Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Journal of Systems and Information Technology The architecture and industry applications of web security in static and dynamic analysis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a metadata-driven approach and the associated technologies to deal with ever-rising web security issue. The approach applies metadata techniques to envision semantic validation for new types of vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach – Token decomposition design was applied to move analysis work into abstract level. This novel approach can solve the issues by using a dual control method to perform vulnerability validation. Findings – Current analysis has been lack in metadata foundation, the vulnerability is invisible due to semantic obfuscation. This paper reflects the limitation of existing methods. It applies metadatadriven approach to move physical and syntax analysis into semantic validation. Research limitations/implications – Currently, certain difficulties may be encountered in preparing benchmarking for dual control process before completing development work. However, this paper tries to create scenarios which can be a reference, to evaluate the semantic validation. Practical implications – In consideration of the optimized control and vulnerability rate, Structural Query Language (SQL) injection is taken as an example in demonstration. This approach targets large enterprise and high complexity, and the research intends to impact industry to generate common practices such as metadata standards and development tools. Originality/value – This paper contributes originality in applying metadata strategy to envision semantic structure. It further favours the service industry in building up portfolio foundation in component-based technologies. As the new type of vulnerability can be precisely specified, it can minimize business impact and achieve efficient vulnerability detection.
Semen Quality in Infertile Men with a History of Unilateral Cryptorchidism

Objective To evaluate semen quality in infertile men with a history of unilateral cryptorchidism Methods Semen samples were obtained from 47 infertile men with a history of unilateral cryptorchidism. Semen analysis and membrane integrity including both eosin Y stain and hyo-osmotic swelling tests were performed using standard procedures. All men were divided into three groups according to their age at surgery of orchidopexy as follows: group A, 2-7 years (n=23), group B, 8-13 years (n=14) and group C, 14-17 years (n=10). Results There was wide range for sperm count and motility for all the subjects studied. Majority of men had high percentage of abnormal sperm morphology. Among the three groups of men, group A and B had significantly higher sperm count, motility and membrane integrity than that of group C. Group C also had the highest frequency of oligoasthenoteraozoospermia (50%) than group A (17%) and group B (35%). Conclusion Semen quality of men with a history of unilateral cryptorchidism appears to be related to their age of performing orchidopexy. Surgery at early age of childhood may improve spermatogenesis which results in better semen quality in adulthood.
Pulse Steroid Therapy in Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome Following Petroleum Naphtha Ingestion

Case Report: A suicide attempt by a 23-year-old woman involved ingestion of 1000 mL of petroleum naphtha. Early chemical pneumonitis was complicated by life-threatening, diffuse interstitial lung consolidation with pneumatoceles. Pulse steroid therapy beginning on day 17 was associated with remarkable resolution of interstitial consolidation, although an enlarging secondarily infected pneumatocele ruptured to produce a bronchopleural fistula. Thoracic surgery and antibiotic therapy resulted in improvement of the patient's respiratory condition, and she was discharged with no residual respiratory symptoms. High-dose corticosteroid therapy appears to be a useful addition to aggressive supportive treatment in late adult respiratory distress syndrome following hydrocarbon ingestion.
Detection of Diseases on Plant Leaf with the Help of Image Processing

Indian Economy is highly dependent on the productivity of agricultural products. So, there is the need to provide extreme attention to take care of plants to achieve high yield. Crop diseases are the natural factor that can cause some serious effects on plants which ultimately reduces productivity, quality and quantity of products. Farmers do the naked eye observation and judge the diseases by their experience. But this is not accurate and proper way. In this paper, presented the detection of plant leaf diseases. The proposed method covers the steps of image processing technique. These image processing steps are image acquisition in RGB color value, image preprocessing using filters, image segmentation using k-medoids clustering, feature extraction with texture statistics, image classification using a Neural network. So, overall plant leaf disease detection is presented here. KEYWORDS— Image processing; image acquisition; preprocessing; segmentation; feature extraction; classification and detection
Selective Photo-Cross-Linking of 2′-O-Psoralen-Conjugated Oligonucleotide with Rnas Having Point Mutations

It has been reported that point mutations in genes are responsible for various cancers and the selective regulation of the gene expression is an important issue to develop a new type of anticancer drugs. In this report, we present a new type of antisense molecule that photo-cross-links to an oligoribonucleotide having a point mutation site in a sequence specific manner. 2′-O-psoralen-conjugated adenosine was synthesized in four steps from adenosine and introduced in the middle of an oligodeoxyribonucleotide (2′-Ps-oligo). Compared with 5′-O-psoralen-conjugated oligodeoxyribonucleotide (5′-Ps-oligo), which has a psoralen at the 5′-end, 2′-Ps-oligo more selectively photo-cross-linked to a pyrimidine base of the site of alteration from purine to pyrimidine in the oligoribonucleotide.
Education links between the Australian rural and tertiary emergency departments: Videoconference can support a virtual learning community

