Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Query Engine Design and Performance Analysis : A Review

Distributed real-time computing has been the domain of practical system engineering for many decades. The development of a discipline of real-time programming would allow the construction of programs with analysable and variable timing properties. Such a discipline will need to be built on a well-integrated framework in which different methods are used where appropriate to obtain timing properties to which a high-level assurance can be attached. Time is everything in this current system, everything fast will gain the most valuable achievements especially in the business field. Whoever tries to get the first opportunity to fulfil the market needs will gain most profit. This paper looks into the various query engine models and frameworks that tries to improve on both the design and performance.
Diel Rhythms of Marine Picoplanktonic 1 Communities Assessed by Comparative 2 Metaproteomics 3

Diel cycle is of enormous biological importance in that it imposes temporal structure 22 on ecosystem productivity. In the world oceans, microorganisms form complex communities 23 that carry out about half of photosynthesis and the bulk of life-sustaining nutrient cycling. Within these natural microbial assemblages, photoautotrophs, such as Cyanobacteria , display 25 diel rhythmicity in gene expression. To what extent autotrophs and heterotrophs are impacted 26 by light and dark oscillations and how this collectively influences community structure and 27 functionality remains poorly documented. In this study, we compared eight day/night 28 metaproteome profiles of Cyanobacteria and both free-living and attached bacterial fractions 29 from picoplanktonic communities sampled over two consecutive days from the surface north- 30 west Mediterranean Sea. regulation for phototrophs. This study provided additional evidences that timekeeping mechanisms might be widespread among bacteria, broadening our knowledge on diel microbial 45 assemblage dynamics. marine diel solar radiation imposes daily temporal structure. Assessing the impact of day and night cycle on microbial assemblages essential to better understand this complex ecosystem. This work compared diel metaproteome dynamics of free-living and particles-attached 290 picoplanktonic fractions within coastal oligotrophic environment. Our study was conducted 291 over two consecutive days, going one step further than previous metaproteomic efforts and 292 allowing a better understanding of cyclic regulation of protein expression. Despite the overall 293 stability of the community proteome profile, our results showed diel taxa-specific variation of 294 protein expression with stronger regulation in phototrophs than in heterotrophs. The observation 295 of diel regulations in other phototrophic taxa ( Rhodobacterales ) than Cyanobacteria reinforced evidences that timekeeping mechanisms might be widespread in Bacteria, raising new questions in marine microbial ecology and evolution. Therefore, studying the in situ diel variations using multi-diel omics investigations will undoubtedly broaden our knowledge on microbial assemblage dynamics and provide key elements for understanding taxa-specific diel functioning.
Phantom validation of optical soft tissue navigation for Brachytherapy

In high dose rate brachytherapy, needles are inserted into soft tissue and subsequently radioactive sources are used to deliver a high dose inside the target region. While this approach can achieve a steep dose gradient and offers a focused, organ sparing treatment, it also requires a careful positioning of the needles with respect to the tissue. We have previously proposed to use an optical fiber embedded in the needle to detect soft tissue deformation. To validate the approach, we have developed an experimental setup to compare the actual needle motion with the motion estimated via the fiber. Our results show a good agreement between actual and estimated motion, indicating that optical deformation detection through the needle is possible.
Biopotential Features and Pesticidal Study of Cascabela peruviana, Nerium oleander, and Mimusops elengi against Armyworm Spodoptera litura (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera) and Pod Borer Larvae of Helicoverpa armigera (Noctuidae: Lepidoptera)

To study the report, the different solvents of methanol, ethyl acetate, chloroform, and acetone for Cascabela peruviana (C. peruviana), Nerium oleander (N. oleander), and Mimusops elengi (M. elengi) were used the experimental analysis in pest control of most dangerous notorious Lepidopteran pests of Spodoptera litura (S. litura) and Helicoverpa armigera (H. armigera). The antifeedant activity of C. peruviana against S. litura 98.6%, H. armigera 94.6%, N. oleander against S. litura 94.2%, H. armigera 90.8% and M. elengi against S. litura 92.8%, H. armigera 86.4%. Lethal concentration 50 (LC50) and LC90 values of C. peruviana against S. litura, H. armigera the values are S. litura (LC50 = 88.3 and LC90 = 204.91) and H. armigera (LC50 = 103.19 and LC90 = 232.10), N. oleander against S. litura (LC50 = 102.10 and LC90 = 228.01) and H. armigera (LC50 = 121.10 and LC90 = 254.69) and M. elengi against S. litura (LC50 = 120.55 and LC90 = 250.43). The oviposition deterrent activity of C. peruviana against S. litura 90.8%, H. armigera 86.2%, N. oleander against S. litura 88.6%, H. armigera 82.8% and M. elengi against S. litura 78.2%, H. armigera 73.6%. When same species it is proof that methanol extract of C. peruviana, N. oleander, and M. elengi plant flower extracts was most effective insecticidal activity of armyworm S. litura and pod borer larvae of H. armigera. Performance of maximum antifeedant activity, lethal activity, and oviposition deterrent activity recorded in the methanol extract of C. peruviana than could be utilized in pest control program.
Application of numerical gas flows modelling to optimisation of nitrogen injections in the goaf

