Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
POST‐OPERATIVE CHANGES IN THE ENDOTHELIAL CELL DENSITY OF CORNEAL GRAFTS

The endothelial cell density was studied in 162 penetrating corneal grafts with a post‐operative time from 1 to 125 months. The central cell density was found to decrease markedly in the post‐operative period from more than 2000 cells/mm2 in the early months to less than 1000 cells/mm2 4 years after the operation. After this, no further decrease was detected. Cell densities obtained from a peripheral area on the graft were also observed to decrease, indicating that the total number of endothelial cells decreased in the post‐operative period. This study indicates that the post‐surgical influence on the graft endothelium is probably of greater importance than previously recognized, and must be accounted for when, on the other hand, the surgical influence is evaluated.
Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres

"In the Greek Romances," writes David Konstan, "sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defence of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male. " Exploring how erotic love is represented in ancient amatory literature, Konstan points to the symmetry in the passion of the hero and heroine as a unique feature of the Greek novel: they fall mutually in love, they are of approximately the same age and social class, and their reciprocal attachment ends in marriage. He shows how the plots of the novels are perfectly adapted to expressing this symmetry and how, because of their structure, they differ from classical epic, comedy, tragedy, and other genres, including modern novels ranging from Sidney to Harlequin romances. Using works like "Chareas and Callirhoe" and "Daphnis and Chloe", Konstan examines such issues as pederasty, the role of eros in both marital and nonmarital love, and the ancient Greek concept of fidelity. He reveals how the novelistic formula of sexual symmetry reverses the pattern of all other ancient genres, where erotic desire appears one-sided and unequal and is often viewed as either a weakness or an aggressive, conquering power. Konstan's approach draws upon theories concerning the nature of sexuality in the ancient world, reflected in the work of Michael Foucault, David Halperin, and John Winkler.
Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment Through Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Suicide risk assessment is a core competency that all psychiatrists must have.1 A competent suicide assessment identifies modifiable and treatable protective factors that inform patient treatment and safety management.2 Psychiatrists, unlike other medical specialists, do not often experience patient deaths, except by suicide. Patient suicide is an occupational hazard. A clinical axiom holds that there are 2 kinds of psychiatrists: those who have had patients commit suicide—and those who will.
Object tracking in video with TensorFlow

This Thesis[13] was born as collaboration between the BSC Computer Science Department [5] and the UPC Image Processing Group [23], with the purpose to develop an hybrid thesis on Deep Learning. Nowadays, the interest around Machine Learning, is one of the fastest growing. So far from the side of the BSC Computer Science Department [5], that mainly uses his computational power for data mining and modelling analysis, the main purpose was to verify the difficulty to adapt his infrastructure “asterix”, from the GPU Center of Excellence at BSC/UPC [4], the to Deep Learning. Instead, from the side of UPC IPG, there was the interest to test the environment developing a model for Object Tracking in Video that was suitable for the ILSVRC VID challenge [43]. To achieve the first goal and analyze the workload on the machine, I started to become an active user of the TensorFlow [21] community, learning from posts and blogs and I decided to implement a Virtual Environment that, led us to use different dependencies and different versions of the library software, depending on the model and purpose to reach. Till now, from the computer science point of view, this environment was the best choice and the most useful experience to work with, showing the easiness of use and implementation. I had some problems only with third part libraries, specifics for the Visual Recognition area, like OpenCV. To develop the model for VID challenge, I began learning the basic knowledge for Deep Learning concepts, through on-line courses as the one of Stanford. Then I passed to the deepest and complex knowledge regarding the Visual Recognition topic, reading papers and understanding the main strategies and models that would be useful to me later, during the development. The discovery of many new concepts gave me enthusiasm and scared me at the same time, theory and practice were complementary, but it wasn’t easy to pass from the first to the second one. These latter were the most difficult part of the project, because it wasn’t enough adapting my previous knowledge and programming skills to the new ones and mainly to the TensorFlow Environment. The Python library due to its recent birth hasn’t developed many models or components yet, as for others environments like Caffe [3] or Theano[50], but the community interest is growing so fast that, luckily, I didn’t had to start from scratch. I used some available models directly from Google [1] and some GitHub Project, like TensorBox[44] from a Stanford Phd Student[45] and tested others, like YOLO TF version[16].
İLKÖĞRETİM ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN SAHİP OLDUKLARI EĞİTİM FELSEFELERİNE İLİŞKİN ALGILARININ DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ “ÖĞRETMENLERİN EĞİTİM FELSEFELERİ”

