Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Model-driven Adapter Development for Web Services Interactions

1 Introduction Application integration has been one of the main drivers in the software market during the late nineties and into the new millennium. The typical approach to integration and process automation is based on the use of adapters and message brokers [1, 13, 5]. Adapters wrap the various applications (which are in general heterogeneous, e.g., have dierent interfaces, speak dierent protocols, and support dierent data formats) so that they can appear homogeneous and therefore integrated more easily. Web services have emerged as a solution to (or at least as a simplica-tion of) the integration problem [1]. The main benet they bring is that of standardization, in terms of data format (XML), interface denition language (WSDL), transport mechanism (SOAP) and many other interoperability aspects. Standardization reduces heterogeneity and makes it therefore easier to develop business logic that integrates dierent (Web service-based) applications. While standardization makes interoperability easier, it does not remove the need for adapters. In fact, although the lower levels of the interaction stacks are standardized , dierent Web services may still support dierent interfaces and protocols. For example, although two driving direction services may support XML and use SOAP as transport mechanism, they may still provide operations that have dierent names, dierent parameters, and dierent business protocols (that is, dierent constraints on the order in which they should be invoked for the clients to achieve a certain functionality). The need for adapters in Web services comes from two sources: one is the heterogeneity at the higher levels of the interoperability stack (e.g., at business protocol level), and the other is the high number and diversity of clients, each of which can support dierent interfaces and protocols, thereby generating the need for providing multiple faces to the same service. In this paper, we elaborate on the problem of developing adapters for Web service interactions. In the following, rst, we characterize the problem of adaptation by identifying and classifying dierent kinds of adaptation needs in Web services (Section 2). Then, we brie BLOCKINy explain our preliminary contribution on
Chromosome r(3)(p25.3q29) in a Patient with Developmental Delay and Congenital Heart Defects: A Case Report and a Brief Literature Review

Ring chromosome 3, r(3), is an extremely rare cytogenetic abnormality with clinical heterogeneity and only 12 cases reported in the literature. Here, we report a 1-year-old girl presenting distinctive facial features, developmental delay, and congenital heart defects with r(3) and a ∼10-Mb deletion of chromosome 3pterp25.3 (61,891-9,979,408) involving 42 known genes which was detected using G-banding karyotyping and CytoScan 750K-Array. The breakpoints in r(3) were mapped at 3p25.3 and 3q29. We also analyzed the available information on the clinical features of the reported cases with r(3) and 3p deletion syndrome in order to provide more valuable information of genotype-phenotype correlations. To our knowledge, this is the largest detected fragment described in r(3) cases and the second r(3) study using whole-genome microarray.
GPU Acceleration of the Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method

This paper describes our experience rewriting a sequential particle-in-cell code so that its key computations are executed on a GPU. This code is well-suited to GPU acceleration, as it performs data-parallel operations on a regular grid. Key performance challenges are the need for global synchronization in mapping particles to grid nodes, and managing memory bandwidth to global memory. Performance results show overall speedups of 3.3x including the time to display the results of simulation, or 10.9x without the display I/O overhead. Keywords-component; Particle-in-cell code, GPU acceleration
Architectural Improvements for Mobile Ubiquitous Surveillance Systems

Surveillance systems have begun to be integrated into the common lives of humans and improved surveillance systems will spread even further. Systems manufacturers will continue to provide powerful surveillance systems with different aspects from single sensors to an abundance of different intelligent sensors. These different devices will have the ability to deliver a large variety of information to either remote or local surveillance personnel for immediate utilization or for extracting information about occurred events. The objective of this dissertation is to analyse the reduction of excessive information delivered to security personnel and the immediate delivery of essential alarms to security personnel by refining a design of a distributed multi-sensor intelligent surveillance system. The surveillance system created is reflected against the mobile and ubiquitous requirements of the end users of the surveillance system. The mobile requirement contains the reduction of excessive information distributed to the end user, a.k. a. , the service personnel. The ubiquitous requirement consists of sensor data fusion and situation deduction. This dissertation uses a constructive research method, in which the results are validated by technical implementation and experimentation against mobile and ubiquitous requirements. The major results of this dissertation are the prototype implementations of the Single Location Surveillance Point (SLSP) system. It consists of a selective amount of sensors that collect readings from a single location, which is the surveillance point. Each sensor transmits its crude sensor data to a session server, which handles the connections between the components. The session server routes the crude sensor information to the logical decision making service. The logical decision making server automatically deducts the situation at the surveillance point based on the received sensor information. The logical decision making server informs the security manager server of the situation at the surveillance point. The security manager servers user interface displays essential information about the surveillance point to a human security administrator. The security manager server can transmit information to the nomadic security personnels smart phones over wireless networks.
A Forensic Traceability Index in Digital Forensic Investigation

