Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Obesity, body composition and metabolic disturbances in polycystic ovary syndrome.

BACKGROUND We determined the impact of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and obesity on glucose and lipid metabolism and beta-cell function in women with PCOS. METHODS In 35 women with PCOS (17 lean, lean PCOS and 18 obese, obese PCOS) and 25 control women (9 lean, lean controls and 16 obese, obese controls), beta-cell function was evaluated by the first-phase insulin response after intravenous glucose, acute insulin response to glucose (AIRg); insulin sensitivity, determined as insulin sensitivity index (ISI), was evaluated by the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp. Indirect calorimetry was used for the assessment of glucose and lipid oxidation. Body composition was estimated by dual X-ray absorptiometry scan. RESULTS When adjusted for obesity, PCOS was associated with higher 2-h glucose levels (P < 0.05), higher trunk/periphery fat ratio (P < 0.001), lower ISI (P < 0.001), lower insulin-stimulated glucose oxidation (GOX 2) (P < 0.05) and lower non-oxidative glucose metabolism (P < 0.05), but a normal AIRg compared with control women. Lean women with PCOS had lower ISI (P < 0.001), GOX-2 (P < 0.05) and higher trunk/periphery fat ratio (P < 0.05) than lean control women. In obese women with PCOS, ISI was reduced with 25% compared with obese control women, whereas trunk/peripheral fat ratio did not differ. AIRg was increased in obese groups compared with lean groups (P < 0.05), but was, in all groups, appropriate for the ambient action of insulin. CONCLUSIONS PCOS is associated with a low ISI, which in lean women with PCOS may partly be explained by higher trunk/peripheral fat ratio. AIRg was amplified by obesity, but was, in all groups, appropriate for prevailing insulin sensitivity, suggesting a normal beta-cell adaptation.
Designing and implementation of obstacle-couple waveguide bandpass filter

In this research, the waveguide bandpass filters using symmetrical inductive obstacle are designed and implemented. The obstacle circuit analysis was optimized using hybrid electromagnetic simulation, such as Wave Iterative Method (WIM) and CST Microwave studio. Measured results of the proposed filters using network analyzer showed that the center frequency is at 4.93 GHz and the bandwidth of the passband is 500 MHz. The results are successfully in comparing to commercial simulation program.
Statistical Machine Learning and Convex Optimization Lecture 1 — February 18th

Nowadays, data are everywhere and it has become crucial (as well industrially as scientifically) to learn from this always growing amount of data. As the way to obtain data has improved, the major problem faced in this context is that we collect many instances of a single phenomenon which can be quite complex in terms of data : that is we get n observations of an object in a d-dimensional space with n and d “quite big”.
Functional Specificity of Long-Range Intrinsic and Interhemispheric Connections in the Visual Cortex of Strabismic Cats

The development of both long-range intracortical and interhemispheric connections depends on visual experience. Previous experiments showed that in strabismic but not in normal cats, clustered horizontal axon projections preferentially connect cell groups activated by the same eye. This indicates that there is selective stabilization of fibers between neurons exhibiting correlated activity. Extending these experiments, we investigated in strabismic cats: (1) whether tangential connections remain confined to columns of similar orientation preference within the subsystems of left and right eye domains; and (2) whether callosal connections also extend predominantly between neurons activated by the same eye and preferring similar orientations. To this end, we analyzed in strabismic cats the topographic relationships between orientation preference domains and both intrinsic and callosal connections of area 17. Red and green latex microspheres were injected into monocular iso-orientation domains identified by optical imaging of intrinsic signals. Additionally, domains sharing the ocular dominance and orientation preference of the neurons at the injection sites were visualized by 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) autoradiography. Quantitative analysis revealed that 56% of the retrogradely labeled cells within the injected area 17 and 60% of the transcallosally labeled neurons were located in the 2-DG-labeled iso-orientation domains. This indicates: (1) that strabismus does not interfere with the tendency of long-range horizontal fibers to link predominantly neurons of similar orientation preference; and (2) that the selection mechanisms for the stabilization of callosal connections are similar to those that are responsible for the specification of the tangential intrinsic connections.
A Case Study in Using Formal Methods to Verify Programs That Use MPI One-Sided Communication

We used formal-verification methods based on model checking to analyze the correctness properties of one existing and two new distributed-locking algorithms implemented by using MPI’s one-sided communication. Model checking exposed an overlooked correctness issue with the existing algorithm, which had been developed by relying solely on manual reasoning. Model checking also helped confirm the basic correctness properties of the two new algorithms. Performance evaluation of the new algorithms on up to 128 processors revealed that one of them outperforms the other, especially under heavy lock contention. Our experience is that MPI-based programming, especially the tricky and relatively poorly understood one-sided communication features, stand to gain immensely from model checking. This, as well as the existing practice of routinely employing model checking in many areas of concurrent hardware and software design, confirms that the MPI community can benefit greatly from the use of formal verification.
The Chow Ring of the Non-Linear Grassmannian

