Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Photoexcited Structure of a Plant Photoreceptor Domain Reveals a Light-Driven Molecular Switch Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.010475.

The phototropins are flavoprotein kinases that control phototropic bending, light-induced chloroplast movement, and stomatal opening in plants. Two flavin mononucleotide binding light, oxygen, or voltage (LOV) domains are the sites for initial photochemistry in these blue light photoreceptors. We have determined the steady state, photoexcited crystal structure of a flavin-bound LOV domain. The structure reveals a unique photochemical switch in the flavin binding pocket in which the absorption of light drives the formation of a reversible covalent bond between a highly conserved Cys residue and the flavin cofactor. This provides a molecular picture of a cysteinyl-flavin covalent adduct, the presumed signaling species that leads to phototropin kinase activation and subsequent signal transduction. We identify closely related LOV domains in two eubacterial proteins that suggests the light-induced conformational change evident in this structure is an ancient biomolecular response to light, arising before the appearance of plants.
0 190-MHz CMOS 4-Kbyte Pipelined Caches

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a 190-MHz pipelined 4-Kbyte instruction and data cache. The caches are designed in 1. 0μm CMOS and measure 0.78 x 0.47 cm 2. This paper describes the microarchitecture, cache timing, circuit implementation, and layout of both the instruction and the data cache. The key features of these caches are pipelined execution and the use of dynamic single-phase clock logic. We discuss the interface of this cache with the processor core and the off-chip controller. This paper also describes the pipelined structure of the cache and the miss detection and handling logic.
Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex detection becomes available at birth order two or more in families that have not yet had their desired number of sons (or daughters). The three implied control groups are births that occur pre-ultrasound, births of first order and births that occur after the family has achieved its desired sex mix of births. We identify a significant divergence between the treated and control groups. We consider alternative hypotheses and conduct an array of robustness checks to show that the divergence of the sex ratio of the treated group from the normal biological range that characterizes the control groups is on account of female foeticide. We estimate that as many as 0.48 million girls p.a. were selectively aborted during 1995-2005, which is more than the number of girls born in the UK each year. The estimates suggest that Indian families desire two boys and a girl; previous studies often assume that the desire is for at least one boy. The incentive to conduct sex selection is increasing in birth order and family socioeconomic status, both consistent with stronger incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target.
Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil Wars

appealing features of the volume, indeed, is that it sets out an ambitious and intellectually compelling research agenda as part of a dialogue with researchers in the sub-field, rather than as a definitive summary of the state of the art. To some extent, the profile of the contributors and combined conceptual and empirical strength of the contributions represents the latter without it needing to be said. This is an important and persuasive piece of scholarship – and the beginning of an even more important conversation for researchers of insurgency and insurgent governance.
Development of Hardware-in-Loop Simulation Test-Bed for Testing of Navigation System-INS

Hardware-In-Loop Simulation (HILS) is the only platform where the dynamics of the subsystem is tested and on-board software is validated in real time environment before the flight trial. The flight systems consist of navigation, guidance and control. The Inertial Navigation system (INS) which is embedded system is sending the required navigation information for the guidance and control algorithm which resides in on-board computer-OBC (embedded system). The plant model is used to create environment near flight condition and to validate guidance and control as well as navigation. The newly developed navigation package based on MIL-STD 1553 communication protocol introduced in HILS for total trajectory dynamics validation in different phases. Firstly the navigation algorithm resided in INS is validated and the sensors i.e. gyros are excited in next step to test for delays, and non linearity. The total methodology adopted for the testing of the navigation package-INS is presented in this paper.
Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Valvular Heart Lesions

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. It was estimated to affect up to 6.1 million Americans in 2010, and since AF is more common with increasing age, it is predicted to affect 12.1 million in the United States by 2030. [1][1] AF increases the risk of stroke 5‐fold
Vision-based cutaneous sensor to measure both tactile and thermal information for telexistence

We have proposed a vision-based cutaneous sensor for telexistence that can simulate the physical interaction between a human fingertip and an object. The proposed sensor comprises a finger-shaped GelForce and a thermo-sensitive paint. The finger-shaped GelForce enables us to measure tactile information in terms of the distribution of forces that are calculated from the displacements of markers inside the sensor body. The thermo-sensitive paint is employed to measure thermal information on the basis of its color, which changes according to its temperature. In this study, we have described the design of the proposed cutaneous sensor, constructed its prototype, and discussed its efficiency for telexistence.
Integrating error detection into arithmetic coding

