Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
3D BUILDING FACADE RECONSTRUCTION UNDER MESH FORM FROM MULTIPLE WIDE ANGLE VIEWS

: In this paper, we present an algorithm, which automatically generates textured meshes of building facades from a set of multi over-lapping calibrated and oriented images. We are in a context of massive data production and aim at high geometric accuracy. The central idea is to create a 3D point cloud. After comparison between object-space and image-space techniques, we choose the latter and compute the depths of the pixels in each image using a correlation-based method. A post-processing step is necessary to (cid:2)lter points according to a con(cid:2)dence index and remove the sparse speckle noise. We then perform a global optimization to (cid:2)nd a regularized surface. Finally, the 3D point cloud is triangulated. The resulting mesh is an accurate representation of the facade surface from each image view point. We obtain promising results, with a correct texture projection on the reconstructed model.
Translation Teaching Assessment:A Developmental Model

Translation teaching assessment plays an important role as the goal-setter,controller and manager of teaching.This paper proposes a developmental model of translation teaching assessment,which comprises two components: product assessment and process assessment.The former covers language structure contrast and conversion,text producing as well as function realization and aesthetic reproduction;the latter covers strategies,personality and learning style.The model is intended to guide and improve translation teaching by a top-down approach,and to promote the progressive and harmonious development of the students' cognition,behavior and personality.
Fermions and emergent noncommutative gravity

Fermions coupled to Yang-Mills matrix models are studied from the point of view of emergent gravity. We show that the simple matrix model action provides an appropriate coupling for fermions to gravity, albeit with a non-standard spin connection. Integrating out the fermions in a nontrivial geometrical background induces indeed the Einstein-Hilbert action and a dilaton-like term, at least for on-shell geometries. This explains and precisely reproduces the UV/IR mixing for fermions in noncommutative gauge theory, extending recent results for scalar fields. It also explains why some UV/IR mixing remains even in supersymmetric models, except in the N = 4 case.
Community-centric analysis of user engagement in Skype social network

Traditional approaches to user engagement analysis focus on individual users. In this paper we address user engagement analysis at the level of groups of users (social communities). From the entire Skype social network we extract communities by means of representative community detection methods each one providing node partitions having their own peculiarities. We then examine user engagement in the extracted communities putting into evidence clear relations between topological and geographic features of communities and their mean user engagement. In particular we show that user engagement can be to a great extent predicted from such features. Moreover, from the analysis it clearly emerges that the choice of community definition and granularity deeply affect the predictive performance.
Meta-analysis of the Efficacy and Safety of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in the Treatment of Depression

Background Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a new type of physiotherapy technology that has been widely used in the research of depression. Although many clinical trials have found that compared to the placebo interventions, rTMS has a significant effect on the improvement of depressive symptoms, the outcomes remain inconsistent due to differences in rTMS treatment frequency, parameter settings, and site for stimulation. Aims This study systematically evaluated the safety and efficacy of rTMS combined with antidepressants for the treatment of depression in Chinese and English randomized, double-blind and sham controlled trials and explored the possible related factors affecting the efficacy and safety. Methods We used keywords “depression” and “transcranial magnetic Stimulaton” as filters to search for the Clinical Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) of rTMS treatments for depression both in Chinese electronic databases: Wan fang, Wellpresi, and China Knowledge Network and in English electronic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library (total 8 databases) up to January 5, 2017; assessed the quality of the included studies with Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool; and according to the trial groups performed statistical analysis of the efficacy and safety presented in the included studies with RevMan5.3 software. Results A total of 9798 articles were retrieved, and finally, 29 studies were included in this study, with a total sample size of 1659, in which the sample size of the study groups was 838, and the control group sample size was 821. After Meta-analysis, we found that treatment combined rTMS with antidepressants improves depressive symptoms in patients with depression (SDM=-0.84, 95%CI=-1.19 ~ -0.48). Based on the Cochrane risk bias Assessment tool, an assessment of the bias of the included studies was conducted, one of which was assessed as having a “high risk of bias” and others as “impossible to judge”. None of the included studies reported significant adverse events, and Meta-analysis showed no statistically significant differences in dropout rate between the two groups (RR=1.27, 95%CI: 0.75~2.12, Z=0.89, p=0.37). Conclusion treatment that combined rTMS with antidepressant medication for depressive symptoms has a certain therapeutic advantage versus the placebo controls, demonstrated slight side effects, and attained good acceptability, but the differences between trials remained relatively large. Clinical trials with large sample sizes are required for further exploration of the possible related factors affecting the efficacy.
The force and stiffness of myosin motors in the isometric twitch of a cardiac trabecula and the effect of the extracellular calcium concentration

