Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
RDR-based open IE for the web document

The Web contains a massive amount of information embedded in text and obtaining information from Web text is a major research challenge. One research focus is Open Information Extraction aimed at developing relation-independent information extraction. Open Information Extraction (OIE) systems seek to extract all potential relations from the text rather than extracting a few pre-defined relations. Existing OIE systems such as TEXTRUNNER usually take a machine learning based approach which requires large volumes of training data. This paper presents a Ripple-Down Rules Open Information Extraction system based on processing example cases and manually adding rules when needed. The key advantages of this approach are that it can handle the freer writing style that occurs in Web documents and can correct errors introduced by natural language pre-processing tools, whereas systems like TEXTRUNNER depend on the quality of the entity-tagging preprocessing in the training data. We evaluated the Ripple-Down Rules approach against the OIE systems, TEXTRUNNER and StatSnowball. In these studies the Ripple-Down Rules approach, with minimal low-cost rule addition achieves much higher precision and somewhat improved recall compared to these other Open Information Extraction systems.
A Cloud-Focused Mobile Forensics Methodology

The ubiquity of the smartphone means that there is a high probability that a suspect under investigation uses one. Because of society's growing dependence on smartphones, such devices will likely contain a wealth of incriminating data such as emails, text messages, phone logs, and sensitive documents. Furthermore, with the prevalence of cloud-based storage, it is also possible that the evidential data that forensic investigators seek would not be located directly on the device. Thus, there is a need for a forensically sound and specialized methodology to access this remote data, which might be critical in a forensic investigation. This column describes one such methodology.
Annotating 3D contents with MPEG-7 for reuse purposes

The progress and the continuous evolution of computer capacities, as well as the emergence of the X3D standard have recently boosted the 3D domain. Still, 3D data management remains expensive. Lot of (human and materiel) resources are needed to properly create 3D objects. In order to speed up the construction of new 3D objects, the reuse of existing objects is to be considered. Associating some semantics with 3D contents becomes a major issue specially for reusing such contents or pieces of content after having extracted them from existing 3D scenes. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing a generic semantic annotation model for 3D, called 3DSEAM (3D Semantics Annotation Model). 3DSEAM aims at indexing 3D contents considering visual, geometric, topologic and semantic aspects. We extend MPEG-7 in order to support the localisation of 3D objects. With this extension MPEG-7 can be used in order to instantiate the 3DSEAM model. Thus; through specific 3D locators 3DSEAM can attach some visual, geometric and semantic features with 3D objects defined within X3D fragments. These features can be indexed and then combined in order to formulate complex queries.
Emerging personality in childhood and adolescence: Implications for the development of narcissism and machiavellianism

As long as psychological researchers have worked toward characterizing and understanding human personality, the belief has existed that individual differences can yield important information that can aid in the prediction of specific behaviors or outcomes. Childhood personality offers the potential to better understand, even predict, outcomes such as academic achievement, success in interpersonal relationships, and resiliency to the development of psychopathology. Increased attention to individual differences in children will have significant implications at the level of individual outcomes but also for outcomes at the level of the family, school, neighborhood, and society as a whole. The theoretical history and emerging evidence regarding the relevance of narcissism and Machiavellianism in the psychological functioning of children are presented in this volume. Here, we briefly set the stage for this discussion by describing important issues for conceptualizing individual differences in childhood and adolescence.
Approximation and Optimization in Game-Theoretic Settings

My research spans multiple areas in theoretical computer science including algorithmic game theory, approximation algorithms, optimization, and online algorithms. I apply and extend techniques from these areas to address theoretical problems that capture real-world applications. For example, my work in algorithmic game theory explores formal connections between theoretical models and empirical data. Another example is my dissertation research in which I designed approximation algorithms for a number of graph-theoretic problems that apply to data networks and interconnected systems. This document presents an overview of the work I have done and highlights my future research plans.
Distance to High-Voltage Power Lines and Risk of Childhood Leukemia – an Analysis of Confounding by and Interaction with Other Potential Risk Factors

