Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Use of Earth’s Magnetic Field for Mitigating Gyroscope Errors Regardless of Magnetic Perturbation

Most portable systems like smart-phones are equipped with low cost consumer grade sensors, making them useful as Pedestrian Navigation Systems (PNS). Measurements of these sensors are severely contaminated by errors caused due to instrumentation and environmental issues rendering the unaided navigation solution with these sensors of limited use. The overall navigation error budget associated with pedestrian navigation can be categorized into position/displacement errors and attitude/orientation errors. Most of the research is conducted for tackling and reducing the displacement errors, which either utilize Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) or special constraints like Zero velocity UPdaTes (ZUPT) and Zero Angular Rate Updates (ZARU). This article targets the orientation/attitude errors encountered in pedestrian navigation and develops a novel sensor fusion technique to utilize the Earth’s magnetic field, even perturbed, for attitude and rate gyroscope error estimation in pedestrian navigation environments where it is assumed that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) navigation is denied. As the Earth’s magnetic field undergoes severe degradations in pedestrian navigation environments, a novel Quasi-Static magnetic Field (QSF) based attitude and angular rate error estimation technique is developed to effectively use magnetic measurements in highly perturbed environments. The QSF scheme is then used for generating the desired measurements for the proposed Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based attitude estimator. Results indicate that the QSF measurements are capable of effectively estimating attitude and gyroscope errors, reducing the overall navigation error budget by over 80% in urban canyon environment.
Cerebral proliferative angiopathy: Clinical, angiographic features and literature review

Purpose Here we present our experience with five cerebral proliferative angiopathy (CPA) patients to better delineate the clinical and angiographic features as well as the treatment selection of this disease. Methods Between October 2008 and October 2012, five consecutive patients diagnosed with CPA were admitted to our department in our hospital. All the five patients received magnetic resonance imaging, digital subtraction angiography, and positron emission computed tomography (PET) to definitively confirm this disease. We also collected 15 previously published instances of CPA to analyze the characteristics of this rare entity. Results As to the five patients, three were female and two were male, between the ages of 4 and 52 years with a mean age of 24.8 ± 20.6 years. The PET results showed that perfusion was decreased over the affected hemispheres in all five patients. As to the treatment, only one patient received encephalo-duro-arterio-synangiosis (EDAS) revascularization surgery. The other four patients were conservatively observed. During the follow-up period (range 3–6 years, mean 4 ± 1.9 years), the patient who underwent EDAS surgery manifested relief of clinical symptoms. In the conservative series, the symptoms in two patients aggravated and suffered permanent neurologic deficits. Conclusion CPA is a rare entity. Natural history has showed this disease is not stable and may progress at a certain time point. The EDAS procedure may be a treatment for CPA-related oligemia since there is currently little data and follow-up available.
Incorporation of murine brain progenitor cells into the developing mammalian retina.

PURPOSE To investigate the influence of a developing host environment on the survival, differentiation, and morphologic integration of murine brain progenitor cells (mBPCs) transplanted into the mammalian retina. METHODS Enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing murine brain progenitor cells were transplanted into developing and mature Brazilian opossums (Monodelphis domestica). Animals were allowed to survive for up to 4 weeks after transplantation, at which time the eyes were prepared for immunohistochemical analysis. RESULTS Transplanted mBPCs survived and differentiated in vivo, and extensive morphologic integration was observed within the host retinas. GFP-expressing cells often displayed morphologies characteristic of retinal neurons. GFP somata were located in nuclear layers, and their processes ramified throughout the inner (IPL) and outer (OPL) plexiform layers. Furthermore, in some cases, GFP-expressing neurites were confined to specific sublamina within the IPL. The greatest morphologic integration and differentiation were observed after transplantation into the youngest-aged host eyes. Some transplanted mBPCs incorporated within the inner retina expressed the neuronal markers microtubule associated protein (MAP)-2 or calretinin. Transplanted cells coexpressed GFP and recoverin only in the ONL. CONCLUSIONS mBPCs survived and morphologically integrated after xenotransplantation without immunosuppression. mBPCs were capable of incorporating into specific layers of the retina and expressing neuronal and retinal markers. The age of the host appeared to play a key role in determining cell fate in vivo.
Dynamics of a 3D Rotating Tethered Formation Flying Facing the Earth

