Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PULSED MAGNET CONTROL SYSTEM USING COTS PXIE DEVICES AND LABVIEW

About one hundred channel of pulsed magnet power supply control system was installed in 2017 in KEK electron positron LINAC to realize pulse-to-pulse control of output current every 20 ms. The control system totally consist of commercially available devices, namely a computer (Windows 8.1), a PXIe crate and several PXIe boards such as ADC, DAC communication and timing. The software is written by LabVIEW. EPICS channel access protocol is used to communicate with OPI over standard Ethernet network. Depending on the destination of the beam, there are ten beam mode. The software is able to keep parameters for each mode independently, which makes it possible for us to operate one LINAC as if it were ten virtual LINACs. During two years of operation, there were no signiicant problem. Although the Windows is not a real-time OS, dropping rate of the trigger coming every 20 ms is less than ppm. Rebooting the computer or software is only a few times in a year.
Copula functions in Credit Metrics’ VaR estimation

Credit risk modelling of a portfolio of exposures is essential part of activity of every financial institution. However this procedure is complicated since the joint behavior of chosen exposures must be known. In this paper Value at Risk percentile of the portfolio consisting of three corporate bonds issued by Lukoil, Gazprom and Norilsk Nickel was estimated at three different significance levels within the frame of Credit Metrics approach proposed by J.P.Morgan. Following the Asset value model, Monte-Carlo simulations were performed to obtain possible portfolio values in one year time horizon. Where the joint distribution of asset returns of three companies was constructed by means of pair-copula construction method discussed in Aas, Czado, Frigessi,Bakken (2009). Results reveal that for particular portfolio of bonds at 90%, 95% and 99% confidence levels the value of our portfolio will not fall below 2057.915 ,1798.117 and 1375.011 dollars respectively.
A Structural Design and Interaction Algorithm of Smart Microscope Embedded on Virtual and Real Fusion Technologies

The microscope is an important teaching tool in secondary school biology. This important equipment needs to be understood and mastered through biological experiments. However, in actual experimental teaching in China, microscope samples are difficult to produce, preserve and share, and the implementation status is not ideal. These conditions seriously affect student enthusiasm and require additional participant labor. Moreover, they hinder teachers’ evaluation of experimental learning. Thus, this paper constructs a smart microscope physical interaction kit for secondary school biology experiments. First, the main components of the traditional microscope are replaced by a variety of different sensing elements, which are 3D printed. Then, a novel multichannel information integration strategy based on visual, auditory and tactile information is proposed to manage different channels of information, to understand the user’s operational intent and to organize reasonable interactions (including the display of real-time adjustment effects). Then, we propose a navigational interaction paradigm based on multimodal intent understanding, aiming at reminding users of invalid behavior and providing necessary operational guidance for users, thus achieving the purpose of intelligent interaction and intelligent experimental teaching. The experimental results show that the proposed microscope kit, multichannel integration strategy and navigation interaction algorithm not only imbue microscopy experiments with the characteristics of intelligent interaction but also stimulate student enthusiasm and help the evaluation of experimental learning. We find that these capabilities are well received by users.
Design of a Distributed and Asynchronous System for Remote Evaluation of Students’ Submissions in Competitive E-learning

This paper presents the design of a distributed asynchronous system to allow remote evaluation of students’ submissions. The system is being developed in the context of the Edujudge project. The main goal of the Edujudge project is to provide the UVA On-line Judge, which is an on-line programming trainer that counts with an automatic evaluation engine, with a greater pedagogic character. The aim is to adapt the UVA On-line Judge for its use in formal educational environments, such as the official courses regularly offered by different types of educational institutions including Universities, secondary schools or Vocational Education and Training (VET) centers. More specifically the Edujudge project pursues the integration of the UVA On-line Judge into the open source e-learning platform Moodle and into the QUESTOURnament module. QUESTOURnament is a competitive e-learning tool that allows the development of contests within the classroom, or on a remote basis, and that has been implemented as a module integrated into the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle. Both systems, the UVA On-line Judge and QUESTOURnament, have currently an important number of users which provides the design and development of the distributed asynchronous system proposed, and the whole Edujudge project, with an important added value.
A Tourist Spot Search Method Using Similarity of Function Based on Distributed Representations of User Reviews

