Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of Temperature and Cell Number on the Production of Hemolysin by Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Two strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, ATCC 17802 Kanagawa negative (K-) and ATCC 27519, Kanagawa positive (K+) were used in this study. The effect of temperature on the production of hemolysin was studied in trypticase soy broth (TSB) with 3 % NaCl. Maximum hemolysin productions by both strains were obtained at 35°C with little or no production of hemolysin at 4 °, 10° and 42°C. The K+ strain consistently produced higher titers of hemolytic activity than its K- counterpart. Hemolysin production at lower temperatures (4° and 10°C) could only be detected after 10 or 12 h in TSB with 3 % NaCl. At 20 o , 25°, 30° and 35°C in this medium, production of hemolysin could be detected after 6 or 8 h of incubation. At these same temperatures, both K+ and K- strains produced comparable cell numbers by 12 h; however, the greatest hemolysin production occurred at 35 °C. This indicates that temperature, rather than cell numbers, determines the total hemolysin produced during a controlled incubation time period.
Compact Internal Representation as a Functional Basis for Protocognitive Exploration of Dynamic Environments

Nature has provided living beings with a set of cognitive properties that enables subjective perception of the external world with the aim of constructing behaviors and survival within specific environments. A simple but comprehensive example is a near-range searching for a target by a mobile agent in a time-evolving environment. It requires fast and reliable generation of flexible behaviors that must take into account not only the current state of the environment and of the agent, but also infer on their future states. Despite a vast literature and numerous contexts where the concept of cognition appears [see, e.g., (Baars & Gage, 2010; Newell, 1994; Wasserman & Zentall, 2009)], there is no generally accepted functional definition. Nevertheless capacities such as Internal Representation (IR) of the external world, memory, and learning are commonly accepted as elements constituting cognition (Godfrey-Smith, 2001). For the study of the problem of cognitive exploration of dynamic environments it seems sensible to restrict the cognitive abilities to those manifested externally in motricity, i.e. to those experimentally verifiable in animal models. Then we can speak about “initial stages” of cognition or protocognition, a subject that has been for decades a hot spot both in theoretical and experimental (mainly in insects and mammals) research [see, e.g., (Cruse, 2003; Hesslow, 2002; Newell, 1994) and references therein]. In this chapter as a working hypothesis we use a general functional definition of protocognition as the basis levels of the “Cognitive Pyramid” given by Wray et al. (2007). Namely, the protocognitive capacities organize the sensory information into structured representations, which provide “skeletal subsolutions” for the higher cognitive levels. The complexity of protocognitive skills stems from several factors shared by living beings. First, an enormous amount of sensory information must be structured and broken into aspects relevant for the aim-driven perception (e.g., position and shape of a target), while discarding the rest. Usually this is done by the agent’s sensory system, which provides highly specialized information to the central nervous system (Bear et al., 2007; Kandel et al., 2000). Second, a serious source of complexity is the continuous evolution of the environment and causal relations among its constituents. This requires anticipation and hence a predictive model of the environment and of the agent itself. The cognitive neuronal pathways or circuits are in charge of building up forward world models based on genetic wiring and experience. Then the external input modulates the (nonlinear) dynamics of the neuronal Compact Internal Representation as a Functional Basis for Protocognitive Exploration of Dynamic Environments 6
Static and Dynamic Analysis of Multistory RC Building with Various Heights in High Seismic Zone

Sciences and Technology (CEST-2018), September 25-27, 2018, vol. 2. This is an open access article under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction in any medium, as long as the original work is properly cited. ISBN: 978-81-936820-6-7 Static and Dynamic Analysis of Multistory RC Building with Various Heights in High Seismic Zone Ghusen Al-Kafri, Md. Shahnewaz Sarkar , Md. Shaizuddin Sarkar 1 Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Sirte University, Libya 2, 3 Department of Civil & Architecture Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Libyan Academy, Libya
Gr upSM Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Criminal Justice System : Police Interviewing , the Courtroom and the Prison Environment

Recent Advances in Autism | www.smgebooks. com Copyright  Allely CS.This book chapter is open access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited. Gr up SM Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Criminal Justice System: Police Interviewing, the Courtroom and the Prison Environment
Long-Term Outcomes of the Treatment of Unresectable (Stage III - IV)Ductal Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Using Metabolically Supported Chemotherapy (MSCT): A Retrospective Study

