Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Methodological and analytic frontiers in lexical research

1. Preface 2. Introduction 3. The challenge of embracing complexity (by Libben, Gary) 4. Articles 5. Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity (by Monaghan, Padraic) 6. Assessing language impairment in aphasia: Going beyond pencils and paper in the computer age (by Westbury, Chris) 7. Behavioral profiles: A fine-grained and quantitative approach in corpus-based lexical semantics (by Gries, Stefan Th.) 8. Using a maze task to track lexical and sentence processing (by Forster, Kenneth I.) 9. Stimulus norming: It is too soon to close down brick-and-mortar labs (by Wurm, Lee H.) 10. Connectionism and the role of morphology in visual word recognition (by Rueckl, Jay) 11. Towards a localist-connectionist model of word translation (by Dijkstra, Ton) 12. Chinese as a natural experiment (by Myers, James) 13. Demythologizing the word frequency effect: A discriminative learning perspective (by Baayen, R. H.) 15. Lexical knowledge without a lexicon? (by Elman, Jeffrey L.) 16. Detecting inherent bias in lexical decision experiments with the LD1NN algorithm (by Keuleers, Emmanuel) 17. A technical introduction to using speakers' eye movements to study language (by Griffin, Zenzi M.) 18. Eye movements and morphological processing in reading (by Bertram, Raymond) 19. Spelling strategies in alphabetic scripts: Insights gained and challenges ahead (by Sandra, Dominiek) 20. The EEG/ERP technologies in linguistic research: An essay on the advantages they offer and a survey of their purveyors (by Stemmer, Brigitte) 21. Formulaic sequences: Do they exist and do they matter? (by Shaoul, Cyrus) 22. Fractal and recurrence analysis of psycholinguistic data (by Wallot, Sebastian) 23. Brain imaging and conceptions of the lexicon (by Meltzer, Jed A.) 24. Index
Sustainable Development Goal #3, “health and well-being”, and the need for more integrative thinking

Veterinaria Mexico OA ISSN: 2448-6760 Cite this as: Guegan J-F, Suzan G, Kati-Coulibaly S, Bonpamgue DN, Moatti J-P. Sustainable Development Goal #3, “health and well-being”, and the need for more integrative thinking. Veterinaria Mexico OA. 2018;5(2). doi: 10.21753/vmoa.5. 2.443 . Recently, the United-Nations adopted 17 sustainable development goals for the 2030 Agenda. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 “Ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all ages” is one of the most transversal goals, which is interconnected with the other SDGs. The health and well-being are the aim of this goal and also, they are the result of other goals that empower people to develop better in different social, economic and productive areas. The SDG 3 is a multiple and universal resource on which sustainable development policies can be based, in particular for the most needed countries, and can lead to the sustainable maintenance of well-being and health. However, SDG 3 faces a high sectorization, so there is a risk of not being able to achieve the stated objectives. Only a national and international reflection on human population and animal health surveillance devices, environmental health, implementation of appropriate indicators and specific research funding will ensure the balance between the legitimacy of society’s demands and the needs of scientific and medical excellence. The health and well-being indicators that are needed to achieve the agenda goals are based on reliable and relevant quantitative data, which are currently rare or even non-existent in some regions. Therefore, it is now necessary to initiate a more integrative international animal and public health and research strategy in order to collect new data, particularly those relating to current emerging infectious diseases that affect public and animal health, especially in developing countries. Figure 1. (a) Simplified representation of the relationships between the environment and its different ecological and biogeographic components, depending on the distribution and abundance of infectious diseases and their hosts (vectors and/or reservoirs), and to the individual and family income. The form and severity of infections interact with the income by introducing a complex dynamic between these two parameters.
Manikin Characters: User Characters in Human Computer Modelling

Design methods that support the development of a good understanding of user requirements are essential for product development. Traditional methods involve direct interaction with users but a product development team can still gain great benefit from applying what might otherwise be considered "second best" methods. Among the range of methods and tools available are User Characters and Human Computer Modelling. Why not combine them? This paper reviews the two approaches in the context of research conducted in user diversity considerations, and then discusses opportunities for integration of the two methods into a new approach that might be called Manikin Characters.
The production and perception of English vowels by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese living in Victoria, Canada

