Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Roadbook digital com deteção de contextos context-aware digital roadbook

In outdoor activities, such as managing paths in all-terrain vehicles, mountain biking, hiking or tourist itineraries, it is common to resort to the navigation by using a guide containing the description of the path that should be followed. A roadbook is usually printed on paper, but with current advances in mobile computing and mobile devices, it has become very interesting and useful to have a digital roadbook for smartphones and tablets, in order to facilitate the preparation of notes upon recognition of the route, as well as to assist the user when they apply these same notes when navigating.
DESIGNING FOR THE SPECTRUM: An Educational Model for the Autistic User

Title of Document: DESIGNING FOR THE SPECTRUM: An Educational Model for the Autistic User David Paul Leestma, Masters of Architecture, 2015 Directed By: Associate Professor Madlen Simon, AIA According to the Center for Disease Control children are being diagnosed with autism with greater frequency today than in the past, partially due to the refinement of diagnostic techniques and increased vigilance on the part of parents, pediatricians and teaching professionals. The educational system for those with autism however has not caught up to the growing population. The students are often overlooked by the school district and given classrooms that are detrimental to their sensory perceptions. In order to serve the needs of autistic students, new facilities need to be built and current facilities need to be adapted in order to accommodate this growing population. This thesis imagines a learning environment which both facilitates learning for those with sensory perception issues and creates an environment which fosters social interaction among students regardless of physical and mental capabilities. The design of this learning center will be designed based on research and case studies, followed by the creation of a set a principles, and the application of these principles to a test case. DESIGNING FOR THE SPECTRUM An Educational Model for the Autistic User
Learning to Mine Query Subtopics from Query Log

Many queries in web search are ambiguous or multifaceted. Identifying the major senses or facets of queries is very important for web search. In this paper, we represent the major senses or facets of queries as subtopics and refer to indentifying senses or facets of queries as query subtopic mining, where query subtopic are represented as a number of clusters of queries. Then the challenges of query subtopic mining are how to measure the similarity between queries and group them semantically. This paper proposes an approach for mining subtopics from query log, which jointly learns a similarity measure and groups queries by explicitly modeling the structure among them. Compared with previous approaches using manually defined similarity measures, our approach produces more desirable query subtopics by learning a similarity measure. Experimental results on real queries collected from a search engine log confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach in mining query subtopics.
Modeling and experimental verification of substrate coupling and isolation techniques in mixed-signal ICs on a lightly-doped substrate

Substrate noise coupling caused by digital switching activity on a mixed-signal IC can severely disturb RF circuits on such IC. The authors have developed an accurate approach to predict and model, prior to processing, the substrate noise generation, propagation and resulting analog and RF performance degradation. Measurements on a mixed-signal IC that contains a digital data path (40 K-gates) and an LC-VCO in a 0.18/spl mu/m CMOS process on a lightly-doped substrate, demonstrated that it is possible to understand the mechanisms of substrate noise impact and to accurately predict noise suppression by isolation techniques (a p+/n-well guard ring structure for the test case).
SDS Can Be Utilized as an Amyloid Inducer: A Case Study on Diverse Proteins

Sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), an anionic surfactant that mimics some characteristics of biological membrane has also been found to induce aggregation in proteins. The present study was carried out on 25 diverse proteins using circular dichroism, fluorescence spectroscopy, dye binding assay and electron microscopy. It was found that an appropriate molar ratio of protein to SDS readily induced amyloid formation in all proteins at a pH below two units of their respective isoelectric points (pI) while no aggregation was observed at a pH above two units of pI. We also observed that electrostatic interactions play a leading role in the induction of amyloid. This study can be used to design or hypothesize a molecule or drug, which may counter act the factor responsible for amyloid formation.
Agile Sensing Systems for Tomography

The concept of Agile Tomography is introduced and exemplified by reviewing the progress in tomography sensors and systems which can be deployed in situ. Agile tomography capabilities are examined across a number of electromagnetic and electrical modalities, ranging from gamma-rays to low-frequency electrical measurements. The recent achievements in already established areas are highlighted, as well as emerging technology and new modalities.
The ripple effect of positive change: Raising awareness of cyberbullying through a community-based service-learning project

Education scholars have recognized the current cohort of university students as the “always-connected generation” (Bull, 2010). As a result, selecting appropriate and yet targeted teaching tools for this generation is both “challenging our notion of a teaching environment” (p. 634) and raising questions about how to best “mitigate the negative impact of new technologies on learning” (Billsberry & Rollag, 2010, p. 635). One of the negative impacts that arise from the intersection of technology and education is cyberbullying. It is this extremely important and often difficult to predict element of online-based communications – cyberbullying – that serves as the focus of this chapter. The chapter is divided into three main sections. First, we present research regarding the prevalence, forms, and associated consequences of the mobile and online technologies being used by young people today. Second, we provide a definition of cyberbullying as well as a discussion of its pervasiveness and ways to address it. Finally, as a tool for moving forward with respect to the issue of addressing cyberbullying in university environments, we describe a university-based service-learning project aimed at increasing students' understanding of the variety of forms and the severe consequences of cyberbullying.
Location of Cardiac Arrest in a City Center: Strategic Placement of Automated External Defibrillators in Public Locations

