Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Return-loss investigation of the equivalent width of substrate-integrated waveguide circuits

Five different models to determine the equivalent width of substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) circuits are investigated. The reflection coefficients between all-dielectric waveguides of equivalent width and SIW circuits are analyzed by full-wave techniques. It is found that one of the models yields consistently inferior results while the others depend on the ratio of the via-hole diameter and the center-to-center spacing of the via holes. Moreover, the influence of the substrate's permittivity with respect to the via-hole diameter and spacing is demonstrated. Recommendations are derived as to the use of respective models for different via diameters and spacings.
Cultivating an institutional ecology of organizations: comment on Hannan, Carroll, Dundon, and Torres

Les AA. considerent que le concept de legitimation est une notion clef pour la sociologie. En revanche son caractere a la fois de processus et de resultat pose d'enormes problemes de mesure. Ils rejettent donc le modele de « densite-dependance ». Selon eux on ne peut se limiter a croire qu'une croissance des effectifs puisse par elle-meme etre le signe d'une legitimation d'une pratique, d'une strategie. Ils s'opposent donc a Hannan et alii en arguant que l'on peut, sur ce point, developper des modeles, fins et a portee generale et pourtant non fondes sur la densite
Instance Isolation Analysis for Service-Oriented Architectures

When a service engages in multiple conversations concurrently, incoming messages must be correlated with messages previously sent or received. Languages such as BPEL incorporate correlation as first-class citizen. However, current verification and testing techniques for service implementations largely ignore possible correlation anomalies as they typically focus on isolated conversations. This paper defines the notion of instance isolation and shows how to check this property. For doing so it introduces v*-nets, a Petri net extension with name creation and name passing.
Pictured in the Present Tense: The Here-and-Now of Art Therapy A Heuristic Inquiry

The following qualitative research paper explores the process by which the here-and-now is cultivated in the student of art therapy and its potential implications for therapeutic transformation. The here-and-now is defined as the moment-to-moment awareness and attunement to presently occurring phenomena within the art therapy frame. In art therapy, the therapist and client are allied with the art and the process of its creation. Somewhere in the dynamic of this triangular relationship lies the here-and-now of art therapy. Using the model of heuristic inquiry (Moustakas, 1990), this paper reveals the investigative journey of the researcher as he explores the cultivation of the here-and-now through various experiential practices, literature, art making, and the phenomenological experience of his colleagues. For the researcher, the here-and-now emerges through a confluence of practices that include notions of mindfulness, embodiment, spontaneity, and an intimacy with the creative process.
Histological grade and type classification of glioma using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Glioma is one of the most common brain tumors with high mortality and its histological grading and typing is important both in therapeutic decision and prognosis evaluation. This paper aims at using the high-throughput image feature analysis method to estimate the histological grade and type of a patient by using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) instead of histological examination. The proposed method consists of the initial label definition, the region-of-interest delineation, the self-adaptive feature extraction, the feature subset selection, and the multi-class voting classification. Hereinto, a novel feature extraction strategy is designed, which could avoid the MRI scan diversity so as to get the robust feature extraction result and make the proposed framework more stable and effective. This method was validated on a database of 124 patients with the grade II to IV of 78, 25, and 21, and with astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, oligoastrocytoma of 86, 16, and 22, respectively. We show that by using the leave-one-out cross-validation, the multi-class classification accuracy and macro average could reach 88.71%, 0.8362 respectively for the grade classification, and 70.97%, 0.5692 respectively for the type classification. It can be concluded that the histological grade and subtype information could be estimated from the MRI image analysis.
Book review: statesman: the politics of limits and the liminal

The authors of this edited collection explore the potential contained in Plato’s dialogue in The Statesman for the times we live in, based on the conviction that Plato is not simply a canonic figure of the distant past but our genuine contemporary. This volume is the second volume of the Series on Contemporary Mimetic Revival that explores the central anthropological themes of social life using a cross-disciplinary approach. This effort has much novelty to provide, especially to readers interested in a very insightful reading of political crises and the need not only to engage in critique, but also to promote a “good” society, writes Marcos Gonzalez-Hernando.
Adaptive context-aware packet filter scheme using statistic-based blacklist generation in network intrusion detection

By using string matching, signature-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) can achieve a higher accuracy and lower false alarm rate than the anomaly-based systems. But the matching process is very expensive regarding to the performance of a signature-based NIDS in which the cost is at least linear to the size of the input string and the CPU occupancy rate can reach more than 80 percent in the worst case. This problem greatly limits the high performance of a signature-based NIDS in a large operational network. In this paper, we present a context-aware packet filter scheme aiming to mitigate this problem. In particular, our scheme incorporates a list technique, namely the blacklist to help filter network packets based on the confidence of the IP domains. Moreover, our scheme will adapt and update the blacklist contents by using the method of statistic-based blacklist generation according to the actual network environment. In the experiment, we implemented our scheme and showed the first experimental evaluation of its effectiveness.
Oestrogen receptor β expression and depth of myometrial invasion in human endometrial cancer

