Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
"Je te baptise", exemplaires et conditions performatives

I. On sait que l'effet performatif est soumis a trois conditions : (a) une de sujet-agent ("je te baptise" baptise mais "il te baptise" ne baptise pas), (b) une d'objet-patient ("je le baptise" ne baptise pas) et (c) une de neutralite quant au temps, a l'aspect et a la modalite ("je t'ai baptise", "je veux te baptiser", etc. ne baptisent pas). On propose un modele exemplariste de "Je te baptise" qui rend compte de ces trois conditions. II. L'article montre a cette occasion l'efficacite en semantique d'un modele a exemplaires pour rendre compte de la variation interindividuelle et de l'acquisition.
The Use of Distinctive Features for Automatic Speech Recognition

Abstract : One of the most critical and yet unsolved problems in phonetic recognition is the transformation of the continuous speech signal to a discrete representation for accessing words in the lexicon. In order to find an efficient description of speech for recognition tasks, our research investigates the use of distinctive features. Distinctive features are a small set of linguistic units which have the potential advantage of enabling us to describe contextual and coarticulatory variations in speech more parsimoniously and thus make more effective use of available training data. To access the usefulness of distinctive features, we focus our inquiry on three questions. First is there a particular spectral representation that will yield superior performance over others? Second, how would the extraction and use of acoustic attributes affect classification performance when compared to the direct use of the spectral representation? Finally, are there performance advantages in introducing an intermediate linguistic representation between the signal and the lexicon?
Vet en gezondheid, een kwestie van flexibiliteit

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QR CODE AUTHENTICATION FOR PRODUCT USING CLOUD COMPUTING

Product Authentication is one of the fundamental procedures to ensure the standard and quality of any product in the market. Counterfeit products are often offered to consumers as being authentic. Counterfeit consumer goods such as electronics, music, apparel, and Counterfeit medications have been sold as being legitimate. Efforts to control the supply chain and educate consumers to evaluate the packaging and labeling help ensure that authentic products are sold and used. However educating the consumer to evaluate the product is a challenging task. Our work ensures that the task is made as simple with the help of a camera enabled mobile phone supported with QR (Quick Response) Code Reader. We propose a model whereby the application in the mobile phone decodes the captured coded image and sends it through the Cloud Data Management Interface for authentication. The system then forwards the message to product manufacturer’s data center or any central database and the response received from the cloud enables the consumer to decide on the products authenticity. The authentication system is made as a pay per use model and thereby making it as a Security as a Service (Saas) architecture. The system is being implemented with a mobile toolkit in the cloud environment provided by the simulator Cloud Sim 1.0.
Beauty of Life in Dynamical Systems: An Aesthetic Viewpoint of Life

This submission emphasizes the beauty of mathematics and dynamical systems especially in questions around origin of life. Our conception of life is shaped by what we see around us on Earth. What life forms might we expect to see on alien planets? Would they be carbon-based like us or can they be even more exotic? Answering questions like these mean we must come up with an objective definition of life. We have previously hypothesized that an objective definition of life is that it should be capable of information processing.Our work also suggests that we may need an “aesthetic sense” to recognize life we have never seen before. Such aesthetic versions of life-like systems can be generated using the computational framework presented here. Our computational framework combines dynamical systems with deep learning to generate aesthetically appealing forms of life-like systems.
Causal inference and prior integration in bioinformatics using information theory

An important problem in bioinformatics is the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks from expression data. The analysis of genomic data stemming from high- throughput technologies such as microarray experiments or RNA-sequencing faces several difficulties. The first major issue is the high variable to sample ratio which is due to a number of factors: a single experiment captures all genes while the number of experiments is restricted by the experiment’s cost, time and patient cohort size. The second problem is that these data sets typically exhibit high amounts of noise.Another important problem in bioinformatics is the question of how the inferred networks’ quality can be evaluated. The current best practice is a two step procedure. In the first step, the highest scoring interactions are compared to known interactions stored in biological databases. The inferred networks passes this quality assessment if there is a large overlap with the known interactions. In this case, a second step is carried out in which unknown but high scoring and thus promising new interactions are validated ’by hand’ via laboratory experiments. Unfortunately when integrating prior knowledge in the inference procedure, this validation procedure would be biased by using the same information in both the inference and the validation. Therefore, it would no longer allow an independent validation of the resulting network.The main contribution of this thesis is a complete computational framework that uses experimental knock down data in a cross-validation scheme to both infer and validate directed networks. Its components are i) a method that integrates genomic data and prior knowledge to infer directed networks, ii) its implementation in an R/Bioconductor package and iii) a web application to retrieve prior knowledge from PubMed abstracts and biological databases. To infer directed networks from genomic data and prior knowledge, we propose a two step procedure: First, we adapt the pairwise feature selection strategy mRMR to integrate prior knowledge in order to obtain the network’s skeleton. Then for the subsequent orientation phase of the algorithm, we extend a criterion based on interaction information to include prior knowledge. The implementation of this method is available both as part of the prior retrieval tool Predictive Networks and as a stand-alone R/Bioconductor package named predictionet.Furthermore, we propose a fully data-driven quantitative validation of such directed networks using experimental knock-down data: We start by identifying the set of genes that was truly affected by the perturbation experiment. The rationale of our validation procedure is that these truly affected genes should also be part of the perturbed gene’s childhood in the inferred network. Consequently, we can compute a performance score
Autoria de Aplicações Hipermídia para Ensino

