Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Applications on the Yield Structure of Aquatic Products and the Structure of Fishery Human Resources in Zhoushan Based on Factor Analysis

Based on factor analysis, this paper mainly analyzed the yield structure of aquatic products and the structure of fishery human resources in Zhoushan city during 2000-2013. Through a comprehensive analysis of the result of factor analysis, the research put forward some related suggestionsthat adjust the yield structure of aquatic products and the structure of fishery manpower resources, develop offshore fisheries and marine aquaculture industry, and build the marine ranching and artificial fish-reefs. On the basis of maintaining certain fishing intensity, it is necessary to adjust the manpower resources in the deep processing of aquatic products and trade aspect.
Engineering properties of glacial tills in the Vale of St. Albans

150m O.D. between Watford and Ware, a total distance of approximately 30km. The considerable thicknesses of Anglian sediments found here, and which have hitherto been largely neglected by the engineering fraternity, have been the focus of attention by those whose particular interests lie in the reconstruction of the Pleistocene environments in this area. Detailed lithostratigraphic sequences of the tills and associated proglacial sediments have been established at five quarry sites selected for study in the Vale. At least two, possibly three, different tills are recognised and described which satisfy the various criteria for a lodgement method of emplacement within the basal traction zone of separate ice sheets. A programme of fieldwork is described involving in situ testing and sampling of these tills. Clast fabric vectors have been established for these sediments, thus providing a framework within which undisturbed sampling of fabric oriented soils could take place. A new till fabric instrument has been developed for this purpose. The considerable quantities of colloidally inactive chalk present in the tills is a particularly distinguishing characteristic and, despite their classification as matrix dominant tills, is shown to account for their relatively low activity. The presence of disseminated carbonate in these soils is also shown to have an effect on other measured engineering properties. The results of tests carried out on samples of both undisturbed and reconstituted till clearly indicate the presence and effect of a cement, possibly calcite, in the matrix. Based on the combined criteria of microfauna and measured fabric vectors, the probable geographical and geological provenance of the source material for these tills is speculated.
Gravity wave flux retrievals using meteor radars

The ability of all‐sky interferometric meteor radars to measure mean wind and high‐frequency gravity wave wind perturbations from meteor radial velocities is assessed. A Monte‐Carlo technique that models line‐of‐sight meteor wind measurements with realistic errors in angle‐of‐arrival and range is used to investigate uncertainties in mean wind and gravity wave wind parameters as a function of meteor echo rate. It is shown that mean horizontal wind speeds are recovered with reasonable accuracy at meteor rates as low as 10 hr−1. Mean‐square horizontal wind perturbation can be derived with relatively little averaging, but momentum fluxes are recovered with much less accuracy, which means that considerable averaging is required to produce meaningful values. Results are illustrated using meteor wind radar observations taken over a 30‐day period in January–February 2006 in Northern Australia.
The neural representation of Arabic digits in visual cortex

In this study, we investigated how Arabic digits are represented in the visual cortex, and how their representation changes throughout the ventral visual processing stream, compared to the representation of letters. We probed these questions with two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments. In Experiment 1, we explored whether we could find brain regions that were more activated for digits than for number words in a subtraction task. One such region was detected in lateral occipital cortex. However, the activity in this region might have been confounded by string length—number words contain more characters than digits. We therefore conducted a second experiment in which string length was systematically controlled. Experiment 2 revealed that the findings of the first experiment were task dependent (as it was only observed in a task in which numerosity was relevant) or stimulus dependent (as it was only observed when the number of characters of a stimulus was not controlled). We further explored the characteristics of the activation patterns for digit and letter strings across the ventral visual processing stream through multi-voxel pattern analyses. We found an alteration in representations throughout the ventral processing stream from clustering based on amount of visual information in primary visual cortex (V1) towards clustering based on symbolic stimulus category higher in the visual hierarchy. The present findings converge to the conclusion that in the ventral visual system, as far as can be detected with fMRI, the distinction between Arabic digits and letter strings is represented in terms of distributed patterns rather than separate regions.
Combining Chroma Features For Cover Version Identification

We present an approach for cover version identification which is based on combining different discretized features derived from the chromagram vectors extracted from the audio data. For measuring similarity between features, we use a parameter-free quasi-universal similarity metric which utilizes data compression. Evaluation proves that combined feature distances increase the accuracy in cover version identification.
Biophysical and morphological effects of nanodiamond/nanoplatinum solution (DPV576) on metastatic murine breast cancer cells in vitro

