Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Compact 810 kA linear transformer driver cavity

High Current Electronics Institute, Tomsk, Russia(Received 27 January 2011; published 14 April 2011; publisher error corrected 19 April 2011)We are performingexperiments with a 92-kV,810-kA, 74.6-GWlinear transformer driver (LTD) cavity.This cavity generates a 100 ns power pulse from DC-charged capacitors in a single step. Our experi-ments start with an existing 100-kV, 490-kA LTD cavity and are making a number of improvements to itthat are aimed at increasing the cavity’s peak output power and better understanding its operation. We aremaking improvements to the gas switches, the capacitors, and the magnetic toroids as well as heavilyinstrumentingthecavity.Theseexperimentshaveincreasedthecavity’soutputcurrentintoamatchedloadby 65% without increasing its volume.
DrbCF: A Differentiated Ratio-Based Approach to Job Scheduling in Cloud Federation

The utilization and flexibility of using resource embrace each organization builds its own private cloud. Cloud Federation is a recent paradigm that helps deal with both physical resources under-utilization and resource limitation in their local infrastructure. Due to the management separation, we are interested in self-sufficiency approach in discovering and matchmaking to establish the federation with other clouds. We leverage event-based design helps communicate over sites to enable negotiate scheduling between among providers. We propose decentralized broker supporting differentiated ratio-base job scheduling (DrbCF) to manage send/receive workload. Our evaluation shows the ability to accept new small capacity member and improve overall federation throughput with the differentiated rate approximately 14-16%. DrbCF is a useful tool supporting the differentiated capacity sites as well as the dynamic of interconnect structure under cloud circumstance.
Turkish Metalinguistic Awareness Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study.

The aim of this study is to develop a useful, valid and reliable measurement tool that will help teacher candidates determine their Turkish metalinguistic awareness. During the development of the scale, a pool of items was created by scanning the relevant literature and examining other awareness scales. The materials prepared were re-examined according to the opinions of two lecturers working in the field of Turkish language education and two working in educational science and a draft scale was prepared. The items in the draft scale were evaluated by pre-application, items with a weak measurement relation were removed from the scale and the scale was prepared for factor analysis. The scale, designed as a 5-point Likert type scale, was applied to a total of 480 students. The α value of the scale formulated by factor analysis (Principal Component Analysis) was found to be 0.87. As a result of the analyses made, it was determined that the scale had 6 sub-factors and factor loadings ranging from 0.499 to 0.841 were found in these factors. These findings show that the scale can be used to determine Turkish metalinguistic awareness and is a valid and reliable measurement tool.
Belonging and identity in Australia's multicultural society

vii Acknowledgements . xi Statement of Contribution to Publications . xii Table of contents . xv List of figures . xx List of tables. xxiii Preface . xxv Chapter 1 Introduction . 1 1.1 Research Question . 6 1.2 Thesis overview . 6 Chapter 2 Literature Review . 9 2.1 Chapter overview . 9 2.2 Definitions and descriptions of belonging . 10 2.3 Historical development of theories of belonging . 13 2.3. 1 1930 1943 . 13 2.3. 2 1966 1970 . 14 2.3. 3 1992 2005 . 18 2.3. 4 2006 –present day . 21 2.4 Identity . 27 2.4. 1 Social identity . 28 2.4. 2 Self-categorisation . 30 2.5 Social identity and belonging . 32
Monitoring the impact of doing nothing: New trends in immigrant integration policy

‘Mainstreaming’ has recently been considered as a possible new strategy for advancing immigrant integration in Europe. However, policy documents and current academic literature have hardly conceptualized what we label as ‘ethnic equality mainstreaming’. In this article, we lean on the widely available research on gender mainstreaming, to provide such a conceptualization of ethnic equality mainstreaming. Once conceptualized, we verify whether there is indeed a trend towards mainstreaming in Western Europe's old immigration countries. Our results show that there is no straightforward trend towards ethnic equality mainstreaming in these countries. However, the indicators that served to detect the existence of ethnic equality mainstreaming allowed us to uncover a new double and paradoxical trend in immigrant integration policies. This ‘new style’ immigrant integration policy can be depicted as follows: increasing ‘colourblindization’, in combination with ‘ethnic monitoring’. In other words, states increasingly monitor the impact of ‘doing nothing’.
Determining the minimum translational distance between two convex polyhedra

Given two objects we define the minimal translational distance (MTD) between them to be the length of the shortest relative translation that results in the objects being in contact. MTD is equivalent to the distance between two objects if the objects are not intersecting; however MTD is also defined for intersecting objects and it then gives a measure of penetration. We show that the computation of MTD can be recast as a configuration space problem, and describe an algorithm for computing MTD for convex polyhedra. This research was conducted under the McDonnell Douglas Independent Research and Development Program.
The novel concept of creating awareness about tuberculosis at the metro stations

