Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Energy efficient program updating for sensor nodes with flash memory

Updating sensor node programs is an essential task for maintaining stability and modifying the characteristics of wireless sensor networks. The updating mechanism must consider energy and memory efficiency, because of resource constraints of sensor nodes. In this paper, we propose a novel program updating mechanism, which considers resource constraints of sensor nodes. The proposed mechanism was designed for sensor nodes with the NOR flash memory. This is generally used to store program image. It was designed to minimize the number of flash write/erase operations, which consume a great deal of energy, and to provide wear-leveling for the NOR flash memory. We set a function as the basic unit of program updating, and partition a function into fixed-sized blocks that can be separately relocated in memory. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism outperforms other mechanisms in terms of energy, memory and wear-leveling for flash memory.
Development of Electroencephalography based Brain Controlled Switch and Nerve Conduction Study Simulator Software

This is to certify that the thesis prepared by Kai Qian entitled " Development of Electroencephalography based Brain Controlled Switch and Nerve Conduction Study Simulator Software " has been approved by his committee as satisfactory completion of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Science. ii Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to my adviser Dr. Ou Bai for your continuous support of my study and research. Thank you for your guidance and encouragement that make this thesis possible. I also would like to thank my thesis committee members: Dr. Ding-Yu Fei and Dr. Scott Vota. Thank you for your insightful comments and help in completion of my thesis project. My sincere thanks also goes to Dr. Chike Linton who helped me gather the data and gave me numerous advices on improvements of my research project. Eggleston for your help in my experiment and study. They gave me life, raised me, support me, teach me and love me. To them I dedicate this thesis.
Actions hamiltoniennes : invariants et classification

These are expanded notes from a set of lectures given at the school “Actions Hamiltoniennes: leurs invariants et classification” at Luminy in April 2009. The topics center around the theorem of Kempf and Ness [58], which describes the equivalence between the notion of quotient in geometric invariant theory introduced by Mumford in the 1960’s [80], and the notion of symplectic quotient introduced by Meyer [79] and Marsden-Weinstein [77] in the 1970’s. Infinite-dimensional generalizations of this equivalence have played an increasingly important role in geometry, starting with the theorem of Narasimhan and Seshadri [81] connecting unitary structures on a bundle with holomorphic stability, which by historical accident preceded the finite-dimensional theorem. The proof of the Kempf-Ness theorem depends on the convexity of certain Kempf-Ness functions whose minima are zeros of the moment map. The convexity also plays an important role in the relation to
Combining Binary Classifiers for a Multiclass Problem with Differential Privacy

Multiclass classification problem is often solved by combing binary classifiers into ensembles. While this is required for inherently binary classifiers, such as SVM, it also provides performance advantages for other classifiers. In this paper, we address the problem of combining binary classifiers into ensembles in the differentially private data publishing framework, where the data privacy is achieved by anonymization. The main idea of this paper is to counter the inevitable loss of data quality due to anonymization of the data by building an ensemble of binary classifiers, and then to use an error-correcting approach to obtain a class decision from this ensemble. We describe the proposed algorithm and present the results of extensive experimentation on synthetic and UC Irvine data. We find that while building ensembles after anonymization leads to no change in classifier accuracy, preparing the data for ensembles prior to anonymization improves accuracy in most of the cases.
Body Image Dissatisfaction: Gender Differences in Eating Attitudes, Self-Esteem, and Reasons for Exercise

Abstract Two hundred and thirty-five adolescents completed a questionnaire on the subject of eating attitudes, self-esteem, reasons for exercise, and their ideal versus current body size and shape. As predicted, boys were as likely to want to be heavier as lighter, whereas very few girls desired to be heavier. Only girls associated body dissatisfaction with the concept of self-esteem. Male self-esteem was not affected by body dissatisfaction. Specific reasons for exercise were found to correlate with low self-esteem and disordered eating, regardless of sex. The results are discussed in relation to burgeoning published research in this area.
Juxtaposed Polycomb complexes co-regulate vertebral identity

Best known as epigenetic repressors of developmental Hox gene transcription, Polycomb complexes alter chromatin structure by means of post-translational modification of histone tails. Depending on the cellular context, Polycomb complexes of diverse composition and function exhibit cooperative interaction or hierarchical interdependency at target loci. The present study interrogated the genetic, biochemical and molecular interaction of BMI1 and EED, pivotal constituents of heterologous Polycomb complexes, in the regulation of vertebral identity during mouse development. Despite a significant overlap in dosage-sensitive homeotic phenotypes and co-repression of a similar set of Hox genes, genetic analysis implicated eed and Bmi1 in parallel pathways, which converge at the level of Hox gene regulation. Whereas EED and BMI1 formed separate biochemical entities with EzH2 and Ring1B, respectively, in mid-gestation embryos, YY1 engaged in both Polycomb complexes. Strikingly, methylated lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3-K27), a mediator of Polycomb complex recruitment to target genes, stably associated with the EED complex during the maintenance phase of Hox gene repression. Juxtaposed EED and BMI1 complexes, along with YY1 and methylated H3-K27, were detected in upstream regulatory regions of Hoxc8 and Hoxa5. The combined data suggest a model wherein epigenetic and genetic elements cooperatively recruit and retain juxtaposed Polycomb complexes in mammalian Hox gene clusters toward co-regulation of vertebral identity.
Connections across Scientific Publications based on Semantic Annotations

