Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MPEG-7 and MPEG-7 audio: An overview

For more than 10 years the term MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) has been synonymous with successful standardization in the field of audiovisual coding. The well-known standards MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 have defined the state of the art in the perceptual coding of multimedia content. More recently the MPEG standards group (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) has extended its traditional scope by initiating the MPEG-7 standardization process, which aims to define a unified interface for the description and characterization of multimedia content. An overview of the goals, ideas, and concepts behind MPEG-7 is provided, with particular emphasis on the audio part of the emerging standard.
Utvärdering av nyckelfaktorer för utveckling av kommunala webbsidor

Svenska saval som utlandska myndigheter har insett vikten av att utveckla webbsidor for bland annat lokala myndigheter. Forskare pa Nya Zeeland har sammanstallt ett antal nyckelfaktorer som de funnit anvandbara vid utveckling av e-myndigheter i USA och darefter undersokt om dessa ar anvandbara aven pa Nya Zeeland. Deras resultat visade pa ett behov av ytterligare forskning och den har uppsatsen har darfor anvant en kvantitativ metod i form av en webbaserad enkat for att undersoka dessa nyckelfaktorers betydelse i Sverige. Undersokningen visade pa att flera av nyckelfaktorerna anses viktiga men att det i vissa fall saknas forstaelse for dem pa lokal niva. De slutsatser som dragits visar pa ett fortsatt forskningsbehov om de 16 nyckelfaktorerna men aven pa att det kravs utbildning och stod at de lokala myndigheterna for att alla i landet skall fa likvardig service oavsett vilken kommun man ar bosatt i.
Similarity Measure for Short Texts Using Topic Models and Rough Sets

Synonymy and polysemy are two key problems in short text analysis. Most existing methods based on topic models have limitations. In this paper, we propose a two-stage method based on topic models and rough sets. The topics are firstly generated using latent Dirichlet allocation. Second, we adjust the weights of synonymous and polysemous words discovered by rough sets. The experimental results show the proposed method can achieve good performances on both English and Chinese short texts.
Dificultades lingüísticas en la lectura en voz alta en niños del grado 1-4 de la sede Santo Tomás de la Institución Educativa Municipal Santa Teresita de Catambuco de Pasto

Un estudio desarrollado por Cortez y Arevalo (2013) en el grado 1 – 4 de la Basica Primaria Sede Santo Tomas de la Institucion Educativa Municipal Santa Teresita de Catambuco de Pasto, determino la existencia de una serie de dificultades en el momento de realizar la lectura en voz alta, por parte de los quince alumnos estudiados en la presente investigacion, tal es el caso de: silabeo, sustitucion, u omision de fonemas (elipsis) y metatesis. La lectura implica la realizacion de varios pasos, a saber: percepcion de signos graficos (letras), de codificacion, comprension, retencion y evocacion. Las dos ultimas etapas estan directamente relacionadas en la labor de aprendizaje. Para el desarrollo del proceso lector es importante la aplicacion de las etapas antes citadas sin contratiempos, en caso contrario no se presentara una eficaz lectura ni un buena comprension de la misma, porque se vera afectado todo el proceso que abarca la lectura, por consiguiente, la lectura en voz alta no es un proceso elemental, tiene su complejidad e involucra a todo lo antes citado. Las dificultades linguisticas son consideradas como tal, debido a que se constituyen en un obstaculo inicial impidiendo el desarrollo de la lectura y la comprension e interpretacion textual, que son el resultado de un buen proceso de lectura. La investigacion adelantada por Cortez y Arevalo (2013) es de caracter cualitativo porque describe los fenomenos o dificultades linguisticas acaecidas en un cierto grupo de ninos del grado 1 – 4, cuya incidencia es definitiva en el aprendizaje de la lectura en voz alta. Finalmente, con base en las dificultades linguisticas encontradas en los alumnos estudiados el grupo de investigacion presento una propuesta socio - pedagogica para solucionar los inconvenientes antes descritos.
Flexibele regels: een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen CAO-afspraken en het bedrijfsbeleid over flexibilisering van de arbeid

