Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Update Universe

2 Acknowledgements I feel very fortunate for being able to get a scholarship from the Beth foundation and to study here at the ILLC. My pleasant stay at Amsterdam and the completion of this thesis are mainly due to the people I met here. I give my greatest thankfulness to all of them. I thank Johan van Benthem, first as my mentor in the programme, and then as my thesis advisor. I gained a lot from his enthusiastic and humorous lectures in Core Logic, and from his thought provoking conversations. I am always very impressed by his prompt and long emails on my work. I thank Jan van Eijck for his encouragement and support for the past months. I began to do a project on dynamic epistemic logics with him when Johan left for Stanford. My work with him became the start of this thesis when Johan came back in June. In particular, chapter 3 of this thesis is our joint work and the inspiration is due to him. From him, I gained a better appreciation of the discoveries in the field, as well as the frustration endured and satisfaction enjoyed by scientists. I thank Barteld Kooi for his involvement in my thesis in the final stage, as well as his lectures in Logic and Games half year ago. His patience replying to my numerous emails is the reason I reply a big thanks here. I thank Dick de Jongh for the year long support since I came here. He always helped me feel at home, and was ready to offer nice suggestions for my studies. I thank Peter van Emde Boas for his Information Theory and Game Theory courses. He was always ready to answer my questions on those courses, and what are the typical Dutch Sights that my camera shouldn't miss. He is particularly kind to chinese students. I thank Yde Venema for his wonderful lectures on Advanced Modal Logic course. His inspiring and extremely clear lectures spiked my interests in modal logic and deepened my understanding of modal logic itself. I thank Paul Dekker's patience in explaining the intuition behind his Structure for Semantics course. I thank Henrik for his discussions of those hard courses we had together in the past year. Those discussions greatly improved my (maybe our) understanding of the courses, and my English as well. Besides logic, we also enjoyed traveling around Holland with …
Role of PR Practices in Improving the Corporate Brand Equity in the Financial Services Sector in India

Introduction In the past two decades,PR has concealed advertising as the greatest influential power in marketing as well as branding. Public Relations is one of the best ways to maintain strong corporate brand equity. In today’s competitive market, brand – building is crucial. Strong brand can create options of growth, command market share, barrier of entry for competitors and consumer loyalty. The finance companies in India today are focusing more on the public relations as a way of brand building and to reach out to the customers. Objective The objective of the study was to investigate the impact of public relations activities being undertaken by the finance companies in India in the process of brand building. Methodology It was a primary research involving PR professionals from the finance companies in India. A total number of 121 PR professionals participated in the interview through a structured questionnaire. Result The public relations policies pursued by the finance companies had a significant impact on the process of brand building in India. 74.6% believed the impact of the discussed policies were positive whereas 25.4% believed it to be negative. The negative perception of over 25% of the respondents is a cause of concern. Key Words : Public Relations, Advertising, Brand Building, Brand Equity
The Construction of Femininity in Shopping

In different historical stages, the nature of women has been explained from the religious myth, the moral principles, the scientific rationality and the psychological analysis. In the consumer society, the widespread consumption not only changes people’s daily life but also their social relations, world views and values. Men and women with the effect of commodities show different characteristics. The consumption generalization is the basic fact in the consumer society. Women, as the important consuming power, become the key target group for enterprises and media. In order to correspond with the commercial operation, the mass media guides women and constructs a femininity to serve for the commercial profits.Generally speaking, consumption culture constructs femininity from the following two aspects: on the one side, it constructs a modern female beauty standard—young, beautiful and sexy. Women thus become a huge consuming group of hairdressing and fashion. On the other side, it still advocates the traditional image of good housewives. Female consumers are oriented as the agent purchasers for the whole family. It demonstrates in this paper that shopping is sexual consuming. Woman’s beautiful image and good housewives image presents on their “agent purchasers” role in shopping.
Using Domain Ontologies for Classification and Semantic Interpretation of Documents

The work presented in this paper addresses the problem of interpretation and semantic classification of documents. One of the issues faced by natural languages is related to the presence, in glossaries, of words with similar morphologies and different meanings. Our approach is based on the use of domain ontologies for nouns disambiguation. We begin our process with a global disambiguation, by linking the considered document to a semantic domain (represented by an ontology) which we select among several candidate ones. We define a candidate domain as any domain in which at least one significant word of the text can be considered and makes sense. We then perform a local disambiguation by using the selected ontology and finally build a semantic representation of the content of the document as a conceptual graph.
Digitalization of manufacturing process and open innovation: Survey results of small and medium sized firms in Japan

