Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hibernate in action

Hibernate practically exploded onto the Java scene. Why? Because with it developers avoid a dreaded problem: object/relational mapping (ORM). There's a mismatch between your object-oriented code and the relational database you use. This object/relational mismatch requires you to write persistence code that maps one to the other, code which is often complex, tedious and costly to develop. Hibernate does it for you. But not only that, Hibernate makes persistence easy. Positioned as a layer between your application and your database, Hibernate takes care of loading and saving of objects. Hibernate apps are cheaper, more portable, and more resilient to change. And they perform better than anything you are likely to develop yourself. "Hibernate in Action" carefully explains the concepts you need, then gets you started quickly. Using a single, continuing example, it shows you how to use Hibernate in practice, how to deal with concurrency and transactions, how to efficiently retrieve objects and use caching. The authors developed Hibernate. They answered many community questions. Their experience seeps out of every pore of this book.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Biology Teaching in Slovenian Secondary Schools.

About two-thirds of Slovene secondary schools received computers equipped with dataloggers and sensors to be used in teaching Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Later it was recognized that only a couple of Biology teachers were using the donated equipment in their classrooms or laboratories. The questionnaire, intended to investigate the situation, was posted to schools which had received a donation. Based on the answers, it was possible to assign computer applications from one of the three groups. In the first group were these applications (word processing, e-mail and internet use) towards which teachers have positive attitudes and that they do use for school work. The common element is that teachers can work at home and then use the materials in the classroom. In the second group were applications (presentations, use of data loggers, computer programmes and virtual laboratory) towards which attitudes are positive, but which teachers do not use because of the overloaded curriculum, lack of equipment, and inappropriate training. In the third group are applications (computer games and programming), about which attitudes are negative and which teachers do not use. The Introduction of such applications into teaching is at the moment far from realistic.
An efficient temporal logic for robotic task planning

Computations required for temporal reasoning can be prohibitively expensive if fully general representations are used. Overly simple representations, such as a totally ordered sequence of time points, are inadequate for use m a nonlinear task planning system. This work identifies a middle ground which is general enough to support a capable nonlinear task planner, but specialized enough that the system can support online task planning in real time. A Temporal Logic System (TLS) was developed during the Martin Marietta Intelligent Task Automation (ITA) project to support robotic task planning. TLS is also used within the ITA system to support plan execution, monitoring, and exception handling.
Sensors, measurement fusion and missile trajectory optimisation

When considering advances in “smart” weapons it is clear that air-launched systems have adopted an integrated approach to meet rigorous requirements, whereas air-defence systems have not. The demands on sensors, state observation, missile guidance, and simulation for air-defence is the subject of this research. Historical reviews for each topic, justification of favoured techniques and algorithms are provided, using a nomenclature developed to unify these disciplines. Sensors selected for their enduring impact on future systems are described and simulation models provided. Complex internal systems are reduced to simpler models capable of replicating dominant features, particularly those that adversely effect state observers. Of the state observer architectures considered, a distributed system comprising ground based target and own-missile tracking, data up-link, and on-board missile measurement and track fusion is the natural choice for air-defence. An IMM is used to process radar measurements, combining the estimates from filters with different target dynamics. The remote missile state observer combines up-linked target tracks and missile plots with IMU and seeker data to provide optimal guidance information. The performance of traditional PN and CLOS missile guidance is the basis against which on-line trajectory optimisation is judged. Enhanced guidance laws are presented that demand more from the state observers, stressing the importance of time-to-go and transport delays in strap-down systems employing staring array technology. Algorithms for solving the guidance twopoint boundary value problems created from the missile state observer output using gradient projection in function space are presented. A simulation integrating these aspects was developed whose infrastructure, capable of supporting any dynamical model, is described in the air-defence context. MBDA have extended this work creating the Aircraft and Missile Integration Simulation (AMIS) for integrating different launchers and missiles. The maturity of the AMIS makes it a tool for developing pre-launch algorithms for modern air-launched missiles from modern military aircraft.
Compound Verbs in Persian: An Euphemistic Phraseology.

