Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Automatic Document Classification Applied to Swedish News

The first part of this paper presents briefly the ELIN[1] system, an electronic newspaper project. ELIN is a framework that stores news and displays them to the end-user. Such news are formatted using the xml[2] format. The project partner Corren[3] provided ELIN with xml articles, however the format used was not the same. My first task has been to develop a software that converts the news from one xml format (Corren) to another (ELIN). The second and main part addresses the problem of automatic document classification and tries to find a solution for a specific issue. The goal is to automatically classify news articles from a Swedish newspaper company (Corren) into the IPTC[4] news categories.This work has been carried out by implementing several classification algorithms, testing them and comparing their accuracy with existing software. The training and test documents were 3 weeks of the Corren newspaper that had to be classified into 2 categories.The last tests were run with only one algorithm (Naive Bayes) over a larger amount of data (7, then 10 weeks) and categories (12) to simulate a more real environment.The results show that the Naive Bayes algorithm, although the oldest, was the most accurate in this particular case. An issue raised by the results is that feature selection improves speed but can seldom reduce accuracy by removing too many features.
Performance analysis of NAND flash memory solid-state disks

Title of Document: Performance Analysis of NAND Flash Memory Solid-State Disks Cagdas Dirik Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Bruce Jacob Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maryland, College Park As their prices decline, their storage capacities increase, and their endurance improves, NAND Flash Solid-State Disks (SSD) provide an increasingly attractive alternative to Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for portable computing systems and PCs. HDDs have been an integral component of computing systems for several decades as long-term, non-volatile storage in memory hierarchy. Today’s typical hard disk drive is a highly complex electromechanical system which is a result of decades of research, development, and fine-tuned engineering. Compared to HDD, flash memory provides a simpler interface, one without the complexities of mechanical parts. On the other hand, today’s typical solid-state disk drive is still a complex storage system with its own peculiarities and system problems. Due to lack of publicly available SSD models, we have developed our NAND flash SSD models and integrated them into DiskSim, which is extensively used in academe in studying storage system architectures. With our flash memory simulator, we model various solid-state disk architectures for a typical portable computing environment, quantify their performance under real user PC workloads and explore potential for further improvements. We find the following: • The real limitation to NAND flash memory performance is not its low per-device bandwidth but its internal core interface. • NAND flash memory media transfer rates do not need to scale up to those of HDDs for good performance. • SSD organizations that exploit concurrency at both the system and device level improve performance significantly. • These systemand device-level concurrency mechanisms are, to a significant degree, orthogonal: that is, the performance increase due to one does not come at the expense of the other, as each exploits a different facet of concurrency exhibited within the PC workload. • SSD performance can be further improved by implementing flash-oriented queuing algorithms, access reordering, and bus ordering algorithms which exploit the flash memory interface and its timing differences between read and write requests. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF NAND FLASH MEMORY SOLID-STATE DISKS
Chemistry and Physics for Nurse Anesthesia: A Student Centered Approach

This textbook offers combined coverage of chemistry and physics to assist the graduate level nursing student in learning the content they need to master anesthetics. Chapters cover key topics relating to anesthetics, including the basics of both chemistry and physics, fluids, the gas laws, phases of matter, acids and bases, electrical circuits, radiation, and radioactivity. This title is written in a conversational, accessible style. It includes illustrations that demonstrate how the scientific concepts relate directly to their clinical application in anesthesia. Review questions are provided at the end of each chapter.
A MIDDLE-WARE LEVEL CLIENT CACHE FOR A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING I/O SIMULATOR

This thesis describes the design and run time analysis of the system level middle-ware cache for Hecios. Hecios is a high performance cluster I/O simulator. With Hecios, we provide a simulation environment that accurately captures the performance characteristics of all the components in a clusterwide parallel file system. Hecios was specifically modeled after PVFS2. It was designed to be extensible and to easily allow for various component modules to be easily replaced by those that model other system types. Built around the OMNeT++ simulation package, Hecios’ inner-cluster communication module, is easily adaptable to any TCP/IP based protocol and all standard network interface cards, switches, hubs, and routers. We will examine the system cache component and describe a methodology for implementing other coherence and replacement techniques within Hecios. Similar to other cache simulation tools, we allow the size of the system cache to be varied independently of the replacement policy and caching technique used.
SQL For Dummies

Uncover the secrets of SQL and start building better relational databases today! This fun and friendly guide will help you demystify database management systems so you can create more powerful databases and access information with ease. Updated for the latest SQL functionality, SQL For Dummies, 8th Edition covers the core SQL language and shows you how to use SQL to structure a DBMS, implement a database design, secure your data, and retrieve information when you need it.Includes new enhancements of SQL:2011, including temporal data functionality which allows you to set valid times for transactions to occur and helps prevent database corruptionCovers creating, accessing, manipulating, maintaining, and storing information in relational database management systems like Access, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQLProvides tips for keeping your data safe from theft, accidental or malicious corruption, or loss due to equipment failures and advice on eliminating errors in your workDon't be daunted by database development anymore - get SQL For Dummies, 8th Edition, and you'll be on your way to SQL stardom.
Advances in parameter estimation techniques applied to flexible structures

