Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Lending Video Game Consoles in an Academic Library

This paper will outline the process and discussions undertaken at the University of Denver's University Libraries to implement a lending service providing video game consoles. Faculty and staff at the University Libraries decided to pursue the new lending service, though not a traditional library offering, to support the needs of a video game design curriculum in the university's Emergent Digital Practices program. By rethinking the role and scope of the library collection, the library met the demonstrated needs of an emerging program and reinforced its usefulness to the campus community.
Per-hop Internet Measurement Protocols

Accurately measuring per-hop packet dynamics on an Internet path is difficult. Currently available techniques have many well-known limitations that can make it difficult to accurately measure per-hop packet dynamics. Much of the difficulty of per-hop measurement is due to the lack of protocol support available to measure an Internet path on a per-hop basis. This thesis classifies common weaknesses and describes a protocol for per-hop measurement of Internet packet dynamics, known as the IP Measurement Protocol, or IPMP. With IPMP, a specially formed probe packet collects information from intermediate routers on the packet’s dynamics as the packet is forwarded. This information includes an IP address from the interface that received the packet, a timestamp that records when the packet was received, and a counter that records the arrival order of echo packets belonging to the same flow. Probing a path with IPMP allows the topology of the path to be directly determined, and for direct measurement of per-hop behaviours such as queueing delay, jitter, reordering, and loss. This is useful in many operational situations, as well as for researchers in characterising Internet behaviour. IPMP’s design goals of being tightly constrained and easy to implement are tested by building implementations in hardware and software. Implementations of IPMP presented in this thesis show that an IPMP measurement probe can be processed in hardware without delaying the packet, and processed in software with little overhead. This thesis presents IPMP-based measurement techniques for measuring per-hop packet delay, jitter, loss, reordering, and capacity that are more robust, require less probes to be sent, and are potentially more accurate and convenient than corresponding measurement techniques that do not use IPMP.
A Sketch of the Use of Formalized Languages for the Assertion of Music

After a brief explanation of formalized languages, a formalized language adequate for the assertion of a few twelve-note-class compositions is presented. Elementary set-theoretic concepts are introduced to specify properties of the formalized language and particular extensions of it. The paper concludes with discussion of applications of other formalized languages to various musical situations. O. Preliminary remarks. The concept of set is central to much of mathematics. Let us begin our discussion informally by presuming knowledge of this concept, that is, understanding of the meaning of statements, like "seven is an element of the set of all natural numbers," when the immediate constituents (in our example, "seven" and "all natural numbers") of the phrase "is an element of the set of" have understood meanings. (We presume also some knowledge of numbers. The set of all natural numbers is such that zero and every positive integer are the only elements of the set.) Let us proceed to introduce certain usual set-theoretic constructs, in the informal style common to much mathematical writing (for example, Halmos [1]). 1 One set is a subset of another set if and only if every element of the one set is an element of the other set.2 One set is equal to another set if and only if the one set is a subset of the other set and the other set is a subset of the one set. One set is a proper subset of another set if and only if the one set is a subset of the other set and the one set is not equal to the other set. Any set is a subset of itself; any set is equal to itself; no set is a proper subset of itself. The reader should be made aware, even after reading only the two above paragraphs of informal writing, of several deficiencies characteristic of such writing. For the avoidance of these deficiencies in formal asserting is an important motivation for the construction of 1 Numerals enclosed by square brackets refer to entries so numbered in the list of references given at the end of this paper. 2 Notice that notions (e.g., "if and only if" and "every"), which may be explicated by a formal treatment of propositional calculus or quantification theory (for which explication see Church [2]), are involved in our informal discussion.
GAMBARAN PENGGUNAAN NAPZA PADA ANAK JALANAN DI KOTA SEMARANG

