Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Infâncias em Educação Infantil

This article, in its theoretical nature, discusses notions such as childhood, children, multitude and experience, in order to consider a kind of early childhood education in which educational routine enables the practice of childhood to happen. The article rebuilds a path on which childhood and children are perceived according to a single particular notion. Towards the ending of the analysis, the plural character involved in the notions of child and childhood is considered.The theoretical framework for the analysis was based on the propositions of Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben, among others. Their views place childhood in a multiple temporality rather than in a single temporality which is determined by historical and psychological perspectives both based on chronological and succession levels. By stating that childhood is crossed by experiences, inventiveness and unreasonableness, our proposal is about thinking of a different kind of education, which leans towards the multitude.
IntFOLD: an integrated server for modelling protein structures and functions from amino acid sequences

IntFOLD is an independent web server that integrates our leading methods for structure and function prediction. The server provides a simple unified interface that aims to make complex protein modelling data more accessible to life scientists. The server web interface is designed to be intuitive and integrates a complex set of quantitative data, so that 3D modelling results can be viewed on a single page and interpreted by non-expert modellers at a glance. The only required input to the server is an amino acid sequence for the target protein. Here we describe major performance and user interface updates to the server, which comprises an integrated pipeline of methods for: tertiary structure prediction, global and local 3D model quality assessment, disorder prediction, structural domain prediction, function prediction and modelling of protein-ligand interactions. The server has been independently validated during numerous CASP (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiments, as well as being continuously evaluated by the CAMEO (Continuous Automated Model Evaluation) project. The IntFOLD server is available at: http://www.reading. ac.uk/bioinf/IntFOLD/
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 3-D polarised simulations of space-borne passive mm / sub-mm midlatitude cirrus observations : a case study

Global observations of ice clouds are needed to improve our understanding of their impact on earth’s radiation balance and the water-cycle. Passive mm/sub-mm has some advantages compared to other space-borne cloud-ice remote sensing techniques. The physics of scattering makes forward radiative transfer modelling for such instruments challenging. This paper demonstrates the ability of a recently developed RT code, ARTS-MC, to accurately simulate observations of this type for a variety of viewing geometries corresponding to operational (AMSU-B, EOS-MLS) and proposed (CIWSIR) instruments. ARTS-MC employs an adjoint Monte-Carlo method, makes proper account of polarisation, and uses 3-D spherical geometry. The actual field of view characteristics for each instrument are also accounted for. A 3-D midlatitude cirrus scenario is used, which is derived from Chilbolton cloud radar data and a stochastic method for generating 3-D ice water content fields. These demonstration simulations clearly demonstrate the beamfilling effect, significant polarisation effects for non-spherical particles, and also a beamfilling effect with regard to polarisation.
Role of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway in Prostaglandin F2α-Induced Rat Puerperal Uterine Contraction.

In this study, prostaglandin (PG) F2α was found to activate mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase and MAP kinase kinase (MEK) in cultured rat puerperal uterine myometrial cells. PGF2α stimulation also led to an increase in phosphorylation of raf-1, son of sevenless (SOS), and Shc. Furthermore, we examined the mechanism by which PGF2α induced MAP kinase phosphorylation. Both pertussis toxin (10 ng/ml), which inactivates Gi/Go proteins, and expression of a peptide derived from the carboxyl terminus of the β-adrenergic receptor kinase 1 (βARK1), which specifically blocks signaling mediated by the βγ subunits of G proteins, blocked the PGF2α-induced activation of MAP kinase. Ritodrine (1 μm), which is known to relax uterine muscle contraction, attenuated PGF2α-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of MAP kinase. Moreover, to examine the role of MAP kinase pathway in uterine contraction, an inhibitor of MEK activity, PD098059, was used. Although MEK inhibitor had no effect on PGF2α-induced calcium mobilization, th.
Multiple controllable band Notch butterfly shaped Monopole UWB antenna for cognitive radio

A Microstrip patch antenna having an exclusive shape of Butterfly is presented in this paper. Design of an ultra-wide-band (UWB) antenna with reconfigurable band notches are presented. For cognitive radio applications, reconfiguration of Butterfly Shaped band notch antenna is proposed. Butterfly shaped Monopole antenna having dimension 33 mm × 24 mm. The proposed antenna is composed of butterfly shape design with Microstrip fed with UWB performance. In addition, the notched band at 3.5 GHz and 5.6 GHz is identified by etching a pair of circular split ring on patch. Two split-ring resonators (SRR) having different radius are used to notch WIMAX and WLAN application to avoid interference. The proposed antenna design is simulated and results are observed.
Object Tracking in Videos: Approaches and Issues

