Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Shot Boundary Detection Based on SVM Optimization Model

Categorizing the consecutive video frames into shots is the first step for content-based video retrieval. Recent- ly, more and more research has made use of support vector machine to improve the performance of shot boundary detec- tion. However, there has not been a uniform standard for selecting parameters of support vector machine kernel so that it relies on numerous experiences to try, which is not only time-consuming, but also can hardly obtain satisfactory results. In this paper, two novel algorithms for shot boundary detection are proposed, which based on support vector machine opti- mized by particle swarm and Tabu search respectively. The features are organized into a multi-dimension vector by using the method of sliding window. Experimental results show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithms, and the performance of support vector machine optimized by Tabu search is better than that of Particle swarm optimiza- tion algorithm.
The Radial Velocity and Mass of the White Dwarf of EX Hydrae Measured with Chandra

We present the first detection of orbital motion in the cataclysmic variable EX Hydrae based on X-ray data from Chandra. The large collecting area of the telescope and the high resolution of the HETG spectrometers allow for an unprecedented velocity accuracy of ~15 km s-1 in the X-ray wavelength regime. We find an emission line velocity amplitude of 58.2 ± 3.7 km s-1 and infer a white dwarf mass of 0.49 ± 0.13 M☉, in good agreement with previous studies using optical, ultraviolet, and far-ultraviolet data.
Framing Europe: The Policy Shaping Strategies of the European Commission

Public policymaking increasingly takes place on an international stage, drawing attention to how international bureaucracies set agendas and shape policy outcomes. This book focuses on the European Union and reveals a key strategy used to influence policymaking by one of its central institutions, the European Commission. While most scholarship on the Commission examines its formal means of influence, this book demonstrates how the Commission employs a more informal method of “strategic framing” to manipulate the ideational framework in which policymaking takes place. This method helps the Commission to privilege certain actors, institutional processes, and policy goals in pursuit of preferred outcomes. The effects of strategic framing are examined in four cases of policy change in the fields of agriculture and biotechnology.
Biased Weak Polyform Achievement Games

In a biased weak (a,b) polyform achievement game, the maker and the breaker alternately mark a,b previously unmarked cells on an infinite board, respectively. The maker's goal is to mark a set of cells congruent to a polyform. The breaker tries to prevent the maker from achieving this goal. A winning maker strategy for the (a,b) game can be built from winning strategies for games involving fewer marks for the maker and the breaker. A new type of breaker strategy called the priority strategy is introduced. The winners are determined for all (a,b) pairs for polyiamonds and polyominoes up to size four.
Is an 87-Year-Old Grandfather Too Marginal for Being a Kidney Donor? The View of Anesthesiologists

Living kidney donation has been accepted increasingly as a result of growth in the number of end-stage renal disease patients awaiting organ. In this aspect using grafts from marginal donors such as with advanced age is increasing in worldwide practice and also in Turkey. Therefore, anesthetic management of donors is particularly important. We herein report the anesthetic management of an 87-year-old grandfather donating his kidney to her granddaughter and review the current anesthetic strategies in a geriatric patient.
Disco clothing, female sexual motivation, and relationship status: Is she dressed to impress?

The relationship between a female's clothing choice, sexual motivation, hormone levels, and partnership status (single or not single, partner present or not present) was analyzed in 351 females attending Austrian discotheques. We digitally analyzed clothing choice to determine the amount of skin display, sheerness, and clothing tightness. Participants self‐reported sexual motivation, and we assessed estradiol and testosterone levels through saliva sampling. Results show that females are aware of the social signal function of their clothing and that they in some cases alter their clothing style to match their courtship motivation. In particular, sheer clothing—although rare in the study—positively correlated with the motivation for sex. Hormone levels influenced clothing choice in many groups, with testosterone levels correlating positively with physique display. Infernales who had a partner but were at the disco unaccompanied by the partner, estradiol levels correlated positively with skin display and clothing tightness. Significant differences were not found, however, for clothing choice across the partnership‐status groups.
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties

Emotion, after a long period of inattention, began to attract greater scrutiny as a key driver of human behavior in the mid-1980s. One approach that has achieved significant influence in political science is affective intelligence theory (AIT). We deploy AIT here to begin to understand the recent rise in support for right-wing populist leaders around the globe. In particular, we focus on specific emotional appraisals on elections held at periods of heightened threat, including the two 2015 terror attacks in France, as influences on support for the far-right Front National among conservatives. Contrary to much conventional wisdom, we speculate that threats can generate both anger and fear, and with very different political consequences. We expect fear to inhibit reliance on extant political dispositions such as ideological identification and authoritarianism, while anger will strengthen the influence of these same dispositions. Our core findings, across repeated tests, show that fear and anger indeed differentially condition the way habits of thought and action influence support for the far right in the current historical moment. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is anger that mobilizes the far right and authoritarians. Fear, on the other hand, diminishes the impact of these same dispositions.
Clinical activity of carfilzomib correlates with inhibition of multiple proteasome subunits: application of a novel pharmacodynamic assay

While proteasome inhibition is a validated therapeutic approach for multiple myeloma (MM), inhibition of individual constitutive proteasome (c20S) and immunoproteasome (i20S) subunits has not been fully explored owing to a lack of effective tools. We utilized the novel proteasome constitutive/immunoproteasome subunit enzyme‐linked immunosorbent (ProCISE) assay to quantify proteasome subunit occupancy in samples from five phase I/II and II trials before and after treatment with the proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib. Following the first carfilzomib dose (15–56 mg/m2), dose‐dependent inhibition of c20S and i20S chymotrypsin‐like active sites was observed [whole blood: ≥67%; peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs): ≥75%]. A similar inhibition profile was observed in bone marrow–derived CD138+ tumour cells. Carfilzomib‐induced proteasome inhibition was durable, with minimal recovery in PBMCs after 24 h but near‐complete recovery between cycles. Importantly, the ProCISE assay can be used to quantify occupancy of individual c20S and i20S subunits. We observed a relationship between MM patient response (n = 29), carfilzomib dose and occupancy of multiple i20S subunits, where greater occupancy was associated with an increased likelihood of achieving a clinical response at higher doses. ProCISE represents a new tool for measuring proteasome inhibitor activity in clinical trials and relating drug action to patient outcomes.
Antioxidant Activity of Brown Soybean Ethanolic Extracts and Application to Cooked Pork Patties

The brown soybean extract (BE, extracted by distilled water, 50%, 75%, and 95% ethanol) were analyzed for their total phenol, flavonoid, anthocyanin content, and DPPH radical-scavenging activity to determine antioxidant activities. Brown soybean extract with 75% ethanol showed significantly higher DPPH radical scavenging activity, total phenol and anthocyanin content compared to the other treatments (p<0.05). Then, brown soybean extract with 75% ethanol was applied to pork patties at different concentration (0.05%, 0.1%, and 0.2%) and lipid oxidation was evaluated during 15 d of refrigerated storage. Addition of BE significantly increased redness and pH values, respectively (p<0.05). Moreover, TBARS value of pork patties decreased significantly (p<0.05) as BE concentration increased. In sensory evaluation, pork patties with 0.1% BE had significantly higher score than other treatments in flavor and overall acceptability (p<0.05). Consequently, these results indicate that 0.1% BE could be an effective natural antioxidant to inhibit lipid oxidation in pork patties.
Optimizing thermal transport in the Falicov-Kimball model: The binary-alloy picture

