Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Strain Effect in Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructures Strain Effect in Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructures

In recent decades, extensive studies have been conducted on controlling and engineering novel functionalities in transition metal oxide (TMO) heterostructures by epitaxial strain. In this chapter, we discuss popular transition metal oxide thin films in the context of various research fields that are extensively studied in condensed matter physics. These materials include La 1.85 Sr 0.15 CuO 4 (a high temperature superconductor), SrRuO 3 (a highly conductive ferromagnetic metal), La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 (a colossal magnetoresistive ferromag- netic metal), BiFeO 3 (a multiferroic oxide), LaAlO 3 -SrTiO 3 (a conductive oxide interface), and LaNiO 3 (a strongly correlated metal). We focus on the appearance of novel functional properties from imposing epitaxial strain (compressive or tensile strain caused by the use of various lattice-mismatched substrates) on these films that cannot be observed in their bulk form. Subsequently, the intrinsic mechanisms for these novel phenomena are discussed based on experimental observations and theoretical modelling. We conclude that by using epitaxial strain, not only can thin film functionalities be tuned but many novel correlated phenomena can also be created. We believe that our collective efforts on the strain engineering of various transition metal oxide thin films will provide an insightful description of this emerging subject from a fundamental physics and nanoscale device applications
Copositive relaxation for general quadratic programming.

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Improved speeded up robust features for low contrast images

The proposed work aims at improving the feature detection in Speeded up Robust Feature (SURF) Algorithm. It has been observed that the SURF feature detector shows low feature detection in low contrast images which is caused due to the application of weighted gaussi-an at multiple scales before feature point detection. To overcome this problem an effective pre-processing technique is proposed which increases the image contrast to an optimum level enabling detection of more features by SURF Algorithm. The paper also introduces an effective optimization which clusters the feature points describing the same region proposal and concatenating these feature points into a single feature point with a new region proposal which holds minimal region in common with other feature points to reduce the redundant feature points generated due to the application of pre-processing. Finally, to obtain the feature vector of the new region proposal of the feature point, the feature vectors of the feature points belonging to the same cluster are concatenated to form an arbitrary dimensional feature vector.
Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University MobiPot: Understanding Mobile Telephony Threats with Honeycards

Over the past decade, the number of mobile phones has increased dramatically, overtaking the world population in October 2014. In developing countries like India and China, mobile subscribers outnumber traditional landline users and account for over 90% of the active population. At the same time, convergence of telephony with the Internet with technologies like VoIP makes it possible to reach a large number of telephone users at a low or no cost via voice calls or SMS (short message service) messages. As a consequence, cy-bercriminals are abusing the telephony channel to launch attacks, e.g., scams that oﬀer fraudulent services and voice-based phishing or vishing, that have previously relied on the Internet. In this paper, we introduce and deploy the ﬁrst mobile phone honeypot called MobiPot that allow us to collect fraudulent calls and SMS messages. We implement multiple ways of advertising mobile numbers (honeycards) on MobiPot to investigate how fraudsters collect phone numbers that are targeted by them. During a period of over seven months, MobiPot collected over two thousand voice calls and SMS messages, and we conﬁrmed that over half of them were unsolicited. We found that seeding honeycards enables us to discover attacks on the mobile phone numbers which were not known before.
Differences in What Happens After You Screen Positive for Depression Versus Hazardous Alcohol Use

The success of any secondary prevention effort in identifying those in need for further services depends on the primary care team following all positive screening results with additional assessment or intervention. Initial research suggests possible differences in primary care responses to positive screens for hazardous alcohol use compared to depression. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine current practices of Veterans Affairs healthcare providers following a positive screen for hazardous alcohol use or depression. Chart reviews were conducted for a random sample of 98 Veterans who screened positive for hazardous alcohol use using the Alcohol Use Disorder Identiﬁcation Test–Consumption (AUDIT-C) questions and a separate sample of 99 Veterans who screened positive for depression using the 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) over a 1-year period. Findings suggest multiple discrepancies in screening practices between the AUDIT-C and the PHQ-2. These include a higher likelihood of further depression assessment or referral after a positive PHQ-2 screen. Scores on the AUDIT-C that indicate heavier alcohol consumption were more likely to result in assessment or intervention than did lower but still positive AUDIT-C scores. Overall, these data suggest that many opportunities are missed, especially in regards to hazardous alcohol use, for prevention and intervention.
More Than Just Oligomannose: An N-glycomic Comparison of Penicillium Species* □ S

