Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Sensor Network Data Aggregation Technique

— Existing sensor network data aggregation techniques assume that the nodes are preprogrammed and send data to a central sink for offline querying and analysis. This approach faces two major drawbacks. First, the system behavior is preprogrammed and cannot be modified on the fly. Second, the increased energy wastage due to the communication overhead will result in decreasing the overall system lifetime. Thus, energy conservation is of prime consideration in sensor network protocols in order to maximize the network ’ s operational lifetime. In this paper, we give an energy efficient approach to query processing by implementing new optimization techniques applied to in-network aggregation. We first discuss earlier approaches in sensors data management and highlight their disadvantages. We then present our approach and evaluate it through several simulations to prove its efficiency, competence and effectiveness.
Clinical specialists and advanced practitioners in physical therapy: a survey of physical therapists and employers of physical therapists in ontario, Canada.

PURPOSE Opportunities to expand the role of physical therapists (PTs) have evolved to include clinical specialists and advanced practitioners, although the literature on these roles is limited. We examined perceptions of PTs and PT employers in Ontario regarding clinical specialization and advanced practice. METHODS Using a modified Dillman approach, a cross-sectional survey was conducted with 500 PTs and 500 PT employers in Ontario. Questionnaires were tailored to address specific issues related to each cohort. RESULTS Sixty percent of PTs and 53% of PT employers responded to the survey. Thirty-three percent of PT respondents already considered themselves "clinical specialists" (CS), and 8% considered themselves "advanced practitioners" (AP), although neither role is yet formally recognized in Canada. Both groups had substantial interest in pursuing formal recognition of CS and AP status. Respondents indicated that their primary motivation to pursue such roles was to enhance clinical reasoning skills with the goal of improving client outcomes (82% for the role of CS, 71% for the role of AP). Respondents supported the involvement of academic institutions in the process (60% for CS, 70% for AP). CONCLUSION PTs and PT employers are supportive of the roles of the CS and AP within the profession, even though there is currently no formal recognition of either role in Canada.
A Novel Inositol Pyrophosphate Phosphatase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Inositol pyrophosphates are high energy signaling molecules involved in cellular processes, such as energetic metabolism, telomere maintenance, stress responses, and vesicle trafficking, and can mediate protein phosphorylation. Although the inositol kinases underlying inositol pyrophosphate biosynthesis are well characterized, the phosphatases that selectively regulate their cellular pools are not fully described. The diphosphoinositol phosphate phosphohydrolase enzymes of the Nudix protein family have been demonstrated to dephosphorylate inositol pyrophosphates; however, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homolog Ddp1 prefers inorganic polyphosphate over inositol pyrophosphates. We identified a novel phosphatase of the recently discovered atypical dual specificity phosphatase family as a physiological inositol pyrophosphate phosphatase. Purified recombinant Siw14 hydrolyzes the β-phosphate from 5-diphosphoinositol pentakisphosphate (5PP-IP5 or IP7) in vitro. In vivo, siw14Δ yeast mutants possess increased IP7 levels, whereas heterologous SIW14 overexpression eliminates IP7 from cells. IP7 levels increased proportionately when siw14Δ was combined with ddp1Δ or vip1Δ, indicating independent activity by the enzymes encoded by these genes. We conclude that Siw14 is a physiological phosphatase that modulates inositol pyrophosphate metabolism by dephosphorylating the IP7 isoform 5PP-IP5 to IP6.
Majority Logic Decoding Under Data-Dependent Logic Gate Failures

A majority logic decoder made of unreliable logic gates, whose failures are transient and data-dependent, is analyzed. Based on a combinatorial representation of fault configurations a closed-form expression for the average bit error rate for a one-step majority logic decoder is derived, for a regular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensemble and the proposed failure model. The presented analysis framework is then used to establish bounds on the one-step majority logic decoder performance under the simplified probabilistic gate-output switching model. Based on the expander property of Tanner graphs of LDPC codes, it is proven that a version of the faulty parallel bit-flipping decoder can correct a fixed fraction of channel errors in the presence of data-dependent gate failures. The results are illustrated with numerical examples of finite geometry codes.
Prognostic impact of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 expression in bladder cancer

Recent studies have demonstrated a poor prognosis for patients who have altered expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI‐1) in several cancer types. The objective of the current study was to investigate the prognostic impact of PAI‐1 on patients with transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder.
The Usefulness of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Eyespeak Software in Improving Iraqi EFL Students’ Pronunciation

