Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evidence Against a Central Control Model of Timing in Typing.

Abstract : Terzuolo and Viviani, in widely cited research, propose a central control model of timing in typing, in which keystroke times are generated in parallel from centrally stored, word-specific timing patterns. Differences in overall time to type a given word are attributed to a multiplicative rate parameter, constant for a given typing of the word, but varying from one typing to another. Three major lines of evidence are cited for this model: (a) keystroke times expand or contract proportionally when words are typed slower or faster; (b) in a word; (c) the times to type a given digraph exhibit word-specific differences. My analyses show that (a) keystroke times do not expand proportionally; (b) the apparent constancy of variances is an artifact of the method that Terzuolo and Viviani used to transform the keystroke times; (c) the effects of surrounding character context are sufficient to explain differences in digraph latencies and these effects cross word boundaries, showing that they are not word-specific. (Author)
Algorithmic memory and the right to be forgotten on the web

The debate on the right to be forgotten on Google involves the relationship between human information processing and digital processing by algorithms. The specificity of digital memory is not so much its often discussed inability to forget. What distinguishes digital memory is, instead, its ability to process information without understanding. Algorithms only work with data (i.e. with differences) without remembering or forgetting. Merely calculating, algorithms manage to produce significant results not because they operate in an intelligent way, but because they “parasitically” exploit the intelligence, the memory, and the attribution of meaning by human actors. The specificity of algorithmic processing makes it possible to bypass the paradox of remembering to forget, which up to now blocked any human-based forgetting technique. If you decide to forget some memory, the most immediate effect is drawing attention to it, thereby activating remembering. Working differently from human intelligence, however, algorithms can implement, for the first time, the classical insight that it might be possible to reinforce forgetting not by erasing memories but by multiplying them. After discussing several projects on the web which implicitly adopt this approach, the article concludes by raising some deeper problems posed when algorithms use data and metadata to produce information that cannot be attributed to any human being.
Suckling Behavior in Domestic Goats: Interaction Between Litter Size and Kid Sex

Studies of milk allocation in polytocous species provide the opportunity to investigate the effects of offspring number and sex ratio on maternal investment. In these species maternal control over milk allocation is more difficult because physiological limits on milk production may stimulate sibling competition. This study investigated the nursing behavior of domestic goats bearing twins or singletons in an experimental situation for the first 47 days post-partum. Milk yield and composition did not correlate with litter size, kid weight, or with the behavior of kids. Males were heavier than females, but there were no sex differences in behaviors related to nursing. Milk allocation differences existed between twins and singletons, even though, on the average, there were no significant weight differences. However, one twin was always larger than the other. Twins spent less time in proximity to the mother than did the singletons, and were more responsible for achieving proximity to the mother. These results suggest that nursing behavior was more affected by litter size than by sex of young, although there might be an interaction between both, that early mother-young interactions were different for twins and singletons, and that kids played an active role in the allocation of milk and its conversion to body weight.
Framing bottled water : an analysis of the framing contest between the anti-bottled water movement and the bottled water industry.

