Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Toward a Black Radical Critique of Natality: Beyond Hannah Arendt's Biopolitics

Abstract:In this article I criticize Hannah Arendt's concept of natality as unable to confront the ways in which racial capitalism links the biopolitical cultivation of natality to the necropolitical natal alienation that is structural to modern slavery. I base this argument in an understanding of social death as the production of racial capitalism, one that gives slavery an aftermath, post-abolition, which continues to dispossess Black and brown people of their capacity to begin something anew via their inclusion into juridical personhood. I conclude this article with an articulation of the political impossibility of Black and brown people to begin something anew under a polis that remains structured by racial capitalism in Ralph Ellison's phenomenological description of the invisible man's misrecognized new beginnings with the Brotherhood.
Title Unsupervised segmentation of bibliographic elements with latentpermutations

This paper introduces a novel approach for large-scale unsupervised segmentation of bibliographic elements. Our problem is to segment a word token sequence representing a citation into subsequences each corresponding to a different bibliographic element, e.g. authors, paper title, journal name, publication year, etc. Obviously, each bibliographic element should be represented by contiguous word tokens. We call this constraint contiguity constraint. Therefore, we should infer a sequence of assignments of word tokens to bibliographic elements so that this constraint is satisfied. Many HMM-based methods solve this problem by prescribing fixed transition patterns among bibliographic elements. In this paper, we use generalized Mallows models (GMM) in a Bayesian multi-topic model, effectively applied to document structure learning by Chen et al. [4], and infer a permutation of latent topics each of which can be interpreted as one among the bibliographic elements. According to the inferred permutation, we arrange the order of the draws from a multinomial distribution defined over topics. In this manner, we can obtain an ordered sequence of topic assignments satisfying contiguity constraint. We do not need to prescribe any transition patterns among bibliographic elements. We only need to specify the number of bibliographic elements. However, the method proposed by Chen et al. works for our problem only after introducing modification. The main contribution of this paper is to propose strategies to make their method work also for our problem.
Noun Phrases and Postverbal Clitic Pronouns Meet Lambek's Pregroups in French

This paper is the first part of a more comprehensive work on the agreement in gender and number in French with the tool of Lambek’s pregroups. This work continues the typing given in [BL01]. Here are proposed the noun phrase where the agreement is required for all words within the phrase and postverbal clitic pronouns used with the imperative where it is not necessary.
Implementing Trade Strategy with HMM Model: A Practice on Some Telecommunication Companies

Stock trend prediction has been a challenge task for many traders. For stock traders, promptly predicting the bearish or bullish market status is very helpful in reducing the losses and increasing returns. This paper presents a Hidden Markov Models (HMM) approach for determining stock trend status: “upper trend”, “low trend”, or “Medium”. And a simple trade strategy based on the estimated trend status is formulated. Then the strategy is applied to three telecommunication stocks: AT & T, Verizon, and China Mobile for trade performance evaluation. We use the real daily trading data of NYSE from October 25, 2016 to November 06, 2017 to test performance of the strategy. The results show that the strategy is actually very encouraging. For the generally bearish period of telecommunication sector, a 9.7% and 3.7% return rate can still be achieved for AT & T and Verizon. For China Mobile, although the return is negative, the final loss is still 2% less than if “Buy and Hold”.
FASTER AND BETTER DECISIONS IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS USING A HYBRID APPROACH OF DATA WAREHOUSE INTEGRATION

We live in a globalized and fast changing world. The financial crisis means a lot of trouble for governments, administrations, companies and people. Sometimes the environment changes faster than the actors are able to react. So, at the moment Heraclitus’ proverb ‘Nothing is more constant than the change’ is still up-to date, still valid and of high relevance. Companies merge with other companies; build joint ventures and virtual organizations. What has not been changed for a long time is the fact that only successful companies survive. Successful companies could be characterized as companies which are able to make better decisions faster. Therefore it is necessary to have the relevant data at the right time. This means that data for strategic decisions have to be available shortly after a merger or the establishment of a virtual organization for the whole new organization in a unified, complete and consistent form. It is not possible to build a data warehouse all from the scratch because this means a project of several years which is often still not in time and not in budget. A new way to develop an integrated data warehouse is needed. In this paper we show how a hybrid approach of data warehouse integration could look like. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.em. 17.2. 2209
Second Life Experience: Preliminary Analysis Regarding Novel Experience as a Necessary Component of Customer Expectation in Second Life