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease and is a major health problem in developing countries like India. The disease is prevalent mainly in the underprivileged sections of the society. However, the same is not always true and even the well to do sections are also affected by this disease. The lack of knowledge in the masses and the communities is a factor that contributes largely to the spread of the disease. In such a scenario, there is always a need for new and innovative ideas to create mass awareness about tuberculosis.
Finding the news and mapping the links: a case study of hypertextuality in Dutch-language health news websites

ABSTRACT This study considers hyperlinks as digital navigational cues that can guide users through the increasingly complex and vast online health information landscape in order to examine how hypertextuality at both search engines and health news websites mediates access to further health-related information. This is important because online news media are frequently used and convenient sources for health information. The methodology unfolds in two steps. First, an environmental scan of search engine result pages for the term ‘health news’ was conducted. Second, an automated quantitative content analysis (N = 5428) of external hyperlinks found on three types of health news websites, i.e., net-native, mixed and legacy news brands, was performed. Most importantly, this study challenges the dominant internal-external distinction by introducing a systematic distinction between genuine external hyperlinks and pseudo-external hyperlinks when comparing various types of online health news. Net-native news websites provide more hyperlinks to thematically related information than legacy news websites with print origins. The latter often include pseudo-external hyperlinks to thematically unrelated, but organizationally affiliated websites, thus favoring financial relationships over thematic coherence as an incentive to link.
Double-blind placebo-controlled randomized efficacy and safety trial of add-on treatment of dimebon plus risperidone in schizophrenic patients during transition from acute psychotic episode to remission.

BACKGROUND There is evidence that blockade of 5-HT 6 receptors can improve cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenic patients. A number of antagonists of 5-HT6 receptors are in development as cognitive enhancers. One of the agents with relatively strong 5-HT6 activity is dimebon. We tested the hypothesis that this 5-HT6 antagonist administered in the early stage of stabilization after an acute episode can improve both neurocognitive and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia. A phase II study of dimebon as add-on to risperidone therapy was conducted. SUBJECTS AND METHODS 56 male subjects with paranoid schizophrenia were included in the study. All the patients demonstrated therapeutic response to risperidone as treatment of the acute psychotic episode. After 4 weeks of stability patients were randomized into two groups with placebo or dimebon add-on treatment in a 1 to 1 ratio for 8 weeks. PANSS, CGI-S, CSDS and NSA-16 were used as clinical measures of symptom severity. Different aspects of memory, psycho-motor coordination and executive functioning were assessed with a battery of cognitive tests. Clinical and cognitive assessment was performed twice: after a patient was randomized and 2 months later. RESULTS Severity of negative symptoms (by NSA-16) were significantly lower in the dimebon group then in the placebo group (p=0.036). Patients in the dimebon group demonstrated improvement in more cognitive dimensions than patients in the placebo group, including working memory, attention, psycho-motor coordination and planning. CONCLUSION Dimebon as add-on therapy to antipsychotic treatment in the period of stabilization after an acute episode can improve some aspects of clinical and cognitive status in schizophrenic patients.
Pedestrian Segmentation From Uncalibrated Monocular Videos Using a Projection Map

We present a new method for segmenting the foreground region of the image of multiple pedestrians from monocular surveillance videos. This method requires neither camera calibration nor planar ground assumption. The size and orientation of a pedestrian projection are estimated at each image point and registered in a pedestrian projection map. Individual pedestrians are segmented from the foreground region of input images using an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm and the constructed map.
Fluid Model of the Outage Probability in Sectored Wireless Networks

We establish a closed form formula of the other-cell interference factor f for omni-directional and sectored cellular networks, as a function of the location of the mobile. That formula is based on a fluid model of cellular networks: The key idea is to consider the discrete base stations (BS) entities as a continuum of transmitters which are spatially distributed in the network. Simulations show that the obtained closed-form formula is a very good approximation, even for the traditional hexagonal network. From f, we are able to derive the global outage probability and the spatial outage probability, which depends on the location of a mobile station (MS) initiating a new call. Although initially focused on CDMA (UMTS, HSDPA) and OFDMA (WiMax) networks, we show this approach is applicable to any kind of wireless system such as TDMA (GSM) or even ad-hoc ones.
LogicCrowd: A Declarative Programming Platform for Mobile Crowdsourcing

