Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Design of an asynchronous processor

Designing performaiice-scalable couipiiter architectures is becoiiiiiig an increasingly complex problem in small dimension integrated circuits, as the effects of physical laws increasingly constrain circuit design and computer architecture. This thesis investigates the implementation of asynchronous circuits and asynchronous computer architectures. In the area of asynchronous circuits, it proposes the direct-mapped approach to control circuit design, originally devised by Hollaar, mapped to CMOS technology. In the area of asynchronous computer architecture, it investigates scalable, concurrent computer architectures, with the aim of solving the problems of scaling performance and utilising the increasing device count. The design and implementation of two hardware structures, Shared Register Files and Itnet (micronet) architectures is detailed, together with their incorporation into the design of an asynchronous prototype processor, the Al chip. The Shared Register File approach provides a scalable and segmented datapath by partitioning the conventional monolithic register file into multiple register files which physically share registers. Communication and synchronisation between the shared register files takes place via the shared registers. This approach can be used to implement a clustered uniprocessor or a single-chip multiprocessor system. The shared register file approach allows for the exploitation of program level concurrency, where different parts of the same program or different programs can run on the different shared register file datapaths. The design and implementation of shared register files is presented. The tnet approach is a methodology for asynchronous processor design, which allows fine-grain instruction level parallelism to be exploited. It implements a processor architecture as a non-linear pipeline with inputs at every pipeline stage. In this way, a inet architecture exploits more fine-grain parallelism than a conventional pipelined architecture. The design and implementation of generic, scalable Itnet architectures is described and evaluated.
Cellular mechanism of anti-cancerous activity in active marine sponge Cinachyrella anomala against T47D cell

Many efforts had been made to overcome cancer. At the beginning of the 20th century, cancer treatment was conducted using radiotherapy and surgical intervention. The success rate of the methods was no more than 30%; therefore, additional therapy or combined therapy in terms of chemotherapy and chemo-preventive intervention (DeVita & Chu, 2008). Chemotherapy and chemopreventive intervention plays an important role in cancer treatment. In the United States and Europe, about 65% of commercially available medicine for cancer was made from natural ingredients (Wei et al., 2007). Anti-cancer drugs from natural ingredients such as plants, microbes, and marine organisms were more than 60%. Derivative compounds from natural ingredients had a ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 3 (2015) pp. 785-791 http://www.ijcmas. com
Ontological Lexicon Enrichment: The Badea System For Semi-Automated Extraction Of Antonymy Relations From Arabic Language Corpora

Ontological lexicons are considered a rich source of knowledge for the development of various natural language processing tools and applications; however, they are expensive to build, maintain, and extend. In this paper, we present the Badea system for the semi-automated extraction of lexical relations, specifically antonyms using a pattern-based approach to support the task of ontological lexicon enrichment. The approach is based on an ontology of “seed” pairs of antonyms in the Arabic language; we identify patterns in which the pairs occur and then use the patterns identified to find new antonym pairs in an Arabic textual corpora. Experiments are conducted on Badea using texts from three Arabic textual corpuses: KSUCCA, KACSTAC, and CAC. The system is evaluated and the patterns’ reliability and system performance is measured. The results from our experiments on the three Arabic corpora show that the pattern-based approach can be useful in the ontological enrichment task, as the evaluation of the system resulted in the ontology being updated with over 300 new antonym pairs, thereby enriching the lexicon and increasing its size by over 400%. Moreover, the results show important findings on the reliability of patterns in extracting antonyms for Arabic. The Badea system will facilitate the enrichment of ontological lexicons that can be very useful in any Arabic natural language processing system that requires semantic relation extraction.
The Hybrid Methods of Column Transposition with Adaptive Minimum Error Least Significant Bit Replacement(AMELSBR) Using file jpg / jpeg and png

The development of rapid technological demands a strong security system, especially in the process of sending digital data.The more layers of security the less chance the data will be stolen by unauthorized parties.In this case, cryptography is a concept to secure a message by encrypting the message so that is becoming difficult to be understood by others, while the art of steganography is to hide secret messages into other messages in such a way so that other people are not aware of the existence of something in the message. In this research, we built a hybrid system using Column Transposition and Adaptive Minimum Error Least Significant Bit Replacement (AMELSBR) web-based, with media messages to be sent as text file format (.txt), inserted into the media image file format (.jpg) as input (cover) and produces an image with the type of file (.png) as stego image. Using eight pictures with different colors dominant as cover, the result shows that AMELSBR managed to hide files and restore files that have been inserted earlier without causing distortion (noise) excessive stego image. The Column Transposition method affects the result of the manipulation of images such as brightness and contrast changes in pixel values. This increased the number of characters so that the number of columns and rows be increased.The images are resistant to image manipulation form of a cut (crop) and can restore the messages contained in the cropped image on the bottom and right with a certain scale cuts. Some media messaging such as WhatsApp, Line and Blackberry Messenger cannot return a message for applying the system of image compression algorithms while email can.
E-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet E-Commerce and E-Care with Cdrom

