Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPING A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR INSTRUMENTAL ORCHESTRATION

The need to understand teachers' actions as they teach mathematics in a computerized environment is greater than ever. A theoretical framework aimed at understanding teacher practice may help the research community guide practicing teachers in their struggle to integrate ICT into their teaching. The theory of instrumental orchestration is suggested as an appropriate lens for studying teacher practice. In the current study, instrumental orchestration types that have already been identified are examined in a variety of educational settings with the goal of further developing the theory from a critical point of view.
Usual Source of Care in Preventive Service Use : A Regular Doctor versus a Regular Site

Objective. To compare the effects of having a regular doctor and having a regular site on five preventive services, controlling for the endogeneity of having a usual source of care. Data Source. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 1996 conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Center for Health Statistics. Study Design. Mammograms, pap smears, blood pressure checkups, cholesterol level checkups, and flu shots were examined. A modified behavioral model framework was presented, which controlled for the endogeneity of having a usual source of care. Based on this framework, a two-equation empirical model was established to predict the probabilities of having a regular doctor and having a regular site, and use of each type of preventive service. Principal Findings. Having a regular doctor was found to have a greater impact than having a regular site on discretional preventive services, such as blood pressure and cholesterol level checkups. No statistically significant differences were found between the effects a having a regular doctor and having a regular site on the use of flu shots, pap smears, and mammograms. Among the five preventive services, having a usual source of care had the greatest impact on cholesterol level checkups and pap smears. Conclusions. Promoting a stable physician–patient relationship can improve patients’ timely receipt of clinical prevention. For certain preventive services, having a regular doctor is more effective than having a regular site.
Towards a Speaker Independent Speech-BCI Using Speaker Adaptation

Neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can cause locked-in-syndrome (fully paralyzed but aware). Brain-computer interface (BCI) may be the only option to restore their communication. Current BCIs typically use visual or attention correlates in neural activities to select letters randomly displayed on a screen, which are extremely slow (a few words per minute). Speech-BCIs, which aim to convert the brain activity patterns to speech (neural speech decoding), hold the potential to enable faster communication. Although a few recent studies have shown the potential of neural speech decoding, those are focused on speaker-dependent models. In this study, we investigated speaker-independent neural speech decoding of five continuous phrases from Magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals while 8 subjects produced speech covertly (imagination) or overtly (articulation). We have used both supervised and unsupervised speaker adaptation strategies for implementing a speaker independent model. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed adaptation-based speakerindependent model has significantly improved decoding performance. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the possibility of speaker-independent neural speech decoding.
Climate change and migration : The debate on causality and the legal position of affected persons

Climate change and its consequences have become a fixture for many political agenda. Controversial though discussion about climate change may be, there is international and crossparty political consensus that global warming is going to be one of the greatest political, economic and social challenges for the coming years. In social terms in particular climate change plays an increasingly important role. The consequences of global warming already present are confronting whole societies with enormous burdens, whether this is due to increasing rainfall and floods in some areas, the scarcity of rainfall and prolonged drought periods in others, or failed harvests or a shortage of drinking water. International organisations, representatives of various governments as well as experts on climate and migration all around the world are meanwhile discussing the possible effects of climate change on global migration processes. Climate experts assume that global warming may well lead to a global shortage or at least to a displacement of cultivable land. The reasons for this are as diverse as are the impacts of climate change; rising sea levels will lead to more frequent flooding and storms in coastal and delta regions, small island states and low-lying coastal regions could disappear completely as a result. In some regions rainfall will increase significantly, provoking periodic flooding, while in other regions precipitation will quickly decrease, rapidly promoting droughts and desertification. Soil erosion caused by sandstorms and the decline in vegetation will reduce agricultural productivity in these areas — often already low — to a minimum, potentially endangering the food supply for major regions as a whole. The creeping effects of global warming and the associated increase in extreme weather events, as well as the deterioration in living conditions, may give rise to new migration streams. This policy brief deals with the phenomenon of environmental migration. It focuses entirely on the effect of climate change on global migratory movements without neglecting the environmental consequences on the regions of origin and destination. The following paragraphs will firstly contain a comparison of estimates as to how many people will be affected worldwide and an introduction of those areas where climate change is most likely to cause migration. The brief will then examine the two main controversies concerning this phenomenon: the causality relationship between environmental factors and new migratory movements as well as the legal position of the persons concerned. The conclusion emphasises the necessity of extending the protection of people affected by the phenomena of climate change at the international level, even if it cannot be assumed that there is an exclusive causal relationship between climate change and migration.
SUMMARY FROM WORKING GROUP F : INSTRUMENTATION AND BEAM MATERIAL INTERACTIONS