Tourist spots have certain functions, such as “spot suitable for seeing the night view” or “spot suitable for meeting point. ” In this paper, we propose a method for searching tourist spots that uses the similarity of their functional features. In our method, we extract distributed representations of a tourist spot as a paragraph vector of user reviews for the tourist spot. We extract distributed representations of location and category in the same way. Next, we extract the functional feature of a tourist spot by combining distributed representations of the tourist spot, locations, and categories. Finally, we search tourist spots using the extracted functional feature and distributed representations of other locations and categories. In this phase, the most important thing is the way in which locations and categories are represented. We can employ an extraction method using a paragraph vector for user reviews based on a location or a category (the conventional method). On the other hand, we can use the average vector of distributed representations of all spots in a location or a category. In this paper, we compared our method (average vector) with the conventional method (paragraph vector). By this experiment, we evaluated the effectiveness of our method for searching tourist spots.
The Influence of Strain-Optic Coefficients on the Transduction Mechanism of Planar Glass Etalon Fabry-Pérot Ultrasound Sensors

The Fabry-Pérot (FP) ultrasound sensor can detect ultrasound over a broadband frequency range (tens of MHz) with small element sizes (tens of microns). The FP sensor is an optical interferometer where an incident acoustic wave modulates the optical path length via two mechanisms. The first is from a change in the optical-cavity thickness and the second is from a strain-induced change in refractive index. One way to investigate the transduction mechanisms is to examine the sensor’s frequency-dependent directional response. Previously, the strain-optic effect was neglected when modeling the directional response, however, some experimental studies have shown it to be significant in some circumstances. In this paper, the contributions of the two mechanisms are investigated for a planar air-backed glass-etalon Fabry-Pérot sensor. The sensor was modeled as a multilayered elastic structure, and the strain and displacement fields were calculated using the partial wave method. For an optically isotropic, homogeneous and non-absorbing spacer material the strain-optic effect is only dependent on two coefficients, p11 and p12. The modeled directivity was similar when including or excluding the strain-optic coefficients and had good agreement with directional response measurements made on an air-backed glass-etalon sensor. The directional response is dominated by the normal strain in the sensor except at the compressional critical angle where the transverse strain is larger than normal strain. Understanding how the strain-optic mechanism affects the directional response can help improve future sensor design. For example, exploiting materials with large strain-optic coefficients could increase the sensitivity of Fabry-Pérot sensors.
Análisis filogenético comparativo entre secuencias codificadoras (Cyt b y ATPasa 8) y secuencias no codificadoras (D-Loop) del ADN mitocondrial de vertebrados y sus implicancias evolutivas en los primates y homínidos

Las secuencias del ADN mitocondrial (ADNmt) de animales vertebrados han sido estudiadas desde hace 25 anos. Solo ahora se cuenta con el genoma mitocondrial completo de muchas especies para hacer un analisis mas detallado de como evolucionan sus secuencias y como esto influye en la construccion de arboles filogeneticos con la aplicacion de los diferentes modelos matematicos y programas bioinformaticos. En definitiva, aun existe un recurrente debate evolutivo acerca de cuales secuencias mitocondriales son las mas adecuadas de utilizar para explicar mejor los procesos que operan dentro de las especies animales. Por lo tanto, el presente trabajo se propone analizar todas las posibles alternativas de solucion utilizando tanto secuencias mitocondriales nucleotidicas como aminoacidicas.
Predictive values of miR-129 and miR-139 for efficacy on patients with prostate cancer after chemotherapy and prognostic correlation

