Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Harmonic analysis of the space BV.

We establish new results on the space BV of functions with bounded variation. While it is well known that this space admits no unconditional basis, we show that it is “almost” characterized by wavelet expansions in the following sense: if a function f is in BV, its coefficient sequence in a BV normalized wavelet basis satisfies a class of weak-� 1 type estimates. These weak estimates can be employed to prove many interesting results. We use them to identify the interpolation spaces between BV and Sobolev or Besov spaces, and to derive new Gagliardo-Nirenberg-type inequalities. 1. Background and main results
Integrating Developmental Counseling and Therapy Assessment with Adlerian Early Recollections

Developmental Counseling and Therapy (DCT) is an integrative theory that incorporates methods for clinical assessment, intervention, and treatment planning. When used in concert with Adlerian early recollections, the DCT structured clinical assessment can facilitate the process of helping clients examine and find meaning in their early memories while identifying metaphors, defined as personal rules for living, which define their lifestyles. In addition, the DCT model can be used to help clinicians choose interventions to establish rapport and help clients address their presenting issues quickly.
Computer security analysis through decompilation and high-level debugging

The extensive use of computers and networks worldwide has raised the awareness of the need for tools and techniques to aid in computer security analysis of binary code, such as the understanding of viruses, trojans, worms, backdoors and general security flaws, in order to provide immediate solutions with or without the aid of software vendors. The paper is a proposal for a high-level debugging tool to be used by computer security experts, which will reduce the amount of time needed to solve security-related problems in executable programs. The current state of the art involves the tracing of thousands of lines of assembly code using a standard debugger. A high-level debugger would be capable of displaying a high-level representation of an executable program in the C language, hence reducing the number of lines that need to be inspected by an order of magnitude (i.e. hundreds instead of thousands of lines). Effectively, these techniques will help in reducing the amount of time needed to trace a security flaw in an executable program, as well as reducing the costs of acquiring or training skilled assembler engineers.
The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates

The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive and accurate atlas of the monkey brain currently available. The second edition of this classic book is a complete revision, featuring many improvements and upgrades. Constructed by the established leaders in neuroanatomical atlas development, the new edition will again be the indispensable resource for all scientists working on the primate nervous system. * 151 coronal diagrams and 151 accompanying photographic plates spaced at 120 m intervals; diagrams completely revised * 60 photographic coronal plates of SMI immunoreactivity; delineations completely revised. New in this edition * DVD with all drawings in Adobe Acrobat (r) pdf format as well as eps files of photographic plates * Inclusion in the DVD of 3D reconstructions of the diagrammatic atlas done by two major teams headed by Rolf Kotter and Louis Collins * Linking of structure names from the atlas to the CoCoMac neuroinformatics database for online retrieval of additional information on partitioning schemes and connectivity * Inclusion of MR images at approximately the same levels as the coronal diagrams * This monkey brain atlas follows the same nomenclature and abbreviations conventions as the mouse, rat, chicken, and human brain atlases published under George Paxinos' leadership
The Challenge of Fostering Healthy Organizations: An Empirical Study on the Role of Workplace Relational Civility in Acceptance of Change and Well-Being

The world of work in the twenty-first century is characterized by globalization, instability, and unavoidable change. Organizations need to develop a positive relational environment in the workplace thereby enabling workers to enhance their personal resources in order to face with on-going changes in the sphere of work for promoting their well-being. Against this background, the aim of this research was to examine the relationship between workplace relational civility and both acceptance of change and well-being (hedonic well-being as well as eudaimonic well-being) beyond the effect of personality traits. The following instruments were administered to 261 Italian workers: the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), the Acceptance of Change Scale (ACS), the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), and the Meaningful Life Measure (MLM). The results of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that workplace relational civility explained a percentage of incremental variance beyond personality traits in relation to acceptance of change, life satisfaction, and meaning in life. These results underscore the positive relationship between workplace relational civility and acceptance of change, hedonic well-being, and eudaimonic well-being, offering new research and intervention opportunities to meet the challenge of fostering healthy organizations.
Augmentation of Left Ventricular Contraction Pattern in Coronary Artery Disease by an Inotropic Catecholamine: The Epinephrine Ventriculogram

