Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A map of distances along the DNA molecule of phage T4.

HE comparison of genetic map distances with distances along the DNA Tmolecule requires measurements which do not depend on frequencies of recombination between genetic markers. Several investigators have used various methods to estimate the amount of DNA in certain segments of bacteriophage genomes ( MESELSON and WEIGJX 1961 ; KAISER 1962; STAHL et al. 1964; JORDAN and MESELSON 1965; HOGNESS et al. 1966; GOLDBERG 1966; MOSIG 1966). This paper describes non-recombination distance measurements which depend on the probability of cutting DNA fragments between marker pairs of bacteriophage T4 during maturation. These measurements have led to the construction of a map of physical distances between genetic markers of this phage which is a complete circle. Populations of bacteriophage T 4 include small fractions of non-viable particles of lower than average buoyant density (“light” particles), each containing a single DNA fragment of fixed length which can be measured. Although these light particles are not viable in single infection, in mixed infection with normal particles they transmit their genetic information to viable progeny. Since the fragments represent continuous random segments of the circular genome, the “light” particles can be used to measure distances between genetic markers ( MOSIG 1966). Previous experiments using this approach had provided preliminary measurements of distances between an rZZ reference marker and 22 amber ( a m ) mutations in other genes (which are located within one third of the map on either side of the rZZ reference marker (MOSIG 1966). However, some inconsistencies among these data were not yet understood at that time (MOSIG 1966, Table 2). The light particles used in some of the previous experiments had not been examined for the length of their DNA molecules. Apparently this led to the inconsistencies. More thorough investigations revealed two additional classes of nonviable light T4 particles, in addition to those described by MOSIG (1963). These particles contain DNA fragments which are 0.77 or 0.9 of the normal molecular length. This paper reports an extension of the previous distance measurements, using only light particles whose DNA molecule had been measured, and also using more a m mutations and rZ and rZZZ mutations as additional reference markers. The results of these experiments can be summarized in three fractional maps, each of which represents the distances of certain am mutations from one of the reference markers. When the three fractional maps are combined, they yield a self-consistent circular T4 map.
Signatures of TeV gravity from the evaporation of cosmogenic black holes

TeV gravity models provide a scenario for black hole formation at energies much smaller than G_N^(-1/2) \sim 10^19 GeV. In particular, the collision of a ultrahigh energy cosmic ray with a dark matter particle in our galactic halo or with another cosmic ray could result into a black hole of mass between 10^4 and 10^11 GeV. Once produced, such object would evaporate into elementary particles via Hawking radiation. We show that the interactions among the particles exiting the black hole are not able to produce a photosphere nor a chromosphere. We then evaluate how these particles evolve using the jet-code HERWIG, and obtain a final diffuse flux of stable 4-dimensional particles peaked at 0.2 GeV. This flux consists of an approximate 43% of neutrinos, a 28% of electrons, a 16% of photons and a 13% of protons. Emission into the bulk would range from a 1.4% of the total energy for n=2 to a 16% for n=6.
Alternative Auction Institutions for Electric Power Markets

Restructuring of electric power markets is proceeding across the United States and in many other nations around the world. The performance of these markets will influence everything from the prices faced by consumers to the reliability of the systems. The challenges of these changes present many important areas for research. For much of the northeastern United States, restructuring proposals include, at least for the short term, the formation of a single-sided auction mechanism for the wholesale market. This research uses experimental methods to analyze how these markets may function. In the experiments, the two basic uniform price auction rules are tested under three different market sizes. Early experimental results suggest the commonly proposed last-accepted-offer auction works well, but market power could be a real concern.
Effects of Trade Restrictions on Imports of Steel.

Abstract : The papers in this session are two examples of a series of industry studies by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. In addition to these two, studies have been completed on oil, footwear, and sugar, and are underway on chemicals and electronics. Each of these studies takes a close look at the special features of a particular industry in constrast to some of the more broad ranging projects reported in other sessions. In conclusion, I would like to emphasize the fact that the objective of these studies is to improve the evaluation of trade policy. When changes in trade barriers are considered, it is critically important to know how domestic demand responds to import costs, how employment will be affected, and what will be the impact of the labor market experience of workers in the industry. The two industry studies presented here are an attempt to expand the amount of available information on these questions.
Automatic Analysis of UV-Induced Fluorescence Imagery of Historical Violins

