Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Co-training 2 L Submodels for Visual Recognition

We use by default the DeiT-III training procedure from Touvron et al. [51], which uses separate recipes for Imagenet1k and Imagenet21k. The most noticeable difference is the loss, which is by default a binary cross-entropy when training on Imagenet1k, versus a cross-entropy when pre-training with Imagenet21k and fine-tuning with Imagenet1k. We depart from the choices of DeiT-III as follows. First, we systematically set the weight decay to 0.02, independent of whether we pre-train on Imagenet21k or train or fine-tune on Imagenet1k. This does not change significantly the results with cosub. Our long schedule on Imagenet21k is systematically set to 270 epochs.
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We use rich survey data on 133,825 households from 27 EU countries during 2005-2011 to analyze substitution between ﬁxed-line and mobile telecommunications services. We estimate a discrete choice model where households may choose between having mobile or ﬁxed-line voice access only, or using both technologies at the same time. We obtain the following main ﬁndings. First, ﬁxed-line and mobile connections are on average perceived as substitutes. But there is substantial heterogeneity across households and EU regions, with stronger substitu-tion in Central and Eastern European countries. Second, there is strong complementarity between ﬁxed-line and mobile connections that are oﬀered by the ﬁxed-line incumbent operator. This gives the incumbent a possibility to leverage its position in the ﬁxed-line market into the mobile market. Third, ﬁxed broadband technologies such as DSL and cable generate strong complementarities between ﬁxed and mobile access, while mobile broadband strengthens substitution (at a smaller scale). The emergence of ﬁxed broadband has thus been an important additional source through which incumbents leverage their strong position in the ﬁxed-line network.
Geographical and temporal distribution of babesial infection in Connecticut

Human babesiosis was first recognized in Connecticut in 1989, nearly 15 years after Lyme disease, a similarly transmitted spirochetosis, was detected in the state. To determine the seroprevalence for the babesial pathogen and whether it was recently introduced, we used an indirect immunofluorescence assay to test for Babesia microti antibody in 1,285 Connecticut residents. Four groups were studied: I, people seropositive for Lyme disease, tested from 1986 to 1989; II, randomly selected outpatients tested in 1989; III, college students residing in Connecticut, tested from 1959 to 1989; and IV, healthy people without tick exposure or Lyme disease, tested in 1989. Babesia seropositivity was significantly higher in group I (9.5%; n = 735) than in groups II (2.6%; n = 304, P less than 0.0001) and III (1.0%; n = 206, P less than 0.0001) but not group IV (2.5%, n = 40). Babesia seropositivity for group I ranged from 9.2 to 10.2% between 1986 and 1989, and Babesia seropositivity for group III ranged from 0% between 1959 and 1985 to 2.9% between 1986 and 1989. There is a considerable risk of babesial infection among residents of the Connecticut mainland who are seropositive for Lyme disease, a risk that appears to have remained constant over the past 5 years.
Modeling geographic vaccination strategies for COVID-19 in Norway

Vaccination was a key intervention in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic globally. In early 2021, Norway faced significant regional variations in COVID-19 incidence and prevalence, with large differences in population density, necessitating efficient vaccine allocation to reduce infections and severe outcomes. This study explored alternative vaccination strategies to minimize health outcomes (infections, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, deaths) by varying regions prioritized, extra doses prioritized, and implementation start time. Using two models (individual-based and meta-population), we simulated COVID-19 transmission during the primary vaccination period in Norway, covering the first 7 months of 2021. We investigated alternative strategies to allocate more vaccine doses to regions with a higher force of infection. We also examined the robustness of our results and highlighted potential structural differences between the two models. Our findings suggest that early vaccine prioritization could reduce COVID-19 related health outcomes by 8% to 20% compared to a baseline strategy without geographic prioritization. For minimizing infections, hospitalizations, or ICU admissions, the best strategy was to initially allocate all available vaccine doses to fewer high-risk municipalities, comprising approximately one-fourth of the population. For minimizing deaths, a moderate level of geographic prioritization, with approximately one-third of the population receiving doubled doses, gave the best outcomes by balancing the trade-off between vaccinating younger people in high-risk areas and older people in low-risk areas. The actual strategy implemented in Norway was a two-step moderate level aimed at maintaining the balance and ensuring ethical considerations and public trust. However, it did not offer significant advantages over the baseline strategy without geographic prioritization. Earlier implementation of geographic prioritization could have more effectively addressed the main wave of infections, substantially reducing the national burden of the pandemic.
A Study on Magnitude Scaling Factors and Screening Limits of Liquefaction Potential Assessment in Moderate Earthquake Regions

