Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Tracking and modelling of team game interactions

Team games are complicated activities, which involve much interaction between players. Analysing these interactions is of considerable interest; however it is time consuming, error prone, and unreliable to manuallly obtain the positions of the players throughout a game. Automating this process could produce efficient and repeatable results. Multiple object tracking in large, congested, rapidly changing, and frequently occluded domains (for example a soccer pitch) is a complex problem, particularly given the non-linear nature of each player's movements. This thesis presents a stochastic sampling based multiple object tracker, capable of tracking objects from a single camera, in the complex domain of sports games. Sports players' shapes vary dramatically, presenting challenges to existing techniques. Multi-resolution template based feature descriptors are learned from example players' shape data, providing a mechanism for identifying players' locations in images. Sports scenes are often busy, in the sense that there may be many players close to each other, causing occlusion of one or more players. the use of multiple cameras to resolve these ambiguities is investigated. Performance evaluation of computer vision systems is an important and often understudied activity. The performance evaluation in this thesis focuses on postional performance evaluation. New metrics and statistisc are presented which provide an important insight into how well a tracking system is performing (and why it may not be). Analysing the movements of players over time allows a behaviour model of their movements and interactions to be learned. Positional player data is represented and described using density estimation methods. An emergent appraoch to identifying players is presented. Each player's response from a set of learned Gaussian mixture models is used in a graph partitioning scheme. Thsi allows the identification of each player's 'position'. Behaviour and interaction models have potential uses for analysing tactics, identifying good or atypical players, and most powerfully to be incorporated into a multiple obkect tracking system to govern the expected dynamics of the players.
BOMOS: Management and development model for open standards

E-Business standards, or standards for interoperability, are developed outside the traditional standard development organizations, often within industry specific domain organizations. These organizations need some guidance in how to develop and manage standards for their specific domain in order to achieve long lasting standards that actually achieve interoperability between organizations. The Dutch government, together with the standards community, decided to publish a tool called BOMOS for giving guidance to the management and development of open standards. BOMOS is not profoundly grounded on scientific evidence, but it builds on the best practices already used in domain standardization. This chapter will present two highlights of BOMOS: the activity model for management of standardization, and a development approach for standards.
Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits

Semiconductor Electronics. Silicon Technology. Metal--Semiconductor Contacts. pn Junctions. Currents in pn Junctions. Bipolar Transistors I: Basic Properties. Bipolar Transistors II: Limitations and Models. Properties of the Metal--Oxide--Silicon System. Mos Field--Effect Transistors I: Physical Effects and Models. Mos Field--Effect Transistors II: High--Field Effects. Answers to Selected Problems. Selected List of Symbols. Index.
Acute onset of inflammatory colitis in overlap with psoriatic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus following treatment with secukinumab

Received: December 28, 2020; Accepted: January 05, 2021; Published: January 09, 2021 A male diagnosed with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis at age 18, underwent a kidney biopsy at age 23 due to persistent proteinuria, with findings of an immune-complex mediated mesangiocapillary nephritis with substantial glomerular sclerosis. Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) were negative but increased levels of antibodies against cardiolipin and γ2glycoprotein-I were detected.
Neptune: Scheduling Suspendable Tasks for Unified Stream/Batch Applications

Distributed dataflow systems allow users to express a wide range of computations, including batch, streaming, and machine learning. A recent trend is to unify different computation types as part of a single stream/batch application that combines latency-sensitive ("stream") and latency-tolerant ("batch") jobs. This sharing of state and logic across jobs simplifies application development. Examples include machine learning applications that perform batch training and low-latency inference, and data analytics applications that include batch data transformations and low-latency querying. Existing execution engines, however, were not designed for unified stream/batch applications. As we show, they fail to schedule and execute them efficiently while respecting their diverse requirements. We present Neptune, an execution framework for stream/batch applications that dynamically prioritizes tasks to achieve low latency for stream jobs. Neptune employs coroutines as a lightweight mechanism for suspending tasks without losing task progress. It couples this fine-grained control over CPU resources with a locality-and memory-aware (LMA) scheduling policy to determine which tasks to suspend and when, thereby sharing executors among heterogeneous jobs. We evaluate our open-source Spark-based implementation of Neptune on a 75-node Azure cluster. Neptune achieves up to 3x lower end-to-end processing latencies for latency-sensitive jobs of a stream/batch application, while minimally impacting the throughput of batch jobs.
Investigating the Speed of Lexical Activation in the Bilinguals' L1 and L2 through Forward and Backward Translation Task

