Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bayesian Bent-Cable Tobit Models for Longitudinal and Survival Data: Application to AIDS Studies

In prospective studies, there is often a response variable which may be associated with a time to an event of interest. For example, in HIV (Human Immunodeciency Virus) clinical trials, a longitudinal response variable, viral load or HIV RNA (Ribonucleic Acid), may be related to the time to the first decrease to CD4/CD8 (clusters of differentiation 4 and 8 T-cell co-receptors) ratio. Such an association throws light on important indicators of risk of disease progression [1,2]. In addition, the viral load has a Lower Detection Limit (LOD) and a developmental growth curve with phasic changes over time [3-5]. The viral load growth curves of patients, After Receiving Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, may decrease over time up to a point and then start increasing upwards [6]. These phasic changes may also occur gradually instead of abruptly because of a biological process of developing resistance to ARV drugs over time [7]. To simultaneously model these features of viral load, we extend the bent-cable method [8,9] by incorporating (i) the relationship between viral load proles and time to first decrease of CD4/CD8 ratio; (ii) two-part modeling of left-censored viral load to account for heterogeneity of patients who are either progressing to AIDS (viral load above detection limit and rebound) or non-progressing to AIDS after receiving treatment (having viral load below detection limit and decreasing over time); and (iii) skewness of response variable.
Avaliação do Protótipo de um game educacional de Música

This paper falls within the scope of discussions about the effective contribuition of game-based learning usage in the context of teaching and learning processes of specific content and about the issues that should be taken into consideration in the development of educational games that aim allow significant recreational and educational experiences for learners. This paper presents the educational game Musikinésia, which have been designed to help students of music courses in the identification of a musical keyboard, in addition to teaching other basic musical concepts such as tempo, accidents and reading in different clefs. The main activities of the game development process are presented, emphasing the results obtained by testing the first prototype (alpha version) of this game.
WST 47(11) 017-022

The unexplained occurrence of anoxic phosphorus (P) accumulation has largely hampered modeling of nitrification denitrification biological excess P removal (NDBEPR) systems. The aim of this study was, therefore, to isolate and identify denitrifying – P accumulating heterotrophic bacteria (DPBs) from a NDBEPR system in order to evaluate anoxic P accumulation and the specific mechanisms involved. Results of the study showed various heterotrophic bacteria to be capable of anoxic P accumulation utilising nitrate (NO3) as electron acceptor. While Pseudomonas spp. predominated, Serratia spp. and Vibrio spp. demonstrated the most efficient anoxic P accumulation with 7.10 and 7.29 mgPO4-P/L removal, respectively, at an initial NO3 concentration of 13.54 mgNO3-N/L and P concentration of 16.34 mgPO4-P/L. Weaker DPBs were also identified which were only capable of accumulating small amounts of P at low initial P and NO3 concentrations due to weak denitrification capacity. Anoxic P release was also observed due to the presence of acetate.
A Cooperative Model for Resource Sharing on Grid

The access to Grid resources depends on policies defined by the administrators of the physical organizations and of the Grid middleware. This approach does not require support for access control in the middleware, but since changes in the access control policy of the Virtual Organization imply the involvement of one or more administrators, it lacks the flexibility needed in several application scenarios. In this paper we propose a group-based access control model for Grid environments that increases the flexibility of the access control model offered by state-of-the-art Grid platforms without requiring changes in the middleware. The approach is based on collaboration among Grid users and allows them to exchange access permissions to Virtual Resources without the intervention of administrators. We show that our solution can be defined on top of the access control mechanisms offered by state-of-the-art Grid middleware and illustrate how the proposed model can be implemented as a service in a service-oriented Grid environment.
Glottal filled pauses in German

