Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Association between the insertion / deletion polymorphism of angiotensin converting enzyme gene and rheumatic heart disease : a comprehensive meta-analysis

Objective: Previous reports on the association between the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), remained conflicting. This study was to further evaluate the association between ACE I/D polymorphism and RHD risk. Methods: Databases including PubMed, EMbase, CNKI and WanFang were retrieved to collect the related case-control studies. After screening studies and extracting data by 2 researchers independently, a meta-analysis was performed by Stata 12.0. Results: A total of 6 articles including 981 RHD patients and 901 controls were included. We found that there was a significant decreased susceptibility to RHD in a heterozygous model (OR=0.76, 95% CI: 0.58-0.99, P=0.040). Further subgroup analysis by age showed that the ACE I/D polymorphism in younger patients, but not in older patients, was significantly associated with RHD (allele model: OR=0.69, 95% CI: 0.52-0.91, P=0.010; homozygous model: OR=0.37, 95% CI: 0.19-0.71, P=0.003; recessive model: OR=0.64, 95% CI: 0.42-0.97, P=0.040). Moreover, there was a direct association between the ACE I/D polymorphism and the risk of mitral valve lesion (MVL) (allele model: OR=0.62, 95% CI: 0.43-0.89, P=0.009; homozygous model: OR=0.27, 95% CI: 0.11-0.64, P=0.003; recessive model: OR=0.57, 95% CI: 0.34-0.95, P=0.030) or combined valve lesion (CVL) (homozygous model: OR=0.47, 95% CI: 0.22-0.99, P=0.048) in younger patients. Conclusion: Taken together, these results suggest that the ACE I/D polymorphism is significantly associated with RHD, and DD genotype increases the risk of RHD.
Handbook of Research on Progressive Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking

Wireless communications and networks are developing at an accelerated rate. This rapid development has provided individuals with new opportunities for ubiquitous communication accessibility as well as enabled real-time multimedia technologies and their supporting applications.Wireless Communications and Networking: Theory and Practice brings together advanced research on diverse topics in wireless communications and networking, including the latest developments in broadband technologies, mobile communications, wireless sensor networks, network security, and cognitive radio networks. This book serves as a comprehensive reference for upper-level students, academicians, and industry professionals interested in uncovering recent advancements in wireless communications and networking.
Chapter 8 DATA FINGERPRINTING WITH SIMILARITY DIGESTS

State-of-the-art techniques for data fingerprinting are based on randomized feature selection pioneered by Rabin in 1981. This paper proposes a new, statistical approach for selecting fingerprinting features. The approach relies on entropy estimates and a sizeable empirical study to pick out the features that are most likely to be unique to a data object and, therefore, least likely to trigger false positives. The paper also describes the implementation of a tool (sdhash) and the results of an evaluation study. The results demonstrate that the approach works consistently across different types of data, and its compact footprint allows for the digests of targets in excess of 1 TB to be queried in memory.
How a New Distribution Paradigm Changes the Core Resources, Competences and Capabilities Endowment: The Case of Mobile Application Stores

The study argues that a shift in the distribution paradigm in place has deep strategic implications, with specific reference to the resources, competencies and capabilities firms leverage to achieve competitive advantage. Analyzing the upfront issue related to the rise of the Mobile Application Store model as a substitute to the original Mobile Portal model from the Mobile Network Operator perspective, the study aims at describing how the introduction of a new distribution paradigm affects and transforms a firm’s resources and assets portfolio. The findings show the core resources endowment characterizing Operators is significantly altered due to the appearance of the alternative Store model and the underneath Mobile-Web revolution, causing the fall of some traditional unique assets, and the concurrent rise of emerging resources and dynamic capabilities, moreover, light is shed on other strategic matters influenced by such change, ranging from the nature of competition to incumbents’ and challengers’ strategies to induce, avert or co-opt potentially disruptive innovation.
A high resolution time-to-digital converter using two-level vernier delay line technique