Supervisory Committee Dr. John Archibald (Department of Linguistics) Co-Supervisor Dr. Hua Lin (Department of Linguistics) Co-Supervisor Dr. Li-Shih Huang (Department of Linguistics) Departmental Member This thesis focuses on the production and perception of ten English vowels (/i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ, ʌ, ɑ, o, ʊ, u/) by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The participants consisted of 14 native speakers of BP (divided into intermediate and advanced second language (L2) English proficiency groups), plus six native speakers of Canadian English (CE) as control participants. Four experiments were carried out: two pertaining to production and two pertaining to perception. The production tasks consisted of CE and BP wordlist reading tasks in order to measure the duration and first two formants of the participants’ vowels, while the perception tasks consisted of an identification task and an oddity-discrimination task. With regards to production, this thesis investigates how the participants’ productions of the L2 vowels differ between the experimental and control groups with respect to their formant frequencies and the Euclidean distances (EDs) between various English vowel pairs. Similarly, the participants’ perceptual abilities, as measured by their performance on the perception tests, are examined. Finally, the connection between perception and production is investigated. The findings indicate (a) a positive effect of proficiency, as the advanced participants showed a greater ability to both produce and perceive the L2 vowels, but that (b) participants of both proficiency levels have difficulty in contrasting certain English vowel pairs in a native-like fashion. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of a connection between perception and production, and show that perception outperforms production, as predicted by the Speech Learning Model (Flege, 1995, 2005). Finally, the findings indicate a possible positive effect of environment (i.e., an Englishspeaking country) when compared to previous studies (Bion et al., 2006, Rauber, 2006). Pedagogical implications of these findings are also discussed.
Design and Implementation of Thread-Level Speculation in JavaScript Engines

Two important trends in computer systems are that applications are moved to the Internet as web applications, and that computer systems are getting an increasing number of cores to increase the performance. It has been shown that JavaScript in web applications has a large potential for parallel execution despite the fact that JavaScript is a sequential language. In this thesis, we show that JavaScript execution in web applications and in benchmarks are fundamentally different and that an effect of this is that Just-in-time compilation does often not improve the execution time, but rather increases the execution time for JavaScript in web applications. Since there is a significant potential for parallel computation in JavaScript for web applications, we show that Thread-Level Speculation can be used to take advantage of this in a manner completely transparent to the programmer. The Thread-Level Speculation technique is very suitable for improving the performance of JavaScript execution in web applications; however we observe that the memory overhead can be substantial. Therefore, we propose several techniques for adaptive speculation as well as for memory reduction. In the last part of this thesis we show that Just-in-time compilation and Thread-Level Speculation are complementary techniques. The execution characteristics of JavaScript in web applications are very suitable for combining Just-in-time compilation and Thread-Level Speculation. Finally, we show that Thread-Level Speculation and Just-in-time compilation can be combined to reduce power usage on embedded devices.
Gesture and Emotional Design in Multimodal Human- Computer Interaction using Semiotic Analysis

The design of gesture-based interactive systems, where an emotional response may be potentially evoked, is a substantial and enduring challenge for designers of interactive systems. The discussion to follow looks at the use of semiotics to analyse expressive gesture generation in theatre, yoga, and multimodal human-computer interaction to establish design foundations, these being interpretable, ephemeral, and programmable elements. A description of an interactive gestural film game To be or not to be is included as an appendix showing the application of the elements.
A Typology of Purpose Clauses

This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences. Explanations for significantly recurrent coding patterns are couched in a usage-based approach to language structure, which pays due attention to the cognitive and communicative pressures on usage events involving purpose clauses, to frequency distributions of grammatical choices in corpora, and to the ways in which usage preferences conventionalize in pathways of diachronic change. The book integrates diverse previous strands of research on purpose clauses with a thorough empirical analysis in its own right and thus reflects the current state of the art of crosslinguistic research into this distinctive type of adverbial clause.An appendix to A Typology of Purpose Clauses can be found on the author's website: www.kschmidtkebode. de/purpose.html
The data revolution : big data, open data, data infrastructures & their consequences

Chapter 1: Conceptualising Data What are data? Kinds of data Data, information, knowledge, wisdom Framing data Thinking critically about databases and data infrastructures Data assemblages and the data revolution Chapter 2: Small Data, Data Infrastructures and Data Brokers Data holdings, data archives and data infrastructures Rationale for research data infrastructures The challenges of building data infrastructures The challenges of building data infrastructuresData brokers and markets Chapter 3: Open and Linked Data Open data Linked data The case for open data The economics of open data Concerns with respect to opening data Chapter 4: Big Data Volume Exhaustive Resolution and indexicality Relationality Velocity Variety Flexibility Chapter 5: Enablers and Sources of Big Data The enablers of big data Sources of big data Directed Data Automated data Volunteered data Chapter 6: Data Analytics Pre-analytics Machine learning Data mining and pattern recognition Data visualisation and visual analytics Statistical analysis Prediction, simulation and optimization Chapter 7: The Governmental and Business Rationale for Big Data Governing people Managing organisations Leveraging value and producing capital Creating better places Chapter 8: The Reframing of Science, Social Science and Humanities Research The fourth paradigm in science? The re-emergence of empiricism The fallacies of empiricism Data-driven science Computational social sciences and digital humanities Chapter 9: Technical and Organisational Issues Deserts and deluges Access Data quality, veracity and lineage Data integration and interoperability Poor analysis and ecological fallacies Skills and human resourcing Chapter 10: Ethical, Political, Social and Legal Concerns Data shadows and dataveillance Privacy Data security Profiling, social sorting and redlining Secondary uses, control creep and anticipatory governance Modes of governance and technological lock-ins Chapter 11: Making Sense of the Data Revolution Understanding data and the data revolution Researching data assemblages Final thoughts
A web-based e-learning platform for post-graduate education

