Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Histomorphometry and Bone Mechanical Property Evolution Around Different Implant Systems at Early Healing Stages: An Experimental Study in Dogs

Purpose: Commercial implants differ at macro-, micro-, and nanolevels, which makes it difficult to distinguish their effect on osseointegration. The aim of this study was to evaluate the early integration of 5 commercially available implants (Astra OsseoSpeed, Straumann SLA, Intra-Lock Blossom Ossean, Nobel Active, and OsseoFix) by histomorphometry and nanoindentation. Materials and Methods: Implants were installed in the tibiae of 18 beagle dogs. Samples were retrieved at 1, 3, and 6 weeks (n = 6 for each time point) and were histologically and nanomechanically evaluated. Results: The results presented that both time (P < 0.01) and implant system and time interaction (P < 0.02) significantly affected the bone-to-implant contact (BIC). At 1 week, the different groups presented statistically different outcomes. No significant changes in BIC were noted thereafter. There were no significant differences in rank elastic modulus (E) or in rank hardness (H) for time (E: P > 0.80; H: P > 0.75) or implant system (E: P > 0.90; H: P > 0.85). Conclusions: The effect of different implant designs on osseointegration was evident especially at early stages of bone healing.
Yanomamo: The Fierce People

The Dolphin ReaderLife in SocietyYanomami and GenderYanomamöProceedingsThe Code of the WarriorYanomamiAntropológicaWorking PaperY̦anomamö, the Fierce PeopleDiscovering AnthropologyThe Population Dynamics of the Mucajai YanomamaEvolutionary PsychologyMilitary MasculinitiesYa̦nomamö, the Fierce PeopleThe Anthropology of WarConformity & ConflictDe groei naar volwassenheidThe Wild WomanThe Bakairí Indians of BrazilAnthropology 85/86Instructor's Guide to the Dolphin ReaderEvolutionary Biology and Human Social BehaviorReadings in AnthropologyA Natural History of PeaceAmerica Past, America PresentThe Health and Survival of the Venezuelan YanoamaIndiana Academy of the Social Sciences ProceedingsAnthropology, Contemporary PerspectivesSanumá Fauna, Prohibitions and ClassificationsJournal of Anthropological ResearchThe Impact of ContactYa̦nomamöFeminists Re-reading the AmazonNature, Culture, and Human HistoryScientific AmericanAnthropologyShared DiversityPeoples and Cultures of Native South AmericaIntroduction to Sociology Contains reprint of articles from currently published journals.In spite of all the attention that has been devoted to men's identity in recent years, the links between men and the military have until now remained unquestioned, and thus unexplored. This groundbreaking volume deconstructs the traditional stereotypes of military identity and makes a strong case for a plurality of identities within a range of theoretical and empirical contexts. The contributors consider the ways in which military masculine identities are created and sustained in the armed forces and the societies in which they operate. Though mainly
CenteringPregnancy Smiles: A Community Engagement to Develop and Implement a New Oral Health and Prenatal Care Model in Rural Kentucky

CenteringPregnancy SmilesTM (CPS) is a partnership between the University of Kentucky, Trover Health System, and Hopkins County Health Department. The purpose of the partnership is to: (1) establish an infrastructure to address health problems requiring research-based solutions, (2) develop a model for community partnership formation, and (3) address problems related to preterm births and low birth-weight infants and early childhood caries in a rural, seven-county region in western Kentucky. This area is below state and national norms in education level of the population, income, and oral and general health. The partnership implemented a new prenatal care model that significantly reduced preterm and low birth-weight births for participating women, thus significantly improving the infants’ health while saving an estimated $2.3 million dollars in health care costs for acute care of premature infants in this population and enabling the expansion of dental outreach services for children in Hopkins county.
FBRC: Optimization of task Scheduling in Fog-Based Region and Cloud

