Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dietary Oat b-Glucan Reduces Peak Net Glucose Flux and Insulin Production and Modulates Plasma Incretin in Portal-Vein Catheterized Grower Pigs 1 – 3

Net glucose and SCFA flux and insulin secretion into the portal vein might be associated with the incretins glucosedependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). Our objectives were to clarify this association and study the impact of 2 doses of dietary oat b-glucan on the variables. Three 35-kg portal vein-catheterized pigs were fed 3 diets containing 0, 3, or 6% oat b-glucan concentrate (BG0, BG3, and BG6) for 7 d in a repeated 33 3 Latin square. On d 7, blood was sampled for 12 h postprandially. Net glucose flux and apparent hormone production were calculated from plasma portal-arterial differences3 flow. Postprandially, pigs fed BG6 had lower (P, 0.05) portal glucose at 15, 30, and 45 min and a lower (P, 0.05) net glucose flux during the first hour. Pigs fed BG6 tended to have lower (P, 0.10) portal C-peptide without lowering insulin, indicating that pigs fed BG6 had lower actual insulin release combinedwith a higher prehepatic retention of insulin. Pigs fed BG6 had lower (P , 0.05) portal GIP and GLP-1, which in turn were correlated (R = 0.81 and 0.88, respectively; P, 0.01) with portal glucose. Pigs fed BG3 and BG6 had a higher (P , 0.05) net SCFA flux than pigs fed BG0, indicating increased fermentation. In conclusion, dietary supplementation of 6% oat b-glucan concentrate decreased net glucose flux, increased net SCFA flux, and decreased peak apparent insulin production, changes that were associated with GIP and GLP-1 mediation. J. Nutr. 140: 1564–1569, 2010.
Problematic Internet Use (PIU): The role of emotional factors on social media activities

The Internet usage in Indonesia is increasing every year. The most popular internet application in this country is social media. During the election in Jakarta, the phenomenon shows that many social media users do hatred in their posting. This situation gives a clue about the emotional factors related to Problematic Internet Use (PIU). According to PIU concept, people with PIU syndrome have maladaptive cognition and also maladaptive behavior. The hatred posting was part of maladaptive behavior. The objective of this study was to give empirical evidence the impact of three emotional factors, such as emotion reactivity, emotion regulation, and empathy, to PIU. Sample of this research were 274 undergraduate students from 2 universities in Jakarta. They were given 4 instruments self-report: GPIUS2, ERS, ERQ, and IRI. Results showed that the multiple regression of three emotional factors was significant to PIU. But only emotion reactivity gave the contribution in this study. It indicates that the emotion reactivity has role to PIU and it also explain about the hatred posting on social media.
Detecting bot-infected machines based on analyzing the similar periodic DNS queries

Modern botnets such as Zeus and Conficker commonly utilize a technique called domain fluxing or a Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) to generate a large number of pseudo-random domain names dynamically for botnet operators to control their bots. These botnets are becoming one of the most serious threats to the Internet security on a global scale. In this paper, we present a method based on analyzing the similar periodic time intervals series of DNS queries to identify DGA-bot infected machines. This method passively captures all DNS traffic from the gateway of monitor network. Firstly, we group queries of the same domain name that is requested by hosts, and then extracts time interval series between adjacent queries. Secondly, we measure the similar periodicity of DNS queries by calculating the squared Euclidean distance between each pair of their time interval series. Finally, we apply a hierarchical clustering algorithm to cluster high similar domain names. The experiment results show that the domain names are generated by the same botnet or DGA would be grouped into the same cluster, thus all of the hosts that query to these clusters are marked as compromised hosts running a domain-flux botnet within monitor network.
An Analysis of M 0 and M 1 Measurement Conditions Inherent Variation

