Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Zoltan: A Dynamic Load-Balancing Library for Parallel Applications

An embossing roller has protruding lands extending radially outward from the surface of the roller to provide corresponding indentations in a thermoplastic surface to which the roller may be applied. A layer of resilient material underlies the lands so that when the roller is rolled over an irregular surface, individual lands, or groups of lands, may be depressed different amounts so that embossing indentations are formed in all portions of the surface. By applying adequate pressure to the roller, all of the lands are depressed at their points of contact when in contact with the surface if the surface is flat and regular. The lands are forced by action of the resilient material into contact with the bottom of any slight concavity in the surface and adapt to any slight convexity. In some embodiments, lands protrude outwardly from metal rings which encircle the roller. In other embodiments, lands are supported directly by the resilient material. In a method of using the roller, a surface is substantially simultaneously coated and embossed by first pressing against the surface a portion of a film web which carries a thermally transferable coating, then heating the web, the coating and the surface, and then rolling the embossing roller across the web and the surface. The heating and pressing steps may be carried out with heated resiliently surfaced rollers which travel ahead of the embossing roller.
The Role of Subject Access in Information Filtering

The sheer amount of electronic information makes filtering a vital component of contemporary information work. Field observations of managers and engineers at the Boeing Company who received filtered information about computer-related topics revealed criteria they used to select, and those they used to reject, documents within their subject interest. Responses to a questionnaire indicated that some criteria are used more frequently and are more important than others. The few criteria that related to the subject matter of the documents were not limited to a subject domain. Other criteria addressed the form of the documents, their content, and writing style . In addition, some criteria were stable and somewhat objective and others were situational and subjective. An examination of these criteria shows that many of them could be used in filtering, in addition to subject-based mechanisms, and that they might be particularly useful for systems with multiple sources because they can provide a useful filter that is not based on the subject domain.
How Many Words Are There In The English Language? Wilton''s Word and Phrase Origins

People continuously invent new words, alter some existing ones, or stop using others altogether. Plus, what about medical and scientific terms? Should they be counted as part of our “vocabulary”? And if we look at the English language, for example, what should we do about Latin words used in law, French words used in cooking, German words used in academic writing, Japanese words used in martial arts? Do you count Scots dialect? Teenage slang? Abbreviations?
Performance Study of Round Robin and Proportional Fair Scheduling Algorithms by Emulation for Video Traffic in LTE Networks

Video communication over mobile broadband is gaining popularity due to the increased demand for applications such as Video on Demand (VoD), IPTV, video conferencing etc. In order to support these video applications over mobile broadband, efficient video streaming within the limited bandwidth environment is essential. Further, Long Term Evolution (LTE) network incorporates advanced Radio Resource Management (RRM) mechanism such as scheduling to realize efficient video streaming over limited bandwidth arena. Scheduling does the task of dividing and allocating radio resources in order to maximize system throughput and enhance Quality of Experience (QoE) of the end user. Hence, in this paper an attempt has been made to evaluate the performance of Round Robin (RR) and Proportional Fair (PF) scheduling algorithms using EXata network emulator for real video traffic generated by Video LAN (VLC) media player. Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and throughput are considered as performance metrics for the emulation studies.
A Survey of the Prominent Effects of Cybersquatting in India

With the growth of commercial activity on the internet, a domain name can be said to be used as a business identifier image. A trademark, a design, a logo or an easily remembered picture is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service. Domain name conflicts arise most frequently as a consequence of the practice of cybersquatting [11]. Cybersquatters deliberately exploit the first-come-first-served nature of the domain name registration system and then the squatters either offer to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trade mark contained within the name at an inflated price. In India, there is no statute law which explicitly refers to dispute resolution in connection with cyber squatting or other domain name disputes. The Trade Marks Act, 1999 used for protecting use of trademarks in domain names is not extra-territorial, therefore, it does not allow for adequate protection of domain names. This paper projects the overview of cybersquatting & its prominent effects in India. With the current legal framework have been highlighted out and formulated a three pronged approach which would go a long way to eradicate these squatters.
La médiatisation de « l’affaire de la burqa » en France : stratégies de visibilité et crise iconique