Di Provinsi Jawa Tengah, jumlah anak jalanan yang tergolong cukup tinggi adalah di Kota Semarang. Lingkungan pergaulan anak jalanan yang bebas menyebabkan anak jalanan rawan melakukan hal-hal negatif, salah satunya yaitu penyalahgunaan NAPZA. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran penggunaan NAPZA pada anak jalanan di Kota Semarang. Jenis penelitian menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif yang dilakukan pada tahun 2013. Teknik pengambilan informan secara purposive sampling dilanjutkan snowball sampling. Informan terdiri dari 6 anak jalanan pengguna NAPZA, 6 teman dekat/ kerabat anak jalanan pengguna NAPZA, dan 3 pengurus RPSA di Kota Semarang. Teknik pengambilan data berupa wawancara mendalam dan observasi. Analisis data dilakukan secara deskriptif dan disajikan dalam bentuk narasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa anak jalanan menggunakan NAPZA setiap hari di pinggir jalan, bawah jembatan, rumah, dan di tempat bekerja secara berkelompok. Jenis NAPZA yang digunakan adalah pil dextro, pil BI, pil kasaran, lem, minuman keras, dan rokok. NAPZA diperoleh dari apotek, pengedar, toko bangunan, minimarket, dan warung dengan harga Rp 5.000-20.000. Ada keinginan dalam diri anak jalanan untuk berhenti menggunakan NAPZA, namun lingkungan pergaulan anak jalanan yang bebas menyebabkan mereka sulit untuk berhenti. In Central Java Province, Semarang City has more street children than other cities. The circle of society among street children which is quite free cause they ease to do negative things like drugs abuse. This study was carried out to know drugs abuse behaviour of street children in Semarang City. This was a qualitative research. Informants selected using purposive sampling continued by snowball sampling. The informants were 6 street children had drugs abuse behaviour, 6 close friends/ family of them, and 3 employee of RPSA in Semarang. Data items were collected by indepth interview and observation methods. Data items were analyzed by descriptive analysis presented in narration. The result showed that street children used drugs everyday in the street, under bridges, houses, and in their workplaces with their friends. Some types of drug that street children used were dextro pills, BI pills, kasaran pills, glue, alcohol, and cigarettes. Drugs bought at pharmacies store, drugs suppliers, construction stores, minimarkets, and small shops. The range prices of the drugs amount IDR 5.000-20.000. There were desire to stop their drugs abuse behavior, but the society circles among street children which was quite free caused it was hard.
Management of advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma

The relative safety of ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine) and its demonstrated equivalence or superiority to MOPP (nitrogen mustard, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone) or MOPP-containing regimens, including hybrid regimens, in prospective trials led to its widespread use as the standard regimen for the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma.The ABVD regimen is shown in Table I. In all instances, the patients treated with MOPP or its variants had the known higher rates of septic complications due to the greater degree of myelosuppression as well as an increased likelihood of developing myelodysplasia or acute leukemia compared to ABVD. The ABVD regimen did not appear to have permanent sterilization as a toxic effect.
Imaging Tumor Response to Radiation Therapy in Liver

Currently, there are increasing interests in imaging tumor response to radiation therapy (RT) of hepatic cancer. Early detection of tumor response may allow a change in the treatment before completion of the prescribed therapy and maximize therapeutic efficacy of the treatment. Most importantly, once early tumor response indicates achievement of final tumor control, withholding treatment will prevent radiationinduced diseases. Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) which evaluates tumor response based on change in tumor size is a clinically adopted approach to determine solid tumor responses. But it may take several weeks for RECIST criteria to suggest success or failure of a treatment, which may lead to severe radiation toxicity or tumor progression due to inadequate radiation delivery. Advances of medical imaging allow high-sensitivity and high-specificity assessment of tumor biological process and, therefore, may provide surrogates of tumor response before morphological change occurs.
Global Scenario of Open Access Publishing: A Decadal Analysis of Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 2003-2012

The present study aims to assess the growth of open access journals at a global level. The concept of Open Access (OA) publishing is being well received among academic circles and as a result we can see more and more scholar ly content is being made these days available in open access format. The present study is simply an attempt to assess the trend and growth of open access journals during the last decade, viz. for the period 2003-2012, for which data has been retrieved from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which as of date hosts more than 9700 journals from 120 countries across the world covering major languages of the world. But keeping in view the period of our study the data has been retrieved as per our applicability, which as a result confines our study to 8453 journals only. The directory covers 18 main subject areas having 76 sub-disciplines, each having on average 118.53 journals. During the entire decade the number of countries which entered into OA publishing rose from 49 to 120 with a growth of 144%, and if this growth rate continues to be the same for the next five years, viz. by 2018, the world will turn into 100% open access. At the continental level Europe leads the tally by publishing a maximum of 3140 OA journals contributed by 43 countries across Europe, which again is the highest number from any continent.
Perceptions of pre-service teachers about a Science Lab developed in OpenSim

With the integration of technology in the educational area, use of virtual learning environments has allowed the adoption of new practices and forms of learning. Areas like Science has an interesting field of research involving the use of Virtual worlds, being possible to integrate virtual tasks with the practical work carried out in the real world, providing features such as immersion, interactivity, virtual reality, collaboration and visualization of phenomena through animated 3D objects. This article presents a virtual world composed of three laboratories for teaching Science in elementary education, whose objective is to demonstrate how it can assist educators in the process of teaching, mixing activities of the real and virtual world. OpenSim was used for the development of the virtual world, which has several types of educational content in the format of videos, slides, texts, questions and 3D simulations of practical experiments. These prototype were tested and validated by pre-service teachers of Science in a federal institution, with the objective of evaluate the benefits and difficulty involving this approach and the resources available in this environment. The results demonstrated a wide acceptance and satisfaction in using this virtual world, showing that the users felt motivated to use in their pedagogical practice and believe that it can assist students in their learning process.
Novel Translational Strategies to Treat Cardiac Injury and Dysfunction

