Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
ESTABLISHMENT OF SECURED COMMUNICATION

The main objective of this project is handling the large numbers of faults in F.P.G.A. configurable logic blocks. A key novel feature is the reuse of defective logic blocks to increase the number of effective spares and extend the mission life. To increase fault tolerance, we not only use nonfaulty parts of defective or partially faulty logic blocks, but we also use faulty parts of defective logic blocks in nonfaulty modes. By using and reusing faulty resources, our multilevel approach extends the number of tolerable faults beyond the number of currently available spare logic resources. A challenging aspect of developing applications that target the interfacing of the processor with the surrounding reconfigurable logic is main criteria in this project. O.C. P protocol interfaces the embedded processor with F.P.G.A. Testing all configurable logic blocks is under care of embedded processor. The embedded processor set the test mode for F.P.G.A, when it is needed it stops when it is in sleep mode. INTRODUCTION: ADVANCES in silicon technologies continue to increase the number of transistors that can be integrated into a single device. Many chip manufacturers use this new integration potential to fabricate complete systems on a single silicon device. FPGA manufacturers are using this expanded capacity to implement embedded DSPs, multipliers, and memory blocks along with the reconfigurable fabric. At Xilinx, FPGA designers have developed new generations of FPGA architectures that contain a variety of embedded resources. the processor core is that most FPGAs contained within an embedded system require some level of interaction with an external processor. Moving this processor onto the FPGA chip eliminates bottlenecks associated with communicating through off-chip interfaces. These are replaced by on-chip interfaces that must provide efficient communication between the processor andthe reconfigurable resources. Since direct human intervention for maintenance and repair is impossible in such environments, fault-tolerant (FT) techniques resulting in graceful degradation must be used to achieve the desired mission life span even in the presence of faults. Existing technique: Only offline testing is available in FPGAs,there is no control over the testpatterns implies there is no accuracy while the circuit is in running position. Offline testing Deals with testing a system when it is not carrying out its normal functions (Test mode, Non-Real-Time error detection). There are two types of offline testing. Structural : Execution based on the structure of the CUT(Explicit fault model LFSR, .). Functional : Running based on functional description of CUT(Functional fault model Diagnostic software) PROPOSED BLOCKDIAGRAMS: By using above block diagram we can develop a ONLINE BIST, Since there is an interaction of embedded processor.
The Relationship between Personality Traits and Reading Proficiency

Generally, different individuals have the tendency to perform differently while reading. Despite such variation, studies have shown that readers have the tendency to be consistent in their performance. Studies have also found such consistency can be traced to the personality traits of the subjects. Hence, the purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and reading proficiency score. The respondents of this study are mainly third semester diploma students of various courses from one of the leading institution of higher learning in Malaysia involving 313 students. The respondents are required to sit for a reading proficiency test and a personality trait test. An analysis of variance is used to see whether certain personality traits can be associated to reading proficiency. Using a one way analysis of variance, it is found that none of the personality traits show significant relationship to reading proficiency as p>0.05. However, despite the insignificant relationship between reading proficiency and personality traits, it is found that there are some negative correlations between reading proficiency score and personality traits.
The zinc finger transcription factor Gfi1, implicated in lymphomagenesis, is required for inner ear hair cell differentiation and survival

Gfi1 was first identified as causing interleukin 2-independent growth in T cells and lymphomagenesis in mice. Much work has shown that Gfi1 and Gfi1b, a second mouse homolog, play pivotal roles in blood cell lineage differentiation. However, neither Gfi1 nor Gfi1b has been implicated in nervous system development, even though their invertebrate homologues, senseless in Drosophila and pag-3 in C. elegans are expressed and required in the nervous system. We show that Gfi1 mRNA is expressed in many areas that give rise to neuronal cells during embryonic development in mouse, and that Gfi1 protein has a more restricted expression pattern. By E12.5 Gfi1 mRNA is expressed in both the CNS and PNS as well as in many sensory epithelia including the developing inner ear epithelia. At later developmental stages, Gfi1 expression in the ear is refined to the hair cells and neurons throughout the inner ear. Gfi1 protein is expressed in a more restricted pattern in specialized sensory cells of the PNS, including the eye, presumptive Merkel cells, the lung and hair cells of the inner ear. Gfi1 mutant mice display behavioral defects that are consistent with inner ear anomalies, as they are ataxic, circle, display head tilting behavior and do not respond to noise. They have a unique inner ear phenotype in that the vestibular and ccchlear hair cells are differentially affected. Although Gfi1-deficient mice initially specify inner ear hair cells, these hair cells are disorganized in both the vestibule and cochlea. The outer hair cells of the cochlea are improperly innervated and express neuronal markers that are not normally expressed in these cells. Furthermore, Gfi1 mutant mice lose all cochlear hair cells just prior to and soon after birth through apoptosis. Finally, by five months of age there is also a dramatic reduction in the number of cochlear neurons. Hence, Gfi1 is expressed in the developing nervous system, is required for inner ear hair cell differentiation, and its loss causes programmed cell death.
American political discourse: irony in pre-election campaign 2016