Arithmetic coding for data compression has gained widespread acceptance as the right method for optimum compression when used with a suitable source model. A technique to implement error detection as part of the arithmetic coding process is described. Heuristic arguments are given to show that a small amount of extra redundancy can be very effective in detecting errors very quickly, and practical tests confirm this prediction.
Publish and Perish?: An Assessment of Gender Gaps in Promotion to Tenure in Academia

Abstract:In academia, there remains a gender gap in promotion to tenure, such that men are more likely to receive tenure than women. This paper tests three explanations of this gender gap in promotion: (1) contextual and organizational differences across departments; (2) performance/productivity differences by gender; and (3) gendered inequality in evaluation. To test these explanations, this project uses a novel dataset drawing from a sample of assistant professors in Sociology, Computer Science, and English, across research universities. This dataset combines data from sources including curriculum vitae, Google Scholar, and web archive employment data, resulting in a dataset of assistant professors' publication records, department affiliations, and job positions. Analyses examine the gender gap in the likelihood of promotion to tenure and in early career trajectories, while accounting for publication productivity and department/university context. The results demonstrate that productivity measures account for a portion of the gender gap in tenure, but in each discipline a substantial share of the gender gap remains unexplained by these factors. Department characteristics do not explain the tenure gender gap. Further, when women do receive tenure, they do so in lower-prestige departments than men, on average. These findings suggest that gendered inequality in the tenure evaluation process contributes to the gender gap in tenure rates.
Understanding and intervening with partner abuse

For several decades, domestic violence, otherwise known as Partner Abuse (PA) has been recognised as a major public health issue in the United States, and more recently in Europe and the rest of the world (Esquivel-Santovena, Lambert & Hamel, 2013). PA includes both physical and non-physical forms of aggression among dating, cohabitating and married couples in opposite-sex and same-sex relationships and from every ethnic minority group (Hines, Malley-Morrison & Dutton, 2013; West, 2012). In the United States, the standard intervention paradigm has consisted of a vigorous law-enforcement response for perpetrators that includes victim services almost exclusively to women, and arrest and prosecution for men, as well as mandatory participation in psychoeducational treatment programs commonly known as batterer intervention programs, or BIPs (Buzawa, Buzawa & Stark, 2011; Shernock & Russell, 2012). Most offenders join these programs following release from incarceration, although some individuals serving longer sentences are able to complete at least some of their required treatment in a correctional setting.
A novel magnetic levitation haptic device for augmentation of tissue stiffness perception

In medical training especially in palpation surgery, it is important for surgeons to perceive tissue stiffness. We design a novel magnetic levitation haptic device based on electromagnetic principles to enhance the perception of tissue stiffness in a virtual environment. The user can directly sense virtual tissues by moving a magnetic stylus in the magnetic field generated by the coil array of our device. To fully use the effective magnetic field, we devise an adjustable coil array and provide a reasonable explanation for such design. Moreover, we design a control interface circuit and present a self-adaptive fuzzy proportion integration differentiation (PID) algorithm to precisely control the coil current. The quantitative experiment shows that the experimental and simulation data of our device are consistent and the proposed control algorithm contributes to increasing the accuracy of tissue stiffness perception. In qualitative experiment, we recruit 22 participants to distinguish tissues of different stiffness and detect tissue abnormality. The experimental results demonstrate that our magnetic levitation haptic device can provide accurate perception of tissue stiffness.
Ethnic Identity of Culture in Relation Komin-Amber in Papua

Identitas bukan sekedar persoalan nama, tetapi apa makna di balik nama tersebut. Setidaknya nama merupakan tanda pengenal dan identitas yang dapat menunjukkan ciri-ciri serta karakternya. Jika ciri khas itu melekat pada suatu etnik, maka hal itu menjadi penanda jati diri pada etnik tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan identitas kultur etnik Komin sebagai masyarakat pribumi dan etnik Amber sebagai masyarakat pendatang dalam perspektif komunikasi antarbudaya. Metode penelitian dirancang dalam skema penelitian kombinasi ( mixed method ) yang menggabungkan metode kualitatif dan kuantitatif dengan strategi eksploratoris sekuensial. Penelitian dilaksanakan di Kota Jayapura Provinsi Papua dengan sampel 200 responden dan 8 (delapan) partisipan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa identititas kultur pada etnik Komin dan Amber berbeda nyata dalam hal: 1) Konteks komunikasi ( high context vs low context communication ), 2) Orientasi budaya ( individualist vs collectivist), dan 3) Self construal ( Independent vs Interdependent ).
Magic Functions: A Technique to Optimize Extended Datalog Recursive Programs

