Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A selective border-casting zone routing protocol for ad-hoc networks

One of well-known routing protocol for ad hoc networks is zone routing protocol (ZRP). The performance of ZRP is better than other protocols. However, many useless control packets are used resulting in the increase of network load and decrease of network performance. In this paper, we propose a selective border-casting zone routing protocol (SBZRP) to reduce the network load by limiting the number of control packets when the protocol searches for a new route. The performance evaluation via simulations shows that the SBZRP has better performance than ZRP.
The architecture of the GJ 876 planetary system - Masses and orbital coplanarity for planets b and c

We present a combined analysis of previously published high-precision radial velocities and astrometry for the GJ 876 planetary system using a self-consistent model that accounts for the planet-planet interactions. Assuming the three planets so far identified in the system are coplanar, we find that including the astrometry in the analysis does not result in a best-fit inclination significantly different than that found by Rivera and collaborators from analyzing the radial velocities alone. In this unique case, the planet-planet interactions are of such significance that the radial velocity data set is more sensitive to the inclination of the system through the dependence of the interactions on the true masses of the two gas giant planets in the system (planets b and c). The astrometry does allow determination of the absolute orbital inclination (i.e. distinguishing between i and 180 - i) and longitude of the ascending node for planet b, which allows us to quantify the mutual inclination angle between its orbit and planet c's orbit when combined with the dynamical considerations. We find that the planets have a mutual inclination Φ bc = 5.0° +3.9° -2.3° , This result constitutes the first determination of the degree of coplanarity in an exoplanetary system around a normal star. That we find the two planets' orbits are nearly coplanar, like the orbits of the Solar System planets, indicates that the planets likely formed in a circumstellar disk, and that their subsequent dynamical evolution into a 2:1 mean motion resonance only led to excitation of a small mutual inclination. This investigation demonstrates how the degree of coplanarity for other exoplanetary systems could also be established using data obtained from existing facilities.
Contextualist Answers to the Challenge from Disagreement

In this short paper I survey recent contextualist answers to the challenge from disagreement raised by contemporary relativists. After making the challenge vivid by means of a working example, I specify the notion of disagreement lying at the heart of the challenge. The answers are grouped in three categories, the first characterized by rejecting the intuition of disagreement in certain cases, the second by conceiving disagreement as a clash of non-cognitive attitudes and the third by relegating disagreement at the pragmatic level. For each category I present several important variants and raise some (general) criticisms. The paper is meant to offer a quick introduction to the current contextualist literature on disagreement and thus a useful tool for further research.
‘A Proper Night Out':Alcohol and risk among young people in deprived areas in North West England

Young people’s very visible and public performances of drunkenness have become a matter of popular and political concern. English alcohol policy, frames this type of harmful alcohol consumption as a problem of individual behaviour, which is underpinned by conceptualisations of risk and rationality. Thus positioning the individual as a rational, risk adverse, decision maker. Consequently, interventions focus on risk factors and individual harm reduction models, despite there being little evidence to suggest that these type of interventions are effective. This thesis moves away from this focus by using a social practice theoretical framework, to explore the contemporary drinking practices of young people from socio-economically deprived areas and to reconceptualise risk in relation to these practices. This study draws on data from three mixed gender friendship groups of twenty-three young people from deprived communities in the North West of England during a 14-month period. This study focuses on the alcohol consumption of young people from deprived communities in northern England because they are the group whose drinking has frequently been the most problematised in English alcohol policy. In addition, people living in disadvantaged communities have been shown to suffer from more alcohol attributable harms than those living in more affluent communities. During the study period, data was collected from three to four in-depth group interviews with each group and from the social media content of each young person. The study draws on the theoretical frame of the three element model of social practice together with ‘doing gender’ and conceptualisations of Bourdieu’s capital, to undertake an empirical enquiry of alcohol consumption, that explores the unequal and varying performance(s) of the practice. This study illustrates how a specific material arrangement of alcohol, the corporeal, spaces, finance and mobile phones; combines and interconnects with social and symbolic meanings of social recognition, sociability, caring and group belonging and with competences relating to the consumption of alcohol and staying safe. By doing so, a recognizable practice-as-entity is identified, which is framed as a proper night out. The study re-conceptualises risk as routine, ordinary and normalised within young people’s intoxicated drinking practices. Thus, risk is viewed as being complex, multi-layered and fluid and knowledge about moderating and navigating hazards and uncertainties is part of the (un)conscious, embodied know-how of the practice.
Dosimetric and radiobiological characterizations of prostate intensity-modulated radiotherapy and volumetric-modulated arc therapy: A single-institution review of ninety cases

