Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An environment for constructing nominal-paraphrase corpora

In lexical paraphrasing, which is the task of replacing a content word with some semantically equivalent expression in a given context, one of the most critical issue is how to acquire the large-scale knowledge about the fine-grained semantic equivalence between near-synonyms. In this paper, we explore how one could use the existing thesauri and the descriptions appearing in machine readable dictionaries for humans for this purpose. The key idea is to extract the information about the fine-grained semantic difference between near-synonyms by matching their meaning descriptions. This paper presents a computational environment for developing nominal-paraphrase corpora, which would serve as the basis for our on-going research on paraphrasing, discussing several technical issues that have come up through our preliminary experiments. key words : lexical paraphrasing, synonym, explication, Natural Language Processing 1 はじめに ある言語表現をできるだけ意味を保持したまま別の 言語表現に変換する「言い換え」の技術は,自然言語処 理の諸分野において様々な応用が考えられる重要な要 素技術である [19]. たとえば,翻訳や要約などの前処理 として言い換えを行う試みはすでにいくつか報告され ており [7],日本語・手話翻訳や音声合成といった異な るタスクの前処理にも利用できる可能性がある. また, 要約や推敲支援,文章読解支援のように言い換え技術 が根幹をなす応用もあり,それぞれの文脈の中で言い 換えの実現を目指す研究も見られるようになってきた [3, 12, 2, 8]. 最近では,言い換え技術を応用からある 程度独立した要素技術として捉え,その性質や実現方法 を解明する試みもいくつか見られる [4, 15, 19, 16]. し かしながら,日英翻訳のような言語間翻訳が長年精力的 に研究されてきた経緯と比べると,「単言語内翻訳」で ある言い換えの研究はまだ極めて萌茅的な段階にある と言わざるをえない. このような背景から,我々は「要素技術としての言い 換え」の事例研究として,連体修飾節に着目した構文的 言い換え [18]や,文中の内容語を別の語句に言い換え る語彙的言い換えの研究を進めている. 本稿では,語彙 的言い換えの一つである普通名詞の言い換えについて, 問題の性質と取り組むべき課題を論じる. 言い換えは,ある言語表現を,同じ意味を持つ別の言 語表現に変換する作業と言える. しかしながら,実際 には完全に同義の言い換え対はほとんど存在せず,一般 に,ある言語表現を言い換えると何らかの意味の変化 が生じる. とくに,単体で指示的意味 (denotation)を 持つ内容語を言い換える場合は,この「意味の差」を慎 重に考慮する必要がある. たとえば,「格差」と「落差」 は,EDR 日本語単語辞書 [6]によると同概念に属する が,厳密には異なる指示的意味 (denotation)を持つた め,互いに言い換え可能かどうかは文脈に依存する. た とえば,次の文に現れる「格差」を「落差」に置き換え ることはできない.
Adaptive Bitrate and Resource Allocation for Relay-Assisted ARQ Transmissions

Automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocols deal with the situations where the selected data rate is not supported by the current channel realization. The inappropriate selection is motivated by the limited channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). This work looks into how the ARQ protocols are applied to the half-duplex relay-assisted transmission with decode-and-forward relays by exploiting the ACK feedback channel of the terminals. Two implementations are tackled: 1) only the source or 2) source and relay manage the retransmissions under the pure-ARQ protocol. This work presents an analytical framework for the comparison of both options. The study allows the optimization of the bitrate and amount of resource allocated for the relay transmission phases.
Test and Diagnostic Trends for Nanometer Technology

Abstract In a highly dynamic semiconductor manufacturing technology, the migration to the next process technology node tries to create a smaller-faster-cheaper chip. To achieve this, the integrated circuit (IC) designs are becoming more complex and new manufacturing materials/processes are introduced. Additionally, demands for sustainable yield and shorter time to volume production have to be met as they govern the profitability of the semiconductor industry. As a result, rapid yield improvement techniques are crucial to overcome huge yield losses. Any yield improvement technique typically involves detecting the yield loss (testing) and identifying its root cause (diagnosis). This paper presents a survey of the existing research work reported in the literature for test and diagnostics of nanometer chips and presents interesting open issues.
Exploring individual, social and organisational effects on Web 2.0-based workplace learning: a research agenda for a systematic approach