This paper discusses issues related to the authoring of educational hypermedia applications with the objective of identifying requirements for an environment of development of hypermedia applications. The authoring of educational hyperdocuments is a complex task and traditional hypermedia authoring systems, like HyperCard, ToolBook, and even the HTML language for the WWW, are more suitable for the tasks of information presentation and retrieval. This paper presents some tools for authoring of educational hyperdocuments and considers the need of a previous modeling of the knowledge domain. A method for the project of educational hyperdocuments applications, EHDM, is proposed as a basis for the development of authoring tools that incorporate the modeling of the knowledge domain as a part of their authoring process. A tool that was developed using the EHDM as its methodological basis is also presented as a way of validating the EHDM in a real context. Palavras-chave : Hipermidia na Educacao, Engenharia de Hiperdocumentos, Ferramentas de Autoria Hipermidia.
The DARPA 1000-word resource management database for continuous speech recognition

A database of continuous read speech has been designed and recorded within the DARPA strategic computing speech recognition program. The data is intended for use in designing and evaluating algorithms for speaker-independent, speaker-adaptive and speaker-dependent speech recognition. The data consists of read sentences appropriate to a naval resource management task built around existing interactive database and graphics programs. The 1000-word task vocabulary is intended to be logically complete and habitable. The database, which represents over 21000 recorded utterances from 160 talkers with a variety of dialects, includes a partition of sentences and talkers for training and for testing purposes. <<ETX>>
Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference

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Le Décrochage industriel

La 4e de couv. indique : "Alstom, Pechiney, Arcelor : pourquoi la desindustrialisation semble-t-elle frapper plus fortement la France ? Pourquoi l'automobile anglaise, donnee pour morte il y a quinze ans, est aujourd'hui plus performante et exportatrice que la notre ? Pourquoi avons-nous perdu notre place de premier exportateur agroalimentaire europeen ? Quand la France a fait le choix de l'Europe, elle n'a tire de son appartenance a la zone euro aucune consequence en matiere de competivite, de finances publiques et de concurrence fiscale. Victime jusqu'ici de sa politique economique incoherente, elle peut encore rebondir et, comme d'autres pays, reussir sa reindustrialisation. La France peut changer de cap si l'on ecarte les suspects traditionnels (Bruxelles, une politique commerciale angelique, un euro devalue), et que l'on etablit les vraies causes du decrochage. Parler d'industrie, ce n'est pas ceder a une vision nostalgique et regressive, c'est penser un ecosysteme fait de technologies, de services, d'intelligence dans les reseaux et de production manufacturiere". (Resume editeur)
Del arte feminista al arte femenino

Esta tesis doctoral se centra en la aplicacion de las teorias feministas de Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan y Shulami Firestone al desarrollo del arte plastico ejecutado por mujeres artistas en los Estados Unidos, a raiz de los cambios culturales surgidos despues de la revolucion cultural de 1968. La tesis analiza dichas teorias en su contexto cultural e historico para hacer inteligible, despues, las obras de arte producidas por Louise Burgoise, Kathy Huberland, Judy Chicago, Sandy Orgel y Ana Mendieta, entre otras. Una buena parte de estas obras se conciben en el entorno de los movimientos artisticos e intelectuales en California y Nueva York en las decadas de los anos 1970 y 1980, y se materializan en la Femme Maison y el Womanhouse, entre otras manifestaciones. La doctoranda busca tambien las raices historicas de esta fusion artistico-filosofica, retrotrayendose a Mary Wollstonecraft, y lleva a cabo el seguimiento de estos movimientos hasta el mismo umbral del siglo XXI.
ATLab: An App-Framework for Physical Disabilities

