Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A pulse frequency technique for a quick charger

The half bridge modular converter configuration is used to perform the charging pulses with both positive and negative pulse. The positive pulse charge permits the high peak current charge which leads to quick charging mode. The negative pulse and idle state can offer low battery temperature rise. The frequency used for pulse charge technique can be varied depending on the type and condition of a battery. PSIM 9.0. 3 is utilized for simulation study and the 500 W prototype is developed to validate the proposed notion. The simulation and experimental results illustrate that the proposed pulse frequency charging technique requires shorter time to fully charge battery at SOC 80% comparing to conventional constant current and constant voltage technique about 3 times at same average charging current. The temperature rise of pulse frequency charging technique is less than a conventional one about 1°C: This can lead to quicker charge and longer battery lifetime. The results suggest that the proposed technique can be applied for an electric vehicle quick charger station.
Klinische dialectische gedragstherapie bij borderlinepersoonlijkheidsstoornis: effect op klachten, coping, hechting en kwaliteit van leven

Background Dialectical behaviour therapy (dbt) is an effective treatment for patients suffering from borderline personality disorder (bpd). When outpatient treatment is ineffective, patients are often referred to inpatient (group) treatment. As of yet, little is known about the effectiveness of inpatient (group) dbt. An altered style of attachment is one of the presumed components of inpatient (group) treatment. At present, this supposition has not yet been examined in inpatient dbt programs. Aim To examine the treatment outcome of an inpatient group dbt program for patients suffering from bpd, evaluating symptoms, coping, attachment style and quality of life. Whether an improvement in attachment style during treatment is a predictor of psychological wellbeing at the end of treatment will also be examined. Method An inpatient group dbt population, comprising of 64 patients diagnosed with bpd, was evaluated. Self-report questionnaires assessed symptoms, coping, attachment style and quality of life at the start of treatment, after 19 weeks and at the end of treatment. Results The mentioned variables significantly improved in the inpatients of the group dbt program (treatment lasting on average 7.2 months). Furthermore, positive changes in secure and preoccupied attachment style were a significant predictor of psychological wellbeing at the end of the treatment. Conclusion We conclude that patients diagnosed with bpd may benefit from an inpatient dbt (group) program. Improvements in attachment style during inpatient treatment may contribute to this benefit.
Preface Search Engine Technology : A Closer Look at Its Future

This editorial preface will describe the need for new technology for search engines, the two generations of search engine technologies used, and the need for a third generation search engine. We will discuss the limitations of today’s search engines and difficulties in determining relevancy of the search and the need for a context-sensitive ranking system, and take a closer look at the future of search engines based on the open source model.
Multi-Perspective Detail+Overview Visualization for 3D Building Exploration

Virtual 3D building models, as key elements of virtual 3D city models, are used in a growing number of application domains, such as geoanalysis, disaster management and architectural planning. Visualization systems for such building models often rely on perspective or orthogonal projections using a single viewpoint. Therefore, the exploration of a complete model requires a user to change the viewpoint multiple times and to memorize the content of each view to obtain a comprehensive mental model. Since this is usually a time-consuming task, which implies context switching, current visualization systems use multiple viewports to simultaneously depict an object from different perspectives. Our approach extends the idea of multiple viewports by combining two linked views for the interactive exploration of virtual 3D buildings model and their facades. In contrast to traditional approaches, we automatically generate a multi-perspective view that simultaneously depicts all facades of the building in one overview image. This facilitates the process of obtaining overviews and supports fast and direct navigation to various points-of-interest. We describe the concept and implementations of our Multiple-Center-of-Projection camera model for real-time multi-perspective image synthesis. Further, we provide insights into different interaction techniques for linked multi-perspective views and outline approaches of future work.
Antigenic Drift of Influenza a (h3n2) Virus in a Persistently Infected Immunocompromised Host Is Similar to That Occurring in the Community