Digitalization has a transformative impact on innovation in firms and industry. In this paper, the results of the Survey on the Changing Nature of Manufacturing Processes and New Product Development are presented to show how the nature of Japanese SMEs in manufacturing industry is changing in the new IT era (AI, big data and IoT). It is found that a firm applying new IT, such as data analytics by machine learning, is likely to be involved in delivering digital services as well as new products (servitalization) and innovation ecosystem, interacting with multiple firms. Such firms address wider customer needs, instead of just meeting existing customer requirements, meaning that its product innovation is likely to happen in new business fields. In addition, a firm which extensively uses its customer data gains more sales and profit contributions from its new product.
Influence d’un environnement chaud et humide sur les réponses perceptives et physiologiques : applications dans le domaine du sport et de la santé.

La realisation d’une performance sportive dans un environnement chaud est un challenge majeur que doivent surmonter les athletes de haut niveau notamment a l’occasion des Jeux Olympiques d’ete. Depuis plusieurs decennies, les scientifiques ont tente de trouver des solutions innovantes. Parmi les reponses proposees, on distingue aujourd’hui le refroidissement corporel prealable ou consecutif a l’effort (le pre et le post-cooling, respectivement), qui permettrait de minimiser les risques d’hyperthermie et ameliorerait la recuperation de l’athlete. Cependant, les modalites d’utilisation de ces methodes et leur efficacite font l’objet de conclusions pour le moins contradictoires en raison notamment des techniques de refroidissement mises en œuvre (refroidissement par immersion, vetements thermoregulants, brumisation…), de la duree d’application, du type d’exercice realise et des conditions environnementales explorees. La preparation des Jeux Olympiques a Pekin, en Aout 2008, a ete une occasion unique de faire un etat de l’art sur les methodes existantes. Nous avons teste chez des cyclistes de haut niveau l’hypothese selon laquelle une strategie de refroidissement utilisant une veste garnie d’accumulateurs thermiques permettrait d’ameliorer le confort thermique et la performance lors d’un exercice de type anaerobie (Wingate test) et lors d’une epreuve d’endurance de 20 minutes. L’etude menee sur le test de Wingate ne montre aucun effet significatif du pre-cooling sur le pic de puissance ni sur la puissance moyenne mais permet neanmoins d’ameliorer significativement (P < 0,05) l’indice de fatigue des athletes testes. Sur l’epreuve de 20 minutes, le pre-cooling permet une amelioration significative (P < 0,05) de la puissance moyenne developpee, du confort thermique et une baisse significative des temperatures cutanees et rectales. Une autre etude portant sur l’influence de differents maillots sur les reponses physiologiques et perceptives de coureurs cyclistes a montre qu’un maillot constitue de larges mailles offrait un meilleur confort thermique en diminuant significativement (P < 0,05) la temperature cutanee, mais sans modifier la perception de l’effort. Les benefices observes chez les cyclistes de haut niveau nous ont orientes vers la mise en œuvre d’un protocole similaire applique a des personnes atteintes de pathologies affectant la thermoregulation. Ainsi, nous avons debute un protocole de recherche clinique exploratoire visant a etudier les effets du port d’une veste thermoregulante sur les performances motrices et cognitives de patients atteints de sclerose en plaques. Ce protocole, qui a obtenu l’accord du Comite de Protection des Personnes du Grand Est –II, devrait commencer fin 2012.
Dose Response Study of Atopy Patch Test in Children with Atopic Eczema

Eczematous reactions in atopic eczema (AE) patients can be elicited by epicutaneous application (patch testing) of IgE-inducing allergens (atopy patch test [APT]). The feasibility and technical aspects of this method in children were investigated in a multicenter trial in seven German university departments. Thirty children with AE (age range, 5–14 years; mean age, 9.4 years) were tested with lyophilized allergen preparations of house dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus), cat dander, and grass pollen in petrolatum on uninvolved, untreated, and unabraded back skin. Allergens were applied in concentrations of 300, 1000, 3000, and 5000 protein nitrogen units per gram (PNU/g). Reactions were evaluated after 48 and 72 hours according to ICDRG guidelines and compared with the patients' allergen-specific histories of eczema flares. A total of 41% of children reacted with at least one clearcut positive APT reaction to D. pteronyssinus, 17% reacted to cat dander, and 15% reacted to grass pollen. The frequenc.
ANOMALI MONDAY EFFECT PADA IHSG DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA PERIODE 2009-2011

