Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Workload and Learning Assessment During the Implementation of a Next-Generation Air Traffic Control Technology Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Neuroimaging technologies, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIR), could provide performance metrics directly from brain-based measures to assess safety and performance of operators in high-risk fields. In this paper, we objectively and subjectively examine the cognitive workload of air traffic control specialists utilizing a next-generation conflict resolution advisory. Credible differences were observed between continuously increasing workload levels that were induced by increasing the number of aircraft under control. In higher aircraft counts, a possible saturation in brain activity was realized in the fNIR data. A learning effect was also analyzed across a three-day/nine-session training period. The difference between Day 1 and Day 2 was credible, while there was a noncredible difference between Day 2 and Day 3. The results presented in this paper indicate some advantages in objective measures of cognitive workload assessment with fNIR cortical imaging over the subjective workload assessment keypad.
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Control of Plane Non-Holonomic Mobile Robot Based on Image Recognition

With intensive research on robot and wide application of machine vision and movement control in relevant field of robot, image recognition and movement control of robot have become the research focus gradually. This thesis sets the plane non-holonomic mobile robot as the research subject, mainly discusses the control of the plane non- holonomic mobile robot based on image recognition, it has put forward practical stabilization of plane non-holonomic mobile robot based on bounded input, proper controller has been designed aimed at (2,0) type robot and certified feasibil- ity of the controller in theory and simulation; then constructed a test platform for the plane non-holonomic mobile robot which is suitable for this system, introducing this test platform from hardware and software.
Assessing your mood online: acceptability and use of Moodscope

Background Moodscope is an entirely service-user-developed online mood-tracking and feedback tool with built-in social support, designed to stabilize and improve mood. Many free internet tools are available with no assessment of acceptability, validity or usefulness. This study provides an exemplar for future assessments. Method A mixed-methods approach was used. Participants with mild to moderate low mood used the tool for 3 months. Correlations between weekly assessments using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) with daily Moodscope scores were examined to provide validity data. After 3 months, focus groups and questionnaires assessed use and usability of the tool. Results Moodscope scores were correlated significantly with scores on the PHQ-9 and the GAD-7 for all weeks, suggesting a valid measure of mood. Low rates of use, particularly toward the end of the trial, demonstrate potential problems relating to ongoing motivation. Questionnaire data indicated that the tool was easy to learn and use, but there were concerns about the mood adjectives, site layout and the buddy system. Participants in the focus groups found the tool acceptable overall, but felt clarification of the role and target group was required. Conclusions With appropriate adjustments, Moodscope could be a useful tool for clinicians as a way of initially identifying patterns and influences on mood in individuals experiencing low mood. For those who benefit from ongoing mood tracking and the social support provided by the buddy system, Moodscope could be an ongoing adjunct to therapy.
Fas and Fas‐Ligand Are Expressed in the Uteroplacental Unit of First‐Trimester Pregnancy

PROBLEM: Fas and Fas‐ligand (FasL) are thought to provide a strategy for reducing graft rejection in immunologically ‘privileged’ tissues by controlling injurious lymphocyte reactions. As the uteroplacental unit is often defined as an immune‐privileged site, we investigated the expression of Fas and FasL in this tissue in the first trimester of pregnancy.
Coordinated views to assist exploration of spatio-temporal data: a case study

In this paper we focus on providing coordinated visual strategies to assist users in performing tasks driven by the presence of temporal and spatial attributes. We introduce temporal visualization techniques targeted at such tasks, and illustrate their use with an application involving a climate classification process. The climate classification requires extensive processing of a database containing daily rain precipitation values collected along over fifty years at several spatial locations in the Sao Paulo state, Brazil. We identify user exploration tasks typically conducted as part of the data preparation required in this process, and then describe how such tasks may be assisted by the multiple visual techniques provided. Issues related to the use of the multiple techniques by an end-user are also discussed.
Socio-Cultural Construction of the Self: Effects of Voluntary Settlement, Public Self-Presentation, and Cultural Norms for Public Behavior.

spectrum adapted from Cousins (1989; See Table 2.2 for details). The proportion of the self-descriptions that fell under each content category was submitted to a 12 (content category) X 2 (condition: public vs. private) X 2 (culture: US vs. Japan) X 2
Design of a Wide Band RF Amplifier using Scattering Parameters

