Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Mirror of Tonality: Transitional Features of Nineteenth-Century Harmony

harmony, and ultimately to atonality, is still commonly described from the point of view that Schoenberg developed to establish the historical inevitability of his own music. Seen in this way, the force of harmonic change in the nineteenth century was a gradual heightening of chromaticism that eventually obscured tonal functions so much that tonality "broke down. " As Schoenberg himself put it in a famous sentence, "The overwhelming multitude of dissonances [could] not be counterbalanced any more by occasional returns to such tonic triads as represent a key. "' Schoenberg clearly felt that this situation justified, even demanded, his own harmonic style, which tended toward total chromaticism long before he developed the twelve-tone system. His earliest atonal pieces, the finale of the Second String Quartet and Das Buch der hdngenden Gdrten, quote texts from Stefan George that intimate the discovery of something unknown, miraculous, perhaps terrifying-all of which the music evokes hauntingly. Yet the rhetoric of discovery is deceptive; the truth is that Schoenberg was interpreting, not discovering, atonality as chromatic saturation. At the same time, he was rejecting he other interpretive prospects opened by composers like Debussy, Busoni, and Skriabin. Schoenberg's exclusive claim on the territory of early atonality has gradually evaporated as the cultural identity of his style has grown clearer: a "classical" expressionism as firmly rooted in turn-of-the-century Vienna as classical psychoanalysis.2 His vision of tonality in collapse has been more stubborn.
Model-Based and Model-Free Approaches to Autonomic Resource Allocation

A major goal of autonomic computing is to dynamically allocate computational resources so as to continually optimize high-level policy objectives. A key challenge to achieving this goal is to accurately estimate the impact of resource-level changes on application performance with respect to a Service Level Ageement (SLA). We compare two methodologies for accomplishing this: (i) developing a queuing-theoretic performance model for an application, and fitting its parameters online based on current state; (ii) using modelfree reinforcement learning of resource valuation estimates based on trial-and-error learning. We describe these approaches in the context of a distributed architecture in which servers are allocated amongst multiple applications with independent time-varying loads. Each application has a local utility function, based on SLA payments as a function of relevant performance metrics. The overall system goal is to maximize the sum of local utility functions. Individual applications use one of the above methodologies to estimate resource valuations, which are then used by a resource arbiter to compute optimal allocations. We present empirical data illustrating the practicality and effectiveness of both methods in a realistic data center prototype. We highlight important tradeoffs between the methods, and point out potential benefits of a hybrid approach combining both methods.
Presenting a Real Time Method for Automatic Detection of Diabetes Based on Fuzzy Reward-Penalty System

Nowadays diabetes disease is one of the main problems of health domain and it’s known as the fourth factor of death in the world. The main problem with this dangerous disease is the late or weak diagnosis. The reason of weak diagnosis is because sometimes doctors aren’t able to select the right patterns or they can’t use the standard patterns very well, so the outcome is that the disease will be diagnosed by the patients when it has become late for controlling or curing it. Therefore, implementing a method which can help each person to have an authentic diagnosis of being or not being affected to this disease; can be an important step for prevention and controlling this special disease at the beginning of it. In this paper, a new method is presented for diagnosing diabetes disease which is able to extract the proper knowledge by helping to cluster and analyze the training patterns, after that in recognition phase it can diagnose diabetes disease precisely and fast via a fuzzy reward-penalty mechanism. For evaluating the proposed method, PIMA dataset has been used. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a better performance compared to other existing methods.
An epidemiological analysis of the risk factors associated with adult hearing loss

ii Dedication . iii Acknowledgments . iv Vita. v List of Tables. vii List of Figures . viii List of Abbreviations . ix Chapters
Prevalencia de inicio tardío de la atención prenatal. Asociación con el nivel socioeconómico de la gestante. Estudio de corte transversal. Bucaramanga, Colombia, 2014-2015

