Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness and Acceptance of Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning (M-Learning) is no longer a novelty. Thousands of post-secondary education institutions and millions of workforce and distance-education students worldwide consider M-Learning a mainstream, pervasive, learning delivery mode. It is a different and alternate approach to Face-to-Face, Distance Learning (D-Learning), and Electronic Learning (E-Learning). A gap exists in the literature regarding the effectiveness of M-Learning. It is important to evaluate this learning delivery mode against Face-to-Face learning. This study examines M-Learning effectiveness vis-à-vis Face-to-Face and investigates the extent to which students accept the delivery of learning conducted through this new paradigm. A quasiexperimental research design is proposed to determine the impact of M-Learning on student performance and to uncover factors that influence user acceptance of M-Learning.
Ubiquitous collaborative multimedia capture of live experiences toward authoring extensible interactive multimedia documents

USCAMAYTA, ANDREY OMAR M. Ubiquitous collaborative multimedia capture of live experiences toward authoring extensible interactive multimedia documents. 2017. 129 p. Master dissertation (Master student Program in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics) – Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos – SP, 2017. The growing importance of multimedia content generated by ordinary users demands research for models, methods, technologies and systems that support multimedia production. Despite recent results allowing the collaborative capture of video via mobile devices, there is gap in supporting the collaborative capture of multiple media. In this dissertation we propose that ubiquitous collaborative multimedia production can be carried out by users who capture and annotate multiple media using the CMoViA mobile application. CMoViA also allows export the user-generated content to the CI+WaC, which allows them to edit the user-generated content in the form of interactive and extensible multimedia documents. The proposal demanded extending recent work reported in the literature, namely the I+WaC-IE (Interactors+WaC-Interaction Events) model, the I+WaC-Editor tool and MoViA tool. Hence, CMoViA follows the proposed CI+WaC-IE model. We discuss results from a case study, carried out in the educational domain, in which students collaboratively capture a lecture.
True at First Light

The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on the hunters, forcing Hemingway not only to take on his new role of leader but, equally important, to assist his wife Mary in pursuing the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. Passionately detailing the African landscape, the excitement of the chase, and the heartfelt relationships with his African neighbours, Hemingway, a master of dramatic fiction, weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and insight. Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True At First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers.
Lubrication Approximation for Fluids with Shear-Dependent Viscosity

We present dimensionally reduced Reynolds type equations for steady lubricating flows of incompressible non-Newtonian fluids with shear-dependent viscosity by employing a rigorous perturbation analysis on the governing equations of motion. Our analysis shows that, depending on the strength of the power-law character of the fluid, the novel equation can either present itself as a higher-order correction to the classical Reynolds equation or as a completely new nonlinear Reynolds type equation. Both equations are applied to two classic problems: the flow between a rolling rigid cylinder and a rigid plane and the flow in an eccentric journal bearing.
Discovery of Repeated Themes and Sections in Music with a Compositional Hierarchical Model

In this thesis we focus on the discovery of repeated patterns in music, one of the tasks in the research field of music information retrieval. We use a compositional hierarchical model, which was previously successfully applied to other tasks from this field, and adjust it to process symbolic music and find repeated patterns in musical pieces. In order to facilitate testing and interpretation of algorithm's output we develop a visual representation of the model. Results are evaluated on two datasets and compared to results of other researchers. Comparison shows that the proposed model is comparable to or better than other approaches in finding multiple repetitions of one pattern, but lags in identifying at least one occurrence of each structurally salient pattern. We propose several possible solutions for increasing the share of successfully identified salient patterns and suggest some guidelines for further development of the model.
Tratamento da falha ssea parcial pelo transporte sseo parietal

OBJECTIVE: This study describes the bone transportation technique for partial bone defect, and shows clinical and radiological results of a series of patients treated by using this method. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Nine patients with partial bone defect were treated (six tibia and three femur). Every patient had infection and nonunion. The initial procedure was to stabilize the bone, followed by a partial corticotomy on the healthy bone adjacent to the defect, in order to create a fragment to be distracted. This fragment was fixed by olive wires, which were conected to the thread rod. We used fibula transport for tibial lateral defect in two patients. The latency time, speed and rhythm of distraction were the same as approved by Ilizarov. RESULTS: Infection and nonunion were resolved, and the bone gap was filled in all cases. The most frequent problems were skin infection at the pin site and hypotrophy. CONCLUSION: The partial bone defect treated by parietal bone transport was an effective soluction for all patients with infection and nonunion, filling the gap in all cases.
Disruption of Broad Epigenetic Domains in PDAC Cells by HAT Inhibitors

