Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Composition Languages for Black-Box Components

Supporting reuse of existing pieces of code is one of the main goals of software engineering. In the name of reuse, module-based programming languages came to be, only to be surpassed by object-oriented technology. With the same motivation component-based solutions are overtaking object-oriented solutions. However, the delegation-only focus of component-based programming risks of resulting in the same problems that modular-based approaches ran into. To counter this, we claim that one of th e important problems that should be addressed by component languages is the composition of components. More specifically, we see component languages where components are black-box abstractions, and with (one or more) composition languages to glue them tog ether. As an example we show a functional (Piccola) and a logic (QSoul) composition approach.
THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF NIGELLA SATIVA AGAINST MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ISOLATED FROM DIABETIC WOUND INFECTIONS

Thirty-five specimens were isolated from diabetic patients with superficial and deep wounds. The isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were selected from cetrimide agar plates supplemented with nalidixic acid.P. aeruginosawere subjected to in vitro evaluation of antibiotic sensitivity test using antibiotics from different classes. Multi-drug resistant P. aeruginosa (MDRPA) were selected for further tests and multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR)index was calculated. Eleven commercial essential oils (EOs) were chosen to evaluate their activities as antimicrobial agents against MDRPA. The sensitivity was determined using agar disc diffusion method. The black seed oil (Nigella sativa) showed a wide spectrum of inhibition against MDRPA3. The characterization of Nigella sativa was conducted by GC-MS and FT-IR which showed the antibacterial activity and safety of this oil. Article DOI: https://dx.doi. org/10.20319/mijst.2016. s21.113134 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
Representation Learning for Spoken term Detection

Spoken Term Detection (STD) is the task of searching a given spoken query word in large speech database. Applications of STD include speech data indexing, voice dialling, telephone monitoring and data mining. Performance of STD depends mainly on representation of speech signal and matching of represented signal. This work investigates methods for robust representation of speech signal, which is invariant to speaker variability, in the context of STD task. Here the representation is in the form of templates, a sequence of feature vectors. Typical representation in speech community Mel-Frequency CepstralCoe cients (MFCC) carry both speech-specific and speaker-specific information, so the need for better representation. Searching is done by matching sequence of feature vectors of query and reference utterances by using Subsequence Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). The performance of the proposed representation is evaluated on Telugu broadcast news data. In the absence of labelled data i.e., in unsupervised setting, we propose to capture joint density of acoustic space spanned by MFCCs using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and Gaussian-Bernoulli Restricted Boltzmann Machines (GBRBM). Posterior features extracted from trained models are used to search the query word. It is noticed that 8% and 12% improvement in STD performance compared to MFCC by using GMM and GBRBM posterior features respectively. As transcribed data is not required, this approach is optimal solution to low-resource languages. But due to it’s intermediate performance, this method cannot be immediate solution to high resource languages
Experimental Hybrid Courses That Combine Online Content Delivery With Face To Face Collaborative Problem Solving

An experimental format is described in which the "lecture content" for core sophomoreand junior-level ECE courses was delivered via on-line streaming video (referred to as “virtual lecture”), and the regularly-scheduled class meeting times were used for instructor-directed, collaborative problem solving sessions (referred to as “directed problem solving”). Traditional lecture divisions of each course were offered simultaneously, to provide students an opportunity to select the course format they felt best matched their individual learning style. The on-line Index of Learning Styles (ILS) tool was used to help students decide which course format to choose. Results, including survey data and comparative performance on common exams, are presented for the initial trials conducted.
Seeking help at an Islamic spiritual healing centre: Malaysia’s perspective

ABSTRACT Spiritual healing centre is a popular place to seek help among Malaysians whether for medical, psychiatric or other reasons. This study aims to understand the characteristics and illness perception of those patients who seek help at Islamic spiritual healing centre. A cross-sectional study was conducted at an established Islamic spiritual healing centre with 357 respondents. Younger age (OR .97, 95%CI .94–.99, p = .002), higher education level (OR 1.99, 95%CI 1.15–3.45, p = .014) and a more threatening view of the illness (OR 1.19, 95%CI 1.13–1.26, p ≤ .001) were found to confer risk of seeking help at this centre among attendees with psychiatric diagnosis. Supernatural attribution to illness is common among the attenders with or without a psychiatric diagnosis. Spirituality is important to bring balance and healing. Collaboration with Islamic spiritual healing practitioners to co-manage patients is recommended.
Modern Management of Endometrioma-Associated Infertility: in Favor of ART

