Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance Comparison of Superresolution Array Processing Algorithms. Revised

Abstract : This report summarizes the results of the initial phase of a comprehensive simulation study of alternative signal processing algorithms for data adaptive superresolution direction finding and spatial nulling to support signal copy in the presence of strong cochannel interference. The need for such a study arises because, although most of the techniques evaluated have been documented in the literature, no systematic comparison has heretofore been undertaken. The general approach of the current study is to simulate a sequence of increasingly more general, i.e, realistic, signaling environments, and to expose each of the more promising algorithms to all of the "standardized" experiments, in turn. For the initial phase of the inquiry, we have selected an ideal environment characterized by a uniform, linear array of identical isotropic elements and perfect receivers. In addition, partial results are obtained for the case when the array steering vectors are in error by a small amount which might be caused by residual calibration errors, unmodeled multipath distortions, near-field emitters, etc.
PENGARUH SERVICESCAPE TERHADAP LOYALITAS TAMU MANCANEGARA DI ALAM KULKUL BOUTIQUE RESORT BALI

Untuk menjaga eksistensi hotel di tengah dampak buruk persaingan dalam industri perhotelan, loyalitas tamu sangat diperlukan. Menurunnya jumlah tamu mancanegara yang loyal terhadap Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali mengindikasikan adanya masalah yang harus dicari strategi untuk mengatasinya. Melalui servicescape yang bertema natural and traditional of Bali diharapkan dapat mempertahankan dan meningkatkan loyalitas tamu mancanegara di Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui servicescape yang ada di Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali, loyalitas tamu mancanegara dan pengaruh servicescape terhadap loyalitas tamu mancanegara. Dalam penelitian ini, variabel bebas (X) yang digunakan yaitu servicescape yang terdiri dari ambient conditions, spatial layout and functionality, dan signs, symbols and artifacts. Variabel terikat (Y) yaitu loyalitas. Penelitian ini dilakukan selama lima bulan yakni bulan Desember 2011 sampai dengan bulan Mei 2012 dengan menggunakan teknik sampling stratified random sampling dan analisis jalur sebagai teknis analisis datanya. Kuesioner diberikan kepada 100 tamu mancanegara yang menginap di Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan servicescape di Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali berada di kategori tinggi. Spatial layout and functionality sebagai salah satu bagian dari servicescape mendapatkan respon paling baik dan skor nilai paling tinggi. Loyalitas tamu mancanegara di Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali juga berada pada kategori tinggi. Tamu mancanegara di Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali memiliki tingkat behavioral yang lebih tinggi dibandingkan tingkat attitudinal sehingga mayoritas tamu mancanegara memiliki karakteristik spurious loyalty. Servicescape berpengaruh terhadap loyalitas tamu mancanegara. Pengaruh terbesar servicescape terhadap loyalitas tamu mancanegara diperoleh melalui spatial layout and functionality dan pengaruh terkecil diperoleh melalui signs, symbols and artifacts. Saran kepada Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort Bali yaitu agar dapat meningkatkan implementasi signs, symbols and artifacts dan melakukan upaya untuk meningkatkan loyalitas tamu mancanegara terutama faktor-faktor pada tingkat attitudinal tamu mancanegara.
Exploration of Behavioral, Physiological, and Computational Approaches to Auditory Scene Analysis

Abstract : We present an overview for the study of auditory perception and scene analysis through the three main approaches researchers have used to study perception in general behavioral, physiological, and computational. At the behavioral level, we discuss the principles and origins of auditory scene analysis, and establish the relationship between auditory scene analysis and auditory masking. Within auditory masking, we note the coexistence of informational and energetic masking, and utilize the ideal time-frequency binary masks in a series of speech intelligibility experiments to isolate the energetic component of speech-on-speech masking. At the physiological level, we propose the adoption of the two-dimensional time-frequency oscillatory correlation representation as a main representation in auditory perception, after reviewing several of the theories and experiments in neurophysiology in effort to find its support. Finally, at the computational level, we extend an existing implementation of oscillatory correlation, LEGION [144], to simulate the major behavioral principles in alternating-tone sequences. Most notably, the decision boundaries of the temporal coherence boundary (TCB) and fission boundary (FB) first observed by Van Noorden [135] are automatically generated by the model. The results are compared to several existing implementations designed to simulate alternating-tone sequences [11, 104, 139]. Throughout this thesis, we use the three levels of analysis proposed by Marr in vision [89]. We emphasize the importance of balance at each level of analysis, and their relationship with the three approaches in the study auditory perception.
Lamininisoformen in humanen Speicheldrüsen und in ausgewählten Speicheldrüsentumoren

