Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Data and Cyber Security in Autonomous Vehicle Networks

Abstract An autonomous vehicle (AV) is a vehicle that operates and performs tasks under its own power. Some features of autonomous vehicle are sensing the environment, collecting information and managing communication with other vehicles. Many autonomous vehicles in development use a combination of cameras, sensors, GPS, radar, LiDAR, and on-board computers. These technologies work together to map the vehicle’s position and its proximity to everything around it. Because of their reliance on these sorts of technologies, which are easily accessible to tampering, a autonomous vehicles are susceptible to cyber attacks if an attacker can discover a weakness in a certain type of vehicle or in a company’s electronic system. This lack of information security can lead to criminal and terrorist acts that eventually cost lives. This paper gives an overview of cyber attack scenarios relating to autonomous vehicles. The cyber security concept proposed here uses biometric data for message authentication and communication, and projects stored and new data based on iris recognition. Iris recognition system can provide other knowledge about drivers as well, such as how tired and sleepy they might be while driving, and they are designed to encrypt the vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-environment communication based on encryption security mechanisms.
Developing an Information Educational Environment Based on Cloud Technologies

The main purpose of the formation of an information educational institution is to provide a background for improving the quality of education, its openness and accessibility. The information educational environment should provide the educational process with the organizational and methodological support, the resource provision, the effective solutions of managerial tasks and the modern procedures for collecting, analyzing, storing and broadcasting the management information. Cloud computing is one of the most emerging technologies that allow creating in the institution a safe and secure information educational environment ensuring the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standards requirements. We had presented the projects of the school #27 (Dzerzhinsky, Nizhny Novgorod region), Nizhny Novgorod Industrial College and the Department of Applied Informatics and Information Technologies at the Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University named after Kozma Minin as examples of formation the information educational environments on the base of the Google Apps for Education package, which is a universal tool for organizing an effective interaction of all participants in the educational process, planning joint activities, competent allocating resources and providing the tools necessary for solving any teaching problems.
Spatiotemporal representation of driving scenarios and classification using neural networks

Large scale fleet tests of autonomous vehicles lead to the availability of massive recorded datasets, offering significant potential for the generation of realistic virtual test drives, for the development and training of machine learning based functions, and facilitated performance analysis. Automated scenario classification and data labeling is necessary to maximize the utility of these massive datasets and make them fully accessible and searchable for developers. In this paper we present and compare several spatiotemporal representations of recorded driving scenarios and analyze the impact of the representation type on the results of the subsequent automated scenario classification with deep neural networks. Built on a fused list of objects that combines data from several sensor types, we create and annotate datasets for each of the representations and train the classification algorithm. The best classification results were achieved with the presented Stacked Velocity Grid, which includes temporal information.
The Influence of Value-Creation on Customer's Based Destination Brand Equity: Case Study Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta and Magelang in Indonesia

Indonesian Government has shown an incredible effort to increase tourism sector’s productivity by investing on infrastructures. However, to achieve this goal, branding effort needs to be employed because branding added value to its product. Measuring how the destination brand adds value to its product can be captured by Customers-Based Destination Brand Equity (CBDBE). It is important to recognize its dimensions to increase CBDBE and develop competitive strategy through Value- Creation Experience in Tourist Destination (VCETD). VCETD assesses the value-creation for tourists during their entire experience of a destination (before, during, and after their stay). Thus, this research aimed to answer two questions. First, to confirm the dimensions of CBDBE and VCETD. Second, to find out the antecedence influence of VCETD to CBDBE for planning competitive strategy. This concept was tested on Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta and Magelang where the data collection was conducted in Departure Terminal in AdiSutjipto Airport and Borobudur temple with direct questionnaire. Then, it was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), whereas confirming the dimensions of VCETD and CBDBE using Second Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis then followed by Structural Model to assess the antecedence influence between the two. The results show that there are five dimensions of destination brand equity, which are destination brand awareness, destination brand image, destination brand quality, destination brand value, and destination brand loyalty and three dimensions of value creation, which are value-creation pre visit, value-creation during visit, value-creation post visit. Moreover, value-creation is proven to be significant (t-value = 8.45) as an antecedent by which the customer perceives greater Destination Brand Equity.
Marketing Communications in Nonbusiness Situations or why its so Hard to Sell Brotherhood like Soap

In order to effectively use marketing communications techniques for public and nonprofit sector problems, one must consider the extreme differences between these and private sector problems. Major differences may include the presence of very high or very low involvement, issues offering few perceivable benefits to individuals, and high monetary prices. A framework for considering very high and very low involvement cases is considered and options for marketers are presented.
The Expanding Use of Information Technology in the Social Services: A Study of Small Nonprofit Social Service Organizations in the Bay Area

iv Vita Auctoris . v Acknowledgements . vi List of Tables . vii List of Appendices . viii Chapter One: Introduction . Chapter Two: Literature Review. 14 Chapter Three: Methodology . 37 Chapter Four: Results . 45 Chapter Five: Summary and Conclusions. 60 References . 69 Appendices Appendix A . 74 Appendix B . 82
Assessing the Institutional Capacity of Latin American Countries for Sustainable Infrastructure Planning and Delivery

