Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mesure de l'échelle des oscillations acoustiques de baryons dans la fonction de corrélation des forêts Lyman-α avec la distribution des quasars observés dans le relevé SDSS

La propagation des ondes acoustiques dans le plasma primordial a laisse son empreinte sous la forme d'un pic dans la fonction de correlation a deux points de la densite de matiere. Ce pic d'oscillations acoustiques de baryons (BAO) constitue une echelle standard permettant de determiner certains parametres des differents modeles cosmologiques.Dans ce manuscrit de these, nous presentons une mise a jour de la mesure de BAO a un redshift z=2.40, a l'aide de la fonction de correlation croisee entre deux traceurs des fluctuations primordiales de densite de matiere: les quasars de SDSS-III (BOSS) et leurs fluctuations d'absorption du flux des forets Lyman-α. Ces fluctuations tracent la distribution d'hydrogene neutre dans le milieu intergalactique (IGM). Cette etude constitue le premier developpement d'un ajustement entierement physique de la fonction de correlation croisee; il prend notamment en compte la physique des quasars et la presence d'elements plus lourds que l'hydrogene dans l'IGM. Nous y presentons egalement les premieres simulations de notre analyse. Celles-ci nous permettent de valider l'ensemble de la procedure de mesure de l'echelle BAO.Cette etude mesure la distance de Hubble et la distance de diametre angulaire avec respectivement une precision de 2% et 3% (intervalle a 1 σ). Nous combinons nos resultats avec d'autres mesures de BAO a des redshifts plus faibles et trouvons la densite de matiere noire et d'energie noire dans le cadre de deux differents modeles cosmologiques: ΛCDM et oΛCDM.
Web Caching and Replication

Web caching and replication provides essential material based on the extensive real-world experience of two experts from AT & T Labs. This comprehensive examination of caching, replication, and load-balacing practices for the Web brings together information from and for the commercial world, including real-life products; technical standards communities, such as IETF and W3C; and academic research.
Quantitative CT Assessment in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: Comparison of the Patients with and without Consistent Clinical Symptoms and Pulmonary Function Results

Boda Nam, MD, Jung Hwa Hwang, MD*, Young Mok Lee, MD, Jai Soung Park, MD, Sung Shick Jou, MD, Youngbae Kim, MD 1Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea 2Bangbae GF Allergy Clinic, Seoul, Korea 3Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea 4Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea 5Department of Preventive Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea
Linguistic Features of English in Twitter

This paper looked into the tweets of five prominent personalities in each of the following fields - education, entertainment, social life, politics and personal level -and analyzed the tone as well as the typing styles embedded in the lexical, grammatical and rhetorical features of the tweets. The content words or lexical features of English used in the five categories of tweets studied were neutral number nouns, singulars and plurals and proper nouns; unmarked adverbs, adverb particles and wh-adverbs; unmarked adjectives, comparatives and superlatives; the base form of the verb “be”, past form of the verb “be”, -ing form of the verb “be”, infinitive of the verb “be”, past participle of the verb “be”, -s form of the verb “be”, base form of the verb “do”, infinitive of the verb “do”, infinitive form of the verb “have”, base form of the lexical verb, past tense form of the lexical verb, -ing form of the lexical verb, infinitive of the lexical verb , past participle form of lexical verb and -s form of the lexical verb. Majority of the Twitter users from the five categories used lexical verbs followed by nouns, adjectives and adverbs in their tweets. The dominant grammatical features of English used in Twitter are prepositions; indefinite, personal, reflexive and wh-pronouns; auxiliary verbs, the base form of the verb “be”, past form of the verb “be”, -ing form of the verb “be”, infinitive of the verb “be”, past participle of the verb “be”, -s form of the verb “be”, base form of the verb “do”, past form of the verb “do, infinitive of the verb “do”, infinitive form of the verb “have”, base form of the lexical verb, past tense form of the lexical verb, -ing form of the lexical verb, infinitive of lexical verb, past participle form of the lexical verb and -s form of the lexical verb; conjunctions; articles and interjections. Among the tweets analyzed, more posts utilized formal rather than informal language. More emoticons than punctuation marks were used by Twitter users to express themselves. Moreover, the Twitter users analyzed had more positive than negative sentiments in their tweet posts. Future researchers can expand this study and look into the other grammatical features of Twitter English that may be a basis for instructional materials development.
Caracterização da demanda potencial por atividades de aventura

This study approached people resident en the metropolitan region of Maringa, Parana, with the objective to establish the profile of potential necessity and the interest for practice of adventure activities. It is significant the no-interest for the practice, although the major part of the population have a notion about which are the main adventure activities. Parachute, surf, hang glide are the most quoted and desired. The more important characteristics of people who practice sports are, according to the sample: have financial conditions, be tired with the routine and have physical conditions to practice. In agreement these characteristics as reality, common people tend to self-exclusion in the practice of adventure of leisure.
A New Kid in Town

