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Characterisation and comparative analysis of thematic video portals

  • Authors: Adib, Saif , Mahanti, Aniket , Naha, Ranesh
  • Date: 2021
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  • Relation: Technology in society Vol. 67, no. (2021), p. 101690
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  • Description: This paper provides a comprehensive measurement study on three video streaming websites with social media features - ‘TED Talks’, ‘xHamster’ and ‘XVideos’. We have analysed 2685 TED videos from 2006 to 2018 to characterise the service. For xHamster and XVideos, active measurements were used to collect unique metadata on almost 3405 and 6721 channels from 2012 to 2019 respectively, which were then analysed. Through these characterisations we gained insight into the main players of the websites – viewers, uploaders and website owners. Our analysis involved the studying of video streaming characteristics such as views, number of uploads, ratings, tags etc. By this we aim to give an overview of the services' current state and compare them with other traditional video streaming services. Our results showed some similar trends to be observed in all three websites such as TED videos and adult channels getting a high number of views despite low injection rate, maintaining a power-law behaviour due to front page recommendations and ratings being underutilised as a feature.Other observations include adult streaming services having a higher number of subscribers per channel. The characterisation results obtained are of value to network operators, content providers, and protocol designers. These results can also be used by content providers to measure what type of content is being watched on their websites. Our study provides a glimpse at how video streaming services function today and the trends they seem to follow. •Measurements and detailed characterisation study based on TED Talks, xHamster, and XVideos.•Comprehensive understanding of the online video streaming domain.•Insights on video streaming services and how they utilise their online social network of users.

Home advantage and LBW decisions : the contribution of umpiring to the home-ground (dis)advantage in cricket

  • Authors: Adie, Joshua , Renshaw, Ian , Polman, Remco , Mann, David
  • Date: 2022
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  • Relation: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 25, no. 6 (2022), p. 520-523
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  • Description: Objectives: This study aimed to determine whether elite cricket umpires' decisions contribute to home advantage via leg-before-wicket decisions. Design: Leg-before-wicket decisions (n = 4971) from actual elite level cricket matches in Australia between 2009 and 2016 were analysed using a binomial logistic regression to predict the umpires' leg-before-wicket decisions. Methods: Regressions were performed to determine whether the batter's team (home or away) influenced the likelihood that the umpire would give them out leg-before-wicket. Results: We found no evidence of home advantage in umpires' leg-before-wicket decisions. In fact, we found evidence that umpires in some instances disadvantage the home team. Conclusions: We suggest that the increased professionalism of sports officials, and the scrutiny they are placed under, may lead umpires to reduce or even overcompensate for any existing biases in their decision making. © 2022 Sports Medicine Australia

No expectation bias in elite-level cricket umpires’ leg-before-wicket (LBW) decisions according to batting order position

  • Authors: Adie, Joshua , Renshaw, Ian , Polman, Remco , Mann, David
  • Date: 2022
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  • Relation: Psychology of Sport and Exercise Vol. 60, no. (2022), p.
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  • Description: Objectives: Previous studies have shown that sport officials’ decisions can be impacted by biases associated with expectations. The aim of this study was to determine whether elite cricket umpires’ decisions are also influenced by expectations associated with batter skill. Methods: LBW decisions (n = 5578) from actual elite level cricket matches in Australia between 2009 and 2016 were analysed in a multi-level binomial logistic regression paradigm. In our first model, we predicted the likelihood that an umpire will answer ‘out’ for batters in the top order (1–4), middle order (5–7), and low order (8-11). In our second model, we controlled for the correctness of a decision. Results: Umpires were more likely to respond ‘out’ as the batting order progressed, however this did not appear to be due to biased decision-making. Instead, as batting order progressed, batters were more likely to actually be ‘out’. Conclusions: Cricket umpires do not seem to be impacted by expectation bias associated with batting order. This study highlights the importance of controlling for the correctness of a decision when exploring bias in sport officials’ decisions. © 2022

When in doubt, it's not out : match format is associated with differences in elite-level cricket umpires’ leg-before-wicket decisions

