Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CEA LIST's Participation to the Concept Annotation Task of ImageCLEF 2012

This paper describes our participation to the ImageCLEF2012 Photo Annotation Task. We focus on how to use the tags associated to the images to improve the annotation performance. We submitted one textual-only and three multimodal runs. Our first textual model (14) is based on the local soft coding of images tags over a dictionary of most frequent tags. A second model of tag is an adaptation of the TF-IDF model to the social space in order to compute the social relatedness of two tags(9). For the fusion we used a trainable combiner, called stacked generalization (12) which uses predictions from base classifiers to learn a new model. Results have shown that combination of textual and vi- sual features can improve the annotation performance significantly. Our best run achieves 41:59 % in terms of MAP, allowing us to rank 3 rd team.
Elemental Diet Is an Effective Treatment for Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Children and Adolescents

OBJECTIVE:Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a disorder characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the esophageal mucosa, has been defined in large part through published case reports and series leading to ambiguity in both diagnostic and treatment options. Corticosteroids, cromolyn, and elemental diet have all been reported as successful treatments for EoE. In this study, we sought to accurately define a population of patients with EoE and then assess their response to elemental diet.METHODS:A series of patients with chronic symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease and an isolated esophageal eosinophilia on esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) were identified. Therapy with a proton pump inhibitor was instituted for 3 months, followed by repeat EGD when symptoms persisted. A 24-h pH probe study was performed, and those with significantly abnormal studies were excluded. The remaining patients were diagnosed with EoE and placed on an elemental diet for 1 month, followed by a repeat EGD.RESULTS:Of 346 patients with chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms and eosinophils on esophageal biopsy, 51 (14.7%) were ultimately diagnosed with EoE. There was significant improvement in vomiting, abdominal pain, and dysphagia after the elemental diet. The median number of esophageal eosinophils per high-powered field (HPF) decreased from 33.7 before the diet to 1.0 after the diet (p <0.01). The average time to clinical improvement was 8.5 days.CONCLUSIONS:Elemental diet resulted in striking improvement in both symptoms and histologic evidence of disease in children and adolescents with EoE, as identified by strict diagnostic criteria.
Conversation Level Constraints on Pedophile Detection in Chat Rooms

In this paper we present a new approach for detecting online pedophiles in chat rooms that combines the results of predictions on the level of the individual post, the level of the user and the level of the entire conversation, and describe the results of this three-stage system in the PAN 2012 competition. Also, we describe a resampling and a filtering strategy to circumvent issues regarding the unbalanced dataset. Finally, we describe the creation of a dictionary of words and expressions relating to predators' grooming stages, which we used to identify which posts in the predators' conversations were most distinctive for their grooming behavior.
District Power Plant as a Virtual Power Plant solution for utilities

This paper presents the concept and experimental results of a microgrid under the name of District Power Plant, designed to operate as an active element in the utility grid, capable of provide services such as demand response, active power supply and advanced metering. It will show the stable operation of this kind of system under islanding and reconnection operations, as well as show the good energy quality under both connected and stand-alone modes.
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete with recycled aggregates (RAs)

This chapter focuses on the life-cycle assessment (LCA) of aggregates obtained by recycling of demolished concrete - recycled concrete aggregates (RCA), and concrete made with such aggregates - recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). It includes methodological aspects, such as the treatment of allocation in the case of concrete recycling. The results of LCA case studies on two different RCA applications - as aggregate in structural RAC concrete and as material for road base, are presented. The potentials and limitations of LCA in comparing different waste management scenarios are discussed based on the published research. Recommendations regarding future research are given.
An improved MAP method for language model adaptation

This paper presents an improved MAP method for language model adaptation. The traditional MAP method mixes the task independent corpus and task dependent corpus using a fixed weight. In the method presented in this paper, we replaced the fixed weight with a function of history word. Another work in this paper is that a fuzzy controller was introduced in adaptation process, and three factors were used to be the input of the controller, they are: 1) the confidence of the estimation value, 2) the importance of the word, 3) the difference between the estimation value from the general corpus and from the adaptive corpus. The experiments showed that the improved method has the better performance than traditional model.
Learning Optimally Sparse Support Vector Machines

We show how to train SVMs with an optimal guarantee on the number of support vectors (up to constants), and with sample complexity and training runtime bounds matching the best known for kernel SVM optimization (i.e. without any additional asymptotic cost beyond standard SVM training). Our method is simple to implement and works well in practice.
A dependable infrastructure of the electric network for e-textiles

