Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An axiomatic approach to clustering line-segments

In this paper we consider the problem of clustering line-segments into new ones. The clustering-hierarchy gives an answer to the question what original line segments are combined into larger ones. Such a clustering is defined as a hierarchical ordering of a set of line-segments. Criteria on a clustering-method are presented. The difference between edges and lines in relation to scale-invariant clustering is demonstrated. Existing approaches are evaluated using the presented criteria. It is shown that these approaches do not meet desirable criteria such as scale-invariance. A new method is described that adheres the formulated criteria. Finally an experiment is presented that illustrates the usefulness of the new method.
MIEA: a Mutual Iterative Enhancement Approach for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification

Recent years have witnessed a large body of research works on cross-domain sentiment classification problem, where most of the research endeavors were based on a supervised learning strategy which builds models from only the labeled documents or only the labeled sentiment words. Unfortunately, such kind of supervised learning method usually fails to uncover the full knowledge between documents and sentiment words. Taking account of this limitation, in this paper, we propose an iterative reinforcement learning approach for cross-domain sentiment classification by simultaneously utilizing documents and words from both source domain and target domain. Our new method can make full use of the reinforcement between documents and words by fusing four kinds of relationships between documents and words. Experimental results indicate that our new method can improve the performance of cross-domain sentiment classification dramatically.
New Criterion For Selecting the Structural Index In Euler Deconvolution

Euler deconvolution has been widely used in automatic aeromagnetic interpretations because it requires no knowledge of the source magnetization direction and assumes no particular interpretation model. This rapid inversion method produces stable estimates for the horizontal and vertical positions and respectively) of point sources. Another main advantage of this method is that it does not demand a detailed geologic knowledge of the area. However the two crucial weakenesses of this method are: i) the need of knowing the nature of the magnetic point or line source, that is, the knowledge of the structural index and ii) the presence of an undesirable “spray” of solutions which is obtained when the method is applied in a redundant way by moving the discrete inverse operator around the anomalous area. We present two new criteria for solving these difficulties. The first criterion is aimed at determining It is based on the correlation between the total-field anomaly and the estimates of a baselevel (b) computed at the same locations of the observations and using different This correlation attains a minimum when the correct is assumed. The second criterion selects, from the “spray” of solutions, only the best solutions. We propose that, besides selecting the solutions producing a standard deviation for smaller than a threshold value, only those solutions producing the “best fit” to the known quantities be selected. This additional criterion substantially reduces the “spray” of solutions.
Compensating Inter-Dataset Variability in PLDA Hyper-Parameters for Robust Speaker Recognition

Recently we have introduced a method named inter-dataset variability compensation (IDVC) in the context of speaker recognition in a mismatched dataset. IDVC compensates dataset shifts in the i-vector space by constraining the shifts to a low dimensional subspace. The subspace is estimated from a heterogeneous development set which is partitioned into homogenous subsets. In this work we generalize the IDVC method to compensate inter-dataset variability attributed to additional PLDA hyper-parameters, namely the within and between speaker covariance matrices. Using the proposed method we managed to recover 85% of the degradation due to mismatched PLDA training in the framework of the JHU-2013 domain adaptation challenge.
Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans' Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries

Abstract Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect of army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records, tax returns, veterans' compensation records, and the Census facilitate a rich and precise analysis, identified by 53,000 complying conscripts. The estimated employment effect is −12 percentage points (95% CI: −13, −11) overall, −37 for those who served in Vietnam and 0 for those who served only in Australia. It emerged in the 1990s, mirrored by veterans' disability pension effects. These results contrast with those for the United States, possibly reflecting employment disincentives associated with Australia's veterans' compensation system.
High-performance enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs using fluoride-based plasma treatment