In recent years, UV-induced fluorescence (UVIFL) photography has proven to be very effective when studying the surface of historical musical instruments, such as violins. This technique makes it possible to highlight superficial details not clearly perceptible with visible light (e.g., retouchings, superficial distribution of varnishes, or wear). The data retrieved are also an important guide for further noninvasive spectroscopic analyses used when the chemical composition of the surface needs to be investigated. However, UVIFL imagery interpretation of a historical violin is no trivial task. In fact, constant playing and the multiple restorations over the centuries have produced very complex surfaces. This work presents an automatic tool designed to facilitate this kind of analysis. Using a quantized histogram in HSV color space, the distribution of the main fluorescence colors on an instrument’s surface can be highlighted, recurrence of the same color in different areas of the same violin can be detected, or different violins can be compared. UVIFL images of seven Stradivarius violins kept in the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy, were used as a test set. The results achieved endorse the validity of the proposed approach.
Efficient Multiresolution Models for progressive Terrain Rendering

This paper deals with the problem of simplifying, transmitting and rendering large textured terrain models. The terrain is rendered from a hierarchy of quadratic tiles of geometry. Each of these tiles has a corresponding texture with a constant number of texels, e.g. 64x64, in each resolution level. Therefore, the ratio between the needed geometric accuracy within a tile and the texel size is a constant, independent of the level of detail, e.g. one texel (1/64 of the width of the tile). This observation allows us to create an efficient new multiresolution model for terrain data where not only the number of vertices is adapted to the level of detail but
An Innovative Analyser for Email Classification Based on Grey List Analysis

In this paper we propose a new technique of email classification based on grey list (GL) analysis of user emails. This technique is based on the analysis of output emails of an integrated model which uses multiple classifiers of statistical learning algorithms. The GL is a list of classifier/(s) output which is/are not considered as true positive (TP) and true negative (TN) but in the middle of them. Many works have been done to filter spam from legitimate emails using classification algorithm and substantial performance has been achieved with some amount of false positive (FP) tradeoffs. In the case of spam detection the FP problem is unacceptable, sometimes. The proposed technique will provide a list of output emails, called "grey list (GL)", to the analyser for making decisions about the status of these emails. It has been shown that the performance of our proposed technique for email classification is much better compare to existing systems, in order to reducing FP problems and accuracy.
Investigation of Low Cross Section Events in the RHBD/FT UT699 Leon 3FT

The Aeroflex UT699 LEON 3FT RHBD microprocessor was tested for SEE. Testing showed the UT699 is sensitive to a register SEE above LET = 10 MeV-cm^2/mg which is of limited impact due to a space rate of approximately 5E-6/device-year. This is on the same order of magnitude with earlier SEE rates predicted from FF upsets. Results were also collected for SpaceWire ports, Watchdog circuitry, SRAM elements (including L1 instruction, L1 data caches), and other potential disruptive events where the processor response could range from error mode to kernel or user thread killing to silent passing of bad data.
Feasibility analysis of transportation applications based on APIs of social network services

With increasing ownership of smartphones and membership of various social network services (SNS), new types of Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) has become available to travelers. The smartphone enables mobile users to input and access real-time information while SNSs provide voluntarily collected personal information among networks of friends. Internet of Things (IoT) philosophy can be applied for connecting smartphone users for various transportation applications. This paper develops Facebook-based carpooling, and proposes Twitter-based traffic monitoring and Flickr-based incident reporting applications. The SNS services provide application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow external users to access their databases. The APIs provide a basis for the development of transportation applications for each service. Facebook can allow a group of friends to share a ride based on their attributes which are available in their personal information sections. Twitter can be used for sharing traffic conditions on the roads. Flickr can be customized as a geo-tagged collision reporting tool with real-time close-up photos of traffic collisions. It is found that available APIs are useful for implementing SNS-based transportation applications. It is also found that search times for carpooling partners vary with multiple factors: time-of-day, number of potential partners, and desired tolerance levels for location and time.
Real-time emotion recognition for gaming using deep convolutional network features

The goal of the present study is to explore the application of deep convolutional network features to emotion recognition. Results indicate that they perform similarly to other published models at a best recognition rate of 94.4%, and do so with a single still image rather than a video stream. An implementation of an affective feedback game is also described, where a classifier using these features tracks the facial expressions of a player in real-time.
The effects of microphone array processing on pitch extraction in real noisy environments

Pitch extraction is important for communication robots, since pitch may carry information about intention, attitude or emotion expression from the user's speech. However, current pitch extraction methods are not robust enough in real noisy environments. In the present work, we propose pitch extraction methods by combining microphone array and auditory scene analysis technologies, and evaluate pitch extraction of multiple speakers in real noisy environments. Evaluation results show that the proposed ML-PSACF (maximum likelihood adaptive beamformer with peak-pruned summary autocorrelation function) contributes to reduce the effects of interference and noise, leading to improvements of 23%±5% on pitch estimation rates, in comparison to the baseline of not using array processing.
Pseudorandom sets and explicit constructions of ramsey graphs