We assessed the relative expression of oestrogen receptor (ER)α and oestrogen receptor (ER)β mRNAs in 36 human endometrial cancers using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). To determine whether or not the expression of ER subtypes in endometrial cancers is associated with clinicopathological parameters, we examined correlations between ER subtypes and age, tumour grade and depth of myometrial invasion. Using multiple regression analysis, myometrial invasion showed a significant correlation with ER-β: ER-α ratio (r = 0.54, P = 0.0007). The ER-β:ER-α ratio was high in advanced invasive carcinoma. Western blotting analysis showed that ER-β proteins were highly expressed in comparison with ER-α proteins in endometrial cancer with severe myometrial invasion. Our results suggest that ER-β is important in the progression of myometrial invasion. http://www.bjcancer. com © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign
Improvement of bacterial clearance and relief of clinical signs of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection in pigs through upregulation of Th 1-specific responses by administration of a combination of two silicate minerals, biotite and bentonite

Biotite and bentonite are phyllosilicate minerals that were originally used in industrial applications. Several beneficial activities of them have recently been reported, especially regulation of the immune system and antimicrobial effects. Therefore, we investigated the immune-enhancing and bacterial clearance effects of a biotite and bentonite mixture (BBM) on experimental infection of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to determine whether the BBM could be used as an alternative antibiotic. We administered 1% or 2% BBM as a feed supplement. We then evaluated the bacterial clearance effects of the BBM against S. Typhimurium. We also evaluated the immune-enhancing effect of the BBM through several immunological experiments that included examination of the lysozyme activity, CD4+/CD8+ T lymphocyte ratio and the T-helper type 1 (Th 1) cytokine profile. The clinical signs of S. Typhimurium and the number of viable bacteria in feces and tissues were significantly decreased in both BBM groups, especially in the 2% BBM group. The BBM also markedly enhanced the lysozyme activity, CD4+/CD8+ T lymphocyte ratio and expression levels of IFN-γ and IL-12 in S. Typhimurium-challenged pigs. Therefore, the BBM could be a good candidate as an alternative antibiotic that improves Th 1-specific immune responses and the bacterial clearance effect.
High resolution m-cell symmetric cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter with one transistor clamped H-Bridge per phase

A high resolution m-cell Symmetric Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter (SCHB-MLI) based on cascade connection of one 5-level Transistor Clamped HB (TCHB) power cell and (m-1) 3-level HB power cells is proposed in this paper. The proposed hybrid converter features reduced number of components, reduced number of redundant switching states, and near equal power distribution among the power cells. Operation of proposed converter is explained using Staircase modulation technique and Hybrid PWM technique for 9-level converter and, Hybrid PWM technique for 13-level converter. The analysis of dc link midpoint current of TCHB power cell is also presented. Finally the operation of proposed converter system is verified by simulation results for 9-level converter with 500 hp induction motor as load.
Epidemiology of gestational weight gain and body weight changes after pregnancy.

Women are universally concerned about whether pregnancy will have a lasting impact on their body weight. Anecdotal reports and studies of severely obese women have pointed to pregnancy as a cause of their obesity. In a Stockholm obesity clinic, 40-50 percent of women (mean age 47.8 ± 10.7 years) attributed the onset of their obesity to childbearing, and 73 percent reported a retention of 10 kg after pregnancy (1, 2). However, most of the evidence from observational studies about the influence of pregnancy on postpartum body weight does not support these perceptions. For the majority of women, body weight at 6-18 months postpartum is no more than 1-2 kg greater than preconceptional weight (3-9). Yet, at least 14-20 percent of women in national surveys were more than 5 kg heavier by 6-18 months postpartum (3, 4, 6-8). This evidence suggests that pregnancy may substantially increase postpartum body weight for subgroups of women, such as those with high gestational weight gain (6). A more recent study found an increased risk of becoming overweight among women who had a single pregnancy compared with nongravid women (10). Thus, estimates of average body weight change do not reflect the excess weight increases experienced by a sizable number of women; this may be further compounded over subsequent pregnancies and contribute to the development of obesity. Factors suspected of influencing postpartum body weight include gestational weight gain, pregravid weight, race/ethnicity, parity, and lactation. Body weight at conception may be particularly important among race/ethnic groups in which the prevalence of obesity is high (8). Both mean gestational weight gain and prevalence of overweight women in the US population have increased over the past two decades (8, 11-13). It has not been established whether increased gestational weight gain is responsible for part of the increasing
Combined treatment with bexarotene and rosuvastatin reduces angiotensin‐II‐induced abdominal aortic aneurysm in apoE−/− mice and angiogenesis

