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Hybrid Multi-model Multi-platform (HM3P) Databases

There exist various standards for different models of data, and hence users often must handle a zoo of data models. Storing and processing data in their native models, but spanning optimizations and processing across these models seem to be the most efficient way, such that we recently observe an advent of multi-model databases for this purpose. Companies, end users and developers typically run different platforms like mobile devices, web, desktops, servers, clouds and post-clouds (e.g., fog and edge computing) as execution environments for their applications at the same time. In this paper, we propose to utilize the different platforms according to their advantages and benefits for data distribution, query processing and transaction handling in an overall integrated hybrid multi-model multi-platform (HM3P) database. We analyze current state-of-the-art multi-model databases according to the support of multiple platforms. Furthermore, we analyze the properties of databases running on different types of platforms. We detail new challenges for the novel concept of HM3P databases concerning a global optimization of data distribution, query processing and transaction handling across multiple platforms.
Reception Capacity Through Perfect Domination

The capacity of wireless networks is a classic and important topic of study. Informally, the capacity of a network is simply the total amount of information which it can transfer. In the context of models of wireless radio networks, this has usually meant the total number of point-to-point messages which can be sent or received in one time step. This definition has seen intensive study in recent years, particularly with respect to more accurate models of radio networks such as the SINR model. This paper is motivated by an obvious fact: radio antennae are (at least traditionally) omnidirectional, and hence point-to-point connections are not necessarily the best definition of capacity. To fix this, we introduce a new definition of reception capacity as the maximum number of messages which can be received in one round, and show that this is related to a new optimization problem we call the Maximum Perfect Dominated Set (MaxPDS) problem. Using this relationship we give tight upper and lower bounds for approximating this capacity. We also analyze this notion of capacity under game-theoretic constraints, giving tight bounds on both the Price of Anarchy and the Price of Stability.
Identification and characterization of an extended Tax protein in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II subtype b isolates

The tax gene sequence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II isolate G12 (HTLV-IIG12) was found to encode an extended Tax protein when compared with that of HTLV-IIMoT. In vitro transcription-translation of the HTLV-IIG12 tax gene produced a 40-kDa Tax protein that specifically reacted with serum specimens from HTLV-II-infected individuals. Limited sequence analysis demonstrated that isolates with an extended Tax protein were all HTLV-II subtype b (HTLV-IIb). Therefore, the extended Tax protein appears to be a unique characteristic of most HTLV-IIb isolates and may be useful in designing immunoassays to distinguish between HTLV-IIa and HTLV-IIb.
Emotional reactions to people with mental illness

Aims – Based on findings from population surveys, we provide an overview of the public's emotional reactions to people with mental illness. Methods – A literature search for populations studies using measures of emotional response to people with mental illness was carried out. In addition, data on the public's emotional reactions, originating from representative surveys conducted in Germany in the years 1990, 1993 and 2001, were analysed. Results – Positive emotional reactions to people with mental illness are most prevalent, followed by fear and anger. This pattern appears relatively stable across different cultures. In recent years, the emotional response of the public remained unchanged or even deteriorated. The public seems to react quite differently to people with different mental disorders. Emotional reactions have a substantial effect on the desire for social distance. The association between familiarity with mental disorder and the desire for social distance is to a considerable extent mediated through emotions. Conclusions – The public's emotional reactions to people with mental disorder are relatively under-researched. More research may help better understand the complexities of the stigma surrounding mental illness. Interventions aimed at reducing the stigma of mental illness may benefit from paying more attention to emotions.
Robust Cross-Coupling Synchronous Control by Shaping Position Commands in Multiaxes System

This paper proposes a new structure for cross-coupling synchronous controller using an H∞ control scheme to shape position commands for precise tracking in multiaxial motion control, together with its stability analysis. This proposed structure has the advantage that the controller has a simpler design process and more robust performance than conventional ones. The proposed controller is evaluated and compared simulated and experimentally with an unsynchronous controlled system and a conventional system. The simulated and experimental results show that the new structure reduces the position synchronous error remarkably. In addition, this new controller can easily be implemented on most currently used motion systems used by reprogramming the reference position command subroutine.
Comparison of Methods to Measure Height in Older Adults

