Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NMR and DSC studies on the reactions of pentanedioxy spiro-ansa cyclochlorotriphosphazene and pentanedioxy triple-bridged cylochlorotriphosphazene with monofunctional nucleophiles

In this study, the reactions of 2-(2-hydroxyethyl) thiophene (2) and benzyl alcohol (3) with pentanedioxycyclochlorotriphosphazene (1) and pentanedioxy triple-bridged cylochlorotriphosphazene (6) were studied. The novel cyclotriphosphazene compounds: two di-substituted spiro-ansa, N3P3[O(CH2)5O](C6H7OS)]2 (4) and N3P3[O(CH2)5O-(C6H5CH2O)]2 (5); and two fully substituted triple-bridged, N3P3[O(CH2)5O]3-(C6H7OS)6N3P3 (7) and N3P3[O(CH2)5O]3-(C6H5CH2O)6N3P3 (8) derivatives were formed in THF solvent by using NaH base at ambient conditions. Because of their variety of applications, there is a great deal of interest in the preparation of aromatic macrocyclic derivatives of cyclophosphazenes. The main purpose of these studies is to develop bioactive cyclophosphazene derivatives in the search for new effective drug candidates for the treatment of various diseases, in particular, anticancer and antimicrobials. The synthesized compounds (4, 5, 7, 8) were defined using analytical techniques namely Element analysis, TLC/MS system, and NMR spectroscopy. Thermal stabilities, crystal purity, and recrystallization properties and corresponding enthalpies of synthesized derivatives were analyzed in the course of heating and cooling cycles of DSC.
Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode and indirect radial-basis-function neural network controller for trajectory tracking control of a car-like robot

The ever-growing use of various vehicles for transportation, on the one hand, and the statistics ofsoaring road accidents resulting from human error, on the other hand, reminds us of the necessity toconduct more extensive research on the design, manufacturing and control of driver-less intelligentvehicles. For the automatic control of an autonomous vehicle, we need its dynamic model, which,due to the existing uncertainties, the un-modeled dynamics and the performed simpli cations, isimpossible to determine exactly. Add to this, the external disturbances that exist on the movementpath. In this paper, two adaptive controllers have been proposed for tracking the trajectory of acar-like robot. The rst controller includes an indirect radial-basis-function neural network whoseparameters are updated online via gradient descent. The second controller is adaptively updatedonline by means of fuzzy logic. The proposed controller includes a nonlinear robust section thatuses the sliding mode method and a fuzzy logic section that updates some of the nonlinear controlparameters online. The fuzzy logic system has been designed to deal with the chattering problem inthe controller of car-like robot. In both controllers, the parameters have been determined by means ofgenetic algorithm. The obtained results indicate that even with the consideration of un-ideal effectssuch as uncertainties and external disturbances, the proposed controller has been able to performsuccessfully.
BAHK: Flexible Automated Binary Analysis Method with the Assistance of Hardware and System Kernel

To protect core functions, applications often utilize the countermeasure techniques such as antidebugging to avoid analysis by outsiders, especially the malware. Dynamic binary instrumentation is commonly used in the analysis of binary programs. However, it can be easily detected and has stability and applicability problems as it involves program rewriting and just-in-time compilation. This paper proposes a new lightweight analysis method for binary programs with the assistance of hardware features and the operating system kernel, named BAHK, which can automatically analyze the target program by stealth and has wide applicability. With the support of underlying infrastructures, this paper designs several optimization strategies and specific analysis approaches at instruction level to reduce the impact of fine-grained analysis on the performance of target program so that it can be well applied in practice. The experimental results show that the proposed method has good stealthiness, low memory consumption, and positive user experience. In some cases, it shows better analysis performance than the traditional dynamic binary instrumentation method. Finally, the real case studies further show its feasibility and effectiveness.
Passage of a precast segmental lining tunnel through an active fault-Special segments and details -Thessaloniki metro

