Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
NetMob: A Mobile Application Development Framework with Enhanced Large Objects Access for Mobile Cloud Storage Service

Mobile enterprise applications are primarily devel-oped for existing backend enterprise systems and some usage scenarios require storing of large files on the mobile devices.These files range from large PDFs to media files in various formats (MPEG videos). These files needs to be used offline , sometimes updated and shared among users. Present work studied different Mobile Backend as a service (M)BaaS platforms to understand techniques use to handle large file and found that many are either missing the feature or does not handle performance issues for large files. In this paper, we are proposing, NetMob, a mobile synchronization platform that allows resource-limited mobile devices to access large objects from the cloud. This framework is mainly focused on large file handling and has support for both table and objects data models that can be tuned for three consistency semantics, resembling strong, causal and eventual consistency. Experimental results conducted using representative workloads showed that NetMob can handle large files access with the size ranging from 100MB upto 1GB and is able to reduce sync time with object chunking in our experiment settings.
00 PM ENGAGE A VOICE , REPRESS FATIGUE ; THE COINCIDENT EVOLUTION OF HOMININ VOCALIZATION AND A METABOLIC

To what degree has evolution facilitated synchronization of comfortable oral communication with sustainable exercise intensity? An individual able to engage a voice, represses fatigue. The Talk Test, is a practical strategy whereby a subject deliberately speaks during an exercise protocol. It is a common tool in kinesiology and clinical fields because it inherently identifies a pivotal metabolic plateau known as the ventilatory threshold. The coincidence of comfortable ability to talk and perform sustainable sub-threshold exercise intensity, affords immediate feedback to avoid overtraining and allowing complete physiological recovery within one solar day. A sustained, increased vigor above this stage, though possible, requires more than 24 hours of metabolic recovery, and muscular and range of motion restoration due to overuse may require at least 96 hours. It is hypothesized that vocalization during persistence hunting of Homo erectus, has been evolutionarily favored and resulted in a natural and accurate metabolic trip-wire against excessive exercise intensity, and by extension, prolonged recovery bouts.
Market Power and Dividend Policy : Evidence from Firms Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange

Dividend policy informs shareholders and investors how the financial situation of the firm is. Therefore, in situations where risk is always the determining factor for dividend policy, the company with the market power, can affect major changes in social, economic, and political events or have more successful responds toward them, and thus, is less exposed to systematic risk. Therefore, market power helps the firm to preserve firm-specific shocks from its product market or to reduce the information uncertainty that the investors of the firm face it. Hence, this study attempts to investigate the impact of product market pricing power on the firm's dividend policy. For this purpose, the data from 122 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2009 to 2013 and Panel data model were used. The results showed that there is a reveres significant relationship between firm’s market power and the amount of dividend policy of listed firms in Tehran Stock
Structur e of a T hermobifida fusc a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase and mutagenesis of key r esidues

Background: Auxiliary activity (AA) enzymes are produced by numerous bacterial and fungal species to assist in the degradation of biomass. These enzymes are abundant but have yet to be fully characterized. Here, we report the X‐ray structure of Thermobifida fusca AA10A (TfAA10A), investigate mutational characterization of key surface residues near its active site, and explore the importance of the various domains of Thermobifida fusca AA10B (TfAA10B). The structure of TfAA10A is similar to other bacterial LPMOs (lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases), including signs of photo‐reduction and a distorted active site, with mixed features showing both type I and II copper coordination. The point mutation experiments of TfAA10A show that Trp82 and Asn83 are needed for binding, but only Trp82 affects activity. The TfAA10B domain truncation mutants reveal that CBM2 is crucial for the binding of substrate, but that the X1 module does not affect binding or activity. Results: In TfAA10A, Trp82 and Asn83 are needed for binding, but only Trp82 affects activity. The TfAA10B domain truncation mutants reveal that CBM2 is crucial for substrate binding, but that the X1 module does not affect binding or activity. The structure of TfAA10A is similar to other bacterial lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases with mixed features showing both type I and II copper coordination. Conclusions: The role of LPMOs and the variability of abundance in genomes are not fully explored. LPMOs likely perform initial attacks into crystalline cellulose to allow larger processive cellulases to bind and attack, but the precise nature of their synergistic behavior remains to be definitively characterized.
Low Power and High Reliable Triple Modular Redundancy Latch for Single and Multi-node Upset Mitigation

