Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Side lobe level reduction of pyramidal double ridged horn antenna

Ridged horn antennas are widely used for broadband applications. Horn antennas, ridged or non-ridged, suffer from side lobes. In this paper, a double ridged horn antenna will be presented, with a unique ridge shape. A configuration has been found for high gain and low side lobe level at the H-plane, and at the E-plane in contrary to what is found in most of the ridged horn antennas. A VSWR of 1.4:1 was simulated at a frequency range of 2.7–3.5 GHz with a perfect waveguide port for the designed antenna, and a VSWR of around 1.8:1 was measured at a frequency of 3 GHz using a coaxial to waveguide adapter for the fabricated antenna. Both of the simulated and measured results show that the unique ridge shape has high influence on the side lobes — for specific frequencies. The presented antenna is similar to corrugated horn antenna in terms of antenna parameters and performance — both show low side lobe levels. Inside the horn, exist two polygons with the same thickness of the used waveguide ridges, which are the proposed novel ridges.
Visualization of patent claims structure to improve their readability

Readability is considered as a important element in effective communication. The patent claims are regarded as typical bad example of readability since they are written in long sentences and the structure is complex among different claims. In one patent document, the several claims contain hierarchical structure within each other. In this project, we want to improve the patent claims readability via visualizing the hierarchical structure. To do this, we reviewed the-state-of-the-art researches including text readability, patent claim readability and improve the readability via visualization techniques. After that, we propose a improved method to visualizing the hierarchical structure claims. We also design a user-driven evaluation method to measure the performance and collect the feedback from users.
Improving Restart of Idle TCP Connections

TCP congestion avoidance mechanisms are based on adjustments to the congestion-window size, triggered by the ACK clock. These mechanisms are not well matched to large but intermittent bursts of traffic, such as responses from a HTTP/1.1-based web server. Idle periods between bursts (web page replies) stop the ACK clock and hence disrupt even data flow. When restarting data flow after an idle period, current implementations either enforce slow start (SSR) or use the prior congestion window (NSSR). The former approach, while conservative, leads to low effective throughput in cases like P-HTTP. The latter case optimistically sends a large burst of back-to-back packets, risking router buffer overflow and subsequent packet loss. This paper proposes a third alternative: pacing some packets at a certain rate until the ACK clock can be restarted. We describe the motivation and implementation of this third alternative and present simulation results which show that it achieves the elapsed-time performance comparable to NSSR and loss behavior of SSR.
Carcinogen-binding Antigens in Rat Liver Microsomes ' MASAYASUKITAGAWA

rat plasma and kidney microsomes. At least 9 precipitate arcs were detected with preparations from livers of normal rats. Similar patterns were obtained with preparations from livers of rats which had been injected with 2-aminofluorene or 2-acetylaminofluorene 72 hr earlier. In the latter case, at least 2â€”3 arcs were shown to fix anti-2azofluorene-'251 antibody, indicating that some microsomal components combined with the injected carcinogen. Some of the liver microsomal antigens including one of the carcinogen-binding components were not detected in prepara tions from livers of rats which had been fed 2-acetylaminofluorene for 16 weeks and removed from the carcinogen diet for 1, 2, or 4 weeks. Similar but more extensive changes in antigen composition were observed with preparations from hepatomas. Some anti gens, including the carcinogen-binding components, were not observed. In contrast, some antigens not clearly detectable in normal liver preparations were observed in hepatoma prepara tions. The role of the binding of carcinogen to the microsomal com ponents and the role of these components themselves in car cinogenesis remain to be seen.
The Kinetics of Lysis of Escherichia coli

The kinetics of lysis of Staphylococcu aureus cultures by an antistaphylococcus bacteriophage have been studied by Krueger and Northrop (1930). These investigators reported that phage formation is logarithmic with time during the logarithmic period of the growth of Staphylococcu aureu8; that phage formation proceeds at a much faster rate than bacterial multiplication; that extracellular and intracellular phage are distributed on a constant percentage basis; that lysis begins when a definite ratio between the concentrations of phage and bacteria is established in the cultures; that the lytic destruction of bacteria is logarithmic with time; and that the major portion of phage present after the completion of bacteriophagy is set free during the brief period of bacterial dissolution. The studies reported in this paper were undertaken to determine whether or not similar relationships exist in cultures of E8cherichia coli in the presence of an anticoli bacteriophage.
Immunoglobulins in aqueous humour and iris from patients with endogenous uveitis and patients with cataract.