Background— Public-access defibrillation with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) is being implemented in many countries worldwide with considerable financial implications. The potential benefit and economic consequences of focused or unfocused AED deployment are unknown. Methods and Results— All cardiac arrests in public in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1994 through 2005 were geographically located, as were 104 public AEDs placed by local initiatives. In accordance with European Resuscitation Council and American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines, areas with a high incidence of cardiac arrests were defined as those with 1 cardiac arrest every 2 or 5 years, respectively. There were 1274 cardiac arrests in public locations. According to the European Resuscitation Council or AHA guidelines, AEDs needed to be deployed in 1.2% and 10.6% of the city area, providing coverage for 19.5% (n=249) and 66.8% (n=851) of all cardiac arrests, respectively. The excessive cost of such AED deployments was estimated to be $33 100 or $41 000 per additional quality-adjusted life year, whereas unguided AED placement covering the entire city had an estimated cost of $108 700 per quality-adjusted life year. Areas with major train stations (1.8 arrests every 5 years per area), large public squares, and pedestrianized areas (0.6 arrests every 5 years per area) were main predictors of frequent cardiac arrests. Conclusion— To achieve wide AED coverage, AEDs need to be more widely distributed than recommended by the European Resuscitation Council guidelines but consistent with the American Heart Association guidelines. Strategic placement of AEDs is pivotal for public-access defibrillation, whereas with unguided initiatives, AEDs are likely to be placed inappropriately.
Sports Coaching Concepts: A Framework for Coaches' Behaviour

Section A: What is Coaching About? 1. The Historical Setting 2. Developing a Conceptual Framework 3. Defining the Coaching Process 4. The Role of the Coach Section B: How Do Coaches Behave? 5. Modelling the Coaching Process 6. Coaching Practice Section C: Coaching as an Interpersonal Relationship 7. A Question of Style and Philosophy 8. A Humanistic Approach Section D: Coaching in its Social Context 9. Motives and Recruitment into Coaching 10. Where are the Women Coaches? 11. Ethics and the Sport Coach Section E: How do we Evaluate Coaching? 12. Coaching Effectiveness 13. Coach Education and the Future
Accelerating the reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging by three-dimensional dual-dictionary learning using CUDA

An effective way to improve the data acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is using under-sampled k-space data, and dictionary learning method can be used to maintain the reconstruction quality. Three-dimensional dictionary trains the atoms in dictionary in the form of blocks, which can utilize the spatial correlation among slices. Dual-dictionary learning method includes a low-resolution dictionary and a high-resolution dictionary, for sparse coding and image updating respectively. However, the amount of data is huge for three-dimensional reconstruction, especially when the number of slices is large. Thus, the procedure is time-consuming. In this paper, we first utilize the NVIDIA Corporation's compute unified device architecture (CUDA) programming model to design the parallel algorithms on graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate the reconstruction procedure. The main optimizations operate in the dictionary learning algorithm and the image updating part, such as the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm and the k-singular value decomposition (K-SVD) algorithm. Then we develop another version of CUDA code with algorithmic optimization. Experimental results show that more than 324 times of speedup is achieved compared with the CPU-only codes when the number of MRI slices is 24.
High-Resolution Electrophysiological Assessment of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes: A Novel In Vitro Model for the Study of Conduction

The goal of the present report was to establish a new in vitro model for the study of impulse propagation in human cardiac tissue. By using the human embryonic stem cell differentiating system, spontaneously contracting areas were generated in three-dimensional differentiating cell aggregates (embryoid bodies). Morphological analysis revealed an isotropic tissue of early-stage cardiac phenotype. Gap junctions, assessed by immunostaining of connexin43 and connexin45, were distributed along the cell borders. High-resolution activation maps demonstrated the presence of a functional syncytium with stable focal activation and conduction properties. Conduction was significantly slower in narrow bands of contracting tissue compared with broad cardiomyocyte regions. Establishment of this unique in vitro human model may be used for the assessment of long-term structure-function relationships, for pharmacological studies, for tissue engineering, and may permit the study of genetically modified cardiomyocytes.
Diet Diversity in Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Households in Ugandan Rangeland Ecosystems

