Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hadoop: Analysis of Cloud Computing Infrastructure

As a kind of cloud computing infrastructure, Hadoop has attracted more attention from a group of corporations and has been widely used. The framework and character of Hadoop were detailed introduced and analyzed as well as the application opportunities of Hadoop in the field of communication in the future were prospected in this paper. An application based on Hadoop was designed and experiment result demonstrates the efficiency of Hadoop on dealing with big dataset.
Hybrid beasts of the Nordic Bronze Age

ABSTRACT During the Nordic Bronze Age (NBA), hybrid beasts contributed to cosmological and mythical narratives on the main media of metal and rock. These hybrids are composed of body parts from particular animals – including bull, bird, snake, horse and human – which entangle with particular objects or images. On metalwork, they appear especially on bronze razors but also on shields, bowls, combs, helmets and in the shape of figurines. Their main occurrence clusters in the later part of the NBA that is characterised by social change. Especially cremation as the total metamorphosis of the human body aligns with a nexus of analogues firmly linking interspecies composites with ideas of bodily fluidity and transformation. Overall, this may be understood as a way of perceiving, and potentially controlling, the world. NBA hybridising art does not indicate that the religion of the era is reducible to mere animism throughout, but society certainly retained and put to use properties of an animistic tradition. Supported by contextual data, the article proposes that the hybrids related to shared NBA myths and religious practices while also legitimising the privilege and leadership of the upper echelons of NBA societies.
Jitter recovery strategies for multimedia traffic in ATM networks

Cell delay variation (CDV) or jitter is one of the most important performance parameters in packet-switched networks, especially, for real-time multimedia applications, where the source and the receiver are synchronized. The jitter is studied on two levels: within the same traffic stream and between different traffic streams of the same multimedia application. A previous preliminary study is extended by studying the effect of traversing multiple ATM nodes on the jitter parameters. To improve the jitter/inter-flows jitter performance, a traffic recovery algorithm is applied. Throughout this work, two jitter recovery strategies are investigated: one where the recovery is applied at the destination node only ("Destination Only") and the other where the recovery is applied also at intermediate nodes ("Intermediate Also"). Simulation results give insight to the problem and show that the jitter can be fairly controlled by applying the traffic recovery mechanism.
FUSE (Franklin University Scholarly Exchange) FUSE (Franklin University Scholarly Exchange)

Critical infrastructures are vital assets for the public safety, economic welfare and national security of countries. Cyber systems are used extensively to monitor and control critical infrastructures. A number of infrastructures are connected to the Internet via corporate networks. Cyber security is, therefore, an important item of the national security agenda of a country. The intense interest in cyber security has initiated research focusing on national cyber security maturity assessments. However, little, if any, research is dedicated to maturity assessments of national critical infrastructure protection efforts. Instead, the vast majority of studies merely examine diverse national-level security best practices ranging from cyber crime response to privacy protection. This paper proposes a maturity model for measuring the readiness levels of national critical infrastructure protection efforts. The development of the model involves two steps. The ﬁ rst step analyzes data pertaining to national cyber security projects using grounded theory to extract the root causes of the susceptibility of critical infrastructures to cyber threats. The second step determines the maturity criteria by introducing the root causes to subject-matter experts polled in a Delphi survey. The resulting survey-based maturity model is applied to assess the critical infrastructure protection efforts in Turkey. The results are realistic and intuitively appealing, demonstrating that the maturity model is useful for evaluating the national critical infrastructure protection preparedness of developing countries such as Turkey.
A framework for software development for distributed parallel computing systems

A framework for software development for distributed parallel computing systems based on the parallel object-oriented functional computational model PROOF is presented. The authors approach enables programming to be independent of the configuration of the computing system on which the program is executed. In their approach, the programmer does not need to be bothered by the parallelism in the application or the architectural details. These considerations can be handled at the translation and the allocation stages. Their approach retains the benefits of both the object-oriented as well the functional paradigms. <<ETX>>
Internet over digital video broadcast: performance issues

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) defines the carriage of multimedia information to clients by means of MPEG-2 transport streams (TS). Within MPEG-2 transport stream, it is also possible to carry defined data containers that can be used to realize new data services or to carry IP datagrams. In this paper, we analyze this for carrying best-effort IP traffic within the prioritized video traffic. We investigate the statistical properties of the traffic under different network resource configurations, i.e., bottleneck bandwidth, buffer size, and different traffic characteristics, i.e., self-similarity (Hurst parameter).
How bad are the growth hampering effects of non-communicable diseases? The case of developing countries

