Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
HIGHLY CONFORMAL CRANIOSPINAL RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES CAN UNDERDOSE THE CRANIAL CTV IF LEPTOMENINGEAL EXTENSION THROUGH SKULL BASE EXIT FORAMINA IS NOT CONTOURED

AIMS Craniospinal radiotherapy (CSI) remains a crucial treatment for patients with medulloblastoma. There is uncertainty about how to manage meningeal surfaces and CSF that follow cranial nerves exiting skull base foramina. The purpose of this study was to assess plan quality and dose coverage of posterior cranial fossa foramina with both photon and proton therapy. METHODS & MATERIALS We analysed radiotherapy plans of 7 patients treated with CSI for medulloblastoma and primitive neuro-ectodermal tumours, and 3 with ependymoma (total n=10). Four had been treated with a field-based technique, 6 with TomoTherapy. The internal acoustic meatus (IAM), jugular foramen (JF) and hypoglossal canal (HC) were contoured and added to the original treatment CTV (Plan_CTV) to create Test_CTV. This was grown to Test_PTV for comparison with Plan_PTV. Using Plan_CTV and PTV, proton plans were generated for all 10 cases. The following dosimetry data were recorded: Conformity (DSC) and homogeneity index (D2-D98/D50) as well as median and max dose (D2%) to Plan_PTV, V95% and minimum dose (D99.9%) to Plan and Test_CTV and PTV, V95% and minimum dose (D98%) to foramina PTV’s. RESULTS Proton and TomoTherapy plans were more conformal (0.87, 0.86) and homogeneous (0.07, 0.04) than field-photon plans (0.79, 0.17). However, field-photon plans covered IAM, JF and HC PTV’s better than proton plans (p = 0.002, 0.004, 0.003 respectively). TomoTherapy plans covered the IAM and JF better than proton plans (p = 0.000, 0.002 respectively) but the result for HC was not significant. Adding foramen CTV/PTV’s made no difference for field plans. Mean Dmin dropped 3.4% from Plan to Test_PTV for TomoTherapy (ns), and 14.8% for protons (p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Highly conformal CSI techniques may underdose meninges and CSF in the dural reflections of posterior fossa cranial nerves unless these structures are specifically included in the CTV.
Network coding based cooperative communications

Cooperative communications was proposed to enable spatial d iversity in small and inexpensive devices. It allows the creation of virtual ante n a array through the antennas of the participating users. The benefits offered by cooperation include increase in data rate, robustness against shadowing, decre as in overall transmit power of the system etc. However, when user cooperation is ex tended to include multiple users or multiple relays, the system suffers from l ss in throughput due to increased number of channel use. To overcome this, cooper ative communications schemes often make use of network coding which helps tr ade-off resource allocated for cooperation and system performance. In the first part of the thesis, we propose random network codi ng based user cooperation scheme in wireless networks. Our scheme is very effective in spreading the information of the pool of cooperating users so that t e message can reach the destination via many alternative paths. Also, the propo sed scheme is decentralized and the cooperating nodes act independent of the ot hers. Results show that our scheme is resilient to inter-user channel noise and c achieve high diversity gain when number of cooperating users is large. We fu rther enhance the
Study of DOA-based indoor location positioning utilizing MIMO WLAN system in a typical room environment

Interest in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) indoor location positioning systems has continuously increased in this last decade. In particular, with the dysfunctional state of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in indoor area, the possibility of utilizing of widely deployed WLAN systems in buildings makes for a good prospective research topic. The challenge faced is the multipath fading environment presented in the indoor environment. There are many techniques[1] that have been used to build WLAN indoor location positioning systems but DOA estimation utilizing MIMO technique was focused because it allows us to use multiple antennas and receivers and enable the use of OFDM advantageous to counter multipath fading defect. Furthermore, location of a mobile terminal can be estimated by measuring DOAs of the direct propagation path which theoretically has the strongest power among all the multipath components and synchronization is not needed.
Deep reinforcement learning for urban traffic light control

