Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Artistic Turn: A Manifesto

Despite innovative developments in research in-and-through the arts in the past decade, the emergent field of artistic research remains controversial, and is accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm in academic institutions. It is our contention that the challenges and opportunities presented by this burgeoning discipline may be better understood by re-emphasising the centrality of the artist. Through a study of the interrelationship between artistic fields and theories of knowledge, and through some consciously metaphorical readings, we examine the contexts within which artistic research has developed. Using this information as a means of interrogating both scientific and artistic research paradigms, and case studies concerning specific artist-researchers, the case is set out for a fresh paradigm “ an ˜artistic turn. The aim is to create a field of meaning that may illuminate the most promising, though correspondingly problematic, aspects of artistic research: the essential ineffability of artistic creativity, and the consequent insufficiency of verbal and written accounts “ something which inevitably impacts upon the text presented here. Accordingly, the discourse articulated in this volume does not propose definitive approaches, but charts a constellation of ideas that outlines the new discipline and points to its manifold and open-ended possibilities.
New techniques for the characterisation of single reeds in playing conditions

Ce travail porte sur la caracterisation d'anches simples utilisees pour la clarinette ou le saxophone. Sachant que les musiciens percoivent des differences importantes dans la qualite des anches de caracteristiques identiques (meme marque, coupe et force), cette these propose des nouveaux outils pour la caracterisation des anches en situation de jeu.Un bec instrumente utilisant des capteurs embarques est developpe de facon a mesurer le deplacement de l'anche et la difference de pression de part et d’autre de l'anche. A partir de ces signaux, il est possible d'estimer des parametres d'anche associes a differents modeles physiques. Les resultats obtenus montrent que la complexite du modele decrivant le comportement de l'anche doit augmenter avec la nuance de jeu. Le bec instrumente est utilise dans une campagne de mesures comportant 7 musiciens et 20 anches, et permet de quantifier la variabilite des resultats due aux musiciens. Des tests subjectifs sont realises avec ces memes musiciens, et montrent que les differences entre les anches se reduisent a une seule dimension (facilite de jeu ou timbre). Les correlations entre les descripteurs subjectifs et les parametres objectifs mesures sont etudiees afin de mieux comprendre les differences percues entre les anches, permettant le developpement d'un modele predictif de la qualite des anches.De facon a eviter la variabilite produite par le musicien, une bouche artificielle aspirante est developpee. La comparaison des mesures realisees par la bouche artificielle et par un musicien permet d'identifier la plage de fonctionnement optimale ou la bouche artificielle imite au mieux le jeu du musicien.
Estimation of prevalence of pretreatment renal insufficiency and use of mathematical formulae to assess the renal dysfunction in patients of head and neck cancers undergoing concurrent chemoradiotherapy in Northern India

Background: Cisplatin (CDDP)-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is the standard of care in locally advanced head and neck cancers (HNCs). CDDP, a known nephrotoxic drug, has been administered in three different protocols. Baseline renal function needs to be known before CRT. Renal function can be measured directly by measuring the measured glomerular filtration rate (mGFR) using radioisotope and indirectly by either serum creatinine (SCR) levels or estimated GFR (eGFR) using mathematical formulae “abbreviated modification of diet in renal disease (aMDRD)” and “Cockcroft–Gault (CG). ” The present study was performed to see the prevalence of pretreatment renal insufficiency (RI) in HNC patients and to find a realistic method using CG and aMDRD formulae for assessing RI instead of doing mGFR and to compare the nephrotoxicity in three CDDP protocols. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out between January 2005 and December 2006. Consecutive patients of HNC undergoing RT/CRT were included. Renal function using parameters SCR, mGFR, and eGFR using CG and aMDRD formulae was estimated for pre- and post-treatment and during follow-up. Results: Of 295 eligible patients, baseline prevalence of RI was in 17% by mGFR, 6% by SCR, 13% by aMDRD, and 41% patients by CG formula. aMDRD correlated better than CG with the mGFR. Of the 145 patients of CRT, pretreatment RI was seen in 9% by aMDRD and 30% by CG formula as compared to 12% by mGFR and post treatment RI was seen in 12% by aMDRD and 43% by CG formula. All the three CDDP protocols showed similar fall in GFR post treatment, and late renal injury at 6 months was seen in 2%, 4%, and 3%, respectively. Conclusions: RI exists in HNC patient. RI assessment by SCR is inadequate and should be done by eGFR estimation using aMDRD or CG formula if not able to do mGFR. Different CDDP protocols have similar nephrotoxicity.
Improving Annotation Process and Increase the Perfmance of Tag Data

