Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance of Block IC Preconditioner with Fill-in for Linear Systems Derived from Finite Element Meshes Including Thin Elements

The incomplete-Cholesky (IC) preconditioner is often implemented into solving linear system derived from finite element method (FEM). However, when many thin elements are included in an analyzed mesh, the convergence characteristic might be deteriorated. At that time, IC preconditioner with fill-in makes the convergence characteristics of linear solver much better. Furthermore, when the blocked strategy is introduced into IC with fill-in, the fill-in search, forward substitution, and backward substitution is successfully parallelized. This paper shows the validity of block IC with fill-in on linear systems arising in FEM with many flat elements.
Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum ’ Associated with Zebra Chip of Potato is not Associated with Citrus Huanglongbing and is Absent in Asian Citrus Psyllid

A new Liberibacter species, ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ (Lso) recently associated with the potato/tomato psyllid-transmitted diseases in tomato and capsicum in New Zealand (Liefting et al., 2009), was found to be associated with a newly emerging potato zebra chip (ZC) disease in Texas (Abad et al., 2008) and other southwestern states in the USA. In this study, DNA extracts were obtained, through the tissue homogenization using a PastPrep machine, from suspect psyllids by the Qiagen DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit, or from suspect plant tissues by the Qiagen DNeasy Plant Mini Kit. A 16S rRNA gene-based primer LsoF (5’-CGA GCG CTT ATT TTT AAT AGG AGC -3’) was developed specific to Lso. The primer can be reliably used in both quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) and conventional PCR (cPCR) to detect, identify and quantify Lso in infected samples.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPLEX PHYSICAL PHENOMENA IN MATERIALS

The Loewner equation describes a rather general class of growth processes in two dimensions where a curve starts from a given point on the boundary of a certain “physical domain” in the complex z-plane and grows into the interior of this domain. The growth dynamics is then conveniently described in terms of a conformal mapping , from the physical domain onto a suitable “mathematical domain”, which satisfies a first-order ordinary differential equation—the so-called Loewner equation. In this work, a class of Laplacian growth models in a Hele-Shaw channel is studied using the formalism of tripolar Loewner evolutions, in which three points, namely, the channel corners and the point at infinity, are kept fixed. A model for interface growth is formulated in terms of a generalized tripolar Loewner equation and several examples are presented. The Loewner equation [1] describes a rather general class of growth processes in two dimensions where a curve starts from a given point on the boundary of a domain in the complex plane and grows into the interior of . More specifically, the Loewner equation [2] is a first-order differential equation for the conformal mapping , from the “physical domain,” consisting of the region minus the curve, onto a “mathematical domain” represented by in an auxiliary
ON A RECURSIVE POLYNOMIAL GRAPH INVARIANT FOR CHAINS OF POLYGONS

Recurrent relations and explicit formulae for the dichromate of Tutte and Negami’s polynomial for chains of n-gons are presented. The graphs called chains of n-gons consist of n-gons connected with each other by edges. Two arbitrary n-gons either have only a common edge (i.e. they are adjacent), or have no common vertices. Each n-gon is adjacent to no more than two other n-gons and no three n-gons which share a common edge. Two terminal n-gons of a chain are adjacent to exactly one other n-gon.
Information Security Culture : Definition , Frameworks and Assessment

Nowadays organisations operate in a global environment which enables organisations to collaborate and share information resources among themselves but at the same time exposes them to various threats both within (employees) and from outside of the organisation. Internal threat is among the top information security issues facing organisations as the human factor is regarded the weakest link in the security chain. To address this “human factor” researchers have suggested the fostering of an information security culture to address the human behaviour so that information security becomes a second nature to employees. In order to establish an information security culture in an organisation it is important to understand what the term “information security culture” means; what frameworks and models have been proposed in order to explain and establish information security culture by discussing various issues of ISC. Another important step in fostering of information security culture is the assessment of the current state of the culture in an organisation. A systematic literature review was conducted utilizing the suggested approach by Okoli and Schabram in order to investigate key literature in information security culture domain published during the period 2002-2014 to determine the most comprehensive definition of ISC; to identify frameworks covering various aspects of information security culture along with methodologies and empirical data used; and to analyse current ISC assessment approaches in order to help researchers and practitioners in selecting the most appropriate methodology for establishing, developing and assessing information security culture in an organisation. One research team was found to contribute the most to the ISC research field by providing the most comprehensive ISC definition; developing a comprehensive framework for establishing ISC in an organisation; as well as providing a validated process for assessing current state of security culture.
The inhibitory effect of garlic (Allium sativum L.) essential oil nanoliposomes on Shiga-toxin 2 expression in Escherichia coli O157:H7

