Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Japanese Rhetorical Transfer in Freshman Comp.

A classroom study investigated the extent of rhetorical transfer in the writing of four Japanese students in a college-level sheltered English-as-a-Second-Language course. Most of the writing assignments from the first 10 weeks of class were analyzed for the number of sentences and clauses in each paragraph (other than introductory, concluding, and very short) were counted and the paragraphs analyzed for patterns of development. Results revealed that inductive development was the norm, with 41 of 63 paragraphs beginning with supporting sentences and ending in a topic sentence. Of the three patterns of development (direct, pivoting, suspended) specified in the course textbook, the direct pattern was least common, the suspended pattern most common. The findings explained to the teacher some of the differences in the writing of Japanese students. Contains 30 references. (MSE) ******************************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************************** JAPANESE RHETORICAL TRANSFER IN FRESHMAN COMP MARY O'RIORDAN NEW YORK CITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE/CUNY CUNY ESL COUNCIL CONFERENCE, 1999 HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BRONX
TCP/IP Unleashed

From the Publisher: TCP/IP Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to the TCP/IP protocols and their use. This book provides you with a thorough background of TCP/IP technology. In addition to detailing the basic protocols, the book teaches you how to connect to a variety of operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 98, Linux and Unix. TCP/IP Unleashed also features a section on running a DNS server, chapters on connecting computers to the Internet over serial lines (SLIP/PPP), and information about network management and security. As an added bonus, the book's appendix contains an index that maps an application and/or a protocol to the appropriate RFC (Request for Comments) document.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Large-Scale system and application performance

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the first Workshop on Large-scale System and Application Performance -- LSAP2009. We have initiated this workshop as we think it addresses a very important and timely subject. Over the last decade, computer systems and applications in everyday use have grown to unprecedented scales. Large clusters serving millions of search requests per day, grids executing large workflows and parameter sweeps consisting of thousands of jobs, and supercomputers running complex e-science applications, have now hundreds of thousands of processing cores. In addition, clouds are quickly emerging as a large-scale computing infrastructure. Peer-to-peer systems and centralized video distribution systems that dominate the internet and complicated internet applications such as massive multiplayer online games are used by millions of people every day. In view of this tremendous growth, understanding the performance of large-scale computer systems and applications has become vital to institutional, commercial, and private interests. This workshop intends to be a venue for papers on performance evaluation methods, tools, and studies focusing on the challenges of large scale, such as decentralization, predictable performance, reliability, and scalability. It aims to bring together system designers and researchers involved with the modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale systems and applications. The call for papers of the workshop attracted 7 submissions, out of which the program committee accepted 4 papers that cover a variety of topics, ranging from modular data centers and grid meta-brokers to the MapReduce programming model and peer-to-peer systems. In addition, the workshop program features a keynote presentation by Douglas Thain of the University of Notre Dame, USA, on scaling up data-intensive scientific applications.
Mecanismos de mediación entre agentes inteligentes y servicios web

Resumen Los servicios Web y los agentes inteligentes se han constituido hoy en dia en dos tecnoloǵias fundamentales para el desarrollo de aplicaciones industriales y basadas en la Web. Si bien son ampliamente reconocidas las potenciales ventajas de la interoperabilidad de ambas tecnoloǵias, llevar a cabo tal integracion no es una tarea sencilla si consideramos que cada una de ellas ha sido desarrollada tomando en cuenta diferentes estandars y especificaciones. En este trabajo, proponemos un enfoque que en lugar de considerar estas funcionalidades de integracion como una facilidad disponible a los agentes individuales, las traslada al contexto multiagente mediante el uso de mecanismos de mediacion y sus protocolos asociados. La factibilidad de la propuesta es determinada mediante la implementacion de WSIBA, un sistema que implementa un protocolo particular de mediacion (brokering) y un ejemplo sencillo donde se muestra de que manera WSIBA permite el acceso a los agentes de servicios Web para acceder a informacion del tiempo y conversiones de temperaturas.
Fabrication additive de matériaux électroactifs pour applications à la mécatronique

