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Active Dispersal of Natural Populations of Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Rural Northwestern Argentina

Abstract An empirical model of flight initiation coupled with data from a longitudinal study predicted that the flight dispersal of Triatoma infestans from peridomestic sites was more likely to occur in late summer. To partially test this prediction, we operated 11–12 black light traps from 1945 to 2200 hours in March 2003 in two villages in northern Argentina. All peridomestic sites around the light traps were later inspected to assess the relative abundance and nutritional status of T. infestans at each site. Traps were located 19–94 m from the nearest infested site. A total of 2 female, 10 male, and 3 fifth-instar nymphs of T. infestans; 4 adult Triatoma garciabesi; and 1 Triatoma guasayana fifth-instar nymph were collected in 64 trap nights. Nearly two-thirds of the bugs arrived to the traps during the first hour after sunset, when ambient temperatures were 22–28°C; 80% of adults were unfed. The number of T. infestans that flew to the traps was significantly and negatively associated with wind speed, and the number of males positively associated with the abundance of adult T. infestans in peridomestic sites within 200 m around each light trap. This is the first successful application of light traps for collecting dispersing nymphal and adult T. infestans on a village-wide scale. We attribute this success to the placement of traps with consideration to spatial infestation patterns and seasonal variation in nutritional status of peridomestic triatomine populations.
Korean Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Transcription

This chapter presents an overview of Korean intonational structure and the most updated version of K-ToBI (Korean Tones and Break Indices) transcription conventions. Korean in this paper refers to Seoul Korean, the standard dialect of Korean. Korean differs from other languages described in this book in that it has neither lexical pitch accent nor lexical stress. Some dialects of Korean such as the Kyungsang dialect have lexical pitch accent as in Tokyo Japanese, but most other dialects including Seoul Korean do not. Though researchers agree that Seoul Korean does not have lexical stress, it is controversial whether Korean has ®xed stress at the word level or phrasal stress. Some believe that Korean has word level stress and that it is sensitive to syllable weight (H. see Lim 2001 for a review); i.e., a word-initial heavy syllable is stressed, and if the ®rst syllable is not heavy, the second syllable is stressed. Thus, according to this view, stress falls on the initial, i.e., ®rst or second, syllable of a word regardless of the word length. Here, `heavy' is de®ned as a closed (CVC) or long syllable and is claimed to be acoustically realized with a longer duration. However, production and perception studies of stress in Korean (Jun 1995a; Lim 2001) suggest that the perception of stress on the word-initial syllable is due to the intonation pattern of Korean. Jun (1995a) showed that the so-called`stressed' syllables are always realized with the fundamental frequency (f0) peak when the word is uttered in isolation. When the same word was uttered in utterance-medial position, thèstressed' syllable of the word showed high f0 only when the word was placed at Accentual Phrase-initial position (see Section 8.2.2 for the de®nition of an Accentual Phrase). The perception test reported in Jun (1995a) showed that subjects (seventeen English, two Chinese, one French, one Italian, and one Japanese) perceived
A Novel Protocol Design and Collaborative Forensics Mechanism for VoIP Services

The simplicity and low cost of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services has made these services increasingly popular as the Internet has grown. Unfortunately, these advantages of VoIP are attractive to both legitimate and nefarious users, and VoIP is often used by criminals to communicate and conduct illegal activities (such as fraud or blackmail) without being intercepted by Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). However, VoIP can also increase the efficiency of law enforcement and forensic collaboration. Currently, VoIP researchers have only proposed a framework for this type of partnership, and have yet to provide a common protocol for forensic Internet collaboration. As a result, Internet-based collaboration between agencies is not widespread. Building from the Collaborative Forensics Mechanism (CFM) and the procedures of collaborative forensics work, this paper designs a novel application-layer Collaborative Forensics Protocol (CFP) to overcome the current framework-protocol gap. Here, CFP can exchange collaborative request and response messages between collaborative forensics region centers (CFRCs) to acquire collaborative forensics information. We present a procedure for collaborative forensics and discuss the details of protocol design. In addition, we discuss the defense of PKI working with CFM against various types of attacks and analyze the features of CFP.
Connexin 43 contributes to ectopic orofacial pain following inferior alveolar nerve injury

