Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Off-grid sparse FD-MIMO image reconstruction by using improved FOCUSS technique

A new sparse frequency diverse multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO) radar image reconstruction technique is proposed for off-grid targets in the Compressed sensing framework. We broaden the scope of sparse total least-squares with structured form (SS-TLS) capitalizing on prior information available about the perturbed matrix, and FoCal Underdetermined System Solver (FOCUSS) has low-computation complexity in sparse recovery. Based on SS-TLS and FOCUSS method, the present paper develops a more robust and accurate algorithm. The simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Osmoregulation of vasopressin secretion is altered in the postacute phase of septic shock*

Objective:To determine whether septic shock patients have an abnormal reponse to increasing osmolarity. Design:Prospective interventional study. Setting:Intensive care unit at Raymond Poincaré and Etampes Hospitals. Patients:Normonatremic patients at >72 hrs from septic shock onset. Intervention:Osmotic challenge consisting of infusing 500 mL of hypertonic saline solution (with cumulative amount of sodium not exceeding 24 g) over 120 mins. Measurements and Main Results:Plasma arginine vasopressin levels were measured 15 mins before the test and then four times every 30 mins. A slope of the relation between arginine vasopressin and plasma sodium levels of <0.5 pg/mEq defined nonresponders. Among the 33 included patients, 17 (52%) were nonresponders. During osmotic challenge, variations throughout the test in plasma sodium levels, blood pressure, and central venous pressure were comparable between the two groups. Arginine vasopressin increased from 4.8 pg/mL [3.3–6.4 pg/mL] to 14.4 pg/mL [11.2–23.3 pg/mL] in responders but only from 2.8 pg/mL [2.3–4.0 pg/mL] to 4.0 pg/mL [3.1–5.3 pg/mL] in nonresponders (p < .0001). Responders had a higher plasma arginine vasopressin levels at baseline and a more severe hematosis alteration. Nonresponders had more frequently bacteremia and liver dysfunction, been referred from the ward and undergone surgery. Critical illness severity, hemodynamic alteration, hydroelectrolytic disturbances, treatment, and outcome did not differ between the two groups. Conclusion:Osmoregulation is dramatically altered in half of patients with prolonged septic shock.
On the Variety of Percepts Associated with Dichoptic Viewing of Dissimilar Monocular Stimuli

Upon dichoptic viewing of dissimilar patterns, several distinct perceptual states may be experienced over time. One state is exclusive monocular dominance, wherein the view of only one eye is seen in its entirety for some period of time. Another state is characterized by a mosaic-like collage consisting of portions of the view of each eye. Two other states involve simultaneous perception of both monocular images in their entirety. In one of these states, the two monocular stimuli appear to be superimposed without depth (a phenomenon we shall term ‘superimposition’). In the other state, the two monocular stimuli appear to be located at different depth planes (which we shall term ‘transparency’). This paper documents the stimulus conditions favoring these various perceptual states. Exclusive monocular dominance occurs most often when the two eyes view dissimilar patterns with the same spatial-frequency content, particularly when both patterns consist of low spatial frequencies. Superimposition also occurs most often when the two eyes view the same spatial frequencies, but predominantly when those spatial frequencies are high. Transparency is favored when the spatial-frequency difference between the eyes is great, particularly when the view of one eye consists of high spatial-frequency information.
Early osseointegration to hydrophilic and hydrophobic implant surfaces in humans.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the rate and degree of osseointegration at chemically modified moderately rough, hydrophilic (SLActive) and moderately rough, hydrophobic (SLA) implant surfaces during early phases of healing in a human model. MATERIAL AND METHODS The devices used for this study of early healing were 4 mm long and 2.8 mm in diameter and had either an SLActive chemically modified or a moderately rough SLA surface configuration. These devices were surgically installed into the retro-molar area of 49 human volunteers and retrieved after 7, 14, 28 and 42 days of submerged healing. A 5.2-mm-long specially designed trephine with a 4.9 mm inside diameter, allowing the circumferential sampling of 1 mm tissue together with the device was applied. Histologic ground sections were prepared and histometric analyses of the tissue components (i.e. old bone, new bone, bone debris and soft tissue) in contact with the device surfaces were performed. RESULTS All device sites healed uneventfully. All device surfaces were partially coated with bone debris. A significant fraction of this bone matrix coating became increasingly covered with newly formed bone. The process of new bone formation started already during the first week in the trabecular regions and increased gradually up to 42 days. The percentage of direct contact between newly formed bone and the device (bone-to-implant contact) after 2 and 4 weeks was more pronounced adjacent to the SLActive than to the SLA surface (14.8% vs. 12.2% and 48.3% vs. 32.4%, respectively), but after 42 days, these differences were no longer evident (61.6% vs. 61.5%). CONCLUSION While healing showed similar characteristics with bone resorptive and appositional events for both SLActive and SLA surfaces between 7 and 42 days, the degree of osseointegration after 2 and 4 weeks was superior for the SLActive compared with the SLA surface.
Herpes simplex viruses with mutations in the gene encoding ICP0 are defective in gene expression