Web 2.0-based workplace learning is defined in this article as informal learning that takes place in the workplace through connections and collaborations mediated by Web 2.0 technology. Web 2.0-based workplace learning has the potential to enhance organisational learning and development. However, little systematic research has been published that explores how individual, social and organisational factors may influence Web 2.0-based workplace learning. This study aims to address this knowledge gap. Drawing on a selective review of the theories and research on social exchange, social capital, communities of practice and organisational support, we have developed a testable theoretical model for further empirical study. Keywords: Web 2.0; workplace learning; social exchange; social capital; communities of practice; organisational learning and development (Published: 11 September 2013) Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2013, 21 : 19089 - http://dx.doi. org/10.3402/rlt.v21i0. 19089
A NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR A NAVIGATION CHANNEL

The finite difference method was applied to simulate the morphological processes for a. navigation channel Mathematical equations were based on the SUTRENCH and PROFILE models proposed by L. C. van Rijn. The difficulties of treatment for bed boundary conditions were overcame flexibly by using the interpolation functions with high accuracy. The results obtained showed that the simulation is very suitable and able to be applied to practice problems.
Processing of radio-frequency ultrasound signals from blood and cerebral emboli.

Transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) is commonly used to detect emboli in the cerebral circulation. However, current techniques to discriminate between signals from emboli and artefacts are subjective and ambiguous. The radio-frequency (RF) signal provides an extra dimension to the information available from conventional TCD systems, which may help to interpret complex events. Artefacts generated by healthy volunteers and embolic signals recorded from a flow phantom were used to characterize the appearance of the two types of event. Characteristics of events, recorded during and immediately after carotid endarterectomy surgery, were compared to those from known sources. Additional information was provided by the RF signal, on events recorded during TCD monitoring, thus aiding classification. The RF signal may have a role as a gold standard for embolus detection. Embolic signals appear as uniform and predictable shapes within the RF signal, enabling pattern recognition and image processing techniques to be used for their automated detection. Principal component analysis (PCA) has been used to characterize the typical variation in embolic signal shape, within the RF signal, using training sets of in vitro and in vivo data. PCA techniques were also utilised to discriminate between previously unseen embolic and artefact signals. The algorithms developed did not have the accuracy required for their use in a clinical setting but do have the potential to be developed further. The RF signal allows us to track the motion of an embolus but the technique is limited by the narrow bandwidth of the transmitted pulse as this provides poor axial resolution. Mathematical modelling and in vitro experiments were carried out to assess the feasibility of using coded-excitation and pulse-compression within a TCD system to improve the bandwidth and hence the axial resolution. Quantitative and qualitative measures were used to compare the new processing method with that of a conventional, non-coded system. Results showed that it was feasible and beneficial to implement coded-excitation and pulse-compression in a TCD system.
The conversation: developing confidence to provide end of life care in Salford nursing homes

The study was funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing and partly by Salford Primary Care Trust. A realistic evaluation design was used to collect data using a range of approaches, from before and after surveys of confidence in delivering end of life care, to participant observation and interviews. A total of 43 people were interviewed involving both staff, residents and relatives. Key Messages a) Significant resources are needed to engage staff, residents and relatives/carers with the idea of advance care planning b) Care home staff are optimistic about involving residents and relatives in planning care at the end of life and some relatives become very involved in care c) Clearly registered nurses and other care home workers such as care assistants have different roles, but the overlap between these and the appropriate boundaries would benefit from further work d) Talking to residents and relatives about their feelings and wishes for care at the end of life remains especially difficult, but education and training in key skills and knowledge can engender both ability and motivation e) Care homes need strong and well-informed leadership in order to implement the Gold Standards Framework f) Placing a relative in a care home involves strain and an ability to compromise ‘there’s no perfect place’ g) Advance care planning can reduce the distress and the number of inappropriate hospital admissions, but is challenging in the face of staff rotation and out of hours medical staff being unpredictable h) The principles of the Gold Standards Framework are widely seen as sensible, but clinical challenges include diagnosing and predicting dying trajectories, especially in heart failure, chronic pulmonary disease and dementia i) A particular concern of staff is how to approach nutrition and hydration as frailty and death approach j) Communicating about diagnosis and especially prognosis with residents who lack capacity is an increasing problem k) Natural justice suggests that resources should be allocated to the general standardisation of a good quality of care at the end of life in ALL care homes whatever their Care Quality Commission rating
Research on the Group-type of High Voltage Electric Field Measurement Safety Distance Caution Apparatus

