Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Documentation of Rotationally Symmetric Archaeological Finds by 3D Shape Estimation

Zehntausende Scherben von Keramiken werden auf archaologischen Ausgrabungen gefunden. Diese Tonscherben mussen fur abschliesende wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen dokumentiert werden. Grundlage dieser Dokumentation ist bis heute die handische Zeichnung der Profillinie, welche einen vertikalen Schnitt durch die Scherbe entlang der Rotationsachse, auch Symetrieachse genannt, beschreibt. Die Handzeichnungen der Profillinie und die dafur benotigte Rotationsachse werden von Archaologen unter zur Hilfenahme verschiedenster Werkzeuge, wie zum Beispiel dem Profilkamm, flexiblem Bleidraht oder Kreisschablonen erstellt. Diese traditionelle Methode der Dokumentation ist allerdings sehr zeitaufwendig und fehleranfallig. Daher wurde der Profilograph entwickelt, der mit manuellem, mechanischem Abtasten der Scherben die Profillinie zur Weiterverarbeitung an einen Computer ubermittelt. Da auch der Profilograph auf Grund der manuellen Arbeitsschritte keine schnellere Dokumentation ermoglicht, wurde ein automatisches System zur Aufnahme von Scherben und zur automatisierten Berechnung der Profillinie entwickelt. Die Erfassung wird mittels Lichtschnittverfahren (strukturiertes Licht) durchgefuhrt. Aus den Aufnahmen wird ein 3D-Modell erstellt, aus dem die Rotationsachse und somit die Profillinie von Scherben berechnet wird. Durch standige Experimente, Zusammenarbeit mit Archaologen und dem Vergleich mit traditionellen Methoden, wurde das automatische System weiterentwickelt. Diese Arbeit stellt eine neue Methode zur Bestimmung der Rotationsachse, basierend auf den traditionellen Methoden der Archaologen vor, welche eine genauere Berechnung der Profillinie ermoglicht. Weiters werden auch methodische Experimente zur Analyse der Geometrie von Keramiken gezeigt, welche Ruckschlusse auf antike Fertigungstechniken ermoglichen. Das vorgestellte System wurde auf kunstlichen und realen Daten getestet. Fur die Experimente mit realen Daten wurde das System mittels Funden der archaologischen Ausgrabung in Tel Dor in Israel getestet und mit den traditionellen Handzeichnungen und dem Profilographen verglichen. Die Ergebnisse im Bezug auf dokumentierten Scherben pro Stunde und zur Prazision der verschiedenen Verfahren werden in diesem Dokument gezeigt. Abschliesend werden kunftige Erweiterungen vorgestellt.
Effects of Integrative Neuromuscular Training on Motor Performance in Prepubertal Soccer Players

Abstract Menezes, GB, Alexandre, DR, Pinto, JC, Assis, TV, Faigenbaum, AD, and Mortatti, AL. Effects of integrative neuromuscular training on motor performance in prepubertal soccer players. J Strength Cond Res 36(6): 1667–1674, 2022—The present study examined the effects of integrative neuromuscular training (INT) on motor performance in prepubertal soccer players. Subjects were randomly assigned to the experimental group (INT; n = 20, age: 8.2 ± 1.2 years; body mass: 28.4 ± 6.4 kg; height: 1.3 ± 0.1 m) or the control group (CON; n = 18, age: 8.5 ± 1.3 years; body mass: 32.8 ± 8.9 kg; height: 1.3 ± 0.1 m). Integrative neuromuscular training program was performed twice per week during the 12-week training intervention. Balance, flexibility, countermovement vertical jump height (CVJH), sprint speed, and change of direction speed (CODS) were assessed in both groups at baseline, sixth week and 12th week. A mixed model repeated measures analysis of variance was used to examine the group changes in performance for each variable. There was a time effect for balance in the INT from pre to 12th weeks (p < 0.001, g = 0.72), and from 6th to 12th weeks (p = 0.005, g = 0.34). An interaction effect for balance was also observed between INT and CON after the 12th week. A time effect in flexibility was observed in INT from baseline to 6th and 12th weeks (p = 0.02; g = 0.45 and p < 0.001; g = 0.71) and from 6 to 12th weeks (p = 0.003; g = 0.24). There was a time effect in CVJH, from baseline to 12th week and from 6th to 12th weeks (p < 0.05; g = 0.34 and g = 0.53, respectively). There was no significant between-group speed performance change. A time effect was found in CODS in INT, but only from baseline to 12th week (p = 0.02; g = 0.31). There were significant improvements in the percent change (Δ%) from baseline to 12 weeks (p < 0.05) for balance, flexibility, and CVJH in INT. These findings indicate that the addition of an INT program to soccer practice can improve selected motor performance skills in prepubertal soccer players.
Analysis and Design of Dynamic Behaviour for Embedded Systems Using Policy-Based Design