along the track of Thessaloniki Metro, the two precast segmental lining tunnels pass through an active fault named “Philaya”. According to the available data from scientific bibliography, (most important: Pitilakis and associates, 2014 expertise report), the fault plane is assumed to cross the longitudinal tunnel axis perpendicularly, under a dip angle of 60° or 70°. The potential coseismic displacement is evaluated as 15 cm for the Operational Design Earthquake (ODE) and 25 cm for the Maximum Credible Earthquake (MCE). ODE corresponds to a seismic event that is expected to occur during the lifetime of the structure. MCE corresponds to a quite severe earthquake scenario of higher return period. In these severe conditions, a special set of segments and connection details have been designed, produced and installed. The aim was allowing and controlling tunnel deformation, to guarantee the full service of the line after the earthquake. Proceedings of the World Tunnel Congress 2017 – Surface challenges – Underground solutions. Bergen, Norway. 2 segments and without using special steel segments or, even, a widening of the TBM tunnel (originally proposed solution). 2 GEOLOGY AND GEOMETRY OF THE FAULT ZONE 2.1 Geology and geotechnics The geological evaluation of the soils in the fault area came out from total of 19 boreholes and several geotechnical campaigns. It consists of the following geological formations, starting from the more recent and moving to the ancient ones:  Man Made Deposits / Archaeological Layer;  Quaternary Deposits: Unit A1 (Unit A1c);  Neogene Deposits: Sandstone – Marl Series Unit B (Unit B2, B3 and B4). "Pylaia" active fault represents a discontinuity between Quaternary and Neogene deposits; in fact, it causes a clear contact between Unit A1 and Sandstone-Marl Series formation (see Figure 3). Figure 3. Pylaia fault zone geology. In the first part of the stretch, before "Pylaia" active fault, the Man Made Deposits overlie the Quaternary deposits (Unit A1c); after "Pylaia" active fault, the MMD overlies the Neogene Sandstone – Marl Series (Unit B). The following Table 1 summarizes the design parameters for the considered stretch, according to the statistical examination of the whole dataset of field and laboratory tests. They have been applied for the main soil types, representative of the different recognized geomaterials. Table 1. Geotechnical parameters table. Layer  kN/m3) c’
Exploring End-user Acceptance and Exploitation Routes of Industrial Use Cases Related to AI and HMI (short paper)

In this position paper, we discuss how to explore end-user acceptance and to exploit routes of industrial use cases related to AI and HMI by the lab and field experimental approaches. Through our three-stage process, we identify the market potential in AI and HMI areas and figure out our target customers with specific functions of robots. Besides, we verify our results from the lab and field environments to the realmarket situation and get feedback from real customers. CCS CONCEPTS • Surveys and Overviews • Economics • User Characteristics
EQUITY WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION EDUCATION SYSTEMS: A STUDY BASED ON PISA 2015

Equity in education has recently become a hot topic for international debate and it has gained much interest in the Netherlands as well the last years. In this study, we evaluate and compare equity across the educational systems of European Union member states with a focus on the Dutch context by using PISA 2015 data. PISA 2015 considers inclusive education and fairness as important aspects of equity. Inclusive education is reflected in the segment of students that are 15 years of age and are still in school as well as those students who obtain a basic level to function well in society. Fairness relates to how well countries manage to achieve education outcomes independent of the background characteristics of students. EU countries are compared with one another on these categories using effect sizes derived from differences in PISA scores in science, reading and mathematics. Particular attention is paid to equity results in the Netherlands. Although there is still room for improvement, for many aspects of equity, the Dutch education system scores well when compared to other EU countries.
Does Stock Market Liquidity Affect Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management?

We study the relationship between stock market liquidity and earnings management. Using a sample of U.S. public firms over the time period from 1993 to 2012, we find that firms with more liquid stocks have lower level of both real and accrual-based earnings management. The result is robust to the use of various measures of liquidity. We address the endogeneity problem by using instrumental variable approach and two sources of exogenous shocks to stock liquidity, i.e. stock split and Decimalization. These methods provide evidence of a causal effect of liquidity on earnings management. We further find that liquidity curbs earnings management by mitigating the information asymmetry between managers and shareholder and facilitating governance by large institutional investors.
Mediating Effect of Physical Activity in the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: The 2016 Nationwide Community Health Survey in Korea

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Korean Journal of Adult Nursing Vol. 31 No. 6, 691-700, December 2019 eISSN 2288-338X https://doi.org/10.7475/kjan.2019. 31.6. 691
End-User Development Framework with DSL for Spreadsheets

We propose a framework that encourages involving of end-users in software system development as designers of executable interface specifications. The framework is intended for development of information systems with spreadsheets in role of user interface. A domain specific language allows describing the necessary actions in spreadsheets and ties the spreadsheets to system data using data ontology. We have developed a program that translates a template into a spreadsheet together with customized operations for data saving, updating or retrieving. Our experience gained during the development of two software systems based on the proposed framework is described in this paper.
The Effect of Internet on Political Mobilization∗

This paper studies empirically the effect of the Internet on protests worldwide. We compile a novel panel dataset that combines geo-referenced data on Internet quality and weekly protests for over 18,907 subnational (ADM2) districts from 236 countries and the years 2006-2012. The Internet penetration data was constructed by combining over a trillion (1.5 X 1012) IP activity (offline/online) observations to a commercially-available, IP-geolocation library. Our identification strategy exploits random weekly variation in global Internet latency to identify the causal effect of the Internet on local protests. According to our estimates, latency-adjusted Internet increases the occurrence of local protests. We show that most of the variation in the effect of the Internet on local protests comes from national differences in political institutions and local differences in Internet penetration. ∗Roland Hodler and Paul Raschky gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Grant DP150100061). †Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University; email: klaus.ackermann@monash.edu ‡Department of Economics, Monash University; email: simon.angus@monash.edu §Department of Economics, University of St.Gallen; CEPR; CESifo; email: roland.hodler@unisg.ch. ¶Department of Economics, Monash University; email: paul.raschky@monash.edu.
BIO-Modulation Effect Of Low Intensity Laser as an Adjunct to Mechanical Debridement of Periodontitis

