Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Estimation based Individual Pitch Control of Wind Turbine

The use of wind power for generating electricity has experienced an uninterrupted and accelerating growth over last few decades and this growth is likely to continue. In order to enable even greater role of wind energy in power production it is necessary to increase the size and unit power of wind turbines. As wind turbines grow in size they are subjected to extreme loads and fatigue caused by nonuniform turbulent winds. Therefore, control algorithms that can assure load and fatigue reduction become a necessity. In this paper the individual pitch control for reduction of the periodic blade and hub loading is explored. To avoid problems related to the required blade loads measurements a method for their estimation based on other process variables is proposed. The performance of the individual pitch controller that uses such load estimations instead of measurements is tested and compared to the collective pitch control and the individual pitch control based on measured loads.
Reliable Third-Party Library Detection in Android and its Security Applications

Third-party libraries on Android have been shown to be security and privacy hazards by adding security vulnerabilities to their host apps or by misusing inherited access rights. Correctly attributing improper app behavior either to app or library developer code or isolating library code from their host apps would be highly desirable to mitigate these problems, but is impeded by the absence of a third-party library detection that is effective and reliable in spite of obfuscated code. This paper proposes a library detection technique that is resilient against common code obfuscations and that is capable of pinpointing the exact library version used in apps. Libraries are detected with profiles from a comprehensive library database that we generated from the original library SDKs. We apply our technique to the top apps on Google Play and their complete histories to conduct a longitudinal study of library usage and evolution in apps. Our results particularly show that app developers only slowly adapt new library versions, exposing their end-users to large windows of vulnerability. For instance, we discovered that two long-known security vulnerabilities in popular libs are still present in the current top apps. Moreover, we find that misuse of cryptographic APIs in advertising libs, which increases the host apps' attack surface, affects 296 top apps with a cumulative install base of 3.7bn devices according to Play. To the best of our knowledge, our work is first to quantify the security impact of third-party libs on the Android ecosystem.
Gender, Martyrdom, and the Management of Stigmatized Identities among Devout Muslims in the U.S.

Martyrdom has a central and increasingly popular role in Islamic social movements, but remains undertheorized and empirically underexplored in sociological studies. In this chapter, I examine the social meanings and aims of martyrdom acts by analyzing the statements of jihadists. I find that these violent acts to be framed as self-defense, restorative rituals, and honor displays. Such frames indicate that, in the context of Global Jihad, martyrdom constitutes a violent repertoire of contention that enables aggrieved men to resist domination, elicit deference, and claim genderbased rewards. Through integrating critical constructionist perspectives on gender and Donald Black’s theory of self-help, along with recent critiques of Black’s pure sociology framework, I argue that martyrdom is a form of masculine self-help—a gender signifying act that constitutes an expression of a grievance through self-sacrificial and embodied aggression. This conceptual approach suggests that gender ideologies are critical to understanding why acts of martyrdom and mass violence are advocated over other methods of handling grievances, and that masculine self-help is a major impetus for men’s violence in social movements.
Physicians want education about complementary and alternative medicine to enhance communication with their patients.

BACKGROUND More than one third of patients in the United States use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); most also visit conventional physicians. There is little information about how physicians and patients discuss CAM. We hypothesized that physicians frequently fielded questions about CAM treatments but felt uncomfortable discussing them owing to a lack of education. OBJECTIVES To survey physicians to see how they discussed CAM with their patients and what factors influenced discussions and referrals. METHODS A total of 751 physicians in the Denver, Colo, area were asked about their experience with CAM and communication about CAM with patients. Analyses were conducted using the SAS system (version 6, 1989; SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC). RESULTS Of the 705 deliverable surveys, 302 (43%) were returned: 76% of physicians reported having patients using CAM; 59% had been asked about specific CAM treatments; 48% had recommended CAM to a patient; and 24% had personally used CAM. Physician recommendation of CAM was most strongly associated with physician self-use (odds ratio, 6.98; P<.001). Few physicians felt comfortable discussing CAM with their patients, and the overwhelming majority (84%) thought they needed to learn more about CAM to adequately address patient concerns. CONCLUSIONS Education about CAM modalities is a significant unmet need among Denver physicians, and education may help alleviate the discomfort physicians have when answering patients' questions about CAM. Physicians who use CAM treatments themselves are much more likely to recommend CAM for their patients than physicians who do not.
E+A and companion galaxies – I. A catalogue and statistics

