Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE BEM ALGORITHM: AN EM METHOD BASED ON BAYESIAN

A new neural network learning algorithm based on Bayesian method (BEM algorithm) is presented. One disadvantage of the standard EM algorithm is its convergence to local minimum. The BEM algorithm overcomes the disadvantage by analysing the reasons. Furthermore, BEM avoids the EM's overfitting problem as well as its disability of generalization due to only responding to single patterm. Experimental result shows the BEM's correctness and validity. The BEM has academic values of contributing to the research and development of EM algorithm.
A Review of Pediatric General Anesthesia Combination Cases in the Special Health Care Needs Population

ii Dedication . iii Acknowledgments. iv Vita . v List of Tables . vii Chapter 1: Introduction. 1 Chapter 2: Materials and Methods. 9 Chapter 3: Results.12 Chapter 4: Discussion.23 Chapter 5: Conclusions.28 References.29
Estimating the Days to Success of Campaigns in Crowdfunding: A Deep Survival Perspective

Crowdfunding is an emerging mechanism for entrepreneurs or individuals to solicit funding from the public for their creative ideas. However, in these platforms, quite a large proportion of campaigns (projects) fail to raise enough money of backers’ supports by the declared expiration date. Actually, it is very urgent to predict the exact success time of campaigns. But this problem has not been well explored due to a series of domain and technical challenges. In this paper, we notice the implicit factor of distribution of backing behaviors has a positive impact on estimating the success time of the campaign. Therefore, we present a focused study on predicting two specific tasks, i.e., backing distribution prediction and success time prediction of campaigns. Specifically, we propose a Seq2seq based model with Multi-facet Priors (SMP), which can integrate heterogeneous features to jointly model the backing distribution and success time. Additionally, to keep the change of backing distributions more smooth as the backing behaviors increases, we develop a linear evolutionary prior for backing distribution prediction. Furthermore, due to high failure rate, the success time of most campaigns is unobservable. We model this censoring phenomenon from the survival analysis perspective and also develop a non-increasing prior and a partial prior for success time prediction. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments on a real-world dataset from Indiegogo. Experimental results clearly validate the effectiveness of SMP.
Successes and Challenges of Incompressible Flow Simulation

During the past thirty years, numerical methods and simulation tools for incompressible flows have been advanced as a subset of CFD discipline. Even though incompressible flows are encountered in many areas of engineering, simulation of compr essible flow has been the major driver for developing computational algorithms and tools. This is probably due to rather stringent requirements for predicting aerodynamic performance characteristics of flight vehicles, while flow devices involving low speed or incompressibl e flow could be reasonably well designed without resorting to accurate numerical simulations. As flow devices are required to be more sophisticated and highly efficient, CFD tools become indispensable in fluid engineering for incompressible and low speed flow. This paper is intended to review some of the successes made possible by advances in computational technologies during the same period, and discuss some of the current challenges.
Design and Control of a Haptic Enabled Robotic Manipulator

Robotic surgery offers various advantages over conventional surgery that includes less bleeding, less trauma, and more precise tissue cutting. However, even surgeons who use the best commercially available surgical robotic systems complain about the absence of haptic feedback in such systems. In this paper, we present the findings of our project to overcome this shortcoming of surgical robotic systems, in which a haptic-enabled robotic system based on master and slave topology is designed and developed. To detect real-time intrusion at the slave end, haptic feedback is implemented along with a programmable system on chip, functioning as an embedded system for processing information. In order to obtain real-time haptic feedback, force and motion sensors are mounted on each joint of the master and slave units. At the master end, results are displayed through a graphical user interface, along with the physical feeling of intrusion at the slave part. Apart from the obvious applications of the current system in robotic surgery, it could also be used in designing more intuitive video games with further precise haptic feedback mechanisms. Moreover, the results presented in our work should pave the way for further scientific investigation, to provide even better haptic mechanisms.
Hochempfindliche Oberflächenwellen-Sensoren für die Medizinische Diagnostik