Policy based computing is a technology which aims to abstract away decision making from the source code of a program. The technology provides exibility/changeability and adaptivity in terms of software behaviour. This is allows behaviour to be adapted in runtime.This thesis contributes with an investigation and analysis of the technology with a focus on realtime multicore embedded systems. The study identied several challenges in terms of policy based systems, and resulted in a suggested design.This thesis also includes a prototype implementation which showcases the usage of the suggested design. The implementation involves a policy engine which allows a low overhead, soft realtime performance, and context aware decision making for a targeted software component. The implementation is delimited to Linux based systems.It was concluded that realtime performance can be applicable to policy based systems, and that the suggested model gives high portability, and low over head. This makes the policy based approach highly applicable to embedded systems.
Database Issues for Intelligence Analysis

Abstract : The use of database systems in police investigative work is well established and similar technology will be required to support counter terrorism. A key feature of terrorism is that it is predominantly a group activity. This has important implications for analysing terrorism-related intelligence in that systems must help analysts uncover patterns of activity which may be obscured by being distributed over a network of individuals or organisations. In this paper we argue that the record-oriented representation of data on which most current database technology is based is not well-suited for such applications. Another form of representation, known as graph-based databases, organises information as a network of connected facts and is better suited to supporting queries concerned with finding associations and links between various entities such as people, events, organisations and so forth. We briefly discuss a database system that has been built on top of a graph-oriented representation of data in order to show that such systems are feasible. Furthermore such systems can support a broader range of queries, in particular the kinds of queries that are likely to be required in intelligence analysis.
Computer Mediated

An approach towards Emotional Intelligence implemented in Computer Mediated environments that improves the communication between humans via computer-aided devices as well between humans and machines was deve]oped. Our greatest efforts were paid to how to extract, transfer and express emotion. Disregarding the semantic components, we examined different modes of communication: audio, visual and motional. Our approach is based on physical parameters, human based emotion feature extraction and model based decision method. For each rnode the emotion relevant parameters were defined, extracted and their number reduced. Emotion samples were "translated" and "coded" into meaningful feature parameters. The relation between the physical variables and the psychological
Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications

From the Publisher: Despite the potentially enormous cost to organizations from clunky Web sites, Web testing is often an overlooked aspect of the development process. Expert tester Diane Stottlemeyer provides developers with all the tools and templates they need to put a testing plan into motion. Focusing exclusively on testing in a Web environment, Stottlemeyer explains how to build and perform full-functionality Web testing, including code enhancement for adding features to existing applications and regression testing. Readers will get complete, step-by-step guidance on preparing, running, and analyzing tests on the Web, including how to test with different languages and databases, and how to test on different platforms and servers, including Linux.
Improved Phrase Translation Modeling Using Maximum A-Posteriori (MAP) Adaptation

