Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
HOUSEHOLD TELEPHONE SERVICE AND USAGE PATTERNS IN THE U.S. IN 2004

1. Background The percentage of households in the U.S. with a telephone is an important determinant of coverage in random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys and also affects the efficiency of using the telephone as a mode of data collection in household surveys. In earlier years, RDD coverage issues were mainly concerned with households without phones because having a telephone in the household was nearly equivalent to having landline telephone service. As the percentage of households with only cell phones has increased, the difference between not having any telephone service and not having a landline is more important since virtually all RDD samples are selected from telephone exchanges that exclude cell phones. Members of households that have only cell phones are not covered under this traditional sampling procedure. In the last few years, cell phones have become vastly more popular and the ability to assess the number and characteristics of households by the type of telephone service is limited. Tuckel and O’Neil (2004) report on cell phone ownership between 2000 and 2003. In 2003, the National Center for Health Statistics added items to its National Health Interview Survey that address this question. The initial results from the first half of 2003 are presented in Blumberg, Luke, and Cynamon (2004).
Neural Control for Rolling Mills: Incorporating Domain Theories to Overcome Data Deficiency

In a Bayesian framework, we give a principled account of how domain-specific prior knowledge such as imperfect analytic domain theories can be optimally incorporated into networks of locally-tuned units: by choosing a specific architecture and by applying a specific training regimen. Our method proved successful in overcoming the data deficiency problem in a large-scale application to devise a neural control for a hot line rolling mill. It achieves in this application significantly higher accuracy than optimally-tuned standard algorithms such as sigmoidal backpropagation, and outperforms the state-of-the-art solution.
A Method of Treating Impurities in the Process of Detecting Carton Black in Rubber

Distinguishing carton black and impurity is important for evaluating carton black’s dispersion in rubber. There are two types of impurities, filamentous impurity and scratch. According to the characteristics of filamentous impurity, the ratio of perimeter to solidity of region and hole’s area were calculated to distinguish this type of impurity. If hole’s area was larger than 3 or the value of the ratio larger than 160, the region was regarded as filamentous impurity. Scratch was very like line, which could be identified by the way of hough translation. The treatment of impurities based on morphology is helpful for improving the accuracy of detecting carton black and calculating carton black’s dispersion.
Plan-directed architectural change for autonomous systems

Autonomous systems operate in an unpredictable world, where communication with those people responsible for its software architecture may be infrequent or undesirable. If such a system is to continue reliable operation it must be able to derive and initiate adaptations to new circumstances on its own behalf. Much of the previous work on dynamic reconfigurations supposes that the programmer is able to express the possible adaptations before the system is deployed, or at least is able to add new adaptation strategies after deployment. We consider the challenges in providing an autonomous system with the capability to direct its own adaptation, and describe an initial implementation where change in the software architecture of an autonomous system is enacted as a result of executing a reactive plan.
Parallel Corpora based Translation Resources Extraction

Resumen: Este art´oculo describe NATools, un conjunto de herramientas de proce- samiento, analisis y extraccion de recursos de traduccion deCorpora Paralelo. Entre las distintas herramientas disponibles se destacan herramientas de alineamiento de frases e palabras, un extractor de diccionarios probabil´osticosde traduccion, un servi- dor de corpus, un conjunto de herramientas de interrogacion de corporay diccionar- ios y as´o mismo un conjunto de herramientas de extraccion de recursos biling ¨ Palabras clave: corpora paralelos, recursos biling ¨ ues, traduccion automatica Abstract: This paper describes NATools, a toolkit to process, analyzeand extract translation resources from Parallel Corpora. It includes tools like a sentence-aligner, a probabilistic translation dictionaries extractor, word-aligner, a corpus server, a set of tools to query corpora and dictionaries, as well as a set of tools to extract bilingual resources. parallel corpora, bilingual resources, machine translation
A Scalable Routing Scheme for Self-Organized Terminode Network

