Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Publications 2002-1201 Coordinated Target Assignment and Intercept for Unmanned Air Vehicles

This paper presents an end-to-end solution to the cooperative control problem represented by the scenario where unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are assigned to transition through known target locations in the presence of dynamic threats. The problem is decomposed into the subproblems of: 1) cooperative target assignment; 2) coordinated UAV intercept; 3) path planning; 4) feasible trajectory generation; and 5) asymptotic trajectory following. The design technique is based on a hierarchical approach to coordinated control. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
The use of a reduced vector potential $A_{r}$ formulation for the calculation of iron induced field errors

The application of the method of finite elements to computing the magnetostatic field due to a given current density distribution in the presence of ferromagnetic media is reviewed with the high precision needed for the analysis of LHC magnets taken into account. Various formulations in terms of either a magnetic scalar or vector potential are described. The basic concepts of the method of finite elements are presented using both node based and edge based elements. The formulation in terms of a reduced magnetic vector potential is shown to be the best choice. It can be realized with the aid of node based finite elements for two-dimensional models but edge based elements are necessary when analyzing three-dimensional arrangements.
Targeting breast cancer cell signaling molecules PI3K and Akt by phytochemicals Cannabidiol, Nimbin and Acetogenin: An in silico approach

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/serine-theronine protein kinase Akt is a vital signaling cascade involved in cell survival, progression and thus causes various types of cancers. Various kinase inhibitors targeting PI3K/Akt have been extensively studied but promising results could not be obtained because of toxicity and resistance issues. The aim of present study was to analyze the interaction of plant derived natural moieties such as nimbin, cannabidiol and acetogenin to PI3K and Akt signaling molecules. Results showed that nimbin, cannabidiol and acetogenin significantly binds to both signaling molecules. They revealed almost equivalent potency of binding to PI3K at their respective active site but nimbin exhibited lower free energy of binding with Akt. A combinational drug therapy comprises of these natural metabolites that can target these specific protein kinases efficiently can prove as a boon for breast and other cancers treatment.
A bi-directional DC-DC converter topology for low power application

This paper presents a bi-directional DC-DC converter for use in low power applications. The proposed topology is based on a half-bridge on the primary and a current fed push-pull on the secondary side of a high frequency isolation transformer. Achieving bi-directional flow of power using the same power components provides a simple, efficient and galvanically isolated topology that is specially attractive for use in battery charge/discharge circuits in DC UPS. In the presence of the DC mains (provided by the AC mains), the converter essentially operates in the buck mode to power the load and charge the battery. On failure of the DC mains, operation is comparable to that of a boost converter and the battery supplies the load power. Small signal and steady state analyses are presented for this specific application. Design guidelines for a laboratory prototype are included. Experimental results validate and evaluate the proposed topology.
Cumulative Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging in Two Hospital Systemsâ Implications for Medical Record Portability

This study assessed the estimated cumulative effective ionizing radiation dose from diagnostic imaging studies performed on a sample of patients identified in two emergency departments (ED) from different hospital systems over 5 years. A random sample of patients was retrospectively identified from a cohort of patients receiving diagnostic imaging during their visit. All imaging diagnostic studies performed on the sample patients over a five year period were retrieved and assigned an effective radiation dose by a radiation physicist, using published reference tables. During the five year study period there were 13,387 radiological studies performed on 1,243 patients sampled from the two hospitals. The mean cumulative radiation dose per patient in milliseiverts (mSv) was 45.0 (SD ±71.4) (range 0.1-674.6) mSv. There were 150 patients (12%) exposed to over 100 mSv of ionizing radiation over 5 years. Although CT scans accounted for only 25.5% of tests performed, they contributed to over 53% of the entire estimated effective radiation dose to this population. Moreover, nuclear medicine tests accounted for 5.3% of all tests performed but contributed to 29.7% of the total estimated effective radiation. The study identified a substantial number of patients exposed to estimated cumulative effective doses of ionizing radiation that would put them at risk of developing cancer based on the Linear No-Threshold Model. The study demonstrates that it is important for physicians to know how much cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging their patients have received. This is one more example of the urgent need for medical record portability and information sharing.
Transformative Teacher Education for a Culture of Peace.

