Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DSR Route Information based IEEE 802.11g under the Influence of Node-Mobility

To provide efficient internet access to mobile users without any disruption of services in conjunction with optimum QoS, the problem of mobility-induced route failures needs to overcome considerably in MANETs. This work is an effort made for the exhaustive investigation, to ascertain the impact of mobility speed of mobile nodes over the performance of DSR route information based IEEE 802.11g MANET at high data rate of 54 Mbps, not reported in previous work. This work is demonstrated by using OFDM radio network interfaces along with DCF-MAC protocol implementation under different network load by means of OPNET Modeler
An implementation of post processing technique in 3D graphics

The role of Post processing in real -time rendering is popular these days in 3D graphics. The photo-realistic images and the respective dynamic rendering are needed within application. Here in this paper we are discussing all the rendering pipeline, pros and cons to the post processing techniques as well as the rendering result that we can generate using these all. The effect as Fog, Motion-Blur, Ping-Pong Texturing has quite effective result over GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) these days. We will discuss the overall phenomenon to achieve these effects within different topics.
An Iterative Compensation Approach Without Linearization of Projector Responses for Multiple-Projector System

We aim to realize a new and simple compensation method that robustly handles multiple-projector systems without recourse to the linearization of projector response functions. We introduce state equations, which distribute arbitrary brightness among the individual projectors, and control the state equations according to the feedback from a camera. By employing the color-mixing matrix with gradient of projector responses, we compensate the controlled brightness input to each projector. Our method dispenses with cooperation among multiple projectors as well as time-consuming photometric calibration. Compared with existing methods, our method is shown to offer superior compensation performance and a more effective way of compensating multiple-projector systems.
From agile software development to the sharing economy and the collaborative commons: Social apps for enterprises

In this article we motivate the ongoing changes in our economy due to digitalization of enterprises and the changes in workforce. The evolution and growth of digital and mobile technologies has radically changed the way we work. The success of agile software development can be seen as a forerunner of an economic transformation that results in purpose-driven organisations, the sharing economy and the collaborative commons. In such a setting, it is of uttermost importance to listen to the needs of employees and to create a working environment that helps them to thrive. The app effect - well known from the consumer market - has finally reached the enterprise.
Enhanced Distribution Field Tracking Using Channel Representations

Visual tracking of objects under varying lighting conditions and changes of the object appearance, such as articulation and change of aspect, is a challenging problem. Due to its robustness and speed, distribution field tracking is among the state-of-the-art approaches for tracking objects with constant size in grayscale sequences. According to the theory of averaged shifted histograms, distribution fields are an approximation of kernel density estimates. Another, more efficient approximation are channel representations, which are used in the present paper to derive an enhanced computational scheme for tracking. This enhanced distribution field tracking method outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on the VOT2013 challenge, which evaluates accuracy, robustness, and speed.
Effect of Previous Chemotherapy on the Quality of Cryopreserved Human Ovarian Tissue In Vitro

Background Cryopreservation of ovarian tissue has been widely accepted as an option for fertility preservation among cancer patients. Some patients are exposed to chemotherapy prior to ovarian tissue cryopreservation. Consequently, assessment of the developmental capacity of human ovarian tissue after chemotherapy is of primary importance. Materials In order to study the impact of previous chemotherapy on in vitro development and viability of ovarian follicles, quality control samples from 34 female cancer patients at median age of 15 years (range 1‒35), cryopreserved for fertility preservation before (n = 14) or after (n = 20) initiation of chemotherapy, were thawed and cultured for 7 days. The morphology and developmental stages of ovarian follicles were studied by light microscopy before and after culture. Possible associations between follicular densities, age and exposure to alkylating agents, expressed as cyclophosphamide equivalent dose (CED) were tested. Results Exposure to chemotherapy significantly impaired the survival and development of ovarian follicles in culture. After seven days, significantly higher densities of intermediary, primary and secondary follicles and lower densities of atretic follicles was detected in the samples collected before chemotherapy. Increasing dose of alkylating agents was identified by multivariate linear regression analysis as an independent predictor of a higher density of atretic follicles, whereas increasing age of the patient predicted a better outcome with less follicle atresia and a higher density of maturing follicles. Conclusion This study provides quantitative in vitro evidence of the impact of chemotherapy on developmental capacity of cryopreserved human ovarian tissue. The results indicate that fertility preservation should be carried out, if possible, before initiation of alkylating agents in order to guarantee better in vitro survival of ovarian follicles. In addition, ovarian samples from younger girls show lower viability and fewer developing follicles in culture.
Associative Design of Brand Clothing Series Modeling and Artistic Design Principles