Predictive values of miR-129 and miR-139 for efficacy on patients with prostate cancer (PC) after chemotherapy and prognostic correlation were explored. Eighty-four patients with PC undergoing chemotherapy in The Third Affiliated Hospital of Qiqihar Medical University from January 2016 to January 2017 were enrolled as the observation group treated with DP regimen, and further 100 healthy individuals undergoing physical examination were enrolled as the control group. RT-qPCR was used to detect expression of serum miR-129 and miR-139. According to the clinical efficacy after treatment, patients with complete remission (CR) and partial remission (PR) were considered as a good curative effect group, whereas those with stable disease (SD) and progressive disease (PD) were considered as a poor curative effect group. In the observation group, miR-129 and miR-139 expression after treatment was significantly lower and higher, respectively, than that before treatment (P<0.05). After treatment, there were 15 patients with CR, 30 with PR, 26 with SD, and 13 with PD in the observation group. Before treatment, compared with the poor curative effect group, patients in the good curative effect group had significantly higher miR-129 expression but significantly lower miR-139 expression (P<0.05). The overall survival rate (OSR) of patients was 64.29%. The survival of patients in the miR-129 high expression group was significantly better than that in the miR-129 low expression group (P=0.001), whereas the survival in the miR-139 low expression group was significantly better than that in the miR-139 high expression group (P=0.012). According to multivariate Cox regression analysis, Gleason score, prostate specific antigen (PSA), bone metastasis, TNM staging, miR-129, and miR-139 were independent prognostic factors affecting patients. In conclusion, miR-129 and miR-139 are expected to be potential indicators for the diagnosis, prognosis, and efficacy prediction of PC.
ANÁLISE EPIDEMIOLÓGICA DE ASFIXIA PERINATAL EM RECÉM-NASCIDOS NO HOSPITAL GERAL PRADO VALADADRES (HGPV)

A asfixia perinatal e caracterizada por acidose metabolica ou mista devido a falta de oxigenacao e perfusao sanguinea nos tecidos, sendo esta uma das maiores causas de obitos neonatais e de sequelas neurologicas em recem-nascidos. O objetivo deste trabalho e conhecer a prevalencia de asfixia perinatal em recem-nascidos, caracterizando as variaveis maternas, fetais e do parto e quantificando a ocorrencia dos obitos neonatais por asfixia perinatal no Hospital Geral Prado Valadares (HGPV), no municipio de Jequie (BA). Metodologicamente, trata-se de estudo descritivo, seccional para levantamento da prevalencia de asfixia perinatal em recem-nascidos no HGPV, no periodo de janeiro a junho de 2007. Os dados foram obtidos atraves das declaracoes dos nascidos vivos dos prontuarios dos neonatos. Os resultados apontam que a prevalencia da asfixia perinatal foi de 4,21% entre recem- -nascidos; destes, 62,3% a termo, e peso ao nascer (56,6%) entre 2.500 a 3.999g. Para as variaveis maternas 90,8% eram solteiras, com media de idade de 22,63 anos (± 6,295), com a ocupacao do lar (82,2%), e menos de 8 anos de estudo (61,8%). Destas maes, 53,9% eram primiparas, 76,3% tiveram parto vaginal e 50,0% realizaram de 4 a 6 consultas pre-natais. Concluiu-se que a alta prevalencia encontrada no estudo aponta a necessidade de atencao para os nascimentos no HGPV.
MET R ICS: A M EASUREMENT E NVIRONMENT FOR M ULTI -C ORE T IME C RITICAL S YSTEMS

—With the upcoming shift from single-core to multi-core COTS processors for safety critical products such as avionics, railway or space computer subsystems, the safety critical industry is facing a trade-off in terms of performance versus predictability. In multi-core processors, concurrent accesses to shared hardware resources are generating inter-task or inter-application timing interference, breaking the timing isolation principles required by the standards for such critical software. Several solutions have been proposed in the literature to control or regulate these timing interference, but most of these solutions require to perform some level of proﬁling, monitoring or dimensioning. As time-critical software is running on top of Real Time Operating Systems (ROTS), classical proﬁling techniques relying on interrupts, multi-threading, or OS modules are either not available or prohibited for predictability, safety or security reasons. In this paper we present METrICS, a measurement environment for multi-core time-critical systems running on top of the industry-standard PikeOS RTOS. Our framework proposes an accurate real-time runtime and resource usage measurement while having a negligible impact on timing behaviour, allowing us to fully observe and characterize timing interference. Beyond being able to characterize timing interference, we evaluated METrICS in term of accuracy of the timing and resource usage measurements, intrusiveness both in term of timing and impact on the legacy code. We also present a portfolio of the kind of measurements METrICS provides.
Principles and practice of emergency medicine

