Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A joint tensor diagonalization approach to active data selection for EEG classification

We present a novel method based on joint tensor diagonalization for selecting or weighting electroencephalogram (EEG) data to estimate the covariance matrices to accurately find common spatial pattern (CSP). CSP and its variants need a pair of covariance matrices of two different tasks, which are obtained as the average over trials. This trial average can affect the accurate estimation of covariance matrices and cause the decrease of classification accuracy in brain machine interfaces (BMIs) due to the non-stationarity of EEG or experimental environments. We focus on the fact that finding CSP is equivalent to joint diagonalization of a pair of covariance matrices, and extend it to joint diagonalization of data tensor at each trial to determine importance of each trial. Numerical experiment of motor imagery (MI) classification supports the proposed algorithm is effective.
Antimicrobial Susceptibility, Biochemical Characterization and Molecular Typing of Biofield Treated Klebsiella pneumoniae

Pathogenic isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae), particularly the extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producing strains, are mostly associated with the failure of antibiotic therapy in nosocomial infections. The present work was designed to evaluate the impact of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment on phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of K. pneumoniae. The strain of K. pneumoniae bearing ATCC 15380 (American Type Culture Collection) was procured from the Bangalore Genei, in sealed pack and divided into control and treated groups. Treated group was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment and analyzed for the antimicrobial susceptibility, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), biochemical reactions, and biotyping using automated MicroScan Walk-Away® system. Further, the effect of biofield treatment was also evaluated using Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) in order to determine their epidemiological relatedness and genetic characteristics of biofield treated K. pneumoniae samples. The antimicrobial susceptibility results showed an improve sensitivity (i.e. from intermediate to susceptible) of ampicillin/sulbactam and chloramphenicol, while altered sensitivity of cephalothin (i.e. from susceptible to intermediate) was also reported as compared to the control sample. The MIC value showed two-fold decrease in MIC value of ampicillin/sulbactam (i.e. 16/8 to ≤8/4 μg/mL) and chloramphenicol (i.e. 16 to ≤ 8 μg/mL) as compared to the control. The cephalothin showed two-folds change (i.e. ≤ 8 to 16 μg/mL) in the MIC value as compared with the control. Biofield treatment showed 9.09% alterations in biochemical reactions followed by a change in biotype number (7774 4272) in the treated group with respect to the control (7774 4274). Genetic fingerprinting was performed on control and treated samples using RAPD-PCR biomarkers, which showed an average range of 11 to 15% of polymorphism among the treated samples with respect to the control. These results suggested that Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment has a significant impact on K. pneumoniae.
Dynamic Whole-Body Motion Generation for the Dance of a Humanoid Robot,Tayeb Benarama facing HRP-2

In October 2012, the humanoid robot HRP-2 was presented during a live demonstration performing fine-balanced dance movements with a human performer in front of more than 1000 people. This success was possible by the systematic use of operational-space inverse dynamics to compute dynamically consistent movements following a motion capture pattern demonstrated by a human choreographer. The first goal of this article is to give an overview of the efficient inverse-dynamics method used to generate the dance motion. Behind the methodological description, the second and main goal of the article is to present the robot dance as the first successful real-size implementation of inverse dynamics for humanoid-robot movement generation. This gives a proof of concept of the interest of inverse dynamics, which is more expressive than inverse kinematics and more computationally tractable than model-predictive control. It is, in our opinion, the topical method of choice for humanoid whole-body movement generation. The real-size demonstration also gave us some insight of nowadays methodological limits and the consequent future needed developments. The picture is a first demonstration done in October 2011.
Improving physical human-robot interaction through viscoelastic soft fingertips

In this paper, we are interested in a scheme that proves effective use of soft fingertips for human-in-the-loop telemanipulation. Motion planning is carried out by the human-in-the-loop to grasp and manipulate an object using viscoelastic soft fingertips. In addition, to grasp an object firmly, an estimated torque is synthesized based on fuzzy inference. Experimental results show that the user confidence presents small variations using soft fingertips. Then, the soft fingertips in pHRI induce a more user dexterity than rigid fingertips.
Intravitreal Injection of Dexamethasone Implant and Ranibizumab in Cystoid Macular Edema in the Course of Irvine-Gass Syndrome

