Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Robot-human collaboration for new robotic applications

A new robotic system, which executes a task in cooperation with humans, will be discussed in this paper. We are going to consider a task, in which robots and humans manipulate an object together in coordination, To design a controller, we assume that the system has no direct mechanical interactions among robots and humans. That is, robots and humans are assume to have interactions each other only through the object. We also assume that the humans are manipulating an object around a point fixed to the object. Under these assumptions, we design a controller for each robot so that the object has prescribed passive dynamics. We prove the stability of the resultant system using the Popov's hyper stability theorem assuming that the passivity conditions for the humans are satisfied. The resultant control algorithm is applied to an experimental system, which consists of two industrial manipulators each of which has six degrees of freedom. The manipulation of an object by these robots and an operator illustrate the proposed control algorithm. <<ETX>>
Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes

This paper examines how graduate outcomes for humanities students differ by the student’s gender and marital status when they enter graduate studies. I find that being married has a positive effect on both male and female students. Male students who are married at the start of graduate school are on average 3.9% more likely to graduate by any given year and they complete their degree . 32 years quicker than single male students. Married female students are not any more likely to graduate but they do complete their degree . 21 years quicker than single female students.
Integrating call writing activities into a college level elementary chinese class

Since the mid 1990s, there has been a gradual recognition that writing should be part of foreign language (FL) instruction across all levels, including the beginning level, as it contributes to learners' overall language proficiency and cognitive development (Scott, 1996). Despite such recognition, FL writing research has been insufficient and very much influenced by first language and English as second language writing research (Reichelt, 1999). There has been limited research and conflicting reports on the process and product of beginning FL writing. This study explores the little-researched area of beginning Chinese as Foreign Language (CFL) writing, and investigates the meaningful technology integration in a beginning CFL class using a Chinese word processor and the Blackboard Discussion Board. This dissertation is a qualitative case study that employs all three methods of qualitative data collection: interviewing, observation, and document analysis, with the first two as the primary sources. The study uses criterion-based, purposeful sampling in selecting the five informants. Data were also collected from the whole class via anonymous surveys and a focus-group interview. The findings indicate that the students were able to engage in writing activities using the Chinese Word Processor and the Blackboard Discussion Board. The writing products of these beginning CFL students outperformed the proficiency level for novice writers as defined by the ACTFL Writing Guidelines, as beginning students of French and Spanish did in Way et al's study (2000) and Valde et al's study (1992). The present study suggests that for future beginning CFL writing activities, learner training, scaffolding and task design are areas to work on to facilitate learners to move to self-regulated learning from other-regulated learning so as to reach their ZPD. The present study shows that beginning CFL writing using technology tools helped the students overcome the barrier of handwriting characters and enabled them to put their linguistic knowledge into productive use. Given such benefits, the study calls for more emphasis on writing in beginning CFL curriculum and more research to investigate the models and effects of such instructional innovations in the future.
The CIRCUS System as Used in MUC-3

This report contains a technical description of a sophisticated natural language processing system designed to operate on unconstrained texts describing acts of terrorism. This partic- ular system was used in the final evaluation of the Third Message Understanding Conference (MUC-3), where it posted the highest recall rates and highest combined scores for recall and precision of all the systems under evaluation. Details are provided with respect to semantic and syntactic sentence analysis as well as the discourse-level analysis of complete texts. Of particular interest is our ability to robustly analyze texts using only a minimal dictionary (6,000 words), and without generating syntactic parse trees for individual sentences. A case- based reasoning (CBR) approach to discourse analysis is also noteworthy. In addition, this system description indicates how much domain-specific effort was needed to bring a generic sentence analyzer up to speed for a particular information extraction application.
EAGLE can do Efficient LTL Monitoring

We briefly present a rule-based framework, called EAGLE, that has been shown to be capable of defining and implementing finite trace monitoring logics, including future and past time temporal logic, extended regular expressions, real-time logics, interval logics, forms of quantified temporal logics, and so on. In this paper we show how EAGLE can do linear temporal logic (LTL) monitoring in an efficient way. We give an upper bound on the space and time complexity of this monitoring.
Evidens – et sentralt begrep i profesjonell sykepleie?

