Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dialektisch-Behaviorale Therapie der Borderline- Persönlichkeitsstörung in der Regelversorgung – das Saarbrücker Modell

Hintergrund: Die Dialektisch-Behaviorale Therapie (DBT) ist ein Ansatz zur psychotherapeutischen Behandlung von Patienten mit Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung und hat sich im ambulanten und stationären Setting als effektiv erwiesen. Im Saarbrücker DBT-Modell wurde ein stationäres Konzept an die Erfordernisse der Regelversorgung angepasst. Dieses Modell mit reduzierten vollstationären Behandlungszeiten und ohne einheitliche DBT-Station wird vorgestellt. Patienten und Methoden: Die Symptomatik von 24 in Saarbrücken behandelten Patienten mit Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung wird in einem unkontrollierten Prä-Post-Vergleich im Hinblick auf die Häufigkeit selbstverletzenden Verhaltens und Parameter wie Depressivität, Ängstlichkeit, Wutgefühle und Gesamtsymptombelastung evaluiert. Ergebnisse: Es ergaben sich deutliche und befriedigende Verbesserungen bei der Häufigkeit selbstverletzenden Verhaltens und bei klinischen Parametern wie Depressivität, Ängstlichkeit und Symptombelastung. Überdauernde Wutgefühle konnten nur mäßig verändert werden. Es ergaben sich keine bedeutsamen Unterschiede zu den Ergebnissen, die in der Freiburger Universitätspsychiatrie mit längeren vollstationären Behandlungszeiten und einer einheitlichen DBT-Station erreicht wurden. Diskussion: Die Ergebnisse des Saarbrücker DBT-Modells sind ermutigend für die Durchführung von DBT in der Regelversorgung mit einer reduzierten stationären Behandlungsdauer und sprechen für die Gründung weiterer ambulant-stationärer Behandlungsnetzwerke.
SYNTHESIS OF SYNCHRONIZATION CODE FOR DATA ABSTRACTIONS

Synchronization code is necessary to control shared access of an abstract data object in a parallel-processing environment. This thesis explores an approach in which a synchronization property can be specified in a high-level nonprocedural language and an implementation for the specified property can be synthesized algorithmically. A problem specification language is introduced in which synchronization properties can be expressed in a structured but natural manner. A method is then presented for synthesizing an implementation. An intermediate form, called a solution specification, is first derived, representing an abstract solution to the problem. The derivation of the solution specification accomplishes the transformation of the specification from nonprocedural to procedural from. The solution specification can be translated directly into a source language synchronization mechanism, such as a monitor. Specifications for common synchronization properties, such as the readers-writers and bounded buffer problems, are expressed in the problem specification language. Corresponding implementations are then synthesized for these problems. In addition, the derived solution specification can be used in analyzing the soundness of the original problem specification with respect to criteria such as freedom from deadlock and starvation.
Software test automation: effective use of test execution tools

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Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal

Introduction Part 1: Monomodal Spoken Corpus Analysis 1. Making a start: Building and Analyzing a spoken corpus 2.Corpus and spoken interaction: Multi-word units in spoken English 3. From concordance to discourse: responses to speakers 4. Case Studies in applied spoken corpus linguistics Part 2: Multimodal Spoken Corpus Analysis 5. Sound evidence: prosody and spoken corpora 6. Moving Beyond the Text 7. Developing a framework for analysing 'headtalk' and 'handtalk': First Steps 8. Future Directions
Pragmatism Not Ideology: IBM's Love Affair with Open Source Software

Today IBM is perceived as being in the vanguard of open source software and a leading participant in the free software community. Paradoxically, IBM is also the world's second largest vendor of proprietary software products. In this paper we argue that IBM's embrace of open source software comes not from a new-found ideology, but from its history of pragmatism. Simply put, IBM is a survivor. It has dominated the IT landscape for most of its history not because of any deep-seated ideology, but because it has been fleet-footed and practical. Its adoption of open source software is in exactly this spirit. In the half century that IBM has been making software, it has delivered all combinations of free vs. proprietary software and open vs. closed code, dictated entirely by the technological constraints, the political realities, and the business opportunities of the day.
DEVELOPMENT OF DELIBERATE AND EMERGING STRATEGIES: A PROPOSAL BASED ON BASIC DEFINITIONS FROM A SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY

This theoretical proposal, is related to the strategy development from an evolutional perspective and connections between deliberate and emerging strategies, using basic definitions and soft systems methodology (SSM) proposed by Checkland & Scholes (1994). In order to achieve this, an interaction among “autonomous” and semiotic (agents, organizations and surroundings) entities in real and representative interaction systems is proposed. These notions allow establishing decision, performance and intentionality concepts. Deliberate and emerging strategy notions are restated and an operation cycle among strategy types is detailed.
Acoustic-phonetic recognition in the ARABEX system

In this paper we consider the knowledge-based approach whose main advantages are pointed out, particularly the possibility of incrementally building up a complex system and updating and maintaining a knowledge base, and the capability for the expert system to explain its reasoning process. Our expert system uses intensively a large amount of knowledge derived from the performance emulation on spectrogram-reading database. The knowledge is coded in the Arabic decoder system under the forms: procedures for segmentation and labelling of segments into gross phonetic classes; contextual production rules; and decoding strategies. The output is a string of segments containing alternative phonemes, together with their matching score. Three male speakers are used for the recognition step. Our system is developed to serve as a part of an automatic speech recognition system for continuously spoken Arabic sentences and can be considered as as important step towards a system for oral dialogue between man and machine.
Agentes e Métricas no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Software em Equipes Distribuídas

O uso de metricas e apontado como adequado para melhorar as estimativas e a qualidade dos softwares. Porem, o aumento da complexidade dos projetos de software, aliado a cenarios onde a equipe de desenvolvimento esta geograﬁcamente distribuida, torna a utilizacao de metricas uma tarefa cada vez mais complicada. Este trabalho apresenta como agentes de software podem auxiliar na utilizacao de metricas no desenvolvimento colaborativo de aplicacoes. O uso de agentes tem como foco prover ﬂexibilidade na alteracao das metricas, levando em conta a natureza distribuida da equipe de desenvolvimento e a integracao com ambientes de desenvolvimento ja existentes.
Spatio-temporal content characterization and retrieval in multimedia databases

The increasing use of multimedia data makes it crucial to use intelligent search mechanisms for retrieving multimedia data by content. Traditional text-based methods clearly do not suffice to describe the rich content present in digital video. We present a video database indexing and search engine, PICTURESQUE (Pictorial Information and Content Transformation Unified Retrieval Engine for Spatiotemporal QUE ries) that incorporates object motion and temporal relationship information in a video database. Spatial composition of the salient objects and their movements play a crucial role in characterization of the “content” of video. PICTURESQUE offers a unified spatio-temporal model and a retrieval scheme for fast and effective access to the underlying database. We propose three different motion representation schemes, trail-based, trajectory coordinates, and interval-based models and validate their effectiveness by comparative performance measures. Our query mechanism is based on an intuitive QBE-like method that involves sketching of the desired motion by the users. Our use of efficient numerical techniques to describe both the query and data composition enables us to take advantage of analytical methods for query evaluation. In addition to improved performance, these methods provide benefits such as flexibility and temporal scale invariance. PICTURESQUE covers a complete solution from pre-indexing of video to presentation of results via a graphical user interface and its modular implementation provides concision and extensibility. Development of such technology will enable true multimedia search engines that will accomplish what current textual search engines do today.
Transposing MISA Learning Scenarios into IMS Units of Learning

Commentary on: Chapter 17: Applying Learning Design to Supported Open Learning. (McAndrew & Weller, 2005) Abstract: This paper reports an exploratory study investigating the transposition process of a course called the Black Box into a Unit of Learning (UoL), characterized by its collaborative and multi-actor distance learning scenario. It was graphically represented by using the MOT software used in the MISA Instructional Engineering Method. To transpose this scenario into an IMSLD UoL, the iterative nature of this study helped develop the MOT+LD editor and an IMSLD Graphical Representation Code (GRC) now embedded in the editor. The study showed that the MISA method and Level A of the IMSLD Specification share several conceptual elements and representations that accentuate their complementarity in a coherent and clear manner. This finding is very encouraging to extend the analysis of levels B and C of the specification and adapt the MISA method to ease the construction of fully interoperable IMSLD UoL. Editors: Colin Tattersall and Rob Koper.
Supporting text mining for e-Science: the challenges for Grid-enabled natural language processing

Over the last few years, language technology has moved rapidly from 'applied research' to 'engineering', and from small-scale to large-scale engineering. Applications such as advanced text mining systems are feasible, but very resource-intensive, while research seeking to address the underlying language processing questions faces very real practical and methodological limitations. The e-Science vision, and the creation of the e-Science Grid, promises the level of integrated large-scale technological support required to sustain this important and successful new technology area. In this paper, we discuss the foundations for the deployment of text mining and other language technology on the Grid - the protocols and tools required to build distributed large-scale language technology systems, meeting the needs of users, application builders and researchers.
Open source software development as a complex system