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A Sorting Based Algorithm for Finding a Non-dominated Set in Multi-objective Optimization

sorting based algorithm is proposed in this paper for finding non-dominated set in Multi-Objective optimization. The algorithm is composed by sorting step and dominated solutions deleting step. Some enhancement techniques including primary non-dominated solutions, scoring and summation sequence are used to reduce the computa tional complexity. Compared with the classic Kung et al.'s efficient algorithm, experiments show sorting based algorithm performs almost the same efficiently as the Kung et al.'s algorithm when there are less objectives and solutions, and much better when there are more objectives and solutions.
A 2-mm$^{2}$  0.1–5 GHz Software-Defined Radio Receiver in 45-nm Digital CMOS

A software-defined radio (SDR) should theoretically receive any modulated frequency channel in the (un)licensed spectrum, and guarantee top performance with energy savings, while still being integrated in a digital CMOS technology. This paper demonstrates a practical 0.1-5 GHz front-end implementation for such an SDR concept, including receiver and local oscillator (LO), with only 2-mm2 core area occupation in a 45-nm CMOS process. This scalable radio uses shunt-shunt feedback LNAs, a passive mixer with enhanced out-of-band IIP3, and a fifth order low-area 0.5-20 MHz baseband filter. LO quadrature signals are generated from a dual-VCO 4-10 GHz fractional-N PLL. With noise figure between 2.3 dB and 6.5 dB, out-of-band IIP3 between -3 dBm and -10 dBm, and total power consumption between 59 and 115 mW from a 1.1-V supply voltage, the presented prototype favorably compares with state-of-the-art dedicated radios while enabling, for the first time, wideband reconfigurable performance and energy scalability.
A new model predictive control approach to DC-DC converters based on combinatory optimization

DC-DC converters by nature present hybrid behavior, which is described by a set of discrete modes associated with continuous dynamics. The control objective is accomplished by switching among the discrete modes. This paper presents a new model predictive control approach to optimize the performance of DC-DC converters. The proposed control algorithm is tailored to DC-DC converters, making full use of the fact of finite number of modes to transform the performance optimization problem into a combinatory optimization task. The nice thing with this approach is that the on-line computation is very simple and effective for implementation.
Subtyping of Salmonella enterica Serovar Newport Outbreak Isolates by CRISPR-MVLST and Determination of the Relationship between CRISPR-MVLST and PFGE Results

ABSTRACT Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Newport (S. Newport) is the third most prevalent cause of food-borne salmonellosis. Rapid, efficient, and accurate methods for identification are required to track specific strains of S. Newport during outbreaks. By exploiting the hypervariable nature of virulence genes and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs), we previously developed a sequence-based subtyping approach, designated CRISPR–multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (CRISPR-MVLST). To demonstrate the applicability of this approach, we analyzed a broad set of S. Newport isolates collected over a 5-year period by using CRISPR-MVLST and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Among 84 isolates, we defined 38 S. Newport sequence types (NSTs), all of which were novel compared to our previous analyses, and 62 different PFGE patterns. Our data suggest that both subtyping approaches have high discriminatory abilities (>0.95) with a potential for clustering cases with common exposures. Importantly, we found that isolates from closely related NSTs were often similar by PFGE profile as well, further corroborating the applicability of CRISPR-MVLST. In the first full application of CRISPR-MVLST, we analyzed isolates from a recent S. Newport outbreak. In this blinded study, we confirmed the utility of CRISPR-MVLST and were able to distinguish the 10 outbreak isolates, as defined by PFGE and epidemiological data, from a collection of 20 S. Newport isolates. Together, our data show that CRISPR-MVLST could be a complementary approach to PFGE subtyping for S. Newport.
Vegetables and fruits consumption and risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study