We present an attempt to engage social media networks, bringing the crowdsourcing model into mobile environments. We introduce LogicCrowd, a declarative programming paradigm for mobile crowdsourcing applications, developed as an extension of Prolog. LogicCrowd aims at filling the gap between traditional machine computation, which operates upon its database, and social media, which is capable of interacting with real people. In this paper, we illustrate the potential of our approach via programming idioms, a prototype implementation and scenarios.
Two-Level Preconditioners For 2m'th Order Elliptic Finite Element Problems

In this paper, we analyze two-level preconditioners for second and fourth order elliptic boundary value problems. These preconditioners involve smoothing on the original problem and the solution (or preconditioning) of an auxiliary problem on a related mesh. Two abstract theorems are provided as a basis for this analysis. Properties needed to apply these theorems are developed for general nite element approximation spaces. These results are then applied to the second order and Biharmonic Dirichlet problems. Uniform preconditioning estimates are proved in the general case when the triangulations are only assumed to be shape regular but not necessarily quasiuniform. In the case when the meshes are of locally comparable size, this analysis applies to both conforming and nonconforming nite element approximations. When the preconditioning mesh is genuinely coarser than the original, an analysis is given in the case that the auxiliary problem is conforming. For this application, it is shown that appropriate smoothers can be deened based on overlapping Schwarz methods.
A Performance Comparison of TCP Protocols over Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

The performance of wireless ad hoc networks is impacted significantly by the way TCP reacts to lost packets. TCP was designed specifically for wired, reliable networks; thus, any packet loss is attributed to congestion in the network. This assumption does not hold in wireless networks as most packet loss is due to link failure. In our research we analyzed several implementations of TCP, including TCP Vegas, TCP with ELFN, and SACK TCP, by measuring throughput, retransmissions, and duplicate acknowledgements through simulation with ns-2. We discovered that TCP throughput is related to the number of hops in the path, and thus depends on the performance of the underlying routing protocol, which was DSR in our research
Septin/anillin filaments scaffold central nervous system myelin to accelerate nerve conduction

Myelination of axons facilitates rapid impulse propagation in the nervous system. The axon/myelin-unit becomes impaired in myelin-related disorders and upon normal aging. However, the molecular cause of many pathological features, including the frequently observed myelin outfoldings, remained unknown. Using label-free quantitative proteomics, we find that the presence of myelin outfoldings correlates with a loss of cytoskeletal septins in myelin. Regulated by phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2)-levels, myelin septins (SEPT2/SEPT4/SEPT7/SEPT8) and the PI(4,5)P2-adaptor anillin form previously unrecognized filaments that extend longitudinally along myelinated axons. By confocal microscopy and immunogold-electron microscopy, these filaments are localized to the non-compacted adaxonal myelin compartment. Genetic disruption of these filaments in Sept8-mutant mice causes myelin outfoldings as a very specific neuropathology. Septin filaments thus serve an important function in scaffolding the axon/myelin-unit, evidently a late stage of myelin maturation. We propose that pathological or aging-associated diminishment of the septin/anillin-scaffold causes myelin outfoldings that impair the normal nerve conduction velocity. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7554/eLife.17119. 001
Supervisor Incivility and Employee revenge: the Role of Hostile Attribution

Research to date has largely been unclear about the relationship between supervisor incivility and employee revenge. In the current research, based on the negative norm of reciprocity, we examine the extent to which hostile attribution moderates the relationship between supervisor incivility and employee revenge. Collecting 319 employee’s data, we show that supervisor incivility is associated with employee revenge. Moreover, we find that hostile attribution moderates the main effect positively, such that the higher employees with hostile attribution, the stronger the association between supervisor incivility and employee revenge; the lower employees with hostile attribution, the weaker the association between supervisor incivility and employee revenge; Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
A micro-watt metal-insulator-solution-transport (MIST) device for scalable digital bio-microfluidic systems

In this work new data, models, and applications are presented of an ultra-low power, microfluidic device for use in integrated bio-microelectrofluidic systems (Bio-MEFS). The metal-insulator-solution transport (MIST) device is based on the high-speed manipulation of discrete droplets of analytes and reagents under voltage control, and is the MOSFET equivalent for MEFS.
A novel 3-D motion estimation approach to virtual viewpoint control

The novelty of this paper is the introduction of the interacting multiple model probabilistic data association filter (IMMPDAF) to the pose tracking problem. The interacting multiple model (IMM) technique allows the existence of more than one dynamic system in the filtering process and in return leads to improved accuracy and stability even under abrupt motion changes. The probabilistic data association (PDA) framework makes the automatic selection of measurement sets possible, resulting in enhanced robustness to occlusions and moving objects. As the PDA associates stereo correspondences probabilistically, the explicit establishment of stereo matches is not necessary except during initialization, and the point features presence in the outer region of the stereo image pair can be utilized. The performance is demonstrated by applying the pose information to control cameras in a virtual environment.
Understanding adolescent posttraumatic stress: The roles of biological sex and anxiety sensitivity

