Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Water conservation using smart multi-user centralized mixing systems

Water is the most valuable natural resource after air without which a man cannot survive. The growing demand is forcing fresh water beyond natural replenishment rates. This nictitates finding water conservation opportunities. We recognize that there is significant cold water wastage at public places as users try to find a proper setting of the mechanical water mixer. There is in need of a smart system that can handle the demand of water and simultaneously serve the users with water at a constant and comfortable temperature as well as regulated pressure. In this paper, a smart centralized water mixing system has been proposed that provides water to users at a reasonable temperature and flow rate. This will help in eliminating mechanical mixing and use of manual valves. The proposed system is designed using different sensors and controllers in such a way that it is easy to install and it also overcomes the drawbacks of the present system with enhanced features and proper quality of service. The fixed ratio system and the proposed systems are simulated using the tools provide by Matlab. The obtained results show that with the integration of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and a control system with the conventional physical system, we can serve users with water at the desired temperature and flow rate. The proposed system provides significant water and energy conservation on top of improved quality of service to users.
Long-term forest soil warming alters microbial communities in temperate forest soils

Soil microbes are major drivers of soil carbon cycling, yet we lack an understanding of how climate warming will affect microbial communities. Three ongoing field studies at the Harvard Forest Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) site (Petersham, MA) have warmed soils 5°C above ambient temperatures for 5, 8, and 20 years. We used this chronosequence to test the hypothesis that soil microbial communities have changed in response to chronic warming. Bacterial community composition was studied using Illumina sequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, and bacterial and fungal abundance were assessed using quantitative PCR. Only the 20-year warmed site exhibited significant change in bacterial community structure in the organic soil horizon, with no significant changes in the mineral soil. The dominant taxa, abundant at 0.1% or greater, represented 0.3% of the richness but nearly 50% of the observations (sequences). Individual members of the Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria and Acidobacteria showed strong warming responses, with one Actinomycete decreasing from 4.5 to 1% relative abundance with warming. Ribosomal RNA copy number can obfuscate community profiles, but is also correlated with maximum growth rate or trophic strategy among bacteria. Ribosomal RNA copy number correction did not affect community profiles, but rRNA copy number was significantly decreased in warming plots compared to controls. Increased bacterial evenness, shifting beta diversity, decreased fungal abundance and increased abundance of bacteria with low rRNA operon copy number, including Alphaproteobacteria and Acidobacteria, together suggest that more or alternative niche space is being created over the course of long-term warming.
BikDDA, a Mutant of Bik with Longer Half-Life Expression Protein, Can Be a Novel Therapeutic Gene for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Our previous studies showed that BikDD, a constitutively active mutant form of Bik, exhibited powerful antitumor effects in preclinical pancreatic, lung and breast cancer models. Howerver, the antitumor activity of BikDD in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is unknown. Here we show that aberrant expression of p-ERK1/2 was a meaningful molecular phenotype in TNBC patients, and can be an obstacle for treatment because of the converse correlation with Bik. A novel mutant, BikDDA, in which Ser124 was changed to Alanine to block BikDD phosphorylation by p-ERK1/2 prevented subsequent ubiquitin-proteasome degradation. BikDDA showed a prolonged half-life and enhanced pro-apoptotic ability in TNBC cells compared with BikDD. Moreover, aberrant expression of p-ERK1/2 was associated with 5-fluorouracil resistance in breast cancer patients and BikDDA enhanced the therapeutic effects of 5-fluorouracil in vitro.
Task Scheduling for Reliable Cache Architectures of Multiprocessor Systems

This paper presents a task scheduling method for reliable cache architectures (RCAs) of multiprocessor systems. The RCAs dynamically switch their operation modes for reducing the usage of vulnerable SRAMs under real-time constraints. A mixed integer programming model has been built for minimizing vulnerability under real-time constraints. Experimental results have shown that our task scheduling method achieved 47.7-99.9% less vulnerability than a conventional approach
Research Publications in Medical Journals (1992-2013) by Family Medicine Authors - Suez Canal University-Egypt

Background: Research in family medicine (FM) provides an important contribution to its discipline. Family medicine research can contribute to many areas of primary care, ranging from the early diagnosis to equitable health care. Publication productivity is important in academic settings as a marker for career advancement. Objective: To describe the publications by family medicine researcher authors between 1992 and 2013. Materials and Methods: All full text, original articles published by family medicine researcher; author with affiliation to the Suez Canal University were collected using the internet and hand search. The journals that published for family medicine researcher authors were identified. Author characteristics were described. The trend of publications was described. All articles were analyzed for their characteristics, including the themes and study designs according to predefined criteria. Results: Along 22 years, 149 research articles were published by 48 family medicine authors in 39 medical journals. The largest category in publications was related to Family physician/Health service (FP-HS, n = 52 articles), followed by ‘Patient’ category (n = 42). All the studies were quantitative; the largest group was represented by cross-sectional studies (76.5%). Conclusions: The publication productivity by family medicine researchers are going to be increased. FP-HS and patient topics were mostly addressed in publications. Cross-sectional studies exceeded any other designs. There is need to put more emphasis on intervention studies. Continuous assessment and improvement of FM research production and publication is recommended.
Putting copper into action: copper‐impregnated products with potent biocidal activities