In Lorraine Collieries (France), the risk of spontaneous combustion in the goaf of longwall coalfaces is relatively high. Nitrogen injections into the goaf are used to control this risk. However, this practice remains relatively empirical in terms of choice of injection locations and flowrates. Carrying out experiments in the goaf is both difficult and expensive. Thus, the CFD modelling of gas flows (air, methane and nitrogen) is an investigation method well adapted to the situation. For 5 years, a research project has been carried out at INERIS with financial funding from Charbonnages de France and European Coal and Steel Community. So a numerical model has been developed and calibrated using a large quantity of field data and then used for various simulations. The results of these simulations indicate that numerical modelling using CFD codes, such as PHOENICS , is a very efficient tool for improving our knowledge of flows in the goaf and for perfecting the various processes and techniques used to control firedamp and spontaneous combustion. For the particular conditions of the modelled faces, optimal nitrogen injection parameters values can now be determined, allowing increased production, diminution of costs and simultaneously safety improvement. This research is still in progress, in order to make the model more realistic. But computer modelling has already become a powerful and practical tool enabling better understanding of the complex phenomena occurring in goaf of coalfaces , thus being a valuable aid for the mining engineer.
Skillings-Mack Statistic: Computer-Intensive Methods

The Skillings-Mack statistic is the appropriate statistic when missing observations occur randomly in a block design. In this paper, the exact randomization test and the Monte Carlo method are applied for the Skilling-Mack test statistic. We found that when there is more missing data, the chi-squared distribution is worse for being a reference distribution to calculate critical values even for significance levels near . 10. Furthermore, for some designs with two missing values it is impossible to reject the null hypothesis when using the chi-squared distribution. Also, we have developed the R package named Skillings.Mack to calculate the Skillings-Mack statistic as well as produce p-values based on the Monte Carlo method. Our R package is very useful when there are many ties and/or small designs are conducted. Finally, we present tables of critical values for block designs with two missing observations.
COPD_A_264360 401..413

1Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King’s College London, London, UK; 2Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 3University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 4Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford, UK Background: There is marked variability in the symptoms and outcomes of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which are poorly predicted by spirometry/FEV1%pred. Furthermore, as spirometry requires the performance of potentially distressing respiratory manoeuvres which are to some extent user-effort dependent, there is need for non-invasive and simple-to-perform techniques to identify subtypes of COPD which are more closely related to clinically relevant outcomes. Materials and Methods: The inspired sinewave test (IST) sinusoidally modulates the inspired concentration of a tracer gas (N2O) over successive tidal breaths. A singlecompartment tidal-ventilation lung model processes the amplitude/phase of the expired N2 O sinewave and estimates cardiopulmonary variables including: effective lung volume and indices of ventilatory heterogeneity (VH; ELV180/FRCpleth and ELV180/ELVpred). 83 COPD patients and 53 healthy controls performed the IST test, standard pulmonary function tests (Spirometry, body plethysmography and the single breath test of carbon monoxide uptake), and symptom severity questionnaires (COPD assessment test, CAT; mMRC dyspnoea-scale, mMRC-DS; Cough+Mucus score; C+M score). Results: ELV180/FRCpleth and ELV180/ELVpred were significantly lower in patients with COPD vs healthy participants (0.34±0.11 vs 0.68±0.14 and 0.7±0.27 vs 0.98±0.15, respectively; P<0.05). Multivariable regression analysis demonstrated that ELV180/FRCpleth was a stronger and independent predictor of CAT, mMRC-DS and C+M score vs FEV1%pred. ELV180/ELVpred was a stronger and independent and better predictor of C+M score vs FEV1%pred. Phenotyping patients, based upon ELV180/ELVpred and FRC%pred, uncovered significant symptomatic differences between groups. Conclusion: The IST indices of VH were superior and independent predictors of symptom severity vs FEV1%pred and has potential as a non-invasive and simple-to-perform method to stratify patients into subgroups related to clinically relevant features of COPD.
Enacting Eldertech in Senior Citizens’ Communities of Japan: A Social Support Perspective

—This work-in-progress research focuses on “the ICT enabled community-based support system” in Japan, which has done a great job on improving the quality of the seniors’ social life. The goal is to adopt a qualitative research approach with a multiple case design and the Social support theory to zoom in the research questions: 1) how do various communities use the deployed ICT to support the social life of the seniors? 2) How the general Critical Success Factors (CSF) acts during constructing and managing the ICT project? The originality of this research is that it takes multiple representative cases and reforms them into a generalized conceptual model for further research and application.
Evaluating the Public Building Relevance on the Community’s Heritages in Nigeria