This paper presents a new concept of a wide band RF amplifier using scattering parameters that is often used in the radio frequency communication system. This amplifier operates from 80MHz to 1. 1GHz frequency and it is based on BFG65 NPN transistor that has a high transition frequency of 7. 5GHz [1]. The simulation results show good performances. The power gain S21 is varied between 10 and 14. 34 dB. For the input reflection coefficient S11 is changed between -29. 3 and -17. 61 dB. Regarding the output reflection coefficient S22 is varied between -19. 78 and -10. 36 dB. For the reverse transmission S12 is changed between -23. 23 and -24. 65 dB. Regarding the noise figure NF is varied between 3. 6 and 3. 9 dB. For the 1 dB compression point is changed between -13. 94 and -8. 24 dBm.
Temporal Anchoring of Events for the TimeBank Corpus

Today’s extraction of temporal information for events heavily depends on annotated temporal links. These so called TLINKs capture the relation between pairs of event mentions and time expressions. One problem is that the number of possible TLINKs grows quadratic with the number of event mentions, therefore most annotation studies concentrate on links for mentions in the same or in adjacent sentences. However, as our annotation study shows, this restriction results for 58% of the event mentions in a less precise information when the event took place. This paper proposes a new annotation scheme to anchor events in time. Not only is the annotation effort much lower as it scales linear with the number of events, it also gives a more precise anchoring when the events have happened as the complete document can be taken into account. Using this scheme, we annotated a subset of the TimeBank Corpus and compare our re-sults to other annotation schemes. Additionally, we present some baseline experiments to automatically anchor events in time. Our annotation scheme, the automated system and the annotated corpus are publicly available. 1
Facial Action Coding System: Manual

who wish to use or understand the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), feature point tracking has high concurrent validity with manual FACS coding. Psy. The FACS Final Test video consists of 34 videotaped items digitized in MPEG 2 format. Each item on Follow the guidelines in the Manual, Chapter 11,. The study of facial expressions in humans led to the fulfillment of FACS (Facial Action Coding System, Ekman & Friesen, 1978) and EMFACS (Emotion FACS, Friesen & Ekman, (Unpublished manual)University of California, California, 1983.
A Revision of theBayesian Network Interchange Format

This paper presents a revision of the Bayesian Network Interchange Format, a language for the representation of probability models on acyclic directed graphs. A few important new features are motivated, namely representation of temporal dependencies, continuous variables, arbitrary conditional probability distributions, and references to variables in other models. A grammar for the revised BNIF is described, and some of the details concerning the implementation of the proposed features are discussed. The new BNIF features can easily be implemented by exploiting some capabilities of the Java programming language. As the revised BNIF is especially meant to be extensible, a general approach for implementing new features is described. I suggest that we revise the proposed Bayesian Network Interchange Format (BNIF), as it is described by a web page 1]. The BNIF is intended as a exible, extensible, and public (non-proprietary) language for the representation of probability models on acyclic directed graphs, in this paper referred to interchangeably as belief networks or Bayesian networks. In this report, I will suggest a few new features which will greatly increase the expressive power of the belief network format. These all originate from the need to represent important features of models in my problem domain, namely diagnostics for heating, ventilating, and airconditioning (HVAC) equipment. However, I have selected only those few features that will have wide applicability in many domains. I believe these new features are abstract enough to be useful in varied problems, yet well-grounded in a concrete, real-life domain. The revised BNIF is readily extensible: new types of conditional distributions and modiied types of variables can be added without disturbing previous deenitions. Simple mechanisms through which this extensibility is realized will be described in this paper. Although each new extension could bring new computational problems, such problems are only brieey mentioned since this paper emphasizes representation over inference.
Dimensionality Reduction of Hyperspectral Images by Combination of Non-Parametric Weighted Feature Extraction (nwfe) and Modified Neighborhood Preserving Embedding (npe)

This paper combine two conventional feature extraction methods (NWFE&NPE) in a novel framework and present a new semi-supervised feature extraction method called Adjusted Semi supervised Discriminant Analysis (ASEDA). The advantage of this method is dominating the Hughes phenomena, automatic selection of unlabelled pixels, extraction of more than L-1(L: number of classes) features and avoidance of singularity or near singularity of within-class scatter matrix. Experimental results on well-known hyperspectral dataset demonstrate that compared to conventional extraction algorithms the overall accuracy of the classification increased.
The requirements apprentice: an initial scenario

