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Content Recommendation Through Linked Data

Nowadays, people can easily obtain a huge amount of information from the Web, but often they have no criteria to discern it. This issue is known as information overload. Recommender systems are software tools to suggest interesting items to users and can help them to deal with a vast amount of information. Linked Data is a set of best practices to publish data on the Web, and it is the basis of the Web of Data, an interconnected global dataspace. This thesis discusses how to discover information useful for the user from the vast amount of structured data, and notably Linked Data available on the Web. The work addresses this issue by considering three research questions: how to exploit existing relationships between resources published on the Web to provide recommendations to users; how to represent the user and his context to generate better recommendations for the current situation; and how to effectively visualize the recommended resources and their relationships. To address the first question, the thesis proposes a new algorithm based on Linked Data which exploits existing relationships between resources to recommend related resources. The algorithm was integrated into a framework to deploy and evaluate Linked Data based recommendation algorithms. In fact, a related problem is how to compare them and how to evaluate their performance when applied to a given dataset. The user evaluation showed that our algorithm improves the rate of new recommendations, while maintaining a satisfying prediction accuracy. To represent the user and their context, this thesis presents the Recommender System Context ontology, which is exploited in a new context-aware approach that can be used with existing recommendation algorithms. The evaluation showed that this method can significantly improve the prediction accuracy. As regards the problem of effectively visualizing the recommended resources and their relationships, this thesis proposes a visualization framework for DBpedia (the Linked Data version of Wikipedia) and mobile devices, which is designed to be extended to other datasets. In summary, this thesis shows how it is possible to exploit structured data available on the Web to recommend useful resources to users. Linked Data were successfully exploited in recommender systems. Various proposed approaches were implemented and applied to use cases of Telecom Italia.
The effect of high temperatures and grazing flow on the acoustic properties of liners

Acoustic liners are used to reduce fan noise in aircraft engine intakes but also in hot stream parts of the engine. To gain confidence in liner impedance models which are used for design it is important to make experimental tests under realistic conditions as possible. This paper present results of hot stream impedance eduction tests for single degree of freedom Helmholtz resonator liners with different configurations. These types of liners consist of a perforate top sheet backed by a honeycomb cavity to give a locally reacting wall treatment which can be characterized by an acoustic impedance. In the present case a number of different perforate sheet geometries were tested under varying grazing flow and temperature conditions. In some cases the liner test samples also included a thin layer of metallic foam. These types of liners are used for aircraft engine applications but are also of interest for IC-engine applications. It could be argued that the main effect of high temperatures is a change of medium properties such as: density, viscosity and speed of sound. If this is true the high temperature impedance could be predicted by scaling from the result at cold conditions. This is investigated in the paper by comparing measured results from liner impedance models available in the literature.
Phenolics content , in vitro antioxidant and anticholinesterase activities of combined berry extracts

Plant extracts are often incorporated into food products, mainly due to their protective effects such as antioxidant or antimicrobial. Usually, individual extracts were used for such purposes. The aim of the present study was to investigate different combinations of bilberriesblackcurrants extracts as synergistic formulations in terms of phenolic compounds content, antioxidant and anticholinesterase activities. Different behaviours such as additive, synergistic and antagonistic effects were noticed in combined extracts. With respect to antioxidant activity as measured by phenolics and FRAP assays, synergistic effects were observed in all tested combinations. The in vitro screening for acetylcholinesterase inhibition indicated inhibitory activity of combined extracts with different efficacies. The most promising formulation intended for antioxidant potential and pharmaceutical interest as well, was found to be 33% bilberry and 67% blackcurrant: 100 g of this freeze-dried formulation contains 2792 mg phenolics (1985 mg flavonoids, 1309 mg anthocyanins) and 3072 mg ascorbic acid equivalents (total antioxidant activity by FRAP). It can be considered a valuable starting point for the development of nutritional supplements or ingredients for food industry.
Analysis of tumour site concordance

Since its establishment in the early 1970s, the IARC Monographs Programme has evaluated more than 1000 agents with evidence of human exposure for which some suspicion exists of an increased cancer risk to humans. The IARC Monographs Programme has developed detailed criteria against which to evaluate the available scientific evidence on the carcinogenic potential of such agents. These criteria, which are described in the Preamble to the IARC Monographs (Cogliano et al., 2004; IARC, 2006), are used to evaluate and integrate the evidence provided by human epidemiological studies, animal cancer bioassays, and information on possible biological mechanisms of action, to classify agents into one of the following categories: carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A), possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans (Group 3), and probably not carcinogenic to humans (Group 4). These evaluations involve classifying the data from both the human and the animal studies as providing sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity, limited evidence of carcinogenicity, inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity, or evidence suggesting lack of carcinogenicity. The information on biological mechanisms of action may be evaluated as strong, moderate, or weak, and is taken into consideration in the overall evaluation. To date, IARC has developed 119 Monographs Volumes on more than 1000 agents for which there exists
RESILIENT CITIES-AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE DISASTERS

