Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of the protection and presentation of historic buildings in the Viminacium Archaeological Park in relation to their spatial context

Almost two millennia ago, Viminacium was the capital of the Roman province of Moesia Superior and an important legionary fortress. It was identified as a cultural property of exceptional importance in 1979, but the process of its institutional protection was only completed in 2009, with the adoption of the Decision on the Determination of Viminacium Site in the Village of Stari Kostolac as an Archaeological Site, with clearly defined boundaries and protection of the surrounding area (Decision, 2009). From 2006 it has been an archaeological park with protected and presented historic buildings and contemporary facilities, situated 3 km south of the Danube, in the arable fields near the Kostolac B thermo power plant and Drmno strip coal mine, not far from the town of Kostolac in Serbia (Figure 1). The exploitation of coal in the wider area of the Viminacium site that has lasted for almost 150 years, and the production of electricity in thermal power plants developed over more than seven decades, have resulted in the permanent disappearance of a large number of ancient buildings and their relocation from their original sites to the safe area of the archaeological park (Viminacium, 2018). Another specific of the park is its large area, mostly unexcavated, and individually presented historic buildings scattered over it (Figure 2). The small number of in situ remains that have been discovered and protected and the relocated buildings are supplemented by various methods of narrative and physical interpretation. Dejan Radovanović (2015), an archaeologist from the Regional Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Smederevo writes about Viminacium Archaeological Park, telling us that “with its status, organisation and achievements, this unique centre in our country and the surroundings is moving many standards, but it also opens numerous questions and contrary opinions”. The existence of this situation is very important for society and for the development of cultural heritage sites, as a part of a quest to find a solution for their proper protection and presentation.
Lymphoid precursor cells adhere to two different sites on fibronectin

Several precursor lymphoid cell lines, blocked at specific stages of differentiation, adhere specifically to fibronectin in vitro. Whereas the Ba F3 cell line, which has both immunoglobulin heavy- and light- chain genes in germline configuration, interacts with the arg-gly-asp- containing cell-binding domain of fibronectin, the B-committed line PD 31, which is undergoing rearrangement of immunoglobulin light-chain genes, does not. Accordingly the Ba F3, but not the putative PD 31 surface fibronectin receptor, binds to an affinity matrix containing the 115-kD cell-binding domain of fibronectin. PD 31 cells recognize a different domain of the fibronectin molecule, which is contained within the carboxy terminal segment possessing a high-affinity binding site for heparin. A polyclonal antibody raised against the fibronectin receptor of mouse erythroleukemic cells inhibits adhesion of these lymphoid lines to fibronectin. It precipitates two major species of 140 and 70 kD from surface-radioiodinated Ba F3 cells and species of 140 and 120 kD from PD 31 cells. We propose that the two types of cells express different fibronectin receptors mediating substrate adhesion, and suggest that receptor(s) with different specificity might be expressed in the course of B cell maturation. Because we show that these adhesion properties are shared by normal bone marrow lymphoid precursors, we infer that these receptors may play a role in normal lymphopoiesis.
PIN skimmer: inferring PINs through the camera and microphone

Today's smartphones provide services and uses that required a panoply of dedicated devices not so long ago. With them, we listen to music, play games or chat with our friends; but we also read our corporate email and documents, manage our online banking; and we have started to use them directly as a means of payment. In this paper, we aim to raise awareness of side-channel attacks even when strong isolation protects sensitive applications. Previous works have studied the use of the phone accelerometer and gyroscope as side channel data to infer PINs. Here, we describe a new side-channel attack that makes use of the video camera and microphone to infer PINs entered on a number-only soft keyboard on a smartphone. The microphone is used to detect touch events, while the camera is used to estimate the smartphone's orientation, and correlate it to the position of the digit tapped by the user. We present the design, implementation and early evaluation of PIN Skimmer, which has a mobile application and a server component. The mobile application collects touch-event orientation patterns and later uses learnt patterns to infer PINs entered in a sensitive application. When selecting from a test set of 50 4-digit PINs, PIN Skimmer correctly infers more than 30% of PINs after 2 attempts, and more than 50% of PINs after 5 attempts on android-powered Nexus S and Galaxy S3 phones. When selecting from a set of 200 8-digit PINs, PIN Skimmer correctly infers about 45% of the PINs after 5 attempts and 60% after 10 attempts. It turns out to be difficult to prevent such side-channel attacks, so we provide guidelines for developers to mitigate present and future side-channel attacks on PIN input.
The Effect of Using an Inappropriate Protein Database for Proteomic Data Analysis