Purpose: The present study was conducted to evaluate the clinical, osteocalcine biomarker and radiographic effect of biomodulaion effect of low intensity laser as an adjunct to mechanical debridement in the treatment of chronic periodontitis.Material and methods: This study was conducted on twelve (24) healthy patients that were randomly divided into two groups: Group A (control group) twelve (12) patients with one stage mechanical debridement without the use of the low intensity laser as an adjunctive treatment; Group B (Test group) twelve (12) patients with three stage treatment high level laser decontamination, mechanical debridement with the use of bio modulation six sessions of low intensity laser.Results: Test group showed a significant increase in the clinical parameter, osteocalcin biomarker level after three and six months in comparison with control group after three and six months follow up. Conclusion: The use of high level laser decontamination, low intensity laser with conventional mechanical debridement showed an improvement in the treatment outcome of chronic periodontitis.
Comparison of Explosive Strength and Anaerobic Power Performance of Taekwondo and Karate Athletes

The aim of this study is to compare explosive strength and anaerobic power performance of taekwondo and karate athletes. 10 taekwondo and 10 karate athletes participated to the study voluntarily by taking “Informed Consent Form”. The athletes’ values were in taekwondo as mean of age 21±2.4 years, height 181.2±8.01 cm, weight 66.9±15.74 kg, sport age 7.5±5.52 years; in karate as mean of age 21.1±1.66 years, height 170.2±10.04 cm, weight 64.4±15.69 kg, sport age 10.5±3.83 years. Counter movement jump, standing long jump and Wingate Anaerobic Test were applied to the athletes. The data were analyzed by using statistical package program. Descriptive statistics were used for mean and standard deviation values, “Shapiro-Wilk” test was used to determine whether the data showed normal distribution or not and “Independent t Test” was used for comparisons. The results were evaluated according to “p 0.05). As a result, when explosive strength and anaerobic power characteristics of taekwondo and karate athletes were compared, a difference was found between the two branches. The reason for this can be said to be different competition times, training programs, training methods and physical requirements of the branches. In addition, taekwondo athletes foot techniques, karate athletes using hand techniques more than foot techniques can be listed as the reasons for this difference.
Vision-based Virtual Fixtures Generation for MIRS Dissection Tasks

Nowadays, cancer and precancerous lesion are major health problems. Assistive polyp dissection is a possible solution to accomplish high quality intervention while lowering down the surgeon fatigue. It could be performed in three stages: (i) polyp detection from images; (ii) safe margins definition around the polyp; (iii) path planning for assisted cutting. Vision-based procedures extract region of interest directly from the images, exploiting texture and color information as region descriptors. Modern developments in deep learning, e.g. the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made major advances in this field [1]. This paper proposes a vision-based pipeline for assistive polyp dissection. Our approach starts from stereo endoscopic images processing, including detection and segmentation of the region of interest, and leads to the definition of accurate points needed in path planning for assistive/autonomous cutting. In this work, we use the generated path as Virtual Fixture (VF), i.e. a constraint that restrict the motion of the robot manipulator along the path through haptic guidance forces rendered to the user. The goal of the work is to propose a functioning pipeline for assistive polyp dissection, exploiting basic computer vision concepts and impedance control to enforce the VF constraint. The work is a natural continuation of [2] towards a fully autonomous surgical interventions exploiting vision-based methods.
Genetic Structure and Diversity of Attalea vitrivir Populations in Brazilian Cerrado

The Babassu (Attalea sp.) is a native palm tree, belonging to the family Arecaceae, with a wide distribution in Brazil. The species Attalea vitrivir Zona occurs in the Northwest of Minas Gerais State and Southwest of Bahia State, where the Cerrado is the predominant biome. Babassu is an important native oil resource and one of the main extractive products in Brazil, besides contributing significantly to the economy of some Brazilian States. The results of an ongoing study of the conservation status and genetic diversity of populations of the palm A.vitrivir are presented. The distribution of A. vitrivir has been reduced by habitat fragmentation, resulting in two main regions of occurrence (northern and southern), with a large gap between them, being only one of them protected by a conservation unit. A total of 84 microsatellite primer pairs designed for Attalea speciosa were screened for polymorphism and transferability in A. vitrivir individuals and 21 transferable primer pairs were used to better understand the distribution of genetic variability, gene flow and conservation status of A. vitrivir populations.The genetic diversity estimates using these primers indicated high levels of genetic variation and showed that a higher variation was located within than among populations, probably due to reproductive isolation. The five populations evaluated were grouped into two distinct groups, coinciding with northern and southern regions. High genetic diversity within populations and high differentiation among both regions indicate limited gene flow. The northern unprotected populations presented high genetic variability and should also be considered for protection for the long term conservation of the species.
Research of postpartum endometritis in Japanese Black cattle with cystic ovarian disease by vaginal mucus test and endometrial cytology

