Abstracts of Posters
Title:
Security Testing of Android Apps for Detecting Permission Re-delegation
Vulnerabilities
Speaker:
Biniam Fisseha Demissie
Abstract:
Software systems are composed of multiple components. Components hold
special privileges to perform different tasks. Controlled access to
system resources is achieved through permission based security model.
In order to gain privieges, a malicious component usually has to abuse
a privileged component. This phenomenon is commonly known as the
confused deputy attack. Confused deputy attack occurs when a privileged
component performs an activity that needs special permission on behalf
of other component that does not have the required permission. Static
analysis is often used to detect existence of this vulnerability.
However, reports of static analysis are vulnerability points rather
than conditions that cause the vulnerability. Therefore, a developer
that wishes to fix this vulnerability has to manually analyze the code
in order to understand the conditions that cause the vulnerability.
Similar to other permission based systems, the Android system also
suffers from the confused deputy attack called permission re-delegation.
In this work, we present our approach on how to automatically generate
test case that reveal permission re-delegation
vulnerability in Android apps. Previous results showed that not every
reported permission re-delegation is a
vulnerability as re-delegation is a feature
of the Android framework. Therefore, we need to minimize the report to
those potential permission re-delegation
vulnerabilities. We propose an automated test oracle based on top
applications from the official market and compare behaviors of
vulnerable applications to similar applications in the market.
Title:
Design for Adaptation of Distributed Service-based
Systems
Speaker:
Martina De Sanctis
Abstract:
Internet of Services applications need to cope with a continuously
changing environment, both in terms of the context in which they
operate, and of the services, users and providers involved. In this
setting, adaptivity is to be considered an intrinsic characteristic of
applications rather than an exception to be handled. We propose a
design for adaptation approach that fully exploits the advantages of
the service- oriented paradigm to support the development and operation
of service-based applications operating in
highly dynamic environments. The approach is based on dynamic and
incremental service composition and re-configuration
techniques and it has been evaluated on a real-world
scenario in the Smart Cities domain.
Title:
Semantic Image Interpretation
Speaker:
Ivan Donadello
Abstract:
Semantic Image Interpretation (SII) is the process of
automatically generating meaningful descriptions of the content of
images. An example of meaningful image description is a graph which
nodes correspond to image objects and the arcs to semantic relations
between objects. Background knowledge (BK), in the form of logical
theories, is extremely useful for SII. Many state-of-the-art
algorithms for SII mainly adopt a bottom-up
approach, which generates semantic interpretations of images starting
from their low- level features. BK is used only at a late stage for
enriching the semantic descriptions. In this work, we show how BK plays
an important role also during the early phase of SII if integrated with
low-level image features. To this aim, we
propose: (i) a reference framework where a semantic image
interpretation is a partial model of the BK. The elements of the
partial model are grounded (linked) to a (set of) image segment(s).
(ii) The use of Logic Tensor Network to predict an approximation of a
partial model of a picture according to the BK. Logic Tensor Network is
a framework that integrates learning from numerical data and logical
reasoning over the BK. This integration allows us to reason over the low-level
features of objects in a picture and to express facts between them
consistently with the constraints of the BK. We evaluate our method on
the task of classifying objects and their parts in the images of the PASCAL-Part
dataset. In this experiment we combine the features extracted with a state-of-the-art
object detector with BK expressed as a part-whole
ontology. Our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art
on object classification, and improves the performances on part-whole
relation detection with respect to a rule-based
baseline.
Title: Domain Adaptation in Neural
Machine Translation
Speaker: Amin Farajian
Abstract:
State-of-the-art neural machine translation
(NMT) systems are generally very sensitive to the training domain and
their performance degrades if the test set belongs to a different
domain than the training data. Therefore, the current NMT systems are
trained on specific domains by carefully selecting the training sets
and applying proper domain adaptation techniques. However, in real-world
applications it is very hard, if not impossible, to develop and
maintain several specific MT systems for multiple domains. This is
mostly due to the fact that usually: i) the target domain is not known
in advance, and users might query different sentences from different
domains; ii) the application domains are very diverse, making it not
feasible to develop and fine-tune one system
for each domain, which makes the possibility of developing and fine-tuning
one system for each domain unfeasible; iii) there is no (or very
limited amount of) indomain training data to train domain-specific
MT engines. In this situation, it is necessary to have high quality MT
systems that perform consistently well in all (or most of) the domains.
In this project we propose effective solutions for developing multi-domain
NMT systems that their performance does not degrade by changing the
application domain and perform equally well in all the domains.
Title: From lexical opposition to
discourse contrast relations: a study for the Italian language with a
corpus
linguistics approach Speaker:
Anna Feltracco
Abstract:
Detecting contrast, both among words and among portions of text, is a
fundamental requirement for text analysis, thus playing a crucial role
in applications such as machine translation, discourse understanding,
and information retrieval. My research is focused on the study of
opposition relations between verbs and contrast relations at textual
level. Through a crowd-sourcing experiment, I
bring evidences that i) opposition relations exist between senses of
verbs, and ii) there exist different types of opposition relations with
different characteristics. Moreover, I focused on contrast relations at
textual level that can be either marked by textual connectives or
implicitly conveyed. In particular, I aim at creating an exhaustive
list of the textual connectives for contrast relations in Italian, and
by analysing corpora I am studying which are other linguistic
strategies used to communicate contrast in texts and if these
strategies have any regularities (for example, what is the relation
between lexical opposition and contrast marked by an explicit
connective at textual level?). I mainly investigate these relations in
the Italian language, using and developing lexical resources such as
the T-PAS resource [1] and the LICO resource
[2].
References:
[1]Jezek E., B. Magnini, A. Feltracco, A.
Bianchini and O. Popescu, 2014, “T-PAS:
A resource of corpus-derived Typed Predicate
Argument Structures for linguistic analysis and semantic processing”.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14), May 26-31,
Reykjavik, Iceland, ELRA.
[2]Feltracco A., E. Jezek, B. Magnini and M.
Stede, 2016, “LICO: A Lexicon of Italian Connectives.” In
Proceedings of the Third Italian
Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it
2016), December 5-7, Napoli, Italy.
Title:
Development of Innovative Materials and Substrates for Gas Sensing
Technology
Speaker:
Andrea Gaiardo
Abstract:
In the last years, the research in the gas sensor field experienced a
significant boost. Gas sensors represent the crucial elements in gas
monitoring systems and olfactory systems for several applications:
environmental monitoring, safety and security, quality control of food
production, medical diagnosis and so on. The principal parts that
compose a chemoresistive gas sensor, the microheater and the sensing
material, are under continuous evolution, in order to improve the whole
performance of the device. From the point of view of the gas sensing
design, the substrate plays a fundamental role, because acts as a
heater, mechanical support and transducer of the sensor response. The
application of MEMS technology for the fabrication of silicon device
with low power consumption has offered new opportunities for innovative
gas sensor design. At the same time, the development of new sensing
materials is strongly demanded, in order to exceed the problems showed
by the materials proposed until now, such as lack of stability and
selectivity.
In this work, we studied different
approaches in order to realize suitable silicon microheaters for
chemoresistive gas sensors and new sensing materials, available for
high operating temperatures (650 °C) through the MEMS technology.
Title:
Multifunctional Bio-inspired Surfaces
Speaker:
Simone Ghio
Abstract:
Mimicking nature to achieve special properties is a brunch of science
that has become popular in the last few decades. Of particular interest
for their properties are lotus leaf and sharkskin. Lotus leaf has a
superhydrophobic surface and sharkskin has drag reduction properties.
Specifically the self-cleaning effect is
wildly known as the ‘lotus effect’. Bio-inspired
surfaces of lotus leaf have low adhesion, water repellency and self-cleaning
[1-3]. These properties arise from a
combination of chemical and micro-structuration
of the surface. Combining roughness and a hydrophobic surface leads to
superhydrophobicity, while using a hydrophilic substrate generally
leads to superhydrophilicity. Sharkskin is known to have a low drag
coefficient that lead at increment of swimming speed and lower power
consumption. The second part of my work consist on combining lotus leaf
and sharkskin effects. For this purpose a systematic range of
hierarchical and non-hierarchical structures
have been analysed, in order to find a clear relationship between
wettability and flow properties. Static and dynamic contact angle, tilt
angle and pressure drop, measured long a channel, are the value used
for this analysis. Part of my work consist in generate and analyze silicon-based
micro-, nano- and hierarchical patterns [4].
Also PDMS patterns are generate starting from a silicon mold.
Wettability analysis are based on the measure of contact angle, tilting
angle and advancing & receding angles.
