Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance Measurement Of Mel Frequency Ceptral Coefficient (MFCC) Method In Learning System Of Al- Qur’an Based In Nagham Pattern Recognition

Most of research have used signal and speech processing in order to recognize makhraj pattern and tajwid reading in Al-Quran by exploring the mel frequency ceptral coefficient (MFCC). However, to our knowledge so far there is no research has been conducted to recognize the chanting of Al-Quran verse using MFCC. This term is also well-known as nagham Al-Quran. The characteristics of nagham Al-Quran pattern is much more complex then makhraj and tajwid pattern. In nagham the wave of the sound has more variation which implies the level of noice is much higher and has sound duration longer. The data testing in this research was taken term by real-time recording. The evaluation measurement in the system performance of nagham Al-Quran pattern is based on true and false detection parameter with accuracy 80%. To measure this accuracy it is necessary to modify the MFCC or to give more data learning process with more variation.
Exploring the Implementation of Standardized Processes in a Professional Setting

In this study, we investigate the process of standardising people-centric, knowledge-intensive, professional work, specifically attempts to adopt a common standard for hospital stroke care. In operations management (OM), standardization (i.e. eliminating various aspects of process variation) is central to increased control but in professional work, managerial influence is more limited because (medical) professionals deploying specialized knowledge enjoy, by definition, significant autonomy. The research is built upon an in-depth longitudinal case study in a UK hospital that confirms the value of standardization in healthcare work but also strongly emphasizes that it must be understood as a multi-dimensional puzzle. The findings confirm established but under-developed, insights regarding limitations of the dominant OM process design logic, namely flow dependency. Our analysis clearly shows that variation is also driven by sharing (i.e. sub-optimal layouts, high-utilisation and high-variability of resources) and fit (i.e. conflicting KPIs) dependency considerations. More specifically, we observed – often via the use of shared (or not) pathway artefacts (maps, etc.) - that autonomy has negative and positive impacts on inter-professional collaboration. Autonomy frequently led to minimally shared mental models of care, perspectives on the best interests of the patient, etc. and (often highly dysfunctional) competition between individuals and groups. Where we observed effective inter-professional collaboration, it had been achieved through relational resources (i.e. shared goals, interests etc.) developed via continuous interaction and knowledge sharing mechanisms. However, pathway capacity issues (i.e. staff and bed availability, etc) moderated such interactions. The paper concludes by discussing how these insights can help healthcare operations managers and other professionals to design better process and implementation strategies that improve the delivery of care.
Case reports for embryo banking: for women who want their own

Out of the many challenges in management of female factor infertility, poor responders and low response to stimulation in aged and even younger women, seems to be a common problem. It is very difficult to offer one particular management strategy or treatment protocol for optimum outcome in this group of women of poor responders. In a low resource set up, IVF (In vitro Fertilization) specialist doctors usually face a challenge in treating women with poor/ low ovarian reserve as ovum / gamete donation is considered as a taboo in various sections of society even today. Hence women insist on having an offspring of "their own" and vehemently deny ovum / gamete donations. In this article we discuss 2 cases of poor ovarian reserve retrospectively, who underwent multiple cycles of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation for embryo banking and ultimately achieved pregnancy. Both patients achieved pregnancy with the method of embryo banking. Embryo banking should be considered and discussed. Various articles have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of embryo banking or even oocytes accumulation. The advantages of this technique is patients with poor/low ovarian reserve get a chance to be pregnant with their own oocytes and also have a chance for vitrification of residual embryos. Another advantage in such patients is that the embryos can undergo PGS (Preimplantation Genetic Screening) techniques in cases of suspected genetic disorders. The disadvantage in a low resource set up like India is the cost of the treatment. Nevertheless, embryo banking and accumulation of oocytes should be given as an option for treatment of poor/ low ovarian reserve and could be considered as a ray of hope for all future mothers hoping for a child of "their own".
Methods for transcription and forced alignment of a legacy speech corpus