The objective of this paper is to reduce loss of lives and properties in urban areas. The key strategy is to designate low and medium hazard sectors for population densification and city expansion, and to locate there essential facilities such as hospitals and develop lifelines such as water services, taking into consideration the influence of surface geology. The hazard maps of Ica, Pisco, Chincha and Cañete affected by the Peru 2007 earthquake, developed in 20012002, agreed well with the real effect of that event. As one of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to provide good quality water to at least half of the world’s population, the damage to water and sewage of Pisco city was investigated. As a member of the UNISDR Panel of the World Campaign 2010-2015 Making Cities Resilient. My city is Getting Ready, my intent in this paper is to provide some contribution to the campaign.
XX Application of Magnetic Particles in Medicine and Biology

Magnetic particles (MPs) exist in our environment in greater amounts than is commonly noticed. Huge masses of sediments contain iron oxide particles of terrigenous material. A small number of these particles are formed from magnetosomes, which are special organelles of bacteria. Recent investigations have revealed interesting details of the factors governing the size and formation of these biogenic MPs (Schüler and Frankel, 1999; Scheffel et al., 2006). The properties of biogenic MPs are particularly favorable for certain applications such as a heat source in local magnetic hyperthermia (see Section 4). Nevertheless, their general use in medicine and biology is restricted owing to the fact that their growth cannot be easily controlled. Moreover, their content of bacterial proteins, if not completely removed,
Prosody-based clustering of spoken corpus search results

The role of prosodic features of speech in the construction of meaning and discourse structure is an active area of linguistic research (Wichmann et al. 2009). The work described in this paper addresses the need for corpus-based tools for studying prosodic phenomena in conversational and read speech. More specifically, the paper presents an experimental prosody-based clustering functionality of the Spokes online search engine available for spoken Polish and English data (see: spokes.clarin-pl.eu, pelcra.clarin-pl.eu/SpokesBNC/ and pelcra.clarin-pl.eu/spokes2-web). The basic goal of this technique is to facilitate the analysis of concordance results according to selected features of the speech signal associated with word spans matching user queries. For example, given a simple query for the word hello, it is possible to automatically label pitch patterns detected for this surface form and thus distinguish between rising vs. falling pitch contours or relatively highvs. relatively low-pitched instances of hello in the corpus. The assumption behind this approach is that even a simple sorting of search results by such labels may lead to the discovery of prosodymarked functions of words and multiword expressions. Furthermore, normalized annotations of prosody can also be used as more complex feature vectors in order to cluster concordance result sets in a multidimensional space. The characteristics of speech considered in this experimental module of Spokes are a) duration of the matching search spans, b) pitch contours and c) voice intensity measurements. The normalization of pitch and intensity contours is performed using the MOMEL technique (Hirst & Espesser 1993) for simplifying contours and the INSINT scheme for encoding intonation patterns. The applicability of this new data exploration method to corpus-based studies of spoken language is evaluated on two use cases a) detecting potential prosodic distinctions between instances of ditropic expressions (cf. Van Lancker et al. 1981) and b) identifying functionally different but morphologically identical discourse and pragmatic markers.
Pre-Contact Sensor Based Collision Avoidance Manipulator

In industrial environments where humans and robot manipulators co-exist, it is always a risk that humans get injured while operating alongside robot manipulators in its workspace. In fact, this kind of accidents do occur and in some cases, results in fatalities. Reasons include the negligence of the safety procedures from the human worker or any form of carelessness when the human operator is inside the manipulator’s workspace. Industrial robots are rigid, performance-based machines, but can be equipped with sensors and algorithms to accommodate human presence in the work envelop. The objective of this paper is to propose a pre-contact sensor-based collision avoidance manipulator that adjusts its motion when a human presence is detected by using proximity sensors placed at different locations of the manipulator. The system is then analyzed in terms of sensor positioning and direction of the approaching human. Results indicate that by using ultrasonic sensors and new reference trajectory, the robot is able to detect the approaching motion of the human and decide on the alternative path, if necessary.
Managed Stack Cache for Real-Time Systems