This paper attempts to estimate the impact of Non-Communicable Diseases on economic growth in developing countries. In fact, the literature has confirmed the existence of causal liaisons between the epidemiological burden of diseases and macroeconomic aspects. This analysis is conducted through a dynamic panel of 29 middle-income countries around the Mediterranean basin and Central Asia over the period between 1995 and 2016 using the System Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) to account for the potential endogeneity of the explanatory variables. The robustness and consistence of the estimates was verified by statistical tests and by the estimation of alternative versions of the basic specification.
Two-party generation of DSA signatures : (Extended abstract)

We describe a means of sharing the DSA signature function, so that two parties can efficiently generate a DSA signature with respect to a given public key but neither can alone. We focus on a certain instantiation that allows a proof of security for concurrent execution in the random oracle model, and that is very practical. We also briefly outline a variation that requires more rounds of communication, but that allows a proof of security for sequential execution without random oracles.
Tackling Whole‐Systems Change: The Trafford Framework for Integrated Services

This article describes the strategy for delivering integrated care in Trafford on a whole‐systems basis. It describes an approach to integrating services across primary care, community health services, social services and acute care. It covers the (clinically led) process of developing the strategic framework, the principles developed and used, and the specific programme to be carried out in 2010/11.
Real-Time Taxi-Passenger Prediction With L-CNN

The GPS trajectories are rich with potential information that could be used to explore the regulation of traffic to serve the public. While that past approaches for short-term traffic prediction have existed for some time, emerging smart transportation technologies require the traffic prediction capability to be both fast and scalable to full urban networks. In this paper, we propose a novel neural network, named L-CNN based on CNN and LSTM, and develop an effective real-time prediction model to forecast the most likely potential passenger for taxi drivers. It is noteworthy that our model can be easily extended to other real-time traffic prediction problems, such as road traffic and flow prediction. Finally, we test our method based on GPS trajectories generated by Cheng Du taxi. The method presented provides passenger prediction over 15-min intervals for up to 1 h in advance and the results prove the efficiency of our predicting system.
FPGA in the software radio

As new radio standards are deployed without substantially supplanting existing ones, the need for multimode multiband handsets and infrastructure increases. This article describes how emerging FPGA technology's unique combination of size and power efficiency plus field programmability offers a transition of FPCAs from ASIC prototyping to embedded products. Software-defined receiver examples suggest an enlarged role for FPGAs in pragmatic paths toward the productization of software radio technology.
Ancillary techniques for neural network applications

To a large extent, the successful implementation of neural nets depends on several ancillary techniques for data preprocessing, training and testing. Some of these techniques are investigated and discussed in this paper. They include genetic algorithm, fuzzy logic theory, query-based learning and feature extraction. For each technique, the paradigm, theory and application are described. The advantages of the application of these ancillary techniques for the neural networks are also listed. The simulation results for each proposed technique showed their significant role and practicality. <<ETX>>
ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY IN E-LIBRARY USAGE AMONG STUDENTS OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN MALAYSIA

This study looked at the influence of self-efficacy on e-library usage by 704 university students from four different schools in a Malaysian public university -, School of Humanities, School of Mass Communication, School of Chemistry and School of Biology. The results of the study suggest that self-efficacy has a significant direct impact on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use when predicting elibrary usage. Results also suggest that self-efficacy, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness have direct significant impact on e-library usage. The results further indicate that perceived ease of use fully mediates self-efficacy when explaining e-library usage and perceived usefulness fully mediates perceived ease of use when predicting e-library usage.
Probability Rule base Clustering Approach for Heart Disease Risk Prediction

Data mining is a mechanism to locate divergent patterns that analyze the data and condense it into useful information. The idea of data mining are predictions and descriptions. The current research intends to predict the heart disease risk of patients. Probability rule base Clustering approach for Heart disease Risk Prediction(PbC_HRP) model is proposed in the heart disease risk prediction. In this model there are two approaches, PRBC (Classification approach) and OCPD (Clustering approach). Probability Rule Base Classification (PRBC) constructs knowledge base using medical guidelines and probability values and generates classification rules. Optimized Cluster Pair wise Distance base clustering (OCPD) uses the classification rules from PRBC, calculates fitness values and produces clusters which will represents the risk levels of heart disease. The clusters will give the features to the patients from the respective risk levels of clusters. It helps to warn the patient before disease became sever.
The Ontario Crohn’s and Colitis Cohort: Incidence and Outcomes of Childhood-onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Ontario, Canada