The likelihood of a market correction before the holidays due to the uneven distribution of information, which means a change or a rise and fall of stock prices in the market are always influenced by the information that is important and relevant. To avoid the uncertainty and mitigate risk, market participants behave better not hold shares of the holidays. This research wants to analyze whether there is influence of the holiday (holiday effect) to the Composite Stock Price Index (CSPI) in Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2009-2011. Researchers will use the closing price of the shares belonging to the JCI 1 (one) week prior to the holiday and 1 (one) week after the holiday. The results using dummy regression showed that discovered the existence of the phenomenon of Anomaly Holiday Effect on Stock Price Index (CSPI) in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during the observation period. Based on observation of the data that has been processed, it can be also a national holiday that has the most significant effect on the normal trading day of Eid. Where the conditions of the market after the holiday is very significant and fluctuated . Keyword : Anomali Monday effect , IHSG
Peptic Ulcer Disease in Older People

Peptic ulcer disease is a common disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Peptic ulcer disease has a major impact on quality of life and on the utilisation of the health system when complications occur. Understanding the causative roles of Helicobacter pylori and non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs has led to changes in management of the disease. Comorbidities in older people add further complexity to treatment. This article summarises the clinical aspects of peptic ulcer disease and outlines principles which enable effective treatment.
Musculoskeletal disease in diabetes

The musculoskeletal complications of diabetes are frequently neglected in the clinical consultation. Hyperglycaemia, insulin levels and genetic variations have been implicated in the pathogenesis of skeletal abnormalities seen with diabetes. Several musculoskeletal conditions are seen almost exclusively with diabetes whilst others are seen more frequently. Links between the musculoskeletal and microvascular complications of diabetes have been suggested. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Analysis and FPGA Realization of a Pulse Width Modulator Based on Voltage Space Vectors

width modulation based on space vectors (SVPWM) technique has become the most popular and important PWM techniques for three phase voltage source inverters (VSI). In this paper, we present the analysis and realization of SVPWM for variable speed control of AC motor drives, employing Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA device. The selection of zero vectors and space vector sequence are given and the possibilities of realization on FPGA are analyzed in this paper. A voltage source inverter with the proposed SVPWM was simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK. The simulation and experimental results proved the proposed scheme.
Rollenmodelle für die Zugriffskontrolle in Unternehmen

Ich erkläre hiermit, die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig verfasst und keine anderen als die an-gegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel verwendet zu haben. Technical Layer-Server-side c&m Infrastructuremodell zu geben, skizziert Information 4 diese explizite Trennung an. Das Vorgehensmodell orientiert sich am klassischen Software-Entwicklungszyklus und ist un-terteilt in die Analysephase, Entwurfsphase, Implementierungsphase und die abschließende Be-8 Einleitung Forschungsgruppe C&M triebsphase. Da ed.consult als Beratungsunternehmen sowohl über technisches Wissen verfügt, als auch die Unternehmensstrukturen von c&m kennt, ist es an dem gesamten Prozess federfüh-rend beteiligt. In einem ersten Schritt zur Einführung einer rollenbasierten Unternehmensstruk-tur ist es nötig, eine Bestandsaufnahme der technischen und organisatorischen Strukturen vor-zunehmen. Hier spiegelt sich das eingangs erwähnte hybride Vorgehen wider. 10 Einleitung
Construire un corpus Web pour l'acquisition terminologique

Les donnees textuelles occupent une place cruciale dans les travaux d'acquisition de connaissances a partir de corpus. Ce sont ces donnees qui definissent le type et la nature des traitements que l'on pourra effectuer ainsi que la nature des donnees que l'on pourra y trouver. La constitution du corpus de specialite s'avere donc une tâche tres delicate. Nous presentons dans cet article une tentative d'automatisation de la tâche de constitution d'un corpus a partir du Web. La methode semi-automatique developpee permet de reperer, grâce a des mots cles, des documents du domaine, de les rapatrier et de proposer une selection des plus pertinents. Elle se decompose en quatre etapes: (1) recherche sur le Web de documents abordant le domaine; (2) selection parmi ceux-ci des plus representatifs du domaine; (3) regroupement des documents en sous-corpus homogenes; (4) formatage, normalisation et documentation du corpus. L'article detaille les deux premieres etapes. Appliquee a la constitution d'un corpus de specialite en francais, la methode permet d'obtenir des resultats interessants bien qu'insuffisants.
SPLIT-BRAIN THEORY AND EDUCATION

