Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Méthodologie d'exploitation de données non temporelles et temporelles issues d'une étude sur le système conducteur-vehicule-environnement (SCVE): application à la situation de suivi. (Methodology of non temporal and temporal data exploitation from a driver-vehicle-environment system: application to 

Depuis une quinzaine annees, de plus en plus de systemes d’aides a la conduite equipent les vehicules. Ces systemes peuvent se reveler positif pour la securite routiere mais des effets pervers peuvent egalement apparaitre. C’est pourquoi, il est indispensable d’etudier le comportement naturel du conducteur pour developper des systemes d’aides a la conduite efficaces et fiables. Dans l’analyse de la conduite, des donnees non-temporelles (âge, sexe, profil psychologique…) et de donnees temporelles (signaux relatifs a la conduite…) sont souvent enregistrees. La these propose une methodologie pour l’exploitation d’une base de donnees multifactorielle et multivariee basee sur une analyse descriptive multidimensionnelle, l’analyse en correspondances multiples, suivie de tests d’hypotheses pour confirmer les observations faites dans la premiere analyse. Une procedure en cinq etapes a ete suivie : Caracterisation, Codage, Mise en forme des donnees, Application d’une methode et Presentation des resultats. La caracterisation des donnees non-temporelles a ete faite a partir d’un decoupage en fenetres spatiales floues et les donnees temporelles ont ete caracterisees a partir d’un fenetrage spatio-temporel flou. Afin d’etudier le comportement du conducteur en regulation longitudinale, notamment lors des phases de suivi de vehicule, nous avons mene une etude de 250 km sur route avec une vehicule instrumente regroupant plus de 120 conducteurs. Plus de 12000 situations de suivi ont ete enregistrees. Une batterie de tests neuropsychologiques et de personnalite a permis de dresser le profil cognitif et decrire la personnalite des conducteurs. Nous avons donc dans un premier temps etudie les donnees non-temporelles pour decrire notre population sur le plan psychologique, puis nous avons decrit la situation de suivi et l’impact de facteurs environnementaux (conditions meteorologiques, trafic…) sur le comportement du conducteur. Finalement, nous avons mis en relation dans une derniere analyse le profil psychologique du conducteur et son comportement en suivi afin de determiner l’impact de la personnalite et de la cognition sur le comportement routier. Les observations faites grâce a l’etude des plans de l’ACM ont ete illustrees a partir de graphiques explicites ou confirmes a partir de tests d’hypotheses.
Citations in literature review chapters of TESOL master’s theses by Vietnamese postgraduates

Citing other works poses difficulties for novice writers, especially the non-native English speaking students in their first experience of writing for academic purposes; the master’s (M.A.) thesis. However, few studies were conducted on these students’ citations in their M.A. theses. This paper, therefore, presents the study of in-text citations in 24 literature review (LR) chapters of TESOL M.A. theses written by Vietnamese students. Employing the Antconc software, Thompson and Tribble’s (2001) framework for citation types and functions, and discourse-based interviews with the actual thesis writers and their thesis supervisors, the study confirmed the claim that non-native novice writers cannot fully learn crucial citation practices from mere reading of the guidelines. Besides these writers’ preference for integral citations and a very limited number of citation functions used in their LR chapters, this study also identified the presence of several secondary citations, the students’ “invented” ways of citing previous researchers, grammatical mistakes and the absence of further discussions of the cited works. These findings tend to render the students’ LR chapters as ineffective, in terms of grammar and the rhetorical functions of LR chapters in synthesizing, arguing and indicating the relevancy of the reviewed literature for the niche of their research to be established. Furthermore, these findings indicate a need for an increased amount of formal instruction in academic writing courses which aims at equipping novice writers with the means to successfully acknowledge the sources and at raising their awareness about the various functions and rhetorical effects of the students’ citations in their academic writing. DOI: http://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2016-1602-02
A portable toolkit for detecting negation

