Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
VISUALIZATION OF GEOMETRICAL AND NON-GEOMETRICAL DATA

A prototype for the visualization of both geometrical and non-geometrical data is described. Special emphasis is given to flat structured or tabular data. Main features of this prototype are: a data independent architecture; filtering of information using degree of interest functions and establishing limits for the variation of one or more data attributes; interactive specification of attribute restrictions combining and and or operators; choice of representations using current scale factor and the result of the degree of interest function. The concept of information classes is introduced to associate a set of attributes with a spatial reference and a graphical representation. Derived information classes are used to combine attribute restrictions with and and or operators.
Valve-sparing aortic root repair without downsizing of the annulus

Methods: Between 2000 and 2009, 236 patients with aortic root disease underwent patient-tailored restoration of the aortic root according to its anatomopathologic condition with repair of 1, 2, or all 3 sinuses in 73, 94, and 69 patients, respectively. Concomitant cusp repair was performed in 106 patients. Insufficiency grades of 0/1þ, 2þ, 3þ, and 4þwere presented in 59, 74, 74, and 29 patients, respectively. All data were collected prospectively and intention-to-treat analysis was performed.
of Antimicrobials Ph ton Antibacterial actions of acacetin against oral pathogens

Acacetin (5,7-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyflavone), a flavonoid compound, has anti-peroxidative and antiinflammatory effects. Flavonoids have been reported to possess many useful properties, including anti-inflammatory activity, oestrogenic activity, enzyme inhibition, antimicrobial activity, antiallergic activity, antioxidant activity, vascular activity and cytotoxic antitumour activity. In this study, the combination effect of acacetin was evaluated against oral bacteria, either alone or with antibiotics, via broth dilution method and checkerboard and time kill assay. In this results, MIC/MBC values for acacetin against all the tested bacteria ranged between 50-200/100-800 microg/ml, for ampicillin 0.0156-8/0.0625-16 microg/ml and for gentamicin 1-256/4-512 microg/ml respectively. Furthermore, the MIC and MBC were reduced to one half-eighth as a result of the combination of acacetin or/and apigenin with antibiotics. 1-2 hours of treatment with 1/2 MIC of acacetin with 1/2 MIC of antibiotics resulted from an increase of the rate of killing in units of CFU/ml to a greater degree than was observed with alone. These results suggest that the acacetin is important in the antibacterial actions of oral pathogen agents.
O ct 2 01 7 Asymmetry Observables for Measuring Spin Correlations in Top-Quark Pair Production

Spin correlations between top-quark and anti-top-quark in pair production are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model. A complete set of observables, that can be used to measure all independent parameters of the production spin density matrix, is necessary to search for anomalous interactions in the production dynamics. In this letter, we provide a set of asymmetry observables for measuring all the density matrix elements. These observables are defined regardless of the production mechanism, and can be specified in any desired reference frame, particularly the laboratory frame in which the first evidence of spin correlation was observed experimentally. Our method can be used to find an optimal Lorentz frame in which the sensitivity to the density matrices is high for given production process and experimental environment, or to test possible correlations among the matrix elements.
Body and music . An annotation scheme of the pianist ’ s multimodalbehaviour Isabella Poggi

The paper presents a research on the multimodal behaviour of a pianist during performance, and proposes an annotation scheme for this behaviour. The research data, aimed at a first testing of a theoretical model of the pianist’s mind, shed some light on the relation of trunk, head and face movements with hand movements during piano performance, and on their expressive import as to the pianist’s cognitive, emotional and motor processes. The annotation scheme is presented and some uses of it are proposed for research on music performance. Author
Neo-liberal versus Social Democratic Policies on Homelessness : The Nordic Case