In order to assess potential improvement in abnormal left ventricular (LV) wall motion, eighteen subjects — sixteen with obstructive coronary artery disease and LV asynergy and two with no evidence of organic heart disease — were studied by cardiac catheterization and cineangiography. Ventriculograms were performed at rest and during a constant infusion of l-epinephrine (EPI) at 1-4 &mgr;g/min after an average of nine minutes steady state. EPI infusion induced augmentation of LV contraction pattern in both normal subjects and in all normal zones in the sixteen subjects with asynergy, and in no instance was contraction in a normal zone rendered abnormal. Eleven of sixteen patients showed improved contraction in previously asynergic areas, two of whom also demonstrated paradoxical motion in an abnormal zone. Of a total of forty-four resting asynergic zones, twenty-three exhibited an improved contraction pattern with EPI, one showed depressed contraction, two demonstrated both an increase and deterioration in the same zone (paradoxical motion), and eighteen showed no change. Quantitative motion analysis generally corroborated these qualitative ventriculographic observations. Heart rate, LV systolic pressure and LV end-diastolic pressure increased slightly with EPI, but were not significantly changed from control values. While there was wide variation in end-diastolic volume in the subjects with asynergy, EPI resulted in an increase in both stroke volume and ejection fraction, the latter significantly (P < 0.05). In the four subjects who subsequently underwent aneurysmectomy, preoperative lack of improvement with EPI correlated with a pathologic diagnosis of fibrosis. Other than angina pectoris of brief duration in two subjects, EPI provoked no untoward reactions, arrhythmias or complications. It is concluded that LV motion abnormalities can be improved or changed in certain cases by the inotropic stimulus of EPI, suggesting residual contractile ability; the agent may differentiate between zones of potentially functional cardiac muscle and frank fibrosis.
Protocol design and delay analysis of half-duplex buffered cognitive relay systems

In this paper, we quantify the benefits of employing relay station in large-coverage cognitive radio systems which opportunistically access the licensed spectrum of some small-coverage primary systems scattered inside. Through analytical study, we show that even a simple decode-and-forward (SDF) relay, which can hold only one packet, offers significant pathloss gain in terms of the spatial transmission opportunities and link reliability. However, such scheme fails to capture the spatial-temporal burstiness of the primary activities, that is, when either the source-relay (SR) link or relay-destination (RD) link is blocked by the primary activities, the cognitive spectrum access has to stop. To overcome this obstacle, we further propose buffered decode-and-forward (BDF) protocol. By exploiting the infinitely long buffer at the relay, the blockage time on either SR or RD link is saved for cognitive spectrum access. The buffer gain is shown analytically to improve the stability region and average end-to-end delay performance of the cognitive relay system.
Millimeter wave propagation through foliage: Comparison of models

Foliage attenuation is one of the key impairments in millimeter wave propagation. Existing literature shows that the foliage attenuation is a function of a multitude of parameters, including frequency, foliage depth, tree types, foliage thickness, leaf density, leaf size, branches, trunks, humidity, wind speed, height of the tree relative to the antenna heights, path length through foliage, etc. This paper surveys the current development in the foliage attenuation study in millimeter wave bands and reviews the established propagation models. Numerical simulations are presented to assess and compare the existing empirical models. The results show that the Weissberger model provides the most optimistic estimate (the lowest attenuation) while the FITU-R model delivers the most pessimistic estimate (the highest attenuation). The results also reveal that the ITU-R model has the highest rate of increase in foliage attenuation as a function of foliage depth.
Interruptable Autonomy: Towards Dialog-Based Robot Task Management

We have been successfully deploying mobile service robots in an office building to execute user-requested tasks, such as delivering messages, transporting items, escorting people, and enabling telepresence. Users submit task requests to a dedicated website which forms a schedule of tasks for the robots to execute. The robots autonomously navigate in the building to complete their tasks. However, upon observing the many successful task executions, we realized that the robots are too autonomous in their determination to execute a planned task, with no mechanism to interrupt or redirect the robot through local interaction. In this work, we analyze the challenges of this goal of interruption, and contribute an approach to interrupt the robot anywhere during its execution through spoken dialog. Tasks can then be modified or new tasks can be added through speech, allowing users to manage the robot’s schedule. We discuss the response of the robot to human interruptions. We also introduce a finite state machine based on spoken dialog to handle the conversations that might occur during task execution. The goal is for the robot to fulfill humans’ requests as much as possible while minimizing the impact to the ongoing and pending tasks. We present examples of our task interruption scheme executing on robots to demonstrate its effectiveness.
Investigating the impact of unfamiliar speaker accent on auditory comprehension in adults with aphasia.