The focus of this paper is routing in a wide area mo-bile ad hoc network referred to as a Terminode Network. Our routing scheme is a combination of two protocols: Terminode Local Routing (TLR) and Terminode Remote Routing (TRR). TRR is used for rem ote destinations. It utilizes the location of a destination obtained by the source using location management or location tracking. TLR acts when the packet gets close to the destination. The use of TRR results in a scalable solution that reduces d ependen ce on the intermediate systems, while TLR reduces problems due to the destination location inaccuracy. This paper describes TLR and TRR and the interaction between them. Terminode routing is implemented and evaluated using GloMoSim simulator. For the purp ose of more realistic rout-ing evaluation we designed a new mobility model, the restricted random waypoint model, which represents more realistic mo-bility pattern in a large scale mobile ad hoc environment.
Inhibition of Protein Kinase c-Src Reduces the Incidence of Breast Cancer Metastases and Increases Survival in Mice: Implications for Therapy

c-Src is a proto-oncogene, belonging to the nonreceptor protein kinases family, which plays a prominent role in carcinogenesis. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that c-Src could promote breast cancer metastasis acting on several cell types and that pharmacological disruption of its kinase activity could be beneficial for the treatment of metastases. Female BALB/c-nu/nu mice were subjected to intracardiac injection of the human breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 (MDA-231), which induced prominent bone and visceral metastases. These were pharmacologically reduced by treatment with the c-Src inhibitor [7-{4-[2-(2-methoxy-ethylamino-ethoxy]-phenyl}-5-(3-methoxy-phenyl)-7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-ylamine] CGP76030 (100 mg/kg/day p.o.), resulting in decreased morbidity and lethality. Metastases were more severe in mice injected with MDA-231 cells stably transfected with wild-type c-Src (MDA-231-SrcWT), whereas transfection in injected cells of a c-Src kinase-dead dominant-negative construct (MDA-231-SrcDN) resulted in reduced morbidity, lethality, and incidence of metastases similar to the mice treated with the inhibitor. An analogous beneficial effect of c-Src inhibition was observed in subcutaneous and intratibial implanted tumors. In vitro, c-Src suppression reduced MDA-231 cell aggressiveness. It also impaired osteoclast bone resorption both directly and by reducing expression by osteoblasts of the osteoclastogenic cytokines interleukin-1β and interleukin-6, whereas parathyroid hormone-related peptide was not implicated. c-Src was also modestly but consistently involved in the enhancement of endothelial cell proliferation in vitro and angiogenesis in vivo. In conclusion, we propose that c-Src disruption affects the metastatic process and thus is a therapeutic target for the treatment of breast cancer.
Online User-AP Association With Predictive Scheduling in Wireless Caching Networks

For wireless caching networks, the scheme design for content delivery is non-trivial in the face of the following tradeoff. On one hand, to optimize overall throughput, users can associate their nearby APs with great channel capacities; however, this may lead to unstable queue backlogs on APs and prolong request delays. On the other hand, to ensure queue stability, some users may have to associate APs with inferior channel states, which would incur throughput loss. Moreover, for such systems, how to conduct predictive scheduling to reduce delays and the fundamental limits of its benefits remain unexplored. In this paper, we formulate the problem of online user-AP association and resource allocation for content delivery with predictive scheduling under a fixed content placement as a stochastic network optimization problem. By exploiting its unique structure, we transform the problem into a series of modular maximization sub-problems with matroid constraints. Then we devise PUARA, a Predictive User-AP Association and Resource Allocation scheme which achieves a provably near-optimal throughput with queue stability. Our theoretical analysis and simulation results show that PUARA can not only perform a tunable control between throughput maximization and queue stability, but also incur a notable delay reduction with predicted information.
Neuroendocrine-Type Prostatic Adenocarcinoma With Microsatellite Instability in a Patient With Lynch Syndrome

