Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Positive Psychology as the Evenhanded Positive Psychologist Views It.

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Design of boost-flyback converter with small capacitor for energy-storage

This paper presents the idea of utilizing large voltage ripple with small capacitance for energy storage in LED circuit, instead of large capacitance with small voltage ripple. A typical Single-Stage PFC converter with small capacitor is adopted. The presented converter has high input power factor and low output voltage ripple at the same time. Calculation method of main parameters are derived. In order to verify the method, a prototype with 198∼265V AC input/ 24V DC output/60W is designed. The experimental results show that the design method is feasible.
Taking Linguistic Dimensions More Seriously : The New Grammar Formalism of Extensible Dependency Grammar

We introduce the new grammar formalism of Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG), enabling us to take the different dimensions of linguistic description more seriously than existing grammar formalisms. XDG treats the different linguistic dimensions as separate, autonomous dependency graphs. We show how this allows us to naturally account for taxing phenomena such as free word order, control, and quantifier scope.
Endothelial Transport of Anionized and Cationized Ferritin in the Rabbit Thoracic Aorta and Vasa Vasorum

Transport of anionized ferritins (AF, pI = 3.8-4.2), weakly cationized ferritins (WCF, pI = 7.8-8.1) and cationized ferritins (CF, pI > 9.0) was investigated in the rabbit aorta and vasa vasorum. After a 2-minute in situ perfusion, all ferritin species entered luminal vesicles and bound to the luminal endothelial membrane with a high surface density at vesicle necks and regions of cell overlap. In comparison to the aorta, the vasa vasorum had a higher surface density for AF, lower surface densities for CF and WCF, and fewer vesicles containing CF, WCF, or AF. In both types of vessels, vesicle loading of all ferritin species did not agree with a Poisson distribution. After perfusion times of up to 30 minutes, no abluminal vesicles or vasa vasorum endothelium contained CF or WCF; a few albuminal vesicles near cell borders contained AF. In the vasa vasorum, CF and AF entered the subendothelium via occasional fenestrae; AF, but not CF, also permeated the adventitia. Our findings indicate that: 1) binding sites for oppositely charged particles coexist in the same microdomains; 2) the glycocalyces of the vasa vasorum and aorta differ in their relative affinities for oppositely charged particles; 3) vesicular labeling with ferritin is not solely diffusive; and 4) vesicles do not traverse the aortic endothelium under these experimental conditions.
Maximum power tracking of piezoelectric transformer HV converters under load variations

The problem of maximum power point tracking of high output dc voltage converters that apply piezoelectric transformers (PT) and voltage doublers was studied theoretically and experimentally. It was shown that the operating frequency of the PT, at which maximum power is reached, is a function of the load. Hence, under load variations, and to overcome parameter instability, there is a need for some frequency tracking mechanism that will help to lock the operating frequency to the optimum one. The proposed method to achieve frequency tracking is based on a phase locked loop (PLL). The PLL inputs are the phase of the input voltage driving the PT and the phase of the current flowing through one of the voltage doubler diodes. Theoretical analysis, verified by experiments, shows that when the phase shift of the diode current relative the phase of the input voltage is zero, the voltage gain of the system is at its maximum. By applying this approach, the system's operation can be made independent of input voltage, load variations, temperature (within a permitted range), and the spread and nonlinearity of the PT parameters, as well as their drift with time.
Side trip multi-path routing protocol for spatial node failure tolerance in data-gathering WSNs

In severe disaster environments, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) need to be tolerant to spatial node failure due to external factors such as bomb attack and river overflow. The aim of this paper is to realize data-gathering WSNs that keep the data collection ratio as high as possible while keeping system lifetime as long as possible. This paper proposes not only a multipath data gathering protocol called “Side Trip (ST)” scheme to enhance spatial node-failure tolerance, but also an improved version of ST scheme called “Side Trip with Network Coding (STNC)” scheme which utilizes inter-flow XOR network coding to reduce redundant packets without affecting the system lifetime significantly. In data-gathering WSNs, nodes further from a sink node tend to relay fewer packets. In the ST scheme, a node establishes another secondary path which, for some distance, passes through nodes the same hop count away from the sink in order to spatially separate the path from the primary path. In the STNC scheme, redundant packets from different source nodes are network-coded into an encoded packet in order to reduce the number of redundant packets. We compare the ST scheme, STNC scheme, and two existing multipath protocols, i.e., H-SPREAD (hybrid-secure protocol for reliable data delivery) scheme and Sub-branch Multipath Routing Protocol (SMRP) scheme, by means of a self-developed simulator. The results show that STNC scheme and ST scheme offer enhanced tolerance to node-failure compared to H-SPREAD scheme and SMRP scheme with no significant impact on system lifetime.
Effects of phylloquinone supplementation on lipid profile in women with rheumatoid arthritis: a double blind placebo controlled study