BACKGROUND In an increasingly multicultural society, all individuals are likely to come into contact with speakers with unfamiliar accents. Recent figures suggest that such accent variation may be particularly apparent within the healthcare workforce. Research on accent variation has demonstrated that an unfamiliar speaker accent can affect listener comprehension, but the impact of speaker accent on the comprehension skills of listeners with neurological impairment has not been widely explored. AIMS To investigate the effect of an unfamiliar accent on the sentence comprehension of individuals with aphasia following stroke. METHODS & PROCEDURES The impact of two different accents (south-east England and Nigerian) on accuracy and response time for 16 individuals with aphasia and 16 healthy control subjects was measured. Participants were presented with a computerized sentence-to-picture matching task and their accuracy and response times were recorded. OUTCOMES & RESULTS Results showed that individuals with aphasia made significantly more errors in comprehension of sentences spoken in an unfamiliar accent than in a familiar accent, a finding that was not demonstrated by the control group when outliers were excluded. Individuals with aphasia were slower overall; however, response times did not show significant effects of speaker accent for either group. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS The impact of speaker accent should be considered in the rehabilitation of individuals with aphasia following stroke. Clinical implications include the possibility of underestimating an individual's language abilities on assessment, and the potential errors in comprehension that may occur.
Using idle workstations to implement predictive prefetching

The benefits of Markov-based predictive prefetching have been largely overshadowed by the overhead required to produce high-quality predictions. While both theoretical and simulation results for prediction algorithms appear promising, substantial limitations exist in practice. This outcome can be partially attributed to the fact that practical implementations ultimately make compromises in order to reduce overhead. These compromises limit the level of algorithm complexity, the variety of access patterns and the granularity of trace data that the implementation supports. This paper describes the design and implementation of GMS-3P (Global Memory System with Parallel Predictive Prefetching), an operating system kernel extension that offloads prediction overhead to idle network nodes. GMS-3P builds on the GMS global memory system, which pages to and from remote workstation memory. In GMS-3P, the target node sends an online trace of an application's page faults to an idle node that is running a Markov-based prediction algorithm. The prediction node then uses GMS to prefetch pages to the target node from the memory of other workstations in the network. Our preliminary results show that predictive prefetching can reduce the remote-memory page fault time by 60% or more and that, by offloading prediction overhead to an idle node, GMS-3P can reduce this improved latency by between 24% and 44%, depending on the Markov model order.
A Library of Plasmodium vivax Recombinant Merozoite Proteins Reveals New Vaccine Candidates and Protein-Protein Interactions

Background A vaccine targeting Plasmodium vivax will be an essential component of any comprehensive malaria elimination program, but major gaps in our understanding of P. vivax biology, including the protein-protein interactions that mediate merozoite invasion of reticulocytes, hinder the search for candidate antigens. Only one ligand-receptor interaction has been identified, that between P. vivax Duffy Binding Protein (PvDBP) and the erythrocyte Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines (DARC), and strain-specific immune responses to PvDBP make it a complex vaccine target. To broaden the repertoire of potential P. vivax merozoite-stage vaccine targets, we exploited a recent breakthrough in expressing full-length ectodomains of Plasmodium proteins in a functionally-active form in mammalian cells and initiated a large-scale study of P. vivax merozoite proteins that are potentially involved in reticulocyte binding and invasion. Methodology/Principal Findings We selected 39 P. vivax proteins that are predicted to localize to the merozoite surface or invasive secretory organelles, some of which show homology to P. falciparum vaccine candidates. Of these, we were able to express 37 full-length protein ectodomains in a mammalian expression system, which has been previously used to express P. falciparum invasion ligands such as PfRH5. To establish whether the expressed proteins were correctly folded, we assessed whether they were recognized by antibodies from Cambodian patients with acute vivax malaria. IgG from these samples showed at least a two-fold change in reactivity over naïve controls in 27 of 34 antigens tested, and the majority showed heat-labile IgG immunoreactivity, suggesting the presence of conformation-sensitive epitopes and native tertiary protein structures. Using a method specifically designed to detect low-affinity, extracellular protein-protein interactions, we confirmed a predicted interaction between P. vivax 6-cysteine proteins P12 and P41, further suggesting that the proteins are natively folded and functional. This screen also identified two novel protein-protein interactions, between P12 and PVX_110945, and between MSP3.10 and MSP7.1, the latter of which was confirmed by surface plasmon resonance. Conclusions/Significance We produced a new library of recombinant full-length P. vivax ectodomains, established that the majority of them contain tertiary structure, and used them to identify predicted and novel protein-protein interactions. As well as identifying new interactions for further biological studies, this library will be useful in identifying P. vivax proteins with vaccine potential, and studying P. vivax malaria pathogenesis and immunity. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00663546
Protein precipitate recovery using microporous membranes

