Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Integrated Product and Process Attribute - Quantitative Model for Software Quality

The software size and complexities are increasing and software project management has become very crucial. The industry demands for consistent software quality within the stipulated cost and time frame. In order to achieve quality, cost and schedule target, quantification and prediction of these attributes early in the life cycle of development have become an important problem. Software does not manifest its quality properties directly; instead it is exhibited through certain contributory measures of the process steps and intermediate work products. Attempts have been made in past by various researchers to correlate the product and process attributes, however these type of modeling is done only for subset of the attributes spanning to one and two software development phase[1]. In the present paper Integrated Product and Process Attribute Quantitative Model (IPPA-QM) is proposed which is based on the relationship of elemental product and process attributes. Prediction equations are developed for the software development phases. Requirements phase equations are instantiated using quantitative techniques. IPPA-QM provides the holistic view of the product and process attributes throughout the software development life cycle by applying various quantitative techniques. IPPAQM enables prediction based planning and corrective action early in the development lifecycle thereby improving the execution capability of the IT organization and achieving quality, cost and schedule targets.
A Matlab program and user’s guide for the fractionally cointegrated VAR model

This manual describes the usage of the accompanying freely available Matlab program for estimation and testing in the fractionally cointegrated vector autoregressive (FCVAR) model. This program replaces an earlier Matlab program by Nielsen and Morin (2014), and although the present Matlab program is not compatible with the earlier one, we encourage use of the new program.
ANALYSIS OF PARTICLES THOROUGH THE AORTIC ARCH DURING TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT

Ischemia caused by particles becoming dislodged during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a possible complication of TAVR. The particles that become dislodged can travel out of the aortic valve, into the aortic arch, and then into either the brachiocephalic artery, the left common carotid artery, the left subclavian artery or continue into the descending aorta. If the particles continue into the descending aorta it poses no risk of causing ischemia however if it travels into the other arteries then it increases the possibility of the particle causing an ischemic event. The goal of this study is to determine what parameters cause the particle to enter one artery over another. The parameters analyzed are the particle diameter, the particle density, the blood pressure, and the diameter of the catheter used in the surgery. This was done by creating a finite element model in COMSOL Multiphysics® to track the particles flowing through a scan of an actual aortic arch. It was determined that the particle diameter, particle density, and the blood pressure affect which artery the particles take to exit the aortic arch. However the diameter of the surgical catheter used in a transaortic approach is not statistically significant when determining which artery the particles will exit. The study shows that larger diameter particle would lead to a higher transmissions probability into the brachiocephalic artery, the left common carotid artery, and the left subclavian artery while a smaller diameter particle would have a higher transmission probability for the descending aorta. Averaging all particle diameters, densities and blood pressure found that 54.95 ± 13.66% of the particles released will travel into the cerebral circulatory system. Figure 9: Arterial pressure for three Windkessel Models: a – measured pressure (solid line, black dots), b – 4 Element Model (dashed line, red dots), c – 3WM (dot line, blue dots), d – 2WM (dot-and-dash line, green dots [36]. Figure 16: Velocity magnitude (m/s) with a catheter diameter of 8.667 mm and a blood pressure 150/90 mmHg at different time intervals.
Improving reading experience in digital newspapers

Reading news on mobile devices has during the past decade transcended into an every- day activity, which induce greater demands on design and presentation of news. Several researchers have examined essential components in the area of digital newspapers, despite this, there are few newspapers that have switched to a reader-friendly format.The objective of this thesis is to evaluate how the reading experience in digital newspa- pers can be improved by abandoning the traditional structure of today’s printed newspapers. Based on numerous tests and studies, as well as support from literature, a set of guidelines has been produced as a result of this thesis.The design guidelines contain recommendations for optimal line size, typeface, point size, appearance, functionality, placement, recognition factor and packaging. To ensure quality, all guidelines were validated in order to prove that the reading experience had increased. An evaluation was performed that attempted to determine that.The statistic result of this thesis showed a significant difference in both reading speed and the subjective experience. However no significant difference could be seen regarding the reading comprehension. The conclusions made was that structure and design of content can influence both reading speed and reading experience.All design guidelines can be used as guidance when developing templates for digital newspapers.
Aplicación del modelo de satisfacción del usuario final de cómputo (EUCS) y su medición en kioscos digitales: caso Aguascalientes

End-user satisfaction has been studied for many scholars along the last few decades, and the EUCS model has been validated in many different online applications, like banking, shopping and Web site utilization. This study has, as main goal, to use the model developed by Doll & Torkzadeh (1988) to the digital kiosk users locates in the city of Aguascalientes Mexico. The final objective is to validate that this model can be employed in a different culture behavior and in an electronic device based on self-service technology actions.
Motivation in Mathematics of High Functioning Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

