Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Book Reviews

A t Korcula, Yugoslavia, in 1961, the International Epidemiologi­ cal Association held its Third Scientific Conference. A selection of the papers given on that occasion, together with a preface by the co-ordinating editor, Professor John Pemberton, has been published under the title, “ Epidem iology: Reports on Research and Teaching 1962. ” The opportunity to review this volume when the Association is about to hold another m ajor scientific meeting at Princeton, in August 1964, is naturally welcom e for the occasion it affords to re­ view the current position of epidemiological inquiry. The title o f this volume implies that one may expect to find within a statement of m ajor current preoccupations and perhaps a hint of likely future trends. Unfortunately the content of the book does little justice to its title. It is possible that an exclusive and representative coverage was not the aim of those who organized the meeting in Korcula, and was not uppermost in the minds of those who con­ tributed papers. The sections are headed: Cancer; Diarrhoeal Dis­ eases; Arterial Pressure; Occupational Diseases and Accidents; Neur­ ological Disease, Anaemia, and Nephropathy; Standardization of Diagnostic Techniques; Health Services; and Some Recent Develop-
Deploying and testing a NGN testbed

In the last 3 years a medium size NGN testbed was deployed at the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes of Aveiro in order to support the validation of the project IST-Daidalos. This paper intends to describe not only the work done in order to setup and maintain this testbed but also to elucidate the community of some of the caveats of creating and managing such a testbed in a environment where most of the prototypes are under specification and requirements change quickly. In this paper we also present some of the methodology used in order to extract results from this testbed and an insight to what can be done in the future. Keywords-component: daidalos, testbed, mobility, multicast, adhoc, multimedia, qos, a4c, integration.
DEFINING "NORMAL": METRICS FOR MINING HETEROGENEOUS GRAPHS AT LARGE SCALES

Rapidly increasing quantities of data are driving data science research in numerous application areas, while the ability to discover or predict patterns influences many business decisions. Large datasets are often transformed into graph-like structures to facilitate information mining. Many techniques have been proposed for studying homogenous graphs, but are ill-defined or nonexistent for heterogeneous graphs, which are more suited for representing real-life datasets. This paper proposes new metrics and descriptive statistics specifically designed for large, real-world graphs with multiple vertex and edge types. To be meaningful in today’s “big data” environment, new methods need to be computationally fast, memory efficient and scalable. The metrics were implemented and tested on Cray’s Urika platform providing rapid results on Terabytes (TB) of data. This work provides an approach to characterizing and understanding the underlying structure of heterogeneous graphs. A use case related to the healthcare domain is presented.
Privacy-preserving efficient searchable encryption

Data storage and computation outsourcing to third-party managed data centers, in environments such as Cloud Computing, is increasingly being adopted by individuals, organizations, and governments. However, as cloud-based outsourcing models expand to society-critical data and services, the lack of effective and independent control over security and privacy conditions in such settings presents significant challenges. An interesting solution to these issues is to perform computations on encrypted data, directly in the outsourcing servers. Such an approach benefits from not requiring major data transfers and decryptions, increasing performance and scalability of operations. Searching operations, an important application case when cloud-backed repositories increase in number and size, are good examples where security, efficiency, and precision are relevant requisites. Yet existing proposals for searching encrypted data are still limited from multiple perspectives, including usability, query expressiveness, and client-side performance and scalability. This thesis focuses on the design and evaluation of mechanisms for searching encrypted data with improved efficiency, scalability, and usability. There are two particular concerns addressed in the thesis: on one hand, the thesis aims at supporting multiple media formats, especially text, images, and multimodal data (i.e. data with multiple media formats simultaneously); on the other hand the thesis addresses client-side overhead, and how it can be minimized in order to support client applications executing in both high-performance desktop devices and resource-constrained mobile devices. From the research performed to address these issues, three core contributions were developed and are presented in the thesis: (i) CloudCryptoSearch, a middleware system for storing and searching text documents with privacy guarantees, while supporting multiple modes of deployment (user device, local proxy, or computational cloud) and exploring different tradeoffs between security, usability,
Miscellaneous New Species in the Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae)

