Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DALIA; A DYNAMIC ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COM- MUNICATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION ABILITIES AMONG TODDLERS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER THIS PAGE HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a life-long neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by deficits in communication, social interaction and repetitive sensory-motor behaviours which affects one in every hundred people in Europe (Lord et al. 2018; Foundation UEFA pour l’enfance, FIRAH, and Garnier 2017; Barthélémy et al. 2019; Autism Europe 2020). Although there is no cure for Autism, studies suggest that early support intervention, behaviour therapies and family support can lead to the development of skills in communication and social interaction among individuals on the Spectrum, extending the possibility of a better quality of life (Barthélémy et al. 2019). As visual perception is one of the most preserved sensory systems among the ASD population; this thesis explores the use of artificial lighting as a tool for the development of joint attention, communication and social interaction abilities among children on the Spectrum. This project argues that light is the most apparent visual stimuli for humans and, by challenging the use of artificial lighting beyond its primary function (to provide visibility), proposes the design of DALIA; a dynamic artificial lighting tool. Which, by using it during support interventions on learning environments can promote joint attention, communication and social interaction skills among toddlers on the Spectrum. DALIA arise as a possible answer to the principal hypothesis of this project: Can artificial lighting be used as a tool for the development of communication and social interaction abilities among toddlers on Autism Spectrum Disorder? Literature review, empirical evidence and involvement of professionals on ASD during the research and design development stages of the project reveals that there is an opportunity to use artificial lighting as an educational tool of people on ASD. As there is a lack of evidence-based research regarding the connection of light and Autism; this thesis proposes a protocol for testing DALIA and, finalises addressing prospects of future work which can reveal more data about the relationship of light and individuals on the Spectrum. Copyright © 2020. This report and/or appended material may not be partly or completely published or copied without prior written approval from the authors. Neither may the contents be used for commercial purposes without this written approval. Study Board of Media Technology Frederikskaj 12 2450 København SV Danmark Semester Coordinator: Georgios Triantafyllidis gt@create.aau. dk Secretary: Lisbeth Nykjær lny@create.aau. dk Programme Msc. Lighting Design Semester LiD10, Spring 2020 Project Period February 1stJune 31st 2020 Semester Theme Master Thesis Supervisor(s) Marc Fontoynont Project Group no. N/A Members Sergio David Hernández Pascual Title DALIA; A DYNAMIC ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION ABILITIES AMONG TODDLERS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
QWiki: Need for QnA & Wiki to Co-exist

Access to knowledge has never been as easy and quick as it has been in the 21st century. With the advent of the Internet and crowd-sourced knowledge building portals such as Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, Quora, and GitHub, information is just a click away. It is interesting to observe that the crowd builds these information repositories and not the experts. Information accumulation on a wiki-like portal and discussions on the QnA forum function independently as collaborative knowledge building practices. There is a need to understand the best possible practices to acquire and maintain knowledge in such crowdsourced portals. In this paper, we introduce QWiki, a novel approach of integrating a wiki-like portal and a QnA forum, seeking the union of aforementioned independent collaborative practices. The experimental analysis demonstrates that QWiki helps in knowledge acquisition and knowledge building process. The proposed model highlights the importance of interaction between a wiki-like portal and a QnA forum.
Productivity dynamics in Japan and the negative exit effect

We conducted an analysis of productivity dynamics using the microdata of the Credit Risk Database (CRD), the Establishment and Enterprise Census and the Economic Census. We found that the negative exit effect in Japan is driven by the exit of some highly productive firms. This finding suggests that to reduce the negative exit effect policies to support SMEs should not be based on their size but by focusing on SMEs with high TFP that are actively investing.
Effects of N2 Gas Addition to Sputtering Plasmas on Properties of Epitaxial ZnO Films スパッタリングプラズマへの窒素ガス添加の エピキシャルZnO薄膜物性に対する効果

Effects of N2/Ar flow rate ratio on properties of ZnO films fabricated via nitrogen mediated crystallization (NMC) have been studied. NMC-ZnO films are deposited by RF magnetron sputtering using Ar-N2 mixed gas. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis shows that the crystallinity of NMC-ZnO films is improved by addition of a small amount of N2 to sputtering atmosphere (N2/(Ar+N2) flow ratio of 8%). By using the NMC-ZnO films as homo-buffer layers, ZnO films with high crystallinity are deposited by RF magnetron sputtering. The full width at half-maximum of XRD patterns for ω scan of (002) plane are 0.061°, being significantly small compared with 0.49° for the films without buffer layers. A further increase in N2/Ar flow rate ratio deteriorates the crystallinity because excess N atoms in the films disarrange the crystal structure of ZnO. The results indicate that utilizing NMC buffer layers deposited at an adequate N2 partial pressure is very promising to obtain epitaxial ZnO films with high crystallinity.
STUDY OF USER QUALITY METRICS FOR METASEARCH RETRIEVAL RANKING

