Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estimation de synchrones de consommations électriques avec calage dynamique sur des données de relevés d'index asynchrones

Aﬁn d’appuyer les directions operationnelles d'ERDF qui doivent equilibrer l'offre et la demande d'electricite a tout instant, les statisticiens d'EDF R&D ont besoin d’estimer le plus precisement possible la consommation d’electricite au pas demi-horaire, au perimetre de differents groupes de clients. Ces estimations sont realisees a partir d’echantillons de clients, et recalees a l’aide des releves d'index de consommation electriques disponibles pour l’exhaustivite de la population : la difference entre les index releves a deux dates correspond en effet a la consommation electrique totale du client entre ces dates. Cependant ces releves de consommation, bientot disponibles a un rythme mensuel, sont avant tout destinees a la facturation et donc sont realises a des dates differentes pour chacun. On sort donc du cadre classique du calage, ou l’information auxiliaire recouvre la meme realite pour toute la population. Dans cet article, nous proposons d’adapter les techniques usuelles du calage a notre contexte ou on estime des courbes a partir d’une information auxiliaire non synchrone qui evolue au cours du temps. Les methodes proposees seront testees sur un jeu de donnees reelles. The French Company Electricite de France needs to estimate as precisely as possible the electricity consumption at an aggregated level at an half-hourly timestep. These estimations are carried out based on customers samples and can be enhanced by using individual metering data collected every six months (every month in the near future) for each client of the population. However, these metering data are gathered for billing purposes so the metering does not occur simultaneously for all the population. For this reason, we cannot apply directly the usual calibration techniques so, in this article, we propose to adapt them to our context where we estimate an aggregated curve using an asynchronous auxiliary information evoluting over time. The performances of our methods will be assessed on a real dataset.
Entrepreneurship and bribery in a transition economy: theory and firm-level evidence in Vietnam

Het onderzoek gaat in op de oorzaken en gevolgen van corruptie voor bedrijven en ondernemers in Vietnam. Dit land bevindt zich in de transitie van een centraal geleide economie naar een markteconomie. Corruptie kent vele vormen, maar in dit proefschrift gaat het over omkoping: de betaling van kleine geldbedragen aan overheidsambtenaren om iets geregeld te krijgen zoals het (sneller) verkrijgen van een vergunning of lagere belastingen. Op basis van een logistische analyse van het gedrag van 352 Vietnamese ondernemers concludeert onderzoeker Phan Anh Tu dat de kans op omkoping kan worden verklaard uit bedrijfs- en omgevingskenmerken. Meer in het bijzonder geldt, dat de kans dat een bedrijf in een transitie-economie steekpenningen aan een overheidsambtenaar betaalt, wordt beinvloed door bedrijfskenmerken (duur en omvang van de onderneming) en door de bedrijfsomgeving (vooral de concurrentie en de kwaliteit van de overheidsdiensten). Ook persoonlijke banden met overheidsambtenaren beinvloeden de kans op omkoping. Deze versterken exclusiviteit, bevorderen loyaliteit binnen de groep en het onderlinge vertrouwen, en vergroten zo de verleiding en de gelegenheid voor illegale praktijken zoals omkoping. Het blijkt dat banden met lokale ambtenaren de kans op omkoping vergroten, terwijl banden met rijksambtenaren deze kans verkleinen. Tot slot blijkt omkoping onderhevig aan afnemende meeropbrengsten: een beetje omkoping leidt tot een verbetering van de bedrijfsprestaties. Naarmate de bedragen voor omkoping groter worden, neemt de bedrijfsprestatie minder toe en uiteindelijk af. Er bestaat dientengevolge een niet-lineair verband tussen de omvang van de omkoping en de bedrijfsprestaties. Het is van belang dat er een beter begrip van bedrijfsspecifieke dimensies van omkoping komt, enerzijds ter ondersteuning van de ontwikkeling van beleid om omkoping in transitie-economieen te reduceren, anderzijds om managers te helpen adequaat om te gaan met corruptie.
Mezzogiorno e politiche regionali