Based on our intensive spectroscopic campaign with the GoldCam spectrograph on the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 2.1-m telescope, we have constructed the first catalogue of E+A galaxies with spectroscopic companion galaxies, and investigated a probability that an E+A galaxy has close companion galaxies. We selected 660 E+A galaxies with 4.0 A < Hδ EW at a redshift of <0.167 from the Data Release 5 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We selected their companion candidates from the SDSS imaging data, and classified them into true companions, fore/background galaxies and companion candidates using the SDSS and our KPNO spectra. We observed 26 companion candidates of E+A galaxies at the KPNO to measure their redshifts. Their spectra showed that 17 targets are true companion galaxies. The number of spectroscopically confirmed E+A's companions is now 34. This becomes the first catalogue of E+A galaxies with spectroscopic companion systems. We found that E+A galaxies have 54 per cent larger probability of having companion galaxies (7.88 per cent) as compared to the comparison sample of normal galaxies (5.12 per cent). A statistical test shows that the probabilities are different with 99.7 per cent significance. Our results based on spectroscopy tighten the connection between the dynamical merger/interaction and the origin of E+A galaxies.
Of Financial And Strategic Decisions Volume 8 Number 2 Summer 1995 57 THE 1986 TAX REFORM ACT AND STRATEGIC LEVERAGE DECISIONS

The 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA) repealed the investment tax credit, lowered corporate tax rates and lengthened depreciation schedules. These tax law changes have important implications for firms' strategic decisions regarding leverage and for testing DeAngelo and Masulis' tax shield substitution hypotheses. First, the effect of the TRA on firms' leverage, effective tax rates, and non-debt tax shields are examined. Second, the substitutability between debt and non-debt related tax shields is investigated within the DeAngelo and Masulis framework. The results of the paired t-tests, analysis of covariance, and regression analysis provide empirical support that, on average, firms have increased their leverage ratios during the post-TRA period. This increase is primarily in response to an increase in effective tax rates and a reduction in non-debt tax shields. This finding supports the view that firms tend to make strategic changes in leverage in response to tax law changes. Additionally, the evidence is consistent with two of DeAngelo and Masulis' hypotheses, H:3 and H:5.
Blind Identiication Schemes for Multi-channel Ds/ss Systems

Preliminary results on new blind equalization schemes for Direct-Sequence/Spread-Spectrum (DS/SS) signals are presented. These schemes are based on previously proposed subspace algorithms. Signiicant improvements over previous blind identiication schemes can be gained by explicitly exploiting the structure of the DS/SS signals, thus reducing the number of parameters that need to be estimated. The results presented focus on a simple single-user system, but are easily extensible to multiple-user systems.
Perceived Parenting Practices and Adjustment

Filial piety is an important cultural construct in the lives and behaviors of Chinese emerging adults and may act as a moderating factor for the relationship between perceived parenting practices and indices of adjustment. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not filial piety moderates the influence of psychologically controlling and warm parenting behaviors on internalizing problems, self-esteem, and risk behaviors. Using a sample of Chinese college students (N = 612), results from regression analyses indicated that filial piety moderated the relationship between psychological control and self-esteem, in that psychological control predicted lower self-esteem at high and moderate levels of filial piety values but was not related at low filial piety values. The discussion focuses on the possibility that filial piety may exacerbate the conflict between psychologically controlling tactics and autonomy.
Hydraulic tests in highly permeable aquifers

A semianalytical solution is presented for a mathematical model describing the flow of groundwater in response to a slug or pumping test in a highly permeable, confined aquifer. This solution, which is appropriate for wells of any degree of penetration and incorporates inertial mechanisms at both the test and observation wells, can be used to gain new insights into hydraulic tests in highly permeable settings. The oscillatory character of slug‐ and pumping‐induced responses will vary considerably across a site, even in an essentially homogeneous formation, when wells of different radii, depths, and screen lengths are used. Thus variations in the oscillatory character of responses do not necessarily indicate variations in hydraulic conductivity (K). Existing models for slug tests in partially penetrating wells in high‐K aquifers neglect the storage properties of the media. That assumption, however, appears reasonable for a wide range of common conditions. Unlike in less permeable formations, drawdown at an observation well in a high‐K aquifer will be affected by head losses in the pumping well. Those losses, which affect the form of the pumping‐induced oscillations, can be difficult to characterize. Thus analyses of observation‐well drawdown should utilize data from the period after the oscillations have dissipated whenever possible. Although inertial mechanisms can have a large impact on early‐time drawdown, that impact decreases rapidly with duration of pumping and distance to the observation well. Conventional methods that do not consider inertial mechanisms should therefore be viable options for the analysis of drawdown data at moderate to large times.
Off the wall political discourse: Facebook use in the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Both candidates and voters have increased their use of the Internet for political campaigns. Candidates have adopted many internet tools, including social networking websites, for the purposes of communicating with constituents and voters, collecting donations, fostering community, and organizing events. On the other side, voters have adopted Internet tools such as blogs and social networking sites to relate to candidates, engage in political dialogue, pursue activist causes, and share information. In this paper we examine two years of posts on the Facebook walls of the three major contenders for the U.S. Presidency in 2008: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. We analyze participation patterns of usage along dimensions of breadth and frequency, and interpret them in terms of the concept of the "public sphere".
The Path Less Travelled : Overcoming Tor ’ s Bottlenecks with Multipaths

