Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Surface winds, divergence, and vorticity in stratocumulus regions using QuikSCAT and reanalysis winds

High spatial resolution QuikSCAT data are used to examine surface winds, divergence, and vorticity over oceanic regions during the boreal summer. These analyses are compared to those from earlier observational studies, as well as ECMWF and NCEP reanalysis products. QuikSCAT analyses generally confirm the results from early studies and the reanalyses, but add important details to our view of the surface circulation in Atlantic and East Pacific regions.
Freshwater flux to Sermilik Fjord, SE Greenland

Abstract. Terrestrial inputs of freshwater flux to Sermilik Fjord, SE Greenland, were estimated, indicating ice discharge to be the dominant source of freshwater. A freshwater flux of 40.4 ± 4.9×109 m3 y−1 was found (1999–2008), with an 85% contribution originated from ice discharge (65% alone from Helheim Glacier), 11% from terrestrial surface runoff (from melt water and rain), 3% from precipitation at the fjord surface area, and 1% from subglacial geothermal and frictional melting due to basal ice motion. The results demonstrate the dominance of ice discharge as a primary mechanism for delivering freshwater to Sermilik Fjord. Time series of ice discharge for Helheim Glacier, Midgard Glacier, and Fenris Glacier were calculated from satellite-derived average surface velocity, glacier width, and estimated ice thickness, and fluctuations in terrestrial surface freshwater runoff were simulated based on observed meteorological data. These simulations were compared and bias corrected against independent glacier catchment runoff observations. Modeled runoff to Sermilik Fjord was variable, ranging from 2.9 ± 0.4×109 m3 y−1 in 1999 to 5.9 ± 0.9×109 m3 y−1 in 2005. The sub-catchment runoff of the Helheim Glacier region accounted for 25% of the total runoff to Sermilik Fjord. The runoff distribution from the different sub-catchments suggested a strong influence from the spatial variation in glacier coverage, indicating high runoff volumes, where glacier cover was present at low elevations.
In vitro propagation of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) cultivars

The study is aimed at establishing a simple protocol for in vitro regeneration of sweet potato with a view to providing planting materials to farmers as well as basis for genetic improvement. Axillary buds were excised and cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal salts supplemented with 6-benzyl aminopurine (BAP), gibberellic acid (GA3) and naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) singly or in combination. The shoot height and number of leaves differed significantly among the cultivars. The result also indicated significant difference (p< 0.01) among the cultivars with King J recording the highest mean values. Significant differences (p< 0.05) was also recorded in the media combination with respect to organogenesis and number of shoots obtained. The results of hardening further revealed 33.33% success in the explants transferred directly to the field, as well as for the plantlets that were gradually weaned in a mixture of 3:1 sand and biochar.
Etude de la vulnérabilité des circuits cryptographiques l'injection de fautes par laser.

Les circuits cryptographiques peuvent etre victimes d'attaques en fautes visant leur implementation materielle. elles consistent a creer des fautes intentionnelles lors des calculs cryptographiques afin d'en deduire des informations confidentielles. dans le contexte de la caracterisation securitaire des circuits, nous avons ete amenes a nous interroger sur la faisabilite experimentale de certains modeles theoriques d'attaques. nous avons utilise un banc laser comme moyen d'injection de fautes.dans un premier temps, nous avons effectue des attaques en fautes dfa par laser sur un microcontroleur implementant un algorithme de cryptographie aes. nous avons reussi a exclure l'effet logique des fautes ne correspondants pas aux modeles d’attaque par un jeu precis sur l'instant et le lieu d'injection. en outre, nous avons identifie de nouvelles attaques dfa plus elargies.ensuite, nous avons etendu nos recherches a la decouverte et la mise en place de nouveaux modeles d'attaques en fautes. grace a la precision obtenue lors de nos premiers travaux, nous avons developpe ces nouvelles attaques de modification de rondes.en conclusion, les travaux precedents constituent un avertissement sur la faisabilite averee des attaques par laser decrites dans la litterature scientifique. nos essais ont temoigne de la faisabilite toujours actuelle de la mise en place des attaques mono-octets ou mono-bits avec un faisceau de laser qui rencontre plusieurs octets ; et egalement reveler de nouvelles possibilites d’attaque. cela nous a amenes a etudier des contre-mesures adaptees.
Commande et localisation embarquée d'un drone aérien en utilisant la vision

