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Post-doctoral position Formal and statistical modeling of dialogue application to pathological data

Informations — Starting date : fall 2019 — Duration : 1 year — Deadline for application : September 09th, 2109 (Interviews end of September) — Location : Nancy 1, France — Salary : around 2,000 euros per month net income — Informal inquiries can be sent by email to Maxime Amblard (maxime.amblard@loria.fr) and Chloé Braud (chloe.braud@loria.fr). — Application : CV, motivation letter, PhD evaluation, master TOR and support letter(s)
All-Synthesizable 5-Phase Phase-Locked Loop for USB2.0

A 5-phase phase-locked loop (PLL) for USB2.0 applications was implemented by using an all-synthesis technique. The length of the time-to-digital converter for the fine phase detector was halved by the operation of a coarse phase detector that uses 5- phase clocks. The maximum time difference between the rising edges of two adjacent-phase clocks was 6 ps at 480 MHz. The PLL chip in a 65-nm process occupies 0.038 mm², consumes 4.8 mW at 1.2 V. The measured rms and peak-to-peak output jitters are 8.6 ps and 45 ps, respectively.
Detecting Semantic Difference using Word Embeddings

Semantic difference is a harder problem than the well-studied semantic similarity, because it tries to detect directional relationships. The task is the following: given word triple (w1, w2, d), is d a discriminating attribute belonging to w1 but not w2? Our study aims to determine whether word embeddings can address this challenging task. We cast this problem as a supervised binary classification using only word embedding features. With a gaussian SVM model trained only on validation data, we achieve an F-score of 60%. We also show that cosine similarity features are more effective, both in unsupervised systems (Fscore of 65%) and supervised systems (Fscore of 67%). This work was submitted for Task 10 of SemEval 2018.
Replay Approach for Richer Knowledge Transfer in Teacher Student Framework Extended Abstract

One of the major drawbacks of RL is the low sample efficiency of the learning algorithms. In many cases domain expertise can help to mitigate this effect. Teacher-Student framework is one such paradigm, where a more experienced agent (teacher) upon being queried helps to accelerate the student’s learning by providing advice on the action to take in a given state. Real world teachers not only provide the action to take in a given state but also provide a more informative signal using the synthesis of knowledge they may have gained with experience. With this motivation, we propose a richer advising framework where the teacher augments the student’s knowledge by also providing the expected long term reward of following that action. The student can then use this value to steadily guide its Q-Network in the correct direction which can lead to a quicker convergence. To help student relive the advices received throughout its learning, we introduce an additional memory called the Advice Replay Memory (ARM). Results show that a student following our approach (a) is able to exploit the environment better, and (b) has a steeper learning curve.
Capacitor Pattern H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter (CPHMLI) Using Phase Diposition Pulse Width Modulation for Grid Applications

This work presents an implementation of an innovative single phase multilevel inverter using capacitors with reduced switches. The proposed Capacitor pattern H-bridge Multilevel Inverter (CPHMLI) topology consists of a proper number of Capacitor connected with switches and power sources. The advanced switching control supplied by Pulse Width Modulation (PDPWM) to attain mixed staircase switching state. The charging and discharging mode are achieved by calculating the voltage error at the load. Furthermore, to accomplish the higher voltage levels at the output with less number of semiconductors switches and simple commutation designed using CPHMLI topology. To prove the performance and effectiveness of the proposed approach, a set of experiments performed under various load conditions using MATLAB tool.
Modality Effects in Vocabulary Acquisition

It is unknown whether modality affects the efficiency with which humans learn novel word forms and their meanings, with previous studies reporting both written and auditory advantages. The current study implements controls whose absence in previous work likely offers explanation for such contradictory findings. In two novel word learning experiments, participants were trained and tested on pseudoword - novel object pairs, with controls on: modality of test, modality of meaning, duration of exposure and transparency of word form. In both experiments word forms were presented in either their written or spoken form, each paired with a pictorial meaning (novel object). Following a 20- minute filler task, participants were tested on their ability to identify the picture-word form pairs on which they were trained. A between subjects design generated four participant groups per experiment 1) written training, written test; 2) written training, spoken test; 3) spoken training, written test; 4) spoken training, spoken test. In Experiment 1 the written stimulus was presented for a time period equal to the duration of the spoken form. Results showed that when the duration of exposure was equal, participants displayed a written training benefit. Given words can be read faster than the time taken for the spoken form to unfold, in Experiment 2 the written form was presented for 300 ms, sufficient time to read the word yet 65% shorter than the duration of the spoken form. No modality effect was observed under these conditions, when exposure to the word form was equivalent. These results demonstrate, at least for proficient readers, that when exposure to the word form is controlled across modalities the efficiency with which word form-meaning associations are learnt does not differ. Our results therefore suggest that, although we typically begin as aural-only word learners, we ultimately converge on developing learning mechanisms that learn equally efficiently from both written and spoken materials.
On the Determinants of Other-Regarding Behavior: A Field Test of Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory

This paper investigates the effect of individual moral commitments on other regarding behavior using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) created by Haidt and Graham (2007). The MFQ measures moral commitments using five foundations of moral decisionmaking (Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity). We followed the initial questionnaire with an effort-based task designed to measure other-regarding behavior. We find that differences in moral foundations as measured by the MFQ cause modest differences in our measure of other regarding behavior (i.e., follow-up survey return). We also find several unanticipated outcomes. Follow-up survey return is supported by an interest in cooperation (Fairness) and not by emotional sensitivity to the well-being of others (Care). Moreover, follow-up survey return is less frequent when participants have stronger moral commitments based in Authority (i.e., individuals exchange privileges and benefits in return for promises to maintain order). a School of Business, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Rd., Ewing, NJ 086280718. e-mail: vandedon@tcnj.edu; phone: (609) 771-2294; fax: (609) 637-5129. 1 On the Determinants of Other-Regarding Behavior
Neurologic complication after intrathecal injection of polygeline : a case report

Post dural puncture headache (PDPH) is a common complication of neuraxial anesthesia. The strategies to manage PDPH are various, including conservative methods, drug therapy, epidural blood patch, epidural injection of colloid solution, etc. A 31-year-old woman who had undergone emergency Cesarean section due to vaginal bleeding and fetal asphyxia was analyzed. Epidural anesthesia was performed with accidental dural puncture and 20 ml polygeline was misused intrathecally in an attempt to augment cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume and prevent PDPH. Unfortunately, adverse complications, numbness, and paresthesia on anterior and lateral aspects of left thigh and seizures, occurred in the following days after injecting of polygeline into the subarachnoid. Epidural injection of colloid solution has been proposed to replace the blood patch for management of PDPH and the animal experiment showed its safety, with success in 31 French cases. It is believed that such solutions have negligible toxicity and side effects. However, this case reflects the neurotoxicity associated with the specific route, subarachnoid, administration polygeline, which indicate further investigations should be done in humans to evaluate the safety of this treatment.
Representation and Application of Fault Diagnosis Knowledge in Power Transmission Grids

For further improvements on the efficiency and accuracy of the fault diagnosis,this paper proposed a scheme in which fault diagnosis was done through comprehensive representations of knowledge.Sufficient fault diagnosis knowledge was provided to the diagnosis algorithm through the representation of network topology and the various protections knowledge.In this way,the fault diagnosis program can make an accurate judgment on faulty components with all kinds of information,and the optimization of knowledge can make the fault diagnosis method simple.The Petri net was used to do the logical inference on the base of knowledge,which can judge the faulty components accurately even with mal-operations of protective relays and circuit breakers.Simulation results show that the proposed method can meet the requirements of practical applications,and the program can be applied as the interface of the self-healing process in smart grids.
An Efficient FPGA Implementation of AES Algorithm

— In the paper The Advanced security system was enforced with reconfigurable Hardware. Here Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide a additional speed than existing implementations. This analysis investigates the AES algorithmic rule with reference to FPGA and also the terribly High Speed microcircuit Hardware Description language (VHDL). Here system is design so that we can use same AES architecture for both text and digital files. In Spartan3 EDK we implemented the AES algorithm with the soft core processor Micro Blaze which is used for developing a Hardware structure which is configured using System C coding.
A Review of the Economic Analysis of Wildlife Trade

Illegal trade of wildlife has been recognised as an important driver of biodiversity loss. In many quarters the use of legal markets has been presented as the best policy option for conservation, giving way to the economic analysis of wildlife trade and markets. This paper focuses on the analytical framework used in these analyses and on its deficiencies, both at the conceptual or theoretical level, as well as from an empirical point of view. We examine the implications of using a partial equilibrium framework dominated by comparative statics in all models and the implications of ignoring market structure, strategic behaviour and multiproduct operations in key segments of the supply chain. Furthermore, this review considers the way in which demand is conceptualised and the implications of ignoring the role of economic policies. Our study shows that the literature advocating trade as a conservation solution for endangered species relies on models that are based on simplistic and/or extremely restrictive assumptions. In most cases, these models also rely on conceptual tools that have been theoretically discredited. Failure to take into account the theoretical and empirical issues covered in this review undermines recommendations to adopt market-based policies in response to conservation problems.
Performance analysis of MPTCP and CMT-SCTP multi-path transport protocols

