Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Les technologies de communication : d’une sociologie des usages à celle de l’expérience hypermoderne

Cet article rappelle comment la sociologie des usages des technologies de communication a d’abord, en rehabilitant les usagers dans leur dimension d’acteurs, permis de s’extraire de simples etudes d’impact des technologies sur le social, puis a conduit, au moins en partie, a une sociologie de l’experience. A son tour, cette derniere pose concretement la question de savoir comment et dans quelle mesure, dans un monde ou ces technologies irriguent desormais la quasi-totalite de la surface de nos vies, l’individu contemporain en reste encore maitre. En particulier, la question de l’autonomie du soi-sujet (reflexif et en retrait) en regard du soi-objet (constamment piste, calibre et metabolise en un ensemble d’indicateurs par le biais de ces memes technologies) est posee, lancant ainsi a la sociologie le defi de rendre compte de ce qui semble etre l’un des enjeux centraux de la societe hypermoderne.
Accurate Software Size Estimation Using the Updated Function Point Analysis Model

2 Abstract: In this paper; a new Function Point Analysis model has been proposed. In this proposed model, a new general system characteristic is added. The expert user programming also affects the size of software. By including it in the list of general system characteristics, it creates a provision for taking end user facilities into account, while estimating the size of a project. It is clear that proposed FPA provides more accurate size estimates and it will narrow the gap between size estimated and actual size. This will result in more accurate effort and cost estimates, which ultimately results in increased productivity and proper staffing, planning and scheduling. This document describes the Function point analysis which measures software by quantifying the functionality the software provides to the user based primarily on logical design. Here in this Function Point Analysis model has been proposed which creates a provision for taking end user facilities into account, while estimating the size of a project. This paper comprises of four sections including the present one which describes the goal of this paper. Section II shows research based papers which illustrates related work in function point analysis. Section III gives a brief introduction regarding proposed model and experimental result. And at last section IV describe the conclusion and references.
Monocular Vision-Based Obstacle Detection for Unmanned Systems

Many potential indoor applications exist for autonomous vehicles, such as automated surveillance, inspection, and document delivery. A key requirement for autonomous operation is for the vehicles to be able to detect and map obstacles in order to avoid collisions. This work develops a comprehensive 3D scene reconstruction algorithm based on known vehicle motion and vision data that is specifically tailored to the indoor environment. Visible light cameras are one of the many sensors available for capturing information from the environment, and their key advantages over other sensors are that they are light weight, power efficient, cost effective, and provide abundant information about the scene. The emphasis on 3D indoor mapping enables the assumption that a large majority of the area to be mapped is comprised of planar surfaces such as floors, walls and ceilings, which can be exploited to simplify the complex task of dense reconstruction of the environment from monocular vision data. In this thesis, the Planar Surface Reconstruction (PSR) algorithm is presented. It extracts surface information from images and combines it with 3D point estimates in order to generate a reliable and complete environment map. It was designed to be used for single cameras with the primary assumptions that the objects in the environment are flat, static and chromatically unique. The algorithm finds and tracks Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) features from a sequence of images to calculate 3D point estimates. The individual surface information is extracted using a combination of the Kuwahara filter and mean shift segmentation, which is then coupled with the 3D point estimates to fit these surfaces in the environment map. The resultant map consists of both surfaces and points that are assumed to represent obstacles in the scene. A ground vehicle platform was developed for the real-time implementation of the algorithm and experiments were done to assess the PSR algorithm. Both clean and cluttered scenarios were used to evaluate the quality of the surfaces generated from the algorithm. The clean scenario satisfies the primary assumptions underlying the PSR algorithm, and as a result produced accurate surface details of the scene, while the cluttered scenario generated lower quality, but still promising, results. The significance behind these findings is that it is shown that incorporating object surface recognition into dense 3D reconstruction can significantly improve the overall quality of the environment map.
Adaptive compressive sensing of images using error between blocks

Block compressive sensing of image results in blocking artifacts and blurs when reconstructing images. To solve this problem, we propose an adaptive block compressive sensing framework using error between blocks. First, we divide image into several non-overlapped blocks and compute the errors between each block and its adjacent blocks. Then, the error between blocks is used to measure the structure complexity of each block, and the measurement rate of each block is adaptively determined based on the distribution of these errors. Finally, we reconstruct each block using a linear model. Experimental results show that the proposed adaptive block compressive sensing system improves the qualities of reconstructed images from both subjective and objective points of view when compared with image block compressive sensing system.
The development and validation of a patient-reported outcome measure of health-related quality of life in locally recurrent rectal cancer

