Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A CATALOG OF POINT SOURCES TOWARD NGC 1333

I present a catalog of point-source objects toward NGC 1333, resolving a wide variety of confusion about source names (and occasionally positions) in the literature. I incorporate data from optical to radio wavelengths, but focus most of the effort on being complete and accurate from J (1.25 μm) to 24 μm. The catalog encompasses 52 ° < ? > R.A. < 52 &fdg; 5 ? > and 31 ° < ? > decl. < 31 &fdg; 6 ? > . Cross-identifications include those from more than 25 papers and catalogs from 1994 to 2014, primarily those in wide use as origins of nomenclature. Gaps in our knowledge are identified, with the most important being a lack of spectroscopy for spectral types or even confirmation of youth and/or cluster membership. I fit a slope to the spectral energy distribution (SED) between 2 and 24 μm for the members (and candidate members) to obtain an SED classification, and I compare the resulting classes to those for the same sources in the literature, and for an SED fit between 2 and 8 μm. While there are certainly differences, for the majority of the sources, there is good agreement.
A RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: EVIDENCE FROM THE ELECTRONIC BILLING INDUSTRY

In this paper, we draw on concepts from the rational expectations hypothesis (REH) and adaptive learning theory to introduce a new rational expectations theory of technology adoption. Although the REH and adaptive learning theory have been applied in many non-technology contexts, this research is among the first that applies rational expectations and adaptive learning theory to issues related to technology adoption. The proposed theory allows us to examine technology adoption settings where multiple parties seek to align their expectations of future value prior to making a decision to adopt. It also takes into account the learning and information sharing that generally occurs in the marketplace between multiple parties that can further influence clustered adoption and the overall adoption rate. In our effort to test our new theory, we construct several hypotheses that allow us to examine issues associated with information technology adoption that involves multiple parties (multi-partite technology adoption) and strong network externalities. We test for the existence of clustered adoption and the effects of information transmission in the electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) industry. We hypothesize that clustered adoption by firms will be influenced by their geographical collocation, the reach of their consumer bases, their industry sector associations, and their consensus choices of the technology vendor. Our results show preliminary evidence to support the proposed theory.
The growth hormone response to repeated bouts of sprint exercise with and without suppression of lipolysis in men.

A single 30-s sprint is a potent physiological stimulus for growth hormone (GH) release. However, repeated bouts of sprinting attenuate the GH response, possibly due to negative feedback via elevated systemic free fatty acids (FFA). The aim of the study was to use nicotinic acid (NA) to suppress lipolysis to investigate whether serum FFA can modulate the GH response to exercise. Seven nonobese, healthy men performed two trials, consisting of two maximal 30-s cycle ergometer sprints separated by 4 h of recovery. In one trial (NA), participants ingested NA (1 g 60 min before, and 0.5 g 60 and 180 min after sprint 1); the other was a control (Con) trial. Serum FFA was not significantly different between trials before sprint 1 but was significantly lower in the NA trial immediately before sprint 2 [NA vs. Con: mean (SD); 0.08 (0.05) vs. 0.75 (0.34) mmol/l, P < 0.05]. Peak and integrated GH were significantly greater following sprint 2 compared with sprint 1 in the NA trial [peak GH: 23.3 (7.0) vs. 7.7 (11.9) microg/l, P < 0.05; integrated GH: 1,076 (350) vs. 316 (527) microg.l(-1). 60 min(-1), P < 0.05] and compared with sprint 2 in the Con trial [peak GH: 23.3 (7.0) vs. 5.2 (2.3) microg/l, P < 0.05; integrated GH: 1,076 (350) vs. 206 (118) microg.l(-1). 60 min(-1), P < 0.05]. In conclusion, suppressing lipolysis resulted in a significantly greater GH response to the second of two sprints, suggesting a potential role for serum FFA in negative feedback control of the GH response to repeated exercise.
DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION AND SPIN-ORBIT RESONANCES OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE EXOPLANETS. THE CASE OF GJ 667C

We investigate the spin-orbital evolution of the potentially habitable super-Earth GJ 667Cc in the multiple system of at least two exoplanets orbiting a nearby M dwarf. The published radial velocities for this star are re-analyzed and evidence is found for additional periodic signals, which could be taken for two additional planets on eccentric orbits making the system dynamically inviable. Limiting the scope to the two originally detected planets, we assess the dynamical stability of the system and find no evidence for bounded chaos in the orbital motion. The orbital eccentricity of the planets b and c is found to change cyclically in the range 0.06–0.28 and 0.05–0.25, respectively, with a period of approximately 0.46 yr. Taking the eccentricity variation into account, numerical integrations are performed of the spin-orbit interactions of the planet GJ 667Cc with its host star, assuming a terrestrial composition of its mantle. Depending on the interior temperature of the planet, it is likely to be entrapped in the 3:2 (probability 0.51) or even higher spin-orbit resonance. It is less likely to reach the 1:1 resonance (probability 0.24). The estimated characteristic spin-down times are quite short for the two planets, i.e., within 1 Myr for planet c and even shorter for planet b. The rate of tidal dissipation of energy in the planets of GJ 667 is estimated at 1023.7 and 1026.7 J yr−1 for c and b, respectively. This raises a question of how such relatively massive, close super-Earths could survive overheating and destruction.
Income Effects and the Welfare Consequences of Tax in Differentiated Product Oligopoly

