Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Learning to Live Together

As Professor Irabinna Rigney commenced the Learning to Live Together Conference with an Indigenous ritual he explained, "it' s easy to train your mind to think two ways". Adapting to difference and accepting change may not come naturally to everyone, however, just like learning to play the didgeridoo, it can actually be taught. Held on the 8th of October at the University of South Australia's Magill campus the purpose of the Learning to Live Together Conference was to provide a research platform between key stakeholders in Australia and EU countries to explore pedagogies that enhance cohesion in a super diverse world. Convened by the Hawke EU Centre and the Centre for Research in Education in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, UniSA, the event sought to develop connections between key EU educational researchers, policy makers and teachers in Australia by drawing on the knowledge and experience of diversity and cohesion in the European Union. The information convened was then expected to develop new curricula and workshops that would enhance the current approach taken by educational institutions as well as develop policy in respect of increasing mobility and migration.
From Mosque to Church and Back Again: Investigating a House of Faith in Post-Medieval Pylos

Abstract:The building currently used as the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in the Pylos Fortress is one of the largest preserved examples of Muslim and Christian religious architecture in the post-medieval Peloponnese. The present report, based on research and excavations conducted mainly between 1999 and 2002, places archival sources, architectural material, and anthropological finds within the historical context of southwest Messenia from the late 16th to the 20th century. This is the first archaeological account of Anavarin, a city previously known only through travelers' testimony and historic references, and it attempts to better understand this provincial center against the background of the larger historic framework of the Ottoman and modern Greek periods.
Approximating the inspiral of test bodies into Kerr black holes

We present a new approximate method for constructing gravitational radiation driven inspirals of test bodies orbiting Kerr black holes. Such orbits can be fully described by a semilatus rectum p, an eccentricity e, and an inclination angle iota, or, by an energy E, an angular momentum component L-z, and a third constant Q. Our scheme uses expressions that are exact (within an adiabatic approximation) for the rates of change ((p)over dot, (e)over dot, (iota)over dot) as linear combinations of the fluxes ((E)over dot, (L)over dot(z),(Q)over dot), but uses quadrupole-order formulas for these fluxes. This scheme thus encodes the exact orbital dynamics, augmenting it with an approximate radiation reaction. Comparing inspiral trajectories, we find that this approximation agrees well with numerical results for the special cases of eccentric equatorial and circular inclined orbits, far more accurate than corresponding weak-field formulas for ((p)over dot, (e)over dot, (iota)over dot). We use this technique to study the inspiral of a test body in inclined, eccentric Kerr orbits. Our results should be useful tools for constructing approximate waveforms that can be used to study data analysis problems for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna gravitational-wave observatory, in lieu of waveforms from more rigorous techniques that are currently under development.
Dendroaspin: a potent integrin receptor inhibitor from the venoms of Dendroaspis viridis and D. jamesonii.

In the last five years the identification of numerous adhesion receptors, and the recognition motifs within their physiological glycoprotein ligands, have elucidated some of the basic principles underlying cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions (1). Most adhesion receptors belong to the integrin supergene family, eg. a11bP3, avP3 (2). A key mechanism common to a number of integrin-ligand interactions involves the recognition of short aspartate-containing sequences or motifs (3), which include the ubiquitous sequence Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD). In this regard, a major breakthrough has been the discovery of a family of small (6-9kDa). RGD-containing polypeptides derived from the venoms of pit vipers, potent inhibitors of integrin-ligand interactions and thus termed disintegrins (4,5,6,7). In the present study we have identified, purified and sequenced a potent, novel disintegrin-like polypeptide from the venom of D.viridis, and an identical polypeptide from D.jamesonii. This polypeptide was originally described as a nontoxic neurotoxin (8) and was identified by us as containing an RGD motif during a search of the Protein Identification Resource (PIR), NBRF, Washington. The RGD motif was found to be held within the 13 amino acid-loop CFTPRCDMPGPYC, which is highly similar to that from the disintegrin, kismn CRIPRGDMPDDRC (9). whereas the remainder of the molecule showed high sequence identiry with the short-chain neurotoxins pable 1. ). We have developed a single step reverse phase HPLC purification of dendroaspin (Fig.1). from the whole venoms of Dendroaspis viridis and D. jamesonii kaimosae (Latoxan, France), by chromatography on a Vydac C-18 reverse phase column (6). A single active fraction was identified for each venom (Figl.). Active fractions were identified by testing for the inhibition of ADPinduced fibrinogen-mediated platelet aggregation in platelet rich plasma (PRP) as previously described (6). The amino acid sequence, as published by Joubert et a1 (8), was confirmed using established techniques (10). Table 1. illustrates the degree of homology with the neurotoxin erabutoxin b and the disintegrins, albolabrin and elegantin (6). There is minimal homology with the disintegrins outside the RGD-loop and minimal homology with the neurotoxins within the loop. Isoelectric focusing experiments were performed using PAG (Phmacia) over the ranges pH 5.5-8.5 and pH 3.5-9.5. Running
Using a Second-Order Polynomial Model to Determine The Optimum Vinasse/Grape Marc Ratio For In-Vessel Composting