The increased use of optical brightening agents (OBAs) in substrates for printing is well documented, as are the complications surrounding spectrophotometric color measurement when OBAs are present. In an effort to better address measurement of OBAs, the International Standards Organization (ISO) has published ISO 13566:2009, where the illuminations utilized in spectrophotometric instrumentation is more clearly de ned than in previous standards. It is recognized that moving ahead the illuminant utilized in spectrophotometers should be able to better correlate to standardized viewing conditions, including the amount of ultra-violet (UV) present in the illuminant, as the effect of the OBAs is dependent on the amount of UV.
Securing SoCs from Time Side Channels

SoCs are required to maintain information private when requested by the Operating System (OS) or the application. From a high level point of view, there are time domains, typically processes or threads, and there should be no time information leak between them. At the same time, cores inside SoCs are supposed to be fast levering many predictors and resource sharing for efficiency. Using predictors like caches and branch predictors can have side effects that leak information across time domains. Specifically, the challenge is that the code executed by one time domain affects the performance of another. This time impact information leak can be exploited as a side channel attack. The goal of this work is to classify the different side channel time information leaks that result from different predictors available in typical high performance cores. The work focuses on side channels that result of changes in execution time, not other side channels like Electro-Magnetic Interference. The proposed classification points that time side effects or leaks can be due to program data, address, program counter, or just execution time. Each of those information leaks can happen during the speculative or the non-speculative execution. This work also goes over all the predictors in current out-of-order cores, and shows mechanisms to avoid the time-based information leak.
The Case for Abandoning Therapeutic Chelation of Copper Ions in Alzheimer's Disease

The “therapeutic chelation” approach to treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) evolved from the metals hypothesis, with the premise that small molecules can be designed to prevent transition metal-induced amyloid deposition and oxidative stress within the AD brain. Over more than 20 years, countless in vitro studies have been devoted to characterizing metal binding, its effect on Aβ aggregation, ROS production, and in vitro toxicity. Despite a lack of evidence for any clinical benefit, the conjecture that therapeutic chelation is an effective approach for treating AD remains widespread. Here, the author plays the devil's advocate, questioning the experimental evidence, the dogma, and the value of therapeutic chelation, with a major focus on copper ions.
A 23 GHz sector antenna for point-to-multipoint communications

A broadband and compact antenna concept for a point-to-multipoint communication system at millimeter-wave frequencies is presented. The antenna consists of a rectangular feed waveguide, an H-plane parallel plate horn, an enclosed parabolic reflector section, a radiation slot aperture, and corrugated external baffles. The bandwidth is 2.9 GHz corresponding to a relative bandwidth of 12.6 % at 23 GHz for a return loss better than 10 dB of a prototype. The overall dimensions of the manufactured antenna are 200 mm by 147 mm by 50 mm
The Stacking of CMOS Photovoltaic Devices by Localized Substrate Removal for High Voltage Generation

Voltage boosting from CMOS photovoltaic device (PV) is achieved by implementing multiple PV units on single CMOS chip and are series connected by an external integrated passive device. Localized substrate removal process is developed to electrically isolate the PV units. Four-cell cascaded CMOS PV module provides an open-circuit voltage of 2.05 V while maintaining its superior PV performance.
On the Locus of Zeros of the First-Order Temperature Coefficient of Frequency for the Thickness Mode C of &#945;-Quartz Plates

Abmucr-Experimental and theoretical evidence is presented which shows that in the region 44" < Q 6 60", 23" < Q < 36", the locus of the zero &st-order temperature coefficient of frequency o f the thickness C mode of or-quartz plates departs from the widely accepted monotonic decrease of @ with increase in @ obtained by Bechmann, Ballato, and Lukaszek. The suggested new form also differs from that proposed by Kahan. The calculations are based on the Tiersten analysis of the thickness vibrations rather than the Christoffel theory used by Bechmann et uL, but the only qualitative differences are in the region noted and in the values derived from the data of Bechmann er ul. for the fustorder temperature coefficients of c13 and c33 for which values of r e spectively -(736 * 35) X ("C)-' and -(232 t 15) X ("C)-' are found at 25°C.
Automatic video descriptor for human action recognition