Copper ions, either alone or in copper complexes, have been used for centuries to disinfect liquids, solids, and human tissue. Today copper is used as a water purifier, algaecide, fungicide, nematocide, molluscicide, and antibacterial and antifouling agent. Copper also displays potent antiviral activity. We hypothesized that introducing copper into clothing, bedding, and other articles would provide them with biocidal properties. A durable platform technology has been developed that introduces copper into cotton fibers, latex, and other polymeric materials. This study demonstrates the broad‐spectrum antimicrobial (antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal) and antimite activities of copper‐impregnated fibers and polyester products. This technology enabled the production of antiviral gloves and filters (which deactivate HIV‐1 and other viruses), antibacterial self‐sterilizing fabrics (which kill antibiotic‐resistant bacteria, including methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin‐resistant Enterococci), antifungal socks (which alleviate symptoms of athlete’s foot), and anti‐dust mite mattress covers (which reduce mite‐related allergies). These products did not have skin‐sensitizing properties, as determined by guine pig maximization and rabbit skin irritation tests. Our study demonstrates the potential use of copper in new applications. These applications address medical issues of the greatest importance, such as viral transmissions; nosocomial, or healthcare‐associated, infections; and the spread of antibiotic‐resistant bacteria.
A sequential factorization method for recovering shape and motion from image streams

We present a sequential factorization method for recovering the three-dimensional shape of an object and the motion of the camera from a sequence of images, using tracked features. The factorization method originally proposed by Tomasi and Kanade (1992) produces robust and accurate results incorporating the singular value decomposition. However, it is still difficult to apply the method to real-time applications, since it is based on a batch-type operation and the cost of the singular value decomposition is large. We develop the factorization method into a sequential method by regarding the feature positions as a vector time series. The new method produces estimates of shape and motion at each frame. The singular value decomposition is replaced with an updating computation of only three dominant eigenvectors, which can be performed in O(P/sup 2/) time, while the complete singular value decomposition requires O(FP/sup 2/) operations for an F/spl times/P matrix. Also, the method is able to handle infinite sequences, since it does not store any increasingly large matrices. Experiments using synthetic and real images illustrate that the method has nearly the same accuracy and robustness as the original method.
Does Correctional Education Have an Effect on Recidivism

This research focuses on the social and political issues surrounding the issue of correctional edu cation and its effects, and the findings of seven published studies conducted in a variety of regions throughout the US. These findings include data and conclusions supplied by Bureau of Justice Statis tics (nationwide) and a comprehensive study (Anderson, 1991) focusing on successful characteristics of releasees. A study conducted by the state of New York Department of Corrections, comparing GED completers and non-GED completers and their rate of recidivism, has been examined. Two studies conducted by the States of Texas and Maryland Departments of Corrections are examined to evaluate the effectiveness of academic and vocational programs on recidivism. Finally, studies conducted by Wilmington College in Ohio and the North Carolina Department of Corrections, focusing on post-secondary correctional education, have been analyzed. Does correctional education have an effect on recidivism? The studies examined here indicate that it does. Students who successfully completed the GED requirements, while incarcerated, recidivated at a lower rate than did students in the comparison group who did not. Releasees that participated in correctional academic and vocational programs tended to recidivate at a lower rate than did those who did not. Students who completed high school requirements while incarcerated recidivated at a lower rate than those who did not. And, finally, individuals who participated in and/or completed post secondary programs recidivated at a lower rate than those who did not. "We must accept the reality that to confine offenders behind walls without trying to change them is an expensive folly with short term benefits—winning battles while losing the war. " — Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger (Taylor, 1993, p. 90.)
Teacher Perceptions of the Usability of School-Based Behavior Assessments

Teacher perceptions of school-based behavior assessments were assessed over the course of a school year. Specifically, the utility and relevance of Direct Behavior Ratings–Single Item Scales, a hybrid direct observation method, relative to two school-based behavioral rating scales, the Social Skills Improvement System–Performance Screening Guide and the Behavioral and Emotional Screening System–Teacher Form, were examined. Participants included 65 teachers who completed the Usage Rating Profile-Assessment on each measure after three assessment periods (fall, winter, and spring). Results indicated that although overall usability ratings did not differ, factor scores differed as a function of both measure and assessment period. Implications for practice and directions for future research are discussed.
Early Detection and Cognitive Therapy for People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis: A Treatment Approach