We report a novel approach in fabricating high-performance enhancement mode (E-mode) AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. The fabrication technique is based on fluoride-based plasma treatment of the gate region in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs and post-gate rapid thermal annealing with an annealing temperature lower than 500/spl deg/C. Starting with a conventional depletion-mode HEMT sample, we found that fluoride-based plasma treatment can effectively shift the threshold voltage from -4.0 to 0.9 V. Most importantly, a zero transconductance (g/sub m/) was obtained at V/sub gs/=0 V, demonstrating for the first time true E-mode operation in an AlGaN/GaN HEMT. At V/sub gs/=0 V, the off-state drain leakage current is 28 /spl mu/A/mm at a drain-source bias of 6 V. The fabricated E-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with 1 /spl mu/m-long gate exhibit a maximum drain current density of 310 mA/mm, a peak g/sub m/ of 148 mS/mm, a current gain cutoff frequency f/sub T/ of 10.1 GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency f/sub max/ of 34.3 GHz.
Reappraisal with meta-analysis of bacteremia, endotoxemia, and mortality in gram-negative sepsis

Among patients with suspected sepsis, endotoxemia is variably present in association with gram-negative bacteremia. A total of 738 patients with suspected sepsis from 11 studies could be classified into four groups: 131 (18%) patients had both endotoxemia and gram-negative bacteremia (group 1), 87 (12%) had only gram-negative bacteremia (group 2), and 143 (19%) had only endotoxemia (group 3); in 377 (51%) patients neither could be detected (group 4). By the statistical techniques of meta-analysis, the fatality risk for patients with either endotoxemia or gram-negative bacteremia or both was estimated with group-specific case fatality rates from these studies and expressed as an odds ratio (OR; 95% confidence interval [95% CI]) versus patients with these factors absent. This risk was increased marginally when endotoxemia was detected without gram-negative bacteremia (OR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.3 to 4.0) or the converse (OR, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.0 to 3.8), in contrast to the striking increase when both endotoxemia and gram-negative bacteremia were detected (OR, 6.3; 95% CI, 4.0 to 10.0). Alone, neither endotoxemia nor gram-negative bacteremia is a strong predictor of outcome in patients with suspected sepsis. However, in combination, the two identify a subpopulation with a substantially increased risk of mortality.
Quadra Sand and its relation to the late Wisconsin glaciation of southwest British Columbia

Quadra Sand is a late Pleistocene lithostratigraphic unit with widespread distribution in the Georgia Depression, British Columbia and Puget Lowland, Washington. The unit consists mainly of horizontally and cross-stratified, well sorted sand. It is overlain by till deposited during the Fraser Glaciation and is underlain by fluvial and marine sediments deposited during the preceding nonglacial interval.Quadra Sand was deposited progressively down the axis of the Georgia–Puget Lowland from source areas in the Coast Mountains to the north and northeast. The unit is markedly diachronous; it is older than 29 000 radiocarbon years at the north end of the Strait of Georgia, but is younger than 15 000 years at the south end of Puget Sound.Aggradation of the unit occurred during the climatic deterioration at the beginning of the Fraser Glaciation. Thick, well sorted sand was deposited in part as distal outwash aprons at successive positions in front of, and perhaps along the margins of, glaciers advancing from the.
Effective Vertical Solute Transport in Soils by Artificial Macropore System

AbstractSolute transport is an important factor governing soil environmental processes, such as effective fertilizer application or dispersion areas of remediation chemicals for contaminated soils. Macropores are ubiquitous in soils. In unsaturated conditions, they enhance air intrusion into soils, thus reducing the chances of clogging and surface ponding. However, their structure is hard to maintain, and they tend to collapse during long-term infiltration. In this experiment, macropore fillings were introduced into the pores to maintain their structure. Solute transport experiments were conducted for four soils with no macropores, empty macropores, macropores with paper towel fillings, and macropores with glass fiber fillings. The macropores with fillings worked as water pathways that conducted solutions to the deeper profile without saturation at the surface, thus avoiding clogging. When bio-remediation experiments were conducted using these four soil columns, soil columns with glass fiber fillings main.
PREDICTION IN OLAP CUBE