Prospective epidemiologic data on vegetables and fruits consumption and risk of subtypes of esophageal and gastric cancer are sparse. We studied the association between vegetables and fruits consumption and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) and gastric noncardia adenocarcinoma (GNCA) in the Netherlands Cohort Study. In 1986, 120,852 Dutch men and women aged 55–69 filled out a questionnaire on diet and other cancer risk factors. After 16.3 years of follow‐up, 101 ESCC, 144 EAC, 156 GCA, 460 GNCA cases and 4,035 subcohort members were available for case–cohort analysis using Cox proportional hazards models. Multivariable adjusted incidence rate ratios (RRs) were generally below unity. Total vegetable consumption was nonsignificantly inversely associated with EAC and ESCC risk, but not with GCA and GNCA risk. Significant inverse associations were observed for raw vegetables and EAC risk [RR per 25 g/day: 0.81, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.68–0.98], and Brassica vegetables and GCA risk (RR per 25 g/day: 0.72, 95% CI 0.54–0.95). Total fruit consumption was associated with a nonsignificantly decreased EAC risk. Citrus fruits were inversely associated with EAC and GCA risk (RRs for highest vs. lowest intake: 0.55, 95% CI 0.31–0.98 and 0.38, 95% CI 0.21–0.69, respectively). Specifically for current smokers, vegetables and possibly also fruits intake was inversely associated with ESCC and EAC risk. Consumption of (specific groups of) vegetables and fruits may protect against subtypes of esophageal and gastric cancer.
Inter-Host Reassortment Patterns in Swine Influenza Viruses

Three pandemic influenza strains occurred in the 20 century, in 1918, 1957 and 1968. Influenza pandemic strains are the result of an emerging virus spreading in people which have little or non immunity. At least two of these pandemics strains, in 1957 and in 1968, were the result of reassortments between human and avian viruses. In 1957 three segments, PB1, HA and NA, and in 1968 two segments, PB1 and HA, were of avian origin. Recently new influenza viruses have been isolated in Mexico and the United States. These viruses are found to be a complicated reassortement of swine, avian and human strains. Pigs are frequently found co-infected with human, avian and swine viruses. This observation has led to the conjecture that pigs are the mixing vessel that cause the avian-human reassortments, and hence the pandemics. Understanding the process and the patterns of viral reassortment, especially in pigs, is key to estimate and/or predict the likelihoods and rates of influenza pandemics. In the last few years databases collecting the sequences of influenza viruses in diverse geographical locations since 1918, including swine viruses, have been developed and made publicly available. In this paper, we study the ensemble of the swine influenza viruses to analyze how the reassortments happen in pigs. Inter-host reassortment patterns in pigs confirm similar previous results found in human viruses, both in vitro and in vivo. More interestingly, we have found that one of the polymerases, PB1 reassorts more often than other segments. In the last two pandemics, 1957 and 1968, PB1 was of avian origin. This observation reinforces the hypothesis that pigs constitute the inter-host mixing vessel responsible for at least two of the three pandemics in the 20 century.
STEM–EELS analysis reveals stable high-density He in nanopores of amorphous silicon coatings deposited by magnetron sputtering

A broad interest has been showed recently on the study of nanostructuring of thin films and surfaces obtained by low-energy He plasma treatments and He incorporation via magnetron sputtering. In this paper spatially resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy in a scanning transmission electron microscope is used to locate and characterize the He state in nanoporous amorphous silicon coatings deposited by magnetron sputtering. A dedicated MATLAB program was developed to quantify the helium density inside individual pores based on the energy position shift or peak intensity of the He K-edge. A good agreement was observed between the high density (∼35–60 at nm−3) and pressure (0.3–1.0 GPa) values obtained in nanoscale analysis and the values derived from macroscopic measurements (the composition obtained by proton backscattering spectroscopy coupled to the macroscopic porosity estimated from ellipsometry). This work provides new insights into these novel porous coatings, providing evidence of high-density He located inside the pores and validating the methodology applied here to characterize the formation of pores filled with the helium process gas during deposition. A similar stabilization of condensed He bubbles has been previously demonstrated by high-energy He ion implantation in metals and is newly demonstrated here using a widely employed methodology, magnetron sputtering, for achieving coatings with a high density of homogeneously distributed pores and He storage capacities as high as 21 at%.
A simple single shunt current reconstruction approach for low-cost permanent magnet synchronous motor drives

This paper presents a simple single-shunt current reconstruction approach in the direct current link (DC-link) for a three-phase voltage source inverter. A space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) technique with an adjusting scheme for switching states is investigated. Since three-phase input currents cannot be reconstructed in the unmeasurable area, a unified method for modifying the switching state of the pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier is proposed. The proposed method can maintain the symmetrical double-sided modulation without changing the total duty cycle of the voltage vector, and the reconstructed three-phase currents approximate the currents measured from the traditional three-shunt sensing circuit. The comparison between a conventional SVPWM technique with adjusting scheme and the proposed approach is demonstrated. Significant simulation results for performance comparison and experimental verification of the current reconstruction scheme show that the proposed method can offer lower current distortion. Hardware implementation is carried out on the basis of an electric fan composed of a three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system by using a single DC current sensor and an embedded microsystem.
Depressive symptoms and associated risk factors among pregnant females of low socioeconomic background.