Background The impact of locally recurrent rectal cancer (LRRC) on health-related quality of life (HrQoL) is poorly understood. The overall aim of the project was to develop and validate a patient reported outcome measure (PROM) to assess HrQoL in LRRC in patients in the UK and Australia. This thesis reports on the initial development of the LRRC-QoL and the results from the interim psychometric analysis from the UK cohort. Methods An international, three phase, mixed methodological study was conducted. Phase I consisted of two systematic reviews and a qualitative study consisting of a series of focus groups. Phase II consisted of the development and pre-testing of the provisional PROM; The Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer Quality of Life Measure (The LRRC-QoL). Phase III assessed the psychometric properties of the LRRC-QoL including scale structure, reliability and validity. Results Phase I: Relevant HrQoL themes were identified; symptoms, sexual function, psychological impact, role functioning, healthcare services, future perspective. These themes were operationalised into a conceptual framework and reviewed by an expert panel prior to the development of a provisional version of the LRRC-QoL. Phase II: A total of 27 cognitive interviews were undertaken to pre-test the LRRC-QoL. The measure underwent three revisions in both population cohorts. The final version of the LRRC-QoL ready for psychometric testing consisted of 32 questions organised into 5 scales. Phase III: Eighty patients participated in the UK validation study. The final scale structure consisted of healthcare services, psychological impact, sexual function, pain, urostomy-related symptoms, lower limb symptoms, stoma related issues, sexual interest and urinary symptoms. The reliability of the LRRC-QoL was good, with Cronbach’s Alpha and Intraclass correlation values of >0.7 for the majority of the scales. The LRRC-QoL was unable to demonstrate the properties of convergent validity and known-groups comparison sufficiently. Conclusions The LRRC-QoL is the first measure to be developed exclusively in patients with LRRC. The scale structure of the LRRC-QoL is robust. Further work is required including the completion of the psychometric validation in Australia and the confirmation of reliability and validity in an independent sample.
Effects of Deletions in Pichia pastoris RTG Genes on Phenotype and AOX1 Expression

Methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is an object of modern biotechnology. Decisive understanding of gene regulation mechanisms is essential for successful protein production. In this study, we investigated the effect of deletions in P. pastoris genes encoding proteins, homologous to S. serevisiae Rtg1p, Rtg 2p, Msn2p and Msn4p. It was shown, that deletion in PpRTG1 gene results in inability of P. pastoris to grow on medium with methanol as a carbon source and ammonium sulfate as a source of nitrogen. We also demonstrate that deletions in PpRTG1 and PpRTG2 decrease activity of AOX1 promoter.
Plasma concentrations of tumor necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α) and soluble TNF receptors in patients with bulimia nervosa

Tumor necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α) is a cytokine with numerous immunological and metabolic activities. In addition, TNF‐α can stimulate a variety of physiological, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses of the central nervous system. In experimental animals, TNF‐α induces changes in physiological and behavioural parameters which have also been observed in eating disorders. The biological activities of TNF‐α are mediated by two structurally related, but functionally distinct receptors, TNF‐RI and TNF‐RII. Since injection of TNF‐α results in increased shedding of TNF‐α receptors, it is likely that TNF‐α release is reflected by soluble TNF‐receptors (sTNF‐Rs) levels.
A Corpus-based Analysis of "Create" and "Produce"

This paper examines the synonymous pair ”create” and ”produce” in English and suggests that their similarities and differences can be elucidated based on the types of products denoted by their objects. PRODUCTS, as part of the eventive information of ACTIVITY, are sometimes shared by both verbs (e.g., in ”Manufacture”), while some other products (e.g., ”Farming”) are found only in one of the verbs (”produce”). In addition, a gradience analysis of ”property,” ”creativity,” ”quantity,” and ”concreteness” is also postulated, as these semantic features help to decide the selection between ”create” and ”produce. ” Two corpora– the Brown Corpus and the Frown Corpus (from ICAME) – provided the data for this paper, and their results were compared to the British National Corpus through the collocation application of the Sketch Engine.Finally, the similarities and differences between the compared words are represented by means of a hierarchical structure.
Signed kernel modules

Signed kernel modules have been a feature of other operating systems for a number of years. Some people and companies like the idea of installing only modules (or drivers, as they are sometimes called) that are known to be blessed by some authority in their operating systems. Given the changes in how Linux loads kernel modules, signed kernel modules easily can be added to the Linux kernel. This article discusses how I have implemented this feature and details how to use it.
Scalability Report on Triple Store Applications

