Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
On varieties whose universal cover is a product of curves

We investigate a necessary condition for a compact complex manifold X of dimension n in order that its universal cover be the Cartesian product $C^n$ of a curve $C = \PP^1 or \HH$: the existence of a semispecial tensor $\omega$. A semispecial tensor is a non zero section $ 0 \neq \omega \in H^0(X, S^n\Omega^1_X (-K_X) \otimes \eta) $), where $\eta$ is an invertible sheaf of 2-torsion (i.e., $\eta^2\cong \hol_X$). We show that this condition works out nicely, as a sufficient condition, when coupled with some other simple hypothesis, in the case of dimension $n= 2$ or $ n= 3$; but it is not sufficient alone, even in dimension 2. In the case of K\"ahler surfaces we use the above results in order to give a characterization of the surfaces whose universal cover is a product of two curves, distinguishing the 6 possible cases.
Designing for dynamic diversity: interfaces for older people

In this paper, we describe why designers need to look beyond the twin aims of designing for the 'typical' user and designing "prostheses". Making accessible interfaces for older people is a unique but many-faceted challenge. Effective applications and interface design needs to address the dynamic diversity of the human species. We introduce a new design paradigm, Design for Dynamic Diversity, and suggest a methodology to assist its achievement, User Sensitive Inclusive Design.To support our argument for a new form of design we report experimentation, which indicates that older people have significantly different and dynamically changing needs. We also put forward initial solutions for Designing for Dynamic Diversity, where memory, vision and confidence provide the parameters for discussion, and illustrate the importance of User Sensitive Inclusive Design in establishing a framework for the operation of Design for Dynamic Diversity.
Tuberculosis and poverty.

OBJECTIVE--To examine whether the historical link between tuberculosis and poverty still exists. DESIGN--Retrospective study examining the notifications of all forms of tuberculosis by council ward over a six year period and correlating this with four indices of poverty; council housing, free school meals, the Townsend overall deprivation index, and the Jarman index. SETTING--The 33 electoral wards of the city of Liverpool. SUBJECTS--344 residents of Liverpool with tuberculosis. RESULTS--The rate of tuberculosis was correlated with all measures of poverty, the strongest correlation being with the Jarman index (r = 0.73, p < 0.0001). This link was independent of the high rates of tuberculosis seen in ethnic minorities. CONCLUSION--Tuberculosis remains strongly associated with poverty.
PHYTOFLAVONOIDS: ANTIEPILEPTICS FOR THE FUTURE

Epilepsy has become second most common neurological disorder affecting 70 million people worldwide. Several shortcomings appeared with the use of conventional antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) like, inadequate seizure control, side effects, cost, potentiation of epilepsy-induced co-morbidities, etc., which limit their use as comprehensive therapy. Phytoflavonoids in this regard have been observed to be promising AEDs which can interact with most of the possible targets involved in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. They show modulatory effect on voltage gated sodium channels, calcium channels, potassium channels, GABAergic system, opioid receptors, NMDA receptors and posses a strong antioxidant effects through modulation of nitric oxide pathway, xanthine oxidase system and through leukocytic immobilization. Along with antiepileptic effect, flavanoids have also been observed to ameliorate memory deficit and mood disorders commonly associated with AEDs treatment. Based on the vast literature reports, an attempt has been made to collate the fragmented information available on flavonoids, to access there potential as antiepileptics for future. From this review it is cleared that, flavonoids open new encouraging perspectives for the antiepileptic treatment. A prospective randomized trial of flavonoids may be justified in humans.
Inter-Domain Routing : Problems and Solutions

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto routing prot ocol for inter-domain routing, which determines routes for packets that cross m ultiple autonomous systems. There are well-known instability, slow convergence, and scalability problems associated with the current version of BGP. As the si z of Internet increases, these problems are expected to become aggravated and other newer pr oblems may emerge. In this paper, we give a detailed analysis of BGP's problem s, and survey their solutions that have been proposed and implemented in rese arch and commercial communities. Finally, we propose a new solution to these problems based on the analysis of existing approaches.
Anaplasma species of veterinary importance in Japan

