Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Agent based service integration for distributed problem solving environments

Multi-disciplinary problem solving environments (M-PSEs) are developed to support sharing of services across multiple application domains. A PSE is, by definition, aimed to support problem solving in a given application domain. However, the infrastructure used to maintain and develop a PSE is not, and various common themes emerge when considering applications across domains. This is the predominant reason for developing M-PSEs, and creating a service layer that can be shared by multiple domain-specific PSEs. An agent-based infrastructure for M-PSEs is described, which enables the integration of legacy codes, specialised visualisation services, numerical libraries and repositories, and resource management systems, such as LSF and Codine. Each "service" in the M-PSE is dynamic component, that can vary its behaviour based on interactions with other components, or its operating environment.
Performance Evaluation of Fe-Based Nanocrystalline Cores With High and Low Residual Flux

Fe-based nanocrystalline (FE-N) cores are widely used in pulsed-power and power electronic systems. In this paper, FE-N cores with high and low residual flux were tested and compared under single impulses. The loss density and permeability of the two FE-N types are evaluated in the usable flux swing range of ~0.0-1.4 T, and a range of magnetization rates of ~1.0 μs-6.0 T/μs. When the loss density and average relative permeability are evaluated for magnetization from initial point to positive saturation based on the initial magnetization curves, the FE-N with low residual flux has lower loss density and larger average relative permeability than the one with high residual flux under low magnetization rates. The loss density and average relative permeability of the two FE-N types are almost the same values under high magnetization rates. The application of the measured results in magnetic switch design and performance analysis is presented. The presented results of the two FE-N cores can be aided in the practical magnetic designs of magnetic switches, pulse transformers, and inductors, but not restricted to those.
[Development of a standardized instrument for quantitative and reproducible rehabilitation data assessment after polytrauma (HASPOC)].

INTRODUCTION Previous scoring systems for measurement of the quality of outcome are based on scores regarding injuries to individual body regions. Known scores which describe several organ regions are of no importance for trauma patients. Therefore a new rehabilitation outcome evaluation score was developed at our hospital. METHODS Based on a prospective reinvestigation, a score system was developed that allows a quantitative appraisal of the subjective and objective outcome. A complete physical examination was performed, including ROM, neurologic examination and strength analysis. Part I (113 questions) is to be filled out by the patient; part II (191 questions) focusses on different body regions, physical examination and functional scoring. Included are the MFA, FIM, GCO and Frankel score. A final score (HASPOC) was developed to give a quantitative result of the outcome. RESULTS The new score has a range from 5 to 411 points. One hundred and fifty patients were re-examined. The mean follow-up time was 2.2 +/- 0.1 years. The SF 12 indicated an outcome more than satisfactory in 63% of cases. The MFA demonstrated moderate or severe restrictions in 41%, in the case of injuries of the lower extremity in 52% of patients. The HASPOC indicated a mean of 44.5 points. CONCLUSION This paper describes the development, structure, and the quantitative outcome of rehabilitation in polytrauma patients. This standardized rehabilitation instrument deals with a very heterogeneous patient population and shows the rehabilitation deficits accurately. Implemented recognized evaluations allow comparison of these results with those of other scoring systems.
Text generation - using discourse strategies and focus constraints to generate natural language text by Kathleen R. McKeown, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp 246, £13.95, ISBN 0-521-43802-0

This book is neatly divided into three sections, each comprising three chapters. It is not clear whether this was by chance or design; the partitioning is quite natural since each section is selfcontained. The whole of the first section is an introductory text on computational logic, some of its theoretical bases and its realization in the Prolog programming language. The middle section looks at some specific AI representation and reasoning techniques, namely searching through directed graphs, from a logic programming perspective. The final section deals with two contemporary issues in logic programming research; and interpretation of natural language; and reasoning with incomplete information. The subject matter of most chapters is covered at some pace, with hardly a moment for the reader to pause and catch breath. For a practitioner who had forgotten the theoretical basis of logic programming, chapter 2 was an excellent reminder, if somewhat daunting. However, the techniques introduced in the middle section and the research areas of the final section will interest only an elite collection of practitioners. The Prolog programming techniques advocated in chapter 3 of the introductory section are rather trivial. Worse still, several of the following Prolog programs are badly constructed with many inefficiencies. This book is definitely not for the commercial/industrial Prolog practitioner. For the informed researcher, much of the material in the first two sections is well known and understood. The research material of most interest appears in the final section, especially the discussions of abduction and induction of logical explanations. For a mere 40 pages of contemporary material, though, the book is quite expensive. Far better, and probably more fruitful, to search out the original research papers upon which those final chapters are based. The feeling throughout this book is that it was written from a set of course notes. As such, it is primarily for undergraduate or masters students taking a broad range of courses in logic programming and AI.
The status of circumcision of newborns.

