Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ambient Data Monitoring w / Generative Music Systems using EC & ML Techniques

This is a position paper which describes work in progress to develop an AI/ML driven auditory ambient information system which incorporates generative music techniques and considers some of the factors involved the design and development of a system of this nature. The system is intended to represent and communicate information about cryptocurrency markets to a user. The generative music system uses evolutionary computing and machine learning techniques, which are driven by the original cryptocurrency data, to create musical information. This information is then mapped to synthesis parameters. The implementation described is web based running client-side in the browser. The paper describes the relevant background literature before presenting a generalised model for a system of this nature before discussing aspects of the implementation in its current state. The paper closes with a discussion of the system and future work.
A Two-Phase Interleaved Single-Stage Isolated Boost-Half-Bridge AC-DC Converter using a Transformer with Flux Cancellation

This paper proposes a two-phase interleaved bridgeless single-stage ac-dc converter with magnetic integration that can achieve CCM power factor correction without input current sensing. All switches achieve ZVS turn-on and all diodes achieve ZCS turn-on for the whole grid cycle. SDAB-based modulation strategy is applied which results in simple power control and wide range output voltage. A flux cancellation method to integrate the interleaved transformer is firstly proposed in this paper to reduce the core size and loss. Experimental results on a 1.7-kW, 50kHz prototype are given to verify the principle and advantages of the proposed ac-dc converter.
Microbial community structure mediates response of soil C decomposition to litter addition and

Microbial activity has been highlighted as one of the main unknowns controlling the fate and turnover of soil organic matter (SOM) in response to climate change. How microbial community structure and function may (or may not) interact with increasing temperature to impact the fate and turnover of SOM, in particular when combined with changes in litter chemistry, is not well understood. The primary aim of this study was to determine if litter chemistry impacted the decomposition of soil and litter-derived carbon (C), and its interaction with temperature, and whether this response was controlled by microbial community structure and function. Fresh or pre-incubated eucalyptus leaf litter (13C enriched) was added to a woodland soil and incubated at 12, 22, or 32 C. We tracked the movement of litter and soilderived C into CO2, water-extractable organic carbon (WEOC), and microbial phospholipids (PLFA). The litter additions produced significant changes in every parameter measured, while temperature, interacting with litter chemistry, predominately affected soil C respiration (priming and temperature sensitivity), microbial community structure, and the metabolic quotient (a proxy for microbial carbon use efficiency [CUE]). The direction of priming varied with the litter additions (negative with fresh litter, positive with pre-incubated litter) and was related to differences in the composition of microbial communities degrading soil-C, particularly gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, resulting from litter addition. Soil-C decomposition in both litter treatments was more temperature sensitive (higher Q10) than in the soil-only control, and soil-C priming became increasingly positive with temperature. However, microbes utilizing soil-C in the litter treatments had higher CUE, suggesting the longer-term stability of soil-C may be increased at higher temperature with litter addition. Our results show that in the same soil, the growth of distinct microbial communities can alter the turnover and fate of SOM and, in the context of global change, its response to temperature. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning

In spite of this, machine learning remains a slightly uncomfortable and obscure topic for some in the geoscience community. A rift has developed between geoscience and data science, in part, due to different curricula during training for each field and also some stark differences between the cultures of industries each field is hired into. A dizzying lexicon describing some very complicated mathematics and algorithms have not helped. However, I expect that each of you is far more familiar with machine learning than you suppose. Many of you are probably aware that you interface with machine learning each time you use a search engine, use word suggestion while text messaging, or shop online. You may be aware that machine learning is now being used in data security, fraud detection, computer vision, healthcare, financial trading, gaming, marketing, natural language processing, and for many other applications. You are likely engaging with machine learning products many times every day.
Examining the potential for the development of computerised mass appraisal in Thailand

This paper examines the potential for the development of an expert system to value residential properties in Thailand. With some 27 million land titles and less than 100 professionally qualified valuers in the valuation authority, the task of valuing property for taxation purposes in Thailand is a major problem. This problem has long been recognized and as a part of the Thailand land titling project measures have been underway since 1975 to address the problem. Over the last quarter of a century, significant developments have been made in Thailand while at the same time there have been major advances in mass appraisal around the world based mainly on greater computerisation. This paper examines the scope of the problem in Thailand and the history of the development of the valuation authority in Thailand. The paper also examines the current situation in terms of the level and volumes of professional qualified personnel, access to property data and some of the methodologies that have been proposed to automate the mass appraisal process. Research into different methodologies for mass appraisal in Thailand is critically examined and some suggestions for future development are proposed.
Perception of L2 lexical stress in words degraded by a cochlear implant simulation