Nanoparticles have recently gained increased attention as drug delivery systems for the treatment of cancer due to their minute size and unique chemical properties. However, very few studies have tested the biophysical changes associated with nanoparticles on metastatic cancer cells at the cellular and sub-cellular scales. Here, we investigated the mechanical and morphological properties of cancer cells by measuring the changes in cell Young’s Modulus using AFM, filopodial retraction (FR) by time lapse optical light microscopy imaging and filopodial disorganization by high resolution AFM imaging of cells upon treatment with nanoparticles. In the current study, nanomechanical changes in live murine metastatic breast cancer cells (4T1) post exposure to a nanodiamond/nanoplatinum mixture dispersed in aqueous solution (DPV576), were monitored. Results showed a decrease in Young’s modulus at two hours post treatment with DPV576 in a dose dependent manner. Partial FR at 20 min and complete FR at 40 min were observed. Moreover, analysis of the retraction distance (in microns) measured over time (minutes), showed that a DPV576 concentration of 15%v/v yielded the highest FR rate. In addition, DPV576 treated cells showed early signs of filopodial disorganization and disintegration. This study demonstrates the changes in cell stiffness and tracks early structural alterations of metastatic breast cancer cells post treatment with DPV576, which may have important implications in the role of nanodiamond/nanoplatinum based cancer cell therapy and sensitization to chemotherapy drugs.
On the weakly competitive case in a two-species chemotaxis model

In this article we investigate a parabolic-parabolic-elliptic two-species chemotaxis system with weak competition and show global asymptotic stability of the coexistence steady state under a smallness condition on the chemotactic strengths, which seems more natural than the condition previously known. For the proof we rely on the method of eventual comparison, which thereby is shown to be a useful tool even in the presence of chemotactic terms.
Regional Fat Distribution and Blood Pressure Level and Variability: The Dallas Heart Study

Our aim was to investigate the associations of regional fat distribution with home and office blood pressure (BP) levels and variability. Participants in the Dallas Heart Study, a multiethnic cohort, underwent 5 BP measurements on 3 occasions during 5 months (2 in home and 1 in office) and quantification of visceral adipose tissue, abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue, and liver fat by magnetic resonance imaging, and lower body subcutaneous fat by dual x-ray absorptiometry. The relation of regional adiposity with short-term (within-visit) and long-term (overall visits) mean BP and average real variability was assessed with multivariable linear regression. We have included 2595 participants with a mean age of 44 years (54% women; 48% black), and mean body mass index was 29 kg/m2. Mean systolic BP/diastolic BP was 127/79 mm Hg and average real variability systolic BP was 9.8 mm Hg during 3 visits. In multivariable-adjusted models, higher amount of visceral adipose tissue was associated with higher short-term (both home and office) and long-term mean systolic BP (&bgr;[SE]: 1.9[0.5], 2.7[0.5], and 2.1[0.5], respectively; all P<0.001) and with lower long-term average real variability systolic BP (&bgr;[SE]: −0.5[0.2]; P<0.05). In contrast, lower body fat was associated with lower short-term home and long-term mean BP (&bgr;[SE]: −0.30[0.13] and −0.24[0.1], respectively; both P<0.05). Neither subcutaneous adipose tissue or liver fat was associated with BP levels or variability. In conclusion, excess visceral fat was associated with persistently higher short- and long-term mean BP levels and with lower long-term BP variability, whereas lower body fat was associated with lower short- and long-term mean BP. Persistently elevated BP, coupled with lower variability, may partially explain increased risk for cardiac hypertrophy and failure related to visceral adiposity.
Ieee Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 1 Detecting Humans in Dense Crowds Using Locally-consistent Scale Prior and Global Occlusion Reasoning

—Human detection in dense crowds is an important problem, as it is a prerequisite to many other visual tasks, such as tracking, counting, recognizing actions or detecting anomalous behaviors, exhibited by individuals in a dense crowd. This problem is challenging due to large number of individuals, small apparent size, severe occlusions and perspective distortion. However, crowded scenes also offer contextual constraints that can be used to tackle these challenges. In this paper, we explore context for human detection in dense crowds in the form of locally-consistent scale prior which captures the similarity in scale in local neighborhoods and its smooth variation over the image. Using the scale and confidence of detections obtained from an underlying human detector, we infer scale and confidence priors using Markov Random Field. In an iterative mechanism, the confidences of detection hypotheses are modified to reflect consistency with the inferred priors, and the priors are updated based on the new detections. The final set of detections obtained are then reasoned for occlusion using Binary Integer Programming where overlaps and relations between parts of individuals are encoded as linear constraints. Both human detection and occlusion reasoning in proposed approach are solved with local neighbor-dependent constraints, thereby respecting the interdependence between individuals characteristic to dense crowd analysis. In addition, we propose a mechanism to detect different combinations of body parts without requiring annotations for individual combinations. We performed experiments on a new and extremely challenging dataset of dense crowd images showing marked improvement over the underlying human detector.
Optimized hyperventilation preserves 2,3-diphosphoglycerate in severe traumatic brain injury.

