Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Why Move toward the Smart Government

Most of the country in last few years using the e-government service. This service of e-government serves citizen, in general, using world wide web. It gives permission to the government to analyse, process and give a report on data efficiency to evolve to a decision. Because of the technology became a smart, we should improve e-government services. To achieve realising the power of data, integration in government service, seamless service experience, and citizen engagement, we transform e-government service to the smart government service. Now the whole world is toward to using the smart government with smart technology. The smart government is an upgrade of e-government that enables the citizen to access to service easily with smart technology. The smart government enable the citizen to interact with the government service in a new way because of the developing smart device, social media, and mobile application. Smart government produce to the citizen, business, health, and economical to use the government service easily and fast. In this paper will present the smart government features, discuss the importance of smart government, why move to the smart government? and how can make citizen interact with the government services?
Photochemical Cross-Linking for Penetrating Corneal Wound Closure in Enucleated Porcine Eyes

ABSTRACT Purpose: To compare the efficacy of photochemical-induced tissue cross-linking (PCL), utilizing Rose Bengal (RB) and 532 nm green light irradiation (RB-PCL), with standard sutures for closure of penetrating corneal incision in porcine cadaver eyes. Methods: A full-thickness penetrating incision, 3 mm in length parallel to the limbus and perpendicular to the corneal surface, was made in the enucleated porcine cornea. Photochemical cross-linking was performed with tropical RB application and irradiation of 532 nm green light (0.6 W/cm2) for 200, 250, and 300 seconds at laser fluences of 120, 150, and 180 J/cm2, respectively, which was compared with the standard 10-0 nylon suture group. Following treatment, intraocular pressure to the point where wound leakage occurred (IOPL) was measured. Corneal central thickness and surface temperature before and after PCL treatment were recorded. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were utilized to evaluate wound closure. Results: The mean corneal central thickness was increased from 812.0 ± 47.0 to 838.0 ± 45.6 µm after the incision as a result of cornea aqueous humor infiltration. RB penetrated approximately 140 μm into the porcine corneal stroma. The mean IOPL for untreated blank group after incision was 4.27 ± 0.36 mmHg. Increased laser fluences produced increased IOPL of 27.02 ± 3.01 (PCL120), 31.60 ± 3.67 (PCL150) and 36.73 ± 3.25 mmHg (PCL180), which were statistically different from the control intact group. The mean IOPL in the sutured cornea was 57.30 ± 4.59 mmHg. The average surface temperature difference before and after PCL treatment was 2.03 ± 0.45–2.47 ± 0.79°C. OCT demonstrated not only complete but also improved closure in comparison with disorganized collagen fibers after conventional suturing, which is further confirmed by SEM. Conclusions: Complete and clinically relevant seal of full-thickness porcine corneal incision was achieved using PCL method ex vivo, which provides potential application of this technique in ocular wound closure.
Mimicking lotus leaves for designing super-hydrophobic/hydrophilic and super-attractive/repulsive nanostructured hierarchical surfaces.

In this Chapter we demonstrate the feasibility of super-hydrophobic/hydrophilic and simultaneously super-attractive/repulsive surfaces, mimicking Nature thanks to hierarchical architectures. Super-hydrophobia is found to take place for a number of ~2 hierarchical Correspondence/Reprint request: Dr. Nicola M. Pugno, Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy. E-mail: nicola.pugno@polito.it
Inheritance of Mesotrione Resistance in an Amaranthus tuberculatus (var. rudis) Population from Nebraska, USA