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) mutants with codon insertions and deletions in IE-0, the gene encoding ICP0, were constructed. The HSV-1 deletion mutant dl1403 (N. D. Stow and E. C. Stow, J. Gen. Virol. 67:2571-2585, 1986) and an IE-0:lacZ transplacement vector isolated in this study were used to facilitate the construction of mutant viruses. Mutant viruses, all of which produced stable ICP0, were examined for their ability to plaque and grow on both Vero and HeLa cells because previous results showed that HSV-1 immediate-early (IE) gene promoters and their products are differentially expressed in these cells (J. Chen, X. Zhu, and S. Silverstein, Virology 180:207-220, 1991; I. H. Gelman and S. Silverstein, J. Virol. 61:2286-2296, 1987). Viruses with IE-0 genes that only poorly activated reporter genes in transient expression assays plaqued less efficiently on Vero cells and consistently accumulated decreased levels of late proteins. These mutants were also examined in single-step growth curve experiments and for the dependence of virus yield on multiplicity of infection (MOI). At low MOIs, their yields were less in Vero cells than in HeLa cells; by contrast, at high MOIs, there was no apparent difference in yield in either cell type, although each virus produced considerably fewer progeny than wild-type virus. Analysis of steady-state levels of RNA from genes representing each of the three major kinetic classes demonstrated that lower levels of RNAs accumulate in these mutants. We conclude from these studies that while ICP0 is not essential for virus growth in tissue culture, defects in this gene result in impairment of virus replication and delay the expression of early and late gene transcripts.
In memory detection of Windows API call hooking technique

API call hooking is a technique that malware researchers use to mine malware's API calls. These API calls is used to represent malware's behavior, for use in malware analysis, classification or detection of samples. In this paper, analysis of current Windows API call hooking techniques is presented where surprisingly, it was found that detection of each technique can be done trivially in memory. This could lead to malware being able to sense the presence of API call hooking techniques and modifying their behavior during runtime. Suggestions for a better API call hooking technique are presented towards the end of the paper.
The influence of model parameters on EEG/MEG single dipole source estimation

This paper deals with source localization and strength estimation based on EEG and MEG data. It describes an estimation method (inverse procedure) which uses a four-spheres model of the head and a single current dipole. The dependency of the inverse solution on model parameters is investigated. It is found that sphere radii and conductivities influence especially the strength of the EEG equivalent dipole and not its location or direction. The influence on the equivalent dipole of the gradiometer is investigated. In general the MEG produces better location estimates than the EEG whereas the reverse is found for the component estimates. An inverse solution simultaneously based on EEG and MEG data appears slightly better than the average of separate EEG and MEG solutions. Variances of parameter estimators which can be calculated on the basis of a linear approximation of the model, were tested by Monte Carlo simulations.
Network Coding for Bit Error Recovery in IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networks

Opportunistic routing (OR) relies on links of intermediate quality, i.e. packet losses are common. However, the reasons for packet losses are manifold, e.g. a received packet may contain corrupted bits. According to traditional approaches, the receiver discards the whole frame in such a case. In this paper, we present measurements from an indoor IEEE 802.11 wireless mesh network (WMN), which indicate that corrupted frames still contain a significant amount of correct data, which can be utilized. In particular, corrupted frames are common for intermediate quality links. Bit errors tend to occur in proximity, i.e. they are bursty. Furthermore, bit errors are uncorrelated across different receivers in most cases. Based on our observations, we propose a HARQ scheme for OR called Hybrid ARQ with Limited Fragmentation (HALF). It operates on a hop-by-hop manner and requires only local knowledge. Due to the bursty nature of bit errors, we are dividing frames into fragments with additional error detection. Using random linear network codes, the sender transmits incremental redundancy until one of its receivers is able to decode all fragments and therefore sends an acknowledgement packet. However, the partial information at all other receivers is not lost. Instead, to increase the throughput further, it is also used in subsequent forwarding rounds along the multi-hop route. We implemented a prototype of our protocol to evaluate its performance. With the help of detailed simulations, we analyzed the reasons why HALF significantly outperforms traditional approaches like DSR.
Critical Review: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) as a Treatment for Hypernasality

