Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improved No-Go for Quantum Seals

We investigate the feasibility of quantum seals. A quantum seal is a state provided by Alice to Bob along with information which Bob can use to make a measurement, “break the seal,” and read the classical message stored inside. There are two success criteria for a seal: the probability Bob can successfully read the message without any further information from Alice must be high, and if Alice asks for the state back from Bob, the probability Alice can tell if Bob broke the seal without permission must be high. We build on the work of [Chau, PRA 2007], which gave optimal bounds on these criteria, showing that they are mutually exclusive for high probability. We weaken the assumptions of this previous work by providing Bob with only a classical description of a prescribed measurement, rather than classical descriptions of the possible seal states. We show that this weakening does not affect the bounds but does simplify the analysis. We also prove upper and lower bounds on an alternative operational metric for measuring the success criteria.
Effect of Infection Control Guidelines on Improving Nurses ' Performance Regarding Patients with Burn Injury

Burns provide a convenient area for bacterial growth and explosive sources of infection than other types of wounds, essentially due to massive and deep extent of burned areas and longer length of hospital stay. The effective approach to reduce infection should be based on detailed knowledge of burn care and infection control. Aim of the study: was to evaluate effectiveness of infection control guidelines on improving nurses' performance regarding patients with burn injury. Method: quasi-experimental research design was conducted in Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery Center Mansoura University.The data was collected from a convenient sample of (30) nurses where three tools were used for data collection included nurses' infection control knowledge questionnaire, nurses' performance observational checklists & hospital environment observational checklist. Results: indicated an improvement in both total nurses knowledge & practice with statistically significant differences between the preand posttests’ scores (P= 0.001). Conclusion: applying infection control guidelines was effective in improving both nurses' knowledge and practice.
The Effect of Family Ownershipnd CEO Characteristics n Foreign Investmentof Publicly Listed Family Firms

This study aims to analyze the effect of family ownership and CEO characteristics on foreign investment of the Indonesian publicly listed family firm.CEO characteristics are proxied by three variables which are CEO founder and CEO descendant, CEO education, and CEO background.This study uses the purposive sampling of family firms which divided into two categories, group and standalone.By using the Random effect model, this study founds that family ownership significantly lessen foreign investment due to the risk of expropriation and high monitoring cost.This effect is more pronounced in standalone firms rather than firms within a group.On the other hand, higher CEO education brings more foreign investment. In addition dividend and board size reduced foreign investment meanwhile firm’s profits and crisis increased foreign investment.
Sexual Divergence in Activity-Dependent Neuroprotective Protein Impacting Autism , Schizophrenia , and Alzheimer ’ s Disease

Discovered in our laboratory, activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) interacts with key regulatory proteins, including the chromatin remodeling complex SWI/SNF, proteins associated with RNA splicing, RNA translation, microtubule dynamics, and autophagy. ADNP regulates>400 genes during mouse embryonic development and is essential for neural tube closure. ADNP key functions extend from mice to men, with mutations causing ADNP-related ID/autism syndrome, also known as the Helsmoortel-Van der Aa syndrome. ADNP mRNA increases in lymphocytes derived from schizophrenia patients and in patients suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and further increases in Alzheimer’s disease patients compared with controls. Serum ADNP levels correlate with IQ. NAP (davunetide), an ADNP snippet drug candidate, protects cognition in patients suffering from amnestic MCI preceding Alzheimer’s disease and significantly enhances functional daily activities in schizophrenia patients toward future development. It is important to note that ADNP is sexually regulated in the brains of birds, mice, and men and in lymphocytes of patients suffering from schizophrenia. ADNP haploinsufficiency in mice results in significantly decreased axonal transport (with male–female differences) changes in gene expression in a sex-dependent manner, including key regulatory mechanisms during brain and heart development and function and behavioral outcomes. These findings pave the path for better understanding of brain function through the prism of sex differences. VC 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Be Sensitive and Collaborative: Analyzing Impact of Coverage Metrics in Greybox Fuzzing