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an excess mortality from cardiovascular disease which is likely attributed to an atherogenic lipid profile. Among nutritional factors vitamin K has been recently focused as a pivotal nutrient in improvement of lipid related markers. Thus, this study was designed to determine the effects of vitamin K on lipid profile in this disease. SUBJECTS/METHODS Fifty eight patients with definitive RA were participated in the present double blind placebo controlled study. They were randomly allocated into two groups to receive vitamin K1 as phylloquinone [10 mg/day] (n = 30) or placebo pills (n = 28), for eight weeks. In order to control the effects of probable confounders dietary intakes, anthropometric measurements including weight and height, clinical status using disease activity score-28 (DAS-28), physical activity and anxiety status were evaluated at baseline. Moreover, serum levels of lipid related markers including total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and triglyceride (TG) were measured at baseline and at the end of intervention. RESULTS There were no significant differences between the two groups regarding any of the baseline characteristics. After adjusting for some relevant confounders, in comparison between two groups, we observed no significant changes in lipid related markers at the end of intervention. Also, there was no significant difference between before and after intervention values within groups (P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Function of vitamin K1 in lipid profile modification remains still controversial. This study showed that vitamin K1 has no effect on lipid profile in women with rheumatoid arthritis. Further studies with a longer follow-up are required to determine the effects of vitamin K on atherogenic lipid profile.
Assessing Changeability in Aerospace Systems Architecting and Design Using Dynamic Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration

A framework for assessing changeability in the context of dynamic Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) is proposed and applied to three aerospace systems. The framework consists of two parts. First, changeability concepts such as flexibility, scalability, and robustness are defined in a value-centric context. These system properties are shown to relate “real-space to value-space” dynamic mappings to stakeholder-defined subjective “acceptable cost” thresholds. Second, network analysis is applied to a series of temporally linked tradespaces, allowing for the quantification of changeability as a decision metric for comparison across system architecture and design options. The quantifiable is defined as the filtered outdegree of each design node in a tradespace network formed by linking design options through explicitly defined prospective transition paths. Each of the system application studies are assessed in the two part framework and within each study, observations are made regarding the changeability of various design options. The three system applications include a hypothetical low Earth orbit satellite mission, a currently deployed weapon system, and a proposed large astronomical on-orbit observatory. Preliminary cross-application observations are made regarding the embedding of changeability into the system architecture or design. Results suggest that the low Earth orbit satellite mission can increase its changeability by having the ability to readily change its orbit. The weapon system can increase its changeability by continuing to embrace modularity, use of commercial off-the-shelf parts (COTS), and simple, excess capacity interfaces. The large astronomical observatory can increase its potential changeability by having the ability to reconfigure its physical payloads and reschedule its observing tasks. The analysis approach introduced in this paper is shown to be a powerful concept for focusing discussion, design, and assessment of the changeability of aerospace systems.
Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit

Recent events have underscored the importance of asset price booms and busts as sources of financial instability. Unsustainable property price appreciation figured prominently in the 2007–2009 financial crisis, in the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis, and in Japan’s property market collapse in the early 1990s. Monetary policy has come under intense scrutiny as a possible factor contributing to the escalation in real estate prices, with some blaming the US Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy for creating a bubble in the US housing market.
Weighted comparison score fusion for accurate verification of surgically altered periocular region