This paper introduces a kind of research and application of group-type of high voltage electric field measurement and safety distance caution apparatus based on wireless communication technology, the group-type caution apparatus is combined with a master and multiple slaves, in which the slaves are used to measure electric field and the master is used to monitor the slaves. The master keeps the real-time wireless communication with the slaves, realizing the safety dual monitoring of the high voltage working environment and guaranteeing the personnel safety of live working man. Conduct a working performance test on the site of Chongqing Rongchang 500kV Hongban transmission line I about the stability and accuracy. The test results show that the designer of group-type of HV electric field measurement and safety distance caution apparatus can work stably in the strong electric field environment, besides, it has a good performance in both safety distance exceeding alarm and wireless communication.
Typological profiling: learner Englishes versus indigenized L2 varieties of English

Drawing on naturalistic corpus data, this study is an exercise in establishing typological profiles of learner varieties (as sampled in the International Corpus of Learner English) vis-à-vis indigenized L2 varieties of English (as represented in the International Corpus of English), though we also include in our dataset, for benchmarking purposes, a number of European languages as well as three stylistic varieties drawn from the British National Corpus. Our research is informed by two typological parameters widely used in the crosslinguistic classification of languages: overt grammatical analyticity, which we operationalize as the text frequency of free grammatical markers, and overt grammatical syntheticity, which we define as the text frequency of bound grammatical markers. The principal insight afforded by this study is that learner Englishes and indigenized L2 varieties of English have strikingly different typological profiles, a finding which we trace back to a number of grammatical markers whose function and frequency differs between the two groups. We also present a methodology to explore if learner Englishes are sensitive to typological properties of their substrate languages, and find that this is not generally the case.
Multiple Comparison Procedures for Large Correlated Data with Application to Brain Connectivity Analysis

Keywords: multiple comparisons ; multiple testing ; family-wise error Rate (FWER) ; false discovery rate (FDR) ; αβerical rate ordered p-values ; power ; weighted classification ; brain connectivity ; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ; diffusion imaging These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 5853 (2013)Programme doctoral Genie electriqueFaculte des sciences et techniques de l'ingenieurInstitut de genie electrique et electroniqueLaboratoire de traitement des signaux 5Jury: J.-M. Vesin (president), A.C. Davison, P. Hagmann, O. Renaud Public defense: 2013-9-20 Reference doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-5853Print copy in library catalog Record created on 2013-09-09, modified on 2016-08-09
Automatic Leukocyte Image Segmentation: A review

Blood analysis is very important to establish the health state of a patient in order to diagnose diseases like Leukemia, one of the top causes of children mortality in Latin America, for this reason the complete blood count (CBC) is the entry examination performed by specialists. Regarding Leukemias, Leukocytes are the most studied blood components compared to Red Blood Cells and Platelets, their morphological and cytochemical properties are of ulterior relevance in the diagnosis as they unveil the development of the disease. Throughout history, the CBC has been performed manually using a microscope and specialists expertise, this is time consuming and may lead to erroneous results. Although automatic CBC hardware has been developed, it does not allow morphological visual analysis of Leukocytes so the manual method is still preferred. Image Segmentation is a procedure where an object is separated from the background for further analysis. During the last decades there has been a lot of interest in segmenting Leukocytes to automate morphological analysis in order to decrease the specialist workload and to perform faster diagnosis. In this paper a review on Leukocyte Image Segmentation, their advantages and flaws is made and a general approach towards future research is presented.
Dynamic Path construction in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

In the problem of routing in multi-hop wireless networks, to accomplish top of the line to-end throughput, it is vital to locate the "best" way from the source hub to the goal hub. In spite of the fact that a substantial number of steering conventions have been proposed to discover the way with least aggregate transmission check/time for conveying a solitary parcel, such transmission count/time minimizing protocols can't be ensured to accomplish most extreme end-to-end throughput. In this paper, we contend that via painstakingly considering spatial reusability of the remote correspondence media, we can colossally enhance the end-to-end throughput in multi-jump remote systems. To support our contention, we propose spatial reusability-aware single-path routing (SASR) and anypath routing (SAAR) protocols and contrast them and existing single-way steering and anypath steering conventions, individually. Our assessment comes about demonstrate that our conventions fundamentally enhance the end-to-end throughput contrasted and existing conventions. In particular, for single-way steering, the middle throughput pick up will be up to 60 percent, and for every source-goal match, the throughput pick up is as high as 5:3, for anypath directing, the greatest per-stream throughput pick up is 71.6 percent, while the median gain is up to 13.2 percent.
Os Efeitos da Participação em Comunidades Virtuais de Marca no Comportamento do Consumidor: Proposição e Teste de um Modelo Teórico The Effects of Participating in Virtual Brand Communities on Consumer Behavior: Proposition and Test of a Theoretical Framework