Several on-going studies indicate interest in large, light orbiting structures, shaped like fishnets or webs: along the ropes of the web small spacecraft can move to position and relocate, at will, pieces of hardware devoted to specific missions.12 The presence of hard links adds the advantage of a simpler control strategy to the typical benefits of formation flying. Unfortunately, there is no stable configuration for an orbiting two dimensional web made by light, flexible tethers: in fact it cannot support compression forces caused by the gravity gradient. The proposed solution is to make use of centrifugal forces to pull the net, with a reduced number of simple thrusters located at the tips of the tethers to initially acquire the required spin. A sequence of simulations has been carried out to investigate the dynamic behavior of such a system. The numerical model adopted overlaps simpler elements, each of them given by a tether connecting two extreme bodies which accommodate the spinning thrusters. The combination of these "diameter-like" elements provides the web, shaped according to the specific requirements. The net is initially considered as rotating in the orbital plane, which is demonstrated to be the only configuration leading to a stable motion. However, as the earth-facing orientation can be of greater interest for earth observation and telecommunication missions, we have searched for a possible solution to stabilize the web. The solution has been identified by several authors with connecting two additional masses along the orbital radius, in a spinning double-pyramid configuration. Numerical analysis of the proper three dimensional web properties, namely spin rate and boom-to-corner mass ratio, is performed in this paper, showing regions where the structure satisfies the requirements both of earth-pointing accuracy and of shape integrity. Two kinds of motion are analyzed separately: the first one follows the conditions for relative equilibrium of a spinning axisymmetrical rigid body, which requires a non zero angle between the nadir direction and the spin axis; a number of different configurations for the central web have been proposed, highlighting the possible advantages. Stability has been proved also in the second case, namely zero off-nadir angle configurations, even though limited to a simplified orbital environment including the sole gravity gradient action. Extensive plots of the stable regions, considered as a useful baseline for more detailed mission design, are reported.
Association of survival and disease progression with chromosomal instability: A genomic exploration of colorectal cancer

During disease progression the cells that comprise solid malignancies undergo significant changes in gene copy number and chromosome structure. Colorectal cancer provides an excellent model to study this process. To indentify and characterize chromosomal abnormalities in colorectal cancer, we performed a statistical analysis of 299 expression and 130 SNP arrays profiled at different stages of the disease, including normal tissue, adenoma, stages 1–4 adenocarcinoma, and metastasis. We identified broad (> 1/2 chromosomal arm) and focal (< 1/2 chromosomal arm) events. Broad amplifications were noted on chromosomes 7, 8q, 13q, 20, and X and broad deletions on chromosomes 4, 8p, 14q, 15q, 17p, 18, 20p, and 22q. Focal events (gains or losses) were identified in regions containing known cancer pathway genes, such as VEGFA, MYC, MET, FGF6, FGF23, LYN, MMP9, MYBL2, AURKA, UBE2C, and PTEN. Other focal events encompassed potential new candidate tumor suppressors (losses) and oncogenes (gains), including CCDC68, CSMD1, POLR1D, and PMEPA1. From the expression data, we identified genes whose expression levels reflected their copy number changes and used this relationship to impute copy number changes to samples without accompanying SNP data. This analysis provided the statistical power to show that deletions of 8p, 4p, and 15q are associated with survival and disease progression, and that samples with simultaneous deletions in 18q, 8p, 4p, and 15q have a particularly poor prognosis. Annotation analysis reveals that the oxidative phosphorylation pathway shows a strong tendency for decreased expression in the samples characterized by poor prognosis.
Exploratory Modeling of Environmental and Anthropogenic Impacts on Mercury in Fish Tissue for Select Watersheds in South Carolina

iii LIST OF TABLES . v LIST OF FIGURES . vi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 1 CHAPTER 2: METHODS . 11 CHAPTER 3: RESULTS . 22 CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION . 35 CHAPTER 5: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION . 43 REFERENCES . 46 APPENDIX A – DATA SOURCE . 51 APPENDIX B – VARIABLE EXPLANATION . 52
Finite Volume methods on unstructured grids for solving anisotropic heat transfer and compressible Navier-Stokes equations. (Méthodes numériques de type Volumes Finis sur maillages non structurés pour la résolution de la thermique anisotrope et des équations de Navier-Stokes compressibles)

Finite Volume methods on unstructured grids for solving anisotropic heat transfer and compressible Navier-Stokes equations When studying the problem of atmospheric reentry we need to model three different physical phenomenons. First, the flow around the atmospheric reentry vehicle is hypersonic, it is characterized by the presence of a strong shock which leads to a rapid heating of the vehicle. We model the flow using the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and the heating of the vehicle is modeled with the anisotropic heat transfer equation. Furthermore the vehicle is protected by an heat shield, where thermochemical reactions, commonly named ablation, occurs. In the first chapter of this thesis we introduce the numerical diffusion scheme CCLAD (CellCentered LAgrangian Diffusion) that we use to solve the anisotropic heat diffusion. We develop its non trivial extension to three-dimensional geometries and present its parallelization. We continue this thesis by the presentation of the extension of this scheme to tensorial diffusion. This equation is obtained by suppressing the convective terms of the momentum equation of the Navier-Stokes equations. We show that we need to introduce a penalization term in order to be able to invert the constitutive law. The invertibility of the constitutive law allows us to apply the CCLAD methodology to this equation straightforwardly. We present the numerical properties of this scheme and show numerical validations. In the last chapter, we present a Finite Volume scheme on unstructured grids that solves the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. This numerical scheme is mainly obtained by gathering the contributions of the two diffusion schemes we developed in the previous chapters.
A Computational Framework for Influenza Antigenic Cartography