References:
[1].N. Pugno, Mimicking lotus leaves for designing super-hydrophobic/hydrophilic
and super- attractive/repulsive hierarchical nanostructured surfaces,
Nanomechanics in Italy (2007) 1–9.
[2].E. Lepore, et al., Plasma and thermoforming
treatments to tune the bio-inspired
wettability of polystyrene, Composites Part B 43 (2012) 681–690.
[3].Zang, Jianfeng, Seunghwa Ryu, Nicola Pugno,
Qiming Wang, Qing Tu, Markus J. Buehler, and Xuanhe Zhao.
"Multifunctionality and control of the crumpling and unfolding of large-area
graphene." Nature materials 12, no. 4 (2013): 321-325.
[4].Ghio, Simone, Giovanni Paternoster, Ruben
Bartali, Pierluigi Belluti, Maurizio Boscardin, and Nicola M. Pugno.
"Fast and large area fabrication of hierarchical bioinspired
superhydrophobic silicon surfaces." Journal of the European Ceramic
Society 36, no. 9 (2016): 2363-2369.
Title: Emergency Event Detection and
Geographic Propagation Prediction Using Mobile Phone Data
Speaker: Didem Gundogdu
Abstract:
Large scale emergency events may have dramatic political, economical
and social consequences. These events may result in higher crime rates,
spreading of infectious diseases, economic crises, and migration
phenomena (e.g. refugees across borders or internally displaced
people). Hence, early detection of emergency events, such as riots and
natural disasters, is of paramount relevance. Based on the assumption
that emergency events influence people communication and mobility
patterns, we propose to use Call Detail Records (CDR), collected by
mobile telecommunication operators for billing reasons, to detect such
events. To this end, first we apply the Markov modulated Poisson
process to detect anomalies for hourly intervals. Second, we will
examine how the effects of these events propagate among different
geographical areas. The preliminary results show that our approach can
successfully detected anomalous events (e.g. confrontations between
groups) at country scale. By introducing proximity graphs, which are
constructed from mobility patterns of users, we expect to be able to
reveal the existence of specific patterns for different types of events.
Title:
An approach to conifer species classification based on crown structure
modeling in high density airborne LiDAR data
Speaker:
Aravind Harikumar
Abstract:
The knowledge about the species of trees is essential for precision
forest management practices. Modern high density airborne Light
Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems have the ability to acquire large
number of LiDAR points, allowing a very detailed characterization of
the forest at the individual tree level. In this context, it is
possible to use such LiDAR data for accurate classification of the tree
species. In this paper, we consider the specific problem of species
classification of trees belonging to the conifer class. However,
species classification within a class (e.g., the conifer class) using
LiDAR data is a challenging problem when
considering the tree external crown
characteristics only. The Internal Crown Geometric Features (IGFs) are
defined based on a novel internal branch structure model that uses 3D
region growing and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to delineate the
branch structure of a conifer tree accurately. Internal crown geometric
features are used together with external crown geometric features
(EGFs) to with the objective of performing an efficient conifer species
classification. Support Vector Machines (SVM) was used for
classification and to evaluate the accuracy.
Title:
Oracle Problem in Software Testing
Speaker:
Gunel Jahangirova
Abstract:
The oracle problem remains one of the key challenges in software
testing, for which little automated support has been developed so far.
The effectiveness of a test case in revealing software faults depends
critically on the quality of the oracle. The poster presents a
technique for assessing and improving test oracles by reducing the
incidence of both false positives and false negatives. We use test case
generation to reveal false positives and mutation testing to reveal
false negatives. The experimental results show that the fault detection
rate of the oracles after improvement increases, on average, by 48.6%.
Title: Real time adaptation of the
stimulation protocols for neuroscientific studies
Speaker: Elena Kalinina
Abstract:
Neuroscientific experiments investigate the subject’s response to
external stimulation. Stimulation categories and the order they appear
to the subject are defined in the stimulation protocol. In traditional
experiments, when the data is analyzed in the offline mode, protocol is
fixed beforehand and does not change in the course of experimental data
acquisition. In real-time neuroscientific
experiments the data is analyzed in the online mode simultaneously with
the acquisition process. Real-time
experiments allow to examine a broader range of scientific questions,
for instance, how to bring the subject in a certain state or how the
outcome of the cognitive task depends on the subject’s state. There is
growing interest in experiments of this type, because the community
along with the traditional group studies is more and more turining to
modelling individuals for the purpose of customized interventions. A
key advantage of real-time experimentation is
the possibility to adjust the experiment protocol as you go, basing on
the subject’s response. This, in turn, requires having adequate models
of the subject’s state dynamics and efficient algorithms for the
optimal choice of the stimulation/feedback being delivered to the
subject. There is a plethora of methods for the protocol adjustment,
but still important gaps exist especially when there is need for
adaptation in view of a particular experimental goal. We will show how
the problem of real-time protocol adaptation
can be tackled in the context of a real-time
Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) experiment and in a real-time
functional magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiment.
Title:
Automatic Generation and Recommendation of Personalized Challenges in
Gamification
Speaker:
Reza Khoshkangini
Abstract:
Gamification uses game elements and game mechanics in a non-game
context in order to reach a certain goal (e.g., incentivizing people to
change their behaviors in a specific domain). While gamification is
often effective in inducing such behavioural changes, well-known
limitations concern retaining the interest of players over the long
term, and sustaining the new behaviors promoted through the game.
Hence, there is a need to devise techniques to keep users interested
and engaged to participate in the gamified system in the long term. We
propose an approach based on the Procedural Content Generation of
personalized and contextualized playable units that appeal to each
player, and make her user experience more varied and individually
compelling. To this end, we have built a context-aware
recommender system (CARS) to generate and recommend personalized
challenges, based on the player’s preference, history, game status and
performance. Hereby we describe our approach, and evaluate it using a
smart urban mobility game that involved the proposal of weekly
challenges to hundreds of citizens/players.
Title:
Haptic Feedback for Learning to Climb
Speaker:
Eleonora Mencarini
Abstract:
In my PhD research, I explore the expressive abilities of haptic
communication, considering the case study of rock climbing. In recent
years, research in Human-Computer Interaction
has shown increasing
interest in the design and development
of interfaces that do not rely only on visual displays and vision as
sensory modality to interact. In this respect, haptic feedback has
gained increasing interest as means to convey information, since it can
be perceived by our body through the sense of touch. So far, haptic
feedback has been investigated for the acquisition of motor skills (for
example in the domains of surgery, instrument playing, and sport) and
for emotional communication, trying the reproduce the expressiveness of
touch typical of co-located interpersonal
communication (such as intimacy, closeness, reassurance, etc.), also in
remote communication. Being linked to the sense of touch in order to be
perceived and understood, the systems that exploit haptic feedback need
to be in direct contact with the body; thus, they are mainly divided in
tangible and wearable devices. In my research, I explore the
communicative abilities of haptic feedback in the context of rock
climbing, an extreme sport that requires both the skillful use of the
body and the control over negative emotions. By considering the
opportunities and constraints offered by technology, and the users’
needs, values, and motivations, I aim at designing a valuable and
usable device for the community of climbers and, at the same time, at
investigating the communicative abilities of haptic feedback. As a
general framework for my thesis, I adopt a co-evolutionary
design approach (Agostini et al. 2000) which divided the design process
in three main aspects, namely user research, technology exploration,
and concepts generation. According to this framework, the investigation
of the three aspects is performed in parallel and alternate moments of
divergence, when the investigation goes deep into the details of each
of them, to moments of converge, when each aspect informs the others.
So far, I have conducted an extensive field study with beginner
climbers aimed at identifying a possible design space for haptic
communication in climbing. Results have shown that during the learning
phase the probability of experiencing negative emotions is higher, due
to the lack of skills and of familiarity with the new sensations that
the vertical dimension of this sport provides. Currently, instructors
address negative emotions by giving suggestions or reassuring the
climber. However, often there are contextual problems that hinder the
communication between who climbs and who is on the ground, such as
distance and noise. These instances suggest a space of design for
alternative ways of communication between the actors involved, and it
is within this space of design that I explore the opportunities offered
by haptic communication in terms of expressivity, usefulness and
acceptability. Regarding the design, I conducted two workshops aimed at
exploring form factor, body location, purpose, and kind of vibration of
a possible haptic wearable device. From the technological perspective,
the exploration conducted has led to choose vibration as form of haptic
communication and to the development of an early wearable prototype
that can be activated through Bluetooth. As final steps of my research,
I plan to conduct a study on the understandability of different
vibrations in order to define a vocabulary of instructions useful in
the climbing context and to conduct an evaluation of the wearable
vibrotactile prototype in ecological setting (i.e. in a climbing course
in an indoor gym).