For German, filled pauses are traditionally described with a vocalic form äh and a vocalic-nasal form ähm. A corpus-based approach and a closer phonetic inspection is used here to argue for an additional form, namely glottal filled pauses. In the data analysed for this study, the glottal form is produced by all seven speakers and amounts to 21% of all filled pauses. Contexts and durations of occurrences are discussed and compared to earlier studies on traditional filled pauses. It is suggested that the glottal variant should be considered in future studies on filled pauses and disfluencies. Acoustic forms of filled pauses Filled pauses (FPs) are defined in many ways. In this paper, I will use as a working hypothesis the notion of non-lexical entities, without considering extra-linguistic events (laughing, coughing, etc.). FPs are used as hesitation devices, but also serve other functions (Lickley 2015: 463). They are often exemplified with graphemic or phonetic realizations of the most frequent forms in a respective language. Lounsbury (1954) transliterates FPs in English as hem and haw, while Maclay and Osgood (1959) give more phonetic detail by listing the transcripts [ɛ æ r ə m]. It is largely agreed on that FPs often exhibit “both a prolonged vowel sound and a vowel (usually) followed by a nasal” (Lickley 2015: 458). Other forms that may be subsumed under FPs are clicks (Trouvain, Fauth & Möbius, 2015) and breath pauses (Trouvain et al. 2016). For German, the most cited forms are probably äh and ähm, with possible phonetic transcriptions varying between [ɛː] or [əː] and [ɛːm] or [əːm], although other forms are mentioned as well (cf. Schönle & Conrad 1985 for ah and mh). In this paper, I will explore whether an additional form – a glottal filled pause – can be assumed for German spontaneous speech. This research question is part of a PhD project, in which I am currently investigating the link between form and function of FPs. In the process of annotation (cf. Section 2), I noticed sequences of glottal pulses and creak phonation without coarticulated vowels that seem to be used in a similar way to other FPs. Example 1 gives a broad transcription of a speaker’s utterance in a dialogue of the GECO corpus (cf. Data and annotation). Durations are given within angle brackets. The speaker produces a glottalized sequence of approximately 16 glottal pulses before uttering another yes (cf. Figure 1a for a depiction of the signal). For a first description, a wildcard notation of a creaky sonorant is used. (1) <[jaː] 580 ms> <[S̰ː ]a 492 ms> < [jaː] 630 ms> <[ç ˈvaɪs nɪ ˈalzoː] 706 ms> a. S ≙ sonorant Transliterations: ‚ja, ja ich weiß nicht also‘ ‘yes, yes I don’t know, well’ This glottalized sequence seems to be different from the rule-governed [ʔ]-epenthesis as predicted in German phonology: (2) ∅ → [ʔ] / V __ 'V #__ V (Hall 2011: 66)
CLINICO HEMATOLOGIC FEATURES OF IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS.

Immune thrombocytopaenic purpura (ITP) is a clinical syndrome in which a decreased number of circulating platelets (thrombocytopaenia) manifests as a bleeding tendency, easy bruising (purpura), or extravasation of blood from capillaries into skin and mucous membranes (petechiae). Present study was done to observe the clinico-haematological features of ITP in Adults and to analyse the association of autoimmune disorders with ITP in Pakistani patients. It was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted at Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, from 1st January 2006 to 30 th June 2007. The study included 44 adult patients of both genders diagnosed as having ITP according to WHO guidelines. Bone marrow biopsy was carried out in all patients and other causes of thrombocytopaenia were carefully excluded. Antinuclear antibodies, rheumatoid factor, HBs Ag, anti HCV, HIV were also done. The data was analysed by SPSS version 10. Results showed peak incidence in third decade with female to male ratio of 3.1:. Bleeding and bruising were common symptoms of ITP. Seven (15.9%) of 44 patients had serological evidence of systemic autoimmune disorders, i.e., SLE or RA. Platelet count was significantly lower in SLE patients than in entire cohort. It was concluded that adult ITP is predominantly seen in young females, presents with bleeding from more than 2 sites and may be associated with autoimmune disorders at the time of diagnosis.
OUTBOUND OPEN INNOVATION DESIGN AND PRODUCT PERFORMANCE OF UK SMEs: A CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE By Idika

