Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Service-oriented dynamic data driven application systems to urban traffic management in resource-bounded environment

With advance in distributed system technology, data has become ubiquitous and its dynamics has increased. Therefore, in this paper we proposed a new framework to integrate dynamic data driven application systems (DDDAS) with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services technology to tackle dynamic data issue in a real-time and resource-bounded environment. Nowadays, traffic management in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has been widely developed in major cities' urban areas around the world to provide more efficient way for solving traffic congestion problem. However, the problems in dynamic traffic management systems such as system flexibility, data standard common interface, transmission of required information, prediction performance, and real-time measurement data are all important issues but not totally supported. An efficient and effective service-oriented dynamic data-driven framework algorithm is designed in this paper to support prediction strategies for traffic management. The simulation results of vehicle navigation show that our algorithm outperforms the Dijkstra algorithm by improving 24.43% in average vehicle travelling time. On the other hand, the results of traffic signal control also show that our algorithm improves the performance in vehicles average number of stops by 43.7%, and 70.62% in average delay time that is compared with the fixed time control method.
The financialization of mass wealth, banking crises and politics over the long run

The co-evolution of democratic politics and mass, financialized wealth has destabilized highly integrated financial systems and the socio-political underpinnings of neoliberal policy norms at domestic and global levels. Over the long run, it has increased the political pressure on governments to undertake bailouts during major banking crises and, by raising voters’ attentiveness to wealth losses and distributional inequities, has sharply raised the bar for government performance. The result has been more costly bailouts, greater political instability and the sustained politicization of wealth cleavages in crisis aftermaths. We underline the crucial importance and modernity of this phenomenon by showing how the high concentration of wealth in pre-1914 Britain and America among elites was associated with limited crisis interventions and surprisingly tranquil political aftermaths. By contrast, the 2007–2009 crises in both countries epitomise the political dilemmas facing elected governments in a new world of mass financialized wealth and the impact on political polarization and democratic politics. We show that these dilemmas were embryonic in the interwar period and highlight how the evolutionary forces shaping policy and political outcomes reveal the importance of time, context and the effects of long cycles in the world economy and global politics.
Evolution and Statistics of Biological Regulatory Networks by Juhi

In this thesis, I study the process of evolution of the gene regulatory network in Escherichia coli. First, I characterize the portion of the network that has been documented, and then I simulate growth of the network. In this study, I assume that the network evolves by gene duplication and divergence. Initially, the duplicated gene will retain its old interactions. As the gene accumulates mutations, it gains new interactions and may or may not lose the old interactions. I investigate evidence for the duplication-divergence model by looking at the homology and regulatory networks in E. coli and propose a simple duplication-divergence model for growth. The results show that this simple model cannot fully account for the complexity in the real network fragment as measured by conventional metrics. Thesis Supervisor: Leonid Mirny Title: Assistant Professor
Power and efficiency in pillage games

A pillage game is a formal model of Hobbesian anarchy as a coalitional game. The technology of pillage is specified by a power function that determines the power of each coalition as a function of its members and their wealth. A coalition can despoil any other coalition less powerful than itself. The present paper studies the problem of achieving an efficient allocation of resources when the required reallocation changes the distribution of power. For example, land redistribution may increase total production, but may also deprive the original owners of the power they need to compel compensation. In this case the original owners would block the redistribution. Previous work on pillage games has focused on the stable set (von Neumann-Morgenstern solution) as a representation of a stable balance of power. However, the balance of power is typically too delicate to support a efficient allocations. In particular stable sets are necessarily finite. The present paper shows that for certain power functions, a recently developed extension of the stable set, called the legitimate set, can be rich enough to support efficient reallocation with enforceable compensation.
Variability of left ventricular ejection and diastolic times obtained from impedance cardiography: A comparison with heart rate variability

