Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Iris recognition based on score level fusion by using SVM

In this paper,an iris recognition method using wavelet packet transformation and based on score level fusion by using SVM is proposed.First wavelet packet transformation is used to decomposition normalized iris image for 2 levels,and the feature vectors are selected from the area with the highest energy values and the second highest,then two calculated hamming distance are input to SVM in order to reduce the dimension of SVM and improve veracity.The experiment indicates that proposed approach provides a good result for the iris recognition.
Speech Disorders Recognition using Speech Analysis

Speech disorders are human disabilities widely present in young population but also adults may suffer from such disorders after some physical problems. In this context, the detection and further the correction of such disabilities may be handled by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology. The first works on the speech disorders detection began early in the 70s and seem to follow the same evolution as those on the ASR. Indeed, these early works were more based on the signal processing techniques. Progressively, systems dealing with speech disorders incorporate more ideas from ASR technology. Particularly, Hidden Markov Models, the state-of-the-art approaches in ASR systems, are used. This chapter reviews systems that use ASR techniques to evaluate pronunciation of people who suffer from speech or voice impairments. The authors investigate the existing systems and present the main innovation and some of the available resources.
Development of a Novel Algorithm to Provide Efficiency and Security

high security, steganography process is combined with cryptographic encryption decryption algorithm such that if any one detect the presence of secret information still it is not understandable. Also there are many encryption/ decryption and steganography algorithm but there is always a competition to develop such an algorithm which is not only fast but also secure too. The proposed architecture first encrypts the secret text with proposed encryption algorithm and then hides it behind another text file through steganography algorithm.
Generation and exploitation of intermediate goals in automated planning

In automated planning, domain-independent planners often scale poorly. This is due to the exponential blow up of the effort necessary to solve a planning task as its size increases. One of the most popular ways of addressing this problem is splitting the planning problem into several smaller ones. Each subproblem is in theory exponentially easier to solve than the original one, so planners that divide the original task will tend to scale much better. To divide the task into smaller ones, we need to find domain-independent methods to derive intermediate goals. In this thesis we will study different approaches that generate and exploit intermediate goals, without limiting ourselves to simply splitting the original problem. Three main lines of research will be pursued. The first one deals with regression, first tackling its shortcomings and then using it both in bidirectional search and as a way to derive novel heuristics based on intermediate goals. In the second one we propose sampling the search space randomly and using the randomly-sampled subgoals in a tree-like algorithms that effectively balances exploration and exploitation. Finally, in the third one we study the properties of the landmark graph, which represents precedence constraints among subgoals of the task. As a contribution, we propose different characterizations of the landmark graph that improve over its original formulation by providing more information, both formal properties of the task and finer orderings of subgoals exploitable by planners that already use landmarks. ----------------------------------------------------------
CIRURGIA BARIÁTRICA EM ADULTOS: A IMPORTÂNCIA DA ORIENTAÇÃO MULTIPROFISSIONAL NO PERÍODO PÓS-OPERATÓRIO

