Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CONTROLE H2 E Hoo VIA REALIMENTAÇÃO DE SAÍDA DE SISTEMAS AFINS COM COMUTAÇÃO POR AÇÃO CONJUNTA DE FUNÇÃO DE COMUTAÇÃO E ENTRADA DE CONTROLE

Este artigo trata do projeto de um controlador dinâmico de ordem completa e de uma regra de comutacao dependente da saida para sistemas afins com comutacao a tempo continuo. Mais especificamente, o controlador e a regra devem ser projetados de forma a assegurar estabilidade assintotica global de um ponto de equilibrio desejado, assim como um custo garantido H2 ou H∞ de desempenho. As condicoes de projeto sao descritas em termos de desigualdades matriciais lineares e nao exigem nenhuma propriedade de estabilidade dos subsistemas isolados. A teoria e ilustrada por um exemplo academico composto de tres subsistemas de terceira ordem nao-controlaveis sem qualquer combinacao convexa estavel, indicando que a acao isolada da entrada de controle e da funcao de comutacao nao e capaz de assegurar estabilidade do sistema global, portanto, reforcando a importância da acao conjunta de ambas as estruturas de controle, o controlador e a funcao de comutacao.
Compressed Sensing Based on the Single Layer Wavelet Transform for Image Fusion

In this paper, a new method of combination single layer wavelet transform and compressive sensing is proposed for image fusion. In which only measured the high-pass wavelet coefficients of the image but preserved the low-pass wavelet coefficient. Then, fuse the low-pass wavelet coefficients and the measurements of high-pass wavelet coefficient with different schemes. For the reconstruction, by using the minimization of total variation algorithm (TV), high-pass wavelet coefficients could be recovered by the fused measurements. Finally, the fused image could be reconstructed by the inverse wavelet transform. The experiments show the proposed method provides promising fusion performance with a low computational complexity.
Spatially adaptive density estimation by localised Haar projections

Given a random sample from some unknown density f0 : R â†’ [0;âˆž) we devise Haar wavelet estimators for f0 with variable resolution levels constructed from localised test procedures (as in Lepski, Mammen, and Spokoiny (1997, Ann. Statist.)). We show that these estimators adapt to spatially heterogeneous smoothness of f0, simultaneously for every point x in a fixed interval, in sup-norm loss. The thresholding constants involved in the test procedures can be chosen in practice under the idealised assumption that the true density is locally constant in a neighborhood of the point x of estimation, and an information theoretic justi cation of this practice is given.
The Role of Electronic Human Resource Management in Contemporary Human Resource Management

More and more organizations have been replacing face-to-face human resource management activities with electronic human resource management, E-HRM for short. E-HRM facilitates the HR function to create dynamic and operational capabilities and contributes greatly on HRM effectiveness. This article elaborates on E-HRM in detail on the following aspects: Introduction of E-HRM, types of E-HRM, role of E-HRM, factors influencing utility, effectiveness of E-HRM, determinants of attitude towards E-HRM and the context for E-HRM in China, and it is expected to help people understand E-HRM more comprehensively and systematically.
Taking it to the Limit: Shifting U.S. Antitrust Policy Toward Standards Development

In November 2017, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, gave a speech at University of Southern California provocatively entitled “Take it to the Limit: Respecting Innovation Incentives in the Application of Antitrust Law”. In this speech, Mr. Delrahim announced a new DOJ policy approach to the antitrust analysis of collaborative standard setting and standards-development organizations (SDOs) -- the trade associations and other groups in which industry participants cooperate to develop interoperability standards such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4G and 5G, USB and the like. He explained that the DOJ had “strayed too far” in its focus on single firm conduct concerning standards, particularly the assertion of patents essential to the implementation of standards in technology products (“standards-essential patents” or “SEPs”), and that antitrust authorities should be more concerned with potential collusion by competitors within SDOs (i.e., an apparent shift in doctrinal focus from unilateral conduct under Section 2 of the Sherman Act to concerted action under Section 1 of the Sherman Act). One commentator described the DOJ policy shift announced by Mr. Delrahim as “a 180 degree turn” on SEP issues. The new policy also seems to put the enforcement priorities of the Antitrust Division at odds with those of the other principal U.S. antitrust enforcement agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and jeopardizes reliance of a long line of DOJ Business Review Letters outlining acceptable approaches to conduct such as forming patent pools. This article analyzes the contours of the emerging divide among U.S. antitrust agencies, as well as reactions to the “Take it to the Limit Speech” by industry, academics and Mr. Delrahim’s subsequent public statements.
Visible Light Photocatalytic Decolourization of Methyl Orange Using N-Doped TiO 2 Nanoparticles

