Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
GLog: A high level graph analysis system using MapReduce

With the rapid growth of graphs in different applications, it is inevitable to leverage existing distributed data processing frameworks in managing large graphs. Although these frameworks ease the developing cost, it is still cumbersome and error-prone for developers to implement complex graph analysis tasks in distributed environments. Additionally, developers have to learn the details of these frameworks quite well, which is a key to improve the performance of distributed jobs. This paper introduces a high level query language called GLog and proposes its evaluation method to overcome these limitations. Specifically, we first design a RG (Relational-Graph) data model to mix relational data and graph data, and extend Datalog to GLog on RG tables to support various graph analysis tasks. Second, we define operations on RG tables, and show translation templates to convert a GLog query into a sequence of MapReduce jobs. Third, we propose two strategies, namely rule merging and iteration rewriting, to optimize the translated jobs. The final experiments show that GLog can not only express various graph analysis tasks in a more succinct way, but also achieve a better performance for most of the graph analysis tasks than Pig, another high level dataflow system.
A hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm for distributed permutation flowshop scheduling with flowline eligibility

This paper studies a new extension of distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem (DPFSP) referred to as the DPFSP with flowline eligibility. Under this extension, the problem contains two stages. At the first assignment stage, a set N of n jobs is distributed among F factories with flowline eligibility constraint, i.e., not all the factories are available for every job. Then each factory can be regarded as a regular permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP) in which jobs assigned to each factory have to be processed on m machines according to the given permutation. The objective is to minimize the maximum completion time or makespan of all the factories. The flowline eligibility constraint adds asymmetry and complexity to the regular DPFSP. In the proposed hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm (hybrid EDA), a heuristic of Framinan and Leisten (FLH) based solution-generate method (FLHSGM), two novel factory-based operators are proposed, and an effective local search based on variable neighborhood search (VNS) is employed and incorporated into EDA. Numerical simulations with comprehensive computational and statistical analysis are carried out. The experimental results and comparisons with existing algorithms show that the FLHSGM and the VNS-based local search enhances the search ability of EDA and the effectiveness of the hybrid EDA in solving both small-scale and large-scale DPFSP with flowline eligibility.
Secure Block Device -- Secure, Flexible, and Efficient Data Storage for ARM TrustZone Systems

Recent years have seen a flurry of activity in the area of efficient and secure file systems for cloud storage, and also in the area of memory protection for secure processors. Both scenarios use cryptographic methods for data protection. Here, we consider the middle ground: the problem of using cryptographic methods to protect data integrity and confidentiality on a system with two strongly isolated execution environments, specifically an ARM TrustZone system with a Trusted Execution Environment. We introduce the Secure Block Device, a secure, easy to use, flexible, efficient, and widely applicable minimal Trusted Computing Base solution to provide data confidentiality and integrity for Data at Rest. The Secure Block Device is an open source C software library that uses a Merkle-Tree in conjunction with a selectable Authenticated Encryption scheme to provide an easy to integrate solution for applications that require fast and secure random access to data, but not a fully fledged file system. It was designed for Trusted Applications running in a Trusted Execution Environment that already have secure storage for cryptographic keys, but no secure general purpose data store. Beyond that, the Secure Block Device is applicable in all similar scenarios. We evaluate the Secure Block Device by using it as the core component in a secure storage Trusted Application that uses the ARM TrustZone Trusted Execution Environment to provide a confidential and integrity protected block device to the normal world OS.
Counselors Helping Service Veterans Re-Enter Their Couple Relationship After Combat and Military Services: A Comprehensive Overview

This article provides an overview of the unique challenges combat service veterans deployed in Afghanistan and/or Iraq are dealing with today, and how these challenges can impact veterans’ reintegration into civilian life. Focus is also given to attachment; more specifically how the attachment bond between the combat service veteran and his or her spouse/partner often is impacted by the trauma of combat re-deployment/deployment/separation. The importance of couple counseling using Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is addressed, as is a careful assessment at the onset of counseling.
“That Time of Month:” Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder in the Criminal Law-Another Look

Abstract: This paper argues that women suffering from pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) ought to have available to them a range of legal defences that accurately reflect culpability. As PMDD focuses primarily on emotional mood and behavioural symptoms as opposed to physical manifestations of the premenstrual period, legal treatment of PMDD can be usefully compared to other “disordered states” that affect mental capacity, rationality and intent. Evolution of PMDD as a distinctive form of psychiatric disorder warrants a new consideration of the dual feminist concerns about the invisibility of women in criminal law theory and the undue labeling of all women. This article considers the application of criminal law defenses in light of newer research characterizing pre-menstrual mental disorder as a dynamic psychiatric and physiological state with shifting determinants that may be experienced differently over time. Ultimately, criminology must grapple with developing an account of women’s criminality that reflects accurately women’s lives lived within the sometimes overwhelming experience of biopsychosocial stressors. Reviewing PMDD in light of these concerns supports an enhanced understanding of the dynamics between women’s mental health and culpability.
UNED at MediaEval 2010: exploiting text metadata for Automatic Video Tagging

