Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Investigating Specialized Discourse

Collocamento internazionale del prodotto: L’editore ha sedi a Berna, Berlino, Bruxelles, Francoforte, New York, Oxford e Vienna e ha una rete di distribuzione che assicura la massima diffusione internazionale del prodotto. Carattere interdisciplinare: Pur avendo una forte connotazione linguistica, il prodotto si avvale di diversi approcci che vanno dalla sociolinguistica, alla pragmalinguistica, all’analisi testuale, nonche alla linguistica diacronica. La metodologia adottata tiene inoltre conto degli apporti di discipline scientifiche contigue, quali la semiotica e la filosofia della scienza, che offrono importanti elementi per la comprensione dei vari linguaggi specialistici, non solo in chiave sincronica ma anche nelle loro mutazioni nel corso dei secoli. Grado di internazionalizzazione della ricerca nella quale il prodotto si colloca: Il lavoro qui illustrato si colloca nel contesto di una ricerca di ampio respiro sui linguaggi specialistici che caratterizza il Centro di Ricerca sui Linguaggi Specialistici (CERLIS) da me diretto presso l’Universita di Bergamo (www.unibg.it/cerlis) Il Centro di Ricerca ha promosso due convegni internazionali, i cui risultati sono stai pubblicati nei volumi Gotti, M. / Dossena, M. (eds) 2001, Modality in Specialized Texts, Bern: Lang; e Gotti, M. / Heller, D. / Dossena, M. (eds) 2002, Conflict and Negotiation in Specialized Texts, Bern: Lang. Il prodotto qui presentato e uno dei risultati di un importante progetto a livello internazionale su ‘Generic Integrity in Legal Discourse’, coordinato dal gruppo di ricerca della City University of Hong Kong guidato dai proff. Vijay Bhatia e Christopher Candlin (http://gild.mmc.cityu.edu.hk). Alcuni risultati di tale progetto di ricerca sono pubblicati in Bhatia, V. / Candlin, C. / Gotti, M. (eds) 2003, Legal Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts, Bern: Lang. Notorieta del prodotto (indici bibliometrici): Il prodotto e citato nella MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography. Alcuni dei risultati esposti in questo volume (quelli riferiti alla nascita del genere del saggio sperimentale in Inghilterra) sono stati presentati in un panel del 4° Convegno Internazionale della European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), a cui hanno preso parte alcuni dei maggiori esperti dei linguaggi specialistici inglesi in chiave diacronica (Lilo Moessner, Irma Taavitsainen, Udo Fries, Manfred Markus, Thomas Kohnen, Anneli Meurman-Solin). Gli atti di tale panel sono stati pubblicati sull’European Journal of English Studies (vol. 5, n. 2, Aug. 2001, ISSN 1382-5577). Un altro tema trattato nel volume (la modalita nei linguaggi specialistici) e apparso in Gotti, M. / Dossena, M. (eds) 2001, Modality in Specialized Texts, Bern: Lang (pp. 89-112) citato in YWES vol. 82 (2003).
Dosing accuracy of measuring devices provided with antibiotic oral suspensions

Liquid preparations are often used in order to meet the challenge of providing appropriate formulations for a wide range of differently aged paediatric groups. Dosing accuracy of pharmaceutical suspensions depends mainly on the homogeneity of the dispersion and the dosing aid supplied. However, previous studies mainly focussed on the effect of redispersibility of pharmaceutical suspensions on content uniformity.
Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for Modeling Predicting Hardness Change of Wood during Heat Treatment

In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was built to study the relationship between the process parameters of heat treatment and the hardness of wood. Three important parameters: temperature (170, 180, 190, 200 and 210°C), treatment time (2, 4, 6 and 8h), and wood species (Larch and Poplar) were considered as the inputs to the neural network. There were four neurons in the hidden layer that were used, and an output layer as wood hardness. According to the results, the mean absolute percentage errors (MAPE) were determined as 0.1167%, 0.355% and 1.34% in the prediction of wood hardness values for training, validation, and testing data sets. Determination coefficients (R2) greater than 0.99 were obtained for all data sets with the proposed ANN models. These results show that ANN models can be used successfully for predicting hardness changes hardness of wood during heat treatment.
Statistics for the Biosciences: Data Analysis Using Minitab Software

1. Introduction to Statistical Principles in the Biosciences.2. Data Analysis Principles for Analysing Biological Data.3. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing for Simple Biological Experiments.4. Non-Parametric Methods for Simple Biological Experiments.5. One Factor Design Structures for Biological Experiments.6. Factorial Design Structures for Biological Experimentation.7. Regression Modelling Methods in the Biosciences.8. Applications of Linear Regression Specific to Laboratory Experimentation.9. Introduction to the Application of Multivariate Methods in the Biosciences.Appendix A: Statistical Formulae.Appendix B: Statistical Tables.References. Answers to Selected Problems.
Tonal description of music audio signals

