Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Rational Secret Sharing Scheme Robust Against Malicious Players

In this work we introduce a robust rational secret sharing protocol. Kol et al. [ KN08] present a rational secret sharing protocol that gives every rational player a strong incentive to abide by the protocol, but is not resilient against malicious players. Our protocol is resilient against deviation of malicious players if they are fewer than half of the total number of participants. Further on, our protocol does not require a trusted third party, we only rely on an authenticated simultaneous broadcast channel.
BRS 335: A midseason high-yielding upland cotton cultivar for Northeast Brazilian savanna.

Cotton cultivar BRS 335 is a midseason high-yield cultivar and has adaptation to the Northeast Brazilian savanna, yield stability, desirable resistance to main cotton diseases and good fiber quality. The cultivar BRS 335 meets growers' demands for competitive lint yield as well as fulfilling industrial textile requirements.
α‐Synuclein induces apoptosis by altered expression in human peripheral lymphocytes in Parkinson’s disease

Though the etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains unclear, α‐synuclein (α‐SN) is regarded as a major causative agent of PD. Several lines of evidence indicate that immunological abnormalities are associated with PD for unknown reasons. The present study was performed to assess whether peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) show altered α‐SN expression in PD patients and to identify its functions, which may be related to peripheral immune abnormalities in PD. α‐SN was found to be expressed more in 151 idiopathic PD (IPD) patients than in 101 healthy controls, who nevertheless showed as age‐dependent increases. By in vitro transfection, α‐SN expression was shown to be correlated with glucocorticoid sensitive apoptosis, possibly caused by the enhanced expression of glucocorticoid receptor (GR), caspase activations (caspase‐8, caspase‐9), CD95 up‐regulation, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. An understanding of the correlation between α‐SN levels and apoptosis in the presence of the coordinated involvement of multiple processes would provide an insight into the molecular basis of the disease. The present study provides a clue that the α‐SN may be one of the primary causes of the immune abnormalities observed in PD and offers new targets for pharmacotherapeutic intervention.
Optimization of piezoelectric patches with passive shunted damping for noise reduction in sandwich panels

This paper addresses vibration and noise reduction in laminated sandwich plates using both viscoelastic and piezoelectric elements. In the low frequency range, noise and vibration damping is accomplished through applied passive RL damping circuits to piezoelectric patches bonded to the surfaces of the sandwich panels. For higher frequency ranges, damping is obtained from viscoelastic materials that are used as the core of the sandwich panels. The sound transmission characteristics of the panels are evaluated by computing their radiated sound power, using the Rayleigh integral method [1]. The numerical model is based on a layerwise sandwich plate model [2] with viscoelastic core, composite laminated face layers and surface bonded piezoelectric patches. A multiobjective approach is implemented for obtaining the optimal distribution of surface bonded piezoelectric patches in the composite laminated panels. The objective is to obtain designs that simultaneously minimize weight and maximize damping using the minimum number of damping circuits. A topological optimization approach is used along with the DMS (Direct MultiSearch) solver [3]. Results are presented to illustrate the performance of the optimized panels in terms of weight and noise reduction efficiency and a comparison is established between the RL damping circuits approach and the active co-located control strategy using negative control feedback.
Relationship between Plate Length and Fracture Height as a Predictor of Non-Union in Distal Femur Fractures. A Restrospective Study

Material and methods: Single-center retrospective case-control study of 59 patients with 64 distal femur fractures treated with LISS plates between 2007-2017. Consolidation group n=49, non-consolidation group n=15. Patient demographics (age and gender), comorbidities (obesity, diabetes and smoke habit), injury (tipe and mechanism) and construct characteristics (plate length, proximal and distal screws, proximal and distal holes and working length) were obtained for all participants. We measured the ratio between plate length and fracture height in the same anteroposterior X-ray.
PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN FERTILIZATION OF SOYBEAN IN THE NIGERIAN SAVANNA By ALPHA