In this work, we have developed an open source, portable toolkit for detecting negation cues and their scope in natural language. Our tool is designed with a two-phase architecture, where cue detection and scope resolution are solved using two independent machine learning classifiers. In our implementation, we have built upon the best practices from previous work, in terms of feature design, machine learning algorithms, datasets and evaluation methods, and built the entire system from scratch through largescale experiments to assess the utility of features and different classifiers.
IMPACT OF ALGAE SUPPLEMENTED DIETS COMBINED WITH ANTIOXIDANTS ON THE NUTRITIONAL PROFILE, QUALITY ATTRIBUTES, AND STORAGE STABILITY OF CHICKEN BREAST MEAT

OF THESIS IMPACT OF ALGAE SUPPLEMENTED DIETS COMBINED WITH ANTIOXIDANTS ON THE NUTRITION PROFILE, QUALITY ATTRIBUTES, AND STORAGE STABILITY OF CHICKEN WHITE MEAT Consumers’ demands for ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are at all-time high. Algae, a common source of PUFAs, and antioxidants are both used as supplements in livestock feeds, are known to affect the overall quality of meat. To implement PUFA deposits into broiler meat, this study evaluated combining antioxidants and algae in broiler feed to enhance the breast meat quality. Broilers were fed diets supplemented with 50 IU Vitamin E or 200 g/ton EconomasE (EcoE, an antioxidant pack) plus 10 IU Vitamin E, with or without 0.5% algae extract (SP-1). The feed oil was partially oxidized soybean oil (POV: 86 mEq of O2/kg). The feed supplementation with combined SP-1 and EcoE increased meat lipid oxidation but had no effect on protein. This combination supplement substantially reduced (P < 0.05) meat exudation during refrigerated storage while no evident differences were seen on cooking loss or tenderness between diets. Meat from SP-1 supplemented diets was found less acceptable than meat from other diets due to detected off-flavors. The results indicate that EcoE at a supplementation level other than 200 g/ton may be required to overcome off-flavors of broiler meat due to feed incorporation of 0.5% SP-1 with oxidized oil.
Evaluation of Drug Induced Liver Injury in Tuberculosis and Hepatitis Coinfection by Liver Fibrosis Index Score

Background: Egypt has high Tuberculosis (TB), Hepatitis C (HCV) prevalence and intermediate Hepatitis B (HBV) prevalence with unclear Dug Induced liver injury (DILI) risk in chronic viral hepatitis patients. Objective: To evaluate DILI incidence in tuberculous patients suffered from viral hepatitis co-infection compared to non hepatitis patients. Methods: Newly diagnosed pulmonary TB patients under TB therapy were evaluated none invasively for DILI before and after treatment by liver function tests and liver fibrosis index (FIB-4 index). Results: 195 tuberculous patients, age (19-61) years old. Of those, 62% (non hepatitis) were control, 31% HCV, 5% HBV, 2% were both (HB-C). Average baseline fibrosis indices in groups respectively were 0.81, 1.41, 0.70, and 1.47. Overall DILI respectively was 7%, 31%, 30%, 75%. FIB-4 index was significantly increased after treatment in all groups with significant difference between control and (HCV) group (p=0.04). The number of patients with FIB-4 index above 1.45 was 12%, 43%, 50%, 100% of all groups respectively with statistically significant difference in time lag to develop hepatotoxicity. Conclusion: HCV, HBV, HB-C increases DILI risk after anti TB therapy. Meticulous follow up is advised. FBI-4 is a promising tool for liver damage evaluation. More studies are required to validate FIB-4 score.
A New Security Primitive Based On Hard Ai Problems- Captcha As A Graphical Password (Carp)

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell computers and human apart) is a computer program which humans can pass but computer programs cannot pass. A new technology is built over the captcha called graphical captcha which eliminates dictionary attacks and hence more secure. With the hybrid use of CAPTCHA and graphical password, one can address a number of security problems such as relay attack and online guessing attacks. Shoulder surfing attacks can also be addressed with the help of dual view technology. CaRP (Captcha as a graphical password) is not a cure all to all attacks but it stipulates security and usability to legitimate and authenticated users in real time applications In the proposed concept, we present exemplary CaRPs built on both text Captcha and image-recognition Captcha. A user selects random and difficult images as passwords for reducing the guessing attack.
Measuring Technical Efficiency of Indian Banking Sector in Post Subprime Crises Scenario: A Non Parametric Frontier Based Approach