This paper describes the design of time-to- digital converter ( TDC ) with two level Vernier delay line (VDL) , which is used to solve the problem of long conversion time in single level VDL and reduce the number of elements. The time interval to be measured between two pulse signals is separated into integral period part and non-integral period part by control circuit. Integral part is sent to counter, and non-integral parts are sent to the two level VDL. In the first VDL can get coarse resolution ( Tclk/N ) , and the signals will be transmitted to the second VDL by the proposed interface circuit. Fine resolution (Tclk/N2) can be gotten in the second VDL. Finally, readout circuit converts thermal code to binary code and do the subtraction to obtain the final results. The bias voltage of delay elements in VDL is controlled by DLL, this makes delay elements can stably provide two kinds of delay time for VDL. The circuit is realized with the process of TSMC CMOS 0.18 um 1P6M. 200 Mhz clock frequency is chosen in the circuit. From the simulation results, the conversion time is smaller than 5 clock periods, the maximum time can be measured is 75 ns. After the fine resolution is modified to 29.6 ps, the DNL is within -0.33LSB - +0.69LSB , and INLis within +0.47LSB - +1.08LSB.
A 35-Gb/s Limiting Amplifier in 0.13/spl mu/m CMOS Technology

A 35Gb/s limiting amplifier using cascaded-distributed amplifiers with active feedback and on-chip transformers achieves a differential gain SDD21 of 38 dB and a bandwidth of 26.2GHz. It has been fabricated in 0.13mum CMOS technology. It exhibits a single-ended output swing of 300mVPP while consuming 125mW from a 1.5V supply
A Fuzzy Approach to Model Evaluation of Project Complexity

Evaluating project complexity is the main means for successful projects and can play an important role in improving the project management of companies that take on multiple projects simultaneously. Despite the importance of this subject, there are few studies in this field and project managers have not paid a great deal of attention to it. In this paper, an exploratory approach has been taken to identify key project complexity criteria which have been narrowed down to the following; project size, project variety, project interdependency, and project context-dependence. Also, a Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) method based on a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) is proposed to evaluate project complexity using the chosen criteria. Employing the Fuzzy AHP method in group decision-making facilitates a consensus of decisionmakers and reduces uncertainty. An example of application is presented to display the utility of the model.
Tensor Comprehensions: Framework-Agnostic High-Performance Machine Learning Abstractions

Deep learning models with convolutional and recurrent networks are now ubiquitous and analyze massive amounts of audio, image, video, text and graph data, with applications in automatic translation, speech-to-text, scene understanding, ranking user preferences, ad placement, etc. Competing frameworks for building these networks such as TensorFlow, Chainer, CNTK, Torch/PyTorch, Caffe1/2, MXNet and Theano, explore different tradeoffs between usability and expressiveness, research or production orientation and supported hardware. They operate on a DAG of computational operators, wrapping high-performance libraries such as CUDNN (for NVIDIA GPUs) or NNPACK (for various CPUs), and automate memory allocation, synchronization, distribution. Custom operators are needed where the computation does not fit existing high-performance library calls, usually at a high engineering cost. This is frequently required when new operators are invented by researchers: such operators suffer a severe performance penalty, which limits the pace of innovation. Furthermore, even if there is an existing runtime call these frameworks can use, it often doesn't offer optimal performance for a user's particular network architecture and dataset, missing optimizations between operators as well as optimizations that can be done knowing the size and shape of data. Our contributions include (1) a language close to the mathematics of deep learning called Tensor Comprehensions offering both imperative and declarative styles, (2) a polyhedral Just-In-Time compiler to convert a mathematical description of a deep learning DAG into a CUDA kernel with delegated memory management and synchronization, also providing optimizations such as operator fusion and specialization for specific sizes, (3) a compilation cache populated by an autotuner. [Abstract cutoff]
The c ~ Chain Gene of H20 Has an Unexpected Location in the Major Histocompatibillty Complex By

