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Very-Heavy Sled Training for Improving Horizontal-Force Output in Soccer Players.

BACKGROUND
Sprint running acceleration is a key feature of physical performance in team sports, and recent literature shows that the ability to generate large magnitudes of horizontal ground-reaction force and mechanical effectiveness of force application are paramount. The authors tested the hypothesis that very-heavy loaded sled sprint training would induce an improvement in horizontal-force production, via an increased effectiveness of application.


METHODS
Training-induced changes in sprint performance and mechanical outputs were computed using a field method based on velocity-time data, before and after an 8-wk protocol (16 sessions of 10- × 20-m sprints). Sixteen male amateur soccer players were assigned to either a very-heavy sled (80% body mass sled load) or a control group (unresisted sprints).


RESULTS
The main outcome of this pilot study is that very-heavy sled-resisted sprint training, using much greater loads than traditionally recommended, clearly increased maximal horizontal-force production compared with standard unloaded sprint training (effect size of 0.80 vs 0.20 for controls, unclear between-groups difference) and mechanical effectiveness (ie, more horizontally applied force; effect size of 0.95 vs -0.11, moderate between-groups difference). In addition, 5-m and 20-m sprint performance improvements were moderate and small for the very-heavy sled group and small and trivial for the control group, respectively. Practical Applications: This brief report highlights the usefulness of very-heavy sled (80% body mass) training, which may suggest value for practical improvement of mechanical effectiveness and maximal horizontal-force capabilities in soccer players and other team-sport athletes.


RESULTS
This study may encourage further research to confirm the usefulness of very-heavy sled in this context.
Asirra: a CAPTCHA that exploits interest-aligned manual image categorization

The typical CAPTCHA GUI consists of two parts: a character image with noise, and an and J. Saul, "Asirra: a CAPTCHA that exploits interest-aligned manual image categorization," in 14th ACM conference on Computer and Communications. CAPTCHAs (short for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Asirra: A CAPTCHA that Exploits Interest-Aligned Manual Image Categorization. (30)J. Elson, J. R. Douceur, J. Howell, and J. Saul, “Asirra: A CAPTCHA that exploits interest-aligned manual image categorization,” in Proc. ACM CCS, 2007, pp.
The inferior alveolar nerve's loop at the mental foramen and its implications for surgery.

BACKGROUND
In this study, the authors aimed to identify and measure the anterior extension of the alveolar loop (aAL) and the caudal extension of the alveolar loop (cAL) of the inferior alveolar nerve by using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). They also aimed to provide recommendations for surgery in the anterior mandible.


METHODS
In this retrospective case study of the frequency and extension of aAL and cAL, the authors evaluated 1,384 mandibular sites in 694 CBCT scans of dentate and partly edentulous patients, performed mainly for further diagnosis before removal of the mandibular third molars between January 2009 and February 2013, by using multiplanar reconstructions.


RESULTS
The frequency of aAL was 69.73 percent and of cAL was 100 percent. The mean value for aAL was 1.16 millimeters, with a range of 0.3 to 5.6 mm; the mean value for cAL was 4.11 mm, with a range of 0.25 to 8.87 mm. For aAL, 95.81 percent of the sites showed values of 0 to 3 mm; for cAL, 93.78 percent of the sites showed values of 0.25 to 6 mm. Dentate patients showed statistically significantly higher values for cAL than did partly edentulous patients (P = .043). CBCT resolution had a statistically significant impact on cAL measurements (P = .001), with higher values at higher resolution.


CONCLUSIONS
This study showed a high frequency of and large variations in aAL and cAL. In contrast to panoramic radiography, CBCT has been shown to be a reliable tool for identifying and measuring the AL. Therefore, preoperative diagnosis with CBCT is recommended for planning three-dimensional tasks such as implant placement in the vicinity of the mental foramen.


PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Owing to the variability of aAL and cAL measurements, it is difficult to recommend reliable safety margins for surgical procedures such as implant placement, bone harvesting or genioplasty Depending on the indication, the clinician should consider preoperative diagnosis by means of CBCT.
Reconstruction of the high urogenital sinus: early perineal prone approach without division of the rectum.

