Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Anatomy of the Domestic Birds

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Children in Medical Research

I. ACCESS VERSUS PROTECTION 1. From 1966 to 2005: Balancing Protection and Access in Pediatric Research 2. Access versus Protection: Minority Representation in Pediatric Research II. CHALLENGES TO THE REGULATIONS 3. Overview of the Common Rule and Subpart D 4. Should We Provide Healthy Children with Greater Protection in Medical Research? 5. Informed Consent in Pediatric Research 6. Phase I Research and the Meaning of 'Prospect of Direct Benefit' III. STRENGTHS AND LIMITS OF CURRENT REGULATIONS 7. Human Subjects Protections in Published Pediatric Research 8. Payment in Pediatric Research 9. Research in Schools IV. CASE STUDIES 10. Minimizing Risks: Diabetes Research in Newborns 11. Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Research in Childhood 12. Lead Abatement Research 13. Clinical Asthma Trials 14. Research Not Otherwise Approvable: A Look at One Protocol 15. Evolution of the 407 Process Epilogue
Theoretical Performance Limits of Massive MIMO With Uncorrelated Rician Fading Channels

This paper considers a Massive MIMO network with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ {L}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> cells, each comprising a base stations (BS) with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ {M}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> antennas and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula> single-antenna user equipments. Within this setting, we are interested in deriving approximations of the achievable rates in the uplink and downlink under the assumption that single-cell linear processing is used at each BS and that each intracell link forms an uncorrelated MIMO Rician fading channel matrix; that is, with a deterministic line-of-sight (LoS) path and a stochastic non-LoS component describing a spatial uncorrelated multipath environment. The analysis is conducted assuming that <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ {N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$ {K}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> grow large with a given ratio <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\textbf {N/K}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> under the assumption that the data transmission in each cell is affected by channel estimation errors, pilot contamination, an arbitrary large scale attenuation and LoS components. Numerical results are used to prove that the approximations are asymptotically tight, but accurate for systems with finite dimensions. The asymptotic results are also used to evaluate the impact of LoS components. In particular, we exemplify how the number of antennas for achieving a target rate can be substantially reduced with LoS links of only a few dBs of strength.
Exploring the health care experiences of rural Thai people living with acquired valvular heart disease : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a preventable disease but it is one of the major causes of chronic illness in developing countries. As this disease is curable by surgery, access to appropriate and effective health care is necessary to prevent people from developing this disease and to treat people with VHD. The voices of people living with this condition will provide direction for health professionals in the development of better health care services for those living with VHD. This qualitative narrative study aimed to explore the experiences of individuals living with VHD. Thirty individuals diagnosed with VHD participated in this study drawn from a population of individuals attending a Thailand provincial hospital. They participated in (open and honest conversation) which was supported by a Thai cultural stance to build the trust necessary for the conversations. Conversations aimed at eliciting information about personal health care experiences were undertaken and lasted from 30 to 90 minutes, all were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim. Multistage narrative analysis methodology was used to identify emerging themes and three major themes emerged: autonomy and life with VHD, the effort of learning for life with VHD, and the maximisation of resources for the management of life with VHD. All of these themes indicated difficulty of access of acceptable and affordable care and difficulty in involvement in health care and illness management. These findings suggest that health care structures, resource distribution and the way professionals interact and communicate are important factors in the health care experiences of individuals living with VHD. Health care services that are based on the principles of equity and balance of power between institutions and clients may support the development of appropriate health care services for all individuals. Culturally-based narrative research is recommended to increase the possibility of expanding ways of knowing with the inclusion of a range of points of views for understanding health care provision. This knowledge is necessary for the development of client-centred and community-based health care services to improve health care outcomes for the rural population in Thailand.
Different approaches to the facilitation of graphics rendering on thin clients based on cloud computing

IX ACKNOWLEDGEMENT X INTRODUCTION 1 1.1. Overview 1 1.2. Research motivation 3 1.3. Statement of the problem 3 1.4. Research questions 5 1.5. Thesis structure 6 1.6. Thesis contributions 6 1.7. Publications 7 LITERATURE REVIEW 8 2.1. Background knowledge 8 2.1.1. Mesh representation of graphics 8 2.1.2. Graphics rendering 9 2.1.3. Parallel rendering 12 2.1.4. Visibility culling 12
A comparative study of cardiovascular autonomic function tests between second trimester pregnant women and non-pregnant women