Consumers always have a preference for style design when they buy clothes. The purpose of the serialized design of brand clothing modeling is to cover the corresponding target customer groups to the largest extent with its similar clothing products. In this paper, the research on the clothing modeling serialized design is refined into the research on the association study of it and the clothing modeling design, based on the artistic design theory about the basic principle of formal aesthetic sense. Through the analysis of several cases using the aesthetic law of the points, lines and surfaces of art design in the design of clothing series, this paper summarizes the law of the continuous design of clothing series. Keywords—brand clothing; modeling design; art design theory; serialization; continuity
MEMS-based mechanical spectrum analyzer

An ac-operated capacitive accelerometer with electrostatic force feedback is employed for direct mechanical spectrum analysis. Force feedback acts as a means for electronic modulation of the spring constant of the suspension and thus for enhancing the sensitivity. Therefore, a suitable electrostatic time-varying actuation can be used to make the accelerometer selectively sensitive to a coherent frequency component of a mechanical vibration. By sweeping the frequency of the drive voltage over a selected range, the mechanical (vibration) spectrum is analyzed in the mechanical domain. An inverted pendulum type of accelerometer structure has been fabricated in silicon using micromachining techniques and operated using electrostatic momentum feedback. The spectral performance is comparable to fast Fourier transform based systems for spectral analysis on a time series supplied by a conventional accelerometer, while the overall system features a reduced complexity and reduced power consumption.
Oral Contraceptives and Cervical Carcinoma in Situ in Chile 1

A case-control study of cervical carcinoma in situ was conducted in Santiago, Chile, to determine whether risk of this condition is altered by use of oral contraceptives. Responses to a standardized questionnaire were compared in 133 hospitalized cases and 254 age-matched controls selected from the same screening program through which the cases were detected. After controlling for the possible confounding influence of a variety of indices of sexual behavior, socioeconomic status, and prior cytological smears, no increase in risk was found in women who ever used oral contraceptives. No trend of increasing or decreasing risk was seen in relation to duration of use, up to more than 6 years of exposure, or with the passage of time from either initial or most recent exposure. An observed increase in risk in current users of oral contraceptives was not considered likely to represent a causal relationship.
Perceptually-motivated graphics, visualization and 3D displays

This course presents timely, relevant examples on how researchers have leveraged perceptual information for optimization of rendering algorithms, to better guide design and presentation in (3D stereoscopic) display media, and for improved visualization of complex or large data sets. Each presentation will provide references and short overviews of cutting-edge current research pertaining to that area. We will ensure that the most up-to-date research examples are presented by sourcing information from recent perception and graphics conferences and journals such as ACM Transactions on Perception, paying particular attention work presented at the 2010 Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization.
An XJML-based wrapper generator for Web information extraction

There has been tremendous interest in information integration systems that auto:matically gather, manipulate, and integrate data from multiple information sources on a user’s behalf. Unfortunately, web sites are primarily designed for human browsing rather than for use by a computer program. Mechanically extracting their content is in general a rather difficult job if not impossible [4]. Software systems using such web informa.tion sources typically use hand-coded wrappers to extract information content of interest from web sources and translate query responses to a more structured format (e.g., relational form) before unifying them into an integrated answer to a. user’s query. The most recent generation of information mediator systems (e.g., Ariadne [3], CQ [5, 71, Internet Softbots [4], TSIMMIS [2]) addresses this problem by enabling a pre-wrapped set of web sources to be accessed via database-like queries. However, hand-coding a wrapper is time consuming and error-prone. We have also observed that, by using a good design methodology, only a relatively small part of the code deals with t,he source-specific access details, the rest of the code is either common among wrappers or can be expressed in a high level, more structured fashion. As the Web grows, maintaining a reasonable number of wrappers becomes impractical. First, the number of information sources of interest to a user query can be quite large, even within a particular domain. Second, new information sources are constantly added on the Web. Thirdly, the content and presentation format of the existing information sources may change frequently and autonomously. With these observations in mind, we have developed a wrapper generation system, called XWrap, for semi-automatic construction of wrappers for Web information sources. The system contains a library of commonly used functions, such as receiving queries from applications, handling of filter queries, and packaging results. It also contains some source-specific facilities that are in charge of mapping a mediator query to a remote cormection call to fetch the relevant pages and translating the retrieve’d page(s) into a more structured format (such as XML documents or relational tables). A distinct feature of our wrapper generator is its ability to pro-
Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the Escherichia coli luxS mRNA; Involvement of the sRNA MicA