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A hybrid biometric system using touch-panel-based finger-vein identification and deformable-registration-based face identification

A hybrid biometric system, which is combined with a touch-panel-based finger-vein-identification device and a deformable-registration-based face-identification module, is proposed. For this system, the touch-panel-based device is developed for access control at a facility. For finger-vein identification, a user only needs to touch the device screen. At the same time, face images of the user are acquired and enrolled in the face-identification module. Access control and surveillance inside the facility are performed by the face-identification module. The touch-panel-based device can not only provide high-accuracy authentication but also greatly reduce the user's burden during finger-vein-pattern acquisition. Furthermore, a face-alignment and identification algorithm based on deformable registration is proposed. A performance evaluation of the proposed hybrid biometric system demonstrated that the system can provide biometric authentication with both high reliability and user convenience.
NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF SHEET CAVITATION ON RUDDER AND PODDED PROPELLERS USING POTENTIAL AND VISCOUS FLOW SOLUTIONS

This paper presents some recent validation results with velocity-based source BEM analysis program as applied to prediction of cavitation on rudder and podded propellers. The RANS solver is also applied to modelling of the rudder behind the propeller and the both BEM and RANS numerical predictions are compared with the experimental data. An example of prediction of cavitation on podded propeller in non-homogeneous hull wake at shaft inclination and heading angle is considered.
Determination of Optimal Location and Size of Static VAR Compensator in a Hybrid Wind and Solar Power System

This paper proposes an efficient optimization approach to determine the optimal placement and size of Static VAR Compensator (SVC) in a hybrid power system. The hybrid power system consists of conventional thermal generators, wind farms and solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. In this paper, the optimal placement and size of SVC is determined by considering the voltage deviations minimizations and voltage stability enhancement index (VSEI/L-index) as the objective functions. The uncertainty of wind energy generator is handled using the Weibull distribution function and the solar PV uncertainty is handled by using the bi-modal Weibull distribution function. The proposed optimization model is solved using the efficient evolutionary algorithm, which reduces the execution time significantly. The optimal location obtained with the proposed efficient approach is also verified using the conventional V-Q sensitivity analysis. The suitability and the potential of the proposed approach is examined on IEEE 14, 30 and 118 bus test systems.
Internet emulation for Java applications through socket factories

Network emulation provides the capability of evaluating distributed applications on a stand-alone system. Applications can be exposed to adverse and repeatable network conditions without requiring complex testbeds. This paper describes the design and implementation of a portable and object-oriented network emulator targeted to the development and test of Java-based Internet applications. The emulator is based on instrumented sockets, say EmuSockets, able to emulate the behavior of links with a given bandwidth and communication delay. The emulator is organized modularly, so that it is possible to plug-in user-defined classes for bandwidth and delay figures generation. Carrying out experiments with EmuSockets is as simple as running the tested application code on a single host.
Oak, chestnut and fire: climatic and cultural controls of long‐term forest dynamics in New England, USA

Aim Despite decades of study we have limited insights into the nature of the pre‐European landscape of the north‐eastern USA and the forces and changes that shaped modern forest patterns. Information on such long‐term forest dynamics would provide critical insights into the relationships among environmental change, land‐use history and biotic responses and is greatly needed for conservation planning. To address these issues we used modern, historical, and palaeoecological approaches to reconstruct the 3500‐year history of a New England upland region dominated by oak and (formerly) chestnut forests and to interpret the interactions among climate change, natural and human disturbance, and site factors in controlling vegetation patterns and dynamics at different spatial scales.
Anti-ulcerogenic activity of Ethanolic Extract of Cucumis sativus L. against NSAID (Aspirin) induced Gastric Ulcer in wistar albino rats