Several methods have been proposed to compile recursive Datalog programs. The most well-known perform a rewriting of rules using MAGIC or PROBLEM predicates in order to push selections before recursion. Rewritten rule systems are generally complex and difficult to translate into optimized relational algebra programs. Moreover, they often generate too many results; thus, the query must be applied to the generated results to eliminate non relevant answers. In this paper, after a survey of the existing compilation techniques which points out their limitations, we develop the magic function method iutroduced in [GardariuDeMaindreville86]. It is based on an understanding of the query as a function which maps columns of a relation to other columns. A query against recursive rules is then translated into a fixpoint functional equation. The resolution of this fixpoint equation using Tarski’s theorem leads to efficient computation of the query answer. In particular, the derived algorithms push selections through recursion, because selections appear as function arguments. They generate only relevant answers to a given query, without redundant data computation. The purpose of this paper is the introduction of a generalized method to obtain and resolve the fixpoint functional equation. The method is general enough to handle non-binary rules, cyclic rules and function symbols. The main advantages of the method are : (1) It directly generates an optimized relational algebra program. (2) It performs a symbolic precomputation which permits rule redundancy elimination. (3) It fully supports function symbols and range queries.
Semaphorin 5B is a repellent cue for sensory afferents projecting into the developing spinal cord

During vertebrate development, centrally projecting sensory axons of the dorsal root ganglia neurons first reach the embryonic spinal cord at the dorsolateral margin. Instead of immediately projecting into the grey matter, they bifurcate and extend rostrally and caudally to establish the longitudinal dorsal funiculus during a stereotyped waiting period of approximately 48 h. Collateral fibres then extend concurrently across multiple spinal segments and project to their appropriate targets within the grey matter. This rostrocaudal extension of sensory afferents is crucial for the intersegmental processing of information throughout the spinal cord. However, the precise cues that prevent premature entry during the waiting period remain to be identified. Here, we show that semaphorin 5B (Sema5B), a member of the semaphorin family of guidance molecules, is expressed in the chick spinal cord during this waiting period and dorsal funiculus formation. Sema5B expression is dynamic, with a reduction of expression apparent in the spinal cord concomitant with collateral extension. We show that Sema5B inhibits the growth of NGF-dependent sensory axons and that this effect is mediated in part through the cell adhesion molecule TAG-1. Knockdown of Sema5B in the spinal cord using RNA interference leads to the premature extension of cutaneous nociceptive axons into the dorsal horn grey matter. These premature projections predominantly occur at the site of dorsal root entry. Our results suggest that Sema5B contributes to a repulsive barrier for centrally projecting primary sensory axons, forcing them to turn and establish the dorsal funiculus.
Regional Trade and Employment in ECOWAS

This study deals with the effects of regional trade in the ECOWAS region on decent employment. The first part analyzes the composition of regional versus global trade in terms of its linkages with three dimensions of decent work: Number of jobs, labour productivity, and employment and income security. It argues that regional trade has an important role for all three dimensions, but that effects vary substantially across countries. Following recent trends in international trade literature, the second part looks at firm level data to identify differences in the employment characteristics of domestic firms, regional exporters, and global exporters. It finds that both regional and global exporters are larger, have higher labour productivity, and pay higher wages compared to domestic firms, but are not significantly different from one another in these categories. This means that regional exporters create high quality jobs, but in the context of firm level trade models it also suggests that they continue to face high trade costs which may prevent less productive firms from entering the regional market.
Solving Today ' s Design Security Concerns

www.xilinx. com 1 © 2010 Xilinx, Inc. XILINX, the Xilinx logo, Virtex, Spartan, ISE, and other designated brands included herein are trademarks of Xilinx in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. While design security is often thought of in terms of protecting intellectual property (IP), the potential losses extend beyond just the financial. With the expansion of the use of programmable logic beyond commercial markets to avionic and military applications, design security takes on the additional aspects of safety and national security.
A cross-national study of czech and turkish university studentsattitudes towards ICT used in science subjects

This paper focuses on differences of attitudes related to information and communication technologies among Czech and Turkish university students. Student attitudes were evaluated summatively and with respect to gender, year, country, and type of residential area (town/village). The sample consisted of a total of 770 university students (316 Czech and 454 Turkish). The data analysis included factor analysis, MANCOVA, ANOVA, and t-test. As a result, students from the Czech Republic, male students, sophomores, and students living in town showed more positive attitudes in comparison to other respective groups.
Hidden Markov modeling for network communication channels

