Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pattern Recognition in Autonomous Vehicle using IoT

Recently, there have been significant advances in self-driving cars, which will play key roles in future intelligent transportation systems. In order for these cars to be successfully deployed on real roads, they must be able to autonomously drive along collision-free paths while obeying traffic laws. In contrast to many existing approaches that use prebuilt maps of roads and traffic signals, we propose algorithms and systems using Unified Map built with various onboard sensors to detect obstacles, other cars, traffic signs, and pedestrians. The proposed map contains not only the information on real obstacles nearby but also traffic signs and pedestrians as virtual obstacles. Using this map, the path planner can efficiently find paths free from collisions while obeying traffic laws. The proposed algorithms were implemented on a commercial vehicle and successfully validated in various environments, including the 2012 Hyundai Autonomous Ground Vehicle Competition
Towards an Affix Grammar for the Hungarian Language ∗

This paper is concerned with the feasibility of using Affix Grammars in describing the morphology and syntax of the Hungarian language. Two particular problem areas are studied: 1. The Hungarian morphology, with its assonance rules and highly complex congruence rules 2. The Hungarian verbal phrase, with all its concomitant problems of constituent order. In both of these areas, we attempt to derive formal grammars rather than programming recognition automata, since the latter can be generated from the grammar by automatic means.
The Role of Business Renovation and Information in E-Government

Transition to e-government is not a simple introduction of information technology. It requires a radical change of the ways and mechanisms of operating the administration, which means a major business process change. Therefore, business renovation is a prerequisite for successful informatization. In the paper, the methodology for the business renovation in public sector is developed and demonstrated with the case of a Slovenian Ministry. The case highlights some of the main problems and develops a possible approach to the modeling, renovation and informatization of business processes in order to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and data quality improvement gains.
Multi-Rate Digital Control Systems with Simulation Applications. Volume I. Technical Report

Abstract : The objective of this research effort is to develop a multi-rate/ multiple-order theory for the design of closed-loop digital control systems with characteristics and attributes that are either difficult or impossible to attain with analog or single-rate controllers. The key idea in this methodology is to use the logic of the computer to take a scalar continuous output signal, sample it at a relatively high rate, and then sort out the various sample into a vector of pseudo measurements. The potential of such a scheme is significant, since it offers, among other things, the possibility of using fewer sensors and the potential for providing gracefully degrading system performance in the face of sensor failure. The report is organized in three volumes. Volume I contains the theoretical developments as well as illustrative examples and case studies. The basic tools needed to assess the pseudo measurement concept are reviewed and extended. The concept of the frequency response of the continuous variables of single-rate digitally controlled system is then given sufficient generality to treat multirate systems (including the pseudo measurement concept). A YF-16 case study is used to compare psuedo measurement gains against conventional YF-16 analog controller gains. The pseudo measurement gains are found to be comparable with the conventional gains, indicating the approach does not require control authority more excessive than an analog controller design.
Vector Bessel Beams with Modified Field Distribution

In this work we theoretically introduce and experimentally examine a novel type Bessel-like beams which have an intensity distribution spherically modified by a polarization structure when compared to standard Bessel beams. Standard Bessel-Gaussian beams can be either linearly or radially and azimuthally polarized. Here, the Bessel-like beams with a Gaussian envelope, we are introducing, can have either spherically radial or meridional azimuthal polarizations. In order to implement those beams experimentally we investigate their vector spatial spectra numerically for the case of a finite energy. A proper choice of the cone angles of individual plane wave components and sizes of Gaussian apertures, we can control experimentally intensity distribution of resulting beams. Lastly, we demonstrate that in two limiting cases we can form from our solutions either two optical needles or doughnut-like intensity patterns.
Defining preceptorship : A job analysis to describe the role of the pharmacy preceptor

Method: A task inventory questionnaire was created in collaboration with pharmacist preceptors, which included 92 tasks divided among nine domains related to the job of preceptors. The task inventory questionnaire was distributed to expert pharmacist preceptors, which were those who have been recognized in the United States for excellence in precepting by a national organization. Participants evaluated each task and determined if they were responsible for the task, as well as the importance, difficulty, and frequency of each task. A composite score for each task was calculated based on a unique combination of these ratings. Descriptive statistics summarized the findings for each task and across the domains.
Current Work in Corpus Linguistics : Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond ( CILC 2015 ) Corpus based Tatar lexicography : verbs in TatWordnet