In this work, various parameter estimation techniques are investigated in the context of structural system identification utilizing distributed parameter models and 'measured' time-domain data. Distributed parameter models are formulated using the PDEMOD software developed by Taylor. Enhancements made to PDEMOD for this work include the following: (1) a Wittrick-Williams based root solving algorithm; (2) a time simulation capability; and (3) various parameter estimation algorithms. The parameter estimations schemes will be contrasted using the NASA Mini-Mast as the focus structure.
The effects of training on errors of perceived direction in perspective displays

An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of training on the characteristic direction errors that are observed when subjects estimate exocentric directions on perspective displays. Changes in five subjects' perceptual errors were measured during a training procedure designed to eliminate the error. The training was provided by displaying to each subject both the sign and the direction of his judgment error. The feedback provided by the error display was found to decrease but not eliminate the error. A lookup table model of the source of the error was developed in which the judgement errors were attributed to overestimates of both the pitch and the yaw of the viewing direction used to produce the perspective projection. The model predicts the quantitative characteristics of the data somewhat better than previous models did. A mechanism is proposed for the observed learning, and further tests of the model are suggested.
Recommendation-based Collaborative Browsing using bookmarks

The World Wide Web (WEB) has made possible the creation of many applications for computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); however, the most common activity being performed by users everyday, namely browsing (and exploring) its contents, remains an individual rather than a computer supported cooperative, shared or partnered activity. The fact that browsing the WEB has not constituted itself as an on-line collaborative activity and remains mainly an individual activity raises the challenge that there may not be any point in trying to develop tools for computer-assisted collaborative browsing. The proposition is that maybe WEB browsing is intrinsically an individual activity. We propose a lightweight collaboration model for WEB browsing based on recommendations. A pilot study was conducted to assess the usability of computer assisted recommendation based collaborative WEB browsing. We have chosen a collection of peoples' bookmarks as the source for gathering an individual’s web surfing experience to the benefit of a group, that is, a group history tool. While this is not a comprehensive or definitive study, it demonstrates the merit in recommendation based co-browsing. Even with such a small collection (15 volunteers), 54% of the volunteers said they would be passing on the recommendations to others and 91% (all except one) said they benefited from URLs visited by others in the group. Additionally, more than 50% of users answered that they already found out about new sites from friends, and 45% said they would find receiving updates in the future useful.
An open source HPC-enabled model of cardiac defibrillation of the human heart

Sudden cardiac death following cardiac arrest is a major killer in the industrialised world. The leading cause of sudden cardiac death are disturbances in the normal electrical activation of cardiac tissue, known as cardiac arrhythmia, which severely compromise the ability of the heart to fulfill the body's demand of oxygen. Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is the most deadly form of cardiac arrhythmia. Furthermore, electrical defibrillation through the application of strong electric shocks to the heart is the only effective therapy against VF. Over the past decades, a large body of research has dealt with the study of the mechanisms underpinning the success or failure of defibrillation shocks. The main mechanism of shock failure involves shocks terminating VF but leaving the appropriate electrical substrate for new VF episodes to rapidly follow (i.e. shock-induced arrhythmogenesis). A large number of models have been developed for the in silico study of shock-induced arrhythmogenesis, ranging from single cell models to three-dimensional ventricular models of small mammalian species. However, no extrapolation of the results obtained in the aforementioned studies has been done in human models of ventricular electrophysiology. The main reason is the large computational requirements associated with the solution of the bidomain equations of cardiac electrophysiology over large anatomically-accurate geometrical models including representation of fibre orientation and transmembrane kinetics. In this Thesis we develop simulation technology for the study of cardiac defibrillation in the human heart in the framework of the open source simulation environment Chaste. The advances include the development of novel computational and numerical techniques for the solution of the bidomain equations in large-scale high performance computing resources. More specifically, we have considered the implementation of effective domain decomposition, the development of new numerical techniques for the reduction of communication in Chaste's finite element method (FEM) solver, and the development of mesh-independent preconditioners for the solution of the linear system arising from the FEM discretisation of the bidomain equations. The developments presented in this Thesis have brought Chaste to the level of performance and functionality required to perform bidomain simulations with large three-dimensional cardiac geometries made of tens of millions of nodes and including accurate representation of fibre orientation and membrane kinetics. This advances have enabled the in silico study of shock-induced arrhythmogenesis for the first time in the human heart, therefore bridging an important gap in the field of cardiac defibrillation research.
Semantic Link Network Builder and Intelligent Semantic Browser: Research Articles