Achieving multipath transport by terminal's multi-homed characteristics is a hot topic of Internet protocol application.MPTCP and CMT-SCTP are both more mature and key protocols for multipath transmission, but there is still a lot of performance analysis needed before large-scale application. This paper presents the behaviors of MPTCP and CMT-SCTP multipath transmission and compares the difference between both protocols on the local test-bed environment. Results show that both MPTCP and CMT-SCTP protocols can significantly increase throughput. Meanwhile the scheduling strategy for transmission is still not perfect and needs further improvement.
A DCT-BASED MULTIMEDIA AUTHENTICATION SCHEME

Multimedia authentication is a problem posed to the world along with the development of Internet recently. Similar to message authentication, multimedia authentication is used to authenticate the source and to detect manipulation. This could be achieved by cryptographic digital signature. However, digital signature has some disadvantages to this end. Fragile watermark renders itself useful in this domain. There exist several fragile watermark schemes in the literature and all have their own cons and pros. After a successful analysis of the fragile watermark scheme presented by Marvel et al. , a new fragile watermark scheme robust to DCT-based compression is presented,which is an extension of and much safer than the one of Marvel et al. . Experiments show that a digital watermark scheme which use pixel values or significant bits of pixel values as input of MAC could not resist DCT-based compression.
The Relationship between Teacher Leadership and Learning Quality in Indonesia

The purpose of this study was to examine the the relationship between teacher leadership on the learning quality of the Public Junior High Schools in Bandar Lampung City, Lampung province, Indonesia This research was a quantitative study with an asosiative method. Data collection was conducted using a questionnaire with 204 teacher samples at 100% response rate. The hypotheses were tested using simple linear regression analysis through the t test to determine the relationship of the independent variable on the dependent variable at a confidence level of 95% (α = 0.05). The result showed that there was a significant influence of teacher leadershipon the learning quality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 30-04-2019 Date of acceptance: 14-05-2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Online selection of CMA-ES variants

In the field of evolutionary computation, one of the most challenging topics is algorithm selection. Knowing which heuristics to use for which optimization problem is key to obtaining high-quality solutions. We aim to extend this research topic by taking a first step towards a selection method for adaptive CMA-ES algorithms. We build upon the theoretical work done by van Rijn et al. [PPSN'18], in which the potential of switching between different CMA-ES variants was quantified in the context of a modular CMA-ES framework. We demonstrate in this work that their proposed approach is not very reliable, in that implementing the suggested adaptive configurations does not yield the predicted performance gains. We propose a revised approach, which results in a more robust fit between predicted and actual performance. The adaptive CMA-ES approach obtains performance gains on 18 out of 24 tested functions of the BBOB benchmark, with stable advantages of up to 23%. An analysis of module activation indicates which modules are most crucial for the different phases of optimizing each of the 24 benchmark problems. The module activation also suggests that additional gains are possible when including the (B)IPOP modules, which we have excluded for this present work.
Smart Traffic Models for M 2 m Devices in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Enables the better use of infrastructure by connecting vehicles to other vehicles as well as infrastructure and thus delivers a faster communication opportunity to ensure safe and secure driving using M2M communication is one of the latest information and communication technologies which offers ubiquitous connectivity among several smart devices. The use of M2M communication has emerged due to the wide range, high reliability, increased data rates decreased cost as well as short term deployment opportunities but degrade the performance of mobile networks due to large no of devices. The proposed system using the microcontroller unit reducing the collision passing the message to the mobile communication which provide the fastest communication with high efficiency.
High-yield indium-based wafer bonding for large-area multi-pixel optoelectronic probes for neuroscientific research

This paper reports on the optimization of wafer-scale bonding of micro-light-emitting diodes (µLEDs) on four-inch sapphire wafers onto silicon (Si) substrates using an indium–gold (In–Au) reflow process. The bonding yield was optimized from initial values below 10% to 100% by applying a systematic variation of the two most relevant bonding parameters, namely the indium (In) bonding pad height t2 and the relative bonding area Q. The fabrication process is designed to reliably transfer mLEDs from sapphire to Si substrates. The process is demonstrated by realizing optoelectronic probes carrying arrays of mLEDs dedicated for applications in neuroscientific research applying optogenetic methods. The 6 m thick mLEDs comprise of a gallium nitride layer epitaxially grown on sapphire wafers and lithographically patterned into mLEDs with lateral dimensions down to using reactive ion etching. The mLEDs are transferred onto Si substrates carrying interconnecting tracks and bonding pads made of gold (Au). Two technological challenges were successfully addressed. The first is to pattern thick In layers with lateral dimensions down to on top of the 6 m high mLED mesas. The second results from residual thermomechanical stress after wafer bonding due to the thermal expansion mismatch of sapphire and Si. It is demonstrated that the stress induced rupture of the In–Au bond interface between sapphire and Si is completely suppressed for t2, Q combinations with m and . These results enable fully functional two-dimensional arrays with mLEDs to be realized on 65 m thin Si substrates.
PROCEDURES AND STRATEGIES : CONTEXT-DEPENDENCE IN CREATIVITyl