Die extrazellulare Matrix stellt in Form der epithelialen Basalmembranen eine Struktur dar, die uber auserst komplexe Zell-Matrix-Interaktionen an Prozessen wie der Zelldifferenzierung beziehungsweise der Zellreifung oder der Aufrechterhaltung der Gewebsarchitektur in hohem Mase beteiligt ist. Die Molekulfamilie der Laminine, welche masgeblich am Aufbau der epithelialen Basalmembranen beteiligt sind, zeigen einen heterotrimeren Aufbau und bilden uber verschiedene Kettenkombinationen die Lamininisoformen. In dieser Arbeit erfolgt der Nachweis der einzelnen Lamininketten in den epithelialen Basalmembranen der humanen Kopfspeicheldruse mittels monoklonaler Antikorper und der Ruckschlus auf die Verteilung der Lamininisoformen. Weiterhin wird untersucht, ob im Warthin-Tumor sowie im pleomorphen Adenom der Speicheldruse anhand der Lamininexpression epitheliale Differenzierungsmuster identifiziert werden konnen, die einen Hinweis bezuglich der Histogenese dieser Tumoren geben konnen. Auserdem wird das pleomorphe Adenom in Hinblick auf spezialisierte zellulare Differenzierungen sowie mogliche Kompartimentierungen untersucht.
Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes

With essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Begun in 1974, Incomplete Open Cubes is a sophisticated and elaborate expression of conceptualist art-making by Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential abstract artists of his generation. No other serial project by LeWitt or his contemporaries embodies with such eloquence so many of the central artistic concerns of the period.Incomplete Open Cubes exemplifies the deployment of a single idea to become, in LeWitt's words, "a machine that makes the art." The work forges a new way of making art in its ambitious use of a serial system that enables a kind of "noncompositional composition. " The translation of the same idea into different scales and media is another key aspect of the work. All 122 variations in the series exist in three dimensions, from a set in which each cube is 2 1/2 inches square to the 40 inches square human-scaled versions. There are also entire sets of photographs, drawings, working sketches and notes, and an artist's book.This publication, which accompanies an exhibition of Incomplete Open Cubes, is the first sustained critical examination of this body of work. The book features much previously unpublished material, including working drawings, schematic drawings, and models, in addition to photographs of the installed structures.Copublished with the Wadsworth Atheneum.
The Fabricated Image: Pictorial and Textile Transpositions in the Work of Robert Gober

Abstract This article looks at the relationships between support, material, and image in the work of the artist Robert Gober from a technical, visual, and material standpoint. More specifically, it uses the concept of “fabricated image” (image tissue) to explore the shifts from fabric to painting and vice versa in the artist’s sculptures and thus highlight the textile paradigm of images. In Gober’s work, the texture and visuality of surfaces entertain a relationship with the body as one of its structuring themes and point us to a third element of the fabricated image, namely, desire.
Iblis dalam Tafsir fi Zilal al Quran dan Tafsir al Jami' li Ahkam al Quran