Conventional methods for the assessment of liquefaction potential were primarily for areas of severe earthquake zones (M=7.5) such as North America and Japan. Detailed earthquake related researches in Korea started in 1997, including development of the seismic design standards for port and harbour structures, which was later completed in 1999. Because most contents in the guidelines were quoted through literature reviews from North America and Japan, which are located in strong earthquake region, those are not proper in Korea, a moderate earthquake region. This requires further improvement of the present guidelines. Considering earthquake hazard data in Korea, use of laboratory tests based on irregular earthquake motion appears to be effective to reflect the dynamic characteristics of soil more realistically than those using simplified regular loading. In this study, cyclic triaxial tests using irregular earthquake motions are performed with different earthquake magnitudes, relative densities, and fines contents. Assessment of liquefaction potential in moderate earthquake regions is discussed based on various laboratory test results. Effects of these components on dynamic behavior of soils are discussed as well. From the test results, screening limits and magnitude scaling factors to determine the soil liquefaction resistance strength in seismic design were re-investigated and proposed using normalized maximum stress ratios under real irregular earthquake motions.
A nomogram for predicting the severity of COVID-19 using laboratory examination and CT �ndings

Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 has a signi�cant impact on the health of people around the world. In the clinical condition of COVID-19, the condition of critical cases changes rapidly with a high mortality rate. Therefore, early prediction of disease severity and active intervention play an important role in the prognosis of severe patients. Methods: All the patients with COVID-19 in Taizhou city were retrospectively included and segregated into the non-severe and severe group according to the severity of the disease. The clinical manifestations, laboratory examination results, and imaging �ndings of the 2 groups were analysed for comparing the differences between the 2 groups. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression were used for screening the factors that could predict the disease, and the nomogram was constructed. Results: A total of 143 laboratory-con�rmed cases were included in the study, including 110 non-severe patients and 33 severe patients. The median age of patients was 47 years (range, 4–86 years). Fever (73.4%) and cough (63.6%) were the most common initial clinical symptoms. By using the method of multivariate logistic regression, the variables to construct nomogram include age (OR: 1.052, 95% CI: 1.020–1.086, P = 0.001), body temperature (OR: 2.252, 95% CI: 1.139–4.450, P = 0.020), lymphocyte count (OR: 1.128, 95% CI: 1.000–1.272, P = 0.049), ADA (OR: 1.163, 95% CI: 1.023–1.323, P = 0.021), PaO 2 (OR: 0.972, 95% CI: 0.953–0.992, P = 0.007), IL-10 (OR: 1.184, 95% CI: 1.037–1.351, P = 0.012), and bronchiectasis (OR: 3.818, 95% CI: 1.694–8.605, P = 0.001). The AUC of the established nomogram was 0.877.
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RESILIENT DEFORMATIONS OF UNTREATED AGGREGATE BASE IN TWO-LAYER PAVEMENTS SUBJECTED TO REPEATED LOADING

