Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
WHO Multinational Project for Childhood Diabetes

Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) is one of the most important chronic diseases of children worldwide. IDDM leads to an 8- to 10-fold excess risk of mortality in developed countries, whereas in developing countries,most cases die within a few years. A 60-fold international gradient in IDDM incidence has been reported, and epidemic periods have been identified. A new World Health Organization program, Multinational Project for Childhood Diabetes (Diabetes Mondiale or DIAMOND), has been developed to investigate and characterize global incidence, mortality, and health care. Over 10 yr (1990–1999), this study will collect population-based data concerning IDDM in >90 centers in 50 countries worldwide. The goals of DIAMOND are to collect standard information on incidence, risk factors, and mortality associated withIDDM; evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of health care and the economics of diabetes; and establish national and international training programsin diabetes epidemiology. It is hoped that the DIAMOND project will be instrumental for the prevention of this serious disease and its sequelae.
ANALYSE NUMERIQUE DE L'HYDRODYNAMIQUE ET DU CONTROLE DE LA CIRCULATION AUTOUR DES PALES D’UNE TURBINE DARRIEUS NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDRODYNAMICS AND CIRCULATION CONTROLLED BLADES FOR DARRIEUS TURBINE

La recherche intensive à travers le monde sur les s ources d'énergie renouvelable et l'analyse des performances des systèmes de récupéra tion de cette énergie demande une amélioration de la performance et de l'efficacité d e ces systèmes. Dans ce but, la présente étude se concentre sur les implications de la circu lation contrôlée autour de la pale dans le cas de l’hydrolienne à axe vertical de type Darrieus, f onctionnant à faible nombre de Reynolds. Des lois de commande robustes sont déterminées pour pil ter le mouvement de tangage de la pale de sorte à imposer des plages à circulation co nstante autour de la pale pendant le fonctionnement de la turbine. Le développement de c es lois de commande est basé sur les concepts d’écoulement potentiel et considère une lo i de conservation de la circulation autour de profils en mouvement. La loi de commande est inj ectée dans le solveur CFD incompressible du logiciel Star CCM+ et associée à d s maillages "chimères" pour intégrer le mouvement du corps solide dans le cadre du calcul.
Trust, but verify? When trustworthiness is observable only through (costly) monitoring

For theoretical and empirical reasons, trust is expected to be lower in economic interactions in which trustors can observe trustworthiness only through (costly) monitoring. We examine this conjecture by investigating the impact of a (costly) monitoring environment on trust using data from 152 subjects participating in a modified finite-horizon binary trust game. The three treatment conditions vary observability and the cost of monitoring. We find that compared to perfect observability of trustworthiness, trustors do not trust less when trustworthiness can only be observed through costless or costly deliberate monitoring. When monitoring is costly, the same level of trust is supported by a significantly reduced amount of information on trustworthiness, acquired by trustors mainly in early stages of the repeat interaction. As a result, the efficiency of interactions is not lower when trustworthiness is costly to observe, though the distribution shifts in favor of trustees. (JEL C92, C72, D03, D80)
CAUCHY THEORY FOR SUPERCRITICAL WAVE EQUATIONS I : LOCAL THEORY by Nicolas Burq

— We study the local existence of strong solutions for the cubic nonlinear wave equation with data in H(M), s < 1/2, where M is a three dimensional compact riemannian manifold. This problem is supercritical and can be shown to be strongly ill-posed (in the Hadamard sense). However, after a suitable randomization, we are able to construct local strong solution for a large set of initial data in H(M), where s ≥ 1/4 in the case of a boundary less manifold and s ≥ 8/21 in the case of a manifold with boundary.
Evaluating QANet on SQuAD 2 . 0

The QANet architecture [21] was evaluated against the SQuAD [1.1] dataset [12] with impressive results (EM: 82.47 and F1: 89.30). The SQuAD [2.0] dataset [11], the latest revision of SQuAD, tests the ability of a system to not only answer the question whenever possible but also determine when no answer is supported by the paragraph and abstain from answering. Thus, it poses a much more challenging machine comprehension task. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the QANet system on the SQuAD [2.0] dataset, by implementing the architecture from the ground up and to understand the challenges posed by the non-answerability.
Complexity and corporate governance: an analysis of companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA*