Zusammenfassung In der hier vorliegenden Kasuistik wird der Krankheits- und Behandlungsverlaufs eines 67-jährigen Patienten mit Morbus Hodgkin vorgestellt. Bei Erstellung der Erstdiagnose lag bereits ein Stadium IV B mit diffusem Knochenmarksbefall und multipler Lymphadenopathie sowie ossärer Metastasierung vor. Nach initialer Bestrahlung einer lokalisierten Osteolyse erhielt der Patient nachfolgend sequenziell zwei Chemotherapieprotokolle, auf die die Erkrankung jedesmal kurzfristig ansprach, aber dann immer schnell wieder progredient verlief. In dieser primär therapierefraktären Situation wurde dann das innovative Antikörperkonjugat Brentuximab Vedotin eingesetzt. Bei diesem zytostatisch wirkenden Medikament ist eine chemotherapeutische Komponente an einen monoklonalen Antikörper gekoppelt, der die Zielstruktur CD30 auf malignen Zellen detektiert.
Value Profiling for Instructions and Memory Locations

OF THE THESIS Value Pro ling for Instructions and Memory Locations by Peter Feller Master of Science in Computer Engineering University of California, San Diego, 1998 Professor Bradley Calder, Chair Identifying variables as invariant or constant at compile-time allows the compiler to perform optimizations including constant folding, code specialization, and partial evaluation. Some variables, which cannot be labeled as constants, may exhibit semi-invariant behavior. A semi-invariant variable is one that cannot be identi ed as a constant at compile-time, but has a high degree of invariant behavior at run-time. If run-time information was available to identify these variables as semi-invariant, they could then bene t from invariant-based compiler optimizations. In this thesis the value behavior and invariance found from pro ling registerde ning instructions and memory locations, as well as their di erences, are analyzed. Many instructions and memory locations have semi-invariant values even across di erent inputs. In addition, the predictability of register values and memory location values using a Last-Value-Prediction (LVP) scheme is investigated. The ability to estimate the invariance for all instructions in a program from only pro ling load instructions is examined, and an intelligent form of sampling called Convergent Pro ling is introduced to reduce the pro ling time needed to generate an accurate value pro le. A value pro le can be used to automatically guide code generation for dynamic compilation, adaptive execution, code specialization, partial evaluation and other compiler optimizations. Using value pro le information to perform code specialization is shown to decrease execution time up to 13%. viii Chapter
CYP1A1, CYP2E1 and gastric cancer risk in a high-incidence Colombian population.

RESUMEN El objetivo fue probar la hipotesis de que en casos y controles, de una poblacion colom-biana con alta incidencia de cancer gastrico, muestran diferencias significativas entre lasfrecuencias de los polimorfismos geneticos CYP1A1*2A y CYP2E1*5A ; y a la vez probar sihay diferencias entre el habito del tabaquismo, el consumo de alcohol y el estrato socioe-conomico; asi como tambien sus posibles interacciones. Durante dos anos consecutivosse diagnosticaron y confirmaron 87 casos nuevos de pacientes afectados por cancergastrico y se colectaron igual numero de controles pareados por edad y del mismo grupopoblacional, pertenecientes a la comunidad “paisa” del departamento de Caldas. Segenotipificaron por medio de PCR-RFLPs para los polimorfismos CYP1A1*2A y CYP2E1*5A . Ademas, se tuvo en cuenta las variables socioeconomicas y el estilo de vida, con res-pecto al tabaquismo y al consumo de alcohol. Los resultados encontrados sugieren quelos portadores del alelo CYP2E1-c2 , asociado con mayor actividad metabolica, tienen ma-yor riesgo a desarrollar cancer gastrico (OR=3,6 CI 95% 1,6-8,1/
Ottoman Sources on the Development of the Taksîm

The taksîm (Arabic taqsim) is often referred to in the musicological literature of the Middle East as an instrumental “improvisation” (Nettl 1973: 11). 2 The taksîm has been known as a major musical genre during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in most of the countries of the Middle East which had been incorporated within the Ottoman Empire, especially Turkey, Syria/Palestine and Egypt. It is also significant in Tunisia, but less so in the rest of North Africa. In Iraq it became prominent only after the end of the Second World War. Earlier the taksîm had probably been known only to and practiced by a small Ottomanized Iraqi elite. In other Arab countries, such as Morocco and Yemen, the taksîm is largely a post World War II adaptation of Egyptian musical practice.3 In the European part of the Ottoman Empire, the taksîm has also left important vestiges in the musics of Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia, and to a lesser extent Romania (Garfias 1981). Its name, and a few of its musical characteristics were known even within the instrumental klezmer repertoire of East European Jews (Beregovski/Slobin 1982: 539; Feldman 1993a). The fact that current Arabian and Turkish performance practices are not identical, and were even more differentiated early in the twentieth century when the first sound recordings of taksîms were made in Turkey, Syria and Egypt, has not prevented Turkish, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian musicians from employing the word taksîm to refer to all the local sub-styles of the broader taksîm genre.
Poetry Classification Using Support Vector Machines

