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Review: Automatic Semantic Image Annotation
Venue: BIOINFORMATICS 2016
Year: 2016

There are many approaches for automatic annotation in digital images. Nowadays digital photography is a common technology for capturing and archiving images because of the digital cameras and storage devices reasonable price. As amount of the digital images increase, the problem of annotating a specific image becomes a critical issue. Automated image annotation is creating a model capable of assigning terms to an image in order to describe its content. There are many image annotation techniques that seek to find the correlation between words and image features such as color, shape, and texture to provide an automatically correct annotation words to images which provides an alternative to the time consuming work of manual image annotation. This paper aims to cover a review on different Models (MT, CRM, CSD Prop, SVD COS and CSD SVD) for automating the process of image annotation as an intermediate step in image retrieval process using Corel 5k images.
Development of an Instrument to Measure Academic Resilience Among Pharmacy Students
Venue: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
Year: 2019

To develop a valid and reliable academic resilience scale for use in the didactic portion of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum to identify those pharmacy students who have greater capacity to overcome academic adversity.  A cross sectional survey was conducted among first year, second year, and third year pharmacy students to assess psychometric properties of a 30 item adapted academic resilience scale. Data were also collected using the Short Grit Scale (Grit S) Demographic characteristics were collected from student records. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to determine the number of underlying factors responsible for data covariation. Principal components analysis was used as the extraction method. Varimax rotation method was used, and the Cronbach alpha was estimated. Validity testing was conducted by calculating Pearson's r correlations between the adapted academic resilience scale and Grit S.  The survey response rate was 84% The final version of the scale, the Academic Pharmacy Resilience Scale (APRS 16) had four subscales and 16 items (14 items failed to load on any of the factors and were deleted) The Cronbach alpha was .84, indicating strong internal consistency. The APRS 16 and its subscales were significantly correlated to the Grit S and its subscales, providing evidence of effective convergent validity.  Evidence supports the reliability and validity of the APRS 16 as a measure of academic resilience in pharmacy students. Future studies should use the APRS 16 to investigate the relationship between academic resilience and performance outcomes among pharmacy students.
History, Culture and the Death Penalty: The British Debates, 1840 70
Year: 2016

Mid Victorian Britain saw a debate over the death penalty the intensity of which was not matched until the mid twentieth century. On at least eight occasions between 1 840 and 1 869 the Commons voted on measures to abolish capital punishment.2 The topic was subjected to lengthy discussion in leading journals; major intellectual and literary figures joined the fray, many, at least initially, on the side of reform. A symbolically charged dispute, it elicited powerful emotions on both sides of the question. Despite repeated defeats in Parliament, the advocates of abolition were confident that victory lay within their grasp. In 1848 one reformer, George Thompson, optimistically predicted that "the time would soon come" for the final overthrow of the gallows.3 Another abolitionist announced his pleasure in observing "obsolete usages" giving way before "modern feelings."4 Many conservative commentators, in the 1 840s, feared the accuracy of these observations. The confidence felt by abolitionists was grounded in a particular interpretation of recent history and a faith in the
Surrogate Analysis and Index Developer (SAID) tool
Year: 2015

7  Overview 8 Data 10 Formats 10 10 11 Tab Delimited ASCII File SonTek(r) Argonaut Dataset Loading Data 12 15 17 Constituent 12 12 13 14 15 Surrogate Matching Observations ADVM Parameter Processing and Plotting (optional in SAID) Configuration Parameters Processing Parameters Viewing Backscatter Profiles Linear Model 20 20 20 Choosing Variables Model Observations Transforming Variables 21 21 22 Model Evaluation 21 Plots Scatter Plots Residual Plots 26 33 34 34 Display Model 30 30 31 31 View/Edit Table Write Report Time Series SAID Workspace Acknowledgments
OS DESAFIOS NA PRATICA PEDAGOGICA DIANTE DA INCLUSAO EDUCACIONAL: PERCEPCAO DE DOCENTES CAPACITADOS
Year: 2018