Version:1.0 StartHTML:000000174 EndHTML:000002444 StartFragment:000000437 EndFragment:000002412 StartSelection:000000437 EndSelection:000002412 SourceURL:about:blank Este trabalho teve como objetivo de expor, compreender e refletir sobre a importância da orientação multiprofissional no período pós-operatório de cirurgia bariátrica. O estudo foi desenvolvido com base na pesquisa qualitativa de abordagem descritiva e explicativa, realizada em um hospital de médio porte, situado ao norte do Rio Grande do Sul, no período entre junho e novembro de 2016. Participaram da pesquisa 11 profissionais que compõem a equipe multiprofissional do respectivo hospital e prestam assistência aos pacientes submetidos Ã cirurgia bariátrica. Observou-se que a grande causa do reganho de peso concentra-se nas questões psicológicas e abandono de dieta e exercícios. Também foi identificada a deficiência perante a orientação multiprofissional, podendo acarretar no paciente o acúmulo de dúvidas, as atitudes inadequadas e reganho de peso ao longo dos anos após a cirurgia. Todos os profissionais precisam ter a clareza sobre o seu papel na assistência ao paciente, eliminando a associação prioritária que ainda é feita da nutrição com o pós-operatório de cirurgia bariátrica. Â
Implementation of Fuzzy Based Simulation for Clone Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks are usually left unattended and serve hostile environment, therefore can easily be compromised. With compromised nodes an attacker can conduct several inside and outside attacks. Node replication attack is one of them which can cause severe damage to wireless sensor network if left undetected. This paper presents fuzzy based simulation framework for detection and revocation of compromised nodes in wireless sensor network. Our proposed scheme uses PDR statistics and neighbor reports to determine the probability of a cluster being compromised. Nodes in compromised cluster are then revoked and software attestation is performed.Simulation is carried out on MATLAB 2010a and performance of proposed scheme is compared with conventional algorithms on the basis of communication and storage overhead. Simulation results show that proposed scheme require less communication and storage overhead than conventional algorithms.
Dynamically reconfigurable management of energy, performance, and accuracy applied to digital signal, image, and video processing applications

There is strong interest in the development of dynamically reconfigurable systems that can meet real-time constraints in energy/power-performance-accuracy (EPA/PPA). In this dissertation, I introduce a framework for implementing dynamically reconfigurable digital signal, image, and video processing systems. The basic idea is to first generate a collection of Pareto-optimal realizations in the EPA/PPA space. Dynamic EPA/PPA management is then achieved by selecting the Pareto-optimal implementations that can meet the real-time constraints. The systems are then demonstrated using Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (DPR) and dynamic frequency control on FPGAs. The framework is demonstrated on: (i) a dynamic pixel processor, (ii) a dynamically reconfigurable 1-D digital filtering architecture, and (iii) a dynamically reconfigurable 2-D separable digital filtering system. Efficient implementations of the pixel processor are based on the use of look-up tables and local-multiplexes to minimize FPGA resources. For the pixel-processor, different realizations are generated based on the number of input bits, the number of cores, the number of output bits, and the frequency of operation. For each parameters combination, there is a different pixel-processor realization. Pareto-optimal realizations are selected based on measurements of energy per frame, PSNR accuracy, and performance in terms of frames per second. Dynamic EPA/PPA management is demonstrated for a sequential list of real-time constraints by selecting optimal realizations and implementing using DPR and dynamic frequency control. Efficient FPGA implementations for the 1-D and 2-D FIR filters are based on the use a distributed arithmetic technique. Different realizations are generated by varying the number of coefficients, coefficient bitwidth, and output bitwidth. Pareto-optimal realizations are selected in the EPA space. Dynamic EPA management is demonstrated on the application of real-time EPA constraints on a digital video. The results suggest that the general framework can be applied to a variety of digital signal, image, and video processing systems. It is based on the use of offline-processing that is used to determine the Pareto-optimal realizations. Real-time constraints are met by selecting Pareto-optimal realizations pre-loaded in memory that are then implemented efficiently using DPR and/or dynamic frequency control.
Advanced Question-Answering and Discourse Semantics

In this chapter, the authors develop the paradigm of advanced question-answering that includes howto, why, evaluative, comparative, and opinion questions. They show the different parameters at stake in answer production, involving several aspects of cooperativity. These types of questions require quite a lot of discourse semantics analysis and domain knowledge. The second part of this chapter is devoted to a short presentation of those text semantics aspects relevant to answering questions. The last part of this chapter introduces , a platform the authors have developed for discourse semantics analysis that they use for answering complex questions, in particular how-to and opinion questions.
Conception et évaluation d'une technique d'interaction pour la sélection d'un volume dans un nuage de point 3D