Influenza viruses have been responsible for large losses of lives around the world and continue to present a great public health challenge. Antigenic characterization based on hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay is one of the routine procedures for influenza vaccine strain selection. However, HI assay is only a crude experiment reflecting the antigenic correlations among testing antigens (viruses) and reference antisera (antibodies). Moreover, antigenic characterization is usually based on more than one HI dataset. The combination of multiple datasets results in an incomplete HI matrix with many unobserved entries. This paper proposes a new computational framework for constructing an influenza antigenic cartography from this incomplete matrix, which we refer to as Matrix Completion-Multidimensional Scaling (MC-MDS). In this approach, we first reconstruct the HI matrices with viruses and antibodies using low-rank matrix completion, and then generate the two-dimensional antigenic cartography using multidimensional scaling. Moreover, for influenza HI tables with herd immunity effect (such as those from Human influenza viruses), we propose a temporal model to reduce the inherent temporal bias of HI tables caused by herd immunity. By applying our method in HI datasets containing H3N2 influenza A viruses isolated from 1968 to 2003, we identified eleven clusters of antigenic variants, representing all major antigenic drift events in these 36 years. Our results showed that both the completed HI matrix and the antigenic cartography obtained via MC-MDS are useful in identifying influenza antigenic variants and thus can be used to facilitate influenza vaccine strain selection. The webserver is available at http://sysbio.cvm. msstate.edu/AntigenMap.
Species-Level Variability in Extracellular Production Rates of Reactive Oxygen Species by Diatoms

Biological production and decay of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and superoxide (O2-) likely have significant effects on the cycling of trace metals and carbon in marine systems. In this study, extracellular production rates of H2O2 and O2- were determined for five species of marine diatoms in the presence and absence of light. Production of both ROS was measured in parallel by suspending cells on filters and measuring the ROS downstream using chemiluminescence probes. In addition, the ability of these organisms to break down O2- and H2O2 was examined by measuring recovery of O2- and H2O2 added to the influent medium. O2- production rates ranged from undetectable to 7.3 × 10−16 mol cell−1 h−1, while H2O2 production rates ranged from undetectable to 3.4 × 10−16 mol cell−1 h−1. Results suggest that extracellular ROS production occurs through a variety of pathways even amongst organisms of the same genus. Thalassiosira spp. produced more O2- in light than dark, even when the organisms were killed, indicating that O2- is produced via a passive photochemical process on the cell surface. The ratio of H2O2 to O2- production rates was consistent with production of H2O2 solely through dismutation of O2- for T. oceanica, while T. pseudonana made much more H2O2 than O2-. T. weissflogii only produced H2O2 when stressed or killed. P. tricornutum cells did not make cell-associated ROS, but did secrete H2O2-producing substances into the growth medium. In all organisms, recovery rates for killed cultures (94–100% H2O2; 10–80% O2-) were consistently higher than those for live cultures (65–95% H2O2; 10–50% O2-). While recovery rates for killed cultures in H2O2 indicate that nearly all H2O2 was degraded by active cell processes, O2- decay appeared to occur via a combination of active and passive processes. Overall, this study shows that the rates and pathways for ROS production and decay vary greatly among diatom species, even between those that are closely related, and as a function of light conditions.
A Mathematical Model of the Chemostat with Periodic Washout Rate

In its simplest form, the chemostat consists of several populations of microorganisms competing for a single limiting nutrient. If the input concentration of nutrient and the washout rate are constant, theory predicts and experiment confirms that at most one of the populations will survive. In nature, however, one may expect the input concentration and washout rate to vary with time. In this paper we consider a model for the chemostat with periodic washout rate. Conditions are found for competitive exclusion to hold, and bifurcation techniques are employed to show that under suitable circumstances there will be coexistence of the competing populations in the form of positive periodic solutions.
Estimating carbon dioxide residence time scales through noble gas and stable isotope diffusion profiles