We analyze the thermal transport properties of the Falicov-Kimball model concentrating on locating regions of parameter space where the thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT is large. We focus on high temperature for power generation applications and low temperature for cooling applications. We constrain the static particles (ions) to have a fixed concentration, and vary the conduction electron concentration as in the binary-alloy picture of the Falicov-Kimball model. We find a large region of parameter space with ZT > 1 at high temperature and we find a small region of parameter space with ZT > 1 at low temperature for correlated systems, but we believe inclusion of the lattice thermal conductivity will greatly reduce the low-temperature figure-of-merit.
Effects of growth hormone transgenesis on metabolic rate, exercise performance and hypoxia tolerance in tilapia hybrids

Swimming respirometry was employed to compare inactive metabolic rate (Rr), maximum metabolic rate (Rmax), resultant aerobic scope and maximum sustainable (critical) swimming speed (Ucrit), in growth hormone transgenic (GHT) and wild-type (W) tilapia Oreochromis sp. hybrids. Although the Rr of GHT tilapia was significantly (58%) higher than their W conspecifics, there were no significant differences in their net aerobic scope because GHT tilapia exhibited a compensatory increase in Rmax that was equal to their net increase in Rr . A s a consequence, the two groups had the same Ucrit. The GHT and W tilapia also exhibited the same capacity to regulate oxygen uptake during progressive hypoxia, despite the fact that the GHT fish were defending a higher demand for O2. The results indicate that ectopic expression of GH raises metabolic rate in tilapia, but the fish compensate for this metabolic load and preserve such physiological determinants of fitness as aerobic scope, swimming performance and tolerance of hypoxia.
Renal Cell Carcinomas and Autologous Normal Kidney Tissue Receptor Measurement in Primary 31 , 25-Dihydroxyvitamin D Updated

Recently it was reported that l~Â«,25-dihydro\y vitamin O, [1,25iOH)zl),l inhibited cell growth in a cell Une derived from a metastasis from renal cell carcinoma. We have examined samples from 23 primary renal cell carcinomas for I,2S-(<)H)2D, receptor content, and compared it with the concentrations in autologous normal kidney tissue. Nineteen of 23 (83%) renal cell carcinomas had detectable (above 1 fmol/mg protein) l,25-(OII)2n, receptor levels, and 15 of 23 (65%) had levels above 5 fmol/mg protein. Mean value for the renal cell carcinomas was 8.2 fmol/mg protein (range, 0-28 fmol/mg protein), and the mean value for autologous normal kidney tissue was 23.1 fmol/mg protein (range, 6.6-53.7 fmol/mg protein). The 1,25-(()11)2D, receptor levels in the renal cell carcinomas were significantly lower than in the autologous normal kidney tissue (P < 0.001). The 1,25-(O11),! ), receptor was characterized by sucrose gradient analysis and DNA-cellulose chromatography. The features found for renal cell carcinoma were similar to the l,25-(OH)jl)3 receptor in normal human tissue. No correlation of I,25-(OH)2I)3 recep tor levels to clinical parameters was found. This study shows that carcinomas originating from the kidney, the major vitamin D regulating organ, usually contain the 1,25-(OH)21), receptor. The receptor may have a cellular function in the transformed cell.
ON THE SOLAR NICKEL AND OXYGEN ABUNDANCES

Determinations of the solar oxygen content relying on the neutral forbidden transition at 630 nm depend upon the nickel abundance, due to a Ni i blend. Here, we rederive the solar nickel abundance, using the same ab initio three-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the solar photosphere employed in the recent revision of the abundances of C, N, O, and other elements. Using 17 weak, unblended lines of Ni i together with the most accurate atomic and observational data available, we find log ϵNi = 6.17 ± 0.02(statistical) ± 0.05(systematic), a downward shift of 0.06–0.08 dex relative to previous abundances based on one-dimensional model atmospheres. We investigate the implications of the new nickel abundance for studies of the solar oxygen abundance based on the [O i] 630 nm line in the quiet Sun. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the oxygen abundance implied by the recent sunspot spectropolarimetric study of Centeno & Socas-Navarro needs to be revised downward from log ϵO = 8.86 ± 0.07 to 8.71 ± 0.10. This revision is based on the new nickel abundance, the application of the best available gf value for the 630 nm forbidden oxygen line, and a more transparent treatment of CO formation. Determinations of the solar oxygen content relying on forbidden lines now appear to converge around log ϵO = 8.7.
Engaging Preservice Teachers in Universal Design for Learning Lesson Planning

