Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
View management of annotations for wearable augmented reality

In annotation overlay applications using augmented reality (AR), view management is widely used for improving readability and intelligibility of the annotations. In order to recognize the visible portions of objects in the user's view, the positions, orientations, and shapes of the objects should be known in the case of conventional view management methods. However, it is difficult for a wearable AR system to obtain the positions, orientations and shapes of objects because the target object is usually moving or non-rigid. In this paper, we propose a view management method to overlay annotations of moving or non-rigid objects for networked wearable AR. The proposed method obtains positions and shapes of target objects via a network in order to estimate the visible portions of the target objects in the user's view. Annotations are located by minimizing penalties related to the overlap of an annotation, occlusion of target objects, length of a line between the annotation and the target object, and distance of the annotation in sequential frames. Through experiments, we have proven that the prototype system can correctly provide each user with annotations on multiple users of wearable AR systems.
Isolation of Transducing Bacteriophages for the Histidine and Isoleucine-Valine Operons in Escherichia coli K-12

In vitro studies have been of great value in elucidating the mechanism of the regulation of several bacterial operons. To obtain a deoxyribonucleic acid preparation enriched for the histidine (his) and for the isoleucine-valine (ilv) operons, we have isolated bacteriophages carrying the his and the ilv regions of the Escherichia coli chromosome. Transposition of the his operon to a site close to the att80 region of the E. coli chromosome has been carried out selecting for integration of a temperature-sensitive F′his+ in the tonB locus. This transposed strain has been lysogenized with φ80iλ. Upon induction of the lysogen, His+ transductants have been isolated, which, on further induction give rise to HFT (high frequency of transduction) lysates. Preliminary characterization of the transducing phage is reported. The ilv operon, carried on an F′ particle, has been fused to an episome carrying the att80 region. The fused episome has been lysogenized with φ80i λt68. Upon induction of the lysogen, Ilv+ transductants have been isolated which on further induction give rise to HFT lysates.
Ieee Projects 100% Working Code + Documentation+ Explaination – Best Price a Probabilistic Misbehavior Detection Scheme towards Efficient Trust Establishment in Delay- Tolerant Networks

Malicious and selfish behaviors represent a serious threat against routing in Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs). Due to the unique network characteristics, designing a misbehavior detection scheme in DTN is regarded as a great challenge. In this paper, we propose iTrust, a probabilistic misbehavior detection scheme, for secure DTN routing towards efficient trust establishment. The basic idea of iTrust is introducing a periodically available Trusted Authority (TA) to judge the node's behavior based on the collected routing evidences and probabilistically checking. We model iTrust as the Inspection Game and use game theoretical analysis to demonstrate that, by setting an appropriate investigation probability, TA could ensure the security of DTN routing at a reduced cost. To further improve the efficiency of the proposed scheme, we correlate detection probability with a node's reputation, which allows a dynamic detection probability determined by the trust of the users. The extensive analysis and simulation results show that the proposed scheme substantiates the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme.
An efficient info-gain algorithm for finding frequent sequential traversal patterns from web logs based on dynamic weight constraint

Many frequent sequential traversal pattern mining algorithms have been developed which mine the set of frequent subsequences traversal pattern satisfying a minimum support constraint in a session database. However, previous frequent sequential traversal pattern mining algorithms give equal weightage to sequential traversal patterns while the pages in sequential traversal patterns have different importance and have different weightage. Another main problem in most of the frequent sequential traversal pattern mining algorithms is that they produce a large number of sequential traversal patterns when a minimum support is lowered and they do not provide alternative ways to adjust the number of sequential traversal patterns other than increasing the minimum support. In this paper, we propose a frequent sequential traversal pattern mining algorithm with dynamic weight constraint. Our main approach is to add the weight constraints into the sequential traversal pattern while maintaining the downward closure property. A weight range is defined to maintain the downward closure property and pages are given different weights and traversal sequences assign a minimum and maximum weight. In scanning a session database, a maximum and minimum weight in the session database is used to prune infrequent sequential traversal subsequence by doing downward closure property can be maintained. Our method produces a few but important sequential traversal patterns in session databases with a low minimum support, by adjusting a weight range of pages and sequence. The support and confidence are the most popular measures for sequential patterns. The support evaluates frequencies of the patterns and the confidence evaluates frequencies of patterns in the case that sub-patterns are given. These parameters are meaningful and important for some applications. The information gain metric which is widely used in the information theory field, may be useful to evaluate the degree of surprise of the pattern. Target is finding set of patterns that have information gain higher than minimum information gain threshold.
Characterization of Brca2-Deficient Plants Excludes the Role of NHEJ and SSA in the Meiotic Chromosomal Defect Phenotype