Introduction Metabolically supported chemotherapy (MSCT), is defined as the application of standard chemotherapy protocols concomitant to the administration of pharmacological doses of regular insulin and the development of hypoglycemia, and following fasting starting the previous day. This study aims to present the effects of MSCT on the overall survival of locally advanced and metastatic (stage III and stage IV, respectively), or simply unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients. Material and methods This study is a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of patients. It includes all patients that applied to our clinic between July 2012 and December 2014 that were diagnosed with unresectable (stage III-IV) pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The demographic data of all the patients as well as the chemotherapy regimen received, date of treatment initiation, date of disease remission, mortality and overall survival of all patients were analyzed using SPSS 20.0. Patient follow-up was performed by means of CT and PET-CT scans. Results 33 patients, 24(73%) males and 9(27%) females, were included in our study. The majority, 27(81%) patients, had metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis and were stage IV. While 11(33%) of the patients were treated using a gemcitabine-based protocol, 13(39%) received FOLFIRINOX. 9(27%) of the patients were initially treated using gemcitabine, but began receiving FOLFIRINOX following progression as second-line chemotherapy. Statistical analysis revealed a median survival of 19.5 months and a 1-year survival rate of 82.5%. Presently, 18(54%) of the patients remain healthy and alive, free of disease progression with ECOG performance statuses ranging between Grade 0 -1. 4(22%) of these patients ultimately underwent radical pancreatic surgery: 3(17%) having undergone pancreaticoduodenectomies (Whipple procedures) and 1(5%) having undergone a distal pancreatectomy. Conclusion This study demonstrates that a metabolically supported form of applying standard chemotherapy regimens may enhance the overall survival rates of unresectable (stage III-IV) pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients.
Scaling properties of planetary calderas and terrestrial volcanic eruptions

Abstract. Volcanism plays an important role in transporting internal heat of planetary bodies to their surface. Therefore, volcanoes are a manifestation of the planet's past and present internal dynamics. Volcanic eruptions as well as caldera forming processes are the direct manifestation of complex interactions between the rising magma and the surrounding host rock in the crust of terrestrial planetary bodies. Attempts have been made to compare volcanic landforms throughout the solar system. Different stochastic models have been proposed to describe the temporal sequences of eruptions on individual or groups of volcanoes. However, comprehensive understanding of the physical mechanisms responsible for volcano formation and eruption and more specifically caldera formation remains elusive. In this work, we propose a scaling law to quantify the distribution of caldera sizes on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Io, as well as the distribution of calderas on Earth depending on their surrounding crustal properties. We also apply the same scaling analysis to the distribution of interevent times between eruptions for volcanoes that have the largest eruptive history as well as groups of volcanoes on Earth. We find that when rescaled with their respective sample averages, the distributions considered show a similar functional form. This result implies that similar processes are responsible for caldera formation throughout the solar system and for different crustal settings on Earth. This result emphasizes the importance of comparative planetology to understand planetary volcanism. Similarly, the processes responsible for volcanic eruptions are independent of the type of volcanism or geographical location.
Estimation of electronic programme guide use behaviour based on the switching cost evaluation

In this article we define a new technology acceptance research model which considers the comparison of two technology solutions that an individual can use. The model estimates the usage of the observed solution based on the cost of switching from the reference solution (typically a standard or older solution) to the observed solution, considering the fact that the cost of switching is caused by a difference of facilitating conditions, habit and the intention to use between the reference and observed solutions. For evaluation purposes, we observed the costs of switching from teletext use to the use of the electronic programme guide (EPG on the subset of n = 82 respondents and interpreted 77.2% of the variance, which demonstrates the high quality of the model. Evaluation results indicate that the primary obstacle to switching from teletext to EPG usage arises from the individuals’ perception whether they have more or less of the necessary resources to use the EPG in comparison to the resources they have at their disposition in case of teletext use, and the second ranked switching cost is caused by a difference in habit.
A ug 2 01 8 Vertex-isoperimetric stability in the hypercube

Harper’s Theorem states that in a hypercube the Hamming balls have minimal vertex boundaries with respect to set size. In this paper we prove a stability-like result for Harper’s Theorem: if the vertex boundary of a set is close to minimal in the hypercube, then the set must be very close to a Hamming ball around some vertex.
Generation of postured voxel-based human models for the study of step voltage excited by lightning current