We investigated whether there is an interaction between distance from residence at birth to nearest power line and domestic radon and traffic-related air pollution, respectively, in relation to childhood leukemia risk. Further, we investigated whether adjusting for potential confounders alters the association between distance to nearest power line and childhood leukemia. We included 1024 cases aged <15, diagnosed with leukemia during 1968–1991, from the Danish Cancer Registry and 2048 controls randomly selected from the Danish childhood population and individually matched by gender and year of birth. We used geographical information systems to determine the distance between residence at birth and the nearest 132–400 kV overhead power line. Concentrations of domestic radon and traffic-related air pollution (NOx at the front door) were estimated using validated models. We found a statistically significant interaction between distance to nearest power line and domestic radon regarding risk of childhood leukemia (p = 0.01) when using the median radon level as cut-off point but not when using the 75th percentile (p = 0.90). We found no evidence of an interaction between distance to nearest power line and traffic-related air pollution (p = 0.73). We found almost no change in the estimated association between distance to power line and risk of childhood leukemia when adjusting for socioeconomic status of the municipality, urbanization, maternal age, birth order, domestic radon and traffic-related air pollution. The statistically significant interaction between distance to nearest power line and domestic radon was based on few exposed cases and controls and sensitive to the choice of exposure categorization and might, therefore, be due to chance.
On The Warped Heterotic Axion

We study the axion in a warped heterotic background. It is shown that the axion decay constant, f_a, is sensitive to the warped mass scale of the throat. As an explicit model, we construct a novel AdS-like geometry in heterotic string theory. We demonstrate that in this background f_a is given by the mass scale of the longest throat in the compactification. The question of obtaining f_a within the required bound 10^9--10^12 GeV is reduced to the construction of a throat inside the heterotic string theory compactification with warped mass scale in the above range. This provides a natural mechanism for realising the axion in heterotic string theory.
Large scale wind energy conversion system using permanent magnet synchronous generator

Renewable energy resources are getting increased attention from researchers because of depleting fossil resources, increasing fuel prices and the concern of climate change and global warming. In a country like India where long coastal line is available, offshore wind farms are one of the attractive options. Over last two decades the wind power penetration in to the grid is increasing at a very fast rate and therefore the wind farms are now required to participate actively in grid operation by an appropriate generation control. The advantage of using a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator for wind energy conversion systems is that its efficiency is higher compared to other variable speed WT configurations, its full scale converter allows full controllability, gearbox can be omitted by using higher number of poles of PMSG. This paper proposes the complete modeling and simulation, and analysis of a PMSG based WECS in terms of its power quality, range of wind speed that it can handle and the power balance when the machine is operating under varying wind velocity conditions. Vector control strategy is employed for both the converters connected, in cascade, between generator and the power grid. The WECS is analyzed under both partial and full-load regime. Generator control is applied for power optimization when wind speed is less than rated speed and pitch control is applied for speeds higher than rated speed but below cut-out speed.
Measuring and imaging small airways dysfunction in asthma

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways causing typical symptoms, and the diagnosis is supported by evidence of airflow obstruction which is variable, reversible or inducible. However, standard assessment of lung function with spirometry does not measure dysfunction in small airways which are < 2 mm in diameter towards the periphery of the lung. These airways make only a small contribution to airway resistance under normal circumstances. Nevertheless, there is mounting evidence that pathology and dysfunction in these small airways are implicated in the pathogenesis and natural history of asthma. Using forced oscillation and the multibreath nitrogen washout techniques, uneven ventilation (ventilation heterogeneity) due to small airways dysfunction has been shown to be an important marker of asthma disease activity, even in the absence of abnormalities in standard spirometric measurements. Recent advances in imaging research, particularly with hyperpolarised gas magnetic resonance imaging, have also given insights into the significance and dynamic nature of ventilation heterogeneity in asthma. The challenge is to integrate these new physiological and imaging insights to further our understanding of asthma and facilitate potential new treatments.
Towards Completely Lifted Search-based Probabilistic Inference

The promise of lifted probabilistic inference is to carry out probabilistic inference in a relational probabilistic model without needing to reason about each individual separately (grounding out the representation) by treating the undistinguished individuals as a block. Current exact methods still need to ground out in some cases, typically because the representation of the intermediate results is not closed under the lifted operations. We set out to answer the question as to whether there is some fundamental reason why lifted algorithms would need to ground out undifferentiated individuals. We have two main results: (1) We completely characterize the cases where grounding is polynomial in a population size, and show how we can do lifted inference in time polynomial in the logarithm of the population size for these cases. (2) For the case of no-argument and single-argument parametrized random variables where the grounding is not polynomial in a population size, we present lifted inference which is polynomial in the population size whereas grounding is exponential. Neither of these cases requires reasoning separately about the individuals that are not explicitly mentioned.
Detection of android malware by static analysis on permissions and sensitive functions

