Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The role of the extrastriate body area in action perception

Abstract Numerous cortical regions respond to aspects of the human form and its actions. What is the contribution of the extrastriate body area (EBA) to this network? In particular, is the EBA involved in constructing a dynamic representation of observed actions? We scanned 16 participants with fMRI while they viewed two kinds of stimulus sequences. In the coherent condition, static frames from a movie of a single, intransitive whole-body action were presented in the correct order. In the incoherent condition, a series of frames from multiple actions (involving one actor) were presented. ROI analyses showed that the EBA, unlike area MT + and the posterior superior temporal sulcus, responded more to the incoherent than to the coherent conditions. Whole brain analyses revealed increased activation to the coherent sequences in parietal and frontal regions that have been implicated in the observation and control of movement. We suggest that the EBA response adapts when succeeding images depict relatively similar postures (coherent condition) compared to relatively different postures (incoherent condition). We propose that the EBA plays a unique role in the perception of action, by representing the static structure, rather than dynamic aspects, of the human form.
The Vascular Basis of Allergy of the Eye and Its Adnexa.

ALLERGY of the eye is, of necessity, a subdivision of allergy of the body as a whole. It is also a subdivision of hypersensitivity. Clinically, urticaria, asthma and iritis or any other allergic lesion of the eye are very different; basically, they must have the same pathologic physiology. The clinical symptoms, signs and pathologic manifestations of allergy depend on the structure of the tissue which is the seat of the allergic reaction. In 1935 Woods 1 presented his monograph on the place of allergy and immunity in ophthalmology. This work deals with experimental studies in general ocular immunology; the relationship of allergy to focal infection, vernal conjunctivitis, trachoma, syphilis and tuberculosis; the antigenic properties and reactions of lens protein and uveal pigment, and the use of nonspecific proteins, autoserums, vaccines and specific serums in therapy. Woods's monograph is an excellent introduction to allergy of the eye from the viewpoint of
Tangential Networks of Precocious Neurons and Early Axonal Outgrowth in the Embryonic Human Forebrain

We used a combination of immunohistochemistry and carbocyanine dye tracing to study neurons and their processes in the human embryonic forebrain, 4-7 weeks after conception, before the onset of synaptogenesis. We discovered a widespread network of precocious MAP2 (microtubule-associated protein 2)-immunoreactive cells, with long, nonaxonal processes, before the appearance of the cortical plate and the establishment of thalamocortical connectivity. Dye tracing revealed that the processes of these precocious cells form tangential links between intermediate zones of the thalamus, ganglionic eminence, hypothalamus, and cortical preplate. The spatiotemporal distribution and morphology of the precocious neurons in the cortical preplate suggest that they are generated outside the cerebral wall rather than in the local ventricular zone. The first thalamocortical axons and axons of preplate cells extend across diencephalo-telencephalic and striatocortical boundaries before the arrival of the first cortical plate neurons. Precocious cells may provide initial communication between subdivisions of the embryonic brain as well as guidance cues for navigation of growing axons and/or transverse neuronal migration.
Human papilloma virus in neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions of the external eye

AIM Human papilloma virus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been associated with neoplastic conditions of the conjunctiva. However, the presence of this virus has not been reported in non-neoplastic disorders of the external eye nor has it been studied in normal conjunctival tissues. METHODS Ninety six paraffin embedded tissue specimens with neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions and 19 conjunctiva samples free from overt disease were studied for HPV types 16 and 18 positivity with the polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS HPV types 16 and 18 DNA were identified in 57% of in situ squamous cell carcinoma, in 55% of invasive squamous cell carcinoma, in 20% of climatic droplet keratopathy, in 35% of scarred corneas, and in 32% of normal conjunctival tissue obtained during routine cataract extractions. CONCLUSION These findings indicate that HPV types 16 and 18 are detectable with the polymerase chain reaction not only in epithelial neoplasms of the ocular mucous membrane but also in non-neoplastic lesions as well as in apparently healthy conjunctiva.
Design Considerations for Variable Coupling Lumped Coil Systems

This paper investigates the impact of coupling variations and reflected impedance in an inductive power transfer (IPT) lumped coil system on the overall system behavior. It offers a process to quantify these variations and design the resonant networks to minimize these effects. An analytical analysis of the reactive power flow between the secondary and the primary power supply in this system is presented and validated by simulation and measurement. A 1.2-kW battery charging system consisting of an LCL primary network, circular pads, and a series tuned secondary is designed. It provides an example of how correct selection of the resonant networks provides minimal burden on the primary power supply due to the additional reactive power demands resulting from mistuning under variable coupling conditions.
Modalidades y uso del material leñoso entre grupos cazadores-recolectores patagónicos (Argentina). Métodos y técnicas de estudio del material leñoso arqueológico

