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Don Quixote and Jesus Christ: The suffering "Idealists" of Modern Religion

espanolLa figura de Don Quijote ha sido siempre examinada como la de un personaje que simboliza el absurdo de la busqueda idealista. Por lo tanto, incontables generaciones han sido capaces de apropiarse temporalmente de este caballero medieval como representante de su propia situacion historica. A traves de muy diversa tradicion poetica, ensayistica, o novelesca, grandes pensadores han elevado el espiritu del Quijote desde las paginas de Cervantes, y revivido a este loco caballero como simbolo, no solo como estandarte de la fe en uno mismo, sino tambien de la fe en el sentido religioso o espiritual en este mundo moderno y racional. Si bien esta evolucion del pensamiento ha sido desarrollada y explorada a traves de diversos movimientos literarios, el analisis de ilustraciones modernas de Don Quijote han sido ampliamente descuidadas. En otras palabras, para apreciar la evolucion del espiritu quijotesco ha de prestarse especial atencion a las composiciones artisticas del siglo XX, con la obra de Salvador Dali a la cabeza. Con una edicion de 1945 de la obra cervantina, Dali refleja a traves de la iconografia cristiana la figura de un Don Quijote irracional que sufre a causa de su idealismo. EnglishThe figure of Don Quixote has always been seen as a character symbolizing the absurdity of idealistic pursuits. As such, countless generations have been able to temporally appropriate this medieval knight as representative of their own historical situation. Through a lineage of poetry, essays, novels, and scholarship, great thinkers have lifted the spirit of Quixote from Cervantes� pages and revived the heralded knight of folly as a symbol of the incongruous place of not only faith in ideals but faith of a religious or spiritual nature in the modern, rational world. While this progression of thought has been well developed and explored through literary movements, modern illustrations of Don Quixote have been largely neglected in scholarship. Thus, to see how Don Quixote�s spirit has been revived visually in the twentieth century, scholars may turn to the work of Salvador Dali. Through a series of illustrations for a 1945 edition of Quixote, Dali utilizes the iconography of Jesus Christ to express Don Quixote as an irrational figure who suffers for his idealistic pursuits.
Standardized Tests for the Evaluation and Classification of Workload Metrics

Although a variety of metrics are available for workload assessment, little research has been conducted to construct guidelines for optimally matching them to individual workload questions or test environments. In an effort to remedy this problem, AFAMRL is currently developing a standardized methodology which will be used to evaluate candidate workload measures on several theoretical and pragmatic criteria. The central feature of this methodology is a set of representative loading tasks. This paper outlines the analyses that were conducted to screen potential components of the Criterion Task Set (CTS) and describes the tasks which were selected to produce demands on a number of functional dimensions of information processing.
Analysis, interpretation and synthesis of facial expressions

This thesis describes a computer vision system for observing the "action units" of a face using video sequences as input. The visual observation (sensing) is achieved by using an optimal estimation optical flow method coupled with a geometric and a physical (muscle) model describing the facial structure. This modeling results in a time-varying spatial patterning of facial shape and a parametric representation of the independent muscle action groups responsible for the observed facial motions. These muscle action patterns are then used for analysis, interpretation, recognition, and synthesis of facial expressions. Thus, by interpreting facial motions within a physics-based optimal estimation framework, a new control model of facial movement is developed. The newly extracted action units (which we name "FACS+") are both physics and geometry-based, and extend the well known FACS parameters for facial expressions by adding temporal information and non-local spatial patterning of facial motion. (Copies available exclusively from MIT Libraries, Rm. 14-0551, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. Ph. 617-253-5668; Fax 617-253-1690.)
Resilient Network Coding for Wireless Sensor Networks

Network coding is a novel multicast paradigm for maximising throughput. Resilient network coding is an extension that aims to provide resilience against eavesdropping and Byzantine packet modification by incorporating randomness and redundancy. Our review of resilient network coding schemes shows that, in the context of WSNs, only resilience against eavesdropping is achievable, when used in combination with a cryptographic scheme. We propose Relinc, a security architecture that is built on top of random key pre-distribution (RKP), and that uses k-generic random linear network coding as the coding scheme. Through simulations, we show that Relinc is more resilient than RKP by itself. For example, when 1 out of 100 nodes are compromised, between 70% and 90% of random topologies are still secure if Relinc is used, but only between 10% and 40% of random topologies are secure if RKP alone is used. The impact of this finding is that with proper redundancy and randomization, network coding can make a WSN that is already secured by RKP a few times more resilient to eavesdropping attacks.
Learning Object Tendency: A New Concept for Adaptive Learning Improvement

