Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Matching events in a content-based subscription system

Content-based subscription systems are an emerging alternative to traditional publish-subscribe systems, because they permit more flexible subscriptions along multiple dimensions. In these systems, each subscription is a predicate which may test arbitrary attributes within an event. However, the matching problem for content-based systems — determining for each event the subset of all subscriptions whose predicates match the event — is still an open problem. We present an efficient, scalable solution to the matching problem. Our solution has an expected time complexity that is sub-linear in the number of subscriptions, and it has a space complexity that is linear. Specifically, we prove that for predicates reducible to conjunctions of elementary tests, the expected time to match a random event is no greater than O(N 1 ) where N is the number of subscriptions, and is a closed-form expression that depends on the number and type of attributes (in some cases, 1=2). We present some optimizations to our algorithms that improve the search time. We also present the results of simulations that validate the theoretical bounds and that show acceptable performance levels for tens of thousands of subscriptions. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-7501, aguilera@cs.cornell. edu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598, fstrom, sturman, tusharg@watson.ibm. com Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana, I.L. 61801, astley@cs.uiuc. edu
Platform Property Certificate for Property-Based Attestation Model

Binary Attestation is currently used in trusted computing environments involving the standard TCG attestation mechanism. However, this mechanism still has deficiencies in terms of flexibility, privacy and scalability. Thus, to overcome these problems, Property-based Attestation has been proposed. Two important issues should be considered in the context of property-based attestation; these include the content of the property and the protocol design. In this study, the researchers proposed platform property certificate, based on the current certificates of the system as the model's property. In addition, a client-server attestation protocol that could apply this particular property is also proposed. In order to show the feasibility of the model, the proposed model was implemented. The results of the implementation showed that the model is efficient to be used to accept and reject valid and invalid inputs. Hence, security aspects listed as privacy, flexibility, scalability and also integrity of the model is checked, while it is crucial to note that it also fulfils the requirements of property-based attestation with TCG standard specifications.
Some Basic Cryptographic Requirements for Chaos-Based Cryptosystems

In recent years, a large amount of work on chaos-based cryptosystems have been published. However, many of the proposed schemes fail to explain or do not possess a number of features that are fundamentally important to all kind of cryptosystems. As a result, many proposed systems are difficult to implement in practice with a reasonable degree of security. Likewise, they are seldom accompanied by a thorough security analysis. Consequently, it is difficult for other researchers and end users to evaluate their security and performance. This work is intended to provide a common framework of basic guidelines that, if followed, could benefit every new cryptosystem. The suggested guidelines address three main issues: implementation, key management and security analysis, aiming at assisting designers of new cryptosystems to present their work in a more systematic and rigorous way to fulfill some basic cryptographic requirements. Meanwhile, several recommendations are made regarding some practical aspects of analog chaos-based secure communications, such as channel noise, limited bandwith and attenuation.
Combined Healthy Lifestyle Is Inversely Associated with Psychological Disorders among Adults

Background and Aims Joint association of lifestyle-related factors and mental health has been less studied in earlier studies, especially in Middle Eastern countries. This study aimed to examine how combinations of several lifestyle-related factors related to depression and anxiety in a large group of middle-age Iranian population. Methods In a cross-sectional study on 3363 Iranian adults, a healthy lifestyle score was constructed by the use of data from dietary intakes, physical activity, smoking status, psychological distress and obesity. A dish-based 106-item semi-quantitative validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPPAQ), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and other pre-tested questionnaires were used to assess the components of healthy lifestyle score. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was applied to screen for anxiety and depression. Results After adjustment for potential confounders, we found that individuals with the highest score of healthy lifestyle were 95% less likely to be anxious (OR: 0.05; 95% CI: 0.01–0.27) and 96% less likely to be depressed (OR: 0.04; 95% CI: 0.01–0.15), compared with those with the lowest score. In addition, non-smokers had lower odds of anxiety (OR: 0.64; 95% CI: 0.47–0.88) and depression (OR: 0.62; 95% CI: 0.48–0.81) compared with smokers. Individuals with low levels of psychological distress had expectedly lower odds of anxiety (OR: 0.13; 95% CI: 0.10–0.16) and depression (OR: 0.10; 95% CI: 0.08–0.12) than those with high levels. Individuals with a healthy diet had 29% lower odds of depression (OR: 0.71; 95% CI: 0.59–0.87) than those with a non-healthy diet. Conclusion We found evidence indicating that healthy lifestyle score was associated with lower odds of anxiety and depression in this group of Iranian adults. Healthy diet, psychological distress, and smoking status were independent predictors of mental disorders.
Inflation is always and everywhere … a conflict phenomenon: post-Keynesian inflation theory and energy price driven conflict inflation