In this paper we present the rst participation of the NLP&IR group at UNED in the Tagging Task (Professional Version): prediction of semantic theme. This categorization task was carried out by an information retrieval approach, together with language models and clustering using only metadata associated with the videos. The results show that language models are useful for enriching the representation of information associated with videos.
Gene-expression and immunohistochemical study of specific T-cell subsets and accessory cell types in the transformation and prognosis of follicular lymphoma.

PURPOSE Despite the generally favorable clinical course in follicular lymphoma (FL), a minority of patients have a poor prognosis-with death within 3 years of diagnosis-most often due to transformation to aggressive disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this study, we analyzed the potential of predicting early transformation on the basis of gene expression and immunologic parameters in FL biopsy samples taken at diagnosis. RESULTS At the gene-expression level, FL is a highly uniform disease at the time of diagnosis, precluding the detection of sufficiently validated prognostic gene-expression profiles suitable for a clinical setting. Combinations of differentially expressed genes indicate that immunologic mechanisms play a differential role in the risk of early transformation. Using immunohistochemistry for specific cell populations, the spatial distribution to neoplastic follicles and the activation of CD4-positive T-helper cells (P = .002) and specifically T-helper 1 (P = .004) were shown to be highly discriminatory to predict early transformation. A role for functional modulation of follicular dendritic cells could also be supported (P = .04). Other cell populations, including CD68-positive macrophages and regulatory T cells, were not differentially present. CONCLUSION These results support the identification of FL as an immunologically functional disease in which an interaction of the tumor cells and the functional composition of the microenvironment determines the clinical behavior.
D2D-based content delivery with parked vehicles in vehicular social networks

With the rapid advances in vehicular technologies and social multimedia applications, VSNs have emerged and gained significant attention from both industry and academia. However, due to the low communication ability between vehicles, heavy network traffic load, and limited storage capacity, VSNs face the challenge to improve the performance of content delivery to provide a pleasant and safe driving experience. Therefore, in this article, first we present a novel framework to deliver content in VSNs with D2D communication. In the proposed framework, moving vehicles can exchange content directly with each other according to D2D communication. All contents are managed in a content-centric mode, where moving vehicles can send their interests to obtain content with naming information, resulting in a reduction of network traffic load. Based on the D2D communication, parked vehicles around the street can form vehicular social communities with the moving vehicles passing along the road, where the storage capacity of VSNs can be increased by using the contents in parked vehicles. Then we present the detailed process of content delivery in VSNs including interest sending, content distribution, and content replacement. Finally, experiment results prove the efficiency of the proposal.
Service users' knowledges and social work theory: conflict or collaboration?

Summary So far, service users have not been systematically involved in social work theorizing. However, disabled people's movements, mental health service users/survivors and other service users have developed their own knowledges based on direct experience and they have generated their own conceptual frameworks and bodies of theory. There are fundamental problems in social work seeking to interpret service user knowledges. Their development and interpretation require the direct involvement of service users and their organizations in social work theorizing. There are strong practical, philosoph ical and political arguments for involving the knowledges and theories of service users and their organizations in the process of social work theory-building. This paper con siders an inclusive approach to social work theorizing. While highlighting the import ance of service users and their organizations being effectively included in social work theorizing, it also argues the need for them to have support and opportunities to develop their own prior and separate discussions about theory, including social work theory.
Survey on Energy-Efficient Secure Routing In Wireless Sensor Networks

The key challenge in sensor networks is to maximize the lifetime of sensor nodes due to the fact that it is not feasible to replace the batteries of thousands of sensor nodes. Therefore, computational operations of nodes and communication protocols must be made as energy efficient as possible. Among these protocols data transmission protocols have much more importance in terms of energy, since the energy required for data transmission takes 70 % of the total energy consumption of a wireless sensor network Area coverage and data aggregation techniques can greatly help conserve the scarce energy resources by eliminating data redundancy and minimizing the number of data transmissions. Therefore, data aggregation methods in sensor networks are extensively investigated in the literature [4], [5], [6] and [7]. Security in data communication is another important issue to be considered while designing wireless sensor networks, as wireless sensor networks may be deployed in hostile areas such as battle fields. Therefore, data aggregation protocols should work with the data communication security protocols, as any conflict between these protocols might create loopholes in network security.
Electronically Tunable Yb-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