Artikkelen representerer en refleksjon over at NOKUT i forbindelse med revidering av akkreditering av studietilbudet ”Bachelorgradsstudium i sykepleie” ved Hogskolen i Bodo, hevder at fremtidige sykepleiere ma kunne bidra til evidensbasert sykepleie. Det gjores uten at det defineres naermere hva de legger i dette, og hvilke metoder for a fremskaffe evidens de legger til grunn. Artikkelen lofter fram at dette synes problematisk sa lenge evidensbasert sykepleie synes a vaere avledet av evidensbasert medisin, med de samme metoder og kriterier som ligger til grunn for denne. Evidensbasert medisin representerer en snever bruk av evidensbegrepet knyttet til naturvitenskapelig tenkning, og metoder som i stor grad ikke er hensiktsmessig for a belyse sykepleiefaglige problemstillinger. Eksempler kan vaere pasienters opplevelse av sykdom, om lidelse og livsmot. Det finnes andre metoder a fremskaffe evidens pa enn randomiserte forsok og hypotetisk-deduktiv metode.
HIV/AIDS in Rural Northeast Thailand: Narratives of the Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Individuals and Households

HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest public health and development challenges currently faced by the global community. Amongst reported statistics, such as the estimated 39.5 million people infected with HIV at the end of 2006, the human face of HIV/AIDS is often lost. This paper presents several narratives of the impacts of HIV/AIDS on individuals and households, drawn from a 2003 survey of 71 HIV/AIDS patients in Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand. These narratives illustrate the broad range of impacts of HIV/AIDS, as well as the diverse coping strategies that are employed to deal with those impacts. The narratives also demonstrate how the HIV/AIDS epidemic impacts not just those who are HIV-infected and other members of their household, but also the wider community.
Automated 3D object modeling from aerial video imagery

Research in physically accurate 3D modeling of a scene is gaining momentum because of its far reaching applications in civilian and defense sectors. The modeled 3D scene must conform both geometrically and spectrally to the real world for all the applications. Geometric modeling of a scene can be achieved in many ways of which the two most popular methods are a) using multiple 2D passive images of the scene also called as stereo vision and b) using 3D point clouds like Lidar (Light detection and ranging) data. In this research work, we derive the 3D models of objects in a scene using passive aerial video imagery. At present, this geometric modeling requires a lot of manual intervention due to a variety of factors like sensor noise, low contrast conditions during image capture, etc. Hence long time periods, in the order of weeks and months, are required to model even a small scene. This thesis focuses on automating the process of geometric modeling of objects in a scene from passive aerial video imagery. The aerial video frames are stitched into stereo mosaics. These stereo mosaics not only provide the elevation information of a scene but also act as good 3D visualization tools. The 3D information obtained from the stereo mosaics is used to identify the various 3D objects, especially man-made buildings using probabilistic inference provided by Bayesian Networks. The initial 3D building models are further optimized by projecting them on to the individual video frames. The limitations of the state-of-art technology in attaining these goals are presented along with the techniques to overcome them. The improvement that can be achieved in the accuracy of the 3D models when Lidar data is fused with aerial video during the object identification process is also examined.
Secure Computers and Networks: Analysis, Design, and Implementation

From the Publisher: This updated guide presents expert information on analyzing,designing, and implementing all aspects of computer network security. Based on the authors' earlier work, Computer System and Network Security, this new book addresses important concerns regarding network security. It contains new chapters on World Wide Web security issues, secure electronic commerce, incident response, as well as two new appendices on PGP and UNIX security fundamentals
Frontline Techniques to Prevent Web Application Vulnerability

Today web applications are becoming the prime target for cyber-attacks. Web attacks are growing in numbers, with most of organizations in a broad survey reporting that they had recently suffered Web attacks.Last few years have shown a significant increase in the number of web-based attacks. Structured Query Language (SQL) injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object Reference, Command Injection, Session manipulation and Parameter or URL Tempering are some of the major attacks which are application layer attacks. This paper demonstrates how attackers are discovered, exploit application-level vulnerabilities in a large number of web applications and present the different techniques to prevent web application attacks. Using this research paper researcher can examine how web application firewall is better technique for preventing web application vulnerability. This approach allows us to secure our web application.
The 'Australian Families Against Diabetes' program: epidemiology of type 2 diabetes in an urban indigenous Australian community

