Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Is Real-time Phishing Eliminated with FIDO? Social Engineering Downgrade Attacks against FIDO Protocols

FIDO’s U2F is a web-authentication mechanism designed to mitigate real-time phishing —an attack that undermines multi-factor authentication by allowing an attacker to relay second-factor one-time tokens from the victim user to the legitimate website in real-time. A U2F dongle is simple to use, and is designed to restrain users from using it incorrectly. We show that social engineering attacks allow an adversary to downgrade FIDO’s U2F to alternative authentication mechanisms. Websites allow such alternatives to handle dongle malfunction or loss. All FIDO-supporting websites in Alexa’s top 100 allow choosing alternatives to FIDO, and are thus potentially vulnerable to real-time phishing attacks. We crafted a phishing website that mimics Google login’s page and im-plements a FIDO-downgrade attack. We then ran a carefully-designed user study to test the effect on users. We found that, when using FIDO as their second authentication factor, 55% of participants fell for real-time phishing, and another 35% would potentially be susceptible to the attack in practice.
A Review on Deep Learning Architectures for Speech Recognition

Derin ogrenme, cesitli algoritmalar kullanarak cok sayida islem katmanindan olusan derin mimariler yardimiyla veri kumelerinin modelini cikarmaya calisan makine ogrenmesi alaninin bir alt alanidir. Derin ogrenme mimarilerinin basarili uygulamalari ve populerliginden dolayi, derin ogrenme sistemleri ses tanima alaninda da kullanilmaya baslanmistir. Arastirmacilar bu mimarileri ses tanima ve ses tanimanin uygulamalarinda, ornegin ses duygu tanima, ses etkinligi tespiti ve konusmaci tanima ve dogrulama, ses girdileri ve ciktilari arasindaki modellerin daha iyi kurulmasi ve ses tanima sistemlerinin hata oranlarinin dusurulmesi amaclariyla kullanmislardir. Literaturde, ses tanima sistemleri icin derin ogrenme mimarilerini kullanan cok sayida calisma yapilmistir. Literaturde yapilmis olan calismalar ses tanima ve uygulamalari icin derin ogrenme mimarilerinin kullanilmasinin pek cok ses tanima alanin icin fayda sagladigini ve hata oranlarini dusurerek daha iyi performans elde edilmesini sagladigini gostermistir. Bu calismada, ilk olarak, ses tanima probleminden ve ses tanima adimlarindan bahsedilmistir. Daha sonra, derin ogrenme tabanli ses tanima icin yapilmis olan calismalar incelenmistir. Ozellikle, derin ogrenme mimarilerinden olan Derin Sinir Aglari (DSA), Evrisimli Sinir Aglari (ESA) ve Ozyinelemeli Sinir Aglari (OSA) ve bu mimarilerden uretilmis olan hibrit yaklasimlar degerlendirilmis ve bu mimarilerin ses tanima ve ses tanimanin uygulama alanlarindaki kullanimlari ile ilgili literaturdeki calismalar degerlendirilmistir. Sonuc olarak, hata oranlari ve ses tanima performansi acisindan tum mimariler arasinda en yaygin olarak kullanilan ve en guclu derin ogrenme mimarisinin OSA oldugu gozlemlenmistir. ESA ise diger bir basarili derin ogrenme mimarisidir ve ses tanima performansi ve hata oranlari acisindan OSA ile yakin sonuclar uretmektedir. Ayrica, hibrit derin ogrenme mimarilerinin de gittikce yaygin hale geldigi ve ses tanima hata oranlarini dusurebildigi gozlemlenmistir.
Practice of Epidemiology Risk Prediction Models for Head and Neck Cancer in the US Population From the INHANCE Consortium

Yuan-Chin Amy Lee, Mohammed Al-Temimi, Jian Ying, Joshua Muscat, Andrew F. Olshan, Jose P. Zevallos, Deborah M. Winn, Guojun Li, Erich M. Sturgis, Hal Morgenstern, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Elaine Smith, Karl Kelsey, Michael McClean, Thomas L. Vaughan, Philip Lazarus, Chu Chen, Stephen M. Schwartz, Maura Gillison, Stimson Schantz, Guo-Pei Yu, Gypsyamber D’Souza, Neil Gross, Marcus Monroe, Jaewhan Kim, Paolo Boffetta, and Mia Hashibe∗ ∗ Correspondence to Dr. Mia Hashibe, Division of Public Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine and Huntsman Cancer Institute, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (e-mail: mia.hashibe@utah.edu).
Different neural networks for conceptual retrieval in sighted and blind

