Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Prédiction sélective des traitements pour le suivi d'objet

L'un des problemes majeurs du suivi d'objet en video est la derive, c'est-a-dire la mauvaise localisation a un instant donne d'une entite designee dans une image initiale. Les nombreux algorithmes de suivi visuel ou trackers sont tous susceptibles de deriver lorsqu'ils sont confrontes a diverses sources de nuisance (occultations, changements d'apparence ou d'illumination, mouvements irreguliers de la cible et de la camera.) mais sont egalement caracte-rises par des niveaux de robustesse varies a ces pheno-menes. L'approche proposee par notre travail est de s'ins-pirer d'une caracteristique de la vision naturelle, l'atten-tion visuelle, consideree ici comme un ensemble de me-canismes predictifs de selection de l'information ou des ressources. Dans le probleme etudie, son role est alors de combiner dynamiquement les trackers selon leur capacite a assurer globalement le suivi a partir de mesures d'auto-evaluation en ligne de leur comportement et de leur ade-quation au contexte. L'effort est porte sur la combinaison de trackers heterogenes en cout de calcul et en structure fonctionnelle, et sur la capacite de les munir generique-ment de telles fonctions d'auto-evaluation. Mots Clef attention visuelle, vision par ordinateur, suivi d'objet, pre-diction de derives, fusion Abstract One of the key problems in video object tracking is drift, this is the bad localization of an entity initially appointed in an image at a given moment. The numerous visual tracking algorithms or trackers are all likely to drift when they are confronted with diverse sources of disturbances (occlusions, appearance changes or illuminations, irregular movements of the target and the camera) but are also characterized by different levels of robustness in response to these phenomena. The approach proposed by our work is inspired by a characteristic of natural vision, visual attention , considered here as a set of predictive mechanisms of selection of the information or the resources. In the studied problem, its role is then to dynamically combine trackers according to their capacity to globally insure tracking from measures of on-line self-assessment of their behaviour and their adequacy to the context. In our combination of heterogeneous trackers, the efforts concern the cost of calculation , the functional structure, and the capacity to equip them generically with such self-assessment functions.
The Social Arena of Mental Health Act Apprehensions: An Examination of Partnership between Police and Hospital Services

Improvement in the collaboration between police and emergency hospital services in responding to citizens in mental health (MH) crisis has been identified as vital by researchers and service organizations alike (Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee, 2013). Research suggests that collaboration between these two services is inhibited by a lack of clear communication, protection of patient privacy, insufficient training, siloing of services, and safety concerns for patients and staff (Cotton & Coleman, 2010). Consequences of inadequate cooperation between police and hospital services has resulted in lengthy emergency room (ER) wait times for those apprehended by police officers under the Mental Health Act (MHA), poor patient follow-up, and frustration between services (Cotton, 2004). Recently, some police services have begun to implement formal agreements with local hospitals to enhance collaboration in Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) in caring for those in MH crisis. The purpose of this study was to investigate these emerging agreements to gain insight into how they collectively framed their partnerships and responsibilities, identified their common objectives, and emphasized significant concerns in the context of MHA apprehensions. A Social Arena (Star & Griesemer, 1989) theoretical framework was used to argue that MOUs act as “boundary objects” (p.393). The boundary object comes into play when the diverse worlds, values and ideologies of the police service and the ER service come together to shape their collaboration, negotiate identities and roles, and bridge gaps in cooperating. Implications of such boundary objects are discussed.
Reflective and Impulsive Predictors of Unhealthy Snack Impulse Buying

Abstract While impulse buying has been conceptualized as a product of impulses, this study proposes that both reflective and impulsive determinants can outline impulse buying. Following a dual-system model that distinguishes between a reflective and an impulsive system, we hypothesized that unhealthy snack impulse buying can be differentially influenced by either impulsive system or reflective system as a function of self-regulatory resources. Participants in the experiment were randomly assigned to one of the conditions of the two-group design (self-regulatory resources depletion vs. control condition); then they were given the opportunity to take part in a mock store spontaneous buying situation. While the impulsive system was represented by impulse buying tendency and unhealthy snack buying habit, dietary restraint represented the reflective system. The dependent variables were the number of unhealthy snacks purchased and the percentage of unhealthy snacks purchased. The results provided the first empirical foundation for reflective and impulsive aspects of impulse buying behavior. The findings showed that self-regulatory resources moderate the impact of both reflective and impulsive determinants on unhealthy snack impulse buying. While the reflective system (dietary restraint) only determined the behavior in the high self-regulatory resource condition, the impulsive system (impulse buying tendency and habit) associated with the behavior when self-regulatory resources were diminished. There was one exceptional case in which habit determined the percentage of unhealthy snacks purchased even in the high self-regulatory resource condition.
Reproducibility of trunk isokinetic strength findings in healthy individuals