From the early 1940s until the mid-1970s, circumcision of newborn boys was accepted in the United States as a simple procedure that promoted hygiene and prevented genital disease. Educated middle-class parents almost always had their newborn sons circumcised. The opinion that circumcision prevented cancer of the penis and was associated with a lower incidence of cervical cancer in sexual partners was generally accepted. It helped prevent phimosis and associated local infection and resulted in genital cleanliness. These middle-class parents were willing to pay for the procedure (there were few insurance programs in the 1940s and 1950s). The infant sons of .
The Differentiation and Integration of Information Technologies: Three Empirical Studies on `Bring Your Own Devices'

This dissertation examines how the management and configuration of organizational IT portfolios enhance organizations and their employees. Specifically, the theory of the differentiation and integration of information technologies is developed with in-depth examinations of “Bring-Your-Own-Device” (BYOD) policies. Four data collections are utilized: survey vignettes, case studies, agent-based simulations, and a questionnaire survey. Each essay uses a mixed-method approach providing insights into the selection, development, and management of ITs across individual and organizational levels. Essay 1 explores the impact of BYOD on employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and work-life conflicts. The results indicate that IT integration improves performance and job satisfaction, and reduces work-life conflicts. Alternatively, IT differentiation increases work-life conflicts while having no direct impact on performance or job satisfaction. However, the impact of IT differentiation is enhanced when increased IT integration is present in the organization’s IT portfolio which in combination provides variety for individuals while ensuring reduced compatibility issues across employee tasks. Essay 2 examines how organizations can configure their IT portfolios over time to meet the demands of varying task portfolios. The results provide insights into optimal levels of IT differentiation and IT integration for varying environments. Increased IT differentiation allows employees to utilize more efficient and effective technologies to meet their specific tasks. However, an increased level of IT integration is needed to meet the additional compatibility concerns arising from this IT differentiation. Essay 3 examines how individual decision-making behaviors and organizational IT policies impact the configuration of IT differentiation and IT integration. A combination of online survey vignettes, agent-based simulations, and a questionnaire survey provides insights into how individuals and organizations can impact the IT portfolio over time. The results indicate that the claimed benefits of BYOD may not materialize unless the employees are choosing their provided technologies based on rational decisions. This dissertation finds that BYOD polices may increase productivity and satisfaction for employees and organizations. However, organizations must ensure they examine their task portfolio, employee technology needs and knowledge, and IT policy attributes to ensure BYOD is the right solution. The results provide organizations increased knowledge to ensure increased performance from their IT decisions. Table of
The Acceptance Intention of Consumers for a Dynamic Payment Mechanism for Health Insurance Coverage

Currently, a consumer’s monthly premium payment amount remitted to the National Health Insurance is based on the “monthly real wages,” while commercial health insurance uses “consumer age” as the basis for the premium amount charged. In reality, health, salary, and age have no visible connection. Therefore, the insurance premium scheme using salary and age as standards should be improved and adjusted upon. This study uses the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior as the research basis, and through the designed questionnaire, investigates the health data gathered from wearable devices and uses big data to process the constructed health assessment indicators. These indicators will be used to analyze whether consumers are willing to contribute to their health insurance using the dynamic payment mechanism. Subsequently, empirical research was performed using hypothesis architecture and structural equation.
Photochemotherapy for psoriasis remission times. Psoralens and UV‐A and combined photochemotherapy with anthralin

Oral methoxsalen and long‐wave ultraviolet light (PUVA) was evaluated in 187 psoriatics, with emphasis on remission and recurrence after therapy. The mean number of years psoriasis had been present was 18.3, the mean psoriatic involvement 34.8% the dose at the time of maximum clearance was 11.8 J/cm2, and the mean number of treatments to achieve maximum clearance was 175. Complete clearance was achieved in sixty‐one patients and in this group the average number of treatments to achieve maximum clearance was 16.8, the initial remission times ranged from 4 to 64 weeks, with an average of 21.6 weeks. In patients subsequently retreated, the remission time was only 12.4 weeks (57%), but the mean number of treatments to achieve maximum clearance was reduced (11.4) and patients responded more easily to treatment. Sixteen patients were treated in addition to PUVA, with anthralin in Lassars' paste with clearing achieved between six and fifteen treatments, a mean of 9.5.
RAPPER: Ransomware Prevention via Performance Counters

Ransomware can produce direct and controllable economic loss, which makes it one of the most prominent threats in cyber security. As per the latest statistics, more than half of malwares reported in Q1 of 2017 are ransomware and there is a potent threat of a novice cybercriminals accessing rasomware-as-a-service. The concept of public-key based data kidnapping and subsequent extortion was introduced in 1996. Since then, variants of ransomware emerged with different cryptosystems and larger key sizes though, the underlying techniques remained same. Though there are works in literature which proposes a generic framework to detect the crypto ransomwares, we present a two step unsupervised detection tool which when suspects a process activity to be malicious, issues an alarm for further analysis to be carried in the second step and detects it with minimal traces. The two step detection framework- RAPPER uses Artificial Neural Network and Fast Fourier Transformation to develop a highly accurate, fast and reliable solution to ransomware detection using minimal trace points.
PATIENTS IN TREATMENT CENTRES: ARE THEY ALL DEPENDENTS?