†International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, §College of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, P.M. B 7267, Umuaia, Abia State, Nigeria, ¶Department of Plant Breeding and Seed Science, College of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, PMB 2373, Benue-Nigeria and ††International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Kano, Nigeria
Priming men with different contest outcomes modulates their dominance perceptions

It has recently been proposed that dominance perceptions in men function, at least in part, to reduce the potential costs of within-sex competition for resources, and that sensitivity to cues of men's dominance is greatest among men who would incur the largest costs if they engaged in competition with rivals indiscriminately (i.e., low-dominance men). Consistent with these proposals, we found that men randomly allocated to priming conditions in which they imagined losing confrontations with other men subsequently demonstrated greater sensitivity to dominance cues when assessing the dominance of men's faces than did men randomly allocated to priming conditions in which they imagined winning confrontations. No equivalent effect occurred for perceptions of men's trustworthiness, suggesting that the priming effect observed for dominance judgments may be somewhat specific to competition-related perceptions. Collectively, these findings suggest that men's perceptions of other men's dominance are facultative, changing in response to contextual cues, such as the outcomes of recent confrontations. Such responses could play a critical role in calibrating men's dominance sensitivity according to their recent experiences and are consistent with findings from experiments with other species in which the outcome of prior confrontations modulated competition-related behaviors.
The multilevel sets idea to solve the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography

This paper presents the applications of the level set function for identification the unknown shape of an interface motivated by Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). The Mumford-Shah method was proposed in the iterative algorithm. A new approach was adopted based on a continuous approximation of material coefficient distribution using modified level set methods and the finite element method. A model problem in electrical impedance tomography for the identification of unknown shapes from data in a narrow strip along the boundary of the domain is investigated.
On the semantics of big Earth observation data for land classification

: This paper discusses the challenges of using big Earth observation data for land classiﬁcation. The approach taken is to consider pure data-driven methods to be insufﬁcient to represent continuous change. We argue for sound theories when working with big data. After revising existing classiﬁcation schemes such as FAO’s Land Cover Classiﬁcation System (LCCS), we conclude that LCCS and similar proposals cannot capture the complexity of landscape dynamics. We then investigate concepts that are being used for analyzing satellite image time series; we show these concepts to be instances of events. Therefore, for continuous monitoring of land change, event recognition needs to replace object identiﬁcation as the prevailing paradigm. The paper concludes by showing how event semantics can improve data-driven methods to fulﬁl the potential of big data.
Detection of Surface Coating Defects using Fuzzy C-Means Clustering with Firefly Optimization

Defect detection in metallic surface images is a challenging task in the image analysis process. The data clustering and optimization techniques have been widely used for image segmentation and the combination of these two approaches improves the output stability as well as convergence speed. In this work developed an automatic, efficient method for the detection and segmentation of coating defects in metal surfaces. The Fuzzy c-means (FCM) and Firefly algorithm (FA) are well-known and popular methods to discover the image information comprising indiscriminate objects and solves many complex problems involved in image segmentation. In this paper, proposed a new technique for the coated metal surface defect detection using the hybridization of two methods, FCM with FA (FCM-FA). The results from experiments verified the efficiency of the developed FCM with FA over comparison with three existing methods in terms of evaluation parameters of defect detection for scanned high resolution images. It can be seen from the experimental results that the incorporated algorithm has the potential to segment and identify the defected regions from the coated surface.
MIMO-OFDM Sistemlerinde Dalgacık Dönüşümü ve PTS Tekniği ile PAPR Azaltma PAPR Reduction with Wavelet Transform and PTS Tecnique in MIMO-OFDM Systems

