Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A modular approach for cloth modelling in virtual fitting room

The application is an augmented virtual reality application where the user is recognized at close range and can virtually try clothes. The unique point about this application is the fact that there'll be image processing and computer vision used to determine size of shirt and waist and so on of a person using the Kinect V2 perceptual computing kit rather than just allowing the user to try on virtual clothes. These clothes can be showcased online among the friends or can be directly used for printing and manufacturing the shirt using CO2 laser from a robotic arm which is out of scope of this paper. The modelling of cloth which is supposed to be augmented on the virtual human body is being designed with competent geometric algorithms rather than just relying on Gaming or Motion Control Frameworks. The results are tested on latest Kinect V2 sensor which provides user a compelling experience to opt for. The paper initially overviews the major technical components for complete virtual try-on system, followed by elucidating several key challenges such as calibration of Kinect and estimation of measurements for individual subjects like outfits, etc. Eventually we discuss key details of the implementation using Kinect V2. Quality of these steps is the key to achieve seamless try-on experience for users.
Network Defense Strategy Selection with Reinforcement Learning and Pareto Optimization

Improving network security is a difficult problem that requires balancing several goals, such as defense cost and need for network efficiency, in order to achieve proper results. In this paper, we devise method of modeling network attack in a zero-sum multi-objective game and attempt to find the best defense against such an attack. We combined Pareto optimization and Q-learning methods to determine the most harmful attacks and consequently to find the best defense against those attacks. The results should help network administrators in search of a hands-on method of improving network security.
Cosmic Ray Studies on the MIR Space Station: The Experiment Sileye

The Sileye detector can simultaneously measure particle energy losses from 2.5 Minimum Ionizing Particles (MIPs) to 2500 MIPs and determine the coordinates of passing particles with an accuracy of 1.8 mm. This instrument can be used for cosmic rays studies as well as for medical-biological and technological space researches. We will present the results obtained with the first prototype of the apparatus, on board MIR since October 1995, and the performances of the second apparatus, Sileye2, that will be launched in the fall of 1997.
Secured and fast handoff in wireless mesh networks

Wireless mesh networks are one of the most important improvements in the world of wireless technologies. In fact, they offer many advantages to ensure a free mobility and a self-configuration of the various network equipment, a better quality of services, as well as an extensible domain and area. In spite of all of these contributions, mesh technology still suffers from some problems such as security especially in handoff phases. In this study, we propose an authentication scheme that is designed to reduce the authentication delay during a wireless mesh network handoff process. The proposed mechanism takes into account the mobility of clients as well as the router movements. This work takes advantage of some existing techniques such as Blom key predistribution scheme and Du key process generation method. Our simulation results prove the effectiveness of our proposed scheme. Our performance evaluation results shows that the suggested solution outperforms existing schemes in improving handoff latency values (<15 ms) and in the ability of satisfying the requirements of security as well as the quality of services in terms of having low loss rate (less than 1%) and having a low blocking rate. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Stimulation of ubiquitin–proteasome pathway through the expression of amidohydrolase for N‐terminal asparagine (Ntan1) in cultured rat hippocampal neurons exposed to static magnetism

In order to elucidate mechanisms underlying modulation by static magnetism of the cellular functionality and/or integrity in the brain, we screened genes responsive to brief magnetism in cultured rat hippocampal neurons using differential display analysis. We have for the first time cloned and identified Ntan1 (amidohydrolase for N‐terminal asparagine) as a magnetism responsive gene in rat brain. Ntan1 is an essential component of a protein degradation signal, which is a destabilizing N‐terminal residue of a protein, in the N‐end rule. In situ hybridization histochemistry revealed abundant expression of Ntan1 mRNA in hippocampal neurons in vivo. Northern blot analysis showed that Ntan1 mRNA was increased about three‐fold after 3 h in response to brief magnetism. Brief magnetism also increased the transcriptional activity of Ntan1 promoter by luciferase reporter assay. Brief magnetism induced degradation of microtubule‐associated protein 2 (MAP2) without affecting cell morphology and viability, which was prevented by a selective inhibitor of 26S proteasome in hippocampal neurons. Overexpression of Ntan1 using recombinant Ntan1 adenovirus vector resulted in a marked decrease in the MAP2 protein expression in hippocampal neurons. Our results suggest that brief magnetism leads to the induction of Ntan1 responsible for MAP2 protein degradation through ubiquitin–proteasome pathway in rat hippocampal neurons.
Toward a Post-seriality Map of TV Series - Visualizing the New TV Seriality System with Protovis