We report a passively mode-locked picosecond Yb-doped fiber laser that is electronically tunable over 30 nm around 1.04 m. The fiber laser with a tuning accuracy of better than 0.1 nm and a tuning time of as fast as 15 s employs an acoustooptic filter. The semiconductor saturable absorber mirror used in a cavity with a frequency-shifted feedback improves noticeably the mode-locked operation.
Overview of the TREC 2006

The fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006, was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 14 to 17 November 2006. The conference was co-sponsored by NIST and the Disruptive Technology Office (DTO). TREC 2006 had 107 participating groups from 17 different countries. Table 2 at the end of the paper lists the participating groups. TREC 2006 is the latest in a series of workshops designed to foster research on technologies for information retrieval. The workshop series has four goals:
Clinical evaluation and endoscopic classification of bronchomalacia in dogs.

BACKGROUND Little information is available about the association between bronchomalacia and historical or clinicopathologic data. Also, studies applying an endoscopic classification scheme that differentiates between static and dynamic bronchial collapse and based on a scoring system are lacking. OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical presentation of bronchomalacia in dogs, to classify endoscopic findings, and to evaluate associations among historical, clinicopathologic data, and endoscopic findings. ANIMALS Fifty-nine client-owned dogs with an endoscopic diagnosis of bronchomalacia. METHODS In this retrospective study, medical records were analyzed and video documentation was reviewed to assign a score to endoscopic findings. Univariate analysis was performed on categorical variables organized in contingency tables, and a stepwise logistic regression model was used for multivariate analysis. RESULTS Of the 59 dogs included in the study, 2 were affected by static bronchial collapse (SBC), 35 by dynamic bronchial collapse (DBC), and 22 by both SBC and DBC. The association between SBC and DBC was more frequently seen in the dogs with higher body weight, pulmonary hypertension, a bronchial type of radiographic pattern, and nodularity at endoscopic examination. Thirty-one dogs were presented with tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia; an association emerged between these concurrent disorders in dogs living indoors. Multivariate analysis of the endoscopic scores showed a correlation between DBC severity and cough duration. CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE Results of this study provide evidence for 2 different types of bronchial collapse. Endoscopic scoring scheme has proved to be promising in the bronchomalacia classification, although further evaluation of its applicability in larger canine populations is needed.
A New Case of an Extremely Rare 3p21.31 Interstitial Deletion

Interstitial 3p21.31 deletions have been very rarely reported. We describe a 7-year-old boy with global developmental delay, specific facial characteristics, hydronephrosis, and hypothyreosis with a de novo deletion of 3p21.31, encompassing 29 OMIM genes. Despite the wide use of microarrays, no similar case has been reported in the literature so far. Five overlapping cases are deposited in the DECIPHER database, 2 of which have significant overlapping chromosomal aberrations. They both share some phenotypic characteristics with our case, e.g. developmental delay, intellectual disability and facial dysmorphism (arched eyebrows, hypertelorism, low-set ears, and a large nose tip). In addition, loss-of-function mutations in the SETD2 gene (OMIM 612778) of the deleted region have been described in 3 patients, presenting with some similar clinical features, namely overgrowth, intellectual disability, speech delay, hypotonia, autism, and epilepsy. Therefore, SETD2 may explain part of the phenotype in our case. We focused on 3 other genes in the deleted region, based on their known functions, namely CSPG5 (OMIM 606775), PTH1R (OMIM 168468) and SMARCC1 (OMIM 601732), and assessed their potentially important role in describing the patient's phenotype. Additional cases with haploinsufficiency of this region are needed to elucidate further genotype-phenotype correlations.
Determinants of Innovation in Organizations

The present study is an attempt to identify the determinants of innovation in public agencies, i.e., the degree to which they adopt and emphasize programs that depart from traditional concerns. Innovation is suggested to be the function of an interaction among the motivation to innovate, the strength of obstacles against innovation, and the availability of resources for overcoming such obstacles. The significance of the research can be viewed in terms of Hyneman's observation nearly twenty years ago that bureaucratic agencies “… may fail to take the initiative and supply the leadership that is required of them in view of their relation to particular sectors of public affairs. …” His concern was the responsiveness of the public sector not only to expressed wants but to public wants that may go unexpressed, or be only weakly expressed, and whose utility is much more easily recognized by the informed bureaucratic official than by the ordinary citizen. While the results and conclusions to be reported appear to be largely valid for organizations in general, the empirical focus will be local departments of public health which, as a class, have had a rather dramatic succession of opportunities to respond to new public problems over the past twenty-five years. A brief introductory paragraph will orient the reader to the applied setting.
Robust vehicle detection in aerial images based on salient region selection and superpixel classification