The paper deals with the issue of presentation of Tatar verbs in a wordnet-like thesaurus relying on data of the Tatar National Corpus. In wordnet building we take into consideration such features of Turkic and Tatar verbs as presence of one-word and compound verbs, and a complicated system of grammatical voices when adding a voice affix modifies in many cases the verb meaning. Using data from the Tatar National Corpus we solve some key problems: improving word definition on corpus data in cases where the definitions given in vocabularies are incomplete; constructing new verbal synsets; constructing a hierarchical network of Tatar verbs. © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of Universidad de Valladolid, Facultad de Comercio.
Production of Aldehydes in Diatoms and Dinoflagellates and the Detrimental Effect on Copepod Grazers

Marine algae, including diatoms, are the primary food source of oceanic ecosystems, sustaining the marine food chain to top consumers and playing a key role in marine food webs. Their beneficial role is questioned due to the finding of harmful compounds in their secondary metabolites, such as polyunsaturated aldehydes, which impair reproductive and developmental processes of their grazers. To investigate the response of dominant copepod grazers in the Jiaozhou Bay to different diets and how aldehydes vary in batch algal cultures over time, we carried out experiments in which two diatoms Skeletonema marinoi and Chaetoceros didymus were fed to the copepod Calanus sinicus. Controls were run with two dinoflagellates Prorocentrum micans and Scrippsiella trochoidea. In our two set of experiments, we found a C7saturated aldehyde released by those four algal species, which is less reported. Our results showed that diatoms have greater potential for aldehydes production than dinoflagellates and the peak of aldehydes production occurred mostly in the first and second week, which clearly includes lag and exponential phase. However, the detrimental effect on copepods was species dependent. Some dinoflagellates are also potential aldehydes producers. Even though some dinoflagellates released fewer aldehydes than diatoms, the inhibitory effect on copepods was greater. © 2019 Friends Science Publishers
: Financial stability issues – a view from the Bundesbank

First of all, I would like to thank the “China Society for Finance and Banking” for giving me the opportunity to hold a speech on “Financial Stability Issues” in Beijing today. I have to admit that I talked about a very similar subject in Brussels at the end of June. Four months separate these two speeches. And, what is more, in the intervening period there has been turmoil in the financial markets that has captured our attention.
JOINT POSITION SENSE IS NOT AFFECTED BY FATIGUE OF HIP ABDUCTORS MUSCLES

1,2 Jerônimo Rafael Skau, 1,2 Flávia de Andrade e Souza, 1 Helen Farias dos Anjos Fernandes, 1 Rebecca Farias Meira, Ana Paula Xavier Ladeira, 1,2,3 Ulysses Fernandes Ervilha 1 Department of Physiotherapy at São Judas Tadeu University, São Paulo – Brazil. 2 Department of Physical Education at São Judas Tadeu University 3 Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Taubaté, São Paulo – Brazil. Contact: jrskau@gmail.com
Hierarchical XML Layers Representation for Heavily Annotated Corpora

The paper proposes a scheme for hierarchical representation of XML annotation standards. The representation allows individual work on documents displaying partial fitness in markings, mixing of annotated documents observing or not the same standard, as well as concurrent annotation. The approach allows access to different annotations of a corpus, with minimal representation overhead, which also facilitates accommodation of different, even incompatible, annotations of the same data. Two methods to build a hierarchical representation of annotation standards are shown, one allowing explicit declarations and the other inferring the hierarchy from a set of consistently annotated documents. Merging and extraction operations, which produce derived documents from existing ones are described. A system that implements the formal declarations of the hierarchy and the operations over it is presented.
A STUDY ON STRESS COPING AMONG WOMEN POLICE PERSONNEL AT SOUTH ZONE OF TAMIL NADU POLICE

Job stress is a universal phenomenon which is part of mankind’s work environment. It is widely viewed as a product of mismatch between the individual and his/her physical or social environment. When the level of stress exceeds the optimal level, it has the potential to be harmful and damaging to the individual. Police job stress has been shown to lead to premature death among police officers (Colbert, Johnson, & Slate, 2007). According to Finn and Tomz (1996), shift work, perceived favoritism by administrators, lack of input in departmental policy, lack of training, lack of career opportunities, police culture, and lack of recognition for good work are some of the stressors police officers/personnel experience. While a certain level of stress is present in any job, it is much more pronounced in the field of law enforcement – police departments. This is of course, pertinently the women police personnel are often exposed to danger or the threat of danger.The police bureaucracy itself can also enormous stress on the police personnel‘s family that can affect shift-work, constant fear of injury or death, low pay, and other factors often as much, if not more, than the police personnel. Police force occupations have traditionally been dominated by males. But at present gender unbiased environment there has been a vast increase in the number of women entering in this occupation throughout the world. The level of occupational stresses among women police personnel have also been increased at significant level. Tamil Nadu is getting second place in terms of suicide by the police personnel that is nearly 216 police personnel were lost their life through suicide during the period from 2006 to 2013. It is perceived that Constant and unmanaged stress not only reduces the effectiveness and efficiency of the personnel in the initial stage and also then it stressed police officers particularly women to pose a threat to themselves even suicidal, their colleagues, offenders and/or to public safety. In this view, this study titled “A study on Stress coping among women police personnel at south zone of Tamil Nadu Police” is pertinent and appropriate in the present day law enforcement field with the objective of various means of copying the work stress by the women police personnel in the study area. The study concludes as the contribution of the working environment, family environment is highly significant in the stress free life of any organization. In the case of defense filed, the police personal form an integral and dominant part to maintain law and order and thereby peaceful life for the public. With the increasing working environment pressure for women police personal, in the police department women police personal is facing stress in this industry.
Two- Dimensional Fokker- Planck Analysis of Core Plasma Heating by Relativistic Electrons