This study investigates how the perception of L2 lexical stress is affected by an acoustic simulation of cochlear implants (CIs). We explore whether Dutch L2 learners of English are influenced by f0 differences or a vowel quality contrast when identifying lexical stress in L2 English words degraded by a CI simulation and whether listeners transfer cue-weighting strategies of the L1 into the L2. Results indicate that the identification of lexical stress based on a five-by-two matrix varying in f0 and vowel quality was, as hypothesized, strongly compromised in the CI simulation, but that the lexical stress identification strategies for neither the unprocessed nor the CI-simulated stimuli differed between L1 Dutch and L2 English. This suggests that the lexical stress identification strategies of the L1 may have been transferred into the L2 and that the CI simulation of the present study affected L1 Dutch and L2 English lexical stress perception similarly.
Post occupancy evaluation

Contents Introduction overview of process, scoresheet Part 1: Characteristics of the Library Building for general use Part 2: Performance of the Library Building a. assessor to complete b. survey of librarians c. survey of maintenance personnel Part 3: Public Perceptions of the Library survey of public library users People Places. This version expands upon that People Places. This version expands upon that others. People Places. This version expands upon that others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. People Places. This version expands upon that others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. People Places. This version expands upon that others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. Evaluations (POE), the questions developed for this POE are based on criteria discussed in. This version expands upon that others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. Evaluations (POE), the questions developed for this POE are based on criteria discussed in others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. Evaluations (POE), the questions developed for this POE are based on criteria discussed in People Places others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. Evaluations (POE), the questions developed for this POE are based on criteria discussed in People Places others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. Evaluations (POE), the questions developed for this POE are based on criteria discussed in People Places others. exhaustive method of evaluating a library. To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: To do a self-guided evaluation of your library building: Complete the questions on the following pages of the Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Complete the questions on the following pages of the Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Complete the questions on the following pages of the Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Complete the questions on the following pages of the Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Add up the scores on the right hand side of each page for the individual categories. Add up the scores on the right hand side of each page for the individual categories. Add up the scores on the right hand side of each page for the individual categories. Add up the scores on the right hand side of each page for the individual …
S CREENING FOR A NAEMIA AND H AEMOGLOBINOPATHY BEFORE AND DURING P REGNANCY : A Q UESTION OF E THNICITY ?

Ethnic diversity poses certain questions within the healthcare setting and challenges health care professionals to deliver equitable health services. The prevalence of anaemia (a low haemoglobine) and haemoglobinopathy (carrier) status (serious autosomal recessive disorders) differs between ethnic groups. Haemoglobinopathy carrier screening for reproductive choice is currently not a standardised offer in the Netherlands. Professionals caring for pregnant women with different ethnic backgrounds such as midwives, obstetricians and general practitioners, should be aware of the possibility of anaemia as this occurs more frequently in pregnancy. If anaemia is present, carrier status should be investigated in those women with a higher risk ethnic background before any treatment is started, since iron treatment may be harmful in carriers. Asymptomatic bacteriuria and the subsequent risk of pyelonephritis may also occur more frequently in pregnant haemoglobinopathy carriers. Therefore these women should be investigated more frequently for these conditions.  Corresponding author: Dr Suze Jans, Midwifery Science, EMGO, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, s.jans@vumc.nl. No part of this digital document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted commercially in any form or by any means. The publisher has taken reasonable care in the preparation of this digital document, but makes no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions. No liability is assumed for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of information contained herein. This digital document is sold with the clear understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, medical or any other professional services. Suze M. P. J. Jans, Martina C. Cornel and Antoinette L. M. Lagro-Janssen 86 Health professionals use ethnicity to deliver appropriate health care for all groups within society but evidence shows that they struggle with the operationalisation of this concept, making them uncertain whom to offer screening for haemoglobinopathy. Although a screening instrument based on ancestry has been shown to be effective, increasing ethnic admixture and the view of the patient organization for haemoglobinopathy that the accent should not be placed on certain ethnic groups supports a universal screening offer. Evidence underlines the necessity to solve ethical and practical barriers before a haemoglobinopathy screening programme is introduced. This can only be done with adequate governmental leadership after which professional organizations can be called upon to meet the implementation requirements of such a programme.
Operational Performance of Affordable Housing Projects

