Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Framework Environment for Understanding Object Oriented Techniques

— Source code analysis does not provide enough information for the program understanding activities. Understanding object oriented software systems during software maintenance are difficult and take a considerable amount of time and cost. In software maintenance perspective reverse engineering process extracts information to provide visibility of the object oriented components and relations in the software that are essential for maintainers. Various tools have been developed to help maintainers undergo this process. One such tool is reverse engineering object Oriented program tool. In this paper, we provide a framework environment for object oriented programs. The framework focuses on the technical side of maintaining object-oriented program. This paper will discuss the development of the tool and highlight a scenario to show the viability of the tool by providing querying and browsing facilities.
Re-ranking bibliographic records for personalized library search

This work will introduce a new approach to ranking bibliographic records in library search, which is currently dominated by an OPAC style search paradigm, where results are typically not ranked by relevance. The approach we propose in the paper provides the user with the ability to access bibliographic records in a way responsive to his or her preferences, which is essentially done by looking at a community or a group of people who share interests with the user and making use of their publication records to re-rank search results. The experiment found that the present approach gives a clear edge over conventional search methods.
A revised evaluation framework for region of interest detectors using artificial 3 d-scenes

In this project, we introduce an evaluation method for regions of interest detectors in images of general 3d-scenes addressing some issues of the framework by Mikolajczyk et al. (2005) and the extension to non-planar scenes by Fraundorfer and Bischof (2005). By generating more reliable ground truth and test images from detailed POV-Ray scenes, we were able to take the influence of discontinuities and occlusion into account. We re-evaluate the repeatability under viewpoint change of the Harrisand Hessian-Affine region detectors by Mikolajczyk and Schmid (2004), an edge based (EBR) and an intensity based (IBR) region detector by Tuytelaars and Van Gool (2004), the maximally stable extremal region (MSER) detector Matas et al. (2002) and the Difference of Gaussian (DoG) detector by Lowe (1999). In contrast to Fraundorfer and Bischof (2005), we regard the scale invariant DoG detections to be circular regions instead of keypoints. We discuss the influence of discontinuities in 3d-scenes in general, and evaluate each detector’s tendency to extract regions on such discontinuities.
Runtime variability in scientific parallel applications

Simulation remains an important component in the design of multicore processor architectures, just as in uniprocessor design. In contrast to single-threaded applications, however, many multi-threaded programs are not deterministic: in multiple runs, even on the same architecture, different execution paths can be taken. This results in variability of simulation results, which is a well-known phenomenon in real systems, but is nearly universally ignored in simulation experiments. In this paper, we review existing work on simulation variability. We extend this work, which has been focused mainly on commercial workloads, and show that it also applies to scientific workloads. We characterize variability for the SPLASH-2 benchmark applications, and look at how variability can impact the optimization of the interconnection network. Both previous and our own results show that studies aiming to prove the optimality of architectural or other modifications should keep this variability in mind, and make sure that observed improvements are statistically valid in relation to the inherent variability to avoid drawing the wrong conclusions. Although this problem is in no way solved to satisfaction, we review some possible solutions, such as the use of statistics, using different types of metrics, and sample-based simulation.
Problematic digital gaming behavior and its relation to the psychological, social and physical health of Finnish adolescents and young adults

Background and Aims The aim of this study was to identify problematic gaming behavior among Finnish adolescents and young adults, and evaluate its connection to a variety of psychological, social, and physical health symptoms. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted with a random sample of 293 respondents aged from 13 to 24 years. Participants completed an online survey. Problematic gaming behavior was measured with the Game Addiction Scale (GAS). Self-reports covered health measures such as psychological health (psychopathological symptoms, satisfaction with life), social health (preferences for social interaction), and physical health (general health, Body Mass Index [BMI], body discomfort, physical activity). Results Problematic gaming behavior was found to relate to psychological and health problems, namely fatigue, sleep interference, depression and anxiety symptoms. Multiple linear regression indicated that the amount of weekly gaming, depression and a preference for online social interaction predicted increased problematic gaming symptoms. Conclusions This research emphasized that problematic gaming behavior had a strong negative correlation to a variety of subjective health outcomes.
Rehabilitating female ex-prisoners in Zimbabwe : a critical analysis from a feminist pastoral care perspective.

