Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance and Area Scaling Benefits of FD-SOI Technology for 6-T SRAM Cells at the 22-nm Node

The performance and threshold voltage variability of fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) MOSFETs are compared against those of conventional bulk MOSFETs via 3-D device simulation with atomistic doping profiles. Compact (analytical) modeling is then used to estimate six-transistor SRAM cell performance metrics (i.e., read and write margins, and read current) at the 22 nm CMOS technology node. The dependences of these metrics on cell ratio, pull-up ratio, and operating voltage are analyzed for FD-SOI versus bulk SRAM cells. Iso-area and iso-yield comparisons are then made to determine the yield and cell-area benefits of FD-SOI technology, respectively. Finally, the minimum operating voltages required for FD-SOI and bulk SRAM cells to meet the six-sigma yield requirement are compared.
Differential Effects of Bartonella henselae on Human and Feline Macro- and Micro-Vascular Endothelial Cells

Bartonella henselae, a zoonotic agent, induces tumors of endothelial cells (ECs), namely bacillary angiomatosis and peliosis in immunosuppressed humans but not in cats. In vitro studies on ECs represent to date the only way to explore the interactions between Bartonella henselae and vascular endothelium. However, no comparative study of the interactions between Bartonella henselae and human (incidental host) ECs vs feline (reservoir host) ECs has been carried out because of the absence of any available feline endothelial cell lines. To this purpose, we have developed nine feline EC lines which allowed comparing the effects of Bartonella strains on human and feline micro-vascular ECs representative of the infection development sites such as skin, versus macro-vascular ECs, such as umbilical vein. Our model revealed intrinsic differences between human (Human Skin Microvascular ECs –HSkMEC and Human Umbilical Vein ECs – iHUVEC) and feline ECs susceptibility to Bartonella henselae infection. While no effect was observed on the feline ECs upon Bartonella henselae infection, the human ones displayed accelerated angiogenesis and wound healing. Noticeable differences were demonstrated between human micro- and macro-vasculature derived ECs both in terms of pseudo-tube formation and healing. Interestingly, Bartonella henselae effects on human ECs were also elicited by soluble factors. Neither Bartonella henselae-infected Human Skin Microvascular ECs clinically involved in bacillary angiomatosis, nor feline ECs increased cAMP production, as opposed to HUVEC. Bartonella henselae could stimulate the activation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) in homologous cellular systems and trigger VEGF production by HSkMECs only, but not iHUVEC or any feline ECs tested. These results may explain the decreased pathogenic potential of Bartonella henselae infection for cats as compared to humans and strongly suggest that an autocrine secretion of VEGF by human skin endothelial cells might induce their growth and ultimately lead to bacillary angiomatosis formation.
The embodiment of complex trauma in domestic minor sex trafficking victims and the dangers of misidentification

ABSTRACT Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) victims face many barriers to getting appropriate, trauma-informed treatment. Many of these victims experience childhood trauma by trusted adults or by non-familial perpetrators of abuse. Complex trauma, later defined in depth, captures what many DMST victims endure as the harm that they experience is ongoing and cannot be identified as a singular event. Due to the complex trauma these victims experience, they become dissociated as a tool for survival. As a result of trauma, many DMST victims do not embody protective skills, and attempt to gain control of their lives through maladaptive behaviors that can lead to re-victimization. I begin by discussing the literature around embodiment, trauma and the body, and dissociation to demonstrate why a trauma-informed approach in identification and therapy is important when working with DMST victims. Subsequently, I present a case study to explore an example of how the presentation of trauma, or ways it is masked, can lead to misidentification. This case study will illustrate how social workers can effectively advocate for DMST victims at the early stages of identification and also foster a safe, accepting therapeutic space to assist these clients in trust-building and identify formation. Trauma-informed care needs to be integrated from the first interaction with law enforcement, throughout the development of a treatment plan with providers, and for the duration of the therapeutic relationship.
PC6 acupoint stimulation for the prevention of postcardiac surgery nausea and vomiting: a protocol for a two-group, parallel, superiority randomised clinical trial