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of 2 dexamethasone intravitreal implants and 1 ranibizumab intravitreal injection after a bilateral postoperative complication of cataract surgery as pseudophakic cystoid macular edema. Patients and Methods: A 70-year-old male patient with systemic hypertension developed a progressive cystoid macular edema (CME) in both eyes starting between 10 and 20 days after cataract surgery. Two intravitreal dexamethasone implants and 1 ranibizumab injection were administered; first in the right eye (RE) and then in the left eye (LE). The patient was checked for 1 whole week and then once a month for 5 months after the injections. Results: One month after the first dexamethasone implant in his RE, the spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) showed a progressive reduction of the foveal thickness until a complete resolution of the CME occurred, which was associated with an improvement of visual acuity. After 3 months, the SD-OCT showed a relapse of the CME, which was then treated with 1 injection of ranibizumab. One month after this injection, there was a complete resolution of the CME. A new CME in his RE was diagnosed 2 months after the last ranibizumab injection; it was treated with a new dexamethasone implant. A complete resolution of the CME was obtained; a normal foveal profile was still present 5 months after the last injection, and the best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20. His LE developed a CME 40 days after surgery. One intravitreal injection of ranibizumab was first administered in his LE, with a complete resolution of the CME at SD-OCT 2 weeks later. As observed in his RE, 40 days after the ranibizumab injection, there was a relapse of the CME that was treated with 1 intravitreal injection of dexamethasone implant. Five months later, the patient showed a worsening of the CME, but it was completely resolved with a second dexamethasone injection. After 3 months, the foveal thickness was back to normal with a BCVA of 20/20. Conclusion: Treatment with dexamethasone implants (Ozurdex®) and ranibizumab injections (Lucentis®) induced a progressive reduction of our patient's CME after cataract surgery (Irvine-Gass syndrome) until a complete normal foveal thickness was restored and his visual function was improved despite the order of injections.
Parents Who are Orphans: Implications for Second-Generation Scripts and Eating Disorders

The breaking of affective ties in the early years of life greatly affects not only the script of the parent/orphan, but also the subsequent influence of the parent in the progressive definition and construction of reality by his or her children. From my own clinical experience, I have noticed that with patients with parents who were orphaned in their early years, a high percentage developed eating disorders. As in abortions and the premature death of a child, the experience of losing one or both parents in childhood affected the mother-child food dynamic. Considering that narcissistic disorders are discernable in the separation-individuation phase, we can see that the double bind between the mother/orphan, often herself a sufferer of eating disorders, and the son or daughter with an eating disorder may provide a key to understanding this complex picture. Therapeutic considerations are provided.
A local approach of adaptive affinity propagation clustering for large scale data

Affinity propagation exhibits fast execution speed and finds clusters with low error rate when clustering sparsely related data but its values of parameters are fixed. This paper proposes a modified method named partition adaptive affinity propagation, which can automatically eliminate oscillations and adjust the values of parameters when rerunning affinity propagation procedure to yield optimal clustering results, with high execution speed and precision. Experiments are carried on UCI datasets and Caltech101 dataset, and ORL faces dataset. The results verify that this adaptive method is effective and feasible.
Focus on the Liver: Alcohol Use, Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, and Liver Disease In HIV-Infected Patients

Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the 1990s, liver disease is emerging as a major cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected patients. This is attributed to a variety of factors, including HAART hepatotoxicity, coinfection with hepatitis B and C virus (HBV and HCV, respectively), and alcohol abuse. Several studies have examined the effects of HAART and HCV/HBV coinfection on liver toxicity. However, the impact of alcohol consumption as a cofactor for hepatotoxicity in HIV patients is only beginning to be understood. Similar to the general population, alcohol use is common in the HIV population but is often overlooked by health care providers. Approximately 25 percent of recently diagnosed HIV patients are alcohol dependent; moreover, alcohol dependence has been associated with HIV treatment failure. Alcohol/HAART interactions appear crucial for the development of liver disease in HIV patients. Recent research has shown that alcohol abuse is associated with severe hepatotoxicity in patients on HAART. Importantly, alcoholic- and HAART-induced liver disease share many potential mechanisms of injury, including altered metabolism of certain signaling molecules (i.e., cytokines) and dysfunction of some cell components (i.e., proteasomes and mitochondria).
A hybrid strategy to protein name recognition

This paper presents a comprehensive approach to identifying protein name in biomedical texts. The new method integrated the generalized Winnow algorithm and the heuristic rules to implement of initial detection of protein name. Moreover, the system introduced a statistic method to analyses the reliability of recognized protein boundary, which can be then used for expanding protein boundary which has low confidence. The experimental results show that this algorithm improves the whole performance for protein name recognition and that effective performance can be achieved in identifying boundary of protein name.
Chapter 1 Improving Railway Data Validation with ProB