This article represents the analysis of American modern political discourse, mainly the field connected with the pre-election campaign 2016. It explores primary genres of political discourse (speeches, announcements, debates, party programmes), as well as secondary genres (commentaries, discussions, interpretation, political interviews). Owing to the fact that political communication embraces the whole range of informal political processes in society, the field of research includes the so-called informal political socializing. The aim of the paper is to study the use of irony and its functions in political discourse. The data used for the study were taken from candidates’ speeches, interviews with political and public figures, and recent witty sayings/comments. The study is based on the theory of critical discourse analysis (M. Bilig 2007, Teun A. van Dijk 2009, N. Fairclough 1996, P. Graham 2007, J. Lemke 2007, S. Scollon 2007), political discourse analysis (A. Beard 2001, D. Ponton 2011 etc.) and theory of irony (L. Alba-Juez 2014, S. Attardo 2007, R. Giora 2001, 2003, L. Hutcheon 2005, B. Komlosi 2010 etc.). The analysis showed that irony is a frequent communicative strategy used by politicians in pre-election campaigns, it performs different functions, such as aggression, defense, entertainment and some others and plays a positive role in commucation with the audience. When used expertly, irony contributes to making political discourse more expressive and convincing. An ironic politician is a better manipulator of public opinion than one unable to use irony.
Chance in agrammatic sentence comprehension: What does it really mean? Evidence from eye movements of German agrammatic aphasic patients

Background: In addition to the canonical subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, German also allows for non-canonical order (OVS), and the case-marking system supports thematic role interpretation. Previous eye-tracking studies (Kamide et al., 2003; Knoeferle, 2007) have shown that unambiguous case information in non-canonical sentences is processed incrementally. For individuals with agrammatic aphasia, comprehension of non-canonical sentences is at chance level (Burchert et al., 2003). The trace deletion hypothesis (Grodzinsky 1995, 2000) claims that this is due to structural impairments in syntactic representations, which force the individual with aphasia (IWA) to apply a guessing strategy. However, recent studies investigating online sentence processing in aphasia (Caplan et al., 2007; Dickey et al., 2007) found that divergences exist in IWAs' sentence-processing routines depending on whether they comprehended non-canonical sentences correctly or not, pointing rather to a processing deficit explanation. Aims: The aim of the current study was to investigate agrammatic IWAs' online and offline sentence comprehension simultaneously in order to reveal what online sentence-processing strategies they rely on and how these differ from controls' processing routines. We further asked whether IWAs' offline chance performance for non-canonical sentences does indeed result from guessing. Methods & Procedures: We used the visual-world paradigm and measured eye movements (as an index of online sentence processing) of controls (N = 8) and individuals with aphasia (N = 7) during a sentence–picture matching task. Additional offline measures were accuracy and reaction times. Outcomes & Results: While the offline accuracy results corresponded to the pattern predicted by the TDH, IWAs' eye movements revealed systematic differences depending on the response accuracy. Conclusions: These findings constitute evidence against attributing IWAs' chance performance for non-canonical structures to mere guessing. Instead, our results support processing deficit explanations and characterise the agrammatic parser as deterministic and inefficient: it is slowed down, affected by intermittent deficiencies in performing syntactic operations, and fails to compute reanalysis even when one is detected.
Effect of Biofield Treatment on Spectral Properties of Paracetamol and Piroxicam

Paracetamol and piroxicam are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), widely used in pain and inflammatory diseases. The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of biofield treatment on spectral properties of paracetamol and piroxicam. The study was performed in two groups (control and treatment) of each drug. The control groups remained as untreated, and biofield treatment was given to treatment groups. Subsequently, spectral properties of both drugs before and after biofield treatment were characterized using FT-IR and UV-Vis spectroscopic techniques. FT-IR data of paracetamol showed N-H amide II bending peak in biofield treated paracetamol, which was shifted to lower wavenumber (1565 to 1555 cm-1) as compared to control. Further, the intensity of vibrational peaks in the range of 1171-965 cm-1 (C-O and C-N stretching) were increased in treated sample of paracetamol as compared to control. Similarly, the FT-IR data of piroxicam (treated) showed increased intensity of vibrational peaks at 1628 (amide C=O stretching), 1576-1560 cm-1 (C=C stretching) with respect to control peaks. Furthermore, vibrational peak of C=N stretching (1467 cm-1) was observed in biofield treated piroxicam. This peak was not observed in control sample, possibly due to its low intensity. Based on FT-IR data, it is speculated that bond length and dipole moment of some bonds like N-H (amide), C-O, and C-N in paracetamol and C=O (amide), C=N, and C=C in piroxicam might be changed due to biofield treatment. The UV spectrum of biofield treated paracetamol showed the shifting in wavelength of UV absorption as 243→248.2 nm and 200→203.4 nm as compared to control. Likely, the lambda max (λmax) of treated piroxicam was also shifted as 328 →345.6 nm, 241→252.2 nm, and 205.2→203.2 nm as compared to control. Overall results showed an impact of biofield treatment on the spectral properties of paracetamol and piroxicam.
Maturation of a central brain flight circuit in Drosophila requires Fz2/Ca2+ signaling