Title: Agreement and Disagreement:
Comparison of Points of View in the Political Domain
Speaker: Stefano Menini
Abstract:
The automated comparison of points of view between two politicians is a
very challenging task, due not only to the lack of annotated resources,
but also to the different dimensions participating to the definition of
agreement and disagreement. In order to shed light on this complex
task, we first carry out a study, on transcriptions of political
speeches, to manually annotate the components involved in detecting
agreement and disagreement. Then, based on the features and
interactions observed in this study, we propose an approach to capture,
via supervised classification, divergences and similarities in points
of view between different authors or speakers when they deal with the
same topic. We do not focus on debates in dialogical form, but we
rather consider sets of documents in which politicians may express
their position with respect to different topics, both in an implicit or
explicit way, like during an electoral campaign.
Title: Social Annotation and User
Profiling
Speaker: Yaroslav Nechaev
Abstract:
Social Media have become a valuable source of up-to-date
knowledge about any fictional and real- life entity including persons,
organisations, events and many others. Recently, researchers have
started to use this knowledge to solve or improve on a number of tasks
across different fields including Natural Language Processing and Image
Processing. Many new research directions have emerged as well. In my
research, I propose a concept of Social Annotation that is defined as a
task of linking named entities in a given
text to their corresponding Social
Media entities, like, for example, hashtags, user profiles and pages.
This task is very similar to Named Entity Linking, where the Social
Network is used instead of the Knowledge Base. Social Annotation can,
therefore, provide a rich up-to-date context
to the input text, making the result much more appealing and complete
for further processing and usage. However, dealing with Social Media
imposes a number of new challenges including noisiness and scale of
data that need to be processed. I aim to overcome such challenges in my
research.
Title:
Demonstration of a Hybrid SDN/GMPLS Control Plane for Optical Virtual
Private Networks with Restoration Capabilities
Speaker:
Federico Pederzolli
Abstract:
Creating Optical Virtual Private Networks (OVPNs) over existing
deployments is becoming an operator concern. This work describes the
first hybrid SDN/GMPLS (i.e., centralized/distributed) implementation
addressing the problem of virtualizing an optical network and
demonstrates, through an emulated testbed, that the system is
responsive and is able to provide OVPN-specific
restoration mechanisms.
Title:
Gas adsorption in graphene-based
nanostructures
Speaker:
Andrea Pedrielli
Abstract:
Nanoporous materials are very interesting for their performance in gas
absorption and gas separation. In recent years, various novel materials
were proposed to surpass traditional ones such as silicon carbide,
polymers, metal-organic framework (MOF).
Among these, many are graphene-based
materials, which presents high surface-to-volume
ratio, good mechanical properties and considerable chemical stability. Graphene-based
nanostructures – such as graphene frameworks, graphene-oxide
frameworks (GOF), or functionalized graphene foams – can be used for
gas adsorption, separation, and purification. The microstructures and
chemistry of these novel materials can be tailored to obtain a
favourable trade off between gas permeability and selectivity. In this
contribution, we present results of Molecular Dynamics and Grand
Canonical Monte Carlo computer simulation methods modeling the
properties of the most promising of these graphene-based
materials for gas absorption separation.
Title:
Ontology Learning in the Deep
Speaker:
Giulio Petrucci
Abstract:
Ontologies are used in computer science to represent knowledge in a
formal and unambiguous way, facilitating knowledge reuse and sharing
among people and computer systems. Manually encoding the knowledge
carried by unstructured sources (e.g., documents, web-pages,
and so on) into a formal representation can be costly and time-consuming.
Indeed, the knowledge acquisition bottleneck is one of the main
obstacles to a wide adoption of semantic web and knowledge management
technology. To overcome this problem, several methods and tools have
been proposed to automatically extract (that is, learn) ontologies from
unstructured sources, thus supporting knowledge engineers in this task.
These methods still suffer from severe limitations: either they are
limited in the expressiveness of the automatically acquired knowledge
or, when targeting the extraction of expressive knowledge, they rely on
sets of hand- crafted patterns that are expensive to maintain and
evolve. Our goal is to overcome these limitations by designing and
training a single Deep Learning based system capable to support the
automatic extraction of expressive knowledge in a completely automatic,
end-to-end fashion. Results so far have shown
that our approach can effectively contribute to the automatic ontology
learning problem.
Title: Deep Learning for Distant
Speech Recognition
Speaker: Mirco Ravanelli
Abstract:
Deep learning technologies have recently revolutionized many research
fields , including vision, machine translation, natural language
processing, bioinformatics, taking a fundamental leap towards
artificial intelligence. This technology is also playing a remarkable
role in progressively building machines that understand speech,
resulting in several popular applications ranging from web-search
to car control and intelligent personal assistants. Unfortunately, most
state-of-the-art systems provide a
satisfactory performance only in close-talking
scenarios, where the user is forced to speak very close to a
microphone-equipped device. Considering the
growing interest towards speech recognition and the progressive use of
this technology in everyday lives, it is easy to predict that in the
future users will prefer to relax the constraint of handling or wearing
any device to access speech recognition services, requiring
technologies able to better cope with distant-talking
interactions also in challenging acoustic environments. A prominent
limitation of current systems lies in the lack of matching and
communication between the various technologies involved in the distant
speech recognition process. The main modules are indeed typically
trained independently and arranged in a pipeline based on a
unidirectional communication between the components. To address such a
concern, we propose to replace this pipeline with an architecture based
on a novel network of deep neural networks paradigm, where all the
modules are jointly trained and better cooperate with each other thanks
to a full communication scheme between them. Experiments, conducted
using different datasets, tasks and acoustic conditions, revealed that
the proposed framework can significantly overtake other competitive state-of-the-art
solutions.
Title:
AuthZ/N Protocols for Native Apps: Security and Privacy
Speaker:
Giada Sciarretta
Abstract:
Digital identity (DI) management is a key factor to enable the adoption
of innovative digital and physical services. Requirements for a
complete DI solution include legal, security and technological aspects.
For example, the national laws (e.g., SPID) and European regulations
(e.g., eIDAS) prohibit to use social login solutions to access e-health
services. The process of defining DI management systems is only at an
early stage and solutions capable of addressing all these aspects are
missing. In this context, our goal is to propose novel authentication
and authorization solutions that satisfy the expected security
requirements and protect user privacy, while complying with national
and European laws and directives. In particular, we have focused on
mobile technologies. Indeed, while for web applications there exist
many secure authentication and authorization solutions to protect the
user's DI and online resources, solutions for the mobile context are
not well consolidated. This is a huge limitation as mobile applications
are dominating the market of online services, with a total of 4.9
billion unique mobile subscribers by the end of 2016 (more than 60% of
the world population). Our DI solutions are designed and developed in
three different contexts: (1) smart city: we have proposed an OAuth-based
solution for secure delegated access to online resources. An
implementation of this solution has been integrated in the Smart
Community Platform of FBK for developing open services in the Trentino
region and is being used daily by up to 13,000 users. (2) e-health:
an implementation of our proposed Single Sign-On
model is currently tested by the users of TreC (acronym for Cartella
Clinica del Cittadino), a personal health record system. TreC is
currently deploying a number of Android applications to support self-management
and remote monitoring of chronic conditions. The solution we propose
will allow patients to access different TreC e-health
mobile applications with a SSO experience. (3) single digital market:
we are involved in a EIT Digital project called FIDES (acronym for
Federated Identity Management System). Its goal is to manage digital
identities in a federated way, creating an identity ecosystem that
permits the access to digital and physical services in a secure, cross-border
and multi-device way.
Title:
Modelling Photoinduced Events and Non-Linear
Spectroscopy in Complex Multi-Chromophoric
System
Speaker:
Francesco Segatta
Abstract:
Light-Harvesting (LH) Pigment-Protein
Complexes in plants and photosynthetic bacteria, constitute the
fundamental units through which sunlight is collected. The harvested
energy is then redirected towards a Reaction Center by means of
extremely efficient Energy Transfer (ET) processes, where its
conversion to chemical energy, for the organisms’ self-sustenance,
finally occurs. The high complexity of such systems, where multiple
interacting chromophores are embedded in a fluctuating protein matrix,
makes it extremely difficult to study their response to external
excitations, both theoretically and experimentally. In this respect,
advances in non-linear electronic
spectroscopy with femtosecond time resolution, such as the Two-
Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy (2DES), have provided new insight
on energy transfer processes [1], allowing to decongest the overlapping
transient spectra. High density of information is obtained, but to
accurately disentangle all these features and reach a detailed and
reliable map of the ET routes is still a challenge. A solution is to
integrate the measurements with theoretical models that become
mandatory for experiments interpretation [2].