Digital crime inflicts immense damage to users and systems and now it has reached a level of sophistication that makes it difficult to track its sources or origins especially with the advancements in modern computers, networks and the availability of diverse digital devices. Forensic has an important role to facilitate investigations of illegal activities and inappropriate behaviors using scientific methodologies, techniques and investigation frameworks. Digital forensic is developed to investigate any digital devices in the detection of crime. This paper emphasized on the research of traceability aspects in digital forensic investigation process. This includes discovering of complex and huge volume of evidence and connecting meaningful relationships between them. The aim of this paper is to derive a traceability index as a useful indicator in measuring the accuracy and completeness of discovering the evidence. This index is demonstrated through a model (TraceMap) to facilitate the investigator in tracing and mapping the evidence in order to identify the origin of the crime or incident. In this paper, tracing rate, mapping rate and offender identification rate are used to present the level of tracing ability, mapping ability and identifying the offender ability respectively. This research has a high potential of being expanded into other research areas such as in digital evidence presentation.
Hole energy dependent interface trap generation in MOSFET Si/SiO/sub 2/ interface

The nature and composition of generated interface-trap (/spl Delta/N/sub IT/) in p-MOSFETs is studied as a function of hole energy. By observing the time dependence of generation during stress and the amount of recovery after stress, it is shown that /spl Delta/N/sub IT/ is due to both broken /spl equiv/Si--H and /spl equiv/Si--O-- bonds, their ratio governed by hole energy. In the absence of hot holes /spl Delta/N/sub IT/ is primarily composed of broken /spl equiv/Si--H, which show a lower power-law time exponent and a fraction of which anneal after stress. Additional /spl Delta/N/sub IT/ is created in the presence of hot holes, which is due to broken /spl equiv/Si--O-- bonds. These traps show a much larger power-law time exponent, and they do not anneal after stress. These observations have important implications for lifetime prediction under negative bias temperature instability, Fowler-Nordheim, and hot carrier injection stress conditions.
A Methodology for Economic Evaluation of Cloud-Based Web Applications

Cloud technology is an attractive infrastructure solution to optimize the scalability and performance of web applications. The workload of these applications typically fluctuates between peak and valley loads and sometimes in an unpredictable way. Cloud systems can easily deal with this fluctuation because they provide customers with an almost unlimited on-demand infrastructure capacity using a pay-per-use model, which enables internet-based companies to pay for the actual consumption instead of peak capacity. In this paradigm, this paper links the business model of an internet-based company to the performance evaluation of the infrastructure. To this end, the paper develops a new methodology for assessing the costs and benefits of implementing web-based applications in the cloud. Traditional performance models and indexes related to usage of the main system resources (such as processor, memory, storage, and bandwidth) have been reformulated to include new metrics (such as customer losses and service costs) that are useful for business managers. Additionally, the proposed methodology has been illustrated with a case study of a typical e-commerce scenario. Experimental results show that the proposed metrics enable internet-based companies to estimate the cost of adopting a particular cloud configuration more accurately in terms of the infrastructure cost and the cost of losing customers due to performance degradation. Consequently, the methodology can be a useful tool to assess the feasibility of business plans.
Rate‐dependent changes of twitch force duration in rat cardiac trabeculae: a property of the contractile system

1 We examined the mechanisms for rate‐dependent changes in twitch force duration by simultaneously measuring force and [Ca2+]i in rat cardiac trabeculae. 2 Peak force decreased when the rate of stimulation was increased from 0.2 to 0.5 Hz, whilst it increased from 1 to 2 Hz. Over the same range of frequencies, peak [Ca2+]i transients increased monotonically, whilst both force and [Ca2+]i transient duration were abbreviated. 3 Changes in peak force or peak [Ca2+]i transients were not responsible for the changes in force or [Ca2+]i transient duration. 4 The changes in twitch force and [Ca2+]i transient duration were completed roughly within one beat following an abrupt change in the rate of stimulation. 5 Rate‐dependent changes resembled those observed with isoproterenol (isoprenaline) application. However, kinase inhibitors (i.e. K252‐a, H‐89, KN‐62 and KN‐93) had no effect on the rate‐dependent changes of twitch force and [Ca2+]i transient kinetics, suggesting that protein kinase A (PKA), protein kinase PKG) and Ca2+‐calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II (CaM/kinase II) were not responsible for these kinetic changes. 6 Despite the changes in twitch force and [Ca2+]i transient kinetics, the rate‐limiting step for the rate‐dependent force relaxation still resides at the level of the contractile proteins. 7 Our results suggest that rate‐dependent changes in force and [Ca2+]i transients do not depend on PKA or CaM/kinase II activity but might result from intrinsic features of the contractile and/or Ca2+‐handling proteins.
Generating a dynamical M2 brane from super-gravitons in a pp-wave background

