Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Fiber-Optic Sensor for Acoustic Emission Detection in a High Voltage Cable System

We have proposed and demonstrated a Michelson interferometer-based fiber sensor for detecting acoustic emission generated from the partial discharge (PD) of the accessories of a high-voltage cable system. The developed sensor head is integrated with a compact and relatively high sensitivity cylindrical elastomer. Such a sensor has a broadband frequency response and a relatively high sensitivity in a harsh environment under a high-voltage electric field. The design and fabrication of the sensor head integrated with the cylindrical elastomer is described, and a series of experiments was conducted to evaluate the sensing performance. The experimental results demonstrate that the sensitivity of our developed sensor for acoustic detection of partial discharges is 1.7 rad/(m⋅Pa). A high frequency response up to 150 kHz is achieved. Moreover, the relatively high sensitivity for the detection of PD is verified in both the laboratory environment and gas insulated switchgear. The obtained results show the great potential application of a Michelson interferometer-based fiber sensor integrated with a cylindrical elastomer for in-situ monitoring high-voltage cable accessories for safety work.
Insights and Practical Strategies for Health Research Among Haitian Immigrants: Lessons Learned From the Miami-Dade Picuriste Study

Useful health research is foundational to disease prevention and treatment, especially when conducted among understudied populations for whom hidden cultural health beliefs and norms may result in disease. Lessons learned from field experiences during an exploratory mixed-method study of Haitian picuristes (injectionists) in Florida reveal the usefulness of knowledge and application of formal and informal protocols that demonstrate awareness and respect of Haitian norms, and the importance of fostering relationships of trust as complements to clear and relevant research objectives. These facilitate entrée, engagement, rapport, management of discursiveness and environmental interruptions, and modification of research instruments. Health researchers in U.S. Haitian enclaves should be process-oriented, flexible, and transparent from recruitment to dissemination phases of research.
Experience on the development of LISP-enabled services: An ISP perspective

As the current Internet architecture is suffering from scalability issues, the network research community has proposed alternative designs for the Internet architecture. Among those solutions, the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) has been considered as the most promising solution due to its incrementally deployable feature. Despite of various advantages provided by LISP, many ISPs are still conservative to adopt LISP into their production network due to the fact that the standard LISP does not fully satisfy ISP's requirements on LISP-enabled services. In this paper, we propose LISP controller, a centralized LISP management system. By using the LISP controller, we evaluate ISP's three representative LISP use cases: traffic engineering, VM live migration and vertical handover. The results show that the proposed LISP controller allows an ISP to control and manage its LISP-enabled services while satisfying ISP's requirements.
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

Preface Part I. Identity and the Good: 1. Inescapable frameworks 2. The self in moral space 3. Ethics of inarticulacy 4. Moral sources Part II: Inwardness: 5. Moral topography 6. Plato's self-mastery 7. 'In Interiore Homine' 8. Descartes's disengaged reason 9. Locke's punctual self 10. Exploring 'l'Humaine Condition' 11. Inner nature 12. A digression on historical explanation Part III. The Affirmation of Ordinary Life: 13. 'God Loveth Adverbs' 14. Rationalised Christianity 15. Moral sentiments 16. The providential order 17. The culture of modernity Part IV. The Voice of Nature: 18. Fractured horizons 19. Radical enlightenment 20. Nature as source 21. The Expressivist turn Part V. Subtler Languages: 22. Our Victorian contemporaries 23. Visions of the post-romantic age 24. Epiphanies of modernism 25. Conclusion: the conflicts of modernity Notes Index.
Copula functions on probabilistic robust analysis

Approaches in probabilistic robust analysis either assume a priori knowledge of the distribution function of the uncertainty, or impose independence and other constrains, for distribution-free results. The scope of this paper is the former. The goal is to ease the task of fitting a joint probability function to a data set. To this end, this paper presents a batch of tools provided by Archimedean copulas for unveiling the structure of dependence of two or more random variables. Then, randomization is used to provide a convenient way to deal with two major open issues in Robust Control: incorporating extra information about the likelihood of uncertainties, and overcoming the computational complexity that prevents many of the robust analysis and design techniques from being eventually carried out.
Groupwise Registration of Multimodal Images by an Efficient Joint Entropy Minimization Scheme

