Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Technology and Tools for Language Documentation

Language documentation and preservation When speaking about technology and tools for language documentation, there are two important aspects to keep in mind. First, technology and tools are continuously changing. Something that is state of the art today can be outdated tomorrow. Second, people involved in language documentation do not all have the same needs and preferences, and therefore may have diferent criteria for making choices. Documentation creators, for example, are typically concerned with familiarity and ease of use, whereas for archivists, technical quality and long term preservation are more important. The language documentation process consists of several steps (some of these take place in sequence, others in parallel):
Consensus Problem for Multi-agent System and Its Applicatation to Formation Control

This paper deals with consensus problem for multi-agent systems and its application to vehicle formation control. Consensus means to reach an agreement regarding a certain quantity of interest that depends on the states of all agents, We consider that stability condition of consensus for MIMO linear systems. The stability condition is derived via Lyapunov stability theorem. Then, an observer-based output consensus strategy is proposed to reduce communication exchange and an output consensus strategy with an integrator is also derived. Finally, one of these consensus strategies is applied to vehicle formation problem. Experimental results of vehicle formation are shown and the effectiveness of the proposed approaches is evaluated.
Acceptability of Asking about Indigenous Identity in Health Care Settings

Background: This case study assessed the acceptability and experience of being asked a single question about Indigenous self-identity when patients registered at a core neighborhood hospital in a western Canadian province. Registration clerks were trained and requested to ask all patients about their identity during the admission process and record the information in the registration system. The information was used to link patients to cultural support and navigation services. Methods: Two hundred and fifty-nine participants were interviewed to examine perceptions and experiences with being asked about their identity. Descriptive statistics including frequencies and percentages were used to summarize participant demographic characteristics and responses. Chi-squared or Fisher’s Exact tests were used to explore the relationship between demographic characteristics (age, gender, Indigenous identity) and domains of inquiry. A thematic analysis of participants’ responses was also done. Findings: Sixty (23.1%) participants self-identified as Indigenous and just over half (n=134) of all participants were female. Participants supported universally offering the opportunity to disclose their Indigenous identity. However, perceived importance of asking was associated with Indigenous identity (χ2 =16.52, p<0.001) and age (χ2=11.08, p=0.023). Elderly participants and those who did not identify as Indigenous assigned lower importance to asking about Indigenous identity. Among Indigenous participants who had prior negative experiences with the health care system, there were concerns about misuse of information and adverse effects on care. Preferences for how identity information should be collected were influenced by expectations about roles of health care providers and practical considerations. Conclusion: While acceptable, perceived value of collecting self-reported Indigenous identity at registration varies across patient groups. Priority should be given to targeted communication about the rationale for collection of identity information and how it will be used to improve the delivery of care.
"HYPOMAGNESEMIA IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENT POPULATION FROM THE LOWER SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND WHO WERE CONSUMING ILLICIT LIQUOR AND ATTENDING THE DE-ADDICTION CENTER".

Magnesium is intimately involved in over 300 enzymatic reactions, particularly in processes involving the formation and utilization of ATP. It is also a known fact that alcoholism is associated with hypomagnesaemia. The present study determines the significance of routine serum magnesium determination in alcoholic patients consuming illicit liquor from lower socio"economic background attending deaddiction centre. Serum magnesium, sodium and potassium concentrations in 200 chronic alcoholic patients consuming illicit liquor from lower socio"economic background admitted to the deaddicti on centre were estimated and compared to 158 healthy nonalcoholic controls. Serum magnesium levels were significantly decreased whereas serum transaminases and gammaglutamyl transpeptidases were increased in alcoholic patients compared to healthy nonalcoholic controls.Hypomagnesemia could be due to the increased oxidative stress and might be a risk factor in the progression of fatty liver to steatohepatitis.The results of the present investigation support the practice of routine magnesium administration to chronic alcoholics.
Pattern Languages for CMC Design

Three decades ago the concept of pattern languages were introduced in the field of architecture and have since become widely used in object-oriented programming and HCI. However their use in computing is divergent from Alexander’s original goals on two main points. Firstly, they were largely intended to describe the spaces formed by or for human activities and events. Secondly, they were intended as a way for professionals and lay people to communicate whilst designing buildings. Both these principles, a full appreciation of a wider human angle and the participative design approach, align themselves with the sociotechnical tradition and the design of social software. A pattern language created within a sociotechnical framework is therefore an ideal technique to help us design the next generation computer-mediated communication applications in partnership with end users.
La performance opérationnelle à long terme des entreprises françaises émettrices d’obligations convertibles