This work explores the performance of affordable housing (AH) projects in the City of Wuhan in China. The idea behind this research work is on the basis of sustainable development which focuses on the long term benefit rather that short term advantage. An AH project is successful when the need of all stakeholders are determined and addressed simultaneously even if their preferences differ. There are three main stakeholders in AH projects: 1.government and municipalities, 2. Companies which provide AH services and 3. Customers who are using AH services. In order to evaluate each stakeholder different tools are used: Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is used for evaluating the priorities of government and the municipalities. Sense and respond method is applied to evaluate the performance of the companies engaged in providing AH services. Lastly, statistical approaches are used for evaluating the satisfaction of customer in AH project in the city of Wuhan. An exploration into the government’s and municipalities’ preferences reveals that building new houses and the renovation of existing ones are the criteria received highest priorities in the city of Wuhan. Evaluation of company performance shows that companies operating in the AH area mainly falls under analyser categorytrying to consider cost and quality in their services simultaneously. Finally, customer satisfaction analysis shows that the highest priorities for AH customers in the city of Wuhan is access to private services like shops, banks, restaurants etc. while having a sauna in the apartment & the overall quality of the building (public areas, corridors, lift etc.) receive the lowest interest.
The Importance of Access to Coal in the Industrial Revolution

I study the importance of access to coal by using historical population data as a proxy for economic development. I calculate the cost-distance to coal fields by incorporating geographical data on navigable rivers and turnpike roads. Regressing county-level percentage population growth on cost distance does not suggest any significant relationship between coal access and economic growth. Replacing population growth with life expectancy as the dependent variable confirms the zero correlation with geographic features.
Aided Heuristics for Piloted Night * Stochastic Robustness of Flight Control Systems Neural Networks for Flight Control

This research has resulted in a number of publications, including a thesis, archival papers, and conference papers. An annotated bibliography of publications that appeared between June, 1990 and June, 199 1 appears at the end of this report. The research that these papers describe was supported in whole or in part by the Joint University Program, including work that was completed prior to the reporting period.
A Microscopic Study of Coded Caching with Full Heterogeneity : The Two-User / Two-File Case

The concept of coded caching shows that by exploiting the multicasting opportunity, one could significantly reduce the content delivery time of traditional uncoded caching schemes. The most commonly used setting consists of the following five elements: (i) homogeneous file sizes, (ii) homogeneous cache sizes, (iii) user-independent homogeneous file popularity (i.e., all users share the same file preference), (iv) worst-case rate analysis, and (v) order-optimal designs when the number of files N and the number of users K are large. While recent results have relaxed some of these assumptions, deeper understanding of the full heterogeneity setting is still much needed since traditional caching schemes place little assumptions on file/cache sizes and almost always allow each user to have his/her own file preference through individualized file request prediction. Taking a microscopic approach, this paper characterizes the exact capacity of the smallest 2-user/2-file (N = K = 2) coded caching problem but under the fullest heterogeneity assumptions, including (i) heterogeneous files sizes, (ii) heterogeneous cache size, (iii) user-dependent file popularity, and (iv) average-rate analysis according to the underlying heterogeneous file popularity. Solving completely the case of N = K = 2, the results would shed further insights on the performance and complexity of coded caching with full heterogeneity for arbitrary N and K.
Transactive Energy Challenge Energy Management in Microgrid Systems

There has been extensive work in the abstract TE model as well as other standards based on Energy Interop, such as the Transactive Energy Market Information Exchange (TeMIX). However, we have yet to see a pilot demonstration that proves the efficacy of this mechanism in the context of a microgrid. The output of this team's work in the TE Challenge is the framework for an open-source, open-standards, Java-based implementation of the TeMIX platform, from use cases and requirements to a sample architecture for both Market Participants and a Market Facilitator. This will provide the basis for a live implementation of the Transactive Energy concepts in the next phase of the Transactive Energy Challenge.
Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization of Molecular Breast Tomosynthesis