Este trabajo tiene por objetivo caracterizar las modalidades de adquisicion y uso del recurso lenoso y establecer que factores intervinieron en la organizacion de las mismas. En este sentido se pretende definir los criterios que rigieron la seleccion de este recurso, para ser utilizado como combustible y materia prima para la fabricacion de instrumentos, por parte de las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras que habitaron distintas zonas de la Patagonia (Argentina). Se entiende por modalidades de adquisicion del material lenoso los modos de actuacion que los distintos grupos llevaron a cabo para la obtencion de la madera, tanto en lo que se refiere a las formaciones vegetales explotadas como a la extraccion del recurso, lo que comporta una seleccion de tipos de madera y su transporte. Se parte de la hipotesis de que en estos grupos la adquisicion de la madera estuvo condicionada y determinada por la movilidad, la duracion y la funcion de las distintas ocupaciones. En base a las caracteristicas de las ocupaciones, las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras pudieron llevar a cabo un uso selectivo de determinadas especies o tipos de madera, entendiendo por tipo de madera el tamano de los lenos utilizados y el estado del material lenoso (verde, seco, procedente de la poda natural, degradada o en buen estado). Para ello implementaron determinadas formas de adquisicion de las especies lenosas.
Multilineage progression of genetically unstable tumor subclones in cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma

Abstract: Molecular analysis of solid malignant tumors has suggested multilineage progression of genetically unstable subclones during early stages of tumorigenesis as a common mechanism of tumor cell evolution. We have investigated whether multilineage progression is a feature of cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma (CTCL). To identify individual tumor cell subclones, we determined the pattern of mutations within microsatellite DNA obtained from multiple histomorphologically confined tumor cell nests of mycosis fungoides (MF) and lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP) lesions. Tumor cells were isolated by laser microdissection, and allelotypes were determined at microsatellite markers D6S260, D9S162, D9S171, D10S215, TP53.PCR15, and D18S65. Nine cases of MF and one patient with anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) originating from LyP were analyzed at 277 different microdissected areas obtained from 31 individual lesions. Three specimens of cutaneous lichen planus microdissected at 26 areas served as the control tissue. Microsatellite instability in microdissected tissue [MSI(md‐tissue)] was detected in tumor tissues of all CTCL patients. One hundred and fifty‐seven of 469 analyzed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifications contained mutated microsatellite alleles (34%). In lichen planus, MSI(md‐tissue) was seen in only four of 76 PCR products (5%) (P < 0.0001). The distribution of allelotypes in tumor cells from different disease stages was consistent with multilineage progression in five MF cases, as well as in the LyP/ALCL patient. Our results suggest that CTCL may evolve by multilineage progression and that tumor subclones in MF can be detected in early disease stages by mutation analysis of microsatellite DNA obtained from multiple microdissected areas.
Self-Oscillating Resonant Converter With Contactless Power Transfer and Integrated Current Sensing Transformer

In this paper, an integrated transformer is proposed to provide current sensing in the primary side and passive current phase detection for a self-oscillating contactless resonant converter (SOCRC). The proposed transformer integrates power transfer and current sensing. By using the secondary current phase of a series/series-compensated resonant converter in the control of the inverter, better output controllability, dynamic response, and self-adaptability can be achieved simultaneously. The integrated current sensing winding, being a crucial part of SOCRC, is analyzed in detail. In order to make the output voltage insensitive to the clearance and misalignment conditions, the requirement of the new integrated transformer is given. Experimental results of an 80-W SOCRC prototype verify the analytical results.
A CAPTCHA Recognition Algorithm Based on Holistic Verification

CAPTCHA is a new kind of network security mechanism. Studying the recognition of CAPTCHA can help to discover its hidden defects and thus make it more secure. For closely-connected CAPTCHAs that can hardly be recognized by methods of state of art, this paper proposed a new recognition algorithm based on holistic verification. During the process of this algorithm, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) was first used to recognize unknown CAPTCHAs. Then, recognition results were verified by SVM rejection, synthetic data generation and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). Experiments results show that this algorithm can not only recognize closely-connected CAPTCHAs but also effectively boost the recognition rate of RNN.
Bir1/Cut17 moving from chromosome to spindle upon the loss of cohesion is required for condensation, spindle elongation and repair

Background In mammals, proteins containing BIR domains (IAPs and survivin) are implicated in inhibiting apoptosis and sister chromatid separation. In the nematode, Bir1 is required for a proper localization of aurora kinase, which moves from the mitotic chromosome in metaphase to the spindle midzone in anaphase as a passenger. Fission yeast Bir1/Pbh1 is essential for normal mitosis.
Weaving Together Requirements and Architectures

