Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A study on the relationship between speed of sound image and evaluation value of moving sound image

The overall aim of this research is to develop a high-presence sound system for an emergency drill simulator using a virtual reality display system that runs on a personal computer. Previous studies have reported systems that provide high-presence sound, but these systems needed powerful computers to perform the required processing. With our proposed method, the processing is reduced by using a discontinuous moving sound image given by discrete coordinates. We evaluated the synchronization of the moving sound image by conducting an experiment in which pairs of stimuli were compared. In the experiment, moving sound images with different speeds were compared in order to obtain a threshold for the number of discrete coordinates of the moving sound image to realize high presence. We analyzed the relationship between the evaluations and the speed using a paired comparison method. The results showed that the evaluation of the realism depended on the speed of the sound image.
Creative Flow + Dataset Supplemental Material

This complements §5 in the paper. Because we used very different methods to obtain data in Mixamo, ShapeNet and Web sets, we break down speed distributions for each data source separately (Fig.2a), in addition to showing the overall dataset statistics in Fig.6a of the paper. The ShapeNet set contains more large-displacement flow examples due to fast object collisions and randomization in the rigid body simulation. This data is, therefore, likely to be more challenging. We show style distribution in Fig.2b, where flat, toon and textured styles indicate corresponding Blender styles, and others correspond to Stylit examples drawn in a particular medium (refer to Fig.5a in the paper). As was our aim, we capture the diversity of styles found in the wild (paper §4.1), but do not necessarily aim to mimic the exact distribution of styles in Animation Show of Shows (paper Fig. 3), which is just one small set of stylized animated data. Anecdotal evidence suggests that flat and toon shading are common among other animation sources as well, and we ensure that these styles are well-represented in our dataset.
Correlation of Serum Magnesium with Carotid Intima Medial Thickness in CKD Patients on Maintenance Hemodialvsis

Case Report Objective: This study was performed to determine the correlation between serum magnesium (Mg) with Carotid Intima Medial Thickness in CKD Patients on Maintenance Hemodialvsis. Material & Method: This is hospital-based cross-sectional observational study was conducted at the Department of Medicine, Hamidia Hospital and Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. Fifty patients with end-stage kidney disease on MHD treatment (29 males and 21 females) were studied. After overnight fasting, blood samples was drawn for complete hemogram, blood urea, serum creatinine, lipid profile and serum Mg. Carotid intima media thickness was measured by B mode ultrasound using a 75MHz transducer and was defined as distance between leading edge of first echogenic line (Lumen Intima Interface) and second echogenic line (Media Adventitia interface) of far wall. Results: Serum magnesium correlated significantly with mean CIMT (p<0.001). Serum magnesium in CKD patients significantly correlated with Age (P<0.001), sytolic blood pressure (P<0.001), serum Triglyceride levels (P=0.029), PBS (p=0.04) and Mean CIMT (p< 0.01) Conclusion: Our study supports the evidence for the possibility that low magnesium levels are associated with vascular calcification. Also suggest that long-term intervention with magnesium in dialysis patients may retard arterial calcification.
Visibility and Permeability Complementary Syntactical Attributes of Wayfinding

The paper investigated the process of spatial cognition through wayfinding taking into account the distinction between visibility and permeability relations. The study analyzed the Pinacoteca Art Museum in São Paulo by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, whose interior presents several visible but not permeable relations. Whereas permeability relations have been described using axial and convex maps, visual relations have been described using visibility graphs and overlapped isovists. Syntactical attributes of the spatial configuration have been measured, and a new correlation has been proposed. Different paths departing from the entrance have been and analyzed combining syntactical attributes and the visual information for the understanding of the configuration. The study has shown some evidence about the influence of visual information to the intelligibility of spatial configurations, suggesting the need for a methodological differentiation between visibility and permeability relations in wayfinding and spatial cognition.
AN AUDIO-VISUAL DATABASE OF CANDOMBE PERFORMANCES FOR COMPUTATIONAL MUSICOLOGICAL STUDIES

The development of computational tools for musicological studies and musical analysis has been a very active area of research in recent years. Some of these tools operate on symbolic representations of music, while others process the audio from a recorded performance. In both cases, an annotated dataset representative of the corpus under study is essential for the research. This paper reports the generation of a database of audio and video recordings of Can-dombe performances, including detailed descriptions of the process of curation and production, technical aspects, musical content, and annotations. It is part of an ongoing inter-disciplinary research effort for the development of tools for computer-aided music analysis. This encompasses several research problems concerning the development of technologies capable of extracting musically meaningful information from a recorded performance. A signiﬁcant part of the recordings and annotations is being released for the research community. Of course, apart from its research purposes, the database has also a documentary value.
Comparisons of five DNA repair pathways between two elasmobranch fishes and humans By Lucia Llorente

i Acknowledgments . ii List of Figures . iv List of Tables . v Introduction . 1 Materials and Methods . 39 Results . 44 Discussion . 67 Conclusion . 68 Citations . 69 Appendix . 82
Detection Of Cotton Wool Spots In Retinopathy Images : A Review

