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Enhancing the Grid with Multi-agent and Semantic Capabilities

Addressing the requirements of academic end users, the Grid paradigm and its underlying technologies was in past developed and evolved neglecting the needs of potential business end users. Nowadays the trend changed towards the use of Grid technologies within electronic business (e-Business) which at the same time requires adapting existing technologies to allow for more flexible, intelligent and reliable support for business stakeholders. The BREIN project was the first one integrating two so far parallel evolving domains into the Grid, namely multi-agent and semantics. By this, the Grid was enhanced to provide the requested capabilities from business end users. This chapter will show the rationale behind the performed developments and the way how BREIN addresses its four main objectives of enabling and/or enhancing: (i) Autonomy and Automation, (ii) Self-Optimization, (iii) Context-Aware Security, (iv) Reduced Complexity of Use with a dedicated focus on the major pillars of the framework, Virtual Organizations (VOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). With that, a generic solution is presented, which can be applied to a variety of distinct application areas.
Early effectiveness of anti-TNF treatment in patients with ankylosing spondylitis – observational study

Celem badania była ocena wczesnej skuteczności leczenia anty-TNF u chorych na zesztywniające zapalenie stawów kręgosłupa (ZZSK). Badaniem objęto 34 osoby (10 kobiet i 24 mężczyzn w wieku średnio 39 lat), chorych na aktywną postać ZZSK, zakwalifikowanych do leczenia anty-TNF w programie terapeutycznym Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia (NFZ) (tab. I). Kryteria kwalifikacji do leczenia określone przez NFZ obejmowały: rozpoznanie ZZSK na podstawie zmodyfikowanych kryteriów nowojorskich, aktywną i ciężką postać choroby stwierdzaną przynajmniej dwukrotnie w odstępie 12 tygo dni przy niezmiennym leczeniu oraz nieskuteczność co najmniej dwóch leków z grupy niesteroidowych leków przeciwzapalnych (NLPZ) stosowanych w maksymalnej tolerowanej dawce, każdy kolejno przez minimum 3 miesiące. Wśród badanych chorych 19 osób otrzymało etanercept, a 15 adalimumab. W trakcie comiesięcznych badań u chorych oceniano skuteczność leczenia na podstawie wskaźników stanu zapalnego, kompleksowych indeksów aktywności choroby (BASDAI, ASDAS), wskaźników funkcjonalnych i jakości życia (BASFI, BASMI, ASQol) (tab. II). Po 12 tygodniach u prawie wszystkich chorych stwierdzono poprawę wg wskaźnika BASDAI 50, odpowiadała ona poprawie 20-procentowej wg ASAS. Poprawę 40i 60-procentową wg ASAS stwierdzono u 88,2% i 52,9% chorych (ryc. 1–3). Nie zaobserwowano istotnych różnic w skuteczności leczenia w zależności od czasu trwania i zaawansowania choroby oraz stosowanego leku. Większy stopień poprawy wg skal BASDAI i ASDAS obserwowano u chorych z wyjściowym dużym stężeniem białka C-reaktywnego (CRP). Istotna statystycznie poprawa dotyS u m m a r y
Effects of an Arginine-Enriched Oral Nutritional Supplement on the Healing of Chronic Wounds in Non-Malnourished Patients; A Multicenter Case Series from the Netherlands and Hungary