The final identity of a differentiated neuron is determined by multiple signaling events, including activity dependent calcium transients. Non-canonical Frizzled2 (Fz2) signaling generates calcium transients that determine neuronal polarity, neuronal migration, and synapse assembly in the developing vertebrate brain. Here, we demonstrate a requirement for Fz2/Ca2+ signaling in determining the final differentiated state of a set of central brain dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila, referred to as the protocerebral anterior medial (PAM) cluster. Knockdown or inhibition of Fz2/Ca2+ signaling during maturation of the flight circuit in pupae reduces Tyrosine Hydroxylase (TH) expression in the PAM neurons and affects maintenance of flight. Thus, we demonstrate that Fz2/Ca2+ transients during development serve as a pre-requisite for normal adult behavior. Our results support a neural mechanism where PAM neuron send projections to the α' and β' lobes of a higher brain centre, the mushroom body, and function in dopaminergic re-inforcement of flight. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.7554/eLife.07046. 001
Throughput measurement in 4G wireless data networks: Performance evaluation and validation

Wireless data networks, particularly 4th generation (4G) and long-term evolution (LTE) are rapidly gaining ground as predominant telecommunication services to provide high quality services to wireless end-user consumer (WEC). This growth is in response to insatiably increasing popularity and penetration of mobile devices among individual, corporates, business, and government service consumers. Beside adequate resource provisioning and design, ensuring the quality of service (QoS) to WEC is the key in successful adoption of such state-of-the-art wireless communication technologies in national/international scope. Network throughput is one of the key network performance metrics for QoS among end-users. However, demonstrating reliability and validity of network throughput measurement deployed in vendor end-point is a critical task. Moreover, WECs demand reliable, accurate, and consistent tools and methodology that help them to measure network throughput at their end-point. Network service vendors are also interested to predict the future throughput based on historical data from the past. In this paper, we devise a methodology to accurately measure throughput of the 4G WiMAX data network in real wireless environment from end-users perspective. We experimentally and mathematically evaluate the performance of the proposed model and validate our findings using the observed results from OOKLA as a predominant network monitoring tool. Based on the results, we suggest an intelligent monitoring system in corporation of both Iperf and OOKLA that not only can measure the momentous throughput, but also can predict the future throughput based on previous throughput data.
Riemann reciprocity in higher dimensions

The reciprocity law for abelian differentials of first and second kind is generalized to higher-dimensional varieties. It is shown that $H^1(V)$ of a polarized variety $V$ is encoded in the Laurent data along a curve germ in $V$, with the polarization form on $H^1(V)$ corresponding to the {\em one-dimensional} residue pairing. This associates an {\em extended abelian variety} to $V$; if $V$ is an abelian variety itself, our construction ``extends" it, even when $V$ is not a Jacobian.
Managing multi-agent coordination, planning, and scheduling

Most research about multi-agent coordination is concentrated at a high level, e.g., developing coordination interaction protocols to be imposed on agents. There has been less concern about how the internal task structures of individual agents affect these higher-level coordination behaviors. In particular, agent planning and scheduling behaviors are inextricably linked to coordination behaviors. This paper proposes some extensions and restrictions to the expressiveness of traditional plan and schedule representations that allow the formal definition of the multi-agent coordination problem. We recast our GPGP coordination approach using this formalism, and present a set of general rules relating task environment characteristics and this implemented set of GPGP coordination mechanisms.
Improving the Traffic Prediction Capability of Neural Networks Using Sliding Window and Multi-task Learning Mechanisms

