Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Engaging families to improve children’s literacy : development and implementation of a pilot program

OF THE THESIS Engaging Families to Improve Children’s Literacy: Development and Implementation of a Pilot Program by Karla J. Rodriguez Master of Science in Child and Family Development San Diego State University, 2016 Research has indicated that children of color and low socio-economic status face double jeopardy for literacy achievement. Family involvement research has demonstrated that children from all socioeconomic backgrounds and all racial groups can make significant academic gains when parent involvement increases. The Diamond Community Family Engagement Curriculum was geared specifically towards equipping families among the early grades (preschool-2nd grade) with the skills to support their children’s literacy development. The purpose of this project was to plan, implement, document, and evaluate this pilot program in order to inform curriculum and develop research-based materials for teachers and parents to use. This program was implemented in two elementary schools in the Diamond Community of Southeast San Diego; the participants from these schools are low-income, minority families with less than 50% of students reading at grade level. Epstein’s Six Types of Involvement helped guide the design of the curriculum, which focused on home learning, relationship building, and communication. This project was also successful in involving various levels of a family’s environment for the support and growth of a child’s literacy development through the use of Bronfenbrenner’s Theoretical Framework. The program was implemented with high fidelity and the feasibility of implementation indicated that this pilot program could be replicated at other schools or community centers. The documentation of this program development demonstrated the evolvement of a curriculum that respected and integrated linguistic and cultural accommodations in order to best serve the families of the Diamond Community. Participants indicated that they were satisfied with the family engagement program, enjoyed the bonding experience with their child, and were empowered through the understanding of pedagogy. The success of this program has implications for schools to entrust and support families with the task of providing home learning.
L'intelligence émotionnelle: un art rhétorique

Peut-on maitriser nos emotions ? Dans quel but ? La rhetorique repondsans ambiguite a ces questions. Oui, la maitrise des emotions s’apprend et l’onaurait tort de s’en priver : qui devient l’artisan de ses affects sera nonseulement un orateur plus efficace mais, de plus, un citoyen plus fiable1. C’estce que l’on verra dans cet article : une proposition de formation rhetorique a lamaitrise des emotions dans l’argumentation.
A neural net based approach for extracting rules from symbolic data

This paper presents a neural network approach for extracting classification rules from symbolic type of data. A scheme for generating data for the neural network training is proposed. The neural network employed is a constructive learning neural network known as resource allocation network (RAN). This network learns very fast and exhibits good response to incoming test pattern making it suitable for rule extraction applications in data mining.
An Improved Single-orbit Scheduling Method for Agile Imaging Satellite Towards Area Target

Traditional satellite scheduling method has difficulties to meet the need for timely response in emergency observation missions.In this paper,an improved single-orbit scheduling method is proposed for agile imaging satellites as a tentative solution.This method first dynamically calculates the observation angle,swath,and duration of the agile imaging satellite.Cutting of area targets are then performed using parallel strip,followed by the acquisition of minimum attitude transition time.A specialized step-size search algorithm is employed to find the best observation point towards the area target.In our experiments,the STK simulation scenario is constructed with four agile imaging satellites.The simulation results show that the new method improves the coverage of area target while reduces the image acquisition time.
A History of English Negation

Preface I. GENERAL AND TYPOLOGICAL ISSUES II. NEGATION IN OLD ENGLISH AND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH III. THE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH IV. PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH NEGATION V. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH VI. FURTHER THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Appendix 1: Sources for text analysis Appendix 2: Negative forms References Index
Multi-sensor optimal information fusion Kalman filter for discrete multichannel ARMA signals

A new multi-sensor optimal information fusion criterion weighted by covariance is presented in the linear minimum variance sense. Based on this optimal fusion criterion, using the measurement white noise filters, a general multi-sensor optimal information fusion distributed Kalman filter is given for the discrete multichannel ARMA (autoregressive moving average) signals with correlated noises. It has a two-layer fusion structure with fault tolerant and robust properties. When all local sensor subsystems are faultless, the precision of the fusion filter is lower than that of the centralized filter. When some sensors are fault, the fusion filter has better reliability. The precision of the fusion filter is higher than that of any local sensor subsystem. Applying it into a double-channel system with three sensors shows its effectiveness.
Engineering Specifications and Mathematics for Verified Software