The spreading of epigenetic domains has emerged as a distinguishing epigenomic phenotype for diverse cell types. In particular, clusters of H3K27ac- and H3K4me3-marked elements, referred to as super-enhancers, and broad H3K4me3 domains, respectively, have been linked to cell identity and disease states. Here, we characterized the broad domains from different pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines that represent distinct histological grades. Our integrative genomic analysis found that human derived cell line models for distinct PDAC grades exhibit characteristic broad epigenetic features associated with gene expression patterns that are predictive of patient prognosis and provide insight into pancreatic cancer cell identity. In particular, we find that genes marked by overlapping Low-Grade broad domains correspond to an epithelial phenotype and hold potential as markers for patient stratification. We further utilize ChIP-seq to compare the effects of histone acetyltransferase (HAT) inhibitors to detect global changes in histone acetylation and methylation levels. We found that HAT inhibitors impact certain broad domains of pancreatic cancer cells. Overall, our results reveal potential roles for broad domains in cells from distinct PDAC grades and demonstrate the plasticity of particular broad epigenomic domains to epigenetic inhibitors.
Essays on the health economics of hospital quality

This thesis consists of three essays on hospital quality of inpatient care for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the United States. First, it explores issues in the measurement of quality, particularly through the estimation of risk-adjusted mortality rates (RAMRs) for hospitals. This work then examines the relationship between hospital quality for AMI patients and the volume of AMI patients. Chapter 2 proposes using machine-learning techniques, particularly random forests, for risk adjustment of patient severity to predict patient mortality. This work shows that these methods greatly outperform other commonly-used methods in precision of patient risk estimates and also that a facility’s estimated RAMR is sensitive to the underlying patient risk-adjustment model. Chapter 3 asks whether a model which aggregates patient mortality risk for AMI patients matters when estimating RAMRs. To do this, it creates a simulation based on realistic assumptions about how patient case mix can vary by hospital quality and how hospital quality can vary by hospital volume. Because different methods of estimating patient mortality risk have different degrees of precision, the simulation considers variation in this precision and further allows precision to vary by hospital. Again, the ranking of hospitals is sensitive to the method used and this paper finds that common methods are not preferred in many important contexts. Both of the first two chapters pay particular importance to applications of their results to pay-for-performance schemes. Chapter 4 examines the relationship between quality, measured by RAMR, and volume in hospital health provision for AMI inpatients. The main contribution of the paper is estimate the causal effect of volume on quality. To do this, it uses a novel instrument, the volume of shock and of trauma patients. Previous work has found mixed results and has primarily used the volume of patients with the same condition within a certain radius of the hospital as an instrument for volume within the hospital. This paper argues that this instrument has a number of shortcomings that its instrument does not. This paper tests various specifications used in other work and finds robust results for its conclusion.
Evaluation of GPU based Cloud Solutions (Scalability of Deep Learning in the Cloud)

Cloud computing has become integral part of computing world. Specifically, GPU based cloud computing has gain popularity in deep learning as it can significantly accelerate the training process of many deep learning models. It is because architecture of GPU’s massively parallel compute is well suited for compute-intensive task of matrix multiplication and other operations. Selecting an appropriate pair of software and hardware addresses the computational challenges in deep learning. The main objective of this thesis is to provide overview of the execution time in CPU and GPUs of deep learning in the cloud by scaling GPUs i.e. evaluating GPU cloud solutions of scalability of deep learning in the cloud. To achieve this objective of the thesis, two approaches will be used i.e. literature review and Practical testing. The literature review provides idea about four different GPU based cloud service provider whereas practical testing includes steps for implementing deep learning tools for both CPU and GPUs VM instances and also benchmarking the execution time using DeepBench designed for deep learning. This thesis provides some interesting results regarding scaling of GPUs. For some benchmark, there is clear improvement in the performance of using one GPU than not using GPU i.e. single CPU. There is also clear improvement in performance using two GPUs. But the contribution of scaling over two GPUs is not clear. This result addresses some insights of deep learning application executing on GPU cloud solutions.
Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) seed composition response to soil flooding stress

