Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
GIS based Serial Crime Analysis using Data Mining Techniques

crimes are the problems which are mostly committed by minority of offenders. The law enforcement people are forced to find out the serial crime which is considered as complex task. In order to find out the serial crimes, one needs to investigate the large number of crimes which are unlinked with each other. These problem need to be analyzed in different ways to find out the link that exist among each crimes which happened in various locations. In the previous work, cut clustering algorithm were used to cluster the similar type of crime happened in various locations. However the existing work lacks from the number of labeled classes used for clustering which will limit the number of data points to be used. Also the cut clustering algorithm used in the existing research leads to be more complex that does not specify the characteristics of the sub graphs that are created hence it leads to the complexity of deciding a node to be added or deleted. To overcome these problems, in our work majority weighted minority over sampling technique is used to handle class imbalance problem and the dynamic cut clustering is introduced which overcomes the limitation of graph cut clustering algorithm. In this work Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) tool is used to visualize, navigate, manipulate, and analyze geographic crime datasets.
Optimum currency area theory: an approach for thinking about monetary integration

The optimum currency area (OCA) theory tries to answer an almost prohibitively difficult question: what is the optimal number of currencies to be used in one region. The difficulty of the question leads to a low operational precision of OCA theory. Therefore, we argue that the OCA theory is a framework for discussion about monetary integration. We summarize theoretical issues from the classical contributions to the OCA literature in the 1960s to the modern “endogenous view”. A short survey of empirical studies on the OCA theory in the connection with the EMU and the Czech Republic is presented. Finally, we calculate OCA-indexes for the Czech Republic, EU, Germany and Portugal. The index predicts exchange rates variability from the view of traditional OCA criteria and asseses benefit-cost ratio of implementing common currency for a pair of the countries. We compare the structural similarity of the Czech Republic and Portugal to the German economy and find that the Czech economy is closer. The results are reversed when the EU economy is considered as a benchmark country.
Calculation of times to exhaustion at 100 and 120% maximal aerobic speed

The aim was to compare physiologic responses during exhaustive runs performed on a treadmill at 100. and 120% maximal aerobic speed (MAS: the minimum speed that elicits VO2max). Fourteen subelite male runners (mean±SD; age=27±5 years; VO2max=68.9±4.6 ml.kg- 1.min- 1; MAS=21.5±1km.h-1) participated. Mean time to exhaustion (t lim100%) at 100% MAS (269±77s) was similar to those reported in other studies. However, there was large variability in individual t lim100% MAS (CV=29%). MAS was positively. lim100% correlated with VO (r=0.66, p<0.05) but not with t lim MAS (r=-0.50, p<0.05). t lim MAS was correlated with t at 120% MAS(r=0.52, p<0.05) and to blood pH following the rest at 120% MAS (r=-0.68, p<0.05). The data suggest that running time to exhaustion at MAS in subelite male runners is related to time limit at 120% (t lim) MAS. Moreover, anaerobic capacity determined by the exercise to exhaustion at 120% MAS can be defined as the variable ‘a’ in the model of Monod and Scherrer (1954).
The stochastic Gross?Pitaevskii equation: II

We show how to adapt the ideas of local energy and momentum conservation in order to derive modifications to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which can be used phenomenologically to describe irreversible effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Our approach involves the derivation of a simplified quantum kinetic theory, in which all processes are treated locally. It is shown that this kinetic theory can then be transformed into a number of phase-space representations, of which the Wigner function description, although approximate, is shown to be the most advantageous. In this description, the quantum kinetic master equation takes the form of a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with noise and damping added according to a well defined prescription - an equation we call the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation. From this, a very simplified description we call the phenomenological growth equation can be derived. We use this equation to study? (i) the nucleation and growth of vortex lattices, and? (ii) nonlinear losses in a hydrogen condensate, which it is shown can lead to a curious instability phenomenon.
Decoupling of TX and RX antennas in a full-duplex mobile terminal

In this paper, a Full-duplex (FD) antenna system is presented with a high isolation between the TX and RX antennas. The isolation method is based on utilizing balanced antennas to localize the current on the ground plane and single mode excitation of the ground plane with capacitive coupling elements. The simulation results show a promising isolation level of 75 dB. User impact investigation on the antenna isolation, antenna matching and efficiency is presented. The isolation level varies from 60 dB to 30 dB in the worst user scenarios. The proposed antenna system can be used in a MISO/SIMO FD system.
iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis of the anti-apoptotic effect of hyperin, which is mediated by Mcl-1 and Bid, in H2O2-injured EA.hy926 cells.