'Australian Families Against Diabetes' aims to identify the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes in Australian families by ascertaining pedigrees with multiple affected members. As part of this program, Indigenous Australian communities from the south-east Queensland region were invited to participate in family studies of type 2 diabetes. Participation involved a questionnaire, medical examination and a fasting blood test. The subjects were screened for hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and a blood sample obtained for DNA analysis. A detailed family history was obtained to enable pedigree construction, however all subjects who wished to participate were included in the program, irrespective of family history of diabetes. We studied 337 Indigenous Australian subjects aged 17 years and older (150 male and 187 female), ascertained without regard to personal or family history of atherosclerotic disease in collaboration with a community-based health centre in an urban Indigenous community in south- east Queensland, 1997-1998. Twenty nine per cent of the adult community members had type 2 diabetes. The mean Hb1Ac of the diabetic subjects was 8.6%. Thirty two per cent of the diabetic subjects were current smokers. The diabetic subjects had significantly higher body mass index, blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels than the nondiabetic subjects. This screening program has identified a high prevalence of the metabolic syndrome. Previous reports have identified a high prevalence of the apoE4 allele and of hyperhomocysteinaemia. (extract from author abstract)
Charge transport in silicon nitride/silicon oxide double layers

Charge transport was studied in double layers of 150 nm silicon nitride and 300 nm silicon oxide on silicon substrate by determining the location of the charge centroid (mean charge depth) with a new method based on the evaluation of capacitance-voltage data in conjunction with surface potential measurements. The samples were charged at room temperature on their open nitride surface to potentials of about 100 V with a corona process. Measurements of the location of the charge centroid were performed after annealing periods at temperatures up to 600/spl deg/C. The results show that positive charge is relatively immobile at the nitride surface at temperatures up to 200/spl deg/C; at 400/spl deg/C, it drifts through the nitride within hours to be trapped at the nitride/oxide interface. The charge is released from these traps at about 500/spl deg/C when it drifts to the substrate. Negative charge is also immobile at 200/spl deg/C but drifts at 400/spl deg/C through the entire double layer.
Multimodal Transport Systems

The use and management of multimodal transport systems, including car-pooling and goods transportation, have become extremely complex, due to their large size (sometimes several thousand variables), the nature of their dynamic relationships as well as the many constraints to which they are subjected. The managers of these systems must ensure that the system works as efficiently as possible by managing the various causes of malfunction of the transport system (vehicle breakdowns, road obstructions, accidents, etc.). The detection and resolution of conflicts, which are particularly complex and must be dealt with in real time, are currently processed manually by operators. However, the experience and abilities of these operators are no longer sufficient when faced with the complexity of the problems to be solved. It is thus necessary to provide them with an interactive tool to help with the management of disturbances, enabling them to identify the different disturbances, to characterize and prioritize these disturbances, to process them by taking into account their specifics and to evaluate the impact of the decisions in real time.
Readings in human-computer interaction : toward the year 2000

Chapter 1 A Historical and Intellectual Perspective Chapter 2 Design and Evaluation Chapter 3 Considering Work Contexts in Design Chapter 4 Software Development Contexts Chapter 5 Development Tools Chapter 6 Vision, Graphic Design, and Visual Display Chapter 7 Touch, Gesture, and Marking Chapter 8 Speech, Language , and Audition Chapter 9 Human Information Processing Chapter 10 Designing to Fit Human Capabilities Chapter 11 Groupware and Computer-Supported Work Chapter 12 From Customizable Systems to Intelligent Agents Chapter 13 Hypertext and Multimedia Chapter 14 Cyberspace
Doescyclosporin A adversely affect Pneumocystis carinli infection