In the present study, nitrogen doped TiO2 (N-TiO2) has been synthesized by simple sol-gel technique. The light absorption property and morphology of the N-TiO2 were characterized by Diffused Reflectance UV-VIS spectrometer and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed a clear shift in the light absorption from UV region (380) to visible region (410 nm). SEM results showed the morphology was changed after doping process compared with the pure anatase TiO2. The photocatalytic activity was examined by the photo decolorization of the Methyl Orange which was used as a pollutant model in this study under visible light irradiation. The main operational parameters, namely, initial pollutant concentration, doped photocatalyst loading, pH of photocatalysis solution and visible light intensity on the rate of photocatalytic decolorization. The results show that N doping induced the enhancement of photocatalytic decolorization. Methyl orange removal efficiency results at optimum experimental conditions have revealed more than 98% degradation after 60 minutes of illumination.
An Online and Flexible Multi-object Tracking Framework Using Long Short-Term Memory

The capacity to model temporal dependency by Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) makes it a plausible selection for the multi-object tracking (MOT) problem. Due to the non-linear transformations and the unique memory mechanism, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) can consider a window of history when learning discriminative features, which suggests that the LSTM is suitable for state estimation of target objects as they move around. This paper focuses on association based MOT, and we propose a novel Siamese LSTM Network to interpret both temporal and spatial components nonlinearly by learning the feature of trajectories, and outputs the similarity score of two trajectories for data association. In addition, we also introduce an online metric learning scheme to update the state estimation of each trajectory dynamically. Experimental evaluation on MOT16 benchmark shows that the proposed method achieves competitive performance compared with other state-of-the-art works.
Standardized Tests as a Tool of Exclusion: Improper Use of the SAT in New York

Christine Perlin,I a senior at a high school in Queens, is second in her class of 316 students. She has had an exceptional high school career; her grade point average is ninety-five, and she ranked first in her class in the tenth and eleventh grades. Christine will be the first in her family to attend college and hopes to go to Columbia University to study molecular engineering. She scored 1000 on the Standardized Aptitude Test (SAT) out of a possible 1600. Eve Hoyt, a senior at a competitive New York public high school which does not rank its students, has also had an exceptional career. She graduated with a ninety-two grade point average, and is a founder of Children for Worldwide Peace, an organization dedicated to promoting social justice. Eve is involved in technical theater at her high school, and has written for and edited a student newspaper. She is also a staff member and contributing member of the school's literary magazine, and has toured the Soviet Union, singing in a group called Peace Child, which required her to learn Russian. She scored 1290 on the SAT. Despite their impressive records in high school, it is not likely that either young woman would qualify for a New York State Regents College Scholarship-which awards $250 each to 25,000 students and is
Is Big Five better than MBTI

English. Personality Computing from text has become popular in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For assessing gold-standard personality types, Big5 and MBTI are two popular models but still there is no comparison of the two in personality computing. With this paper, we provide for the first time a comparison of the two models from a computational perspective. To do that we exploit two multilingual datasets collected from Twitter in English, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. Italiano. Il riconoscimento automatico di personalità è diventato popolare nelle comunità di linguistica computazionale. I test Big Five e MBTI sono due modelli differenti per valutare la personalità, ma ancora non c’è un vero confronto dei due in ambito di riconoscimento automatico di personalità. In questo articolo per la prima volta forniamo una comparazione dei due modelli dal punto di vista computazionale. Per fare questo abbiamo raccolto dati Twitter in Inglese, Italiano, Spagnolo e Olandese in due corpora paralleli annotati con i due test.
Automatic Gender Identiﬁcation in Speech Recognition by Genetic Algorithm