New touchpador tablet-devices are available at a reasonable price and have the potential to grant access to digital learning contents for training and therapy also for disabled people. In particular, these new technologies and interaction concepts offer possibilities to realize a better and more efficient access to digital teaching contents for people with learning disabilities, limited motor skills and speech impediment. In this paper we describe the ATLab Project which is funded by Research Studios Austria. The main goal of this project is the development of a flexible and easy system for the specific production of applications on current available tablets (ePads) for disabled people.
Decentralized routing control using overlapping decompositions

Overlapping decomposition of traffic networks, for the purpose of decentralized routing control design, is considered. The concept of extension is defined for the case of dynamic traffic networks. A procedure for expanding a traffic network is introduced and it is shown that the expanded network obtained by this procedure is in fact an extension of the original network. <<ETX>>
Generación de resúmenes de comportamiento de un sistema medioambiental a partir de información no-textual

Este documento describe un metodo basado en conocimiento del dominio para generar de forma automatica presentaciones multimedia de resumenes de comportamiento de sistemas dinamicos. Este metodo se diseno para ser usado en la monitorizacion del comportamiento de sistemas dinamicos medidos por redes de sensors, para ayudar en la toma de decisiones segun objetivos prefijados. El metodo genera presentaciones combinando varias formas de presentacion como texto en lenguaje natura, graficos 2D, etc. El metodo usa representacion cualitativa basada en jerarquia de componentes e influencias causales entre los componentes. El proceso incluye un metodo de generacion de abstracciones que usa el metodo de representacion para seleccionar el nivel apropiado de abstraccion. Este metodo general se valido en el dominio hidrologico, constatando su utilidad operativa mediante la construccion que recibe datos de sensores y genera resumenes de comportamiento de Cuencas hidrograficas de Espana en tiempo real.
Mathematical modelling of cell population dynamics in the colonic crypt with application to colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer has the third highest mortality and incidence rates of all cancers worldwide, but the prognosis for long-term survival is good if diagnosed early. It is a well-characterised disease, and is initiated in colonic crypts which line the colon wall. The aim of this thesis is to use mathematical modelling to describe the heavily regulated cell renewal cycle in the crypt to determine the key features of the system kinetics, and help to explain the initiation of tumourigenesis. The dynamics of a single colorectal crypt is considered using a compartmental approach, which accounts for populations of stem, transit-amplifying and fullydifferentiated cells. A number of different model formulations are derived, and their validity and suitability are discussed. Two mechanisms are presented that could regulate the growth of cell numbers and maintain homeostasis (equilibrium), and it is illustrated how a model can describe both regulated and unregulated growth, with cancer-driving cells deriving from stem and/or transit cells. This model is used to explain the long lag phases observed in carcinogenesis, which occur between periods of rapid tumour expansion, before unlimited growth in cell numbers ensues. Significantly, it is found that, contrary to general belief, the proportion of cancer-driving cells in the exponential growth phase of a tumour may vary depending on tumour type. The process of cells accumulating mutations is also examined by considering both a stochastic individual cell-based model and an analytic approach. Finally, an ordinary differential equation model is shown to be valid by considering a simplified description of a one-dimensional spatial model, and the latter is used to consider the effect of changing the crypt shape. The suitability of this modelling approach to tracking stem cells in a niche, as well as mutant cell clones as they propagate in the crypt, is also discussed.
The role of image resolution to locomotion tasks in virtual desktop wayfinding

An experimental study at a large research university evaluated the role of image resolution on 60 participant’s locomotion tasks in an interior virtual desktop wayfinding environment. Four virtual environments were developed using different resolutions for wayfinding images including high level 150 ppi, medium high level 100 ppi, medium level 75 and low level 30 ppi images. The environment was designed to accommodate forward, backward, sideways and figure 8 locomotion tasks as defined by the VEPAB. The effects of the different image resolutions on time-on-task performance scores to navigate through the environment, object-based visual attention as recorded by two eye movements saccade and gaze fixation detections in viewing the images and the perceived usability of the computer system and virtual environment as measured by two post tests the System Usability Scale and the Virtual Environment Presence Questionnaire were evaluated. Eye movement scores were collected with an eye tracking system that used the dark pupil method of eye analysis with a video lipstick camera. Results indicate that image resolution has a statistically (p < .05) significant effect on time-on-task performance wayfinding tasks and on object-based visual attention as
Scale-space coding and its perceptual relevance