We investigated the experiential bases of knowledge by asking whether people that perceive the world in a different way also show a different neurobiology of concepts. We characterized the brain activity of early-blind and sighted individuals during a conceptual retrieval task in which participants rated the perceptual similarity between color and action concepts evoked by spoken words. Adaptation analysis showed that word-pairs referring to perceptually similar colors (e.g., red-orange) or actions (e.g., run-jump) led to repetition-suppression in occipital visual regions in the sighted, regions that are known to encode visual features of objects and events, independently of their category. Early blind showed instead adaptation for similar concepts in language-related regions, but not in occipital cortices. Further analysis contrasting the two categories (color and action), independently of item similarity, activated category-sensitive regions in the pMTG (for actions) and the precuneus (for color) in both sighted and blind. These two regions, however, showed a different connectivity profile as a function of visual deprivation, increasing task-dependent connectivity with reorganized occipital regions in the early blind. Overall, our results show that visual deprivation changes the neural bases of conceptual retrieval, which is partially grounded in sensorimotor experience. Significance Statement Do people with different sensory experience conceive the world differently? We tested whether conceptual knowledge builds on sensory experience by looking at the neurobiology of concepts in early blind individuals. Participants in fMRI heard pairs of words referring to colors (e.g., green-blue) or actions (e.g., jump-run) and rated their perceptual similarity. Perceptual similarity of colors and actions was represented in occipital visual regions in the sighted, but in language-related regions in the blind. Occipital regions in the blind, albeit not encoding perceptual similarity, were however recruited during conceptual retrieval, working in concert with classic semantic hubs such as the Precuneus and the lpMTG. Overall, visual deprivation changes the neural bases of conceptual processing, which is partially grounded in sensorimotor experience.
Quantitative genetic analysis of water deficit tolerance in coriander through physiological traits

Abstract Drought stress restricts the production of agricultural crops through morphological, physiological and biochemical changes in plants. This study explored the genetic control of physiological traits related to drought in coriander. In a diallel analysis, all six parents, their 15 F1 hybrids and 15 F2 populations were subjected to different irrigation regimes including well-watered, mild and severe water deficit stress. Drought stress decreased the relative chlorophyll content (RCC), the relative water content (RWC), chlorophyll a (Chla), chlorophyll b (Chlb), total chlorophyll (TChl) content, carotenoids (Car) and essential oil yield (EOY) in F1 and F2 generations. General combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability effects were highly significant for all traits in F1 and F2 generations. Additive gene action was predominant for Chla, Chlb, TChl and Car under well-watered condition while non-additive gene effects were more important under mild and severe water deficit stresses in F1 and F2 generations for the above traits. Additive gene effects were more important for RCC, RWC and electrolyte leakage (EL) traits in both F1 and F2 generations under mild and severe water deficit stresses. In conclusion, the high narrow-sense heritability and significant genetic correlations between EOY and RCC, RWC and EL suggest that these traits can be used as surrogates to identify superior genotypes for arid and semi-arid regions. Also, the parental lines, P4 and P6 had the best GCA for RCC, RWC, Chla, Chlb, TChl, Car, essential oil content and EOY.
Pulse quenching based radiation-hardened by design technique for analog single-event transient mitigation on an operational amplifier in 28 nm bulk CMOS process

In nanometer bulk CMOS processes, multi-node charge collection induced by a heavy-ion strike is prevalent. Pulse quenching caused by charge sharing between the struck node (termed as active device) and the following gate (termed as passive device) has been widely studied in digital circuits. This paper firstly demonstrates that the pulse quenching effect also exists between the adjacent stages of analog circuits and can be used to mitigate analog single-event transient (ASET) perturbation. Contrary to digital circuits, whose propagated SET is minimized with the charge collected by passive device maximized, simulation results indicate that there is an optimal spacing between the active and passive devices in analog circuits. When the spacing is too close, the SET induced by the hit node is efficiently mitigated by pulse quenching effect, but the disturbance caused by the charge sharing collection in passive device becomes dominant. Simulation results show that pulse quenching effect has a dual role in ASET mitigation. This paper provides innovative guidance to the radiation-hardening design for analog circuits.
Detecting Acute Myocardial Ischemia by Evaluation of QRS Angles

In the present study we evaluated three angles, obtained from the main slopes of the QRS complex, and used them to assess ischemic-induced changes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). These QRS angles, denoted by φR , φU and φD , were evaluated in 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings of 79 patients obtained before and during coronary occlusion. At baseline (before occlusion) the QRS angles showed very little variations, while after start of occlusion both φU and φD developed a fast and abrupt change. Relative ischemic changes of φU and φD during PCI reached up to 98 and 126 times their normal variations observed at baseline, respectively, being V2 and V3 the most sensitive leads. We conclude that evaluation of QRS angles from the standard 12lead ECG represents a sensitive marker for detection of acute myocardial ischemia.
Stiffness Sensing in Cells and Tissues.