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a degenerative vascular disease associated with angiogenesis. Bexarotene is a retinoid X receptor (RXR) ligand with anti‐angiogenic activity. Statins also exert anti‐angiogenic activity and activate PPARs. Because RXR ligands form permissive heterodimers with PPARs and a single anti‐angiogenic drug may not be sufficient to combat the wide array of angiogenic factors produced during AAA, we evaluated the effect of combined low doses of bexarotene and rosuvastatin in a mouse model of AAA.
Embryonic trafficking of γδ T cells to skin is dependent on E/P selectin ligands and CCR4

Dendritic epidermal T cells (DETC) express an invariant Vγ3/Vδ1 T-cell receptor, appear in fetal epidermis, and form a population of resident epidermal T cells. Their temporal development in the thymus has been studied extensively. However, little is known about the mechanisms involved in the embryonic trafficking of DETC from thymus to epidermis. We demonstrate that DETC in adult skin, as well as the DETC precursors in fetal thymus, express E and P selectin ligands (E- and P-lig). Mice deficient in α1,3 fucosyltransferases IV and VII (FTIV/VII) cannot synthesize the carbohydrate motifs that form key elements of these selectin ligands. The numbers of DETC in the epidermis of FTIV/VII−/− mice were dramatically reduced compared with normal mice. However, the development of DETC precursors in fetal thymus was identical in normal and FTIV/VII−/− mice, suggesting that the DETC precursors produced in FTIV/VII−/− mice could not traffic effectively to skin because they lack E- and P-lig. We tested this hypothesis by daily injection of blocking antibodies against E and P selectin into pregnant mice. Mice born from dams treated with anti-selectin antibodies, but not those born from dams treated with isotype control, had significantly diminished numbers of DETC. To test the role of chemokine receptors in DETC skin homing, we examined skin from CCR4−/− and CCR10−/− mice, respectively. DETC were significantly reduced in CCR4−/− mice but were present at normal levels in CCR10−/− mice. Our results present evidence for the crucial role of trafficking molecules in embryonic migration of DETC precursors to skin.
Fisher Kernels for Handwritten Word-spotting

The Fisher kernel is a generic framework which combines the benefits of generative and discriminative approaches to pattern classification. In this contribution, we propose to apply this framework to handwritten word-spotting. Given a word image and a keyword generative model, the idea is to generate a vector which describes how the parameters of the keyword model should be modified to best fit the word image.This vector can then be used as the input of a discriminative classifier. We compare the performance of the proposed approach with that of a generative baseline on a challenging real-world dataset of customer letters. When the kernel used by the classifier is linear, the performance improvement is marginal but the proposed system is approximately 15 times faster than the baseline. If we use a non-linear kernel devised for this task, we obtain a 15\% relative reduction of the error but the detector is approximately 15 times slower.
Anastatica hierochuntica, an Arabidopsis Desert Relative, Is Tolerant to Multiple Abiotic Stresses and Exhibits Species-Specific and Common Stress Tolerance Strategies with Its Halophytic Relative, Eutrema (Thellungiella) salsugineum

The search for novel stress tolerance determinants has led to increasing interest in plants native to extreme environments – so called “extremophytes. ” One successful strategy has been comparative studies between Arabidopsis thaliana and extremophyte Brassicaceae relatives such as the halophyte Eutrema salsugineum located in areas including cold, salty coastal regions of China. Here, we investigate stress tolerance in the desert species, Anastatica hierochuntica (True Rose of Jericho), a member of the poorly investigated lineage III Brassicaceae. We show that A. hierochuntica has a genome approximately 4.5-fold larger than Arabidopsis, divided into 22 diploid chromosomes, and demonstrate that A. hierochuntica exhibits tolerance to heat, low N and salt stresses that are characteristic of its habitat. Taking salt tolerance as a case study, we show that A. hierochuntica shares common salt tolerance mechanisms with E. salsugineum such as tight control of shoot Na+ accumulation and resilient photochemistry features. Furthermore, metabolic profiling of E. salsugineum and A. hierochuntica shoots demonstrates that the extremophytes exhibit both species-specific and common metabolic strategies to cope with salt stress including constitutive up-regulation (under control and salt stress conditions) of ascorbate and dehydroascorbate, two metabolites involved in ROS scavenging. Accordingly, A. hierochuntica displays tolerance to methyl viologen-induced oxidative stress suggesting that a highly active antioxidant system is essential to cope with multiple abiotic stresses. We suggest that A. hierochuntica presents an excellent extremophyte Arabidopsis relative model system for understanding plant survival in harsh desert conditions.
Word Clustering for Data Sparsity: A Literature Survey