One of the key issues in the fast ignition scheme is a clarification of the imploded core heating by laser-produced relativistic electrons. To investigate the core heating process, we have developed twodimensional relativistic FokkerPlanck (RFP) codes for fast electron transport in dense plasmas. After describing the physics model, we first examine the feature of energy deposition of relativistic electrons injected into the dense core region. Next, on the basis of integrated simulation combining PIC, 2-D hydrodynamics and RFP codes, the possibility of fast heating of imploded core is discussed.
PHYSICAL / CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRBORNE SAHARAN DUST DURING THE AEROSOL AND OCEAN SCIENCE EXPEDITIONS ( AEROSE )

Transatlantic dust outbreaks emanating from North Africa and their seasonal frequency of outflow across the North Atlantic Ocean have been associated with perturbation processes in the atmosphere (Jeong and Sokolik, 2007), climatic forcing (Haywood and Boucher, 2000), and a variety of health risk factors (Prospero, 2004). The microphysical evolution of these particles from source region depends on air mass pathways and mixing with reactive gas phase species during long distant transport. These processes change the chemistry of the troposphere, and have strong influences on radiative transfer and ensemble optical properties (Otto et al. 2007). Studies performed over the past few years (Bernadett et al. 2009; Kaaden et al. 2009) have clearly established that dust properties represent one of the greatest uncertainties in both measurement and modeling efforts. As shown by an earlier study (Sokolik et al. 2001), an effective approach in understanding the impact of Saharan dust is to study the size dependent evolution potentials, the surface chemistry, and the microphysical properties of dust plume. The Howard University NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) under the framework of the trans-Atlantic AERosols and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE) have conducted a nearly annual interdisciplinary ship-based aerosol field campaigns between 2004 and 2010 with a unique objective of generating a comprehensive data set of complementary atmospheric measurement and Oceanographic observations aimed at characterizing the impact and microphysical evolution of Saharan dust aerosols transported across the Atlantic Ocean (Morris et al. 2006; Nalli et al. 2011, Jimenez et al. 2009). This study examines the physicochemical characterization and trend in major dust outbreaks of the AEROSE samples obtained during the month of July during the 2006 and 2009 campaigns,. This data set is examined for the purpose of gaining insights on the microphysical evolution of mineral dust during transport across the tropical North Atlantic.
Tagging and Morphological Processing in the SVENSK System

This thesis describes the work of providing separate morphological processing and part-of-speech tagging modules in the SVENSK system by integrating the Uppsala Chart Processor (UCP) and a Brill tagger into the system. SVENSK employs GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) as the platform in which the components are to be integrated. Two pre-processing modules, a tokeniser and a sentence splitter for Swedish, were developed in order to facilitate the preparation of the texts to be analysed by UCP and the Brill tagger. These four components were then integrated in GATE together with a newly developed viewer for displaying the results produced by UCP. The thesis introduces the reader to the SVENSK project, the GATE system and its underlying parts, especially the database architecture which is based on the TIPSTER annotation model. Further, the issues in connection with the development and design of the tokeniser and the sentence splitter for Swedish are elaborated on. The mechanisms behind transformation-based error-driven learning methods as employed by the Brill tagger are introduced as well as the principles of chart processing in general and UCP in particular. The greater part of the thesis is devoted to the process of integrating the natural language (NL) modules in GATE using the Tcl/Tk application programmers interface (API) and a so-called loose coupling. The results of the integration of the NL modules are very encouraging: it is possible to mix modules written in programming languages from completely different paradigms (in this case the languages are Common LISP, Perl and C) and to have them interact with each other, thus maintaining a high degree of reuse of algorithmical resources. However, the use of Tcl/Tk and the associated API for processing structurally relatively complex data, i.e. the output from UCP, is time consuming and considerably slows the processing in GATE.
11th National Convention on Statistics (NCS) EDSA Shangri-La Hotel October 4-5, 2010 RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF SEAPORTS IN MINDANAO

