Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An analysis of the process and results of manual geocode correction

Geocoding is the science and process of assigning geographical coordinates (i.e. latitude, longitude) to a postal address. The quality of the geocode can vary dramatically depending on several variables, including incorrect input address data, missing address components, and spelling mistakes. A dataset with a considerable number of geocoding inaccuracies can potentially result in an imprecise analysis and invalid conclusions. There has been little quantitative analysis of the amount of effort (i.e. time) to perform geocoding correction, and how such correction could improve geocode quality type. This study used a low-cost and easy to implement method to improve geocode quality type of an input database (i.e. addresses to be matched) through the processes of manual geocode intervention, and it assessed the amount of effort to manually correct inaccurate geocodes, reported the resulting match rate improvement between the original and the corrected geocodes, and documented the corresponding spatial shift by geocode quality type resulting from the corrections. Findings demonstrated that manual intervention of geocoding resulted in a 90% improvement of geocode quality type, took 42 hours to process, and the spatial shift ranged from 0.02 to 151,368 m. This study provides evidence to inform research teams considering the application of manual geocoding intervention that it is a low-cost and relatively easy process to execute.
Immediate implant placement following a modified trephine/osteotome approach: success rates of 116 implants to 4 years in function.

PURPOSE A technique is presented which utilizes a trephine with a 3.0-mm external diameter followed by an osteotome to implode a core of maxillary posterior alveolar bone prior to immediate implant placement. MATERIALS AND METHODS The technique and its indications and contraindications are described in detail. RESULTS One hundred sixteen implants were placed and uncovered utilizing this technique. Two implants were mobile at the time of uncovering. DISCUSSION One hundred fourteen implants were restored and have been functioning successfully for up to 4 years according to the Albrektsson criteria, yielding a success rate of 98.3%. CONCLUSION No implants have been lost or are failing in function.
LensingWikipedia: Parsing text for the interactive visualization of human history

Extracting information from text is challenging. Most current practices treat text as a bag of words or word clusters, ignoring valuable linguistic information. Leveraging this linguistic information, we propose a novel approach to visualize textual information. The novelty lies in using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to automatically annotate text which provides a basis for new and powerful interactive visualizations. Using NLP tools, we built a web-based interactive visual browser for human history articles from Wikipedia.
Greening big data networks: velocity impact

The authors investigate the impact of big data's velocity on greening IP over WDM networks. They classify the processing velocity of big data into two modes: expedited-data and relaxed-data modes. Expedited-data demands higher amount of computational resources to reduce the execution time compared with the relaxed-data. They developed a mixed integer linear programming model to progressively process big data at strategic locations, dubbed processing nodes (PNs), built into the network along the path from the source to the destination. The extracted information from the raw traffic is smaller in volume compared with the original traffic each time the data is processed, hence, reducing network power consumption. The results showed that up to 60% network power saving is achieved when nearly 100% of the data required relaxed processing. In contrast, only 15% of network power saving is gained when nearly 100% of the data required expedited processing. The authors obtained around 33% power saving in the mixed modes (i.e. when ∼50% of the data is processed in the relaxed mode and 50% of the data is processed in expedited mode), compared with the classical approach where all the processing is achieved inside the centralised data centres only.
Role of Histone H3 Lysine 27 Methylation in X Inactivation

The Polycomb group (PcG) protein Eed is implicated in regulation of imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in extraembryonic cells but not of random X inactivation in embryonic cells. The Drosophilahomolog of the Eed-Ezh2 PcG protein complex achieves gene silencing through methylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 (H3-K27), which suggests a role for H3-K27 methylation in imprinted X inactivation. Here we demonstrate that transient recruitment of the Eed-Ezh2 complex to the inactive X chromosome (Xi) occurs during initiation of X inactivation in both extraembryonic and embryonic cells and is accompanied by H3-K27 methylation. Recruitment of the complex and methylation on the Xi depend on Xist RNA but are independent of its silencing function. Together, our results suggest a role for Eed-Ezh2–mediated H3-K27 methylation during initiation of both imprinted and random X inactivation and demonstrate that H3-K27 methylation is not sufficient for silencing of the Xi.
A Japanese Tourism Recommender System with Automatic Generation of Seasonal Feature Vectors