Foodborne diseases are considered as one of the main problems of public health. Escherichia coli O157H7 are responsible for major outbreaks of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) throughout the world. The mortality is originated from the production of a Shiga toxin (Stx) by these bacteria. Garlic essential oil (GEO) has antibacterial effects on many food-borne pathogens. Therefore, this study was aimed to evaluate the antibacterial activity of the Allium sativum L. EO and its nanoliposomal form on the virulence of E. coli O157:H7. Reverse passive latex agglutination test was used to detect Shiga toxin2 (Stx2) production after exposure to sub-inhibitory concentrations of free and nanoencapsulated EO. Also, the effect of sub-inhibitory concentrations of free and nanoliposomal form of GEO was evaluated on Stx2 gene expression and the relative transcriptional level of Stx2 gene was determined by real-time PCR. It was found that the sub-inhibitory concentrations of liposomal form of EO (50 and 75%) had a significantly higher inhibitory effect on Stx2 titer than its free form (p<0.05). Also, increasing the concentration of EO and nanoencapsulated EO significantly reduced Shiga toxin 2 gene expression according to control. Using 75% sub-inhibitory value of free and nanoliposome GEO, the relative transcriptional level of Stx2A gene was reduced from 0.938 to 0.667 and 0.931 to 0.659, respectively. Based on our findings, different methods of nanoencapsulation should future study to improve nanoliposome efficacy to suppress toxin production on expression level.
DyBaNeM : Bayesian Framework for Episodic Memory Modelling

Episodic Memory (EM) plays a central role in cognitive architectures and artificial agents that need ability to remember and recall the past. Most of the currently implemented EM systems resemble logs of events stored in a database with indexes. However, these systems usually lack abilities of human memory like hierarchical organization of episodes, reconstructive memory retrieval and encoding of episodes with respect to previously learnt repeated schemata. Here, we present a new general framework for EM modelling, DyBaNeM, that has these abilities. From psychological point of view, it builds on the Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT). On computational side, it uses formalism of Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs). We describe abstract encoding, storage and retrieval algorithms, two models we implemented within DyBaNeM, and evaluation of the models’ performance using a dataset resembling a log of human activity.
Complexity and Evolutionary Learning : Classifier ’ s Behavior and Domain of Competence

We study the behavior of XCS, a classifier based on genetic algorithms. XCS summarizes the state-of-theart of the genetic based machine learning field and benefits from long experience and research in the area. We describe the learning mechanisms of XCS by which a set of rules describing the class boundaries is evolved. We study XCS’s behavior related to data complexity and identify conditions of difficulty for XCS in the complexity measurement space as those with long boundaries, high class interleaving, and high nonlinearities. Comparison with other classifiers in the complexity space allows to identify domains of competence for XCS as well as domains of poor performance. The study lays the basis to further apply the same methodology to analyze the domains of competence of other classifiers.
Optimizing Share Size in Efficient and Robust Secret Sharing Scheme for Big Data

Secret sharing scheme has been applied commonly in distributed storage for Big Data. It is a method for protecting outsourced data against data leakage and for securing key management systems. The secret is distributed among a group of participants where each participant holds a share of the secret. The secret can be only reconstructed when a sufficient number of shares are reconstituted. Although many secret sharing schemes have been proposed, they are still inefficient in terms of share size, communication cost and storage cost; and also lack robustness in terms of exact-share repair. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a new secret sharing scheme based on Slepian-Wolf coding. Our scheme can achieve an optimal share size utilizing the simple binning idea of the coding. It also enhances the exact-share repair feature whereby the shares remain consistent even if they are corrupted. We show, through experiments, how our scheme can significantly reduce the communication and storage costs while still being able to support direct share repair leveraging lightweight exclusive-OR (XOR) operation for fast computation.
A model-based approach to capture genetic variation for future Material Supplemental

Material Supplemental http://genome.cshlp. org/content/suppl/2006/11/09/gr.5675406. DC1.html References http://genome.cshlp. org/content/17/1/88.full. html#ref-list-1 This article cites 21 articles, 4 of which can be accessed free at: License Commons Creative http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. described at a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License), as ). After six months, it is available under http://genome.cshlp. org/site/misc/terms.xhtml first six months after the full-issue publication date (see This article is distributed exclusively by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press for the
Intoxications graves par l ’ acide valproïque Severe valproic acid poisoning

