Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Complete Guide to Mmx Technology

From the Publisher: Intel's new MMX TM technologynow built into every Pentium and other Intel Desktop processorcan dramatically increase the performance of multimedia applications. This unique book,written by members of the Intel MMX architecture team,makes MMX technology understandable and accessible to all readers and provides a wealth of practical advice on using MMX technology to maximum advantagecompatibility features,expanded instruction set,code examples and programming utilities on an accompanying CD-ROM,optimization guidelines,tips on using MMX tools,and techniques for MMX coding. Let key members of Intel's MMX architecture team show you how to boost multimedia application performance! Don't let the MMX technology revolution leave you behind! Find out how to use Intel's new MMX instruction set,now being built into every microprocessor,to vastly improve the performance of multimedia and other computer-intensive applications. This instruction set,with its advanced SIMD (Single Instruction,Multiple Data) processing,achieves maximum throughput for your data. And this is the place to learn about it. Whether you are an applications or systems programmer who will be working with MMX technology every day or an end user who is just wondering what it's all about,this first-ever guided tour to the world of MMX technology,conducted by key members of Intel's top MMX technology architecture team,will give you the knowledge you need. The authors not only explain the underlying concepts and operation of MMX in a lively and highly readable way,but they also provide a wealth of technical details on using MMX technology to maximum advantage. The book includes: a complete overviewof MMX technologydesign considerations,architectural guidelines,data types,and instructions; a discussion of compatibility featuresaliasing,OS system invisibility,and exception structure; a description of the instruction set,with code examples and programming utilities on an accompanying CD-ROM; coding samples,optimization guidelines,and techniques for writing MMX technology code in the IA-32 environment. If you build,market,or use PC multimedia applications3D graphics,videoconferencing,interactive video,speech recognition,animation,games,virtual reality,and morethis book can dramatically improve your understanding of MMX technology and give you the inside technical knowledge you need to achieve maximum performance.
Combining statistical and phonetic analyses of spontaneous discourse segmentation

This paper presents a method to study prosodic features of discourse structure in unrestricted spontaneous speech. Past work has indicated that one of the major difficulties that discourse prosody analysts have to overcome is finding an independent specification of hierarchical discourse structure, so that one avoids circularity. Previous studies have tried to solve this problem by constraining the discourse or by basing segmentations on a specific discourse theory. The current investigation explores the possibility of experimentally determining discourse boundaries in unrestricted speech. In a next stage, it is investigated to what extent boundaries obtained in this way correlate with specific prosodic vari— ables.
Establishing the validity of reading-into-writing test tasks for the UK academic context

The present study aimed to establish a test development and validation framework of reading-into-writing tests to improve the accountability of using the integrated task type to assess test takers' ability in Academic English. This study applied Weir's (2005) socio-cognitive framework to collect three components of test validity: context validity, cognitive validity and criterionrelated validity of two common types of reading-into-writing test tasks (essay task with multiple verbal inputs and essay task with multiple verbal and nonverbal inputs). Through literature review and a series of pilot, a set of contextual and cognitive parameters that are useful to explicitly describe the features of the target academic writing tasks and the cognitive processes required to complete these tasks successfully was defined at the pilot phase of this study. A mixed-method approach was used in the main study to establish the context, cognitive and criterion-related validity of the reading-into-writing test tasks. First of all, for context validity, expert judgement and automated textual analysis were applied to examine the degree of correspondence of the contextual features (overall task setting and input text features) of the readinginto-writing test tasks to those of the target academic writing tasks. For cognitive validity, a cognitive process questionnaire was developed to assist participants to report the processes they employed on the two reading-intowriting test tasks and two real-life academic tasks. A total of 443
Design of Secure Efficient Routing Scheme Based on AODV

Mobile Ad hoc networks usually use Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector(AODV) protocol for lower overhead,but vulnerable to attacks for the lack of security mechanism.A security enhancement scheme based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC),self-certified pubic key,one-way Hash-chain is proposed,it establishes the session key between source and destination.Experimental results show that the proposed protocol is secure and efficient.
Understanding the role of network externalities in software systems: a case study on Microsoft Word 97