This paper introduces a web-based e-learning platform for post-graduate education, called WebLS. WebLS provides a web-based, multi-platform tool, by which traditional instructors can archive their learning materials on the web and students can do their personal learning over the Internet. Uploaded contents can be used either in standalone or group learning in real-time with discussion. WebLS supports contents with text, images, audio and video. It can import existing contents in well-known format, such as MS Word and PowerPoint. Flexibility of XML-based storage allows the uploaded learning materials to be delivered in many different ways. The system is distributed as an open source software. Services have been made available on the Internet and its functions are continuously extended to cover user's requirements.
Interface Design Implications for Recalling the Spatial Configuration of Virtual Auditory Environments

• Utilizing spatial audio rendering techniques to sonify positional data for aiding situational awareness • Discovering critical interface design techniques for developing virtual auditory environments • Assessing the usability of Head-Related Transfer Functions using psychoacoustic experiments • Using virtual spatial audio to augment assistive technology for persons with visual impairments • Enhancing immersion and realness in virtual worlds using spatial audio • Audio signal processing
Técnicas metaheurísticas y redes de sensores: monitorización de edificios inteligentes y diseño y optimización inteligente de redes de sensores inalámbricas

El proyecto abarca una temática muy innovadora en el área de la informática como los sistemas inteligentes y las redes de sensores. Dichas temáticas se están utilizando en el ámbito de la investigación para resolver todo tipo de problemas donde se requiera optimizar algún o varios recursos en simultáneo y monitorización de espacios físicos respectivamente. Las aplicaciones más importantes se han dado en varias ramas de la ciencia como en medicina, redes de computadoras, redes vehiculares, telecomunicaciones, procesos industriales y otras en donde monitorear u optimizar recursos en uno de los objetivos principales para obtener beneficios importantes en los dominios trabajados. En este caso en particular se trabajará sobre la monitorización y diseño inteligente de redes de sensores [1], que son básicamente nodos capaces de monitorear algún parámetro para su control o estudio posterior. La idea es formar una red para monitoreo de sitios grandes optimizando los caminos de comunicación entre ellos y minimizando la energía consumida de cada nodo.
Models in Hardware Testing: Lecture Notes of the Forum in Honor of Christian Landrault

Model based testing is the most powerful technique for testing hardware and software systems. Models in Hardware Testing describes the use of models at all the levels of hardware testing. The relevant fault models for nanoscaled CMOS technology are introduced, and their implications on fault simulation, automatic test pattern generation, fault diagnosis, memory testing and power aware testing are discussed. Models and the corresponding algorithms are considered with respect to the most recent state of the art, and they are put into a historical context by a concluding chapter on the use of physical fault models in fault tolerance.
Changing frame rate, changing satisfaction?

Perceptual indicators of multimedia quality have to be taken into account in order to build the truly end-toend communication architectures of the future. This paper investigates the perceptual impact of differing multimedia presentation frame rates on user information assimilation and level of s atisfaction. We apply the Quality of Perception (QoP) concept, which encompasses not only a user’s ability to analyse, synthesise and assimilate informational content of multimedia but also his/her satisfaction with the quality of a multimedia presentation. Our results show that higher frame rates, although resulting in a betterperceived level of quality and enjoyment, across a range of video content, do not significantly increase the level of user information assimilation.
Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Demand Management in Smart Grids