: Automatic gender classiﬁcation is a system to classify the gender using speech signal developed for speech encoding, analysis, synthesis and gender identiﬁcation. Generally generation of gender recognition system can be broadly in two levels namely front-end system and back-end system. The function of the front-end system is to represent by a set of vectors called feature such as pitch, short time energy (STE), energy entropy (EE), zero crossing rate (ZCR). The back-end system is also referred to classiﬁer, and it includes to develop a gender model to recognize the gender from speech signal. In our existing system uses fuzzy logic and neural network approach does not produced the exact required result for gender classiﬁcation due to complexity of training network. To overcome this problem various evolutionary algorithms like Genetic Algorithm (GA) is applied in gender classiﬁcation. This work here applies GA to select the features that are responsible for gender identiﬁcation. The implementation result shows the performance of the proposed method in gender identiﬁcation.
Impact of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis on School Attendance and Performance

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) includes a group of disorders characterized by chronic arthritis. It is the most common chronic rheumatic illness in children and is a significant cause of morbidity, disability and dysfunction. Therefore, the potential for school attendance and academic performance become compromised and these children are often confronted with educational difficulties. Objectives: To assess the impact JIA on academic difficulty, academic performance, potential causes of absenteeism, school failure and relationship between schooling and different types of JIA. Materials and Methods: All school going JIA patients between 6-16 years of age who had at least 2 years of schooling (1 year before disease onset and 1 year during the course of disease) were included for the analysis. Two hundred JIA patients were selected by purposive sampling method. A detailed questionnaire was completed for each participant which included socio-demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics, data related to schooling, academic difficulties and their causes, absenteeism and causes, sports and cultural activities, school failure and school re-entry if any. Fifty four controls were taken who were the healthy sibs of those JIA patients having at least 2 previous years of schooling. Results: Mean age of JIA patients were 10.8 years, 67% were male and male female ratio was 2:1. Academic difficulties were observed for reading, writing and both due to disease process and deformity. Number of absent days and poor attendance in examination was significantly higher in JIA patients (p value < 0.001). Moreover, in case group, only 18% had improved result than the academic year prior to disease onset, 3% had no change, 57% deteriorated and 22% stopped schooling. There were 44 cases of school failure among JIA patients, 30 had school re-entry. No children had school failure or re-entry among the control group. Multiple causes of absenteeism like flare, hospitalization, side effects of drugs, movement difficulties, parental non-interest and some other factors like rainfall, delayed rising from sleep etc co-existed for most of the cases. In control group, mean percentage of absenteeism was 1.6%, mostly due to some febrile illness, cold weather, rainfall, lack of transport, sickness of caregiver etc. Children who did not participate in sports activities were 9.3% in control group and 48.5% in case group (p value < 0.001). Conclusion: It is evident from this study that JIA has negative impact on schooling characterized by poor attendance and academic performance.
Crystal Growth of ZnO Microneedles in Water Containing Microbubbles

Microbubble technology is now available in a wide range of industrial fields. The liquid containing microbubbles possesses a large number of air-liquid interfaces, and also generates radicals during bubble collapse. Here, we synthesized ZnO powder to explore the potential of microbubbles as starting materials for the formation of crystalline micro- or nanoparticles. The bubbles facilitated the growth of ZnO microneedles in high yields, and enhanced the reaction by radicals generated on bubble collapsing.
Temperate forest termites: ecology, biogeography, and ecosystem impacts

1. Wood decomposition in temperate forests is dominated by termites, fungi, and some species of ants and beetles. Outside of urban areas, temperate termite ecology is largely unknown, particularly when compared to tropical termites and other temperate organisms in the functional guild of wood‐decomposing animals.
Neonatal Imitation in the First Hour of Life : Observations in Rural Nepal

