Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Corpus OTG et ECOLE

_MASSY : vers la constitution d’une collection de corpus francophones de dialogue oral diffusés librement

Cet article présente deux corpus francophones de dialogue oral (OTG et ECOLE _MASSY) mis librement à la disposition de la communauté scientifique. Ces deux corpus constituent la première livraison du projet Parole Publique initié par le laboratoire VALORIA. Ce projet vise la constitution d’une collection de corpus de dialogue oral enrichis par annotation morpho-syntaxique. Ces corpus de dialogue finalisé sont essentiellement destinés à une utilisation en communication homme-machine.
Conservation of a flagship species:Prioritizing Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) conservation units in southern India

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is believed to number about 45,000 in the wild and is distributed across several populations over South and Southeast Asia. It is an important flagship species for the conservation of biodiversity as well as being a cultural symbol of the people of this region. We analyse a Geographical Information System database of administrative forest divisions constituting four Project Elephant Reserves designated for southern India, in an attempt to prioritize them for specific conservation action and funding allocation. We compute a conservation value for each of these divisions by using five variables characterizing habitat, population and biodiversity attributes. We also compute threat values for each, using two variables which represent the most significant threats. Based on a cluster analysis we demonstrate that divisions with high conservation values have large elephant distribution areas, preferred habitat areas and elephant
Parents do matter, but why? Examining two mediators of the association between parental approval and negative consequences of alcohol use

Abstract College student drinking is a public health concern with potentially serious consequences. A growing body of literature indicates perceived parental approval of alcohol use is associated with drinking outcomes in college populations, and that parent-based interventions may be a viable way to reduce alcohol use on campus. However, researchers have not yet identified the mechanism responsible for this relationship. In this study, a path model was used to look at the relationship between perceived parental approval of drinking and negative consequences of alcohol use among undergraduate students (N = 632) via two mechanisms: perceived friends’ approval of drinking and perceived parental monitoring. The path model specified in this study indicated that perceived parental approval of drinking is associated with negative consequences of alcohol use, and that this effect is not fully attributed to perceived parental monitoring, injunctive norms of friends, gender or weekly alcohol consumption. As hypothesized, perceived friends’ approval of drinking partially mediated the relationship between perceived parental approval of drinking and negative consequences of alcohol use. Contrary to hypothesis, the path model did not provide support to the mediating role of perceived parental monitoring.
Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids and Influencing Factors on Compliance with Standard Precautions among Nurses in General Hospital

The purpose of this study was to identify blood and body fluids exposure, and factors influencing compliance with standard precautions among nurses. Participants consisted of 144 nurses in three general hospitals located in C province. Data were collected using a questionnaire that consisted of awareness, compliance, safety environment and attitude toward standard precautions. A total of 40.3% of participants had been injured by syringes or sharp tools that had already been used for patients within the last 1 year 1.01 times. Moreover, 22.9% of participants had been exposed to blood and body fluid of patients 1.06 times within the last 1 year. The mean score for compliance with standard precautions was lower than its awareness. There was a significant correlation between compliance and awareness and a safe environment. Multiple regression revealed an adjusted R of 0.166 with the awareness score serving as the major predictor variable for compliance of standard precautions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop strategies to apply to systemic and continuous education regarding standard precautions and to foster a safe environment to enhance nurses' compliance with standard precautions.
Modelling suction shoes in twin-wire forming : Results

Lorsque la toile de formation passe entre deux lames de sabot aspirant, la pression entre les toiles chute rapidement a une valeur a mi-chemin entre la valeur de l'aspiration appliquee et le zero. Elle demeure pres de cette valeur jusqu'a ce qu'elle s'approche a quelques centimetres de la lame en aval, auquel point la pression s'eleve rapidement en raison de l'enroulement de la toile autour de cette lame. Les lames multiples dans un sabot aspirant generent donc une configuration de pression caracteristique en dents de scie, dans laquelle une (ou deux) pulsation de pression est produite a chaque lame, et la pression chute a des valeurs negatives entre les lames. Lorsqu'on augmente l'aspiration appliquee au sabot, la pression positive developpee pres de la lame en aval s'accroit en meme temps que l'aspiration s'accroit, a mi-chemin entre les lames. L'accroissement de l'espace entre deux lames de sabot aspirant fait augmenter le tirage de la toile inferieure, ce qui accentue la pulsation de pression de la lame en aval. Si on modelise une suspension de pâte de concentration plus elevee a la caisse d'arrivee (ou simplement si l'egouttage est moindre ), l'accroissement du gâteau de fibres entraine des pics de pression plus eleves qu'avec une suspension dont l'egouttage est plus libre.
A Study on Word Vector Models for Representing Korean Semantic Information

