Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CLUSTER BASED ENERGY EFFICIEN JOINT ROUTING ALGORITHM FOR DELAY MINIMIZATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

In wireless sensor network, Randomly deployed nodes are formed as a clusters of varying size for each area depending upon the numbers of users.This paper deals with the the cluster based joint routing with mobile sink and with static sink in cognitive based wireless sensor network. The Joint Routing (JR) is designed to overcome the problems, due to data gatherings of the sensor nodes for any application. Channel resources usually may vary among the different routing methods based on the traffic characteristics and application they require, which poses a great challenge to guarantee time delivery services. These problems poses a great challenge for Cognitive radio based WSN. The resource allocation technique overcomes the problems like spatial priority, time delay, transmission delay and energy loss and here the channel resources are allocated with the help of TDMA technique. Use of Static sink causes major energy consumption of the network which in turn causes the nodes in the network to die out earlier which leads to poor throughput and network lifetime. To overcome these issues ,before each transmission in a sensor network, Mobile sink has been used which helps in less energy consumption by applying random mobility to sink.The network with mobile sink provide us optimal solution as well as performance when compare with network with static sink. It is shown that the proposed system achieves 15% of improved throughput, 20%of less packet loss and 35% of less delay when compare with the system having centralized sink. Keywords—Joint Routing, Cluster,mobile sink,TDMA,Static sink,Throughput,Packet Loss.
Electrocardiogram Signal Analysis for Diagnosis of Apnea

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal analysis has been done for diagnosis of apnea disease. Some useful statistical parameters are extracted from electrocardiograms and assessment is done. ECG signals are collected from normal healthy persons as well as patients who are suffering from apnea disease for assessment. First, normal ECG signal is collected and then de-noised. Then the signal is decomposed at different levels of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and approximate coefficients of the normal ECG signal at different DWT decomposition level are determined. Similarly, ECG signals collected from patients suffering from apnea disease are also de-noised. Then, approximate coefficients of this signal at different DWT decomposition levels are determined. Radars and histogram analysis are done both for normal person and apnea patient. Comparative study results in clear changes in those parameters that may be used for detection of apnea.
The Global File System

The Global File System (GFS) is a distributed file system based on shared network storage. GFS clients directly connect to storage devices through switched, channel networks called Storage Area Networks (SANs). Each client views storage as locally attached, though no single computer owns or controls these network devices. No direct communication exists between computers; GFS clients remain independent from failures and bottlenecks of other clients [1]. GFS achieves client independence by atomically modifying shared data. A storage-device-managed locking mechanism facilitates atomic operations. Before data modification, clients acquire one or more device-managed locks. After clients modify and write data back to the storage devices, clients release the locks. In this regard, clients access storage devices like processors of a shared memory multiprocessor computer (SMP) access memory. Except to maintain consistency, clients are unaware of other clients. The Global File System prototype is built upon Fibre Channel SAN networks. GFS is implemented in the Silicon Graphics IRIX operating system and is accessed using standard UNIX commands and utilities. GFS uses a consistency mechanism, called device locks, that is prototyped on Seagate disk drives and Ciprico disk arrays. This paper describes the architecture and implementation of the file system design. Performance analysis is given for the file system prototype in large data demand environments.
How Parties of Niche Origin Become Junior Coalition Partners

Studies analyzing niche parties have noted that these parties hold executive office less often than mainstream parties due to niche parties attaching less importance to office goals. We challenge these assumptions, arguing that the reason that niche parties less commonly enter executive coalitions has more to do with the preferences of mainstream parties than with any reluctance on the part of the niche parties themselves. We suggest that niche parties are disfavored by formateur parties as junior partners for reasons of transaction costs and risk attitudes. Only if niche parties are perceived as reliable and persistent coalition partners will mainstream parties seek to form a coalition government with them. Analyzing junior coalition membership in 19 democracies (1945-2012) we find support for our theoretical framework. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of party system fragmentation and its consequences for coalition formation in contemporary democracies
Teachers' Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) using achievements and attitudes towards ICT

Within MEB’s criteria on General Competencies for Teaching Profession, teachers are expected to be individuals, who are able to use technology and be a model for students in that respect. This study was conducted to determine level of teachers’ success in using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and to examine their attitudes towards ICT. The study was conducted using survey method and research population consisted of 163 teachers. Firstly, teachers’ ICT using achievements and attitude towards ICT were determined using Attitude Towards ICT Scale and an examination on ICT use. Then relations between teachers’ relevant attitudes and using achievements were studied. Study findings suggest there are considerable deficiencies in teachers’ use of ICT. It was found that teachers’ general attitude towards use of ICT in education was positive; but they thought using ICT in crowded classrooms would increase their responsibilities. A high level of positive relation was found between teachers’ ICT using achievements and attitudes towards ICT. Findings of the study also emphasize requirement of re-arrangement of computer course curriculum used at faculties of education and MEB’s in-service training programs regarding both contents and methods used.
SPECIAL JUDO FITNESS TEST – A REVIEW

