Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A secure ubiquitous sensor network with Dragon

The creation of wireless sensor networks provides a capable solution for a range of ubiquitous information services. Its challenges like, data security and secrecy due to its hostile deployment nature of being flat to physical attacks with restricted source available. In order to competition the security pressure that sensor networks are exposed to, a cryptography algorithm is implemented at sensor nodes for node-to-node encryption, between nodes considering the data redundancy, energy constraint, and security requirement. In this paper, we analyze Dragon stream cipher and propose a new D-MAC secure data scheme which supports node-to-node encryption using Dragon based-privacy [3] for sensor networks. Our procedure regarded the entity verification and message authentication through the performance of authenticated encryption scheme in wireless sensor nodes.
Simulating LTE and Wi-Fi Coexistence in Unlicensed Spectrum with ns-3

The use of unlicensed spectrum for future LTE systems raises concerns about its impact on co-located Wi-Fi networks. We report herein on extensions to a popular network simulator, known as ns-3, to model such coexistence. To our knowledge, this simulator is novel in two important ways. First, it is presently the only freely available simulator for coexistence studies, and as open source software, it offers new opportunities for reproducible research and collaborative model development. Second, we are not aware of other simulators with similar wireless models that allow full system studies to be conducted, such as performance evaluation of upper-layer protocols in a coexistence environment. We illustrate the value of a system simulator by describing a simulation campaign for the indoor scenario designed by 3GPP RAN1 using new ns-3 models for Release 13 LTE Listen Before Talk (LBT) techniques, intended for fair coexistence with Wi-Fi. LBT models have been widely simulated at the link and physical layer by many companies in 3GPP RAN1. We first show that we are able to tune the scenario to reproduce similar performance metrics to those reported in the literature. We then extend the simulations by adding TCP to the file transfers and explore the different behaviour observed. Our initial study reveals that there remain many open questions about how LBT should be implemented to achieve good coexistence properties, and that a broader scope of implementation issues, traffic models, and fuller system models should be studied further before drawing final conclusions on the LBT coexistence performance.
Head Coaching Gender Equality at the Division III Level

Throughout history gender discrimination has created barriers that have prevented women from achieving their desired career goals no matter what the work setting is. One way that steps were made towards the elimination of gender discrimination was the enactment of Title IX in 1972. Pervious research has examined barriers that women head coaches coaching men’s teams have had to overcome in order to acquire their position. The coaches who were used in that research either coached NCAA Division I men’s teams or all three divisions combined. The barriers these women experienced were both externally and internally barriers. The external barriers include: 1) unequal assumption of competence, 2) hiring from a principal of similarity, 3) homophobia, 4) lack of female mentors, and 5) difficulty recruiting male athletes (Kamphoff, Armentrout, & Driska, 2010, Kilty, 2006). The internal factors that exist are 1) perfectionism, 2) lack of assertiveness, 3) inhibition in promotion of accomplishments, and 4) high stress of balance work and lie (Kilty, 2006). The purpose of this research was to see if these same barriers exist at just the Division III level. Two women who coach NCAA Division III men’s teams were interviewed about their experiences coaching men. The purpose of this study was to better understand the experiences and barriers that Division III female head coaches of men’s teams go through. Document Type Undergraduate Project Professor's Name Katharine Burakowski Subject Categories Sports Management This undergraduate project is available at Fisher Digital Publications: http://fisherpub.sjfc. edu/sport_undergrad/67
Symbolic Policy: A Study of Biculturalism and Māori Language Education in New Zealand

i Acknowledgements . iii List of Tables . viii Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Biculturalism and Māori language policy . 1 Māori language education policy as symbolic policy . 4 Symbolic policy and the legitimation of myth . 5 An overview of the study . 7 Clarification of terms . 8 Non-Māori . 8 New Zealand European/pākehā . 8 Māori . 9 The Treaty of Waitangi partners . 9 Thesis structure: Chapter outlines . 9 Chapter 2: Methodology. 13 Identifying the problem and establishing the parameters of the study . 13 Placing policy at the centre of the study . 15 Critical policy methodology. 16 The historical context . 17 Analysing curriculum policy . 19 The empirical study . 20 Generic qualitative research . 20 Qualitative research design: Overview . 21 Ethics procedures . 21 Sampling . 22 Data analysis . 23 The credibility of the research . 24 Researcher objectivity . 25 Concluding comments. 26
Cosmological simulations of the intracluster medium