Background Clinically, it is well known that injury of mandibular nerve fiber induces persistent ectopic pain which can spread to a wide area of the orofacial region innervated by the uninjured trigeminal nerve branches. However, the exact mechanism of such persistent ectopic orofacial pain is not still known. The present study was undertaken to determine the role of connexin 43 in the trigeminal ganglion on mechanical hypersensitivity in rat whisker pad skin induced by inferior alveolar nerve injury. Here, we examined changes in orofacial mechanical sensitivity following inferior alveolar nerve injury. Furthermore, changes in connexin 43 expression in the trigeminal ganglion and its localization in the trigeminal ganglion were also examined. In addition, we investigated the functional significance of connexin 43 in relation to mechanical allodynia by using a selective gap junction blocker (Gap27). Results Long-lasting mechanical allodynia in the whisker pad skin and the upper eyelid skin, and activation of satellite glial cells in the trigeminal ganglion, were induced after inferior alveolar nerve injury. Connexin 43 was expressed in the activated satellite glial cells encircling trigeminal ganglion neurons innervating the whisker pad skin, and the connexin 43 protein expression was significantly increased after inferior alveolar nerve injury. Administration of Gap27 in the trigeminal ganglion significantly reduced satellite glial cell activation and mechanical hypersensitivity in the whisker pad skin. Moreover, the marked activation of satellite glial cells encircling trigeminal ganglion neurons innervating the whisker pad skin following inferior alveolar nerve injury implies that the satellite glial cell activation exerts a major influence on the excitability of nociceptive trigeminal ganglion neurons. Conclusions These findings indicate that the propagation of satellite glial cell activation throughout the trigeminal ganglion via gap junctions, which are composed of connexin 43, plays a pivotal role in ectopic mechanical hypersensitivity in whisker pad skin following inferior alveolar nerve injury.
Currency Exchange Rate Forecasting using Associative Models

Associative Models were created and used for pattern recognition tasks, but recently such models have shown good forecasting capabilities; by a pre- processing of a time series and some fit of the Model. In this paper, the Gamma Classifier is used as a novel alternative for currency exchange rate forecasting, where experimental results indicate that the proposed method can be effective in the Exchange Rate Time Series Prediction, compared to classical Machine Learning Models (ANN, SVM, MLP) and well known for the Financial and Economy Fields Box-Jenkins Models (AR, ARMA, ARIMA).
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice Consistent Database Sampling as a Database Prototyping Approach

SUMMARY Requirements elicitation has been reported to be the stage of software development when errors have the most expensive consequences. Users usually find it difficult to articulate a consistent and complete set of requirements at the beginning of a development project. Prototyping is considered a powerful technique to ease this problem by exposing a partial implementation of the software system to the user, who can then identify required modifications. When prototyping data-intensive applications a so-called prototype database is needed. This paper investigates how a prototype database can be built. Two different approaches are analysed, namely test databases and sample databases; the former populates the resulting database with synthetic values, while the latter uses data values from an existing database. The application areas that require prototype databases, in addition to requirements analysis, are also identified. The paper reports on existing research into the construction of both types of prototype databases, and indicates to which type of application area each is best suited. This paper advocates for the use of sample databases when an operational database is available, as is commonly the case in software maintenance and evolution. Domain-relevant data values and integrity constraints will produce a prototype database which will support the information system development process better than synthetic data. The process of extracting a sample database is also investigated.
Dixie: a Retargetable Binary Instrumentation Tool

| Dixie is a toolset that enables computer architecture researchers to instrument and monitor all aspects of a certain binary when run on its native environment. The design has focused on full architecture coverage, high accuracy and multi-ISA analysis. To address these and other issues, Dixie is based on a combination of instruction-set emulation and binary translation techniques. Dixie has cross-platform capabilities, allowing a researcher to trace a binary speciied in ISA \A" on a workstation with a diierent ISA \B". The tool is even able to provide instructions on the \wrong path" of a program. Not only that, but through its emulation capabilities, Dixie enables researchers to explore extensions to current ISAs and even to design, emulate and evaluate a completely new ISA.
EXIT Chart Analysis Aided Turbo MUD Designs for the Rank-Deficient Multiple Antenna Assisted OFDM Uplink

In this paper, the mutual information transfer characteristics of several novel turbo multiuser detectors (MUD) employed in space division multiple access (SDMA) aided orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are investigated with extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. These novel schemes are the Bayesian, the Soft Interference cancellation aided minimum bit error rate (SIC-MBER) and the reduced-complexity minimum Bit Error Rate (RMBER) turbo MUDs. In order to increase the effective throughput of the system, a powerful MUD has to be employed in the so- called "rank-deficient" scenario, namely when the number of transmit antennas exceeds that of the receiver antennas. The classic minimum mean square error (MMSE) solutions exhibit a low complexity. However, they are overwhelmed in rank-deficient scenarios. In these situations powerful non-linear MUDs are required, which are designed in this treatise.
An Interpretation of Lucian’s Satire on Philosophy

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Application of hybrid prediction model for dry point soft sensing of aviation kerosene