This paper reviews the post-Keynesian theory of inflation against the background of the simultaneous rise in inflation and profit shares in the course of the Covid-19 recovery and the Russian war in Ukraine. It distinguishes between the Keynes, Kaldor, Robinson, and Marglin tradition, and the Kalecki, Rowthorn, and Dutt tradition. Two prototype models in the latter tradition—the Dutt, Blecker/Setterfield and Lavoie variant, and the Rowthorn and Hein/Stockhammer variant—are discussed. The paper applies the latter to elucidate recent inflation trends propelled by increasing imported energy prices and then rising mark-ups. The effects of inflation-targeting central bank interest policies versus a post-Keynesian alternative macroeconomic policy approach are evaluated. It is argued that from a post-Keynesian perspective inflation is always and everywhere a conflict phenomenon , with different potential triggers. Adequate policies should thus focus on moderating distribution conflict by incomes policies, complemented by central banks targeting low long-term real interest rates, functional finance fiscal policies and international coordination of inflation targets.
Hyperspectral image classification based on robust discriminative extraction of multiple spectral-spatial features

ABSTRACT In hyperspectral image (HSI) processing, the inclusion of both spectral and spatial features, e.g. morphological features, shape features, has shown great success in classification of hyperspectral data. Nevertheless, there exist two main issues to address: (1) The multiple features are often treated equally and thus the complementary information among them is neglected. (2) The features are often degraded by a mixture of various kinds of noise, leading to the classification accuracy decreased. In order to address these issues, a novel robust discriminative multiple features extraction (RDMFE) method for HSI classification is proposed. The proposed RDMFE aims to project the multiple features into a common low-rank subspace, where the specific contributions of different types of features are sufficiently exploited. With low-rank constraint, RDMFE is able to uncover the intrinsic low-dimensional subspace structure of the original data. In order to make the projected features more discriminative, we make the learned representations optimal for classification. With intrinsic information preserving and discrimination capabilities, the learned projection matrix works well in HSI classification tasks. Experimental results on three real hyperspectral datasets confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Targeted supplementation design for improved production and quality of enveloped viral particles in insect cell-baculovirus expression system.

37 The recent approval of vaccines and gene therapy products for human use produced in the 38 Insect Cell-Baculovirus Expression Vector System (IC-BEVS) underlines the high potential and 39 versatility of this platform. The interest in developing robust production processes emerges to 40 cope with manufacturing pressure, as well as stringent product quality guidelines. Previously, 41 we addressed the impact of the baculovirus infection on the physiology of insect host cell lines, 42 identifying key cellular pathways enrolled in heterologous gene/protein expression. In the 43 present work, this knowledge was applied to design tailored media supplementation schemes to 44 boost IC-BEVS production yields and quality of enveloped viral particles: influenza VLPs (Inf- 45 VLP) and baculovirus vectors (BV). 46 The addition of reduced glutathione, antioxidants and polyamines increased the cell 47 specific yields of baculovirus particles up to 3 fold. Cholesterol was identified as the most 48 critical system booster, capable of improving 2.5 and 6-fold cell specific yields of BV and Inf- 49 VLPs, respectively. Surprisingly, the combination of polyamines and cholesterol 50 supplementation improved baculovirus stock quality, by preventing the accumulation of non- 51 infectious particles during viral replication while selectively increasing infectious particles 52 production. In addition, the specific yields of both enveloped viral particles, BVs and Inf-VLPs, 53 were also increased. 54 The correlation between supplement addition and systems productivity was extensively 55 analyzed, providing a critical assessment on final product quantity and quality as drivers of 56 bioprocess optimization efforts. 57
Chinese Sketch Engine and the Extraction of Grammatical Collocations