Aim: To explore the effects of a specific arginine-enriched oral nutritional supplement on the healing of chronic wounds in non-malnourished patients. Method: A case series using a prepared and Medically Ethically approved evaluation template. Out of three clinical centres in the Netherlands and one in Hungary, 27 patients with arterial leg ulcers, venous leg ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, and pressure ulcers participated. They consumed a specific ready to drink arginine-enriched oral nutritional supplement daily, in addition to their regular diet and standard wound care, for a maximum of 12 weeks. Main outcome measures were wound healing progress, patients’ compliance and rating of the specific nutritional supplement. Results: Seventeen females and twelve males with a mean age of 73.7 years were included. Within 2 to 12 weeks, complete healing occurred in eight ulcers, thirteen ulcers showed clear signs of healing through decreased wound surface area ranging from 25% to 88% reduction, and three ulcers kept unchanged. Overall, the daily oral nutritional supplements, on average two servings per day (= 400 ml), were almost fully consumed (99.5%), and the patients’ rating of the oral nutritional supplement was good. Conclusion: Extra nutritional support with a specific ready to drink arginine-enriched oral nutritional supplement seems to be beneficial for the healing of different types of chronic wounds. The patients’ compliance with the product was very high, and they rated it as good. Further research, especially prospective randomised controlled studies on arginine-enriched oral nutritional supplements in patients with chronic wounds are necessary.
Dynamics of travelling helicity fronts in bacterial flagella

Twenty years ago the experiments of Hotani revealed that flagellar polymorphism (the ability of bacterial flagellar filaments to take on different quaternary structures, specifically helices of different handedness and pitch) can be generated by fluid stresses of the same magnitude as those that occur during natural swimming. Experimental work including the recent crystallization of flagellin, as well as theoretical studies, show how the packing properties and underlying bistability of flagellin may give rise to different static structures. Hotani's experiments showed dynamic nucleation and propagation of domains of opposing handedness on a single flagellum. Here we present the first theory to explain this phenomenon, which is of great relevance to the study of the bundling-unbundling transition in run-and-tumble behaviour of free-swimming bacteria. Our model, based entirely on measurable, physical properties of flagella, bridges the gap between protein-scale statics and cell-scale dynamics. We generate simulations of flagellar motion under fluid stress that exhibit nucleation rates and transition speeds in quantitative agreement with experiment.
A Distributed Interactive Simulation Intranet Using RAMP, a Reliable Adaptive Multicast Protocol

A dynamic, heterogeneous, multicast environment has been fielded as a simulation Intranet over a wide area network (WAN) for distributed interactive simulation (DIS). By replacing the usual UDP-based unreliable broadcast and TCP-based reliable unicast mechanisms with a single multicast transport protocol (RAMP), the diverse goals of enhanced scalability, reliability (as needed), and efficient operation outside of LAN environments are achieved while still meeting the DIS stated maximum latency requirements. To further support scalability, hierarchies of reliability requirements have been established for DIS protocol data unit (PDU) types. The hierarchies are based on the reliability requirements of individual entities, and are used to dynamically select between RAMP's reliable and unreliable transport modes. By restricting use of reliability to only times when it is really needed, control channel traffic required for reliability is greatly reduced, furthering both scalability and performance. The viability of this approach has been demonstrated through simulation exercises conducted via RAMP-enabled PDU transmissions across an Intranet comprised of multicast-capable routers and commercial WAN segments interconnecting five geographically disperse TASC simulation labs. RAMP also provides automatic fragmentation and reassembly of large packets, which facilitates transmission of DIS packets (such as environmental PDUs) that exceed the size limitations imposed by the Ethernet specification. The benefits to the DIS paradigm for a heterogeneous reliability are also shown to support the proposed next generation simulation initiatives under way with the object request broker (ORB) based high level architecture (HLA) efforts. Initiatives by the Object Management Group (OMG) to support multipoint-tomultipoint communications with the next generation of ORBs is currently underway. TASC has developed methods for embedding RAMP under IONA's ORB implementation (ORBIX) that support multipoint-tomultipoint communications, and is in the process of submitting recommendations for incorporating multicast protocols to the OMG.
Les effets du fentanyl sur la douleur et la motricité suite à une hémorragie intracérébrale induite chez le rat

