Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Twomey, N. J., & Flach, P. A. (2014). Context modulation of Sensor Data Applied to Activity Recognition in Smart Homes. Paper presented at European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2014, Nancy, France

In this paper we present a method of modulating the context of data captured in smart homes. We show that we can dramatically adapt their sensor network topology and that this approach can be used to help understand various aspects of such sensor environments. We demonstrate how, with our software, we can discover the importance of individual sensors, clusters of sensors and sensor categories for resident identification and activity recognition. Finally, we validate the utility of context modulation in a number of experimental scenarios that show how the activity recognition is affected by each sensor topology elicited by these scenarios.
Faktor Determinan Anemia Pada Wanita Dewasa Usia 23-35 Tahun

Latar Belakang : Salah satu masalah gizi yang biasa dialami wanita dewasa adalah anemia. Anemia dapat disebabkan oleh asupan zat gizi yang kurang maupun karena obesitas. Obesitas berkaitan dengan anemia karena penimpunan lemak di jaringan adiposa dapat menurunkan penyerapan zat besi. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui faktor determinan anemia pada wanita dewasa usia 23-35 tahun. Metode : Penelitian dilakukan di RW 03,04, dan 05 Kelurahan Ngaliyan Semarang dengan d esain penelitian cross-sectional . Subjek 62 wanita dewasa usia 23-35 tahun yang dipilih secara consecutive sampling. K adar hemoglobin diukur menggunakan metode Cyanmethemoglobin, p engukuran berat badan dengan menggunakan timbangan injak digital dan tinggi badan menggunakan microtoise . A supan protein , iron , vitamin C, vitamin B12 , folat dan seng diperoleh dengan metode FFQ (Food Frequency Questionaire) Semi Kuantitatif kemudian dihitung dengan nutrisoft. Analisis bivariat menggunakan uji korelasi. Hasil : R esponden yang obesitas sebanyak 31 orang (50%), dan terdapat kejadian anemia sebanyak 9,7% . Sebanyak 40,3% wanita dewasa yang asupan folat kurang dari kebutuhan, sedangkan asupan protein, vitamin C, vitamin B12, folat, besi dan seng sebagian besar sudah dalam kategori cukup. Hasil analisis bivariat menunjukkan t idak ada korelasi bermakna antara status gizi menurut IMT , asupan protein, vitamin C, folat, vitamin B12, dan seng dengan kejadian anemia pada wanita dewasa (p= > 0,05 ). Ada korelasi yang bermakna antara asupan zat besi dengan kejadian anemia (p < 0,05) . S impulan : asupan zat besi merupakan faktor determinan anemia pada wanita dewasa usia 23-35 tahun
Structure and Floristic Diversity of the Woody Vegetation of the Mount Kupe Submontane Forest (Moungo - Cameroon)

A b s t r a c t A r t i c l e I n f o This study aims to evaluate the vegetation structure and diversity of woody species in the sub mountain forest of Mount Koupe (Moungo-Cameroon) between 1 000 and 1 800 m and to appreciate the index values obtained with those of the tropic, Malagasy and Neotropical region of the world. The basic data have been obtained on inventory of 1-ha plot taking into account all trees whose diameter at breast height (dbh) ≥10 cm. The parameters of floristic diversity were calculated using the standard methodology. A total of 1184 individuals belonging to 156 species, 114 genera and 51 families were inventoried, with the total basal area of 151.44 m²/ha. Most individuals (trees) had between 10 and 20 m height with diameter between 50 and 80 cm, but relatively a significant number of individuals (05) reached even higher values, up to 30 m height and 135 cm of diameter. The five most important families in terms of density, diversity and dominance were Meliaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rubiaceae, Malvaceae and Burseraceae. They represent 52.53 % of the Family Important Value (FIV). The specific composition revealed that 10 species dominate the submontane forest, 6.41 % of species represent 54.50 % of the Index of Value Importance (IVI). They are Carapa procera, Santiria trimera, Strombosia pustulata, Cola acuminata, Turraeanthus africana, Penianthus longifolius, Allanblackia gabonensis, Drypetes leonensis, Pycnanthus angolensis and Sorindeia grandifolia. A fraction of species (70) then 44.87 % is represented by one individual. In conclusion, the Kupe submontane forest is marked down substantially to the lowland forest. The family of Leguminosae which dominate in these levels does not occur among the 10 important families in FIV; they come in the 14 th position. The Rubiaceae occupies 1 st position in in relative diversity and 2 nd position in FIV mark in this altitudinal stretch.
SMOTE-BD: An Exact and Scalable Oversampling Method for Imbalanced Classification in Big Data