Tourism recommender systems have been widely used in our daily life to recommend tourist spots to users meeting their preference. In this paper, we propose a contentbased tourism recommender system considering travel season of users. In order to characterize seasonal variable features of spots,the proposed system generates seasonal feature vectors in three steps: 1) to identify the vocabulary concerned through Wikipedia; 2) to identify the trend over all spots through Twitter for each season; and 3) to highlight the weight of words contained in each identified trend. In the decision of recommendation, it does not only match the user profile with features of spots but also takes user’s travel season into account. The effectiveness of the proposed system is evaluated by a series of experiments, i.e.computer simulation and questionnaire evaluation. The result indicates that: 1) those vectors certainly reflect the similarity of spots for designated time period, and 2) with using such vectors of spots, the system successfully realized a tourism seasonal recommendation.
Human-Factor-Aware Privacy-Preserving Aggregation in Smart Grid

Privacy-preserving metering aggregation is regarded as an important research topic in securing a smart grid. In this paper, we first identify and formalize a new attack, in which the attacker could exploit the information about the presence or absence of a specific person to infer his meter readings. This attack, coined as human-factor-aware differential aggregation (HDA) attack, cannot be addressed in existing privacy-preserving aggregation protocols proposed for smart grids. We give a formal definition on it and propose two novel protocols, including basic scheme and advanced scheme, to achieve privacy-preserving smart metering data aggregation and to resist the HDA attack. Our protocol ensures that smart meters periodically upload encrypted measurements to a (electricity) supplier/aggregator such that the aggregator is able to derive the aggregated statistics of all meter measurements but is unable to learn any information about the human activities. We present the formal security analysis for the proposed protocol to guarantee the strong privacy. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of our protocol in a Java-based implementation under different parameters. The performance and utility analysis shows that our protocol is simple, efficient, and practical.
Investigation of the Electrical Field Sensitivity of Sub-μm Y–Ba–Cu–O Detectors

The behavior of submicrometer-sized thin-film YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) detectors under illumination with picosecond terahertz (THz) pulses was investigated. Real-time measurements with a temporal resolution of 15 ps full width at half maximum were performed at ANKA, the synchrotron facility of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the UVSOR-III facility at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan. The capability of YBCO detectors to reproduce the shape of a several picosecond long THz pulse was demonstrated. Single-shot measurements adhering to a reversal of the direction of the electrical field of the THz radiation were carried out. They provided evidence for the electrical field sensitivity of the YBCO detector. Exploiting the electrical field sensitivity of the YBCO detector, the effect of microbunching was observed at UVSOR-III.
Reproductive Consequences of an Extreme Drought for Orange-Crowned Warblers on Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz Islands.

Bird populations on the California Channel Islands are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with extended dry periods and considerable annual variation in rainfall. The winter of 2006–2007, however, was outside the normal range in southern California and ranked as one of the driest on record. Here we report how these drought conditions affected the reproductive output of a small songbird, the “dusky” orange-crowned warbler (Vermivora celata sordida), on Santa Catalina and Santa Cruz islands in the spring of 2007. Warblers on Catalina Island began establishing territories in February, yet they did not commence breeding activities until mid-April. Even then, only 5 of 45 females built nests and only 1 female laid eggs. The young in that nest ultimately starved; thus, the reproductive output of our study population on Catalina Island was zero. This contrasts starkly with the population on Santa Cruz Island, where all individuals studied attempted to reproduce and began nesting in mid-March. Nevertheless, only 11% of Santa Cruz Island warbler pairs fledged young due to high nest predation. Taken together, our observations from the two islands reveal marked differences in the consequences of severe drought and in the factors that limit the reproductive output of terrestrial birds on the Channel Islands.
Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Compared to IS6110-Based Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis for Investigation of Apparently Clustered Cases of Tuberculosis

