Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dictionary characteristics in cross-language information retrieval

In the absence of resources such a as suitable MT system, translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) consists primarily of mapping query terms to a semantically equivalent representation in the target language. This can be accomplished by looking up each term in a simple bilingual dictionary. The main problem here is deciding which of the translations provided by the dictionary for each query term should be included in the query translation. We tackled this problem by examining different characteristics of the system dictionary. We found that dictionary properties such as scale (the average number of translations per term), translation repetition (providing the same translation for a term more than once in a dictionary entry, for example, for different senses of a term), and dictionary coverage rate (the percentage of query terms for which the dictionary provides a translation) can have a profound effect on retrieval performance. Dictionary properties were explored in a series of carefully controlled tests, designed to evaluate specific hypotheses. These experiments showed that (a) contrary to expectation, smaller scale dictionaries resulted in better performance than large-scale ones, and (b) when appropriately managed e.g. through strategies to ensure adequate translational coverage, dictionary-based CLIR could perform as well as other CLIR methods discussed in the literature. Our experiments showed that it is possible to implement an effective CLIR system with no resources other than the system dictionary itself, provided this dictionary is chosen with careful examination of its characteristics, removing any dependency on outside resources.
Real-Time Cinematography for Games

Acknowledgments Introduction x 1 Cinematography: Position 2 Cinematography: Motion 3 Acting: Hitting the Mark 4 Cinematography: Lenses 5 Lighting: Reality versus Hollywood 6 Editing: Filters and Effects 7 Editing: Transition 8 Editing: Selection 9 Acting: Dialogue 10 Foley Artist: Sound Effects 11 Composing: Making Music 12 Directing: Bringing It All Together 13 Coming Soon Appendix A: About the Companion Web Site Appendix B: References Index
Communication et cryptographie quantiques avec des variables continues

Ces dernieres annees, les variables continues ont emergees en tant qu alternative aux variables discretes dans les communications quantiques. Cette these s'inscrit dans ce cadre des communications quantiques avec des variables continues. Les variables continues utilisees ici sont les quadratures d'un mode du champ electromagnetique. Pour les mesurer, nous avons construit une detection homodyne equilibree, limitee au bruit de photons, impulsionnelle et resolue en temps. Celle-ci peut effectuer 800 000 mesures par seconde. En se fondant sur la limite de la duplication quantique, nous montrons qu'une valeur de la fidelite superieure a 2/3 dans un protocole de teleportation quantique garantit que l'etat teleporte est la meilleure copie qui reste de l'etat d'entree. Nous introduisons de nouveaux protocoles de distribution quantique de clef utilisant des variables quantiques continues, surs face a des attaques individuelles pour toute valeur de la transmission de la ligne optique entre Alice et Bob. En particulier, il n'est pas necessaire que cette transmission soit plus grande que 50 % (moins de 3 dB de pertes). Ni compression des fluctuations quantiques, ni intrication ne sont necessaires. Nous avons implemente experimentalement ces protocoles, en utilisant la detection homodyne limitee au bruit de photon mentionnee plus haut et des etats coherents. L'extraction complete de la clef secrete est realisee en utilisant une technique de reconciliation par tranches inversee suivie d amplification de confidentialite. Notre dispositif experimental produit un taux net de transmission de clef de 1,7 megabits par seconde pour une ligne sans pertes, et 75 kilobits par seconde pour une ligne avec 3,1 dB de pertes. Les limitations actuelles sont essentiellement techniques et proviennent surtout de l'efficacite limitee du logiciel de reconciliation.
LES BOULEVARDS URBAINS : CONTRIBUTION A UNE POLITIQUE DE LA VILLE

Les grands boulevards urbains, peripheriques ou interieurs, tout en participant a l'organisation de la ville, sont la ville. L'auteur aborde les criteres historiques, economiques et politiques qui conditionnent la production de ces grands axes urbains, puis fait le point sur les elements a prendre en compte lors de l'etude de ces espaces : caracteristiques du trafic, lisibilite, qualite urbanistique, securite, aspects semiologiques. Enfin, une methodologie articulant l'ensemble de ces connaissances est proposee.
Phonological Mismatch Errors: An Acoustic Analysis