La Fabrication Additive (FA) est un procede de fabrication qui a commence a se developper dans les annees 80 et qui atteint actuellement une maturite qui lui permet d’etre utilise de maniere rentable et fonctionnelle par les industriels. La fabrication additive est definie comme etant le procede de mise en forme d’une piece par ajout de matiere, a l’oppose de la mise en forme traditionnelle par enlevement de matiere (usinage). Cette nouvelle technologie est une reelle revolution et permet de relever de nouveaux defis technologiques sans precedent. Que ce soit sur un axe materiau ou plus largement dans le cadre de l’usine du futur, la fabrication additive est un reel levier de croissance, mais de nombreux travaux de recherche sont encore a mener afin de perfectionner cette nouvelle technologie. C’est autour de cette problematique que les travaux de theses se sont focalises avec un accent sur l’integration de materiaux electroactifs pour la realisation de fonction mecatronique tirant profit des procedes de Fabrication Additive. Les actions de recherche montrent que la fabrication additive de materiaux electroactifs sera de plus en plus employee pour la realisation de fonctions mecatroniques hybrides qui combineront a la fois la structure mecanique, des circuits integres en silicium, des pistes conductrices et des materiaux couples imprimes, integrant ainsi des fonctionnalites, telles que des capteurs, des affichages ou des sources d’energie. Les travaux montrent le potentiel applicatif autour du controle de sante des structures en composites, mais aussi du controle de forme d’instrument pour la chirurgie. Pour arriver au developpement de ces dispositifs, les points suivants ont ete developpes autour des materiaux electroactifs et de leurs regles d’integrations et d’optimisation.
Different perspectives on wavelets : American Mathematical Society short course, January 11-12, 1993, San Antonio, Texas

Wavelet transforms and orthonormal wavelet bases by I. Daubechies Wavelets and operators by Y. Meyer Projection operators in multiresolution analysis by P. G. Lemarie-Rieusset Wavelets and differential operators by P. Tchamitchian Wavelets and fast numerical algorithms by G. Beylkin Wavelets and adapted waveform analysis. A toolkit for signal processing and numerical analysis by R. R. Coifman and M. V. Wickerhauser Best-adapted wavelet packet bases by M. V. Wickerhauser Nonlinear wavelet methods for recovery of signals, densities, and spectra from indirect and noisy data by D. L. Donoho.
Computers and writing : issues and implementations

Authors and inforamtion technology - new challenges in publishing, J. Dorner collaborative writing practices and writing support technologies, R. Rimmershaw two failures in computer-mediated textcommunication, J. Newman and R. Newman conditions for discovery through writing, D. Galbraith problems in achieving a global perspective of the text in computer-based writing, K. Severinson Eklundh designing minimal computer manuals from scratch, J.E. Ramsay and K. Oatley computer support for the development of writing abilities, M. Sharples and M. Evans schoolchildren's revision tactics, E. McAteer and A. Demissie a hypertext open learning system for writers, N. Williams hypertext adventures - computer-assisted teaching of technical report writing in delft, B.A. Andeweg et al CINEWRITE - an algorithm-sketch for writing novels cinematically, and two mysteries therein, S. Bringsjord making connections - the logical structuring of hypertext documents, P. O'Brian Holt and G. HOwell reviewing and correcting specifications, A. Finkelstein an engineering application for hypertext, J.K. W. Forster and P.L. Van Nest high speed text input to computer using handwriting, C.G. Leedham and Y. Qiao.
An Empirical Study Of Student Interaction With Cd Based Multimedia Courseware

The CD-MANIC project is developing a multimedia courseware system that combines the use of CDs for bandwidth-intensive content with periodic Internet connections for updates, logging, assessment and access to Internet resources. Class materials distributed by CD include a semester's worth of lectures (recorded during an earlier offering of the class) in the form of high quality audio/video synchronized with the display of class notes, overheads, and other in-class material. The CD-MANIC interface provides interactive controls for navigating course material, a multiple-view index over this material, a search facility, and (in some cases) access to an electronic copy of the complete course textbook. CD-MANIC also includes a logging facility that tracks students’ interactions locally and then uploads logged student activity to a central site for analysis. In this paper we present logged student activity for approximately 50 students who used CD-MANIC for a full semester in a variety of settings, including off-campus students who used CD-MANIC as their sole means of obtaining classroom lecture material, and on-campus students who used CD-MANIC as an adjunct to another instructor's teaching of the course. We provide a brief overview of CD-MANIC and the logging facility and then report on gathered data. We discuss our findings on the extent to which students viewed material in long-term, continuous play modes versus short-term, highly-interactive modes; the manner in which students navigate through course materials; and student use of the various components (audio/video, slides, index, and electronic book) available. We describe how results are being used to evaluate the existing version of CD-MANIC and develop future versions which more closely meet different student's needs.
On the Feature [rtr] in Chiliatin: A Problem for the Feature Hierarchy