Abstract : In this paper, we explore several methods of improving the estimation of translation model probabilities for phrase-based statistical machine translation given in-domain data sparsity. We introduce a hierarchical variant of MAP adaptation for domain adaptation with an arbitrary number of out-of-domain models. We compare this adaptation technique to linear interpolation and phrase table fill-up. Additionally, we note that domain adaptation can have a smoothing effect, and we explore the interaction between smoothing and the incorporation of out-of-domain data. We find that the relative contributions of smoothing and interpolation depend on the datasets used. For both the IWSLT 2011 and WMT 2011 English-French datasets, the MAP adaptation method we present improves on a baseline system by 1.5+ BLEU points.
Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research

PREFACE 1. The Qualitative Methods Family 2. Choosing the Right Approach(es) 3. Getting Started: Study Design and Sampling 4. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research 5. Entering the Field and Conducting Observation 6. Interviewing and Use of Documents 7. Data Analysis and Interpretation 8. Strategies for Rigor 9. Telling the Story: Writing Up the Qualitative Study 10. Mixed Methods APPENDIX: WRITING A QUALITATIVE METHODS PROPOSAL FOR EXTERNAL FUNDING REFERENCES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Prediction of the Number of Residue Contacts in Proteins using LSTM Neural Networks

III Abstract In this thesis a relatively new neural network based predictor, LSTM (Long ShortTerm Memory), has been tested on the prediction of the number of residue contacts in proteins. Knowing the number of residue contacts in proteins is an important step in predicting the function and the three dimensional structure of a protein. Since LSTM is a relatively new network design it has never been tested on prediction of the number of residue contacts and we wanted to find out if LSTM can outperform older techniques based on traditional recurrent neural networks. We also wanted to make a thorough analysis of why or why not LSTM is suited for the prediction of the number of residue contacts. LSTM has been implemented in Matlab and tested carefully to verify that it is working properly. The implementation in Matlab is as general as possible so it will be able to use the implementation on other domains as well. The training had been done with a combination of a modified and truncated BPTT (Back-Propagation Through Time) algorithm and a customized version of a RTRL (Real-Time Recurrent Learning). A 3-fold cross-validation is used with a data set extracted from the PDB_select list of June 2000 with a sequence homology of <25%. The results for LSTM, with the methods used in this project, are not promising. LSTM reaches a performance in the range of 65-68 % correct classification compared to older networks based on traditional recurrent neural networks that have reached a performance in the range of 70-74 % correct classification.
The society of text: hypertext, hypermedia, and the social construction of information

Introduction - thought and language in a virtual environment, Edward Barrett. Part 1 Hypertext and hypermedia - designing systems for the online user: online information, hypermedia, and the idea of literacy, Philip Rubens online information - what do people want? what do people need? , Roger A. Grice hypertext in context, David S. Herrstrom and David G. Massey hypertext and intelligent interfaces for text retrieval, Patricia Ann Carlson. Part 2 Multimedia and nonlinear information architectures: investigations in multimedia design documentation, Matthew E. Hodges, et al supporting collaboration in hypermedia - issues and experiences, Peggy M. Irish and Randall H. Trigg the missing link - why we're all doing hypertext wrong, Norman Meyrowitz reflections on authoring, editing and managing hypertext, Ben Shneiderman authoring tools for complex document sets, Janet H. Walker limited freedom - linear reflections on nonlinear texts, Joseph T. Jaynes from database to hypertext via electronic publishing - an information odyssey, R. John Brockmann, et al. Part 3 The social perspective - writers, management and the online environment: trends in the emerging profession of technical communication, John Kirsch reconstruction of a profession - new roles for writers in the computer industry, Muriel Zimmerman online writing from an organizational perspective, Robert Krull consulting skills for technical writers, Lawrence B. Levine how to manage educational computing initiatives - lessons from the first five years of Project Athena at MIT, Jacqueline A. Stewart textual intervention, collaboration and the online environment, Edward Barrett. Part 4 Sensemaking, learning and the online environment: techniques of user message design - developing a user message system to support co-operative work, Christine M. Neuwirth hand-crafted hypertext - lessons from the ACM experiment, Liora Alschuler the evaluation of online help systems - a conceptual model, Thomas M. Duffy, et al escher effects in online text, Judith Ramey using "Word-Knowledge" reasoning for question answering, Jill Gaulding and Boris Katz learning by doing with simulated intelligent help, John M. Carroll and Amy P. Aaronson.
Adaptive Man-Machine Interfaces MIT9904-15

