms solve, and how they solve them, set limits to the extent of division of labour, irrespective of the extent of the market. This paper analyses the cognitive limits to the division of labour relying on an in-depth case study of engineering design activities. On this basis, this paper explains why co-ordinating increasingly specialised bodies of knowledge, and increasingly distributed learning processes, requires the presence of knowledge integrating firms even in the presence of modular products. Such firms, relying on their wide in-house scientific and technological capabilities, have the 'authority' to identify, propose, and implement solutions to complex problems. In so doing, they coordinate networks of suppliers of both components and specialised competencies.
FISCAL MOBILITY IN METROPOLITAN ENGLAND

Despite evidence of fiscal mobility there is little evidence that fiscal mobility leads to efficient local government. We examine fiscal mobility in metropolitan England and show that average households do take into account fiscal factors when intending to exit, but services not taxes are important. When tax differentials are high and service quality differentials low greater fiscal mobility occurs. We place some parameters on these differentials using a dedicated 1997 surveys of moving decisions. We find those with high civic skills are less likely to intend to exit than those with low civic skills.
International Conference on Information Fusion ( FUSION ) Passive Low SNR Tracking by Spatial-Temporal Fusion of Sliding-window Radon Transforms

In the presence of multi-path propagation, attenuation of signal spectral components and target motion, the estimates of time delay between random wideband signals in low signal-to-noise (SNR) scenarios are characterized by a high probability of large errors. This results in increase the number of sensors to obtain desired performance levels (and therefore results in a series offurther problems of managing the sensors). In this paper we propose a novel approach to time delay estimation (TDE) based on spatial-temporal fusion of local Radon transforms (LRD) in a sliding window, which significantly decreases probability of large errors of TDE. The properties of the cross-correlation function (CCF) in low SNR scenarios for linear and nonlinear filtering of sequences of CCF outputs are considered. The Efficiency of the proposed method in terms of normal error variance and the probability of large errors of TDE using numerically simulated data is discussed.
Gat1 (Gaba:Na+:Cl−) Cotransport Function

To explain cotransport function, the “alternating access” model requires that conformational changes of the empty transporter allow substrates to bind alternatively on opposite membrane sides. To test this principle for the GAT1 (GABA:Na+:Cl−) cotransporter, we have analyzed how its charge-moving partial reactions depend on substrates on both membrane sides in giant Xenopus oocyte membrane patches. (a) “Slow” charge movements, which require extracellular Na+ and probably reflect occlusion of Na+ by GAT1, were defined in three ways with similar results: by application of the high-affinity GAT1 blocker (NO-711), by application of a high concentration (120 mM) of cytoplasmic Cl−, and by removal of extracellular Na+ via pipette perfusion. (b) Three results indicate that cytoplasmic Cl− and extracellular Na+ bind to the transporter in a mutually exclusive fashion: first, cytoplasmic Cl− (5–140 mM) shifts the voltage dependence of the slow charge movement to more negative potentials, specifically by slowing its “forward” rate (i.e., extracellular Na+ occlusion); second, rapid application of cytoplasmic Cl− induces an outward current transient that requires extracellular Na+, consistent with extracellular Na+ being forced out of its binding site; third, fast charge-moving reactions, which can be monitored as a capacitance, are “immobilized” both by cytoplasmic Cl− binding and by extracellular Na+ occlusion (i.e., by the slow charge movement). (c) In the absence of extracellular Na+, three fast (submillisecond) charge movements have been identified, but no slow components. The addition of cytoplasmic Cl− suppresses two components (τ < 1 ms and 13 μs) and enables a faster component (τ < 1 μs). (d) We failed to identify charge movements of fully loaded GAT1 transporters (i.e., with all substrates on both sides). (e) Under zero-trans conditions, inward (forward) GAT1 current shows pronounced pre–steady state transients, while outward (reverse) GAT1 current does not. (f) Turnover rates for reverse GAT1 transport (33°C), calculated from the ratio of steady state current magnitude to total charge movement magnitude, can exceed 60 s−1 at positive potentials.
Cryptanalysis of Security Enhancement for a Modified Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol

Recently, Chang et al. proposed a security enhancement in Ku and Wang's authenticated key agreement protocol. Two parties employ the pre-shared password to agreement a common session key via insecure network. However, in this article, we will show that Chang et al.'s scheme is suffer from the backward replay attack and the off-line password guessing attack.
Performance comparison of IEEE 802.1Q and IEEE 802.1 AVB in an Ethernet-based in-vehicle network

The traditional in-vehicle network is changing due to the increasing number of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the bandwidth demand of future applications. Instead of using MOST for multimedia applications, there are some efforts of the automotive OEMs to introduce Ethernet for these applications. The legacy switched Ethernet network is not able to provide guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS) so that information can be delayed or lost in certain situations. With the introduction of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) specification, low latency multimedia streaming services with guaranteed QoS are possible in a switched Ethernet network. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of the Ethernet AVB standard for the use in a vehicle by comparing the performance to a prioritized network based on IEEE 802.1Q. We consider different in-vehicle applications and determine how the background load will influence these applications. Scope of the work is to reveal the benefits and weakness of Ethernet AVB compared to the legacy prioritization mechanism specified in IEEE 802.1Q.
Determinants of health-related lifestyle. Comparative study of the functioning of young adults in 2003 and 2013

: Background – Early adulthood is the developmental stage during which, for the first time, an individual can independently choose their own lifestyle. For the future health of a young adult, it is important that they incorporate healthy behaviors from different health dimensions (somatic, mental, social) into their lifestyle. Analyzing the foregoing issue gives rise to a fundamental question: did intensive social changes experienced after Poland’s accession to the European Union lead to changes in different aspects of a healthy lifestyle? Method – The presented study involved 504 people. The research data was collected in two separate measurements in 2003 (n = 284) and 2013 (n = 220). Subjects were asked to complete sets of questionnaires which measured: health behaviors, health social Statistical comparison of means tests and regression equations were conducted. Results demonstrate that young adults were similarly engaged in pro-health activities in both 2003 and 2013. A detailed analysis of health lifestyle factors shows that young adults from the 2013 group care more about their diet, physical activity, and more frequently undergo preventive medical health examinations. Moreover, significant changes in healthy lifestyle factors were reported. The most important observation concerned the changes in health beliefs. Beliefs derived from a holistic-functional model of health played a major role in the 2003 group, whereas in the 2013 group beliefs close to the biomedical model of health were more important. Conclusions – Analyses demonstrate changes in detailed healthy lifestyle factors. At the same time, no significant differences in global measures of concern for one’s health were observed. Importantly, results show modifications in healthy lifestyle factors. It is suggested that the observed differences stem from the social change of the last decade.
174: Scheduling Systems

NMCS (networked measurement–control systems) are widely used in applications ranging from difficult process control to simple discrete manufacturing. Usually, these systems impose real-time requirements on the nodes and communication networks (Kopetz, 1997; Sha and Sathaye, 1995). Stankovic (1988) defines realtime computing systems as those systems in which the correctness of the system depends not only on the logical result of computation but also on the time at which the results are produced. There are many examples of real-time computing systems, such as control systems, flight control systems, and robotics. A typical real-time computing system has a real-time program running in the system, which reads inputs from input devices, processes these inputs, and produces outputs to be sent to output devices – see also Article 78, Embedded Systems, Volume 1. The time between the arrival of an input from a device and the completion of the processing for that input is called the response time for the device (Joseph and Pandya, 1986). The relative deadline for the device can be defined as the maximum interval between the instant of the input arrival and the completion of the processing for that input. The required response time for a device must be smaller or equal to its relative deadline. In NMCS, the relative deadline is often assumed to be equal to the period. The task deadline value is set by object requirements but the value of the worst-case response time is a result of simulation methods or analytical techniques used to do the timing analysis. It is assumed that each input and output device is assigned a task of the application program and that the tasks share the same processor. The problem of determining whether the processor will meet its peak-processing load becomes one of schedulability analysis of tasks in NMCS (Burns, 1991). If the input (sensor node) and output (actuator node) devices are network components, then the input device processes events and generates messages to the output device. The problem of determining whether the communication system will meet its peak load is one of schedulability analysis of tasks. Consideration of priority levels is crucial to a real-time system. If different inputs have different response time requirements, we need to consider different priority levels to schedule the related processing tasks. The problem is to determine whether for a given assignment of priority levels, the system will meet its peak load – see also Article 165,
Characterization of pathogenic Aeromonas veronii bv. veronii associated with ulcerative syndrome from chinese longsnout catfish (Leiocassis longirostris Günther)