Mezzogiorno e politiche regionali Il lavoro illustra, con riferimento al passato decennio, il ruolo delle politiche regionali e nazionali nello sviluppo delle Regioni meridionali. Nel valutare lo scostamento tra risultati e obiettivi si argomenta che l’insuccesso della Nuova politica regionale e un aspetto dell’insuccesso complessivo della politica economica italiana nell’ultimo quindicennio. Vengono inoltre segnalati, tra gli altri, due aspetti: l’efficacia della politica regionale e stata condizionata da norme nazionali attuate in maniera differente nel territorio; l’efficacia degli strumenti utilizzati e stata limitata anche dall’enfasi sulla dimensione regionale quale centro di governo degli interventi.
VARIANCE ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN

The need to analyze and visualize differences of very similar objects arises in many research areas: mesh compression, scan alignment, nominal/actual value comparison, quality management, and surface reconstruction to name a few. In computer graphics, for example, differences of surfaces are used for analyzing mesh processing algorithms such as mesh compression. They are also used to validate reconstruction and fitting results of laser scanned surfaces. As laser scanning has become very important for the acquisition and preservation of artifacts, scanned representations are used for documentation as well as analysis of ancient objects. Detailed mesh comparisons can reveal smallest changes and damages. These analysis and documentation tasks are needed not only in the context of cultural heritage but also in engineering and manufacturing. Differences of surfaces are analyzed to check the quality of productions. Our contribution to this problem is a workflow, which compares a reference / nominal surface with an actual, laser-scanned data set. The reference surface is a procedural model whose accuracy and systematics describe the semantic properties of an object; whereas the laser-scanned object is a real-world data set without any additional semantic information.
Surgical Treatment in Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma

Despite the notable increasing incidence of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), the optimal treatment of the patients with PTMC remains controversial. Because of no consensus about its treatment, the suggested treatment varies from active surveillance alone to total thyroidectomy. Although the 2015 revised American Thyroid Association guideline recommends hemithyroidectomy as the first-line treatment, active surveillance has also been discussed and accepted as another approach for the patients with PTMC. However, the same guideline does not recommend fine needle aspiration biopsy for nodules sized <1 cm, even it is suspicious. In such situation, neither active surveillance nor hemithyroidectomy could be discussed, with a lack of objective cytologic data about the nodules sized <1 cm. In this situation, the decision to perform FNAB to the nodules <1 cm in size depends on the performer of the thyroid ultrasonography. In this invited review, we have discussed the diagnosis and prognostic factors for PTMCs. We have also discussed surgical strategies as the accepted the first-line treatment in patients with PTMC.
A Literature Review : Effect of Plastic Surgery on Face Recognition

Variation in pose, expression, illumination, occlusion and aging are the major problem in face recognition and algorithms have been proposed to handle these challenges. Except this new problem in face recognition is plastic surgery. This problem remains still less explored topic in face recognition domain. This paper focuses on analyzing the effect of plastic surgery in face recognition algorithms. Also explain the reason for plastic surgery and various types of facial surgery due to which textural as well as shapial feature of the face will change and degrade the performances of face recognition algorithm. Therefore, it is imperative for future face recognition systems to be able to address this important issue and hence there is a need for more research in this important area.
Estudo Transversal sobre o Controle da Pressão Arterial no Serviço de Nefrologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina - UNIFESP

Estudo transversal, de 1.210 pacientes emacompanhamento medico, no minimo por seis meses, comdados coletados de prontuarios medicos e de enfermagem,de sexo, idade, peso, altura, circunferencias abdominal e doquadril, pressao arterial, classe e quantidade de anti-hi-pertensivos prescritos. Para a obesidade, usou-se o indicede massa corporea e a relacao cintura/quadril. Con-siderou-se a pressao arterial controlada quando os niveispressoricos estivessem abaixo de 140/90mmHg.
Analysis of Scheduling the Independent CCHBs for Partially Reconfigurable FPGA

The emerging reconfigurable computing reduces the need of computation exhaustive applications, which are always demanding more efficient computation hardware. The partially reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are highly suitable for performance improvement. This paper discusses the study of FPGA utilization when scheduling fixed size configurable computation hardware block (CCHB) by applying a heuristic. Based on the parameters (speedup, CCHB size etc.,) associated with the independent CCHBs, scheduling is performed and it is repeated for various sizes of FPGA. From the study of four applications from benchmark suite, it is observed that the device utilization is increased with size of CCHBs not greater than 0.5 times or not less than 0.85 times of the size of FPGA.
A 0-1 Model for Solving the Corrugator Trim Problem