Coverage-guided greybox fuzzing has become one of the most common techniques for finding software bugs. Coverage metric, which decides how a fuzzer selects new seeds, is an essential parameter of fuzzing and can significantly affect the results. While there are many existing works on the effectiveness of different coverage metrics on software testing, little is known about how different coverage metrics could actually affect the fuzzing results in practice. More importantly, it is unclear whether there exists one coverage metric that is superior to all the other metrics. In this paper, we report the first systematic study on the impact of different coverage metrics in fuzzing. To this end, we formally define and discuss the concept of sensitivity, which can be used to theoretically compare different coverage metrics. We then present several coverage metrics with their variants. We conduct a study on these metrics with the DARPA CGC dataset, the LAVA-M dataset, and a set of real-world applications (a total of 221 binaries). We find that because each fuzzing instance has limited resources (time and computation power), (1) each metric has its unique merit in terms of flipping certain types of branches (thus vulnerability finding) and (2) there is no grand slam coverage metric that defeats all the others. We also explore combining different coverage metrics through cross-seeding, and the result is very encouraging: this pure fuzzing based approach can crash at least the same numbers of binaries in the CGC dataset as a previous approach (Driller) that combines fuzzing and concolic execution. At the same time, our approach uses fewer computing resources.
A Qualitative Study of Job Interviewers’ Implicit Person Theories

Job interviewers’ implicit person theories (i.e., beliefs that personalities are adaptable or fixed) were examined through a qualitative analysis of interviews with job interviewers. The study demonstrates that job interviewers tend to use generalized trait descriptions of applicants when determining their selection. This is problematic because it neglects the context’s interference with the applicant—for example, the effect of a new manager, colleagues, or company culture. The study demonstrates that job interviewers implicitly assume that the impressions they form of an applicant during the job interview are easily transferrable to the job they are seeking to fill. Thus, job interviewers appear to view applicants as persons with fixed personality traits, despite human adaptability. This is not necessarily because the job interviewer has a stable implicit entity theory of persons; instead, it is argued that the job interview setting creates such assumptions. Implications for job interview research and suggested modifications of job interviews are discussed, and perspectives relating to other societal issues are raised.
Herbivory and local adaptation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana

In a transplant experiment Arabidopsis thaliana plants from a dune and inland habitat were studied with respect to morphological traits,survival,flowering time,seed production and susceptibility to the specialist beetles Ceutorhynchus atomus andC.contractus(Curculionidae) that feed on flowers and fruits.We investigated 1) whether diferences in these plant characters were environmentally or genetically determined,2) whether plants were adapted to their local environment,and 3) the importance of specialist herbivores for plant adaptation. There was a significant site efect in all traits,such that all plants performed better in the inland site with respect to number of stems, plant height,rosette size and seed production.Fruit damage was less in the inland site as well.Genetic diferences between populations were observed for several life history and morphological characters and for percentage of fruit damage.In particular,inland origins flowered 10 days earlier,grew better and produced 20% more fruits,but experienced 36% more total fruit damage by weevils.No significant site × origin interaction was found for rosette size and for percentage of damaged fruits by weevil larvae.Instead,for number of stems,fruit number before herbivory occurs,percentage of damaged fruits by adult weevils,stem height and number of intact fruits an interaction did exist.At least one population at its home site had the highest fitness,defined as,the probability of surviving until reproduction multiplied by unit of intact fruits after herbivory had taken place,which demonstrates adaptation to local environment.In this process the ability of dune genotypes to restrict herbivory by specialist beetles and high survival of inland genotypes to own habitat appears to be an important mechanism responsible for greater relative fitness of A. thaliana plants on their home site.
Title Altered memory-related functional connectivity of the anterior and posterior hippocampus in older adults at increased genetic risk for Alzheimer ' s disease

The hippocampal complex is affected early in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Increasingly, altered functional connectivity of the hippocampus is recognized as an important feature of preclinical AD. Carriers of the APOEE4 allele are at an increased risk for AD, which could lead to altered hippocampal connectivity even in healthy older adults. To test this hypothesis, we used a paired-associates memory task to examine differences in task-dependent functional connectivity of the anterior and posterior hippocampus in nondemented APOEE4 carriers (n 5 34, 18F) and noncarriers (n 5 46, 31F). We examined anterior and posterior portions of the hippocampus separately to test the theory that APOEE4-mediated differences would be more pronounced in the anterior region, which is affected earlier in the AD course. This study is the first to use a psychophysiological interaction approach to query the context-dependent connectivity of subregions of the hippocampus during a memory task in adults at increased genetic risk for AD. During encoding, APOEE4 carriers had lower functional connectivity change compared to baseline between the anterior hippocampus and right precuneus, anterior insula and cingulate cortex. During retrieval, bilateral supramarginal gyrus and right precuneus showed lower functional connectivity change with anterior hippocampus in carriers. Also during retrieval, carriers showed lower connectivity change in the posterior hippocampus with auditory cortex. In each case, APOEE4 carriers showed strong negative connectivity changes compared to noncarriers where positive connectivity change was measured. These differences may represent prodromal functional changes mediated in part by APOEE4 and are consistent with the anterior-to-posterior theory of AD progression in the hippocampus. Hum Brain Mapp 37:366–380, 2016. VC 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
INVESTIGATION OF THE APPLICATION OF HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC PROPERTY IN HYDRODYNAMICS OF NAVAL ENGINEERING