AND KEY TERMS . vi GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . viii OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS . x POLITICAL MAP OF ZIMBABWE . xiii TABLE OF CONTENTS.xiv CHAPTER ONE . 1 INTRODUCING THE STUDY . 1 1.0. Introduction . 1 1.1. Brief background to the study . 2 1.1.1. International policies on female prisoners and their rehabilitation. 2 1.1.2. Gender in Zimbabwe . 6 1.1.3. Female prisoners and their rehabilitation in Zimbabwe . 9 1.2. Motivation for undertaking the study . 12 1.2. 1. Personal motivation . 12 1.2. 2. Academic motivation . 13 1.3. Problem statement and objectives of the study . 15 1.4. Theoretical framework . 16
Seamless mobility with personal servers

We describe the concept and the taxonomy of personal servers, and their implications in seamless mobility. Personal servers could offer electronic services independently of network availability or quality, provide a greater flexibility in the choice of user access device, and support the key concept of continuous user experience. We describe the organization of mobile and remote personal servers, define three relevant communication modes, and discuss means for users to exploit seamless services on the personal server.
Sequence and expression of the CAPA/CAP2b gene in the tobacco hawkmoth, Manduca sexta

SUMMARY The gene coding for cardioacceleratory peptide 2b (CAP2b; pELYAFPRV) has been isolated and sequenced from the moth Manduca sexta (GenBank accession #AY649544). Because of its significant homology to the CAPA gene in Drosophila melanogaster, this gene is called the Manduca CAPA gene. The Manduca CAPA gene is 958 nucleotides long with 29 untranslated nucleotides from the beginning of the sequence to the putative start initiation site. The CAPA gene has a single open reading frame, 441 nucleotides long, that codes for a predicted precursor protein of 147 amino acids. The predicted prepropeptide encodes a single copy of each of three deduced propeptides, a CAP2b propeptide, with a Q substituted for an E at the N-terminus (QLYAFPRVa), and two novel CAP2b-related propeptides (DGVLNLYPFPRVa and TEGPGMWFGPRLa). To reduce confusion and to adopt a more standardized nomenclature, we rename pELYAFPRVa as Mas-CAPA-1 and assign the names of Mas-CAPA-2 to DGVLNLYPFPRVa and Mas-PK-1 (Pyrokinin-1) to TEGPGMWFGPRLa. The spatial and temporal expression pattern of the CAPA gene in the Manduca central nervous system (CNS) was determined in all major post-embryonic stages using in situ hybridization techniques. The CAPA gene is expressed in a total of 27 pairs of neurons in the post-embryonic Manduca CNS. A total of 16 pairs of cells is observed in the brain, two pairs in the sub-esophageal ganglion (SEG), one pair in the third thoracic ganglion (T3), one pair in each unfused abdominal ganglion (A1–A6) and two pairs in the fused terminal ganglion. The mRNA from the CAPA gene is present in nearly every ganglion in each post-embryonic stage. The number of cells expressing the CAPA gene varies during post-embryonic life, starting at 54 cells in first-instar larvae and declining to a minimum of 14 cells midway through adult development.
A Simple Framework to Typify Social Bibliographic Communities

Social Communities in bibliographic databases exist since many years, researchers share common research interests, and work and publish together. A social community may vary in type and size, being fully connected between participating members or even more expressed by a consortium of small and individual members who play individual roles in it. In this work, we focus on social communities inside the bibliographic database DBLP and characterize communities through a simple typifying description model. Generally, we understand a publication as a transaction between the associated authors. The idea therefore is to concern with directed associative relationships among them, to decompose each pattern to its fundamental structure, and to describe the communities by expressive attributes. Finally, we argue that the decomposition supports the management of discovered structures towards the use of adaptive-incremental mind-maps.
The C. elegans T-type calcium channel CCA-1 boosts neuromuscular transmission

SUMMARY Low threshold-activated or T-type calcium channels are postulated to mediate a variety of bursting and rhythmic electrical firing events. However, T-type channels' exact physiological contributions have been difficult to assess because of their incompletely defined pharmacology and the difficulty in isolating T-type currents from more robust high threshold calcium currents. A current in C. elegans pharyngeal muscle displays the kinetic features of a T-type calcium channel and is absent in animals homozygous for mutations at the cca-1 locus (see accompanying paper). cca-1 is expressed in pharyngeal muscle and encodes a protein (CCA-1) with strong homology to the α1 subunits of vertebrate T-type channels. We show that CCA-1 plays a critical role at the pharyngeal neuromuscular junction, permitting the efficient initiation of action potentials in response to stimulation by the MC motor neuron. Loss of cca-1 function decreases the chance that excitatory input from MC will successfully trigger an action potential, and reduces the ability of an animal to take in food. Intracellular voltage recordings demonstrate that when wild-type cca-1 is absent, the depolarizing phase of the pharyngeal action potential tends to plateau or stall near -30 mV, the voltage at which the CCA-1 channel is likely to be activated. We conclude that the CCA-1 T-type calcium channel boosts the excitatory effect of synaptic input, allowing for reliable and rapid depolarization and contraction of the pharyngeal muscle. We also show that the pharyngeal muscle employs alternative strategies for initiating action potentials in certain cases of compromised MC motor neuron function.
Locations of selected small earthquakes in the Zagros mountains