Web link analysis has proven to be a significant enhancement for quality based web search. Most existing links can be classified into two categories: intra-type links, which represent the relationship of data objects within a homogeneous data type, and inter-type links, which represent the relationship of data objects across different data types. Unfortunately, most link analysis research only considers one type of link. In this paper, we pro-pose a unified link analysis framework, called “link fusion”, which considers both the inter-and intra-type link structure among multiple-type inter-related data objects and brings order to objects in each data type at the same time. The PageRank and HITS algorithms are shown to be special cases of our unified link analysis framework. Experiments on an instantiation of the framework that makes use of the user data and web pages extracted from a proxy log show that our proposed algorithm could improve the search effectiveness over the HITS and DirectHit algorithms by 24.6% and 38.2% respectively.
Network Attacks Detection Methods Based on Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey

With the development of the fifth-generation networks and artificial intelligence technologies, new threats and challenges have emerged to wireless communication system, especially in cybersecurity. In this paper, we offer a review on attack detection methods involving strength of deep learning techniques. Specifically, we firstly summarize fundamental problems of network security and attack detection and introduce several successful related applications using deep learning structure. On the basis of categorization on deep learning methods, we pay special attention to attack detection methods built on different kinds of architectures, such as autoencoders, generative adversarial network, recurrent neural network, and convolutional neural network. Afterwards, we present some benchmark datasets with descriptions and compare the performance of representing approaches to show the current working state of attack detection methods with deep learning structures. Finally, we summarize this paper and discuss some ways to improve the performance of attack detection under thoughts of utilizing deep learning structures.
The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of the Formosan Ferret-Badger (Melogale Moschata Subaurantiaca)

A complete mitochondrial genome of the Formosan ferret-badger (Melogale moschata subaurantiaca) was obtained by PCR amplification and DNA sequencing. The genome spans 16,497 bp that includes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes. Nucleotide sequence divergence (K2P distance) of mitochondrial genome was 3.57% with that of Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata).
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Diverticular Disease and its Association with Adipose Tissue Compartments and Constitutional Risk Factors in Subjects from a Western General Population Zusammenhang zwischen Divertikulose mittels Magnetresonanztomografie Körperfettkompartimenten und konstitutionellen R

Purpose To determine the association of asymptomatic diverticular disease as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with adipose tissue compartments, hepatic steatosis and constitutional risk factors within a cohort drawn from a Western general population. Materials and Methods Asymptomatic subjects enrolled in a prospective case-control study underwent a 3 Tesla MRI scan, including an isotropic VIBE-Dixon sequence of the entire trunk. The presence and extent of diverticular disease were categorized according to the number of diverticula in each colonic segment in a blinded fashion. The amount of visceral, subcutaneous, and total adipose tissue (VAT, SAT, and TAT) was quantified by MRI. Additionally, the degree of hepatic steatosis, indicated as hepatic proton density fat fraction (hepatic PDFF) was determined using a multi-echo T1w sequence. Constitutional cardiometabolic risk factors were obtained and univariate and multivariate associations were calculated. Results A total of 371 subjects were included in the analysis (58.2 % male, 56.2 ± 9.2 years). Based on MRI, 154 participants (41.5 %) had diverticular disease with 62 cases (17 %) being advanced diverticular disease. Subjects with advanced diverticular disease had a significantly higher body mass index (BMI) (BMI: 29.9 ± 5.1 vs. 27.5 ± 4.6, p < 0.001; respectively). Furthermore, all adipose tissue compartments were increased in subjects with advanced diverticular disease (e. g. VAT: 6.0 ± 2.8 vs. 4.2 ± 2.6 and SAT: 9.2 ± 3.6 vs. 7.8 ± 3.6, all p < 0.001, respectively). Similarly, subjects with advanced diverticular disease had significantly higher hepatic PDFF (4.9 [2.7, 11.4] vs. 6.1 [5.5, 14.6], p = 0.002). Conclusion Advanced diverticular disease is associated with an increased volume of adipose tissue compartments and BMI, which may suggest a metabolic role in disease development. Key Points: ▪ Diverticular disease is associated with constitutional risk factors such as BMI. ▪ Excess of adipose tissue compartments and hepatic steatosis are associated with the prevalence of diverticular disease. ▪ Our results suggest a shared pathological pathway of cardiometabolic alterations and the prevalence of diverticular disease. ▪ MRI is feasible for the assessment of adipose tissue compartments, hepatic steatosis, and diverticular disease and allows identification of patients who are at risk but in an asymptomatic disease state. Citation Format ▪ Storz C, Rospleszcz S, Askani E et al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Diverticular Disease and its Association with Adipose Tissue Compartments and Constitutional Risk Factors in Subjects from a Western General Population. Fortschr Röntgenstr 2020; DOI 10.1055/a-1212-5669
Floristic diversity and effect of anthropogenic activities on human-dominated grasslands in subtropical regions of Peninsular India

