Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Non-Minimal Routing Algorithm for Aging Mitigation in 2D-Mesh NoCs

Due to technology scaling, aging issue is becoming one of major concerns in the design of network-on-chip (NoC). The imbalanced workload distribution and routing algorithm cause aging hotspots, where a certain group of routers have higher aging effect than others. This can possibly lead to shorter lifetime of NoC. Most existing aging-aware routing algorithms are based on minimal routing, which suffers from less degree of adaptiveness compared to non-minimal routing. Thus, they are inefficient to mitigate the aging effect of routers. In this paper, we propose to use a non-minimal routing scheme to detour the traffic away from the aging hotspots, with the objective of mitigating the aging effect for NoCs. The problem is formulated as a bottleneck shortest path problem and solved using a dynamic programming approach. Finally, the experimental results show that compared to the state-of-the-art aging-aware routing algorithm, the non-minimal routing algorithm has up to 20% lifetime improvement for hotspot traffic patterns and realistic workload traces.
Munich Personal RePEc Archive Promoting Permanent Employment : Lessons from Spain

This paper presents the rst joint evaluation of the two major labour market reforms implemented in Spain to foster permanent employment in 1994 and 1997. The 1994 reform restored the principle of causality in the application of temporary contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent contract with lower payroll taxes and dismissal costs than the ordinary one. To evaluate these non-targeted treatments I present a family of semiparametric estimators that predict the outcome that would have been observed in the absence of a treatment by exploiting the time series variation of the outcome in the pretreatment period. Alternative counterfactuals are also explored by means of conventional between-groups estimators. Estimates using the Spanish Labour Force Survey indicate that employers did not change their contract conversion practices in response to either the 1994 or the 1997 reform. I also nd that the 1997 reform succeed in increasing unemployment to permanent employment transition probabilities for most groups of unemployed workers, including the middle-aged. This result rejects the natural experiment research design in existing papers analyzing the e¤ects of the 1997 reform. JEL Classi cation: J23, J32, J38, J63, J65.
The implementation of an enhanced clinical model to improve the diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for patients with a rare genetic disease: A Canadian experience

The introduction of clinical exome sequencing (ES) has provided a unique opportunity to decrease the diagnostic odyssey for patients living with a rare genetic disease (RGD). ES has been shown to provide a diagnosis in 29%–57% of patients with a suspected RGD, with as many as 70% remaining undiagnosed. There is a need to advance the clinical model of care by more formally integrating approaches that were previously considered research into an enhanced diagnostic workflow. We developed an Exome Clinic, which set out to evaluate a workflow for improving the diagnostic yield of ES for patients with an undiagnosed RGD. Here, we report the outcomes of 47 families who underwent clinical ES in the first year of the clinic. The diagnostic yield from clinical ES was 40% (19/47). Families who remained undiagnosed after ES had the opportunity for follow‐up studies that included phenotyping and candidate variant segregation in relatives, genomic matchmaking, and ES reanalysis. This enhanced diagnostic workflow increased the diagnostic yield to 55% (26/47), predominantly through the resolution of variants and genes of uncertain significance. We advocate that this approach be integrated into mainstream clinical practice and highlight the importance of a coordinated translational approach for patients with RGD.
Long-term management of Graves disease: a narrative review

Graves disease (GD) is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, accounting for more than 90% of cases in Korea. Patients with GD are treated with any of the following: antithyroid drugs (ATDs), radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy, or thyroidectomy. Most patients begin treatment with ATDs, and clinical guidelines suggest that the appropriate treatment period is 12 to 18 months. While RAI treatment and surgery manage thyrotoxicosis by destroying or removing thyroid tissue, ATDs control thyrotoxicosis by inhibiting thyroid hormone synthesis and preserving the thyroid gland. Although ATDs efficiently control thyrotoxicosis symptoms, they do not correct the main etiology of GD; therefore, frequent relapses can follow. Recently, a large amount of data has been collected on long-term ATDs for GD, and low-dose methimazole (MMZ) is expected to be a good option for remission. For the long-term management of recurrent GD, it is important to induce remission by evaluating the patient’s drug response, stopping ATDs at an appropriate time, and actively switching to surgery or RAI therapy, if indicated. Continuing drug treatment for an extended time is now encouraged in patients with a high possibility of remission with low-dose MMZ. It is also important to pay attention to the quality of life of the patients. This review aimed to summarize the appropriate treatment methods and timing of treatment transition in patients who relapsed several times while receiving treatment for GD.
Real-time Public Speaking Anxiety Prediction Model for Oral Presentations

