Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Hexagonally Sectored Routing Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks

The key issue in the study of wireless sensor network is the reduction in the energy consumption and thereby increasing the lifetime of the network. This paper presents a sectored approach based on LEACH. The entire network is divided into hexagonal sectors. Sectoring ensures a uniform distribution of cluster heads throughout the entire network. Cluster head selection is done on the basis of weight calculated for each node. This ensures the load balance in the network, which in turn helps in prolonging the lifetime of the network. Weight is calculated on the basis of residual energy and degree of each node. Simulation results show that this scheme reduces the energy consumption, balances the load and as a result increases the network lifetime.
Ruqual: A System for Assessing Post-Editing

Ruqual: A System for Assessing Post-Editing Jason Keith Housley Department of Linguistics and English Language Master of Arts Post-editing machine translation has become more common in recent years due to the increase in materials requiring translation and the effectiveness of machine translation systems. This project presents a system for formalizing structured translation specifications that facilitates the assessment of the performance of a post-editor. This report provides details concerning two software applications: the Ruqual Specifications Writer, which aids in the authoring of postediting project specifications, and the Ruqual Rubric Viewer which provides a graphical user interface for filling out a machine readable rubric file. The project as a whole relies on a definition of translation quality based on the specification approach. In order to test whether potential evaluators are able to reliably assess the quality of postedited translations, a user study was conducted that utilized the Specifications Writer and Rubric Viewer. The specifications developed for the project were based on actual post-editing data provided by Ray Flournoy of Adobe. The study involved simulating the work of five post-editors, which consisted of developing texts and scenarios. 17 non-expert graders rated the work of the five fictional post-editors, and an Intraclass Correlation of the graders responses shows that they are reliable to a high degree. The groundwork laid by this project should help in the development of other applications that assist in the assessment of translation projects in terms of a specification approach to quality.
Synthesis of switched current memory cells using the nullor approach and application to the design of high performance SI sigma delta modulators

Abstract: This work presents the design of switched current sigma delta modulators. The nullor approach is adopted to synthesize voltage followers used to design translinear-loop-based switched current memory cells. Besides, it is proposed an approach for computing optimal biases and sizing of transistors forming the modulator. This heuristic allowed us sampling a second order modulator up to 80MHz, ensuring more than 60dB of SNR.
Cognitive processes in comprehension

Find the secret to improve the quality of life by reading this cognitive processes in comprehension. This is a kind of book that you need now. Besides, it can be your favorite book to read after having this book. Do you ask why? Well, this is a book that has different characteristic with others. You may not need to know who the author is, how well-known the work is. As wise word, never judge the words from who speaks, but make the words as your good value to your life.
Análise biomecânica instrumental da técnica de judô Morote Seoi Nage, através de uma metodologia de treinamento

Judo is a worldwide practiced sport. A larger amount of research in the biomechanics field is needed for its development. Given the fact that this is a non-cyclic sport, there is a lot of trouble in finding equipments that are able to perform evaluations closer enough to a real combat situation. This work studies a training method, using a force platform, electromyography, and image processing, involving the Morote Seoi Nage judo technique. The training of entry and projection of strikes was divided in three different situations. The first with a static uke (the athlete that is being stroken), the second with a jumping uke being projected at the upwards impulsion instant and the third with a jumping uke being projected at the downwards impulsion instant. The electrical activities of the tori’s rectus femoris and the gastrocnemius muscles (tori is the athlete that performs the strike) were analyzed as well as its ground reaction force. The training differences between the three situations were analyzed. The results show that the proposed training method (upward phase) required less effort when the strike is performed, requiring 36% less effort compared to the downwards phase, using one of the rudiments defined by Jigoro Kano, of the maximal efficiency with the minimum effort.
Workshop : an experiment of reflection on design game qualities and controversies