The aim of this work is to visualize some information resulted from an analysis on 60 series from the top rated ones in the 2001-2010 decade. Arc-Diagram is presented as an overview of the TV series co-actor network. Airing networks and ratings are highlighted in the circular graph. Major insights are discussed.
A review of sentinel laboratory performance: identification and notification of bioterrorism agents.

CONTEXT The anthrax incident of 2001 in the United States prompted the College of American Pathologists (CAP), the Association of Public Health Laboratories, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop exercises for Laboratory Response Network (LRN) sentinel laboratories. OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the results of the CAP bioterrorism Laboratory Preparedness Survey (LPS, 2007) and Laboratory Preparedness Exercise (LPX, 2008) and assist LRN sentinel laboratories and public health agencies in planning for bioterrorism events. DESIGN Bioterrorism agents and nonbiothreat mimic organisms were provided in 2 mailings per year (2007 and 2008, 20 total challenges). Within each mailing, 2 to 3 agents were category A or category B bioterrorism agents (total of 10 categoric challenges). Some category A/B isolates were modified/vaccine strains. The total number of laboratories participating in these exercises ranged from 1316 to 1381. Isolate characteristics used to identify the organisms were compiled along with the participants' reporting actions. Educational commentary was provided with each exercise. RESULTS Acceptable identification responses were as follows: Bacillus anthracis, 90% (2007) and 99.9% (2008); Yersinia pestis, 83.8% (2007) and 87.6% (2008); and Francisella tularensis subsp Holarctica, 86.6% (2007) and 91.6% (2008). The time interval between specimen receipt and notification of results to an LRN reference laboratory decreased from more than 10 days in 2007 to 3 or 4 days in 2008 for some challenges. CONCLUSIONS The bioterrorism challenge program (LPS, LPX) provides important comparative data from more than 1300 sentinel laboratories that can be used by individual laboratories to evaluate their identification and LRN reporting performance.
Smooth intentional rerouting and its applications in ATM networks

Traditional communication networks reroute connections following link or node failures. This can be regarded as forced rerouting. The next generation ATM networks are supposed to be more intelligent and to offer more services than existing networks. An intelligent network may sometimes decide to reroute a connection whose virtual channel is still alive. This can be regarded as intentional rerouting. The present paper deals with intentional rerouting of ATM connections. It shows that intentional rerouting can ensure cell FIFO and integrity. Then several possible applications of intentional rerouting are suggested and discussed. <<ETX>>
The Heart as an Endocrine System

Pioneering researchers in the first half of the 20th century demonstrated the neurohumeral control of the heart, but the degree to which that control is intrinsic to cardiac tissue has emerged much more recently. In 1981, de Bold et al in Ottawa, investigating storage granules identified in atrial tissue, discovered a novel atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). This was followed 7 years later by the isolation of a natriuretic peptide from porcine brain (thus “brain” and now more commonly “b type”) natriuretic peptide (BNP) by Hisayuki Matsuo’s group in Japan, subsequently localized to heart tissue. A third natriuretic peptide, “Cnatriuretic peptide,” (CNP) has been described but is derived mainly from endothelium and is not specifically cardiac in origin. In 1990, Steiner et al reported that chromogranin A (CgA) and B granules were colocalized in secretory granules with ANP in a rat heart preparation. CgA is the propeptide for, among many other physiologically active peptides, the vasostatins and catestatin, which have a wide array of homeostatic functions. The cardiac effects of catecholamines, principally epinephrine and norepinephrine, are well known, but the degree to which catecholamine physiology is intrinsic to cardiac tissue is relatively a new perception. In 1965, Eugene Braunwald’s group described the response of coronary blood vessels to catecholamine stimulation in an isolated, arrested, canine heart model, and over the next 2 decades, the intrinsic production of catecholamines would also be established.
Moral Development and Behavior