Oral presentation skills are essential for most people’s academic and career development. However, due to public speaking anxiety, many people find oral presentations challenging and often avoid them to the detriment of their careers. Public speaking anxiety interventions that help presenters manage their anxiety as it occurs during a presentation can help many presenters. In this paper, we present a model for assessing public speaking anxiety during a presentation—a first step towards developing real-time anxiety interventions. We present our method for ground truth data collection and the results of neural network models for real-time anxiety detection using audio data. Our results show that using an LSTM model we can predict moments of speaking anxiety during a presentation.
Exploring the Influence of Demographic Factors on Progression and Playtime in Educational Games

Games are now ubiquitous, and educational games are becoming increasingly prevalent. Like other games, educational video games attract participants from different ethnicities and with different gender expressions. As such, educational game designers face a necessity to develop inclusive games. In this paper, we focus on inclusivity, diversity, and equity (DEI) issues by investigating if the computer programming game Mazzy benefited participants from broad demographic backgrounds. We highlight inclusive features present in Mazzy, and, focusing on the participants’ self-reported gender and race/ethnicity, reflect on their play experience and learning outcomes. We found evidence that the game supported learning outcomes and facilitated an engaging play experience for participants from diverse demographic backgrounds. We discuss challenges and implications for the broader literature.
Multimodal classification of interruptions in humans’ interaction

During an interaction interruptions occur frequently. Interruptions may arise to fulfill different goals such as changing the topic of conversation abruptly, asking for clarification, completing the current speaker’s turn. Interruptions may be cooperative or competitive depending on the interrupter’s intention. Our main goal is to endow a Socially Interactive Agent with the capacity to handle user interruptions in dyadic interaction. It requires the agent to detect an interruption and recognize its type (cooperative/competitive), and then to plan its behaviours to respond appropriately. As a first step towards this goal, we developed a multimodal classification model using acoustic features, facial expression, head movement, and gaze direction from both, the interrupter and the interruptee. The classification model learns from the sequential information to automatically identify interruptions type. We also present studies we conducted to measure the shortest delay needed (0.6s) for our classification model to identify interruption types with a high classification accuracy (81%). On average, most interruption overlaps last longer than 0.6s, so a Socially Interactive Agent has time to detect and recognize an interruption type and can respond in a timely manner to its human interlocutor’s interruption.
miWFC - Designer Empowerment through mixed-initiative Wave Function Collapse

Wave Function Collapse (WFC) is a powerful generative algorithm, able to create locally-similar output based on a single example input. One of the inherent limitations of the original WFC is that it often requires users to understand its inner workings, and possibly make their own ad-hoc mods, to achieve satisfactory results. Besides distracting from your creative task, this strongly reduces the algorithm’s effective usefulness to a small group of technical users. We propose miWFC, a novel mixed-initiative approach to WFC aimed at overcoming these drawbacks. Its main focus is on providing intuitive control to its users, in a way that matches their usual creative workflow. Among its main features, this approach provides (i) interactive navigation through design history, including controlled backtracking, (ii) precise manual editing of the output for direct expression of design intent, and (iii) interactive manipulation of tile weights, to tweak the global appearance of the output. We evaluated a prototype implementation of our approach among game artists and other creative professionals, and concluded that its features were largely considered useful and supportive of their creative work.
Preparation and Characterization of Ceramic Membrane Composition Variations in Pome Waste Treatment

Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is waste generated by the palm oil industry consisting of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes. POME is decomposed in sewage ponds and allowed to decompose naturally. The residual waste generated by this industry is non-toxic but has high polluting power. To overcome this, it is necessary to treat waste by making ceramic membranes. The composition materials needed are clay, zeolite, sodium carbonate and boric acid. The manufacturing method is through the printing and combustion stages at a temperature of 900oC. The results showed that there was an effect of compositional variations on the quality of the final product, namely TSS rejection % 93.355 with a flux value of 0.2474 (L/m2min). From the parameter values obtained, it proves that the ceramic membrane is able to process POME with satisfactory effective results. The quality standard of palm oil liquid waste is in accordance with South Sumatera governor regulation number 8 of 2012 concerning quality standard of liquid waste for industrial, hotel, hospital, domestic and coal mining activities
Bio-Inspired Equilibrium Point Control Scheme for Quadrupedal Locomotion

