Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Outre‐Manche/Across the Channel: Ongoing Training and Gender in France and Britain

The French state-levy system of ongoing training at work has not provided greater access for women than the laissez-faire British system. While headlines figures suggest that women receive more training than men in Britain and that the gap has also closed for well-qualified women in France, qualitative analysis shows that this does not indicate greater gender equity. The societal effect approach is useful for cross-national comparison within the sphere of economic organization but must be combined with analysis of the gender order to account for differences and similarities in social reproduction. The case of the insurance industry provides detailed empirical evidence of the issues underlying this, particularly women's availability for ongoing training at work. The situation of women in each country is inextricably linked to a complex interdependence of a multitude of variables, some of which are similar, such as the workings of patriarchy, and some of which are different, such as state configurations of childcare infrastructure. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2005.
The effect of 26 years of habitual fish consumption on serum lipid and lipoprotein levels (the Zutphen study).

An inverse association was found between fish consumption and coronary heart disease in the Zutphen Study. In the present study the long-term effects of a small amount of fish on serum lipids and lipoproteins was investigated. Forty healthy, elderly men whose fish consumption pattern over the previous 26-year period was known, were selected for the present study. The 15 men in the control group consumed, on average, about 2 g of fish per day, and the 25 habitual fish consumers ate, on average, about 33 g of fish per day during the study period. The cholesterol content of the different lipoprotein fractions did not differ between the two groups. The average total triglyceride level and the average triglyceride level of the atherogenic IDL fraction were respectively 26% and 38% (p< 0.05) lower in the habitual fish consumers than in the controls. These results suggest that a habitual fish consumption of about 30 g per day for more than 25 years is an effective measure for lowering serum triglyceride levels.
Adaptation during a longitudinal integrated clerkship: the lived experiences of third-year medical students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

There are three interrelated concepts of what medical students learn, which include the formal, informal, and hidden curriculum. Several researchers who have investigated notions of the hidden curriculum have demonstrated how the experiences of medical training entrenched in the hidden curriculum can have a profound impact on medical student adaptation. The most influential transitional stage in undergraduate medical education is the third-year clinical clerkship, when medical students transition from classroom learners into clinicians. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) clinical clerkship year consists of a mandatory eightmonths of living and working in rural and northern communities throughout Northern Ontario, and learning in the context of rural family practice. Informed by a social constructivist research paradigm, I explored how 12 third-year students described the challenges they had to manage and, in response, the strategies they employed to adapt to their clerkship. I elicited their experiences and perspectives to contribute to a rich understanding of how students at the NOSM describe developing processes of adaptation during the Comprehensive Community Clerkship. Data were collected between August 2011 and April 2012, including: a) pre-clerkship interviews and a demographic questionnaire, b) mobile methods in the form of ‘guided walks’ in the communities, and c) post-clerkship interviews. The quality of the data collection and analysis were enhanced through processes of methodological and interpretive rigour, representativeness and authenticity, rich description and contextual relevance, audit trail, and reflexivity. Through an inductive thematic analysis of the data, the findings provide a rich description of events experienced such as medical training in one’s hometown or a familiar community,
Translating Snort rules to STATL scenarios

The number of intrusion detection systems (IDSs) is large and growing. Most IDSs are signature based, which means that they include signatures for some collection of known attacks, and monitor an event stream looking for instances of any signature in their collection. There is an enormous duplication of effort within the IDS community, as each newly discovered attack requires independent specification for each IDS. Sharing of signature collections has obvious advantages for the IDS community as a whole, mainly by (1) allowing better allocation of scarce resources (developers and researchers) and (2) supporting peer review of signature collections, which can lead to better signatures and better detectors. Snort is an IDS with a large published collection of signatures. This paper considers automated translation of Snort rules to STATL scenarios. Automatically translating Snort rules to STATL scenarios has the practical effect of allowing the use of Snort’s large signature collection with NetSTAT sensors, with essentially no new work as new Snort signatures are developed. A snort2statl translator has been developed that implements the described translation scheme. Most of the signaturespecifying elements of Snort’s rule language are easy to translate to STATL, but developing the translation scheme and its implementation, and then translating the complete set of rules in the standard Snort rule set into STATL scenarios, raised a few issues that are discussed.
Red meat in the diet: an update

Summary This paper provides an update of a previous review ‘Red Meat in the Diet’ published in the Nutrition Bulletin in 2005. An update on red meat consumption levels in the UK and other countries is provided, and a summary of the nutritional content of red meat in the diet is given. Current evidence on dietary and lifestyle factors associated with red meat consumption and the effects of red meat intake on health and chronic disease outcomes are discussed. As there is now continued debate about the environmental impact of different aspects of our diet, sustainability issues regarding red meat were also discussed.
Transformational Learning in First-Year Australian Preservice Primary Teacher