This workshop on High-Intensity, High Brightness and High Power Hadron Beams, held in East Lansing, MI and hosted by Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), included a Working Group which combined the topics of Instrumentation and Beam Material Interactions. Continuing with the HB Workshop series tradition, progress, status and future developments of hadron accelerators in these subfields were presented and discussed. Leveraging off of experiences from existing accelerators including FNAL, IFMIF, JPARC, the LHC, RHIC and the SNS, this workshop provided occasion to discuss new technical challenges for beam instrumentation and beam material interactions as relevant for future high power hadron beam facilities both approved (e.g. FRIB, ESS) and in planning (e.g. CADS). Discussions between this and the other working groups during this workshop were quite lively as necessitated by the need to seriously address strong interdependencies (between beam dynamics, technologies, instrumentation and interaction of the beams with materials such as targets, beam dumps and collimators) in the regime of megawatt beam powers as anticipated in approved and future accelerators.
Perception of Prosodic Prominence by Korean Learners of English

This study compares the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence in English by native English speakers and by Korean-speaking learners of English. Native speakers of both languages were asked to indicate which words they perceived as prominent in a recorded excerpt from a lecture. Our results show that, like native English speakers, Korean learners of English rely on duration and pitch to judge prosodic prominence on different words in the phrase. Interestingly, however, unlike native speakers of English, Korean speakers also tend to assign greater prominence to words that start with a voiceless consonant. This can be explained as reflecting the cuing of accentual-phrase-level prominence in Korean, where initial aspirated and fortis consonants attract a high tone and trigger the perception of prominence on the initial syllable.
Achievement-Oriented Effects on Waterfowl-Hunt Quality at Mississippi Wildlife Management Areas

Waterfowl hunters participate in hunting for appreciative-, affiliative-, and achievement-oriented reasons. To investigate the influence of achievement-oriented factors on hunt quality, we analyzed post-hunt surveys completed by waterfowl hunters at four Mississippi Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), 2008–2015. We used these questions to calculate a hunt quality score for each participant and tested whether variation in hunt quality was best explained by total number of ducks harvested, number of mallards harvested, total bag weight, or palatability of ducks. Hunt quality increased with total number of ducks and mallards harvested. Hunt quality scores increased with an increasing number of ducks harvested up to six total ducks (i.e., the daily allowable bag) and number of mallards up to 3 ducks (i.e., 1 less than the daily allowable bag during study). Our results indicate that harvesting ducks, especially mallards, is important to hunters at Mississippi WMAs. The importance of duck harvest to hunters should be considered in developing waterfowl management plans in Mississippi and elsewhere in the southeastern United States where these ducks are common.
Differences between SMT and NMT Output - a Translators’ Point of View

In this study, we compare the output quality of two MT systems, a statistical (SMT) and a neural (NMT) engine, customised for Swiss Post’s Language Service using the same training data. We focus on the point of view of professional translators and investigate how they perceive the differences between the MT output and a human reference (namely deletions, substitutions, insertions and word order). Our findings show that translators more frequently consider these differences to be errors in SMT than NMT, and that deletions are the most serious errors in both architectures. We also observe lower agreement on differences to be corrected in NMT than in SMT, suggesting that errors are easier to identify in SMT. These findings confirm the ability of NMT to produce correct paraphrases, which could also explain why BLEU is often considered as an inadequate metric to evaluate the performance of NMT systems.
On NLOS Conditions in Wireless Localization

The intention of this document is to spur a discussion on techniques of identification, modelling, mitigation and elimination of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation effects in wireless localization, especially for receive-signal-strength (RSS) approach. A survey of already existing solutions is provided, considering diversity and cooperative techniques, concepts of identification LOS/NLOS reference nodes, statistical approaches and hybrid systems. A review of on-topic research works conducted in the frame of the IC1004 Action is also given. While the analysis here is focused on indoor systems, it can be also applied to other environments like urban ones.
OF GARLIC BULBS TO GAMMA IRRADIATION . CHANGES IN MAJOR AMINO ACIDS

