Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Automatic Detection of Inshore Ships in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images Using Robust Invariant Generalized Hough Transform

In this letter, we propose a new detection framework based on robust invariant generalized Hough transform (RIGHT) to solve the problem of detecting inshore ships in high-resolution remote sensing imagery. The invariant generalized Hough transform is an effective shape extraction technique, but it is not adaptive to shape deformation well. In order to improve its adaptability, we use an iterative training method to learn a robust shape model automatically. The model could capture the shape variability of the target contained in the training data set, and every point in the model is equipped with an individual weight according to its importance, which greatly reduces the false-positive rate. Through the iteration process, the model performance is gradually improved by extending the shape model with these necessary weighted points. Experimental result demonstrates the precision, robustness, and effectiveness of our detection framework based on RIGHT.
Functional interaction of the KCl cotransporter ( KCC 1 ) with the Na-KCl cotransporter in HEK-293 cells

Gillen, Christopher M. , and Bliss Forbush III. Functional interaction of the K-Cl cotransporter (KCC1) with the Na-K-Cl cotransporter in HEK-293 cells. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Cell Physiol. 45): C328–C336, 1999. —We have studied the regulation of the K-Cl cotransporter KCC1 and its functional interaction with the Na-K-Cl cotransporter. K-Cl cotransporter activity was substantially activated in HEK-293 cells overexpressing KCC1 (KCC1-HEK) by hypotonic cell swelling, 50 mM external K, and pretreatment with N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). Bumetanide inhibited 86Rb efflux in KCC1HEK cells after cell swelling [inhibition constant (Ki) ,190 μM] and pretreatment with NEM (Ki ,60 μM). Thus regulation of KCC1 is consistent with properties of the red cell K-Cl cotransporter. To investigate functional interactions between K-Cl and Na-K-Cl cotransporters, we studied the relationship between Na-K-Cl cotransporter activation and intracellular Cl concentration ([Cl]i). Without stimulation, KCC1-HEK cells had greater Na-K-Cl cotransporter activity than controls. Endogenous Na-K-Cl cotransporter of KCC1-HEK cells was activated ,2-fold by low-Cl hypotonic prestimulation, compared with 10-fold activation in HEK-293 cells and . 20-fold activation in cells overexpressing the Na-K-Cl cotransporter (NKCC1-HEK). KCC1-HEK cells had lower resting [Cl]i than HEK-293 cells; cell volume was not different among cell lines. We found a steep relationship between [Cl]i and Na-K-Cl cotransport activity within the physiological range, supporting a primary role for [Cl]i in activation of Na-K-Cl cotransport and in apical-basolateral cross talk in ion-transporting epithelia.
Exercices pédagogiques d’économétrie : avec corrigés et rappels synthétiques de cours

L'econometrie est une matiere qui effraie le plus souvent les etudiants par son caractere formalise et le recours a des notions de mathematiques et de statistiques. Ce livre presente de maniere tres pedagogique l'ensemble du cours d'econometrie vu au travers d'exercices corriges. L'objectif est de proposer un complement indispensable aux cours d'econometrie et aux ouvrages existants ainsi qu'une aide a la preparation des seances de Travaux Diriges. L'etudiant pourra s'exercer de maniere progressive et intensive en vue de se preparer aux controles et aux examens. Chaque exercice est precede de son objectif et les rappels essentiels font l'objet d'un encadre. Ce livre repond a un double besoin pedagogique : mettre rapidement en pratique les connaissances theoriques, utiliser de maniere operationnelle les acquis du cours. La correction des exercices est illustree par l'utilisation de logiciels. Un site internet permet au lecteur de telecharger les series statistiques utilisees. Les themes suivants de l'econometrie sont abordes : les modeles de regression simple et multiple, l’auto-correlation des erreurs et l'heteroscedasticite, les modeles dynamiques, la non-stationnarite et les tests de racine unitaire, les modeles a equations simultanees et la representation VAR, la cointegration et le modele a correction d'erreur. Ce livre s'adresse aux etudiants de troisieme annee de Licence ou en Master de sciences economiques, de sciences de gestion, d'ecoles de commerce et d'ingenieurs.
VALORACIÓN DE LAS COMPETENCIAS PARA EL EMPLEO EN LOS TITULADOS UNIVERSITARIOS

