Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX DATASETS: DATA MINING WITH MATRIX DECOMPOSITIONS

with the most likely topic assignments FIGURE 4.4 (SEE COLOR INSERT FOLLOWING PAGE 130.): The analysis of a document from Science. Document similarity was computed using Eq. (4.4); topic words were computed using Eq. (4.3). © 2009 by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
Ideology Springs Eternal: Reply to Commentaries

OES IT HELP US BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE PUBLIC NARRATIVES being offered and our felt experiences to identify and Dunderstand the psychic mechanisms required to live here now? In these two papers, now five years old, Neil Altman and I set out to capture the underlying psychic dynamics that permit the current pace of life and the mood it generates. We believed our combined psychoanalytic training, clinical, and personal experiences offered us a unique window into the interior domain of life in American society. The public narratives (ideology) we are offered relating to freedom, democracy, and opportunity create a complex veneer through which it is often difficult to locate ourselves or see through to what is actually going on within and around us. As psychoanalysts, we know how difficult it is to penetrate beyond the wall of fantasy to reality—to challenge that creative world of illusion and dreaming that can become a barrier to embracing the real world in all of its splendor and disappointment. The world of public fantasy (ideology) is equally, if not more, difficult to penetrate to the realities of societal life. Our investment in that ideology (which unwittingly infiltrates our fantasy lives) is enormous. Ideology Springs Eternal
A Pmipv 6-Fog Scheme for Vehicular Mobility Support

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) and the rapid development of communicationand computation technologies are one of the main next generation wireless networks which are envisaged to be an integration of homogeneous and heterogeneous wireless networks. Although VANETs are deployed in reality offering several services, a seamless handover mechanism with negligible handover delay is required to maintain active connections during roaming across these networks. Cloud computing as a solution has been deployed with special requirements of mobility, location awareness, and low latency. However, the handover delay remains high and unacceptable for delay-sensitive services such as real-time and multimedia services. This paper, therefore, proposes a PMIPv6-Fog model for VANET mobility management framework utilizing the merging of VANETs with fog computing, and the recently emerged network-based localized mobility management protocol, Proxy Mobile IPv6, to further reduce handover delay.
The Donor Subsite of Trehalose-6-phosphate Synthase

Trehalose is an unusual non-reducing disaccharide that plays a variety of biological roles, from food storage to cellular protection from environmental stresses such as desiccation, pressure, heat-shock, extreme cold, and oxygen radicals. It is also an integral component of the cell-wall glycolipids of mycobacteria. The primary enzymatic route to trehalose first involves the transfer of glucose from a UDP-glucose donor to glucose-6-phosphate to form α,α-1,1 trehalose-6-phosphate. This reaction, in which the configurations of two glycosidic bonds are set simultaneously, is catalyzed by the glycosyltransferase trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (OtsA), which acts with retention of the anomeric configuration of the UDP-sugar donor. The classification of activated sugar-dependent glycosyltransferases into approximately 70 distinct families based upon amino acid sequence similarities places OtsA in glycosyltransferase family 20 (see afmb.cnrs-mrs.fr/CAZY/). The recent 2.4 Å structure of Escherichia coli OtsA revealed a two-domain enzyme with catalysis occurring at the interface of the twin β/α/β domains. Here we present the 2.0 Å structures of the E. coli OtsA in complex with either UDP-Glc or the non-transferable analogue UDP-2-deoxy-2-fluoroglucose. Both complexes unveil the donor subsite interactions, confirming a strong similarity to glycogen phosphorylases, and reveal substantial conformational differences to the previously reported complex with UDP and glucose 6-phosphate. Both the relative orientation of the two domains and substantial (up to 10 Å) movements of an N-terminal loop (residues 9–22) characterize the more open “relaxed” conformation of the binary UDP-sugar complexes reported here.
ANALGESICS: THE MEASUREMENT OF CLINICAL PAIN