Berbicara mengenai iblis banyak para mufassir yang berbeda pendapat mengenai jenis iblis tersebut. Menurut Sayyid Qutb, beliau mengemukakan bahwa Iblis itu bukan jenis malaikat, melainkan hanya ada bersama mereka pada waktu itu. Seandainya Iblis itu termasuk golongan malaikat, niscaya dia tidak akan melanggar perintah Allah. Sedangkan dalam tafsirnya al Qurtubi, beliau mengemukakan pendapatnya Ibnu Abbas yang mengatakan bahwa Iblis itu merupakan salah satu jenis dari golongan malaikat. Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini: bagaimanakah pandangan Sayyid Qutb dan al Qurtubi terhadap kata iblis dalam surat al-Baqarah ayat 34, faktor-faktor apa saja yang menyebabkan perbedaan penafsiran Sayyid Qut}b dan al Qurtubi terhadap surat al-Baqarah ayat 34 serta bagaimana validitas dua mufassir tersebut.Penelitian ini bertujuan mendiskripsikan penafsiran Iblis Tafsir fi Zilal al Qur’an dan Tafsir al-Jami‘ li Ahkam al Qur’an guna mencari titik persamaan dan perbedaannya. Dalam menjawab permasalahan tersebut, penelitian ini bersifat kepustakaan (library research) dan metode komparatif, yaitu membandingkan berbagai pendapat ulama tafsir dalam menafsirkan ayat-ayat al Qur’an yang berkaitan dengan Iblis. Adapun hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu dalam penafsirannya Sayyid Qutb dan al Qurtubi memiliki kesamaan metode penafsiran yaitu menggunakan metode tahlili dan sistematika keduanya memakai mushafi. Sedangkan perbedaan keduanya antara lain terdapat di corak dan generasi mufassir. Sayyid Qutb bercorak adabi Ijtima’i dan al-Qurt}ubi bercorak fiqih selain itu perbedaan yang sangat menonjol pada mereka adalah Sayyid Qutb termasuk ulama dari generasi mufassir kontemporer, sedangkan al Qurtubi merupakan seorang mufassir dari generasi klasik. Sayyid Qutb berpendapat bahwa: Iblis itu bukan jenis malaikat, melainkan hanya ada bersama mereka pada waktu itu. Seandainya Iblis itu termasuk golongan malaikat, maka dia tidak akan melanggar perintah Allah. Sedangkan Al Qurtubi berpendapat bahwa: Iblis adalah bagian dari malaikat. namanya adalah Azazil. Ia merupakan malaikat yang mulia. Ketika ia durhaka kepada Allah maka Allah murka kepadanya lalu melaknatinya, kemudian ia menjadi setan. Maka validitas atau yang paling mendekati kebenaran adalah pendapatnya Sayyid Qutb hal ini dikuatkan dan didukung oleh penafsiran Quraish Shihab di dalam tafsir al Misbah yang mengatakan apakah asal-usul kejadian Iblis? Apakah ia dari jenis malaikat yang menurut informasi riwayat tercipta dari cahaya, atau dari jenis jin yang menurut al-Qur’an tercipta dari api? al Qur’an tegas menyatakan bahwa: “Iblis dari jenis jin” (QS. al-Kahfi [18]:50)
HEADING REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR LAND VEHICLES

The paper presents designs of several Heading Reference Systems which can be used in land vehicles for determination of their heading. The systems are composed of diverse combinations of gyro, electronic compass and GNSS receiver and employ Kalman filtering algorithms. Chosen simulation results, comparing accuracy of the designed systems, are included in the paper.
Early classification on temporal sequences

Early classification of temporal sequences has applications in, for example, health informatics, intrusion detection, anomaly detection, and scientific and engineering sequence data monitoring. Comparing to learning conventional sequence classifiers, learning early classifiers is a more challenging task and has not been systematically studied before. In this work, we identify the problem of early classification and develop a series of classifiers for temporal sequence early classification. The proposed classifiers are designed for different types of temporal sequences including symbolic sequences and time series. Furthermore, the proposed classifiers have several desirable characteristics which are useful in different application scenarios. We evaluate our approaches on a broad range of real data sets and demonstrate that the classifiers can achieve competitive classification accuracies with great earliness. Also, the classifiers can extract interpretable features from sequences for better understanding.
Indexing Methods for Efficient Multiclass Recognition

