Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Large scale characterization of SRAM on infineon XMC microcontrollers as PUF

SRAM-based physical unclonable functions (SRAM PUFs) derive a device dependent secret from the start-up pattern of their memory cells and have shown very promising results in previous publications. This work presents a dataset measured on 144 Infineon XMC4500 microcontrollers containing 160 KiB of SRAM sampled 101 times each in 2015 and 2016. Analyses are done using state-of-the-art metrics by Maiti et al., Hori et al., and by custom inspections. In extensive comparison to previous work, this work is found to score best in average Reliability and Bit-Alias, match with previous top results in average Uniformity and still mid-range in Uniqueness. This confirms previous results that general purpose SRAM on microcontrollers is adequate for most PUF applications. To support further research into SRAM PUFs and their post-processing, the full dataset originating from this work will be made publicly available on the internet.
Aortic valve replacement in geriatric patients with small aortic roots: are sutureless valves the future?

OBJECTIVES Aortic valve replacement (AVR) in geriatric patients (>75 years) with small aortic roots is a challenge. Patient-prosthesis mismatch and the long cross-clamp time necessary for stentless valves or root enlargement are matters of concern. We compared the results of AVR with sutureless valves (Sorin Perceval), against those with conventional biological valves. METHODS Between April 2007 and December 2012, 120 isolated AVRs were performed in patients with a small annulus (<22 mm) at our centre. In 70 patients (68 females, age 77.4 ± 5.5 years), conventional valves (C group) and in 50 patients (47 females, age 79.8 ± 4.5 years), sutureless valves (P group) were implanted. The Logistic EuroSCORE of the C group was 16.7 ± 10.4 and that of the P group 20.4 ± 10.7, (P = 0.054). Minimal-access surgery was performed in 4.3% (3/70) patients in the C group and 72% (36/50) patients in the P group. RESULTS The cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and cross-clamp times of the C group were 75.3 ± 23 and 50.3 ± 14.2 min vs 58.7 ± 20.9 and 30.1 ± 9 min in the P group, (P < 0.001). In the C group, two annulus enlargements were performed. Thirty-day mortality was 4.3% (n = 3) in the C group and 0 in the P group, (n.s.). At follow-up (up to 5 years), mortalities were 17.4% (n = 12) in the C group and 14% (n = 7) in the P group, (n.s.). CONCLUSIONS This study highlights the advantages of sutureless valves for geriatric patients with small aortic roots reflected by shorter cross-clamp and CPB times, even though most of these patients were operated on via a minimally invasive access. Moreover, due to the absence of a sewing ring, these valves are also almost stentless, with greater effective orifice area (EOA) for any given size. This may potentially result in better haemodynamics even without the root enlargement. This is of advantage, as several studies have shown that aortic root enlargement can significantly increase the risks of AVR. Moreover, as seen in this series, these valves may also enable a broader application of minimally invasive AVR.
Common TGFβ2, BMP4, and FOXC1 variants are not associated with primary open-angle glaucoma

Purpose Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a common but complex disease with a strong genetic component. Notably, few genes have been robustly associated with POAG. An obvious group of genes to test as susceptibility factors for POAG are the developmental genes forkhead box C1 (FOXC1), transforming growth factor-beta 2 (TGFβ2), and bone morphogenic protein 4 (BMP4). These genes are known to play important roles in the normal morphogenesis of the anterior segment and/or have been implicated in intra-ocular pressure (IOP) regulation and trabecular meshwork function. This study investigates the role of FOXC1, TGFβ2, and BMP4 in POAG. Methods The contribution of common genetic variation at the FOXC1, TGFβ2, and BMP4 loci to risk of POAG was investigated in a case-control association study in 330 British Caucasian individuals comprised of 272 high-tension glaucoma (HTG) and 58 ocular hypertension (OHT), and 276 matched controls. Results All the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium and genotyping success rate was >92% for all SNPs. With the exception of a weak association between the BMP4 tagging SNP rs2761884 and the combined patient group HTG+OHT that did not withstand permutation testing (uncorrected p=0.0400, corrected p=0.1320), no associations (p<0.05) were identified between the patient groups (HTG and OHT) and FOXC1, TGFβ2, and BMP4 alleles and haplotypes compared to the control group. Conclusions This is the first association analysis of FOXC1, TGFβ2, and BMP4 and POAG. These genes were selected as candidate genes for POAG because of their biologic roles. No significant associations were identified between FOXC1, TGFβ2, and BMP4 alleles and haplotypes and POAG. The lack of association suggests that common variation in these genes do not have a significant role in the pathogenesis of POAG among British Caucasian subjects.
Attractor-Map Versus Autoassociation Based Attractor Dynamics in 5 the Hippocampal Network 6 7