Introduction Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are frequent but unwanted complications for patients following anaesthesia and cardiac surgery, affecting at least a third of patients, despite pharmacological treatment. The primary aim of the proposed research is to test the efficacy of PC6 acupoint stimulation versus placebo for reducing PONV in cardiac surgery patients. In conjunction with this we aim to develop an understanding of intervention fidelity and factors that support, or impede, the use of PC6 acupoint stimulation, a knowledge translation approach. Methods and analysis 712 postcardiac surgery participants will be recruited to take part in a two-group, parallel, superiority, randomised controlled trial. Participants will be randomised to receive a wrist band on each wrist providing acupressure to PC six using acupoint stimulation or a placebo. Randomisation will be computer generated, use randomly varied block sizes, and be concealed prior to the enrolment of each patient. The wristbands will remain in place for 36 h. PONV will be evaluated by the assessment of both nausea and vomiting, use of rescue antiemetics, quality of recovery and cost. Patient satisfaction with PONV care will be measured and clinical staff interviewed about the clinical use, feasibility, acceptability and challenges of using acupressure wristbands for PONV. Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval will be sought from appropriate Human Research Ethics Committee/s before start of the study. A systematic review of the use of wrist acupressure for PC6 acupoint stimulation reported minor side effects only. Study progress will be reviewed by a Data Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) for nausea and vomiting outcomes at n=350. Dissemination of results will include conference presentations at national and international scientific meetings and publications in peer-reviewed journals. Study participants will receive a one-page lay-summary of results. Trial registration number Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry—ACTRN12614000589684.
The Use of Infrared Thermography as a Rapid, Quantitative, and Noninvasive Method for Evaluation of Inflammation Response in Different Anatomical Regions of Rats

Purpose. Thermographic assessment of temperature distribution within the examined tissues allows a quick, noncontact, noninvasive measurement of their temperature. The aim of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of digital infrared imaging in monitoring experimental inflammation of pleura (PL), lower lip (LL), and left paw (LP) and right paw (RP) of lower limbs in rats. Materials and Methods. The inflammatory reaction was induced by injection of 1% carrageenin solution into pleural cavity, lip, or paws. With the use of digital infrared imaging temperature measurement was conducted at 0 to 72 hours of the inflammatory reaction. Results. The temperature decrease was observed at the site of injection directly afterwards. Next, it was gradually increasing and it reached the maximum on the third day of the inflammatory reaction. Statistically significant changes were observed after 48-hour period in PL and LL regions, as well as after 72-hour period in LP and RP regions (P < 0.005). Conclusion. It was found that thermographic examination allows for indicating the presence of inflammatory reaction within examined tissues and determining the dynamics of this process. This method could be used as alternative procedure that allows using fewer animals for experiments.
ReliefMSS: a variation on a feature ranking ReliefF algorithm

Relief algorithms are successful attribute estimators. They are able to detect conditional dependencies between attributes and provide a unified view on the attribute estimation. In this paper, we propose a variant of ReliefF algorithm: ReliefMSS. We analyse the ReliefMSS parameters and compare ReliefF and ReliefMSS performances as regards the number of iterations, the number of random attributes, the noise effect, the number of nearest neighbours and the number of examples presented. We find that for the most of these parameters, ReliefMSS is better than ReliefF.
Sum of squares approaches for control of continuous-time recurrent fuzzy systems

In recent years, a concise theory of recurrent fuzzy systems has emerged and methods for utilizing these fuzzy systems with dynamics for modeling and fault detection were developed. At the same time, sum of squares decompositions in conjunction with semidefinite programming were successfully applied for the synthesis of controllers for polynomial systems. In this paper, we combine both approaches and present sum of squares based control strategies for continuous-time recurrent fuzzy systems. The system dynamics under consideration is defined by gradients at discrete points in the input-state space. An alternative description as piecewise polynomial system is possible. This motivates to utilize a controller switching between local polynomial control laws. We propose three different approaches for controller synthesis based on this idea and demonstrate this new synthesis method by means of an example. In addition, advantages and drawbacks of the approaches are discussed.
Multifunctionality and multidimensional dialogue semantics

This paper addresses the following questions: (1) Is it true, as is often claimed, that utterances in dialogue tend to have multiple functions? (2) If so, then what are the reasons for that? (3) How many functions does a dialogue utterance typically have, and which factors determine this? (4) What consequences does this have for the computational semantics of dialogue utterances? Answers to these questions are sought by investigating a dialogue corpus annotated with communicative functions using various segmentation and annotation strategies.
Effect of Dance Aerobic Programs on Intrinsic Motivation and Perceived Task Climate in Secondary School Students

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a dance aerobic intervention program on intrinsic motivation and perceived motivation climate in 7th grade middle school students. The sample of the study consisted of 160 healthy students, of the first grade of middle school. Of these, 91 students was the experimental group and the remaining 69 was the control. The experimental group followed an aerobic dance intervention program for ten weeks, three times per week, with 45-minute sessions while the control group only followed the typical physical education program of the school. In order to conduct the study the following instruments were used: a) the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (ΙΜΙ – McAuley, Duncan & Tammen, 1989) and the Perceived Oriented Climate (LAPOPECQ; Papaioannou, 1998).
Estimating the effect of transitory economic shocks on civil conflict