Op 30 juni 2000 organiseerde het Amsterdams Instituut voor ArbeidsStudies (AIAS) zijn jaarlijkse conferentie. Deze keer is het thema congres ‘CAO-vernieuwing, decentralisatie en Europese coordinatie’. Op deze conferentie staan recente ontwikkelingen op het gebied van de collectieve arbeidsovereenkomsten in Nederland en Europa centraal. Ook de resultaten van het onderzoek Flexibele regels wordt gepresenteerd. Dit Research Paper bevat de resultaten van een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen CAOafspraken en het beleid in bedrijven, toegespitst op de flexibilisering van de arbeid. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd door Kea Tijdens en Marc van der Meer, beiden als onderzoeker verbonden aan AIAS. In opdracht van AIAS heeft het NEI, het Nederlands Economisch Instituut, te Rotterdam, de coderingen van de onderzochte CAO-afspraken verricht en de telefonische enquete onder bedrijven uitgevoerd (Koolmees, Donker van Heel en De la Rambelje, juni 2000).
T.A.C: Système de réalité augmentée pour la Télé-Assistance Collaborative dans le domaine de la maintenance

Nous presentons dans ce papier le systeme T.A. C dont le but est d'allier collaboration a distance et maintenance industrielle. T.A. C permet de "simuler" a distance la copresence des interlocuteurs dans le cadre d'une tâche de maintenance supervisee, et cela grâce a la realite augmentee (RA) et a la communication audio-video. Pour soutenir une telle cooperation, nous proposons un moyen simple d'interagir a travers notre paradigme P.O. A et les lunettes de RA specialement developpee pour l'occasion. Manipulation d'elements 3D pour reproduire le geste et outil complementaire de la gestion de connaissance (e-portfolio, feed back.) en font egalement une solution en reponse aux nouveaux besoins de l'industrie. Nos tests preliminaires nous encouragent quant a la viabilite d'un tel systeme.
Madrid: Literary Fiction and the Imaginary Urban Destination

This study selects novels from French and Spanish language traditions, which may not be available to English-speakers, in order to determine if specific aspects throw light on our understanding of Madrid as a destination. Marc Lambron's L'Impromptu de Madrid and Antonio Munoz Molina’s Mysteries of Madrid are taken as proof of the influence the narrative can exert on social daily life and consumption. Narrative foregrounds the fictions which are at stake in imagining the city as destination and also provides a vehicle for presenting the much broader social forces that converge in the author at the time of imagining and writing.
The Ancient ‘Library’ of Qumran between Urban and Rural Culture

The scrolls found in the caves near Qumran are archaeological artefacts that belong to the settlement, but the question is what the exact significance is of the scrolls lying in those caves. Is it a coincidence and did the scrolls somehow end up there during the revolt against Rome, at which moment the inhabitants of Qumran helped because they were around? Or is it less of a coincidence that the scrolls ended up in those caves? If some scrolls were present at the site before the revolt broke out and if some of the inhabitants were collectors and copyists of scrolls then the site of Qumran in combination with the nearby caves in which the scrolls were found represents a fascinating mixture of rural and regional material culture on the one hand and, on the other hand, urban and high literary culture. Comparative analysis of the text finds in the Judaean Desert highlights two issues.1 First, the find sites indicate the spread of literary texts within various strata of ancient Jewish society, outside of urban centres such as Jerusalem. Second, the context, number of literary texts, and character of texts of the Judaean Desert text finds reveal a differentiated engagement with literary texts by different kinds of people in Jewish society at the time. The movement behind the scrolls can be characterized as a milieu of Jewish intellectuals or scholars who were engaged at a very high level with their ancestral traditions.
Reversions and Revisions: Displacement, Heritage and History in Chenjerai Hove's Ancestors