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in aCDM cosmology. When ra- diative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included, our clusters have X-ray luminosities and temperatures in good agreement with observed systems, demonstrating the required excess entropy in their cores. More generally, cooling and feedback increases the entropy of the ICM everywhere, albeit without significantly affecting the slope of the pro- file (S ∝ r )a tlarge radii. The temperature of the ICM is only modestly increased by these processes, with projected temperature profiles being in reasonable agreement with the obser- vations. Star/galaxy formation is still too efficient in our simulations, however, and so our gas mass fractions are around 60 per cent of the observed value at r2500. Finally, we examine the reliability of using the hydrostatic equilibrium equation to estimate cluster masses and find that it underpredicts the true mass of our clusters by up to 20 per cent, due to incomplete thermalization of the gas. Feedback reduces this discrepancy, however, with estimates being accurate to within 10 per cent out to r500. Ke yw ords: hydrodynamics - methods: numerical - X-rays: galaxies: clusters.
Lipofuscin , Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidant Status in Discrete Regions of the Aged Rat Brain

MAHDI HASAN, SANDEEP TRIPATHI, ABBAS ALI MAHDI, KALYAN MITRA and MAHENDRA PAL SINGH NEGI INSA Honorary Scientist, Department of Anatomy, CSM Medical University, Lucknow-226003, India Department of Biochemistry, CSM Medical University, Lucknow-226003, India Electron Microscopy Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India Biometry and Statistics Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
Breakpoint identification and smoothing of array comparative genomic hybridization data

SUMMARY We describe a tool, called aCGH-Smooth, for the automated identification of breakpoints and smoothing of microarray comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) data. aCGH-Smooth is written in visual C++, has a user-friendly interface including a visualization of the results and user-defined parameters adapting the performance of data smoothing and breakpoint recognition. aCGH-Smooth can handle array-CGH data generated by all array-CGH platforms: BAC, PAC, cosmid, cDNA and oligo CGH arrays. The tool has been successfully applied to real-life data. AVAILABILITY aCGH-Smooth is free for researchers at academic and non-profit institutions at http://www.few. vu.nl/~vumarray/.
Silicone Release Coatings : A Closer Look at Release Mechanisms

2 The release of a pressure-sensitive adhesive and substrate construction from a silicone-coated liner has many important consumer and industrial applications, from postage stamps to bar code labels. Controlling release-force properties of laminates that consist of a silicone coating, an organic pressure-sensitive adhesive, and substrates that come from a wider range of materials—and doing so in an accurate and consistent way—is of critical importance to Dow Corning Corporation and its customers in the pressure-sensitive adhesive industry. The mechanism of releasing the liner is an extremely complex dynamic process assumed to be based on adhesion, interfacial energy, surface topography, and rheology. The study described in this paper was conducted to improve fundamental understanding of the primary contributions of the laminate construction components to the release mechanism. Data analyzed from this study, which focused on solventless release coatings containing various levels of high-release additive, will serve as a guide to future development of silicone release coating technology. Abstract 3
Predicting the toxicity of neat and weathered crude oil: Toxic potential and the toxicity of saturated mixtures