We explore how diet diversity differs with agricultural seasons and between households within pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood systems, using variety of foods consumed as a less complex proxy indicator of food insecurity than benchmark indicators like anthropometry and serum nutrients. The study was in the central part of the rangelands in Uganda. Seventy nine households were monitored for three seasons, and eight food groups consumed during a 24 hour diet recall period used to create a household diet diversity score (HDDS). Mean HDDS was 3.2, varied significantly with gender, age, livelihood system and season (p < .001, F = 15.04), but not with household size or household head’s education level. Agro-pastoralists exhibited lower mean diet diversity than pastoralists (p < .01, F = 7.84) and among agro-pastoralists, households headed by persons over 65 years were most vulnerable (mean HDDS 2.1). This exploratory study raises issues requiring further investigation to inform policies on nutrition security in the two communities.
Processor-Oblivious Parallel Stream Computations

We study the problem of parallel stream computations on a multiprocessor architecture. Modelling the problem, we exhibit that any parallelisation introduces an arithmetic overhead related to intermediate copy operations. We provide lower bounds for the parallel stream computation on p processors of different speeds with two models, a strict model and a buffered model; to our knowledge, these are new results. We introduce a new parallel algorithm called processor-oblivious: it is based on the coupling of a fast sequential algorithm with a fine-grain parallel one that is scheduled by work-stealing. This algorithm is proved asymptotically optimal. We show that our algorithm has a good experimental behaviour.
Application of Block-Based Physical Modelling for Digital Sound Synthesis of String Instruments

Block-based physical modeling is a recently introduced method for digital sound synthesis via the simulation of physical models. The method follows a ”divide-and-conquer” approach, where the elements are individually modeled and discretized, while their interaction topology is separately implemented. In this paper the application of this approach to string instruments is presented. The string is modeled with the functional transformation method, preserving all varieties of strings by a direct link from the physical string parameters to the algorithm. The excitation of the string is modeled separately with wave digital filters. Thanks to the block based approach it is possible to simulate all kind of string instruments, i.e. piano, guitar, and violin, with the same piece of code for the strings.
Class I dependence of the development of CD4+ CD8- NK1.1+ thymocytes

A small subset of functionally active CD4+ CD8- thymocytes express the NK1.1 marker, as do most CD4-CD8- NK1.1+ thymocytes. Previous studies have failed to implicate a role for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) or related molecules in the selection of the CD4+ CD8- NK1.1+ subset. We report here that the development of most of these cells is sharply reduced in class I-deficient mice, but not in class II- deficient mice. Hence, some CD4+ T cells are class I dependent and not class II dependent. Unlike conventional T cells, however, the development of NK1.1+ thymocytes in both the CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8- subsets is dependent on class I MHC expression by hematopoietic cells and not thymic epithelial cells. We propose that these populations are selected by nonpolymorphic class Ib or CD1 molecules.
Text genre classification research

Essays in different text genres have different ideas and writing method. Prediction the text genres firstly will help get a better accuracy when predicting the success of literary or finding the beautiful words and sentences in the essay. And it will help set a different standard for different text genres when scoring the writing by computer. Words and structure can be effective in discriminating text genres. Narration and description has a difference in the words they use and the structure, we can separate them by analyze the difference. In this paper we find a method to separate the essay in different text genres by computer. We analyze the most effective features for distinguish genres. And discussed how to get a better result for genres classification. Finally, the f value reached 80% in our experiment.
Mmpi O-H Scale Responses of Assaultive and Nonassaultive Prisoners and Associated Life History Variables1

ALTHOUGH efforts to distinguish assaultive persons by means of experimental scales of the MMPI have been made by a number of researchers, Megargee and Mendelsohn (1962) found that 12 such indices revealed a very lorn degree of discrimination, if any, between samples of so-called normal subjects and groups of extremely aisaultive, moderately assaultive, and nonviolent prisoners. Megargee, Cook, and Mendelsohn (1967) developed the 0-H (Overcontrolled-Hostility) scale that distinguished these groups on the basis of 31 MMPI items. They observed that the scale appeared to indicate a certain type of assaultive offender who not only kept tight controls over his extremely hostile impulses, but also displayed a pattern of conformity until strong provocation led to a breakdown of impulse control and to an extremely violent attack upon another. Purpose. The major purpose of the present study was to test the adequacy of the 0-H scale to differentiate groups of pri, soners determined, on the basis of two explicitly defined criteria, to be overcontrolled assaultives, undercontrolled assaultives, or nonviolent. The two criteria employed were the type of offense committed (assaultive or nonassaultive) and the number of prior offenses (no prior convictions vs. one or more prior convictions). These criteria were considered to be a more strinient test of the applicability of the 0-H scale in prison populations than that
The Heme Connection: Linking Erythrocytes and Macrophage Biology