Anaplasma species of the family Anaplasmataceae, order Rickettsiales are tick-borne organisms that can cause disease in animals and humans. In Japan, all recognized species of Anaplasma (except for Anaplasma ovis) and a potentially novel Anaplasma sp. closely related to Anaplasma phagocytophilum have been reported. Most of these detected tick-borne pathogens are believed to be lowly pathogenic in animals in Japan although the zoonotic A. phagocytophilum has recently been reported to cause clinical signs in a dog and in humans. This review documents the studies and reports about Anaplasma spp. in Japan.
Not for the World of Theorizing But for the Need of Knowledge in the Nursing Discipline

Research networks have significant value and are essential for conducting high-quality applied health research. In this article, we describe the establishment, content, and contribution of a Danish national qualitative interpretive description (ID) network. There are only a few examples of clinical research networks and in most qualitative research methodology is not highly prioritized. Still, a number of nurses and allied health professionals work with qualitative methods and applied health research. This may call for different kinds of networks depending on the geographical context, management support, background, and goal of the network. In this article, we share our knowledge of different kinds of networks and in particular our experiences with an ID knowledge-creating network. The network has provided us with results in the form of stimulating professional conversations and discussions. It has also strengthened the methodological depth of our research and the epistemological standpoints.
Prosodic Features in Facebook Communication

Rapid evolution of communication technologies has changed language use, enabling new forms of discourse, new forms of authorship, and new ways to create and participate in communities. Therefore, this paper examines how the prosodic features of spoken language such as intonation, rhythm, and stress are communicated in Facebook via unique strategies to convey nuances such as emphasis, sarcasm and loudness. The data for this paper is collected from Facebook walls posted by Maseno university students to their friends. Facebook walls are platform for the interlocutors to communicate with their Facebook friends. The study indicates that students use prosodic features such as emoticons, laughter, phoneticons (capital, exclamations, full stops) and multiple vowels when communicating with their friends. The findings reveal that users adapt language to Facebook communication to form unique constructions of prosodic features. This paper hopes to enrich the knowledge on the study of computer-mediated communication and to motivate other researchers to conduct further studies in this area.
Intonation mediates speech rate normalization in the perception of segmental categories

Author(s): Steffman, Jeremy Andrew | Advisor(s): Jun, Sun-Ah | Abstract: This thesis reports on two experiments that address the question of how listeners are sensitive to prosodic/intonational structure in their perception of segmental contrasts. In Experiment 1, listeners categorized a VOT continuum as /p/ or /b/ in a target syllable (/pɑ/ or /bɑ/). The target was placed in a carrier phrase where the duration and F0 of the pre-target syllable were manipulated. Results suggest listeners are sensitive to intonational structure in their computation of speech rate, interpreting a short syllable with low-rising F0 (an L-H% boundary tone in English intonational phonology) as an increase in speech rate. This perceived increase in rate shifts the category boundary of the subsequent target VOT. Experiment 2 showed listeners similarly adjusted categorization of a vowel duration continuum, where vowel duration is a cue to a following obstruent’s voicing (categorized as “coat” or “code”). Taken together, these results suggest that listeners are sensitive to intonational structure in their perception of segmental contrasts, and use the distribution of tonal targets over a given temporal interval in computing speech rate.
Reducing Communication Delay by Finding Sink Location in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks

Low-duty-cycle mechanisms can reduce the energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. Many related researches have been made in recent years. In the low-duty-cycle environment, the latency of sending packets from a sink to each node is much longer than traditional WSNs because nodes stay asleep most of the time. In this paper, the Centralized Cluster-based Location Finding (CCLF) algorithm is proposed to reduce the high latency in low-duty-cycle WSNs by finding a suitable position for the sink. The algorithm mainly consisted of three steps: (1) Cluster construction, (2) The fast look-up table (FLU-table) construction, and (3) Sink location decision. The simulation results show that the performance of the CCLF algorithm approaches the performance of the optimal algorithm. Moreover, the CCLF algorithm requires less operation time compared with the optimal algorithm.
Fusion of Life Science and Information Science could be Artificial Life

First we explain the reason why Articial Life is needed. Next, a brief history of evolutionary computations is interpreted. Finally, we discuss the "Evolution of associative memory" up to the present, and the future development of our Articial Life. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of re; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 1 Introduction Natural science pursues a logical and systematic understanding of nature. Technology applies natural science to human being and society based on knowledge obtained from science. Hitherto the main object of natural science had been inanimate being and natural laws written by such study as dynamics ,electromagnetism,thermodynamics and quantum mechanics have been developed. Nowadays biology has begun to attract a great deal of attention to investigate how can we construct logical and systematic understanding based on the natural laws. We must win the dignity of human being back again from the technology based on the natural philosophy that we have gotten from inanimate being. Medical science and physiology have been investigating human being from a physical point of view,and philosophy and psychology have been investigating human being from a mental point of view. Biology have been investigating all lives including human being from physical point of view. New Information Science has developed computers and communication and must consider how it can serve human being and society now. One of this answer to science in an age of transition from matter to life is said to be the study of the "Sciences of Complexity"[1]. Gregoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine wrote ". It is a world of instabilities and uctuations which are ultimately responsible for the amazing variety and richness of the forms and structures we see in nature around us. New concepts and new tools are clearly necessary to describe nature in which evolution and pluralism become the key words. " Information laws may exceed the physical laws since we have many natural phenomena which physical laws cannot explain but information laws can explain. Physical world such as quark, big bang, fusion, or super string theory is not almigty. We need to make new natural science which can explain the self-organization and evolution of, for exsample a weed and a butter BLOCKINy. This may be more attractive to us sice we are living and feeling the animate world where innite kinds of life prosper. Sciences …
Climate sensitivity of the Earth to solar irradiance

The mean surface temperature of the Earth depends on various climate factors with much attention directed toward possible anthropogenic causes. However, one must first determine the stronger effects such as El Niño/La Niña and volcanoes. A weaker effect, which must exist, is solar irradiance. We have determined the solar effect on the temperature from satellites measurements (available since 1979) of the solar irradiance and the temperature of the lower troposphere. We find the sensitivity to solar irradiance to be about twice that expected from a no‐feedback Stefan‐Boltzmann radiation balance model. This climate gain of a factor of two implies positive feedback. We also have determined a linear trend in the data. These results are robust under truncation from either end of the of the data record. These measurements of solar sensitivity are consistent with prior estimates from ocean temperatures on decadal scales and of paleo‐reconstructed temperatures on centennial scales.
A Literature Synthesis Indicates Very Low Quality, but Consistent Evidence of Improvements in Function after Surgical Interventions for Primary Osteoarthritis of the Elbow

Background. Primary osteoarthritis of the elbow is a debilitating disease with an overall incidence of about 2%. Pain and reduced motion (ROM) lead to disability and loss of functional independence. Purpose. To critically review the literature on patient-related important functional outcomes (pain, ROMs and functional recovery) after surgery for primary OA of the elbow, utilizing the 2011 OCEBM levels of evidence. Design. A literature synthesis. Results. Twenty-six articles satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria; 25 of the studies were at level IV evidence, and 1 at level III. All three surgical techniques led to improvement in pain, ROM, and functional recovery in the short- and medium-term follow-up. Long-term follow-up results, available only for open joint debridement, showed recurrence of osteoarthritic signs on X-ray with minimal loss of motion. Recently, there seems to be an increased focus on arthroscopic debridement. Conclusion. The quality of research addressing surgical interventions is very low, including total elbow arthroplasty (TEA). However, the evidence concurs that open and arthroscopic joint debridement can improve function in patients with moderate-to-severe OA of the elbow. TEA is reserved for treating severe joint destruction, mostly for elderly individuals with low physical demands when other intervention options have failed.
Smooth Scan: Robust Query Execution with a Statistics-oblivious Access Operator

