Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Density-potential mapping in time-dependent density-functional theory

The key questions of uniqueness and existence in time-dependent density-functional theory are usually formulated only for potentials and densities that are analytic in time. Simple examples, standard in quantum mechanics, lead, however, to nonanalyticities. We reformulate these questions in terms of a nonlinear Schroedinger equation with a potential that depends nonlocally on the wave function.
Multicore Processing for Classification and Clustering Algorithms

Data Mining algorithms such as classification and clustering are the future of computation, though multidimensional dataprocessing is required. People are using multicore processors with GPU’s. Most of the programming languages doesn’t provide multiprocessing facilities and hence wastage of processing resources. Clustering and classification algorithms are more resource consuming. In this paper we have shown strategies to overcome such deficiencies using multicore processing platform OpenCL.
Reversal of Runner's Bradycardia with Training Overstress

ObjectiveTo elicit a criterion elevation (>10%) in resting heart rate (HR) with training overstress, and subsequently test the hypothesis that such “reversed bradycardia” (RB) negatively affects running performance. DesignProspective before-and-after intervention with a comparison group. SettingGeneral community. Participants21 healthy male marathon runners. InterventionVoluntary doubling of training miles on 14 consecutive days. Main Outcome MeasuresLeft ventricular (LV) function by echocardiography, HR, and plasma epinephrine (PE) at rest and during submaximal exercise, and 15 km road run performance. ResultsTwo days after the training overstress, 12 runners met the criterion (RB group), showing an average elevation in resting HR of 16% (range: 11 to 23%). The RB group also exhibited hyperkinetic LV shortening (p < 0.05), elevated exercise HR (p < 0.001), increased PE at rest and during exercise (p < 0.05), and reduced 15 km performance (p < 0.05). The other nine runners who maintained a stable resting HR during the intervention showed no significant outcome changes. ConclusionsIn addition to muscular overuse, heightened sympathetic drive likely contributed to the observed reversal of bradycardia. The development of this stress-related cardiac perturbation was associated with a decrement in running performance, confirming the hypothesis.
ES Implementations – A Model of Panoptical Empowerment

Enterprise Systems (ES) / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems implementations have been widely popular with organisations in the past century with revenues of 37.5 billion USD in 2008 (AMR, 2009). Empowerment of users is one of commonly cited benefits of ES usage. However, literature review suggests a paradoxical situation exists with the empowerment of users via the use of IT. Various researchers have attempted to address the panoptical control and empowerment controversy by attempting to explain the impact in managers and users. However, to ensure the success of ES implementation and use, it is idealistic to achieve an optimised balance for the organization to impose control on the use of IT i.e. Enterprise Systems and the empowerment benefits of IT. This study guided by the lens of panopticon control attempts to investigate the impact of empowerment and panoptical control on varying levels of users including management and the factors that assist in optimising both control and empowerment.
Determinants of Audit Fees: Evidence from Lebanon

This paper studies the views of external auditors and client’s representatives (accountants, financial controllers and internal auditors) about the factors that affect determining audit fees and provides evidence whether these factors are related to audit firm characteristics or the client firm characteristics. A sample of 80 respondents provided the empirical data for this research by answering a self administered questionnaire. To conduct data analysis descriptive statistics, means, standard deviation and Mann-Whitney U test were used. The outcome of the study provides a vital insight into the determinants of audit fees from a developing country like Lebanon. It was found that all the pre-suggested determinants of audit fees are extremely important or important. Both external auditors and client representatives groups agree that the most important factor affecting determining amount of audit fees is whether the audit firm is one of the big four or notand the least important factor is the size of the audit firm based on the number of its employees. The results also show that the degree of importance of each determinant of audit fees is homogenous among the two groups of respondents.
Pharmacokinetic changes of DA‐8159, a new erectogenic, and one of its metabolites, DA‐8164 after intravenous and oral administration of DA‐8159 to spontaneously hypertensive rats and DOCA–salt‐induced hypertensive rats

The pharmacokinetics of DA‐8159 and one of its metabolites, DA‐8164, were compared after intravenous and oral administration of DA‐8159 at a dose of 30 mg/kg to spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) at 16 and 6 weeks old and their respective age‐matched control normotensive Kyoto–Wistar rats (KW rats), and deoxycorticosterone acetate–salt‐induced hypertensive rats (DOCA–salt rats) at 16 weeks old and their age‐matched control Sprague–Dawley rats. After oral administration of DA‐8159 to 16‐week‐old SHRs, the AUC values of both DA‐8159 (157 versus 103 µg min/ml) and DA‐8164 (215 versus 141 µg min/ml) were significantly greater, but the values of DA‐8159 were reversed in 16‐week‐old DOCA–salt rats (125 versus 200 µg min/ml). However, the AUC values of both DA‐8159 and DA‐8164 were not significantly different between the 6‐week‐old SHRs and their control rats. The above AUC differences in 16‐week‐old SHRs may be due to neither hereditary characteristics of SHRs nor the hypertensive state itself. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
High spatial and temporal resolution MRA ( TWIST ) in acute aortic dissection