From the Publisher: Harnessing the Power of the Internet for Health Care Marketing and Care Management: A Guide to Greater Efficiency, Better Health and Lower Costs sets the standard for the emerging "consumer focused health care delivery paradigm. " It blends the latest in consumerfocused strategy with practical "howto" tips for using the wealth of available health information. Based on the premise that the internet is a great tool for energizing, communicating, and supporting customers in obtaining appropriate self care and accessing health care services, the book walks you through the strategy, tactics and systems necessary to meet the needs of today's and tomorrow's health care consumer and patient. ehealthcare, ehealth, internet, marketing, health care, e health,
Tricyclic Plasma Levels

Tricyclic overdose is more difficult to treat than barbiturate overdosage, and whereas barbiturate deaths have been declining over the last few years as a proportion of all suicidal poisonings the proportion of suicidal deaths due to tricyclic poisoning has been steadily increasing--from I per cent of all suicidal poisonings in 1965 to 9 per cent in 1974 (2, 3). I am certainly not arguing that tricyclic drugs should be abandoned, but I do believe that their indiscriminate use, particularly but not exclusively in general practice, has probably caused more harm than it has alleviated. As Dr Shaw pointed out, there are now a number of non-tricyclic compounds which seem to be just as effective as the tricyclics, but have very much lower toxicity. It is 111y view that one or other of these drugs should now be the antidepressant offirst choice in general practice and for the treatment of psychiatric out-patients whose medication cannot be reliably supervised. Tricyclics exemplify perfectly the adage that all drugs are dangerous but SOInc are more dangerous than others.
Research on Social and Environmental Accounting: Current Trends and Future Approaches

Climate change has attracted public awareness in recent years, which, in turn, has created potential opportunities and concerns for business. This paper examines the manner in which empirical studies on social and environmental accounting (SEA) disclosures have contributed to the existing knowledge. It combines theoretical and practical approaches to SEA to provide researchers with creative and holistic access to the knowledge. The study finds the literature on SEA to be far-reaching, flourishing, and employing exciting and diverse statistical methodologies to measure relevant disclosures. It goes on to analyze the theories, motivations, prior literature, and methodologies employed in international SEA literature. The present study contributes to the crafting of a systematic overview of the literature on SEA and opens up potential avenues for research in this discipline by combining current trends in theoretical and practical approaches to SEA research.
ORTAOKUL ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN DİJİTAL OYUN BAĞIMLILIĞI VE FİZİKSEL AKTİVİTE DÜZEYLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLŞKİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Giris ve Amac: Insanlik tarihi kadar eski olan oyun, gecmisten gunumuze bircok degisiklige ugramistir. Gelisen teknoloji ile birlikte oynanan oyunlarin sekli ve icerigi de degisime ugramistir. Bunun en belirgin ornegi ise ozellikle 1980’lerin basindan itibaren hayatimiza giren dijital oyunlardir. Bircok farkli bakis acisi ile degerlendirilen dijital oyunlara getirilen en temel elestirilerin basinda, bu oyunlarin yapisi geregi oynayan bireyleri hareketsiz ve pasif bir duruma getirmesidir. Bu arastirmanin amaci; ortaokul ogrencilerinin dijital oyun bagimliligi ve fiziksel aktivite duzeylerinin cesitli degiskenler acisindan incelenmesidir. Yontem: Nicel arastirma modeline gore tasarlanan arastirmada, iliskisel tarama yonteminden yararlanilmistir. Arastirmada 149 kadin, 181 erkek olmak uzere toplam 330 katilimci yer almistir. Katilimcilara “Cocuklar Icin Dijital Oyun Bagimliligi Olcegi” ile “Bilissel Davranisci Fiziksel Aktivite Olcegi” uygulanmis ve elde edilen veriler SPSS 23. Paket program kullanilarak Tanimlayici istatistik, t-Testi, ANOVA ve Korelasyon analizleri yapilmistir. Bulgular: Arastirma sonuclarina gore; katilimcilarin dijital oyun bagimliligi duzeyleri “cinsiyet, yas, duzenli olarak spor yapma, gunluk ortalama dijital oyun oynama suresi” degiskenleri acisindan anlamli olarak farkliliklar gostermektedir. Katilimcilarin fiziksel aktivite duzeyleri ise “gunluk duzenli olarak spor yapma, baba egitim duzeyi” degiskenlerine gore anlamli farkliliklar gostermektedir. Katilimcilarin “dijital oyun bagimliligi” ve “fiziksel aktivite duzeylerine” iliskin toplam puanlari arasinda ise negatif yonde ve anlamli duzeyde iliski oldugu gorulmustur. Sonuc: Sonuc olarak; bireylerin sanal bir bagimlilik turu olan dijital oyun bagimliligi sorununun cozumunde, fiziksel aktivitenin-sporun onemli bir arac olabilecegi soylenebilir. Anahtar kelimeler: Oyun, dijital oyun, bagimlilik, fiziksel aktivite, spor.
A hierarchical and contextual model for learning and recognizing highly variant visual categories