Data warehouses are now offering an adequate solution for managing large volumes of data. Online analysis supports OLAP data warehouses in the process of decision support and visualization tools offer, structure and operation of data warehouse. On the other hand, data mining allows the extraction of knowledge with technical description, classification, explanation and prediction. It is therefore possible to better understand the data by coupling on-line analysis with data mining through a unified analysis process. Continuing the work of R. Ben Messaoud, where exploitation of the coupling of on-line analysis and data mining focuses on the description, visualization, classification and explanation, we propose extending the OLAP prediction capabilities. To integrate the prediction in the heart of OLAP, an approach based on automatic learning with regression trees is proposed in order to predict the value of an aggregate or a measure. We will try to express our approach using data from a service management reviews to know that it would be the average obtained by the students if we open a new module, for a
Efficient test scheduling for reusable BIST in 3D stacked ICs

VLSI testing is essential with advancing technology as it helps improve yield and enables the detection of faulty chips after manufacturing. The factors which play important roles are the power dissipation and time taken during the process of testing. BIST, Built-In Self-Test is a testing technique which enables the device to test itself. A reusable BIST is proposed which allows the usage of the same BIST for pre-bond and post-bond testing. The proposed BIST is used for testing 3D stacked ICs. Test scheduling is a critical problem that is faced while 3D stacked ICs are tested as the same tests which are performed during pre-bond might need to be performed simultaneously or so during post-bond. Here, we propose a modified Skyline algorithm to obtain an improved test schedule. The algorithm is tested on the inputs from ISCAS-85 benchmark circuits. The obtained results are compared with the results from traditional Skyline algorithm.
Parallel suffix array and least common prefix for the GPU

Suffix Array (SA) is a data structure formed by sorting the suffixes of a string into lexicographic order. SAs have been used in a variety of applications, most notably in pattern matching and Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) based lossless data compression. SAs have also become the data structure of choice for many, if not all, string processing problems to which suffix tree methodology is applicable. Over the last two decades researchers have proposed many suffix array construction algorithm (SACAs). We do a systematic study of the main classes of SACAs with the intent of mapping them onto a data parallel architecture like the GPU. We conclude that skew algorithm [12], a linear time recursive algorithm, is the best candidate for GPUs as all its phases can be efficiently mapped to a data parallel hardware. Our OpenCL implementation of skew algorithm achieves a throughput of up to 25 MStrings/sec and a speedup of up to 34x and 5.8x over a single threaded CPU implementation using a discrete GPU and APU respectively. We also compare our OpenCL implementation against the fastest known CPU implementation based on induced copying and achieve a speedup of up to 3.7x. Using SA we construct BWT on GPU and achieve a speedup of 11x over the fastest known BWT on GPU. Suffix arrays are often augmented with the longest common prefix (LCP) information. We design a novel high-performance parallel algorithm for computing LCP on the GPU. Our GPU implementation of LCP achieves a speedup of up to 25x and 4.3x on discrete GPU and APU respectively.
SINAI at CL-SR Task at CLEF 2007

This paper describes the first participation of the SINAI team in the CLEF 2007 CLSR track. This year, we only want to establish a first contact with the task and the collections. Thus, we have pre-processed the collection using the Information Gain technique in order to filter the labels with most relevant information. We have used the LEMUR toolkit as the Information Retrieval system in our experiments.
Use of Fluorescence-activated Vesicle Sorting for Isolation of Naked2-associated, Basolaterally Targeted Exocytic Vesicles for Proteomics Analysis*S