The volume of data in today's applications has meant a change in the way Machine Learning issues are addressed. Indeed, the Big Data scenario involves scalability constraints that can only be achieved through intelligent model design and the use of distributed technologies. In this context, solutions based on the Spark platform have established themselves as a de facto standard. In this contribution, we focus on a very important framework within Big Data Analytics, namely classification with imbalanced datasets. The main characteristic of this problem is that one of the classes is underrepresented, and therefore it is usually more complex to find a model that identifies it correctly. For this reason, it is common to apply preprocessing techniques such as oversampling to balance the distribution of examples in classes. In this work we present SMOTE-BD, a fully scalable preprocessing approach for imbalanced classification in Big Data. It is based on one of the most widespread preprocessing solutions for imbalanced classification, namely the SMOTE algorithm, which creates new synthetic instances according to the neighborhood of each example of the minority class. Our novel development is made to be independent of the number of partitions or processes created to achieve a higher degree of efficiency. Experiments conducted on different standard and Big Data datasets show the quality of the proposed design and implementation.
‘Private sector’ Emiratisation: job satisfaction and sociocultural influences

Purpose — To gauge the job satisfaction levels of UAE nationals employed in the (‘real’ and quasi-) private sector. Despite private sector Emiratisation (labour market nationalisation) having been in place since the late 1990s and considered a strategic government priority in 2007, the numbers of nationals employed in the private sector as a ratio to those employed in the public sector remains particularly low. Design/methodology/approach — This study is based on a survey of 653 nationals employed in the non-classic sector (i.e., working at commercially-run entities). The instrument used was based on the Job Satisfaction Survey construct and assessed, inter alia, the impact of sectoral pay and benefit discrepancies and prevailing societal sentiment towards the ‘appropriacy’ of pursuing a non-conventional career path. Findings — statistically significant relationships between the dependent variable of “continuance intentions” and various predictor variables were observed: β . 399 for salary and benefits; whilst sociocultural influences was found to have a significant and negative relationship, β -. 423. Originality/value — This research can help in a) identifying and prioritising the economic and social issues that are impacting the pace of Emiratisation and b) in understanding what incentives and measures can be useful and effective for the operational implementation of labour nationalisation policies throughout the Arab Gulf and therefore adds to the growing body of literature on an Arab Middle East HRM model.
องค์ประกอบทางเคมีและความเป็นพิษต่อเซลล์ของหญ้าลิ้นงู (CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF HEDYOTIS CORYMBOSA LAMK)

การศกษาองคประกอบทางเคมของหญาลนง (Hedyotis corymbosa Lamk.) โดยนำมาแยกดวยวธโครมาโทกราฟ พบสารประกอบ 7 ชนด คอ aurantiamide acetate (1), 3β-acetylaleuritolic acid (2), salicylic acid (3), b-sitosteryl-3-O-b-D-glucopyranoside (6),1,5-anhydroglucitol (7) และสารผสมของ 22,23-dihydrochondrillasterol (4) และ chondrillasterol (5) สารประกอบ (1) เปนสารไดเปปไทดทแยกไดครงแรกจากพชสกลน การพสจนโครงสรางของสารใชเทคนคทางสเปกโทรสโกป นำสารสกดและสารบรสทธทแยกไดมาทดสอบความเปนพษตอเซลลมะเรงเมดเลอดขาว P388 คำสำคญ: หญาลนง รบเอซอ ความเปนพษตอเซลล ออเรนไทเอไมดแอซเตต Chemical investigation of Hedyotis corymbosa Lamk. was carried out using chromatographic methods. This led to the isolation of seven known compounds, namely aurantiamide acetate (1), 3β-acetylaleuritolic acid (2), salicylic acid (3), b-sitosteryl-3-O-b-D-glucopyranoside(6),1,5-anhydroglucitol (7) and a mixture of 22,23-dihydrochondrillasterol (4) and chondrillasterol (5). Among the compounds isolated, dipeptide (aurantiamide acetate 1) was isolated for the first time from this genus. Structures of these compounds were identified on the basis of spectroscopic techniques. The crude extracts and isolated compounds were evaluated for cytotoxic activity against leukemia (P388) cell lines. Keywords: Hedyotis corymbosa, Rubiaceae, cytotoxic activity, aurantiamide acetate
News on Multifrequency Behaviour of GRBs: Polarized Emission and Optical Flashes