Judo has been characterized as a high-intensity intermittent combat sport, consisting of many different techniques and actions employed during a match. In judo, diagnostics is performed to gain information in talent identification and selection, to define athletes' current fitness condition, and to monitor training effects. The aim of this paper was to provide an overview of a specific test that is commonly used in judo to evaluate judo-specific performance. Pub med and Web of Science were screened (last search on October 1 2012) using the following keywords: (Special Judo Fitness Test) and (SJFT). For this purpose, articles, titles and abstracts were screened for relevance. The SJFT showed reliability with a low measurement error, applicability and sensitivity for training monitoring even with high level (elite) judokas. Furthermore, this test identified differences between judokas of various fitness levels, and highly correlated to well-controlled laboratory tests; it was also relevant to attacks during a judo match. As a result of the material collected and presented here, the SJFT was considered as an adequate and comprehensive testing tool in all levels of judo practitioners as well as in athletes doing sports similar to judo.
Hardware Support for Fine-Grain Multi-Threading in LEON 3

The article describes instruction set extensions for a variant of multi-threading called micro-threading for the LEON3 SPARCv8 processor. An architecture of the developed processor ispresented and its key blocks described cache controller, register file, thread scheduler. The processor has been implemented in a Xilinx Virtex2Pro and Virtex5 FPGAs. The extensions are evaluated in terms of extra resources needed, and the overall performance of the developed processor is shown for a simple DSP computation typical for embedded systems.
INTO ALTERNATING ACCESS MECHANISM OF SECONDARY ACTIVE TRANSPORTERS FROM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS

Membrane transporters are specialized molecular machinery for selective, regulable, efficient, and more importantly, active transport of diverse chemical species, e.g., nutrients, reaction precursors and products, and chemicals transmitting signals, across the cellular membrane. As a major class of membrane transporters, secondary active transporters couple vectorial translocation of one solute, typically Na or H ions, along its electrochemical gradient to uphill transport of their substrates. To fulfill its function, transporter operates via an alternating-access mechanism, in which it undergoes structural transitions between outward-facing (OF) and inward-facing (IF) states, to translocate substrate from one to the other side of the membrane. The alternating access mechanism has received substantial supports from recent structural studies. However, as an inherently dynamic process, several critical aspects of alternating access mechanism remain poorly understood solely on the basis of limited static snapshots of the transport cycle. To address several key questions of alternating access model and to elucidate the underlying molecular mechanism at atomic level, we conducted computational studies mainly using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on two secondary active transporters, i.e., bacterial Na–coupled glucose transporter (vSGLT), and the benzyl-hydantoin transporter (Mhp1). vSGLT presents the first IF structural state of a LeuT-fold transporter, and Mhp1 is the first secondary active transporter structurally resolved in both OF and IF states. Both of vSGLT and Mhp1 provided crucial information toward better characterization of the alternating–access mechanism. Based on the crystal structures of these two transporters, the computational studies elucidated several key functional molecular events in the transport cycle, and provided deeper insights of the underlying molecular
Context and Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of Attitudes about Immigrants in Adolescence

Research has explored many different relationships between contextual influences, such as levels of immigration or economic condition, and attitudes about immigrants, with mixed results. These have largely been international comparative studies using cross-sectional data, therefore they have been unable to make claims about changes in environmental context translating to changes in attitudes of respondents. Furthermore, the previous literature has almost exclusively tested these relationships using data from adults, despite research showing that attitudes are most subject to change during adolescence. This study addresses these issues by using a longitudinal data set of repeated measures of 2,328 German adolescents (about 14–18 years old) over four response waves (2010–2014). Using a multilevel analysis, results show that contextual changes, including the percentage of foreign-born people and unemployment rates within respondents’ states, correspond to changes in attitudes toward immigrants consistent with group threat theory. These results were stable even when controlling individual-level factors.
FlexAR : A Tangible Augmented Reality Experience for Teaching Anatomy

