Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Final ELIAS exchange grant Scientific Report

This report of activity concerns my ELIAS exchange grant from 07/15/2013 to 08/18/2013 at the i-Kernels group led by Prof. A. Moschitti in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), at University of Trento, Italy (UNITN). 1 Purpose of the visit The following specific scientific goals were explicitly addressed by this exchange grant: • In general, a study of the feasibility of the evaluation of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) by information-theoretic means, and • In particular, the assessment of FCA-enabled distributional models of Semantics by information-theoretic means. However, since the funded period for the grant was halved, I have been obliged to limit myself mostly to the first one, for the time being. For the second avenue of research, work has only began on a proof of concept. 2 Description of work This report concerns the development of an information-theoretic assessment model for a new kind of semantic models being developed in the framework of Project LiMoSINe, Formal Concept Analysis (FCA)-enhanced distributional semantic models. Distributional models of language have reached a point where it is feasible to parameterise them around a number of design decisions [11]. UNED is experimenting with the enhancing of such models by incorporating Formal Concept Analysis-based capabilities [4]. The envisioned extension deals with the structuring of the dimensions of the distributional model to resemble the lexical dimensions of a lexical hierarchy, hence modelling ad-hoc lexical resources that lend explicability to distributional model features. For this purpose it is necessary that we use graded incidences where the degree of incidence between objects and their attributes ranges in a continuous interval. However, not every range of measurements generate FCA-like theories for the analysis of data. The author of this grant proposal has co-developed an extension of FCA where objects and attributes are related by degrees of incidence [20–22, 24]
EXPERIENCE REPORT ON THE USE OF CORBA AS THE SOLE MIDDLEWARE SOLUTION IN SCA-BASED SDR ENVIRONMENTS

This paper is an experience report detailing SELEX Communications’ findings in the use of CORBA as the sole middleware in SCA-based Software Defined Radios. This paper describes the different approaches used historically by SCA based systems to connect general-purpose processors to resource constrained processing elements such as FPGAs and DSPs. Following this, focus is turned to asserting that CORBA technology is ready to be fully exploited on SDRs, by describing how CORBA pluggable transports in SCA-based radio systems can be used to reduce the latency and throughput overhead associated with using CORBA’s default transport (TCP/IP). As an experience report, benchmarks will be provided, presenting findings for a custom CORBA transport, based on RapidIO interconnect, used among heterogeneous devices.
Physical activity in autistic young patients : a critical review of literature

Micacchi G, Giuliani A, Cerbo R, Sorge G, Valenti M Physical activity in autistic young patients: a critical review of literature Ital J Sport Sci 2006: 13: 57-64 Children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) may be at risk for being physically inactive because characteristics of the disability interfere with successful participation in traditional forms of physical activity. Children without disabilities acquire a majority of their physical activity during transportation (i.e., walking to school), informal play (i.e., unstructured neighborhood play), and formal play (i.e., competitive sports). Children with ASD demonstrate (a) restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities; (b) qualitative impairments in social interaction; and (c) qualitative impairments in communication. These impairments may interfere with a variety of physical activity opportunities. It is expected that children with ASD would be less active than children without ASD after school because prior research has indicated individuals with disabilities have limited opportunities for active leisure time The majority of children with ASD spend after-school leisure time in light physical activity (PA), and few participate in competitive or inclusive community activities. The majority works in segregated programs, including private dance lessons and an activity program specially designed for children with disabilities, but these are not sufficiently frequent to promote regular PA. Institutional change is difficult and long-term; therefore, physical activity interventions for this group should focus on promoting individual or dual activities that often require fewer societal supports. Efforts should focus on identifying appropriate in-school and leisure-time physical activity options that encourage PA and meet the unique needs of youth with ASD.
A Survey on Middleware in Pervasive Environments

The vital challenge of pervasive computing is to develop technologies that allow smart devices to automatically adapt to changing environments and contexts, making the environment largely invisible to the user. Pervasive middleware can support the developer by supporting rapid development and deployment of applications by domain experts with minimal programming expertise. A survey was made with five different pervasive middleware Architecture behavior and concept. This paper contains a classification of these Pervasive middleware according to pervasive requirements parameters they are discoverability, adaptability, context awareness, heterogeneity and environment. The Pervasive middleware classification highlights what has been done and what remains to do in developing new Pervasive middleware.
ZA IN VITRO FERTILIZACIJU CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION FOR IN VITRO FERTILIZATION

s. 6th World Congress on Ovulation Induction, Naples, Italy; 30 september–2 October 2010. ^lanak primljen: 14. 06. 2011. ; prihva}en: 04. 11. 2011. Adresa autora: Prof. dr. Branko Radakovi}, Klinika za ̀ enske bolesti i porode, Petrova 13, 10000 Zagreb
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems ( PACIS ) 2009 JUSTICE PERCEPTIONS , INDIVIDUAL CENTRALITY , AND KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION DISTINCTIONS IN A GLOBAL ORGANIZATION