A new method for solving the corrugator trim problem is presented. This problem draws its name from the difficult task facing scheduling personnel in corrugator box plants each day: to determine the least-cost method of combining customer orders on the corrugator, where one of the major costs to avoid is waste or excess trim lost from the materials used. Trim loss, however, is only one of several major concerns. Others include corrugator width utilization, cutting pattern changes, avoidance of split orders, and so on. A full discussion of these factors and associated trade-offs is included in the paper. The solution procedure presented is capable of dealing with these and other trade-offs in a systematic manner. In particular, this approach eliminates the spreading of orders over several stock sizes, a characteristic which has plagued the linear programming-based procedures that have been proposed for solving the problem. This improved material handling characteristic of the solution is obtained through t.
Tools for Exploring Multivariate Data: The

This introduction to the R package ICS is a (slightly) modied version of Nordhausen, Oja, and Tyler (2008c), published in the Journal of Statistical Software. Invariant coordinate selection (ICS) has recently been introduced as a method for exploring multivariate data. It includes as a special case a method for recovering the unmixing matrix in independent components analysis (ICA). It also serves as a basis for classes of multivariate nonparametric tests, and as a tool in cluster analysis or blind discrimination. The aim of this paper is to briey explain the (ICS) method and to illustrate how various applications can be implemented using the R package ICS. Several examples are used to show how the ICS method and ICS package can be used in analyzing a multivariate data set.
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu disease).

Management of epistaxis (nose bleeding) in 9 patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) by using systemic hormone therapy is described. All 9 patients had suffered severe recurrent incapacitating epistaxis. There had been many hospital admissions for the epistaxis and resulting anemia. All other forms of treatment had failed to control the epistaxis. There was a family history of this disorder in 8 of the 9 patients. All had typical lesions in other areas. The vascular abnormality is mainly in the small venules. Typical telangiectasic lesions usually appear by the 3rd or 4th decade of life. The most common sites are the skin of the face ears fingers and mucus membranes of the nose lips tongue cheeks and palate. Multiple pulmonary and hepatic arterivenous (AV) fistulas are also common leading eventually to congestive cardiac failure. Individual case histories are given. Patients were treated with either Enovid (norethynodrel 5 mg and mestranol .75 mcg) or with Enovid-E (norethynodrel 2.5 mg and mestranol .1 mg) orally. Only 2 patients were controlled by the smaller dosage. All responded favorably. Nose bleeding was controlled while on treatment but tended to recur some months after therapy. The 8 women were treated with cyclic therapy. The only male patient took the drug without interruption. Iron therapy was also given until anemia was corrected. 2 patients died of congestive heart failure and other complications of AV fistulas.
EL LÉXICO DE LOS EJEMPLOS DE LAS GRAMÁTICAS DE ESPAÑOL COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA

A group of eight grammars of Spanish as a Foreign Language is analyzed in this article from the point of view of the lexical items that are included as examples in the nominal sections. These voices are studied taking into account questions like effectiveness or lexicon frequency, all of this with the purpose of sharing insight into the use of these elements in the teaching and learning process of a language.
Les permis d’émission et les charges : efficacité et substituabilité

