Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genomic tree of gene contents based on functional groups of KEGG orthology

We propose a genome-scale clustering approach to identify whole genome relationships using the functional groups given by the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes Orthology (KO) database. The metabolic capabilities of each organism were defined by the number of genes in each functional category. The archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryotic genomes were compared by simultaneously applying a two-step clustering method, comprised of a self-organizing tree algorithm followed by unsupervised hierarchical clustering. The clustering results were consistent with various phenotypic characteristics of the organisms analyzed and, additionally, showed a different aspect of the relationship between genomes that have previously been established through rRNA-based comparisons. The proposed approach to collect and cluster the metabolic functional capabilities of organisms should make it a useful tool in predicting relationships among organisms.
Consecuencias demográficas de la dispersión de semillas por aves y mamíferos frugívoros en la vegetación mediterránea de montaña

En la presente tesis doctoral se han estudiado las consecuencias demograficas de la dispersion de semillas por aves y mamiferos frugivoros en la vegetacion Mediterranea de montana a traves de las siguientes etapas demograficas: patron de fructificacion de las especies confruto carnoso,uso del habitat por las aves y mamiferos, lluvia de semillas generada por estos, depredacion posdispersiva, germinacion de las semillas y supervivencia temprana de las plantulas emergentes. Encontramos un marcado patron fenologico en la presencia y diversidad de frutos carnosos en el area, asi como un uso de los diferentes microhabitats caracteristico para diferentes especies de aves y para los mamiferos. La lluvia de semillas generadas por los diferentes grupos de dispersores fue muy diferente, dispersando, con excepciones, las aves las semillas a lugares con cobertura y los mamiferos a lugares sin cobertura. La depredacion posdispersiva de las semillas presento un maracado patron en funcion de la especie y el microhabitat y, en terminos genrales, fue mayor para las dispuestas de forma analoga a las procedentes de la dispersion por aves que para las procedentes de las dispersion por mamiferos. La germinacion tambien presento diferencias entre especies y microhabitats y, para el caso de los mamiferos, fue virtualmente nula. La supervivencia de las plantulas fue mayor en lugares con cobertura, siendo estos los lugares donde se produce la regeneracion de la vegetacion a traves de la dispersion ornitocora a pesar de la falta de concordancia entre las diferentes etapas demograficas para un especie y microhabitat concreto. La dispersion por mamiferos podria influir en la vegetacion por el transporte de semillas a larga distancia, importando propagulos de especies no presentes en el area de estudio.
Modélisation et commande d'hélicoptère

Ce memoire concerne la modelisation et la commande non-lineaires d’un helicoptere a modele reduit (VARIO Benzin-Trainer) de l’Universite de Technologie de Compiegne. En ce qui concerne la modelisation, deux modeles generaux a 7-DDL (degres de liberte) pour l’helicoptere en mode de vol libre sont proposes. Le premier modele est Lagrangien et le deuxieme de Newton-Euler. Ce systeme sous-actionne possede 4 entrees de commande. Lorsque l’helicoptere est monte sur une plate-forme experimentale, le systeme sous—actionne qui en resulte possede 3-DDL et 2 entrees de commande. Le modele a 3-DDL utilise pour l’analyse du mode de vol vertical (decollage, montee, vol stationnaire, descente et atterrissage) est Lagrangien. Les modeles non-lineaires proposes possedent des caracteristiques speciﬁques qui font de leurs etudes un deﬁ interessant, meme dans le cas a 3-DDL. Particulierement les forces aerodynamiques sont exprimees en fonction des signaux de commande et de matrices qui different de maniere signiﬁcative des formes normalement considerees dans la litterature sur la commande de systemes mecaniques. En ce qui concerne le systeme a 3-DDL, deux strategies de commande sont proposees. La premiere est une strategie a deux phases utilisant une commande passive (1ere phase) et une commande linearisant (2eme phase). La deuxieme strategie concerne uniquement l’application de la commande linearisante utilisee dans la strategie precedente. Des resultats en simulation (systeme a 3-DDL) illustrent les developpements theoriques. Une etude en simulation de robustesse est faite pour trois incertitudes parametriques. Pour les modeles generaux, le vecteur de forces externes (aerodynamiques) possede une structure ou les entrees de commande presentent des formes non-lineaires qui sont negligees dans un premier temps pour la conception d’une loi de commande, mais qui seront considerees comme des perturbations pour des simulations ulterieures
Was it a slab, a slice, or a sliver?