Indian subtropical grasslands are secondary habitats formed due to anthropogenic activities resulting in degradation of deciduous forests. Spread throughout Peninsular and Central India, they are important from economic and ecological points of view and are the prime source of fodder for the large population of livestock in this region. Pastures are either exposed to open grazing or protected and harvested periodically for fodder. In the present investigation floristic diversity of 21 sites from Western Ghats and Central India was studied, along with the effects of anthropogenic activities like burning and grazing on floristic composition in general and palatable species in particular. Over-grazing and burning were found to result in dominance of unpalatable species, making the grasslands less useful for livestock production. High rainfall and protection by local communities seem to play important roles in the dominance of palatable species in grasslands. Our results suggest that periodic harvesting and protection from burning and over-grazing should be encouraged and implemented in order to increase the potential of these grasslands for livestock production. Detailed studies are warranted to confirm these findings. Keywords: Burning, community protection, grazing, palatable species, pastures. DOI: 10.17138/TGFT(4)8-18
API-Misuse Detection Driven by Fine-Grained API-Constraint Knowledge Graph

API misuses cause significant problem in software development. Existing methods detect API misuses against frequent API usage patterns mined from codebase. They make a naive assumption that API usage that deviates from the most-frequent API usage is a misuse. However, there is a big knowledge gap between API usage patterns and API usage caveats in terms of comprehensiveness, explainability and best practices. In this work, we propose a novel approach that detects API misuses directly against the API caveat knowledge, rather than API usage patterns. We develop open information extraction methods to construct a novel API-constraint knowledge graph from API reference documentation. This knowledge graph explicitly models two types of API-constraint relations (call-order and condition-checking) and enriches return and throw relations with return conditions and exception triggers. It empowers the detection of three types of frequent API misuses - missing calls, missing condition checking and missing exception handling, while existing detectors mostly focus on only missing calls. As a proof-of-concept, we apply our approach to Java SDK API Specification. Our evaluation confirms the high accuracy of the extracted API-constraint relations. Our knowledge-driven API misuse detector achieves 0.60 (68/113) precision and 0.28 (68/239) recall for detecting Java API misuses in the API misuse benchmark MuBench. This performance is significantly higher than that of existing pattern-based API misused detectors. A pilot user study with 12 developers shows that our knowledge-driven API misuse detection is very promising in helping developers avoid API misuses and debug the bugs caused by API misuses.
Antifertility effect of methanolic extract of aerial plant parts of Calotropis gigantea L. in male albino wister rats

The effects of methanolic extract of aerial plant part of Calotropis gigantea on reproduction have been studied on male rats. The study was divided into four groups of 10 animals each. The first group (I) received vehicle alone to serve as control. The second and third (II and III) of animals were administered the root extract daily at 100 mg/kg body weight, and 200 mg/kg body weight, respectively, for a period of 60 days. Animals of group IV served as recovery group and treated with 100 mg dose for 60 days and kept of recovery period of 30 days. Significant decreases in the weights of testes, Epididymis, seminal vesicle and ventral prostate were observed. A dose related reduction in the testicular sperm count, epididymal sperm count and motility, number of fertile males, ratio between delivered and inseminated females and number of pups were observed. Significant reduction in serum concentration of luteinizing hormone and testosterone were observed. No distinct change in serum FSII concentration was recorded. The final body weights of all groups were elevated markedly. Results reveal that methanolic extract of Calotropis gigantea could be used as potential source of anti-fertility agent.
Integrated work study program: Students’ growth mindset and perception of change in work-related skills