In somatic cells, three major pathways are involved in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DBS): Non-Homologous End Joining (NHEJ), Single-Strand Annealing (SSA) and Homologous Recombination (HR). In somatic and meiotic HR, DNA DSB are 5′ to 3′ resected, producing long 3′ single-stranded DNA extensions. Brca2 is essential to load the Rad51 recombinase onto these 3′ overhangs. The resulting nucleofilament can thus invade a homologous DNA sequence to copy and restore the original genetic information. In Arabidopsis, the inactivation of Brca2 specifically during meiosis by an RNAi approach results in aberrant chromosome aggregates, chromosomal fragmentation and missegregation leading to a sterility phenotype. We had previously suggested that such chromosomal behaviour could be due to NHEJ. In this study, we show that knock-out plants affected in both BRCA2 genes show the same meiotic phenotype as the RNAi-inactivated plants. Moreover, it is demonstrated that during meiosis, neither NHEJ nor SSA compensate for HR deficiency in BRCA2-inactivated plants. The role of the plant-specific DNA Ligase6 is also excluded. The possible mechanism(s) involved in the formation of these aberrant chromosomal bridges in the absence of HR during meiosis are discussed.
GA optimization technique for portfolio optimization of electricity market participation

This paper presents a methodology based on genetic Algorithms (GA) to solve the problem of optimal participation in multiple electricity markets. With the emergence of new requirements for electrical power markets, it has become fundamental to develop tools to aid in decision making, understanding the functioning of markets and forecast iterations that occur between the different entities in the market. Artificial intelligence plays a crucial role in the development of these tools. Using artificial intelligence techniques, it is possible to simulate the different existing players in the market, to enable these players to be adaptive to any situation, and to model any type of trading. Artificial intelligence based metaheuristic optimization tools allow solving problems in a short time, and with very close results to those that deterministic techniques are able to achieve, at the cost of a high execution time. The achieved results, using a simulation scenario based on real data from the Iberian electricity market, show that the proposed method is able to reach better results than previous implementations of a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and a Simulated Annealing (SA) methods, while achieving very similar objective function results to those of a deterministic approach, in a much faster execution time.
Google query optimization tool

Research is the key to success in any society; technology on the other hand is the fastest vehicle to reach it. As such, for speedy development of any society the two have to be coupled, that is why research and internet cannot be separated. Due to the fact that the internet consists of an ever increasing interconnection of hundreds of millions of computers makes it frustrating to search for information. Even though search engines were invented to solve this problem, one needs to know how to query them in order to find the desired information in the shortest possible time. This is why it is necessary to develop a software that can optimize users query before passing it to a search engine in order to increase efficiency in search results. This paper reports in details how one of such software was successfully developed.
Protection against Cholera Toxin after Oral Immunization is Thymus‐Dependent and Associated with Intestinal Production of Neutralizing IgA Antitoxin