Agricultural Research/March 2001 ccording to the last USDA nationwide food consumption survey, conducted from 1994 to 1996, Americans of all ages averaged about 2,000 calories a day. So why are we overweight as a population? Some Americans obviously eat more than they report, say Linda E. Cleveland and Linda A. Ingwersen, of ARS’ Food Surveys Research Group, which develops and oversees the periodic survey. So It’s Not So Much What You Ask, As How Staffers have improved the way the interviewers will probe for all the foods and beverages a respondent ate during the previous 24 hours so that the questions don’t seem repetitive. “It sounds more conversational,” says Cleveland, “like you’re chatting about the meal, rather than questioning their memory. ” And Cleveland and Ingwersen believe Was It a Slab, a Slice, or a Sliver? High-tech innovations take food survey to new level
Do Students Effectively Monitor Their Comprehension

This research is a preliminary investigation of students’ awareness of their performance on comprehension tasks at reconstructive and constructive levels. After comprehension instruction, students were asked reconstructive and constructive level comprehension questions and asked to rate their performance on each level of questions. Students rated their performance higher than they actually performed on both levels of questions. They also rated their performance the same on the two levels of questions, although their performance on reconstructive questions was higher than on constructive questions.
Cluster Analysis of Non-heading Chinese Cabbage Cultivars Based on SSR Marker

Taking 78non-heading Chinese cabbage cultivars as materials,21polymorphic SSR loci were used to study the genetic relationship of non-heading Chinese cabbage cultivars using SSR marker,and cluster analysis was done by UPGMA method.The results showed that 56alleles were detected with 2~4alleles each primer.78cultivars were clustered three groups.Group I had a larger genetic variation level,which included 51 chinensis cultivars,4 narinosa cultivars and 4 parachinensis cultivars.The 51 chinensis cultivars were collected from the south and the north,which reflected their closer genetic relationship.Group II included 2 parachinensiscultivars,3 chinensis cultivars and 5seedling pekinensis cultivars.Group III included 6 chinensis cultivars,1 parachinensis cultivars and 3seedling pekinensis cultivars. The seedling pekinensiscultivars were clustered into two different groups,which reflected their genetic background during the breeding process.The results provided scientific basis for expansion of genetic basis and utilization of breeding parents in non-heading Chinese cabbage.
Post-stripping recolonization of vascular epiphytes in cloud-forest fragments in Mexico

Abstract: The response of vascular epiphyte communities following natural or human disturbance has been little studied. Over 5 y, we evaluated the post-stripping recolonization of vascular epiphytes in cloud forest. Vascular epiphytes were experimentally removed from branch and trunk plots (1 m in length) on five trees in two secondary cloud forest fragments in southern Mexico. Similarity between colonizer and established communities was compared in each fragment using a further five trees with no stripping. All seedlings were recorded yearly. Non-vascular epiphyte cover was estimated in each plot. The recolonization rate was very high; after 5 y, epiphyte density of the colonizer community (27.4 ± 6.8 individuals per segment) reached similar values to those of the established community (26.7 ± 3.3) in nearby trees. While similarity (composition and abundance) between the colonizer community and established community was high (81%), diversity accumulation curves indicated that the colonizer community presents a lower diversity of epiphytes (5.5 equivalent species) than the established community (11.4). Colonization of xerophytic bromeliads was high, while pteridophytes and orchids presented reduced recovery. The immediately surrounding source of propagules had a strong influence on recolonization. In both the colonizer and established communities, dominance rank was bromeliads > peperomias > pteridophytes. The results show that the recovery capacity of epiphytic vegetation in secondary forest is high, if propagule sources are close by. However, at 5 y after disturbance, it is unclear whether the colonizer community would present the same species composition as the established community or if it would give rise to a different community.
The GAIA Cookbook

GAIA (Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis) is an interactive astronomical image display and analysis tool. It includes a comprehensive suite of facilities for displaying and manipulating images. It also has extensive facilities for the astronomical analysis of images, including: astrometric calibration, automatic object detection and aperture, optimal and surface photometry. GAIA can access images in most of the data formats common in astronomy and can also retrieve copies of remote images and catalogues via the Internet. This cookbook is an introduction to GAIA. It describes the facilities that GAIA provides and gives some simple examples of their use. It refers to GAIA version 2.6 or higher. Who Should Read this Cookbook? This cookbook is aimed at astronomers who are new to GAIA, but who think that it might be useful in their work. It is not aimed at experienced users of GAIA, for whom the GAIA manual (SUN/214) or the on-line help within GAIA itself might be more useful. Copyright c © 2001 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils iii SC/17.1—
An analysis of the linkages among African and world equity markets