7 Laura L Colgin, Stefan Leutgeb, Karel Jezek, Jill K Leutgeb, Edvard I Moser, 8 Bruce L McNaughton, May-Britt Moser 9 10 11 12 Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory 13 MTFS 14 Olav Kyrres gate 9 15 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 16 NO-7489 Trondheim 17 Norway 18 Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience 19 The University of Lethbridge 20 4401 University Dr W 21 Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3M4 22 Canada 23 † These authors contributed equally to the study. 24 25 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (May 5, 2010). doi:10.1152/jn.00202. 2010
HUMOR STYLES IN SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED GIRLS AND BOYS: A RESILIENCE PERSPECTIVE

Resilience-concept-driven research of humor in socially maladjusted youth has been prompted by an urgent need to redefine Poland’s crisis-ridden rehabilitation system, through embracing rehabilitative theories and practices inspired by new frameworks and related modern intervention models. The paper presents a research project aimed at encouraging rehabilitation researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners to engage with humor as a “site of resistance” that offers juveniles a springboard to achieve expected levels of social adjustment. The study aims to identify and compare humor styles in socially maladjusted girls (n 1 = 56)and boys (n 2 = 72). The research problem included the level (intensity) and gender-related differences in particular humor types (styles) across the juvenile sample. The research tool involved an adaption of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). The findings suggest a greater intensity of adaptive rather than non-adaptive humor styles in both studied subsets of the sample. Furthermore, a statistically significant gender-related difference was found for self-defeating humor, with significantly higher scores in girls than in boys (p < 0.05). Although the findings do not confirm the research hypotheses conclusively, they shed light on the viability of using humor in juvenile rehabilitation and thus, encourage further systematic research in this area.
Towards foveated rendering for gaze-tracked virtual reality

Foveated rendering synthesizes images with progressively less detail outside the eye fixation region, potentially unlocking significant speedups for wide field-of-view displays, such as head mounted displays, where target framerate and resolution is increasing faster than the performance of traditional real-time renderers. To study and improve potential gains, we designed a foveated rendering user study to evaluate the perceptual abilities of human peripheral vision when viewing today's displays. We determined that filtering peripheral regions reduces contrast, inducing a sense of tunnel vision. When applying a postprocess contrast enhancement, subjects tolerated up to 2× larger blur radius before detecting differences from a non-foveated ground truth. After verifying these insights on both desktop and head mounted displays augmented with high-speed gaze-tracking, we designed a perceptual target image to strive for when engineering a production foveated renderer. Given our perceptual target, we designed a practical foveated rendering system that reduces number of shades by up to 70% and allows coarsened shading up to 30° closer to the fovea than Guenter et al. [2012] without introducing perceivable aliasing or blur. We filter both pre- and post-shading to address aliasing from undersampling in the periphery, introduce a novel multiresolution- and saccade-aware temporal antialising algorithm, and use contrast enhancement to help recover peripheral details that are resolvable by our eye but degraded by filtering. We validate our system by performing another user study. Frequency analysis shows our system closely matches our perceptual target. Measurements of temporal stability show we obtain quality similar to temporally filtered non-foveated renderings.
Clinical Profile of Infants with Hypsarrhythmia

Objective: The present study was done in order to obtain a baseline profile of infantile spasms and associated neurological disorders. Patient and methods: The study included 50 patients with infantile spasm in Queen Rania Hospital for children in Jordan. The following data were obtained: sex, age at onset of spasms, details of seizure, family history of epilepsy, significant pre-/peri/ post-natal insults, Electroencephalography and detailed neuro imaging evaluation , detailed neurological, neuro developmental ,assessment were done by. Broad categories of possible etiologies were used the results were recorded for further study. Results: Age of onset of infantile spasms ranged from 1month to 1 year and 6 months , (mean 4.8 months). The mean time of presentation was 9.4 months . A male preponderance was noted (74 %). flexor spasms (52%) was the commonest . Other types of seizures also accompanied infantile spasm in 44% children . (84%) were born of normal delivery, History of birth asphyxia was obtained in 48%, 3 (6%) had positive family history Developmental delay was recognized prior to onset of spasms in 52%, microcephaly was the commonest associated problem, Imaging studies of the brain revealed abnormality in 18 patients. 78% patients were classified as symptomatic and 22 % as cryptogenic. Conclusion: the pattern of infantile spasm in our country do not differ from that of developed countries, further researches is required to prevent both chronic epilepsy and psychomotor retardation and . preventive measurement to prevent birth asphyxia is recommended.
Air Pollution, Its Mortality Risk, and Economic Impacts in Tehran, Iran