Abstract The relationship between endometritis and cystic ovarian disease (COD) is still unclear in Japanese Black cattle. Endometritis is classified into clinical endometritis (CE) and subclinical endometritis (SE). The objective of this study was to clarify the interaction between postpartum endometritis (CE and SE) and COD in Japanese Black cattle. Twenty-six suckled cows with COD (COD group) and 16 suckled cows with cyclical ovarian activity (CA group) were submitted for the experiment. Uterine conditions of cows were classified into three groups (normal, CE, and SE) with vaginal mucus test and endometrial cytology. The combined data of CE and SE were represented as data for total endometritis (EMT total). The prevalence of EMT total in the COD group (42.3 %, 11/26) was significantly higher than that of the CA group (12.5 %, 2/16). The mean percentage of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN %) in the COD group was significantly higher than that of the CA group at 40–60 DPP (days postpartum). Compared to 61–295 DPP, the mean PMN % at 40–60 DPP was significantly higher in the COD group. The diameters of uterine horn and cervix did not differ among normal uterine condition, CE and SE in the COD group, and they did not differ between normal uterine condition and SE in the CA group. However, endometrial thickness during both 40–60 and 61–295 DPP were greater in the COD group than in the CA group. In conclusion, Japanese Black cattle with COD have a potential implication on endometritis at 40–60 DPP compared to the normal ovarian cycle. As a specific symptom was not observed by transrectal ultrasonography, endometrial cytology is effective for diagnosis of SE in Japanese Black cattle.
Removal of spironolactone from aqueous solution using bentonite-supported nanoscale zero-valent iron and activated charcoal

The prepared low-cost nano-zero valent iron (nZVI) immobilized on bentonite clay (B) composite was prepared by using the NaBH4 reduction method. The morphology, structure, and composition of prepared B-nZVI was characterized by using scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The current study investigates different adsorption and kinetic models that describe the adsorption process of Spironolactone (SP) onto B-nZVI. SP was unstable in both medium of pure water and Birzeit campus activated sludge during the study period. For comparison purposes, the removal of aqueous SP was investigated using activated charcoal and bentonite. The effect of B-nZVI on SP removal was studied at different adsorbent dose, contact time, temperature, pH, and initial SP concentration. The results indicated that B-nZVI is effective in the removal of SP from aqueous solution, where removal efficiency of 99% was achieved after 180 min. for initial SP concentration 100 ± 1.27 mg L–1 at pH 7, temperature 30°C and fixed stirring rate 200 rpm. Kinetic studies showed that the removal of SP by B-nZVI correlated well with the pseudo-second-order model. The removal is an endothermic adsorption process, and the experimental data fitted well the Langmuir isotherm with Qmax being 111.1 and 125 mg g–1 for charcoal and B-nZVI, respectively. The calculated data indicated a significant larger binding affinity of SP by B-nZVI over the charcoal adsorbent.
Lightweight Anonymous Routing in NoC based SoCs

System-on-Chip (SoC) supply chain is widely acknowledged as a major source of security vulnerabilities. Potentially malicious third-party IPs integrated on the same Network-on-Chip (NoC) with the trusted components can lead to security and trust concerns. While secure communication is a well studied problem in computer networks domain, it is not feasible to implement those solutions on resource-constrained SoCs. In this paper, we present a lightweight anonymous routing protocol for communication between IP cores in NoC based SoCs. Our method eliminates the major overhead associated with traditional anonymous routing protocols while ensuring that the desired security goals are met. Experimental results demonstrate that existing security solutions on NoC can introduce significant (1.5X) performance degradation, whereas our approach provides the same security features with minor (4%) impact on performance.
A METHOD TO ALIGN SEGMENTS OF TIME SERIES BASED ON ENVELOPE FEATURES AS ANCHOR POINTS POINTS

In the field of time series analysis, there is not a unique recipe for studying signal similarities. When having the repetition of a pattern, averaging different signals of the same nature could be complicated. Sometimes averaging is essential in the analysis of the data. Here we propose a method to align and average segments of time series with similar patterns. For this procedure, a simple implementation based on python code is provided. This analysis was inspired by the study of canary sound syllables, but it is possible to apply it in semi-periodic signals of different nature, not necessarily related to sounds.