Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
OF DRIVER VEHICLE INTERACTION IN A STUDY ON ASSESSMENT METHODS OF DRIVER ACCEPTANCE OF AUTOMATIC LANE CHANGE SYSTEMS

In recent years, with increased interest in high levels of automated driving assistance systems such as automatic lane change systems, the need for a reliable assessment tool for driver acceptance has arisen. Because acceptance depends on individuals, it can only be based on an individual‟s personal attitudes, expectations, and experiences. Accordingly, only subjective evaluation methods have been utilized for assessing drivers‟ acceptance of newly developed driver assistance systems. In this paper, an investigation of the effect of vehicle dynamic behavior and the traffic environment on drivers‟ acceptance is described in consideration of a study on a reliable solution for the objective evaluation of drivers‟ acceptance of an automatic lane change system. In order to conduct the investigation, a specific test program is designed and a massive database including information on drivers, vehicles, and traffic environments is constructed with a selected group of 19 drivers. Then, some possibilities for the development of an objective evaluation method are shown as results of the subjective acceptance; results are then compared and discussed with respect to behavioral parameters of drivers and vehicles. The results of this investigation can be not only the basis for the development of an objective evaluation method for drivers‟ acceptance, but can also be used to suggest design criteria for control strategies for any automated driving assistance systems.
Title The ROC-boost design algorithm for asymmetric classification

In many situations (e.g., cascaded classification), it is desirable to design a classifier with precise constraints on its detection rate or on its false positive rate. We introduce ROCBoost, a modification of the AdaBoost design algorithm that produces asymmetric classifiers with guaranteed detection rate and low false positive rates. Tested in a visual text detection task, ROC-Boost was shown to perform competitively against other popular algorithms.
Hammer : Enabling Reusable Physical Design

A lack of reusable physical design methodologies in ASIC design contributes to high design effort and costs. We posit that traditional flows suffer from a lack of separation between logical design, physical design, technology, and tool concerns, preventing effective re-use. We introduce Hammer, a physical design generator which remedies these problems via separation of concerns. In addition, Hammer addresses the needs of users to achieve practical re-usability using the principles of incremental adoption, system evolution, and abstraction with modularity. We elucidate how the design of Hammer separates concerns to enable usability, and walk through examples of how the principles of Hammer facilitate and contribute to open-source re-use and sharing in the domain of physical design.
本邦において初めて流行が確認された小児のhuman metapneumovirus感染症の臨床的, 疫学的解析

: Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) was newly discovered as a pathogen in 2001 and is thought to be associated with respiratory disease. To elucidate the prevalence and clinical significance of hMPV among children, we investigated the positive cases of hMPV-RNA by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in their nasopharyngeal specimens collected from January to August 2003 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Our prospective study revealed 77 hMPV-positive cases among 377 children with acute respiratory diseases. Clinical diagnoses of 77 hMPV-positive cases were as follows; bronchitis (33.8%), pneumonia (24.7%), acute respiratory illness (19.5%), asthmatic bronchitis (11.7%) and bronchiolitis (5.2%). The most common symptoms were cough (97.4%), high fever (94.8%) and rhinorrhea (76.6%). Most of the hMPV-positive cases were identified in the spring (between March and May), indicating the presence of an epidemic of hMPV infection in Hiroshima Prefecture. Phylogenetic analysis of the amplified F gene of hMPV isolates revealed that hMPV strains were divided into two genotypes and that their simultaneous circulation occurred within the same epidemic area of Hiroshima Prefecture.
Guidelines for Digital Object Deposit

The purpose of these guidelines is to facilitate deposit of digital content from a variety of sources into HathiTrust. The guidelines contain a brief introduction to HathiTrust, a description of its guiding principles and design, an overview of the ingest process, and definitions, policies and procedures related to the ingest of digitized book and journal content and associated metadata. The guidelines are accompanied by a HathiTrust Deposit Form [1], a worksheet for depositors to complete to aid in efficient deposit of materials. The Deposit Form includes detailed specifications and validation criteria for submitted content. A checklist of all steps involved in the ingest process is available at http://www.hathitrust. org/ingest_checklist [2].
Effect of soy oil , orange ( Citrus sinensis ) peel oil and their blends on total phospholipid , lipid peroxidation , and antioxidant defense system in brain tissues of normo rats