In this presentation the main advances occurred in the past years concerning the observational features of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt event and afterglow polarization in the optical, as well as in other bands, are reviewed. Also, the observed cases of an `optical flash' simultaneous with the GRB itself are presented, along with their theoretical interpretation and the description of present and future observational fast-response techniques to chase this emission.
Medición del "Efecto Distrito": una aproximación paramétrica

espanolLa comparacion econometrica entre zonas distrito y no distrito ha venido marcando la literatura sobre los distritos industriales (DI) durante los ultimos 10 o 15 anos. El momento decisivo fue el proyecto de investigacion realizado por el Banco de Italia a finales de los 90 (Signorini, 2000b). El camino hacia los ejercicios econometricos comprensivos se habia abierto por medio de la definicion oficial de Ias zonas DI por parte del Instituto de Estadistica Italiano, con la colaboracion de Sforzi. En este trabajo revisamos los resultados empiricos de esta literatura con respecto a Italia y discutimos brevemente algunos de los problemas metodologicos que surgieron. Mientras Ias ventajas competitivas de los DI estan ahora bien documentadas y establecidas por la literatura econometrica, sigue quedando mucho trabajo que hacer con respecto a Ias fuentes de estas ventajas. Los desbordamientos de informacion representan el campo donde la investigacion econometrica, aunque resulta mas dificil de realizar, ha proporcionado los resultados mas prometedores. Esto puede dar una pista hacia la misma fuente de Ias ventajas competitivas. Sin embargo, el analisis empirico tambien necesita de nuevos refinamientos y avances, tanto en la teoria y datos estadisticos, mientras debe seguir nuevos desarrollos en la economia real. EnglishEconometric comparison between «district» and anon district» areas marked the literature on industrial districts (IDs) in the last ten or fifteen years. A turning point was the research project carried out by the Bank of Italy in the late Nineties (Signorini, 2000b): the way to comprehensive econometric exercises had been opened by the official definition of the ID areas by the Italian Institute of Statistics, with the collaboration of Sforzi. In this paper we review the empirical results of this literature with respect to Italy and briefly discuss some of the methodological problems that emerged. While the competitive advantages of IDs are now well documented and established by the econometric literature, much work remains to do as far as the sources of these advantages are concerned. Information spillovers represent the field where econometric research, though more difficult to perform, has yielded the most promising results. This may hint at where the very source of the competitive advantages lies. But the empirical analysis also calls for new refinements and advancements both in theory and in statistical data, while it must follow new developments in the real economy.
A study for representations of distributed cooperative search algorithms based on pseudo-trees

Distributed search is an important processing to solve problems in distributed cooperative systems. As fundamental research of distributed cooperative problem solving, distributed constraint optimization problems (DCOPs) have been studied. For the DCOPs, exact distributed search algorithms that are based on pseudotrees have been proposed. In the search algorithms, tree-searches and dynamic programming methods are performed using an order of variables defined by the pseudo-trees. However, analyzing the behaviors of search algorithms is relatively difficult due to the distributed processing. In this study, we show a representation of the essential computation contained in search algorithms based on pseudo-trees. Using the representations of the computation, a basic algorithm that contains a relatively clear data-flow of the processing is composed. This representation can be considered a basis of analyzing the dependency of the processing and deriving actual distributed algorithms.
Développement et validation d'un modèle eulérien en vue de la simulation des jets de carburants dans les moteurs à combustion interne