Our aim was to compare the spectral measures of heart rate variability (HRV) with those of the variability of: impedance heart periods (IHPV), ejection time (ETV) and diastolic time (DTV), computed from the impedance cardiography (ICG) traces obtained from 17 healthy volunteers during four 5-min steady-state conditions that elicit different vagal activity levels. From the time-frequency spectra of RR intervals (RR), impedance heart period (IHP), IHP-RR difference, ejection time (ET) and diastolic time (DT) series, their corresponding high frequency (HFRR, HFIHP-RR) and low frequency powers (LFRR, LFIHP-RR) were computed. Time-frequency coherences of HFRR and LFRR with the respective components of the other series were obtained. Coherences and correlations of HRV spectral measures with those of IHPV and DTV were very strong and much greater (p<;0.01) than with those of ETV. HFIHP-RR power was much greater (p<;0.005) than LFIHP-RR in all maneuvers. Although HRV determines most IHPV, the latter contains additional respiratory modulation that limits their interchangeability. Intra-beat variability is documented by DTV, a surrogate of HRV and therefore susceptible to autonomic modulation, and by ETV, which is much reduced and less responsive to modulation.
JU_CSE_NLP: Multi-grade Classification of Semantic Similarity between Text Pairs

This article presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of the participation in Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) of Task 6 @ Semantic Evaluation Exercises (SemEval-2012). Task-6 of SemEval- 2012 focused on semantic relations of text pair. Task-6 provides five different text pair files to compare different semantic relations and judge these relations through a similarity and confidence score. Similarity score is one kind of multi way classification in the form of grade between 0 to 5. We have submitted one run for the STS task. Our system has two basic modules - one deals with lexical relations and another deals with dependency based syntactic relations of the text pair. Similarity score given to a pair is the average of the scores of the above-mentioned modules. The scores from each module are identified using rule based techniques. The Pearson Correlation of our system in the task is 0.3880.
Flarty: recommending art routes using check-ins latent topics

In this demo we present Flarty, a mobile location-based social network for the dynamic construction and recommendation of art routes in the city of Florence, Italy, via item based similarity algorithms, places topic extraction and user interest modeling. To achieve this goal Flarty derives knowledge from users check-ins and combines clustering techniques and recommendation algorithms, as well as features such as geo-location, to define groups of similar artworks or POIs (Points Of Interest) and to compute the most efficient routes likely to meet user's interests. Model analysis takes into account ratings, topics extracted from textual features associated with the POIs, and users preferences computed exploiting collaborative filtering techniques on their past behavior.
Comparing Epistemic Frames: An exercise in visual comparison

We consider the comparison of Epistemic Frames as an example of a visual comparison problem. Epistemic Frames (also known as Epistemic Networks) are a representation used by Learning Scientists to encode the state of one’s knowledge about a domain. The data consist of association strengths between a set of concepts, which can be thought of as edge weights of an undirected graph. The important tasks involve comparing networks or their trajectories. We describe the nature of the data and the tasks and some of our initial efforts to create visualizations of the data including using the problem as a design challenge in a class. We also discuss how this problem is indicative of the general class of visual comparison problems.
Rate and characteristics of men with an intellectual disability in pre‐trial detention

Abstract Background Various lines of research point to the overrepresentation of individuals with intellectual disability1 (ID) in the criminal justice system. Studies have also shown that individuals with ID are vulnerable to mental health problems. To date there have been no Canadian studies of individuals with an ID in the criminal justice system. Method The present study reports on the sociodemographic, mental health and criminological characteristics of 281 individuals with an ID from a Canadian study of men in a pre‐trial holding centre. Results Almost 19% of the men had a probable ID, and nearly one‐third (29.9%) were in the borderline IQ range. As was the case for their non‐ID counterparts, the mean age of the probable ID group was in the early 30s, few were employed, and most had low incomes. Individuals in the probable and borderline ID groups had lower rates of high school completion than those in the average intellectual ability range. Over 60% of individuals with an ID had a substance use disorder, and 1 in 5 was intoxicated at the time of assessment. These rates were similar across groups, and to those found in the literature. A large majority of individuals with ID had a previous conviction, and most had previously committed a violent offence. Conclusions Among other limitations, the sample may not have been entirely representative of the total population of men in the pre‐trial detention centre, given the relatively high refusal rate (39.5%). Results are discussed in terms of orienting criminological and mental health services as a function of the level of intellectual and adaptive functioning of individuals with ID.
"Dissolve the Keiretsu , or Die": A longitudinal study of disintermediation in the Japanese automobile manufacturing supply networks