This paper reviews country- and sector-level upstream planning and procurement approaches of water, transport, and energy infrastructure projects in Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Peru. For each country and sector, we review institutional frameworks and the policies and legislation relevant for sustainable infrastructure planning. Our analysis covers the frameworks for countries to plan infrastructure at the upstream level, as well as procurement and contractual frameworks. We focus particularly on how sustainability is integrated in such processes. The ultimate goal of this paper is to identify the main institutional gaps that need to be addressed in Latin American and Caribbean countries so they can improve their planning and preparation of sustainable infrastructure projects.
Reduction of Graphical Model and Genetic Algorithm for Computing Approximate Nash Equilibrium in Static Games

In order to describe the relationship between strategies of various agents, the concepts of the influence degree and the strategy dependency are presented. Accordingly, an approach for reducing a graphical model is given, and the relationship between the discrete degree and the approximate degree is developed, and then the genetic-algorithm-based approach for computing approximate Nash equilibrium is given.
Wild edible mushrooms traded by ethnic communities of Senapati and Kangpokpi district of Manipur, India

Wild Edible Mushrooms (WEMs) are one of the important food sources of rural people. Mushroom collection is a means of generating additional income and improving nutritional security for many ethnic communities that are collected and consumed by the ethnic communities of Manipur since ages. Although information is available for mushrooms of north east India yet very sporadic information on WEMs of Manipur is available. The present study is an attempt to document the WEMs collected, consumed and commercially traded by Naga & Kuki tribes of Manipur through extensive field and market surveys. Although a large number of WEMs are being consumed, only 8 edible fungi belonging to 7 families were recorded to be traded in the town markets of hill districts of Manipur. The study indicates the prospects of socio-economic development of dependent communities through scientific interventions.
[Liver rupture in peliosis hepatis].

A 44-year old woman had pain in the epigastric region under the thorax aperture on the left side 6 weeks prior to admission. Her doctor had prescribed Rewodina and Myocuran without success. Then she suffered circulatory collapse twice. Upon hospitalization, she experienced colicky upper abdominal pain and vomiting. She had been taking oral contraceptives (OCs) for 13 years. Spontaneous liver rupture attributable to adenoma was suspected, based on computer tumograms, and laparotomy bore out the suspicion. However, the cause was peliosis hepatis: the left half of the liver was more altered than the right, and a 10cm parenchyma defect was located under the left lateral liver lobe to which a large intrahepatic cavity filled with coagulum was attached. There was a copious amount of blood in the upper abdomen and another hole was filled with old blood. Partial liver resection was performed. The patient returned 3 weeks after recuperation because of fluctuating inflamed swelling developed on the right side. An incision was made to remove the abscess, but instead of finding pus, massive bleeding ensued whose source could not be located; it was squelched by tampons. Removal of the tampons 7 days later started another rupture with signs of liver insufficiency, and the patient died. Although the role of OCs in inducing liver changes has not been conclusively proven, the fact that she had taken OCs for years without any medical supervision seems to implicate this contraceptive method.
Tianwang at TREC 2006 QA Track

This paper describes the architecture and implementation of Tianwang QA system2006, which works for the TREC QA Main task this year. The main improvement is: 1. add one well founded knowledge source from Web – Wikipedia, and employ some natural language processing technologies to extract high quality answers; 2. design and implement a new translation algorithm in query generation. The results show that fine organized knowledge source is effective in answering all three types of questions. And such query generation algorithm can be benefit from both Frequent Asked Questions on Web and past TREC QA data.
A Clinical Decision Support System for Managing Stress

Stress is a silent killer that forms part of everyday life of humans. Stress Overload has a lot of negative effects which include–hypertension, stroke, dysfunction of body systems, poor performance, heart failures and sudden death in some cases. Most people have stress without cognitive notice of being stressed up. Diagnosing stress has been one of the major issues in health sector because it has multiple symptoms. Biomedical Signal devices such as ECG(Electrocardiogram) are being used for the purpose of diagnosing stress and most available Computer Aided Diagnostic Systems for managing stress rely heavily on these devices which are not common especially in rural areas, difficult to handle and also very expensive. These among other reasons have led to many undiagnosed cases of stress. In this work, we have presented a simple effective Clinical Decision Support System to manage stress. The system carries out diagnosis of stress without the use of these expensive devices. This system is a product of consultation with medical experts on stress management and it is hopeful that this initiative will be of immense benefit to human race.
Impact of scholarly output on university ranking

