Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Particle Swarm Optimization: the Gradient Correction

In the following paper, the solution of the optimization problem that relied on the determination of the optimal geometry of two cylindrical coil arrangement evoking magnetic field of specific parameters was presented. The objective of the task was to generate, in a defined active area, the magnetic field of the largest possible gradient and simultaneously keep this gradient relatively constant. The computations were performed using the classical particle swarm optimization as well as the modified method with the correction sensitive to the fitness function gradient introduced to the formula describing the movement of the specific swarm particles. As a result, a considerable enhancement of the optimization process was achieved.
Investigating different models for cross-language information retrieval from automatic speech transcripts

Speech information retrieval seeks to facilitate retrieving and accessing spoken content. Speech retrieval combines two techniques: automatic speech recognition (ASR) and information retrieval (IR). An ASR system is first used to transcribe digitized audio into text, and then a text retrieval system is used to retrieve speech segments, given a user request (information need). However, since ASR is an imperfect process, often there are spoken words that are not recognized correctly. This will lead to word mismatches in the retrieval. Early research considered spoken document retrieval for broadcast news as a "solved problem" [1]. However, the problem is still open for other types of speech like spontaneous conversational speech such as interviews, presentations, conferences, meetings, and lectures [2]. Unlike broadcast news (read speech), which has well-defined distinct document units that resembled written documents, spontaneous speech suffers from the lack of clear topic boundaries and poor acoustic conditions. The Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track at Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) provides a collection of oral history interviews. This offers an excellent opportunity to study different speech retrieval techniques for spontaneous speech. The availability of open source IR systems make it possible for us to investigate different Information Retrieval techniques, which proved their effectiveness in the literature for text retrieval, but they were not tested for spontaneous speech retrieval. Moreover, we propose five novel data fusion techniques: the first one combines the results of different models with appropriate weights for each one; the second one uses a cluster-based fusion technique; the third one combines highly-varied retrieval results; the fourth fusion technique is based on a heuristic derivation of the weight for each retrieval strategy; and the last one is based on the probability theory. To deal with the word mismatch problem, we also propose two query expansion methods, one based on collocations, and the other one based on a domain-specific thesaurus. Our system achieved the best results in the CL-SR task at CLEF for two years 2005, and 2007, and it was the second-best system in 2006.
A Study on Mobile Robot Auto Recharging System Based on Wireless Power Transmission and Visual Information

Abstract In this paper, an auto recharging system for a mobile robot based on the wireless power transmission and visual information is proposed. The existing recharging systems for mobile robot use mechanical contact while wireless power transmission transfers energy by electromagnetic induction method without contacts. For efficiency of charging, alignment of coils is important. In order to solve this problem, with the visual image, ellipticity of coil circle is recognized to control the pose of mobile robot. Key Words : Mobile Robot, Wireless power Transmission, Image Recognition, Contact-less charging * 준회원, 국민대학교 전자공학과 ** 정회원, 국민대학교 전자공학과 *** 정회원, 국민대학교 전자공학과(교신저자) 접수일자 2011.9. 17, 수정일자 2011.10. 12게재확정일자 2011.10. 14 Ⅰ. 서론 이동 로봇이 구동되기 위해서는, 전력원으로 로봇 몸체에 탑재되어있는 충전지 혹은 건전지를 이용하며, 로봇에서 소모되는 전력이 크면 클수록 자주 외부에서 전력을 재공급해 주어야 한다. 이동 로봇에 충전을 하기 위해서는 여러 가지 방법이 있지만, 일반적인 방식은 접촉식 충전스테이션의 위치를 기억하고, 충전 필요시 기억된 위치로 이동하여 충전하는 자동충전방식이다. 가정에서 사용하는 청소용 로봇에서는 로봇 스스로 충전하는 기능을 갖춘 것이 많다. 이러한 충전스테이션을 이용하는 경우에는 충전을 하는 로봇과 충전스테이션에 충전을 하기 위한 접속 부분을 가지고 있어야 한다. 이 접속부분과 바르게 접속 되어야 충전을 할 수 있다. 따라서 접속이 확실히 이루어질 수 있도록 하는 다양한 방법과 구조가 존재한다
Speech Signal Endpoint Detection Using Hidden Markov Models

