Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Modeling of Si-compatible On-chip Inductors Ece 1371 -term Paper Modeling of Silicon-compatible On-chip Inductors

The rapid growth of the wireless communication mark et has fueled a lar ge demand for lo w cost, portable products. T raditionally, radio systems are implemented on the board le vel making use of a lar ge number of discrete components. Ho wever, advancements in silicon-compatible (CMOS/Bipolar) IC technology has pro vided device performance suitable for analog operation up to several giga-hertz thus making it possible to inte grate radios on a chip to meet mark et demands [1]. In addition, inductors are a crucial part of an y RF circuit which has prompted a great deal of effort towards the use of on-chip inductors in the quest for higher le v ls of system inte gration. On-chip inductances of up to 20 nH [2] are realizable on silicon-compatible IC’ s using planar spiral geometries. Figure 1 illustrates the layout of a square on-chip inductor . Even though circular geometries ha ve been kno wn to provide a some what higher Q, 90° ° segments ha ve been used since non-Manhattan geometries are not permitted by man y technologies. An underpass is used to access the inner spiral.
On TimeML-Compliant Temporal Expression Extraction in Turkish

It is commonly acknowledged that temporal expression extractors are important components of larger natural language processing systems like information retrieval and question answering systems. Extraction and normalization of temporal expressions in Turkish has not been given attention so far except the extraction of some date and time expressions within the course of named entity recognition. As TimeML is the current standard of temporal expression and event annotation in natural language texts, in this paper, we present an analysis of temporal expressions in Turkish based on the related TimeML classification (i.e., date, time, duration, and set expressions). We have created a lexicon for Turkish temporal expressions and devised considerably wide-coverage patterns using the lexical classes as the building blocks. We believe that the proposed patterns, together with convenient normalization rules, can be readily used by prospective temporal expression extraction tools for Turkish.
Unawareness of theorems

This paper provides a set-theoretic model of knowledge and unawareness. A new property called Awareness Leads to Knowledge shows that unawareness of theorems not only constrains an agent’s knowledge, but also can impair his reasoning about what other agents know. For example, in contrast to Li (J Econ Theory 144:977–993, 2009), Heifetz et al. (J Econ Theory 130:78–94, 25 2006) and the standard model of knowledge, it is possible that two agents disagree on whether another agent knows a particular event. The model follows Aumann (Ann Stat 4:1236–1239, 1976) in defining common knowledge and characterizing it in terms of a self-evident event, but departs in showing that no-trade theorems do not hold.
Learning articulated body models for people re-identification

People re-identification is a challenging problem in surveillance and forensics and it aims at associating multiple instances of the same person which have been acquired from different points of view and after a temporal gap. Image-based appearance features are usually adopted but, in addition to their intrinsically low discriminability, they are subject to perspective and view-point issues. We propose to completely change the approach by mapping local descriptors extracted from RGB-D sensors on a 3D body model for creating a view-independent signature. An original bone-wise color descriptor is generated and reduced with PCA to compute the person signature. The virtual bone set used to map appearance features is learned using a recursive splitting approach. Finally, people matching for re-identification is performed using the Relaxed Pairwise Metric Learning, which simultaneously provides feature reduction and weighting. Experiments on a specific dataset created with the Microsoft Kinect sensor and the OpenNi libraries prove the advantages of the proposed technique with respect to state of the art methods based on 2D or non-articulated 3D body models.
THE FORMATION OF HUMAN CAPILLARY NETWORKS FROM THE INJECTION OF HUMAN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL SPHEROIDS INTO A MURINE TISSUE ENGINEERING CHAMBER AND DERMAL POCKET WOUNDS

Due to bone trauma, tumor, deformity, and degeneration and also an increasingly aging population, there is a high demand for orthopaedic implants. In this study, foetal murine calvarial Osteoblasts (OB) were cultured on five different forms of Ti-20Mo (in wt.%) alloy for 7 days: coarse-grained β-(Ti-20Mo), nanostructured β-(Ti-20Mo) (NS1), nanostructured Ti-20Mo alloy with a mixed structure of α and β (NS2), and nanostructured Ti-20Mo alloy (β+α) with two different types of surface porous structures (NP1: 40-50 nm pores and NP2: 300-400 nm pores), benchmarked against as-cast Grade 2 commercially pure Ti (CP-Ti). The surface topographies were analyzed using atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The cellular adhesion, numbers of cells and cellular morphology were evaluated for both the OB and BAEC based on the observations obtained from confocal microscope imaging. It was observed that the OB behaved differently on different titanium substrate topographies. These results revealed that the surface characteristics of titanium (Ti) substrates are important factors that affect osseointegration.
Edge detection and feature extraction in automated fingerprint identification systems