Physical stimuli are essential for the function of eukaryotic cells, and changes in physical signals are important elements in normal tissue development as well as in disease initiation and progression. The complexity of physical stimuli and the cellular signals they initiate are as complex as those triggered by chemical signals. One of the most important, and the focus of this review, is the effect of substrate mechanical properties on cell structure and function. The past decade has produced a nearly exponentially increasing number of mechanobiological studies to define how substrate stiffness alters cell biology using both purified systems and intact tissues. Here we attempt to identify common features of mechanosensing in different systems while also highlighting the numerous informative exceptions to what in early studies appeared to be simple rules by which cells respond to mechanical stresses.
SOLITONS OF THE COMPLEX NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION WITH PARITY-TIME-SYMMETRIC LINEAR-NONLINEAR LATTICE POTENTIALS

By using an inverse method, we report families of exact soliton solutions of a generalized complex nonlinear Schrödinger equation with parity-time-symmetric mixed linear-nonlinear lattice potentials. The Kerr-, parabolic-, and power-law nonlinearities are considered and analytical soliton solutions are obtained, for some special forms of complex-valued parity-time-symmetric potentials.
Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis due to Cladophialophora bantiana in an immunocompetent individual: A case report and brief review of literature

Background and Purpose: Fungal infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are life-threatening conditions that are frequently misdiagnosed with bacterial and viral CNS infections. Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis is a cerebral infection caused by dematiaceous fungi, especially Cladophialophora bantiana. Very few cases of fungal CNS infection have been reported across the world. High clinical suspicion should be cast for the patients with brain abscess that do not respond to conventional antibiotic therapy. Case report: We report a case of a 21-year-old male presenting with headache, seizures and weakness in the limbs. Radiological examination revealed multiple brain abscesses. After surgical excision and laboratory evaluation, it was found to be caused by C. bantiana. The patient’s outcome was good with surgical excision and voriconazole therapy. Conclusion: Brain abscess caused by C. bantiana is on rise, especially in immunocompromised groups. Thus, high clinical suspicion, accurate diagnosis and management are the fundamentals for good prognosis.
Frequency of personality types based on enneagram in a Turkish sample: A web-based cross-sectional study

Amac : Enneagram yuzlerce yildir bilinmesine ragmen, bu alandaki arastirmalar azdir. Bu calismanin amaci Turkce konusan bir orneklemin kisilik tiplerinin sikligini analiz etmek ve farkli kisiliklerin oranlarini demografik verilerle karsilastirmaktir. Yontem : Enneagram’a dayali bir arac olan Tastan Kisilik Tipleri Envanteri Google Formlar’da barindirildi ve universitenin akademik web sayfasi uzerinden kullanima sunuldu. Cevrimici yanitlar 08.04. 2015 ve 22.8. 2019 tarihleri arasinda toplanmistir. Calismanin katilimcilari Turkce konusan ergenler ve yetiskinlerdir. Bulgular : Bu arastirmada 1646 katilimcinin verileri analiz edildi. Ortalama (± SD) yas 29,48 ± 11,03 yil idi. En sik karsilasilan ana kisilik tipi 2 numarali “yardimci” (n = 335, %20,4), 8 numarali “meydan okuyucu” ise en sik karsilasilan kisilik kanadidir (284, %17,3). Tip 8 kisilik sikligi artan yasla birlikte azalirken, tip 3 kisilik icin tersi dogruydu (χ 2 = 130,623, p <0,001). Tip 1 kisilik erkeklerde daha yaygin iken (n = 51 (%9,5) ve n = 63 (%5,7)), tip 4 kadinlarda neredeyse iki kat fazlaydi (n = 48 (%8,9’a karsilik n = 183 (%16,5)) (χ 2 = 28,835, p <0,001) Ayrica, egitim duzeyi arttikca tip 1 kisilik olasiligi da artmaktadir (χ 2 = 67,316, p <0,001). Sonuc : Incelenen nufusun kisilik tiplerinde demografik degiskenler acisindan farkliliklar vardir. Bu bulgular kisilik tipinin besikten mezara kadar ayni olmadigini, egitim ve yasla degisebilecegini dusundurmektedir. Enneagram kisilik tiplerinin tanimlanmis populasyonlardaki belirli hastaliklarla iliskisi arastirmalidir.
Technological aspects of the creation of intensive plantations of cherries in Forest-Steppe of Ukraine

