Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Medium-term prediction of urban traffic states using probability tree

Prediction of the future traffic states of the overall city arterial networks provides the process of urban traffic evolution for researchers, which can serve as reference information for the city traffic authorities. However, the complexity and heterogeneity of urban traffic system and the big data challenge have proven to be substantial difficulties. A probabilistic tree modeling framework for estimating the overall traffic states is proposed in this paper. Firstly, we extract several typical traffic states covering the overall characteristics. Secondly, the state predicting algorithm based on dynamic Variable-order Markov Model and Genetic Algorithm is developed, where different date attributes were evaluated separately. Finally, the prediction model using probability tree with multiple prediction steps is verified. Experimental results using traffic speed data in Shanghai demonstrate the high accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.
Manajemen Program Traveling and Teaching dan Smart Center Komunitas 1000 Guru Malang dalam Peningkatan Mutu Sekolah

<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This research described about the management program of traveling and teaching, also the smart center of 1000 Guru Malang community in enhancing the quality of the schools. Traveling and teaching program was a social event in learning aspects that was carrying out the concept of fun learning in primary school and giving donation through traveling and giving, while the smart center was continuity event and or long term program that was focus on giving direct assistance whether physical and non-physical assistance in 12 months. The researcher used qualitative research design by using multi-sites research design. The result of the management programs that was consisting of planning, implementing, and evaluating that was done by the 1000 Guru Malang community showed that the indicators of the achievement school's quality that was consisting of enhancing the society's participation, academical and non-academical achievements, school image in the society, and the quality of school facilities. </p><p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan manajemen program <em>traveling and teaching </em>dan <em>smart center </em>komunitas 1000 Guru Malang dalam peningkatan mutu sekolah. Program <em>traveling and teaching </em>merupakan kegiatan sosial di bidang pendidikan yang mengusung konsep pembelajaran menyenangkan di sekolah dasar dan pembagian donasi yang dikemas melalui penjelajahan sambil berbagi. <em>Smart center </em>merupakan kegiatan lanjutan dan atau program jangka panjang yang fokus pada pemberian bantuan langsung ke sekolah baik secara fisik maupun non fisik dalam jangka waktu 12 bulan. Peneliti menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan jenis rancangan studi multi situs. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa manajemen program yang terdiri dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan evaluasi yang dilaksanakan komunitas 1000 Guru Malang menunjukkan indikator pencapaian mutu sekolah yang meliputi peningkatan partisipasi masyarakat, prestasi akademik dan non akademik, citra sekolah di masyarakat, dan kualitas fasilitas sekolah. </p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
Query Depth in Relational Databases: Ensuring the Legality of Searches on Business Records Metadata

Intelligence agencies worldwide have access to databases containing daily business records metadata, such as telephony metadata, with the aim of preventing and identifying terrorist activity. In 2013, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) released a number of documents on the use of telephony metadata by the US National Security Agency (NSA). These documents revealed that the NSA was querying a larger set of identifiers than the one permitted in previous FISC orders. This motivates the need for an automated tool with the capability of analyzing the legality of queries on telephony metadata. This analysis would help to prevent the execution of queries retrieving more identifiers than those allowed by the law. The aim of this thesis is to conceive a tool for such purpose, which, differently from the previous work on the subject, will conduct an analysis based only on the query itself and not on the output that the query produces on a specific database. The input queries will be checked against the guidelines specified in a 2013 Obama administration white paper on bulk collection of telephony metadata. To achieve this goal we propose two different approaches: the graph-depth approach is a straightforward verification of those guidelines while the cost-depth approach, although comparable to the previous one, is inspired by the theory of databases with access limitations. We will propose a number of algorithms for both approaches and we will implement them as part of the QueryAnalyzer system. Finally, we will compare the performance of the different algorithms.
“STANDING ON THE FRONT LINES AND DOWN IN THE TRENCHES WITH HER”: AN EXPLORATION OF THE DIALECTICAL TENSIONS AND COMPETING GOALS OF ADULT CHILDREN OF MENTALLY ILL PARENTS