Research on creativity can be done from several different perspectives. You can think of creativity as producing products of historical importance, or, in an everyday sense, as something people engage in during daily life. You can concentrate on the psychological characteristics of creative people, talk about the kind of sociocultural environment that would constitute· a fertile soil for such people, discuss what counts as a creative product, or suggest methods for enhancing creativity. In this article, I focus on creativity as a cognitive activity. I am interested in the cognitive processes that lead to the making of products that count as creative. Typically, such products are novel, unexpected, and productive in that they open up new areas of investigation or of behaviour. Seen as a cognitive activity, creativity involves much the same elements as problem solving, that is, knowledge-representations, rules for manipulating them, standards for evaluating solutions, and a halting rule that puts an end to the search. 2 Problems arise when knowledge is in-
A hot-spot on Interferon alpha / beta receptor subunit 1 ( IFNAR 1 ) underpins its interaction with Interferon-β and dictates signaling

Author affiliations: 1 Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, 27-31 Wright Street, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia 2 Department of Molecular and Translational Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, 27-31 Wright Street, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia 3 Infection and Immunity Program & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia 4 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia 5 Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, United Kingdom
Demodulation of Polarimetric Fiber Laser Ultrasonic Sensor With Intensity Noise Cancellation

In this paper, the influences of the relative intensity noise, in particular the relaxation oscillation noise, of an erbium distributed feedback (DFB) fiber laser has been investigated theoretically and experimentally for use as a polarimetric ultrasonic sensor. We show that the relaxation oscillation noise and the ultrasonic signal both induce modulation sidebands on the polarization beat frequency of the DFB laser ultrasonic sensor. We present a novel demodulation algorithm for the polarimetric DFB fiber laser ultrasonic sensor, which can effectively eliminate the influences of the intensity noise and slowly varying drift of the polarization beat frequency.
Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanospheres/SnO2 Quantum Dots Composite for Degradation of 4-Nitrophenol

A composite of SnO2 quantum dots (QDs) decorated on TiO2 nanospheres was prepared and then used as photocatalyst in photodegradation of 4-nitrophenol. The structure of TiO2/SnO2 QD composites revealed that the SnO2 quantum dots are uniformly dispersed on the surface of TiO2 nanospheres. The effect of various parameters such as pH, concentration of dye, amount of semiconductor and light intensity was observed. The photocatalytic behavior of as-prepared samples shows better activity than pure TiO2 nanospheres. This study presents a choice for potential applications of quantum dots in water pollution treatment.
Blockade of IL-33R/ST2 Signaling Attenuates Toxoplasma gondii Ileitis Depending on IL-22 Expression

Oral T. gondii infection (30 cysts of 76K strain) induces acute lethal ileitis in sensitive C57BL/6 (B6) mice with increased expression of IL-33 and its receptor ST2 in the ileum. Here we show that IL-33 is involved in ileitis, since absence of IL-33R/ST2 attenuated neutrophilic inflammation and Th1 cytokines upon T. gondii infection with enhanced survival. Blockade of ST2 by neutralizing ST2 antibody in B6 mice conferred partial protection, while rmIL-33 aggravated ileitis. Since IL-22 expression further increased in absence of ST2, we blocked IL-22 by neutralizing antibody, which abrogated protection from acute ileitis in ST2 deficient mice. In conclusion, severe lethal ileitis induced by oral T. gondii infection is attenuated by blockade of ST2 signaling and may be mediated in part by endogenous IL-22.
Advancing End User Development Through Metadesign

abstraCt End-user development means the active participation of end users in the software development process. In this perspective, tasks that are traditionally performed by professional software developers at design time are transferred to end users at use time. This creates a new challenge for software engineers: designing software systems that can be evolved by end users. Metadesign, a new design paradigm discussed in this chapter, is regarded as a possible answer to this challenge. In this line, we have developed a metadesign methodology, called Software Shaping Workshop methodology, that supports user work