Fast sarcomere‐level mechanics in intact trabeculae, which allows the definition of the mechano‐kinetic properties of cardiac myosin in situ, is a fundamental tool not only for understanding the molecular mechanisms of heart performance and regulation, but also for investigating the mechanisms of the cardiomyopathy‐causing mutations in the myosin and testing small molecules for therapeutic interventions. The approach has been applied to measure the stiffness and force of the myosin motor and the fraction of motors attached during isometric twitches of electrically paced trabeculae under different extracellular Ca2+ concentrations. Although the average force of the cardiac myosin motor (∼6 pN) is similar to that of the fast myosin isoform of skeletal muscle, the stiffness (1.07 pN nm–1) is 2‐ to 3‐fold smaller. The increase in the twitch force developed in the presence of larger extracellular Ca2+ concentrations is fully accounted for by a proportional increase in the number of attached motors.
Animal ecology meets GPS-based radiotelemetry: a perfect storm of opportunities and challenges

Global positioning system (GPS) telemetry technology allows us to monitor and to map the details of animal movement, securing vast quantities of such data even for highly cryptic organisms. We envision an exciting synergy between animal ecology and GPS-based radiotelemetry, as for other examples of new technologies stimulating rapid conceptual advances, where research opportunities have been paralleled by technical and analytical challenges. Animal positions provide the elemental unit of movement paths and show where individuals interact with the ecosystems around them. We discuss how knowing where animals go can help scientists in their search for a mechanistic understanding of key concepts of animal ecology, including resource use, home range and dispersal, and population dynamics. It is probable that in the not-so-distant future, intense sampling of movements coupled with detailed information on habitat features at a variety of scales will allow us to represent an animal's cognitive map of its environment, and the intimate relationship between behaviour and fitness. An extended use of these data over long periods of time and over large spatial scales can provide robust inferences for complex, multi-factorial phenomena, such as meta-analyses of the effects of climate change on animal behaviour and distribution.
A WSAD-Based Fact Extractor for J2EE Web Projects

This paper describes our implementation of a fact extractor for J2EE Web applications. Fact extractors are part of each reverse engineering toolset; their output is used by reverse engineering analyzers and visualizers. Our fact extractor has been implemented on top of IBM's Websphere Application Developer (WSAD). The extractor's schema has been defined with the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) using a graphical modeling approach. The extractor extensively reuses functionality provided by WSAD, EMF, and Eclipse, and is an example of component-based development. In this paper, we show how we used this development approach to accomplish the construction of our fact extractor, which, as a result, could be realized with significantly less code and in shorter time compared to a homegrown extractor implemented from scratch. We have assessed our extractor and the produced facts with a table- based and a graph-based visualizer. Both visualizers are integrated with Eclipse.
What Mathematics Is The Most Fundamental

Standard mathematics (involving such notions as infinitely small/large and continuity) is usually treated as fundamental while finite mathematics is treated as inferior which is used only in special applications. In the first part of this note we argue that the situation is the opposite: standard mathematics is only a degenerate case of finite one in the formal limit when the characteristic of the ring or field used in finite mathematics goes to infinity, and finite mathematics is more pertinent for describing nature than standard one. In the second part we argue that foundation of finite mathematics is natural while foundational problems of standard mathematics are not fundamental.
Iterators Reconsidered