O.L. Erukainure*, J.A. Ajiboye, F.F. Davis, K. Obabire, E.E. Okoro, S.O. Adenekan, M.V. Adegbola, B.J. Awogbemi, B.O. Odjobo and M.Z. Zaruwa Department of Food Technology, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Nigeria Biochemistry Department, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria College of Health and Sciences, Adventist University of West Africa, Monrovia, Liberia Department of Biochemistry, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria Department of Laboratory Technology, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria Analytical Division, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Nigeria Faculty of Science, Adamawa State University, Mubi, Nigeria Corresponding Author: loreks@yahoo.co.uk
Method for Simulation of Particle Recombination in SOL Plasma

The effect of charged particle recombination is investigated performing particle in cell (PIC) simulation of plasma in tokamak devices. For th e simulation of particle collisions is used an appropriate method to account for frequencies spread in wide range of magnitude. The method was tested s imulating steady state plasma in the scrape off layer (SOL). A constant density p rofile of deuterium atoms is assumed with sharp peaks in divertor region. The simulation results show decreasing frequency of recombination nea r th plates of divertor where the ionization is dominating due to the big concentratio n of deuterium atoms. The recombination processes become more frequ nt deep in the SOL where the density of neutral particles is rather low. PACS number: 13.65. +i
Clustering Benchmark for Characters in Historical Documents

In document analysis clustering found many applications, especially in the field of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Depending on the task these algorithms however perform very differently. Especially when clustering single characters of historical documents state of the art algorithm still lack in performance and semi-manual methods are used [1]. Therefore we take a look at some standard feature and clustering algorithm combinations and compare their performance on a character corpus extracted from the medieval novel ”Narrenschiff”. Keywords—clustering, historical documents
PROMOTING GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL GROWTH

Constraints on resources, growth in demand, and a slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially over the next decades. The impacts of such higher prices on the poor and the required mitigating policy responses to this problem remain unclear. This paper uses a global general equilibrium model, projections of global growth and microeconomic household models, to project potential implications for incomes, food production and poverty. We find that higher agricultural productivity would generally lower poverty, with different impacts depending where the productivity growth occurs, while protection policies that reduce imports would generally raise poverty.
Protesi-Production Management Title 3 D Gait Kinematic of Transtibial Amputees Walking in Every-day-life Environments : Reliability Study of a Protocol based on Inertial & Magnetic Sensors

Introduction The instrumental 3D gait analysis of amputees is currently limited to few prosthetic centres in which expensive movement analysis laboratories are available. Moreover, in the lab the gait of a patient can be conditioned by the stress imposed by the operators and by the artificial surrounding environment. Inertial and Magnetic Measurement Systems (IMMSs) might allow to overcome these limitations, being low-cost and portable. In addition, since the 3D orientation of their Sensing Units (SU) is known in a global earth-based coordinate system, which is ubiquitous, long measurements can be possible “out-of-the-lab”, in real-life environment, e.g. where the gait-training is carried out. For this purpose, we proposed a protocol named ‘Outwalk’ to measure the 3D kinematics of gait based on the IMMS by Xsens Technologies (NL) [1]. The aim of the present work was to test the inter-rater reliability of the protocol on Transtibial Amputees (TA).
An Information Flow Security Based on Protected Area in eCommerce

Confidentiality is one of the most important requirements of information protection systems. The access control technique has been used to provide confidentiality, but it has fundamental problems in that it cannot prevent violations of confidentiality committed by authorized users. Information flow control is a technique introduced to resolve such problems, and many approaches based on programming languages have been proposed. However, it is not easy for a programmer to implement the technique at the source code level. Furthermore, the practicality of information flow control is difficult to demonstrate because it does not provide control over programs that have already been developed. This paper proposes a method that enables a practical information flow control through using a protected area, a separate part of computer system storage. Case studies are given to show its usefulness.
The Effects of Advertising Spending and Event Sponsorship on Brand Equity in the Ethiopian Brewery Industry

The field of branding and brand equity is new area of research in Ethiopia. The study adapts an exploratory approach to measure the effects of advertising spending and event sponsorship effect on consumer-based brand equity because there is no study conducted in the Ethiopia beer market. Accordingly, the study assumes advertising spending and event sponsorships affecting brand equity dimensions positively. Hence, a conceptual model has been built and structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to verify the model. The brand equity dimensions (brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality and brand loyalty) are the dimensions the study was conceptualized and used to measure consumer-based brand equity. A quantitative research was undertaken and a cross-sectional descriptive survey research design in nature was applied in the study.The study confirmed that from advertising spending intensity: television advertising spending has a positive effect on brand awareness; and outdoor advertising has a positive effect on brand awareness, brand association, and perceived quality.
Fiber-Optic Sensing : Turning the Lights on Downhole