PURPOSE
Reconstruction of the vagina and external genitalia in the infant is quite challenging, particularly when a urogenital sinus is associated with high confluence of the vagina and urethra. Many surgeons believe that children with such a malformation should undergo staged or delayed reconstruction, so that vaginoplasty is done when the child is older and larger. Vaginoplasty early in life is thought to be difficult due to patient size and poor visualization. The posterior sagittal approach has been beneficial for acquiring exposure to high urogenital sinus anomalies but it has been thought to require splitting of the rectum and temporary colostomy. We report a modification of this technique.


MATERIALS AND METHODS
In the last 5 years all patients with urogenital sinus anomalies underwent reconstruction using a single stage approach regardless of the level of confluence. In 8 patients with a high level of confluence reconstruction was performed using a perineal prone approach. Exposure was achieved without division of the rectum. The operative technique is presented in detail.


RESULTS
This midline perineal prone approach has allowed excellent exposure of the high vagina even in infants. In all 8 patients reconstruction was done without difficulty and no patient required incision of the rectum or colostomy. This procedure did not preclude the use of a posteriorly based flap for vaginal reconstruction.


CONCLUSIONS
While patients with low confluence can be treated with single posteriorly based flap vaginoplasty, those with higher confluence may benefit from a perineal prone approach to achieve adequate exposure for pull-through vaginoplasty. This prone approach to the high urogenital sinus anomaly can be performed without division of the rectum, provides excellent exposure of the high confluence even in small children and does not preclude the use of posterior flaps for vaginal reconstruction.
KDD meets Big Data

Cross-Industry Standard process model (CRISP-DM) was developed in the late 90s by a consortium of industry participants to facilitate the end-to-end data mining process for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). While there have been efforts to better integrate with management and software development practices, there are no extensions to handle the new activities involved in using big data technologies. Data Science Edge (DSE) is an enhanced process model to accommodate big data technologies and data science activities. In recognition of the changes, the author promotes the use of a new term, Knowledge Discovery in Data Science (KDDS) as a call for the community to develop a new industry standard data science process model.
The associative basis of the creative process.

The intent of this paper is the presentation of an associative interpretation of the process of creative thinking. The explanation is not directed to any specific field of application such as art or science but attempts to delineate processes that underlie all creative thought. The discussion will take the following form, (a) First, we will define creative thinking in associative terms and indicate three ways in which creative solutions may be achieved—serendipity, similarity, and mediation, (b) This definition will allow us to deduce those individual difference variables which will facilitate creative performance, (c) Consideration of the definition of the creative process has suggested an operational statement of the definition in the form of a test. The test will be briefly described along with some preliminary research results. (d) The paper will conclude with a discussion of predictions regarding the influence of certain experimentally manipulable variables upon the creative process. Creative individuals and the processes by which they manifest their creativity have excited a good deal of
SAF: Strategic Alignment Framework for Monitoring Organizations

Reaching a Strategic Alignment is a crucial aspect for any organization. The alignment can be achieved by controlling, through monitoring probes, the coherency of the Business Processes with the related Business Strategy. In this paper we present SAF, a powerful framework for those organizations that aim at a superior business performance and want to keep monitored the organization’s alignment. SAF has been applied to a real case study and it has also been compared with GQM Strategy [2] and Process Performance Indicators Monitoring Model [16].
Evaluation of text data mining for database curation: lessons learned from the KDD Challenge Cup

MOTIVATION
The biological literature is a major repository of knowledge. Many biological databases draw much of their content from a careful curation of this literature. However, as the volume of literature increases, the burden of curation increases. Text mining may provide useful tools to assist in the curation process. To date, the lack of standards has made it impossible to determine whether text mining techniques are sufficiently mature to be useful.


RESULTS
We report on a Challenge Evaluation task that we created for the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Challenge Cup. We provided a training corpus of 862 articles consisting of journal articles curated in FlyBase, along with the associated lists of genes and gene products, as well as the relevant data fields from FlyBase. For the test, we provided a corpus of 213 new ('blind') articles; the 18 participating groups provided systems that flagged articles for curation, based on whether the article contained experimental evidence for gene expression products. We report on the evaluation results and describe the techniques used by the top performing groups.
Concurrent Constraint Programming

