Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Innovative Position Detection Pathway to Facilitate Low-Cost Home Automation

The paper presents an innovative position detection pathway to facilitate low-cost smart home. In the work, an energy efficient, low-cost, smart home automation system has been developed and implemented, using dedicated sensors, electronic circuits, and microcontrollers. The key advantage of this contribution is that it supports also semi-automatic operation using Bluetooth and Internet of Things, which is capable of interacting with an android app-based home automation system for manipulating the operating conditions in a unified manner. In contrast with the earlier work addressed in the literature, the developed prototype appears unique as because, it incorporates the concept of automatic position sensing of the persons and their motion detection inside the room. The position detection scheme enables the lights to glow according to the position of persons entered into the automation environment. Thus, the proposed system contributes to the society by developing a cost optimal and energy efficient smart home automation system, which invalidate the need for costly sensors and implementation issues in the existing frameworks.
\“Optic Ped Scan”: An Alternative InexpensiveTechnique To Study Plantar Arches AndFoot Pressure Sites

Early diagnosis and management of foot arch abnormalities would reduce future complications. Conventional, mainly non-objective clinical examinations were not evidence based and somehow due to expert ideas with high inter rater differences. In new Pedscope we made the Optic Ped Scan (OPS), patient stand on a Resin made 5-10 mm Plexiglass while the image of the whole plantar surface was digitally scanned, showing the pressure sites in different colours based on a Ratio-Metric Scale. Any off-line measurement or relative pressure ratios could be easily studied. The outcome of the OPS is an image file resulting from the subject’s body weight on emptying the capillaries of plantar skin which causes the colours to change. These physiological changes of plantar colour could be amplified when passing though the clear, hardly elastic form of plexiglass (Acrylic or methyl methacrylate Resin or Poly methyl 2methylpropenoate PMMA), we prepared in Arak Petrochemical Company. We studied 2007, school age students as a pilot study of the technique in Arak schools and measured: Foot Length, Axis Length, Heel Expanse, Mid-foot Expanse, Forefoot Expanse, Arch Length (medial), Arch Depth, Hallux Distance and relative pressures of 10 defined zones. Students had 28.15% Flat Foot, 1.54% Pes Cavus, 11.01% Hallux Valgus, 0.64% Hallux Varus, 0.04% Convexus and 0.04% complex/various deformities. OPS worked properly for both diagnosis and measurements. The new technique could be several times cheaper than other techniques.
Arm Exercises for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: Exergaming versus Arm Cranking

Background: Upper body exercise for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) is essential for improving health and fitness but is often constrained to conventional arm crank ergometer (ACE). Exergaming, a form of active video gaming, can provide an alternative upper body exercise that is dose-potent (moderate-vigorous intensity). Objective: This cross-sectional study sought to assess Ratings of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) for three types of exercise, Move Boxing (MB), Move Kayaking (MK) and ACE, when conducted within similar heart rate (HR) training zones. Methods: Biomechanical descriptions, RPE and PACES scores were taken for each session. Analyses of variance with Hedge’s g were used for significant differences and effect sizes in HR, RPE and PACES scores between the three types of exercises and injury category. Results: The average HR was not different (p=0.489) between exercises (ACE: 110±15, MB: 114±19; MK: 115±17). Tetraplegia (ACE: 95±6, MB: 100±8, MK: 97±12) had lower (p=0.005) average HR than paraplegia (ACE: 117±12, MB: 121±18, MK: 123±13) but when normalised to peak HR was not different (p=0.098). The RPE and PACES were significantly different (p=0.022) between the three types of exercises. ACE produced a lower RPE than both exergames (p=0.002) while Move Boxing was more enjoyable than both ACE (p=0.001) and Move Kayaking (p=0.003). Conclusion: All three exercises achieved vigorous intensity (70–80% of peak HR) for individuals with tetraplegia and paraplegia. Move Boxing was found to be difficult but more enjoyable than conventional ACE when done within similar HR training intensities.
Semi-Supervised Deep Transfer Learning-Based on Adversarial Feature Learning for Label Limited SAR Target Recognition

