Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LARP Long Nb 3 Sn Quadrupole Design

Abstract--A major milestone for the LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) is the test, by the end of 2009, of two 4m-long quadrupole magnets (LQ) wound with Nb3Sn conductor. The goal of these magnets is to be a proof of principle that Nb3Sn is a viable technology for a possible LHC luminosity upgrade. The design of the LQ is based on the design of the LARP Technological Quadrupoles, presently under development at FNAL and LBNL, with 90-mm aperture and gradient higher than 200 Tlm The design of the first LQ model will be completed by the end of 2007 with the selection of a mechanical design. In this paper we present the coil design addressing some fabrication technology issues, the quench protection study, and three designs of the support structure. Index Terms-LAW, Long magnets, Magnet design, Nb3Sn, I. INTRODUCTION T HE LARP Long Quadrupole (LQ) is going to be the first 4-m long Nb3Sn quadrupole magnet ever built. With an aperture of 90 mm, and a gradient of 200 T/m, the LQ is a “Proof of Principle” magnet aiming at demonstrating that Nb3Sn technology is mature for use in high energy particle accelerators. The LQ is thus a hdamental step toward the LARP goal of developing Nb3Sn quadrupole prototypes for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) [I] interaction regions for a possible luminosity upgrade. The Long Quadrupole R&D builds upon other LAW tasks (such as the Technological Quadrupoles (TQ) [2],[3], and the Long Racetrack [4]), and upon tasks performed by other programs (such as the Long Mirror under development at Fermilab [SI). The present plan includes the fabrication of three LQ models by the summer 2010. The fabrication of the coils for the first LQ will start at the beginning of 2008 with the assembly of the first LQ in fall 2008. The first Long Quadrupole, based on the first two series of LAW TQ magnets, is not going to have coil alignment features. These
Visual categorization of social interactions

Prominent theories of action recognition suggest that during the recognition of actions the physical patterns of the action is associated with only one action interpretation (e.g., a person waving his arm is recognized as waving). In contrast to this view, studies examining the visual categorization of objects show that objects are recognized in multiple ways (e.g., a VW Beetle can be recognized as a car or a beetle) and that categorization performance is based on the visual and motor movement similarity between objects. Here, we studied whether we find evidence for multiple levels of categorization for social interactions (physical interactions with another person, e.g., handshakes). To do so, we compared visual categorization of objects and social interactions (Experiments 1 and 2) in a grouping task and assessed the usefulness of motor and visual cues (Experiments 3, 4, and 5) for object and social interaction categorization. Additionally, we measured recognition performance associated with recognizing objects and social interactions at different categorization levels (Experiment 6). We found that basic level object categories were associated with a clear recognition advantage compared to subordinate recognition but basic level social interaction categories provided only a little recognition advantage. Moreover, basic level object categories were more strongly associated with similar visual and motor cues than basic level social interaction categories. The results suggest that cognitive categories underlying the recognition of objects and social interactions are associated with different performances. These results are in line with the idea that the same action can be associated with several action interpretations (e.g., a person waving his arm can be recognized as waving or greeting).
ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: LANGUAGE PHENOTYPING IN YOUNG CHILDREN WITH CONCUSSION

