Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
C2M — Coordinated Conscious Machines

In the Coordinated Conscious Machines (C2M) project, we are developing robots that interact with humans and other robots to form a team to perform tasks with heterogeneous and complementary abilities. At IJCAI 2009, our robotic perception and control techniques developed under C2M are demonstrated using three different robotic platforms - a mini ground vehicle (R/C car) that automatically follows another car, a humanoid version of the Lego Mindstorm NXT that follows a ball automatically, and a 23” tall humanoid showing human-robot interaction capabilities such as audio source localization, visually-guided grasping, and object detection/localization.
Mozzarella Cheese: Impact of Cooking Temperature on Chemical Composition, Proteolysis, and Functional Propertles 1

The impact of cooking temperatures on chemical composition, proteolysis, and functional properties of Mozzarella cheese during storage was determined. Three vats of cheese were made in 1 d using three different cooking tempera tures (38,41, and 44°C). Cheese making was replicated on 3 different d using a 3 x 3 Latin square design. No significant effect of cooking temperature on fat, pro tein, and salt contents of the cheese was detected. However, a higher cooking temperature produced cheese with a lower moisture and decreased proteolysis during 50 d of storage at 4°C. Nitrogen soluble in 12% TCA and pH 4.6 acetate buffer increased, and as-caseins decreased, but ~-casein remained con stant for all cheeses during storage. Differences in cooking temperature did not significantly change functional properties, such as meltability and free oil formation. However, apparent vis cosity of melted cheese was higher with higher cooking temperature. Increased storage time at 4°C decreased hardness of unmelted cheese, increased meltabil ity, decreased apparent viscosity, and in creased free oil formation.
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions

Mars exploration motivates the search for extraterrestrial life, the development of space technologies, and the design of human missions and habitations. Here, we seek new insights and pose unresolved questions relating to the natural history of Mars, habitability, robotic and human exploration, planetary protection, and the impacts on human society. Key observations and findings include: Some of the outstanding questions are: Mars ’ evolution Mars exploration and explored area based on the availability of CHNOPS chemistry. Mineral distribution patterns together with organic compounds will enable the identification of putative textural biosignatures.
Article Distinct phenotypic states and spatial distribution of CD8(+ )T cell clonotypes in human brain metastases

Metastatic disease in the brain is difﬁcult to control and predicts poor prognosis. Here, we analyze human brain metastases and demonstrate their robust inﬁltration by CD8 + T cell subsets with distinct antigen spec-iﬁcities, phenotypic states, and spatial localization within the tumor microenvironment. Brain metastases are densely inﬁltrated by T cells; the majority of inﬁltrating CD8 + T cells express PD-1. Single-cell RNA sequencing shows signiﬁcant clonal overlap between proliferating and exhausted CD8 + T cells, but these subsets have minimal clonal overlap with circulating and other tumor-inﬁltrating CD8 + T cells, including bystander CD8 + T cells speciﬁc for microbial antigens. Using spatial transcriptomics and spatial T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing, we show these clonally unrelated, phenotypically distinct CD8 + T cell populations occupy discrete niches within the brain metastasis tumor microenvironment. Together, our work identiﬁes signaling pathways within CD8 + T cells and in their surrounding environment that may be targeted for immunotherapy of brain metastases
of Data from the SAGA Collaboration Have Worse Outcomes: A Post Hoc Analysis Anesthesia during Endovascular Therapy Patients Requiring Conversion to General