We present a detailed study of dynamically generating an M2 brane from super-gravitons (or D0 branes) in a pp-wave background possessing maximal spacetime SUSY. We have three kinds of dynamical solutions depending on the excess energy which appears as an order parameter signalling a critical phenomenon about the solutions. As the excess energy is below a critical value, we have two branches of the solution, one can have its size zero while the other cannot for each given excess energy. However there can be an instanton tunnelling between the two. Once the excess energy is above the critical value, we have a single solution whose dynamical behavior is basically independent of the background chosen and whose size can be zero at some instant. A by product of this study is that the size of particles or extended objects can grow once there is a non-zero excess energy even without the presence of a background flux, therefore lending support to the spacetime uncertainty principle.
The proteome complement of Nicotiana tabacum Bright‐Yellow‐2 culture cells

The Nicotiana tabacum Bright‐Yellow‐2 (BY2) cell line is one of most commonly used plant suspension cell lines and offers interesting properties, such as fast growth, amenability to genetic transformation, and synchronization of cell division. To build a proteome reference map of BY2 cell proteins, we isolated the soluble proteins from N. tabacum BY2 cells at the end of the exponential growth phase and analyzed them by 2‐DE and MALDI TOF‐TOF. Of the 1422 spots isolated, 795 were identified with a significant score, corresponding to 532 distinct proteins.
Possible influences of exercise-intensity-dependent increases in non-cortical hemodynamic variables on NIRS-based neuroimaging analysis during cognitive tasks: Technical note

[Purpose] Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) provides functional imaging of cortical activations by measuring regional oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin (Hb) changes in the forehead during a cognitive task. There are, however, potential problems regarding NIRS signal contamination by non-cortical hemodynamic (NCH) variables such as skin blood flow, middle cerebral artery blood flow, and heart rate (HR), which are further complicated during acute exercise. It is thus necessary to determine the appropriate post-exercise timing that allows for valid NIRS assessment during a task without any increase in NCH variables. Here, we monitored post-exercise changes in NCH parameters with different intensities of exercise. [Methods] Fourteen healthy young participants cycled 30, 50 and 70% of their peak oxygen uptake (Vo2peak) for 10 min per intensity, each on different days. Changes in skin blood flow velocity (SBFv), middle cerebral artery mean blood velocity (MCA Vmean) and HR were monitored before, during, and after the exercise. [Results] Post-exercise levels of both SBFv and HR in contrast to MCA Vmean remained high compared to basal levels and the times taken to return to baseline levels for both parameters were delayed (2-8 min after exercise), depending upon exercise intensity. [Conclusion] These results indicate that the delayed clearance of NCH variables of up to 8 min into the post-exercise phase may contaminate NIRS measurements, and could be a limitation of NIRS-based neuroimaging studies.
CIGS thin film solar cells with graded-band gap fabricated by CIS/CGS bilayer and CGS/CIS/CGS trilayer systems

High efficiency CuIn1-xGaxSe2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells are usually deposited on Mo-coated soda-lime glass (SLG) substrates by the three-stage co-evaporation process which is intended to create double-graded band gap. It requires short total deposition time and rapid changing of substrate temperature in order to obtain the double-graded band gap which is quite difficult for high source-temperatures. When the total deposition time cannot be made short enough, uniform band gap is rather achieved. In this work, the depositions of CIS/CGS bilayer are employed in order to create back grading while CGS/CIS/CGS trilayers are for the double-grading, owing to non-uniformity and different diffusivity of In and Ga constituents in the films. The bilayers with back grading show the increasing short-circuit current density (Jsc) due to the assisting back surface field, but the open-circuit voltage (Voc) is relatively low due to the reduction of Ga content at the front surface. For the CGS/CIS/CGS trilayers, double grading and the increasing of Voc are observed when compared with the bilayers due to the increasing Ga content near the junction. The efficiencies of the devices fabricated from the CIS/CGS bilayer and CGS/CIS/CGS trilayer absorbers show the maximum value of 12.5% and 15.5%, respectively. The external quantum efficiency (EQE) of the bilayer and trilayer absorbers exhibit the enhancement in the long wavelengths compared to that of the three-stage process absorbers.
11.3 A hybrid multipath CMOS magnetic sensor with 210µTrms resolution and 3MHz bandwidth for contactless current sensing