Distributed workgroups are increasingly adopted by global organizations, enabled by the use of advances in collaborative technologies. While the informal networks and performance of such workgroups have been examined, the paths that led to the distinctions in knowledge sharing practices remains blurred. Our research model examines the effects of individual advice and friendship networks on knowledge contribution through the lens of justice perceptions. We collected the data from distributed workgroups of a global knowledge intensive organization. Findings demonstrate that individuals with high advice centrality and moderate (neither high nor low) friendship centrality consistently contributed product and expertise knowledge. Distributive justice perception mediated advice centrality and product knowledge contribution while procedural justice perception mediated advice centrality and expertise knowledge contribution. Informational justice perception mediated friendship centrality and expertise knowledge sharing. These findings illustrate that depending on the network, different paths are taken towards product and expertise knowledge sharing.
Performance and evaluation of Two-Coupled Biological Hind marsh – Rose Neuron Model for Digital Multiplier less Realization

Neural Network with perforation methodology has begun as a promising solution for Digital application in VLSI Technology.This short-term work suggests improved biological Hindmarsh–Rose (HR) neuron model that is more appropriate for efficient implementation on digital platforms. S imulation results show that the model can replicate the desired performances of the neuron. The proposed model is examined,in terms of digital implementation possibility and cost,targeting a low-cost hardware implementation. Hardware implementation on a field-programmable gate array shows that the improved model mimics the biological behavior of dissimilar types of neurons, with higher performance and noticeably lowers hardware overhead cost compared with the original HR model.
Comparative study of left ventricular function in a group of asymptomatic patients with systemic sclerosis and a controls group

Introduction:. cardiac involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and represents a major cause of morbidity and mortality and constitue an evolutionary turning turnpoint in this disease. Purpose of the work was to describe echocardiographic data in asymptomatic patients with SSc and compare them to results obtained in a control population in order to unmask subclinical cardiac involvement during systemic sclerosis. Methods: Prospective study conducted between 2012 and 2017. Including 2 groups: Group A included 25 asymptomatic scleroderma patients without other comorbidities, Group B consisted of 25 control and healthy subjects. The two groups were explored by echocardiography coupled to tissue Doppler and 2Dstrain . Results: The mean age of our patients was 45 ± 7 years. The sex ratio was 0.8 The control population was on the characteristic epidemiological similar to the group of patients. The anatomical data of the left ventricle (, the ejection fraction normal and comparable between the two groups, the TEI index was significantly higher in the A group (0.8 ± 0.04 vs 0.28 ± 0.07 ,p < 0.01) . Tissue Doppler velocity S peak measurement was reduced in group A compared to group B (5.6 ± 0.5 vs ± 9.30 ± 0.5 , p < 0.01), global longitudinal strain was also altered in scleroderma patients ( -11 ± 0.4 vs -18. ± 0.3 < 0.01). There was no significant difference in E / A ratio, however early LV diastolic dysfunction was revealed by a higher E / Ea and E / VP ratio in group A compared to group B with respectively (13 ± 1.8 vs 6 ± 1.6 , p < 0.01) and (2.2 ± 0.6 vs. 1.5± 0.6 p < 0.01), a longer Ap-Am duration (≥ 20ms) and a higher volume of the left atrium was noted in groupe A . The mean value of the pulmonary pressions was 37.9 ± 9 mmHg in patients with scleroderma vs. 25 ± 3 mmHg for the control group (p < 0.01) . There was no right ventricular dysfunction Conclusion: Cardiac involvement during systemic sclerosis precede clinical expression, echocardiography coupled with tissue doppler and 2D strain are useful to detect these abnormalities at a subclinical stage of the disease.
Identification of Potentially Relevant Citeable Articles using Association Rule Mining