This paper evaluates the influence of operating conditions (pH, Kjeldahl-N losses, NO3−-N, NO4+-N,C/N ratio and biodegradation) used in the vinasse/grape marc incubation on the properties of products obtained to determine the best incubation conditions (time and amount of vinasse proportion) to aid in the design of an in-vessel composting system. A second-order polynomial model consisting of two independent process variables was found to accurately describe, with <10% differences between experimental values and model prediction, the vinasse-grape marc incubation. The dependent variables measured were pH, Kjeldahl-N losses, NO3-−N, NO4+-N, C/N ratio and biodegradation and the independent process variables were operation time and amount of vinasse. Results determined products with acceptable chemical properties, high biodegradation and germination index and minimum Kjeldahl-N losses entails operating at medium-to-short operation time (20-35 days) and medium-to-low vinasse percentages (0-20%).
Theoretical perspectives of enterprise architecture

The number of published Enterprise Architecture (EA) research has increased during the last few years. As a discipline, EA is still young and lacking theoretical foundation. Lately some research trying to ground EA to theory has been published, including linkage to systems theory. Enterprise Architecture can be defined as; (i) a formal description of the current and future state(s) of an organisation, and (ii) a managed change between these states to meet organisation’s stakeholders’ goals and to create value to the organisation. Based on this definition, this conceptual paper tries to shed light to theoretical underpinnings of EA from three theoretical perspectives; EA as a communication media, EA as an activity, and EA as an information technology system. Our conclusions are that; (i) EA can be categorised as a communication media and theoretically underpinned by ontology and semiotics, (ii) EA can be explained and theoretically underpinned by Activity Theory, and (iii) EA can be categorised as an information technology system and theoretically underpinned by General Systems Theory and Technology Acceptance Theory.
IMA Genome-F 8

The genomes of Cercospora zeina, Fusarium pininemorale, Hawksworthiomyces lignivorus, Huntiella decipiens, and Ophiostoma ips are presented in this genome announcement. Three of these genomes are from plant pathogens and otherwise economically important fungal species. Fusarium pininemorale and H. decipiens are not known to cause significant disease but are closely related to species of economic importance. The genome sizes range from 25.99 Mb in the case of O. ips to 4.82 Mb for H. lignivorus. These genomes include the first reports of a genome from the genus Hawksworthiomyces. The availability of these genome data will allow the resolution of longstanding questions regarding the taxonomy of these species. In addition these genome sequences through comparative studies with closely related organisms will increase our understanding of how these species or close relatives cause disease.
Changes in Women's Condom Use over the First Year of College

Most college students are sexually active, engage in serially monogamous relationships, and use condoms inconsistently. Little is known about how condom use changes during college, and even less about variables predicting changes in use. Latent growth modeling (LGM) was used to examine changes in condom use during the first year of college among 279 women (mean age = 18.0; 74% White), who provided monthly reports on condom use frequency. At study entry, participants also reported on theoretically suggested risk and protective factors. Predictors of changes in use were examined after controlling for use of alternative contraception and partner type. LGM showed that women decreased their condom use during the first year of college. Levels of condom use were initially lower among women with strong alcohol–sexual risk expectancies, women with more previous sexual partners, women who did not smoke marijuana, and African American women. Decreases in condom use were greater among women with lower grade point averages, women from lower socioeconomic status families, and women who engaged in binge drinking. Reductions in condom use may place women at greater risk of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Identification of factors associated with decreases in condom use will enable targeted educational and intervention efforts.
Hypoglossal-Facial Nerve Anastomosis in the Rabbits Using Laser Welding

