Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The cache behaviour of large lazy functional programs on stock hardware

Lazy functional programs behave differently from imperative programs and these differences extend to cache behaviour. We use hardware counters and a simple yet accurate execution cost model to analyse some large Haskell programs on the x86 architecture. The programs do not interact well with modern processors---L2 cache data miss stalls and branch misprediction stalls account for up to 60% and 32% of execution time respectively. Moreover, the program code exhibits little exploitable instruction-level parallelism.We then use simulation to pinpoint cache misses at the instruction level. With this information we apply prefetching to minimise the cost of write misses, speeding up Haskell programs by up to 22%. We conclude with more ideas for changing the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and its garbage collector to improve the cache performance of large programs.
Speech Driven MPEG-4 Facial Animation for Turkish

In this study, a system, that generates visual speech by synthesizing 3D face points, has been implemented. The synthesized face points drive MPEG-4 facial animation. To produce realistic and natural speech animation, a codebook based technique, which is trained with audio-visual data from a speaker, was employed. An audio-visual speech database was created using a 3D facial motion capture system that was developed for this study. To improve the performance of the system when used by different speakers, a further training was performed with audio-only data from a small number of speakers. The resulting system is capable of animating faces from an input speech of any Turkish speaker.
Validity and time savings in the selection of short forms of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale : Revised

Validity and reliability were calculated from data in the standardization sample of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised WAIS-R ; D. Wechsler, 1981) for 565 short forms. Percentage of time savings in comparison to the full WAIS-R was estimated for each subtest combination from the data of J. J. Ryan and S. J. Rosenberg (1984), and short forms were rank-ordered, according to validity, within 5% intervals from 45% to 90% savings. The most efficient combinations for predicting total scores were generally those composed of subtests that are quick to administer, and short forms selected in previous research because of their brief administration times proved to be efficient in comparison to other subtest combinations. Several short forms from each time-savings category had acceptable validities and reliabilities.
Anovel phospholipid-bindingprotein from theyeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with dual binding specificities for the transport GTPase Ypt 7 p and the Sec 1-related Vps 33 p

The gene product of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae open reading frame YDR229w (named IVY1 for: Interacting with Vps33p andYpt7p) was found to interact with both theGTPase Ypt7p and the Sec1-related Vps33 protein. While deletion of IVY1 does not lead to any recognized change in phenotype, overexpression of Ivy1p leads to fragmentation of the vacuole, missorting of the vacuolar enzyme carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) to the exterior of the cell, and an accumulation ofmultivesicular bodies inside the cell. All effects caused by the overexpression of Ivy1p can be reset by simultaneously raising the amount of Vps33p. This suppression activity ofVps33p suggests that Ivy1p andVps33p at least partially counteract the action of each other in the cell. The intracellular level of Ivy1p increases in cells approaching stationary growth phase at which part of the protein is located at the rim of the vacuole. In addition to its specific interactions with members of two regulatory protein families, Ivy1p in vitro shows a marked propensity for binding phospholipids with high affinity.
Review: Optimizing the Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Focus on Current Guidelines and the Impact of New Agents on Future Recommendations

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia encountered in everyday clinical practice. It affects ~2.3 million individuals in the United States, and the prevalence is expected to increase ~2.5-fold over the next 40 years. Atrial fibrillation accounts for more than 2 million hospitalizations each year and contributes to nearly 67 000 deaths. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of AF has increased dramatically over the past few decades. Recent treatment guidelines have heightened our awareness of the challenges involved in the treatment of AF and provided useful recommendations for its diagnosis and management. Because AF is usually associated with multiple comorbid conditions, greater emphasis must be placed on individualizing treatment. This review focuses on current treatment guidelines for patients with AF, assessing the benefits and shortcomings of current pharmacologic options and discussing new agents and trials that may provide better opportunities to improve and individualize patient management.
Prevenir les difficultes d'apprentissage en lecture : le defi de la presentation du contenu et de l'organisation des services

This literature review examines the issue of delivery of instruction for students at-risk of reading disabilities. Research has traditionally been more interested in content (what should be taught) than delivery (how it should be taught), leaving to practitioners the difficult task of organising services to students. In order to contribute to fill this gap, the authors review available data on three forms of delivery of instruction: one-to-one tutorial, small group, and enriched classroom teaching. The complementary role of these forms of delivery of instruction is discussed and researchers are encouraged to consider matters related to delivery of instruction when developing reading interventions.
A proposed configurable approach for recommendation systems via data mining techniques

ABSTRACT This study presents a configurable approach for recommendations which determines the suitable recommendation method for each field based on the characteristics of its data, the method includes determining the suitable technique for selecting a representative sample of the provided data. Then selecting the suitable feature weighting measure to provide a correct weight for each feature based on its effect on the recommendations. Finally, selecting the suitable algorithm to provide the required recommendations. The proposed configurable approach could be applied on different domains. The experiments have revealed that the approach is able to provide recommendations with only 0.89 error rate percentage.
Large nematode larva from the abdominal cavity of a man in Massachusetts.