An analysis of the compound verb system of Persian marks constructions euphemistically by producing an indirect order effect and by alternating different compound and simple forms that bear the same denotation but are governed by a rigorous code of ethics. What really carries the semantic reference in these cases is the process of construing polite phraseology. Data were drawn from the utterances of a native speaker of Persian over a period of 3 months. While Persian is a mechanically simple language, it has a rich cultural component that regulates its use for communication. A learner of Persian must also learn the differentiations produced by the use of compound verbs. Excerpts of the subject's speech that especially illustrate Persian euphemistic phraseology are appended. Contains 3 references. (MSE) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ********************************************************************************
Contribution à l’étude des gènes Vestigial

Les proteines Vestigial-like constituent une famille de cofacteurs de transcription contenant un domaine tres conserve, appele Tondu, qui permet l’interaction avec les facteurs de transcription de la famille TEAD. L’etat de l’art des connaissances actuelles sur cette famille, en termes de repertoire, de structure et de fonction des genes dans les differents groupes d’animaux, a fait l’objet d’une revue. Durant la these, a ete etudiee la fonction de deux genes vestigial, vestigial-like 3 et vestigial-like 4, dans le modele amphibien xenope. Ce choix decoule d’une part, des travaux anterieurs de notre laboratoire qui a caracterise la famille des genes vestigial chez le xenope et d’autre part des avantages de ce modele experimental qui permet les analyses cellulaires et moleculaires. Les approches de gain et perte de fonction indiquent que vestigial-like 3 est plus particulierement implique dans la migration des cellules de la crete neurale. Vestigial-like 4 a un role dans la neurogenese precoce et la formation de la crete neurale.
Interactive Learning Protocols for Natural Language Applications

Statistical machine learning has become an integral technology for solving many informatics applications. In particular, corpus-based statistical techniques have emerged as the dominant paradigm for core natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as parsing, machine translation, and information extraction, amongst others. However, while supervised machine learning is well understood, its successful application to practical scenarios is predicated on obtaining large annotated corpora and performing significant feature engineering, both notably expensive undertakings. Interactive learning protocols offer one promising solution for reducing these costs by allowing the learner and domain expert to interact during learning in an effort to both reduce sample complexity and improve system performance. By specifying a method where the learner may request targeted information, the domain expert is focused on providing the most useful information. This work formalizes a general framework for interactive learning and examines two interactive learning protocols with particular attention to natural language scenarios. We first examine active learning for structured output spaces, the scenario where there are multiple predictions which must be composed into a structurally coherent global prediction. Secondly, we examine active learning for pipeline models, where a complex prediction is decomposed into a sequence of predictions where each stage explicitly relies on the output of previous stages. These two widely-used models are particularly applicable for complex application scenarios where obtaining labeled data is particularly expensive. By allowing the learner to select which examples to label, we demonstrate significant reductions in sample complexity for both semantic role labeling and an entity/relation extraction task. Secondly, we introduce the interactive feature space construction protocol, which uses a more sophisticated interaction to incrementally add application-targeted domain knowledge to the feature space. Whereas active learning restricts the interaction to additional labeled data, the interactive feature space construction protocol better utilizes the domain expert by focusing direct modification of the feature space to improve performance and reduce sample complexity. Through this protocol, we demonstrate further improvements on our entity/relation extraction system.
Minimum Energy Routing Schemes for a Wireless Ad Hoc Network

Many theoretical studies show that power con- sumed by the routing of data-packets in a wireless ad hoc network can be significantly reduced compared to the cur- rent min-hop max-power routing. But, in practice this is difficult to achieve since existing protocols do not provide accurate power information and do not exploit these savings in a mobile environment. This paper enumerates practical modifications to existing ad hoc routing and MAC layer pro- tocols (i.e. the Dynamic Source Routing protocol and the 802.11 MAC layer protocol) that reduce the power used and tests them on the Network Simulator (ns) framework. Keywords—Wireless, Ad Hoc Networks, Routing, Energy. I. INTRODUCTION Wireless ad hoc networks usually consist of mobile bat- tery operated computing devices that communicate over the wireless medium. These devices are battery operated and hence they need to be energy conserving so that the battery life is maximized. While research continues to re- duce the energy consumption for the CPU, user interface and storage for the devices, the energy for transmission of a packet in the wireless channel remains quite signifi- cant and may turn out to be the highest energy-consuming component of the device. Hence there is a need for design- ing minimum energy routing protocols that ensure a longer battery life. For such a protocol design, we need to look away from the traditional minimum hop routing schemes and design new routing schemes that take the transmis- sion energy into consideration for choosing the appropri- ate route. Efficient minimum energy routing schemes can greatly reduce energy consumption and lead to a longer battery life of the device. Ad hoc routing protocols can be broadly classified as table driven routing protocols and source initiated on- demand routing protocols (17). The first approach uses a routing table which is maintained via periodic updates from all the other nodes in the network irrespective of the fact that the network may not be active in terms of data traffic. The on-demand approach, on the other hand, sends out requests for routes to the destination only if the source
Digital Picture Compression and Coding Structure

