Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Caracterizando o bom aprendiz em língua materna

Knowing the characteristics of a good learner of native language enables the teacher to increase his/her knowledge on the teaching-learning process, change his/her theoretical and pedagogical practice, and help other learners. To answer the question “What are the characteristics of a good learner of native language? ”, an investigation was carried out in the Liberal Arts/ Language Course (“Letras”) at Universidade Estadual de Maringa, state of Parana, Brazil, in 1995, using one of the undergraduate students as subject. The aim of the investigation was to find the characteristics of the good learner and their implication in teaching and learning the native language. Applied Linguistics was the theoretical support for this study. The results demonstrated the existence of fifteen characteristics, besides the eight proposed by the literature.
Economics of Mass Deworming Programs

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) and schistosomiasis infections affect more than 1 billion people, mainly in lowand middle-income countries, particularly school-age children. Although light infections can be fairly asymptomatic, severe infections can have significant health effects, such as malnutrition, listlessness, organ damage, and internal bleeding (Bundy, Appleby, and others 2017). 1 Low-cost drugs are available and are the standard of medical care for diagnosed infections. Because diagnosis is relatively expensive, and treatment is inexpensive and safe, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends periodic mass treatments in areas where worm infections are greater than certain thresholds (WHO 2015). A number of organizations, including the Copenhagen Consensus, GiveWell, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which have reviewed the evidence for, and comparative cost-effectiveness of, a wide range of development interventions, have consistently ranked deworming as a priority for investment.2 However, Taylor-Robinson and others (2015) challenge this policy, accepting that those known to be infected should be treated but arguing that there is substantial evidence that mass drug administration (MDA) has no impact on a range of outcomes.3 This chapter discusses the economics of policy choices surrounding public investments in deworming and considers policy choices under two frameworks: • Welfare economics or public finance approach. Individuals are presumed to make decisions that maximize their own welfare, but government intervention may be justified in cases in which individual actions create externalities for others. These externalities could include health externalities from reductions in the transmission of infectious disease, as well as fiscal externalities if treatment increases long-term earnings and tax payments. Evidence on epidemiological and fiscal externalities from deworming will be important for informing decisions under this perspective. • Expected cost-effectiveness approach. Policy makers should pursue a policy if the statistical expectation of the value of benefits exceeds the cost. Future monetary benefits should be discounted back to the present. Policy makers may also value nonfinancial goals, such as weight gain or school participation; they should pursue a policy if the statistical expectation of the benefit achieved per unit of expenditure exceeds that of other policies that policy makers are considering.
The mechanical and control system design of a dexterous robotic gripper

The design and development of dexterous robotic end effectors has been an active research area for a long while. This paper reviews the design and construction of a versatile robotic gripper used to grasp objects of arbitrary shape, size and weight. This is achieved through a mechanical design that incorporates multiple fingers and multiple joints per finger, through the installation of proximity and force sensors on the gripper, and through the employment of an innovative and practical control system architecture for the gripper components. The gripper is installed on a standard six degree-of-freedom industrial robot, and the gripper and robot control programs are integrated in a manner that allows easy application of the gripper in an industrial pick-and-place operation where the characteristics of the object can vary or are unknown.
Information Security Awareness: An Application of Psychological Factors – A Study in Malaysia

Current technology advancement promotes borderless environment among individuals, organisations, global industries or public per se. It is akin to having a home but a physical house that is not visible. Looking at the present cybercrime trends, it cannot be disputed that information security is a key matter to observe in the rapid advancement of technology. Information security can be achieved through not only technological and procedural aspects but also the people aspect of information security. An examination of individual's self awareness of information security based on identified key computing areas is carried out through this study. This study aims to provide evidence to organisation(s) in identifying individuals who can be effective defenders to man critical systems and be change agents / ambassadors to cultivate a more security aware community. Index Terms - Information security awareness, self awareness, five factors model (FFM), theory of planned behavior.
A GridRPC Model and API for End-User Applications

This document presents a model and API for GridRPC, i.e., a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism for grid environments. Specifically this document is targeted for end-user applications, not middleware. That is to say, this document presents a simpler version of the GridRPC model and API that is completely sufficient for end-users and does not include the more complex features and capabilities required for building middleware. As a Recommendations track document in the Global Grid Forum, the goal of this document is to clearly and unambiguously define the syntax and semantics for GridRPC, thereby enabling a growing user base to take an advantage of multiple implementations. The motivation for this document is to provide an easy avenue of adoption for grid computing, since (1) RPC is an established distributed computing paradigm, and (2) there is a growing user-base for network-enabled services. By doing so, this document will also facilitate the development of multiple implementations.
Kırılgan Yaşlı ve Hemşirelik Bakımı / Fragile Elderly and Nursing Care