In light of the need to develop mechanisms of control, protection, and transparency regarding the relationships between principal and agent, and with the aim of eliminating or reducing the agency problem, corporate governance has emerged. Based on Agency Theory, separation of ownership and control of activities derives from the complexity of organizations. In this context, this study aims to analyze the relationship between dimensions of complexity and corporate governance in companies listed on the São Paulo Stock, Commodities, and Futures Exchange (BM&FBOVESPA), in which contingency factors might influence organizational characteristics. The investigation gathers data from a sample of 162 companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA. The following statistical tests were used in the data analysis: Factor Analysis, Multiple Linear Regression, Correspondence Analysis, and Correlation Analysis. For measuring complexity, contingency variables such as age, size, diversification, and internationalization were adopted; and, to assess corporate governance, a representative index of the adoption of good governance practices was used. The results show that organizational complexity is explained by the size and diversification variables, whereas operational complexity is explained by the size, diversification, and internationalization variables. It was observed that in the two dimensions of complexity – organizational and operational – corporate governance was influenced by the diversification, internationalization, and age variables, with the latter involving an inverse relationship. It is concluded that companies displaying more complexity, in its two dimensions, record a higher level of corporate governance, which confirms the research hypothesis.
Analysis of Roulette Wheel Selection and Steady state Selection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques

Genetic algorithm installation with a inhabitants of folks represented by chromosomes. Each chromosome is evaluated by its fitness value as computed by the intent function of the crisis. In genetic algorithms, the roulette wheel selection operator has spirit of utilization while steady state selection is influenced by exploration. In this paper, a analysis of these two selection operators is proposed that is a ideal merge of both i.e. searching and utilization. The population undergoes conversion using three primary genetic operators – selection, crossover and mutation which form new generation of population. The proposed solution is implemented in MATLAB using DNA Nucleotide Sequence of Cancer cells and the results were compared with roulette wheel selection and steady state selection with different problem sizes. Keywords— chromosome, roulette wheel, steady selection, crossover, mutation.
Clinical Study Team PreceptorshipModel : A Solution for Students ’ Clinical Experience

There is a shortage of registered nurses in developed countries, and this shortage is due to the aging nursing workforce, demand for healthcare services, and shortage of nursing professors to teach students. In order to increase the number of clinical placements for nursing students, the authors developed and implemented a collaborative preceptorship model between a Canadian University and Public Health Department to facilitate the clinical experiences of Bachelor of Science of Nursing (BScN) students. This paper describes the Team Preceptorship Model which guided the clinical experience of nine students and 14 preceptors. It also highlights the model’s evaluation, strengths, and limitations.
Holistic and Compositional Processing in Multiword Expressions

Recent studies have found that high frequency multiword expressions are processed and produced faster than low frequency expressions when unigram frequency is controlled. This evidence is inconsistent with traditional linguistic theories in which there is a sharp distinction between single words and the rules used to combine them into larger strings. Instead, this evidence is in line with usage-based theories which claim that frequent phrases may be explicitly represented as holistic chunks in addition to being built up from single words compositionally. Here, we more directly test the possibility that multiword expressions are stored holistically in a self-paced reading training experiment. We use binomial expressions, phrases of the form “X and Y". They can occur in two word orders, “X and Y" or “Y and X", while preserving lexical items and formal semantic and syntactic structure. We use both frequently attested expressions (such as “alive and well"), and completely novel expressions that are unattested (such as “bishops and seamstresses"). Participants read the expressions in one of the orders in the training phase, and later in the testing phase they saw the same expressions again in either the same or different order. We manipulated binomial type (novel vs. attested) and train order–test order match (match vs. mismatch vs. untrained). We found that highly frequent attested multiword expressions show a training benefit for the match over mismatch condition, but not an overall training benefit for either training condition over the untrained condition, while novel expressions show an overall training benefit, but no benefit for for the match over mismatch condition. This suggests that novel expressions are processed fully compositionally, while attested expressions can be processed as holistic units.
Evaluation of a Semi-automated Method for [ F-18 ] FDG Uptake in Abdominal Visceral Adipose Tissue

Purpose: Severity of abdominal obesity and possibly levels ofmetabolic activity of abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) are associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). In this context, the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the reproducibility and repeatability of a semi-automated method for assessment of the metabolic activity of VAT using 2-deoxy-2-[F]fluoroD-glucose ([F]FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/x-ray computed tomography (CT). Procedures: Ten patients with lung cancer who underwent two baseline whole-body [F]FDG PET/low-dose (LD) CT scans within 1 week were included. Abdominal VAT was automatically segmented using CT between levels L1–L5. The initial CT-based segmentation was further optimized using PET data with a standardized uptake value (SUV) threshold approach (range 1.0–2.5) and morphological erosion (range 0–5 pixels). The [F]FDG uptake in SUV that was measured by the automated method was compared with manual analysis. The reproducibility and repeatability were quantified using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Results: The metabolic assessment of VAT on [F]FDG PET/LDCT scans expressed as SUVmean, using an automated method showed high inter and intra observer (all ICCs 9 0.99) and overall repeatability (ICC = 0.98). The manual method showed reproducible inter observer (all ICCs 9 0.92), but less intra observer (ICC = 0.57) and less overall repeatability (ICC = 0.78) compared with the automated method. Stefanie A. de Boer and Daan S. Spoor contributed equally to this work. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https:// doi.org/10.1007/s11307-018-1211-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Correspondence to: Stefanie de Boer; e-mail: s.a. de.boer@umcg.nl * The Author(s), 2018
No . 2018-14 Forecasting U . S . Recessions and Economic Activity