Digital video service has become an integral part of entertainment, education, broadcasting, communication, and business arenas. Digital camcorders are more preferred than analog ones in the consumer market with their convenience and high quality. In fact, still image or moving video taken by digital cameras can be stored, displayed, edited, printed or transmitted via the Internet. Digital television provides strong affinities to the TV audience and is going to expel analog television receivers from the market. Digital video and image are simple alternative means of carrying the same information as their analog counterparts. An ideal analog recorder should exactly record the natural phenomena in the form of video, image or audio. An ideal digital recorder has to do the same work with a number of advantages such as interactivity, flexibility, and compressibility. Although, in the real situation, ideal conditions seldom prevail and may not be possible by means of both analog and digital techniques, digital compression is one of the techniques used to lower the cost for a video system while maintaining the same quality of service. Data compression is a process to yield a compact representation of a signal in the digital format.
Apport du sablage sur le collage des restaurations indirectes en composite

Ces trente dernieres annees, l’interet grandissant des chirurgiens-dentistes pour la biocompatibilite, la conservation tissulaire, le biomimetisme ainsi que la fonction et la durabilite, a fait du composite un des materiaux de choix pour les restaurations indirectes collees. Ces composites indirects permettent de mieux surmonter tous les aspects negatifs des restaurations en composite direct tout en alliant preservation tissulaire et possibilite de re-intervention. L’etape de collage est cruciale pour la perennite de la restauration. Un collage reussi permet une meilleure retention de la piece, la diminution des risques de fracture de la dent ainsi que de la piece prothetique. Il diminue aussi le risque de micro-infiltrations. Afin d’ameliorer le collage, il existe differents traitements de surface, dont le sablage qui est l’un des traitements de surface les plus utilises, mais qui reste tres controverse dans la litterature. C’est pourquoi nous nous interesserons ici a ce procede et essayerons de decrire les apports du sablage dans le collage d’une piece prothetique indirecte en composite.
ONLINE TRAINING FOR FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING IMPROVED PCA

The variation in illumination is one of the main challenging problem for face recognition. It has been proven that in face recognition, differences caused by illumination variations are more significant than differences between individuals. Recognizing face reliably across changes in pose and illumination using PCA has proved to be a much harder problem because eigenfaces method comparing the intensity of the pixel. To solve this problem, this research proposes an online face recognition system using improved PCA for a service robot in indoor environment based on stereo vision. Tested images are improved by generating random values for varying the intensity of face images. A program for online training is also developed where the tested images are captured real-time from camera. Varying illumination in tested images will increase the accuracy using ITS face database which its accuracy is 95.5 %, higher than ATT face database’s as 95.4% and Indian face database’s as 72%. The results from this experiment are still evaluated to be improved in the future.
Consumer Cohorts and Demand Systems

The Norwegian purchases pattern of non-alcoholic beverages has changed substantially. The observed changes cannot be fully explained by changes in relative prices and income, and other variables are likely to be important. Cohort variables have not been given much attention in demand analysis. Our main contribution is to include age, period, and cohort (APC) variables into a demand system. The system is applied to purchases of non-alcoholic beverages. Wald tests show the importance of including APC variables. A Monte-Carlo analysis shows how replacing the APC variables with an age and a trend variable results in misleading age effects on milk purchases.
Hardware Support for Software Debugging

Designing a dependable software is a hard, if not an impossible task. Debugging is necessary for a dependable software product, which occupies a large amount of resources (time and money) in software development. Concurrency defects even have made debugging even harder. Thus, these days, software products are usually shipped with known and unknown bugs. Run-time verification is a technique that monitors the behavior of a program as it runs and verify the conformance of this behavior with the specification of the program. The monitoring take place at software level by instrumenting the program with verification statements, or at a lower level, it can be done by the underlying hardware which is faster but more complex. In last two decades much effort has been spent to design hardware architecture serving to this end. In this paper, we give a brief overview of the recent developments in this field, which seemingly is striving to “Hardware Support for Software Debugging”. Based on an architecture contribution to debugging, we classify it to “Architectures for postmortem analysis” and “Software Monitors”.
Scientific Visualization in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

What do you do to start reading scientific visualization in mathematics and science teaching? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will be bored to open the thick book with small words to read. In more, this is the real condition. So do happen probably with this scientific visualization in mathematics and science teaching.
Hadoop-CC (Collaborative Caching) in Real Time HDFS Thesis