Software development organizations often choose between alternative starting points-requirements or architectures. This invariably results in a waterfall development process that produces artificially frozen requirements documents for use in the next step in the development life cycle. Alternatively, this process creates systems with constrained architectures that restrict users and handicap developers by resisting inevitable and desirable changes in requirements. The spiral life-cycle model addresses many drawbacks of a waterfall model by providing an incremental development process, in which developers repeatedly evaluate changing project risks to manage unstable requirements and funding. An even finer-grain spiral life cycle reflects both the realities and necessities of modern software development. Such a life cycle acknowledges the need to develop software architectures that are stable, yet adaptable, in the presence of changing requirements. The cornerstone of this process is that developers craft a system's requirements and its architecture concurrently, and interleave their development.
Quantitative detection of atropine-delayed gastric emptying in the horse by the 13C-octanoic acid breath test.

The 13C-octanoic acid breath test has been correlated significantly to radioscintigraphy for measurement of gastric emptying indices in healthy horses. The objective of this study was to investigate the validity of the test for measurement of equine delayed gastric emptying, prior to its potential clinical application for this purpose. A model of atropine-induced gastroparesis was used. Gastric emptying rate was measured twice in 8 horses using concurrent radioscintigraphy and/or breath test after treatment i.v. with either atropine (0.035 mg/kg bwt) or saline in randomised order. Analysis of both data sets demonstrated that the atropine treatment had caused a significant delay in gastric emptying rate. Paired breath test data showed an atropine-induced delay in gastric half-emptying time (t 1/2), with no overlap in the 99% CI range (P < 0.001). Significant correlations were found between scintigraphy and 13C-octanoic acid breath test for calculation of both t 1/2 (P < 0.01) and lag phase duration (P < 0.05) in the atropine-delayed emptying results. The mean (s.d.) bias in breath test t 1/2 when compared with scintigraphy was 1.78 (0.58) h. The results demonstrated that the 13C-octanoic acid breath test was an effective diagnostic modality for the measurement of equine delayed gastric emptying. The technique offers advantages to existing methods for clinical investigation, as it is noninvasive, not radioactive, quantitative and requires minimal equipment or training to perform.
A Study of Fault Diagnosis Method for the Train Axle Box Based on EMD and PSO-LSSVM

The vibration signals of train axle box bearings are nonlinear and non-stationary, and the previous time-frequency analysis methods couldn't accurately extract the instantaneous characteristics of the signal that include short-time Fourier transform, Wigner-Ville distribution, wavelet transform. In this paper, empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a relatively new time-frequency analysis method, was used to decompose the signals into a series of single-frequency intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) in order to extract feature parameters. In fault pattern recognition, particle swarm optimization least square support vector machine (PSO-LSSVM) algorithm was applied for identifying the fault type. Results show that the proposed method has a prediction accuracy of 92.5% in identifying four kinds of working conditions which include normal bearing, outer ring fault, inner ring fault and rolling element fault, higher than SVM, PSO-SVM and LS-SVM.
Low-Power Automatic Speech Recognition Through a Mobile GPU and a Viterbi Accelerator

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a core technology for mobile devices. Delivering real-time and accurate ASR has a huge computational cost, which is challenging to achieve in tightly energy-constrained platforms such as mobile devices. A state-of-the-art ASR pipeline consists of a deep neural network (DNN) that converts the audio signal into phonemes' probabilities, followed by a Viterbi search that uses these probabilities to generate a sequence of words. In this article, the authors propose an ASR system for low-power devices that combines a mobile GPU for the DNN with a dedicated hardware accelerator for the Viterbi search. DNN evaluation is easy to parallelize and, hence, it achieves high energy efficiency on a mobile GPU. On the other hand, the Viterbi search is difficult to parallelize, and it represents the main bottleneck for ASR, so the authors propose a hardware accelerator to dramatically reduce its energy requirements while increasing performance. Their proposal outperforms traditional solutions running on the CPU by orders of magnitude. Compared to a GPU-only system, their hybrid scheme combining the GPU and the accelerator improves performance by 5.25 times, while reducing energy by 2.05 times.
Ontology Extraction for Knowledge Reuse: The e-Learning Perspective

Ontologies have been frequently employed in order to solve problems derived from the management of shared distributed knowledge and the efficient integration of information across different applications. However, the process of ontology building is still a lengthy and error-prone task. Therefore, a number of research studies to (semi-)automatically build ontologies from existing documents have been developed. In this paper, we present our approach to extract relevant ontology concepts and their relationships from a knowledge base of heterogeneous text documents. We also show the architecture of the implemented system and discuss the experiments in a real-world context.
A comparative study of insulator materials exposed to high voltage AC and DC surface discharges