Electronic textiles, known as computational fabrics, offer an emerging method for constructing wearable and large area applications. Because e-textiles are battery-driven and fault-prone systems, there is a need for developing a dependable infrastructure of the electric networks for e-textiles. In this paper, a new infrastructure of the power networks for e-textiles, flexible power network (FPN), is presented. Instead of drawing power from a fixed battery as in the conventional electric networks, the power consuming nodes in a FPN can obtain power energy from one of the choices of batteries available with the help of the battery selectors. We also introduce the over current protectors into the battery nodes (BN) to protect the batteries from wasting the charge when short-circuit faults occur. The electric features of battery selectors and over current protectors, the two types of important electric devices used in FPNs, are illustrated in the paper. We have performed simulation experiments and the results show that our FPNs are more dependable than some common electric networks published before in the cases of short- and open-circuit faults
Out-of-Core SVD and QR Decompositions

out-of-core singular-value-decomposition algorithm. The algorithm is designed for tall narrow matrices that are too large to fit in main memory and are stored on disks. We have implemented the algorithm and combined it with a larger eigensolver code to obtain the electronic states of a semiconductor nanocrystal. The computationalchemistry application requires finding an orthonormal basis for a subspace spanned by a small set of real vectors. The input typically consists of several hundreds to several thousands vectors whose length is between 200, 000–2, 000, 000. The orthonormal basis vectors are then used to reduce the dimensionality of an operator: given a matrix U of orthonormal basis vectors (U ’s columns) and a matrix H represented as a matrix-vector-multiplication routine, we compute Ĥ = U HU . We report on performance-evaluation runs on random matrices whose size ranges from 8 to 32GB and matches the size of the computational-chemistry application. Since neither the input matrix A (consisting of the original set of column vectors) nor the basis U fit in memory, we must store them on disks. We therefore use the following out-of-core strategy:
Overlook of current chemical vapor deposition-grown large single-crystal graphene domains

Exceptional progress has been made with chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene in the past few years. Not only has good monolayer growth of graphene been achieved, but large-area synthesis of graphene sheets has been successful too. However, the polycrystalline nature of CVD graphene is hampering further progress as graphene property degrades due to presence of grain boundaries. This review will cover factors that affect nucleation of graphene and how other scientists sought to obtain large graphene domains. In addition, the limitation of the current research trend will be touched upon as well.
COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS

Traditional finance theory based on the assumptions of symmetric information and perfect and competitive markets has provided many important insights. These include the Modigliani and Miller Theorems, the CAPM, the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and continuous time finance. However, many empirical phenomena are difficult to reconcile with this traditional framework. Game theoretic techniques have allowed insights into a number of these. Many puzzles remain. This paper argues that recent advances in game theory concerned with higher order beliefs, informational cascades and heterogeneous prior beliefs have the potential to provide insights into some of these remaining puzzles. _________________ Prepared for Advances in Business Applications of Game Theory edited by Kalyan Chatterjee and William F. Samuelson. We are grateful to Kalyan Chatterjee, Armando Gomes, Hyun Song Shin, Bilge Yilmaz and particularly to an anonymous referee for helpful comments and suggestions. The first author thanks the Wharton Financial Institutions Center for support.
Implicit representations of the human intestines for surgery simulations

Abstract . In this paper, we propose a modeling of the intestines by implicit surfaces for abdominalsurgery simulation. The diculty of such a simulation comes from the animation of the intestines. Asa matter of fact, the intestines are a very long tube that is not isotropically elastic, and that bendsover itself at various spots, creating multiple self-contacts.We use a multiple component model for the intestines: The rst component is a mechanical modelof their axis; the second component is a speci c sphere-based model to manage collisions and self-collisions; and the third component is a skinning model to de ne their volume. This paper focuseson the better representation for skinning the intestines. We compare two implicit models: Surfacesde ned by point-skeletons and convolution surfaces.A direct application of this simulation is the training of a typical surgical gesture to move apart theintestines in order to reach certain areas of the abdomen.Keywords: Surgical simulation, virtual reality, implicit surfaces, real-time computation, applica-tion to medical domain.
Comorbidities and Utility for Angina Symptoms

To the Editor:-I read with interest the article by Nichol and colleagues, &dquo;The relationship between cardiac functional capacity and patients’ symptom-specific utilities for angina. &dquo;The authors seek to disentangle preferences for angina symptoms from preferences for comorbid conditions. They note that when utility for angina symptoms is measured on a scale ranging from &dquo;perfect health’ to &dquo;death,&dquo; the utility for angina symptoms will include a decrement related to comorbidities. To the de-
An Interactive Approach to Point Cloud Triangulation