This paper examines how the pollution generating technologies of firms affect the efficacy of tradeable emission permits. It is shown that the ability of firms to substitute among pollutants whenever markets are missing for a subset of pollutants is likely to prevent the dynamic efficiencies normally attributed to market based instruments. We argue that regulators have a readily implementable rule for assessing the extent of this problem. The paper also examines how the government may capture the scarcity rent that accrues to tradeable permits allocated gratis. We compare the effects of four possible methods of rent capture: an emissions permit rental charge, profit charge, output charge, and an emissions permit transfer charge. These methods of rent capture are shown to have different impacts on the efficiency of tradeable emission permits. The methods of rent capture are also examined whenever the regulator faces imperfect information and firms can substitute among pollutants. Cet article examine l’effet des technologies polluantes sur l’efficacite de l’echange des permis d’emissions. Nous demontrons que la capacite des entreprises a substituer les polluants, lorsqu’il y a absence de marche pour certains d’entre eux, fera probablement obstacle a l’efficacite dynamique normalement attribuee aux instruments de marche. Il est a noter que le regulateur dispose d’une mesure qui lui permet d’evaluer l’ampleur de ce probleme. Par ailleurs, on examine la facon dont le gouvernement peut s’approprier la rente provenant de l’echange de permis alloues gratuitement. Nous comparons les effets de quatre methodes d’appropriation de rente, soit une surcharge sur le prix des permis d’emission, une charge sur les profits, une charge sur le produit et une charge sur le transfert des permis d’emission. On demontre que ces methodes d’appropriation de rente ont des effets differents sur l’efficacite des permis d’emission transferables. L’analyse de ces methodes est faite dans un contexte ou le regulateur fait face a de l’information imparfaite et ou les entreprises peuvent substituer les polluants.
A Formal Petri Net Based Model for Team Monitoring

This chapter focuses on a Petri Net-based model for team organization and monitoring. The applications considered are missions performed by several robots that cooperate in different ways according to the goals to be achieved. Formal operations on the Petri Net representing the mission plan allow the dynamic hierarchy of subteams to be revealed and the agents’ individual plans – including the relevant cooperation context – to be calculated. The model also allows several failure propagation ways within the team to be highlighted and local plan repair to be considered. Moreover Petri Nets allow direct implementation, and monitoring and control of the plan at each level of the organization: team, subteams, and individual robots.
Design SPARTAN FPGA-Based PD Controller for FOD Systems

It goes without saying that, there is quite a diverse mixture of the linear controller. Nevertheless, I assume the most famous would probably be Proportional Integral (PI) controller. The things with PI controller are that most of PI controllers are reduction the error. As well as PI controllers, another kind of linear controller worth mentioning could be Proportional Derivative (PD) controller and the unique characteristic of PD controller is that PD controllers are high speed and independent of system’s dynamic modeling. In addition, there are the usual things like PID controllers and PI2D controllers. The main objective of this paper designs a minimum delay proportionalderivative (PD) controller to the control of first order delay (FOD) system. First order delay system has delay time about 4 seconds in certain and about 19 seconds in limited uncertain condition. To improve the flexibility, design high-speed and low-cost controller, the micro-electronic device (FPGA-Based) controller is used in this research. The proposed design is 30-bits FPGA-based controller for inputs and 35-bits for output. In this research, the maximum frequency is 63.629 MHz and the minimum period is 15.716 ns, the minimum input arrival time before the clock is 4.362 ns and the maximum output required time after clock is19.727 ns. In this algorithm, the delay time for the derivative algorithm is 15.526 ns which 87.8% is a logic delay and 12.2% is route delay.
Protocollaire behandelingen voor volwassenen met psychische klachten, deel 2

Dit tweedelige standaardwerk bevat in totaal maar liefst 27 psychologische behandelingen van veelvoorkomende psychische stoornissen. Deze zijn goed onderzocht en behoren tot de krachtigste behandelingen binnen de klinische psychologie en psychiatrie. De boeken zijn thematisch gerangschikt. Protocollaire behandelingen voor volwassenen met psychische klachten 1 bevat angststoornissen, stemmingsstoornissen, en verslavingen en eetproblemen. Protocollaire behandelingen voor volwassenen met psychische klachten 2 bevat somatoforme stoornissen en lichamelijke klachten, burn-out, aandoeningen in de realiteitsbeleving, en impulscontrole- en overige problemen. De behandelingen zijn tot in detail beschreven en worden op heldere wijze gepresenteerd. Ieder hoofdstuk biedt beknopt de nieuwste onderzoeksinformatie en vervolgt dan met een stapsgewijze beschrijving van de behandeling, steeds ruim voorzien van voorbeelden, tips, casuistiek, informatiemateriaal voor patienten en adviezen hoe valkuilen in de behandeling kunnen worden vermeden. Het accent ligt steeds op een praktisch bruikbare uitvoering van de behandeling. Deze uitgave is compleet herzien: de hoofdstukken zijn volledig geactualiseerd en er zijn negen nieuwe behandelingen toegevoegd. Anders dan in de eerdere uitgaven zijn nu ook de belangrijkste meetinstrumenten opgenomen en is het mogelijk de bijlagen te downloaden van www.behandelprotocollen. nl. Protocollaire behandelingen voor volwassenen met psychische klachten hoort thuis in de praktijk van psychologen, psychotherapeuten en psychiaters.
Susceptibilidad in vitro de Histoplasma capsulatum al ajoene usando los métodos de difusión en agar con discos y pozos