VI LIST OF TABLES . X CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 1 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW . 6 The Age of Consumption and the Corporation . 6 Anti-Corporate Movements . 8 Corporate Control of Water and the Anti-Bottled Water Movement . 11 CHAPTER 3: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK . 18 The Framing Perspective . 18 CHAPTER 4: METHODOLOGY . 26 CHAPTER 5: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS . 33 Core Framing Tasks . 33 Diagnostic Frames . 34 Diagnostic Framing by the Anti-Bottled Water Movement . 35 Corporate Control . 35 Public Water Undermined . 36 viii Environmental Harm . 40 Community Harm . 41 Attribution of Blame . 43 Diagnostic Framing by the Bottled Water Industry . 44 Bottled Water Bans . 45 Restricted Choice and Shifting Consumption . 45 Public Health Emergency . 48 Attribution of Blame . 50 Prognostic Frames . 51 Prognostic Framing by the Anti-Bottled Water Movement . 52 Boycott and Ban Bottled Water. 52 Choose Tap Water . 56 Resist Water Bottling Plants . 57 Label the Source . 58 Invest in Public Water . 59 Prognostic Framing by the Bottled Water Industry . 61 Promote Bottled Water’s “Good Story” . 61 Promote Healthy Hydration . 64 Promote Recycling . 66 Advocacy . 68 Motivational Frames . 72 Motivational Framing by the Anti-Bottled Water Movement . 72 Water Crisis . 72 Motivational Framing by the Bottled Water Industry . 73 Obesity Crisis . 73 Disaster Emergency. 74 One for All and All for One . 75 Frame Alignment Processes . 76 Frame Bridging . 76 Frame Amplification . 83 Frame Extension . 86 Frame Transformation . 93 Master Frames . 93 Anti-Neoliberalism . 94 Human Rights . 96 Choice . 99 CHAPTER 6: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION . 103 REFERENCES . 108 APPENDICES . 127 ix CURRICULUM VITA . 134
Desarrollo de una herramienta informática para la simulación de mercados eléctricos. Aplicación a la asignatura “ingeniando un sistema eléctrico”.

El presente trabajo se justifica bajo la perspectiva de desarrollar una herramienta informatica para la simulacion de un mercado electrico con aplicacion en la asignatura “Ingeniando un sistema electrico". Esta asignatura de caracter obligatorio, forma parte del Master Universitario en Ingenieria Industrial impartido en la Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales de Madrid, y nace con objeto de desarrollar en el alumno la capacidad de disenar y construir sistemas y productos que resuelvan las necesidades de la sociedad. De forma sencilla, se trata de que el ingeniero, ingenie. El area de Ingenieria Electrica de esta facultad ha propuesto como base de la ya mencionada asignatura, un juego hibrido de simulacion de mercados electricos, donde grupos de alumnos asumen el papel de tres empresas que integran los negocios de generacion y comercializacion de energia electrica, todas ellas participando en un mercado electrico competitivo. La herramienta informatica desarrollada sera utilizada en forma de interfaces graficas por el operador del sistema -el profesor-, simulando de esta manera las actividades llevadas a cabo en el mercado diario espanol. ABSTRACT The present document is focused on an attempt to develop a computer tool that can be used in the course “Engineering an electric system” in order to simulate the electricity market. This subject is a compulsory course of the Master of Science in Industrial Engineering offered by the Madrid Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales. It was created with the aim of developing in students the ability to design and build systems and products that can address the needs of society. Therefore, it is a simple manner of promoting the idea of an engineer that engineers. The department of Electrical Engineering of this School has proposed a simulation game related to electricity markets as a basis of the course we have mentioned above. Groups of students will assume the role of three companies concerning electric power’s generation and trading. All of the companies will participate in a competitive electricity market. The system operator –the teacher– will use the graphical user interfaces that form the computer tool to simulate the activities carried out in the Spanish daily market.
Reducing Instruction Cache Energy Using Gated Wordlines

The power dissipated by the level-I Instruction cache is often a considerable part of the total power dissipated by the entire microprocessor. In this thesis, we focuses on reducing the power consumption of the I-cache by using an in-cache instruction compression technique that uses gated wordlines to reduce the number of bitline swings. First, we develop a cache power consumption model to estimate the power dissipated in the I-cache. Next, we examine the effectiveness of two design techniques previously proposed to reduce power consumed in the I-cache; sub-banking and reducing the frequency of tag compare. We then investigate two versions of our technique that uses gated wordlines. The first version involves using instructions of one of two sizes, medium or long. The second version uses three instruction sizes, short, medium and long. We evaluate our technique by applying it to the MIPS-II instruction set. Our dynamic compression for programs in SPECInt95 achieves an average reduction in bits read out of 23.73% in the 2-size approach and 29.10% in the 3-size approach. Thesis Supervisor: Krste Asanovic Title: Assistant Professor
Translation-Based Corpus Studies: Contrasting English and Portuguese Tense and Aspect Systems

