Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Microbubble based sonoporation — from the basics into clinical implications

Sonoporation is a rapidly developing novel technique serving for drug delivery and non-viral gene therapy. It is based on the interaction between microbubbles located in the surrounding of a cell and its membrane. The interaction is obtained by excitation of microbubbles with ultrasounds. This leads to reversible cell membrane poration. Depending on the intensity of ultrasounds, structure of microbubbles used in an experiment and different environmental factors, microbubbles can interact in two manners. First, in lower ultrasound intensities, stable cavitation – regular microbubbles oscillations due to changes in the environment pressure. Microbubbles have to be very close to a cell membrane, therefore, they are usually targeted to an antigen located on the cell membrane by antibodies. Consequently, microbubbles push and pull on the cell membrane and create microstreaming around it causing its disruption. Second, inertial cavitation, where in contrary to the previous one, oscillations cause rapid collapse of microbubbles, which creates shock waves and microjets for the same purpose. No matter in which manner prorated, cells tend to reseal their disrupted cell membrane. Ca2+ ions play a crucial role in the process as well as endo exocytosis. Sonoporation has proved to be an effective modality against different diseases, including variety of cancer types in of both laboratory and clinical studies.
Self-Adaptive Monte Carlo Tree Search in General Game Playing

Many enhancements for Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) have been applied successfully in general game playing (GGP). MCTS and its enhancements are controlled by multiple parameters that require extensive and time-consuming offline optimization. Moreover, as the played games are unknown in advance, offline optimization cannot tune parameters specifically for single games. This paper proposes a self-adaptive MCTS strategy (SA-MCTS) that integrates within the search a method to automatically tune search-control parameters online per game. It presents five different allocation strategies that decide how to allocate available samples to evaluate parameter values. Experiments with $\boldsymbol {1}$ s play-clock on multiplayer games show that for all the allocation strategies the performance of SA-MCTS that tunes two parameters is at least equal to or better than the performance of MCTS tuned offline and not optimized per-game. The allocation strategy that performs the best is N-Tuple Bandit Evolutionary Algorithm (NTBEA). This strategy also achieves a good performance when tuning four parameters. SA-MCTS can be considered as a successful strategy for domains that require parameter tuning for every single problem, and it is also a valid alternative for domains where offline parameter tuning is costly or infeasible.
Crystal structure of 1-(4-chloro-2-hydroxy-5-iodophenyl)ethan-1-one, C8H6ClIO2

Abstract C8H6ClIO2, orthorhombic, Pbcn (no. 60), a = 13.3204(7) Å, b = 7.2517(4) Å, c = 18.5627(9) Å, V = 1793.07(16) Å3, Z = 8, Rgt(F) = 0.0195, wRref(F2) = 0.0483, T = 173 K.
TCP Performance Analysis for LTE and LTE/WLAN Aggregation

Software Defined Radio (SDR) enables the execution of many hardware-based operations through software. With an open-source LTE software and an SDR, we are able to run a LTE base station on a PC or a portable and low-cost device. At the same time, simple devices such as Raspberry Pi can be turned into WiFi APs. In this work, we will work on the developed LTE/WiFi integration solution using OpenAirInterface software that implements the LTE eNB and the core network.
Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using endophytic bacteria and their role in inhibition of rice pathogenic bacteria and plant growth promotion

The biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) through the use of endophytic bacteria is a safe replacement for the chemical method. The study aimed to synthesize AgNPs using endophytic bacterium Bacillus siamensis strain C1, which was isolated from the medicinal plant Coriandrum sativum. The synthesized AgNPs with the size of 25 to 50 nm were further confirmed and characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy with EDS profile. The synthesized AgNPs at 20 μg mL−1 showed a strong antibacterial effect against the pathogen of rice bacterial leaf blight and bacterial brown stripe, while an inhibition zone of 17.3 and 16.0 mm was observed for Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) strain LND0005 and Acidovorax oryzae (Ao) strain RS-1, respectively. Furthermore, the synthesized AgNPs significantly inhibited bacterial growth, biofilm formation and swimming motility of Xoo strain LND0005 and Ao strain RS-1. In addition, the synthesized AgNPs significantly increased root length, shoot length, fresh weight and dry weight of rice seedlings compared to the control. Overall, this study suggests that AgNPs have the potential to protect rice plants from bacterial infection and plant growth promotion.
Assembly and Structure of Bacteriophage Capsids and Tails