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), characterized by chronic gastrointestinal inflammation, represents a significant childhood chronic disease. In this thesis, a case ascertainment definition of paediatric-onset IBD was validated using administrative data and developed the Ontario Crohn’s and Colitis Cohort (OCCC). The epidemiology of paediatric IBD in Ontario was described, demonstrating that Ontario has one of the highest worldwide incidence rates. Statistically significant increases in incidence were noted in 0-4 year olds (5.0%/year, p=0.03) and 5-9 year olds (7.6%/year, p<0.0001), but not in other age groups. Lower income children were more likely to be hospitalized at least once (hazard ratio (HR) 1.17, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.05-1.30) or visit the ED (HR 1.21, 95% CI 1.09-1.35) and had more IBD-related physician visits (odds ratio (OR) 3.73, 95% CI 1.05-13.27). Lower income children with Crohn's disease (CD) (not ulcerative colitis [UC]) were more likely to undergo intra-abdominal surgery within 3 years of diagnosis (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.01-1.49), especially if diagnosed after 2000 (OR 1.79, 95% CI 1.27-2.53). Finally, changes in health services utilization and surgical rates were described, as were changes in specialist care provision and immunomodulator use in children with IBD between 1994-2007. The changes to care included increased outpatient care provided by paediatric gastroenterologists, and increased immunomodulator use. Children diagnosed with CD, but not UC, in recent years had lower surgical rates. In CD patients, intra-abdominal surgical rates within three years of diagnosis decreased from 18.8% in children diagnosed in 1994-1997 to 13.6% in those diagnosed in 2001-2004 (P = 0.035). When stratified by age at diagnosis, this decrease was significant in children diagnosed ≥10 years old (OR 0.67, 95% CI 0.48-0.93). The OCCC will continue to be used to investigate the epidemiology and burden of paediatric IBD and to improve the care received by children with IBD in Ontario.
Testing post-editing guidelines: how translation trainees interpret them and how to tailor them for translator training purposes

There is a growing interest in machine translation (MT) and post-editing (PE). MT has been around for decades, but the use of the technology has grown significantly in the language industry in recent years, while PE is still a relatively new task. Consequently, there are currently no standard PE guidelines to use in translator training programmes. Recently, the first set of publicly available industry-focused PE guidelines (for ‘good enough’ and ‘publishable’ quality) were developed by Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) in partnership with the Centre for Global Intelligent Content (CNGL), which can be used as a basis on which to instruct post-editors in professional environments. This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigates how trainee translators on an MA course, which is aimed at preparing the trainees for the translation industry, interpret these PE guidelines for publishable quality. The findings suggest trainees have difficulties interpreting the guidelines, primarily due to trainee competency gaps, but also due to the wording of the guidelines. Based on our findings we propose training measures to address these competency gaps. Furthermore, we provide post-editing guidelines that we plan to use for our own post-editing training.
Use of alternative matrix materials and configurations for optimizing nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands

L’assainissement d’effluents residuaires urbains par filtres plantes de roseaux (FPR) rencontre, depuis plus de trois decennies, un engouement croissant en raison de ses remarquables performances de traitement ainsi que de considerations technico-economiques et ecologiques. Neanmoins, des objectifs de traitement de plus en plus contraignants, ainsi qu’un marche de plus en plus concurrentiel, amenent la necessite d’une meilleure connaissance des processus afin d’en optimiser la conception en fonction du contexte. Une attention toute particuliere a ete portee au traitement de l’azote, au cours de cette etude, en raison de l’aspect particulierement contraignant de son elimination. Ces travaux se sont articules autour de trois axes principaux permettant l’evaluation des principaux mecanismes d’elimination de l’azote (nitrification, denitrification et adsorption, respectivement). Un premier volet, conduit sur unites pilotes alimentees en effluents domestiques reels, s’est attache a identifier l’impact respectif de divers criteres de dimensionnement et operationnels (profondeur de filtration, surface de filtration, charges hydrauliques et organiques) afin de proposer des consignes de conception adaptees aux objectifs de traitement sur l’azote ammoniacal ainsi que la matiere organique et la pollution particulaire. Une seconde partie de l’etude, mene a echelle pilote a partir d’effluents semi-synthetiques, s’est quant a elle focalisee sur le processus de denitrification afin de mettre en exergue les criteres majeurs (composition des effluents, parametres de conception et fonctionnement) pour l’atteinte de performances poussees sur le traitement des nitrates. Enfin, un dernier axe de recherche, effectue en laboratoire en colonne, a vise a evaluer l’effet de l’adsorption d’ammonium sur materiaux filtrants reactifs (zeolithe) en vue d’optimiser par la suite le temps de retention de cette espece au regard des cinetiques de degradation biologique. Une synthese des connaissances acquises au cours de cette etude a donne lieu a des conseils de conception ainsi qu’a des recommandations pour d’eventuelles etudes complementaires.
Promoting the emotional wellbeing and mental health of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK - Research Summary