Objective: To describe the prevalence of late initiation of prenatal care and assess its association with the socioeconomic level of the pregnant woman. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional study. Pregnant women from the urban area of Bucaramanga were included using sampling based on proportional affixation quotas according to the socioeconomic classification of the neighbourhood where they lived. Late initiation was considered to occur when prenatal care was started at 12 weeks or more of gestation. The association between late initiation and socioeconomic bracket was assessed, controlling by sociodemographic and clinical variables of the pregnant woman, and a multivariate log-binomial regression model was developed to estimate prevalence ratios and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Results: Overall, 391 pregnant women between 18 and 43 years of age (median 23) were included. Median for schooling was 11 years, with a range between 0 and 25 years. Late initiation was found in 29.7% (95% CI: 25.2-34.5) of the women. Association was found with low income brackets (prevalence ratio [PR] = 1.57; 95% CI: 1.08-2.56), no affiliation to social security at the start of pregnancy (PR = 2.73; 95% CI: 2.04-3.67), and low schooling (PR = 1.46; 95% CI: 1.02-2.16), and age between 18 and 24 years (PR = 1.53; 95% CI: 1.12-1.70). Remembering the date of the last menstruation (PR = 0.48; 95% CI: 0.32-0.71) and being in a stable relationship (PR = 0.82; 95% CI: 0.64-0.98) were protective factors.
Motivations for Use of Social Networking Sites In Relation To Environment Awareness among College Students

The present study was undertaken to study the different motivations for use of Social Networking Sites for creating Environment Awareness. Four motivations namely: Social connectivity, Recognition, Entertainment and Information of using Social Networking Sites were undertaken. A sample of 200 college students of age 18-24 years was raised from the colleges of Chandigarh. t-test and Co-efficient of correlation were used to analyze the data. The results of the study showed that there exists a significant difference between boys and girls students on the dimension Social Connectivity and Entertainment. Girls students are more motivated to use the Social Networking Sites for Social Connectivity and Entertainment than boys students. For the dimensions Recognition and Information of using Social Networking Sites, there exists no significant difference between boys and girls. There exists no significant difference between boys and girls on the variable of Environment Awareness. There exists significant relationship between Motivations for use of Social Networking Sites and Environment Awareness among College Students. alibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Shruti; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;} : These days error free transmission of data is a key challenge in data transmission. This can be achieved by using various error detecting and correcting codes like Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ), Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ). One of the best ways in FEC is Hamming code, which is a single bit error correction and double bit error detection method by using redundancy. In this paper, Hamming code is improved by appending the redundant bits at the end of data stream instead of positions in conventional Hamming code, to easily identify the parity bits in the data stream received at the receiver end. This method is appropriate for large data transmission with low redundancy bits per data bit ratio. In this paper proposed method achieve low delay circuit and optimize the load on receiver. Simulation is done using Xilinx ISE 14.7 Simulator.
Treatment strategies in colorectal cancer patients with initially unresectable liver-only metastases: The randomized phase III CAIRO5 study of the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group.

TPS3622 Background: Colorectal cancer patients with unresectable liver-only metastases may be cured after downsizing of metastases by neoadjuvant systemic therapy. However, the optimal neoadjuvant induction regimen has not been defined, and the lack of consensus on criteria for (un)resectability complicates the interpretation of published results. Methods: CAIRO5 is a multicenter, randomized, phase III clinical study. Colorectal cancer patients with initially unresectable liver-only metastases are eligible, and will not be selected for potential resectability to avoid selection bias. The unresectability status is prospectively assessed by a central panel consisting of at least one radiologist and three liver surgeons, and defined as no radical resection possible in one session with resection only. Tumors of included patients will be tested for RAS and BRAF (for stratification purpose) mutation status. Patients with RAS wild type tumors are treated with doublet chemotherapy (FOLFOX/FOLFIRI, choice of inves.
Fauna parasitaria de la tórtola común (Zenaida auriculata, de Murs 1847) (Columbiformes: Columbidae) en Ñuble, Chile

