Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MODELLING TO SUPPORT LASER SAFETY ANALYSIS OF IRREGULAR PULSE TRAINS Paper # 304

Neither the international laser safety standard IEC 60825-1 Edition 3.0 nor ANSI Z136.1-2014 provide specific rules of how to apply the pulse reduction factor C5 (CP) to irregular pulse trains. Without specific guidance, the analysis has to be performed based on worst case approaches, such as counting all pulses and giving them the same weight, even the ones with smaller peak power. The present study provides guidance on how to analyze irregular pulse patterns in a less restrictive way.
Chapter 1 Experience in System Design for Human-Robot Teaming in Urban Search & Rescue ?

The paper describes experience with applying a user-centric design methodology in developing systems for human-robot teaming in Urban Search & Rescue. A human-robot team consists of several semi-autonomous robots (rovers/UGVs, microcopter/UAVs), several humans at an off-site command post (mission commander, UGV operators) and one on-site human (UAV operator). This system has been developed in close cooperation with several rescue organizations, and has been deployed in a real-life tunnel accident use case. The human-robot team jointly explores an accident site, communicating using a multi-modal team interface, and spoken dialogue. The paper describes the development of this complex socio-technical system per se, as well as recent experience in evaluating the performance of this system.
CHOP deletion does not impact the development of diabetes but suppresses the early production of insulin autoantibody in the NOD mouse

Title CHOP deletion does not impact the development of diabetes but suppresses the early production of insulin autoantibody in the NOD mouse. Author(s) Satoh, T; Abiru, Norio; Kobayashi, M; Zhou, H; Nakamura, K; Kuriya, Genpei; Nakamura, H; Nagayama, Y; Kawasaki, Eiji; Yamasaki, H; Yu, L; Eisenbarth, G S; Araki, Eiichi; Mori, M; Oyadomari, Seiichi; Eguchi, K Citation Apoptosis, 16(4), pp.438-448; 2011 Issue Date 2011-04 URL http://hdl.handle. net/10069/24877 Right © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011; The original publication is available at www.springerlink. com NAOSITE: Nagasaki University's Academic Output SITE
Title Combined Field Integral Equation-Based Theory ofCharacteristic Mode

Conventional electric field integral equation based theory is susceptible to the spurious internal resonance problem when the characteristic modes of closed perfectly conducting objects are computed iteratively. In this paper, we present a combined field integral equation based theory to remove the difficulty of internal resonances in characteristic mode analysis. The electric and magnetic field integral operators are shown to share a common set of non-trivial characteristic pairs (values and modes), leading to a generalized eigenvalue problem which is immune to the internal resonance corruption. Numerical results are presented to validate the proposed formulation. This work may offer efficient solutions to characteristic mode analysis which involves electrically large closed surfaces.
Title Glucocorticoids suppress renal cell carcinoma progression by enhancing Na , K-ATPase beta-1 subunit expression Permalink

Glucocorticoids are commonly used as palliative or chemotherapeutic clinical agents for treatment of a variety of cancers. Although steroid treatment is beneficial, the mechanisms by which steroids improve outcome in cancer patients are not well understood. Na,KATPase beta-subunit isoform 1 (NaK-β1) is a cell-cell adhesion molecule, and its expression is down-regulated in cancer cells undergoing epithelial-to mesenchymal-transition (EMT), a key event associated with cancer progression to metastatic disease. In this study, we performed high-throughput screening to identify small molecules that could up-regulate NaK-β1 expression in cancer cells. Compounds related to the glucocorticoids were identified as drug candidates enhancing NaK-β1 expression. Of these compounds, triamcinolone, dexamethasone, and fluorometholone were validated to increase NaK-β1 expression at the cell surface, enhance cell-cell adhesion, attenuate motility and invasiveness and induce mesenchymal to epithelial like transition of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells in vitro. Treatment of NaK-β1 knockdown cells with these drug candidates confirmed that these compounds mediate their effects through up-regulating NaK-β1. Furthermore, we demonstrated that these compounds attenuate tumor growth in subcutaneous RCC xenografts and reduce local invasiveness in orthotopically-implanted tumors. Our results strongly indicate that the addition of glucocorticoids in the treatment of RCC may improve outcome for RCC patients by augmenting NaK-β1 cell-cell adhesion function. PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone. 0122442 April 2, 2015 1 / 22 OPEN ACCESS Citation: Huynh TP, Barwe SP, Lee SJ, McSpadden R, Franco OE, Hayward SW, et al. (2015) Glucocorticoids Suppress Renal Cell Carcinoma Progression by Enhancing Na,K-ATPase Beta-1 Subunit Expression. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122442. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0122442 Academic Editor: Jung Weon Lee, Seoul National University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA Received: April 8, 2014 Accepted: February 21, 2015 Published: April 2, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Huynh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All data are included within the paper. Funding: Funding provided by National Institutes of Health Grants DK56216, P20GM103464 and F31CA117050. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Monetary policy and bank profitability in a low interest rate environament