Background. Back strength is an important factor in the functional assessment of chronic low back patients and therefore ensuring the reproducibility of the findings is of critical importance. So far the studies were focusing on relative indices that turned out to be an inappropriate method due to possibility of bias. Furthermore the reproducibility of eccentric trunk flexors strength findings that may play a role in numerous sport activities has never been evaluated. Objective. To evaluate the reproducibility of isokinetic eccentric and concentric strength of the trunk flexors and extensors in healthy subjects using the absolute reproducibility indices. Methods. Twenty seven young healthy physical education male students were tested twice over a period of one week using an isokinetic dynamometer. The main outcome measure was isokinetic peak torque. Results. Strength scores of the trunk flexors and extensors evidenced clinically acceptable reproducibility. This conclusion was valid irrespective of the testing velocity or type of contraction. Conclusion. Concentricand eccentric isokinetic testing of the trunk flexors and extensors muscles is a viable option for the testing of healthy subjects.
Library as Scholarly Publishing Partner: Keys to Success

Many academic libraries are looking at new ways to add value when they deliver services to faculty, and one potential area where the library can provide new services is in partnering with academic staff to support the dissemination of faculty research. Librarians have traditionally helped faculty researchers at the beginning of the research cycle, with the discovery and delivery of information sources. However, they are now playing a role at the end of the research cycle, providing services that support scholarly publishing. This paper examines library participation in faculty-led publishing ventures. In particular, it explores the value that smaller research libraries can provide to faculty editors through journal hosting, which will be analysed through an examination of the successful migration of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education , a faculty-administered journal at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, to the University’s institutional repository. This transition provided library staff members at Edith Cowan University opportunities to develop new knowledge and skills in journal publishing, while meeting the journal’s need for a better way to manage a growing influx of article submissions. The resultant faculty-library partnership enabled more effective management of the journal and has contributed to its growing success. The evaluative framework developed to enable assessment of the success of this journal’s transition can help other libraries demonstrate the success of their own journal hosting ventures.
Building Teachers: A Constructivist Approach to Introducing Education

Designed from the ground up with a constructivist framework, BUILDING TEACHERS helps future teachers create their own understanding of education. As Martin and Loomis address the key topics generally covered in an introductory text, they encourage students to develop their own understandings through connecting their prior knowledge, experiences, and biases with new experiences to which they will be exposed during the course. By interacting with the materials presented, rather than merely memorizing the text's content, readers learn what teaching is all about in an exploratory, inquiring, constructivist-based manner and, in turn, they can help the children in their classrooms learn meaningfully.
Study of Chinese Herbal Drugs in Affecting Hemorheology Prmoting Blood Circulation and Removing Blood Stasis

Objective:To study the methods Chinese herbal drugs affecting hemorheology in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and to explain the rheologic mechanisms of the promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis with Chinese herbal drugs.Methods The rheology was divided into macrohemorheology and cellular rheology in order to study the mechanisms of Chinese medicine of hyperviscoisty.The classification of investigation involved several entries,which were affecting blood viscosity,inhibiting the platelet activation and resisting thrombosis,etc.Results The drugs and complex prescription of traditional Chinese medicine played a wild role in the changes of 'the markers of macrohemorheology and cellular rheology.As the complexity of components of Chinese herbal drugs,the mechanisms were not the same.Conclusions Chinese medicine of hyperviscoisty has the important significance to preventing and treating some diseases.It is necessary to take a further step and make a good progress in research of rheologic mechanisms of the Chinese herbal drugs at the level of cell and molecul.At the same time,the superiority and behavior are being shown in the complex prescription of Chinese herbal as the available composition or monome of the complex prescription of Chinese herbal are being discovered.The raise of rheologic research level will accelerate the development and utilization of Chinese herbal drugs.
Measurement Challenges in Evaluation and Performance Improvement.