In this report, we present the literature survey done for our work with SA and other NLP applications. The road map of this report is as follows. In Section-1, we introduce clustering process and describe a few existing word clustering techniques. Section-2 talks about the smoothing process followed by why clustering is better for our work in Section-3. Finally in Section-4, we talk about the related work done for different NLP applications in which word clusters are used as helpful features.
Subspace Polynomials and List Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes

We show combinatorial limitations on efficient list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes beyond the Johnson and Guruswami-Sudan bounds in the works of S.M. Johnson (1962, 1963) and V. Guruswami and M. Sudan (1999). In particular, we show that for arbitrarily large fields FN, |FN| - N, for any delta isin (0,1), and K = Ndelta; : middot Existence: there exists a received word wN : FN rarr FN that agrees with a super-polynomial number of distinct degree K polynomials on ap Nradicdelta points each; middot Explicit: there exists a polynomial time constructible received word w'N : FN rarr FN that agrees with a super-polynomial number of distinct degree K polynomials, on ap 2radic(log N) K points each. In both cases, our results improve upon the previous state of the art, which was ap Ndelta/delta for the existence case in the work J. Justesen and T. Hoboldt (2001), and ap 2Ndelta for the explicit one in the work of V. Guruswami and M. Sudan (2005). Furthermore, for delta close to 1 our bound approaches the Guruswami-Sudan bound (which is radicNK) and implies limitations on extending their efficient RS list decoding algorithm to larger decoding radius. Our proof method is surprisingly simple. We work with polynomials that vanish on subspaces of an extension field viewed as a vector space over the base field. These sub-space polynomials are a subclass of linearized polynomials that were first studied by O. Ore (1933, 1934) in the 1930s, and later by coding theorists. For us their main attraction is their sparsity and abundance of roots, virtues that recently won them pivotal roles in probabilistically checkable proofs of proximity in the works of E. Ben-Sasson et al. (2004) and E. Ben-Sasson and M. Sudan (2005) and sub-linear proof verification in the work of E. Ben-Sasson et al. (2005)
Evaluación del Uso del Preservativo Femenino Promovido desde un Programa de Educación para la Salud: un enfoque cualitativo 1 Evaluation of Female Condom Use Within a Health Education Program: a qualitative approach

Resumen El trabajo aqui recogido se aborda desde un estudio de caso, a traves del enfoque cualitativo, mediante la tecnica del grupo de discusion con la participacion de 9 grupos, conformados por un total de 83 estu-diantes universitarios del noroeste de Espana, con edades entre 19 y 42 anos. Los objetivos principales de este trabajo son conocer la satisfaccion de los y las participantes con el uso del preservativo femenino, asi como las ventajas y obstaculos encontrados en su utilizacion que ha sido promovida a traves de un programa de promocion de la salud. Como resultados y conclusiones destacar que las mujeres enfatizan en mayor medida que los varones la satisfaccion y ventajas obtenidas con la utilizacion del metodo. Como puntos fuertes sobre el uso del preservativo femenino los y las participantes destacan la alta re-sistencia a la rotura y entre las debilidades apuntan los problemas ligados a su colocacion y estetica. El estudio sobre el uso del preservativo femenino revela la necesidad de continuar desarrollando interven-ciones de formacion encaminadas a la promocion de este metodo, sin excluir el empleo de otros, asi como de reforzar la incorporacion de estrategias educativas que permitan avanzar en la eliminacion de estereotipos de genero.Palabras clave: Personas jovenes y adultas; Preser-vativo femenino; Metodologia cualitativa; Interven-cion educativa.
Knowledge and attitudes toward transgender health

Hormonal interventions for transgender adolescents have become increasingly common; however, there is a paucity of research on medical student knowledge of, and attitudes toward, these interventions following didactic instruction. Furthermore, no studies have examined whether students can be aware of the literature on the mental health benefits of these treatments yet continue to find them unethical.
A Hybrid Gaussian-HMM-Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Chord Estimation with Very Large Vocabulary

We propose a hybrid Gaussian-HMM-Deep-Learning approach for automatic chord estimation with very large chord vocabulary. The Gaussian-HMM part is similar to Chordino, which is used as a segmentation engine to divide input audio into note spectrogram segments. Two types of deep learning models are proposed to classify these segments into chord labels, which are then connected as chord sequences. Two sets of evaluations are conducted with two large chord vocabularies. The ﬁrst evaluation is conducted in a recent MIREX standard way. Results show that our approach has obvious advantage over the state-of-the-art large-vocabulary-with-inversions supportable ACE system in terms of large vocabularies, although is outperformed by in small vocabularies. Through analyzing and deducing system behaviors behind the results, we see interesting chord confusion patterns made by different systems, which conceivably point to a demand of more balanced and consistent annotated datasets for training and testing. The second evaluation preliminarily demonstrates our approach’s superiority on a jazz chord vocabulary with 36 chord types, compared with a Chordino-like Gaussian-HMM baseline system with augmented vocabulary capacity.