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy on bank profitability. We use both proprietary and commercial data on individual euro area bank balance-sheets and market prices. Our results show that a monetary policy easing – a decrease in short-term interest rates and/or a flattening of the yield curve – is not associated with lower bank profits once we control for the endogeneity of the policy measures to expected macroeconomic and financial conditions. Accommodative monetary conditions asymmetrically affect the main components of bank profitability, with a positive impact on loan loss provisions and non-interest income offsetting the negative one on net interest income. A protracted period of low monetary rates has a negative effect on profits that, however, only materialises after a long time period and is counterbalanced by improved macroeconomic conditions. Monetary policy easing surprises during the low interest rate period improve bank stock prices and CDS. JEL: E52, E43, G01, G21, G28.
A DUAL MODE EMG-CONTROLLED ROBOTIC ORTHOSIS

This paper presents the design and development of an EMG-controlled robotic orthosis aimed to assist stroke patients in rehabilitation process, and possibly to mitigate the adverse effects caused by stroke. The robot could operate in dual control modes, (i) by using EMG signals to control the joint direction and (ii) by using a reference gait trajectory as a control signal. Mathematical model of the robot is derived via Lagrange equations. The dual mode control system is implemented successfully and tested in both simulation and experiments.
Automated video surveillance : challenges and solutions . ACE Surveillance ( Annotated Critical Evidence ) case study

Currently deployed video surveillance systems and protocols are not fully efficient. In real-time monitoring mode, the problem is that an event may easily pass unnoticed due to false or simultaneous alarms and lack of time needed to rewind and analyse all potentially useful video streams. In archival mode, video data storage and manageability is the problem that makes post-incident investigation very difficult. Due to the temporal nature of video data, it is very difficult for a human to analyse video data within a limited amount of time.
Thioredoxins in Arabidopsis and other plants

Regulation of disulfide dithiol exchange has become increasingly important in our knowledge of plant life. Initially discovered as regulators of light-dependent malate biosynthesis in the chloroplast, plant thioredoxins are now implicated in a large panel of reactions related to metabolism, defense and development. In this review we describe the numerous thioredoxin types encoded by the Arabidopsis genome, and provide evidence that they are present in all higher plants. Some results suggest cross-talk between thioredoxins and glutaredoxins, the second family of disulfide dithiol reductase. The development of proteomics in plants revealed an unexpectedly large number of putative target proteins for thioredoxins and glutaredoxins. Nevertheless, we are far from a clear understanding of the actual function of each thioredoxin in planta. Although hampered by functional redundancies between genes, genetic approaches are probably unavoidable to define which thioredoxin interacts with which target protein and evaluate the physiological consequences. Abbreviations: APR – adenylphosphosulfate; FBPase – fructose-1,6-bipohsphatase; FTR – ferredoxindependent thioredoxin reductase; GR – glutathione reductase; Hsp70 – heat shock 70 protein; MDH – malate dehydrogenase; Msr – methionine sulfoxide reductase; NADPH – nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; NTR – NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase; Prx – peroxiredoxin; Rnr – ribonucleotide reductase; Trx – thioredoxin
Testbed : A Cloud based Wireless Experimentation Facility

The NITOS wireless testbed, is one of the main building blocks in the wireless testbed experimentation, offered by the FIRE community, and a core Fed4Fire partner. Its main focus is on wireless accessed technologies and on all layers of the protocol stack. In the rapidly changing technological environment, a unique opportunity is provided to enhance the NITOS testbed with cloud computing experimentation capabilities and increase the heterogeneity and diversity of possible services that can be offered to experimenters/ developers. In this paper we describe the NITOS approach on adopting cloud technologies and SDN capabilities and how we upgrade the meaning of ”delivered service” in testbed experimentation using SOA extensions. Keywords—Testbed experimentation, Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, Big Data
Performance Analysis of a Three-Stream Adaptive Cycle Engine during Throttling