Ancestors narrates the story of the deaf and the dumb. It stands, at once, as story and history, as allegory and epic, as journey and departure. It is panoply interrogating matriarchy and patriarchy, domination and emergence from the abyss of history. It is a narrative that presents to its readers the joys of motherhood and the pains of a desecrated motherhood. It is, therefore, both a narrative of struggle and assertion, a process of (un)naming and giving voice to those who have always been the underdogs of African society: the women.
Clinical measurement of amplitude of accommunication: a review

Accommodation is the adjustment in the dioptric power of the eye to focus the retinal image of objects at a range of distances. Amplitude of accommodation (AoA) is the maximum increase in optical power that an eye can achieve in adjusting its focus from far to near. It has been measured in routine clinical eye examination for many decades (Rabbetts 2007). This paper will describe and appraise current methods of measuring AoA and make recommendations for standardising clinical methods. The validity of norms of AoA that are used in optometric practice will also be reviewed.
CEREBRAL FUNCTION IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD

INSTRUMENTATION WITH SEMICONDUCTORS By C. C. Brown. (Pp. xvii + 254; 13 figures. $10.50.) Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 1964. Medical research workers are increasingly dependent on electrical apparatus for their observations. It is not possible for most of them to have a detailed knowledge of the workings of their apparatus, but it is desirable that they should know the principle behind them, for this will guide them in acquiring the most suitable apparatus and in using it wisely. This book sets out to meet the need of medical researchers in providing this background, and it does so with a very large measure of success. It covers the field from sensing devices, through amplification and processing apparatus, to the elements of computors, and it is written in plain English, unfamiliar symbols being explained when first used. Future editions will correct some errors (for instance the formula for summing resistances in parallel in Fig. 4:1) but nevertheless this should prove a valuable book giving information difficult to obtain so simply elsewhere.
Assessing Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Habits of Adolescents Using Personal Data Assistants.

Please note that this study was published before the implementation of Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which went into effect during the 2012-13 school year, and its provision for Smart Snacks Nutrition Standards for Competitive Food in Schools, implemented during the 2014-15 school year. As such, certain research may not be relevant today. ABSTRACT Objective To assess nutrition knowledge and dietary behaviors of seventh graders in nine randomly selected middle schools in Louisiana. Methods This descriptive study used personal data assistants (PDAs) to administer a pre-validated questionnaire developed from national instruments to 127 seventh grade students from nine randomly-selected schools in Louisiana. Frequencies, Kruskall-Wallis, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney, and correlation tests were used to assess differences in factors related to nutrition knowledge scores. Results Misconceptions regarding the Food Guide Pyramid, serving sizes, nutrient content of foods, and diet-disease relationships were identified. Although, there were no significant differences in general knowledge scores based on gender, age, or ethnicity, students who reported discussing nutrition with their parents had significantly higher general knowledge scores (p = 0.02). For most students, reported intakes of fruits, vegetables, and milk and milk products were below recommendations.
Protein-Protein Interaction Interface Database Development based on Protein Network

: Protein-Protein interaction interface database (PPIIDB) is developing on the basis of cellular and biological processes of protein-protein interaction interfaces of protein network. PPIIDB is collection of dataset of PPII of Breast cancer of Homosapience which developed on the basis of various parameters such as such as Accessible Surface Area (ASA), Buried Surface Area (BSA), Binding energy (∆G), Cluster Coefficient (CC), Connectivity, Degree of node or Degree of network, Euclidean Distance between interacted proteins, Network Interaction Modularity (Im), size of interface or Voronoi Interface Area (VIA), Significant Connected Component (SCC), Scoring Function, Combine Association Score (CAS), Surface shell (No of Surface Shell Residue, Surface Shell Area),interface face (no. of Interface Residue, Interface Area), Interior core (No of Interior Residue, Interior Area), Resolution, length etc.
La enfermedad de Hugo Chávez en la agenda de medios y públicos. Análisis del hashtag #ElMundoEstaConChavez desde la teoría del 'framing'.