Many real world image analysis problems, such as face recognition and hand pose estimation, involve recognizing a large number of classes of objects or shapes. Large margin methods, such as AdaBoost and Support Vector Machines (SVMs), often provide competitive accuracy rates, but at the cost of evaluating a large number of binary classifiers, thus making it difficult to apply such methods when thousands or millions of classes need to be recognized. This thesis proposes a filter-and-refine framework, whereby, given a test pattern, a small number of candidate classes can be identified efficiently at the filter step, and computationally expensive large margin classifiers are used to evaluate these candidates at the refine step. Two different filtering methods are proposed, ClassMap and OVA-VS (One-vs.-All classification using Vector Search). ClassMap is an embedding-based method, works for both boosted classifiers and SVMs, and tends to map the patterns and their associated classes close to each other in a vector space. OVA-VS maps OVA classifiers and test patterns to vectors based on the weights and outputs of weak classifiers of the boosting scheme. At runtime, finding the strongestresponding OVA classifier becomes a classical vector search problem, where well-known methods can be used to gain efficiency. In our experiments, the proposed methods achieve significant speed-ups, in some cases up to two orders of magnitude, compared to exhaustive evaluation of all OVA classifiers. This was achieved in hand pose recognition and face recognition systems where the number of classes ranges from 535 to 48,600.
A parallel transformations framework for cluster environments

Faculty of Technology Software Technology Research Laboratory Doctor of Philosophy In recent years program transformation technology has matured into a practical solution for many software reengineering and migration tasks. FermaT, an industrial strength program transformation system, has demonstrated that legacy systems can be successfully transformed into efficient and maintainable structured C or COBOL code. Its core, a transformation engine, is based on mathematically proven program transformations and ensures that transformed programs are semantically equivalent to its original state. Its engine facilitates a Wide Spectrum Language (WSL), with low-level as well as high-level constructs, to capture as much information as possible during transformation steps. FermaT’s methodology and technique lack in provision of concurrent migration and analysis. This provision is crucial if the transformation process is to be further automated. As the constraint based program migration theory has demonstrated, it is inefficient and time consuming, trying to satisfy the enormous computation of the generated transformation sequence search-space and its constraints. With the objective to solve the above problems and to extend the operating range of the FermaT transformation system, this thesis proposes a Parallel Transformations Framework which makes parallel transformations processing within the FermaT environment not only possible but also beneficial for its migration process. During a migration process, many thousands of program transformations have to be applied. For example a 1 million line of assembler to C migration takes over 21 hours to be processed on a single PC. Various approaches of search, prediction techniques and a constraint-based approach to address the presented issues already exist but they solve them unsatisfactorily. To remedy this situation, this dissertation proposes a framework to extend transformation processing systems with parallel processing capabilities. The parallel system can analyse specified parallel transformation tasks and produce appropriate parallel transformations processing outlines. To underpin an automated objective, a formal language is introduced. This language can be utilised to describe and outline parallel transformation tasks whereas parallel processing constraints underpin the parallel objective.
Modern Anti-windup Synthesis: Control Augmentation for Actuator Saturation

This book provides a wide variety of state-space--based numerical algorithms for the synthesis of feedback algorithms for linear systems with input saturation. Specifically, it addresses and solves the anti-windup problem, presenting the objectives and terminology of the problem, the mathematical tools behind anti-windup algorithms, and more than twenty algorithms for anti-windup synthesis, illustrated with examples. Luca Zaccarian and Andrew Teel's modern method--combining a state-space approach with algorithms generated by solving linear matrix inequalities--treats MIMO and SISO systems with equal ease. The book, aimed at control engineers as well as graduate students, ranges from very simple anti-windup construction to sophisticated anti-windup algorithms for nonlinear systems. * Describes the fundamental objectives and principles behind anti-windup synthesis for control systems with actuator saturation * Takes a modern, state-space approach to synthesis that applies to both SISO and MIMO systems * Presents algorithms as linear matrix inequalities that can be readily solved with widely available software * Explains mathematical concepts that motivate synthesis algorithms * Uses nonlinear performance curves to quantify performance relative to disturbances of varying magnitudes * Includes anti-windup algorithms for a class of Euler-Lagrange nonlinear systems * Traces the history of anti-windup research through an extensive annotated bibliography
The Understanding and Generation of Ellipses in a Natural Language System

Abstract : Ellipsis in English can occur in many different forms. A large class of ellipses is isolated, encompassing such traditionally distinct linguistic rules as Right-node Raising, Gapping, VP-Deletion, Coordinate Reduction, and other phenomena which crosses sentence boundaries. The members of this class of ellipses involve implicit or explicit coordination. A uniform algorithm implemented in the UC (Unix Consultant) natural language system resolves the ellipses in this class, and constraints are given which govern the production of those ellipses. Justification is provided for the approach taken, and its limitations and applications are explored.
La planification des expériences : choix des traitements et dispositif expérimental