iii Table des matières . v Liste des figures . ix Liste des sigles & des abréviations . xi Remerciements . xv RECENSION DE LITTÉRATURE . 1 A. INTRODUCTION . 1 B. HÉMORRAGIE CÉRÉBRALE LORS DE TRAUMA CRÂNIEN . 3 1. Dommages primaires . 5 2. Dommages secondaires . 5 3. Pression intracrânienne . 7 4. Neuroinflammation . 9 C. DIFFÉRENTS MODÈLES ANIMAUX . 14 1. Injection de sang entier . 16 2. Impact cortical contrôlé . 17 3. Injection de collagénase . 18 D. TESTS COMPORTEMENTAUX . 23 1. Tests semi-quantitatifs . 24 2. Rotarod . 25 3. Test de la poutre . 27
A Neural Network based Model for Determining Overall Aspect Weights in Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Opinion mining and sentiment analysis has recently attracting many studies in the field of text mining and knowledge discovery. Its task is to identify and analyze subjective information of customers' opinion from social media sources in the Web. The two kinds of objects of this study are products and product's aspects which are given in reviews from sources such as social networks, merchant sites, blogs, forums. This paper focuses on determining the important degree of aspects given a set of reviews. Suppose that each given review is assigned with aspects' ratings and overall rating. Under our opinion, the overall rating of a review is derived from its aspect ratings. This observation inspires us to formulate these factors in a neural network. This proposed model can generate the weights for aspects which reflect aspects' important degrees. Doing experiment for this model, we use a dataset of 397528 reviews of 2558 hotels which are collected from an well known tourist website - tripadvisor.com. Five common aspects are used include "cleanliness", "location", "service", "room" and "value". The obtained experimental result shows that our proposed method outperforms some well known studies for the same problem such as the probabilistic rating regression method or the frequency-based method.
Langwidere: A Hierarchical Spline Based Facial Animation System with Simulated Muscles

This thesis presents Langwidere, a facial animation system. Langwidere is intended to serve as the basis for a exible system capable of imitating realistic characters and actions, such as speech or expressing emotion, as well as creating the exaggerated and fantastic characters found in traditional animation. In the eld of computer generated characters, facial animation is di cult because of the complexity of the surface and the fact that humans have entire sections of their brains devoted to facial processing, nding and magnifying any imperfection. Typically, the construction of new characters involves tedious and repetitive labor. An unwieldy level of detail is often needed for a realistic model. Apart from any geometric consideration, animating a new character often requires reprogramming or changing and retuning a large number of arcane parameters. Numerous small, time consuming details go into creating a complete and visually interesting animated sequence. Much of this repetitive and tedious labour may be automated by a well integrated, user-friendly animation environment. Langwidere is created as the foundation for such a system. iii Acknowledgements First and foremost thanks must go to Dr. David Forsey for the hierarchical B-spline editor, Drag, on which Langwidere is built, not to mention technical advice and general enthusiasm. Thanks, also, to Dr. Keith Waters for a copy of his thesis project code, and especially to Dr. Len Breem for hunting down all those many les, and the thesis itself, and sending them to me. Many thanks to Vince Demarco, Shauna Hoar, Mark James, and Thomas Orth for being such good sports and letting me glue re ective balls onto their faces. Thanks also to Glenda for lending equipment and expertise in motion tracking (and gleeful application of glue) to the project. For stalwart proof reading assistance, and the occasional strenuous wording objection, thanks must go to David Hill, Tom, Aslam Mohammed, Norman Yee, Natascha Schuler, Eric Schenk, and Mark, Greg, Peg, and Alan James. For valiant bureaucratic assistance thanks go to Lorraine Storey and Camille Sinanan. Thanks to Bev Frangos, Tom, and Verle Henry for frantic last minute (of course) photocopying help. Thanks for nancial assistance and general nagging go to Brian Wang, Mom, Dad, Alvin Wang, and, last but not least, the Computer Science Department of the University of Calgary. Thanks for the idea in the rst place (even if it did drift a tad) go to Dr. Brian Wyvill, iv and my supervisor, Professor David Hill for guidance along the way. Finally, thanks to Mark James for being my best friend and my own personal software support sta . v Dedication To my mother, Yes, Mom, now it's done. To my father, Harmony, help, and health, I will remember. To my brothers, I'm sorry I could not help more when you needed it. vi
Perspective and the Viewpoint