Abstract A nematode larva, 31 mm long, was recovered from an aneurysm of the right common iliac artery surgically removed from a man in Massachusetts. Its finding appeared to be incidental as there was no evidence of any lesion produced by the larva. It was identified as a 3rd-stage larva of Phocanema or Terranova, a type not previously reported from man.
Predictors of Home Environment and Cognitive Competence During Early Childhood in Pakistan

This study was designed to investigate the relation between selected family factors and the quality of the home environment for children, and to identify factors that predict the cognitive competence of children in Pakistan. Fifty 4 to 6 year‐old children and their mothers were included in the sample. The sample was drawn from randomly selected schools in Peshawar, the capital city of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The results of the study indicated a positive relationship between mothers’ education, fathers’ occupational status, mothers’ satisfaction with their work life and the quality of the home environment mothers provided fortheir children. Number of children was negatively related to the quality of the rearing environment. Traditional religious beliefs had an indirect effect on the home environment via the number of children. Mothers with relatively traditional beliefs tended to have more children. Additional analysis showed that the quality of the rearing environment was positively .
Emergent Readers' Recognition of Irony in Good Dog, Carl

Jedediah Purdy's (2000) For common things laments the ironic mode of thought that characterizes our culture's mindset. He calls for a return to devotion, homage, and allegiance rather than what he sees as a jaundiced detachment that has overcome us. Purdy may be on to something, but Alexandra Day (1985) does not seem to adopt his call to a simpler way of seeing things. She encourages the ironic stance, even in young children. Her Good Dog, Carl may not be a thoroughly modern book; it is not a deconstructed child's text like David Weisner's (2001) The Three Pigs where the story falls apart, where we see reality and other texts invade the story world in amazing ways. But Day's Good Dog, Carl is a clever book that is filled with a basic irony that even 2- to 3-year-old children are beginning to understand and 5- to 6-year-olds are clearly recognizing. They catch the naughtiness of it, the rebellion that is always about to get underway.
Programming with the KIBO Robotics Kit in Preschool Classrooms

ABSTRACT KIBO is a developmentally appropriate robotics kit for young children that is programmed using interlocking wooden blocks; no screens or keyboards are required. This study describes a pilot KIBO robotics curriculum at an urban public preschool in Rhode Island and presents data collected on children's knowledge of foundational programming concepts after completing the curriculum. The curriculum was designed to integrate music, literacy, and design with engineering and robotics. Children (N = 64) from seven preschool classrooms, ranging in age from 3 to 5, participated in the study. Findings indicated that children as young as age 3 could create syntactically correct programs for the KIBO robot, although older preschoolers (closer to age 5) performed better than younger preschoolers on a standardized programming task. Additionally, all students generally performed better on the programming tasks that required them to manipulate less programming instructions. Implications for designing developmentally appropriate curriculum and scaffolding for young children are addressed.
Inter-layer-decoding aided self-concatenated coded scalable video transmission

In this treatise, we investigate an inter-layer (IL) decoded self-concatenated coded system conceived for scalable video coding (SVC). In SVC, when the base layer (BL) is corrupted due to channel-induced decoding errors, the enhancement layers (ELs) are discarded by the SVC decoder. The proposed IL coding technique implants the systematic information of the BL into the systematic bits of the ELs using exclusive-OR (XOR) operations. The IL coding is combined with a self-concatenated code, which is a near-capacity iterative detection aided channel codec using a single encoder and a single decoder. At the receiver, the IL decoding technique is activated for correcting the errors residing in the error-infested BL. In our experiments, the proposed system is combined with a number of the traditional unequal error protection (UEP) arrangements for benchmarking the system performance. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed technique is capable of further improving the system performance of the traditional UEP assisted system by an Eb/N0 of about 3 dB at a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of 36 dB. When viewed from a different perspective, the attainable gain can be quantified as a PSNR improvement of 2.9 dB at Eb/N0 = -5 dB, while imposing a marginal complexity increase of 1.5%.
An end-to-end QOS framework for multimedia streaming services in 3G networks

