Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Research Grants Council Application for Allocation from the General Research Fund for 2010 / 2011 Application Form (grf1) Part I Summary of the Research Proposal Name and Academic Affiliation of Principal Investigator: Name Post Unit/ Department/ Institution

RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL Application for Allocation from the General Research Fund for 2010 / 2011 Application Form (GRF1) [Explanatory Notes (GRF2) give detailed instructions on how to complete the application form, including responsibilities of PIs/Co-Is/institutions and implications of the information required in the form. Please read the GRF2 when filling in the application] PART I SUMMARY OF THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL [To be completed by the applicant(s)] 1. Particulars of the Project:
KIT’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation systems for IWSLT 2017

In this paper, we present KIT’s multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) systems for the IWSLT 2017 evaluation campaign machine translation (MT) and spoken language translation (SLT) tasks. For our MT task submissions, we used our multi-task system, modified from a standard attentional neural machine translation framework, instead of building 20 individual NMT systems. We investigated different architectures as well as different data corpora in training such a multilingual system. We also suggested an effective adaptation scheme for multilingual systems which brings great improvements compared to monolingual systems. For the SLT track, in addition to a monolingual neural translation system used to generate correct punctuations and true cases of the data prior to training our multilingual system, we introduced a noise model in order to make our system more robust. Results show that our novel modifications improved our systems considerably on all tasks.
Use of an Activity Monitoring System as Part of the Cal Poly Dairy Breeding Protocol

The objective of this study, is to determine the effectiveness of an activity monitoring system as an integral part of the Cal Poly Dairy breeding protocol. Dairy herd reproductive efficiencies have dropped in the past 40 years. Increased milk production, and genetic advancements towards more milk production, have led to reproductive rates declining. An advanced breeding program is needed to become more efficient in this area. The study consisted of the evaluation of one option, HeatimeTM by MICRO Dairy Logic, and comparing it to the commonly used programs in dairies today such as synchronization methods, pedometers, and other electronic detection aids. The HeatimeTM system was chosen to be installed on the Cal Poly dairy herd. Once installed it was kept up to date with current information; freshenings, pen moves, breedings, heats, and pregnancy checks. The results of this study yielded a well functioning breeding program. The system continuously monitors heats and records daily breeding lists. Charts and graphs are given to aid in determining a heat, or a possible problem cow. The cows are bred and entered in the computer to keep an up-to-date database. A pregnancy check was done to determine the reproductive efficiency over the first month of operation of the system. The result was a pregnancy rate of 9.62%. In conclusion, the data was not enough to make a determination of effectiveness, due to time constraints and due dates, and needs continued study to further evaluate. It did yield a smoothly running new breeding program which will be a springboard for countless other studies and further evaluation.
IMAGE-BASED STEREO VISUAL SERVOING: 2D VS 3D FEATURES

Abstract This paper presents a visual servoing approach based on stereo vision. The pair of cameras is mounted on the end-effector of the manipulator arm. Theoretical developments are presented using either raw pixel coordinates, or 3D coordinates estimated from image features. No geometrical model is needed. The experimental setup is challenging: large rotations are involved, images are noisy, and cameras are coarsely calibrated. In this setup, the trajectory of the end-effector differs notably, sometimes leading the arm near its joint range limits. Experimental results demonstrate that using pixel coordinates is disadvantageous, compared with 3D coordinates estimated from the same pixel data.
EX DIFFERENCES IN THE STEREOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF THE IPPOCAMPAL DENTATE GYRUS OF THE GUINEA-PIG BEFORE UBERTY

bstract—Studies in rats and mice have shown several sexependent functional and structural differences in the hipocampal region, a brain structure playing a key role in learnng and memory. The aim of the present study was to estabish whether sex differences exist prior to puberty in the tereological parameters of the dentate gyrus in the guineaig, a long-gestation rodent, whose brain is at a more adanced stage of maturation at birth than the rat and mouse. he number of granule cells and volumes of the granule cell ayer, molecular layer and hilus were evaluated in Nissltained brains of neonatal (15–16 days old) and peripubesent (45–46 days old) guinea-pigs. Based on a pilot study, the ptical disector method was preferred to the optical fracionator method to estimate cell number. For volume (Vref) stimation with the Cavalieri principle, contour tracing was referred to the point counting method, as the latter appeared o underestimate volumes. The results showed that neonatal ales had more granule cells than females in both the dorsal nd ventral dentate gyrus and a larger volume in all layers. eripubescent males had a larger volume of the granule cell ayer than females in both the dorsal and ventral dentate yrus, more granule cells in the ventral dentate gyrus, a arger volume of the hilus in both the dorsal and ventral entate gyrus and a larger volume of the molecular layer in he ventral dentate gyrus. The results show that sex differnces are present in the guinea-pig dentate gyrus prior to uberty and go in the same direction at both investigated ges, with males exhibiting more granule cells and larger olumes than females. The widespread distribution of these ex differences suggests that in the guinea-pig, similarly to ther rodents, hippocampus-dependent functions may be exually dimorphic. © 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd on ehalf of IBRO.
Parametric study of operating and geometry characteristics effect on heat transfer in annular finned tube heat exchanger

