Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The use of complexity theory and strange attractors to understand and explain information system development

In spite of the best efforts of researchers and practitioners, Information Systems (IS) developers are having problems "getting it right". IS developments are challenged by the emergence of unanticipated IS characteristics undermining managers ability to predict and manage IS change. Because IS are complex, development formulas, best practices or development guides simply will not work. The difficulties in these system developments stem from the complexity of IS arising from the inter-relationship, interaction, and interconnectivity of the elements in the system and its environment. This research uses complexity concepts to help solve the problem with IS development and explain why so many IS developments fail. It uses Complexity Theory to understand and explain IS development as an emergent phenomenon where the system is "attracted" to certain configurations. This research derives and validates a detailed IS change model and method enabling IS developers to understand the unpredictable and unanticipated outcomes of information systems and avoid failures. The model uses Complex Adaptive Systems concepts, the Chaos Theory strange attractor, and state space analysis to identify when IS states are susceptible to failure rather than trying to identify the myriad causes that may or may not contribute to failure. The method uses structured case study analysis and grounded theory techniques fitting a general model to specific IS producing the best possible model for the system. This research extends previous work in the application of Complexity Theory to IS and is the first to apply these theories to Public Safety Network information systems. In practice this research can help managers understand the impact and temporal validity of their decisions on IS development and their organization. Findings generalize to a broad range of cross-agency intergovernmental collaborations employing IS. This research should spur further studies utilizing Complexity Theory for both public and private sector IS and lead to improvements and better understanding of the development and evolution of Public Safety Networks, an increasingly common and important component of homeland security and emergency management.
New Bone Biology. New Scenario: Practical Tracking of the Two Matrices (Proteica and Inorganic) in 192 Subjects in Adolescence

Objective: To trace the evolutionary pattern of the two bone matrices (protein and inorganic) during the period of formation of the bone support structure throughout adolescence, according to the new concepts of bone biology 13. Method: One hundred and ninety-two subjects aged between 10 and 18 years, healthy by clinical evaluation, were submitted to bone biophysical profile screening in the distal metaphysis of the proximal phalanges of the fingers II-V, of the non-dominant hand. Results: In the age group between 10 14 years, the qualitative parameter (bone protein matrix) revealed a higher value in the female group with p < 0,01. From the age of 15, the values in favor of the male were reversed. The quantitative parameter (inorganic matrix) in the age group between 10-14 years presented higher value in the female group with p < 0.001. From the age of 15, the male group overcame the female group from the age of 15. Conclusion: The screening of the Bone Biophysical Profile revealed pulses with increasing and progressive elevation, in both sexes, both in number and in the amplitudes of ultrasound pulses. The innocuous technology when simultaneously tracking the two tools characterized the physiological and evolutionary pattern during the adolescence phase; during female puberty, the values were higher than that of male puberty. Simultaneous screening of the two matrices, in a specific site, is the current scenario of The New Bone Biology throughout adolescence.
The Implementation of Culture Tasks in Teaching Chinese to Australian High School Beginners

This research was mainly focused on the combination of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Intercultural Language Teaching (ILT) in the teaching of Mandarin as a second language during the Volunteer-Teacher-Researcher‟s (VTR) teaching practices in an Australian high school. Based on the literature of TBLT, the researcher found a gap of cultural task in TBLT. To fix the gap, the VTR tried to implement cultural task into TBLT to promote Chinese culture and enhance the interest of students. The research question of this thesis is „how to use culture tasks to teach beginners Chinese culture and to improve their interest in Chinese learning in Australia? ‟ The thesis demonstrates the process of action research which is the methodology of the research. Data was collected from observation and reflection of the VTR, the feedback from students, and interviews from an experienced teacher and the researchers of TCSL. The data was gathered and analysed to evaluate the culture tasks in terms of benefits to the student‟s learning and the teacher‟s Mandarin teaching. In the thesis, some issues related to TBLT are discussed in accordance with the literature, opinion of teachers and the experience of the VTR, in terms of the role of the teacher and the language in teaching. It also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of culture tasks to provide further suggestions and references to the VTR‟s further teaching and research career, and to other teachers in similar situations. This research aimed to implement culture tasks in school to stimulate students‟ interest in Mandarin learning. Although it has considerable limitation, the culture task has performed well in the teaching process and received the commendation from students and teachers.
Compilation of multiple file queries in a meta-database system