(VF)Dans le present article nous analysons la performance operationnelle a long terme des emetteurs d’obligations convertibles (OC) en France. Nos resultats mettent en evidence une sous-performance operationnelle significative a long terme apres l’emission et ce, independamment des etalons, indicateurs de mesure de per-formance ou modeles que nous avons utilises. Cette conclusion, concordante avec les resultats obtenus sur le marche americain, est une des explications potentielles de la sous-performance boursiere recemment mise en relief chez les emetteurs d’OC francais. Par ailleurs, l’analyse en coupe transversale de nos resultats montre que cette sous-performance doit etre relativisee par certaines caracteristiques propres a l’emetteur et a l’emission. (VA)The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-run operating performance of French convertible bond (CB) issuers. Our results reveal that firms issuing convertible bonds underperform substantially non-issuing firms after the issue. Our findings are robust with respect to the various benchmarks and operating performance measures used. This post-offering downturn in earnings confirms findings of previous studies undertaken in the US market and is consistent with the poor long-term post-issue stock price performance recently reported on the French CB market. However, a cross sectional analysis of our results suggests that this underperformance is tempered by specific issuer and issue features.
ART adherence clubs: A long-term retention strategy for clinically stable patients receiving antiretroviral therapy

The ART-adherence club model described here provides patient-friendly access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for clinically stable patients. It reduces the burden that stable patients place on healthcare facilities, increasing clinical human resources for new patients, and those clinically unstable and at risk of failing treatment. In the model, 30 patients are allocated to an ART club. The group meets either at a facility or community venue for less than an hour every 2 months. Group meetings are facilitated by a lay club facilitator who provides a quick clinical assessment, referral where necessary, and dispenses pre-packed ART. From January 2011 to December 2012, after adoption for phased rollout by the Western Cape Government, more than 600 ART clubs were established in Cape Town, providing ART care to over 16 000 patients. This extensive, rapid rollout demonstrates active buy-in from patients and facility staff. South Africa should consider a similar model for national rollout.
Measuring and classifying musical engagement using EEG and motion capture

Currently little is known about the brain dynamics and expressive movements that support musical engagement. Here we applied the MoBI (Mobile Brain/Body Imaging) paradigm [1], using EEG and motion capture to study musical engagement through expressive gesture. We trained expert and non-expert participants to communicate the feeling of music as they hear it by varying expressive details of simple rhythmic U-shaped hand/arm ‘conducting' gestures. During half of the trials, the participants completed a challenging non-rhythmic arithmetic task, creating a ‘Less Engaged’ condition in contrast to the single-task ‘Engaged’ expressive movement condition. EXPERIMENT METHOD
The Improvement of Parameterized Face Model of Candide Based on MPEG-4 and FACS

The research of face has wide range of applications. Face expression simulation is a new application among them. In this paper, we have improved and perfected parameterized face model of Candide through comparing Candide with MPEG-4 and FACS. After the model has improved, the experiment results indicate that the head is more complete, the face and the head contour are smoother, and the expression is more rich, natural and true. We have achieved good facial expression simulation results. 
Crecimiento selectivo de InAs sobre substratos grabados de GaAs(001) mediante litografía de oxidación local por AFM

En este trabajo de tesis se presenta el desarrollo de un proceso tecnologico para la obtencion de puntos cuanticos (QDs) de InAs con alta eficiencia de emision optica y control del lugar de formacion sobre substratos de GaAs(001). Para ello se ha fabricado mediante epitaxia por haces moleculares MBE (del ingles, Molecular Beam Epitaxy) QDs de InAs sobre substratos de GaAs(001) previamente grabados mediante la tecnica de oxidacion local con un microscopio de fuerzas atomicas AFM (del ingles, Atomic Force Microscopy). A modo de introduccion, en este capitulo se presentara brevemente una descripcion cualitativa de las nanoestructuras semiconductoras, y en concreto, de los puntos cuanticos, asi como su interes practico. A continuacion se presentara la motivacion de este trabajo de tesis, seguido de la presentacion de los distintos temas abordados a lo largo de esta memoria.
The Medical Emergency Team: a new strategy to identify and intervene in high-risk patients