A major cause of errors in automatic speech recognition system is the inaccurate detection of the beginning and ending boundaries of test and reference patterns. Separation of speech and silence segments in automatic speech recognition algorithms occupies a fundamental position. The improper demarcation of these segments reduces systemâ€™s efficiency, since;the system has to execute processing on the portion of segments which are not needed. A comprehensive evaluation of ASR systems showed that more than half of the recognition errors are caused due to wrong word boundary detection [1][2] Therefore the desired characteristics for an endpoint detection are reliability, robustness, accuracy, adaptation,simplicity and real time processing etc[3]. This paper discusses a robust algorithm for the detection of speech and silence segments in an input speech signal based on Hidden Markov Models
Struktura ramowa do implementacji i testowania serwomechanizmów wizyjnych

1. WST P Robot pozbawiony zm ys ów m o e sprawnie i szybko wykonywa przydzielone m u prace w dobrze ustrukturyzowanym , determ inistycznym rodowisku (np. w fabryce). Jednak w przypadku zmieniaj cego si otoczenia, gdzie pozycja przedmiotów mo e by niedok adnie okre lona lub wr cz nieznana, niezb dne jest wyposa enie robota w zm ys y (umo liwiaj ce mu rozpoznawanie obiektów, okre lanie ich po o enia itp.), a tak e odpowiednie zachowania, zwi zane z tym i zm ys ami (np. om ini cie kolizji z wykrytym obiektem ). Poniewa zm ys wzroku jest najbardziej uniwersalnym (a przez to w rzeczywisto ci najbardziej skomplikowanym) ze znanych nam zmys ów, dlatego wykorzystanie kamer jako jego zamiennika le a o od zawsze w sferze zainteresowa robotyki [1].
Organisatiekunde : kanttekening en kritiek, theorie en toepassingen : opstellen aangeboden aan Prof. dr. H. Feitsma

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Cognitive Activity Support Tools: Design of the Visual Interface

This dissertation is broadly concerned with interactive computational tools that support the performance of complex cognitive activities, examples of which are analytical reasoning, decision making, problem solving, sense making, forecasting, and learning. Examples of tools that support such activities are visualization-based tools in the areas of: education, information visualization, personal information management, statistics, and health informatics. Such tools enable access to information and data and, through interaction, enable a human-information discourse. In a more specific sense, this dissertation is concerned with the design of the visual interface of these tools. This dissertation presents a large and comprehensive theoretical framework to support research and design. Issues treated herein include interaction design and patterns of interaction for cognitive and epistemic support; analysis of the essential properties of interactive visual representations and their influences on cognitive and perceptual processes; an analysis of the structural components of interaction and how different operational forms of interaction components affect the performance of cognitive activities; an examination of how the information-processing load should be distributed between humans and tools during the performance of complex cognitive activities; and a categorization of common visualizations according to their structure and function, and a discussion of the cognitive utility of each category. This dissertation also includes a chapter that describes the design of a cognitive activity support tool, as guided by the theoretical contributions that comprise the rest of the dissertation. Those that may find this dissertation useful include researchers and practitioners in the areas of data and information visualization, visual analytics, medical and health informatics, data science, journalism, educational technology, and digital games.
Biomechanische Studie zur Versorgung von Fibulafrakturen mittels biodegradierbarer Implantate

Sprunggelenksfrakturen zahlen zu den haufigsten Frakturen des Menschen, wobei bei dislozierten Formen Einigkeit bezuglich der Operationswurdigkeit besteht. Die Drittelrohrplatten Osteosynthese des Ausenknochels gilt als Standardversorgung. Bioresorbierbare Implantate bieten die Vorteile, dass eine Implantatentfernung entfallt, „stress protection“ weitgehend vermieden wird und bildgebende Verfahren weniger beeintrachtigt werden. Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht die biomechanischen Eigenschaften einer biodegradierbaren Plattenosteosynthese mit einer Titanplatten Osteosynthese an einer distalen Fibulafraktur. Die distale Fibulafraktur wurde an 10 Paaren humaner Kadaverfibulae simuliert und mit biodegradierbaren Osteosynthesen mit gekreuzter bzw. ungekreuzter Schraubenausrichtung oder per Titan-Drittelrohrplatten Osteosynthese versorgt. Nach Implantation und nach Simulation der in vivo Biodegradation erfolgte je eine zerstorungsfreie Testreihe. Es wurden Biege- und Torsionssteifigkeit sowie die Neutrale Zone ermittelt und mittels Mann Whitney Tests und Wilcoxon Tests verglichen und auf Signifikanz uberpruft.
The Problems of Translating Communicative Needs Into Course Design and Implementation.