ancestors. But modern scientific investigation is opening the way to a 'new' psychology. It has revealed that the human brain is essentially a double organ, the twin hemispheres of which perform very different functions. Left-hemisphere processing is associated with logical analysis, verbal reasoning and the orderly sequencing of ideas; the right hemisphere with the unconscious, intuition and emotion. It is the right hemisphere (which is closely associated with the ancient limbic brain, the so-called emotional brain) which is the 'specialist in emotional matters'. Although research in this area of investigation is still at an early stage of development, and beset by complex methodological and theoretical problems, it is predicted that it will lead eventually to nothing less than a paradigmatic shift in the general consciousness and a 'right-brain' revolution in education. Traditional education, it is alleged, has been dominated by 'left-brained' approaches, by a preoccupation with developing rationality and verbal abilities at the expense of emotion. What is needed is a better balance between the intellectual and the 'feeling' sides of human nature2. Similar such complaints have been made often enough in the past, of course, but what is new in the present formulation are the kinds of remedy being prescribed for correcting this imbalance. All over America, it is reported, spiritual and meditative disciplines, involving 'centring' exercises, yoga, relaxation and fantasy, are being used to promote new levels of awareness and affectively enriched states of consciousness. Never before, as the author of The Aquarian Conspiracy proclaims (and no one, surely, is likely to contradict her) has the deliberate use of consciousness-expanding techniques been so widely practised in mass education. Never before has a culture undertaken to develop 'whole-brain' knowing in the general populace for the express purpose of fusing intellect and feeling3.
Virtual Meta-Scripting Bytecode for PHP and JavaScript

Both PHP and JavaScript are frequently being targeted for exploiting web applications. This article elaborates on the idea of building a set of virtual machines on top of each programming language. As a result a single type of bytecode can be executed by both VMs. Particular emphasis is put on designing virtual machines to be most suitable for code obfuscation in a post exploitation scenario.
Recommending user connections by utilising the real-time Web

Social media services, such as Facebook and Twitter, thrive on user engagement around the active sharing and passive consumption of content. Many of these services have become an important way to discover relevant and interesting information in a timely manner. But to make the most of this aspect of these services it is important that users can locate and follow the most useful producers of relevant content. As these services have continued to grow rapidly this has become more and more of a challenge, especially for new users. This problem can be solved in principle by constructing a recommendation system based on a model of users’ preferences and interests to recommend new users worth following. In this thesis we propose a recommendation framework for friend finding. It is capable of integrating different sources of user preference information that is available through services such as Twitter and related services. It is also designed to provide a natural partitioning of user interests based on those topics that are core to the user versus those that are more peripheral and the social connections linked with the user. This provides access to a range of different types of recommendation strategies that may be more helpful in focusing the search for relevant users according to different types of user interests. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by evaluating recommendation quality across large sets of real-world users.
Effect of Early Otitis Media on Some Psychoacoustic Measures

Otitis media with effusion (OME) is a relatively common childhood disease, char acterized by an accumulation of serous fluid in the middle-ear space. OME is often sec ondary to upper respiratory tract infection in conjunction with poor eustachian tube function. Because OME is often accompa nied by a mild, fluctuating conductive hear ing loss
A Novel Multi-level Wavelet Image Coding Algorithm by Full Sub-band Compressed Sensing

The performance of wavelet transform based image compressed sensing coding algorithms severely rely on the level of wavelet transform. To this end, this paper investigated the combination of mutil-level wavelet full sub-band in compressed sensing framework. Firstly, we constructed a full sub-band coefficient sparse vector of mutil-level discrete wavelet transform. Secondly, we designed a weight matrix to improve measurement matrix. Finally, sparsity vector was processed by compressed sensing to get the measured value. Compared with the exiting algorithms, the experimental results of the proposed algorithm show that the PSNRs of reconstructed images is improve up to 1~2dB under the same objective quality. Keywords—image coding; wavelet transform; compressed sensing; full sub-band coefficient sparsity vector
Popular functional foods and nutraceuticals with lipid lowering activity and in relation to cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, and related complications: an overview

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common non-communicable ailment which claims one-third of total global death. This contribution provides an overview of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia (dyslipidemia) and their related complications as well as the current treatment options with special attention to popular functional foods and nutraceuticals. Currently, many synthetic lipid-lowering drugs are available in the market. However, they trigger several adverse effects. Thus, to overcome this problem nutraceuticals and functional foods which are considered safe, and with multifaceted lipid-lowering activity are highly recommended (adjuvant therapy) for treating dyslipidemia. This review intends to shed light on how to choose the appropriate or better nutraceutical/functional food ingredients to alleviate the risk of CVD, based on recent literature survey with the inclusion of clinical trials and meta-analysis to ensure the efficacy of nutraceuticals/ functional foods on lipid profile.