Abstract Network externalities are the effects on the value of a product that can be ascribed to the presence of a network of users of such product. They play an essential role in the business success of any product. The authors think that such role is even larger in the software industry, where (a) documentation and effective training often lack, and (b) consumers regard as major benefits interoperability and compatibility, because of the ever increasing need to share information and re-process it over and over again with different tools. However, only few studies exist on this topic. Network externalities are caused by choices operated at different level of the design of a product: data format, GUI metaphors, keyboard sequences, API, and so on. Understanding and planning their presence in a product is difficult. However, the ability of manipulating them properly provides a clear competitive advantage. This paper reviews briefly the literature on network externalities, outlines a graphic notation to represent them, and applies such notation to describe an exemplar case, that of Microsoft Word 97. The study of the network externalities of Microsoft Word 97 evidences the several different kinds of externalities present in it. The authors focus their considerations on the data format, the API, and the human-computer interaction paradigm.
The Greek and Macedonian Art of War

This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, and shows the military conventions and strategies associated with it. He then recounts how the art of war gradually evolved into new forms through the contributions of such men as the great commander Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon, his son Alexander the Great, and others. He also discusses the independence of land and sea power, describes the first use of calvary, and tells of the ingenious Greek devices of siegecraft, including the "fifth column. "
Kia matatau ki te reo: Factors influencing the development of proficiency in te reo Māori with adult learners

This thesis sought to answer the question: what factors help or hinder adult Māori second language learners to become proficient speakers of te reo Māori? I ask this question at moment in history when te reo, like other indigenous languages, sits on the edge of a precipice in terms of its survival as a living language. Ambivalence and inaction will almost certainly constitute a push towards oblivion. Nothing less than concerted effort can pull te reo back from the brink. But what kind of concerted effort is needed and how can individual learners optimise their efforts to learn te reo? Te reo must survive because, as Sir James Henare put it, ‘ko te reo te hā o te Māoritanga’, meaning ‘the language is the essence of Māori culture. ’ Without te reo the very survival of Māori people as Māori is in doubt. My questions and the thesis occupy a multidisciplinary space, drawing on research from adult second language acquisition, teaching pedagogy and language revitalisation. The thesis makes an original contribution to all three bodies of literature by examining data from a previously untapped source; successful adult Māori language learners. I interviewed 17 participants. All highly proficient second language speakers of te reo. All learned te reo as adults. Adult second language learning of endangered languages is broadly acknowledged in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as essential to re-establishing Intergenerational Transmission of Language (ITL) in the home to ensure an endangered language is passed on to future generations. The interview questionnaire was based loosely on 10 help/hinder factors I identified through a review of the literature from the three research fields (adult second language acquisition, teaching pedagogy and language revitalisation). The ten factors identified in the review were; language aptitude, age, learner attitudes and motivation, learning strategies, instruction, agency and anxiety, wairua (the spiritual dimension), demography, language status, and language planning.
On the selection of prosodic features for language modeling

Previous studies show that immediate and long range prosodic context provide beneficial information when applied to a language model. However, the fact that some features provide more information to the prediction task should be considered. If the information contribution of each feature can be determined, then a well-crafted feature set can be built to improve the performance of a language model. In this study, I measure the contribution of different prosodic features to a baseline trigram model. Using this information, it should be possible to build a language model that uses the most informative resources and ultimately performs better than a language model that includes prosodic information naively. Using this information, I build a prosodic feature set of 103 prosodic features from past and future context computed for both speaker and interlocutor. Principal component analysis is applied to this feature set to build a model that achieves a 25.9% perplexity reduction relative to a tri-gram model. However, this model falls short of performance improvements achieved by a similar model without proper feature selection by –1.2%.
An Extrinsic Evaluation for Question-Biased Text Summarization on QA tasks

This paper proposes a Question-Biased Text Summarization (QBTS) approach that is useful for question-answering systems. QBTS is an extension of Query-Biased Text Summarization in the sense that summarization is biased not only by the question, which corresponds to the query, but also by the prospective answers to the question. We conducted text summarization experiments based on QA tasks and confirmed the effectiveness of our method in obtaining short summaries.
Statistical Multisource-Multitarget Information Fusion

This comprehensive resource provides you with an in-depth understanding of finite-set statistics (FISST) - a recently developed method which unifies much of information fusion under a single probabilistic, in fact Bayesian, paradigm. The book helps you master FISST concepts, techniques, and algorithms, so you can use FISST to address real-world challenges in the field. You learn how to model, fuse, and process highly disparate information sources, and detect and track non-cooperative individual/platform groups and conventional non-cooperative targets. You find a rigorous Bayesian unification for many aspects of expert systems theory. Moreover, the book presents systematic integral and differential calculus for multisource-multitarget problems, providing a methodology for devising rigorous new techniques. This accessible and detailed book is supported with over 3,000 equations, 90 clear examples, 70 explanatory figures, and 60 exercises with solutions.
A Popperian consilience : modelling mathematical knowledge and understanding