A meta-database system is constructed for describing the contents of very large databases. The meta-database is implemented as data structures in a symbol manipulation language, separate from the underlying database system. A number of programs are built around the meta-database. The most important program module is a query compiler, which translates a non-procedural query language called LRL into a lower level language (COBOL). LRL permits the specification of database retrievals without stating which files are to be used in the search, or how they shall be connected. This is decided automatically by the query compiler. A major feature of the system is a method, the Focus method, for compiletime optimization of these choices. Other facilities include the definition of "views" of the database; data directory services; authority codes; and meta-database entry and update.Design issues discussed include the decision to compile rather than interpret non-procedural query languages; the decision to separate the meta-database from the underlying database system; and the problem of achieving an architecture convertible to any underlying database system. Experience with one such conversion is reported.
Using Microsoft Excel for Hapke Modeling: A Technique to Simplify Calculations of Optical Constants and Reflectance Spectra

TIONS OF OPTICAL CONSTANTS AND REFLECTANCE SPECTRA. D. P. Quinn1, J. J. Gillis-Davis2, and P. G. Lucey2, 1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, 104 South Road, Mitchell Hall, CB #3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA (davenquinn@unc.edu), 2University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, 1680 East-West Road, POST 503, Honolulu, HI 96744, USA (gillis@higp.hawaii.edu).
Construct Validation of Self-Efficacy Scale

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the construct validity of selfefficacy scale developed by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1995). A sample of 782 respondents completed the self-efficacy instrument. The self-efficacy scale contains 10 statements describing the individual’s belief that he or she is capable of performing a given task. A person with high self-efficacy believes in taking more risks and accepts challenging tasks, whereas people with low self-efficacy tend to avoid difficult tasks and accept easy ones to perform according to their efficacy beliefs. High or low self-efficacy belief also determines the frequency of the efforts one would take to achieve success.
Review on Multi Level Inverter Topologies and Control Strategies for Solar Power Conversion

Nowadays solar power has become an alternate method of power generation for standalone systems for both urban and rural electrification. The Power Electronics converters used for the power conversion should provide quality AC output to have near sinusoidal voltage. The inverter topology and the PWM technique of the inverter play a vital role in providing quality output. This paper reviews recent contribution to establish the current status and development of the technology to provide reader with an insightful review of multilevel inverters and its control strategy. A brief overview of Multi Level Inverters (MLI) topology and advantages of Cascaded H-Bridge Multi Level Inverter (CHBMLI) for solar power conversion is presented and the various control strategies for CHBMLI are discussed with view point of quality output. Among the different PWM techniques discussed, the Elliptical Multi Carrier PWM (EMC PWM) control strategy is the new modulation technique which successfully improves the DC bus utilization without overmodulation and without adding third harmonic to fundamental frequency. Also, the technique is successful in reducing the %THD at the output voltage. The control strategy is simple even with increased level of output voltage, which is not possible in SVPWM technique. Hence, the EMC PWM technique is having better performance when compared to Multi Carrier PWM (MCPWM) technique, Space Vector PWM (SVPWM) technique and Third Harmonic Injection PWM (THIPWM) technique.
A crosslinguistic study into culturally motivated resemblances and variations in transferred epithet metaphors in Chinese and English