A population of Amaranthus tuberculatus (var. rudis) evolved resistance to 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibitor herbicides (mesotrione, tembotrione, and topramezone) in Nebraska. The level of resistance was the highest to mesotrione, and the mechanism of resistance in this population is metabolism-based likely via cytochrome P450 enzymes. The increasing number of weeds resistant to herbicides warrants studies on the ecology and evolutionary factors contributing for resistance evolution, including inheritance of resistance traits. In this study, we investigated the genetic control of mesotrione resistance in an A. tuberculatus population from Nebraska, USA. Results showed that reciprocal crosses in the F1 families exhibited nuclear inheritance, which allows pollen movement carrying herbicide resistance alleles. The mode of inheritance varied from incomplete recessive to incomplete dominance depending upon the F1 family. Observed segregation patterns for the majority of the F2 and back-cross susceptible (BC/S) families did not fit to a single major gene model. Therefore, multiple genes are likely to confer metabolism-based mesotrione resistance in this A. tuberculatus population from Nebraska. The results of this study aid to understand the genetics and inheritance of a non-target-site based mesotrione resistant A. tuberculatus population from Nebraska, USA.
Development of a continuous-wave dual-band trans-rectal optical tomography system for concurrent sagittal imaging with trans-rectal ultrasound

A dual-band trans-rectal optical tomography system is constructed based on an endo-rectal near-infrared/ultrasound applicator that has been developed previously in our laboratory. The endo-rectal NIR/US applicator consists of a commercial bi-plane ultrasound and a NIR probe attached to the sagittal ultrasound transducer. The NIR probe consists of 7 illumination & 7 detection channels that are distributed in parallel to and aside the sagittal TRUS transducer. The emissions from a 780nm and an 830nm light sources are combined and delivered sequentially to the 7 NIR source channels of the endo-rectal NIR/US probe. The 7 NIR detection channels are coupled to a spectrometer for separation of the signals at two wavelengths illuminated from single source channel. The dual-band signals from all source channels are acquired sequentially by a CCD camera synchronized with the source switching. The acquisition of dual-band trans-rectal optical tomography data is accompanied by position-correlated concurrent trans-rectal ultrasound imaging. The reconstruction of a target at dual-wavelength illumination is guided by a priori spatial information provided by the sagittal trans-rectal ultrasound. Liquid phantoms with different hemoglobin concentration and oxygen saturation are used to test the feasibility of dual-band trans-rectal optical tomography.
ConsortiumDNS: A Distributed Domain Name Service Based on Consortium Chain

Domain name system is an essential component of the Internet, but is facing numerous security threats. On the other hand, blockchain has been widely used since Bitcoin. Theoretically, most of the decentralized system can be rebuilt using blockchain. Namecoin and Blockstack have made attempts to combine domain name service with blockchain, but have defects in security and performance. In this paper, we propose a new domain name service based on a consortium chain network which contains query nodes and miner nodes. To address the storage challenge of blockchain, the system is designed with three-layer architecture and additional external storage. In addition, the system builds index for transactions and blocks to speed up domain name resolution and incorporates gossip protocol to synchronize blocks between different nodes.
WATMnet: a prototype wireless ATM system for multimedia personal communication

A prototype microcellular wireless ATM network (WATMnet) capable of providing integrated multimedia communication services to mobile terminals is described in this paper. The experimental system's hardware consists of laptop computers (NEC Versa-M) with WATMnet interface cards, multiple VME/i960 processor-based WATMnet base stations, and a mobility-enhanced local-area ATM switch. The prototype wireless network interface cards operate at peak bit-rates up to 8 Mbps, using low-power 2.4 GHz ISM-band modems. Wireless network protocols at the portable terminal and base station interfaces support ABR, VBR and CBR transport services compatible with ATM using a dynamic TDMA/TDD MAC protocol for channel sharing and data link control (DLC) protocol for error recovery. A custom wireless control protocol is also implemented between the portable and base units for support of radio link related functions such as user registration and handoff. All network entities including the portable, base and switch use a mobility-enhanced version of ATM ("Q.2931+") signaling for switched virtual circuit (SVC) connection control functions, including handoff. Early experiments with the WATMnet prototype have been conducted to validate major protocol and software aspects, including DLC, wireless control and mobility signaling for handoff. Selected network-based multimedia/video applications operating at moderate bit-rates (-0.5-1 Mbps) in ABR/AALS/TCP mode have been successfully demonstrated on the laptop PC.
Sterol 27-hydroxylase gene dosage and the antiatherosclerotic effect of Rifampicin in mice