Introduction Endovascular treatment of descending thoracic and abdominal aortic dissection has emerged as an alternative to open surgery. In terms of endovascular aortic stent-graft placement planning, MRI appears to be particularly useful as it can provide a comprehensive pre-interventional diagnostic evaluation of the vascular aortic morphology. However, standard MRA techniques provided no information on flow and tissue perfusion. Until now sufficient temporal resolution and coverage for the assessment of aortic dissection could only be achieved scarifying spatial resolution, thus requiring an additional high resolution MR angiography. Our study aimed to evaluate the image quality and the diagnostic accuracy of a recently developed time-resolved 3D MR angiography technique (TWIST) combining high spatial and temporal resolution for the pre-interventional assessment of aortic dissection.
Resource transferring mechanism of Entrepreneurial network: Based on establishment of the scale-free network

The paper analyses the resource transferring mechanism of the Entrepreneurial network owing to the establishment of the scale-free network. Through the construction and derivation of the model, it is found that the resource transfer of the entrepreneurial network depends on the network connecting degree, resources integration capability and transmissibility of the network node. The certain critical value for the resources transmission is interrelated with the resource integration capability of the network node and the size of the network. Meanwhile, the whole evolving feature of the entrepreneurial network mostly depends on the resource integration capability and resource transmissibility of the network node. Their development would result in a wholly ordered development of the entrepreneurial network.
A two-dimensional region growing least squares phase unwrapping algorithm for interferometric SAR processing

This paper presents a new two-dimensional (2-D) phase unwrapping (PhU) algorithm based on a least squares (LS) region growing strategy: the wrapped phase image is partitioned in different regions that are sequentially unwrapped via a LS algorithm. Reliable regions are dealt with at the beginning of the procedure, while critical areas are unwrapped in the final steps, thus avoiding error propagation from critical to reliable areas. A conditioned least squares formulation of the phase unwrapping problem is the core of the proposed procedure: this allows the solution to be tied to "some" known boundary phase values, thus guaranteeing the correct joining of the reconstructed phase in between the different regions and preventing them from being independently unwrapped. The application of the finite element method allows a straightforward implementation of the algorithm in the discrete domain case. Experimental results, carried out on simulated and real interferometric SAR data, show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and the improved performances with respect to existing unwrapping procedures.
Displacement and stress fields due to finite faults and opening-mode fractures in an anisotropic elastic half-space

S U M M A R Y The elastic displacement and stress fields due to rectangular faults and opening-mode fractures within an anisotropic homogeneous half-space are derived in this paper. The solution is expressed in terms of the mathematically elegant and computationally powerful Stroh formalism and can be applied to the generally anisotropic half-space or a transversely isotropic half-space with any oriented isotropic plane. For any flat fault or opening-mode fracture of polygonal shape, one needs only to carry out a simple line integral from 0 to π in order to express the fault-induced response. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effect of the anisotropy and fault orientation on the internal and surface responses of the half-space. Our results prove that both rock anisotropy and fault orientation could dramatically change the fields in the domain and one needs to consider these properties as accurately as possible to be able to predict the response in the domain precisely. Anisotropy of the rock mass may alter the dominant displacement and stress components at observation points in the model domain as compared to the isotropic case.
To Rescind or Not to Rescind? Allow for a Natural Death (AND) Orders During the Perioperative Period

At first glance, limiting resuscitative efforts in the operating room (OR) could be viewed as counterintuitive. Such view, however, disregards the fact that the goal of surgery is not always curative. Indeed, surgery may be undertaken for palliative or other purposes, and in those instances, allowing for a natural death (AND; formerly “do not resuscitate” or DNR orders) may be in line with a patient’s wishes. As is frequently the case in pediatrics, where in many instances choices are made without input from the patient, decisions to allow for a patient’s natural death have an added level of complexity. Herein we present one such situation where a child born prematurely and with hydranencephaly underwent a procedure to limit cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production. In the perioperative area, cultural and language barriers hampered in-depth discussions about the parents’ wishes for the child, and the AND order was, as a matter of course, rescinded. During the procedure, the child had profuse intracranial bleeding and vigorous resuscitative measures were used—the patient died a few hours after surgery. This case is used as backdrop for a discussion on the ethics of perioperative orders to limit aggressive resuscitative measures and the influence that the socalled “Baby Doe rules” have on the treatment of infants with life-threatening conditions, at least in the United States.
MUSCL reconstruction and Haar wavelets