Title of Thesis: LANGUAGE PHENOTYPING IN YOUNG CHILDREN WITH CONCUSSION Melissa Dawn Stockbridge, Master of Arts, 2017 Thesis Directed By: Professor Rochelle S. Newman, Ph. D. , Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) are typically viewed as those that do not result in prolonged periods of unconsciousness. Concussions, or the mildest form of brain injury, are the most prevalent in young children. Presently no single framework or screening assessment measure exists for language in young children. In this study, children who had recently experienced a concussion were compared with children who had no history of head injury on a battery of linguistic and cognitive-linguistic tasks. Group differences in both lexicaland discourse-level skills were identified, as well as domain-general cognitive skills. Significant differences were noted in category identification, phonological working memory, grammaticality judgment, segregation and selective attention to spoken instructions in the presence of a distractor, visually recognizing spoken targets presented in a short story, and visual non-verbal problem solving, all with moderate effect sizes. This research will inform classroom and in-home accommodations to assist children during the period of recovery. LANGUAGE PHENOTYPING IN YOUNG CHILDREN WITH CONCUSSION by Melissa Dawn Stockbridge Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of the Arts in Speech-Language Pathology 2017 Advisory Committee: Professor Rochelle S. Newman, Ph. D. Chair Professor Nan Bernstein-Ratner, Ph. D. , CCC-SLP Professor Jan Edwards, Ph. D. Professor Philip Resnik, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Alexander J. Shackman © Copyright by Melissa Dawn Stockbridge 2017
The Internal Cranial Anatomy of the Middle Pleistocene Broken Hill 1 Cranium

The cranium (Broken Hill 1 or BH1) from the site previously known as Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) is one of the best preserved hominin fossils from the mid-Pleistocene. Its distinctive combination of anatomical features, however, makes its taxonomic attribution ambiguous. High resolution microCT, which has not previously been employed for gross morphological studies of this important specimen, allows a precise description of the internal anatomical features of BH1, including the distribution of cranial vault thickness and its 2 internal composition, paranasal pneumatisation, pneumatisation of the temporal bone and endocranial anatomy. Relative to other chronologically and taxonomically relevant specimens, BH1 shows unusually marked paranasal pneumatisation and a fairly thick cranial vault. For many of the features analysed, this fossil does not exhibit the apomorphic conditions observed in either Neandertals or Homo sapiens. Its morphology and the general shape of the brain and of the skull may be partly explained by an allometric relationship relative to the features observed in Homo erectus s.l. However, further research is still necessary to better appreciate the cranial anatomy of BH1 and the role of Homo rhodesiensis/Homo heidelbergensis in the course of human evolution. This paper also deals with more general aspects of scientific practices in palaeoanthropology. In particular, we give precise descriptions of many internal anatomical features of Broken Hill 1, a specimen discovered in 1921. This important and unique dataset will allow independent comparative studies in the future. However, we were …
Factors Related to Patient Satisfaction with Hospital Health Care

Background: Patients' perception about health care has been predominantly accepted as the important indicator for measuring quality of health care and as a component of performance improvement and clinical effectiveness. A more satisfied patient is more likely to develop deeper and longer lasting relationship with their medical providers. Objective: To identify factors associated with satisfaction among inpatients receiving medical care. Study design: A cross sectional survey of patient discharged form Ibn – Sena teaching hospital in Mosul city. A total of 265 randomly selected medical patients, aged 18 years and older, discharged from December 2007 to January 2008 responded to survey (response rate = 90%). Results: Results showed that nearly two thirds of the study sample (73.6%) was satisfied with all aspects of hospital care. Satisfaction level was significantly related to age (P= 0.000), gender (P= 0.004), marital status (P= 0.000), educational level (P= 0.000), history of previous (P= 0.001) and duration of hospitalization (P= 0.000). In addition, patients with better health status at discharge were significantly (P= 0.000) satisfied with hospital ca re. Conclusion: Factors associated with inpatient satisfaction elucidated in this study may be helpful in interpreting patients' satisfaction scores when comparing hospitals, services or time periods, in targeting patient groups at risk of worse experience and in focusing care quality programs.
A RELATIVE RATIO MODEL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF GAINS AND LOSSES IN A MIXED REGULAR ROULETTE-TYPE GAME

Differential effects of gains and losses are often obscured by lack of suitable measurement ona common unit scale, with either known or unknown common zero. Through a mixed gamesituation, in which participants were required to combine informers pertaining to both lossesand gains, an integration model was established and used as a basis for the estimation offunctional parameters. Differently from the additive combination of the weighted utility of thetwo prospects, a relative ratio rule was found instead. This rule suggests that subjectsconceive of the task as a competition between two opposite responses, expressing throughtheir judgments the compromise at which they arrive between them.
Title High-productivity and high-performance analysis of filtered semantic graphs Permalink