In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of the dynamic relationships between the returns of emerging African equity markets and the world? s major equity markets during January 1988 - May 2000. Using a vector autoregression (VAR) model, we find that all the African equity markets, except those in South Africa and Namibia, are segmented as movements in these markets are mainly influenced by domestic factors. Surprisingly, South Africa, the largest African equity market, has minimal influence on all other markets, except Namibia. Generally, the empirical results do not support intra-continental comovements. We also document a very low degree of international comovement among the African equity markets and the major world equity markets, except South Africa and Namibia where a relatively large proportion of the variation in market returns can be attributed to the influences of overseas markets. The results suggest that apart from South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Namibia, the emerging equity markets of the African region are not integrated with the major world equity markets, including the British and the French markets with which these countries have strong historical, trade and economic ties. Thus, we conclude that while technological developments have increased the level of integration among many developed and regional equity markets, the same cannot be said of the African equity markets, with the possible exception of South Africa.
Design and testing of environmentally friendly wood school chairs for developing countries

In many of the developing countries of the world, school chairs are poorly designed, of low quality, and often unfit for school use, yet they are costly and consume a disproportionate share of limited educational budgets. This situation need not continue. Attractive, well-designed, durable, maintenance-free chairs can be produced by local industry from locally available wood materials including plantation thinnings and semi-processed materials such as pallet deckboards. Only the simplest machining and joinery processes are required to construct the chairs. Cost of the chairs is generally less than that of competing products, yet performance tests indicate that the chairs produced are very durable.
SMONE: A Session-based Recommendation Model Based on Neighbor Sessions with Similar Probabilistic Intentions

A session-based recommendation system (SRS) tries to predict the next possible choice of anonymous users. In recent years, graph neural network (GNN) models have been successfully applied to SRSs and have achieved great success. Using GNN models in SRSs, each session graph is processed successively to obtain the embedding of the node (i.e, each action on an item), which is then imported into the prediction module to generate recommendation results. However, solely depending on the session graph to obtain the node embeddings is not sufficient because each session only involves a few items. Therefore, neighbor sessions have been used to extend the session graph to learn more informative node representations. In this paper, we introduce a Session-based recommendation MOdel based on Neighbor sessions with similar probabilistic int Entions(SMONE). SMONE models the intentions behind sessions in a probabilistic way and retrieves the neighbor sessions with similar intentions. After the neighbor sessions are found, the target session and its neighbor sessions are modeled as a hypyergraph to learn the contextualized embeddings, which are combined with item embeddings through GNN to produce the final item recommendations. Experiments on real-world datasets prove the effectiveness and superiority of SMONE.
Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI): Adaptivity for All

Adaptation and personalization are critical elements when modeling robot behaviors toward users in real-world settings. Multiple aspects of the user need to be taken into consideration in order to personalize the interaction, such as their personality, emotional state, intentions, and actions. While this information can be obtained a priori through self-assessment questionnaires or in real-time during the interaction through user profiling, behaviors and preferences can evolve in long-term interactions. Thus, gradually learning new concepts or skills (i.e., "lifelong learning'') both for the users and the environment is crucial to adapt to new situations and personalize interactions with the aim of maintaining their interest and engagement. In addition, adapting to individual differences autonomously through lifelong learning allows for inclusive interactions with all users with varying capabilities and backgrounds. The third edition of the "Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI)'' workshop aims to gather and present interdisciplinary insights from a variety of fields, such as education, rehabilitation, elderly care, service and companion robots, for lifelong robot learning and adaptation to users, context, environment, and activities in long-term interactions. The workshop aims to promote a common ground among the relevant scientific communities through invited talks and in-depth discussions via paper presentations, break-out groups, and a scientific debate. In line with the HRI 2023 conference theme, "HRI for all'', our workshop theme is "adaptivity for all'' to encourage HRI theories, methods, designs, and studies for lifelong learning, personalization, and adaptation that aims to promote inclusion and diversity in HRI.
Exploring the Identification of Expertise: An Experiment in a Computer Software Corporation

People recognize and express their expertise in several ways. In one way, workers can build personal profile to list their expertise. They recall their working experience and write some keyword terms in their personal profiles. In the other way, workers can build expertise in extracting from any documents they provided that includes studying documents, working documents or published papers. We want to know how the workers in the computer software corporation recognize and identify their expertise and explore the heuristics in identification of the expertise. We made an experiment comprised the above methods and invited 25 persons in a computer software corporation to participate and explore how they identify their expertise. During the experiment process, we found that (1) for most people, it’s hard to tell what expertise they completely have without any hint; (2) except these two ways, researchers or practitioners must innovate other methods to identify or elicit human’s expertise; (3) expertise in particular domain is rather than single term, but also multiple complex and related term sets; (4) expertise would be different with different audiences.
Animation of human motion with inverse kinematics using nonlinear programming