In this chapter, we describe the successful application of ProB on industrial projects realized by Siemens. Siemens are successfully using the B-method to develop software components for zone controller and carbonne controller of CBTC systems. However, the development contains certain assumptions about the actual rail network topology which have to be validated separately in order to ensure safe operation. For this task, Siemens has developed custom proof rules for AtelierB. AtelierB, however, was unable to deal with properties related to large constants (relations with thousands of tuples). These properties thus had to be validated by hand at great expense (and they need to be revalidated whenever the rail network infrastructure changes). In this chapter we show how we were able to use ProB to overcome this challenge. We describe the deployment and current use of ProB in the SIL4 development chain at Siemens. This achievement required the extension of the ProB kernel for large sets as well as an improved constraint propagation phase. We also outline some of the effort and features that were required in moving from a tool capable of dealing with medium-sized examples towards a tool able to deal with actual industrial specifications. Notably, a new parser and type checker had to be developed. We also touch upon the issue of validating ProB.
Exercise Strategies to Optimize Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes: A Continuing Glucose Monitoring Perspective

IN BRIEF The introduction of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) several years ago enabled researchers to investigate the impact of exercise strategies on 24-hour glycemic control. Such unique information on the glucoregulatory properties of exercise will ultimately lead to more effective exercise programs to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes. This article reviews the role of exercise and physical activity in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, complemented by recent data obtained by CGM.
“We Fight against Wrong Doers”: Law Enforcement Rangers’ Roles, Responsibilities, and Patrol Operations in Uganda

ABSTRACT Research examining wildlife law enforcement has steadily grown within recent years. Few studies, however, are based outside of the United States. Furthermore, studies that have examined wildlife law enforcement in other settings, including African countries, have primarily focused on quantifying the effectiveness of patrol activities, but little is known about actual patrol activities. Based on interviews and participant observation, this research attempts to contribute to both the criminal justice and conservation science literature by providing an in-depth qualitative investigation of law enforcement rangers’ roles, responsibilities, and patrol operations in a protected area in Uganda.
Isms and schisms: A meta‐analysis of the prejudice‐discrimination relationship across racism, sexism, and ageism

Summary Racism, sexism, and ageism persist in modern day organizations and may translate into workplace discrimination, which can undermine organizational effectiveness. We provide the first meta-analysis comparing the relationships between these three types of prejudice (racism, sexism, and ageism) and three types of workplace discrimination (selection, performance evaluation, and opposition to diversity-supportive policies). Across outcomes, racism was associated with workplace discrimination, whereas sexism was not. Ageism was associated with discriminatory selection and opposition to organizational policies supporting older workers; however, ageism was not related to discriminatory performance evaluation. Consistent with prior research and theory, Implicit Association Test measures were related to subtle discrimination (opposition to diversity-supportive policies) but not deliberate discrimination (selection and performance evaluation). Finally, prejudice was more strongly associated with discrimination against real as compared with hypothetical targets. Implications for organizational researchers and practitioners are discussed. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Effectively Maintained Inequality in U.S. Postsecondary Progress

In this analysis, I evaluate how socioeconomic status (SES) directly shapes the probability that students with similar academic achievements complete key transitions in the U.S. postsecondary system. I develop the concept of institutional reach to illuminate the maintenance of socioeconomic differences across successive forward transitions via institutions of varying selectivity in this postsecondary system. Both low- and high-SES students with high academic achievements display a greater probability of moving forward through the system. However, high-SES students are more likely to do so by attending more selective institutions at entry and, consequently, are more likely to complete a bachelor’s degree at such institutions. In other words, high-SES students have greater institutional reach given similar academic achievements. Greater protection from low achievements and greater boosts from high achievements are both important for maintaining high-SES students’ advantage.
"Try to Do the Best You Can": How Pre-Service APE Specialists Experience Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) present an exceptional need for varied instruction within the physical education environment. Adapted physical educators need to be prepared to make a significant amount of choices in regards to adaptations and modifications given the situations they may encounter with their students. However, many pre-service adapted physical education (APE) specialists may be unprepared to address the unique challenges faced with children with ASD’s ever increasing presence in the classroom. This study involved interviews and observations of four pre-service APE specialists who were working one-on-one with a child with ASD during a practicum. In this analysis four factors, 1) physical environment, 2) instructional strategies, 3) behavioral issues, and 4) personal discernment, surfaced as major influences in the decision making of the pre-service teacher. This analysis looks to build a foundational understanding of how this relationship exists in the APE setting with children with ASD. This study reveals that pre-service teacher have limited knowledge which leads to an inability to make important instructional decisions and overcome barriers that arise with children with ASD. Teacher-training programs should address these concerns in order to build confident and successful teachers.
Public Stigmatization Towards Mental Illness inKampar, Perak