Teacher training across the world has typically assumed a functionalist role in preparing individuals to stand in front of children in classrooms and impart acceptable knowledge. The limitations of this approach have led, in recent years, to the development of new kinds of teacher education which reorient the role of the teacher in powerful ways. This article introduces several transformative approaches to teacher education internationally. It also seeks to extend the notion of transformative teacher education. Building on the aspirations of the Culture of Peace Program initiated by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), the paper discusses how teacher education might make a more deliberate contribution to the development of a culture of peace. The paper presents the characteristics of three innovative teacher education programs (in Bolivia, Namibia, and Egypt). Grounding the discussion in the movement from a mechanistic to a holistic world view, the paper uses insights from peace education, conflict transformation, and social capital theory to suggest potential ways in which teacher education might become a peace building enterprise. (Contains 35 references.) (Author/SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Transformative Teacher Education for a Culture of Peace 0 . 0 Vachel Miller kr1 and Alessandra Mucci Ramos 44 Center for International Education 285 Hills South University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 USA
A Case Study of Indoor Garden-Based Learning With Hydroponics and Aquaponics: Evaluating Pro-Environmental Knowledge, Perception, and Behavior Change

This article reports on a mixed methods evaluation of an indoor garden-based learning curriculum for 5th and 6th graders which incorporated aquaponics and hydroponics technologies. This study provides a better understanding of the extent to which indoor gardening technologies can be used within the formal curriculum as an effective teaching tool. Treatment group students showed statistically significant improvement in environmental knowledge scores as well as higher overall scores on environmental preservation, and in some instances, a commitment to practicing pro-environmental behaviors. Unexpected findings were found in relation to the extent to which students with learning disabilities excelled within the pedagogical design.
Fertigation of ‘BRS Princesa’ banana with humic substance and saponin-based plant extracts

Submitted on February 29th, 2016 and accepted on June 06 , 2 17. 1 Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Programa de Pós Graduação em Engenharia Agrícola, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brasil. engdmmelo@gmail.com; bruno_laecio3@hotmail.com Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa Mandioca e Fruticultura, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brasil. eugenio.coelho@embrapa.com; raul.rosa@embrapa.br; ana.borges@embrapa.br 3 Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Agrárias, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brasil. djalmabsantos9@gmail.com *Corresponding author: engdmmelo@gmail.com Fertigation of ‘BRS Princesa’ banana with humic substance and saponin-based plant extracts
Survey on Malware Detection Techniques

— Malware is a worldwide pandemic. It is designed to damage computer systems without the knowledge of the owner using the system. Software‟s from reputable vendors also contain malicious code that affects the system or leaks information‟s to remote servers. Malware‟s includes computer viruses, spyware, dishonest ad-ware, rootkits, Trojans, dialers etc. Malware detectors are the primary tools in defense against malware. The quality of such a detector is determined by the techniques it uses. It is therefore imperative that we study malware detection techniques and understand their strengths and limitations. This survey examines different types of Malware and malware detection methods.
DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL THROUGH SEED PREDATION THAN LARGE-SEEDED SPECIES?

Seed ecologists have often stated that they expect larger-seeded species to have lower survivorship through postdispersal seed predation than smaller-seeded species. Similar predictions can be made for the relationship between survivorship through predis- persal seed predation and seed mass. In order to test these predictions, we gathered data regarding survivorship through 24 hours of exposure to postdispersal seed predators for 81 Australian species, and survivorship through predispersal seed predation for 170 Aus- tralian species. These species came from an arid environment, a subalpine environment, and a temperate coastal environment. We also gathered data from the published literature (global) on survivorship through postdispersal seed predation for 280 species and survi- vorship through predispersal seed predation for 174 species. We found a weak positive correlation between seed mass and the percentage of seeds remaining after 24 hours of exposure to postdispersal seed predators at two of three field sites in Australia, and no significant relationship across 280 species from the global lit- erature, or at the remaining field site. There was no significant relationship between seed mass and survivorship through predispersal seed predation either cross-species or across phylogenetic divergences in any of the vegetation types, or in the compilation of data from the literature. Postdispersal seed removal was responsible for a greater percentage of seed loss in our field studies than was predispersal seed predation. On average, 83% of diaspores remained after 24 hours of exposure to postdispersal seed removers, whereas 87% of seeds survived all predispersal seed predation that occurred between seed formation and seed maturity. Mean seed survival was higher in the field studies than in the literature compi- lations, and species showing 100% survival were heavily underrepresented in the literature. These differences may be due to biases in species selection or publication bias. Seed defensive tissue mass increased isometrically with seed mass, but there was no significant relationship between the amount of defensive tissue per gram of seed reserve mass and survivorship through postdispersal seed predation.
Energy Efficiency Experiments on Samsung Exynos 5 Heterogeneous Multicore using OmpSs Task Based Programming