How do various design games format and stage different collaborative inquiry, learning and reflection? At this hands-on workshop, we will collaboratively explore, relate and meta-reflect upon how different design (and learning) games can form part of experimental, co-design (research) processes and practice. Some shared playing of mainly analogue games brought by the workshop organizers and participants will provide the basis for engaging in a game-inspired experiment of collaboratively relating and reflecting upon qualities and controversies of different design games. This reflection experiment will be shaped around predefined and emerging topics.
Networked Multimedia Systems: Concepts, Architecture, and Design

1. Multimedia Systems Primer. 2. Multimedia Systems Requirements. 3. Multimedia Systems Technology: Coding and Compression. 4. Multimedia Systems Technology: I/O and Devices. 5. Multimedia Systems Technology: Networking. 6. Multimedia Systems Architecture. 7. Multimedia Systems Design: Traffic Analysis. 8. Multimedia Systems Design: Buffer Design. 9. Multimedia Systems Design: Traffic Shaping. 10. Multimedia Systems Design: Scheduling. 11. Multimedia Systems Design: Congestion Control. 12. Multimedia: System Design: System Software Trends. Appendix A. Multimedia Systems Technology: Standards. Acronyms. Glossary. Index.
Le projet de plate-forme électronique de construction et de gestion qualité de tests standardisés e-C&QCST

Cette recherche est commanditee par la Direction Generale des Technologies de la Recherche et de l'Energie (DGTRE) de la Region Wallonne (Belgique). Le Systeme Methodologique d'Aide a la Realisation de Tests (SMART) de l'Universite de Liege coordonne la recherche menee en partenariat avec l'Unite d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Ressources Humaines (UERRH) des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Liege.
Normalisation orthographique de corpus bruités

Les messages publies par les internautes comportent un interet strategique pour les entreprises. Neanmoins, peu d’outils ont ete concus pour faciliter l'analyse de ces messages souvent bruites. Cette these, realisee au sein de l'entreprise viavoo, veut ameliorer les resultats d’un outil d'extraction d'information qui fait abstraction de la variabilite flexionnelle. Nous avons ainsi developpe une chaine de traitements pour la normalisation orthographique de textes bruites. Notre approche consiste tout d'abord a determiner automatiquement, parmi les tokens du corpus traite qui sont inconnus d'un lexique, ceux qui resultent d’alterations et qu'il conviendrait de normaliser, par opposition aux autres (neologismes, emprunts.). Des candidats de normalisation sont alors proposes pour ces tokens a l'aide de regles ponderees obtenues par des techniques d'apprentissage par analogie. Nous identifions ensuite des tokens connus du lexique qui resultent neanmoins d’une alteration (fautes grammaticales), et proposons des candidats de normalisation pour ces tokens. Enfin, des modeles de langue permettent de prendre en compte le contexte dans lequel apparaissent les differents types d'alterations pour lesquels des candidats de normalisation ont ete proposes afin de choisir les plus probables. Differentes experiences et evaluations sont realisees sur le francais a chaque etape et sur la chaine complete. Une attention particuliere a ete portee au caractere faiblement dependant de la langue des modules developpes, ce qui permet d'envisager son adaptation a d'autres langues europeennes.
Privacy and Secured Multiparty Data Categorization using Cloud Resources

Data categorization methods are used to assign class labels to the transactional data values. Resource requirement for the data categorization process is very high. In cloud environment users' data are usually processed remotely in unknown machines that users do not own or operate. User data control is reduced on data sharing under remote machines. Anomalous and normal transactions are identified using classification techniques. Neural network techniques are used for the classification process. Back-Propagation Neural network (BPN) is an effective method for learning neural networks. Input layer, hidden layer and output layer are used in the neural network operations. Shared data values are maintained under different parties to perform the data categorization process. A trusted authority (TA), the participating parties (data owner) and the cloud servers entities are involved in the privacy preserved mining process. TA is only responsible for generating and issuing encryption/decryption keys for all the other parties. Participating party is the data owner uploads the encrypted data for the learning process. Cloud server is used to compute the learning process under cloud resource environment. Each participant first encrypts their private data with the system public key and then uploads the ciphertexts to the cloud. Cloud servers execute most of the operations in the learning process over the ciphertexts. Cloud server returns the encrypted results to the participants. The participants jointly decrypt the results with which they update their respective weights for the BPN network. Boneh, Goh and Nissim (BGN) doubly homomorphic encryption algorithm is used to secure the private data values. Data splitting mechanism is used to protect the intermediate data during the learning process. Random sharing algorithm is applied to randomly split the data without decrypting the actual value. Secure scalar product and addition operations are used in the encryption and decryption process.
Diagnostic et pronostic à un mois des patients admis aux urgences du CHU de Rouen pour douleur thoracique en octobre 2013