We present an interactive system for the generation of high quality triangle meshes that allows us to handle hybrid geometry (point clouds, polygons,. . .) as input data. In order to be able to robustly process huge data sets, we exploit graphics hardware features like the raster manager and the z‐buffer for specific sub‐tasks in the overall procedure. By this we significantly accelerate the stitching of mesh patches and obtain an algorithm for sub‐sampling the data points in linear time. The target resolution and the triangle alignment in sub‐regions of the resulting mesh can be controlled by adjusting the screen resolution and viewing transformation. An intuitive user interface provides a flexible tool for application dependent optimization of the mesh.
Ligament reconstruction for the painful thumb carpometacarpal joint.

Eighteen patients who underwent a new ligament reconstruction procedure for painful, unstable thumb carpometacarpal joints were studied. The condition was principally of idiopathic or post-traumatic origin. Reconstruction was done only when splinting and anti-inflammatory regimens had failed. Results were directly related to the extent of articular degeneration. Restoration of strength, mobility, and freedom from pain were better if surgery was performed before significant articular damage was noted on roentgenograms. Stages of joint degeneration are described, and the prognosis for ligament reconstruction at each stage is documented.
The JAZ Proteins: A Crucial Interface in the Jasmonate Signaling Cascade

Jasmonates are phytohormones that regulate many aspects of plant growth, development, and defense. Within the signaling cascades that are triggered by jasmonates, the JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN (JAZ) repressor proteins play a central role. The endogenous bioactive JA-Ile conjugate mediates the binding of JAZ proteins to the F-box protein CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1 (COI1), part of the Skp1/Cullin/F-box SCFCOI1 ubiquitin E3 ligase complex. Upon the subsequent destruction of the JAZ proteins by the 26S proteasome, multiple transcription factors are relieved from JAZ-mediated repression, allowing them to activate their respective downstream responses. However, many questions remain regarding the targets, specificity, function, and regulation of the different JAZ proteins. Here, we review recent studies on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana that provided essential and novel insights. JAZ proteins have been demonstrated to interact with a broad array of transcription factors that each control specific downstream processes. Recruitment of the corepressor TOPLESS unveiled a mechanism for JAZ-mediated gene repression. Finally, the presence of JAZ proteins was also found to be regulated by alternative splicing and interactions with proteins from other hormonal signaling pathways. Overall, these contemporary findings underscore the value of protein–protein interaction studies to acquire fundamental insight into molecular signaling pathways.
Effects of artificial light interference on optical wireless systems employing DH-PIM

We examine the effects of artificial light interference on optical systems employing dual header pulse interval modulation (DH-PIM). This interference can be reduced using high pass filtering (HPF). However, the HPF generates an interference called baseline wander. We study the effects of changing the HPF cut-on frequency in the absence and presence of multipath propagation. Results show that depending on the value of the HPF cut-on frequency, the severity of baseline wander will vary and thus there is a trade off between the extent of artificial light interference rejection and the severity of baseline wander.
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology Hybrid Volumetric Reconstruction: Watershed and Deformable Balloon-simplex Meshes

Extracting three-dimensional objects from volume data, with previous techniques, were based on stitching a series of two-dimensional contours together or connecting two-dimensional contours using surface interpolation. Deformable simplex meshes DSM proposes an original surface representation to recover 3D object boundaries and treats data set as a complete volume as opposed to a series of slices. However, it requires that object of interest has been previously isolated from the other objects and the result of reconstruction depends on the interaction process between segmentation and interpolation. Moreover, as like as deformable models, it reveal poor convergence to concave boundaries and require initialization. In this paper, we propose to solve the problem resulting from the internal force formulation by adding a balloon force. Then, we combine the improved deformable simplex meshes (DSM-Balloon) with watershed method. The segmentation strategy is to use the segmentation result of watershed as prior information for DSM-Balloon. On one hand, the watershed prepares the initial lines for the DSM-Balloon which ensures automatic initialization and simplex meshes convergence. On other hand, the result of DSM-Balloon will overcome the over-segmentation and smoothing problem of watershed.
Molecular analysis of genetic differences between Mycobacterium bovis BCG and virulent M. bovis