Cotton wool spots are retinal lesions which appear as yellowish or whitish patches with not so well defined edges. Cotton wool spots are closely associated with Hypertensive Retinopathy. Hypertensive Retinopathy is a disturbance in the retina of the eye caused by high blood pressure. Common symptoms of hypertensive retinopathy are arteriolar narrowing, retinal hemorrhages and cotton wool spots. Early diagnosis of hypertensive retinopathy is possible for prevention and accurate treatment. This paper presents an exhaustive review of the various latest trends to detect Hypertensive Retinopathy condition based on computer aided diagnosis screening systems to automated and integrated Diabetic Retinopathy detection and monitoring system. This paper also presents the performance comparison of various predecessors Diabetic Retinopathy detection systems based on quality metrics, such as sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. Moreover this review paper will assist to researcher to quickly analyze the latest trend of various Diabetic Retinopathy and Hypertensive Retinopathy screening methodologists in medical engineering. The recent methods used to detect cotton wool spots and retinal exudates are discussed. Also we discuss the automated detection of Cotton wool spots in Hypertensive Retinopathy using image processing methods. Methodologies used by the researches in analyzing their results are also discussed.
Valorization of Red Grape Pomace Waste Using Polyethylene Glycol and Fibrolytic Enzymes: Physiological and Meat Quality Responses in Broilers

Simple Summary Red grape pomace (GP) waste, although rich in beneficial phenolic compounds, is traditionally disposed in landfills and through incineration, resulting in environmental pollution. The revalorization of GP as a source of nutrients and bioactive compounds in chicken diets is an environmentally sustainable and lower-cost alternative to current disposal methods. This approach has the potential to improve food and nutrition security while providing health benefits to consumers of poultry products. Unfortunately, the amount of GP that can be included in broiler diets is limited by fiber and condensed tannins found in this agro-waste. These compounds reduce the digestibility of GP in chickens, resulting in poor bioavailability of the beneficial bioactive compounds. Strategies are, therefore, required to ameliorate the effects of fiber and condensed tannins. This study investigated whether pre-treating GP with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and a cellulolytic enzyme mixture (Viscozyme®) would improve feed intake, physiological parameters, carcass characteristics and meat quality parameters of broilers. It was concluded that PEG treatment successfully ameliorated the anti-nutritional effects of condensed tannins. However, the cellulolytic enzyme treatment was ineffective against GP fiber. Abstract The amount of grape pomace (GP) waste that can be included as a functional feed in broiler diets is limited by anti-nutritional compounds such as fiber and condensed tannins. This study evaluated the effect of pre-treating GP with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and a cellulolytic enzyme mixture on physiological and meat quality parameters of broilers. Cobb 500 broilers (249.2 ± 20.31 g live-weight) were reared on five isoenergetic and isonitrogenous diets: 1. Commercial chicken diet (CON); 2. CON containing untreated GP at 100 g/kg (dGP); 3. CON containing 100 g/kg GP pre-treated with PEG (50 g/kg) (dPEG); 4. CON containing 100 g/kg GP pre-treated with enzyme (1 g/kg) (ENZ); and 5. CON containing 100 g/kg GP pre-treated with PEG (50 g/kg) and enzyme (1 g/kg) (PENZ). Overall body weight gains were similar in broilers reared on the CON, dPEG, ENZ and PENZ diets but lower in dGP chickens. The meat of birds reared on dPEG, ENZ, dGP and CON had a similar water-holding capacity, which was lower than in PENZ chickens. Diets influenced the size of duodenum, ileum, jejunum and caeca. Polyethylene glycol treatment promoted similar body weight gains and hot carcass weights as the commercial control diet, suggesting that the anti-nutritional effects of condensed tannins were successfully ameliorated.
Choice of reference group and pay satisfaction : preliminary evidence from Luxembourg

Social comparison is an important issue in the context of subjective well-being (Clark and Oswald, 1996; Luttmer, 2005; Clark and Senik, 2010). Subjective well-being is not only affected by individual salary but also by the salary of a reference group. There are very few economic studies that attempt to explain the formation or choice of the reference group. In most economic studies, the reference group is considered an exogenous variable which is imposed by the analysis and is the same for all individuals. This paper studies the relationship between relative and pay satisfaction allowing the choice of reference group to vary across individuals. The paper builds on the work of Clark and Senik (2010) and others by utilizing a survey on working conditions and quality of working life in Luxembourg that contains questions regarding the individual’s choice of reference group. Moreover, the choice of reference group may help to explain the paradox in the Luxembourg labor market that cross-border workers are more satisfied with their pay than native workers despite lower wages. Following Clark and Senik, we use multinomial logistic regression to model the choice of the reference group. Our results show that cross-border workers and natives have not, everything else equal, the same probability of choosing a given reference group. Moreover, the determinants of reference group differ between natives and cross-border workers. It does not appear, however, that the choice of reference group fully explains the fact that cross-border workers are more satisfied with their pay than natives despite lower wages.
Fooling Pre-trained Language Models: An Evolutionary Approach to Generate Wrong Sentences with High Acceptability Score