The purpose of this study is to evaluate students’ perception of growth in the area of work-related skills through their participation in an integrated work study program (IWSP). In Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), 368 students across a range of six programs took part in an IWSP lasting six to twelve months. Students reported selfperceived improvements after IWSP in their work-related skills, encompassed by six domains – learning & work integration; professionalism; communication; problem solving and decision-making; teamwork; and adaptability. Their mindset was additionally analyzed against ratings by their work supervisors to determine if having a fixed or growth mindset would have any implications on how their work-related skills were perceived. This paper thus investigates the impact of the IWSP on students’ self-perceived growth in comparison to their work supervisors’ perception of them, and whether mindset contributes to this.
Page Proof Instructions and Queries

GQ2 ¶ Objectives . There is emerging evidence that network/computer analysis of epileptiform discharge free electroencephalograms (EEGs) can AQ1 ¶ be used to detect epilepsy, improve diagnosis and resource use. Such methods are automated and can be performed on shorter GQ4 ¶ recordings of EEG. We assess the evidence and its strength in the area of seizure detection from network/computer analysis of GQ5 ¶ epileptiform discharge free EEG. Methods . A scoping review using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidance was conducted with a literature search of Embase, Medline and PsychINFO. Predesigned inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied to selected articles. Results . The initial search found 3398 articles. After duplicate removal and screening, 591 abstracts were reviewed, 64 articles were selected and read leading to 20 articles meeting the requi-site inclusion/exclusion criteria. These were 9 reports and 2 cross-sectional studies using network analysis to compare and/or classify EEG. One review of 17 reports and 10 cross-sectional studies only aimed to classify the EEGs. One cross-sectional study discussed EEG abnormalities associated with autism. Conclusions . Epileptiform discharge free EEG features derived from network/ computer analysis differ signi ﬁ cantly between people with and without epilepsy. Diagnostic algorithms report high accuracies and could be clinically useful. There is a lack of such research within the intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism populations, where epilepsy is more prevalent and there are additional diagnostic challenges.
PROPELLER-FLOW PREDICTIONS USING TURBULENT VORTICITY-CONFINEMENT

The paper reports on an attempt towards a turbulent vorticity-confinement strategy for RANS-based industrial propeller-flow simulations. Attention is given to a more rigorous separation between direction, intensity and selectivity of the confinement approach The example included refers to the INSEAN E779a propeller at Re=1.5 10, for different advance ratios. The methodology aims at an improved prediction of tip vortices, which are an origin of cavitation. Results indicate the strengths of the rigour approach to perform a dedicated confinement.
Study on nutritional changes in ragi koozh under controlled fermentation with probiotics

Ragikoozh was prepared from ragi grains by natural fermentation and by inoculating probiotics, Lactobacillus acidophillus and Bifidobacterium sp. The purpose of the investigation was to reveal the nutritional beneficial changes brought during fermentation and compare the probiotics fermented and naturally fermented ragikoozh. Ragikoozh fermented for 24 hours under natural condition and probiotic inoculated together with unfermented control were analysed for the proximate composition, vitamins like thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and essential amino acids. Physical parameters like pH, acidity, moisture and total solids were also determined. Processing of ragi into ragi koozh by fermentation brought about favourable nutritional changes. Protein, reducing sugars, iron, riboflavin and niacin were increased while thiamine concentration reduced considerably. Amino acids were found to be increased especially the lysine content which is a limiting factor in cereal. On comparison the probiotic fermented ragikoozh performed better than naturally fermented ragi koozh. Ragi koozh prepared with probiotic was found to be more acceptable than natural fermented ragi koozh on sensory evaluation.
Facilitating reflective practice: developing built environment educators’ capacity for teaching and learning

The international literature on higher education emphasises the importance for academics and professional staff to develop their disciplinary teaching and learning practice. Teaching staff in built environment degree programs tend to focus on ‘what’ subject content is taught and less on ‘how to’ improve and innovate teaching and learning contexts and students’ skills development. To investigate these trends, this research reviewed the higher education literature and relevant international studies on strategies to enhance quality teaching and student learning. Findings highlight that reflective practice and engaging in a personal teaching philosophy and teaching profile provide an important link for individual professional development and basis for improving teaching and learning. The objective of this study was to apply findings from the literature in facilitating professional learning workshops, with a pedagogy for collaborative reflective practice and the development of a teaching philosophy. This research reports on the first stage of professional development for staff in built environment programs to establish a teaching profile through reflection on their personal and discipline specific pedagogies. Initial findings highlight the positive impact of reflection and collegial conversations about learning and teaching, as well as future opportunities for individual and discipline based capacity building for improving educational practice.