Economists and political scientists have argued that differences in the risk of civil conflict across countries and over time may partly reflect differences in the opportunity cost of participating in civil conflicts. One way to test for the opportunity-cost channel is to examine civil conflict risk following transitory income shocks. In this paper I propose two instrumental-variables approaches to estimate the effect of transitory income shocks on civil conflict risk. I also show that approaches not tailored to transitory income shocks may lead to the conclusion that negative income shocks increase the risk of civil conflict - which would seem consistent with an opportunity-cost channel - when they actually lower civil conflict risk. I illustrate these issues by revisiting Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti's (2004) conclusion that negative income shocks increase the risk of civil conflict in Subsaharan Africa.
Searching in Dynamic Catalogs on a Tree

In this paper we consider the following modification of the iterative search problem. We are given a tree $T$, so that a dynamic catalog $C(v)$ is associated with every tree node $v$. For any $x$ and for any node-to-root path $\pi$ in $T$, we must find the predecessor of $x$ in $\cup_{v\in \pi} C(v)$. We present a linear space dynamic data structure that supports such queries in $O(t(n)+|\pi|)$ time, where $t(n)$ is the time needed to search in one catalog and $|\pi|$ denotes the number of nodes on path $\pi$. We also consider the reporting variant of this problem, in which for any $x_1$, $x_2$ and for any path $\pi'$ all elements of $\cup_{v\in \pi'} (C(v)\cap [x_1,x_2])$ must be reported; here $\pi'$ denotes a path between an arbitrary node $v_0$ and its ancestor $v_1$. We show that such queries can be answered in $O(t(n)+|\pi'|+ k)$ time, where $k$ is the number of elements in the answer. To illustrate applications of our technique, we describe the first dynamic data structures for the stabbing-max problem, the horizontal point location problem, and the orthogonal line-segment intersection problem with optimal $O(\log n/\log \log n)$ query time and poly-logarithmic update time.
An Implementation of XML Documents Search System based on Similarity in Structure and Semantics

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an Internet standard that is used to express and convert data. In order to find the necessary information out of XML documents, you need a search system for XML documents. In this research, we have developed a search system that can find documents that matches the structure and content of a given XML document, making the best use of XML structure. Search metrics take account of the similarity in tag names, tag values, and the structure of tags. After a search, the system displays the ranked results in the order of aggregate similarity. Three methods of query are provided: keyword search which is conventional; search with tag names and their values; and search with XML documents. These three methods enable users to choose the method that best suits their preference, resulting in the increase of the usefulness of the system
Bug introducing changes: A case study with Android

Changes, a rather inevitable part of software development can cause maintenance implications if they introduce bugs into the system. By isolating and characterizing these bug introducing changes it is possible to uncover potential risky source code entities or issues that produce bugs. In this paper, we mine the bug introducing changes in the Android platform by mapping bug reports to the changes that introduced the bugs. We then use the change information to look for both potential problematic parts and dynamics in development that can cause maintenance implications. We believe that the results of our study can help better manage Android software development.
Precarity in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia: What About the Workers?

ABSTRACT Framed by historical materialism, this study of labour in post-conflict settings contends that the Balkan peace has been disfigured by a political economy of precarity. Former Yugoslav territories experienced chronic unemployment and precarity, moulded by distinctive cultures and identities, though labour had already been pummelled by the impacts of global integration before violent conflict. Peace meant reordering of pre-war and wartime political economies, which failed to stimulate officially audited employment in order to privilege private capital accumulation. Whilst workers have exerted agency to cope with and resist this, the exercise of labour rights shrank markedly.
A Mobility Management and Routing Protocol Using Tree Architecture for Internet Connectivity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

We propose a tree-based routing protocol (TBRP) with node mobility management technique for integrated mobile ad hoc and infrastructure networks. A suite of network management protocols build and maintain a network architecture in the form of small-sized trees, each starting from a node that can directly communicate with a gateway. Each node in a tree keeps track of information for its descendent nodes. A new node registers with a foreign agent along a tree path without resorting to an inefficient flooding. We also devise an efficient routing protocol that exploits tree information where route discovery does not use a flooding, either. We examined the proposed protocol for its applicability and got a promising result, even with high network traffic.
Optimizing RDF(S) queries on cloud platforms