This study reviewed prostate volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans after prostate IMRT technique was replaced by VMAT in an institution. Characterizations of dosimetry and radiobiological variation in prostate were determined based on treatment plans of 40 prostate IMRT patients (planning target volume = 77.8-335 cm 3 ) and 50 VMAT patients (planning target volume = 120-351 cm 3 ) treated before and after 2013, respectively. Both IMRT and VMAT plans used the same dose-volume criteria in the inverse planning optimization. Dose-volume histogram, mean doses of target and normal tissues (rectum, bladder and femoral heads), dose-volume points (D 99% of planning target volume; D 30% , D 50% , V 30 Gy and V 35 Gy of rectum and bladder; D 5% , V 14 Gy , V 22 Gy of femoral heads), conformity index (CI), homogeneity index (HI), gradient index (GI), prostate tumor control probability (TCP), and rectal normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) based on the Lyman-Burman-Kutcher algorithm were calculated for each IMRT and VMAT plan. From our results, VMAT plan was found better due to its higher (1.05%) CI, lower (0.83%) HI and (0.75%) GI than IMRT. Comparing doses in normal tissues between IMRT and VMAT, it was found that IMRT mostly delivered higher doses of about 1.05% to the normal tissues than VMAT. Prostate TCP and rectal NTCP were found increased (1%) for VMAT than IMRT. It is seen that VMAT technique can decrease the dose-volume evaluation criteria for the normal tissues. Based on our dosimetric and radiobiological results in treatment plans, it is concluded that our VMAT implementation could produce comparable or slightly better target coverage and normal tissue sparing with a faster treatment time in prostate radiotherapy.
Semantics for communication primitives in a polymorphic language

We propose a method to extend an ML-style polymorphic language with transparent communication primitives, and give their precise operational semantics. These primitives allow any polymorphic programs definable in ML to be used remotely in a manner completely transparent to the programmer. Furthermore, communicating programs may be based on different architecture and use different data representations. We define a polymorphic functional calculus with transparent communication primitives, which we call dML, as an extension of Damas and Milner's proof system for ML. We then develop an algorithm to translate dML to a “core” language containing only low-level communication primitives that are readily implementable in most of distributed environments. To establish the type safety of communicating programs, we define an operational semantics of the core language and prove that the polymorphic type system of dML is sound with respect to the operational semantics of the translated terms of the core language.
Enterprise Architecture Model Analysis Using Description Logics

Enterprise architecture involves the use of models for facilitating the communication between stakeholders, which is required for the maintenance of the business/IT alignment. In that sense, the models should provide the necessary information for articulated decision-making, which, in complex scenarios, can result in the overwhelming complexity of the architecture descriptions. The complexity of the models might render manual analysis practically impossible, hence the appearance of automated analysis proposals throughout the years. Ontologies are a means for formally describing domain models, adding unambiguous meaning to its terms and relations. Moreover, ontologies provide computational inference mechanisms which can be used for the analysis of domain models. This work discusses the use of ontologies for EA analysis, focusing on the particular case of description logics. For that purpose, a survey on analysis approaches is performed and the reasoning features provided by description logics are matched to the different types of EA analysis. Based on such findings, a set of constructs is proposed for the representation, integration, and analysis of EA models. Finally, a demonstration of such constructs applied in compliance analysis is performed using an example scenario.
Youth purpose worldwide: A tapestry of possibilities

Abstract Interest in youth purpose is growing among scholars around the world. With globalization, better understanding of life purposes in different countries becomes more important as this generation’s youth are influenced by ideas and events anywhere. This special issue contributes to this inclusive, worldwide frame of mind by showcasing work done outside the US on the development, functioning and moral import of purposes as personal ‘threads’ intertwined that contribute to a global ‘tapestry. ’ This introduction provides frameworks for thinking about the articles that follow, including: (1) the constructs and characteristics that different countries associate with purpose; (2) reciprocal and mutually reinforcing interactions of cultures’ values, norms, institutions and morals as sources of purpose with purpose-pursuing individuals’ perceptions of opportunities to act for shared benefit; (3) cultures’ contributions to whether and how purpose contributes to youths’ development of moral momentum in their lives.
Adaptação e estrangeirização em “Case Studies” de “Teaching Students with Autism : a Resource Guide for Schools”

