Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improving Understanding and Trust with Intelligibility in Context-Aware Applications

To facilitate everyday activities, context-aware applications use sensors to detect what is happening and use increasingly complex mechanisms ( e.g., by using big rule-sets or machine learning) to infer the user's context and intent. For example, a mobile application can recognize that the user is in a conversation and suppress any incoming calls. When the application works well, this implicit sensing and complex inference remain invisible. However, when it behaves inappropriately or unexpectedly, users may not understand its behavior. This can lead users to mistrust, misuse, or even abandon it. To counter this lack of understanding and loss of trust, context-aware applications should be intelligible, capable of explaining their behavior. We investigate providing intelligibility in context-aware applications and evaluate its usefulness to improve user understanding and trust in context-aware applications. Specifically, this thesis supports intelligibility in context-aware applications through the provision of explanations that answer different question types, such as: Why did it do X? Why did it not do Y? What if I did W, What will it do? How can I get the application to do Y? This thesis takes a three-pronged approach to investigating intelligibility by (i) eliciting the user requirements for intelligibility, to identify what explanation types end-users are interested in asking context-aware applications, (ii) supporting the development of intelligible context-aware applications with a software toolkit and the design of these applications with design and usability recommendations, and (iii) evaluating the impact of intelligibility on user understanding and trust under various situations and application reliability, and measuring how users use an interactive intelligible prototype. We show that users are willing to use well-designed intelligibility features, and this can improve user understanding and trust in the adaptive behavior of context-aware applications.
The SAOtng Programming Interface

The architecture of the SAOtng image display program is centered on supporting communication with external programs and processes. Easy to use C, fortran, and UNIX interfaces provide direct access to SAOtng information, data, and control functions. Through these interfaces, developers can utilize such advanced SAOtng features as direct FITS transfer, shared memory FITS, WCS-enabled positioning, and region of interest demarcation. In this paper, we describe the SAOtng programming interface and show, by example, how easy it is to integrate SAOtng into astronomical analysis systems.
The Soar User''''s Manual

An actuator assembly for a small, versatile electrical switch of the type which includes a thimble telescoped over and axially slidable on a guide stud disposed between spaced conductor ends which are engaged by flanges of the thimble in a retracted position. The switch also includes a floating sleeve having radial latch dogs which are rotated during engagement with circumferentially spaced holding ribs in a surrounding housing to establish projected and retracted positions for the thimble. The actuator mechanism includes a strand of monofilament material extending through aligned apertures formed axially through the switch with a tie knot in an end of the strand adjacent an outer surface of a plunger acting to depress the thimble to engage or disengage an electrical connection within the switch in response to an operator pulling on a free end of the strand actuator.
ÇEŞİTLİ AROMATİK BİTKİLERİN, MEYVE KURUTMADA KÜF-MAYA GELİŞİMİ, FONKSİYONEL VE DUYUSAL ÖZELİKLERE ETKİLERİ

iii TEŞEKKÜR . v SİMGELER ve KISALTMALAR DİZİNİ . vii İÇİNDEKİLER . ix ŞEKİLLER DİZİNİ . xii ÇİZELGELER DİZİNİ . xv 1. GİRİŞ . 1 2. KAYNAK ÖZETLERİ . 4 2.1. Gıdaların Kurutulması . 4 2.2. Meyve ve Kuru Meyve Üretiminde Türkiye’nin Yeri. 5 2.3. Kuru Meyveler ve Sağlık . 9 2.4. Kuru Meyveler ve Mikrobiyal Yük . 12 2.5. Kuru Meyvelerin Muhafazasında Kullanılan Kimyasal Koruyucular . 15 2.6. Kimyasal Koruyucuların Sağlık ile İlişkisi ve Tüketici Bakış Açısı . 15 2.7. Aromatik Bitkiler . 17 2.8. Tez Materyali Aromatik Bitkilerle Yapılan Çalışmalar . 19 2.8. 1. Toplam fenolik madde ve toplam antioksidan kapasite üzerine yapılan çalışmalar . 19 2.8. 2. in vitro Antimikrobiyal etki çalışmaları . 22 2.8. 3. Aromatik bitkilerin gıdalarda doğal koruyucu olarak kullanım uygulamaları . 30 3. MATERYAL ve YÖNTEM . 36 3.1. Materyal . 36 3.1. 1. Meyveler . 36 3.1. 2. Aromatik Bitkiler . 37 3.1. 3. Mikroorganizmalar . 38
Speaking Stata: Matrices as Look-Up Tables