This paper examines whether the Global Vector model is applicable to Korean data as a universal learning algorithm. The main purpose of this study is to compare the global vector model (GloVe) with the word2vec models such as a continuous bag-of-words (CBOW) model and a skip-gram (SG) model. For this purpose, we conducted an experiment by employing an evaluation corpus consisting of 70 target words and 819 pairs of Korean words for word similarities and analogies, respectively. Results of the word similarity task indicated that the Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.3133 as compared with the human judgement in GloVe, 0.2637 in CBOW and 0.2177 in SG. The word analogy task showed that the overall accuracy rate of 67% in semantic and syntactic relations was obtained in GloVe, 66% in CBOW and 57% in SG.
Understanding Controversial Therapies for Children with Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Part 1: Introduction. 1. Introduction. 2. Thinking Out of the Box: An Overview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approaches. Part 2: Selected Interventions. 3. Alternative Medical Systems. 4. Mind-Body Interventions. 5. Biologically-based Interventions. 6. Manipulative and Body-based Methods. 7. Energy Therapies. Part 3: Resources for Children with Autism, Attentions Deficit Disorders, and other Learning Disabilities. 8. Recommended Reading about Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 9. Agencies, Organizations and Websites. Subject Index. Author Index.
ISSR molecular markers for the study of the genetic diversity of Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia Benth

espanolConocer la diversidad genetica de las especies de arbolesforestales en la region semiarida de Brasil puede contribuir al desarrollo de estrategias eficaces para su conservacion y usofuturo. El objetivo de este estudiofue seleccionar iniciadores de ISSR (Secuencias Intergenicas Repetidas Simples) capaces de detectar polimorfismo genetico entre individuos de Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia Benth. para estudiar la diversidad genetica de la especie. Un total de 27 iniciadores ISSR fueron probados por su capacidad para amplificar el ADN genomico de tres individuos. Todos los iniciadores amplificaron secuencias intergenicas repetidas en el genoma, pero siete fueron seleccionados porque presentaron un mejor patron de amplificacion. Los siete iniciadores seleccionados fueron utilizados para amplificar el ADN genomico a partir de nueve individuos y generaron un total de 78 loci, 52,7% de los cualesfueron polimorficas. El valor del contenido de la informacion de los iniciadores polimorficos vario de 0,261 a 0,489, demostrando que son moderadamente informativo y el analisis del impulso se determino que 51 loci fueron suficientes para estimar la diversidad genetica de la muestra de los individuos analizados. Los resultados indican que los marcadores generados por los iniciadores UBC 807, UBC 824, UBC 827, UBC 840, UBC 851, UBC 873 y UBC 881 permiten detectarpolimorfismo genetico entre individuos de M. caesalpiniaefolia y pueden ser utilizados para estimar la diversidad genetica para esta especie. EnglishKnowledge of the genetic diversity of the threatened tree species in the Brazilian semiarid region may contribute to the creation of effective strategies for their preservation and future use. The aim of this study was to select ISSR (Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat) primers capable of detecting genetic polymorphism among Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia Benth. individuals for a study of the genetic diversity of this species. A total of 27 ISSR primers were tested for their ability to amplify genomic DNA of three individuals (bulk); all of them amplified regions between the simple sequence repeats of the genome, however seven ISSR primers showed a good standard of amplification compared to the others. The seven primers selected were used to amplify the genomic DNA of nine individuals and generated a total of 78 loci, of which 52.7% were polymorphic. The content of polymorphic information of the primers ranged from 0.261 to 0.489, showing that selected primers are moderately informative; bootstrap analysis determined that 51 loci were enough to estimate the genetic diversity of the samples of individuals. We concluded that the markers generated by the primers UBC 807, UBC 824, UBC 827, UBC 840, UBC 851, UBC 873 and UBC 881 allow detection of the genetic polymorphism among individuals of M. caesalpiniaefolia, being useful to determine the genetic diversity of this species.
The hieroglyphic inscription of the High Priest's Grave at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico

Les textes hieroglyphiques de Chichen Itza constituent aujourd'hui le corpus d'inscriptions mayas le plus important pour un seul site du nord du Yucatan. Le present article propose une etude epigraphique et chronologique de l'inscription gravee sur le pilier sud-est de la structure 3C1, structure connue sous le nom de Tombe du Grand Pretre.
Primitive operator digital filters