of Graduation Project presented to COPPE / UFRJ as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. INVESTIGATION OF THE APPLICATIONS OF HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC PROPERTY IN HYDRODYNAMICS OF NAVAL ENGINEERING Pedro de Mesquita Soares Campos Fevereiro/2015 Adviser: Antonio Carlos Fernandes Department: Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture This work theoretically proposes and studies the use of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic properties, aims to find the influence of interaction forces between fluid and substrate on dynamics of the flow and investigates the effects on a vortex induced vibrations experiment. Initially the principle and physics that permeates the proposition is explained and further an experimental 1DOF (one degree of freedom) VIV investigation with smooth, superhydrophobic, superhydrophilic circular cylinders was set to compare the results.
EVALUATION OF LOCAL SITE EFFECTS IN LIMA CITY, PERU FROM GROUND MOTION DATA

The present study aims to examine thoroughly the relation between the local site effects and the local subsurface conditions in Lima city, due to the fact that there is little information related to the seismic amplification in this city. This study analyzes the seismic events observed along the Pacific coast of Lima city, which were recorded by 10 stations. Because of the limitation in data, site amplification factors are evaluated by using three different methods: the standard spectral ratio, the spectral inversion method and the H/V ratio, so as to identify the significant peaks and troughs at all sites.
EMG Working Paper Series WP-EMG-13-2009 ‘ Sell-side Illiquidity and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns ’

The demand for immediacy is likely to be stronger for sellers of securities than for buyers since investors are more likely to have a pressing need to raise cash than to exchange cash for securities. Secondly, previous literature suggests that market makers will react asymmetrically to orders for the purchase and sale of securities. We estimate separate buyand sell-side price impact measures for a large cross-section of stocks over more than 20 years, and find pervasive evidence that sell-side illiquidity exceeds buy-side illiquidity. Thus, the time-series of the value weighted average difference between buyand sell-side illiquidity is overwhelmingly positive over our sample period. Further, both illiquidity measures co-move significantly with the TED spread, a measure of funding liquidity. In the cross-section, sell-side illiquidity is priced far more strongly than buy-side illiquidity. Indeed, our evidence indicates that the illiquidity premium in asset returns emanates almost entirely from the sell side.
Shear and Normal Stress Measurements in Non-Colloidal Monodisperse and Bidisperse Suspensions

Bidisperse Suspensions Chaiwut Gamonpilas, 2, a) Jeffrey F. Morris, 3, b) and Morton M. Denn 3, c) MTEC, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), 114 Thailand Science Park, Pahonyothin Road, Khlong 1, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand Benjamin Levich Institute, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
A Systematic Review on the Intervention Using Exercise Gaming to reduce Childhood Obesity

The worsening trend of childhood obesity is a global public health issue. Digital technology evolution is a contributing factor towards physical inactivity and obesity among children. In order to overcome this growing problem, exercise games have been introduced in early eighties to ameliorate this obesogenic environment. Exercise games utilize innovative technologies that provide an interactive environment, requiring gestures and body movements to simulate on-screen gameplay. The objective of this review is to assess the effectiveness of exercise gaming intervention in managing childhood obesity. A systematic review was performed. Six articles examining exercise video games impact on weight management among children published between January 2013 and December 2017 in the English language were selected from a total of 54 articles identified through five major search engines. Majority of the research was conducted in developed countries particularly in the United States whereby some developing countries had started with small-scale researches in this area. The result indicated that there was a significant increase in physical activity level, reduction of BMI, reduced adipose tissue composition and a positive psychological impact after the intervention of exercise games. However, the impact of exercise games on physiological and metabolic parameters were inconclusive and requires further study. In conclusion, exercise games are the effective way to combat childhood obesity, along with other modules of lifestyle.
CEO Compensation , Performance and Corporate Governance : An Empirical Investigation of UK Panel Data

This paper employs a unique, hand-collected panel data set of 390 UK non-financial firms from the FTSE All Share Index for the period 1999-2005 to empirically examine the link between CEO pay and performance, and corporate governance mechanisms . Distinct from the previous studies, I use GMM-system estimation method, which controls for both the presence of unobserved firm-specific effects and the endogeneity of explanatory variables. The results show that measures of board and ownership structures explain a significant amount of variation in the total CEO compensation, which is the sum of cash and equity-based compensation, after controlling other firm-specific variables. JEL classification: G3
Physio-biochemical and Enzymatic Responses of Sunflower to Drought Stress