The scarcity of aqucous humour and uveal tissues from living patients has hampered studies on the immunological aspects of human eye diseases. There are many autopsy studies investigating the niature and amount of proteins in human aqueous, but it is known that the composition of aqueous humour changes very rapidly after death so that the validity of the results of these autopsy studies on the composition of aqueous humour is in doubt (Hemmingsen and Other, I967; Dieckhues,
The dimensions of alliance portfolio configuration: A mediation model

Abstract Our paper contributes to progress on the conceptualization and the operationalization of the alliance portfolio configuration. A variance-based structural equation modeling (partial least squares) has been applied to a sample made up of top global contractors. Previous works on alliance portfolio have analyzed the dimensions of alliance portfolio configuration independently and therefore, the interrelationships between them have not been studied. Results from the data analysis show that the dimensions of alliance portfolio configuration are interrelated in such a way that the relational and the partner alliance portfolio dimensions (a) fully mediate the effect of structural alliance portfolio on the value of the alliance portfolio capital; and (b) this capital exerts significant and positive influences on the growth of the international market share.
The spinal biology in humans and animals of pain states generated by persistent small afferent input.

Behavioral models indicate that persistent small afferent input, as generated by tissue injury, results in a hyperalgesia at the site of injury and a tactile allodynia in areas adjacent to the injury site. Hyperalgesia reflects a sensitization of the peripheral terminal and a central facilitation evoked by the persistent small afferent input. The allodynia reflects a central sensitization. The spinal pharmacology of these pain states has been defined in the unanesthetized rat prepared with spinal catheters for injection and dialysis. After tissue injury, excitatory transmitters (e.g., glutamate and substance P) acting though N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and neurokinin 1 receptors initiate a cascade that evokes release of (i) NO, (ii) cyclooxygenase products, and (iii) activation of several kinases. Spinal dialysis show amino acid and prostanoid release after cutaneous injury. Spinal neurokinin 1, NMDA, and non-NMDA receptors enhance spinal prostaglandin E2 release. Spinal prostaglandins facilitate release of spinal amino acids and peptides. Activation by intrathecal injection of receptors on spinal C fiber terminals (mu,/delta opiate, alpha2 adrenergic, neuropeptide Y) prevents release of primary afferent peptides and spinal amino acids and blocks acute and facilitated pain states. Conversely, consistent with their role in facilitated processing, NMDA, cyclooxygenase 2, and NO synthase inhibitors act to diminish only hyperalgesia. Importantly, spinal delivery of several of these agents diminishes human injury pain states. This efficacy emphasizes (i) the role of facilitated states in humans, (ii) shows the importance of spinal systems in human pain processing, and (iii) indicates that these preclinical mechanisms reflect processes that regulate the human pain experience.
Predictores del consumo semanal de alcohol y sus consecuencias asociadas en universitarios consumidores intensivos de alcohol

Las importantes implicaciones que genera el consumo intensivo de alcohol entre los jovenes justifican el interes por determinar que factores predicen su aparicion. Concretamente, en este estudio se analiza el papel de la personalidad y edad de inicio en el consumo de alcohol en la prediccion del consumo semanal de alcohol, y de todas estas variables en la prediccion del numero de consecuencias asociadas al consumo en jovenes universitarios. Se evaluan 213 consumidores intensivos de primer curso de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Todos ellos cumplimentaron un autoregistro de consumo, el BIS-11, el NEO-FFI y el IECI de consecuencias asociadas a la ingesta. Los analisis de regresion de orden jerarquico muestran que la edad de inicio resulta ser una variable predictora relevante tanto en la explicacion del consumo semanal como del numero de consecuencias. Lo mismo puede decirse de la variable consumo semanal respecto a la del numero de consecuencias. En lineas generales, el influjo de las variables de personalidad es bastante limitado. Tan solo mencionar la responsabilidad e impulsividad, que junto con la edad, llegan a explicar gran parte de la conducta de consumo semanal entre varones. En lo que respecta a las consecuencias derivadas del consumo, solo resultan explicativas, aunque en menor medida que la edad y el consumo semanal, la impulsividad y el neuroticismo. Esto justifica la necesidad de planificar intervenciones mas ajustadas y de analizar nuevos predictores en el caso de las mujeres que permitan explicar en mayor medida su conducta de consumo semanal.
The question of tag questions in women's speech: they don't really use more of them, do they?↓

Abstract The authors investigate Robin Lakoff's dual claim that women use tag questions in more conversational situations than do men and that such questions signify an avoidance of commitment, causing the speaker ‘to give the impression of not being really sure of himself, of looking to the addressee for confirmation, even of having no views of his own’. They find that in an at least one genuine social context, men did, and women did not, use tag questions, both formal and informal, so the claim is open to serious doubt. (Sex differences in speech; sociolinguistic method.)
Applying Local Search to Disjunctive Temporal Problems