Bu arastirmanin genel amaci, ilkogretimdeki ogretmenlerin sahip olduklari egitim felsefesine iliskin goruslerinin mezun olunan okul turu, cinsiyet, hizmet yili ve brans degiskenleri acisindan degerlendirilerek bu goruslerin egitimin amaci, icerigi, ogretme-ogrenme ortami ile ogretmen ve ogrencinin rolu konularindaki goruslerle tutarliliginin incelenmesidir. 2001-2002 Egitim ve Ogretim yilinda, Adana il sinirlari icinde yer alan 12 ilkogretim okulunda yurutulen bu arastirmanin calisma grubu, belirlenen okullarda gorev yapan 186 sinif ve 126 brans ogretmeni olmak uzere toplam 312 ogretmenden olusmustur. Verilerin toplanmasinda Wiles ve Bondi (1984, 80) tarafindan gelistirilen “Felsefi Tercih Degerlendirme” olcegi ile kisisel bilgiler bolumu ve acik uclu sorulardan olusan bir anket formu kullanilmistir. Verilerin cozumlenmesinde frekans dagilimi, aritmetik ortalama ve standart sapma hesaplamalari ile t-testi, guvenirlik analizi ve tek yonlu varyans analizi yapilmistir. Analizler sonucunda ogretmenlerin sahip olduklari egitim felsefelerinin ele alinan degiskenler acisindan anlamli bir sekilde farklilasmadigi ve egitimin amaci, icerigi, ortami ile ogretmen ve ogrencinin rolu konularindaki ogretmen goruslerinin de ilk tercih olarak belirtilen egitim felsefesi ile bazi istisnalar haricinde tutarlilik gostermedigi ortaya cikmistir.
Spatial Audio to Assist Speaker Identification in Telephony

—Telephony has developed substantially over the years, but the fundamental auditory model of presenting audio monaurally has not changed since the telephone was ﬁrst invented. Monaural audio is very difﬁcult to follow in a multiple-source situation such as a conference call. We believe that it could be beneﬁcial to a participant in conference call to know who is currently speaking. This paper evaluates the beneﬁt of a spatial audio telephony application by comparing three spatial audio models against monaural audio. Experiments in which subjects had to identify the active speaker out of a number of possibilities, demonstrate that spatial audio affords the user an approximately two-fold increase in correct speaker identiﬁcation rate in a conference call. These results demonstrate that spatial audio is easier to follow than monaural audio and show that spatial audio in telephony can aid speaker identiﬁcation in conversations with multiple speakers.
Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory: Space, Identity, Text

Introduction Part I Actual Material Spaces 1. Locations of passage and habitation 2. The spirit of the place 3. Three modes of emplacement: Absorption in space, movement through space, contemplation space 4. In search of lost space Part II Metaphorical spaces 5. World-making as a cognitive process 6. The spatiality of psychic states Part III Textual Space - Spatial Textuality 7. The space of literature 8. When the tapestry hangs complete: March Moonlight Appendix: Critical literature on Dorothy Richardson Bibliography
Software Product Line Engineering Foundations Principles And Techniques

Thank you for reading software product line engineering foundations principles and techniques. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look numerous times for their favorite books like this software product line engineering foundations principles and techniques, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer.
Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology

Color is an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic. "The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to systematically codify it, " writes Charles A. Riley in this series of interconnected essays on the uses and meanings of color. Color Codes draws heavily on interviews with many of today's leading artists - Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Peter Halley, Lukas Foss, A. S. Byatt, and others - as well as seminal texts by a wide range of thinkers including Wittgenstein, Derrida, Barthes, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Albers, Joyce, Pynchon, and Jung. Although Riley finds remarkable parallels among the theories and techniques of various disciplines, his emphasis is on the individual nature of the color sense. This resistance to a unified color theory gives the current aesthetic debate tremendous energy. "Because it is largely an unknown force, color remains one of the most vital sources of new styles and ideas, ready to be tapped by creative minds in the coming decades. " In the studios of artists and composers, and in the recent writings of philosophers, psychologists, poets, and novelists, evidence of this emerging power is abundant. Creators, critics, and lay readers will find Color Codes accessible and stimulating.
The Efficacy of Patient Centered Outcomes in Determining the Effectiveness of Surgical Mentorship in Rural Saskatchewan

Background: Advanced laparoscopic skills are difficult to obtain for practicing surgeons. This issue is exponentially more difficult for surgeons in rural practice. Surgical mentorship is one way in which this can be achieved. Material and Methods: A surgical mentorship program was under taken by the author under the auspices of a senior surgeon at the same hospital he practices in. This was under taken to learn the Laparoscopic Transabdominal Pre - Peritoneal herniorrhaphy technique (TAPP). This involved supervision of the first twenty operative procedures. Once there was satisfaction with the technique the remaining surgical procedures were performed independently without supervision. Over a four-year duration, fifty-nine procedures were performed by the first author. Data was assessed retrospectively with the use of an outcome questionnaire adapted from the EuroQol© questionnaire. Results: A patient centered outcomes questionnaire was employed to determine the efficacy of the mentorship program. This was done through a retrospective audit of the first four years of this advanced technique. An established short quality of life questionnaire, the EuroQol© was used and adapted for laparoscopic hernia surgery 94 percent of patients would recommend the surgeon to other patients for this surgery. There were no hernia recurrences and three patients had inguinodynia, all of whom were managed conservatively Discussion: The patient centered outcomes clearly demonstrate satisfaction with the surgical mentorship program. While this was a small study with insufficient follow up for long term post - operative complications, it does show the feasibility of patient centered outcomes in determining the effectiveness of surgical mentorship.
Analysis of antioxidant-rich phytochemicals

Preface vii Contributors ix Chapter 1 Important Antioxidant Phytochemicals in Agricultural Food Products 1 Zhimin Xu Chapter 2 The Procedure, Principle, and Instrumentation of Antioxidant Phytochemical Analysis 25 Brittany White, Lydia Rice, and Luke R. Howard Chapter 3 Analysis Methods of Phenolic Acids 69 Zhimin Xu Chapter 4 Analysis Methods of Carotenoids 105 Rachel E. Kopec, Jessica L. Cooperstone, Morgan J. Cichon, and Steven J. Schwartz Chapter 5 Analysis Methods of Anthocyanins 149 Ronald L. Prior and Xianli Wu Chapter 6 Analysis Methods of Ellagitannins 181 Stephen T. Talcott and Kimberly A. Krenek Chapter 7 Analytical Methods of Flavonols and Flavones 207 Francisco A. Tomas-Barberan and Federico Ferreres Chapter 8 Analysis Methods of Proanthocyanidins 247 Liwei Gu Chapter 9 Analysis Methods of Flavanones 275 G.K. Jayaprakasha, Amit Vikram, and Bhimanagouda S. Patil Chapter 10 Analysis Methods of Phytosterols 313 Laura Nystr om Chapter 11 Analysis Methods for Tocopherols and Tocotrienols 353 Robert A. Moreau and Anna-Maija Lampi Index 387
Old Javanese Gold: The Hunter Thompson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery

While ancient Javanese bronze and ironwork have long elicited interest, there is a lesser-known yet equally fascinating aspect of the Indonesian island's history: gold artifacts, including jewelry, clothing accessories, statues, coins, and containers. Not only do these objects display exceptional craftsmanship, they also provide a significant source of information on Javanese society, culture, religion, economy, technology, and art from the 1st century BCE to 1500. This revised and expanded edition of the 1990 publication Old Javanese Gold celebrates Valerie and Hunter Thompson's 2007 gift of Javanese gold objects to the Yale University Art Gallery and the subsequent founding of the Department of Indo-Pacific Art. Along with entirely new photography and a fresh design, the book's essays have been updated to incorporate recent discoveries-including the Wonoboyo hoard, one of the most important gold hoards ever excavated in Southeast Asia.
How Can Business Analytics Induce Creativity: The Performance Effects of User Interaction with Business Analytics

Most organizations today use business analytics systems mainly for efficiency; reducing cost by contacting the right customer, generating revenue by reducing churn, etc. Nevertheless, business analytics holds promise in generating insights and in making users more creative in their decision making process. Analytics technology is becoming sophisticated with very advanced technical capabilities. However, behavioral aspects (i.e. user interaction) of using business analytics software have not reached the same level of sophistication. Very little research in this field discusses how to implement analytical systems and what outcomes will it produce. We are looking at conditions that can enhance user interaction with business analytics systems leading to certain performance outcomes. We propose that the fit between users’ cognitive style (intuitive vs. rational), business analytics model representations (decision tree vs. clustering), and task type (convergent vs. divergent) can lead to efficiency but can have adverse effects on creativity because that might lead to mindlessness in the decision making process.
Secure two-party line segments intersection scheme and its application in privacy-preserving convex hull intersection

The model and framework of secure multi-party computational geometry were presented based on the existing protocols.The new framework has three dimensions,the math model,the security model and the communication model.Using the new model and framework,a secure two-party line segments intersection protocol based on Paillier homomorphic encryption scheme is proposed.This protocol solves the problem that the existing secure two party intersect-determination schemes of line segments cannot output the exact coordinates of the intersection.The security of the protocol is demonstrated using Goldreich method.The results show that this protocol has better efficiency than the existing ones.In addition,the secure two-party line segments intersection in malicious model is also designed.As an application,a privacy-preserving convex hull intersection protocol is proposed based on the O’Rourke scheme.This application makes up for the gap in privacy-preserving convex hull intersection protocol in the area of secure multi-party computational geometry.
R package gcExplorer: graphical and inferential exploration of cluster solutions

Cluster analysis is commonly applied to microarray data in order to find groups of co-expressed genes where cluster algorithms with the ability to visualize the resulting cluster objects (e.g., a dendrogram for hierarchical clustering) are usually preferred. The display of cluster solutions particularly for a large number of clusters is very important in exploratory data analysis. It gives practitioners an idea of the relationships between segments of a partition and allows to interpret the cluster results. Neighborhood graphs (Leisch, 2006) can be used for visual assessment of the cluster structure of centroid-based cluster solutions. In a neighborhood graph each node represents a cluster and two nodes are connected if there exist data points that have the two corresponding centroids as closest and second closest centroid. In this work we present new visualization methods based on the neighborhood graph. For node representation different plot symbols visualizing single clusters are used allowing a quick overview of the data. On the one hand the corresponding data points themselves can be visualized using for example line diagrams for gene expression over time. On the other hand node symbols like pie charts can be used to visualize further properties of the clusters like association to functional groups under study. Finally the neighborhood graph can be used for the validation of a cluster solution, e.g., by testing the relationship between a clustering and a priori information about gene functions. All visualization methods and test procedures used are implemented in R package gcExplorer (Scharl and Leisch, 2009) which is now available on CRAN. The grid-based node symbols are implemented in R package symbols (http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/symbols/).
Cost and production performance of a Tubular Solar Still