Fourteen immunosuppressed patients with Pneumocystis carinii infection presented in two clusters that were separated by 2 years. The diagnosis in all cases was made early by alveolar lavage with cytology. The first group of seven patients was immunosuppressed with cyclophosphamide or azathioprine and prednisolone. All recovered with high dose co-trimoxazole. The second group of seven patients was on prednisolone and cyclosporin A. Despite identical treatment three patients died and a further two who survived lost their grafts from rejection. Our data suggest that cyclosporin A adversely affects the prognosis from Pneumocystis carinii infection and raises the question of prophylactic co-trimoxazole in these patients. The clustering of Pneumocystis carinii infection suggests the possibility of nosocomial transmission although in this study we were unable to implicate person-to-person spread of infection.
Polymorphic Frequencies of the Apolypoprotein E Genein Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Pag. 53-62 Abstract The polymorphism of Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) has shown to be a factor involved in the ethiology of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative pathologies. Different isoforms are encoded by three common alleles, E2, E3 and E4. E4 is the main risk factor for the sporadic or late onset type of Alzheimer disease. Because ethnic and racial origins have shown to be determinants for its genotype and considering the Amerindian, Afrodescendent and European contributions to populations in the Valle del Cauca, the purpose of this research was to establish the allelic distribution and genotype frequencies for ApoE gene in Valle del Cauca populations and compare our results with those from other Colombian populations. For this purpose, 183 unrelated mestizo individuals from Valle of Cauca were analysed by PCR-SSP. We observed the following allele frequencies: E2 = 3.0%, E3 = 84.7% and E4 = 12.3 and the genotype frequencies: E3E3 = 71.0%, E3E4 = 21.9%, E2E3 = 5.5%, E2E4= 0.5%, E4E4 = 1.1% and E2E2 = 0%. The studied population showed signifi cantly different frequencies from those reported for Afrodescendent populations from Colombia, while in the most of Amerindian populations studied these frequencies were similar. Moreover, no signifi cant differences were observed with the population from Bogotá or that from the Central-Eastern region of Colombia. In contrast, signifi cant differences were found whit the Quindio ́s population. In conclusion, the population genetic structure and composition associated with microevolutionary processes seem to be determinant factors in the distribution of ApoE polymorphisms in Colombia. These results open perspectives to analyse wider ranges of allelic distribution to confi rm whether the increase of the E4 allele could be an indicative of population risk for developing diseases such as Alzheimer’s and the rare presence of E2 allele in the population and indicative of a lower risk.
Measuring and predicting the factors associated with persistence to antidepressant therapy in patients with diabetes

Objective: The objective of this study was to measure the rate of persistence to antidepressants and to identify the factors influencing persistence to these medications in patients with diabetes. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study among patients with diabetes enrolled in a commercial health plan between 2009 – 2012. The study population includes patients who were at least 18 years of age and diagnosed with major depression during this period. The patients were eligible for acute phase treatment and continuation phase treatment if they were enrolled at least 90 days and 180 days after the Index antidepressant Prescription Start Date (IPSD) respectively. The patients were eligible for the study if (1) there was no history of diagnosis of major depression for at least 120 days prior to the first episode of major depression (Index Episode Start DateIESD) and (2) there was no history of an antidepressant dispensing for at least 90 days prior to the IPSD. Results: The mean age of the patients in both the phases was approximately 60 years. A majority were prescribed SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) antidepressants in acute (71.5%) and continuation (74.9% ) treatment phases , 81.8% of the patients in acute phase and 72.8% in continuation phase had monotherapy, 210 patients in acute phase and 112 patients in continuation phase had no follow up visits. Only 60.1 % and 43.5% of patients were found to be persistent to acute and continuation treatment phases respectively. Acute Phase Treatment: The odds of non-persistence were higher for patients in age group 18-40 compared to patients aged 40 above (OR 0.46 P=0.0036). Across the class of antidepressants patients utilizing trazadone or mirtazapine (OR=2.35 P=0.02) were more likely to non-persist. Patients who had 1 to 3 (OR=0.19 P<0.0001) or more than 3 (OR= 0.63 P<0.0001)follow up visits were found to have lower odds for non persistence compared to patients with no follow up visits during the treatment. Patients who had a combination treatment with either buproprion or tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) were found to be more likely to non-persist (OR 2.85 P=0.003). Continuation Phase Treatment: The odds of non-persistence were higher for patients in age group 18-40 compared to patients aged 40 above (OR 0.52 P=0.03). Patients who had 1 to 3 (OR 0.1 P<0.0001) or more than 3 (OR 0.13 P<0.0001)follow up visits were found to have lower odds for non-persistence compared to patients with no follow up visits during the treatment period Conclusion: In this population of commercially-insured patients having diabetes, acute phase persistence with antidepressant therapy was found to be associated with age, antidepressant class, type of therapy and intensity of follow up visits where as continuation treatment persistence was associated with age and intensity of follow up visits.
How to plant a subway system

We speculate on a possible CAAD future that deploys and extends paradigms of natural growth and cellular development to an extent that would allow the planting and growth of man-made structures. This approach is based on the translation and expression of digital data structures into artificial physical form and the building of structures by decentral means. In such a scenario, generative and evolutionary architecture could seamlessly blend into building construction. As a discussion of as yet unavailable future technologies and methodologies the proposed remains at a “sketchy” level and must largely limit itself to preliminary and speculative considerations. In order to restrain the scope of this paper to the area of building design and construction, we focus on subway development and discuss possible cellular approaches to this particular field emphasizing aspects of functional aesthetics. We encourage the reader to take this example as a point of departure only, to generalise our explanations and to apply them to other building types. We support our discussion with findings made in software simulations of humandesigned cellular growth processes.