Due to the diversity of network services and the unpredictability of their behaviors, there is an increasing need for tools that can aid in the global management of IP networks. Being able to predict network data can be very useful to anticipate network upgrading decisions or changes on the network functional operation. This paper proposes a practical approach, based on neural networks, that is able to predict network traffic in a specific network link. In order to improve the prediction capabilities of the different neural network models, sliding window and multi-task learning mechanisms are introduced and tested. By applying this prediction framework to different network links, it will be possible to predict the evolution of the global network traffic and use this information for network security, management and planning purposes. The results obtained by applying the proposed model to realistic network scenarios show that this concept can achieve excellent performance in the prediction of the network traffic on the selected links. The prediction is accurate even when there are significant changes in the number of users and their respective profiles. Moreover, the proposed prediction approach is generic and can be used to predict different network data with a very satisfactory accuracy, even with simple and small NN models.
Empirical study on capital structure and firm performance relationship of knowledge-intensive business services

This paper empirically tests the relation between capital structure and firm performance in China. We selected sample consists of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms from Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets in 2008. Empirical study shows that the proportions of intangible asset and capital structure have a weak positive correlation. We also find that asset-liability ratio is negative to firm performance. Contrary to bank loan debt ratio, business credit debt ratio is positive to firm performance. This study is significant to optimize capital structure of China listed companies in the KIBS industry.
Lower Bounds for Tensor Contraction Algorithms

Contractions of nonsymmetric tensors are reducible to matrix multiplication, however, ‘fully symmetric contractions’ in which the tensors are symmetric and the result is symmetrized can be done with fewer operations. The ‘direct evaluation algorithm’ for fully symmetric contractions exploits equivalence between terms in the contraction equation to obtain a lower computation cost than the cost associated with nonsymmetric contractions. The ‘symmetry preserving algorithm’ lowers the cost even further via an algebraic reorganization of the contraction equation. We derive vertical (between memory and cache) and horizontal (interprocessor) communication lower bounds for both of these algorithms. We demonstrate that any load balanced parallel schedule of the direct evaluation algorithm requires asymptotically more horizontal communication for some fully symmetric contractions than matrix multiplication for nonsymmetric contractions of the same size. Instances of such fully symmetric contractions arise in quantum chemistry calculations. Further, we prove that any schedule of the symmetry preserving algorithm requires asymptotically more vertical and horizontal communication than the direct evaluation algorithm for some fully symmetric contractions. However, for the instances of fully symmetric contractions that arise in quantum chemistry calculations, our lower bounds are asymptotically the same for both of these algorithms.
Interaction of Actin Monomers with AcanthamoebaActophorin (ADF/Cofilin) and Profilin*

Acanthamoeba actophorin is a member of ADF/cofilin family that binds both actin monomers and filaments. We used fluorescence anisotropy to study the interaction of actin monomers with recombinant actophorin labeled with rhodamine on a cysteine substituted for Serine-88. Labeled actophorin retains its affinity for actin and ability to reduce the low shear viscosity of actin filaments. At physiological ionic strength, actophorin binds Mg-ADP-actin monomers (K d = 0.1 μm) 40 times stronger than Mg-ATP-actin monomers. When bound to actin monomers, actophorin has no effect on elongation at either end of actin filaments by Mg-ATP-actin and slightly increases the rate of elongation at both ends by Mg-ADP-actin. Thus actophorin does not sequester actin monomers. Sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation shows that actophorin and profilin compete for binding actin monomers. Actophorin and profilin have opposite effects on the rate of exchange of nucleotide bound to actin monomers. Despite the high affinity of actophorin for ADP-actin, physiological concentrations of profilin overcome the inhibition of ADP exchange by actophorin. Profilin rapidly recycles ADP-actin back to the profilin-ATP-actin pool ready for elongation of actin filaments.
Translog-II: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Reading and Writing Research

This paper presents a novel implementation of Translog-II. Translog-II is a Windows-oriented program to record and study reading and writing processes on a computer. In our research, it is an instrument to acquire objective, digital data of human translation processes. As their predecessors, Translog 2000 and Translog 2006, also Translog-II consists of two main components: Translog-II Supervisor and Translog-II User, which are used to create a project file, to run a text production experiments (a user reads, writes or translates a text) and to replay the session. Translog produces a log files which contains all user activity data of the reading, writing, or translation session, and which can be evaluated by external tools. While there is a large body of translation process research based on Translog, this paper gives an overview of the Translog-II functions and its data visualization options.
Illumination-invariant texture classification using simple training images

The appearance of a surface texture is highly dependent on illumination. This is why current surface texture classification methods require multiple training images captured under a variety of illumination conditions for each class. We show that a single training image per class can be sufficient if the surfaces are of uniform albedo and smooth and shallow relief, and the illumination is sufficiently far from the texture macro-normal. The performance of our approach is demonstrated on classification of 20 textures in the PhoTex database. For test images which are most different from the training images (different instances of the same texture observed, non-equal illumination slants), the success rate achieved is in the range of 60‐80%. When the test images differ from the training ones only in illumination tilt, the success rate achieved is well above 95%.