Now a days so many organization create and share the textual description of their products or service and action etc. it is contains for most amount collection of structured data and which is remains worried about unstructured the information, if data extraction structural relation by using algorithms facilitating, they are more cost and inaccurate information. When is working top of text, it does not is contains structural information. An anther approach to the generating of the structure of metadata by the identifying that documents, that is likely to contain information of interest. That data are going to be valuable for questioning information based used. These approaches based on the idea that humans are more likely to add the necessary metadata during generate the time. This process based on the collaborative adaptive data sharing platform[CADS] approach to query workload by up to 50 percent only visibility of document. So further probing algorithm with Bayesian approach technique was included, that can be improve the efficient of visibility of document or data with respect the query and content workload based on the more than 50 percent improve.
Quality of Service in Associativity based Mobility-Adaptive K-Clustering in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

To solve the scalability issue of ad hoc network, a new cluster maintenance protocol is proposed. Clusters may change dynamically, reflecting the mobility of the underlying network. It is therefore difficult to maintain the clusters for efficient routing. For the effective functioning of cluster maintenance the size of the cluster and the cluster head must be chosen carefully in the larger and mobility environment. In this protocol, a node weight heuristic approach is applied with parameters like speed of the node, number of neighbor nodes and associativity. The cluster heads are elected based on these parameters for effective cluster management.
Barriers to Technology Integration.

Barriers to Technology Integration Kevin SchoeppZayed University Abstract This paper reports on one segment of a research project which investigates what faculty members perceive to be acting as barriers in their attempts to integrate technology into their teaching at a laptop university. A web-based questionnaire was used to collect information from 69/288 (24%) faculty members from a small U.A. E. university. From the data gathered, patterns and associations emerged from which the researcher is able provide recommendations as to what type of interventions and programs could be provided to increase current levels of teaching with technology.
Needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS: Mangaung in the Free State

The terminal illness or death of a parent due to HIV and AIDS has a disastrous effect on the surviving children. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the needs of HIV and AIDS orphans and pre-orphans. A qualitative method using indepth interviews with 10 children affected by their parent’s illness or death was carried out. Results indicate that there was a marked reduction in financial capital paving the way for basic physical needs such as food, clothing, fuel and shelter. Lack of school fees, uniforms and transport money together with biased teachers and rigid school policies were affecting school attendance and performance. On the psychosocial level needs expressed were for family and community support, friendship, acceptance by the group as well as love and belonging. It seems as if stigmatisation and resulting ostracism by important-others is a drawback at all levels of interaction for AIDS orphans and pre-orphans.
HUBUNGAN ANTARA SELF EFFICACY DENGAN KECEMASAN MENGHADAPI PERTANDINGAN PADA ATLET KARATE UKM KARATE INKAI UNY

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara self efficacy dan kecemasan menghadapi pertandingan pada atlet karate UKM karate Inkai UNY. Self efficacy atau efikasi diri yaitu keyakinan individu terhadap kemampuan yang dimilikinya untuk menghadapi situasi-situasi tertentu yang muncul dalam hidupnya. Kecemasan menghadapi pertandingan adalah kondisi distress yang dialami oleh seorang atlet saat menjelang pertandingan dan pada saat pertandingan itu dimulai. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Subjek dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 40 atlet yang terdiri dari 16 putri dan 34 putra. Metode pengumpulan data yaitu dengan menggunakan skala self efficacy yang disusun berdasarkan aspek self efficacy dari Bandura dan skala kecemasan menghadapi pertandingan yang disusun berdasarkan aspek-aspek kecemasan dari Shah. Analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis product moment dari Pearson. Dari hasil penelitian diketahui bahwa ada hubungan yang negatif dan signifikan antara self efficacy dan kecemasan menghadapi pertandingan dengan nilai koefisien korelasi sebesar – 0,675 dan nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,000 ( p< 0,05). Kata Kunci :Self efficacy, kecemasan menghadapi pertandingan, atlet karate
Influence of nutrition on muscle metabolism and performance during prolonged intermittent high intensity shuttle running in man