Query optimizers depend heavily on statistics representing column distributions to create efficient query plans. In many cases, though, statistics are outdated or non-existent, and the process of refreshing statistics is very expensive, especially for ad-hoc workloads on ever bigger data. This results in suboptimal plans that severely hurt performance. The main problem is that any decision, once made by the optimizer, is fixed throughout the execution of a query. In particular, each logical operator translates into a fixed choice of a physical operator at run-time. In this paper we advocate for continuous adaptation and morphing of physical operators throughout their lifetime, by adjusting their behavior in accordance with the statistical properties of the data. We demonstrate the benefits of the new paradigm by designing and implementing an adaptive access path operator called Smooth Scan, which morphs continuously within the space of traditional index access and full table scan. Smooth Scan behaves similarly to an index scan for low selectivity; if selectivity increases, however, Smooth Scan progressively morphs its behavior toward a sequential scan. As a result, a system with Smooth Scan requires no access path decisions up front nor does it need accurate statistics to provide good performance. We implement Smooth Scan in PostgreSQL and, using both synthetic benchmarks as well as TPC-H, we show that it achieves robust performance while at the same time being statistics-oblivious.
Seiberg-Witten maps from the point of view of consistent deformations of gauge theories

Non-commutative versions of theories with a gauge freedom define (when they exist) consistent deformations of their commutative counterparts. General aspects of Seiberg-Witten maps are discussed from this point of view. In particular, the existence of the Seiberg-Witten maps for various non-commutative theories is related to known cohomological theorems on the rigidity of the gauge symmetries of the commutative versions. In technical terms, the Seiberg-Witten maps define canonical transformations in the antibracket that make the solutions of the master equation for the commutative and non-commutative versions coincide in their antifield-dependent terms. As an illustration, the on-shell reducible non-commutative Freedman-Townsend theory is considered.
Hydrothermal treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater

ABSTRACT The effective disposal of industrial pharmaceutical waste waters with the desired quality has become a challenge. Supercritical water oxidation which involves water beyond critical point has been preferred due to its near complete conversions. This research work made an attempt to degrade the organic matter into fuel gases by gasifying the pharmaceutical waste water stream over sub- to supercritical temperature range (200–400°C). A maximum of 126.5 mmol/L of H2 gas yield was obtained at 400°C for 45 min. To achieve complete conversion, supercritical experiments have been performed in the presence of H2O2. The experiments resulted near complete conversion of 99.5% for an oxidation coefficient of 4 at 400°C in 5 min. The experimental results conveyed that useful products (H2, CO and CH4) can be attained with gasification in the absence of oxidant, while complete conversion can be achieved in the presence of oxidant in supercritical water.
Arthrobacter pokkalii sp nov, a Novel Plant Associated Actinobacterium with Plant Beneficial Properties, Isolated from Saline Tolerant Pokkali Rice, Kerala, India