By interacting with the cytoplasmic tail of a Golgi-processed form of transforming growth factor-α (TGFα), Naked2 coats TGFα-containing exocytic vesicles and directs them to the basolateral corner of polarized epithelial cells where the vesicles dock and fuse in a Naked2 myristoylation-dependent manner. These TGFα-containing Naked2-associated vesicles are not directed to the subapical Sec6/8 exocyst complex as has been reported for other basolateral cargo, and thus they appear to represent a distinct set of basolaterally targeted vesicles. To identify constituents of these vesicles, we exploited our finding that myristoylation-deficient Naked2 G2A vesicles are unable to fuse at the plasma membrane. Isolation of a population of myristoylation-deficient, green fluorescent protein-tagged G2A Naked2-associated vesicles was achieved by biochemical enrichment followed by flow cytometric fluorescence-activated vesicle sorting. The protein content of these plasma membrane de-enriched, flow-sorted fluorescent G2A Naked2 vesicles was determined by LC/LC-MS/MS analysis. Three independent isolations were performed, and 389 proteins were found in all three sets of G2A Naked2 vesicles. Rab10 and myosin IIA were identified as core machinery, and Na+/K+-ATPase α1 was identified as an additional cargo within these vesicles. As an initial validation step, we confirmed their presence and that of three additional proteins tested (annexin A1, annexin A2, and IQGAP1) in wild-type Naked2 vesicles. To our knowledge, this is the first large scale protein characterization of a population of basolaterally targeted exocytic vesicles and supports the use of fluorescence-activated vesicle sorting as a useful tool for isolation of cellular organelles for comprehensive proteomics analysis.
GEOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF CAMPANO-MAASTRICHTIAN SEDIMENTS IN THE ANAMBRA BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA: EVIDENCE FROM FIELD RELATIONSHIP AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL STUDY

The study area lies within the Anambra Basin and it is made up of Enugu Shale, Mamu Formation, Ajali Sandstone, and Nsukka Formation. This study aimed at determining the geology and depositional environmental of these formations through field relationship and grain size distribution morphologic studies.The field data shows Enugu Shale as fissile, light grey with extraformational clast which graded into Mamu Formation whichis made up of shale, coal and sandy shale. It passes upward into Ajali Sandstone which is characterized by cross beds, Herringbonestructures and Ophiomorpha burrows. The youngest formation within the basin is Nsukka Formation.The granulometric study of Mamu Formation shows fine to medium grains, coarse, medium to fine grain for Mamu and Ajali Formation respectively. The standard deviation indicates poorly sorted. The kurtosis shows leptokurtic, platykurtic to very leptokurtic for both while the skewness values indicate positive and symmetrical in all except for Ajali Sandstone that is negatively skewed.The bivariate and the multivariate results reveal shallow marine and fluvial deposits for both Mamu Formation and Ajali Sandstone respectively. The paleocurrent direction of Ajali Sandstone indicates southwest while the provenance is northeast.The fissility of Enugu Shale suggests that it was deposited in low energy environment, distal to proximal lagoon environment.The presence of extraformatonal clast within Enugu Shale indicates fluvial incursion. However, the textural analysis of Mamu Formation suggests a sediment deposited in a low energy environment which favoured deposition of fine to medium size sediments that is, estuary environment. Textural result of Ajali Sandstone in the study area coupled with the field data such as Herring-bone structures, and Ophiomorpha burrows, revealed that Ajali Sandstone was deposited in a tidal environment probably littoral environment. While the light grey colour observed in the Nsukka Formation suggests sediments deposited under an oxidizing marine environment.
Analysis of a dynamic reservation protocol for interactive data services on TDMA-based wireless networks

This paper presents the dynamic reservation protocol for supporting variable-rate data services on time-division multiple-access based wireless networks. It allows a large number of data terminals to access data applications by sharing a reserved data-carrier. Through dynamic reservation data terminals can get their needed radio channels for uplink transmission without contention. The protocol performance is evaluated by queuing analysis and verified by computer simulation.
Noise correlation tomography of Southwest Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