In this paper, the design, fabrication, cost and distilled water production (production) performance of a Tubular Solar Still (TSS) is presented. Since the TSS cover and trough are made of cheap and locally acquisitioned lightweight materials, the TSS can be formed into a desirable size easily. Thus, the weight per unit length is 0.65kg/m and it is expected that the production cost is about 484/m3(~US$5/m3). A field experiment on the production performance of the TSS was carried out in the United Arab Emirates and the effects of initial saline water volume (water depth) in the trough on the daily production were examined in terms of the use and management of the TSS. The daily production is inversely proportional to the water depth, as far as the water depth is 0.04m or less. The main reason is attributed to the production performance after the evening or sunset due to remaining solar heat (designated as “production inertia”). It is seen that contribution of the production inertia to the daily production cannot be disregarded and that the water depth is one of key parameters to control the production performance of the TSS.
Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life

I finished listening to "Lucky or Smart? : Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life" yesterday and I must say that found it interesting. Bo Peabody, the entrepreneurial mind behind Tripod has explained the gist of his experiences with employees, ideas, VC's and industry in general. If you are fond of business books, you probably already have heard about almost every idea mentioned in the book already, but there is more to it. It's the emphasis on passion and having philosophically positive ideas for betterment of the world, yes seriously. Also I enjoyed how Bo phrased importance of ignorance and also knowing that you don't know. A combination of these two is a killer!
Performance Analysis of Rotation Invariant parts Based Object Detection in High-Resolution Images

: Object detection is one of the essential applications and crucial tasks in remote sensing images analysis. With the enlargement of remote sensing knowledge, high-resolution(HR) optical remote sensing images are presented and the geospatial detail information of substances is more and more abundant.In this paper, rotation invariant parts based model to sense objects with difficult shape in high resolution remote sensing images. Explicitly, the geospatial matters with difficult shape are initially alienated into several main parts, and the assembly information among parts is labeled and controlled in polar coordinates to achieve the rotation invariance on configuration. In encoding the features of the rotated parts and objects, a new rotation invariant feature is projected by spreading histogram oriented gradients. Throughout the final recognition step, a clustering technique is introduced to discover the parts in objects, and that process can also be used to fuse the detection consequences.
Novel approach to human face recognition

This paper presents a new method of human face recognition based on a novel algebraic feature extraction method. An input human face image is First transformed into a standard image; Then, the projective feature vectors of the standard image are extracted by projecting it onto the optimal discriminant projection vectors; Finally, face image recognition is completed by classifying these projective feature vectors. Experimental results showed that the present method is effective.
Time Constraints of Access Control

Currently, researches on time constraints for access control are not complete. To solve this problem, this paper enriches the time constraints for access control from the following aspects: firstly, we propose a four-tuple representation of time constraint by combining discrete time representation and periodic time representation; secondly, we put forward a function of computing the time of state changing on the basis of (1); finally, aiming at conflicts detecting and resolution for time constraints, we raise an algorithm for conflicts detection and resolution based on XACML and entities overlapping detection.
POTENTIALS OF FACEBOOK AS A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL FOR COLLEGE LECTURERS Julia

Dengan ditemukannya komputer dan World Wide Web (www) dalam dua dekade terakhir, cara baru dalam online-communication -yang dikenal sebagai teknologi Web 2.0, seperti blogs, micro-blogging, podcasts, wikis, situs jaringan sosial, dunia maya (virtual world), video sharing, dan photo sharing– telah muncul dengan potensi keunikannya masing-masing di dunia komunikasi dan pendidikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat penggunaan situs jejaring sosial, Facebook.com, sebagai alat bantu pendidikan bagi dosen dan mahasiswa di Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH). Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui proses wawancara terhadap 10 dosen, peneliti menanyakan beberapa pertanyaan seputar penggunaan Facebook dan apa alas an mereka menggunakan medium tersebut sebagai alat bantu dalam mendukung kegiatan belajar-mengajar. Penelitian ini juga menunjukkan bahwa Facebook ketika digunakan secara rutin, mendorong relasi yang baik antara dosen dan mahasiswa, yang kemudian menghasilkan perilaku positif pada lingkungan belajar-mengajar yang merupakan hasil yang belum pernah diantisipasi. Kata kunci: Facebook, situs jejaring sosial, interaksi di kelas, komunikasi dan pendidikan, perangkat pedagogi