This doctoral dissertation proposes and evaluates a computational approach for the automatic description of tonal aspects of music from the analysis of polyphonic audio signals. These algorithms focus on the computation of pitch class distributions descriptors, the estimation of the key of a piece, the visualization of the evolution of its tonal center or the measurement of the similarity between two different musical pieces. This dissertation substantially contributes to the field of computational tonal description: a) It provides a multidisciplinary review of tonal induction systems; b) It defines a set of requirements for low-level tonal features; c) It provides a quantitative and modular evaluation of the proposed methods; d) It contributes to bridge the gap between audio and symbolic-oriented methods without the need of a perfect transcription; e) It extents current literature dealing with classical music to other musical genres; f) It shows the usefulness of tonal descriptors for music similarity; g) It provides an optimized method which is used in a real system for music visualization and retrieval, working with over a million of musical pieces.
Big Pharma Versus Small Patient

Taking a pill may be easy, but then there are the side effects, and those can be potentially dangerous (e.g., in the case of certain psychiatric drugs). Side Effects, a critical film that goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry, raises questions about the efficacy and safety of drugs and challenges the ethical standards of Big Pharma. To have a relationship with the drug industry is not inherently insidious—most countries with an advanced biomedical research infrastructure use commercial entities as an essential element of their technology-development process; however, practitioners as well as patients need to be sensitive to the influence of market forces on scientific representation as well as public opinion. Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, a former pharmaceutical representative who wrote, directed, and produced this independent movie, offers an insider's view into the inner workings of Big Pharma. As a researcher without ties to the pharmaceutical industry but with insights into at least some controversies surrounding psychiatric drugs (Raz, 2006), Amir Raz wanted to make certain that Slattery-Moschkau was not a disgruntled employee and that her account was realistic. He therefore reached out to a Columbia University psychology postbaccalaureate student, Joy K. Harrington, who had been a Big Pharma drug rep for almost a decade and who agreed to coauthor this review. According to Slattery-Moschkau (and Harrington concurs), reps are attractive, young individuals who are often minimally qualified for the job but who are ―trained‖ by a well-lubricated drug marketing machine to bolster company sales. The reward—that is, generous compensation with perks—blinds the rep into a mind-numbing acquiescence with specious industry slogans (e.g., ―to better human lives‖) and inadequate ethics. Side Effects contrasts the proclaimed goal of manufacturing helpful drugs with the potentially contradictory economic incentives driving the pharmaceutical companies’ actions. Although lay people may consider Side Effects to be a satirical look at the goings on (high jinks) in the pharmaceutical industry, Harrington felt that the film accurately depicts a rep's world, including the dubious promotional techniques and marketing tactics encouraged by Big Pharma—for example, a campaign aimed at creating or increasing anxiety (Ferner, 1994). Harrington recalls that reports of an especially harsh winter, with respiratory illnesses predicted to hit an all-time high, are a good way to fuel sales, as marketing teams clamor to carefully script a message designed to capitalize on the public's vulnerabilities.
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.
Intermediate tyre model for vehicle handling simulation

Abstract The work presented in this article describes a new mathematical model of the force and moment components generated in a tyre to road surface contact patch. The model has been implemented with the industry standard multi-body systems program MSC.ADAMS™ and is intended for use in computer simulations of proving ground-test manoeuvres used to evaluate vehicle handling performance. The proposed model uses a small set of model parameters that can be obtained without recourse to special software and can be easily manipulated to fit the model to tyre test data. The model has been exercised and compared with two existing tyre models using a multibody computer model of a tyre test machine and has been shown to produce reliable predictions of the important forces and moments generated in a tyre contact patch. The tyre test data and model parameters used are provided here. The evaluation at this stage is related to the tyre characteristics needed to simulate vehicle braking and cornering manoeuvres.
Clustering and visualizing solution variation in massive programming classes

2016-2018 EECS Postdoctoral Scholar Berkeley Institute of Design, EECS Department, UC Berkeley Funded by NSF Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering and the Berkeley Institute of Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Supervised by Björn Hartmann, Associate Professor of EECS 2012-2016 Graduate student User Interface Design Group, EECS Department, CSAIL, MIT PhD Thesis: Clustering and Visualizing Solution Variation in Massive Programming Classes Advised by Robert Miller, Distinguished Professor of CS 2008-2011 Graduate student Robot Locomotion Group, EECS Department, CSAIL, MIT M.Eng. Thesis: A quadratic regulator-based heuristic for rapidly exploring state space Advised by Russ Tedrake, Professor of EECS 2010-2011 Visiting researcher Biomimetics & Dexterous Manipulation Lab, Stanford University 2006-2008 Undergraduate researcher Robot Locomotion Group, CSAIL, MIT 2004-2006 Undergraduate researcher Networks & Mobile Systems, CSAIL, MIT 2003-2004 Invited high school student researcher Pyschology Dept’s EEG Lab, Princeton University
Technology, Models, and 21st-Century Learning: How Models, Standards, and Theories Make Learning Powerful