The study empirically investigated outbound open innovation adoption and product performance of SMEs in the UK. The respondents were 72 senior staff of selected SMEs in the manufacturing sector. The cross sectional survey research design was employed and the primary survey instrument was questionnaire. We employed multiple regression analysis technique. We found that outbound open innovation is positively related to incremental product performance but negatively related to radical product performance. Also we found that incremental and radical innovation moderate the effect of outbound open innovation on product performance. We conclude that outbound open innovation strategy affects product performance depending on the type of innovation. We suggest that outbound open innovation design should be aligned with the type of innovation produced.
Patch Antenna with the Same Substrate for GPS L1 and L2 Bands

There are two bands, L1 (1575 MHz) and L2 (1227 MHz), for different applications at GPS (global positional satellite). Usually, L1 (1575 MHz), L2 (1227 MHz) bands are for military and commercial applications respectively. In order to satisfy the requirements of specification, both dual bands RHCP (right hand circular polarization) patch antenna with the same substrate has been developed for GPS in this paper. The results from both simulation and measurement are in agreement. The measured impedance bandwidths for 10 dB return loss are 15 MHz at L2 band and 27 MHz at L1 band. The measured AR for both bands is smaller than 3 dB for angular coverage from zenith to 70 degrees. The measured gains are 4.68 dBic and 4.89 dBic at L2 and L1 respectively.
Debt Restructuring of Japanese Firms: Efficiency of Factor Allocations and the Debt-Labor Complementarity

Using the data from the Financial Statements Statistics of Corporations by Industry (FSSCI) compiled by the Ministry of Finance, we rst overview the changing capital structure of Japanese rms, emphasizing the long-term declining trend of debt nancing and the acceleration of that trend in recent years. In the second half of the paper, we examine whether the rapid decrease of corporate debt subsequent to the domestic banking crisis in the late 1990s really improved the e¢ ciency of factor allocation at the microeconomic level. While the cross-sectoral movement of capital/credit seems to have increased in the 2000s, the regression result implies that negative pro t measured by return on assets (ROA) is associated with the increase of corporate debt during the period of mild recovery in the mid-2000s. These results imply that even after the banking panic and the subsequent policy measures cleaned up major nonperforming loans, some nonnegligible number of zombie rmsmust have remained, and banks began to feed them again when the Japanese economy started to grow again. JEL classi cation: E22; G32; G34 Keywords: debt/equity ratio; corporate restructuring; debt restructuring; complementarity. We are particularly grateful to Tsutomu Miyagawa, Makoto Nakano, Koyo Miyoshi, Yoshiaki Ogura, Hiroyuki Taguchi, and Iichiro Uesugi for their comments. We also thank the seminar participants at the Japanese Economic Association meeting in Fall 2010 for their comments and the seminars at Ministry of Finance, Hitotsubashi University, and Tohoku University for helpful discussions and suggestions. Iwaisako gratefully acknowledges nancial assistance from the JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scienti c Research (B: 18330067) and for Creative Scienti c Research (Understanding Ination Dynamics of the Japanese Economy ). The views expressed in this paper are the authorsown and not necessarily those of the Ministry of Finance, Financial Service Agency or Japanese Government. yCorresponding author: Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, 3-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8940, JAPAN ; and Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Naka 2-1, Kunitachi-city, Tokyo 186-8603, JAPAN, . zFinancial Services Agency xMinistry of Finance
Integração de Autoria de Objetos de Aprendizagem e Acompanhamento Pedagógico no ensino de Dedução Natural na Lógica Proposicional