Measurement and evaluation are integral to performance improvement efforts. In this article, we examine key definitions. After defining the terms measurement and evaluation, we apply the definitions to the concepts of performance and performance improvement and discuss challenges in using measurement in evaluation and performance improvement. We conclude by proposing a research agenda for measuring performance and its improvement.
On IP-over-WDM integration

Expanding Internet-based services are driving the need for evermore bandwidth in the network backbone. These needs will grow further as new real-time multimedia applications become more feasible and pervasive. Currently, there is no other technology on the horizon that can effectively meet such a demand for bandwidth in the transport infrastructure other than WDM technology. This technology enables incremental and quick provisioning up to and beyond two orders of magnitude of today's fiber bandwidth levels. This precludes the need to deploy additional cabling and having to contend with right-of-way issues, a key advantage. Hence, it is only natural that over time optical/WDM technology will migrate closer to the end users, from core to regional, metropolitan, and ultimately access networks. At present, WDM deployment is mostly point-to-point and uses SONET/SDH as the standard layer for interfacing to the higher layers of the protocol stack. However, large-scale efforts are underway to develop standards and products that will eliminate one or more of these intermediate layers (e.g., SONET/SDH, ATM) and run IP directly over the WDM layer. IP over WDM has been envisioned as the winning combination due to the ability of the IP to be the common revenue-generating convergence sublayer and WDM as a bandwidth-rich transport sublayer. Various important concerns still need to be addressed regarding IP-WDM integration. These include lightpath routing coupled with tighter interworkings with IP routing and resource management protocols, survivability provisioning, framing/monitoring solutions, and others.
Evaluation of the Dietary Diversity and Nutrient Intakes in Obese Adults

The purpose of this study was to assess the diet diversity, food habit and nutrient intake of obese adults who were visiting the health promotion center. This study was accomplished with the 138 obese adults (men = 103, women = 35) aged over 20 years old whose BMI were above 25 kg/m. Nutrient adequacy ratio (NAR), the number of foods (Dietary Variety Score, DVS), and food group consumed (Dietary Diversity Score, DDS) by using the data from the three days record were analyzed and the food habit and lifestyle were assessed by self reporting questionnaire. The average energy intake of men was 2150.2 kcal which was significantly higher than that of women (p < 0.05). The intake ratio of carbohydrate, protein and fat over total energy was 54.8% : 19.3% : 25.8% in men, 59.5% : 17.8% : 22.6% in women, respectively. Frequency of the breakfast in a week above 4, 2~3 time and under one time was 75.7%, 10.7% and 9.7% in men, 77.1%, 5.7% and 14.3% in women respectively. Frequency of eating between meals in a day under one time was 73.8% in men, 57.1% in women (p < 0.05). The average DDS and DVS was 3.63 ± 0.07 and 14.10 ± 3.45, respectively which was significantly correlated with MAR (r = 0.40 in DDS, r = 0.64 in DVS, p < 0.01). The most frequent style of food pattern was DMGFV = 01101 in 35% of men, and DMGFV = 01111 in 37.1% of women. Our results show that dietary diversity and variety are useful parameters for evaluating nutrient intakes in obese adults. These findings suggest that nutritional education based on obese persons' eating behavior and eating diversity may be required to increase educational efficiency of weight control programs. (Korean J Community Nutrition 12(5) : 583~591, 2007)
Health Apps, their Privacy Policies and the GDPR

The healthcare sector traditionally processes large amounts of personal data. Nowadays, medical practice increasingly uses information technologies, such as smartphone applicatons (‘apps’) and wearable devices (e.g. smart watches, smart soles), for treatment plans and information collection. It is inherent to these modern technologies that they generate even more personal data. Some of the apps are developed specifcally for the healthcare sector, some are more general (health) apps. Within the European Union (EU), the processing of these personal data is regulated by the General Data Protecton Regulation (GDPR), which entered into force on 25 May 2018. The GDPR provides controllers and processors with obligations and data subjects with rights. This paper analyses the marketing statements of app providers and the privacy policies of the apps in order to determine whether they are in line with each other and with the GDPR.
VIRTUAL MODELS IN MATLAB

The control theory is a very nice part of the engineering world. Even if there are a lot of nice and interesting textbooks, for example [5, 6, 4, 3], many students think that the control theory is very boring because they see under that only a lot of ”difficult” mathematical equations, which is truth on the one hand. But on the other hand, ever so difficult field of study could be taught interestedly. And this paper is about that.
Using LabVIEW to monitor respiration rate for sleep study

Respiratory rate is the necessary parameter in the analysis of sleep disorders and various respiratory diseases. In sleep studies, presence of respiration is detected but there is no attempt to calculate respiration rate which is an important parameter for the assessment of respiratory disorders. Hence there is no opportunity to detect the abnormalities. We developed a virtual instrument in LabVIEW making use of the piezoelectric sensor. Respiration is sensed through the sensor by the displacement of the chest and abdomen during the breathing process. These signals are converted to measured waveform without loss of the original signal. Any abnormalities can be detected by using a threshold level individually for each case. This acquired parameter is also transmitted to the physician’s mail during emergency and need. The system is able to monitor the patient continuously for hours. The system is further developed to have user authentication, data storage and retrieval application.
Exploring corporate sustainable development goals (SDGs) disclosure in a politically unstable environment: evidence from the Libyan oil industry