Here we introduce a fully Quantum-Chemistry
based protocol to simulate 2DES spectra of complex multi- chromophoric
architectures of known structure. The proposed scheme relies on a QM/MM
multi-scale approach [3,4] able to link single
chromophoric units with the whole molecular aggregate via a so called
Frenkel Exciton Hamiltonian, eventually delivering the system’s
manifold of states with an unprecedented accuracy. The level of
sophistication obtained, also including molecular vibrations and
environmental fluctuations, allows us to simulate and interpret linear
and non-linear spectroscopy, providing a
deeper insight of the recorded spectral signatures. Application to the
LH2 test case, employed here as a challenging playground, shows a
remarkable agreement with the experiments and sheds new light on some
still debated features of this extensively studied antenna system.
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Title:
Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Very High Resolution Multi-Sensor
Optical Images Time-Series
Speaker: Yady Tatiana Solano
Abstract:
The use of remote sensing in the analysis and evaluation of
environmental changes has become a valuable tool which relevance has
increased with the improvement in acquisition sensor technology as well
as in the data/image processing algorithms. The capability to
understand and detect those changes increases when we consider Very
High spatial Resolution (VHR) multispectral images acquired by passive
sensors such as IKONOS, QuickBird, GeoEye, WorldView-2
and Pleiades. Nevertheless, the revisit period of each single sensor,
their competing orders, and the weather conditions do not always allow
the acquisition of proper and continuous information. To mitigate these
limitations, it is possible to build time series by considering images
acquired by different sensors. The challenge becomes how to deal with
this kind of information. Therefore, the aims of this proposal are
mainly two: i) multi-sensor multitemporal VHR
data homogenization; and ii) change detection for the analysis of VHR multi-sensor
multitemporal images.
Keywords:
Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Very High Resolution images, Change
Detection, Multi-sensor Integration, Time
Series Analysis.
Title:
“Two days we have passed with the ancients...” From Historical Travel
Reports to Information Extraction
Speaker:
Rachele Sprugnoli
Abstract:
Information Extraction, that is the task aimed at automatically
identifying specific pieces of information in unstructured data, is an
active area of research in the Natural Language Processing (NLP)
community. However resources and automatic systems developed so far
have mainly addressed contemporary texts. Finding new approaches to the
automatic identification of information also in historical documents
can, indeed, assist historians in enhancing their work while dealing
with the ever increasing amount of digital sources and, moreover, it
can have an impact both on NLP and on Digital Humanities research. In
this poster we present a new Information Extraction task applied to
historical documents: more specifically we present a new corpus of
historical travel guides, a new scheme for the annotation of Content
Types (i.e., text passages with specific semantic and functional
characteristics) and the results of two preliminary sets of
classification experiments. The identification of Content Types may
improve the performance of more complex NLP tasks, for example timeline
building, by targeting the portions of the documents that are more
relevant.
Title:
Exploring Sensorial Features for Metaphor Identification
Speaker:
Serra Sinem Tekiroglu
Abstract:
Language is the main communication device to represent the environment
and share a common understanding of the world that we perceive through
of our sensory organs. Therefore, each language might contain a great
amount of sensorial elements to express the perceptions both in literal
and figurative usage. In contrast to being an anomaly, figurative
language, especially metaphors within the scope of this study, is
pervasive in the common language and
should be handled by any NLP application that includes a semantic task.
In order to tackle the semantics of figurative language, several
conceptual properties are utilized, such as concreteness or
imegeability. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no
attempt in the literature to analyze and benefit from the sensorial
elements for the figurative language processing. In this research, we
propose to exploit sensorial affinity of the words as a feature for
metaphor identification task. Additionally, we introduce the automatic
detection of synaesthetic metaphors, which is one of the most common
metaphoric transfers.
Title:
Time-frequency reassignment for acoustic
signal processing
Speaker:
Georgina Tryfou
Abstract:
Acoustic signal processing is the automatic manipulation of acoustic
signals, aiming at the recording, storage and generation of acoustic
signals, and the extraction and encoding of related information. There
is a wide range of target applications, such as audio analysis and
synthesis, speech enhancement, audio source separation and signal
processing for loudspeakers and microphone arrays. In the core of such
systems, the application of the short-time
Fourier transform (STFT) results in a representation of the temporal
evolution of the frequency components of the acoustic signal, commonly
known as the spectrogram. Although the spectrogram is extensively used,
it suffers from certain limitations, as for instance the unavoidable trade-off
between the time and frequency resolution. In this thesis we study the
use of an improved representation, obtained with the method of time-frequency
reassignment. According to this method, the traditional spectrogram, as
obtained from the STFT, is reassigned to a sharper version called the
reassigned spectrogram. In this thesis, we elaborate on approaches that
utilize the reassigned spectrogram, and exploit this representation in
the context of different applications. Original solutions are presented
in two application domains, namely distant speech recognition and
melody extraction from polyphonic music signals.
Abstracts of Short Talks
Title:
Detecting brain effective connectivity with supervised and Bayesian
methods
Speaker:
Danilo Benozzo
Abstract:
The study of causality has drawn the attention of researches for
centuries from many different fields. In particular, nowadays causal
inference is a central question in neuroscience and an entire body of
research called brain effective connectivity, is devoted to detect
causal interactions between distinct brain areas. Brain effective
connectivity is typically studied through the analysis of direct
measurements of the neural activity, e.g. magneto-electroencephalography
(M-EEG) signals, functional MRI (fMRI)
signals, single cell recordings etc. The main purpose of my PhD
activity is on methods for doing time series causality. More in
details, we focus on a well-establish
criterion of causality: the Granger criterion, which is based on the
concepts of temporal precedence and predictability. The activity that
we present is about a new approach to the problem of time series
causality that is based on machine learning and, specifically, on
learning from examples. Given a set of signals, their causal
interactions are estimated by a classifier that was trained on a
synthetic dataset generated in order to be representative of the actual
context. This approach that we call supervised parametric approach, was
implemented by adopting the Granger criterion of causality and compared
with the standard parametric measure of causality derived from the same
criterion. Moreover, the roles of the feature space and the generative
model of the training set are investigated through a simulation study.
And an example of real application is shown with rat neural recordings.
Title:
Lightwave circuits for integrated Si photonics
Speaker:
Martino Bernard
Abstract:
Since the developement of modern electronics the dimension of
electronic devices, their integration density and their possible
applications has changed a lot. The reduction in the base elements
dimension and the development of integrated devices allowed the advent
of modern computers. Photonics is following a similar route: starting
from the development of optical fibers for long-range
signal transmission to integrated devices with footprints of a few
squared micrometers. The center around which this work revolves is a
project financed by the
Provincia Autonoma di Trento (PAT) ''On silicon chip quantum optics for
quantum computing and secure communications'', SIQURO. Project SIQURO
aims at developing an integrated chip that features many different
components: a "Lab On a Chip" (LAC) approach, to explore the
possibility of non-linear and quantum
experiments within a single chip. The idea is to shrink a number of
macroscopic tools normally required to perform the experiment, I.E. an
optical table with a footprint of m2,
within a single silicon chip of few cm2.
In particular I've been involved in the realization of an integrated III-V
pulsed laser, photonic circuitry for non-linear
generation of photon pairs and photonic circuitry for light
manipulation. The chosen platform is silicon which allows to adopt (and
adapt) the worldwide standard of CMOS technology.
Title:
Automatic Techniques for the Synthesis and Assisted Deployment of
Security Policies in Workflow- based Applications
Speaker:
Daniel Ricardo dos Santos
Abstract:
Workflows specify a collection of tasks that must be executed under the
responsibility or supervision of human users. Workflow management
systems and workflow-driven applications need
to enforce security policies in the form of access control and
authorization constraints, such as Separation of Duty. Enforcing these
policies is crucial to avoid malicious use, but may lead to situations
where a workflow instance cannot be completed without the violation of
the policy. The Workflow Satisfiability Problem (WSP) asks whether
there exists an assignment of users to tasks in a workflow such that
every task is executed and the policy is not violated. The WSP is
inherently hard, but solutions to this problem have a practical
application in reconciling business compliance and business continuity.
The main contributions of this work are three: 1. We present a
technique to synthesize monitors to solve the run-time
version of the WSP. 2. We introduce and solve a new class of problems
related to finding execution scenarios that satisfy properties of
interest to users. 3. We implement the proposed techniques in two
tools: Cerberus for workflow management systems and Aegis for workflow-driven
web applications.