Introduction Endometrioma is present in 17% to 40% of women with endometriosis. Since it has been traditionally believed that the presence of an endometrioma adversely affects the outcome of assisted reproductive technology (ART), surgery has been suggested by many practitioners before advancing to ART, in the hope of improving results. Scientific Evidence In the present article, we outline the impact of an endometrioma on the ovarian reserve and describe how surgical resection of an endometriotic cyst affects ovarian reserve, ovarian response after stimulation and ART outcome. Several studies suggest that the sole presence of an endometrioma may have a negative impact on ovarian reserve of the affected ovary, and surgery (particularly cystectomy) has been the choice of treatment in ovarian endometriosis for many years. However, detrimental effects of laparoscopic surgical removal on ovarian reserve and responsiveness to hyperstimulation has made that ART practices are shifting towards a more conservative approach: experimental and clinical data supporting this shift are thoroughly reviewed here. Clinical Implications Opposed to the conventional criteria of performing cystectomy when ovarian endometrioma is observed, careful consideration of patient symptoms as well as her age and ovarian reserve will help to select the patients that require surgery prior to ART, whereas the majority will not need surgery prior to ART; even more, surgery may compromise ovarian reserve in most cases even if performed by careful surgeons. Conclusions Individualization of the treatment is imperative. Each case should be thoroughly assessed, looking at both the advantages and complications of cyst removal prior to ART. Surgery should be approached with caution in women with endometriomas, especially if the woman has had previous ovarian surgery. In the presence of infertility, we recommend generally sparing surgical treatment and proceeding directly to ART. This reduces the time to achieve a pregnancy, avoids potential surgical risks and limits patient costs.
Advance Entity Liking with a Knowledge Base

Entity linking is the task to link entity mentions in text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. Potential applications include information extraction, information retrieval, and knowledge base population. However, this task is challenging due to name variations and entity ambiguity. The large number of web applications generate knowledge base data which lead to major entity linking research. We present the overview of analysis and main approach to extract data from the raw data and liking the entities with context.
Automatic Multidocument Summarization Based on Time Stamp

News special topic in Web site has plentiful pages.People can get main information rapidly by automatic multidocument summarization.A method which uses time stamp to improve sentence extraction quality is presented.The method of news sentence extraction,sentence importance calculation,and redundancy reducing is introduced.Experimental results show that summarization is good enough for practical application.
Time-frequency analysis of electrophysiology signals in epilepsy

Many of the most powerful and effective algorithms in signal processing start with the assumption of stationarity. In addition, the deterministic portion of the signal is often assumed to be composed of complex exponentials that are the solutions to linear time-invariant (LTI) differential equations. These assumptions are often valid enough to yield good results when the signals and systems involved result from engineering design which often assures compliance with these conceptualizations. Signals of biological origin often do not comply with these assumptions, however, resulting in disappointment when conventional techniques are used. Newly emerging techniques of time-frequency (t-f) analysis can provide new insights into the nature of biological signals. This article describes some results using reduced interference distributions (RIDs) in the analysis of biosignals recorded in human epilepsy. It is shown that RID analysis of these signals results in insights and research hypotheses which would be difficult or impossible to obtain using conventional techniques. This is not a general t-f review article, and it is beyond the scope of this article (and space limits) to discuss the many new t-f tools that are now appearing in the literature. This article demonstrates one application of RID analysis. >
A pass transistor regular structure for implementing multi-level combinational circuits

Implementation of multi-level combinational circuits using pass transistors and transmission gates is presented. The circuits are built with a new set of pass transistor gates, creating a network with well defined logic values at any node. A method to identify certain logic patterns is presented with the goal to reduce the number of pass transistor gates required to implement a logic function. SPICE simulations verified by the simulation of an example circuit show significant speed improvements for combinational circuits designed with pass transistor gates. <<ETX>>
Ill or Adolescent? Developing Group Work on an Adolescent Medicine Unit

Children with chronic ill health have been reported to be at increased risk of difficulties with psychosocial adjustment, and it is likely that the risk may be exacerbated during adolescence, a turbulent time even without illness. Self-esteem, social communication and stress-management skills have been identified as protective factors. Two groups were designed to enhance these factors among inpatients on a specialist adolescent medicine ward. Outcomes of the groups in relation to meeting the learning aims and the young people’s opinions about the groups are discussed.
Tenodesis and Transfer Procedures for Peroneal Tears and Tendinosis

Peroneal tendon pathology includes tenosynovitis and tendonitis, tendon instability, and tendon tears. Although peroneal tendonitis may respond to nonoperative management, surgery is frequently necessary for treating peroneal tendon tears. The operative procedure is dictated by the severity of the pathologic involvement. Primary repair with tubularization is recommended for peroneal tears involving less than 50% of the cross-sectional area. In cases of severe tendon degeneration or tears that encompass greater than 50% of the tendon, tenodesis to the normal tendon is recommended. When both tendons are severely torn and nonfunctional, tendon transfer using autologous or allograft tendon has been described. This study focuses on tenodesis procedures and tendon transfers for peroneal tears, including indications, surgical techniques, outcomes, and potential complications.
Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children (Retracted article. See vol 375, pg 445, 2010)