The live attenuated bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for the prevention of disease associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis was derived from the closely related virulent tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis. Although the BCG vaccine has been one of the most widely used vaccines in the world for over 40 years, the genetic basis of BCG's attenuation has never been elucidated. We employed subtractive genomic hybridization to identify genetic differences between virulent M. bovis and M. tuberculosis and avirulent BCG. Three distinct genomic regions of difference (designated RD1 to RD3) were found to be deleted from BCG, and the precise junctions and DNA sequence of each deletion were determined. RD3, a 9.3-kb genomic segment present in virulent laboratory strains of M. bovis and M. tuberculosis, was absent from BCG and 84% of virulent clinical isolates. RD2, a 10.7-kb DNA segment containing a novel repetitive element and the previously identified mpt-64 gene, was conserved in all virulent laboratory and clinical tubercle bacilli tested and was deleted only from substrains derived from the original BCG Pasteur strain after 1925. Thus, the RD2 deletion occurred after the original derivation of BCG. RD1, a 9.5-kb DNA segment found to be deleted from all BCG substrains, was conserved in all virulent laboratory and clinical isolates of M. bovis and M. tuberculosis tested. The reintroduction of RD1 into BCG repressed the expression of at least 10 proteins and resulted in a protein expression profile almost identical to that of virulent M. bovis and M. tuberculosis, as determined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. These data indicate a role for RD1 in the regulation of multiple genetic loci, suggesting that the loss of virulence by BCG is due to a regulatory mutation. These findings may be applicable to the rational design of a new attenuated tuberculosis vaccine and the development of new diagnostic tests to distinguish BCG vaccination from tuberculosis infection.
Effect of occlusal wear on bone loss and Periotest value of dental implants.

PURPOSE Occlusal overload may contribute to the loss of osseointegration of oral implants, so some clinicians are reluctant to place implants in patients with signs of bruxism. This study evaluated the effect of occlusal wear as a probable sign of bruxism on bone loss and implant stability. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study investigated 379 patients who had worn implant-retained or implant-supported restorations for many years. Occlusal wear, patient age and gender, time of prosthetic loading, jaw, location in the dental arch, implant diameter, prosthesis construction, occlusal material, periimplantitis, and loosening of the prosthetic construction were recorded. One implant from each patient was selected for radiographic and Periotest measurements. The implant with the highest bone resorption was chosen. A forward stepwise multiple linear regression analysis was performed to analyze the effect of the explanatory variables on Periotest value and radiographic bone loss. RESULTS The statistical models could account for part of the variation in bone loss rate and Periotest value. Some influence of time of loading, jaw, and implant diameter on bone loss or Periotest value was formally established. Occlusal wear failed to have any statistical impact on vertical annual bone loss rate or Periotest value. CONCLUSION This study gave no indication that implants in patients with occlusal wear have an increased bone loss rate or Periotest value.
Low worldwide genetic diversity in the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is found in temperate waters throughout the world's oceans, and has been subjected to extensive exploitation in some regions. However, little is known about its current abundance and genetic status. Here, we investigate the diversity of the mitochondrial DNA control region among samples from the western North Atlantic, eastern North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and western Pacific. We find just six haplotypes defined by five variable sites, a comparatively low genetic diversity of π=0.0013 and no significant differentiation between ocean basins. We provide evidence for a bottleneck event within the Holocene, estimate an effective population size (Ne) that is low for a globally distributed species, and discuss the implications.
Media Redundancy for PROFINET IO

The use of Ethernet based solutions in automation applications opens new possibilities for the integration of new functionalities. But one of the critical point is the availability of the communication system. This paper gives an overview of the Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) as defined in IEC 62439 and some adaptations needed to support the Profinet IO Real-Time (RT) protocol.
The role of both parents’ attachment pattern in understanding childhood obesity

Within the research area on the determinants of childhood obesity, a relatively new approach is the use of attachment theory to explore the mechanisms underlying children’s obesity risk, especially considered as emotion regulation strategies in parent–child relationship. Few are the empirical researches that have addressed this issue. The empirical investigations have used self-report measures to assess adult attachment. In attachment studies, the use of interview methods and/or performance-based instruments is advised to evaluate the entire range of possible adult attachment patterns and comprehensively explain the emotional strategies, correlates, and consequences of individual differences in attachment system functioning. The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which both parents’ attachment patterns serve as self-regulative mechanisms related to childhood overweight/obesity by the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) in a sample of 44 mothers and fathers of children referred for obesity. Insecure attachment was found as a risk factor both for mothers and fathers. Also unresolved/disorganization was found to play a significant role in childhood obesity. The role of father’s attachment was explored and findings suggested considering it in etiology and treatment of childhood obesity.