A three-dimensional numerical analysis of laminar heat transfer and fluid flow in an annular finned tube heat exchanger has been performed. The numerical procedure has been validated by comparison with published numerical and experimental results and good agreement has been observed. A series of numerical calculations have been carried out in order to analyse the influence of various operating and geometric characteristics on the velocity and temperature fields as well as on the average heat transfer coefficients and specific heat fluxes within a heat exchanger.
1. THE HISTORY OF ERGOT

Years ago a review on ergot alkaloids (EA) appeared with the title: “The biosynthesis of ergot alkaloids; the story of the unexpected” (Floss, 1980). I don’t believe that any other title could be more appropriate since the entire history of EA research, from the discovery of ergotamine almost a century ago until the present, has truly been the history of the unexpected. The beginning of modern ergot alkaloid research dates back to 1918 when A.Stoll isolated in crystalline form ergotamine (Stoll, 1945), an alkaloid present in the sclerotia of the Claviceps purpurea fungus and patented it. In 1917 the Sandoz pharmaceutical company of Basel granted Stoll, then a young Swiss chemist and student of R.Willstaetter, already distinguished in the field of natural products, the responsibility of setting up a laboratory and developing new drug research (Stoll, 1965). Stoll proposed the goal of isolating the oxytocic active principle present in Claviceps sclerotia, universally used in post partum hemorrhages and now known as ergometrine. He hoped to do exactly as Sertumer had done a century earlier in isolating the active principle morphine from opium. Unfortunately, unlike morphine, ergometrine was not easily extractable with solvents due to its tendency to remain in the aqueous phase and, above all, because it was present in scarce quantities in the mixture of alkaloids produced by the Claviceps sclerotia: often one tenth in comparison with the production of ergotamine (Hofmann, 1964). This explains how Stoll ended up finding ergotamine, the major and the most lipophilic alkaloid in the extracted mixture, while looking for ergometrine. Nevertheless, ergotamine was used for some time as an oxytocic drug but with poor results. In fact, the crude drug (ground sclerotia) was used for many years in spite of serious dosage problems. Stoll was credited with being able to isolate in the pure state the first alkaloid of a series of almost one hundred products the majority of which were present in traces in the sclerotia collected in the Black Forest region. Stoll isolated from the mother liquor of ergotamine, also ergotaminine, a more liposoluble alkaloid of the same elementary composition as ergotamine, but which was dextrorotatory. At the beginning of research on EA scientists had the following means for characterizing a product: elemental analysis, melting point, characteristic chromatic reactions and measurement of optical rotation. Elemental analyses
Desenvolvimento de um Ambiente para Simulação de Robótica Móvel em Áreas Florestais

Resumo. O objetivo deste artigo e detalhar o projeto e o desenvolvimento de um ambiente de simulacao que representa uma area florestal e que tem a finalidade de suportar a operacao de um sistema multi-robotico fisicamente simulado 1 . Este sistema tem por meta ser aplicado no processo de automatizacao da identificacao e combate de incendios em areas florestais. O ambiente suporta uma serie de caracteristicas fundamentais para a simulacao realistica da operacao, como terrenos irregulares, processos naturais e restricoes fisicas na criacao e no uso dos robos moveis. Os primeiros resultados demonstraram que este ambiente de simulacao pode vir a ter um papel muito importante no planejamento e execucao de operacoes reais de robotica movel em areas florestais.
Playing with truth

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怪兽来袭!NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980Ti正式发布

显卡升级一代代，一代更比一代强。 遥想当年一款GTX 980、GTX 780都让玩家侧目，高呼土豪，现在随着大量新的游戏大作——诸如《侠盗猎车手5》、《巫师3》等纷纷上市，老型号显卡简直无法流畅的玩耍啊!
FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SPURT USING TRANSGENIC MOUSE MODEL