Traffic light timing optimization is still an active line of research despite the wealth of scientific literature on the topic, and the problem remains unsolved for any non-toy scenario. One of the key issues with traffic light optimization is the large scale of the input information that is available for the controlling agent, namely all the traffic data that is continually sampled by the traffic detectors that cover the urban network. This issue has in the past forced researchers to focus on agents that work on localized parts of the traffic network, typically on individual intersections, and to coordinate every individual agent in a multi-agent setup. In order to overcome the large scale of the available state information, we propose to rely on the ability of deep Learning approaches to handle large input spaces, in the form of Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm. We performed several experiments with a range of models, from the very simple one (one intersection) to the more complex one (a big city section).
PLANNING INDUSTRIAL PHD PROJECTS IN PRACTICE: SPEAKING BOTH 'ACADEMIA' AND 'PRACTITIONESE'

This paper discuss the planning and organising of research conducted by Industrial PhD students, i.e. PhD students conducting research studies aiming for a PhD while employed in industrial companies. Industrial PhD projects within engineering design research in Sweden can be considered a phenomenon, i.e. existing but sparsely documented. This paper provides empirical illustrations by presenting three Industrial PhD projects conducted in three companies with product developing operations in Sweden. The specific research design of Industrial PhD projects provides benefits such as an effective bridging between academia and industry. Additionally, this type of research projects face challenges, such as having two-folded aims of the project: both academic and industrial goals. Based on experiences from these projects, implications for planning and organising of future Industrial PhD projects are discussed. Finally, we suggest that Industrial PhD projects are effective means, if used properly, for assimilation of research findings to industry, and for academia to understand the industrial practice.
EMBEDDED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER DESIGN AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FOR INTELLIGENT MONITORING OF STRUCTURES

This paper describes a wireless demonstrator system designed for generation and detection of fundamental symmetrical Lamb waves (S0) characterized by high velocity and low attenuation. The demonstrator comprises two piezoceramic transducers embedded within an epoxy plate, drive and pre‐amplification electronics, a microcontroller and a communications interface. This arrangement can be configured to operate in an active pitch‐catch or pulse‐echo interrogation mode or as a passive acoustic emission (AE) sensor. The history of AE incidents, for example, may then be transmitted by wireless link.
Model of a truncated fast rotating flow at infinite Reynolds number

The purpose of this study is to examine the strongly rotating limit of a turbulent flow theoretically and numerically. The goal is to verify the predictions of asymptotic theories. Given the limitations of experimental and dissipative numerical approaches to this problem, we use classical equilibrium statistical mechanics. We apply the statistical mechanics approach to the inviscid truncated model of strongly rotating turbulence (in the small Rossby number range) and derive the theoretical spectra of the decoupled model. We use numerical simulations to complement these derivations and examine the relaxation to equilibrium of the inviscid unforced truncated rotating turbulent system for different sets of initial conditions. We separate our discussion into two time domains: the discussion of the decoupled phase with time below a threshold time t⋆, for which a new set of invariants S are identified, and the coupled phase with a time beyond t⋆, for which the quantities S are no longer invariants. We obtain a .
Fuzzified MCDM Consistent Ranking Feature Selection with Hybrid Algorithm for Credit Risk Assessment

Feature selection algorithms that are based on different single evaluation criterions for determining the subset of features shows varying result sets which lead to inconsistency in ranks. In contrary, Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) with Fuzzified Feature Selection methodology brings consistency in feature selection ranking with optimal features and improving the classification performance of credit risks. By adopting multiple evaluation criteria inconsistent ranks to Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) for feature selection along with hybrid algorithm (K-Means clustering-Logistic Regression classification) results in enabling Consistent Ranking Feature Selection (CRFS) and significant improvement over classification performance measures. When the proposed methodology is used with two different credit risk data set from the UCI repository, the experimental results show that the optimal features with hybrid algorithm, indicating improvements in the performance of classification in credit risk prediction over the current existing techniques.
Insertion of Hungarian Merino Sheep Breed into the European Merino Group according to Maternal Origin

