Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
“ I DON ' T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH IT BEING MARKED PUBLIC . . . :-) ” MAKING SENSE OF CHALLENGES TO OPENNESS IN MULTIPARTY

Discourses on openness permeate Information Systems (IS) literature. Open source, innovation, design, and data, among others, have aroused IS scholars interest during recent years. However, in IS research less attention has been paid to practical realities and challenges associated with openness. IS design, furthermore, has become highly distributed and involving multiple participants and perspectives that each may have a different standpoint to openness, the consequences of which so far have not been examined in the literature. This study, by relying on nexus analysis as a sensitizing device, address these limitations and examines multiparty IS design as social action, for the understanding of which nexus analytic concepts of discourses in place, historical body and interaction order are essential. The analysis identifies a variety of views and challenges involved with openness in multiparty IS design. Despite openness being postulated as a driving force of the design process, it was realized in a limited sense. The participants’ historical bodies, especially in the sense of their disciplinary background, and the interaction orders they had mutually established delimited openness in this design project. Variety and challenges involved with openness in multiparty design are discussed and implications for IS research and practice are considered.
Supplemental material for “ A solvable family of driven-dissipative many-body systems ”

Michael Foss-Feig,1, 2, 3 Jeremy T. Young,2 Victor V. Albert,4 Alexey V. Gorshkov,2, 3 and Mohammad F. Maghrebi5, 2, 3 1United States Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA 2Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 3Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 4Yale Quantum Institute and Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA 5Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Immunostaining of IDH-1 R 132 H and ATRX proteins in the classification of adult glioblastomas

Classification of gliomas based on genetic alternations was of great significance in understanding tumor behavior and treating individually. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) offered an easy, cheap and efficient way to detect mutations, compared to direct sequencing. Herein, we characterized the mutations of IDH-1 and ATRX detected by IHC, in a cohort of 217 glioblastomas. IDH-1R132H mutations was more common in younger patients (42.31 ± 1.56 vs. 53.45 ± 1.02, P=0.000) and secondary glioblastomas [12.8% (23/180) vs. 75.7% (28/37), P=0.000]. ATRX loss was closely correlated with a younger age (44.59 ± 1.94 vs. 52.51 ± 1.00, P=0.000) and secondary glioblastomas [51.4% (19/37) vs. 15.0% (27/180), P=0.000]. IDH-1R132H mutations were significantly overlapped with ATRX loss [56.9% (29/51) vs. 10.2% (17/166), P=0.000]. Moreover, the median overall survival significantly differed among IDH-1R132H-mut-ATRXneg (28.70 months, 95% CI 12.44-44.96), IDH-1R132H-mut-ATRXpos (20.87 months, 95% CI 9.5732.17), IDH-1R132H-wt-ATRXneg (14.27 months, 95% CI 10.01-18.53) and IDH-1R132H-wt-ATRXpos (12.20 months, 95% CI 10.33-14.07). Also patients in the group of IDH-1R132H-mut-ATRXneg or IDH-1R132H-mut-ATRXpos were both significantly younger than those had IDH-1R132H-wt-ATRXpos subtypes (P<0.05). In conclusion, immunostaining of IDH R132H and ATRX proteins help better classify glioblastomas. We recommend IHC as a necessary tool to diagnose glioblastomas, when direct sequencing was not performed.
Msi 1 confers resistance to TRAIL by activating ERK in liver cancer cells

To investigate TRAIL resistance mechanisms in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we isolated a stable TRAIL-resistant sub-population of the HCC cell line LH86, designated LH86-TR. Differential activation of AKT was not responsible for acquisition of TRAIL resistance. Cells with both congenital and acquired resistance to TRAIL exhibited increased Msi1 expression, which conferred TRAIL resistance by activating ERK. Forced expression of Msi1 decreased the sensitivity of HCC cells to TRAIL both in vitro and in vivo. Conversely, shRNA-mediated depletion of Msi1 enhanced TRAIL efficacy. SiRNA-mediated depletion of ERK overcame TRAIL resistance. Hence, we conclude that Msi1 is a mediator of TRAIL resistance in HCC cells. 2015 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
11 34 8 v 2 [ qu an tph ] 3 0 A ug 2 01 9 Dynamic winding number for exploring band topology