An experimental study was conducted, using the Inclined Plane Test method to determine the performance of typical power line insulator materials: RTV (Room Temperature Vulcanized) silicone rubber coated porcelain, HTV (High Temperature Vulcanized) silicone rubber and EPDM rubber. The constant voltage method was employed to evaluate the performance of the above samples when energized by ac and dc (both polarities) voltages. The relative performance of the different materials and the effect of the voltage types were investigated. The results show that the RTV silicone rubber coating exhibits the least erosion for ac voltage but shows extensive erosion in the case of negative dc voltage. The HTV silicone rubbers exhibit only minimal erosion when exposed to ac test voltage, but develop strong erosion under positive dc voltage, which can result in sample failure. EPDM experiences the least erosion for a negative dc voltage, but shows maximum erosion severity for ac voltage.
Ghosts in the shell: An investigation of the relationship between automation and the nature of work

This dissertation addresses the question, âWhat are the consequences of automation for the nature of work. â First, I summarize the various approaches within the literature on management and organizations to the matters of technology, work, and social structure. Second, I present three groups of competing hypotheses that have persisted in the management literature regarding the relationship between automation and the nature of work. Third, these competing hypotheses are tested using data gathered as part of the O*NET project, comprising the responses of more than 100,000 individuals across nearly 800 occupations to various aspects of their work. I find that, in general, greater levels of automation alongside work are associated with greater levels of routinization, but lesser levels of education. Furthermore, I find that those occupations with little resource control see a strong and negative link between automation and education while those with high levels of resource control see no such reliable link. Finally, I summarize the implications of these findings for management research and practice, highlighting a challenge I describe as the automatorʼs dilemma, and outline new directions for research at the intersection of organizations, work, and automation.
A Framework for Machine Translation Output Combination

In this paper, we propose a framework for combining outputs from multiple on-line machine translation systems. This framework consists of several modules, including selection, substitution, insertion, and deletion. We evaluate the combination framework on IWSLT07 in travel domain, for the translation direction from Chinese to English. Three different on-line machine translation systems, Google, Yahoo, and TransWhiz, are used in the investigation. The experimental results show that our proposed combination framework improves BLEU score from 19.15 to 20.55. It achieves an absolute improvement of 1.4 in the BLEU score.
Capturer les interactions écologiques en microcosme sous pression chimique à travers le prisme de la modélisation

L'evaluation du risque lie aux contaminants est generalement basee sur des donnees collectees au cours d'essais monospecifiques (a une seule espece). Par consequent, les interactions entre especes, bien qu'elles structurent les ecosystemes, ne sont pas prises en compte. Pour explorer les effets des contaminants sur la dynamique des especes en interaction, cette these vise a modeliser le fonctionnement d'un microcosme de laboratoire de deux litres incluant trois especes, la daphnie Daphnia magna, la lentille d'eau Lemna minor et la microalgue Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, exposees a une contamination par le cadmium. La dynamique des trois especes ainsi que leurs interactions et les effets du cadmium ont ete decrits par un modele mecaniste base sur des equations differentielles ordinaires couplees. Les principaux processus intervenant dans ce microcosme de trois especes ont donc ete formalises, notamment la croissance et la survie des daphnies, la croissance et la sedimentation des algues, la croissance des lentilles, le broutage des algues par les daphnies, la competition interspecifique entre algues et lentilles et les effets du cadmium sur ces differents processus. Les parametres du modele ont ete estimes par inference bayesienne, en utilisant simultanement toutes les donnees issues de differentes experimentations en laboratoire, realisees au cours de la these specialement pour cette etude
KinFin: Software for Taxon-Aware Analysis of Clustered Protein Sequences

The field of comparative genomics is concerned with the study of similarities and differences between the information encoded in the genomes of organisms. A common approach is to define gene families by clustering protein sequences based on sequence similarity, and analyze protein cluster presence and absence in different species groups as a guide to biology. Due to the high dimensionality of these data, downstream analysis of protein clusters inferred from large numbers of species, or species with many genes, is nontrivial, and few solutions exist for transparent, reproducible, and customizable analyses. We present KinFin, a streamlined software solution capable of integrating data from common file formats and delivering aggregative annotation of protein clusters. KinFin delivers analyses based on systematic taxonomy of the species analyzed, or on user-defined, groupings of taxa, for example, sets based on attributes such as life history traits, organismal phenotypes, or competing phylogenetic hypotheses. Results are reported through graphical and detailed text output files. We illustrate the utility of the KinFin pipeline by addressing questions regarding the biology of filarial nematodes, which include parasites of veterinary and medical importance. We resolve the phylogenetic relationships between the species and explore functional annotation of proteins in clusters in key lineages and between custom taxon sets, identifying gene families of interest. KinFin can easily be integrated into existing comparative genomic workflows, and promotes transparent and reproducible analysis of clustered protein data.