The respiratory tract is the target of multiple infectious agents. Because the lungs are continually exposed to infectious pathogens in inspired air, natural defense mechanisms have devolved to prevent infection. These defense mechanisms coordinate with each other to provide efficient protection against infection. As a result, pulmonary infections can be viewed not just as a consequence of exposure to a virulent pathogen but as a result of a breakdown of natural host defenses. SPLUNC1 or SPURT (secretory protein in upper respiratory tracts) is small, secreted protein that is expressed in epithelial areas of the nose, mouth, pharynx and lungs. It may be involved in host defense because it is highly homologous to bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI); a protein that mediates LPS related bacteria killing.In this study, we established a constitutively overexpress CCSP-spurt transgenic mouse model to examine the biological function of spurt. We compared mRNA expression of CCSP-spurt in transgenic mice and their transgenic negative litermates. We determined that mRNA expression of CCSP-spurt was elevated in transgenic mice. The tissue distribution of overexpressed spurt in CCSP-spurt mice was confirmed to be only at trachea and lung and exist in no other tissues. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from unchallenged CCSP-spurt mice had higher spurt concentration as was determined by ELISA and western blot. BAL from unchallenged CCSP-spurt mice also exhibited antibacterial activity. Furthermore, CCSP-spurt mice display enhanced bacterial clearance than wild-type mice after both groups of mice were challenged with aerosolized gram negative microorganisms Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PAO1) infection. BAL of CCSP-spurt mice had lower levels of proinflammatory cytokines than BAL of their wild-type littermates after the challenge with aerosolized P. aeruginosa.Results from our studies suggest that spurt is a novel BPI-like antibacterial protein that may play a critical role in airway specific innate immunity. Further studies of this protein might have potential public health significance in providing better understanding of natural defense processes in respiratory tract.
THE ROLE OF FAMILIAL TRUST IN THE LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE

Drawing on the study of micro and small family businesses in a transition economy, this research explores the effects of trust transferred from the family to the business system. Specifically, it examines how the leader’s interpersonal trust in the member affects the quality of the leader-member exchange (LMX) in familial dyads. The results reveal that interpersonal trust has a positive effect on LMX and the degree of this association depends on the leader’s orientation. This relationship is strengthened by the leader’s orientation, however, only in the case when the orientation is family-centric. The moderating effect is not statistically significant when the leader adopts business-centric orientation.
Content Analysis For Online MultiMedia

Content sharing has been the key ingredient of the biggest success stories in the last decade. Social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, video sharing services like YouTube, Ecommerce websites like Amazon and online travel agencies like TripAdviser and Expedia are all examples of online platforms that provide a convenient way for their users to exchange content, goods or services. It is obvious that the success of such online platforms depends on how effectively they link the end users to relevant content. This latter cannot be achieved without proper content classification and user feedback analysis. This motivated us to apply machine learning techniques to automate the process of user feedback analysis and content classification. We work with a real sample dataset taken from YouTube [10]. Nevertheless, same techniques can be applied to any other database with similar structure like Yelp and Netflix. In Section 3, we discuss our approach to data labeling and feature extraction. In Section 4, we review our approach to sentiment and category classification of YouTube comments. Results of the experiments for different classification techniques are compared with each other in Section 5. Also, calibration curves are presented and effect of dimensionality reduction on accuracy is examined. Section 6 concludes the report.
A PROXIMAL BUNDLE METHOD FOR NONCONVEX FUNCTIONS WITH INEXACT ORACLES

For a class of nonconvex nonsmooth functions, we consider the problem of computing an approximate critical point, in the case of inexact oracles. The latter means that only an inexact function value and an inexact subgradient are available, at any given point. We assume that the errors in function and subgradient evaluations are merely bounded, and in principle need not vanish in the limit. We examine the redistributed proximal bundle approach in this setting, and show that reasonable convergence properties are obtained. We further consider a battery of difficult nonsmooth nonconvex problems, made even more difficult by introducing noise in the oracle output. We verify that very satisfactory outcomes are obtained in our computational implementation of the inexact algorithm.
Renewal proposal for XSEDE computing time

1 Abstract The general objective of the proposed research is to use ab initio techniques to develop a fundamental understanding of the relationship between the atomic and electronic structure of nanostructured materials and their functional properties. Our research will both expand upon the work performed in the past year using XSEDE resources and embark on the study of important new systems. In particular, we will focus on phenomena in electronically correlated transition metal oxides, controlling surface chemistry on ferroelectric transition metal oxides, ferroelectric/semiconductor interfaces, elastooptic properties of semiconductors, electronic excitations in oxide materials, twodimensional topological insulators, and benchmarking of metal organic framework materials for hydrogen storage. This research is funded by NSF MRSEC DMR-1119826, NSF ACI-1339804, NSF DMR-0808665 (no cost extension), and Theme 1 of Functional Accelerated nano-Material Engineering (FAME).
O( √ N Ln N) Approx. for Directed K-spanner Problem