This paper employs a historical analysis of of business-to-consumer (B2C) success in the virtual world Second Life (SL) and proposes a model for success based on an extension to Expectation Confirmation Theory. SL is classified as a hedonic information system which is an information system designed to deliver an enjoyable experience to the user as its main goal. Expectation Confirmation Theory is used to guide the review process. Literature analysis indicates that novelty or virtual experience is likely to play a part in customer expectation of B2C offerings. A modified version of the ECT theory is proposed with utility and novelty constructs integrated into the existing expectation and perceived performance constructs. Novel experience, therefore, is proposed as a component of player expectation that contributes to the success of B2C transactions within Second Life.
Elliptic Virasoro Conformal Blocks

We study certain six dimensional theories arising on (p;q) brane webs living on R S 1 . These brane webs are dual to toric elliptically bered Calabi-Yau threefolds. The compactication of the space on which the brane web lives leads to a deformation of the partition functions equivalent to the elliptic deformation of the Ding-Iohara algebra. We compute the elliptic version Dotsenko-Fateev integrals and show that they reproduce the instanton counting of the six dimensional theory.
Port performance : an economics perspective

This chapter presents methodologies for evaluating the economic performance of a port. This performance may be evaluated from the standpoint of technical efficiency, cost efficiency and effectiveness by comparing the port’s actual throughput with its economic technically efficient, cost efficient and effectiveness optimum throughput, respectively. The port’s economic performance may also be evaluated by comparing the actual values of its performance indicators to their standards (that satisfy an economic objective of the port). If the actual values approach (depart from) the standards over time, the port’s performance with respect to its economic objective has improved (deteriorated) over time.
A Note on the Use of the Second Vertical Derivative (SVD) of Gravity Data with Reference to Indonesian Cases

Gravity data analysis and interpretation are based, among others, on their spatial variation represented by horizontal and vertical gradients. The gradient or derivative of a gravity field can be calculated either in the spatial domain or the wave-number domain. Historically, the second vertical derivative (SVD) of gravity data can be used to delineate the boundaries of anomalous sources. This paper addresses inappropriate use of the SVD of gravity data, with reference to current practices in Indonesia. The SVD’s relative magnitude along a profile is widely used to define whether a density contrast and its dipping orientation correspond to a normal or reverse fault, which may be geologically incorrect. Furthermore, the SVD is calculated by approximation using the horizontal derivative, which may be erroneous especially with poorly distributed data and anomalous 3D sources. We exemplify our analysis with synthetic data and propose a more appropriate spectral-based analysis using field data.
Service quality monitoring by performance indicators: a proposal for a structured methodology

The evaluation of service quality is usually carried out using a suitable set of Performance Indicators (PIs). In general, the development of a proper set of PIs is a fundamental prerequisite to monitor organisation or process performances. Many conceptual models have been proposed in the literature. The question is how to make these models operative. This paper aims to describe a structured methodology to identify a set of PIs for service quality monitoring. First, the service is mapped in order to identify its main activities. Then, the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methodology is applied. Relations between the service quality determinants and the corresponding indicators are established and analysed. The monitoring of a service often implies the definition of large PI sets. To make quicker indicators analyses and process anomalies identification, a subset of the most critical PIs is selected (Performance Dashboard). This subset is used for the earliest monitoring of the system. In this paper, different selection techniques are proposed and compared. The methodology has been experimentally tested on a Help Desk (HD) service. The obtained results are proposed and discussed.
Production of optically trapped Feshbach molecules.

We report the production of Feshbach molecules in a crossed-beam dipole trap. A mixture of and is cooled close to quantum degeneracy before an interspecies Feshbach resonance at 197 G is used to associate up to molecules with a temperature of nK. The molecules are confined in the dipole trap with a lifetime of 0.21(1) s, long enough for future experiments exploring optical transfer to the absolute ground state. We have measured the magnetic moment of the Feshbach molecules in a magnetic bias field range between 181 and 185 G to demonstrate the ability to control the character of the molecular state. In addition, we have performed Feshbach spectroscopy in a field range from 0 to 1200 G and located three previously unobserved resonances at high magnetic fields.
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE)