The data-driven convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great progress in Synthetic Aperture Radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR) after being trained in a large scale of labeled samples. However, the insufficiency of labeled SAR data always leads to over-fitting, causing significant performance degradation. To solve the mentioned problem, a semi-supervised transfer learning method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) is presented in the present paper. The discriminator of GAN with an encoder and a discriminative layer is redesigned to make it capable of learning the feature representation of input data with unsupervised settings. Instead of training a deep neural network with the insufficient labeled data set, we first train a GAN with varieties of unlabeled samples to learn generic features of SAR images. Subsequently, the learned parameters are readopted to initialize the target network to transfer the generic knowledge to specific SAR target recognition task. Lastly, the target network is fine-tuned using both the labeled and unlabeled training samples by a semi-supervised loss function. We evaluate the proposed method on the MSTAR and OpenSARShip data set with 80%, 60%, 40%, and 20% of the training set labeled, respectively. The results suggest that the proposed method achieves up to 23.58% accuracy enhancement over the random-initialized model.
Athletic performance and urban air pollution

Air pollution may affect athletic performance. In Los Angeles, contaminants include carbon monoxide, ozone, peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) and nitrogen oxides, whereas in older European cities, such as Sarajevo, "reducing smog" of sulfur dioxide is the main hazard. The carbon monoxide and ozone levels expected in Los Angeles this summer could affect the athletes9 performance in endurance events at the Olympic Games. Carbon monoxide may also impair psychomotor abilities, and PAN causes visual disturbances. The only likely physiologic consequence from reducing smog is an increase in the workload of the respiratory system and thus a decrease in endurance performance. While carbon monoxide has been blamed for myocardial infarctions, nitrogen oxides for pulmonary edema and sulfur dioxide for deaths due to respiratory failure, the only illnesses that are likely to be more frequent than usual among young athletes exposed to high levels of these pollutants are upper respiratory tract infections. Therapeutic tactics include the avoidance of pollution, the administration of oxygen, vitamin C and vitamin E, and general reassurance.
Effects of vitamin D supplementation on follicular development, gonadotropins and sex hormone concentrations, and insulin resistance in induced polycystic ovary syndrome

Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as a reproductive disorder disturbs ovarian follicular development, vitamin D stimulated insulin activity, and sex hormone concentrations. This study aimed to examine the effects of vitamin D on ovarian follicular development, insulin resistance, and sex hormone changes in rats with induced PCOS. Materials and Methods: Forty female Wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups: (1) control, (2) induced PCOS, (3) vitamin D-treated non-PCOS (sham group), (4) vitamin D treated PCOS groups. All rats were then sacrificed under anesthesia and ovarian tissue samples were evaluated histomorphometrically. Blood samples were collected for analyzing the serum concentrations of sex hormones and insulin resistance. Results: The number of atretic follicles at different stages of development increased in the PCOS ovaries (p<0.001). Vitamin D treatment significantly increased the normality of follicles in rats with PCOS (p<0.001). The serum concentration of follicle stimulating hormone and the estradiol significantly increased in rats with PCOS, whereas the testosterone and luteinizing hormone concentrations, glucose, insulin, and insulin resistance concentrations significantly decreased during vitamin D treatment (p<0.001). Conclusion: This study indicated that vitamin D treatment may protect ovarian tissue from the negative effect of PCOS by improving insulin activity and gonadotropin concentrations.
Effect of Combined Application of Growth Factors and Diode Laser Bio-Stimulation on the Osseo Integration of Dental Implants

BACKGROUND: The success of implants is associated first with their osseointegration, and later on with their survival rate. In recent years, many efforts have been exerted to develop implant design, geometry, materials and techniques to enhance the osseointegration process and also to increase the success rate of implant procedures. New techniques, like leukocyte and platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF) and low-level laser treatment (LLLT), have been developed to enhance the osseointegration around dental implants. AIM: This study aims at accelerating bone osseointegration process around dental implant using new techniques to increase the success rate, to allow immediate or early loading of a dental implant, and to make a comparison between the various new techniques in dental implant procedures to figure out which technique will achieve the best results. METHODS: The study was conducted on a random sample of 40 male patients. Dental implants were placed in the posterior areas of the lower jaw. Patients were divided randomly into 4 groups; control group, LLLT group, L-PRF group and L-PRF plus LLLT group. They were assessed using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). RESULTS: The results showed significant differences between all groups over different measured times. All the groups showed improvement in comparison with Normal group, where L-PRF group showed the best result followed by (L-PRF+LLLT) group, while the LLLT group showed the least improvement in comparison with bothL-PRF group and (L-PRF+LLLT) group. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrates that L-PRF gives a better performance in the osseointegration around dental implants than LLLT.
Representations of Lie groupoids and infinite-dimensional Lie groups