Background: Air pollution in Tehran is widely recognized as a serious environmental challenge, posing significant threats to the health of the resident population. Improving air quality will be difficult for many reasons, including climate and topography, heavy dependence on motor vehicles for mobility, and limited resources to reduce polluting emissions. Consequently, it is useful to have information regarding the scale of the health threat and the economic value of reducing that threat. Methods: This paper integrates information on air quality, population, economic valuation, and health science to assess the most serious impact of fine particle pollution on humans, which is increased mortality risk, and provides estimates of the costs of present pollution levels, both in terms of risk and in terms of economic value relative to attaining air quality standards. Results: Mid-range results indicate that mortality risk for the population aged 30 and over would be reduced from 8.2 per 1,000 residents annually to 7.4 per 1,000 and that the estimated annual economic benefits of this reduced risk would be $378.5 million, if health-based World Health Organization-recommended annual average PM2.5 standards were met. Conclusions: The potential public health benefits of reducing particulate air pollution are significant, and will increase with growing population.
AirLink: sharing files between multiple devices using in-air gestures

We introduce AirLink, a novel technique for sharing files between multiple devices. By waving a hand from one device towards another, users can directly transfer files between them. The system utilizes the devices' built-in speakers and microphones to enable easy file sharing between phones, tablets and laptops. We evaluate our system in an 11-participant study with 96.8% accuracy, showing the feasibility of using AirLink in a multiple-device environment. We also implemented a real-time system and demonstrate the capability of AirLink in various applications.
Another Perspective on the Effects of Inflation Uncertainty

This paper examines the effects of inflation uncertainty on real economic activity by utilizing a flexible, dynamic, multivariate framework that accommodates possible interaction between the conditional means and variances. The empirical model is based on a familiar identified vector autoregressive framework, modified to accommodate multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. Our empirical model is preferred to the baseline VAR by likelihood based information criteria, and it retains the important dynamics of the underlying VAR. We find that an average shock to inflation uncertainty has tended to reduce output growth over three months by about 22 basis points.
The Allocation of EU Budget Before and After Enlargement ∗

A declared objective of the EU is to provide support for the rural and poor regions of its member states. Recent research shows, however, that past EU budget allocations (in EU-15) can be explained, to a large extent, by measures of the distribution of voting power in the Council of Ministers deciding on the bulk of EU spending. Yet, empirical evidence indicates that also the “needs” of the member states play a role in the determination of their receipts from the EU budget. As a rough estimate power explains about 60 % of budget allocation and, when stable coalition structures among the Member States are allowed, even 90 %. In this paper we apply previous empirical methodologies to predict EU budget shares after the eastern enlargement. We compare incumbent member states’ predicted budget receipts with their predicted receipts before eastern enlargement. We examine the impact of various voting rule reform proposals on predicted budget shares and receipts in the EU25. We find that eastern enlargement has large effects on the budget receipts of the incumbent member states, while our analysis indicates that various voting rules discussed so far make, after all, only a little difference for most member countries. Germany is the biggest exception. It has gained remarkably from the recent voting rule reform (Constitutional Treaty). The key explanation is that population now counts more on power than before. This is likely to significantly decrease Germany’s future budget burden in the EU.
Automated analysis of meta‐analysis networks

The high information content in large data sets from voxel‐based meta‐analyses is complex, making it hard to readily resolve details. Using the meta‐analysis network as a standardized data structure, network analysis algorithms can examine complex interrelationships and resolve hidden details. Two new network analysis algorithms have been adapted for use with meta‐analysis networks. The first, called replicator dynamics network analysis (RDNA), analyzes co‐occurrence of activations, whereas the second, called fractional similarity network analysis (FSNA), uses binary pattern matching to form similarity subnets. These two network analysis methods were evaluated using data from activation likelihood estimation (ALE)‐based meta‐analysis of the Stroop paradigm. Two versions of these data were evaluated, one using a more strict ALE threshold (P < 0.01) with a 13‐node meta‐analysis network, and the other a more lax threshold (P < 0.05) with a 22‐node network. Java‐based applications were developed for both RDNA and FSNA. The RDNA algorithm was modified to provide multiple subnets or maximal cliques for meta‐analysis networks. Three different similarity measures were evaluated with FSNA to form subsets of nodes and experiments. RDNA provides a means to gauge importance of metanalysis subnets and complements FSNA, which provides a more comprehensive assessment of node similarity subsets, experiment similarity subsets, and overall node‐to‐factors similarity. The need to use both presence and absence of activations was an important finding in similarity analyses. FSNA revealed details from the pooled Stroop meta‐analysis that would otherwise require separate highly filtered meta‐analyses. These new analysis tools demonstrate how network analysis strategies can simplify greatly and enhance voxel‐based meta‐analyses. Hum Brain Mapp 25:174–184, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Bubbling defect CFT's

We study the gravitational description of conformal half-BPS domain wall operators in N = 4 SYM, which are described by defect CFT’s. These defect CFT’s arise in the low energy limit of a Hanany-Witten like brane setup and are described in a probe brane approximation by a Karch-Randall brane configuration. The gravitational backreaction takes the five-branes in AdS5 × S 5 through a geometric transition and turns them into appropriate fluxes which are supported on non-trivial three-spheres.
Septal myotomy-myectomy and transcoronary septal alcohol ablation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. A comparison of clinical, haemodynamic and exercise outcomes.