1 Simultaneous subjective estimates of pain intensity, using both visual analogue (VAS) and categorical measurements, have been carried out in patients with postoperative pain and patients with chronic pain due to cancer. The categorical scale selected had demonstrated a power function relationship to intensity in cross-modality tests in the laboratory. In our hands, the relationship of the analogue and categorical parameters was also best described in terms of a power function (y= 1.39x2.261, where y = VAS and x= pain category). 2 When the population was divided into those patients who had postoperative pain and those who had chronic cancer pain, the responses of both groups also fit power curves (y= 0.99x299 in postoperative pain and y= 1.1 9X214 in chronic cancer pain). These curves diverged at the upper end of the scales where patients with chronic cancer pain tended to rate 'strong', 'severe' and 'excruciating' pain as less intense on the analogue scale than did the postoperative patients. This is presumptive evidence that the two groups are interpreting their pain differently in the light of differing pain experiences. Concurrent VAS and categorical pain data are thus able to provide some insight into differences in interpretation of pain by a variety of patient groups. Similar analyses in terms of age, sex and pain aetiology are proposed. 3 Comparisons of VAS scores for individual pain categories at various times before and after drug administration demonstrate some downward vertical movement (slippage) in the categories after drug administration. VAS measurements seem to be more sensitive to smaller changes in effect than are the categorical measurements. 4 Increased sensitivity of VAS over categorical measurements was demonstrated in a twin crossover assay of oral zomepirac and intramuscular morphine in a limited population of 20 postoperative patients. The endpoints were peak and total relief as measured either by a VAS or a five-point categorical scale. Relative potency estimates were consistent for all parameters indicating oral zomepirac to be about one-sixth as potent as intramuscular morphine, but only VAS data gave finite 95% confidence limits in this small group of patients.
Activity-based Proteomics of Enzyme Superfamilies: Serine Hydrolases as a Case Study*

Genome sequencing projects have uncovered thousands of uncharacterized enzymes in eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. Deciphering the physiological functions of enzymes requires tools to profile and perturb their activities in native biological systems. Activity-based protein profiling has emerged as a powerful chemoproteomic strategy to achieve these objectives through the use of chemical probes that target large swaths of enzymes that share active-site features. Here, we review activity-based protein profiling and its implementation to annotate the enzymatic proteome, with particular attention given to probes that target serine hydrolases, a diverse superfamily of enzymes replete with many uncharacterized members.
Maze solving robot using image processing

Maze solving problem involves determining the path of a mobile robot from its initial position to its destination while traversing through environment consisting of obstacles. In addition, the robot must follow the best possible path among various possible paths present in the maze. Applications of such autonomous vehicles range from simple tasks like robots employed in industries to carry goods through factories, office buildings and other workspaces to dangerous or difficult to reach areas like bomb sniffing, finding humans in wreckage, etc. Existing robots employed in labyrinth problems use long process of training and are incapable of adjusting to dynamic environments. The method proposed here involves image processing and path finding algorithm; which works faster because of beforehand acquiring the maze's data rather than going through the maze cell by cell. The entire maze is captured to determine the possible paths and using Direction Envelope Algorithm for finding the best route. This approach gives robot a prognosis and avoids being trapped or falling in loops.
Low Latency Stream Processing: Apache Heron with Infiniband & Intel Omni-Path

Worldwide data production is increasing both in volume and velocity, and with this acceleration, data needs to be processed in streaming settings as opposed to the traditional store and process model. Distributed streaming frameworks are designed to process such data in real time with reasonable time constraints. Apache Heron is a production-ready large-scale distributed stream processing framework. The network is of utmost importance to scale streaming applications to large numbers of nodes with a reasonable latency. High performance computing (HPC) clusters feature interconnects that can perform at higher levels than traditional Ethernet. In this paper the authors present their findings on integrating Apache Heron distributed stream processing system with two high performance interconnects; Infiniband and Intel Omni-Path and show that they can be utilized to improve performance of distributed streaming applications.
In vitro and in silico characterisation of Lactobacillus paraplantarum D2-1, a starter culture for soymilk fermentation