General education teachers often feel unprepared to serve the needs of students with disabilities, including those with intellectual disability, because many teacher preparation programs do not adequately prepare teachers for the diverse classrooms they will encounter. With the increase of inclusion for students with disabilities, it is imperative that teachers develop the necessary skills for engaging all students, including those with intellectual disability, in meaningful instruction. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can assist teachers in designing instruction that meets the needs of their diverse learners. The current study consisted of two parts. First, researchers surveyed preservice teachers on their perceptions of including students with disabilities in their future classrooms before and after instruction in UDL. Second, researchers analyzed preservice teachers' ability to design lessons using the principles of UDL. Results indicated perceptions of inclusion were positive prior to intervention and did not significantly change after the intervention. Lesson plans improved significantly in the use of UDL principles from baseline to postintervention, but there was no significant difference between the postintervention lesson plans and the end-of-semester lesson plans.
BOREAL CARIBOU HABITAT AND LAND USE PLANNING IN THE DEH CHO REGION , NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

Boreal caribou Rangifer tarandus are nationally listed as Threatened. Land use jurisdictions, including communities and land claim organizations, will have to identify, steward and monitor boreal caribou habitat both for land use planning in the Deh Cho Region (southern Northwest Territories (NWT)) and for recovery planning in the NWT. Mapping current distribution (occupation) and potential habitat use (occurrence) for boreal caribou is a first step for both land use planning and recovery planning. We modeled occurrence at the landscape scale using generalized additive model analysis and Akaike Information Criterion with habitat information from spectral classification and habitat attributes such as cutlines, fire -history and elevation. The Deh Cho First Nations database of lifetime harvest kill sites and sightings from an aerial survey in March 2002 revealed that boreal caribou occupation has not changed at the regional level. Observations of boreal caribou fit relatively well with occurrence predicted from the modeling. Boreal caribou were strongly associated with black spruce and lichen on uplands and in lowlands.
Macular Thickness Assessed with Optical Coherence Tomography in Young Chinese Myopic Patients

Purpose. To evaluate the variations in macular thickness in young Chinese myopic persons and the association with axial length (AL), spherical equivalence refraction (SE), age, intraocular pressure, and sex. Methods. In total, 133 young Chinese myopic subjects between 18 and 30 years of age were selected. The macular thickness was assessed using third-generation optical coherence tomography. AL, intraocular pressure, and SE were also measured. Results. The mean central foveal thickness was 191.1 ± 15.3 µm. The macula was consistently thinner in women than in men. Central foveal thickness had a significant positive correlation with AL and a negative correlation with SE. In the inner and outer regions, the macular thickness had a positive correlation with SE and negative correlation with AL. Conclusions. The retina was thinner in women than in men. Associated with myopic progression and AL extension, the central foveal thickness increased, while the retinal thickness of the inner and outer regions decreased.
2 3 Ju n 20 09 Interfaces Within Graphene Nanoribbons

We study the conductance through two types of graphene nanos tructures: nanoribbon junctions in which the width changes from wide to narrow, and curved nanoribbons. In the wide-narrow structures, substantial r eflection occurs from the wide-narrow interface, in contrast to the behavior of the much studied el ctron gas waveguides. In the curved nanoribbons, the conductance is very sensitive to de tails such as whether regions of a semiconducting armchair nanoribbon are included in the cu rved structure – such regions strongly suppress the conductance. Surprisingly, this sup pression is not due to the band gap of the semiconducting nanoribbon, but is linked to the valle y d gree of freedom. Though we study these effects in the simplest contexts, they can be exp ected to occur for more complicated structures, and we show results for rings as well. We conclud e that experience from electron gas waveguides does notcarry over to graphene nanostructures. The interior interf ac s causing extra scattering result from the extra effective degrees of freedom of the graphene structure, namely the valley and sublattice pseudospins. PACS numbers: 73.63. Nm, 73.21. Hb, 73.23. Ad, 73.61. Wp
Facilitating the search for compositions of program transformations