The use of tools that assist teachers in planning, implementation and monitoring of the teaching-learning process, is an important need in the educational context. In some cases access to these technologies, coupled with the difficulties, lack of knowledge and understanding by teachers, affect how educational content could be developed and used. This is the main motivation for the creation of SAPIEnS as an authoring tool and educational monitoring, which has an architecture of multi-agent system built on Heraclitus system. That enables teachers to create learning objects customizable to a domain of learning in natural deduction in propositional logic. It also helps teachers to verify and monitor how the learning objects are contributing to the improvement and progress of students.
EmuPlayer: Music Recommendation System Based on User Emotion Using Vital-sensor

of Bachelor’s Thesis EmuPlayer: A Music Recommendation System Based on User Emotion EmuPlayer is a Music Recommendation System Based on User’s Emotion which tracks the user’s emotion and suggests songs by providing a playlist sorted relevantly in regard to the user’s current emotion. For a particular emotion of the user, the system evaluate songs according to the qualification assessed by two factors which are: songs’ relevancy to the user’s preference, and songs’ mental influence on the user’s feeling. In this proposing system, user’s emotion is not input manually by the user, but detected automatically by the machine. In order to do that, user’s biosignal data is captured from sensors, and then used as inputs for emotion detecting process. The motivation behind this system is the lack of a context-aware Music Recommendation System where automatically detected user’s mood plays the most important role as a contextual key. The need of such system is made obvious by the fact that digital music libraries are constantly expanding, which thus makes it remarkably difficult for listeners to recall a particular song matching their present mood. By training the system to recognize user’s emotional state only by Skin Temperature and Heart Rate, it is made possible for listeners to generate a playlist which suits with their current emotion, and of which songs are rated also by the potentially mental influence on user’s emotion, with very few sensors worn on them.
FULL ACCOUNT FOR: Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus

Huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening disease is a destructive disease of citrus caused by gram-negative phloem-restricted bacteria belonging to the genus Candidatus Liberibacter. The genus comprises three known species: Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, occurring in Asian countries and, to a lesser extent, in Brazil and the USA (Florida), Candidatus Liberibacter africanus, recorded from African countries, and Candidatus Liberibacter americanus present in Brazil and Florida. It is thought that each Liberibacter species evolved in the continent after which it is named. HLB is transmitted between trees by the psyllids Trioza erytreae in Africa and Diaphorina citri in Asia and America. HLB affects all commercial citrus varieties, causing mottling of leaves, stunting of growth and formation of small, deformed fruit which fail to colour properly. HLB can destroy citrus groves within 5 to 8 years. Apart from prevention there are no control measures currently available, causing HLB to often be described as the most destructive and serious disease of citrus.
BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION

Molecular characterisation of genetic resources has been adding objectivity and rationality in decision making for conservation. Plant, animal, fish and microbial genetic resources are being characterised by various molecular markers, predominantly by microsatellite, AFLP and SNP covering both nuclear genome as well as mitochondrial genome. These molecular markers have inbuilt ―molecular clock‖ entrained with evolutionary time scale having ―pictures‖ or ―signatures‖ of speciation and differentiation of dynamic germplasm in evolutionary pace and scale. Bioinformatics has not only revolutionised the germplasm characterisation, but had been proven as indispensable tool for molecular identification of species. Bioinformatics has become most powerful tool of taxonomy right from microbial meta-genome analysis of hitherto uncultured microbes, plant, animal and fish species identification. Advances in genome analysis technology are providing an unprecedented amount of information about animals, bacterial and viral organisms, and hold great potential for pathogen detection and identification. Here, a rational approach to the development and application of nucleic acid signatures is described based on SNP and STR nucleotides. Other bioinformatics tools for classification and prediction of such molecular data has also been discussed.
INFLUENCES ON EMOTIONAL-SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF INFANTS IN DAYCARE CENTERS

The article addresses the emotional-social development of infants, the individual characteristics that influence their emotional social development, the educational caregiver’s role in the social emotional context, the beliefs and positions of the educational caregiver regarding the emotional-social development, and the importance of the system of relations that develops between the educational caregiver and the infant. While many research studies have focused on children in the preschool and the kindergarten in the educational framework, there are few research works regarding infants in the daycare centers. However, many research studies address the emotional-social realm and its influence regarding both infants and older children. In addition, the influence of the educational caregiver in the frameworks for early childhood has been examined.
Otimização do Moodle para dar suporte a Comunidades de Prática Acessíveis a Surdos e Ouvintes