Background We investigated a consecutive series of children with chronic enterocolitis and regressive developmental disorder.Methods 12 children (mean age 6 years [range 3-10], 11 boys) were referred to a paediatric gastroenterology unit with a history of normal development followed by loss of acquired skills, including language, together with diarrhoea and abdominal pain. Children underwent gastroenterological, neurological, and developmental assessment and review of developmental records. Ileocolonoscopy and biopsy sampling, magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and lumbar puncture were done under sedation. Barium follow-through radiography was done where possible. Biochemical, haematological, and immunological profiles were examined.Findings Onset of behavioural symptoms was associated, by the parents, with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination in eight of the 12 children, with measles infection in one child, and otitis media in another. All 12 children had intestinal abnormalities, ranging from lymphoid nodular hyperplasia to aphthoid ulceration. Histology showed patchy chronic inflammation in the colon in 11 children and reactive ileal lymphoid hyperplasia in seven, but no granulomas. Behavioural disorders included autism (nine), disintegrative psychosis (one), and possible postviral or vaccinal encephalitis (two). There were no focal neurological abnormalities and MRI and EEG tests were normal. Abnormal laboratory results were significantly raised urinary methylmalonic acid compared with age-matched controls (p=0.003), low haemoglobin in four children, and a low serum IgA in four children.Interpretation We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers.
The Cortical Ring Sign: Clinical Results of Percutaneous Coracoclavicular Fixation

Background The coracoid cortical ring sign is a radiographical view that targets the coracoid base. We hypothesized that the use of this view to treat acromioclavicular separations would achieve desirable results with a rapid, percutaneous procedure. Methods Percutaneous coracoclavicular screws, guided by the cortical ring sign view, were used to treat acute, Rockwood grade III or greater acromioclavicular separations with instability to cross-body adduction. The anaesthesia database, clinical and radiographical outcomes were retrospectively reviewed for 41 cases (average age 35 years, range 18 years to 78 years). Average follow-up was 4.7 months (range 1 month to 23 months). Results There were six episodes of screw loosening (15%); three of six required an additional surgical procedure. The average residual joint subluxation at final follow-up was approximately 40%, which was significantly improved from the pre-operative displacement (p < 0.01) and not statistically different from the reduction achieved with the screw in place. All patients had full range of motion and, using the modified UCLA score, 98% (40/41) achieved ‘Good to Excellent’ results. The procedure was rapid (average surgical time: 35 minutes), minimally invasive (average blood loss: 15 mL), and the coracoid cortical ring sign view averaged less than 5 minutes to localize. Conclusion When using the coracoid cortical ring sign to target a coracoclavicular screw, the procedure is rapid, minimally invasive, and clinically predictable. There is, however, a high rate of screw loosening and subluxation.
Agrandissement d'un écran mobile par réalité augmentée

Les recentes et importantes avancees dans la recherche et en industrie promettent a la realite augmentee (RA) de s’integrer profondement dans nos vies personnelles et professionnelles, malgre des limites technologiques encore existantes, pour augmenter nos perceptions du reel et les interactions avec nos environnements. Nous proposons d’utiliser la RA pour etendre l’ecran d’un telephone, au-dela de ses limites physiques, avec un ecran virtuel coplanaire, synchronise et suivant ses mouvements, creant la perception d’un unique grand ecran etendu tenu en main. Nous appelons cette extension Virtuality Extended Screen-Aligned Display (VESAD). Nous decrivons les modes de vues possibles avec cette affichage : vue multi-fenetres, supportant du multi-tâche, et vue etendue, ou une application utilise tout l’ecran etendu. Nous presentons aussi deux nouvelles techniques d’interaction : wrist, ou l’utilisateur fait une rotation rapide du poignet pour substituer l’affichage avec un autre, et slide-to-hang pour detacher l’ecran etendu en une fenetre virtuelle separee du telephone. Nous decrivons ensuite la conception de notre propre visiocasque de RA a large champ de vision (100°×98° pour chaque oeil), permettant de voir completement l’ecran etendu, ainsi que le developpement de notre bibliotheque libre de RA ArucoUnity, qui porte sur le moteur 3D Unity les fonctions de suivi de marqueurs et de calibration de camera de la bibliotheque libre de vision par ordinateur OpenCV. Nous menons ensuite une etude experimentale pour evaluer, d’une part, les avantages d’un telephone a ecran etendu par rapport a un telephone non etendu et, d’autre part, pour comparer l’utilisation de l’ecran tactile a des interactions avec la main sur l’ecran virtuel. Nous repliquons une tâche de classement issue de la litterature sur les affichages muraux, impliquant de la navigation et des selections. Nos resultats indiquent que la combinaison du telephone a ecran etendu avec les interactions tactiles s’est montree la plus rapide, en particulier quand la tâche etait maitrisee des participants, et la plus performante en termes de navigation. Elle a egalement ete preferee des participants. Neanmoins, plusieurs participants ont vu plus de potentiel dans les interactions avec la main virtuelle avec l’ecran etendu. Nous donnons enfin des recommandations d’implementation, de conception d’interface et de techniques d’interaction pour un VESAD.
3D Computer Graphics

