Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Distributed Procedure to Detect and/or Deadlock.

Abstract : The authors present a procedure to detect deadlock in a distributed system. The procedure is dynamic and distributed. Deadlock will be correctly detected for general resource requests of the form: 'Lock file A and file B at NY or lock file A and file B at LA'. The contribution of this paper is that it presents a distributed solution to the deadlock detection problem when requests have AND/OR form.
Expérience de la vaccination MenC en Europe

La France, apres d'autres pays en Europe, s'apprete a lancer en 2010 une campagne de vaccination universelle contre les infections invasives meningococciques C avec les vaccins conjugues monovalents. La strategie choisie est calquee sur celle des Pays-Bas et cible le nourrisson de plus de un an avec un rattrapage jusqu'a 24 ans. Le succes de cette strategie dependra de notre capacite a obtenir rapidement une couverture elevee, permettant ainsi d'etendre la protection chez les jeunes nourrissons et les adultes par un effet de protection indirecte collective (effet troupeau). L'experience des autres pays, comme l'Angleterre, a montre avec plus de 10 ans de recul le succes de cette vaccination sans echappement par un switch capsulaire B ni implantation de nouvelles souches clonales C hypervirulentes. La duree de protection depend de l'âge auquel la vaccination est effectuee mais sera probablement limitee dans le temps, faisant envisager a moyen terme la necessite d'un rappel vaccinal, probablement a l'adolescence.
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper. For those who have a deeper interest in OER, this section will assist with making the case for OER more substantively. The third section is a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about specific areas of relevance to OER. These are aimed at people who are looking for substantive information regarding a specific area of interest. Originally published 2011; Revised 2015.
Phase IV Trials

This article places phase IV trials in context with other phases (most typically phase III). The design and objectives of phase IV trials may often be very similar to those of phase III trials, but some much broader aims and objectives such as postmarketing surveillance, quality of life, broad acceptability of treatments, and health economics may also be studied. Trials with different purposes may need different design considerations. Keywords: Generalizability; health economics; postmarketing; quality of life
The experience of northern helping practitioners

This research study considered the experience of northern helping practitioners in providing trauma support in isolated communities in northern BC and Yukon. In these communities, access to specialists in the field of trauma counselling is severely restricted due to distance from main centres. Economic and cultural factors leave the essential support of survivors of trauma to helping practitioners in various fields with varying levels of training and supervision (Boone, Minore, Katt, & Kinch, 1997; Trippany, Kress, & Wilcoxon, 2004). Many northern communities have experienced historical trauma and continue to experience intergenerational trauma, contributed to by current psychosocial conditions linked to the legacy of colonization (Brave Heart, 2003; Duran, Duran, Brave Heart & Davis-Yellow Horse, 1998; Tafoya & Del Vecchio, 1996). In remote communities, helping practitioners may be working in their home communities, sometimes sharing similar trauma experiences to that of their clients (Morrissette & Naden, 1998). Helping practitioners in the North are also hired from “outside” to provide service to communities, arriving with limited knowledge of the specific context of the communities. These helping practitioners may be put at personal and professional risk of developing secondary traumatic symptoms from repeated exposure to clients’ trauma in the
Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management

From the Publisher: The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, providing, and filtering of explicit knowledge. The information in a repository has the advantage of being easily transferable and reusable. But it is not easy to use decontextualized information, and users often need access to human experts. This book describes a more recent approach to knowledge management, which the authors call "expertise sharing. " Expertise sharing emphasizes the human aspects--cognitive, social, cultural, and organizational--of knowledge management, in addition to information storage and retrieval. Rather than focusing on the management level of an organization, expertise sharing focuses on the self-organized activities of the organization's members. The book addresses the concerns of both researchers and practitioners, describing current literature and research as well as offering information on implementing systems. It consists of three parts: an introduction to knowledge sharing in large organizations; empirical studies of expertise sharing in different types of settings; and detailed descriptions of computer systems that can route queries, assemble people and work, and augment naturally occurring social networks within organizations.
Recombination, selection, and the genetic construction of computer programs

