Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Compact polarization diversity ultra-wideband MIMO antenna with quadruple band-notched characteristics

A very compact polarization diversity quadruple-band-notched ultrawideband (UWB) two-element MIMO antenna and a small size MIMO antenna with four elements are presented in this paper. Firstly, the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna has two identical monopoles. Its high isolation which is less than −20 dB is achieved without using any complex decoupling methods. Secondly, to obtain a band-notched function and improve the area utilization of the antenna, the symmetric split ring resonators (SRRs) are etched next to the feedline and the co-directional complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR) is embedded inside the radiating patch. Thirdly, curve ground plane and arc radiating patch can improve impedance matching performance of the antenna. The two proposed antennas exhibit the suitability for wireless diversity communications.
Performance Indicators in Higher Education: Uk Universities

The clamour for performance indicators the UK university sector - recent trends in size and structure government funding of the university sector inputs, process and outputs in the university sector unit costs non-completion rates degree results the first destination of new graduates the evaluation of research output in the higher education sector the performance of UK universities across five indicators performance measurements in universities - some conclusions.
A Methodology and Toolset to Enable SystemC and VHDL Co-simulation

The new design challenges imposed by the increasing difficulties of today's electronic systems obligated designers to develop new methodologies. System-level design and platform-based design are playing an important rule in the electronics industry, and design reuse is a key concept. SystemC is a design language which is being largely adopted to raise the abstraction level of hardware design and verification, becoming an important system design language nowadays. Considering the large amount of VHDL RTL modules already available and that systems design are hardly ever started from scratch, co-simulating VHDL and SystemC hardware modules becomes very desirable. This paper presents a new methodology, based on an open-source toolset (libraries and programs), to co-simulate SystemC and VHDL components. We use a platform case study to measure simulation performance and compare our infrastructure to Modelsim.
A method to identify the AVI-type blocks based on their four-character codes and C4.5 algorithm

Video file carving is crucial to computer forensics and very challenging for researchers. Identification of related data plays a key role in video file carving. Most researches on this topic rely on statistical analysis by establishing a machine learning model. However, they didn't show good performance on video data. It is almost impossible to give a general method to classify all kinds of file blocks due to different characteristics between file blocks. In this paper, we focus on AVI files. AVI files are one of widely used video format, especially in camera. We describe the framework of video file carving and propose a method to identify AVI-type blocks for a range of relevant file block types, which is based on the four-character codes of the structure of AVI and applies the C4.5 algorithm. The experiments achieve a high true positive rate after these blocks are classified twice. In addition, we also make an outlook for subsequent work in video file carving.
Physical Health Outcomes of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND. Children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) are at increased risk for adverse mental and behavioral health sequelae, as has been documented by both systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Studies addressing the physical health impact of childhood IPV exposure, however, have not been summarized in a manner that might facilitate additional hypothesis-driven research and accelerate the development of targeted interventions. METHODS. To identify a comprehensive set of articles examining the association between childhood IPV exposure and physical health, we searched online bibliographic databases including Medline, CINAHL, PsychInfo, and Sociological Abstracts using the keywords “domestic” or “intimate partner violence” and “infant,” “child,” or “pediatric. ” From >2000 articles retrieved in the initial search, we used online abstract and bibliographic information to identify 94 articles potentially meeting the inclusion criteria of studies that (1) examined a postnatal physical health outcome related to IPV exposure and (2) had a contemporaneous control group. Thorough review of these 94 published studies yielded 22 that met these inclusion criteria. The data then were abstracted independently by 2 of the authors, and differences were settled with the assistance of a third author. RESULTS. Childhood exposure to IPV increases the likelihood of risk-taking behaviors during adolescence and adulthood and is likely associated with underimmunization. Minimal data and study limitations preclude establishing a clear connection between IPV exposure and general health and use of health services, breastfeeding, or weight gain. CONCLUSIONS. The impact on physical health from exposure to IPV during childhood is still uncertain. Future studies should be grounded in a theoretical model that specifies how IPV exposure can affect child health, should adjust for confounders adequately, should include a community-based sample, and should be of larger scale.
Asparagine Synthetase Polymorphisms and Toxicity and Efficacy of Asparaginases

Asparaginases develop innovative “tumor starvation” conditions for all antileukemia treatments; however, administrations are limited by the toxicities of this drug. Patients exhibiting moderate toxicity have optimal treatment outcomes. Certain asparagine synthetase polymorphisms may contribute to severe host toxicities in divergent subsets of patients, whereas others do not. Clinical correlations should be evaluated. Clin Cancer Res; 21(2); 230–2. ©2014 AACR. See related article by Tanfous et al., p. 329
Performance analysis of pre-processing filters for underwater images