High performance is a crucial consideration when executing a complex analytic query on a massive semantic graph. In a semantic graph, vertices and edges carry attributes of various types. Analytic queries on semantic graphs typically depend on the values of these attributes; thus, the computation must view the graph through a filter that passes only those individual vertices and edges of interest. Knowledge Discovery Toolbox (KDT), a Python library for parallel graph computations, is customizable in two ways. First, the user can write custom graph algorithms by specifying operations between edges and vertices. These programmer-specified operations are called semiring operations due to KDT’s underlying linear-algebraic abstractions. Second, the user can customize existing graph algorithms by writing filters that return true for those vertices and edges the user wants to retain during algorithm execution. For high productivity, both semiring operations and filters are written in a high-level language, resulting in relatively low performance due to the bottleneck of having to call into the Python virtual machine for each vertex and edge. In this work, we use the Selective Embedded JIT Specialization (SEJITS) approach to automatically translate semiring operations and filters defined by programmers into a lower-level efficiency language, bypassing the upcall into Python. We evaluate our approach by comparing it with the high-performance Combinatorial BLAS engine, and show our approach enables users to write in high-level languages and still obtain the high performance of low-level code. We also present a new roofline model for graph traversals, and show that our high-performance implementations do not significantly deviate from the roofline. Overall, we demonstrate the first known solution to the problem of obtaining high performance from a productivity language when applying graph algorithms selectively on semantic graphs.
Genetic Variability of ESAG 6 / 7 Gene Isolat Trypanosoma evansi

Sawitri DH, Wardhana AH. 2017. Genetic variability of ESAG6/7 gene Trypanosoma evansi. JITV 22(1): 38-50. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.14334/jitv.v22i1. 1638 Trypanosoma evansi as an agent of Surra is one of the crucial parasitic diseases that cause great economic losses in Indonesia. These parasites need iron for growth and propagation phase which is obtained by receptor-mediated uptake of host transferin. The transferrin receptors are encoded by Expression Site Associated Genees (ESAGs). ESAG6/7 encodes transferrin receptors which reported have different affinities of a different host. The distinction of T. evansi pathogenicity is supposed to cause variability in the ESAG6/7 gene. This research was aimed to investigate the variability of genes ESAG6/7 T. evansi with different virulence in mice. This research was conducted in two steps: bioassay pathogeneicity in mice and analysis of ESAG6/7 gene sequences. The median survival time of mice was investigated after each group of mice infected by 25 T. evansi isolates from buffaloes where its geographically differ. The test results showed a difference of pathogenic virulence on 25 T. evansi isolates in mice. Sequence analysis of the ESAG6/7 gene from 25 T. evansi isolates origin from Indonesia tended to be homogeneous on the transferrin binding site but there was variability in the hypervariable site. These changes are able to separate high and low virulence of the T. evansi isolates. Phylogenetic tree analysis was formed 11 clades of 25 T. evansi. High virulence T. evansi was included in clades 7 and 10, while low virulence T. evansi was included in clade 5 and 11 and the moderate virulence was divided into those four clades.
Toxicities of diuron and irgarol on the hatchability and early stage development of Artemia salina

Booster biocides are widely used in antifouling paints as bioactive agents against fouling organisms. In previously published reports, acute toxicity tests on Artemia salina (Linnaeus, 1758) were only focused on a part of the life cycle of the organism. The aim of this study was to investigate the toxicities of diuron and irgarol on the hatching stage of A. salina. According to the results, diuron significantly decreased the hatching percentage of A. salina cysts and prevented the hatching of larvae. The EC50 value for diuron was found as 12.01 mg/L. On the other hand, irgarol had no effect on the hatching percentage and did not change the morphology of larvae. Molecular docking experiments showed that diuron could be a potential hatching enzyme inhibitor. In conclusion, toxicities of booster biocides should be tested not only on active nauplii but also at their hatching stage since diuron significantly decreased the hatching percentage of A. salina in the present study.
Bilateral benefits