Este artigo apresenta uma discussao sobre a percepcao de docentes capacitados sobre o contexto da consolidacao da inclusao educacional no contexto regular de ensino. A questao principal de investigacao e: de que maneira os professores do Ensino Fundamental percebem os desafios na pratica pedagogica no que diz respeito a inclusao educacional? Elencou se como objetivos especificos: discutir sobre a formacao docente para a inclusao educacional; analisar a politica inclusiva para a formacao do professor capacitado; e identificar os entendimentos de professores capacitados sobre a formacao e capacitacao para atuar no contexto da inclusao educacional. Para tanto, emprega se uma pesquisa do tipo documental e de campo na modalidade descritiva. Para a coleta de dados, analisou se a legislacao pertinente a formacao docente para a inclusao e elaborou se um questionario aplicado com 7 (sete) professores de classes comuns dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola publica do municipio de Taruma, oeste do Estado de Sao Paulo. A interpretacao dos dados foi feita por meio da analise de conteudo, pela qual foram categorizadas em: i) caracterizacao do campo de estudo e o perfil dos participantes e; ii) percepcao dos docentes quanto a inclusao educacional e os desafios na pratica pedagogica. Tem se como principais resultados e discussoes, que o professor nao precisa ser conscientizado apenas sobre as politicas de inclusao escolar, e necessario que a sua formacao continuada propicie analises e reflexoes sobre as condicoes de trabalho, instigando novas propostas pedagogicas que culminem para a efetivacao da inclusao.
End to End Korean Part of Speech Tagging Using Copying Mechanism
Venue: ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process.
Year: 2018

In this article, we introduce a novel neural architecture for the end to end Korean Part of Speech (POS) tagging problem. To address the problem, we extend the present recurrent neural network based sequence to sequence models to deal with the key challenges in this task: rare word generation and POS tagging. To overcome these issues, Input Feeding and Copying mechanism are adopted. Although our approach does not require any manual features or preprocessed pattern matching dictionaries, our best single model achieves an F score of 97.08. This is competitive with the current state of the art model (F score 98.03) which requires extensive manual feature processing.
Vulnerability and Resilience Among Gender Nonconforming Children and Adolescents: Mental Health Professionals Have a Key Role to Play.
Venue: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Year: 2016

ublic awareness of nonconformity in gender identity and expression among children and adolescents has P reached unprecedented heights. This increased visibility has led to frequent discourse in the media as well as in professional organizations and among policy makers. For example, The New York Times regularly publishes articles on this topic; the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has recommended practice guidelines for gender nonconforming children; and several US states have adopted a ban on conversion therapy that pertains to sexual orientation as well as gender identity. The ongoing debate is fueled by consideration of the appropriateness of a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, particularly for children, to be included in the DSM 5 and the upcoming revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Proponents have argued that gender dysphoria is inherently distressing, and that the diagnosis will facilitate access to clinical services to alleviate this distress, as well as foster research to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon. On the other hand, critics have argued that such a mental health diagnosis contributes to social stigma, further adding to the distress of gender nonconforming children, and therefore that the environment, not the child, needs to be the focus of intervention. We urgently need research on the different manifestations of nonconformity in gender identity and expression that has the potential to inform such public discourse and professional debate. A greater understanding of these manifestations will provide guidance to policy makers and practitioners. An example is a newly published study in this issue of the Journal that reveals that gender nonconforming children are at increased risk for self harm and suicide. Here, the data collected from children referred to a specialized gender identity service at an academic health center in the period 1976 to 2015 provided a unique opportunity to examine their vulnerability to self harm and suicide. The authors compared the parent report forms of the Child Behavior Checklist of 572 of these children, who ranged in age from 3 to 12 years, with that of their siblings, other clinic referred children, and nonclinical controls. Results indicated that children with gender dysphoria had higher rates of suicidal ideation (19.1% and self harm or suicide attempts (6.6% compared to their siblings and to nonclinical controls. Predictors included older age (for suicidal ideation) and general behavior problems (for suicidal ideation, self harm,
Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Arcobacter species in human stool samples derived from out and inpatients: the prospective German Arcobacter prevalence study Arcopath
Venue: Gut Pathogens
Year: 2020

Arcobacter species, particularly A. butzleri, but also A. cryaerophilus constitute emerging pathogens causing gastroenteritis in humans. However, isolation of Arcobacter may often fail during routine diagnostic procedures due to the lack of standard protocols. Furthermore, defined breakpoints for the interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibilities of Arcobacter are missing. Hence, reliable epidemiological data of human Arcobacter infections are scarce and lacking for Germany. We therefore performed a 13 month prospective Arcobacter prevalence study in German patients. A total of 4636 human stool samples was included and Arcobacter spp. were identified from 0.85% of specimens in 3884 outpatients and from 0.40% of specimens in 752 hospitalized patients. Overall, A. butzleri was the most prevalent species (n 24; 67% followed by A. cryaerophilus (n 10; 28% and A. lanthieri (n 2; 6% Whereas A. butzleri, A. cryaerophilus and A. lanthieri were identified in outpatients, only A. butzleri could be isolated from samples of hospitalized patients. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Arcobacter isolates revealed high susceptibilities to ciprofloxacin, whereas bimodal distributions of MICs were observed for azithromycin and ampicillin. In summary, Arcobacter including A. butzleri, A. cryaerophilus and A. lanthieri could be isolated in 0.85% of German outpatients and ciprofloxacin rather than other antibiotics might be appropriate for antibiotic treatment of infections. Further epidemiological studies are needed, however, to provide a sufficient risk assessment of Arcobacter infections in humans.
The Mysterious Motivational Functions of Mesolimbic Dopamine
Venue: Neuron
Year: 2012