Objective: To describe the utilisation of an emergency team that employs standardised calling criteria to facilitate the early identification and resuscitation of patients who are at risk of cardiorespiratory arrest. Design: A prospective study of all Medical Emergency Team calls over a six-month period in 1994. Setting: A 460-bed university teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. Subjects: Inpatients and outpatients who required Medical Emergency Team intervention. Interventions: None. Endpoints: Unplanned admission to critical care units, mortality. Measurements and main results: There was a total of 294 calls, of which 53% occurred on the wards and 31% in the Emergency Department. Cardiac arrests accounted for 24% of responses. Abnormal physiological variables were a factor in 60% of calls. Decreased level of consciousness occurred in 46% of cases. Fifty-three calls necessitated admission of patients to critical care units, of which 32 (60%) survived to hospital discharge. The mortality rate at hospita.
The obstacle detection system

The obstacle detection device, comprising: a plurality of distance sensors, each having a transceiver function; a transmission and reception control unit for controlling the distance sensors to cause that the distance sensors transmit a transmission wave for a fixed time period in order to detect reflected wave from an obstacle; a time measuring unit for measuring a first time from a time at which the transmission starts, to a time at which a reflected wave is detected, passes, and a second time, sending is stopped by a time up to a time at which the reflected wave disappears, passes; and an obstacle determination unit for determining that an obstruction exists if a time difference between the first time and the second time is equal to or less than a predetermined allowed time.
Red Language Reference Manual

Abstract : RED is a programmed language designed, in accordance with the DOD steelman requirements, for DoD embedded computer applications. The language combines features common to most existing high level languages with new capabilities for abstract data types, exception handling, multitasking, generic definitions and access to machine-dependent facilities. This manual covers lexical structures, program structures, types, expression, statements, procedures, functions and parameters, capsules, exception handling, multitasking, overloading and generics, machine dependent facilities, advanced definitions, and low level facilities. The RED language has been designed to reduce the total life cycle cost of designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining programs. For small and medium size programs, most modern high level languages are similar. However, for large programs, such as those commonly developed for embedded applications, the facilities provided by a language become crucial. What distinguishes the RED language is that it makes it easy to express solutions to the problems encountered when developing large programs.
Texton-based texture synthesis

A texton-based texture synthesis algorithm is presented in this paper. Based on the Markov Random Field (MRF) model, the algorithm takes a block randomly from a given sample texture to form a seed area in the center of the synthesized output texture, then synthesizes the output image pixel by pixel spirally along the edge of the seed area. When sampling a pixel from the sample texture in the synthesis procedure, the algorithm adopts so-called candidate search, global search and central search to preserve the integralities of textons in the synthesized output texture. It was practically improved that the algorithm does better than the existing methods in quality for synthesizing most kinds of textures, especially for synthesizing the complex textures.
Routines organisationnelles : vers une perspective communicationnelle

Comment l’organizing routinier est-il accompli? Selon des approches recentes, les routines devraient etre comprises comme dynamiques plutot que statiques. Bien que cette tendance s’avere utile, elle est basee sur une lecture erronee des notions d’ostentif et de performatif telle que developpees par Latour (1986). Je remets en cause cette interpretation, inspiree de la theorie de la structuration, et je propose une conceptualisation alternative basee sur la perspective de la communication organisationnelle mise de l’avant par l’Ecole de Montreal. Les routines comprises comme constituees a travers la communication representent un cadrage alternatif davantage en resonnance avec la vision de Latour quant a la distinction macro-micro. Un « systeme d’enquete communicationnelle » integrant la coorientation, le deontisme, la teleaction et les mobiles immuables est propose pour encadrer la recherche sur les processus iteratifs du fonctionnement organisationnel.
Acka 500 Watt Power amplifier for a 144 MHz channel based on a VHF Push-pull Power MOS transistor

In a wireless communication, a signal power amplifi er is needed to carry signals over a long distance. Many signal amplifiers are made of tube as the amplifyin g component and as such they suffer low efficiency. This study presents results of the research on designing and implementing solid state 144MHz signal amplifier employing MOSFET BLF278 as the active component of the amplifier. The amplifier has an automatic activation switch, an input terminal, a 50 ohm impe dance output terminal and a bypass system for two way communication. This amplifier has been tested on fr equencies between 144.00 MHz to 146.90 MHz in 100 KHz steps without adjusting the tuning. It is found that the signal amplifier delivers RF powers up to 500 watt at the working voltage of 48 volt with the eff iciency of 77%. The amplifier has a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR) of 1:1 when amplifying and 1.1:1.0 when in bypass mode. The signal amplifier has been tested successfully for radio communication between Sukoharjo in Central Jawa and Surabaya in East Jawa.
MPPs, Amdahl's law, and comparing computers