On the twenty-first of May 2013, a group consisting of 250 ministers and diaconate staff of the Lutheran Church of Norway joined members of voluntary organizations to sleep rough for a night in one of Oslo’s parks. This was in protest against the recent revival of a ban on sleeping in public places in Oslo. It was another example of a frightening trend in the criminalization of poverty, the organizers explained. The Church of Norway wanted to show its solidarity with people living on the streets. The new regulation, adopted by the city council, is but one of several diverging approaches to policy on homelessness and social marginalization in Norway. I want here, in responding to O’Sullivan’s extensive and thorough discussion of ‘the punitive neoliberal state’, to point out and comment on various tendencies in the social democratic state of Norway, to illustrate the strengths and limitations of the ‘punitive state’ thesis. Like O’Sullivan, I question the master narrative that European welfare states, under the influence of neo-liberal ideology, are pursuing an increasingly tough and repressive line on homeless people and other disadvantaged groups.
Production, characterization and iron binding affinity of hydroxamate siderophores from rhizosphere associated fluorescent Pseudomonas

Fluorescent Pseudomonas (FP) is a major group of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and a well-known synthesizer of siderophores, which imparts a selective advantage on rhizosphere competence and their biocontrol traits. The present study was aimed at examining the factors affecting the production of siderophores and their potential biocontrol traits. Sixteen FP isolates were shortlisted based on their siderophore-producing ability in chrome azural S medium. The isolates were checked for variations in siderophore production under varying incubation times, temperatures, pH, iron (Fe3+) concentrations and mutagens. In addition, the iron binding affinity of siderophores, mycelial inhibition assay and plant growth promotion traits were assessed. Results showed that the siderophore production was highly influenced by the time of incubation, changes in pH, temperature and iron concentration. Chemical characterization showed that the produced siderophores were hydroxamates. Maximum siderophore production was observed at pH 7 whereas UV and EtBr exposure invariably suppressed siderophore production drastically in all isolates. All FPs from maize rhizosphere showed excellent siderophore production which could be due to the competence in strategy-II of the plant rhizosphere and significant growth inhibition on Fusarium oxysporum. Our results suggest the inclination of siderophores to iron, in terms of various criteria affecting production and the possible role of environmental mutations that affect the natural iron harvesting mechanism.
Relative Orbit Determination of Multiple Satellites Using Double Differenced Measurements

The location of operational space assets around the Earth is still of primary concern in the SSA community due to the ever increasing density of man-made objects and potential for collisions. In this paper we demonstrate using the double differenced measurements of time difference of arrival (TDOA) and frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) for relative orbit determination of multiple satellites. A close proximity two-spacecraft formation with bounded orbits is presented to demonstrate the TDOA and FDOA OD capabilities. Two scenarios are examined, the first is with the chief satellite assumed to have perfectly known state knowledge, and the second assumes some small uncertainty on the chief satellite. In the first scenario a square-root unscented Kalman filter is used to estimate the state of the deputy about the chief, and in the second scenario the deputy satellite is estimated while the uncertainty of the chief satellite is considered using the square-root unscented Schmidt-Kalman filter. The OD results are compared with conventional range and range-rate measurements and we find that, with three baselines or more, the TDOA and FDOA provides the lowest uncertainty OD solutions except for the case where the chief is in a GEO orbit. When only one baseline is used, the TDOA and FDOA measurements are favorable with lower orbits and a longer observation spans.
Your Topic Goes Here: An Annotated Bibliography East Carolina University

2 Facets of NLP 2 2.1 General . 2 2.2 NLP Education . 4 2.3 Language Modeling . 9 2.4 Tagging and Annotation . 10 2.5 Parsing . 11 2.6 Information Extraction . 14 2.7 Machine Translation . 15 2.8 Language Generation . 16 2.9 Dialog Systems . 17 2.10 Question-answering Systems . 17 2.11 Question-generation Systems . 18 2.12 Discourse Understanding . 19 2.13 Clustering . 20 2.14 Summarization . 20 2.15 NLP Applications . 20
Granitoids Associated with Porphyry Cu Deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt – Characteristics and Oxygen Fugacity