Nucleus accumbens dopamine is known to play a role in motivational processes, and dysfunctions of mesolimbic dopamine may contribute to motivational symptoms of depression and other disorders, as well as features of substance abuse. Although it has become traditional to label dopamine neurons as "reward" neurons, this is an overgeneralization, and it is important to distinguish between aspects of motivation that are differentially affected by dopaminergic manipulations. For example, accumbens dopamine does not mediate primary food motivation or appetite, but is involved in appetitive and aversive motivational processes including behavioral activation, exertion of effort, approach behavior, sustained task engagement, Pavlovian processes, and instrumental learning. In this review, we discuss the complex roles of dopamine in behavioral functions related to motivation.
MXene Modulated Electrode/SnO2 Interface Boosting Charge Transport in Perovskite Solar Cells.
Venue: ACS applied materials interfaces
Year: 2020

Interface engineering is imperative to boost the extraction capability in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) We propose a promising approach to enhance the electron mobility and charge transfer ability of tin oxide (SnO2) electron transport layer (ETL) by introducing a two dimensional carbide (MXene) with strong interface interaction. The MXene modified SnO2 ETL also offers a preferable growth platform for perovskite films with reduced trap density. Through a spatially resolved imaging technique, profoundly reduced non radiative recombination and charge transport losses in PSCs based on MXene modified SnO2 are also observed. As a result, the PSC achieves an enhanced efficiency of 20.65% with ultralow saturated current density and negligible hysteresis. We provide an in depth mechanistic understanding of MXene interface engineering, offering an alternative approach to obtain efficient PSCs.
Designing an FPGA Synthesizable Computer Vision Algorithm to Detect the Greening of Potatoes
Venue: ArXiv
Year: 2014

Potato quality control has improved in the last years thanks to automation techniques like machine vision, mainly making the classification task between different quality degrees faster, safer and less subjective. In our study we are going to design a computer vision algorithm for grading of potatoes according to the greening of the surface color of potato. The ratio of green pixels to the total number of pixels of the potato surface is found. The higher the ratio the worse is the potato. First the image is converted into serial data and then processing is done in RGB colour space. Green part of the potato is also shown by de serializing the output. The same algorithm is then synthesized on FPGA and the result shows thousand times speed improvement in case of hardware synthesis.
Request Strategies in the TV Series Victorious
Venue: Lexicon
Year: 2019

This research aimed to investigate request strategies as found in an American TV series Victorious. In particular, it attempted to identify and classify request head acts, external modifications, and types of sentences of the requests expressed by the characters in the series. Therefore, utterances containing requests in the TV series were used as the data of this study. The results show that the most frequently used request strategy in the TV series was direct strategy (mood derivable) with 194 occurrences (67% In addition, an external modification by means of grounder was found to be the most frequent strategy in the TV series with 32 occurrences (94% of the total number of the external modifications) Furthermore, it was found that the imperative sentence was the most frequent type of sentence utilized by the characters in the series when making requests with 216 occurrences (74% In conclusion, the tendency for the characters to use mood derivable as their request strategy might due to their intimacy with each character and the informal situations and conversations where they interacted with each other throughout the TV series. In addition, the proclivity of the characters to use grounder may relate to ease and simplicity. Finally, the tendency of the characters to use declarative sentences when making requests might due to its simplicity and function to state facts, opinions, or ideas.
ADBI Working Paper Series THE GENDER GAP IN PEER TO PEER LENDING: EVIDENCE FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Year: 2019

This paper documents and analyzes the gender gap in the online credit market. Using data from Renrendai, a leading peer to peer lending platform in the People's Republic of China (PRC) we show that lending to female borrowers is associated with better loan performance, including a lower probability of default, a higher expected profit, and a lower expected loss than for their male peers. However, despite the higher creditworthiness, we don't find any measurable gender impact on funding success rate, meaning that female borrowers have to compensate lenders by providing higher profitability to achieve a similar funding probability to their male peers. This evidence indicates the existence of a gender gap that discriminates against female borrowers. Further analysis implies that this gender gap is independent of the amount of information disclosed by borrowers.
THE ROLES AND CHALLENGES OF STAY AT HOME FATHERS IN SALATIGA, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA
Venue: International Review of Humanities Studies
Year: 2019