The importance of relating design product with the identity of the residing community, being responsible for the conservation of collective memories of cultural potentials cannot be overemphasised. This paper evaluate the relevance of some selected innovative public buildings to the culture and lifestyle of the inhabitants of sited communities with the view of understanding the existential reality which the people experience through the emergence of these design products. Through a quantitative methodology, a case of twelve public building in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria was studied and analysed. A total of 480 copies of questionnaire returned were examined using descriptive statistics for the participants’ socio-economic characteristics while inferential statistics were used to establish the relationship between community lifestyles and the buildings under study. The result shows that the majority of the public buildings in Nigeria lack cultural and lifestyle representation of the sited communities, thereby fails in its expectation of social and cultural relevance. The implication is that it lacks the uniqueness of local architecture and cultural potentials that is sellable for an economic boost.
The stabilizing system of the spine

The spatial orientation of the lumbar part of spine determines the position of central axis of the human skeleton, which in turn is closely related to the position of the pelvis. In a biomechanical aspect, the pelvis should be connected with the lumbar spine but also with the hip joints ( lumbo-pelvic-hip complex – LPH) . This area is intended to provide the body with the stability needed to carry the load with simultaneous maintaining the mobility required to perform locomotive functions. Stabilization means the maintenance of balance in both static and dynamic conditions, where the complex moves along a specific track. In the last decades of 20th and early 21st century there was a discussion whether stabilization of the LPH complex was more about the activation of deep muscles (local) or combination of deep and superficial muscles contraction (global). It is now known that both global and local muscles play an important role in stabilization. The stabilizing system of the spine, which was
Constraints, Varieties, and Algorithms

Declaration This dissertation is submitted to University College Cork, in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Science. The research and thesis presented in this dissertation are entirely my own work and have not been submitted to any other university or higher education institution, or for any other academic award in this university. Where use has been made of other people's work, it has been fully acknowledged and refer-enced. Acknowledgements Working on this thesis was fun but without the help of some people this work would not have been possible. I should like to thank Pat Fitzpatrick for his final and Jim Bowen for his initial supervision. I have greatly benefited from their comments and input. Also, I should like to thank Jim for getting me to Ireland and for allowing me to spend a lot of time on trying out new ideas. Without him I would not have had the opportunity to start this work. Special thanks should also go to my External Supervisors Peter Jeavons and Dave Cohen for providing excellent comments about the thesis and for making the " viva " an enjoyable event. Thanks to Pádraic, Neil, and Ruth for keeping up the morale and for interesting discussions. Finally, I should like to thank Olly for his friendship and hospitality, especially in the two months before finalising this thesis.
Demonstrating ConstruKT, a text annotation toolkit for generalized linguistic contructions applied to communication spin

We present ConstruKT, an open and freely available graphical user interface for linguistic annotation of generalized constructions, which are sets of arbitrary constraints on possibly discontinuous multi-word units and relations between multi-word units or other relations. ConstruKT was written in Python with the TkInter graphical library in the constext of the MiRoR European project, in order to provide a ﬂexible development NLP workbench for research on automatic communication spin detection in research publication for the domain of the health and bio-medical research. The design aims for ConstruKT were to provide a graphical annotation interface for medical domain experts with no expertise in linguistics or Natural Language Processing (NLP), enabling them to annotate arbitrary relations between overlapping discontinuous mutli-word units in a scientiﬁc article, and at the same time to have for the project a versatile light weight NLP development workbench in Python. ConstruKT is easily retargetable to any application domain, since its core functionalities deﬁne generic multi-word units and binary relations than can be created on the ﬂy and specialized at will.
Diplomarbeit Study of optimization procedures with neural networks for the reconstruction of hadronic B 0 s decays at Belle