Ce travail de these porte sur l'obtention de lois de commandes non lineaires pour la stabilisation d'un drone, ainsi que sur la localisation en utilisant la vision. Une etude bibliographique des differents types de drones et de leurs lois de commandes a d'abord ete menee. Ainsi plusieurs types de lois de commandes ont pu etre testees et comparees sur une plateforme de type avion PVTOL (Planar Vertical Take Off and Landing). Une loi de commande stabilisant un systeme a n integrateurs, basee sur des fonctions de saturations ou chaque etat est separe a ensuite ete proposee. Un prototype de type quadrirotor a alors ete construit. Parallelement, un simulateur pour quadrirotor a ete developpe. Celui-ci permet de faire tourner le programme du quadrirotor sur un ordinateur grâce a un modele dynamique et de fournir des images virtuelles aux algorithmes de vision a tester. Des methodes de traitement d'images ont ensuite ete etudiees. Afin de repondre au critere de calcul embarque, nous avons d'abord etudie une methode legere de flux optique, permettant a un robot mobile d'eviter des obstacles. Puis, des solutions basees sur la stereovision mais utilisant des pointeurs lasers ont ete proposees. La premiere technique permet d'estimer l'attitude, la seconde permet d'effectuer du suivi de mur. Enfin, un schema de controle utilisant un predicteur et un observateur a ete etudie. Cette combinaison prend en compte les eventuels retards dans la boucle de commande, ceux-ci pouvant venir par exemple du temps de traitement video. De plus, le schema propose permet d'utiliser efficacement un capteur ayant une periode d'echantillonnage elevee (la camera) dans une loi de commande plus rapide.
Joint detection for multicarrier CDMA mobile radio systems. II. Detection techniques

For pt.I see ibid., p.991, 1996. Presently investigated multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) concepts explicitly avoid the occurrence of intersymbol interference (ISI), which facilitates the use of simple receivers. Unfortunately, the application of such MC-CDMA concepts cannot be recommended in outdoor environments. In pt. I, an MC-CDMA concept, which overcomes this disadvantage, has been introduced and described mathematically for the first time. The presented MC-CDMA concept explicitly allows ISI. In order to mitigate the effects of multiple access interference (MAI) and ISI, the deployment of joint detection (JD) techniques is proposed. Four JD techniques which are suitable for the application in the presented MC-CDMA concept are introduced. Finally, the performance, which can be achieved by applying the proposed JD techniques in the presented MC-CDMA concept, is analyzed in the case of the uplink.
A Novel Approach to Formulate and Optimize Orally Disintegrating Tablets of Bambuterol Hydrochloride

The aim of this article was to choose the optimal ingredients for oral disintegrating tablets of bambuterol hydrochloride (BBH) and use a novel approach to measure disintegration time. The disintegration time measured by a new approach was compared with disintegration time measured in oral cavity and conventional disintegration test. The result shows that the new apparatus is suitable for measuring the disintegration time. The effect of ingredients (diluents, disintegrants and adhesives) on the characteristics of the tablets was investigated. The orally disintegrating tablets of BBH were prepared by wet granulation. The results showed that the optimum proportion was 10 mg BBH, 100 mg lactose, 80 mg MCC, 10 mg crospovidone (PVPP), 2 mg aspartame, 2 mg DL-malic acid. The orally disintegrating tablet disintegrated rapidly, tasted good and could be taken convenient.
BIOLOGIC ARMAMENTARIUM IN PSORIASIS

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease and further classed as a chronic inflammatory skin condition serving as global burden. Moderate to severe psoriasis can be treated with conventional therapies. Less efficacy, poor patient compliance and toxicity issues were the major problems associated with conventional therapies. The introduction of biologic therapy has great impression on psoriatic treatment duration and enhanced quality of life in psoriasis patients. The new biologic therapies are tailor made medications with goal of more specific and effective treatment; less toxicity. The biologic therapy is aimed to target antigen presentation and co-stimulation, T-cell activation and leukocyte adhesion; and pro-inflammatory cascade. They act as effective and safer substitute to traditional therapy. Secukinumab, certolizumab, itolizumab, golimumab, ustekinumab, adalimumab, infliximab etanercept, alefacept etc. are the approved biologic with global market. This review briefs about psoriasis pathogenesis, traditional treatments and biologic therapies potential.
A Guide to Frontier version 4. 1: A Computer Program for Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Fu

A braking device for four-stroke cycle reciprocating piston internal combustion engines, especially vehicle engines, which for controlling at least each outlet valve include a hydraulically operable driving cylinder-piston unit adapted to be actuated by a camshaft, and a working cylinder-piston unit connected through at least one control conduit with the driving cylinder-piston unit and operable to actuate the outlet valve. The working cylinder-piston unit has a two-step different diameter cylinder and two plungers of correspondingly different diameters reciprocating relative to each other in the two-step cylinder. The braking device also includes a control member, e.g., a valve spool, common to all control conduits, for selectively connecting the control conduits to and disconnecting them from different driving cylinder-piston units and working cylinder piston units to thereby establish or interrupt connection between different driving cylinder-piston units with different working cylinder-piston units. The larger plungers only of the two plungers of the working cylinder-piston units are adapted to be acted upon by pressure fluid to reduce the opening stroke of the discharge valves.
The smartag framework for the dynamic reconstruction of adaptive web content