Title:
Development of innovative tools for multi-objective
optimization of energy systems
Speaker:
Shahriar Mahbub
Abstract:
From industrial revolution to the present day, fossil fuels are the
main sources for ensuring energy supply. Negative effects of fossil
fuels on environment urge energy planners to integrate renewable
energies into the corresponding energy systems. However, large-scale
incorporation of renewable energies into the systems is difficult
because of intermittent behaviors, limited availability and economic
barriers. It requires intricate balancing among different energy
producing resources and the syringes among all the major energy
sectors. Although it is possible to evaluate a given energy scenario
(complete set of parameters describing a system) by using a simulation
model, however, identifying optimal energy scenarios with respect to
multiple objectives is a very difficult to accomplished. In addition,
no generalized optimization framework is available that can handle all
major sectors of an energy system. In this regards, we propose a
complete generalized framework for identifying scenarios with respect
to multiple objectives. The framework is developed by coupling a multi-objective
evolutionary algorithm and EnergyPLAN. The results show that the tool
has the capability to handle multiple energy sectors together,
moreover, a number of optimized trade-off
scenarios are identified. The framework opens a door for policy makers
to optimize corresponding energy systems in terms of multiple
objectives and choose the appropriate one for his/her respective region.
Title:
Mathematical modeling for epidemiological inference and public health
support
Speaker:
Valentina Marziano
Abstract:
Mathematical modeling represents a powerful tool with a wide range of
applications in epidemiology and public health. They can help
disentangling the complexity of transmission of infectious diseases and
provide explanations for the trends observed in the data (e.g.
recurrent epidemics, seasonality). More importantly, mathematical
modeling plays a crucial role in projecting the future trends of
infectious disease dynamics and in estimating the impact of possible
interventions thus, supporting health authorities in the choice of
adequate strategies for the effective prevention and control of
infectious cases. In this thesis I investigate different topics of
interest for the current computational epidemiology of infectious
diseases and public health. First, I study the role of demographic
processes in the epidemiology of varicella and Herpes
Zoster and I provide a cost-effectiveness
evaluation of varicella and Herpes Zoster vaccination in Italy. Second,
I use a computational model to detect and quantify the effect of
spontaneous behavioral changes on the spatiotemporal dynamics of the
2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in England. Finally, I investigate the
current epidemiology of measles in Italy in order to shed some light on
the epidemiological features of vaccine preventable diseases in
frameworks characterized by a low circulation of the virus.
Title:
Memristor-based computing architecture with
advanced signal processing capabilities
Speaker:
Olufemi Akindele Olumodeji
Abstract:
Memristor-Based Computing Architecture with
Advanced Signal Processing Capabilities is aimed at developing advanced
processing architectures, exploiting the main characteristics of the
memristor, which combines resistive and memory properties. Memristors
have been considered as the fourth fundamental passive element joining
the resistor, capacitor and the inductor ̶predicted in the early 70s by
Chua and first physically demonstrated in 2008 at the Hewlett Packard
laboratories. This work sought to exploit the properties of the
memristor particularly its application in analogue integrated circuits.
Firstly, an electrical model of the memristor was implemented to enable
CAD simulation and then several memristor-based
analogue ICs applications were investigated. Novel electronic circuits
have been investigated, exploiting memristor characteristics, to be the
basic building blocks for the realisation of prototypes of a complex memristor-based
adaptive network. Some of the novel circuits implemented during this
work are - Architectures for interfacing memristive systems with
photodetector front-end; Adaptive Background
Subtraction for memristor-based image
processing algorithms; Memristors and their applications to adaptive
vision systems; multi-layer neural network
interfaced with memristive devices.
Title:
Correspondence among Connectomes as Combinatorial Optimization
Speaker:
Nusrat Sharmin
Abstract:
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data allows the
reconstruction of the neural pathways of the white matter of the brain
as a set of 3D polylines, by means of tractography algorithms. The 3D
polylines are called streamlines and the set of whole streamlines is
called tractogram, which represents the structural connectome of the
brain. In neurological studies, it is often important to identify the
group of streamlines belonging to the same anatomical structure, called
tract or bundle, like the cortico-spinal
tract or the arcuate fasciculus. The statistical analysis of the
diffusion data of tracts is used in multiple applications, for example,
to study gender differences , to observe the changes in age and to
correlate it with diseases. The extraction of tracts of interest is
called the tract segmentation problem. Due to the anatomical
variability across subjects, tract segmentation problem are difficult
to solve. In this thesis, we propose a novel supervised tract
segmentation method, that segments the tract of interest in a new
subject using a set of segmented tracts as prior information. Our
proposed supervised segmentation approach is based on the concept of
the streamline correspondence i.e. to find which streamline in one
tractogram correspond to which streamline in the other tractogram. We
showed that streamline correspondence can be a powerful principle to
transfer the anatomical information of a given bundle from one subject
to another one. In the current literature of supervised segmentation,
streamline correspondence has been addressed with a nearest neighbour
strategy. We observed that finding corresponding streamlines with the
nearest neighbour strategy is suboptimal. In the contrary, in this
thesis we address the tract segmentation problem as a rectangular
linear assignment problem (RLAP), a cornerstone of combinatorial
optimization. By investigating the existing optimal solution of the
rectangular linear assignment, we adopted the efficient solution for
the streamline correspondence problem.
Title:
Automatic Black-Box Security Testing of Browser-Based
Security Protocols
Speaker:
Avinash Sudhodanan
Abstract:
This talk is about Blast, a BLAck-box
Security Testing tool for discovering security vulnerabilities in the
protocols underling security-critical Multi-Party
Web Applications (MPWAs). MPWAs rely on core trusted third-party
systems–e.g., payment servers, identity providers–and
protocols–e.g., Cashier-as-a-Service,
Single Sign-On–to deliver business services
to users. Blast leverages 6 attack patterns (generalizations of 11
prominent attacks from the literature) to generate attack test cases
against the MPWAs under test. Blast has been used to discover 21 previously-unknown
security vulnerabilities in prominent MPWAs (e.g. twitter.com,
OpenCart v<IP_ADDRESS>). The implementation
of Blast is based on OWASP ZAP, a widely-used,
open-source penetration testing tool. Blast is
currently being experimented at SAP and other industrial players are
considering its adoption.


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BEFORE :
To prepare for a flood it is important to:
- Remember, if you decide to build your home in a flood plain, you should elevate and reinforce the home.
- Keep your furnace, water heater, and electrical panel elevated if you are in an area susceptible to flooding.
- Construct barriers to keep flood waters from entering your home.
DURING :
If a flood is likely in your area, you should:
- Listen to the radio or television for information.
- Be aware that flash flooding can occur. If there is any possibility of a flash flood, move immediately to higher ground. Do not wait for instructions to move.
- Be aware of streams, drainage channels, and other areas known to flood suddenly. Flash floods can occur in these areas with or without such typical warnings as rain clouds or heavy rain.
If you must prepare to evacuate, you should do the following:
- Secure your home. If you have time, bring in outdoor furniture. Move essential items to an upper floor.
- Turn off utilities at the main switches or valves if instructed to do so.
- Disconnect electrical appliances. Do not touch electrical equipment if you are wet or standing in water.
If you have to leave your home, remember these evacuation tips:
- Do not walk through moving water. Six inches of moving water can make you fall. If you have to walk in water, walk where the water is not moving.
- Do not drive into flooded areas. If flood waters rise around your car, abandon the car and move to higher ground if you can do so safely. You and the vehicle can be quickly swept away.
DRIVING IN A FLOOD
The following are important points to remember when driving in flood conditions:
- Six inches of water will reach the bottom of most passenger cars causing loss of control and possible stalling.
- Twelve inches of water is enough to float many vehicles.
- Two feet of rushing water can carry away most vehicles, including sport utility vehicles (SUV’s) and pick-ups.
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Recovering from a flood requires extreme care. After a flood, be sure to:
- Find out if the water supply is safe to drink before consuming water.
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- Only return home after authorities have instructed you to do so.
- Do not enter a building surrounded by flood waters.
- Be very careful when entering a building damaged by flood waters, as hidden damage is likely and can be extremely dangerous.
- Be sure to repair damaged sewage systems, as these can cause serious health risks.
- Clean and disinfect everything that got wet during the flood because flood waters may be contaminated.


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GtkIMContextSimpleGtkIMContextSimple — An input method context supporting table-based input methods |
GtkIMContextSimple is a simple input method context supporting table-based input methods. It has a built-in table of compose sequences that is derived from the X11 Compose files.
GtkIMContextSimple reads additional compose sequences from the first of the following files that is found: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/Compose, ~/.XCompose, /usr/share/X11/locale/$locale/Compose (for locales that have a nontrivial Compose file). The syntax of these files is described in the Compose(5) manual page.