Une tâche fondamentale d'interaction dans un environnement 3D est la possibilite de realiser une selection. Elle est necessaire pour appliquer des traitements locaux, comme le deplacement d'un objet. Bien que pour les objets larges les techniques classiques fonctionnent bien, comme le lancer de rayon, elles deviennent moins adaptees quand le besoin en precision augmente. Elles sont meme impossibles a utiliser pour selectionner des ensembles de points. Pour ces ensembles de points, nous proposons une nouvelle technique de selection. Elle permet de selectionner des formes complexes tout en restant simple d'utilisation. Elle repose sur trois principes : 1) la selection de points consiste a progressivement elaborer une forme rappelant vaguement un cylindre a travers la definition iterative de sections ; 2) une section est definie par deux contours lies ensemble par des lignes droites ; 3) chaque contour est un trace ferme dessine librement. Les resultats d'une evaluation utilisateur etablissent que notre technique est signifi- cativement plus rapide que les techniques plus classiques basees sur des volumes predefinis, comme des spheres ou des cuboides, tout en gardant un niveau de precision et de rappel comparable.
A lojalitás klaszterei a partneri és a fogyasztói piacokon

Az utobbi evtizedben szamos nemzetkozi tanulmany figyelmeztetett arra, hogy a jo minőseg es a fogyasztoi elegedettseg nem eleg a cegek profitjanak novelesehez, hanem sokkal inkabb a lojalitast, a hűseget kell a kozeppontba allitani. Mi is a hűseg es hogyan merhető a lojalitas? Van-e egy altalanosithato modell, vagy kulonboző tenyezők jatszanak szerepet a lakossagi fogyasztok, illetve az uzleti partnerek ragaszkodasaban? Mely szferakban van jelentősege a lojalitas meresenek, es van-e ertelme a hűseg vizsgalatanak olyan szervezeteknel, amelyek egyelőre kvazi monopolhelyzetben vannak? A dolgozat ezekre a kerdesekre keresi a valaszt, amikor az elmeleti hatter bemutatasa mellett egy magyarorszagi energiaszolgaltato lakossagi fogyasztoinak lojalitasat kutato empirikus vizsgalat eredmenyeit mutatja be, es szemelvenyeket kozol egy B2B piacon vegzett lojalitaskutatas eredmenyeiről is. A kutatasok egyreszt felhivjak a figyelmet arra, hogy a lojalitast mas dimenziok hatarozzak meg a szervezeti es a fogyasztoi piacokon, masreszt azt is jelzik, hogy mindket piacon nagyon kulonboző attitűddel rendelkező partnerek, illetve fogyasztok talalhatok, azaz a lojalitas megkozelitese, annak kezelese differencialt marketingstrategiakat kovetel.
A Survey of P2P Data-Driven Live Streaming Systems

Internet-based media streaming has been a longstanding subject in networking research. Only quite recently has it become a thriving and viable application, attracting widespread interest from both users and service providers. The rapid growth of the Internet during the last two decades, together with the development of cheap, powerful hardware, and the widespread deployment of broadband access technologies (such as cable and DSL), have contributed to the profound change in the way streaming is perceived today. The progression from the early days of do-it-yourself Internet radio (e.g. Shoutcast in the late nineties) to the development of huge on-demand media repositories has been so fast that, from a niche application used by few amateurs, streaming has ABSTRACT
Unsupervised note activity detection in NMF-based automatic transcription of piano music

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a traditionalsignal processing technique that allows approximating a measured spectrum as a weighted sum of known spectra. It may be applied to automatic transcription of piano music by assuming that each note is related to a known spectral template. In this model, active notes are related to peaks that can be identified by thresholding. We show that the optimal threshold is highly dependent on the timbre of the particular instrument used to play the analysed audio file. This can cause difficulties to the transcription. We propose an unsupervised technique that allows finding a threshold based on known properties of the audio signal. We show that the proposed technique’s performance compares favourably with manual threshold optimization. Moreover, we provide instructions and source codes that allow reproducing all described experiments.
Comment prevenir le trouble de stress post traumatique? Reflexion et application chez les professionnels à risques de la région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.