This paper describes six men who decided to be a stay at home fathers lived in Salatiga. All respondents believe that parenting roles is a kind of common responsibility for both parent. However, there are also challenges faced by stay at home fathers which divided into the practical challenges related to the double role as father and mother, and also the emotional challenges. Nevertheless, no respondents stated that the roles of stay at home father affects to the concept of masculinity itself but rather a responsibility of a father to protect the family. The division of house works based on gender roles have a close relation to the traditional Javanese concept of a family, which explained that men play an important role as the leader in running all domestic matters as well as being the breadwinner, while women should be responsible to take care of the children and doing house chores. Meanwhile, the idea of equality promoted by feminist thinkers deconstructed the meaning of family that has been understood since a long time ago. The research of this paper uses qualitative phenomenological method, with data collection technique by snowball sampling. In depth interview conducted for three weeks long to five single fathers and a stay at home father living in Salatiga.
Benchmarking framework for myocardial tracking and deformation algorithms: An open access database
Venue: Medical Image Anal.
Year: 2013

In this paper we present a benchmarking framework for the validation of cardiac motion analysis algorithms. The reported methods are the response to an open challenge that was issued to the medical imaging community through a MICCAI workshop. The database included magnetic resonance (MR) and 3D ultrasound (3DUS) datasets from a dynamic phantom and 15 healthy volunteers. Participants processed 3D tagged MR datasets (3DTAG) cine steady state free precession MR datasets (SSFP) and 3DUS datasets, amounting to 1158 image volumes. Ground truth for motion tracking was based on 12 landmarks (4 walls at 3 ventricular levels) They were manually tracked by two observers in the 3DTAG data over the whole cardiac cycle, using an in house application with 4D visualization capabilities. The median of the inter observer variability was computed for the phantom dataset (0.77 mm) and for the volunteer datasets (0.84 mm) The ground truth was registered to 3DUS coordinates using a point based similarity transform. Four institutions responded to the challenge by providing motion estimates for the data: Fraunhofer MEVIS (MEVIS) Bremen, Germany; Imperial College London University College London (IUCL) UK; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Barcelona, Spain; Inria Asclepios project (INRIA) France. Details on the implementation and evaluation of the four methodologies are presented in this manuscript. The manually tracked landmarks were used to evaluate tracking accuracy of all methodologies. For 3DTAG, median values were computed over all time frames for the phantom dataset (MEVIS=1.20mm, IUCL=0.73 mm, UPF=1.10mm, INRIA=1.09 mm) and for the volunteer datasets (MEVIS=1.33 mm, IUCL=1.52 mm, UPF=1.09 mm, INRIA=1.32 mm) For 3DUS, median values were computed at end diastole and end systole for the phantom dataset (MEVIS=4.40 mm, UPF=3.48 mm, INRIA=4.78 mm) and for the volunteer datasets (MEVIS=3.51 mm, UPF=3.71 mm, INRIA=4.07 mm) For SSFP, median values were computed at end diastole and end systole for the phantom dataset(UPF=6.18 mm, INRIA=3.93 mm) and for the volunteer datasets (UPF=3.09 mm, INRIA=4.78 mm) Finally, strain curves were generated and qualitatively compared. Good agreement was found between the different modalities and methodologies, except for radial strain that showed a high variability in cases of lower image quality.
Application of nanotechnology in cancer diagnosis and therapy
Year: 2009

Recent developments in nanotechnology have provided researchers with new tools for cancer diagnosis and therapy.Since these nanoparticals are 100 1000 fold smaller than cancer cells,they can be easily transferred through leaky blood vessels and interact with targeted tumor specific proteins both on the surface of and inside cancer cells.Therefore,their application as cancer cell specific delivery vehicles will be a significant addition to currently available armory for cancer diagnosis and therapy.  Drug delivery; Diagnosis; Therapy
Improving the fault tolerance of software defined networks with dynamic overlay agreement
Venue: Clust. Comput.
Year: 2021

Software Defined Networking (SDN) emerges as one of the leading technologies to address the pressing networking problems such as network virtualization and data center complexity issues using programmable switches and controllers. To well exchange information and have coordinated control for the SDN environment, the multi controller SDN network has been proposed. Unfortunately, this network architecture still faces the problem of faulty controllers that may forge the command arbitrarily, and then the whole network will be broken down easily. Thus, it is important to propose the fault tolerance scheme under the SDN network system. In this paper, a new SDN environment called the Multi Controller Overlay Groups (MCOG) where each device is managed by the controllers is proposed. Besides, the degree of the faulty influence will be revised to define the different bounds of fault tolerance in the MCOG environment. Furthermore, the new protocol named General Dynamic Multi Controller Agreement (GDMCA) protocol is proposed to solve the Byzantine Agreement (BA) problem in the MCOG environment. Based on the proof of complexity, it can show that the proposed GDMCA protocol is optimal under the MCOG environment.