This critical review examines the effects of using Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) to reduce hypernasality for individuals with velopharyngeal inadequacy. Study designs include: single subject ABA treatment design, within groups repeated measures design, a non-randomized clinical trial and a series of non experimental case studies. Overall, research suggests that CPAP therapy can be useful for some individuals with hypernasality; however, the optimal treatment program as well as the differential effects that the treatment may have on the severity of hypernasality is yet to be determined. The findings of this review have implications for further research and clinical practice in the field of Speech-Language Pathology.
Establishment and characterization of seven dunning rat prostatic cancer cell lines and their use in developing methods for predicting metastatic abilities of prostatic cancers

In vitro cell lines were established from seven biologically distinct in vivo Dunning R3327 rat prostatic tumor sublines. Some of these in vitro cell lines (i.e., G, AT‐1, AT‐2) retain a low metastatic ability when inoculated back into syngeneic Copenhagen male rats, while others (i.e., AT‐3, MAT‐LyLu, MAT‐Lu) retain a very high metastatic ability. A series of genetic (i.e., DNA content per cell, modal chromosomal number), as well as phenotypic parameters (i.e., morphology, 5α‐reductase, androgen receptor, estrogen receptor) were used to validate that the in vitro cell lines retained the major characteristics of the parental in vivo tumor sublines used for their respective establishment.
An FPGA Correlation-Edge Distance approach for disparity map

This paper describes an FPGA Correlation-Edge Distance approach for real time disparity map generation in stereo-vision. The proposed method calculates the disparity map for the input and disparity map for Edge Distance images of a stereopair. In both cases the approximation algorithm of disparity map SAD (Sum of Absolute Differences) is used. The final disparity map is determined from the previously generated maps, considering a homogeneity parameter defined for each point in the scene. Due to low complexity when implementing stereo-vision algorithms in FPGA devices, the proposed method was implemented in a Cyclone II EP2C35F672C6 FPGA assembled in an Altera DE2 breadboard. The developed module can process stereo-pairs of 1280×1024 pixel resolution at a rate of 75 frames/s and produces 8-bit dense disparity maps within a range of disparities up to 63 pixels. The presented architecture provides a significant improvement in regions with uniformed texture over correlation based stereo-vision algorithms in the reported literature and an accelerated processing rate.
Characterization of the Dimerization Domain in BglG, an RNA-Binding Transcriptional Antiterminator fromEscherichia coli

ABSTRACT The Escherichia coli transcriptional antiterminator protein BglG inhibits transcription termination of the bgloperon in response to the presence of β-glucosides in the growth medium. BglG is an RNA-binding protein that recognizes a specific sequence partially overlapping the two terminators within thebgl transcript. The activity of BglG is determined by its dimeric state which is modulated by reversible phosphorylation. Thus, only the nonphosphorylated dimer binds to the RNA target site and allows readthrough of transcription. Genetic systems which test dimerization and antitermination in vivo were used to map and delimit the region which mediates BglG dimerization. We show that the last 104 residues of BglG are required for dimerization. Any attempt to shorten this region from the ends or to introduce internal deletions abolished the dimerization capacity of this region. A putative leucine zipper motif is located at the N terminus of this region. The role of the canonical leucines in dimerization was demonstrated by their substitution. Our results also suggest that the carboxy-terminal 70 residues, which follow the leucine zipper, contain another dimerization domain which does not resemble any known dimerization motif. Each of these two regions is necessary but not sufficient for dimerization. The BglG phosphorylation site, His208, resides at the junction of the two putative dimerization domains. Possible mechanisms by which the phosphorylation of BglG controls its dimerization and thus its activity are discussed.
Quantitative analysis of the effects of physiologic brain motion on point-resolved spectroscopy.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although single-voxel proton MR spectroscopy is a noninvasive method that enables measurement of brain metabolite concentrations, it has been shown that physiologic brain motion causes inaccuracies in measurement of metabolite concentrations and increases the overall SD of the measurements when the stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) is used. We tested the hypothesis that the point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) technique is less sensitive to physiologic brain motion than the STEAM technique. METHODS In 10 healthy subjects, spectra were obtained from a voxel located in the left basal ganglia by using the PRESS sequence with cardiac gating and without water suppression to assess global phase change as a function of physiologic brain motion. This was accomplished by acquiring data at various time delays from the R wave throughout the cardiac cycle. Subsequently, spectra were obtained in 10 healthy subjects by using PRESS both without and with cardiac gating, and with water suppression, to determine whether brain motion resulted in a statistically significant difference in mean and SD of measured metabolite concentration. RESULTS At various time delays from the R wave throughout the cardiac cycle, no significant global phase difference was noted in water signal intensity. In addition, when PRESS data were obtained both without and with cardiac gating (by using an optimal delay obtained from previously published data by using STEAM), no significant difference was seen in measured metabolite concentrations and SDs. CONCLUSION The PRESS technique is relatively insensitive to physiologic brain motion.
Low complexity and efficient architecture of 1D-DCT based Cordic-Loeffler for wireless endoscopy capsule