A previously unknown major histocompatibility complex class II molecule consisting of the 13 chain encoded by the H-20b gene and an unknown ot chain was recently described. We now report that the c~ chain occurs in two alldic forms distinguished by charge difference. Using inbred recombinant mouse strains we were able to map the H-20a gene to a location between the A.TL and B10.MBR recombination points. Cosmids covering this region were used to isolate the gene. Sequence analysis revealed that the H-20a gene is the murine equivalent of the human HLA-DNA gene. These results indicate that the human HLA-DNA gene, the existence of which has long been known, is indeed coding for DOck, the ol chain pairing with DOE.
Gamma Ray Signatures of Neutrons From a Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flash

Following a lightning strike to a wind turbine in Japan, we have observed a large burst of neutrons lasting 100 ms with a ground fluence of ~1,000 n cm−2, thousands of times greater than the peak neutron flux associated with the largest ground level solar particle event ever observed. This is the first detection of an unequivocal signature of neutrons from a terrestrial gamma ray flash, consisting of a 2.223 MeV gamma‐ray spectral line from a neutron‐capture on hydrogen reaction occurring in our detector, and is shown to be consistent with the production of 1012–1013 photoneutrons from a downward terrestrial gamma ray flash (TGF) at 1.0 km, with a gamma ray brightness typical of upward TGFs observed by satellites.
Bioavailability of Iron-fortified Whey Protein Concentrate in Iron-deficient Rats

An iron-fortified whey protein concentrate (Fe-WPC) was prepared by addition of ferric chloride to concentrated whey. A large part of the iron in the Fe-WPC existed as complexes with proteins such as β-lactoglobulin. The bioavailability of iron from Fe-WPC was evaluated using iron-deficient rats, in comparison with heme iron. Rats were separated into a control group and an iron-deficiency group. Rats in the control group were given the standard diet containing ferrous sulfate as the source of iron throughout the experimental feeding period. Rats in the iron-deficiency group were made anemic by feeding on an Fe-deficient diet without any added iron for 3 wk. After the iron-deficiency period, the iron-deficiency group was separated into an Fe-WPC group and a heme iron group fed Fe-WPC and hemin as the sole source of iron, respectively. The hemoglobin content, iron content in liver, hemoglobin regeneration efficiency (HRE) and apparent iron absorption rate were examined when iron-deficient rats were fed either Fe-WPC or hemin as the sole source of iron for 20 d. Hemoglobin content was significantly higher in the rats fed the Fe-WPC diet than in rats fed the hemin diet. HRE in rats fed the Fe-WPC diet was significantly higher than in rats fed the hemin diet. The apparent iron absorption rate in rats fed the Fe-WPC diet tended to be higher than in rats fed the hemin diet (p = 0.054). The solubility of iron in the small intestine of rats at 2.5 h after ingestion of the Fe-WPC diet was approximately twice that of rats fed the hemin diet. These results indicated that the iron bioavailability of Fe-WPC was higher than that of hemin, which seemed due, in part, to the different iron solubility in the intestine.
Revisiting levees in southern Texas using Love-wave multichannel analysis of surface waves with the high-resolution linear Radon transform

AbstractShear-wave velocities were estimated at a levee site by inverting Love waves using the multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method augmented with the high-resolution linear Radon transform (HRLRT). The selected site was one of five levee sites in southern Texas chosen for the evaluation of several seismic data-analysis techniques readily available in 2004. The methods included P- and S-wave refraction tomography, Rayleigh- and Love-wave surface-wave analysis using MASW, and P- and S-wave cross-levee tomography. The results from the 2004 analysis revealed that although the P-wave methods provided reasonable and stable results, the S-wave methods produced surprisingly inconsistent shear-wave velocity VS estimates and trends compared with previous studies and borehole investigations. In addition, the Rayleigh-wave MASW method was nearly useless within the levee due to the sparsity of high frequencies in fundamental-mode surface waves and complexities associated with inverting higher modes. T.
Title Subcellular localization of SUN 2 is regulated by lamin a andRab 5