This paper proposes a simple nonlinear framework to produce real-time multi-horizon forecasts of economic activity as well as conditional forecasts that depend on whether the horizon of interest belongs to a recessionary episode or not. Our forecasting models take the form of an autoregression that is augmented with either a probability of recession or an inverse Mills ratio. Our most parsimonious augmented autoregressive model delivers more accurate out-of-sample forecasts of GDP growth than the linear and nonlinear benchmark models considered, and this is particularly true during recessions. Our approach suits particularly well for the real-time prediction of final releases of economic series before they become available to policy makers. We use standard probit models to generate the Term Structure of recession probabilities at every period. Interestingly, the dynamic patterns of these Term Structures are informative about the business cycle turning points. JEL Classification: C35, C53, E27, E37
TV exposure , food consumption , and health outcomes-evidence from Indonesia

Rising overweight levels and associated non-communicable diseases pressure health systems especially of lowerand middle-income countries. Exposure to advertisement for unhealthy food products is often blamed as a driver of these epidemiological developments but evidence is scarce. This paper estimates the effect of exposure to television during childhood on consumption of unhealthy food products and related health outcomes in the middle-income country Indonesia. In order to address endogeneity in TV watching and food consumption behaviour this paper exploits exogenous variation stemming from topographical characteristics and introduction of private TV channels in Indonesia. Results suggest that exposure to television during childhood increases consumption of soft drinks and snacks during adulthood. These effects on consumption translate into higher BMI for boys but not for girls.
Perceptual Evaluation of Modal Synthesis for Impact-Based Sounds

The use of real-time sound synthesis for sound effects can improve the sound design of interactive experiences such as video games. However, synthesized sound effects can be often perceived as synthetic, which hampers their adoption. This paper aims to determine whether or not sounds synthesized using ﬁlter-based modal synthesis are perceptually comparable to sounds directly recorded. Sounds from 4 different materials that showed clear modes were recorded and synthesized using ﬁlter-based modal synthesis. Modes are the individual sinusoidal frequencies at which objects vibrate when excited. A listening test was conducted where participants were asked to identify, in isolation, whether a sample was recorded or synthesized. Results show that recorded and synthesized samples are indistinguishable from each other. The study outcome proves that, for the analysed materials, ﬁlter-based modal synthesis is a suitable technique to synthesize hit sound in real-time without perceptual compromises.
The Parental Leave in Australia Survey: November 2006 report

This report should be read in conjunction with the information on The Parental Leave in Australia Survey provided on the Parental Leave in Australia website http://www.uq. edu.au/polsis/parental-leave1, where links are available for access to the data and the questionnaire, and acknowledgement requirements for use of the survey data are outlined. Here we explain the survey in more detail and present some initial findings. Our goals are to explain the rationale for and design of the survey, provide a basic statistical overview for readers interested in the topic, and inform potential users about the dataset. The report has three main sections: the first provides background information on the survey design and rationale; the second covers sample selection and response rates; and the third provides a preliminary overview of statistics drawn from the survey.
MEMS-Based Energy Harvesters for IoT Applications

---This paper reviews the various MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) based energy harvesting techniques for IoT (Internet of Things) applications. The significant part of IoT is sensor network which requires wireless power sources. Based on requirement, the IoT has been implementing the autonomous powers harvesting technology. The MEMS-based vibrating devices are useful for harvesting energy with environmental effects likes
Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood

Cognitive development studies how information processing in the brain changes over the course of development. A key part of this question is how information is represented and stored in memory. This study examined allocentric (world-based) spatial memory, an important cognitive tool for planning routes and interacting with the space around us. This is typically theorized to use multiple landmarks all at once whenever it operates. In contrast, here we show that allocentric spatial memory frequently operates over a limited spatial window, much less than the full proximal scene, for children between 3.5 and 8.5 years old. The use of multiple landmarks increases gradually with age. Participants were asked to point to a remembered target location after a change of view in immersive virtual reality. A k-fold cross-validation model-comparison selected a model where young children usually use the target location’s vector to the single nearest landmark and rarely take advantage of the vectors to other nearby landmarks. The comparison models, which attempt to explain the errors as generic forms of noise rather than encoding to a single spatial cue, did not capture the distribution of responses as well. Parameter fits of this new single- versus multi-cue model are also easily interpretable and related to other variables of interest in development (age, executive function). Based on this, we theorize that spatial memory in humans develops through three advancing levels (but not strict stages): most likely to encode locations egocentrically (relative to the self), then allocentrically (relative to the world) but using only one landmark, and finally, most likely to encode locations relative to multiple parts of the scene.
Comparative Analysis of Different Algorithm for Removal of High Density Salt and Pepper Noise