The toxicity of oils can be understood using the concept of toxic potential, or the toxicity of each individual component of the oil at the water solubility of that component. Using the target lipid model to describe the toxicity and the observed relationship of the solubility of oil components to log (KOW), it is demonstrated that components with lower log (KOW) have greater toxic potential than those with higher log (KOW). Weathering removes the lower‐log (KOW) chemicals with greater toxic potential, leaving the higher‐log (KOW) chemicals with lower toxic potential. The replacement of more toxically potent compounds with less toxically potent compounds lowers the toxicity of the aqueous phase in equilibrium with the oil. Observations confirm that weathering lowers the toxicity of oil. The idea that weathering increases toxicity is based on the erroneous use of the total petroleum hydrocarbons or the total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentration as if either were a single chemical that can be used to gauge the toxicity of a mixture, regardless of its makeup. The toxicity of the individual PAHs that comprise the mixture varies. Converting the concentrations to toxic units (TUs) normalizes the differences in toxicity. A concentration of one TU resulting from the PAHs in the mixture implies toxicity regardless of the specific PAHs that are present. However, it is impossible to judge whether 1 μg/L of total PAHs is toxic without knowing the PAHs in the mixture. The use of toxic potential and TUs eliminates this confusion, puts the chemicals on the same footing, and allows an intuitive understanding of the effects of weathering.
Controversies in Victimology

1. Balancing Criminal Victims' and Criminal Defendants' Rights 2. Victim Blaming 3. Same-Sex Intimate-Partner Violence - Lifting the Veil of Denial 4. The Mass Media and Victims of Rape 5. Should Victims Have the Right to Meet with Their Offenders? 6. Fear of Crime and Victimization 7. Cyberstalking - What's the Big Deal? 8. Victim Impact Statements - Fairness to Defendants? 9. Victim-Offender Programs in Correctional Settings -- Can They Effectively Bridge Divergent Perspectives? 10. Female Sex Offenders - Does Anyone Really Get Hurt? 11. Reconciling the Controversies - Is Education the Panacea?
Embedded Bernoulli Mixture HMMs for Handwritten Word Recognition

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are now widely used in off-line handwritten word recognition. As in speech recognition, they are usually built from shared, embedded HMMs at symbol level, in which state-conditional probability density functions are modelled with Gaussian mixtures. In contrast to speech recognition, however, it is unclear which kind of real-valued features should be used and, indeed, very different features sets are in use today. In this paper, we propose to by-pass feature extraction and directly fed columns of raw, binary image pixels into embedded Bernoulli mixture HMMs, that is, embedded HMMs in which the emission probabilities are modelled with Bernoulli mixtures. The idea is to ensure that no discriminative information is filtered out during feature extraction, which in some sense is integrated into the recognition model. Empirical results are reported in which similar results are obtained with both Bernoulli and Gaussian mixtures, though Bernoulli mixtures are much simpler.
Adaptive Time Synchronization and Frequency Channel Hopping for Wireless Sensor Networks

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Second Reader Date Acknowledgements This thesis sprung up from the interest to immerse myself in the inner-workings of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that I was deploying as part of my Ph.D. dissertation in Civil Engineering. Inevitably, too much immersion led to discovery of open ended research topics. Exposure to these topics, as well as exposure to fundamental WSN theory would not have been possible without the support of Kris Pister's research group. Kris Pister and his group members were more than welcoming, and taught me invaluable lessons that have ultimately made me a better systems engineer. I would like to thank Thomas Watteyne for his continued support and patience during our work on OpenWSN and various papers. Almost all the papers resulting from this thesis were a direct product of a collaboration with Thomas. He has taught me the fundamentals of embedded programming, and has demystified to me the various tools necessary to implement complex embedded systems. Through his help I have learned the value of writing clean, organized, and modularized code, something which has fundamentally changed how I now develop software. I would like to thank the whole OpenWSN group, and especially Fabien Chraim, for his collaboration and for teaching me the importance of " really " reading data sheets. I would like to thank Ankur Mehta for his ideas on pushing TDMA networks towards mobile agent applications. I would also like to thank my Ph.D. adviser, Steven Glaser, for supporting my work in EECS, and allowing me to dabble in disciplines outside of the Civil Engineering " core. " Last, but certainly not least, I would sincerely like to thank Kirs Pister, for graciously hosting me in his group, guiding my work, sharing his academic philosophies, and teaching me the value of counting micro-amps.
Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers Modeling, Fabrication and Characterization