Abstract. The core information from scientific publications is encoded in natural language text and monolithic documents; therefore it is not well integrated with other structured and unstructured data resources. The text format requires additional processing to semantically interlink the publications and to finally reach interoperability of contained data. Data infrastructures such as the Linked Open Data initiative based on the Resource Description Framework support the connectivity of data from scientific publications once the identification of concepts and relations has been achieved, and the content has been interconnected semantically. In this manuscript we produce and analyze the semantic annotations in scientific articles to investigate on the interconnectivity across the articles. In our initial experiment based on articles from PubMed Central we demonstrate the means and the results leading to the interconnectivity using annotations of Medical Subject Headings concepts, Unified Medical Language System terms, and semantic abstractions of relations. We conclude that the different methods would contribute to different types of relatedness between articles that could be later used in recommendation systems based on semantic links across a network of scientific publications.
How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies: Hard to Make, Hard to Break

Part 1: Ending the Wrong Kind of Dependency Culture 1.Establishing need 1.1 Gaps in resiliency work to date? 1.2 A review of the literature 2.Tomorrow and today's problems: making change universally desirable 2.1 Dilemmas faced by global market regulators and local urban planners 2.2 A new paradigm for tomorrow's problems 2.3 Struggles to make sophisticated responses in a changing world? 3.A common set of values 3.1 No tinkering around the edges 3.2 Unifying beliefs 3.3 Significant behaviour or not? Part 2. Localism Without Local Government 4.Devolving responsibility 4.1 Communities on the front line or in the firing line? 4.2 Navigating shifts in power, rights and responsibilities 5.Negotiated rights and sanctions 5.1 Return to fairness through contribution 5.2 Area-based negotiations 6.The harmonised constitution 6.1 The journey from rights to responsibilities to subsidiarity 6.2 An enabling constitution for local leadership Part 3. Just Cities 7 . Incentivised migration to compact cities 7.1 Reaffirming the need for compactness 7.2 Ensuring smart density wins 8.Urban development and the green economy 8.1 Pro-business but anti-weak governance: shedding the right kind of caution 8.2 Problem of definition 8.3 A decarbonised economy the north and south can believe in 9.Decoupling vested interests 9.1 Ending unhealthy relationships 9.2 Strength through diversity as well as devolution Part 4. Transition From Unstable to Resilient Societies: Hard to Make, Hard to Break 10.Smarter and less frequent interventions 10.1 Resource flows 10.2 Harnessing the positive power of markets and people 10.3 Systems thinking: from information hoarding to place-based governance 11.Infused resilience: a theory of change 11.1 A refined interpretation of resilience 11.2 Embedding and maintaining empowerment 12.What you need to do next 12.1 The right type of local leadership 12.2 Over to you
ARE TALLER HANDBALL GOALKEEPERS BETTER? CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND ABILITIES OF SLOVENIAN MALE ATHLETES

Although previous studies have found that body height and body mass are relevant for the selection of handball goalkeepers, there is still a dilemma whether taller goalkeepers actually have any advantage over the shorter goalkeepers in certain performance characteristics. Therefore the purpose of this study was to evaluate the chosen anthropometric characteristics and psycho-motor abilities of Slovenian handball goalkeepers with a particular emphasis on the group of taller goalkeepers. Goalkeepers were classified into two groups: a group of taller goalkeepers (TG˃185 cm, n=24) and a group of shorter goalkeepers (SG≤185 cm, n=18). Different tests were used to assess hip flexibility, agility, explosive arm and leg strength and basic sensory functions. Differences in the selected variables between the groups were tested with independent samples t-test. Correlations between the variables were established using Pearson’s correlation coefficient statistic. The level of significance was set at p<. 05. The taller goalkeepers generated more energy (p≤.05) in squat jump and countermovement jump performance than the shorter goalkeepers. The two groups of goalkeepers did not differ significantly either in body mass or in body mass index (BMI). The established correlations for the whole sample of goalkeepers revealed that body height had a negative influence only on the average simple reaction time. Likewise, body mass and BMI had a negative influence on the scores in the explosive leg strength tests. The results confirmed the opinion of handball experts that taller goalkeepers should be preferred in the process of selecting athletes for goalkeeping in handball. However, the values of body mass should specifically be considered, as well as certain motor and perceptual abilities.
Income as a Determinants for Old Age Institutional Care in Finland