* Departamento de Ciencias Pecuarias, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de Concepcion, Casilla 537,Chillan, Chile. ** Instituto de Parasitologia, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad de Leipzig, Leipzig, an der Tierklinik 33,D-04103 Leipzig, Alemania. *** Instituto de Investigaciones Silvestres, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria de Hannover, Bunteweg 17, D-30559,Hannover, Alemania. **** Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Turinguen, An der Brucke 3, D-07407 Rudolstadt, Alemania.DANIEL GONZALEZ*, ARWID DAUGSCHIES**, LUIS RUBILAR*, KLAUS POHLMEYER***,OSCAR SKEWES* y EBERHARD MEY****
Serveis públics en linia i organització de l'administració: un estudi de cas sobre governança electrónica

Este articulo tiene por objeto analizar la interaccion entre innovacion tecnologica y cambio organizativo en el contexto de la administracion publica. Para ello, se presentan las principales conclusiones de un estudio de caso sobre una iniciativa de governanza electronica-el proyecto Administracion Oberta de Catalunya-, desarrollada por la administracion autonomica y las administraciones locales catalanas, y se ponen de manifiesto los aspectos clave del desarrollo del proyecto asi como las disfunciones mas destacables de su implementacion. Las conclusiones muestran que la provision electronica de servicios publicos genera diversas tensiones en la organizacion burocratica. La innovacion tecnologica que suponen los proyectos de governanza electronica no produce de forma automatica y directa los cambios organizativos esperados ni, en particular, la transicion definida hacia un modelo de administracion en red. Basicamente, el proceso esta condicionado por la colision entre culturas distintas en cuanto a la organizacion y si uso de la tecnologia.
Impact of the 10‐Meter Rule Change on Professional Rugby League: Implications for Training

Rudi Meir, MA, CSCS; Paul Colla, BHMS; and Cynthia Milligan, BHMSSchool of Exercise Science and Sport ManagementSouthern Cross UniversityKeywords: rugby league; time and motion analysis; training.WHEN DEVELOPING A SPORT-specific training program for ateam, the strength and condition-ing coach needs a detailed knowl-edge and understanding of the de-mands placed on participantsduring competition. Observationusing time and motion analysis isa practical alternative to more so-phisticated procedures that canprovide details relating to the typeof match play activities performed,how often they are performed, andfor what period of time. In addi-tion, the frequency and ratio ofwork to rest, overall distance cov-ered, and intensity of effort—andtherefore the dominant energysystems used—can be identifiedand estimated.Rugby league football is ateam sport played over two 40-minute halves separated by a 10-minute half-time interval. A teamcomprises 13 players with teampositions broadly deﬁned as eitherforwards (i.e., all players involvedin the scrum,
LA ELICITACIÓN DE REQUISITOS EN DESARROLLO GLOBAL DE SOFTWARE: UN ENFOQUE COGNITIVO