The goal of this paper is to present a force control scheme for quadrupedal locomotion by adopting observations of biological motor behavior. Specifically, based on the equilibrium point (EP) hypothesis, we set up a bio-inspired EP controller in Cartesian space. The proposed EP controller modifies the EP trajectories appropriately over time from two perspectives, which can ensure stable interactions and system equilibrium. One perspective is directly compensating for the posture angle error based on torso posture compensation. The other is based on the foot force tracking algorithm and admittance model. The main contribution of this paper is to show how the EP controller realizes dynamic balance with no input about inertial parameter identification for the robot or terrain information estimation. Overall, the EP control scheme is simplified for stability problems and is easy to use in practice. Finally, we carried out a series of simulations and experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the EP control algorithm. The results demonstrate that the proposed controller may improve dynamic stability and realize compliance performance.
Reacciones electroquímicas modelo en la interfaz líquido iónico-electrodo monocristalino de platino

The hydrogen oxidation reaction, oxygen reduction reaction and synthesis of PEDOT were evaluated in ionic liquids on platinum single crystal electrodes by means of classical electrochemical techniques, electrochemical impedance, atomic force microscopy and external reflection infrared spectroscopy. In order to get reproducible conditions, it was developed a purification procedure of the ionic liquids and a cleaning process of the surface of the single crystal electrodes. The hydrogen oxidation and the polymerization of PEDOT are structure sensitive reactions. The products of the oxygen reduction reaction are not stable at this interface. Besides, the behavior of PEDOT can be systematically modulated depending on the properties and the size of the ions in the ionic liquid, and high ionic exchange rates and high n-doping levels can be obtained. PEDOT shows catalytic activity towards the DMcT reaction, although it differs from the behavior observed in molecular solvents. Finally, this research helps to understand the factors involved in the charge transfer process at the electrode-electrolyte interface.
Image retrieval algorithm using modified AAPSEG and weighted regions matching

Image segmentation and region matching is the mainly issues of Region-Based Image Retrieval. In this paper we proposed adaptive image segmentation based on affinity propagation clustering (AAPSEG) and weighted region matching (WRM), APPSEG method calculated preference in Affinity Propagation clustering (AP) adaptively, and applied Adaptive Affinity Propagation clustering to nature image segmentation. WRM computed the weight between regions by location, size etc. It increased the influence of main region and decreased the secondary region. The Modified Hausdorff distance which was used to calculate similarity between quire image and candidate images effectively solved the problem of region matching in RBIR. The results of experiments demonstrated that the new method obviously improved precision in RBIR.
Behavioral Modification of Parents With the Barkley Method to Increase Resilience of Mothers of Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Background: Mothers of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder are faced with more stress than mothers of healthy children and this extreme stress can affect their ability to train their children effectively. Psychologists believe that there is a moderating factor between stressful events and psychological disorders that cause stressful events to have different effects on individuals. A type of this moderating factor is resiliency. Objectives: To determine the efficacy of behavioral modification with Barkley method on resilience of mothers of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Patients and Methods: Twenty-four mothers of children diagnosed with ADHD were randomly enrolled in this study. The mothers were selected from the 22nd of Bahman hospital of Qazvin city. Mothers with a low score in resilience with children aged between four and twelve years were assigned to experimental and control groups. In this study, a questionnaire was used to measure resilience. The data were analyzed by covariance analysis. Results: The behavioral modification of mothers with the Barkley method significantly enhanced their resiliency with children of ADHD in the experimental group compared to the control group. Conclusions: The behavioral modification was found to be effective for the resilience of mothers of children with ADHD. Keywords: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Resilience; Behavioral Modification
INGENIERO EN SISTEMAS COMPUTACIONALES

This degree project was carried out in order to develop an auscultation system for the oral cavity, directed for the dental offices of the University of Guayaquil in the Pilot School of Dentistry, in which a robotic arm programmed through the Arduino board, which allows communication between the board and the IoT platform (Cayenne myDevices), whose objective is that the dentist can manipulate the movements of the robotic arm on the website, a camera was placed on its end of the arm or end effector , in which it allows me to visualize and make captures that will be stored in the database of the website. For this, a Shield Ethernet card was implemented that will connect to the website, which will allow both the dentist and the patient to access with their credentials. The analysis of the different types of robotic arms on the market was also carried out, which helped the choice of implementing one type of arm for the development of the project. To carry out this project, the Extreme Programming methodology was used, it consists of four cycles that are: planning, design, coding, and tests, thus obtaining fractions of the software progress in a short time. With the implementation of the arm, the information made is left as a basis for a future to be implemented automatically, providing the dentist with new technological tools.
La relación de los déficits conductuales en funcionamiento ejecutivo con la medida de la atención sostenida.