The early experience of commencing university students is an important precursor for retention and student success and involves a transformation in learning. This article reports the experiences of commencing students in an Australian Education (Primary) degree. Data were collected using a mixed methods approach, consisting of an online survey, and semistructured interviews. The data revealed that respondents experienced some phases of Mezirow’s transformational learning theory. Interviewees were enthusiastic about their future career with high scores in the online instrument for academic orientation and student identity, which indicated that they were experiencing the building of confidence and competence in new roles (Phase 7) and provisionally trying out new roles (Phase 8). Nevertheless, all respondents indicated being overwhelmed by the unexpectedly high academic study load, indicating a disorientating dilemma (Phase 1). These results are placed in the context of student retention and degree completion.
Robust induction motor control for electric vehicles

An induction motor is one of the suitable motors for the electric vehicles. The induction motor used in the electric vehicles has been generally controlled based on the vector control method to obtain good dynamic torque response. A new discrete-time control algorithm has been developed by combining variable structure system (VSS) and Lyapunov design. It possesses all the good properties of the sliding mode control and avoids the unnecessary discontinuity of the control input, thus eliminating chattering which has been considered as a serious obstacle for applications of VSS. A unified control approach for the stator currents and torque control based on the discrete-time sliding mode for application in indirect vector control for an IM drive is developed. The validity of the algorithm was verified by simulation and experiment.
Caractérisation d’un composite boispolymère pour utilisation en plaques de bardage par l’extérieur

La these s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet ECOCIS (Eco-composite pour l'Isolation). Ce projet vise la conception, le developpement et la validation des performances d'un composite a base de polypropylene renforce avec des fibres de bois (egalement appele bois-plastique) pour utilisation en plaque de bardage par l'exterieur. Ce nouveau materiau s'inscrit dans la problematique de valorisation de la ressource bois sous forme de materiaux elabores.On s'interesse plus particulierement a l'utilisation de la farine de bois issue des dechets des scieries pour le renforcement d'une matrice thermoplastique en polypropylene (PP) recycle. Le premier avantage de ce composite est qu'il est ecologique vu que le polypropylene est recyclable et les fibres de bois sont biodegradable et derivent d'une ressource renouvelable. De plus, l'association des fibres de bois et de PP donne naissance a un materiau qui presente des proprietes bien meilleures que les composants initiaux.Une compagne experimentale a ete organisee, qui se concentre sur les essais de caracterisation du materiau en traction, en flexion, au choc Charpy. Des mesures complementaires de dilatation thermique et de vieillissement artificiel sont egalement considerees. Ces essais vont permettre de determiner la loi de comportement du materiau et de comprendre l'evolution de ses proprietes avec les differents parametres. Une fois les proprietes du materiau ont ete validees, l'etape suivante consiste a mettre ce materiau en valeur en le transformant a des plaques de bardages pour une utilisation a l'exterieur. Une caracterisation des plaques en flexion, au choc et a la resistance au vent a ete realisee afin de valider la possibilite d'utilisation de ce materiau en bardage par l'exterieur
Dynamic fine-grained sparse memory accesses

Applications from big data analytics, machine learning, and high performance computing, amongst others, operate on large inputs, which can place capacity pressure on caches. Further, some rely on operations over a dynamically determined subset of the inputs, e.g., through indirection, random sampling, or hashing. These sparse accesses can have widely varying amounts of locality, depending on the specific input. In the worst case, they have poor spatial and temporal locality, and for these low-locality accesses, modern processors fetch full cache lines and insert them into on-chip caches; however the lines get evicted before seeing much reuse, if any. This leads to long memory latencies, inefficient interconnect and memory bandwidth utilization, and cache pollution. We propose an ISA and microarchitecture that dynamically adapts to the locality of an input, and selectively exploits the fine-grained memory access capability provided by recently introduced memory technologies such as HBM and HMC. Our technique uses a small memory-side hardware (~110B per memory controller) that predicts locality, and for low-locality sparse accesses makes a fine-grained (i.e., sub-cache-line) access to DRAM that bypasses all caches. This mechanism avoids cache pollution and bandwidth inefficiency without requiring major changes to the cache design, and while also capturing locality in the sparse accesses when it exists. For a set of applications from the domains of graph analytics, machine learning, and sparse linear algebra, and using real-world input data sets, our technique reduces off-chip data traffic by 24% on average and improves performance by up to 24%.
Cocoa: synergistic cache compression and error correction in capacity sensitive last level caches