Le Trouble de Stress Post-Traumatique (TSPT) fait suite a l’exposition a un ou plusieurs evenement(s) traumatique(s) et se caracterise par un ensemble de symptomes : flashbacks, cauchemars, comportements d’evitement, alteration negative de la cognition et de l’affect, hyper-vigilance et perturbation du sommeil (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). La recente consideration de ce trouble dans la sphere publique a mis en lumiere l’interet societal d’agir en amont aupres des professionnels exposes a ce type d’evenements dans le cadre des fonctions de leur metier, tels que les professionnels specialises en milieu montagneux (lieu ou les conditions sont dangereuses et imprevisibles), qui sont particulierement exposes a des evenements traumatiques (Weinbruch & Nordby, 2010) et ont par consequence plus de risque de developper un TSPT que la population generale.Le but vise par l'objectif de ces travaux de these a ete d’explorer des pistes d’actions a suivre pour renforcer les capacites de resilience chez des professionnels a risques afin de prevenir au plus tot le TSPT. A travers une approche integrative et processuelle du developpement du TSPT basee sur une perspective biopsychosociale, nous avons etudie un ensemble de facteurs impliques dans l’apparition et/ou le maintien de ce trouble que nous avons par la suite integres a la construction, l’evaluation et l’implementation d’une action de prevention.Les resultats des etudes menees en laboratoire et sur le terrain ont permis de degager l’implication d’un ensemble de facteurs tant specifiques que generaux (i.e., flexibilite du coping, mecanismes de regulations physiologiques, sens de la mission). Nous pouvons conclure que ce trouble est la resultante de processus translationnels biopsychosociaux marques par une forte interconnexion entre la psychologie et la physiologie, et l’environnement social professionnel qui modifie l’expression et la visibilite du TSPT. Cette these a permis de construire de premiers elements pour une action de prevention basee sur une vision integrative et multifactorielle et d’en mesurer l’efficacite dans une demarche fondee sur la preuve. En conclusion, ces travaux ouvrent la voie de la prevention primaire du TSPT professionnel dans une vision integrative.
Unconstrained Walking Plane as Locomotion Interface to Virtual Environment

Locomotion interface with unidirectional as well as omni-directional treadmills creates infinite surface by use of motion floors. But realization of the motion floors requires a bulky or complex drive mechanism, thereby restricting practical use of locomotion interfaces. Secondly, it presents a problem of stability, especially while using these interfaces for simulating virtual walking of visually impaired people for spatial learning through virtual environments. As a result, such devices induce a kind of fear psychosis leading to difficulties in exploring virtual environment and thereby in cognitive map formation. A design of locomotion interface which reduces to a minimum these constraints is presented by first undertaking a literature review of the material existing in the area of locomotion interfaces and computer science. This proposed design of a locomotion interface to the virtual environment for spatial learning is aimed at providing unconstrained walking plane for building improved cognitive map and thereby enhancing mobility skills of persons with limited vision. A major design goal is to allow visually impaired people to walk safely on the device with a limited size, and to give them the sensation of walking on an unconstrained plane.
The role of dystroglycan in cell adhesion

Dystroglycan is a heterodimeric transmembrane glycoprotein protein of α and β subunits that links the extracellular matrix to the cytoskeleton. Recent data tend to suggest that the role of dystroglycan in non-muscle cells is for cell adhesion, and cytoskeleton reorganisation signalling. To study the relationship between dystroglycan signalling and ERK signalling in focal adhesions, an YFP-ERK construct was expressed in REF52 cells. YFP-ERK was expressed with ERK activity and formed adhesion-like structures in the REF52 cells, however, no ERK activity was detected in the adhesion-like structures in the REF52 cells. To determine the function of dystroglycan for adhesion or cytoskeleton organisation in non-muscle cells, a GFP-tagged full-length dystroglycan (αβDG-GFP) or its deletion mutants was expressed in REF52 cells. Expression of αβDG-GFP markedly altered cell phenotype on a laminin or fibronectin substrate, resulting in the induction of actin-rich filopodia. The β-dystroglycan cytoplasmic domain is determined as the mediator for the dystroglycan-dependent filopodia formation mediated partly by integrin signalling. The dystroglycan deletion mutants lacking α-dystroglycan failed to target to the plasma membrane. Expression of an alkaline phosphate-tagged β-dystroglycan cytoplasmic domain construct (AP-cβ), which targeted the β-dystroglycan cytoplasmic domain to the membrane without the α-dystroglycan, was sufficient to induce the filopodia phenotype, indicating that with the proper membrane localisation, β-dystroglycan can regulate filopodia formation independently of α-dystroglycan. However, α-dystroglycan might be necessary for β-dystroglycan to target to the plasma membrane. These distinct morphologies strongly implied that β-dystroglycan mediates Cdc42 regulated cytoskeleton reorganisation. By cotransfecting dominant negative Cdc42 (Cdc42N17) or constitutively activated Cdc42 (V12Cdc42) constructs with αβDG-GFP or the mutants, Cdc42 was determined to be a mediator for dystroglycan-dependent filopodia formation. Therefore a signalling cycle of dystroglycan-Cdc42-PAK-ezrin-dystroglycan is identified. With this signalling cycle, dystroglycan plays a role in inducing actin filopodia formation and, at the same time, might also inhibit focal adhesion and stress fibre formation.
Intervención enfermera en dolor crónico