Software developers are eager to increase the scale of their software products at a rate proportional to the growth of computing resources. With memory, bandwidth, and computing power doubling roughly every eigtheen months, development approaches that are not based on compositional reasoning techniques can not be used to engineer the systems of tomorrow. The enormous scale of these projects far outstrips our ability to understand them using ad-hoc approaches. Industry best practice recognizes the importance of component reuse, but the emphasis is weighted heavily on the reuse of component code, often times neglecting the need to reuse the effort that went into understanding the component’s behavior. That is, any scalable software engineering discipline must provide mechanisms for reusing software components, as well as mechanisms for reusing the reasoning effort required to use those components. This paper examines the Iterator pattern with regard to compositional reasoning. The approach, touted as industry best practice, is shown to provide ample opportunity for breaking the principles of encapsulation. These various hazards are briefly described, and several techniques for ensuring safe use of the pattern are explored.
Performance analysis of energy and eigenvalue based detection for spectrum sensing in Cognitive Radio network

Cognitive Radio (CR) has recently been active area of research because of its ability to opportunistically share the spectrum. Spectrum sensing is an important functionality of cognitive radio by which the CR can sense the spectrum in nearly real time and provide knowledge of white spaces in the spectrum. It is desired in general to sense the primary signal at very low signal strength i.e. low Signal to Noise ratio (SNR) especially when the CR network (CRN) is to be operated on TV white spaces. Various detection algorithms have been researched in different conditions. This paper presents the performance analysis of energy detector and Eigen Value Based (EBD) detector in presence of very low SNRs.
Solving Japanese Puzzles with Heuristics

This paper presents two heuristics algorithms to solve Japanese puzzles, both black and white puzzles and color puzzles. First, we present ad-hoc heuristics which use the information in rows, columns, and puzzle's constraints to obtain the solution of the puzzle. The best heuristic developed for black and white puzzles is then extended to solving color Japanese puzzles. We show the performance of the proposed heuristics in several examples from a well known Web page devoted to this kind of puzzles. Comparison with an existing solver based on constraint programming and with a genetic algorithm is carried out
Decentralized Event-Triggered Control Over Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks

Event-triggered control has been recently proposed as an alternative to the more traditional periodic execution of control tasks. In a typical event-triggered implementation, the control signals are kept constant until the violation of a condition on the state of the plant triggers the recomputation of the control signals. The possibility of reducing the number of recomputations, and thus of transmissions, while guaranteeing desired levels of control performance, makes event-triggered control very appealing in the context of sensor/actuator networks. In particular, by reducing the network traffic we also reduce the energy expenditures of battery powered wireless sensor nodes. In this paper we present a decentralized event-triggered implementation, over sensor/actuator networks, of centralized nonlinear controllers.
64Cu-NODAGA-c(RGDyK) Is a Promising New Angiogenesis PET Tracer: Correlation between Tumor Uptake and Integrin α V β 3 Expression in Human Neuroendocrine Tumor Xenografts

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a new PET tracer 64Cu-NODAGA-c(RGDyK) for imaging of tumor angiogenesis using gene expression of angiogenesis markers as reference and to estimate radiation dosimetry for humans. Procedures. Nude mice with human neuroendocrine tumor xenografts (H727) were administered 64Cu-NODAGA-c(RGDyK) i.v. for study of biodistribution as well as for dynamic PET. Gene expression of angiogenesis markers integrin α V, integrin β 3, and VEGF-A were analyzed using QPCR and correlated to the tracer uptake in the tumors (%ID/g). From biodistribution data human radiation-absorbed doses were estimated using OLINDA/EXM. Results. Tumor uptake was 1.2%ID/g with strong correlations between gene expression and tracer uptake, for integrin α V R = 0.76, integrin β 3 R = 0.75 and VEGF-A R = 0.81 (all P < 0.05). The whole body effective dose for humans was estimated to be 0.038 and 0.029 mSv/MBq for females and males, respectively, with highest absorbed dose in bladder wall. Conclusion. 64Cu-NODAGA-c(RGDyK) is a promising new angiogenesis PET tracer with potential for human use.
Fixing DNS misbehavior hindering IPv6 deployment