Open Source Software Development is an approach to software development involving open, public exposure of the source code of a computer program under development (hence, ‘open source’). Each open source program is shared online as a project in a source code repository. The so-called ‘open source community’ is the system which coordinates the work of software developers on the code in the repositories. This research explored the growth dynamics of this system, first by launching open source projects and then via simulation. Following (Barabasi & Albert, 1999) and a biodiversity model (Hubbell, 2001), simulations of a complex system driven by preferential attachment, where popular projects attract more developers and grow (subject to some attrition), provided a systematic explanation for the lack of growth typical of singledeveloper projects. In this multi-methodological study, the lack of growth in the research projects empirically demonstrated the need for a theoretical understanding of open source project initiation and growth while the subsequent simulation results showed how the pattern of no growth (one developer) projects could be explained by a simple model. Open Source Software Development as a Complex System ii
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance: Music

This is the first handbook where the world’s foremost “experts on expertise” review our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts’ knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge of the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge and discuss future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise, such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.
Niğde ve Kayseri’de Satışa Sunulan Köy ve Market Yumurtalarının Mikrobiyolojik Kalitesi

Bu calismada, market ve koy yumurtalarinin mikrobiyolojik kalitelerinin arastirilmasi amaclandi. Bu kapsamda, Nigde ve Kayseri’deki cesitli market ve acik pazarlardan alinan toplam 200 yumurta (100 market ve 100 koy) ornegi mikrobiyolojik analize tabi tutuldu. Her bir yumurta kabugu ve icerigi koliform, Escherichia coli, Campylobacter spp. , Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella spp. ve maya- kuf bakimindan incelendi. Incelenen yumurta orneklerinin hicbirinde Campylobacter spp. ve S. aureus’a rastlanmazken, bir ornekte (yumurta kabugu) Salmonella spp. belirlendi. Ayrica 27 (%13.5) yumurta kabugunun ve 6 (%3) iceriginin koliform bakteriler ile sirasiyla 12 (%6) ve 31 (%15.5) yumurta kabugunun ise sirasiyla E. coli ve maya- kuf ile kontamine oldugu tespit edildi. Koliform, E. coli ve maya- kuf sayilarinin ortalama degerleri sirasiyla 3.69-5.62 log kob/mL, 3.35-3.55 log kob/mL, ve 6.80-6.97 log kob/mL olarak belirlendi. Elde edilen veriler, incelenen yumurta kabuklarindaki mikrobiyel yukun, buzdolabi ve mutfak ortamlarini kontamine edebilecegini; icerik kontaminasyonlarinin ise az pismis yumurta tuketimi yoluyla halk sagligi acisindan risk teskil edebilecegini ortaya koymaktadir. Bu calismada elde edilen verilere dayanarak, marketlerde ve koy pazarlarinda satisa sunulan yumurtalarin +8°C'nin altindaki sicakliklarda muhafaza edilmesi konusunda gerekli onlemlerin alinmasi, uretici ve tuketicilerin yumurtanin sogukta muhafaza edilmesi gereken riskli bir gida oldugu konusunda bilinclendirilmesi gerektigi sonucuna varildi.
Development of cost effective 3D stereo visualization software suite for manufacturing industries

The computer based visualization techniques plays an important role in the manufacturing industries. These techniques are especially useful for developing high-performance mechanical products. It allows acquisition of important information that can aid the designer in correcting and controlling the product right from the early conceptualization to the final assembly design stage. The design industry severely suffers from the productivity bottlenecks posed due to the physical prototyping. The time to market degrades drastically and the effective revenue far lessens than the expected due to late entry of the product in the market. In the present communication, emphasis is given on development of cost effective software suite for rapid simulation of the performance of mechanical systems in a virtual prototyping environment. This facilitates early troubleshooting of the problems within existing designs and to significantly reduce the risk associated with manufacturing them. The paper compares the developed software suite with the existing systems embodying active stereoscopic techniques. While the later requires a highly expensive setup comprising of Crystal eye ware, standard emitter, and stereo capable graphics card, the one reported in this paper resorts to a low cost passive stereo technique that simply requires a red blue eye ware. The main focus of the development is development of an effective low cost passive stereo based visualization technique that would run on a fairly general-purpose computer used in manufacturing industries for virtual prototyping. The paper elaborates the benefits of the low end, inexpensive visualization technique developed by the authors for manufacturing industries.
The Benefits of Simulation-Based Education