The implementation of the Requirements Apprentice has reached the point where it is possible to exhibit a concrete scenario showing the intended basic capabilities of the system. The Requirements Apprentice accepts ambiguous, incomplete, and inconsistent input from a requirements analyst and assists the analyst in creating and validating a coherent requirements description. This processing is supported by a general-purpose reasoning system and a library of requirements cliches that contains reusable descriptions of standard concepts used in requirements. 1 The Requirements Apprentice The philosophy underlying the Requirements Apprentice (RA) is laid out in detail in [14]. In the interest of brevity, this discussion will not be repeated here. However, it is important to keep in mind the position occupied by the RA in the requirements acquisition process. As illustrated by Figure 1, the RA is intended to assist a requirements analyst. The analyst begins the requirements acquisition process by means of a “skull session” that illicits an informal idea of what. is wanted. A good example of the result of such a skull session is the library database requirement sketch [l] that was used as a benchmark by previous Workshops on Software Specification and Design. Starting from such an informal requirements sketch, the RA aLsist.s an analyst (and through the analyst, the end user) t.o arrive at a more complete and more formal requirement. In I his, the RA continues in the tradition of the SAFE project ]2] and differs from most current work on software requirements tools (e.g., [4, 7, 111) that focuses instead on the validation of a requirement that is already stated in a formal way. Viewed from an artificial intelligence perspective, the problem faced by the RA is essentially one of knowledge acqrhitim. Related systems in this area include KLATJS[. lO] and ROGET[5], which provide automated assistance for arquiring new rules for expert systems. These tools support Pernksion to copy without fee all or pert of this material is granted provided that the copies arc not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy othc&se, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission. l D Analyst + Requirements Knowledge Base
On Construction of Almost-Ramanujan Graphs

O. Reingold et al. introduced the notion zig-zag product on two different graphs, and presented a fully explicit construction of d-regular expanders with the second largest eigenvalue O(d-1/3). In the same paper, they ask whether or not the similar technique can be used to construct expanders with the second largest eigenvalue O(d-1/2). Such graphs are called Ramanujan graphs. Recently, zig-zag product has been generalized by A. Ben-Aroya and A. Ta-Shma. Using this technique, they present a family of expanders with the second largest eigenvalue d-1/2 + o(1), what they call almost-Ramanujan graphs. However, their construction relies on local invertible functions and the dependence between the big graph and several small graphs, which makes the construction more complicated. In this paper, we shall give a generalized theorem of zig-zag product. Specifically, the zig-zag product of one "big" graph and several "small" graphs with the same size will be formalized. By choosing the big graph and several small graphs individually, we shall present a family of fully explicitly almost-Ramanujan graphs with locally invertible function waived.
Nutrients Can Accumulate in Permanent Skid Trails

Forest harvesting removes and redistributes nutrients through felling and forwarding. Substantial quantities of nutrients can accumulate in brash mats on permanent skid trails, but their availability and uptake after multiple thinnings on soils susceptible to leaching are unknown. In this study, we modeled the deposition of base cations and phosphorus on a permanent skid trail after five thinnings of a Picea abies (L.) Karst. stand, and measured the resulting nutrient stocks in both the forest floor and mineral soil. An estimated 35%, 44%, 41%, and 61% of harvested Ca, K, Mg, and P, respectively, were redistributed to the skid trail. Of those deposited stocks, 32–65% of nutrients remained in decomposed brash material on the skid trail. Mineral soil stocks for Ca, K, and P were significantly higher in the skid trail than in the stand, which included minor increases in bioavailable pools. Skid trail root densities were not lower than the stand while bulk densities were only partially higher. Both would not limit nutrient uptake. There were no significant relations between needle nutrient concentrations and distance to the skid trail. Altogether, these results indicate that nutrient uptake from the skid trail was minimal despite their accumulation, chemical availability, and physical accessibility. This suggests that other factors such as liming and frequent thinning disturbances can repress uptake of available nutrients on skid trails.
Cluster randomized trial of a parent-based intervention to support early development of children in a low-income country.