Background: Normal pregnancy has been documented to be accompanied by marked alteration in maternal circulation during the first and second trimesters. For adapting the cardiovascular hemodynamic changes during normal pregnancy, a well-controlled interaction between the sympathetic and parasympathetic system is very essential, failure of which may result in pregnancy-related complications. Aims and Objectives: To evaluate and compare the cardiovascular autonomic function tests (AFTs) between the second trimester pregnant women and controls. Materials and Methods: A cross‑sectional study was conducted by random selection of 67 s trimester pregnant women and 67 controls in the age group of 1929 years. The cardiovascular AFTs were carried out. The statistical analysis was done using unpaired t-test. Results: During isometric handgrip exercise, the maximum rise in diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and during cold pressor test, the maximum rise in systolic BP and maximum rise in DBP were significantly less in the second trimester of pregnancy than controls. There was significantly less increase in 30:15 ratio and E: I ratio of the second trimester pregnant women when compared to controls. Conclusion: The cardiovascular autonomic nervous activity was decreased in the second trimester of pregnancy when compared to controls.
Supervised Actor‐Critic Reinforcement Learning

Editor’s Summary: Chapter ? introduced policy gradients as a way to improve on stochastic search of the policy space when learning. This chapter presents supervised actor-critic reinforcement learning as another method for improving the effectiveness of learning. With this approach, a supervisor adds structure to a learning problem and supervised learning makes that structure part of an actor-critic framework for reinforcement learning. Theoretical background and a detailed algorithm description are provided, along with several examples that contain enough detail to make them easy to understand and possible to duplicate. These examples also illustrate the use of two kinds of supervisors: a feedback controller that is easily designed yet sub-optimal, and a human operator providing intermittent control of a simulated robotic arm.
Estudo exploratório sobre os estilos intelectuais no ensino médio

O objetivo do presente estudo foi descrever o perfil dos estilos de pensamento/intelectuais de alunos do ensino medio brasileiro. Tambem visou buscar possiveis diferencas entre os alunos do 1o ano do ensino medio e do 3o ano. Participaram 524 alunos do ensino medio de tres escolas publicas, sendo uma do Estado do Parana e duas de Minas Gerais. O instrumento de pesquisa foi o Inventario de Estilos de Pensamento/Intelectuais (TSI-R2), que apresenta sessenta e cinco itens, sendo aplicado de forma coletiva. Com base nos resultados foi possivel verificar um perfil de estilos intelectuais dos alunos do ensino medio brasileiro, havendo diferenca estatisticamente significante entre os grupos nos estilos local (preferencia por ideias concretas e com muitos detalhes), hierarquico (preferencia pela priorizacao de tarefas segundo sua importância) e anarquico (preferencia por tarefas flexiveis).
From print to web 2.0: The changing face of discourse for special purposes

This report addresses the recent changes induced in professional discourse genres as they migrate from traditional print media to the Web 2.0 platform on the Internet. After a brief characterization of the specificities and affordances of the Web 2.0 environment, a selected number of themes that are currently being researched are outlined, namely: the reshaping of existing discourse genres and a rethinking of genre theory; the implications of collaborative authoring; the impact of narrative elements on professional discourse; the personalization and informality of Web-mediated communication. Some of the challenges that these developments pose to discourse for special purposes are highlighted.
Tools devoted to the acquisition of the prosody of a foreign language

The work presented here is developed within a project devoted to the acquisition of English prosody by French learners. Our goal is to improve both production and perception. To that purpose, we develop speech signal transformations (auditory correction) and propose a real diagnosis of the learner's production, exploiting knowledge about L1 and L2 prosody as well as acoustical analyses. We present our strategy and a simple example.
Efficient Storage Middleware Design in InfiniBand Clusters for High End Computing