This book presents a model for describing translation performance as a basis for contrastive linguistics, in the realm of tense and aspect. It is based on extensive corpus studies investigating the differences between English and Portuguese using authentic translations in the two directions. In method and substance, the book features several original claims, trying to achieve a balance between theoretical issues and the presentation of concrete translation data. In addition, it deals with computational applications of parallel corpora. Translation-based corpus studies should thus be appropriate for translator education, and for introducing contrastive semantics and the methodology of corpus linguistics to students of linguistics and computer science. Researchers in tense and aspect, translation, and corpus linguistics are, nevertheless, the book’s primary audience.
Prospettive d'interpretazione della glossolalia paolina sotto il profilo della neurolinguistica

A biblical text may be interpreted also in the light of a neurolinguistic analysis. In the present article, Paul's text 1Cor 14 on glossolalic experiences in Corinth has been analyzed. After introducing and discussing the main anthropological, neuropsychological and neurolinguistic studies on religious glossolalia, the author proposes a neurolinguistic interpretation of glossolalia in Paul. According to is interpretation, the limits imposed by the apostle to glossolalic experiences among the members of the Corinthian congregation mainly aime at reducing the risk of collective religious ecstasy during assemblies, which might have otherwise upset rules and order within the community itself.
Speech Recognition System for Punjabi Language

Speech Recognition has been a wide area of research for a long time now. Researchers have been putting a lot of efforts and devised different methods for the same. Spoken Punjabi alphabets is one of the subsets of the speech recognition technique. It has many applications. Though, this task seems to be simple, however it is one of the most difficult tasks in speech recognition due to highly confusing set of alphabets that have much similar pronunciation. This paper aims at developing a speech recognition system for the set of Punjabi alphabets using Mel Cepstrum Frequency Coefficients (MFCCs) for feature extraction. The system has been trained using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for estimating the parameter. Testing has been done using the Viterbi Algorithm and the results are calculated in three scenarios. The accuracy obtained is 80%, 100% and 55% respectively.
The Success Story of Capt. Angelex A. Panes on Board the M/V SKS Tiete

Few studies have been conducted on success stories of JBLFMU-Arevalo alumni. Thus, this study aimed to determine the success story of Capt. Angelex Arevalo Panes, an alumnus of the then, John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation (Arevalo), Inc. of Batch 1995 now, John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University-Arevalo. The story of Capt. Panes tells his family and educational background, career paths, driving force to work efficiently, hardwork, coping strategies, job encounters, edged as first Filipino captain of M/V SKS Tiete, skills as effective team leader, managerial techniques in resolving conflicts under watch, problems and solutions encountered on board, preparations for his sunset life, and his message to all aspiring seafarers. This paper gives glimpse to the life of Philippine’s modern hero—a seafarer like Capt. Angelex A. Panes and lessons to those who would become seafarers.
A User-Driven Association Rule Mining Based on Templates for Multi-Relational Data

Data mining algorithms to find association rules are an important tool to extract knowledge from databases. However, these algorithms produce an enormous amount of rules, many of which could be redundant or irrelevant for a specific decision-making process. Also, the use of previous knowledge and hypothesis are not considered by these algorithms. On the other hand, most existing data mining approaches look for patterns in a single data table, ignoring the relations presented in relational databases. The contribution of this paper is the proposition of a multi-relational data mining algorithm based on association rules, called TBMR-Radix, which considers previous knowledge and hypothesis through the using of the Templates technique. Applying this approach over two real databases, we were able to reduce the number of generated rules, use the existing knowledge about the data and reduce the waste of computational resources while processing. Our experiments show that the developed algorithm was also able to perform in a multi-relational environment, while the MR-Radix, that does not use Templates technique, was not.
Kinky sex and suicidal mating behaviour in Aphidoletes aphidimyza