The incidence of valproic acid (VPA) intoxication has increased by more than 129% since 1995, particularly in the United States. Approximately 50% of the patients express only minor effects, and mortality reaches 2%. Life-threatening poisoning is thus rare, and not systematically related to a very high VPA plasmatic level: some severe forms are due to a metabolic diversion caused by a secondary deficit in carnitine. The structural configuration of VPA is close to that of the fatty acids. VPA may interfere with fatty acids during the transport (related to the carnitine), the intra-mitochondrial metabolism (b-oxidation) and the elimination steps (related to the carnitine). It can result in a metabolic diversion with the development of a hyperammoniemia, a hyperlactatemia and a coma. Infusion of L-carnitine, together with supportive treatment, could be helpful for the correction of the metabolic disorders. The effectiveness of L-carnitine was shown at the experimental level and several clinical cases suggested its usefulness, but a prospective and randomized study remains to be carried out. © 2004 Société de réanimation de langue française. Publié par Elsevier SAS. Tous droits réservés. Mots clés : Acide valproïque ; Carnitine ; Hyperammoniémie ; Intoxication ; Physiopathologie
EARLY-WARNING MODEL OF INFLUENZA A VIRUS PANDEMIC BASED ON PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

During the courses of the human history, several major influenza pandemics caused great disasters to human beings. In this paper, we choose all PA protein sequences of influenza A virus from 1933 to 2013, and these PA protein sequences are translated into chaos game representation walk sequences. For each CGR walk sequence we calculate 25 index values related to sequence structure characteristics, and principal component analysis method is used to study these values. Then we construct a principal component model to early-warn influenza A virus pandemic, compute the comprehensive index values CIV, and sort these values in descending order. Through computing the comprehensive index values based on the model and sorting, the comprehensive index value in 2009 is 30.274, ranked first; the comprehensive index value in 1969 is 8.383, ranked second; and the comprehensive index value in 1959 is 5.684, ranked third. And there were well-known influenza A virus pandemics in 2009, 1969, 1959. It is found that those influenza A virus pandemic years are almost at the top of the list, so we can draw a conclusion using the model that there maybe an influenza A virus pandemic when the CIV in the year is significantly bigger than that in the nearby years and the CIV in the year is more than 3.
POLY-MRI-145486 December 1986 FINAL TECHNICAL = PORT on A STUDY OF LARGE , MEDIUM AM ) SMALL SCALE STRUc

The program was primarily concerned with the study of ISIS and Alouette data for large, medium and small scale structures in the ionosphere. It also seeked correlation with measurements by other satellites, such as the Atmosphere Explorer C and E and the Dynamic Explorer 2 satellites, of both neutrals and ionization, and with measurements by ground facilities, such as the incoherent scatter radars. Large scale coherent wavelike structures were found from ISIS 2 electron density contours from above the F peak to nearly the satellite altitude (-1400km). Such structures were also found to correlate with the observations by A E C below the F peak during a conJunction of the two satellites. Vertical wavefronts found in the upper F region suggest the dominance of diffusion along Aeld lines as well. This work was presented at the Ionospheric Effects Symposium in Arlington, Virginia in May, 1984. Prof. Gross, with Mr. D.B. Muldrew of CRC, Ottawa, Canada, also discovered multiple, evenly spaced fleld-aligned ducts in the F region that, at low latitudes, extend to the other hemisphere and are in the form of fieldaligned sheets in the eastrwest direction (perhaps resolving an old question as to the shape of ducts). Further statistical interpretation of the uniformly spaced ducts, observed in a year of ISIS 2 data, has been reported at the URSI meeting in Boulder, Colorado in January, 1984. Another paper presented there, with Prof. Gross collaborating with Prof. Kuo of the Polytechnic, and Dr. Lee of the Regis College Research Center in Weston, Massachusetts, suggests a parametric instability with a gravity wave as the source to explain the duct structure. Low latitude heating events were discovered that could serve as sources for waves in the ionosphere. Prof. Gross presented a paper on this work at the International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy in Hong Kong in March, 1984.
CONSTRUCTING VERIFICATION-ORIENTED DOMAIN-SPECIFIC PROCESS ONTOLOGIES

User-friendly formal specification and verification of concurrent systems from various subject domains are active research topics due to their practical significance. In this paper, we present the method for development of verification-oriented domain-specific process ontologies which are used to describe concurrent systems of subject domains. One of advantages of such ontologies is their formal semantics which makes possible formal verification of described systems. Our method is based on the verification-oriented process ontology. For constructing a domain-specific process ontology, our method uses techniques of semantic markup and pattern matching to associate domain-specific concepts with classes of the process ontology. We give detailed ontological specifications of these techniques. Our method is illustrated by the example of developing a domain-specific ontology for typical elements of automatic control systems.
EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH, VOL

The aim of this thesis was to study the effect of carbohydrate drinks on Glucose, Lactate and functional test of men football referees. The research was semi-experimental which has been done on 16 men referees. The test was performed in two sessions with one week off. The experimental group drank 200 ml carbohydrate drink and the control group drank water as the same. After and before the test, the participants’ blood sample was collected. The data were analyzed using dependent t-test in the significance of p<0.05. The results showed that glucose, lactate was increased in experimental group. Moreover, the function after drinking carbohydrate was better and drinking prevents the lack of blood sugar significantly.
Extracted Beam Lines and Absorbers for a 50 x 50 TeV Hadron Collider