In this paper we perform the statistical analysis of an Internet communication channel. Our study is based on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The channel switches between different states; to each state corresponds the probability that a packet sent by the transmitter will be lost. The transition between the different states of the channel is governed by a Markov chain; this Markov chain is not observed directly, but the received packet flow provides some probabilistic information about the current state of the channel, as well as some information about the parameters of the model. In this paper we detail some useful algorithms for the estimation of the channel parameters, and for making inference about the state of the channel. We discuss the relevance of the Markov model of the channel; we also discuss how many states are required to pertinently model a real communication channel.
Mining Patterns of Sensitive Data Usage

When a user downloads an Android application from a market, she does not know much about its actual behavior. A brief description, a set of screenshots, and the list of permissions, which give a high level intuition of what the application might be doing, are all the user sees before installing and running the application on his device. These elements are not enough to decide whether the application is secure, and for sure they do not indicate whether it might violate the user's privacy by leaking some sensitive data. The goal of my thesis is to employ both static and dynamic taint analyses to gather information on how Android applications use sensitive data. The main hypothesis of this work is that malicious and benign mobile applications differ in how they use sensitive data, and consequently information flow can be used effectively to identify malware.
An Epistemological Level Interface for CYC

The eld of AI continues to be polarized by arguments between Neats, who advocate a top-down approach beginning with a clear formalization of the problem to be solved and develop broad theories, and the Scru es, who advocate bottom-up heuristic programs and more often develop systems of commercial use. Following McCarthy and Hayes's [1969] suggestion for a distinction between epistemological and heuristic levels, we have added a logic-based interface to the CYC knowledge representation system, which makes it look neat. A translator converts between epistemological level and heuristic level representations. This uncouples the KB from the underlying heuristic reasoning system. If a desired conclusion is not drawn, the blame can be placed unambiguously on the knowledge enterer if the epistemological semantics do not justify it, or otherwise on the system implementor. Over the short term, at least, one does not have to depend on the other. As a matter of fact, CYC's implementors have satis ed its knowledge enterers over the long term. This paper describes the advantages of making this distinction, the user's view of CYC, the implementor's view, and how the translator keeps them in tune.
Motivación, flow y actitud hacia la práctica de actividad física

Cita sugerida: Franco, E. ; Coterón López, J.; Gómez, V. (2015). Motivación, flow y actitud hacia la práctica de actividad física. Estudio comparativo entre Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador y España. 11o Congreso Argentino de Educación Física y Ciencias, 28 de septiembre al 10 octubre de 2015, Ensenada, Argentina. En Memoria Académica. Disponible en: http://www.memoria. fahce.unlp. edu.ar/trab_eventos/ev.7257/ev.7257. pdf Franco, Evelia; Coterón López, Javier; Gómez, Valeria
End-to-end routing for user driven network recovery

Dependable communications are needed by some users. When failures disrupt their communications, recovery mechanisms are needed to bypass them and preserve communications delivery. This article studies a recovery mechanism deployed by users themselves, which suits to their needs. We propose a system based on end-to-end routing in an overlay network to recover users' communications. We present this system, and measure its performances thanks to a software implementation. We show that our system is able to recover a communication in less than one second with low network resources consumption.
General Adaptable Services Manager for Pervasive Computing Environments

We present a multilayer architecture for pervasive computing in heterogeneous environments: the general adaptable services manager (GASM). This architecture allows a developer to build context-aware multi-platform applications by means of a set of core services such as device discovery and integration, flexible software component deployment, heterogeneous network communication broker and adaptable user interface presentations. We make use of the open services gateway interface platform (OSGi) as the underlying universal middleware that is available across many heterogeneous networks. Our architecture is defined in terms of OSGi components. A mobile agent manages the deployment and runtime of applications on top of the architecture.
UNIVERSAL OPTIMAL CLONING OF ARBITRARY QUANTUM STATES : FROM QUBITS TO QUANTUM REGISTERS

We present the universal cloning transformation of states in arbitrary-dimensional Hilbert spaces. This unitary transformation attains the optimal fidelity of cloning as specified by Werner [Phys. Rev. A 58, 1827 (1998)]. With this cloning transformation, pure as well as impure states can be optimally copied, and the quality of the copies does not depend on the state being copied. We discuss the properties of quantum clones. In particular, we show that in the limit of high dimension the fidelity of clones does not converge to zero but attains the limit 1y2. We also show that our cloning transformation is most suitable for cloning of entanglement. [S0031-9007(98)07854-5]