Static compiler optimizations can hardly cope with the complex run-time behavior and hardware components interplay of modern processor architectures. Multiple architectural phenomena occur and interact simultaneously, which requires the optimizer to combine multiple program transformations. Whether these transformations are selected through static analysis and models, runtime feedback, or both, the underlying infrastructure must have the ability to perform long and complex compositions of program transformations in a flexible manner. Existing compilers are ill-equipped to perform that task because of rigid phase ordering, fragile selection rules using pattern matching, and cumbersome expression of loop transformations on syntax trees. Moreover, iterative optimization emerges as a pragmatic and general means to select an optimization strategy via machine learning and operations research. Searching for the composition of dozens of complex, dependent, parameterized transformations is a challenge for iterative approaches.The purpose of this article is threefold: (1) to facilitate the automatic search for compositions of program transformations, introducing a richer framework which improves on classical polyhedral representations, suitable for iterative optimization on a simpler, structured search space, (2) to illustrate, using several examples, that syntactic code representations close to the operational semantics hamper the composition of transformations, and (3) that complex compositions of transformations can be necessary to achieve significant performance benefits. The proposed framework relies on a unified polyhedral representation of loops and statements. The key is to clearly separate four types of actions associated with program transformations: iteration domain, schedule, data layout and memory access functions modifications. The framework is implemented within the Open64/ORC compiler, aiming for native IA64, AMD64 and IA32 code generation, along with source-to-source optimization of Fortran90, C and C++.
Understanding community impacts: a tool for evaluating economic impacts from local bio-fuels production.

The popularity of public investment in local bio-fuel production as a rural development initiative is growing. An important consideration in determining the level of public support for a plant's development, however, is accurately measuring public benefits resulting from plant activity. The purpose of the research reported here was to first develop a set of community multipliers associated with various bio-fuel plant configurations and then to develop an easy-to-use tool that allows local communities to measure potential benefits based on varying levels of plant activity.
Retromedia-in-practice: A practice theory approach for rethinking old and new media technologies

The article aims at investigating the persistence and comeback of old media technologies (phenomena we define, in short, ‘retromedia’) by developing a distinctive theoretical approach named retromedia-in-practice and based on practice theory. Far from being abandoned and forgotten, many old media devices and artefacts (such as vinyl records, cassette tapes, analogue photographic cameras, early videogames and brick mobile phones, to mention just a few notable examples) are nowadays readopted by young generations and niche media subcultures. However, most of the existing literature focusing on these cases has limits and shortfalls, resulting in a partial and misleading understanding of these phenomena: scholars and theorists often put at the centre the cultural fascination for vintage objects and the nostalgia effect; other studies rely on a taken-for-granted distinction between old and new media; the relational and processual nature of media change is rarely addressed; and in general, research lacks a framework capable of adequately integrating symbolic processes with material and technological features. In order to cope with these shortfalls, the article adopts the approach of practice theory, which enables to focus not on the media themselves, but on the practices associated with them. After presenting the distinctive framework of analysis, we exemplify our approach by analysing three different cases coming from music (vinyl records), photography (Polaroid-like instant photography) and videogaming (the ‘consolization’ of old arcade games). These case studies rely on original empirical data coming from authors’ qualitative research. The article concludes by arguing that a shift from considering retromedia as objects or discourses to retromedia-in-practice allows to both address the processual nature of retromedia and propose an interpretation that keeps together media materiality, their meanings and also the embodied activities and behaviours that are attached to them.