It has been postulated that a cognitive approach may lend itself well to the study of transferred epithets, as this traditional rhetoric device possesses all the essences of metaphor from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Transferred epithet metaphors are gradually cognitively cultivated upon human beings’ repetitive and recursive experiences of the real world and it has been well established that they cannot be separated from culture’s limitations or reformulation. The coupling between experientialism and culture in transferred epithet metaphors necessitates the establishment of a double paradigm to comprehensively and profoundly delve into the twofold restraints.
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DNA CRYSTALS UTILIZING CGAA PARALLEL BASE PAIRED MOTIFS

Title of Thesis: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DNA CRYSTALS UTILIZING CGAA PARALLEL BASE PAIRED MOTIFS Stephanie Elizabeth Muser, Master of Science, 2013 Thesis directed by: Professor Paul Paukstelis Department of Biochemistry Three-dimensional (3D) DNA crystals hold great potential for various applications such as the development of molecular scaffolds for use in protein structure determination by x-ray crystallography. The programmability and predictability of DNA make it a powerful tool for self-assembly but it is hindered by the linearity of the duplex structure. Predictable noncanonical base pairs and motifs have the potential to connect linear double-helical DNA segments into complex 3D structures. The sequence d(GCGAAAGCT) has been observed to form 3D crystals containing both noncanonical parallel pairs and canonical Watson-Crick pairs. This provided a template structure that we used in expanding the design and development of 3D DNA crystals along with exploring the use of predictable noncanonical motifs. The structures we determined contained all but one or two of the designed secondary structure interactions, depending on pH.
Open Source: Technology and Policy

1. Introduction Part I. Open Source - Internet Infrastructure, Platforms, and Technologies: 2. Open source Internet application projects 3. The open source platform 4. Technologies underlying open source development Part II. Social, Psychological, Legal, and Economic Aspects of Open Source: 5. Demographics, sociology, and psychology of open source development 6. Legal issues in open source 7. The economics of open source Part III. Free Software: The Movement, the Public Sector, and the Future: 8. The GNU project and the free software foundation 9. Open source in the public sector 10. The future of the open source movement.
On-chip Pipelined Parallel Mergesort on the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer

With the advent of mass-market consumer multicore processors, the growing trend in the consumer off-the-shelf general purpose processor industry has moved away from increasing clock frequency as the classical approach for achieving higher performance. This is commonly attributed to the well-known problems of power consumption and heat dissipation with high frequencies and voltage.This paradigm shift has prompted research into a relatively new field of "many-core" processors, such as the Intel Single-chip Cloud Computer. The SCC is a concept vehicle, an experimental homogenous architecture employing 48 IA32 cores interconnected by a high-speed communication network.As similar multiprocessor systems, such as the Cell Broadband Engine, demonstrate a significantly higher aggregate bandwidth in the interconnect network than in memory, we examine the viability of a pipelined approach to sorting on the Intel SCC. By tailoring an algorithm to the architecture, we investigate whether this is also the case with the SCC and whether employing a pipelining technique alleviates the classical memory bottleneck problem or provides any performance benefits.For this purpose, we employ and combine different classic algorithms, most significantly, parallel mergesort and samplesort.
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

Chapter 1 Preface I. Building the Kernel 1. Introduction Using This Book 2. Requirements for Building and Using the Kernel Tools to Build the Kernel Tools to Use the Kernel 3. Retrieving the Kernel Source What Tree to Use Where to Find the Kernel Source What to Do with the Source 4. Configuring and Building Creating a Configuration Modifying the Configuration Building the Kernel Advanced Building Options 5. Installing and Booting from a Kernel Using a Distribution's Installation Scripts Installing by Hand Modifying the Bootloader for the New Kernel 6. Upgrading a Kernel Download the New Source Applying the Patch Reconfigure the Kernel Can't This Be Automated? II. Major Customizations 7. Customizing a Kernel Using a Distribution Kernel Determining the Correct Module from Scratch 8. Kernel Configuration Recipes Disks Devices CPU Networking Filesystems Security Kernel Debugging III. Kernel Reference 9. Kernel Boot Command-Line Parameter Reference Module-Specific Options Console Options Interrupt Options Memory Options Suspend Options CPU Options Scheduler Options Ramdisk Options Root Disk Options Init Options kexec Options RCU Options ACPI Options SCSI Options PCI Options Plug and Play BIOS Options SELinux Options Network Options Network File System Options Hardware-Specific Options Timer-Specific Options Miscellaneous Options 10. Kernel Build Command-Line Reference Informational Targets Cleaning Targets Configuration Targets Build Targets Packaging Targets Documentation Targets Architecture-Specific Targets Analysis Targets 11. Kernel Configuration Option Reference IV. Additional Information A. Helpful Utilities Managing Your Patches with quilt git ketchup B. Bibliography Index
Feasibility of TCP for Wireless Mesh Networks