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is often performed with the patient under conscious sedation. Emergent conversion from conscious sedation to general anesthesia is sometimes necessary. The aim of this study was to assess the functional outcome in converted patients compared with patients who remained in conscious sedation and to identify predictors associated with the risk of conversion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data from 368 patients, included in 3 trials randomizing between conscious sedation and general anesthesia before endovascular therapy (SIESTA, ANSTROKE, and GOLIATH) constituted the study cohort. Twenty-one (11%) of 185 patients randomized to conscious sedation were emergently converted to general anesthesia. RESULTS: Absence of hyperlipidemia seemed to be the strongest predictor of conversion to general anesthesia, albeit a weak predictor (area under curve ¼ 0.62). Sex, hypertension, diabetes, smoking status, atrial ﬁ brillation, blood pressure, size of the infarct, and level and side of the occlusion were not signi ﬁ cantly associated with conversion to general anesthesia. Neither age (mean age, 71.3 6 13.8 years for conscious sedation versus 71.6 6 12.3 years for converters, P =.58) nor severity of stroke (mean NIHSS score, 17 6 4 versus 18 6 4, respectively, P ¼ .27) were signi ﬁ cantly different between converters and those who tolerated conscious sedation. The converters had signi ﬁ cantly worse outcome with a common odds ratio of 2.67 ( P ¼ .015) for a shift toward a higher mRS score compared with the patients remaining in the conscious sedation group. CONCLUSIONS: Patients undergoing conversion had signi ﬁ cantly worse outcome compared with patients remaining in conscious sedation.
Risk factors assessment and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolates from apparently healthy and diarrheal dogs in Baghdad, Iraq

The dog was an essential source of Salmonella ( S. ) transmission. One hundred sixty-five rectal swabs were taken from apparently healthy dogs 90 and diarrheal dogs 75 in Baghdad province, Iraq. The Salmonella species was found using standard bacterial culture, biochemical tests, an analytical profile index API-20, the VITEK2 compact system, and serotyping. Salmonella isolates were screened using the disc diffusion technique for susceptibility to ten antimicrobials. Findings indicated that the Salmonella species prevalence rate was 6.06% from dogs’ fecal samples, with three species identified; the most common serovar was S. Typhimurium, S . Enteritidis, and S . Muenchen, which was isolated for the first time from dogs in Iraq. Statistically significant risk factors concerning the diarrheal state, breed, feeding, and body condition were found. High occurrences were in diarrheal dogs 10.66% compared to non-diarrheic dogs 2.22%; the large dog breed had a higher isolate rate of Salmonella than the small breed. Thin body condition dogs were more at risk than fatty dogs, and the dogs consuming uncooked feed had a higher percentage of Salmonella isolates and were more at risk than those consuming mixed food. Non-significant differences were found according to the gender, age, and educational status of dog owners. Salmonella isolates exhibited high resistance to cefotaxime, ampicillin, azithromycin, gentamycin, and tetracycline but were sensitive to norfloxacin. All the isolates were multidrug-resistant (MDR) except S . Muenchen. In conclusion, diarrheal and apparently healthy dogs carry and shed resistant Salmonella spp. , a potential public health risk.
FINANCIAL REFORM AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: Which is the Leading Indicator?

This paper examined the causal relationship between trade openness, financial reform and economic growth in 17 African countries for the 2000-2018 period. The panel vector error correction model was used to explain the direction of causality among the variables while the panel fully modified OLS (FMOLS) method was used to investigate the long-run elasticities among the policy variables. The study found unidirectional causality from economic growth to trade openness in the pooled Africa sample and East Africa, while feedback causality was observed for West Africa, North Africa and South Africa. Unidirectional causality was seen to exist from financial reform to economic growth in Africa while bidirectional causality was found for the Southern Africa region. The study found bidirectional causality between financial reform and trade openness in West Africa and unidirectional causality from trade openness to financial reform in East Africa and South Africa. Panel FMOLS estimates indicate a positive impact of financial reform and trade openness on economic growth in the pooled Africa sample. The results obtained show that trade liberalization policy led financial reform policy in 3 out of the 4 African regions studied, suggesting directional sequence between both policy thrust in the process of attaining economic growth.
Resilient System of Kinship Politics in Baubau City

