Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Credential Pattern *

Suppose we are building an instant messaging service to be used by members of a university community. Students, teachers and staff of the university may communicate with each other, while outside parties are excluded, perhaps for reasons of privacy. Members of the community may use computers on school grounds, or their own systems, so the client software is made available to the community and is installed on the computers of their choice. Any community member may use any computer with the client software installed. The client software communicates with servers run by the university in order to locate active participants and to exchange messages with them.
A genetic algorithm for tasks scheduling in parallel multiprocessor systems

The tasks scheduling problem is a key factor for a parallel multiprocessor system to gain better performance. Because a task can be partitioned into a group of subtasks and represented as a DAG (directed acyclic graph), so the problem can be stated as finding a schedule for a DAG to be executed in a parallel multiprocessor system so that the schedule length can be minimized. The tasks scheduling problem is NP-hard in general, except in a few simplified situations. In order to obtain optimal or suboptimal solutions, a large number of scheduling heuristics have been presented in the literature. The most studied heuristics are based on list heuristic. Recently, genetic algorithm has received much attention as a class of heuristic. This paper presents a new genetic algorithm called TEOL (task execution order list based genetic algorithm) to solve the scheduling problem in parallel multiprocessor systems. It guarantees that all feasible schedules can be reached with some probability, and because the TEOL is based on the restrain of predecessor relationship of the DAG only, so other heuristics can be combined into it to improve the performance. Simulation results comparing with two genetic algorithms and a list algorithm, both from the literature, show that TEOL produces encouraging results in terms of quality of solution and execution speed.
Face Detection using Image Morphology - A Review

This paper presents an approach by various Algorithms stage by stage for Face Detection. It first detects the face portion, removing all other portion from an image. First it will remove the background and then the body or cloths portion of the image. To achieve this we propose an algorithm based on K-Mean clustering, Bresenham’s algorithm, Graham Scan Algorithm. With the help of image morphology, algorithm will detect the skin texture of the face. Image opening and closing will help to get the skin texture. Using a nose template algorithm will find the nose tip by template matching method. Feature vectors are calculated with respect to the nose tip as the origin of 8 octants. Image moment provides a measure for variation in the skin. This total process is done by the feature extraction algorithm.
Enzymatic Methyl-seq: The Next Generation of Methylome Analysis

by Louise Williams, Ph.D., Yanxia Bei, Ph.D., Heidi E. Church, Nan Dai, Ph.D., Eileen T. Dimalanta, Ph.D., Laurence M. Ettwiller, Ph.D., Thomas C. Evans, Jr., Ph.D., Bradley W. Langhorst, Ph.D., Janine G. Borgaro, Ph.D., Shengxi Guan, Ph.D., Katherine Marks, Julie F. Menin, Nicole M. Nichols, Ph.D., V. K. Chaithanya Ponnaluri, Ph.D., Lana Saleh, Ph.D., Mala Samaranayake, Ph.D., Brittany S. Sexton, Ph.D, Zhiyi Sun, Ph.D., Esta Tamanaha, Ph.D., Romualdas Vaisvila, Ph.D., Erbay Yigit, Ph.D. and Theodore B. Davis, New England Biolabs, Inc.
A Novel Approach To Personalized Privacy Web Search

Personalized web search (PWS) has demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the quality of various search services on the Internet. However, evidences show that users’ reluctance to disclose their private information during search has become a major barrier for the wide proliferation of PWS.We study privacy protection in PWS applications that model user preferences as hierarchical user profiles. We propose a PWS framework called UPS that can adaptively generalize profiles by queries while respecting user-specified privacy requirements. Our runtime generalization aims at striking a balance between two predictive metrics that evaluate the utility of personalization and the privacy risk of exposing the generalized profile. We present two greedy algorithms, namely Greedy DP and Greedy IL, for runtime generalization. We also provide an online prediction mechanism for deciding whether personalizing a query is benefcial. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectieness of our framework. The experimental results also reveal that GreedyIL significantly outperforms GreedyDP in terms of efficiency.
School of Computing 2010-0501 Dealing with Activities with Diffuse Boundaries

