Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Robust Active Shape Model using AdaBoosted Histogram Classifiers

Active Shape Model (ASM) has been shown to be a powerful tool to aid the interpretation of images, espec ially in fac e alignment. ASM loc al appearanc e model parameter estimation is based on the assumption that residuals between model fit and data hav e a Gaussian distribution. Howev er, in fac e alignment, bec ause of c hanges in illumination, different fac ial ex pressions and obstac les lik e mustac hes and glasses, this assumption may be inac c urate. AdaBoost is widely used in fac e detec tion as a robust c lassific ation method, whic h does not need the Gaussian distribution assumption. I n this paper, we model loc al appearanc es by using AdaBoosted histogram c lassifiers to solv e the robustness problems, whic h hav e prev iously been enc ountered. Ex perimental results demonstrate the robustness of our method to align and loc ate fac ial features.
Theory and measurement in the public understanding of science: a rejoinder to Bauer and Schoon

In the paper `Mapping variety in public understanding of science' Bauer and Schoon apply a multi-dimensional coding to responses to the open question `Please tell me, in your own words, what does it mean to study something scientifically? ', and draw some conclusions about cultural diversity from their results. I argue here that this study was inappropriate for two main reasons: first, because the open question was formulated and fielded not to elicit information which would reveal diversity but to assess public scientific literacy against a three-dimensional measure of understanding of three aspects of science which are relevant to the conduct and resolution of public science policy debates; and second, because the data set used by Bauer and Schoon was small and biased.
Expansion of recipient‐derived antiviral T cells may influence donor chimerism after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Donor chimerism (DC) analysis is an important marker in the hematopoietic stem cell transplant follow‐up. Here, we present evidence for a possible relationship of infectious complications and declines in DC. We analyzed the DC in patients experiencing cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation. In addition, in some patients chimerism analyses of T‐cell subsets were performed. CMV‐specific cytotoxic T‐lymphocytes (CMV‐CTL) were monitored using human leukocyte antigen‐restricted multimer staining. Interestingly, CMV reactivation was accompanied by changes in DC in 11 of 67 patients transplanted. For example, DC declined in a cord blood recipient, in both total leukocytes and CD4 and CD8 T‐cell subsets upon CMV reactivation. The latter was controlled after only 5 days through expanding CMV‐CTL of 96% recipient origin, according to chimerism analysis of CMV‐CTL (enriched beyond 50%). In another patient, transplanted after reduced‐intensity conditioning from a DQB1 mismatched, CMV seronegative donor, incipient CMV reactivation was completely aborted by CMV‐CTL of recipient origin. However, at the same time, mixed chimerism dropped from 51% to 0% donor type, resulting in late graft rejection. Our data indicate that chimerism analyses in subset populations lead to a better understanding of declining total leukocyte chimerism. Furthermore, recipient‐derived CMV‐CTL may be able to control CMV reactivation after reduced‐intensity conditioning. We speculate that autologous CMV‐CTL may be instrumental to overcome recurrent CMV reactivations, especially in patients transplanted from CMV‐seronegative donors. In addition, the expansion of recipient‐derived CMV‐CTL may contribute to both, graft failure or to conversion to full DC.
Ultra-violet tuned molecular rectifiers based on molecular self-assemble

The molecular rectifiers that can be tuned by ultra-violet were constructed by molecule self-assemble based on the capillary tunnel junctions. Opto-sensitive functional molecules such as 4-(4-nitrophenylazo)orcinol, l-methyl-4-[4-(4- aminonaphthylazo) phenylazo]- pyridininum iodide were used to construct the tunnel junctions. While irradiated by the ultra-violet in certain wavelength, the current transfer were found and the magnify constant reached up to 4, the determined maximum work voltage is 1.0 V, the limited voltage is 1.5 V.
European Sociopolitical Mentalities: Identifying Pro- and Antidemocratic Tendencies