  • Authors: Adie, Joshua , Renshaw, Ian , Polman, Remco , Thompson, Matthew , Mann, David
  • Date: 2020
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  • Relation: Psychology of Sport and Exercise Vol. 51, no. (2020), p.
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  • Description: Objectives: Contextual factors can influence the way sports officials apply unambiguous rules. The aim of this study was to better understand the leg-before-wicket (LBW) decision-making behaviour of elite cricket umpires and determine whether their behaviour changes according to the format of the game in which they are adjudicating. Methods: LBW decisions (n = 5578) from actual elite level cricket matches in Australia between 2009 and 2016 were analysed using a signal detection paradigm. Umpire sensitivity (A) and response bias (B) were compared to chance performance in three formats of the game: Four-day, One-day, and T20. Mixed effects models assessed sensitivity and response bias differences between match types. Results: Umpires were able to differentiate between “out” and “not out” appeals to a high standard but were conservative and had a bias to respond “not out” in all formats of the game. Umpires were less accurate in the shorter formats of the game, particularly T20 cricket and were also significantly more conservative in T20 compared to Four-day Matches. Conclusions: Cricket umpires are conservative and are highly accurate LBW decision makers. However, differences in their judgments were associated with different match formats. The unique task goals and contextual pressures afforded by the shorter formats of the game, particularly T20, may account for the observed performance differences we see here. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd

Survey : self-empowered wireless sensor networks security taxonomy, challenges, and future research directions

  • Authors: Adil, Muhammad , Menon, Varun , Balasubramanian, Venki , Alotaibi, Sattam , Song, Houbing , Jin, Zhanpeng , Farouk, Ahmed
  • Date: 2023
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  • Relation: IEEE Sensors Journal Vol. 23, no. 18 (2023), p. 20519-20535
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  • Description: In the recent past, patient-wearable devices and implantable biosensors revealed exponential growth in digital healthcare, because they have the capability to allow access to information anywhere and every time to improve the life standard of multifarious disease-affected patients followed by healthy people. Following these advantages, digital healthcare demands a secure wireless communication infrastructure for interconnected self-empowered biosensor devices to maintain the trust of patients, doctors, pharmacologists, nursing staff, and other associated stakeholders. Several authentications, privacy, and data preservation schemes had been used in the literature to ensure the security of this emerging technology, but with time, these counteraction prototypes become vulnerable to new security threats, as the hackers work tirelessly to compromise them and steal the legitimate information of user's or disrupt the operation of an employed self-empowered wireless sensor network (SWSN). To discuss the security problems of SWSN applications, in this review article, we have presented a detailed survey of the present literature from 2019 to 2022, to familiarize the readers with different security threats and their counteraction schemes. Following this, we will highlight the pros and cons of these countermeasure techniques in the context of SWSN security requirements to underscore their limitations. Thereafter, we will follow-up on the underlined limitations to discuss the open security challenges of SWSNs that need the concerned authorities' attention. Based on this, we will pave a road map for future research work that could be useful for every individual associated with this technology. For the novelty and uniqueness of this work, we will make a comparative analysis with present survey papers published on this topic to answer the question of reviewers, readers, editors, and students why this article is in time and needed in the presence of rival papers. © 2022 IEEE.

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Care providers' perspectives on disrespect and abuse of women during facility-based childbirth in Africa : a qualitative systematic review protocol

  • Authors: Adinew, Yohannes , Hall, Helen , Marshall, Amy , Kelly, Janet
  • Date: 2020
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  • Relation: JBI Evidence Synthesis Vol. 18, no. 5 (May 2020), p. 1057-1063
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  • Description: Objective: The objective of this review is to identify and synthesize the best available qualitative evidence to understand healthcare providers' views on disrespect and abuse of women during facility-based childbirth in Africa. Introduction: Everyday, approximately 800 women die from preventable pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes worldwide; poorer women living in developing countries comprise 99% of these deaths. Maternal mortality has no single cause or solution, but the most effective preventive strategy is ensuring that every woman gives birth in an equipped health facility with the help of skilled providers. Yet, many women decline to attend facility-based delivery, often due to disrespect and abuse received during childbirth. Inclusion criteria: This systematic review will consider studies that include views of care providers regarding disrespect and abuse of women in birthing facilities, including verbal, physical and sexual abuse; stigma; discrimination; substandard care; neglect; and trust and communication problems. Qualitative studies that relate to Africa published in English from 1990 will be included. Methods: PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, African Index Medicus and Web of Science, and selected gray literature sources, will be searched for eligible papers. Titles and abstracts of obtained documents will be assessed by the lead reviewer against the inclusion criteria. Identified documents will then be appraised for relevance and rigor by two independent reviewers. Data will be extracted by two independent reviewers and graded according to the ConQual approach.