INTEREST IN PAVEMENT DEFLECTIONS UNDER MOVING WHEEL LOADS AS A MEASURE OF PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE AND THE NEED FOR A PROCEDURE WHEREBY THESE DEFLECTIONS MIGHT BE PREDICTED IN ADVANCE FROM SUITABLE LABORATORY TESTS, GENERATED THIS INVESTIGATION. THE INVESTIGATION ENCOMPASSED THE MEASUREMENT OF RESILIENT BEHAVIOR OF FOUR UNTREATED GRANULAR MATERIALS IN TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION REPEATED LOAD TESTS IN THE LABORA- TORY, MEASUREMENT OF DEFLECTIONS IN FIELD PROTOTYPE PAVEMENTS COMPOSED OF ONE OF THESE MATERIALS (A WELL-GRADED, PARTIALLY CRUSHED GRAVEL) AND A COMPRESSIBLE FINE-GRAINED SUBGRADE SOIL USING REPEATED LOAD PLATE TESTS, AND THE RELATING OF THE LABORATORY TESTS TO THE OBSERVED DEFLECTIONS OF THE PROTOTYPE PAVEMENTS USING ELASTIC THEORY. RESULTS OF REPEATED LOAD TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS ON THE GRANULAR MATERIALS INDICATE A UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MODULUS OF RESILIENT DEFORMATION (ANALOGOUS TO AN ELASTIC MODULUS) AND CONFINING PRESSURE. THE MODULUS CAN VARY CONSIDERABLY OVER THE RANGE IN STRESSES USUALLY ENCOUNTERED IN PAVEMENTS. RESULTS OF REPEATED LOAD PLATE TESTS INDICATE THAT THE RESILIENT DEFORMATION OF AN UNTREATED BASE COURSE DEPENDS ON /1/ CONFINING PRESSURE-THE AVERAGE MODULUS OF RESILIENT DEFORMATION INCREASED WITH THE CONFINING PRESSURE, /2/ THICKNESS OF BASE-THE RESILIENT DEFORMATION OF THE BASE INCREASED AS THE THICKNESS OF THE BASE WAS INCREASED FROM 8 TO 12 IN. , AND /3/ PLATE DIAMETER-WHEN THE SURFACE PRESSURE REMAINED CONSTANT, RESILIENT DEFORMATION OF THE BASE COURSE DECREASED AS THE DIAMETER OF THE PLATE WAS INCREASED; I.E., THE RESILIENT DEFORMATION PER INCH THICKNESS OF BASE DECREASED AS THE RATIO OF PLATE DIAMETER TO BASE THICKNESS INCREASED. RESILIENT DEFORMATIONS COMPUTED FOR THE PROTOTYPE PAVEMENTS USING THE RESULTS OF THE LABORATORY TESTS TOGETHER WITH A MODIFICATION TO THE BOUSSINESQ THEORY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE VARIABILITY IN DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GRANULAR MATERIAL WERE IN REASONABLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE MEASURED DEFORMATIONS. THUS IT WOULD APPEAR THAT RESULTS OF REPEATED-LOAD TESTS ON PAVING MATERIALS CAN BE USED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF AVAILABLE THEORY TO PREDICT TRANSIENT PAVEMENT DEFLECTION.
MORTALIDADE NEONATAL: CARACTERÍSTICAS ASSISTENCIAIS E BIOLÓGICAS DOS RECÉM-NASCIDOS E DE SUAS MÃES

Estudo transversal-descritivo com abordagem quantitativa cujo objetivo foi analisar as caracteristicas assistenciais e biologicas dos recem-nascidos vivos que evoluiram para obito no periodo neonatal no municipio de Cuiaba-Mato Grosso, no ano de 2010. Os dados foram obtidos das Declaracoes de Nascidos Vivos, Declaracoes de Obito e prontuarios hospitalares de fevereiro a abril de 2011, organizados no programa Excel 2007 e submetidos a analise estatistica descritiva. Ocorreram 77 obitos neonatais sendo que 72,8% na primeira semana de vida, 71,5% dos bebes tinham peso menor que 2.500 gramas ao nascer, 75,3% nasceram com menos de 38 semanas de gestacao e 51,9% dos partos foram cesareo. A maioria dos neonatos recebeu assistencia durante o parto; entretanto, a maior parte deles teve algum grau de asfixia ao nascer e necessitou de reanimacao cardiopulmonar. O conhecimento dos fatores relacionados a mortalidade neonatal pode contribuir para a sua prevencao.
Régulation de la réponse immunitaire T par l’apoptose et hyperactivation de la voie RAS