Bo Zhu, 2 Yongguan Ke, 3 Honghua Zhong, and Chaohong Lee 2, 3, ∗ Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Metrology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai 519082, China State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou Campus), Guangzhou 510275, China Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China (Dated: September 2, 2019)
EVALUATION OF PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD IN NORTHERN ALGERIA . A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ALGERIAN BUILDING CODE

The recent seismic activity in northern Algeria evidences the need for updating the current Algerian building code, and consequently, the need to update the probabilistic seismic hazard values in force in northern Algeria assessed in previous works. The seismic risk reduction uses the results of seismic hazard analysis, and includes consequence and probability. This study is a large highlight on the used updated procedure. The spatially-smoothed seismicity approach was used for the computation of the seismic hazard values. The adopted method combines both zonified and non-zonified approches. It is well adapted to model disperse or background seismicity. Seismic hazard map in terms of peak ground acceleration (PGA) with 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years was initially obtained for rock. These maps are a crucial tools used in seismic risk reduction. Also, we have computed spectral acceleration (SA) values for rock, corresponding to soils type A in Eurocode-8, and soils type S1 in the Algerian building code, damped at 5% for different periods. The compilation of seismic hazard in term of SA at different periods, damped at 5%, for three different types of soils (rock, and soft and stiff soils), and for return periods of 100 and 475 years, allow us to derive interesting relationships between SA (0.2-sec) vs. PGA and SA (1.0-sec) vs. PGA independent of the considered return period. In addition, uniform hazard spectra (UHS) have been obtained for different return periods at different locations. The computed UHS for different types of soils and for a 475 years return period have been proposed as design spectra. We have used the well known Newman-Hall approach with certain modifications. The SA (0.2-sec) is used to establish the spectral region for lower periods (region controlled by acceleration), while the SA (1.0-sec) is used to establish the spectral region for intermediate periods (region controlled by the velocity), just as it is proposed in the most recent International Building Code. The results obtained in this study could improve the Algerian building code, which is a fundamental tool in seismic risk reduction.
Individual Investors Trade Differently in Different Markets ?

We investigate the hypothesis that the same investors trade differently in different financial markets. We use a proprietary data base with the transaction records of 129,461 investors for a 10‐year period, and select the investors holding both stocks and warrants in the port‐ folio. We compare the trading behavior of investors in the stock market and in the warrant market, controlling for investors’ socio‐demographic characteristics (age, occupation, edu‐ cation, etc.) and for investors’ behavioral biases (overconfidence, the disposition effect and pursuit of the pleasure of gambling). Even though investors are the same in both markets, our results clearly show that the soci‐ odemographic determinants of the trading activity in stocks and in warrants are not all the same, implying that the same investors trade stocks differently than warrants. More pre‐ cisely, overconfident investors have a higher warrant trading activity and a lower domestic stock trading activity, and investors pursuing gambling pleasure or prone to the disposition effect trade warrants more (but do not trade stocks more).
NONLINEAR PROCESSES FEATURES OF STOCHASTIC DECAY IN THE MAGNETOACTIVE PLASMA

The regular and stochastic decay processes of transverse electromagnetic waves in the magnetoactive plasma investigated. The essential attention noted to decay into oscillations with dynamics that takes into account ion plasma component. The threshold of transition into dynamics chaos defined. It was shown that transition may take place at abnormally small amplitudes of decaying wave. Dynamics of fields in the dynamics chaos regime investigated. PACS: 52.35. Mw
IN VITRO ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS ROOT EXTRACTS

Ethanol and aqueous extracts of Amaranthus spinosus (roots) were investigated for their antibacterial activity against ten bacterial strains including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria using the agarwell diffusion method. The 2 extracts tested, the ethanol extract presented the best results while the aqueous extract showed moderate inhibition of the microbial growth. Each extract is unique against different microorganisms. It is concluded that the plants studied may be a source of antibacterial agents.
Myrmica martini sp . n . – a cryptic species of the Myrmica scabrinodis species complex ( Hymenoptera : Formicidae ) revealed by geometric morphometrics and nest-centroid clustering

