Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Light Field Photography for CGI / Live Action Video Integration

To separate out objects in a live action video sequence, an artist must step through the footage, frame by frame, and rotoscope out the occluding object from the background where a 3D computer generated graphic is to be inserted. This slow and expensive process can be remedied with the use of light field photography to capture depth information with every frame of film. These depth maps can be applied as a texture offset to the film in a 3D rendering program and virtual objects can be inserted into the scene at any particular depth, naturally occluding the background and being occluded by objects in the foreground, without any rotoscoping or manual editing. In this paper, we investigated two different methods of lightfield photography to replace
“They Medicated Me Out”

Addiction, a cultural construct long framed in moral, psychological, and social terms, is increasingly understood as biological and treated with medications. In the United States, methadone, buprenorphine, and a variety of psychopharmaceuticals are now commonly used to treat addiction alongside long-standing approaches such as 12-Step mutual aid. These biomedical interventions reshape the very condition they intervene on, influencing the ways treatment clients understand and experience addiction. Clients often experience medication treatment in tension with embodied and social practices of addiction: bodily routines, sensory experiences, temporalities, and social contexts of use. This article examines these tensions through theories of the social flesh and embodied citizenship. This analysis is based on a 20-month ethnography in and around “Sunrise” residential center in Northeast Ohio. Sunrise merges biomedical interventions with 12-Step, psychological and juridical approaches. These data show how biomedical practices alter client bodies and subjectivities, promoting body alienation at stark odds with the intense bodily connection clients established through drug use. This alienation results from rapid weight gain and heavy sedation clients attribute to medication effects, as well as mandated medication and adherence practices that strip clients of a sense of control of medication use. Many clients describe feeling “medicated out” of life: estranged from treatment peers and kin who oppose medications, counselors and other powerful authorities who demand their undivided attention, and friends with whom they are unable to relate when heavily medicated. Clients, however, do not passively accept this estrangement. They alter their bodily experiences by leveraging embodied practices developed during drug use. Through practices such as selectively taking medications based on historical bodily experience and illegal drug “testing” in the underground economy, clients reassert bodily connection and control, deriving a modicum of power—albeit constrained and risky—in a treatment system that strictly limits it.
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics a Freezing Approach to the Ish-construction in English a Freezing Approach to the Ish-construction in English a Freezing Approach to the Ish-construction in English

The English affix-ish has historically been a derivational morpheme that creates adjectives denoting approximation to the root. In this paper, I introduce a novel use of ish in English, in which it may appear following VP/PP and a pause, even when no adjective is present. I assert that this novel use is a syntactic construction, and provide an analysis of the syntax of the ish-construction. Based on facts from clefting, Sluicing, and incompatibility with NPI-licensing, I show that ish is TP-Internal and triggers island effects. Because it appears to the right of the island in the surface structure, I propose an analysis drawing from Müller's (1998) discussion of Freezing, by which moved objects cannot be extracted from. I argue that ish Merges above the VP/PP it modifies, which then moves past ish to derive the surface structure. I provide evidence from Raising constructions that support predictions made by such an analysis.
From Verbal Efficiency Theory to Lexical Quality: The Role of Memory Processes in Reading Comprehension