Merino sheep breeds have been widely distributed across the world. They represent one of the most important genetic resource of the sheep sector. But the crisis of the wool industry led to a drastic reduction in the number of European Merino breeds including the Hungarian Merino. The Hungarian Merino is a local sheep breed with a nearly 250-year old breeding history in Hungary. It has the largest number of individuals between both of the purebred (including nucleus and multiplier flocks) and commercial flocks. Most of the purebred flocks went through a liquidation after the year 1989. That also caused a drastic reduction in the number of purebred-ewes. The Hungarian Merino breeding stock consists of barely 3700 female individuals recently. This has led to declare the breed endangered in 2014. Our future plan is to analyse the genetic variability of the Hungarian Merino breed based on the approximately 1000 base pairs long mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D-loop sequences. So far, we collected DNA samples from 172 individuals from 10 genealogical lines. We would like to examine the haplotype diversity and compare the overall genetic distances within and among each genealogical lines. Our further plan is to compare our data to GenBank sequences of other Merino and founder breeds.
MEMORY SPAN TESTS AND THE ABILITY TO IMITATE WORD SEQUENCES AND SENTENCES 2

The memory span test is usually thought to measure short term memory, but conceptions of the memory span test vary with the professional interests of the investigator and include learning, intelligence, information processing, and several other abilities. In an auditory-vocal span test the subject imitates the digit or word sequences of the examiner; it is hypothesized that span tests assess individual differences in the ability to imitate language. Two experiments are reported which support this hypothesis. Among retarded adolescents and adults the correlations between span and verbal imitation range from . 74 to . 89. One experiment found that a memory load condition reduces the ability to imitate long sentences. The implications of the experimental findings are discussed with respect to language assessment, training, and learning. The ability to imitate the language of others is considered to be an important ability underlying the development of language skills. If a child could not imitate the speech of others he could not develop the vocabulary and grammatical constructions characteristic of his language. Language training often makes use of imitation to stimulate the acquisition of new vocabulary, phrases, and grammatical patterns (for example, Taylor, Berry, & Conn, 1976). In addition, the assessment of the ability to imitate language is frequently used as a part of language assessment (Berry, 1976; Carrow, 1974). Since the ability to imitate language is fundamental to language development, the speech clinician will be interested in finding a way to measure this ability. When we can measure this ability directly we will be able to diagnose present and future problems in language development and prescribe efficient training techniques with the individual’s imitative ability in mind. [5] 4
Stable monomeric form of an originally dimeric serine proteinase inhibitor, ecotin, was constructed via site directed mutagenesis

Ecotin, a homodimer protein of E. coil, is a unique member of canonical serine proteinase inhibitors, since it is a potent agent against a variety of serine proteinases having different substrate specificity. Monomers of ecotin are held together mostly by their long C-terminal strands that are arranged as a two-stranded antiparallel ~-sheet in the functional dimer. One ecotin dimer can chelate two proteinase molecules, each of them bound to both subunits of ecotin at two different sites, namely the specific primary and the non-specific secondary binding sites. In this study the genes of wild type ecotin and its MetS4Arg P1 site mutant were truncated resulting in new forms of ecotin that lack 10 amino acid residues at their C-terminus. These mutants do not dimerize spontaneously, though in combination with trypsin they assemble into the familiar heterotetramer. Our data suggest that this heterotetramer exists even in extremely diluted solutions, and the interaction, which is responsible for the dimerization of ecotin, contributes to the stability of the heterotetrameric complex.
A Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for WLAN and WiMAX Systems

A novel tri-band pattern reconfigurable planar antenna is proposed. Tri-band is achieved by inserting a bandstop filter at the feed line of a wideband monopole antenna with complementary split ring resonator (CSRR) on a circular patch. Two parasitic arc-shaped stubs are in the back side of the radiator that works as a reflector. The antenna radiation pattern is switched from omnidirectional to one of two different directional modes by activating one of the stubs. Three different radiation modes are controlled by four ideal switches. Radiation pattern reconfigurability makes it suitable for the use of flexible cognitive radio front-end system. The proposed antenna is suitable for WLAN 2.4/5.2/5.8 GHz and WiMAX 3.5/5.5 GHz applications. Good agreement between simulated and measured results validates its possible application.
RTEMS Centre - Support and Maintenance Centre to RTEMS Operating System