ABSTRACT A sequel to an analysis of citizens' predispositions for democracy (Part I), this study focuses on larger units, shared ideologies. European ideologies were explored by secondary data analysis of European Values Study (EVS) wave 4, years 2008–2010, 44 countries, 73 questionnaire items, N = 63,281 respondents. The nature of the ideologies is inviting to cluster analysis approach as they tend to be described in terms of ‘patterned clusters’ and likened to an urban cacophony. We applied cluster analysis to reveal prevalent ideological patterns (pro- and antidemocratic tendencies) within the noise of attitudes, values, and behavioral tendencies of European voters and nonvoters. This time our unit was not an individual citizen but a more general unit, ‘an averaged electoral case’. Each major party and also ‘no party’, ‘other party’, and ‘DK/NA’ categories for each country were represented by an abstracted (non)voter with average opinions (using all 73 variables), producing N = 302 averaged electoral tendencies. These were subjected to hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis. Resulting clusters partitioned Europe into three political regions: active democracy (the north-west; 41% of Europeans, 64.5% democratic), moderate democracy (southern and postcommunist Europe; 48% of Europeans, 21.7% democratic), passive democracy (south-east: Turkey, Romania, Albania, Northern Cyprus; 11% of Europeans, 9.6% democratic). This study thus provided a complementary perspective to the study from Part I (which manifested trans-nationally shared political mentalities of European citizens): European public ideologies manifested regional divides and confirmed the lack of internationally shared public sphere.
Off-chip memory bandwidth minimization through cache partitioning for multi-core platforms

We present a methodology for off-chip memory bandwidth minimization through application-driven L2 cache partitioning in multi-core systems. A major challenge with multi-core system design is the widening gap between the memory demand generated by the processor cores and the limited off-chip memory bandwidth and memory service speed. This severely restricts the number of cores that can be integrated into a multi-core system and the parallelism that can be actually achieved and efficiently exploited for not only memory demanding applications, but also for workloads consisting of many tasks utilizing a large number of cores and thus exceeding the available off-chip bandwidth. Last level shared cache partitioning has been shown to be a promising technique to enhance cache utilization and reduce missrates. While most cache partitioning techniques focus on cache miss rates, our work takes a different approach in which tasks' memory bandwidth requirements are taken into account when identifying a cache partitioning for multi-programmed and/or multithreaded workloads. Cache resources are allocated with the objective that the overall system bandwidth requirement is minimized for the target workload. The key insight is that cache miss-rate information may severely misrepresent the actual bandwidth demand of the task, which ultimately determines the overall system performance and power consumption.
Beam Tracking for Interference Alignment in Time-Varying MIMO Interference Channels: A Conjugate-Gradient-Based Approach

In this paper, an adaptive beam tracking algorithm for interference alignment (IA) in time-varying multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) interference channels is presented. It is shown that obtaining a set of interference-aligning transmit beamforming matrices is equivalent to minimizing a certain Rayleigh quotient, and an approach based on the conjugate gradient (CG) method combined with metric projection is applied to this minimization problem to construct an adaptive algorithm for interference-aligning beam design. The convergence of the proposed algorithm in static channels is established, and the steady-state behavior of the proposed algorithm in time-varying channels is investigated by numerical simulations. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated numerically, and numerical results show that the proposed algorithm performs well with low computational complexity.
Cool Customers in the Stellar Graveyard. III. Limits to Substellar Objects around nearby White Dwarfs using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Results from a ground-based high-contrast imaging survey of 13 nearby white dwarfs for substellar objects are presented. We place strict upper limits on the type of substellar objects present, ruling out the presence of anything larger than ∼14MJ for eight of the white dwarfs at separations >19 AU and corresponding to primordial separations of ∼3–6 AU assuming adiabatic mass loss without tidal interactions. With these results we place the first upper limit on the number of intermediate-mass stars with brown dwarfs at separations >13 AU. We combine these results with previous work to place upper limits on the number of massive Jovian (>10MJ) planets in orbit around white dwarfs whose progenitors spanned a mass range of 1–7 M⊙.
Designing Freeform Origami Tessellations by Generalizing Resch's Patterns