In this paper we present FlexAR, a tangible augmented reality (TAR)[5] application for anatomy education. Traditionally, anatomy has been taught primarily in two dimensions, particularly for those in non-medical fields such as artists and physical education practitioners. Medical students often gain hands-on experience through cadaver dissection[8]. However, with dissection becoming less practical, the need to find alternative solutions for teaching anatomy, in three dimensions, is becoming more pressing. We propose FlexAR as a teaching tool for providing students both the written information found in printed study materials and the ability to examine structures in 3D previously available only through dissection. Users of our prototype manipulate a tangible skeletal model of a human arm affixed with augmented reality (AR) targets. An AR-enabled device records this interaction through a camera and projects a digital 3D model consisting of the bones and major muscles of the arm over the physical model onscreen. Users can examine both gross anatomy as well as muscle flexion and extension. The user is also able to interact through a graphical user interface (GUI) to highlight and display information for individual muscles. From initial feedback we received, we believe that once expanded FlexAR could be effective as a standalone or supplementary tool for both group and individual learning of anatomy. Paste the appropriate copyright/license statement here. ACM now supports three different publication options: • ACM copyright: ACM holds the copyright on the work. This is the historical approach. • License: The author(s) retain copyright, but ACM receives an exclusive publication license. • Open Access: The author(s) wish to pay for the work to be open access. The additional fee must be paid to ACM. This text field is large enough to hold the appropriate release statement assuming it is single-spaced in Verdana 7 point font. Please do not change the size of this text box. Every submission will be assigned their own unique DOI string to be included here. Michael Saenz Texas A&M University 401 Joe Routt Boulevard College Station, TX 77843
Personal Data Server EngineDesign and performance considerations

Mass-storage Secure Portable Tokens are emerging and provide a real breakthrough in the management of sensitive data. They can embed personal data and/or metadata referencing documents stored encrypted in the Cloud and can manage them under the holder’s control. As it develops and expands, mass on-board storage requires efficient embedded database techniques. These techniques are however very challenging to design due to a combination of conflicting NAND Flash constraints (for example the block-erase-before-page-rewrite constraint, or the limited number of erase cycles) and embedded system constraints (for example scarce RAM space available), disqualifying known state of the art solutions, as previous works overcome one constraint by relaxing the requirements of another (for instance, use a log in RAM to defer updates in NAND Flash). In this thesis, with embedded constraints in mind, we propose an alternative database engine that relies on two key concepts to specifically address this challenge: serialization and stratification of the complete database. A database fully organized sequentially precludes random writes and their negative side effects on Flash write cost. Then, the global stratification allows us to solve the inherent scalability issue of a serialized design and to maintain acceptable performance when this limit is reached, without abandoning the benefits of serialization in terms of random writes. We show the effectiveness of this approach through a comprehensive performance study.
Thwarting Cache Attacks via Cache Set Randomization

Cache side-channel attacks can be leveraged as a building block in attacks leaking secrets even in the absence of software bugs. Currently, there are no practical and generic mitigations with an acceptable performance overhead and strong security guarantees. The underlying problem is that caches are shared in a predictable way across security domains. In this paper, we eliminate this problem. We present SCATTERCACHE, a novel cache design to prevent cache attacks. SCATTERCACHE eliminates fixed cache-set congruences and, thus, makes eviction-based cache attacks unpractical. For this purpose, SCATTERCACHE retrofits skewed associative caches with a keyed mapping function, yielding a security-domaindependent cache mapping. Hence, it becomes virtually impossible to find fully overlapping cache sets, rendering current eviction-based attacks infeasible. Even theoretical statistical attacks become unrealistic, as the attacker cannot confine contention to chosen cache sets. Consequently, the attacker has to resort to eviction of the entire cache, making deductions over cache sets or lines impossible and fully preventing highfrequency attacks. Our security analysis reveals that even in the strongest possible attacker model (noise-free), the construction of a reliable eviction set for PRIME+PROBE in an 8way SCATTERCACHE with 16384 lines requires observation of at least 33.5 million victim memory accesses as compared to fewer than 103 on commodity caches. SCATTERCACHE requires hardware and software changes, yet is minimally invasive on the software level and is fully backward compatible with legacy software while still improving the security level over state-of-the-art caches. Finally, our evaluations show that the runtime performance of software is not curtailed and our design even outperforms state-of-the-art caches for certain realistic workloads.
The Effects of High-Fat Diets on The Oxidative Stress in Adipose Tissue in Rats , Whose Retroperitoneal Adipose Tissues are Denervated Retroperitoneal

Özet Amaç: Beyaz yağ dokusu hem otonom sinir sistemi hem de duysal sinir sistemi tarafından innerve edilir. Yağ dokusunu innerve eden sinirlerin yağ dokusunda lipoliz başta olmak üzere çok sayıda önemli rolleri bulunur. Bu çalışmada yüksek yağlı diyetin denerve edilmiş retroperitoneal yağ dokusundaki süperoksit dismutaz (SOD), katalaz (CAT) aktivitelerine ve lipid peroksidasyon markırı malondialdehit (MDA) düzeyine etkisinin incelenmesi amaçlandı. Materyal-Method: Çalışmada 16 adet 3-5 haftalık erkek Sprague-Dawley sıçanların retroperitoneal yağ dokularındaki tüm sinir lifleri denerve edildi. Bu sıçanlardan rastgele kontrol ve yüksek yağlı diyet grubu olmak üzere iki grup oluşturuldu. Sıçanlar gruplarına özgü yemle 70 gün boyunca beslendi. Beslenme süresinin bitiminde retroperitoneal yağ dokuları toplandı ve bu dokularda SOD, CAT ve MDA ölçümleri yapıldı. Bulgular: Yüksek yağlı diyetle beslenen grupta kontrol grubuna göre SOD enzim aktivitesi daha düşük, CAT enzim aktivitesi ise daha yüksek olduğu tespit edildi (sırasıyla p=0,002, p=0,006). MDA seviyesi ise kontrol grubuna göre yüksek yağlı diyet grubunda daha yüksek bulundu (p=0,015).
Backpropamine : meta-training self-modifying neural networks with gradient descent