The purpose of this thesis was to study the effects of I) carbohydrate intake, either during or in the recovery from exhaustive intermittent exercise, and 2) oral creatine supplementation for 5 days, on metabolism, performance and endurance capacity during a prolonged intermittent high intensity shuttle run test (PIHSRT). Prolonged intermittent high intensity running is an activity pattern which is typical of the multiple sprint sports such as soccer, hockey and rugby. Understanding the physiological and metabolic responses to this type of activity can improve our understanding of the aetiology of fatigue and how training and nutritional intervention can improve performance during prolonged intermittent high intensity running. The aims of the first and second studies were to investigate the effect of increased carbohydrate availability, by ingesting additional carbohydrate in the recovery from (Chapter 4) and by drinking a carbohydrate-electrolyte solution immediately prior to, and during (Chapter 5), prolonged intermittent high intensity running. In the first study (Chapter 4), six games players performed two prolonged intermittent high intensity shuttle run tests (PIHSRT) consisting of a fixed 70 min period of intermittent exercise (Part A) followed by high intensity intermittent running to fatigue (Part B), separated by 22 h recovery, on two occasions, separated by one week. During the 22 h recovery, subjects were prescribed their normal dietary intake of carbohydrate plus the additional energy needed to consume the equivalent of 10 g.kg·1bm.day·l. This extra energy was consumed either in the form of carbohydrate (the CHO trial) or as fat and protein (the CON trial). No differences in sprint performance were observed 22 h following either recovery diet. High intensity running capacity was improved after 22 h in the CHO trial (T2) by 16% (P
‘Something genuinely Norwegian’: cultural identity under the influence of American cinema in the found footage aesthetic of Trolljegeren/Trollhunter (2010)

Abstract Norway’s film industry consciously endeavours to highlight its own unique cultural identity, but their most successful films, both in terms of artistic merit and box office popularity, honour this pledge by embracing and adapting the generic modes of American cinema. The comedy horror film Trolljegeren/Trollhunter continues this practice, but presents its verité-style aesthetics as an invitation to look more intently into the depth of the image in order to locate the real Norway. Displaying its spectacular monsters for extended periods, unlike the way most other found footage horror films invite and frustrate the viewer’s curiosity by withholding a clear view of unnatural creatures, the film encourages the viewer’s investigative gaze in other directions. Consequently, the viewer is impelled to negotiate two overlapping ‘realisms’: one involves the representation of the Norwegian landscape (both geographical and socio-political), while the other involves found footage conventions of realism in conflict with classical realist ones. Even though the influence of American cinema is never fully contained within the film’s immersive digital aesthetic, Trolljegeren/Trollhunter’s narratively motivated diegetic camera is the most important element contributing to the film’s successful balance between the need to respect Norwegian culture and the need to attract a global audience.
PanGet – downloads multiple data sets from PANGAEA

The software PanGet is a special tool for the download of multiple data sets from PANGAEA. It uses the PANGAEA data set ID which is unique and part of the DOI. In a first step a list of ID's of those data sets to be downloaded must be created. There are two choices to define this individual collection of sets. Based on the ID list, the tool will download the data sets. Failed downloads are written to the file *_failed. txt. The functionality of PanGet is also part of the program Pan2Applic (choose File > Download PANGAEA datasets.) and PanTool2 (choose Basic tools > Download PANGAEA datasets.).
Histological Pattern of Cervical Malignancies in Southwestern Nigeria