Mass customization should be more than just configuring a specific component (hardware or software), but should be seen as the co-design of an entire system, including services, experiences and human satisfaction at the individual as well as at the community level. The main objective of this thesis is to implement and evaluate a dynamic Web-based framework, called smarTag, for achieving mass customization on the Web based on human factors. SmarTag is an easy to use framework that enables any entity, Web designer and / or developer to enhance their Web services (technology and language independent) with adaptive Web objects that adapt according to the users’ cognitive factors. More specifically, given the users’ individual differences, the same service content provided by an organization will be reconstructed and delivered differently based on the users’ profile typologies. This way, we will increase information assimilation, accuracy on cognitive targets’ searching activities and consequently enhance acceptability of the On-line services. In order to achieve this we extended the well known html model with a new set of tags; <csl> (cognitive style list) and <csli> (cognitive style list item). A Web Browser (Mozilla Firefox) Extension has been therefore developed in order for the browser to recognize and implement the set of tags for the dynamic reconstruction and adaptation of Web content to the individual characteristics of the users. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to describe the smarTag architecture and its components as well as the involved theoretical implications. Towards this point, an overview of Web Personalization techniques and methods is presented and ways on how they can be integrated with Mass Customization of Web services and products are suggested. A high-level analysis of major Web services / sites with regards to the degree of customization based on a given cognitive framework is also outlined, as well as a comprehensive review of current Web Development Frameworks. Finally, an evaluation of the smarTag System concludes the thesis. The initial results of the evaluation have proven that the proposed framework do not degrade the efficiency (in terms of speed and accuracy) during the Web content adaptation process as well as increases users’ satisfaction and efficiency of information processing (both in terms of accuracy and task completion time), while users navigating in the personalized condition rather than the original one. THE SMARTAG FRAMEWORK FOR THE DYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION OF ADAPTIVE WEB CONTENT
Desktop Grid Computing

Desktop Grid Computing presents common techniques used in numerous models, algorithms, and tools developed during the last decade to implement desktop grid computing. These techniques enable the solution of many important sub-problems for middleware design, including scheduling, data management, security, load balancing, result certification, and fault tolerance. The books first part covers the initial ideas and basic concepts of desktop grid computing. The second part explores challenging current and future problems. Each chapter presents the sub-problems, discusses theoretical and practical issues, offers details about implementation and experiments, and includes references to further reading and notes. One of the first books to give a thorough and up-to-date presentation of this topic, this resource describes various approaches and models as well as recent trends that underline the evolution of desktop grids. It balances the theory of designing desktop grid middleware and architecture with applications and real-world deployment on large-scale platforms.
Surgical techniques in cleft lip and palate

Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is surgical techniques in cleft lip and palate. This book is not kind of difficult book to read. It can be read and understand by the new readers.
Support vector machines for hyperspectral remote sensing classification

The Support Vector Machine provides a new way to design classification algorithms which learn from examples (supervised learning) and generalize when applied to new data. We demonstrate its success on a difficult classification problem from hyperspectral remote sensing, where we obtain performances of 96%, and 87% correct for a 4 class problem, and a 16 class problem respectively. These results are somewhat better than other recent result on the same data. A key feature of this classifier is its ability to use high-dimensional data without the usual recourse to a feature selection step to reduce the dimensionality of the data. For this application, this is important, as hyperspectral data consists of several hundred contiguous spectral channels for each exemplar. We provide an introduction to this new approach, and demonstrate its application to classification of an agriculture scene.
A prospective, randomized clinical trial to compare the effect of hyperbaric to normobaric hyperoxia on cerebral metabolism, intracranial pressure, and oxygen toxicity in severe traumatic brain injury.