Over 60% of adolescents are exposed to a traumatic event, and a significant minority goes on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is important to understand factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of this debilitating condition. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), defined as the fear of the consequences of anxiety, correlates positively with increased posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Research also suggests that females are more likely to develop PTSS. There are a number of limitations of this literature, however, including a lack of laboratory-based assessment of the relation between AS and biological sex on PTSS among adolescents. The current study seeks to address this gap in the literature by evaluating the relation between AS and adolescent response to a script-driven imagery task (i.e., presentation of ideographic trauma cues) as a function of biological sex. A total of 35 trauma-exposed adolescents (10-17 years; Mage = 14.03, SD = 2.48) were recruited for the study. Contrary to expectations, there were no significant differences between males and females in terms of reactivity to trauma cue presentation, nor was there an interaction between AS and biological sex. Findings are discussed in terms of the limitations of the current study, as well as potential implications for etiological and maintenance models for PTSS among youth.
Context sensitive symbolic pointer analysis

One of the bottlenecks in the recent movement of hardware synthesis from behavioral C programs is the difficulty in reasoning about runtime pointer values at compile time. The pointer analysis problem has been investigated in the compiler community for two decades and has yielded efficient, polynomial time algorithms for context-insensitive (CI) analysis. However, at the accuracy level for which hardware synthesis is desired, namely context and flow sensitive analysis, the time and space complexity of the best algorithms reported grow exponentially with program size. In this paper, we propose a new analysis technology to combat the inefficiency encountered in traditional algorithms. The key idea is to implicitly encode the pointer-to relation in the Boolean domain by Bryant's binary decision diagram, thereby capturing the procedure transfer function completely, compactly and canonically. With symbolic transfer functions, we can establish a common framework to perform both CI and context-sensitive (CS) pointer analysis efficiently. In addition, we propose a symbolic representation of the invocation graph, which can otherwise be exponentially large. In contrast to the classical frameworks, where CS point-to information of a procedure has to be obtained by the application of its transfer function exponentially many times, our method can obtain point-to information of all contexts in a single application. Our experimental evaluation on a wide range of C benchmarks indicates that our CS pointer analysis can be made almost as fast as its CI counterpart.
Face Sketch Synthesis using Bilateral Symmetry

Method of creating sketch from available photograph is known as sketch synthesis. To synthesize face sketch, similarity between different photograph patches is evaluated. Existing patch level method requires huge computational time and space for finding candidate photograph patches. Photograph patches are replaced by sparse coefficients using sparse coding. Sparse representation is used to select candidate photograph patches. Then greedy search is used to measure the similarity between the test photograph patch and the training photograph patch. Final candidate patches are stitched to get synthesized sketch. By using bilateral symmetry, it tends to achieve high efficiency of the system.
A free-trajectory quasi-steady-state optimal-control method for minimum lap-time of race vehicles

ABSTRACT Minimum lap time problems are usually solved employing quasi-steady-state models on a predetermined (fixed) trajectory or employing dynamic models on a free (i.e. not predetermined) trajectory. This work describes a third approach, where the minimum-lap-time problem is solved using quasi-steady-state models and free trajectory. The method builds upon g-g maps that can either be derived numerically or experimentally. Such g-g-speed surfaces can either represent the performance of a car or a motorcycle. Both a double-track car model and a motorcycle model are employed as examples of applications. The effect of the free-trajectory vs. fixed-trajectory assumption is also discussed.
Character recognition based on global feature extraction

This paper presents a enhanced feature extraction method which is a combination and selected of two feature extraction techniques of Gray Level Co occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Edge Direction Matrixes (EDMS) for character recognition purpose. It is apparent that one of the most important steps in a character recognition system is selecting a better feature extraction technique, while the variety of method makes difficulty for finding the best techniques for character recognition. The dataset of images that has been applied to the different feature extraction techniques includes the binary character with different sizes. Experimental results show the better performance of proposed method in compared with GLCM and EDMS method after performing the feature selection with neural network, bayes network and decision tree classifiers
Information Management for Crisis Response in WORKPAD

WORKPAD (EU STREP project FP6-2005-IST-5-034749) is an experimental platform for Crisis Response which adopts a decentralized, event-driven approach to overcome problems and limitations of centralized systems. The flexibility of P2P networking is relevant when different organizations must get rapidly integrated the one another, without resorting on standardized ontologies and centralized middleware components. This paper illustrates the main features of the Information Integration platform we've designed. A number of relevant technical and theoretical issues related to decentralized platforms are discussed in the light of specific needs of Crisis Response.