Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Enriching Data Imputation under Similarity Rule Constraints

Incomplete information often occurs along with many database applications, e.g., in data integration, data cleaning, or data exchange. The idea of data imputation is often to fill the missing data with the values of its neighbors who share the same/similar information. Such neighbors could either be identified certainly by editing rules or extensively by similarity relationships. Owing to data sparsity, the number of neighbors identified by editing rules w.r. t. value equality is rather limited, especially in the presence of data values with variances. To enrich the imputation candidates, a natural idea is to extensively consider the neighbors with similarity relationship. However, the candidates suggested by these (heterogenous) similarity neighbors may conflict with each other. In this paper, we propose to utilize the similarity rules with tolerance to small variations (instead of the aforesaid editing rules with strict equality constraints) to rule out the invalid candidates provided by similarity neighbors. To enrich the data imputation, i.e., imputing the missing values more, we study the problem of maximizing the missing data imputation. Our major contributions include (1) the np-hardness analysis on solving as well as approximating the problem, (2) exact algorithms for tackling the problem, and (3) efficient approximation with performance guarantees. Experiments on real and synthetic data sets demonstrate the superiority of our proposal in filling accuracy. We also demonstrate that the record matching application is indeed improved, after applying the proposed imputation.
A pictorial review of the emerging applications of Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Poster: "ECR 2010 / C-3270 / A pictorial review of the emerging applications of Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging" by: "G. C. Colleran, M. J. Shelly, S. J. Eustace, E. C. Kavanagh; Dublin/IE"
Rôle du compartiment biologique dans les processus de colmatage et décolmatage de bassins d'infiltration

Les bassins d’infiltration sont de plus en plus utilises en milieux urbains pour la reduction des eaux de ruissellement et la recharge des nappes phreatiques. Toutefois, leur fonctionnement est souvent affecte par des problemes de colmatage, physiques, chimiques et/ou biologiques, qui conduisent a une diminution des capacites d’infiltration et a une alteration potentielle de la qualite des eaux infiltrees. Aussi, la prevention de ce risque devient-elle un enjeu majeur pour garantir la perennite des ouvrages d’infiltration et la qualite des eaux infiltrees. Si les mecanismes impliques dans le colmatage sont decrits assez finement dans le cas des processus purement physiques ou geochimiques, les verrous scientifiques sont encore importants pour comprendre la contribution du compartiment biologique (biofilms, vegetation, invertebres). Ce travail de these avait ainsi pour objectif de quantifier l’influence du compartiment biologique sur les processus de colmatage et de decolmatage dans des bassins d’infiltration. Pour cela, il etait compose de deux grands volets : (i) le premier visait a evaluer la contribution relative du biofilm et de l’accumulation de particules fines sur les parametres hydrodynamiques du milieu poreux support d’infiltration, ceci dans 2 bassins aux caracteristiques contrastees, (ii) le second avait pour objectif d’evaluer les potentialites de processus ecologiques (bioturbation, broutage, allelopathie) a decolmater les bassins par l’introduction de macro-organismes (invertebres et macrophytes) en mesocosmes ou par encagements in situ. Les resultats ont mis en evidence le role determinant de la composante phototrophe des biofilms sur la degradation de permeabilite des supports d’infiltration. Un effet seuil de la biomasse phototrophe a ete observe sur le rayon moyen des pores hydrauliquement fonctionnels, avec pour consequences des effets non-lineaires sur la permeabilite. Face a ce colmatage biologique, les resultats obtenus en mesocosmes ont clairement montre que la presence de macrophytes tels que Vallisneria spiralis L. et Chara globularis L. permettait de reduire la biomasse algale par allelopathie. Par la suite, l'introduction par encagement dans un bassin d'infiltration de l’espece V. spiralis a demontre sa potentialite a reduire le phenomene de colmatage en affectant la physiologie du biofilm algal. De plus, l'introduction du gasteropode aquatique Viviparus viviparus qui se nourrit directement du biofilm permettait de maintenir et meme d’ameliorer les capacites d’infiltration du bassin. Ces resultats offrent des perspectives interessantes pour le developpement futur de techniques d’ingenierie ecologique dans la gestion et l’amelioration de la duree de vie des ouvrages d’infiltration.
Psychometrische kwaliteiten van de Hospital Ethical Climate Survey: Een cross-sectionele studie bij Belgische psychiatrische verpleegkundigen. [Psychometric properties of the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey: A cross-sectional study in Belgian psychiatric nurses]