Fog computing preserves benefits of cloud computing and is strategically positioned to address effectively many local and performance issues because its resources and specific services are virtualized and located at the edge of the customer premises. Resource management is a critical issue affecting system performance significantly. Due to the complex distribution and high mobility of fog devices, computation resources still experience high latencies in fog's large coverage area. This paper considers a Fog-based Region and Cloud (FBRC) in which requests are locally handled not just by a region but multiple regions when additional resources are needed. An efficient task scheduling mechanism is thus essential to minimize the completion time of tasks and improve user experiences. To this end, two issues are investigated in the paper: 1) designing a fog-based region architecture to provide nearby computing resources; 2) investigating efficient scheduling algorithms to distribute tasks among regions and remote clouds. To deal with the complexity of scheduling tasks, a heuristic-based algorithm is proposed based on our formulation and validated by extensive simulations.
Invalid theory impedes our understanding: A critique on the persistence of the language of NIMBY

The key thesis in Hubbard’s paper ‘Accommodating Otherness: anti-asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege’ is that racial dimensions of opposition to asylum seekers centres are part of cultural NIMBY ism. This connection of complex issues with an invalid concept obscures our understanding of the role of ‘otherness’ in facility siting discussions. The deconstruction of the contested NIMBY concept is illustrated by a brief review of wind power, which was mentioned as a field in which ‘otherness’ had not been incorporated.
Long-Term Depression of a Dopamine IPSC

Two determinants of dopamine release from terminals in striatal and limbic structures are the pattern and rate of dopamine neuron firing in the ventral midbrain. This activity is regulated in part by somatodendritic release of dopamine and subsequent feedback inhibition through activation of D2 receptors on dopamine neuron cell bodies and dendrites. This study describes stimulus-dependent long-term depression (LTD) of IPSCs mediated by dopamine. This LTD was blocked by chelation of postsynaptic intracellular calcium, was dependent on the activation of D2 receptors and was independent of glutamate-mediated transmission. Application of a high concentration of dopamine mimicked depression of the IPSC and prevented additional attempts to induce LTD, suggesting that the mechanism of the depression is agonist-dependent receptor activation. Using extracellular recording, there is an inhibition of firing that follows electrical stimulation, and after the induction of LTD the duration of that inhibition was decreased. Reduced inhibition could increase burst firing and action potential-dependent release of dopamine in terminal regions in vivo.
Saturation throughput analysis of Multiband-OFDM ultra wideband networks

The saturation throughput analysis of the prioritized contention access (PCA) of the WiMedia Ultra Wideband (UWB) standard is presented in this paper. In the WiMedia standard, the Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) is used as the basic physical scheme. An in-depth Bit Error Rate (BER) performance analysis of the MB-OFDM UWB system using IEEE 802.15. 3a channel models is conducted to aid the throughput analysis. The PCA throughput performance analysis is carried out by extending an original Enhanced Distributed Contention Access (EDCA) model for 802.11e into the MB-OFDM UWB protocol. The extended model considers the effects of the bit error rate, the transmission opportunity limits, and the uniqueness of WiMedia MAC timing structure. The results illustrate that the station saturation throughput of the PCA scheme is sensitive to the frame payload length, and there exists an optimal frame payload length that maximizes the saturation throughput. The results also show that the saturation throughput of the Access Category (AC) with higher priority outperforms the lower prioritized AC under all types of BER conditions.
Handheld Face Identification Technology in a Pervasive Computing Environment

We describe initial efforts at implementing a flexible, modular face identification framework in the context of a pervasive computing environment including handheld computers. Currently, the handheld is used for image capture, while all computation is performed on a back-end server, though other possibilities are discussed. Handheld face identification is difficult due to limitations in processing power and variations in lighting and background conditions. Initial experimental data are presented, showing recognition accuracy of 95.6% for a three user domain, with 1.7 second identification latency. Work is underway to improve both accuracy and scalability.
Taking Stock: Historians and Canada's Securities Markets and Exchanges