Phages HK97 and λ are model systems that have aided in the understanding of capsid and tail assembly. HK97 capsid assembly involves the formation of a T=7 icosahedral lattice from 415 monomers of the major capsid protein (mcp), 12 monomers of portal protein, and ~120 copies of the protease. Salt bridges have been found to play a critical role in the assembly pathway, but it is not clear how capsid size is determined. Phage phi1026b is larger than HK97 but the mcp shares 50% sequence similarity with HK97. We hypothesize that comparing the atomic models of phi1026b and HK97 will help illuminate conserved and unique interactions that may play a role in assembly and potentially size determination. By utilizing the FEI Krios microscope, Falcon II camera, and EPU data acquisition software, high-resolution structures were generated which allowed for the generation of atomic models of the phi1026b Prohead I and Head capsids. Differences were observed in the organization of the delta domain, capsomers, and intra-capsomer interactions. The E153-R210 salt bridge that is maintained throughout HK97 capsid assembly is not present between two monomers in the phi1206b Prohead I structure. Phage λ tail assembly proceeds in a stepwise manner in which tail proteins form an initiator complex onto which the major tail tube protein, gpV, polymerizes and is terminated by the tail termination protein, gpU. The tube domain of gpV has been studied in its monomeric form using NMR but the in vivo form has not been visualized. By generating a subnanometer structure for the λ tail tube, we are able to show how gpV undergoes structural changes to facilitate assembly. Also, a putative initiator complex comprised of the tail proteins gpG, gpT, gpH, gpM, gpL, gpI, and gpJ was isolated and characterized using microscopy. Finally, a subnanometer structure for the λ tail tip complex (TTC) is presented providing some initial insight into the organization of the λ TTC. Overall, this research intends to optimize structure determination with the cryo-EM, thereby facilitating studies on the structure and assembly of large viruses.
Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) Nanofibers for Bone Tissue Engineering

Bone tissue engineering is the most promising therapeutic method to alleviate the fast-growing request for bone grafts in nonunion bone defects. It is founded on the use of implanted autologous cells or induced stem cells to form bone tissues on naturally derived or synthetic scaffolds. Nanofibers are being increasingly implemented in bone tissue engineering field as scaffolding materials to regenerate new bone tissues owing to their high surface area-to-volume ratio, high porosity with an interconnected pore structure and the suitable surface structure for cell attachment, proliferation, and differentiation. PLA biopolymer has captured the most attention and interest as a bone tissue engineering material since PLA is easily processable and degrades and disintegrates into natural metabolites while its degradation rate matches with the healing time of damaged human bone tissues. So, the potential of using PLA nanofibers in bone tissue engineering is a serious goal for scientists in novel investigations. This review gives detailed information about the recent developments and applications of PLA nanofibers as scaffolds for bone tissue
Effect of Silicon Foliar Sprays Combined with Moringa Leaves Extract on Yield and Fruit Quality of "Flame Seedless" Grape (Vitis vinifera L.)

This study was conducted during two seasons 2014 and 2015 to evaluate the effects of spraying natural moringa leaf extract, silicon and their combination on vine vigor, yield and fruit quality of "Flame seedless" (Vitis vinifera L.) grapevine grown in a private vineyard located at El-Beheira Governorate. Seven treatments were done, control (spraying with water), silicon at 0.1%, moringa extract at 2%, and silicon at 0.1% plus moringa extract at 2%. All treatments were sprayed in two ways (2 times only and every 2 weeks) starting at 15-20 cm of shoot length. The obtained results revealed that the suggested treatments were effective in stimulating different growth parameters, yield, and fruit quality parameters. Moringa leaves extract at 2% combined with silicon at 0.1% every two weeks significantly enhanced vegetative growth parameters in terms of leaf area, total chlorophyll, average shoot length, cane internodes length, and their diameter, and removed pruning weight, leaf nutrients content as N, P, K, Fe, Zn and Mn. Also cluster physical quality parameters in terms of weight, length, width, berry physical parameters as weight and volume of 100 berries, firmness, berry removal force, berry length and diameter consequently and juice chemicals in terms of SSC, SSC/acid ratio, anthocyanins and total sugars contents are also increased. Sequently, it increased the total yield per vine and reduced titratable acidity.
Cu-phthalocyanine Coated Hybrid Magnetic Nanoparticles: Preparation and Application in the Synthesis of Mono- and Bis pyrano[2,3-d]pyrimidinones and mono- and Bis-2-amino-4H-pyrans

In this research, Cu-phthalocyanine coated hybrid magnetic nanoparticles have been prepared in a simple method and evaluated as an efficient catalyst in the preparation of mono- and bis-pyrano[2,3-d]pyrimidinones and mono- and bis-2-amino-4H-pyrans from the condensation reaction of 1,3-dimethylbarbituric acid or 4-hydroxycumarin with malononitrile and mono- and bis-aldehydes under ultrasonic irradiation. The catalyst could be easily recovered in the presence of the external magnetic field and reused five times without significant loss of activity and mass. The magnetic nanoparticles were characterized using Fourier Transform InfraRed (FT-IR) spectra, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA). The results showed the spherical structures of hybrid magnetic nanoparticles and the average size is about 37 nm.
Effect of Synthesis Temperature on the Electrochemical Properties of Yttrium Aluminum Garnet