The relationship between lexical activation in L1 and L2 was investigated using a backward and forward translation task. Bilingual Arabic-English speakers first translated forward from L1 to L2, then backward from L2 to L1. Two groups of participants were established (high and low proficient bilinguals). The translation task included words that were being translated in both L1 and L2. The goal of the study was to see how strong the relation between L1 and L2 translation is. The findings of the study revealed that bilingual memory relations are asymmetric: translation from L1 to L2 is conceptually mediated, but the translation from L2 to L1 is lexically mediated.
The omission of meals is associated with excess weight in adolescents

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between skipping meals and excess weight in adolescents. This study used a secondary database based on cross-sectional research. Weight and height were measured for the classification of nutritional status and the omission of meals was determined from the 24-hour food record. Statistical analyses were performed on a sample stratified by age from 10 to 13 years and 14 to 19 years. There was a high prevalence of excess weight (overweight and obesity) in the sample and a high frequency of meal omission among adolescents. The omission of lunch and dinner among adolescents between 14 and 19 years and those between 10 to 13 years, respectively, was directly associated with excess weight.
Oak regeneration response to moderate and heavy traffic under mechanical harvesting in an oak-hickory forest on the Cumberland platueau

Forest harvest operations can cause ground disturbances that negatively impact regeneration. On the Cumberland Plateau, managers must often rely on very small (less than a foot in height) oak advanced reproduction that is susceptible to disturbance by harvesting equipment. Furthermore, sites on the plateau top are often harvested when conditions are too wet to permit operations elsewhere, and the potential for small seedlings to be pulled from the ground may be heightened because of greater soil moisture. This study was designed to assess the effect of heavy and moderate equipment traffic on small oak advance reproduction under a clearcutting prescription. A feller-buncher and grapple skidding were used to harvest sites under “free access,” resulting in heavy traffic on the sites, or under “strip access,” with moderate site traffic. Five hundred oak seedlings were permanently tagged preharvest; species, height, and basal diameter were recorded and have been remeasured 3 years postharvest. Fifty-three percent of the tagged seedlings survived, and the survival rate for seedlings exposed to moderate traffic did not differ from that for seedlings exposed to heavy traffic. No evidence of seedlings being pulled out of the ground was observed. After three growing seasons, there is no significant difference in site disturbance between the two treatments. Initial assessment of the impact to the regeneration suggests that little damage was incurred under heavy equipment traffic.
Pile Design and Construction Practice

General Principles and Practices. Types of Pile. Piling Equipment and Methods. Calculating the Resistance of Piles to Compressive Loads. Pile Groups under Compressive Loading. The Design of Piled Foundations to Resist Uplift and Lateral Loading. The Structural Design of Piles and Pile Groups. Piling for Marine Structures. Miscellaneous Piling Problems. The Durability of Piled Foundations. Site Investigations, Piling Contracts, Pile Testing. Appendix - Properties of Materials
Marijuana Use Grid: A Brief, Comprehensive Measure of Marijuana Use

The present study introduces a brief, yet comprehensive retrospective self-report measure of frequency and quantity of marijuana use: the Marijuana Use Grid (MUG). Using two large samples of college student marijuana users recruited from several universities throughout the United States, we characterized how various indicators of marijuana use frequency and quantity relate to consequences and symptoms of cannabis use disorder (CUD), and whether marijuana use frequency and quantity as assessed by the MUG predict outcomes above and beyond the effect(s) of a simple measure of marijuana use frequency. Typical frequency and quantity estimates from the MUG interacted to predict marijuana-related outcomes. The MUG has shown utility in its association with important outcomes and given its brief nature, the MUG can easily be integrated in future marijuana studies. Additional work is needed to examine the predictive utility of the MUG in the context of other marijuana-related assessments.
Microwave Radio Links: From Theory to Design

From the Publisher: After a period when optical links appeared to become the solution to all transmission problems, the ongoing revolution in the telecommunications sector and the advances in technology have brought microwave links back to center stage. * Detailed comparison of ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and North American frequency hierarchies, an important topic that has been inadequatly covered * Contains end -of-chapter problem sets and a solutions manual Includes extensive discussion of error control codes
Evaluation of regional seismic discriminants using the intelligent seismic event identification system. Semi-annual report