Erythroid function and development is intimately linked to macrophages. The primary function of erythrocytes is oxygen delivery, which is mediated by iron-containing hemoglobin. The major source of this iron is a recycling pathway where macrophages scavenge old and damaged erythrocytes to release iron contained within the heme moiety. Macrophages also promote erythropoiesis by providing a supportive niche in the bone marrow as an integral component of “erythorblastic islands. ” Importantly, inflammation leads to alterations in iron handling by macrophages with significant impact on iron homeostasis and erythropoiesis. The importance of macrophages in erythropoiesis and iron homeostasis is well established and has been extensively reviewed. However, this developmental relationship is not one way, and erythrocytes can also regulate macrophage development and function. Erythrocyte-derived heme can induce the development of iron-recycling macrophages from monocytes, engage pattern recognition receptors to activate macrophages, and act as ligand for specific nuclear receptors to modulate macrophage function. Here, we discuss the role of heme as a signaling molecule impacting macrophage homeostasis. We will review these actions of heme within the framework of our current understanding of the role of micro-environmental factors in macrophage development and function.
Jigsaw: a tool for the small-scale reuse of source code

Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code. Due to the small scale of such tasks, the overhead in reusing source code can quickly outweigh the benefits. Existing approaches focus on locating source code for reuse but do not support the integration of the located code within the developer's system, thereby leaving the developer with the burden of performing these steps manually. This paper presents a tool, called Jigsaw, that uses the developer's context to help integrate the reused source code into the developer's own source code.
Facing affect / synthetic interface & meaning.

This paper describes a practice-led research project that addresses issues of emotional creativity and affect. A series of three-dimensional works were developed to discuss and demonstrate an exciting moment of new tangentiality; and an understanding of the emotional face as interface evolved. With this research a crossover zone was explored, where computer technology affects the material realm and where digitally driven processes interact with traditional ones, describing a hybrid practice. The practice aims to reflect on an interdisciplinary research process, including the study of creativity and synthetic emotions. This research is carried out in collaboration with the Digital Media Research Innovation Institute at OCAD University in Toronto, and the Rapidform Print Research department at the Royal College of Art in London.
Soothing and stress

Contents: Preface. Part I: Stress. C.S. Carter, A.C. DeVries, Stress and Soothing: An Endocrine Perspective. C.L. Coe, G.R. Lubach, M.L. Schneider, Neuromotor and Socioemotional Behavior in the Young Monkey Is Presaged by Prenatal Conditions. M.R. Gunnar, B. Donzella, "Looking for the Rosetta Stone": An Essay on Crying, Soothing, and Stress. J.A. Doussard-Roosevelt, S.W. Porges, The Role of Neurobehavioral Organization in Stress Responses: A Polyvagal Model. Part II: Soothing. E.M. Blass, Savoring Sucrose and Suckling Milk: Easing Pain, Saving Calories, and Learning About Mother. R.G. Barr, S.N. Young, A Two-Phase Model of the Soothing Taste Response: Implications for a Taste Probe of Temperament and Emotion Regulation. M.L. Riese, Prenatal and Perinatal Stress: Implications for Neonatal Soothing and Integrity. T. Field, Sucking and Massage Therapy Reduce Stress During Infancy. M. Lewis, D. Ramsay, Environments and Stress Reduction. Part III: Coping. L. Zeltzer, S. Feldman, Soothing and Chronic Pain. B.E. Compas, J.K. Connor, H. Saltzman, A.H. Thomsen, M. Wadsworth, Getting Specific About Coping: Effortful and Involuntary Responses to Stress in Development. S.M. Miller, V.A. Green, C.B. Bales, What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: A Cognitive-Social Framework for Understanding Children's Responses to Stress.
Linear and Circular Plasmid Content in Borrelia burgdorferi Clinical Isolates

ABSTRACT The genome of Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, is composed of a linear chromosome and more than 20 linear and circular plasmids. Typically, plasmid content analysis has been carried out by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and confirmed by Southern hybridization. However, multiple plasmids of virtually identical sizes (e.g., lp28 and cp32) complicate the interpretation of such data. The present study was undertaken to investigate the complete plasmid complements of B. burgdorferi clinical isolates cultivated from patients from a single region where early Lyme disease is endemic. A total of 21 isolates obtained from the skin biopsy or blood samples of Lyme disease patients were examined for their complete plasmid complements by Southern hybridization and plasmid-specific PCR analysis. All clinical isolates harbored at least six of the nine previously characterized cp32s. Fourteen isolates harbored all B31-like linear plasmids, and seven isolates simultaneously lacked lp56, lp38, and some segments of lp28-1. The distinctive plasmid profile observed in these seven isolates was specific to organisms that had ribosomal spacer type 2 and pulsed-field gel type A, which implies a clonal origin for this genotype. The presence of nearly identical complements of multiple linear and circular plasmids in all of the human isolates suggests that these plasmids may be particularly necessary for infection, adaptation, and/or maintenance in the infected host.