Kinship political power derives from the backing of the family community, characterized by traditional ties, and aims to sustain power by controlling all political resources. Baubau City was the capital of the Buton Sultanate, ruled by the Koumu, Walaka, and Papara ethnic groups. This study intends to examine the politics of kinship in Baubau City. This study utilized primary data; the respondents were community leaders, academics, and political party leaders from Baubau City, Indonesia. This study uses partial least squares (PLS) for data analysis. This study concluded that the Koumu and Walaka could rule Baubau City's political politics. After the fall of the New Order and the introduction of decentralization, Koumu and Walaka emerged as key players in the political dynamics of Baubau City, earning the moniker "sons of the region" for their social, political, and economic agendas. Moreover, the cultural perception that is deeply ingrained in society reinforces the position of Koumu and Walaka as two deserving groups to be nominated for regional head elections. Accordingly, diverse techniques were employed to bolster the influence of Koumu and Walaka in Baubau City, and they undertook internal strengthening and exercised control over the city's political resources.
Characterization of Cefotaxime-and Ciproﬂoxacin-Resistant Commensal Escherichia coli Originating from Belgian Farm Animals Indicates High Antibiotic Resistance Transfer Rates

Food-producing animals represent one of the sources of antibiotic resistant commensal bacteria. There is an increasing awareness that these bacteria might have the potential to transfer their resistance genes to other (pathogenic) bacteria. In this study, 50 commensal Escherichia coli strains originating from food-producing animals and resistant to the ‘‘highest priority, critically important antibiotics’’ cefotaxime and/or ciproﬂoxacin, were selected for further characterization. For each strain (i) an antibiogram, (ii) the phylogenetic group, (iii) plasmid replicon type, (iv) presence and identiﬁcation of integrons, and (v) antibiotic resistance transfer ratios were determined. Forty-ﬁve of these strains were resistant to 5 or more antibiotics, and 6 strains were resistant to 10 or more antibiotics. Resistance was most common to ampicillin (100%), sulfamethoxazole, ciproﬂoxacin (82%), trimethoprim, tetracycline (74%), cefotaxime, (70%) and ceftazidime (62%). Phylogenetic groups A (62%) and B1 (26%) were most common, followed by C (8%) and E (4%). In 43 strains, more than 1 replicon type was detected, with FII (88%), FIB (70%), and I1 (48%) being the most encountered types. Forty strains, positive for integrons, all harbored a class I integron and seven of them contained an additional class II integron. No class III integrons were detected. The antibiotic resistance transfer was assessed by liquid mating experiments. The transfer ratio, expressed as the number of transconjugants per recipient, was between 10 - 5 and 10 0 for cefotaxime resistance and between 10 - 7 and 10 - 1 for ciproﬂoxacin resistance. The results of the current study prove that commensal E. coli in food-production animals can be a source of multiple resistance genes and that these bacteria can easily spread their ciproﬂoxacin and cefotaxime resistance.
Preserving Privacy In Image Database Through Bit-planes Preserving Privacy In Image Database Through Bit-planes Obfuscation Obfuscation

—The recent surge in computer vision applications has caused visual privacy concerns to people who are either users or exposed to an underlying surveillance system. To preserve their privacy, image obfuscation lays out a strong road through which the usability of images can also be maintained without revealing any visual private information. However, prior solutions are susceptible to reconstruction attacks or produce non-trainable images even by leveraging the obfuscation ways. This paper proposes a novel bit-planes-based image obfuscation scheme, called Bimof, to protect the visual privacy of the user in the images that are input into a recognition-based system. By incorporating the chaotic system for non-invertible noise with matrix decomposition, Bimof offers strong security and usability for creating a secure image database. In Bimof, it is hard for an adversary to recover the original image, withstanding a malicious server. We conduct experiments on two standard activity recognition datasets, UCF101 and HMDB51, to validate the effectiveness and usability of our scheme. We provide a rigorous quantitative security analysis through pixel frequency attacks and differential analysis to support our ﬁndings.
Testing the Limits of Unified Seq2Seq LLM Pretraining on Diverse Table Data Tasks