RESUMEN Cuando se debe decidir que tecnicas de elicitacion de requisitos utilizar en un nuevo proyecto suelen primar las politicas internas del grupo a cargo del trabajo, o bien la experiencia o afinidad de los analistas. De la misma manera ocurre con la eleccion de las herramientas groupware cuando el proceso de desarrollo de software se realiza en forma distribuida. Aunque existen algunos estudios previos que comparan el rendimiento entre distintas herramientas groupware y otros entre tecnicas de elicitacion, pocos han intentado proponer una forma de seleccion que se ajuste a los miembros de un grupo de trabajo dado. Aunque parezca un dato menor, como consecuencia de una seleccion no adecuada puede ocurrir que algunos miembros de una comunidad virtual no se sientan comodos utilizando cierta tecnologia, y que esto haga que ellos se muestren reticentes a la hora de comunicarse con otros miembros del grupo, degradandose de esta manera la calidad del proceso de elicitacion de requisitos. Convencidos de que mejorar la comunicacion durante el proceso de captura de los requisitos es un paso necesario para mejorar la calidad del producto final, proponemos un metodo, basado en tecnicas provenientes del campo de la psicologia, que preselecciona un conjunto de herramientas groupware y de tecnicas de elicitacion teniendo en cuenta las caracteristicas del grupo de stakeholders. PALABRAS CLAVES Desarrollo Global Distribuido Elicitacion de Requisitos Equipos Virtuales Aspectos cognitivos ABSTRACT The set of techniques used during a requirement elicitation process is usually chosen taking into account manager's or analyst's personal preferences and forget about preferences of all the other group members. The same happens when selecting groupware tools for communication in distributed software development. Even when some previous works have analysed the use of different groupware tools and elicitation techniques, they just compare performance and personal opinions of people in global software development projects, but they do not propose a methodology for selecting an appropriate set of technology for a given group of people. That appears to be a minor issue, but if technology is not the most appropriate for all the members of a virtual team, it is possible that some of them would not be completely comfortable with the situation, and would have problems to communicate with their partners, which would decrease the quality of the requirement elicitation process itself. To avoid this situation we propose a method, based on techniques from the field of psychology. This method analyses the cognitive styles of all the group members, and based on such information and the application of fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets theory, suggests an appropriate set of groupware tools and requirement elicitation techniques. KEYWORDS Global Software Development Requirement Elicitation Virtual teams Cognitive styles
An observation model and segmentation algorithm for skill acquisition of a deburring task

In robotic deburring applications it is desirable to have sensor feedback. The control strategies for this sensor feedback have to be adapted frequently to work piece and work tool parameters. The paper discusses a method for transferring the skill of a human operator to a control strategy that can cope with these changes in parameters. The human skill is transferred by an indirect learning method. The human actions are modeled as an impedance controller whose parameters are adapted by observations of the deburring process state. The nonlinear relation between the process state and the controller parameters is learnt by a neural network. To apply this method it is necessary that the observations are independent of the controller actions. This is shown for an observation model that is derived from a process model for deburring and experimentally verified. Segmentation of the training data is done by analyzing the summed normalized innovation squared value of a static Kalman filter.
A Randomized Controlled Comparison of Effects of Three Different Agents Used for Local Anesthesia in Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy

Cite this article as: Avcı S, Öner S, Çağlayan V, Önen E, Aydos MM, Demirbaş M. A Randomized Controlled Comparison of Effects of Three Different Agents Used for Local Anesthesia in Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy. J Urol Surg 2018;5(1):30-36 Objective: To evaluate the effects of three different local anesthetic agents in patients who underwent Transrectal ultrasoun guided prostate needle biopsy. Materials and Methods: One hundred and sixty patients who were admitted to our clinic between January 2012 and May 2012 for prostate biopsy were divided into 4 groups: no anesthesia-administered group (group 1), lidocaine-administered group (group 2), levobupivacaine-administered group (group 3) and bupivacaine-administered group (group 4). Pain intensity was evaluated in each group using the visual analog scale (VAS): during administration of local anesthetic (VAS 1), during the biopsy (VAS 2), just after the biopsy (VAS 3) and one hour after the biopsy (VAS 4). Results: There was not any significant difference among the groups in terms of VAS 1 (p=0.152). Pain scores were significantly lower during biopsy (VAS 2) in groups 1, 2 and 3 compared to that in group 1 (p=0.001, p=0.005 and p=0.007, respectively). VAS 3 scores were significantly lower in group 2 and group 3 compared to group 1 while no difference was found in group 4 (p=0.003, p=0.032, and p=0.136, respectively). VAS 4 scores were significantly lower only in group 3 compared to group 1 (p=0.001). Conclusions: It was observed that all the three local anesthetics effectively diminished pain during prostate biopsy. However, we found that levobupivacaine, which improved pain scores in all steps of pain evaluation compared to the control group, was relatively superior for pain management in the transrectal biopsy setting.
Modelos de evaluación de la calidad orientados a la mejora de las instituciones educativas