Çok taşıyıcılı modulasyon tekniği olan OFDM (Ortogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) ile giriş ve çıkışın çoğullandığı MIMO ( Multiple Input Multiple Output) tekniğinin birleştirildiği MIMO-OFDM sistemi haberleşme teknolojisinde önemli bir tekniktir. Bu teknik yüksek frekans verimliliği, işaretler arası girişimin önlenmesi, spektral verimlilik sağlaması gibi avantajlar içerir. Ancak sistemin frekans ötelemesi ve yüksek tepe güç/ ortalama güç oranı (PAPR: Peak to Average Power ratio )gibi de dezavantajları vardır. Bu çalışmada, sistem PAPR değerinde azalma sağlayan metotlardan yaygın olarak kullanıma sahip PTS (Partial Transmiting Sequence ) tekniği kullanılmaktadır. Sistemde mevcut Fourier dönüşümü (Fourier Transform) yerine dalgacık dönüşümü (Wavelet Transfom) eklenerek sistemin PAPR değerinde %20 civarında daha düşük oran elde etmeye çalışan bir teknik önerilmektedir.
METAL MATRIX CARBON CONSISTING NANOCOMPOSITES

Structure, physical and mechanical properties and technological approaches to development of metal matrix composite materials based on copper and aluminum matrix and carbon nanostructures were studied in this work. Comprehensive researches of prototypes of nanocomposites made by powder metallurgy were carried out. The analysis of the interaction of carbon nanoparticles with metal atoms on the basis of quantum-chemical calculations was made.
Tolerance to the Herbicide Glufosinate in Transgenic Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) and Enhancement of Tolerance in Progeny

The American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) was genetically transformed with the bar gene, conferring tolerance to the phosphinothricin-based herbicide glufosinate. Plants of one 'Pilgrim' transclone grown under greenhouse conditions were significantly injured by foliar treatments of 100 mg·L -1 glufosinate, although the injury was less severe when compared to untransformed plants. However, the same transclone grown outdoors in coldframes survived foliar sprays of 500 mg·L -1 glufosinate and higher, while untransformed plants were killed at 300 mg·L -1 . Actively growing shoot tips were the most sensitive part of the plants and at higher dosages of glufosinate, shoot-tip injury was evident on the transclone. Injured transgenic plants quickly regrew new shoots. Shoots of goldenrod (Solidago sp.) and creeping sedge (Carex chordorrhizia), two weeds common to cranberry production areas, were seriously injured or killed at 400 mg·L -1 glufosinate when grown in either the greenhouse or coldframe environment. Stable transmission and expression of herbicide tolerance was observed in both inbred and outcrossed progeny of the above cranberry transclone. Expected segregation ratios were observed in the outcrossed progeny and some outcrossed individuals demonstrated significantly enhanced tolerance over the original transclone, with no tip death at levels up to 8000 mg·L -1 . Southern analysis of the original transclone and two progeny selections with enhanced tolerance showed an identical banding pattern, indicating that the difference in tolerance levels was not due to rearrangement of the transgene. The enhanced tolerance of these first generation progeny was retained when second generation selfed progeny were tested. obtained in many crops and often employs the resistance gene, bar. Bar was derived from a common soil bacterium Streptomy- ces hygroscopicus and encodes an enzyme that acetylates phosphinothricin, thus inactivating the herbicidal activity (Th- ompson et al., 1987). This paper reports the successful transformation of cranberry with the bar gene. One transclone showed moderate tolerance to the glufosinate (the ammonium salt of phosphinothricin) herbi- cide Liberty, and some outcrossed progeny showed significantly elevated tolerance over the original transclone, reaching com- mercially useful levels.
Integration of Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry in 3D/4D Cultural Heritage Preservation – A Review

Developments in photogrammetric systems together with terrestrial laser scanning workflows are creating increasingly comprehensive and accurate 3D colored point cloud data. Also, new methodologies in cartographic production have become possible. Point clouds are currently the most popular laser scanning approach. In contrast, photogrammetric Dense Image Matching (DIM) generates dense colored point clouds and concentrates on representative structures of the object. Both technologies provide dense 3D point clouds, neither represents a clearly superior result in terms of quality. The integration of both output datasets from the two techniques, photogrammetry and laser scanning, is a prerequisite to take advantage of the complementary characteristics. In addition, the challenges represented by fourdimensional (4D) modeling require additional adjustments and modifications, due to restoration procedures, excavation, weather conditions or natural phenomena factors. This paper presents a review of the present integration methods. A SWOT analysis of the sources of 3D information, from laser scanning and imagery, is conducted as a comparative analysis.
INDUCCIÓN Y CULTIVO DE CALLO DE NICOTIANA PANICULATA