A recent study by Bromenshenk et al., published in PLoS One (2010), used proteomic analysis to identify peptides purportedly of Iridovirus and Nosema origin; however the validity of this finding is controversial. We show here through re-analysis of a subset of this data that many of the spectra identified by Bromenshenk et al. as deriving from Iridovirus and Nosema proteins are actually products from Apis mellifera honey bee proteins. We find no reliable evidence that proteins from Iridovirus and Nosema are present in the samples that were re-analyzed. This article is also intended as a learning exercise for illustrating some of the potential pitfalls of analysis of mass spectrometry proteomic data and to encourage authors to observe MS/MS data reporting guidelines that would facilitate recognition of analysis problems during the review process.
A Toolset for Specifying and Analyzing Requirements

A set of CASE tools is described for developing formal requirements speci cations expressed in the SCR (Software Cost Reduction) tabular notation. The tools include an editor for building the speci cations, a consistency checker for testing the speci cations for consistency with a formal requirements model, a simulator for symbolically executing the speci cations, and a veri er for checking that the speci cations satisfy selected application properties. As background, the SCR method for specifying requirements is reviewed, and a formal requirements model is introduced. Examples are presented to illustrate the tools.
Rationale, design, and baseline findings from a randomized trial of collaborative care for chronic musculoskeletal pain in primary care.

OBJECTIVE This article describes the rationale, design, and baseline findings from an ongoing study of collaborative care for chronic musculoskeletal pain and comorbid depression. DESIGN Cluster randomized clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Forty-two clinicians and 401 patients from five Veterans Affairs primary care clinics. INTERVENTION The intervention was based on the chronic care model, and included patient and provider activation and education, patient assessment, outcomes monitoring, and feedback to providers over 12 months. The intervention team consisted of a full-time psychologist care manager and a part-time physician internist. Approaches included goal setting emphasizing function, patient activation and educating about fear avoidance, and care management. OUTCOME MEASURES Main outcomes are Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) score, depression severity (Patient Health Questionnaire-9), and pain severity (Chronic Pain Grade Severity subscale) at 6 and 12 months. BASELINE RESULTS Fifteen percent of primary care patients mailed a study advertisement letter requested screening for the study. The mean age of enrolled patients was 62. Back and neck or joint pain diagnoses were present in 67% and 65% of patients, respectively. Mean pain duration was 15 years, and mean RMDQ score (range 0-24) was 14.7 (standard deviation = 4.4). Sixty-five percent of patients were receiving disability. Eighteen percent of patients met criteria for major depression, 17% for posttraumatic stress disorder, and 9% for alcohol misuse. Thirty-nine percent of patients felt strongly that experiencing pain was a sign of damage, and 60% reported strong avoidance of painful activities. CONCLUSIONS These baseline data support the rationale to develop a multifaceted approach to treat chronic pain in primary care that includes detection and treatment of psychiatric comorbidity.
Modeling mass protest adoption in social network communities using geometric brownian motion

Modeling the movement of information within social media outlets, like Twitter, is key to understanding to how ideas spread but quantifying such movement runs into several difficulties. Two specific areas that elude a clear characterization are (i) the intrinsic random nature of individuals to potentially adopt and subsequently broadcast a Twitter topic, and (ii) the dissemination of information via non-Twitter sources, such as news outlets and word of mouth, and its impact on Twitter propagation. These distinct yet inter-connected areas must be incorporated to generate a comprehensive model of information diffusion. We propose a bispace model to capture propagation in the union of (exclusively) Twitter and non-Twitter environments. To quantify the stochastic nature of Twitter topic propagation, we combine principles of geometric Brownian motion and traditional network graph theory. We apply Poisson process functions to model information diffusion outside of the Twitter mentions network. We discuss techniques to unify the two sub-models to accurately model information dissemination. We demonstrate the novel application of these techniques on real Twitter datasets related to mass protest adoption in social communities.
Biodistribution and radiation dosimetry of the hypoxia marker 18F–HX4 in monkeys and humans determined by using whole-body PET/CT