L’orientation vers un service adapte d’un patient admis aux Urgences pour douleur thoracique, motif frequent et potentiellement grave, est parfois difficile. L’objectif principal de cette etude etait de determiner quels etaient les facteurs predictifs precoces d’hospitalisation en Cardiologie. Materiel et methodes : Cette etude prospective, unicentrique, observationnelle a ete realisee aux Urgences medicales du CHU Charles Nicolle de Rouen du 7 octobre au 7 novembre 2013. Les caracteristiques cliniques et biologiques initiales de tous les patients consecutifs ayant consulte aux Urgences durant cette periode pour une douleur thoracique ont ete analysees ainsi que lors de l’evolution hospitaliere. Un suivi clinique telephonique a 1 mois a ete realise. Resultats : 3402 patients ont consulte aux Urgences durant la periode d’inclusion, dont 380 pour une douleur thoracique (11%). La presence de facteurs de risque cardiovasculaire (HTA, Surpoids), les caracteres typiques de la douleur thoracique (medio-thoracique, retrosternale, constrictive), la presence d’anomalies a l’ECG et la prise en charge initiale par le SAMU etaient determinants dans l’orientation des patients. Les facteurs cliniques les plus predictifs d’une hospitalisation en Cardiologie, en analyse multivariee, ont ete inclus dans un score clinique qui pourrait permettre a l’avenir d’aider a une orientation precoce vers un service de Cardiologie des patients consultant pour une douleur thoracique. Le suivi a mis en evidence un faible taux d’evenements parmi les patients pris en charge et aucun deces n’a ete constate a 1 mois chez les patients non hospitalises. Conclusion : Les arguments cliniques precoces etaient determinants dans l’orientation d’un patient admis aux Urgences pour douleur thoracique. Un score clinique rapidement utilisable, predictif d’hospitalisation en Cardiologie a ainsi pu etre etabli et devra etre valide dans le futur. Le suivi a 1 mois confirmait la bonne prise en charge initiale des patients aux Urgences avec une absence d’evenements graves mais mettait en avant un deficit de suivi medical et de complements d’investigation probablement du fait d’un probleme de demographie medicale.
A new approach to genetic-based automatic feature discovery

Systems which take raw data and categorize them into discrete classes are ubiquitous in computer science, having applications in elds such as vision, expert systems, and game playing. These systems work by extracting features from the data and then combining the values of the features to form a judgement. While much work has been done on ways to automatically combine feature values, the task of automatic discovery of these features is recognized to be much more di cult, and so has become one of the holy grails of machine learning. Classi er systems, an outgrowth of genetic algorithms, seemed a promising approach to automatic feature discovery, but it is di cult to get the full power of the classi er system from existing implementations. This thesis simpli es the classi er system into a variant of the genetic algorithm, called the Population Genetic Algorithm (PGA). PGAs are used to automatically discover features for tic-tac-toe and checkers endgame positions, and these features are automatically combined using Bayesian statistics to classify each position as won, lost, or drawn. The theoretical maximum performance of the PGAs is determined by using an exhaustive enumeration technique to serve as a baseline comparison. The results indicate that while PGAs can be made to perform at near-optimal levels, the optimal solution is insu cient to perfectly classify any of the domains studied. Acknowledgements The following people were invaluable to me in the production of this thesis. My deepest thanks go to all of them: Jonathan Schae er, my supervisor, for his guidance, encouragement, and experience, Joe Culberson and Peter Dixon, my examining committee, for taking the time to read my thesis and o er their valuable suggestions, Andreas Junghanns, Yngvi Bjornsson, and Mark Brockington for their input and enthusiasm, and Edmund Dengler, who helped develop many of the initial ideas.
Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Korea