Assistive software such as screen readers are unable to describe images or videos for visually impaired people. Although recent research have found ways to describe an image automatically, describing the content of a video is still an ongoing issue. Visually impaired people find it difficult to understand video content without an indication of sound. The current solution of video description is only provided through digital television and for selected programs and movies. As an initiative to describe video content for visually impaired people, the solution acts as a video player which automatically understands the ongoing human action on screen, associates textual descriptions and narrates it to the blind user. The human actions in the video should be recognized in real time, hence fast, reliable feature extraction and classification methods must be adopted. A feature set is extracted for each frame and is obtained from the projection histograms of the foreground mask. The number of moving pixels for each row and column of the frame is used to identify the instant position of a person. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to classify extracted features of each frame. The final classification is given by analyzing frames in segments. The classified actions will be converted from text to speech.
The incorporation of in in GaAsN as a means of N fraction calibration

InGaAsN and GaAsN epitaxial layers with similar nitrogen compositions in a sample were successfully grown on a GaAs (001) substrate by solid source molecular beam epitaxy. An electron cyclotron resonance nitrogen plasma source has been used to generate atomic nitrogen during the growth of the nitride layers. The indium composition changed from sample to sample to give compressive and tensile strained InGaAsN layers. Layer characteristics have been assessed by high-resolution x-ray diffraction to determine the relationship between the lattice constant of the GaAs1-yNy layer and the fraction x of In. The objective was to determine the In fraction x in an InxGa1-xAs1-yNy epitaxial layer which exactly cancels the strain present in a GaAs1-yNy epitaxial layer with the same nitrogen content when grown on a GaAs substrate. Keywords—Indium, molecular beam epitaxy, nitrogen, strain cancellation.
Cross layer routing design based on RPL for multi-hop cognitive radio networks

Cognitive Radio (CR) is viewed as a revolutionary potential radio technology capable of offering dynamic spectrum access. CR Networks (CRNs) with such spectrum aware devices is a hopeful solution to the spectrum scarcity issue in wireless communication sector. In this paper, an effective routing solution with a cross layer design is proposed for the multi-hop CRNs. Most of the existing work uses Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol as the routing protocol for CRNs. In this work, a novel routing algorithm based on Routing Protocol for Low power and lossy networks (RPL) is being proposed for the CRNs. Routing is accomplished through the formation of colored Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graphs (DODAGs) of which the link frequencies are represented using colors. Hop count and adjacent link interference are counted as the routing metrics. Dynamic spectrum allocation is also done along with routing with the help of RPL. The CRN scenario is vulnerable to link failures due to the appearance of Primary Users (PUs). So route repairing using the Trickle algorithm offered by RPL is also implemented in this work. To implement this algorithm, a traffic aware scheduling is used. A MATLAB simulation is done to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Blunting of cardioprotective actions of estrogen in female rodent heart linked to altered expression of cardiac tissue chymase and ACE2

Background: Diastolic dysfunction develops in response to hypertension and estrogen (E2) loss and is a forerunner to heart failure (HF) in women. The cardiac renin–angiotensin system (RAS) contributes to diastolic dysfunction, but its role with respect to E2 and blood pressure remain unclear. Methods: We compared the effects of ovariectomy (OVX) or sham surgery on the cardiac RAS, left ventricular (LV) structure/function, and systemic/intracardiac pressures of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs: n = 6 intact and 6 OVX) and age-matched Wistar-Kyoto (WKY: n = 5 intact and 4 OVX) controls. Results: WKY rats were more sensitive to OVX than SHRs with respect to worsening of diastolic function, as reflected by increases in Doppler-derived filling pressures (E/e′) and reductions in myocardial relaxation (e′). This pathobiologic response in WKY rats was directly linked to increases in cardiac gene expression and enzymatic activity of chymase and modest reductions in ACE2 activity. No overt changes in cardiac RAS genes or activities were observed in SHRs, but diastolic function was inversely related to ACE2 activity. Conclusion: Endogenous estrogens exert a more significant regulatory role upon biochemical components of the cardiac RAS of WKY versus SHRs, modulating the lusitropic and structural components of its normotensive phenotype.
Recurrent Out-of-Vocabulary Word Detection Using Distribution of Features