The present paper links the representation theory of Lie groupoids and infinite-dimensional Lie groups. We show that smooth representations of Lie groupoids give rise to smooth representations of associated Lie groups. The groups envisaged here are the bisection group and a group of groupoid self maps. It is known that in the topological category, this correspondence can be reversed for certain topological groupoids. We extend this result to the smooth category under weaker assumptions on the groupoids.
Functional connectivity in human auditory networks and the origins of variation in the transmission of musical systems

Music producers, whether original composers or performers, vary in their ability to acquire and faithfully transmit music. This form of variation may serve as a mechanism for the emergence of new traits in musical systems. In this study, we aim to investigate whether individual differences in the social learning and transmission of music relate to intrinsic neural dynamics of auditory processing systems. We combined auditory and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with an interactive laboratory model of cultural transmission, the signaling game, in an experiment with a large cohort of participants (N=51). We found that the degree of interhemispheric rs-FC within fronto-temporal auditory networks predicts—weeks after scanning—learning, transmission, and structural modification of an artificial tone system. Our study introduces neuroimaging in cultural transmission research and points to specific neural auditory processing mechanisms that constrain and drive variation in the cultural transmission and regularization of musical systems.
Systemic Liquidation Risk and the DiversityDiversification Trade-Off

This paper proposes a portfolio choice model in which investors are subject to liquidation risk and (endogenously) face higher costs in the event of joint liquidation (as was observed during the crisis of 2008 to 2009). The risk of joint liquidation creates an incentive for investors to choose heterogeneous portfolios and to rationally forgo diversification benefits. Joint liquidation risk is also reflected in asset prices, resulting in (1) assets with high idiosyncratic risk having low expected returns, and (2) assets that display high correlation with the portfolios of (liquidation-prone) investors having high expected returns.
production and light hadronic states in the B̄ 0 → D ∗ + ωπ − decay

D. Matvienko, A. Kuzmin, S. Eidelman, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, 11 H. Aihara, S. Al Said, 30 K. Arinstein, D. M. Asner, V. Aulchenko, T. Aushev, 24 R. Ayad, V. Babu, I. Badhrees, 29 S. Bahinipati, A. M. Bakich, V. Bansal, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan, J. Biswal, A. Bobrov, A. Bondar, G. Bonvicini, A. Bozek, M. Bračko, T. E. Browder, D. Červenkov, A. Chen, B. G. Cheon, K. Chilikin, R. Chistov, K. Cho, V. Chobanova, S. -K. Choi, D. Cinabro, J. Dalseno, 62 J. Dingfelder, Z. Doležal, Z. Drásal, A. Drutskoy, 40 D. Dutta, D. Epifanov, H. Farhat, J. E. Fast, T. Ferber, B. G. Fulsom, V. Gaur, N. Gabyshev, A. Garmash, D. Getzkow, R. Gillard, Y. M. Goh, P. Goldenzweig, B. Golob, 25 T. Hara, 11 K. Hayasaka, H. Hayashii, X. H. He, W. -S. Hou, T. Iijima, 42 G. Inguglia, A. Ishikawa, R. Itoh, 11 Y. Iwasaki, I. Jaegle, D. Joffe, K. K. Joo, T. Julius, T. Kawasaki, D. Y. Kim, J. B. Kim, J. H. Kim, K. T. Kim, M. J. Kim, S. H. Kim, Y. J. Kim, B. R. Ko, P. Kodyš, S. Korpar, P. Krokovny, R. Kumar, J. S. Lange, D. H. Lee, L. Li Gioi, J. Libby, D. Liventsev, 15 K. Miyabayashi, H. Miyata, R. Mizuk, 40 G. B. Mohanty, A. Moll, 62 R. Mussa, E. Nakano, M. Nakao, 11 T. Nanut, M. Nayak, N. K. Nisar, S. Nishida, 11 S. Ogawa, G. Pakhlova, 24 B. Pal, C. W. Park, H. Park, T. K. Pedlar, L. Pesántez, R. Pestotnik, M. Petrič, L. E. Piilonen, C. Pulvermacher, E. Ribežl, M. Ritter, A. Rostomyan, Y. Sakai, 11 S. Sandilya, L. Santelj, T. Sanuki, O. Schneider, G. Schnell, 16 C. Schwanda, K. Senyo, O. Seon, M. E. Sevior, M. Shapkin, V. Shebalin, C. P. Shen, T. -A. Shibata, J.-G. Shiu, B. Shwartz, A. Sibidanov, F. Simon, 62 Y. -S. Sohn, A. Sokolov, M. Starič, M. Steder, M. Sumihama, K. Sumisawa, 11 U. Tamponi, 67 K. Tanida, Y. Teramoto, M. Uchida, S. Uehara, 11 Y. Unno, S. Uno, 11 P. Urquijo, Y. Usov, C. Van Hulse, P. Vanhoefer, G. Varner, A. Vinokurova, V. Vorobyev, M. N. Wagner, C. H. Wang, M. -Z. Wang, P. Wang, Y. Watanabe, K. M. Williams, E. Won, H. Yamamoto, S. Yashchenko, Y. Yook, Z. P. Zhang, V. Zhilich, V. Zhulanov, and A. Zupanc
E P ] 5 M ar 2 00 9 Considerations on the magnitude distributions of the Kuiper belt and of the Jupiter Trojans Alessandro Morbidelli