Este presenta una recopilacion de los principales modelos de evaluacion de la calidad que, de naturaleza eminentemente empresarial, estan siendo instrumentados en las instituciones educativas espanolas. Son multiples los sistemas educativos internacionales que asumen la necesidad de alcanzar unos niveles de excelencia adecuados a las demandas politicas, economicas y sociales, lo que requiere la adopcion de medidas tales como la generacion de planes de calidad que tienen, en los modelos de evaluacion, un importante referente. Se muestran, por tanto, las lineas directrices del Modelo del Premio Deming, del Modelo del Premio Baldrige, del Modelo de las Normas ISO, del Modelo Europeo de Gestion de Calidad y del Modelo Iberoamericano de Excelencia en la Gestion (FUNDIBEQ), que sirven de base para su integracion en la educacion. _______________________________ The paragraphs that conform this article suppose a summary of the main models of evaluation of the quality that, of eminently managerial nature, they are being orchestrated in the Spanish educational institutions. They are multiple the international educational systems that assume the necessity to reach some appropriate excellence levels to the political, economic and social demands, what requires the adoption of such measures as the generation of plans of qualire that you/they have, in the evaluation models, an important one relating. They are shown, therefore, the lines guidelines of the Model of the Prize Deming, of the Model of the Prize Baldrige, of the Model of the Norms ISO, of the European Model of Administratior of Quality and of the Ibero-American Model of Excellency in the Admnistration that you serve as base for their integration in the education.
Das Epithel der Plazentazotten: Veränderungen des Trophoblasten bei Präeklampsie

Der villose Trophoblast stellt den epithelialen Uberzugdes Zottenbaums der menschlichen Plazenta dar. DieserTrophoblast ist die fetale Oberflache der Plazenta mitdirektem Kontakt zum maternalen Blut, damit trennt erdas fetale Kompartiment mit den fetalen Geweben derPlazenta vom maternalen Kompartiment. Er besteht auseiner Lage proliferierender Stammzellen mit direktemKontakt zu einer Basalmembran, dem Zytotrophoblasten,und einer zweiten Lage, dem multinuklearen Synzytio-trophoblasten (Abb. 1). Diese multinukleare Schicht be-sitzt keine lateralen Zellgrenzen und liegt als eine einzigeriesige Lage mit tausenden von Zellkernen uber dem ge-samten Zottenbaum einer Plazenta. Diese Lage erreichtam Termin eine Ausdehnung von 12–15 m
Epigenetic Regulation of Bone Marrow Stem Cell Aging: Revealing Epigenetic Signatures associated with Hematopoietic and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Aging

In this review we explore the importance of epigenetics as a contributing factor for aging adult stem cells. We summarize the latest findings of epigenetic factors deregulated as adult stem cells age and the consequence on stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, with a focus on adult stem cells in the bone marrow. With the latest whole genome bisulphite sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitations we are able to decipher an emerging pattern common for adult stem cells in the bone marrow niche and how this might correlate to epigenetic enzymes deregulated during aging. We begin by briefly discussing the initial observations in yeast, drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) that led to the breakthrough research that identified the role of epigenetic changes associated with lifespan and aging. We then focus on adult stem cells, specifically in the bone marrow, which lends strong support for the deregulation of DNA methyltransferases, histone deacetylases, acetylates, methyltransferases and demethylases in aging stem cells, and how their corresponding epigenetic modifications influence gene expression and the aging phenotype. Given the reversible nature of epigenetic modifications we envisage “epi” targeted therapy as a means to reprogram aged stem cells into their younger counterparts.
The GABAAγ2(R43Q) mouse model of humangenetic epilepsy

γ‐Aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptors mediate phasic and tonic inhibition in the brain, and epilepsy‐associated mutations are found in GABAA genes. This chapter discusses a mouse model of human genetic epilepsy and how it has informed our understanding of the role of GABAA receptor dysfunction in patients. For an expanded treatment of this topic see Jasper’s Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies, Fourth Edition (Noebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado‐Escueta AV, eds) published by Oxford University Press (available on the National Library of Medicine Bookshelf [NCBI] at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books).