In the past 20 years, mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers (mid-IR QCLs) have been experiencing rapid development and have become practical mid-IR sources for a variety of applications. There is particular technological interest in high efficiency lasers designed for the midwave infrared (MWIR) atmospheric window (3-5 &mum) and longwave infrared (LWIR) atmospheric window (8-13 &mum). This work presents a systematic study over mid-IR QCLs, including theoractical modeling, device fabrication and characterization. An effective bandstructure calculation method is implemented in this work for active region modeling. A standard process for fabricating mid-IR QCLs has been developed, based on which both LWIR (&sim 9 &mum) and MWIR (&sim 4 &mum) QCLs have been successfully demonstrated. Comprehensive testing results are analyzed and discussed, yielding valuable information about the current device design.
Trust management techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks: An evaluation

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network which comprised of multiple low cost sensor nodes. In WSN, each sensor is deployed in a different location for a specific purpose. Due to unstable conditions, sensors are unable to perform an anticipated result. At this stage, we totally loose our security and it shows inaccuracy result. So we concentrate on the mutual trust between the source-to-sink and vice versa in a WSN. Trust has been recently suggested as an effective security mechanism for managing each sensor node. In this paper, we investigated some stable trust management techniques for a high trust in WSN. From the techniques we believe to form a strong trust model on sensor communications over a WSN. In this paper, we also evaluated the finest trust model for WSN using TRMSim-WSN 0.4 Simulator. This simulator consists of various trust models and each model performs the different results. The analytical result demonstrates its effectiveness in managing trust relationships and techniques.
Skin equivalents: skin from reconstructions as models to study skin development and diseases

While skin is readily available for sampling and direct studies of its constituents, an important intermediate step is to design in vitro and/or in vivo models to address scientific or medical questions in dermatology and skin biology. Pioneered more than 30 years ago, human skin equivalents (HSEs) have been refined with better cell culture techniques and media, together with sophisticated cell biology tools including genetic engineering and cell reprogramming. HSEs mimic key elements of human skin biology and have been instrumental in demonstrating the importance of cell–cell interactions in skin homeostasis and the role of a complex cellular microenvironment to coordinate epidermal proliferation, differentiation and pigmentation. HSEs have a wide field of applications from cell biology to dermocosmetics, modelling diseases, drug development, skin ageing, pathophysiology and regenerative medicine. In this article we critically review the major current approaches used to reconstruct organotypic skin models and their application with a particular emphasis on skin biology and pathophysiology of skin disorders.
The Situational Mentor: An International Review of Competences and Capabilities in Mentoring

Contents: Introduction Key themes: a literature review, Gill Lane The moral dimension of mentoring, Stephen Gibb Characteristics ascribed to mentors by their protA(c)gA(c)s, Ann Darwin Mentor competences: a field perspective, David Clutterbuck A quantitative view of mentor competence, Gill Lane What about mentee competences? , David Clutterbuck Competences of building the developmental relationship, Terri A. Scandura and Ekin K. Pellegrini Development and supervision for mentors, David Megginson and Paul Stokes Insights from the psychology of executive and life coaching, Anthony M. Grant Developmental relationships: a mentoring approach to organizational learning and knowledge creation, Liz Borrendon and Marc Ingham The mentor as storyteller, Margaret Parkin Variation in mentoring outcomes: an effect of personality factors? , Truls Engstrom Virtual mentoring, Professor Ellen A. Fagenson-Eland and Rachel Yan Lu When mentoring goes wronga |, Dr Bob Garvey All good things must come to an end: winding up and winding down in a mentoring relationship, David Clutterbuck and David Megginson What have we learned from this book? , Gill Lane and David Clutterbuck Bibliography Index.
Information-theoretic lower bounds for recovery of diffusion network structures

