Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
TripNet: Detecting trip hazards on construction sites

This paper introduces TripNet, a robotic vision system that detects trip hazards using raw construction site images. Automated detection of dangers such as trip hazards is difficult. Trip hazards are not entirely defined by an object type, rather trip hazards are affordances typically learnt from time consuming intrusive interaction with an environment and its objects. TripNet performs trip hazard identification using only camera imagery and minimal training with a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) rapidly �ne-tuned on a small corpus of labelled image regions from construction sites. There is no reliance on prior scene segmentation methods during deployment. TripNet achieves comparable performance to a human on a dataset recorded in two distinct real world construction sites. TripNet exhibits spatial and temporal generalization by functioning in previously unseen parts of a construction site and over time periods of several weeks. The dataset is published to stimulate further research in this area. This research is a significant step towards automating detection of hazards on construction sites, where a substantial proportion of all workplace related injuries occur.
Socioeconomic status and health behavior in children and adolescents: a systematic literature review

Socioeconomic status affects individuals’ health behaviors and contributes to a complex relationship between health and development. Due to this complexity, the relationship between SES and health behaviors is not yet fully understood. This literature review, therefore, aims to assess the association between socioeconomic status and health behaviors in childhood and adolescence. Preferred Reporting for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis protocol guidelines were used to conduct a systematic literature review. The electronic online databases EBSCO Host, PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct were utilized to systematically search published articles. The Joanna Briggs Institute’s critical appeal tool was used to assess the quality of included studies. Eligibility criteria such as study context, study participants, study setting, outcome measures, and key findings were used to identify relevant literature that measured the association between socioeconomic status and health behaviors. Out of 2,391 studies, only 46 met the final eligibility criteria and were assessed in this study. Our review found that children and adolescents with low socioeconomic status face an elevated risk of unhealthy behaviors (e.g., early initiation of smoking, high-energy-dense food, low physical activity, and involvement in drug abuse), in contrast to their counterparts. Conversely, children and adolescents from higher socioeconomic backgrounds exhibit a higher prevalence of health-promoting behaviors, such as increased consumption of fruit and vegetables, dairy products, regular breakfast, adherence to a nutritious diet, and engagement in an active lifestyle. The findings of this study underscore the necessity of implementing specific intervention measures aimed at providing assistance to families from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds to mitigate the substantial disparities in health behavior outcomes in children and adolescents.
A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO CLASSIFICATION OF PHONATION MODES IN SINGING

Phonation modes are considered as expressive resources in singing voice, and have been deﬁned in four categories (breathy, pressed, neutral and ﬂow) that correspond to different ratios of subglottal pressure and glottal airﬂow. This work focuses on the automatic classiﬁcation of phonation modes by analyzing a number of audio descriptors and applying machine learning techniques. The proposed method extends the feature set used in previous works, and uses a correlation-based feature selection algorithm to reduce the feature set dimension. For 10 iterations, cross validation is applied to tune the hyper-parameters of a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) model, and automatic classiﬁcation is performed on test sets to evaluate the performance. The analysis of the features we propose justiﬁes the decision of extending the feature set. The experiments performed on two reference datasets, separately and combined, result in a mean F-measure of 0.89 for the soprano, 0.97 for the baritone, and 0.93 for the combined datasets. The achieved results outperform the results of previous works.
Running head: TACTICAL SELF-ENHANCEMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT On Pancultural Self-Enhancement: Well-Adjusted Taiwanese Self-Enhance on Personally-Valued Traits

Taiwanese participants made better-than-average judgments on collectivistic and individualistic traits, evaluated the personal importance of those traits, and completed measures of psychological adjustment (depression, perceived stress, subjective well being, and satisfaction with life). Replicating findings from other East Asian samples, participants self-enhanced (i.e., regarded the self as superior to peers) more on collectivistic than individualistic attributes, and assigned higher personal importance to the former than the latter. Moreover, better adjusted participants manifested a stronger tendency to self-enhance on personally important attributes. These data are consistent with the view that self-enhancement is a universal human motive that is expressed tactically and at odds with the assertion that self-enhancement is a uniquely Western phenomenon.
Inexpensive Visual Motion Data Glove for Human-Computer Interface Via Hand Gesture Recognition