Palaearctic populations of Myrmica ants so far known under the name M. scabrinodis NYLANDER, 1846 were studied by combining geometric morphometrics (GM) with nest-centroid (NC) clustering and hypothesis-driven data analysis. A new cryptic species, Myrmica martini sp.n. , showing a rather limited geographical range extending over largely the montane to subalpine zones of the Pyrenees and French Alps, was identified. 41 landmarks and 252 semilandmarks were fixed in the clypeus, head capsule, mesosoma and petiole aspects of 359 ant workers belonging to 106 nest samples. Extracting the 14 most diagnostic shape components from a set of 316 relative warps and running these data in NCclustering, resulted in a complete species separation despite minute interspecific differences and large overlap in any character. The species identification provided by NC-Ward, NC-K-means and NMDS-K-Means clustering and by the controlling linear discriminant analysis agreed in each nest sample. There was no classification in disagreement with zoogeographic data. The lectotype samples of the five most similar and possibly synonymous taxa had near-to-zero probabilities of belonging to the M. martini sp.n. cluster: M. scabrinodis (p = 0.00015), M. scabrinodis var. rugulosoides FOREL, 1915 (p = 0.0037), M. pilosiscapus BONDROIT, 1920 (p = 0.0008), M. sabuleti var. spinosior SANTSCHI, 1931 (p = 0.0006), and M. rolandi var. reticulata STÄRCKE, 1942 (p = 0.00001). Myrmica rolandi var. reticulata, of which a lectotype was designated here, is established as junior synonym of M. spinosior whereas M. scabrinodis var. rugulosoides and M. pilosiscapus are confirmed as junior synonyms of M. scabrinodis. We provide a rather simple system to discriminate M. martini from M. scabrinodis requiring 8 10 minutes of investigation time per specimen and resulting in an error of 3.6% on the nest sample level.
DISTRIBUTED COMPOSITION OF CONTROL PLANES IN A HYBRID SDN NETWORK

2 Introduction . 2 Issues . 3 Related Work . 5 Device Architecture . 6 Protocol Composition . 7 Descendent Composition . 8 Partial Descendent Composition . 9 Protocol Bit Vector . 10 Ongoing work . 13 Bibliography . 14
APPLYING A PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODEL TO THE FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN CREDIT UNIONS

ABSTRACT Due to high interest rates and bank spreads, the number of credit unions in Brazil has increased over recent years. As financial institutions, these cooperatives need tools to signal impending financial problems. This paper focuses on one tool that can be used to evaluate credit union solvency: the Cox Proportional Hazards Model. A sample of eighty credit unions from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais was selected to supply data. The analysis period is between December 2001 and June 2003. The results indicate that the relevant indicators for insolvency prediction are, in descending order of predictive ability, General Liquidity, Salary and Benefit Expenses, and the Loan/Equity Ratio. In general, results produced using the delineated theoretical model were in consonance with international literature.
A PLANAR ANTENNA ARRAY MANUFACTURED FROM CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTIC

A structural sandwich panel that also acted as a planar antenna array was designed, manufactured and tested. The flat 340 mm x 340 mm sandwich panel was manufactured from IM7/977-3 carbon fibre reinforced plastic. The skins in this panel were separated by parallel blades, creating tubes with a 22.9 mm x 10.2 mm cross-section. This matches that of WR90 waveguides used for the transmission of X-band (8-12 GHz) radiation. Ten longitudinal slots were cut through the outer skin and into each of the ten central tubes, and custom radiofrequency feeds and electrical shorts fitted to the ends of these tubes. 10 GHz radiation was fed into the feeds and the radiofrequency response measured. The scattering parameters and antenna pattern matched that predicted by radiofrequency simulation and demonstrated that a structural panel could also behave as a planar slotted waveguide antenna array.
Simba: Scaling Deep-Learning Inference with Multi-Chip-Module-Based Architecture