The third edition of Alan Watt's 3D Computer Graphics, a bible of computer graphics, includes a CD-ROM full of examples and updated information on graphics and rendering algorithms. The book discusses many of the techniques that have evolved in the seven years since the previous edition was published. 3D Computer Graphics is a textbook, and it's designed for serious programmers creating graphics applications (not end users). Over the course of 16 sections, Watt introduces the concepts and implementation of computer imaging, from "Mathematical Fundamentals of Computer Graphics" to "Representation and Rendering" and ending with "Image-Based Rendering and Photo-Modeling. " The last section, devoted to computer animation, includes methods for linked structures, collision detection, and particle animation (to name a few). Although the topics are sometimes hard to grasp, Mr. Watt writes clearly and concisely, making generous use of diagrams to help convey the principles described in the text. The accompanying CD-ROM includes over a dozen studies of computer graphics techniques and rendering algorithms. Presented in HTML, the exhaustive studies, each with a matrix of thumbnails, demonstrates the varied achievable results. One minor complaint here: although the thumbnails can be clicked to view a much larger image, the larger versions come in . tif format, which few (if any) Web browsers can view. Users will need another application to view them. Having the large image in . jpg format would have enabled the reader to view it in the already-open Web browser.
Getting beyond the serial/parallel debate in visual search: a hybrid approach

The question of whether visual search involves at least one item-by-item serial processing stage or whether instead it is an entirely parallel process has been debated for decades, Recently, estimates of 'attentional dwell-time', which is the time required to reallocate atcention from one item to another, have been brought to bear on this question. Herc. we review this and other classes of evidence that favor serial or parallel models of visual search, and conclude thnt hybrid models that are neither strictly serial nor strictly parallel are better candidates for describing human visunl search. \Ve end the chapter with a sketch of one such model, and some of its possibilities. If you look for a 2 among the 5s in Fig. 9.1, it will take you longer to find the 2 in lB than in lA and even longer to confirm that there is no 2 present in IC. How should we understand the dependence of response time (RT) in this sort of task on the number of items (set size)? The answer to this question has been phrased in essentiaJly dichotomous terms for a generation. It could be that each item is processed one after the other in series (cf. e.g. Treisman and Gelade 1980; Wolfe et al. 1989; Wolfe 1994). It could be that information is accumulated from multiple items at the same time in parallel (Grossberg et al. 1994; Humphreys and Muller 1993; Palmer and rvicLean 1995). Which is it? Is attention deployed to one item at a time in visual search or is it distributed across many or all items? These sound like dramatically different alternatives. Why then has it proved so difficult for proponents of serial models or proponents of parallel models to gain the upper hand in this debate? One explanation has been that, for all their apparent differences, serial and parallel models can be made to predict similar experimental outcomes (e.g. Townsend 1971, 1976, 1990). We will argue for a somewhat different position. There is a class of plausible models
Data Processing of Scanning Beam Points-Cloud based Measuring Freeform Surface

Freeform surface reconstruction by points-cloud data is one of the key technologies of reverse engineering.Its reconstruction accuracy largely depends on the accuracy of points-cloud data processing.Based this characteristics of scanning beam points-cloud data more widely used measuring data organization,this paper described in detail including the removal of abnormal points,the data splicing and unity,smoothing and filtering,data reduction such as points cloud data processing,proposed freeform surface scanning beam points-cloud data high accuracy and high automated processing methods and processes.Examples show that points-cloud data after automatic processing can fully meet the needs of follow-up model of surface reconstruction,and can provide reliable data ensure for modeling.
A Recognition Method Using SA Optimized SVM-DS

Through properly setting the simulated annealing options of acceptance function, annealing function and temperature function, an adaptive hyper-parameter estimation method using simulated annealing algorithm is applied to improve the accuracy and efficiency of SVM. While, in order to eliminate the effects of error accumulation in multi-SVM, D-S theory is employed for decision fusion of SVM classifiers. When delimiting the belief and plausibility measures, recognition capability of SVM classifiers has been taken into account. And the Dempster decision rule also has been considered to the recognition result of each SVM classifier in the fusion algorithm. Finely, with the data set in the database of Statlog for the study, the experiment result indicates that this method can significantly increase the classification accuracy and demonstrate a good performance of robust.