An extracted beam line has been designed for the 50 TeV on 50 TeV proton beams of the low-field version of RLHC, in order to kick the beams out of the machine in one turn. Two beam absorbers have been considered: a graphite-core absorber and an atmospheric pressure air-core absorber. Using the MARS13 code, the necessary absorber dimensions and beam sizes have been determined. In the case of the graphite core, it is shown that the only feasible way to make the beams big enough is to sweep the beams around the face of the absorbers during the 1.8 ms spill time. This is not needed for the air-core absorber, but an extra 8 Km of tunnel is needed.
Functional data analysis of multi-species abundance and 1 occupancy data sets 2

11 Multi-species indicators are widely used to condense large, complex amounts of information 12 on multiple separate species by forming a single index to inform research, policy and manage13 ment. Much detail is typically lost when such indices are constructed. Here we investigate 14 the potential of Functional Data Analysis, focussing upon Functional Principal Component 15 Analysis (FPCA), which can be easily carried out using standard R programs, as a tool for 16 displaying features of the underlying information. Illustrations are provided using data from 17 the UK Butterflies for the New Millennium and UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme databases. 18 The FPCAs conducted result in a huge simplification in terms of dimensional reduction, 19 allowing species occupancy and abundance to be reduced to two and three dimensions, re20 spectively. We show that a functional principal component arises for both occupancy and 21
Detection of Infiltrate on Infant Chest X-Ray

Currently, Chest X-ray is still widely used around the world for disease examination. This is due to its low cost, low radiation and a lot of disease information. The commonly detected disease using chest x-rays is lung disease. The characteristic of this disease is infiltrate. However, the accuracy of Chest X-ray observations is still low. Therefore, this research offers a method to perform Chest X-ray image processing in clarifying the information contained therein. This research used Chest X-ray of infant patients who treated at Central Public Hospital (RSUP) Dr. M. Djamil Padang. The total of the images tested were 17 images. In these images, there were some suspected infiltrates after being analyzed by doctors. Software used was Matlab which is conducted by applying image processing method. The method used consisted of 4 parts, that was Cropping, Filtering, Detecting Edge, and Sharpening Edge. The results of the research showed that the method could clarify edge detection of the objects contained in the image, so that the infiltrate could be more easily recognized. With this easiness, it will help the doctor to remove doubts for infiltrate observations in the Infant's lungs.
Pango: internationalized text handling

Pango is a library for laying out and displaying internationalized text. It handles almost every writing system in the world, and can work on top of multiple different display systems including traditional X fonts, or client-side OpenType fonts. Pango is used for all text handling in the soonto-be-released version 2.0 of the commonly used GTK+ widget toolkit.
Behavioral / Systems / Cognitive Neuronal Avalanches in Neocortical Circuits

Networks of living neurons exhibit diverse patterns of activity, including oscillations, synchrony, and waves. Recent work in physics has shown yet another mode of activity in systems composed of many nonlinear units interacting locally. For example, avalanches, earthquakes, and forest fires all propagate in systems organized into a critical state in which event sizes show no characteristic scale and are described by power laws. We hypothesized that a similar mode of activity with complex emergent properties could exist in networks of cortical neurons. We investigated this issue in mature organotypic cultures and acute slices of rat cortex by recording spontaneous local field potentials continuously using a 60 channel multielectrode array. Here, we show that propagation of spontaneous activity in cortical networks is described by equations that govern avalanches. As predicted by theory for a critical branching process, the propagation obeys a power law with an exponent of 3/2 for event sizes, with a branching parameter close to the critical value of 1. Simulations show that a branching parameter at this value optimizes information transmission in feedforward networks, while preventing runaway network excitation. Our findings suggest that “neuronal avalanches” may be a generic property of cortical networks, and represent a mode of activity that differs profoundly from oscillatory, synchronized, or wave-like network states. In the critical state, the network may satisfy the competing demands of information transmission and network stability.
Multi-agent Hierarchical System Based on ElGamal Decryption Algorithm With K+1 Access Levels

—In an Internet connected world, security represents a priority. This paper discusses a usage scenario of the ElGamal encryption algorithm with k+1 access levels, by generating a hierarchical tree from the private key algorithm. It underlines the effectiveness in data transfer between different agents as nodes in a hierarchical society. An agent-based system was implemented. This structure was generated using as starting point the algorithm underlined above. Also, the context-awareness authentication is discussed considering the fact that system should provide access to encrypted text.