Random utility models are widely used to study consumer choice. The vast majority of applications make strong assumptions about the marginal utility of income, which restricts income effects, demand curvature and pass-through. We show that flexibly modeling income effects can be important, particularly if one is interested in the distributional effects of a policy change, even in a market in which, a priori, the expectation is that income effects will play a limited role. We allow for much more flexible forms of income effects than is common and we illustrate the implications by simulating the introduction of an excise tax.
Secure clustered distributed storage against eavesdroppers

This paper considers the security issue of practical distributed storage systems (DSSs) which consist of multiple clusters of storage nodes. Noticing that actual storage nodes constituting a DSS are distributed in multiple clusters, two novel eavesdropper models — the node-restricted model and the cluster-restricted model — are suggested which reflect the clustered nature of DSSs. In the node-restricted model, an eavesdropper cannot access the individual nodes, but can eavesdrop incoming/outgoing data for Lc compromised clusters. In the cluster-restricted model, an eavesdropper can access a total of l individual nodes but the number of accessible clusters is limited to Lc. We provide an upper bound on the securely storable data for each model, while a specific network coding scheme which achieves the upper bound is obtained for the node-restricted model, given some mild condition on the node storage size.
Pozycja stratygraficzna dwóch najwyższych poziomów morskich w warstwach brzeżnych (namur A) w rejonie rybnickim

Position stratigraphique des deux niveaux marins les plus superieurs des couches marginales Autor stwierdza, ze najwyzszy poziom morski warstw brzeznych odpowiada w wiekszej cześci rejonu rybnickiego poziomowi morskiemu Ib w kopalni Knurow, a nastepny nizszy - poziomowi Ic. W stropie poziomu morskiego Ib rejonu rybnickiego lezy seria zwirowcowo-piaskowcowa, ktorą autor zalicza w calości do warstw zabrskich (siodlowych s. s.). Brak poziomu morskiego Ia oraz takze kilkudziesieciu metrow najwyzszych warstw brzeznych spowodowany jest istnieniem luki erozyjnej. W calym nieomal rejonie rybnickim brak jest pokladu 510. Wiązka pokladow zabrskich (siodlowych s. s.) w niecce jejkowickiej nalezy do wiązlki pokladow 508-503.
Micrographia and related deficits in Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional study

Objectives To determine the prevalence and clinical features associated with micrographia in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Setting This study was conducted at a Movement Disorders clinic located in a Veteran Administration Hospital. Participants PD subjects were included only if they satisfied UK Parkinson's Disease Society criteria for diagnosis. Subjects with history of severe tremors, dystonia, dyskinesia, strokes, peripheral neuropathy and dementia were excluded. Design This was a case–control study where PD subjects were prospectively enrolled and their demographics, Hoehn & Yahr stage, Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale and Mini Mental Status examination (MMSE) scores were recorded. All subjects were specifically asked for micrographia on history and the handwritings were quantitatively documented. Bradykinesia was determined by history and quantified by a finger tap, Purdue pegboard and a timed walk test. Similarly, hypophonia was determined by history and the volume of speech quantified using a decibel meter. Controls were enrolled for validation of handwriting test scores and decibel meter recordings. Primary outcome measures Prevalence of micrographia in the PD cohort and the clinical factors that correlate with micrographia. Results 68 subjects with PD were enrolled (68 men; mean age 72.3 years). Micrographia was identified in 63.2% of the cohort on verbal history and in 50% of the cohort when the handwriting test was used for ascertainment. Micrographia ascertained on history correlated significantly with disease severity (Hoehn & Yahr stage), motor impairment (Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale), cognitive impairment (MMSE) and both bradykinesia and hypophonia determined by history and quantitative testing. Micrographia on handwriting test correlated with age (p=0.02), MMSE testing (p=0.04), hypophonia by history (p=0.01) and bradykinesia by quantitative testing (p=0.04). Conclusion Micrographia was found in nearly half of the PD cohort. Disease severity and impaired cognition were important clinical correlates. Micrographia had a significant relationship with bradykinesia and hypophonia, suggesting a possible overlap in their pathophysiology.
Density-based clustering using graphics processors