Abstract Soymilk contains several functional nutrients and is thus a promising ingredient for production of functional foods. The present research aimed to study starter properties, functional characteristics and safety of Lactobacillus paraplantarum D2-1, a promising starter culture for soymilk fermentation. Strain D2-1 actively fermented soymilk within 24 h but had weak activity of additional acid production after 7 d. Succinate and acetoin, which could be linked to flavour and taste, were accumulated in fermented soymilk. In vitro study revealed that the organism has several beneficial properties, including high survival ability in artificial gastric juice, high abilities of mucus adhesion and biofilm formation and production of γ-aminobutyric acid and conjugated linoleic acid, without any significant risks for consumption. Genome sequencing supported the desirable metabolic properties of the strain. These results indicate that L. paraplantarum D2-1 is a suitable starter for soymilk fermentation and is a promising probiotic candidate that can be used safely.
Parallel-coupled microstrip filters with periodic floating-conductors on coupled-edges for spurious suppression

This paper presents a new technique for suppressing the spurious response of parallel-coupled microstrip bandpass filters at twice the design frequency. Floating conductors loaded into periodic slots on the inner edges of each coupled section are employed to compensate the difference between evenand odd-mode phase velocities. This technique is marked by maintenance of planar structure and ease of design due to the symmetrical coupled line section. The designed filter has a satisfactory suppression level of about 40 dB and a symmetrical frequency response of the pass band. The validity of the design concept is confirmed both numerically and experimentally.
From Isolation to Collaboration - How the Increasing diffusion of Mobile Devices has changed Practices of Knowledge Sharing in non-Office Settings

The increasing diffusion of mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets has not only revolutionized how people communicate with each other, but has also changed work practices and the way employees share knowledge. Knowledge management studies have to date mainly focused on office settings but paid little attention to non-office workplace settings. However, the use of mobile devices also changes the way employees can be supported and support each other in non-office settings and thus create new application areas for knowledge management. In this research, we applied a three step qualitative inquiry with 36 experts in the construction sector to investigate how the increasing diffusion of mobile devices has affected existing work practices that are associated with knowledge sharing in non-office settings. We found that the use of mobile devices helped to transform isolated work practices into collaborative work practices, thereby reducing the spatial, temporal, contextual, and social barriers to knowledge sharing. As such, an increase in connectivity can be seen as an indicator for potential development of increased collaboration across work sites. We conclude the paper with a discussion of implications for organizations concerning the support of knowledge sharing in such settings and an outlook on future work.
Towards a Carrier Grade SDN Controller: Integrating OpenFlow With Telecom Services

Abstract—Software-Deﬁned Networking (SDN) essentially decou-ples the hardware from the software that controls it. Currently,some SDN abstractions are materialized by OpenFlow andseveral OpenFlow controllers, based on different programmingparadigms and architectures, are available. Usually, these con-trollers are bundled with some sample applications that enablesthe construction of new ones by using their particular way.However, these applications focus on speciﬁc services beingtightly coupled with the switch behavior. In this scenario, SDNcommunity is working to build a SDN control layer that meetscarrier grade requirements such as throughput, availability andscalability. This work proposes a new SDN controller architecturethat is integrated with a carrier grade service level executionenvironment, based on Service Logic Execution Environment(SLEE) architecture, deﬁned under the Java APIs for IntegratedNetworks (JAIN) initiative. The proposed approach extends SDNbased services by integrating OpenFlow with several networkresources and communication protocols providing a cross layerplatform that can satisfy these telecom operators requirements.Keywords–Software-Deﬁned Networking; Carrier Grade; Con-troller; Telecommunications.
Voltage Sensor Fault Detection and Reconfiguration for a Doubly Fed Induction Generator