List of Figures and Appendices. About the Authors. Foreword by Max Birchwood. Introduction. Acknowledgements. Part I: BACKGROUND. 1. The Importance of Early Recognition. 2. How to Identify At-Risk Groups. 3. Which Prevention Strategy to Adopt. Part II: COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR PREVENTION OF PSYCHOSIS. 4. Why Cognitive Therapy? 5. Engagement. 6. Theory, Assessment and Formulation. Part III: CHANGE STRATEGIES. 7. Normalisation. 8. Generating and Evaluating Alternative Explanations. 9. Safety Behaviours. 10. Metacognitive Beliefs. 11. 'I Am Different' and Other Core Beliefs. 12. Social Isolation. 13. Relapse Prevention. 14. Conclusions. Appendices. References. Index.
Effects of Reduced‐Impact Logging on Fish Assemblages in Central Amazonia

Abstract: In Amazonia reduced‐impact logging, which is meant to reduce environmental disturbance by controlling stem‐fall directions and minimizing construction of access roads, has been applied to large areas containing thousands of streams. We investigated the effects of reduced‐impact logging on environmental variables and the composition of fish in forest streams in a commercial logging concession in central Amazonia, Amazonas State, Brazil. To evaluate short‐term effects, we sampled 11 streams before and after logging in one harvest area. We evaluated medium‐term effects by comparing streams in 11 harvest areas logged 1–8 years before the study with control streams in adjacent areas. Each sampling unit was a 50‐m stream section. The tetras Pyrrhulina brevis and Hemigrammus cf. pretoensis had higher abundances in plots logged ≥3 years before compared with plots logged <3 years before. The South American darter (Microcharacidium eleotrioides) was less abundant in logged plots than in control plots. In the short term, the overall fish composition did not differ two months before and immediately after reduced‐impact logging. Temperature and pH varied before and after logging, but those differences were compatible with normal seasonal variation. In the medium term, temperature and cover of logs were lower in logged plots. Differences in ordination scores on the basis of relative fish abundance between streams in control and logged areas changed with time since logging, mainly because some common species increased in abundance after logging. There was no evidence of species loss from the logging concession, but differences in log cover and ordination scores derived from relative abundance of fish species persisted even after 8 years. For Amazonian streams, reduced‐impact logging appears to be a viable alternative to clear‐cut practices, which severely affect aquatic communities. Nevertheless, detailed studies are necessary to evaluated subtle long‐term effects.
Live-Out Register Fencing

This article introduces Live-Out Register Fencing (LoRF), a soft error correction mechanism that uses the novel Spill Register File as a container of checkpointing data. LoRF’s Spill Register File holds the values shared among basic blocks in the program, and, coupled with a new compilation strategy, LoRF allows for error correction in the same basic block where the error was detected. In LoRF, error correction is triggered by a hardware interrupt that restores the registers of a basic block from the Spill Register File. After these registers are restored, the basic block where the error was detected can just be re-executed, thus reducing the costs of error recovery. LoRF’s error correction policy eliminates the need for expensive architectural support for checkpointing and rollback, reducing the performance overhead of online soft error correction. LoRF relies on both a modified processor architecture and a corresponding compiler. The architecture was implemented in synthesizable VHDL, whereas the compiler was developed as an extension of the LLVM framework. Fault injection experiments support an error correction coverage of 99.35% and a mean performance overhead of 1.33 for the entire life cycle of an error from its occurrence to its elimination from the system.
High-technology industries and market structure

This is a review of various economic phenomenon that are important in high-technology industries, such as personalization of products and pricing, versioning, bundling, switching costs, lock-in, economics of scale, network eects, complements and computer-mediated contracts. Most of these forces tend to point towards higher industry concentration rations for technology-intensive industries.
Long‐Term Adjustment, Prognosis, and Death in Irreversible Diffuse Obstructive Pulmonary Syndromes

&NA; Forty subjects with severe debilitating irreversible diffuse obstructive pulmonary syndrome were studied over a 4‐year period. They were found to utilize denial, repression, and isolation to protect their failing respiratory systems from environmental inputs. Failure of these defenses led to physiologic and psychologic deterioration. Psychosocial assets were found to be as important as the physiologic assets in the treatment of these patients. Patients with high psychosocial assets were found to be more effective in protecting themselves from dangerous symptoms or behaviors and were more likely to proceed with realistic, appropriate treatment programs. The probability of dying was increased in the presence of both low psychosocial and low physiologic assets. Dying was found to be a specific goal‐directed adaptive behavior which was reported as being comfortable and relatively devoid of threat. Emotional upsets accompanying death were largely related to problems with family, friends, and hospital staff.
Towards Efficient Named-Entity Rule Induction for Customizability

