Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Decision and risk analysis for process evolution

Evolution is one of the integral parts in the lifecycle of a process. Similar to software, a process often has to be modified in order to fulfill changed process requirements, or to correct problems that occurred during its enactment. Although currently changes are often implemented ad-hoc without any consideration of side-effects and risks, it is obvious that such side-effects and especially the risk inherent to a change have to be analyzed before actually changing a process. Additionally, it is often impossible to stop, change and restart a process. In these cases, techniques are required which are capable of analyzing and changing currently enacted processes. The article describes the approach for risk and decision analysis elaborated in the ESPRIT project Process Instance Evolution (PIE). The main concept of the approach used in PIE consists of determining the probability distribution of important process parameters and calculating risk measures for decision making. The article describes the overall approach and explains the algorithm used for determining probability distributions.
A Systolic String Matching Algorithm for High-Speed Recognition of a Restricted Regular Set

This paper proposes a systolic string matching algorithm for high-speed recognition of a restricted regular set, in which a pattern is specified by a class of restricted regular expressions. The architecture of the proposed systolic algorithm is a one-dimensional array of simple processing units. The algorithm can accept a pattern including Kleene-closure operations, such as ab(cde|fg)∗(hi|j)k, which could not be accepted with existing one-dimensional systolic string matching algorithms. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm implemented on an FPGA chip achieves a high throughput of 1.456 Gigabits per second.
A 3.1-10.6 GHz CMOS cascaded two-stage distributed amplifier for ultra-wideband application

In this paper, a CMOS cascaded two-stage distributed amplifier for ultra-wideband (UWB) application is presented. The circuit using two-stage cascaded topology achieves better gain-bandwidth product performance than conventional CMOS distributed amplifiers. The simulated gain is 18dB with /spl plusmn/1dB gain flatness over 3.1/spl sim/10.6 GHz bands. Input and output are matched to 50/spl Omega/, and the return losses of input and output are below -10dB and -9dB respectively. The power dissipation is 54mW with 1.8V power supply. The circuit was fabricated in 0.18-/spl mu/m 1P6M RF CMOS process.
Steering Behavior during Overtaking on Freeways

The steering behavior of lane change during overtaking on the freeway is experimentally investigated based on a six DOF moving-based driving simulator. 12 experienced participants are involved and instructed to overtake leading vehicles in specially designed scenarios, and their first lane changing of the overtaking is analyzed. The influence of type and speed of leading vehicle on steering behavior are explored by parametric tests. Results show that type of leading vehicle has no impact on steering behavior, including steering wheel amplitudes and duration of each phase. Speed of leading vehicle has significant influence on the first steering wheel amplitude, the second steering wheel amplitude and duration of first phase. This finding may help construct the lane change steering model on freeways with leading vehicle taken into consideration, and promote the freeway driving safety.
Forced Sexual Intercourse and its Link to Suicide Ideation/Suicide Attempts among Adolescent Girls: Findings from 2013 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey

Objectives. We sought to assess the association between forced sexual intercourse and suicidal ideation/attempts among adolescent girls ages 14-17. Methods. We performed secondary data analysis of the 2013 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey, using chi-square tests to examine the association of forced sex and race/ethnicity, with suicide ideation. Results. We found that there was an association between those who had considered suicide and those who had experienced forced sexual intercourse. Moreover, race/ethnicity was associated with those who had ever considered suicide in the past 12 months before taking the survey. Lastly, we found that there was an association of suicide ideation and forced sexual intercourse among all racial groups. However, race was not associated with those who had ever experienced forced sexual intercourse. Conclusions. Results of this study highlight that there is a significant relationship between those who have experienced forced sexual intercourse and suicidality among adolescent girls. Future research is needed to better understand the importance of suicidality and its link to forced sexual intercourse among adolescents’ girls in a longitudinal design, particularly among different racial ethnicities and sexual minority groups.
Revista Iberoamericana de Micología

a b s t r a c t Background: To cultivate the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus in warm countries or during summer in temperate countries, while saving energy, is a challenge that could be addressed by using the biological diversity of the species. Aims: The objective was to evaluate the yield potential of eight wild strains previously selected in small scale experiments for their ability to produce mature fruiting bodies at 25 ◦ C and above. Methods: Culture units of 8 kg of compost were used. The yield expressed as weight or number per surface unit and earliness of fruiting were recorded during cultivation in climatic rooms at 17, 25 or 30 ◦ C. Results: Only strains of A. bisporus var. burnettii were able to fruit at 30 ◦ C. At 25 ◦ C they produced the highest yields (27 kg m−2) and had best earliness. The yields at 25 ◦C for the strains of A. bisporus var.
Information driven sensor placement for robust active object recognition based on multiple views

Robust object recognition is a mandatory prerequisite for many applications in Service Robotics. A common approach is to capture a single image of the scene from a fixed position and to recognize all objects at once. This challenging task is even more demanding in everyday environments. We propose an approach for object recognition which makes use of mobile manipulation. An initial object belief is enhanced by systematically inspecting objects from different views with a second camera on a manipulator. Knowledge about an object is used to generate possible viewpoints that are directed at specific features. Viewpoint selection considers the expected recognition probability and costs to optimize the recognition performance. The approach is demonstrated in real-world experiments with a service robot. Almost identically appearing objects are reliably classified by systematic inspection of additional distinguishing features like barcodes and text labels.
ALMOST BI-LIPSCHITZ EMBEDDINGS AND ALMOST HOMOGENEOUS SETS

This paper is concerned with embeddings of homogeneous spaces into Euclidean spaces. We show that any homogeneous metric space can be em- bedded into a Hilbert space using an almost bi-Lipschitz mapping (bi-Lipschitz to within logarithmic corrections). The image of this set is no longer homo- geneous, but 'almost homogeneous'. We therefore study the problem of em- bedding an almost homogeneous subset X of a Hilbert space H into a finite- dimensional Euclidean space. In fact we show that if X is a compact subset of a Banach space and X X is almost homogeneous then, for N sufficiently large, a prevalent set of linear maps from X into R N are almost bi-Lipschitz between X and its image. We are then able to use the Kuratowski embedding of (X, d) into L ∞ (X) to prove a similar result for compact metric spaces.
Particle-Antiparticle Metamorphosis of Massive Majorana Neutrinos and Gauginos

Recent results on neutrinoless double beta decay, as reported by Klapdor-Kleingrothaus et al., take us for the first time into the realm of Majorana spacetime structure. However, this structure has either been treated as an afterthought to the Dirac construct; or, when it has been attended to in its own right, its physical and mathematical content was never fully unearthed. In this Letter,we undertake to remedy the existing situation. We present a detailed formalism required for the description of the non-trivial spacetime structure underlying the "nu-nubar" metamorphosis - where "nu" generically represents a massive Majorana neutrino, or a massive gaugino.
Fibroblast Growth Factor Enhances Type / ? 1 Transforming Growth Factor Gene Expression in Osteoblast-like Cells

Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and type/3 transforming growth factor ('rGF/3) are potent modulators of proliferation and differentiation in many types of cells. TGF/~ acts in an autocrine manner, and the regulation of TGF/3 gene expression is one of the crucial events in the control of cellular functions. This study examines FGF regulation of TGF/31 gene expression in osteoblast-like cells. Bovine basic FGF (bFGF) increased the steady-state level of 2.5-kb TGF/31 mRNA twoto threefold in rat osteosarcoma (ROS17/2.8) cells in a dose-dependent manner, starting at 0.1 ng/ml. The increase of the message was detectable within 3 h after the addition of bFGF, peaked at 6 h, and lasted at least up to 48 h. This effect was blocked by a protein kinase inhibitor, K252a, indicating the involvement of phosphorylation, bFGF increased the rate of TGF/31 gene transcription estimated by nuclear run-on assay, while the stability of TGF/31 mRNA was not altered, bFGF increased the TGF/3 activity in the conditioned media, estimated by DNA synthesis inhibition assay using mink lung epithelial (CCL-64) cells. Parathyroid hormone reduced the abundance of TGF/31 mRNA in ROS17/2.8 cells and opposed the bFGF effect on TGF/31 mRNA. bFGF also increased the steady-state level of TGF/31 mRNA in mouse calvaria-derived MC3T3E1 and human osteosarcoma SaOS-2 cells. These findings indicate that FGF enhances the expression of TGF/31 gene in osteoblast-like cells and point to the tight relationship of the two growth factors involved in the control of
Estimating phylogenetic trees with phangorn

These notes should enable the user to estimate phylogenetic trees from alignment data with different methods using the phangorn package [12]. Several functions of phangorn are also described in more detail in [8]. For more theoretical background on all the methods see e.g. [3, 16]. This document illustrates some of the phangorn features to estimate phylogenetic trees using different reconstruction methods. Small adaptations to the scripts in section 6 should enable the user to perform phylogenetic analyses.
Surveillance of Airborne Adenovirus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in a Hospital Pediatric Department

This investigation evaluated the distributions of airborne adenovirus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in public areas in the pediatric department of Children's Hospital in northern Taiwan. The airborne viral and bacterial concentrations were evaluated twice a week for a year using filter sampling with an airflow rate of 12 liters per minute for eight hours in the pediatric outpatient department and 24 hours in the pediatric emergency room. Real-time polymerase chain reaction assays were conducted for analysis. Approximately 18% of the air samples from the pediatric emergency room were found to contain adenovirus. Approximately forty-six percent of the air samples from the pediatric outpatient department contained Mycoplasma pneumoniae DNA products. High detection rates of airborne adenovirus DNA were obtained in July and August in the pediatric public areas. Airborne Mycoplasma pneumoniae was detected only in July in the pediatric emergency room and the peak levels were found from August to January in the pediatric outpatient department. Airborne particles that contained adenovirus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae were the most prevalent in the pediatric public areas. The potential relationship between these airborne viral/bacterial particles and human infection should be examined further. Keywords: adenovirus; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; filter sampling; real-time polymerase chain reaction; hospital; pediatric public areas.
EXPLOSIVE Z PINCH

We propose an explanation for the recently observed powerful contained explosion in a Z pinch experiment performed at Sandia National Laboratories. Our arguments are based on the assumption that a pure SU(2) Yang–Mills theory of scale ~ 0.5 MeV is responsible for the emergence of the electron and its neutrino.
Role of Recycled and Geosynthetic Materials in Enhancing Civil Engineering Environment

Three types of geosynthetic are used in this study to stabilize recycled ballast in the laboratory model. The compressive strength of recycled aggregate concrete is relatively lower up to 15% than natural aggregate concrete. The durability parameters confirms suitability of RCA & RAC in making durable concrete structures of selected types. The weakest specimens tested obtained maximum compressive strengths ranging from 120 kN/m to 140 kN/m, almost 10 times as great as those typically achieved by conventional stud-frame housing in terms of load per metre of wall length. The lowest load deformation response was observed for specimen group, at 0.7kN/mm. The strongest and stiffest results were observed with load deformation responses ranging from 8 kN/mm to 15 kN/mm, and compressive strength two orders of magnitude higher than conventional stud-frame housing, ranging from 1100 kN/m to 1300 kN/m. A typical concrete commercial building can deliver savings equivalent to the embodied CO2 of a lifetime of goods and saving of more than 1,000 tonnes of embodied CO2.It is found that the operational energy saving can offset the higher embodied CO2 associated with concrete and masonry homes in just a decade of use.
A Cloud Trust Evaluation System Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Inference System for Service Selection

Cloud computing is an utility computing paradigm that allows users to flexibly acquire virtualized computing resources in a pay-as-you-go model. To realize the benefits of using cloud, users need to first select the suitable cloud services that can satisfy their applications' functional and non-functional requirements. However, this is a difficult task due to large number of available services, users' unclear requirements, and performance variations in cloud. In this paper, we propose a system that evaluates trust of clouds according to users' fuzzy Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and services' dynamic performances to facilitate service selection. We demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our system through simulations and case studies.
PF 19 encodes the catalytic subunit of katanin , p 60 , and is required for assembly of the flagellar central apparatus in Chlamydomonas

PF19 encodes the catalytic subunit of katanin, p60, and is required for assembly of the flagellar central apparatus in Chlamydomonas Summary For all eukaryotic cilia the basal bodies provide a template for the assembly of the doublet microtubules, and intraflagellar transport (IFT) provides a mechanism for transport of axonemal components into the growing cilium. What is not known is how the central pair of microtubules is nucleated or how their associated polypeptides are assembled. Here we report that the Chlamydomonas pf19 mutation results in a single amino acid change within the p60 catalytic subunit of katanin, and that this mutation ablates microtubule severing activity. The pf19 mutant has paralyzed flagella that lack the central apparatus. Using a combination of mutant analysis, RNAi-mediated reduction of protein expression, and in vitro assays, we demonstrate that the p60 catalytic subunit of the microtubule severing protein katanin is required for central apparatus assembly in Chlamydomonas. In addition, we show that in Chlamydomonas the microtubule severing activity of p60 katanin is not required for stress-induced deflagellation or cell cycle progression as has been previously reported.
A Dynamic Model with Vertical Specialization, Credit Chains, and Incomplete Enforcement

This paper sets up a model to account for differences in total factor productivity due to differences in enforcement of contracts. Vertical specialization generates the need for intra-period credit, because final goods producers cannot pay their intermediate goods suppliers before they produce their final good. The paper shows that if there are enforcement problems, the capital distribution is skewed in the sense that intermediate goods producers operate at lower capital levels and higher marginal products of capital than final goods producers. This wedge is created by the price for intermediate goods, which is lower in economies with bad enforcement. For this reason, the high-productivity firms in the intermediate goods sector have no incentive to grow and the low-productivity firms in the final goods sector, benefiting from low intermediate goods prices, have no incentive to shrink, which causes productivity to be lower in countries with bad enforcement.
In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Coronary Thrombosis Using a Fibrin-Binding Molecular Magnetic Resonance Contrast Agent

Background—The advent of fibrin-binding molecular magnetic resonance (MR) contrast agents and advances in coronary MRI techniques offers the potential for direct imaging of coronary thrombosis. We tested the feasibility of this approach using a gadolinium (Gd)-based fibrin-binding contrast agent, EP-2104R (EPIX Medical Inc), in a swine model of coronary thrombus and in-stent thrombosis. Methods and Results—Ex vivo and in vivo sensitivity of coronary MR thrombus imaging was tested by use of intracoronarily delivered Gd-DTPA–labeled fibrinogen thrombi (n=6). After successful demonstration, in-stent coronary thrombosis was induced by x-ray–guided placement of thrombogenic-coated, MR-lucent stents (n=5). After stent placement, 60 &mgr;mol of EP-2104R was injected via the left main coronary artery. Free-breathing, navigator-gated 3D coronary MR angiography and thrombus imaging were performed (1) before and after stent placement and (2) before and after EP-2104R. Thrombi were confirmed by x-ray angiography and autopsy. Fibrinogen thrombi: 5 of 6 intracoronarily delivered Gd-labeled fibrinogen clots (≈250 &mgr;mol/L Gd) were visible on MRI and subsequently confirmed by x-ray angiography. In-stent thrombi: in-stent thrombosis was observed in all stents after EP-2104R. Four of 5 thrombi were confirmed by x-ray angiography. Chemical analysis of 2 thrombi demonstrated 99 to 147 &mgr;mol/L Gd. Conclusions—We demonstrate the feasibility of MRI of coronary thrombus and in-stent thrombosis using a novel fibrin-binding molecular MR contrast agent. Potential applications include detection of coronary in-stent thrombosis or thrombus burden in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
Multipath Routing for Opportunistic Data Transfer in Mobile Adhoc Network

-Mobile Adhoc Network is an infrastructure less and self-configuring network of wireless communication between nodes. In Mobile Adhoc Network, routing is a difficult task and it is an important research area of work due to its unpredictable network topology changes. The challenging task is to make the wireless network communication as best as the wired ones. Routing could be made efficient by knowing the topological information of the wireless network and thus the packets can be transmitted efficiently which results in high packet delivery ratio. Multipath routing is more advantageous compared to single path routing in terms of increased bandwidth, balanced traffic load, balanced power consumption, reduced end to end delay and robustness of data delivery. We propose a multipath routing technique for efficient opportunistic data transfer between nodes by providing a node disjoint paths between source and destination. Resource utilization is the maximum in multipath routing and it is also less costly alternative to flooding the network. There is also a higher rate of data delivery and reliability. We show that the performance of our technique is better in terms of packet delivery ratio, throughput, delay jitter, and energy when compared with single path routing.
A KNOWLEDGE-BASED MODEL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Knowledge has been widely recognized as a critical resource for competition. Then it seems important to analyze organizational performance based on a cognitive approach. In this paper, this approach consists in the identification of two main classes of organizational problem (repetitive and innovative) and two main cognitive processes (codification and interpretation) involved in problem solving. Given these classifications, a model to evaluate the organizational performance is proposed based on the assessment of the consistency between the type of problem with the knowledge management processes. Two examples of application are also provided.
Minimum Quality Standard and Premium Private Labels

This article gives a theoretical analysis of a new type of private labels in the food sector. We propose an original model of vertical relationship between producers and retailers which takes into account two supply sources through (i) a competitive spot market and (ii) supply contracts. We study how the producers and retailers could cooperate to set up these new labels. However it appears that retailers and consumers could prefer the stepping up of minimum quality standards rather than this type of private labels.
Whole Genome Analysis of a Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST59 Isolate from a Case of Human Sepsis and Severe Pneumonia in China

We report a case of necrotizing pneumonia in a young patient caused by community acquired-methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in a teaching hospital in the People’s Republic of China. The patient had a typical clinical presentation and was successfully treated with antibiotics and intravenous immunoglobulin. A CA-MRSA strain, named SA268, was isolated from the blood of the patient. The isolate was susceptible to most antimicrobial agents, except cephalosporins, penicillins, and β-lactamase inhibitor combinations. Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) assigned SA268 to ST59, a clone widely spread in eastern Asia. The strain was positive for Panton Valentine Leukocidin (PVL)-encoding genes and SCCmec type V. We sequenced the complete genome of the SA268 isolate. The genome of SA268 was almost identical to that of the Taiwanese ST59 CA-MRSA strains M013 and SA957. However, we observed several differences in gene composition, which included differences in the SCCmec element and several lipoprotein genes that were present in the Taiwanese strains but absent from SA268.