GtkIMContextSimple also supports numeric entry of Unicode characters by typing Ctrl-Shift-u, followed by a hexadecimal Unicode codepoint. For example, Ctrl-Shift-u 1 2 3 Enter yields U+0123 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA, i.e. ģ.
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gtk_im_context_simple_new (void
);
Creates a new GtkIMContextSimple.
void gtk_im_context_simple_add_table (GtkIMContextSimple *context_simple
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,gint max_seq_len
,gint n_seqs
);
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Each row of the table consists of max_seq_len
key symbols
followed by two guint16 interpreted as the high and low
words of a gunicode value. Tables are searched starting
from the last added.
The table must be sorted in dictionary order on the numeric value of the key symbol fields. (Values beyond the length of the sequence should be zero.)
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 I popped 3 60mg pills of Actifed around 9PM. I figured I wouldnít be going out, so it was ok. I usually like to experiment with drugs when Iím alone.
For the next hour, I would feel a constant increase in drowsiness coming on. After that, it only took 30 min To knock me out. I saw a friend online, and I wanted to hang out; unfortunately, it wasnít going to happen. If I hung out, Iíd smoke weed. This would make me feel 10x worse. Instead, I laid down on the futon and tried to relax. I wouldnít get up from that point on.
I noticed myself getting dizzy, and that did it. I was gone, and it was only 10:30.
I woke up at 530AM to a head that felt like it was cooked on the inside, so I went outside to smoke a cig. I could feel the hangover. It does feel bad. It feels like Iím at the verge of a headache, but not there yet.
Standing there, I couldnít really pay attention to everything around me. Iíd either have to pay attention to the sound of the wind blowing, or getting some eye visuals. Cigarette smoking took a back seat to this. Simple things would amaze me as well. A plane flew over, and I found myself staring at it until it disappeared into the clouds.
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Transportation
March 27, 2019 8:00 AM
AGAINST:
DeLeon, David Director Motor Vehicles of Bexar County (Bexar County Tax Office), San
Antonio, TX
Gonzalez, Ruben County Tax Assesor-Collector (El Paso County), El Paso, TX
Hickman, Howard A. (Self), Austin, TX
Palacios, Stephen W. Chief Deputy of Ops (Albert Uresti, Bexar County Tax Assessor), San
Antonio, TX
Uresti, Albert Tax Assessor-Collector (Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector), San Antonio,
TX
ON:
French, Michelle Tax Assessor Collector (Tax Assessor Collectors Association of TX),
Denton, TX
Luedeke, Shay Tax Assessor-Collector (Tax Assessor-Collector Association), Belton, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
FOR:
Borskey, Mark (Texas Recreational Vehicle Association), Austin, TX
Huddleston, Cheri Legislative Consultant (Southwest Tow Operators), Austin, TX
ON:
Brewster, Whitney Executive Director (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles), Austin, TX
Constantino, Morgan Staff Attorney (Sunset Commission), Austin, TX
Higginbotham, Mike Chief Information Officer (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles),
Austin, TX
Kuntz, Jeremiah Director, Vehicle Titles & Registration (Texas Department of Motor
Vehicles), Austin, TX
Ogle, Steven General Counsel (Sunset Commission), Austin, TX
Thompson, Corrie Director of Enforcement (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles), Austin,
TX
Wilson, Bryan Auto Burglary & Theft Prevention Director (Texas Department of Motor
Vehicles), Austin, TX
FOR:
Coyle, Jeff Dir. of Gov. (City of San Antonio), San Antonio, TX
Reed, Cyrus Interim Director (also providing written testimony) (Sierra Club, Lone Star
Chapter), Austin, TX
Shelley, Adrian Director, Texas Office (also providing written testimony) (Public Citizen),
Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
FOR:
Jones, Chris W. Training Coordinator (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas
(CLEAT)), Austin, TX
ON:
Bryant, Wes Manager (DPS), Austin, TX
Luna III, Pablo Deputy Manager (Texas DPS), Austin, TX
WITNESS LIST
Transportation
March 27, 2019 8:00 AM
Providing written testimony:
FOR:
Kelly, Bill Director of Govt. Relations (Mayor's Office, City of Houston), Houston, TX
FOR:
Allen, Jennifer Founder & CEO (also providing written testimony) (Aspergers 101/
SB976), San Antonio, TX
Allen, Samuel Spokesperson (also providing written testimony) (Aspergers101/SB 976),
San Antonio, TX
ON:
Kuntz, Jeremiah Director, Vehicle Titles & Registration (Texas Department of Motor
Vehicles), Austin, TX
Leicey, Ron Exec Director (also providing written testimony) (Governors Office People
with Disabilities), Austin, TX
Palmer, David Major (Texas Dept. of Public Safety), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
FOR:
Allmon, Jennifer Executive Director (Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops), Austin, TX
Borel, Dennis Exec. Director (Coalition of Texans with Disabilities), Austin, TX
Hunt, Ray Past President (Houston Police Officer's Union), Houston, TX
Rocha, JJ Legislative Liaison (Texas Municipal League), Austin, TX
Providing written testimony:
ON:
Logan, Linda Public Policy Specialist (Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities),
Austin, TX
FOR:
Emery, Charles Chairman (Denton County Transportation Authority), Lewisville, TX
Suarez, Raymond Chief Executive Officer (also providing written testimony) (Denton
County Transportation Authority), Lewisville, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
FOR:
Gilmore, Thomas (TJ) City Council Place 3 (City of Lewisville, TX), Lewisville, TX
Watts, Chris Mayor (City of Denton), Denton, TX
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Cutler, Casey (Driftwood Historical Conservation Society), Driftwood, TX
Melanson, Robin (Driftwood United Methodist Church), Driftwood, TX
Mock, Kasey (Self; The Keller Family at Browning Ranch), Driftwood, TX
Pruitt, Mike (Self), Driftwood, TX
Rutledge, Mark Resident (Driftwood Historical Conservation Society), Driftwood, TX
Tenorio, Daphne Member (Hays County Historical Commission), Kyle, TX
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Transportation
March 27, 2019 8:00 AM
Registering, but not testifying:
FOR:
Knight, Lila (Self), Kyle, TX


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(Thonny ends up under ~/Applications
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DH_GTKMODULES(1) Gtk DH_GTKMODULES(1) NAME dh_gtkmodules - create Gtk module files for Gtk modules SYNOPSIS dh_gtkmodules [debhelper options] DESCRIPTION dh_gtkmodules is a debhelper program that handles correctly generating a dependency on the versionned Gtk+ module ABI and indexes for GdkPixbuf loaders and IM modules that it finds in the Gtk+ module directories. This command automatically adds a "<package>.loaders" file to the current package with the package name or "<package>.immodules" if it finds any GdkPixbuf loaders or IM modules. If this command finds the versionned standard module directory in the current package, it will generate a dependency on the earliest Gtk version that Gtk currently has compatibility for in ${misc:Depends} ("binary version"). OPTIONS -k Do not generate any dependencies in ${misc:Depends}. SEE ALSO debhelper This program relies on Debhelper, but is shipped with the Gtk development files. AUTHOR Loic Minier<EMAIL_ADDRESS>2.24.10-2 2012-08-06 DH_GTKMODULES(1)


David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Chapter 56: The New Wound, and the Old
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1850
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Dickens, C. (1850) David Copperfield London, England; Bradbury & Evans
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 7.5
- Word Count: 2,523
- Genre: Realism
- Keywords: 19th century literature, british literature
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No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting–hour—no need to have said, 'Think of me at my best!' I had done that ever; and could I change now, looking on this sight!
They brought a hand–bier, and laid him on it, and covered him with a flag, and took him up and bore him on towards the houses. All the men who carried him had known him, and gone sailing with him, and seen him merry and bold. They carried him through the wild roar, a hush in the midst of all the tumult; and took him to the cottage where Death was already.
But when they set the bier down on the threshold, they looked at one another, and at me, and whispered. I knew why. They felt as if it were not right to lay him down in the same quiet room.
We went into the town, and took our burden to the inn. So soon as I could at all collect my thoughts, I sent for Joram, and begged him to provide me a conveyance in which it could be got to London in the night. I knew that the care of it, and the hard duty of preparing his mother to receive it, could only rest with me; and I was anxious to discharge that duty as faithfully as I could.
I chose the night for the journey, that there might be less curiosity when I left the town. But, although it was nearly midnight when I came out of the yard in a chaise, followed by what I had in charge, there were many people waiting. At intervals, along the town, and even a little way out upon the road, I saw more: but at length only the bleak night and the open country were around me, and the ashes of my youthful friendship.
Upon a mellow autumn day, about noon, when the ground was perfumed by fallen leaves, and many more, in beautiful tints of yellow, red, and brown, yet hung upon the trees, through which the sun was shining, I arrived at Highgate. I walked the last mile, thinking as I went along of what I had to do; and left the carriage that had followed me all through the night, awaiting orders to advance.