In this research, we study a method to produce families of origami tessellations from given polyhedral surfaces. The resulting tessellated surfaces generalize the patterns proposed by Ron Resch and allow the construction of an origami tessellation that approximates a given surface. We will achieve these patterns by first constructing an initial configuration of the tessellated surfaces by separating each facets and inserting folded parts between them based on the local configuration. The initial configuration is then modified by solving the vertex coordinates to satisfy geometric constraints of developability, folding angle limitation, and local nonintersection. We propose a novel robust method for avoiding intersections between facets sharing vertices. Such generated polyhedral surfaces are not only applied to folding paper but also sheets of metal that does not allow 180 deg folding.
Cogenerative Dialogue Praxis in a Lighthouse School: Contradictions, Ethical Concerns, Expansive Learning, and "Kids Being Kids."

150 The Development of Cogenerative Dialogues . 155 Blueberry Vale Elementary School . 157 A Contradiction Arises . 159 Traditional Gender Roles . 167 Relation With Overall Question . 171 Conclusion . 176 Chapter 8 When Kids are Kids: Framing Positive Use of Time During Cogenerative Dialogues.179 Thematic Introduction . 180 Context of This Chapter’s Creation.180 Relation With the Overall Themes . 181 Abstract.183 Context & Background . 186 “Unfocused” Talk? 189 How is Time Spent? 190 Lacie’s Home Life . 191 Transitioning to Grade Four and Middle School.197 Weather . 202 Conclusion . 207 Chapter 9 Expansive Learning From Questioning to Implementation.210 Thematic Introduction . 211 Context of This Chapter’s Creation.211 Relation With the Overall Themes . 211 Abstract.213 Cogenerative Dialogue Praxis.215 Theoretical Framework.216 Research and Development Context . 220 The Homework Contradiction . 225 Questioning Practises.227 Reflection on Implementation . 228 Examination and Negotiation.232 Implementation.241 How Did This Process Occur? 242 Agency . 242 Expansive Learning . 243 A Different Perspective . 245 Conclusion . 247 Chapter 10 Conclusion.250 References.259
Using the Endace DAG 3.7GF card with FreeBSD 7.0

The Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) recently acquired 4 Endace DAG 3.7GF high performance capture cards. Where possible, the centre’s standard experimental environment utilises the FreeBSD operating system and commodity PC hardware to perform experimental research. This report details how to use DAG 3.7GF capture cards with FreeBSD 7.0 in a variety of commonly required experimental network configurations used in day-to-day research.
Using social media to find English lexical blends 1

We present a method for identifying English lexical blends — words such as complisult (compliment + insult) and globesity (global + obesity) — from social media, specifically Twitter. Our method is based on observations about words and phrases that are commonly used to introduce new words and corpus patterns that are often used to describe the meaning of lexical blends, and leverages the massive volume of data that is readily-available for analysis through Twitter. We run our method for 5 weeks and identify 976 candidate lexical blends; analysis of a sample of these candidates indicates that approximately 57% are blends. We further discuss a small number of blends identified by our method that are in regular usage on Twitter but which are not recorded in any of a number of dictionaries searched.
The Death of the Other/Father: A Feminist Reading of Derrida's Hauntology1

This paper addresses the question of whether Derrida's “hauntology” as developed in Specters of Marx and related texts, can be anything more than yet another repetition of a specifically male preoccupation with the Father inscribed on the bodies of women, in this case the always absent daughter. A careful reading suggests that Derrida, and playwnght fathers of daughters such as Shakespeare and August Wilson, may be aware of the paradoxes of their situation.
PNA: Partial Network Alignment with Generic Stable Matching