In this paper, an approach to build soft sensing prediction model for the dry point of aviation kerosene in a complex non-linear hydrocracking unit is proposed. PLS, RBFN and PLS-RBFN soft sensor models are first established for dry point of aviation kerosene. On this basis, the three sub-models are combined into a hybrid soft sensing prediction model through principal components regression. The performance of the soft sensor models based on hybrid soft sensing prediction model is compared with that of PLS, RBFN and PLS-RBFN respectively. Numerical results showed that soft sensor model by hybrid prediction model has better forecast accuracy and model stability than the other three methods, and can be well adaptive to the changing working conditions.
Endovascular treatment of high-flow carotid cavernous fistulas by stent-assisted coil placement.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Endovascular techniques are the methods of choice for the treatment of patients with carotid cavernous fistulas. We report our experience using stent-assisted coil placement for treatment of patients with high-flow fistulas that are associated with severe laceration of the internal carotid artery. METHODS In a retrospective review of an internal endovascular therapy database covering the interval between October 2001 and October 2003, we identified a total of 5 patients presenting with 6 high-flow type A carotid cavernous fistulas (one had a bilateral fistula) that were associated with severe laceration of the internal carotid artery. All were treated first with stenting of the injured segment of the internal carotid artery followed by transarterial (3/6) and/or transvenous (4/6) obliteration of the fistula with detachable platinum coils. In 2 cases, a liquid adhesive was also used. In all instances, a compliant balloon was inflated within the stented arterial segment during coil deposition to avoid extension of coils into the parent artery. RESULTS All 6 fistulas were obliterated, and each internal carotid artery was successfully reconstructed. Except for posttraumatic cranial nerve dysfunction in 1 patient, clinical outcome was very good. Follow-up angiograms in 3 of the 6 patients obtained at intervals between 3 and 6 months (mean, 4.5 months) revealed no fistula recurrence and no evidence of intimal hyperplasia within the stent. CONCLUSION In this series of patients with high-flow carotid cavernous fistula associated with severe injury to the internal carotid artery, stent-assisted coil placement offered a safe and effective treatment. Stent-assisted coil placement may increase the ability to successfully treat fistulas with severe injury to the internal carotid artery with preservation of the parent artery.
A Detailed Study about Foraging Behavior of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and its Extensions

-Swam intelligence is an emerging field in Artificial Intelligence. The living nature and life style of animals, birds and other living organisms can be inherited and applied to solve many real world problems. ABC is a recently developed swam intelligence algorithm developed by Dervis Karaboga in the year 2005.In ABC, foraging is one of the behavior of honey bees to search, collect food from its food resources. Many research works has undergone about foraging behavior and it is applied to solve variety of optimization problems. This paper discusses the detailed study of different types of extensions of foraging behavior of honey bees.
Ecological speciation in postglacial European whitefish: rapid adaptive radiations into the littoral, pelagic, and profundal lake habitats

Understanding how a monophyletic lineage of a species diverges into several adaptive forms has received increased attention in recent years, but the underlying mechanisms in this process are still under debate. Postglacial fishes are excellent model organisms for exploring this process, especially the initial stages of ecological speciation, as postglacial lakes represent replicated discrete environments with variation in available niches. Here, we combine data of niche utilization, trophic morphology, and 17 microsatellite loci to investigate the diversification process of three sympatric European whitefish morphs from three northern Fennoscandian lakes. The morphological divergence in the gill raker number among the whitefish morphs was related to the utilization of different trophic niches and was associated with reproductive isolation within and across lakes. The intralacustrine comparison of whitefish morphs showed that these systems represent two levels of adaptive divergence: (1) a consistent littoral–pelagic resource axis; and (2) a more variable littoral–profundal resource axis. The results also indicate that the profundal whitefish morph has diverged repeatedly from the ancestral littoral whitefish morph in sympatry in two different watercourses. In contrast, all the analyses performed revealed clustering of the pelagic whitefish morphs across lakes suggesting parallel postglacial immigration with the littoral whitefish morph into each lake. Finally, the analyses strongly suggested that the trophic adaptive trait, number of gill rakers, was under diversifying selection in the different whitefish morphs. Together, the results support a complex evolutionary scenario where ecological speciation acts, but where both allopatric (colonization history) and sympatric (within watercourse divergence) processes are involved.
Agricultural and Economy-Wide Effects of European Enlargement: Modelling the Common Agricultural Policy

The economic impact of extending the Common Agricultural Policy to the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) has become a major issue in the European enlargement debate. This paper provides an assessment of the economy‐wide effects of European enlargement using a global general equilibrium model where special attention is given to modelling the instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy, the Agenda 2000 proposal and the EU budget. The results indicate a substantial potential for increasing agricultural production in the CEEC. The EU budget will increase significantly and the transfers from EU taxpayers to farmers in the CEEC result in significant welfare gains in the new member countries. In spite of these important transfers the macroeconomic costs for the EU are found to be limited.
High performance declarative memory systems through MapReduce