The house, when I came up to it, looked just the same. Not a blind was raised; no sign of life was in the dull paved court, with its covered way leading to the disused door. The wind had quite gone down, and nothing moved.
I had not, at first, the courage to ring at the gate; and when I did ring, my errand seemed to me to be expressed in the very sound of the bell. The little parlour–maid came out, with the key in her hand; and looking earnestly at me as she unlocked the gate, said:
'I beg your pardon, sir. Are you ill?'
'I have been much agitated, and am fatigued.'
'Is anything the matter, sir? —Mr. James? –' 'Hush!' said I. 'Yes, something has happened, that I have to break to Mrs. Steerforth. She is at home?'
The girl anxiously replied that her mistress was very seldom out now, even in a carriage; that she kept her room; that she saw no company, but would see me. Her mistress was up, she said, and Miss Dartle was with her. What message should she take upstairs?
Giving her a strict charge to be careful of her manner, and only to carry in my card and say I waited, I sat down in the drawing–room (which we had now reached) until she should come back. Its former pleasant air of occupation was gone, and the shutters were half closed. The harp had not been used for many and many a day. His picture, as a boy, was there. The cabinet in which his mother had kept his letters was there. I wondered if she ever read them now; if she would ever read them more!
The house was so still that I heard the girl's light step upstairs. On her return, she brought a message, to the effect that Mrs. Steerforth was an invalid and could not come down; but that if I would excuse her being in her chamber, she would be glad to see me. In a few moments I stood before her.
She was in his room; not in her own. I felt, of course, that she had taken to occupy it, in remembrance of him; and that the many tokens of his old sports and accomplishments, by which she was surrounded, remained there, just as he had left them, for the same reason. She murmured, however, even in her reception of me, that she was out of her own chamber because its aspect was unsuited to her infirmity; and with her stately look repelled the least suspicion of the truth.
At her chair, as usual, was Rosa Dartle. From the first moment of her dark eyes resting on me, I saw she knew I was the bearer of evil tidings. The scar sprung into view that instant. She withdrew herself a step behind the chair, to keep her own face out of Mrs. Steerforth's observation; and scrutinized me with a piercing gaze that never faltered, never shrunk.
'I am sorry to observe you are in mourning, sir,' said Mrs. Steerforth.
'I am unhappily a widower,' said I.
'You are very young to know so great a loss,' she returned. 'I am grieved to hear it. I am grieved to hear it. I hope Time will be good to you.'
'I hope Time,' said I, looking at her, 'will be good to all of us. Dear Mrs. Steerforth, we must all trust to that, in our heaviest misfortunes.'
The earnestness of my manner, and the tears in my eyes, alarmed her. The whole course of her thoughts appeared to stop, and change.
I tried to command my voice in gently saying his name, but it trembled. She repeated it to herself, two or three times, in a low tone. Then, addressing me, she said, with enforced calmness:
'My son is ill.'
'Very ill.'
'You have seen him?'
'I have.'
'Are you reconciled?'
I could not say Yes, I could not say No. She slightly turned her head towards the spot where Rosa Dartle had been standing at her elbow, and in that moment I said, by the motion of my lips, to Rosa, 'Dead!'
That Mrs. Steerforth might not be induced to look behind her, and read, plainly written, what she was not yet prepared to know, I met her look quickly; but I had seen Rosa Dartle throw her hands up in the air with vehemence of despair and horror, and then clasp them on her face.
The handsome lady—so like, oh so like!—regarded me with a fixed look, and put her hand to her forehead. I besought her to be calm, and prepare herself to bear what I had to tell; but I should rather have entreated her to weep, for she sat like a stone figure.
'When I was last here,' I faltered, 'Miss Dartle told me he was sailing here and there. The night before last was a dreadful one at sea. If he were at sea that night, and near a dangerous coast, as it is said he was; and if the vessel that was seen should really be the ship which –'
'Rosa!' said Mrs. Steerforth, 'come to me!'
She came, but with no sympathy or gentleness. Her eyes gleamed like fire as she confronted his mother, and broke into a frightful laugh.
'Now,' she said, 'is your pride appeased, you madwoman? Now has he made atonement to you—with his life! Do you hear? —His life!'

'Aye!' cried Rosa, smiting herself passionately on the breast, 'look at me! Moan, and groan, and look at me!
The moan the mother uttered, from time to time, went to My heart. Always the same. Always inarticulate and stifled. Always accompanied with an incapable motion of the head, but with no change of face. Always proceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw were locked and the face frozen up in pain.
'Do you remember when he did this?' she proceeded. 'Do you remember when, in his inheritance of your nature, and in your pampering of his pride and passion, he did this, and disfigured me for life? Look at me, marked until I die with his high displeasure; and moan and groan for what you made him!'
'Miss Dartle,' I entreated her. 'For Heaven's sake –'
'I WILL speak!' she said, turning on me with her lightning eyes. 'Be silent, you!  Moan for your nurture of him, moan for your corruption of him, moan for your loss of him, moan for mine!'
She clenched her hand, and trembled through her spare, worn figure, as if her passion were killing her by inches.
'You, resent his self–will!' she exclaimed. 'You, injured by his haughty temper! You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! YOU, who from his cradle reared him to be what he was, and stunted what he should have been!  Oh cruel!'
'I tell you,' she returned, 'I WILL speak to her. No power on earth should stop me, while I was standing here! Have I been silent all these years, and shall I not speak now?  'I could have loved him, and asked no return. If I had been his wife, I could have been the slave of his caprices for a word of love a year. I should have been. Who knows it better than I? You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. My love would have been devoted—would have trod your paltry whimpering under foot!'
With flashing eyes, she stamped upon the ground as if she actually did it.
'Look here!' she said, striking the scar again, with a relentless hand. 'When he grew into the better understanding of what he had done, he saw it, and repented of it! I could sing to him, and talk to him, and show the ardour that I felt in all he did, and attain with labour to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attracted him. When he was freshest and truest, he loved me. Yes, he did! Many a time, when you were put off with a slight word, he has taken Me to his heart!'
She said it with a taunting pride in the midst of her frenzy—for it was little less—yet with an eager remembrance of it, in which the smouldering embers of a gentler feeling kindled for the moment.
'I descended—as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship—into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him. When he grew weary, I grew weary. As his fancy died out, I would no more have tried to strengthen any power I had, than I would have married him on his being forced to take me for his wife. We fell away from one another without a word. Perhaps you saw it, and were not sorry. Since then, I have been a mere disfigured piece of furniture between you both; having no eyes, no ears, no feelings, no remembrances. Moan? Moan for what you made him; not for your love. I tell you that the time was, when I loved him better than you ever did!'

'Miss Dartle,' said I, 'if you can be so obdurate as not to feel for this afflicted mother –'
'Who feels for me?' she sharply retorted. 'She has sown this. Let her moan for the harvest that she reaps today!'
'And if his faults –' I began.
'Faults!' she cried, bursting into passionate tears. 'Who dares malign him? He had a soul worth millions of the friends to whom he stooped!'
'No one can have loved him better, no one can hold him in dearer remembrance than I,' I replied. 'I meant to say, if you have no compassion for his mother; or if his faults—you have been bitter on them –'
'It's false,' she cried, tearing her black hair; 'I loved him!'
'– if his faults cannot,' I went on, 'be banished from your remembrance, in such an hour; look at that figure, even as one you have never seen before, and render it some help!'
All this time, the figure was unchanged, and looked unchangeable. Motionless, rigid, staring; moaning in the same dumb way from time to time, with the same helpless motion of the head; but giving no other sign of life. Miss Dartle suddenly kneeled down before it, and began to loosen the dress.
'A curse upon you!' she said, looking round at me, with a mingled expression of rage and grief. 'It was in an evil hour that you ever came here!  Go!'
After passing out of the room, I hurried back to ring the bell, the sooner to alarm the servants. She had then taken the impassive figure in her arms, and, still upon her knees, was weeping over it, kissing it, calling to it, rocking it to and fro upon her bosom like a child, and trying every tender means to rouse the dormant senses. No longer afraid of leaving her, I noiselessly turned back again; and alarmed the house as I went out.
 She was just the same, they told me; Miss Dartle never left her; doctors were in attendance, many things had been tried; but she lay like a statue, except for the low sound now and then.
I went through the dreary house, and darkened the windows. The windows of the chamber where he lay, I darkened last. I lifted up the leaden hand, and held it to my heart; and all the world seemed death and silence, broken only by his mother's moaning.


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The page represents a summary of proposed changes in Jenkins JIRA.