The author examines Amdahl's law in the context of parallel processing and provides some arguments as to what the applicability of this law really is. Amdahl's law establishes an upper bound on the available parallelism given the fraction of sequential code present in an application. In this paper, Amdahl's law is revisited to derive a formulation which allows one to carry out some quantitative analysis. The claim that MPPs (massively parallel processors) are special-purpose systems is also addressed. <<ETX>>
Effect of anti-retroviral therapy on work productivity of HIV patients in Abia State, Nigeria

Objectives: Recent advances in Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) reduce morbidity and mortality in HIV/AIDS patients with marked improvement in their work productivity. The objective of this research was to investigate the extent to which ART improves work productivity of HIV/AIDS patients in Abia State, Nigeria. Methodology and results: A total of 235 HIV/AIDS patients (aged 20 - 54) out of which 124 (52.8%) were on ART were recruited into this study and used as morbidity indicators. The work productivity of patients on ART was compared to that of patients not on therapy using independent sample T-test. The mean number of restricted activity days, bed disability days, and work days lost due to illness for patients who were not on ART were more than for those on treatment by 3.88, 2.31, and 3.10, respectively. There were significant differences on these parameters between the two groups of patients at 95% confidence interval: t (194.34) = -824; t (151.762) = -7.40; t (151.084) = -9.35. Conclusion and application of findings: It was therefore concluded that ART considerably (p>0.05) improves the work productivity of HIV/AIDS patients. Further research is however required to quantify the economic gains of this improvement.
A pure P2P approach to information integration

Distributed computing often needs to cope with information integration challenges. Up to now, several models have been proposed for information integration in heterogeneous, distributed and (loosely) dynamic environments. Nevertheless, in network environments where the actors and their information sources are characterized by high dynamism and non permanent connections, the traditional approaches are not adequate. In such a context, we believe that the recent Peer-to-Peer (P2P) distributed computing approach is an ideal solution. Despite several P2P applications/protocols have been realized, they are not able to exchange complex information and to cope with heterogeneity and information integration problems. This paper proposes an agent based cooperative information system in order to overcome these limitations into a decentralized P2P environment.
Efficiency and effectiveness of implicit and explicit approaches for the analysis of shape-memory alloy bodies

The increasing number of applications incorporating shape-memory alloy (SMA) components motivates the development of three-dimensional constitutive models to enhance their analysis and design. These models only reach their full utility if they are then implemented into numerical (e.g. often finite-element-based) frameworks. The present article addresses a topic rarely considered in the myriad of SMA computational analysis works in the literature: the analysis of the time and accuracy of implementation options. In particular, this work proposes to compare the performance of the implicit and explicit integration methods for two common three-dimensional phenomenological constitutive models: (i) the model by Lagoudas et al.; and (ii) the model by Auricchio et al. available in all installations of Abaqus. In doing so, the present work develops and implements an explicit algorithm for the model by Lagoudas et al. for the first time. The investigated models are compared in a chosen benchmark boundary value problem analysis considering both thermally induced actuation and isothermal stress-induced transformation of an SMA beam. The performance of the methods in terms of analysis time and parallelization efficiency are also investigated.
Digital Image Processing via Combination of Low-Level and High-Level Approaches.

With the growth of computer power, Digital Image Processing plays a more and more important role in the modern world, including the field of industry, medical, communications, spaceflight technology etc. There is no clear definition how to divide the digital image processing, but normally, digital image processing includes three main steps: low-level, mid-level and highlevel processing. Low-level processing involves primitive operations, such as: image preprocessing to reduce the noise, contrast enhancement, and image sharpening. Mid-level processing on images involves tasks such as segmentation (partitioning an image into regions or objects), description of those objects to reduce them to a form suitable for computer processing, and classification (recognition) of individual objects. Finally, higher-level processing involves "making sense" of an ensemble of recognised objects, as in image analysis. Based on the theory just described in the last paragraph, this thesis is organised in three parts: Colour Edge and Face Detection; Hand motion detection; Hand Gesture Detection and Medical Image Processing.
Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees

Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality marks a first stage in William Loader's research on attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity of the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era. Loader first discusses the early Enoch literature relevant to the theme, focusing on the impact of an ancient myth on the writings and examining how sexual deeds are not here concerned with sexual wrongdoing. He then examines the weight of such wrongdoing in the priestly instruction of the fragmentary Aramaic Levi Document as a whole. He finally considers Jubilees as a cumulative work, building on both the Enoch tradition and the instruction of Levi, and reveals a range of devices warning against sexual depravity. Loader's aim throughout is to interpret the works from within, examining literary form, context, sequence, and tradition and redaction, reflecting engagement with current research in this area.