Drought stress is a serious adverse factor that limits sunflower growth and productivity. The stress induces a range of physiological and biochemical responses in sunflower. So, evaluation of defense systems is important for producing resistant cultivars. In this study, physio-biochemical changes and antioxidant enzymes activitiesof six sunflower lines were evaluated under normal and irrigation at 60 and 40% of the field capacity using a randomized complete block design with three replications. Different characteristics such as relative water content (RWC), chlorophyll a and b contents, carotenoid and proline contents, lipids peroxidation and accumulation of malon dialdehyde (MDA), as well as activity of antioxidative enzymes like guaiacol peroxidase (GPX), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), catalase (CAT) and glutathione reductase (GR) were studied. The results showed significant differences among sunflower lines for physio-biochemical and enzymes activity under drought stress. According to the results, the lines C104 and RHA266 showed the better tolerance to drought stress. The founding of this study can be useful in sunflower breeding programs for producing resistant cultivars to drought stress.
Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration and Economic Growth

Technological change is a central element in macroeconomic growth explanation. Endogenous growth models take a revolutionary step towards better understanding the economic growth process by deriving technological change from profit-motivated individual behavior. In endogenous growth theory knowledge spillovers play a fundamental role in the determination of the rate of technological progress. As such the efficiency of transmitting knowledge into economic applications is a crucial factor in explaining macroeconomic growth. Endogenous growth models take this factor exogenous. We argue that variations across countries in entrepreneurship and the spatial structure of economic activities could potentially be the source of different efficiencies in knowledge spillovers and ultimately in economic growth. We develop an empirical model to test both the entrepreneurship and the geography effects on knowledge spillovers. To date the only international data that are collected on the basis of exactly the same principles in each country are the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data. We use the 2001 GEM cross-country data to measure the level of entrepreneurship in each particular economy. For this purpose we apply the TEA index developed within the framework of the GEM project and calculated for each country participating in this international research. Additionally, data on employment, production, patent applications, public and private R&D expenditures originating from different international and national sources are applied in the paper. To be presented at the first GEMS Research Conference: Entrepreneurship, Government Policy and Economic Growth 1-2 April 2003 Berlin, Germany Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy 2
Detoxified Vespa orientalis venom improves memory and learning activities in rats

The work was aimed to study the effect of photooxidized Vespa orientalis venom (PVOV) on memory and learning activity on rats in presence of scopolamine and ondonsetron using T maze, elevated plus maze and passive avoidance. UV radiation of Vespa orientalis venom for 15 to 60 min intervals in presence to methylene blue to detoxify venom and studied by change in UV spectrum. Antigenicity study, in-vivo and in-vitro neutralization study of PVOV against immunoglobulin from hyperimmunized rabbit was performed. 45 min exposed venom showed shift in λmax and increase absorbance indicated alternations in venom protein concentration, this in supported when PVOV showed loss of toxicity and decrease in mortality time in mice. Administration of PVOV for 28days produced a notable improvement in spatial and long memory in rats when subjected in several tasks. When PVOV administered with scopolamine and ondonsetron, all the parameters of spatial and long term memory tasks were significantly reduced inferred that PVOV acted by modulating either muscarinic or serotonergic receptors.There is a possibility of employing PVOV in the treatment of depressive and chronic degenerative illnesses as a non-herbal and non-synthetic alternative for patients not responding to the available therapy.
Multitask Universal Lesion Analysis Network 3 Conv 1 x 1 ROIAlign ( b ) 3 D feature fusion RPN Backbone : DenseNet with feature pyramid and 3 D feature fusion Proposals

When reading medical images such as a computed tomography (CT) scan, radiologists generally search across the image to find lesions, characterize and measure them, and then describe them in the radiological report. To automate this process, we propose a multitask universal lesion analysis network (MULAN) for joint detection, tagging, and segmentation of lesions in a variety of body parts, which greatly extends existing work of single-task lesion analysis on specific body parts. MULAN is based on an improved Mask R-CNN framework with three head branches and a 3D feature fusion strategy. It achieves the state-ofthe-art accuracy in the detection and tagging tasks on the DeepLesion dataset, which contains 32K lesions in the whole body. We also analyze the relationship between the three tasks and show that tag predictions can improve detection accuracy via a score refinement layer.
Refined class number formulas for Gm

We formulate a generalization of a “refined class number formula” of Darmon. Our conjecture deals with Stickelberger-type elements formed from generalized Stark units, and has two parts: the “order of vanishing” and the “leading term”. Using the theory of Kolyvagin systems we prove a large part of this conjecture when the order of vanishing of the corresponding complex L-function is 1.