RTEMS CENTRE – Support and Maintenance Centre to RTEMS Operating System is a joint ESA/Portuguese Task Force initiative to develop a support and maintenance centre to the Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS). This paper gives a high level visibility of the progress, the results obtained and the future work in the RTEMS CENTRE [6] and in the RTEMS Improvement [7] projects. RTEMS CENTRE started officially in November 2006, with the RTEMS 4.6. 99.2 version. A full analysis of RTEMS operating system was produced. The architecture was analysed in terms of conceptual, organizational and operational concepts. The original objectives [1] of the centre were primarily to create and maintain technical expertise and competences in this RTOS, to develop a website to provide the European Space Community an entry point for obtaining support (http://rtemscentre.edisoft.pt), to design, develop, maintain and integrate some RTEMS support tools (Timeline Tool, Configuration and Management Tools), to maintain flight libraries and Board Support Packages, to develop a strong relationship with the World RTEMS Community and finally to produce some considerations in ARINC-653, DO-178B and ECSS E-40 standards. RTEMS Improvement is the continuation of the RTEMS CENTRE. Currently the RTEMS, version 4.8. 0, is being facilitated for a future qualification. In this work, the validation material is being produced following the Galileo Software Standards Development Assurance Level B [5]. RTEMS is being completely tested, errors analysed, dead and deactivated code removed and tests produced to achieve 100% statement and decision coverage of source code [2]. The SW to exploit the LEON Memory Management Unit (MMU) hardware will be also added. A brief description of the expected implementations will be given. 1 RTEMS Operating System RTEMS is the Real-Time Operating System for Multiprocessor Systems. It is a full featured Real Time Operating System that supports a variety of open API and interface standards. It provides a high performance environment for embedded applications including multitasking capabilities, homogeneous and heterogeneous multiprocessor systems, event-driven, priority-based, pre-emptive scheduling, optional rate monotonic scheduling, inter-task communication and synchronization, priority inheritance, responsive interrupt management, dynamic memory allocation and high level of user configurability. RTEMS is a free open source Real Time Operating System designed for deeply embedded systems and aim to be competitive with closed source and commercial products. It was developed to support applications with the most inflexible time frames requirements, making it possible for the user to develop hard real time systems. RTEMS is maintained by the On-Line Research Corporation (OAR) [8], albeit several of the features and platform support for it have been developed by RTEMS community. The first version of what is today RTEMS was released in 1988 [9].
Biological Screening of Plants Extract Showing Hypoglycaemic and Wound Healing Properties: Capparis zeylanica and Primula denticulata.

Primula denticulata belonging to family Primulaceae and Capparis zeylanica to Capparidaceae. P. denticulata is commonly known as drumstick primula and grow in shady places and open slopes.Similarly, C. zeylanica is commonly known as Indian caper, a climbing shrub. The literature survey revealed that there is no experimental evidence of antidiabetic and wound healing effect of the plants. The present investigation was planned to evaluate the hypoglycaemic and wound healing properties in plants extract. In the hypoglycaemic activity, the animals were examined up to 21 days, in which Streptozotocin (STZ) was used as diabetes inducer and Glipizide as a standard. For wound healing activity, excision-wound model was used and 1% Silver Sulphadiazine ointment was used as standard. The dose 200 mg/kg body weight was selected from both ethanolic (EtOH) and aqueous extract for hypoglycaemic activity. For hypoglycaemic activity, the result of aqueous extract of C. zeylanica (200.3±3.24 ** ) and EtOH extract of P. denticulata (203.8±2.30 ** ) have shown a good reduction in blood glucose level and compared with normal control. 5% ointment formulation of EtOH extract of C. zeylanica and P. denticulata have been shown 98.36% and 93.08% wound healing contraction at day18 respectively when compared with normal control. Finally the results concluded that, both the plant extract have probable source of hypoglycaemic and wound healing property from natural origin.
Inferring Intrinsic Beliefs of Digital Images Using a Deep Autoencoder