Activity recognition has mainly focused to date on identifying repetitious and/or clearly delineated events. Our experience, drawing on many years’ research in smart and sensorised systems, leads us to observe that many (if not most) interesting activities fall into a different category: sporadically occurring and poorly differentiated from other concurrent activities. This implies that decision-making remains uncertain across the entire system, and suggests that progress would be greatly supported by standard evaluation methodologies and data sets.
Landline and Cell Phone Usage Patterns in a Large Urban Setting : Results from the 2008 New York City Community Health Survey

Much of the research on cell phone surveys uses national data, although urban patterns are known to differ from other areas. The 2008 NYC Community Health Survey -a telephone survey of 7554 adults from landline sample, plus a pilot survey of 1416 adults from cell phone sample -provides estimates of several aspects of urban cell phone use. We find considerable differences among dual users by sample source (landline, cell phone) and by cell telephone use ("landline-mostly" vs. "cell-mostly"), although dual frame telephone surveys often consider these equivalent. We also provide estimates of cell phone sharing, multiple-cell phone users, calling plans, service interruption, and intention to go "cell only" in NYC. Implications for the design, conduct, and weighting of dual frame surveys, particularly in urban areas, are discussed.
Improving RTT Fairness on CUBIC TCP of Multiple Connections

TCPは現在のインターネットにおいて標準的に用いられているトランスポート層のプロトコルである. 高遅延環境 下での通信性能には,OSの TCP実装の動作が大きな影響を与える. 多くの OSに実装されてきた古典的な TCPアル ゴリズムである TCP Renoではネットワーク帯域を十分に使い切ることができないという問題が指摘されている. そ のため,Linux OSには高遅延環境でも高い性能を提供できる CUBIC TCPが実装されている. 本研究では,CUBIC TCPの輻輳ウィンドウ回復時間に着目し,RTTが異なる環境における CUBIC TCPコネクショ ン間の公平性の評価を行い,その課題を示す. そして,RTTにより K (CUBIC TCP における輻輳ウィンドウ回復時間) を調整し RTT公平性を改善する手法を紹介し,複数コネクション環境における本手法の評価結果を示す. そして多コ ネクション環境にて十分な公平性を実現できないことを示し,その理由と改善手法に関する考察を示す.
Electricity Load Modeling in Frequency Domain

In today’s highly competitive and deregulated electricity market, companies in the generation, transmission and distribution sectors can all benefit from collecting, analyzing and deep-understanding their customers’ load profiles. This strategic information is vital in load forecasting, demand-side management planning and longterm resource and capital planning. With the proliferation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) in recent years, the amount of load profile data collected by utilities has grown exponentially. Such high-resolution datasets are difficult to model and analyze due to the large size, diverse usage patterns, and the embedded noisy or erroneous data points. In order to overcome these challenges and to make the load data useful in system analysis, this dissertation introduces a frequency domain load profile modeling framework. This framework can be used a complementary technology alongside of the conventional time domain load profile modeling techniques. There are three main components in this framework: I) the frequency domain load profile descriptor, which is a compact, modular and extendable representation of the original load profile. A methodology was introduced to demonstrate the construction of the frequency domain load profile descriptor. II) The load profile Characteristic Electricity Load Modeling in Frequency Domain Attributes in the Frequency Domain (CAFD). Which is developed for load profile characterization and classification. III) The frequency domain load profile statistics and forecasting models. Two different models were introduced in this dissertation: the first one is the wavelet load forecast model and the other one is a stochastic model that incorporates local weather condition and frequency domain load profile statistics to perform medium term load profile forecast. 7 different utilities load profile data were used in this research to demonstrate the viability of modeling load in the frequency domain. The data comes from various customer classes and geographical regions. The results have shown that the proposed framework is capable to model the load efficiently and accurately.
Recent advances in the search of BCRP- and dual P-gp/BCRP-based multidrug resistance modulators

