Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
High magnitude of light retardation by the zona pellucida is associated with conception cycles.

BACKGROUND Failures in expression of zona proteins correlate to subfertility in animals. Low expression of the zona proteins by the growing human oocyte may indicate reduced developmental potential. Therefore, we non-invasively analysed the thickness and the structure of the zona pellucida (ZP) of human oocytes with respect to embryo fate after ICSI. METHODS Retardance magnitude and thickness of the inner, middle and outer layers of the ZP were quantitatively analysed by a Polscope in 166 oocytes selected for transfer after ICSI (63 patients; 32.8 +/- 4.4 years) on the basis of pronuclear score at day 1. Blastomere number was determined at day 2. Data were compared between conception cycles (CC; 65 oocytes/23 patients) and non-conception cycles (NCC; 101 oocytes/40 patients) and with respect to maternal age. RESULTS The thickness was slightly elevated (P < 0.001), and the mean magnitude of light retardance was nearly 30% higher (P < 0.001) in the inner layer of the zona pellucida of oocytes contributing to CC compared to NCC. Embryos in the CC group tended to develop faster. CONCLUSIONS The magnitude of light retardance by the zona pellucida inner layer appears to present a unique non-invasive marker for oocyte developmental potential.
Big+Open Data: Some applications for a Smartcity

The way of thinking on Big Data, Open Data and their use by organizations or individuals has been a trending topic over the last few years. Big Data deals with collecting, storing, analyzing and putting data in value. Big, medium and small enterprises want to include information technologies in their management and decision processes. At the same time, movements about rights on public data have increased their presence and force. Data from governments must be open. Every day, more and more cities and countries are opening their data. Open Data has emerged as a new paradigm for the public service provision model with a special role in Smart City. The main goal of Big and Open Data in a Smart City is to develop systems which can be useful for citizens. In this work we analyze how both private enterprises and governments manage to improve their data value by combining private and public datasets and we give some examples of our work in this area.
A new upper bound for the VC-dimension of visibility regions

In this paper we are proving the following fact. Let P be an arbitrary simple polygon, and let S be an arbitrary set of 15 points inside P. Then there exists a subset T of S that is not "visually discernible", that is, T ≠ vis(v) ∩ S holds for the visibility regions vis(v) of all points v in P. In other words, the VC-dimension $d$ of visibility regions in a simple polygon cannot exceed 14. Since Valtr [v-ggwps-98] proved in 1998 that d ∈ [6,23] holds, no progress has been made on this bound. Our reduction immediately implies a smaller upper bound to the number of guards needed to cover P by ε-net theorems.
Mixed 01X-RSL-Encoding for fast and accurate ATPG with unknowns

Unknown (X) values in a design introduce pessimism in conventional test generation algorithms, which results in a loss of fault coverage. This pessimism is reduced by a more accurate modeling and analysis. Unfortunately, accurate analysis techniques highly increase runtime and limit scalability. One promising technique to prevent high runtimes while still providing high accuracy is the use of restricted symbolic logic (RSL). However, also pure RSL-based algorithms reach their limits as soon as millon gate circuits need to be processed. In this paper, we propose new ATPG techniques to overcome such limitations. An efficient hybrid encoding combines the accuracy of RSL-based modeling with the compactness of conventional threevalued encoding. A low-cost two-valued SAT-based untestability check is able to classify most untestable faults with low runtime. An incremental and event-based accurate fault simulator is introduced to reduce fault simulation effort. The experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques. On average, over 99.3% of the considered faults are accurately classified. Both the number of aborts and the total runtime are significantly reduced compared to the state-of-the-art pure RSL-based algorithm. For circuits up to a million gates, the fault coverage could be increased considerably compared to a state-of-the-art commercial tool with very competitive runtimes.
Marching onwards Procedural synthetic footsteps for video games and animation

Puredata is used to demonstrate a exible and e cient approach to one problem in procedural game audio, that of creating footsteps. A model of ground pressure curves from bipedal movement combined with a synthesis layer and mapping of force to frictional excitement emulates the movement of actors on a surface. The speed and weight of the actor, the material composition of the ground and the work/speed ratio (approximated by ground incline) can be dynamically modi ed. E ciency for real-time clientside execution is a goal, such that the code may be embedded into world objects.
Seamless Stitching using Multi-Perspective Plane Sweep

Withdigitalcamerasbecomingincreasinglycheaperandmoreaccessibletoconsumers,thereexistsastrongneedforbetterautomateddigitalimageprocessing. Red-eye removalandcolorcorrectionaretwo of the more popular image processing capabilities that have been incorporated into commercialsoftware packages aimed at photographers. Another popular application is
A method of power regulation applied to the high frequency inverter for the IH home appliances