The motion data glove is a representative human-computer interaction tool that inputs human hand gestures to computers by measuring their motions. The motion data glove is essential equipment used for new computer technologiesincluding home automation, virtual reality, biometrics, motion capture. For its popular usage, this paper attempts to develop an inexpensive visual.type motion data glove that can be used without any special equipment. The proposed approach has the special feature; it can be developed as a low-cost one becauseof not using high-cost motion-sensing fibers that were used in the conventional approaches. That makes its easy production and popular use possible. This approach adopts a visual method that is obtained by improving conventional optic motion capture technology, instead of mechanical method using motion-sensing fibers. Compared to conventional visual methods, the proposed method has the following advantages and originalities Firstly, conventional visual methods use many cameras and equipments to reconstruct 3D pose with eliminating occlusions But the proposed method adopts a mono vision approachthat makes simple and low cost equipments possible. Secondly, conventional mono vision methods have difficulty in reconstructing 3D pose of occluded parts in images because they have weak points about occlusions. But the proposed approach can reconstruct occluded parts in images by using originally designed thin-bar-shaped optic indicators. Thirdly, many cases of conventional methods use nonlinear numerical computation image analysis algorithm, so they have inconvenience about their initialization and computation times. But the proposed method improves these inconveniences by using a closed-form image analysis algorithm that is obtained from original formulation. Fourthly, many cases of conventional closed-form algorithms use approximations in their formulations processes, so they have disadvantages of low accuracy and confined applications due to singularities. But the proposed method improves these disadvantages by original formulation techniques where a closed-form algorithm is derived by using exponential-form twist coordinates, instead of using approximations or local parameterizations such as Euler angels.
Predicting protein coding boundaries using RNNs

We explore how recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can be used to predict protein coding domains in a gene. We ﬁrst demonstrate that using long short term memory RNNs give with one-hot encoding resulted in a limited prediction power. Later, we demonstrate how a word embedding approach along with bi-directional LSTMs gives promising re-sults using the entire pool of protein coding genes in human achieving an overall accuracy of 0.67. This model is then used to predict protein coding domains in a different species, mouse
Suppression of dwarf and irregular xylem phenotypes generates low- 11 acetylated biomass lines in Arabidopsis thaliana

summary: Inactivation of ubiquitin-ligase3 suppresses dwarfism and irregular xylem in the esk1 Arabidopsis mutant, generating a line with low acetylated biomass and high glucose release after cellulolysis. Abstract 47 esk1-5 is a dwarf Arabidopsis mutant that has a constitutive drought syndrome and 48 collapsed xylem vessels, along with low acetylation levels in xylan and mannan. 49 ESK1 has xylan O -acetyl-transferase activity in vitro . We used a suppressor 50 strategy on esk1-5 to screen for variants with wild-type growth and low acetylation 51 levels, a favorable combination for ethanol production. 52 We found a recessive mutation in the KAKTUS ( KAK ) gene that suppressed 53 dwarfism and the collapsed xylem character, the cause of decreased hydraulic 54 conductivity in the esk1-5 mutant. Backcrosses between esk1-5 and two 55 independent knock-out kak mutants confirmed suppression of the esk1-5 effect. 56 kak single mutants showed larger stem diameters than the wild-type. The KAK 57 promoter fused with a reporter gene showed activity in the vascular cambium, 58 phloem and primary xylem in the stem and hypocotyl. However, suppression of the 59 collapsed xylem phenotype in esk1 kak double mutants was not associated with 60 the recovery of cell wall O-acetylation or any major cell wall modifications. Our 61 results therefore indicate that, in addition to its described activity as a repressor of 62 endoreduplication, KAK may play a role in vascular development. Furthermore, 63 orthologous esk1 kak double mutants may hold promise for ethanol production in 64 crop plants. genotypes carrying the esk1 and kak mutations on a green background, and data from genotypes carrying
Evaluating and Co-creating with Student Learning Developers