In this study, the effectiveness of several regional waveform discriminants and processing methods are being evaluated using a large database of regional waveforms. ISEIS has been installed at the Center for Seismic Studies (CSS) where it is being used to process and analyze discriminants for seismic events formed by the Intelligent Monitoring System (IMS). The system has undergone a number of modifications to interface with the CSS databases and to improve the processing efficiency of the system in the CSS environment. Also, a number of new features have been added to facilitate the processing of the data and discrimination research, including automated feature extraction and processing, improved plotting displays for reviewing IMS and analyst phase identification, data viewing displays for reference events plotted in scatterplots, a new top-level display for viewing ISEIS processing results, multichannel coherence and deconvolution processing interfaces, and a research interface for multivariate classification using a simulated neural network approach.
The Warrior Worker: The Challenge of the Korean Way of Working

Part One: The Warrior Worker. 1. Sacrifice and Glory. 2. Meet Mr. Kim. 3. The Field: A Profile of the Korean Economy. Part Two: A Superficial History of Korea and the Korean Economy. 4. The Hermit Kingdom: Korea Before 1876. 5. Korea's Modern Memory, 1876-1945. 6. Liberation, Sort Of. 7. Mutiny. Part Three: Man and Manager. 8. The Korean Way of Working: My Boss, My Father. 9. The Life Cycle of the Korean Employee. 10. Daily Rhythms: Working Eight to Eight. 11. The Industrialists. Part Four: The Future of the Korean Way of Working. 12. Bringing the War Home. 13. World of Warriors. 14. The Continuing Challenge.
Microstrip Patch Antennas

Introduction Review of Some Background Materials General Formulation of the Cavity Model Characteristics of the Rectangular Patch Characteristics of the Circular Patch The Annular-Ring and the Equilaterial Triangular Patch Introduction to Full Wave Analysis of Microstrip Antennas Some Methods of Tuning the Resonant Frequencies of Patch Antennas Broadbanding Techniques Size Reduction Techniques Dual and Multi-Band Designs Dual Polarized Patch Antenna Designs Circular Polarization Microstrip Arrays.
Validity of accelerometry in high-intensity complex movements

AbstractAim The aim of the study was to examine the capability of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure during high-intensity complex physical activity patterns.Also, to investigate whether placing the monitor on the hip or wrist influenced its prediction ability. Furthermore, the purpose was also to evaluate if there was a significant difference in the aforementioned estimations using data from one axis compared to all three axis combined. MethodA total of 14 subjects, eight men and six women, mean (SD) age of 26, 4 (5,5) years were recruited for the study. The participants performed standardised aerobic exercise while accelerometer data and oxygen uptake was measured simultaneously. Two triaxial accelerometers (Actigraph GT3X) were worn on the hip and wrist during the experiment. Indirect calorimetry, using Oxycon mobile, was chosen as the criterion measure. Validity was determined by comparing accelerometer counts with estimated energy expenditure (EE) in kcal/min, derived from measured oxygen consumption, using bivariate Pearson correlation, linear regression and stepwise regression analyses. Equations were calculated using each participant’s individual regression analyses. ResultsThe experiment reveals that GT3x presents a moderate correlation (r= 0, 47) for estimating EE from aerobics when worn on the hip and a weak correlation (r = 0.34) when worn on the wrist. However, when combined with the body mass variable, a strong correlation was found between accelerometer data for the hip and EE (r= 0.73). At both positions the vector magnitude (r = 0.47 for the hip and r = 0.34 for the wrist) yielded stronger correlations compared to just using the Y-axis (r = 0.15 for the hip and r= 0.08 for the wrist). ConclusionsIn conclusion, this study found that GT3x was not particularly valid for assessing energy expenditure in high intensity complex activities. Wearing the accelerometer on the hip yielded higher correlations compared to wearing it on the wrist. When using the accelerometer for estimations of EE the Vector magnitude is to prefer before the Y-axis solely.
A Pragmatic Approach to Modulation Scaling Based Power Saving for Maximum Communication Path Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks

The interest in Wireless Sensor Networks is rapidly increasing due to their interesting advantages related to cost, coverage and network deployment. They are present in civil applications and in most scenarios depend upon the batteries which are the exclusive power source for the tiny sensor nodes. The energy consumption is an important issue for research, and many interesting projects have been developed in several areas. They focus on topology topics, Medium Access Control or physical issues. Many projects aim at the physical layer where the node's power consumption is optimized through scaling the modulation scheme used in node communications. Results show that an optimal modulation scheme can lead to the minimum power consumption over the whole wireless sensor network. A usual simplification in research is to target individual paths and not take into account the whole network. However nodes may be part of several paths, and therefore nodes closer to the sinks may consume higher amounts of energy. This fact is the chief motivation of our research, where modulation scaling over the nodes with more energy is performed in order to increase the lifetime of the nodes having lower energy reserves. Simulation results showed typical values of path lifetime expectancy of 50 to 120 percent higher than comparable power-aware methods.
Measurement and Evaluation of Real-World Speed and Acceleration Activity Envelopes for Light-Duty Vehicles