The authors outline a design methodology for the realisation of digital filtering structures with significantly reduced numbers of elementary arithmetic operations. The directed acyclic graphs which result from the design algorithms completely describe the filter arithmetically and may be mapped directly onto hardware or software realisations. Vertex rearrangement, retiming and edge elimination techniques are presented which facilitate the generation of a logical graph with an efficient allocation of pipeline registers. An example of the technique is given for a bit-serial realisation employing a bit-level pipeline. >
Fast and Robust Transaction Processing on Emerging Hardware

Fast and Robust Transaction Processing on Emerging Hardware Tianzheng Wang Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2018 Database engines must adapt to the underlying hardware for high-performance transaction execution. Conventional database engines are built on the storage-centric architecture assuming small DRAM, limited parallelism, and slow network. Emerging hardware, including byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVRAM), massively parallel processors, and ultra-fast interconnect, has lead to significant changes in the design and implementation of modern database engines. Modern database engines, despite being optimized for multicore hardware, still have unscalable components and unnecessary data redundancy that hinder performance on future servers with large core counts (up to 1000). Database engines should also be robust against various workloads, including traditional short, write-intensive transactions and emerging long, read-mostly, and high-conflict transactions. Existing database engines fail to address these problems, leaving the vast opportunity of accommodating heterogeneous, read-mostly and high-conflict workloads that are enabled by emerging hardware largely unexplored. These problems must be tackled to make database engines perform fast and robustly on modern high-end and future hardware. In this thesis, we first remove the unscalable logging bottleneck by utilizing NVRAM. NVRAM allows us to revive distributed logging, a once prohibitive but effective solution to centralized logging bottlenecks. Avoiding unscalable logging is crucial in building fast main-memory databases that can potentially scale up to 1000 cores in future servers, but is not enough for handling the inconvenient workloads robustly. We continue on devising concurrency control mechanisms that handle a wide spectrum of workloads robustly. Finally, we demonstrate how high availability solutions can be built to guarantee both data safety and freshness using emerging hardware and by eliminating unnecessary data redundancy through indirection. This thesis serves as a toolbox and provides the guidelines for the design and implementation of high-performance and robust database engines and other concurrent systems. The solutions have been evaluated on both mainstream high-end servers and precursors of future hardware that could feature as many as 1000 cores and NVRAM. The techniques are applicable to both modern and future hardware that is yet to come.
Comparative Study on Marks Prediction using Data Mining and Classification Algorithms

Today that collecting data has been easy more than ever in almost all aspects of life, but the collected data is of no use if it can’t be efficiently utilised for the betterment of the society. Every year thousands of students graduate from our education system which people believe is not as optimal as it could be and there has been a considerable research on how to improve it. In light of this the primary purpose of this paper is to look at and compare well performing algorithms such as Naive Bayes , decision tree (J48), Random Forest, Naive Bayes Multiple Nominal, K-star and IBk. Data that we have to gauge students’ potential based on various indicators like previous performances and in other cases their background to give a comparative account on what method is the best in achieving that end. The benefits from this are not limited to the students but help us evolve the system and gain knowledge into what method is the most efficient. All educational institutions whether public or private can design curriculum and the method of teaching based on what is the most effective. Keywords: Prediction, classification, student, marks, GPA, data mining, educational data mining, performance
Timing violations due to V DD /V SS bounce

Abstract. The effect of power supply noise in on-chip power grids and its implications on the path delay in digital circuits is examined. The simulation results show that IR-Drop and the resulting path delay are strongly affected by the layout of the circuit. Power grid design measures to reduce IR-Drop, as well as their area and performance implications are discussed.
WERTES: Web as External Resources for Textual Entailment Systems

Research in Textual Entailment (TE) has been widely conducted, mainly in natural language based systems, since TE can provide solutions to semantic problems. Usually, the researchers focus on method improvement, hence, they use standard data sets, which are specific to a particular language, primarily in English. For low-resource languages, it is very difficult to find data sets to test the TE systems. Therefore, in this paper we propose a model to extract data from the web to serve as data set for TE systems. The model can be used for cross-language domains with simple modifications. Two datasets are created and used to evaluate the model, i.e. DS-100-R, which contains facts, and DS-100-W, which contains non-facts. The model produces a set of sentences that are expected to be relevant to the queries. Some algorithms are created to address problems that arise during experiments. Based on the evaluation, the model accuracy for DS-100-R dataset is 79.0%, and for DS-100-W dataset is 70.0%. Hence, the overall model accuracy is 74.5%.
An Open Source Modelica Graphic Editor Integrated with Electronic Notebooks and Interactive Simulation