One advantage of the adaptive cycle engine (ACE) is its ability of throttling with constant airflow by the combined control of variable geometries, resulting in an improvement of spillage drag. However, the improvement is achieved at risk of a complex technical solution and control. This article investigates the selection scheme of variable geometries and engine configuration. It focuses on the performance of a three-stream ACE during throttling, whose configuration and control schedule are simpler than other types of ACEs. Five variable geometries are selected from seven available options through comparison analysis. The uninstalled thrust decreases from 100% to 60.36% during the subsonic throttling and to 59.81% during the supersonic throttling. Benefitting from the decreased spillage drag, the installed performance of the three-stream ACE is improved to some degree during throttling. This improvement is less than the result of a three-bypass ACE, whose configuration and control schedule are more complex. Thus, the three-stream ACE is a compromise design considering the technical risk and variable cycle characteristic, which is a better platform to verify the component technology and control schedule for the further research on a more complex type of ACE.
ND 2016 High accuracy 234 U ( n , f ) cross section in the resonance energy region

New results are presented of the 234U neutron-induced fission cross section, obtained with high accuracy in the resonance region by means of two methods using the 235U(n,f) as reference. The recent evaluation of the 235U(n,f) obtained with SAMMY by L. C. Leal et al. (these Proceedings), based on previous n TOF data [1], has been used to calculate the 234U(n,f) cross section through the 234U/235U ratio, being here compared with the results obtained by using the n TOF neutron flux.
Textension : Digitally Augmenting Analog Texts Using Mobile Devices

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Abstract In this paper, we present a framework that allows people who work with analog texts to leverage the affordances of digital technology, such as data visualization, computational linguistics, and search, using any web-based mobile device with a camera. After taking a picture of a particular page or set of pages from a text or uploading an existing image, our prototype system builds an interactive digital object that automatically inserts visualizations and interactive elements into the document. Leveraging the findings of previous studies, our framework augments the reading of analog texts with digital tools, making it possible to work with texts in both a digital and analog environment.
New Finite Difference Methods in Quadtree Grids

We present a level set method on non-graded adaptive Cartesian grids, i.e. grids for which the ratio between adjacent cells is not constrained. We use quadtree and octree data structures to represent the grid and a simple algorithm to generate a mesh with the finest resolution at the interface. In particular, we present (1) a locally third order accurate reinitialization scheme that transforms an arbitrary level set function into a signed distance function, (2) a second order accurate semi-Lagrangian methods to evolve the linear level set advection equation under an externally generated velocity field, (3) a second order accurate upwind method to evolve the nonlinear level set equation under a normal velocity as well as to extrapolate scalar quantities across an interface in the normal direction, and (4) a semiimplicit scheme to evolve the interface under mean curvature. Combined, we obtain a level set method on adaptive Cartesian grids with a negligible amount of mass loss. We propose numerical examples in two and three spatial dimensions to demonstrate the accuracy of the method.
Temperature field in the hot-top during casting a new super-high strength Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy by low frequency electromagnetic process *

The billets of a new super-high strength Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy in 200mm diameter were produced by the processes of low frequency electromagnetic casting (LFEC) and conventional direct chill (DC) casting, respectively. The effects of low frequency electromagnetic field on temperature field of the melt in the hot-top were investigated by temperature measurement method. Temperature curves were measured from the surface to the center of the billets by locating type K thermocouples into the casting during the processes. The results show that during LFEC process the temperature field in the melt applying the hot-top is very uniform, which is helpful to reduce the difference of thermal gradients between the surface and the center, and then to reduce the thermal stress and to eliminate casting crack.
Intelligent Instrumentation for Opinion Mining in Social Media

The paper presents a developed intelligent tool for Opinion Mining of social media. In addition, the article presents new algorithms to the hybridization of ontological analysis and methods of knowledge engineering with methods of nature language processing (NLP) for extracting the semantic and emotional component of semi-structured and unstructured text resources. These approaches will improve the efficiency of the analysis of social media contentspecific data and fuzziness of natural language.
Title Multi-profile ultra high definition ( UHD ) AVC and HEVC 4 K DASH datasets

In this paper we present a Multi-Profile Ultra High Definition (UHD) DASH dataset composed of both AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265) video content, generated from three well known open-source 4K video clips. The representation rates and resolutions of our dataset range from 40Mbps in 4K down to 235kbps in 320x240, and are comparable to rates utilised by on demand services such as Netflix, Youtube and Amazon Prime. We provide our dataset for both realtime testbed evaluation and trace-based simulation. The real-time testbed content provides a means of evaluating DASH adaptation techniques on physical hardware, while our trace-based content offers simulation over frameworks such as ns-2 and ns-3. We also provide the original pre-DASH MP4 files and our associated DASH generation scripts, so as to provide researchers with a mechanism to create their own DASH profile content locally. Which improves the reproducibility of results and remove re-buffering issues caused by delay/jitter/losses in the Internet. The primary goal of our dataset is to provide the wide range of video content required for validating DASH Quality of Experience (QoE) delivery over networks, ranging from constrained cellular and satellite systems to future high speed architectures such as the proposed 5G mmwave technology.
Color Theme Semantics Derived from Social Curation Data 187 : 3 of the user experience with photo