Purpose This study aims to examine if there exists a relation between scholarly output and institutional ranking based on National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of India. This paper also aims to analyze and compare the parameters of NIRF with those of leading world ranking university rankings. Design/methodology/approach The data for the study were collected through Web content analysis. The major parts of data were collected from the official websites of NIRF, Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University rankings. Findings The study found that the parameters fixed for the assessment of Indian institutions under NIRF are par with those of other world university ranking agencies. Scholarly output of a university is one of the major parameters of university ranking schemes. Indian universities who scored high for research productivity came top in NIRF. These universities were also figured in world university rankings. Universities from South India excel in NIRF and there is a close relationship between scholarly productivity and institutional ranking. Originality/value Correlation between h-index and scholarly productivity has been dealt with in several studies. This paper is the first attempt to find the relationship between scholarly productivity and ranking of universities in India based on NIRF.
Détection de défaillance dans un système stochastique linéaire en présence de paramètres de nuisance

Dans le chapitre 1, on rappelle quelques elements de la theorie des tests d’hypotheses et d’autres outils statistiques necessaires pour aborder les problemes de detection de defaillance. Dans le chapitre 2, on considere tout d’abord un modele lineaire en presence de parametres de nuisance. En utilisant le principe d’invariance et en s’inspirant du test UPPC de Wald, on elimine les parametres de nuisance et on propose un test de detection de defaillance optimal au sens UPPC. On y expose, d’une part, le caractere d’optimalite de ce test et, d’autre part, on etudie l’impact des differentes methodes d’elimination de nuisance sur les proprietes statistiques du test propose. On utilise les resultats obtenus pour construire un test optimal dans le cadre des systemes avec un modele dynamique de nuisances. La prise en compte d’une equation d’etat adequate ameliore les qualites statistiques du test elabore. Le chapitre 3 est consacre a la detection de rupture additive dans le cadre des systemes dynamiques en presence de parametres de nuisance. On etudie les proprietes de la matrice de projection qui permet l’elimination des nuisances. Apres une breve presentation des travaux existants dans le cadre des changements dynamiques, on propose un algorithme approprie. On y expose ensuite les proprietes statistiques de ce dernier qui dependent essentiellement de la matrice projection et la taille de la fenetre de travail. Le chapitre 4 est consacre au probleme de controle d’integrite du GPS pour valider les resultats du chapitre 2 par des simulations numeriques
Tuning cell adhesion and growth on biomimetic polyelectrolyte multilayers by variation of pH during layer-by-layer assembly.

Polyelectrolyte multilayers of chitosan and heparin are assembled on glass where heparin is applied at pH = 4, 9 and 4 during the formation of the first layers followed by pH = 9 at the last steps (denoted pH 4 + 9). Measurements of wetting properties, layer mass, and topography show that multilayers formed at pH = 4 are thicker, contain more water and have a smoother surface compared to those prepared at pH = 9 while the pH = 4 + 9 multilayers expressed intermediate properties. pH = 9 multilayers are more cell adhesive and support growth of C2C12 cells better than pH = 4 ones. However, pH 4 + 9 conditions improve the bioactivity to a similar level of pH = 9 layers. Multilayers prepared using pH 4 + 9 conditions form thick enough layers that may allow efficient loading of bioactive molecules.
300mm size ultra-thin glass interposer technology and high-Q embedded helical inductor (EHI) for mobile application

The first publication on fabrication of a 300 mm size, 50 μm ultra-thin glass interposer is presented. According to measured data and modeling analysis, merits of on-glass inductors and transmission lines outperform those of on-silicon in Q-factor, power dissipation, and power/signal integrity. Glass interposer is a promising building block technology for future hybrid mixed signal heterogeneous chip integration solution.
Immunization with Recombinant Opc Outer Membrane Protein from Neisseria meningitidis: Influence of Sequence Variation and Levels of Expression on the Bactericidal Immune Response against Meningococci

ABSTRACT The opc gene from Neisseria meningitidiswas cloned into the pRSETA vector, and recombinant protein was expressed at high levels in Escherichia coli. The protein was readily purified by affinity chromatography and used for immunization with conventional Al(OH)3 adjuvant or after incorporation into liposomes and Zwittergent micelles. The resulting sera were analyzed for their ability to recognize purified recombinant protein and “native” protein in an enzyme immunoassay with outer membranes and by whole-cell immunofluorescence. Immunization with Al(OH)3 induced high levels of antibodies which reacted with the purified protein but did not recognize whole cells. In contrast, liposomes and micelles induced antibodies which reacted with the native protein in whole cells. The addition of monophosphoryl lipid A (MPLA) to either liposomes or micelle preparations increased the magnitude of the immune response and induced a wider range of immunoglobulin subclasses. This was associated with the ability of the sera to induce complement-mediated killing of the homologous strain. The most effective bactericidal activity was observed with Opc protein incorporated into liposomes containing MPLA. The magnitude of the bactericidal effect was strongly influenced by the level of expression of the Opc protein and was abolished by limited variation in the sequence of the protein expressed by heterologous strains.
Obesity and Mortality , by Sam Gutterman , FSA , CERA , FCAS , MAAA