Peptic disorders like GERD, gastritis, peptic ulcer, duodenal ulcer, etc., are the common in today’s life style. This may be due to stressful life style, or improper balance diet. The pathology behind these disorders may be discrepancy between offensive and defensive mechanisms either by excess secretion of acid and pepsin or diminished ability of the gastro-duodenal mucosal barrier to protect against stomach acid–pepsin secretion. Hence this present experiment is designed to evaluate the anti-ulcer activity of Cucumis sativus ethanolic extract in wister albino rat model. Pretreatment with ethanolic extract cucumber shows significant ulcer protective effect. Thus, it can concluded that ethanolic extract of cucumber possesses significant antiulcer activity.
Task-Induced Fatigue and Collisions in Adult Drivers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Objective. This study compares collision involvement between adult drivers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and control participants in a simulation experiment designed to enhance the effects of fatigue. Because the effects of ADHD include difficulties in maintaining attention, drivers with ADHD were hypothesized to be more susceptible to the effects of fatigue while driving. Methods. Data are drawn from a validated driving simulation study, portions of which were focused on enhancing the effects of fatigue. The simulator data are supplemented with written questionnaire data. Drivers with ADHD were compared with controls. Results. The self-report data indicated that drivers with ADHD were more likely to report having been involved in an accident within the previous five years. Simulation data showed that time of day of participation in the experiment were significantly related to likelihood of collision, and that these effects were further exacerbated by ADHD status. Participants with ADHD were more likely than controls to be involved in a crash in the simulator regardless of time of day, but the effects were particularly pronounced in the morning, and the rate of increase in accident involvement from the late afternoon into the evening was greater among participants with ADHD. No differences in self-reported sleep patterns or caffeine use were found between participants with ADHD and controls. Conclusions. The results suggest that drivers with ADHD became fatigued more quickly than controls. Such drivers thus face greater risk of involvement in accidents on highways or open roadways where the visual and task monotony of the environment contribute to greater driver fatigue.
A family of projection learnings

This paper discusses the learning problem of obtaining good generalization capability from a given set of training examples when the space to which a target function belongs is known. One of the present authors, H. Ogawa, proposed the concepts of projection learning (PL), partial projection learning (PTPL), and averaged projection learning (APL). He also devised the concept of a family of projection learnings consisting of infinitely many kinds of learnings including PL, PTPL, and APL. It provides a framework to discuss infinite kinds of learnings in a unified way. Although a couple of definitions were given for the family of projection learnings, they are still unsatisfactory for further development of the theory. In this paper, we propose a more natural definition of the family of projection learnings and consolidate a foundation of the theory of a family of projection learnings. © 2001 Scripta Technica, Syst Comp Jpn, 32(5): 21–35, 2001
lasA and lasB genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: analysis of transcription and gene product activity

The lasA gene was the first of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes involved in proteolysis and elastolysis to be cloned and sequenced. Its function and significance have been studied by genetic approaches (D. S. Toder, M. J. Gambello, and B. H. Iglewski, Mol. Microbiol. 5:2003-2010, 1991) and by attempts to purify an active fragment of the protein (J. E. Peters and D. R. Galloway, J. Bacteriol. 172:2236-2240, 1990). To further study LasA in vivo, we have constructed and characterized an insertional mutant in the lasA gene in strain PAO1 (PAO-A1) and in the lasB insertional mutant, PAO-B1. Analysis of these isogenic strains demonstrates that the lasA lesion diminished elastolysis more than proteolysis and that LasA is required for staphylolytic activity. Despite previous suggestions that lasB elastase cleaves the LasA protein, the size of the LasA protein was the same whether or not lasB elastase was present. Expression of lasA in a lasR-negative mutant, PAO-R1, demonstrated that the LasA protein is produced in an active form in the absence of (lasB) elastase or alkaline protease and is itself a protease with elastolytic activity. We also observed that PAO-A1 was closer to the parental phenotype, with respect to elastolytic and proteolytic activities, than the previously characterized, chemically induced lasA mutant PAO-E64. Quantification of promoter activity with lasA::lacZ and lasB::lacZ fusions suggests that PAO-E64 harbors a mutation in a gene which regulates expression of both lasA and lasB.
Enhancing the LOCKSS Digital Preservation Technology

The LOCKSS Program develops and supports libraries using open source peer-to-peer digital preservation software. Although initial development and deployment was funded by grants including from NSF and the Mellon Foundation, grant funding is not a sustainable basis for long-term preservation. The LOCKSS Program runs the "Red Hat" model of free, open source software and paid support. From 2007 through 2012 the program was in the black with no grant funds at all. The demands of the "Red Hat" model make it hard to devote development resources to enhancements that don't address immediate user demands but are targeted at longer-term issues. After discussing this issue with the Mellon Foundation, the LOCKSS Program was awarded a grant to cover a specific set of infrastructure enhancements. It made significant functional and performance improvements to the LOCKSS software in the areas of ingest, preservation and dissemination. The LOCKSS Program's experience shows that the "Red Hat" model is a viable basis for long-term digital preservation, but that it may need to be supplemented by occasional small grants targeted at longer-term issues.
Accelerated Computation of the Free Space Green's Function Gradient of Infinite Phased Arrays of Dipoles