We studied whether gut mucosal IgA antitoxin production as well as the acquired protection against cholera toxin (CT) after oral immunization with CT are both thymus‐dependent immune manifestations. In contrast to normal BALB/c mice, nude, athymic mice did not respond to oral immunizations with CT with either IgA antitoxin‐producing cells (SFC) in the lamina propria or protection against challenge with CT in ligated intestinal loops. However, when nude mice were first reconstituted by grafting of syngeneic thymus glands, both IgA antitoxin SFC in the lamina propria and protection were stimulated by oral immunizations with CT and the responses were of similar magnitude to those of normal mice after immunizations. During in vitro culture, isolated lamina propria lymphocytes from immunized but not from control mice concomitantly and proportionally produced IgA antitoxin and CT‐neutralizing activity. We conclude that intestinal antitoxin formation and protection against toxin challenge after oral immunization with CT are both critically thymus‐dependent and therefore likely to be under T‐cell control.
New MEMS-Based Micro-Coriolis Density Measurement Technology

Density measurements have long been used within the scope of process and product quality control in a variety of applications and industries. In the petroleum industry, measuring the density or specific gravity of liquid fuels has been reported to be the preferred method for both accuracy and ease of use, for example in blending operations. In the drinking water, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, density measurement is an important quality related fluid parameter. To see wide spread use, a measurement technology must not only be capable of accurately monitoring a parameter, but it must do so in an economical way. This paper explores laboratory and field hazardous area applications of a newly developed MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) technology for density measurement. This microfluidic sensor, based on the Coriolis principle, has on-chip density / specific gravity, temperature and viscosity measurement capabilities, as will be demonstrated in the experimental results. These very compact MEMS devices are immune to vehicular vibration and have an extremely fast response time, due their high resonant frequencies. The ability to differentiate between types of fuels such as gasoline, ethanol, methanol, diesel, biodiesel, butanol, and to detect water and air contamination using density measurement, will be demonstrated. Concentrations of fuel blends such as E85 and others can be accurately determined. The density of liquid ingredients, additives and pharmaceutical liquids can be measured with high reproducibility. Measuring fluids under high flow rates is accommodated with an internal by-pass design. An intrinsically safe Class 1 Div 1 (or Zone 0) circuit has been developed to enable use of this technology with flammable liquids or in explosion hazardous atmospheres.Copyright © 2011 by ASME
Neither species geographic range size, climatic envelope, nor intraspecific leaf trait variability capture habitat specialization in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest

Many plant species exhibit strong association with topographic habitats at local scales. However, the historical biogeographic and physiological drivers of habitat specialization are still poorly understood, and there is a need for relatively easy‐to‐measure predictors of species habitat niche breadth. Here, we explore whether species geographic range, climatic envelope, or intraspecific variability in leaf traits is related to the degree of habitat specialization in a hyperdiverse tropical tree community in Amazonian Ecuador. Contrary to our expectations, we find no effect of the size of species geographic ranges, the diversity of climate a species experiences across its range, or intraspecific variability in leaf traits in predicting topographic habitat association in the ~300 most common tropical tree species in a 25‐ha tropical forest plot. In addition, there was no phylogenetic signal to habitat specialization. We conclude that species geographic range size, climatic niche breadth, and intraspecific variability in leaf traits fail to capture the habitat specialization patterns observed in this highly diverse tropical forest.
Testing the General Relativistic “No-Hair” Theorems Using the Galactic Center Black Hole Sagittarius A*

If a class of stars orbits the central black hole in our galaxy in short-period (~0.1 yr), high-eccentricity (~0.9) orbits, they will experience precessions of their orbital planes induced by both relativistic frame dragging and the quadrupolar gravity of the hole, at levels that could be as large as 10 μas per year, if the black hole is rotating faster than half of its maximum rotation rate. Astrometric observations of the orbits of at least two such stars can in principle lead to a determination of the angular momentum vector of the black hole and its quadrupole moment Q2. This could lead to a test of the general relativistic no-hair theorems, which demand that Q2 = − J2/M. Future high-precision adaptive infrared optics instruments may make such a fundamental test of the black hole paradigm possible.
Predictors of positive food challenge outcome in non-IgE-mediated reactions to food in children with atopic dermatitis.

