Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Aligning syntax and semantics in formalisations of visual languages

Often the most effective diagrams are those which are very simple. However there is a strong tendency, particularly prevalent in visual formal modelling and specification languages, to take a diagrammatic language which at core is very simple, and then add many extensions and features to make it more expressive - often making it so expressive that the diagrams produced in the language are no longer readable; or at least, the diagrams are no longer obviously a more effective form of representation than a text-based one. Both the design of effective visual formal modelling and specification languages, and the effective formalisation of (the semantics of) such visual languages requires the unification of results from visual language theory, cognitive science, empirical psychology and graphic design. Integrating results from such diverse fields is a non-trivial task, which may be approached through a decomposition of the study of issues of effectiveness in diagrammatic languages according to analogous understandings of (written and spoken) natural languages.
Kukkia and Vilkas: kinetic electronic garments

This paper describes our first experiments in developing kinetic electronic garments, within the context of fashion and personal expression. We have integrated the shape memory alloy Nitinol in textile substrates to create Kukkia and Vilkas, two animated dresses that move or change shape over time, using resistive heating and control electronics. We describe fabrication details, including Nitinol shape setting and felting of the textile substrate. We suggest various models for programming the behavior of such an artifact, including animated, reactive, and interactive models.
Normal Disfluency in Pre-schoolers: Silences, Pauses, and Repetitions

Delving into the amazing and confounding language of four-, five-, or six-year olds, who dexterously and quite diligently use language for a myriad of purposes has always been intriguing to the pundits of first language acquisition. This scrutiny was an attempt to unravel some features germane to the normal disfluency in the preschoolers’ language. Normal disfluency is justifiably deemed to occur during periods of accelerated speech development (Guitar, 2013( and, unlike stuttering- a pathological condition-is a temporary condition. Over the years, researchers have investigated speech disfluencies of normally fluent young children in order to better understand the expected speech behaviors of young children but they have mainly focused on disfluencies of speech of English speaking children from Anglo-European, African-American, Hispanic, and Spanish cultures. Literature review proved there is not enough information regarding normal disfluency in Farsi speaking children. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe the speech disfluencies in Farsi speaking Iranian preschoolers. The study was conducted in a kindergarten in Tehran in which from each age group 6 kids (3 boys and 3 girls) were randomly selected. Samples of their speech were recorded, carefully transcribed, and analyzed. A comparison was made among the three age groups as far as the in-mind categories were concerned (spontaneous speech, description, explanation, interpretation, and narration). Furthermore, in each category, the nature of the disfluency (repetition, silence, or filler) and the purpose behind its application (planning, reformulation, or replacement) was identified.
Status of the GaN HEMT Standardization Effort at the Compact Model Coalition

The Compact Model Coalition (CMC), a part of the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2), is standardizing a compact model for Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors (GaN HEMTs). After a global search for model candidates, eight were selected to present at a CMC meeting. In the next phase, selected candidates will be evaluated for their ability to fit a common set of hardware data. After a third round of more comprehensive testing, a standard GaN HEMT model will be selected.
Lessons Learned from the Evolution of Mandatory Adverse Event Reporting Systems

Abstract : New York State has had a mandatory incident reporting system in place since 1985. The current system, the New York Patient Occurrence Reporting and Tracking System (NYPORTS), was implemented in 1998 pursuant to New York State Public Health Law Section 2805-1, Incident Reporting. NYPORTS is a secure Web-based system that simplifies reporting, coordinates with other reporting systems, and allows hospitals to obtain feedback on their own reporting patterns. The authors review the evolution and implementation of NYPORTS and its predecessors, the Hospital Incident Reporting System and the Patient Event Tracking System. Discussion and data comparisons are made between the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations voluntary sentinel event reporting system and NYPORTS. Critical elements for success of a mandatory incident reporting system include collaborative system design; basing the system on statute, with clear definitions and objective reporting criteria; providing meaningful data that can be analyzed and disseminated for improving patient safety; and adequate resources to maintain the system. Innovative program features may be of interest to other States implementing reporting systems.
Development and evaluation of a compact motion sensor node for wearable computing

This paper presents a compact wireless sensor node for 3D motion sensing, which can be used in wearable computing research. The sensor node is based on a commercial orientation sensor module and a wireless communication module. To extend the lifetime of this motion sensor node in many wearable computing applications, a power management unit is designed and implemented, which consists of a micro controller and a tiny accelerometer. An algorithm is developed to reduce the power consumption when there is no significant movement detected by the accelerometer. Compared with other similar 3D wireless motion sensors, this sensor node is cheaper and more power-efficient. This paper describes the hardware and software design of the sensor node, as well as the experimental results which evaluate the performance of the sensor node.
2 1 2 1 L-type Ca channel-mediated Zn toxicity and modulation 1 by ZnT-1 in PC 12 cells