Developing a verifying compiler—a compiler that proves that components are correct with respect to their specifications—is a grand challenge for the computing community. The prevailing view of the software engineering community is that this problem is necessarily difficult because, todate, the resultant verification conditions necessary to prove software correctness have required powerful automated provers and deep mathematical insight to dispatch. This seems counter-intuitive, however, since human programmers only rarely resort to deep mathematics to assure themselves that their code works. In this work, we show that well-specified and well-engineered software supported by a flexible, extensible mathematical system can yield verification conditions that are sufficiently straightforward to be dispatched by a minimalist rewrite prover. We explore techniques for making such a system both powerful and user-friendly, and for tuning an automated prover to the verification task. In addition to influencing the design of our own system, RESOLVE, this exploration benefits the greater verification community by informing specification and theory design and encouraging greater integration between nuanced mathematical systems and powerful programming languages. This dissertation presents the design and an implementation of a minimalist rewrite prover tuned for the software verification task. It supports the prover with the design and implementation of a flexible, extensible mathematical system suitable for use with an industrial-strength programming language. This system is employed within a well-integrated specification framework. The dissertation validates the central thesis that verification conditions for well-engineered software can be dispatched easily by applying these tools and methods to a number of benchmark components and collecting and analyzing the resulting data.
Hypertransaminasemia in poorly-controlled type-1 diabetes mellitus.

metabolic control (HbA1c: 10-11%). He presented frequent hypoglycemic episodes and required hospitalization in several occasions because of vomiting and ketoacidosis. His weight and height were in low percentiles (BMI: 21.1 kg/m) for his age and laboratory data did not disclosed any abnormality except those related with the diabetes. While remaining asymptomatic, an ordinary laboratory test revealed abnormal liver function parameters (AST/ALT: 578/526 U/l, GGT: 284 U/l) and a raised lipid profile (cholesterol/triglycerides 225/223: mg/dl). An initial study yielded negative results (virus serologic tests, autoantibodies, electrophoresis, complement, alpha1 antitrypsin, and celiac disease screening tests). For the following 8 months, the patients remained asymptomatic, although with a bad control of the diabetes and elevated serum levels of aminotransferases (AST 59-227 IU/l, ALT 68-120 IU/l y GGT 53-120 IU/l). At that moment, physical examination revealed the presence of a hepatomegaly and a new investigation demonstrated positive ANA (1/640), but other autoantibodies were (SMA, LKM-1, AMA) negative. His HLA haplotype was DR4. Abdominal ultrasonography demonstrated a diffuse hyperechogenic liver suggestive of fatty infiltration. A liver biopsy revealed a normal liver architecture with mild inflammatory infiltrates in some portal tracts and Hypertransaminasemia in poorly-controlled type-1 diabetes mellitus
Evolutionary Aspects of Nutrition and Health: Diet, Exercise, Genetics and Chronic Disease,

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Evaluation of Welfare Indicators for the Social Environment in Cattle Herds

The social environment is very important for the welfare of animals in loose housing dairy production systems. This article reviews recent literature on the effect of animal density (AD) and regrouping (RG'j on the welfare of cattle and describes the development of feasible indicators for the social environment. Special emphasis is given to the methodological problems that arise when AD and RG are used as welfare indicators in a welfare assessment at the herd level. Various factors affecting estimates of AD were considered, including the size of the animals, correction for very high AD values, pen shape and how best to aggregate the results at herd level and over time. The examination of RG is centred around the effect of early social experience of the animals, the stability of social relationships, and the effect of pen changes.A range of parameters is suggested for the evaluation of AD and RG as possible welfare indicators. These are based on observational data from 10 Danish dairy herds and related to clinical records from the herd farms. It is concluded that mean AD is not feasible as a welfare indicator at the herd level but the 25th percentile of AD corrected for the liveweight of the animals should be used instead. The two most promising parameters for evaluation of RG are the frequency of combined pen and group changes for a sample of the herd, and the probability of a certain duration of inter-animal relationships. Results from clinical observations correlated with neither AD nor RG.
Effect of Fagonia cretica Linn Ethanolic Extract on Many Biochemical Parameters in Albino Rats in Sudan

The study targeted to determine the effects of ethanolic extracts of Fagonia cretica linn plant on many biochemical parameters in Albino rats Khartoum, Omdurman, and Shendi towns in Sudan during January – February, 2011. To determine the medicinal properties of the plant and to study the effects of the plant on many biochemical parameters. Different methods were adopted to achieve the objectives of this study, including Harborne methods for extraction. A total of 30 young adult Wistar rats, of age of 8-12 weeks were obtained from the Sudan National Centre for Research, Khartoum Sudan. These rats were divided into 4 groups, three groups are study groups ,where the 4th group was control group. The rats were fed standard rat food and water d libitum, were maintained at standard laboratory conditions. Ethical approval had been obtained from Omdurman Islamic University, Faculty of Pharmacy, and department of Pharmacology, under the number (01/0/2013) . Before the experiment was beginning; rats were fasted overnight for 14 – 16 hours. Group C, which was the control group, received 10 ml/kg body wt. distilled water, orally, throughout the study period while Groups 1, 2 and 3 were orally administered single, daily doses, 100, 300 and 600 mg/kg of body weight, respectively of the Fagonia cretica ethanolic extract dissolved in distilled water 1gm/10ml for 14 days using acute oral toxicity 425 protocol.
Device-to-Device Communications in Unlicensed Spectrum: Problem Identification and Performance Maximization