Se evaluo la actividad antifungica de ajoene sobre Histoplasma capsulatum, mediante los metodos de difusion en agar con discos (MDD) y pozos (MDP), usando agar Sabouraud dextrosa (SDA) y Mueller-Hinton modificado (MHM). El inoculo fungico, obte-nido de la fase exponencial y ajustado a 0,5 Mac-Farland, se distribuyo (0,2 ml) sobre las placas de agar. Para el MDD, se siguio el proto-colo M44-A-NCCLS, con modificaciones; para el MDP, se abrieron pozos de 4 mm y se procedio como en MDD. Se usaron concentra-ciones de ajoene de 3,75 a 120 μg. Las placas se incubaron a temperatura ambiente y la inhibicion se leyo al septimo y al 16o dia. Los ensayos se realizaron por duplicado. El MDD, al septimo dia, revelo inhibicion del crecimiento desde 15 μg de ajoene en SDA y desde 30 μg en MHM. Con el MDP, se observo este efecto a partir de 7,5 y 30 μg en SDA y MHM, respectivamente. La disminucion de las zonas de inhibicion, al 16° dia, en ambos metodos, evidencio efecto fungistatico de ajoene sobre H. capsulatum. Con los resultados obtenidos, se podria considerar que H. capsulatum (fase micelial) es sensible a 15 μg de ajoene usando ambos metodos con SDA, y con MHM, a 30 (MDD) y 60 μg (MDP). Ambas metodologias demostraron ser validas para realizar pruebas de susceptibilidad en H. capsulatum utilizan-do SDA o MHM. Estos resultados abren las puertas para estudios futuros con el fin de ratificar estos hallazgos.
Budesonide and terfenadine, separately and in combination, in the treatment of hay fever.

BACKGROUND While hay fever is a very common experience, its treatment in primary care setting has been little reported in controlled studies. OBJECTIVE This study sought to evaluate the patient's assessment of efficacy of an intranasal steroid spray (budesonide) alone or in combination with an antihistamine (terfenadine) against terfenadine alone or placebo alone. METHODS A double-blind parallel group, placebo-controlled trial design was used, comparing the four groups. Each group used an active or placebo spray and active or placebo tablets. Symptom scores were recorded daily in diaries over a 21-day period. RESULTS Overall assessment of efficacy by the 106 patients was significantly greater (P < .05) for budesonide versus terfenadine or placebo alone. There was a 40% placebo response. Budesonide was more effective than terfenadine for all individual symptom scores, particularly nasal blockage, against which terfenadine was ineffective. Adverse effects were mild and transient for all groups. CONCLUSIONS Budesonide alone is a highly effective treatment for hay fever with few side effects.
The Framework and Algorithms for the Survivable Mapping of Virtual Network onto a Substrate Network

Abstract Network virtualization serves as an effective method for providing a flexible and highly adaptable shared substrate network to satisfy the diversity of demands. However, the problem of efficiently mapping a virtual network onto a substrate network is intractable, as it is NP-hard. How to guarantee survivability of such a mapping efficiently is another great challenge. In this article, we investigate the survivable virtual network mapping (SVNM) problem and propose two kinds of algorithms for solving this problem efficiently. First, we formulate the model with a minimum-cost objective for the survivable network virtualization problem by mixed integer linear programming. We then devise two kinds of algorithms for solving the SVNM problem efficiently: (1) Lagrangian relaxation-based algorithms including LR-SVNM-M and LR-SVNM-D; (2) Heuristic algorithms including H-SVNM-D and H-SVNM-M. The simulation results show that these algorithms proposed in this study can be used to balance the tradeoff between time efficiency and the mapping cost.