Tables stored in databases and tables which are present in web pages and articles account for a large part of semi-structured data that is available on the internet. It motivates the need to develop a modeling approach with large language models (LLMs) which can be used to solve diverse table tasks such as semantic parsing, question answering as well as classification problems. Traditionally, there existed separate sequence to sequence models specialized for each table task individually. It raises the question of how far can we go to build a unified model that works well on some table tasks without significant degradation on others. To that end, we attempt at creating a shared modeling approach in the pretraining stage with encoder-decoder style LLMs that can cater to diverse tasks. We evaluate our approach that continually pretrains and finetunes different model families of T5 with data from tables and surrounding context, on these downstream tasks at different model scales. Through multiple ablation studies, we observe that our pretraining with self-supervised objectives can significantly boost the performance of the models on these tasks. Our work is the first attempt at studying the advantages of a unified approach to table specific pretraining when scaled from 770M to 11B sequence to sequence models while also comparing the instruction finetuned variants of the models.
Recurrence Coiled Aneurysms and Aneurysm Validity of the Meyer Scale for Assessment of

BACKGROUNDANDPURPOSE: BoththeMeyerandRaymondscalesarecommonlyusedtoreportangiographicoutcomesfollowingcoil embolization of intracranial aneurysms. The objectives of this study were the following: 1) to assess the interobserver agreement of the Meyer and Raymond scales, and 2) to evaluate and compare their performance in predicting major recurrence at follow-up. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective series of 120 coiled aneurysms was included. Four investigators independently graded DSA images immediately posttreatment and at follow-up according to the Meyer and Raymond scales. On follow-up DSA, readers also evaluated recurrence outcome. Interobserver agreement was assessed via the intraclass correlation coefﬁcient. The ability of posttreatment Meyer and Raymond scales to predict major recurrence was modeled by using logistic regression and assessed by using receiver operating characteristic analysis. RESULTS: For the Meyer scale, interobserver intraclass correlation coefﬁcients were 0.58 (95% CI, 0.46–0.68) on posttreatment and 0.78 (95% CI, 0.72–0.83) on follow-up evaluations. For the Raymond scale, interobserver intraclass correlation coefﬁcients were 0.50 (95% CI, 0.39–0.61) and 0.69 (95% CI, 0.62–0.76), respectively, for posttreatment and follow-up. The areas under the curve for the receiver operating characteristic analyses regarding the performance to predict major recurrence at follow-up were 0.69 (95% CI, 0.60–0.79) for the Meyer and 0.70 (95% CI, 0.61–0.78) for the Raymond scale. CONCLUSIONS: The Meyer scale appears consistent and reliable
Analysis of Acetone Absorption Spectra Using Off-axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy for a Real-time Breath Test

We analyzed the absorption spectra of acetone in the 3.37 µm mid-infrared range using the off-axis integrated cavity output spectroscopy technique to develop a real-time, in-line breath analysis device. The linear relationship between acetone concentration and absorption increase was confirmed as 0.32%/ ppm, indicating that the developed device allows for a quantitative analysis of acetone concentration in exhaled breath. To further confirm the feasibility of using our device for breath analysis, we measured the acetone concentration of human breath samples at the sub-ppm level
Readiness to Change State Islamic Institute Status to Become State Islamic University from the Aspect of Lecturer Human Resources and Education Staff

This study aims to investigate the readiness to change the status of the State Islamic Institute (IAIN) to become a State Islamic University (UIN) from the aspect of Lecturer Human Resources (HRlecturer) and Education Personnel. The research location is IAIN KHAS Jember, now transformed into the State Islamic University of Kiai Achmad Siddiq Jember, East Java, Indonesia. We used the qualitative research method to examine the condition of natural objects where the researcher was the critical instrument; data source collection was based on observations, interviews, and documentation studies. Participants in the study comprised 25 people, including 15 lecturers and ten education staff. The findings reveal three main points. (1) The urgent need for studying the readiness to change the status of IAIN to UIN from the aspect of human resources for lecturers and education staff. It can be seen from many institutions experiencing the same obstacles and challenges that require providing motivation and major changes from a multidimensional perspective, strengthening vision, mission, and goals. (2) The relationship between the two, both theoretically and empirically, is related to HR management. (3) The design framework involves planning, human resource mapping, evaluation stages, and implications for IAIN progress toward UIN as reference material in human resource development. As a supervisor and policyholder, the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia (RI) is expected to support the development of human resources in higher education per the needs fairly and wisely.
The Adoption of Famous Paintings in Oral English Teaching – A Case Study