Estamos asistiendo a un aumento de personas con enfermedades cronicas, que requieren de una mayor intervencion no solo profesional , sino de una implicacion del paciente en su propia salud para afrontar y articular , de la mejor forma, los cambios necesarios en el estilo de vida para la prevencion y/o control del problema. Aunque en Espana la primera causa de muerte la ocupan las enfermedades cardiovasculares, seguida del cancer, y en tercer lugar las enfermedades del sistema respiratorio, el dolor se encuentra entre los problemas cronicos transversales mas frecuentes. Se estima que uno de cada seis espanoles sufre de dolor cronico. El dolor afecta de forma notable a la calidad de vida de la poblacion, con importantes consecuencias en el ambito personal, familiar y social, representando un problema de salud publica dada su gran repercusion en las diferentes esferas del ser humano. Este problema constituye uno de los motivos mas frecuentes de utilizacion de los servicios de salud, siendo el 80% de los casos seguidos en Atencion Primaria (AP). El tratamiento adecuado se compone de intervenciones farmacologicas y no farmacologicas, desde un abordaje en equipo interdisciplinar y multidisciplinar, con una vision holistica del problema, donde la enfermera de Atencion Primaria (AP) ocupa un lugar estrategico por su proximidad al enfermo y su familia, y como entrenadora de autocuidado, por ello este estudio pretende conocer cual es la intervencion de este profesional en el cuidado del dolor cronico.
The Framework of Social Networks Big Data Processing Based on Cloud Computing

With the rise of cloud computing, internet of things, social networks, the type and scale of data in human society has increased at an unprecedented rate, making data from being a simple object to be process to being a basic resource. Fully mining the value of data resources that was hidden in SNS such Weibo Microblog, Wechat has become a common subject concerned by industrial circle, academic area and government departments. Although the distributed storage and analysis of cloud computing platform have been widely used in big data process of social networks, it has not been able to fully solve the problems of big data storage and process in social networks. In this paper, it proposed the big data process framework of social networks based on cloud computing. By adopting the mixing cloud model and coordinating the data storage framework and data computing framework, and regarding social networks features such as real-time, sharing, mobility, individuation, and interactivity, this big data process framework can be adopted to process large-scale massive amount of data, to research the unified management and sharing strategy of massive data, to propose data process strategy and the service application of big data such as Microblog and Wechat, and to discuss several urgent key problems in processing social networks big data.
The annotated Ada reference manual

annotations would alter the semantics currently defined in the standard, and support the Ada reference manual (23)), two actions occurring within two different. Ada 2012 Reference Manual by Tucker An online version of the Ada 2005 reference manual. Ada 95 Annotated Ada 2005 Language Reference (ARRM). Training On Demand · Acronyms and Abbreviations List · Glossary · ADA · Contact SER Staff Use of the annotated outlines ensures a document that meets FHWA and See the Project Development Procedures Manual (PDPM) Chapter 11 for It should also incorporate by reference any other environmental documents.