Mass production of Aphidoletes aphidimyza is often difficult because usually a large proportion of the females are infertile or lay very few eggs. By accident we found that ‘dirty’ rearing cages containing spider webs resulted in a much higher reproduction. When we analysed this problem, it became clear that A. aphidimyza use spider webs for mating. After a female has landed in a spider web she starts to emit a pheromone. Males react to this pheromone, land in the spider web, move to the female and mate. Both males and females will leave the spider web after mating. We discuss why A. aphidimyza uses spider webs for mating even though it runs the risk of being discovered and devoured by the spider*.
Secondary Signal Change and an Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Decrease of the Substantia Nigra After Striatal Infarction

Background and Purpose— Diffusion-weighted imaging can depict secondary signal change of the substantia nigra of patients with ipsilateral striatal infarction via a decrease in the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC). Clinical predictors of this phenomenon remain unclear. Methods— We assessed 98 stroke patients with acute ischemic lesions in the hemilateral basal ganglia, external capsule, or internal capsule. The ADC values of the bilateral substantia nigra obtained from a follow-up MRI, various clinical factors, and patients’ outcome were analyzed. Nineteen patients who underwent a follow-up MRI within 3 days were excluded from analysis because none of them demonstrated a significant ADC change of substantia nigra. Results— Of 79 patients, 21 (26.6%) revealed a decreased ADC in the substantia nigra. Ischemic lesions in the globus pallidus (odds ratio 12.90) and the presence of emboligenic diseases (odds ratio 6.95) were independent predictors for an ADC decrease in the substantia nigra. The clinical outcome 3 months after stroke onset was not different between patients with an ADC decrease and patients without. Conclusions— A reduction of ADC in the substantia nigra after acute striatal infarction was more frequently observed when the globus pallidus was affected or when the patient had emboligenic diseases, however, did not necessarily relate to the patient’s clinical outcome.
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Chemical signatures of rocky accretion in a young solar-type star

It is well known that newly formed planetary systems undergo processes of orbital reconfiguration and planetary migration. As a result, planets or protoplanetary objects may accrete onto the central star, being fused and mixed into its external layers. If the accreted mass is sufficiently high and the star has a sufficiently thin convective envelope, such events may result in a modification of the chemical composition of the stellar photosphere in an observable way, enhancing it with elements that were abundant in the accreted mass. The recent Gaia-ESO Survey observations of the 10-20 Myr old Gamma Velorum cluster have enabled identifying a star that is significantly enriched in iron with respect to other cluster members. In this Letter we further investigate the abundance pattern of this star, showing that its abundance anomaly is not limited to iron, but is also present in the refractory elements, whose overabundances are correlated with the condensation temperature. This finding strongly supports the hypothesis of a recent accretion of rocky material. (Less)
Domain Adaptation for Visual Recognition

Domain adaptation is an active, emerging research area that attemptsto address the changes in data distribution across training and testingdatasets. With the availability of a multitude of image acquisition sensors,variations due to illumination, and viewpoint among others, computervision applications present a very natural test bed for evaluatingdomain adaptation methods. In this monograph, we provide a comprehensiveoverview of domain adaptation solutions for visual recognitionproblems. By starting with the problem description and illustrations,we discuss three adaptation scenarios namely, i unsupervised adaptationwhere the "source domain" training data is partially labeledand the "target domain" test data is unlabeled, ii semi-supervisedadaptation where the target domain also has partial labels, and iiimulti-domain heterogeneous adaptation which studies the previous twosettings with the source and/or target having more than one domain,and accounts for cases where the features used to represent the datain each domain are different. For all these topics we discuss existingadaptation techniques in the literature, which are motivated by theprinciples of max-margin discriminative learning, manifold learning,sparse coding, as well as low-rank representations. These techniqueshave shown improved performance on a variety of applications suchas object recognition, face recognition, activity analysis, concept classification,and person detection. We then conclude by analyzing thechallenges posed by the realm of "big visual data", in terms of thegeneralization ability of adaptation algorithms to unconstrained dataacquisition as well as issues related to their computational tractability,and draw parallels with the efforts from vision community on imagetransformation models, and invariant descriptors so as to facilitate improvedunderstanding of vision problems under uncertainty.
Functional anatomy of the postcranial skeleton of Styriofelis lorteti (Carnivora, Felidae, Felinae) from the Middle Miocene (MN 6) locality of Sansan (Gers, France).