This paper describes the transcription and forced alignment of the Digital Archive of Southern Speech (DASS), a subset of the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States comprising 372 hours of recordings (64 interviews) conducted across eight southern U.S. states from 1968 to 1983. This project provides a large corpus of historical, semi-spontaneous Southern speech, time-aligned to the audio for acoustic analysis. Manual orthographic transcription of full DASS interviews is carried out according to in-house guidelines that ensure consistency across files and transcribers. Separate codes are used for the interviewee, interviewer, non-speech, overlapping and unintelligible speech. Transcriber output is converted to Praat TextGrids using scripts from LaBB-CAT, a tool for maintaining large speech corpora. TextGrids containing only the interviewee’s speech are generated, and subjected to forced alignment by DARLA, which accommodates the levels of variation and noise in the DASS files with high degrees of success. Tow.
AN IMPROVED PAPR REDUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR UNIVERSAL FILTER MULTI-CARRIER MODULATION

Universal Filter Multi-Carrier (UFMC) modulation is a potential candidate for next generation wireless communication due to its advantages like better sub carrier separation and less complexity. Higher peak to average power ratio (PAPR) affects the performance of UFMC and suitable PAPR reduction technique is required to mitigate the same. In this work, an improved PAPR reduction technique (CFC-UFMC) has been proposed for UFMC system. Performance of proposed technique is compared with existing Selective Mapping (SLM), Clipping, Companding and Clipping & Filtering methods as applied on UFMC. Simulation results show that proposed technique provides better PAPR reduction with variation in design parameters namely FFT Size, Filter Length and Bits per sub carrier as compared with other techniques. Various PAPR reduction techniques have also been compared on the basis of bit error rate.
Previsibilidade de retorno das ações na Bovespa : um teste envolvendo o modelo de fator de retorno esperado

This paper examines the hypothesis of asset return predictability in the Brazilian Stock Market (Bovespa). Evidence suggests that seven factors explain most of the monthly differential returns of the stocks included in the sample. Within the factors that present statistically significant mean, two are liquidity factors (market capitalization and trading volume trend), three refer to price level of stocks (dividend to price, dividend to price trend, and cash flow to price), and two relate to price history of stocks (3 and 12 months excess return). Contradicting theoretical assumptions, risk factors present no explanatory power on crosssectional returns. Using an expected return factor model, it is contended that stock returns are quite predictable. An investment simulation shows that the model is able to assemble portfolios with statistically significant higher returns. Additional tests indicate that the winner portfolios are not fundamentally riskier suggesting mispricing of assets in the Brazilian stock market. Submetido em Junho de 2004. Revisado em Novembro de 2004. Os autores agradecem os comentários e sugestões feitos durante a apresentação deste trabalho no III Encontro Brasileiro de Finanças em 2003 e pelos pareceristas da Revista Brasileira de Finanças. Luciano M. Rostagno agradece ao Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CNPq) pelo suporte financeiro. Os erros remanescentes são de total responsabilidade dos autores. *EA/UFRGS. E-mail: lmrostagno@ea.ufrgs. br. Department of Economics/Iowa State University. E-mail: rostagno@iastate.edu **PPGA/EA/UFRGS. E-mail: gokloeckner@ea.ufrgs. br. ***PPGA/EA/UFRGS. E-mail: jlbecker@ea.ufrgs. br. Revista Brasileira de Finanças 2004 Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 183–206 c ©2004 Sociedade Brasileira de Finanças Revista Brasileira de Finanças v 2 n 2 2005 Palavras chave: eficiência de mercado; previsibilidade de retorno; mercados financeiros. Códigos JEL: G12; G14; G15.
2D Fe2O3 nanosheets with bi-continuous pores inherited from Fe-MOF precursors: an advanced anode material for Li-ion half/full batteries