Most Canadians normally pay little attention to the daily gyrations of stock markets; however, markets rudely intruded into our consciousness in mid2008 when index values plummeted by over 40%. As many of us painfully witnessed the rapid contraction of our mutual funds and pensions, and saw planned retirements quickly recede from view, we learned a forceful lesson: our financial prospects are intimately enmeshed with market fortunes. Statistics Canada reported in 2007 that “Pensions, investment funds and equities account for 76% of household financial assets of $3.7 trillion” (Statistics Canada 2007). Evidently, market fortunes affect the lives of huge swaths of our population. It is also clear that stock markets are a critical part of Canada’s economy. Before the global credit crisis that began in 2007, the nation’s two stock exchanges—the Toronto and the Venture exchanges1—recorded an aggregate trading volume of over 149 billion shares. The value of these shares was over $1.7 trillion. About 3,951 corporations were listed on the exchanges with a combined capitalization value of $2.2 trillion, fully 157% of Canada’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) (TSX Group 2007). Stock markets matter, and they matter in ways we never really understood. The financial pain and panic of the credit crash elicited important questions: How had stock markets become so vast and so powerful that, within months, they could vaporize, or at least seriously damage, our personal wealth, fortunes, and retirement prospects? Where and when did these powerful market institutions originate? Does this history help us to understand the recent market crash and its lethal fallout for Canadians? Naturally, I expected that historians would provide the answers to these questions. To my surprise I discovered that they have shown scant interest in the history of our stock markets.2 Indeed, over two decades ago, in his massive history of Canadian business entitled Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business, Michael Bliss concluded, “The history on all non-bank financial institutions in Canada is very weak [and that] on stock exchanges and brokerage and investment houses is even worse” (1987, 601). Little has changed since then.3 This investigation summarizes what we know about the history of our stock market institutions, reveals the gaping holes that still need to be filled in order to explain their role in our lives today, and identifies the dangers of a short collective memory about our financial history.
SRConfig: An Empirical Method of Interdependent Soft Configurations for Improving Performance in n-Tier Application

Efficient resources utilization and better system performance are always two important objectives that service providers pursue to enjoy a maximum profit. In this paper, through analyzing experimental measurements, we study the performance impact of interdependent soft resources on an n-tier application benchmark - the RUBiS system. Soft resources are vital factors that influence hardware resources usage and overall application performance. Improper soft configurations can result in correlated bottlenecks and make performance degradation, so tuning the configuration of soft resources is imperative. Based on the experimental measurements, SRConfig method is applied to predict the soft configurations through adopting the back propagation neural network in n-tier application. Experimental results validate the accuracy and efficacy of our method.
Peak Power Management for scheduling real-time tasks on heterogeneous many-core systems

The number and diversity of cores in on-chip systems is increasing rapidly. However, due to the Thermal Design Power (TDP) constraint, it is not possible to continuously operate all cores at the same time. Exceeding the TDP constraint may activate the Dynamic Thermal Management (DTM) to ensure thermal stability. Such hardware based closed-loop safeguards pose a big challenge in using many-core chips for real-time tasks. Managing the worst-case peak power usage of a chip can help toward resolving this issue. We present a scheme to minimize the peak power usage for frame-based and periodic real-time tasks on many-core processors by scheduling the sleep cycles for each active core and introduce the concept of a sufficient test for peak power consumption for task feasibility. We consider both inter-task and inter-core diversity in terms of power usage and present computationally efficient algorithms for peak power minimization for these cases, i.e., a special case of “homogeneous tasks on homogeneous cores” to the general case of “heterogeneous tasks on heterogeneous cores”. We evaluate our solution through extensive simulations using the 48-core SCC platform and gem5 architecture simulator. Our simulation results show the efficacy of our scheme.
APRES: Improving Cache Efficiency by Exploiting Load Characteristics on GPUs