With the publication of Reading Ability in 1985, Charles Perfetti set out a clear framework for describing the complex interactions between lower “wordlevel” processing and higher “sentencelevel” and “textlevel” processes, which he referred to collectively as the “text work” of the reader. The Verbal Efficiency Theory is built around the idea that the ease with which a reader can perform this text work depends on the extent to which these individual subprocesses are efficient. There is an important caveat to this simple conceptualization, however: some subprocesses are more amenable to becoming efficient, or automatic, than others. Thus, Perfetti writes that “text work is made easier to the extent that those processes which can be at high efficiency are at high efficiency” (1985, p. 104; emphasis in original). He suggested that the most likely candidates for automatization are lexical access and elementary propositional encoding (i.e., assembling a single proposition from a few words). Processes that, he suggested, would be more resistant to automatization are those that rely more on memory (e.g., integrating propositions across clauses, inference processes that require reference resolution across distances, and linking text models with previously known world knowledge). Consequently, a clear understanding of the memory mechanisms that support reading comprehension is crucial to understanding reading ability. This chapter will explore two contrasting conceptualizations of memory, both of which have been discussed in Perfetti’s writings. One suggests that memory capacity creates a “bottleneck” that constrains reading ability, while the other suggests that memory capacity is not at all an issue for reading ability, but rather it is the quality of tobe-retrieved representations that most constrains the efficiency of memory processes in reading. We show how the lexical quality hypothesis, which Perfetti has emphasized in recent writings (Perfetti, 2007; Perfetti & Hart, 2001, 2002), provides a means
FISHERS ’ PERCEPTIONS ON THE SEAHORSE FISHERY IN CENTRAL PHILIPPINES : INTERACTIVE APPROACHES AND AN EVALUATION OF RESULTS

We conducted a study in coastal communities in the central Philippines designed to involve seahorse fishers in research and conservation initiatives. The study comprised (i) an initial scoping survey to obtain data on the fishers and their fishery, including effort and habitat quality, and (ii) community meetings conducted as focus group discussions, in which results from the scoping study were fed back to the communities, questions were repeated, and information on fishers’ knowledge and opinions with respect to the seahorse fishery, the state of their fishing grounds, and the condition of their livelihood were collected. Discussions on marine resource management were also held. Participatory methods using visual aids were designed to facilitate communication and discussion. The scoping survey collected information from 173 seahorse fishers in 19 communities on location and quality of fishing grounds, and fishing effort while the community meetings collected information from 117 fishers in 10 focal communities. Average effort was reported in the scoping survey and community meetings as 111 and 192 trips (nights) per fisher per year and 334 and 894 trips per fishing ground per year, respectively. Habitat quality of fishing grounds was generally assessed as good in the scoping survey and community meetings but live coral was not commonly perceived as the dominant habitat type. Responses differed markedly from independent ecological surveys of the same fishing grounds. A comparison of the answers provided by fishers in the scoping study and community meetings indicated that although absolute values differed, relative estimates of fishing effort per fishing ground and effort per fisher corresponded well across the two surveys. Fishers consistently described seahorse abundance, habitat quality and their livelihoods as in decline, and proposed a number of solutions. Through our participatory approach, seahorse fishers are playing a role in designing applied fisheries research, and in developing management plans for their fishery.
Ribosomal Proteins Control or Bypass p53 during Nucleolar Stress

The nucleolus is the site of ribosome biogenesis, a complex process that requires the coordinate activity of all three RNA polymerases and hundreds of non-ribosomal factors that participate in the maturation of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and assembly of small and large subunits. Nevertheless, emerging studies have highlighted the fundamental role of the nucleolus in sensing a variety of cellular stress stimuli that target ribosome biogenesis. This condition is known as nucleolar stress and triggers several response pathways to maintain cell homeostasis, either p53-dependent or p53-independent. The mouse double minute (MDM2)-p53 stress signaling pathways are activated by multiple signals and are among the most important regulators of cellular homeostasis. In this review, we will focus on the role of ribosomal proteins in p53-dependent and p53-independent response to nucleolar stress considering novel identified regulators of these pathways. We describe, in particular, the role of ribosomal protein uL3 (rpL3) in p53-independent nucleolar stress signaling pathways.
Algorithmic verification of asynchronous programs