During the course to deploy IPv6, we found several critical implementation and operational issues which distract user and possibly prevent wider deployment of IPv6. Among the problems we noticed, domain name system (DNS) related issues are significant. Some of the problems cause longer delay during the process to make a connection to a given node. In worst case, the delay is 60 seconds or more. This amount of delay may mislead users for some idea that IPv6 is not good technology, which is not accurate. In this paper, we reveal six cases related to DNS server and resolver implementation we found during our study in detail. To overcome these problem, fix to the servers are essential. To know how these cases affect overall behavior of the DNS, we created a tool to find misbehaving servers. We applied this tool to servers in ". JP" domain and found that there are 0.11% of servers in ". JP" domain have some problem. The other way to solve or ease the problem is to find workaround in client side. We propose two workarounds, with a sample implementation
Parenthood re-discovered: Views of recovered parents

Abstract There is a growing body of research on the effects of parents’ alcohol and substance abuse problems on family members, which examines for example the effects and risks to children. In this article, we approach the theme from the perspective of parents who have recovered from alcohol and substance abuse problems. The research question in this study asks how recovered parents describe their re-discovered parenthood. The study is part of a wider “Growing up in the Finnish Drinking Culture” -project, conducted by the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland. The qualitative data consist of individual, pair and group interviews with parents (N = 32). The parents were diagnosed with alcohol and or substance abuse problems and they all had undergone successful treatment. The data were analysed using subject position analysis, with six subject positions identified in parents’ accounts: Apprentice, Experienced; Emotion worker, Functional parent; Struggler and Optimist. Our study contributes to understanding how parenthood was regained following recovery and what experiences it entailed. It shows that a responsible life with the child and regaining parenthood are possibilities and realistic expectations following recovery.
Revolt and revival in the valleys : the influence of religion and revivalism on the politics and labour relations of the Taff Vale Railway, south Wales, 1878-1914

This thesis considers the social, political and religious changes affecting south Wales in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods through a holistic study of the lives of the men employed by the Taft Vale Railway (TVR). Its importance derives from four novel features. At its core are the employees of an entire railway company, not just a single centre or grade, and it has been informed by a wide range of disciplines from anthropology to theology. It has provided a closely observed examination of east Glamorgan society over the period, and it is emphasised that religion and politics were inextricably entwined in much of Welsh society. A contribution is made to the ongoing debate on the nature of community and its usefulness as a concept, and from this a 'Network Community' is proposed as a concept or investigative tool for use by social historians. The management's treatment of its workforce and the control strategies employed by companies through paternalism, welfarism and discipline are analysed. The Taft Vale dispute of 1900 is set in the context of the company's industrial relations history, and Ammon Beasley, General Manager 1891-1917, is shown to have been of greater importance to labour history than has been recognised. The fault lines in the realms of religion and politics, their influence on the company and the communities it served, and the denominational involvement of the TVA workmen are investigated. It draws attention to the fact that religion still played a ubiquitous role in the mores and culture of late-Victorian and Edwardian society. In south Wales this was dramatically enhanced by the phenomenon of religious revival; that of 1904-05 is shown to have been facilitated by the technology of the period, including the Taft Vale Railway, but without much impact on the railwaymen
Chronic and acute ammonia toxicity in mudskippers, Periophthalmodon schlosseri and Boleophthalmus boddaerti: brain ammonia and glutamine contents, and effects of methionine sulfoximine and MK801