The postcranial skeleton of the European Middle Miocene feline Styriofelis lorteti has been traditionally known on the basis of fragmentary fossils mainly from the French locality of Sansan. The discovery of an almost complete skeleton in the same site in the excavations of 1990 opened the possibility of unprecedented assessment of the morphology and function of this early felid. In this paper we describe this material, and compare it with a sample of modern and fossil felids, finding a combination of a generally modern morphology, with moderate adaptations to terrestrial locomotion, besides a set of primitive characters linking S. lorteti with earlier felids like Proailurus lemanensis .
L'implication paradoxale dans l'expérience touristique : Mode mineur de la réalité et discours sociologiques: explorations en anthropologie de la vie quotidienne

Le tourisme permet la mise en oeuvre de la problematique du mode mineur, car il est un lieu revelateur de l'implication paradoxale de l'individu dans la societe. Les vacances ne s'expliquent pas d'abord par leur fonctionnalite sociale mais par l'affirmation d'un ailleurs significatif pour la personne. Cet ailleurs s'affirme a travers une separation spatiale et suppose l'elaboration d'une trame sociale alternative. Les bulles touristiques, tels les Center Parcs, etc., revelent a l'etat explicite la signification des espaces transitionnels engendres par cette recherche d'un ailleurs. Mais ce qui est la-bas a l'etat explicite se retrouve a l'etat implicite dans d'autres situations de vacances. Les deux modalites d'expression dependent en bonne partie des ressources et des competences sociales de chacun
The Prevalence and the Related Factors of Metabolic Syndrome in Urban and Rural Community

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components and to examine the related factors in urban and rural community, South Korea. Methods: The data from the 5th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES-V) conducted in 2010 were utilized in this study. The subjects were 5,760 adults 20 years or over. The data were consisted with health survey questionnaire and health examination. x 2 -test and logistic regression was used for the analysis SAS 9.3 applying sampling weights. Results: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome based on the latest definition proposed the joint scientific meeting was 23.4% and 29.0% respectively in urban and rural community. Rural community showed higher prevalence of abdominal obesity (29.9% vs 38.5%), elevated blood pressure (31.3% vs 38.5%), elevated blood glucose (24.3% vs 28.4%) than urban community. The related factors were age, marital status, high risk drinking, obesity in urban community and age, marital status high risk drinking, severe physical activity, obesity in rural community. Conclusion: This study showed there was difference in prevalence and the related factors of metabolic syndrome and these findings have important implications to prevent and manage metabolic syndrome in public health field.
A Pattern-driven Approach for Validate Liveness Properties of Software Requirements Specifications

Requirements checking patterns are key to the development of high quality software requirements, in which liveness patterns are one of the several basic patterns to other patterns. By representation of software requirements as nested state transition systems, this paper classified liveness patterns as basic state liveness patterns, state transition liveness patterns. Suffix, prefix, open range and close range are also used in the classifications of liveness patterns.
Human-machine cooperative interaction in the supervisory control of a complex dynamic system

In the supervisory control of a complex, dynamic, highly automated system, a human operator is responsible for monitoring the state of the system and detecting and compensating for any system failures. One instance of a human-computer cooperative problem solving paradigm is described: the Georgia Tech Mission Operations Cooperative Assistant (GT-MOCA). GT-MOCA is a real-time aiding system that is used by the human operator at the Georgia Tech Payload Operations Control Center (GT-POCC) simulation, which simulates a satellite ground support system. One facet of GT-MOCA is described: its underlying conceptual model of operator intentions and how that model is used as the basis for an interactive artifact that supports inspectable visualization and dynamic task allocation. <<ETX>>