We present a method for applying local search to overconstrained instances of the Disjunctive Temporal Problem (DTP). Our objective is to generate high quality solutions (i.e., solutions that violate few constraints) in as little time as possible. The technique presented here differs markedly from previous work on DTPs, as it operates within the total assignment space of the underlying CSP rather than the partial assignment space of the related meta-CSP. We provide experimental results demonstrating that the use of local search leads to substantially improved performance over systematic methods.
Adaptive granular concurrency control for replicated collaborative feature modeling

A good concurrency control method that maximizes the operational parallelism while prevents conflicts of simultaneous manipulations is vital for cooperative design systems and still a challenge. We propose an adaptive granular concurrency control approach for the replicated collaborative feature modeling based on the feature dependency directed acyclic graph (FDAG). According to the varying design contexts, an adaptive granularity for concurrent manipulations is determined dynamically by the FDAG of the replicated model to avoid concurrent regeneration conflicts. A prototype is realized on a real-time collaborative design system consisting of heterogeneous CAD systems. The preliminary results show that the approach proposed is promising.
The Young Person Check: screening for sexually transmitted infections and chronic disease risk in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth

Objective : This paper describes the implementation and selected outcomes of the Young Person Check (YPC), a high‐coverage screening program in far north Queensland targeting remote youth aged 15–24 years for sexually transmissible infections (STI) and chronic disease risk. The YPC was conducted 19 times in eight discrete remote communities and one community cluster between 2009 and 2012.
Women and suicide: beyond the gender paradox

Traditionally, suicide research has focused on male mortality, with little attention paid to the female experience of suicide. This means there has been a lack of research examining how female suicide rates and behaviours have changed over time and between countries. Through an exploration of the World Health Organisation Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) data, this paper aims to analyse changes in the trends of female suicide across the period 1950 to 2009 in 106 countries. Observed changes in female suicidal behaviours are discussed in the context of 12 geographical and cultural areas of the world: Africa, Anglo-Saxon countries, the Western Pacific, the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe, Eastern Mediterranean countries, Scandinavia, South America, South East Asia, Southern Europe and Western Europe. By seeking understanding as to how suicidal behaviours are gendered within specific cultures and societies and by unpacking the Gender Paradox using Cultural Scripts Theory, this paper explores some possible culturally relevant explanations for female suicide rates and behaviours worthy of future research attention. Analysing the data and its limitations, and acknowledging its place within social and cultural constructs, allows for better understanding of the fatal female suicidal behaviour.
Personality disorder and the mental representation of early social experience

Abstract Controversy surrounds the role of early social experience in the development of personality disorder. In particular, little is known of the means by which continuities from infancy through adulthood might be mediated. One suggestion is that a person's mental representations of relations between him- or herself and other people, either in the form of “internal working models” or “internal object relations,” provide the essential link. We report on an investigation of this issue in which we focused on the formal qualities of accounts of childhood offered by adults who were drawn from two contrasting clinical groups; borderline personality disorder and dysthymia. The results lend support to the claims made by attachment theory and the object relations school of psychoanalysis, that at least in certain groups of individuals, adults' modes of representing early experience are intimately related to styles of interpersonal functioning. More specifically, the form of interpersonal Psychopathology characteristic of borderline personality disorder may be associated with enmeshed and unresolved patterns of responding to the Adult Attachment Interview of George, Kaplan, and Main (1985) and with reports of low maternal care and high maternal overprotection on the Parental Bonding Instrument of Parker, Tupling, and Brown (1979).
Application of a Combination of a Knowledge-Based Algorithm and 2-Stage Screening to Hypothesis-Free Genomic Data on Irinotecan-Treated Patients for Identification of a Candidate Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Related to an Adverse Effect

Interindividual variation in a drug response among patients is known to cause serious problems in medicine. Genomic information has been proposed as the basis for “personalized” health care. The genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a powerful technique for examining single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their relationship with drug response variation; however, when using only GWAS, it often happens that no useful SNPs are identified due to multiple testing problems. Therefore, in a previous study, we proposed a combined method consisting of a knowledge-based algorithm, 2 stages of screening, and a permutation test for identifying SNPs. In the present study, we applied this method to a pharmacogenomics study where 109,365 SNPs were genotyped using Illumina Human-1 BeadChip in 168 cancer patients treated with irinotecan chemotherapy. We identified the SNP rs9351963 in potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily KQT member 5 (KCNQ5) as a candidate factor related to incidence of irinotecan-induced diarrhea. The p value for rs9351963 was 3.31×10−5 in Fisher's exact test and 0.0289 in the permutation test (when multiple testing problems were corrected). Additionally, rs9351963 was clearly superior to the clinical parameters and the model involving rs9351963 showed sensitivity of 77.8% and specificity of 57.6% in the evaluation by means of logistic regression. Recent studies showed that KCNQ4 and KCNQ5 genes encode members of the M channel expressed in gastrointestinal smooth muscle and suggested that these genes are associated with irritable bowel syndrome and similar peristalsis diseases. These results suggest that rs9351963 in KCNQ5 is a possible predictive factor of incidence of diarrhea in cancer patients treated with irinotecan chemotherapy and for selecting chemotherapy regimens, such as irinotecan alone or a combination of irinotecan with a KCNQ5 opener. Nonetheless, clinical importance of rs9351963 should be further elucidated.
Track following Control with DFT Estimator for Eccentric Error Compensation of Optical Disk Driver