Sterol 27-hydroxylase (CYP27A1) catalyzes the hydroxylation of cholesterol to 27-hydroxycholesterol (27-OHC) and regulates cholesterol homeostasis. In Cyp27a1/ Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) double knockout (KO) mice fed with Western diet (WD), the atherosclerotic phenotype found in ApoE KO mice was reversed. As protective mechanism, up-regulation of Cyp3a11 and Cyp7a1 was proposed. Cyp27a1 heterozygote/ApoE KO (het) mice, with reduced Cyp27a1 expression and normal levels of Cyp7a1 and Cyp3a11, developed more severe lesions than ApoE KO mice. To analyze the contribution of Cyp3a11 to the protection of atherosclerosis development, Cyp3a11 was induced by Rifampicin (RIF) in ApoE KO and het mice. Males were fed with WD and treated daily with RIF (10 mg/kg ip) or vehicle for 4 weeks. Atherosclerosis was quantified in the aortic valve. Plasma lipids and 27-hydroxycholesterol (27-OHC), expression of cytochromes P450 and genes involved in cholesterol transport and bile acids (BAs) signaling in liver and intestine, and intestinal cholesterol absorption were analyzed. RIF increased expression of hepatic but not intestinal Cyp3a11 4-fold in both genotypes. In ApoE KO mice treated with RIF, we found a 2-fold decrease in plasma cholesterol, and a 2-fold increase in high-density lipoprotein/low-density lipoprotein ratio and CY27A1 activity. Intestinal cholesterol absorption remained unchanged and atherosclerotic lesions decreased approximately 3-fold. In het mice, RIF had no effect on plasma lipids composition, CYP27A1 activity, and atherosclerotic plaque development, despite a reduction in cholesterol absorption. In conclusion, the antiatherogenic effect of Cyp3a11 induction by RIF was also dependent on Cyp27a1 expression.
Optimal timing of antiretroviral treatment initiation in HIV-positive children and adolescents: a multiregional analysis from Southern Africa, West Africa and Europe.

Background There is limited knowledge about the optimal timing of antiretroviral treatment initiation in older children and adolescents. Methods A total of 20 576 antiretroviral treatment (ART)-naïve patients, aged 1-16 years at enrolment, from 19 cohorts in Europe, Southern Africa and West Africa, were included. We compared mortality and growth outcomes for different ART initiation criteria, aligned with previous and recent World Health Organization criteria, for 5 years of follow-up, adjusting for all measured baseline and time-dependent confounders using the g-formula. Results Median (1st;3rd percentile) CD4 count at baseline was 676 cells/mm 3 (394; 1037) (children aged ≥ 1 and < 5 years), 373 (172; 630) (≥ 5 and < 10 years) and 238 (88; 425) (≥ 10 and < 16 years). There was a general trend towards lower mortality and better growth with earlier treatment initiation. In children < 10 years old at enrolment, by 5 years of follow-up there was lower mortality and a higher mean height-for-age z-score with immediate ART initiation versus delaying until CD4 count < 350 cells/mm 3 (or CD4% < 15% or weight-for-age z-score < -2) with absolute differences in mortality and height-for-age z-score of 0.3% (95% confidence interval: 0.1%; 0.6%) and -0.08 (-0.09; -0.06) (≥ 1 and < 5 years), and 0.3% (0.04%; 0.5%) and -0.07 (-0.08; -0.05) (≥ 5 and < 10 years). In those aged > 10 years at enrolment we did not find any difference in mortality or growth with immediate ART initiation, with estimated differences of -0.1% (-0.2%; 0.6%) and -0.03 (-0.05; 0.00), respectively. Growth differences in children aged < 10 years persisted for treatment thresholds using higher CD4 values. Regular follow-up led to better height and mortality outcomes. Conclusions Immediate ART is associated with lower mortality and better growth for up to 5 years in children < 10 years old. Our results on adolescents were inconclusive.
A Hardware Architecture for Radial Basis Function Neural Network Classifier