This is a research article supported by a video. To read the article, please click on the pdf . To play the video, click on the link at the bottom of this page. The Learning Development Centre (LDC) in the School of Health & Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University serves over 6000 students, of whom over 70% have off-campus placement requirements. Provision of high-quality online support materials is therefore a priority. The LDC team has developed a suite of contextualised online resources to assist students in their development of academic and digital literacies. The LDC Team undertook a project to evaluate and enhance the resources and the LDC website. This involved the use of traditional evaluation tools in addition to the more innovative use of the 'Think Aloud Method' (Ericsson and Simon, 1984), to assess interface usability and online community content. A key to this project was the Team’s partnership with students, as ‘Student Learning Developers’ who played a pivotal role in the evaluation and co-creation of resources. This has helped to embed a culture of student collaboration within the LDC. In addition to showcasing the community and sharing students’ experiences of participating in the project, this submission will include discussion about effective ways of creating, evaluating and promoting online learning development resources, together with the LDC team’s reflections on partnership working with students.
Design and optimisation of an In‐wheel switched reluctance motor for electric vehicles

To improve the mechanical performance of the In-wheel switched reluctance motor (SRM) used in electric vehicles (EVs), structure design and geometrical multi-objective optimisation strategy for the In-wheel SRM were developed in this study. The design method for major parameters of the In-wheel SRM was presented by means of design specifications of the EVs. According to requirements of the EVs, four indicators of the SRM were defined to evaluate the development of the SRM and perform the optimisation. To simultaneously improve the static performance of the SRM, a novel multi-objective simultaneous optimisation function was proposed by using four weighted factors and considering sensitivity analysis of the design variables on indicators. A four-phase 16/20 In-wheel SRM with an outer rotor was designed and optimised based on the proposed multi-objective optimisation method. The influence of design variables on average torque, torque ripple, efficiency, and torque density was analysed based on a combination of finite element analysis and orthogonal experiment design method. The static and dynamic torque performances of the optimised SRM were evaluated and compared with those of the initial motor. The comparison results showed that the proposed multi-objective simultaneous optimisation strategy can greatly improve the static and dynamic torque performances of the SRM.
LinesEBV-Transformed B-Lymphoblastoid Cell Correlate with Epitope Abundance in Epitopes Restricted by HLA-B27 Does Not Immunodominance Among EBV-Derived

Using synthetic peptides, the HLA-B27-restricted CTL response to EBV in asymptomatic virus carriers has been mapped to four epitope regions in EBV latent cycle Ags. One of these peptide-deﬁned epitopes (RRIYDLIEL) tends to be immunodominant and is recognized in the context of all three B27 subtypes studied, B*2702, B*2704, and B*2705. The other peptide-deﬁned epitopes induce responses only in the context of one subtype, the immunogenic combinations being RRARSLSAERY/B*2702, RRRWRRLTV/B*2704, and FRKAQIQGL/B*2705. We used immunoafﬁnity chromatography to isolate the naturally presented viral peptides associated with these MHC class I molecules on the surface of EBV-transformed B-LCL. Using CTL reconstitution assays in conjunction with mass spectrometry, we established that the naturally processed and presented peptides are identical with the previously identiﬁed synthetic sequences. Despite the subtype-speciﬁc immunogenicity of three of the four epitopes, all four epitope peptides were found in association with each of the three different HLA-B27 subtypes. Indeed, those peptides that failed to induce a response in the context of a particular HLA-B27 subtype were frequently presented at greater abundance by that subtype than were the immunogenic peptides. Furthermore, among the peptides that did induce a response, immunodominance did not correlate with epitope abundance; of A, 0.1% acetic acid in and solvent B, 0.1% acetic acid in 60:40 acetonitrile:water. Peptides were eluted with a gradient consisting of 0–40% B in 20 min, 40–100% B in 4 min, 100–0% B in 3 min, followed by a 7-min wash with 100% A. High-resolution (m/ D m ; 35,000) mass spectra were recorded at a rate of ; 1/s. A SWIFT (23) waveform with a notch of zero excitation energy centered about the mass range, 591–606, was used to isolate naturally processed RRIYDLIEL and the deuterated analogue. Ejection of all other species from the Fourier transform mass spectrometer Penning trap before detection minimized deleterious mass shifts resulting from excess space charge. Broadband excitation of the remaining ions was followed by heterodyne detection over the mass range 470–700. Naturally processed RRIYDLIEL was quantitated by comparing its signal intensity with that for a deuterium-labeled standard. Analysis of various concentrations of the deuterated synthetic peptide RRIYD*LIEL (*L 5 leucine, d ) produced a linear standard curve ( R 2 5 0.9996) span- ning the range from 10 amol to 5 fmol.
depletion increases HCO 3 (cid:50) reabsorption in OMCD by activation of colonic H (cid:49) -K (cid:49) -ATPase