In this thesis, we developed tools to model and simulate single gamma imaging modalities. These tools were subsequently used to simulate and optimize a design for Molecular Breast Tomosynthesis (MBT). The chapters in this thesis can be divided into two groups. The first group consists of Chapters 3 and 4 detailing technical topics concerning modelling and simulation of single gamma emitter imaging modalities, while the other chapters deal with MBT and its optimization. We will first discuss the chapters from the first group individually and then discuss the latter group.
Secure Mobile Payment System Using Symmetric Cryptography in Ethiopia

Mobile payment allows users to perform payment transactions through their mobile phones. However, security issues are by far the greatest deterring factors that limit the popularity of this payment system. The problem is lack of sufficient security mechanisms with existing mobile payment systems, mainly due to improper protocol design and the deployment of lightweight cryptographic operations which lead to lack of important transaction security properties. The paper uses various research techniques, including questionnaire and interviews to find out the challenges to the adoption of Mobile Payment Systems (MPS) in Ethiopia, and propose solutions to encourage user acceptance of this platform as a convenient alternative payment system. In doing so, we propose a more secured MPS. Mobile phones present an enormous opportunity for use as platforms for a “Payments System”. Traditionally in Ethiopia, financial transactions are made using physical cash or cheque. However, from the survey conducted as part of this research, people are willing to use MPS on their phones as far as proper security mechanisms are put in place and the associated risk is reduced. As part of the research, a symmetric cryptography protocol/framework has been developed. To demonstrate the implementation of the MPS with appropriate security features in place, an application prototype has also been developed.
Symmetric spectra

This suggests trying to form a localized category where Σ is an isomorphism. What will be the objects in this category? Usually we make our objects more difficult in return for having a nice category. One approach is to look at sequences of spaces {Xn} and maps ΣXn → Xn+1. One can form a category of topological spectra by using these sequences as object and as morphisms the levelwise maps compatible with the suspension maps. Then there is a functor from Top∗ to topological spectra mapping X to the sequence Xi = ∗ for i < 0 and Xi = ΣX for i ≥ 0. We can form a homotopy category of these spectra, where Σ is an isomorphism, when we invert the stable homotopy equivalences. This is the stable homotopy category. For more information, see [1]. The axioms of a generalized (reduced) cohomology theory, in particular that H(f) = H(g) for homotopic f, g and H(Z) ∼= H(ΣZ) naturally, implies that a generalized cohomology theory as a functor from Top∗ to Ab Z should be closely related to the stable homotopy category. In fact, Brown’s representability theorem tells us that every generalized cohomology theory is representable in a stable sense: to every generalized cohomology theory we can assign a topological spectra X such that H(Z) = [Z,Xn]+. This intimately ties the study of topological spectra to many topics in algebraic topology. One would like to do algebraic constructions of spectra. This makes sense since in the stable homotopy category there is a smash product (just arising from the smash product in Top∗) which is associative, commutative and unital, up to coherent isomorphism. However, a naive definition of symmetric spectra does not have such a product; Adams [1] has a unnatural handicrafted smash product of spectra, but it will not make you happy. Furthermore, there are some difficulties with associativity. A “good” category of spectra should have the following properties:
The diagnosis of sepsis using POCT in the Emergency Department – Medical and legal implications

Sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock are some of the most serious affections which threaten the lives of the patients who come to the Emergency Department and which require fast treatment because the more severe the sepsis was, the higher the mortality, up to 50% higher in severe sepsis. That is why, at present, the 2013 Guides of Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommend that the potential source of infection should be confirmed as soon as possible, in the first 6 hours since the patient arrived in the Emergency Unit if possible, moreover the large spectrum antibiotics therapy must be administered in one hour after the severe sepsis or the septic shock were identified. That is why the identification of these patients at risk is very important and this identification can only be made using POCT type devices. This type of devices has the capacity to make precise determinations, in a short time (15-17 minutes), using minimum quantities of integral blood, without using test tubes, sepsis biomarkers and other additional material. The possibility to fast diagnose sepsis, offers the doctors from the Emergency Department, the capacity to fast initiate an antibiotic treatment, to hospitalize the patient and at the same time, it gives them the certainty that they did not miss the sepsis diagnosis, thus avoiding the situation of malpractice. A preliminary study, regarding the sepsis biomarkers, which took place in the Emergency Unit of University Central Emergency Military Hospital, is also presented within this article. Keywords: sepsis, POCT, Emergency Department