INTRODUCTION The concentration of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG/Hct) increases as a physiological occurrence to pH increase and hyperventilation. This response was tested in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHOD The concentration of 2,3-DPG/Hct was measured daily for six days in eleven patients with severe TBI in need of optimized hyperventilation because of intracranial hypertension. RESULTS There was correlation between pH and the concentration of DPG/Hct. The concentration of 2,3-DPG/Hct remained predominantly within normal levels with slight increase in the sixth day of the study. The concentration of 2,3-DPG/Hct correlated significantly with measured partial pressure of oxygen that saturates 50% the hemoglobin of the blood (P50st), confirming the consistency of our data. CONCLUSION The expected physiological response of a progressive increase in concentration of 2,3-DPG/Hct to hyperventilation was not observed. This fact may be explained by the intermittent and not sustained hyperventilation as dictated by the protocol of optimized ventilation.
Lexical similarity can distinguish between automatic and manual translations

We consider the problem of identifying automatic translations from manual translations of the same sentence. Using two different similarity metrics (BLEU and Levenshtein edit distance), we found out that automatic translations are closer to each other than they are to manual translations. We also use phylogenetic trees to provide a visual representation of the distances between pairs of individual sentences in a set of translations. The differences in lexical distance are statistically significant, both for Chinese to English and for Arabic to English translations.
Image categorisation using time series case based reasoning

This paper describes an approach to Case Based Reasoning (CBR) for image categorisation. The technique is founded on a time series analysis mechanism whereby images are represented as time series and compared using time series similarity techniques. There are a number of mechanisms whereby images can be represented as time series (curves), this paper explores two. The first considers the entire image whereby the image is represented as a sequence of histograms. The second considers a particular feature (region of interest) contained across an image collection, which can then be represented as a time series. The proposed technique then uses dynamic time warping to compare image curves contained in a case base with that representing a new image example. The focus for the work described is two medical applications: (i) retina image screening for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and (ii) the classification of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scans according to the nature of the Corpus Callosum, a particular tissue feature that appears in such images. The proposed technique is described in detail together with a full evaluation in terms of the two applications.
Poster: Preliminary Investigation of Cognitive Effort in PrivacyDecision-Making: Sharing Personal Information vs. 3X4

Although the dichotomy between privacy attitude and behavior is a well-known problem [1, 11], it is not clear how users make privacy decisions online. We believe that cognitive psychology provides the foundations to better understand privacy decision-making via three established areas: the dual-process model, cognitive effort and mental models theory. The dual-process model explains cognitive processing via two approaches: System 1 associated with effortless and intuitive thinking; and System 2 linked with effortful and analytical thinking that only intervenes at times to endorse, correct and reject decisions [6]. System 2 taps into individuals’ limited cognitive effort capacity and changes in pupil dilation act as indication of cognitive effort spent [5]. Mental models are used within HCI to model designs that closely match users’ models. Mental models therefore enhance predictability of systems [10]. It has also been linked to dual-process modes of thinking [4]. As discussed in [2], we posit that investigation of the cognitive processes in privacy decision-making will contribute towards explaining the un-usability of online privacy designs. We present a preliminary study investigating users’ cognitive effort in privacy decision-making.
An Iterative Feature-Pair Updating Framework for Rigid Template Matching with Outliers

To deal with the rigid template matching problem in real-world scenarios, we propose a novel iterative feature-pair updating framework which is also robust to high levels of outliers, such as background changing, complex nonrigid deformation and partial occlusion. Given a pair of template image and target image, we first extract a set of corresponding feature-pairs as candidates. Then, we propose a robust objective function under the iterative framework for discriminatively updating these candidates, where the space distance, appearance distance, and the overlapping percentage of feature pairs are integrated simultaneously. Finally, a hierarchical matching strategy is provided with the parameter discussion. Experimental results compared with the-state-of-art methods on public data sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Chinese patent medicine Fei-Liu-Ping ointment as an adjunctive treatment for non-small cell lung cancer: protocol for a systematic review