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis is frequently associated with food allergy. In general, clinically manifested food allergy is regarded as IgE mediated. However, there are some children with food allergy for whom IgE hypersensitivity cannot be proven. OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate the percentage of children with positive double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge (DBPCFC) results but without any proof of IgE sensitization and to characterize this subgroup of children. METHODS Two hundred eight DBPCFCs were performed in 139 children (median age, 13 months) with atopic dermatitis and suspected food-related clinical symptoms. All children were subjected to skin prick tests (SPTs), determination of specific IgE, and atopy patch tests. RESULTS One hundred eleven (53%) of 208 oral food challenge results were assessed as positive. Positive challenge results were separated into 2 groups according to IgE positivity: negative SPT and negative specific IgE results in serum (group A, n = 12) and positive SPT, specific IgE, or both results in serum (group B, n = 99). The atopy patch test results; the distribution of early, late, or both clinical reactions; the age of the children; and the total IgE levels all showed no significant differences between the 2 groups. However, wheat challenge results were more often positive among the apparently non-IgE-sensitized children, and hen's egg challenge results were more often positive in the sensitized group (P < .05). CONCLUSION Around 10% of positive DBPCFC results are not IgE mediated. Therefore not the proof of specific IgE but the suspicion of food-related symptoms should be the indication to perform oral food challenges, especially in the case of wheat. Otherwise, some children will not receive diagnoses for food allergy and be denied the benefits of a specific diet.
Material Identification Using RF Sensors and Convolutional Neural Networks

Recent years have assisted a widespreading of Radio-Frequency-based tracking and mapping algorithms for a wide range of applications, ranging from environment surveillance to human-computer interface.This work presents a material identification system based on a portable 3D imaging radar-based system, the Walabot sensor by Vayyar Technologies; the acquired three-dimensional radiance map of the analyzed object is processed by a Convolutional Neural Network in order to identify which material the object is made of. Experimental results show that processing the three-dimensional radiance volume proves to be more efficient thas processing the raw signals from antennas. Moreover, the proposed solution presents a higher accuracy with respect to some previous state-of-the-art solutions.
Severe Ankyrin-R deficiency results in impaired surface retention and lysosomal degradation of RhAG in human erythroblasts

Ankyrin-R provides a key link between band 3 and the spectrin cytoskeleton that helps to maintain the highly specialized erythrocyte biconcave shape. Ankyrin deficiency results in fragile spherocytic erythrocytes with reduced band 3 and protein 4.2 expression. We use in vitro differentiation of erythroblasts transduced with shRNAs targeting ANK1 to generate erythroblasts and reticulocytes with a novel ankyrin-R ‘near null’ human phenotype with less than 5% of normal ankyrin expression. Using this model, we demonstrate that absence of ankyrin negatively impacts the reticulocyte expression of a variety of proteins, including band 3, glycophorin A, spectrin, adducin and, more strikingly, protein 4.2, CD44, CD47 and Rh/RhAG. Loss of band 3, which fails to form tetrameric complexes in the absence of ankyrin, alongside GPA, occurs due to reduced retention within the reticulocyte membrane during erythroblast enucleation. However, loss of RhAG is temporally and mechanistically distinct, occurring predominantly as a result of instability at the plasma membrane and lysosomal degradation prior to enucleation. Loss of Rh/RhAG was identified as common to erythrocytes with naturally occurring ankyrin deficiency and demonstrated to occur prior to enucleation in cultures of erythroblasts from a hereditary spherocytosis patient with severe ankyrin deficiency but not in those exhibiting milder reductions in expression. The identification of prominently reduced surface expression of Rh/RhAG in combination with direct evaluation of ankyrin expression using flow cytometry provides an efficient and rapid approach for the categorization of hereditary spherocytosis arising from ankyrin deficiency.
Associations between Adenotonsillar Hypertrophy, Age, and Obesity in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Objective To investigate the contributions of adenoid and tonsil size to childhood obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the interactions between adenotonsillar hypertrophy, age, and obesity in children with OSA. Methods In total, 495 symptomatic patients were recruited. The patients were assigned to four groups according to age：toddler (age 1-3, n=42), preschool (age 3-6, n=164), school (age 6-12, n=200), and adolescence (age 12-18, n=89). All subjects had tonsil size graded by otolaryngologists, adenoid size determined on lateral radiographs (Fujioka method), and a full-night polysomnography. The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), adenoid size, and tonsil size were compared in obese and non-obese children in the four age groups. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence interval (CI) of adenotonsillar hypertrophy and OSA risk were estimated by multi-logistic regression. Results The AHI was positively related to tonsil grade (r=0.33, p <0.001) and adenoid size (r=0.24, p <0.01) in all patients. Tonsil grade was positively related to AHI in all four age groups. Adenoid size was positively related to AHI in the toddler, preschool, school groups, but not in the adolescent group (r=0.11, p=0.37). Tonsil grade and adenoid size were both positively related to AHI in obese and non-obese children. In the regression model, obesity (OR=2.89; 95% CI 1.47-5.68), tonsillar hypertrophy (OR=3.15; 95% CI 2.04-4.88), and adenoidal hypertrophy (OR=1.89; 95% CI 1.19-3.00) significantly increased OSA risk. Conclusions Adenotonsillar hypertrophy and obesity are the major determinants of OSA in children. However, the influence of adenoid size decreases in adolescence.
Cancer occurrence in Semnan Province, Iran: results of a population-based cancer registry.