Problem statement: Traditional Malay poetry called pantun is a form of art to express ideas, emotions and feelings in the form of rhyming lines. Malay poetry usually has a broad and deep meaning making it difficult to be interpreted. More over, few efforts have been done on automatic classification of literary text such as poetry. Approach: This research concerns with the classification of Malay pantun using Support Vector Machines (SVM). The capability of SVM through Radial Basic Function (RBF) and linear kernel function are imple mented to classify pantun by theme, as well as poetry or non-poetry. A total of 1500 pantun are di vided into 10 themes with 214 Malaysian folklore documents used as the training and testing datasets . We used tfidf for both classification experiments and the shape feature for the classification of poe try and non-poetry experiment alone. Results: The results of each experiment showed that the linear k ernel achieved a better percentage of average accuracy compared to the RBF kernel. Conclusion: The results show the potential of SVM technique in classifying poems into various classification of which previous approaches only focused on classifying prose only.
Early childhood matters: evidence from the effective pre-school and primary education project

Book synopsis: Early Childhood Matters documents the rapid development of early years education and care from the late 1990s into the new millennium. It chronicles the unique contribution of the EPPE research to our understanding of the importance of pre-school. The Effective Pre-school and Primary Education (EPPE) project is the largest European study of the impact of early years education and care on children’s developmental outcomes. Through this ground-breaking project a team of internationally-recognised experts provide insights into how home learning environments interact with pre-school and primary school experiences to shape children’s progress. The findings of this fascinating project: - provide new evidence of the importance of early childhood experiences - show how these experiences influence children’s cognitive, social and behavioural development - give new insights on the importance of early years education - will be relevant to a wide audience who are interested in policy development, early years education and care, and ‘effectiveness’ research - examine how the combined effects of pre-school, primary school and the family interact to shape children’s educational outcomes. This insightful book is essential reading for all those interested in innovative research methodology and policy development in early childhood education and care. It provides new evidence on good practice in early years settings and will have a wide appeal for students and those engaged in providing accredited courses of study at a range of levels in early childhood.
Radiology Review Manual

Preface Contents Abbreviations Acronyms and mnemonics 1. Musculoskeletal System 2. Central Nervous System 3. Orbit 4. Ear, Nose, and Throat 5. Chest 6. Breast 7. Heart and Great Vessels 8. Liver, Bile Ducts, Pancreas, and Spleen 9. Gastrointestinal Tract 10. Urogenital Tract 11. Obstetrics and Gynecology 12. Nuclear Medicine Statistics Water-soluble contrast media Inde
Topiramato y embarazo. Recién nacido con anomalías óseas

El topiramato es un farmaco antiepileptico de nueva generacion utilizado entre otras indicaciones para tratamiento de las crisis parciales rebeldes a otros anticomiciales. Hasta la fecha no se han descrito efectos teratogenicos organoespecificos en seres humanos, pero si en animales de experimentacion. Se presenta el caso de un recien nacido de madre con una epilepsia parcial tratada durante toda la gestacion con topiramato en dosis de 300 mg al dia. Al nacer se comprobo agenesia del dedo pulgar derecho, hipoplasia del pulgar izquierdo, sindactilia del segundo y tercer dedos de los pies y agenesia de algunas falanges, hipoplasia del musculo orbicular derecho de la boca. No se encontro ninguna causa etiologica y se especula si la monoterapia con topiramato pudiera tener relacion causal.
Ontology-driven knowledge management for cognitive networks

Cognitive networks are still in their infancy and are envisaged for efficient and autonomic management of increasing complexity of communication networks. A cognitive network (CN) is self-aware, self-configuring, self-optimising, self-healing and self-protecting. Therefore, it has knowledge about itself, its building blocks and their interconnection, and can share this knowledge and reason based on this. For developing a CN, two elements are required: knowledge representation and the cognition loop. In this paper, we present existing research work on cognitive networks that refers to ontological network representations for telecommunication network management. We provide a brief summary of artificial intelligent techniques that are appropriate for the development of a CN as well as the managerial implications of CNs. Architectural proposals, which are based on ontologies and comply with the requirements for a CN, are also presented.
Satellite on-board encryption