Purpose: This paper provides a novel mapping method to sustainable development goals (SDG) disclosure based on empirical web-data analysis of a context has recently undergone revolutionary changes in its political regime, namely Libya. Furthermore, we explore some insights into the expected political influence on the explored trends in, levels and patterns of, SDG disclosures in the Libyan oil industry. Design/methodology/approach: We use a deductive content analysis approach to analyse web-based SDG information of around 7,000 web pages of 13 of the major oil companies in Libya that resulted in collecting 3,350 individual data records from 2008 to 2015. Findings: The peak of SDG disclosure was recorded from 2010 until uprisings unfolded in 2011, and then the figures only recovered in 2015. In addition, the environmental disclosure is consistently relegated in the Libyan context, mostly in favour of the economic domain. Arguably, the case of political uncertainty may have widened the longitudinal gap between sustainability practices and SDGs disclosure in Libya. Political implications: Given the fact that the Libyan sustainability context has a poor structural congruity with the global inter-conjunction footprints between the seventeen SDGs, our findings emphasise a crucial need for more concerted efforts by regulatory and professional bodies to integrate political, social and economic policies to enhance sustainability within Libya. Social implication: Improving SDG disclosure in Libya would seem to require more regulative and political pressure. Originality/value: Our study distinctively contributes to the literature by introducing an applicable method to analyse the inclusiveness of SDG disclosure, SDG indices and the gap of SDG practice-disclosure.
Zertifikat „Wundmanagement“ der DDA

Zusammenfassung In Deutschland leiden aktuell mindestens eine Million Menschen an einer chronischen Wunde unterschiedlichster Genese. Das zentrale Ziel der immer komplexer werdenden Wundtherapie ist es, die physiologischen Prozesse der zuvor gestörten Wundheilung zu unterstützen. Dies kann nur dann gelingen, wenn die Ursachen der Wundheilungsstörungen korrekt diagnostiziert und, wenn möglich, auch therapiert werden. Aus diesem Grund wurde 2008 auf Anregung der DDA ein entsprechendes Curriculum durch eine Expertengruppe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wundheilung (AGW) der DDG erstellt. Der Gesamtumfang der Weiterbildung umfasst 16 Stunden, aufgeteilt in zwei Fortbildungseinheiten à 8 Stunden. Der Teil 1 hat den Schwerpunkt „Genese und Diagnostik“, der Teil 2 „Therapie“. Für den Erwerb des Zertikats „Wundmanagement“ der DDA ist es notwendig, Facharzt für Dermatologie und Venerologie zu sein und zusätzlich beide Kurse absolviert zu haben.
Prescribing Pattern of Antibiotics in Pediatric Hospital of

IntroductionAntibioticsareamongthemostcommonlyprescribed �drugsinpediatrics. �Becauseofanoverallrisein �health� carecosts,�lackofuniformityindrugprescribing� andtheemergenceofantibioticresistance,�monitor ingand� controlofantibioticuseareofgrowingconcernan dstrictantibioticpoliciesshouldbewarranted. �B eforesuch� policiescanbeimplemented,�detailedknowledgeof� antibioticprescribingpracticeisimportant. �
A COMPUTING PERSPECTIVE ON SCIENTIFIC CHINESE TRINITY

The unprecedented and rapid development of the Chinese economy has been vividly displayed in front of the whole world to see. The attention has been particularly acute for the academic community and career politician alike. Ironically, this rapid economic miracle of China has been built on an unsound and often even questionable foundation of Chinese words, language and culture, of which we call them "Chinese trinity". This paper deals with the Chinese trinity from a computing science perspective. This paper argues the reform in scientific Chinese trinity with an emphasis of the word "scientific" ought to play a key role for further Chinese economic development and to launch a much improved contemporary Chinese society on a solid foundation. In addition, this paper proposes specifically ten computing paradigms and examines critically their potential impacts on scientific Chinese trinity. Finally, we feel the very focused approaches as proposed here might inspire as well as provide a much needed road map toward the goal of the scientific Chinese trinity. Judiciously chosen vigorous research projects appear to be indispensable. The unfortunate well known and long overdue reform has finally been rescued by the pressure of the information revolution coming of age.