Phonological speech errors are generally said to occur at a level of production prior to the application of phonological rules. This phenomenon, called accommodation, is validated by several transcription studies. The transcription methodology is not the best choice for detecting errors at this level, however, as this type of error can be difficult to perceive. This dissertation presents an acoustic analysis of speech errors that uncovers non-accommodated or mismatch errors. A mismatch error is a sub-phonemic error that results in an incorrect surface phonology. The locus of this type of error is investigated by two further studies that explore whether mismatch errors arise during the processing of phonological rules or if they are made at the motor level of implementation. These studies reveal that mismatch errors occur after phonological rules but before motor level processing. The results of this work have important implications for both experimental and theoretical research. For experimentalists, it validates the tools used for error induction and the acoustic determination of errors free of the perceptual bias. For theorists, this methodology can be used to test the nature of the processes proposed in language production.
Quasi-Synchronous and Pitch-Synchronous Granular Sound Processing with Stampede II

Granular sound-processing techniques allow effective and drastic modification of existing sounds, including independent alteration of the sounds' inherent pitch and time flow (Truax 1994). These modifications produce artifacts, which provide a rich source for artistic exploitation. On the other hand, the artifacts impose limits on the subtlety of transformation. For a number of years now, the speech-processing community has used efficient techniques for independent alteration of the pitch and time flow of utterances (Roucos and Wilgus 1985; Moulines and Charpentier 1990). Technically, these methods are closely related to "classical" granular methods used for musical purposes. Stampede II, a real-time program, unifies a number of these approaches in a common framework that allows for both subtle and dramatic alteration of both recorded and live sounds.
Performance Evaluation of Load Balancing between Sensors and a Cloud for a Real Time Video Streaming Analysis Application Framework

あらまし 一般家庭やオフィスビルでカメラや各種センサの情報を取得してクラウドに転送し,解析処理を行うライ フログ解析アプリケーションが数多く開発されている. しかし,センサとクラウド間のネットワーク帯域やクラウド 側の資源の制限により,動画像解析のようなデータ量,計算量の多い処理をクラウドでリアルタイムに行うことは困 難である. 我々は,センサ・クラウド間で分散処理を行う動画像解析アプリケーションフレームワークを提案してい るが,センサからクラウドまでの実行環境を考慮しつつ,特徴量抽出等の前処理から解析までの各処理に対して適切 な並列度を設定する必要がある. 本研究では,センサとクラウドを模擬したクラスタ環境を構築し,動画像解析アプ リケーションの性能を調査する. 実験から,処理スレッド数を増やすと処理性能が向上すること,センサ・クラウド 間が低帯域の場合はセンサ・クラウド間の分散処理が有効であることが示された. キーワード Apache Storm, 負荷分散,ストリーム処理
Laboratory Diagnosis of Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disorder characterized by arterial or venous thromboembolic events and obstetric complications in association with the persistent laboratory evidence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). As the clinical manifestations of APS lack specificity, the diagnosis of APS is essentially dependent on the detection of circulating aPL. These aPL are autoantibodies directed against a complex of phospholipids and phospholipid-binding proteins, not directly binding to phospholipids. aPL associated with APS include lupus anticoagulant (LA), anticardiolipin (aCL), and anti-β2 glycoprotein-I (aβ2GPI) IgG or IgM antibodies. LA is a subset of aPL that binds to phospholipid-associated proteins in coagulation complexes and disrupts phospholipiddependent coagulation tests. aPL such as aCL and aβ2GPI antibodies are traditionally detected by ELISA, however newer automated platforms with various solid analytic and detection systems are now available in the diagnostic market. The international classification criteria of APS were developed and revised by international experts and societies, publishing international consensus guidelines on the recommended best practices for technical and performance requirements. To make a definitive diagnosis of APS, the presence of at least one clinical feature (vascular thrombosis or pregnancy morbidity) and one laboratory abnormality must be observed (Table 1). Persistent positivity of laboratory tests is important and the laboratory abnormality must be present on two or more occasions at least 12 weeks apart. A remote test could avoid false positive results from the interfering events, but positive tests separated more than five years from a clinical manifestation also risk misclassification. Despite these attempts to produce consensus guidelines, some issues related to laboratory testing still remain unresolved. Poor assay reproducibility, variable sensitivity and specificity, and a lack of standardization and harmonization comprise methodological problems. But progress has been made and reference calibrators for aβ2GPI immunoassays was newly developed. In this review, we want to give an overview of laboratory testing for APS with summary of recent international consensus guidelines for the detection of aPL. Also a brief review of prognostic significance of aPL profile and potential future diagnostic assay is presented.
Corpus-Based Knowledge Representation