This thesis explore the energy efficiency of task based programming with OpenMP SuperScalar (OmpSs) on the heterogeneous Samsung Exynos 5422 system on a chip. The system features small energy efficient cores, large high performance cores and a GPGPU, and OmpSs tasks were run on all three different processors. Experiments running a genetic algorithm and a Cholesky decomposition were used to gather results. The option of running applications on the energy efficient cores, on the high performance cores or on a combination of processor cores and the GPU, allow programs to chose between energy efficiency or performance as necessary. The results showed that the energy efficient cores are the best option when performance is not an objective, while utilizing both high performance and energy efficient cores together gives the highest performance. For applications that are suited to utilize the GPU, it is possible to get a large increase in both performance and energy efficiency. The complexity of developing parallel applications is one of the main obstacles of heterogeneous systems. The results showed that task based programming is a feasible solution to make development less complex, while maintaining both the parallel performance and energy efficiency of the system.
Amino acids in atmospheric droplets: perturbation of surface tension and critical supersaturation predicted by computer simulations

Abstract. Atmospheric amino acids constitute an important fraction of the water-soluble organic nitrogen compounds in both marine and continental aerosols, and have been confirmed as effective cloud condensation nuclei materials in laboratory tests. We here present a molecular dynamics study of amino acids representative for the remote marine atmospheric aerosol-cloud system, in order to investigate molecular distributions, orientations and induced changes in surface tension, and to evaluate their indirect effects on optical properties of clouds. These L-amino acids, including serine, glycine, alanine, valine, methionine and phenylalanine, are categorized as hydrophilic and hydrophobic according to their affinities to water. Different amino acids show distinct effects on the surface tension; even the same amino acid has different influence on the surface tension for planar and spherical interfaces. The curvature dependence of the surface tension is modelled by a quadratic polynomial function of the inverse of droplet radius, and such relationship is used to improve the Kohler equation in predicting the critical water vapour supersaturation of the droplet activation.
A Neuroimaging Investigation of the Effects of Age and Sleep on Pattern Separation

A Neuroimaging Investigation of the Effects of Age and Sleep on Pattern Separation Christopher Robert Doxey Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, BYU Doctor of Philosophy In Neuroscience Effective memory representations must be specific to prevent interference between episodes that may overlap in terms of place, time, or items present. Pattern separation, a computational process performed by the hippocampus overcomes this interference by establishing non-overlapping memory representations. This project explores pattern separation and how it is impacted by age and sleep. Experiment 1. Structures of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) are known to be involved in declarative memory processes. However, little is known about how age-related changes in MTL structures, white matter integrity, and functional connectivity affect pattern separation processes in the MTL. In the present study, we used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure the volumes of MTL regions of interest, including hippocampal subfields (dentate gyrus, CA3, CA1, and subiculum) in healthy older and younger adults. Additionally, we used diffusion tensor imaging to measure white matter integrity for both groups. Finally, we used functional MRI to acquire resting functional connectivity measures for both groups. We show that, along with age, the volume of left CA3/dentate gyrus predicts memory performance. Differences in fractional anisotropy and the strength of resting functional connections between the hippocampus and other cortical structures implicated in memory processing were not significant predictors of performance. As previous studies have only hinted, it seems that the size of left CA3/dentate gyrus contributes more to successful discrimination between similar mnemonic representations than other hippocampal sub-fields, MTL structures, and other neuroimaging correlates. Accordingly, the implications of aging and atrophy on lure discrimination capacities are discussed. Experiment 2. Although it is widely accepted that declarative memories are consolidated during sleep, the effects of sleep on pattern separation have yet to be elucidated. We used wholebrain, high-resolution functional neuroimaging to investigate the effects of sleep on a task that places high demands on pattern separation. Sleep had a selective effect on memory specificity and not general recognition memory. Activity in brain regions related to attention, visual acuity, and visual recall demonstrated an interaction between sleep and delay. Surprisingly, there was no effect of sleep on hippocampal activity using a group-level analysis. To further understand the role of the hippocampus on our task, we performed a representational similarity analysis. We investigated whether hippocampal activity associated with looking at novel stimuli correlated more with similar-looking (lure) stimuli or repeated stimuli. Results indicate that while a single night’s sleep does not significantly impact hippocampal responses, the hippocampus does treat lure stimuli similarly as it does novel stimuli.
Modular invariance in lattice statistical mechanics