Endothelial injury has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many cardiovascular diseases, including thrombotic disorders. Hyperin (quercetin-3-O-galactoside), a flavonoid compound and major bioactive component of the medicinal herb Apocynum venetum L. , is commonly used to prevent endothelium dysfunction. However, its mode of action remains unclear. To the best of our knowledge, we have for the first time investigated the protective effect hyperin exerts against H2O2-induced injury in human endothelium-derived EA.hy926 cells using isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ)‑based quantitative proteomic analysis. The results showed that H2O2 exposure induced alterations in the expression of 250 proteins in the cells. We noted that the expression of 52 proteins associated with processes such as cell apoptosis, cell cycle and cytoskeleton organization, was restored by hyperin treatment. Of the proteins differentially regulated following H2O2 stress, the anti-apoptotic protein, myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl-1), and the pro-apoptotic protein, BH3-interacting domain death agonist (Bid), exhibited marked changes in expression. Hyperin increased Mcl-1 expression and decreased that of Bid in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, flow cytometric analysis and western blot analysis of the apoptosis-related proteins, truncated BID (tBid), cleaved caspase-3, cleaved caspase-9, Fas, FasL and caspase-8, demonstrated that the rate of apoptosis and the pro-apoptotic protein levels were decreased by hyperin pre‑treatment. In the present study we demonstrate that hyperin effectively prevents H2O2‑induced cell injury by regulating the Mcl‑1‑ and Bid-mediated anti‑apoptotic mechanism, suggesting that hyperin is a potential candidate for use in the treatment of thrombotic diseases.
Characterization of the potential use of Salix nigra and Populus balsamifera for the phytoremediation of 1,4-dioxane

ii Acknowledgements iv List of Figures vii List of Tables viii Chapter 1 General Introduction and Literature Review 1 1.1 Principles of Phytoremediation 1 1.1.1 Contaminant Uptake 3 1.1.2 Phytovolatilization 5 1.1.3 Phytocontainment 6 1.1.4 Phytodegradation 7 1.2 Contaminants of Interest 8 1.2.1 1,4-Dioxane 8 1.2.2 Ethylene Glycol 10 1.2.3 Methyl tert-Butyl Ether 11 1.3 Study Species 12 1.4 Research Objectives 13 Chapter 2 Materials and Methods 15 2.1 Field Studies 15 2.1.1 Field Site Characteristics 15 2.1.2 Tree Growth and Survival 15 2.1.3 Weather characteristics 17 2.1.4 Evapotranspiration rate determination 17 2.1. 5 Dioxane determination 18 2.2 Lab Studies 21 2.2.1 Stock Plant Maintenance 21 2.2.2 Plant preparation 21 2.2.3 Dioxane studies 22 2.2. 4 MTBE studies 24 2.3 Statistical Analyses 25 Chapter 3 Results 26
Fractal Geometry of Nature

". a blend of erudition (fascinating and sometimes obscure historical minutiae abound), popularization (mathematical rigor is relegated to appendices) and exposition (the reader need have little knowledge of the fields involved) . and the illustrations include many superb examples of computer graphics that are works of art in their own right. " Nature
Legacies of Violence