Soybean is a valuable commodity due to its high oil and protein content and its nutritional and functional food value. Changes in soybean seed composition by environmental stressors including heat and drought have been documented, but the effects of flooding are not yet known. This study profiles the change in seed composition of five soybean plant introductions (PIs) tolerant to flooding stress and the flooding sensitive check cultivar Williams in three environments. The results showed that flooding did not significantly affect seed protein, oil or palmitic acid, but increased oleic and stearic acid levels in all genotypes. However, the linoleic and linolenic acids, daidzein, genistein, and glycitein contents were significantly reduced in all genotypes. The effects of environment were significant for most seed composition traits under flooding stress, except palmitic acid, linolenic acid and glycetin. Single degree of freedom orthogonal comparison showed that seed quality index (SQI) - a composite indicator of seed quality - increased by 4% in the PIs, but decreased by 5% in the check cultivar. The results suggested that SQI is a useful criterion when genetic selection for seed composition is to be made in different environments. Given the more frequent extreme weather patterns possible with global climate change, caution is needed in the selection of environments for testing and producing soybeans for special composition traits.
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

From the author of "Wreck This Journal," an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists. The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you. As if you? ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to. With a series of interactive prompts and a beautifully hand-illustrated two-color package, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world through this gorgeous book.
Putting the audience in the picture: Mise-en-shot and psychological immersion in audio described film

Audio description (AD) often emphasises the visual elements of a film rather than the way these elements are presented. However, what is seen and the way it is shown are equally important for creating meaning in film. The term mise-en-shot refers to the way in which visual aspects are shown to the audience. In order to determine whether the stylistic elements of film created by means of mise-en-shot could influence the reception of audio described film, the article investigates the effect of the presence or absence in the AD of these elements on the immersion of a sighted audience into the fictional world. Immersion is measured by means of sub-scales on character identification as well as transportation. In order to measure the effect of stylistic elements, the self-reported immersion of one group of sighted participants who sees a scene with the original soundtrack is compared to that of another sighted group who only hears the audio-described soundtrack of the scene. The findings suggest that although t.
Strong, weak and hybrid group membership

Discusses the group membership problem in distributed systems. The paper describes a set of group membership protocols that are developed as part of a toolkit for building distributed parallel applications on a cluster of workstations. The group membership service is the lowest layer in the toolkit, and it is the glue which unifies all the other layers. The group membership layer supports three protocols: weak, strong, and hybrid membership. These protocols differ significantly in the level of consistency and the number of messages exchanged in reaching agreement. This paper briefly describes each protocol with a focus on what is new about them and where they might be used. <<ETX>>
Combined analysis of correlated data when data cannot be pooled

In genetic epidemiology studies, associations between individual genetic variants and phenotypes of interest are generally weak requiring large samples to estimate effects and to address complex statistical questions. Such sample sizes are often only achievable by pooling data from multiple studies; effects of interest can then be investigated through an individual‐level meta‐analysis (ILMA) on the pooled data, or by conducting a conventional study‐level meta‐analysis (SLMA). However, pooling individual‐level research data for an ILMA is not always possible, and researchers may be compelled to conduct an SLMA instead, restricting the sharing to non‐disclosing summary statistics. In certain settings, an individual‐level analysis can be conducted without pooling the data from the different studies. It has already been shown that when data are horizontally partitioned between studies, i.e. data are collected on the same variables in each study but any given study participant appears in one study only, it is possible to fit a generalised linear model in this way. In the present paper, we demonstrate that an individual‐level generalised estimating equations meta‐analysis can be achieved in an analogous manner. This extends the scope of ILMA without data pooling to problems involving correlated and clustered responses. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
How Poetry Works: The Elements of English Poetry

The author adopts a new approach to the understanding and appreciation of poetry in English. Spoken language is the basis of this art, so careful attention is given to its rhythms and other sound patterns. Poetry is meant to be heard, above all, and any approach that does not recognize this sells the poet, and the poem, short. The author, himself a poet, illustrates his arguments with examples drawn from nursery rhymes, limericks and Dadaist "ear poems", as well as from familiar works. The book concludes with an anthology drawn from poems written over the past thousand years, laid out in a way designed to help each reader with his or her subjective tastes.
Prepositions and the syntax of complementation