This paper presents a new and very rich class of (concurrent) programming languages, based on the notion of computing with partial information, and the concomitant notions of consistency and entailment.1 In this framework, computation emerges from the interaction of concurrently executing agents that communicate by placing, checking and instantiating constraints on shared variables. Such a view of computation is interesting in the context of programming languages because of the ability to represent and manipulate partial information about the domain of discourse, in the context of concurrency because of the use of constraints for communication and control, and in the context of AI because of the availability of simple yet powerful mechanisms for controlling inference, and the promise that very rich representational/programming languages, sharing the same set of abstract properties, may be possible.
To reflect this view of computation, [Sar89] develops the cc family of languages. We present here one member of the family, cc(↓, →) (pronounced “cc with Ask and Choose”) which provides the basic operations of blocking Ask and atomic Tell and an algebra of behaviors closed under prefixing, indeterministic choice, interleaving, and hiding, and provides a mutual recursion operator. cc(↓, →) is (intentionally!) very similar to Milner's CCS, but for the radically different underlying concept of communication, which, in fact, provides a general—and elegant—alternative approach to “value-passing” in CCS. At the same time it adequately captures the framework of committed choice concurrent logic programming languages. We present the rules of behavior for cc agents, motivate a notion of “visible action” for them, and develop the notion of c-trees and reactive congruence analogous to Milner's synchronization trees and observational congruence. We also present an equational characterization of reactive congruence for Finitary cc(↓, →).
Faster Transit Routing by Hyper Partitioning

We present a preprocessing-based acceleration technique for computing bi-criteria Pareto-optimal journeys in public transit networks, based on the well-known RAPTOR algorithm [16]. Our key idea is to first partition a hypergraph into cells, in which vertices correspond to routes (e.g., bus lines) and hyperedges to stops, and to then mark routes sufficient for optimal travel across cells. The query can then be restricted to marked routes and those in the source and target cells. This results in a practical approach, suitable for networks that are too large to be efficiently handled by the basic RAPTOR algorithm. 1998 ACM Subject Classification G.2.2 Graph Theory
Multiagent systems and agent-based modeling and simulation

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UIMA Ruta: Rapid development of rule-based information extraction applications

Rule-based information extraction is an important approach for processing the increasingly available amount of unstructured data. The manual creation of rule-based applications is a time-consuming and tedious task, which requires qualified knowledge engineers. The costs of this process can be reduced by providing a suitable rule language and extensive tooling support. This paper presents UIMA Ruta, a tool for rule-based information extraction and text processing applications. The system was designed with focus on rapid development. The rule language and its matching paradigm facilitate the quick specification of comprehensible extraction knowledge. They support a compact representation while still providing a high level of expressiveness. These advantages are supplemented by the development environment UIMA Ruta Workbench. It provides, in addition to extensive editing support, essential assistance for explanation of rule execution, introspection, automatic validation, and rule induction. UIMA Ruta is a useful tool for academia and industry due to its open source license. We compare UIMA Ruta to related rule-based systems especially concerning the compactness of the rule representation, the expressiveness, and the provided tooling support. The competitiveness of the runtime performance is shown in relation to a popular and freelyavailable system. A selection of case studies implemented with UIMA Ruta illustrates the usefulness of the system in real-world scenarios.
Distributed energy balanced routing for wireless sensor networks

Most routing algorithms for sensor networks focus on finding energy efficient paths to prolong the lifetime of sensor networks. As a result, the power of sensors on efficient paths depletes quickly, and consequently sensor networks become incapable of monitoring events from some parts of their target areas. In many sensor network applications, the events that must be tracked occur at random locations and have non-deterministic generation patterns. Therefore, ideally, routing algorithms should consider not only energy efficiency, but also the amount of energy remaining in each sensor, thus avoiding non-functioning sensors due to early power depletion. This paper introduces a new metric, energy cost, devised to consider a balance of sensors’ remaining energies, as well as energy efficiency. This metric gives rise to the design of the distributed energy balanced routing (DEBR) algorithm devised to balance the data traffic of sensor networks in a decentralized manner and consequently prolong the lifetime of the networks. DEBR is scalable in the number of sensors and also robust to the variations in the dynamics of event generation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by comparing three existing routing algorithms: direct communication approach, minimum transmission energy, and self-organized routing and find that energy balance should be considered to extend lifetime of sensor network and increase robustness of sensor network for diverse event generation patterns. 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Characterization studies of fluorine-induced corrosion crystal defects on microchip Al bondpads using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