Groupwise registration is concerned with bringing a group of images into the best spatial alignment. If images in the group are from different modalities, then the intensity correspondences across the images can be modeled by the joint density function (JDF) of the cooccurring image intensities. We propose a so-called treecode registration method for groupwise alignment of multimodal images that uses a hierarchical intensity-space subdivision scheme through which an efficient yet sufficiently accurate estimation of the (high-dimensional) JDF based on the Parzen kernel method is computed. To simultaneously align a group of images, a gradient-based joint entropy minimization was employed that also uses the same hierarchical intensity-space subdivision scheme. If the Hilbert kernel is used for the JDF estimation, then the treecode method requires no data-dependent bandwidth selection and is thus fully automatic. The treecode method was compared with the ensemble clustering (EC) method on four different publicly available multimodal image data sets and on a synthetic monomodal image data set. The obtained results indicate that the treecode method has similar and, for two data sets, even superior performances compared to the EC method in terms of registration error and success rate. The obtained good registration performances can be mostly attributed to the sufficiently accurate estimation of the JDF, which is computed through the hierarchical intensity-space subdivision scheme, that captures all the important features needed to detect the correct intensity correspondences across a multimodal group of images undergoing registration.
How Entertainment-Education Programmes Promote Dialogue in Support of Social Change

Mass media messages often prompt dialogue among listeners or viewers. Such dialogue may reinforce social stability or lead to pro-social change. If the dialogue prompted by a mass media programme is central to understanding media effects, what forms does this dialogue take, and how does it influence people to change their thinking and actions? These questions formed the basis of the present investigation, which examined an entertainment-education (E-E) programme in India, developed with the intention of promoting pro-social change (e.g., gender equality, family planning, etc.). We discovered that internal dialogue (parasocial interaction) between listeners and media characters lead to conversations about the educational content of the media programme that fuelled support for social stability and for pro-social change. Second, interpersonal dialogue within families, and dialogue at the group level among community members, facilitated discussion of sensitive or taboo subjects in ways that were supportive of social stability as well as social change in family and community dynamics. Finally, listeners and viewers of E-E programmes confronted powerful forces of resistance as they attempted to change community power dynamics. Despite these difficulties, our findings suggest that synergistic possibilities for social action emerge when E-E broadcasts disseminate pro-social models of behaviour that spark various forms of dialogue among audience members.
Immunoglobulin G Subclass Deficiencies in Adult Patients with Chronic Airway Diseases

Immunoglobulin G subclass deficiency (IgGSCD) is a relatively common primary immunodeficiency disease (PI) in adults. The biological significance of IgGSCD in patients with chronic airway diseases is controversial. We conducted a retrospective study to characterize the clinical features of IgGSCD in this population. This study examined the medical charts from 59 adult patients with IgGSCD who had bronchial asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from January 2007 to December 2012. Subjects were classified according to the 10 warning signs developed by the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF) and divided into two patient groups: group I (n = 17) met ≥ two JMF criteria, whereas group II (n = 42) met none. IgG3 deficiency was the most common subclass deficiency (88.1%), followed by IgG4 (15.3%). The most common infectious complication was pneumonia, followed by recurrent bronchitis, and rhinosinusitis. The numbers of infections, hospitalizations, and exacerbations of asthma or COPD per year were significantly higher in group I than in group II (P < 0.001, P = 0.012, and P < 0.001, respectively). The follow-up mean forced expiratory volume (FEV1) level in group I was significantly lower than it was at baseline despite treatment of asthma or COPD (P = 0.036). In conclusion, IgGSCD is an important PI in the subset of patients with chronic airway diseases who had recurrent upper and lower respiratory infections as they presented with exacerbation-prone phenotypes, decline in lung function, and subsequently poor prognosis.
Moving Toward Dialogical Collaboration: A Critical Examination of a University— School—Community Partnership

Purpose: This study sought to deepen current understandings of collaboration and leadership in the context of partnerships between diverse universities, schools, and communities. Using a critical epistemological perspective, the project specifically attempted to learn more about the processes employed by one particular partnership in the Western United States. To inform this process evaluation, the study's conceptual framework was rooted in tenets of Paulo Freire's (1970) concept of dialogue. Specifically, the study sought to reveal the extent to which the Freirean dialogical tenets of humility, faith, hope, and critical thinking were embodied in this collaborative process. Research Methods: Qualitative case study. Data Collection and Analysis: Data were collected through semistructured interviews with 17 participants, 25 observations, and analysis of relevant documents and archival data. After a process of open and axial coding, the findings were deductively analyzed using tenets of Freire's (1970) dialogue. Findings: The findings suggested that although the partnership's participants appeared to have intentions that were closely aligned with the tenets of dialogue, various factors inhibited the actual process from evolving as one that was comprehensively dialogical. Conclusions: It is asserted that in educational partnerships between diverse individuals and organizations, the onus is on those who occupy traditional leadership positions to ensure that equal participative opportunities are afforded to all interested parties. Several recommendations are offered to facilitate the creation of such collaborative structures.
The Temporal Relationship Between Police Killings of Civilians and Criminal Homicide: A Refined Version of the Danger-Perception Theory