The present study focuses on determining whether automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology is reliable for improving English pronunciation to Iraqi EFL students. Non-native learners of English are generally concerned about improving their pronunciation skills, and Iraqi students face difficulties in pronouncing English sounds that are not found in their native language (Arabic). This study is concerned with ASR and its effectiveness in overcoming this difficulty. The data were obtained from twenty participants randomly selected from first-year college students at Al-Turath University College from the Department of English in Baghdad-Iraq. The students had participated in a two month pronunciation instruction course using ASR Eyespeak software. At the end of the pronunciation instruction course using ASR Eyespeak software, the students completed a questionnaire to get their opinions about the usefulness of the ASR Eyespeak in improving their pronunciation. The findings of the study revealed that the students found ASR Eyespeak software very useful in improving their pronunciation and helping them realise their pronunciation mistakes. They also reported that learning pronunciation with ASR Eyespeak enjoyable.
Orienteering-based Path Selection for Mobile Sensors

The goal of information gathering is to obtain data from the environment generating an accurate model for the application of interest. In many applications the information gathering process requires to obtain measurement of the phenomena of interest in harsh or dangerous conditions (e.g., environmental monitoring applications of water in a lake or search and rescue operations in disaster response). Moreover, in recent years, the interest towards robotic sensors such as Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) for information gathering application is steadily increasing. For example, in the context of environmental monitoring a successful monitoring operation must acquire large datasets to build an accurate model of the environmental phenomena of interest. For an exhaustive overview on advancements and applications of mobile sensors for environmental monitoring see [3]. Moreover, in the context of aerial monitoring, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which can fly autonomously at low altitude, are an emerging technology being adapted for a wide range of applications such as remote sensing, scientific research, and search and rescue tasks [9, 10, 15]. In general, when using mobile robotic systems, different path selection strategies could be identified [12]. Offline strategies rely on a predefined path for the agent that is independent from the data that the sensors read. Conversely, using online strategies, the path selection procedure is dependent on the data that has been previously collected from the sensor. In this work we show two different applications for online path selection procedures that rely on a common orienteering formulation. Specifically the contribution is to highlight the formulation of the orienteering problem in the context of information gathering through the use of mobile sensors.
Δ-CRDTs: making δ-CRDTs delta-based

Replication is a key technique for providing both fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. However, managing replicated state, and ensuring that these replicas remain consistent, is a non trivial task, in particular in scenarios where replicas can reside on the client-side, as clients might have unreliable communication channels and hence, exhibit highly dynamic communication patterns. One way to simplify this task is to resort to CRDTs, which are data types that enable replication and operation over replicas with no coordination, ensuring eventual state convergence when these replicas are synchronized. However, when the communication patters, and therefore synchronization patterns, are highly dynamic, existing designs of CRDTs might incur in excessive communication overhead. To address those scenarios, in this paper we propose a new design for CRDTs which we call Δ-CRDT, and experimentally show that under dynamic communication patters, this novel design achieves better network utilization than existing alternatives.
Transformational program analysis

This paper describes an approach to the semantic analysis of procedural code. The techniques differ from those adopted in current static analysis tools such as MALPAS (Bramson, 1984) and SPADE (Clutterbuck and Carré, 1988) in two key respects: (1) A database is used, together with language‐specific and language‐independent data models, as a repository for all information about a program or set of programs which is required for analysis, and for storing and interrelating the results of analyses; (2) The techniques aim to treat the full language under consideration by a process of successive transformation and abstraction from the source code until a representation is obtained which is amenable to analysis. This abstraction process can include the production of formal specifications from code. The techniques have been partially implemented for the OS/VS IBM diallect of COBOL '74 and for FORTRAN '77. Several components of the resulting toolset have been formally specified in Z, thus meeting some of the integrity requirements for verification tools given in ‘The procurement of safety critical software in defence equipment’ (MoD, 1991). The techniques have been applied in practice to a wide range of source programs and analysis problems (Lano and Haughton, 1993b; Lano, et al., 1991), including assessment problems (Lloyd's Register, 1992, 1993; Hornsby and Eldridge, 1990). Section 1 gives an overview of the analysis process. Section 2 describes the representations used to support the process. Section 3 describes some of the techniques involved, and Section 4 gives examples of applications of the process. The Appendix contains extracts from a large case study carried out using tools developed to support the process.
The PbMDJ1 Gene Belongs to a Conserved MDJ1/LON Locus in Thermodimorphic Pathogenic Fungi and Encodes a Heat Shock Protein That Localizes to both the Mitochondria and Cell Wall of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