CMOS based circuits are more susceptible to the radiation environment as the critical charge (Qcrit) decreases with technology scaling. A single ionizing radiation particle is more likely to upset the sensitive nodes of the circuit and causes Single Event Upset (SEU). Subsequently, hardening latches to transient faults at control inputs due to either single or multi-nodes is progressively important. This paper proposes a Fully Robust Triple Modular Redundancy (FRTMR) latch. In FRTMR latch, a novel majority voter circuit is proposed with a minimum number of sensitive nodes. It is highly immune to single and multi-node upsets. The proposed latch is implemented using CMOS 45 nm process and is simulated in cadence spectre environment. Results demonstrate that the proposed latch achieves 17.83 % low power and 13.88 % low area compared to existing Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) latch. The current induced due to transient fault occurrence at various sensitive nodes are exhibited with a double exponential current source for circuit simulation with a minimum threshold current value of 40 µA.
Unsupervised and Explainable Assessment of Video Similarity

We propose a novel unsupervised method that assesses the similarity of two videos on the basis of the estimated relatedness of the objects and their behavior, and provides arguments supporting this assessment. A video is represented as a complete undirected action graph that encapsulates information on the types of objects and the way they (inter)act. The similarity of a pair of videos is estimated based on the bipartite Graph Edit Distance (GED) of the corresponding action graphs. As a consequence, on-top of estimating a quantitative measure of video similarity, our method establishes spatiotemporal correspondences between objects across videos if these objects are semantically related, if/when they interact similarly, or both. We consider this an important step towards ex-plainable assessment of video and action similarity. The proposed method is evaluated on a publicly available dataset on the tasks of activity classiﬁcation and ranking and is shown to compare favorably to state of the art supervised learning methods.
Classification methods on different brain imaging modalities for Alzheimer disease studies

Computer-aided early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and its prodromal form, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), has been the subject of extensive research in recent years. Some recent studies have shown promising results in the AD and MCI determination using structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (sMRI, fMRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) modalities. This paper reviews the major trends in automatic classification methods such as feature extraction based methods as well as deep learning approaches in medical image analysis applied to the field of Alzheimer's Disease diagnostics. Different fusion methodologies to combine heterogeneous image modalities to improve classification scores are also considered.
Seeing is Not Believing: Camouflage Attacks on Image Scaling Algorithms

Image scaling algorithms are intended to preserve the visual features before and after scaling, which is commonly used in numerous visual and image processing applications. In this paper, we demonstrate an automated attack against common scaling algorithms, i.e. to automatically generate camouflage images whose visual semantics change dramatically after scaling. To illustrate the threats from such camouflage attacks, we choose several computer vision applications as targeted victims, including multiple image classification applications based on popular deep learning frameworks, as well as mainstream web browsers. Our experimental results show that such attacks can cause different visual results after scaling and thus create evasion or data poisoning effect to these victim applications. We also present an algorithm that can successfully enable attacks against famous cloud-based image services (such as those from Microsoft Azure, Aliyun, Baidu, and Tencent) and cause obvious misclassification effects, even when the details of image processing (such as the exact scaling algorithm and scale dimension parameters) are hidden in the cloud. To defend against such attacks, this paper suggests a few potential countermeasures from attack prevention to detection.
Effect of Flavonoids from Eupatorium odoratum L. on Immunoglobulins and Cecal Microflora in Broilers

Received: Revised: Accepted: Published online: April 05, 2018 May 14, 2018 May 15, 2018 August 06, 2018 The effects of total flavonoids from Eupatorium odoratum L. (TFEO) on serum (IgM, IgG) and duodenal mucosa (Secretory IgA–SIgA) immunoglobulins and cecal microflora composition in broiler chicken were investigated. Test groups received diets supplemented with 100, 200, or 400 mg/kg TFEO for 21 and 42d. At 21d, IgM levels were higher in the 200 and 400 mg/kg groups compared to control group. IgG and SIgA levels were increased in all test groups (P<0.05). At 42d, IgG content in all test groups were higher (P<0.05), IgM in all test groups was higher (P>0.05). SIgA in all test groups increased at 200 and 400 mg/kg (P<0.01) >100 mg/kg (P<0.05) compared to the controls. Significant increases (P<0.05) in Firmicutes phylum and Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Lachnospira genera gut microbes and significant decreases in pathogenic Escherichia and Clostridium of the test groups were observed at 21 and/or 42d. TFEO flavonoids are suggested for use as a feed additive for broilers to improve cecal microflora and humoral immunity. ©2018 PVJ. All rights reserved
HUMAN ACTION CLASSIFICATION USING 3-D CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK

Our objective is to implement human action recognition in video streams through learning models. In this paper, we propose 3D convolution neural network model which can learn spatio-temporal features and classify human actions without any prior knowledge. Experimental results obtained on applying 3-D CNN over Weizmann dataset containing ten classifications gives comparable accuracy with recent research in this field.
A 5 EE-283 THE FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF ASPHALT MIXTURES IN THE FOUR POINT BENDING BEAM FATIGUE TEST IN ACCORDANCE WITH AASHTO AND ASTM ANALYSIS METHODS