ABSTRACT An evaluation of the utility of IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing compared to a combination of variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) typing and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (MIRU) typing was undertaken. A total of 53 patient isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from four presumed episodes of cross-infection were examined. Genomic DNA was extracted from the isolates by a cetyl trimethylammonium bromide method. The number of copies of tandem repeats of the five loci ETRA to ETRE and 12 MIRU loci was determined by PCR amplification and agarose gel electrophoresis of the amplicons. VNTR typing identified the major clusters of strains in the three investigations in which they occurred (each representing a different evolutionary clade: 32333, 42235, and 32433). The majority of unrelated isolates (by epidemiology and RFLP typing) were also identified by VNTR typing. The concordance between the RFLP and MIRU typing was complete, with the exception of two isolates with RFLP patterns that differed by one band each from the rest of the major epidemiologically linked groups of isolates in investigation A. All of these isolates had identical MIRU and VNTR types. A further pair of isolates differed in the number of tandem repeat copies at two MIRU alleles but had identical RFLP patterns. The speed of the combined VNTR and MIRU typing approach enabled results for some of the investigations to be supplied in “real time,” influencing choices in contact tracing. The ease of comparison of results of MIRU and VNTR typing, which are recorded as single multidigit numbers, was also found to greatly facilitate investigation management and the communication of results to health care professionals.
Evaluation of Four Different Systems for Extraction of RNA from Stool Suspensions Using MS-2 Coliphage as an Exogenous Control for RT-PCR Inhibition

Knowing when, and to what extent co-extracted inhibitors interfere with molecular RNA diagnostic assays is of utmost importance. The QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kit (A); MagNA Pure LC2.0 Automatic extractor (B); KingFisher (C); and NucliSENS EasyMag (D) RNA extraction systems were evaluated for extraction efficiency and co-purification of inhibitors from stool suspensions. Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR) of MS-2 coliphage spiked into each system’s lysis buffer served as an external control for both. Cycle thresholds (Cts) of the MS2 were determined for RNA extracted from stool suspensions containing unknown (n = 93) or varying amounts of inhibitors (n = 92). Stool suspensions from the latter group were also used to determine whether MS-2 and enterovirus rRT-PCR inhibitions were correlated. Specifically 23 RNA extracts from stool suspensions were spiked with enterovirus RNA after extraction and 13 of these stool suspension were spiked with intact enterovirus before extraction. MS2 rRT-PCR inhibition varied for RNAs extracted by the different systems. Inhibition was noted in 12 (13.0%), 26 (28.3%), 7 (7.6%), and 7 (7.6%) of the first 93 RNA extracts, and 58 (63.0%), 55 (59.8%), 37 (40.2%) and 30 (32.6%) of the second 92 extracts for A, B, C, and D, respectively. Furthermore, enterovirus rRT-PCR inhibition correlated with MS2 rRT-PCR inhibition for added enterovirus RNA or virus particles. In conclusion, rRT-PCR for MS-2 RNA is a good predictor of inhibition of enterovirus RNA extracted from stool suspensions. EasyMag performed the best, however all four extraction methods were suitable provided that external controls identified problematic samples.
Applying XML Web Services into Health Care Management

As Japan has become one of the fastest-aging societies in the world, it is important to improve the quality of our health maintenance management and preventive medical care to extend healthy life expectancy. We believe advanced implementation of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) may improve the medical services and health maintenance management. In this paper, we discuss the potentialities and expansibility of the XML Web Services based on the Adaptive Collaboration (AC) to improve the quality of the Japanese medical services. By examining the experimental pilot studies on the XML Web Services, we would like to present ways of improving health maintenance service and regional medical services. In order to realize better health maintenance and prevention of disease, we would like to prove that incorporating medicine, life, and work through the XML Web Services is highly effectiveness.
Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability

The Merasa project aims to achieve a breakthrough in hardware design, hard real-time support in system software, and worst-case execution time analysis tools for embedded multicore processors. The project focuses on developing multicore processor designs for hard real-time embedded systems and techniques to guarantee the analyzability and timing predictability of every feature provided by the processor.
An instrumentation and analytics framework for optimal and robust NFV deployment

This article details a novel approach to the fine-tuning of carrier-grade virtualized network function deployments for both performance optimization and diagnostic purposes, using embedded instrumentation with an analytics framework. The work presented in this article is the output of a co-lab established between BT and Intel Labs Europe to investigate network-function-virtualization-related problems faced by traditional telecom operators. Results from comprehensive testing of virtual CDN and WAN acceleration use cases are presented. These results led to the development of a number of insights that will help network operators optimize the deployment of NFV on standard high volume servers. Significantly, it was found that the default configuration for some use cases resulted in suboptimal resource allocation and consumption. Consequently, opportunities exist for carriers to fine-tune their NFV deployments from both the technical and economic perspectives using approaches such as embedded instrumentation.
Postmenopausal Survivors of Breast Cancer at Risk for Osteoporosis: Nutritional Intake and Body Size

Postmenopausal survivors of breast cancer for whom hormone replacement therapy is contraindicated are at risk for development of osteoporosis. The primary purpose of this article is to describe, in a sample of 30 postmenopausal survivors of breast cancer, their calcium and vitamin D intake compared with recommended dietary guidelines for those nutrients for postmenopausal women not taking hormone replacement therapy and the body mass index of these women as nutritional status risk factors for development of osteoporosis. Bone health and presence of osteoporosis were determined by bone mineral density testing of the spine, hip, and forearm. To obtain calcium and vitamin D intake, including supplements, 3-day diet records were completed; height and weight measures were used to calculate body mass index. The sample participants ranged in age from 42 to 65 years; the majority (56%) had been menopausal or off hormone replacement therapy for 5 years or less, and 70% had completed breast cancer treatment for 5 years or less (except tamoxifen). The majority (63%) were of medium body frame size; 30% were of small frame size. The mean body mass index (27.3) and mean weight (160 lbs) indicate that these women, as a group, were overweight. Although a large percent (63%) were taking calcium supplements, the mean daily intake (diet and supplements) of calcium (1,353 mg) and vitamin D (403 IU) was less than the recommended dietary guidelines for these nutrients in this population. At study entry, 80% of the women were osteopenic (60%) or osteoporotic (20%) and none was receiving treatment/prevention for osteoporosis; only 1 had a previous known osteoporosis diagnosis. This is a special group of women for whom screening and preventive strategies for osteoporosis are imperative.
Optimization of clear liquid fermentation condition for ethanol production from Canna edulis Kerl

In this paper, clear liquid fermentation condition for ethanol production from Canna edulis Kerl with orthogonal design was studied. We have studied five factors that influenced clear liquid fermentation condition for ethanol production from Canna edulis Kerl by the single-factor test. The five factors were α-amylase amount, glu-coamylase amount, pH, nitrogen and auxiliary materials amount. Selected the best amounts of α-amylase, glucoamylase, pH, nitrogen source and auxiliary materials by means of the singe- factors test. And then, we used the Orthogonal test to optimize the fermentation process. The study showed that the best fermentation condi-tions were α-amylase amount 7 u/g C.eduli, glu-coamylase amount 145u/g C. edulis, pH 4.4 and the amount of urea 0.08%, 1% of rice bran as auxiliary materials. The rate of alcohol which was produced by the best fermentation conditions is 21.5% that increased by 1.3% than the rate of alcohol by the single-factor test.
Variable scale filtered Navier–Stokes equations: A new procedure to deal with the associated commutation error