Lynch syndrome is an autosomal-dominant cancer syndrome that can be identified with microsatellite instability molecular tests or immunohistochemical stains on pathologic material from patients who meet the Amsterdam Criteria II. The development of prostatic carcinoma in situ or invasive small cell carcinoma (SCC) of the prostate has not been previously reported in a patient with this syndrome. In this report, an 87-year-old White man with the Lynch syndrome had a prostate biopsy that revealed a mixed high-grade conventional adenocarcinoma and SCC of the prostate with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia of the small cell neuroendocrine-type (HGPIN-NE), all showing MSH2 microsatellite instability and loss of MSH2 expression, a finding not previously published. These findings suggest that HGPIN-NE is a precursor of invasive SCC and also that prostatic SCC can develop in a patient with the Lynch syndrome.
Obtention rheocast structure for Al-4.5wt%Cu alloy: comparison ultra- refining and electromagnetic stirring

Purpose: the present work analyses the mechanisms involved in the formation of the rheocast (globular) structure for the Al-4.5wt%Cu alloy, produced by electro-magnetic stirring (EMS) of the liquid during solidification, under the following basic conditions: pouring temperatures of 750 and 800˚C with and without addition of a grain refiner. The objective is to directly compare between the electro - magnetic stirring and ultra - refining as methods of obtaining rheocast materials, as well as to verify the possibility of using these methods together. The general purpose is to develop a new Aluminum-Copper based alloy for thixoforming. Design/methodology/approach: the experimental apparatus was made of a wrapped metallic ingot mould surrounded by a sequence of induction coils and a power source that generated an estimated power of electromagnetic field with 1200Watts, which was enough for a fixed amount of 1kg of moulting metal). The macro and microstructures ingots obtained had the characterized by optical microscopy to measure the grain size, globular size and the roundness of the globular structures (to verify the efficiency of the globularization). Findings: In the present paper the combination of electromagnetic stirring, lower pouring temperature and grain refiner addition proved to be the best way to produce Al-5.5wt%Cu rheocast alloy. Research limitations/implications: the principal objective is to compare electro-magnetic stirring and ultrarefining to determine the better structure (level of globularization), determining the factor of larger influence: the grain refiner or the electro-magnetic induced field. Originality/value: Aluminum-Copper alloys specially designed for semi-solid applications are a new area in the semi-solid field, and this paper presents in primary hand the results for the AA 2xxx series.
The Use of Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Measurements in the Diagnosis of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Optic Neuritis

Background Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a specific intermediate filament of the cytoskeleton of the astrocyte and may be used as a specific marker for astrocytic damage. It is detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid following a relapse caused by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) spectrum disease. Higher levels are found following an NMO-related relapse. It is not known if GFAP is also detectable in the serum following such relapses. In particular, it is not known if lesions limited to the optic nerve release GFAP in sufficient quantities to be detectable within the serum. The aim of this study was to ascertain the extent to which serum GFAP levels can distinguish between an episode of optic neuritis (ON) related to NMO spectrum disease and ON from other causes. Methodology/Principal Findings Out of 150 patients consecutively presenting to our eye hospital over the period March 2009 until July 2010, we were able to collect a serum sample from 12 patients who had presented with MS-related ON and from 10 patients who had presented with NMO spectrum disease-related ON. We also identified 8 patients with recurrent isolated ON and 8 patients with a corticosteroid-dependent optic neuropathy in the absence of any identified aetiology. GFAP was detectable in the serum of all but three patients (two patients with MS-related ON and one with recurrent optic neuritis). The median serum GFAP level in the patient group with NMO spectrum disease was 4.63 pg/mL whereas in all other cases combined together, this was 2.14 pg/mL. The difference was statistically significant (P = 0.01). A similar statistically significant difference was found when cases with pathology limited to the optic nerve were compared (P = 0.03). Conclusions Glial pathology in NMO related optic neuritis is reflected in elevated serum GFAP levels independently of whether or not there is extra-optic nerve disease.
Myocarditis Associated with Reovirus in Turkey Poults