Tor is the most popular low-latency anonymity network for enhancing ordinary users’ online privacy and resisting censorship. While it has grown in popularity, Tor has a variety of performance problems that result in poor quality of service, a strong disincentive to use the system, and weaker anonymity properties for all users. We observe that one reason why Tor is slow is due to low-bandwidth volunteeroperated routers. When clients use a low-bandwidth router, their throughput is limited by the capacity of the slowest node. With the introduction of bridges—unadvertised Tor routers that provide Tor access to users within censored regimes like China— low-bandwidth Tor routers are becoming more common and essential to Tor’s ability to resist censorship. In this paper, we present Conflux, a multipath circuit construction and stream-splitting approach that increases performance for clients using low-bandwidth bridges. Moreover, Conflux significantly improves the experience of users who watch streaming videos online. Through live measurements and a whole-network evaluation conducted on a scalable network emulator, we show that our approach offers an improvement of approximately 30% in expected download time for web browsers who use Tor bridges and for streaming application users. We also show that our scheme has no significant impact on users’ security or anonymity.
Financial Innovation and Expectations. Endogenous Incompleteness and Real Indeterminacy

This paper analyzes an incomplete financial markets model with pricetaking utility-maximizing financial innovators and no-short sales restrictions. It is shown that, given the indeterminacy of the no arbitrage price conjecture of innovators, financial markets can remain incomplete in equilibrium. As a consequence, real indeterminacy of degree at least equal to int (S/2)(S-(S/2)) results, where S is the number of spots in the future. The dimension of innovators' beliefs giving rise to I newly introduced financial assets is I(S-I), with an equal degree of real indeterminacy.
Human Liver Cell Trafficking Mutants: Characterization and Whole Exome Sequencing

The HuH7 liver cell mutant Trf1 is defective in membrane trafficking and is complemented by the casein kinase 2α subunit CK2α’’. Here we identify characteristic morphologies, trafficking and mutational changes in six additional HuH7 mutants Trf2-Trf7. Trf1 cells were previously shown to be severely defective in gap junction functions. Using a Lucifer yellow transfer assay, remarkable attenuation of gap junction communication was revealed in each of the mutants Trf2-Trf7. Electron microscopy and light microscopy of thiamine pyrophosphatase showed that several mutants exhibited fragmented Golgi apparatus cisternae compared to parental HuH7 cells. Intracellular trafficking was investigated using assays of transferrin endocytosis and recycling and VSV G secretion. Surface binding of transferrin was reduced in all six Trf2-Trf7 mutants, which generally correlated with the degree of reduced expression of the transferrin receptor at the cell surface. The mutants displayed the same transferrin influx rates as HuH7, and for efflux rate, only Trf6 differed, having a slower transferrin efflux rate than HuH7. The kinetics of VSV G transport along the exocytic pathway were altered in Trf2 and Trf5 mutants. Genetic changes unique to particular Trf mutants were identified by exome sequencing, and one was investigated in depth. The novel mutation Ile34Phe in the GTPase RAB22A was identified in Trf4. RNA interference knockdown of RAB22A or overexpression of RAB22AI34F in HuH7 cells caused phenotypic changes characteristic of the Trf4 mutant. In addition, the Ile34Phe mutation reduced both guanine nucleotide binding and hydrolysis activities of RAB22A. Thus, the RAB22A Ile34Phe mutation appears to contribute to the Trf4 mutant phenotype.
Educación Patrimonial Inclusiva en OEPE: un estudio prospectivo