Kernpunkt dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines Sensorsystems zur medizinischen Diagnostik von Immunreaktionen. Ein groses Interesse besteht an einer schnellen Detektion von Antigen-Antikorper-Reaktionen. Geringe Stoffkonzentrationen sollen im Bereich von µg/ml in Plasma, Serum oder Blut nachgewiesen werden. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde ein einfach handhabbares Sensorsystem entwickelt, das fur den Einsatz in Arztpraxen und Laboratorien geeignet ist. Als physikalische Grundlage dienen Sensoren auf der Basis von Oberflachenwellen. Als Mesgrose wird die Schallgeschwindigkeit detektiert, die sich aufgrund der Anlagerung des nachzuweisenden Stoffes an der sensitiven Bauteilschicht andert. Ein Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit ist eine Steigerung der Sensitivitat des Sensors in Hinblick auf die bereits am Markt etablierten Systeme. Zur Fuhrung der Oberflachenwelle wird hier erstmals Spin-On-Glas verwendet, welches wesentliche Vorteile gegenuber den sonst ublichen Materialien bietet. Besondere Interesse besteht darin, eine chemische Ankopplungsmethode zu entwickeln, die eine unspezifische Anlagerung von unerwunschten Stoffen aus Serum oder Blut verhindert. Dies gelang mit dem hier erstmals in der Sensorik verwendeten Polymer Polyvinylamin, das aus seinem Einsatz in der Papierindustrie bekannt ist.
Poor Children's Social Development and Child Care Quality: Differential Associations Related to Race/Ethnicity of the Child Care Provider

The Growing Up in Poverty Project (GUP) examines the child care settings that women use as they move from welfare to work. In this study, I focused on two aspects of quality--structural features of quality and providers' personal attributes and their beliefs about child-rearing, their relationship to the social development of young children in these settings, and how the settings' care and quality vary with the children's and providers' race/ethnicity. The GUP sample included Anglo, African-American, and Latino providers and mothers with children 12-42 months old who used non-parental child care in child care centers, family day care homes (FDCH), or informal kith/kin settings. Several instruments were used to measure structural level aspects of child care quality, the provider's affective and verbal responsiveness to children, the providers' responsiveness to children's language behaviors, and children's overall social development. Provider interviews explored their child care beliefs. Salient findings include (a) in child care centers and family day care homes, Latina and African-American providers differed from Anglo providers in measures of structural level aspects of child care quality; (b) in child care centers, African-American providers displayed positive behaviors toward children more often than Anglo providers; (c) in FDCH/kith and kin settings (combined for most analysis), African-American providers were more likely than Anglo providers to request the child to speak; (d) child care providers reported a greater number of behavioral problems with male children, irrespective of their racial/ethnicity; (e) the longer the period during which the mother received welfare benefits, the lower the incidence of provider-reported child behavior problems, regardless of race/ ethnicity; (f) for African-American and Anglo providers, higher incomes were associated with fewer provider-reported child behavioral problems; and (g) the ethnic match between parent and childcare provider did not significantly influence provider-reported behavioral problem incidents in children. These findings support those of previous researchers in some areas: male children appear to be at greater risk for reported behavioral problems and children of less poor parents appear to display more positive child outcomes. The study contributed new data that further inform our knowledge in this area.
Plug-and-Play: Improve Depth Estimation via Sparse Data Propagation

We propose a novel plug-and-play (PnP) module for improving depth prediction with taking arbitrary patterns of sparse depths as input. Given any pre-trained depth prediction model, our PnP module updates the intermediate feature map such that the model outputs new depths consistent with the given sparse depths. Our method requires no additional training and can be applied to practical applications such as leveraging both RGB and sparse LiDAR points to robustly estimate dense depth map. Our approach achieves consistent improvements on various state-of-the-art methods on indoor (i.e., NYU-v2) and outdoor (i.e., KITTI) datasets. Various types of LiDARs are also synthesized in our experiments to verify the general applicability of our PnP module in practice. For project page, see this https URL
Minimizing makespan on a single batch processing machine with non-identical job sizes