S U M M A R Y We analyse continuous recordings from 23 broadband seismic stations near Alberta, the southwestern sector of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Noise correlation tomography based on vertical-component seismograms reveals below-average shear velocities at shallow and middle crustal depths in central Alberta, spanning across Proterozoic accreted terranes and Archean microcontinents. This observation likely results from extensive plate convergence and crustal melting during the Proterozoic eon. The overall correlation between the crustal velocities and presumed basement domains is lower than expected, however. In the lower crust, the main pattern of shear velocities is relatively concordant with the reported domain boundaries and key Precambrian structures appear to be intact. The shear velocities beneath the Loverna Block, the largest constituent of the Hearne craton, are 10 per cent higher than the regional average. This prominent northeast striking seismic anomaly is moderately correlated with the regional heat flow and potentially represents the remnant core of the Archean Hearne province. The associated high velocities extend into the western part of the Medicine Hat Block, a possible Archean microcontinent with a debatable origin, and contribute to a strong east–west structural gradient in the lower crust. The presence and the continuity of this anomalous structure imply extensive communications among the various basement domains in southern Alberta during the assembly of the North American continent.
Switch of coenzyme specificity of p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase.

p-Hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase (PHBH) is the archetype of the family of NAD(P)H-dependent flavoprotein aromatic hydroxylases. These enzymes share a conserved FAD-binding domain but lack a recognizable fold for binding the pyridine nucleotide. We have switched the coenzyme specificity of strictly NADPH-dependent PHBH from Pseudomonas fluorescens by site-directed mutagenesis. To that end, we altered the solvent exposed helix H2 region (residues 33-40) of the FAD-binding domain. Non-conservative selective replacements of Arg33 and Tyr38 weakened the binding of NADPH without disturbing the protein architecture. Introduction of a basic residue at position 34 increased the NADPH binding strength. Double (M2) and quadruple (M4) substitutions in the N-terminal part of helix H2 did not change the coenzyme specificity. By extending the replacements towards residues 38 and 40, M5 and M6 mutants were generated which were catalytically more efficient with NADH than with NADPH. It is concluded that specificity in P. fluorescens PHBH is conferred by interactions of Arg33, Tyr38 and Arg42 with the 2'-phosphate moiety of bound NADPH, and that introduction of an acidic group at position 38 potentially enables the recognition of the 2'-hydroxy group of NADH. This is the first report on the coenzyme reversion of a flavoprotein aromatic hydroxylase.
A pharmacogenomic approach to the treatment of children with GH deficiency or Turner syndrome

Objective Individual sensitivity to recombinant human GH (r-hGH) is variable. Identification of genetic factors contributing to this variability has potential use for individualization of treatment. The objective of this study was to identify genetic markers and gene expression profiles associated with growth response on r-hGH therapy in treatment-naïve, prepubertal children with GH deficiency (GHD) or Turner syndrome (TS). Design A prospective, multicenter, international, open-label pharmacogenomic study. Methods The associations of genotypes in 103 growth- and metabolism-related genes and baseline gene expression profiles with growth response to r-hGH (cm/year) over the first year were evaluated. Genotype associations were assessed with growth response as a continuous variable and as a categorical variable divided into quartiles. Results Eleven genes in GHD and ten in TS, with two overlapping between conditions, were significantly associated with growth response either as a continuous variable (seven in GHD, two in TS) or as a categorical variable (four more in GHD, eight more in TS). For example, in GHD, GRB10 was associated with high response (≥Q3; P=0.0012), while SOS2 was associated with low response (≤Q1; P=0.006), while in TS, LHX4 was associated with high response (P=0.0003) and PTPN1 with low response (P=0.0037). Differences in expression were identified for one of the growth response-associated genes in GHD (AKT1) and for two in TS (KRAS and MYOD1). Conclusions Carriage of specific growth-related genetic markers is associated with growth response in GHD and TS. These findings indicate that pharmacogenomics could have a role in individualized management of childhood growth disorders.