In this paper we present design and analysis of scalable hardware architectures for training learning parameters of RBFNN to classify large data sets. We design scalable hardware architectures for K-means clustering algorithm to training the position of hidden nodes at hidden layer of RBFNN and pseudoinverse algorithm for weight adjustments at output layer. These scalable parallel pipelined architectures are capable of implementing data sets with no restriction on their dimensions. This paper also presents a flexible and scalable hardware accelerator for realization of classification using RBFNN, which puts no limitation on the dimension of the input data is developed. We report FPGA synthesis results of our implementations. We compare results of our hardware accelerator with CPU, GPU and implementations of the same algorithms and with other existing algorithms. Analysis of these results show that scalability of our hardware architecture makes it favorable solution for classification of very large data sets.
D2D Communication for Adaptive Streaming Exploiting White Spaces in Transmissions of the Cellular Network

This letter presents a device-to-device (D2D) communication architecture for adaptive streaming services that exploits white spaces in real-time transmissions of the primary LTE cellular system on the downlink. The D2D users transmit only when the LTE service pool is instantaneously empty. The proposed architecture leads to an efficient performance of D2D network with a significant increase of the overall network traffic capacity, accommodating a variety of bit-rate streaming services, without affecting the performance of the LTE system.
Principles of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: And Related Plasmonic Effects

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) was discovered in the 1970s and has since grown enormously in breadth, depth, and understanding. One of the major characteristics of SERS is its interdisciplinary nature: it lies at the boundary between physics, chemistry, colloid science, plasmonics, nanotechnology, and biology. By their very nature, it is impossible to find a textbook that will summarize the principles needed for SERS of these rather dissimilar and disconnected topics. Although a basic understanding of these topics is necessary for research projects in SERS with all its many aspects and applications, they are seldom touched upon as a coherent unit during most undergraduate studies in physics or chemistry. This book intends to fill this existing gap in the literature. It provides an overview of the underlying principles of SERS, from the fundamental understanding of the effect to its potential applications. It is aimed primarily at newcomers to the field, graduate student, researcher or scientist, attracted by the many applications of SERS and plasmonics or its basic science. The emphasis is on concepts and background material for SERS, such as Raman spectroscopy, the physics of plasmons, or colloid science, all of them introduced within the context of SERS, and from where the more specialised literature can be followed. * Represents one of very few books fully dedicated to the topic of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)* Gives a comprehensive summary of the underlying physical concepts around SERS* Provides a detailed analysis of plasmons and plasmonics
Introducing Weirs: An Abstraction for Next Generation Streaming Workflows

In HPC applications, it is widely understood that in situ systems will play a significant role in next generation systems. The rate that next-generation leadership machines will be able to generate data will exceed the bandwidths of the planned I/O systems, leading to a need for in situ processing of the resulting data to reduce it. There have been a number of techniques proposed for in situ workflow systems; we are concerned here specifically with the needs of publish/subscribe or streaming-based approaches, which allow the in situ system to be composed of completely separate executables running concurrently on the hardware. In this paper we introduce an abstract known as a Weir. A weir is a useful mechanism to control state in a point to point streaming workflow in the absence of a third party publish subscribe system.
MEMS Iris Mechanism

An iris-type variable aperture fabricated using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is described. The device contains four shutter blades, which are each driven by a separate actuator and translated synchronously to create a square aperture. Devices based on buckling mode electrothermal actuators and formed by deep reactive ion etching of bonded silicon-on-insulator are demonstrated. Symmetric deflections are obtained, and variable attenuation is demonstrated using thermally expanded core fibres.
Temperature-Aware Data Allocation for Embedded Systems with Cache and Scratchpad Memory