A simple procedure to approximate the noncommutation terms that arise whenever it is necessary to use a variable scale filtering of the motion equations and to compensate directly the flow solutions from the commutation error is here presented. Such a situation usually concerns large eddy simulation of nonhomogeneous turbulent flows. The noncommutation of the average and differentiation operations leads to nonhomogeneous terms in the motion equations, that act as source terms of intensity which depend on the gradient of the filter scale δ and which, if neglected, induce a systematic error throughout the solution. Here the different noncommutation terms of the motion equation are determined as functions of the δ gradient and of the δ derivatives of the filtered variables. It is shown here that approximated noncommutation terms of the fourth order of accuracy, with respect to the filtering scale, can be obtained using series expansions in the filter width of approximations based on finite differences and in.
The development of the oculomotor nuclear complex in the Japanese quail embryo

The development of the oculomotor nuclear complex was studied in the Japanese quail. In hatchlings, this complex was found to consist of four subnuclei: The accessory, the dorsolateral, the dorsomedial, and the ventromedial. An arciform subnucleus or central subnucleus was not found in this species. All subnuclei were made up of homogeneous cell populations. The oculomotor primordia can first be recognized at day 3 of incubation, and a clear subdivision within this primordia is apparent on day 5 (total incubation period = 17 days). At this time the accessory subnucleus can be discerned. By day 6, a horizontally oriented dorsal cell mass, the anlagen of the dorsolateral and dorsomedial subnuclei, is seen, as is a vertically oriented ventral cell mass, the anlagen of the ventromedial subnucleus. The boundaries between the subnuclei are not yet distinct at this age, however. By day 7 of incubation, all four subnuclei can be detected as separate entities. Migrating cells, apparently moving primarily between the ventromedial subnuclei, are first seen on day 5, at which time the oculomotor commissure begins to appear. Migratory traffic is extensive during days the 6 and 7 of incubation, with wide bands of migrating cells typically seen, spanning the entire dorsal‐ventral extent of the oculomotor complex. These cells do not appear to be associated exclusively with the ventromedial subnuclei. In many instances, migratory cells appear to be affiliated with the dorsomedial cell group. By day 10 of incubation, migration has ceased and the oculomotor complex has attained its definitive configuration. These observations are discussed with comparative reference to earlier studies of chick and duck embryos and hatchlings.
Characterization of the NifS-like Domain of ABA3 from Arabidopsis thaliana Provides Insight into the Mechanism of Molybdenum Cofactor Sulfuration*

The molybdenum cofactor sulfurase ABA3 from Arabidopsis thaliana specifically regulates the activity of the molybdenum enzymes aldehyde oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase by converting their molybdenum cofactor from the desulfo-form into the sulfo-form. ABA3 is a two-domain protein with an NH2-terminal domain sharing significant similarities to NifS proteins that catalyze the decomposition of l-cysteine to l-alanine and elemental sulfur for iron-sulfur cluster synthesis. Although different in its physiological function, the mechanism of ABA3 for sulfur mobilization was found to be similar to NifS proteins. The protein binds a pyridoxal phosphate cofactor and a substrate-derived persulfide intermediate, and site-directed mutagenesis of strictly conserved binding sites for the cofactor and the persulfide demonstrated that they are essential for molybdenum cofactor sulfurase activity. In vitro, the NifS-like domain of ABA3 activates aldehyde oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase in the absence of the C-terminal domain, but in vivo, the C-terminal domain is required for proper activation of both target enzymes. In addition to its cysteine desulfurase activity, ABA3-NifS also exhibits selenocysteine lyase activity. Although l-selenocysteine is unlikely to be a natural substrate for ABA3, it is decomposed more efficiently than l-cysteine. Besides mitochondrial AtNFS1 and plastidial AtNFS2, which are both proposed to be involved in iron-sulfur cluster formation, ABA3 is proposed to be a third and cytosolic NifS-like cysteine desulfurase in A. thaliana. However, the sulfur transferase activity of ABA3 is used for post-translational activation of molybdenum enzymes rather than for iron-sulfur cluster assembly.