The congruence between self reported drug use and urinalysis data among 89 consecutive opioid dependents at their first contact in an outpatient clinic was examined. For this purpose self reports of drug use within preceding 72 hr, laboratory analysis of urine samples by thin layer chromatography (TLC) were carried out for various drugs. The same samples were also confirmed by gas liquid chromatography (GLC). Many subjects reported concomitant poly-drug use. The base rate was found to be low for other drugs besides heroin. The conclusion could be dra wn more con vincingly as regard heroin use. Inaccuracy in self-report of drug use has been observed using GLC as a gold standard. The subjects are likely to be more accurate when they report abstinence than when reporting drug use. These results also suggest that clinicians should be cautious while prescribing agonist/partial agonists especially based on only self-report for long term maintenance program, as many patients may not be really physiolologically dependent.
Correlation of microscopic textural features and degree of polymerization for thermally deteriorated cellulose insulation

This paper presents experimental results obtained from texture analysis of microscopy measurements performed on cellulose paper samples which have been thermally deteriorated to different levels. Samples were prepared in vials containing a small sample of Kraft paper tape along with insulating oil that were thermally stressed in an oven at 140 °C for durations of 0, 120, 250, and 400 hours. Analysis of changes in texture as a consequence of thermal deterioration is presented with a quantitative analysis developed by converting each microscopy image to a spatial grey-level dependence matrix (SGLDM) representative of the overall image texture and extracting statistical features from the SGLDM. These statistical features are correlated with degree of polymerization measurements to observe how aspects of the paper texture may change in relation to the tensile strength for different levels of thermal deterioration.
Consensus of corporate e-Learning system stakeholders regarding the satisfaction of end-users

The purpose of this study is to call attention to the consensus of stakeholders of corporate e-Learning system regarding success. We identified the critical success factors (contents, technical features, management, and organizational support) as major components of corporate e- Learning systems and questioned whether stakeholders' consensus on the importance of these components facilitates the implementation of these components to achieve good quality or well. We also questioned whether the influence of these components on user satisfaction could be moderated by contextual factors. Based on empirical testing of 18 e- Learning user companies, we verified that the consensus of stakeholders regarding the importance of content, technological features, and organizational support has a positive influence on the perceived quality of these factors in their e-Learning systems, which in turn is positively related to user satisfaction. The learning subjects and learning style did significantly moderate the influences of these perceived qualities on user satisfaction.
Visual Programming Environments for Object-Oriented Programming: Acceptance and Effects on Student Motivation

This paper presents an experiment in which visual programming environments have been used in programming courses aiming at helping students to acquire the competencies of a course on object-oriented programming. This paper is centered on the analysis of the acceptance by the students of this type of environment, as well as its effect on the motivation of the students. The results obtained show differences in their answers according to the two possible characteristics of the students analyzed: their gender and the fact of being or not a newcomer.
Road traffic: Vehicle detection and classification

A good traffic monitoring system should be able to detect, count and classify moving vehicles. Vehicle classification is an important task that can provide information about road users and implicitly take decisions that can reduce congestion for example. This paper presents a new classification approach for moving vehicles. First moving vehicles are detected using a background subtraction approach, then morphological operators are used to reduce the false regions and to remove moving shadows and finally classification is done using the invariant Charlier moments. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated on real road traffic sequences in comparison of the use of the moments of Hu.
Potassium inhibition of sodium‐activated potassium (KNa) channels in guinea‐pig ventricular myocytes