This paper describes the first open source Modelica graphic editor which is integrated with interactive electronic notebooks and online interactive simulation. The work is motivated by the need for easy-to-use graphic editing of Modelica models using OpenModelica, as well as needs in teaching where the student should be able to interactively modify and simulate models in an electronic book. Models can be both textual and graphical. The interactive online simulation makes the simulation respond in real-time to model changes, which is useful in a number of contexts including immediate feedback to students.
Long-term effects of community-based injury prevention on the island of Værøy in Norway: A 20-year follow up

Aim: A multifactorial injury prevention programme started in 1981 and ran for about 10 years in an island community in Norway with a population of about 1,000. A study was undertaken to evaluate effects of the programme over a period of 20 years. Methods: Injuries were recorded by the one medical doctor on the island for several years during the period 1970— 2001. The programme was carried out very intensively from 1981 to 1987. The intensity gradually decreased to a medium level that lasted until about 1994, when it was further reduced to a low level. Results: The injury incidence rate was reduced from 17.7% in 1980 (n=188) to 9.7% in 1987 (n=97) with relative risk reduced to 0.55 (95% CI 0.44—0.70, p<0.0001). In 2001, an incidence rate of 9.6% was observed (n=91). An even higher reduction was observed for serious injuries. The age groups 15—24 and 65+ showed the most distinct reductions from 1980 to 2001 while minor reduction was observed in children (0—14 years). The incidence rate of traffic injuries was reduced by 77% in spite of an increase in the number of motor vehicles. Occupational, home, and other injuries were reduced by 38%, 35%, and 49% respectively. The incidence rates were 2.6—3.0 times higher for men than for women through the 20-year observation period. Conclusion: This study indicates that a long-lasting multifactorial community-based intervention in a small community with defined aims may lead to a considerable and long-lasting reduction in injuries.
Job applicants’ attitudes towards cognitive ability and personality testing

Orientation: Growing research has shown that not only test validity considerations but also the test-taking attitudes of job applicants are important in the choice of selection instruments as these can contribute to test performance and the perceived fairness of the selection process. Research purpose: The main purpose of this study was to determine the test-taking attitudes of a diverse group of job applicants towards personality and cognitive ability tests administered conjointly online as part of employee selection in a financial services company in South Africa. Motivation for the study: If users understand how job applicants view specific test types, they will know which assessments are perceived more negatively and how this situation can potentially be rectified. Research design, approach and method: A non-experimental and cross-sectional survey design was used. An adapted version of the Test Attitude Survey was used to determine job applicants’ attitudes towards tests administered online as part of an employee selection process. The sample consisted of a group of job applicants ( N = 160) who were diverse in terms of ethnicity and age and the educational level applicable for sales and supervisory positions. Main findings: On average, the job applicants responded equally positively to the cognitive ability and personality tests. The African job applicants had a statistically significantly more positive attitude towards the tests than the other groups, and candidates applying for the sales position viewed the cognitive ability tests significantly less positively than the personality test. Practical and managerial implications: The choice of selection tests used in combination as well as the testing conditions that are applicable should be considered carefully as they are the factors that can potentially influence the test-taking motivation and general test-taking attitudes of job applicants. Contribution: This study consolidated the research findings on the determinants of attitudinal responses to cognitive ability and personality testing and produced valuable empirical findings on job applicants’ attitudes towards both test types when administered conjointly
Designing Responsive Music Making Devices: Creating Positive Exercise Experiences for Seniors

As the population grows older, it is increasingly important to address the challenges associated with aging, such as health decline and loss of independence. Exercise can help seniors remain physically fit, but seniors often are unable to exercise regularly because of barriers and lack of motivation. Research suggests that music making may provide health benefits and motivate individuals to exercise. This interdisciplinary study combines the fields of music making and design in order to address the question of how design can be used to create devices for seniors to make music, creating positive exercise experiences. The topic was explored using qualitative design research methods: music making technology probes, an expert interview, and a co-design workshop. Based on the research, several design recommendations were made concerning the sensory aspects of the object, such as the audio and visual feedback and the tactile experience, and the usability and features of the product.
The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition

What is Second Language Acquisition? In recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues surrounding SLA. In The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition David Block critically examines the key assumptions behind this research. He unpacks and analyses the way the key components of SLA are commonly understood, asking what is meant by the terms 'second', 'language' and 'acquisition'. Block discusses a wide variety of research by applied linguists and those working in SLA who have drawn on recent developments in social theory in their attempts to make sense of language practices and language learning. The main thread running through the text is the suggestion that SLA researchers need to concern themselves not only with language learning as an individual and primarily cognitive process, but also as a sociohistorically situated phenomenon. This book is written for applied linguists and students on applied linguistics courses, who are familiar with recent developments in the field of SLA. Features: *New ideas about SLA and a useful critique of the field *Readable style *Includes an extensive bibliography of over 400 sources.