The Zagros mountains of southern Iran are marked by a zone of high seismicity and accommodate a significant portion of the convergence between Arabia and Eurasia. Due to the lack of dense local seismic or geodetic networks, the inferred kinematics of the collision in Iran is mainly based on catalogs of teleseismically determined earthquake locations. We surveyed all Mw > 4.5 earthquakes in the Harvard Centroid Moment Tensor (HCMT) and International Seismological Centre (ISC) catalogs that occurred in the Zagros mountains during the period 1992–2002 and that were spanned by Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images from the ERS 1 and 2 satellites. We invert the observed deformation for the best fitting point source, single fault plane, and distributed fault slip for four earthquakes and one unexplained deformation event. We find that we can precisely locate earthquakes that are too small to be well‐located by either the HCMT or ISC catalogs, allowing us to tie specific earthquakes to active geologic structures.
Transfection by DNA-associated liposomes evidenced at pea pollination

Ahokas, H. 1987. Transfection by DNA-associated liposomes evidenced at pea pollination. - Hereditas 106: 129–138. Lund, Sweden. ISSN 0018–0661. Received May 13, 1986 Positively charged, oligolamellar liposomes were able to enter the pea pollen grains during the germination process in vitro. Large, identifiable liposomes could be found at a low frequency in living, germinated pollen grains and pollen tubes. Protoplasmic streaming inside the germinated pollen apparatus, where it appears as moving strands, exerts violent, formative effects on the liposomes. Uptake of cytoplasmic bodies by liposomes may be a sign of internalization. Pea pollen tube studied by autoradiography took up radioactivity from liposomes with labelled DNA and transferred radioactivity into the pollinated style of pistil. Application of DNA associated liposomes at the pollination of pea (Pisum sativum) induced putative transfec-tants in addition to immediate disturbances like sterility and parthenocarpy. The putative transfectant, 361A. behaves as a stable Mendelian recessive. It has pleiotropic effects on the phenotype, among which are three that also appear in the phenotype of the donor species, wild pea P. fulvum.
Designing in-vitro systems to simulate the in-vivo permeability of drugs

In this work an engineering approach, consisting in an experimental procedure and a model to derive the data, was presented and applied to improve the testing methods of pharmaceuticals. The permeability of several active molecules have been evaluated across a synthetic membrane. The permeability of these drugs measured through the artificial membrane were successfully correlated to their in-vivo permeability. The relationship with in-vivo permeability was derived, and then a rule to design systems to simulate the intestinal absorption was proposed to reduce the need for expensive and ethical problematic in-vivo measurements.
Chinese Native Language Identification

We present the first application of Native Language Identification (NLI) to nonEnglish data. Motivated by theories of language transfer, NLI is the task of identifying a writer’s native language (L1) based on their writings in a second language (the L2). An NLI system was applied to Chinese learner texts using topicindependent syntactic models to assess their accuracy. We find that models using part-of-speech tags, context-free grammar production rules and function words are highly effective, achieving a maximum accuracy of 71% . Interestingly, we also find that when applied to equivalent English data, the model performance is almost identical. This finding suggests a systematic pattern of cross-linguistic transfer may exist, where the degree of transfer is independent of the L1 and L2.
A critical quantitative exploration of collegiate student-athlete academic involvement

The purpose of this study was to utilize critical quantitative methodology to analyze previously collected data by a nationally distributed survey instrument, with the goal of conceptualizing Academic Involvement as it pertains to collegiate student-athletes and their racial and ethnic identities. The researcher selected Critical Race Theory as the foundational critical theory upon which to frame the research design. The researcher requested responses from the 2014 administration of the Your First College Year survey, an instrument produced by the Higher Education Research Institute located at the University of California, Los Angeles. The information collected represented the constructs of (a) Academic Disengagement, (b) Ease of Adjustment to College, and (c) Habits of Mind in addition to demographic data. Responses from both collegiate student-athletes and collegiate student nonathletes were considered. Total scores from these three constructs were averaged to produce a composite score of the researcher-created construct of Academic Involvement. Statistical analysis and data disaggregation found that the magnitude of Academic Involvement is similar for student-athletes across racial and ethnic identities. Additional statistical analysis identified a five-factor structure for the construct of Academic Involvement that applied to a sample of collegiate student nonathletes and collegiate student-athletes. The study seeks to shift the discussion about student-athletes to highlight their academic involvement, rather than discussing them from a deficit perspective. This discussion is framed by tenets of the critical quantitative methodology. Implications for student affairs practitioners working directly with student-athletes or on campuses with student-athletes, as well as implications for those desiring to use apply critical quantitative methods to their research and practice, are discussed in light of the findings from the statistical analysis. INDEX WORDS: Student-athletes; critical quantitative research; race and ethnicity; academic involvement; Your First College Year survey; Critical Race Theory; data disaggregation A CRITICAL QUANTITATIVE EXPLORATION OF COLLEGIATE STUDENT-ATHLETE ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT
Research and implementation of an intelligent traffic monitoring system based on IOCP mechanism