To enjoy more social network services, users nowadays are usually involved in multiple online social networks simultaneously. The shared users between different networks are called anchor users, while the remaining unshared users are named as non-anchor users. Connections between accounts of anchor users in different networks are defined as anchor links and networks partially aligned by anchor links can be represented as partially aligned networks. In this paper, we want to predict anchor links between partially aligned social networks, which is formally defined as the partial network alignment problem. The partial network alignment problem is very difficult to solve because of the following two challenges: (1) the lack of general features for anchor links, and (2) the “one - to - one≤” (one to at most one) constraint on anchor links. To address these two challenges, a new method PNA (Partial Network Aligner) is proposed in this paper. PNA (1) extracts various adjacency scores among users across networks based on a set of internetwork anchor meta paths, and (2) utilizes the generic stable matching to identify the non-anchor users to prune the redundant anchor links attached to them. Extensive experiments conducted on two real-world partially aligned social networks demonstrate that PNA can solve the partial network alignment problem very well and outperform all the other comparison methods with significant advantages.
Covariant support region and detection algorithm based on LoG corners

Detection of Local feature covariant region is a new technology of image contents and image semantic representations, and it has become an important foundation of the image recognition, learning and understanding. First, a Laplace of Gaussian corner detection method is proposed based on edge contour curves, in the meantime, a new local feature descriptor, named covariant support region, is introduced. Then, a detection algorithm of covariant support region is framed, which is covariant for rotation and scale transformation. Comparing with previous studies, the computational complexity of proposed algorithm is significantly reduced by this method. The experiments data indicate that the method proposed in this papaer has good performance on higher accuracy, higher repeatability, and lower complexity.
A combining method of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes by the Chinese remainder theorem

In this paper we propose a method of constructing quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes of large length by combining QC-LDPC codes of small length as their component codes, via the Chinese remainder theorem. The girth of the QC-LDPC codes obtained by the proposed method is always larger than or equal to that of each component code. By applying the method to array codes, we present a family of high-rate regular QC-LDPC codes with no 4-cycles. Simulation results show that they have almost the same performance as random regular LDPC codes.
Japanese Learning Styles : The relationship between learning styles and transformative learning

This paper is an attempt to examine how learning styles theory has been applied in Japanese contexts and how it is possible to use learning style theory in transformative learning. In particular it examines Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Kolb’s Experiential Learning Styles Theory. It also looks at ways in which these theories have been used with Japanese adults to examine the learning styles of Japanese. Even though the studies were found to be generalizable to certain groups of Japanese adults, it is impossible to show it as generalizable to Japanese people as a whole. The principal reason lies in the nature of learning style theories. Learning style theories imply that they are preferred styles that individuals utilize, but that they are flexible and may change at any given time in an individual’s lifetime. Because the nature of learning style theories is flexible, they lend themselves to active frameworks in which transformational learning can be affected. Giving adult learners additional tools in which to examine and influence their own understanding and reflection on experiences can provide them with more choices of what kind of learning they want as a result. This can in turn lead to transformative learning within an individual, of relationships with others and in communities. During this process it is also important that the learner, educator, and community work together to create a mutual learning and becoming process resulting in a much more satisfactory and enriching transformative experience. ────────────────────────────────────────── * English Instructor, Kwansei Gakuin University Kwansei Gakuin University Humanities Review Vol. 16, 2011 Nishinomiya, Japan 55
Electrophoretic protein patterns and peroxidase activity related to morphogenesis in Mammillaria gracillis tissue culture