Aim and Motivation: This paper investigates the income and socio-economic effects on institutional long-term care demand (LTC) in Finland from an economics perspective. If lessons are learned from major contributors of care needs and costs then preventative measures can be designed to answer these challenges. The motivation for this paper is that LTC costs are expected to increase in Finland by 50 percent per annum in the next 25 years due to the doubling of the 65 years old population (by 2039). Aging of populations and workforce is a European wide phenomenon. Definitions: LTC for old age people is by definition care for chronic sickness and disability in the last years of life. It can be either formal or informal care (or both) delivered to a homelike environment (home care) or given at an institution (institutional care). Methods: The economics of LTC care are reviewed based on existing literature. Next the econometric and institutional context is described. A longitudinal competing risks and multinomial logit model are estimated. The two competing risks are institutional entry or death outside institution. Data: Finnish Health2000 individual level survey data from year 2000 linked with a day-by-day care register follow-up till end of 2010. The sample consists of N=3245 over 50 year old age population.Results: It is found that higher household (OECD) and personal income reduce demand for institutional LTC care controlling for health, functional capacity and key living habits. The difference between extreme income quintiles (lowest vs. highest) is 1,3 percent for men and 0,6 percent for women. This result suggests that institutional care may include disutility from a consumer preferences point of view. The highest risks of institutional LTC care are found among small income, single living and cognitively disabled highly aged people (over 80, 90 years old). Neurological diseases and cancer are the biggest risk factors of institutional entry. For deaths outside institution the biggest risks are dementia and cancer. ADL problems and old age frailty contribute to both competing risks.Policy conclusions: There are significant socio-economic inequalities in institutional LTC care entry. Prevention of neurological and living habits diseases (smoking, weight disorders) has potential for cost savings in institutional care services.
Optimization Approaches in Computer Vision and Image Processing

SUMMARY In this paper, the authors present general views of computer vision and image processing based on optimization. Relaxation and regularization in both broad and narrow senses are used in various ﬁelds and problems of computer vision and image processing, and they are currently being combined with general-purpose optimization algorithms. The principle and case examples of relaxation and regularization are discussed; the application of optimization to shape description that is a particularly important problem in the ﬁeld is described; and the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) as a method of optimization is introduced
DRAFT DRAFT 1 Tangible Video System : Designing for Collaboration , Exploration , and Engagement

This paper introduces the tangible video system (TVS), a tangible interface for editing sequences of digital video clips. The TVS features multiple handheld computers embedded in specialized cases. It can be used on any surface under normal lighting conditions without the need for an augmented surface, computer vision system, or video projector. We aim the tangible video system for use in educational and community settings. Hence, we designed it to engage users in a collaborative editing experience and to encourage the exploration of narrative ideas. We evaluated our design using a comparative study that involved 36 participants using the tangible video system and a standard GUI-based, non-linear video editor. Author
Ecological Restoration

While official PM,,, monitoring data for South Carolina are not available, unpublished data indicate that emissions at rural sites exceed the annual PM,. , concentration standard of 15 pg/m3 from April to September each year. The possibility that PM,,, standards might be exceeded near the forest-urban interface could restrict burning in the future. In contrast, PM,, concentrations seldom approached half of the annual mean standard of 50 yg/m3 (table 3.3).
University-Industry Relations And Academic Research: Coexistence Or Something Else

In this article we analyse whether university-industry relations (UIR) work to inhibit university researchers' scientific productivity. We find that UIR exercise a positive effect on university scientific productivity when they are based on the development of activities with high scientific content, but only up to certain level. Also, we find that researchers that combine research and UIR activities obtain higher funding from competitive public sources than those that only engage in research. In addition, their average scientific productivity is higher and they achieve higher status within the institution than those members of faculty that concentrate only on research.
Dynamic and Differential Regulation of Stem Cell Factor FoxD3 in the Neural Crest Is Encrypted in the Genome