Objective: The purpose of the study is to describe factors associated with depression during pregnancy among females of low socioeconomic background. Background: Depression during pregnancy may lead to (1) depression following delivery (2) increased likelihood of low birth weight babies and preterm deliveries and (3) longer-term effects on maternal-infant interaction. Younger women and women of African-American race are at greater risk (National Center for Health Statistics 2002). Risk factors associated with depression during pregnancy are high psychosocial stress levels, less education, preexisting medical conditions and low socioeconomic status. We describe the incidence of depressive symptomology and associated risk factors among pregnant females of low socioeconomic background. A descriptive, exploratory design was employed with data collected from participants in the MOMS2B project. The parent study uses concepts from the social determinants of health model. Pregnant women from a neighborhood in which single, predominantly African-American and low-income women reside, were recruited to participate in MOMS2B, a nutrition education and social support program, and respond to questionnaires regarding health behaviors. Methodology: Depressive symptoms were measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) a 20-item instrument that is used to assess depression in general population. The CES-D was administered at weeks 2, 5, and 10 in the 10 week program. Sample: 26 women have completed CES-D, (N=26 at week 2, N=20 at week 5, and N=12 at week 10). Fewer women were available for week 10 assessments as they delivered prior to completion of all sessions. Results: The mean CES-D score for entire sample was 18.7 (SD = 10.4) with a range from 3 to 49. There was no difference in scores obtained between measurement time points (F=1.34, NS). Stressful events and low Running Head: DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS 3 food security were significantly associated. The other factors predicted to be associated with depressive symptomology such as younger age, fewer years of formal education and number of children did not reach significance. Conclusion: The findings reinforce the importance of screening for depression and intervening to improve maternal mood and functioning.
Customised birthweight centiles predict SGA pregnancies with perinatal morbidity

Objectives To determine the following: (1) the proportion of babies reclassified as small or appropriately grown using customised and population centiles; and (2) the relative risks of perinatal morbidity, including abnormal umbilical Doppler studies, in babies classified as small for gestational age (SGA) and appropriate for gestational age (non‐SGA) using the two centile calculations.
Drugs for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Clear rules about stopping treatment in individual patients are needed The article by Ballard et al in this issue (p 874) offers an opportunity to discuss the role of drugs in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.1 This investigator driven randomised clinical trial has tested the hypothesis that the atypical neuroleptic quetiapine and the cholinesterase inhibitor rivastigmine would be better than placebo for treating agitation in institutionalised patients in severe stages of Alzheimer's disease. Using measures of agitation (the Cohen-Mansfield agitation inventory) and cognition (the severe impairment battery) appropriate for this stage of dementia, the authors showed that agitation improved equally in the three arms of the trial but a measurable decline in cognition occurred in patients taking quetiapine. …
An Improved Routing Protocol Based on Cluster Tag in ZigBee Network

Zigbee is based on IEEE802.15. 4 standard for Wireless Personal Area Networks. As traditional ZigBee is based on AODV, whose data delivering manner is similar to ad hoc network. Routing overhead for route discovery may interfere with network performance. In the paper, we proposed an improved routing protocol based on Cluster Tag. As ZCT divides the ZigBee network into one or more logical clusters and makes nodes to share routing information, it reduces route discoveries. Simulation results show that ZCT makes network performances such end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio are significantly improved, especially in dense network.
Effects of centrally administered endocannabinoids and opioids on orofacial pain perception in rats

Endocannabinoids and opioids play a vital role in mediating pain‐induced analgesia. The specific effects of these compounds within the orofacial region are largely unknown. In this study, we tried to determine whether an increase in cannabinoid and opioid concentration in the CSF affects impulse transmission between the motor centres localized in the vicinity of the third and fourth cerebral ventricles.