Large pre-trained language representation models have recently collected numerous successes in language understanding. They obtained state-of-the-art results in many classical benchmark datasets, such as GLUE benchmark and SQuAD dataset, but do they really understand the language? In this paper we investigate two among the best pre-trained language models, BERT (Devlin et al. (2018)) and RoBERTa (Liu et al. (2019)), analysing their weaknesses by generating adversarial sentences in an evolutionary approach. Our goal is to discover if and why it is possible to fool these models, and how to face this issue. This adversarial attack is followed by a cross analysis, understanding robustness and generalization proprieties of models and fooling techniques. We find that BERT can be easily fooled, but an augmentation of the original dataset with adversarial samples is enough to make it learn how not to be fooled again. RoBERTa, instead, is more resistent to this approach even if it still have some weak spots.
Microarray Analysis of Rejection in Human Kidney Transplants Using Pathogenesis-Based Transcript Sets

aDepartment of Medicine, Division of Nephrology & Immunology, bDepartment of Computing Sciences, cDepartment of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health and dDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada eDepartment of Medicine & UIC Transplant Center, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL ∗Corresponding author: Philip F. Halloran, phil.halloran@ualberta.ca
Achievement Goal Orientations as Predictors of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies of International ESL Students

As the number of enrolled international ESL students in the US institutions increases rapidly, it is important to understand these students’ goal orientations and learning strategies in order to help them achieve the academic goals. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between achievement goal orientations and self-regulated learning strategies of 173 international ESL students in a large southeastern research institution in the US. Results indicate that approach goal orientations are positively associated with students’ self-regulated learning, while avoidance goal orientations are negatively linked with their self-regulated learning. Additionally, international ESL students have a strong intention of learning a specific knowledge as well as showing competitiveness, and these motivations drive them to use various self-regulated learning strategies during the learning process.
Social Cleavages among non-Arab Voters: A New Analysis

* Acknowledgements: Yoav Peled and Oren Yiftachel provided much of the inspiration for this study. Valuable advice or assistance was received from Aaron Benavot, Abraham Diskin, Nadav Gabay, Ahmad Hleihel, Charles Kadushin, Michal Peleg, Zeev Rosenhek, Michal Shamir, Sigalit Shmueli, Natasha Volchkina, Gad Yair and an anonymous reviewer. We thank the Sapir Center at Tel Aviv University and the Silbert Center at the Hebrew University for their financial support.
University of Southern Denmark Clinically acceptable agreement between the ViMove wireless motion sensor system and the Vicon motion capture system when measuring lumbar region inclination motion in the sagittal and coronal

Background: Wireless, wearable, inertial motion sensor technology introduces new possibilities for monitoring spinal motion and pain in people during their daily activities of work, rest and play. There are many types of these wireless devices currently available but the precision in measurement and the magnitude of measurement error from such devices is often unknown. This study investigated the concurrent validity of one inertial motion sensor system (ViMove) for its ability to measure lumbar inclination motion, compared with the Vicon motion capture system. Methods: To mimic the variability of movement patterns in a clinical population, a sample of 34 people were included – 18 with low back pain and 16 without low back pain. ViMove sensors were attached to each participant’s skin at spinal levels T12 and S2, and Vicon surface markers were attached to the ViMove sensors. Three repetitions of end-range flexion inclination, extension inclination and lateral flexion inclination to both sides while standing were measured by both systems concurrently with short rest periods in between. Measurement agreement through the whole movement range was analysed using a multilevel mixed-effects regression model to calculate the root mean squared errors and the limits of agreement were calculated using the Bland Altman method. Results: We calculated root mean squared errors (standard deviation) of 1.82° (±1.00°) in flexion inclination, 0.71° (±0.34°) in extension inclination, 0.77° (±0.24°) in right lateral flexion inclination and 0.98° (±0.69°) in left lateral flexion inclination. 95% limits of agreement ranged between -3.86° and 4.69° in flexion inclination, -2.15° and 1.91° in extension inclination, -2.37° and 2.05° in right lateral flexion inclination and -3.11° and 2.96° in left lateral flexion inclination. Conclusions: We found a clinically acceptable level of agreement between these two methods for measuring standing lumbar inclination motion in these two cardinal movement planes. Further research should investigate the ViMove system’s ability to measure lumbar motion in more complex 3D functional movements and to measure changes of movement patterns related to treatment effects.
THE FACTORS AFFECTING OF DEMAND FOR HOUSING CREDIT: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY

The aim of this study is to analyze among the demand for housing credit, interest rate, unemployment and consumer confidence index. The analyses were carried out by data covering 200501-201202 data using vector autoregressive methods. It is seen that there is a cointegrated relationship among the variables in the long term according to Johansen co-integration test. Besides, the changing in the 1 Bu çalışmada belirtilen görüşler yazarına ait olup çalıştığı Kurumu ve Kurum çalışanlarını bağlamaz. EKONOMİ BİLİMLERİ DERGİSİ Cilt 4, No 1, 2012 ISSN: 1309-8020 (Online) 66 interest rate, unemployment and consumer confidence index are the Granger cause of changing in demand for housing credit. At the end of the variance decomposition analysis, it is seen that the majority of the changing in demand for housing credit is explained by the interest rate.
MOLECULAR MODELLING AND DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF CORROSION INHIBITORS ON STEEL IN ACIDIC MEDIUM

Experimental corrosion study was often high-cost and time-consuming since large-scale trial experiments were carried out. An In-silico method was used to study the inhibition performance of twenty-five amino acids and related compounds. Density Functional Theory (B3LYP/6-31G*) quantum chemical calculation method was used to find the optimized geometry of the studied inhibitors. Additionally, a linear quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) model was built by Genetic Function Approximation (GFA) method to run the regression analysis and establish correlations between different types of descriptors and the measured corrosion inhibition efficiencies which was used to predict the corrosion inhibition efficiencies of the studied inhibitors. The prediction of corrosion efficiencies of these inhibitors nicely matched the experimental measurements. The correlation parameters obtained are Rtrain 2 = 0.98, Radjusted 2 = 0.98, QLOO 2 = 0.97, Rtest 2 =0.86. This indicates that the model was excellent on verifying with internal and external validation parameters. The affection of acidic solution was considered in molecular dynamics simulation and the calculated adsorption energies for most of the inhibitors is ˃100 kcal mol suggesting chemisorptive interactions.
Improved Client Data Security with Aggregated Query Using CDAMA Ms

One of the major problems in data mining is security. In the existing framework implementation was done in wireless sensor network. Existing system provides three contributions: 1. it is designed for multi-application environment, 2. it mitigates the impact of compromising attacks in single application environments and 3. it degrades the damage from the unauthorized aggregations. The two drawbacks in this scheme are, this CDAMA technique cannot be used for Database as a Service model and compromising the secret keys in sensor are very easy. In the proposed framework, Database as a Service model can be implemented through the bucketization algorithm and in the existing framework as sensors are easily compromised the secret keys are not secured whereas in the proposed framework trusted service providers are used to secure the secret keys. So the security level is increased in the proposed system when compared with the existing system.
Project Summary Report 2014

Project Summary Report 2014 Nathan Softley University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy Autonomous vehicles are an ever increasing presence in the research field. In many cases this research is inspired by the desire to improve autonomous capability beyond the requirement for user input and to alleviate the requirement for living beings to enter hazardous environments. This report serves to introduce a prototype cooperative outdoor navigation system as implemented on a platoon of Seekur Jr research robots. The prototype system facilitates coordinated outdoor navigation through the sharing and processing of global positioning data. The results obtained demonstrate that the final design of the prototype system is capable of adhering to a leader-follower relationship in a cooperative outdoor navigation.
Exergy, exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental assessments and optimization of a novel solar cascade organic Rankine cycle assisted hydrogen liquefaction cycle

In this research, a combined cascade organic Rankine cycle (CORC) and ejector refrigeration loops incorporated with the concentrating linear Fresnel solar collector (LFSC) is proposed as a pre-cooling section to reduce electricity work consumption in a mixed refrigerant (MR) hydrogen liquefaction process. The exergy, exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental analyses of the system during a year and special days are conducted in detail. Moreover, the annual thermodynamic, economic and environmental impact (EI) performances of the proposed system are evaluated by varying the substantial design parameters. Parametric study indicates that increasing the back pressure of turbine in the low temperature (LT) loop improves all aforementioned performances of the system. Meanwhile, bi-objective optimization based on non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) and LINMAP, TOPSIS and Shannon entropy decision makers are used to ascertain the optimum COPEx and economic/EI factors of the system concerned. Referring to the results, COPEx is improved by 10% and the cost and EI per exergy unit of LH2 reduce to 0.0309 $/MJ and 1.361 Pts/MJ through TOPSIS method.