Civil wars have a tendency to spread across borders. In several instances of conflict diffusion, however, conflicts spread well after their cessation at home. Whereas existing diffusion research has not attached much importance to this observation, I argue that these conflicts are instances of a broader pattern of postconflict diffusion. Wars are particularly prone to spread after termination because the end of fighting generates a surplus of weapons, combatants, and rebel leaders whose fortunes are tied to the continuation of violence. Some of these resources circulate throughout the region via the small arms trade and through transnational rebel networks, making this a time at which it should be easier for nonstate groups in the neighborhood to build a capable rebel army. The results from two complementary statistical tests on global conflict data provide strong support for such a postconflict diffusion effect.
Effects of RNA polymerase modifications on transcription‐induced negative supercoiling and associated R‐loop formation

Transcription in the absence of topoisomerase I, but in the presence of DNA gyrase, can result in the formation of hypernegatively supercoiled DNA and associated R‐loops. In this paper, we have used several strategies to study the effects of elongation/termination properties of RNA polymerase on such transcription‐induced supercoiling. Effects on R‐loop formation were exacerbated when cells were exposed to translation inhibitors, a condition that stimulated the accumulation of R‐loop‐dependent hypernegative supercoiling. Translation inhibitors were not acting by decreasing (p)ppGpp levels as the absence of (p)ppGpp in spoT relA mutant strains had little effect on hypernegative supercoiling. However, an rpoB mutation leading to the accumulation of truncated RNAs considerably reduced R‐loop‐dependent hypernegative supercoiling. Transcription of an rrnB fragment preceded by a mutated and inactive boxA sequence to abolish the rrnB antitermination system also considerably reduced R‐loop‐dependent supercoiling. Taken together, our results indicate that RNA polymerase elongation/termination properties can have a major impact on R‐loop‐dependent supercoiling. We discuss different possibilities by which RNA polymerase directly or indirectly participates in R‐loop formation in Escherichia coli. Finally, our results also indicate that what determines the steady‐state level of hypernegatively supercoiled DNA in topA null mutants is likely to be complex and involves a multitude of factors, including the status of RNA polymerase, transcription–translation coupling, the cellular level of RNase HI, the status of DNA gyrase and the rate of relaxation of supercoiled DNA.
The treatment of personality disorder in Jamaica with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy.

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical outcome of patients with personality disorder, receiving treatment with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy (PBP). METHOD Patients seen in the author's private practice from 1974-2010 with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR) personality disorder diagnosis were treated with PBP. Demographic, clinical responses and one-year clinical outcome measures were disaggregated and analysed, using SPSS, version 17. RESULTS One hundred patients completed treatment with PBP, male:female 34:64; mean age of 35.86 ± 10.28 (range 16 - 66) years. Forty-five per cent were married, 73% were of predominantly African racial origin, with 59% from socio-economic class (SEC) I and 39% from SEC II and III. The presenting complaints were interpersonal conflict (35%), anxiety (21%) and depressed mood (20%). Major depression (30%), substance abuse disorder (18%) and generalized anxiety disorder (13%) were the most common Axis I diagnoses. Histrionic personality disorder (39%) and avoidant personality disorder (35%) were the main Axis II diagnoses. Psychohistoriography was completed with all patients, and charted by 96%. Transference variants were experienced by all patients and worked through with 87%. The quadranting process was completed by 42% with goal setting instituted by 96% and actualization scoring fully completed by 34%. A continuous exercise programme was instituted by all patients, and was maintained by 56% at one-year follow-up. Ninety-four per cent reported fair (10%), good (68%) to very good/excellent (16%) improvement on completion of PBP, with 72% assessed as maintaining fair to good clinical improvement by the therapist at one-year follow-up. CONCLUSION Patients with personality disorders showed clinical improvement one year after being treated with psychohistoriographic brief psychotherapy.
Maximum Entropy Based Bengali Part of Speech Tagging