The aim of this study is to compare laser nerve welding of hypoglossal-facial nerve to microsurgical suturing and a result of immediate and delayed repair, and to evaluate the effectiveness of laser nerve welding in reanimation of facial paralysis of the rabbit models. The first group of 5 rabbits underwent immediate hypoglossal-facial anastomosis (HFA) by microsurgical suturing and the second group of 5 rabbits by CO2 laser welding. The third group of 5 rabbits underwent delayed HFA by microsurgical suturing and the fourth group of 5 rabbits by laser nerve welding. The fifth group of 5 rabbits sustained intact hypoglossal and facial nerve as control. In all rabbits of the 4 different groups, cholera toxin subunit B (CTb) was injected in the epineurium distal to the anastomosis site on the postoperative sixth week and in normal hypoglossal nerve in the 5 rabbits of control group. Neurons labeled CTb of hypoglossal nuclei were positive immunohistochemically and the numbers were counted. In the immediate HFA groups, CTb positive neurons were 1416 ± 118 in the laser welding group (n = 5) and 1429 ± 90 in the microsurgical suturing group (n = 5). There was no significant difference (P = 0.75). In the delayed HFA groups, CTb positive neurons were 1503 ± 66 in the laser welding group (n = 5) and 1207 ± 68 in the microsurgical suturing group (n = 5). Difference was significant (P = 0.009). There was no significant difference between immediate and delayed anastomosis in the laser welding group (P = 0.208), but some significant difference was observed between immediate and delayed anastomosis in the microsurgical suturing group (P = 0.016). Injected CTb in intact hypoglossal neurons (n = 5) were labeled 1970 ± 165. No dehiscence was seen on the laser welding site of nerve anastomosis in all the rabbits as re-exploration was done for injection of CTb. This study shows that regeneration of the anastomosed hypoglossal-facial nerve was affected similarly by either laser welding or microsurgical suturing in immediate repair; however, the welding was more effective especially in delayed repair.
Multirate Fractional-Order Repetitive Control of Shunt Active Power Filter Suitable for Microgrid Applications

This paper presents a multirate fractional-order repetitive control (MRFORC) of three-phase shunt active power filter (APF) suitable for microgrid applications. The proposed APF control scheme includes an inner proportional–integral control loop with a sampling rate identical to switching frequency and an external plug-in repetitive control (RC) loop with a reduced sampling rate. The MRFORC loop is implemented in the dq-frame with interleaving for the reduction of computational burden in each control cycle. Moreover, in order to deal with the harmonics in the presence of wide grid frequency variations, FORC, which replaces the fractional-order elements with the Lagrange-interpolation-based finite impulse response filter, is adopted instead of the conventional RC. The synthesis, stability analysis, and parameter tuning criteria of the MRFORC system are derived in detail. A step-by-step design example of the proposed controller is also given in this paper. Finally, experiments are performed to validate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Shape Code Based Lexicon Reduction for Offline Handwritten Word Recognition

A novel method to reduce the lexicon size in handwritten word recognition is proposed in this paper. Due to large lexica, the computational cost of current word recognisers is often too high for practical applications. The proposed lexicon reduction method is based on character shape codes. We examine four different shape code mappings based on machine printed character font, on handprint, and on cursive handwriting. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed method can reduce the computational effort while keeping the recognition rate high.
Multivariate Gaussian approximations on Markov chaoses

We prove a version of the multidimensional Fourth Moment Theorem for chaotic random vectors, in the general context of diffusion Markov generators. In addition to the usual componentwise convergence and unlike the infinite-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck generator case, another moment-type condition is required to imply joint convergence of of a given sequence of vectors.
Reconstruction and stability in Gelfand’s inverse
interior spectral problem

Assume that $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold of bounded geometry given by restrictions on its diameter, Ricci curvature and injectivity radius. Assume we are given, with some error, the first eigenvalues of the Laplacian $\Delta$ on $M$ as well as the corresponding eigenfunctions restricted on an open set in $M$. We then construct a stable approximation to the manifold $(M,g)$. Namely, we construct a metric space and a Riemannian manifold which differ, in a proper sense, just a little from $M$ when the above data are given with a small error. We give an explicit logarithmic stability estimate on how the constructed manifold and the metric on it depend on the errors in the given data. Moreover a similar stability estimate is derived for the Gel'fand's inverse problem. The proof is based on methods from geometric convergence, a quantitative stability estimate for the unique continuation and a new version of the geometric Boundary Control method
Explorer Investigating shared aetiology between type 2 diabetes and major depressive disorder in a population based cohort

Citation for published version: Clarke, T-K, Obsteter, J, Hall, LS, Hayward, C, Thomson, PA, Smith, BH, Padmanabhan, S, Hocking, LJ, Deary, IJ, Porteous, DJ & McIntosh, AM 2016, 'Investigating shared aetiology between type 2 diabetes and major depressive disorder in a population based cohort' American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, vol 174, no. 3, pp. 227-234. DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b. 32478
Analytically constrained ZVS operation to reduce commutation losses for high boost dual active bridge converters

Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converters offer an unmatched capability to transfer energy in either direction between two DC sources, especially when they are operated under Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) conditions. However, the parasitic commutation inductance within the bridge phase leg devices can still lead to significant energy losses at device turn-off despite operating under ZVS conditions. These losses can become significant when one bridge has a low DC bus voltage and a consequential high magnitude output current. This paper shows how harmonic decomposition analysis can be used to constrain the bridge circulating currents to their minimum possible values at the point of phase leg commutation while still ensuring that ZVS operation is maintained. This can be used to improve the overall DAB performance under low voltage, high current operating conditions of one DC port. The capability of the theoretical analysis process is confirmed by matching experimental results for a reference DAB system.
Evaluation of word embeddings against cognitive processes: primed reaction times in lexical decision and naming tasks