21 21 In view of evidence that Zn neurotoxicity contributes to some forms of pathological neuronal death, we developed a model of Zn neurotoxicity in a cell line amenable to genetic manipulations. Exposure to 500 mM ZnCl for 15 min under depolarizing conditions 2 21 resulted in modest levels of PC12 cell death, that was reduced by the L-type Ca channel antagonist, nimodipine, and increased by the 21 21 21 L-type Ca channel opener, S(2)-Bay K 8644. At lower insult levels (200 mM Zn 1Bay K 8644), Zn -induced death appeared apoptotic under electron microscopy and was sensitive to the caspase inhibitor benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp-CH F (Z-VAD); at higher 2 insult levels (1000 mM1Bay K 8644), cells underwent necrosis insensitive to Z-VAD. To test the hypothesis that the plasma membrane 21 transporter, ZnT-1, modulates Zn neurotoxicity, we generated stable PC12 cell lines overexpressing wild type or dominant negative 21 forms of rat ZnT-1 (rZnT-1). Clones T9 and T23 overexpressing wild type rZnT-1 exhibited enhanced Zn efflux and reduced 21 vulnerability to Zn -induced death compared to the parental line, whereas clones D5 and D16 expressing dominant negative rZnT-1 exhibited the opposite characteristics.  2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Theme: Disorders of the nervous system Topic: Neurotoxicity
Effect of enzyme addition on energy utilization and performance of broiler chickens fed wheat-based diet with different metabolizable energy levels

An experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of multi-enzyme in high and low levels of metabolizable energy (13.81 and 11.51 MJ kg -1 diet) on performance and energy utilization of broilers fed wheat-soybean meal diets from 0 to 21 days of age. Result showed that birds fed diets containing 11.51 MJ kg -1 consumed significantly (p < 0.05) more feed than diets containing 13.81 MJ kg -1 , whereas daily gain and feed conversion ratio improved (p < 0.05) when enzyme was added to 11.51 MJ kg -1 diet. There was significant improvement in metabolizable energy, net energy for production, organic and dry matter digestibility in 0-21 when diets supplemented with enzyme (p < 0.05). Addition of enzyme to 11.51 MJ kg -1 containing diet significantly (p < 0.05) reduced heat production of birds in 0-10 d, whereas heat production was not changed in 21 days. Supplementation of 11.51 MJ kg -1 diet with enzyme improved the efficiency of ME use for carcass energy and protein retention of broilers (p < 0.05). Generally, the results of current study demonstrated that addition of enzyme to wheat-soybean diets improved NEp of broiler chickens while MEI was not changed and it seems NEp is a more sensitive energy utilization response criterion to use in evaluating broilers response to enzyme supplementation.
GO-PCA: An Unsupervised Method to Explore Biological Heterogeneity Based on Gene Expression and Prior Knowledge

Genome-wide expression profiling is a cost-efficient and widely used method to characterize heterogeneous populations of cells, tissues, biopsies, or other biological specimen. The exploratory analysis of such datasets typically relies on generic unsupervised methods, e.g. principal component analysis or hierarchical clustering. However, generic methods fail to exploit the significant amount of knowledge that exists about the molecular functions of genes. Here, I introduce GO-PCA, an unsupervised method that incorporates prior knowledge about gene functions in the form of gene ontology (GO) annotations. GO-PCA aims to discover and represent biological heterogeneity along all major axes of variation in a given dataset, while suppressing heterogeneity due to technical biases. To this end, GO-PCA combines principal component analysis (PCA) with nonparametric GO enrichment analysis, and uses the results to generate expression signatures based on small sets of functionally related genes. I first applied GO-PCA to expression data from diverse lineages of the human hematopoietic system, and obtained a small set of signatures that captured known cell characteristics for most lineages. I then applied the method to expression profiles of glioblastoma (GBM) tumor biopsies, and obtained signatures that were strongly associated with multiple previously described GBM subtypes. Surprisingly, GO-PCA discovered a cell cycle-related signature that exhibited significant differences between the Proneural and the prognostically favorable GBM CpG Island Methylator (G-CIMP) subtypes, suggesting that the G-CIMP subtype is characterized in part by lower mitotic activity. Previous expression-based classifications have failed to separate these subtypes, demonstrating that GO-PCA can detect heterogeneity that is missed by other methods. My results show that GO-PCA is a powerful and versatile expression-based method that facilitates exploration of large-scale expression data, without requiring additional types of experimental data. The low-dimensional representation generated by GO-PCA lends itself to interpretation, hypothesis generation, and further analysis.
Objective Evaluation of Binaural Noise Reduction Schemes