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are appealing for energy storage devices due to their intriguing chemical and physical properties. Herein, a promising anode material for both half/full cells is well prepared by constructing bi-continuous porous structure in Fe2O3 nanosheets (bp-Fe2O3) through a target construction method. Notably, the obtained bp-Fe2O3 exhibits a unique wrinkled layer structure composed by ultrasmall Fe2O3 nanoparticles, which can well shorten the charge diffusion pathway. Furthermore, the wrinkled layer structure and the presence of pores in the bp-Fe2O3 sample are able to accommodate the volume variation during deep lithiation–delithiation processes, and enable electrolyte easy penetration to the whole electrode, thus significantly improving the electrochemical performance. Benefiting from the favorable electrode framing together with fast lithiation dynamics, the prepared bp-Fe2O3 exhibits considerably better electrochemical performance in half/full cells for lithium ion batteries (LIBs), as well as superior low temperature (low-T) performance. In detail, when cycled at 1.5 A g−1, 2D bp-Fe2O3 electrode displays a reversible capacity up to 818.7 mAh g−1 for 350 cycles. Even at a stern temperature of 0 °C and −25 °C, the as-prepared bp-Fe2O3 still presents a capacity of 840.3 and 635.6 mAh g−1 at 0.5 A g−1, respectively, suggesting the normal operation of LIBs under low temperature condition. More competitively, the full cell fabricated by bp-Fe2O3 anode and LiFePO4 cathode gives excellent electrochemical performance (421.2 mAh g−1 after 80 cycles at 0.1 A g−1) between 0.4 and 3.4 V and high energy density of 247.03 Wh kg−1.
Analysis of VoIP Traffic in WiMAX Environment

— Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is currently one of the hottest technologies in wireless communication. It is a standard based on the IEEE 802.16 wireless technology that provides a very high throughput broadband connections over long distances. In parallel, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a new technology which provides access to voice communication over internet protocol and hence it is becomes an alternative to public switched telephone networks (PSTN) due to its capability of transmission of voice as packets over IP networks. A lot of research has been done in analyzing the performances of VoIP traffic over WiMAX network. In this paper we review the analysis carried out by several authors for the most common VoIP codec’s which are G.711, G.723. 1 and G.729 over a WiMAX network using various service classes. The objective is to compare the results for different types of service classes with respect to the QoS parameters such as throughput, average delay and average jitter.
La imitación como contraargumento en peritajes de atribución de autoría: estudio de un caso

Este artículo tiene como objetivo probar el supuesto de que el estilo de un autor en textos escritos no solo es único, sino también irrepetible. El marco teórico apoya este supuesto e indica que se requeriría un gran dominio lingüístico y la capacidad de sostener un alto grado de atención consciente, los cuales son muy difíciles de alcanzar. El estudio se basa en el material de un caso real de chantaje a un funcionario público, en el que participó una de las autoras, así como un corpus de textos producidos con el fin de imitar el estilo del funcionario. Se empleó una combinación de análisis cualitativo para la identificación de estructuras marcadas y prominentes con un análisis cuantitativo de estadística descriptiva. Se observó que los imitadores únicamente reproducen los rasgos más visibles y no son capaces de identificar e incorporar todos los atributos de la escritura del autor original en sus textos. Además, en el caso de detectar una marca particular, no la reproducen con la misma frecuencia. Los resultados permiten refutar la hipótesis sobre la posibilidad de la imitación del estilo de un autor de forma suficientemente meticulosa y consistente para evitar ser detectado por un lingüista forense.
Implement of Network Management System of Mobile Terminal for Power Systems

Mobile terminals or mobile communication terminal refers to the computer can be used in mobile devices, the broad sense including mobile phones, laptops, tablets, POS, even including the on-board computer. But in most cases is refers to the mobile phone or with functions of many applications of smart phones and tablets. Along with the network and technology toward more and the direction of the development of broadband networks, mobile communication industry will move toward the real information age. On the other hand, with the rapid development of integrated circuit technology, the mobile terminal processing capacity already has a strong processing capacity, mobile terminals are from simple calls into an integrated information processing platform. This to the mobile terminal also increase the more broad space for development.
Volumetric 3D reconstruction of real objects using voxel mapping approach in a multiple-camera environment