This work presents a framework for word similarity evaluation grounded on cognitive sciences experimental data. Word pair similarities are compared to reaction times of subjects in large scale lexical decision and naming tasks under semantic priming. Results show that GloVe embeddings lead to significantly higher correlation with experimental measurements than other controlled and off-the-shelf embeddings, and that the choice of a training corpus is less important than that of the algorithm. Comparison of rankings with other datasets shows that the cognitive phenomenon covers more aspects than simply word relatedness or similarity.
Using stacking to average Bayesian predictive distributions Using stacking to average Bayesian predictive distributions

Abstract The widely recommended procedure of Bayesian model averaging is flawed in the M-open setting in which the true data-generating process is not one of the candidate models being fit. We take the idea of stacking from the point estimation literature and generalize to the combination of predictive distributions, extending the utility function to any proper scoring rule, using Pareto smoothed importance sampling to efficiently compute the required leave-one-out posterior distributions and regularization to get more stability. We compare stacking of predictive distributions to several alternatives: stacking of means, Bayesian model averaging (BMA), pseudo-BMA using AIC-type weighting, and a variant of pseudoBMA that is stabilized using the Bayesian bootstrap. Based on simulations and real-data applications, we recommend stacking of predictive distributions, with BB-pseudo-BMA as an approximate alternative when computation cost is an issue.
Cholinoreceptor Autoantibodies in Sjögren Syndrome

Previous studies have demonstrated that antibodies against cholinoreceptors of exocrine glands correlate with dry mouth in persons with primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS). The aim of the present investigation was to establish if serum IgG antibodies (pSS IgG) were able to interact with cholinoreceptors in rat submandibular gland-dependent stimulation of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) mRNA expression and PGE2 production. Our findings indicated that pSS IgG-stimulating M3, M4, and M1 cholinoreceptors exerted an increase in COX-2 mRNA without affecting COX-1 mRNA expression and increased PGE2 production. Inhibitors of phospholipase A2, COX- s, L-type calcium channel currents, and Ca2+-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum prevented the pSS IgG effect on PGE2 production. An ionophore of calcium mimicked pSS IgG action, suggesting a crucial role of calcium homeostasis in the cholinoreceptor-stimulated increase in PGE2 production. Moreover, the amounts of PGE2 in saliva and in sera from persons with pSS were significantly higher than in pre- or post-menopausal women. These findings illustrate the importance of autoantibodies to cholinoreceptors in the generation of chronic inflammation of target tissues in SS.
Identification and Translation of Significant Patterns for Cross-Domain SMT Applications

Adaptation of statistical machine translation (SMT) systems from generic to specific domains is challenging due to the lack of training data. In this paper we propose a framework for domain adaptation by exploiting a large monolingual in-domain corpus. We identify the significant patterns to capture the domain specific writing styles. The patterns are then translated with the involvements of domain experts. The major issue of our framework is to reduce the cost of the experts and better allocate their efforts. The experimental results show the proposed methods are effective, in terms of the significance and diversity of the patterns. The approaches to integrate the mined patterns into background SMT are also discussed.
A stochastic optimization approach for dynamic adaptive scalable video streaming over NDN

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a general proposed network layer protocol which offers a set of rich functionality: in-network storage, multi-path forwarding, and data-centric security. The cache and multi-path feature improves the efficiency of transmission but increases the difficulty of the bandwidth estimation. In this paper, a dynamic layer switching strategy using Lyapunov Optimization is proposed for dynamic adaptive scalable video streaming over NDN. It aims for optimizing long-term quality-of-experience(QoE) of users via maximizing video quality subject to a constraint on playback smoothness, interruption and fluctuation. The proposed algorithm does not require a priori knowledge of the network bandwidth dynamics, and is capable of operating online with the client's currently available information. Experimental results indicate that our algorithm performs better than others in NDN.
Technology trends and architecture research for future mobile Internet

With the rapid development of wireless transmission technologies and the proliferation of mobile terminals, the mobile Internet has experienced exponential growth in recent years. However, at the same time, it is also facing more challenges, particularly regarding bandwidth, address space, security, mobility, and energy. In this article, we analyse the five above-mentioned challenges and then survey related technology trends. We also describe the progress of architecture research aimed at the future mobile Internet. We reach the conclusion that a single technology cannot solve all the problems of mobile Internet, and future research should focus more on how to make architectures and technologies work together more effectively.