Computational intelligence seeks, as a basic goal, to create artificial systems which mimic aspects of biological adaptation, behavior, perception, and reasoning. Toward that goal, genetic program induction--"Genetic Programming"--has succeeded in automating an activity traditionally considered to be the realm of creative human endeavor. It has been applied successfully to the creation of computer programs which solve a diverse set of model problems. This naturally leads to questions such as: (1) Why does it work? (2) How does it fundamentally differ from existing methods? (3) What can it do that existing methods cannot? The research described here seeks to answer those questions. This is done on several fronts. Analysis is performed which shows that Genetic Programming has a great deal in common with heuristic search, long studied in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It introduces a novel aspect to that method in the form of the recombination operator which generates successors by combining parts of favorable strategies. On another track, we show that Genetic Programming is a powerful tool which is suitable for real-world problems. This is done first by applying it to an extremely difficult induction problem and measuring performance against other state-of-the-art methods. We continue by formulating a model induction problem which not only captures the pathologies of the real world, but also parameterizes them so that variation in performance can be measured as a function of confounding factors. At the same time, we study how the effects of search can be varied through the effects of the selection operator. Combining the lessons of the search analysis with known properties of biological systems leads to the formulation of a new recombination operator which is shown to improve induction performance. In support of the analysis of selection and recombination, we define problems in which structure is precisely controlled. These allow fine discrimination of search performance which help to validate analytic predictions. Finally, we address a truly unique aspect of Genetic Programming, namely the exploitation of symbolic procedural knowledge in order to provide "explanations" from genetic programs. (Copies available exclusively from Micrographics Dept., Doheny Library, USC, L.A., CA 90089-0182).
Ensemble Musicians’ Synchronization With Conductors’ Gestures: An Automated Feature-Extraction Analysis

Previous work suggests that the perception of a visual beat in conductors’ gestures is related to certain physical characteristics of the movements they produce, most notably to periods of negative acceleration, and low position in the vertical axis. These findings are based on studies that have presented participants with somewhat simple gestures, and in which participants have been required to simply tap in time with the beat. Thus, it is not clear how generalizable these findings are to real-world conducting situations, in which a conductor uses considerably more complex gestures to direct an ensemble of musicians playing actual instruments. The aims of the present study were to examine the features of conductors’ gestures with which ensemble musicians synchronize their performance in an ecologically valid setting and to develop automatic feature extraction methods for the analysis of audio and movement data. An optical motion capture system was used to record the gestures of an expert conductor directing an ensemble of expert musicians over a 20-minute period. A simultaneous audio recording of the performance of the ensemble was also made and synchronized with the motion capture data. Four short excerpts were selected for analysis, two in which the conductor communicated the beat with high clarity, and two in which the beat was communicated with low clarity. Twelve movement variables were computationally extracted from the movement data and cross-correlated with the pulse of the ensemble’s performance, the latter based on the spectral flux of the audio signal. Results of the analysis indicated that the ensemble’s performance tended to be most highly synchronized with periods of maximal deceleration along the trajectory, followed by periods of high vertical velocity (a higher correlation than deceleration but a longer delay).
Compilador de consultas tipo SQL para sistema de procesamiento masivo de eventos CEP

El paradigma de procesamiento de eventos CEP plantea la solucion al reto del analisis de grandes cantidades de datos en tiempo real, como por ejemplo, monitorizacion de los valores de bolsa o el estado del trafico de carreteras. En este paradigma los eventos recibidos deben procesarse sin almacenarse debido a que el volumen de datos es demasiado elevado y a las necesidades de baja latencia. Para ello se utilizan sistemas distribuidos con una alta escalabilidad, elevado throughput y baja latencia. Este tipo de sistemas son usualmente complejos y el tiempo de aprendizaje requerido para su uso es elevado. Sin embargo, muchos de estos sistemas carecen de un lenguaje declarativo de consultas en el que expresar la computacion que se desea realizar sobre los eventos recibidos. En este trabajo se ha desarrollado un lenguaje declarativo de consultas similar a SQL y un compilador que realiza la traduccion de este lenguaje al lenguaje nativo del sistema de procesamiento masivo de eventos. El lenguaje desarrollado en este trabajo es similar a SQL, con el que se encuentran familiarizados un gran numero de desarrolladores y por tanto aprender este lenguaje no supondria un gran esfuerzo. Asi el uso de este lenguaje logra reducir los errores en ejecucion de la consulta desplegada sobre el sistema distribuido al tiempo que se abstrae al programador de los detalles de este sistema. ---ABSTRACT---The complex event processing paradigm CEP has become the solution for high volume data analytics which demand scalability, high throughput, and low latency. Examples of applications which use this paradigm are financial processing or traffic monitoring. A distributed system is used to achieve the performance requisites. These same requisites force the distributed system not to store the events but to process them on the fly as they are received. These distributed systems are complex systems which require a considerably long time to learn and use. The majority of such distributed systems lack a declarative language in which to express the computation to perform over incoming events. In this work, a new SQL-like declarative language and a compiler have been developed. This compiler translates this new language to the distributed system native language. Due to its similarity with SQL a vast amount of developers who are already familiar with SQL will need little time to learn this language. Thus, this language reduces the execution failures at the time the programmer no longer needs to know every single detail of the underlying distributed system to submit a query.
The Challenge of Gender Bias in the IT Industry