In a real-time system, the use of a scratchpad memory can mitigate the difficulties related to analyzing data caches, whose behavior is inherently hard to predict. We propose to use a scratchpad memory for stack allocated data. While statically allocating stack frames for individual functions to scratchpad memory regions aids predictability, it is limited to non-recursive programs and static allocation has to take different calling contexts into account. Using a stack cache that dynamically spills data to and fills data from external memory avoids these problems, while its simple design allows for efficiently deriving worst-case bounds through static analysis. In this paper we present the design and implementation of software managed caching of stack allocated data in a scratchpad memory. We demonstrate a compiler-aided implementation of a stack cache using the LLVM compiler framework and report on its efficiency. Our evaluation encompasses stack management overhead and impact on worst-case execution time analysis. The state-of-the-art worst-case execution time analysis tool aiT is able to correctly classify all stack cache accesses as accesses to the scratchpad memory.
Extending and Exploiting the Entity Graph for Analysis, Classification and Visualization of German Texts

We show that coherence information represented in an entity graph is valuable for NLP tasks as well as for the analysis of literary work. We present an extension of the entity graph for German by adding a syntactic role category for possession modiﬁers and reducing the weights for entities found in embedded structures. Furthermore, we extract a set of graph metrics and show that they are valuable features in text analysis of literary works and author classiﬁcation.
Expecting the Expected: 1 g Peak Motions in the Automated Damage Detection, Early-Warning ed Hospital Buildings in the United States İstanbul Metropolitan Area

Using a deterministic approach, peak values of expected ground-motions are estimated for the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) region that encompasses Istanbul based on six plausible earthquake scenarios. These scenarios consist of individual and multiple rupturing of the submarine fault segments along the western part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ) extending into the Sea of Marmara. To quantify the regional exposure on a set of hazard maps, a total of six ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) have been used in a combinatorial approach to account for epistemic uncertainty. In lieu of subjectively weighting the expressions, the GMPEs were weighted proportional to their relative performance in predicting the measured peak ground motions of the 1999 M7.4 Kocaeli earthquake when it ruptured the İzmit segment of the NAFZ up to the eastern reaches of İstanbul. This computational approach has resulted in consistent but different weights for each GMPE at different spectral periods. The resultant high-resolution (0.002° by 0.002°, approx. 250 m by 250 m) deterministic seismic hazard maps, that incorporate site amplification due to softer sediments, provide peak horizontal ground acceleration (PGA) and spectral acceleration values at 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3 and 4 seconds. The median spectral acceleration at 0.3 s computed is close to 1 g along the shoreline to the west of the İstanbul metropolitan area, and 0.3 g near the financial district from all scenarios.
Tribological Behaviors of PTFE Composites Filled with Surface-Modified Nano-Serpentine under Natural Seawater Lubrication

As a new developing sub-field of tribology, marine tribology is significant. In order to find a material with good tribological performance in seawater, in this paper a surface-modified nano-serpentine particles with a silane coupling agent (KH550) were filled into a Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene (PTFE) matrix to prepare PTFE/serpentine composites. The water absorption and hardness of the composites were investigated. Tribological tests of the composites against AISI 1045 steel were conducted using a MMU-5G friction and wear tester under natural seawater lubrication. The worn surface of the PTFE/serpentine composite and the AISI 1045 steel ring were characterized using a scanning electron microscope. The results indicate that the surface of the serpentine powder modified using KH550 has the characteristics of a silane coupling agent, which facilitates a better combination between the serpentine powder and the PTFE matrix. The water absorption of the PTFE/serpentine composite in seawater was extremely low, and the hardness of the composite hardly changed. In the tribological tests, the wear rate of the PTFE composite was one order lower than that of the pure PTFE. The friction chemical reactions occurred on the surface of the steel ring, and the transfer film and seawater lubrication film were the dominant factors that resulted in the excellent tribological performance of the PTFE composite under seawater lubrication.
Fault Specific , Dynamic Rupture Scenarios for Strong Ground Motion Prediction