Las competencias profesionales son un eje central en el diseno de los futuros planes de estudio universitario. El presente trabajo realiza una aproximacion a la valoracion que hacen los empleadores (223), profesores (403), alumnado (1750) y egresados (997) de la Universidad de La Laguna del papel de las competencias transversales en la insercion laboral de los titulados. Se han encontrado discrepancias entre el ambito academico (estudiantes y profesores) y el ambito laboral (egresados y empleadores) a la hora de valorar las competencias para el empleo, los primeros otorgan mayor importancia a los conocimientos teorico-practicos y las competencias instrumentales y suelen percibir mayores deficits en la formacion de competencias. En cambio, en el ambito laboral se otorga mayor importancia a aquellas competencias relacionadas con aspectos organizacionales y relaciones humanas, asi como con la autonomia y la gestion del trabajo.
Anatomy and the art of Archaic Greece

Except for the European Renaissance, no culture in human history has contributed so much to visual anatomy as did the Greeks. The artwork depicting the human form from that period is legendary. The Greek artists during the Archaic period (650–480 B.C.) combined narrative intent with stylistic naturalism (Gombrich, 1961). Images were important, not for just the message they conveyed, but also for their inherent aesthetic appeal. The medium—the human figure—was more important than the message (Boardman, 1994a). The Archaic Greek period spanned approximately 170 years, to the start of the Classical period. The anatomy in Greek art can be studied both from a morphological as well as a stylistic approach. Leonardo da Vinci coined the phrase “Sapere come vedere” — to know how to see. For fuller appreciation, one needs to see not only what is apparent to the eye, but also to understand the use of the human form—the medium—to convey the message of the work of art. The evolution in style from the early specimens to later ones can be attributed to advances in the Greeks’ knowledge of anatomy, the acquisition of sophisticated sculptural skills, and the urge to express more complicated feelings and emotions through anatomy. Anatomical depiction of young men, called kouroi, went from the rudimentary to those that were almost perfect specimens, and were narrative in that anatomy was used to convey feelings and emotions.
THE MANAGEMENT OF POLYCYTHAEMIA VERA *

Polycythaemia Vera is one of a group of diseases of the blood forming tissue characterized by an increased proliferation of haemopoietic and stromal cell lines derived from the multipotent primitive mesenchymal cell. The natural evolution of the disease ranges from a ‘benign neoplastic’ orderly proliferation of cells (a panmyelosis) with preservation of cellular differentiation and maturation through the ‘spent phase’ of myeloid metaplasia and myelofibrosis resembling, yet biologically distinct from chronic myelocytic leukaemia (Glasser & Walker, 1969)~ to a rapidly progressive stage of marrow decompensation with or without the appearance of a leukaemoid syndrome that resembles acute leukaemia (Wasserman, 1954; Lawrence et al, 1969). Increased erythroid activity is normally found in the early stages of the disease as represented by an elevated red-cell mass, accelerated but otherwise normal ferrokinetics, normal red-cell survival, normal skeletal distribution of the active marrow compartment, and normal red-cell, white-cell and platelet morphology in the peripheral blood. Varying degrees of megakaryocytic and myeloid hyperplasia are reflected in modest elevations of the platelet and granulocyte counts. With time, varied and changing patterns in cytopathology occur in both intraand extra-medullary sites. Increasing heteroplastic blood formation in the spleen and liver results in disturbed red-cell kinetics (Pollycove et al, 1966), shortening of red-cell survival and morphological characterization of the increasing extramedullary blood formation by the presence of oval, tear-drop and bizarre-shaped red cells, a leukoerythroblastic blood picture and an anaemia. An accelerated malignant phase may supervene, with increasing proliferation of blast forms resulting in a rising white cell count, a progressive anaemia and thrombocytopenia. The enlarging spleen is now the site of frequent infarction, with fever and infection; the terminal picture occurring in IO-IS% of cases is indistinguishable clinically and haematologically from acute or subacute myeloblastic leukaemia (Wasserman, 1954; Lawrence et al, 1969).
Designing Ticket Price Strategies for Professional Sports Teams Using Conjoint Analysis