This paper proposes a detection system for malicious apps in the Android mobile phones. The proposed system mainly extracts permissions and sensitive functions applied by an app, plus two additional features native-permissions and intent-priority, to conduct static analysis. Besides, the system also uses a sandbox, i.e., an emulator, to record and analyze the app's behavior. For the latter, this study aims to modify the short message (SM) sending function of the emulator, so that the SM content and receiver can be recorded when the function is performed.
Nurse-perceived Patient Adverse Events and Nursing Practice Environment

Objectives: To evaluate the occurrence of patient adverse events in Korean hospitals as perceived by nurses and examine the correlation between patient adverse events with the nurse practice environment at nurse and hospital level. Methods: In total, 3096 nurses working in 60 general inpatient hospital units were included. A two-level logistic regression analysis was performed. Results: At the hospital level, patient adverse events included patient falls (60.5%), nosocomial infections (51.7%), pressure sores (42.6%) and medication errors (33.3%). Among the hospital-level explanatory variables associated with the nursing practice environment, ‘physician- nurse relationship’ correlated with medication errors while ‘education for improving quality of care’ affected patient falls. Conclusions: The doctor-nurse relationship and access to education that can improve the quality of care at the hospital level may help decrease the occurrence of patient adverse events.
A Design Platform Optimized for Inner Loop Motor Control

Motion control manufacturers today are under immense pressure due to global competition and regulatory constraints. Many, however, cannot retain the skilled people in house required to develop a complex motor drive product. This fact has actually created a thriving market for motion control consultants, but even though these consultants are usually skilled in the art, manufacturers cannot risk their reputation without some assurance of success. A new approach is thus needed which reduces the schedule and technical risks in developing these complex power systems. This paper introduces a new Motion Control Mixed Signal Chipset, which addresses the shortcomings of conventional development approaches, giving designers a powerful toolset for rapid prototyping of digital motor drives. Key technologies and merits are discussed based on the features it provides. Accelerator The first product to utilize the Motion Control Mixed Signal Chipset, Accelerator, follows the Design Platform model [1], proven to be so effective in the telecommunications and computer industries. In fact, it is expected that many manufacturers will adopt this approach to owning their own drive design because it is a “low pain” approach, even if they’ll use it only infrequently, or if motor drive design is not their core competency. Figure 1. shows the Accelerator AC Servo Design Platform, the first system product to use the new Motion Control Mixed Signal Chipset. This chipset uses a configurable hardware processor for inner loop motor control coupled with International Rectifier's advanced High Voltage IC (HVIC) gate driver and current sense interface chips. The flexible algorithm is implemented in FPGA, so that it can be structurally modified and tuned to quickly build high performance servo drive systems without any programming effort Host Control Processor IR2137
Identification and Transcriptional Control of the Genes Encoding the Caulobacter crescentus ClpXP Protease

ABSTRACT The region of the Caulobacter crescentus chromosome harboring the genes for the ClpXP protease was isolated and characterized. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of theC. crescentus ClpP and ClpX proteins with those of their homologues from several gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria revealed stronger conservation for the ATPase regulatory subunit (ClpX) than for the peptidase subunit (ClpP). The C. crescentus clpX gene was shown by complementation analysis to be functional in Escherichia coli. However, clpX fromE. coli was not able to substitute for the essential nature of the clpX gene in C. crescentus. TheclpP and clpX genes are separated on theC. crescentus chromosome by an open reading frame pointing in the opposite direction from the clp genes, and transcription of clpP and clpX was found to be uncoupled. clpP is transcribed as a monocistronic unit with a promoter (PP1) located immediately upstream of the 5′ end of the gene and a terminator structure following its 3′ end. PP1 is under heat shock control and is induced upon entry of the cells into the stationary phase. At least three promoters forclpX (PX1, PX2, and PX3) were mapped in the clpP-clpX intergenic region. In contrast to PP1, the clpX promoters were found to be downregulated after heat shock but were also subject to growth phase control. In addition, the clpP andclpX promoters showed different activity patterns during the cell cycle. Together, these results demonstrate that the genes coding for the peptidase and the regulatory subunits of the ClpXP protease are under independent transcriptional control in C. crescentus. Determination of the numbers of ClpP and ClpX molecules per cell suggested that ClpX is the limiting component compared with ClpP.
Interpretations of automata

Timed and hybrid automata are models designed for deocribing rcal-time or hybrid systems. Both models are wide-spread and arC widely accepted. Process algebras are often used to study fuudamental concepts of processes and their behaviours. In this paper, we discuss translations from timed automata and hybrid automata to process terms in the process algebra f1.CRL~. These translations provide directions for extending timed process algebras to cope with hybrid systems.
Channel One and CNN Newsroom: A Comparative Study of Seven Districts.