Voltage scaling is one of the most effective techniques to provide power savings on a chip-wide basis. However, reducing supply voltage in the presence of process variation introduces significant reliability challenges for large SRAM arrays. The rapid decrease in SRAM reliability at low voltages determines a minimum operating voltage (Vccmin). This places a floor on the power consumption of the entire processor. Therefore, processors must either stay at high voltages where the low defect densities are tolerable or work at low voltages with existing fault tolerance schemes which sacrifice a large fraction of the cache capacity for improved reliability. In the latter case, processors could obtain significant energy reduction from the aggressive voltage scaling. However, the decrease in the last-level cache (LLC) capacity may have a detrimental impact on both performance and energy consumption. In this work, we propose a novel technique to enable reliable low voltage operation and preserve capacity for LLCs. In this technique, synergistic cache compression and error correction (Cocoa), we apply compression to LLCs to harvest additional capacity to store ECC check bits. In addition, we introduce a new ECC scheme to minimize the space overhead of ECC. In particular, we employ variable strength ECC on a per-segment basis. In the common case, segments with zero or one bit failures are protected by weak ECC. Few segments with multi-bit failures are protected by strong ECC. Our evaluation for a 2MB 8-way set associative L3 cache shows that the proposed schemes can guarantee reliable cache operation beyond 400mV. Compared to a conventional cache with a Vccmin of 810mV, our schemes reduce the system energy per instruction (Core+L3+DRAM) by 54.5%. Furthermore, we achieve 0.8% higher performance even than a fault-free cache when operating at 400mV. We also demonstrate that our energy benefits remain robust across a broad range of cache sizes and supply voltages.
Computer Vision Syndrome

Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) is a condition in which a person experience one or more of eye symptoms and/or headache and back pain as a result of prolonged working on a computer. Bankers, account section workers, professional computer workers, excessive near work by mobile, laptop or tab users are commonly affected. Headache, eye strain, dryness, burning, grittiness, heaviness or watering, stiff shoulders, low back pain and general fatigue are main symptoms. The duration of computer work is directly related to eye symptoms; and longer duration tends to result in long-lasting complaints even after the work is finished. Professional workers should practice preventive measure. Correction of refractive errors, modification of work station, using antiglare screen filter and hourly eye exercise are the chief preventive strategy. Neglected person may have less/decreased working capacity and reduced productivity. Faridpur Med. Coll. J. Jan 2015;10(1): 33-35
Etiologia, manifestações clínicas e alterações presentes nas crianças respiradoras orais

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the etiology, main clinical manifestations and other concurrent findings in mouth-breathing children aged 3 to 9 years and resident in the urban area of Abaete (MG), Brazil. METHODS: This study was based on a representative random sample of the town population, of 23,596 inhabitants. Clinical diagnosis of mouth-breathing was defined as a combination of snoring, sleeping with mouth open, drooling on the pillow and frequent or intermittent nasal obstruction. Children with a clinical diagnosis of mouth breathing underwent nasal endoscopy, allergy skin tests and X ray of the rhinopharynx, full blood tests, eosinophil counts, total IgE assay and fecal parasitology. Data were analyzed using SPSS® version 10.5. RESULTS: The main causes of mouth breathing were: allergic rhinitis (81.4%), enlarged adenoids (79.2%), enlarged tonsils (12.6%), and obstructive deviation of the nasal septum (1.0%). The main clinical manifestations of mouth breathers were: sleeping with mouth open (86%), snoring (79%), itchy nose (77%), drooling on the pillow (62%), nocturnal sleep problems or agitated sleep (62%), nasal obstruction (49%), and irritability during the day (43%). CONCLUSION: Certain clinical manifestations are very common among mouth-breathing children. These manifestations must be recognized and considered in the clinical diagnosis of mouth breathing.
Latino Older Adults and Mental Health: A Review and Commentary

Latinos are the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States, and within that, the proportion of elderly Latinos is also increasing at a very rapid rate. This is due to an increase in longevity and improved health care. Depression and other mental health disorders are common in this group, yet few services exist at present that are culturally appropriate and that have been found, in randomized trials, to be effective with them. Part of the reason for this lag in research and development of clinical services is due to the multiple barriers to seeking and receiving mental health services that exist in Latino communities. This article reviews these barriers as well as existing programs that address them and therefore hold promise as mental health interventions. Although there is an increasing amount of research on older adults in this country, Latino older adults still remain underrepresented in research and underserved clinically. This article also highlights the need to increase appropriate normative data for valid testing, and emphasizes a call for more culturally competent and bilingual clinicians.
Automated facial acne assessment from smartphone images