Abstract. With the development of medical technique and computational electromagnetics, high resolution anatomic human models have already been widely developed and used in computation of electromagnetic fields induced in human body. Although these so called voxel-based human models are powerful tools for research on electromagnetic safety, their unchangeable standing posture makes it impossible to simulate a realistic scenario in which people have a lot of different postures. This paper describes a poser program package which was developed as an improved version of the free-from deformation technique to overcome this problem. It can set rotation angles of different human joints and then deform the original human model to make it have different postures. The original whole-body human model can be deformed smoothly, continuity of internal tissues and organs is maintained and the mass of different tissues and organs can be conserved in a reasonable level. As a typical application of the postured human models, this paper also studies the effect of the step voltage due to a lightning strike on the human body. Two voxel-based human body models with standing and walking posture were developed and integrated into simulation models to compute the current density distribution in the human body shocked by the step voltage. In order to speed up the transient simulation, the reduced c technique was used, leading to a speedup factor of around 20. The error introduced by the reduced c technique is discussed and simulation results are presented in detail.
Performance-Driven System Generation for Distributed Vertex-Centric Graph Processing on Multi-FPGA Systems

In this paper, we present a multi-FPGA graph processing framework and an accompanying performance model. Our framework emphasizes programmability, requiring minimal user input beyond providing the application kernel and the dataset. The framework predicts the performance of the system based on the algorithm characteristics and problem size and automatically selects the optimal FPGA configuration. We implement our system on an experimental 4-FPGA platform and compare the results to the predicted performance.
Adversarial Multimedia Forensics: Overview and Challenges Ahead

In recent decades, a significant research effort has been devoted to the development of forensic tools for retrieving information and detecting possible tampering of multimedia documents. A number of counter-forensic tools have been developed as well in order to impede a correct analysis. Such tools are often very effective due to the vulnerability of multimedia forensics tools, which are not designed to work in an adversarial environment. In this scenario, developing forensic techniques capable of granting good performance even in the presence of an adversary aiming at impeding the forensic analysis, is becoming a necessity. This turns out to be a difficult task, given the weakness of the traces the forensic analysis usually relies on. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the advances made over the last decade in the field of adversarial multimedia forensics. We first consider the view points of the forensic analyst and the attacker independently, then we review some of the attempts made to simultaneously take into account both perspectives by resorting to game theory. Eventually, we discuss the hottest open problems and outline possible paths for future research.
ActiWiz 3 – an overview of the latest developments and their application

In 2011 the ActiWiz code was developed at CERN in order to optimize the choice of materials for accelerator equipment from a radiological point of view. Since then the code has been extended to allow for calculating complete nuclide inventories and provide evaluations with respect to radiotoxicity, inhalation doses, etc. Until now the software included only pre-defined radiation environments for CERN’s high-energy proton accelerators which were based on FLUKA Monte Carlo calculations. Eventually the decision was taken to invest into a major revamping of the code. Starting with version 3 the software is not limited anymore to pre-defined radiation fields but within a few seconds it can also treat arbitrary environments of which fluence spectra are available. This has become possible due to the use of ~100 CPU years’ worth of FLUKA Monte Carlo simulations as well as the JEFF cross-section library for neutrons < 20 MeV. Eventually the latest code version allowed for the efficient inclusion of 42 additional radiation environments of the LHC experiments as well as considerably more flexibility in view of characterizing also waste from CERN’s Large Electron Positron collider (LEP). New fully integrated analysis functionalities like automatic evaluation of difficult-to-measure nuclides, rapid assessment of the temporal evolution of quantities like radiotoxicity or dose-rates, etc. make the software a powerful tool for characterization complementary to general purpose MC codes like FLUKA. In this paper an overview of the capabilities will be given using recent examples from the domain of waste characterization as well as operational radiation protection.
Detection of Arrhythmia from ECG Signals by a Robust Approach to Outliers

The study focuses on arrhythmia detection from ECG signals, and for this aim it uses Fuzzy C-means (FCM) and Single Neuron Perceptron (SNP). FCM clustering adapted to time-series transforms ECG signals into useful features, and then SNP classifies them. We use MIT- BIH Arrhythmia database. The database is utilized for two experiments in the study. In the first experiment, RR intervals trimmed from the database are prepared for training the model, and in the second one ECG segments are used for real time simulation. Obtained results are compared with some other studies. According to the results, the proposed approach is good at arrhythmia detection as well as at least the studies in the literature. Lastly we interpret the results and present some studies for the future. Streszczenie. W artykule skoncentrowano sie na detekcji arytmii na podstawie sygnalu ECG przy wykorzystaniu pojedynczego perceptronu i algorytmu FCM. Do badan wykorzystano baze danych MIT-BIH Arrhythmia. W artykule oceniono zastosowaną metode, przedstawiono interpretacje wynikow i dalsze propozycje. (Detekcja arytmii na podstawie sygnalu ECG przy wykorzystaniu sieci neuronowych)
Dependence Graph Preprocessing for Faster Exact Modulo Scheduling in High-Level Synthesis