Due to the increasingly larger and more interdisciplinary nature of scientific reporting, it is becoming more difficult to identify all the potentially relevant, citeable articles in reference lists of publications such as scientific papers, reports, grant proposals and patent applications. Authors may miss and/or give inaccurate citations, potentially hindering progress in a discipline and on a personal level, and change the importance and impact of an investigator’s work. Given the emphasis on quantitative means for assessing productivity, including the number of literature citations, efforts are needed to assist authors in the identification of potentially relevant articles to cite. Prior work has analyzed citation network structure and characteristic features and correlated these with other variables, such as country of origin, journal impact factor and open access status. As a result, problems have been revealed, such as underrepresentation of third-world countries, a high incidence of self-citation, and unsystematic quotation habits in review articles. With the exception of gross plagiarism detection software, however, no attempt has been made to develop a practical solution to identifying potentially relevant, citeable articles that may have been missed. Here, we use statistical methods to help in the retrieval of relevant literature from existing publications. Specifically, we exploit the fact that publications reporting specific findings are typically quoted together as grouped-co-citations in their respective contexts. Our approach can automatically construct rules for co-citation by automatically extracting co-citation overrepresentations in manuscripts. This approach should help authors and reviewers identify potentially relevant, citeable articles.
Changing the image of elderly people in Poland: the senior citizen as an important audience member and creator of culture

In Poland, as in many European countries, we can observe the inevitable process of population aging. This phenomenon and its consequences are an essential issue to be reconsidered in cultural policies and cultural management strategies. More and more seniors are becoming active participants and creators of cultural events. This increases the quantity and quality of cultural provision addressed to this social group. This article is the result of a nationwide research project “Why Do Seniors Need Culture? ” The study focuses on diagnosing the cultural needs of seniors and the types of activities and places preferred by elderly people. The paper describes the ways in which seniors are vital audience members, creators of culture and transmitters of timeless values. The authors then depict the common stereotypes about old age and how we must attempt to break them and, finally, the study presents the changes that have occurred in the way elderly people are perceived, both by themselves and by the rest of the population.
A Novel High Programming Efficiency and Highly Scalable Flash Memory Cell Based on Tunneling FET (TFET)

A novel flash memory cell based on Tunneling Field Effect Transistor (TFET) is proposed and investigated in this paper. Based on the TFET structure, the proposed novel flash memory cell shows high programming efficiency, low power consumption, and good punch-through immunity. Unlike traditional NOR Flash cell which adopts the channel hot carrier (CHE) injection near drain side for programming operation, the TFET flash memory cell utilizes hot electrons injection introduced by band-to-band tunneling near source side for programming, which can achieve 3 orders higher programming efficiency due to greatly alleviated competition between the vertical electric field and lateral electric field. Moreover, the programming leakage current is 2 orders lower due to the high punch-through immunity for TFET structure. The obtained results and theoretical analysis demonstrate that the newly proposed flash cell can be a potential candidate for low power, and high density NOR-type flash applications.
Relationship of Well-being with Internet Addiction

Internet addiction is a new psychological disorder, rapidly increasing both mainstream and proficient acknowledgement. This exploratory research endeavored to examine the relationship between Well-being and Internet Addiction. The sample for this study comprised of 200 internet addicts (100 males & 100 females) with age-range of 20-28 years, recruited from different parts of Punjab. Friedman Well-being Scale (Friedman, 1992) and Internet Addiction Test (Young, 2014) were employed to test the proposed hypothesis. Further, the data was analyzed using Co-relation, t-test and stepwise multiple regression to study the relevant relationships, gender differences and contribution. Results showed significantly inverse relationship between Internet addiction and Well-being. Findings of t-test indicated that Male young adults were higher on Internet Addiction than female young adults. While female young adults outnumbered their male counterparts on different levels of Well-being. Stepwise Multiple Regression output indicated that two components of Well-being i.e. Emotional Stability and Sociability were found to be the significant predictors of Internet Addiction. Further, the present study demands an awareness of one’s well-being among the young adults and track the conceivable pathways from initially mild overuse to inevitable neurotic enslavement.
Design and implementation of automatic assembly software system based on machine vision

At present, relative technology and research of high precision measurement and automatic assembly have attracted extensive attention. In this paper, optical measurement theory, image processing technology and visual positioning technology were used, and a precise part measuring and assembling system was set up. Then the image preprocessing algorithm was analyzed and compared, and a mixed distortion model considering radial distortion and centrifugal distortion was proposed. The camera calibration method was adopted, and the camera was calibrated, and thus the e ect of camera lens distortion on measurement accuracy was reduced. In addition, an improved Canny algorithm combined with elliptic curve tting algorithm was adopted, and the sub-pixel precision edges of the parts were extracted. And the accuracy of measurement and positioning were further improved, thus providing the basis for automatic assembly of parts. The experimental results prove that the system can meet the industrial requirements.
Alcohol consumption and cancer : there ’ s more to the story-a perspective from Australia