Feasibility of TCP for Wireless Mesh Networks Richard Lloyd Lee Department of Computer Science, BYU Master of Science When used in a wireless mesh network, TCP has shortcomings in the areas of throughput and fairness among traffic flows. Several methods have been proposed to deal with TCP’s weakness in a wireless mesh, but most have been evaluated with simulations rather than experimentally. We evaluate several major enhancements to TCP – pacing, conservative windows, and delayed ACKs – to determine whether they improve performance or fairness in a mesh network operating in the BYU Computer Science building. We also draw conclusions about the effectiveness of wireless network simulators based on the accuracy of reported simulation results.
How do you make your folder

Engagement with work involves many sub-activities. Folders and files creation are one of the sub activities which we engaged in achieving our task(s). The objective of this study is to understand how people manage information in these domains: desktop, folders, emails and bookmarks. A semi-structured interview on 17 computer users of different backgrounds has been conducted. The average time taken was 45 to 60 minutes. During the interview sessions, we prompted the users to show us and guide us through their desktop screen, folders, emails and web bookmarks. Using this method, we identified similar patterns among these users in how they make a folder in root directory environment, in emails and in bookmarks. We found two types of folder creations: pre-folder and post-folder. Pre-folder is a when a person creates a folder in advance by knowing what will happen and to achieve at a certain time. Post-folder creation is when a person creates a folder after grouping related files together.
Modellgestützte Sensordatenfusion von Laserscanner und Radar zur Erfassung komplexer Fahrzeugumgebungen (Model-based sensor data fusion of laserscanner and Radar for the perception of complex vehicle environments)

In dieser Arbeit werden Methoden zur Umgebungserfassung basierend auf zwei distanzbasierten Sensoriken - Laserscanner und Radar - untersucht, entwickelt und getestet. Das Ziel ist eine sowohl robuste als auch genaue Erfassung und Verfolgung von Objekten in komplexen Verkehrsszenarien. Dieses wird durch die Fusion raumlich ausgedehnter Objekte mit Radarzielen erreicht, bei der Modellwissen uber die Verteilung von Radarreflexionen an Fahrzeugen benutzt wird, um die Assoziation von Messungen zu Objekthypothesen zu prazisieren und deren Parameterschatzung zu verbessern.
La traite une fois par jour pendant 7 semaines de vaches laitières Prim'Holstein et Montbéliarde en milieu de lactation : performances zootechniques, qualité du lait et des fromages

Trente-deux vaches Prim' Holstein et trente-deux vaches Montbeliarde en milieu de lactation sont reparties en deux lots. Pendant 7 semaines, les animaux temoins sont traits matin et soir et les animaux experimentaux le matin uniquement. Avec le lait de ces vaches, 16 fromages de cantal (2 lots x 2 races x 4 repetitions) sont fabriques et affines. La traite une fois par jour n'entraine pas de problemes sanitaires. La baisse de production laitiere est de 23 % pour les Prim'Holstein et 15 % pour les Montbeliarde. Les taux butyreux et proteique augmentent (+3,0 et +2,4 g/kg) mais la concentration en cellules somatiques n'est pas modifiee. Le lait est plus riche en caseines et mineraux, mais le rapport caseines / proteines et la lipolyse sont plus faibles. La coagulation des laits est plus lente, le coagulum est plus ferme et le rendement fromager legerement superieur. La composition chimique, la texture et les caracteristiques sensorielles des fromages ne different pas entre les lots. Lors du retour a deux traites par jour, la production laitiere reste inferieure de 8 % chez les deux races, tandis que les taux redeviennent identiques.
How to use corpora in language teaching