A series of mixtures have been analyzed in the bending beam fatigue test. These mixes have been analyzed in accordance with both ASSHTO (based on the SHRP research program) and ASTM (published in 2009) specifications for fatigue analysis. The materials evaluated included conventional HMA materials, SMA and highly modified materials used for bridge deck water-proofing. The AASHTO method bases the life on a “50% stiffness loss criteria,” whereas the ASTM bases life on an adaption of the dissipated energy concept. The fatigue lives from the two methods are critically examined with the varrious different mixtures considered. Recommendations are made for alternate data capture routines based upon stiffness reduction during the fatigue test and damage evolution rather than the more normal method of recoding the stiffness based on cycle number. This enables the life of a specimen to be more accurately assessed than that done currently using data collection which is based upon a logarithmic procedure. Additional refinements and recommendations to the ASTM test method are presented.
FOREIGN AID EFFECTIVENESS IN OIC MEMBER COUNTRIES : BEYOND ECONOMIC INDICATORS

This paper examines whether official development assistance (ODA) is an effective tool for human development and progress of recipient OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member countries. The paper estimates the impact of aid on social indicators rather than on economic growth. It measures the impact of ODA classified by sectors on the components of Human Development Index (HDI): standards of living, life expectancy, and education indices. It controls for the magnitude of civil violence, population growth, foreign direct investment, income, urbanization and regime type; whether a regime is democratic or autocratic. It utilizes annual data between 2002 and 2015 for OIC member countries. Results indicate that ODA is an effective tool for human development, having a greater and a more efficient impact on human development than other development instruments included in the analysis. We also find that civil violence is a powerful deterrent of HDI. Based on these results, the paper suggests increasing ODA, particularly, to health and education sectors, and intensifying efforts to prevent and reduce civil violence as well as monitoring and managing post-conflict states to cope with the risk of relapsing into
On the Ethical Issues That Arise When Religion and Treatment Collide in End-of-Life Decision Making

This article explores the ethical issues that arise when patients’ and families’ religious beliefs collide with clinicians’ views of appropriate end-of-life decisions. The article begins with a case study drawn from clinical experience that focuses on the need for a surrogate decision maker for a deeply religious patient in the intensive care unit with life-limiting cancer. The patient’s adult children, also religious, against the health care team’s clinical advice, want all life-extending measures taken as they await a divine miracle. The conflict between the family and the health care team points to (1) the ethical issues of patients’ and families’ status of vulnerability and the health care team’s necessary moral response to this status; (2) the moral obligation of the health care team to show their trustworthiness to the family by showing the family the team’s competence, honesty, and reliability; and (3) the moral obligations of the health care team to provide the patient and family spiritual support.
Gas release from the SFL repository and migration to the geosphere

The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), plans to dispose long-lived low and intermediate level nuclear waste in the SFL repository [1]. Upon groundwater saturation of the repository, steel components in the waste will undergo anoxic corrosion to produce hydrogen gas. Gas production may: (i) cause pressure build-up potentially harmful to engineered barriers; (ii) affect the groundwater flow in the vicinity of the repository; (iii) affect the saturation level of the repository as well as in the bedrock and the geosphere. This could in turn affect the release and retention of radionuclides. The main objective of the present work is to analyze the above issues for a repository vault by means of multiphase flow modelling.
Water oxidation mediated by ruthenium oxide nanoparticles supported on siliceous mesocellular foam

Artificial photosynthesis is an attractive strategy for converting solar energy into fuel. In this context, development of catalysts for oxidation of water to molecular oxygen remains a critical bottleneck. Herein, we describe the preparation of a well-defined nanostructured RuO2 catalyst, which is able to carry out the oxidation of water both chemically and photochemically. The developed heterogeneous RuO2 nanocatalyst was found to be highly active, exceeding the performance of most known heterogeneous water oxidation catalysts when driven by chemical or photogenerated oxidants.
Post adoption behavior of farmers towards soil and water conservation technologies in a semi-arid watershed.