Background The small RNA (sRNA) MicA has been shown to post-transcriptionally regulate translation of the outer membrane protein A (OmpA) in Escherichia coli. It uses an antisense mechanism to down-regulate OmpA protein synthesis and induce mRNA degradation. MicA is genomically localized between the coding regions of the gshA and luxS genes and is divergently transcribed from its neighbours. Transcription of the luxS gene which originates within or upstream of the MicA sequence would thus be complementary to the sRNA. LuxS regulation is as yet unclear. Methodology/Principal Findings In this report, I show that the luxS mRNA exists as three long (major) transcripts of sizes that suggest just such interaction. The sRNA MicA's expression affects the abundance of each of these luxS transcripts. The involvement of the ribonuclease, RNase III in the accumulation of the shortest transcript is demonstrated. When MicA accumulates during growth, or is induced to be over-expressed, the cleaved mRNA species is observed to increase in intensity. Using primer extension and 5′-RACE experiments in combination with sRNA overexpression plasmids, I identify the exact origin of two of the three luxS transcripts, one of which is seen to result from a previously unidentified σS dependent promoter. Conclusions/Significance The presented data provides strong evidence that MicA functions in cis and in trans, targeting both luxS mRNA as well as the previously established ompA and phoP regulation. The proposed luxS regulation by MicA would be in tandem with another sRNA CyaR, shown recently to be involved in inhibiting translation of the luxS mRNA. Regulation of luxS expression is additionally shown to occur on a transcriptional level via σS with variable transcript levels in different growth phases unlike what was previously assumed. This is the first known case of an sRNA in E. coli which targets both in cis (luxS mRNA) and in trans (ompA and phoP mRNAs).
Glutathione S-Transferase P1, Maternal Smoking, and Asthma in Children: A Haplotype-Based Analysis

Background Glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) plays a role in a spectrum of respiratory diseases; however, the effects of sequence variation across the entire locus in asthma pathogenesis have yet to be determined. Objectives This study was designed to investigate whether sequence variations in the GSTP1 coding and promoter regions are associated with asthma and wheezing outcomes and to determine whether variants affect susceptibility to maternal smoking. Methods Four haplotype tagging SNPs were selected that accounted for 83% of the common haplotypic variation in GSTP1. The associations of GSTP1 variants with asthma and wheezing were assessed among white children in the Children’s Health Study (CHS). Results The Ile105Val allele and a SNP in the upstream promoter region (SNP1: rs6591255, putative transcription factor 1 binding site) were associated with asthma and wheezing outcomes, an association observed in two cohorts of the CHS recruited in different years. Haplotypes that included both the promoter SNP (i.e., rs6591255) and the 105 Val variant were associated with an increased risk for asthma in non-Hispanic whites. Using SNP- and haplotype-based approaches, the effect of maternal smoking on wheezing was largest in children with the Ile105Val allele. Conclusions Variants in both the promoter and coding regions of the GSTP1 locus may contribute to the occurrence of childhood asthma and wheezing and may increase susceptibility to adverse effects of tobacco-smoke exposure.
42 Politics Within Markets : Regulating Forestry through Non-State Environmental Governance

The presentation in Chapter One of forest certification as an emerging form of global and domestic non-state market driven (NSMD) governance immediately presents a comparative policy analyst with important analytical and methodological decisions. We must first develop an analytical framework that permits us to uncover and classify the phenomenon we seek to study, and that is appropriate and applicable across cases. The analytical framework must also facilitate broader reflections into the nature of the new phenomenon, as well as permitting the development of explanations for noted differences. This chapter proceeds in three steps. First, we present an analytical framework designed to both classify and highlight differences in the emergence and support for NSMD forest certification governance in our cases. Second, we develop explanatory hypotheses to explain divergence in levels of support. These hypotheses draw on our analytical framework for categorizing and explaining causal relationships. The hypotheses themselves are drawn both inductively from preliminary research on our cases, as well as from existing relevant literature that indirectly pertains to our case. Third, with reference to literature on research methods for political science and social science in general, we outline and justify the methodological choices designed to illustrate and test our argument.
Estimating Quantiles from the Union of Historical and Streaming Data

Modern enterprises generate huge amounts of streaming data, for example, micro-blog feeds, financial data, network monitoring and industrial application monitoring. While Data Stream Management Systems have proven successful in providing support for real-time alerting, many applications, such as network monitoring for intrusion detection and real-time bidding, require complex analytics over historical and real-time data over the data streams. We present a new method to process one of the most fundamental analytical primitives, quantile queries, on the union of historical and streaming data. Our method combines an index on historical data with a memory-efficient sketch on streaming data to answer quantile queries with accuracy-resource tradeoffs that are significantly better than current solutions that are based solely on disk-resident indexes or solely on streaming algorithms.
Scaling POMDPs for Spoken Dialog Management