N-glycosylation is an essential set of post-translational modifications of proteins; in the case of filamentous fungi, N-glycans are present on a range of secreted and cell wall proteins. In this study, we have compared the glycans released by peptide/N-glycosidase F from proteolysed cell pellets of three Penicillium species ( P. dierckxii, P. nordicum and P. verrucosum that all belong to the Euro-tiomycetes). Although the major structures are all within the range Hex 5–11 HexNAc 2 as shown by mass spectrometry, variations in reversed-phase chromatograms and MS/MS fragmentation patterns are indicative of differences in the actual structure. Hydrofluoric acid and mannosidase treatments revealed that the oligomannosidic glycans were not only in part modified with phosphoethanolamine residues and outer chain och1 -dependent mannosylation, but that bisecting galactofuranose was present in a species-dependent manner. These data are the first to specifically show the modification of N-glycans in fungi with zwitterionic moieties. Furthermore, our results indicate that mere mass spectrometric screening is insufficient to reveal the subtly complex nature of N-gly-cosylation even within a single fungal genus. to evaporation; the samples were diluted in water and re-evaporated, before redissolving once again. Previous studies by us and others indicate that hydrofluoric acid removes phosphoesters (including phosphoethanolamine as well as methylphosphate, aminoethylphos- phonates and phosphorylcholine), galactofuranose, and (cid:2) 1,2/3-fu-cose residues (11, 15, 20–23). In general, chemically or enzymatically treated glycans were reanalyzed by MALDI-TOF MS and MS/MS without further purification, but (where noted) samples were rechro-matographed by RP-HPLC to determine the elution of the treated glycans in terms of glucose units.
Laboratory Exercise A Streamlined Western Blot Exercise: An Efficient and Greener Approach in the Laboratory Classroom w s

SDS-PAGE and western blotting are two commonly taught protein detection techniques in biochemistry and molecular biology laboratory classrooms. A pitfall associated with incorporating these techniques into the laboratory is the signiﬁcant wait times that do not allow students to obtain timely results. The waiting associated with SDS-PAGE comes from staining and destaining, whereas with western blotting it is the times required for antibody incubations and the numerous wash steps. This laboratory exercise incorporates 2,2,2-trichloroethanol (TCE) into the SDS-PAGE gel allowing for visualization of migrated proteins in a matter of minutes, saving both the time and chemical waste associated with traditional Coomassie staining. Addi-tionally, TCE staining does not affect protein transfer eliminating the requirement for duplicated gels for total protein and western analyses. Protein transfer can be conﬁrmed immediately without the use of Ponceau S staining. Lastly, this western blot procedure has been further shortened by using an HRP-conjugated primary antibody, which eliminates the secondary antibody incubation and washes, and uses a colorimetric detection to allow for visualization by students without the need for specialized equipment. V C 2015 by The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 43(5):358–365, 2015.
University Protocol for Birmingham Atrial Fibrillation Treatment of the Aged study (BAFTA): a randomised controlled trial of warfarin versus aspirin for stroke prevention in the management of atrial fibrillation in an elderly primary care population

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important independent risk factor for stroke. Randomised controlled trials have shown that this risk can be reduced substantially by treatment with warfarin or more modestly by treatment with aspirin. Existing trial data for the effectiveness of warfarin are drawn largely from studies in selected secondary care populations that under-represent the be up three months post-randomisation, six monthly after for an average of three by general will an
Inﬂuence of Three Dental Implant Surfaces on Cell Viability and Bone Behavior. An In Vitro and a Histometric Study in a Rabbit Model

: The chemical composition and the surface characteristics of dental implants are factors that have a decisive e ﬀ ect on the osseointegration process. The surface characterization at the compositional and topographic level of three dental implants available in the market was performed with di ﬀ erent surface treatments: (1) sandblasted and acid etched surface (SLA), (2) hydroxyapatite (HA) and tricalcium phosphate (TCP) blasted surface (HA / TCP), and (3) HA-blasted and non-etching acid washed surface (HA + AW). In addition, an in vitro viability study of MG-63 osteoblast cells was performed with a JC-1 test. To complete the study, an in vivo study was conducted in New Zealand rabbits. The study analyzed the histometric characteristics of the bone formed around the implants at the level of area, volume, bone density, accumulated bone density, and bone–implant contact (BIC). The rabbits were sacriﬁced at 6 weeks after implants were placed in the tibial metaphysis. No statistically signiﬁcant di ﬀ erences were observed at the level of cell viability or histometric parameters between the di ﬀ erent study groups ( p > 0.05). SLA and HA / TCP surfaces were the ones that obtained a higher BIC value. Taking into account the limitations of this study, it can be concluded that the di ﬀ erent implant surfaces analyzed favor a good bone response. the proximal This a distal zone of implantation. To this e ﬀ groups, implant locations in proximal, or distal this possible
High rate deposition of thin ﬁ lm cadmium sulphide by pulsed direct current magnetron sputtering