In this study, yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) was prepared using a facile electrochemical technique. Four samples were synthesized in 0, 20, 40 and 60°C by electrochemical pulse deposition and were then calcined at 1200°C. The effect of synthesis temperature on morphology and structure of YAG was studied using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) techniques. Furthermore, the electrochemical performance of samples was investigated by cyclic voltammetry and square-wave voltammetry methods. Structural analysis shows that by increasing the synthesis temperature, the network structure of the samples changes from amorphous to the crystalline structure. SEM results also affirm the structural change and show particle size increase in YAG samples from about 90 nm to 2 µm, as a result of rising electrodeposition temperature. The influence of the observed network structure alteration on the catalytic performance of samples was also found to be very significant. Square-wave voltammetry electrochemical analysis of YAG samples leads to enhanced electro-oxidation features, as a result of temperature increase at the synthesis stage. As a proof of concept, the as-prepared YAG samples were successfully employed for electrochemical sensing of ascorbic acid, which showed a significant rise in the electric current of the sensor.
A Partial Page Cache Strategy for NVRAM-Based Storage Devices

Nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) is becoming a popular alternative as the memory and storage medium in battery-powered embedded systems because of its fast read/write performance, byte-addressability, and nonvolatility. A well-known example is phase-change memory (PCM) that has much longer life expectancy and faster access performance than NAND flash. When NVRAM is considered as both main memory and storage in battery-powered embedded systems, existing page cache mechanisms have too many unnecessary data movements between main memory and storage. To tackle this issue, we propose the concept of “union page cache,” to jointly manage data of the page cache in both main memory and storage. To realize this concept, we design a partial page cache strategy that considers both main memory and storage as its management space. This strategy can eliminate unnecessary data movements between main memory and storage without sacrificing the data integrity of file systems. A series of experiments was conducted on an embedded platform. The results show that the proposed strategy can improve the file accessing performance up to 85.62% when PCM used as a case study.
Arabic Translation Web Services: An Implementation Survey Towards Arabic Language Grid

This research proposes the development of Arabic language service. It is a servlet-based Webservice which provides a translation from English into Arabic, using techniques to develop Webservices such as Restful and API in Java language. This API is part of Language Grid, aproject in Japan to collect, share and combine as many language resources as possible bywrapping the language resources as web services, which is also known as Everything as a Service(XaaS) technology. By having Arabic language services connected in the Language Grid, therewill be a wider use of Arabic language resource in the world. An evaluation of running theservice is provided to enhance the performance and reliability of the service.
A user ranking algorithm for efficient information management of community sites using spectral clustering and folksonomy

Community question answering (CQA) sites are the major platform for information sharing where posts are created by users as questions and answers. A large number of posts are created on a day-to-day basis, which raise the problem of information management of these sites. Multiple techniques are suggested in existing research for efficient management of CQA sites. Many of the existing techniques used the user ranking for managing the CQA sites but ignored the tagging data and user subject area. In this article, a user ranking method is derived using spectral clustering for posts management by considering the tagging data of CQA sites. Folksonomy is used to build relationship between tags, posts and users. The proposed method is developed in three stages. In first stage, the folksonomy relation is created and user similarity graph is built with the help of tag frequency-inverse post frequency and text similarity techniques. In the second stage, spectral clustering algorithm is applied on user similarity graph to group the similar users. Finally, in third stage, rank of users is identified from the clusters based on user’s information. The clustered users and rank of the users are generated as the output of the proposed algorithm that can provide a way of efficient information management. The experimental results show that the proposed user ranking algorithm outperforms the other considered ranking algorithms and can be helpful for information management of CQA sites. Some real-life applications of information management in CQA sites using the proposed work are also demonstrated in this article.
A Novel Customized FARS Recommendation Algorithm based on Search

Search engines and recommendation systems work in different ways, but they are designed to handle the same problem: information overload. This paper combines the advantages of the two and proposes a new search-based recommendation algorithm: focused analysis recommendation system (FARS). Inspired by LDA, the FARS model was designed as a three-layer (user-interest-item) Bayesian structure. Based on user-specified keywords, FARS can only perform modeling analysis on relevant users, and return the distribution of interest of these users, which are estimated by the Gibbs sampling method. We treat the top-ranking items in each interest vector as related, and then sort them according to the probability that an item is selected by this user group. Finally, a specified number of recommended items is returned based on the above sorting result. The experimental results shows that the proposed model can outperform on Precision@n in comparison with the other baseline models. To some extent, it provides some inspiration for combining search and personalized recommendations.
MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKER USING GENETIC FUZZY CONTROLLER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC GRID CONNECTED ARRAY