Matrices in Stata can serve as look-up tables. Because Stata will accept references to matrix elements within many commands, most notably generate and replace, users can access and use values from a table in either vector or full matrix form. Examples are given for entry of small datasets, recoding of categorical variables, and quantile-based or similar binning of counted or measured variables. In the last case, the device grants easy exploration of the consequences of different binning conventions and the instability of bin allocation.
Reference services in the new millennium

L'article presente les resultats d'une enquete sur les changements intervenus au niveau des services de reference dans les bibliotheques universitaires americaines membres de l'ARL (Assocation of Research Libraries) de 1991 a 2001. L'evolution des services de reference est marquee par l'introduction de formats et d'options electroniques, notamment des produits du Web, mais aussi par le declin du role d'intermediaire, le developpement des services en ligne, l'enseignement de l'utilisation des ressources gratuites ou payantes du Web, la diminution du nombre de questions mais un temps de traitement plus long. Les etudiants sont davantage verses dans la culture informatique sans pour autant mieux connaitre les sources d'information. Les bibliothecaires ont incorpore les nouvelles technologies dans leur travail : ressources et services electroniques font maintenant partis du mode de vie attendu.
VisuExplore: Gaining New Medical Insights from Visual Exploration

Alexander Rind ilvia Miksch S Overcoming information overload is a major challenge in current healthcare practice. Interactive Information Visualization methods are promising tools for physicians to ease this situation. We present our VisuExplore prototype, an interactive Information Visualization application for exploring patient data. Its user-centered design and development process involves physicians to match their requirements and needs. The VisuExplore prototype visualizes a flexible selection of medical parameters over time. It provides a range of interaction techniques, and is designed to be easy to use as well as unambiguous to interpret. Wolfgang Aigner Thomas Turic Dept. of Information and Knowledge Engineering (ike), Danube University Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30
HÚMUS DE ESTERCO BOVINO E CASCA DE ARROZ CARBONIZADA COMO SUBSTRATOS PARA A PRODUÇÃO DE MUDAS DE BOCA-DE-LEÃO

Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a eficiencia de diferentes substratos constituidos a base de casca de arroz carbonizada e humus de minhoca na producao comercial de mudas de bocade-leao (Antirrhinum majus L.). O experimento foi conduzido em casa de vegetacao na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, no periodo de setembro a outubro de 2007. O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado, com sete tratamentos e quatro repeticoes, cada uma constituida por 72 alveolos. As determinacoes realizadas nos substratos foram: densidade do substrato, porosidade total, espaco aereo, agua disponivel e agua remanescente como caracteristicas fisicas e potencial de hidrogenio, teor de macronutrientes e materia orgânica como caracteristicas quimicas, alem da avaliacao da consistencia do torrao. Nas plantas, foram determinadas: a altura, o numero de pares de folhas e a biomassa fresca e seca da parte aerea. A casca de arroz carbonizada e o humus podem ser utilizados para a constituicao de substratos para a producao comercial de mudas, exceto na forma pura. Os maiores valores de massa seca, altura da muda e numero de pares de folhas, foram observados nas mudas produzidas nos substratos cuja densidade encontrou-se na faixa de 0,18 a 0,33 g cm-3, sendo que estes mesmos substratos apresentaram os maiores valores de estabilidade do torrao. Concluiu-se que os substratos casca de arroz carbonizada e humus de minhoca nas proporcoes de 80% casca de arroz carbonizada e 20% humus, 60% casca de arroz carbonizada e 40% humus, 50% casca de arroz carbonizada e 50% humus e 40% casca de arroz carbonizada e 60% humus apresentam potencial para serem utilizados para a producao de mudas de boca-de-leao.
A cross layer approach for packet scheduling at downlink of WiMAX IEEE802.16e