ZIMING WU, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR ZHIDA SUN, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR TAEWOOK KIM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR MANUELE REANI, University of Manchester, United Kingdom CAROLINE JAY, University of Manchester, United Kingdom XIAOJUAN MA, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
rs Distributive effects of new highway infrastructure in the Netherlands : the role of network effects and spatial spillove

Network effects and spat improvement in a particula can be defined as those imp effects entail a redistributio under-estimation of the pr transport appraisal method of two highway sections pl traffic congestion problem urban region of Eindhove llovers are intrinsic impacts of transport infrastructure. Network effects imply that an n a network generates effects in many other elements of that network, while spillover effects curring beyond the regions where the actual transport investment is made. These two related pacts among regions, and their omission from road planning is argued to cause the systematic ty of transport projects and therefore the public financing they require. How-ever, traditional fail to consider network and spillover effects. In this study we focus on the spillover impacts n the city region of Eindhoven, located in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, a region with ew road infrastructure will be financed mainly by national government, the province and the sregio Eindhoven’), which consists of 21 municipalities. We measure the benefits of the ime savings and the accompanying monetary gains. The results show that important spillovers se to the new links. The province of Noord-Brabant will benefit the most. We also found e of Limburg. This latter province will benefit from reduced travel times without contributing the analysed new road links.
A FORTIS : A Comprehensive Solution for Establishing Forward Trust for Protecting IPs and ICs UJJWAL

With the advent of globalization in the semiconductor industry, it is necessary to prevent unauthorized usage of third party IPs (3PIPs), cloning and unwanted modification of 3PIPs, and unauthorized production of ICs. Due to the increasing complexity of ICs, system-on-chip (SoC) designers use various 3PIPs in their design to reduce time-to-market and development costs, which creates a trust issue between the SoC designer and the IP owners. In addition, as the ICs are fabricated around the globe, the SoC designers give fabrication contracts to offshore foundries to manufacture ICs and have little control over the fabrication process, including the total number of chips fabricated. Similarly, the 3PIP owners lack control over the number of fabricated chips and/or the usage of their IPs in an SoC. Existing research only partially addresses the problems of IP piracy and IC overproduction, and to the best of our knowledge there is no work that considers IP overuse. In this paper, we present a comprehensive solution for preventing IP piracy and IC overproduction by assuring forward trust between all entities involved in the SoC design and fabrication process. We propose a novel design flow to prevent IC overproduction and IP overuse. We use an existing logic encryption technique to obfuscate the netlist of an SoC or a 3PIP and propose a modification to enable manufacturing tests before the activation of chips which is absolutely necessary to prevent overproduction. We have used asymmetric and symmetric key encryption, in a fashion similar to Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), to transfer keys from the SoC designer or 3PIP owners to the chips. In addition, we also propose to attach an IP digest (a cryptographic hash of the entire IP) to the header of an IP to prevent modification of the IP by the SoC designers. We have shown that our approach is resistant to various attacks with the cost of minimal area overhead.
Handwritten Digit Classication using 8-bit Floating Point based Convolutional Neural Networks

—Training of deep neural networks is often constrained by the available memory and computational power. This often causes it to run for weeks even when the underlying platform is employed with multiple GPUs. In order to speed up the training and reduce space complexity the paper presents an approach of using reduced precision (8-bit) ﬂoating points for training hand-written characters classiﬁer LeNeT-5 which allows for achieving 97.10% (Top-1 and Top-5) accuracy while reducing the overall space complexity by 75% in comparison to a model using single precision ﬂoating points.
ToR Switch Clients L 2 / L 3 Routing Coherence Directory Controller Storage Server Storage Server Storage Server Statistics Engine

High performance distributed storage systems face the challenge of load imbalance caused by skewed and dynamic workloads. This paper introduces Pegasus, a new storage architecture that leverages new-generation programmable switch ASICs to balance load across storage servers. Pegasus uses selective replication of the most popular objects in the data store to distribute load. Using a novel in-network coherence directory, the Pegasus switch tracks and manages the location of replicated objects. This allows it to achieve load-aware forwarding and dynamic rebalancing for replicated keys, while still guaranteeing data coherence. The Pegasus design is practical to implement as it stores only forwarding metadata in the switch data plane. The resulting system improves the 99% tail latency of a distributed in-memory key-value store by more than 95%, and yields up to a 9× throughput improvement under a latency SLO – results which hold across a large set of workloads with varying degrees of skewness, read/write ratio, and dynamism.