This article explores the varied learning experiences among third-year students undertaking a structured work placement module in the furniture and wood manufacturing industries. Using situated learning theory, the article considers the outcomes of in-depth interviews with 10 students and offers an insight into the multifaceted interactions between ‘novices’ (students) and ‘experts’ in the workplace. Through the experiences and voices of students, the research uncovers evidence of two-way learning between the students and their work colleagues, particularly where the work environment and management support opportunities for knowledge and skills transfer. Three broad themes emerge from those interviews: (1) most students considered that workplaces facilitated opportunities for learning; (2) few barriers to learning were experienced by students; and (3) in most cases, students felt they had opportunities to introduce new skills. This qualitative piece of research underlines the importance for organizations to develop and promote the workplace as a ‘learning environment’ and to nurture new members so that they can contribute to learning, to the ultimate benefit of the whole organization. The findings highlight the positive role of curriculum design in accelerating the journey towards full participation for new members in a community of practice.
SMDB: Soybean Marker DataBase

Soybean Marker Database (SMDB) is a repository of important genomic information for soybean. At present several genomic databases are available for plants. Some of the important oilseeds plant databases are ATPID database, Castor Bean Genome Database, CGPDB, SoyBase, Legume Information System (LIS), Brassica database, Sinbase, etc. To gain comprehensive information from varied amount of resources, we developed this database which provides general as well as specific information at universal level. Along with this it also furnishes gene level information for various functional categories such as transcription factor, disease resistant varieties, heat shock protein, genetically modified strain of soybean. The bunch of information available to researchers today increases in tremendous manner. Hence understanding the plant genome specific databases for acquiring specific information is the demand of time for crop improvement and research programmes. SMDB is designed for the purpose of exploring potential gene differences in different plant genotypes, including genetically modified and disease resistant crops beneficial to the farmer who cultivate this crop. SMDB is publicly accessible for academic and research purpose at: http://www.bioinfoindia. org/smdb/ .
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Aims: While much data exist for the effects of flavonoid-rich foods on spatial memory in rodents, there are no such data for foods/beverages predominantly containing hydroxycinnamates and phenolic acids. To address this, we investigated the effects of moderate Champagne wine intake, which is rich in these components, on spatial memory and related mechanisms relative to the alcoholand energy-matched controls. Results: In contrast to the isocaloric and alcohol-matched controls, supplementation with Champagne wine (1.78 ml/kg BW, alcohol 12.5% vol.) for 6 weeks led to an improvement in spatial working memory in aged rodents. Targeted protein arrays indicated that these behavioral effects were paralleled by the differential expression of a number of hippocampal and cortical proteins (relative to the isocaloric control group), including those involved in signal transduction, neuroplasticity, apoptosis, and cell cycle regulation. Western immunoblotting confirmed the differential modulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, cAMP response-element-binding protein (CREB), p38, dystrophin, 2¢,3¢-cyclic-nucleotide 3¢-phosphodiesterase, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), and Bcl-xL in response to Champagne supplementation compared to the control drink, and the modulation of mTOR, Bcl-xL, and CREB in response to alcohol supplementation. Innovation: Our data suggest that smaller phenolics such as gallic acid, protocatechuic acid, tyrosol, caftaric acid, and caffeic acid, in addition to flavonoids, are capable of exerting improvements in spatial memory via the modulation in hippocampal signaling and protein expression. Conclusion: Changes in spatial working memory induced by the Champagne supplementation are linked to the effects of absorbed phenolics on cytoskeletal proteins, neurotrophin expression, and the effects of alcohol on the regulation of apoptotic events in the hippocampus and cortex. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 00, 000–000.
Standardisation of quality and reliability tests in the auto-parts industry: a structured approach concerning thermal systems