Resuscitation evaluation and management of selected common presentations procedures, diagnostic tools, and laboratory and radiology techniques trauma non-traumatic organ system emergencies obstetric and gynaecologic emergencies paediatric emergencies geriatric emergencies psychiatric and behavioural emergencies environmental emergencies toxicology emergency medical services (EMS) systems emergency department management medicolegal aspects of emergency care.
Out-migration in Rural Pakistan: Does Household Poverty Status Matter?

Movement of the people within the geographical and administrative boundaries of a country is known as internal migration. Researchers regard the movement to urban areas from both rural and less-advanced urban areas as more important, yet studying the dimensions of movement between rural areas is worth investigating. Scholars assert economic incentives as the main motive behind the rural-urban movement; various unforeseeable factors, however, may also stimulate the human flows. In Pakistan, the phenomenon of internal migration is as old as the inception of the country as Helbock (1975a) maintained, while studying life-time migrants in 12 largest cities of the country in 1961, that almost every 7th person residing in these cities had come from a different district. We may split studies on migration into two categories: macro level studies that focus on flows, magnitude, and future forecast on migration; and micro level studies that lay emphasis on households or individuals and how decisions are made to migrate and what is the impact of such decisions on the well-being of the migrants, and those who are left behind. In the presence of a dearth of research on migration, we find most of the studies at the macro level indicators with a very few at the micro level in Pakistan [e.g. Khan and Shahnaz (2000); Arif (2005)]. In Pakistan, majority of the macro level studies relied on the census data that provide a detailed picture of the movement and trends of migration at the country level. Using the last census conducted in 1998, five studies focused on the migratory movements in the country: at national level Karim and Nasar (2003) conducted a study on the inter-district and inter-provincial movements; four other studies provided a detailed description of inter-provincial movements’ pattern to prepare a socio-economic and demographic profile of the provinces [Khatak (2003); Chaudhry (2003); Naeem (2003); Rukanuddin and Chaudhry (2003)]. Apart from the census-based studies, a number of studies have used survey data to understand various dimensions of internal migration: Akram et al (2003) undertook a study on the migratory flows using the 1998-1999 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) data
Comparing Geographical and Learner Varieties on the Basis of Corpora

In this article, we present systematic studies of two kinds of language varieties for their comparison and documentation. To analyse geographical varieties of German, the annotated Korpus Südtirol in the framework of the C4 initiative is used. The comparison toolkit Vis-À-Vis semi-automatically extracts varieties’ particularities in order to support and reduce linguists’ manual work, combining quantitative methods with qualitative ones. In the related project KoKo, written text corpora of German-speaking learners of three different areas in Italy, Austria, and Germany are compared. The analyses focus on the use of different varieties of German in an educational setting as well as on determining linguistic and sociolinguistic factors influencing the students’ writing competences. We describe our corpus linguistic methods and tools as well as some first results on different levels of linguistic description. Mots-clés : variétés géographiques de langage, corpus d’apprenant, comparaison de variétés, linguistique computationnelle, linguistique de corpus
NITRATE REDUCTASE ACTIVITY IN CHOSEN MOSSES: A CASE OF STUDY IN SKALNY COLLIERY WASTE TIP AKTYWNO ŚĆ REDUKTAZY AZOTANOWEJ U WYBRANYCH MCHÓW NA PRZYKŁADZIE HAŁDY POW ĘGLOWEJ SKALNY