L'apoptose lymphocytaire joue un role essentiel dans le controle de la reponse immunitaire et de la proliferation cellulaire. De nombreuses voies interviennent dans sa regulation, dont certaines dependantes de l’oncogene RAS. Un defaut d'apoptose lymphocytaire induit l'apparition de maladies auto-immunes et lympho-proliferatives comme l'Autoimmune LymphoProliferative Syndrome (ALPS). L'ALPS fait suite a des anomalies du principal recepteur membranaire de mort FAS, pivot de l'apoptose lymphocytaire. Le RAS-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disease (RALD) est une entite decrite recemment, se rapprochant de l'ALPS par la symptomatologie et la physiopathologie sous-jacente. Cependant, dans le RALD, le defaut d'apoptose lymphocytaire n’est pas lie a des mutations de FAS mais a une hyperactivation de la voie RAS, mettant ainsi en lumiere le role essentiel de cette voie dans la regulation du processus en question. Dans les Leucemies Myelo-Monocytaires Juveniles Chroniques (JMML), les memes mutations que celles observees dans les RALD sont trouvees, sur les memes populations cellulaires. Il existe une heterogeneite clinique et biologique au sein des JMML, certaines etant indolentes (LS-JMML) et d'autres severes (S-JMML). A cette heterogeneite au sein meme des JMML s'ajoute celle observee entre JMML et RALD. L'objectif de ce travail a ete de comprendre les tenants des differences phenotypiques observees, au travers du scope de l'apoptose des lymphocytes T actives, en comparant les trois entites resultant de mutations activatrices de RAS dans des cellules pluripotentes hematopoietiques : RALD, LS-JMML et S-JMML. Nous rapportons des consequences distinctes pour des mutations identiques ou equivalentes, avec differentes voies de l'apoptose touchees, differenciant les phenotypes induits. Ce travail a permis de demontrer que l’hyperactivation de la voie RAS seule n’entraine pas necessairement une deregulation de la reponse immunitaire T. Des evenements additionnels aux mutations presentes sont necessaires au developpement des symptomes. Ces evenements ont bien des consequences sur l'apoptose lymphocytaire, au niveau post-traductionnel, qu’ils concernent la voie RAS ou non. Les differences observees entre les trois phenotypes sur le plan experimental pourraient etre une aide au pronostic. De plus, ce travail ouvre la voie a l'identification en details des facteurs additionnels et voies defaillantes et permettrait ainsi d'obtenir des therapeutiques specifiques actuellement inexistantes.
Método para estimação da distância de faltas de alta impedância em redes de distribuição de energia elétrica considerando diferentes tipos de solo

Esse trabalho propoe uma metodologia, desenvolvida no dominio do tempo, para localizacao de faltas de alta impedância em sistemas aereos de distribuicao de energia eletrica. Um dos aspectos inovadores do metodo e a proposicao de um unico modelo matematico para representar as diferentes curvas V x I geradas durante uma falta de alta impedância em diferentes tipos de solos. O comportamento do alimentador e equacionado em funcao da distância da falta, dos parâmetros da rede e das correntes e tensoes medidas na subestacao. Sendo assim, o metodo proposto nao necessita da instalacao de nenhum equipamento adicional de medicao na rede. As capacitâncias do alimentador tambem foram consideradas no equacionamento da rede eletrica, tornando o modelo mais proximo de um alimentador real. Outro aspecto inovador e a utilizacao de uma rede neural artificial para estimacao dos parâmetros desconhecidos das equacoes nao lineares que modelam o comportamento do alimentador durante as faltas de alta impedância. Essa rede e treinada de forma continua, e somente apos o inicio da falta, atraves dos dados gerados pela propria falta. Dessa maneira, nao e necessario simular diversos casos para o treinamento previo da rede. O desempenho do metodo proposto foi avaliado no sistema teste IEEE 34 barras atraves da variacao do tipo de solo, do ângulo de incidencia das faltas e do carregamento do alimentador. Alem disso, a influencia da metodologia de estimacao da corrente no ponto de falta tambem foi avaliada. Por fim, o desempenho do metodo proposto nesse trabalho foi comparado com outro recentemente apresentado na literatura. De modo geral, em 86% dos casos testados o algoritmo obteve um erro inferior a 2,5% na estimacao da distância da falta, sendo que o erro maximo obtido foi de 4%. Na analise comparativa com outro metodo, o algoritmo proposto obteve melhores resultados em todos os casos testados, independentemente do tipo de solo em que a falta incidiu e da sua distância. Os bons resultados obtidos, aliado a simplicidade e baixo custo de implementacao, tornam o metodo proposto nesse trabalho promissor para a aplicacao em um alimentador real.
Evaluation of economic development in Orissa