This paper describes a power regulation concept; CFPDM (Commercial Frequency Pulse Density Modulation) of the high frequency inverter for induction heating home appliances. CFPDM is a new type of PDM and it is easy to put CFPDM into practical use for any circuit topologies without any additional switches and passive components. Conventional PDM (Pulse Density Modulation) enables the high frequency inverter to control the output power over a broad range and to realize high power conversion efficiency at the same time. However, the resonant frequency of non-smoothing filter is close to the duty frequency of PDM, which may cause other harmonic current problems. In CFPDM, the duty frequency is set to lower than the line frequency unlike PLL. Therefore CFPDM surpass the advantages of PDM and also avoids generating harmonic current. This paper shows the sample of CFPDM controller and the operation principle by using simulated results. A prototype soft switching SEPP high frequency inverter controlled by CFPDM has been tested. Some experimental results of it are shown finally.
Can We Transform Requirements into Architecture?

Model-driven transformations allow the generation of lower-level models and code from higher-level models of a software design, where all these artifacts are in the solution space. The situation is inherently different, however, for transformations from problem space to solution space. The architectural design cannot be fully transformed from requirements in general, since this would imply that the transformation would involve a "magic" problem solver. We investigate and discuss this issue to figure out what can be mapped or transformed for a given set of requirements. While an architectural style or pattern can be selected according to given (non-functional) requirements, this does not mean that the architecture is transformed from requirements. Still, it is possible to transform select parts of a software architecture representation tentatively from certain requirements representations. However, adaptations of the rules or of the generated result will usually be needed.
Enhancement of security in coginitive networks

There are security threats in compromised machines which is used to spread malware and spam. The spamming activities and malware activities are the key to recruit compromised machines, an effective Spamming and malware detection system is generated to detect any compromised machine on the network. RTOSP is called Ratio test of Sequential Probability. The spam detection system monitors the outgoing messages which has error rates which can be negative and positive. The detailed methodology has been discussed which captures the ip address of compromised machines and detect the level of spam on the basis of their corresponding threshold values. Hence forth, we also achieve various security mechanisms authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non repudiation, availability and access services.
FINANCIAL LIBERALISATION AND LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS IN MYANMAR AND NEPAL: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE / LA LIBÉRALISATION FINANCIÈRE ET LES CONTRAINTES DE LIQUIDITÉ AU MYANMAR ET AU NEPAL: UNE ÉTUDE EMPIRIQUE

One important effect of financial liberalisation is to reduce liquidity constraints. The ability of households to borrow and adjust their financial portfolios has important implications for monetary aggregates and consequently for the conduct of monetary policy. To investigate whether financial liberalisation has reduced liquidity constraints in Myanmar and Nepal, we employ the Euler equation approach. Our estimate of the fraction of liquidity constrained consumers is about 0.7 0.8. Further, our result suggests that financial liberalisation has resulted in the reduction of liquidity constraints in Nepal but not in Myanmar. LA LIBERALISATION FINANCIERE ET LES CONTRAINTES DE LIQUIDITE AU MYANMAR ET AU NEPAL : UNE ETUDE EMPIRIQUE Resume Un effet important de la liberalisation financiere est la reduction des contraintes de liquidite. La capacite des menages de s'endetter et d'adapter leurs portefeuilles financieres a d'importantes implications pour les agregats monetaires et, par consequent, pour la conduite de la politique monetaire. Dans le but de verifier si la liberalisation financiere a reduit les contraintes de liquidite au Myanmar et au Nepal, les auteurs ont utilise I'approche de /'equation d'Euler. Ils ont estime que la fraction de consommateurs qui souffrent de contraintes de liquidite est de 0,7-0,8 et que leurs resultats indiquent que la liberalisation financiere a allege les contraintes de liquidite dans les pays consideres.
ECA-SCTP: Enhanced Cooperative ACK for SCTP Path Recovery in Concurrent Multiple Transfer

—Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) has been proposed to provide reliable transport of real-time communications. Due to its attractive features, such as multi-streaming and multi-homing, the SCTP is often expected to be an alternative protocol for TCP and UDP. In the original SCTP standard, the secondary path is mainly regarded as a redundancy. Recently, most of researches have focused on extending the SCTP to enable a host to send its packets to a destination over multiple paths simultaneously. In order to transfer packets concurrently over the multiple paths, the SCTP should be well designed to avoid unnecessary fast retransmission and the mis-estimation of congestion window size through the paths. Therefore, we propose an Enhanced Cooperative ACK SCTP (ECA-SCTP) to improve the path recovery efﬁciency of multi-homed host which is under concurrent multiple transfer mode. We evaluated the performance of our proposed scheme using ns-2 simulation in terms of cwnd variation, path recovery time, and goodput. Our scheme provides better performance in lossy and path asymmetric networks.
Power, politics, and the Olympic Games

"Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games" offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Olympic movement on the market. It is not a record book full of sterile results and statistics. Rather, it is an insightful and accessible exploration of the history of the Olympics and how big a role politics has played since the modern Games began in 1896. The book covers the entire 20th century and includes Sydney's bid and preparation for their 2000 Games. This book provides an analytical and judicious interpretation of the myths surrounding the games and shows you the political and economic realities as ritual, sports, politics, and show business are combined in the largest regularly scheduled international gathering in the world. You'll learn who serves on the International Olympic Committee and what they do, how the various host cities are chosen, and even which countries, teams, and athletes get to participate. The unique visibility of the Games make them an attractive target for political and social causes, and "Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games" discusses in detail many of these controversies.Many of today's controversies are not all that new, and "Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games" offers you a unique historical perspective into the who, what, when, where, how, and-most importantly-why behind the many disputes and conflicts that have plagued the modern Games.
Intervertebral Disc: Anatomy‐Physiology‐Pathophysiology‐Treatment

▪ Abstract: This review article describes anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and treatment of intervertebral disc. The intervertebral discs lie between the vertebral bodies, linking them together. The components of the disc are nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilagenous end‐plates. The blood supply to the disc is only to the cartilagenous end‐plates. The nerve supply is basically through the sinovertebral nerve. Biochemically, the important constituents of the disc are collagen fibers, elastin fibers and aggrecan. As the disc ages, degeneration occurs, osmotic pressure is lost in the nucleus, dehydration occurs, and the disc loses its height. During these changes, nociceptive nuclear material tracks and leaks through the outer rim of the annulus. This is the main source of discogenic pain. While this is occurring, the degenerative disc, having lost its height, effects the structures close by, such as ligamentum flavum, facet joints, and the shape of the neural foramina. This is the main cause of spinal stenosis and radicular pain due to the disc degeneration in the aged populations.
An efficient indoor navigation technique to find optimal route for blinds using QR codes

Blind navigation is an accessibility application that enables blind to use an android Smartphone in an easy way for indoor navigation with instructions in audio form. We have proposed a prototype which is an indoor navigation application for blinds that uses QR codes. It is developed for android Smart phones and does not require any additional hardware for navigation. It provides automatic navigational assistance on pre-defined paths for blind. QR codes are placed on the floor sections after specific distance that acts as an input for current location detection and navigation. Whenever a QR code is scanned it provides the user with the information of the current location and asks the user to select the destination and then offers optimal and shortest path using path finding algorithms. During navigation whenever the deviation from the proposed path is detected it prompts the user and guides back to the right path by comparing the current path with the generated path. All of the instructions throughout the application are provided in audio form to the user. The interface of the application is well built for blinds which makes the smart phones user-friendly and useable for blind people. The user interacts with the application through a specific set of user-friendly gestures for specific inputs and operations. At the end, we have performed comparison between different state of art approaches and concluded that our approach is more user friendly, cost effective and produced more accurate results.
High temperature phase transition in two-scalar theories.

Two-scalar theories at high temperature exhibit a rich spectrum of possible critical behavior, with a second or first order phase transition. In the vicinity of the critical temperature one can observe critical exponents, tricritical points, and crossover behavior. None of these phenomena are visible to high temperature perturbation theory. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society. }
Robust Parsing of the Proposition Bank

In this paper, we extend an existing statistical parsing model to produce richer output parse trees, annotated with PropBank semantic role labels. Our results show that the model can be robustly extended to produce more complex output parse trees without any loss in performance and suggest that joint inference of syntactic and semantic representations is a viable alternative to approaches based on a pipeline of local processing steps.
Damping of resonances at energization of transformers serving large pulse-type loads

The ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, an experimental device for nuclear fusion research, requires an electrical power up to a few hundred megavoltamperes for a time period of 10-15 s. The power and energy is provided by isolated networks based on flywheel generators. About 20 power transformers must be energized on a daily basis to get the pulsed power supply operational for plasma experiments. Nuisance interactions of transformer inrush currents with the protection system of the synchronous machines and capacitor banks used for reactive power compensation must be avoided. To investigate the effects of inrush transients in present and future configurations, measurements were performed and a simulation model based on an equivalent magnetic circuit representation of the transformer was derived. The paper describes the model, results of simulation and measurement, and shows which measures were taken to keep transients in the isolated network at an acceptable level.
Neural Marker Genes Differently Expressed in Subsets of Embryonic Neural Cells of the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi

Abstract Ascidians are lower chordates that possess a possible prototype of the vertebrate nervous system. The central and peripheral nervous systems of ascidian larvae are composed of only a few hundred cells (Nicol and Meinertzhagen, 1991). To investigate how these ascidian nervous systems develop, dissection at the molecular level using subset-specific markers is essential. Here we describe four new genes zygotically expressed in subsets of the ascidian neural cells. The spatial expression domains of these genes overlap in some parts but not in other parts of the nervous systems. Our results suggest that there are functionally different regions in the nervous systems owing to the gene expression differences. Further analyses of these genes will enable us to determine the molecular neuro-developmental characteristics of various clusters of neural cells.
Research on the scale prediction of college students' new unemployed group

The article describes the research status and significance of newly unemployed college students groups, on the basis of national statistics of unemployed college students, a linear regression equation be constructed to estimate the number of unemployed college students in Chongqing city. Descriptive statistics were to be used to analysis the motives of the unemployed college students, and the principal component analyze was to be used to analysis the needs of the unemployed college students. Finally, countermeasures be discussed.
Exponential smoothing for time series with outliers

Recursive time series methods are very popular due to their numerical simplicity. Their theoretical background is usually based on Kalman filtering in state space models (mostly in dynamic linear systems). However, in time series practice one must face frequently to outlying values (outliers), which require applying special methods of robust statistics. In the paper a simple robustification of Kalman filter is suggested using a simple truncation of the recursive residuals. Then this concept is applied mainly to various types of exponential smoothing (recursive estimation in Box–Jenkins models with outliers is also mentioned). The methods are demonstrated using simulated data.
Effects of age, cognitive, and personal factors on PDA menu navigation performance

The present study examined the PDA menu navigation performance of younger and older adults. The research focus was directed to the understanding of the combination and interaction of user characteristics with PDA menu navigation performance. In order to detail individual factors that influence user's performance, users' age, spatial ability, verbal memory, the confidence to use technical devices and computer-expertise were studied and related to performance outcomes. Younger and older adults, experienced with the usage of different technical devices, but PDA novices, had to complete four common tasks in the digital diary of an emulated PDA and users' effectiveness and efficiency were surveyed. Even though the users of both age groups had a comparably high computer experience, participants had considerable difficulties to solve the PDA tasks successfully. Especially older adults were strongly disadvantaged when navigating through the PDA menu. Among the user characteristics which were revealed to be essential for performance, spatial abilities were the best predictor to explain PDA performance. In addition, an adequate mental representation of the PDA data structure was decisive for navigation performance, especially in the older adult group.
A percolation model of multi-technology diffusion: information feedbacks, learning economies and subsidy policy

This paper deals with the diffusion of innovations in a multi-technology setting. High up-front costs of adoption, heterogeneity among potential adopters, network interactions, information feedbacks and subsidy policies are reproduced by an agent-based percolation model of multi-technology diffusion. In our model a new technology incorporated in a final product ready to be commercialized may spread in a market of heterogeneous consumers who decide whether to adopt it or not depending on both the net benefit from adoption and on locally available information. A new desirable technology, characterized by a high up-front cost of adoption, may not be able to overcome the obstacles to its diffusion despite potential future cost reductions. It may fail to spread in the market because of the pressure from its competitors (i.e. other technologies that serve a similar function) or because heterogeneity among potential adopters confine the spread of useful information to isolated sub-communities. We ask if a subsidy policy would trigger a self-sustained diffusion of a desirable technology. We run the model in two specific network topologies: bidimensional regular lattice and small world network. We show that a) information feedbacks and learning economies give raise to a positive feedback loop almost independently on the topology of the network: more information feedbacks ® decrease in price ® higher probability of conquering potential adopters ® more information feedbacks etc; b) market dominance depends on the probability of the initial adopters to belong to an expanding cluster which is a function of both the network topology and heterogeneity of potential adopters; c) in a multi-technology setting a subsidy policy should be set not only according to future costs reduction and heterogeneity but also to competition and technologies interdependence: reaching the necessary critical mass of diffusion may depend on how successfully the overall spread of other undesirable technologies is prevented