Package-level integration using multi-chip-modules (MCMs) is a promising approach for building large-scale systems. Compared to a large monolithic die, an MCM combines many smaller chiplets into a larger system, substantially reducing fabrication and design costs. Current MCMs typically only contain a handful of coarse-grained large chiplets due to the high area, performance, and energy overheads associated with inter-chiplet communication. This work investigates and quantifies the costs and benefits of using MCMs with fine-grained chiplets for deep learning inference, an application area with large compute and on-chip storage requirements. To evaluate the approach, we architected, implemented, fabricated, and tested Simba, a 36-chiplet prototype MCM system for deep-learning inference. Each chiplet achieves 4 TOPS peak performance, and the 36-chiplet MCM package achieves up to 128 TOPS and up to 6.1 TOPS/W. The MCM is configurable to support a flexible mapping of DNN layers to the distributed compute and storage units. To mitigate inter-chiplet communication overheads, we introduce three tiling optimizations that improve data locality. These optimizations achieve up to 16% speedup compared to the baseline layer mapping. Our evaluation shows that Simba can process 1988 images/s running ResNet-50 with batch size of one, delivering inference latency of 0.50 ms.
RODOS INTEGRATED DISPERSION MODULES:

A system integrated comprehensive atmospheric dispersion module has been built from models suitable for fast real-time atmospheric dispersion calculations as suggested by [1], cf. Table 1. TABLE 1: THE MET-RODOS MODULE: Associated models and data Near-range flow and dispersion models, including pre-processors: · Meteorological pre-processor (PAD) · Mass Consistent Flow model (MCF) · Linearized flow model (LINCOM) · Puff model with gamma dose (RIMPUFF) · Near-range elongated puff model (ATSTEP) Complex terrain models (stand alone system): · Prognostic flow model (ADREA) and Lagrangian dispersion model (DIPCOT) Mesoscale and Long-range Models: · Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian model (MATCH) On-line Weather Forecast data: · Numerical Weather Prediction data (DMI-HIRLAM and SPA -TYPHOON) The module is called MET-RODOS and it consists of models and pre-processors contributed to by Work Group 2 (Atmospheric Dispersion) partners.
HOW TO ASSIGN TIME-OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES TO PARALLEL ROBOTS - AN ADAPTIVE JERK-LIMITED APPROACH

This paper provides a new algorithm for time-optimal adaptive trajectory planning for parallel robots. The approach enhances existing solutions by including the parameter information obtained for adaptive control schemes in the trajectory planning process. Furthermore, an explicit limitation of the path jerk is realized. A new algorithm to identify reachable points of the maximum velocity curve (MVC), which leads to smooth trajectories, is derived. Experimental results using the plane parallel robot P ORTYS demonstrate the high performance of the proposed algorithm.
Effect of Bee Pollination on Seed Yield and Yield Contributing Characters of Bitter Gourd Momordica Charantia

The insects from Apidae family are the most reliable agents for pollination. Among members of Apidae family, honey bees are particularly important pollinators as they are capable of carrying pollen and in the process, the plants visited by them are benefited [1]. Bitter gourd seed yield is heavily depends on pollinators especially bees. Plots caged with bees yielded more fruits per m 2 and heavier and higher quality fruits than other plots i.e. open pollination and crop caged without bees [2]. For efficient pollination in highly cross pollinated crop honey bees are most important. Adequate pollination is vital for any significant increase in production, about 90 per cent cross pollination is carried out by the insects, 85 per cent of which comprises of bees. Maximum fruit set in open pollinated plots (81%) in chow-chow and lowest in control plot (10.5%). Among the honey bee species, maximum fruit set was found in A. florea caged plots i.e. 78% and the lowest was found in T. iridipennis caged plot (61%). Also, maximum fruit weight and fruit volume was found in open pollinated plots and minimum in control plots. Among the honey bee species, maximum fruit weight and fruit size was found in A. cerana caged plots and the lowest was found in T. iridipennis caged plots [3]. The material to increase the honey bee visit to specific crops would be of great practical value to harvest the benefits of cross pollination. Commercial and local bee attractants viz., Bee line, Bee here, Bee scent, Bee scent plus, Fruit boost, Bee-Q, Sugar solution, Sugarcane juice, Jaggery solution, Molasses, etc. are being used to boost the yield of pea, peach, blue berries, watermelon and apple in the United States, Spain and Canada. Though some studies have been made on pollination of bitter gourd but no attempts have been made for exploring the possible use of bee attractants to boost productivity of bitter gourd in India. However, the related studies on use of bee attractants in India are scanty. The conservation and management of insect pollinators is gaining importance day by day. In this regard, studies on effect of different bee attractants were studied with effect on yield, was studied in the present investigation.
MEMS-SWITCHED RECONFIGURABLE MULTI-BAND ANTENNA : DESIGN AND MODELING