Improving the learning quality in e-learning environments has received considerable attention from researchers. One of the methods to improve the understanding of the students in a learning process is adapting the content to their learning styles. The learning style models are used to classify the students in different groups based on their appropriate style of learning. In e-learning we can use the learning styles to categorize learning contents suitable for each group. In this paper we present a new concept called Learning Object Tendency. Considering this concept the learning objects are classified based on the learning styles of the students. Therefore, by determining the tendency of a learning object, we can present that the appropriate learning object to the learners . To determine the tendency of a learning object we proposed a method based on the assessment of the learner progress in a learning object. The Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model is used to determine the learning style of the students. The pre-tests and post-tests are taken before and after presentation of each learning object to estimate the level of learning progress. By applying the results of the tests to a probabilistic model we classify the learning object in a specific tendency.
Adaptive execution in complex dynamic worlds

A robot acting in the real world must use flexible plans because actions will sometimes fail to produce desired effects, and unexpected events will sometimes demand the robot shift its attention. A plan is usually construed as a list of primitive robot actions to be executed one after another but in a complex domain, a plan must be structured to cope effectively with the myriad unpredictable details it will encounter during execution. However, adding structure to a plan involves more than augmenting the primitive plan representation; it requires a complete model of interaction with the world called situation-driven execution. Situation-driven execution assumes that a plan consists of tasks with three major components: a satisfaction test, a window of activity, and a set of execution methods that are appropriate in different circumstances. Execution of such a plan proceeds by selecting an unsatisfied task and choosing a method to achieve it based on the current world state. A task may be executed as many times as necessary to keep it satisfied while it is active. This thesis proposes a plan and task representation based on program-like reactive action packages, or RAPs. A plan consists of RAP-defined tasks and each RAP generates primitive robot actions at execution time by selecting its most appropriate method. Within such a system, execution monitoring becomes an intrinsic part of the execution algorithm, and the need for separate replanning on failure disappears. RAPs are more than just programs that run at execution time, however, they are also hierarchical building blocks for plan construction. The RAP representation is structured to make a task's expected behavior evident for use in planning as well as in execution. The RAP execution system described includes a sensor memory, representation language and interpreter. Examples and experiments demonstrate a wide range of adaptive system behavior.
Transform analysis for Hawkes processes with applications in dark pool trading

Hawkes processes are a class of simple point processes that are self-exciting and have a clustering effect, with wide applications in finance, social networks and many other fields. This paper considers a self-exciting Hawkes process where the baseline intensity is time-dependent, the exciting function is a general function and the jump sizes of the intensity process are independent and identically distributed nonnegative random variables. This Hawkes model is non-Markovian in general. We obtain closed-form formulas for the Laplace transform, moments and the distribution of the Hawkes process. To illustrate the applications of our results, we use the Hawkes process to model the clustered arrival of trades in a dark pool and analyse various performance metrics including time-to-first-fill, time-to-complete-fill and the expected fill rate of a resting dark order.
A Novel Approach to Paraphrase Hindi Sentences using Natural Language Processing

Background/Objectives: Nowadays, most of the automatic work has been done in English language but not much work has been done in Hindi language. The main objective is to convert the existing sentence in different form by remaining the semantic or meaning same. This will helpful in converting the complex sentence into simpler one.Methods/Statistical Analysis:Our system mainly deals with Hindi Sentences and its different forms. It takes a sentence as input and produces another sentence without changing its semantic after applying synonyms and antonyms replacement method.Findings:Reframing of Hindi sentences can be used to change a complex sentence in simplified form.The system is implemented in java. WampServer is used as database for our system. In our paper, we have described complete algorithm to paraphrase the sentences. The performance of the system is totally dependent on the size of Database. Application/Improvements:This application can be helpful in designing robots to understand different forms of Hindi sentences, to use as Hindi tutor for students to get them idea about different form of sentences and in plagiarism tools to find the higher level of plagiarized text up to certain extent. The test results have been verified by various tutors.
A study of three-edge connectivity algorithms - Refinement and implementation

There are quite a number of linear algorithms to compute 3-edge connected components of a multi-graph. In this thesis, we study the three most efficient algorithms and exclude other algorithms that are obviously inferior as they use different types of transformation in multiple phases. We present a data structure model for cut-pair deletion in order to save space and to be able to handle larger input sizes on a platform. Using complexity arguments we also present a modification to one of the three algorithms that does not look for cut-pairs. We then show through our experimental results that this algorithm and another one that does not distinguish between cut-pairs have the fastest execution time, and each of them is better than the other for some cases. To the best of our knowledge, till now, there is no such an effort to show how the performance of the algorithms varies as the type and the size of given graph changes. Correctness proofs of the proposed way for cut-pair deletion and the modification are presented as well.
Usefulness of and Factors Associated with Global Assessment Scale (GAS)Scores in Suicide Attempters