Objectives 18F-HX4 is a novel positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for imaging hypoxia. The purpose of this study was to determine the biodistribution and estimate the radiation dose of 18F-HX4 using whole-body PET/computed tomography (CT) scans in monkeys and humans. MethodsSuccessive whole-body PET/CT scans were done after the injection of 18F-HX4 in four healthy humans (422±142 MBq) and in three rhesus monkeys (189±3 MBq). Biodistribution was determined from PET images and organ doses were estimated using OLINDA/EXM software. ResultsThe bladder, liver, and kidneys showed the highest percentage of the injected radioactivity for humans and monkeys. For humans, approximately 45% of the activity is eliminated by bladder voiding in 3.6 h, and for monkeys 60% is in the bladder content after 3 h. The critical organ is the urinary bladder wall with the highest absorbed radiation dose of 415±18 (monkeys) and 299±38 &mgr;Gy/MBq (humans), in the 4.8-h bladder voiding interval model. The average value of effective dose for the adult male was estimated at 42±4.2 &mgr;Sv/MBq from monkey data and 27±2 &mgr;Sv/MBq from human data. ConclusionBladder, kidneys, and liver have the highest uptake of injected 18F-HX4 activity for both monkeys and humans. The urinary bladder wall receives the highest dose of 18F-HX4 and is the critical organ. Thus, patients should be encouraged to maintain adequate hydration and void frequently. The effective dose of 18F-HX4 is comparable with that of other 18F-based imaging agents.
Efficient and Reliable Missing Tag Identification for Large-Scale RFID Systems With Unknown Tags

Radio frequency identification (RFID), which promotes the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), has been an emerging technology and widely deployed in various applications such as warehouse management, supply chain management, and social networks. In such applications, objects can be efficiently managed by attaching them with low-cost RFID tags and carefully monitoring them. The missing objects, therefore, can be identified by the readers in the RFID system. Most of prior missing tag identification protocols consider the ideal scenario that all the tags’ IDs are known to the reader, which ignore that some tags with unknown IDs, called unknown tags, may be present in the system. In this paper, we investigate the problem of efficiently identifying the missing tags with a predefined reliability for large-scale RFID systems with unknown tags. We first propose a basic efficient and reliable missing tag identification protocol called B-ERMI. Then we propose an enhanced protocol called E-ERMI to further improve the efficiency. The parameters of our proposed ERMI protocols are optimized to minimize the execution time. We also conduct extensive simulations to evaluate the proposed ERMI protocols and the simulation results illustrate that the ERMI protocols outperform other existing ones.
A Multimodal Control Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

We present our preliminary work on a multimodal control architecture that enables an operator to manage an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) through high level tasks in an indoors environment. The intelligence embedded in our architecture is able to decode these tasks into low level instructions that a UAV is able to execute. Our system allows the user to operate the UAV through speech, text or keyboard/mouse input, all presented in a web based graphical user interface that can be accessed from any Internet powered device.
Three novel fusion transcripts of the paired box 5 gene in B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

PAX5 encodes for a transcription factor essential for B-lymphoid cell commitment and is rearranged in 30% of B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia pediatric patients (BCP-ALL). [1][1] Since the first characterization of PAX5/ETV6 ,[2][2] an increasing number of PAX5 fusion genes have been
Monetary and Prudential Policies at a Crossroads? New Challenges in the New Century

It is hard to find a period in the post-war era in which inflation-adjusted interest rates have been so low for so long and monetary and credit aggregates have expanded so much without igniting inflation (the "Great Liquidity Expansion puzzle"). What lies behind these developments? How benign are they? This paper argues that financial liberalisation, the establishment of credible anti-inflation monetary policies and (real-side) globalisation have resulted in subtle but profound changes in the dynamics of the economy and in the challenges faced by policymakers. In the new environment which has gradually been taking shape, the main "structural" risk may not be so much run away inflation. Rather, it may be the damage caused by the unwinding of financial imbalances that occasionally build up over the longer expansion phases of the economy, typically spanning more than one higher-frequency business cycle. Depending on its intensity, the unwinding can lead to economic weakness, unwelcome disinflation and possibly financial strains. The analysis has implications for monetary and prudential policies. It calls for a firmer long-term focus, for greater symmetry in policy responses between upswings and downswings, with more attention being paid to actions during upswings, and for closer cooperation between monetary and prudential authorities. In recent years, the intellectual climate and policy frameworks have gradually evolved in a direction more consistent with this perspective. At the same time, obstacles to further progress remain. They are of an analytical, institutional and, above all, political economy nature. Removing them calls for further analytical and educational efforts.
Higher-order spin effects in the dynamics of compact binaries. I. Equations of motion