1. List of contributors 2. Introduction (by Sinclair, John McH.) 3. The corpus and the teacher 4. In the classroom 5. In the classroom: Corpora in the classroom: An overview and some reflections on future developments (by Bernardini, Silvia) 6. In preparation: What teachers have always wanted to know - and how corpora can help (by Tsui, Amy B.M.) 7. Resources - Corpora 8. Corpus variety: Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching (by Conrad, Susan) 9. Spoken - general: Spoken corpus for an ordinary learner (by Mauranen, Anna) 10. Spoken - an example: The use of concordancing in the teaching of Portuguese (by Pereira, Luisa Alice Santos) 11. Learner corpora: Learner corpora and their potential for language teaching (by Nesselhauf, Nadja) 12. Research 13. Composition: The use of adverbial connectors in Hungarian university students' argumentative essays (by Tanko, Gyula) 14. Textbooks: A corpus-driven approach to modal auxiliaries and their didactics (by Romer, Ute) 15. Resources - Computing 16. Basic processing: Software for corpus access and analysis (by Barlow, Michael) 17. Programming: Simple Perl programming for corpus work (by Danielsson, Pernilla) 18. Network: Learner oral corpora and network - based language teaching: Scope and foundations (by Perez-Paredes, Pascual) 19. Prospects 20. New evidence, new priorities, new attitudes (by Sinclair, John McH.) 21. Notes on contributors 22. Index
A 3D OBJECT SCANNER : An approach using Microsoft Kinect.

In this thesis report, an approach to use Microsoft Kinect to scan an object and providea 3D model for further processing has been proposed. The additional requiredhardware to rotate the object and fully expose it to the sensor, the drivers and SDKsused and the implemented software are discussed. It is explained how the acquireddata is stored and an efficient storage and mapping method requiring no specialhardware and memory is introduced. The solution proposed circumvents the PointCloud registration task based on the fact that the transformation from one frame tothe next is known with extremely high precision. Next, a method to merge theacquired 3D data from all over the object into a single noise-free model is proposedusing Spherical Transformation and a few experiments and their results aredemonstrated and discussed.
« L’endoctrinement corporel » ou comment penser l’apprentissage imitatif dans la danse de possession

A partir d’une mise a l’epreuve ethnographique de trois modeles theoriques de l’apprentissage imitatif, cet article cherche a rendre compte du concept vernaculaire d’« endoctrinement corporel » dans un culte de possession afro-bresilien. L’« endoctrinement corporel » renvoie a une situation d’imitation « en miroir » ou l’individu possede est amene a imiter le comportement de son initiateur, qui lui-meme imite la danse de la divinite en cours d’apprentissage. Dans ce contexte pedagogique singulier, l’« endoctrinement corporel » semble largement reposer sur des mecanismes perceptuels, emotionnels et sensorimoteurs etroitement imbriques et largement inconscients, ou le comportement d’autrui est d’abord apprehende « corporellement », entendre a travers sa resonance emotionnelle et motrice dans le corps de l’apprenant – en l’occurrence l’individu possede. Ce qui ressort egalement de cette etude, c’est que « l’endoctrinement corporel » est soutenu par une relation pedagogique entre la divinite et son initiateur, caracterisee par une serie de biais perceptuels et interpretatifs qui facilitent l’apprentissage et le processus imitatif.