Separating sound sources in complex acoustical environment is an everyday challenge for our auditory system. Listeners with normal hearing are able to use binaural cues to solve this problem, but in impaired hearing these mechanisms are often disturbed. The aim of binaural noise reduction schemes in hearing aids is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in complex acoustic environments and to support hearing impaired listeners in utilizing relevant spatial information.
Alignment of voids in the cosmic web

We investigate the shapes and mutual alignment of voids in the large scale matter distribution of aCDM cosmology simulation. The voids are identified using the novel WVF void finder technique. The identified voids are quite nonspherical and slightly prolate, with axis ratios in the order of c : b : a � 0.5 : 0.7 : 1. Their orientations are strongly correlated with significant alignments spanning scales > 30h 1 Mpc. We also find an intimate link between the cosmic tidal field and the void orien- tations. Over a very wide range of scales we find a coherent and strong alignment of the voids with the tidal field computed from the smoothed density distribution. This orientation-tide alignment remains significant on scales exceeding twice the typical void size, which shows that the long range external field is responsible for the align- ment of the voids. This confirms the view that the large scale tidal force field is the main agent for the large scale spatial organization of the Cosmic Web.
Sonic Motor Pathways in Piranhas with a Reassessment of Phylogenetic Patterns of Sonic Mechanisms among Teleosts

Sound production has evolved independently a number of times among teleost fishes. In most cases, sound is generated by fast contracting muscles that vibrate the swim bladder by way of their direct attachment (intrinsic muscles) or indirectly by way of other skeletal elements (extrinsic muscles). This study focuses on the red and black piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri and Serrasalmus rhombeus (superorder Ostariophysi, Order Characiformes), that have extrinsic swim bladder sonic muscles innervated by the third and fourth spinal nerves. This innervation pattern diverges from that found in most teleosts, including the closely related catfishes (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes), where sonic muscles are innervated by ventral occipital nerve roots that arise just caudal to the vagus nerve. Here, we tested the hypothesis that piranhas would also differ from most other teleosts in the location of their sonic motor neurons. Following biotin labeling of branches of the third and fourth spinal nerves that innervate the sonic muscles in the red and black piranha, sonic motor neurons were identified amongst other non-sonic motor neurons in the central part of the spinal cord, slightly ventrolateral to the central canal. To our knowledge, this is the first example of sonic motor neurons positioned entirely within the spinal cord. In the other species so far studied, sonic motor neurons form well-defined nuclei that extend from far caudal levels of the medulla into the rostral spinal cord and are located either within the ventral motor column or near the midline, close to or just ventrolateral to the fourth ventricle and central canal. A piranha-like pattern may be more widespread among characiforms and is likely present in other teleost orders, e.g., Sciaenidae (drumfishes), that also have sonic muscles innervated by spinal nerves.
COMPENSATION OF THE HARMONICS IN POWER SYSTEM VOLTAGE

In this paper, we apply the PQ theory with shunt active power filter in an unbalanced and distorted power system voltage to compensate the perturbations generated by non linear load. The power factor is also improved in the current source. The PLL system is used to extract the fundamental component of the even sequence under conditions mentioned of the power system voltage. 1. INTRODUCION In three-phase AC power voltage unbalance and distortion can occur due to several reasons, as unbalanced load, open delta transformer connection, disconnected three phase capacitor bank and the proliferation of nonlinear and large single-phase loads (1) . The voltage unbalance and distortion may cause undesirable effects on the power system operation, particularly when sensitive loads are present. Moreover, the source voltage unbalance can worsen the system power quality when supplied to power electronic converter, Ac machines and drive systems. For examples, nonlinear loads such as static converters supplied by unbalanced voltages produce uncharacteristic low frequency harmonics, which increase the ratings of filters and switches. A machines subjected to unbalanced voltage source may generate large negative-sequence current components due to low negative-sequence impedance, thus increasing machine losses and reducing the net torque (2). Other forms of poor power quality are voltage sags, swells and partial or total collapse of one or more phases. Therefore, it is necessary to improve power quality of the system to meet the standard given by IEEE II59"
An Idealistic Neuro-PPM Branch Predictor

Historically, Markovian predictors have been very successful in predicting branch outcomes. In this work we propose a hybrid scheme that employs two Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) Markovian predictors, one that predicts based on local branch histories and one based on global branch histories. The two independent predictions are combined using a neural network. On the CBP-2 traces the proposed scheme achieves over twice the prediction accuracy of the gshare predictor.
Interrogating the enactment of a service-learning course in a physical education teacher education programme: Less is more?