Control in spoken dialog systems is challenging largely because automatic speech recognition is unreliable, and hence the state of the conversation can never be known with certainty. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a principled mathematical framework for planning and control in this context; however, POMDPs face severe scalability challenges, and past work has been limited to trivially small dialog tasks. This paper presents a novel POMDP optimization technique-composite summary point-based value iteration (CSPBVI)-which enables optimization to be performed on slot-filling POMDP-based dialog managers of a realistic size. Using dialog models trained on data from a tourist information domain, simulation results show that CSPBVI scales effectively, outperforms non-POMDP baselines, and is robust to estimation errors.
History as a Source of Organizational Identity Creation

We analysed the self-representation of twelve watchmaking firms located in a cluster in East Germany to understand how they apply rhetorical history to craft their identity. The findings show that there are common elements of rhetorical history that help organizations craft their identity, but there are also differences based on each firm’s historical background. While some firms specifically relate their identity to their own history, others mainly employ cluster-level history, while still others may even self-construct fictional historical roots. By discussing these findings, we contribute to a better understanding of how an organization’s identity is crafted and how history is utilized in such identity creation.
Integrating Partial Models of Network Normality via Cooperative Negotiation: An Approach to Development of Multiagent Intrusion Detection Systems

Using agents for developing intrusion detection systems can provide several advantages, including configurability, adaptability, scalability, and robustness. Almost all works in agent-based intrusion detection have considered agents as elements that perform specific tasks in the intrusion detection process. In this paper, we propose a novel way of using agents to solve one of the most pressing problems in intrusion detection: the definition of an accurate model of network normality. We consider agents as associated to partial models of network normality that harmonize their conflicts via cooperative negotiation. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is promising.
Release of membrane-associated mucins from ocular surface epithelia.

PURPOSE Three membrane-associated mucins (MAMs)--MUC1, MUC4, and MUC16--are expressed at the ocular surface epithelium. Soluble forms of MAMs are detected in human tears, but the mechanisms of their release from the apical cells are unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify physiologic agents that induce ocular surface MAM release. METHODS An immortalized human corneal-limbal epithelial cell line (HCLE) expressing the same MAMs as native tissue was used. An antibody specific to the MUC16 cytoplasmic tail was developed to confirm that only the extracellular domain is released into the tear fluid or culture media. Effects of agents that have been shown to be present in tears or are implicated in the release or shedding of MAMs in other epithelia (neutrophil elastase, tumor necrosis factor [TNF]), TNF-alpha-converting enzyme, and matrix metalloproteinase-7 and -9) were assessed on HCLE cells. HCLE cell surface proteins were biotinylated to measure the efficiency of induced MAM release and surface restoration. Effects of induced release on surface barrier function were measured by rose bengal dye penetrance. RESULTS MUC16 in tears and in HCLE-conditioned medium lacked the cytoplasmic tail. TNF induced the release of MUC1, MUC4, and MUC16 from the HCLE surface. Matrix metalloproteinase-7 and neutrophil elastase induced the release of MUC16 but not of MUC1 or MUC4. Neutrophil elastase removed 68% of MUC16, 78% of which was restored to the HCLE cell surface 24 hours after release. Neutrophil elastase-treated HCLE cells showed significantly reduced rose bengal dye exclusion. CONCLUSIONS Results suggest that the extracellular domains of MUC1, MUC4, and MUC16 can be released from the ocular surface by agents in tears. Neutrophil elastase and TNF, present in higher amounts in the tears of patients with dry eye, may cause MAM release, allowing rose bengal staining.
Pathology of apprenticeships for masters of nursing critical care

Introduction The increasing complexity of patient care conditions in intensive care units, along with the development of these units, has increased the need for qualified nurses and health professionals. Therefore, due to recent changes and in response to the shortage of capable nurses, a master’s major in intensive care nursing has been created. One of the main challenges of this curriculum is to ensure that graduates have the required competencies. The current study aimed to explain the pathology of apprenticeships for a masters in nursing critical care. Methods This qualitative study was conducted for masters in nursing critical care students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2014–2015. The sampling was purposeful. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 15 students. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results Three categories “ineffective management, unfavorable context for achieving skills, and lack of clinical instructors and sufficient competence” were extracted. Conclusion Preparing settings for entering students such as having an adequate training field and expert educators, providing conditions for orientation of educators and participation in the related workshops, and recruitment of experienced instructors in the apprenticeships field can increase the quality of MS levels.