Two species of mosses in relation to nitrogen meta bolism were examined. This subject is little known in this group of plant. Investigations of nitrate r eductase activity in green tissues of Brachythecium rutabulum (Hedw.) Schimp. and Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. were performed. The study was con ducted in two localities: heavy contaminated waste tip Skalny loc ated in Upper Silesia, and Blonia City Park in Biel sko-Biala which place was chosen as a control area. For both species high activity of the enzyme was detected. T he nitrate reductase activity varied between 99 to 9093 nmol p er g dry mass per hour for B. rutabulum and 265 to 5135 nmol per g d.m. per hour of nitrite syn thesized for A. undulatum respectively on Skalny waste tip. In the control area the results varied between 747 to 1077 for B. rutabulum and 171 to 518 nmol per g d.m. per hour of nitrite synthesized for A. undulatum, respectively. The differences were statistically s ignificant only between the two species but not between habitats pr obably due to high dispersion and small amount of replications. The levels of nitrate and nitrite in stream water in both areas were also measured. In t he Skalny waste tip there were high and reached 1.66 mg · dm of nitrite and 65 mg · dm of nitrate, respectively. In the control area these amounts were lower and reach zero level for nitrite and 4.5 mg · dm of nitrate, respectively.
UEC at TRECVID 2014 SIN task

In this paper, we describe our approach and results for the semantics indexing (SIN) task at TRECVID2014. We submitted four runs for the SIN task of TRECVID 2014 which includes one run submitted last year as a progress run for the 2014 dataset. In the best run of ours, we used deep convolutional neural network features, Fisher Vector with dense SIFT and Fisher Vector with spatio-temporal local features as features, and combined them in the manner of late fusion. As a result, the best run achieved the mean infAP=0.1537.
An Integrated Deep Generative Model for Text Classification and Generation

Text classification and generation are two important tasks in the field of natural language processing. In this paper, we deal with both tasks via Variational Autoencoder, which is a powerful deep generative model.The self-attentionmechanism is introduced to the encoder. The modified encoder extracts the global feature of the input text to produce the hidden code, and we train a neural network classifier based on the hidden code to perform the classification. On the other hand, the label of the text is fed into the decoder explicitly to enhance the categorization information, which could help with text generation.The experiments have shown that ourmodel could achieve competitive classification results and the generated text is realistic.Thus the proposed integrated deep generative model could be an alternative for both tasks.
Antioxidant property of Weissella cibaria DMA 18 isolated from tender coconut water

The objective of this study was to evaluate the functional properties of a lactic acid bacteria isolated from tender coconut water. On the basis of biochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA sequencing, the isolate was identified as Weissella cibaria, the sequence of which is deposited in NCBI with accession number MH782084. Acid tolerance, bile tolerance and adhesion potential were assessed in vitro. Weissella cibaria DMA 18 strain was found to withstand pH 3.0 and 0.6% (w/v) concentration of bile salt environment for a period of 3h. Auto-aggregation and cell surface hydrophobicity of 83.78% and 89.1% is suggestive of the good adhesion potential of the isolate. The non-haemolytic nature of the strain indicates the possible absence of virulence factors. Both the culture and crude EPS displayed remarkable antioxidant DPPH assay revealed antioxidant activity of 27% and 33.55% respectively with sample volumes as low as 10 μl and 6μl respectively. The results confirm the potential of Weissella cibaria DMA 18 to be used as a functional culture for designing foods to ameliorate disorders induced by oxidative stress.
Forthcoming in Public Choice Political Business Cycles at the Municipal Level

This article tests for the existence of rational political business cycles models using a large and unexplored data set of Portuguese municipalities. The data set is well-suited for this purpose because it provides a high level of detail on expenditure items, because Portuguese municipalities are homogeneous with respect to policy instruments and institutions and follow an exogenously determined election schedule. Estimation results clearly reveal the existence of opportunistic behaviour by local governments. Expenditures increase in pre-election periods, especially on items that are highly visible to the electorate (e.g., highways and streets). This suggests an effort to signal competence and improve chances of re-election.