Facial surgeries are inevitably increasing in the modern society due to factors such as consciousness for beauty/appearance either to correct the deformed structure as a result of the injury, trauma or natural process of aging. These surgical changes in the facial structure result in modified appearance of a person, which cannot be modelled using morphological or mathematical approaches. These changes directly impact the biometric performance of a recognition system, when a subject is enrolled prior to surgical modifications and is verified after the surgery. Emphasizing on the periocular region as a stand-alone biometric characteristic is on one hand increasing while on the other hand, in the target population the number of surgeries for periocular region is also increasing. These surgical changes have a direct negative impact on the biometric performance. In this work, we evaluate the degraded performance as a result of such surgeries in the periocular region by enrolling the 402 unique periocular images prior to surgery and verify mated images post-surgery by employing various well-known feature extraction techniques. The obtained verification performance equals GMR of 85.32% at a FMR of 0.01% indicating the challenge for a real-life application. Further, we explore weighted comparison score level fusion in which the weights are determined using Fischer Discriminant Ratio. The proposed weighted score level fusion in this work provides an improved verification performance of GMR = 100% at FMR = 0.01% signifying the robust nature of fused scores as compared to state-of-art verification schemes in handling the challenging data arising due to surgical modifications.
Linearization of rotations for globally consistent n-scan matching

The ICP (Iterative Closest Point) algorithm is the de facto standard for geometric alignment of three-dimensional models when an initial relative pose estimate is available. The basis of the algorithm is the minimization of an error function that takes point correspondences into account. While four closed-form solution methods are known for minimizing this function, linearization seems necessary for solving the global scan registration problem. This paper presents such linear solutions for registering n-scans in a global and simultaneous fashion. It studies parameterizations for the rigid body transformations of the n-scan registration problem.
The use of end-to-end multicast measurements for characterizing internal network behavior

We present a novel methodology for identifying internal network performance characteristics based on end-to-end multicast measurements. The methodology, solidly grounded on statistical estimation theory, can be used to characterize the internal loss and delay behavior of a network. Measurements on the MBone have been used to validate the approach in the case of losses. Extensive simulation experiments provide further validation of the approach, not only for losses, but also for delays. We also describe our strategy for deploying the methodology on the Internet. This includes the continued development of the National Internet Measurement Infrastructure to support RTP-based end-to-end multicast measurements and the development of software tools to analyze the traces. Once complete, this combined software/hardware infrastructure will provide a service for understanding and forecasting the performance of the Internet.
Robust recognition of 1-D barcodes using camera phones

In this paper we present an algorithm for the recognition of 1D barcodes using camera phones, which is highly robust regarding the the typical image distortions. We have created a database of barcode images, which covers typical distortions, such as inhomogeneous illumination, reflections, or blurriness due to camera movement. We present results from experiments with over 1,000 images from this database using a Matlab implementation of our algorithm, as well as experiments on the go, where a Symbian C++ implementation running on a camera phone is used to recognize barcodes in daily life situations. The proposed algorithm shows a close to 100% accuracy in real life situations and yields a very good resolution dependent performance on our database, ranging from 90.5% (640 × 480) up to 99.2% (2592 × 1944). The database is freely available for other researchers.
Distributed event routing in publish/subscribe communication systems

Since the early nineties, anonymous and asynchronous dissemination of information has been a basic building block for typical distributed application such as stock exchanges, news tickers and air-traffic control. With the advent of ubiquitous computing and of the ambient intelligence, information dissemination solutions have to face challenges such as the exchange of huge amounts of information, large and dynamic number of participants possibly deployed over a large network (e.g. peerto-peer systems), mobility and scarcity of resources (e.g. mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks) [9]. Publish/Subscribe (pub/sub) systems are a key technology for information dissemination. Each participant in a pub/sub communication system can take on the role of a publisher or a subscriber of information. Publishers produce information in form of events, which is consumed by subscribers issuing subscriptions representing their interest only in specific events. The main semantical characterization of pub/sub is in the way events flow from senders to receivers: receivers are not directly targeted from publisher, but rather they are indirectly addressed according to the content of events. Thanks to this anonymity, publishers and subscribers exchange information without directly knowing each other, this enabling the possibility for the system to seamlessly expand to massive, Internet-scale size. Interaction between publishers and subscribers is actually mediated by the pub/sub system, that in general is constituted by a set of distributed nodes that coordinate among themselves in order to dispatch published events to all (and possibly only) interested subscribers. A distributed pub/sub system for scalable information dissemination can be decomposed in three functional layers: namely the overlay infrastructure, the event routing and the algorithm for matching events against subscriptions. The overlay infrastructure represents the organization of the various entities that compose the system, (e.g., overlay network of dedicated servers, peer-topeer structured overlay, etc.) while event routing is the mechanism for dispatching information from publishers to subscribers. Event routing has to effectively exploit
Predictive rhythmic tapping to isochronous and tempo changing metronomes in the nonhuman primate