Scalable processing of Semantic Web queries has become a critical need given the rapid upward trend in availability of Semantic Web data. The MapReduce paradigm is emerging as a platform of choice for large scale data processing and analytics due to its ease of use, cost effectiveness, and potential for unlimited scaling. Processing queries on Semantic Web triple models is a challenge on the mainstream MapReduce platform called Apache Hadoop, and its extensions such as Pig and Hive. This is because such queries require numerous joins which leads to lengthy and expensive MapReduce workflows. Further, in this paradigm, cloud resources are acquired on demand and the traditional join optimization machinery such as statistics and indexes are often absent or not easily supported. In this demonstration, we will present RAPID+, an extended Apache Pig system that uses an algebraic approach for optimizing queries on RDF data models including queries involving inferencing. The basic idea is that by using logical and physical operators that are more natural to MapReduce processing, we can reinterpret such queries in a way that leads to more concise execution workflows and small intermediate data footprints that minimize disk I/Os and network transfer overhead. RAPID+ evaluates queries using the Nested TripleGroup Data Model and Algebra(NTGA). The demo will show comparative performance of NTGA query plans vs. relational algebra-like query plans used by Apache Pig and Hive.
Cross-modal anchoring: magnitude priming based on length leads to contrast effect in numerosity judgment

On one hand, Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) research reports a phenomena called the cross-modal effect, which shows that magnitude priming based on spatial attributes of a stimuli might influence numerical estimations. On the other hand, research directed at human cognition reports that processing of space and numbers may interfere. Despite different theoretical backgrounds, those two lines of research report similar results. Is it possible that the cross-modal anchoring and the interaction between space and number are just two manifestations of the same psychological effect, conceptualized within different paradigms? In Experiment 1 participants were asked to draw lines of different length and estimate numerosity of sets of dots presented for 100 ms. Based on current studies, magnitude priming is assimilated with subsequent numerical judgment. However, an unexpected contrast effect was observed in Experiment 1. Priming of “smallness” resulted in higher estimations of numerosity, while priming of “largeness” was associated with lower estimations. Short exposition time often leads to automatic attention processes, which could possibly account for the observed contrast effect. In Experiment 2 this assumption was tested, verifying potential differences between different exposition times (100 ms vs 300 ms). The same pattern of results was obtained. Findings of both experiments are discussed from the perspective of different anchoring paradigms and concepts related to space and number processing.
Do we need architecture to model genotypic behaviour of oilseed rape in response to nitrogen fertilisation ?

Compared to other crops, oilseed rape is known to absorb nitrogen in large quantities and therefore reduces soil nitrogen. However, absorbed nitrogen is not optimised by the crop in terms of yield or grain quality: the amount of nitrogen within the grains remains weak in relation to nitrogen potentially remobilised towards the grains, especially because of abscission of leaves with high nitrogen content. Acquisition of knowledge about these processes should contribute to reducing nitrogen pollution and to improving management of nitrogen supply. The general objective of this study is to evaluate the genotypic behaviour of oilseed rape in response to nitrogen fertilisation and to provide a tool for selection of genotypes with respect to a better remobilisation of absorbed nitrogen and a reduction of leaf abscission. In order to analyse genotype x environment interactions (see Chapman et al., 2003), we chose contrasted genotypes according to their size (normal and semi-dwarf) and their precocity, grown in contrasted conditions of nitrogen supply. The first step of this work consists of testing functioning hypotheses from experimental data obtained in field and controlled growth chambers. Hypotheses are formulated for relationships between structure and function according to genotype and as a function of environmental conditions (nitrogen supply, temperature, light): interactions between morphogenesis and assimilates partitioning, interactions between nitrogen and carbon metabolism. For instance, they are relative to plant development, nitrogen absorption rate, nitrogen remobilisation towards the grains, changes in these rates over time, changes in balance between nitrogen demand and supply over time. The second step will consist of integrating and testing hypotheses in models of plant functioning. The underlying question is what kind of model should be used or developed to adequately describe the key processes of development and assimilates partitioning (nitrogen, carbon)? A first approach could be based on the CERES model (Gabrielle et al. 1998), integrating processes at the crop level. However, this model will probably not be enough to evaluate the genotypic sensitivity to environmental conditions. A second approach could be based on an architectural model (Drouet and Pagès, 2003), integrating processes from the organ level to the whole plant and crop level. This model will make possible to account for the key processes at the organ level, their regulation and their hierarchy. It will also allow the introduction of genotypic variability in relation to environmental conditions. However, this model requires a large number of parameters and may need simplifying in order to test hypotheses on genotype x environment interactions. This work should help define advantages and drawbacks of an architectural approach to account for differences of genotypic behaviour in response to nitrogen fertilisation.
Replay by Re-execution: A Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration via Record and Replay of Interactive Multimedia Sessions

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