Nous considerons ici des machines telles que les fours, capables de traiter un groupe de jobs simultanement. Le groupe sera appele batch (ou fournee). La machine a une capacite limitee B et chaque job demande une fraction de cette capacite. Le temps de process du batch est le temps demande pour traiter le job le plus long dans le batch. Nous considerons le cas ou les besoins different d'un job a l'autre et ou l'objectif est de minimiser le temps total de traitement (makespan). Nous presentons deux nouvelles heuristiques capables, au vu des experiences numeriques, de donner de bonnes solutions en un temps tres raisonnable.
Cloud signature: An application to detect cloud-computing applications artifacts

During the process of investigating a computing device, law enforcement officers must analyze the device for any data that may be of evidentiary value. With the emergence of cloud-computing, the data may no longer be present on the physical device, but the data may exist on a remote server. Currently, there are no existing tools that are capable of detecting the presence of cloud-computing applications on seized devices. The lack of tools to support the presence of cloud-computing applications could mean that data with evidentiary value is not being detected. This thesis project designed and implemented a prototype tool that automatically detects the presence of supported cloud-computing based applications, and then interprets the data so that it can be presented to a law enforcement officer in a format that facilitates their forming a warrant to the cloud service provider for the evidence.
Conception d'architectures logicielles pour intégrer la qualité de service dans les applications multimédias répartiesMarie Sophie Voisin Laplacesous la direction de Franck Luthon

In order to be used, distributed multimedia applications have to respect temporal constraints. This is particularly difficult on current networks because of the volume of data which they manipulate. Moreover, the importance of user perception of a provided service is one of the multimedia applications more important features. Their performance is then dependent on variations of the run-time context, which are not predictable. Thus, we would like to guarantee the user of a distributed multimedia application to benefit from an optimum quality of service in a given context, using a dynamic adaptation of the application to its run-time context (hardware, software, network and external environment). In this PhD thesis, we define a design method for the application and a support for its execution using a distributed middleware, which adds or removes components, reconfigures and restructures the set of components that compose the application. In order to do that, we propose an application and a quality of service model and an associated distributed evaluation model. Then we define an heuristics adapted to multimedia constraints in order to find the best configuration whereas this problem is NP-complete. Finally we describe the simulator that validates our works.
The cinematic moment: improving audience testing of movies

ABSTRACT Whilst filmmakers intuitively believe that the movie experience must be emotionally engaging, audience testing continues to follow traditional approaches involving questionnaires and focus groups with insights mainly at the level of overall movie satisfaction. In this paper, we outline a theoretical framework for how the idea of the cinematic moment can support an improved test screening process for filmmakers, providing feedback for decisions about what narrative material is shown to the audience, what sequence it is to be ordered, and what emotional value it must carry. The paper also reveals the findings from the initial testing of the model using a commercially orientated 25-minute film in post-production, supported by interviews with industry practitioners.
EVALUASI PELAKSANAAN KURIKULUM 2013 PADA MATAPELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN JASMANI OLAHRAGA DAN KESEHATAN DI SMPN 6 MALANG DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN ANALISIS SWOT