Modulo scheduling is a key throughput optimisation when compiling for VLIW architectures, which has been applied successfully to high-level synthesis (HLS) of hardware accelerators in the past. However, problem instances in the HLS context usually have larger and denser dependence graphs and may contain many simple operations that are not subject to resource constraints, causing long runtimes with VLIW-centric modulo schedulers. We propose a complexity-reduction approach for existing exact modulo schedulers that retains their ability to compute provably optimal schedules, but shortens their runtime on typical HLS instances. The basic idea is to simplify a problem instance's dependence graph by abstracting entire subgraphs of non-critical operations with a single edge, then schedule this reduced problem comprising only the critical operations. A solution obtained for the reduced problem can be easily completed to a solution for the original problem. Applied to the well-known, originally VLIW-centric, and exact ILP formulation by Eichenberger and Davidson, we show a mean speedup of 4.37x for 21 large instances, which makes it competitive again with the recently proposed, HLS-tailored Moovac formulation. As both formulations show different problem-dependent strengths and weaknesses, these insights are a first step towards an oracle that selects the most promising scheduler for a given problem instance.
Development of Masterplan and Initial Program for Food Security in Papua Region, Indonesia

Food Security and Vulnerability Atlas (FSVA) of Indonesia 2015 categorized the vulnerability to food and nutrition insecurity based on nine indicators covering food availability, food access and food utilization. According to the assessment, 14 districts in priority 1 (severely vulnerable to food insecurity) were all in Papua. Responding to the problems of food insecurity, a multi-year program focusing on two regencies, i.e., Manokwari and Merauke, was conducted from August 2015. The program was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Kemendes PDTT), Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta and district governments. This research aimed to examine the problems causing food insecurity and to develop integrative and collaborative macro-scale policy recommendations. The study used a qualitative descriptive method and a pilot project approach to address food insecurity problems in both regencies. It found five main issues related to food insecurity in Papua: the prevalence of stunting among children under five, the ratio of per capita normative consumption towards net cereal production, the population living below poverty line, households without access to clean water, and low-income families. The problems could be overcome by concerning the ratio of normative consumption per capita and the preservation of local food, and local crops should be grown especially tubers. Regarding the problems associated with low-income families, a program that should be implemented is the welfare improvement of the rural low-income families through the optimization of land resources in the integrated and intensive ways in response to many land resources still underutilized. Moreover, water treatment should be encouraged further to tackle clean water issues.
Improved CDMA performance using parallel interference cancellation

The paper considers a general parallel interference cancellation scheme that significantly reduces the degradation effect of user interference but with a lesser implementation complexity than the maximum-likelihood technique. The scheme operates on the fact that parallel processing simultaneously removes from each user the total interference produced by the remaining most reliably received users accessing the channel. The parallel processing can be done in multiple stages. The proposed scheme uses tentative decision devices with different optimum thresholds at the multiple stages to produce the most reliably received data for generation and cancellation of user interference. The 1-stage interference cancellation is analyzed for three types of tentative decision devices, namely hard, null zone, and soft decision. Simulation results are given for 1- and 2-stage interference cancellation for equal as well as unequal power users. <<ETX>>
Register variation in malicious forensic texts

The study reported here examines a corpus of 104 authentic malicious forensic texts for register variation. A malicious forensic text is defined in this paper as a text that is threatening, abusive or defaming and that constitutes evidence for a forensic case. This corpus was firstly tagged with a set of situational parameters and then analysed using the same multidimensional model introduced in Biber (1988; 1989). The results of the study indicate that malicious forensic texts, similarly to non-malicious professional letters, are on average instances of the Involved Persuasion text type, which is characterised by linguistic features overtly expressing modality. The results also confirm that threatening texts tend to use more modal verbs than non-threatening texts. Furthermore, the personal knowledge between interactants was found to highly influence the level of information density of the texts, while the narrativity level of malicious texts was found to be affected by whether the text contains harmful content directed to the addressee or to a third party. These findings can inform and improve the authorship analysis of malicious texts and increase our understanding of the creation of language crimes.