Asynchronous programming is a ubiquitous systems programming idiom for managing concurrent interactions with the environment. In this style, instead of waiting for time-consuming operations to complete, the programmer makes a non-blocking call to the operation and posts a callback task to a task buffer that is executed later when the time-consuming operation completes. A cooperative scheduler mediates the interaction by picking and executing callback tasks from the task buffer to completion (and these callbacks can post further callbacks to be executed later). Writing correct asynchronous programs is hard because the use of callbacks, while efficient, obscures program control flow. We provide a formal model underlying asynchronous programs and study verification problems for this model. We show that the safety verification problem for finite-data asynchronous programs is expspace-complete. We show that liveness verification for finite-data asynchronous programs is decidable and polynomial-time equivalent to Petri net reachability. Decidability is not obvious, since even if the data is finite-state, asynchronous programs constitute infinite-state transition systems: both the program stack for an executing task and the task buffer of pending calls to tasks can be potentially unbounded. Our main technical constructions are polynomial-time, semantics-preserving reductions from asynchronous programs to Petri nets and back. The first reduction allows the use of algorithmic techniques on Petri nets for the verification of asynchronous programs, and the second allows lower bounds on Petri nets to apply also to asynchronous programs. We also study several extensions to the basic models of asynchronous programs that are inspired by additional capabilities provided by implementations of asynchronous libraries and classify the decidability and undecidability of verification questions on these extensions.
Auction basics for wholesale power markets: Objectives and pricing rules

Power systems have distinctive features that greatly complicate the development of auction designs. This study reviews the theory and practice of auction design as it relates specifically to U.S. restructured wholesale power markets, i.e., centrally-administered wholesale power markets with congestion managed by locational marginal prices. Basic auction concepts such as reservation value, net seller surplus, net buyer surplus, competitive market clearing, market efficiency, market pricing rules, supply offers, demand bids, strategic capacity withholding, and market power are explained and illustrated. Complicating factors specific to wholesale power markets are clarified, and recent advances in computational tools designed to address these complications are briefly noted.
Exercise stress test and coronary angiography in diabetic patients with occult ischaemic heart disease

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is among the most common chronic diseases in the world, affecting about 180 million people in 2008, and the number is expected to be doubled by 2030 There are as many as 12.5 million diabetic patients with silent coronary artery disease. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the incidence and extent of coronary artery disease among diabetic patients
Adaptive Hammerstein filters for nonlinear and nonminimum phase active noise control systems

In this paper, the adaptive Hammerstein Filtered-X IMS (HFXLMS) filter is introduced and applied to ANC systems. The proposed algorithm is compared to the conventional Filtered-X IMS (FXIMS) algorithm as well as the Volterra Filtered-X IMS (VFXIMS) algorithm in two different experiments; a) a nonminimum phase secondary-path transfer function and b) a nonlinear primary-path transfer function. Using the simulation results, it is shown that the developed algorithm achieves a lower mean-square error (MSE) with respect to the FXIMS algorithm and almost a comparable convergence rate and MSE compared to die VFXIMS algorithm, but with a simpler structure.
Does neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio show recurrence in patients who underwent curative resection for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer?

Amac: Enflamasyon, tumorun ilerlemesinin kritik bir bilesenidir ve notrofil lenfosit orani (NLR), enflamasyonun bir gostergesidir. Bu arastirmanin amaci; NLR'nin yuzeyel mesane kanserinde (NMIBC) prognostik bir gosterge olup olmadigini gostermekdir. Yontemler: Pamukkale ve Uludag Universitesi Uroloji Anabilim Dallari'nda 2011-2016 yillari arasinda yuzeyel mesane kanseri nedeni ile, sadece kuratif amacli transuretral mesane rezeksiyonu uygulanan (TUR-M) toplam 178 hasta calismaya dahil edildi. Hastalarin klinik ve patolojik verileri retrospektif olarak incelendi. Ameliyat oncesi notrofil/lenfosit oranina (NLR) gore NLR ≥2.5 (h-NLR) ve <2.5 (l-NLR) olacak sekilde iki gruba ayrildi. Ayrica hastalar daha ileri analiz icin, Avrupa Uroloji Dernegi risk siniflamasina gore dusuk, orta ve yuksek riskli mesane tumoru olarak alt gruplara bolundu ve kendi icinde ayrica degerlendirildi. 1. Yil sonunda nuks oranlari belirlendi ve rekurrens oranlarina gore istatiksel analiz uygulandi. NLR 2,5 cut-off degerine gore toplam hastaliksiz gecen sure Kaplan Meier egrisi kullanilarak analiz edildi. Bulgular: Yapilan degerlendirmeler ile h-NLR hastalari (%55,6), l-NLR hastalarina gore istatiksel anlamli olarak yuksek rekurrens oranlarina sahipti (P=0.005). Kaplan-Meier analizi sonucunda, h-NLR'nin hastaliksiz gecen sureyi onemli olcude azalttigini ve rekurrensi arttirdigini gostermistir. Sonuc: NLR'nin, NMIBC hastalarinda tumor rekurrensi degerlendirmesinde kullanilabilecek, faydali bir biyobelirtec gibi gorunmektedir.
Fast genome editing in Bacillus subtilis