During the last few years, GPUs have evolved from simple devices for the display signal preparation into powerful coprocessors that do not only support typical computer graphics tasks but can also be used for general numeric and symbolic computation tasks. As major advantage GPUs provide extremely high parallelism combined with a high bandwidth in memory transfer at low cost. We want to exploit these dvantages in density-based clustering, an important paradigm in clustering since typical algorithms of this category are noise and outlier robust and search for clusters of an arbitrary shape in metric and vector spaces. Moreover, with a time complexity ranging from O(n log n) to O(n2) these algorithms are scalable to large data sets in a database system. In this paper, we propose CUDA-DClust, a massively parallel algorithm for density-based clustering for the use of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). While the result of this algorithm is guaranteed to be equivalent to that of DBSCAN, we demonstrate a high speed-up, particularly in combination with a novel index structure for use in GPUs.
CALCULATING WITHOUT READING: UNSUSPECTED RESIDUAL ABILITIES IN PURE ALEXIA

In pure alexic patients, clear-cut dissociations between impaired naming and preserved comprehension abilities can be found in the domain of number processing (Cohen & Dehaene, 1995). In the present study, we report a novel case of pure alexia with striking preservation of some calculation abilities. The patient was fully able to decide which of two numbers was the larger, or whether a number was odd or even, even with 2-digit numerals for which she made close to 90% reading errors. In arithmetic the patient, though unable to read aloud correctly the operands of visually presented problems, could still produce verbally the exact result of the very same problems. For instance, when presented visually with the subtraction problem 8 − 6, the patient read the problem aloud as “five minus four”, but nevertheless produced the correct result “two. ” Such capacities for “calculating without reading” were observed in subtraction, addition, and division tasks, but not in multiplication tasks. We discuss how both the existence of residual abilities and the pattern of dissociations between operation types can be explained by current theories of the cerebral substrates of number processing (Dehaene & Cohen, 1995).
The Costs, Benefits, and Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Mexico

Background In Mexico, the lifetime risk of dying from maternal causes is 1 in 370 compared to 1 in 2,500 in the U.S. Although national efforts have been made to improve maternal services in the last decade, it is unclear if Millennium Development Goal 5 - to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015 - will be met. Methodology/Principal Findings We developed an empirically calibrated model that simulates the natural history of pregnancy and pregnancy-related complications in a cohort of 15-year-old women followed over their lifetime. After synthesizing national and sub-national trends in maternal mortality, the model was calibrated to current intervention-specific coverage levels and validated by comparing model-projected life expectancy, total fertility rate, crude birth rate and maternal mortality ratio with Mexico-specific data. Using both published and primary data, we assessed the comparative health and economic outcomes of alternative strategies to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. A dual approach that increased coverage of family planning by 15%, and assured access to safe abortion for all women desiring elective termination of pregnancy, reduced mortality by 43% and was cost saving compared to current practice. The most effective strategy added a third component, enhanced access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care for at least 90% of women requiring referral. At a national level, this strategy reduced mortality by 75%, cost less than current practice, and had an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $300 per DALY relative to the next best strategy. Analyses conducted at the state level yielded similar results. Conclusions/Significance Increasing the provision of family planning and assuring access to safe abortion are feasible, complementary and cost-effective strategies that would provide the greatest benefit within a short-time frame. Incremental improvements in access to high-quality intrapartum and emergency obstetric care will further reduce maternal deaths and disability.
Sensors Augmentation Influence Over Trust and Reputation Models Realization for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper reports the power consumption and resource utilization of a trust and reputation model deployed in a wireless sensor network (WSN). The impact of sensor augmentation parameter for static and dynamic WSN with trust and reputation models has been examined. In particular, we present a novel WSN framework-based investigations on peer trust and linguistic fuzzy trust model (LFTM) for trust and reputation models. Accuracy, path length, and energy consumption of sensor node operations are reported for their current and average scenarios. In addition, we emphasized over the satisfaction evaluation for LFTM model in the deployed WSN framework. The performance of the sensor augmentation for our proposed framework is evaluated via analytic bounds and numerical simulations. Analytical results together with simulation results exhibit the eminence of the proposed sensor augmentation-based realization over past trust and reputation model investigations.
Evolutionary multiobjective optimization