Kirilganlik, yasin ilerlemesi ile birlikte organlarda fizyolojik rezervin azalmasidir. Kirilganlik gunluk yasam aktivitelerini yerine getirmede zorlanma, kilo kaybi, gucsuzluk ve bagimli olma sorunlarina neden olabilir. Kirilgan yaslinin; yeti yitimi, bakimevine yatis ve hatta olum gibi olumsuz saglik sonuclari ile karsilasma riski saglikli akranlarina gore daha fazladir. Sarkopeni, kronik hastaliklar, immun islevlerde ve noro-endokrin sistemdeki degisiklikler kirilganligin gelisimine katkida bulunmaktadir. Kirilgan yasli, gunluk yasam aktivitelerini yerine getirme, ilac kullanimi, hastane kurum bakimi ihtiyacinin artmasi, ev ve cevre duzenlemeleri, sosyal destek ihtiyacinin artmasi, aile ve bireyin egitimi gibi konularda hemsirelik bakimina ihtiyac artmaktadir. Bu derlemenin yazilma amaci kirilgan yasli ile calisan hemsirelerin bakimlarina yon vermek ve meslektaslarimizin bilgilenmesine katki saglamaktir.
Retrospective analysis of 70 patients who underwent post-bariatric abdominoplasty with neo-omphaloplasty

Introduction: With the increasing surgical treatment of obesity, a new group of patients is being attended by plastic surgeons: those with large flaccid skin following weight loss. For patients treated with conventional or open bariatric surgery, vertical, anchor-line, or inverted “T” abdominoplasty has been widely used to improve the abdominal contour. In this study, abdominoplasty was associated with umbilical amputation followed by neo-omphaloplasty. Methods: Seventy patients with stable weight for at least 18 months underwent surgery at the UNICAMP Plastic Surgery Outpatient Clinic, from March 2011 to April 2013. In all patients, anchor-line abdominoplasty with excision of the original navel was executed, together with the surgical specimen and preparation of neo-umbilicus, through bilateral dermal-fat flaps. A retrospective analysis of medical records and photographic archives was performed. Results: The 70 patients were predominantly female (91%) and white (83%) with a mean age of 40 years. After a wait time of approximately 16 months, they were subjected to anchor-line abdominoplasty associated with neo-omphaloplasty, which lasted an average of 2 hours. There were post-operative complications in 29.85% of the patients, including small dehiscence, unsightly, enlarged, or hypertrophic scars, keloid, seroma, relevant dermo-fatty excesses, and wound infection. The neo-umbilicus obtained from the surgery is very similar to the original umbilicus. We did not observe necrosis, stenosis, morphological distortions, or bad positioning. Conclusion: This technique has made it possible to obtain an umbilicus with a natural look, is easy to perform, and shortens operating time.
EURO-Balise S 21 : Meilenstein für das ETCS

L'Eurobalise est le premier composant disponible du systeme europeen de commande de la marche des trains ETCS. Apres determination generale du systeme de transmission, les details sur les interfaces individuels etaient definis dans un accord des entreprises industrielles concernees. En 1996, ces specifications sont verifiees avec l'aide d'echantillons pour former la base pour des mises en adjucation. Prennant ces specifications pour base, la maison Siemens offre des options additionnelles augmontant encore plus la rentabilite et l'efficience du systeme.
Ripple effect in SDL specification

The ripple effect is one of the most important causes of the difficulty of software maintenance work. This paper presents a model of the ripple effect in the SDL specification. First, some concepts are defined and a classification is made. Then ripple effects on different abstract levels of the SDL and their interactive relationships are discussed. Also the benefits due to using ripple effect analysis are described in terms that are useful to maintenance personnel and project managers.
Roots Of Time A Portrait Of African Life And Culture

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MPEG digital audio coding

The Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) within the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) has developed a series of audio-visual standards known as MFEG-1 and MPEG-2. These audio-coding standards are the first international standards in the field of high-quality digital audio compression. MPEG-1 covers coding of stereophonic audio signals at high sampling rates aiming at transparent quality, whereas MPEG-2 also offers stereophonic audio coding at lower sampling rates. In addition, MPEG-2 introduces multichannel coding with and without backwards compatibility to MPEG-1 to provide an improved acoustical image for audio-only applications and for enhanced television and video-conferencing systems. MPEG-2 audio coding without backwards compatibility, called IMPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), offers the highest compression rates. Typical application areas for MPEG-based digital audio are in the fields of audio production, program distribution and exchange, digital sound broadcasting, digital storage, and various multimedia applications. We describe in some detail the key technologies and main features of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio coders. We also present the MPEG-4 standard and discuss some of the typical applications for MPEG audio compression.
LEAD ABSORPTION FROM BULLETS LODGED IN TISSUES: REPORT OF TWO CASES