Contextual Analysis through inquiries into Contextual Dependency is a way to specify and discuss more general issues of unequal distribution of power overall and the importance of gender issues as a specific example. This gives an Information Systems analyst an opportunity to ask some important questions. The sense making activities involved includes efforts to 'visualise' and communicate individual understandings of their unique individual mental constructs. Such potentially enriched dialogues surrounding 'visualised' mental constructs might be used to illustrate experienced relevance and a contextuality of (temporary) 'points' rather than focusing primarily on 'truths' and statistics and just adding to existing organisational dogmas with another equal opportunity 'plan'.
The Educator's Professional Growth Plan: A Process for Developing Staff and Improving Instruction. Second Edition.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Professional Growth: Defining the What, Why, Who, and How What Is Professional Growth? What Is a Professional Growth Plan? What Is the Professional Growth Plan Process? Why Use the Professional Growth Plan Process? Who Can Use a Growth Plan? Who Can Lead the Professional Growth Plan Process? How to Implement the Professional Growth Plan Process Successfully Encouraging New Traditions in Professional Growth 2. Managing the Professional Growth Plan Process Operational Issues Allocating Resources Available Resources vs. Needs? - A Balancing Act Who Has the Time? Organizing People, Events, and Information Forms? - How Can They Help? Introducing the Process to Staff The School Leader as Coach and Advisor 3. Identifying Areas for Professional Growth The First of Four Phases Targeting Professional Growth Conducting a Personal Needs Assessment Comparing Current Practices to Established Professional Performance Standards/Best Practice Research Review and Understand Professional Performance Standards and Best Practices Research The Self-Assessment Activity Examining Relevant Student Performance Data Facilitating Data Analysis Linking Practice and Performance Addressing Deficiencies and Discrepancies Needs - Assessment and the School Leader The Needs - Assessment Conference The Needs Assessment Conference Record 4. Designing the Professional Growth Plan The Second Phase: Plan Design Guiding the Design Process Establishing Professional Goals Establishing Learner-Centered Goals Can Goals Change? Establishing the Questions Creating the Essential Question Creating Related Questions Designing an Action Plan Identifying Modes of Documentation Documentation: A Product and a Process Identifying Baseline Data Defining Methods of Evaluation Identifying Resource Needs Choosing a Method for Sharing Results With the Learning Community Finalizing the Growth Plan 5. Professional Growth Plans in Progress Implementation and Monitoring Monitoring the Process Formal Monitoring: Progress Meetings Informal Monitoring: Listening, Watching, Visiting Deciding What Is Not Working and Why Interim Sharing: What Has Happened so Far? Troubleshooting? What Happens If. Preparing for the Final Phase 6. Completing the Growth Plan Process Plan Evaluation Growth Plan Summary Activities Summarizing the Growth Plan Experience? What Happened? The Growth Plan Summary Conference Evaluating Documentation of Professional Growth Sharing With the Learning Community Wrapping Up the Professional Growth Plan Process 7. The Process Continues Second Generation Plans and Beyond Impediments to the Process Changes in Personnel Inconsistent Implementation Lack of Administrative Support The Demands of Compliance Directives and Documentation The Professional Growth Plan Process Is School Improvement The School Leader as Mechanic and Change Agent Appendix A: School Leader Blacklines Appendix B: Participant Blacklines References Index
An Extended TDW Scheme by Word Mapping Technique

—In the recent years there is a large growth in web contents over the internet. The internet does not provide any standard mechanism for verification of web contents before hosting them in web servers, which cause to increase the near and exact duplicated contents over the internet from heterogeneous sources. These duplicate contents can exist either intentional or accidental. The problem of finding near-duplicate web pages has been a subject of research in the database and web-search communities for some years. Since most prevailing text mining methods adopted term-based approaches, they all suffer from the problems of word synonymy and large number of comparison. In this paper, we are going to deal with the detection of near and duplicate web pages detection by using term document weighting scheme, sentence level features and addressing the synonym detection. The existence of these near and duplicate web pages causes the problems that ranges from network band width utilization, storage cost, reduce the performance of search engines by duplicated content indexing, increase load on a remote host.
Electromyography evaluation of occlusal splint influence on orbicularis oris in denture-wearing subjects with temporomandibular dysfunction and orofacial pain