This thesis examines the syntax of prepositions from two points of view: firstly, the role of prepositions introducing complements of ditransitive verbs, and secondly, the internal relation between the preposition and its complement. Particular attention is given to the licensing conditions of so-called dative-alternation, as opposed to locative ditransitive constructions, and the phenomenon of preposition-stranding. The study is situated within the theoretical framework of Principle and Parameters, and follows the Minimalist Program (Chomsky (1993), 1995). Following Hale and Keyser (1993) (cf. also Chomsky (1995», it is assumed that ditransitive constructions are projections of P and V double object constructions (DOC) are taken to be projections ofa null P, an idea that stems from Kayne's (1984) study of DOC. Crosslinguistic variation in the occurrence of DOC is contingent on the presence of null P in the grammatical system of the language. The question why DOC is not a possible alternative to all ditransitive constructions is discussed. Following a strand of theorising proposing a correlation between argument licensing and the aspectual interpretation of the predicate (cf. Roberts (1985;1987); Tenny (1987; 1994); Borer (1994», it is argued that the conditions which determine whether DOC emerges as an alternative to overt P constructions are essentially aspectual: in predicates in which the event cannot be measured out (i. e. stative predicates), DOC is always possible; in predicates in which the event can be measured out (i.e. nonstative predicates), the alternation between DOC and the overt P construction is restricted to the cases in which either argument of the internal predicate is allowed to license the aspectual feature associated with the measuring out process, namely the event measurer (EM) feature the predicate must allow an interpretation in terms of possession (not location). Obligatory P-pied-piping which is found in Romance languages, German and Dutch, is shown to correlate with a requirement that phi-features be realised on P. Contraction between P and a definite article or a WH-pronoun is argued to be a morphophonological expression of this requirement. In contrast, English and Scandinavian languages, which do not have contracted forms, allow P to be stranded. On the basis of a study on the conditions licensing the emergence of DOC in the Minas dialect of Brazilian Portuguese, it is argued that crosslinguistic variation with respect to the occurrence of DOC is determined by morphological properties of the language: in particular, the occurrence of null P licensing these constructions is shown to be contingent on the absence of the morphological distinction between accusative and dative in the system of object pronouns.
길먼의 「누런 벽지」(“The Yellow Wallpaper”)

This paper examines how a nameless narrator in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been repressed by the reign of phallocentric culture and attempts to pursue her own independence and freedom by writing about herself. This paper will employ Helene Cixous’s theory on feminine writing, in order to analyze the importance of feminine writing in this novel. Cixous insists that women free themselves of the repression in patriarchal setting through the act of writing, writing from their bodies. Women's writing, for Cixous, is hysterical, but she is celebratory about the “validity” of hysteria as a response to social pressure, seeing the hysterical body as a liberating self-expression. Writing as a subversive act, threatening the system of control constructed to contain women, is the subject of “The Yellow Wallpaper. ” In this novel, the hysterical nameless narrator, like Gilman herself, attempts to free herself from the constraints of her husband’s patriarchal structure by writing her diary. The narrator suggests that women should be connected with each other in their writings: She tears the wallpaper to free the woman trapped behind the pattern. This novel asserts that women, as shown in Cixous’s paradigm, can achieve their own identities and freedoms by writing their own bodies.
Evaluation of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction Method and Some Conventional Extraction Methods for The Determination of Fatty Acid Content from Peganum harmala L. Seed

Turk halki arasinda Peganum harmala L. (Suriye rue) (Zygophyllaceae) tohumlarinin yaygin olarak “Harmal” veya “Uzerlik” oldugu bilinmektedir. Bu calismanin amaci, SC-CO 2 ekstraksiyonu ile (100 ° C, 200, 300 ve 400 bar basincta sabit sicaklik kosullarinda) ve bazi geleneksel ekstraksiyon yontemleriyle (etanol, heksan ve dimetil eter) karsilastirmak ve superkritik ektraksiyon yonteminde basincin etkisini arastirmaktir. Yapilan calismalar sonucunda; SC-CO2 ekstraksiyon yonteminin P.harmala L. tohumundan yag asitlerinin elde edilmesinde cok avantajli oldugu ve SC-CO 2 ekstraksiyon cihazinin basinc ve sicaklik kalibrasyonlarinin yapilmasi gerektigi sonucuna varilmistir. En yuksek (C15: 0), (C16: 1), (C17: 0), (C18: 3) ve doymus yag oraninin elde edilmesi icin 400 bar basinc en uygun iken; en yuksek (C14: 0), (C18: 1) ve (C18: 2) elde edilmesi icin 100 bar basincin, en uygun oldugu gorulmustur.
Student profiles to improve searching in e-learning systems

European countries have accumulated an enormous quantity of information in Digital Libraries (DLs). Offering seamless universal access to those collections will have a formidable impact on citizens' activities. Students could use information in DLs for improving their curricula, but it is difficult to find the exact chunk of material that solves a specific problem. A possible solution is to develop technologies that learn user preferences for customising information search. This paper focuses on a system based on Machine Learning techniques, the Profile Extractor, which automatically builds student models. An experimental session has been performed, evaluating the accuracy of the system.