INTRODUCTION suitable information of different cancers in special geographic areas can help define medical programs for treatment and screening of high-risk groups. AIMS AND METHODS The provincial health authority reported a high mortality rate from upper GI cancer in the center of Iran. A comprehensive search was undertaken to survey and register all cases of cancer during a 5-year (1998-2002) period among the indigenous population of Semnan Province. Diagnosis of cancer was based on histopathology, clinical or radiological findings, and death certificates. RESULTS A total of 1732 patients with cancers (mean age 59.41% +/-19.08% years) were found during the study. Of these, 936(54.86%) were in males. Crude rates were 124.8/100,000 and 112.1/100,000 for males and females, respectively. Age-standardized ratios (ASRs) for all cancers in males and females were 156/100,000 and 136/100,000 person-year, respectively. Gastric cancer was the most common tumor with an incidence rate of 19.7 per 100,000 people (ASR=27.5). In upper gastrointestinal cancers, gastric cancer was the most common (47.17%), followed by colon malignancies (8.1%, 9.5 per 100,000 populations), esophagus (6.8%, 7.9 per 100,000 populations), liver (2.4%, and 2.8 per 100,000 populations). In women, breast, uterine and ovary, stomach and skin were the most common cancers. In the child population the most common tumors were of the brain, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and bone. CONCLUSION Gastric cancer alone constitutes one-sixth of all cancers in Semnan, with the highest ASR incidence rate reported from Iran up to now.
Fitness uniform optimization

In evolutionary algorithms, the fitness of a population increases with time by mutating and recombining individuals and by a biased selection of fitter individuals. The right selection pressure is critical in ensuring sufficient optimization progress on the one hand and in preserving genetic diversity to be able to escape from local optima on the other hand. Motivated by a universal similarity relation on the individuals, we propose a new selection scheme, which is uniform in the fitness values. It generates selection pressure toward sparsely populated fitness regions, not necessarily toward higher fitness, as is the case for all other selection schemes. We show analytically on a simple example that the new selection scheme can be much more effective than standard selection schemes. We also propose a new deletion scheme which achieves a similar result via deletion and show how such a scheme preserves genetic diversity more effectively than standard approaches. We compare the performance of the new schemes to tournament selection and random deletion on an artificial deceptive problem and a range of NP hard problems: traveling salesman, set covering, and satisfiability