This report examines a set of open source triple store systems suitable for The SIMILE Project’s browser-like applications. Measurements on performance within a common hardware, software, and dataset environment grant insight on which systems hold the most promise for acting as large, remote backing stores for SIMILE’s future requirements. The SIMILE Project (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata In like and Unlike Environments) is a joint research project between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Hewlett-Packard Labs (HP), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT / CSAIL), and MIT Libraries. Funding is provided by HP.
Challenges to higher education in the knowledge economy: anti-intellectualism, materialism and employability

ABSTRACT In knowledge-based societies, the importance of higher education in facilitating employability is generally recognised. For universities, a key challenge is how to identify the proper balance of specific knowledge (ie, the knowledge specifically needed for a particular task) and generic knowledge (ie, general skills and capabilities) that are conducive to employability. Today, universities face the challenge of anti-intellectualism, a negative attitude towards the “life of the mind”, characterised by a relatively low level of interest theoretical content and critical and analytic thinking. Relying on a questionnaire-based survey of 945 students, the paper discusses the influence of three employability factors on students’ anti-intellectualism in college and the subsequent impact on their overall satisfaction with college education. The findings show that students’ value of college-provided soft skills is low, raising the issue of the substantive impact of anti-intellectualism on their work integration and employability in the context of the knowledge economy.
Improving Situation Awareness in Anesthesiology

Anaesthesiology is practiced within a complex socio-technical system that can reach an infinite number of states. Therefore, traditional methods of requirements engineering are not suited to model the tasks and support requirements of the anaesthetist. We introduce an approach for developing decision support systems in anaesthesiology based on a model of situation awareness and its determinants during surgery. This model is combined with a cognitive process model of anaesthetists' decision making to identify situations where decision support is most useful. We demonstrate that these situations can be identified on the basis of measurable patient state variables and introduce a preliminary knowledge-based system for decision support.
Evaluating Health Care Information Systems Methods And Applications

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EEG Analysis of Person Familiarity with Audio-Video Data Assessing Task

Assessment of the emotional state of students in the process of studying the lecture material is an important task in both scientific and practical terms [1]. However, such studies are rather complicated due to the fact that the indicators of the emotional state differ considerably, depending on whether the studied material is familiar to the student or not [2]. Studies [3, 4] show that the assessment of the degree of familiarity with the presented material allows much more accurate assessment of the emotional state. Dynamic evaluation of familiarity with the materials, also allows us to estimate the speed of the skills mastering, which require repetition of the material, as shown in [5] using the example of evaluating familiarity with integrated development environments. Thus, the control of the educational process would be much more effective if it were possible to objectively evaluate, by the totality of signs, the familiarity of a particular student with the materials presented to him/her. Evaluation of the level of familiarity with the presented audiovisual data is also needed in other areas, in particular, in the developing area of neuromarketing research [6—8].
How Do Natural Disasters Influence the Rate of Poverty?

ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between poverty, growth, financial development, and natural disasters in the Philippines from 1970 to 2014. The Toda-Yamamoto version of the Granger causality test was employed. We find that financial development, poverty, and economic growth were bidirectionally causal. However, we noted a unidirectional Granger causality from natural disasters to financial development and economic growth. In this regard, effective disaster risk-reduction strategies and risk management practices are proposed to mitigate the influence of natural disasters on the rate of poverty and thus promote sustainable economic growth and financial development in the Philippines.
Clinical Observation for the Combined Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Treating Infantile Kawasaki Disease of 48 Cases

Objective:To investigate the therapeutic methods on reducing the occurrence of pathological changes in coronary artery that is caused by Kawasaki disease.Methods:We used Qingrejiedu Decoction for activating blood circulation and Western medicine to treat Kawasaki disease on 48 cases.Then we observed the disappearing time of the clinical manifestation and the occurrence rate of pathological changes in coronary artery.Results: The patients in the group that was treated with both Qingrejiedu Decoction for activating blood circulation and Western medicine got pathological change occurrence rate 10.4%,and meanwhile the patients in the other group that was treated only with Western medicine got occurrence rate 29.5%,so there was a obvious difference(P0.05)in the occurrence rates,but the disappearing time of the clinical manifestation for two groups didnt have such obvious difference.Conclusion: Qingrejiedu Decoction for activating blood circulation has obvious therapeutic and preventative function in reducing the occurrence of pathological changes in coronary artery that is caused by Kawasaki disease.
Prevalence of and attitudes toward eating disorders among female nurses