The Alcohol Policy Coalition published a position statement entitled Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Alcohol Consumption on 19 September 2011, which sought to provide rationale for alcohol policy reform in Australia[1]. This position statement provided some of the story, and the rest of the story is provided here. It is well documented and cannot be disputed that the consumption of alcohol above the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council’s (2009)[2] recommendations of not more than two standard drinks(10g)/day for both men and women is associated with adverse health e"ects. These can be short-term e"ects such as accidents, drowning and suicides generally associated with binge drinking patterns, that is, a large amount consumed in a small period of time. These can also be long-term e"ects associated with continuous heavier consumption, over many years, such as alcohol-related cardiovascular disease, cancers, liver cirrhosis and pancreatitis. It is also well documented, however, in peerreviewed published data over more than three decades that light-to-moderate alcohol consumption, that is, approximately corresponding with the recommended not more than two standard drinks/day for both men and women, is associated with a reduced risk of developing and dying from cardiovascular diseases, selected cancers, diabetes, and cognitive function disorders such as dementia1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. This equates to a reduced risk of dying from all or any causes including cardiovascular diseases and cancers, and is in comparison to both abstainers and heavy consumers. These relationships are best described as j-shaped and are most relevant for individuals aged over 40-45 years, that is, in particular for those who are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease9.
OF THE ‘ BMS ’ PACKAGE FOR R

This paper describes the relative merits and attractiveness of the newest Bayesian model averaging package, BMS, available in the statistical software R to implement a Bayesian model averaging exercise. This package provides the user with a wide range of customizable priors for conducting a BMA analysis, provides ample graphs to visualize results and offers several alternative model search mechanisms.
CORRELATIONS OF THE FEAR OF MISSING OUT & INTERPERSONAL STRESS WITH FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS’ SLEEP

Insomnia has been correlated with several negative mental and physical health outcomes in female undergraduate students, a population with increasing interest when considering those suffering with insomnia. Considering the increased vulnerability reported by college students, and the poor outcomes of insomnia, it is important to determine correlates of insomnia and which factors differentially impact college students’ development of insomnia. This study examined whether interpersonal stress or the fear of missing out (i.e. FoMO) was more highly correlated with insomnia in a population of female undergraduate students at the University of Rhode Island. This study also examined whether levels of interpersonal stress, FoMO, and insomnia varied across students in different class years. Variables examined included levels of insomnia, FoMO, interpersonal stress, year in school, race, and age. An examination of the data using correlations and ANOVAs was utilized to determine if there were differences in students among the four class years in college and the correlations of insomnia with interpersonal stress and FoMO. It was hypothesized that FoMO would be more highly correlated to insomnia than interpersonal stress would be correlated to insomnia. It was also hypothesized that all three measures would be significantly higher for first year students and seniors than for juniors and sophomores. No significant differences were found in students on any measure among the four class years. It was found that interpersonal stress was more highly correlated with insomnia than FoMO was correlated with insomnia. However, both interpersonal stress and FoMO were more highly correlated with each other than either was to insomnia. Each of these correlation analyses showed statistical significance. Therefore, neither hypothesis proposed by the researcher was supported. This study contributes to the literature showing that interpersonal stress and FoMO are related and that this relationship should be studied further in order to help students identify healthy coping strategies to deal with each and have successful college careers.
Investigating computational geometry for failure prognostics

Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) is a multidisciplinary field aiming at maintaining physical systems in their optimal functioning conditions. The system under study is assumed to be monitored by sensors from which are obtained measurements reflecting the system’s health state. A health indicator (HI) is estimated to feed a data-driven PHM solution developed to predict the remaining useful life (RUL). In this paper, the values taken by an HI are assumed imprecise (IHI). An IHI is interpreted as a planar figure called polygon and a case-based reasoning (CBR) approach is adapted to estimate the RUL. This adaptation makes use of computational geometry tools in order to estimate the nearest cases to a given testing instance. The proposed algorithm called RULCLIPPER is assessed and compared on datasets generated by the NASA’s turbofan simulator (C-MAPSS) including the four turbofan testing datasets and the two testing datasets of the PHM’08 data challenge. These datasets represent 1360 testing instances and cover different realistic and difficult cases considering operating conditions and fault modes with unknown characteristics. The problem of feature selection, health indicator estimation, RUL fusion and ensembles are also tackled. The proposed algorithm is shown to be efficient with few parameter tuning on all datasets.
Screening for Hyperbilirubinemia - Newman Report Nov06

Hyperbilirubinemia is an excess of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin , a breakdown product from heme from red blood cells, is yellow, and hyperbili ub nemia causes jaundice, a yellow coloration of the skin and whites of the eyes. Hyperbilirubin emia can be either conjugated or unconjugated (or both); a simple and inexpensive test often done at the same time as the bilirubin level can distinguish between the two, and is generally recom mended as a first step in evaluating either severe or prolonged hyperbilirubinemia.