0. Introduction. In this paper, I discuss two rules in Chilcotin (Athapaskan), both of which involve spreading of the feature [retracted tongue root] ((rtr]). The first rule is a coronal consonant harmony rule, Sibilant Assimilation, which requires that all coronal sibilants in a word agree in their specification for [rtr). The second rule, a tongue root harmony rule called Flattening, spreads [ +rtr] fresh velar segments and coronal sibilants onto neighbouring vowels. Only a subset of the [ +xtr] segments which trigger Flattening undergo Sibilant Assimilation. Given the structure of the feature hierarchy, the spreading of this subset in Sibilant Assimilation is impossible without violating locality. I suggest that the theory of tree geometry be modified to accomodate this problem.
Acquisition, modélisation et mise en œuvre d'un entrepôt de données pour l'analyse d’informations issues de Twitter

Le succes des reseaux sociaux en general et de Twitter en particulier n'est plus a demontrer. Les tweets echanges sur Internet constituent une source d’information importante meme si leurs caracteristiques les rendent difficiles a analyser (texte court de type SMS, meta-donnees disponibles, elements de langage specifiques comme les @ ou les #). Dans ce memoire, nous proposons une solution pour pouvoir integrer toutes les donnees qui peuvent etre extraites des tweets dans un entrepot de donnees. Cet entrepot servira de support a une activite d'informatique decisionnelle sur les tweets. Outre une agregation classique sur le nombre de tweets, nous implementons de nouvelles mesures pour analyser le contenu des messages permettant une analyse multidimensionnelle de tweets en lien avec un domaine d'application specifique.
Two Flows for Partial Reconfiguration: Module Based or Small Bit Manipulations

An important feature in the Xilinx VirtexTM architecture is the ability to reconfigure a portion of the FPGA while the remainder of the design is still operational. Partial reconfiguration is useful for applications that require the loading of different designs into the same area of the device or the flexibility to change portions of a design without having to either reset or completely reconfigure the entire device. With this capability, entirely new application areas become possible:
Election Certification by Statistical Audit of Voter-Verified Paper Ballots

Voter-verified paper ballots can be used to provide a physical audit trail for electronic voting, but paper ballots present a conundrum: It may never be known whether an election result is valid unless the paper ballots are manually counted, but a full recount would not normally be justified unless there is sufficient cause to doubt the electronic count. A solution to this problem is to mandate a statistical audit as part of routine election certification processes, with the audit being based on a small, random sampling of ballots and employing robust statistical methods. In a conventional statistical recount, a random sampling of paper ballots is manually counted to confirm the electronic result. But most of the recount effort goes into tedious counting and tallying operations that could be performed much more efficiently and accurately by computer, using an electronic ballot database, and which could be easily verified by auditors and anyone who has access to the database. All that is really needed to validate the election is to verify that the ballot database is an accurate representation of the paper ballots, i.e., the number of ballot recording errors should not be sufficient to change the election outcome. This paper analyzes two election audit processes: a conventional statistical recount, and a statistical error count that detects discrepancies between ballot database records and corresponding paper ballots. The error-count method would have enormous advantages of efficiency and robustness. For example, considering a two-candidate election with 10,000,000 ballots and a 1% winning margin, a statistical recount would typically require approximately 70,000 ballots (and possibly many more) to verify the result with 99% confidence, whereas a statistical error count would require fewer than 1000. Moreover, a statistical recount would be very sensitive to audit error bias; for example, a 0.1% bias could require that the expected sample size be increased to 95,000 for the same 99% confidence level. By contrast, a statistical error count would be very insensitive to audit errors, e.g., the method could compensate for a 10% audit error rate by simply making the sample size approximately 10% larger. The error-count method's simplicity, efficiency, and insensitivity to audit errors would make it practical for use as a routine election certification procedure.
The School as an Information Ecology: A Framework for Studying Changes in Information Use

This article explores the concept of the school as information ecology and proposes the use of this concept as a framework for studying the dynamics of online information-seeking behaviors of educators within the ecology. From an earlier study of teachers' online information-seeking behaviors using online survey and interview methods, four themes emerged: currency of information, sparking of ideas and gaining personal knowledge, resource management and the role of time, and webs of sharing. However, although teachers were using the Internet widely, they were underusing the online digital tools pecifically designed for educational use.
Machine Intelligence Quotient