This work aims to demonstrate throughout the translation of the Teaching Students with Autism: a Resource Guide for Schools’ chapter nine, entitled “Case Studies”, created by Canada’s British Columbia government, that a translation can be based on two methods: the adaptation and foreignization. This monograph seeks to be a reference and to provide Individual Education Plans to schools and educators, since it is an extremely important and scarce material for the promotion of social inclusion and the improvement of special education in regular education in our country.
Soft Error Sensitivities in 90 nm Bulk CMOS SRAMs

Enhanced single event upset (SEU) sensitivity to low energy protons, as much as 5-6 orders of ten, has been observed in 90 nm epitaxial-bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) static random access memories (SRAM). Enhancements to process and cell design are discussed.
Measuring policing stress meaningfully: establishing norms and cut-off values for the Operational and Organizational Police Stress Questionnaires

Abstract The Operational and Organizational Police Stress Questionnaires (PSQ-Op and PSQ-Org) are useful tools for understanding individual differences in the perception of policing-specific stress. However, two of the limitations of the PSQ-Op and PSQ-Org are their lack of normative values that provide organizations with a baseline with which to judge the effectiveness of stress-reduction interventions or new resilience-based training initiatives and cut-offs that can identify the percentage of employees who might be experiencing high, moderate, and low levels of policing-specific stress. Specifically, they do not allow individual departments or policing organizations to assess the relative degree of work-related stress their members are experiencing, or to determine whether that level of stress is excessive. To address this gap in knowledge, we developed gender-based norms and cut-off values for the two PSQ measures. These norms are provided for both overall scale scores and individual items, and implications for addressing officer stress are discussed.
Sphingolipid Transport to the Apical Plasma Membrane Domain in Human Hepatoma Cells Is Controlled by PKC and PKA Activity: A Correlation with Cell Polarity in HepG2 Cells

The regulation of sphingolipid transport to the bile canalicular apical membrane in the well differentiated HepG2 hepatoma cells was studied. By employing fluorescent lipid analogs, trafficking in a transcytosis-dependent pathway and a transcytosis-independent (‘direct') route between the trans-Golgi network and the apical membrane were examined. The two lipid transport routes were shown to operate independently, and both were regulated by kinase activity. The kinase inhibitor staurosporine inhibited the direct lipid transport route but slightly stimulated the transcytosis-dependent route. The protein kinase C (PKC) activator phorbol-12 myristate-13 acetate (PMA) inhibited apical lipid transport via both transport routes, while a specific inhibitor of this kinase stimulated apical lipid transport. Activation of protein kinase A (PKA) had opposing effects, in that a stimulation of apical lipid transport via both transport routes was seen. Interestingly, the regulatory effects of either kinase activity in sphingolipid transport correlated with changes in cell polarity. Stimulation of PKC activity resulted in a disappearance of the bile canalicular structures, as evidenced by the redistribution of several apical markers upon PMA treatment, which was accompanied by an inhibition of apical sphingolipid transport. By contrast, activation of PKA resulted in an increase in the number and size of bile canaliculi and a concomitant enhancement of apical sphingolipid transport. Taken together, our data indicate that apical membrane-directed sphingolipid transport in HepG2 cells is regulated by kinases, which could play a role in the biogenesis of the apical plasma membrane domain.
Loop-Free Link-Traffic in Optimal Routing for Multi-Class Networks

Individually and overall optimal routing problems are considered for networks with nodes interconnected by a generally configured manner and with multiple classes of users. The two problems are formulated along with the discussions on mutual equivalence between both problems, on the existence and uniqueness of solutions, and on the relation between the formulations with path and link flow patterns. We show that a link-traffic loop-free property holds within each class for both individually and overall optimal routing in a wide range of networks, and show the condition that characterizes the category of networks for which the property holds.
Phone-based CSCW: tools and trials

Telephones are the most ubiquitous, best-networked, and simplest computer terminals available today. They have been used for voice mail but largely overlooked as a platform for asynchronous cooperative-work applications such as event calendars, issue discussions, and question-and-answer gathering. HyperVoice is a software toolkit for constructing such applications. Its building blocks are high-level presentation formats for collections of structured voice messages. The presentation formats can themselves be presented and manipulated, enabling significant customization of applications by phone. Results of two field trials suggest social-context factors that will influence the success or failure of phone-based cooperative work applications in particular settings.
Automatic Extraction of Social Interface System using Big-Data Analysis with Emergency Alert