Beat entrainment is the ability to entrain one's movements to a perceived periodic stimulus, such as a metronome or a pulse in music. Humans have a capacity to predictively respond to a periodic pulse and to dynamically adjust their movement timing to match the varying music tempos. Previous studies have shown that monkeys share some of the human capabilities for rhythmic entrainment, such as tapping regularly at the period of isochronous stimuli. However, it is still unknown whether monkeys can predictively entrain to dynamic tempo changes like humans. To address this question, we trained monkeys in three tapping tasks and compared their rhythmic entrainment abilities with those of humans. We found that, when immediate feedback about the timing of each movement is provided, monkeys can predictively entrain to an isochronous beat, generating tapping movements in anticipation of the metronome pulse. This ability also generalized to a novel untrained tempo. Notably, macaques can modify their tapping tempo by predicting the beat changes of accelerating and decelerating visual metronomes in a manner similar to humans. Our findings support the notion that nonhuman primates share with humans the ability of temporal anticipation during tapping to isochronous and smoothly changing sequences of stimuli.
Wall Heat Fluxes at Different Oxidizer to Fuel Ratios in Rocket Combustion Chamber with Porous Injector Head

Rocket combustion chamber with porous injector head, which is a new concept for injecting propellants, is considered in this work. The sub-scale combustion chamber with the porous injector head fuelled by cryogenic oxygen and hydrogen has been tested. The hot tests have been performed at pressure of 80 bar and the mass ratios of oxidizer to fuel of 6, 5, and 1.5. Pressures, wall temperatures, and wall heat fluxes have been measured along the axis of the chamber during the hot tests. The wall heat fluxes have been measured by the calorimetric method. To analyse the experimental data numerical simulations are performed using the commercial CFD code ANSYS CFX. The turbulent flow is modelled by the Favre averaged Navier–Stokes equations and the Shear-Stress-Transport model. The turbulent combustion is modelled using the modified Eddy Dissipation Model (EDM). The comparison of the simulation results with the experimental data shows the good agreement of the modified EDM model with the experiment. The agreement of the model with the experiment is achieved by applying additional parameters which are dependent on the local mixture composition: “Flame Temperature”, “Chemical Timescale”, and “Mixing Rate Limit”.
Value based Regression Test Case Prioritization

—Test case prioritization organizes test cases in a way to accomplish some performance goals efficiently. Rate of fault detection is one of most important performance objective. The test cases must run in an order that raises the opportunity of fault detection in the earlier life cycle of testing. Test case prioritization techniques have proven to be beneficial in improving regression testing activities. In this paper, we have proposed an algorithm which prioritizes the system test cases based on the six factors: customer priority, changes in requirement, implementation complexity, requirement traceability, execution time and fault impact of requirement. We conducted a controlled experiment on two industrial data sets to compare the proposed value based test case prioritization algorithm with random prioritization for early rate of fault detection. Average percentage of fault detection metrics has been used to measure the efficiency of proposed and random prioritization and it shows that the proposed value based algorithm is more efficient than random prioritization to generate sequence of test cases for early rate of fault detection.
From trajectories to activities: a spatio-temporal join approach

People's activity sequences such as eat at a restaurant after 2 hours of shopping, contains rich semantic information. This information can be explored for a broad range of applications and services. However, it is impractical to ask a large number of people to record their daily activities. As the increasing popularity of GPS-enabled mobile devices, a huge amount of trajectories which show people's movement behaviors have been acquiring. The natural link between activities and traveling motivates us to investigate a novel approach to automatically extract sequences of activities from large set of trajectory data. Intuitively, activities can only happen when trajectory is geographically near for a proper period of time for these activities, such as 30 minutes for dining in a restaurant. In this work, the concepts influence and influence duration are proposed to capture the intuition. We also propose two algorithms to join large set of trajectories with activities with duplication reuse techniques. We conduct comprehensive empirical studies to evaluate the two algorithms with synthetic data set generated from real world POIs and road networks.