L'objectif de ce travail est de developper un modele diphasique eulerien permettant de mieux predire les jets de carburant dans les moteurs a combustion interne, en particulier la zone dense pres des injecteurs. En effet, les modeles lagrangiens utilises traditionnellement ne sont valables que pour des ecoulements disperses a faible fraction volumique de liquide, ce qui est incompatible avec les technologies moteurs actuelles utilisant une injection directe de carburant dans la chambre de combustion. Plusieurs approches euleriennes sont disponibles dans la litterature. Les phenomenes physiques se deroulant pres de l'injecteur et les caracteristiques de chacune des approches ont permis de retenir un modele a deux fluides et deux pressions. La derivation du modele a fait apparaitre de nombreux termes ouverts : echanges entre phases et correlations turbulentes. Des fermetures ont ete proposees pour chacun de ces termes. La fermeture des termes d'echanges utilise l'hypothese de gouttes spheriques, tandis qu'une approche RANS est adoptee pour la modelisation des phenomenes turbulents. Ce modele a ete implante dans le code de calcul 3D de l'IFP, IFP-C3D. De nombreux tests numeriques et de nombreuses validations analytiques (monophasiques et diphasiques) ont ensuite ete realises afin de s'assurer de l'implantation correcte des equations et de la predictivite du modele et des fermetures adoptees. D'autre part, les modifications du modele de turbulence dans la phase gazeuse ont necessite des validations supplementaires aussi bien dans le gaz (ecoulement derriere une marche) que dans le liquide (jet cylindrique) avant une validation du modele complet sur une couche de melange diphasique. Enfin, des tests d'injection ont ete realises dans des conditions similaires a celles des moteurs dans l'objectif de s'assurer de la faisabilite des calculs moteurs a l'aide de l'approche eulerienne developpee d'une part, et de la compatibilite du modele avec le calcul moteur (prise en compte de mouvement de parois : piston, soupapes) d'autre part.
Backchannels across cultures: A study of Americans and Japanese

ABSTRACT The frequency of listener responses, called backchannels, was studied in English conversations within and across two cultural groups: Americans from the midwestern United States and Japanese who were born and raised in Japan. The findings reveal that backchannels of several types are displayed far more frequently by Japanese listeners. This appears to be related to the greater use by Japanese of certain discourse constructions that favor backchannels, and to the Japanese culture. The Japanese listening style remains unchanged in cross-cultural conversations, but Americans alter listening style in the direction of their non-native interlocutors. The study found no evidence for the hypothesis that backchanneling conventions that are not shared contribute to negative personality attributions or stereotyping. (Conversational analysis, intercultural communication, Japanese and American English discourse)
Interactive Edification: The Effectual Approach for Apprentices

This paper focuses axis of concentration on the brunt of the interactive edification and the preferences for the recent astuteness in educational associations. In seeking to expand the lenient, indulgent, constraint and understanding of interactive edification strategy on the apprentices, it assesses the affiliation between the regular and effectual measures. Students in a fully interactive based learning surroundings achieved better performance and higher levels of contentment than those in a traditional classroom and those in a less interactive learning atmosphere. The fallout of study designate that there are impacts of an interactive edification and its progression is exceedingly esteemed by the recent world to steadiness the superiority and antagonism in terms of individual advancement and the career elucidation. The study activated by the triangulation of the data derivation and undeviating surveillance of the newest features under succession of students’ acceptances. Key w ords: Interaction, Education, Interactive Edification, Apprentice
Cycle time estimation for semiconductor final testing processes with Weibull-distributed waiting time

Accurate cycle time is an essential planning basis required for many production applications, especially on due date commitments, performance metrics analysing, capacity planning, and scheduling. The re-entrant final testing process is the final stage of the complicated semiconductor manufacturing process. To enhance the ability of quick responses and to achieve better on-time delivery in final testing factories, it is essential to develop an accurate cycle time estimation method. In this paper, we provide a statistical approach to calculate the cycle time for multi-layer semiconductor final testing involving the sum of multiple Weibull-distributed waiting times. In addition, percentiles of the cycle time are obtained which are useful to industrial practitioners for due date commitments satisfying the targeted on-time delivery rate. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed cycle time estimation model, a real example in a semiconductor final testing factory which is located on the Science-based Industrial Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is presented.
The oldest known European Neogene girdled lizard fauna (Squamata, Cordylidae), with comments on Early Miocene immigration of African taxa