This study emphasises the need for professional teams to have sophisticated methods for devising ticket pricing strategies. The research was designed to supply team managers with meaningful information from which to construct ticket prices that fit the needs of their fans. Three different fan segments were identified (general adults, college students and middle and high school students) and four attributes for determining ticket prices in a given circumstance were selected (Player, Coupon, Point and Price). Conjoint analysis technique was used to conduct the research and analyse findings.
Typisierung von SGB II Trägern

"Mit Einfuhrung des Sozialgesetzbuch II (SGB II) zum 1. Januar 2005 unterliegt die Grundsicherung fur Arbeitssuchende den so genannten SGB II-Tragern. Das IAB hat mit der Typisierung im SGB II-Bereich ein Werkzeug zur Unterstutzung fur Controlling und Steuerung der SGB II-Trager entwickelt. Zielsetzung dieser Typisierung ist es, Gruppen von SGB II-Tragern mit ahnlichen Arbeitsmarktbedingungen zu identifizieren. Regional vorherrschende Rahmenbedingungen stellen sich fur die Handelnden vor Ort als gegebene Vor- oder Nachteile dar. Die dabei auftretenden grosen regionalen Unterschiede sind angemessen zu berucksichtigen, um den jeweiligen Arbeitsmarkterfolg eines SGB II-Tragers objektiv beurteilen zu konnen. Die Typisierung reduziert die Komplexitat der Arbeitsmarkte auf ein handhabbares Mas. Das gewahlte methodische Vorgehen zur Bildung der Gruppen orientiert sich an einem Ansatz von Blien et al. 2004. Dieser Ansatz kombiniert Regressions- und Clusteranalyse. Mit Hilfe der Regressionsanalyse werden die kausalen Zusammenhange von Variablen aufgedeckt, die den Arbeitsmarkterfolg der Trager masgeblich mitbestimmen und diesen exogen vorgegeben sind. Sie dient somit als Pruf- und Auswahlverfahren fur die Einflussgrosen, welche die Ausgangsbasis fur die Gruppenbildung darstellen. Die Gruppenbildung selbst wird mit clusteranalytischen Verfahren erreicht. Im Jahr 2005 erarbeitete das IAB eine erste SGB II Typisierung, die beim Planungsprozess 2006 der Bundesagentur fur Arbeit und des Bundesministeriums fur Arbeit und Soziales Anwendung fand. Die Typisierung wurde nun aktualisiert, dabei wurden 12 Typen identifiziert. Die Arbeit geht auf das methodische Vorgehen ein, stellt die Ergebnisse der Aktualisierung vor und zeigt auf, welche Anderungen sich im Vergleich zur ersten Typisierung ergeben haben. " (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
FJS : Fine-grained Journal Store

Journaling has been a popular reliability tool for file systems. However, journaling may involve writing updates twice, once to the journal, and once to potentially random update locations. The journal granularity tends to be coarse, leading to more bytes written than necessary. We introduce Fine-grained Journal Store (FJS). Finegrained Journal Store uses the journal as the final storage location for updates, thus eliminating double and random writes. Fine-grained journaling units are utilized to reduce the number of bytes written compared to the number of bytes updated. To limit the memory overhead of tracking small updatable units, FJS uses a range-based lookup table. In addition, FJS reuses existing journaling constructs to avoid the need for additional byte-addressable NVM storage devices. We extended ext4 and jbd2 to prototype FJS. Our results show that FJS can outperform ext4 by up to 15x and reduce the write amplification of common metadata types by up to 5.8x. CCS Concepts •Information systems~Record storage systems
Metabolic syndrome scientific statement by the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