Data is being generated at an enormous rate, due to online activities and use of resources related to computing. To access and handle such enormous amount of data spread, distributed systems is an efficient mechanism. One such widely used distributed filesystem is Hadoop distributed filesystem (HDFS). HDFS follows a cluster approach in order to store huge amounts of data, it is scalable and works on low commodity. It uses MapReduce framework to perform analysis and carry computations parallely on these large data sets. Hadoop follows the master/slave architecture decoupling system metadata and application data where metadata is stored on dedicated server NameNode and application data on DataNodes. In this thesis work, study was performed on Hadoop Architecture, behaviour of filesystem and MapReduce in detail and concluded that processing of MapReduce is slow which was further confirmed by initial analysis and experiments performed on default Hadoop configuration. It is known that accessing data from cache is much faster as compared to disk access. Collaborative caching is one such mechanism in which the cache distributed over the clients or dedicated servers or storage devices form a single cache to serve the requests. This mechanism helps in improving the performance, reducing access latency and increasing the throughput. This coupled with prefetching enhances the performance. In order to enhance and improve the performance of MapReduce, the thesis proposes solution of new design of HDFS by introducing caching references, collaborative caching along with prefetching coupled with Modified-ARC cache replacement. Each of the DataNodes would have a dedicated Cache Manager to maintain information about its local cache, remote caches and follow cache replacement algorithm. Initial analysis led to conclusion that caching references too help in improving performance. Modified-ARC helps in organizing the cache in a different way as recent, frequent and history of evicted items which is a better cache replacement policy and improves the execution time and performance of MapReduce.The evaluation of the results were done by comparing the results obtained with that of default configuration in psuedo-distributed and fully distributed mode.
Semiconductor device fundamentals

I. SEMICONDUCTOR FUNDAMENTALS. 1. Semiconductors -- A General Introduction. General Material Properties. Crystal Structure. Crystal Growth. 2. Carrier Modeling. The Quantization Concept. Semiconductor Models. Carrier Properties. State and Carrier Distributions. Equilibrium Carrier Concentrations. 3. Carrier Action. Drift. Diffusion. Recombination -- Generation. Equations of State. Supplemental Concepts. 4. Basics of Device Fabrication. Fabrication Processes. Device Fabrication Examples. R1. Part I Supplement and Review. Alternative/Supplemental Reading List. Figure Sources/Cited References. Review List of Terms. Part I Review Problem Sets and Answers. IIA. PN JUNCTION DIODES. 5. PN Junction Electrostatics. Preliminaries. Quantitative Electrostatic Relationships. 6. PN Junction Diode -- I-V Characteristics. The Ideal Diode Equation. Deviations from the Ideal. Special Considerations. 7. PN Junction Diode -- Small-Signal Admittance. Introduction. Reverse-Bias Junction Capacitance. Forward-Bias Diffusion Admittance. 8. PN Junction Diode -- Transient Response. Turn-Off Transient. Turn-On Transient. 9. Optoelectronic Diodes. Introduction. Photodiodes. Solar Cells. LEDs. IIB. BJTS AND OTHER JUNCTION DEVICES. 10. BJT Fundamentals. Terminology. Fabrication. Electrostatics. Introductory Operational Considerations. Performance Parameters. 11. BJT Static Characteristics. Ideal Transistor Analysis. Deviations from the Ideal. Modern BJT Structures. 12. BJT Dynamic Response Modeling. Equivalent Circuits. Transient (Switching) Response. 13. PNPN Devices. Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). SCR Operational Theory. Practical Turn-on/Turn-off Considerations. Other PNPN Devices. 14. MS Contacts and Schottky Diodes. Ideal MS Contacts. Schottky Diode. Practical Contact Considerations. R2. Part II Supplement and Review. Alternative/Supplemental Reading List. Figure Sources/Cited References. Review List of Terms. Part II Review Problem Sets and Answers. III. FIELD EFFECT DEVICES. 15. Field Effect Introduction -- the J-FET and MESFET. General Introduction. J-FET. MESFET. 16. MOS Fundamentals. Ideal Structure Definition. Electrostatics -- Mostly Qualitative. Electrostatics -- Quantitative Formulation. Capacitance-Voltage Characteristics. 17. MOSFETs -- The Essentials. Qualitative Theory of Operation. Quantitative ID - VD Relationships. ac Response. 18. Nonideal MOS. Metal-Semiconductor Workfunction Difference. Oxide Charges. MOSFET Threshold Considerations. 19. Modern FET Structures. Small Dimension Effects. Select Structure Survey. R3. Part III Supplement and Review. Alternative/Supplemental Reading List. Figure Sources/Cited References. Review List of Terms. Part III Review Problem Sets and Answers. Appendix A. Elements of Quantum Mechanics. Appendix B. MOS Semiconductor Electrostatics -- Exact Solution. Appendix C. MOS C-V Supplement. Appendix D. MOS I-Vsupplement. Appendix E. List of Symbols. Appendix M. MATLAB Program Script.