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is such a paradigm that anticipated to play a cabalistic role for the next-generation cellular networks especially for the 5G cellular network as it promises to extend the network coverage and offload some traffics from the cellular transceiver’s side to the user devices’ side and it may operate in both licensed and unlicensed spectra simultaneously. D2D communication in the unlicensed spectrum may facilitate the purpose of D2D communication as the licensed spectrum almost possessed. Interference is the main drawback of the unlicensed spectrum. In this paper, we propose the request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) mechanism with the free-to-receive (FTR)-MNAV technique to improve the performance of the D2D communication in the unlicensed spectrum. Deployment of the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol can alleviate interference, but collisions occur due to the hidden node problem. The integration of the RTS/CTS mechanism with the CSMA/CA protocol can minimize the hidden node problem, but the blocking and false blocking problems are introduced. The proposed scheme can reduce the blocking and false blocking problems, which improves the performance of the D2D communication in the unlicensed spectrum where neighbor nodes maintain Multiple Network Allocation Vector (MNAV) to resolve the blocking problem and broadcast the FTR control packet to the respective neighbor nodes if the transmission is completed prior to the expiration of the timer or actual communication does not take place due to any reason, thus solving the false blocking problem and improving the performance of the D2D communication in the unlicensed spectrum.
Flexible Execution of Cognitive Procedures.

Abstract : Several current theories of procedural knowledge hypothesize that procedures are organized as hierarchies of goals, wherein accomplishing a goal requires accomplishing all or some of its subgoals. This form of knowledge is most naturally executed with the aid of a temporary last-in-first-out stack of goals. This article presents evidence that a stack regime is not flexible enough to account for the procedural problem solving exhibited by a sample of 26 third-graders solving subtraction problems. Two alternative control regimes are investigated. One stores goals on an agenda (an unordered set) and the other stores goals in tree. Both the agenda regime and the tree regime employ a rule-based scheduler that picks the next goal for execution. Both regimes succeed at modelling our subjects' problem solving strategies. The tree regime is able to account for data from another study as well. However, a closer examination of the fit between models and data shows that some students change their execution strategies in the midst of problem solving. This finding challenges fundamental assumptions underlying research on cognitive architectures.
Use of Maternal Health Care in Rural India: Relative Importance of Socio-economic Status and Accessibility

Considering low maternal health care utilization, particularly lack of full antenatal care and institutional delivery, this paper investigates determinants of seeking antenatal care and institutional delivery with the focus on assessing relative importance of socio-economic status and accessibility to health centerre services. Using nationally representative data from the District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS-3), the paper reiterates the low level of maternal health care utilization in rural India and its correlation with both socio-economic factors and accessibility to health facilities. The association is stronger with socio-economic factors than with the proximity to health facilities. Further, it is observed that self motivation fails to ensure women’s resorting to maternal health care unless they are motivated or permitted by their husbands or mother in-laws.
Optimization of portable pulse oximetry through Fourier analysis

Portable pulse oximetry requires new techniques to minimize hardware expense, footprint, and power consumption. To optimize portability, fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis was used as an alternative method to calculate hemoglobin oxygen saturation (SpO2) values. The following variables were used for FFT optimization: (i) total collection period; (ii) number of discrete data points; (iii) data sampling rate; and (iv) resolution in the spectral analysis output. The objective was to discover the minimum sampling rate and minimum number of discrete data points which would maintain SpO2 accuracy. Preliminary results indicate that a 15 Hz data sampling rate over a 4.3 second collection period maintains acceptable SpO2 accuracy via a 64 point FFT computation. <<ETX>>
Pubertà precoce vera ed anomalie del sistema nervoso centrale: delezioni cromosomiche criptiche individuate mediante array-CGH