The cactus Mammillaria gracillis Pfeiff. was propagated in vitro on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium without any growth regulators. At the bases of some plants abundant callus masses developed. Lower agar and higher MS salt concentrations stimulated callus production. In the culture, morphologically normal and hyperhydric shoots were regenerated. The growth of crown-gall tumour was induced on disc-like explants of in vitro grown plants infected with Agrobacterium tumefaciens, B6S3 strain. Calli appeared on both infected and control explants. The tumorous tissue grew more intensively than the control. The transformed character of the callus was confirmed by PCR amplification of a gene 6a of T-DNA. Gene expression in cactus shoots (grown in vitro or in pot), callus, hiperhydric and morphologically normal regenerated shoots and crown-gall tumour were analysed at the level of the electrophoretic pattern of soluble proteins. Some tumour-specific polypeptides were detected (76, 32-39, and 23 kDa). That of 42 kDa was highly expressed in callus and hyperhydric shoots. A faint 58 kDa band was found in all extracts except in the pot-grown shoot. Relatively high peroxidase activity was detected in callus and shoot regenerants and it was lower in tumour and the lowest in plant shoots.
Fast proxyless stream-based anti-virus for Network Function Virtualization

Network anti-virus (AV) solutions are the first line of defense against malicious software. Traditional proxy-based network anti-virus solutions with store-scan-forward techniques decrease network performance and consume massive amounts of memory. Therefore, traditional solutions are not easily adaptable for Network Function Virtualization (NFV). This paper details the work on a novel virus scanning solution for NFV, called StreamAV. It does not require a proxy and maintains high network performance with less memory usage. StreamAV conducts policy matching on streams, rather than on complete files. This eliminates buffering, thereby accelerating traffic and requiring far less memory than solutions that scan complete files. The prototype was 40 times faster than its closest open source competitor, while its memory consumption was only a fraction of that of this competitor. Coverage was 100% with random test samples.
Clinical Criteria for the Diagnosis of Bullous Pemphigoid: A Reevaluation according to Immunoblot Analysis of Patient Sera

Background: We previously proposed a set of 4 clinical criteria for the diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid (BP) that consisted of age greater than 70 years, absence of atrophic scars, absence of mucosal involvement and absence of predominant bullous lesions on the neck and head. These results have been challenged because direct immunoelectron microscopy (IEM), which was used as the standard diagnostic criterion in our initial study, does not identify the different antigens of the basement membrane zone. Objective: To reassess the validity of these clinical criteria for the diagnosis of BP using immunoblot analysis of patient sera as the main diagnostic criterion, in order to precisely identify the antigens recognized by patient sera. Methods: One hundred and eighty-nine sera from patients with various subepidermal autoimmune blistering diseases (AIBDs) were tested by immunoblotting using dermal and epidermal extracts. IEM was used as a complementary diagnostic procedure in a few patients whose serum recognized BPAG2 exclusively or was negative in immunoblotting. Results: 142 patients (75%) had at least 3 of the 4 clinical diagnostic criteria. Sera from patients who lacked the set of BP clinical criteria were more frequently immunoblot negative (34%) than sera from patients who had the criteria (18%; p = 0.025). BPAG1 was more frequently recognized by sera from patients with the set of BP clinical criteria (78%) than by sera from patients without the criteria (45%; p = 5·10–4). In contrast, BPAG2 was recognized by a great number of sera from patients who lacked the criteria of BP (71%), which was in accordance with the presence of numerous patients with cicatricial pemphigoid in this group. Among patients with various subepidermal AIBDs, the diagnosis of BP could be made with a sensitivity of 86%, a specificity of 90% and an excellent prognostic positive value over 95%, if 3 of these clinical criteria were present. Conclusion: These results confirm the interest of this set of clinical criteria for the rapid diagnosis of BP.
Interference-Aware Decentralized Precoding for Multicell MIMO TDD Systems

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoding scheme is developed for time division duplex (TDD) systems in a multicell environment. The proposed scheme is designed to maximize the total achievable rate, and to work in the decentralized manner with only locally available channel state information (CSI) at each transmitter. We first establish and solve a decentralized optimization problem for the case of multiple-input single-output (MISO) channels. We introduce a new precoding design metric called signal to generating interference plus noise ratio (SGINR). Based on the SGINR metric, the MISO precoding scheme is extended to general MIMO channels. Simulation results confirm that proposed precoding scheme offers significant throughput enhancement in multicell environments.