MUSCL extensions (Monotone Upstream-centered Schemes for Conservation Laws) of the Godunov numerical scheme for scalar conservation laws are shown to admit a rather simple reformulation when recast in the formalism of the Haar multi-resolution analysis of L(R). By pursuing this wavelet reformulation, a seemingly new MUSCL-WB scheme is derived for advection-reaction equations which is stable for a Courant number up to 1 (instead of roughly 1 2 ). However these highorder reconstructions aren’t likely to improve the handling of delicate nonlinear wave interactions in the involved case of systems of Conservation/Balance laws.
Collision detection and avoidance system for vehicle

As the number of vehicles increasing day by day, accidents are also increasing rapidly. These accidents can be due to false estimation of nearby vehicle, disturbance in mind of driver or any reasons due to which driver can't keep focus on driving. So, not only the distance estimation of other surrounding vehicle is required but also to take quick actions is necessary to avoid any kind of accidents. This project is specifically based on the accident. This system can measure the distance between the driving car and front object and can calculate the safety distance of the driving car based on current speed. If the driver doesn't keep the minimum safety distance with front object, it will warn driver to slow down the speed of car to avoid collision. And if driver doesn't slow down vehicle this system will automatically slow down and stop the car before collision could occur.
Dietary Patterns and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in a Large Population-Based Case-Control Study in the San Francisco Bay Area

Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal, and identifying modifiable risk factors could have substantial public health impact. In this population-based case-control study (532 cases, 1701 controls), we used principal component analysis and multivariable unconditional logistic regression models to examine whether a particular dietary pattern was associated with risk of pancreatic cancer, adjusting for other known risk factors. A prudent dietary pattern, characterized by greater intake of vegetables, fruit, fish, poultry, whole grains, and low-fat dairy, was associated with an approximate 50% reduction in pancreatic cancer risk among men [odds ratio (OR) = 0.51, 95% confidence intervals (CI) = 0.31–0.84, P trend = 0.001] and women (OR = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.29–0.90, P trend = 0.04). A Western dietary pattern, characterized by higher intake of red and processed meats, potato chips, sugary beverages, sweets, high fat dairy, eggs, and refined grains, was associated with a 2.4-fold increased risk of pancreatic cancer among men (95% CI = 1.3–4.2, P trend = 0.008) but was not associated with risk among women. Among men, those in the upper quintiles of the Western diet and lower quintiles of the prudent diet had a threefold increased risk. Consistent with what has been recommended for several other chronic diseases, consuming a diet rich in plant-based foods, whole grains, and white meat, might reduce risk of pancreatic cancer.
Dynamic Sale Prediction of the Time-Sensitive Products Based on Conformity

In these years, many online shopping and investment becomes more time-sensitive such as crowdfunding, online auction, time-limit sale and group buying. Most of them have deadlines. Consequently, people need to make faster decisions than other products leading to more conformity in this area. Though there is much work about the conformity and social influence in social networks, there lacks work of conformity in the online shopping and investment, because in these scenarios there is usually no such "strong" connection. However, we think the conformity information is also important for the sale prediction of time-sensitive products, since conformity impacts people's purchase decisions. In this paper, we propose a model which captures the dynamic conformity and apply it to the similarity computation and sale prediction of time-sensitive products. It can be dynamically adjusted to fit the target product and the prediction moment, which means it is well self-adaptive. Since it also gives the consideration to other static and latent features in a collaborative way, it alleviates the "cold start" problem nicely and is free from the presetting hypotheses. Experiments on the real large-scale dataset shows that our method exceeds other comparison methods by 33.2% in the sale prediction.
Asymmetric dimethylarginine in hematological malignancies: a preliminary study

Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is a product of protein hydrolysis and an endogenous competitive inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase. It is considered a new independent risk factor for endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular diseases. Increased protein turnover, oxidative stress and impaired dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase activity occurring in hematological malignancies may lead to increased dimethylarginines production. We have measured ADMA, symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) and l-arginine plasma levels in 43 patients with different types of hematological malignancies and in control group of 43 healthy volunteers. Mean ADMA and l-arginine plasma levels were higher in hematological group than in control group (1.59 vs 0.64; p < 0.001 and 34.84 vs 28.35; p = 0.044 respectively). Mean plasma levels of SDMA were not significantly different between the groups. Elevated ADMA plasma levels in patients with hematological malignancies interfere with nitric oxide metabolism and may influence their prognosis. Further prognostic studies are postulated to assess this phenomenon.
RNA Extraction from Various Recalcitrant Plant Tissues with a Cethyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Containing Buffer Followed by an Acid Guanidium Thiocyanate-Phenol-Chloroform Treatment