This paper introduces a new technology for collocation extraction in Chinese. Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2004) has proven to be a very effective tool for automatic description of lexical information, including collocation extraction, based on large-scale corpus. The original work of Sketch Engine was based on BNC. We extend Sketch Engine to Chinese based on Gigaword corpus from LDC. We discuss the available functions of the prototype Chinese Sketch Engine (CSE) as well as the robustness of language-independent adaptation of Sketch Engine. We conclude by discussing how Chinese-specific linguistic information can be incorporated to improve the
Partial characterization of the DNA-dependent DNA polymerases of rat liver and hepatoma.

Summary Four DNA-dependent DNA polymerases, which include a soluble nuclear polymerase, the mitochondrial polymerase, and two polymerases associated with the smooth membrane fraction, have been partially purified from normal rat liver and a fast-growing Morris hepatoma, 7777, by previously published procedures. The membrane-associated enzymes have been designated as the 0.10 and 0.25 smooth membrane polymerases on the basis of their elution from a diethylaminoethyl cellulose column with the respective concentration of KCl. The polymerases were shown to be separate enzymes by their ability to use synthetic polymers as templates and their response to several inhibitors. The mitochondrial DNA polymerase was readily distinguished from the smooth membrane polymerases by its ability efficiently to utilize poly(dA)d(pT) 10 as template and by its complete inhibition by concentrations of ethidium bromide which do not inhibit the other enzymes. Furthermore, the mitochondrial enzyme is the only one of the four polymerases which is insensitive to inhibition by p -hydroxymercuribenzoate. The various polymerases were also distinguished by the effects of monovalent salts and the alkaloid antibiotic, camptothecin, on their activities. NaCl (0.05 to 0.10 m) stimulates the mitochondrial and 0.10 smooth membrane polymerases but is inhibitory to the nuclear and 0.25 smooth membrane enzymes. Camptothecin inhibits the nuclear and 0.25 smooth membrane polymerases, stimulates the 0.10 smooth membrane enzyme, and has no effect on the mitochondrial polymerase.
Meta-Analysis for Heat Tolerance Traits in Holstein in France, the Netherlands and Spain

In the context of climate change, livestock production systems face the challenge of ensuring that, although more and more exposed to heat-stress conditions, animals will be able to remain healthy while maintaining satisfactory production, responding to consumer’s demand. As part of the European project RUMIGEN, France (INRAE, Idele), Spain (INIA, IRIAF)
M3-Driven smart space creation using a DD-WRT-Based device

The paper describes the process of smart space creation based on integration of Smart-M3 platform with a DD-WRT-based device. Smart-M3 is an open source platform which implements concept of smart space. Wi-Fi router is used as platform hosting which reduces the number of devices participating in smart space-based scenarios. The article covers a process of compilation and installation of Smart-M3 platform on DD-WRT-based Wi-Fi router. Evaluation shows that smart space organized this way can be used for scenarios with few participants. The authors developed “Smart-M3 Control Panel” web-service which allows users to control Smart-M3 platform by a graphical web interface. “Smart-M3 Control Panel” user can view the current status of platform; launch, stop, and reload it; view information storage content and change it; download log files; and change startup options. SocketIO interface was used for the user interaction with web service.
Robust stroke segmentation method for handwritten Chinese character recognition