This paper describes the acceleration of the declarative knowledge retrieval system of a cognitive architecture, namely ACT-R. The core of ACT-R's retrieval mechanism, activation calculation, is accelerated through leveraging the speed of C++ and the MapReduce program model. Work described in this paper represents an extension of previous Erlang-based concurrent activation. ACT-R's retrieval process is re-examined and optimized in this solution. Concurrency available in the execution platform is exploited to maximize the acceleration of declarative retrieval. The resulting implementation, referred to as Accelerated Declarative Memory (ADM), presents a high-performance activation calculation that enables practical use of more massive declarative memories. ADM presents new mechanisms to access and traverse declarative memory to reduce the overhead of executing retrievals. This solution offers retrieval latencies 20 times faster than the previous Erlang solution.
A novel local audio fingerprinting algorithm

A local fingerprinting algorithm is proposed for the purpose of audio copy detection. The proposed algorithm is robust to noise as well as tempo and pitch modifications of the audio signal. The fingerprints are extracted from adaptively scaled patches of the time-chroma representation of the audio signal. The proposed time-chroma representation, converts tempo change and pitch shift attacks on an audio signal to scaling and circular shift attacks on images, respectively. The proposed algorithm is shown to outperform the state-of-the-art.
A 450 mV supply self-biased wideband inductorless balun LNA for sub-GHz applications

This paper presents a CMOS wideband LNA topology operating under a 450 mV voltage supply in the analog TV white spaces frequency band from 54 MHz to 862 MHz. It could be used in a wideband RFID or energy harvesting communication network applications. The proposed circuit is self-biased, uses no inductors and it has a cascaded amplifier in the noise canceling branch for a better trade-off of noise figure (NF), S11 and IP3. The 450 mV operation is achieved by a proper choice of the basic amplifiers that compose the noise canceling topology. This paper demonstrates the use of low-VT PMOS transistors and zero-VT NMOS transistors in a RF circuit, in order to be self-biased in a 130 nm CMOS technology PDK from Global Foundries. The post-layout simulations included bondwire inductances and pad capacitances parasitics for more realistic results. Under such a low supply, the LNA circuit is capable of Voltage Gain > 17 dB, NF <; 6.2 dB and S11 <; -10.3 dB, in the 54 MHz - 862 MHz range. The overall LNA power consumption is only 2 mW.
The production and escape of Lyman-Continuum radiation from star-forming galaxies at z~2 and their redshift evolution

We study the production and escape of ionizing photons of a sample of 588 H$\alpha$ (Ha) emitters (HAEs) at z=2.2 in COSMOS by exploring their rest-frame Lyman Continuum (LyC) with GALEX/NUV data. We find 8 candidate LyC leakers with f$_{esc}$>60% out of a clean subsample of 191 HAEs (i.e. without any neighbour or foreground galaxy inside the GALEX PSF). Overall, we measure a very low escape fraction f$_{esc}$ z
Energy efficiency comparison of hypervisors

Current cloud data centers are fully virtualized for service consolidations and power/energy reduction. Although virtualization could reduce real time power and overall energy consumption, the energy characteristics of hypervisors hosting different workloads are not well profiled and understood. In this paper, we investigate the power and energy characteristics of mainstream hypervisors and container engine, i.e., VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, XenServer and Docker, on five different platforms (two mainstream 2U rack servers, one emerging ARM64 server, one desktop server, and one laptop) with hundreds of hours' power measures. We use both computing intensive and mixed web server-database workloads to explore the power and energy characteristics of different hypervisors. Extensive experiment results of four workload levels (very light, light, fair, and very heavy workload) demonstrate that hypervisors expose different power and energy characteristics. We find that: (1) Hypervisors expose different power and energy consumption on the same hardware running same workloads. (2) Although mainstream hypervisors have different energy efficiencies aligned with different workload types and workload levels, there is no single hypervisor that outperforms all other hypervisors on all platforms in terms of power or energy consumptions. (3) Although container virtualization is considered as light-weight virtualization in terms of implementation and maintenance, it is not essentially more power efficient than traditional virtualization technology. (4) ARM64 server does have lower power consumption, but they finish computing jobs with longer execution time and sometimes consume more energy. And ARM64 servers has medium energy consumption per database operations for mixed workloads. The results presented in this paper provide useful insights to system designers, as well as data center operators for power-aware workload placement and virtual machine scheduling.