Background: Malignant diseases of the uterine cervix are typically common among women in the developing countries of the world where they cause a lot of reproductive ill-health and mortality at the prime of age. Objectives:The aim of this study is to present the histological pattern of cervical malignancies as they present at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) Ile-Ife between 1990 and 1999 Materials and Methods: The data for the study was collected retrospectively from the surgical daybooks of the histopathology department of the OAUTHC Ile-Ife from January 1990 to December 1999. All cervical biopsies and hysterectomy specimens from which a histopathological diagnosis of malignant tumour of the cervix was made form the subject for this study. Results: The results revealed 192 cases (45.5%) of cervical malignancies out of the 422 cervical surgical biopsies over the period of study. The age range of the patients was 20 to 89 years with a peak age incidence of 40 49 years. Histopathological study revealed squamous cell carcinoma in 85.4% with a preponderance of Large cell nonkeratinising squamous cell carcinoma in 41.1%, keratinising squamous cell carcinoma 32.3% while micro invasive carcinoma and small cell non keratinising tumours are seen in 1.0% and 9.9% respectively. Adenocarcinoma, adeno- squamous carcinoma, metastatic carcinoma and sarcomas occur in 8.3%, 3.6%, 1.6% and 1.0% respectively. Conclusion:Squamous cell carcinoma constitutes the main histological type with a high preponderance of large cell non-keratinising squamous cell carcinoma Key Words: Histological, Pattern, cervical, malignancies, Nigeria. [Trop J Obstet Gynaecol, 2004;21:118-121]
An Adaptive Temporal Filter Based on Motion Compensation for Video Noise Reduction

Noise in video signals will degrades the image quality.An adaptive temporal filter based on motion compensation is proposed for noise reduction.The noise in video sequence is tracked by motion compensation in temporal domain.The filtering strength can be adaptive changed on object motion situation.The experiment results show that the proposed filter is better than the filter in spatial domain.The noise in video signals can be effectively reduced and the image will not be blurry as the result of spatial filter.
Facial model generation through mono image sequence

Facial model coding is an integral part in MPEG-4 related applications. To generate a facial model usually requires a stereoscopic view of the face in the pre-processing stage. Although a facial model can be successfully estimated from two stereo facial images, the occlusion effect and imprecise location of the feature point prohibit us from obtaining an accurate facial model. We propose two facial model estimation (FME) algorithms to find the precise facial model from a mono image sequence. Without the a prior information about the 3D position of the head with respect to the camera and the rotation axis and angle of the head's movement, an accurate facial model (within 7.21% error) can still be obtained by our schemes. In addition, our schemes do not require the precise camera parameters that makes the facial model extraction easy.
Computers in Human Behavior

This study analyzed tweets from handles associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency in an e ﬀ ort to better understand the tactics employed by that organization on the social media platform Twitter in their attempt to in ﬂ uence U.S. political discourse and the outcome of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. We sampled tweets from the month preceding the election and analyzed to understand the qualitative nature of these tweets as well as quantitative di ﬀ erences between how types of IRA Twitter accounts communicated. Seven categories of tweet behavior were identi ﬁ ed: attack left, support right, attack right, support left, attack media, attack civil institutions, and camou ﬂ age. While camou ﬂ age was the most common type of tweet (52.6%), descriptive analyses showed it was followed by attack left (12%) and support right (7%). A variety of quantitative di ﬀ erences were shown between how account types behaved.
Computer aided analysis system of gastric cancer based on endoscopic image database

A computer aided analysis system based on endoscopic image database is proposed for the diagnosis of gastric cancer. Image databases are built to achieve endoscopic images and other diagnostic information acquired in Ruijin Hospital from 2004 to 2006. Another attempt is to standardize the description of endoscopic images. After building databases, texture features of endoscopic image are extracted by using local binary pattern (LBP) and trained by support vector machine (SVM). Together with other diagnostic information in the databases, the system automatically classifies the patients according to the state of gastric cancer, supplying the doctors with further assistant information.
Regulation of ATP -sensitive potassium channels in the heart

ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels in the heart are critical regulators of cellular excitability and action potentials during ischemia. However, little is known about subcellular localization of these channels and their regulation. The present study was designed to explore the potential role of caveolae in the regulation of KATP channels in cardiac ventricular myocytes. Both adult and neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were used. Subcellular fractionation by density gradient centrifugation, Western blotting, co-immunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence confocal microscopy were employed in combination with whole-cell voltage clamp recordings and siRNA gene silencing. We detected that the majority of KATP channels on the plasma membrane of cardiac myocytes were localized in caveolin-3-enriched microdomains by cell fractionation and ultracentrifugation followed by Western blotting. Immunofluorescence confocal microscopy revealed extensive colocalization of 52 KATP channel pore-forming subunit Kir6.2 and caveolin-3 along the plasma membrane. Co-immunoprecipitation of cardiac myocytes showed significant association of Kir6.2, adenosine A1 receptors and caveolin-3. Furthermore, whole-cell voltage clamp studies suggested that adenosine A1 receptormediated activation of KATP channels was largely eliminated by disrupting caveolae with methyl-β-cyclodextrin or by small interfering RNA, whereas pinacidil-induced KATP activation was not altered. We demonstrate that KATP channels are localized to caveolin-enriched microdomains. This microdomain association is essential for adenosine receptor-mediated regulation of KATP channels in cardiac myocytes.
Radiobiological evaluation and correlation with the local effect model (LEM) of carbon ion radiation therapy and temozolomide in glioblastoma cell lines

Purpose: To investigate the cytotoxic effect of high linear-energy transfer (LET) carbon irradiation on glioblastoma cells lines in combination with temozolomide (TMZ). Methods and materials: The cell lines U87-MG expressing wild-type p53 and LN229 expressing both mutant and wild-type p53 were irradiated with monoenergetic carbon ion beams (LET 172 keV/μm) or an extended Bragg peak (LET 103 keV/μm) after treatment with 10 μM or 20 μM TMZ. Cytotoxicity was measured by a clonogenic survival assay, and cell growth as well as cell cycle progression, were examined. Results: The p53 mutant was more sensitive to X-ray irradiation than the p53 wild type cell line, which was also expressed in a shorter G2 block. High LET carbon ions show an increased biological effectiveness in both cell lines, which is consistent with the predictive calculations by the Local Effect Model (LEM) introduced by Scholz et al. The cell line LN229 was more sensitive to TMZ treatment than the U87MG cell line expressing wild-type p53 only. The combination of TMZ and irradiation showed an additive effect in both cell lines. Conclusion: High LET carbon ion irradiation is significantly more effective for glioblastoma cell lines compared to photon irradiation. An additional treatment with TMZ may offer a great chance especially for several tumor types.
Intelligent distance learning model

Intelligent technology to achieve efficient individualized learning is an important part of distance learning. This paper analyses the problems to be solved during applying intelligent technology in existing distance learning systems. For the courseware learning model, an intelligent distance learning model is presented based on a combined courseware structure, which reflects the relationships among knowledge modules. An algorithm is then developed for intelligent navigation and answers. The three functions of intelligent courseware, intelligent navigation and intelligent answering are realized utilizing a software agent and multi agent technology. A test system implemented to validate the model shows that effectiveness of the intelligent distance learning system model based on a combined courseware structure and software agent.
Cochlear Implant Simulations: A Tutorial on Generating Acoustic Simulations for Research 1

Acoustic simulations of cochlear implants have become a common tool available to researchers interested in many aspects of speech perception and cognition. Although many ways exist to create such simulations, all are derived from a common philosophical and physiological base. The primary goal of this tutorial is to instruct the reader how to make cochlear implant (CI) simulations for use in research. In order to realize this goal, the various methodologies and signal processing techniques will be reviewed, since the varied techniques used will determine the behavioral outcomes. Finally, the reader will be led through a systematic demonstration using a stand-alone simulator (TigerCIS).