Abstract Twenty-nine new species are described and illustrated in miscellaneous genera of the Pleurothallidinae. In alphabetical order, the new species proposed herein are Acianthera macilenta; Acronia hirtzii, A. rhinocera; Apoda-prorepentia hirtzii; Elongatia driessenii; Lepanthes dissidens, L. holoserica, L. licrophora, L. orlicii, L. praetermissa, L. vanbalenii; Masdevallia tonii; Porroglossum acrobat, P. sororcula; Scaphosepaluin translucens; Stelis agatha, S. agonzalezii, S. aspergilliformis, S. atroculata, S. celesticola, S. chaetostoma, S. chemophora, S. cracens, S. eudialema, S. habrostachya, S. leptoschesa, S. microsynema, S. sarae, and S. somnolenta.
Re-thinking Workflow Provenance against Data-Oriented Investigation Lifecycle

This report is the first installment of a two-part knowledge transfer. In this first part we introduce the status quo and issues, (with underlying reasons and remedies) in exploiting provenance information. The second report will provide details on approaches and techniques that can help towards increased use of provenance information.We start by revisiting the workflow provenance capabilities of the Taverna system, and the provenance-related information needs during stages of workflow- based scientific investigations. We look at the characteristics of workflow provenance that obstruct its pervasive use throughout the investigation lifecycle, and the current mechanisms that are devised as remedies.We briefly introduce a framework, in which we investigate techniques for abstraction and annotation of workflow provenance. We introduce Workflow Motifs, a domain-independent categorization workflow activities, a pillar upon which our provenance abstraction techniques are built.We conclude the report with a set of recommendations on provenance capabilities of Taverna tooling that would provide food for thought for the development team.
Maternal Characteristics versus Egg Size and Energy Density: Do Stocked Lake Trout in Lake Ontario Experience Premature Reproductive Senescence

Observations from September 1994 and 1997 collections of hatchery-origin, mature female lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) from Lake Ontario indicated that egg mass decreased with age, fueling the notion that stocked fish experienced premature reproductive senescence. Supplemental collections during September 2002 and November 2002-2004 were combined with the 1994 and 1997 samples to examine whether sample date or maternal age, body mass, condition (K), egg count, or strain were related to egg mass or energy content (percentage dry mass [%DM]). Body mass was correlated with egg mass for age ≥ 8 lake trout sampled in September, and egg count was correlated with egg mass for September age-6 lake trout only. Within each month, egg mass was not related to K or egg %DM, however, egg %DM was 1.52% greater (P ≤ 0.0247) in November than in September which is equivalent to a 110 cal/g difference. Samples were grouped for the three most abundant strains (Seneca, Superior, and Ontario) after finding no strain or year effects from our 1994 and 1997 samples and based on life history data from the literature and our assessment sampling. Further analysis indicated that September egg masses were greater for fish ages ≤ 6 than for fish ages ≥ 8. The age effect disappeared in November when mean egg mass across all ages (0.078 g) was greater than September means (P < 0.0005) for ages-5 (0.054 g), -6 (0.057 g) and ≥ 8 (0.041 g). Our results indicate that the decrease in egg mass with female age in September was not due to senescence, but to oogenesis being closer to completion in young age-5 and -6 fish than in older individuals. INDEX WORDS: Lake trout spawning and maturity, egg quality, Lake trout senescence.
Trust Determination in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Wireless ad hoc networks are susceptible to attacks by malicious nodes that could easily bring down the whole network. Therefore, it is important to have a reliable mechanism for detecting and isolating malicious nodes before they can do any harm to the network. Trust-based routing protocols are one possible mechanism as they locate trusted routes dynamically to conform to network environment. However, such algorithms require reliable and effective trust determination algorithm. This chapter presents a detail description and evaluation of the trust determination algorithm, namely, the Neighbor-Weight Trust Determination (NWTD) algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated through simulation using the Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) simulator (MANSim). The simulation results demonstrated the effectiveness and reliability of the algorithm in isolating any maliciously behaving node(s) in a timely manner.
The rise of a carnivore, the evolution of the presence of the golden jackal in Slovakia