1. Background 2. Mortality 2.1 Obesity paradox 2.2 Mortality results 2.3 Canada, Mexico and U.S. ethnic groups 2.4 Older ages 2.5 Period studied 2.6 Projections 3. Morbidity 3.1. Health care costs 3.2. Disability 4. What can be done List of figures and tables References
Computer modeling of the application of mechanical forces to biomolecules

Dans les derniers 20 ans, les experiences de traction sur molecule unique par l’action d’une force mecanique ont donne plein d’informations autour des proprietes mecaniques des biomolecules, des modifications structurelles induites par des contraintes mecaniques, ainsi qu’eclaircir les mecanismes d’adhesion et decohesion des paires ligand-recepteur. Suivant cette analyse microscopique, outre que reveler des proprietes biologiques interessantes, plusieurs de ces systemes ont montre une nouvelle face, celle de nouveaux materiaux aux proprietes parfois uniques, et ont notamment induit des speculations sur leur possibles utilisations dans des dispositif de nanotechnologie. Dans cette these, par le biais de simulations de dynamique moleculaire, notamment avec les methodes dites “steered molecular dynamics” et “umbrella sampling”, nous avons realise des etudes concernant : (a) la caracterisation structurelle et mecanique de fragments d’ADN atypiques, comme le tetramere denomme i-motif, ainsi que (b) la reconstruction des profils d’energie libre de la liaison et dissociation entre des paires bromodomaine – queues d’histone acetyles (H3 et H4). Nous avons ainsi etudie la structure moleculaire de ces nanostructures particulieres d’ADN, formees par l’intercalation de quatre brins d’ADN en un tetramere, et nous en avons determine pour la premiere fois les proprietes mecaniques de base : module de Young, module de flexion, longueur de persistance, et resistance mecanique. Dans la derniere partie du travail, nous avons etudie la maniere d’appliquer ces memes methodes a l’etude de paires ligand-recepteur dans le processus de transcription de l’ADN. Nous avons montre que les experiences simulees de traction, dans lesquelles la paire ligand-recepteur est separee de maniere controlee par une force mecanique aux extremites, peuvent donner des informations sur l’hypersurface d’energie libre. Nous avons essaye, avec un partiel succes, l’application au cas de l’interaction entre bromodomaines et queues d’histones, dans des conditions comparables aux experiences.
Nuclear transport of proteins translated in vitro from SP6 plasmid-generated mRNAs

A sensitive and versatile assay is described for the nuclear transport of 35S-labeled proteins obtained by the in vitro translation of SP6 plasmid-generated mRNAs. A specific nuclear accumulation of greater than 20-fold is observed for the transformation-related nuclear proteins, p53 and E1b, and the nuclear enzyme, thymidine kinase, whereas transport of the nonnuclear proteins, dihydrofolate reductase and simian virus 40 small t antigen, is negligible within 30 min.
Alteration of Chemoattractant Receptor Expression Regulates Human Neutrophil Chemotaxis In Vivo

ObjectiveTo elucidate the mechanisms that regulate human neutrophil delivery in vivo, as well as the mechanisms that lead to observed reduction in polymorphonuclear (PMN) delivery to remote sites in septic patients. MethodsAlterations in human PMN chemoattractant receptor expression and chemotactic function in vivo were evaluated in two distinct experiments: exudate PMNs (PMNs that have undergone transmigration to skin window blisters in controls) and septic PMNs (circulating PMNs from septic patients in the intensive care unit) were both separately compared with control circulating PMNs. ResultsExudate PMNs displayed increased C5a receptors and C5a chemotaxis, and reduced interleukin-8 receptors (both IL-8 RA and IL-8 RB) and IL-8 chemotaxis. Septic PMNs displayed reduced C5a and IL-8 receptors and decreased C5a chemotaxis but no change in IL-8 chemotaxis. IL-8 but not C5a receptor gene expression decreased in parallel to receptor alteration. ConclusionsThese results suggest that change in PMN chemoattractant receptor expression serves to regulate PMN chemotaxis in vivo; that exudate PMN chemotaxis depends more on C5a than IL-8; and that diminished chemoattractant receptors and chemotaxis in septic PMNs may explain decreased PMN delivery in these patients.