Presents a robust thinning-based method for the segmentation of strokes from handwritten Chinese characters. A new set of feature points is proposed for the analysis of skeleton images. A geometrical graph-based approach is developed for the analysis of strokes. A novel criterion is proposed for the identification of the fork points in a skeleton image which correspond to the same joint points in the original character image. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective.
Abstraction and Reproduction of Force Sensation from Real Environment by Bilateral Control

In recent years, the skill preservation of an expert has been a serious problem in various fields. If digital skill preservation like a haptic database is attained, it may become an innovative solution of this problem. This paper proposes abstraction and reproduction methods on bilateral control of force sensation from the real environment and reconstruction of the real environment as well. In the abstraction mode, which is based on bilateral control with disturbance observer, "the law of action and reaction" is attained. Later, the environmental dynamical information is estimated and obtained. In the reconstruction mode, an environmental model is reconstructed based on the obtained data from the real environment. Then, in the reproduction mode, the operator would feel the force sensation from the obtained environmental model as if from the real environment. As a result, the proposed system is able to store the bilateral force sensation to a force sensation recorder. In this paper, some environmental models for the reproduction of vivid force sensation are compared experimentally. Finally, the viability of the proposed methods is shown by the experimental results
Virtual-Coordinate-Based Delivery-Guaranteed Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we first propose a method, ABVCap, to construct a virtual coordinate system in a wireless sensor network. ABVCap assigns each node multiple 5-tuple virtual coordinates. Subsequently, we introduce a protocol, ABVCap routing, to route packets based on the ABVCap virtual coordinate system. ABVCap routing guarantees packet delivery without the computation and storage of the global topological features. Finally, we demonstrate an approach, ABVCap maintenance, to reconstruct an ABVCap virtual coordinate system in a network with node failures. Simulations show ABVCap routing ensures moderate routing path length, as compared to virtual-coordinate-based routing, GLIDER, Hop ID, GLDR, and VCap.
Along‐Arc Heterogeneity of the Seismic Structure Around a Large Coseismic Shallow Slip Area of the 2011 Tohoku‐Oki Earthquake: 2‐D Vp Structural Estimation Through an Air Gun‐Ocean Bottom Seismometer Experiment in the Japan Trench Subduction Zone

The 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake occurred with a rupture length of 500 km along the Japan Trench, causing a large slip (>30 m) at the shallowest portion of the plate boundary fault south of 39°N off Miyagi and a smaller slip (~10 m) north of 39°N off Sanriku, the northern part of the source area. We estimated the P wave velocity (Vp) structure around the shallowest portion of the plate boundary along the trench to investigate the spatial correlation between the structural variation and coseismic shallow slip distribution of the 2011 earthquake. For this purpose, we analyzed data from an air gun‐ocean bottom seismometer survey on an along‐arc line on the lower part of the landward slope of the Japan Trench. We detected a high Vp zone in the hanging wall of the plate interface off Miyagi, which corresponds to the Cretaceous backstop. The Vp model also showed the absence of the high Vp zone off Sanriku. This suggests that the low‐Vp deformed prism is wider off Sanriku than off Miyagi. Therefore, the backstop is close to the trench particularly off Miyagi. We suggest a correlation between this along‐arc variation of the hanging wall side structure and the extent of the coseismic shallow slip in the trench axial region; the large slip reached the trench off Miyagi but not off Sanriku.
Molecular Identification of Novel Yeast Isolate Associated with Xylitol Production and Its Physicochemical Parameters Optimization