Reconfigurable multi-band antennas are attractive for many military and commercial applications where it is desirable to have a single antenna that can be dynamically reconfigured to transmit and/or receive on multiple frequency bands. Such common-aperture antennas find applications in space-based radar, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), communication satellites, electronic intelligence aircraft and many other communications and sensing applications. The reconfigurable antenna can be envisioned as an array of microstrip patch elements that are resonant at the highest operation frequency fmax, that can be connected together using switches to form groups of elements that are resonant at several lower frequencies fmax/? i, where ? i, i= 1,2,. ,N are scale factors related to the element groupings. It is easy to envision that an array that can be reconfigured to operate over a relative bandwidth of 100:1 would require hundreds and perhaps thousands of switches. Hence, a critical component of the reconfigurable antenna is the switches or relays used to interconnect the patch elements. Moreover, the efficiency (insertion loss) and effectiveness (isolation) of the switches will dictate the overall performance of the reconfigurable antenna array. One type of switch that has received a lot of attention recently as a candidate for reconfigurable antennas is the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switch. In this paper, we present design and modeling details for a prototype reconfigurable muli-band antenna using MEMS switches. A general adaptive reconfigurable (GARF) feed methodology is employed to allow various antenna configurations to have independent feed structures, and hence be tuned independently. We present computer simulations and measurement results for a small reconfigurable patch module (RPM) that may be used as a building block for a larger array in a tile architecture.
AU TH OR C OP Y Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth

Several cross-country studies have found that corruption is detrimental to economic growth, but the findings are not universally robust. We utilize the economic freedom index to examine if corruption can facilitate growth by allowing entrepreneurs to avoid inefficient policies and regulations when economic freedom is limited. Using regression analysis, we find that corruption is growth enhancing when economic freedom is most limited but the beneficial impact of corruption decreases as economic freedom increases. Not all areas of economic freedom affect the corruption–growth relationship equally. In particular, we find the beneficial effect of corruption disappears most quickly when the size of government and the extent of regulation decrease. Comparative Economic Studies (2010) 52, 351–378. doi:10.1057/ces.2010. 14; published online 1 July 2010
Legal origins, religion and health outcomes: a cross-country comparison of organ donation laws

Abstract This paper investigates what drives countries to legislate presumed consent – making citizens organ donors by default unless they opt out – instead of explicit consent. Results reveal the following: First, civil law predicts presumed consent, which uncovers a mechanism by which an institution that long pre-dates transplantation medicine has an impact on current health outcomes. This is in line with previous research that has found that civil law regimes tend to be more comfortable with a centralized and activist government than common law ones. Second, Catholicism predicts presumed consent. This is consistent with previous research that shows Catholicism generally relies on more hierarchical structures and is less likely to encourage social responsibility among its members. Last, higher pro-social behavior decreases the likelihood of presumed consent. This could be explained by policy-makers trying not to discourage donations where pro-social behavior is high by making it look a requirement rather than an altruistic act. The implications of the findings are discussed, with a particular focus on policy-switches in organ donations.
DEVELOPMENT OF NON-DESTRUCTIVE BEAM CURRENT MEASUREMENT FOR THE iTHEMBA LABS CYCLOTRONS

Transporting high-intensity proton beams at iThemba LABS requires non-destructive beam diagnostics. Different methods were considered for non-destructive beam current measurement. The aimed accuracy of the measurement is a few percent for beam intensities above 10 μA. A system based on real-time processing of signals from capacitive probes in the time domain was built and tested successfully.