In the automotive industry, first-tier suppliers play an important role, as they often establish long-term partnerships with multiple car-makers for developing and supplying complete car modules. One of the conditions underlying these partnerships is the quality and reliability of car modules. To achieve it, car-makers generally require multiple tests, often on 100% of the parts subcontracted. The number of tests required can be very high, even for modules with a relatively low level of customisation. Also, the configuration of the tests can vary significantly from one car-maker to another, even for the same test typologies. The aim of this paper is to present a decision-support tool for the standardisation of quality and reliability tests, which uses some already available information on previous tests (e.g. about their effectiveness, cost and simplicity of execution) and involves experts both from the supplier's and car-makers' staff. Test standardisation is guided by a simple procedure based on two steps: (i) grouping the tests required by different car-makers into typologies of homologous tests, with a similar protection level in terms of product and quality reliability, and (ii) determining the most appropriate configuration for each test typology. The description of the methodology is based on a real case-study concerning a worldwide supplier of thermal systems.
Lower Limb Orthotic Therapy for Stroke Patients in a Rehabilitation Hospital and Walking Ability at Discharge

Background: The purpose of this study was to clarify the use of orthotic therapy and the ability to walk at discharge among stroke patients who were treated at our rehabilitation hospital. Methods: This retrospective, observational cohort study included 1040 patients with first-ever stroke who were referred to our rehabilitation hospital between January 2013 and December 2015. The patients were divided into knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO), ankle-foot orthosis (AFO), and no orthosis groups. Neurological symptoms, cognitive function, daily activities, duration from hospitalization to orthosis creation, hospitalization duration, and walking ability at discharge were compared. Results: The age of the patients ranged from 12 to 94 years. The mean duration from onset to hospitalization was 34.1 ± 17.8 days, and the mean length of hospital stay was 64.3 ± 35.3 days. Of the 1040 patients, 414 received orthotic therapy (220 in the KAFO group and 194 in the AFO group). The AFO group had patients with lower age than those in the no orthosis group, and neurological symptoms and cognitive function were more severe in the KAFO group than in the other groups. Their own KAFO was prescribed in 156 patients and AFO was prescribed in 230 patients. The mean period from hospitalization to orthosiscompletion was 11.3 ± 5.8 days in the KAFOs and 33.9 ± 20.9 days in the AFOs. Orthosis was needed by 375 patients (47 KAFOs and 328 AFOs) at discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. Among the patients, 540 patients could walk independently and these included 43.2% patients from the KAFO group and 66.5% patients from the AFO group. Conclusion: An orthosis was required in a number of patients who have been transferred to a rehabilitation hospital. We believe that it is clear that orthosis therapy is indispensable for rehabilitation of stroke patients.
nCube: The First Norwegian Student Satellite

nCube is a picosatellite complying with the CubeSat standard. It is built completely by students in their final year of their Master education in different Norwegian Institutes. The cross institutional project is mainly sponsored by Norwegian space related industry. The satellite is due to launch March 2004 from Dnepr in Ukraine. The concept incorporates use of a miniaturized version of an Automatic Identification System receiver which will be uploaded the coordinates of reindeer herds, making the Agricultural University of Norway able to track them. The satellite will also be able to surveillance regular marine traffic with certain filter options. nCube is equipped with instruments to determine the attitude based both on solar cell lighting conditions and measurements on the earth magnetic field. Two techniques of controlling the attitude are implemented; by the use of magnetic coils, and gravity gradient stabilization. Communication with the satellite is achieved by the use of AMSAT frequencies in the amateur band and the AX.25 protocol. The project has built its own ground station, which is situated in Narvik City N 68.26 E 17.25, an additional station will be built at Longyearbyen Svalbard and the ground stations will be added to the Federated Ground Network.