This article examines the media construction of a certain form of Islamic public visibility by analyzing the French regional and national press coverage of the “Burqa affair” (2009-2010). By means of a semiotic approach, and with reference to the notions of “visibility-invisibility,” “face,” and “iconocrisis,” the article seeks to demonstrate how the burqa affair raises questions about contemporary regimes of visibility and publicity (making public). Considering the media staging of Islam as a site of deployment of strategies of visibility, the article demonstrates how the niqab is (re)presented as both an ostentatious and an opaque sign, and as such, as the antithesis of a French Republican conception of national identity. Cet article porte sur la construction mediatique d’une certaine visibilite publique de l’islam en France a travers l’analyse de la couverture de presse (regionale et nationale) de « l’affaire de la burqa » (2009-2010). Depuis une approche semiotique et au regard des interrogations autour des notions de « visibilite-invisibilite », « visage » et « iconocrise », notre objectif est de demontrer comment « l’affaire de la burqa » souleve des questionnements autour des regimes de visibilite et de publicite (rendre public) contemporains. Considerant la mise en scene mediatique de l’islam comme lieu de deploiement des strategies de visibilite, il nous interesse d’observer comment le niqab est (re)presente comme un signe a la fois ostentatoire et opaque, exprimant l’antithese de la conception republicaine d’« identite nationale ».
Learning to read aloud: A neural network approach using sparse distributed memory

An attempt to solve a problem of text-to-phoneme mapping is described which does not appear amenable to solution by use of standard algorithmic procedures. Experiments based on a model of distributed processing are also described. This model (sparse distributed memory (SDM)) can be used in an iterative supervised learning mode to solve the problem. Additional improvements aimed at obtaining better performance are suggested.
Horex: A Computer Program For The Construction Of Examination Schedules

AbstractThis application note describes an aJgorithm designed to construct exainination schedules in such a way that: (1) all examinations take place within a given number of days; (2) examinations can be held in two separate sessions each day; (3) students are never scheduled to take two examinations at the same time; (4) the number of students having two examinations during the same day is kfept as low as possible; (5) as few students as possible will have examinations on two consecutive days; (6) no more examinations are scheduled than room capacities will allow.HOREX is currently being used to construct the examination schedule of l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
How Small Companies Measure their Performance

This study reports the results of questionnaire surveys with companies that hire less than 20 employees in Finland the UK on how performance be measured. The results are: First, both the Finnish and UK companies rely on employees, production lines and activities to formulate their performance measurement system. Second, both the Finnish and UK companies use both the financial and non-financial variables to measure their performance despite the UK companies tend to em-phasise more on the financial variables. Third, factor analysis shows that environmental and nonhuman production factors play a major part on the performance of these small companies. The results make major contributions to the business community and managers in decision-making processes. Future research could expand the sample size and include other methods of capturing data for analysis.
Laboratory Testing of Multi-terminal VSC-HVDC

This report documents laboratory testing of multi-terminal HVDC system in down-scaled model. First, analytical method for solving DC power flow is introduced and explained. Power flow equations are set up and implemented by means of admittance matrix and Newtons method. Second, laboratory test set-up is presented. Necessary components for steady state tests are described and control and monitoring system is developed. Third, steady state test results are presented and compared with analytical solution of DC power flow. Finally, conclusions on the results and further work are discussed. Analytical method consists of simple DC power flow equations. Newtons method is explained and Matlab code for finding the solution using iterations is presented. Some simplifications for lower number of power flow equations are made and justification for them is given. Laboratory test set-up consists of existing and new equipment. Existing equipment will be described briefly and references to relevant documents are given in the following chapters. Missing components in the system were ordered, custom-made or created in conjunction with the two. New equipment is introduced and any further improvements in making the model more realistic are suggested. Control system for the laboratory test set-up is presented. Existing components in the control system are described together with the description of the signal processing methodology. The structure of controlling the system, as used in the laboratory, is presented and user interface for controlling and monitoring the system is shown. A user interface program is described and code is given. Testing was conducted in organized manner adding the complexity to the test set-up gradually. Tests are presented so that every next test scenario would have something in common with the one before making the change in outcome easier to observe. Comments on the expected and laboratory values are given, whereas possible reasons for inconsistencies in the results are discussed. Work on building up a laboratory test system for studying dynamic changes in MTDC systems was started. Results are presented in the second part of the report. Further work for setting up mode true-to-real model of MTDC system is discussed. Any improvements on the existing hardware and software are brought out.
Environnement de procédé extensible pour l'orchestration - Application aux services web