Мета. Здійснити порівняльну оцінку ефективності вирощування черешні в сучасних інтенсивних садах із використанням кращих вітчизняних і зарубіжних великоплідних сортів, високопродуктивних підщеп, нових форм крон за оптимально щільних схем розміщення дерев. Методи. Польові, лабораторні, порівняльні та статистичні. Результати. Установлено, що дерева сорту Регіна в насадженнях на підщепі Гізела 5 відзначалися нижчими темпами росту, тому мали в 1,2 раза менший об’єм крони порівняно з деревами на середньорослих підщепах Гізела 6 та ВСЛ-2. Обрізування дерев із веретеноподібною кроною порівняно з округлою малогабаритною потребувало в 1,3–1,6 раза більше часу, унаслідок чого технологічні витрати праці на одиницю площі зростали в 1,8–2,2 раза. Аналогічних витрат потребували сади із багатовісною сплощеною кроною. За питомою продуктивністю дерева сорту Регіна на підщепах Гізела 5 та Гізела 6 в усіх конструкціях саду виявилися в 3,6–6,0 разів менш урожайними, ніж дерева сортів Мелітопольська мирна, Талісман і Аннушка. Найнижчу продуктивність дерев (0,5–0,7 кг/м3) відзначено в усіх насадженнях із веретеноподібною кроною, тому останню недоцільно застосовувати в садах із використанням сортів класичної селекції. Висновки. Розроблено високопродуктивні конструкції насаджень сортів Талісман і Аннушка на середньорослій підщепі ВСЛ-2 зі щільністю садіння 889 дерев/га і формуванням округлої малогабаритної крони, які в 6 – 7-річному віці забезпечують конкурентоспроможний рівень урожайності (12,6 т/га) та рентабельності (120 – 187%). Середня маса плодів у цих садах становить 8,6–9,6 г із середнім діаметром 27–28 мм. Товарність продукції — 79,8–85,6%. У садах черешні сорту Регіна на підщепах Гізела 5 та Гізела 6 забезпечується високий рівень товарності продукції (86–87,6%), проте через низьку продуктивність (2,3–3,3 т/га) вони є збитковими і не рекомендуються для Лісостепу України.
The Effects of Service Quality Dimensions on Students’ Satisfaction: HEDPERF Model Adoption

Service quality has become one of the greatest imperative factors of students’ satisfaction in higher education industry these days. As the education sector is primarily considered service providing establishment, the service quality aspects are the key to sustainable competitive advantage. This study aims to determine the relationship between service quality aspects namely academic aspects, non- academic aspects and reputation towards students’ satisfaction. The HEDPERF model was used as a research framework. A set of 265 questionnaires were distributed to the undergraduate students in a public university in the East Coast of Malaysia by using stratified random sampling. A total of 260 of the questionnaires were returned equivalent to 95.84%. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis, Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression. The findings revealed that all three dimensions of service quality have a positive relationship with the students’ satisfaction. Academic aspect revealed to be the most significant influence towards the students’ satisfaction. Suggestion to the management of higher education also been made particularly in the areas where improvement is required.
INCREASING GENETIC DIVERSITY OF COTTON BREEDING PROGRAMS IN VENEZUELA

There is a steady increase of demands for textile crops, where cotton is the most popular natural fiber, therefore, it is necessary to exploit cotton genetic resources. In order to develop and improve crop populations, a cotton breeding program requires access to new sources of germplasm. With the objectives to evaluate the productivity of local and introduced genotypes from Syria and Brazil, and to expand the genetic base in the Venezuelan Cotton Breeding Program, 16 genotypes were evaluated at three locations in Venezuela during 2013 and 2014 using a randomized complete block design, with three replications. The traits evaluated were plant height, stem diameter, lint yield, boll weight, number of seed per boll, 100-seed weight, and fiber content. Highly significant differences (P≤0.01) were observed among genotypes, environments and their interaction for all traits, except for lint yield and number of seed per boll across environments. ʻC-2955-25ʼ showed high yield (3514.3 kg.ha-1) but was unstable across environments used in the evaluation. ʻL-2955-13ʼ was stable across the environments, suggesting that it would be a good parent. All the genotypes obtained values of lint percent above of 38%. The Syrians genotypes ʻAleppo-11ʼ and ʻAleppo-90ʼ showed high lint yield and good agronomic performance. Genotypes identified in this study could be used as potential sources of germplasm to be introduced in future breeding programs.
Mimosa chacoënsis (Leguminosae), nueva cita para la flora argentina.