Bacillus subtilis is a model organism for Gram‐positive bacteria and widely used in the study of cellular functions and processes including protein secretion, sporulation, and signal transduction. It is also an important industrial host for the production of proteins and chemicals. Generally, genome editing of B. subtilis often needs the construction of integration vectors in Escherichia coli, linearizing the constructed plasmids, and subsequent transformation of the linear deoxyribonucleic acid via natural competence or electroporation. In this work, we examined the feasibility to directly transform and integrate B. subtilis using linear deoxyribonucleic acid from Gibson assembly without the need for cloning in E. coli. Linear deoxyribonucleic acid of 8–10 kb showed the highest transformation efficiency which was similar to that of using linearized plasmids constructed in E. coli. This method shortens the overall process from 1 week to 1 day and allows the integration of multiple genes in one step, providing a simple and fast method for genome editing in B. subtilis.
Klasifikasi Multi-Label pada Topik Berita Berbahasa Indonesia menggunakan Artificial Neural Network

Abstrak Ketidaksesuaian antara judul dan topik yang ada pada suatu berita menjadi masalah tersendiri dalam mencari berita. Hal ini penting dilakukan untuk membantu pembuat berita dalam menentukan topik yang tepat pada berita yang dibuatnya. Pada penelitian ini topik berita berbahasa Indonesia akan diklasifikasikan ke dalam suatu multi-label menggunakan Artificial Neural Network (ANN) sehingga didapatkan klasifikasi label yang tepat berdasarkan topik beritanya. Data berupa teks akan dijadikan masukan dan dilakukan ekstraksi ciri menggunakan weighting TF-IDF untuk mendapatkan data berbentuk vektor. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian didapatkan kombinasi parameter maksimum epoch, learning rate, jumlah neuron, alpha yang paling optimal yaitu 400, 0.02, 20, 0.3 dengan loss sebesar 0.0021. Kata kunci : Topik berita, klasifikasi, multi-label, ANN. Abstract The mismatch between the headline and the topic on a news becomes a separate issue in searching for news. This is important to help newsmakers in determining the right topic on the news that has been made. In this research the topic of Indonesian language news will be classified into a multi-label using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) so as to get the right label classification based on the news topic. Text data will be input and feature extraction using weighting TF-IDF to get vector-shaped data. Based on the result of the research, the maximum combination of epoch parameters, learning rate, number of neurons, alpha at the most optimum are 400, 0.02, 20, 0.3 with loss 0.0021. Keywords: news topic, classification, multi-label, ANN.
Unintended Consequences of the Independent Board Requirement on CEO Power

NYSE and NASDAQ listed firms are required to have a majority of independent directors starting 2004. Since the regulation can weaken CEO influence over the board, affected CEOs may counter it by building a closely aligned team of top executives to strengthen their structural power. Using a differences-indifferences approach, we find that affected CEOs fill their executive suites with significantly higher abnormal fractions of top executives hired or promoted during their tenure, and with executives with previous employment ties. This finding is not due to greater executive turnovers, confounding effects, corporate frauds, or appointing new CEOs. The accumulation of CEO power at affected firms is associated with less profitable acquisition bids and lower firm valuation. And the power increases at affected firms are observed only when they are subject to weak external governance. These findings raise the question of whether the benefits of the regulation justify its unintended consequences. First draft: October 18, 2010 JEL classification: G34
Eating Disorders in Girls and Women With Type 1 Diabetes: A Longitudinal Study of Prevalence, Onset, Remission, and Recurrence