This paper proposes a dynamic eccentric error compensation architecture for the tracking follow controller of optical disk drivers. For enhancing the tracking performance in an optical disk drive servo system, it is essential to attenuate periodic disturbances which are caused by revolutions of the disk. Periodic disturbances can be attenuated using a discrete Fourier transform estimator with the known disturbance frequency provided by a motor driver. Optical disk drivers support various speeds. So optical disk drivers have a varying periodic disturbance. To deal with time varying periodic disturbances, a proposed eccentric error compensation controller is turned based on sinusoidal generator to follow the change of reference period. The disturbance estimator uses the discrete Fourier transform method that models the periodic disturbance. We present simulative and experimental results and show that the proposed control scheme enables a significant improvement of the tracking accuracy of the radial servomechanism and the random access time. We implement the proposed eccentric error controller on the system on chip (SOC).
Identification of Pex13p a peroxisomal membrane receptor for the PTS1 recognition factor

We have identified an S. cerevisiae integral peroxisomal membrane protein of M of 42,705 (Pex13p) that is a component of the peroxisomal protein import apparatus. Pex13p's most striking feature is an src homology 3 (SH3) domain that interacts directly with yeast Pex5p (former Pas10p), the recognition factor for the COOH-terminal tripeptide signal sequence (PTS1), but not with Pex7p (former Pas7p), the recognition factor for the NH2-terminal nonapeptide signal (PTS2) of peroxisomal matrix proteins. Hence, Pex13p serves as peroxisomal membrane receptor for at least one of the two peroxisomal signal recognition factors. Cells deficient in Pex13p are unable to import peroxisomal matrix proteins containing PTS1 and, surprisingly, also those containing PTS2. Pex13p deficient cells retain membranes containing the peroxisomal membrane protein Pex11p (former Pmp27p), consistent with the existence of independent pathways for the integration of peroxisomal membrane proteins and for the translocation of peroxisomal matrix proteins.
Democracy's breakdown and the rise of fascism: The case of the Spanish Second Republic, 1931–6

A number of plausible, competing, mass-based accounts exist in the literature explaining the breakdown of democracy and the rise of fascism in Spain, Italy and Germany. The objective of this article is to specify further empirically mass-based accounts of the social origins of democracy and modern authoritarianism in the Spanish Second Republic (1931–1936). In specifying mass-based general theories of the breakdown of democracy and the rise of fascism in inter-war Europe, the article contends that the polarising dynamic of agrarian reform is a central factor undermining the Republic.
Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of New Pharmaceuticals in Epilepsy in Adults: The Results of a Probabilistic Decision Model

Epilepsy currently affects more than 400,000 people in the United Kingdom and 2.3 million in the United States. Drug therapy is the mainstay of treatment for patients with epilepsy, but therapies vary widely in their mechanism of action and acquisition cost. This article describes a decision model developed for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the United Kingdom. It compares the long-term cost-effectiveness of drugs licensed in adults for use in 3 situations: monotherapy for newly diagnosed patients, monotherapy for refractory patients, and combination therapy for refractory patients. The analysis separately considers the treatment of partial and generalized seizures. The full range of pharmaceutical therapies feasibly used in the UK health system was included in the analysis. The analysis showed that, on the basis of existing evidence, for newly diagnosed patients with partial seizures, carbamazepine and valproate are likely to be the most cost-effective mono-therapies. Carbamazepine is likely to be the most cost-effective 2nd-line monotherapy for refractory patients, and oxcarbazepine would probably be the most cost-effective adjunctive therapy for refractory patients if the willingness to pay for additional health benefits is greater than £18,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY). For patients with generalized seizures, valproate is most likely to be cost-effective for newly diagnosed patients. For refractory patients, adjunctive topiramate is more cost-effective than monotherapy alone if the willingness to pay for additional health benefits is greater than £35,000 per QALY. There is, however, considerable uncertainty regarding these results. Some of the methodological features of the study will be of value in designing cost-effectiveness analyses of other therapies for chronic conditions. These include the methods used to deal with the absence of head-to-head trial data and the need to reflect time dependency in Markov transition probabilities.