The critical stem cell transcription factor FoxD3 is expressed by the premigratory and migrating neural crest, an embryonic stem cell population that forms diverse derivatives. Despite its important role in development and stem cell biology, little is known about what mediates FoxD3 activity in these cells. We have uncovered two FoxD3 enhancers, NC1 and NC2, that drive reporter expression in spatially and temporally distinct manners. Whereas NC1 activity recapitulates initial FoxD3 expression in the cranial neural crest, NC2 activity recapitulates initial FoxD3 expression at vagal/trunk levels while appearing only later in migrating cranial crest. Detailed mutational analysis, in vivo chromatin immunoprecipitation, and morpholino knock-downs reveal that transcription factors Pax7 and Msx1/2 cooperate with the neural crest specifier gene, Ets1, to bind to the cranial NC1 regulatory element. However, at vagal/trunk levels, they function together with the neural plate border gene, Zic1, which directly binds to the NC2 enhancer. These results reveal dynamic and differential regulation of FoxD3 in distinct neural crest subpopulations, suggesting that heterogeneity is encrypted at the regulatory level. Isolation of neural crest enhancers not only allows establishment of direct regulatory connections underlying neural crest formation, but also provides valuable tools for tissue specific manipulation and investigation of neural crest cell identity in amniotes.
Using Web Directories for Similarity Measurement in Personal Name Disambiguation

In this paper, we target on the problem of personal name disambiguation in search results returned by personal name queries. Usually, a personal name refers to several people. Therefore, when a search engine returns a set of documents containing that name, they are often relevant to several individuals with the same namesake. Automatic differentiation of people in the resulting documents may help users to search for the person of interest easier. We propose a method that uses Web directories to improve the similarity measurement in personal name disambiguation. We carried out experiments on real Web documents in which we compared our method with the vector space model method and the named entity recognition method. The results show that our method has advantages over these previous methods.
How to Position n Transmitter-Receiver Pairs in n-1 Dimensions Such That Each Can Use Half of the Channel with Zero Interference from the Others

This work is inspired by the question "Can 100 speakers talk for 30 minutes each in one room within one hour and with zero interference to each other's audience? " posed by Cadambe and Jafar at the 45th Allerton conference 2007, see [1]. We consider the problem of how many transmitter-receiver pairs can be placed such that each desired link may use half of the channel time free of interference from unintended transmissions. The answer is given in the title: at least n pairs, i.e., 2n stations can be positioned in the (n - 1)-dimensional Euclidean space such that complete interference alignment in time is achieved. Regular patterns with equal distances between receivers and transmitters, respectively, are the solution. The basic methodology for achieving this result is borrowed from the field of distance geometry.
Single chip sensing of multiple gas flows

The fabrication and experimental characterization of a thermal flow meter, capable of detecting and measuring two independent gas flows with a single chip, is described. The device is based on a 4times4 mm2 silicon chip, where a series of differential micro-anemometers have been integrated together with standard electronic components by means of post-processing techniques. The innovative aspect of the sensor is the use of a plastic adapter, thermally bonded to the chip, to convey the gas flow only to the areas where the sensors are located. The use of this inexpensive packaging procedure to include different sensing structures in distinct flow channels is demonstrated.
Value-Based Billing in a 3G IP Services Environment

The proliferation of IP-based services has resulted in a paradigm shift away from traditional flat-rat, single service billing to content and usage based billing for composed service sets. The Information Societies Technology (IST) FORM project has prototyped an accounting and billing solution for IP-based telecommunications services. A key element of the solution is the IPDR Network Data Management - Usage specification. This paper presents the FORM development of a federated accounting and billing solution for inter-enterprise IP-based service billing and accounting.
Curative Effects of Thiacremonone against Acetaminophen-Induced Acute Hepatic Failure via Inhibition of Proinflammatory Cytokines Production and Infiltration of Cytotoxic Immune Cells and Kupffer Cells

High doses of acetaminophen (APAP; N-acetyl-p-aminophenol) cause severe hepatotoxicity after metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 2E1. This study was undertaken to examine the preventive effects of thiacremonone, a compound extracted from garlic, on APAP-induced acute hepatic failure in male C57BL/6J. Mice received with 500 mg/kg APAP after a 7-day pretreatment with thiacremonone (10–50 mg/kg). Thiacremonone inhibited the APAP-induced serum ALT and AST levels in a dose-dependent manner, and markedly reduced the restricted area of necrosis and inflammation by administration of APAP. Thiacremonone also inhibited the APAP-induced depletion of intracellular GSH, induction of nitric oxide, and lipid peroxidation as well as expression of P450 2E1. After APAP injection, the numbers of Kupffer cells, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic T cells were elevated, but the elevated cell numbers in the liver were reduced in thiacremonone pretreated mice. The expression levels of I-309, M-CSF, MIG, MIP-1α, MIP-1β, IL-7, and IL-17 were increased by APAP treatment, which were inhibited in thiacremonone pretreated mice. These data indicate that thiacremonone could be a useful agent for the treatment of drug-induced hepatic failure and that the reduction of cytotoxic immune cells as well as proinflammatory cytokine production may be critical for the prevention of APAP-induced acute liver toxicity.