The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-band Hα + [NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the Canada-French-Hawaii telescope. We use a new set of data extracted from VESTIGE to study the impact of the hostile cluster environment on the star formation process down to the scale of HII regions (∼50 pc). Here, HII regions are identified and their parameters measured using the HIIPHOT code on a sample of 114 late-type galaxies spanning a wide range in morphological type (Sa-Sd, Im, BCD), stellar mass (106.5 ≤ Mstar ≤ 1011 M⊙), and star formation activity (10−3 ≤ SFR ≤ 10 M⊙ yr−1). Owing to the exquisite average resolution of the VESTIGE data (0.65 arcsec), we detect 11302 HII regions with an Hα luminosity L(Hα) ≥ 1037 erg s−1. We show that the typical number of HII regions in gas-stripped objects is significantly lower than in healthy late-types of similar stellar mass. We also show that in these gas-stripped galaxies the number of HII regions significantly drops outside the effective radius, suggesting that the quenching process occurs outside-in, in agreement with other multifrequency observations. These new results consistently confirm that the main mechanism responsible for the decrease of the star formation activity observed in cluster galaxies is ram pressure, allowing us to discard other milder processes such as starvation or strangulation, which are unable to reproduce the observed radially truncated profiles.
Real-time Composing of Restaurant Label Classifiers utilising Semantic Word Similarity

Yelp proposed a problem where insufficient labels of restaurants are predicted by the use of user-submitted photos. Inspired by this problem, an attempt was made for on-the-fly construction of new restaurant label classifiers. This thesis proposes an approach to compose new label classifiers in real-time utilising semantic word similarities. A new classifier can be constructed based on a set of pre-trained concept classifiers and the semantic relations among concepts. The two main contributions in this thesis are firstly, the performance comparison of a classifier trained on original data and one trained on augmented data, and secondly, a semantic search engine capable of classifying new concepts eliminating the need for additional data and training. Various experiments were conducted to improve overall performance as well as the practicality of the classifiers. In addition to the proposed contributions, a comprehensive analysis of the Yelp data set and the various methods for data acquisition for the aforementioned components are present in this thesis.
A MATLAB R ©-based Object-Oriented Approach to Multipath Fading Channel Simulation

A MATLAB R -based object-oriented implementation of a multipath fading simulator is presented. The simulator uses the interpolated filtered Gaussian noise approach to emulate the time selectivity of the channel (i.e. the Doppler spreading), and a bandlimited representation of the channel to efficiently emulate the frequency selectivity of the channel (i.e. the time spreading).
Perceptions of Parent-Child Attachments: Relationships with Explanatory Style and Empathy.

This study investigated the theoretical concept of attachments to parents as having pervasive influence on psychological adaptation into young adulthood. Specifically, traditional-age college students' perceptions of separate attachments to their mothers and fathers were related to students' elf-reported explanatory style and empathy. Using a survey methodology, data were collected and analyzed from 362 college students who attended a Midwestern university. Results of a multiple regression supported the hypothesis that parental attachments, assessed by the Inventory of Parent Attachments, were positively related to explanatory style. Davis' Interpersonal Reactivity Index was used to assess cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. The hypothesized relationship between Mother Attachment and empathy was partially supported: Mother Attachment was positive related to perspective-taking and empathic concern. However, Father Attachment was negatively related to personal distress. Unexpectedly, personal distress emerged as the single best predictor of positive-negative explanatory style. Participants' written responses on the Attributional Style Questionnaire were qualitatively analyzed. Six attributional themes were identified, which, when analyzed, revealed notable gender differences. (Contains 40 references and 14 tables.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Running Head: Parent-Child Attachments Perceptions of Parent-child Attachments: Relationships With Explanatory Style and Empathy
The professional network of independent musicians : a quantitative mapping of outsourcing and do-it-yourself practices in the digital music age

This thesis aims at establishing a quantitative mapping of independent musicians’ work practices regarding outsourcing different functions related to their music. Digitization has transformed the music industry at large mainly by impacting the traditional value chain of music production, distribution and promotion. In theory, musicians without major label support are now able to enter the market freely and take advantage of digital tools to cut out intermediaries and professionals. By asking how digitization has changed the functions related to music production, distribution and promotion for independent musicians, this thesis attempts to establish which functions remain outsourced at this point in time. Testing hypotheses based on existing literature about independent musicians, the results indicate that outsourcing remains to be associated with higher levels of activity and success and that musicians still mainly outsource tasks related to the production of their core product, the recorded music. The results also indicate that DIY practices are still associated with smallscale music production. An online survey of 120 independent musicians formed the basis of these findings.
DENGUE FEVER IN CHILDREN: ROLE OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY.