We study the information-theoretic lower bound of the sample complexity of the correct recovery of diffusion network structures. We introduce a discrete-time diffusion model based on the Independent Cascade model for which we obtain a lower bound of order Ω(k log p), for directed graphs of p nodes, and at most k parents per node. Next, we introduce a continuous-time diffusion model, for which a similar lower bound of order Ω(k log p) is obtained. Our results show that the algorithm of [1] is statistically optimal for the discrete-time regime. Our work also opens the question of whether it is possible to devise an optimal algorithm for the continuous-time regime.
First steps of SiC integrated electronic functions for a smart power driver dedicated to harsh environments

The limits of the current electronic solutions restrict the use in harsh environments especially in high temperature (>300 °C). SiC is a material, which allows exceeding these physical constraints. AMPERE laboratory have developed SiC integrated circuits based on lateral MESFETs. This paper presents the first steps of the development of smart integrated driver circuit dedicated to harsh environments.
PIP: a connection-oriented, multi-hop, multi-channel TDMA-based MAC for high throughput bulk transfer

In this paper, we consider the goal of achieving high throughput in a wireless sensor network. Our work is set in the context of those wireless sensor network applications which collect and transfer bulk data. We present PIP (Packets in Pipe), a MAC primitive for use by the transport module to achieve high throughput. PIP has a unique set of features: (a) it is a multi-hop connection oriented primitive, (b) it is TDMA-based, (c) it uses multiple radio channels, and (d) it is centrally controlled. This represents a significant shift from prior MAC protocols for bulk data transfer. PIP has several desirable properties: (a) its throughput degrades only slightly with increasing number of hops, (b) it is robust to variable wireless error rates, (c) it performs well even without any flow control, and (d) requires only small queue sizes to operate well. We substantiate these properties with a prototype implementation of PIP on the Tmote-Sky CC2420-based platform. PIP achieves about twelve times better throughput than the state-of-the-art prior work, over a network depth of ten nodes.
Mechanisms of prickle1a function in zebrafish epilepsy and retinal neurogenesis

SUMMARY Epilepsy is a complex neurological disorder characterized by unprovoked seizures. The etiology is heterogeneous with both genetic and environmental causes. Genes that regulate neurotransmitters and ion channels in the central nervous system have been associated with epilepsy. However, a recent screening in human epilepsy patients identified mutations in the PRICKLE1 (PK1) locus, highlighting a potentially novel mechanism underlying seizures. PK1 is a core component of the planar cell polarity network that regulates tissue polarity. Zebrafish studies have shown that Pk1 coordinates cell movement, neuronal migration and axonal outgrowth during embryonic development. Yet how dysfunction of Pk1 relates to epilepsy is unknown. To address the mechanism underlying epileptogenesis, we used zebrafish to characterize Pk1a function and epilepsy-related mutant forms. We show that knockdown of pk1a activity sensitizes zebrafish larva to a convulsant drug. To model defects in the central nervous system, we used the retina and found that pk1a knockdown induces neurite outgrowth defects; yet visual function is maintained. Furthermore, we characterized the functional and biochemical properties of the PK1 mutant forms identified in human patients. Functional analyses demonstrate that the wild-type Pk1a partially suppresses the gene knockdown retinal defects but not the mutant forms. Biochemical analysis reveals increased ubiquitylation of one mutant form and decreased translational efficiency of another mutant form compared with the wild-type Pk1a. Taken together, our results indicate that mutation of human PK1 could lead to defects in neurodevelopment and signal processing, providing insight into seizure predisposition in these patients.
A novel read-while-write (RWW) algorithm for phase change memory

A novel read-while-write (RWW) algorithm for phase change memory (PCM) is proposed. It performs the verify operation for last cell, the write operation for current cell and the pre-read operation for next cell simultaneously. Therefore, it can reduce the timing cost by the data-comparison write (DCW) algorithm and the program & verify (P&V) algorithm. The performance analysis and simulation results show that the percent of saving timing by RWW is >22.6%.