Long memory latency and limited throughput become performance bottlenecks of GPGPU applications. The latency takes hundreds of cycles which is difficult to be hidden by simply interleaving tens of warp execution. While cache hierarchy helps to reduce memory system pressure, massive Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP) often causes excessive cache contention. This paper proposes Adaptive PREfetching and Scheduling (APRES) to improve GPU cache efficiency. APRES relies on the following observations. First, certain static load instructions tend to generate memory addresses having very high locality. Second, although loads have no locality, the access addresses still can show highly strided access pattern. Third, the locality behavior tends to be consistent regardless of warp ID. APRES schedules warps so that as many cache hits generated as possible before any cache misses generated. This is to minimize cache thrashing when many warps are contending for a cache line. However, to realize this operation, it is required to predict which warp will hit the cache in the near future. Without directly predicting future cache hit/miss for each warp, APRES creates a group of warps that will execute the same load instruction in the near future. Based on the third observation, we expect the locality behavior is consistent over all warps in the group. If the first executed warp in the group hits the cache, then the load is considered as a high locality type, and APRES prioritizes all warps in the group. Group prioritization leads to consecutive cache hits, because the grouped warps are likely to access the same cache line. If the first warp missed the cache, then the load is considered as a strided type, and APRES generates prefetch requests for the other warps in the group. After that, APRES prioritizes prefetch targeted warps so that the demand requests are merged to Miss Status Holding Register (MSHR) or prefetched lines can be accessed. On memory-intensive applications, APRES achieves 31.7% performance improvement compared to the baseline GPU and 7.2% additional speedup compared to the best combination of existing warp scheduling and prefetching methods.
Optimization of Cadmium, Zinc and Copper biosorption in an aqueous solution by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Optimization of Cd (II), Zn (II) and Cu (II) biosorption from contaminated water were performed as function of parameters (pH, contact time, initial metal ions concentration and yeast dose). The experimental results showed that the highest equilibrium adsorption capacity at the optimum pH were 8.5 for Cd (II) and 6 for Zn (II) and 6 for Cu (II). Optimum pH values were carried out to evaluate other parameters. Results demonstrate that removal efficiency increased with increased contact time for the three metal ions. Results indicated that removal efficiency increased with increased yeast dose up to 2 g/ 100ml, and removal efficiency decreased with increased yeast dose from 2.2 g/100ml to 4 g/100ml. The results also showed that increasing removal efficiency from 1 to 20 mg/L concentration for the three metal ions and the removal efficiency decreasing with increasing initial concentration from 25 to 50 mg/L. It is evident that the highest removal efficiency for Cd (II) ion compared to Zn (II) and Cu (II). This study revealed that use of baker’s yeast is suitable for removal of these ions from contaminated water in order Cd > Zn > Cu at these conditions. The negative values of the standard free energy change (∆G) indicate spontaneous nature of the process. Competitive biosorption of (Zn and Cu) ions was investigated in terms of sorption quantity. The amount of Cu metal ion adsorbed onto unit weight of biosorbent (qe) decreased with increasing the competing metal ion (Zn), in contrast, the amount of Zn ion adsorbed onto unit weight of yeast has been increased with increasing the competing metal ion (Cu). The binding capacity for Zn (II) is more than for Cu (II). Ion exchange is probably one of the main mechanism during adsorptive process. [Salem M. Hamza, Hanan F. Ahmed Ehab A. M. , Mohammad F. M. Optimization of Cadmium, Zinc and Copper biosorption in an aqueous solution by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of American Science 2010;6(12):597-604]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience. org.
Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj): updated user interfaces, resource description framework, analysis tools for large structures

The Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj, http://pdbj.org), a member of the worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB), accepts and processes the deposited data of experimentally determined macromolecular structures. While maintaining the archive in collaboration with other wwPDB partners, PDBj also provides a wide range of services and tools for analyzing structures and functions of proteins. We herein outline the updated web user interfaces together with RESTful web services and the backend relational database that support the former. To enhance the interoperability of the PDB data, we have previously developed PDB/RDF, PDB data in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) format, which is now a wwPDB standard called wwPDB/RDF. We have enhanced the connectivity of the wwPDB/RDF data by incorporating various external data resources. Services for searching, comparing and analyzing the ever-increasing large structures determined by hybrid methods are also described.
Support for visualisation and animation in a scalable 3D gis environment - motivation, concepts and implementation