SUN2 is an inner nuclear membrane protein with a conserved Sad1/UNC-84 homology SUN-domain at the C-terminus. Intriguingly, SUN2 has also been reported to interact with Rab5, which localizes in early endosomes. To clarify the dual subcellular localization of SUN2, we investigated its localization in lamin A/C deficient cells rescued with lamin A or lamin C isoform, and in HeLa cells transfected with Rab5 or its mutants. We found that expression of lamin A but not lamin C partly restored the nuclear envelope localization of SUN2. SUN2 was redistributed to endosomes upon overexpression of Rab5, but remained on the nuclear envelope when the SUN domain was deleted. To explore the physiological function of SUN2 in vesicle trafficking and endocytosis, we demonstrated the colocalization of endogenous SUN2 and Rab5. Moreover, overexpression of SUN2 stimulated the uptake of transferrin while suppression of SUN2 expression attenuated the process. These findings support a role of SUN2 in endocytosis. Citation: Liang Y, Chiu PH, Yip KY, Chan SY (2011) Subcellular Localization of SUN2 Is Regulated by Lamin A and Rab5. PLoS ONE 6(5): e20507. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone. 0020507 Editor: Neil A. Hotchin, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Received January 5, 2011; Accepted May 3, 2011; Published May 31, 2011 Copyright: 2011 Liang 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. Funding: This work was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. HKU 7176/ 01M) and Edward Sai-Kim Hotung Paediatric Education and Research Fund. This work was also supported by the Faculty Core Imaging Facility of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong. 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. * E-mail: sychan@hku.hk
Dispersion characteristics of fin lines with photonic substrate

Current and foreseen applications of photonic crystals especially the PBG (Photonic Band Gap) can be divided according to their principle of functioning. In this work an efficient method is presented for the accurate full-wave analyses of the unilateral and bilateral finlines with a 2D PBG material as substrate. To analyze its efficiency, it's necessary to determine the phase, attenuation and effective dielectric constants. In order to analyze the behavior of the structure with this substrate, the full wave TTL (Transversal Transmission Line) method is used. Numerical results for the attenuation and effective dielectric constant of unilateral and bilateral finline with PBG substrate are presented.
Signature based malware detection for unstructured data in Hadoop

Hadoop is a very efficient distributed processing framework. It's based on map-reduce approach where the application is divided into small fragments of work, each of which may be executed on any node in the cluster. Hadoop is very efficient tool in storing and processing unstructured, semi-structured and structured data. Unstructured data usually refers to the data stored in files not in traditional row and column way. Examples of unstructured data is e-mail messages, videos, audio files, photos, web-pages, and many other kinds of business documents. Our work primarily focuses on detecting malware for unstructured data stored in Hadoop distributed file system environment. Here we use calm AV's updated free virus signature database. We also propose a fast string search algorithm based on map-reduce approach.
Compact circularly polarized slot-ring antenna and microstrip bandpass filter using triangular open-loop resonators

Compact Circularly Polarized Slot-Ring Antenna and Microstrip Bandpass Filter Using Triangular Open-Loop Resonators. (December 2006) Muhammad Fahad Farooqui, B.E. , NED University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Kai Chang In this thesis two different research topics are undertaken, both in the area of compact RF/microwave circuits design. The first topic involves the design of a compact circularly polarized (CP) slot-ring antenna. A study of several compact CP microstrip and slotline antennas reported in the past has been carried out. In this research, a method of reducing the size of a printed slot-ring antenna is proposed. The reduction in size is achieved by introducing meandered-slot sections in the ring. Circular polarization is achieved by introducing an asymmetry, also a meandered-slot section, and feeding the antenna at an angle of 45 from the asymmetry using a microstrip feed line. The minimum axial ratio of 0.4 dB is obtained at 2.46 GHz, which is the operating frequency of the antenna. The size of the proposed antenna is reduced by about 50% compared to a conventional CP slot-ring antenna and it displays a CP bandwidth of about 2.5%. The simulated and measured results are presented, and they are in good agreement. The small size of the antenna makes it very suitable for use in modern RF/microwave wireless systems which require compact, low cost, and high performance circuits. Moreover, its CP behavior makes it more attractive for applications such as satellite communications.
Parallel Corpus Development at NVTC