Abstract. The golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most widespread canid species. Nowadays, it is a permanent species from the Slovak fauna. In recent years, their number has grown and the dispersion range has increased in our country. The first evidence of this species was recorded in 1947 and after 1989 the records of jackal presence increased steadily, most originating from the South of Slovakia. The presence of the golden jackal was quite evident from 2009 until 2016 as results demonstrate a great significance in terms of numbers during this period. The collected data is very consistent between culling data (strong evidence) and opportunistic observations (presumable evidence). Patterns of first migrating individuals presented in this work, confirmed previsions of the direction of the dispersion of this species to North from the Balkans region. Presumably, much of the migration occurred from Hungary as most of the first official records of the golden jackal in Slovakia are from areas close to the Hungarian border. This work aims to review and evaluate available official data and literature of Canis aureus in Slovakia. It also intends to summarise the status of this species and correlate it with historical data.
A New Species of Gyriosomus Guérinmeneville (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Chilean Atacama Desert

Abstract. Specimens of Gyriosomus (Tenebrionidae, Nycteliini) are conspicuous darkling beetles of the Chilean Atacama desert. Most species of this genus have restricted ranges and emerge as adults only after extensive rainfall. During the last blooming of the desert in 2017, we collected several specimens in the Monumento Natural Paposo Norte (Antofagasta region), which showed morphological differences, such as elytral pilosity pattern and shape of the pronotum, when compared with the sympatric Gyriosomus angustus and G. curtisi as well as other morphologically similar species (G. chango and G. barriai). We analyzed external morphology, female and male external genitalia, and the COI sequences of these specimens and compared these data with those of other species in that subregion. The results support the description of a new species, Gyriosomus camanchaca sp. nov., which is more closely related to G. chango than to the sympatric species of the Monumento Natural Paposo Norte. The evolutionary history of Gyriosomus in the Paposo region and its importance for conservation are discussed.
Fungal Biodiversity Profiles 11–20

Abstract The authors describe ten new taxa for science using mostly both morphological and molecular data. In Ascomycota, descriptions are provided for Ceramothyrium ficus (Chaetothyriales, Eurotiomycetes), Lachnum fusiforme (Leotiomycetes, Helotiales), four new species in Dothideomycetes, namely Micropeltis dendrophthoes (Microthyriales), Montagnula bellevaliae and M. scabiosae (Pleosporales), Scorias mangiferae (Capnodiales), as well as for Mucodor coffeanum (Xylariales, Sordariomycetes). In Basidiomycota, three new subgenera are introduced in Russula (Russulales).
Reliability Evaluation of Power System Based on Hybrid Variable-controlling Method

For improving evaluation speed and accuracy,reliability evaluation method of power system is proposed by combining mixed and variable-controlling method.The analytical judgment is adopted to analyze the samples with controlled variable to reducing variance.The generator is adjusted and the controlled variable is selected to calculate the reliability index.Thus,it not only improves the convergence speed but also accelerates the state assessment process.The proposed method is applied to reliability evaluation of power generation section in the IEEE-RTS test system.The result shows that under the prerequisite of ensuring calculation accuracy the proposed method can reduce the sampling variance and accelerate the convergence speed of iteration calculation.
Virtual Sample Generating for Face Recognition from a Single Training Sample per Person