Nicotiana paniculata, known as ornamental tobacco is a Native American monocot, belonging to Solanaceae family, which has antimicrobial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory properties and is used as an antidote against the bite of spiders. This study was conducted in order to achieve cellular dedifferentiation to obtain callus tissue from stem and petiole explants of Nicotiana paniculata.
Human Interactions Recognition using Bag of Words

— A video surveillance system can be defined as a technological tool that assists humans by providing an extended perception and capability of capturing interesting activities in the monitored scene. This paper describes a methodology for automated recognition of one to one human interactions such as handshake, kicking and hugging. The frame work consists of background subtraction followed by feature extraction (Speed Up Robust Features) and action classification using SVM classifier. It is computationally efficient and invariant to occlusion, lightning. The method produces good categorization accuracy and precision. Human behaviour recognition has various applications such as human-computer interfaces; content based video retrieval, Visual monitoring & surveillance.
GROWTH AND HETEROCYST PRODUCTION IN ANABAENA CYLINDRICA LEMM.

The isolation of A. cylindrica in pure culture and the culture methods used have been described in a previous paper (Fogg, I942). As before, each stock culture was tested for contaminants before being used as a source of inoculum for experimental cultures. In addition to the culture chamber of the type used by De (Fogg, I942), subsequently referred to as culture chamber A, an apparatus similar to that described by Stoughton (I930) has been used and is designated as culture chamber B. The temperature of the former fluctuated between 2i and c. 270 C. with a mean temperature of 22.50 C. (this value being obtained by integration of thermograph records), whereas the latter was maintained at a temperature of 23-0 + 0.30 C. Illumination in both chambers was for a period of 8 hr. daily. The light intensity in A, as determined by means of a Weston 'Lightometer' model E 703, varied from I20 to i6o foot-candles and that in B, from which daylight was excluded, was of the order of 800 foot-candles at a distance of 50 cm. from the lamp. To eliminate as far as possible the effects of any unequal illumination, the positions of the culture flasks within the chamber were changed at daily intervals.
Application of CSHA Frailty Index and Clinical Frailty Scale in Geriatric Assessment of Elderly Males in China

People at an advanced age often live with multiple chronic diseases as well as disabilities. To access the health condition of elderly persons, various models have been used in developed countries in the West. However, it is not known how these models apply to the elderly in Asian developing countries. This study investigated the application of the Clinical Frailty Scale-09, a widely used method in patient assessment in Western countries, to older adults living in mainland China. Two hundred and ten elderly males were assessed for their health conditions using a list of variables by the Canadian Study of Health and Aging to construct the 70-item CSHA Frailty Index. The obtained Frailty Indices were compared with the scores of The Clinical Frailty Scale-09 for the same sample group. The assessment revealed the changing pattern in the health condition of the sampled population. Compared to the group aged 65-74 years old, the Frailty Index and the Clinical Frailty Scale increased in the groups aged 75-84 and 85-89 years old. The greatest increase was in the group aged ≥90 years old. The scores of the Frailty Index and the Clinical Frailty Scale-09 correlate with each other. These findings suggest that the Frailty Index and Clinical Frailty Scale-09 provide reliable assessment of the health condition of elderly Chinese males.
EVALUATION OF SLOW RUSTING COMPONENTS IN PEA