The study of moral development as well as the relation of moral development and behavior has been of great interest to many over the past half a century. While some studies have shown no association between one's moral development and behavior, some evidence indicates level of moral reasoning influences behavior. Over 16 selected studies postconventional principles of justice are likely to be more prosocial and law-abiding than those appropriate at the lower stages of moral development.
Investigating C. elegans development through mosaic analysis

The analysis of genetically mosaic worms, in which some cells carry a wild-type gene and others are homozygous mutant, can reveal where in the animal a gene acts to prevent the appearance of a mutant phenotype. In this primer article, we describe how Caenorhabditis elegans genetic mosaics are generated, identified and analyzed, and we discuss examples in which the analysis of mosaic worms has provided important information about the development of this organism.
Somatization as a predictor of medication discontinuation due to adverse events

Medication discontinuation due to intolerable side-effects remains a significant clinical problem in the treatment of depression. We were unable to locate studies which found predictors of medication cessation due to side-effects. We posited that an identifiable subgroup of medically healthy, depressed adults who discontinued medication because of adverse events would have higher pre-treatment somatic symptoms than patients who completed a course of treatment. The sample (n=940) was drawn from a series of double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of antidepressants (imipramine, phenelelzine, L-deprenyl, mianserin and desipramine). Within the medication group, side-effect dropouts had more somatic symptoms than study completers and those who discontinued treatment for miscellaneous reasons. Within the placebo-treated group, the small number of subject who discontinued treated because of side-effects precluded valid statistical analyses, but the findings were in the same direction as those in the medication group. Clearly, further research is required to determine whether these results, obtained from a series of university-based clinical trials with healthy subjects, are generalizable to patients with significant comorbid medical and/or psychiatric disorders, treated with newer antidepressants agents in a general clinical practice setting.
Fast Computational Algorithms for the Discrete Wavelet Transform and Applications of Localized Orthonormal Bases in Signal Classification

We construct an algorithm for implementing the discrete wavelet transform by means of matrices in SO_2(R) for orthonormal compactly supported wavelets and matrices in SL_m(R), m > = 2, for compactly supported biorthogonal wavelets. We show that in 1 dimension the total operation count using this algorithm can be reduced to about 50% of the conventional convolution and downsampling by 2-operation for both orthonormal and biorthogonal filters. In the special case of biorthogonal symmetric odd-odd filters, we show an implementation yielding a total operation count of about 38% of the conventional method. In 2 dimensions we show an implementation of this algorithm yielding a reduction in the total operation count of about 70% when the filters are orthonormal, a reduction of about 62% for general biorthogonal filters, and a reduction of about 70% if the filters are symmetric odd-odd length filters. We further extend these results to 3 dimensions. We also show how the SO_2(R)-method for implementing the discrete wavelet transform may be exploited to compute short FIR filters, and we construct edge mappings where we try to improve upon the degree of preservation of regularity in the conventional methods. We also consider a two-class waveform discrimination problem. A statistical space-frequency analysis is performed on a training data set using the LDB-algorithm of N.Saito and R.Coifman. The success of the algorithm on this particular problem is evaluated on a disjoint test data set.
Provably Secure Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks

Ensuring security of an underlying routing protocol in wireless mesh network (WMN) is a crucial issue because of the multi-hop communication environment and wireless media. This has been realized by various researchers, and several secure routing protocols have been proposed to address the security vulnerabilities. In this work, we point out the vulnerabilities of the important existing secure routing protocols proposed for WMN. Also, we present a secure routing protocol tailored to WMN. We adapt the simulation paradigm approach to prove the security of the proposed routing protocol.
Thraxion: Three-Dimensional Action Simulator

The Thraxion program detailed in this paper is a user interactive 3D action simulator that models the behavior of objects in motion. Using a physics engine and collision detection, Thraxion is able to model the behavior of objects of varying mass, size, composition, and texture colliding against each other. The user is able to create objects, edit the force directions and magnitudes action upon the objects, and may then begin a simulation based on these parameters. The user may then save the initial conditions of the simulation, load different initial conditions, or create a new scenario. Because Thraxion is based on OpenGL and the Qt user interface libraries, it has multiple platform support and is being actively developed on Linux and Mac OS X.
Adaptation of an address reading system to local mail streams

A scheme for handwriting adaptation for post offices is described to improve recognition performance of German addresses. The recognition system is based on a tied-mixture hidden Markov model, whose parameters are updated using the expectation maximization technique, the maximum likelihood linear regression algorithm and a new discriminative adaptation technique, the scaled likelihood linear regression. Contrary to the usual approach of adapting a writer-independent system to a specific writer we propose to adapt the system to the writer-independent data of a specific post office. The resulting system for each post office yields up to 16% lower word recognition errors.
Ifosfamide‐induced stomatocytosis and mesna‐induced echinocytosis: influence on biorheological properties of blood

Abstract: Ifosfamide is an alkylating agent which has poorly understood toxic side effects such as encephalopathy. We hypothesized that ifosfamide and concomitantly applied mesna could have an influence on the flow properties of blood, and thus carried out an in vitro study. Whole blood was incubated in vitro with increasing concentrations of ifosfamide (0–50 mg/ml), mesna (0–20 mg/ml) and combinations thereof. Chloroacetaldehyde, a major metabolite of ifosfamide, was also studied (0–5 mmol/l). Ifosfamide led to a dose‐dependent stomatocytic shape transformation and mesna to an echinocytic shape transformation of erythrocytes. These shape changes were reversible upon removal of the causing agent. Both shape changes increased whole blood viscosity. Erythrocyte aggregation was decreased by both drugs at high concentration. Erythrocyte deformability, as measured with the transit time through 5‐μm pores, was decreased by mesna and remained unaffected by ifosfamide. These effects were seen at concentrations which may be reached in vivo at the infusion site of the drugs into a vein and in the urinary tract. We conclude that ifosfamide and mesna interact with the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane, which may contribute to the toxicity of the compounds.
Direct Muscle Neurotization after End-to-Side Neurorrhaphy

Over the recent years, end-to-side neurorrhaphy has reemerged in the literature for reconstructive nerve surgery. Another technique, in which interest has remained continuous during the last century, is direct nerve implantation into muscle belly, so-called direct muscle neurotization (DMN). In this work, the authors present a new technique to recover muscle innervation through direct nerve implantation into muscle belly, by means of a nerve graft, and sutured with end-to-side neurorrhaphy. They carried out experiments on 20 Wistar rats divided into two groups. In Group 1 (10 rats), on the right side, the peroneal nerve was sutured to the tibial nerve with end-to-side neurorrhaphy. Subsequently, the terminal branches of the same nerve were implanted in the anterior tibial muscle (ATM). On the left side, the peroneal nerve was severed, and the ATM completely denervated. In Group 2 (10 rats), on the right side, the same technique was used as in first group. On the left side, the normal innervation of the ATM was maintained. After 4 months, all muscles and nerves were harvested and evaluations carried out on the morphologic aspect, weight, and histology of the ATM, as well as the histology of the nerves. The authors analyzed the results, which demonstrated good reinnervation of the muscles deprived of any nerve connection.
Information Systems Success Measurement