Cadmium Sulphide (CdS)isan importantn-type semiconductorwidely usedasa window layerinthin ﬁ lmpho- tovoltaics CopperIndium Selenide,CopperIndium Gallium(di)Selenide,CopperZinc TinSulphideand Cadmium Telluride (CdTe). Cadmium Sulphide has been deposited using a number of techniques but these techniques can be slow (chemical bath deposition and Radio Frequency sputtering) or the uniformity and the control of thick-nesscan berelativelydif ﬁ cult(closespacesublimation). Inthispaperwereporton thedevelopmentofaprocess using pulsed Direct Current magnetron sputtering which allows nanometre control of thin ﬁ lm thickness using timeonly.TheCdSthin ﬁ lmsdepositedinthisprocessarehighlyuniformandsmooth.Theyexhibitthepreferred hexagonal structure at room temperature deposition and they have excellent optical properties. Importantly, the process is highly stable despite the use of a semi-insulating magnetron target. Moreover, the process is very fast. The deposition rate using 1.5 kW of power to a 6-inch circular magnetron was measured to be greater than 8 nm/s. This makes the process suitable for industrial deployment.
Research Online Research Online Cross-sectional survey of older patients’ views regarding multidisciplinary Cross-sectional survey of older patients’ views regarding multidisciplinary care for chronic conditions in general practice care for chronic conditions in general practice

Abstract The ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic illness have contributed to the need for significant primary care reform, including increased use of multidisciplinary care and task substitution. This cross-sectional study explores conditions under which older patients would accept having health professionals other than their general practitioner (GP) involved in their care for chronic disease management (CDM). Ten practices were randomly sampled from a contiguous major city and inner regional area. Questionnaires were distributed to consecutive patients aged 60 years and over in each practice. Agency theory was used to inform analyses. Statistical analysis was undertaken using Wald’s test, growth modelling and linear regression, controlling for the clustered design. The response rate was 53% (n = 272). Most respondents (79%) had at least one chronic health condition. Respondents were more comfortable with GP than with practice nurse management in the CDM scenario (Wald’s test = 105.49, P < 0.001). Comfort with practice nurse CDM was positively associated with increased contact with their GP at the time of the visit ( β = 0.41, P < 0.001), negatively associated with the number of the respondent’s chronic conditions ( β = –0.13, P = 0.030) and not associated with the frequency of other health professional visits. Agency theory suggests that patients employ continuity of care to optimise factors important in CDM: information symmetry and goal alignment. Our findings are consistent with the theory and lend support to ensuring that interpersonal continuity of care is not lost in health care reform. Further research exploring patients’ acceptance of differing systems of care is required. Abstract Introduction The ageing population and increasing prevalence of chronic illness has contributed to the need for significant primary care reform, including increased use of multidisciplinary care and task substitution. This cross-sectional study aims to address the paucity of Australian data concerning older patients’ preferences in order to inform the development of patient-centred models of multidisciplinary care. Methods Ten practices were randomly sampled from a combined RA1/ RA2 region. Questionnaires were distributed to consecutive patients aged 60 years and over each practice. Agency theory was used to inform analyses. Hypothesis testing was undertaken using Wald’s test, growth modelling and linear regression, controlling for the clustered design. The Most was the respondent’s chronic conditions (  = -.13, p = .030); and was not associated with frequency of previous visits to non-medical health professionals. reform. Further research, with clinical trials of differing systems of care is required.
A Public Goods Game Theory-Based Approach to Cooperation in VANETs Under a High Vehicle Density Condition

There are high demands for cooperation among vehicle nodes to disseminate data in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Game theory approaches have been applied to analyzing and regulating the behavior of nodes in complex networks. However, game theory-based cooperation in VANETs still poses a research challenge due to continuous changes in the network topology. In this paper, we focus on the issue of the common behavior of cooperation in group vehicular interactions. We first present a dynamic member public goods game (PGG) model for real VANETs in which games are carried out within each group. Then, a dynamic grouping PGG (DGPGG) model is proposed to model VANETs with high-node density. In addition, a greedy neighbor selection strategy is proposed to replace the typical random strategy. Finally, the individual reputation of a vehicle is integrated into the DGPGG model. The simulation results show that the DGPGG model can greatly increase the proportion of cooperative nodes in high-density VANETs no matter whether the network is static or dynamic. When the network topology changes quickly, the greedy neighbor selection strategy can promote cooperation between nodes more effectively than the random strategy.
Origin of Expression of the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Protein U S 1.5 (cid:1)