Goldin (2003) and McDonald, Yanchar, and Osguthorpe (2005) have called for mathematics learning theory that reconciles the chasm between ideologies, and which may advance mathematics teaching and learning practice. This paper discusses the theoretical underpinnings of a recently completed PhD study that draws upon Popper’s (1978) three-world model of knowledge as a lens through which to reconsider a variety of learning theories, including Piaget’s reflective abstraction. Based upon this consideration of theories, an alternative theoretical framework and complementary operational model was synthesised, the viability of which was demonstrated by its use to analyse the domain of early-number counting, addition and subtraction.
A Visual Rendering of a Semantic Wiki Query Language

KiWi is a semantic Wiki, aiming to combine the wiki philosophy of collaborative content creation and the methods of the Semantic Web to enable effective knowledge management. Its intended use is in enterprise knowledge management and other social software settings, and thus encompasses a broad spectrum of possible users. To accommodate users with varying technological backgrounds and varying intended uses for the software, KiWi has its own keyword-based query language, KWQL, which allows for both very complex querying and construction based on the internal KiWi model, and simple keyword queries. This thesis introduces visKWQL and the KWQL Query Builder, a visual rendering of and editor for the textual KWQL language, that allows the creation of queries by constructing them from visual building blocks, each corresponding to an operator or keyword of the KWQL language. The Query Builder supports the user in the creation of queries by preventing operations that would result in syntactically incorrect queries, visually displays problems in the query, guides the user with hints and warnings through the query creation process and displays descriptions of the visible building blocks. The Query Builder automatically translates the visual query into its textual form. Additionally, since it also includes a parser for KWQL, it supports round-tripping, allowing the user to edit the textual query without using the visual Query Builder, and see the changes reflected in the visual representation, or to further textually edit a query generated using the visual editor. This thesis first gives an overview of different visual languages and methodologies and a short introduction to KiWi and the KiWi Query Language. Afterwards, visKWQL and the KWQL Query Builder are introduced, first giving an overview of the language and editor features, followed by a user’s manual and a look at the implementation.
Input variable selection for time series forecasting with artificial neural networks:an empirical evaluation across varying time series frequencies

Over the last two decades there has been an increase in the research of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to forecasting problems. Both in theoretical and empirical works, ANNs have shown evidence of good performance, in many cases outperforming established statistical benchmarks. This thesis starts by reviewing the advances in ANNs for time series forecasting, assessing their performance in the literature, analysing the current state of the art, the modelling issues that have been solved and which are still critical for forecasting with ANNs, thereby indicating future research directions. The specification of the input vector is identified as the most crucial unresolved modelling issue for ANNs’ accuracy. Notably, there is no rigorous empirical evaluation of the multiple published input variable selection methodologies. This problem is addressed from four different perspectives. A rigorous evaluation of several published methodologies, along with new proposed variations, is performed on low frequency data, exploring which input variable selection methodologies perform best. This analysis concludes that regression based methodologies outperformed other linear and nonlinear ones. The best way to code deterministic seasonality in the inputs of the ANNs is explored, a topic overlooked in the ANN literature, and a parsimonious encoding based on seasonal indices is proposed. The effect of the frequency of the time series on specifying the inputs for ANNs for forecasting is evaluated, revealing several challenges in modelling high frequency time series and providing evidence that the performance of several input variable specification methodologies is not consistent for different data frequencies. This leads to an evaluation of methodologies to select input variables for ANNs solely for high frequency data. Regression based methodologies are found to perform best, in agreement with the evaluation on low frequency dataset, while the ranking of the remaining methodologies is found to be inconsistent for different data frequencies.
Parallel three-dimensional acoustic and elastic wave simulation methods with applications in nondestructive evaluation

PAGE In this dissertation, we present two parallelized 3D simulation techniques for threedimensional acoustic and elastic wave propagation based on the finite integration technique. We demonstrate their usefulness in solving real-world problems with examples in the three very different areas of nondestructive evaluation, medical imaging, and security screening. More precisely, these include concealed weapons detection, periodontal ultrasography, and guided wave inspection of complex piping systems. We have employed these simulation methods to study complex wave phenomena and to develop and test a variety of signal processing and hardware configurations. Simulation results are compared to experimental measurements to confirm the accuracy of the parallel simulation methods. R e p ro d u c e d with p erm iss ion of th e copyright ow ner. F u r the r reproduction prohibited without perm iss ion . Table of
Using Hidden-Markov-Models to analyze Concentrations from Biosensor Curves