Mobile object tracking has an important role in the computer vision applications. In this paper, we use a tracked target-based taxonomy to present the object tracking algorithms. The tracked targets are divided into three categories: points of interest, appearance and silhouette of mobile objects. Advantages and limitations of the tracking approaches are also analyzed to find the future directions in the object tracking domain.
Towards demystifying voice-building in the new millenium

• Body/voice integration; • Voice-building; • Speech-building and pronunciation; • Connecting voice and emotions; • The use of voice in violence on stage; • Text explorations; • Characterization through voice and body; • Accent acquisition and accent reduction; • Coping with different performing spaces with different acoustics; • And, specifically in the South African case, orientations to the different language rhythms.
Has it made a difference? Understanding and measuring the impact of applied theatre with young people in the South African context

In the South African context, ‘impact’ is one of those words that has gathered a set of layered meanings in the field of research and evaluation. It is generally used to mean the effect an activity or experience has had on its target audience. Has the experience changed things in any way? Has it made a difference? This paper explores what is meant by ‘impact’ in different contexts and will examine some of the results of the theatre and drama projects with young people presented by DramAidE (Drama for AIDS Education). I refer to the concept ‘applied theatre’ meaning the practice of drama and theatre-based activities outside the formal school curriculum and traditional theatre buildings. In South Africa, applied theatre is an important tool in the field of health and environmental education for young people. This paper argues that impact assessment has shown that both drama workshops and public performances can provide education and information and prompt young people to take action thus bringing about social change.
A New Energy Efficient Approach Towards WASN Routing with Modified QCS Protocol

In today's world Wireless Ad-hoc sensor network, consists of small sensor nodes having limited resources, has a great potential to solve problems in various domain including disaster management. In this paper "QCS-protocol" is modified which was introduced in our previous paper [1] and named as "Modified QCS-protocol". This is the backbone of our Intelligent Energy Efficient Ad-hoc Sensor Network. Two other protocols "Irregular Information Transfer" & "Final Broadcast-Petrol Flow" protocol are also modified to enhance performance of the new version of QCS protocol to run the system properly and to make the network more energy efficient and perfect. The challenges in WASN are- limited node power, Ad-hoc organization of network and reliability. Most of the existing approaches addressed the problems separately, but not in a totality. This paper shows how the network can have unlimited life and all time readiness with overall stability to send information to the base station with minimum power dissipation with the help of multimode "same type" sensor nodes and type categorization of generated information. Moreover an effort is made to give some light to the implementation issues and analyzed overall performance of the network by MATLAB simulation.
Resident Appropriation of Defensible Space in Public Housing

Defensible space (DS) theory proposes that the built environment can promote neighborhood safety and community by encouraging residents’ appropriation of near-home space. This article examined the relationship between three different forms of resident appropriation and residents’ experiences of neighborhood safety and community. Results from a survey of 91 public housing residents living in moderately defensible spaces suggested that residents who defended near-home space through territorial appropriation experienced the neighborhood as a safer, more cohesive community than did residents who did not appropriate space in this way. Residents who spent more time outside experienced the neighborhood as a safer place; however, casual social interaction in near-home space was not consistently related to outcomes. While no causal information is available from the correlational data presented here, this work takes an important step of providing empirical evidence of a systematic link between certain aspects of resident appropriation and positive outcomes. Implications for DS theory and for public housing policy are discussed.
BIO: an alternative to RIO

RED (Random Early Detection) is the most popular active queue management algorithm, although it has some weaknesses. Recently, another active queue management algorithm, BLUE, was proposed and shown that it is more successful in controlling the queue length when high number of flows are active on ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) capable networks. In this paper, RED and BLUE algorithms are evaluated for different levels of RTTs, with/without ECN support. It is shown that BLUE on ECN incapable networks is not as successful as on ECN capable networks. Differentiated Services architecture suggests that RIO (Red with In and Out) style queue management algorithms are to be used on each AF (Assured Forwarding) queue to offer different levels of services for different priorities at each AF class. Inspired of BLUE's success over RED on ECN capable networks, we developed a simple alternative to RIO, BIO (BLUE with In and Out). BIO, which runs two different BLUE algorithms for in and out packets, was expected to achieve lower loss rates while maximizing link utilization for high number of active flows on AF queues. However, due to the self-configuring architecture of the algorithm, it is observed that BIO marks packets too aggressively and degrades utilization. In this paper, the properties of BIO are also explained and the results obtained are justified.
Emotion Recognition Based on Frequency Analysis of Speech Signal