Background: The purpose of this study is to determine, by classifying emergently admitted suicide attempter patients according to their Global Assessment Scale (GAS) scores, the characteristics of and factors associated with each group of patients. Methods: The subjects of this study were 1,317 suicide attempters who were seen at the primary/secondary emergency department of the Iwate Medical University Hospital and at the Iwate Advanced Critical Care and Emergency Center, during the period of 7 years from April 1, 2006. These subjects were classified into three groups, consisting of the low, middle and high score groups, and were analyzed by comparing these groups with each other in terms of background factors and psychiatric assessment of emergency psychiatry case cards. Comparison examination was performed among 3 groups, and multiple logistic regression analysis was performed by using investigation items and the three GAS score groups as explanatory and dependent variables, respectively Results: Factors associated with the low score group included being male, advanced age and unemployed, and high life event values. The odds of completed suicide in this group were more than 5-fold higher than in the other two groups. Past history of suicide attempts was extracted as a factor associated with the middle score group. Factors associated with the high score group included: being female; young age; having no history of regular psychiatric visits; having history of advice seeking prior to the attempted suicide; and complex motives. Conclusions: This paper determined characteristics of emergently admitted suicide attempters according to their GAS score levels, and proposed specific measures to be taken according to individual patientsâ€™ GAS scores. It was suggested that in an emergency setting involving a suicide attempter, a global assessment of the patient and treatment given according to the assessment results may lead to the prevention of further suicide attempts.
Manifestações Articulares em Pacientes com Doença de Crohn e Retocolite Ulcerativa Articular Manifestations in Patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Joint involvement is the most commom extraintestinal manifestation in patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. The colitic arthritis, lately called enteropathic arthritis, is classified as one of the diseases of the spondyloarthropathies group. There are two patterns of joint involvement: 1) peripheral arthritis, usually coincides with exacerbations of the inflammatory bowel disease and is not associated with the HLA B27 antigen; and 2) axial involvement, characterized by spondylitis and sacroiliitis, which the clinical course is independent of the intestinal disease, and has an association with HLA B27.
INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENTS AND INFORMATION USE TASKS WITH RESPECT TO DOCUMENT GENRES IN THE CONTEXT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Higher education requires intense information practices for knowledge diffusion, application, and innovation. Faculty assess and use a variety of documents when they teach their students. They make complex credibility assessments, and they use information with varying degrees of perceived credibility to achieve their teaching goals. Unfortunately, existing credibility research often stops once documents are selected. Our knowledge of the associations between credibility assessments and information use remains limited. Additionally, scholars agree professional tasks are associated with the genres of the documents used to accomplish these tasks. For example, instructional genres – including tutorials and lesson plans – are particularly useful to tasks related to educational pursuits. Despite the potential benefits that the identification of genres might provide in searching, navigation, and comprehension of information, researchers rarely exploit it to facilitate faculty’s document assessments and information use in support of their teaching. To solve the above problems, this study aimed at uncovering the associations between credibility assessments and information use tasks with respect to document genres in the context of university teaching. Specifically, it investigated whether there were associations: (1) between the criteria faculty employed to assess the credibility of the documents they used to support their teaching and the genres of these documents; (2) between the credibility criteria they employed to assess and the information use tasks they performed to use these documents; and (3) between the genres of these documents and the information use tasks they performed. Understanding the above associations could enhance our knowledge of the roles of document genres in making credibility assessments and information use decisions in the context of university teaching. This study took a mixed-method, bottom-up approach to uncovering the above associations. It first employed qualitative citation analysis to identify the genres of the documents faculty used in their courses based on the citations in their teaching materials (e.g., syllabi, lecture slides, lab notes, and links to resources). Customized genre repertoires that detailed the contexts in which different genres were used in Excel format were created. Semi-structured interviews were then implemented to collect data about the courses included in this study, the general criteria faculty employed to select documents for their courses, the tasks they performed to use the information in the genres this study selected for in-depth interviews, and the criteria they employed to assess the selected genres. Interviews were fully transcribed for qualitative content analysis. The results of this study indicate the criteria faculty employed served as function enablers that bridged the selected genres and the information use tasks they performed to use these genres. Credibility was one of the function…
Behaviour of the polymorphonuclear leukocyte membrane fluidity and cytosolic Ca^{2+} content in vascular atherosclerotic disease with and without non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus

In 71 subjects with vascular atherosclerotic disease (VAD), in 32 VAD subjects with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and in 31 normal controls, we evaluated polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) membrane fluidity and PMN cytosolic Ca 2+ content. The PMN membrane fluidity was obtained by marking intact and unstimulated PMN cells with fluorescent probe 1-(4-(trimethylamino)phenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (TMA-DPH) and the PMN cytosolic Ca 2+ content was obtained by marking intact and unstimulated PMN cells with the fluorescent probe Fura 2-AM. From the obtained results, it is evident that PMN membrane fluidity does not differentiate normals from VAD subjects and VAD subjects with NIDDM, and normals from subjects with monovascular disease (MVAD) and polyvascular disease (PVAD) with and without NIDDM. The PMN cytosolic Ca 2+ content is significantly increased in VAD subjects and VAD subjects with NIDDM, and also in MVAD and PVAD subjects with and without NIDDM. A positive correlation is present between PMN membrane fluidity and PMN cytosolic Ca 2+ content in normals and VAD subjects, but not in VAD subjects with NIDDM. In conclusion, in VAD subjects with and without NIDDM, an increase of the PMN cytosolic Ca 2+ content is present; this increase might be related to the PMN spontaneous activation.
A radial line slot antenna without a slow wave structure

The radial line slot antenna is a thin circularly polarized antenna intended for satellite broadcast reception, and is expected to be highly efficient in principle. To improve the efficiency, it is necessary to suppress the grating lobe in the 90-deg direction by means of a slow-wave structure in the antenna. To this end, styrofoam is mainly used. However, it is more appealing to find a structure without any dielectric material from the viewpoint of heat resistance, fluctuation of the permittivity, and fabrication cost. This paper proposes a radial line slot antenna without a slow-wave structure in which the wavelength reduction phenomena due to slot coupling analyzed quantitatively are used intentionally. From the analysis, the antenna gain is derived as a function of the antenna thickness (waveguide height), which is the principal parameter for the wavelength reduction effect. It is demonstrated that the grating lobe can be suppressed. Also, by means of an experiment, the antenna efficiency of 61 percent is attained in a hollow configuration so that the viability of this approach is proven.
Investigación sobre los requisitos del movimiento colectivo coordinado en un sistema multi-agente

La robotica colectiva se interesa, de manera general, en el diseno y el control de sistemas multi-robot o multi-agente, grupos de robots o agentes trabajando de manera conjunta para lograr objetivos comunes. Estos sistemas son utiles en tareas que un solo individuo es incapaz de realizar, o bien en tareas en las cuales se obtiene una ganancia, en terminos de tiempo por ejemplo, si son ejecutadas por mas de un individuo. Tareas de este tipo son aquellas que requieren, por ejemplo, la dispersion espacial fisica o la suma de fuerzas. Debido a que el control de un sistema multi-robot o multi-agente esta descentralizado entre sus componentes, es necesario disenar e implantar estrategias que permitan a los miembros del sistema, coordinar sus acciones de modo que no interfieran entre ellos, asi como integrar sus recursos, e.g. movimientos o percepciones, para realizar un tarea colectiva. En este trabajo se analizan las estrategias de percepcion y propagacion de informacion de un agente que forma parte de un sistema multi-agente capaz de desplazarse de manera coordinada, denominadas en este trabajo principios de percepcion. Se propone asi mismo, un conjunto de guias de comportamiento para sistemas multi-agente capaces de movimiento colectivo coordinado, denominadas aqui como principios de organizacion. Por ultimo, se presentan y comparan resultados de la aplicacion de ambos tipos de principios para lograr el movimiento colectivo coordinado de grupos de agentes y de robots moviles.
Poster Abstract: Temperature Hints for Sensornet Routing

Real-world experiments have shown that the transmission power and the received signal strength of low-power radio transceivers used in sensornets decrease when temperature increases. We analyze how this phenomenon affects the network layer, and find that temperature fluctuations may cause undesirable behavior by sensornet routing protocols such as CTP and RPL. Furthermore, we present an approach to make these protocols robust to temperature fluctuations by augmenting the ETX link metric with temperature hints.
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: A Clinical Description of 17 Patients with a Newly Recognized Disease

Background In May 1993 an outbreak of severe respiratory illness occurred in the southwestern United States. A previously unknown hantavirus was identified as the cause. In Asia hantaviruses are associated with hemorrhagic fever and renal disease. They have not been known as a cause of human disease in North America. Methods We analyzed clinical, laboratory, and autopsy data on the first 17 persons with confirmed infection from this newly recognized strain of hantavirus. Results The mean age of the patients was 32.2 years (range, 13 to 64); 61 percent were women, 72 percent were Native American, 22 percent white, and 6 percent Hispanic. The most common prodromal symptoms were fever and myalgia (100 percent), cough or dyspnea (76 percent), gastrointestinal symptoms (76 percent), and headache (71 percent). The most common physical findings were tachypnea (100 percent), tachycardia (94 percent), and hypotension (50 percent). The laboratory findings included leukocytosis (median peak cell count, 26,000 per cu.