Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Consumption in Australian States

This paper employs a cointegrating panel approach based on Australian states to estimate the intratemporal elasticity of substitution between state government consumption expenditure and nondurable private consumption expenditure. Taken together with plausible values for the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, our estimates imply that public and private consumption are Edgeworth-Pareto complements. This version Wednesday, 28 May 2008 Views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Reserve Bank. We acknowledge helpful comments from Paul Blacklow and seminar participants at the University of Tasmania. JEL classification: E21, E62, H31, H72. Correspondence: Graeme Wells, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 85, Hobart, Australia 7005. email: graeme.wells@utas.edu. au
Synthesis , Crystal Structure Refinement , and Electrical Conductivity of Pb ( 8 − x ) Na 2 Sm x ( VO 4 ) 6 O ( x / 2 )

Solid solutions of Pb(8−x)Na2Smx(VO4)6O(x/2) were studied using X-ray diffraction analysis including Rietveld refinement and scanning electronmicroscopy and bymeasuring their electrical conductivity. Crystal structure of the solid solutionswas refined and the solubility region 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.2 was determined for samarium substitution for lead under the scheme 2Pb + ◻ → 2Sm +O. The influence of degree of substitution on the electrical conductivity of solid solutions was established.
Staying for Time: The Holocaust and Atrocity Footage in American Public Memory

Any discussion of atrocity fi lms must address “a fallacy of presentism,” in David Hackett Fischer’s words, characterizing a modern-day response to these images (1970: 135–40). Given public concern over the dwindling generation of eyewitnesses and survivors who can off er direct testimony of the Holocaust, exploring the specifi c issues of context and reception for so-called atrocity fi lms seems more important than ever, yet they have received scant scholarly attention. In some cases, such as in the work of artist Alan Schechner, attempts to highlight the signifi cance of context in viewing documentary imagery of the camps have met with public opprobrium. Th e political dimension of this footage does present particular challenges, given the unusual circumstances of how these fi lms initially were produced, distributed, and exhibited. Th is chapter begins to chart some potential new directions to reimagine how early audiences might have encountered and responded to atrocity footage of the camps, organizing these potential directions around some of the more popular myths regarding how and by whom this footage was seen. Popular memory of how Holocaust imagery fi rst was screened, and of how these screenings forged a distinctly American public memory of the Holocaust, remains embedded within an actual and locatable history. Previous attention has been concentrated mostly on the visual, but this
Organizing Digital Libraries by Automated Text Categorization

Text Categorization (TC) is the discipline concerned with the construction of automatic text classifiers, i.e. programs capable of assigning to a document one or more among a set of predefined categories based on the content of the document. Building these classifiers is itself done automatically, by means of a general inductive process that learns the characteristics of the categories from a set of preclassified documents. In this paper we discuss a class of applications, automatic indexing with controlled vocabularies, that is of direct concern to organizing digital libraries. We exemplify this class of applications by discussing an ongoing project aimed at classifying scientific papers about computer science with respect to the ACM Classification Scheme. When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal or world problem whose eloquent solution did not exist in some hexagon. (. . . ) As was natural, this inordinate hope was followed by an excessive depression. The certitude that some shelf in some hexagon held precious books and that these precious books were inaccessible, seemed almost intolerable. [Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel, 1941]
Adverse Effects and Nonadherence with Mood Stabilizers

Similar to other long-term clinical conditions nonadherence to medications is common in bipolar disorder. It is often under-recognized in clinical practice and greatly under-researched topic in academic psychiatry. Nonadherence to mood stabilizers is in part due to the adverse effects and it is more likely due to certain adverse effects such as weight gain, tremor, and cognitive impairment. Practicing psychiatrists can potentially reduce the nonadherence by vigorous attempts to identify, discuss, and ameliorate these adverse effects.
Supervised mHeath Exercise Improves Health Factors More Than Self-Directed mHealth Exercise: A Clinical Controlled Study

Wearable physical activity trackers are getting popular for the self-management of weight despite limited evidence of their efficacy. Studies have proven that on-site supervised exercise is superior to unsupervised exercise for many health problems, there is no evidence comparing the effectiveness of remote supervision exercise with self-directed exercise based on mHealth. This study aims to compare the effects of mHealth-based supervised exercise to mHealth-based self-directed exercise on weight control in the overweight and obese population. A nonrandomized controlled clinical study was conducted. Overweight or obese volunteers were given personalized exercise prescriptions based on their HRR (Heart Rate Reserve), all patients were equipped with wearable heartbeat trackers to follow their exercise performance and additional remote supervisions were added to the intervention group. Exercise performances, weight losses, and health examinations were compared between 2 groups after 12 weeks of follow-up. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to determine any differences between study groups after intervention. Two groups had the same rate of attrition in 12 weeks of follow-up, but the exercising day, the effective exercising day and the rate of effective exercising day in the supervised group were higher than those in the control group. Weight loss was −2.7 ± 2.8 kg in the intervention group and −2.0 ± 2.9 kg in the control group (P = 0.23). Compared with the control group, participants in the intervention group improved their liver function, kidney function, fasting blood sugar, total cholesterol, and triglyceride. mHealth-based supervised exercise is more effective in health factors improvement than mHealth-based self-directed exercise among overweight and obesity participants.
Bologna Translation Service: improving access to educational courses via machine translation (system demonstration)