The development of multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the major challenges to the success of chemotherapy treatment of cancer. This phenomenon is often associated with the overexpression of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters P-gp (P-glycoprotein, ABCB1), multidrug resistance-associated protein 1, ABCC1 and breast cancer resistance protein, ABCG2 (BCRP). These transporters are constitutively expressed in many tissues playing relevant protective roles by the regulation of the permeability of biological membranes, but they are also overexpressed in malignant tissues. P-gp is the first efflux transporter discovered to be involved in cancer drug resistance, and over the years, inhibitors of this pump have been disclosed to administer them in combination with chemotherapeutic agents. Three generations of inhibitors of P-gp have been examined in preclinical and clinical studies; however, these trials have largely failed to demonstrate that coadministration of pump inhibitors elicits an improvement in therapeutic efficacy of antitumor agents, although some of the latest compounds show better results. Therefore, new and innovative strategies, such as the fallback to natural products and the discover of dual activity ligands emerged as new perspectives. BCRP is the most recently ABC protein identified to be involved in multidrug resistance. It is overexpressed in several haematological and solid tumours together with P-gp, threatening the therapeutic effectiveness of different chemotherapeutic drugs. The chemistry of recently described BCRP inhibitors and dual P-gp/BCRP inhibitors, as well as their preliminary pharmacological evaluation are discussed, and the most recent advances concerning these kinds of MDR modulators are reviewed.
Perception of 3D spatial relations for 3D displays

We test perception of 3D spatial relations in 3D images rendered by a 3D display (Perspecta from Actuality Systems) and compare it to that of a high-resolution flat panel display. 3D images provide the observer with such depth cues as motion parallax and binocular disparity. Our 3D display is a device that renders a 3D image by displaying, in rapid succession, radial slices through the scene on a rotating screen. The image is contained in a glass globe and can be viewed from virtually any direction. In the psychophysical experiment several families of 3D objects are used as stimuli: primitive shapes (cylinders and cuboids), and complex objects (multi-story buildings, cars, and pieces of furniture). Each object has at least one plane of symmetry. On each trial an object or its “distorted” version is shown at an arbitrary orientation. The distortion is produced by stretching an object in a random direction by 40%. This distortion must eliminate the symmetry of an object. The subject's task is to decide whether or not the presented object is distorted under several viewing conditions (monocular/binocular, with/without motion parallax, and near/far). The subject's performance is measured by the discriminability d', which is a conventional dependent variable in signal detection experiments.
The 10 μ L Dispensing Tool Ensures Highly Accurate and Precise Sub-microliter Volume Pipetting on epMotion ® 5073 l

This Application Note shows the possibility to automate quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) setup involving small reaction volumes by using the epMotion® 10 μL dispensing tool. For PCR setup, a sample volume of 0.2 μL was used in a total reaction volume of 5 μL. The qPCR performances were evaluated by two sensitive qPCR assays. It was demonstrated that a low volume qPCR setup can be successfully automated on the epMotion 5073l. Excellent accuracy and reproducibility were obtained for both assays. The use of the epMotion workstation is an excellent solution to increase the consistency and efficiency of small volume dispensing by removing the human and day-today variability. In addition, researchers will save time and money by eliminating repetitive work and by reducing the use of costly reagents, respectively.
Proprioception in stress urinary incontinence: A narrative review

Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) is more common than any other chronic disease. Stress urinary incontinence (SUI), among the various forms of urinary incontinence, is the most prevalent (50%) type of this condition. Female urinary continence is maintained through an integrated function of pelvic floor muscles (PFMs), fascial structures, nerves, supporting ligaments, and the vagina. In women with SUI, the postural activity of the PFMs is delayed and the balance ability is decreased. Many women, by learning the correct timing of a pelvic floor contraction during a cough, are able to eliminate consequent SUI. Timing is an important function of motor coordination and could be affected by proprioception. This study was conducted to review and outline the literature on proprioception as a contributory factor in SUI. Methods: PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases were systematically searched from 1998 to 2017 for articles on the topic of pathophysiology, motor control alterations, and proprioception role in women with SUI. Results: A total of 6 articles addressed the importance of proprioception in motor control and its alterations in women with SUI. There were also publications on postural control, balance, and timing alterations in women with SUI in the literature. However, there was no research on measuring proprioception in the pelvic floor in this group. Conclusion: Both the strength of the PFMs and the contraction timing and proprioception are important factors in maintaining continence. Thus, conducting research on PFMs proprioception in women with SUI, as a cause of incontinence, is encouraged.
A Survey of Polyvariance in Control-Flow Analyses

Abstract interpretation is an efficient means for approximating program behaviors before run-time. It can be used as the basis for a number of different useful techniques in static analysis more broadly, and can thus in-turn be used to prove properties needed for security or optimization. Polyvariance represents a way of obtaining higher precision in an abstract interpretation by producing multiple abstract states for each function or lexical point of interest in the program. This paper explores the role of polyvariance in these analyses and how it is manifested, unifying the disparate presentations in the literature.
A New Algorithm for the Shortest Paths Computation by Neural Networks on Time-dependent Networks

Time-dependent networks are more practical or immediate significance compared with traditional networks models. There are instances to prove the famous Dijkstra's algorithm cannot be effectively used to solve the shortest path problems. A new kind of neural networks for continuously computing the shortest path on a time-dependent network is presented and the stability of the network is proved. This makes a new study on solving the optimization, but not NP-hard problems by neural networks.
School of Hospitality Management and Tourism 2006-0101 Requirements Gathering for Simulation

This paper discusses the current shortfalls in support for the pre-coding phases of a discrete event simulation project. The paper then presents a process modelling technique, Simulation Activity Diagrams (SADs), developed to specifically support the initial requirements gathering phases of a simulation project. The paper concludes with an outline of proposed future developments to the modelling technique.
C V ] 1 A ug 2 01 6 Incremental Noising and its Fractal Behavior

This manuscript is about further elucidating the concept of noising. The concept of noising first appeared in [1], in the context of curvature estimation and vertex localization on planar shapes. There are indications that noising can play for global methods the role smoothing plays for local methods in this task. This manuscript is about investigating this claim by extending noising to incremental noising, in a recursive deterministic manner, analogous to how smoothing is extended to progressive smoothing in similar tasks. As investigating the properties and behavior of incremental noising is the purpose of this manuscript, a surprising connection between incremental noising and progressive smoothing is revealed by the experiments. To explain this phenomenon, the fractal and the space filling properties of the two methods respectively, are considered in a unifying context.
Scalability of the DVFS Power Management Technique as Applied to 3-Tier Data Center Architecture in Cloud Computing

The increase in computing capacity caused a rapid and sudden increase in the Operational Expenses (OPEX) of data centers. OPEX reduction is a big concern and a key target in modern data centers. In this study, the scalability of the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) power management technique is studied under multiple different workloads. The environment of this study is a 3-Tier data center. We conducted multiple experiments to find the impact of using DVFS on energy reduction under two scheduling techniques, namely: Round Robin and Green. We observed that the amount of energy reduction varies according to data center load. When the data center load increases, the energy reduction decreases. Experiments using Green scheduler showed around 83% decrease in power consumption when DVFS is enabled and DC is lightly loaded. In case the DC is fully loaded, in which case the servers’ CPUs are constantly busy with no idle time, the effect of DVFS decreases and stabilizes to less than 10%. Experiments using Round Robin scheduler showed less energy saving by DVFS, specifically, around 25% in light DC load and less than 5% in heavy DC load. In order to find the effect of task weight on energy consumption, a set of experiments were conducted through applying thin and fat tasks. A thin task has much less instructions compared to fat tasks. We observed, through the simulation, that the difference in power reduction between both types of tasks when using DVFS is less than 1%.
Interleukin 17 A rs 2275913 G > A polymorphism is associated with the decreased risk of rheumatoid arthritis : a meta-analysis involving 6 , 266 subjects