Mimosa chacoensis (Leguminosae), new record for the flora of Argentina. Mimosa chacoensis, belonging to the section Habbasia series Rojasianae of genus Mimosa, is cited for the first time to Argentina, in the Formosa province. This species, endemic of the Dry Chaco ecoregion, has been previously registered only from Bolivia and Paraguay. As a result of this work the number of known species of Mimosa from the Argentine Flora increases to 56. A detailed morphological description and observations, an illustration, a distribution map, and a discussion of the ecology of this species are presented. Likewise, an identification key to species of Mimosa section Habbasia in Argentina is included.
A chemical based wet cold flow approach for addressing hydrate flow assurance problems

Current gas hydrate flow assurance methods are becoming less economical and/or practical for deepwater operations, long tiebacks and ageing reservoirs. The industry thus needs novel flow assurance techniques to address these challenging conditions. An alternative approach called HYDRAFLOW, a chemical based wet Cold Flow method, has been presented in this thesis in which gas hydrate management, rather than prevention, is the aim. The idea is to convert most of the gas phase into hydrates and transfer it in the form of hydrate-slurry in the pipeline. This study investigates the concept, i.e. the transportability of hydrate slurries, for different systems (low and high GOR oil systems in the presence and absence of AAs) in different operating conditions, especially in conditions where the other flow assurance solutions either cannot be applied or are not economically viable, e.g. at high watercuts or under very high degree of subcoolings. The experiments involve investigating the rheological behaviour and flow properties of hydrate slurries using the HTI-set up (Helical Tube Impeller, an apparatus designed and build in-house for measuring viscosity of hydrate slurries at high pressures). Additionally, the rate of hydrate formation in low and high oil systems and also at subzero conditions has been measured. Furthermore, the effect of key variables, (e.g. heat transfer, mass transfer, degree of subcooling, salt, anti-agglomerants (AAs) and thermodynamic inhibitors) on the rate of hydrate formation and also on the rheology of hydrate suspensions have been studied in this work. The partitioning of a commercial AA between hydrate, oil and aqueous phases and its performances in each phase have also been determined which can help for decision making about recovering and/or recycling all or part of AAs. And finally, it has been shown that hydrate flow can potentially reducing wax deposition problems in pipeline by abrasion of the deposited wax. Dedicated to my parents
Universal antibiotic tolerance arising from antibiotic-triggered accumulation of redox metabolites

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that often infects open wounds or patients with cystic fibrosis. Once established, P. aeruginosa infections are notoriously difficult to eradicate. This difficulty is in part due to the ability of P. aeruginosa to tolerate antibiotic treatment at the individual-cell level or through collective behaviors. Here we describe a new mechanism by which P. aeruginosa tolerates antibiotic treatment by modulating its global cellular metabolism. In particular, treatment of P. aeruginosa with sublethal concentrations of antibiotics covering all major classes promoted accumulation of the redox-sensitive phenazine - pyocyanin (PYO). PYO in turn conferred general tolerance against diverse antibiotics for both P. aeruginosa and other Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. We show that PYO promotes energy generation to enhance the activity of efflux pumps, leading to enhanced antibiotic tolerance. This property is shared by other redox-active phenazines produced by P. aeruginosa. Our discovery sheds new insights into the physiological functions of phenazines and has implications for designing effective antibiotic treatment protocols. Author Summary Antibiotic tolerance can facilitate the evolution of resistance, and here we describe a previously unknown mechanism of collective antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In particular, P. aeruginosa treated with sublethal concentrations of antibiotics covering all major classes promotes accumulation of pyocyanin (PYO), an important virulence factor. In turn, PYO confers general tolerance against diverse antibiotics for both P. aeruginosa and other bacteria. Our discovery is a perfect example of what Nietzsche once said: That which does not kill me makes me stronger.