This research summary provides an overview of findings from an 18-month, in-depth research project: The social functioning, emotional wellbeing and mental health of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK. The research was conducted by the Thomas Coram Research Unit, at the Institute of Education, University of London. It was commissioned and funded by the Department of Health, although the views expressed in this summary do not necessarily reflect those of the Department. The key findings from the study are presented and some of the specific implications for policy and practice for those working with unaccompanied children and young people in a range of health, social care, education, immigration and legal settings are discussed.
Programming Gate-based Hardware Quantum Computers for Music

There have been significant attempts previously to use the equations of quantum mechanics for generating sound, and to sonify simulated quantum processes. For new forms of computation to be utilized in computer music, eventually hardware must be utilized. This has rarely happened with quantum computer music. One reason for this is that it is currently not easy to get access to such hardware. A second is that the hardware available requires some understanding of quantum computing theory. This paper moves forward the process by utilizing two hardware quantum computation systems: IBMQASM v1.1 and a D-Wave 2X. It also introduces the ideas behind the gate-based IBM system, in a way hopefully more accessible to computerliterate readers. This is a presentation of the first hybrid quantum computer algorithm, involving two hardware machines. Although neither of these algorithms explicitly utilize the promised quantum speed-ups, they are a vital first step in introducing QC to the musical field. The article also introduces some key quantum computer algorithms and discusses their possible future contribution to computer music.
Wright's Baghdad Opera House and Gammage Auditorium: In Search of Regional Modernity

Wright's Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium for Arizona State University (1959–64) was the last public building that he designed. It was modeled on his project of 1957–58 for an opera house in Baghdad, Iraq, and was related to his project of 1957 for a new Arizona state capitol. All these designs exemplified Wright's belief in a regionally varied modern architecture incorporating history and landscape and opposing the International Style. Baghdad's opera house reflected postwar Iraqi ideology and Wright's views of Islamic and earlier architectures. The design's adaptation to postwar Arizona's desert entailed reworking the theater's acoustics, exterior form, and material symbolism.
A Rupture in the Field of Representation: Animals, Photography and Affect

Abstract This review essay explores the sociality of photographic affect through an analysis of animal photography. It offers a social reading of Barthes's concept of the punctum by examining the importance of animality to the concept's formulation. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's work on animality as a key question in Western thought, the paper argues that Barthes's engagement with animality is not arbitrary and that thinking in terms of animality helps us to understand photographic affect as necessarily social.
Propuesta de alternancias de diátesis verbales para el español y el catalán

Actualmente nadie pone en duda la interrelacion de los componentes sintactico y semantico, y en esta linea las diatesis se han mostrado como un medio eficaz para acceder a la semantica a partir de la sintaxis. En el trabajo que presentamos partimos de la hipotesis de que la semantica verbal condiciona el tipo de estructuras sintagmaticas en que un verbo puede aparecer; asimismo, consideramos que se puede identificar la clase semantica de un verbo en funcion de las diferentes diatesis en que puede participar. El desarrollo de la investigacion requiere, en primer lugar, definir las estructuras de diatesis necesarias para la identificacion de las clases semanticas y el establecimiento de los papeles tematicos que caracterizaran cada una de las clases y que permitiran la conexion entre la sintaxis y la semantica. En esta comunicacion presentamos la metodologia seguida para el establecimiento de las clases verbales de las lenguas implicadas en el proyecto Pirapides, y ademas aportamos una primera propuesta de organizacion y especificacion de las diatesis generales del espanol y del catalan.
Violence in the Lives of Adolescents

Once a week I consult to a child and youth mental health team working in North Surrey. This is a Vancouver suburb where many children grow up in abject poverty, often with single parents who struggle with poor accommodation, poorly paid jobs, unemployment, substance abuse and unrewarding relationships. “Grow-ops” and other types of crime abound, and the pervasive threat of violence on the streets and in schools frightens many youngsters. This book piqued my curiosity. Would it expand my knowledge? Give me some tools to work with these children and teens? Could I recommend it to the therapists working with them and their families? The book served to remind me that, as Dan Offord and his group found in the Ontario Health Study, poverty is the major causative factor for many adolescent disorders. It reaffirmed that our assessment and treatment approaches must include attention to the social determinants of health, and liaison with other resources in the community. The author, a clinical psychologist, specializes in problems of adolescence, family violence, family development and women’s issues. The strengths of the book lie in her perceptive depictions of abused and suicidal adolescents and their families, discussion of adolescent development, in-depth portrayal of various types of family violence, and vignettes describing her therapy with individuals and families. There were deficiencies including a lack of attention to biological variables, and very little about the role of violence in the community. Although the vignette about the delinquent adolescent centres on a youth with learning and attention problems, the author believes that “At the root of most serious problems of adolescence lies severe family dysfunction, particularly child abuse and neglect. ” Despite the omissions, this book is well-written and interesting and would make a good introduction for mental heath professionals who have little experience of working with adolescents and family violence.