The Standard Model of particle physics (SM) describes all known matter and its interactions – with the exception of gravity – to very high precision. The picture is not complete though, driving searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). To find hints for BSM physics high precision testing of the predictions provided by the SM are required. One of the areas of interest in this regard is the study of rare decays, denoting decay processes with very low branching ratio predictions in the SM, but increased values in BSM theories. Rare decays accessible at the Belle experiment, which is located at the asymmetric energy electron-positron collider KEKB in Tsukuba, Japan, are leptonic decays of B s mesons, e.g. B 0 s → ττ or B s → `τ . To circumvent difficulties in the reconstruction of these decay modes arising from not detected neutrinos in the final state, a method called hadronic tagging is used. With this technique one of the two B s mesons created at an electron-positron collision event is reconstructed in a full hadronic final state. To increase the reconstruction efficiencies of these hadronic tags compared to plain cut based selection, the inclusion of artificial neural networks into the reconstruction algorithms has proven effective in prior projects. This is due to the improved signal and background identification provided by neural networks, which are multivariate analysis tools mainly developed for machine learning purposes. Within this thesis the incorporation of 104 optimized neural networks into the hadronic tag, which was developed by the Vienna Belle Group, has been realized. In its finalized version the tag reaches a reconstruction efficiency of = 0.042 % including 5416 full hadronic decay chains.
Density and Fat Fraction of the Psoas, Paraspinal, and Oblique Muscle Groups Are Associated With Lumbar Vertebral Bone Mineral Density in a Multi‐Ethnic Community‐Living Population: The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Low vertebral bone mass is a major risk factor for vertebral compression fractures. Although sarcopenia has been shown to be associated with low bone mineral density (BMD), it is not known whether trunk musculature is directly associated with lumbar BMD, and whether exercise modifies this association. Using data from the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), we sought to determine the association of muscle density and fat fraction of the psoas, paraspinal, and oblique muscle groups with L3 lumbar volumetric BMD, and whether these associations were modified by exercise. We obtained L3 vBMD measurements, and fat and muscle measurements (in Hounsfield units [HU]) from abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans spanning the L2–L4 intervertebral disc spaces. Muscle density was defined as the mean HU value for a muscle group area. Fat fraction was calculated as the mean HU value for the muscle group fat area/total muscle group area (cm2). Exercise data were self‐reported (MET‐minute/week). We utilized multivariable linear regression to evaluate these associations, stratified by gender, and adjusting for demographics, body mass index (BMI), smoking status, impaired fasting glucose, and corticosteroid and anti‐resorptive medication use. Among 1923 MESA participants, mean ± standard deviation (SD) age was 62 ± 10 years, 49% were female, 40% white, 21% black, 26% Hispanic/Latino, and 13% Chinese. In fully adjusted analysis, for every 1‐SD higher psoas fat fraction, there was a 3.19‐SD lower L3 vBMD in men and 4.3‐SD lower L3 vBMD in women (p < 0.001). For every 1‐SD higher psoas density, there was a 0.2‐SD higher L3 vBMD (p < 0.001) in men and 0.19‐SD higher L3 vBMD (p < 0.001) in women. Findings were similar for paraspinal and oblique muscles. Intentional exercise did not modify these associations. In men and women, trunk muscle density was positively associated with higher lumbar BMD, suggesting a local association. Future studies are warranted to determine the temporality of this association. © 2022 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
Immobilized enzymes as potent antibiofilm agent

Biofilm has been a point of concern in hospitals and various industries. They not only cause various chronic infections but are also responsible for the degradation of various medical appliances. Since the last decade, various alternate strategies are being adopted to combat the biofilm formed on various biotic and abiotic surfaces. The use of enzymes as a potent anti‐fouling agent is proved to be of utmost importance as the enzymes can inhibit biofilm formation in an eco‐friendly and cost‐effective way. The physical and chemical immobilization of the enzyme not only leads to the improvement of thermostability and reusability of the enzyme, but also gains better efficiency of biofilm removal. Immobilization of amylase, cellobiohydrolase, pectinase, subtilisin A and β‐N‐acetyl‐glucosaminidase (DspB) are proved to be most effective in inhibition of biofilm formation and removal of matured biofilm than their free forms. Hence, these immobilized enzymes provide greater eradication of biofilm formed on various surfaces and are coming up to be the potent antibiofilm agent.
Seventh Grade Students' Use of Multiple Representations in Pattern Related Algebra Tasks.

Coklu temsilleri matematik konularinda kullanmak matematik ogrenmeyi zenginlestirir. Bundan once ogrencilerin coklutemsil becerilerini nasil ise kostuklarini ve nasil kavramsallastirdiklarini arastirmak gereklidir. Bu nedenle, bu calismada yedinci sinifogrencilerinin cebir problemlerini cozerken coklu temsilleri nasil kullandiklari ve neden bazi temsil bicimlerini kullanmayi tercihettikleri arastirilmistir. Gorusmeler icin 21 (11 kiz, 10 erkek) yedinci sinif ogrencisi secilmis, bu ogrencilere uc tane acik uclu cebirproblemi yoneltilmistir. Ogrencilerden bu problemleri cozmeleri ve kullandiklari temsil bicimlerini aciklamalari istenmistir.Arastirmanin bulgularina gore, ogrencilerin her bir soru icin farkli temsilleri kullandiklari soylenebilir. Bu temsil bicimlerini tercihetme nedenleri, problemin yapisina ve onlarin temsil bicimlerini algilamalarina gore degismektedir. Bunun yani sira, temsil bicimleritercihleri de soru tipine, ogretmene ve duygusal etmenlere gore de farklilik gostermekte ve bu farkliliklar ogrencilere gore cesitlilikicermektedir