De complexe zorgsituatie bij het verplegen en begeleiden van psychiatrische patiënten maakt dat verpleegkundigen voortdurend te maken krijgen met ethische problemen en dilemma’s (Lind e.a. 2004; Sturm 2004). Hierbij gaat het niet alleen om opvallende ethische problemen zoals euthanasie of gedwongen opname. Het zijn vooral dagelijkse situaties zoals te weinig privacy, toezicht op medicatie of hygiëne, die verpleegkundigen als problematisch en stresserend ervaren (Bloemhoff 2002). Psychometrische kwaliteiten van de Hospital Ethical Climate Survey: een cross-sectionele studie bij Belgische psychiatrische verpleegkundigen1
A brief study of Wannacry Threat: Ransomware Attack 2017

Recently Ransomware virus software spread like a cyclone winds. A cyclone wind creates atmospheric instability; likewise ransomware creates computer data instability. Every user is moving towards digitization. User keep data secure in his or her computer. But what if data is hijacked. A ransomware is one of the software virus that hijack users data. A ransomware may lock the system in a way which is not for a knowledgeable person to reverse.It not only targets home computersbut business also gets affected. It encrypts data in such a way that normal person can no longer decrypt. A person has to pay ransom to decrypt it. But it does not generate that files will be released.This paper gives a brief study of WannaCry ransomware, its effect on computer world and its preventive measures to control ransomwareon computer system.
Analysis of Sine Precision Influence on DOA Estimation Using the MUSIC Algorithm

In this paper, a simulation of the effects of approximation errors on multiple signal classification for direction of arrival estimation is presented. The focus lies on computer approximations of sine and cosine. Two possible error sources are highlighted, discussed and their effects estimated by constraining the approximation precision. The simulation results are then evaluated with an emphasis on optimized calculation times while maintaining good angle estimation results.
Research on mixed set programming for aircraft schedule recovery

Imclement weather,mechanical failures often prevent airlines from executing their schedules as planned,and will bring about a lot of losses to airlines and passengers.To recover the schedule,the decision makers must reroute the aircrafts and re-time the disturbed flights.Aircraft Schedule Recovery problem is a typical NP-Hard problem in Irregular Flight Operation.This paper proposes a mixed set programming method to solve the problem by building a natural constraint language model and designing efficient search rules.Finally,instances of different scales are tested respectively using the mixed set programming and greedy simulated annealing algorithm,which shows the superiority of mixed set programming method in solution quality and time efficient over greedy annealing algorithm.
Student’s level of self-efficacy obtained with clinical simulation

RESEARCH PAPER: Student’s level of self-efficacy obtained with clinical simulation STUDENT: Ann Boeglin DEGREE: Masters of Science COLLEGE: College of Applied Science and Technology DATE: May, 2012 A common problem for nursing educators continues to be finding enough clinical sites for all nursing students. The option of incorporating clinical simulation experience into the clinical schedule may be a beneficial teaching and learning method. “Use of clinical simulation in nursing education provides numerous opportunities for students to learn and apply theoretical principles of nursing care in a safe environment” (Bambini, Washburn, & Perkins, 2009, p. 79). The purpose of this study is to determine if selfefficacy in student nurses is increased by use of HFS as a teaching/learning method. This is a replication of Bambini, Washburn, and Perkins’ (2009) integrated, quasiexperimental, repeated-measures study. The framework for this study is self-efficacy theorized by Bandura (1977, 1986). The population for this study is junior level baccalaureate nursing students from a school of nursing in the Midwestern area of the United States. These students are required to participate in the clinical simulation experience as part of the curriculum for obstetrical rotation prior to actual clinical experience within the hospital setting. Results from this study will help guide nursing educators in use of clinical simulation as part of students’ clinical experiences to increase self-efficacy.
Automatic Detection of Grammar Errors in Primary School Children´s Texts. A Finite Approach