In the world scenario, there is no proper fast generating alert system was implemented to report about the natural disasters. There is less possible to take immediate rescue process to save the people. The proposed model generates an automatic alert text as SMS or E-mail by extracting keywords from the tweets shared by the twitter users. The Support vector machine a machine learning algorithm used to analyze on tweets for separating positive and negative class. The system interfaces Maximum Peak of the particular keyword like Earthquake along with a particular time and at a particular location. The time and location is extracted using Stemming algorithm. Immediately an automatic alert is send as SMS and E-mail to the registered tweet users as well as to the Nearest Rescue Team.
Why do traits come together? The underlying trait and network approaches

This chapter deals with one of the most pervasive personality-related phenomenon: the coalescence of tendencies for specific thoughts, feelings and behaviors (characteristics) into broader patterns— traits. Two possible explanations are discussed. The more established explanation is that certain characteristics tend to co-exist because they reflect a common underlying cause. A more recent explanation is that they may also hang together because of having direct causal links between them —some characteristics can contribute to, or inhibit, others. However, the chapter offers a more general, mathematically formalized framework, which can, in fact, merge the to explanations. Furthermore, this framework can be used to represent both processes within individuals and individual differences, with the latter emerging from the former. This means potential for a formal bridge between two branches of personality psychology—the social cognitive and trait approaches. Some empirical findings will be reviewed that are consistent with the proposed framework.
Dynamics of boolean networks

Boolean networks are special types of finite state time-discrete dynamical systems. A Boolean network can be described by a function from an $n$-dimensional vector space over the field of two elements to itself. A fundamental problem in studying these dynamical systems is to link their long term behaviors to the structures of the functions that define them. In this paper, a method for deriving a Boolean network's dynamical information via its disjunctive normal form is explained. For a given Boolean network, a matrix with entries $0$ and $1$ is associated with the polynomial function that represents the network, then the information on the fixed points and the limit cycles is derived by analyzing the matrix. The described method provides an algorithm for the determination of the fixed points from the polynomial expression of a Boolean network. The method can also be used to construct Boolean networks with prescribed limit cycles and fixed points. Examples are provided to explain the algorithm.
Comparison of two different approaches for joint source-channel decoding of variable length codes

Two different approaches providing a joint optimization of source and channel decoding are compared for the decoding of variable length codes. The first one is based on a source-controlled channel decoding principle while the second one applies the turbo principle between the channel and source decoders. Different variants of these two approaches are included in this comparison using computational complexity and transmission performance criteria.
Gestures, Features and Segments in Early Child Speech

Alphabetic orthographies represent speech at the level ofthe phoneme. Yet the definition and functional status of the phonemic segment are widely viewed as problematic. Studies of child phonology have shown that the initial domain of a child's articulatory organization is the word rather than the segment, and have attributed a child's errors to failure to organize the features of a target word. The paper rejects the feature, as a unit of articulatory organization, on both rational and empirical grounds, proposing in its stead the gesture. Evidence from a child (1;9-2;1) learning American English shows how deviant forms, puzzling for a featural account, are readily explained as errors in the execution and timing of gestures. Phoneme-sized phonetic segments are then viewed as emergent properties of the gestural routines from which the child constructs its lexicon.
A Knowledge Management Tool for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice

In their daily practice, practitioners belong to local communities of practice CoPs within their organisation. This knowledge is rarely capitalised upon because discussions are mainly verbal. Practitioners can also belong to general CoPs online. Within these general CoPs, discussions are rarely linked to the context in which they appeared, since the members are from different companies or institutions. This paper 1 connects these two levels of CoPs by contacting practitioners belonging to CoPs centred on the same general activity but who are geographically distributed and 2 capitalises on the produced knowledge by contextualising, allowing it to be accessible and reusable by all the members. The authors detail the main results of the research: 1 a model of the interconnection of CoPs ICP to support knowledge sharing and dissemination; and 2 a specific knowledge management tool for the ICP knowledge base. The authors apply the model and platform to university tutors by: 1 developing a use case, which links the model and the TE-Cap 2 platform and highlights the new possibilities offered by the knowledge management tool; and 2 conducting a descriptive investigation lasting for five months.