Information about slow rusting resistance to pea rust (Uromyces fabae) is limited. Five slow rusting components, i.e. area under disease progress curve (AUDPC), latent period (LP), number of pustules per leaf (NPL), pustule size (PS), number of aecial cups (NAC) and sensitivity of leaf to rust (SLR), were evaluated in 38 pea genotypes under field conditions. Estimates of correlation coefficients indicated a high negative association of LP with AUDPC (r = -0.751; P ≤ 0.001), NLP (r = -0.808; P ≤ 0.001), PS (r = -0.458; P ≤ 0.001) and NAC (r = -0.476; P ≤ 0.001). However, significant positive association was found between AUDPC and NPL (r = 0.78; P ≤ 0.001), PS and NAC (r = 0.545; P ≤ 0.001). Factor analysis showed that, three of the slow rusting components, i.e. AUDPC, LP and NPL accounted for 49.77 % of the total variance as the first main factor, while the other three traits distributed within the next two factors determined 26.34% and 10.46% of the total variance, respectively. A multiple regression analysis showed that the variation in AUDPC was significantly explained by number of pustules followed by latent period. Selection for slow rusting could be based on one component since they are interdependent but, for accumulating more partial resistance in a line, selection should be based on more than one component studied.
Trajectory Outlier Detection Algorithm Based on Bi-LSTM Model

The rapid advances in positioning technology have created huge spatio-temporal trajectory data, and there are always obvious aberrant outliers in trajectory data. Detecting outliers in the trajectory is critical to improving data quality and the accuracy of subsequent trajectory data mining tasks. In this paper, we propose a trajectory outlier detection algorithm based on a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) model. First, a six-dimensional motion feature vector is extracted for each trajectory point, and then we construct a Bi-LSTM model. The model input is the trajectory data feature vector of a certain sequence length, and its output is the class type of the current track point. In addition, a combination method of undersampling and oversampling is applied to mitigate the effect of data distribution imbalance on detection performance. The BiLSTM model can automatically learn the difference between the normal points and adjacent abnormal points in the motion characteristics by combining the LSTM unit and the bidirectional network. Experimental results based on a real ship trajectory annotation data show that the detection performance of our proposed algorithm 收稿日期:2018-05-14;改回日期:2018-05-30;网络出版:2018-07-09 *通信作者: 黄廷磊 tlhuang@mail.ie. ac.cn *Corresponding Author: HUANG Tinglei, tlhuang@mail.ie. ac.cn 基金项目:国家自然科学基金(61725105, 61331017) Foundation Items: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61725105, 61331017) 第 8卷第 1期 雷 达 学 报 Vol. 8No. 1 2019年2月 Journal of Radars Feb. 2019
Volunteered and crowdsourced geographic information: the OpenStreetMap project

Advancements in technology over the last two decades have changed how spatial data are created and used. In particular, in the last decade, volunteered geographic information (VGI), i.e., the crowdsourcing of geographic information, has revolutionized the spatial domain by shifting the map-making process from the hands of experts to those of any willing contributor. Started in 2004, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the pinnacle of VGI due to the large number of volunteers involved and the volume of spatial data generated. While the original objective of OSM was to create a free map of the world, its uses have shown how the potential of such an initiative goes well beyond map-making: ranging from projects such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) project, that understands itself as a bridge between the OSM community and humanitarian responders, to collaborative projects such as Mapillary, where citizens take street-level images and the system aims to automate mapping. A common trend among these projects using OSM is the fact that the community dynamic tends to create spin-off projects. Currently, we see a drive towards projects that support sustainability goals using OSM. We discuss some such applications and highlight challenges posed by this new paradigm. We also explore the most promising future uses of this increasingly popular participatory phenomenon.
Nepali Multi-Class Text Classiﬁcation

—Text classiﬁcation is one of the most fundamental and researched task in the ﬁeld of Natural Language Processing. Most of the paper discusses about the text classiﬁcation in Nepali language using traditional machine learning algorithms. In contrast, this paper discusses about latest deep learning algorithm with latest word embedding, which produces better accuracy compared to those traditional algorithm.