Usually,that are assumed there are multiple samples per person for feature extraction in many face recognition methods.In many practical face recognition applications such as law enhancement,e-passport,and ID card identification,however,this assumption may not hold as there is only a single sample per person.To address this problem,a novel method is proposed that generating multiple samples with sample give by using virtual sample generating method so as to adding classes of each face,partitioning them into multiple sub-patches,using 2DPCA method to complete feature extraction.Experiment results on two widely used face databases are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
Gene Flow Pattern Among Aedes aegypti Populations in Mexico

ABSTRACT. Patterns of gene flow vary greatly among Aedes aegypti populations throughout Mexico. The populations are panmictic along the Pacific coast, isolated by distance in northeast Mexico, and exhibit moderate gene flow across the Yucatan peninsula. Nine Ae. aegypti collections from 6 cities in Oaxaca, Mexico, were taken to examine the local patterns of gene flow. Genetic variation was examined in a 387-bp region of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase subunit 4 mitochondrial gene (ND4) using single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis, and 3 haplotypes were detected. Cluster analysis on the linearized FST genetic distances failed to group collections in geographic proximity. Regression analysis of linear or road distances on linearized FST indicated that proximal collections were as diverse as distant collections across an ,800-km range. The geographical distribution of the Mexican mosquito haplotype frequencies was determined for the ND4 sequences from 524 individuals from Oaxaca (this study) and 2,043 individuals from our previous studies. Herein, we report on yet another pattern dominated by genetic drift among 9 Ae. aegypti collections from 6 cities in Oaxaca, Mexico, and compare it to those reported in other regions of Mexico. Molecular analysis of variance showed that there was as much genetic variation among collections 4 km apart as there was among all collections. The numbers of haplotypes and the amount of genetic diversity among the collections from Oaxaca were much lower than detected in previous studies in other regions of Mexico and may reflect the effects of control efforts or adaptations to the altitudinal limits (1,500 m) of the species in Mexico. The geographical distribution of mosquito haplotypes in Mexico is also reported. Furthermore, based on the distribution of the mosquito haplotypes in America, we suggest that mosquito dispersion is very efficient, most likely due to commercial transportation.
Unsupervised identification of compounds

In a variety of languages, compounds (i.e., lexemes consisting of more than one stem) are written as one token. Identifying such compounds together with their compound boundaries can help improve the quality of computational linguistic tasks such as machine translation and spelling correction. In order to create annotated compound datasets, we need to be able to identify compounds in various languages. Since manual iden-tiﬁcation is very time consuming, we pro-pose novel, language-independent approaches to the identiﬁcation of compounds in sets of words. A range of methods has been explored, including unsupervised machine learning approaches. The most successful approach focuses on the identiﬁcation of compound boundaries by identifying irregularities in letter combinations, exploiting point-wise mutual information values between letter n -grams. The results of applying of our methods to a collection of Dutch words show major improvements over a word-based compound identiﬁer.
Mining FAQ from forum threads: theoretical framework

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)'s tag is becoming more popular on websites. Research activities have been concentrated on its retrieval rather than construction. FAQ construction can be achieved using a number of sources. Presently, it is mostly done manually by help desk staff and this tends to make it static in nature. In this paper, a comprehensive review of various components that can guarantee effective mining of FAQ from forum threads is presented. The components encompass pre-processing, mining of questions, mining of answers and mining of the FAQ. Besides the general idea and concept, we discuss the strengths and limitations of the various techniques used in these components. In fact, the following questions are addressed in the review. What kind of pre-processing technique is needed for mining FAQ from forum? What are the recent techniques for mining questions from forum threads? What approaches are currently dominating answer retrieval from forum threads? How can we cluster out FAQ from question and answer database?
Time delay measurement,analysis and prediction for networked control systems

In order to model and estimate random communication time delay in Networked Control Systems(NCS),a six months' latency test,based on IETF's(Internet Engineering Task Force) RFC2544,has been performed with an application layer based test software.More than 1.7 million data have been obtained for correlation analysis.An adaptive autoregressive(AR) model and a Least Mean Square(LMS) adaptive algorithm is used for the time delay estimate and prediction.Experimental results show that the proposed method has good performance in time delay prediction of networked control systems.
Evaluation of Power System Voltage Stability Based on Fuzzy Neural Network Decision Tree