Xylitol, a natural sweetener, was produced by biotechnological methods using novel yeast which was isolated from sugarcane extracts of Sathyamangalam region, Tamilnadu, India. The yeast was identified based on its morphological, microscopical analysis and 18S rRNA molecular studies. As per the phylogenetic tree’s suggestion, the yeast strain was named as Candida tropicalis isolate Balki1 . The partial 18S rRNA sequence was submitted to NCBI Genbank and the accession number KC415251 was assigned. Improved fermentation conditions of xylitol production were found at pH 5, Temperature 30°C & initial xylose concentration 10% (w/v) respectively. Xylose reductase was the key enzyme mediating the xylitol production. The kinetic parameters were estimated as 71.54 mM and 0.696 U/mg of protein for the enzyme xylose reductase. The study suggests that the first reported yeast isolate can be espoused for large scale xylitol production.
Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells Tolerize T Cells across MHC Barriers in Mice 1

Although livers transplanted across MHC barriers in mice are normally accepted without recipient immune suppression, the underlying mechanisms remain to be clarified. To identify the cell type that contributes to induction of such a tolerance state, we established a mixed hepatic constituent cell-lymphocyte reaction (MHLR) assay. Irradiated C57BL/6 (B6) or BALB/c mouse hepatic constituent cells (HCs) and CFSE-labeled B6 splenocytes were cocultured. In allogeneic MHLR, whole HCs did not promote T cell proliferation. When liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) were depleted from HC stimulators, allogeneic MHLR resulted in marked proliferation of reactive CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. To test the tolerizing capacity of the LSECs toward alloreactive T cells, B6 splenocytes that had transmigrated through monolayers of B6, BALB/c, or SJL/j LSECs were restimulated with irradiated BALB/c splenocytes. Nonresponsiveness of T cells that had transmigrated through allogeneic BALB/c LSECs and marked proliferation of T cells transmigrated through syngeneic B6 or third-party SJL/j LSECs were observed after the restimulation. Transmigration across the Fas ligand-deficient BALB/c LSECs failed to render CD4+ T cells tolerant. Thus, we demonstrate that Fas ligand expressed on naive LSECs can impart tolerogenic potential upon alloantigen recognition via the direct pathway. This presents a novel relevant mechanism of liver allograft tolerance. In conclusion, LSECs are capable of regulating a polyclonal population of T cells with direct allospecificity, and the Fas/Fas ligand pathway is involved in such LSEC-mediated T cell regulation.
Sender-Based Message Logging

Sender-based message logging, a low-overhead mechanism for providing transparent fault-tolerance in distributed systems, is described. It differs from conventional message logging mechanisms in that each message is logged in volatile memory on the machine from which the message is sent. Keeping the message log in the sender's local memory allows one to recover from a single failure at a time without the expense of synchronously logging each message to stable storage. The message log is then asynchronously written to stable storage, without delaying the computation, as part of the sender's periodic checkpoint. Maintaining the sender-based message log requires at most one extra network packet over non-fault-tolerant reliable message communication and imposes little additional synchronization delay. It can be applied transparently to existing distributed applications and does not required specialized hardware. It is currently being implemented on a network of Sun workstations.
Estrogen receptor β selective nonsteroidal estrogens: seeking clinical indications

Importance of the field: Nonsteroidal estrogens have been known since the 1930s. However, the relatively recent (1996) discovery of estrogen receptor subtype β (ERβ) suggested a possible paradigm shift away from SERM-like selectivity. Selective ERβ agonism would potentially allow expansion of estrogenic targeting into new indications (discussed herein) currently precluded by the thrombogenic and hyperproliferative effects of nonselective estrogens. Areas covered in this review: ERβ agonist design has been very successful. Pharmacophores for ERβ selective nonsteroidal estrogens are generally diphenolic compounds that achieve an inter-phenolic distance and geometry similar to 17β-estradiol with few restraints on the nature of the element linking the phenols (or phenol mimetics). The tremendously chemodiverse ERβ agonist patent literature is reviewed, segregating the agonists into structurally similar compounds based on their interphenolic linking elements. What the reader will gain: A comprehensive understanding of the chemotype landscape of this field and an assessment of its maturation. Take home message: Subtype selective ERβ agonist therapy seems very promising. However, more clinical testing is needed to firmly establish its therapeutic potential. At this point, ERβ is a promising target in search of an indication.