OBJECTIVE Girls and women with type 1 diabetes are at increased risk for developing eating disorders (EDs), and these disorders are associated with serious diabetes-related medical complications. This study describes the longitudinal course of disturbed eating behavior (DEB) and EDs in a cohort with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 126 girls with type 1 diabetes receiving care for diabetes at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto participated in a series of seven interview-based assessments of ED behavior and psychopathology over a 14-year period, beginning in late childhood. Survival analysis was used. RESULTS Mean age was 11.8 ± 1.5 years at time 1 and 23.7 ± 2.1 years at time 7. At time 7, 32.4% (23/71) met the criteria for a current ED, and an additional 8.5% (6/71) had a subthreshold ED. Mean age at ED onset (full syndrome or below the threshold) was 22.6 years (95% CI 21.6–23.5), and the cumulative probability of onset was 60% by age 25 years. The average time between onset of ED and subsequent ED remission was 4.3 years (95% CI 3.1–5.5), and the cumulative probability of remission was 79% by 6 years after onset. The average time between remission of ED and subsequent recurrence was 6.5 years (95% CI 4.4–8.6), and the cumulative probability of recurrence was 53% by 6 years after remission. CONCLUSIONS In this longitudinal study, EDs were common and persistent, and new onset of ED was documented well into adulthood. Further research regarding prevention and treatment for this vulnerable group is urgently needed.
PARLAYING STUDENTS’ WORK EXPERIENCE INTO PRACTICE-ORIENTED ESP

Instructors of English for Special Purposes often describe the challenge of determining which specific content and competencies to address in their courses. After all, it is the focus on technical subject matter which students expect to differentiate engineering ESP from standard EFL. Yet ESP instructors, who frequently have a background in fields such as applied linguistics or education, often receive little input from technical specialists as to which specialist topics are most relevant to their target domain.Our research indicates that ESP instructors in higher education can leverage a valuable resource to enrich teaching effectiveness: students who have already gained professional experience. As part of a longitudinal study at two universities of applied sciences (UAS) in southern Germany, engineering students at the beginning of their first semester of compulsory technical English participate in an online survey. The course participants provide relevant biographical information such as work experience and evaluate the perceived importance of a selection of skills and applications for a Technical English course. The surveys, administered in October 2016 and October 2017 and encompassing nearly 1000 respondents, provide compelling insights. Analysis reveals conclusive correlations between the perceived importance of course components and students’ declared level of previous work experience. Listening comprehension, reading comprehension, process description, and test and measurement are topics whose importance correlates positively with work experience level. In addition, there are clear trends relating work experience level with the importance of the reading and writing of technical documents as well as communication and interaction.This data provides empirically-founded criteria for selecting the topics to include in the scope of a Technical English course for engineers, informed by the judgment of students with occupational experience. Additionally, recognizing that students with work experience have legitimate practitioner credibility allows instructors to identify and select relevant subject matter in concordance with experienced students’ learning objectives. ESP learners will profit greatly from cultivating skills with proven practical applicability.
A Simultaneous-Movement Mobile Multiplayer Game Design based on Adaptive Background Partitioning Technique

Implementations of mobile games have become prevalent industrial technology due to the ubiquitous nature of mobile devices. However, simultaneous-movement multiplayer games, games that a player competes simultaneously with other players, are usually affected by such parameters as latency, type of game architecture and type of communication technology. This paper makes a review of the above parameters, considering the pros and cons of the various techniques used in addressing each parameter. It then goes ahead to propose an enhanced mechanism for dealing with packet delays based on partitioning the game background into grids. The proposed design is implemented and tested using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi communication technologies. The efficiency and effectiveness of the design are also analyzed.