WiMAX is one of the broadband wireless access networks with promising technology for providing better coverage and quality of service (QoS) to subscribers in the network. It supports different scheduling services with different QoS requirements the challenge here is how to efficiently scheduling the packets of subscribers having different QoS queuing in different buffers? We proposed a new algorithm capable of scheduling of all service flows type considering the nature of the wireless link, delay and buffer size. Performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by computer simulations it showed that the algorithm developed has achieved high throughput and good frame utilization.
The Features of Spontaneous Speech in Stand-Up Comedy A Case Study of Raditya Dika Performance in StandUpNite Comedy

Joke is something that is appreciated, enjoyed, and shared by all people. Although joke deals with funny stories or funny thoughts, it has an interesting part that is how to create something funny. This study attempts to analyze the performance of Raditya Dika in Stand Up Nite comedy by classifying the features of spontaneous speech in some features in stand-up comedy performed by Raditya Dika such as fillers, ellipsis, redundancy, back-tracking, and sympathetic of circularity. Aimed to be a qualitative study, the data are collected by downloading video of stand-up comedy by Raditya Dika then transcribed in written data to disclose the spontaneous words in the jokes. In analyzing data, the writer uses The Feature of Spontaneous Speech that proposed by Ross (2005). This study examines the use of each of the spontaneous features and reveals what features of spontaneous speech that is mostly used by Raditya Dika. The finding showed that in the language of stand-up comedy are found the words included in filler, ellipsis, redundancy, back-tracking and sympathetic circularity. It was also discovered that the comedian, in this case Raditya Dika, often applies the feature of sympathetic circularity in his speech.
Evolving Themes of Masculinity in Seventeen Magazine: An Analysis of 1945–1955 and 1995–2005

Abstract:Among the many roles that teen girl magazines play, one of the most important is that of a boy bible for the millions of female teenagers who read them. Teen girl magazines have contributed to the discourse of masculinity since the beginning of its publication history. This research, through a discursive analysis of the decades 1945–1955 and 1995–2005, examines Seventeen magazine (the longest and largest circulating teen girl magazine) and how the constructions of masculinity have evolved. The analysis of masculinity in teen girl magazines revealed the dramatic shift of masculinities’ representations—from the suave, witty, and intelligent male in the 1940s and 1950s to the callous and insensitive male during the 1990s and the turn of the millennium. The comparison confirms how the constructions of masculinities have shifted over the decades in a way that reinforces the current myths about boys as mean, foolish, and perverted.
Classification of multi-agent trajectories

The aim of this project consists of identifying synchronized team activities with a particular focus on the recognition of basketball half-court offenses. We introduce a framework that uses the 2dtrajectory of each player to determine the class which the basketball tactic falls in. Every trajectory is segmented into tracklets which are then matched to some codewords. The occurence of the chosen codewords is used to build an histogram descriptor for each trajectory. Finally, the combination of all descriptors is used to recognize the activity. In this report, we determine the features and descriptors which are relevant for describing basketball activities. We then show that our framework achieves good recognition capabilities over different basketball datasets and that segments of activities can as well be successfully classified.
ADOBE CHARACTER ANIMATOR

U radu se opisuje programski paket Adobe Character Animator. Navode se i opisuju njegove osnovne znacajke. Također je prikazan tijek izrade interaktivnog lika za animaciju unutar Adobe Character Animator-a. Adobe Character Animator je alat namijenjen za obradu i snimanje uživo slojevitih 2D likova izrađenih u Adobe Illustrator-u ili Adobe Photoshop-u.
Das Leipziger Adipositasmanagement