ObjectiveThe aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of and attitudes toward eating disorders among female nurses. Participants and methodsFemale nurses who were under training in Alamal Psychiatric Complex Medina constituted the participants of the study.Nurses were differentiated into two groups: group A, with BMI below 20, and group B with BMI equal to or above 20. Group A and group B were subjected to a two-stage epidemiological study. In the first stage, Eating Attitude Test 26 (EAT 26) and Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh were used. In the second stage, Structured Clinical Interview of DSM-IV (SCID) was administered on nurses who had a score above the cutoff points. ResultsAnorexia nervosa was not diagnosed in any nurse (0%). Twelve (3.2%) nurses were diagnosed with bulimia nervosa. Thirteen (3.5%) nurses were diagnosed with binge eating and five (1.4%) nurses were diagnosed with eating disorder not otherwise specified. Both bulimic and oral subscales of EAT 26 were higher in group A than in group B (P<0.001 and <0.05, respectively). No significant difference was found between the two groups in the two subscales of Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh. ConclusionAmong female nurses, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, and eating disorders not otherwise specified were common, whereas anorexia nervosa was not found. This must warrant the development of specific strategies for early detection and proper management.
Planning and acting framework under robot operating system

A well-known Operating System (OS) in the field of robotics is the Robot Operating System (ROS), which provides a set of tools and software libraries that are used to build many modern robotics systems. A planning system is concerned with generating a sequence of actions (plan) that can then be used by the robotic system to achieve its tasks. However, autonomous systems cannot depend only on planning systems to accomplish such tasks. In order to support such systems, it is necessary to develop an acting system, whose role is to complement the planning system by endowing the robotic system with additional flexibility to accomplish its tasks. In this paper, a state-of-the-art framework, RosPlanAct, is described. This architecture is used for embedding task planning and acting systems into the ROS. The planning section uses the environment model (planning domain) and the task specifications (planning problem) to generate an appropriate sequence of actions (plan) for any robot tasks. Then, the acting part of the system receives this plan and acts upon its schedule to achieve the specified task. Throughout this paper, there are three main issues that the actor must cope with to avoid failure. These issues are plan refinement, re-planning, and reacting to exogenous events. The specification of the RosPlanAct architecture and a case study in autonomous mobile robot are explained. The case study involves an autonomous vehicle in scenarios that clearly demonstrate the flexibility, stability, and robustness of the presented approach.
Nutritional and Safety Evaluation of Local Weight-Gain Formulas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Markets

This study was conducted to examine the nutritional content, contamination levels, and biological effects of 3 local prepared formulas. Formula (1) contained mixed nuts; formula (2) contained moghat, honey and royal jelly, while formula (3) contained honey, fenugreek and royal jelly. Groups of albino rats (90 rats) were randomly allocated to diets of control group or 1 - 3 treatment groups. The tested diets contained 15% carbohydrate. The weight and food intake were recorded. Blood tests were conducted to determine total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, urea, creatinine, white blood cell count (WBC), red blood cell count (RBC), haemoglobin (HB), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), and haematocrit (HCT). Results showed that bacterial contamination was found in formula (1) and formula (3). Fungal contamination was detected in formula (2) and formula (3). Body weight increased significantly in the rats fed treatment formulas compared to the control group. The blood tests indicated significant increases in the levels of glucose, WBC, HCT, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides as well as a significant decrease in HDL level in the group (2) was fed formula (1) the control. In conclusion, these findings indicate that these local formulas may not be safe, and further studies are required to understand the consequences of a long-term consumption of these formulas.
Annual Meeting of American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

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Modelling and implementing big data warehouses for decision support

In the era of Big Data, many NoSQL databases emerged for the storage and later processing of vast volumes of data, using data structures that can follow columnar, key-value, document or graph formats. For analytical contexts, requiring a Big Data Warehouse, Hive is used as the driving force, allowing the analysis of vast amounts of data. Data models in Hive are usually defined taking into consideration the queries that need to be answered. In this work, a set of rules is presented for the transformation of multidimensional data models into Hive tables, making available data at different levels of detail. These several levels are suited for answering different queries, depending on the analytical needs. After the identification of the Hive tables, this paper summarizes a demonstration case in which the implementation of a specific Big Data architecture shows how the evolution from a traditional Data Warehouse to a Big Data Warehouse is possible.