In our research on image coding algorithms we have adopted the following starting points. First, processing by coding algorithms should as closely as possible match what we know about the human visual system. Second, due to the lack of acceptable objective criteria, proper evaluatioll of coding algorithms, as well as parameter settings, require perceptual ex periments. In this paper we expand the so-called scale-space model for image coding and demonstrate its relevance to visual perception. In the scale-space model an image is passed through Gaussian filters of decreasing bandwidth. The variation between succeedingly filtered responses is very systematic, so that little information is needed to pass between them. Starting from a low bandwidth version of the original image, we make a prediction for a higher bandwidth version. Only the prediction errors need be transmitted to recover this higher resolution picture. The process is repeated at a number of levels (called scales) in order to arrive at the original image. For data-reduction purposes, several approximations or t.hese prediction errors are studied. Results of preliminary perceptual experiments, conducted in order to make an optimum choice for some of the coding parameters, are also discussed.
Exploring Routing Security in Ad Hoc Networks

Ad Hoc networks are the ones don’t use any network axillary element for routing, but participated nodes in these networks have task of network routing. Security in Ad hoc networks has a particular condition, because besides problems such as existed problems in wire networks, we face with problems such as simple hearing and information changing in transferring, possibility of people impersonation or damage routing operations, non-possibility of using coded key distribution infrastructures and so on. One of the most important security cases in ad hoc networks is providing a secured routing algorithm in these networks. It has been tried in recent years to provide a secured routing algorithm in ad hoc networks, amongst, there are protocols such as ARAN, SAODA, SRP, Ariadne, SEAD, etc. but each one has its particular problems. Moreover, lack of an acceptable algorithm both according to security and network efficiency is felt.
Classification systems optimization with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms

The optimization of classification systems is most of the time performed by a human expert. Classifier complexity may be reduced through feature subset selection (FSS), and a recent trend is to combine several classifiers into ensemble of classifiers (EoC). This thesis proposes a feature extraction based approach to optimize classification systems using a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The approach optimizes feature sets using the Intelligent Feature Extractor methodology. After this stage, the selected classifier can have its complexity reduced through FSS, or the entire IFE result set is used to optimize an EoC. This thesis also details a validation strategy to control over-fit, inspired by classifier training. Finally, a stopping criterion based on the approximation set improvement is proposed and tested. An experiment set is performed on isolated handwritten symbols demonstrate that the approach to optimize classification systems outperforms the traditional approach, also confirming the global validation strategy and the stop criterion.
Optimisation 2-phases de la mise en place d'une famille de produits

On propose dans cet article la modelisation et la resolution de la conception simultanee d'une famille de produits, de son process et de sa chaine logistique. L'objectif est de determiner des sous assemblages (modules) a fabriquer ainsi que leur lieu de fabrication dans un contexte de livraison synchrone, tout en minimisant les couts de production et d'assemblage des modules sous contraintes de capacite de production des sites delocalises (ou seront realises les modules) et de temps d'assemblage final pour respecter la livraison synchrone.
A STUDY ABOUT HOW TO COMBINE INTERFACE ANIMATION WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MARKUP LANGUAGE IN HELPBOT CHATTERBOT

This paper concerns a study about adding animation to interface in chatterbots, more precisely in the chatterbot HelpBot, which operates in the help context of interaction in collaborative ambients. This chatterbot uses the markup language of Artificial Intelligence (AIML) in its knowledge base. Some interface animation technologies were studied and a comparison of these tools is presented. The tool Jmonkey was utilized to separate the bots conversations from the animation of graphical interface. The aggregation of the graphical interface in the HelpBot was intended to simplify the interaction between users and the chatterbot, thus making the interface more attractive for conversations.
The song of humpback whale and the potential effects of whale-watching in the abrolhos bank, BA, Brazil

22 INTRODUCTION . 23 MATERIALS AND METHODS . 26 Area of study . 27 Data collection . 27 Analyses of acoustic data . 28 RESULTS . 31 Intra and interindividual variations in the types of phrases by theme . 31 Year 2003 . 31 Year 2004 . 33 Year 2005 . 35 Lineages and description of themes through the years 2003, 2004 and 2005 . 36 DISCUSSION . 48 Theme lineages since 2000 . 48 Theme evolution rules . 50 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 53 REFERENCES . 53 CHAPTER II Do humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) change their songs during motor boat approaches in the Abrolhos Bank of Brazil? 69 ABSTRACT . 71. 71