Simulation-based education is an accepted teaching methodology within many disciplines, but has yet to be fully integrated into the clinical education models of speech-language pathology and audiology. Simulation-based education is an innovative opportunity to enhance clinical education in the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. The approach provides a number of benefits that positively impact critical stakeholders, including training programs, faculty, students, clinical supervisors, and, most importantly, the clients requiring care. The benefits of simulation-based education will be reviewed relative to the existing literature both within and outside the professions.
Popularising corpus consultation by language learners and teachers

Summarising the progress in relation to the use of corpora in language learning made between the first TaLC conference in 1994 and the time of writing their article, McEnery and Wilson (1997: 5) use the term ‘percolation’ to describe how the exploitation of corpora has progressed from the domain of research to that of teaching. This paper focuses on corpus consultation by learners, examining the main publications relating to learner access to corpora since the early nineteen-nineties. The features common to these studies are examined with a view to identifying which aspects facilitate the popularisation of the activity. Aspects studied include languages, levels of study, corpus resources, types of corpus consultation, and the learners’ evaluation of the activity. The results reveal that consultation of corpora by learners appears to be increasing in higher education. They also show that some but not all of those active in this area create custom-made corpora of familiar texts rather than use the ready-made corpora which are available. Learner evaluations reveal positive reactions to the activity, as well as highlighting a number of important obstacles.
Plazi.org: Using DSpace as a Repository of Species Descriptions (Poster)

The goal of the DSpace installation at plazi.org is to demonstrate how the corpus of texts covering the descriptions of the world's species can be assembled into a digital repository for stable, long term access. In this presentation we will focus on our deployment of DSpace working in combination with a community based text mark up tool (resulting in an XML encoded version of the original scanned or electronically published document) as well as a web service allowing to extraction of individual descriptions from within the body of publications. The published record of biological systematics, including the descriptions of the world's 1,8 million species has some unique characteristics. The scientific naming of species is regulated by Codes and thus the publications are quasi legal documents. Descriptions remain relevant for a very long time, even if they are complemented by more comprehensive ones. Additionally, access to existing descriptions is vital for the understanding not only the 1,8 million known species, but also of the yet to be described 20+ million. Valid treatments for animals, for example, span back to 1758, and include perhaps more than 10M pages, of which almost all are only available in hard copy. Taxonomic treatments are as well highly structured documents and very rich in data. A wealth of important morphological descriptions and data, geographic distribution data, bibliographical references, and more resides latent in the taxonomic literature Items in the repository are made up of several files. A PDF is usually available, but in many (given enough time and resources, all) cases another representation of the publication, encoded in the XML schema TaxonX is provided. The encoding opens up the treatments, exposing the data contained within to extraction, data mining, analysis fo r a variety, and other purposes. Since the mark-up process is a slow and expensive and involves the knowledge of the systematics domain, a community mark up server is added, so that interested parties can not only upload new pdf documents, but download and enhance the documents in discrete well defined steps towards valid taxonx documents. Similarly, other applications can build upon the foundation provided by the DSpace repository, such as a search/retrieval interface oriented towards the needs of the Systematics domain, and integrate into the wider and growing Systematics, Conservation, and Biodiversity cyberinfrastructure.
Comparison of MAC Protocols in Cognitive Radio

Cognitive radio (CR) transceiver can sense, is aware of its operational environment and can dynamically and autonomously adjusts its radio operating parameters accordingly. When a primary user (PU) appears, CR-MAC protocol enables secondary users (SUs) to utilize multiple channels by switching channels dynamically. In this paper, performance of CR-MAC i.e. contention based MAC & collision free MAC is evaluated and compared on the basis of average throughput, average end to end delay, routing overhead and packet delivery ratio. KeywordsCognitive Radio Network, Cognitive Radio MAC.
Keystroke Authentication using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm

Keystroke dynamic provides a confidence rate for user authentication throughout the work session. In this paper we propose a novel approach to enhance the accuracy rate for user authentication. The approach is based on combing both a sequence alignment and ant colony algorithm. The ACO algorithm is adapted to comprehend the keystroke dynamic variables. The proposed algorithm is evaluated against the traditional classifiers models to measure the accuracy and precision rates of identification. Keywords—Keystroke dynamic; security; sequence alignment; Ant Colony Optimization