The hybrid memory architecture that contains both on-chip cache and scratchpad memory (SPM) has been widely used in embedded systems. In this article, we explore this hybrid memory architecture by jointly optimizing time performance and temperature for embedded systems with loops. Our basic idea is to adaptively adjust the workload distribution between cache and SPM based on the current temperature. For a problem in which the workload can be estimated a priori, we present a nonlinear programming formulation to optimally minimize the total execution time of a loop under the constraints of SPM size and temperature. To solve a problem in which the workload is not known a priori, we propose a temperature-aware adaptive loop scheduling algorithm called TALS to dynamically allocate data to cache and SPM at runtime. The experimental results show that our algorithms can effectively achieve both performance and temperature optimization for embedded systems with cache and SPM.
Charge transport in electrically responsive polymer layers

The processes of charge transport in the conducting polymer electrochromic films have been studied by means of spectral-electrochemical method, impedance spectroscopy and cyclic voltametry measurements. It has been shown that charge transport during the coloration-bleaching processes is not symmetric phenomenon. By means of impedance spectroscopy the effective diffusion coefficients for anode and cathode charge transport have been measured. The higher rate of charge transport in the bleaching process as compared to coloration is considered in the frame of conformation rebuilding of conducting polymer chains.
Integración de Escenarios con el Léxico Extendido del Lenguaje en la Elicitación de Requerimientos: aplicación a un caso real

La ingeniería de requerimientos es un área de estudio que apunta a mejorar la forma en que comprendemos y definimos sistemas de software complejos. Aunque el problema de cómo establecer sistemas no es nuevo, sólo recientemente la comunidad científica de computación, principalmente la comunidad de ingeniería de software, comenzó a prestar especial atención a la tarea de definición de sistemas. La primera conferencia internacional sobre este tema fue en 1993 (RE 93) y en 1995 se realizó la primera reunión del grupo de trabajo IFIP 2.9 (Ingeniería de Requerimientos de Software).
Surfing biological surfaces: exploiting the nucleoid for partition and transport in bacteria

The ParA family of ATPases is responsible for transporting bacterial chromosomes, plasmids and large protein machineries. ParAs pattern the nucleoid in vivo, but how patterning functions or is exploited in transport is of considerable debate. Here we discuss the process of self‐organization into patterns on the bacterial nucleoid and explore how it relates to the molecular mechanism of ParA action. We review ParA‐mediated DNA partition as a general mechanism of how ATP‐driven protein gradients on biological surfaces can result in spatial organization on a mesoscale. We also discuss how the nucleoid acts as a formidable diffusion barrier for large bodies in the cell, and make the case that the ParA family evolved to overcome the barrier by exploiting the nucleoid as a matrix for movement.
Miniaturized Multiband HTS Bandpass Filter Design Using a Single-Perturbed Multimode Resonator With Multitransmission Zeros

This paper presents a miniaturized quint-band high-temperature superconducting (HTS) bandpass filter (BPF) based on a single-perturbed multimode resonator (PMMR). By properly adjusting the lengths and the position of the perturbation line in a PMMR, the intrinsic resonance modes can be controlled, which is advantageous for multiband design. The source-load coupling, spurlines, and matching stubs on feedlines are introduced to improve impedance matching and to generate multitransmission zeros, so that enhanced isolation and harmonics suppression can be realized. A low insertion loss (IL) within each band is obtained by using an HTS technology. The filter is fabricated on an MgO substrate with the YBCO thin films, and measured at the temperature of 77 K. The passband measurement is consistent with the simulation, which verifies five passbands located at 0.56, 1.52, 3.8, 4.7, and 5.3 GHz, respectively. A low-measured IL with less than 0.2 dB level is obtained due to the application of a superconducting technology. The proposed HTS BPF owns the great merits of a simple structure, a miniature size (0.008λ $_{g}$2), an enhanced upper stopband, and a low IL.