Studies were conducted to provide information about the amino acids composition of garlic bulbs cv Colorado and to determinate the effect of a dose of 60 Gy of gamma rays on the behavior of the major free amino acids in relation to sprout growth radioinhibition. TLC and HPLC were used for identification and quantification of free amino acids. Eighteen free amino acids were identified in both parts of garlic bulbs: alanine, glycine, proline, methionine, serine, phenylalanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, lysine, glutamine, arginine, tyrosine, threonine, cystine, cysteíne, leucine + isoleucine and asparagine. In the inner sprout the major amino acids founded were: glutamine, glutamic acid, threonine, asparagine, cystine, cysteíne and methionine; in the storage leaf also arginine was also predominant. In general, concentration of amino acids appeared to be less affected by irradiation in the storage leaf that in the inner sprout. An increase in the short time post-irradiation in glutamine, glutamic acid, asparagine, threonine and methionine was observed. Sprout growth radioinhibition was evident about 70 days after treatment and was preceded by a decrease in the major amino acids except methionine. It appears that concentration of same major amino acids can be used as monitors of radioinhibition process in inner sprout of garlic.
Leveraging a Character, Word and Prosody Triplet for an ASR Error Robust and Agglutination Friendly Punctuation Approach

Punctuating ASR transcript has received increasing attention recently, and well-performing approaches were presented based on sequence-to-sequence modelling, exploiting textual (word and character) and/or acoustic-prosodic features. In this work we propose to consider character, word and prosody based features all at once to provide a robust and highly language independent platform for punctuation recovery, which can deal also well with highly agglutinating languages with less constrained word order. We demonstrate that using such a feature triplet improves ASR error robustness of punctuation in two quite differently organized languages, English and Hungarian. Moreover, in the highly agglutinating Hungarian, where word-based approaches suffer from the exploding vocabulary (poorer semantic representation through embeddings) and less constrained word order, we show that prosodic cues and the character-based model can powerfully counteract this loss of information. We also perform a deep analysis of punctuation w.r. t. both ASR errors and agglutination to explain the improvements we observed on a solid basis.
Secure architecture for information systems in avionics

Traditionally, software in avionics has been totally separated from open-world software in order to avoid any interaction that could corrupt critical on-board systems. However, new aircraft generations need more interaction with off-board systems to offer extended services, which makes these information flows potentially dangerous. In a previous work, we have proposed the use of virtualization to ensure dependability of critical applications despite bidirectional communication between critical on-board systems and untrusted off-board systems. A comparison mechanism based on execution traces analysis is used to detect discrepancies between replicas supported by diverse virtual machines. We propose to strengthen the comparison mechanism at runtime by the use of an execution model, derived from a static analysis of the java bytecode. Keywords-avionic information system; dependability; security; execution model; virtualization;
A STUDY OF CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED WITH LOW LEVEL FEATURE AND SVM CLASSIFIER

Image Retrieval Process depending on a new Matching Strategy. Content Based Image Retrieval uses the computer vision Technology to solve the Image Retrieval Problem. We have used Color Co-occurrence Matrix , Gabor Wavelet Transform to Extract Image Feature. The Images are classified using Support Vector Machine Classifier which effectively distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant images.
SINI PIRNES-KARHU Spermidine / spermine N 1-acetyltransferase in Mouse Hematopoiesis and Bone Remodeling and in Human Leukemias

Polyamines are ubiquitous molecules essential for cell proliferation. Induction of the catabolic enzyme of polyamines, spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT), is successfully used to limit cancer cell growth in cell culture. In animal models, however, SSAT overexpression has been shown to increase susceptibility to cancer. In the present study, the role of enhanced polyamine catabolism in homeostasis of hematopoietic and bone systems were investigated in mice overexpressing SSAT (SSAT mice) and its association to hematopoietic malignancies was studied with patient samples. The basal levels of serum and hepatic inflammatory markers of SSAT mice were comparable to those encountered in wild-type littermates. When exposed to endotoxin SSAT mice displayed a slightly enhanced anti-inflammatory response but the survival and symptoms of the SSAT mice were similar to those of wild-type mice. Further studies of cells and tissues of the immune system revealed that the hematopoietic phenotype of SSAT mice fulfilled the criteria of mouse myeloproliferative disease. The myeloproliferation of SSAT mice resulted from both the intrinsic SSAT overexpression of hematopoietic cells and microenvironmental factors. Characterization of the bone phenotype of SSAT mice showed altered structure of bones of SSAT mice to provide larger niche for hematopoietic cells. SSAT mice also showed cell-autonomously impaired osteoblastogenesis and increased number of premature osteoblasts. The association between SSAT activity and myeloproliferation was supported by findings from human leukemia patients. The SSAT activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of these patients was associated with the leukocyte number in myeloid leukemias but not in lymphoid leukemia. Further investigation of SSAT mice provided evidence that the association between SSAT and myeloproliferation might be mediated through epigenetic factors. Our results show that enhanced SSAT activity leads to aberrant bone formation and subsequent changes in bone marrow microenvironment. In conjunction with enhanced intrinsic SSAT activity of hematopoietic cells, this results in a myeloproliferative disease in SSAT mice. The role of SSAT activity in myelopoiesis is further supported by the association between SSAT activity and the white blood cell count in human myeloid leukemias. National Library of Medicine Classification: QU 141, QU 475, WE 200, WH 140, WH 250, WH 380 Medical Subject Headings: Acetyltransferases/metabolism; Bone Marrow; Epigenesis, Genetic; Hematopoiesis; Human; Leukemia, Myeloid; Mice; Myeloproliferative Disorders; Osteogenesis; Oxidative stress; Polyamines
Sound Privacy: A Conversational Speech Corpus for Quantifying the Experience of Privacy