We derive the equations of motion of spinning compact binaries including the spin-orbit (SO) coupling terms one post-Newtonian (PN) order beyond the leading-order effect. For black holes maximally spinning this corresponds to 2.5PN order. Our result for the equations of motion essentially confirms the previous result by Tagoshi, Ohashi and Owen. We also compute the spin-orbit effects up to 2.5PN order in the conserved (Noetherian) integrals of motion, namely the energy, the total angular momentum, the linear momentum and the center-of-mass integral. We obtain the spin precession equations at 1PN order beyond the leading term, as well. Those results will be used in a future paper to derive the time evolution of the binary orbital phase, providing more accurate templates for LIGO-Virgo-LISA type interferometric detectors.
Three-Dimensional Distribution of Molecular Gas in the Barred Milky Way

We present a new model of the three-dimensional distribution of molecular gas in the Milky Way Galaxy, based on CO line data. Our analysis is based on a gas-flow simulation of the inner Galaxy using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and a realistic barred gravitational potential derived from the observed COBE DIRBE near-IR light distribution. The gas model prescribes the gas orbits much better than a simple circular rotation model and is highly constrained by observations, but it cannot predict local details. In this study, we provide a three-dimensional map of the observed molecular gas distribution using the velocity field from the SPH model. A comparison with studies of the Galactic center region suggests that the main structures are reproduced, but somewhat stretched along the line of sight, probably on account of limited resolution of the underlying SPH simulation. The gas model will be publicly available and may prove useful in a number of applications, among them the analysis of diffuse gamma-ray emission as measured with GLAST.
3DICE: 3D IC cost evaluation based on fast tier number estimation

During the billion transistor era, 3D stacking offers an attractive solution for the difficulties resulting from large-scale design complexities. Moreover, 3D stacking can benefit performance, power, bandwidth, footprint, and heterogeneous technology mixing. However, before adopting the 3D design strategy, this study seeks to understand how much cost is required to trade these benefits. This paper proposes a 3D IC cost evaluation framework based on fast tier number estimation. Using a reformulated Rent's rule, this study efficiently determines the number k of tiers to minimize the through-silicon via count and then automatically partitions a gate-level netlist into k tiers to minimize the total cost. This study conducted experiments on eight industrial test cases to show cost efficiency and effectiveness. Moreover, results prove that the reformulated Rent's rule indicates a strong correlation between the tier number and through-silicon via usage.
vPath: Precise Discovery of Request Processing Paths from Black-Box Observations of Thread and Network Activities

Discovering end-to-end request-processing paths is crucial in many modern IT environments for reasons varying from debugging and bottleneck analysis to billing and auditing. Existing solutions for this problem fall into two broad categories: statistical inference and intrusive instrumentation. The statistical approaches infer request-processing paths in a "most likely" way and their accuracy degrades as the workload increases. The instrumentation approaches can be accurate, but they are system dependent as they require knowledge (and often source code) of the application as well as time and effort from skilled programmers. We have developed a discovery technique called vPath that overcomes these shortcomings. Unlike techniques using statistical inference, vPath provides precise path discovery, by monitoring thread and network activities and reasoning about their causality. Unlike techniques using intrusive instrumentation, vPath is implemented in a virtual machine monitor, making it agnostic of the overlying middleware or application. Our evaluation using a diverse set of applications (TPC-W, RUBiS, MediaWiki, and the home-grown vApp) written in different programming languages (C, Java, and PHP) demonstrates the generality and accuracy of vPath as well as its low overhead. For example, turning on vPath affects the throughput and response time of TPC-W by only 6%.
Climatic Impact of Tropical Lowland Deforestation on Nearby Montane Cloud Forests

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