We show that non-trivial symmetries, and structures, originating from lattice statistical mechanics, provide a quite efficient way to get interesting results on elliptic curves, algebraic varieties, and even arithmetic problems in algebraic geometry. In particular, the lattice statistical mechanics approach underlines the role played by the modular j-invariant, and by a reduction of elliptic curves to a symmetric biquadratic curve (instead of the well-known reduction to a canonical Weierstrass form). This representation of elliptic curves in terms of a very simple symmetric biquadratic is such that the action of a (generically infinite) discrete set of birational transformations, which corresponds to important non-trivial symmetries of lattice models, can be seen clearly. This biquadratic representation also makes a particular symmetry group of elliptic curves (group of permutation of three elements related to the modular j-invariant) crystal clear. Using this biquadratic representation of elliptic curves, we exhibit a remarkable polynomial representation of the multiplication of the shift of elliptic curves (associated with the group of rational points of the curve). The two expressions g 2 and g 3 , occurring in the Weierstrass canonical form y 2 = 4 x 3 - g 2 x - g 3 , are seen to present remarkable covariance properties with respect to this infinite set of commuting polynomial transformations (homogeneous polynomial transformations of three homogeneous variables, or rational transformations of two variables).
Plus : development and validation of a prognostic model for early breast cancer that includes HER 2

GC Wishart, CD Bajdik, E Dicks, E Provenzano, MK Schmidt, M Sherman, DC Greenberg, AR Green, KA Gelmon, V-M Kosma, JE Olson, MW Beckmann, R Winqvist, SS Cross, G Severi, D Huntsman, K Pylkäs, I Ellis, TO Nielsen, G Giles, C Blomqvist, PA Fasching, FJ Couch, E Rakha, WD Foulkes, FM Blows, LR Bégin, LJ van’t Veer, M Southey, H Nevanlinna, A Mannermaa, A Cox, M Cheang, L Baglietto, C Caldas, M Garcia-Closas and PDP Pharoah* Cambridge Breast Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK; Cancer Control Research Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Division of Molecular Pathology, and Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA; Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre, Cambridge, UK; Department of Pathology, School of Molecular Medical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Department of Medical Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; University Breast Center Franconia, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen, Germany; Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, Department of Clinical Genetics and Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; Academic Unit of Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Oncology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Histopathology, School of Molecular Medical Sciences, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Oncology and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Pathology, McGill University and Hôpital du Sacré, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Oncology University of Sheffield, Institute for Cancer Studies, Sheffield, UK; Division of Genetics and Epidemiology and Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
Optimal Design of a Distributed Winding Type Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

This paper presents a distributed winding type axial flux permanent magnet synchronous generator (AFPMSG) with reduced the total harmonic distortion (THD), suitable for wind turbine generation systems. Although the THD of the proposed distributed winding type is more reduced than the concentrated winding type, the unbalance of the phase back EMF occurs. To improve the unbalance of the phase back EMF and the output power of the distributed winding type AFPMSG, the Kriging based on the latin hypercube sampling (LHS) is utilized. Finally, these optimization results are confirmed by experimental results. As a result, the unbalance of the phase back EMF and the output power of the distributed winding type AFPMSG were improved while maintaining the total harmonic distortion (THD) and the average phase back EMF.