In this paper a Hidden-Markov-Model (HMM) is adapted to analyze curves from amperometric biosensors. The main challenge is to detect a specific time interval during sampling, representative for the concentration, and to detect a time-point at which measurement may be terminated. This is in stark contrast to other applications of HMMs where they are implemented for pattern classification tasks. An appropriate algorithm for analysis is devised and a specific initialization of the Baum-Welch algorithm developed with a modification of the training algorithm itself. Results for a representative set of signal curve from different analytes are given.
Heuristic algorithms for wireless mesh network planning

Technologies like IEEE 802.16j wireless mesh networks are drawing increasing attention of the research community. Mesh networks are economically viable and may extend services such as Internet to remote locations. This thesis takes interest into a planning problem in IEEE 802.16j networks, where we need to establish minimum cost relay and base stations to cover the bandwidth demand of wireless clients. A special feature of this planning problem is that any node in this network can send data to at most one node towards the next hop, thus traffic flow is unsplittable from source to destination. We study different integer programming formulations of the problem. We propose four types of heuristic algorithms that uses greedy, local search, variable neighborhood search and Lagrangian relaxation based approaches for the problem. We evaluate the algorithms on database of network instances of 500-5000 nodes, some of which are randomly generated network instances, while other network instances are generated over geometric distribution. Our experiments show that the proposed algorithms produce satisfactory result compared to benchmarks produced by generalized optimization problem solver software.
WPP: A Secure Payment Protocol For Supporting Credit- And Debit -Card Transactions Over Wireless Networks

The proliferation of wireless devices, offering connectivity and convenience, continues to exert tremendous pressure on merchants to deploy secure wireless applications including electronic commerce. One key element, which would assist them in fulfilling this requirement, is a standard protocol for supporting bot h electronic credit card and debit card transactions over wireless networks. Although the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol offers end-to-end security for credit card transactions over a wired infrastructure, there are several factors including bandwidth requirements which make it unsuitable for wireless applications. This paper presents the Wireless Payment Protocol (WPP) that supports both credit-card and debit -card transactions using the Wireless Application Protocol’s (WAP) Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) and Smart Card technology. In addition, a brief comparison to SET is made in order to illustrate the key attributes of the WPP.
UCPOP User's Manual

The ucpop partial order planning algorithm handles a subset of the KRSL action representation [1] that corresponds roughly with Pednault's ADL language [12] and prodigy's PDL language [10]. In particular, ucpop operates with actions de ned using conditionals and nested quanti cation. This manual describes a Common Lisp implementation of ucpop, explains how to set up and run the planner, details the action representations syntax, and outlines the main data structures and how they are manipulated. Features include: Universal quanti cation over dynamic universes (i.e., object creation and destruction), Domain axioms over strati ed theories, \Facts" i.e. predicates expanding to lisp code, Speci cation of safety constraints in domain de nition, Advanced CLIM-based graphic plan-space browser with multiple views, Declarative speci cation of search control rules, Large set of domain theories & search functions for testing, Expanded users manual and tutorial introductions.
Tire performance characteristics affecting vehicle response to steering and braking control inputs. Final report

A THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF TIRE-MECHANICS CHARACTERISTICS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF AN AUTOMOBILE UNDERGOING MANEUVERS REQUIRING THE TIRES TO PRODUCE COMBINED LONGITUDINAL AND LATERAL FORCES WAS PERFORMED. A SIMULATION MODEL SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO STUDY VEHICLE RESPONSE UNDER SKIDDING AND NEAR-SKIDDING CONDITIONS WAS DEVELOPED. THE MODEL INCLUDED A REPRESENTATION OF WHEEL ROTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM, AND RELATIONSHIPS EXPRESSING THE LONGITUDINAL AND LATERAL TIRE SHEAR FORCE COMPONENTS AS ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS OF TIRE NORMAL LOAD, SIDESLIP AND INCLINATION ANGLES, AND LONGITUDINAL SLIP. THE TIRE SHEAR FORCE RELATIONSHIPS WERE SHOWN TO AGREE QUALITATIVELY WITH AVAILABLE EXPERIMENTAL DATA. THE SIMULATION WAS APPLIED TO EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE ON VEHICLE RESPONSES TO VARIOUS OPEN- LOOP STEERING AND BRAKE-CONTROL INPUTS OF VARIATIONS IN THE VALUES OF THREE PARAMETERS: LATERAL TIRE STIFFNESS, LONGITUDINAL TIRE STIFFNESS, AND THE COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION AT THE TIRE-ROAD INTERFACE. /AUTHOR/