By examining the absolute magnitude (H) distributions (hereafter HD) of the cold and hot populations in the Kuiper belt and of the Trojans of Jupiter, we find evidence that the Trojans have been captured from the outer part of the primordial trans-Neptunian planetesimal disk. We develop a sketch model of the HDs in the inner and outer parts of the disk that is consistent with the observed distributions and with the dynamical evolution scenario known as the ‘Nice model’. This leads us to predict that the HD of hot population should have the same slope of the HD of the cold population for 6.5 < H < 9, both as steep as the slope of the Trojans’ HD. Current data partially support this prediction, but future observations are needed to clarify this issue. Because the HD of the Trojans rolls over at H ∼ 9 to a collisional equilibrium slope that should have been acquired when the Trojans were still embedded in the primordial transNeptunian disk, our model implies that the same roll-over should characterize the HDs of the Kuiper belt populations, in agreement with the results of Bernstein et al. (2004) and Fuentes and Holman (2008). Finally, we show that the constraint on the total mass of the primordial trans-Neptunian disk imposed by the Nice model implies that it is unlikely that the cold population formed beyond 35 AU.
Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy on Executive Function, Emotional Control and Severity of Symptoms in Patients with Bipolar I Disorder

Background: Bipolar disorder is a disabling illness characterized by recurrent episodes of mania, hypomania, and depression. The dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is basically designed to help regulate excitement, tolerance of discomfort, mindfulness and interpersonal relationships. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of DBT on executive function, emotional control and symptom relief in patients with type 1 bipolar disorder. Materials and Methods: This clinical trial was conducted on 50 patients with type 1 bipolar disorder. These patients were divided into two 25 populated groups of controls and intervention. The control group did not receive any other alternative therapy apart from routine medications, but in the intervention group, in addition to routine medications, DBT treatment was also done as complementary therapy in 12 sessions based on Dick's protocol. Then, Mania severity, emotional control and their executive functions were evaluated before and after the intervention and compared in two groups. Results: After the intervention, the scores of mania and depression mood with the mean of 2.12 ± 3.09 and 31.08 ± 8.98 respectively in intervention group were significantly lower than control group with the mean of 4.24 ± 4.11 and 39.92 ± 9.05 respectively (P < 0.05). Depression and executive function of the patients had no significant difference between the two groups in the post-intervention period and had a modest and non-significant change. Conclusion: DBT has been effective in decreasing the intensity of mania, but, it cannot be used to reduce the emotional instability and impulsivity of these patients along with drug therapy although it has improved the executive functions and depression of the patients.
Association between Dyslipidemia and Peritoneal Dialysis Technique Survival