In this project we aim to achieve two significant extensions of our recent work on developing a text-to-visual-speech (TTVS) system (Ezzat, 1998). The existing synthesis module may be trained to generate imagesequences of a real human face synchronized to a text-to-speech system, starting from just a few real images ofthe person to be simulated. We proposed 1) to extend the system to use morphing of 3D models of faces —rather than face images — and to output a 3D model of a speaking face and 2) to enrich the context of eachviseme to deal with coarticulation issues.The main applications of this work are for virtual actors and for very-low-bandwidth video communication. Inaddition, the project may contribute to the development of a new generation of computer interfaces more user-friendly than today's interfaces. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3
Black Carbon Aerosols in the Lower Free Troposphere are Heavily Coated in Summer but Largely Uncoated in Winter at Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps

Black carbon (BC) particles are responsible for substantial radiative heating of the atmosphere. However, the climate‐relevant properties of BC particles in the free troposphere (FT) are poorly constrained over longer time scales. Here, we report on in situ, intensive field campaigns deploying a single‐particle soot photometer during summer and winter seasons at the Jungfraujoch (3,580 m a.s.l., Switzerland), a site often located in the lower FT. The refractory BC (rBC) mass size distribution was very stable across the two seasons. BC was generally internally mixed (i.e., heavily coated with other aerosol material) in summer. However, against general expectations, BC was predominantly externally mixed in winter, with a high occurrence of negligibly‐to‐thinly coated BC. This strong seasonality in lower‐FT BC mixing state has not been previously observed and would substantially influence the lifetime, loading, and climate effects of free‐tropospheric BC. Future measurements should investigate the generality of these results.
On application of case relations to document retrieval

The purpose of this research is to design a document retrieval model which is a structural model based on case relations and to test how effectively a prototype of this model would perform retrieval on a test database. Case relations are a major component of case grammar proposed by linguistic theorists and developed in computational linguistics and natural language processing. The design of the structural retrieval model involves case relations and structured document representation, case relation-based natural language parsing and automatic structural indexing, and tree mapping and structural matching. In this model, a document is represented by a set of tree-like case frames in which the components of a natural language clause are assigned to different nodes called cases, and all nodes have pre-defined case relations to the verb of the clause. To implement such a structural representation by automatic means, an indexing engine was coded (using PROLOG) and developed which consists of a natural language parser and a case frame generator. In response to a natural language query, the prototype of the model (1) processes and converts the query into a set of case frames; (2) measures the structural closeness between the query and every document in a database through tree-mapping; and (3) presents the retrieved documents, according to their closeness to the query, in ranked order. A number of typical retrieval experiments have been designed to compare the structural model with the vector space model and the Boolean model. All of the model prototypes processed a set of thirty queries on a test database of 534 documents. The retrieval performance was measured using recall-precision graphs, averaged recall and precision, and statistical tests. The experimental results showed that the effectiveness of the structural model was barely comparable to that of the other models. The conclusions are: (1) the structural model is not more effective than other models, and (2) replications of this study are needed to further prove or disprove the usefulness of case relations in improving retrieval effectiveness.
Implementing Best Practices at the National Center for Cryo-EM Access and Training

To broaden biomedical scientists’ access to cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM), the NIH Common Fund’s Transformative High-Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy program has created three national service centers to provide access to cryoEM technology and the development of training curricula to build a skilled workforce. The mission of the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training (NCCAT) is twofold: to provide nationwide access to advanced cryoEM technical capabilities, and to assist users in the development of cryoEM skills needed for independent research. NCCAT provides access to state-ofthe-art equipment required to solve structures to the highest possible resolution using cryoEM methods.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEB-BASED PHYSICS SIMULATION APPLICATION FOR PHYSICS LEARNING TOOL