Let M_{P^k}(P^r, d) be the moduli space of unparameterized maps \mu:P^k -> P^r satisfying \mu^*(O(1))= O(d). M_{P^k}(P^r,d) is a quasi-projective variety, and, in case k=1, M_{P^1}(P^r,d) is the fundamental open cell of Kontsevich's space of stable maps \bar{M}_{0,0}(P^r,d). It is shown that the Q-coefficient Chow ring of M_{P^k}(P^r,d) is canonically isomorphic to the Chow ring of the Grassmannian Gr(P^k, P^r)= M_{P^k}(P^r,1).
. Wittgenstein, Metaphysics and the Post-re°ective Inner View 2nd Reading

Following a brief review of Shanahan's so many, and so important, contributions to global workspace theory, as presented in his Embodiment and the Inner Life, we attempt to interpret, and °esh out, Shanahan's top-down account of GWT from a bottom-up perspective guided by our LIDA model of consciousness and cognition. Shanahan's Embodiment and the Inner Life [2010], begins with a chapter espousing that we manage the age-old metaphysical problems surrounding consciousness [Chalmers, 1996] by following the later dictates of Wittgenstein and taking what Shanahan calls the post-re°ective inner view. He argues that \To put it bluntly, we must learn to do without the habit of metaphysical thinking. " Put another way, we may embark on the journey of a scienti¯c understanding of consciousness without addressing many of the traditional, seemingly intractable, concerns of philosophy, e.g., the mindÀbody problem. Being convinced by his arguments, I shall, post-re°ectively, say no more on the subject. A chapter on \Cognition and Embodiment" presents Shanahan's views on what, in cognitive science, is called embodied cognition [Barsalou, 1999; de Vega et al., 2008; Glenberg and Robertson, 2000]. The remainder of the book is an utterly fascinating, if abbreviated, account of Shanahan's own journey into the sci-enti¯c exploration of consciousness. It seems that, like so many of us these days, Shanahan feels this journey must be taken in the context of Baars' global
Potential of digital holography in sprays measurement

This study presents in-line digital particle holography and its application to spray droplets to measure the characteristics of spray droplets. Several important parameters at the time of hologram recording such as the pixel number of holograms, the object distance, and the part of laser beam used were verified. The optimum values of all these parameters are obtained by either numerical simulation of holograms or experiments. Using these optimum parameters, two digital spray holograms in a short time interval are recorded with the synchronization system for the time control. The three dimensional droplet velocities and several important features of spray droplets can be easily located.
Comparison of Image Blurring Techniques on Modern Graphics Processing Hardware

The increasingly computational power and programmability of modern graphics hardware provides developers of real-time rendering applications with the resources needed to realize more and more complex graphical effects. Some of these effects, like Depth-of-Field, require an efficient image blurring technique to achieve real-time frame rates of 30 frames per second or above. This work presents a comparison of various blurring techniques in terms of their performance on modern graphics hardware. Whereas most of the chosen methods are exclusively used to blur an image, some of them are capable of applying an arbitrary filter. Furthermore, the quality of the different methods has been determined using an automatic process which utilizes a calibrated visual metric. Another aspect when using modern graphics hardware is the increasing scope of operations, especially in the domain of image processing, that can be carried out by using general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU). In the recent years, utilizing GPGPU has become increasingly popular inside real-time rendering applications for special tasks like physics simulations. Therefore, all chosen algorithms have been implemented using shaders (GLSL) and GPGPU (CUDA), to answer the question whether or not the usage of a general purpose computing language is applicable for image blurring in real-time rendering and how it compares to using a shading language.
Guest Editorial: Children and the Near-Death Phenomenon: Another Viewpoint

"Children who brush death, nearly die, or who are pronounced clinically dead but later revive have a much higher incidence of near-death experiences (NDEs) than do adults. Although excellent research now exists on children's cases, there have been discrepancies. I suggest that we need to broaden the range of observations on children's NDEs and reconsider what is known about children and the near-death phenomenon" (abstract).
Locally Metric Spacetimes

Spacetimes have conventionally been described by a global Lorentzian metric on a differentiable four-manifold. Herein we explore the possibility of spacetimes defined by a connection, which is locally but not globally Levi-Civita. The general method of obtaining such connections is presented for the non-degenerate case followed by an example that modifies the Robertson-Walker spacetimes for flat spacelike hypersurfaces.
Communities of kin and English landed gentry families of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