Resu men: Se presenta una demostracion del trabajo realizado en el proyecto Bologna Translation Service (BTS), un proyecto cofinanciado por la Union Europea en el marco de “Information and Communications Technology Policy Support Programme” (ICT PSP) que ofrece la traduccion automatica de planes de estudios desde 7 idiomas diferentes (aleman, espanol, fines, frances, holandes, portugues y turco) al ingles, y desde ingles al chino mandarin. BTS ofrece traduccion automatica accesible on-line. La estructura completa del sistema incluye motores de traduccion automatica basada en reglas, basada en estadistica, ambas combinadas y tambien un sistema de post-edicion automatica y manual. Palabras clave: traduccion automatica, traduccion automatica estadistica (SMT), traduccion automatica basada en reglas (RBMT), post-edicion automatica, post-edicion manual
Resting and TMS-EEG markers of treatment response in major depressive disorder: A systematic review

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive method to identify markers of treatment response in major depressive disorder (MDD). In this review, existing literature was assessed to determine how EEG markers change with different modalities of MDD treatments, and to synthesize the breadth of EEG markers used in conjunction with MDD treatments. PubMed and EMBASE were searched from 2000 to 2021 for studies reporting resting EEG (rEEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with EEG (TMS-EEG) measures in patients undergoing MDD treatments. The search yielded 966 articles, 204 underwent full-text screening, and 51 studies were included for a narrative synthesis of findings along with confidence in the evidence. In rEEG studies, non-linear quantitative algorithms such as theta cordance and theta current density show higher predictive value than traditional linear metrics. Although less abundant, TMS-EEG measures show promise for predictive markers of brain stimulation treatment response. Future focus on TMS-EEG measures may prove fruitful, given its ability to target cortical regions of interest related to MDD.
DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features

From the Publisher: DSP Processor Fundamentals presents an independent, comprehensive introduction to DSP processor technology. A thorough tutorial and overview of DSP architectures, this book incorporates a broad range of today's product offerings in examples that illustrate DSP features and capabilities. This book is especially useful to electronic systems designers, processor architects, engineering managers, and product planners.
3DVN: A Mixed Reality Platform for Mobile Navigation Assistance

We present 3DVN, a Mixed Reality platform for navigation assistance in indoor environments. Built on top of a PC-based wearable computer running the Windows operating system, the platform provides a multimodal user interface for navigating in existing physical buildings, including wireless networking, data glove gestural input, voice communication, head-mounted display, and a 3DOF head tracker. Local positioning is performed using a software-only positioning engine making use of WLAN features for accurately pinpointing the mobile device in three dimensions. The 3DVN system has been implemented as a proof-of-concept of a navigation guidance support device for visitors, and has been field-tested with human subjects in the student center of our university. Informal evaluation of subject ratings indicate a strong interest for the new system, both for guests as well as people familiar with the campus and the building.
Analysis of relation between temperature and mortality in three cities in China by using lag model : A comparison of Harbin, Nanjing and Guangzhou

Purpose : Concerning the effect of high temperature, knowledge is limited in developing countries, because public health infrastructure is not yet established in these countries including those in Asia in particular. In this study, we analyzed the effect of extreme temperature in three cities in China.Methods : We conducted the study in three cities in China using distributed lag nonlinear models (dlnm). The “dlnm” is a flexible package to evaluate a non-linear effect itself and its lag simultaneously. We obtained a data from database made by the Ministry of Health in China for daily number of deaths from 1998 to 2002.Results : Regarding high temperature, mortality has increased acutely and the effect did not last long. Regarding cold temperature, the mortality has tendency to stay to be more than 1.0 for more than 10 days in Guangzhou and in Nanjing. The RR for Nanjing at lag=0, and temperature=0 showed the different pattern from previous research.Conclusion : The result showed that heat effect observed in the three Chinese cities and the cold effect in Guangzhou and Harbin were consistent with the previous researches. The cold effect of Nanjin was not consistent in the point of showing direct impact in lag0, 0°C.
Cooperative optimization and their application in LDPC codes