Many of the problems that machine intelligence (MI) is expected to solve require extensive knowledge about the world. In order to make informed decisions regarding MI, computing and policy professionals need to understand how to measure intelligent machines. Multiple perspectives, machine intelligence measurement, and fuzzy set theories were used to determine the commonalities and differences among the current diverse machine intelligence quotient (MIQ) theories and the means to synthesize them. Three perspectives of MIM were synthesized: the technical perspective (T) focused on features that are of no qualitative meaning to humans; the organizational perspective (O) focused on whether a machine violated any regulation during the course of the intelligent actions; and the personal perspective (P) focused on subtle features parallel to human intelligence. An MIQ calculus based on the theoretic framework and three scientific contexts in which a machine could be tested was created. Recommendation was made to use TOP to measure the intelligence of machines. The MIQ tools can be used by computing professionals to measure and make informed decisions on MI.
Providing resource management services to parallel applications

Because resource management (RM) services are vital to the performance of parallel applications, it is essential that parallel programming environments (PPEs) and RM systems work together. We believe that no single RM system is always the best choice for every application and every computing environment. Therefore, the interface between the PPE and the resource manager must be exible enough to allow for customization and extension based on the environment. We present a framework for interfacing general PPEs and RM systems. This framework is based on clearly deening the responsibilities of these two components of the system. This framework has been applied to PVM, and two separate instances of RM systems have been implemented. One behaves exactly as PVM always has, while the second uses Condor to extend the set of RM services available to PVM applications.
Hierarchical Reinforcement in Continuous State and Multi-Agent Environments

Abstract : This dissertation investigates the use of hierarchy and abstraction as a means of solving complex sequential decision making problems such as those with continuous state and/or continuous action spaces, and domains with multiple cooperative agents. This thesis develops several novel extensions to hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL), and designs algorithms that are appropriate for such problems. It has been shown that the average reward optimality criterion is more natural than the more commonly used discounted criterion for continuing tasks. This thesis investigates two formulations of HRL based on the average reward semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) model, both for discrete-time and continuous-time. These formulations correspond to two notions of optimality that have been explored in previous work on HRL: hierarchical optimality and recursive optimality. Novel discrete-time and continuous-time algorithms, termed hierarchically optimal average reward RL (HAR) and recursively optimal average reward RL (RAR) are presented, which learn to find hierarchically and recursively optimal average reward policies. Two automated guided vehicle (AGV) scheduling problems are used as experimental testbeds to empirically study the performance of the proposed algorithms.
UX, Data and Non-Functional Architectural Design Considerations for Personal Knowledge Integrators

This paper discusses the need for Personal Knowledge Integrators - Knowers, and discusses the elements required to make a Knower which can exchange information with other Knowers regardless of different platforms or technologies. These may eventually extend and synchronise with a federation of Learning Management Systems, Personal Learning Environments and other sources and sinks of information. The focus here is on the core elements of a single Knower with consideration for extensibility later to the cloud.
Cooperative Interaction of Self-Interested Neuron-Like Processing Units

Abstract : This report describes progress made in the development of connectionist learning methods permitting networks to learn when they cannot be provided with training information of the high quality required by supervised- learning methods. These methods can permit the application of adaptive connectionist networks to tasks involving complex dynamical behavior and high degrees of uncertainty. A method for training layered networks to perform nonlinear pattern recognition and associative memory tasks was refined. The neuron-like units making up these networks learn on the basis of feedback that evaluates behavior but does not specify desired output or directly provide error information. We report how this method is related to gradient-following methods, how its learning rate can be improved, and argue that this method is biologically plausible. A generalized theory of supervised learning was developed, in which training information comes in the form of constraints instead of specifications of desired network outputs. This approach was illustrated by using it to train a simulated multi-jointed manipulator to perform sequences of reaching tasks. Progress was made in the development of reinforcement learning methods for control of dynamical systems. Keywords: Adaptive networks, Neural computing, Stochastic learning automata, Cooperative computing, Artificial intelligence.
Perspectives of quality in adult learning

Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Lifelong learning: The current policy context for adult education Chapter 3 - Conceptual framework and research questions Chapter 4 - Methodology and research methdods Chapter 5 - Adults as learners Chapter 6 - Quality and standards in adult learning Chapter 7 - Students' perceptions of learning and quality in adult education Chapter 8 - Tutors' perceptions of learning and quailty in adult education Chapter 9 - Comparisons and contrasts in research findings Chapter 10 - Conclusions, implications and future research References Appendices.