A novel yellow colony-forming bacterium, strain P3B162T was isolated from the pokkali rice rhizosphere from Kerala, India, as part of a project study aimed at isolating plant growth beneficial rhizobacteria from saline tolerant pokkali rice and functionally evaluate their abilities to promote plant growth under saline conditions. The novel strain P3B162T possesses plant growth beneficial traits such as positive growth on 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC), production of indole acetic acid (IAA) and siderophore. In addition, it also showed important phenotypic characters such as ability to form biofilm and utilization of various components of plant root exudates (sugars, amino acids and organic acids), clearly indicating its lifestyle as a plant rhizosphere associated bacterium. Taxonomically, the novel strain P3B162T was affiliated to the genus Arthrobacter based on the collective results of phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic analyses. Moreover, molecular analysis using 16S rRNA gene showed Arthrobacter globiformis NBRC 12137T, Arthrobacter pascens DSM 20545T and Arthrobacter liuii DSXY973T as the closely related phylogenetic neighbours, showing more than 98% 16S rRNA similarity values, whereas the recA gene analysis displayed Arthrobacter liuii JCM 19864T as the nearest neighbour with 94.7% sequence similarity and only 91.7% to Arthrobacter globiformis LMG 3813T and 88.7% to Arthrobacter pascens LMG 16255T. However, the DNA-DNA hybridization values between strain P3B162T, Arthrobacter globiformis LMG 3813T, Arthrobacter pascens LMG 16255T and Arthrobacter liuii JCM 19864T was below 50%. In addition, the novel strain P3B162T can be distinguished from its closely related type strains by several phenotypic characters such as colony pigment, tolerance to NaCl, motility, reduction of nitrate, hydrolysis of DNA, acid from sucrose, cell wall sugars and cell wall peptidoglycan structure. In conclusion, the combined results of this study support the classification of strain P3B162T as a novel Arthrobacter species and we propose Arthrobacter pokkalii sp.nov.as its name. The type strain is P3B162T (= KCTC 29498T = MTCC 12358T).
Uniform repeated insertion of redundant watermark in 3D object

In the proposed watermarking scheme, watermark is embedded by re-positioning some selected vertices. The selection of vertices for watermark embedding is based on the secure code obtained from a secure image and cryptographic hash function(MD5). Watermarking by re-positioning is attained by restricting the vertex re-positions only by changing ρ component of (ρ,θ,φ) spherical coordinate of vertices. The watermark information is embedded in different segments uniformly throughout the surface of cover mesh object, so that watermark information can be authenticated from any of the segment in case of an attack. The watermarking schemes are designed not only to protect data from unauthorized use but at the same time maintain the quality of watermark object. The proposed work is also tested against distortion and distortion less attacks.
H-Sim: A Concurrent Discrete-event Driven Sensor Network Simulation Platform

In this paper, we present an extensible, component-oriented, concurrent discrete-event driven wireless sensor network simulation platform: H-Sim. The components of the H-Sim system have high reusability and low coupling, it can solve the problems of having high coupling between modules and difficult to debug and use which exist in other simulation systems like NS-2. H-Sim can simulate the sensor nodes which has vary protocol stack and hardware architecture, and has the capability to process hybrid simulation with heterogeneous sensor nodes. H-Sim adopt concurrent multi-thread simulation method, it can take advantage of the power of multi-core CPU efficiently, and improve the throughput of the system observably. The schedule of the multi-threads increases the probability of the uncertainty in simulation processes, and makes the events which arrived at the same time interactive with each other sufficiently, besides that it also can increase the rationality and fidelity of the simulation.
Changes in sperm plasma membrane lipid diffusibility after hyperactivation during in vitro capacitation in the mouse

We have used the technique of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching to measure the diffusibility of the fluorescent lipid analogue, 1,1'-dihexadecyl 3,3,3',3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate on the morphologically distinct regions of the plasma membranes of mouse spermatozoa, and the changes in lipid diffusibility that result from in vitro hyperactivation and capacitation with bovine serum albumin. We found that, as previously observed on ram spermatozoa, lipid analogue diffusibility is regionalized on mouse spermatozoa, being fastest on the flagellum. The bovine serum albumin induced changes in diffusibility that occur with hyperactivation are also regionalized. Specifically, if we compare serum incubated in control medium, which maintains normal motility, with those hyperactivated in capacitating medium, we observe with hyperactivation an increase in lipid analogue diffusion rate in the anterior region of the head, the midpiece, and tail, and a decrease in diffusing fraction in the anterior region of the head.