Cooperative optimization is a new way for finding global optima of complicated functions of many variables. The proposed algorithm is a class of message passing algorithms and has solid theory foundations. It can achieve good coding gains over the sum-product algorithm for LDPC codes. For (6561, 4096) LDPC codes, the proposed algorithm can achieve 2.0 dB gains over the sum-product algorithm at BER of 4×10-7. The decoding complexity of the proposed algorithm is lower than the sum-product algorithm can do; furthermore, the former can achieve much lower error floor than the latter can do after the Eb / No is higher than 1.8 dB.
Dictionary of Eye Terminology

Dictionary of Eye Terminology . 3rd ed. By B Cassin, S A B Solomon. Pp 238. $US 24.95. Gainesville, Florida: Triad Publishing Company, 1997. In this third edition the authors have gone beyond the realms of a mere definitional text. This edition includes clear definitions ranging from the simple jargon one would expect to find in such a work to complicated rare syndromes, …
A Novel Method of Visual Attention for Targets Detection

Inspired by the research of human visual system in neuroanatomy and psychology, the paper proposes a two-way collaborative visual attention model for target detection.In this new method , bottom-up attention information cooperates with top-down attention information to detect a target rapidly and accuractly. Firstly,the statistical prior knowledge of target and background is applied to optimize bottom-up attention information in different feature space and scale space.Secondly, after the SNR of salience difference between target and interference is computed ,the bottom-up gain factor is obtained.Thirdly, the gain factor is applied to adjust bottom up attention information extraction and then to maximize the salience contrast of target and background.Finally, target is detected by adjusted saliency.Experimental results shows that the proposed model in this paper can improve the real-time capability and reliability of target detection.
The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination

This text covers the earliest Jewish and Christian readings of the story of Adam and Eve. For these ancient interpreters, the tale of human beings cannot be understood outside the larger context of Scriptures' drama about our common human destiny. Creation and redemption are ultimately inseparable. The perspectives of Judaism and Christianity about our common human condition - the problem of evil, the nature of sexuality and the question of sin and forgiveness - are illustrated in this text through an examination of the biblical text that allows the story of Genesis to intersect with each of our own stories.
Informatics and Computerized Tomography Aiding Detection and Diagnosis of Solitary Lung Cancer

Aristofanes Correa Silva1, Anselmo Cardoso Paiva2, Rodolfo Acatauassu Nunes3 and Marcelo Gattass4 1,2Federal University of Maranhao, Applied Computing Group NCA/UFMA, Av. dos Portugueses, S/N, Campus do Bacanga, Bacanga, CEP 65085-580, Sao Luis MA 3State University of Rio de Janeiro UERJ, Sao Francisco de Xavier, 524, Maracana, CEP 20550-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 4Pontiphical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro PUC-Rio, R. Sao Vicente, 225, Gavea, CEP 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil
Extracting relations from large text collections

A wealth of information is hidden within unstructured text. Often, this information can be beat exploited in structured or relational form, which is well suited for sophisticated query processing, for integration with relational database management systems, and for data mining. This thesis addresses two fundamental problems in extracting relations from large text collections: (1) portability: tuning extraction systems for new domains and (2) scalability: scaling up information extraction to large collections of documents. To address the first problem, we developed the Snowball information extraction system, a domain-independent system that learns to extract relations from unstructured text based on only a handful of user-provided example relation instances. Snowball can then be adapted to extract new relations with minimum human effort. Snowball improves the extraction accuracy by automatically evaluating the quality of both the acquired extraction patterns and the extracted relation instances. To address the second problem, we developed the QXtract system, which learns search engine queries that retrieve the documents that are relevant to a given information extraction system and extraction task. QXtract can dramatically improve the efficiency of the information extraction process, and provides a building block for extracting structured information and text data mining from the web at large.
An interactive, structure-mediated approach to exploring information in a heterogeneous, distributed environment

Information exploration involves building bridges between document space (the realm of information artifacts, ranging from books to e-mail to bibliographic citations) and concept space (the context and knowledge required to interpret documents). This dissertation proposes an interactive, structure-mediated approach to exploring information in a heterogeneous, distributed environment--such as a digital library. It presents a conceptual model for information exploration, a system (SenseMaker) that embodies the proposed model, and several evaluative user studies. Two principles form the crux of our structure-mediated conceptual model, which supports users in moving back and forth between document space and concept space: (1) Users should be able to build document-based structures for document collections by interactively organizing them around contextual dimensions (e.g., author). These higher-level structures reveal key concepts (e.g., specific authors). (2) Users should be able to create new collections of documents by sculpting or adding to document-based structures. This reuse of structure enables concept-based filtering and concept-based finding of documents. This dissertation introduces iterative bundling and flexible duplicate detection as two strategies for interactively building document-based structure. Iterative bundling creates aggregates of similar documents. It allows the definition of similarity to vary according to contextual dimension. For example, a different metric might be used for bundling by author than for bundling by topic. Flexible duplicate detection identifies equivalent documents and merges them together. Again, the definition of equivalence can vary. The creation of a document collection is a prerequisite to building document-based structure for a collection. This dissertation defines an ontology of collection-creating actions that includes specifying the characteristics of a new collection, expanding a previous collection, limiting a previous collection, and returning to a previous collection. Collection-creating actions that utilize structure fit into several of these categories. The SenseMaker system embodies the proposed structure-mediated conceptual model. SenseMaker utilizes protocols and other technologies developed for the Stanford Digital Library project. Its interface design introduces the concept of hi-cites, a user-interface construct to facilitate browsing.
Scintimetric Evaluation in the Assessment of Delayed Union of Skeletal Fractures