Abstract Myocarditis associated with reovirus was diagnosed in 17-day-old, male turkey poults, based on virus isolation, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), demonstration of reovirus antigen in the cytoplasm of mononuclear inflammatory cells and myocytes in the heart by immunohistochemistry (IHC), and reovirus particles in the endoplasmic reticulum of myocytes by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Clinical signs in the poults included anorexia, growth depression, and increased mortality. Gross lesions in the six poults examined were increased pericardial fluid, mild-to-moderate dilation of right ventricles, pale-yellow myocardium, and ascites. Other lesions in a few birds included mild pulmonary edema, congestion, and pale serosa of the small intestine that had watery contents in their lumens. Microscopically, in the heart, there was mild-to-severe necrosis of myocytes and infiltration of primarily lymphocytes mixed with a few heterophils, macrophages, and occasionally, plasma cells and multinucleated giant cells. There was mild-to-moderate lymphoid depletion in the bursa of Fabricius. Reovirus was isolated from the heart of the turkey poults in chicken-embryo liver cells and was confirmed by RT-PCR, IHC, and TEM. A retrospective search of the laboratory database for cases of myocarditis associated with reovirus in turkeys revealed that this condition has occurred sporadically in California turkey flocks since 1991. This is the first documentation of myocarditis in turkey poults associated with reovirus.
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Female Nursing Personnel: Prevalence and Impact

Introduction: There is substantial evidence showing that work related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) have become a common occupational health problem in nursing population. Objectives: This study aims to investigate the prevalence and impact of WRMSDs among nurses in public hospitals in the Klang Valley. The study also evaluated the reliability of the Malay version of the Standardized Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (M-SNMQ). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 660 female nurses working in four selected public hospitals in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. The validated M-SNMQ was used to estimate the prevalence and impact of WRMSDs. The socio-demographic and occupational information were also obtained from the nurses. Results: A total of 77.4% response rate was achieved with 376 nurses completing the survey. Of these, 88.6% (n=333) and 73.1% (n=275) experienced symptoms of WRMSDs in their lifetime and for the past 12 month respectively. Neck (48.9%) was the most prevalent site followed by feet (47.2%), upper back (40.7%) and shoulders (36.9%) and of those, the majority sustained at least moderate pain. Less than 25% of the nurses agreed that WRMSDs affected their quality of life. The result if Kappa agreement indicates a good level of test –retest reliability of M-SNMQ. Hence, proven that the M-SNMQ is a reliable instrument to assess the presence of WRMSDs among female nurses in Malaysia. Conclusions: These findings suggests that WRMSDs is relatively high among the studied Malaysian nurses. Further study should be undertaken to identify the potential risk factors to reduce the prevalence in the near future.
Determination of Instants of Significant Excitation in Speech Using Hilbert Envelope and Group Delay Function

This letter proposes a time-effective method for determining the instants of significant excitation in speech signals. The instants of significant excitation correspond to the instants of glottal closure (epochs) in the case of voiced speech, and to some random excitations like onset of burst in the case of nonvoiced speech. The proposed method consists of two phases: the first phase determines the approximate epoch locations using the Hilbert envelope of the linear prediction residual of the speech signal. The second phase determines the accurate locations of the instants of significant excitation by computing the group delay around the approximate epoch locations derived from the first phase. The accuracy in determining the instants of significant excitation and the time complexity of the proposed method is compared with the group delay based approach.
Improving UML Support for User Interface Design: A Metric Assessment of UMLi

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been widely accepted by application developers, but not so much by user interface (UI) designers. For this reason, the Unified Modeling Language for Interactive Systems (UMLi) has been proposed to improve UML support for UI design. UMLi introduces a diagram notation for modeling UI presentation and extends activity diagram notation to describe collaboration between interaction objects and domain objects. This paper demonstrates using design metrics, in a quantitative way, that UMLi models are significantly structurally, behaviorally and visually less complex than standard UML models when describing the same set of properties of an interactive system.
Polymorphism Located between CPT1B and CHKB, and HLA-DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 Haplotype Confer Susceptibility to CNS Hypersomnias (Essential Hypersomnia)