In this paper, we describe the methods used to develop an exchangeable translation memory bank of sentence-aligned Mandarin Chinese - English sentences. This effort is part of a larger effort, initiated by the National Virtual Translation Center (NVTC), to foster collaboration and sharing of translation memory banks across the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. In this paper, we describe our corpus creation process - a largely automated process - highlighting the human interventions that are still deemed necessary. We conclude with a brief discussion of how this work will affect plans for NVTC's new translation management workflow and future research to increase the performance of the automated components of the corpus creation process.
A Critical MANET Routing Protocol

Critical MANET environments such as military battlefields and disaster recovery operations impose a number of requirements (such as the need for robustness and performance within a high mobility scenarios), and constraints (such as Hostile attacks, RF range and cost, battery limitations). Many studies proved that PUMA (Protocol for Unified Multicasting through Announcements) is superior compared to other multicast and core-based routing protocols like DCMP, MAODV and ODMRP where in addition to providing the lowest control overhead compared to ODMRP and MAODV, PUMA provides a very tight bound for the control overhead [1]. So we studied PUMA and its drawbacks while working in critical MANETs which leaded us to propose a novel routing protocol named Adaptive Secure Headship Following Induction Keeping (ASHFIK) to work ideally in critical MANETs scenarios.In this paper we discuss the structure of ASHFIK which uses a new mechanism called the Headship Mechanism which provides always a standby core to work if the original core is down. After studying performance analysis of ASHFIK compared to PUMA, we could conclude that ASHFIK is suitable for most critical MANETs scenarios.
Crowd Behavior Analysis and Classification using Graph Theoretic Approach

-Surveillance systems are commonly used for security and monitoring. The need to automate these systems is well understood. To address this issue we introduce the Graph theoretic approach based Crowd Behavior Analysis and Classification System (GCBACS). The crowd behavior is observed based on the motion trajectories of the personnel in the crowd. Optical flow methods are used to obtain the streak lines and path lines of the crowd personnel trajectories. The streak flow is constructed based on the path and streak lines. The personnel and their respective potential vectors obtained from the streak flows are used to represent each frame as a graph. The frames of the surveillance videos are analyzed using graph theoretic approaches.
Evaluation of House Rent Prices and Their Affordability in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Access to affordable housing has been a long-standing issue for households in most cities. This paper reports on a study of house rent prices in Port Moresby, factors influencing them, and affordability of the prices. Data was obtained from houses that were advertised for rent in Port Moresby for a period of 13 months and were analysed using the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model. The results show that monthly house rent prices range from 2357 to 34,286 Papua New Guinea Kina (PGK), or 714 to 10,389 U.S. dollars (USD), and the median price was 7286 PGK (2208 USD). Houses located in the central business district had the highest median house rent price, whereas low-income areas had the lowest rent price. By dividing the median house rent price by gross household income, the housing affordability index was 3.4. House rent price was influenced by factors such as number of bedrooms and location. To make house rent prices more affordable for Port Moresby residents, it is necessary to supply more houses for rent relative to demand, especially in low-income areas. Relevant governmental agencies should put more effort toward unlocking more customarily-owned land for housing development and toward facilitating the private sector to construct more low-cost houses for rent, which are affordable for low to middle income households. This has the potential of improving Port Moresby residents’ access to affordable houses for rent. The findings could assist urban development managers and planners in allocating resources for housing by considering housing demand, supply, and house rent prices.