A corpus-based knowledge representation system consists of a large collection of disparate knowledge fragments or schemas, and a rich set of statistics computed over the corpus. We argue that by collecting such a corpus and computing the appropriate statistics, corpus-based representation offers an alternative to traditional knowledge representation for a broad class of applications. The key advantage of corpus-based representation is that we avoid the laborious process of building a (often brittle) knowledge base. We describe the basic building blocks of a corpus-based representation system and a set of applications for which such a paradigm is appropriate, including one application where the approach is already showing promising results.
Is Perception of Handicap Related to Functional Performance in Persons with Vestibular Dysfunction?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if scores between 0 and 30 (mild), 31 and 60 (moderate), and 61 and 100 (severe) on the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) differentiated a person’s functional abilities. Study Design: Retrospective case series. Setting: Tertiary balance outpatient center. Patients: Patients (n = 85; mean age, 61 years) with a variety of vestibular diagnoses participated. Interventions: Patients completed the DHI, the Dynamic Gait Index (DGI), the 5 times sit to stand test (FTSST), the Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) scale, gait speed, and the Timed “Up & Go” (TUG) during the same session. Reported numbers of falls within the last 4 weeks were recorded. Main Outcome Measures: The DGI, FTSST, ABC, gait speed, TUG, and gait speed were compared among DHI groups. Results: Significant differences were identified using an analysis of variance between DHI groups on the DGI, the FTSST, ABC, and number of falls (p < 0.05). A significant difference was found between DHI groups (mild vs. severe and moderate vs. severe) on the DGI (p < 0.05) with greater DHI scores exhibiting more impaired walking. The FTSST was different between DHI groups mild and severe and DHI groups moderate and severe (p < 0.05), with slower FTSST scores with higher DHI scores. Reported falls were higher among the severe DHI group and the other 2 DHI groups (p < 0.05). All 3 DHI groupings were different from each other on the ABC (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Patients who perceive a greater handicap as a result of dizziness demonstrate greater functional impairment than patients who perceive less handicap from dizziness.
Successful Management of Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency Presenting with Reversible Metabolic Stroke in a Child

63 ©Copyright 2018 by Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Ege Children’s Foundation The Journal of Pediatric Research, published by Galenos Publishing House. Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce Özge Dedeoğlu MD, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Dr. Sami Ulus Women and Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 505 405 96 05 E-mail: ozgem.dr@gmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7492-5255 Re cei ved: 16.10. 2017 Ac cep ted: 02.12. 2017 1University of Health Sciences, Ankara Dr. Sami Ulus Women and Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Neurology, Ankara, Turkey 2University of Health Sciences, Ankara Dr. Sami Ulus Women and Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Metabolism and Nutrition, Ankara, Turkey 3Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey 4University of Health Sciences, Ankara Dr. Sami Ulus Women and Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Pediatrics, Ankara, Turkey Özge Dedeoğlu1, Çiğdem Kasapkara2, Kader Karlı Oğuz3, Esma Altınel4, Ayşe Aksoy1
Vers un outil d'aide à la parallélisation fondé sur les squelettes