The impressive lifelong learning in animal brains is primarily enabled by plastic changes in synaptic connectivity. Importantly, these changes are not passive, but are actively controlled by neuromodulation, which is itself under the control of the brain; thus, evolution has meta-trained the brain to modify itself adequately for efficient lifelong learning. Here we show for the first time that artificial neural networks with such neuromodulated plasticity can be trained with gradient descent. Extending previous work on differentiable Hebbian plasticity, we propose a differentiable formulation for the neuromodulation of plasticity. We show that neuromodulated plasticity improves the performance of neural networks on both reinforcement learning and supervised learning tasks. In particular, a neuromodulated plastic LSTM with 4.8 million trainable parameters outperforms a standard LSTM with the same total number of parameters on a benchmark language modeling task.
Ef fi cacy of ultrabrief pulse electroconvulsive therapy for depression : A systematic review

Background: Ultrabrief pulse electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is increasingly used in daily practice when treating depression despite doubts about its efficacy compared to standard techniques. Method: Using electronic search techniques, we collected all studies on the comparison between ultrabrief pulse (UBP) versus brief pulse (BP) ECT in depressed patients which reported validated rating scales as outcome measures. The Jadad scale was used to evaluate the quality of the studies. Results: Two randomized and one non-randomized prospective study using unilateral (UL) ECT, and two randomized and one retrospective study using bilateral (BL) ECT were identified comparing UBP with BP ECT. One UL randomized high quality study and one non-randomized study suggest an equal response and remission for both conditions. The number of treatment sessions to achieve remission using UBP is equal in one study and is higher in the second. Both BL studies, one of high quality, point to a lower efficacy for UBP ECT with a lower speed of remission. Limitations: We restricted our review to the efficacy of UBP vs. BP ECT in depressed patients and did not address other clinically important issues such as the cognitive adverse effects. A statistical meta-analysis was not possible, because of the heterogeneity of outcome measures and the small amount of studies. Conclusion: The literature shows no clear advantage for the efficacy of ultrabrief pulse over brief pulse ECT using unilateral as well as bilateral electrode placement. The increasing use of unilateral brief pulse ECT as first line method for depression is not supported by the current evidence. & 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The Bonus-Malus System as the policyholders ' classification method in cyber-insurance Ol ' ga

The features of "lemon market" due to information asymmetry characterize cyber-insurance market. Therefore, insurance companies are interested in reducing it. One of the ways to do it is to use a more detailed separation (classification) of policyholders by their estimation simultaneously with a number of the security incidents and the mean failure cost of the incidents during the insurance period. The research consists of four parts. In the first part we reviewed the related publications about cyber-insurance and information asymmetry. The second part shortly describes main features of cyber-insurance market, which are induced by information asymmetry. The third part analyzes the transfer mechanism from one class to another class in the BMS and various parameters of it. Last part includes the "entity-relation" diagram as the data model for the realization of the software for the classification of the policyholders in this way. The article concludes with a summary of the results of this study. For citation Mirsanova O.A. (2016) The Bonus-Malus System as the policyholders' classification method in cyber-insurance. Ekonomika: vchera, segodnya, zavtra [Economics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow], 6, pp. 10-23.
WordnetLoom: a Wordnet Development System Integrating Form-based and Graph-based Perspectives

The paper presents WordNetLoom – an application for WordNet development used in the construction of a Polish WordNet called plWordNet. WordNetLoom provides two means of interaction: a form-based, implemented initially, and a graph-based introduced recently. The graphical, active presentation of WordNet structure enables direct work on the structure of synsets and lexico-semantic relations. In the paper, the both means of interaction are compared and the results of the usability evaluation performed on a group of experienced WordNetLoom users are presented. Directions of the application development were identified. A new version of WordNetWeaver – a tool supporting semi-automated WordNet expansion – is also presented. The new version is based on the user interface similar to WordNetLoom, utilises all types of WordNet relations and is embedded in WordNetLoom. The paper discusses also the role of the application in WordNet development and the extent to which the application can be used for other WordNets. A set of WWW-based tools supporting team work coordination and verification is presented, too.