We shall show a polynomial time construction of a graph G on N vertices such that neither G nor G contains Kr,r, for r = √ N/2 √ log N = o( √ N). To this end we construct a subset X ⊆ F2 which has small intersections with all subspaces of dimension m/2.
Interest rates and economic announcements

on Federal Reserve data. These days, professionalsare preoccupied with inflation, the dollar and thehealth of the economy. ’Another reporter points out the unsystematicnature of such interpretations with the wrycomment that[tihe trade deficit doesn’t matter as much anymore. At least, not to the stock market. At leastnot this month. ’Do announcements of government statisticssystematically affect financial markets? There isa substantial literature on the relationship be-tween interest rates and stock prices and an-nouncements of the money stock. Overall, thisevidence supports the conclusion that announce-ments of the money stock had an important in-fluence on interest rates in the early 1980s. ’This influence arose when the Federal Reservefirst announced in October 1979 that it woulduse the money stock as a target for monetarypolicy, then largely disappeared in 1982 and1983 when the Federal Reserve moved awayfrom monetary aggregate targeting. ~Existing studies of the relationship betweeninterest rates or stock prices and announce-ments of other economic data find littleevidence that either is affected by these an-nouncements. For example, Pearce and Roley(1985) investigate the effect of unexpectedchanges in inflation and real activity on stockprices and find little response of stock prices.Hardouvelis (1987) examines this relationship forinterest rates and stock prices and finds thatthey are systematically affected only by an-nouncements of the money stock.One common aspect of these studies is thatthey examine subperiods associated withchanges in monetary policy. Changes in policyregimes provide an obvious basis on which toexpect changes in the effect of money stock an-nouncements on financial markets. There is noobvious reason, however, for changes in the ef-‘Wallace (1988).
Cash Stream Valuation in the Face of Transaction Costs and Taxes

The usual notion of every future cash stream having a net present value determined from a single term structure breaks down when transaction costs are taken into account, especially the sizable costs associated with short-borrowing. the difficulties are compounded by taxes, which can lead to paradoxes of disequilibrium if elementary NPV is assumed to be a rational basis for decision making. This paper systematically develops a theory of valuation which overcomes these shortcomings by accepting the multiplicity of no-arbitrage term structures that may be present for each tax class of investors, and uses the entire set of them to impute both a long price and a short price for every cash stream, regardless of the sign of the future payments. the valuation operators giving these prices are nonlinear but readily calculated from linear programming formulas.
Production , Manufacturing and Logistics An approximate dynamic programming approach for the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands

This paper examines approximate dynamic programming algorithms for the single-vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands from a dynamic or reoptimization perspective. The methods extend the rollout algorithm by implementing different base sequences (i.e. a priori solutions), look-ahead policies, and pruning schemes. The paper also considers computing the cost-to-go with Monte Carlo simulation in addition to direct approaches. The best new method found is a two-step lookahead rollout started with a stochastic base sequence. The routing cost is about 4.8% less than the one-step rollout algorithm started with a deterministic sequence. Results also show that Monte Carlo cost-to-go estimation reduces computation time 65% in large instances with little or no loss in solution quality. Moreover, the paper compares results to the perfect information case from solving exact a posteriori solutions for sampled vehicle routing problems. The confidence interval for the overall mean difference is (3.56%, 4.11%). 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
From measuring noise toward integrated single-cell biology

A single cell is inherently noisy. This noise is observed as a variability or heterogeneity between individual cells' responses in an isogenic population, and emerges from fundamental physical process governing state of the cell over time. In practice, states of two seemingly identical cells may be different in the same environment; and in fact the behavior of the population average my not correspond to any of the individual cells. Recent decades brought a technological breakthrough in many areas in our ability to measure and interpret cellular heterogeneity, including live-cell imaging (Spiller et al., 2010) and genome-wide epigenetic and expression analyses (in particular next generation sequencing) (Chattopadhyay et al., 2014). The emerging picture is that the cellular noise is not a nuisance, but a ubiquitous functional trait that could perhaps be therapeutically exploited. Here we discuss relevant technological advances as well as postulate the need for more quantitative and integrated temporal single cell biology approaches to study cellular heterogeneity.
MNFS: mobile multimedia file system for NAND flash based storage device