: This paper describes the variety of educational technology models, how they all fall short in some ways, and how they can be used together to form a powerful integrative model that can be used to evaluate technology applications in the classroom. The integrative model is a tool to help teachers think about and improve their use of technology. It combines the best of various models, including SAMR, TPACK, Technology Integration Matrix, and more.
Rôle de la ségrégation séquentielle pour la séparation de voix concurrentes

La segregation sequentielle n'a ete que tres peu etudiee avec des signaux de parole et il est donc difficile d'evaluer l'implication de ce mecanisme dans la separation de voix concurrentes. Il est aussi difficile d'identifier les indices qui sont pertinents pour la separation de signaux de parole, ces indices ayant surtout ete etudies isolement a l'aide de signaux tres simples. L'objet de cette these est d'etudier les indices perceptifs impliques dans la segregation sequentielle de voyelles differant par leur hauteur fondamentale. Les investigations menees montrent que les indices spectraux de hauteur jouent un role dans ce phenomene. En revanche, la periodicite de l'enveloppe temporelle ne semble pas constituer un indice de hauteur exploitable dans le cas de la parole. Enfin, il semble que la capacite des sujets a percevoir ces deux types d'indices ne permette pas d'expliquer l'ensemble des variations de performances des sujets dans une tâche de segregation sequentielle de voyelles.
Reason for hope : a spiritual journey

Those who know Jane Goodall through her many books, speeches, and National Geographic television specials, know she is obviously no ordinary scientist. She is a genuinely spiritual woman who cares passionately about the preservation and enhancement of life in all its forms.Based upon the many spiritual experiences that have graced and shaped her outlook on life, Dr. Goodall is convinced there is a higher purpose to life, and that this purpose can best be served by a sense of reverence for creation- a commitment to opening our hearts and minds to the spiritual ties that bind us to the Earth.In this book, Dr. Goodall takes us through the pivotal events of her life- her childhood in war-torn England, her relationship with the Leakeys, her groundbreaking work with the chimpanzees of Gombe- and in doing so, touches upon such topics as faith and love, mysticism and science, the origins of good and evil and evolution, and the existence of the soul and of God. She sheds light not only on why millions of people today are hungry for meaning, but on the steps we can take to transform our lives for the better; to rekindle our spirits and reawaken our minds
Automatising language creativity for learning second language vocabulary

Vocabulary acquisition constitutes a crucial but difficult and time consuming step of learning a foreign language. There exist several teaching methods which aim to facilitate this step by providing learners with various verbal and visual tips. However, building systems based on these methods is generally very costly since it requires so many resources such as time, money and human labour. In this paper, we introduce a fully automatised vocabulary teaching system which uses state of the art natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) techniques. For each foreign word the user is willing to learn, the system is capable of automatically producing memorisation tips including keywords, sentences, colours, textual animations and images. Our preliminary results are very promising and they highlight a new perspective for vocabulary learning systems which is worth to be further explored.
Body condition scoring: A management tool

Body condition scoring provides a tool to help the dairy herd manager evaluate his/her nutrition and management program. It takes time, has an associated cost, and will result in a positive economic return if one makes management changes suggested by the results. Body condition scoring done simultaneously with other herd events reduces the time required and provides the herd manager with coordinated information. ; Dairy Day, 1993, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 1993;
Kandinsky, complete writings on art

Of all the giants of twentieth-century art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866--1944) was the most prolific writer. Here, available for the first time in paperback, are all of Kandinsky's writings on art, newly translated into English. Editors Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo have taken their translations directly from Kandinsky's original texts, and have included select interviews, lecture notes, and newly discovered items along with his more formal writings. The pieces range from one-page essays to the book-length treatises On the Spiritual in Art (1911) and Point and Line to Plane (1926), and are arranged in chronological order from 1901 to 1943. The poetry, good enough to stand on its literary merits, is presented with all the original accompanying illustrations. And the book's design follows Kandinsky's intentions, preserving the spirit of the original typography and layout.Kandinsky was nearly thirty before he bravely gave up an academic career in law for his true passion, painting. Though his art was marked by extraordinarily varied styles, Kandinsky sought a pure art throughout, one which would express the soul, or "inner necessity," of the artist. His uncompromising search for an art which would elicit a response to itself rather than to the object depicted resulted in the birth of nonobjective art--and in these writings, Kandinsky offered the first cogent explanation of his aims. His language was characterized by its desire for vivification, of the infusion of life into mundane things.Considered as a whole, Kandinsky's writings exceed all expectations of what an artist should accomplish with words. Not only do his ideas and observations make us rethink the nature of art and the way it reflects the aspirations of his era, but they touch on matters vital to the situation of the human soul.
La investigación cualitativa