Fault detection and reconfiguration of the control loops of a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator are described in this paper. The stator voltage is measured as well as observed. During fault free operation, the measured signal is used for the field oriented control. In case of a voltage sensor fault, the faulty measurement is identified and the control is reconfigured using the observer output. Operation without measuring the stator voltage is possible. Laboratory measurements prove this concept.
Adhesion properties of Lactobacillus rhamnosus mucus-binding factor to mucin and extracellular matrix proteins

We previously described potential probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus strains, isolated from fermented mare milk produced in Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, which showed high adhesion to porcine colonic mucin (PCM) and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins. Recently, mucus-binding factor (MBF) was found in the GG strain of L. rhamnosus as a mucin-binding protein. In this study, we assessed the ability of recombinant MBF protein from the FSMM22 strain, one of the isolates of L. rhamnosus from fermented Sumbawa mare milk, to adhere to PCM and ECM proteins by overlay dot blot and Biacore assays. MBF bound to PCM, laminin, collagen IV, and fibronectin with submicromolar dissociation constants. Adhesion of the FSMM22 mbf mutant strain to PCM and ECM proteins was significantly less than that of the wild-type strain. Collectively, these results suggested that MBF contribute to L. rhamnosus host colonization via mucin and ECM protein binding. Graphical Abstract Binding of MBF from L. rhamnosus FSMM22 to Mucin and ECM proteins.
Experimental characterization methods for the electromagnetic emission of inductive wireless power circuits

Manufacturing electronic devices requires accordance to the electromagnetic compatibility requirements. Taking into account the growing importance of inductive wireless power transfer at higher frequencies, it is important that one can already early in the design process characterize the emissions. In this work, we describe the experimental methods which could be used for the characterization of as well conducted as radiated electromagnetic emissions of inductive wireless power circuits. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of these methods and compare them with each other.
A switchable dual-band monopole antenna using PIN diode

A frequency-reconfigurable antenna using PIN diode is presented. The proposed antenna can accordingly operate at one of the two frequency bands which can be reconfigured by changing the dimensions of the antenna. One PIN diode is added to a dual-band monopole antenna structure to implement switch function of the dual frequency bands with the radiation patterns nearly unchanged. The two passbands of the proposed design are located at about 3.81-4.18 GHz and 6.7-7.57 GHz for the return loss larger than 10 dB. The predicted peak gains are respectively 1.44 and 2.62 dB for low- and high-frequency band.
Théorie critique et histoire de la communication: la théorie critique de Max Horkheimer comme critique de la philosophie bourgeoise de l’histoire

Prenant acte de differentes reflexions a propos de la crise et de la necessaire reinvention de la critique, cet article propose de prolonger la theorie critique de Max Horkheimer en l’articulant au projet d’une nouvelle histoire des etudes en communication. Pour ce faire, il propose une nouvelle histoire de la theorie critique comme critique de la philosophie bourgeoise de l’histoire, laquelle sert d’ancrage a l’articulation de la theorie critique a la nouvelle histoire de la communication. As an answer to the perceived crisis of critical theory, this article attempts to extend the critical theory of Max Horkheimer into the project of a new history of communication studies. To this end, this article proposes a new history of critical theory as a critique of the bourgeois philosophy of history that serves as an anchoring point to the articulation of critical theory with the project of a new history of communication studies.
Differences in Tobacco Use Among Two-Year and Four-Year College Students in Minnesota