espanolEn el presente articulo recogemos los resultados de la investigacion realizada en torno a la educacion patrimonial y la inclusion, en el marco del Observatorio de Educacion Patrimonial en Espana (OEPE). El objetivo que impulsa nuestros esfuerzos es el estudio y analisis del estado de la cuestion en materia de inclusion en la educacion patrimonial, para conocer la calidad educativa de los proyectos existentes, a traves del analisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de los programas inventariados en la base de datos del OEPE, etiquetados como inclusivos o cuasiinclusivos (experiencias de accesibilidad, apertura a nuevos publicos, adaptaciones a capacidades diferentes). Para ello, nos aproximamos, en primer lugar, a los conceptos y ejes clave que sustentan esta investigacion, inclusion y educacion patrimonial, ademas de profundizar en el conocimiento del OEPE. Seguimos un diseno de investigacion transversal y prospectivo que toma como referencia el metodo OEPE y efectuamos analisis exhaustivos de corte estadisticodescriptivo a traves del software SPSS, a partir de los cuales analizamos las variables y sus subtipos aplicados a la muestra de estudio. De la relacion de datos obtenidos, inferimos las conclusiones clave que cierran esta fase de investigacion detectando un bajo nivel de alcance de la calidad educativa y presentando ausencias clave en el grado de concrecion del diseno, como su concepcion holistica, evaluacion o visibilidad de los proyectos; para finalmente abrir el camino a las siguientes etapas de indagacion: evaluacion de programas a traves de estandares extendidos, y estudio de casos referentes. EnglishIn this article we present the results around heritage education and inclusion research, from the Spanish Heritage Education Observatory (SHEO). Our goal is the analysis of the state of affairs, regarding inclusion in heritage education, through quantitative and qualitative analysis of all programs in the database, labeled as inclusive or quasi-inclusive, with particular emphasis on the experiences of open spaces heritage to new audiences, with different capacities. To do this, we approach first, concepts and key axes that support this research, inclusion and heritage education, and deepen the knowledge of the Observatory. We follow a transversal and prospective research, that draws on the OEPE method. We define an exhaustive analysis of statistical and descriptive court, from which we analyze the variables and their subtypes applied to the study sample. We submit the sample to two types of quantitative analysis software: Excel and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), analyzing categorical variables, scalar variables and their correlations. The relationship of data, we study the key findings closing this research phase, to open the way to the next stages of inquiry: program evaluation through extended standards, and related case studies.
An exact reduction of the master equation to a strictly stable system with an explicit expression for the stationary distribution

The evolution of a continuous time Markov process with a finite number of states is usually calculated by the Master equation - a linear differential equations with a singular generator matrix. We derive a general method for reducing the dimensionality of the Master equation by one by using the probability normalization constraint, thus obtaining a affine differential equation with a (non-singular) stable generator matrix. Additionally, the reduced form yields a simple explicit expression for the stationary probability distribution, which is usually derived implicitly. Finally, we discuss the application of this method to stochastic differential equations.
Ranking of Object Summaries

A previously proposed Keyword Search paradigm produces, as a query result, a ranked list of Object Summaries (OSs); each OS summarizes all data held in a relational database about a particular Data Subject (DS). This paper further investigates the ranking of OSs and their tuples as to facilitate (1) the top-k ranking of OSs and also (2) the generation of partial size-l OSs (i.e. comprised of the l most important tuples). Therefore, a global Importance score for each tuple of the database (denoted as Im(ti)) is investigated and quantified. For this purpose, ValueRank (an extension of ObjectRank) is introduced which facilitates the estimation of scores for arbitrary databases (in contrast to PageRank-style techniques that are only effective on bibliographic databases). In addition, a variation of Combined functions are investigated for assigning an Importance score to an OS (denoted as Im(OS)) and a local Importance score of their tuples (denoted as Im(OS, ti)). Preliminary experimental evaluation on DBLP and Northwind Databases is presented.
Female mating decisions: maximizing fitness?

Sexual selection theory assumes that maximizing fitness is the ultimate goal in every mating decision. Fitness can be maximized directly by increasing the number of offspring (direct benefits) or indirectly by maximizing offspring's lifetime reproductive success (indirect benefits). Whereas there is considerable evidence in the literature for the influence of mating decisions on direct benefits, indirect benefits have been more elusive. Here, we review the variables that influence mating decisions made by females of freshwater fish and how these affect their fitness directly, as well as indirectly. Females enhance their fitness by matching their mating decisions to current environmental conditions, using a wide range of pre- and post-copulation mechanisms that enable them to maximize benefits from mating. Male sexual traits and courtship displays are signals used by females as a way of assessing male quality in terms of both direct and indirect benefits. Polyandry is very common among freshwater fish species, and indirect benefits have been hypothesized as drivers of its predominance. Despite intensive theoretical work, and multiple suggestions of the effects of indirect benefits, to date no study has been able to demonstrate experimentally the existence of indirect benefits in freshwater fish species. Additionally, most studies of direct benefits measure short-term benefits of mating decisions. In both cases, lifetime reproductive success is not assessed. Therefore, we are led to conclude that evidence as to whether female mating decisions result in direct and/or indirect benefits in freshwater fish species is still lacking. These results should be considered in light of the ongoing debate about the significance of indirect benefits in female mating decisions.
Scheduling multiprocessor tasks on two parallel processors

In this work scheduling multiprocessor tasks on two par- allel identical processors is considered. Multiprocessor tasks can be executed by more than one processor at the same moment of time. We analyze scheduling unit execution time and preemptable tasks to min- imize schedule length and maximum lateness. Cases with ready times, due-dates and precedence constraints are discussed.