High End Computing (HEC) has been growing dramatically over the past decade. Both High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing clusters are becoming increasingly homogeneous in their hardware platforms. Meanwhile both domains are facing a common challenge caused by the IO subsystem. In HPC domain, the most problematic scenarios include Checkpoint/Restart (C/R) and Process Migration. which involves dumping of huge quantities of data to stable storage. In Cloud Computing the IO bottleneck is usually felt by the data caching agency and database storage stratum. This dissertation aims at designing an efficient IO middleware that can largely mitigate the aforementioned IO bottleneck. We design a write-aggregation scheme to reduce IO overhead during C/R activities. Based on that a hierarchical data staging framework is designed to substantially reduce the time cost of C/R. To tackle the performance issue in Process Migration, we propose a new protocol, Pipelined Process Migration with RDMA (PPMR), that fully pipelines data writing, data transfer, and data read operations during different phases of a migration cycle. Additionally we explore how to adopt Solid State Disk (SSD) into the IO stack to leverage SSD’s superior performance. We extend the SSD Flash Translation Layer to provide a new IO primitive called Atomic Write, which significantly improves the database performance by removing the overhead of the atomic completion guarantee for a group of discrete IO requests. We also propose an SSD-Assisted Hybrid Memory that expands RAM with SSD to make available a large amount of memory that can be used as an efficient data caching layer for datacenters. ii This dissertation concludes that the IO bottleneck in HEC can be mitigated by optimizing the IO software stack, together with leveraging new storage technologies. Part of the software developed in the dissertation has been released with MVAPICH2, which is a popular open-source implementation of MPI over high performance networks.
Integrating mathematical literacy toward mathematics teaching: the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of prospective math teacher in designing the learning task

To integrate mathematical literacy to Mathematics teaching, a learning task should be designed to activate students’ involvement in gaining the learning experiences and the learning objectives. Therefore, teachers need to possess the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) as the integration of pedagogical knowledge, mathematics and mathematical literacy teaching methodology, knowledge about mathematics and mathematical literacy. The purpose of this research is to describe the prospective mathematics teacher’s PCK in designing a learning task to integrate mathematical literacy in a math class. One of 157 prospective math teachers who was at least on 5th semester was selected as the subject. There were three selection criteria for the subject: pedagogical knowledge, mathematical knowledge and mathematical literacy. The subject was assigned to design the learning task within 3 weeks. In order to get the profile of his PCK, the subject was interviewed on the basis of the design that he produced. The results of this study shows that the subject had a good PCK which he utilized for designing learning task. He utilized two approached of organizing learning task, i.e.presenting a mathematics problem to teach the mathematics concept followed by presenting mathematical literacy problems to give a deeper understanding of concepts or vice versa.
Distance Effects in Similarity Based Free Categorization

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . vv CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Literature Review . 1 Theories of Natural Categorization . 4 Similarity as a Basis for Free Categorization . 6 Lack of Sensitivity to Similarity . 8 Limitations of Previous Research . 14 CHAPTER TWO: RECENT CATEGORIZATION RESEARCH Recent Work in our Laboratory . 19 Similarity as Alignability . 19 The Binomial Labeling Task . 20 Demonstrating Sensitivity to Similarity . 21 A Two-Stage Model of Free Categorization . 25 Distinguishing Sampling from Labeling . 27 The Current Study . 31 CHAPTER THREE: METHOD Participants . 34 Procedures . 34 Materials and Design . 36 CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS Research Questions . 39
A Technical Insight on the New Generation Databases: NoSQL

The rapid acceptance of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc and with the huge use of mobile phones, the data volume is increasing at the rate of terabytes. As the data size and variety is increasing dramatically, databases intend to be more schema-less and less strict, in order to achieve higher scalability. Their queries tend to be quick responding, which grants them very fast writes and even faster reads. All these could not be managed with our Relational Databases or SQL. The ease of scalability and improved security has increased the popularity of Not-Only SQL. But they are not as reliable or effective as Relational Databases. Here, in this paper, an extensive study of the pros and cons of SQL and NoSQL, their relevance in cloud and at last, an evaluation of some NoSQL databases is also done. General Terms NoSQL databases, Cloud and Big data.
Improved efficiency of spring embedders: taking advantage of GPU programming

This paper introduces an approach aimed at improving computation time for spring embedders in a context of graph visualization. The approach relies on recent developments in the utilization of graphic processor units (GPU) for generic numerical computation. We show how a GPU can greatly improve computation time, hence opening many previously unattainable possibilities in terms of interactive applications. Our method has been implemented in software used for benchmarks demonstrating large performance gain.
Integrated Co-Professional Evaluation? Converging Approaches to School Evaluation Across Frontiers