Today there is still no agreed definition of the nature of executive functions although most authors agree to highlight four basic components: the intention (goal-directedness), inhibition, planning and working memory. In recent years we have seen that executive functions can be evaluated therefore by laboratory measurements as behavioral self. In this paper a measure of self (BDEFS) relates to a laboratory task focused on sustained attention (CSAT-R). The two tests were administered to a sample of 84 participants (boys and girls) distributed in three age groups. The results show that with age worse scores on the CSAT-R and in the case of executive functions elderly group recognizes a greater number of specific problems in two scales (self-organization and total score). In the correlations between both tests it shows that they are influenced by age and that correlations are shown in the older group and in the expected direction, more problems less attention is the score on executive functions. Finally regarding the predictive ability of the task of sustained attention on measures of self shows how selforganization is the only executive function that can be predicted. In summary, the results are relatively set to be expected.
Defect in Synaptic Pruning of Motor Cortex Neurons is Associated with Early Perturbed Dopaminergic System

Background: Early stress exposure during neurodevelopmental stages has been linked to some adult neuropsychiatric disorders. The dopaminergic system which has been implicated in movement and reward system has been linked to movement and mood disorders when perturbed at early development. This study is designed to check the mechanisms involved in movement disorders such as dyskinesia, associated with early perturbed dopaminergic system in the motor cortex Methods: Haloperidol was used to block D2R in neonatal albino Wistar rats in utero by administering 20 mg/kg BW (intraperitoneally) to pregnant adult wistar rats (n=8) in the third week of gestation. Behavioural studies such as the rotarod test were carried out on the neonatal animals (n=5) to test their motor function at postnatal day twentyeight (P28). Electrophysiological recordings were carried out on the motor cortex (M1) to determine the significance of D2R inhibition on calcium neural activity. Immunofluorescence was done to demonstrate synaptic vesicle protein (SV) and microtubule associated protein kinases (MAP K) as a measure of synapses count and microtubule phosphorylation respectively. Results: Behavioural studies showed a decline in motor function of animals exposed to haloperidol in utero compared to the control. This motor deficit was accompanied by a significant increase in the Ca2+ neural activity of the motor cortex as shown by electrophysiological recordings. Immunofluorescence staining showed there was significant increase in the number of MAPK+ and SV+ cells in the motor cortex of haloperidol exposed animals compared to the control. Conclusion: These findings showed that early perturbation in dopaminergic system is associated with an increase in synapses and neuronal density, as well as an increase in phosphorylation of microtubules of neurons in the motor cortex.
On detecting non‐monotonic trends in environmental time series: a fusion of local regression and bootstrap

In this paper, we propose a new testing procedure for detecting smooth (non)monotonic trends embedded into a linear noise that possibly does not degenerate to a finite‐dimensional representation or into a conditionally heteroscedastic (autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic/generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroscedastic (ARCH/GARCH)) noise. The proposed nonparametric trend test is local regression‐based, and we develop a flexible and computationally efficient hybrid bootstrap procedure to approximate its finite sample behavior. Because the proposed trend test does not assume prior knowledge on the dependence structure and probability distribution of the observed process, the new testing procedure is fully data‐driven and robust to misspecification of dependence structure and distributional assumptions, which is of particular importance for noisy environmental measurements. Moreover, because the proposed methodology allows to test for monotonic versus non‐monotonic trends and hence, to assess existence of extremums in the hypothesized trend function, the developed approach may be also employed for preliminary detection of regime shifts and change points in the observed environmental data series. Our simulation studies indicate competitive performance of the proposed nonparametric procedure for detection of (non)monotonic trends against conventional trend tests. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
System Non-Linearities Induced by Skyhook Dampers

The nonlinearities induced by skyhook dampers are studied experimentally and analytically using a single degree of freedom base-excited system that is representative of the systems that such dampers are often used in. The experimental results are used to show that the nonlinearities introduced by skyhook dampers manifest themselves as high frequency peaks in the frequency spectrum of the system response. More precisely, using a pure tone input with a known frequency, it is shown that these peaks occur at odd multiples of the system input (or driving) frequency. Using a Fourier series analysis, it is proven that the nonlinearities are caused by the switching policy of skyhook dampers, in which the damper force is changed according to the relative sign of the sprung mass absolute velocity and the relative velocity across the damper. The analysis shows that the skyhook damper force always contains a frequency component that is equal to the frequency of the system input (as is expected for a linear system), in addition to other frequencies that are odd multiples of the input frequency. The damping force peak that occurs at the input frequency is necessary for controlling the forced response of the system. The peaks at higher frequencies, however, are not desirable – although always present – because they introduce corresponding peaks in the system response that can cause ancillary vibration problems. For most systems, the high frequency peaks can significantly diminish any isolation benefits that are gained by the skyhook damper. When using skyhook dampers, such effects must be considered and their impact on the system dynamics studied carefully.