With the increasing importance of oral English in China, the higher education is paying more emphasis on enhancing students’ oral English capacity. While there are a variety of methods in enhancing this ability, such as performing presentations at class, organizing English corners at school, etc., the effects of such practices vary. Besides, with the implementation of foreign language curriculum moral education in recent years, English courses are required to involve both practical skills and moral education, meaning that oral English teaching and learning has become more challenging. It is under this new circumstance that this study has managed to involve famous paintings in oral English teaching. Through a one-year-long qualitative case study, it shows that this new attempt can improve students’ spoken English skills as well as their cultural literacy.
Nonlinear dynamic modeling and decoupling for rigid–flexible coupled system of spacecraft with rapid maneuver

In this paper, the rigid–flexible coupled model of a spacecraft composed of a rigid platform and two flexible solar arrays is investigated. Considering the rapid maneuver of a spacecraft, the first-order approximation coupling model should be adopted. The nonlinear dynamic equations, which remain the second-order coupling terms of axial displacement caused by the transverse motion of solar arrays, are obtained by using the Hamilton principle. Then the global mode method is adopted to obtain the mode shapes of the linearized model. The global mode shapes are proved to be orthogonal and used to discrete the continuum first-order approximation coupling model. Then the rigid–flexible coupled model of the spacecraft is decoupled by global mode shapes. The model is validated by comparing with that obtained from the finite element method. The simulation results demonstrate that the global mode method has the advantage of lower dimensions but higher accuracy. The analysis of parameters variation and dynamic responses shows that the first-order approximation coupling model is more accurate than the linearized model and has a broader scope of application than that of the zero-order approximation coupling model.
Precipitation of Eu 3+ - Yb 3+ Codoped ZnAl

We present a novel and simple method to enable spatially selective ZnAl 2 O 4 nanocrystal formation on the surface of B 2 O 3 -Al 2 O 3 -ZnO-CaO-K 2 O glass by employing localized laser heating. Optimized precipitation of glass-ceramics containing nanocrystals doped with Eu 3+ and Yb 3+ ions was performed by controlling CO 2 laser power and scan speed. Micro-x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy revealed the mean size and morphology of nanocrystals, and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy showed the lateral distribution of elements in the imaged area. Laser power and scan speed controled annealing temperature for crystalization in the range of 1.4-1.8 W and 0.01-0.3 mm/s, and changed the size of nanocrystals and distribution of dopant ions. We also report more than 20 times enhanced downshift visible emission under ultraviolet excitation, and 3 times increased upconversion emission from Eu 3+ ions assisted by efficient sensitizer Yb 3+ ions in nanocrystals under 980 nm excitation. The confocal microscope revealed the depth profile of Eu 3+ ions by showing their emission intensity variation.
COM-PACE: Compliance-aware Cloud Application Engineering using Blockchain

—The necessity and obligation (like in COVID19 Pandemic) has escalated the dependence on the online services (from government, superstores, entertainment), often hosted over external Cloud computing infrastructure. The users of these services interact with a web interface rather than the larger distributed service provisioning chain that often involves an interlinked group of providers. The data and identity of users are often entrusted upon the service provider who may share it (or have automatic sharing agreement) with back-end services (such as advertising, analytics). To resolve this problem, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has necessities the evolution of a compliance-conscious cloud application engineering that can provide an end-to-end solution for fair, transparent and lawful usage of users personal data. The existing state-of-the-art Cloud solutions and available SDKs have been concerning at infrastructure level rather then at compliance level. Taking a leap ahead, we propose a vision in the form of Compliance-aware Cloud Application Engineering (COM-PACE). This article provides an overview of key compliance operations and the perceived programming challenges for the realisation of these operations in current cloud infrastructure.