ABSTRACT This paper reports on the first record of cordylid lizards from the locality of Merkur-North. The fossil history of girdled lizards is very poorly known and this group was rare during the Lower Miocene in Europe. The fossils described herein come from grey calcareous marls at the base of the so-called “Main Brown Coal Seam”. These marls are interpreted as reworked volcanic ash and the sediments are considered as early Miocene in age and are precisely equated with the MN 3a zone. For this reason, the cordylid fauna from this locality is older than previously described Miocene material and it represents the oldest known Neogene cordylids in Europe. The material of the dentary is very similar to that of Palaeocordylus bohemicus Roček, 1984, described from the younger locality of Dolnice near Cheb. The intramandibular septum of the dentary described herein, lying ventromedially from the alveolar canal, has a free posterolateral portion. It represents the first report of this structure in cordylids. The maxilla is only fragmentarily preserved. The size difference between the maxillary and dentary elements, the number of teeth and, especially their morphology evokes the possibility of two different taxa. Unfortunately, it is impossible to decide on the basis of such limited material if both finds represent independent forms or only extreme forms of the same taxon.
ANTI-MICROBIAL EVALUATION OF NEW THIAZOLO PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES

Twelve new heterocyclic compounds containing thiazolo pyrimidine moiety were thus synthesized. Compound 2 was synthesized by reaction of α-amino naphthol 1 with potassium isothiocyanate. Reaction of compound 2 with sodium nitrite and hydrochloric acid afforded the corresponding diazonuim salt 3, which converted to 2-hydrazino thiazolo derivatives 4. Compound 2 carried out to synthesize imidazolo thiazolo derivative 5, 6 and thiazolo pyrimidino derivative 7, 8 and 9 respectively. Compound 4 was carried out to synthesize of compound 10. Compound 10 was carried out to synthesize of triazolo thiazolo and thiadiazolo derivatives 11 and 12 respectively. The structures of all newly synthesized compounds were elucidated by elemental analysis, IR, 1H-NMR and mass spectral data. The assignments of the new products were tested for Anti-microbial activities. Results are suggesting thiazolo pyrimidine derivatives emerge as valuable compounds with great potential to be used as antibacterial and antifungal agents, and as promising candidates for further efficiency evaluation. The detailed synthesis, spectroscopic data and Anti-microbial activities are reported.
A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR MODELLING WILDLIFE POPULATION DYNAMICS †

This paper proposes a unified framework for defining and fitting stochastic, discrete‐time, discrete‐stage population dynamics models. The biological system is described by a state‐space model, where the true but unknown state of the population is modelled by a state process, and this is linked to survey data by an observation process. All sources of uncertainty in the inputs, including uncertainty about model specification, are readily incorporated. The paper shows how the state process can be represented as a generalization of the standard Leslie or Lefkovitch matrix. By dividing the state process into subprocesses, complex models can be constructed from manageable building blocks. The paper illustrates the approach with a model of the British grey seal metapopulation, using sequential importance sampling with kernel smoothing to fit the model.
From Management to Stewardship: Viewing Forests As Complex Adaptive Systems in an Uncertain World

The world's forests and forestry sector are facing unprecedented biological, political, social, and climatic challenges. The development of appropriate, novel forest management and restoration approaches that adequately consider uncertainty and adaptability are hampered by a continuing focus on production of a few goods or objectives, strong control of forest structure and composition, and most importantly the absence of a global scientific framework and long‐term vision. Ecosystem‐based approaches represent a step in the right direction, but are limited in their ability to deal with the rapid pace of social, climatic, and environmental changes. We argue here that viewing forest ecosystems as complex adaptive system provides a better alternative for both production‐ and conservation‐oriented forests and forestry. We propose a set of broad principles and changes to increase the adaptive capacity of forests in the face of future uncertainties. These span from expanding the sustained‐yield, single‐good paradigm to developing policy incentives and interventions that promote self‐organization and integrated social‐ecological adaptation.