The virtual brand communities as established venues for marketing actions are a recent and relevant phenomenon, with strong implications in the marketing field. Despite its significance, recent studies have not addressed an important question: what are the earnings that companies may have in terms of intent of recommendation, repurchase and loyalty through the action of a brand virtual community? This study proposes and tests a theoretical framework to explain the strength of virtual brand communities on consumer behavior. To test the research hypotheses, two different communities for the same product were used – the Microsoft XBOX game console. The final sampling was 555 cases. The findings, achieved through structural equations modeling, indicate model validity and a direct impact of Psychographic Homogeneity and Availability of Virtual Venues on Participation Level and also an impact of these three dimensions plus Relationship with the Brand on Community Identification. The impact of Community Identification on Community Influences was significant, but not the impact of Participation Level. Community Influences also had a direct positive impact on Future Intentions. Considerations on these results are discussed.
PRECISION FIELD MARKER ROBOT USING VIRTUAL PATH NAVIGATION

Robotic technologies offer a very comfortable environment in the current world and even more sophisticated in the near future. The proposed model provides the ease of sports ground field line marking with high precision, of error not more than 5 centimeters. A consistent mathematical approach is given to extract the feature of the drawn field line pattern in the developed graphical user interface (GUI) with higher degree of approximation. The extracted features are fed into the robot, so that it lays the specific line marking on the field automatically without any human guidance or control. This model replaces the traditional way of human laying the field line markings that might lead to various human errors. This system provides the flexibility to draw any patterns and not only restricted to any particular type of sports field. Robot can even draw the road safety surface markings once it is programmed with that feature. By developing a user friendly interface this sketch based navigation of robots can be deployed for various applications.
Electroencephalograms analysis and classification of neurological and psychological disorders

Neurological and Psychological disorders are affecting large number of people worldwide disturbing their personality, behavior and day to day routine. Neurological disorders occur due to abnormalities in the central and the peripheral nervous system whereas damage or improper functioning of the brain causes psychological disorders. Early and non-invasive detection of these disorders can be achieved using electroencephalograms (EEG). The visual interpretation of information present in the EEG signals are subjective and prone to inter and intra observer variability. Hence in order to avoid variable predictions Computer-aided diagnostic tools can be used for analysis and interpretation of EEG signals. These CAD tools contain following techniques to generate the desired results: signal (data) acquisition, feature extraction and classification. This survey paper focuses the discussion on various CAD techniques developed for the detection of different neurological and psychological disorders such as Epilepsy, Alcoholism and Autism
Working with people who have been there: the meaningful involvement of mental health service users in curriculum design and delivery

The notion of mental health service user involvement in curriculum design and delivery has become commonplace over recent years. However, concern has been expressed that the rhetoric has not matched the reality. In particular, service user involvement has tended towards either tokenism or over‐sensitivity to the point of near inertia. By contrast, this paper describes a project that took a pragmatic approach and was designed to make involvement in curriculum planning, design and delivery meaningful and worthwhile for service users, students and educators alike. The paper has two principal objectives. In the first instance, it outlines the strategy for involvement that was used to inform curriculum design and delivery at the University of Abertay Dundee. This was grounded in the academic literature. Second, it provides an evaluation of this strategy based on practical experience and identifies some of the difficulties that must be overcome to work in a collaborative manner. In so doing, it examines some of the common concerns of educational staff, service users and students in relation to service user involvement. In conclusion, we provide recommendations for educators seeking to involve mental health service users in a meaningful manner in both the design of training programmes for mental health workers, and in their delivery.
Traditional Herbal Medicine in the Korean Community in Australia: A Strategy to Cope with Health Demands of Immigrant Life

The strands of medical social science based on such social theories as postmodernism and poststructuralism have tended to mystify what really affects health care use patterns including the simultaneous use of biomedicine and traditional medicine. The small amount of research on the use of traditional medicine among recent immigrants in the West which has been conducted has often tended to be dominated largely by interpretivist perspectives, which neglect the underpinning political-economic aspects of health and health care. The data for this article come from interviews with three different groups of Korean men (17 illegal/amnesty, 14 skilled and nine business migrants), using open-ended questions. Analysing the processes of adjustment to a new country and the constant involvement in hard manual work and long work hours, the article explores how Korean men in Australia make use of all the available resources to stay healthy. They have fully utilized the ‘freely’ available biomedical services under government subsidized Medicare although illegal migrants restrained themselves from using it until the time of obtaining legal status. However, Koreans have also utilized Korean traditional herbal medicine and acupuncture and other informal remedies despite their high cost, bearing in mind that health is a ‘capacity to work’ under the current environment.