In this work, we present a novel mobile multimedia file system, MNFS, which is specifically designed for NAND flash memory. It is designed for mobile multimedia devices such as MP3 player, Personal Media Player (PMP), digital camcorder, etc. Our file system has three novel features important in mobile multimedia applications: (1) predictable and uniform write latency, (2) quick file system mount, and (3) small memory footprint. We implement the proto-type file system on ARM9 embedded platform. In experiments, MNFS exhibits uniform I/O latency for sequential write operation. It is mountable within 0.2 seconds, and available with only 34Kbytes heap memory for 128Mbytes volume. Compared to YAFFS which is the de facto standard file system for NAND flash memory, the mounting time is 30 times faster and the heap memory usage is only 5% of YAFFS usage.
Voice and Handgrip Strength Predict Reproductive Success in a Group of Indigenous African Females

Evolutionary accounts of human traits are often based on proxies for genetic fitness (e.g., number of sex partners, facial attractiveness). Instead of using proxies, actual differences in reproductive success is a more direct measure of Darwinian fitness. Certain voice acoustics such as fundamental frequency and measures of health such as handgrip strength correlate with proxies of fitness, yet there are few studies showing the relation of these traits to reproduction. Here, we explore whether the fundamental frequency of the voice and handgrip strength account for differences in actual reproduction among a population of natural fertility humans. Our results show that both fundamental frequency and handgrip strength predict several measures of reproductive success among a group of indigenous Namibian females, particularly amongst the elderly, with weight also predicting reproductive outcomes among males. These findings demonstrate that both hormonally regulated and phenotypic quality markers can be used as measures of Darwinian fitness among humans living under conditions that resemble the evolutionary environment of Homo sapiens. We also argue that these findings provide support for the Grandmother Hypothesis.
UAV formation flight using 3D potential field

The paper presents a solution for formation flight and formation reconfiguration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Based on a virtual leader approach, combined with an extended local potential field, it is universal applicable by driving the vehiclepsilas auto pilot. The solution is verified, using a group of UAVs based on a simplified small-scale helicopter, which is simulated in MATLABtrade/Simulinktrade. As necessary for helicopters, the potential field approach is realized in 3D including obstacle and collision avoidance. The collision avoidance strategy could be used separately for the sense and avoid problem.
Making collaborative affinity diagram usable with distributed screen

Affinity Diagrams are an essential problem solving method that helps teams structure ideas and generate solutions. Collaborative affinity diagrams are created using paper sticky notes for input on a white board where groups and drawings can be made. Although many researchers have tried to leverage technology to support this practice, most live discussion support systems are based on SDG (Single Display Groupware). Some researchers have pursued distributed display solutions, but as yet they have been unable to produce a high usability system that supports this collaborative activity. In this paper, we introduce DADS (Digital Affinity Diagram System), which separates two essential tasks of affinity diagram creation: input and collaboration. Using a dual extended monitor system, DADS is designed for one screen to act as a private input screen while the extended monitor shows a distributed interactive screen for collaboration. Leveraging the network socket infrastructure popularized by multi-player online games, DADS turns each participant into a player with a unique identity in the discussion, and synchronizes all users’ activities across the distributed screens. This paper explores a system architecture that can solve problems in field of DUI, and presents design choices that promote high usability for collaborative affinity diagram creation.
TESOL practitioner identities in the United Arab Emirates : discourses of neoliberalism

2 Acknowledgements . 4 List of tables . 8 List of acronyms . 8 Chapter 1: Introduction . 9 1.1 Rationale for the study . 10 1.2 Focus of the study . 11 1.3 Conceptual framework . 12 1.4 Aims, objectives, and research questions . 14 1.5 Significance of the study . 15 1.6 Organisation of the thesis . 18 Chapter 2: The research setting . 19 2.1 The United Arab Emirates – a brief overview . 20 2.1.1 UAE society . 21 2.1.2 Contemporary sociopolitical issues in the UAE . 22 2.1.3 Unemployment in the UAE . 23 2.2 Globalisation and the United Arab Emirates . 25 2.2.1 Economic development in the UAE . 25 2.2.2 The expatriate workforce in the UAE. 26 2.3 Higher education in the United Arab Emirates . 29 2.3. 1 History of UAE higher education . 29 2.3. 2 „Purposes‟ of UAE higher education . 30 2.3. 3 English as a medium of instruction . 31 2.3. 4 Perceived shortcomings of higher education . 33 2.3. 5 Working conditions for TESOL practitioners . 35 2.3. 6 Essentialised appraisals of UAE students . 36 2.4 Summary . 39 Chapter 3: Conceptualising TESOL practitioner identities . 4