Accurate estimation of vehicle activity is critically important for the accurate estimation of emissions. To provide a benchmark for estimation of vehicle speed trajectories such as those from traffic simulation models, this paper demonstrates a method for quantifying light-duty vehicle activity envelopes based on real-world activity data for 100 light-duty vehicles, including conventional passenger cars, passenger trucks, and hybrid electric vehicles. The vehicle activity envelope was quanti-fied in the 95% frequency range of acceleration for each of 15 speed bins with intervals of 5 mph and a speed bin for greater than 75 mph. Potential factors affecting the activity envelope were evaluated; these factors included vehicle type, transmission type, road grade, engine displacement, engine horsepower, curb weight, and ratio of horsepower to curb weight. The activity envelope was wider for speeds ranging from 5 to 20 mph and narrowed as speed increased. The latter was consistent with a constraint on maximum achievable engine power demand. The envelope was weakly sensitive to factors such as type of vehicle, type of transmission, road grade, and engine horsepower. The effect of road grade on cycle average emissions rates was evaluated for selected real-word cycles. The measured activity envelope was compared with those of dynamometer driving cycles, such as the federal test procedure, highway fuel economy test, SC03, and US06 cycles. The effect of intervehicle variability on the activity envelope was minor; this factor implied that the envelope could be quantified based on a smaller vehicle sample than used for this study.
Statistical Significance Of Defect density Estimates

The yield of functional circuits or specially designed test structures is commonly used by process engineers to estimate the types and densities of defects that occur during the fabrication of integrated circuits. Systematic defects and defects that can be spatially correlated occur mainly during the development phase of a new process, and often show discernable and repeatable patterns when their electrical pass/fail data is displayed in the form of wafer maps. These patterns can be identified visually, and the correct conclusion can be drawn with a reasonable confidence. In contrast, defects that dominate a mature and well controlled process are mostly random and uncorrelated in nature, resulting in wafer maps that show failed circuits in a uniform random distribution across the wafer. Due to the randomness of such a yield distribution, the estimate of defect density can only be made within certain confidence limits. It is essential for the process and yield improvement engineer to understand these limits to properly estimate the defect density as obtained from yield information. It is equally important for the designer of test structures to understand the statistical relationship between yield and defect density in order to optimize the layout of the structure.
The effect of two methods cooking of boiling and microwave on tylosin residue in chicken meat

Background and objective: Antibiotic residue in food had made different concerns. Antibiotic residue may change during food processing before consumption especially cooking. The goal of this research is to determine the effect of two methods cooking of boiling and microwave on tylosin residues in meat. Materials and Methods: Tylosin was added to minced meat samples in three level 200, 400 and 800 ppb and samples were cooked by boiling (10, 20 and 30 min)and microwave (1, 1.5 and 2 min). Tylosim amount was measured before and after cooing by HPLC and its reduction percent amount was calculated. Results: In all treatments tylosim amount of cooked samples was significantly less than that of raw sample (p<0.05). However tylosin reduction percent amount was significantly increased by boiling and microwave time increment, tylosin first amount had no effect on its reduction in microwave method but its effect is in verse in boiling method. Overall interaction effect of cooking time and tylosin first amount on its reduction percent amount in meat was significance in boiling method and insignificant in microwave method. Conclusion: Although cooking result in reduction of tylosin residue in meat and its reduction amount in boiling is more than that in microwave, it isn’t grantee for tylosin reduction and it is necessary to reduce tylosim in meat by its correct consumption in animals and withdrawal time consideration.
Shipping Performance Assessment and the Role of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): 'Quality Function Deployment' for Transforming Shipowner's Expectation

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in third party ship management and their contribution to the Shipping Performance Index (SPI). This research is mainly motivated from the SPI initiative which is established by the InterManager for the assessment of the shipping performance of the third party ship management companies and to elicit quality service providers and the frontrunner companies in the maritime industry. The SPI is an unweighted average of KPI scores which is calculated from numerical outcomes of several performance indicators. However, the degree of importance and contribution of a specific performance indicator for shipowner’s satisfaction is not taken into consideration. Therefore, a theoretical gap exists on linking the shipowner’s expectations with the technical and numerical measures (i.e. KPIs). This paper proposes a preliminary process to establish the priorities of the KPIs by utilising Quality Function Deployment (QFD). The empirical results indicate the unweighted average method does not represent shipowners’ perception and the priority of KPIs should be revalued.