A fuzzy neural network decision tree model suitable for evaluation of power system voltage stability is proposed.By means of leading fuzzy neural network technique into the generated decision tree,a fuzzy neural network decision tree model is constructed.Using BP algorithm of feed-forward neural network in fuzzy neural network,the small disjunction samples are further processed.The results of simulation by Matlab show that applying fuzzy neural network decision tree to voltage stability evaluation the success rate of classification is 3.3% higher than that by applying decision tree method singly.Meanwhile,because the dimensionality of samples is reduced,the training time of fuzzy neural network is saved,so it is favorable to implement online voltage stability prediction.
Linear Kondo conductance in a quantum dot

In a tunnelling experiment across a quantum dot it is possible to change the coupling between the dot and the contacts at will, by properly tuning the transparency of the barriers and the temperature. Gate voltages allow for changes of the relative position of the dot addition energies and the Fermi level of the leads. Here we discuss the two limiting cases: weak and strong coupling in the tunnelling Hamiltonian. In the latter case Kondo resonant conductance can emerge at low temperature in a Coulomb blockade valley. We give a pedagogical approach to the single-channel Kondo physics at equilibrium and review the Nozieres scattering picture of the correlated fixed point. We emphasize the effect of an applied magnetic field and show how an orbital Kondo effect can take place in vertical quantum dots tuned both to an even and to an odd number of electrons at a level crossing. We extend the approach to the two-channel overscreened Kondo case and discuss recent proposals for detecting the non-Fermi liquid fixed point which could be reached at strong coupling.
A Multiplex Reverse Transcriptase-PCR Assay for the Genotyping of Avian Infectious Bronchitis Viruses

Important Findings Infectious bronchitis viruses (IBVs) in Taiwan have been divided into two genogroups, Taiwan group I (TW-I) and Taiwan group II (TW-II), both of which exist as exclusive virus populations in the world. Heterologous Mass-type strains are widely used as vaccines in the field. This study reports on a rapid and reliable multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (mRT-PCR) assay for the genotyping of IBVs. The mRT-PCR assay accurately detected and discriminated vaccine viruses from wild-type strains in the field.
DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A TRICHOMONAS ISOLATE FROM A REHABILITATED BALD EAGLE (HALIAEETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS)

Abstract: A hatching-year bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) was presented for clinical examination after being found unable to fly. Upon admission, routine wet-mount microscopy detected no trichomonads. Five months later, oral cavity inspection found no abnormalities, but the eagle was swabbed for research on trichomonosis in maritime birds. The swab was used to inoculate an InPouch™ TF culture and trichomonads were visible within 24 hr. Genotyping (ITS) revealed a Trichomonas isolate that was 100% identical to an isolate from a bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) from the Czech Republic. The eagle was treated with metronidazole (50 mg/kg q 12h PO for 5 consecutive days). Following treatment, the eagle was swabbed and the inoculated InPouch TF culture was monitored daily for 1 wk. No trichomonads were observed. Rehabilitation centers interested in surveillance should consider combining the InPouch TF technique with clinical inspection of live birds to confirm trichomonosis and for future research.
Control of Avian Mycoplasma Infections in Commercial Poultry

N Maintaining flocks free of pathogenic mycoplasmas consists of maintaining replacements from mycoplasma-free sources in a single-age, all-in all-out management system. Good biosecurity and an effective monitoring system are necessary aspects of this program. N Medication can be very useful in preventing clinical signs and lesions and economic losses but cannot be used to eliminate infection from a flock and is not a satisfactory long-term solution. N Vaccination against M. gallisepticum (MG) or M. synoviae (MS) can be a useful long-term solution in situations where maintaining flocks free of infection is not feasible, especially on multi-age commercial egg production sites.