A smartphone mobile medical application is presented, that provides analysis of the health of skin on the face using a smartphone image and cloud-based image processing techniques. The mobile application employs the use of the camera to capture a front face image of a subject, after which the captured image is spatially calibrated based on fiducial points such as position of the iris of the eye. A facial recognition algorithm is used to identify features of the human face image, to normalize the image, and to define facial regions of interest (ROI) for acne assessment. We identify acne lesions and classify them into two categories: those that are papules and those that are pustules. Automated facial acne assessment was validated by performing tests on images of 60 digital human models and 10 real human face images. The application was able to identify 92% of acne lesions within five facial ROIs. The classification accuracy for separating papules from pustules was 98%. Combined with in-app documentation of treatment, lifestyle factors, and automated facial acne assessment, the app can be used in both cosmetic and clinical dermatology. It allows users to quantitatively self-measure acne severity and treatment efficacy on an ongoing basis to help them manage their chronic facial acne.
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Welcome to JCDL 2002! This is the second in a series of ACM/IEEE-CS joint conferences on research and development in digital libraries. JCDL 2002 is a major international forum for research reports and discussion on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference takes a broad view of digital libraries as both extensions and augmentations of physical libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. The program captured in these proceedings represents a snapshot of the current state of digital library research and development and provides glimmers into the future of what digital libraries may become.This year's conference attracted 240 submissions from researchers in 18 countries. All full and short papers were reviewed by at least three members of the program committee and those accepted were revised for inclusion in these proceedings. Thirty-three of 99 full papers and 36 of 73 short papers were accepted this year. In addition to the papers, demonstrations, posters, and panels add to the mix of theory and practice and two keynote addresses will stimulate thought and discussion on intellectual property issues and trends in digital library practice. Eight tutorials and seven workshops bookend the conference to provide in-depth treatments of specific topics and issues. As in past years, the Vannevar Bush Award for best paper will be awarded in honor of Dr. Bush, the founder of the National Science Foundation and proposer of the Memex. This award was initiated by Robert Akscyn, President of Knowledge Systems, Inc. A subcommittee of the program committee (Lois Delcambre, Sue Dumais, Linda Hill, Gary Marchionini, Michael Nelson, and Rebecca Wesley) reviewed the seven highest rated papers to select a winner. This year's award goes to Donna Bergmark for her paper "Collection Synthesis.
Les patients ayant un carcinome malpighien et ceux ayant un adénocarcinome bronchique ont-ils une histoire tabagique différente ?

L'adenocarcinome bronchique est devenu le sous-type histologique le plus frequent en Amerique du Nord. Cette augmentation a debute des les annees 70 et a ete attribuee a la fois aux modifications des habitudes tabagiques et a l'augmentation d'incidence des cancers bronchiques chez les femmes, dont on sait qu'elles developpent preferentiellement un adenocarcinome. En France, le carcinome bronchique malpighien predomine mais on commence a constater une augmentation des adenocarcinomes. Nous avons effectue une etude comparative des habitudes tabagiques des patients admis pour un carcinome malpighien ou un adenocarcinome dans les services de pneumologie et de chirurgie thoracique des Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg durant la periode allant du 1 er mars 1995 au 30 avril 1998. L'analyse statistique construite sur un modele de regression logistique conditionnelle a ete effectuee apres appariement sur l'âge, le sexe, la date de diagnostic, d'un patient ayant un adenocarcinome avec un patient ayant un carcinome malpighien. Elle montre, un âge de debut du tabagisme et un âge d'arret (pour les ex-fumeurs) significativement plus precoces, une tendance plus frequente a l'inhalation profonde de la fumee et a l'utilisation de cigarettes avec filtre pour les patients ayant un adenocarcinome. A l'inverse, les patients ayant un carcinome malpighien ont plus souvent roule leurs cigarettes. Il n'y a pas de difference de repartition des sous-types histologiques selon l'exposition au tabagisme passif.
EVALUATING GALOIS COUNTER MODE IN LINK LAYER SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Due to the severe resource constraints in the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the security protocols therein, should be designed to optimize the performance maximally. On the other hand a block cipher and the mode of operation in which it operates, play a vital role in determining the overall efficiency of a security protocol. In addition, when an application demands confidentiality and message integrity, the overall efficiency of a security protocol can be improved by using the Authenticated Encryption (AE) block cipher mode of operation as compared to the conventional sequential encryption and authentication. Amongst the AE block cipher modes, the Galois Counter mode (GCM) is the latest recommended AE mode by the NIST. In this paper, we attempt at evaluating the performance of the GCM mode in the link layer security protocol for a WSN viz. TinySec and compare it with the default conventional block cipher modes of operation used therein. To the best of our knowledge ours is the first experimental evaluation of Galois Counter Mode with Advanced Encryption Standard Cipher at the link layer security architecture for WSNs.