ABSTRACT J-domain (DnaJ) proteins, of the Hsp40 family, are essential cofactors of their cognate Hsp70 chaperones, besides acting as independent chaperones. In the present study, we have demonstrated the presence of Mdj1, a mitochondrial DnaJ member, not only in the mitochondria, where it is apparently sorted, but also in the cell wall of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, a thermodimorphic pathogenic fungus. The molecule (PbMdj1) was localized to fungal yeast cells using both confocal and electron microscopy and also flow cytometry. The anti-recombinant PbMdj1 antibodies used in the reactions specifically recognized a single 55-kDa mitochondrial and cell wall (alkaline β-mercaptoethanol extract) component, compatible with the predicted size of the protein devoid of its matrix peptide-targeting signal. Labeling was abundant throughout the cell wall and especially in the budding regions; however, anti-PbMdj1 did not affect fungal growth in the concentrations tested in vitro, possibly due to the poor access of the antibodies to their target in growing cells. Labeled mitochondria stood preferentially close to the plasma membrane, and gold particles were detected in the thin space between them, toward the cell surface. We show that Mdj1 and the mitochondrial proteinase Lon homologues are heat shock proteins in P. brasiliensis and that their gene organizations are conserved among thermodimorphic fungi and Aspergillus, where the genes are adjacent and have a common 5′ region. This is the first time a DnaJ member has been observed on the cell surface, where its function is speculative.
An Implementation of GPU-Based Parallel Optimization for an Extended Uncertain Data Query Algorithm

To deal with users’ diversified query requirements on uncertain data, an uncertain data query semantic for requirement extension named RU-Topk is introduced. In the high-load application environment, the top-k query algorithm’s response time may be long. In order to satisfy performance requirements, with the consideration of the algorithm’s features, the design and implementation of GPUbased RU-Topk algorithm as well as a batch scheduling strategy are presented. Finally, the experimental results on GPU platform show that they can obtain optimized performance. Keywords-uncertain data; top-k query; GPU
Posttransplant Hyponatremia Predicts Graft Failure and Mortality in Kidney Transplantation Recipients: A Multicenter Cohort Study in Korea

Although hyponatremia is related to poorer outcomes in several clinical settings, its significance remains unresolved in kidney transplantation. Data on 1,786 patients who received kidney transplantations between January 2000 and December 2011 were analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups according to the corrected sodium values for serum glucose 3 months after their transplantations (<135 mmol/L vs. ≥135 mmol/L). Subsequently, the hazard ratios (HRs) for biopsy-proven acute rejection, graft failure, and all-cause mortality were calculated after adjustments for several immunological and non-immunological covariates. 4.0% of patients had hyponatremia. Patients with hyponatremia had higher risks for graft failure and all-cause mortality than did the counterpart normonatremia group; the adjusted HRs for graft failure and mortality were 3.21 (1.47–6.99) and 3.03 (1.21–7.54), respectively. These relationships remained consistent irrespective of heart function. However, hyponatremia was not associated with the risk of acute rejection. The present study addressed the association between hyponatremia and graft and patient outcomes in kidney transplant recipients. Based on the study results, our recommendation is to monitor serum sodium levels after kidney transplantations.
Return and Volatility Dynamics in the Spot and Futures Markets in Australia: An Intervention Analysis in a Bivariate EGARCH‐X Framework

This article provides evidence of linkages between the equity market and the index futures market in Australia, where the futures market has experienced a major structural event due to the futures contract respecification. A bivariate Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) model is developed that includes a cointegrating residual as an explanatory variable for both the conditional mean and the conditional variance. The conditional mean returns from both markets are influenced by the long‐run equilibrium relationship, and these markets are informationally linked through the second moments. The crossmarket spillovers exhibit asymmetric behavior in that the volatility responses to past standardized innovations are different for market advances and market retreats. An intervention analysis shows that some of the parameters describing the return‐generating process have shifted after the contract respecification by the futures exchange. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 21:833–850, 2001
Thermal Optimization of a High-Power Salient-Pole Electrical Machine