The establishment and visualisation of large, reality-based 3D landscape and city models has received significant attention over the last few years – both in the scientific and the commercial community. Recent progress in 3D data capturing and web-based visualisation technologies are opening up new possibilities for a wide-spread use of 3D landscape models as a basis for new and exciting information and entertainment services. However, with the rapidly increasing size and complexity of the 3D models being acquired, a pressing need for suitable data management solutions has become apparent. This paper outlines why 3D GIS technologies are a key factor in establishing and maintaining large-scale, reality-based 3D geoinformation services. It also discusses specific features which should be provided by such 3D GIS in order to support the efficient visualisation and animation of realitybased landscape and city models. The aspects of managing reality-based 3D models within a 3D GIS environment are being investigated as part of the DILAS (Digital Landscape Server) project. DILAS is a fully DBMS-supported framework – and now a commercial product line – combining object-relational and XML technologies for the integrated management of very large 3D landscape and city models. The system provides a comprehensive support for colour, transparency, textures as well as animations and view control. This support for reality-based 3D models within a 3D GIS environment enables the automated generation of webbased 3D scenes with user-defined contents and appearance. The paper concludes with the presentation of pilot projects from application areas which will largely benefit from the functionality presented above.
Study of Millimeter Wave Phase Shift in 40 GHz Hybrid Mode Locked Lasers

An investigation into using hybrid mode-locked lasers to implement millimeter wave phase shift is presented. The phase shift is measured directly using a vector network analyzer enabling straightforward characterization of such systems. Both magnitude and phase of the modulation response are measured and a ldquoplateaurdquo is observed in the magnitude response which corresponds to the locking range of the system. Phase shifts of greater than 90deg are observed and such devices could have application in millimeter wave radio-over-fiber phased array antenna systems.
Paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dystonia and celiac disease

Celiac disease has been associated with ataxia and other neurological signs but has not been associated with paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesias (PNKD) to date. We present a child with biopsy‐proven celiac disease and a movement disorder resembling PNKD since the age of 6 months. She had complete resolution of her neurological symptoms with introduction of a gluten‐free diet. Because a susceptibility locus for celiac disease has been reported on 2q33 and studies in PNKD show linkage to 2q, this report suggests further genetic investigations around this locus may be useful. We also review the literature regarding the genetic susceptibility to PNKD and celiac disease. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society
Diurnal spectral EEG fluctuations in narcoleptic patients during rest and reaction time tasks

Narcolepsy is associated with lowered vigilance. Diurnal variation in vigilance appears altered, but the exact nature of this change is unclear. It was hypothesized that the homeostatic sleep drive is increased in narcolepsy. Decreased levels of vigilance are reflected in low frequency band power in the electroencephalogram (EEG), so these frequencies were expected to be increased in the narcolepsy group. Furthermore, it was expected that low frequency power should increase over the day. Narcoleptic patients and healthy controls participated (36 participants in total); they were not allowed to take medication or naps on the experimental day. EEG was measured at 9:00, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, and 17:00 hours, during rest and during reaction time tasks. In the narcolepsy group, alpha power was lower at rest at all times. Delta and theta power during rest and task performance increased steadily over the day in this group, from 11:00 hours onwards. Additionally, in the narcolepsy group beta1 and beta2 power during rest appeared increased at the end of the day. The effects in the lower frequency bands strongly suggest that vigilance is low at all times. The progressive increase in low frequency power indicates that the sleep drive is enhanced. It is not clear whether this pattern reflects an extreme state of low vigilance, or a pathological brain condition. The effects in the higher frequencies suggest that narcoleptic patients may make an effort to counteract their low vigilance level.