Semantic Link Network (SLN) is a semantic Web model using semantic links—the natural extension of the hyperlink-based Web. The SLN-Builder is a software tool that enables definition, modification and verification of, as well as access to the SLN. The SLN-Builder can convert a SLN definition into XML descriptions for cross-platform information exchange. The Intelligent Semantic Browser is used to visualize the SLN and carry out two types of reasoning in browsing time: small granularity reasoning by chaining semantic links and large granularity reasoning by matching semantic views of SLN. With the help of the reasoning mechanism, the browser can recommend the content that is semantically relevant to the current browsing content, and it enables users to foresee the end-side content of a semantic link chain. This paper presents the design and implementation of the SLN-Builder and the intelligent semantic browser as well as key algorithms. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
How Attentional Blink Facilitates Multitasking

Multitasking is a required skill for complex and dynamic activities such as driving a car and piloting an airplane. Previous research in cognitive modeling has suggested that top-down control improves multitasking ability (Taatgen, 2005). An empirical study has been conducted to investigate how a basic neuro-cognitive effect (attentional blink) makes top-down control possible and improves multitasking performance.
Javaパーフェクトマスター : Programming language

１章 プログラム作成の準備 ２章 Ｊａｖａプログラミングの手順 ３章 Ｊａｖａの基本文法 ４章 Ｊａｖａのオブジェクト指向 ５章 数値、時間、暦、文字列 ６章 入出力 ７章 Ｓｗｉｎｇコンポーネント ８章 イベント ９章 Ｊａｖａアプレットの基礎とＡＷＴコンポーネント １０章 Ｊａｖａアプレットの応用
Probabilistic Framework for Sensor Management

A probabilistic sensor management framework is introduced, which maximizes the utility of sensor systems with many different sensing modalities by dynamically configuring the sensor system in the most beneficial way. For this purpose, techniques from stochastic control and Bayesian estimation are combined such that long-term effects of possible sensor configurations and stochastic uncertainties resulting from noisy measurements can be incorporated into the sensor management decisions.
Speeding up SURF Imaging: New Methods to Increase Frame Rate in Multi-Pulse Ultrasound Imaging Modalities

Any good medical ultrasound imaging system must be able to resolve anatomical structures properly, and simultaneously provide adequate frame rate so that moving structures can be studied with ease. In a conventional imaging system these properties are related by a trade-off, but is it possible to have one and the other by applying more advanced post-processing to acquired RF data? Two new methods, beam RF interpolation (BRI) and beam delay interpolation (BDI), are presented to solve this trade-off issue, using the SURF imaging technique to improve contrast resolution, and the new methods to increase frame rate. \emph{In vitro} data was acquired using a standard imaging phantom, and a modified SURF imaging system, and processing of the data was done off-line. The results show that the new methods have potential to contribute to increasing frame rate and contrast resolution, but hardware issues necessitate verification of the results using different equipment.
Mercado do crack e violência urbana na cidade de Belo Horizonte

Este artigo tem como proposta analisar a dinâmica da incidencia de homicidios na cidade de Belo Horizonte nas duas ultimas decadas, a partir de alteracoes na conformacao do mercado de drogas ilicitas. Procura-se argumentar que a incorporacao do crack a esse mercado desempenhou papel decisivo no incremento expressivo dos homicidios em Belo Horizonte a partir de meados da decada de 1990. A explicacao do fenomeno reside nas caracteristicas peculiares do trafico do crack no varejo, pautado por uma rede de comercializacao conflituosa em uma intensidade superior a verificada no comercio de outras drogas ilicitas. Crack Trade and Urban Violence in Belo Horizonte proposes an analysis of homicide rate dynamics in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the last two decades, based on the changes affecting the illegal drug trade. We argue that the introduction of crack on that market played a decisive role to significantly increase homicide rates in Belo Horizonte since mid 90s. The reason for this phenomenon lies in the peculiar characteristics of trafficking in crack retail, guided by trade network that is embattled in a level of intensity higher than that of other illicit drugs trade. Key words: crack, violence, drugs, homicide rates, Belo Horizonte
Field Encapsulation Library The FEL 2.2 User Guide