Sana Summary Summary In the light of latest intrusions into satellite data the demand to protect the sensitive and valuable data transmitted from satellites to ground has increased and hence the need to use encryption on-board. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is a very popular choice in terrestrial communications, is slowly emerging as the preferred option in the aerospace industry including satellites. Computing systems on-board satellites have limited power and computational resources as in terrestrial embedded systems. With these constraints in mind various implementations of the AES algorithm using different optimization techniques have been carried out on FPGAs and the implementations have been evaluated in terms of power, throughput and device area. Satellites operate in a harsh radiation environment and consequently any electronic system used on board, including the encryption processor, is susceptible to radiation-induced faults. Hence, in addition to consuming limited resources, the encryption processor should be immune to radiation induced faults to avoid faulty data transmission to ground station. Most of the faults that occur in satellite on-board electronic devices are radiation induced bit flips called single event upsets (SEUs). A detailed novel analysis of the effect of faults on imaging and telemetry data during on-board encryption is carried out. Also the impact of faults in the data which occur during transmission to the ground station due to noisy channels is discussed and compared. In order to avoid data corruption due to SEUs a novel fault-tolerant model of the AES is presented, which is based on the Hamming error correction code. Implementation of the proposed model is carried out on FPGAs and measurements of the power and throughput overhead are presented. detection and correction and error correcting codes. i Acknowledgments Acknowledgments First and foremost I am very grateful to the Almighty for giving me the opportunity to carry out this study. I am deeply indebted to my supervisor, Dr. Tanya Vladimirova for her invaluable suggestions and superb guidance throughput this PhD study. Without her constant support and encouragement, at both personal and professional levels, this journey of PhD would have been just impossible to carry out. I am very grateful to Prof. Sir Martin Sweeting for his valuable feedback on my work during this research program. I would like to say a big thank you to Karen Collar for the support and help throughout my stay at Surrey Space Centre (SSC). I would like to thank SSC …
Blood Pressure, Glycemia, and Body Habitus among a sample of African Americans in Central Ohio

Chronic degenerative conditions increase as physiological function declines over the life span. Today, coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases, malignant neoplasms, and noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus are leading causes of morbidity and mortality across affluent and underdeveloped societies. Elevated blood pressure, plasma glucose, and body mass index (BMI) are risk factors for these outcomes. In the USA, African Americans show more cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity than European Americans. One reason for such disparities may be physiological differences, while others may include sociocultural differences. To explore these influences, we examine blood pressure, glycemia, fat patterning, and body habitus among a sample of 114 older middle-class African Americans residing in Central Ohio during 1995. Our results indicate that BMI and waist/hip ratio positively associated with elevated post-load glucose. Additionally, elevated post-load glucose was significantly associated with upper arm circumference and triceps, subscapular and suprailiac skinfolds. Subscapular skinfolds and abdominal depth were significantly associated with elevated fasting glucose. Abdominal depth predicted both elevated fasting and post-load glucose as well as systolic hypertension. SBP predicted elevated fasting and post-load glucose in our sample. However, no measured variable was significantly related to diastolic hypertension. Our participants represent middle-class African Americans residing in Central Ohio. Their fasting glucose, two-hour post-load glucose, BMI, and wait-hip ratio are above cut-points suggesting diabetes and obesity. These results support the conclusion that such risk factors affect those of higher socioeconomic status as well as the more commonly portrayed poorer classes of African
Misuse of Library Public Access Computers

Abstract Academic libraries with public access computers are faced with the challenge of balancing patron privacy rights with accountability and system security. What should libraries do when a patron uses a public Internet connection to send harassing email messages or hack into a remote network, or into the library's own system? This article examines the conflicting values of privacy and security. It examines patron authentication as a security measure and the safeguards that should accompany such a system. Several options are offered for addressing this dilemma. A summary of university appropriate use policies is presented with recommendations and a sample policy statement.
Temporal trends in AIDS-associated opportunistic infections in Brazil, 1980-1999

Trends in annual incidence of reported AIDS-associated opportunistic infections (OI/100 adults > 12 years old) among AIDS cases were estimated at the national level in Brazil from 1980 through May 1999. The analysis included chi-square and linear regression modeling. The opportunistic infections included: candidiasis (CD), tuberculosis (TB), Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), neurotoxoplasmosis (NT), Kaposi sarcoma (KS), cryptococcal meningitis (CM), and protozoa infections (PI). The overall cumulative incidence rates/100 reported AIDS cases were: CD = 59, TB = 26, PCP = 23, NT = 15, KS = 5, CM = 4, and PI = 4. Annual trends indicated a statistically significant decline in all OIs. However, in the Northeast and Central-West regions there were increases in TB (b = 0.39) and NT (b = 0.20), respectively. TB showed a higher incidence among individuals with less schooling (< 8 years), while PCP and KS had higher incidence rates among those with 8 or more years of schooling, despite similar downward trends. Access to antiretroviral therapy and OI prophylaxis may partially explain these results. However, data reliability, delay in reporting, OI incidence after AIDS, and reporting and diagnostic criteria are factors that also need to be carefully assessed.