Many American schools use the televised news programs Channel One and CNN Newsroom. Channel One has received considerable scrutiny, some of it highly unfavorable, while attention to CNN Newsroom has been less extensive and mostly benign. This study compares the two programs within seven school districts in Wisconsin. The study addresses three basic areas: (1) how each district chose and implemented CNN Newsroom and Channel One; (2) how schools delivered the programs to students; and (3) how students and staff perceived the impact of a specific program on students' learning. The seven-district region examined included 22 high schools. All teachers, principals, and students received survey forms. Administrators were queried on how they made decisions, on options they took for implementation, on their familiarity with state guidelines, on whether they followed a written material selection policy, and on the rationale for their choice. Questionnaires for teachers elicited responses on their evaluation of television as a learning tool, whether they would recommend it to colleagues, on whether they required students to pay attention, on whether they used it as a basis of classroom discussion about curvent events, and on how they integrated the program into the curriculum. Questionnaires requested students to respond to items concerning their attention to the programs, their assessment of their learning, the integration of the programs into classroom discussions, their non-classroom sources of news, and their attention to commercials. Schools using CNN Newsroom and those using Channel One differed considerably: CNN schools had active teacher involvement in choice and administrators' strong belief in quality; Channel One schools' decisions rested with the administration and board with teacher requests playing no obvious part. For neither program did state requirements seem to carry much importance. Seven tables present study results. (Contains 37 references.) (Author/AEF) CHANNEL ONE AND CNN NEWSROOM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEVEN DISTRICTS 0 Roy Nasstrom and Anne Gierok Winona State University U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC, O This document has been repioduced received from the Person or organ:Z.111o" originating it O Minor changes have been made In improve reprothiction quaLty Points of view or opinions taated 0 hit, docurnen1 do not nocessdrily Ot.errl OERI po,ition (.1 pulir y "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Roy A. Nasstrom TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)" Report 96-3 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY WINONA, MINNESOTA 55987 MAY 20, 1996 This report is a revised version of a paper presented at the-annual meeting of the National ---Council of Professors of Educational Administration, Indian Wells, California, 10 August CO 1994. A segment of this version was presented at the National Conference on Creating the C21-Quality School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 30 March 1996 Z.
Grids & guides: multi-touch layout and alignment tools

Precise alignment of graphical objects and the creation of accurate layouts are crucial activities in many applications, such as graphics design tools, presentation software or graph editors. Surface computing is very promising for these application domains but not fully explored yet. In this paper we contribute two tools which support layout tasks on interactive displays: interactive grids and multi-touch alignment guides. Both tools allow the precise positioning of graphical objects in a flexible and fluent way by multi-touch input. Direct bimanual interaction and physical metaphors are applied to arrange objects along straight lines and curves. A formative user evaluation showed promising results with regard to a productive and easy use of the tools.
A Faceted-Navigation System for QCDml Ensemble XML Data

In this paper we describe a faceted navigation system for QCDml ensemble XML data, which is an XML-based metadata format for ILDG (International Lattice Data Grid). A faceted navigation system allows a user to search for one's desired information in an exploratory way, thereby enabling the user to browse a set of XML data without using specialized query languages such as XPath and XQuery. However, designing a faceted navigation interface for XML data is not straightforward due to the tree and flexible, tree-like nature of XML. In this work, we attempt to design and implement a dedicated faceted navigation system for QCDml on top of an XML database. The interface is designed by taking the domain experts' usability into account. We also care about the system's performance. In general, the process of faceted navigation is computationally expensive because of the need for aggregate computation of each available facets. In order to alleviate this, we make use of a relational database system as the engine to speed up the aggregate computation. We finally demonstrate the implemented faceted navigation system, which has been made available on the Web.