The performances of different methods used for the computation of the gradient of the free space Green's function for doubly periodic infinite arrays are investigated, for spacings smaller than the wavelength. An optimal transition between plane wave and cylindrical wave decompositions is proposed and an extension of the method is proposed for the large wavelength case. The joint use of different wave decompositions, combined with the Levin accelerator, allows to obtain exponential convergence for all observation points.
A New Retinal Vessel Tracking Method Based on Orientation Scores

The retinal vasculature is the only part of the body's circulatory system that can be observed non-invasively. A large variety of diseases affect the vasculature, in ways that may cause geometrical and functional changes. Retinal images are therefore not only suitable for investigation of ocular diseases such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but also for systemic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and arteriosclerosis. This paper presents a novel method for retinal vasculature extraction, using a vessel tracking method based on multi-orientation analysis. We apply multi-orientation analysis via so-called invertible orientation scores, modeling the cortical columns in the visual system of higher mammals. This allows us to successfully deal with the many complex problems inherent to vasculature tracking, such as tracking over crossings, bifurcations, parallel tracks and tracks of varying widths. The method runs fully automatically and provides a detailed model of the retinal vasculature, which is crucial as a sound basis for further quantitative analysis of the retina, especially in screening applications.
Adaptive spectral co-clustering for multiview data

Spectral clustering is a typical unsupervised machine learning technique and it has widely adopted in various fields. This paper proposes a novel spectral clustering technique to handle the characteristics of multiview data. In the proposed method, co-training approach is adopted in the spectral clustering. When an instance has more than three views, it is difficult to handle different dependencies among views in ordinary co-training. To overcome this, the proposed method reflects these different dependencies among views when the information is propagated in the training phrase. In the experiment, the proposed method is evaluated with the synthetic data whose instances are represented with three views. The proposed method achieves up to 8.25% better ARI (Adjusted Rand Index) than those of five algorithms.
On full diversity space-time block codes with partial interference cancellation group decoding

In this paper, we propose a partial interference cancellation (PIC) group decoding strategy/scheme for linear dispersive space-time block codes (STBC) and a design criterion for the codes to achieve full diversity when the PIC group decoding is used at the receiver. A PIC group decoding decodes the symbols embedded in an STBC by dividing them into several groups and decoding each group separately after a linear PIC operation is implemented. It can be viewed as an intermediate decoding between the maximum likelihood (ML) receiver that decodes all the embedded symbols together, i.e., all the embedded symbols are in a single group, and the zero-forcing (ZF) receiver that decodes all the embedded symbols separately and independently, i.e., each group has and only has one embedded symbol, after the ZF operation is implemented. The PIC group decoding provides a framework to adjust the complexity-performance tradeoff by choosing the sizes of the information symbol groups. Our proposed design criterion (group independence) for the PIC group decoding to achieve full diversity is an intermediate condition between the loosest ML full rank criterion of codewords and the strongest ZF linear independence condition of the column vectors in the equivalent channel matrix. We also propose asymptotic optimal (AO) group decoding algorithm which is an intermediate decoding between the MMSE decoding algorithm and the ML decoding algorithm. The design criterion for the PIC group decoding can be applied to the AO group decoding algorithm because of its asymptotic optimality. It is well-known that the symbol rate for a full rank linear STBC can be full, i.e., nt, for nt transmit antennas. It has been recently shown that its rate is upper bounded by 1 if a code achieves full diversity with a linear receiver. The intermediate criterion proposed in this paper provides the possibility for codes of rates between nt and 1 that achieve full diversity with the PIC group decoding. This therefore provides a complexity-performance-rate tradeoff. Some design examples are given.
An Examination of Familiarity, Risk and Trust in Inter- Organizational Data Exchange Relationships

This study examines the impact of trading partner familiarity on two types of trusting-beliefs (goodwill-trust and competence-trust) and two types of perceived risk (relational-risk and performance-risk) in interorganizational data exchange relationships. A questionnaire and experimental simulation are utilized to provide empirical evidence supporting the study’s propositions. Results show that familiarity has a positive influence on both competence-trust and goodwill-trust and a negative influence on both performance-risk and relational-risk. This study contributes to a further understanding of the processes by which familiarity may influence interorganizational relationships and presents findings that have implications for future research in this area.