Generic rule-based systems for Information Extraction (IE) have been shown to work reasonably well out-of-the-box, and achieve state-of-the-art accuracy with further domain customization. However, it is generally recognized that manually building and customizing rules is a complex and labor intensive process. In this paper, we discuss an approach that facilitates the process of building customizable rules for Named-Entity Recognition (NER) tasks via rule induction, in the Annotation Query Language (AQL). Given a set of basic features and an annotated document collection, our goal is to generate an initial set of rules with reasonable accuracy, that are interpretable and thus can be easily refined by a human developer. We present an efficient rule induction process, modeled on a four-stage manual rule development process and present initial promising results with our system. We also propose a simple notion of extractor complexity as a first step to quantify the interpretability of an extractor, and study the effect of induction bias and customization of basic features on the accuracy and complexity of induced rules. We demonstrate through experiments that the induced rules have good accuracy and low complexity according to our complexity measure.
PAPC couples the segmentation clock to somite morphogenesis by regulating N-cadherin-dependent adhesion

Vertebrate segmentation is characterized by the periodic formation of epithelial somites from the mesenchymal presomitic mesoderm (PSM). How the rhythmic signaling pulse delivered by the segmentation clock is translated into the periodic morphogenesis of somites remains poorly understood. Here, we focused on the role of paraxial protocadherin (PAPC/Pcdh8) in this process. We showed that in chicken and mouse embryos, PAPC expression is tightly regulated by the clock and wavefront system in the posterior PSM. We observed that PAPC exhibits a striking complementary pattern to N-cadherin (CDH2), marking the interface of the future somite boundary in the anterior PSM. Gain and loss of function of PAPC in chicken embryos disrupted somite segmentation by altering the CDH2-dependent epithelialization of PSM cells. Our data suggest that clathrin-mediated endocytosis is increased in PAPC-expressing cells, subsequently affecting CDH2 internalization in the anterior compartment of the future somite. This in turn generates a differential adhesion interface, allowing formation of the acellular fissure that defines the somite boundary. Thus, periodic expression of PAPC in the anterior PSM triggers rhythmic endocytosis of CDH2, allowing for segmental de-adhesion and individualization of somites. Highlighted article: The protocadherin PAPC regulates the segmental de-adhesion of the somites in the developing chick embryo by promoting CDH2 (N-cadherin) endocytosis.
Differential response of type C and intracisternal type A particle markers in cells treated with iododeoxyuridine and dexamethasone

Mouse neuroblastoma cells containing intracisternal type A particles were treated with iododeoxyuridine and dexamethasone to induce the release of type C oncornavirus particles. For 5 days after treatment, antigenic markers and DNA polymerase activities specific to particles of each of the two types were assayed in the cells and in pellets obtained by high-speed centrifugation of the culture fluid. There was a marked release of C-particle antigen (p30) and DNA polymerase activity in extracellular particulate form, reaching a maximum on day 3 after treatment and falling thereafter. In contrast, no extracellular A-particle antigen was detected, and A-particle-specific DNA polymerase activity in the medium pellets did not increase from the original very low level. Electron microscopy confirmed the presence of free type C virus particles, but not intracisternal type A particles, in the culture fluid. Although intracellular levels of C-particle antigen rose 20- to 30-fold per milligram of cell protein, intracellular A-particle antigen and DNA polymerase activity did not vary more than two-fold. The relative rate of A-particle synthesis in the treated cells, as judged by incorporation of radioactive amino acids into the major structural protein (P73), was also unchanged over the period of observation. Thus, the induction of type C virus particle formation in cultured neuroblastoma cells had no detectable effect on the quantity, synthesis rate, or location of intracisternal type A particles.
Evaluation of A Resilience Embedded System Using Probabilistic Model-Checking

If a Micro Processor Unit (MPU) receives an external electric signal as noise, the system function will freeze or malfunction easily. A new resilience strategy is implemented in order to reset the MPU automatically and stop the MPU from freezing or malfunctioning. The technique is useful for embedded systems which work in non-human environments. However, evaluating resilience strategies is difficult because their effectiveness depends on numerous, complex, interacting factors. In this paper, we use probabilistic model checking to evaluate the embedded systems installed with the above mentioned new resilience strategy. Qualitative evaluations are implemented with 6 PCTL formulas, and quantitative evaluations use two kinds of evaluation. One is system failure reduction, and the other is ADT (Average Down Time), the industry standard. Our work demonstrates the benefits brought by the resilience strategy. Experimental results indicate that our evaluation is cost-effective and reliable.