In this study, we find features of 3 emotions (Happiness, Angry, Surprise) as the fundamental research of emotion recognition. Speech signal with emotion has several elements. That is, voice quality, pitch, formant, speech speed, etc. Until now, most researchers have used the change of pitch or Short-time average power envelope or Mel based speech power coefficients. Of course, pitch is very efficient and informative feature. Thus we used it in this study. As pitch is very sensitive to a delicate emotion, it changes easily whenever a man is at different emotional state. Therefore, we can find the pitch is changed steeply or changed with gentle slope or not changed. And, this paper extracts formant features from speech signal with emotion. Each vowels show that each formant has similar position without big difference. Based on this fact, in the pleasure case, we extract features of laughter. And, with that, we separate laughing for easy work. Also, we find those far the angry and surprise.
A fragile site in the human U2 small nuclear RNA gene cluster is revealed by adenovirus type 12 infection

Using in situ hybridization, we found that the U2 small nuclear RNA gene cluster mapped very close to and was frequently disrupted by the gaps and breaks induced specifically in the human 17q21-q22 region by highly oncogenic adenovirus type 12 (Ad12). Restriction mapping revealed no structural alterations in the U2 gene locus as a result of Ad12 infection. Likewise, no Ad12-induced alterations in U2 RNA levels were detected. We estimate that the maximum size of the region specifically disrupted by this virus was less than 350 to 700 kilobases. A comparison of these data with similar data regarding biochemically induced fragile sites was made.
Interdependence of Demagnetization, Loading, and Temperature Rise in a Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor

The demagnetization of permanent magnets in permanent-magnet machines has been under discussion in many publications lately. Demagnetization models have been used, for example, to optimize the machine structures but there have been no studies on how the demagnetization is coupled with the loading and temperature-rise of the machine and how this coupling should be modeled. In this paper, we model the dynamics of the demagnetization of a dovetail machine under a constant load torque. We show that the thermal model should be included in the demagnetization calculations. The demagnetization will cause an increase of the copper losses, which will increase the temperatures of the machine. This will cause more demagnetization and might lead even to a stall in a situation in which a model neglecting the thermal effects predicts stable operation without additional demagnetization.
Evidence for the Big Five in analyses of familiar English personality adjectives

Studies of the natural language are a prime source of the Big‐Five model, yet the factor analysis of a large, representative, and non‐clustered set of English‐language personality adjectives in a large sample has not yet been published. In order to test the hypothesis that finding the Big Five depends on biasing the variable selection with an investigator's preferred non‐familiar terms, we present the factor analysis of 435 familiar adjectives in a combined sample (N=899) of 507 self‐ and 392 peer ratings. The five‐factor solution reproduced the Big Five with high clarity, demonstrating generally very high correlations with Goldberg's adjective markers of the Big Five. The Intellect factor had a more moderate correlation, due to its de‐emphasis of the creativity components of Factor V, a phenomenon that may occur commonly with the lexical Intellect factor.
Fermentation of lignocellulosic material : a study on bacterial contamination and yeast physiology

Progressive depletion of oil and conventional fossil fuels, an increased energy demand and an increased struggle for national energy security has led to the development of alternative biobased fuels, bioethanol being one of them. Bioethanol can be made from many different raw materials, and based upon this are classified as 1st generation and 2nd generation. This research work dealt with 2nd generation bioethanol using lignocellulosics as raw material. Lignocellulosic material is an abundant, non-edible raw material that can be converted to ethanol using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Due to the recalcitrant nature of lignocellulosics, it is a harsh substrate to ferment. Despite this, bacterial contaminations do occur. This research work aimed to identify potential methods to combat bacterial contamination in industrial fermentations and to identify physiological reactions of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae upon fermentation of lignocellulosic material. The raw material used was spruce processed in a commercial biorefinery and a demonstration plant; spent sulphite liquor; and high-gravity dilute-acid spruce hydrolysate, respectively. Two potential methods to combat bacterial contaminations were identified. The cultivation procedure of a pitching agent was proven to influence bacterial concentration and is suggested as a potential antimicrobial activity. Treatment with sodium chloride and ethanol also turned out to selectively support the viability of yeast and reduce the number of bacterial cells. As lignocellulosics are rich in metabolic inhibitors, additional antimicrobial activities may be deleterious for the ethanol production potential of the yeast. By comparing physiological effects and the level of energy of two strains of S. cerevisiae, in the two substrates mentioned above, it was found that a commercially-available strain developed for industrial fuel ethanol production performed poorly in fermentations of spent sulphite liquor while a strain originally harvested from a spent sulphite liquor-based fermentation performed well both short-term and long-term. Using high-gravity dilute-acid spruce hydrolysate changed the scenario, demonstrating the importance of strain selection.
Recognition of previous eyewitness testimony from an altered interrogation protocol: Potential effects of distortions