OF DISSERTATION “STANDING ON THE FRONT LINES AND DOWN IN THE TRENCHES WITH HER”: AN EXPLORATION OF THE DIALECTICAL TENSIONS AND COMPETING GOALS OF ADULT CHILDREN OF MENTALLY ILL PARENTS Mental illness is a pervasive health epidemic in the United States and worldwide, and available data suggest that mentally ill adults are statistically more likely to be parents than non-parents. The prevalence and continued growth of parental mental illness means that millions of children in the United States have a parent with some form of mental health issues. This dissertation contributes to and extends existing literature on children of mentally ill parents by exploring 15 adult children’s subjective perspectives on how they navigate the tension-wrought experience of having a mentally ill parent, and how this has implications for the management of their identity, relational, and instrumental goals. Examined through the lens of relational dialectics theory (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996) and a multiple goals perspective, analysis revealed that adult children of mentally ill parents confront conflicting, contradictory forces in making sense of their parent’s illness and the role that it plays in their lives. Specifically, adult children reported feeling a strong sense of interdependence with their parent and a desire to have a closer relationship with them, but simultaneously expressed a strong need and desire for disconnection and maintenance of a life separate from their parent’s challenges. Additionally, adult children noted conflicting goals with regard to privacy management about their parent’s illness, acknowledging that an underlying, but pervasive societal stigma surrounding mental health keeps them from freely disclosing to others about their parent’s illness, but indicating that a certain strategic degree of openness was required in order to meet certain instrumental and relational goals. Finally, participants revealed many fears and anxieties that they had about the future as a result of the unstable nature of their parent’s mental illness, while at the same time expressing a sense of acceptance and stability with the predictably unpredictable nature of their lives. After presenting an analysis of the data, the implications of the findings for children of mentally ill parents are explored, including, but not limited to, how the results of this exploratory study could be integrated into therapeutic and support interventions for families of those struggling with mental health issues. Finally, the limitations of the study are addressed.
A historical and critical analysis of park prescriptions

Abstract Park Prescription (PP) is a grassroots movement encouraging physicians to “prescribe” parks to patients, promoting healthy parks and people. However, little is known specifically about PP’s ability to increase participant health outcomes. While some enthusiastically see PPs as a form of delivering a medical treatment, others question the lack of evidence to support writing a nonmedical prescription. A critical analysis of the PP movement’s history and related research is needed to not only drive its research agenda but also to assist in its desire to see parks and natural areas as an accepted and holistic part of the health care system. The authors believe an interdisciplinary discussion focusing on PP history, its collaborations, and setting a unified research agenda is necessary to moving forward the idea of PPs for parks and natural settings.
ARAR — SOFTWARE TO ACCOUNT FOR DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN K/AR AND 40AR/39AR DATASETS PUBLISHED WITH DIFFERENT DECAY, ISOTOPIC, AND MONITOR-AGE PARAMETERS

Introduction: The K-Ar and Ar/Ar dating techniques have been widely employed in the earth and planetary sciences to explore the ages and thermal histories of K-bearing minerals and rocks. The Ar/Ar method, in particular, has proven to be a valuable tool for investigating the impact histories of lunar rocks and meteorites (e.g., [1, 2]). Ar/Ar datasets have helped shape models of the putative Late Heavy Bombardment of the Moon and the collisional evolution of asteroids. In addition, Ar/Ar datasets have been used to calibrate crater size-frequency distributions of of lunar surface regions to absolute time, which are then commonly used to estimate the ages of cratered planetary surfaces elsewhere in the Solar System (e.g., [3]). However, since the inception of the K-Ar and Ar/Ar methods, the accepted values for a variety of assumed parameters necessary to calculate ages have been questioned and, in some cases, fundamentally changed since the Apollo era. These include: (1) the relative abundances of the stable isotopes of K (K, K, and K) (e.g., [4-6]); (2) the decay constants of K (e.g., [5, 7-9]); and (3) the ages of common minerals used to monitor Ar/Ar irradiation parameters (e.g., Fish Canyon Sandadine, FCs [9-11]). As a consequence, K-Ar and Ar/Ar ages that have been published at different times or by different laboratories since the 1960’s do not all assume the same values for these quantities. This makes it difficult to robustly compare K-Ar and Ar/Ar datasets to one another and, especially, to other geochronological datasets (such as U/Pb zircon results [8]). In some cases the discrepancies caused by using different proposed parameter sets can be greater than the analytical uncertainties of the published dates. For example, a 1.000 ± 0.010 Ma (1% uncertainty at 2σ) KAr date published with pre-1976 constants (e.g., with the K isotopic abundances of Nier [4] and the K decay constants of Aldrich and Wetherill [7]) would become 1.027 ± 0.010 Ma when recalculated with the values recommended by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) in 1976 ([5, 12]). Furthermore, such offsets are not uniform in magnitude or direction when recalculating published dates due to the non-linear nature of the K-Ar and Ar/Ar age equations. While a pre-1976 date of ∼1 Ma is 2.7% ‘older’ when recalculated to the IUGS 1976 recommended values, a ∼4200 Ma date becomes ∼1.6% ‘younger’ [12]. Figure 1 is a graphical representation of Table 2 from the classical paper by Dalrymple [12] in which this problem was first noted.
Diversity Management: Towards a Theory of Gender Sensitive Practices.