국내에서 아직 잠복결핵 치료 대상 및 치료 방법에 대한 명확한 지침이 부족한 실정이며 이를 위해서는 잠복감염의 재활성화 혹은 새로운 감염이 어느 정도 결핵 발병의 원인이 되는지에 대한 연구가 선행되어야 한다. 그렇지만 발병의 위험이 높은 군을 선정하여 잠복결핵의 치료 대상으로 정하는 것이 타당할 것이며, 현재는 HIV 감염자, 전염성 결핵환자 가족 중 6세 미만의 아동, 중학생 및 고등학생에서의 집단 발병시 감염된 것으로 판정된 학생 및 종양괴사인자(tumor necrosis factor, TNF) 길항제 사용 예정인 잠복결핵 환자가 잠복결핵의 치료 대상으로 제한되어 있다. 향후에는 잠복결핵 치료 대상자의 확대가 필요할 것으로 생각되며, 치료방법 또한 isoniazid (INH) 단독 요법 이외에 rifampicin (RMP)을 포함하는 단기 요법의 사용도 고려하여야 하겠다. 현재 외국에서 잠복결핵의 치료법으로 권고되고 있는 것은 INH 6∼9개월, RMP 4∼6개월, INH/RMP 3개월 등이다. 과거부터 잠복결핵의 진단에 사용되어 온 투베르쿨린 검사 외에 체외 인터페론감마 검사가 새로이 개발되면서 잠복결핵의 진단이 더 정확해진다면 이에 따라 잠복결핵 치료 방침도 수정될 가능성이 있으므로 새로운 검사법을 이용한 꾸준한 연구가 필요할 것이다.
Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: Guidelines for Effective Information Security Management

From the Publisher: By definition, information security exists to protect your organization's valuable information resources. But too often information security efforts are viewed as thwarting business objectives. An effective information security program preserves your information assets and helps you meet business objectives. Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: Guidelines for Effective Information Security Management provides the tools you need to select, develop, and apply a security program that will be seen not as a nuisance but as a means to meeting your organization's goals.Divided into three major sections, the book covers: writing policies, writing procedures, and writing standards. Each section begins with a definition of terminology and concepts and a presentation of document structures. You can apply each section separately as needed, or you can use the entire text as a whole to form a comprehensive set of documents. The book contains checklists, sample policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and a synopsis of British Standard 7799 and ISO 17799.Peltier provides you with the tools you need to develop policies, procedures, and standards. He demonstrates the importance of a clear, concise, and well-written security program. His examination of recommended industry best practices illustrates how they can be customized to fit any organization's needs. Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: Guidelines for Effective Information Security Management helps you create and implement information security procedures that will improve every aspect of your enterprise's activities.
Is there a role for immunotherapy in controlling HIV infection

: Although HAART restores immune function in patients with HIV infection, restoration is incomplete. Functional restoration is seen primarily in responses to antigens that are prevalent in HIV-infected persons. Immunization is required to restore responses to antigens that are not predictably present. As an exception, HIV-specific responses are also generally not restored despite the prevalence of these antigens. This may be because HIV replication specifically targets and either destroys or renders nonfunctional HIV-reactive CD4+ T cells. Perhaps because HIV selectively targets HIV-reactive immune cells, therapeutic immunization strategies are particularly important areas of investigation in the treatment of HIV disease. Strategies designed to restore HIV-specific CD4+ T-cell function must also enhance the activity of HIV-specific cytolytic T cells, since these are the likely key mediators of defense against HIV replication. Both active immunization strategies and treatment interruption strategies may enhance HIV-specific immune responses. Treatment interruption, by increasing exposure to HIV antigens through heightened HIV replication, also runs the risk of permitting sufficient HIV replication to damage HIV-responsive CD4+ cells as well as enhancing the losses of other CD4+ cell populations that may protect against opportunistic complications of HIV disease. Thus, treatment interruption strategies require careful and sophisticated monitoring and should not be tried at home.
Pulmonary Sarcoidosis in Behçet’s Disease Treated with Adalimumab