“I would have stayed home if I could manage it alone”: a case study of Ethiopian mother abandoned by care providers during facility-based childbirth

  • Authors: Adinew, Yohannes , Kelly, Janet , Marshall, Amy , Hall, Helen
  • Date: 2021
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  • Relation: International Journal of Women's Health Vol. 13, no. (2021), p. 501-507
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  • Description: Background: Every woman is entitled to respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth as a basic human right. However, not all women are being treated equally well. Case Presentation: This case study highlights some of the common disrespectful practices that women face. This is a testimony of a 28-year-old mother of two, narrated in her own words. The data were collected during an in-depth interview in November 2019. The interview was conducted in her house and her name has been changed to protect her identity. The interview was audio-taped using a digital voice recorder, later transcribed, and translated verbatim from the local language – Amharic, to English. Conclusion: This woman’s story highlights the unfortunate reality for some women. Five themes emerged from her narrative: denial of care: the provider left her unattended at a critical moment and denied her the care that she came for; non-consented care: she did not consent to the episiotomy; non-dignified care: she was carried by her arms and legs to the delivery couch, and left naked and bleeding on the couch after birth; taking a sick baby home without medical assistance: she was forced to leave the hospital even though her child had breathing difficulties and was not able to suck or breastfeed; and loss of trust in care providers: for her second birth this woman went to a facility where a relative works, as she no longer trusted these providers. © 2021 Mehretie Adinew et al.

Disrespect and abuse during facility‐based childbirth in central Ethiopia

  • Authors: Adinew, Yohannes , Hall, Helen , Marshall, Amy , Kelly, Janet
  • Date: 2021
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  • Relation: Global Health Action Vol. 14, no. 1 (2021), p.
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  • Description: Background: Respectful maternity care is a fundamental human right, and an important component of quality maternity care. Objective: The aim of this study was to quantify the frequency and categories of D&A and identify factors associated with reporting D&A among women in north Showa zone of Ethiopia. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 435 randomly selected women who had given birth at public health facility within the previous 12 months in North Showa zone of Ethiopia. A digital (tablet-based) structured and researcher administered tool was used for data collection. Frequencies of D&A items organised around the Bowser and Hill categories of D&A and presented in the White Ribbon Alliance’s Universal Rights of Childbearing Women Framework were calculated. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify the association between experience of disrespect and abuse and interpersonal and structural factors at p-value <0.05 and odds ratio values with 95% confidence interval. Results: All participants reported at least one form of disrespect and abuse during childbirth. Types of disrespect and abuse experienced by participants were physical abuse 435 (100%), non-consented care 423 (97.2%), non-confidential care 288 (66.2%), abandonment/neglect (34.7%), non-dignified care 126 (29%), discriminatory care 99 (22.8%) and detention 24 (5.5%). Hospital birth [AOR: 3.04, 95% CI: 1.75, 5.27], rural residence [AOR: 1.44, 95% CI: 0.76, 2.71], monthly household income less than 1,644 Birr (USD 57) [AOR: 2.26, 95% CI: 1.20, 4.26], being attended by female providers [AOR: 1.74, 95% CI: 1.06, 2.86] and midwifery nurses [AOR: 2.23, 95% CI: 1.13, 4.39] showed positive association with experience of disrespect and abuse. Conclusion: Hospital birth showed consistent association with all forms of disrespect and abuse. Expanding the size and skill mix of professionals in the hospitals, sensitizing providers consequences of disrespect and abuse could promote dignified and respectful care. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Fire and hollow formation in box-ironbark eucalypts of the Warby Range State Park