Due to the power limitation and the small size condition of the wireless capsule endoscopy, therefore the principal defiance is to reduce the area and the power consumption. The aim is to preserve acceptable image reconstruction and coding. In this paper, we present a Low complexity and efficient architecture of 1D-DCT based Cordic-Loeffler technique for wireless capsule endoscopy. Our improvement over the original algorithm is performed in CORDIC part. This brings us to reduce the number of addition operations from 18 to 10. As a result, the number of addition is reduced from 38 to 30 operations in the main algorithm. Also, to more ameliorate our results, we used Modified Carry look Ahead adder (MCLA) and Carry Save Adder (CSA) adder which are characterized by low power and high speed compared to classical Carry Look Ahead adder (CLA). Our aim is to provide an optimized architecture in terms of area and power consumption. The proposed design has been implemented on FPGA. Compared to other architectures, the proposed architecture has not only reduced the computation complexity, but also the area and the power consumption. It should be noted that the proposed DCT architecture is very suitable for low-power and high-quality codecs, especially for battery-based systems.
Effect of pulsing sequence of nanosecond pulsed electric fields on viability of HeLa S3 cells

This study elucidates the influence of the pulsing sequence of repetitive nanosecond pulsed electric fields on the viability of human cancer (HeLa S3) cells. A magnetic pulse compressor was used to repetitively deliver 70 ns-long high voltage pulses to cultured HeLa cells in a 4 mm-gap cuvette electrode. The repetition frequency was varied between 0.01 and 250 pulses per second (pps), corresponding to interval from 100 to 0.004 s, respectively. The electric field and the number of pulses were fixed at 25 kV/cm and 25, respectively, which is a sub-lethal condition for the cells. Propidium iodide was used to identify dead cells in the population. Statistical analysis of a cell death ratio in approximately 5000 cells was performed using a flow cytometer. This experiment shows repetition frequency affects cell viability even with identical intra-medium electrical energy expenditure. The dead cell ratio was increased with decreasing pulse repetition frequency down to 0.33 pps, whereas the ratio is decreased with decreasing frequency below 0.1 pps. Since the resealing mechanism of nano-pores caused by the application of ns pulse lasts for a minute, the dependence of the cell viability on the pulsing sequence might be associated with time constants of biological processes related to recovery from field-induced damage.
The Economic Impact of International Tourists on the TRNC Economy

This study set out to investigate the economic impact of the expenditure of international (non- turkish) tourists on the economy of North Cyprus. Using the input-output analytic process developed at the Michigan State University data spending data was retrieved from 460 respondents who made up the sample group. Findings as observable from the analysis and findings section revealed that 700,891 TL in additional direct sales were generated from international tourist expenditure, with every lira of international tourist spending generating 0.40kurus in additional direct income, especially to the primary tourism industry of the North Cyprus economy. The total additional sales generated also led to the direct creation of 19 additional jobs in the primary tourism industry.
Patient radiation exposure during transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures.

AIMS To describe patient radiation utilisation during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) on a series of consecutive patients. METHODS AND RESULTS Data on radiation exposure were prospectively collected for consecutive patients undergoing TAVR and percutaneous coronary interventions at our centre. Radiation dose during the procedure was recorded using the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reference point (Ka,r) and the dose area product (PKA). In addition to quantifying overall radiation doses during TAVR, radiation exposure during transfemoral (TF) (n=79) and transapical (TA) (n=26) cases was compared. The median radiation dose during TAVR was 1,639 mGy (983-2,420), or 188 (106-321) Gy*cm2. Radiation dose was significantly lower among TA patients using either the reference point (TA: 946 [777-1,261] vs. TF: 1,932 [1,383-2,614] mGy; p<0.001) or the dose area product (TA: 89 [60-115] vs. TF: 236 [164-338] Gy*cm2; p<0.001). Fluoroscopy time was lower for TA patients (TA: 10 [8-11] vs. TF: 30 [24-34] minutes; p<0.001). Operators experience did not affect radiation exposure for TF cases. CONCLUSIONS Radiation exposure during TAVR appears similar to other percutaneous coronary interventions of moderate complexity. Radiation doses were significantly lower for TA procedures. A higher dose of radiation in TF patients may be related to additional imaging requirements to optimise percutaneous vascular access and closure.
On the Role of Agent‐Based Modeling in the Theory of Development Economics

In this article I discuss the potential role of agent-based modeling techniques in development economics. Development economics has recently seen a strong rise of experimental evidence from the field and the laboratory. At the same time, there is a debate on how theory should adapt to this new approach and its findings. I argue in this paper that the agent-based modeling approach is a promising complement to the traditional modeling techniques, as it can easily incorporate the non-standard findings of the experimental literature. Moreover, I emphasize the opportunity of a mutually beneficial interplay between experiment-based empirical research and agent-based models.