Geometrical perspective can provide a precise set of rules for the interpretation of a pattern of marks on a plane as a pattern of things in space. A viewer whose vision conforms to these rules will be highly responsive to the picture plane relative to his exact viewpoint. In the first part of the paper, the author examines in detail the responses of a hypothetical viewer sensitive only to the cues of geometrical perspective. In the second half he describes an experiment on the perception of a perspective checkerboard under nine different conditions. Principal results are: (1) geometrical picture-space, as defined by perspective cues only, varies with the viewer’s viewpoint as follows: g = kv, where v is the orthogonal distance from the viewpoint to the picture plane and g is the corresponding depth perceived in the picture-plane; and (2) perceptual picture-space, as determined by the interaction of several perceptual cues, falls substantially short of what a hypothetical ‘geometrical man’ would see. The loss is greater the greater the expected depth. Contrary to hypothesis, conditions of perceiver viewing, e.g. looking through a pinhole, do not substantially increase accuracy in interpreting linear perspective cues. La perspective géométrique peut fournir une série de règles servant à interpreter d’un ensemble de lignes sur un plan représentant un ensemble d’objets dans l’espace. Un observateur dont la vision se conforme à ces règles sera très sensible au contenu du plan de la figure et cette sensibilité dépendra de la localisation exacte de l’oeil de l’observateur. Dans la première partie de cet article, l’auteur examine en détail la réaction d’un observateur hypothétique sensible uniquement aux indications de la perspective géométrique. Dans la seconde partie, il décrit une expérience sur la perception d’un échiquier vu en perspective selon neuf positions différentes. Il en résulte que (1) l’espace pictural géométrique, défini uniquement par les indications de la perspective, varie avec la localisation de l’oeil de l’observateur comme suit: g = kv, v étant la distance orthogonale entre l’oeil de l’observateur et le plan de l’image, et g la profondeur correspondante perçue dans le plan de l’image, et que (2) l’espace pictural perceptif, déterminé par l’interaction de différentes indications de la perception, est bien différent de ce qu’un hypothétique “homme géométrique” verrait. Plus cette différence est grande, plus la profondeur prévue est grande. Contrairement à l’hypothèse, les conditions de perception d’un observateur, regardant par exemple à travers un trou d’épingle, ne permettent pas de préciser considérablement l’interprétation des indications de la perspective linéaire.
Study Guide for Technical Analysis Explained

This is the essential companion workbook for Martin Pring's best-selling "Technical Analysis Explained". Martin Pring's "Technical Analysis Explained" has long been the acknowledged bible for gaining a clear understanding and hands-on knowledge of technical analysis. Now let "Study Guide for Technical Analysis Explained" help you profit even more from this essential book by coaching you on its most important ideas and techniques until they become automatic in the heat of trading battle. Packed with hundreds of questions that correspond to chapters and sections throughout the book, this valuable study guide features: charts and graphs to help you visually digest the concepts presented; full text answers to guarantee your complete understanding of each important idea; fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and matching question formats; and the hard-hitting, no-nonsense style that made "Technical Analysis Explained" a classic. The technical analysis mastery isn't easy, but its financial rewards make it virtually indispensable. Use "Study Guide for Technical Analysis Explained" to reach the next level of technical analysis education, and ensure that you enter every trading day with the weapons you need to come out on top.
Female Voice Recognition Using Artificial Neural Networks and MATLAB Voicebox Toolbox

Voice and speaker recognition performances are measured based on the accuracy, speed and robustness. These three key performance indicators are primarily dependent on voice feature extraction method and voice recognition algorithm used. This paper aims to discuss various researches in speech recognition that has yielded high accuracy rates of 95% and above. The extracted MFCCs from MATLAB Voicebox toolbox were used as inputs to the multilayer Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for female voice recognition algorithm. This study explored the recognition performance of the neural networks using variable number of hidden neurons and layers, and determine the architecture that would provide the optimum performance in terms of high recognition rate. MATLAB simulation resulted to a training and testing recognition rate of 100.00% when using 3-hidden-layer neural network from speech samples of a single-speaker, and highest training recognition rate of 98.11% and testing recognition rate of 87.20% when using 4-hidden-layer neural network from speech samples of several speakers. When tested with homonyms, the best recognition rate was 75.00% from a 3-hidden-layer neural network trained from a single-speaker, and 81.91% from a 4- hidden-layer neural network trained from multiple speakers. The deviation in recognition rates were primarily attributed to the variations made in the number of input neurons, hidden layers, and neurons of the speech recognition neural network.
La hibridación de los géneros: ¿un espejismo?