RESUME L’objet de ce papier est de presenter les premiers travaux relatifs a la creation d’un outil semi-automatique d’aide a la parallelisation en vue d’effectuer du prototypage rapide d’applications de vision artificielle sur machine MIMD a memoire distribuee. L’approche proposee repose sur l’encapsulation de schemas de parallelisation usuels sous la forme de squelettes admettant deux definitions equivalentes. La premiere, interpretable par un langage fonctionnel, permet la verification formelle des programmes, la seconde decrit l’implantation sous la forme de graphe pseudo-flot de donnees parametrable.
Comparaison qualitative de l'obturation canalaire en technique combinée avec deux instrumentations différentes : acier versus nickel-titane

Objectifs : Comparer l’aire occupee par la gutta-percha, le ciment et les vides microscopiques dans des canaux obtures par une technique d’obturation combinee avec deux instrumentations differentes. Materiel et methode : 40 dents sont preparees avec le One Shape® puis separees en deux groupes. 20 dents sont obturees avec des instruments en acier (FingerSpreader® / GuttaCondensor®) et les 20 autres avec des instruments en NiTi (RevoSpreader®/ RevoCondensor®). Les dents, ensuite incluses dans de la resine, sont coupees horizontalement a 1,5- 1,8 et 3 mm de l’apex. Sur des microphotographies des coupes, la quantite des materiaux d’obturation et vides est mesuree. Les moyennes sont calculees et comparees entre elles grâce a un test-t de Student. Resultats : Les etudes statistiques ont permis de conclure que les instruments en acier (Finger Spreader® et Gutta Condensor®) permettent d’obtenir un taux de remplissage par la gutta-percha significativement plus important (p=0,0015) que les instruments en nickel-titane (RevoSpreader® et RevoCondensor®).
Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Travels and Travails of Matriarchal Myth 2. Amazons Everywhere: Matriarchal Myth before Bachofen 3. On the Launching Pad: J. J. Bachofen and Das Mutterrecht 4. The Matriarchal Explosion: Anthropology Finds Mother Right (and Itself) 5. Making Matriarchal Myth Work: Communists and Feminists Discover the Mother Age 6. Mother Right on the Continent 7. Struggling to Stay Alive: Anthropology and Matriarchal Myth 8. Matriarchal Myth in the Late Nineteenth Century: Why Then? Why Not Before? Notes Bibliography Index
Computational and Physical Modeling for Multi-Cellular Pneumatic Envelope Assemblies

This article describes recent research on the performative, formal and aesthetic potentials of multi-cellular pneumatic foil-based envelope systems for lightweight, responsive building skins able to control thermal insulation and air exchange with minimal amounts of energy and mechanical components. The prototype-based research involves the use of principles from biological examples of pneus, which inform the design of physical analogue models at an architectural scale. The process entails physical-computational feedback loops wherein physical performance findings are fed into computational design models for pneumatics and membranes, as well as modified energy models, in order to advance the predictive design capacities of simulation tools in designing such systems. In this process, material agency allies with computational agency to develop novel possibilities for dynamic pneumatic envelopes.
A Streaming Data Delaunay Triangulation Algorithm Based on Parallel Computing

This paper presents a streaming data algorithm to execute Delaunay triangulations with large LiDAR point clouds(a billion data points) based on multi-core processor architecture.The algorithm combines divide-and-conquer triangulation with streaming data.A quad-tree structure is used to partition the LiDAR data into subnets adaptively,and schedules triangulation and merging of the subnet data into different processors for load balancing.Parallel computing on multi-core processor architecture makes this algorithm highly efficient with a low memory footprint.
Augmenting the Bench Press With Elastic Resistance: Scientific and Practical Applications