Notice for contributors
This document is just a draft. Feel free to add new proposals.
Discussions in jenkinsci-dev
- Initial discussion: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/jenkinsci-dev/luOqm4Qj4sc/aGK4JDvJRmQJ
- Further components renames/deletion by Unknown User (danielbeck): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-dev/T_V9Z71rbPk
Aims and objectives
- Simplify the component selection for users
- Get rid of "forgotten" categories, which are being rarely reviewed by Jenkins contributors (e.g. "www", "master2slave")
- Make JIRA components similar to GitHub Projects if it is possible
- Introduce the initial state for incoming issues in order to highlight unrevised requests
- Create a specific category for new plugin proposals (proposed by Daniel Beck)
Proposals by category
JIRA Workflow changes
- Introduce the "Untriaged" state (proposed by Jesse Glick)
- This state should be initial for all new issues
- "Open" unassigned issues from renamed components should be transferred to this state as well
- The similar approach is being used in SECURITY project
- Introduce the "Waiting on requester" state (proposed by Oleg Nenashev)
- Aims: Better tracking of hanging requests for additional info and timeouts
- JIRA bot could distribute weekly summaries about timeouts
Modification of existing components
Approach:
- Call IRC Bot to rename/delete the component (see https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/INFRA-100)
- Manually update the JIRA component ID on Jenkins Wiki (e.g. jiraComponent=customtools-plugin in "excerpt" section)
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New name |
Labels |
Comments |
Status |
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gui |
core |
gui |
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DONE |
matrix |
matrix-project-plugin |
matrix |
Most of issues are related to the decoupled Matrix Project plugin |
DONE |
other |
unsorted |
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Could be a default component |
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master-slave |
remoting |
remoting |
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DONE |
maven2 |
maven-plugin |
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DONE |
junit |
junit-plugin |
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Should be decoupled according to JENKINS-23263 |
DONE |
www |
core |
www, gui |
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DONE |
parameters |
core |
parameter |
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DONE |
hudson-logaction |
logaction-plugin |
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DONE |
update-center |
core |
update, updateCenter |
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DONE |
infrastructure |
INFRA/unsorted |
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Should be moved to the INFRA project. The issues review is required as well |
DONE |
ui-changes |
core |
www, gui |
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DONE |
mail |
mailer-plugin |
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Most of issues are related to the decoupled Mailer Plugin |
DONE |
trayapp |
hudsontrayapp-plugin |
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firefox-extension |
firefox-extension-buildmonitor |
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DONE |
ruby-plugin-runtime |
ruby-runtime-plugin |
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The plugin has no Wiki page |
DONE |
flow |
jenkins-flow-plugin |
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danielbeck says: Why the "jenkins-" prefix? Isn't that implied? (TODO) |
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repository |
maven-repository-plugin |
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DONE |
jenkins-multijob-plugin |
multijob-plugin |
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DONE |
plugin |
plugin-proposals |
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A storage for the new plugin proposals |
DONE, issues review is required |
docker |
docker-plugin |
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renamed component,wiki |
(plugin-name) |
(plugin-name)-plugin |
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Clearly indicate what's a plugin by adding a suffix like for github repos |
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These non-plugin components are not currently scheduled to be reworked:
- cli
- core
Add comments to existing components referring to plugins
These components don't have a comment of the form "(name) plugin" to indicate they're about plugins. Rename (see above) and add comment:
- analysis-collector
- analysis-core
- artifactory
- backup
- campfire
- clearcase-ucm-baseline
- clone-workspace
- copy-to-slave
- cppunit
- createjobadvanced
- cvs
- doclinks
- fitnesse
- fortify360
- github
- locked-files-report
- logaction
- next-build-number
- parameterized-trigger
- perfpublisher
- platformlabeler
- pview
- radiatorview
- rebuild
- scons
- selenium
- startup-trigger-plugin
- subversion
- swarm
- validating-string-parameter
Add missing component owners
Approach:
- Any plugin component should have an owner (the information can be retrieved from Wiki)
- "core" component - No owner, we rely on the Untriaged state
- Jenkins Core components and libraries should have owners as well (see the table above)
Components to be deleted
The table below contains components, which contain the stuff without the explicit component reference. These components should be deleted, all issues should be handled manually.
Simple cases
Component name |
Move issues to... |
Comment |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|
email-ext-template-plugin |
emailext-template-plugin |
Duplicated components |
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custom-tools |
customtools-plugin |
Duplicated components |
DONE |
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Complex cases
Component name |
Proposed actions |
Status |
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security |
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IN_PROGRESS |
hudson.sfbay |
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DONE |
concurrent-build |
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DONE |
ant |
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slave-setup |
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IN_PROGRESS |
oauth-credentials |
Same GitHub repose, one of them should be removed:
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kerberos-authenticator-plugin |
Same GitHub repos, one of them should be removed: |
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New components to be created
The approach:
- In general, only a single component per GitHub repository should exist
- Exception: Jenkins Core
- Main component: core
- Several top-level components or decoupling candidates can present as standalone components
Component name |
Owner |
Description |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
core-test-unit |
TBD |
Jenkins Core Unit Tests |
A component for build-in Unit tests |
core-test-harness |
TBD |
Jenkins Test Harness |
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native-windows |
TBD |
Jenkins Native Package for Windows |
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native-rpm |
TBD |
Jenkins Native Package for Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS |
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native-opensuse |
TBD |
Jenkins Native Package for openSUSE |
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native-debian |
TBD |
Jenkins Native Package for Ubuntu/Debian |
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native-osx |
TBD |
Jenkins Native Package for Mac OS X |
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native-ips |
TBD |
Jenkins Native Package for Solaris/OpenIndiana |
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stapler |
TBD |
Stapler HTTP request handling engine |
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winsw |
kohsuke |
Windows service wrapper |
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winp |
kohsuke |
Windows process management library |
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winstone |
TBD |
Patched winstone used in Jenkins |
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[lib-]crypto-util |
kohsuke |
Utility around Java Crypto API |
[https://github.com/jenkinsci/lib-crypto-util |
trilead-ssh2 |
TBD |
A patched version of Trilead SSH-2 for Java |


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Is there a variant of simp
so I can write things like simp [←P, Q]
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lemmas?
nope. you need to do P.symm
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Japan's technology leads the way in caring for the elderly
Background Information
During the last sixty years across the globe, the number of people living longer over
the age of sixty-five has doubled, from 5% to 9% and Japan has been one of the
front runners. The acceleration of aging is more remarkable in Japan than elsewhere:
more than a quarter of the population is 65 or older. People are living longer and
above all, living better. In Japan the newest technologies have inspired public and
private sectors in the fields of health policies and innovation, to provide older
people a better quality of life.
Japan's digital care system
An aging society is a serious challenge for healthcare systems. Solutions delivered by Japan were at the core of an international summit in Tokyo, which gathered worldwide medical experts, public officials, start-ups and foreign delegations.
A digital care system has been the centrepiece of the Japanese strategy. It has been merging medical data and technology.
Erwin Böttinger , Head of Digital Health Centre, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany is one of the main world experts in digital health innovation and said, "I am totally impressed by what is happening in Japan, here."
"The benefits of digitisation, the benefits of Artificial Intelligence for our citizens and our societies will be greatest in the way of improved healthcare, and improved health in the distant future: that this requires that we have a good relationship with our own data."
How it works
Japan is establishing a new regulation to allow public and private sectors to use anonymously processed medical data.
To see how this digital transition has been implemented Euronews went to the University Hospital in Kyoto.
The collection of records begins from the patient's bedroom. Nurses pass on information straight to the servers, such as blood pressure, heartbeat, body temperature, clinical tests, and treatments.
Processing this cluster of data allows medical care to be more precise and more efficient. It also provides insights on how the healthcare system is managing and what's driving medicine production.
Tomohiro Kuroda CIO and Professor, Kyoto University Hospital said, "We collect data to understand what is happening in this country and what kind of medical treatment we provide to people."
"By using this data, we can see the different treatment and care. We make this data anonymous, and the government prepares a system to share it with everyone. Then, through this system, the private sector can use the data in order to create new drugs and treatments," Kuroda added.
Japanese healthcare insurance relies on billions of data, from more than 126 million citizens. It's a unique set of data that could be a source of opportunities even outside of the country.
Genta Kato, Chief Content, Kyoto University Hospital Solution Centre for Health Insurance Claims said, "More than 95% of the Japanese population's care content is covered by data elaboration. There is a 'trend' to using both medical treatment and nursing care data as a whole package for digital healthcare."
"Japan is a super-ageing society, and I think that our knowledge in this process could be a reference for many other countries in the world," added Kato.


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