, this treatment was switched to stavudine and lamivudine because of high levels of HIV always Ͼ500/␮L. Two weeks before admission, nevirapine (at a 15-day lead-in dosage of 200 mg/d) was added to previous antiretro-viral therapy with stavudine (40 mg twice daily) and lamivudine (150 mg twice daily). He was not taking any other medications and had no history of drug allergies or chronic hepatitis. At the time of admission, physical examination revealed a temperature of 39.2°C, marked scleral jaundice, distended abdomen , and moderate hepatomegaly. Initial laboratory studies disclosed the following values: leukocytes, 14.4 ϫ 10 9 /L (80% neu-The C-reactive protein level was 153 mg/L (normal value, Ͻ6 mg/L), and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 35 mm/h (normal range, 0 –20 mm/h). Other findings of biochemistry and hematologic studies were normal. Abdominal ultrasonography disclosed enlargement of the liver with a non-homogeneous echotexture and abundant ascites, but no focal le-sions and splenomegaly were found. No thrombosis of the hepatic veins was revealed. After a 3-day hospital stay, an itching skin reaction appeared on his face and trunk. Therapy with nevirapine, stavudine, and lami-vudine was discontinued, and supportive care with administration of intravenous fluids and antihistamines was started. Laboratory evaluation showed a further increase in the leukocyte count (18.33 ϫ 10 9 /L) with 46% eosinophils (eosinophil count, 8.33 ϫ 10 9 /L) and an abrupt rise in the IgE value to 1,735 kU/L (normal value, Ͻ200 kU/L). Multiple blood and urine cultures were negative, as were examinations for infections and neoplastic cells in the ascitic fluid. Serologies for herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, cytomegalovirus, and hepatitis A, B, and C viruses were negative. Cytomegalovirus viremia and hepatitis B virus DNA were also not found. No autoantibodies (antinuclear, anti–smooth muscle, antimi-tochondrial, or antireticulum) were found. Because the patient had worked for Ͼ20 years in Malawi, additional specific diagnostic tests for parasitic infections were performed to complete the evaluation. Both urine and stool examinations as well as sigmoidoscopy with biopsy were negative for Schistosoma haematobium and Entamoeba histolytica; microscopy and culture of bone marrow smears were negative for Leishmania. All serological tests for parasitic infections were negative. Furthermore , the diagnoses of malaria and filariasis were ruled out by several microscopic examinations of thick and thin blood smears. Within 2 weeks, the patient's symptoms abated with subsequent, although slow, complete resolution of ascites and rash. Liver enzyme levels, eosinophilia, …
Work of the Heart and the Mind: Authenticity of Self in Psychotherapy

This thesis examines psychotherapists' emotional regulation and conceptions of authenticity in their work and personal lives. Psychotherapy complicates emotion work as previously studied, by adding additional layers of an intimate, long-term therapeutic relationship and the necessary development of trust to enable patient healing. Rather than managerial-enforced regulation of workers' emotion, therapists shape their own emotional guidelines and professional selves. My interviews with five psychotherapists reveal their conceptualizations ofthese selves and their different definitions of authenticity in the workplace. I find that an important part of professional agency for therapists is their individually constructed work/personal boundary, a protective layer for their well-being in and out of work. Their conceptions of authenticity of self at work break down the distinction between work and personal realms. Stronger conceptions of authentic selves in the office result in more post-work suffering. The more removed therapists' "personal selves" from the workplace, therefore, the safer their emotional well-being.
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO IMAGE SEQUENCE SEGMENTATION

Semantic object segmentation is an important step for object based coding, content based access and manipulations. We propose a segmentation scheme for image sequences which provides initial region information for the semantic object representation of those applications. Our objective is to develop a segmentation method which has hardware friendly architecture, and incorporates static and dynamic features simultaneously in one scheme. In the initial stage, a multiple feature space consisting of luminance (chrominance), motion, and texture features is transformed to one dimensional label space by using Self Organizing Feature Maps (SOFM) neural networks. The next stage is an edge fusion in which edge information is incorporated into the neural network outputs to generate more precisely located boundaries of the segmentation. The segmentation results of both gray level image sequences and color image sequences are evaluated using evaluation metrics. The results show the validity of the proposed scheme.
Versality of algebraic group actions and rational points on twisted varieties

We formalize and study several competing notions of versality for an action of a linear algebraic group on an algebraic variety X. Our main result is that these notions of versality are equivalent to various statements concerning rational points on twisted forms of X (existence of rational points, existence of a dense set of rational points, etc.) We give applications of this equivalence in both directions, to study versality of group actions and rational points on algebraic varieties. We obtain similar results on p-versality for a prime integer p. An appendix, containing a letter from J.-P. Serre, puts the notion of versality in a historical perspective.
Super Wide Viewing for Tele-operation

In this paper, we propose a tele-operation system with a super wide field of view (FOV). Our teleoperation system has an omnidirectional image sensor for capturing a panoramic image and a personal spherical screen display for projecting a wide-angle image. The first original contribution is applying our system to navigating the mobile robot by tele-operation and evaluating efficiency of wide FOV. The second original contribution is a new propose of a super wide FOV. Generally, FOVs of a common display system and a HMD system are restricted and it is unable to see the outer of FOV of these displays. The idea of super wide FOV is that the wide FOV is nonlinearly compressed to display FOV. Therefore, the operator can look behind even if the display is not a panoramic large screen display. Key-Words: Wide filed of view, Tele-opration, Robot, Navigation.
Variability in the Heritability of Body Mass Index: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression

Evidence for a major role of genetic factors in the determination of body mass index (BMI) comes from studies of related individuals. Despite consistent evidence for a heritable component of BMI, estimates of BMI heritability vary widely between studies and the reasons for this remain unclear. While some variation is natural due to differences between populations and settings, study design factors may also explain some of the heterogeneity. We performed a systematic review that identified 88 independent estimates of BMI heritability from twin studies (total 140,525 twins) and 27 estimates from family studies (42,968 family members). BMI heritability estimates from twin studies ranged from 0.47 to 0.90 (5th/50th/95th centiles: 0.58/0.75/0.87) and were generally higher than those from family studies (range: 0.24–0.81; 5th/50th/95th centiles: 0.25/0.46/0.68). Meta-regression of the results from twin studies showed that BMI heritability estimates were 0.07 (P = 0.001) higher in children than in adults; estimates increased with mean age among childhood studies (+0.012/year, P = 0.002), but decreased with mean age in adult studies (−0.002/year, P = 0.002). Heritability estimates derived from AE twin models (which assume no contribution of shared environment) were 0.12 higher than those from ACE models (P < 0.001), whilst lower estimates were associated with self reported versus DNA-based determination of zygosity (−0.04, P = 0.02), and with self reported versus measured BMI (−0.05, P = 0.03). Although the observed differences in heritability according to aspects of study design are relatively small, together, the above factors explained 47% of the heterogeneity in estimates of BMI heritability from twin studies. In summary, while some variation in BMI heritability is expected due to population-level differences, study design factors explained nearly half the heterogeneity reported in twin studies. The genetic contribution to BMI appears to vary with age and may have a greater influence during childhood than adult life.
COMPARISION OF REGRESSION WITH NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR THE VARIATION OF VANISHING POINT WITH VIEW ANGLE IN DEPTH ESTIMATION WITH VARYING BRIGHTNESS