BACKGROUND: A large body of research has investigated the effects of pro-atherogenic lipid profile on cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. However, there is a general lack of research on the association between atherogenic dyslipidemia and PD technique survival. AIM: The study aimed to define the association between dyslipidemia and PD technique survival. METHODS: It was a prospective single-centre observational study involving 40 outpatients on continuous ambulatory PD treatment for more than 3 months between 2010 and 2016 in a single centre in Ukraine. There were 27 males and 13 females. The mean age of the participants was 49.3 ± 12.2 years. The primary outcome measures were all-cause technique failure. RESULTS: Atherogenic dyslipidemia was identified in 28/40 (70 %) patients and correlated with PD adequacy parameters. During the 36-month- follow-up period technique failure occurred in 2/12 (16.6 %) patients with atherogenic dyslipidemia compared with 12 / 28 (42.9 %) patients without atherogenic dyslipidemia (χ2 = 2.5; p = 0.12). In the univariate Cox regression model, atherogenic dyslipidemia at baseline was significantly associated with a higher risk of all-cause PD technique failure (HR 4.5; 95% CI 1.6 to 12.9; χ2 = 5.5, p = 0.019). CONCLUSION: The presence of atherogenic dyslipidemia was significantly associated with a higher risk of technique failure in PD patients. This is an important issue for future research. Further well-designed clinical trials are needed to determine the impact of dyslipidemia on PD adequacy and technique survival.
Single-well and inter-well dual-tracer test design for quantifying phase volumes and interface areas in subsurface flow and transport systems

Single-well tracer push-pull tests suffer from poor sensitivity w. r. to rapid-equilibrium exchange of tracer between solid and/or fluid phases. This renders parameters like phase volumes (saturation) and phase interface areas difficult to invert from single-well PULL signals of phase-partitioning or sorptive tracers. Two possible workouts are proposed: (A) using the time-dependent, in-situ release of a second tracer, from the originally injected tracer, with contrasting partitioning or sorption properties; (B) exploiting the temperature dependence of sorption in conjunction with the injection (PUSH) of a sufficient volume of cold water into a geothermal reservoir. The idea of (A) is inspired by TOMICH ET AL. (1973), who used the in-situ release of an alcohol by hydrolysis from a injected ester, in order to make residual-oil saturation determinable from a single-well push-pull test. Key-words: tracer, fluid-rock, surface area, sorption, partitioning, reactive, thermosensitive, single-well, push-pull, in-situ release.
The lysosomal transporter MFSD1 is essential for liver homeostasis and critically depends on its accessory subunit GLMP

Lysosomes are major sites for intracellular, acidic hydrolase-mediated proteolysis and cellular degradation. The export of low-molecular-weight catabolic end-products is facilitated by polytopic transmembrane proteins mediating secondary active or passive transport. A number of these lysosomal transporters, however, remain enigmatic. We present a detailed analysis of MFSD1, a hitherto uncharacterized lysosomal family member of the major facilitator superfamily. MFSD1 is not N-glycosylated. It contains a dileucine-based sorting motif needed for its transport to lysosomes. Mfsd1 knockout mice develop splenomegaly and severe liver disease. Proteomics of isolated lysosomes from Mfsd1 knockout mice revealed GLMP as a critical accessory subunit for MFSD1. MFSD1 and GLMP physically interact. GLMP is essential for the maintenance of normal levels of MFSD1 in lysosomes and vice versa. Glmp knockout mice mimic the phenotype of Mfsd1 knockout mice. Our data reveal a tightly linked MFSD1/GLMP lysosomal membrane protein transporter complex.
Sound Event Classification and Detection with Weakly Labeled Data

The Sound Event Classification (SEC) task involves recognizing the set of active sound events in an audio recording. The Sound Event Detection (SED) task involves, in addition to SEC, detecting the temporal onset and offset of every sound event in an audio recording. Generally, SEC and SED are treated as supervised classification tasks that require labeled datasets. SEC only requires weak labels, i.e., annotation of active sound events, without the temporal information, whereas SED requires strong labels, i.e., annotation of the onset and offset times of every sound event, which makes annotation for SED more tedious than for SEC. In this paper, we propose two methods for joint SEC and SED using weakly labeled data: a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) and a novel method that combines a Convolutional Neural Network with an attention layer (CNNatt). Unlike most prior work, the proposed methods do not assume that the weak labels are active during the entire recording and can scale to large datasets. We report state-of-the-art SEC results obtained with the largest weakly labeled dataset - Audioset