ABSTRACT THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO PROVIDE SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL MERITS FOR INCORPORATING RESISTANCE BANDS TO THE BENCH PRESS EXERCISE AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY AND STRENGTH. RECOMMENDATIONS ARE PRESENTED THAT MAY BE OF BENEFIT TO THE INTERMEDIATE OR ADVANCED RESISTANCE TRAINING PARTICIPANT.
Bench to Bedside: Cultivating Student Champions and Clinician Super-Users of Evidence-Based Practice

The hospital is a setting where innovation is valued and calculated risks are undertaken to push biophysical limits. Substantial biomedical research has occurred of late as researchers relentlessly pursue optimal solutions to complex medical problems. With an ever-increasing percentage of patients surviving critical illness, greater expertise is required by the inter-professional healthcare team to support the fragile physiologic states of patients. The complexity of the practice setting, constant scientific advances, and the occurrence of novel situations that precipitate uncertainty of clinical practice are daily realities that must be recognized and addressed. Healthcare providers are further charged to identify, implement, monitor, and modify strategies to collectively align with the Triple Aim [1] to improve the patient experience, reduce costs, and improve health outcomes.
The Generation of Affinity Reagents Using High-throughput Phage Display and Building the Foundations of a Novel High-throughput Intrabody Pipeline

Phage display technology has emerged as the dominant approach in antibody engineering. Here I describe my work in developing a high-throughput method of reliably generating intracellular antibodies. In my first data chapter, I present the first known high-throughput pipeline for antibody-phage display libraries of synthetic diversity and I demonstrate how increasing the scale of both target production and library selection still results in the capture of antibodies to over 50% of targets. In my second data chapter, I present the construction and validation of a novel scFv-phage library that will serve as the first step in my proposed intrabody pipeline. Antibodies obtained from this library will be screened for functionality using a novel yeast-twohybrid approach and have numerous downstream applications. This high-throughput pipeline is amenable to automation and can be scaled up to thousands of domains, resulting in the potential generation of many novel therapeutic reagents.
Model-based video segmentation for vision-augmented interactive games

This paper presents an architecture and algorithms for model based video object segmentation and its applications to vision augmented interactive game. We are especially interested in real time low cost vision based applications that can be implemented in software in a PC. We use different models for background and a player object. The object segmentation algorithm is performed in two different levels: pixel level and object level. At pixel level, the segmentation algorithm is formulated as a maximizing a posteriori probability (MAP) problem. The statistical likelihood of each pixel is calculated and used in the MAP problem. Object level segmentation is used to improve segmentation quality by utilizing the information about the spatial and temporal extent of the object. The concept of an active region, which is defined based on motion histogram and trajectory prediction, is introduced to indicate the possibility of a video object region for both background and foreground modeling. It also reduces the overall computation complexity. In contrast with other applications, the proposed video object segmentation system is able to create background and foreground models on the fly even without introductory background frames. Furthermore, we apply different rate of self-tuning on the scene model so that the system can adapt to the environment when there is a scene change. We applied the proposed video object segmentation algorithms to several prototype virtual interactive games. In our prototype vision augmented interactive games, a player can immerse himself/herself inside a game and can virtually interact with other animated characters in a real time manner without being constrained by helmets, gloves, special sensing devices, or background environment. The potential applications of the proposed algorithms including human computer gesture interface and object based video coding such as MPEG-4 video coding.
Automation of DNA computing readout method based on real-time PCR implemented on DNA engine opticon 2 system

Previously, an automation of a DNA computing readout method for the Hamiltonian Path Problem (HPP) has been implemented based on LightCycler System. In this study, a similar readout approach is implemented based on DNA Engine Opticon 2 System. The readout approach consists of two steps: real-time amplification in vitro using TaqMan-based real-time PCR, followed by an in silico phase. The in silico phase consists of a data clustering algorithm and an information processing to extract the Hamiltonian path after the TaqMan \YES and \NO reactions have been identified. The result indicates that the automation of DNA computing readout method can be efficiently implemented on DNA Engine Opticon 2 System.