This research aimed to understand how demographic variables (gender difference, age and level of education) affect level of stigmatization towards people with mental illness in Kampar, Perak. This study conducted using quota sampling as survey method to divide targeted population into different smaller group. The sample of this research involves 180 participants from three places of Kampar: Old Town, New Town and Mambang Di Awan. The results shown that there was a significant difference between gender difference in stigmatization towards mental illness, t (178) = -1.259, p < 0.05. Female participants (M =113.03, SD =11.26) shown higher tendency in stigmatization towards mental illness compared to male participants (M =110.28, SD =17.45). Besides that, there was also significant difference between education level and stigmatization towards mental illness, F (2, 177) = 17.273, p < 0.05. Primary education (M =118.60, SD = 10.97) was the highest in CAMI scale than Tertiary education (M = 104.12, SD = 15.59). However, there is no significant difference between age groups and stigmatization towards mental illness.
Tracking of the Articulated Upper Body on Multi-View Stereo Image Sequences

We propose a novel method for tracking an articulated model in a 3D-point cloud. The tracking problem is formulated as the registration of two point sets, one of them parameterised by the model’s state vector and the other acquired from a 3D-sensor system. Finding the correct parameter vector is posed as a linear estimation problem, which is solved by means of a scaled unscented Kalman filter. Our method draws on concepts from the widely used iterative closest point registration algorithm (ICP), basing the measurement model on point correspondences established between the synthesised model point cloud and the measured 3D-data. We apply the algorithm to kinematically track a model of the human upper body on a point cloud obtained through stereo image processing from one or more stereo cameras. We determine torso position and orientation as well as joint angles of shoulders and elbows. The algorithm has been successfully tested on thousands of frames of real image data. Challenging sequences of several minutes length where tracked correctly. Complete processing time remains below one second per frame.
Unusually small sex differentials in mortality of Israeli Jews: what does the structure of causes of death tell us?

Since the establishment of Israel sex differentials in life expectancy at birth exhibited by Israeli Jews have been very low in comparison to other developed countries as a result of relatively high male and relatively low female life expectancy. To advance understanding of this phenomenon this paper explores cause-specific contributions to the difference in life expectancy between Israeli Jews and Western countries, for each sex, and to sex differentials in mortality in both populations. We quantify the major types of behaviourally induced mortality to show that it is especially low among Israeli Jewish males. We also investigate mortality in certain subgroups of Israeli Jews to gain a better understanding of female mortality in this population.
An Environment for (re)configuration and Execution Managenment of Flexible Radio Platforms

This paper presents the Flexible Radio Kernel (FRK), a configuration and execution management environment for hybrid hardware/software flexible radio platform. The aim of FRK is to manage platform reconfiguration for multi-mode, multi-standard operation, with different levels of abstraction. A high level framework is described, to manage multiple MAC layers, and to enable MAC cooperation algorithms for cognitive radio. A low-level environment is also available to manage platform reconfiguration for radio operations. Radio can be implemented using hardware or software elements. Configuration state is hidden to the high-level layers, offering pseudo concurrency (time sharing) properties. This study presents a global view of FRK, with details on some specific parts of the environment. A practical study with algorithmic description is presented.
Inductance calculation of planar eddy-current sensor coils in grating-type displacement measurement system

Eddy-current sensor used in grating-type displacement measurement system usually works under axial asymmetric measurement conditions. In the measurement system, the coil is placed parallel to the detected target with both an axial displacement and a radial displacement. For it is difficult to perform derivation directly from the Maxwell's equations, a new calculation method of eddy-current sensor coil inductance is proposed. With the method combining both analytical derivation and finite element analysis, formulas to calculate the inductance of the sensor coil under axial asymmetric measurement conditions are derived. The formulas describe the inductance of a sensor coil as a function of target's axial position and radius position relative to the coil as well as other factors such as geometrical and electromagnetic parameters of the coil and target and so on. Simulations and practical measurements are carried out based on a typical device and the results validate the proposed formulas. The proposed calculation method provides a new and useful tool for eddy-current sensor design and optimization.