As Thailand's exports to other Asian countries and to the West increase, the status of English as the language for trade and communication has gained more importance. Initial investigation of postgraduate (science and engineering) students' needs at Chulalongkorn University indicates that the skills the students want to improve most are listening, speaking, and writing. These emerging needs are difficult to fulfill due to the fact that the medium of instruction for all subjects (excluding 3 hours of English a week) at all levels is in Thai. In teaching an English course for science graduates at Chulalongkorn, a teacher attempted to close the gap between students' communicative needs and their linguistic competence. This paper addresses three factors that must be considered in the process of translating students' needs into course design and implementation: linguistic aspects, pedagogical decisions, and administrative concerns. (Contains 5 references.) (JP) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** PARALLEL SESSION 42 Tuesday, 20 April 1993 110
Current Status of Artificial Neural Network Applications to Power Systems in the United States (電力・エネルギ-分野におけるニュ-ラルネットワ-ク応用 )

Applications of neural-net computing to power systems in the United States are reviewed from the perspective that neural-net computing is a component of a larger integrated Artificial Intelligence technology. It is clear that conceptual advances have been made in delineating the ways in which neural-net computing can be of service in the operation of power systems. Experimentation, field work and significant involvement on the part of the industry need to be developed, but some beginnings have been reported.
Violin Technique And Performance Practice In The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries

Thank you very much for reading violin technique and performance practice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have search numerous times for their favorite books like this violin technique and performance practice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some infectious virus inside their desktop computer.
Agathe Lichtensztejn, Le Selfie. Aux frontières de l’égoportrait

L’etude d’Agathe Lichtenstzejn sur le selfie, publiee en 2015, est veritablement pionniere d’un phenomene que l’on peut ne pas aimer mais que l’on n’a guere le luxe d’ignorer. Ou peut-etre ce livre est-il sorti trop tot, tant le selfie, ne en 2014 et deja grave dans les dictionnaires, a connu de nombreux avatars qui ne sont qu’effleures ici. Mais ce petit livre a d’autres merites : celui de situer historiquement le selfie dans l’esthetique et l’histoire de l’autoportrait ; de discuter ses eve.
Making the Donkey Visible: Discordianism in the Works of Robert Anton Wilson

This chapter deals with Discordianism which was invented in 1957 by two school friends, Greg Hill (1941-2000) and Kerry Thornley (1938-1998). It is based on the worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, and is notable for its use of irreverent humour. This chapter examines specific examples of how these cultural products functioned as sites for the dissemination of Discordian ideas. How the works of Robert Anton Wilson, exemplified by the novel Illuminatus! and the autobiographical Cosmic Trigger , have functioned as sites for the dissemination of Discordian ideas into the broader culture, is demonstrated in this chapter. This chapter has given specific examples of the music industry, computer culture and the '23 Enigma' in the film industry. As a conclusion, the author reassesses how successful Wilson's dissemination of Discordian ideas was, given the broader context of his work. Keywords: Cosmic Trigger ; culture; Discordianism; Illuminatus! ; music; religion; Robert Anton Wilson
Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Understand how to use the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for data mining by using the tools in Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, which will show you how to use the SQL Server Data Mining Toolset with Office 2007 to mine and analyze data. Explore each of the major data mining algorithms, including naive bayes, decision trees, time series, clustering, association rules, and neural networks. Learn more about topics like mining OLAP databases, data mining with SQL Server Integration Services 2008, and using Microsoft data mining to solve business analysis problems.
Efficient techniques for large-scale Web data management

The recent development of commercial cloud computing environments has strongly impacted research and development in distributed software platforms. Cloud providers offer a distributed, shared-nothing infrastructure, that may be used for data storage and processing.In parallel with the development of cloud platforms, programming models that seamlessly parallelize the execution of data-intensive tasks over large clusters of commodity machines have received significant attention, starting with the MapReduce model very well known by now, and continuing through other novel and more expressive frameworks. As these models are increasingly used to express analytical-style data processing tasks, the need for higher-level languages that ease the burden of writing complex queries for these systems arises.This thesis investigates the efficient management of Web data on large-scale infrastructures. In particular, we study the performance and cost of exploiting cloud services to build Web data warehouses, and the parallelization and optimization of query languages that are tailored towards querying Web data declaratively.First, we present AMADA, an architecture for warehousing large-scale Web data in commercial cloud platforms. AMADA operates in a Software as a Service (SaaS) approach, allowing users to upload, store, and query large volumes of Web data. Since cloud users support monetary costs directly connected to their consumption of resources, our focus is not only on query performance from an execution time perspective, but also on the monetary costs associated to this processing. In particular, we study the applicability of several content indexing strategies, and show that they lead not only to reducing query evaluation time, but also, importantly, to reducing the monetary costs associated with the exploitation of the cloud-based warehouse.Second, we consider the efficient parallelization of the execution of complex queries over XML documents, implemented within our system PAXQuery. We provide novel algorithms showing how to translate such queries into plans expressed in the PArallelization ConTracts (PACT) programming model. These plans are then optimized and executed in parallel by the Stratosphere system. We demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of our approach through experiments on hundreds of GB of XML data.Finally, we present a novel approach for identifying and reusing common subexpressions occurring in Pig Latin scripts. In particular, we lay the foundation of our reuse-based algorithms by formalizing the semantics of the Pig Latin query language with extended nested relational algebra for bags. Our algorithm, named PigReuse, operates on the algebraic representations of Pig Latin scripts, identifies subexpression merging opportunities, selects the best ones to execute based on a cost function, and merges other equivalent expressions to share its result. We bring several extensions to the algorithm to improve its performance. Our experiment results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our reuse-based algorithms and optimization strategies.
On the Equivalence of Constrained and Compound Optimal Designs