BACKGROUND Programmes that promote early psychological development of children in the developed world have been found to be beneficial. However, such programmes are rare in underprivileged parts of the developing world. We adapted one such parent-based programme (Learning Through Play) for a rural Pakistani population and aimed to study if: (1) it was acceptable to community health workers; (2) the programme led to an improvement, after a period of 6 months, in mothers' knowledge and attitudes about early infant development; (3) it led to a reduction in the levels of maternal mental distress in the post-natal period. METHODS Using a cluster randomized design with villages as unit of randomization, 163 mothers from 24 villages in a rural sub-district of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, received the 'Learning Through Play' programme, whereas 146 mothers from 24 villages acted as controls. Twenty-four community health workers were trained to carry out the programme. Assessments were conducted using a specially developed 15-item Infant Development Questionnaire and the 20-item Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ). RESULTS Over 80% of the community health workers trained found the programme to be relevant and were able to integrate it into their routine work. There was a significant increase in mothers' knowledge and positive attitudes about infant development in the intervention group, compared with the control group. Women in the intervention group answered correctly 4.3 (95% CI 3.7-14.9, P < 0.001) more questions than the control group. There was no difference in levels of mental distress measured by the SRQ. CONCLUSIONS The 'Learning Through Play' programme was successfully integrated into the existing health system and accepted by community health workers. The programme succeeded in improving the knowledge and attitudes of mothers about infant development.
Discovery of glpC, an Organic Solvent Tolerance-Related Gene in Escherichia coli, Using Gene Expression Profiles from DNA Microarrays

ABSTRACT Gene expression profiles were collected from Escherichia coli strains (OST3410, TK33, and TK31) before and after exposure to organic solvents, and the six genes that showed higher gene expression were selected. Among these genes, glpC encoding the anaerobic glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunit C remarkably increased the organic solvent tolerance.
Effect Of Different Concentrations Of Dopant Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles On Electro-optic And dielectric Properties Of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Mixture

In the present study, the insulating titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles were dispersed in two different concentrations of 0.5 wt % and 1.0 wt % in pure ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) mixture, W206E. The effects of different concentrations of dopant TiO2 in W206E for electro-optical and dielectric properties have been studied. The optical microscopy measurements clearly show the isotropic transition temperature of both the doped samples slightly increases by about 1 ~ 2 0 C as compared to the pure sample. Further, with the increasing concentrations of dopant TiO2, the value of spontaneous polarization decreases. The value of dielectric permittivity also decreases for both the doped samples and this decrease in the value of permittivity is more prominent with increasing concentrations of TiO2 at the lower frequencies. The dielectric measurements also confirm the presence of Goldstone mode in Smectic C* phase in pure as well as in both the doped samples. The conductance measurements confirm the decrease in conductivity of doped samples as compared to the pure W206E FLC. This study may help in improving the transition temperature and reducing the impact of free ionic charge impurities on various physical properties of liquid crystal host by screening the free ions using TiO2 nanoparticles as dopant. Copyright © 2016 VBRI Press.
Docking Studies of Pakistani HCV NS3 Helicase: A Possible Antiviral Drug Target

The nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) helicase is believed to be essential for viral replication and has become an attractive target for the development of antiviral drugs. The study of helicase is useful for elucidating its involvement in positive sense single-stranded RNA virus replication and to serve as templates for the design of novel antiviral drugs. In recent years, several models have been proposed on the conformational change leading to protein movement and RNA unwinding. Some compounds have been recently reported to inhibit the helicase and these include small molecules, RNA aptamers and antibodies. The current study is designed to help gain insights for the consideration of potential inhibitors for Pakistani HCV NS3 helicase protein. We have cloned, expressed and purified HCV NS3 helicase from Pakistani HCV serum samples and determined its 3D structure and employed it further in computational docking analysis to identify inhibitors against HCV genotype 3a (GT3a),including six antiviral key molecules such as quercetin, beta-carotene, resveratrol, catechins, lycopene and lutein. The conformation obtained after docking showed good hydrogen bond (HBond) interactions with best docking energy for quercetin and catechins followed by resveratrol and lutein. These anti-helicase key molecules will offer an alternative attraction to target the viral helicase, due to the current limitation with the interferon resistance treatment and presences of high rate of resistance in anti-protease inhibitor classes.
A Review of Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Data Using Hadoop

Twitter is an online social networking site which contains rich amount of data that can be a structured, semistructured and un-structured data. In this work, a method which performs classification of tweet sentiment in Twitter is discussed. To improve its scalability and efficiency, it is proposed to implement the work on Hadoop Ecosystem, a widely-adopted distributed processing platform using the MapReduce parallel processing paradigm. Finally, extensive experiments will be conducted on real-world data sets, with an expectation to achieve comparable or greater accuracy than the proposed techniques in literature.