Neonatal imitative responses were studied in 12 Maithil neonates (6 boys and 6 girls) during their first hour postpartum. No drugs were administered prior to or during labor, and the delivery was concluded without complications. The neonates observed two modeling conditions: lips widened and lips pursed. It was found that neonates moved their lips significantly more often in accordance with the model's lip position than at variance with the positions. These results suggest, when considered in the light of studies of Caucasian infants of North American and European parentage, that imitative capacity is present at birth.
Hypocholesterolemic and attenuated oxidized-LDL of epinephrine-induced atherosclerosis rats using cardamom rhizome ethanolic extract : Study of functional-food components

This research was aimed to study the flavonoid level of cardamom-rhizome ethanolic-extract (CREE) and effect of the extract on the level of ox-LDL, total-cholesterol (total-c), and HDLcholesterol (HDL-c) plasma of atherosclerosis Sprague dawley rats induced by epinephrine and egg-yolk. Twenty-eight female Sprague dawley white rats, aged 2-3 months, weighted180-250 g, were adapted. Twenty six rats were injected by adrenalin and were fed with egg yolk for three weeks so that their total-c were> 45,5 mg/dl and HDL-c plasma were < 35 mg/dl. The atherosclerosis rats were divided into 4 groups: I, 7 rats were given extract of CREE; II, 7 rats were given simvastatin; III, 7 rats were given CREE+ simvastatin; and IV, 7 rats were given rat feed. In addition, 5 healthy rats were given rat feed. Intervention was conducted for 2 weeks. Blood was sampled 3 times, 1 ml each time. The sampling was done through plexus Retroorbitalis at baseline, 1 and 2 weeks post intervention. CREE significantly reduced oxLDL level from 90.59 to 82.22 pg/ml and total-c from 57.89 to 38 mg/dl. In contrast, CREE increased HDL-c level from 25.66 to 32.9 mg/dl, which is lower than compared to treatment with statin, CREE-statin, or control. CREE was hypocholesterolemic, attenuated LDL-c oxidized, and repressed cardiovascular disease risk. In the future, the cardamom rhizome can be used as functional food component beneficial for health.
PENDAMPINGAN PENULISAN KARYA TULIS ILMIAH BAGI PARA GURU MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH KECAMATAN KEDUNG KABUPATEN JEPARA

Menulis bisa dikembangan melalui berbagai latihan dan workshop. Melalui berlatih seseorang akan memiliki profesionalitas dalam dunia tulis menulis. Menulis merupakan kegiatan mengekspresikan ide dan atau pemikiran seseorang secara tertulis. Kegiatan menulis tidak bisa terlepas dengan kegiatan dari profesi guru. Guru sebagai pendidik di Madrasah tentu memiliki data dan permasalahan yang bisa digunakan sebagai sumber dan bahan tulisan. Lewat berbagai tulisan itulah, guru mampu menganalisis akar masalah dan gagasan untuk menyelesaikan masalah yang ada tersebut. Hasil karya tulis guru merupakan upaya mengembangkan profesi guru dalam memahami kegiatan pembelajaran di madrasah. Akan lebih lengkap, jika seorang guru menulis ide-ide, gagasan dan pemikirannya secara baik. Kegiatan pengabdian dengan tema teknik penulisan penulisan karya tulis ilmiah ini diikuti oleh guru-guru MTs diwilayah Kecamatan Kedung, khususnya guru MTs. Miftahul Huda Dongos Kedung Jepara.
Rendimiento Estudiantil Universitario. Visión Sistémica y Compleja y Propuestas Para su Mejora

Se realizo una revision documental referida al rendimiento academico de los estudiantes universitarios con base en estudios realizados en diversos paises y carreras, entre ellas ingenieria, durante el siglo XXI. Los estudios citados coinciden en definir al rendimiento como la calificacion del estudiante y permiten identificar factores que influyen en dicho valor. Se propone una vision sistemica y compleja del rendimiento estudiantil y se recomiendan programas formativos para estudiantes y profesores, asi como lineamientos institucionales, que podrian contribuir con un mejor rendimiento de los estudiantes universitarios.
The 2018 DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation-CVPR 2018 Workshops

We tackle the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation, i.e. pixel-level classication of the images in video sequences using only the ground truth mask for the first frame of its corresponding video. Recently introduced online adaptation of convolutional neural networks for video object segmentation (OnAVOS) has achieved excellent results by pretraining the network, fine-tuning on the first frame and training the network at test time using its approximate prediction as newly obtained ground truth. While achieving impressive performance, OnAVOS uses simple approximation of its online prediction as ground truth for online updates, which leaves signicant potential information unused. We propose Flow Adaptive Video Object Segmentation (FAVOS) that refines the generated adaptive ground truth for online updates and utilizes temporal consistency between video frames with the help of optical flow. Our experiments show that FAVOS improves the state of the art on DAVIS 2016 Challenge from a mIoU (mean intersection-over-union) of 0.861 to 0.870. For the Semisupervised track of the 2017/2018 challenge, we improve J & F measures from 0.565 (OnAVOS) to 0.617 on the testdevelopment set, and from 0.577 (OnAVOS) to 0.606 on the
Systèmes financiers et canaux de transmission de la politique monétaire

Cette these analyse les consequences des transformations de la sphere financiere sur les canaux de transmission des decisions de politique monetaire, au cours de ces dernieres annees dans les pays industrialises. Elle observe que du fait de ces transformations, les etablissements bancaires sont passes d’un modele d’« octroi et detention du credit » (originate to hold) a un modele d’« octroi puis cession du credit » (originate to distribute), ce qui leur permet de recourir davantage aux produits derives et a des instruments de transfert du risque de credit. Elle demontre que ces techniques de gestion actif/passif ont completement bouleverse les fondements theoriques des canaux traditionnels, en particulier, du canal du credit. Pour expliquer ces bouleversements, l’analyse a ete structuree en deux parties. La premiere met en evidence, a travers le principe d’accelerateur financier, la maniere dont la deconnexion partielle entre la croissance de l’offre de credits et celle des depots bancaires a tendance a renforcer le canal du credit alors qu’on devait s’attendre a son affaiblissement du fait que toutes les hypotheses-cles mises en avant par Bernanke et Blinder (1988) ont ete fragilisees par les innovations financieres. La deuxieme partie montre, en s’appuyant sur les etudes empiriques, comment le canal des taux d’interet s’est renforce grâce a la financiarisation croissance des economies industrialisees et a la flexibilite du cadre operationnel de la politique monetaire.
Electromagnetic Weapon ) May – Insidiously – Be Making Us Sick

Many people have a hard time fathoming that something that they cannot see, touch, smell, taste or hear – sense with the five senses – can harm them so much. But if people did really know the facts regarding the dangers of cell phones and WiFi (wireless networks) and the masts (cell phone towers) that emit an ever-increasing and pervasive level of microwave radiation, would they still be willing to use them? Would they still be willing to allow the antennas to be built in the vicinity of their homes, work places, schools, and hospitals? The fact of the matter is that there are about eighty immune system disorders that we didn't have twenty-five years ago before we really started microwaving the planet. Research is showing that this electrosmog may very likely be playing a role in a host of illnesses including autism, ADHD, CFS, Alzheimer's, allergies, heart disease, stroke, diabetes [1], insomnia, depression, infertility, leukemia, breast cancer, brain tumors, miscarriages, birth defects, and a plethora of other illnesses – not to mention electrosensitivity (ES) [2].
Albayzin 2014 Evaluation : TES-UAB Audio Segmentation System

This paper describes the audio segmentation system developed by Transmedia Catalonia / Telecommunication and Systems Engineering Department, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), for the Albayzin 2014 Audio Segmentation Evaluation. The evaluation task consists in segmenting spoken audio documents into three different acoustic classes (speech, background noise, and music), taking into account that more than one class may be present at any given time instant. Furthermore, additional difficulty has been added by fusing and merging audio from different databases. The proposed system is based on the recently presented “Binary Key” modeling approach, originally developed for speaker recognition, but successfully applied to other pattern recognition tasks, such as speaker diarization, emotion recognition and speech activity detection. Experiments carried out on the provided development data show a Segmentation Error Rate of 22.71%.