The purpose of this research is to present a multimedia application for doing simulation in Physics. The application is a web based simulator that implementing HTML5, WebGL, and JavaScript. The objects and the environment will be in three dimensional views. This application is hoped will become the substitute for practicum activity. The current development is the application only covers Newtonian mechanics. Questionnaire and literature study is used as the data collecting method. While Waterfall Method used as the design method. The result is Three-DimensionalPhysics Simulator as online web application. Three-Dimensionaldesign and mentor-mentee relationship is the key features of this application. The conclusion made is Three-DimensionalPhysics Simulator already fulfilled in both design and functionality according to user. This application also helps them to understand Newtonian mechanics by simulation. Improvements are needed, because this application only covers Newtonian Mechanics. There is a lot possibility in the future that this simulation can also covers other Physics topic, such as optic, energy, or electricity.
Towards a Unified Architecture of Knowledge Management System for a Research Institute

This paper presents some elements of architecture of planned knowledge management system dedicated to research institutions. Main contributions include social extension of the idea of adaptive hermeneutic agent and preliminary implementation of domain specific language for development of knowledge management systems. Work described here concentrated on practical verification of viability of proposed ideas and took form of a prototype software system, which can be used by a group of researchers to easily find and recommend relevant information. Keywords—creativity support, knowledge management, modeldriven software development, tagged collaborative filtering.
Performance of an error detection mechanism for damaged H. 264/AVC sequences

In mobile video applications, the error-prone wireless connection can cause the stream to be incorrectly received. An occurring error will propagate both spatially (in the current frame) and temporally (to the following frames). This work presents the implementation of an error detection and concealment mechanism for H.264/AVC encoded video and the design of a quality estimator. The detection is performed by means of two interacting strategies. At bit level, the syntax of the received bitstream will be analyzed in order to detect inconsistent or illegal codewords. At the pixel level, the remaining visual impairments in the decoded frame will be detected. The quality estimator is capable of, given the information output by the decoder, to estimate the subjective quality of the decoded H.264 video. This detection and concealment is implemented in the H.264/AVC decoder, without causing transmission overhead. Simulations show improvements both in objective (luminance peak-signal-to-noise ratio) and subjective (mean opinion score) tests with respect to the common slice rejection mechanism. The quality estimator is only a Matlab design and is not implemented in the decoder.
Using Parallel Corpora in Data-Driven Teaching of Turkish in Sweden.

The paper demonstrates how data-driven learning methods are applied in teaching Turkish as a foreign language at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. In data-driven teaching, language corpora, concordance programs, and annotation tools developed in collaboration with computational linguists are employed. This paper illustrates how resources developed initially for research purposes in different subjects (such as Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Turkic languages), are now being used in teaching environments.We present the Swedish-Turkish parallel corpus providing students and researchers with easily accessible annotated linguistic data. The web-based corpora can be used both by regular and distance students. They function also as learning tools for formulating and testing hypotheses concerning lexical, morphological and syntactic aspects of Turkish. Furthermore, they help the students to practice contrastive studies and translation between Swedish and Turkish.
How to interpret statistical data : a guide for librarians and information scientists

Part 1 The nature of data: data collection of data variables - single variables aspects of interest combinations of variables data handling. Part 2 Representation of data: quantitative data - mode, mean, dispersion, skewness about the mode, mean, dispersion and skewness, median, skewness about the median, mode, mean and median, grouping of data, samples and populations qualitative data qualitative/quantitative data - indexes, time series analysis quantitative/quantiative data - correlation coefficients. Part 3 Presentation of data: quantitative data - tabular presentation diagrammatic presentation quantitative/qualitative data - tabular presentation diagrammatic. Part 4 Manipulation of data: quantitative data - probability, statistical tests qualitative data - chi-squared test qualitative/quantitative data - analysis of variance qualitative/quantitative data - regression.