ANIMATION OF HUMAN MOTION WITH INVERSE KINEMATICS USING NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING A. Sezgin Abalı M.S. in Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Uğur Güdükbay September, 2001 Animation of articulated figures has always been an interesting subject of computer graphics due to a wide range of applications, like military, ergonomic design etc. An articulated figure is usually modelled as a set of segments linked with joints. Changing the joint angles brings the articulated figure to a new posture. An animator can define the joint angles for a new posture (forward kinematics). However, it is difficult to estimate the exact joint angles needed to place the articulated figure to a predefined position. Instead of this, an animator can specify the desired position for an end-effector, and then an algorithm computes the joint angles needed (inverse kinematics). In this thesis, we present the implementation of an inverse kinematics algorithm using nonlinear optimization methods. This algorithm computes a potential function value between the end-effector and the desired posture of the end-effector called goal. Then, it tries to minimize the value of the function. If the goal cannot be reached due to constraints then an optimum solution is found and applied by the algorithm. The user may assign priority to the joint angles by scaling initial values estimated by the algorithm. In this way, the joint angles change according to the animator’s priority.
Attention-guiding Takeover Requests for Situation Awareness in Semi-autonomous Driving

In semi-autonomous driving (SAE Level-3), the automated driving system allows drivers to focus on their non-driving-related tasks for the majority of the journey. However, when the system faces situations beyond its operational design domain, the drivers need to manually control the vehicle responding to the takeover request (TOR). Many efforts have been made in previous studies to find a more effective method to initiate the TOR. In this paper, we propose to improve drivers' takeover performance by utilizing attention-guiding techniques when delivering the TOR. A preliminary experiment (N=19) indicates that our method reduced drivers' collision rate and mental workload.
The prematurity stereotype in Israeli health care providers.

Research on the prematurity stereotype was extended by randomly assigning 158 Israeli medical and nursing students to view full-term infants labelled either ‘full-term’ (FTL) or ‘premature’ (PL). One-half of the students were additionally assigned to a goal condition in which they were informed that their judgements would be evaluated for their accuracy. Overall, students were found to show strong stereotyping effects, rating PL infants more negatively than FTL infants when asked questions about their expectations for the infants’ growth and development as well as their expectations for how mothers of these infants might behave during a medically related contact concerning her infant. However, the content of the stereotype varied across type of health care provider when general perceptions of the infants’ status characteristics were elicited, with pre-clinical medical students showing greater levels of stereotyping than upper level students. Only limited effects involving the goal condition were found. When communicating with mothers, upper level students reported that they would respond more time-expediently and pre-clinical students reported that they would show more empathy. The findings emphasize the important role stereotypes play in interpersonal processes, including caregiver–patient interactions. Implications for medical education and practice are discussed.
Comparison of the 1969 and 1993 standardizations of the Bayley Mental Scales of Infant Development for infants with Down syndrome

The Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) were re-standardized in 1993 (BSID-II). The present study reports a comparison of the two versions with infants with Down's syndrome (DS). The BSID-II was used for 93 assessments of 54 children with DS (age range = 7-43 months). Comparisons were made with the 1969 standardization for 42 of these assessments, and for 45 assessments of 20 typically developing children aged between 6 and 24 months. The 1993 standardization produced significantly lower mean differences of 1.0 months mental age and 8.4 points mental development index for infants with DS, and 1.5 months mental age and 9.2 points mental development index for the typically developing group. Nineteen per cent more infants with DS had scores below two standard deviations and there was a larger decrement for lower functioning children. Both groups of children have to perform at a higher level to achieve the same relative score on BSID-II compared to BSID. This indicates that caution should be used in comparing cohorts of children tested on different versions of the Bayley scales. In addition, concerns are highlighted regarding the rules for establishing basal and ceiling levels for BSID-II for children with developmental delays.
Equipe multiprofissional de saúde: conceito e tipologia

This paper introduces concept and typology to teamwork as well as criteria to identify types of teams. The concept and the typology were developed based on the literature and research on multi-professional work in healthcare, based in the theory of studies on work process in healthcare and in the theory of communicative action. According to this theoretical proposition, teamwork is a form of collective work characterized by a reciprocal relationship between technical interventions and the interaction of agents. The proposed typology refers to two forms of teams: integrated teams as opposed to groups of people. The criteria to identify the types of team are related to communication among work agents; technical differences and inequality in social recognition of specialized works; formulation of a common care program; specificity of each professional area; flexibility of work division; and technical autonomy.