Abstract The effect of protocol presentation on witnesses’ tendency to point out errors in a transcribed version of their verbal testimony was examined in two experiments. Participants were shown a film depicting a robbery and were subsequently questioned. In the process of typing out the testimony, there were six distortions entered into the protocol. When participants were asked to check the content for approval, they either listened to the experimenter reading the protocol out aloud, or read it on their own. The results showed that witnesses who had listened to the content being read to them pointed out significantly fewer distortions, and suggest that protocol presentation may have important implications for the justice system.
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval with Relevance Feedback

Collaboration has been identified as an important aspect in information seeking. People meet to discuss and share ideas and through this interaction an information need is quite often identified. However the process of resolving this information need, through interacting with a search engine and performing a search task, is still an individual activity. We propose an environment which allows users to collaborate to satisfy a shared information need. We discuss ways to divide the search task amongst collaborators and propose the use of relevance feedback, a common information retrieval process, to enable the transfer of knowledge across collaborators during a search session. We describe the process by which co-searchers can collaborate effectively with little redundancy and how we can combine relevance judgements from multiple searchers into a coherent model for synchronous collaborative information retrieval
Dip estimation from irregularly-sampled seismic data

The geometry of reflection seismic experiments rarely conforms to an idealized, or nominal geometry. This is especially true in regions with unavoidable surface obstructions like rivers, towns, or existing offshore oil platforms. Such deviations from nominal geometry render many computer seismic processing applications ineffective. It is therefore of considerable importance to 1) accurately map irregularly-sampled seismic data onto a regular grid with sufficient spatial resolution, and 2) to interpolate any missing trace locations with reasonable values.
The Effects of Tuition and State Financial Aid on Public College Enrollment

This study expands earlier research on student demand theory by examining the relationship between tuition prices, state grants, and public college enrollment in the 50 states from 1976 to 1994. It emphasizes differences in enrollment behavior among Asian American, Black, Hispanic, and White students, as well as among college sectors; from its results, the author establishes policy recommendations for states to improve equality of access to public higher education in this country.
Perceived Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction with Mediating Effect of Purchase Intention

The previous researches contributed in this dimension by working on the purchase intention, service quality, and brand equity and brand loyalty. In this research study relationship among perceived service quality (PSQ), customer satisfaction (CS) and purchase intention (PI) as a mediating role is discussed and shown affect of purchase intention on the customer satisfaction. Took service sector from telecom industry of Pakistan as it is one of the growing industries presently, and it is 60% contributing in the economy Gross Domestic Product. The study utilized a survey through questionnaire which was distributed among the concerned citizen of Lahore, and mobile service users in Lahore Pakistan is taken to be analyzed. It is the cross sectional study, sample size was 150; regression testing is utilized in order to check the impact of each variable and mediating effect of PI on the PSQ and CS. The entire test indicates the positive relationship among the variables with partial mediation.
Recall suffers from collaboration: joint recall effects of friendship and task complexity

Collaborative recall in episodic memory tasks was investigated in two experiments. The experiments were explicitly designed to investigate how the interaction between two subjects influences group productivity. Subjects were requested to recall twice, first individually, and second, in different subject constellations (individually, or in dyads, as friends or non-friends). Experiment 1 employed free recall of words and story recall. In Experiment 2, a video-taped lecture on child development was recalled. The observed score at the second recall (Recall 2) was compared with the nominal predicted score, based on the initial recall. The results of the experiments are summarized and discussed in four clusters: (1) observed productivity for dyads never reached their predicted potential; (2) the negative effects of collaborative recall can be reduced; (3) friends rather than non-friends, and complex rather than simple tasks, reduce the loss in productivity; and (4) the data also suggest that encoding alone is superior to collaborative encoding.
A Review of Music and Emotion Studies: Approaches, Emotion Models, and Stimuli

The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing notions of emotions, data, and results. The present review of 251 studies describes the focus of prevalent research approaches, methods, and models of emotion, and documents the types of musical stimuli used over the past twenty years. Although self-report approaches to emotions are the most common way of dealing with music and emotions, using multiple approaches is becoming increasingly popular. A large majority (70%) of the studies employed variants of the discrete or the dimensional emotion models. A large proportion of stimuli rely on a relatively modest amount of familiar classical examples. The evident shortcomings of these prevalent patterns in music and emotion studies are highlighted, and concrete plans of action for future studies are suggested.