Part of Speech (POS) tagging can be described as a task of doing automatic annotation of syntactic categories for each word in a text document. This paper presents a POS tagger for Bengali using the statistical Maximum Entropy (ME) model. The system makes use of the dierent contextual information of the words along with the variety of features that are helpful in predicting the various POS classes. The POS tagger has been trained with a training corpus of 72, 341 word forms and it uses a tagset 1 of 26 dierent POS tags, dened for the Indian languages. A part of this corpus has been selected as the development set in order to nd out the best set of features for POS tagging in Ben- gali. The POS tagger has demonstrated an accuracy of 88.2% for a test set of 20K word forms. It has been experimentally veried that the lexi- con, named entity recognizer and dierent word suxes are eective in handling the unknown word problems and improve the accuracy of the POS tagger signicantly. Performance of this system has been compared with a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based POS tagger and it has been shown that the proposed ME based POS tagger outperforms the HMM based tagger.
An electromagnetic energy harvester for low frequency and low-g vibrations with a modified frequency up conversion method

This paper presents a MEMS-based electromagnetic (EM) energy harvester for low frequency and low acceleration vibrations. The harvester is an improved version of [1], which operates with the frequency up conversion (FupC) principle. The former structure was composed of a low-frequency diaphragm carrying a magnet and 16 high-frequency cantilevers with coils. In this work, the phase difference between the coil outputs, leading to voltage cancellation in serial connection, has been eliminated by using a single coil placed on a diaphragm. Furthermore, the placement and the volume of the magnetic film have been modified for better magnetic coupling. The RMS values of the generated voltage and delivered power to an equivalent resistive load have been measured as 6.94 mV and 1.2 nW, respectively with 10 Hz, 3 mm peak to peak vibrations (0.6 g acceleration). About 32-fold increase in the peak power output has been demonstrated with the presented energy harvester with respect to the previous work.
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: What Does a Regression Estimate?

Regressions that control for confounding factors are the workhorse of evaluation research. When treatment effects are heterogeneous, however, the workhorse regression leads to estimated treatment effects that lack behavioral interpretations even when the selection on observables assumption holds. Regressions that use propensity scores as weights and regressions based on random coefficients or hierarchical models provide alternative estimators that have clear behavioral interpretations. Assuming selection on the observables and heterogeneous treatment effects, this article (a) shows what is identified as the treatment effect in the workhorse model, (b) shows what is identified as the treatment effect by propensity score models and models based on random coefficients/ hierarchical models, and (c) provides advice for evaluators.
Adolescents seeking weight management: Who is putting their hand up and what are they looking for?

We describe the characteristics of adolescents seeking treatment for obesity via the ‘Eat Smart’ feasibility study; an intensive 12 week dietitian‐led weight management programme with an emphasis on lifestyle change. It was designed to test the feasibility of a structured low‐fat diet compared with a semi‐structured reduced carbohydrate plan compared with a model of ‘standard care’– an unstructured low fat approach. When compared with non‐participants, participants were predominantly female and lived in lower socioeconomic areas. When given the choice of dietary approach, 50% elected reduced dietary carbohydrate, 43% structured low fat and 7% chose ‘standard care’. Modest weight loss was achieved over 12 weeks, with both the structured low fat and reduced carbohydrate formats. Families showed a strong preference for structured eating plans, in particular seeking assistance with correct portion size. The current standard model of unstructured advice was both unpopular and relatively unsuccessful.
The hepatitis C epidemic among HIV-positive MSM: incidence estimates from 1990 to 2007

Background:Outbreaks of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among HIV-infected MSM have been described since 2000. However, phylogenetic analysis suggests that the spread of HCV started around 1996. We estimated the incidence of HCV in HIV-infected MSM with well estimated dates of HIV seroconversion from 1990 to 2007. Methods:Data from 12 cohorts within the Concerted Action on SeroConversion to AIDS and Death in Europe (CASCADE) Collaboration were used. HCV incidence was estimated using standard incidence methods and methods for interval-censored data. We accounted for the fact that routine HCV data collection in each cohort started in different calendar years. Results:Of 4724 MSM, 3014 had an HCV test result and were included. Of these, 124 (4%) had only positive HCV test results, 2798 (93%) had only negative results and 92 (3%) had both. In 1990, HCV incidence ranged from 0.9 to 2.2 per 1000 person-years, depending on the analysis strategy used. HCV incidence increased up to 1995 when it was estimated to range between 5.5 and 8.1 per 1000 person-years. From 2002 onwards, it increased substantially to values between 16.8 and 30.0 per 1000 person-years in 2005 and between 23.4 and 51.1 per 1000 person-years in 2007. Conclusion:Our data support phylodynamic findings that HCV incidence had already increased among HIV-infected MSM from the mid-1990s. However, the main expansion of the HCV epidemic started after 2002. Incidence estimates obtained from cohort studies may help identify changes in the spread of important infections earlier and should guide routine testing policies to minimize further disease burden.
CE: Appropriate Use of Opioids in Managing Chronic Pain