Introduction Fei-Liu-Ping ointment has been widely applied as adjunctive drug in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, there has been no systematic review of research findings regarding the efficacy of this treatment. Here, we provide a protocol for assessing the effectiveness and safety of Fei-Liu-Ping ointment in the treatment of NSCLC. Methods and analysis The electronic databases to be searched will include MEDLINE (PubMed), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library, Excerpt Medica Database (EMBASE), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Scientific Journal Database (VIP), Wanfang Database and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM). Papers in English or Chinese published from inception to 2016 will be included without any restrictions. We will conduct a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trial if possible. The therapeutic effects according to the standard for treatment of solid tumours by the WHO and the quality of life as evaluated by Karnofsky score and weight will be applied as the primary outcomes. We will also evaluate the data synthesis and risk of bias using Review Manager 5.3 software. Dissemination The results of this review will offer implications for the use of Fei-Liu-Ping ointment as an adjunctive treatment for NSCLC. This knowledge will inform recommendations by surgeons and researchers who are interested in the treatment of NSCLC. The results of this systematic review will be disseminated through presentation at a conference and publication of the data in a peer-reviewed journal. Trial registration number PROSPERO CRD42016036911.
A Shift Sequence for Nurse Scheduling Using Linear Programming Problem

The Nurse scheduling problem (NSP) of this paper is to study and analyze the scheduling process in practice, and propose models and heuristics to improve both the process and the quality of the resulting schedule. Nurses should benefit from this study by having higher quality schedules while the employees in charge of scheduling should enjoy the positive benefits of an optimization tool to solve problem related to healthcare, which should guide their work and is certainly superior to suit and fallacy. The objective is to maximize the fairness of the schedule. This paper illustrates how the linear programming solves the nurses scheduling problem and how it has been effectively used in hospitals. A numerical illustration example of nurse scheduling for 8 hour shift is presented and the optimum solution is solved by Excel solver
On the Simulations of Global Oceanic Latent Heat Flux in the CMIP5 Multimodel Ensemble

Simulations of the global oceanic latent heat flux (LHF) in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble (MME) were evaluated in comparison with 11 LHF products. The results show that the mean state of LHF in the MME coincides well with that in the observations, except for a slight overestimation in the tropical regions. The reproduction of the seasonal cycle of LHF in the MME is in good agreement with that in the observations. However, biases are relatively obvious in the coastal regions. A prominent upward trend in global-mean LHF is confirmed with all of the LHF products during the period of 1979–2005. Despite the consistent increase of LHF in CMIP5 models, the rates of increase are much weaker than those in the observations, with an average of approximately one-ninth that in the observations. The findings show that the rate of increase of near-surface specific humidity qa in MME is nearly 6 times that in the observations, while the rate of increase of the near-surface wind speed U is less than one-half that in the observations. The faster increase of qa and the slower increase of U could both suppress evaporation, and thus latent heat released by the ocean, which may be one of the reasons that the upward trend of LHF in the MME is nearly one order of magnitude lower than that in the observations.
Control in a Workstation-Based Distributed Computing Environment

This paper describes the mechanisms employed to control access to system services on the IFS project. We base our distributed computing environment on systems that we trust, and run those systems in physically secure rooms. From that base, we add services, modifying them to interoperate with existing access control mechanisms. Some weaknesses remain in our environment; we conclude with a description of present vulnerabilities
Covert Behaviour Detection in a Collaborative Surveillance System

Marzouqi and Jarvis’ covert path transform [Marzouqi and Jarvis, 2003] allows a robot to plan a path that minimizes robot visibility, in an eort to avoid detection. This paper uses the same transform to measure the overtness of human movements, in an attempt to identify deliberately covert and suspicious human behaviour. In a series of trials we detect and track both anonymous individuals and known targets (sentries) using multiple cameras. Prior to tracking the system is calibrated automatically by simultaneous observations of a mobile robot in both image and ground planes. Subsequently, people are tracked on the ground plane and the proposed covertness metrics indicate the extent to which their trajectories are covert or overt with respect to the environment and with respect to patrolling sentries. Both these metrics show dierences between normal and covert human trajectories.
Incentives for Answering Hypothetical Questions

Prediction markets and other reward mechanisms based on proper scoring rules can elicit accurate predictions about future events with public utcomes. However, many questions of public interest do not always have a clear answer. For example, facts such as the eects of raising or lower-ing interest rates can never be publicly veried, since only one option will be implemented. In this paper we address re-porting incentives for opinion polls and uestionnaires about hypothetical questions, where the honesty of one answer can only be assessed in the context of the other answers elicited through the poll. We extend our previous work on this problem by four main results. First, we prove that no reward mechanism can be strictly incentive compatible when the mechanism designer does not know the prior nformation of the participants. Second, we formalize the notion of help- ful reporting which prescribes that rational agents move the public result of the poll towards what they believe to be the true distribution (even when that involves reporting an answer that is not the agent's rst preference). Third, we show that helpful reporting converges the nal result of the poll to the true distribution of opinions. Finally, we present a reward scheme that makes helpful reporting an equilibrium for polls with an arbitrary number of answers. Our mechanism is simple, and does not require information about the prior beliefs of the agents.