Interleukin 17A (IL17A), a member of the IL-17 family, plays a potential role in inflamed synovium of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Several epidemiological investigations have been performed to explore the relationship of IL17A rs2275913 G>A polymorphism with RA, yet the findings are conflicting and inconsistent. A literature research was performed in PubMed and Embase databases up to May 21, 2016. The association between IL17A rs2275913 G>A polymorphism and RA susceptibility was measured by using crude odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Finally, There were seven independent studies met the inclusion criteria with 3,130 RA cases and 3,136 controls. Overall, IL17A rs2275913 G>A polymorphism decreased the risk of RA in three genetic models: A vs. G (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.84-0.98; P=0.016), AA vs. GG (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.72-0.99; P=0.043) and AA+GA vs. GG (OR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.78-0.97; P=0.013). One study was not consistent with Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium. When we excluded this study, the decreased risk of RA was also found in one genetic model: (AA+GA vs. GG; OR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.76-0.97; P=0.018). In a subgroup analysis by ethnicity, a significant decreased RA susceptibility was identified among Caucasians in two genetic models: A vs. G (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.83-1.00; P=0.037) and AA+GA vs. GG (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.73-0.95; P=0.007), and among non-Caucasians in one genetic model: AA vs. GG+GA (OR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.59-0.98; P=0.033). In summary, our findings of this meta-analysis indicate that the IL17A rs2275913 G>A polymorphism may contribute to the decreased risk of RA, especially in Caucasians.
Problem Definitions for Performance Assessment of Multi-objective Optimization Algorithms

School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (KanGAL),Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, PIN 208 016, India Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland University Dortmund, Lehrstuhl fur Algorithm Engineering, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 14, 44227 Dortmund School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, M002, 35 Stirling Highway,Crawley, Western Australia, 6009
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Bengali

for the award of the degree of Master of Science has been accepted by the external examiners and that the student has successfully defended the thesis in the viva-voce examination held today. Signature Signature Signature Name Name Name (Member of the DSC) (Member of the DSC) (Member of the DSC) Signature Signature Name Name (Supervisor) (Supervisor) Signature Signature Name Name (External Examiner) (Chairman) iii DECLARATION I certify that the work contained in this thesis is original and has been done by me under the guidance of my supervisors. The work has not been submitted to any other Institute for any degree or diploma. I have followed the guidelines provided by the Institute in preparing the thesis. I have conformed to the norms and guidelines given in the Ethical Code of Conduct of the Institute. Whenever I have used materials (data, theoretical analysis, figures, and text) from other sources, I have given due credit to them by citing them in the text of the thesis and giving their details in the references. Further, I have taken permission from the copyright owners of the sources, whenever necessary. Sandipan Dandapat iv CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the thesis entitled Part-of-Speech Tagging for Bengali, submitted by Sandipan Dandapat to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is a record of bona fide research work under my (our) supervision and is worthy of consideration for the award of the degree of Master of Science of the Institute. Date: v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to express my profound sense of gratitude to my supervisors Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar and Prof. Anupam Basu, for introducing me to this research topic and providing their valuable guidance and unfailing encouragement throughout the course of the work. I am immensely grateful to them for their constant advice and support for successful completion of this work. I am very much thankful to all the faculty members, staff members and research scholars of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for their direct or indirect help in various forms during my research work. I would like to thank the co-researchers of Communication Empowerment Laboratory for providing me adequate help whenever required. Finally I express my special appreciation and acknowledgement to my parents for their constant support, cooperation and sacrifice throughout my research work. Last but not the least; I thank all my well-wishers who directly or indirectly contributed for the completion of this thesis. Abstract …