This thesis concerns the analysis of grammar errors in Swedish texts written by primary school children and the development of a finite state system for finding such errors. Grammar errors are more frequent for this group of writers than for adults and the distribution of the error types is different in children’s texts. In addition, other writing errors above word-level are discussed here, including punctuation and spelling errors resulting in existing words. The method used in the implemented tool FiniteCheck involves subtraction of finite state automata that represent grammars with varying degrees of detail, creating a machine that classifies phrases in a text containing certain kinds of errors. The current version of the system handles errors concerning agreement in noun phrases, and verb selection of finite and non-finite forms. At the lexical level, we attach all lexical tags to words and do not use a tagger which could eliminate information in incorrect text that might be needed later to find the error. At higher levels, structural ambiguity is treated by parsing order, grammar extension and some other heuristics. The simple finite state technique of subtraction has the advantage that the grammars one needs to write to find errors are always positive, describing the valid rules of Swedish rather than grammars describing the structure of errors. The rule sets remain quite small and practically no prediction of errors is necessary. The linguistic performance of the system is promising and shows comparable results for the error types implemented to other Swedish grammar checking tools, when tested on a small adult text not previously analyzed by the system. The performance of the other Swedish tools was also tested on the children’s data collected for this study, revealing quite low recall rates. This fact motivates the need for adaptation of grammar checking techniques to children, whose errors are different from those found in adult writers and pose more challenge to current grammar checkers, that are oriented towards texts written by adult writers. The robustness and modularity of FiniteCheck makes it possible to perform both error detection and diagnostics. Moreover, the grammars can in principle be reused for other applications that do not necessarily have anything to do with error detection, such as extracting information in a given text or even parsing.
Comparison of human tendon allografts and autografts used in knee reconstruction

Despite the long-term experience with the use of both human tendon allografts and autografts in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction procedures, there remains no clear consensus on overall graft preference. While bone-patellar tendon-bone (BPTB) autografts were once considered the gold standard, modern advances and availability have made the allograft option more appealing to surgeons and patients alike. With the number of ACL reconstructions increasing every year, it is important for surgeons to have current knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages for each graft source. This paper will compare the effectiveness of allografts and autografts in ACL reconstruction procedures with regard to postoperative outcomes and complications, biologic incorporation and laxity, athletic rehabilitation, athletic participation, functional limitations, pain, and cost.
POS Annotated 50M Corpus of Tajik Language

Paper presents by far the largest available computer corpus of Tajik language of the size of more than 50 million words. To obtain the texts for the corpus two different approaches were used and the paper offers a description of both of them. Then the paper describes a newly developed morphological analyzer of Tajik and presents some statistics of its application on the corpus.
The fast recognition of vehicle license plate based on the improved template matching

In order to solve the problem of low accuracy and slow speed in vehicle license plate recognition, a method of number-plate recognition using template matching is proposed. It can effectively recognize low quality and fuzzy number-plate image in real system . The accuracy is 95%, and the recognition time is close to 0.14s.
The Western Impact on World Music: Change, Adaptation, and Survival

