Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Distributed Coding Schemes for Continuous Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become one of the most interesting research areas in recent years due to a wide range of potential applications such as environment monitoring and battlefield surveillance. An important problem that arises in application of WSNs is how to collect data continuously, especially in extreme environments. Consider that data are continuously sensed and collected by the sensor nodes in the extreme environments. Data collection is only performed from time to time by a mobile Base Station (mBS). Sensor nodes have to store the continuously collected data segments over time by themselves, and provide the desired data when the mBS arrives and performs data collection. Such kind of data collection is known as continuous data collection. This dissertation addresses the continuous data collection in WSNs with a mobile Base Station (mBS). We propose continuous data collection schemes based on distributed coding methods, with the goal to achieve a high success ratio of data collection and reduce the energy consumption. We consider two scenarios of continuous data collection. The first scenario is latest data segment collection, which is to collect the m latest data segments, where m is the number of latest data segments in a time interval t in which n(t) (m ≤ n(t)) data segments are generated. m is a fixed number. No matter how many data segments are generated in a time interval, the required data are the m latest data segments. The second scenario is all data segment collection, which is to collect all the n(t) data segments generated in a time interval t. n(t) is a variable, the value depends on when the mBS performs data collection. n(t) increases as t increases. We propose two Distributed Separate Coding schemes for the two scenarios, respectively. For the first scenario of continuous data collection, we propose the Distributed Separate Coding scheme for m Latest Data segment Collection (DSC-mLDC) in wireless sensor networks with a mobile Base Station (mBS). By separately encoding a certain number of data segments in a combined segment, and doing decodingfree data replacement in the buffers of each sensor node, the proposed DSC-mLDC i
Zoolander: Modeling and managing replication for predictability

Social networking and scientiﬁc computing workloads access networked storage much more frequently than traditional, e-commerce workloads. In these workloads, issuing storage accesses in parallel offers speedup, as long as the slowest parallel access is fast. This paper studies replication for predictability, an approach to speed up slow storage accesses by running the same work-load on duplicate servers and using the results from the fastest server. We created Zoolander, an analytic model that predicts the percentage of accesses that will complete quickly— i.e., a service level. Zoolander considers the effects of replication strategies, heavy tails in access time distributions, and queuing delays. We validated Zo-olander against RP Zookeeper, an enhanced Zookeeper Coordination Service that supports replication for pre-dictability. Zoolander was precise, predicting achieved service levels within 0.002 across diverse workloads and platforms. We used Zoolander to manage service levels of two parallel, data-intensive workloads running on RP Zookeeper. Exploiting replication for predictability, we achieved speedups of 373% and reduced the cloud servers needed by 50%.
CELF CDN-F : évaluation clinique des notions langagières fondamentales : version pour francophones du Canada

Comprend: Manuel de l'examinateur. -- Livret de stimuli 1. -- Livret de stimuli 2. -- Formulaires Profil pragmatique (PP). -- Formulaires Echelle d'evaluation d'observations (EEO). -- Cahier de notation 1 (Âges 4-8). -- Cahier de notation 2 (Âges 9-16)
Stress Analysis Of Structural Bonded Joints

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Nanocomposites interactifs supportes en tant que photocatalyseurs contemporains et materiaux germicides : concepts et applications

La recherche actuelle est entreprise dans l’optique de la revision complete du design chimique et des principes d’elaboration des photocatalyseurs composites supportes (PCCS) afin d’ameliorer considerablement leurs capacites reactionnelles, la durabilite de leur action en temps et de resoudre le probleme de pollution secondaire des milieux a traiter. Les travaux effectues ont permis la mise en œuvre d’un nouveau modele de PCCS interactifs dont les composants photosensibles sont en fortes interactions chimiques avec leurs supports appartenant au groupe d’acides de Lewis. Cette particularite assure une grande selectivite d’action des produits developpes, leur fonctionnement durable en regime stationnaire, evite la pollution secondaire des effluents a traiter et garanti une performance photocatalytique comparable a celle du produit de reference Degussa P25.Les travaux realises ont permis d’acquerir de nouvelles connaissances scientifiques concernant le role de l’acidite de surface dans l’action photocatalytique et du taux de dissociation de l’eau adsorbee sur le produit actif. De plus, un ensemble de huit parametres principaux assurant les meilleures conditions d’exploitation des PCCS a ete etabli.Les PCCS developpes peuvent etre appliques, tout d’abord, dans le domaine de l’incineration photocatalytique des COV. Un prototype de filtre dynamique capable de traiter 50 m3/h de l’air avec une consommation d’energie moderee, est concu. Un nouveau type de materiaux composites a vocation germicide a base de polymeres synthetiques fait egalement l’objet de la partie applicative de ces travaux de these.
Gender differences in informal caring