In oceanic environment, uneven illumination, turbulence in water and floating particles make underwater image capture, a challenge. Vision sensors attached with the autonomous underwater vehicles, themselves cause light dispersion and shadows in the ocean floor. Although, several computer vision algorithms have been developed, effective analysis of the algorithms both quantitatively and qualitatively have not been done. This paper analyses the existing methods for the inherent problems and provides a framework for underwater image processing. Initially, for non-uniform illumination correction, homomorphic, anisotropic and bilateral filtering techniques are compared for contrast equalization. Contrast enhancement is done using contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) with adaptive histogram clip. Finally, Haar wavelet and Symlet are compared for adaptive smoothing, elimination of remaining noise and for improving edge detection. Performance is assessed by computing peak signal noise ratio (PSNR), contrast to noise ratio (CNR), image enhancement metric (IEM), and absolute mean brightness error (AMBE). Histograms are computed before and after applying pre-processing filters, for evaluating the proposed methodology. A combination of homomorphic filtering, CLAHE and haar wavelet denoising provides better results over other methods for underwater images.
P2V: Effective Website Fingerprinting Using Vector Space Representations

Language vector space models (VSMs) have recently proven to be effective across a variety of tasks. In VSMs, each word in a corpus is represented as a real-valued vector. These vectors can be used as features in many applications in machine learning and natural language processing. In this paper, we study the effect of vector space representations in cyber security. In particular, we consider a passive traffic analysis attack (Website Fingerprinting) that threatens users' navigation privacy on the web. By using anonymous communication, Internet users (such as online activists) may wish to hide the destination of web pages they access for different reasons such as avoiding tyrant governments. Traditional website fingerprinting studies collect packets from the users' network and extract features that are used by machine learning techniques to reveal the destination of certain web pages. In this work, we propose the packet to vector (P2V) approach where we model website fingerprinting attack using word vector representations. We show how the suggested model outperforms previous website fingerprinting works.
Pharmacokinetics of cephalosporins in the neonate: a review

The aim of this work was to review the published data on the pharmacokinetics of cephalosporins in neonates to provide a critical analysis of the literature as a useful tool for physicians. The bibliographic search was performed for articles published up to December 3, 2010, using PubMed. In addition, the book Neofax: A Manual of Drugs Used in Neonatal Care by Young and Mangum was consulted. The cephalosporins are mainly eliminated by the kidneys, and their elimination rates are reduced at birth. As a consequence, clearance is reduced and t1/2 is more prolonged in the neonate than in more mature infants. The neonate's substantial body water content creates a large volume of distribution (Vd) of cephalosporins, as these drugs are fairly water soluble. Postnatal development is an important factor in the maturation of the neonate, and as postnatal age proceeds, the clearance of cephalosporins increases. The maturation of the kidney governs the pharmacokinetics of cephalosporins in the infant. Clearance and t1/2 are influenced by development, and this must be taken into consideration when planning a cephalosporin dosage regimen for the neonate.
Phasic Accumbal Firing May Contribute to the Regulation of Drug Taking during Intravenous Cocaine Self‐administration Sessions

Recent studies have applied chronic extracellular recording techniques to the intravenous cocaine self-administration paradigm to investigate the neurophysiological mechanisms that contribute to drug taking (e.g., Refs. 1–4). Data of one study suggest that a large percentage of nucleus accumbens (NAcc) neurons exhibit a change in firing during limited-access (fixed-ratio 1) self-administration sessions that is both synchronized to the self-infusion behavior and has a time course comparable to the interval that elapses between successive self-infusions. A firing pattern with such a time course may be involved in the regulation of the self-infusion behavior (cf. Ref. 4). The focus of the present study was to further characterize neurons that exhibit this firing pattern.
Assess Direction and Satisfaction of Medical, Surgical Nursing Students in the First Year towards Using Social Media for Communication & Study

Background: nowadays increasing use of Social media within the nursing study and practice the students should realize its use is attractive in the educational setting. The aim of the study: This study was aimed to assess direction and satisfaction of medical, surgical nursing students in the first year towards using social media for communication & study Subjects and methods: descriptive design utilized to conduct this study. Sitting: The study was held in the medical, surgical department faculty of nursing (1st year) in which student start studying nursing to verify no any factor affecting them. Tools for data collection: The constructed study tools tested, and piloted by the investigator to collect data through two electronic tools. The first tool:- include two parts, part (1) student personnel data and part (2) the direction of students towards social media. The second tool, student satisfaction about using social media in nursing studying. Results: the result showed that most of the students prefer using of social media in their learning and they have positive direction toward using it, positively agreement of most of the students in using the social media in interactivity with peers and the agreement for most of them which refer to satisfaction by using it in academic learning and most of students were satisfied toward using of social media in their learning. Conclusion: Social media is a rising scope within nursing practice, and students can find its use engaging in the educational setting. The current study concluded that most of the students were agree and they satisfied to use of social media in their learning, interactivity with peers, teachers, and they agree of easy use and usefulness of it. In the same time, they prefer the presence of teachers.
Dimension-independent convex-cell based HPC: representation scheme and implementation issues