O ver the past five years, the oil and gas industry has seen a rapid increase in the deployment of fiber-optic sensing for downhole monitoring. Significant improvements in glass chemistry, interrogation technologies, and analysis applications have led the way to a robust downhole sensing solution. As many as 20 fibers can be packed into a 1⁄4-in. tube (cable), which can be installed as a life-of-well monitoring system. Each of the fibers can be turned into a fully distributed sensor for temperature (DTS), acoustics (DAS) and strain (DSS) measurements, or these can be used to interrogate multiple point sensors like pressure gauges and geophones. Fibers can also be used for downhole power transmission or data telemetry. Although conventional hardware has existed for decades to collect this same type of information, the question is: Why is the industry now seeing such excitement over fiber sensing? One major benefit is that an operator can now monitor the entire well simultaneously. Things can be seen and heard in a wellbore that were impossible with point sensors or even wireline By packing a wide variety of sensors into a single fiber cable, simple package, multiple conventional monitoring systems can be replaced while reducing complexity and cost.
Aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity : patterns and surrogates in mountainous Spanish national parks

1. In Spain, national parks represent the mainstay of conservation polices and attempt to protect the most representative natural ecosystems. However, studies on the ecology and conservation of aquatic biodiversity within protected areas are still scarce. This study aimed at compiling an inventory of the macroinvertebrate families inhabiting the aquatic ecosystems of each mountainous Spanish national park (Sierra Nevada, Cabañeros, Ordesa, Picos de Europa, Aigüestortes and Monfragüe). The results were used to answer two questions: (i) Which environmental variables are related to macroinvertebrate composition and richness in these protected ecosystems? (ii) Which taxon or group of taxa could act as biodiversity surrogates? 2. Sampling was carried out in 81 aquatic ecosystems across the six national parks during the summers of
Loss-of-Main Monitoring and Detection for Distributed Generations Using Dynamic Principal Component Analysis

In this paper, our previous work on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based fault detection method is extended to the dynamic monitoring and detection of loss-of-main in power systems using wide-area synchrophasor measurements. In the previous work, a static PCA model was built and verified to be capable of detecting and extracting system faulty events; however the false alarm rate is high. To address this problem, this paper uses a well-known ‘time lag shift’ method to include dynamic behavior of the PCA model based on the synchronized measurements from Phasor Measurement Units (PMU), which is named as the Dynamic Principal Component Analysis (DPCA). Compared with the static PCA approach as well as the traditional passive mechanisms of loss-of-main detection, the proposed DPCA procedure describes how the synchrophasors are linearly autoand cross-correlated, based on conducting the singular value decomposition on the augmented time lagged synchrophasor matrix. Similar to the static PCA method, two statistics, namely T2 and Q with confidence limits are calculated to form intuitive charts for engineers or operators to monitor the loss-of-main situation in real time. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is evaluated on the loss-of-main monitoring of a real system, where the historic data are recorded from PMUs installed in several locations in the UK/Ireland power system.
Commentary Progress in the detection of costs of phenotypic plasticity in plants

New Phytologist (2007) doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007. 02296.x © The Author (2007). Journal compilation © New Phytologist (2007) Among the most interesting biological phenomena is the fact that a genotype can develop different phenotypes depending on the environment in which this development takes place. Historically, however, the focus was on homeostasis by canalization of the phenotype to a presumed optimum (Waddington, 1960), and phenotypic plasticity was interpreted as deviation from such an optimum and therefore considered a nuisance. This has changed drastically with the insight that many plastic responses, such as stem elongation in response to shading, are actually adaptive strategies that increase fitness. Surprisingly, however, not all organisms are highly plastic, which suggests that the evolution of phenotypic plasticity is constrained either by a lack of heritable genetic variation or by limits and costs of plasticity, which outweigh its potential benefits (DeWitt et al ., 1998; van Kleunen & Fischer, 2005). In this context modelling studies (van Tienderen, 1991) emphasized the role of costs of plasticity. It is therefore very astonishing that empirical studies have found little evidence for the existence of such costs (van Kleunen & Fischer, 2005). Possibly, costs of plasticity are difficult to detect because genotypes burdened by high costs of plasticity have been purged from natural populations by natural selection (DeWitt et al ., 1998), and may only re-emerge after recombination (Fig. 1). This motivated Dechaine et al . (this issue, pp. 874–882) and two further recent studies (Callahan et al ., 2005; Weinig et al ., 2006) to test costs of plasticity with recombinant inbred lines rather than with natural plant genotypes.
Interventions to reduce anxiety during pregnancy : an overview of research 16 By