Service-learning is a community-based method of education in which students fulfil the academic goals of their courses and simultaneously contribute to the welfare of the community. The purpose of this study is to interrogate a course-embedded service-learning project in a physical education teacher education programme to provide a broader, potentially more critical view of the experience, knowledge and learning related to our effort to link service and learning. A specific focus is the extent to which the strategies employed enhanced or hindered pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) and university faculty understanding and experience of service-learning. Three main challenges arose in striving towards the delivery and experience of a meaningful, relevant and worthwhile service-learning course: the challenge of linking academic coursework with community service structured through reflective practice; creating a generous amount of designated space for faculty and PSTs’ dialogue focusing specifically on PSTs’ service-learning partnership (SLP) and weekly reflections; and discussing the appropriate proposed assessment points with PSTs and creating sufficient space and time in the course for PSTs to explore how their weekly SLP experience can most effectively contribute to completing the related assessments.
Processor/memory co-exploration on multiple abstraction levels

Recently, the evolution of embedded systems has shown a strong trend towards application-specific, single-chip solutions. As a result, application-specific instruction set processors (ASIP) are more and more replacing off-the-shelf processors in such systems-on-chip (SoC). Along with the processor cores, heterogeneous memory architectures play an important role as part of the system. According to last year's ITRS, in 2004 about 70 percent of the chip area will be made up of memories. As such architectures are highly optimized for a particular application domain, processor core and memory subsystem design cannot be apart, but have to merge into an efficient design process. In this paper, we present a unified approach for processor/memory co-exploration using an architecture description language. We show an efficient way, of considering instruction set and memory architecture during the entire exploration process. Finally, we illustrate the feasibility of our approach with a real-world case study.
Event-related brain potentials reflect discourse-referential ambiguity in spoken language comprehension.

In two experiments, we explored the use of event-related brain potentials to selectively track the processes that establish reference during spoken language comprehension. Subjects listened to stories in which a particular noun phrase like "the girl" either uniquely referred to a single referent mentioned in the earlier discourse, or ambiguously referred to two equally suitable referents. Referentially ambiguous nouns ("the girl" with two girls introduced in the discourse context) elicited a frontally dominant and sustained negative shift in brain potentials, emerging within 300-400 ms after acoustic noun onset. The early onset of this effect reveals that reference to a discourse entity can be established very rapidly. Its morphology and distribution suggest that at least some of the processing consequences of referential ambiguity may involve an increased demand on memory resources. Furthermore, because this referentially induced ERP effect is very different from that of well-known ERP effects associated with the semantic (N400) and syntactic (e.g., P600/SPS) aspects of language comprehension, it suggests that ERPs can be used to selectively keep track of three major processes involved in the comprehension of an unfolding piece of discourse.
Applying consistent fuzzy preference relations to measure user perceived service quality of information presenting web portals

The study adopted the method of Herrera-Viedma et al., (2004): consistent fuzzy preference relations (Fuzzy PreRa) to apply the questionnaire which Zhilin Yang et al.(2005) developed. The result shows that the most important of the five-dimension is "Usability" and the most important of the nineteen items is "Relevant information to the customer". Compared to the traditional AHP method, Fuzzy PreRa has the advantages of reducing the comparing times. It is very easy to calculate and improve the inconsistent result. The result provides a useful suggestion for researchers and portal managers.
Binding of 14-3-3β but not 14-3-3σ controls the cytoplasmic localization of CDC25B: binding site preferences of 14-3-3 subtypes and the subcellular localization of CDC25B

The dual specificity phosphatase CDC25B positively controls the G2-M transition by activating CDK1/cyclin B. The binding of 14-3-3 to CDC25B has been shown to regulate the subcellular redistribution of CDC25B from the nucleus to the cytoplasm and may be correlated with the G2 checkpoint. We used a FLAG-tagged version of CDC25B to study the differences among the binding sites for the 14-3-3 subtypes, 14-3-3β, 14-3-3ϵ and 14-3-3σ, and the relationship between subtype binding and the subcellular localization of CDC25B. All three subtypes were found to bind to CDC25B. Site-directed mutagenesis studies revealed that 14-3-3β bound exclusively near serine-309 of CDC25B1, which is within a potential consensus motif for 14-3-3 binding. By contrast, 14-3-3σ bound preferentially to a site around serine-216, and the presence of serine-137 and -309 enhanced the binding. In addition to these binding-site differences, we found that the binding of 14-3-3β drove CDC25B to the cytoplasm and that mutation of serine-309 to alanine completely abolished the cytoplasmic localization of CDC25B. However, co-expression of 14-3-3σ and CDC25B did not affect the subcellular localization of CDC25B. Furthermore, serine-309 of CDC25B was sufficient to produce its cytoplasmic distribution with co-expression of 14-3-3β, even when other putative 14-3-3 binding sites were mutated. 14-3-3ϵ resembled 14-3-3β with regard to its binding to CDC25B and the control of CDC25B subcellular localization. The results of the present study indicate that two 14-3-3 subtypes can control the subcellular localization of CDC25B by binding to a specific site and that 14-3-3σ has effects on CDC25B other than the control of its subcellular localization.