TNF-α antagonists are used to treat various rheumatic diseases including sarcoidosis. However, there have been increasing reports of sarcoidosis in relation to treatment using these drugs. The pathogenesis of this reaction remains unknown. This is a report of a clinical case of sarcoidosis in Behçet’s disease (DB) with mucocutaneous and intestinal involvement in treatment using adalimumab, with improvement after anti-TNF suspension and corticosteroid therapy. LEARNING POINTS This clinical case demonstrates the efficacy of the anti-TNFa adalimumab in the treatment of Behçet with intestinal manifestations and not responsive to other therapeutics. To our knowledge it is the first time it is described a case of sarcoid reaction in a patient with Behçet treated with adalimumab. It shows how two complications of the use of immunosuppressants (sarcoid reaction and Legionella pneumophila pneumonia) in the same patient can difficult the correct diagnosis because of the many and overlapping clinical manifestations.
Developing 'My Way' 
in Chinese Language Teaching: 
Qualitative Case Studies of 
Teachers' Personal Practical Knowledge

Much of L2 teacher cognition research has focused on L2 English education with native speakers teaching adult students at private institutes and tertiary levels. The present study was set up to investigate Chinese language teachers' personal practical knowledge (PPK) in teaching Chinese in New Zealand secondary schools. Taking qualitative case study as the approach, the present study selected three teachers as participants - two native Chinese speakers (immigrants) and one non-native Chinese speaker with Chinese heritage background - to explore the characteristics of their PPK, and to identify the factors shaping that PPK. The purpose of the study is to gain insight into teacher professional development processes. The data for the present study are mainly interviews with the teachers, supplemented with classroom observations of their teaching, post-lesson discussions, and my field notes. Data analysis and interpretation revealed that each teacher developed her own unique characteristic of PPK, which was captured by a dominant image, an overriding perspective that guided her practice. The factors shaping their PPK and practice are shown to be their prior knowledge, particularly ideologies originating from their native culture, their awareness of their status as native and non-native speakers, their teaching experience, and the institutional context. However, the extent of the impact on each teacher differed depending upon their personal background and level of professional development. The present study supported the view that a teacher's PPK is the dynamic integration of her prior knowledge and understanding of the situation, is oriented toward practice, and is constructed and reconstructed out of the narratives of a teacher's life. Based on this study, a number of implications have been identified for teacher development, as well as suggestions for further study of teachers' PPK.
Depending on Timbre

This essay contributes to a phenomenological reduction of the operation of timbre within sound. The focus is largely on musical sounds, though the analysis situates these within a larger anthropological context: human listening. In this respect, the analysis assumes a largely Cageian attitude. The essay builds upon the phenomenologies of listening and timbre sketched by Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-François Lyotard. It is argued that timbre affords, not just a mechanism for musical activity or aesthetic understanding, but a means by which sustainable links arise between theoretical and practical cognition. For listening is homo sapiens’ most important survival sense, and timbre is thus central to our engagement with the world.
An Algebraic Approach to the Input/Output Description of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems

Given a nonlinear discrete-time system described by analytic functions, a functional expansion of the output is proposed. In the general case a formula is derived in terms of tensor products of differential operators. When the controls act linearly or in case of systems given by polynomial difference equations, this development yields a discrete-time Volterra series. In that case, the Volterra kernels can be explicitly exhibited by means of straightforward algebraic computations.
Building Agent Software with JADE Framework

Currently, a special type of computer system’s that has its roots in the foundations of Artificial Intelligence disciplines, takes shape and strength. They are the "Agents Software Systems". Thus, the goal of this paper is to present this kind of software. As a result, shows that the these new tools to build software, allows better scalability of computerized software solutions, at the same time that can assists processes where the mining of information happens in heterogeneous environments.