This document describes version 2.2 of the Field Encapsulation Library (FEL), a library of mesh and field classes. FEL is a library for programmers - it is a "building block" enabling the rapid development of applications by a user. Since FEL is a library intended for code development, it is essential that enough technical detail be provided so that one can make full use of the code. Providing such detail requires some assumptions with respect to the reader's familiarity with the library implementation language, C++, particularly C++ with templates. We have done our best to make the explanations accessible to those who may not be completely C++ literate. Nevertheless, familiarity with the language will certainly help one's understanding of how and why things work the way they do. One consolation is that the level of understanding essential for using the library is significantly less than the level that one should have in order to modify or extend the library. One more remark on C++ templates: Templates have been a source of both joy and frustration for us. The frustration stems from the lack of mature or complete implementations that one has to work with. Template problems rear their ugly head particularly when porting. When porting C code, successfully compiling to a set of object files typically means that one is almost done. With templated C++ and the current state of the compilers and linkers, generating the object files is often only the beginning of the fun. On the other hand, templates are quite powerful. Used judiciously, templates enable more succinct designs and more efficient code. Templates also help with code maintenance. Designers can avoid creating objects that are the same in many respects, but not exactly the same. For example, FEL fields are templated by node type, thus the code for scalar fields and vector fields is shared. Furthermore, node type templating allows the library user to instantiate fields with data types not provided by the FEL authors. This type of flexibility would be difficult to offer without the support of the language. For users who may be having template-related problems, we offer the consolation that support for C++ templates is destined to improve with time. Efforts such as the Standard Template Library (STL) will inevitably drive vendors to provide more thorough, optimized tools for template code development. Furthermore, the benefits will become harder to resist for those who currently subscribe to the least-common-denominator "code it all in C" strategy. May FEL bring you both increased productivity and aesthetic satisfaction.
The responsibility of clothing slaves in the United States as described in slave petitions, 1775 to 1867

vii Chapter 1 Introduction . 1 Chapter 2 Review of Literature . 6 Slaves and the Legal System . 6 Hiring of Slaves . 7 Slaveholders . 12 Slave Research . 15 Slave History.17 Slave Life . 21 Slave Dress Research.23 Slave’s Role in Textile Production . 25 Fabric Types Used in Slave Dress . 25 Slave Dress Production . 27 Distribution of Adult Slave Dress.28 Slave Clothing Maintenance.29 Adult Slave Dress . 29 Slave Children’s Dress . 31 Elderly Slave Dress.32 Meanings and Functions Associated with Slave Dress . 33 Slave Hair and Headdress . 36 Slave Shoes . 39 Slave Blankets.40 Slave Dress Findings and Trimmings.40 Slave Dress for Special Events . 41 Slave Dress and Dehumanization . 41 Dress and Identity . 42 Symbolic Interaction Theory . 44 Slave Dress and Slave Narratives . 46 Dress in Authoritarian, Totalitarian or Oppressive Environments . 51 Chapter 3 Methods and Procedures . 60 Source . 60 Historical Research . 62 Content Analysis.63 Data Collection and Research Design . 64
Combining anatomical images with estimates of brain activity extracted from electrographic data: methodology and applications

Advances in hardware and software have made possible the reconstruction of brain activity from non-invasive MEG and EEG data over a large part of the human brain. The appreciation of the information content in the data is enhanced when relevant anatomical detail is available for visualization. Different neuroscientific questions give rise to different requirements for optimal combination of the information from functional and anatomical data. Much of the software available today deals with scalar measures of activity, e.g. changes in hemodynamic demand. The brain activity reconstructed from MEG and EEG incorporates scalar but also vectorial information, which can be presented in juxtaposition with relevant anatomical detail from MRI. Furthermore the direction of the current density vector is expected to be related to the local cortical surface. To address these problems we introduce an object-oriented software tool dedicated to the visualization of spatio-temporal brain activity which allows the interplay of geometry and vector properties of the current density directly in the representations. The software (SAV) provides modules dedicated to: a) segmentation of the cerebrum and/or b) subcortical or extra cortical structures and ultimately c) visualization of scalar and vector fields in the background of the anatomy of the segmented surfaces. The software succeeds to: a) bring forth the timing of activations and their relationships to the cortical surface topography; b) allow the user to study the functional data in easy-tocontrol view settings and hence; c) navigate through large data sets by focusing on predefined anatomical structures. We examine the use of detailed anatomical knowledge in functional studies and derive quantitative properties of the segmented structures. Additionally we investigate the applicability of quantitative imaging techniques to planning an electrophysiological experiment on rat brain slices. We developed software to visualize selected structures within the rat brain and a procedure to derive an optimal sectioning plane, which would preserve as much as possible the afferent connections to the selected structure. Chapter
Chemical Thermodynamics of Nickel

Preface Acknowledgement Note from the chairman of the NEA TDB Project Phase II Editor's note Part I - Introductory Material I. Introduction II. Standards, conventions, and contents of the tables Part II - Tables of selected data III. Selected nickel data IV. Selected auxiliary data Part III - Discussion of data selection V. Discussion od data selection for nickel VI. Discussion of auxiliary data selection Part IV - Appendices A. Discussion of selected references B. Ionic strength corrections C. Assigned uncertainties Bibliography List of Authors