bstract: This study aimed to evaluate the implementation of the curriculum in 2013 on the subjects PJOK in SMPN 6 Malang. The study, using the type of evaluative research and using SWOT analysis. A research procedure that uses evaluative research based on SWOT, is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The results of the evaluation of the implementation of the curriculum in 2013 by using SWOT analysis is at a very good standard of content. Excellent assessment standards. The standard process is very good. Competency standards either. Standard teachers and very good. Standard facilities and infrastructure are excellent. Standard finance is quite good and very good management standards. Key words: curriculum evaluation in 2013, sports physical education and health, SWOT analysis Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi pelaksanaan kurikulum 2013 pada matapelajaran PJOK di SMPN 6 Malang. Penelitian yang menggunakan jenis penelitian evaluatif dan menggunakan analisis SWOT. Prosedur penelitian yaitu menggunakan penelitian evaluatif berdasarkan SWOT, yaitu kekuatan, kelemahan, peluang dan ancaman. Hasil evaluasi dari pelaksanaan kurikulum 2013 dengan menggunakan analisis SWOT adalah pada standar isi sangat baik. Standar penilaian sangat baik. Standar proses sangat baik. Standar kompetensi lulusan baik. Standar pendidik dan tenaga kependidikan sangat baik. Standar sarana dan prasarana sangat baik. Standar pembiayaan cukup baik dan standar pengelolaan sangat baik. Kata Kunci: evaluasi kurikulum 2013, Pendidikan Jasmani Olahraga dan Kesehatan, analisis SWOT
A Shallow Grammar of Polish for Automatic Valence Acquisition

Unlikeso-calleddeepparsers,i.e.,computerprogramsattemptingtoﬁndacompletestructure(“parse”)ofasentence, shallow(orpartial)parsersarecontentwithﬁndingapartialstructureof the sentence, e.g., all simple nominal and prepositional groups. Shallow parsers turn outto be much more reliable than deep parsers, hence their widespread use in practical NLP(Natural Language Processing) applications, but they are also justiﬁed psycholinguistically(Abney, 1995, 1996). The aim of this paper is to present a shallow grammar of Polish currently under develop-ment within the Ministry of Education and Science grant Automatic extraction of linguisticknowledge from a large corpus of Polish (number 3T11C00328), aiming at the automatic ac-quisitionofvalence(subcategorisation, argumentstructure)informationfrommorphosyntac-tically annotated corpora. The parser implementing the grammar attempts to identify withineach sentence various syntactic groups which may be arguments of verbs: nominal groups,prepositionalgroups, clauses, etc. Theresultsoftheparser, whichmaycontainvariouserrorsdue to the earlier stages of processing, are then fed into a statistical module which appliesstatistical inference rules to ﬁnd out which of these linguistic observations may be trusted.
L'évolution sur longue période du prix des logements

Depuis le travail de pionnier realise par Gaston Duon dans les annees quarante sur le prix des logements a Paris de 1840 a 1944, la statistique publique, concentrant son effort presque exclusivement sur l'etude du nombre et du prix des logements neufs, avait neglige l'etude du prix des logements anciens, jusqu'a la publication des premiers indices «Notaires-INSEE» dans les annees quatre-vingt. L'approche decrite ici contribue a combler cette lacune. En exploitant les informations sur l'origine de propriete figurant dans les actes de vente numerises depuis plusieurs annees dans les bases de donnees notariales, elle permet de remonter plusieurs decennies dans le temps sans pour autant necessiter un retour toujours fastidieux aux archives administratives, notariales ou bancaires. La comparaison des series de prix des logements ainsi reconstituees jusqu'au milieu du dix-neuvieme siecle avec des series macroeconomiques, financieres, demographiques et autres 2 permet ensuite de caracteriser les evolutions du prix des logements.
Children's evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles

We have developed a formal model of certain types of riddles, and implemented it in a computer program, JAPE, which generates simple punning riddles. In order to test the model, we evaluated the behaviour of the program, by having 120 children aged eight to eleven years old rate JAPE-generated texts, human-generated texts, and non-joke texts for "jokiness" and funniness. This confirmed that JAPE's output texts are indeed jokes, and that there is no significant difference in funniness or jokiness between JAPE"s most comprehensible texts and published human-generated jokes.
PROCESAMIENTO DIGITAL DE IMAGENES Y VISION