This study examines the motivation of high functioning students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in mathematics according to the achievement goal theory. Specifically, mastery goals, performance goals, performance-avoidance goals, self-efficacy beliefs, fear of failure, and interest in mathematics have been examined. Data were collected from twenty four high functioning students with ASD and a control group of twenty four typically developing students. Findings revealed that high functioning students with ASD presented a significant great fear of failure in mathematics while their self-efficacy beliefs were on an average level. Moreover, the research data revealed that factors such as age, sex, type of school affect and largely determine motivation in mathematics both of high functioning students with ASD and typically developing ones.
Introducing the Fascial Distortion Model

Introduction The fascial distortion model is a new anatomical model in which many musculoskeletal injuries are thought to be the result of specific alterations of the body's fascia. It was developed in an attempt to improve current treatments by basing them on a more anatomical approach. Many of the most commonly seen musculoskeletal injuries are vaguely defined and often respond poorly to conventional treatments. One example of this is a pulled muscle. It is difficult to visualize what a pulled muscle is, and therefore most treatments are not specifically designed to correct the underlying dysfunction. In the fascial distortion model a pulled muscle is defined as a muscle that has a triggerband wedged within its belly at a perpendicular angle to the axis of the muscle. This definition allows us to conceptualize the pathology and to speculate on how our treatment choices might affect the dysfunction. Another example is tendonitis. The traditional definition implies that it is the result of inflammation of an involved tendon, but clinically this rarely occurs. In the fascial distortion model tendonitis is defined as a triggerband or less commonly a continuum distortion present in an involved tendon. The dysfunction now becomes tangible, and the treatment modality can be specifically selected for that particulardistortion type. This change in terminology perspective can often lead to significantly more effective treatment results. There am four principle distortion types and several subtypes which are considered to be the etiological cause of a whole host of commonly seen dysfunctions from ankle sprains to whiplash injuries. These distortions are presented and discussed over the next several pages. Some of the terms used will be familiar to the reader, but in the fascial distortion model they take on other meanings and have implications that the reader may not appreciate at first. This paper defines terminology so assumptions are not derived from other medical models. A glossary of fascial distortion model terminology is presented at the end of this paper. All of the drawings are based on as much clinical and anatomical information as is currently available. In time as more data accumulates through surgical and clinical investigations, more specific representations of fascial distortions can be made.
The ALHAMBRA survey : evolution of galaxy clustering since z ~ 1.

PA-M was supported by an ERC StG Grant (DEGAS-259586). PN acknowledges the support of the Royal Society through the award of a University Research Fellowship and the European Research Council, through receipt of a Starting Grant (DEGAS-259586). This work was supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant number ST/F001166/1), by the Generalitat Valenciana (project of excellence Prometeo 2009/064), by the Junta de Andalucia (Excellence Project P08-TIC-3531) and by the SpanishMinistry for Science and Innovation (grantsAYA2010-22111-C03-01 and CSD2007-00060).
Automatic recognition of printed music in the context of electronic publishing

Computers are used to manipulate music in various forms, for example digital sound recordings, digitized images of printed scores and music representational language (M.R.L.) encodings. This work is concerned with producing M.R. L. data automatically from existing printed music scores. A review of work undertaken in the field of manipulating printed music by computer is provided. This shows that software which permits production of high-quality scores is commercially available, but the necessary data has to be entered using some form of keyboard, possibly in conjunction with a pointing device. It is desirable, for reasons detailed in this work, to be able to convert the musical information contained in the enormous quantity of existing music into computer-readable form. The only practical method for achieving this is via an automatic system. Such an automatic system must cope with the variations in format, content and print-quality of existing scores. Background material relating to previous work on pattern recognition of various types of binary image is included, with a section covering the subject of automatic recognition of printed music. An original system for automatic recognition of printed music developed by the author is described. This is designed to be widely applicable and hence is, in effect, omnifont and size-independent, with significant tolerance of noise, limited rotation, broken print and distortion. Numerous illustrations showing the application of the system are included, together with proposals for future areas of development.
The Primate Fossil Record