My efforts to increase the international character of the book review section are frustrated by a lack of books on languages other than English to review, and by postal delays. Once again I appeal to the readership to recommend important books for review in this journal, and if possible to request publishers to send them to me. Publishers in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain appear to be sending me books quite regularly yet I am sure there is more to review than I am receiving. Some of the publications that do arrive at the Book Review office do not appear to merit a full review in the pages of this journal. These include issues of journals, catalogues of expositions, and collections of texts or transcriptions of melodies without much discussion or analysis. Individual journal issues cannot be reviewed for reasons of space; catalogues are usually specifically related to visual presentations of artifacts and usually cannot be reviewed by themselves. Since texts and transcriptions can provide data for analysis and resources for performances by the members of the ICTM, I have decided to list a number of the volumes this office has received in the past few years. For each I give a brief summary of its contents, including the type of material presented, the number of items, the presence of a discussion of the material, and types of end material-bibliographies, discographies, and indices that they may possess.
Energy Efficient Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Based on AODV Protocol

A Mobile Ad-hoc Network is a collection of autonomous mobile nodes which are characterized by random and multihop communication without any centralized administration. These networks are highly unstable due to dynamic topology and are infrastuctureless. Due to dynamic topology, the network is highly prone to link break. The mobile nodes in Mobile Ad-hoc Network are battery operated i.e. energy constraint. It is a key challenge to Mobile Ad-hoc networks. In this survey paper, a range of energy efficient algorithms based on AODV routing protocol will be reviewed. The conventional approach involves only to find the shortest path and do not take energy to its consideration. These algorithms can be viewed as a modification of conventional AODV routing protocol. Reducing energy consumption and efficient battery life in an Ad-hoc network requires an integrated power control and routing strategy.
Voice-scapes: transl(oc)ating the performed voice in ethnomusicology

At the heart of ethnomusicology is the ethnographic study of people making music. As an approach to documenting, describing, analysing and understanding the symbolic sound systems in which the world’s peoples live, ethnomusicological field research includes an inherent epistemological dilemma for the researcher: the question of interpretation and how best to present and represent in scholarly discourse the music, sound and people under study. Like all studies that deal with people, sound aesthetics in all cultures will necessarily lead the researcher to encounter questions relating to interpretation and translation of data collected in the field. Whether with ethnomusicology at home or in a culture other than one’s own, the intersection between field research, researcher and presentation of research findings provides a challenging space of negotiation in which processes and methods of data collection and writing up of that information are highly contested. It is from this juncture that this chapter explores the notion of voice-scapes (vocal sound-scapes performed in musical ways through speech and chant) as sites that are translated using varying modes of scholarly interpretation, and as a means of sonic communication that might be translocated into discourses that rarely study its performative and musical qualities. My aim is to problematise through ethnographic description and analysis some of the challenges that face ethnomusicologists regarding the ways sounds are perceived and how they are translated and translocated into scholarly discourses.
Critiquing Physician Decision Making Using Data from Automated Medical Records: Assessing the Limitations.

Abstract This paper describes the evaluation of a critiquing system, HYPERCRITIC, that relies on automated medical records for its data input. The purpose of HYPERCRITIC is to offer comments to general practitioners on their treatment of hypertension. HYPERCRITIC has access to the data stored in a primary-care information system that supports a fully automated medical record. Medical records of 20 patients with hypertension were submitted to both physicians and HYPERCRITIC. The critique generated by the physicians was subsequently compared to the critique generated by HYPERCRITIC. Of the 260 comments made by the majority of the physicians, 118 were also made by HYPERCRITIC. The reasons why HYPERCRITIC failed to reproduce the remaining 142 comments are evaluated.
Combining Graph Learning and Region Saliency Analysis for Content-Based Image Retrieval

For the image retrieval task which combines machine learning theory with relevance feedback mechanism,this paper focuses on the graph-based semisupervised learning algorithm with application to region-based image retrieval.Different schemes which both incorporate the region saliency into the graph-based semi-supervised learning framework are applied to deal with two types of feedback.Firstly,in the case that no sample or only positive samples are available from the user's feedback,the retrieval task can be resolved via a transductive learning manner,a hierarchical graph model which incorporates region saliency information is constructed and the manifold-ranking algorithm is adopted subsequently for positive label propagation.Secondly,in the case that the user provides both positive and negative samples,the region-level adjacency matrix will be constructed via the feedback samples,and the manifold-ranking algorithm is also adopted here to choose instances which truly represent the user's query semantics.The selected instances are then used to retrieve the relevant samples.The experiments have proved the effectiveness of the proposed method.
A validation approach for neural network-based online adaptive systems: Experiences with Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems

Traditional software validation methods cannot guarantee the safe behavior of online self-adaptive systems. These systems are characterized by continual adaptation to changing environmental conditions. We present a novel methodology for validating adaptive software systems based on online operational monitoring. The methodology inherits its theoretical underpinnings from the generic stability and convergence analysis of Lyapunov's theory. Lyapunov theory is well established in mathematics and control theory, but has not been used before for software validation. The presented validation technique is applied to a neural network-based online self-adaptive system, the intelligent flight control system. In this application, environmental changes include system failure modes, such as a stuck stabilator, broken aileron andsor rudder, sensor failure, etc. Our case study for validation is a specific online self-adaptive system, the intelligent flight control that utilizes dynamic cell structures' neural networks to perform online adaptation. The theoretical foundation and practicability of the presented validation technique make the presented validation approach generally applicable to other types of online adaptive systems. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Oost-Indonesische Poëzie

Den ethnoloog, die het Oosten van den Indischen Archipel als ter rein van onderzoek heeft gekozen, wachten velerlei verrassingen. Op plaatsen waar hij dat het minst zou verwachten, zal hij een inheem sche cultuur vinden die, eeuwenlange directe bestuur en zendings bemoeienis ten spijt, nog steeds een sterke vitaliteit vertoont; op andere eilandjes, waar een kwarteeuw geleden voor 't eerst een zendeling voet aan wal zette, waar misschien eens per jaar een Europeaan verschijnt: een bestuursambtenaar, die belasting op korat halen, of een zendeling, die zijn Indonesischen assistent komt con troleeren, of een curiositeitenjager, die er zieh weinig behagelijk voelt en zoo gauw mogelijk weer verdwijnt, eilandjes waarvan eigenlijk alleen bekend was, dat er economisch beschouwd niets te halen valt, daar zal hij soms tot zijn teleurstelling ervaren, dat de inheemsche geestelijke beschaving bijna geheel verdrongen is door het eigenaardig product, dat men als een ietwat potsierlijk schijn-Christendom zou kunnen betitelen. Over de waarde van zulk een oppervlakkig gechris tianiseerde cultuur maakt de zendeling zieh evenmin illusies als de ethnoloog: de term ? serani kujit"1) (huid-Christerien), waarmee men de dragers dier beschaving wel door zendelingen hoort aanduiden, laat ons daaromtrent niet in het onzekere. Maar terwijl voor den zendeling het probleem nu vooral is, hoe men dit Christendom tot onder de huid kan doen doordringen, wordt de ethnoloog niet met rust gelaten door een ander probleem, dat eigenlijk van tweeledigen, namelijk van wetenschappelijken en van praktisch-paedagogischeh aard is. Vooreerst dringt zieh bij hem de vraag op, waaraan dit^ op
The Use of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A in Aesthetics: Key Clinical Postulates

BACKGROUND The most common aesthetic procedure performed worldwide is the injection of botulinum neurotoxin Type A (BoNT-A). Aesthetic providers must fully comprehend the objective scientific data, theoretical mechanisms of action, and differences between brands of BoNT-A. OBJECTIVE To determine and review the relevant clinical postulates for the use of botulinum toxin in aesthetics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The BoNT-A clinical postulates presented here discuss how each brand of BoNT-A acts identically, how the molecular potency may vary between the different products, how patient age, gender, genetics, and muscle mass cause variation in toxin receptor number and density, and how both practitioner and patient can affect toxin distribution. RESULTS A total of 8 clinical postulates have been identified that are key to understanding the use of botulinum toxin in aesthetics and to obtaining the best clinical results. CONCLUSION All of these factors affect the potential efficacy of the injected toxin and hence the aesthetic results obtained.