In wafer fabrication, Fluorine (F) contamination may cause F-induced corrosion and defects on microchip Al bondpad, resulting in bondpad discoloration or non-stick on pad (NSOP). In the previous paper [1], the authors studied the F-induced corrosion and defects, characterized the composition of the “flower-like” defects and determined the binding energy of Al fluoride [AlF<sub>6</sub>]<sup>3-</sup> using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) techniques. In this paper, we further studied F-induced corrosion and defects, and characterized the composition of the “crystal-like” defects using XPS. The experimental results showed that the major component of the “crystal-like” defect was Al fluoride of AlF<sub>3</sub>. The percentages of the components of the “crystal-like” defects on the affected bondpad are: Al (22.2%), Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> (5.4%), AlF<sub>3</sub>(70.0%) and [AlF<sub>6</sub>]<sup>3-</sup> (2.4%). During high-resolution fitting, the binding energies of Al (72.8eV)Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> (74.5eV), AlF<sub>3</sub> (76.3eV) and [AlF<sub>6</sub>]<sup>3-</sup> (78.7eV) were used.
The Myth of the "Biphasic" Hyaluronic Acid Filler.

BACKGROUND
The terms "biphasic" and "monophasic" have been used frequently as a means of differentiating hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers. This type of categorization is based on misinterpretations of the term "phase" and provides no help to the practitioner when selecting the most appropriate product for each indication, patient, and injection technique.


OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to analyze the properties of 2 HA filler families; Juvederm (JUV) (Allergan), often stated to be monophasic and Restylane (RES) (Galderma), often stated to be biphasic, and discuss what properties may have led to the use of the terms monophasic and biphasic.


MATERIALS AND METHODS
Three different methods were used for JUV and RES: determination of extractable HA; determination of water uptake; and microscopy.


RESULTS
The analyzed products were shown to contain both observable gel particles and extractable HA and have the ability to absorb added water.


CONCLUSION
The categorization of HA fillers as biphasic or monophasic was shown to be scientifically incorrect and should therefore be avoided. Further analytical measurement of the properties leading to this misinterpretation can provide information to discriminate and categorize HA fillers on a sounder scientific basis.
A novel hybrid MCDM model combining the SAW, TOPSIS and GRA methods based on experimental design

Multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) is a difficult task because the existing alternatives are frequently in conflict with each other. This study presents a hybrid MCDM method combining simple additive weighting (SAW), techniques for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) and grey relational analysis (GRA) techniques. A feature of this method is that it employs an experimental design technique to assign attribute weights and then combines different MCDM evaluation methods to construct the hybrid decision-making model. This model can guide a decision maker in making a reasonable judgment without requiring professional skills or extensive experience. The ranking results agreed upon by multiple MCDM methods are more trustworthy than those generated by a single MCDM method. The proposed method is illustrated in a practical application scenario involving an IC packaging company. Four additional numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method. In all of the cases, the results obtained using the proposed method were highly similar to those derived by previous studies, thus proving the validity and capability of this method to solve real-life MCDM problems. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES FACULTY OF INFORMATICS DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE DESIGNING A STEMMER FOR GE’EZ TEXT USING RULE BASED APPROACH
Introduction to React

Introduction to React teaches you React, the JavaScript framework created by developers at Facebook, to solve the problem of building complex user interfaces in a consistent and maintainable way. React.js shrugs away common front-end conventions in an effort to make things more effi cient use Introduction to React to learn about this framework and more today. Get to know the React API and it’s specifi c JavaScript extension, JSX, which makes authoring React components easier and maintainable. You will also learn how to test your React applications and about the tools you can use while building. Once you understand these core concepts, you can build applications with React. This will help you cement the ideas and fundamentals of React and prepare you to utilize React in your own use case.
Social Media and Information Overload: Survey Results

A UK-based online questionnaire investigating aspects of usage of usergenerated media (UGM), such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, attracted 587 participants. Results show a high degree of engagement with social networking media such as Facebook, and a significant engagement with other media such as professional media, microblogs and blogs. Participants who experience information overload are those who engage less frequently with the media, rather than those who have fewer posts to read. Professional users show different behaviours to social users. Microbloggers complain of information overload to the greatest extent. Two thirds of Twitter-users have felt that they receive too many posts, and over half of Twitter-users have felt the need for a tool to filter out the irrelevant posts. Generally speaking, participants express satisfaction with the media, though a significant minority express a range of concerns including information overload and privacy. Keyword list: User-Generated Media, Social Networking, Information Overload, Information Overlook, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter