Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Visualization tools at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

An examination is made of three projects underway at LLNL. The Magic (Machine Graphics in Color) Project is developing techniques to move data from a Cray supercomputer and effectively display it on high-resolution color terminal in the scientist's office. In a follow-on to this project, laser disk technology provides a real-time animation capability. The Graphics Workstation Project has examined visualization applications of workstations with graphics accelerators and is currently extending this work to 'graphics minisupercomputers'. The Advanced Visualization Research Project uses high-end graphics devices to perform algorithm development, especially in the implementation of volumetric methods. <<ETX>>
Supplemental Material for Photorealistic Facial Texture Inference Using Deep Neural Networks

Our main results in the paper demonstrate successful inference of high-fidelity texture maps from unconstrained images. The input images have mostly low resolutions, nonfrontal faces, and the subjects are often captured in challenging lighting conditions. We provide additional results with pictures from the annotated faces-in-the-wild (AFW) dataset [9] to further demonstrate how photorealistic porelevel details can be synthesized using our deep learning approach. We visualize in Figure 7 the input, the intermediate low-frequency albedo map obtained using a linear PCA model, and the synthesized high-frequency albedo texture map. We also show several views of the final renderings using the Arnold renderer [11]. We refer to the accompanying video for additional rotating views of the resulting textured 3D face models.
[Challenges and trends in rehabilitation].

The definition of rehabilitation is debated, but the true sense of the word is "reinstatement in dignity. " There is often a need for rehabilitation after diseases and injuries. Rehabilitation is founded on the individual's right to participate in society and to have equal opportunities in general, and can be considered both in a medical and a sociological perspective. WHO has developed "International Classification of Functioning, disability and health"-ICF. ICF reflects an understanding of function and disability in a bio-psychosocial model. The issues discussed in this article will be limited to rehabilitation within the Norwegian healthcare system. Rehabilitation is based on the individual's loss of function, irrespective of the injury or disease, and should focus on resources. Its main issue is the subject's own goals and wishes with respect to quality of life and total life situation. Many groups that have, or are in danger of acquiring reduced function are in need of rehabilitation, if this can prevent or reduce loss of function or participation. The measures taken can be directed over a wide spectrum, directed towards function and activity, and often with participation in a variety of life aspects as the main goal. Rehabilitation is presented with many challenges caused by the general development in society, including implementation of the medical and technological development and demand of scientific documentation.
Worklife, Diversity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review and Research Agenda

Work-life issues have important implications at both organizational and individual levels. This paper provides a critical review of the work-life literature from 1990 onwards through the lens of diversity, with a particular focus on disparities of power induced by methodological and conceptual framings of work and life. The review seeks to answer the following questions: What are the gaps and omissions in the work-life research? How may they be overcome? To answer these questions, the review scrutinizes blind spots in the treatment of life, diversity and power in work-life research in both positivist and critical scholarship. In order to transcend the blind spots in positivist and critical work-life research, the review argues the case for an intersectional approach which captures the changing realities of family and workforce through the lens of diversity and intersectionality. The theoretical contribution is threefold: first, the review demonstrates that contemporary framing of life in the work-life literature should be expanded to cover aspects of life beyond domestic life. Second, the review explains why and how other strands of diversity than gender also manifest as salient causes of difference in experiences of the work-life interface. Third, the review reveals that social and historical context has more explanatory power in work-life dynamics than the micro-individual level of explanations. Work-life literature should capture the dynamism in these contexts. The paper also provides a set of useful recommendations to capture and operationalize methodological and theoretical changes required in the work-life literature.
External Evaluation of Four Hospitals According to Patient-centred Care Standards

Introduction: Hospital accreditation is a multi-factorial issue. The aim of the current study was to accredit social security organization and university hospitals (that certificated by ISO 9001-2008) in Isfahan, the second largest city of Iran, based on Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation standards. Methods: Accreditation of four hospitals was evaluated and compared in a cross-sectional study. Seven checklists were driven from patient-centered JCI accreditation standards to cover indices of access of patients to care and continuity of care (ACC), patients and families rights (PFR), patients and families education (PFE), assessment of patients (AOP), care of patients (COP), analgesic and surgical care (ASC), and medication management and use (MMU). They were filled out by seven inspectors. The findings were analyzed by SPSS 14 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Results: Beheshti and Zahra hospitals demonstrated the lowest and the highest mean levels preparation, respectively (60 vs. 68.5 percent, respectively). Also, Beheshti hospital revealed the lowest prepared levels in AOP, ASC, MMU and PFE among all evaluated hospitals; the corresponding mean amounts of preparation were 68, 82.5, 56 and 42 percent, respectively. Whereas Zahra hospital showed the highest prepared levels in AOP, COP, MMU and PFE among all evaluated hospitals; the mean amounts of preparation were 82, 61.5, 84 and 57 percent, respectively. No significant difference was found among the four hospitals in any of the seven indices. Discussion: The four evaluated hospitals were not fully prepared to present the best possible patient-centered care system.
Secure Smart Card Based Password Authentication Scheme with User Anonymity

Recently, a smart card based authentication and key agreement scheme preserving the user anonymity was proposed by Wang, Juang and Lei, that is designed to provide users with secure activities in ubiquitous computing environments. The authors proved that their scheme delivers important security properties and functionalities, such as without maintaining password/verification tables, freedom on password selection and alteration, mutual authentication, user anonymity, no time synchronization problem, key agreement implementation, forgery attack resistance and computation efficiency. However, we show that Wang et al.'s scheme has potential security flaws, which enable malicious attackers to counterfeit an application server to spoof the victim client and damage the security of session key and the property of user anonymity. In this paper, we propose an enhanced version of Wang et al.'s scheme to remedy these flaws. The proposed scheme not only ensures the merits of their scheme but also enhances the security of their scheme without raising any computation cost. http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.itc. 40.2. 431
Definitive diagnosis of early enamel and dentin cracks based on microscopic evaluation.

UNLABELLED The diagnoses of cracked teeth and incomplete coronal fracture have historically been symptom based. The dental operating microscope at 16x magnification can fundamentally change a clinician's ability to diagnose such conditions. Clinicians have been observing cracks under extreme magnification for nearly a decade. Patterns have become clear that can lead to appropriate treatment prior to symptoms or to devastation to tooth structure. Conversely, many cracks are not structural and can lead to misdiagnosis and overtreatment. Methodic microscopic examination, an understanding of crack progression, and an appreciation of the types of cracks will guide a doctor to make appropriate decisions. Teeth can have structural cracks in various stages. To date, diagnosis and treatment are very often at end stage of crack development. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE This article gives new guidelines for recognition, visualization, classification, and treatment of cracked teeth based on the routine use of 16x magnification. The significance of enamel cracks as they relate to dentinal cracks is detailed.
Instruction scheduling for a superscalar architecture

It is increasingly accepted that superscalar processors can only achieve their full performance potential through compile-time instruction scheduling. The paper presents preliminary performance results using a conditional group scheduler which targets the HSA processor model developed at the University of Hertfordshire. In particular, we show that guarded instruction execution improves performance by allowing the processor to squash instructions in the instruction buffer before they are issued to functional units and enables the scheduler to delete a significant number of branch instructions.
Photon Parameterisation for Robust Relaxation Constraints

This paper presents a novel approach to detecting and preserving fine illumination structure within photon maps. Data derived from each photon's primal trajectory is encoded and used to build a high‐dimensional kd‐tree. Incorporation of these new parameters allows for precise differentiation between intersecting ray envelopes, thus minimizing detail degradation when combined with photon relaxation. We demonstrate how parameter‐aware querying is beneficial in both detecting and removing noise. We also propose a more robust structure descriptor based on principal components analysis that better identifies anisotropic detail at the sub‐kernel level. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach in several example scenes and show significant improvements when rendering complex caustics compared to previous methods.
Report on an international conference on gender, class, employment and family

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief summary of a series of papers presented at the gender, class, employment and family conference, held at City University, London, in March 2008.Design/methodology/approach – The conference involved 25 papers presented by invited speakers, and the report is based on summary notes, observations and conference abstracts.Findings – This report summarises a range of contributions, theoretical and empirical, to the continuing debates on gender and class inequality in Britain, Europe and the USA. The evidence presented not only demonstrated the persistence of gender and class inequalities, but also provided a critique of the “individualisation” thesis. The contribution of both normative and material factors to gender inequality was extensively explored. The discussions focused upon a series of tensions and contradictions – between “sameness” and “difference” feminism; choice and constraint; capitalist markets and the human requirement for caring work.Origi.
Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Is Improved by Adding Asymptomatic Coronary Status to Routine Risk Assessment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

OBJECTIVE To evaluate if silent myocardial ischemia (SMI) and silent coronary artery disease (CAD) provide significant additional value to routine cardiovascular risk assessment in type 2 diabetic patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We followed up to a first cardiovascular event 688 subjects (322 men, aged 59 ± 8 years) out of 731 consecutive asymptomatic type 2 diabetic patients with ≥1 additional risk factor who had been prospectively screened between 1992 and 2006 for SMI by stress myocardial scintigraphy and for silent CAD by coronary angiography. RESULTS SMI was found in 207 (30.1%) patients and CAD in 76 of those with SMI. Of the patients, 98 had a first cardiovascular event during a 5.4 ± 3.5 (range: 0.1–19.2) year follow-up period. Cox regression analysis considering parameters predicting events but not SMI and CAD (“routine assessment”) showed in univariate analyses that macroproteinuria (hazard ratio [HR] 3.33 [95% CI 1.74–6.35]; P < 0.001), current multifactorial care (0.27 [0.15–0.47]; P < 0.001), and peripheral/carotid occlusive arterial disease (PCOAD; 4.33 [2.15–8.71]; P < 0.001) independently predicted cardiovascular events. When added into the model, SMI (HR 1.76 [1.00–3.12]; P = 0.05) and CAD (2.28 [1.24–4.57]; P < 0.01) were also independently associated with events. SMI added to the prediction of an event in the following 5 years above and beyond routine assessment risk prediction (c statistic with or without SMI 0.788 [0.720–0.855] and 0.705 [0.616–0.794], respectively). CONCLUSIONS Although screening for SMI and silent CAD should not be systematic, these complications are predictive of cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetic patients in addition to routine risk predictors, especially represented by PCOAD, macroproteinuria, and nonintensive management.
Interacting hands: the role of attention for the joint Simon effect

Recent research in monkeys and humans has shown that the presence of the hands near an object enhances spatial processing for objects presented near the hand. This study aimed to test the effect of hand position on the joint Simon effect. In Experiment 1, two human co-actors shared a Simon task while placing their response hands either near the objects appearing on the monitor or away from the monitor. Experiment 2 varied each co-actor’s hand position independently. Experiment 3 tested whether enhanced spatial processing for objects presented near the hand is obtained when replacing one of the two co-actors by a non-human event-producing rubber hand. Experiment 1 provided evidence for a Simon effect. Hand position significantly modulated the size of the Simon effect in the joint Simon task showing an increased Simon effect when the hands of both actors were located near the objects on the monitor, than when they were located away from the monitor. Experiment 2 replicated this finding showing an increased Simon effect when the actor’s hand was located near the objects on the monitor, but only when the co-actor also produced action events in spatial reference. A similar hand position effect was observed in Experiment 3 when a non-human rubber hand replaced the human co-actor. These findings suggest that external action events that are produced in spatial reference bias the distribution of attention to the area near the hand. This strengthens the weight of the spatial response codes (referential coding) and hence increases the joint Simon effect.
Dual-tapered-piston (DTP) module cooling for IBM Enterprise System/9000 systems

The water-cooled thermal conduction modules (TCMs) in the IBM Enterprise System/9000™ (ES/9000™) systems require a fourfold thermal improvement over TCMs in the 3090™ system. An examination of the thermal/mechanical tolerance relationships among the chips, substrate, and cooling hardware showed that a cylindrical piston would not meet this requirement. The piston was redesigned with a cylindrical center section and a taper on each end. This shape minimizes the gap between the piston and “hat” while retaining intimate contact between the piston face and chip surface during all assembly conditions. Numerical and analytical models demonstrate that this new piston shape, coupled with improved conductivity of the cooling hardware materials, exceeds ES/9000 system needs. These models were verified by tests conducted on single-site and full-scale modules in the laboratory and by tests on actual ES/9000 systems.
Prediction of Faults in Cellular Networks Using Bayesian Network Model

Cellular network service providers compete with each other for the vast and dynamic market that is characterized by the ever-changing services on offer and technology. These services require very reliable networks that can meet the customer service level of agreement (SLA). We are motivated by this to model the cellular network service faults and this paper reports on results of faults prediction modelling. Cellular networks are uncertain in their behaviours and therefore we use a Bayesian network to model them. We derive probabilistic models of the cellular network system in which the independence of relations between the variables of interest are represented explicitly. We use a directed graph in which two nodes are connected by an edge if one is a direct cause of the other. We present the simulation results of the study.
Peripheral tachykinin receptors as potential therapeutic targets in visceral diseases

More than 10 years of intensive preclinical investigation of selective tachykinin (TK) receptor antagonists has provided a rationale to the speculation that peripheral neurokinin (NK)-1, -2 and -3 receptors may be involved in the pathophysiology of various human diseases at the visceral level. In the airways, despite promising effects in animal models of asthma, pilot clinical trials with selective NK-1 or -2 receptor antagonists in asthmatics have been ambiguous, whereas the potential antitussive effects of NK-1, -2 or -3 antagonists have not yet been verified in humans. In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and pancreatitis are appealing targets for peripherally-acting NK-1 and -2 antagonists, respectively. In the genito-urinary tract, NK-1 receptor antagonists could offer some protection against nephrotoxicity and cytotoxicity induced by chemotherapeutic agents, whereas NK-2 receptor antagonists appear to be promising new agents for the treatment of neurogenic bladder hyperreflexia. Finally, there is preclinical evidence for hypothesising an effect of NK-3 receptor antagonists on the cardiovascular disturbance that characterises pre-eclampsia. Other more speculative applications are also mentioned.
Screening For Sleep Disordered Breathing And Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Adolescent Girls With Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

, Abstract Objective— To determine the prevalence and clinical and metabolic correlates of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Study design— Standardized questionnaires were administered to subjects with PCOS and age-, sex-, ethnicity-, and BMI Z-score-matched controls. Medical records were reviewed for anthropometric and metabolic data. Results— We studied 103 subjects with PCOS (16.9±1.5 years) and 90 controls (16.8±1.7 years). Compared with controls, girls with PCOS had a higher prevalence of SDB (45.6% vs. 27.8%, p=0.01) and EDS (54.4% vs.35.6%, p<0.01). Within PCOS, those with SDB had higher BMI Z-score (2.1±0.5 vs.1.7±0.6, p< 0.01), higher homeostatic model assessment (HOMA) (5.1±2.3 vs. 4.1±3.5, p<0.01), and higher prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) (42.6% vs. 16.1%, p=0.003), compared with those without SDB. Similarly, subjects with
The Barankin bound and threshold behavior in frequency estimation

This article presents the Barankin (1949) bound as a fundamental statistical tool. For the understanding of the threshold effect associated with the estimation of the frequency of a sinusoid in additive white Gaussian noise. It is shown that the threshold effect takes hold whenever the Barankin bound departs significantly from the Cramer-Rao bound. In terms of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the data length T, the quantity SNR/spl times/T/ln T is shown to be a good indicator for deciding whether the SNR is above threshold or not.
Simple Bone Cyst of the Anterior Mandible: A Case Report

Simple bone cyst (SBC) was first recognized by Lucas & Blum in 1929 [1]. Blum reported the first three cases in dentistry in 1932 [2]. It has been identified with many names such as solitary bone cyst, traumatic bone cyst, hemorrhagic bone cyst, unicameral bone cyst, progressive bone cavity, extravasation cyst, primary bone cyst and idiopathic bone cavity [3]. Trauma is the most frequently discussed about its etiologic factor in the formation of SBC. Most of SBC are diagnosed incidentally in panoramic radiograph and most of the individuals affected are in teens [4]. Radiographically, it manifests as a well-defined unilocular, radiolucency which occasionally presents a typical festooned pattern around the apices of the adjacent teeth [5,6]. Definite diagnosis of SBC is inevitably reached during surgery when a cavity lacing epithelial lining is either empty or with content or filled with serous or sanguineous fluids [6]. This report describes a rare SBC case of anterior mandible with incidental finding from panoramic radiograph.
Contingent Convertible Bonds and Capital Structure Decisions

This paper provides a formal model of contingent convertible bonds (CCBs), a new instrument offering potential value as a component of corporate capital structures for all types of firms, as well as being considered for the reform of prudential bank regulation following the recent financial crisis. CCBs are debt instruments that automatically convert to equity if and when the issuing firm or bank reaches a specified level of financial distress. CCBs have the potential to avoid bank bailouts of the type that occurred during the subprime mortgage crisis when banks could not raise sufficient new capital and bank regulators feared the consequences if systemically important banks failed. While qualitative discussions of CCBs are available in the literature, this is the first paper to develop a formal model of their properties. The paper provides analytic propositions concerning CCB attributes and develops implications for structuring CCBs to maximize their general benefits for corporations and their specific benefits for prudential bank regulation.
Circulating microRNAs for predicting and monitoring response to mechanical circulatory support from a left ventricular assist device

There are few non‐invasive techniques to predict and monitor patients' responses to left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy. MicroRNAs (miRs) are small non‐coding RNAs with intricate roles in cardiovascular disease. They are stable in the circulation, readily quantified, and may be useful as new biomarkers. This study sought to identify candidate miR biomarkers for further investigation.
Broadening participation in computing: issues and challenges

In this paper we survey the literature to identify the issues and challenges of broadening participation in computer science, and provide some suggestions to address these challenges. Our attention focuses on redefining the way we approach computing education so that we can successfully entice students to computing that have not traditionally participated, thereby promoting diversity and increasing the total numbers of computing professionals. Based on the literature review, we propose an interactional model from the social sciences to inform the way in which we might restructure and broaden the definition of computing and provide some examples of strategies that we have found to be successful in practice.