OBJECT Oxygen delivered in supraphysiological amounts is currently under investigation as a therapy for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Hyperoxia can be delivered to the brain under normobaric as well as hyperbaric conditions. In this study the authors directly compare hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) and normobaric hyperoxia (NBH) treatment effects. METHODS Sixty-nine patients who had sustained severe TBIs (mean Glasgow Coma Scale Score 5.8) were prospectively randomized to 1 of 3 groups within 24 hours of injury: 1) HBO2, 60 minutes of HBO(2) at 1.5 ATA; 2) NBH, 3 hours of 100% fraction of inspired oxygen at 1 ATA; and 3) control, standard care. Treatments occurred once every 24 hours for 3 consecutive days. Brain tissue PO(2), microdialysis, and intracranial pressure were continuously monitored. Cerebral blood flow (CBF), arteriovenous differences in oxygen, cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2), CSF lactate and F2-isoprostane concentrations, and bronchial alveolar lavage (BAL) fluid interleukin (IL)-8 and IL-6 assays were obtained pretreatment and 1 and 6 hours posttreatment. Mixed-effects linear modeling was used to statistically test differences among the treatment arms as well as changes from pretreatment to posttreatment. RESULTS In comparison with values in the control group, the brain tissue PO2 levels were significantly increased during treatment in both the HBO2 (mean +/- SEM, 223 +/- 29 mm Hg) and NBH (86 +/- 12 mm Hg) groups (p < 0.0001) and following HBO2 until the next treatment session (p = 0.003). Hyperbaric O2 significantly increased CBF and CMRO2 for 6 hours (p < or = 0.01). Cerebrospinal fluid lactate concentrations decreased posttreatment in both the HBO2 and NBH groups (p < 0.05). The dialysate lactate levels in patients who had received HBO2 decreased for 5 hours posttreatment (p = 0.017). Microdialysis lactate/pyruvate (L/P) ratios were significantly decreased posttreatment in both HBO2 and NBH groups (p < 0.05). Cerebral blood flow, CMRO2, microdialysate lactate, and the L/P ratio had significantly greater improvement when a brain tissue PO2 > or = 200 mm Hg was achieved during treatment (p < 0.01). Intracranial pressure was significantly lower after HBO2 until the next treatment session (p < 0.001) in comparison with levels in the control group. The treatment effect persisted over all 3 days. No increase was seen in the CSF F2-isoprostane levels, microdialysate glycerol, and BAL inflammatory markers, which were used to monitor potential O2 toxicity. CONCLUSIONS Hyperbaric O2 has a more robust posttreatment effect than NBH on oxidative cerebral metabolism related to its ability to produce a brain tissue PO2 > or = 200 mm Hg. However, it appears that O2 treatment for severe TBI is not an all or nothing phenomenon but represents a graduated effect. No signs of pulmonary or cerebral O2 toxicity were present.
Consistency and Creativity in First Language Acquisition

In this paper I argue that a general PRINCIPLE OF CONSISTENCY both motivates and constrains the process of analogical learning in a usage-based grammar. The basic idea is that children learning a language, and speakers in general, represent linguistic units in ways that maximize their motivation and emphasize their commonalities. Two units are consistent with each other to the degree that they match in their formal and semantic specifications. LOCAL CONSISTENCY applies to linguistic units activated online in usage events, and requires these to be as consistent as possible with entrenched utterance types. GLOBAL CONSISTENCY applies to the repertoire of constructions as a whole, and requires that units be represented in ways which maximize their consistency with each other. Local consistency favors a massive inventory of low-scope constructions to represent the rich details of experienced usage events: it thus fosters arbitrariness in the grammar, but also makes on-line processing easier by offering conventional units for every occasion. Global consistency favors the development of abstract representations and recurrent inheritance links across constructions: it thus increases motivation in the grammar, but also makes processing harder as the schematic units it favors are farther removed from the details of actual usage.
Static series-voltage noise margins of CBL, CSL and CMOS

The concept of noise margin is very important in the design and application of digital logic circuits. Noise margin is the maximum spurious signal that can be accepted by the device when used in a system, whilst still operating correctly. In this work the static series-voltage noise margin of CBL (current-balanced logic), CSL (current-steering logic) and CMOS are determined and compared.
Représentation et algorithmes pour l'exploration interactive de volumes procéduraux étendus et détaillés

Les scenes naturelles sont souvent a la fois tres riches en details et spatialement vastes. Dans ce projet, on s'interesse notamment a des donnees volumiques de type nuage, avalanche, ecume. L'industrie des effets speciaux s'appuie sur des solutions logicielles de rendu de gros volumes de voxels, qui ont permis de tres beau resultats, mais a tres fort cout en temps de calcul et en memoire. Reciproquement, la puissance des cartes graphiques programmable (GPU) entraine une convergence entre le domaine du temps reel et du rendu realiste, cependant la memoire limitee des cartes fait que les donnees volumiques representables en temps reel restent faibles (5123 est un maximum). Proposer des structures et algorithmes adaptees au GPU permettant un reel passage a l'echelle, et ainsi, de traiter interactivement ce qui demande actuellement des heures de calcul, est le defi que ce projet cherche a relever.