&NA;Over the past two decades, the use of opioids to manage chronic pain has increased substantially, primarily in response to the recognized functional, emotional, and financial burden associated with chronic pain. Within this same period, unintentional death related to prescription opioids has been identified as a public health crisis, owing in part to such factors as insufficient professional training and medication overprescription, misuse, and diversion. The authors discuss current best practices for prescribing opioids for chronic pain, emphasizing patient assessment and essential patient teaching points regarding safe medication use, storage, and disposal.
Impact of personality factors on interface interaction and the development of user profiles: Next steps in the personal equation of interaction

These current comparative studies explore the impact of individual differences in personality factors on interface interaction and learning performance behaviors in both an interactive visualization and a menu-driven web table in two studies. Participants were administered three psychometric measures designed to assess Locus of Control, Big Five Extraversion, and Big Five Neuroticism. Participants were then asked to complete procedural learning tasks in each interface. Results demonstrated that all three measures predicted completion times. Additionally, analyses demonstrated that personality factors also predicted the number of insights participants reported while completing the tasks in each interface. Furthermore, we used the psychometric findings in conjunction with a follow-up psychometric survey with a further 50 participants to build initial user profiles based on the cognitive task being undertaken. We discuss how these findings advance our ongoing research in the Personal Equation of Interaction.
Simulation of internal waves in the western Bay of Bengal using MITGCM: A case study

MITgem model is adopted probably first time for the western shelf region of the Bay of Bengal to model internal waves. Monthly climatological wind and density fields are considered in the model with real-time tides to generate internal waves in the region. The model simulations are compared with the actual observations available during 19-21 February 2012. Time series temperature data is collected at two locations off Gopalpur and is used to study internal wave characteristics. Thermal oscillations and energy spectra are studied and compared at the observed locations. It is found that internal waves of semi-diurnal nature are predominant over this region.
SCREENING FOR FETAL RISK WITH URINARY OESTROGEN: CREATININE RATIO AT 34 WEEKS

The urinary oestrogen :creatinine (O/C) ratio was measured in first morning specimens of 261 women at 34 weeks gestation to assess prospectively its potential in predicting fetal complications. Forty‐two patients (16.1 per cent) had low O/C ratios. All three stillbirths in the series occurred in this group and the incidences of fetal growth retardation and fetal distress in labour were also significantly increased. These complications were unusual when the O/C ratio was high. The O/C ratio at 34 weeks reflected fetal well‐being more accurately than clinical examination or blood pressure measurement. The mean O/C ratios of cigarette smokers and non‐smokers were similar, although smokers were delivered of lighter babies. Measurement of the urinary O/C ratio is simple and inexpensive. Used as a screening test at 34 weeks it appears to provide an early and fairly reliable indication of reduced placental function.
Age at menopause and childbearing patterns in relation to mortality.

Several studies have reported increased mortality risk with early natural menopause. More recently, mortality risk was reported to be reduced among women who gave birth at age > or =40 years. The association between reproductive history and mortality was explored among 826 women in a prospective study involving 18,959 person-years of follow-up (from age 50 to 1990-1991) and 108 deaths. After adjustment for age and other covariates, the risk ratio among parous women was 1.53 (95% confidence interval: 0.58, 4.07) for natural menopause at age < or =45 years compared with > or =51 years. In contrast to a previous report, however, the highest estimated mortality risk was seen among women who gave birth in their forties (adjusted risk ratio = 2.14, 95% confidence interval: 1.05, 4.38) compared with having a last birth at ages 30-34 years.