ICP22, an immediate-early protein of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), is required for viral replication in nonpermissive cell types and for expression of a class of late viral proteins which includes glycoprotein C. An understanding of the mechanism of ICP22 function has been complicated by the coexpression of the full-length protein with an in-frame, C-terminus-speciﬁc protein, U S 1.5. In this report, we conﬁrm that the U S 1.5 protein is a bona ﬁde translation product since it is detected during infections with three laboratory strains and two low-passage clinical isolates of HSV-1. To clarify the expression patterns of the ICP22 and U S 1.5 proteins, we examined their synthesis from plasmids in transient expression assays. Because previous studies had identiﬁed two different U S 1.5 translational start sites, we attempted to determine which is correct by studying the effects of a series of deletion, nonsense, and methionine substitutions on U S 1.5 expression. First, amino acids 90 to 420 encoded by the ICP22 open reading frame (ORF) migrated at the mobility of U S 1.5 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. Second, introduction of a stop codon downstream of M90 ablated expression of both ICP22 and U S 1.5. Finally, mutation of M90 to alanine (M90A) allowed expression of full-length ICP22 while dramatically reducing expression of
Analysis and Design of a Reconfigurable Rectifier Circuit for Wireless Power Transfer

An efficient and reconfigurable rectifier circuit, with the capability of automatically switching from low-power to high-power operation mode, is presented in this paper. The new topology allows the rectifier to convert RF power to dc power efficiently over an extended input power range. The circuit consists of diodes as rectifying elements and of n-channel field effect transistor in a depletion mode acting as the automated switch. Without using an external dc source, the circuit directly uses the rectified output dc voltage to bias the transistor, allowing high conversion efficiency over a wide input power range. This results in a compact and self-contained circuit. A total of two prototypes optimized for near-field and far-field wireless power transfer systems are fabricated and the measured results show that the performance exceeds that of the conventional rectifier circuit, which can only stay efficient over a limited range of the input power. The proposed design can maintain more than 50% of conversion efficiency over more than 25-dB range of the input power, with peak efficiency of 88% and 80% for near-field and far-field rectifiers, respectively. A system-level validation also confirms the improvement of the proposed rectifier design.
Technical objects diagnostics systems organising

While operating, repair and reconstruction works, maintaining particular level of technical objects' reliability, are carried out. Diagnostic systems are expected to be involved in these activities. As there are a great variety of technical objects available nowadays, diagnostic systems are based on wide variety of principles. Among them neural network technology and expert system technology are the most multi-purpose. A number of particular problems, expected to be solved in developing of diagnostic systems based on technologies mentioned above, is considered in these article; namely: rationing of diagnostic indicators, creating of general purpose functional framework for evaluating particular parameters, developing of neural functional network diagnostic system, developing of two fragments of conceptual diagnostic model, describing diagnostic context and diagnostic parameters in expert system database.
THESIS Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Model Personalization for Gait Analysis of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation has become a prominent tool in clinical gait analysis with the ability to provide insight into the underlying mechanisms of human movement. However, generic cadaver-based models have been shown to poorly reflect live subjects, especially those with pathologies such as cerebral palsy (CP). The main purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the effect of model personalization on gait simulation outcomes between models of varying level of personalization. Gait data from 7 children with CP was used for simulations in OpenSim using 3 different model types for each: scaled generic (GS), scaled generic with tibial torsion and femoral anteversion (TTAF), and MRI-based. MRI-based model outcomes saw the greatest differences from GS models in the hip and upper leg, specifically hamstrings and quadriceps, but also experienced moderate differences in the lower leg. Similar results were found when comparing MRI to TTAF models. TTAF models differed from the GS models around the subtalar joint, mainly the tibialis anterior. Larger differences in kinematics, kinetics, and muscle activations were accompanied by changes to the most influential model parameters, in descending order of importance, these were: tendon slack length, moment arm length, and normalized muscle fiber length. Despite the differences between these models, there was no indication that either is more accurate or more suitable for clinical use.
Parametric Evaluation of Routing Algorithms.dvi

Considering that routing algorithms for the Network on Chip (NoC) architecture is one of the key issues that determine its ultimate performance, several things have to be considered for developing new routing algorithms. This includes examining the strengths, capabilities, and weaknesses of the commonly proposed algorithms as a starting point for developing new ones. Because most of the algorithms presented are based on the well-known algorithms that are studied and evaluated in this research. Finally, according to the results produced under different conditions, better decisions can be made when using the aforementioned algorithms as well as when presenting new routing algorithms. In this research, we first describe the existing algorithms include: XY, YX, OddEven and DyAD. We then evaluate each of the routing algorithms which naturally have their own strengths and weaknesses under different conditions. In the first scenario, based on the criteria of average latency, average throughput and average energy consumption in determining the final performance of the network on the chip, we show the algorithms in terms of their performance by deterministic and adaptive routing algorithms. In the second scenario, we evaluate the algorithms based on the network size and the number of cores on the chip. As a result, these algorithms can make better decisions when using these algorithms as well as when presenting new routing algorithms, considering the results produced under different condition.