* Dr. Sujit Mulay 1 , Dr. C. S. Rajput 2 , Dr. Sudha Bhave 3 and Dr. Suresh Waydande 4 . 1. Junior Resident, Department of pediatrics, Bharati vidyappeth university medical College and Hospital, Sangli. 2. Professor, Department of pediatrics, Bharati vidyappeth university medical College and Hospital, Sangli. 3. Associate Professor, Department of pediatrics, Bharati vidyappeth university medical College and Hospital, Sangli. 4. Assistant Professor Department of pediatrics, Bharati vidyappeth university medical College and Hospital, Sangli. Manuscript Info Abstract . Manuscript History
A hybrid optimization algorithm for the optimal design of laterally-supported castellated beams

In this paper a hybrid method is developed for optimum design of castellated beams by combining two meta-heuristic algorithms, namely the colliding bodies optimization (CBO) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). In this hybrid algorithm (CBO-PSO), positive features of PSO are added to the CBO. Two common types of laterally supported castellated beams are considered as design problems: beams with hexagonal openings and beams with circular openings. These beams have found widespread usage in buildings because of great savings in materials and construction costs. Here, the minimum cost is taken as the design objective function and the new hybrid method is utilized for obtaining the solution of some benchmark problems. Comparison of the results of the CBO-PSO with those of some other metaheuristics demonstrates the capability of the presented optimization algorithm. For most of the examples, the results obtained by the CBO-PSO have less cost in comparison to those of the other considered methods. It is also concluded that the beams with hexagonal openings require smaller amount of steel, hence being superior to the beams with cellular openings.
Ju l 2 01 5 Intermediate Coherent-entangled State Representation : Generation and its applications

Qin Guo1,2,3,†, Li-ying Jiang, Cun-jin Liu, Ming Cai and Li-yun Hu1,2,3,† College of Physics and Communication Electronics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Telecommunication of Jiangxi, Nanchang 330022, China and Library, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
How higher-spin gravity surpasses the spin-two barrier

Aiming at nonexperts, the key mechanisms of higher-spin extensions of ordinary gravities in four dimensions and higher are explained. An overview of various no-go theorems for low-energy scattering of massless particles in flat spacetime is given. In doing so, a connection between the S-matrix and the Lagrangian approaches is made, exhibiting their relative advantages and weaknesses, after which potential loopholes for nontrivial massless dynamics are highlighted. Positive yes-go results for non-Abelian cubic higher-derivative vertices in constantly curved backgrounds are reviewed. Finally, how higher-spin symmetry can be reconciled with the equivalence principle in the presence of a cosmological constant leading to the Fradkin-Vasiliev vertices and Vasiliev's higher-spin gravity with its double perturbative expansion (in terms of numbers of fields and derivatives) is outlined.
Review on Generating Social Event Storyboard

Traditional websites have been driven by means of human-edited events which cause large web seeks visitors. This paper is a survey performed for identifying the various event detection strategies that are beneficial for event mining. Moreover this work indicates an automatic system to detect events from search log data and generates a storyboard where events are arranged chronologically. To detect events from search log data, an approach known as Smooth Nonnegative Matrix Factorization framework (SNMF) is used. In addition, to describe events set of relevant images are attached to each event. These relevant images are taken from image log data by analyzing both local and global image content feature.
The macroecology of island floras

Islands are key model systems in biogeography and ecology. However, standardized data on environmental characteristics of the large number of islands worldwide have so far been lacking, and the effects of these characteristics on island ecology and biodiversity remain insufficiently understood. In my PhD thesis, I presented the first comprehensive environmental characterization of the world’s islands, covering past and present bioclimatic and physical island characteristics (including the spatial setting of islands and archipelagos). I used these data to investigate how island characteristics influence the diversity and assembly of island floras at different spatial scales and across major plant groups. To this end, I assembled a global database of vascular plant species composition including 45,000 species and covering 1,070 islands. I showed
Towards (Re)Constructing Narratives from Georeferenced Photographs through Visual Analytics

Abstract We present a study that explores methodological steps towards (re)constructing collective narratives from the photo-taking behaviour of two groups (foreign tourists and inhabitants of Switzerland) by analysing spatial and temporal patterns in user-contributed, georeferenced photographs of Zurich, Switzerland. We reason that the photographers typically capture a scene or a moment because they want to remember or share it, thus these scenes or moments are meaningful to them. Various scholars suggest that the human experience (i.e. this meaningfulness) is what separates a place from the mathematical descriptions of space. While this notion is well known in larger geographic literature, it is under-explored in cartographic research. We respond to this research gap and reconstruct static and dynamic patterns of photo-taking and -sharing behaviour to assist in capturing the implicit meaning in the studied locations. These locations may be meaningful to only a certain group of people in certain moments; therefore, studying group differences in spatial and temporal photo-taking patterns will help building a collective and comparative story about the studied place. In our study, we focus on experiences of foreign versus domestic visitors, and in the process, we examine the potential (and feasibility) of georeferenced photographs for extracting such collective narratives using qualitative and quantitative visual analytical methods.