This article focuses on the kinship networks of the landed gentry of Devon, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire in the modern period. Using national census household returns, the visitors’ books of a Devon gentry family and correspondence the article reveals dense and meaningful kinship networks centred on the main country house but also woven into the wider familial world of the gentry. Whenever possible, the inheritance of landed estates passed through the male line. But kin networks were bilateral, founded on both birth and marriage, on relations both through the male and the female line. Kin relations provided a range of services within a culture of visiting, epistolary practice and affection, which generated close and cherished family ties.
Onecut transcription factors are required for the second phase of development of the A13 dopaminergic nucleus in the mouse

The A13 dopaminergic nucleus belongs to the incerto‐hypothalamic area. It is thought to exert autonomous roles by integrating sensory input to autonomic, neuroendocrine, and motor output. Although its early development has been well characterized, the factors that contribute to later steps of its formation remain unknown. Transcription factors of the Onecut family have been detected in the A13 nucleus, raising the question of possible roles of these factors during A13 development. Using a combination of immunofluorescence analyses on sections and after whole‐mount labeling followed by 3D reconstructions, we further characterized the second phase of development of the A13 nucleus in the mouse, described the distribution of the Onecut proteins throughout A13 development, and analyzed the phenotype of this nucleus in single or compound mutant embryos for the Onecut factors. Here we show that A13 development can be divided into two successive phases. First, during radial migration toward the pial surface the A13 cells differentiate into dopaminergic neurons. Second, these cells gather in the vicinity of the third ventricle. Onecut factors are dynamically and differentially expressed in the A13 nucleus during these two phases of development. In Onecut mutant embryos, the A13 neurons differentiate normally but scatter in the diencephalon and fail to properly gather close to the third ventricle. Hence, Onecut factors are markers of the A13 nucleus throughout embryonic development. They are dispensable for the first phase of A13 development but are required for the second phase of development and for maintenance of this nucleus. J. Comp. Neurol. 520:1424–1441, 2012. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
On Searching and Displaying RDF Data from the Web

Phase-locked loop, comprising Hartley-type oscillator being formed with a dual-gate field effect transistor (10), whose gates (G2) and (G1) constitute the phase-comparison inputs of the loop and whose drain is coupled, optionally via a low-pass loop filter (35), to the input of the feedback circuit, this feedback circuit being connected to the tuning circuit of the oscillator.
A platform-independent robot control architecture for multiple therapeutic scenarios

While social robots are developed to provide assistance to users through social interactions, their behaviors are dominantly pre-programmed and remote-controlled. Despite the numerous robot control architectures being developed, very few offer reutilization opportunities in various therapeutic contexts. To bridge this gap, we propose a robot control architecture to be applied in different scenarios taking into account requirements from both therapeutic and robotic perspectives. As robot behaviors are kept at an abstract level and afterward mapped with the robot's morphology, the proposed architecture accommodates its applicability to a variety of social robot platforms.
On practical neural field parameters adjustment

Revisiting CNFT calculation maps in both the discrete and continuous temporal cases, we propose a set of results allowing to choose the right set of parameters in order to both (i) guaranty the stability of the calculation and (ii) tune the shape of the output's map. With such parameters it appears that large sampling steps can be used, speeding up overall calculation. Furthermore, we report experimenting the fact that rectification is the only required non-linearity and formalize the use of this simplified but efficient mechanism. The outcome is shared as an open-source plug-in module to be used in existing simulation software.
Long-range transport of anthropogenically and naturally produced particulate matter in the mediterranean and North Atlantic : Current state of knowledge

Abstract During the past 20 years, organized experimental campaigns as well as continuous development and implementation of air-pollution modeling have led to significant gains in the understanding of the paths and scales of pollutant transport and transformation in the greater Mediterranean region (GMR). The work presented in this paper has two major objectives: 1) to summarize the existing knowledge on the transport paths of particulate matter (PM) in the GMR and 2) to illustrate some new findings related to the transport and transformation properties of PM in the GMR. Findings from previous studies indicate that anthropogenically produced air pollutants from European sources can be transported over long distances, reaching Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, and North America. The PM of natural origin, like Saharan dust, can be transported toward the Atlantic Ocean and North America mostly during the warm period of the year. Recent model simulations and studies in the area indicate that specific long-range tra.
Online learning model development using google classroom on the topic of administration server

This study aims to: (1) generate e-learning-based practice learning model of Server Administration which is valid, useful, exciting, and can be applied to improve the learning outcomes of students in the subject of Administration Server; (2) determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Google Classroom on practice learning Administration Server; (3) monitor the learners in the learning process Server Administration practices inside and outside learning. This study is a Research and Development (R & D) to the conceptual model and using research procedures Borg and Gall. Results obtained eligibility percentage of media experts of 77.5% and 78.5% matter experts with criteria are eligible. Implementation level learning model captured very well at 91.66%. The level of attractiveness of the learners XII TKJ 1 amounted to 83.9% and XII TKJ 2 of 85.1% with very interesting criteria. The results of the analysis of the primary field trials assessing the effectiveness aspect, the value of the students after using the learning model and the overall increase learners or 100% to reach KKM with a limit value of 75, so it can be said to be a beneficial learning model to increase the number of learners.
Enter the matrix: Does self-activation really matter for aggressiveness after violence exposure?