This paper posits that almost all inspectorates are now following, if to varying degrees, a similar overarching ideology and methodology for school accountability and improvement. The first part of the paper provides an analysis of recent changes to school inspection policies across Frontiers. Using Ireland as a case example, the next part of the paper provides an analysis of Irish school inspection policies and practices that appear to mirror other school inspection systems. To test these assumptions, the paper then provides an analysis of a key informant interview with the Chief Inspector of schools in Ireland. The evidence suggests that there is an increasingly convergent approach to school evaluation discernible across all inspection frontiers. Among the many aspects of this changing landscape is the rapid pace at which schools have accepted school inspection frameworks and the emergence of a genuinely co-professional as opposed to co-existent mode of evaluation between the inspectorate and schools.
Speechlinks: Robust Cross-Lingual Tactical Communication Aids

Abstract : This project was directed toward developing a unique tactical language translator with context-aware, mixed-initiative capability for tactical missions. The specific goals were to: 1) enable robust mixed-initiative tactical communication targeting multiple languages, 2) develop algorithms and tools that enable rapid construction and deployment of systems for new missions and languages, and 3) develop and implement a holistic evaluation process for cross-lingual communication systems that unifies usability, task achievement and cost.
PENS BEHAVING BADLY – USABILITY OF PENS AND GRAPHICS TABLETS FOR TEXT ENTRY WITH CHILDREN

This paper describes some of the hardware difficulties that are observed when children use graphics tablets and pens to enter text into computers. The occurrence of, and the consequences of, position errors with stylus pens are discussed; and two explanations are offered. Interface design strategies that can help to reduce these errors and minimize their effects are described.
Guaranteeing fault tolerance through scheduling in real-time systems

Real-time systems are those which must execute all tasks within their timing constraints. Due to the catastrophic consequences of missing deadlines of some realtime tasks, fault tolerance is an essential component of such systems. This thesis introduces techniques to enhance the fault tolerance capability of real-time systems by incorporating time redundancy. Time redundancy is essential in ultrareliable real-time systems where correlated faults must be tolerated. It can also be used to detect and tolerate transient faults, which are a majority of the faults in computing systems. This thesis demonstrates how time redundancy can be used in conjunction with hardware and software redundancy to tolerate a variety of faults in real-time systems. This thesis considers several di erent system and task models, and for each model, presents a schedulability test (a utilization bound or a set of conditions) which guarantees that all tasks in the system will satisfy their timing constraints even in the presence of faults. The thesis studies the tradeo between the fault tolerance capability and resource utilization of the system (which decreases due to the added redundancy). New techniques are introduced to increase the system utilization. Efcient scheduling algorithms and bounds are presented to ensure high schedulability of tasks. The fault tolerance approaches presented in this thesis are thoroughly evaluated. The time after which a system recovers from one fault and is ready to tolerate a second one is measured for static and dynamic systems. Various tradeo studies are conducted to help the system designer make appropriate choices. Extensive simulation results explain the e ects of various input parameters such as task characteristics,
Prediction Analysis of Microarrays in Exce l

Prediction Analysis of Microarrays (PAM) is a statistical technique for class prediction using gene expression data using shrunken centroids. It is described in [3]. The method of nearest shrunken centroids identifies subsets of genes that best characterize each class. The technique is general and can be used in many other classification problems. PAM Software for the R [1] has been available for some time now from the http://www-stat.stanford. edu/~tibs/PAM. Using the software, one can train the classifier, perform cross validation to get an idea of the value to use for thresholding, and do predictions. There has been some demand for a GUI version for PAM. Our experience with SAM (Significance Analysis of Microarrays) [4] software led us to use Excel as a GUI for the package. SAM was written in Visual Basic, using a Java COM library at the core. However, it was clear that this approach would not be an efficient one in the long run for several reasons. Among them:
An Ecient Scheme for Proving a Shue

In this paper, we propose a novel and ecient protocol for proving the correctness of a shue, without leaking how the shue was performed. Using this protocol, we can prove the correctness of a shue of n data with roughly 18n exponentiations, where as the protocol of Sako-Kilian(SK95) required 642n and that of Abe(Ab99) required 22nlogn. The length of proof will be only 2 11 n bits in our protocol, opposed to 2 18 n bits and 2 14 nlogn bits required by Sako-Kilian and Abe, respectively. The proposed protocol will be a building block of an ecient, universally veriable mix-net, whose application to voting system is prominent.