AIMS Surgical myectomy has been successfully used to treat patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). More recently, alcohol septal ablation has been advocated as a less invasive, but equally effective alternative therapy. The aim of this non-randomized cohort study was to compare subjective and objective outcomes in patients undergoing these therapies. METHODS Forty-four patients (25 male; age 41+/-15 years) with symptomatic drug-refractory obstructive HCM were studied. Twenty-four patients underwent surgical myectomy and 20 alcohol septal ablation. All patients underwent clinical evaluation, echocardiography and upright maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing using a cycle ergometer before and following their intervention. RESULTS Peak gradient was reduced to a similar extent by both modalities (myectomy: 83+/-23 to 15+/-10 mmHg (P<0.000001); ablation: 91+/-18 to 22+/-14 mmHg (P<0.000002);P =0.48 for myectomy vs ablation) and led to similar improvements in NYHA class (myectomy: 2.4+/-0.6 to 1.5+/-0.7 (P<0.00001); ablation: 2.3+/-0.5 to 1.7+/-0.8 (P<0.0001);P=0.3 for myectomy vs ablation). Myectomy resulted in a greater improvement in peak oxygen consumption (myectomy: 16.4+/-5.8 to 23.1+/-7.1 ml.kg(-1) min(-1) (P<0.00002); ablation: 16.2+/-5.2 to 19.3+/-6.1 ml.kg(-1) min(-1) (P<0.05);P <0.05 for myectomy vs ablation) and work rate achieved (myectomy: 130+/-57 to 161+/-60 watts (P<0.04); ablation: 121+/-53 to 137+/-51 watts (P=0.11);P <0.05 for myectomy vs ablation). CONCLUSION Surgical myectomy and alcohol septal ablation are equally effective at reducing obstruction and subjective exercise limitation in appropriately selected patients. However, the superior effect of surgical myectomy on exercise test parameters suggests that surgery remains the gold standard against which new treatment modalities should be compared.
Correlation between types of Personality and Learning Styles of Selected Students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP): Basis for Learning Enhancement Program

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines, as one of the top universities in the country, has to maintain its competitive edge as regards quality instruction and excellent curricular programs. To be able to do this, the University has to continuously devise programs that would further improve its students learning skills and capabilities. This study explores the correlations between the variables: Personality and Learning Styles. These variables are connected and many respects affect the learning process. The study attempts to determine and identify the different types of personality and learning styles of selected PUP students from various programs. An appropriate sampling method will be utilized to get a good number of representative samples. The study will be using descriptive-correlational method of research to answer the research problem.
Essays on the internationalisation of firms

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto. fi Author Hanna Pesola Name of the doctoral dissertation Essays on the Internationalisation of Firms Publisher School of Economics Unit Department of Economics Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 0/2011 Field of research Labour Economics, International Economics Abstract This dissertation studies the internationalisation of firms and the consequences of this phenomenon for the employees of firms involved in international activities and for purely domestic firms. These analyses make use of Finnish linked employer-employee panel data. The dissertation consists of four essays.This dissertation studies the internationalisation of firms and the consequences of this phenomenon for the employees of firms involved in international activities and for purely domestic firms. These analyses make use of Finnish linked employer-employee panel data. The dissertation consists of four essays. The first two essays in the dissertation analyse spillovers from multinational to domestic firms. The first essay studies whether employees are able to appropriate returns to knowledge accumulated in foreign-owned firms when moving to domestic firms. The estimates indicate that highly educated employees earn a return to prior experience in a foreign owned firm, over and above the return to other previous experience. These workers do not appear to pay for the accumulation of knowledge in the form of lower wages. The second essay compares the productivity and wage effects of labour flows between multinational and domestic firms. The results indicate that hiring workers from foreign multinationals is related to both higher productivity and higher wages in local domestic firms. There is no net effect on profitability growth. More detailed analysis of the labour flows indicates that these effects are driven by hiring of relatively young workers who appear able to internalise the returns to productivity enhancing knowledge when moving from foreign MNEs to domestic firms. The third essay of the dissertation analyses employee flows in firms subject to foreign acquisitions. The results show that in the industrial sector, the job separation hazard increases in the year following a foreign or domestic acquisition. Neither foreign nor domestic MA b) aggregate changes like a change in the aggregate firm/job destruction rate can have implications for the sectoral allocation of factors of; c) the theory is consistent with the observations that exporting firms tend to be larger firms; d) the firm heterogeneity is endogenous.