Whether bullets remaining in tissues can give rise to lead poisoning has long been a subject of discussion. The great body of opinion, first expressed by Pare, holds that bullets in tissues will not cause intoxication, but there have also been proponents of the opposite point of view, and cases of plumbism from retained bullets have been reported from time to time, the earliest record being that of Bronvin 1 in 1867. Among the more than fifty publications on this subject there are reports of forty cases in which the clinical diagnosis of plumbism resulting from retained bullets has been made. 2 The entire assumption of the occurrence of plumbism from retained bullets being dependent on the occurrence of clinically identifiable lead poisoning, it would seem desirable at the outset to state the criteria on which my associates and I base such a diagnosis. They are the existence of (1)
Securing the Femtocells: Anonymity and Location Privacy

Femtocells have been proposed as solution for high-speed mobile network (i.e. LTE) bandwidth requirements. Research work in the field of securing femtocells is still in its infant stage. In this research contribution an attempt has been done to identify and mitigate a possible attack in the femtocells where locational information about a femtocell user is disclosed. The proposed mechanism notifies the femto entity under threat about the attack. Also a novel Multi-hop algorithm has been proposed to hide the details of the communicating parties from the attacker.
Sparse Optimization Methods and Statistical Modeling with Applications to Finance

Author(s): Ho, Michael | Advisor(s): Xin, Jack | Abstract: It is well known that the out-of-sample performance of Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio criterion can be negatively affected by estimation errors in the mean and covariance. In this dissertation we examine methods to address this problem through application of methods and techniques from sparse optimization and modeling. Two new techniques are developed with the aim of improving the performance of mean-variance portfolio optimization.In the first technique a pairwise weighted elastic net penalized mean-variance criterion for portfolio design in proposed. Here we motivate the use of this penalty through a robust optimization interpretation. This interpretation is then employed to develop a bootstrap calibration technique for the pairwise elastic net. The benefit of the pairwise weighted elastic net and calibration is shown in portfolio performance results using recent U.S. stock market data.In the second application robust Kalman filtering techniques are applied to return covariance estimation from high frequency financial price data. The methods developed address three factors which make covariance estimation from high frequency data difficult: 1) microstructure noise, 2) asynchronous trading, and 3) jumps. The performance of these robust Kalman filtering techniques are tested against simulated high frequency data and are compared with other existing covariance estimators. The results indicate that the robust Kalman filtering techniques substantially improve covariance estimation performance versus other approaches.
Reka bentuk perisian multimedia

Buku Reka Bentuk Perisian Multimedia ini ditulis khusus bagi membantu individu yang berminat untuk mereka bentuk perisian pengajaran dan pembelajaran berbantukan komputer berdasarkan teori, model, dan panduan mereka bentuk perisian yang betul. Pematuhanterhadap teori, model, dan panduan ini akan menjamin penghasilan perisian yang bermutu tinggi serta memenuhi cita rasa pengguna. Buku ini sesuai digunakan oleh sesiapa sahaja yang berminat untuk mendalami bidang reka bentuk multimedia tanpa mengira peringkat usia dan latar belakang pendidikan. Malah, buku ini sesuai digunakan sebagai buku teks bagi mata pelajaran yang berkaitan dengan asas reka bentuk pengajaran atau perisian multimedia sama ada di peringkat sekolah mahupun institusi pengajian tinggi.
Changes in Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence in Korea for 21 Years: a Single Center Study

Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is mostly asymptomatic but can be detrimental to certain hosts. We investigated changes of CMV seroprevalence in Koreans before and after the year 2000. Methods: We reviewed laboratory values of patients who were tested for CMV immunoglobulin G (IgG) at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, from January 1995 to December 2015. Changes in seroprevalence were analyzed by gender, age, region, and tested year period (period 1, 1995–2005 vs. period 2, 2006–2015). Results: Overall CMV seropositivity was 94.1% (10,900/11,584). There was no significant difference for CMV seropositivity among the two periods (94.2% vs. 94.1%) (P=0.862). CMV seropositivity in the 11 to 20-year age group in period 2 (78.8%) was significantly lower than that of period 1 (89.9%) (P=0.001). The seropositivity of individuals aged 31–40 years (97.4%) was significantly higher than that of younger age groups (P<0.001) and lower than that of older age groups (P<0.001). Of 2,441 females of reproductive age (from 15 to 49), CMV seropositivity was 97% (2,467/2,441). The seropositivity in women aged 20–24-years was higher than that of men in the same age group (97.6% vs. 85.6%, P=0.003). No significant difference was observed among different regions. Conclusions: Overall CMV seropositivity of Koreans was estimated to be 94% and the average seropositivity of reproductive women was 97%. Monitoring of the changes in seroprevalence including the reproductive age group is needed in the future.
Exploiting the Contagious Effect for Employee Turnover Prediction