Ore-bearing intrusions in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) were examined from nine mines: Boshekul, Nurkazgan, Kounrad, Borly, Aktogai, Koksai, Baogutu, Tuwu and Erdenet. The intrusions are diorite, granodiorite and tonalite with SiO2 contents ranging from 58 to 75 wt per cent, and show mildly fractionated rare earth elements (REE) ([LREE]N/[HREE]N = 2.7–4.7) – light REE and heavy REE – and varying Eu anomalies ([Eu]/[Eu]* = 0.58–1.4). The ratios of Sr/Y vary from 7.9 to 115 and the contents of Y from 4.6 to 23.9 ppm. The parental magmas of the intrusions are intrinsically oxidised. Zircon grains in the ore-bearing rocks from largeand intermediate-sized porphyry Cu deposits show high Ce4+/Ce3+ ratios characterised by 65–422 at Boshekul (>4.1 Mt Cu), 76–480 at Kounrad (>4.8 Mt Cu), 90–280 at Aktogai (>12 Mt Cu), 80–250 at Erdenet (>11 Mt Cu) 74–370 at Nurkazgan (>3.9 Mt Cu), 100–210 at Koksai (>1.6 Mt Cu), and 71–340 at Tuwu (~2.0 Mt Cu). In two small deposits, the ore-bearing rocks display low values of Ce4+/Ce3+; Borly (0.6 Mt Cu) ranging from 28 to 158, and Baogutu (0.6 Mt Cu) from 29 to 113. The Ce4+/Ce3+ ratio of 120 distinguishes large intermediate-size deposits from small-size deposits. This information is potentially useful in exploration for porphyry Cu deposits in the belt. inTRODuCTiOn Porphyry Cu deposits are associated with oxidised, calc-alkaline intermediate to felsic intrusions (Hedenquist and Lowenstern, 1994; Hattori and Keith, 2001; Cooke, Hollings and Walshe, 2005; Sillitoe, 2010). Ce is 4+ in oxidised conditions and readily incorporated into zircon crystal structure and produces high ratios of Ce4+/Ce3+. Since the rest of rare earth elements (REE) are 3+, zircon crystallised in oxidised magmas displays positive Ce anomalies. Previous studies show that zircons with high Ce4+/Ce3+ ratios are found in igneous rocks hosting large porphyry Cu deposits in Chile (Ballard, Palin and Campbell, 2002), Tibet (Liang et al, 2006) and other areas in China (Qiu et al, 2013; Han et al, 2013). The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) contains Palaeozoic porphyry Cu deposits of various sizes (Figure 1). The CAOB, 1. Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China. Email: pshen@mail.iggcas. ac.cn 2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada. Email: khattori@uottawa.ca 3. College of Earth Sciences, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China. Email: hongzhushi@sina.com 4. Geological Survey of Canada; Ottawa K1A 0E85, Canada. Email: simon.jackson@NRCan-RNCan.gc. ca 5. Satpaev Institute of Geological Sciences, Almaty 050010, Kazakhstan. Email: seimuratova@mail.ru
Developing a Credit Risk Early Warning Model using Regression Model. A Case Study in Vietnam

In this paper, the author has conducted researches and investigations about risk management in Vietnamese commercial banking system. 210 observations from companies were collected by survey and SPSS software was used to perform Maddala’s Binary logistics regression model (1984) to find out individual impacting factors that affects the loan repayment ability of corporate customers. Results from above process were aligned by affecting power for better evaluation thus supports banking mangers in disbursement decision making, reduces credit risks.
Architectural support for designing dependable non-volatile main memories

ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT FOR DESIGNING DEPENDABLE NON-VOLATILE MAIN MEMORIES by Mohammad Khavari Tavana Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering Northeastern University, March 2018 Dr. David Kaeli, Adviser Rapid technology scaling has enabled the integration of many computational cores into a single chip. Given this level of core integration, the requirements for a large and scalable main memory system will only grow. Current DRAM-based main memory systems face power and scalability issues due to working at sub-micron scales. As existing memory technologies approach their physical limits in terms of scalability and power consumption, system designers have motivated to explore alternative technologies to meet the increasing demand for higher memory capacity. Phase Change Memory (PCM) has been proposed as one of the most promising technology candidates to replace or complement DRAM. PCM provides non-volatility, fast access latency, low power consumption, high scalability and bit-level access. However, dependability issues are the primary impediments toward adoption of PCM for next generation of memory systems. In this thesis we investigate new and novel architectural support to design dependable nonvolatile memories, while introducing minimal overhead. In the first part of the thesis we introduce mechanisms to improve cell wear-out in PCM technology, in order to prolong memory lifetime. PCM cells can only endure a limited number of writes, and will then wear out, therefore, PCM error correcting schemes are a must for reliable operation. Current error correction schemes for PCMs have limited capabilities in tolerating multiple errors. We first propose an error recovery mechanism to tolerate a large number of hard errors to improve reliability of PCMs. Our mechanism exploits metadata for replacing faulty bits error detection and location information is not needed. The location of failed memory cells are identified by a read verification, coupled with an extra write operation. Static and a dynamic partitioning schemes are proposed to alleviate the negative impacts of the extra writes, extending memory lifetime. Furthermore, we introduce a block-level cooperation technique that operates on top of error correction mechanisms to increase metadata utilization. Once an error
Voice Onset Timing in the English of Spanish Heritage Speakers

The phonological system of bilinguals has been the subject of many recent studies. Several studies have specifically looked at Voice Onset Time (VOT) production in bilinguals in order to answer questions about the phonological system or systems of different types of bilinguals. For example, prior studies have looked at the effects of bilingual phonological production based on age of acquisition of a second language, cross-linguistic influence, and childhood experience with the language. This study will specifically examine the VOT production of a group of bilingual English-Spanish students who are enrolled in a Spanish as a Heritage Language Program (henceforth, SHL) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This population is of particular interest as Spanish and English have been in long-standing contact in this region of the country. This study will measure the VOT of this diverse group of bilinguals in order to assess whether and to what extent exposure to and/or proficiency in Spanish has an effect on the production of English VOTs in this region of the country.
Latency-Aware Placement of Software Defined Network Controllers

—The placement of multiple controllers over a distributed software deﬁned network is challenging, to minimize maximum latency between controllers and switches. One way to solve this problem is to use the K-means algorithm to partition the original network into K subnets and position one controller at the center of every subnet. However, the value of K must be known in advance and this information may not be available to network administrators. On the other hand, latency between SDN controllers and network nodes can be known on account of agreements to QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees. Thus, in this work, we propose LAIP (Latency-Aware Incremental Partitioning), a K-means-based algorithm for placement of multiple controllers that takes into account Latency requirements to decide the number of partitions and controllers to be inserted in the network. Experiments show that LAIP has considerable performance compared to other methods. Also, results are presented on several network topologies to identify the number of controllers to be positioned to meet maximum latency constraints.
Neurophenomenology of induced and natural synaesthesia

People with synaesthesia have additional perceptual experiences, which are automatically and consistently triggered by specific inducing stimuli. Synaesthesia therefore offers a unique window into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying conscious perception. A long-standing question in synaesthesia research is whether it is possible to artificially induce non-synaesthetic individuals to have synaesthesia-like experiences. Although synaesthesia is widely considered a congenital condition, increasing evidence points to the potential of a variety of approaches to induce synaesthesia-like experiences, even in adulthood. Here, we summarize a range of methods for artificially inducing synaesthesia-like experiences, comparing the resulting experiences to the key hallmarks of natural synaesthesia which include consistency, automaticity and a lack of ‘perceptual presence’. We conclude that a number of aspects of synaesthesia can be artificially induced in non-synaesthetes. These data suggest the involvement of developmental and/or learning components in the acquisition of synaesthesia, and they extend previous reports of perceptual plasticity leading to dramatic changes in perceptual phenomenology in adults. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’.
Clinical Study An Adrenal Incidentaloma : HowOften Is It Detected and What Are the Consequences ?