L’analisi array-CGH nello studio di quattro casi di puberta precoce centrale Descriviamo i casi di quattro bambine affette da puberta precoce associata ad anomalie del sistema nervoso centrale, in cui e stata condotta un’indagine di genetica molecolare con tecnica array-CGH. In una paziente e stata individuata una delezione distale de novo del braccio corto del cromosoma 9 [del(9)(p24.3-p23)], inquadrando il caso all’interno della sindrome 9p-, di cui fino ad ora sono stati descritti circa 100 casi [12], uno solo dei quali con puberta precoce, descritto nel 1979 da SJ Funderburk et al [19]. A nostra conoscenza, quindi, questo sarebbe il secondo caso di puberta precoce vera associata a delezione distale del braccio corto del cromosoma 9. In altre due pazienti e stata riscontrata una delezione sul braccio corto del cromosoma 8: nel primo caso questa e localizzata a livello della regione 8p23.2 e determina la perdita di circa 67 Kb; nel secondo caso, invece, la delezione e molto piu grande (9.5 Mb), localizzata in regione 8p23.3. 1; tuttavia comprende interamente la delezione del caso precedente. In entrambi questi due casi la delezione comporta la perdita del gene CSMD1, noto per essere particolarmente espresso nell’embriogenesi, nell’ovaio ed in modo aberrante in alcuni tumori [13]. La nostra ipotesi e che la perdita di tale gene possa essere implicata, anche se non necessariamente in modo diretto, nell’insorgenza della puberta precoce; ipotesi che appare assumere ancora piu valore confrontando il dato con uno studio di Basinko et al. [21] che descrive un caso di puberta ritardata associato, invece, alla duplicazione di CSMD1. Nel quarto caso studiato e stata individuata una delezione a livello del cromosoma 8p22, che nel Database of Genomic Variants [16], risulta essere annoverata tra le varianti genetiche non patologiche e che, apparentemente, non sembra essere correlata con la patogenesi della puberta precoce. Tuttavia, il dato deve essere valutato in modo critico, in quanto non e nota l’eta di comparsa dei segni puberali e del menarca nel campione di popolazione utilizzato per la definizione delle varianti genomiche non patologiche. La conoscenza di questo dato potrebbe essere utile per poter eventualmente correlare l’eta d’inizio della puberta con varianti genomiche non considerate patologiche.
Active control of flexible structure using genetic algorithms and LQG/LTR approaches

A two degrees of freedom model has been constructed for a structural dynamic system consisting of a linear elastic plate bonded with piezoelectric sensors and actuators. An optimal multivariable feedback controller is designed. Two control procedures based on the minimization of the fitness function, the performance output error, and the quadratic performance index have been developed that use genetic algorithms-designed PD control and LQG control methods through the MATLAB environment. The results confirm that these two kinds of control methods are reliable in the active damping of the vibration at the resonance frequencies.
Detecting people in videos for their immersion in a virtual space

This paper presents an application developed to extract people in indoor or outdoor environments using a fixed camera. People are then inserted, in real time, into a dynamic comics environment in which they interact as actors or/and witnesses. The originality of our method relies on two main points. First, the change detection method combines two kinds of masks: region and contour masks. Then, in order to detect people who are moving or not, a reference image is introduced. It is built and updated, taking into account not only local changes in the sequence, but also global, either slow or fast, illumination changes that often occur when the sequence lasts several hours. Results show that people are well and quickly extracted.
Retention on antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review of papers and abstracts since 2008

This repository item contains a single issue of the Health and Development Discussion Papers, an informal working paper series that began publishing in 2002 by the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development. It is intended to help the Center and individual authors to disseminate work that is being prepared for journal publication or that is not appropriate for journal publication but might still have value to readers.
An optimised publish/subscribe middleware for peer-to-peer systems

The publish/subscribe paradigm provides a very effective and reliable scheme to implement Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks. In these systems, the reduction of the number of messages associated to the searching procedure is a crucial issue. In this paper, we study the current publish/subscribe systems and propose an Optimised Middleware (OMCPS), suitable for the implementation of large-scale content delivery systems. The main idea behind our proposal is to reduce the conventional message distribution and searching process by using a well-known decentralised algorithm (the Chord). In addition, the internal OMCPS organisation among the Servers that conforms the P2P system is transparent to the consumer and supplier applications.
Looking at Leonardo's Last Supper

Leonardo's experimental mural painting of the Last Supper has required regular attention from restorers during the whole of the course of its history. The recent campaign, which involves a rigorous stripping of the mural to what are considered to be the remaining fragments of Leonardo's original paint, is the most radically archaeological of the many attempts at restoration/conservation. This campaign raises, in the sharpest manner, questions about the assumptions, aesthetic and scientific, which underpin present practices, and their status with respect to previous approaches. It is argued that present techniques, for all their gloss of scientific objectivity, are based upon a questionable series of values and presumptions about works of art and how one looks at works of art. In this respect, it is suggested that the recent campaign is no less rooted in the values of the period than the past campaigns which are now so brusquely dismissed. It is argued that the aesthetic, perceptual, scientific, and institutional bases for the procedures need more rigorous scrutiny.