There is ample evidence of the crucial role of PI3K/Akt dependent signalling in cardiac function, cellular growth and cell apoptosis. The PI3K/Akt pathway mediates cardioprotective effects in experimental models of cardiovascular disease. For example, activation of this pathway ameliorates the sepsis-induced cardiac dysfunction, whereas its activation in myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) limits cardiac injury. This thesis investigates the role of two drugs, which activate the PI3K/Aktpathway, namely the haematopoietic cytokine erythropoietin and the anti-malarial drug artesunate, in a mouse animal model of experimental sepsis-induced cardiac dysfunction and in a rat model of regional myocardial I/R injury, respectively. Using a clinically relevant model of caecal ligation and puncture in mice, I demonstrated that aged (8 months) C57BL/6 mice (receiving fluid resuscitation and antibiotic therapy) developed significant cardiac dysfunction (within 24 h), while younger mice (2 months) did not. Erythropoietin attenuated the impaired systolic contractility (in vivo and ex vivo) caused by endotoxaemia (lipopolysacchride 9 mg kg; young mice) and sepsis (aged mice). These beneficial effects were associated with activation of Akt and endothelial nitric oxide synthase survival pathways and inhibition of the glycogen synthase kinase 3β, nuclear factor-κB and interleukin 1β pro-inflammatory pathways, secondary to activation of the β-common receptor. A single bolus administration of artesunate at the start of reperfusion in a rat model of myocardial I/R significantly attenuated the infarct size. This effect was mediated via activation of pro-survival pathways (PI3K/Akt and ERK 1/2 and STAT-3) and inhibition of the glycogen synthase kinase 3β and nuclear factor-κB pro-inflammatory pathways. Thus, in this thesis I have demonstrated that pharmacological activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway by erythropoietin and artesunate in sepsis and myocardial I/R, respectively, plays a vital role in the amelioration of cardiac dysfunction and injury. Abstract
Factors affecting the skilled labor in electronics industry as a competitive advantage in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara

The objective of this work is to know and to determine the major factors that had caused the lack of competitiveness in the electronics industry for the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (ZMG) from an approach of the theory based on the resources. Through an exploratory method shall be determined which are the variables that most impact on the competitiveness of the skilled labor. The factor endowments of a country are the key to the generation of competitive advantages.
To Evaluate the Influence of Traditional Chinese Medical Treatment on Cancer-related Fatigue in Pulmonary Carcinoma Patients after Chemotherapy by Brief Fatigue Inventory-Chinese Version

Objective: To evaluate the influence of traditional Chinese medical treatment on cancer-related fatigue(CRF) in pulmonary carcinoma patients after chemotherapy by Brief Fatigue Inventory-Chinese Version(BFI-C) and Lung Cancer Symptom Scalar Quantization Table.Methods: Sixty-seven lung cancer patients were randomly divided into treatment group(33 cases) and control group(34 cases). All the patients were treated with chemotherapy,and the treatment group was treated with "Spleen-invigoration,Qi-replenishment and Phlegm-elimination Recipe" from the 1st day of chemotherapy.Every patient was evaluated by adopting BFI-C before chemotherapy,three days and fourteen days after chemotherapy,meanwhile the traditional Chinese medical(TCM) syndrome scores of two groups were evaluated and compared.Results: There were no statistical differences on the scores of fatigue severity and fatigue interference and the TCM syndrome scores between two groups before chemotherapy(P0.05);the scores above of two groups obviously increased after chemotherapy(P0.01);the scores above of two groups significantly decreased after treatment(P0.01),and the scores of treatment group were lower than those of control group(P0.01). Conclusion: ①CRF caused by chemotherapy can alleviate spontaneously in a certain degree. ②Traditional Chinese medical treatment can reduce the severity of CRF in lung cancer patients after chemotherapy,improve the correlative symptoms and enhance the quality of life.
Psychometric properties of the QOLLTI-F questionnaire to assess quality of life in caregivers of cancer patients

Aim: The objective of the present study was to assess the validity and reliability of Malay version of the QOLLTI-F questionnaire. Methods: A total of 80 Malay caregivers of cancer patients in an outpatient oncology clinic were enrolled in this study. A translated QOLLTI-F questionnaire of 16 items was used in order to assess their quality of life. Demographic characteristics were recorded. Both face and content validity of the translated version were carried out by professionals and the construct validity of the questionnaire was assessed by exploratory factor analysis. Results: Exploratory factor analysis led to the extraction of seven factors and this was consistent with the English version. Cronbach Alpha coefficient showed good consistency of the questions within the sub-scales (Cronbach's alpha > 0.7). Conclusion: This study was confined to a Malay population, and the analyses were potentially limited by a small sample size . Nevertheless, the translated questionnaire demonstrated valid and reliable psychometric properties when administered to Malay caregivers. Future studies are needed to see if this instrument can fit other samples in different settings and populations.
RSSE: A Paradigm for Proficient Information Retrieval using Semantic Web