Internet has contributed to the inclusion of deaf people in social, cultural, economica and learning environments. However, regarding to accessible digital environments, initiatives are scarce. In this context, we sought to enhance a learning management system (LMS), Moodle, integrating applications founded in the open source philosophy and applying the Communities of Practice (CoPs) theory. Due to inclusive nature of the proposal, some communication tools were tested, selected and modified. In addition, to Moodle contemplate the aception of a CoP as the theory, the source code of the environment was changed. As result, functionalities of informal communities creation were created to give flexibility to LMS which, in its original format, allows just the creation of communities for disciplines. To Moodle support the CoPs, it needs customizations and integration with other tools. However, not always there are available open source Technologies.
Quality Improvement on Resort Security Area, Vision of Machinery Technology and VLAN as Consumer Value to Increase Guest Revisit Intention

The Resort is a tourist area consisting of tourist attractions, such as hotels, entertainment venues, sales outlets, and other recreational facilities. The facilities of a resort will always be enhanced by service and convenience. This service can be direct to customers by adding facilities and infrastructure to support the resort, such as technology-based support systems to support the transaction process and guarantee guest convenience. In Indonesia, every resort hotel must provide a sense of security and comfort for every guest and employee. For this reason, a strong security and safety system is needed. The regulation requires hotel management to establish a Security Management System (SMP). In it, there are various guidelines, ranging from planning to the process of handling security and safety so that risks for hotel users can be minimized. The problem faced today is how to develop an information system that can be integrated with facilities and infrastructure with the help of computers with the latest security technology and international standards so that local and foreign tourists have a safe and comfortable feeling. This system also functions as a transaction system that integrated with computer networks with additional data security techniques or VLANs. This research aims to solve the problem using a quantitative descriptive method, scientific approach and algorithm method for testing data. The result showed that system VLANs can be added as consumer value-added services to minimized safety issues and gain intention to revisit resort, this results can be seen in the of the prototype system named Igoes Resort. Keywords—Consumer value added services, Resort, VLAN, Machine vision, Intention to visit.
Literature Review and Implications for Research on Immersive Audiovisual Experiences

The use of the term ‘immersion’ to describe a multitude of varying experiences in the absence of a deﬁnitional consensus has obfuscated and diluted the term. This paper presents a non-exhaustive review of previous work on immersion on the basis of which a deﬁnition of immersion is proposed: a state of deep mental involvement in which the subject may experience disassociation from the awareness of the physical world due to a shift in their attentional state. This deﬁnition is used to contrast and differentiate interchangeably used terms such as presence and envelopment from immersion. Additionally, an overview of prevailing measurement techniques, implications for research on immersive audiovisual experiences, and avenues for future work are discussed brieﬂy
Synchronous Ileal Stromal Tumor (GIST) and Colonic Adenocarcinoma

Synchronous existence of gastrointestinal stromal tumor and colonic adenocarcinoma was rarely reported. We describe an 84-year-old female presenting with abdominal pain and obstipation followed by vomiting for 3 days. There was intermittent abdominal pain of 8 months' duration. Plain abdominal film revealed marked dilatation of the intestine proximal to the descending colon. An annular tumor was radiologically and endoscopically demonstrated in the splenic flexure of the colon. Computed tomographic scans of the abdomen had an incidental finding of a 5-cm tumor mass in the ileum. After surgical resection of both tumor lesions, the colon tumor lesion was pathologically proven to be a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma (Duck's stage C2) and another tumor from the ileum showed positive reactivity to CD 117 immunohistochemical staining consisting with gastrointestinal stromal tumor. The patient was discharged on the 18th hospital day and subsequently underwent chemotherapy (Ufur containing 100 mg Tegafur and 224 mg Uracil).