This study gives a comparative analysis of the technical efficiency of top Indian banks during 2007-2011. This period is characterized by far reaching experience of sub-prime crisis (2008-2009) and its impact on Indian banking sector. Efficiency assessment of Indian banking sector has become highly imperative now a days because of intense competition, changing reforms, and instability in banking environment. This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a non parametric linear programming based technique, for evaluating the relative efficiency of top public, private and foreign banks in India. The present paper, based on empirical analysis, shows that the levels of input and output variables in efficiency measurement have changed significantly during this period and banks have improved their relative efficiency score over the period of time. Results support the fact that after sub-prime crisis, Advances (A) and Investments (I) are getting importance as output variables, while Operating Costs (OC), Fixed Assets (FA) and Capital (C) are considered as important input variables. This study also recommends that Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) could be a suitable tool for measuring relative efficiency score of Indian banking sector . Key words : Technical Efficiency, Sub Prime Crisis Period, Non Parametric Approach, Data Envelopment Analysis.
Adaptive Emotional Personality Model based on Fuzzy Logic Interpretation of Five Factor Theory

In recent years, emotional personality has found an important application in the field of human machine interaction. Interesting examples of this domain are computer games, interface agents, human-robot interaction, etc. However, few systems in this area include a model of personality, although it plays an important role in differentiating and determining the way they experience emotions and the way they behave. Personality simulation has always been a complex issue due to the complexity of the human personality itself, and the difficulty to model human psychology on electronic basis. Current efforts for emotion simulation are rather based on predefined set or inputs and its responses or on classical models which are simple approximate and have proven flaws. In this paper an emotional simulation system was presented. It utilizes the latest psychological theories to design a complex dynamic system that reacts to any environment, without being pre-programmed on sets of input. The design was relying on fuzzy logic to simulate human emotional reaction, thus increasing the accuracy by further emulating human brain and removing the pre-defined set of input and its matched outputs
Full Waveform Inversion Based on Scattering Angle Enrichment with Application to Real Dataset

Reflected waveform inversion (RWI) provides a method to reduce the nonlinearity of the standard full waveform inversion (FWI). However, the drawback of the existing RWI methods is inability to utilize diving waves and the extra sensitivity to the migrated image. We propose a combined FWI and RWI optimization problem through dividing the velocity into the background and perturbed components. We optimize both the background and perturbed components, as independent parameters. The new objective function is quadratic with respect to the perturbed component, which will reduce the nonlinearity of the optimization problem. Solving this optimization provides a true amplitude image and utilizes the diving waves to update the velocity of the shallow parts. To insure a proper wavenumber continuation, we use an efficient scattering angle filter to direct the inversion at the early stages to direct energy corresponding to large (smooth velocity) scattering angles to the background velocity update and the small (high wavenumber) scattering angles to the perturbed velocity update. This efficient implementation of the filter is fast and requires less memory than the conventional approach based on extended images. Thus, the new FWI procedure updates the background velocity mainly along the wavepath for both diving and reflected waves in the initial stages. At the same time, it updates the perturbation with mainly reflections (filtering out the diving waves). To demonstrate the capability of this method, we apply it to a real 2D marine dataset.
MultiCom, a Platform for the Design and the Evaluation of Interactive Systems : Application to Residential Gateways and Home Services