Zusammenfassung Das interdisziplinäre Leipziger Adipositasmanagement ist deutschlandweit das erste Adipositas-Therapieprogramm für Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene, welches durch eine gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (AOK PLUS – Die Gesundheitskasse für Sachsen und Thüringen) mit einem regionalen Versichertenanteil von >50 % finanziert wird. Seit dem 01.08. 2014 werden in dem vierjährigen Therapieprogramm sektoren- und fachübergreifend adipöse Menschen in einem modular aufgebauten Behandlungskonzept betreut, nachdem durch eine strukturierte Diagnostik Ein- und Ausschlusskriterien für die verschiedenen Module evaluiert wurden. Innerhalb des Programms werden verschiedene Fachkompetenzen für ein nachhaltiges Gewichtsmanagement in der konservativen sowie chirurgischen Therapie der Adipositas vereint. Das Behandlungskonzept soll die Effizienz der Versorgung verbessern, eine qualitätsgesicherte und evidenzbasierte Therapie sicherstellen und dadurch einen direkten Nutzen für die Patienten erbringen.
Quantifying the Characteristics of Knowledge Structure Representations: A Lattice-Theoretic Framework.

This work shows how lattice theory can be used to develop quantitative measures of selected characteristics of knowledge structure representations, and how these measures can be used to assess individual personsO knowledge structure representations in a classroom setting. For a given set of concepts, a knowledge structure can be described by the present or absent connections in the set of all possible pairwise connections between concepts. Under this description, the set of all possible knowledge structure representations for a given set of concepts are the elements of a complemented, distributive lattice ordered by set inclusion. Measures are developed to assess the dissimilarity between two knowledge structure representations, the local complexity of a concept in a knowledge structure, and the global complexity of a knowledge structure. The effectiveness of these measures in assessing the changes in studentsO knowledge structure representations in an introductory statistics course is examined using data from Ju (1989).
Enterprise knowledge : reference architecture for visualization and prototype implementation using Wiki

In this information-rich era, knowledge plays an important role for organizations. The challenge is not only of having the right knowledge, but also of making relevant knowledge actionable. In organizations having knowledge generated from problem-solving interactions, management and accommodation of that knowledge play an important role. Repeated process of regulating and advancing IT support that is available or prepared to be made available for an organization is called management of enterprise architecture. It is a process that involves IT, business process, strategies, and business goals. To accommodate those generated knowledge, organizations will need to focus on how to sort and filter knowledge. The kind of knowledge that should be sorted and codified are knowledge related to problem solving interactions. We refer to that kind of knowledge as enterprise knowledge. This research aims at studying how to present enterprise knowledge using a visualization tool. From literature research, we find that enterprise knowledge can be embedded in diagrams as a form of visualization formats. These diagrams will be referred as models in the remainder of this research. A study of presenting enterprise knowledge is important because it is highly practical. This is due to knowledge visualization and visual representations exist in many fields across different domains of business. There are many ways to present enterprise knowledge contained in models. To do so, choices can be made from numerous visualization tools. Growth of wiki software since the advent of Wikipedia has made wiki software a relevant choice as tool to manage and visualize knowledge, including enterprise knowledge. Some of the softwares have high extensibility, which enables extra functions added by developers, including that related to knowledge extraction and presentation. This thesis provides a reference architecture and its implementation in form of a prototype built with a wiki software. Both are provided to facilitate presentation of enterprise knowledge. The reference architecture is designed to facilitate enterprise knowledge contained in any models. Utilization of knowledge repository and various possible visualization tools is prominent in the reference architecture. For prototype implementation, the enterprise knowledge embedding format is restricted to business process models and architecture models. The prototype is then validated by means of a survey. This survey’s result shows that although our prototype still has limitations, it fulfills the requirements to present enterprise knowledge embedded in models.
Representations of excess in relation to the body in a selection of contemporary visual artworks