En las sociedades globalizadas y complejas de la actualidad, la intervencion de las redes sociales es fundamental para propiciar un intercambio entre los ciudadanos y los lideres politicos sobre los temas mas importantes que implican a la humanidad. La presente investigacion propone un estudio de la red social Twitter, a traves del analisis de los mensajes etiquetados con #ElMundoEstaConChavez, surgido a causa de la aparicion de nuevas celulas cancerigenas en el fallecido presidente Hugo Chavez. A partir de los referentes de las teorias de agenda-setting, framing y priming, se reconoce el tipo de encuadre que realizaron los seguidores de @chavezcandanga.
A SOY BEAN FOOD PREPARATION FOR FEEDING INFANTS WITH MILK IDIOSYNCRASY

Human milk is universally granted to be the best food for infants during the first few months of life, and cow's milk in some form or with some modification is recognized as the best substitute when human milk is not available. It has been conceded, however, that for the exceptional infant cow's milk may be contraindicated either for a short, temporary period or, more rarely, for a protracted interval of time. It is not our purpose to consider the conditions under which cow's milk may prove an unsuitable food for a given infant, nor to discuss the underlying factors that render it so; but hypersensitiveness to cow's milk protein may be mentioned as the most striking and important example. It should also be recalled that milk-free diets have been reported as efficacious in the treatment of infantile eczema, 1 regardless of the presence or absence of other manifestations of milk
Clinical Profile of the Patients with Newly Detected Left Bundle Branch Block in the Outpatient Department

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate cardiac features associated with newly detected left bundle branch block (LBBB) in the outpatient department. Methods: A total of 57 patients with LBBB pattern were evaluated using electrocardiography (ECG). Patients were assessed based on their sex, age, detailed history, and cardiovascular symptoms. Cardiac investigations including ECG and echocardiography were performed. Results:The study included 30 (52.6%) males and 27 (47.5%) females, aged between 35 and 80 years. Dyspnoea (35.1%) and chest pain (22.8%) were the most common symptoms. 54.4% were hypertensive and 17.5% were diabetics. 28% had Left ventricular systolic dysfunction, and 24.5% had aortic valve disease. Left ventricular hypertrophy without any other structural heart disease was present in 28% of the patients. Only 24.5% patients presented with LBBB had a structurally normal heart in echocardiography. Myocardial performance index in echocardiography was abnormal in LBBB irrespective of the presence of structural heart disease. Conclusion: The prevalence of LBBB was found to increase with age and had slight male preponderance. Dyspnoea on effort was the most common presenting complaint, followed by chest pain and incidental detection of ECG abnormality. Most of the patients were hypertensive. Only 24.5% patients with LBBB had a structurally normal heart. MPI was abnormally high in the presence of LBBB despite having a normal left ventricular ejection fraction.
Objective Measurement for Stereo Compressed Images

For the objective measurement of stereo imagesa,method was proposed which was suitable for compressed im-ages.The method was based on human vision system models of planar images for objective quality measurementst,aking the characteristics of multi-channel and contrast sensitivity of human visual system into consideration.Contourlet transform was applied to realize multi-channel decomposition.The absolute differences of stereo images were used for quality measure-ment.Experimental results show that the method basically accords with human vision characteristicsa,nd can reflect the quality of stereo compressed images objectively.It is also consistent with subjective evaluation preferably.
Arquitectura basada en agentes inteligentes para la gestión de configuración de red