This paper is devoted to the discussion of some of the design issues which concern the representation scheme underlying the geometrical nucleus of the PLASMdesign language. A central choice in the representation of geometry within the language was to store the minimum possible amount of topology. E.g., the boundary of a polyhedron in 3? 3, which is a set of 3D polygons, is stored without adjacencies. Thus, each such boundary polygon is considered as an elementary polyhedron within its affine hull, and represented as a solid 2D decomposition in convex cells. This representation allows to easily perform some operations that are not usually available in a geometric modeler, as well as to represent both manifolds and non-manifolds in a uniform manner. In particular, each geometrical object is represented as a multilevel hierarchical structure (Hierarchical Poly-hedral Complex, HPC) that collects a set of elementary polyhedra, afFmely mapped from their local coordinate systems and grouped as a whole. Two representation are provided for the same geometry: a weak and a complete representation. In a weak representation the set of elementary polyhedra collected in a hierarchical structure constitutes a covering of the required pointset. Conversely, in a complete representation the elementary polyhedra are assumed to be pairwise disjoint. The validity check of weak geometrical
CAPRI: a tool for mining complex line patterns in large log data

Log files provide important information for troubleshooting complex systems. However, the structure and contents of the log data and messages vary widely. For automated processing, it is necessary to first understand the layout and the structure of the data, which becomes very challenging when a massive amount of data and messages are reported by different system components in the same log file. Existing approaches apply supervised mining techniques and return frequent patterns only for single line messages. We present CAPRI (type-CAsted Pattern and Rule mIner), which uses a novel pattern mining algorithm to efficiently mine structural line patterns from semi-structured multi-line log messages. It discovers line patterns in a type-casted format; categorizes all data lines; identifies frequent, rare and interesting line patterns, and uses unsupervised learning and incremental mining techniques. It also mines association rules to identify the contextual relationship between two successive line patterns. In addition, CAPRI lists the frequent term and value patterns given the minimum support thresholds. The line and term pattern information can be applied in the next stage to categorize and reformat multi-line data, extract variables from the messages, and discover further correlation among messages for troubleshooting complex systems. To evaluate our approach, we present a comparative study of our tool against some of the existing popular open-source research tools using three different layouts of log data including a complex multi-line log file from the z/OS mainframe system.
Points-To for Java: A General Framework and an Empirical Comparison

Points-to analysis for Java is di erent from points-to for C or even C++. We present a framework whi h generalizes popular points-to algorithms and generates set onstraints from full Java byte ode. The framework exploits previously omputed points-to sets in a xpoint iteration for pre ise resolution of dynami binding. We then ompare implementations of this framework for uni ation-based and subsetbased analysis. It turns out that { in ontrast to the C situation { both approa hes have about the same running time, while the subset-based algorithm is still more pre ise. The uni ation-based method is slowed down be ause its inherent impre ision a umulates during xpoint iteration.
Scholarly Communication for Credit: Integrating Publishing Education into Undergraduate Curriculum

Document Type Book Chapter Publication Date 2013 Rights Terms of use for work posted in CommonKnowledge. Description As academic libraries place increased emphasis on educating students and faculty about issues related to scholarly publishing, it has become clear that workshops, events, and even course-integrated instruction are often not enough to fully engage students and faculty. To be most effective, scholarly communication education should be integrated into the formal academic life—and mission—of an institution and must offer tangible benefits to students and faculty. For most institutions (especially those with an emphasis on liberal arts), the core mission centers around the teaching and learning experience: in other words, the classroom and the curriculum. In order for scholarly communication to be recognized as anything more than an optional adjunct to this mission, it must become a regular part of the curriculum. A practical way to accomplish this is by strategically developing credit-bearing courses and programs that simultaneously support the goals of the academic departments and educate students about scholarly communication issues. At Pacific University, library faculty developed a course on scholarly journal publishing for undergraduates and collaborated with academic faculty to create a new academic minor in editing and publishing. Comments This work originally appeared in “Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication” edited by Stephanie Davis-Kahl and Merinda Kaye Hensley. Chicago, IL: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2013. Any use of this work must be accompanied by this notification. Recommended Citation Gilman, I. (2013). Scholarly communication for credit: Integrating publishing education into undergraduate curriculum. In Davis-Kahl, S. , & Hensley, M. K. Common ground at the nexus of information literacy and scholarly communication. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.  Download
Identification of a novel EXT1 mutation in patients with hereditary multiple exostosis by exome sequencing