  • Authors: Adkins, Matthew , Westbrooke, Martin , Florentine, Singarayer , McDonald, Simon
  • Date: 2005
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  • Relation: Victorian Naturalist Vol. 122, no. 1 (2005), p. 47-56
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  • Description: Hollows are an important, but rare, resource for several native vertebrate species in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria. A study assessed the external features of trees from burnt and unburnt areas of forest to determine the influence of fire on hollow formation in these forests. Significantly greater proportions of trees in burnt areas has scars than trees in unburnt areas. Fire had less influence on the number of small, medium, large and very large dead branches/branch stubs than tree diameter. Similarly, tree size rather than fire was a major determinant in the occurrence of hollows. The greater number of scars in burnt trees might eventually lead to a difference in hollow numbers between burnt and unburnt trees (A).
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A burning issue : Using fire to accelerate tree hollow formation in Eucalyptus species

  • Authors: Adkins, Matthew
  • Date: 2006
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  • Relation: Australian Forestry Vol. 69, no. 2 (2006), p. 107-113
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  • Description: The importance of hollows to many species of arboreal mammals and birds in Australia has been clearly established, as has the significance of large, old trees in providing hollows. Since European settlement, considerable areas of eucalypt forests and woodlands have been cleared, resulting in significant loss of habitat, including hollow-bearing trees. Recruiting and retaining large, old trees is important to the ongoing survival of hollow-dependent fauna. However, in wood production areas maintaining sufficient numbers of hollows is problematic, since the age at which trees become economically mature is considerably less than that at which they become hollow-bearing. Management strategies aimed at retaining some hollow-bearing trees can assist, but many forests and woodlands are immature and contain too few of these trees. The ability to accelerate hollow formation where hollow-bearing trees are lacking is crucial, but cost-effective methods suitable for use on a large scale are seemingly few. The use of fire to accelerate hollow formation in Eucalyptus trees is one option.

Manipulating avocado fruit ripening with 1-methylcyclopropene

  • Authors: Adkins, Matthew , Hofman, Peter , Stubbings, Barbara , Macnish, Andrew
  • Date: 2005
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  • Relation: Postharvest Biology and Technology Vol. 35, no. 1 (2005), p. 33-42
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  • Description: Previous investigations with 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) on avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit have focussed mainly on improving storage life by reducing the severity of disorders causing discolouration of the flesh. Development of 1-MCP and ethylene treatments, which also help control the time to reach the eating ripe stage, may confer additional practical benefits. In this context, the current study investigated the potential of 1-MCP to accurately manipulate ripening of non-stored 'Hass' avocado fruit by treatment before or after ethylene and at different times during ripening. To investigate this, 500 nL L-1 1-MCP was applied within 1 day after harvest, followed by ethylene 0-14 days after 1-MCP. In addition, fruit were treated with ethylene, then 1-MCP 0-8 days after ethylene. Treatment of fruit with 500 nL L-1 1-MCP for 18 h at 20°C provided the maximum effect by increasing the days from harvest to ripe (DTR) from 8 (with no 1-MCP) to 20. Fruit treated with 500 nL L-1 1-MCP for 18 h at 20°C remained insensitive to 100
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Qualitative stability of a class of non-monotone variational inclusions. Application in electronics

  • Authors: Adly, Samir , Outrata, Jiri
  • Date: 2013
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  • Relation: Journal of Convex Analysis Vol. 20, no. 1 (2013), p. 43-66
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  • Description: The main concern of this paper is to investigate some stability properties (namely Aubin property and isolated cahnness) of a special non-monotone variational inclusion. We provide a characterization of these properties in terms of the problem data and show their importance for the design of electrical circuits involving nonsmooth and non-monotone electronic devices Uke DIAC (Diode Alternating Current). Circuits with other devices like SCR (Silicon Controlled Rectifiers), Zener diodes, thyristors, varactors and transistors can be analyzed in the same way. © Heldermann Verlag.
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Nonsmooth Lyapunov pairs for infinite-dimensional first-order differential inclusions

  • Authors: Adly, Samir , Hantoute, Abderrahim , Théra, Michel
  • Date: 2012
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  • Relation: Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications Vol. 75, no. 3 (February, 2012), p. 985-1008
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  • Description: The main objective of this paper is to provide new explicit criteria to characterize weak lower semicontinuous Lyapunov pairs or functions associated to first-order differential inclusions in Hilbert spaces. These inclusions are governed by a Lipschitzian perturbation of a maximally monotone operator. The dual criteria we give are expressed by means of the proximal and basic subdifferentials of the nominal functions while primal conditions are described in terms of the contingent directional derivative. We also propose a unifying review of many other criteria given in the literature. Our approach is based on advanced tools of variational analysis and generalized differentiation.