Extracting 3D information from 2D images is an inverse estimation problem and a challenging task in itself. The aim of 2D to 3D reconstruction is to generate either a volume or a surface representing the object from multiple views. This paper presents a simple and accurate multiple-view volumetric 3D reconstruction method using an integrated approach based on homography estimation and voxel mapping. The homography-based approaches give accurate estimates but do not provide system dynamics. The voxel-based volumetric reconstruction methods provide system dynamics that are essential for system modeling. However, they face challenges while modeling the concavities. This paper presents a proposed 3D reconstruction method that combines homography estimation and the voxel mapping approach for improving the accuracy of 3D reconstruction. Experimental results show that the method efficiently reconstructs objects of known and unknown shape, fragile objects, and complex scenes with multiple objects. The use of homography along with voxel mapping in a multiple-camera environment brings out more details of the object for improving the quality of reconstruction.
On the Dynamics of Epileptic Spikes and Focus Localization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Interictal spikes, together with seizures, have been recog nized as the two hallmarks of epilepsy, a brain disorder that 1% of the worlds popu lation suffers from. Even though the presence of spikes in brains electromagneti c activity has diagnostic value, their dynamics are still elusive. It was an object ive of this dissertation to formulate a mathematical framework within which the dyna mics of interictal spikes could be thoroughly investigated. A new epileptic sp ke detection algorithm was developed by employing data adaptive morphological filt ers. The performance of the spike detection algorithm was favorably compared wit h others in the literature. A novel spike spatial synchronization measure was dev eloped and tested on coupled spiking neuron models. Application of this measure to individual epileptic spikes in EEG from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy r evealed long-term trends of increase in synchronization between pairs of brai n sites before seizures and desynchronization after seizures, in the same patient a s well as across patients, thus supporting the hypothesis that seizures may occur to br eak ( eset) the abnormal spike synchronization in the brain network. Furthermore, b ased on these results, a separate spatial analysis of spike rates was conducted that shed light onto conflicting results in the literature about variability of spike rat e before and after seizure. The ability to automatically classify seizures into clinic al and subclinical was a result of the above findings. A novel method for epileptogeni c focus localization from interictal periods based on spike occurrences was also devised, combining concepts from graph theory, like eigenvector centrality, a nd the developed spike synchronization measure, and tested very favorably agains t the utilized gold rule in clinical practice for focus localization from seizures ons et. Finally, in another application of resetting of brain dynamics at seizures, it was shown that it is possible to differentiate with a high accuracy between patients with epileptic seizures (ES) and patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES ). The above studies of i spike dynamics have elucidated many unknown aspects of icto genesis and it is expected to significantly contribute to further understandin g of the basic mechanisms that lead to seizures, the diagnosis and treatment of epilep sy.
A Novel Energy Efficient Routing Protocol EACBM for Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks

Recent advancements in the field of wireless communication results in the improvement of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) having low powered, low cost and smallest multi-operational sensing units called Sensor Nodes (SNs). The limited battery life of these SNs is the major issue of WSNs. The dissipation of SN energy for transmitting information of one SN to Base Station (BS) is the major cause of depletion of SN energy. Also, SNs energy is in direct relation with battery lifetime of WSNs. Due to which WSN is affected in terms of scalability, a lifetime of network and energy efficiency. Many routing protocols have been proposed to overcome this issue and clustering is the most dominant scheme in which the whole network is divided into small clusters. This clustering scheme is based on the principle of divide and conquers along with data aggregation. In this paper, authors propose a new routing protocol i.e. Energy Aware Cluster Based Multi-hop (EACBM) which uses the principle of clustering and multi-hop communication pattern for transferring information to BS. So that minimum SNs energy is consumed and hence increases the lifetime of WSN. It also uses the concept of subclustering to cover those areas of SNs where CH cannot reach to gather information or which cannot take part in any clustering process due to its far away position. Simulation results show that energy efficiency is greatly optimized by reducing the number of transmission distance between CH and BS via multi-hopping. It also shows how network lifetime, packets transmitted to BS and CH and number of dead SNs is affected by scaling i.e. by different network sizes (100*100m; 500*500m and 1000*1000m) in EACBM by comparing it with SEP, LEACH, CEEC and LEFCA routing protocols.
Key-point based copy-move forgery detection in digital images