Se presenta la conceptualizacion y logica de la investigacion cualitativa, que, por tener rango de cientificidad, implica (y no siempre se cumple) gran rigurosidad descriptiva en el registro, y por su caracter de cualitativa se fundamenta en una recogida de informacion en base a datos categoricos, que, en consecuencia, podran someterse al proceso de categorizacion y a las fases aqui indicadas, siendo despues altamente recomendable proceder a la triangulacion, acrecentando su validez. Si desde su trayectoria historica la investigacion cualitativa ha sufrido diversas vicisitudes, tambien, en consecuencia los estudios de caso unico supeditados a esta metodologia, contemplandose desde una posicion en que el respeto a la espontaneidad en todo lo que envuelve al caso Unico nos imposibilita la replicabilidad y plantea serios problemas a la generalizacion, que debera resolverse mediante la elaboracion de un diseno adecuado.
New TCM codes for AWGN and ISI channel by matched symbol-mapping method

A new trellis coded modulation (TCM) design method is presented in this paper in order to improve the coding gain for wireless communications through AWGN and intersymbol interference (ISI) channel. In this work, a definition for matching the distribution of received symbol probability to the signal subset construction, called "matched symbol-mapping", is proposed. Several new codes have been constructed at throughput (Rb) of 1, 1.5, 2.5 and 3 bits/sec/Hz. They have been simulated in AWGN, and in multipath Rayleigh fading (ISI) channel with signal equalization by sub-optimum soft output equalizer (SSE), and with pre-equalization by phase precoding. Results show that the proposed method can be used successfully to construct new TCM codes achieving a better performance.
Correlation Between Burnout Syndrome and Anxiety in Military Personnel

Abstract Professional military personnel are exposed to a large number of stressors every day at a higher rate than the civilian population, which can lead to psychological disturbances, primarily anxiety, as well as burnout syndrome. The aim of our investigation was to determine the correlation between burnout syndrome and anxiety in military personnel of the Serbian Armed Forces. The cross-sectional study included a total of 311 professional military personnel (officers, non-commissioned officers and professional soldiers), between 23 to 53 years of age (35.3±7 years, on the average) without previous diagnosis of mental disorder. For purpose of this study we used Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). MBI contains three subscales, which measure three components of burnout: Emotional exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP) and Personal accomplishment (PA). The statistical analysis included parametric and non-parametric descriptive statistics. The highest level of burnout was measured on the sub-scales Emotional exhaustion (EE) in military personnel from 23 to 30 years old (p<0.05), while anxiety increased with age of military personnel (p<0.001). Total scores on the subscales Emotional exhaustion (EE) and Depersonalization (DP) increased, while on the subscale Personal accomplishment (PA) decreased with the increase of the total BAI score (p<0.001). There was a correlation between burnout syndrome and anxiety in professional military personnel of Serbian Armed Forces. Improving the financial situation, paid recreational breaks and reduction of professional obligations could decrease anxiety and affect the prevention of the occurrence of burnout syndrome in the military environment.
THE PERCEPTUAL-MAGNET EFFECT: AN EMERGENT CONSEQUENCE OF EXEMPLAR-BASED PHONETIC MEMORY

This paper uses a mathematical model of infant speech perception to examine the assumptions and consequences of Kuhl's Native Language Magnet theory (NLM). A basic assumption of the NLM theory is that perceptual space is partitioned into phonetically relevant categories that are represented by category prototypes  the category's "best exemplar". The category prototypes function as “perceptual magnets” that attract exemplars falling within their zone of influence. As a consequence, discrimination as a function of the auditory distance between a prototype and other exemplars is low in the neighborhood of the prototype and has an increasing positive derivative as the exemplar moves away from the prototype (discrimination is proportional to the square or the cube of the auditory distance between the prototype and the exemplar). While Kuhl's description of the perceptual magnet effect in terms of prototypes is elegant, I argue that the magnet effect emerges from a simple similarity metric operating on collections of exemplars stored in memory, without the need to refer to special exemplars.
Teaching science and technology via online distance learning: the experience of teaching biostatistics in an online Master of Public Health programme

This paper describes the development and teaching of a biostatistics module within a fully online distance learning Master of Public Health (MPH) programme at the University of Manchester. The MPH programme caters for students from over 40 countries worldwide and all materials are delivered via the Blackboard virtual learning environment. In this paper we describe how we have developed teaching materials according to the pedagogic approach and embraced new technologies to allow us to enhance the learning experience for our students. This has been carried out within a dedicated multi‐disciplinary team incorporating academics, e‐learning technologists and administrative staff.