With the growing popularity of social networks, cloud services and online applications, people are becoming concerned about the way companies store their data and the ways in which the data can be applied. Privacy with devices and services operated by the voice are of particular interest. To enable studies in privacy, this paper presents a database which quantiﬁes the experience of privacy users have in spoken communication. We focus on the effect of the acoustic environment on that perception of privacy. Speech signals are recorded in scenarios simulating real-life situations, where the acoustic environment has an effect on the experience of privacy. The acoustic data is complemented with measures of the speakers’ experience of privacy, recorded using a questionnaire. The presented corpus enables studies in how acoustic environments affect peoples’ experience of privacy, which in turn, can be used to develop speech operated applications which are respectful of their right to privacy.
Observer Design for Takagi-Sugeno Lipschitz Systems Affected by Disturbances using Quadratic Boundedness

In this paper, a proportional observer design using quadratic boundedness is proposed in order to estimate the state of a system described by a Takagi-Sugeno model with a Lipschitz nonlinearity term, and affected by unknown disturbances. The conditions for ensuring that the error between the real and the estimated state converge within an ellipsoidal region about zero, are provided in the form of a linear matrix inequality (LMI) formulation. Then, the simulation results of this approach applied to a four-wheeled omni-directional mobile robot will be shown.
Animal SATELLITE DNA CHARACTERIZATION AND MOLECULAR CYTOGENETICS ELUCIDATE THE HIGHLY REARRANGED KARYOTYPES OF OWL MONKEYS ( Aotus , PLATYRRHINI )

Naiara P. Araújo1, Leonardo G. de Lima1, Radarane S. Sena2, Valéria S. Pereira3, Roscoe Stanyon4, Gustavo C. S. Kuhn5, Marta Svartman5,* 1. Estudante de Doutorado do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas da UFMG 2. Estudante de Mestrado do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas da UFMG 3. Bióloga da Fundação Zoobotânica de Belo Horizonte 4. Professor do Departamento de Biologia da Universidade de Florença, Itália 5. Professores do Instituto de Ciências Biológicas da UFMG/*Orientadora
Why Most Studies of Individual Differences With Inhibition Tasks Are Bound To Fail

Establishing correlations among common inhibition tasks such as Stroop or flanker tasks has been proven quite difficult despite many attempts. It remains unknown whether this difficulty occurs because inhibition is a disparate set of phenomena or whether the analytical techiques to uncover a unified inhibition phenomenon fail in real-world contexts. In this paper, we explore the field-wide inability to assess whether inhibition is unified or disparate. We do so by showing that ordinary methods of correlating performance including those with latent variable models are doomed to fail because of trial noise (or, as it is sometimes called, measurement error). We then develop hierarchical models that account for variation across trials, variation across individuals, and covariation across individuals and tasks. These hierarchical models also fail to uncover correlations in typical designs for the same reasons. While we can charaterize the degree of trial noise, we cannot recover correlations in typical designs that enroll hundreds of people. We discuss possible improvements to study designs to help uncovering correlations, though we are not sure how feasible they are.
Automatic Landing System of a Quadrotor UAV Using Visual

This paper presents a fully autonomous system for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that employs the visual measurements to perform automatic landing task on a specific landing platform. Basically, there are two main control tasks discussed in this paper. The first task refers to the auto-land mission that tracks the platform horizontally and performs the vertical landing. It was accomplished by using the red blob tracking technique. The second task involves the robust motion tracking that activates the recovery action once the target is lost so that the vehicle is still able to hover steadily. It was realized by implementing the features accelerated from segment test (FAST) technique with the pyramidal Lucas-Kanade algorithm to detect the local feature in the image and compute the optical flow. From the visual results obtained, the position and velocity of the vehicle were estimated using a nested Kalman-based sensor fusion . The state estimation was validated in a series of experiments using a CNC milling machine. Lastly, the control architecture for automatic landing system was formed with the classical PID controller and the flight test proved the success of the proposed system.