According to the function of intelligent traffic monitoring system and the problem that the load of the intelligent traffic server is big, the principle, programming methods and technical difficulties of IOCP(I/O Completion Port) mechanism in Windows used in network communication program are analyzed. The design method of cooperating multi-threads and simplifying the function of the single thread is brought forward. And this is applicated in designning the server of the intelligent traffic monitoring system. The performance of the server based on the IOCP mechanism is compared with the performance of the server based on the overlapped I/O mechanism. It is showed from the test that IOCP mechanism has good technical advantages in the process of the design of large-scale network communication system.
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Approaches for Disaggregated Energy Sensing: A Survey

Appliance Load Monitoring (ALM) is essential for energy management solutions, allowing them to obtain appliance-specific energy consumption statistics that can further be used to devise load scheduling strategies for optimal energy utilization. Fine-grained energy monitoring can be achieved by deploying smart power outlets on every device of interest; however it incurs extra hardware cost and installation complexity. Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an attractive method for energy disaggregation, as it can discern devices from the aggregated data acquired from a single point of measurement. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of NILM system and its associated methods and techniques used for disaggregated energy sensing. We review the state-of-the art load signatures and disaggregation algorithms used for appliance recognition and highlight challenges and future research directions.
H-Ferritin Is Preferentially Incorporated by Human Erythroid Cells through Transferrin Receptor 1 in a Threshold-Dependent Manner

Ferritin is an iron-storage protein composed of different ratios of 24 light (L) and heavy (H) subunits. The serum level of ferritin is a clinical marker of the body’s iron level. Transferrin receptor (TFR)1 is the receptor not only for transferrin but also for H-ferritin, but how it binds two different ligands and the blood cell types that preferentially incorporate H-ferritin remain unknown. To address these questions, we investigated hematopoietic cell-specific ferritin uptake by flow cytometry. Alexa Fluor 488-labeled H-ferritin was preferentially incorporated by erythroid cells among various hematopoietic cell lines examined, and was almost exclusively incorporated by bone marrow erythroblasts among human primary hematopoietic cells of various lineages. H-ferritin uptake by erythroid cells was strongly inhibited by unlabeled H-ferritin but was only partially inhibited by a large excess of holo-transferrin. On the other hand, internalization of labeled holo-transferrin by these cells was not inhibited by H-ferritin. Chinese hamster ovary cells lacking functional endogenous TFR1 but expressing human TFR1 with a mutated RGD sequence, which is required for transferrin binding, efficiently incorporated H-ferritin, indicating that TFR1 has distinct binding sites for H-ferritin and holo-transferrin. H-ferritin uptake by these cells required a threshold level of cell surface TFR1 expression, whereas there was no threshold for holo-transferrin uptake. The requirement for a threshold level of TFR1 expression can explain why among primary human hematopoietic cells, only erythroblasts efficiently take up H-ferritin.
Personalized Tag Recommendation Using Social Contacts

Tag recommendation encourages users to add more tags in bridging the semantic gap between human concept and the features of media object, which provides a feasible solution for contend-based multimedia information retrieval. We study personalized tag recommendation within a popular online photo sharing site Flickr. Contact relationship information of Flickr users is collected to generate an online social network. From the perspective of network topology, we propose node topological potential to characterize its ability of affecting other nodes. With the topological potential metric of the users in contacts network, we can distinguish different social relations between users and find out those who really have influence to the target users. On these social contacts, we acquire the implicit personalized information. Tag recommendations are based on user’s tagging history and the latent personalized preference learned from social contacts. We evaluate our system on large scale real-world data crawled from Flickr. The experimental results demonstrated that our algorithm can significantly outperform the non-personalized global tag co-occurrence method. We also analyze the further usage of our approach for the cold-start problem of tag recommendation.