In this dissertation we present a hierarchical and contextual model for representing image patterns (manmade objects and aerial images) that are highly variant from instance to instance. These types of patterns are difficult to model because objects within the same class may have very different photometric and geometric properties and/or compositions of parts, e.g. teapots may have very different colors, shapes, and locations of their spouts and handles. We hypothesize that these varied visual patterns can be captured by using a novel representation that arranges common primitives of the patterns in a probabilistic hierarchy, thus compactly capturing possible compositional variations, and then enforces contextual constraints on the appearances of the parts, thus modeling the conditional photometric and geometric relationships of the object parts. We combine a Stochastic Context Free Grammar (SCFG), which captures the long-range compositional variations of a pattern, with a Markov Random Field (MRF), which captures the short-range constraints between neighboring pattern primitives, to create our model. We also present a minimax entropy framework for automatically learning which contextual constraints are most relevant for modeling a type of pattern and estimating their parameters. Finally, we present a novel Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm called Clustering Cooperative and Competitive Constraints (C 4) for efficiently performing Bayesian inference with our model. C4 is a method for minimizing energy functions defined on graphs that we will use to combine bottom-up and top-down information to find the best interpretation of an image. We show experiments on learning models of a number of manmade object categories and of aerial images and demonstrate that our algorithms automatically learn models that accurately capture the statistical nature of the patterns we are modeling. We also show that our model can be used for inference in new images, allowing it to identify objects in challenging scenarios.
System Thinking for Service Research Advances

This issue of the Journal of Service Science is dedicated to the inferences of system thinking upon recent service research advances, and in particular upon service science and SD logic. The special issue is based upon the scientific proposals deriving from the “2009 Naples Forum on Service”, and specifically to its sessions dedicated to system thinking and its relation to service research. The forum, held in the island of Capri, Italy, has addressed intriguing issues such as complexity, system thinking, human behavior, viability, service systems, and in particular was based upon Service Science, Service Dominant logic and network theories. These topics represented the forum pillars since they constitute an attempt in proposing new marketing and management theories in line with the evolution of economic contexts, cultural and behavioral change of customers, globalization of systems and competition, information and communication technology with the Internet and web service, and other changes. The three themes are interdependent, integrative one to each other.
Clinostats and other rotating systems—Design, function, and limitations

Clinostats are rotational devices that have been in use ever since Julius Sachs invented a clockwork-driven device that rotated growing plants around their growth axis at the end of the 19th century [1]. The initial clinostat systems were mostly used in plant studies and rotated with a relatively slow frequency on the order of one rotation per couple of hours up to about 10 revolutions per minute. Seeds or adult plants were fixed to the clinostat within some semisolid or soil substrates. Although mostly used to simulate microgravity, there are some interesting adaptations of these systems made over the years. For instance, clinorotation was combined with centrifugation to generate a partial gravity in order to establish the gravity threshold of various systems [2–4]. In the 1960s, Briegleb [5] introduced the concept of a fast-rotating (on the order of 60 rpm) clinostat dedicated for liquid cell culture studies. Other improvements were implemented over time, and the most recent modification resulted in the so-called 3D clinostat [6] and the random positioning machine (RPM) [7, 8]. The widespread use of clinostats and the often-found notation that all it takes to eliminate gravitational effects on organism is to rotate them prompt this description of the purpose, goals, and limits of these devices. The most important message may well be the simple statement that clinostats, albeit intended for this purpose, do not simulate microgravity. The detailed assumptions and consequences of rotational movements in a static force field, such as Earth’s gravity, are often overlooked and may result in questionable or downright incorrect statements. Since clinostats can also be used to mimic fractional
An Implicit Processing Mechanism for Interpretation: Effects of Semantic and Syntactic Priming