1 Na+‐activated potassium channels (KNa channels) were studied in inside‐out patches from guinea‐pig ventricular myocytes at potentials between ‐100 and +80 mV. External K+ (K+o) was set to 140 mM. For inwardly directed currents with 105 mM internal K+ (K+i), the unitary current‐voltage relationship was fitted by the constant field equation with a potassium permeability coefficient, PK, of 3.72 × 10−13 cm3 s−1. The slope conductance (‐100 to ‐10 mV) was 194 ± 4.5 pS (mean ± s.d., n= 4) with 105 mM K+i (35 mM Na+i) but it decreased to 181 ± 5.6 pS (n= 5) in 70 mM K+i (70 mM Na+i). 2 KNa channels were activated by internal Na+ in a concentration‐dependent fashion. With 4 mM K+i, maximal activation was recorded with 100 mM Na+i (open probability, Po, about 0.78); half‐maximal activation required about 35 mM Na+i. When K+i was increased to 70 mM, half‐maximal activation shifted to about 70 mM Na+i. 3 With Na+i set to 105 mM, channel activity was markedly inhibited when K+i was increased from 35 to 105 mM. Channel openings were abolished with 210 mM K+i. 4 The inhibitory effect of internal K+ was also observed at more physiological conditions of osmolarity, ionic strength and chloride concentration. With 35 mM Na+i and 4 mM K+i, Po was 0.48 ± 0.10 (n= 6); when K+i was increased to 35 mM, Po was reduced to 0.04 ± 0.05 (n= 7, P= 0.001). 5 The relationship between Po and Na+i concentration at different levels of K+i is well described by a modified Michaelis‐Menten equation for competitive inhibition; the Hill coefficients were 4 for the Po‐Na+i relationship and 1.2 for the Po‐K+i relationship. It is suggested that Na+ and K+ compete for a superficial site on the channel's permeation pathway. 6 KNa channels would be most likely to be activated in vivo when an increase in Na+i is accompanied by a decrease of K+i.
An Analysis of Tourism Visit Trend

This research aims at analyzing tourist visits in Makassar City. The research employed a combination of quantitative and qualitative method. Moreover, the data were collected using questionnaire technique throughout the data collection form and questionnaire sheets or agreements as the sources of data and information about tourism aspects, specifically in the arrivals of domestic tourists and foreign tourists in Makassar City. Documentation technique was also used to collect secondary data from credible sources. The research was conducted by investigating documents in The Office of Culture and Tourism of Makassar City where the data had showed some increases in the last few years. The research intended to find out the use of available tourism objects and the searching or the making of new potential tourism objects, natural, socio-cultural, or human-made creation so that the numbers of visiting tourists to Makassar City were increasing.
Maximising output power of self-excited induction generators for small wind turbines

The self-excited induction generator is modelled in steady state and verified against measured results. The model is used to find the efficient operating region of the generator for a range of shaft speeds. This region can be modified by changing excitation capacitance in order to maximise electrical output power from variable speed wind turbines.
Mistuning detection in a complex of unresolved harmonics: Effects of age

Older adults experience speech perception difficulties that are not explained by audiometric thresholds. One hypothesis is that temporal processing deficits contribute to speech-in-noise difficulties. To test this, threshold for mistuning was measured for a component within a complex of unresolved harmonics - a cue that likely depends on sensitivity to envelope perturbations. The complex comprised harmonics 12-16 of a 100-Hz or 200-Hz fundamental, and the duration was either 170-, 340-, or 680-ms. Presentation level was 70 dB SPL. The starting phases of all components were randomized on each presentation. The 3AFC procedure adaptively varied the mistuning of harmonic 14 to obtain the frequency-shift threshold. Younger and older listeners with audiometrically normal hearing participated. The expectation was that older adults would require greater mistuning to detect changes in envelope periodicity and that this would be more evident at shorter durations. Preliminary results support an overall effect of age.
CHANGES IN THE PROTEIN COMPLEMENT FOLLOWING UV IRRADIATION AND THEIR PHOTOREVERSAL IN SEA URCHIN (Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus) EMBRYOS

Abstract. Ultraviolet (254 nm, 200 J/m2) irradiation of sea urchin (Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus) embryos during the cleavage stage caused inhibition of morphogenesis, that is, pluteus larva formation. Exposure of the embryos to visible light just after UV irradiation caused the complete reversal of the UV effect, that is, UV‐irradiated embryos can be reprogrammed for normal development (photorever‐sal; PR). We used two‐dimensional electrophoresis to determine the patterns of accumulating proteins in normal, UV‐irradiated and photoreversed embryos. Many qualitative and quantitative variations in the accumulating proteins in the UV‐irradiated embryos were demonstrated. When embryos reached the pluteus larva stage at 48 h after fertilization, the amounts of actin and tubulin were less in the UV‐irradiated embryos than in normal embryos. One extracellular protein (mol. wt. 63 k) did not appear in the UV‐irradiated embryos. Most of the UV effect on the protein pattern was photoreversed.
Bioinformatics approach to predicting HIV drug resistance

The emergence of drug resistance remains one of the most challenging issues in the treatment of HIV-1 infection. The extreme replication dynamics of HIV facilitates its escape from the selective pressure exerted by the human immune system and by the applied combination drug therapy. This article reviews computational methods whose combined use can support the design of optimal antiretroviral therapies based on viral genotypic and phenotypic data. Genotypic assays are based on the analysis of mutations associated with reduced drug susceptibility, but are difficult to interpret due to the numerous mutations and mutational patterns that confer drug resistance. Phenotypic resistance or susceptibility can be experimentally evaluated by measuring the inhibition of the viral replication in cell culture assays. However, this procedure is expensive and time consuming.