Background Pregnancy is a time when families use the health service regularly for several months and when women and their partners are often highly motivated to address issues affecting their health in order to give their baby a good start in life. As well as the chance to improve the outcome of the pregnancy, it has often also been targeted as a time when the long-term health and wellbeing of the baby and others in the family can be influenced, particularly for the most vulnerable or disadvantaged families where the benefits are likely to be greatest.
Kobe University Repository : Kernel タイトル Tit le Genet ic ident ificat ion of macroalgal species on Japanese tsunami marine debris and genet ic comparisons with their wild populat ions 著者

Since 2012 a huge amount of marine debris caused by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has been arriving on Northeastern Pacific shores. Often healthy macroalgae were attached to them, which may become introduced to the Northwestern Pacific coasts and disturb their ecosystems. In order to elucidate the diversity of those macroalgae, and to establish a basis for detecting their new introduction to Northwestern Pacific coasts, we have examined their species diversity by morphology and genetic identifications. We have obtained gene sequences for 205 specimens, and identified 49 species as Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris (JTMD) macroalgae. Most of them are known to be distributed in Japan and showed identical or very closely related genetic types to those of Tohoku, and confirmed to be originated from the area. Several species such as Ceramium sungminbooi, Ectocarpus crouaniorum, Polysiphonia koreana, etc. have not been reported from Japan, but this is explained by the shortage of taxonomic information.
Interactive Biofeedback Therapy Using Hybrid Assistive Limbs for Motor Recovery after Stroke : Current Practice and Future Perspectives

Interactive bio-feedback (iBF) was initially developed for the rehabilitation of motor function in patients with neurological disorders, and subsequently yielded the development of the hybrid assistive limb (HAL). Here, we provide a review of the theory underlying HAL treatment as well as our clinical experience and recommendations for future clinical studies using HAL in acute stroke patients. We performed a PubMedbased literature search, a retrospective data review of our acute stroke case series, and included a sample case report of our findings. Given past animal studies and functional imaging results, iBF therapy using the HAL in the acute phase of stroke seems an appropriate approach for preventing learned non-use and interhemispheric excitation imbalances. iBF therapy may furthermore promote appropriate neuronal network reorganization. Based on experiences in our stroke center, HAL rehabilitation is a safe and effective treatment modality for recovering motor impairments after acute stroke, and allows the design of tailored rehabilitation programs for individual patients. iBF therapy through the HAL system seems to be an effective and promising approach to stroke rehabilitation; however, the superiority of this treatment to conventional rehabilitation remains unclear. Further clinical studies are warranted. Additionally, the formation of a patient registry will permit a meta-analysis of HAL cases and address the problems associated with a controlled trial (e.g., the heterogeneity of an acute stroke cohort). The development of robotic engineering will improve the efficacy of HAL rehabilitation and has the potential to standardize patient rehabilitation practice.
Title A Stream-Oriented Power Management Protocol for Low Duty Cycle Sensor Network Applications

Most power management protocols are packet-based and optimize for applications with mostly asynchronous (i.e. unexpected) traffic. We present AppSleep, a stream-oriented power management protocol for latency tolerant sensor network applications. For this class of applications, AppSleep demonstrates an over 3x lifetime gain over B-MAC and SMAC. AppSleep leverages application characteristics in order to take advantage of periods of high latency tolerance to put the network to sleep for extended periods of time, while still facilitating low latency responses when required. AppSleep also gives applications the flexibility to efficiently and effectively trade latency for energy when desired, and enables energy efficient multi-fragment unicast communication by only keeping the active route awake. We also present Adaptive AppSleep, an application driven addition to AppSleep which supports varying latency requirements while still maximizing energy efficiency. Our evaluation demonstrates that for an overlooked class of applications, stream-oriented power management protocols such as AppSleep outperform packet-based protocols such as B-MAC and S-MAC. ∗
ICD / ITKE Research Pavilion 2016 / 2017 : Integrative Design of a Composite Lattice Cantilever

This paper describes the design and fabrication of the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/2017, the most recent in the series of experimental installations developed as an outcome of the design-and-build studio of the ITECH Masters Programme. The completed structure is a 12m long cantilevering latticecomposite shell that was wound in one piece by a multi-machine fabrication system using coreless filament winding. To realise such a structure through this fabrication process involved a negotiation between architectural design, structural requirements and fabrication constraints, details of which are found in this paper. Technical details of the multi-machine fabrication system were previously described in Felbrich et al. [1].