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction to the primate fossil record Walter Carl Hartwig 2. The origin of primates David Tab Rasmussen Part I. The Earliest Primates and the Fossil Record of Prosimians: 3. The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians Herbert H. Covert 4. Adapiformes: phylogeny and adaptation Daniel L. Gebo 5. Tarsiiformes: evolutionary history and adaptation Gregg F. Gunnell and Kenneth D. Rose 6. Fossil lorisoids Erica Phillips and Alan C. Walker 7. Quaternary fossil lemurs Laurie R. Godfrey and William L. Jungers Part II. The Origin and Diversification of Anthropoid Primates: 8. The origin and diversification of anthropoid primates - introduction Marian Dagosto 9. Basal anthropoids K. Christopher Beard 10. Platyrrhine paleontology and systematics: the paradigm shifts Alfred L. Rosenberger 11. Early platyrrhines of southern South America John G. Fleagle and Marcelo F. Tejedor 12. Miocene platyrrhines of the northern neotropics Walter Carl Hartwig and D. Jeffrey Meldrum 13. Extinct Quaternary platyrrhines of the Greater Antilles and Brazil Ross D. E. MacPhee and Ines Horovitz Part III. The Fossil Record of the Early Catarrhines and Old World Monkeys: 14. Early catarrhines of the African Eocene and Oligocene David Tab Rasmussen 15. The Pliopithecoidea David Begun 16. The Victoriapithecidae, Cercopithecoidea Brenda Benefit and Monte L. McCrossin 17. Fossil Old World monkeys: the Late Neogene radiation Nina G. Jablonski Part IV. The Fossil Record of Hominoid Primates: 18. Perspectives on the Miocene Hominoidea David R. Pilbeam 19. Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia Terry Harrison 20. European hominoids David Begun 21. The hominoid radiation in Asia Jay Kelley 22. Middle and Late Miocene African hominoids Steven C. Ward and Dana Duren Part V. The Fossil Record of Human Ancestry: 23. Introduction to the fossil record of human ancestry Henry M. McHenry 24. Earliest hominids Tim D. White 25. Early genus Homo Holly Dunsworth and Alan C. Walker 26. Migrations, radiations and continuity: patterns in the evolution of Middle and Late Pleistocene humans Fred Smith References cited Index.
Real-time Ray tracing and Editing of Large Voxel Scenes

A novel approach is presented to render large voxel scenes in real-time. The approach differs from existing solutions in that a large emphasis is put on allowing the user to edit and stream large datasets. Previous solutions often use compression schemes involving hierarchical data layouts such as sparse voxel octrees that require some form of preprocessing, which prevents efficient editing. By keeping data in raw format we avoid having to preprocess the data making it directly editable. We allow for efficient storage of large empty spaces using a system of layered grids . Our results show our solution has competitive rendering performance and memory usage and allows fast and easy access to the data. Along with the raytracing algorithm and datastructure an occlusion based streaming system is presented. Our system also includes an easy interface for editing voxels. Furthermore, we support streaming from disk and basic level of detail. Combining these features we are able to render and edit potentially infinite landscapes while using a finite amount of memory.
Early Detection of Hemodynamic Responses Using EEG: A Hybrid EEG-fNIRS Study

Enhanced classification accuracy and a sufficient number of commands are highly demanding in brain computer interfaces (BCIs). For a successful BCI, early detection of brain commands in time is essential. In this paper, we propose a novel classifier using a modified vector phase diagram and the power of electroencephalography (EEG) signal for early prediction of hemodynamic responses. EEG and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals for a motor task (thumb tapping) were obtained concurrently. Upon the resting state threshold circle in the vector phase diagram that uses the maximum values of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin (ΔHbO and ΔHbR) during the resting state, we introduce a secondary (inner) threshold circle using the ΔHbO and ΔHbR magnitudes during the time window of 1 s where an EEG activity is noticeable. If the trajectory of ΔHbO and ΔHbR touches the resting state threshold circle after passing through the inner circle, this indicates that ΔHbO was increasing and ΔHbR was decreasing (i.e., the start of a hemodynamic response). It takes about 0.5 s for an fNIRS signal to cross the resting state threshold circle after crossing the EEG-based circle. Thus, an fNIRS-based BCI command can be generated in 1.5 s. We achieved an improved accuracy of 86.0% using the proposed method in comparison with the 63.8% accuracy obtained using linear discriminant analysis in a window of 0~1.5 s. Moreover, the active brain locations (identified using the proposed scheme) were spatially specific when a t-map was made after 10 s of stimulation. These results demonstrate the possibility of enhancing the classification accuracy for a brain-computer interface with a time window of 1.5 s using the proposed method.
ArabicSeg: An Arabic News Story Segmentation System

Abstract Text segmentation is a very critical step to many applications and while it has been addressed extensively for the English language, work on text segmentation for other languages is still lagging behind. In this paper the ArabicSeg system for segmenting Arabic news stories is presented. The developed system is based on a linguistic technique called lexical chaining which measures the cohesion between textual units. In conjunction with this technique, a set of error reduction filters have been introduced and were found to significantly reduce segmentation errors in the detection of borders in Arabic based news stories. The results of evaluation experiments carried out on an Arabic Reuters news story dataset are presented. An analysis of the effect of introducing each of the proposed error reduction filters is also provided. The evaluation shows that the segmentation results produced by the presented system are not only comparable to the results reported by English based segmentation algorithms, but also outperform them.
Photoadaptation to intermittent light across the St. Lawrence Estuary freshwater-saltwater transition zone