A vanishing point in a 2D image is a point where parallel edges in 3D scene converges due to perspective view. Vanishing point provides lot of information in most of the applications like distance of objects in 3D Scene. This point depends on Camera viewing angle as well as distance between the parallel edges in a scene. In order to find relationship between the Vanishing Points with view angle and distance between parallel edges with varying focal lengths of the camera, various data were collected by having an experimental set-up by varying the distance between two parallel sticks in an image and also by varying the angle of the camera with the parallel sticks. Images are preprocessed to overcome the problems of improper lighting in the scene. Different data mining techniques were used and the results are twofold. The results of regression model for the relationship between the angle of the camera and the X and Y coordinates of the vanishing point has been analyzed using neural network model, which gave 100% validity on the model.
A Conceptual-Level Design Environment for Learning Contents

To meet the needs for large-scale, high-quality learning contents, needless to say, we have to sharpen authoring tools. Authoring process can be roughly divided into two phases, a composing phase and a verification phase. A great deal of effort has been made on the support in the former phase. What seems to be lacking, however, is that in the latter. An ontology-aware authoring tool we have been developing has a function called “Conceptual level simulation. ” This supports authors in the latter phase by showing the behavior of learning contents not only as a sequence of concrete behavior but also as structured and abstract behavior along the design intention. Ontology lays the foundation for the function by explicating operational and conceptual semantics of a training scenario.
Exposure therapy triggers lasting reorganization of neural fear processing

A single session of exposure therapy can eliminate recalcitrant and disabling fear of phobogenic objects or situations. We studied neural mechanisms of this remarkable outcome by monitoring changes in brain activity as a result of successful 2-h treatment. Before treatment, phobogenic images excited activity in a network of regions, including amygdala, insula, and cingulate cortex, relative to neutral images. Successful therapy dampened responsiveness in this fear-sensitive network while concomitantly heightening prefrontal involvement. Six months later, dampened fear-network activity persisted but without prefrontal engagement. Additionally, individual differences in the magnitude of visual cortex activations recorded shortly after therapy predicted therapeutic outcomes 6 mo later, which involved persistently diminished visual responsiveness to phobogenic images. Successful therapy thus entailed stable reorganization of neural responses to initially feared stimuli. These effects were linked to fear-extinction mechanisms identified in animal models, thus opening new opportunities for the treatment and prevention of debilitating anxiety disorders.
Concentrating entanglement by local actions: Beyond mean values

Suppose two distant observers Alice and Bob share a pure bipartite quantum state. By applying local operations and communicating with each other using a classical channel, Alice and Bob can manipulate it into some other states. Previous investigations of entanglement manipulations have been largely limited to a small number of strategies and their average outcomes. Here we consider a general entanglement manipulation strategy, and go beyond the average property. For a pure entangled state shared between two separated persons Alice and Bob, we show that the mathematical interchange symmetry of the Schmidt decomposition can be promoted into a physical symmetry between the actions of Alice and Bob. Consequently, the most general (multistep two-way-communications) strategy of entanglement manipulation of a pure state is, in fact, equivalent to a strategy involving only a single (generalized) measurement by Alice followed by one-way communications of its result to Bob. We also prove that strategies with one-way communications are generally more powerful than those without communications. In summary, one-way communications is necessary and sufficient for entanglement manipulations of a pure bipartite state. The supremum probability of obtaining a maximally entangled state (of any dimension) from an arbitrary state is determined, and a strategy for achieving this probability is constructed explicitly. One important question is whether collective manipulations in quantum mechanics can greatly enhance the probability of large deviations from the average behavior. We answer this question in the negative by showing that, given n pairs of identical partly entangled pure states $(|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉)$ with entropy of entanglement $E(|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉),$ the probability of getting $\mathrm{nK}$ $[KgE(|\ensuremath{\Psi}〉)]$ singlets out of entanglement concentration tends to zero as n tends to infinity.
Comparative Genomic Analysis of Sulfurospirillum cavolei MES Reconstructed from the Metagenome of an Electrosynthetic Microbiome