SUMMARY The objective of this study was to elucidate if chronic and acute ammonia intoxication in mudskippers, Periophthalmodon schlosseri and Boleophthalmus boddaerti, were associated with high levels of ammonia and/or glutamine in their brains, and if acute ammonia intoxication could be prevented by the administration of methionine sulfoximine [MSO; an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase (GS)] or MK801 [an antagonist of n-methyl d-aspartate type glutamate (NMDA) receptors]. For P. schlosseri and B. boddaerti exposed to sublethal concentrations (100 and 8 mmol l-1 NH4Cl, respectively, at pH 7.0) of environmental ammonia for 4 days, brain ammonia contents increased drastically during the first 24 h, and they reached 18 and 14.5 μmol g-1, respectively, at hour 96. Simultaneously, there were increases in brain glutamine contents, but brain glutamate contents were unchanged. Because glutamine accumulated to exceptionally high levels in brains of P. schlosseri (29.8 μmol g-1) and B. boddaerti (12.1μ mol g-1) without causing death, it can be concluded that these two mudskippers could ameliorate those problems associated with glutamine synthesis and accumulation as observed in patients suffering from hyperammonemia. P. schlosseri and B. boddaerti could tolerate high doses of ammonium acetate (CH3COONH4) injected into their peritoneal cavities, with 24 h LC50 of 15.6 and 12.3 μmol g-1 fish, respectively. After the injection with a sublethal dose of CH3COONH4 (8 μmol g-1 fish), there were significant increases in ammonia (5.11 and 8.36 μmol g-1, respectively) and glutamine (4.22 and 3.54 μmol g-1, respectively) levels in their brains at hour 0.5, but these levels returned to normal at hour 24. By contrast, for P. schlosseri and B. boddaerti that succumbed within 15-50 min to a dose of CH3COONH4 (15 and 12 μmol g-1 fish, respectively) close to the LC50 values, the ammonia contents in the brains reached much higher levels (12.8 and 14.9 μmol g-1, respectively), while the glutamine level remained relatively low (3.93 and 2.67 μmol g-1, respectively). Thus, glutamine synthesis and accumulation in the brain was not the major cause of death in these two mudskippers confronted with acute ammonia toxicity. Indeed, MSO, at a dosage (100 μg g-1 fish) protective for rats, did not protect B. boddaerti against acute ammonia toxicity, although it was an inhibitor of GS activities from the brains of both mudskippers. In the case of P. schlosseri, MSO only prolonged the time to death but did not reduce the mortality rate (100%). In addition, MK801 (2 μg g-1 fish) had no protective effect on P. schlosseri and B. boddaerti injected with a lethal dose of CH3COONH4, indicating that activation of NMDA receptors was not the major cause of death during acute ammonia intoxication. Thus, it can be concluded that there are major differences in mechanisms of chronic and acute ammonia toxicity between brains of these two mudskippers and mammalian brains.
Newly Discovered Variable Stars in the Globular Clusters NGC 5634, Arp 2 and Terzan 8

We report the discovery of a sizeable, previously unknown variable star population in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal globular clusters NGC 5634, Arp 2 and Terzan 8. Location, preliminary pulsation periods and B-band light curves in relative flux units are provided for all these stars.
Interpretations in Trees with Countably Many Branches

We study the expressive power of logical interpretations on the class of scattered trees, namely those with countably many infinite branches. Scattered trees can be thought of as the tree analogue of scattered linear orders. Every scattered tree has an ordinal rank that reflects the structure of its infinite branches. We prove, roughly, that trees and orders of large rank cannot be interpreted in scattered trees of small rank. We consider a quite general notion of interpretation: each element of the interpreted structure is represented by a set of tuples of subsets of the interpreting tree. Our trees are countable, not necessarily finitely branching, and may have finitely many unary predicates as labellings. We also show how to replace injective set-interpretations in (not necessarily scattered) trees by âfinitary' set-interpretations.