K (cid:49) depletion increases HCO 3 (cid:50) reabsorption in OMCD by activation of colonic H (cid:49) -K (cid:49) ATPase. Am. J. Physiol. 274 ( Renal Physiol. 43): F687–F692, 1998. —To probe the role of the isoforms of H (cid:49) -K (cid:49) -ATPase (HKA) in potassium depletion (KD), rats were placed on a KD diet for 2 wk. Colonic HKA (cHKA) mRNA levels increased (cid:44) 30-fold in outer medulla, and net HCO 3 (cid:50) ﬂux ( J tCO 2 ) in outer medullary collecting duct (OMCD) increased (13.1 pmol · min (cid:50) 1 · mm tubule length (cid:50) 1 in control to 17.7 pmol·min (cid:50) 1 ·mm tubule length (cid:50) 1 in KD; P (cid:44) 0.01). In normal rats, 1 mM ouabain in perfusate had no effect on J tCO 2 , whereas 10 µM Sch-28080 decreased J tCO 2 to 5.1 pmol· min (cid:50) 1 ·mm tubule length (cid:50) 1 ( P (cid:44) 0.001). In KD rats, ouabain 1 mM decreased J tCO 2 to 6.3 pmol·min (cid:50) 1 ·mm tubule length (cid:50) 1 ( P (cid:44) 0.001). Although 10 µM Sch-28080 also decreased J tCO 2 to 4.6 pmol·min (cid:50) 1 ·mm tubule length (cid:50) 1 ( P (cid:44) 0.001), the inhibitory effects of Sch-28080 and ouabain were not additive. Removal of K (cid:49) from perfusate blocked Sch-28080-sensitive J tCO 2 in both normal and KD tubules. The data suggest that, in KD, cHKA is induced and mediates increased HCO 3 (cid:50) reabsorption in OMCD, cHKA in vivo is sensitive to both Sch-28080 and ouabain, and cHKA activity is dominant.
Conscious intentions are formed both before and after voluntary actions: a BCI study

A qualitative assessment of EEG data from stage I used to train the classifier (Fig. S1A) shows that for most participants the signals look as expected, with EEG signals preceding self-paced movements in average displaying the typical negative trend of a readiness potential (“Move” class), while EEG signals preceding trial start cues do not show any particular trend (“Idle” class). However, while the RP is a potentially informative feature that the BCI may use for classification, it is not guaranteed a priori that the EEG features extracted by the classifier to separate the “Move” and “Idle” classes were based on the presence and absence of an RP over central channels.
11 T Twin-Aperture Nb 3 Sn Dipole Development for LHC Upgrades