273 bacterial strains were isolated from 20 Chinese longsnout catfish samples. The biochemical characteristics of all strains conformed to the species description of Aeromonas veronii bv. veronii on the basis of Vitek GNI+ card. Furthermore, 16S rDNA, gyrB and rpoD sequences of the representative strain PY50 were sequenced and showed high similarity with A. veronii bv. veronii in Genbank. Antibiotic-resistance of the representative strain PY50 was assessed by the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method, and the results showed it was susceptible and moderately susceptible to 13 and 4 of the 21 antimicrobial agents tested. Extracellular products of strain PY50 contained gelatinase, lecithinase, elastase, most of lipase and lipopolysaccharide. Virulence of strain PY50 and extracellular products to Chinese longsnout catfish were also tested, and LD50 were about 3.47×104 CFU per fish and 11.22 μg per fish in intraperitoneal injection respectively. This is the first report that A. veronii bv. veronii was the pathogenic agent of ulcerative syndrome in Chinese longsnout catfish.
MRAM for Shared Memory in GPGPUs

— The application of new emerging Non-Volatile Memory technologies (NVMs) such as MRAMs in other processing contexts poses an interesting challenge. GPGPUs are used to exploit parallelism in non-graphic applications. While shared memory access is much faster than global memory accesses, the size of the available shared memory in current GPGPUs is limited to 16KB which puts a ceiling on the performance benefits that can be reaped. This paper proposes a design methodology to solve this problem by replacing the SRAM shared memory with an MRAM within the fixed area and power constraints. It also describes the design and policy of a write buffer which masks the latencies associated with MRAM writes.
Locating Randomly Selected Destinations in Large Multi-hop Wireless Networks

We focus on the problem of locating randomly selected destinations in large multi-hop wireless networks where potential destinations are distributed randomly in a circular region. In order to reduce the number of rebroadcasts, it may be bene(cid:12)cial to broadcast the inquiry packet with a certain Time-To-Live (TTL) to search those nodes within a limited hop-count from the source node, hoping to locate the destination without using the network-wide broadcast. Such a technique is termed Expanding Ring Search (ERS), which has been shown to be generally ine(cid:11)ective by other researchers when the TTL value is incremented by one after each failure. Therefore, it is interesting to identify the best search strategy, in terms of which set of TTLs should be used, for ERS. In this work, we estimate the expected number of network nodes that are within a (cid:12)xed hop from the source node located at the center of the circular region. We argue that, when the maximum hop-count of the network is known, a search strategy with three steps are the optimum. Closed-form search sets are derived through our analysis. Numerical and simulation results are presented to support our claim. It is shown that the search strategies based on the search sets perform relatively well in a number of di(cid:11)erent network regions, even when the source node is not located at the center of the region.
A hybrid learning for named entity recognition systems