Objectives. e aim of this study was to investigate the detection rate of adrenal incidentalomas and subsequent workup. Design. Retrospective cohort study. Methods. Two investigators evaluated the adrenals on abdominal CT scans. Abnormalities were compared to the original radiology reports and an experienced abdominal radiologist reviewed theCT scans. All additional imaging and laboratory tests were assessed. Results. e investigators detected 44/356 adrenal incidentalomas (12%). In 25 patients an adrenal incidentaloma had been noted in the radiology report. e expert radiologist agreed on 19 incidentalomas in 17 patients, two with bilateral incidentalomas. Of the 25 incidentaloma patients, 4 (16%) patients were screened for hormonal overproduction and 2 (8%) patients had follow-up imaging studies. Conclusions. 12% of the patients had an adrenal incidentaloma (42 of 356). 17 (40%) had initially not been reported by the radiologist. When diagnosed with an adrenal incidentaloma, only a small percentage of patients (16%) is screened or undergoes repeated imaging (8%) as proposed in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines on adrenal incidentalomas.
DeepIM : Deep Iterative Matching for 6 D Pose Estimation-Supplementary Material

where u∗, d∗, l∗, r∗ denotes the upper, lower, left, right bound of foreground mask of observed or rendered images, xc, yc represent the 2D projection of the center of the object in xrend, r represent the aspect ratio of the origin image (width/height), λ denotes the expand ratio, which is fixed to 1.4 in the experiment. Then this patch is bilinear sampled to the size of the original image, which is 480× 640 in this paper. By doing so, not only do the object is zoomed in without being distorted, but also provide the network with the information about where the center of the object lies.
Lagrangian acceleration statistics and relative pair dispersion in turbulent channel flow

Lagrangian statistics of acceleration in a fully-developed turbulent channel flow at Reτ = 1440 are obtained from tracking of tracer particles in experiments and direct numerical simulations (DNS). The wall-distance dependency of acceleration correlations along particle paths is analysed. Near the channel walls, the correlations are strongly affected by quasi-streamwise vortices characteristic of near-wall turbulence. Further away from the walls, acceleration statistics approach isotropy, although signs of 23ème Congrès Français de Mécanique Lille, 28 au 1er Septembre 2017 small-scale anisotropy persist near the channel centre. This is evidenced by a non-zero cross-correlation between the streamwise and wall-normal acceleration components at nearly all wall distances. Very good agreement between the experimental results and the DNS is achieved for the Lagrangian acceleration statistics. Relative dispersion of tracer particle pairs is also studied by DNS. The mean square separation R2(t) = 〈(D(t)− D0)〉, where D(t) is the instantaneous separation of a particle pair, is analysed at different wall distances and for different initial separations D0. In all cases, the short-time behaviour is consistent with the Taylor expansion of R2, which predicts a ballistic regime where R2 grows as t2 at the leading order. At later times, for initial separations in the inertial range, the regime predicted by Richardson [1] in which the evolution of R2 scales with t3 is approached. Mots clefs : turbulence inhomogène, turbulence lagrangienne, accélération, dispersion de paires
Language Modeling using Stochastic Switching N-gram

In traditional speech recognition systems, a single Ngram is used as a language model. If it is possible to switch N-grams properly, better results can be obtained. In this paper, we propose SS(Stochastic Switching)Ngram that is a discrete type HMM of which each state has conditioned output probabilities just like an N-gram. In newspaper task, when bigram condition is employed for output probabilities, the perplexity with SSn-gram is reduced by 15% comparing to that with ordinary bigram without smoothing. After the back-off method is applied, the perplexity is still reduced by 12%. Furthermore also in dialogue task, SSn-gram showed the good result.