For detecting vehicles in large scale aerial images we first used a non-parametric method proposed recently by Rosin to define the regions of interest, where the vehicles appear with dense edges. The saliency map is a sum of distance transforms (DT) of a set of edges maps, which are obtained by a threshold decomposition of the gradient image with a set of thresholds. A binary mask for highlighting the regions of interest is then obtained by a moment-preserving thresholding of the normalized saliency map. Secondly, the regions of interest were over-segmented by the SLIC superpixels proposed recently by Achanta et al. to cluster pixels into the color constancy sub-regions. In the aerial images of 11.2 cm/pixel resolution, the vehicles in general do not exceed 20 x 40 pixels. We introduced a size constraint to guarantee no superpixels exceed the size of a vehicle. The superpixels were then classified to vehicle or non-vehicle by the Support Vector Machine (SVM), in which the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) features and the Linear Binary Pattern (LBP) texture features were used. Both features were extracted at two scales with two size patches. The small patches capture local structures and the larger patches include the neighborhood information. Preliminary results show a significant gain in the detection. The vehicles were detected with a dense concentration of the vehicle-class superpixels. Even dark color cars were successfully detected. A validation process will follow to reduce the presence of isolated false alarms in the background.
Norm‐based relational behaviours: is there an underlying dimensional structure?

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to analyse what roles different relational norms play in long‐term business relationships.Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses exploratory factor analysis on a data set of n=297 relationships and identifies two norm dimensions: value‐creating norms and value‐claiming norms.Findings – This paper demonstrates that extant empirical research on relational norms and related behaviours is fragmentary and that there is considerable overlap between certain norms. Hence, the dimensionality of the norm concept remains unclear.Originality/value – This study contributes to a clearer picture of the norm construct that has been used in a fragmented and selective way in empirical studies in the past.
Human Claudin-8 and -14 Are Receptors Capable of Conveying the Cytotoxic Effects of Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin

ABSTRACT Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) contributes to several important human gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. This toxin and its derivatives are also being explored for translational applications, i.e., cancer therapy or drug delivery. Some, but not all, members of the 24-member claudin (Cldn) family of mammalian tight junction proteins can serve as CPE receptors. Among the human Cldns (hCldns), hCldn-3 and -4 are known to convey CPE sensitivity when expressed by fibroblast transfectants. However, other Cldns are also reportedly expressed in the intestines, where they might contribute to natural CPE-mediated GI disease, and in other organs, where they might react with CPE-based therapeutics. Therefore, the current study assessed whether two additional hCldns beside hCldn-3 and -4 are also functional CPE receptors. Using Cldn-expressing transfectants, hCldn-8 and -14 were shown to convey CPE-mediated cytotoxicity at pathophysiologically relevant concentrations of this toxin, although ~2-to-10-fold less efficiently than hCldn-4. Site-directed mutagenesis then demonstrated that the N146 residue in hCldn-14 and the S151 residue in hCldn-8 are largely responsible for modulating the weaker CPE binding properties of hCldn-8 and -14 versus hCldn-4, which broadens understanding of Cldn:CPE binding interactions. Since Cldn-8 and -14 are reportedly expressed in mammalian intestines, the current results support the possibility that these two hCldns contribute to natural CPE-mediated gastrointestinal disease and could be CPE-based therapeutic targets for cancers overexpressing those claudins. However, these results also suggest caution during therapeutic use of CPE, which might trigger toxic side effects in normal human tissues producing hCldn-8 or -14, as well as in those producing hCldn-3 or -4. IMPORTANCE Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) is responsible for the gastrointestinal symptoms of the second-most-common bacterial food-borne illness and is also being explored for use as a cancer therapeutic or for increasing drug delivery. Until now, the only known human CPE receptors were claudin-3 and -4. This work shows that human claudin-8 and -14 can also bind CPE and convey cytotoxicity, although slightly less efficiently than claudin-3 and -4. The claudin-8 and -14 residues responsible for this weaker CPE binding were identified, shedding new light on CPE:claudin interactions. Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) is responsible for the gastrointestinal symptoms of the second-most-common bacterial food-borne illness and is also being explored for use as a cancer therapeutic or for increasing drug delivery. Until now, the only known human CPE receptors were claudin-3 and -4. This work shows that human claudin-8 and -14 can also bind CPE and convey cytotoxicity, although slightly less efficiently than claudin-3 and -4. The claudin-8 and -14 residues responsible for this weaker CPE binding were identified, shedding new light on CPE:claudin interactions.