The resource-based view of the organization conceptualizes diversity as a valuable, scarce and difficult to imitate resource. The phenomenon of diversity, specifically gender diversity, is fast becoming an inevitable reality for the contemporary organizations as an increasing number of female workers are joining the formal work force both in the developed as well as the developing world. While ample focus exists upon recruitment, managerial training and a change in overall culture of the organization for effective diversity management, empirical research to study the share of organizational practices in creating a conducive (or hostile) work climate for the newer variety of workers remains sparse. This qualitative research study, conducted in the public sector using the Federal Civil Service of Pakistan as the context, purported to examine the role of organizational practices in the overall agenda of managing (or mismanaging) diversity in the organizations. It was revealed from the empirical data of this study that the so called „gender neutral‟ practices of the organizations, pertaining to facetime system24/7, job rotation and training & development, are in fact thoroughly oriented towards the traditional male worker and evidently responsible for creating a significant stumbling block in the job performance of female employees. It was also found that the organizations‟ bid to cater the heterogeneous work force of today with the homogeneous policies of yesterday is in direct discord with the basic tenet of diversity management pertaining to acknowledging, supporting and appreciating the heterogeneous perspectives and proves counterproductive in carrying out the diversity agenda. The paper discusses policy implications in view of the changing landscape of our work organizations and emphasizes on diversity management practices using gender sensitive rather than gender neutral practices at workplace.
Improving the Management of Natural Resource Recreation Areas Through Understanding Place-Attached Visitor Segments

Providing positive outcomes for park and natural area visitors has been an increasingly important goal for recreation resource researchers, managers, and administrators. In particular, individuals achieving satisfying psychological experiences as a benefit of recreation activities has been a key element of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) within recreation planning management systems. Recent planning efforts have begun to integrate place attachment within Outcomes-Focused Management (OFM) (e.g., Anderson & Fulton, 2008; Driver, 2008). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the association between place-attached segments (i.e., higher and lower levels of place attachment) and OFM constructs (e.g., benefits sought, activity preferences, perception of settings, benefits attained, place satisfaction, place-setting preferences, future visit intentions) and to suggest management policies that could assist the outcomes-production process. On-site data were collected from Ocala National Forest visitors at camping, swimming, canoeing, and off-high vehicle riding recreation areas between March and May 2008, to obtain visitors’ forest use profiles, activity preferences, recreation experience preferences, and demographic profiles. A follow-up mail survey was conducted to obtain information about place meanings, recreation experience attainment, place satisfaction, place attachment, place setting preferences, and future visit intentions. Results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that three dimensions of place attachment (place dependence, affective attachment, and place identity) were revealed. Cluster analysis of respondents’ reported mean scores of place attachment dimensions segmented the visitors into three groups as high-medium-low-attached visitors. The place dependence score was higher than place identity and affective attachment scores across the groups. The three groups differed on their mean scores on trip characteristics and across primary OFM constructs. Visitors with higher levels of attachment, on average, had higher preferences for most benefits and the strength of their attachment was higher due to benefit attainment. The highly attached group expressed higher levels of satisfaction with ROS settings perceived differently or similarly among the different groups. Finally, preferences for ROS settings varied across the groups. Planners and managers should consider variations and commonalities among the segments on diverse value aspects in planning and pay much more attention to characteristics valued by highly attached groups to enhance visitor outcomes including emotional attachment.
News Trends Processing Using Open Linked Data

In this chapter we describe a news trends detection system built with the aim of detecting daily trends in a big collection of news articles extracted from the web and expose the computed trends data as open linked data that can be consumed by other components of the IT infrastructure. Due to the sheer amount of data being processed, the system relies on big data technologies to process raw news data and compute the trends that will be later exposed as open linked data. Thanks to the open linked data interface, data can be easily consumed by other components of the application, like a JavaScript front-end, or re-used by different IT systems. The case is a good example of how open linked data can be used to provide a convenient interface to big data systems.
Interval and fuzzy techniques for plan checking under uncertainty