Researchers and practitioners alike face a daunting challenge when evaluating the "success" of information systems. The purpose of this monograph is to deepen, researchers and practitioners, understanding of the complex nature of IS success measurement driven by the constantly changing role and use of information technology. This monograph covers the history of IS success measurement as well as recent trends and future expectations for IS success measurement. The monograph also identifies the critical success factors that drive information system success and provides measurement and evaluation guidance for practitioners. This comprehensive study of IS success measurement is designed to improve measurement practice among researchers and managers.
Imputation of systematically missing predictors in an individual participant data meta‐analysis: a generalized approach using MICE

Individual participant data meta‐analyses (IPD‐MA) are increasingly used for developing and validating multivariable (diagnostic or prognostic) risk prediction models. Unfortunately, some predictors or even outcomes may not have been measured in each study and are thus systematically missing in some individual studies of the IPD‐MA. As a consequence, it is no longer possible to evaluate between‐study heterogeneity and to estimate study‐specific predictor effects, or to include all individual studies, which severely hampers the development and validation of prediction models.
Object detection using adaptive block-based background model

This paper propose an adaptable block-based background modeling and real time image object detection algorithm. In training step, we present adaptable block-based background model that uses major color number to determine the block size. This background model can reduce the memory consumption, efficiently. In detection step, we use one pixel to compare with background model. Then, it can reduce processing time. The experiment results show that we can save 33.9% memory space. Finally, we can achieve 27.25 frames per second for the benchmark video with image size 768×576.
Multifrequency force microscopy using flexural and torsional modes by photothermal excitation in liquid: atomic resolution imaging of calcite ( 10 1 ¯ 4 ) ?>

We introduce a new multifrequency atomic force microscopy (AFM) method which involves the excitation of flexural and torsional eigenmodes of the microcantilever probe in liquid environments. The flexural and torsional deflection signals are mostly decoupled in the majority of commercial AFM setups, so they can be relatively easily recorded and processed. The use of torsional modes provides additional surface information at the atomic scale, with respect to flexural mode imaging alone, although the flexural modes are the only ones capable of ‘true’ atomic resolution imaging. In our experiments, the torsional modes are shown to be particularly sensitive to protruding oxygen surface atoms on the calcite ( 10 1 ¯ 4 ) ? > plane. The high lateral resolution capability of the flexural modes, combined with the high sensitivity of the torsional modes to specific surface features in liquid environments, can thus offer the means of observing chemical contrast at the atomic level using purely mechanical measurement AFM techniques, even in the absence of tip functionalization.
L-3-hydroxyacyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase from pig heart muscle. I. Purification and properties.

Abstract A method is described for the preparation of homogeneous 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase from pig heart muscle in amounts sufficient for structural studies. The procedure utilizes ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel filtration, and ion exchange chromatography on CM-cellulose. The homogeneity of the preparation obtained has been established by isoelectric focusing, sedimentation analysis, starch gel electrophoresis, and sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis. Crystals of the protein have been obtained with ammonium sulfate in phosphate buffer at pH 6.8. The enzyme exhibits marked substrate inhibition with acetoacetyl-CoA, and to a lesser extent with S-acetoacetyl pantetheine, when assayed in the direction of NADH oxidation. The activity with S-acetoacetyl-N-acetylcysteamine is too low to determine whether high levels of this substrate also inhibit the enzyme. The purified enzyme is a basic protein with an isoelectric point of 8.95 at 4°. It possesses a sedimentation coefficient of 3.88 S and a maximum ultraviolet absorption at 278 nm. The extinction coefficient at this wave length is E1%1 cm = 4.39. The amino acid composition of the enzyme has been determined. The most notable features are 2 residues of tryptophan and 2 residues of half-cystine per mole of protein. Both half-cystinyl residues are present in the native enzyme as cysteine as judged by titration of the protein in 6 m guanidine hydrochloride with p-chloromercuribenzoate.