Aim: This study aims to analyze the utility of the Scintimetricevaluation in the assessment of delayed union of skeletal fractures in our institution. Materials and Method: This retrospective study consists of 30 patients who had radiological evidence of complications involving healing of the fracture comprising of 16 males in the age range of 10 - 48 with the mean age of 25.31 ± 12.55 and 14 females in the age range of 8 - 56 with the mean age of 27.36 ± 14.35. Bone scans were done using the Siemens dual head gamma camera-e.cam. The Triple phase bone scan was done first followed by the Whole Body Bone Scans done at 4 & 24 hours after IV Injection of 10 to 25 mCi of 99mTc-MDP. Using Dynamic and Whole Body Acquisition Protocols both Anterior and Posterior view imageswere obtained. The focal hot spots in the processed images were identified in the 4hr and 24hr images using the region- ratio protocol. The maximum counts were calculated by drawing the region of interest area over the skeletal hot spots. The 4hr/24hr Dr. V.Siva’s retention ratio was calculated, tabulated and analyzed. Results:Out of 30 cases of delayed /non- union of Skeletal fractures 11( 37%) were found to be Metastatic Pathological fractures and 19(63%) turned out to be due to benign fracture complication like Stress fracture and Benign bone tumors.The 4/24hr rDr. V. Siva’s retention ratio values obtained for the Metastatic Pathological group had the mean value of 12.5 +/- 3.1 with Standard error estimation +/- 0.61 and the benign group showed the mean value of 6.68 +/- 2.8 error estimation of +/-0.38. The statistical evaluation revealed that there is a significant difference between the two values with the p value of <0.0001. Conclusion:Thus the Scintimetricevaluation of thecomplications of fracture healing helps in the differentiation between Metastatic Pathological and Simple benign causes leading to appropriate management in these patients.
Characterization of Microbial Community Composition in the Fermentation Starter (Daqu) Reveals a Distinct Dominant Species Combination Potentially Contributing to the Flavor of Chinese Gujingtribute Liquor

In this study the microbial composition in the starter (Daqu) of Chinese Gujing Tribute liquor was determined by employing near full length ribosome gene library sequencing approach. Gujing Tribute Daqu has a distinct microbial community structure by comparison with several other important types of Chinese liquor; especially The rmomyces only occurred in Gujing Tribute Daqu, not in any other types of Daqu as most dominant species. Besides, there are five distinct species as most dominant ones in Gujing Tribute Daqu: Pantoea agglomerans, Pantoea vagans, Talaromyces thermophiles, Thermomyces lanuginosus, and Thermoascus aurantiacus, the latter two species both capable of producing a series of useful enzymes for fermentation purposes and some flavor precursor synthesis. Though the distinct dominating species are mainly the ones degrading the feedstock, their potential roles in the flavor determination of Gujing Tribute liquor are very valuable for further study.
A Fractional Survival Model

A survival model is derived from the exponential function using the concept of fractional differentiation. The hazard function of the proposed model generates various shapes of curves including increasing, increasing- constant-increasing, increasing-decreasing-increasing, and so-called bathtub hazard curve. The model also contains a parameter that is the maximum of the survival time.
Aerosol Synthesis of Spherical Morphology Boron Nitride Powders from Organoborate Precursors

The reaction of aerosol droplets of the organoborate reagent (MeO)3B, suspended in nitrogen, with gaseous ammonia in a flight tube heated to 800−1500 °C was used to produce, in high yield, spherical morphology precursor powders BNxOyCz that contain decreasing amounts of oxygen and carbon as the process temperature and mole fraction of ammonia increased. Subsequent static nitridation of the precursor powder under ammonia gave spherical morphology BN powders with low (<1 wt %) oxygen and carbon contents. The powders were characterized by elemental analysis, DRIFT-IR, XRD, SEM, and TEM methods. A weak molecular complex (MeO)3B·NH3 has been previously reported to exist, and this species was isolated and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction methods. Aerosol conversions using (MeO)3B/MeOH, H3BO3/MeOH, and B2O3/MeOH solutions were also examined, and the results are briefly described.