An optimization of the thermal behavior of a high-power salient-pole electrical machine is presented. Temperatures are calculated with the lumped method, which provides the thermal trends with relatively low computational cost. This model is used to define an aggregated objective function of our nonlinear thermal optimization problem by combining the mean solid temperature with the maximum temperature criteria. The 13 design variables correspond to the main volumetric flow rates in the electrical machine, which are bounded and subjected to a nonlinear constraint, assuming a fixed geometry. Two MATLAB optimization algorithms were tested: the Active-set (FMINCON solver) and the genetic algorithm (GA). Due to the strong nonlinearities of the model and the resulting nonconvex optimization problem, the GA is likely to give better results. Minimizing the mean solid temperature was demonstrated to be more important than the maximum temperature criterion. A strategic flow configuration is found to send fresh air to the second half of the cooling circuit, where air usually arrives heated. This optimal configuration provides better cooling than its current modeled configuration. This methodology should be of interest during the development phase.
Asynchrony and the -calculus (note)

We introduce an asynchronous version of Milner's-calculus, based on the idea that the messages are elementary processes that can be sent without any sequencing constraint. We show that this simple message passing discipline, together with the restriction construct making a name private for an agent, is enough to encode the synchronous communication of the-calculus.
AXES at TRECVID 2011

The AXES project participated in the interactive known-item search task (KIS) and the interactive instance search task (INS) for TRECVid 2011. We used the same system architecture and a nearly identical user interface for both the KIS and INS tasks. Both systems made use of text search on ASR, visual concept detectors, and visual similarity search. The user experiments were carried out with media professionals and media students at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, with media professionals performing the KIS task and media students participating in the INS task. This paper describes the results and findings of our experiments.
The NOESIS Network-Oriented Exploration, Simulation, and Induction System

Network data mining has become an important area of study due to the large number of problems it can be applied to. This paper presents NOESIS, an open source framework for network data mining that provides a large collection of network analysis techniques, including the analysis of network structural properties, community detection methods, link scoring, and link prediction, as well as network visualization algorithms. It also features a complete stand-alone graphical user interface that facilitates the use of all these techniques. The NOESIS framework has been designed using solid object-oriented design principles and structured parallel programming. As a lightweight library with minimal external dependencies and a permissive software license, NOESIS can be incorporated into other software projects. Released under a BSD license, it is available from this http URL
Use of Support Vector Machines in Extended Named Entity Recognition

The invention comprises a golf practice swing apparatus. The apparatus has a base support with a main pole extending upward at a slight angle toward the position where a golfer would normally stand. A swing arm is mounted on the main pole and pivotally mounted to rotate on an axis perpendicular to the length of the main pole and in a plane parallel to the main pole. The swing arm has a spring biased lever pivotally mounted to the lower end of the swing arm to pivot in generally the same plane as the swing arm rotates. A club head is mounted to the lower end of the lever and a club shaft is pivotally mounted to the club head and projects toward the position the golfer would normally stand. The club head lies in the general plane of the swing with its face perpendicular to the plane. The swing arm has a pivotally mounted section to allow the lever arm and club head to swing out of the plane to one side in a direction toward the golfer, but prevents the lever arm and club head from swinging out of the plane in the opposite direction toward the pole. The golfer may swing the shaft to swing the club head in a normal golf swing. With light laterally urging of the shaft toward the pole by the golfer while performing the swing, the apparatus will maintain the club head in the same plane of the swing arm throughout the swing and maintain the club face perpendicular to the line of travel while swinging the club in the normal back swing and forward swing. This gives the golfer the feel of swinging a club in the same plane and the club face perpendicular to the line of travel for an entire golf swing.
EK3D: an E. coli K antigen 3-dimensional structure database

A very high rate of multidrug resistance (MDR) seen among Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia, Klebsiella, Salmonella, Shigella, etc. is a major threat to public health and safety. One of the major virulent determinants of Gram-negative bacteria is capsular polysaccharide or K antigen located on the bacterial outer membrane surface, which is a potential drug & vaccine target. It plays a key role in host–pathogen interactions as well as host immune evasion and thus, mandates detailed structural information. Nonetheless, acquiring structural information of K antigens is not straightforward due to their innate enormous conformational flexibility. Here, we have developed a manually curated database of K antigens corresponding to various E. coli serotypes, which differ from each other in their monosaccharide composition, linkage between the monosaccharides and their stereoisomeric forms. Subsequently, we have modeled their 3D structures and developed an organized repository, namely EK3D that can be accessed through www.iith. ac.in/EK3D/. Such a database would facilitate the development of antibacterial drugs to combat E. coli infections as it has evolved resistance against 2 major drugs namely, third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones. EK3D also enables the generation of polymeric K antigens of varying lengths and thus, provides comprehensive information about E. coli K antigens.