Under unstable global economic conditions and an increasing competition for customers in the emerging markets of lower income countries, Japanese automotive parts manufacturers and assemblers are striving to minimize their procurement costs to remain competitive. Applying stochastic actor-oriented network models to the procurement data of the 100 largest Japanese automobile firms in 2006 and 2011, this study explores (1) the predominant supply chain management strategies in the automobile industry; (2) the dynamics of the manufacturers' revenue; and (3) the interactions between the supply chain structures and revenue. In contrast to supply networks among major companies in other sectors of the Japanese economy, the present results do not reveal a clear tendency to preserve cliquish trading groups. On the contrary, during this challenging economic period, Japanese carmakers sought to bypass traditional intermediary partners in their supply chains and directly access upstream parts manufacturers with lower margins. The firms that pursued this strategy were rewarded with higher revenue. The novel network analytic method specifically discerns that the disintermediation and the diversification of supply chains precede firms' success in sales (rather than vice versa). The results suggest a potential challenge for the traditional keiretsu structure among Japanese automotive manufacturers in the new global economic environment.
Fifty-Fifty. Stock Recommendations and Stock Prices. Effects and Benefits of Investment Advice in the Business Media

The business media play an active role in influencing stock prices. Statistically significant excess returns at the time of the publication of stock recommendations have been documented many times. Frequently these abnormal gains begin to accumulate long before the publication date. In most cases they reach their highs on the day the recommendations are disseminated to the public. With few exceptions a price reversal sets in shortly thereafter: Excess returns in recommended stocks are at least partially given up. Many stocks now enter a period of underperformance, earning significant negative returns. The return reversions indicate that such stock price reactions are due to price pressure from "naive" investors hoping to profit from the experts. However, most media lack any real information that is not yet reflected in stock prices. In short: There is no evidence that stock recommendations published in the media offer any systematic opportunity to outperform the market. The evidence leads to the opposite conclusion: That investors who follow such advice will lose in the long run.
Vitamin D Activities for Health Outcomes

Reports describing significant health risks due to inadequate vitamin D status continue to generate considerable interest amongst the medical and lay communities alike. Recent research on the various molecular activities of the vitamin D system, including the nuclear vitamin D receptor and other receptors for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and vitamin D metabolism, provides evidence that the vitamin D system carries out biological activities across a wide range of tissues similar to other nuclear receptor hormones. This knowledge provides physiological plausibility of the various health benefits claimed to be provided by vitamin D and supports the proposals for conducting clinical trials. The vitamin D system plays critical roles in the maintenance of plasma calcium and phosphate and bone mineral homeostasis. Recent evidence confirms that plasma calcium homeostasis is the critical factor modulating vitamin D activity. Vitamin D activities in the skeleton include stimulation or inhibition of bone resorption and inhibition or stimulation of bone formation. The three major bone cell types, which are osteoblasts, osteocytes and osteoclasts, can all respond to vitamin D via the classical nuclear vitamin D receptor and metabolize 25-hydroxyvitamin D to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D to activate the vitamin D receptor and modulate gene expression. Dietary calcium intake interacts with vitamin D metabolism at both the renal and bone tissue levels to direct either a catabolic action on the bone through the endocrine system when calcium intake is inadequate or an anabolic action through a bone autocrine or paracrine system when calcium intake is sufficient.
Preserving Privacy with PrPl : a Decentralized Social Networking Infrastructure

This paper presents PrPl, a decentralized infrastructure that lets users participate in online social networking without loss of data ownership. PrPl adopts a person-centric architecture, where each individual uses a Personal-Cloud Butler service that provides a safe haven for one’s personal digital asset and supports sharing with fine-grain access control. A user can choose to run the Butler on a home server, or use a paid or ad-supported vendor of his choice. Each Butler provides a federation of data storage; it keeps a semantic index to data that can reside, possibly encrypted, in other storage services. It uses the standard, decentralized OpenID management system, so users can use their established personas in accessing the data. One pre-requisite to the success of a platform is the availability of applications, which means that ease of application development is essential. We have developed a language called SociaLite, based on Datalog, that allows developers to use a simple declarative database query to access the large collection of private data served up by the Butlers in our social circle running under different administrative domains. We have developed a prototype of the PrPl infrastructure and implemented a number of simple social applications on the system. We found that the applications can be written in a small number of lines of code using SociaLite. Preliminary experimental results suggest that it is viable to enable sharing of private social data between close friends with a decentralized architecture.
The digitization of music and the accessibility of the artist