The main problem of planning is to find a sequence of actions that an agent must perform to achieve a given objective. An important part of planning is checking whether a given plan achieves the desired objective. Historically, in AI, the planning and plan checking problems were mainly formulated and solved in a deterministic environment, when the initial state is known precisely and when the results of each action in each state is known (and uniquely determined). In this deterministic case, planning is difficult, but plan checking is straightforward. In many real-life situations, we only know the probabilities of different fluents; in such situations, even plan checking becomes computationally difficult. In this paper, we describe how methods of interval computations can be used to get a feasible approximation to plan checking under probabilistic uncertainty. It turns out that some of the resulting probabilistic techniques coincides with heuristically proposed "fuzzy" methods. Thus, we justify these fuzzy heuristics as a reasonable feasible approximation to the (NP-hard) probabilistic problem.
Stability of Evolutionary Strategies in Finite Populations

A lot of quantitative theoretical works have been proposed for evolutionary games aiming at evolutionary stable strategies in finite populations.In this paper,we review some latest representative researches,focusing on the risk-dominant strategy and advantageous strategy in well-mixed populations,and the structural dominant strategy in structured populations,including the famous 1/3 law and law.Finally,some future directions are pointed out.
Choosing Between Lexeme vs. Token in Russian Collocations

ABSTRACT The distribution of different grammatical forms of collocations in real usage and its comparison to a pattern of the headword is a useful basis for thorough collocational analysis, which until now has lacked proper attention. In this article, we set out to investigate the relation between lexeme and token collocations, i.e., collocations that either follow the grammatical profile of their headword or differ from it significantly. Based on the [Adjective + Noun] collocations in Russian, we attempt to determine the most suitable way to describe collocations. The goal is twofold. First, we wish to prove that distinction between these two types makes sense in terms of their different distributional preferences across the corpus. Second, we offer a plausible method for differentiating between the two types based on corpus data about the collocations’ usage. The justification for this research is the lack of a single prevalent practice as far as the choice of representation of study object for empirical collocational analysis is concerned.
Improving Energy Efficiency and Lifetime of Phase Change Memory using Delta Value Indicator

Phase change memory (PCM) has been studied as an emerging memory technology for last-level cache (LLC) due to its extremely low leakage. However, it consumes high levels of energy in updating cells and its write endurance is limited. To relieve the write pressure of LLC, we propose a delta value indicator (DVI) by employing a small cache which stores the difference between the value currently stored and the value newly loaded. Since the write energy consumption of the small cache is less than the LLC, the energy consumption is reduced by access to the small cache instead of the LLC. In addition, the lifetime of the LLC is further extended because the number of write accesses to the LLC is decreased. To this end, a delta value indicator and controlling circuits are inserted into the LLC. The simulation results show a 26.8% saving of dynamic energy consumption and a 31.7% lifetime extension compared to a state-of-the-art scheme for PCM.
Software Defined Radio

Introduction Software Defined Radio is an emerging technology that is becoming a key part of all new radio developments. It promises several advantages over conventional radio design technology resulting in benefits to manufacturers, service providers and users alike. It is predicted that soon all new radio designs and systems will be based on this technology; so access to a credible and accomplished capability in this area is vital. Roke Manor Research can provide this access, having many years of experience in all aspects of Software Defined Radio.
To and through College: Investigating Attitudes Towards, Enrollment In, and Graduation from College.

Postsecondary access and degree completion are increasingly important concerns for individuals and policymakers. This dissertation presents evidence on three distinct strategies for increasing students’ level of preparedness for higher education, rates of postsecondary enrollment, and rates of postsecondary degree completion. The first is an intervention aimed at increasing eighth-grade students’ familiarity with college life. Results from an experimental study indicate that students assigned to participate in campus visits demonstrate higher levels of knowledge about college, are more likely to have conversations with school personnel about college, put forth higher levels of effort while completing a college-related survey, and express a decreased desire to attend technical school. Additionally, treated students are more likely to enroll in advanced math and science/social science courses in ninth grade. The second strategy is a place-based program that guarantees a college scholarship to all students enrolled in the Promise district for ninth through 12 grades. Results from a quasi-experimental evaluation indicate that a Promise program in a rural area can increase postsecondary enrollment and bachelor’s degree completion rates, although effects vary by student characteristics. For example, we find larger enrollment effects for students of color and for students with belowaverage grade point averages, but larger completion effects for white students and students with above-average grade point averages. The third strategy is on-campus support services, whose goal is to facilitate students’ successful transition through college and to graduation. My descriptive analysis indicates that students’ ability to access on-campus resources is correlated with their background characteristics and personality and may be hindered by faculty and staff’s lack of awareness of available services. This work also indicates that students who utilize oncampus resources report higher levels of a sense of belonging and college persistence.