This paper presents a platform, named MultiCom, for the design and the evaluation of user interfaces and more generally of interactive systems or products dedicated to the end user. MultiCom is a kind of "usability lab" which contains various distributed resources on network and dedicated software to capture and analyse the human working with a computer. It can be notice that very few generic usability labs exist now in the world. The methodology of MultiCom is based on the lifecycle used in software engineering domain, by having multidisciplinary approach, unifying several methods on sociology, ergonomics, and software engineering. The lifecycle starts from the original idea of product or system to need and ends by the evaluation after the complete exploitation by the client. The results show that it is very important to design all innovative product or service by integrating the end user in the "development loop" of the system. This point of view implies that the design process have to start from the situated work where a subject is observed in order to capture is behaviour. The data resulting of the capture stage are analysed in terms of usability factors defined a priori for the diagnostic and evaluation. Then, the results allows the designer to fix the precise system functionality. After the prototype realisation, a lot of users is observed again, and so on, then the prototype is modified until a convergence. The paper describes all the tools needed and used in MultiCom platform to manage a complete design session and their application to design new user interfaces in the home domain. The new growing market of Residential Gateway and Home Services presents some challenges for the design of User Interfaces (UI). The home environment calls for new solutions going beyond conventional GUI. This article describes an exploratory study realized at the early stage of an industrial European project, which aims to better understand the main issues of this specific context. We present the approach that we used, involving the creation of a simulated environment as close as possible to a home where users interact with Home Services through various devices which could constitute a UI to a Residential Gateway. We then present the main results of the study: a) main features of this context; b) main user tasks involved in the use of services and strengths and weaknesses of the tested interaction devices in their aptitude to support these tasks. Finally we present examples of recommendations for the design of the user interfaces of the Residential Gateways.
Attacks on Large or Heavily Defended Prey by Tropical Salticid Spiders

Spiderlings in the first active instar have severe limitations in prey capture, because of their small size (Valerio, 1975) and particularly in those species that ambush or stalk their prey. The presence of snares or catching webs characteristic of several families expands considerably the range of potential prey items, which is undoubtedly an important pressure in the evolution of such structures. Even web-building spiders have problems with the large heavily-sclerotised prey items (see for instance Robinson & Robinson 1973a, 57-58). Insects with chemical defenses also prove troublesome to spiders (Eisner & Dean, 1976). However, the use of silk in the immobilization wrapping of araneid spiders considerably enhances their ability to subdue large or heavily defended prey (see experimental analyses summarized in Robinson 1975). Salticids, on the other hand, are among the hunting spiders that subdue their prey without the aid of silk. For this reason, it is widely assumed that they are limited, in general, to prey which is smaller than themselves or to soft-bodied defenseless items (Enders 1975, 745 and references). At first sight this assumption seems perfectly reasonable, since the salticid attacking prey larger than itself must contend with a strength (perhaps) superior to its own. The insect under attack would presumably push against the substrate and exert sufficient pressure either to escape or to injure
Effects of pH values on the properties of buffalo and cow butter-based low-fat spreads

The objective of this study was to characterize the effects of pH values (5, 5.5, 6, 6.5 and 7) on the properties of buffalo and cow butter-based low-fat spreads. Sensory evaluation of the samples decreased with an increase in pH values and during the storage periods. In addition, phase separation occurred with pH 6, 6.5 and 7. The differences in peroxide values and oil stability index among the samples compared to the control samples were slight, while peroxide values and oil stability index decreased during the storage periods. Changes in fatty acid composition among the pH treatments and during the storage periods were detected. Differences in solid fat contents among pH treatments separately and during the storage periods were negligible. A decline in the hardness and viscosity of the samples were accompanied by an increase in pH values, and the treatments had increased effects during the storage periods. Generally, an increase of pH values did not affect the melting profiles of the spreads. Additionally, changes between the melting profiles of buffalo and cow butter-based low-fat spreads were detected.
Interactive comment on “Heterogeneous oxidation of saturated organic aerosols by hydroxyl radicals:Uptake kinetics and condensed-phase products” by I. J. George et al

This paper describes laboratory experiments examining the oxidation of singlecomponent Bis(2-ethylhexyl) sebacate (BES) aerosol particles by the hydroxyl radical. An Aerodyne Aerosol-TOF-MS was used to monitor the decay of a signal representative of BES upon exposure to OH. The latter was generated using UV radiation, O3, and H2O. A thorough analysis of the kinetics, products, and aerosol particle size/density changes is presented. The topic is highly relevant to ACP, and the manuscript contains significant new contributions and is very well written. I highly recommend publication and I have only a few minor comments that the authors might wish to address.
Multi-Component Modal Analysis of Protein Structure