Training a system of artificial neural networks on digital images is a big challenge. Often times digital images contain a large amount of information and values for artificial neural networks to understand. In this work, the inference model is proposed in order to absolve this problem. The inference model is composed of a parameterized autoencoder that endures the loss of information caused by the rescaling of images and transition model that predicts the effect of an action on the observation. To test the inference model, the images of a moving robotic arm were given as the data set. The inference model successfully reconstructed the observation using small, rescaled images and even anticipated the observation based on its intuition using its transition model. Capabilities of the inference model implies that the model extracted the essential features of the digital images.
The new winter wheat cultivars ‘Kena DS’, ‘Gaja DS’,‘Sedula DS’ and ‘Herkus DS’ for increased yield stability

The new cultivars of winter wheat ‘Kena DS’, ‘Gaja DS’, ‘Sedula DS’ and ‘Herkus DS’ were developed at Institute of Agriculture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry. The cultivars are well adapted to the temperate climate conditions with occasionally low temperatures in the winter season. The mean winter hardiness of the cultivars was evaluated by 7.8, 7.3, 8.2 and 7.3 scores, respectively and surpassed the well adapted and previously widely grown check cultivar ‘Zentos’ (6.8 scores). The cultivars exhibit good resistance to sprouting in ears, which is important in regions with high humidity during the harvesting period. They can be grown under sustainable and high input growing conditions. The mean grain yield of cultivars ‘Kena DS’, ‘Sedula DS’, ‘Gaja DS’ and ‘Herkus DS’ in high input fields during 2011–2016 was 8.7, 8.6, 9.9 and 9.1 t ha-1, respectively. The grain yield of the high yielding check cultivar ‘Skagen’ was 8.6 t ha-1. The mean protein content of cultivars ‘Kena DS’, ‘Sedula DS’, ‘Gaja DS’ and ‘Herkus DS’ was 14.3, 13.3, 13.6 and 13.3 %, sedimentation value – 61.2, 49.2, 34.5 and 49.3 ml, respectively. The dough stability of the new cultivars determined by a Brabender’s pharinograph was 12.7, 6.0, 7.3 and 6.9 min, volume of bread baked from 300 g of flour was 1600, 1650, 1700 and 1520 cm3, respectively. The total baking value index of the cultivars ‘Kena DS’, ‘Sedula DS’, ‘Gaja DS and ‘Herkus DS’ was evaluated by 700, 725, 750 and 660 scores respectively, where the excellent bread-making cultivar ‘Ada’ attained 670 scores. The new cultivars exhibit good resistance to powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis DC), acceptable resistance to tan spot (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis Died.), take-all (Gauemanomyces graminis Sacc.), Septoria glume blotch (Phaeosphaeria nodorum E. Müll) and Septoria leaf blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici (Desm.) The cultivars are included in the Lithuanian National List of Plant Varieties and EC Common Catalogue of Cultivars of Agricultural Plant Species.
Studies in the Compositae of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra — 7. Erythroseris, a new genus and the previously unknown sister group of Cichorium (Cichorieae subtribe Cichoriinae)

Abstract Kilian, N. & Gemeinholzer, B. : Studies in the Compositae of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra — 7. Erythroseris, a new genus and the previously unknown sister group of Cichorium (Cichorieae subtribe Cichoriinae). — Willdenowia 37: 283–296. — ISSN 0511-9618; © 2007 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem. doi:10.3372/wi.37. 37117 (available via http://dx.doi.org/) Two species of Socotra Island and N Somalia, respectively, known as Prenanthes amabilis and P. somaliensis, are identified by molecular (ITS and matK) and morphological analyses as the closest relatives to Cichorium, hitherto considered an isolated genus of the tribe Cichorieae. To accommodate these two species, the new genus Erythroseris is established, the new combinations E. amabilis and E. somalensis are validated, and the basionym Tolpis somalensis is neotypified. Morphological differences and accordances between Cichorium and Erythroseris are discussed. It is concluded from the micromorphological results that the scaly pappus of Cichorium is homologous with the setaceous pappus as present in Erythroseris. A key to the species, illustrations of achenes, pappus and pollen, and a distribution map of the new genus are given.