The repeated use of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in a spoken document seriously degrades a speech recognizer’s performance. This paper provides a novel method for accurately detecting such recurrent OOV words. Standard OOV word detection methods classify each word segment into in-vocabulary (IV) or OOV. This word-by-word classiﬁcation tends to be affected by sudden vocal irregularities in spontaneous speech, triggering false alarms. To avoid this sensitivity to the irreg-ularities, our proposal focuses on consistency of the repeated occurrence of OOV words. The proposed method preliminar-ily detects recurrent segments, segments that contain the same word, in a spoken document by open vocabulary spoken term discovery using a phoneme recognizer. If the recurrent segments are OOV words, features for OOV detection in those segments should exhibit consistency. We capture this consistency by using the mean and variance (distribution) of features (DOF) derived from the recurrent segments, and use the DOF for IV/OOV classiﬁcation. Experiments illustrate that the proposed method’s use of the DOF signiﬁcantly improves its performance in recurrent OOV word detection.
Failure of On-Chip Power-Rail ESD Clamp Circuits During System-Level ESD Test

Four different on-chip power-rail electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits, (1) with typical RC-triggered; (2) with NMOS+PMOS feedback; (3) with PMOS feedback; and (4) with cascaded PMOS feedback, have been designed and fabricated in a 0.18-mum CMOS technology to investigate their susceptibility to system-level ESD test. During the system-level ESD test, where the ICs in a system have been powered up, the feedback loop used in the power-rail ESD clamp circuit provides the lock function to keep the main ESD device in a "latch-on" state. The latch-on ESD device, which is often designed with a larger device dimension to sustain high ESD level, conducts a huge current between the power lines to perform a latchup-like failure after the system-level ESD test. From the experimental results, two kinds of on-chip power-rail ESD clamp circuits with feedback structures are highly sensitive to transient-induced latchup-like failure than others
Directed Test Generation for Validation of Cache Coherence Protocols

Computing systems utilize multicore processors with complex cache coherence protocols to meet the increasing need for performance and energy improvement. It is a major challenge to verify the correctness of a cache coherence protocol since the number of reachable states grows exponentially with the number of cores. In this paper, we propose an efficient test generation technique, which can be used to achieve full state and transition coverage in simulation-based verification for a wide variety of cache coherence protocols. Based on effective analysis of the state space structure, our method can generate more efficient test sequences (50% shorter) on-the-fly compared with tests generated by BFS. While our on-the-fly method can reduce the numbers of required tests by half, it can still be impractical to verify all possible transitions in the presence of large number of cores. We propose scalable on-the-fly test generation techniques using quotient state space. The proposed approach guarantees selection of important transitions by utilizing equivalence classes, and omits only similar transitions. Our experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approaches can efficiently tradeoff between transition coverage and validation effort.
Structural Analogy — Direct Similarity Versus Topographical Complementarity

The era of rational drug design started with conclusion of Paul Ehrlich that substances, which are used to dye bacteria for their visualization under the microscope, must interfere with bacterial cells. If so, some of them may interfere lethally and therefore Ehrlich started system‐ atic search on the action of various dyes (and further other organic compounds) on bacterial growth. In that manner he had discovered first synthetic antibacterial agent – arsphenamine, Salvarsan (Figure 1), a cure for syphilis [1]. These studies initiated the concept of chemotherapy and brought him the Nobel Prize in 1908. Paul Ehrlich studied medicine at the University of Wrocław (then Breslau) and therefore this chapter is dedicated to him and his achievements.
The Relationship Between Tourism Education and The Tourism Industry: Implications for Tourism Education