In this paper, an end-to-end quality of service (QoS) framework for streaming services in 3G mobile networks is considered. A solution based on a public land mobile network (PLMN) hosted multimedia streaming service is studied to avoid accessing through an external IP packet data network (IP-PDN) to streaming services. Under this scenario, the interaction between UMTS and IETF protocols and mechanisms for a streaming session is analyzed. As a part of the proposed framework, a radio resource management (RRM) scheme for the support of streaming services over GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) based third generation (3G) mobile networks is presented. Simulation results on the performance of this RRM scheme show the efficiency for the transmission of streaming services over EGPRS networks.
Disseminated herpes simplex infection in a HIV+ patient.

UNLABELLED Genital herpes, a viral infection caused by Herpes simplex virus (HSV), is the most common cause of genital ulceration. Patients with a severe decrease in cellular immunity, such as patients positive for Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, are more likely to develop atypical, severe, disseminated and/or chronic HSV infections. On the other hand, there is an increase incidence of HIV detection among patients positive for HSV infection, as genital ulcers represent a potential portal of entry of HIV into the host. A case of a 52-year-old homosexual man with a two-month history of multiple erythematous ulcerative lesions on the perianal area, the buttocks, and the third left finger is presented. According to the clinical history, the clinical findings and the laboratory results, a diagnosis of HSV infection was made and treatment with valaciclovir was started, which led to complete regression of lesions 30 days later. The atypical features of the herpetic lesions, along with a past history of atypical pneumonitis one year prior to our observation, prompted to a diagnosis of concurrent HIV infection, later confirmed by laboratory RESULTS Atypical and disseminated HSV infections occur relatively often in HIV+ patients. This article discusses clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of HSV infection in such cases.
The Disturbing Educational Discipline of "Peasants"

Educational discipline-pushing to complete homework assignments, to study hard and to succeed by scoring highly on entrance exams-is often seen as both a hallmark of an urban middle class and the means by which members of that class distinguish themselves both occupationally and morally from those they take to be below them. Sociological and anthropological studies of education have reached this conclusion in Europe, the United States, the developing world, Japan and China, even as they diverge over the causes for and implications of this finding. ' In the course of research in Zouping county, Shandong province, over the past dozen years, I often felt that this view elided the dedication to education shown by many rural families. I have met numerous former rural students who studied hard to succeed on university entrance exams and left their villages, eventually moving on to urban jobs. As I focused my attention on the
Prolonged acute kidney injury exacerbates lung inflammation at 7 days post‐acute kidney injury

Patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) have increased mortality; data suggest that the duration, not just severity, of AKI predicts increased mortality. Animal models suggest that AKI is a multisystem disease that deleteriously affects the lungs, heart, brain, intestine, and liver; notably, these effects have only been examined within 48 h, and longer term effects are unknown. In this study, we examined the longer term systemic effects of AKI, with a focus on lung injury. Mice were studied 7 days after an episode of ischemic AKI (22 min of renal pedicle clamping and then reperfusion) and numerous derangements were present including (1) lung inflammation; (2) increased serum proinflammatory cytokines; (3) liver injury; and (4) increased muscle catabolism. Since fluid overload may cause respiratory complications post‐AKI and fluid management is a critical component of post‐AKI care, we investigated various fluid administration strategies in the development of lung inflammation post‐AKI. Four different fluid strategies were tested – 100, 500, 1000, or 2000 μL of saline administered subcutaneously daily for 7 days. Interestingly, at 7 days post‐AKI, the 1000 and 2000 μL fluid groups had less severe AKI and less severe lung inflammation versus the 100 and 500 μL groups. In summary, our data demonstrate that appropriate fluid management after an episode of ischemic AKI led to both (1) faster recovery of kidney function and (2) significantly reduced lung inflammation, consistent with the notion that interventions to shorten AKI duration have the potential to reduce complications and improve patient outcomes.
Energy-aware feedback control for a H.264 video decoder

Embedded devices using highly integrated chips must cope with conflicting constraints, while executing computationally demanding applications under limited energy storage. Automatic control and feedback loops appear to be an effective solution to simultaneously accommodate for performance uncertainties due to the tiny scale gates variability, varying and poorly predictable computing demands and limited energy storage constraints. This paper presents the example of an embedded video decoder controlled by several feedback loops to carry out the trade-off between decoding quality and energy consumption, exploiting the frequency and voltage scaling capabilities of the chip. The inner loop controls the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling through a fast predictive control strategy. The outer loop computes the scheduling set-points needed by the inner loop to process frames decoding. The feedback loops have been implemented on a stock PC and experimental results are provided.
Prognosis in patients with transient cerebral ischemic attacks