The occlusal splint constitutes a resource frequently used on temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) and orofacial pain treatment, including the denture-wearing patients. Considering the active participation of lips in the functions of the stomatognathic system, the aim of this study was to verify the influence of occlusal splints on electromyography activity (EMG) of two portions – upper (OBU) and lower (OBL) of orbicularis oris muscle, during the yogurt suction. EMG was accomplished before and 70 days after the use of these splints, in 8 edentulous denture-wearing patients and that had signs and symptoms of TMD. The myoeletric signs were recorded by a electromyography (*Lynx Eletronics) with Butterworthtype band pass filter (20-500 Hz) with gain of 100 times and A/D converter board. The signs were caught by Ag/AgCl surface electrodes (Medi Trace) and displayed through by Aqdados Software installed in an Ibm-pc 486 DX2. The EMG sign was processed by Matlab® Software and the averages of the non-normalized amplitude envoltories (NNA) were statistically analyzed using Mann-Whitney test (p < 0,05). The NNA values found on pre-treatment was 60,11 ± 4.28 and 86,15 ± 6.15 μV and in the post-treatment was 106,0 ± 4.80 and 103,71 ± 3.83 μV for the portions OBU and OBL respectively. The verified statistical difference was highly significant (p < 0,0001) when compared the same muscular portion before and after use of splints. The results of this study, on those experimental conditions used, may conclude that the use of occlusal splints promoted a significant increase of the electric activity of the orbicularis oris. UNITERMS: occlusal splint; orofacial pain; electromyography.
Modeling and evaluation of broadband access networks for multimedia services

We categorize broadband multimedia services and typical access networks, and describe the service coverage of each access network. According to our analysis, we claim that ATM-based access networks are suitable for use in the future information infrastructures. The ATM-based access network is evaluated by its multicast function using near-video-on-demand and CATV service simulations. <<ETX>>
Information Technology Management in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Chief Information Officer Performance.

MEREDITH WEISS: Information Technology Management in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Chief Information Officer Performance (Under the direction of José-Marie Griffiths) It is critical to higher education institutions that chief information officers (CIOs) succeed since they control information and technology assets, oversee tremendous resources, and facilitate the accomplishments of institutions and their members. The CIO holds a complex and demanding position. Currently there is little quantitative research on how to succeed as a CIO. Available literature about the CIO position is almost entirely based on expert opinion or the experiences of past CIOs and although these insights and experiences are extremely valuable, quantitative research studies are needed to validate, expand, and revise current success recommendations. Available chief information officer studies focus heavily on clarifying the roles in which a CIO must excel as well as the skills, abilities, attributes, and knowledge a CIO must possess in order to succeed. According to evidence-based management literature, although leadership matters, a leader’s actions “rarely explain more than 10 percent of the differences in performance between the best and the worst organizations and teams” and leaders may have the most positive impact by improving organizational and group performance, valuing employees, and developing systems that enable others to succeed (Pfeffer & Sutton, 2006h, pp. 192 200). Therefore, rather than focusing on the specific CIO roles, skills, abilities, attributes, and
A rare of Ortner’s syndrome

Ortner’s syndrome is hoarseness of voice due to recurrent laryngeal nerve involvement in cardiovascular disease. Thoracic aortic aneurysms are usually asymptomatic. When symptomatic, they usually present with chest pain. Hoarseness as a symptom without chest pain in a case of aortic aneurysm is a rare presentation.
B-spline knot-line elimination and Be´zier continuity conditions

Abstract In this paper, we show how Web technologies can be used effectively to (i) address some of thedeficiencies of traditional IP network management platforms, and (ii) render these expensive platformsredundant. We build on the concept of embedded management application , proposed by Wellens andAuerbach, and present two models of network management application designs that rely on Webtechnologies. First, the pull model is based on the request/response paradigm. It is typically used toperform data polling. Several commercial management platforms already use Web technologies thatrely on this model to provide for ad hoc management; we demonstrate how to extend this to regularmanagement. Second, the push model is a novel approach which relies on thepublish/subscribe/distribute paradigm. It is better suited to regular management than the pull model, andallows administrators to conserve network bandwidth as well as CPU time on the management station.It can be seen as a generalization of the paradigm commonly used for notification delivery. Finally, weintroduce the concept of the