Many real-world search and optimization problems are naturally posed as non-linear programming problems having multiple conflicting objectives. Due to lack of suitable solution techniques, such problems are usually artificially converted into a single-objective problem and solved. The difficulty arises because multi-objective optimization problems give rise to a set of Pareto-optimal solutions, each corresponding to a certain trade-off among the objectives. It then becomes important to find not just one Pareto-optimal solution but as many of them as possible. Classical methods are found to be not efficient because they require repetitive applications to find multiple Pareto-optimal solutions and in some occasions repetitive applications do not guarantee finding distinct Pareto-optimal solutions. The population approach of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) allows an efficient way to find multiple Pareto-optimal solutions simultaneously in a single simulation run. In this tutorial, we shall contrast the differences in philosophies between classical and evolutionary multi-objective methodologies and provide adequate fundamentals needed to understand and use both methodologies in practice. Particularly, major state-of-the-art evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) methodologies will be presented and various related issues such as performance assessment and preference articulation will be discussed. Thereafter, three main application areas of EMO will be discussed with adequate case studies from practice -- (i) applications showing better decision-making abilities through EMO, (ii) applications exploiting the multitude of trade-off solutions of EMO in extracting useful information in a problem, and (iii) applications showing better problem-solving abilities in various other tasks (such as, reducing bloating, solving single-objective constraint handling, and others). Clearly, EAs have a niche in solving multi-objective optimization problems compared to classical methods. This is why EMO methodologies are getting a growing attention in the recent past. Since this is a comparatively new field of research, in this tutorial, a number of future challenges in the research and application of multi-objective optimization will also be discussed. This tutorial is aimed for both novices and users of EMO. Those without any knowledge in EMO will have adequate ideas of the procedures and their importance in computing and problem-solving tasks. Those who have been practicing EMO will also have enough ideas and materials for future research, know state-of-the-art results and techniques, and make a comparative evaluation of their research.
Towards Fusion of Textual and Visual Modalities for Describing Audiovisual Documents

Audiovisual documents provide a wide range of content description through more descriptors from different media types. Indeed, the extraction of these descriptions has received an increasing attention. But, the lack of semantic description always persists. In fact, this lack affects the retrieval process. To address this problem, this paper describes an automatic and semantic description of cinematic audiovisual documents. This description is based not only on the audiovisual flux in this post-production phase but also in the documentation in the pre-production phase by using textual and visual modalities. In this context, to extract content description, we find it is essential to extract texts superposed in the image. This process is mainly based on the neural network classifier. Moreover, an effective OCR Tesseract is adapted for texts recognition. Experiments results confirmed the interesting performance through two databases, namely, "ICDAR 2011" and our own created database from the Internet Movie Database Imdb.
Mean platelet volume is associated with aortic intima-media thickness in patients without clinical manifestation of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Objective: Mean platelet volume (MPV) plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of atherosclerotic disease. Thoracic aortic intima-media thickness (IMT) was reported as an earlier marker of preclinical atherosclerosis than carotid IMT. However, the relationship between MPV and aortic IMT was not investigated. We aimed to assess the relationship between thoracic aortic IMT and MPV in patients undergoing transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) examination for different indications. Methods: We studied 190 patients (mean age 37.0±12.5 years) who underwent TEE for different indications. The patients who have known atherosclerotic disease were excluded from study. The patients were divided into 2 groups according to the median thoracic aortic IMT values (IMTlow group <13 mm and IMThigh group ≤13 mm). Platelet count and MPV were analyzed with an automated hematology analyzer. A multiple stepwise linear regression analysis was performed to identify the independent associations of thoracic aortic IMT. Results: The highest MPV values were observed in the IMThigh group compared with the IMTlow group (9.5±10 fL vs. 10.9±1.2 fL, p<0.001). Also, the IMThigh group had higher age, hs-CRP and uric acid levels (p<0.05 for all). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that aortic IMT was independently related with age (β=0.340, p<0.001), uric acid (β=0.111, p=0.041), hs-CRP (β=0.200, p<0.001), and MPV (β=0.482, p<0.001). Conclusion: MPV is independently related to the extent of subclinical thoracic aortic atherosclerosis. Increases in MPV may be a crucial biochemical marker for initial atherosclerosis.
The effect of communication on the performance of allocation request shape changes in 2D mesh-connected multicomputers

Contiguous allocation in multicomputers is useful for security and accounting reasons. In mesh-connected systems, each job is allocated an exclusive submesh of processors, and the allocated submesh has the same shape and size as that requested by the job. Because of this size and shape constraint, contiguous allocation typically suffers from high processor fragmentation. Processor fragmentation can be reduced by considering contiguous allocation to all possible request shapes, while maintaining contiguity. However, request shape modification can influence communication overhead. In this paper, we study the effect of request shape modification on communication overhead and performance in 2D mesh-connected multicomputers, where several common communication patterns are simulated in detail. The simulation results based on both synthetic and real workload models show that permitting all request shape changes can improve system performance substantially. For example, it improves the performance of first-fit allocation by up to about 60% in terms of average job turnaround time.