This paper presents a hybrid method using machine learning approach for Named Entity Recognition (NER). A system built based on this method is able to achieve reasonable performance with minimal training data and gazetteers. The hybrid machine learning approach differs from previous machine learning-based systems in that it uses Maximum Entropy Model (MEM) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) successively. We report on the performance of our proposed NER system using British National Corpus (BNC). In the recognition process, we first use MEM to identify the named entities in the corpus by imposing some temporary tagging as references. The MEM walkthrough can be regarded as a training process for HMM, as we then use HMM for the final tagging. We show that with enough training data and appropriate error correction mechanism, this approach can achieve higher precision and recall than using a single statistical model. We conclude with our experimental results that indicate the flexibility of our system in different domains.
An approach for data privacy in hybrid cloud environment

The cloud computing immerges as a new computing technology where all required services are available as a service. In a cloud environment, location of data is generally maintained by a third party (service provider/vendor) and hence an individual has no control over its own data. In this context, data privacy is an important issue for cloud computing both in terms of legal compliance and user trust. In this paper, an approach for data privacy in hybrid cloud environment is focused. Initially, a data privacy model for cloud computing is provided in which sensitive and non-sensitive data are maintained separately. In order to maintain data privacy, an authentication monitor is introduced in this privacy model. Finally, the authentication algorithm is implemented in a very small setup cloud environment and experimental results are provided at the end of the paper.
The Southern Proper Motion Program. III. A Near-Complete Catalog to V = 17.5

We present the third installment of the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion Catalog, SPM3. Absolute proper motions, positions, and photographic BV photometry are given for roughly 10.7 million objects, primarily stars, down to a magnitude of V = 17.5. The catalog covers an irregular area of 3700 deg2, between the declinations of -20° and -45°, excluding the Galactic plane. The proper-motion precision for well-measured stars is estimated to be 4.0 mas yr-1. Unlike previous releases of the SPM Catalog, the proper motions are on the International Celestial Reference System by way of Hipparcos catalog stars and have an estimated systematic uncertainty of 0.4 mas yr-1. The SPM3 Catalog is available via electronic transfer. As an example of the potential of the SPM3 proper motions, we examine the Galactocentric velocities of a group of metal-poor, main-sequence A stars. The majority of these exhibit thick-disk kinematics, lending support to their interpretation as thick-disk blue stragglers, as opposed to being an accreted component.
LDM: Link Discovery Method for new Resource Integration

In this paper we address the problem of resource discovery in the Linked Open Data cloud (LOD) where data described by different schemas is not always linked. We propose an approach that allows discovery of new links between data. These links can help to match schemas that are conceptually relevant with respect to a given application domain. Furthermore, these links can be exploited during the querying process in order to combine data coming from different sources. In this approach we exploit the semantic knowledge declared in different schemas in order to model: (i) the inﬂuences between concept similarities, (ii) the inﬂuences between data similarities, and (iii) the inﬂuences between data and concept similarities. The similarity scores are computed by an iterative resolution of two non linear equation systems that express the concept similarity computation and the data similarity computation. The proposed approach is illustrated on scientiﬁc publication data.
A New Perspective on Hole Generation and Filling in DIBR Based View Synthesis

Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) technique is widely used to synthesize virtual views in many applications including multiview and free viewpoint video systems. In view of disocclusion problem in the view synthesis, the disoccluded regions known as holes in the virtual view need to be dealt with properly to generate a synthesized view of high quality. This paper first investigates the generation of holes in view interpolation and reveals concretely under what conditions the holes will appear. Accordingly a novel hole-filling method is proposed by fully utilizing the occlusion information. The proposed scheme can effectively locate the relevant background pixels including those occluded around the hole and make use of integrated background information in the hole filling. Experimental results show that our proposed approach demonstrates superior performance in terms of visual quality of the synthesized view.
Singing Voice Synthesis Combining Excitation plus Resonance and Sinusoidal plus Residual Models

This paper presents an approach to the modeling of the singing voice with a particular emphasis on the naturalness of the resulting synthetic voice. The underlying analysis/synthesis technique is based on the Spectral Modeling Synthesis (SMS) and a newly developed Excitation plus Resonance (EpR) model. With this approach a complete singing voice synthesizer is developed that generates a vocal melody out of the score and the phonetic transcription of a song.