The behaviour of farmers towards soil and water conservation (SWC) technologies – basically under three categories viz, engineering, agronomy and forestry tends to undergo changes over time during the post adoption phase of the watershed. They prefer continuance as such or with some technological gaps or discontinuance altogether corresponding to the nature of these respective technologies. The probable reasons behind their behavioral pattern might disclose some ideas to help redesigning these technologies or at least the approach, for an effective technology transfer and its sustainability. Hence, it was found necessary to analyze the post adoption behavior of selected watershed farmers with reference to these SWC technologies. Joladarasi, a semi-arid watershed in Bellary district, Karnataka was identified, and a study were undertaken for this purpose in 2012. A questionnaire addressing the behavioural pattern of the farmers with reference to the selected technologies was prepared and data were collected from selected 50 small farmers. The collected data were analyzed using a set of behavioural indices developed for this purpose. The results showed that rate of continuance adoption were comparatively high in the case of engineering technologies (92.96%), followed by that of agronomy (51.61%) and forestry (16.66%). The rates of technologies with technological gap were comparatively more in the field of agronomy (29.03), whereas the non adoption rate was highest among forestry technologies (83.34%). It was concluded that, in case of engineering technologies, apart from mere transfer of technology, farmers have to be trained on skills of maintenance of those structures. With reference to agronomical measures, a situational contingency plan to try different options must be a part of the package of practices. For sustainable adoption of forestry oriented technologies, sensitization on community participation must be emphasized, as they have high potential in common lands.
Determinants of Franchise Value in the National Basketball Association

Franchise values in the National Basketball Association (NBA) have more than tripled over the last five years, with the average franchise worth $1.36 billion. Using panel data on NBA franchises between 2009 and 2016, this paper finds that market, performance, star players, and brand are significant determinants of franchise value at the team level and the NBA’s television contract is the primary driver of league-wide franchise value appreciation. The valuation methodologies used in this paper predict that a franchise in Seattle would be worth $1.4 billion in 2017, which could inform the NBA’s decision on expansion. JEL Classification: Z2, Z23, G32
ANALYZING THE IMPORTANCE OF INITIATIVE IN AN INFANTRY COMPANY ’ S BATTLE EXERCISE

The purpose of this paper is to present how to study tactical phenomena from battle space situation pictures to fi nd out if real initiative leads to success in the battle. In this paper, numerical values are calculated to determine whether there is also a correlation between situational awareness and initiative. The results are verifi ed based on battle space situation pictures. In addition, the analyses of distributions describing the variation in the soldiers’ feelings of their own forces and the adversary having the initiative are used to support the results showing which fi ghting side has the initiative.
RSVP a temporal method for graphical authentication

ABSTRACT We present a Rapid, Serial, Visual Presentation method (RSVP) for recognition-based graphical authentication. It presents a stream of rapid, degraded images, which makes the object recognition process difficult for casual attackers. Three studies investigated success rates for authenticating, RSVP’s resistance to over-the-shoulder attacks (OSAs), approaches for facilitating learnability, and effects of resetting a passcode. We found that participants could successfully authenticate and could not complete OSAs. Learnability was promoted by the presentation of degraded versions of the images during the memorization phase. When a passcode was reset, participants successfully retrained themselves even when the previous passcode was recycled as distractors.
Development of transparent clay for laboratory model tests

Peat and soft clay deposits have created challenges and risks in construction of road embankments. They can read in excessive deformations and failures of foundations. One of the solutions to reduce deformations and prevent failures can be the use column-supported and geocell reinforced embankments. A research program is being carried out to understand the mechanisms of deformations and failures using physical and numerical model tests. The physical model tests in the laboratory use artificial transparent soils to simulate foundation clays and embankment fill materials. This will allow the use of visual techniques to determine strains in the foundation soil. This paper presents the development of synthetic transparent clay, including determination of its geotechnical properties from oedometer and triaxial tests. RÉSUMÉ Tourbe et dépôts argileux soft ont créé des défis et risques de construction de route talus. Ils peuvent entraîner de déformations excessives et les échecs de fondations. Une des solutions pour réduire les déformations et prévenir les défaillances est à utiliser colonne-prise en charge et les talus geocell renforcé. Un programme de recherche est en cours de comprendre les mécanismes des déformations et des échecs à l'aide des essais sur modèle physique et numérique. Les modèle physique de tests en laboratoire artificielles des sols transparents permet de simuler la Fondation argiles et de matériaux de remplissage du talus. Cela permettra l'utilisation de techniques visuelles pour obtenir les contraintes et les déformations dans le sol de Fondation. Ce livre présente le développement d'argile transparent synthétique, y compris la détermination de ses propriétés géotechniques d'oedometer et tests accéléromètre triaxial.
Compact Cavity Enhanced Si MSM Photodetector in SiNon-SOI ( Student paper )

We present compact Si metal semiconductor metal (MSM) photodetector integrated SiN ring resonator in SiN-on-SOI platform. We achieved a 10X enhancement in photocurrent with SiN resonator integrated photodetector compared to integrated waveguide configuration. A maximum responsivity of 0.08 A/W is achieved with a photodetector of just 6 μm long operated at a bias of 5 V in the 850 nm wavelength band. We present the design, fabrication and characterisation of integrated resonance photodetector. On-chip wavelength selective photodetector in 850 nm wavelength band enables next-generation scalable short-reach interconnect technology and also an opportunity for on-chip bio-sensors operating in the visible wavelength range.