Men have hitherto largely been invisible in research on informal care. This paper examines gender differences in informal caring, focusing on gender differences according to the relationship between the carer and care-recipient and the location of caring. The paper uses secondary analysis of the 1990–91 General Household Survey, which identified over 2700 adults as informal carers. Four per cent of men and women provide care for someone living in the same household. More women than men, 13% compared with 10%, provide care for someone living in another household. Men carers are less involved in care provision than women, providing fewer hours of care each week, and are less likely to be the main carer. However, gender differences are most marked among married carers, apart from those caring for their spouse, and least among unmarried carers. Married men can often rely on their wives to perform caring roles rather than performing them personally. Women carers are more likely to provide personal care than men carers, but the gender difference is least among those caring for their spouse or for disabled children. Cross-sex personal care is performed within the marital relationship and by parents caring for disabled children, but seldom by adult children caring for their parents or in more distant caring relationships. Evidence of cross-sex taboos in giving personal care is largely restricted to care provided in another household. Since the majority of elderly people in need of care are women, such cultural taboos may reinforce the pressure on mid-life women to care for mothers and mothers-in-law.
KUALITAS FISIK TELUR AYAM ARAB PETELUR FASE I DENGAN BERBAGAI LEVEL Azolla microphylla

ABSTRAK Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh penggunaan Azolla microphylla dalam ransum ayam Arab petelur terhadap kualitas fisik telur (indeks Haugh, warna kuning telur, indeks kuning telur, indeks putih telur, berat kuning telur, berat putih telur dan berat telur). Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan acak lengkap (RAL) dengan 4 perlakuan dengan 5 ulangan. Perlakuan yang diberikan adalah pemberian A. microphylla level berbeda (0%, 3%, 6% dan 9%). Parameter yang diamati adalah indeks Haugh, warna kuning telur, indeks kuning telur, indeks putih telur, berat kuning telur, berat putih telur dan berat telur. Materi yang digunakan adalah 82 ekor ayam Arab petelur (umur ± 9 bulan) dengan rata-rata bobot badan 1125±77,6g. Penyusunan ransum perlakuan menggunakan prinsip iso protein dan iso energi Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan Azolla microphylla sampai level 9% dalam ransum, menghasilkan bobot kuning telur, indeks haugh, indeks putih telur, dan indeks kuning telur yang sama pada telur ayam Arab. Penggunaan Azolla microphylla sampai level 6% dalam ransum ayam Arab dapat meningkatkan bobot telur, bobot putih telur dan warna kuning telur. Kata kunci: ayam Arab; Azolla microphylla; kualitas telur ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to study the effect of A. microphylla in Arabic layer rations on physical qualities of eggs (Haught unit, yolk color, yolk index, albumen index, yolk weight, albumen weight and egg weight). This research used completely randomized design (CRD) with 4 treatments and 5 replications. The treatment given is the gift of A. microphylla different levels (0%, 3%, 6% and 9%). Parameters measured were Haught unit, yolk color, yolk index, albumen index, yolk weight, albumen weight and egg weight. The materials used are 82 Arabic layers (age ± 9 months) with average body weight at 1125±77,6g. The making of ration is based on iso protein and iso energy principle. The results showed that combining the A. microphylla into the ration up to level 9% give the same results of yolk weight, haught unit, albumen index and yolk index. Utilizing the A. Microphylla into the ration up to level 6% at Arabic layer ration to increase the egg weight, albumen weight and yolk color. Keywords : Arabic layer, Azolla microphylla,egg quality.
Reliability, failure detection and prevention in cyber‐physical systems (CPSs) with agents

The complexity of cyber‐physical systems (CPSs) opens up several challenges regarding the assurance of high levels of reliability. Therefore, we need to develop a new data quality analysis and new CPS components/subsystems for the detection, isolation, recovery, and prevention of failures and intrusion events. Furthermore, we have to develop new reliability assessment models and metrics in order to properly evaluate CPSs. Agent technologies, through their characteristics such as autonomy, social ability, reactivity, and proactivity, have the potential to address these challenges and requirements. We propose a multi‐agent based solution, namely ReliaCPS, for detecting and preventing the failures of the system components of CPSs. We also use a case study of a CPS for monitoring ambient parameters to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach. Our results indicate improvements in terms of reliability metrics (32.69% for the mean time between failures and mean time to failure, 50% for the mean time to repair and 0.94% for reliability function over time).
The Emergence of Contemporary Percussion in Australia: 1960–1975

Over the past forty years, contemporary percussion music has assumed an increasingly prominent role in Australian classical music performance and composition; however, no research has been undertaken to record how or why this prolific field of Australian music emerged in the 1970s. This paper closes a gap in Australian contemporary music history by examining the historical contexts that fostered the emergence of an Australian percussion scene in the 1960s and 1970s. An examination of significant events and individuals in the field that effected change is offered, using Australia's first professional percussion ensemble, the Australian Percussion Ensemble, as a case study.
Greek architecture and its sculpture in the British Museum

Preface and acknowledgements Introduction 1 Enlightenment and Renaissance 2 Greek Temples - Design and Purpose 3 The Temples of Artemis at Ephesos 4 The Parthenon and its Sculptures 5 The Athenian Acropolis - Propylaea, Nike Temple and Erechtheum 6 The Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai 7 LycianTombs 8 The Nereid Monument 9 The Mausoleum at Halikarnassos 10 The Temple of Athena Polias at Priene Bibliography, Index.
Large block RVQ with multipath searching

An improved residual vector quantization (RVQ) method for image coding is presented. The RVQ structure has the desirable effect of reducing both computation and memory requirements. However, the performance of RVQ is not as good as that of exhaustive search VQ. Multipath searching is investigated with respect to the design algorithm and encoder implementation. Emphasis is given to the tradeoffs between complexity and performance of RVQ in the context of image coding with vectors of large dimension. Experimental results indicate that coded image quality can be improved by using this approach without significantly increasing complexity. <<ETX>>
Tree-structured decoding with doubly-recurrent neural networks

We propose a novel neural network architecture specifically tailored to treestructured decoding, which: • maintains separate depth and width recurrent states and combines them to obtain hidden states for every node in the tree. • has a mechanism to predict tree topology explicitly (as opposed to implicitly by adding nodes with special tokens). Our experiments show that this architecture • is capable of recovering trees from encoded representations • achieves state-of-the-art performance in a task consisting of mapping sentences to simple functional programs • exhibits desirable invariance properties over sequential architectures
Generating Summaries Using Sentence Compression and Statistical Measures

In this paper, we propose a compression based multi-document summarization technique by incorporating word bigram probability and word co-occurrence measure. First we implemented a graph based technique to achieve sentence compression and information fusion. In the second step, we use hand-crafted rule based syntactic constraint to prune our compressed sentences. Finally we use probabilistic measure while exploiting word co-occurrence within a sentence to obtain our summaries. The system can generate summaries for any user-defined compression rate.
Web page classification and hierarchy adaptation

Classification is a supervised learning problem in which a classifier is trained on a set of data labeled with predefined categories and then applied to label future examples. It plays a fundamental role in a number of essential tasks in information retrieval and management. Advanced classification approaches will benefit systems that search or manage web information, as well as other types of information in general. In this dissertation, we investigate methods to improve classification from two aspects: feature enhancement and hierarchy adaptation. For feature enhancement, information from the neighboring pages on the web graph is studied. Novel methods to effectively utilize such neighboring information to improve classification are proposed and analyzed. For hierarchy adaptation, evolutionary computation methods are used to search for better hierarchies in order to improve hierarchical classification. We also investigate problems that impede user navigation in hierarchies, and propose novel methods to facilitate efficient navigation. Experiments on multiple real-world datasets show that the proposed approaches can significantly outperform previous state-of-the-art methods.
Head motions during dialogue speech and nod timing control in humanoid robots

Head motion naturally occurs in synchrony with speech and may carry paralinguistic information, such as intention, attitude and emotion, in dialogue communication. With the aim of verifying the relationship between head motion and the dialogue acts carried by speech, analyses were conducted on motion-captured data for several speakers during natural dialogues. The analysis results first confirmed the trends of our previous work, showing that regardless of the speaker, nods frequently occur during speech utterances, not only for expressing dialogue acts such as agreement and affirmation, but also appearing at the last syllable of the phrase, in strong phrase boundaries, especially when the speaker is talking confidently, or expressing interest in the interlocutor's talk. Inter-speaker variability indicated that the frequency of head motion may vary according to the speaker's age or status, while intra-speaker variability indicated that the frequency of head motion also differs depending on the inter-personal relationship with the interlocutor. A simple model for generating nods based on rules inferred from the analysis results was proposed and evaluated in two types of humanoid robots. Subjective scores showed that the proposed model could generate head motions with naturalness comparable to the original motions.
Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry

The performance of choral dance, music, and song featured prominently in many religious rituals, especially but not exclusively those for Apollo, Artemis, and Dionysos. Animal sacrifice, the core of many festivals, seems to have been accompanied by music on stringed and reed instruments, perhaps originally as a way to drown out inauspicious sounds of slaughter (Nordquist 1992). Although we cannot determine when such accompaniments turned into competitions, Greek tradition retrojects the introduction of poetic and musical contests (both regularly called mousikoi agōnes) to the mythic past. The antiquarian Pausanias (10.7.3) reports that at Delphi the oldest contest, for singing a hymn to Apollo while playing a concert lyre (kithara), was first won by Chrysothemis of Crete, whose father had performed ritual purification for the god after Apollo slew the Python. By the seventh century bc, the Pythia at Delphi had become a major event for contests in music and song (with athletics on the side). We might see the mythical retrojection as akin to the story of the Judgment of Paris with its international consequences in the Trojan War. Such stories dramatized a broader Greek concern with the exercise of serious decision making in key moments: it is not surprising that the word for “act of judgment” (krisis) underlies our words “crisis” as well as “criticism” (Nagy 1990: 402–403). An original ritual context must be borne in mind for almost all Greek poetic productions, although it is debatable whether one can find consistent “religious” meanings in epic or drama. But the factor of competition made public the process of aesthetic choice, just as (in Athens at least) institutions like the assembly and law courts allowed for increasingly public contestation and articulation of political and social opinions. Unfortunately, records for competition, usually with just the bare information about winners and prizes, are scarcer than political decrees (on Athenian dramatic records, see Millis and Olson 2012). And yet, given the number of competitions and long survival of festivals (until at least the third century ad), trends emerge: the growth in professionalization after the third century bc; mobility of performers; increase in the number of festivals; and variety of events. Seventeen sites in Greece are known to have sponsored musical contests before 400 bc (Herington 1985, 160–166). By the second century ad, the region of Boeotia alone could boast that many (Manieri 2009). Most opaque is the role of the individual evaluator. Even in the most well documented cases Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry
Developing, delivering and evaluating cancer nursing services: Building the evidence base

The rate of evolution of cancer nursing in the UK has been remarkable over the past 20 years. Legislative changes and reform have provided the impetus for a range of developments in practice, research and education, and the push to achieve evidence-based practice has also driven the profession. There is a collective aspiration that all patients with cancer should expect to be supported by a cancer nursing service that is skilled, caring and competent. Demonstrating the value of nursing in terms of its effects on patients has never been so important. This project, commissioned by the Department of Health, was designed as a scoping exercise to assess the current state of the evidence base to support the development, delivery and evaluation of cancer nursing services in the United Kingdom. Three distinct elements were implemented concurrently to achieve this. The first was a review of UK literature centred around aspects of developing, delivering and evaluating cancer nursing and cancer nurses. The second was the development of a research directory profiling recently completed, currently under way and planned UK research concerned with cancer nursing and cancer nurses. The final element was a review of the organisation of cancer nursing services in England. This paper will report on the first two elements. The results of the third element will be published separately.
Expert systems as design aids for artificial vision systems: a survey

The development of software that would be to computer vision what expert system shells are to expert systems has been the subject of considerable inquiry over the last ten years; this paper reviews the pertinent publications and tries to present a coherent view of the field. We start by outlining two major differences between would be `vision shells' and conventional expert system shells. The first is the need for an intermediate level of symbolic representation between image pixels and the knowledge base. The second is that the mental operations that people perform to interpret images lie almost totally below the threshold of consciousness. Vision system designers therefore cannot, as domain experts normally do, examine their own mental processes and cast them into rules to extract information from images. The vision shell should thus contain, in addition to the usual knowledge engineering toolbox, knowledge on the pertinence of specific imaging operations towards various goals. After a review of the role of explicit knowledge in artificial vision, we examine the architecture a vision shell should have, and look at ways of facilitating the entry of domain-pertinent knowledge into it. Final remarks are made on knowledge representation and acquisition aspects particular to industrial applications.