Media comparisons are only valid within “zones of comparability”. Either the level of participants’ interactivity (i.e. the “syntactics” of what they do) has to be constant, while the content might vary, or the content of specific media (i.e., the “semantics” of what they encounter) has to be kept constant, while the level of interactivity with the content might vary. The present experiment varied the level of interactivity: Participants watched a violent scene from the movie “The Matrix” or re-enacted the same scene in a Matrix-inspired first-person shooter game. Using the same violent content (shooting at Matrix-guards), our results suggest: The higher the level of self-activation while being exposed to violent media content, the stronger the changes in aggressive dispositions as assessed with an aggressive self-concept Implicit Association Test. Ruling out confounders from previous research, unspecific arousal was not responsible for the obtained short-term increases in aggressive dispositions.
A Policy-Based Approach to Smart Cloud Services

Virtualized service models are now emerging and redefining the way information technology is delivered. Managing these services efficiently over the cloud is an open challenge. We are developing a policy-based integrated framework for automating acquisition and consumption of Cloud services. We have developed a tool, Smart Cloud Services tool, to automatically discover, negotiate and consume services from the cloud for a specific use case described by NIST around storage services. This tool incorporates NIST specific definitions for cloud services. The tool makes use of Semantic Web technologies including SPARQL, RDF and OWL to represent and reason about services and service requirements. It is built upon the service lifecycle ontology that we have developed. In this paper, we describe this Smart Cloud Services tool in detail along with the technical challenges we faced in developing it and identify limitations in the current open source cloud computing software.
Error Recovery Representations in Interactive System Development

This paper deals with human error resistance. In the first part of it, a short state-of- the-art of human error resistance, i.e., error prevention and error correction will be presented. Then, error correction, which is usually divided into three sequential tasks: detection, explanation, and recovery will be described. The second part of the paper will put emphasis on error recovery, which is our main object of study. First and foremost, through an example, we will see what makes the distinction between forward and backward error recovery, i.e., how the system is able to restore its previous state after an error occurrence. In addition to it, the three different kinds of backward error recovery - undo, cancel, and stop - will be illustrated. Then, the limits of the current distinction between forward and backward error recovery will be highlighted. As a consequence, the paper proposes a new representation of error recovery based on two dimensions: error additional cost and system state degradation. In the context of time-critical systems, another dimension will be introduced: time.
Direction selectivity in a model of the starburst amacrine cell

The starburst amacrine cell (SBAC), found in all mammalian retinas, is thought to provide the directional inhibitory input recorded in On–Off direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs). While voltage recordings from the somas of SBACs have not shown robust direction selectivity (DS), the dendritic tips of these cells display direction-selective calcium signals, even when γ-aminobutyric acid (GABAa,c) channels are blocked, implying that inhibition is not necessary to generate DS. This suggested that the distinctive morphology of the SBAC could generate a DS signal at the dendritic tips, where most of its synaptic output is located. To explore this possibility, we constructed a compartmental model incorporating realistic morphological structure, passive membrane properties, and excitatory inputs. We found robust DS at the dendritic tips but not at the soma. Two-spot apparent motion and annulus radial motion produced weak DS, but thin bars produced robust DS. For these stimuli, DS was caused by the interaction of a local synaptic input signal with a temporally delayed “global” signal, that is, an excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) that spread from the activated inputs into the soma and throughout the dendritic tree. In the preferred direction the signals in the dendritic tips coincided, allowing summation, whereas in the null direction the local signal preceded the global signal, preventing summation. Sine-wave grating stimuli produced the greatest amount of DS, especially at high velocities and low spatial frequencies. The sine-wave DS responses could be accounted for by a simple mathematical model, which summed phase-shifted signals from soma and dendritic tip. By testing different artificial morphologies, we discovered DS was relatively independent of the morphological details, but depended on having a sufficient number of inputs at the distal tips and a limited electrotonic isolation. Adding voltage-gated calcium channels to the model showed that their threshold effect can amplify DS in the intracellular calcium signal.
Singular Value Decomposition Watermarking Method for Medical Image

With the development of medical imaging technology and the popularity of the hospital information network, in a modern hospital patients a day will produce a large number of physiological and pathological contain and anatomical information, For the difficulty of medical image watermarking, this paper presents a digital watermarking method based on SVD, the method was simple, clear principles from the experimental results, the method can meet the actual demand.