La construction de logiciels par coordination d'applications existantes et autonomes permet de realiser des logiciels de grande taille, reutilisant le savoir-faire contenu dans ces applications. Les procedes, utilises dans differents domaines et de differentes manieres pour coordonner des applications ou des humains, se presentent comme etant de bons candidats pour realiser ces coordinations. Cependant, la plupart des procedes sont rigides, fortement couples, et se basent sur un grand nombre de concepts specialises. Ils sont aussi souvent reserves a une categorie d'applications. Nous presentons les points forts et les points faibles des formalismes et moteurs de procedes actuels et nous en deduisons quels sont les besoins pour la coordination d'applications via un procede. Nous presentons dans cette these l'environnement realise dans notre equipe qui propose une architecture des logiciels a trois couches : conceptuelle, mediateur, et outils. Le niveau conceptuel contient un meta-modele qui ne definit que les concepts basiques des procedes. Nous definissons ensuite quatre classes d'extension de ce meta-modele minimal. Notre environnement permet alors de construire et executer des logiciels bases sur des procedes de coordination extensibles et evolutifs.
A Generic Computer Support for Concurrent Design

Concurrent design involves collaboration, coordination, and information-based co-decision making within a potentially distributed multifunctional team. This paper shows that a generic process-centred environment kernel, based on fine-grain process modeling, using customizable product models, providing capabilities for task model refinement at run time, and true collaboration support, is a good candidate for building computer aided concurrent design environments. DOTS, a java prototype of such a generic environment kernel is described in this paper and its usage in the concurrent design application domain is discussed.
Complete Reading Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Techniques for Teaching Reading Disabled Students

The Practical Help This Book Offers. Chapter 1. What are Reading Disabilities? Chapter 2. General Guidelines and Materials for Diagnosing Reading Disabilities. Chapter 3. Ready--to--Use Materials for Diagnosing Disabilities in the Word--Identification Techniques. Chapter 4. Ready--to--Use materials for Diagnosing Disabilities in Comprehension and Basic Study Skills. Chapter 5. Ready--to--Use Strategies and Activities for Correcting Disabilities in the Word--Identification Techniques. Chapter 6. Ready--to--Use Strategies and Activities for Correcting Disabilities in Comprehension and Basic Study Skills. Chapter 7. Special Strategies and Delivery Systems for Teaching Reading Skills to Disabled Readers and Learning--Handicapped Students. Appendices.
Which spatial weighting matrix? An approach for model selection

In spatial econometrics, it is customary to specify a weighting matrix, the so-called W matrix. The decision is important because the choice of W matrix determines the rest of the analysis. However, the procedure is not well deﬁned and, usually, reﬂects the priors of the user. In the paper, we revise the literature looking for criteria to help with this problem. Also, a new nonparametric procedure is introduced. Our proposal is based on a measure of the information, conditional entropy, that uses information present in the data. We compare these alternatives by means of a Monte Carlo experiment.
Software Architecture and Object-Oriented Systems

Over the past decade software architecture has emerged as an important subfield of software engineering. During that time there has been considerable progress in developing the technological and methodological base for treating architectural design as an engineering discipline, including specialized architectural description languages, tools, analytic techniques, handbooks, and methods. In this paper I survey the main features of the field, and then compare software architecture with object-oriented systems to illustrate some of the important similarities and differences between the two fields.
Optimising and Automating the Choice of Search Strings when Investigating Possible Plagiarism

This paper describes how to optimise the use of Internet search engines when investigating a document for possible non-original content. Services such as Turnitin do not guarantee to identify all non-original content, leading tutors to have to conduct manual searches when suspicion of non-originality remains. Previous studies have suggested that the investigator should manually select memorable phrases from the paper and submit them to a general search engine. The studies in this paper demonstrate that selecting phrases at random is just as effective. Several corpora of documents were obtained from a number of different academic areas, and several phrases were obtained from each. Strings, of increasing length starting with a single word, from these phrases were submitted to specialised and general search engines and the number of hits recorded. A common finding of these searches was that, in almost all cases, strings of six words were sufficiently distinct to uniquely identify the document that the string was taken from. One consequence of this is that totally automated tools are possible for this search-engine based non-originality detection technique.
Totem: A Protocol for Message Ordering in a Wide-Area Network