Abstract Objective: This study compares tobacco use rates among two-year and four-year college students and explores the demographic variables that predicted that behavior. Participants: 9,931 students at 14 two-year and four-year colleges in Minnesota participated. Methods: Students at 11 schools completed an online survey, and students at 3 schools completed a paper survey in 2007. Results: After controlling for sex, age, ethnicity, relationship status, hours of work per week, and number of school credits, attending a two-year college predicted current and daily smoking (odds ratio [OR]) = 1.70, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.52–1.89; OR = 3.47, 95% CI = 2.94–4.11) and smokeless tobacco use (OR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.32–2.06; OR = 1.64, 95% CI = 1.06–2.53). Conclusions: Although two-year college students comprise approximately two fifths of the college student population, surveys of college student tobacco use have focused nearly exclusively on four-year college students. Two-year college students should represent a priority population for tobacco control because attending a two-year college predicts increased tobacco use.
A Comparison of PMRs and SMRs as Estimators of Occupational Mortality

Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) for occupational diseases are confounded by health differences between industrial and general populations. In 109 industrial cohorts largely free of work-related mortality, these selection effects were sizable for both malignant and nonmalignant outcomes. All-cancer SMRs were considerably less than 1.0 for many cohorts, and lung cancer was subject to almost as much selection-derived confounding as nonmalignant disease. Standardized proportional mortality ratios (PMRs) (approximated by relative SMRs (RSMRs)) were less confounded than SMRs in estimating occupational risk. PMRs appeared to overestimate cancer mortality on average by 6%, while SMRs underestimated by 13%. PMRs underestimated nonmalignant respiratory disease by 16 percent but SMRs underestimated by 39 percent. The sources of confounding, in addition to selection on health status at hire, most likely include social class. SMRs, in the absence of internal population comparisons, would fail to detect both malignant and nonmalignant work-related mortality in many industrial cohorts
Engineering the point spread function of layered metamaterials

Layered metal-dielectric metamaterials have filtering properties both in the frequency domain and in the spatial frequency domain. Engineering their spatial filtering response is a way of designing structures with specific diffraction properties for such applications as sub-diffraction imaging, supercollimation, or optical signal processing at the nanoscale. In this paper we review the recent progress in this field.We also present a numerical optimization framework for layered metamaterials, based on the use of evolutionary algorithms. A measure of similarity obtained using Hölder’s inequality is adapted to construct the overall criterion function. We analyse the influence of surface roughness on the quality of imaging.
QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF SURVIVAL AND GROWTH IN IMPATIENS CAPENSIS

When variation in life‐history characters is caused by many genes of small effect, then quantitative‐genetic parameters may quantify constraints on rate and direction of microevolutionary change. I estimated heritabilities and genetic correlations for 16 life‐history and morphological characters in two populations of Impatiens capensis, a partially self‐pollinating herbaceous annual. The Madison population had little or no additive genetic variance for any of these characters, while the Milwaukee population had significant narrowsense heritabilities and genetic correlations for several traits, including adult size, which is highly correlated with fitness. All genetic correlations among fitness components were positive, hence there is no evidence for antagonistic pleiotropy among these traits. Dissimilarity of heritabilities in the two populations supports theoretical predictions that long‐term changes in genetic variance‐covariance patterns may occur when population sizes are small and selection is strong, as may occur in many plant species.
State of the art and challenges for test and reliability of emerging nonvolatile resistive memories

The power and reliability issues of today's memories (static and dynamic RAMs) reduce the advances achieved by their implementation in scaled technology. There are several emergent memory technologies that address the technical constraints of today's memories, among which the most promising solutions are the resistance‐based memories, such as phase change memories, the redox‐based resistive memories, and the spin‐transfer torque magnetic memories. These technologies are facing various challenges that have to be addressed to render them efficient in today's applications. Until recently, research focus was on the design for performance and power efficiency, but lately, the test and reliability issues of these devices have become of major concern to the community. This paper presents an overview of the challenges and proposed test and reliability boost solutions developed to suit the needs of the emerging memories under analysis. It underlines (1) the unique faults that occur in the memory cell due to known issues in the emerging storage devices, (2) the dedicated solutions developed for efficient testing of the emerging memories under study, (3) the main reliability concerns related to the emerging storage devices, and (4) the design solutions targeted at mitigating these reliability issues. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.