The study of natural carbon dioxide reservoirs provides fundamental insight into processes involved in carbon capture and storage. However, the calculations of process rates such as dissolution of CO2 into formation water remain uncertain due to indirectly determined ages of the CO2 influx. The proposed ages for the Bravo Dome gas field in New Mexico, USA, vary from 56 ka to 1.5 Ma. Here we demonstrate that residence times can be estimated from simple modeling of noble gas and stable isotope diffusion profiles from the gas-water contact through the gas column. The Bravo Dome gas field shows a gradient in noble gas concentrations and isotopic ratios from east to west across the 70-km-wide field. A mantle-like end member with a 3He/4He (R/RA) ratio of up to 4.7 is found in the west in contrast to a groundwater end member with high concentrations of air- and crustal-derived noble gases in the east. The air- and crustal-derived noble gases decrease gradually toward the west. Stable isotope compositions (C and O) also vary across the field. Diffusion modeling of He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and δ13C data yield residence times for the CO2 between 14.1 ± 0.2 ka and 16.9 +1.1/–0.5 ka. This is far less than the previous estimates of 1.2–1.5 Ma based on apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology, leading to a dissolution rate of 29,900 +11,800/–10,700 t/a to 35,900 ± 12,300 t/a, implying that 28% of the total emplaced CO2 dissolved. This new method can be applied to a wide variety of gas fields with variation in the concentration of groundwater-derived noble gases and allow a better assessment of the time scale of other diffusive fluid-fluid interactions.
Pronoun Use Reflects Standings in Social Hierarchies

Five studies explored the ways relative rank is revealed among individuals in small groups through their natural use of pronouns. In Experiment 1, four-person groups worked on a decision-making task with randomly assigned leadership status. In Studies 2 and 3, two-person groups either worked on a task or chatted informally in a get-to-know-you session. Study 4 was a naturalistic study of incoming and outgoing e-mail of 9 participants who provided information on their correspondents’ relative status. The last study examined 40 letters written by soldiers in the regime of Saddam Hussein. Computerized text analyses across the five studies found that people with higher status consistently used fewer first-person singular, and more first-person plural and second-person singular pronouns. Natural language use during group interaction suggests that status is associated with attentional biases, such that higher rank is linked with other-focus whereas lower rank is linked with self-focus.
Job stress and dyadic synchrony in police marriages: a preliminary investigation.

Despite reports documenting adverse effects of stress on police marriages, few empirical studies focus on actual emotional behaviors of officers and spouses. In this preliminary investigation, 17 male police officers and their nonpolice wives completed daily stress diaries for 1 week and then participated in a laboratory-based discussion about their respective days. Conversations were video-recorded and coded for specific emotional behaviors reflecting hostility and affection, which are strong predictors of marital outcomes. We examined associations between officers' job stress (per diaries and the Police Stress Survey) and couples' emotional behavior (mean levels and behavioral synchrony) using a dyadic repeated measures design capitalizing on the large number of observations available for each couple (1020 observations). When officers reported more job stress, they showed less hostility, less synchrony with their wives' hostility, and more synchrony with their wives' affection; their wives showed greater synchrony with officers' hostility and less synchrony with officers' affection. Therefore, for officers, greater job stress was associated with less behavioral negativity, potentially less attunement to wives' negativity, but potentially greater attunement to wives' affection-perhaps a compensatory strategy or attempt to buffer their marriage from stress. These attempts may be less effective, however, if, as our synchrony findings may suggest, wives are focusing on officers' hostility rather than affection. Although it will be important to replicate these results given the small sample, our findings reveal that patterns of behavioral synchrony may be a key means to better understand how job stress exacts a toll on police marriages.
Dysregulation of Ascorbate Release in the Striatum of Behaving Mice Expressing the Huntington's Disease Gene

The extracellular fluid of the striatum contains a high level of ascorbate, an antioxidant vitamin known to play a key role in behavioral activation. We assessed the extracellular dynamics of ascorbate in R6/2 mice engineered to express the gene for Huntington's disease (HD), an autosomal dominant condition characterized by the loss of striatal neurons. Slow-scan voltammetry was used to measure striatal ascorbate during anesthesia and subsequent behavioral recovery. Although both the HD mice and their littermate controls had comparable ascorbate levels during anesthesia, the gradual return of behavioral activation over the next 120 min led to dramatically different ascorbate responses: a progressive increase in controls and a 25-50% decline in HD mice. In contrast, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid, a major dopamine metabolite, showed no group differences. Behaviorally, HD mice were less active overall than controls and showed a relatively restricted range of spontaneous movements. Both the ascorbate and behavioral deficits were evident in 6-week-old HD mice and persisted in all subsequent test sessions through 10 weeks of age. Collectively, although these results are consistent with inadequate antioxidant protection in the HD striatum, they indicate that the ascorbate deficit is confined to periods of behavioral activation.