ENTREVISTA REALIZADA A LOS INVESTIGADORES, LOS DOCTORES JOSE GUADALUPE PEREZ, FEDERICO FERNANDEZ, FRANCISCO CERVANTES Y JORGE LIRA, PARTICIPANTES EN EL CURSO "PROCESAMIENTO DIGITAL DE IMAGENES Y VISION", ORGANIZADO POR LA DGSCA, EN COLABORACION CON EL INSTITUTO WEIZMANN DE ISRAEL. HABLARON DEL DESARROLLO DE LA TECNICA DE PROCESAMIENTO DE IMAGENES (PDI) EN MEXICO, DONDE DIVERSOS GRUPOS DE INVESTIGACION LO ESTAN APLICANDO EN AREAS COMO LA ASTRONOMIA, FISICA, NEUROCIENCIAS E INGENIERIA.
A subthreshold mode programmable implementation of the Gaussian function for RBF neural networks applications

A new CMOS analog programmable Gaussian function for RBF neural networks, based on current mode operations and using devices operating in the subthreshold region is proposed. In order to maintain low voltage operation, the proposed circuit uses the gate and backgate terminals of the devices. The power supply is as low as 1.2 V. Analysis and simulations have shown that the new structure has a power consumption of less than 200 /spl mu/W. The proposed scheme produces an output which is related with a Gaussian input current without any nonlinear approximations. Although operating at subthreshold current levels, reasonable speed can be obtained since voltage swings are in the range of a few V/sub T/.
A Manual-Guided Therapy for Co-Occurring Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders Delivered by Community Addiction Counselors: Are Outcomes Different from Psychotherapy Delivered by Mental Health Professionals?

A Manual-Guided Therapy for Co-Occurring Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders Delivered by Community Addiction Counselors: Are Outcomes Different from Psychotherapy Delivered by Mental Health Professionals? Objective: Co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders are common in the general population and even more prevalent in clinical settings. Co-occurring disorders complicate treatment, and are associated with negative outcomes. Broad spectrum and implementation-friendly therapies may be both practical for providers and accessible to many patients with co-occurring disorders in routine addiction care settings. Methods: Within a randomized controlled trial design, 46 patients in methadone maintenance treatment, and with diagnosed cooccurring disorders, were assigned to either a manual-guided integrated therapy (Integrating Combined Therapies; ICT) delivered by onsite addiction counselors or to a non-manualized therapyas-usual (TAU), delivered by onsite mental health professionals. Participants in both study arms were also receiving methadone. Primary outcomes of substance use and psychiatric symptom severity, and therapy retention, were assessed from baseline to 3-, 6-, and 9-months.
Visualization Mapping Approaches for Developing and Understanding OER.

Open educational resources (OER) can be described in numerous ways (Creative Commons, 2012). In this visualization based context, however, OER can be defined as …teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. (Hewlett Foundation, 2007) This definition emphasizes some of the aspects highlighted in this article, namely that an OER approach has also been taken to capture and visualize OER materials. In addition reference is made to the forthcoming paper, “How Diagrams Aid Teaching and Learning in STEM Subjects as Exemplified by the Teaching and Learning of Systems Thinking in Practice” (Lane, 2012, in press), which outlines how the educational process often involves a mediated discourse between teachers and learners to aid sense or meaning for both parties.
Search Engines for Tomorrow's Scholars, Part Two

This two-part column considers how well some of today’s search tools support scholars’ work. The ﬁrst part of the column, in JWL 5.4, reviewed Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search (Fagan 2011) using a modiﬁed version of Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, and Carrier M. Pirmann’s framework (2009). Microsoft Academic Search is a strong contender when considering the interface needs of scholars, but unlike Google Scholar, it is not yet linked in to library resources. Google Scholar recently expanded its Scholar Citations service (Cordell 2011) but contains little support for the activities of browsing, assessing
Using analogue VLSI leaky integrate-and-fire neurons in a sound analysis system

Integrate-and-fire neurons are simple model neurons which can handle continuously time-varying signals. We have applied them to problems in real-time analysis of sounds. Two different chips have been built: the first had a fixed network architecture with all synaptic weights identical, and the second is reconfigurable. We present results characterising the latter chip, and results from processing real data from the earlier chip. We note that the second chip provides a more general integrate-and-fire neuron implementation.