Background SNP rs5770917 located between CPT1B and CHKB, and HLA-DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 haplotype were previously identified as susceptibility loci for narcolepsy with cataplexy. This study was conducted in order to investigate whether these genetic markers are associated with Japanese CNS hypersomnias (essential hypersomnia: EHS) other than narcolepsy with cataplexy. Principal Findings EHS was significantly associated with SNP rs5770917 (Pallele = 3.6×10−3; OR = 1.56; 95% c.i.: 1.12–2.15) and HLA-DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 haplotype (P positivity = 9.2×10−11; OR = 3.97; 95% c.i.: 2.55–6.19). No interaction between the two markers (SNP rs5770917 and HLA-DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 haplotype) was observed in EHS. Conclusion CPT1B, CHKB and HLA are candidates for susceptibility to CNS hypersomnias (EHS), as well as narcolepsy with cataplexy.
Wip1 Abrogation Decreases Intestinal Tumor Frequency in APCMin/+ Mice Irrespective of Radiation Quality

Low-linear energy transfer (low-LET) γ-ray exposure is a risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC). Due to their high-LET nature, energetic iron ions found in space are expected to pose greater CRC risks to astronauts undertaking long-duration space missions beyond low Earth orbit. Wild-type p53-induced phosphatase 1 (Wip1) is important for cellular DNA damage response and its abrogation has been shown to inhibit spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis in APCMin/+ mice, a well-studied mouse model of human CRC. However, the relationship of Wip1 to radiation-induced intestinal tumorigenesis, especially by energetic iron ions, has not been investigated in APCMin/+ mice. We have previously reported that there is a greater intestinal tumorigenic potential of iron-ion radiation relative to 137Cs γ rays, so the purpose of the current study was to investigate whether Wip1 abrogation could influence high-LET dependent intestinal tumorigenesis in APCMin/+ mice. Intestinal tumor frequency and grade were assessed in APCMin/+/Wip1–/– mice and results were compared to those in APCMin/+/Wip1+/+ mice after exposure to a mean absorbed dose of 2 Gy from 137Cs γ rays or 1.6 Gy from 1 GeV/n iron ions. Cellular differentiation and proliferation were also assessed in the intestinal tumors of sham-irradiated and irradiated mice. Decreased tumor frequency and lower tumor grade were observed in APCMin/+/Wip1–/– relative to APCMin/+/Wip1+/+ mice. Notably, a similar decrease (∼6-fold in both groups) in tumor number was observed in sham-irradiated and γ-irradiated APCMin/+/Wip1–/– relative to APCMin/+/Wip1+/+ mice. However, tumorigenesis in the energetic iron-ion exposed group was reduced ∼8-fold in APCMin/+/Wip1–/– relative to APCMin/+/Wip1+/+ mice. A significantly lower proliferation/differentiation index in tumors of iron-ion exposed APCMin/+/Wip1–/– relative to APCMin/+/Wip1+/+ mice suggests that reduced proliferation and enhanced differentiation as a result of Wip1 abrogation maybe involved. In conclusion, the current study demonstrated that the absence of Wip1 blocked radiation-induced intestinal tumorigenesis irrespective of radiation quality and has implications for developing preventive strategies against the tumorigenic potential of radiation exposure on earth and in outer space.
Filtering of Differential Nonlinear Systems via a Carleman Approximation Approach; 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control &amp; European Control Conference (CDC-ECC 2005)

This paper deals with the state estimation problem for a stochastic nonlinear differential system driven by a standard Wiener process. The solution here proposed is a linear filtering algorithm and is achieved by means of the Carleman approximation scheme applied to both the state and the measurement nonlinear equations. Such a procedure allows to define an approximate representation by means of a suitable bilinear system for which a filtering algorithm is available from literature. Numerical simulations support the theoretical results and show a rather interesting improvement in terms of sampled error covariance of the proposed approach with respect to the classical Kalman-Bucy filter applied to the linearized differential system.