Multi-Component Modal Analysis of Protein Structure G. Yoon1, K. Bong2, J. Kim3, I.H. Ahn4, K. Eom5 and S. Na6 Summary This paper presents multi-component mode methodology applicable to biomolecular structures for understanding the dynamics of proteins. Even though the conventional normal mode analysis has been contributed for analyzing the dynamics and thermal fluctuations of proteins, it frequently encounters with the computational prohibition for large proteins due to memory requirement. To overcome the conventional computational limitations, the drawback motivates one to develop various model reduction methods, which reduces the degrees of freedom of the full model so as to decrease the computational expense, while the computational accuracy is maintained. Our results demonstrate that the multi-component modal analysis applied to the biomolecular structures predicts the dominant eigenmodes and fluctuation of proteins accurately with reducing the computational cost enormously.
Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual

Preface Chapter 1. Libation in Ga Ritual Chapter 2. Taxonomy and Form in Ga Ritual Chapter 3. The Structure of Ga Prayer Chapter 4. "I Call You for Life" Chapter 5. Prayer and Song in Ga Ritual Chapter 6. Ritual Portrait of a Ga Medium Chapter 7. Ambivalence and Power: Mediums in Ga Religion Chapter 8. Homowo: Celebrating Community in Ga Culture Chapter 9. Bushcows in the Sky Chapter 10. Twin Beliefs and Ceremony in Ga Culture Chapter 11. The Ga Naming Rite Chapter 12. Antelopes and Stools: Ga Ceremonial Kingship Concluding Note Bibliography
Soil and Leaf Micronutrient Composition in Contrasting Habitats in Podzolized Sands of the Amazon Region

Plant macronutrient distribution in podzolized sands of the Amazon caatinga has received attention in several studies; however, the distribution of micronutrients has not been assessed. Soil micronutrient availability has been hypothesized to reflect contrasting habitat characteristics as well as fundamental differences in substrate, and leaf micronutrient composition may reflect the macronutrient content needed to maintain balance for leaf cell functions. In this study, soil and leaf samples were obtained in a toposequence (valley, slope, and mound). Available soil micro- and macronutrients as well as total leaf content were measured by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer and mass spectroscopy. Soil Zn (-1) and B (-1) as well as Cu (-1) levels were very low. Soil Mn was low in the valleys and slopes (0.62-0.87 mg·kg-1), but higher in the mound (6.59 mg·kg-1). Soil Fe (11.48-21.13 mg·kg-1) was well above the critical level in all of the habitats. Leaf micronutrients Cu, B, Zn, and Fe were below the critical levels for tropical crops of 3-7, 20-70, 15-20, and 72 mg·kg-1, respectively. Leaf Mn (88 mg·kg-1) and Al (-1) were below the accumulators level. A strong relationship between leaf micro- and macronutrients suggests the maintenance of a homeostatic elemental composition, which may favour photosynthetic function. Therefore, the local distribution of species may be shaped by their abilities to maintain a balance of micronutrient collected through roots under critically low levels of available Zn, B, and Cu whilst excluding potentially deleterious ions of Mn, Fe, and Al.
Micronucleus assay in epithelial cells from the oral cavity and urinary tract in female smokers and non-smokers

pooled analysis of the frequency of binucleated cells and condensed chromatin cells in 18 studied women, statistically significant differences were noted only in epithelial cells from the oral cavity in comparison to those of the urinary tract. Non-pooled results demonstrated no differences in cytogenetic damage frequency in cells collected from the oral cavity and isolated from the urine. The lack of differences in the observed frequencies of micronuclei in buccal and urothelial cells could be an effect of the small size of the sampled group, smoking pattern of the women and the number of cigarettes smoked per day. Micronucleus assay in epithelial cells from the oral cavity