On observe depuis plusieurs annees une tendance a concentrer l'attention en matiere d'experimentation sur le choix des traitements, parfois a l'exclusion de toute autre consideration (repetition, randomisation, dispositif experimental, etc.). Cette tendance peut avoir des consequences fâcheuses quand la variabilite residuelle n'est pas negligeable (absence de connaissance de cette variabilite, faible precision des estimations, faible puissance des eventuels tests d'hypotheses, erreurs systematiques, etc.). Nous identifions cette tendance en la placant dans un contexte historique, nous en illustrons les consequences par l'examen de quelques exemples et nous formulons diverses recommandations a ce sujet.
Measurement Characteristics of the Most Common Used International Physical Activity Questionnaires for Adults Across EU-28 in National Language Versions: Systematic Review and Meta Analysis

This review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42020138845) critically evaluates test-retest reliability, concurrent validity and criterion validity of different physical activity (PA) levels of three most-common used international PA questionnaires (PAQs) in national language versions of EU-28: IPAQ-SF, GPAQ, and EHIS-PAQ. In total, 4969 abstracts were read, 287 full-text articles were identified as relvant to the study objectives, and 19 studies were included in the final meta-analysis. The studies’ results and quality were evaluated using the Quality Assessment of Physical Activity Questionnaires (QAPAQ) checklist. Results indicate that only five EU-28 countries validated national language versions of selected PAQs. Meta analysis revealed that assessment of moderate-to-vigourus PA (MVPA) is the most relevant PA level outcome, since no publication bias in any of measurement properties was detected while test-retest reliability was the moderately-high (rw=0.74), and moderate for both criterion (rw=0.41) and concurrent validity (rw=0.72). Reporting of methods and results of the studies was poor with overall moderate risk of bias with total score of 0.43. In conclusion, where only self-reporting is feasible, assessment of MVPA with selected PAQs in EU-28 adult population is recommended for policymaking.
Adaptive Personalization of Web Search: Task sensitive approach to search personalization

Revision with unchanged content. An often stated problem in the state-of-the-art web search is its lack of user adaptation, as all users are presented with the same search results for a given query string. The effectiveness of a personalization of web search shows high variance in performance depending on the query, the user and the search context. To this end, carefully choosing the right personalization strategy in a context sensitive manner is critical for an improvement of search results. In this book, we first introduce some fundamentals of the general information retrieval process as well as incorporating relevance feedback information. We also present a brief summary of current personalization approaches followed by the presentation of a general framework that dynamically adapts the query-result ranking to the different information needs in order to improve the search experience for the individual user. This book is intended to act as a focal point for researchers and practitioners whose work is related to web information seeking and interaction, and with a precise focus on search personalization.
Soils of the Brazilian Coastal Plains biome: prediction of chemical attributes via portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry and robust prediction models

Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry has been successfully used for soil attribute prediction. However, recent studies have shown that accurate predictions may vary according to soil type and environmental conditions, motivating investigations in different biomes. Hence, this work attempted to accurately predict soil pH, sum of bases (SB), cation exchange capacity (CEC) at pH 7.0 and base saturation (BS) using pXRF-obtained data with high variability and robust prediction models in the Brazilian Coastal Plains biome. A total of 285 soil samples were collected to generate prediction models for A (n = 123), B (n = 162) and A+B (n = 285) horizons through stepwise multiple linear regression, support vector machine with linear kernel (SVM) and random forest. Data were divided into calibration (75%) and validation (25%) sets. Accuracy of the predictions was assessed by coefficient of determination (R2), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and residual prediction deviation (RPD). The A+B horizons dataset had optimal performance, especially for SB predictions using SVM, achieving R2 = 0.82, RMSE = 1.02 cmolc dm–3, MAE = 1.17 cmolc dm–3 and RPD = 2.33. The most important predictor variable was Ca. Predictions using pXRF data were accurate especially for SB. Limitations of the predictions caused by soil classes and environmental conditions should be further investigated in other regions.