Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Perception difficulties and errors in multimodal speech: the case of vowels

This study is motivated by the increased need to understand human response to video-links, 3G telephony and avatars as screen embodiments of software agents. We focus on response of participants to audiovisual presentations of talking heads, and examine the effect of noise and temporal misalignment of channels in vowels. We confirm that incongruence of audio and visual channels causes strange perception phenomena (the socalled McGurk fusion) but here we concentrate on such effects in vowels. We show that incongruent vowel stimuli elicit fusion even in the presence of noise, and that fusion is more common in short vowels than long. In all cases of stimuli with incongruent channels, subjects are found to take more time to reach decisions than in the case of congruent stimuli. Where fusion is reported, decision time is significantly lower than in cases where the subject decides for the visual or for the acoustic stimulus. It is argued that decision times – which we measure in two different ways – are indicators of perceptual difficulty experienced by subjects when interpreting a stimulus. We characterise fusion as a phonological event and indicate that it can be modelled as for coarticulation events.
Pauline Theology: Ministry and Society

What exactly is ministry in Paul's theology, and how was ministry manifested in his churches? E. Ellis Earle explores these questions in this book, addressing a number of controversial questions head-on: Is sociopolitical action a valid form of Christian ministry? Does 'liberation theology' accord with the apostle Paul's theology or fly in the face of it? What is the meaning and place of tongues in the churches of Paul's day and of today? What is the apostolic teaching on the role of women in ministry and in the home? The essential characteristic of ministry for Paul is its eschatological dimension: Christian ministry is a present manifestation of the coming kingdom of God. The primary purpose of ministry, therefore, is not to serve or change society but to call people from the sphere of Adam to community in Christ and to build them up in their new identity in Christ. Throughout his book Ellis demonstrates a solid understanding of the Pauline church in its first-century milieu. He is particularly helpful, however, in bringing out the implications of Paul's theology for the church today. Originally published in 1989 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.
Embedded computing architecture with dynamic hardware reconfiguration for intelligent automotive systems

L’omnipresence des calculateurs electroniques a conduit l’industrie automobile a faire face a de nouvelles exigences de securite et de performances pour integrer les nouvelles applications du domaine. Il est maintenant reconnu que les circuits logiques reconfigurables repondent aux exigences de performances de traitement, de flexibilite et aux tendances industrielles sur la reduction du cout du produit. Nous demontrons dans cette these l’interet des nouvelles architectures reconﬁgurable dynamiquement dans le domaine de l’automobile et plus generalement dans le domaine de la surete de fonctionnement. L’utilisation de calculateurs reconﬁgurables dynamiquement permet de reduire le nombre de calculateurs et de diminuer les couts de mise en œuvre. Malheureusement ces architectures sont tres sensibles aux radiations et donc aux erreurs. Nous proposons, dans ce travail, des mecanismes de tolerances aux fautes faibles couts pour palier a ce probleme. En realisant une detection de fautes sur les calculateurs reconﬁgurables et en la couplant avec un mecanisme de migration des tâches (materielles et logicielles), il est alors possible d’augmenter de facon signiﬁcative la robustesse du systeme, tout en conservant des performances optimales.
A HyperNet Architecture

OF DISSERTATION A HyperNet Architecture Network virtualization is becoming a fundamental building block of future Internet architectures. By adding networking resources into the “cloud”, it is possible for users to rent virtual routers from the underlying network infrastructure, connect them with virtual channels to form a virtual network, and tailor the virtual network (e.g., load application-specific networking protocols, libraries and software stacks on to the virtual routers) to carry out a specific task. In addition, network virtualization technology allows such special-purpose virtual networks to co-exist on the same set of network infrastructure without interfering with each other. Although the underlying network resources needed to support virtualized networks are rapidly becoming available, constructing a virtual network from the ground up and using the network is a challenging and labor-intensive task, one best left to experts. To tackle this problem, we introduce the concept of a HyperNet, a pre-built, preconfigured network package that a user can easily deploy or access a virtual network to carry out a specific task (e.g., multicast video conferencing). HyperNets package together the network topology configuration, software, and network services needed to create and deploy a custom virtual network. Users download HyperNets from HyperNet repositories and then “run” them on virtualized network infrastructure much like users download and run virtual appliances on a virtual machine. To support the HyperNet abstraction, we created a Network Hypervisor service that provides a set of APIs that can be called to create a virtual network with certain characteristics. To evaluate the HyperNet architecture, we implemented several example HyperNets and ran them on our prototype implementation of the Network Hypervisor. Our experiments show that the Hypervisor API can be used to compose almost any special-purpose network – networks capable of carrying out functions that the current Internet does not provide. Moreover, the design of our HyperNet architecture is highly extensible, enabling developers to write high-level libraries (using the Network Hypervisor APIs) to achieve complicated tasks.
PERANCANGAN PUSAT KUNJUNGAN DI KOTA BLITAR (BLITAR VISITOR CENTER)