The use of microporous membranes has been examined for the recovery of precipitated protein suspensions and related soluble protein. Membrane flux rates and soluble protein transmissions are reported for unstirred batch‐cell studies and cross‐flow experiments. The unstirred batch‐cell gave soluble protein transmissions in the range 80–100% for feeds containing either soluble protein or a mix of soluble and isoelectrically precipitated protein. In all cases a sharp decline in flux was observed which was, for example, considerably greater for soluble protein at its isoelectric point, pH 4.6, than at pH 8.8. The presence of precipitated protein led to a further decrease in flux rate. In cross‐flow studies, flux decline was eventually accompanied by a significant decline in soluble protein transmission. The flux protein‐transmission characteristics of microporous membranes are discussed in terms of the interaction of the soluble and precipitated protein with the membrane.
Designing an adaptive feedback platform for encouraging energy efficiency behaviors: A practical case in Portuguese households

This article describes the main considerations when designing a feedback platform for encouraging end users on adopting more efficient consumption behaviors. A review on behavioral models and the main characteristics of current feedback systems is performed, being completed with a description of an experimental case on 472 households in Portugal to which a feedback platform has been developed to raise awareness towards more efficient energy consumption habits. The design process of the platform is described, in which early findings show that it is not enough to design a platform with features that may increase usability but, more importantly, a hypothesis is outlined premising that a careful and tailored communication strategy should be performed to encourage end users on interacting with the platform, thus engaging into more efficient consumption behaviors. This article contributes to solidify the knowledge base of energy efficiency behavior, which so often regards separately different sciences such as behavior economics, engineering or social sciences, leading to a high sparsity of conclusions on this topic.
A Simulation Environment for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructures and Load Coordination

Abstract: The rollout of electric vehicles substantially changes the requirements for current power grid infrastructures. The high power demand of fast recharge stations in combination with a high risk of simultaneity leads to the necessity of extended ICT integration into the energy distribution process. This paper describes ongoing research on a simulation framework for modeling the communication processes of load coordination scenarios for (fast-) recharge stations. First results are presented for a fair distribution algorithm in a manageable scenario with simultaneously charging electric vehicles in order to validate the simulation environment.
Murine helix-loop-helix transcriptional activator proteins binding to the E-box motif of the Akv murine leukemia virus enhancer identified by cDNA cloning

The enhancer region of Akv murine leukemia virus contains the sequence motif ACAGATGG. This sequence is homologous to the E-box motif originally defined as a regulatory element in the enhancers of immunoglobulin mu and kappa genes. We have used double-stranded oligonucleotide probes, corresponding to the E box of the murine leukemia virus Akv, to screen a randomly primed lambda gt11 cDNA expression library made from mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblast RNA. We have identified seven lambda clones expressing DNA-binding proteins representing two different genes termed ALF1 and ALF2. The results of sequencing ALF2 cDNA suggests that we have recovered the gene for the basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factor A1, the murine analog of the human transcription factor E47. The cDNA sequence of ALF1 codes for a new member of the basic-helix-loop-helix protein family. Two splice variants of ALF1 cDNA have been found, differing by a 72-bp insertion, coding for putative proteins of 682 and 706 amino acids. The two ALF1 mRNAs are expressed at various levels in mouse tissues. In vitro DNA binding assays, using prokaryotically expressed ALF1 proteins, demonstrated specific binding of the ALF1 proteins to the Akv murine leukemia virus E-box motif ACAGATGG. Expression in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts of GAL4-ALF1 chimeric protein stimulated expression from a minimal promoter linked to a GAL4 binding site, indicating the existence of a transcriptional activator domain in ALF1.
The possible consequences for cognitive functions of external electric fields at power line frequency on hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons

The possible effects on cognitive processes of external electric fields, such as those generated by power line pillars and household appliances are of increasing public concern. They are difficult to study experimentally, and the relatively scarce and contradictory evidence make it difficult to clearly assess these effects. In this study, we investigate how, why and to what extent external perturbations of the intrinsic neuronal activity, such as those that can be caused by generation, transmission and use of electrical energy can affect neuronal activity during cognitive processes. For this purpose, we used a morphologically and biophysically realistic three‐dimensional model of CA1 pyramidal neurons. The simulation findings suggest that an electric field oscillating at power lines frequency, and environmentally measured strength, can significantly alter both the average firing rate and temporal spike distribution properties of a hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neuron. This effect strongly depends on the specific and instantaneous relative spatial location of the neuron with respect to the field, and on the synaptic input properties. The model makes experimentally testable predictions on the possible functional consequences for normal hippocampal functions such as object recognition and spatial navigation. The results suggest that, although EF effects on cognitive processes may be difficult to occur in everyday life, their functional consequences deserve some consideration, especially when they constitute a systematic presence in living environments.