Priming refers to an increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience. This study tested the hypothesis that priming occurred during interpreting greatly promotes/speeds up the processing procedure at both the semantic and syntactic level, thereby improves the interpreterâ€™s performance. Based on the analysis of real simultaneous interpreting data, it is suggested that priming exerts negative impacts such as frequent self-correction and inappropriate literal translations due to the semantic priming of the dominant first language (L1). In order to verify the conclusions of text analysis, we designed two experiments. In experiment I, a sentence-based semantic category judgment task was used to test the priming effect between prime (last word of the sentence) and target. Priming effects were confirmed to exist in second language (L2) lexical representation and processing. Meanwhile, the effects of cross-language semantic priming from dominant L1 to L2 were unequal in different proficiency level groups with more marked effects occurring in the more advanced group. The results support the semantic spreading activation model of semantic priming. Experiment II was designed to probe the long-term effects of structural priming by means of sentence recall and translation tasks. Primes consisted of transitive sentences in either an active or passive voice and sentences in either a prepositional-object or double-object form. The results suggested a stronger priming effect if the key verb in the source language had an equivalent in the target language due to the lexical priming effect or the translate-boost effect, with no robust priming effect being observed if the target language has no structural counterparts. The advanced interpreting students were found to be more accessible to the positive effects of cross-linguistic structural priming, suggesting it is asymmetrical but developmental as proficiency increases. Keywords: Interpreting Studies; Priming Effect; Implicit Memory
Pathology of paratuberculosis in sheep as confirmed by ISMav2 gene real-time polymerase chain reaction

The present investigation was carried with the objective to study the prevalence and pathology of naturally ocairring paratuberculosis in sheep showing chronic enteritis. Out of 300 sheep examined postslaughter, samples from 50 sheep (16.7%) exhibiting various degree of thickening or corrugation of intestinal mucosa (ileum and ICV) and enlargement of lymph nodes were collected. Small pieces of tissues from the affected sheep were also collected on ice for genomic detection of Mycobacteriurn avium subspeies paratuberculosis (MAP) targeting ISMav2 gene by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) method. In the intestine various pathological conditions such as chronic diffuse grnulomatous enteritis (multibacillary paratuberculosis) (12%), chronic focal granulomatous enteritis (paucibacillary paratuberculosis) (24%) and chronic enteritis (64%) without granuloma formation were observed. Multibacillary lesions were characterized by diffuse infiltration of epithelioid macrophages loaded with clusters of AFB in small intestine and mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) of all cases. Paucibacillary lesions were characterized by the presence of multiple microgranuloma in the cortex and paracortex of lymph nodes and loosely arranged macrophages in the small intestine with AFB demonstrable in 4 (33%) sheep. Chronic enteritis, without granuloma formation and detectable AFB, were characterized by moderate to severe infiltration of lymphocytes, mixed with macrophages and eosinophils. Eight (16%) of these cases were associated with parasitic nodules (Oesophagostomosis). The ISMavl gene was detected in 25 (50%) cases which included all multibacillary cases, 50% of paucibacillary cases and 40.63% of chronic enteritis (non-granulomatous) cases. It was concluded that Johne's disease was quite prevalent in sheep of unorganized sector also, and ISMavl was found to be a sensitive test for the diagnosis of Johne's disease in sheep.
Personalised E-Learning: The Assessment of Students Prior Knowledge in Higher Education

Society’s use of mobile applications that instantaneously dynamically adapt to input has had the effect ofusers expecting immediate feedback from all applications based on their specific needs. The traditionalconcept of a one size fits all approach to managing an online learning environment could perhaps beimproved by the inclusion of personalised learning experiences for students based on their prior knowledge. The purpose of personalised e-learning is to tailor learning content to the specific learning requirements of individual students. The focus of this chapter is to review the topic of personalised e-learningand discuss the issues and problems educators may encounter in assessing students’ prior knowledge.Information on students’ prior knowledge is required to inform the process to facilitate personalisede-learning experiences based on prior knowledge
ANALISI PROSODICO DELL’ITALIANO PARLATO PER SPAGNOLI: IL CASO DELLE INTERROGATIVE POLARI

In this work we propose to present the prosodic features characteristic of the interrogatives yes/no of the spanish who learned italian as a foreign language. The two varieties considered for evaluation are the Italian variety of Venice, Madrid and the Spanish variety. Both have already been studied in the past, however, as far as I know, this is the first study that systematically puts compared in a comprehensive way. This description of the transfer is strongest fundamental in education for the teachers involved in teaching Italian as a foreign language are aware of the fact that the L1 prosodic features are very strong and difficult subject to conscious control of the speaker. In this sense it will be important to take into account when they start to offer models of orality to spanish speakers.
Ikonisering van liggaamsverval met spesifieke verwysing na Antjie Krog se bundel Verweerskrif

Krog struggles in her volume Body Bereft with the problem of the aging body and with the perceived inability of language to describe such a process. She states the dilemma of getting older by means of the following question: "how and with what / does one acquire the vocabulary of age? " (2006a:28). Since Krog not only redefines body identity through thematic presentation, but especially also through language presentation, specifically by means of the many instances of syntactic decay, it can be argued that language, specifically syntax, is a repository of identity for the aging speaker. In this article the focus is on Krog's writing of decay/aging with reference to the syntactic presentation of texts and also the way in which the aging of the body is configured thematically.