SOME TRANSIENT CEREBRAL ISCHEMIC ATTACKS are followed by major strokes (cerebral infarctions), which may result in death or severe disability. Other patients with brief neurological episodes due to occlusive cerebral vascular disease have only one or very few attacks and sustain little or no disability. Although much has been learned about transient ischemic attacks in recent years, more detailed information is needed concerning factors which determine the course of events in patients presenting with this syndrome. With such information we may be better able to assess prognosis and evaluate various forms of therapy for this type of cerebral circulatory disorder. This report presents the results of a longterm prospective study of the natural history of 79 patients in whom the presenting problem was such attacks. Detailed observations were made concerning recurrent ischemic attacks, development of major strokes, and other cardiovascular difFiculties. The prognostic significance of age, hypertension, cardiac disease, prior episodes of ischemic attacks, prior cerebral infarctions, and vascular localization are evaluated in terms of survival and disability status.
The Abilities of Man: Their Nature and Measurement.

have resulted, and cannot but result, in failure; and, in these essays, he endeavours to justify that contention by much searching criticism of the systems of Hegel and of Bradley. The truth is, he insists, that " beginning at the beginning " is really beginning at what for us is the end, and the wrong end, at that which is farthest away; for we can begin only where we are, here in the middle, and can at best but try to get to the beginning. In the Adamson Lecture on " Mechanism and Morals" (the seventh essay in this volume), there will be found an admirable illustration of what seemed to him to be the right method of philosophical inquiry. He is here engaged in contrasting the world of physical science and the world of history ; the one a world of mechanism, invariable in its ultimate constituents, and rigidly determined in all its movements, the other a world of individual agents, a community of free persons, severally distinct and unique, but all co-operating for a supreme end. Starting from where we are, in the midst of the latter world, there can, he argues, be no question of the reality of percipient conscious subjects. And there can be no question, because if the distinction between the real and the apparent is to be admitted at all, the apparent must not only be an appearance of something, but an appearance for someone. How in the world, he asks, are we ever to frame a notion of reality if we are going to say that the perceiving subject is itself an appearance ? But, so much being granted, it does become a question whether what we take to be mechanism is really what it appears to be, or whether it is not interpretable as an interaction of spontaneous agents, seeing that thus only is an embarrassing dualism to be avoided. And he tries to indicate how from the standpoint of history, and on the basis of a monadology, similar to that of Leibniz, except that the ' pre-established harmony' and the absence of reciprocal action in which Leibniz believed are discarded, we can to some extent, at any rate, see how the appearance of mechanism arises. Supposing, namely, that the constituents of nature are plastic and evolving minds, then nature's routine and uniformity can be explained on the analogy of habit and heredity in the individual, of custom and tradition in society. Inveterate habits become, that is to say, natural laws. And the same line of reflexion is further pursued in the eighth essay, the Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, which is an attempt to show that, from the monadistic standpoint, the secret of heredity can be found in the facts of memory.
Strategic management of industrial clusters in Thailand

Summary Currently, the Thai government has implemented cluster development strategies to improve the national economic performance and technological capabilities. The strategic management of the reorganization of industrial clusters under-taken at the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), a major research organization in Thailand, is based on the concept of the National System of Innovation (NSI). NSTDA has focussed on this clusterbased economic development model to position Thailand to meet the challenges in the environment of knowledge-based economy. The aim of the cluster-based strategy is to focus on specific internal capabilities in order to improve technological competitiveness and research capabilities to meet the needs of the country. This paper presents the process of defining the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a framework for translating NSTDA’s strategic direction into action. Specifically, the Operating Model of NSTDA is proposed as a manifestation for industrial development and effective research management to support Thailand’s national innovation system. Policy implications and supportive initiatives at NSTDA will be useful for similar research organizations in other developing countries to better exploit the industrial cluster concept to develop technological innovations and enhance performance in the NSI.
Intersecting brane worlds at one loop

We develop techniques for one-loop diagrams on intersecting branes. The one-loop propagator of chiral intersection states on D6 branes is calculated exactly and its finiteness is shown to be guaranteed by RR tadpole cancellation. The result is used to demonstrate the expected softening of power law running of Yukawa couplings at the string scale. We also develop methods to calculate arbitrary N-point functions at one-loop, including those without gauge bosons in the loop. These techniques are also applicable to heterotic orbifold models.