High-quality total RNA was extracted using a cethyltrimethylammonium bromide-containing buffer followed by an acid guanidium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform treatment from recalcitrant plant tissues such as tree leaves (pine, Norway spruce, ginkgo, Japanese cedar, rose), flowers (rose, Lotus japonicus) and storage tissues (seeds of Lotus japonicus and rice, sweet potato tuber, banana fruit). This protocol greatly reduced the time required for RNA extraction.
A Modified Elicitation of Personal Networks Using Dynamic Visualization

Several algorithms and software packages have been developed for displaying the relationship between actors within a whole (sociocentric) network. These visualization packages use as input an adjacency matrix representing the relationship between actors, and have occasionally been applied to personal (egocentric) network data. Personal network adjacency matrices require respondents to report on all alter-alter ties. This is an enormous respondent burden when the number of alters goes much beyond 30. We report here on an effort to reduce that burden by having respondents build their own personal networks, interactively, on the Internet. In a study on smoking, 100 respondents (50 smokers and 50 non-smokers) listed 45 network alters and provided data on whether each of the 990 pairs of alters talked to each other. We used a program called EgoNet to collect these data. Fifty of the respondents (25 smokers and 25 nonsmokers) then completed a similar exercise over the Internet, using a visual interface, called EgoWeb. There are clear mode effects on personal network composition and structure.
A MODEL FOR ABSORPTION OF LOW-VOLATILE TOXICANTS BY THE AIRWAY MUCOSA

Inhaled chemical toxicants can damage the lungs during two phases: (1) the first-pass phase, in which toxicants are initially absorbed through the air/blood barrier, or (2) the circulation-transport phase, in which toxicants are transported back through the lungs with the circulating blood. While respiratory-tract dosimetry for inhaled toxicants is relatively easy to evaluate for the circulation-transport phase, it is more problematic for the first-pass phase and can involve higher local concentrations of toxicants. This article describes a respiratory-tract dosimetry model that simulates both the rate of absorption and the local concentration of low-volatile organic toxicants in the airway mucosa. The model simulates the non-steady-state diffusion of organic solutes from the air interface through the epithelium and into the capillary bed below. Cellular tissues are described as a heterogeneous, two-phase medium, with a minor lipid phase dispersed in a major aqueous phase. Results show that the lipid-phase/aqueous-phase partition coefficient, PC L/A', is a critical factor in determining the rate of absorption of solutes in the airway mucosa. For a PC L/A in the range 1 to 100, absorption is limited by blood flow and occurs with typical half-times from about 1 to 10 min. As PC L/A increases above 100, absorption is gradually limited by the rate of diffusion through the air/blood barrier, and absorption half-times increase to hours. Over the same range, the concentration gradient in the mucosa changes from almost uniform to more nonuniform, and the site-of-entry epithelium becomes more selectively exposed. As a result, with increasing PC L/A', protoxicants of lower reactivities can still be activated in significant quantities in the airway epithelium and thus act as site-ofentry toxicants. The presented results are important for understanding exposure/target-dose relationships of chemical carcinogens and for conducting reliable risk assessments.
Fast speaker adaptation of artificial neural networks for automatic speech recognition

This paper presents a fast speaker adaptation technique dedicated to automatic speech recognition systems using artificial neural networks (ANNs) for hidden Markov models (HMMs) state probability estimation. Speaker-adapted ANNs are first obtained from the training data using affine transformations in the feature space. Similarly to the "eigenvoice" approach, principal components analysis (PCA) is then applied to these transformation matrices. The first few eigenvectors represent a small-dimensional space which captures most of the inter-speaker variability of the training set. During operation, these eigenvectors can be used to constrain the optimization of the transformation matrices for the new speakers. This optimization is performed using steepest descent with gradients obtained using backpropagation through the speaker independent ANN. We have been using state-of-the-art hybrid HMM/ANN systems trained on the Phonebook database. Supervised adaptation experiments with different amounts of data show better performance of this new technique compared to standard linear regression in the feature space: with only 20 words of adaptation data, results show a 15% relative decrease of the word error rate.
The Effect of Variable Input on Comprehension : Evidence from Spanish

Language acquisition researchers agree that the grammar the child constructs is the result of the interplay between an innate capacity for language learning and properties of the input. Researchers differ, however, on the weight one should give to the input, and which properties of the input are necessary for the child to converge on a grammar that is like the adult grammar. Since we know that languages change, it must be the case that the input that adults provide for children (E-language) is not always sufficient for the child to construct a grammar that is identical to the grammar of the adults. There must be cases in which children acquire a grammar that is slightly different from their parents (Kroch 2001). Although we can say that the innate component is likely to be the same within the population of typically developing children (however large or small it may be, and however specific it may be), as noted by Wilson and Henry (1998), the input that each child receives will vary qualitatively and quantitatively as a result of the variety of speakers each child comes into contact with (e.g. speakers of different language varieties, young child speakers whose language is still developing vs. adult speakers) and the variety of language settings (e.g. formal