In today's scenario, due to the rapid growth of content volume over the internet, the conventional search engines hardly do afford the required content relevant to the user's query. This can be effectively solved by enforcing semantic web search methodologies. On addressing that, this paper proposed an efficient prototype Relevancy - based Semantic Search E ngine (RSSE). Moreover, the framework enables the users to locate relevant resources and services through semantics and domain expert ise. A novel algorithm called Query Similarity Prediction Algorithm (QSPA) has been developed for proficient information retrieval with minimized processing time consumption and simultaneously, serving multiple remote users. Ranking is also performed based on the relevance score of retrieved documents to aid users for finding which documents are most likely to be relevant documents to the given queries. The experimental results reveal the efficiency of the proposed work with respect to the parameters such a s precision, recall, F - measure, and time required to retrieve the results for queries. (Sridharan. K, M. Chitra. RSSE: A Paradigm for Proficient Information Retrieval using Semantic Web . Life Sci J 2013;10(7s): 4 18 - 425 ) (ISSN:1097 - 8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com .
PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR CLUSTERED HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS WITH MOBILE SINK

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) sensor nodes with sensing, computing and communication infrastructure are randomly deployed and organized as clusters. Most of the existing sensor networks f ocus on homogeneous in which the cluster heads are changed periodically. To improve the lifetime of energy constraint battery powered WSN and to avoid energy sink-hole problem; Clustered Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (HSN) are analyzed with mobile sink. Our proposed method combines load balanced clustering, transmission power control over normal nodes present in the cluster and mobile sink over HSN. PSO is u sed to find the optimal path for mobile sink to collect da ta from cluster heads. The experimental results sho w that the proposed system has lower energy consumption and improved lifetime over static sink, without load bala ncing and power control approaches. The optimal path algorithm based on PSO is more robust and easy to reach the solution for real world environmental monitoring and data aggregation problems.
Efficient Human Pose Estimation with Image-dependent Interactions

Human pose estimation from 2D images is one of the most challenging and computationally-demanding problems in computer vision. Standard models such as Pictorial Structures consider interactions between kinematically connected joints or limbs, leading to inference cost that is quadratic in the number of pixels. As a result, researchers and practitioners have restricted themselves to simple models which only measure the quality of limb-pair possibilities by their 2D geometric plausibility. In this talk, we propose novel methods which allow for efficient inference in richer models with data-dependent interactions. First, we introduce structured prediction cascades, a structured analog of binary cascaded classifiers, which learn to focus computational effort where it is needed, filtering out many states cheaply while ensuring the correct output is unfiltered. Second, we propose a way to decompose models of human pose with cyclic dependencies into a collection of tree models, and provide novel methods to impose model agreement. Finally, we develop a local linear approach that learns bases centered around modes in the training data, giving us image-dependent local models which are fast and accurate. These techniques allow for sparse and efficient inference on the order of minutes or seconds per image. As a result, we can afford to model pairwise interaction potentials much more richly with data-dependent features such as contour continuity, segmentation alignment, color consistency, optical flow and multiple modes. We show empirically that these richer models are worthwhile, obtaining significantly more accurate pose estimation on popular datasets. This dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn. edu/edissertations/691 Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Computer and Information Science First Advisor Ben Taskar
Evolution of Antimicrobial, Antioxidant Potentials and Phytochemical Studies of Three Solvent Extracts of Five Species from Acacia Used in Sudanese Ethnomedicine

The ethanol, chloroform and acetone extracts of five species from Acacia (Acacia albidia stems, Acacia mellifera aerial parts, Acacia nubica aerial parts, Acacia seyal var. seyal stems and Acacia tortilis aerial parts) were investigated for their antimicrobial activity against two standard bacterial strains of Gram +ve bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923)), Gram -ve bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 27853)) and standard fungi Candida albicans (ATCC 90028) using the agar-plate well diffusion method. The chloroform extract was inactive compared to ethanol and acetone extracts. But ethanol extracts showed the maximum antimicrobial activity against the test organism. Amongst the plant species screened, ethanol extract of Acacia seyal stems showed maximum inhibitory activity (38 mm) and (37 mm) against Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans, respectively. The ethanol, chloroform and acetone extracts of Acacia mellifera (aerial parts) did not show any activity against the test organisms. Cholorophorm and acetone extracts via DPPH, the radical scavenging activities were found to be 91 ± 0.03, 88 ± 0.01 and 85 ± 0.04, respectively. The results of phytochemical screening showed that all extracts of studied plant contain flavonoids, saponins, terpenoids, steroids, alkaloids, phenols and tannins.