ABSTRACT paper presents a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) used as a maximum power point tracker(MPPT) of a line commutated inverter in a photovoltaic (PV) grid connected system, under variable irradiance conditions. The purpose is to find the relationship between the maximum power point (MPP) and weather parameters and track the MPP and transferring the maximum power to utility grid. The design of control rules were found by genetic algorithms (GAs) to modulate the firing angle of the inverter for tracking the MPP. Simulation results prove the superior tracking efficiency of the fuzzy controller optimized under variable parameters. KEYWORDS: Fuzzy Controller, Genetic Algorithm, Grid Connection, Maximum Power Point Tracking, Photovoltaic Energy. Weather conditions.
Simulation of millimetre-wave channels for short-range body to body communications

Operating short-range body centric communications at millimetre-wave frequencies will offer a number of key benefits, most notably high data rates potentially in excess of 2 Gb/s. However, development of compact, portable, bodyworn channel sounding equipment presents significant challenges at these frequencies. As an alternative method to characterising channel conditions for millimetre-wave applications, we present the steps taken to simulate body centric channels using animation software and a ray tracing algorithm. Using soldier-to-soldier communications as an example, a number of important channel metrics such as root mean square angle and delay spread are investigated.
Testing a Trust Management System for Cloud Computing Using Simulation

Cloud computing is a central topic in computing systems due to its importance in daily life. Although it has been developed to provide services to consumers for storing and manipulating data quickly at low cost, it still suffers from various problems from a security perspective. Security concerns in the cloud environment still require further investigation and development. This paper presents a dynamic security management system for cloud computing based on electronic trust. The system studies and evaluates the relations in two directions between end users, the data owner, and the provider, and it manages data security by updating trust values for access permissions and authentication purposes. Developing the proposed system can evaluate trust relations between entities, show flexibility in its calculations and provide dynamic access control while monitoring the entities’ interactions over time. The simulation experiments show the efficiency of this proposed approach.
Towards Intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems for Cloud Computing

Title: Towards Intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems for Cloud Computing Author: Mohammed J Aljebreen Major Advisor: William Allen, Ph.D. Statistics presented in the background chapter show the tremendous number of security breaches that occurred in recent years. Furthermore, securing the new advanced technologies has become more challenging. Cloud computing and containers are among those emerging technologies that have introduced security challenges, and it is necessary that they be addressed. One of the main features of both cloud and container technologies is the sharing of resources of both hardware and software. The challenge becomes more complex when running containers in a cloud environment. Thus, advancing the security of container in the cloud environment is necessary, especially becasause of the lack of research in this area. This dissertation advances the current technologies for securing containers running in the cloud by proposing and implementing intelligent intrusion detection systems. Also, a data representation mechanism is proposed to speed up the process of modeling the classifiers and forming the samples. The results of the proposed systems meet the requirements of designing cloud-based intrusion detection systems and maintaining high True Positive Rates and low False Positive Rates.
Sway: An Adaptive Travel Platform

With an overwhelming amount of information, transportation is one of the most complex challenges we tackle each day. You need to be somewhere; how will you get there? What mode of transportation will you take? Which route? Check the weather. Check the traffic. Check the bus/train schedule. Check the Uber/Lyft prices. The list goes on and on. The task of trip planning has become quite cumbersome because each person has their own unique set of preferences. These preferences determine which modes of transport and which routes are preferred over others in any given circumstance. This paper shares our findings as we attempted to gain an overarching understanding of travel preferences and presents our concept for a new platform that accounts for them. Through personalization, the interface presents users with the information they would want to know and hides everything else that’s irrelevant to them.
Optical measurement of millimeter-wave antenna for imaging concealed cracks on concrete surface

We have developed a handy near-field imaging system (Crack Scan) to nondestructive inspect decrepit concrete structures. In Crack Scan, 77-GHz band tapered slot antennas (TSAs) are arrayed to simultaneously detect MMWs scattered from surface cracks on the concrete covered with paint, wallpaper, and repair material. An optical electric-field sensor based on electro-optic effect characterizes the TSA to improve the spatial resolution of Crack Scan. Antenna measurements with the optical electric-field sensor demonstrated that our TSA with substrate cutting and corrugation provides high directivity. A measured near-field distribution indicates that directivity and polarization is degraded by an antenna electrode formed on each face of a substrate. Those results present useful guidelines to design the high directive antenna of Crack scan.