The relationship between tourism education and the tourism industry is historically a complex one which has been characterised by a lack of trust. Increasingly, however, both education and industry are recognising the mutual benefits of developing a more co-operative relationship and the importance of narrowing the divide which has traditionally existed between them. The need to satisfy both academic and the industry stakeholders does have special implications for the delivery of tourism education, as opposed to more traditional subject areas such as geography or history. This paper explores the relationship between education and industry and outlines the particular responses of tourism educators to come to terms with the relationship.
Route Planning with Uncertain Information using Dempster-Shafer theory

The aim of this paper is to find a solution for route planning in a road network, where the costs of roads are uncertain. Our concept is based on the Dempster-Shafer theory and Dijkstra's algorithm, which helps to find the best routes. We model the influencing factors of the traffic congestion on the roads using uncertain probabilities described by probability intervals. Based on these intervals the cost intervals of each road can be calculated. Taking the uncertain values of costs into account an algorithm has been outlined for determination the best routes from a node to all other nodes comparing the cost intervals and using decision rules. Decision rules can be defined by the end user, if necessary node by node.
Deep Trouble for the Deep Self 1 [ Forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology ]

Chandra Sripada‟s (forthcoming) Deep Self Concordance Account aims to explain various asymmetries in people‟s judgments of intentional action. On this account, people distinguish between an agent‟s active and deep self; attitude attributions to the agent‟s deep self are then presumed to play a causal role in people‟s intentionality ascriptions. Two judgments are supposed to play a role in these attributions—a judgment that specifies the attitude at issue and one that indicates that the attitude is robust (Sripada and Konrath, forthcoming). In this article, we show that the Deep Self Concordance Account, as it is currently articulated, is unacceptable. The folk concept of intentional action has been the subject of extensive research by experimental philosophers and psychologists (Alicke, 2008; Knobe, 2003a, 2003b, 2006; Machery, 2008; Malle, 2006; Mele, 2006; Nadelhoffer, 2004, 2006; Nichols & Ulatowski, 2007; Wright & Bengson, 2009). This research has focused primarily on puzzling asymmetries in ordinary people‟s judgments about intentional action. Researchers have been particularly concerned with ordinary judgments about the intentional status of side effects, as in Knobe‟s (2003a) harm and help cases. Consider first Knobe‟s harm case: The vice-president of a company went to the chairman of the board and said, “We are thinking of starting a new program. It will help us increase profits, but it will also harm 1 We would like to thank Josh Knobe, Shaun Nichols, Chandra Sripada and Liane Young for their helpful comments. We would also like to thank David Danks for his very helpful discussions.
A comparative study of methods for modelling the structural stiffness of generator components

Direct-drive generators are low speed electrical machines requiring robust and large supporting structures designed to resist the significant loads present during assembly and operation. Generator structures have to be stiff, especially in the radial direction for radial-flux machines. This paper presents three different structural modelling approaches: finite element, analytical and hybrid (a combination of the results obtained from dimensional studies and finite element analyses). These are used along with models of electromagnetic active material, to parametrically calculate the minimum structural stiffness and mass of the components forming the machine.
Ambiguous Information and Trading Volume in stock market

This paper studies the information transmission and the effect of ambiguous information and transaction cost on trading volume. We consider a market with risk-averse informed and uninformed investors with CARA utility function and the supply of the risky asset is random. In this model, all investors have ambiguous beliefs about the probability distribution of the risky asset payoff before the signal was announced. After the signal is arrival, the speculator, informed investor, receives a private information signal about the realization of the risky asset payoff such that the speculator know precisely the conditional distribution of the payoff. ∗Address: Wylie Hall Rm 105, 100 S. Woodlawn, Bloomington, IN 47405-7104, USA, e-mail: mengchen@indiana.edu.