Hereditary multiple exostosis (HME) is an autosomal inherited skeletal disease whose etiology is not fully understood. To further understand the genetic spectrum of the disease, we analyzed a five-generation Chinese family with HME that have observable inheritance. Exome sequencing was performed on three HME individuals and three unaffected individuals from the family. A downstream study confirmed a new C deletion at codon 442 on exon 5 of the exostosin-1 (EXT1) gene as the only pathogenic site which generated a stop codon and caused the truncation of the protein. We rediscovered the deletion in other affected individuals but not in the unaffected individuals from the family. Upon immunohistochemistry assay, we found that the EXT1 protein level of the patients with the novel mutation in our study was less than the level in the patients without the EXT1 mutation from another unrelated family. For a deeper understanding, we analyzed the mutation spectrum of the EXT1 gene. The present study should facilitate a further understanding of HME.
Supervision of Teaching.

Present Barbara V. Rivas, LCSW (www.northwestpsychotherapyassociates.com March 2007LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER/PSYCHOTHERAPIST  Provide psychotherapy that may include individual and family therapy to adults, adolescents, and their families in private practice setting.  Conduct Immigration Hardship Evaluations for individuals and families undergoing provision waiver process, asylum cases, and domestic violence immigration cases.  Provide court testimony and expert opinion on a wide array of clinical issues including immigration cases focused on the Latino population. (Approved insurance provider for traditional Medicare, Medicaid, Beacon Healthcare, AETNA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CIGNA, Community Health Choice(Medicaid & CHIP), ComPsych, Guidance Resources EAP, LifeSynch, Integrated Mental Health Services (IMHS), Mental Health Network (MHN), Molina Healthcare (Medicaid), Multiplan, Superior Foster Care(Medicaid), Texas Health Spring Network, Value Options, Work Life-EAP, NASW EAP, DARS Contract Provider)
Information Pursuit: A Bayesian Framework for Sequential Scene Parsing

Despite enormous progress in object detection and classification, the problem of incorporating expected contextual relationships among object instances into modern recognition systems remains a key challenge. In this work we propose Information Pursuit, a Bayesian framework for scene parsing that combines prior models for the geometry of the scene and the spatial arrangement of objects instances with a data model for the output of high-level image classifiers trained to answer specific questions about the scene. In the proposed framework, the scene interpretation is progressively refined as evidence accumulates from the answers to a sequence of questions. At each step, we choose the question to maximize the mutual information between the new answer and the full interpretation given the current evidence obtained from previous inquiries. We also propose a method for learning the parameters of the model from synthesized, annotated scenes obtained by top-down sampling from an easy-to-learn generative scene model. Finally, we introduce a database of annotated indoor scenes of dining room tables, which we use to evaluate the proposed approach.
Performance characterisation of intra-cluster collective communications

Although recent works try to improve collective communication in grid systems by separating intra and inter-cluster communication, the optimisation of communications focus only on inter-cluster communications. We believe, instead, that the overall performance of the application may be improved if intra-cluster collective communications performance is known in advance. Hence, it is important to have an accurate model of the intra-cluster collective communications, which provides the necessary evidences to tune and to predict their performance correctly. In this paper we present our experience on modelling such communication strategies. We describe and compare different implementation strategies with their communication models, evaluating the models' accuracy and describing the practical challenges that can be found when modelling collective communications.
An analysis of dielectric constant of pharmaceutical medicines using microwave radiation exposure

The analysis of dielectric constant of pharmaceutical medicines at microwave frequency is presented in this paper. The dielectric constant also known as the permittivity was measured by using open-ended coaxial probe technique over the microwave frequency range from 400Mhz to 4GHz. The samples of two pharmaceutical medicines were prepared at different moisture content (5ml, 10ml, 15ml, 20ml, 25ml and 30ml). A Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) was used to record the data of dielectric constant e' and dielectric loss e" of these four sample. The dielectric constant of pharmaceutical medicines samples decreased with the increase of the frequency. On the other hand, the dielectric loss of these samples increased when frequency increased. Both of dielectric constant and dielectric loss of pharmaceutical samples increased with increasing moisture content from 5ml to 30ml.