The connection between police use of deadly force and the criminal homicide rate has long been recognized in the literature. Their temporal relationship, however, has seldom been examined. The present study suggests that earlier research has underestimated the importance of the temporal relationship between the homicides that present the greatest level of public danger and police use of deadly force. This research suggests that police use of deadly force can best be understood through a “ratio-threat” version of the danger-perception theory. Through a time-series analysis of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Reports over a 21-year period, the ratio-threat hypothesis is confirmed. The results suggest that, on a national level, there exists a temporal connection between predatory crime and police use of deadly force. Implications for theory and future research are discussed.
The Effects of Organisational Size on Principal Decision Making

The study examines the effects of organisational size on elementary school principals′ instructional leadership decisions to allocate teachers to groups of students. More specifically, the study tested the invariance of a personnel allocation decision‐making model for principals from three categories of California district and school sizes, using the LISREL methodology. The results confirmed the fit of the proposed model to the data across schools of all sizes and in small and medium school districts. In large school districts, however, the proposed model did not fit the data. A specification search to determine the model that describes this organisational context indicated that political bargaining with parents and teachers over the allocation of teachers and students is a less important decision input for principals in large school districts.
‘The town dictates what I do’: the leisure, health and well-being of women in a small Australian country town

The contribution of leisure to individual health and well-being is well documented. It is also clear that patterns of leisure activity are differentiated by gender and regional differences, as well as those of age, class and ethnicity. This paper explores the leisure and well-being of mid aged rural women in a small Australian country town in the late 1990s, focusing on issues which have been identified in the Canadian literature as being significant for women in isolated areas. These issues, which constrain the choices women make about their lives, include poor job opportunities, a lack of public transport and other facilities, family transience, community designs that isolate women in their homes, and the politics of being ‘different’ in a small community. Commonalities in the lives of rural women in North America, New Zealand and Australia indicate that these issues may more broadly characterise the lives of women in isolated towns in western post-industrial societies. Data are drawn from focus group interviews, augmented with observation, and the study is contextualized in findings from the Women's Health Australia longitudinal study (WHA).
Design Methodology of a 24 GHz 2 . 8 dB NF Low-Noise Amplifier Using 0 . 18 μ m CMOS Technology and Slow Wave Transmission Lines

* Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel (ritter@ee.technion.ac.il) We present our design methodology of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) in 0.18 μm CMOS technology. A 24-GHz LNA having peak gain of 13.8 dB and record low minimum noise figure of 2.8 dB at 25.1 GHz was demonstrated. High quality factor slow wave transmission lines replaced all inductors in the circuit. The LNA IIP3 output power was –2.5 dBm and its power consumption 14 mW.
Detecting the Untranslatable Colloquial Expressions of Japanese Verbs in Cross-Language Instant Messaging

Using instant messenger in real time communication is widespread worldwide. However, in the communication of using cross-language (Japanese other languages) instant messaging, the use of colloquial expressions usually degrades the efficiency of communication. The contributions of our research can be split into two parts: (1) we analyzed the in-house conversation logs of business correspondence to obtain the cause of the failure of translation in cross-language instant messaging conversations; (2) we proposed an automatic system to detect the untranslatable colloquial expressions of Japanese verbs that are the most significant cause of the failure of JapaneseChinese (and Japanese-English) machine translation in instant message conversation.
Extending the treatment of backbone energetics in protein force fields: Limitations of gas‐phase quantum mechanics in reproducing protein conformational distributions in molecular dynamics simulations

Computational studies of proteins based on empirical force fields represent a powerful tool to obtain structure–function relationships at an atomic level, and are central in current efforts to solve the protein folding problem. The results from studies applying these tools are, however, dependent on the quality of the force fields used. In particular, accurate treatment of the peptide backbone is crucial to achieve representative conformational distributions in simulation studies. To improve the treatment of the peptide backbone, quantum mechanical (QM) and molecular mechanical (MM) calculations were undertaken on the alanine, glycine, and proline dipeptides, and the results from these calculations were combined with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins in crystal and aqueous environments. QM potential energy maps of the alanine and glycine dipeptides at the LMP2/cc‐pVxZ//MP2/6‐31G* levels, where x = D, T, and Q, were determined, and are compared to available QM studies on these molecules. The LMP2/cc‐pVQZ//MP2/6‐31G* energy surfaces for all three dipeptides were then used to improve the MM treatment of the dipeptides. These improvements included additional parameter optimization via Monte Carlo simulated annealing and extension of the potential energy function to contain peptide backbone ϕ, ψ dihedral crossterms or a ϕ, ψ grid‐based energy correction term. Simultaneously, MD simulations of up to seven proteins in their crystalline environments were used to validate the force field enhancements. Comparison with QM and crystallographic data showed that an additional optimization of the ϕ, ψ dihedral parameters along with the grid‐based energy correction were required to yield significant improvements over the CHARMM22 force field. However, systematic deviations in the treatment of ϕ and ψ in the helical and sheet regions were evident. Accordingly, empirical adjustments were made to the grid‐based energy correction for alanine and glycine to account for these systematic differences. These adjustments lead to greater deviations from QM data for the two dipeptides but also yielded improved agreement with experimental crystallographic data. These improvements enhance the quality of the CHARMM force field in treating proteins. This extension of the potential energy function is anticipated to facilitate improved treatment of biological macromolecules via MM approaches in general. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 25: 1400–1415, 2004
RNA interference‐mediated phosphodiesterase 4D splice variants knock‐down in the prefrontal cortex produces antidepressant‐like and cognition‐enhancing effects

Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitors produce potent antidepressant‐like and cognition‐enhancing effects. However, their clinical utility is limited by the major side effect of emesis, which appears to be PDE4 isoform‐specific. Although PDE4D subtype plays the pivotal role in these therapeutic profiles, it is also the primary subtype responsible for emesis. Therefore, the aim of present research was to investigate whether long‐form PDE4D variants mediate antidepressant‐like and cognition‐enhancing effects, but are irrespective with emesis.
Impact of tone-mapping operators and viewing devices on visual quality of experience

The development of HDR imaging is seen as an important step towards improving the visual quality of experience (QoE) of the end user in many applications. In practice, Tone-mapping operators (TMOs) provide a useful means for converting a high dynamic range (HDR) image to a low dynamic range (LDR) image in order to achieve better visualization on standard displays. Although mobile devices are becoming popular, the techniques for displaying the content of HDR images on the screens of such devices are still in the early stages. While several studies have been conducted to evaluate TMOs on conventional displays, few studies have been carried out to date to evaluate TMOs on small screen displays, such as those used in mobile devices. In this paper we evaluate, using subjective and objective methods, the most popular Tone-mapping-operators in different mobile displays and resolutions under normal viewing conditions for the end-user. Preliminary results show that small screen displays (SSDs) have an impact on the performance of TMOs compared to computer displays. In general, the larger the mobile resolution, the better the subjective results. We also found clear differences between SSDs and LDRs performances. The best TMO for mobile displays is iCAM06 and for computer displays it is Photographic Reproduction.
Faith and Locus of Control

A total of four dimensions emerged from a factor analytic study of faith. They were titled Faith in God, Faith in People, Faith in Self, and Faith in Technology. Comparisons of religious and secular groups and of liberal and conservative religious groups strongly supported the construct validity of the Faith in God subscale. A moderately low correlation obtained between the Faith in Self subscale and internal locus of control suggested conceptual similarity. Inspection of the item content on the two scales indicates that the internal subscale assesses one's perception that an individual can affect what happens to him, whereas items on the Faith in Self subscale concern more the perception that the individual will control his life in a positive direction.
Use of a Multistaged Time-Dependent Inhibition Assay to Assess the Impact of Intestinal Metabolism on Drug-Drug Interaction Potential

In early discovery, compounds are often eliminated because of their potential to undergo metabolic activation and/or cytochrome P450 time-dependent inactivation (TDI). The blockbuster drug raloxifene is an example of a compound that would have been eliminated in the current paradigm. Despite raloxifene's in vitro bioactivation and TDI of CYP3A4, it is well tolerated in patients with no drug-drug interactions. This discordance is attributed to its presystemic glucuronidation, thereby decreasing the amount of unchanged raloxifene available for CYP3A inactivation. The current study used raloxifene as a model to assess the effect of hepatic and intestinal glucuronidation on the kinetic parameters of CYP3A4 inactivation. Therefore, a simple multistaged time-dependent inactivation using UDP-glucuronosyltransferase-enabled and -absent reactions was built to understand the impact of the gut metabolism on inactivation potential. The results of these experiments demonstrated a 2.7-fold change in inactivation efficiency of CYP3A4. Incorporation of these results into a simulated midazolam drug-drug interaction study showed very little change in the pharmacokinetic parameters of the victim drug. In contrast, the absence of glucuronidation resulted in a 4.1-fold increase in the area under the curve (AUC) of midazolam, when in the presence of raloxifene, hence providing an understanding of the impact of intestinal glucuronidation on raloxifene's time-dependent inhibition of CYP3A4 and also providing a validation of a simple in vitro experiment to assess the influence of gut metabolism on time-dependent inhibitors at the discovery phase.