CMOS Hall sensors are widely used as magnetic sensors due to their linearity and ease of integration [1-3]. Being essentially n-well resistors, their resolution is determined by thermal noise and so decreases with bandwidth (Fig. 11.3.1), limiting their use in wide-band current-sensing applications, such as in switched-mode power supplies, electric motor control and short-circuit detection. In contrast, the differentiating characteristic of pick-up coils means that their resolution actually improves with bandwidth (Fig. 11.3.1). This paper describes a hybrid sensor in standard CMOS that achieves wide bandwidth and good resolution by employing a Hall sensor in a low-frequency (LF) path and a coil in a high-frequency (HF) path. The sensors' outputs are amplified by two transconductance amplifiers (gm,coil and gm,HS) and then combined by a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) (Fig. 11.3.1). The sensor achieves a resolution of 210μTrms in a 3MHz bandwidth; the latter represents an order of magnitude improvement over state-of-the-art CMOS magnetic sensors [1,4].
Repeatability and reproducibility of anterior chamber angle measurement with anterior segment optical coherence tomography

Aim: To evaluate the repeatability and reproducibility of anterior chamber angle measurement obtained by anterior segment optical coherence tomography. Methods: Twenty-five normal subjects were invited for anterior chamber angle imaging with an anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) on one randomly selected eye in three separate visits within a week. Each eye was imaged three times under room light (light intensity = 368 lux) and three times in the dark during the first visit. In the subsequent visits, each eye was imaged once in the light and once in the dark. The angle opening distance (AOD 500) and the trabecular–iris angle (TIA 500) were measured by a single observer. Only the nasal angle was analysed. Intrasession and intersession within-subject standard deviation (Sw), precision (1.96×Sw), coefficient of variation (CVw) (100×Sw/overall mean), and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were calculated to evaluate repeatability and reproducibility. Results: For intrasession repeatability, the Sw, precision, CVw and ICC of AOD/TIA were 45 &mgr;m/2.4°, 88 &mgr;m/4.7°, 5.8%/4.8% and 0.97/0.95 in the light; and 45 &mgr;m/2.1°, 88 &mgr;m/4.2°, 7.0%/5.0% and 0.98/0.97 in the dark. For intersession reproducibility, the Sw, precision, CVw and ICC of AOD/TIA were 79 &mgr;m/3.5°, 155 &mgr;m/6.8°, 10.0%/7.0%, 0.91/0.89 in the light; and 64 &mgr;m/3.4°, 124 &mgr;m/6.6°, 9.9%/7.8% and 0.95/0.92 in the dark. Conclusions: The anterior segment OCT demonstrated reliable anterior chamber angle measurement in different lighting conditions with good repeatability and reproducibility.
Design of Network Media’s Digital Rights Management Scheme Based on Blockchain Technology

There exist many unsolved problems in the traditional digital rights management of network media. For example, in the traditional management system it is hard to guarantee the quality of media works, to protect the copyrights, to find the effective profit model and so on. To solve these problems, we propose in this paper a network media's digital rights management scheme based on blockchain. Blockchain is a technology that makes use of cryptographic algorithm, hash chains and consensus mechanism to implement consensus, irreversibility and traceability for online data. The proposed scheme can use these functionalities of blockchain to implement the effective production management, copyright management, transaction management and users' behavior management for network media. Furthermore, our proposed scheme can predictively provide an important support for the network media platform to build a sustainable development of benign ecological environment.
Exposure to Leishmania braziliensis Triggers Neutrophil Activation and Apoptosis

Background Neutrophils are the first line of defense against invading pathogens and are rapidly recruited to the sites of Leishmania inoculation. During Leishmania braziliensis infection, depletion of inflammatory cells significantly increases the parasite load whereas co-inoculation of neutrophils plus L. braziliensis had an opposite effect. Moreover, the co-culture of infected macrophages and neutrophils also induced parasite killing leading us to ask how neutrophils alone respond to an L. braziliensis exposure. Herein we focused on understanding the interaction between neutrophils and L. braziliensis, exploring cell activation and apoptotic fate. Methods and Findings Inoculation of serum-opsonized L. braziliensis promastigotes in mice induced neutrophil accumulation in vivo, peaking at 24 h. In vitro, exposure of thyoglycollate-elicited inflammatory or bone marrow neutrophils to L. braziliensis modulated the expression of surface molecules such as CD18 and CD62L, and induced the oxidative burst. Using mCherry-expressing L. braziliensis, we determined that such effects were mainly observed in infected and not in bystander cells. Neutrophil activation following contact with L. braziliensis was also confirmed by the release of TNF-α and neutrophil elastase. Lastly, neutrophils infected with L. braziliensis but not with L. major displayed markers of early apoptosis. Conclusions We show that L. braziliensis induces neutrophil recruitment in vivo and that neutrophils exposed to the parasite in vitro respond through activation and release of inflammatory mediators. This outcome may impact on parasite elimination, particularly at the early stages of infection.