The study deals with the evaluation of economic development of different districts of Orissa State with the main objective to rank the districts on the basis of agricultural, industrial, infrastructural and overall economic development indices and to examine the impact of these developments on reduction in the incidence of poverty in the State. The study utilises data at the district level for the year 1990-91 on forty six different indicators depicting various facets of development of different sectors of economy. All the thirteen districts of Orissa have been included in the analysis. The district of Cuttack has been ranked first and the district of Phulbani has been ranked last in the overall economic development. The level of development has been examined separately for agricultural sector and infrastructural service sector. From the composite indices of development of the above three sectors, it is observed that there is greater variability in the level of development in industrial sector as compared to agricultural and infrastructural service sectors. The overall economic development is very much associated with the agricultural development and industrial development. The agricultural and industrial developments are found to be mutually associated which implies that the districts which are agriculturally developed, are mostly developed in industrial sector also. The developments in agricultural and industrial sector seem, therefore, to go hand in hand in the State. The extent of improvement required in different indicators of the low developed districts of the State has been examined. Indicators like irrigation, fertilisers, foodgrains production, fish production and the number of veterinary dispensaries etc. need improvements of varying magnitude in all the low developed districts in agricultural sector. In industrial sector, all the eleven indicators require improvements whereas in service sector improvement is needed uniformally in the indicators concerning medical facilities, decadal growth rate of population, literacy, banking facilities, electrification of villages and length of roads etc.
Epidemiological characteristics of leprosy during the period 2005–2020: A retrospective study based on the Chinese surveillance system

Background Jiangsu Province is located in the Yangtze River Delta region, with a total area of 107,200 square kilometers. Since 1949, over 55,000 cases have been registered, with Taixing accounting for the highest number of patients. The proportion of new cases with MB and G2D was higher compared to other regions. As a result, Jiangsu has been considered a priority area for public health interventions in China. Methods This paper mainly described the population, time, and spatial distribution of the newly detected leprosy cases in Jiangsu Province between 2005 and 2020. In this study, all the data were entered into Microsoft Excel and SPSS for the descriptive analysis. ArcGIS was applied to create statistical maps, and Geoda was used to conduct spatial autocorrelation analysis with local Moran's I statistics (LISA). The epidemiological data were obtained from LEPMIS. In addition, population data were obtained from the Statistical Yearbook of Jiangsu Province. Results During the study period, 363 new cases were reported. Of these, 232 were men and 131 were women (1.77:1). The mean age at diagnosis was 60.56 years, and no adolescent cases were identified. Three hundred and twenty-seven (90.08%) were diagnosed with MB and 36 (9.92%) with PB. 31.68% (115/363) of the patients presented with G2D. Farmers accounted for 74.9%, and most cases were identified in skin clinics (248, 68.32%). We observed a decreasing trend in detection rate, with a higher concentration of new cases diagnosed between July and October. Spatial analysis showed that the new cases were primarily distributed in the northwest of Jiangsu province, and Suqian has the highest incidence of leprosy. Special attention should be paid to Wuzhong, a county with a potential risk of inter-provincial transmission. Furthermore, 55 new cases came from other Chinese provinces but lived in Jiangsu. Conclusion The NCDR of leprosy decreased, but the new cases showed disabilities, a sign of the late diagnosis. The results indicated that some regions were still suffering from the burden of leprosy. Thus, we recommend that the government should adopt effective strategies to promote leprosy control. The main priorities for eliminating new cases were to provide sustainable financial support, improve the quality of clinical services, strengthen preventive intervention and rehabilitation services for disabilities, provide health education among high-risk populations, and explore new approaches.
Model predictive control for LPV models with maximal stabilizable model range

This paper characterizes model predictive control (MPC) for linear parameter varying (LPV) models subject to state and input constraints, which is based on the homogeneous polynomially parameterized (HPP) Lyapunov function and HPP control law with tunable complexity degrees. The controller guarantees the closed‐loop asymptotic stability and finds the control move through the convex optimization. While it is known that this technique can improve the control performance and reduce conservatism, we suggest that it also enlarges, and maximizes with the sufficiently large complexity degrees, the stabilizable LPV model range. The computational burden becomes heavier when the complexity degrees increase. However, the main contributions of this paper are more on theory than on practice. It explores to what extent robust MPC can be applied for stabilization of LPV models. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.