This dissertation investigates forms of excess in representations of the body in specific examples of contemporary visual art in South Africa and internationally. Representations of excess are phenomena that have gained increasing prominence in recent art practice both locally and abroad. The discussion is focused on two artworks that are examples of this increasing phenomenon of excess in contemporary art: the Swedish video artist Nathalie Djurberg’s video installation Experimentet (2009), and South African performance artist Steven Cohen’s film Golgotha (2007-9). My discussion of the two artworks revolves around the central question: what is the signifying role of excess in representations of the human body in contemporary visual art? This central question is asked throughout the dissertation with two aims in mind: firstly, to situate within a theoretical framework the phenomenon of excess in relation to depictions of the body in contemporary art; and secondly, to situate my own arts practice within this framework. The analysis of Djurberg’s Experimentet and Cohen’s Golgotha is spread over four discussions, each relating to a specific aspect of the representation of excess in relation to the body. Firstly, I investigate the grotesque body with regards to Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of grotesque realism and Jacques Lacan’s psychological notion of the fragmented body, or corps morcelé. Secondly, I examine the ‘body spectacle’ as a cultural critique of capitalism, and make specific reference to Cohen’s use of real human skulls as shoes in Golgotha as a cultural critique of capitalism. In this discussion I also investigate George Bataille’s philosophical enquiry into the notion of expenditure as a critique of capitalism. The ‘body spectacle’ is situated in the context of late-twentieth-century theorist Frederic Jameson’s view of the postmodern and his exposition of the ‘waning of affect’. Thirdly, I investigate excess and mimesis in representations of the female body, with specific reference to Djurberg’s Experimentet. Here the discussion is situated within the context of French feminist psychoanalytical theory with Luce Irigaray’s concept of the role of excess in mimesis. The study then turns to investigating the experiences elicited in spectators by representations of excess in relation to the body. I draw from George Bataille’s writings of the function of taboo and Mikhail Bakhtin’s insistence on the ambivalence of grotesque imagery to explain my own observations on images of excess. Here I argue, in reference to both Experimentet and Golgotha, that excess is characterised by the paradoxical stance of being simultaneously attracted and repulsed. Lastly I discuss my own current art practice with reference to the theoretical framework outlined here around representations of excess in relation to the body. Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za
Performance trade-offs with quasi-linearly amplified OFDM through a two-branch combining technique

It is reasonable to expect that the emerging integrated broadband communication technologies, initially intended for optical fibre or cable transmission, will also be available for wireless transmission, within high bit rate radio local area networks. It is currently recognized that multicarrier modulation schemes, also known as OFDM schemes (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing), offer many advantages for signalling at high data rates over time dispersive channels. However, they exhibit strong envelope fluctuations, which implies power amplification difficulties. We evaluate performance trade-offs with a two-branch combining technique for "quasi-linear" power amplification of OFDM signals.
Blackfingers: an Artificial Hand that Copies Human Hand in Structure, Size, and Functions.

The construction of an artificial hand able to reproduce the functions of the human hand has never been of interest in industrial robotics. Now it is a must in humanoid robotics. In the paper we will illustrate the structure of the human hand and propose a choice of materials and actuators that can reproduce it. The design, the complete model and the prototype are also presented. The basic controller for the fingers is illustrated.
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

For any software developer who has spent days in “integration hell,” cobbling together myriad software components, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk illustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous integration (CI) practices and techniques.The authors first examine the concept of CI and its practices from the ground up and then move on to explore other effective processes performed by CI systems, such as database integration, testing, inspection, deployment, and feedback. Through more than forty CI-related practices using application examples in different languages, readers learn that CI leads to more rapid software development, produces deployable software at every step in the development lifecycle, and reduces the time between defect introduction and detection, saving time and lowering costs. With successful implementation of CI, developers reduce risks and repetitive manual processes, and teams receive better project visibility.The book covers How to make integration a “non-event” on your software development projects How to reduce the amount of repetitive processes you perform when building your software Practices and techniques for using CI effectively with your teams Reducing the risks of late defect discovery, low-quality software, lack of visibility, and lack of deployable software Assessments of different CI servers and related tools on the market The book's companion Web site, www.integratebutton. com, provides updates and code examples.