Nonsmooth Lyapunov pairs for differential inclusions governed by operators with nonempty interior domain

  • Authors: Adly, Samir , Hantoute, Abderrahim , Thera, Michel
  • Date: 2016
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  • Relation: Mathematical Programming Vol. 157, no. 2 (2016), p. 349-374
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  • Description: The general theory of Lyapunov stability of first-order differential inclusions in Hilbert spaces has been studied by the authors in the previous paper (Adly et al. in Nonlinear Anal 75(3): 985–1008, 2012). This new contribution focuses on the case when the interior of the domain of the maximally monotone operator governing the given differential inclusion is nonempty; this includes in a natural way the finite-dimensional case. The current setting leads to simplified, more explicit criteria and permits some flexibility in the choice of the generalized subdifferentials. Some consequences of the viability of closed sets are given. Our analysis makes use of standard tools from convex and variational analysis. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and Mathematical Optimization Society.

Effectiveness of an online tailored intervention on determinants and behaviour to prevent running related sports injuries: A randomised controlled trial

  • Authors: Adriaensens, Lize , Hesselink, Arlette , Fabrie, M , Brugmans, Marco , Verhagen, Evert
  • Date: 2014
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  • Relation: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Sportmedizin und Sporttraumatologie Vol. 62, no. 3 (September 2014), p. 6-13
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  • Description: Methods. Runners between 18 and 35 years were randomly assigned to the intervention (n=109) or control group (n=105). Participants in the intervention group were invited to visit the website for 30 minutes. Those in the control group were invited to read magazines that did not contain information about running, injuries or other sport related issues for 30 minutes. Online questionnaires were completed just before (TO) and immediately after the intervention (Ti), and after 3 months (T2). Outcome measures were knowledge, risk perception, attitude, intention and injury prevention behaviour. Objective. Sports injuries are one of the most common injuries in the modern Western society. In line with the increased interest in eHealth, a tailor-based online injury prevention intervention was developed to influence determinants and actual sports injury preventive behaviour. An effect study was carried out among runners. Results. Immediately after the intervention (Tl) an effect was found on all outcome measures. After three months (T2) the effect remained only for behaviours relating to warm-up and frequency of shoe replacement. Conclusion. Short-term (3 months) effects were demonstrated on determinants and actual performance of sports injury prevention behaviour. These results confirm the value of online tailored interventions for the dissemination of injury prevention knowledge.
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Theoretical study and empirical investigation of sentence analogies

  • Authors: Afantenos, Stergos , Lim, Suryani , Prade, Henri , Richard, Gilles
  • Date: 2022
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  • Relation: 1st Workshop on the Interactions between Analogical Reasoning and Machine Learning at 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IARML@IJCAI-ECAI 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23 July 2022, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 3174, p. 15-28
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  • Description: Analogies between 4 sentences, “a is to b as c is to d”, are usually defined between two pairs of sentences (a, b) and (c, d) by constraining a relation R holding between the sentences of the first pair, to hold for the second pair. From a theoretical perspective, three postulates define an analogy - one of which is the “central permutation” postulate which allows the permutation of central elements b and c. This postulate is no longer appropriate in sentence analogies since the existence of R offers no guarantee in general for the existence of some relation S such that S also holds for the pairs (a, c) and (b, d). In this paper, the “central permutation” postulate is replaced by a weaker “internal reversal” postulate to provide an appropriate definition of sentence analogies. To empirically validate the aforementioned postulate, we build a LSTM as well as baseline Random Forest models capable of learning analogies based on quadruplets. We use the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB), the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) and the Microsoft Research Paraphrase (MSRP) corpora. Our experiments show that our models trained on samples of analogies between (a, b) and (c, d), recognize analogies between (b, a) and (d, c) when the underlying relation is symmetrical, validating thus the formal model of sentence analogies using “internal reversal” postulate. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Analogies between sentences : theoretical aspects - preliminary experiments