This paper proposes comparison of different types of non-linear filter like median-type noise detector and edge preserving method, new decision based algorithm (DBA), new algorithm with modified shear sorting method and modified decision based un-symmetric trimmed median(MDBUTM) Filters used for restoration of the image containing high density salt and pepper noise as high as 90%. The results of different algorithms are compared to get the best method to achieve better peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), image enhancement factor (IEF) and less computation time. Different algorithms are studied on different window size to find better results in terms of the qualitative and quantitative measures of the image.
AGE VARIATIONS IN AUDITORY ACUITY

For several years an attempt has been made at the Otological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University to correlate losses in hearing and defects shown histologically in the conductive and perceptive mechanisms of the organ of hearing. In carrying out this program, about 4,000 records of hearing tests have been secured, and serial sections of several hundred temporal bones have been made. The staff of the medical and surgical departments of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and of the medical department of the Bay View division of the City Hospital have cooperated in permitting an examination of the auditory and vestibular function on their patients and securing permission for necropsy. A large percentage of the patients tested recover and leave the hospitals, but the results of the hearing tests and the hospital histories are available for study along other lines. Accurate and complete hearing tests are necessary if
An Integrated Framework of Multi Software Agent and Cloud Forensics

Cloud computing is one of the most prominent technological trends as it provides a number of digital storage and services. However, evidence acquisition and investigation of violations occurring in cloud environment is still a critical issue in cloud forensics. This paper develops an integrated framework that consists two main layers are Cloud Forensics Layer (Cloud Service Provider, law enforcement, forensics investigators and cloud users), and Multi Agent System (MAS) architecture layer that includes two agents: Cloud Acquiring Agent (CAA) and Cloud Forensics Agent (FCA). The model is then tested based on the Cloud Forensic Capability Matrix (CFCM) using a sample covered the cloud actors who are cloud forensic practitioners and experts from cloud users, CSPs, academia, cloud broker, cloud investigators, and law enforcement. The proposed framework was supported, providing preliminary evidence that the two layers can and should be integrated. The integrated framework helps build a conceptual bridge to the cloud forensics. Key-Words: Cloud Computing Forensics, Multi Agent System, Cloud Forensic Capability Matrix, Digital Forensics, Integrated Framework, and Cloud Forensic Investigative Architecture.
Effect of body condition score on milk production and reproductive disorders in buffalo.

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of BCS on milk production and reproductive disorders in Nili-Ravi buffalo under field conditions of Pakistan. The data was collected from 55 small holder farms from districts Kasur (n= 26) and Okara (n=29) respectively. Data regarding milk production and reproductive disorders were collected by trained veterinarian. The result showed that buffaloes having high BCS (4, 5) have significantly (P>0.05) higher milk production as compared to low BCS (1, 2). Similarly, data showed that reproductive disorders were significantly higher (P>0.05) in low BCS (1, 2) as compared to high BCS (4, 5).
Relational Contracts , E ¢ ciency Wages , and Employment Dynamics

This paper studies the optimal dynamic provision of incentives in employment relationships with rents for the worker. In a model of relational contracts with limited liability, we show that the optimal relational contract generates de nitive and joint implications on how job security, the pay level, and the sensitivity of pay to performance change over time as the employment relationship progresses. Our results also shed light on how turnover and pay dynamics change as job and rm characteristics vary. JEL Classi cations: C61, C73, J33, L24
Title Recent trends in assistive technology for mobility Permalink

Loss of physical mobility makes maximal participation in desired activities more difficult and in the worst case fully prevents participation. This paper surveys recent work in assistive technology to improve mobility for persons with a disability, drawing on examples observed during a tour of academic and industrial research sites in Europe. The underlying theme of this recent work is a more seamless integration of the capabilities of the user and the assistive technology. This improved integration spans diverse technologies, including powered wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, functional electrical stimulation, and wearable exoskeletons. Improved integration is being accomplished in three ways: 1) improving the assistive technology mechanics; 2) improving the user-technology physical interface; and 3) sharing of control between the user and the technology. We provide an overview of these improvements in user-technology integration and discuss whether such improvements have the potential to be transformative for people with mobility impairments.