— FNAL and CERN are developing a twin-aperture 11 T Nb 3 Sn dipole suitable for installation in the LHC. This paper describes the design and parameters of the 11 T dipole developed at FNAL for the LHC upgrades in both single-aperture and twin-aperture configurations, and presents details of the constructed dipole models. Results of studies of magnet quench performance, quench protection and magnetic measurements performed using short 1 m long coils in the dipole mirror and single-aperture configurations are reported and discussed.
Business Model Scenarios for an Open Service Platform for Multi-Modal Electric Vehicle Sharing

—Triggered by environmental concerns, smart mobility solutions have expanded in recent years. This includes the development of an electric vehicle market, car- and bike sharing concepts and better route planning systems for public transportation. The fusion of these approaches opens the door for new business models for cooperating industries in the field of multi-modal electric mobility. This paper provides a selection of scenarios about how the interplay between mobility- and infrastructure providers can affect their business models. It concludes that the continuous technical and business interactions between multiple partners would profit from the integration of an Open Service Platform that handles data management and coordination tasks for the partners.
Photocatalytic self-cleaning coatings 1 with embedded plasmonic gold nanoparticles

1 Transparent photocatalytic TiO 2 thin films hold great potential in the development of self-cleaning 2 glass surfaces, but suffer from a poor visible light response that hinders the application under actual 3 sunlight. To alleviate this problem, the photocatalytic film can be modified with plasmonic 4 nanoparticles that interact very effectively with visible light. Since the plasmonic effect is strongly 5 concentrated in the near surroundings of the entire nanoparticle surface, an approach is presented to 6 embed the plasmonic nanostructures in the TiO 2 matrix itself, rather than deposit them loosely on the 7 surface. This way the interaction interface is maximised and the plasmonic effect can be fully exploited. 8 In this study, pre-fabricated gold nanoparticles are made compatible with the organic medium of a 9 TiO 2 sol-gel coating suspension, resulting in a one-pot coating suspension. After spin coating, 10 homogeneous, smooth and highly transparent anatase thin films are obtained with a negligible loss in 11 transparency caused upon introduction of gold nanoparticles. The thin films are characterised by 12 ellipsometry, XRD, UV-VIS spectroscopy, AFM, SEM-EDX, TEM and water contact angle measurements. 13 Films containing 3 wt% gold loading resulted in a stearic acid degradation efficiency increase of 16% 14 and 40% under UVA and solar light, respectively. With this study we want to promote a promising 15 strategy that enables effective utilisation of plasmonic enhancement that can eventually be exploited 16 in various photocatalytic applications. 17
Wireless Power Transfer Utilizing a High-$Q$ Self-Resonant Structure

The range and efficiency of a wireless power transfer (WPT) system is limited by the quality factor of the resonant coils. Conventional resonant coils are made from solid or Litz wire. At megahertz frequencies solid wire is not utilized well due to skin effect, and Litz wire is very lossy due to proximity effect. We present a multilayer self-resonant structure as a low-cost method for creating high-$Q$ coils. This structure uses thin foil layers that are separated by a dielectric material in order to form an LC resonator, while also forcing equal current sharing between conductors. The self-resonant structure makes it feasible to achieve advantages similar to Litz wire, but at multi-megahertz frequencies where effective Litz wire is not commercially available. These structures are made with foil layers much thinner than a skin depth, which can make handling these thin layers a challenge. To solve this problem, we also present a modified self-resonant structure in which the layered conductors are made with flex-PCB substrates with no vias. The PCB substrates provide a relatively inexpensive way to handle thin conductive layers, and the modified self-resonant structure ensures that the poor dielectric properties of the PCB substrates do not impact the quality factor of the structure. A prototype of the modified self-resonant structure has a quality factor of 1183 at 7.09 MHz, despite only being 6.6 cm in diameter, which is more than 6.5x larger than other coils presented in the literature with a similar diameter. An experimental WPT setup utilizing two self-resonant structures achieves 94$\%$ efficiency at a distance of 5.0 cm, which is more than twice the distance as similarly sized conventional coils can achieve while maintaining the same efficiency.