This article uses case studies to explore two ways in which technology can impact on artist production. First, technological innovations could facilitate many things that are not new by rather making existing processes better or cheaper in ways that might alter the situation meaningfully. Second, technology can change art through the more profound revision of the role of artist and art-perceiver (Fineberg, 2006). This article examines several examples of how the music industry has been impacted by new technology: Radiohead Rainbows, slicethepie.com, Ditto Music, Music Rainbow, YouTube Orchestra, micro-chunking and LiveFi. The article examines the impact of new technologies on classical music. ©Journal of Professional Communication, all rights reserved.
Do Static Risk Factors Predict Differently for Aboriginal Sex Offenders?: A Multi-site Comparison Using the Original and Revised Static-99 and Static-2002 Scales

On s'interroge sérieusement la mesure dans laquelle les outils conçus pour évaluer le risque de récidive sont également valide pour les délinquants autochtones et non autochtones. L'étude actuelle a comparé des délinquants sexuels mâles autochtones et non autochtones quant aux items et aux notes totales accordées selon les échelles initiales et révisées Static-99 et Static-2002. L'étude comportait cinq échantillons canadiens indépendants avec des notes Static-99 et Static-99R (319 autochtones et 1 269 non autochtones), dont trois avaient aussi des notes Static-2002 et Static-2002R (209 autochtones et 955 non autochtones). Les délinquants sexuels autochtones ont souvent affiché une note substantiellement plus élevée que les délinquants sexuels non autochtones en ce qui a trait aux notes totales et aux items portant sur la criminalité en général, et avaient tendance à afficher une note plus faible pour les items portant sur la déviance sexuelle. Les items et les notes totales de Static-99/R évaluaient le risque de récidive sexuelle avec une précision similaire pour les délinquants sexuels autochtones et non autochtones. Par contre, nous avons trouvé des différences importantes en ce qui a trait aux notes totales de Static-2002/R et à plusieurs de ses items, l'évaluation des risques étant moins précise que pour les autochtones. Ces résultats suggèrent qu'au moins certains items des échelles Static ne sont pas aussi précis pour les délinquants sexuels autochtones que pour les délinquants sexuels non autochtones, les différences étant constatées dans Static-2002/R plutôt que dans Static-99/R.
Uncoordinated cooperative truncated ARQ schemes in wireless systems

In this paper, we propose two uncoordinated cooperative truncated ARQ schemes based on node position or local SNR information. If the original transmission between a source and a destination fails, the source and all the potential relays that have correctly received the data packet will contend for the channel to retransmit the packet without coordination. The competition for the channel access is governed by the retransmission probability which is computed in a distributed fashion using the stochastic geometry theory. Theoretical system success probabilities of both schemes are derived. Compared with the scheme in which only the source retransmits, the uncoordinated schemes are shown to achieve better performance, particularly when the distance between the source and the destination is large.
The Evolution of Viscous Inclined Disks in Axisymmetric and Triaxial Galaxies

We have used a set of equations developed by Pringle to follow the evolution of a viscous twisted disk in a galaxy-like potential that is stationary or tumbling relative to inertial space. In an axisymmetric potential, the disk settles to the equatorial plane at a rate largely determined by the coefficient ν2, associated with shear perpendicular to the local disk plane. If the disk is initially close to the galaxy equator, then the rate at which the inclination decays is well described by the analytic formula of Steiman-Cameron & Durisen; in a highly inclined disk, “breaking waves” of curvature steepen as they propagate through the disk, rendering the numerical treatment untrustworthy. In a triaxial potential that is stationary in inertial space, settling is faster than in an oblate or prolate galaxy, since the disk twists simultaneously about two perpendicular axes. If the figure of the potential tumbles about one of its principal axes, the viscous disk can settle into a warped state in which gas at each radius follows a stable tilted orbit, which precesses in such a way as to remain stationary relative to the underlying galaxy.
Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies, and Identities

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Regisration of hyperspectral and trichromatic images via cross cumulative residual entropy maximisation

In this paper we address the problem of image fusion between imagery acquired by trichromatic sensors and hyperspectral imagers. We do this by presenting a method aimed at registering a high-resolution trichromatic image with lower resolution hyperspectral data. The method presented here maps the hyperspectral image into the grayscale image so as to employ the cross cumulative residual entropy for purposes of multimodal registration. We illustrate the utility of our approach by presenting registration results on a set of surveillance image pairs consisting of a set of high-oblique colour and hyperspectral images.