Este articulo presenta la arquitectura basada en agentes inteligentes para la gestion de configuracion de red, propuesta por los autores, en su intencion por facilitar la compleja tarea de administracion que debe realizar el personal responsable de la red, quien en ocasiones genera retrasos y costos adicionales debido a fallas humanas, poniendo en riesgo la productividad y competitividad organizacional. La arquitectura es validada por medio de un prototipo desarrollado en Java utilizando el framework JADE, que se prueba en un escenario real y permite demostrar que el uso de agentes inteligentes y ontologias facilitan el trabajo de gestion de configuracion de la red. PALABRAS CLAVE: Gestion de configuracion de red, arquitectura, agentes inteligentes, ontologia. ABSTRACT This paper presents a based intelligent agents architecture for Configuration Network Management, proposed by authors, in their intention to facilitate the complex management work, that to be performed by the staff responsible for the network, who sometimes generates delays and additional costs due to human failure, putting at risk organizational productivity and competitiveness. The architecture is validated through a prototype developed with JAVA using JADE framework, being tested in a real scenario, proving that the use of ontologies and intelligent agents facilitates the Configuration Network Management. KEYWORDS: Configuration network management, architecture, intelligent agent, ontology.
Evaluación del éxito clínico y radiográfico post-tratamiento de dientes con necrosis pulpar y lesión periapical visible radiográficamente

Uno de los factores imprescindibles para la obtencion del exito post-tratamiento endodontico es el material obturador. Para verificar la influencia del tipo de material obturador en la reparacion post-tratamiento endodontico y el consecuente exito clinico y radiografico, nos propusimos a evaluar los tratamientos endodonticos de 55 dientes realizados en la clinica de Endodoncia de la Facultad de Odontologia de Araraquara, dividiendolos en 2 grupos, en funcion del cemento obturador utilizado: a base de Oxido de Zinc y Eugenol y a base de Hidroxido de Calcio. A traves de los resultados observamos que los 36 dientes obturados con Sealapex, 34 presentaron exito clinico y radiografico. Cuando el cemento usado fue a base de Oxido de Zinc y Eugenol, de los 19 casos analizados, 3 fracasaron, representando un indice menor de exito que el Sealapex. Concluimos que respetando las variables, el cemento Sealapex permite indice mas elevado de exito post-tratamiento endodontico. Summary The root canal filling is one of the most important factors for a successful endodontic treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the root canal sealer role in the clinic and radiographic success of teeth who received endodontic treatment. Fifty-five root canals were evaluated after endodontic treatment in the Endodontic Clinic of School Dentistry of Araraquara. There were 2 groups, according to the root canal sealer: zinc oxide and eugenol root canal sealer (Endofill) and calcium hydroxide root canal sealer (Sealapex). The results showed that 32 of 34 teeth treated with Sealapex showed clinic and radiographic success. When the sealer used was Endofill, 3 of 19 evaluated failed; a worst result than that observed in the cases filled with Sealapex. We could conclude that respecting the differences in the sample, the sealer Sealapex allows a high level of clinic and radiographic success. Resumo Um dos fatores imprescindiveis para a obtencao do exito pos-tratamento endodontico e o material obturador. Para verificar a influencia do tipo de material obturador na reparacao pos-tratamento endodontico, e o consequente sucesso clinico e radiografico,nos propusemos a avaliar os tratamentos endoonticos de 55 dentes realizados na lcinica de Endodontia da Faculdade de Odontologia de Araraquara, dividindo-os em 2 grupos, em funcao do cimento obturador utilziado: a base de Oxido de Zinco e Eugenol e a base de Hidroxido de Calcio. Atraves dos resultados, foi possivel observar que dos 36 dentes obturados com Sealapex, 34 apresentaram sucesso clinico e radiografico. Quando o cimento utilizado foi a base de Oxido de Zinco e eugenol, dos 19 casos analisados, 3 fracassaram, representando um indice menor de sucesso que o Sealapex. Concluimos que, respeitando as variaveis, o cimento Sealapex permitiu um indice mais elevado de sucesso pos-tratamento endodontico.
Intercultural Sensitivity: A Comparison of American and Japanese Value Preference

This study examined the feasibility of using the Schwartz and Bilsky measures of universal values to assess intercultural sensitivity in an individualist-collectivist setting. Using a modified form of their measures, American and Japanese students rated 28 values first as residents of their home country and then as if they were residents of the other country. Results revealed a possible flaw in the selection of the 28 value items. Respondents found it difficult to perceive what life may be like in another country