  • Authors: Afantenos, Stergos , Kunze, Tarek , Lim, Suryani , Prade, Henri , Richard, Gilles
  • Date: 2021
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  • Relation: 16th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2021 Vol. 12897 LNAI, p. 3-18
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  • Description: Analogical proportions hold between 4 items a, b, c, d insofar as we can consider that “a is to b as c is to d”. Such proportions are supposed to obey postulates, from which one can derive Boolean or numerical models that relate vector-based representations of items making a proportion. One basic postulate is the preservation of the proportion by permuting the central elements b and c. However this postulate becomes debatable in many cases when items are words or sentences. This paper proposes a weaker set of postulates based on internal reversal, from which new Boolean and numerical models are derived. The new system of postulates is used to extend a finite set of examples in a machine learning perspective. By embedding a whole sentence into a real-valued vector space, we tested the potential of these weaker postulates for classifying analogical sentences into valid and non-valid proportions. It is advocated that identifying analogical proportions between sentences may be of interest especially for checking discourse coherence, question-answering, argumentation and computational creativity. The proposed theoretical setting backed with promising preliminary experimental results also suggests the possibility of crossing a real-valued embedding with an ontology-based representation of words. This hybrid approach might provide some insights to automatically extract analogical proportions in natural language corpora. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Machine learning for 5G security : architecture, recent advances, and challenges

  • Authors: Afaq, Amir , Haider, Noman , Baig, Muhammad , Khan, Komal , Imran, Muhammad , Razzak, Imran
  • Date: 2021
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  • Relation: Ad Hoc Networks Vol. 123, no. (2021), p.
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  • Description: The granularization of crucial network functions implementation using software-centric, and virtualized approaches in 5G networks have brought forth unprecedented security challenges in general and privacy concerns. Moreover, these software components’ premature deployment and compromised supply chain put the individual network components at risk and have a ripple effect for the rest of the network. Some of the novel threats to 5G assets include tampering in identity and access management, supply-chain poisoning, masquerade and bot attacks, loop-holes in source codes. Machine learning (ML) in this context can help to provide heavily dynamic and robust security mechanisms for the software-centric architecture of 5G Networks. ML models’ development and implementation also rely on programmable environments; hence, they can play a vital role in designing, modelling, and automating efficient security protocols. This article presents the threat landscape across 5G networks and discusses the feasibility and architecture of different ML-based models to counter these threats. Also, we present the architecture for automated threat intelligence using cooperative and coordinated ML to secure 5G assets and infrastructure. We also present the summary of closely related existing works along with future research challenges. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

Ethnobotany, rattan agroforestry, and conservation of ecosystem services in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

  • Authors: Afentina , McShane, Paul , Wright, Wendy
  • Date: 2020
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  • Relation: Agroforestry Systems Vol. 94, no. 2 (2020), p. 639-650
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  • Description: Rattan agroforestry is an important land use system in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, providing a wide range of products for subsistence communities. The ethnobotanical importance of rattan includes heritage values reflecting traditional ecological knowledge. This traditional forestry practice is consistent with necessary conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services currently threatened by expansion of oil palm plantations. We examined species composition and morphology (including life stages) of vegetation associated with rattan agroforests in the Katingan district, Central Kalimantan. An examination of harvested rattan plots revealed 101 species of vegetation of which 90% are considered to be useful (food, construction materials, medicines) and most (97%) were native species, typical of lowland tropical forest vegetation. Vegetation in the rattan agroforests was dominated by trees (in terms of species richness). There were 80 species of trees, representing 79% of the plants surveyed. Vitex pubescens (kaluan) had the highest importance value as it occupied more space, was represented by more individuals and was most frequently found in rattan gardens. These trees in general have a relatively open canopy with strong branches; properties considered ideal to support rattan. Canopy forming species are actively managed to provide for growth of useful understory vegetation (including rattan) important in the livelihoods of village communities. Rattan agroforests also provide cultural services reflecting traditional use (e.g. a sense of belonging and ancestral linkages for local forest-dependent communities). The importance of ethnobotanical approaches to rattan cultivation includes the socio-economic evaluation of land use and the promotion of sustainable land use policies in Indonesia. This is important in the context of oil palm expansion which has a demonstrably adverse impact on ecosystem services. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.