Kota Blitar sering dikaitkan dengan nama besar Bung karno dan oleh karenanya Kota Blitar terkenal dengan nilai historisnya. Seiring dengan terus berkembangnyapembangunan, Kota Blitar memiliki visi dan misi menjadi kota pariwisata danperdagangan jasa yang berwawasan kebangsaan dan lingkungan. Untuk itulah KotaBlitar harus dapat mewadahi sistem kepariwisataan nasional baik melalui sistempariwisatanya maupun fasilitas yang menunjang pariwisata tersebut. Sistemkepariwisataan sendiri telah diatur dan ditetapkan oleh pemerintah, akan tetapi menjaditanggung jawab tersendiri bagi suatu daerah untuk memfasilitasi pariwisatanya. Dalamilmu kepariwisataan, banyak sekali aspek yang perlu dipenuhi untuk menunjangaktivitas pariwisata seperti upaya promosi, akomodasi, transportasi, dan lainsebagainya, serta kebutuhan Kota Blitar akan kualitas dan kuantitas untuk menampungwisatawannya. Agar dapat memenuhi kebutuhannya, Kota Blitar perlu menyediakansebuah media yang dapat mengakomodasi kebutuhan tersebut. Untuk itu peran sebuahVisitor Center sangat dibutuhkan untuk mewadahi berbagai macam kebutuhan fungsiruang yang ada. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam perancangan ini adalah ArsitekturHibrid, dengan tujuan untuk mengkerucutkan banyaknya kebutuhan ruang pada fasilitasvisitor center. Hasil dari penggabungan fungsi ruang tersebut nantinya dapat menjadiruang transisi antara fasilitas satu dengan yang lainnya. Kata kunci: fasilitas penunjang, pariwisata, arsitektur hibrid
It feels like the right thing to do: Ethical perspectives of open science

The demand for public access to data is increasing. Governments are committing to making information freely available to their populations – ‘Open Data’ initiatives exist in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Italy and elsewhere. Such initiatives support governments’ agendas for transparency, participation, engagement and collaboration (Orszag, 2009; HM Government, n.d.; Dept. of Internal Affairs, 2011). While the extent to which such initiatives have succeeded is debated (The Economist, 2012), the principle is widely endorsed.
Summarisation miniaturisation: Delivery of news to hand-helds

An actuator for an aerosol can valve is adapted to dispense the contents of the can when the valve is moved laterally. The actuator is generally T-shaped and includes an elongated aligning portion having a pair of spaced-apart generally parallel flat sides and a pair of ends and an attaching portion extending transversely from the aligning portion intermediate the ends thereof. A central bore extends through the attaching and aligning portions and terminates in an elongated spraying slot in the aligning portion which extends parallel to the flat sides of the aligning portion. The central bore is adapted to receive the laterally movable stem of an aerosol can valve, and the attaching portion terminates in a pair of converging beveled surfaces which extend in directions which are generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the spraying slot.
Research on Component Composition and Its Formal Reasoning

Component based software engineering (CBSE) is one of the most effective solutions to improve software development quality and productivity. Component composition and compositional reasoning are the core technologies and frontier research areas in CBSE. Based on the characteristics of software components and inspired by process construction methods in process algebra, in this paper, six component composition mechanisms are proposed to integrate software components simply and conveniently. And it is argued to compose interfaces at the same time of component composition, consequently to generate more powerful and more abstract interfaces to support integration of coarse-grained components and raise the abstract level of component composition. Moreover, based on the Wright's research on formal specification of software architecture, compositional reasoning algorithms about the behaviors of composite component as well as the protocols of composite interfaces are developed in this paper, which establish a foundation to analyze, validate, simulate composite systems.
Invited talk: Efficient HPSG Realization for Precision Machine Translation

I will review recent advances in grammar-based sentence realization from logical-form meaning representations. The LOGON MT prototype aims at the fully-automated, highquality translation of Norwegian instructional texts (on backcountry activities) into English. The LOGON generator operates off underspecified meaning representations derived from ‘deep’ grammatical analysis (in the LFG framework) and subsequent semantic transfer. The generator builds on the LinGO English Resource Grammar (in the HPSG framework) and combines a highly optimized chart-based algorithm with a rich, probabilistic model to rank alternate realizations. Integration of the stochastic model into the enumeration of outputs from the packed chart allows the generator to selectively unpack n-best lists of realizations with minimal search. Besides empirical results for the realization task when evaluated in isolation, I will present a summary of quantitative measures on the current development status (and promise) of the LOGON MT pipeline as a whole. Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Edited by: Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, and Frank Van Eynde. Copyright c 2007 by the individual authors.
Linux Server Performance Tuning

Proven techniques for optimizing web, file, print, database, and application servers Practical introductions to open source performance management tools Easy-to-understand examples based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise ServerAn indispensable guide to maximizing Linux system and application performanceFrom Wall Street to Hollywood, Linux runs many of the world's most businesscritical systems. Linux performance now impacts the entire enterprise. In Performance Tuning for Linux Servers, a team of IBM's most-experienced Linux performance specialists shows you how to find bottlenecks, measure performance, and identify effective optimizations.This book doesn't just cover kernel tuning: it shows how to maximize the end-to-end performance of real-world applications and databases running on Linux. Throughout, the authors present realistic examples based on today's most popular enterprise Linux platforms, Intel-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. These examples are designed for simplicity, clarity, and easy adaptation to any contemporary Linux environment. You'll discover how to Install and configure Linux for maximum performance from the outset Evaluate and choose the right hardware architecture for your Linux environment Understand Linux kernels 2.4 through 2.6: components, performance issues, and optimization opportunities Master core Linux performance tuning principles and strategies Utilize free, open source tools for measurement, monitoring, system tracing, and benchmarking Interpret performance data to analyze your Linux server's real-world behavior Optimize Linux system schedulers, memory, I/O, file systems, and networking Tune web, file, database, and application servers running commercial workloads Predict the impact of changes in tuning parameters or configurations Tune Linux code: optimize design, timing, sockets, threads, synchronization, and more Architect for maximum performance: SMP scaling, clustering, and topology Integrate kernel and application tuning in end-to-end system optimization projectsWhether you're an administrator, developer, integrator, or consultant, Performance Tuning for Linux Serverswill help you maximize the performance and value of every Linux system and application you run. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
Beyond-mean-field corrections and effective interactions in the nuclear many-body problem

Mean-field approaches successfully reproduce nuclear bulk properties like masses and radii within the Energy Density Functional (EDF) framework. However, complex correlations are missing in mean-field models and several observables related to single-particle and collective nuclear properties cannot be predicted accurately. The necessity to provide a precise description of the available data as well as reliable predictions in the exotic regions of the nuclear chart motivates the use of more sophisticated beyond-mean-field models. Correlations and higher-order corrections (beyond the leading mean-field order) are introduced. A crucial aspect in these calculations is the choice of the effective interaction to be used when one goes beyond the leading order (available effective interactions are commonly adjusted at the mean-field level). In the first part, we deal with the equation of state of nuclear matter evaluated up to the second order with the phenomenological Skyrme force. We analyze the ultraviolet divergence that is related to the zero range of the interaction and we introduce Skyrme-type regularized interactions that can be used at second order for matter. Cutoff regularization and dimen- sional regularization techniques are explored and applied. In the latter case, connections are naturally established between the EDF framework and some techniques employed in Effective Field Theories. In the second part, we check whether the regularized interactions introduced for nuclear matter can be employed also for finite nuclei. As an illustration, this analysis is performed within the particle- vibration model that represents an example of beyond mean-field models where an ultraviolet divergence appears if zero-range forces are used. These first applications suggest several directions to be explored to finally provide regularized interactions that are specially tailored for beyond- mean-field calculations for finite nuclei. Conclusions and perspectives are finally illustrated.
‘To Win the Energies of Intoxication for the Revolution’. Body Politics, Community, and Profane Illumination

This article discusses Walter Benjamin’s essay on Surrealism (1929) and focuses on three key elements any anthropological-materialist concept of politics has to address: (1) a profane illumination of the capitalist everyday life, (2) the problem of political representation, and (3) the interdependency of body politics and the (im)possible community of political acting. This article is a contribution to the ongoing debate on ‘what is anthropological materialism’ after Benjamin.
Visualization of Large Data Sets: The Zoom Star Solution

Progress in Knowledge Discovery in Large Databases has raised the necessity of visualizing sets of data on aggregated form. These sets can be given as native data or as results of pr eliminary analysis. Symbolic data analysis has been developed to solve the problem of the analysis of data known on an aggregated form, i.e. where quantitative variables are given by intervals and where categorical variables are given by histograms. These data are called symbolic objects. In this paper, we present several methods and software dedicated to the visualization of symbolic objects. They use radial graphs. They can be represented in 2D (Zoom Star, Simple Star) or in 3D (3DZoom Star, Temporal Star). Each picture concerns only one set of individ uals on aggregated form, but several objects can be compared when representing them side by side or superimposed. It is also possible to visualize the evolution of an object varying with time. Sound has been used to represent particular characteristics. The visualization modules have been developed thanks to different European IST projects.
Fotografieren mit einer virtuellen Kamera - Lernen mit multiplen Repräsentationen

Fur multimedial unterstutztes Lernen wurde eine virtuelle Kamera entwickelt. Sie ermoglicht, physikalische Zusammenhange beim Fotografieren aufzudecken. Die Anwender konnen eine realistisch abgebildete Kamera oder eine Modelldarstellung wahlen und unterschiedliche Motive fotografieren. Die verschiedenen Darstellungen sollen die kognitive Flexibilitat in diesem Themenbereich fordern. Arbeitshefte unterstutzen ein zielorientiertes Lernen. In einer Studie mit Realschulern der zehnten Klassenstufe fuhrte der Einsatz des Programms zu einem Lernzuwachs. Die Lernenden konnten die benotigten Informationen sowohl aus der realitatsnahen Darstellung als auch aus dem Modell entnehmen. Allerdings blieb der Lernzuwachs auf das Erlernen eindimensionaler Zusammenhange beschrankt. Komplexe Zusammenhange wurden nur unzureichend erkannt. Dabei profitierten naturwissenschaftlich leistungsstarke Schulerinnen und Schuler eher von Arbeitsheften mit weniger bestimmenden Vorgaben. Beim Einsatz im Unterricht sollten deshalb die Arbeitshefte auf die Fahigkeiten der Zielgruppe abgestimmt werden. Komplexe Zusammenhange sind in einem erganzenden Unterricht weiter auszuarbeiten.
The BioMediator System as a Tool for Integrating Biologic Databases on the Web

BioMediator is a data integration system tailored to the domain of molecular biology. Based on our collaborations with biologic researchers, we have identified several challenges in building a data integration system that addresses their needs. BioMediator provides a common interface to several Web-accessible data sources using a novel source knowledge base to organize metadata about the sources. This approach allows BioMediator to answer poorly specified queries, to re-use wrappers, and to support multiple mediated schemas, which can easily be modified. We describe the system architecture, focusing on query processing and data access and conclude by comparing our approach to the more classic federated approach.
Emergent task-specific object semantics through distributed experience networks

Autonomous development of sensorimotor coordination enables a robot to adapt and change its action choices to interact with the world throughout its lifetime. The Experience Network is a structure that rapidly learns coordination between visual and haptic inputs and motor action. This paper presents methods which handle the high dimensionality of the network state-space which occurs due to the simultaneous detection of multiple sensory features. The methods provide no significant increase in the complexity of the underlying representations and also allow emergent, task-specific, semantic information to inform action selection. Experimental results show rapid learning in a real robot, beginning with no sensorimotor mappings, to a mobile robot capable of wall avoidance and target acquisition.
Distributed Source Coding of Multi-View Images

In this thesis, we consider camera sensor networks where numbers of sensors are deployed in order to visually acquire a given scene from different viewing positions. Each sensor consists of a self-powered wireless device containing a digital camera, a processing unit with memory and some communication capabilities. The main task for the sensors is to acquire and process their observations of the scene, and then transmit some information to a common receiver in order to guarantee the best possible reconstruction of the different views by the decoder. Due to the spatial proximity of the different cameras, acquired images can be highly dependent. Since the sensors have limited power and communication resources, the inter-sensor dependencies have to be exploited in order to reduce the transmission of redundant information. Our work addresses the problem of distributed compression of multi-view images. The main challenge in such a compression scheme is that the different encoders have to exploit the correlation in the visual information without being allowed to communicate between themselves. This problem, known as Distributed Source Coding, requires that the encoders have some knowledge about the correlation structure of the visual information acquired from the different cameras. This correlation, which is related to the structure of the plenoptic function, can be estimated using geometrical information such as the position of the cameras and some bounds on the location of the objects.