The metabolic syndrome is a constellation of risk factors that are associated with increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), type 2 diabetes, and their complications. This constellation consists of 5 metabolic risk factors that together increase the risk for ASCVD. These include atherogenic dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure, elevated glucose, a prothrombotic state, and a proinflammatory state. Atherogenic dyslipidemia consists of elevations of serum total apolipoprotein B (apoB), triglycerides, small particles in low density lipoprotein (LDL), and low levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL). An elevated glucose can be in the range of impaired fasting glucose (IFG), which is called prediabetes, or at the level of diabetes. Available evidence suggests that all of the metabolic risk factors are independently atherogenic. Moreover, individuals with metabolic syndrome, particularly when IFG is present, have a high likelihood of progression to type 2 diabetes. See Circulation . 2005;112:e285 The metabolic syndrome has a multifactorial causation. The predominant underlying risk factors are obesity (especially abdominal obesity) and insulin resistance. These often occur together, and their relative contributions to the syndrome have not been fully defined. Nonetheless, there is a general agreement that the increasing prevalence of obesity in the United States and worldwide is mainly responsible for the increasing occurrence of the syndrome. …
DSM-IV antisocial personality disorder field trial.

The development of the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) included 12 field trials to assess proposed revisions. This article provides results from the antisocial personality disorder (APD) field trial that was conducted to obtain data of relevance to the proposals for simplification and for the inclusion of more traditional traits of psychopathy. Provided herein are the results from 4 sites that had sampled from populations of particular relevance to the diagnosis of APD (i.e., prison inmates, psychiatric inpatients, outpatients with substance use disorders, and homeless persons). The results indicated that some items from the 3rd revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1987) could be deleted without affecting the diagnosis. The field trial provided mixed support for the proposal to include more traditional traits of psychopathy.
A Novel, Sporicidal Formulation of Ethanol for Glove Decontamination to Prevent Clostridium difficile Hand Contamination During Glove Removal

Decontamination of gloves before removal could reduce the risk for contamination of hands of personnel caring for patients with Clostridium difficile infection. We demonstrated that a novel sporicidal formulation of ethanol rapidly reduced C. difficile spores on gloved hands without adverse odor, respiratory irritation, or staining of clothing. Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2016;37(3):337–339
Improving accuracy of FDTD modelling in biological applications

This contribution demonstrates a possibility of improving accuracy of the continuous wave steady-state FDTD prediction of the EM field and the specific absorption rate (SAR) distributions in the layered biological tissues by reducing the numerical dispersion error via appropriate direct modification of the constitutive parameters of the tissues. The attractiveness of the approach lies in that the enhanced accuracy of the FDTD prediction is obtained at the negligible cost of a trivial pre-processing of the material parameters.
Assessing Depression in Schizophrenia: The Calgary Depression Scale

Since existing depression scales were designed for assessment of depression in non-psychotic populations, such scales have items which do not distinguish depressed from non-depressed psychotic subjects. The authors describe a new scale, the Calgary Depression Scale, which was designed for the assessment of depression in schizophrenia. The scale was derived from two existing scales by factor analysis and reliability analysis. It has been further tested in two new samples. In the first it has been shown to be reliable, congruent with a self-report scale and valid. In the second sample it has been shown that there is no overlap with negative or extrapyramidal symptoms.
The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach

Abstract Using an Osteobiographical approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeological context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identification of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval northern English geopolitics.
Design Considerations in Developing a Text Messaging Program Aimed at Smoking Cessation