Technical efficiency (TE), allocative efficiency (AE) and productivity measures were calculated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indexes for panel data of eight government seaports in Mindanao over six-year period, 2001 to 2006. Ports under the Southern Mindanao port district are Davao, General Santos and Zamboanga while ports belonging to Northern Mindanao port district are Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Nasipit, Ozamiz and Surigao. Test of difference between the operating efficiencies of the two port districts was also computed. Output variables are shipcalls, cargo throughput and container traffic; input variables are berth length and vessel’s average service time (in calculating for the TE) and capital outlay and operating expenses (in the case of AE calculation). The ports of Cagayan de Oro, Ozamiz and Davao emerged as the technically efficient ports relative to the rest of the sample. These three ports were also the top performers in terms of having the greatest volume of cargoes, shipcalls and container traffic respectively. The two least efficient ports were Iligan and Surigao, which, based on actual performance, serviced the least number of shipcalls and the least number of cargoes and containers for the period in review. All the ports in the sample experienced productivity growth and regression at varying degrees during the six-year period. These changes in productivity were attributed to both technical and efficiency adjustments. The ports which registered full technical efficiency like the ports of Davao, Cagayan de Oro and Ozamiz pointed to technology adjustments as the primary mover of their productivity changes. At 5 percent level of significance, there were no significant differences in the technical efficiency and allocative efficiency scores of the ports when analyzed according to the port district where they belong.
OPTIMISING ENERGY PRODUCED BY PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS

This paper presents a comparative analysis of energy produced by photovoltaic (PV) panels installed on fixed structures and on solar trackers. Measurements were taken continuously over a period of one year. Performance results for both one year and 24 hours are presented. Attention is also paid to current Polish and European legislation promoting the installation of systems that use energy from renewable sources.
Psycholinguistik The Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism

A new research institute is introduced here which s tudies the representation and processing of language in multilingual individuals, focusing on morphological and syntactic phenomena. Projects within this resea rch institute investigate grammatical processing in different kinds of multil ingual populations, in comparison to monolinguals, using current psycholingui stic and neuro-cognitive experimental techniques. Our goal is to achieve a b etter understanding of the temporal dynamics of multilingual language processi ng and of how grammatical knowledge and processing mechanisms are related in development. In addition to our research activities, we will also provide ad vice to practitioners and educators concerned with multilingual individuals.
USABILITY OF WEB-BASED SOFTWARE PRODUCTS

Usability is having a large impact on many aspects of society including the business community, the computing industry, the entertainment industry and higher education. In current times, millions of people around the world consider technology as main part of their life. The advent of the Web 2.0, for instance, has brought to light new needs for standards in communication, since web applications now facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability and user-centred design. In fact, the World Wide Web has changed technically, but it has also changed the way software developers and end-users use the Web. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are the interfaces that allow the end-user to interact with the software, that can be a web application or also a simple program installed on the end-user’s computer. Therefore, they have an impact on the quality and the usability of the resulting system. Thus, ensuring that developers can make the most out of them is an important challenge. In order to evaluate the usability level of a system and its graphical user interface it is possible to apply standard usability evaluation methods as known from HCI (Human Computer Interaction). However, standard usability evaluation methods are several and very often it is hard to choose which one to adopt. In this research the most effective usability methods to evaluate software products’ graphical user interfaces usability have been analysed and tested, including Heuristics Evaluation, Walkthroughs, and some other core Web Design principles, giving an important guideline to the developer that intends to optimize the usability of its software products. Since usability embrace many different areas of informatics, this research will focus on World Wide Web aspects of usability, from web applications to web sites development, evaluating the evolving design against user requirements.
GLOSS : A Visual Interactive Tool for Discourse Annotation

We present an annotation tool, called GLOSS, that manifests the following features: accepts as inputs SGML source documents and/or their database images and produces as output source SGML documents as well as the associated database images; allows for simultaneous opening of more documents; can collapse independent annotation views of the same original document, which also allows for a layer-by-layer annotation process in different annotation sessions and by different annotators, includig automatic; offers an attractive interface to the user; permits discourse structure annotation by offering a pair of building operations (adjoining and substitution) and remaking operations (undo, delete parent-child link and tree dismember). Finally we display an example that shows how GLOSS is employed to validate, using a corpora, a theory of global discourse.