Sulfurospirillum spp. play an important role in sulfur and nitrogen cycling, and contain metabolic versatility that enables reduction of a wide range of electron acceptors, including thiosulfate, tetrathionate, polysulfide, nitrate, and nitrite. Here we describe the assembly of a Sulfurospirillum genome obtained from the metagenome of an electrosynthetic microbiome. The ubiquity and persistence of this organism in microbial electrosynthesis systems suggest it plays an important role in reactor stability and performance. Understanding why this organism is present and elucidating its genetic repertoire provide a genomic and ecological foundation for future studies where Sulfurospirillum are found, especially in electrode-associated communities. Metabolic comparisons and in-depth analysis of unique genes revealed potential ecological niche-specific capabilities within the Sulfurospirillum genus. The functional similarities common to all genomes, i.e., core genome, and unique gene clusters found only in a single genome were identified. Based upon 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis and average nucleotide identity, the Sulfurospirillum draft genome was found to be most closely related to Sulfurospirillum cavolei. Characterization of the draft genome described herein provides pathway-specific details of the metabolic significance of the newly described Sulfurospirillum cavolei MES and, importantly, yields insight to the ecology of the genus as a whole. Comparison of eleven sequenced Sulfurospirillum genomes revealed a total of 6246 gene clusters in the pan-genome. Of the total gene clusters, 18.5% were shared among all eleven genomes and 50% were unique to a single genome. While most Sulfurospirillum spp. reduce nitrate to ammonium, five of the eleven Sulfurospirillum strains encode for a nitrous oxide reductase (nos) cluster with an atypical nitrous-oxide reductase, suggesting a utility for this genus in reduction of the nitrous oxide, and as a potential sink for this potent greenhouse gas.
Delayed GeV emission from cosmological gamma-ray bursts: impact of a relativistic wind on external matter

Sudden collapse of a compact object, or coalescence of a compact binary, can generate an unsteady relativistic wind that lasts for a few seconds. The wind is likely to carry a high magnetic field; and its Lorentz factor depends on the extent to which it is 'loaded' with baryons. If the Lorentz factor is $\sim 100$, internal dissipation and shocks in this wind produce a non-thermal gamma-ray burst, detectable in the range $0.1\MeV \siml E_\gamma \siml 0.1-1\GeV$ out to cosmological distances. The cooled wind ejecta would subsequently be decelerated by the external medium. The resultant blast wave and reverse shock can then give rise to a second burst component, mainly detectable in the GeV range, with a time delay relative to the MeV burst ranging from minutes to hours.
Non-destructive Quality Analysis of Kamod Oryza Sativa SSP Indica (Indian Rice) Using Machine Learning Technique

Rice is one of the most important cereal grains. The paper presents a solution for quality evaluation and grading of Krishna Kamod rice using image processing and soft computing technique. In this paper basic problem of rice industry for quality assessment is defined which is traditionally done manually by human inspector. Machine vision provides one alternative for an automated, non-destructive and cost-effective technique. The proposed method for quality assessment of INDIAN KAMOD ORYZA SATIVA SSP INDICA (Krishna Kamod Rice) using image processing and multi-layer feed forward neural network technique which achieves high degree of quality than human vision inspection. The proposed algorithm based on morphological features is developed for counting the number of Krishna Kamod rice seeds with long seeds as well as small seeds. A trained multi-layer feed forward neural network based classifier is developed for identification of unknown rice seed quality.
Large margin taxonomy embedding with an application to document categorization

Applications of multi-class classification, such as document categorization, often appear in cost-sensitive settings. Recent work has significantly improved the state of the art by moving beyond "flat" classification through incorporation of class hierarchies [4]. We present a novel algorithm that goes beyond hierarchical classification and estimates the latent semantic space that underlies the class hierarchy. In this space, each class is represented by a prototype and classification is done with the simple nearest neighbor rule. The optimization of the semantic space incorporates large margin constraints that ensure that for each instance the correct class prototype is closer than any other. We show that our optimization is convex and can be solved efficiently for large data sets. Experiments on the OHSUMED medical journal data base yield state-of-the-art results on topic categorization.