O n the Equivalence o f C o n s t r a i n e d and C o m p o u n d O p t i m a l Designs Author(s): R. Dennis Cook and W e n g Kee W o n g Source: Journal of the American Statistical Association, V o l . 89, No. 426 (Tun., 1994), pp. 687¬ P u b l i s h e d b y : American Statistical Association Stable U R L : http://www.jstor.org/stable/2290872 Accessed: 2 3 / 0 5 / 2 0 1 1 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher? publisherCode=astata. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. H1 American Statistical Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the American Statistical Association. m S T O R http://www.jstor.org
A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education: Empowerment from Theory to Practice

Translation and translator education - fields in flux rethinking the epistemology of translator education key principles of socio-constructivist education on instruction and construction in the classroom initiation through dialogue authentic experience and learning in a translation exercise class knowledge construction and the translator's workstation assessment and the emergence of translator competence from dead bodies and talking heads to holistic second language acquisition in the classroom a conclusion. and a beginning.
What can you see

"First Words Non-fiction" is a collection of engaging books for very new readers. These books contain carefully controlled vocabulary and focus on familiar experiences. At Starter Stage, each book consists of simple sentence constructions and one line of text per page. Furthermore, each page provides colourful picture cues in the form of photographs and illustrations to help the reader decode the text. In "The Farm", we are introduced to some well-known farm animals; we are taken on a guided tour through Maisie's school in "My School"; and a PE Lesson in "The PE Lesson". In "The Party", we join in the fun at Aneesha's birthday; get stuck in a jam in "Traffic"; and test our powers of detection in "What Can You See? ".
A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Elementary Principals Involved in Dual-Career Relationships with Children

This qualitative study examines the experiences of eight elementary principals from the Midwest who were involved in dual-career relationships with children under the age of 18. The primary data collection method was in-depth interviews. The data were coded and analyzed according to the research questions. The research resulted in three major themes which emerged out of the experiences shared by the elementary principals: 1) there exists a gap between actual and perceived values; 2) stress develops from a high number of work tasks; 3) coping strategies are utilized to manage daily stressors. I analyzed these themes from the principals’ experiences through the theoretical lenses of theory-in-use and espoused theory, symbolic interactionism, cultural hegemony, and authentic leadership. The experiences associated with the elementary principals in this study serve as a framework for discussion about the gap that exists between principals’ actual and perceived values. This research revealed a gap between elementary principals’ actual and perceived values. A conclusion to be drawn from this finding is that principals involved in dualcareer relationships are unable to recognize the gap between their actual and perceived values due to a strong commitment toward both their profession and families. A high number of time intensive work-related tasks contribute to increased stress and an imbalance between work and home roles. The gap is held apart by the perception of the immediacy of work task completion in comparison to the perception of less immediate family needs.
TOWARDS MOBILE DEVICE CLOUD

Although cloud computing has established itself as a novel paradigm, mobile devices have unique characteristics and capabilities that are not made part of a cloud. This paper presents the notion of a mobile device cloud: mobile devices become active members in the cloud, sharing content, resources, and services with each other. We discuss how the concepts of cloud computing could be applied to mobile device clouds. Further, the implementation of some key components in a mobile device cloud is discussed.
Improving Shadows and Reflections via the Stencil Buffer

For too many game developers, the above statement sums up their approach to 3D hardwareacceleration. A game programmer might turn on some fog and maybe throw in some transparency, but that’s often the limit. The question is whether that is enough anymore for a game to stand out visually from the crowd. Now everybody’s using 3D hardware-acceleration, and everybody’s slinging textured polygons around, and, frankly, as a result, most 3D games look more or less the same.