espanolEste articulo presenta diversos argumentos que defienden un cambio de perspectiva a la hora de definir criterios de clasificacion de los generos textuales teniendo en cuenta la «ceremonia» �acontecimiento social que motiva el dialogo entre generos�. No se pretende realizar un analisis exhaustivo, sino tan solo contestar, aunque sea parcialmente, a una pregunta concreta de utilidad para los traductores: ? merece especial atencion la nocion de hibridacion en el ambito de los generos textuales? EnglishIn this article, we present several arguments in favor of changing one�s perspective when defining criteria for classifying text genres. Our arguments take into consideration the concept of the �ceremony� (a social event that motivates dialogue between genres). We do not attempt a comprehensive analysis but seek only to answer, albeit partially, a concrete question that translators will find useful: does the notion of a hybrid genre merit special attention?
Innovations in Community-Based Health Care for Cardiometabolic and Respiratory Diseases

Cardiometabolic conditions (cardiovascular diseases [CVDs], diabetes, and associated chronic kidney disease) and chronic lung diseases are the leading causes of premature mortality and morbidity among adults worldwide, including in many lowand middle-income countries (LMICs). The chronic nature of these conditions imposes a high burden on individuals and societies and creates substantial challenges for traditional health systems. Prevention and early intervention are crucial. In addition to population-based approaches, key preventive strategies require the extension of health care delivery platforms to the community. This chapter reviews the evidence pertaining to two important strategies for extending health services into communities in LMICs for preventing and managing cardiometabolic and chronic lung conditions and risk factors. The first strategy focuses on task-shifting, defined as assigning health care management and prevention tasks to nonphysicians. A systematic review was performed of the published literature as it relates to cardiometabolic and chronic lung diseases. The second strategy focuses on self-management, with or without support from family or community-based peers. A narrative literature review was performed of literature related to the second strategy, given its broad and diverse focus. While the two strategies seek to extend health care delivery into the community, they are different in that the first strategy involves changing the health workforce structure and delivery of health care, while the second involves educating patients to understand the condition and empowering them to make informed choices in day-to-day management. These detailed reviews are accompanied by two case studies that outline examples of initiatives used in communities in LMICs.
The TrackML challenge

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. The TrackML challenge David Rousseau, Sabrina Amrouche, Paolo Calafiura, Steven Farrell, Cécile Germain, Vladimir Gligorov, Tobias Golling, Heather Gray, Isabelle Guyon, Mikhail Hushchyn, et al.
Users' Understanding of Search Engine Advertisements

In this paper, a large-scale study on users’ understanding of search-based advertising is presented. It is based on (1) a survey, (2) a task-based user study, and (3) an online experiment. Data were collected from 1,000 users representative of the German online population. Findings show that users generally lack an understanding of Google’s business model and the workings of search-based advertising. 42% of users self-report that they either do not know that it is possible to pay Google for preferred listings for one’s company on the SERPs or do not know how to distinguish between organic results and ads. In the task-based user study, we found that only 1.3 percent of participants were able to mark all areas correctly. 9.6 percent had all their identifications correct but did not mark all results they were required to mark. For none of the screenshots given were more than 35% of users able to mark all areas correctly. In the experiment, we found that users who are not able to distinguish between the two results types choose ads around twice as often as users who can recognize the ads. The implications are that models of search engine advertising and of information seeking need to be amended, and that there is a severe need for regulating search-based advertising.