Modern token ring communication media provide the opportunity to build extensive networks of computers. Maintenance of the consistency of replicated information in such networks requires fault-tolerant protocols that can ensure consistent ordering of messages multicast within small groups of processors distributed throughout the network. The Totem protocol uses a combination of sequence numbers on individual rings and system-wide timestamps to achieve reliable delivery and ordering of messages.
Potential and Challenges of Analog Reconfigurable Computation in Modern and Future CMOS

In this work, the feasibility of the floating-gate technology in analog computing platforms in a scaled down general-purpose CMOS technology is considered. When the technology is scaled down the performance of analog circuits tends to get worse because the process parameters are optimized for digital transistors and the scaling involves the reduction of supply voltages. Generally, the challenge in analog circuit design is that all salient design metrics such as power, area, bandwidth and accuracy are interrelated. Furthermore, poor flexibility, i.e. lack of reconfigurability, the reuse of IP etc., can be considered the most severe weakness of analog hardware. On this account, digital calibration schemes are often required for improved performance or yield enhancement, whereas high flexibility/reconfigurability can not be easily achieved. Here, it is discussed whether it is possible to work around these obstacles by using floating-gate transistors (FGTs), and analyze problems associated with the practical implementation. FGT technology is attractive because it is electrically programmable and also features a charge-based built-in non-volatile memory. Apart from being ideal for canceling the circuit non-idealities due to process variations, the FGTs can also be used as computational or adaptive elements in analog circuits. The nominal gate oxide thickness in the deep sub-micron (DSM) processes is too thin to support robust charge retention and consequently the FGT becomes leaky. In principle, non-leaky FGTs can be implemented in a scaled down process without any special masks by using “double”-oxide transistors intended for providing devices that operate with higher supply voltages than general purpose devices. However, in practice the technology scaling poses several challenges which are addressed in this thesis. To provide a sufficiently wide-ranging survey, six prototype chips with varying complexity were implemented in four different DSM process nodes and investigated from this perspective. The focus is on non-leaky FGTs, but the presented autozeroing floating-gate amplifier (AFGA) demonstrates that leaky FGTs may also find a use. The simplest test structures contain only a few transistors, whereas the most complex experimental chip is an implementation of a spiking neural network (SNN) which comprises thousands of active and passive devices. More precisely, it is a fully connected (256 FGT synapses) two-layer spiking neural network (SNN), where the adaptive properties of FGT are taken advantage of. A compact realization of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) within the SNN is one of the key contributions of this thesis. Finally, the considerations in this thesis extend beyond CMOS to emerging nanodevices. To this end, one promising emerging nanoscale circuit element memristor is reviewed and its applicability for analog processing
Quantifying the Quality of Audio and Video Transmissions over the Internet: The PSQA Approach

Catching means extend forwardly from mobile support such as a combine header, aligned with soybean plants growing in rows, and plant-engaging means located adjacent to the catching means insert in the rows forwardly of the forward edge of the catching means and apply force on plants a short distance above the ground in a direction toward the catching means and opposite to the direction of movement of the mobile support, thereby breaking off the plants at about the ground level and causing the tops of the plants to fall toward the catching means for catching, gathering and delivery of broken-off plants by catching means for subsequent threshing operations.
A cross-layers service discovery protocol for MANET

With the rapid development of Internet, MANET is becoming a popular network organization. Automatic service discovery plays an important role in the appliance of auto-finding and using the resource in the dynamic network environment, and it also can reduce the complexity of system configuration and maintenance. This paper proposes a new service discovery protocol called SCAODV which integrates route protocol and the process of service discovery. SCAODV protocol is based on CAODV protocol. The NS2 Simulation experiments prove that SCAODV protocol not only achieve route discovery and service discovery, but also decrease control packets efficiently and keep lower delay of service discovery. SCAODV protocol also achieve security certificate based on the symmetric encryption technology between service requester and service replier in the process of service.
Implementing Replication Protocols in the MADIS Architecture

Database replication is a way to increase system performance and fault-tolerance of a given system. The price to pay is the effort needed to guarantee data consistency which it is not an easy task. In this paper, we introduce a description of two onecopy-serializable eager update everywhere replication protocol. The preliminary results of their implementation in the MADIS middleware architecture is also presented. The advantage of these replication protocols is that they do not need to reimplement features that are provided by the underlying database. The first one does not rely on strong group communication primitives; distributed deadlock is avoided by a deadlock prevention schema based on transaction priorities (whose information is totally local at each node). The second one manages replica consistency by the total order message delivery featured by group communication systems.