Background Cell phone text messaging is gaining increasing recognition as an important tool that can be harnessed for prevention and intervention programs across a wide variety of health research applications. Despite the growing body of literature reporting positive outcomes, very little is available about the design decisions that scaffold the development of text messaging-based health interventions. What seems to be missing is documentation of the thought process of investigators in the initial stages of protocol and content development. This omission is of particular concern because many researchers seem to view text messaging as the intervention itself instead of simply a delivery mechanism. Certainly, aspects of this technology may increase participant engagement. Like other interventions, however, the content is a central driver of the behavior change. Objective To address this noted gap in the literature, we discuss the protocol decisions and content development for SMS Turkey (or Cebiniz birakin diyor in Turkish), a smoking cessation text messaging program for adult smokers in Turkey. Methods Content was developed in English and translated into Turkish. Efforts were made to ensure that the protocol and content were grounded in evidence-based smoking cessation theory, while also reflective of the cultural aspects of smoking and quitting in Turkey. Results Methodological considerations included whether to provide cell phones and whether to reimburse participants for texting costs; whether to include supplementary intervention resources (eg, personal contact); and whether to utilize unidirectional versus bidirectional messaging. Program design considerations included how messages were tailored to the quitting curve and one’s smoking status after one’s quit date, the number of messages participants received per day, and over what period of time the intervention lasted. Conclusion The content and methods of effective smoking cessation quitline programs were a useful guide in developing SMS Turkey. Proposed guidelines in developing text messaging-based behavior change programs are offered.
Preference-Aware View Recommendation System for Scenic Photos Based on Bag-of-Aesthetics-Preserving Features

In this paper, the framework for a real-time view recommendation system is proposed. The proposed system comprises two parts: offline aesthetic modeling stage and efficient online aesthetic view finding process. A preference-aware aesthetic model is proposed to suggest views according to varied user-favorite photographic styles, where a bottom-up approach is developed to construct an aesthetic feature library with bag-of-aesthetics-preserving features instead of top-down methods that implement the heuristic guidelines (rule-specific features) listed in photography literatures, which is employed in previous works. A collection of scenic photos is used as the test set; however, the proposed method can be employed to other types of photo collection according to different application scenarios. The proposed model can cover both implicit and explicit aesthetic features and can adapt to users' preferences with a learning process. In the second part, the learned model is employed in a view finder to help the user to locate the most aesthetic view while taking a photograph. The experimental results show that the proposed features in the library (92.06% in accuracy) outperform the state-of-the-art rule-specific features (83.63% in accuracy) significantly in the photo aesthetic quality classification task, and the rule-specific features are also proved to be encompassed by the proposed features. Meanwhile, it is observed from experiments that the features extracted for contrast information are more effective than those for absolute information, which is consistent with the properties of human visual systems. Furthermore, the user studies for the view recommendation task confirm that the suggested views are consistent with users' preferences (81.25% agreements).
Cavity matching of high dielectric constant SIW H-Plane horn antenna

A simple SIW H-plane horn antenna with a loaded open cavity is introduced. The new combination of the SIW H-plane horn and the open cavity results in a wide and constant impedance bandwidth, which has been hard to achieve by a single SIW horn antenna. Besides matching improvement, the new configuration results in higher gain with radiation pattern focused in antenna aperture. The longitudinal size of the structure is kept as the simple SIW horn; however, it is three times thicker than the simple horn.
Effect of drive parameters on field oriented controlled induction motor drive

Basic guidelines for the preparation of a technical work for the IEEE Power Engineering Society are presented. This document is itself an example of the desired layout (inclusive of this abstract) and can be used as a template. The document contains information regarding desktop publishing format, type sizes, and typefaces. Style rules are provided that explain how to handle equations, units, figures, tables, abbreviations, and acronyms. Sections are also devoted to the preparation of acknowledgments, references, and authors' biographies. The abstract is limited to 150 words and cannot contain equations, figures, tables, or references. It should concisely state what was done, how it was done, principal results, and their significance.