We evaluated 2 competing hypotheses for the photoadaptive characteristics of phytoplankton distributed across the turbid freshwater-saltwater transition zone (TZ) of the St. Lawrence River (Canada): that the communities were photosynthetically adapted to a low mean water column irradiance, or that they were adapted to intermittent exposure to near-surface irradiance conditions. Two cruises were undertaken In spnng-early summer, a period that corresponded to malor seasonal changes in the optical environment of the St. Lawrence River. There was a large increase in chlorophyll a (chl a) concentration, maximum photosynthetic rates (PB,,,), and the light saturation parameter (I,) between the 2 cruises. During t h s period the nanoplankton (cells in the size range 2 to 20 pm) rose from 33 to 69% of total chl a. There were no major shifts in photosynthetic characteristics across the transition from freshwater to turbid saltwater conditions, but rather the cells maintained high values of PE,,,,, and I,, with low a (the light limitation parameter) and little inhibitory response to high photon fluence rates. These observations support the hypothesis that the phytoplankton community in this and perhaps other turbid environments are photoadapted to 'intermittent sun' conditions, rather than the 'shade environment' experienced on average through the water column.
Six Degree of Freedom Optical Sensor for Dynamic Measurement of Linear Axes

Up to 70% of the errors in CNC machine tools can be attributed to the quasistatic errors. To correct these errors, measurements are made and a compensation scheme is implemented. Typically, linear and straightness measurements are done using interferometric techniques. Angular errors are usually acquired using either differential path or electronic levels. These measurements are usually performed separately, which commonly requires at least 21 measurements to fully characterize a machine.
Rates of Time Preference and Consumer Valuations of Automobile Safety and Fuel Efficiency

This article estimates hedonic price models for automobiles using a data set on almost 3,000 households from the U.S. Department of Energy Residential Transportation Energy Consumption Survey. The standard hedonic models are generalized to recognize the role of discounting of fuel efficiency and safety, yielding an estimated rate of time preference ranging from 11 to 17 percent. This range includes the prevailing rate of interest for car loans in 1988 and is consequently consistent with market rates. Purchasers exhibit an implicit value of life ranging from $2.6 to $3.7 million, which is within the range found in the labor market as well as other market contexts. The model also estimates a significant price effect for auto injury risks and fuel efficiency.
Kırgız ve Türkiye Türkçeleri arasında istatistiksel bilgisayarlı çeviri uygulaması ve başarım testi

Machine translation is a computational linguistics sub-field that studies translation methods and the use of software to translate text between natural languages. Although machine translation is not as accurate as human translation in terms of syntactic, semantic accuracy criteria, the usage of improved methods has lead to obtaininig comparatively acceptable results. In recent years, self-learning methods with statistical analysis of big data are being developed. The current development in machine translation among Turkish languages has moved towards rule-based methods. However, one of today’s leading methods, Statistical Machine Translation, is being poorly applied. For this purpose, in this work N-GRAM based and Phrase based Statistical Machine Translation methods were applied between Kyrgyz and Turkish languages, using limited training data. For both methods, the translation quality was evaluated with BLEU scoring algorithm. According to test results, both applied methods, provided translations with poor translation quality, 0.1 (one hundredths) on average. In most cases, no translations obtained, or human translation incompatible results were observed. In order to reach higher translation qualities, various suggestions were proposed.
Planning Cooperative Motions for Animated Characters

This paper presents a motion planning scheme to plan, generate and edit motions for two or more virtual characters in cluttered environments. The main challenge is to deal with 3D collision avoidance while preserving the believability of the agent behaviors. To accomplish a coordinated task a geometrical decoupling of the system is proposed. Several techniques such as probabilistic path planning for open and closed kinematic chains, motion controllers and motion editing are integrated within a same algorithmic framework.
Simulated company as validation environment for the design methods and algorithms of informatics systems meant for the business environment

The paper presents a method of validation of the informatics systems designed for the business environment, through their implementation and use in an exercise company. As opposed to the audit of administration informatics systems or the well-known software testing methods, the method we propose evaluates the manner in which the software applications adapt to the integral pass through an information processing flow, corresponding to some basic functions of the company (supply, production, distribution, etc.). In this manner we obtain complete and good quality results, at reduced costs of the evaluation process.