Talent turnover often costs a large amount of business time, money and performance. Therefore, employee turnover prediction is critical for proactive talent management. Existing approaches on turnover prediction are mainly based on profiling of employees and their working environments, while the important contagious effect of employee turnovers has been largely ignored. To this end, in this paper, we propose a contagious effect heterogeneous neural network (CEHNN) for turnover prediction by integrating the employee profiles, the environmental factors, and more importantly, the influence of turnover behaviors of co-workers. Moreover, a global attention mechanism is designed to evaluate the heterogeneous impact on potential turnover behaviors. This attention mechanism can improve the interpretability of turnover prediction and provide actionable insights for talent retention. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments and case studies on a realworld dataset from a large company to validate the effectiveness of the contagious effect for turnover prediction.
On Verification and Application of Behavioral Inheritance for Parallel Synchronized Interworkflows

An interworkflow N is constructed by connecting a workflow N X with another workflow N Y , so interworkflow N should inherit the behavior from workflow N X (and workflow N Y ). Behavioral inheritance guarantees that interworkflow N can be substituted for workflow N X . Nevertheless it may happen that the behavior is not inherited. Behavioral inheritance can be verified by comparing the reachability graphs of the WF-nets representing interworkflow N and workflow N X . However this verification method is limited to small interworkflows due to the complexity of the state-space explosion. Focusing on a pattern of interworkflows, called Parallel synchronized pattern, we propose a condition to verify behavioral inheritance of Parallel synchronized interworkflows. This condition enables us to verify the behavioral inheritance in polynomial time.
Annotateurs volontaires investis et éthique de l'annotation de lettres de suicidés

Cet article presente une perspective ethique sur le projet decrit dans (Pestian et al., 2012b). La campagne d'annotation en question a vise a produire un corpus de lettres de suicides annotees en emotions. Les annotateurs etaient soit des parents ou des amis de suicides, soit des professionnels de la sante mentale. Nous appelons ces annotateurs benevoles, volontaires pour faire avancer la recherche, des volontaires investis. Ce projet souleve un certain nombre de questions ethiques, notamment en ce qui concerne le role de l'empathie des annotateurs, les effets possibles sur ceux-ci et les utilisations potentielles des resultats obtenus. Nous concluons par une analyse du corpus du point de vue de la Charte Ethique et Big Data. Abstract. Annotating suicide notes : ethical issues at a glance. According to the World Health Organization, 800,000 people die of suicide every year. About 20% of them leave a written message. This paper discusses a corpus of such messages. The corpus was annotated with reference to the emotions expressed in the notes. The annotators were family or friends of someone who had died by suicide, or mental health professionals. We refer to these non-coercivally and altruistically motivated annotators as vested volunteers. A number of ethical issues are explored with this task and group of annotators, including the role of empathy, possible effects on the annotators, and the uses that might be made of the products of the annotation project. We conclude considering the project from the point of view of the Ethics and Big Data Charter.
El Evangelio según San Mateo

El Evangelio segun San Mateo una adapatacion cinematografica de Pier Paolo Pasolini Este trabajo tiene tres partes, en la primera parte se describe la adaptacion filmica: mencionando diferentes clases de adaptaciones, tales como la adaptacion fiel, la adaptacion libre, la adaptacion prestada y otros. Dando especial enfasis a la relacion entre texto y obra cinematografica, comparando sus distintas expresiones artisticas. En la segunda parte se presenta al poeta Pier Paolo Pasolini como cineasta, vislumbrando sus peliculas mas importantes, analizando y exponiendo las diferentes etapas en su desarrollo como cineasta. El tercer capitulo se centra en la pelicula “El Evangelio segun San Mateo “de Pier Paolo Pasolini. Utilizando el guion de dicho director se compara su creacion cinematografica con el arte pictorico, facilitando a Pier Paolo Pasolini desarrollar un nuevo lenguaje cinematografico, conocido como la sacralidad tecnica.