The electricity supply industry has been facing significant challenges in terms of meeting the projected demand for energy, environmental issues, security, reliability and integration of renewable energy. Currently, most of the power grids are based on many decades old vertical hierarchical infrastructures where the electric power flows in one direction from the power generators to the consumer side and the grid monitoring information is handled only at the operation side. It is generally believed that a fundamental evolution in electric power generation and supply system is required to make the grids more reliable, secure and efficient. This is generally recognised as the development of smart grids. Demand management is the key to the operational efficiency and reliability of smart grids. Facilitated by the two-way information flow and various optimization mechanisms, operators benefit from real time dynamic load monitoring and control while consumers benefit from optimised use of energy. In this thesis, various mathematical optimization techniques and game theoretic frameworks have been proposed for demand management in order to achieve efficient home energy consumption scheduling and optimal electric vehicle (EV) charging. A consumption scheduling technique is proposed to minimise the peak consumption load. The proposed technique is able to schedule the optimal operation time for appliances according to the power consumption patterns of the individual appliances. A game theoretic consumption optimization framework is proposed to manage the scheduling of appliances of multiple residential consumers in a decentralised manner, with the aim of achieving minimum cost of energy for consumers. The optimization incorporates integration of locally generated and stored renewable energy in order to minimise dependency on conventional energy. In addition to the appliance scheduling, a mean field game theoretic optimization framework is proposed for electric vehicles to manage their charging. In particular, the optimization considers a charging station where a large number of EVs are charged simultaneously during a flexible period of time. The proposed technique provides the EVs an optimal charging strategy in order to minimise the cost of charging. The performances of all these new proposed techniques have been demonstrated using Matlab based simulation studies.
Production semi-automatisée d’une carte conceptuelle en science et technologie

Cet article decrit la conception et la mise a l’essai d’un programme informatique de production semi-automatisee de cartes conceptuelles. Cette technique derivee de l’extraction d’information a pour but de produire une representation simple et signifiante du contenu d’un ou de plusieurs textes sous forme d’un schema de connaissances. Le programme a ete mis a l’essai a partir de deux corpus de textes choisis pour couvrir deux themes du Programme de formation de l’ecole quebecoise de quatrieme secondaire en science et technologie. Les resultats de l’etude sont tres encourageants et montrent le potentiel d’une telle approche pour faciliter la construction d’une carte conceptuelle, une tâche qui est generalement realisee par des humains. Les resultats suscitent egalement quelques reflexions quant aux modalites courantes d’elaboration et d’evaluation de cartes conceptuelles.
TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING DEEP STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

Communication patterns are analyzed on the corpus of citation literature retrieved from doctoral dissertations in Information Science from 1978 to 2007 at Croatian universities. Scientific communication model is affected by institutional, language and time determinants; thereby it is possible to accurately describe traditional distribution on primary, secondary and tertiary communication by quantitative methods. Analysis of 22.210 cited bibliographic units by co-citation method resulted with network of clusters that matches scientific disciplines (archivistics, librarianship, museology, communicology, information science, information systems and lexicography). Alterations of key authors were observed according to time periods, affiliation to different scientific communities, cultural determinants, and functions in knowledge organization. According to the results of this analysis the conclusion can be drawn based on quantitative indicators: it is possible to recognize deep communication structure (conceptual knowledge zone, empirical knowledge zone, personal communication zone), beside organizational, communicational and intercultural determinants of knowledge exchange. 1. Uvod: bibliometrijska istraživanja komunikacijskih obrazaca Analizom faktora odjeka i analizom kocitata započeta su istraživanja „mape znanosti” i „kognitivnih struktura znanosti” /1/. Ta su istraživanja bila podlogom procjena: od utjecaja pojedinih autora, znanstvenih časopisa, institucija pa sve do znanstvenih politika i razvoja znanstvene djelatnosti po disciplinama, područjima i temama. Nas interesira mogu li se pomoću kvantitativnih pokazatelja, prepoznati pojave i procesi, koji bi poslužili za opis komunikacijskih obrazaca u znanstvenom komuniciranju. Na primjeru bibliometrijskog istraživanja doktorskih disertacija iz informacijskih znanosti obranjenih na sveučilištima u RH /2/ istražili smo analizom citata neke značajke komunikacijskih obrazaca, koje dominiraju u znanstvenoj komunikaciji. Podloga je ovome skraćenom prikazu bibliometrijsko istraživanje 134 doktorske disertacije koje su obranjene u periodu od 1978. -2007. godine, na sveučilištima i fakultetima u RH.
Es ist später, als du denkst. Perspektiven für die Restbiographie

La editorial suiza Hep ha publicado el libro Es ist spater, als du denkst (literalmente: Es mas tarde de lo que piensas ), de Rolf Arnold, catedratico de la Universidad Tecnica de Kaiserslautern (Alemania). Hace pocos meses la misma editorial publico otro libro de Arnold, con un cierto juego de palabras en el titulo: Erziehung durch Beziehung ( Educacion mediante la relacion ). Y todavia ha aparecido otro mas despues del que comentare: Entlehrt euch! ( iDesensenaros! ). Realmente, la capacidad de publicacion de Arnold es prodigiosa.