We give a O( √ n lnn)-approximation algorithm for the sparsest directed k-spanner given a directed graph G on n vertices. A k-spanner is a subgraph H of the given graph G such that the pairwise distance is approximately preserved, namely for any pair of vertices u, v ∈ V (G), we have dH(u, v) ≤ kdG(u, v). The goal is to minimize the number of edges in the k-spanner. Previously, Dinitz and Krauthgamer [10] obtained a ratio of Õ(n2/3) and Berman et. al. [4] showed a O( √ n lnn)approximation algorithm. We refined the analysis of [4] and obtained a O( √ n lnn)-approximation, giving an improvement of Θ( √ lnn).
Construction of Laser Plane Rangefinder (LPRF)

The software tool supporting a implementation of a cheap laser plane range finder (LPRF) with rotary table and its calibration is presented. We were motivated by a dual-arm robotic manipulation with soft free-form objects, e.g. a piece of garment. We need a precise surface measurement also as a reference data for the precision estimation of other depth acquiring methods as stereo vision. A laser diode with a cylindrical lens generates a light plane observed by a camera in LPRF. The distance to scene points is obtained by triangulation. As LPRF construction depends on a particular class of objects size and their geometry, the device has to be often built for a new application anew. We prepared a software tool in Python, intended for the public domain, which aids and simplifies the calibration and precision evaluation for such new LPRF constructions. The thesis describes the functionality, calibration procedure, precision evaluation methodology and the implementation. The novelty and gain for the reader are in simplicity and easy use for such a rather frequent application.
VLSI Implementation of Low Power Reconfigurable MIMO Detector

VLSI Implementation of Low Power Reconfigurable MIMO Detector. (December 2009) Rajballav Dash, B.Tech., National Institute of Technology Rourkela Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Gwan S. Choi Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems are a key technology for next generation high speed wireless communication standards like 802.11n, WiMax etc. MIMO enables spatial multiplexing to increase channel bandwidth which requires the use of multiple antennas in the receiver and transmitter side. The increase in bandwidth comes at the cost of high silicon complexity of MIMO detectors which result, due to the intricate algorithms required for the separation of these spatially multiplexed streams. Previous implementations of MIMO detector have mainly dealt with the issue of complexity reduction, latency minimization and throughput enhancement. Although, these detectors have successfully mapped algorithms to relatively simpler circuits but still, latency and throughput of these systems need further improvements to meet standard requirements. Additionally, most of these implementations don’t deal with the requirements of reconfigurability of the detector to multiple modulation schemes and different antennae configurations. This necessary requirement provides another dimension to the implementation of MIMO detector and adds to the implementation complexity.
Studies on Hypoxia VIII. Ultrastructural and Biochemical Effects of Prolonged Exposure on Rat Parotid Glands

The effect of chronic hypoxia upon the rat parotid gland is studied by electron microscopy and biochemistry. Male Sprague-Dawley rats are subjected to 88% N1 and 12% 02 at less than 2 psi pressure for 7 days. For electron microscopy, the tissues are perfusion-fixed, embedded and sectioned in a routine manner. In the biochemical studies, rats are injected with ‘H-phenylalanine (2 &i/g; s.i. + 5 Ci/mM) 60 min before sacrifice. Fresh glands are then prepared for analysis of amylase (Cibachrome-amylase substrate method), DNA (diphenylamine reaction), and total protein (Lowry method). The radioactivity in the acid precipitable and soluble fractions is determined by liquid scintillation spectrometry. The control animals are pair-fed and handled identically except that they are maintained in an ambient atmosphere. The ultrastructure of the hypoxic cells is altered in several areas. The Golgi apparatus demonstrates a decrease in organization and contains fewer transport vesicles. The rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum is broken and presents many vesicular and concentric profiles. The mitochondria have undergone several changes including swelling, clumping of intramitochondrial matrix, and fragmentation of cristase. The nucleus demonstrates a fibrillar pattern and contains a reduced amount of heterochromatin. The biochemical results indicate that, compared with controls, the hypoxic cells contain only 55% of amylase and 84% of the DNA, and thus suggest a drastic reduction of exportable protein production and an increase in cellular size, respectively. On the contrary, the incorporation of “H-phenylalanine demonstrates an increase in the amount of radioactivity in the acid precipitable fraction of the hypoxic cells. These results lead to the conclusion that hypoxic stress causes a suppression of exportable protein synthesis, but may induce other cytoplasmic protein production, reflecting the biochemical and morphologic adjustment of the cell to a recovery phase.
3D Sensing Framework for Outdoor Navigation

Although full 3D navigation and mapping is recognized as one of the most important challenges for autonomous navigation, the lack of robust sensors, providing 3D information in real time, has burdened the progress in this direction. This paper presents our ongoing work towards the deployment of a 3D sensory system for environmental sensing in outdoor environments. We first describe a 3D data acquisition architecture based on a standard 2D laser. Techniques for registering scans using a scan matching procedure and for estimating the errors are then introduced. We also present results showing the performance of the architecture in real outdoor environments, and discuss further improvements of the proposed architecture.