Abstract Nowadays all the visual forms have become digital for the communication of important and useful data. It has become imperative to check the authenticity of the digital content available in the form of images. Image forensic is an emerging area to check the realness and reliability of digital images. Amongst various image forgeries known, copy-move forgery poses a serious threat to the society and image forensic experts. “copy-move” is considered one of the most difficult problems in the area of forgery detection in image forensics. In copy-move forgery, a partof its image content is copied and pasted within the same image. For the detection of copy move image forgery, many methods have been proposed such as block based method, exhaustive search, key-point based method and hybrid method. Key-point based copy-move forgery detection performs better as compared to block based methods in the presence of affine transformation and invariant to scaling, rotation and noise. Keypoint based methods are computationally efficient and have better space complexity. In this paper, a comprehensive review of the recent key-point based methods using SIFT, SURF, ORB, BRISK is presented.
OBJECT-ORIENTED LOGIC PROGRAMMING OF 3D INTELLIGENT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS: THE PROBLEM STATEMENT

An approach to the 3D intelligent video surveillance based on the means of the objectoriented logic programming is proposed. In contrast to the conventional 2D video surveillance, the methods of 3D vision provide reliable recognition of parts of the human body that makes possible a new statement of the problem and efficient practical application of methods of people behaviour analysis in the video surveillance systems. The logic-based approach to the intelligent video surveillance allows easy definition of people complex behaviour in terms of simpler activities and postures. The goal of this work is to implement the advantages of the logic programming approach in the area of 3D intelligent video surveillance.
The geographical interest of historical documents to interpret the scientific evolution of the glacier existing in the Veleta cirque (Sierra Nevada, Spain) during the Little Ice Age

Historical documents have shown their potential to infer the origin and evolution of the glacier existing in the Veleta cirque, in the massif of Sierra Nevada (Spain). This information encompasses written sources spanning from the 17th to the mid-20th centuries, and provides valuable knowledge about the Little Ice Age. These new data complement the already existing geomorphological knowledge about the natural system and landscape evolution in Sierra Nevada, particularly with regards to glacial geomorphic events in the summit areas. From a transdisciplinary methodological approach, the results show that the Veleta glacier was a singular geomorphic event that owed its existence to the particular environmental conditions of the high lands of Sierra Nevada, besides the favourable morpho-topographical setting, altitude, aspect as well as microclimate conditions prevailing in this area.
PENERAPAN ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) UNTUK SISTEM INFORMASI PEMBELIAN DAN PENJUALAN PADA USAHA DAGANG PERLENGKAPAN DAN AKSESORIS MOBIL MENGGUNAKAN APLIKASI ACCURATE ACCOUNTING(STUDI KASUS DERRY CAR AUDIO AUTO ACCESSORIES)

Derry Car Audio Auto Accessories merupakan usaha dagang yang bergerak dibidang penjualan perlengkapan dan aksesoris mobil. Proses bisnis pembelian dan penjualan pada usaha dagang ini belum terkomputerisasi sehingga berdampak pada laporan keuangan. Berdasarkan permasalahan tersebut telah dilakukan penelitian yang betujuan untuk menganalisis proses bisnis pembelian dan penjualan barang sehingga mengetahui alur kegiatan dalam pencatatan keuangan, menerapkan sistem ERP dengan menggunakan aplikasi Accurate Accounting pada Derry Car Audio Auto Accesories sehingga menghasilkan laporan keuangan yang valid dan menganalisis serta membandingkan hasil penerapan aplikasi dibandingkan dengan proses sebelumnya. Metodologi penelitian yang digunakan adalah studi pendahuluan untuk menganalisis permasalahan dan merumuskan tujuan, studi literatur, pengumpulan data, mengidentifikasi proses bisnis Derry Car Audio Auto Accessories, menerapkan aplikasi Accurate Accounting dan melakukan pengujian aplikasi. Hasil penelitian ini yaitu aplikasi Accurate Accounting telah diterapkan pada Derry Car Audio Auto Accessories dan penerapan aplikasi tersebut telah mengatasi permasalahan laporan keuangan yang terjadi pada Derry Car Audio Auto Accessories.