Blank line 11 pt Blank line 11 pt SUMMARY We propose a method to estimate fault-specific, heterogeneous rupture models for scenario earthquakes incorporating dynamic rupture simulation and geological or geomorphological data. We apply our method to evaluate earthquake scenarios for the Uemachi fault system which is a 45 km-long vertical fault running underneath the Osaka plain, the southwest Japan. We define an average slip distribution whose along-strike variation is similar to that of the cumulative displacement distribution. Small-scale heterogeneity not included in the cumulative displacement distribution is added assuming fractal distribution. The slip distribution is then converted to static stress drop distribution and incorporated into the dynamic rupture simulation. Resultant earthquake scenarios show unsmooth rupture propagation leaving unruptured parts on the fault plane reflecting the heterogeneity of the stress field. The rupture spontaneously stops near the bottom of the fault plane, which successfully demonstrates the die-out of the high-speed rupture near the bottom of the seismogenic zone. Blank line 10 pt
Analysis of Algorithms for Implementing AI for Game “Tak”

: "TAK" is a conceptual technique two player game, which has as of late picked up ubiquity in the gaming group because of its beginning in a Fantasy Novel and because of its Kickstarter crusade. It is a Zero-Sum, Perfect-Information game. A zero-whole game is a scientific portrayal of a circumstance in which every member's pick up (or misfortune) of utility is precisely adjusted by the misfortunes (or increases) of the utility of the other member. In the event that every player, when settling on any choice, is superbly educated of the considerable number of occasions that have beforehand happened, it is known as an immaculate data game. Because of these properties, we can actualize essential AI calculations, as Minimax and Alpha-beta look based calculations for "TAK". "TAK" Community is consistently developing and dissimilar to chess there hasn't been a great deal of consideration given to "TAK" AI. A similar investigation of AI Algorithms will help future "TAK" AI designers to make an AI program all the more proficiently.
The Underlying Structure of Diverse Work Groups: A Literature Review on Faultlines and Diversity Outcomes

Diversity can be seen everywhere, as either a readily observable trait of people, such as gender and ethnicity, or as a hidden set of abilities, such work skills and personality traits. Organizations consider that work-teams with a diverse composition outperform homogeneous work-teams. Although this is often the case, there can be specific types of diversity composition that are detrimental for organizational outcomes. Usually this occurs in situations where members of a team align on more than one diversity attribute, thus creating a diversity faultline. As of yet, however, the literature is lacking a systematic overview as to whether diversity faultlines are always associated with poor organizational outcomes. To address this issue we conducted a literature review in which we sought to unravel the different underlying structures of diversity faultlines and their association with organizational outcomes. We distinguished between affective outcomes and productive outcomes. The findings indicate that faultlines can be categorized as based on social category aspects, information/ decision-making aspects, or a combination of the two attributes. Furthermore, the results suggest that there is no straightforward relationship between the various faultlines and outcomes. We argue that this is potentially due to the fact that these studies have not addressed the normative fit of faultlines. Our review also hints at the necessity of researchers to reach a consensus on how to operationalize some diversity traits.
Proposal on Emotion Recognition

In this paper I will introduce my thesis question: To what extent can emotion recognition be improved by combining audio and visual information? In addition to covering background on audio information, I will introduce new information on image processing and some work that has been done in the field. I will then discuss methodologies for combining the two sources of information and evaluating them.
TECHNOLOGY AND MARKET CONSIDERATIONS FOR FIBER CEMENT COMPOSITES

It is clear that addition of fibers to fiber cement imparts a number of attributes that are important to the application and serviceability of the composite. Some of these attributes include resistance to cracking, a lighter weight and a degree of flexibility that are important to the market place. Fig 1 schematically depicts how fibers impede crack development. In this figure, it is noted that fibers that bridge the crack without slipping out or breaking slow or block crack development.
THE ROLE OF IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND DECISION MAKING PROCESS ON ADULT ATTACHMENT : A CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY IN SICILIAN AND ANDALUSIAN ADOLESCENTS

Objective: Literature shows that attachment styles are shaped by the first relationships children establish with their environment and that they continue during adolescence and have an influence on individual’s identity development, and interpersonal relationships. Research has examined the role of identity and decision-making processes on adult attachment style. Method: The participants were 162 students, aged between 18 and 36 (20.98 ± 2.70), coming from two countries, Siciliy (Italy) and Andalusia (Spain), characterized by a different socio-cultural system and family context. The participants were assigned to complete the following questionnaires: the Ego Identity Process Questionnaire (EIPQ), the General Decision Making Style (GDMS) and the Experience in Close Relationship (ECR). Results: Findings suggest that there are differences between Italy and Spain in adult attachment, identity development and decision-making process. Conclusions: The results are in line with literature that underscored the notion that the Italian family is characterized by a high degree of emotional bonding and excessive support from both parents.