As a means of access control and criminal identification, Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) are widely utilized. In many areas of business, these systems are entrusted to verify identities of personnel before allowing access to restricted information or facilities. In the area of criminal investigation, these same systems are entrusted to find, match, and identify criminals. Obviously, these systems are given critical tasks and are performing them unsupervised most of the time. Although most steps in the process are procedural and can be automated, there are two critical phases that need to be performed intelligently and reliably. These two phases are edge detection and feature extraction. In order to enhance important features accurately in the fingerprint image, methods in edge detection are applied. Once the important features are exposed and artifacts are removed, feature extraction takes place. In this phase, the print is characterized by the extracted features for matching later. This article looks at the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of these two phases to understand their automation. Introduction Fingerprint technology is the most widely used form of biometric technology. The most popular method for acquiring fingerprints is by collecting inked impressions. There are recent technologies which allow the collection of fingerprints using scanning tools. Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) have now been developed to improve accuracy and efficiency over the previous fingerprint matching solutions. With the increased concern for identity theft and other privacy issues, fingerprint recognition systems and other biometric authentication systems are necessary to address security needs in the international community. AFIS is now used internationally for tracking criminals and preventing fraudulent voting. Many police departments use these systems to capture, search, and store fingerprint images from crime scenes. Some AFIS are capable of searching through fingerprints at a rate of 4,000 comparisons
Extending OMT for the Specification of Composite Objects

In engineering and telecommunication applications, it is common to have composite objects. Existing object-oriented methods propose many approaches for modeling these objects. However, these approaches fail to capture the linkage between the structure and the behavior of composite objects. In [Ramazani 95a], a conceptual framework for the description of composite objects prescribes how this linkage can be established by means of a set of fundamental concepts. In order to make this framework more usable in practice, this paper shows how OMT can be adapted and extended to describe composite objects according to this framework. A great deal of these adaptations and extensions require only minor notational and semantic changes to the method. This work also shows how more requirements in connection with composite objects can be captured, made explicit, and precisely stated using an extended OMT.
A systematic review on the influence of fear of falling on quality of life in older people: is there a role for falls?

Abstract Maintaining or improving quality of life (QoL) is a key outcome of clinical interventions in older people. Fear of falling (FoF) is associated with activity restriction as well as with poorer physical and cognitive functions and may be an important contributor to a diminished QoL. The objectives of this systematic review were to determine i) the effect of FoF on QoL in older people, ii) whether the association between these two constructs depends on the use of specific conceptualizations and measurement instruments, and iii) the role of fall events as mediating factor in this relationship. Four electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library) were searched from their inceptions to February 2018. Thirty mostly cross-sectional studies in nearly 30.000 people (weighted mean age 75.6 years (SD =6.1); 73% women) were included. FoF was associated with QoL in most studies, and this association appeared to be independent of the conceptualization of FoF. Moreover, this relationship was independent of falls people experienced which seemed to have a lower impact. FoF should be considered not only as by-product of falls and targeted interventions in parts different from those to reduce falls are likely required. Studies are needed showing that reducing FoF will lead to increased QoL.
Relaxing the 3L algorithm for an accurate implicit polynomial fitting

This paper presents a novel method to increase the accuracy of linear fitting of implicit polynomials. The proposed method is based on the 3L algorithm philosophy. The novelty lies on the relaxation of the additional constraints, already imposed by the 3L algorithm. Hence, the accuracy of the final solution is increased due to the proper adjustment of the expected values in the aforementioned additional constraints. Although iterative, the proposed approach solves the fitting problem within a linear framework, which is independent of the threshold tuning. Experimental results, both in 2D and 3D, showing improvements in the accuracy of the fitting are presented. Comparisons with both state of the art algorithms and a geometric based one (non-linear fitting), which is used as a ground truth, are provided.
Fast retrieval approach of sentimental analysis with implementation of bloom filter on Hadoop

For faster growing environment there is a need to analyze sentiments with accurate results and limited time consumption. Hadoop architecture uses sentimental data for processing. As it needs large amount of data for analysis so it requires techniques that can give fast and accurate result. Bloom filter has techniques that uses the database and build a log that can be used for searching results faster. Sentimental analysis uses tree data structure. This data approach uses systematic way for traversal. This data, with implementation of bloom filter, can grow at a high rate efficiently with the use of suitable hash function. Sentimental analysis needs a large data for complete analysis, so Hadoop framework can provide platform to store large dataset and process it.
Increased rheumatoid factor and deep venous thrombosis: 2 cohort studies of 54628 individuals from the general population.

BACKGROUND The risk of deep venous thrombosis is increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. We tested the hypothesis that increased concentrations of rheumatoid factor are associated with increased risk of deep venous thrombosis in individuals without autoimmune rheumatic disease in the general population. METHODS We included 54628 participants from the Copenhagen City Heart Study (1981-83) and the Copenhagen General Population Study (2004-12), all with a measured concentration of IgM rheumatoid factor and without autoimmune rheumatic disease or venous thromboembolism. The main outcome was incident deep venous thrombosis. There were no losses to follow-up. RESULTS During 368381 person-years, 670 individuals developed deep venous thrombosis. A rheumatoid factor concentration ≥ vs <110 IU/mL showed the strongest association with deep venous thrombosis, with multivariable adjusted hazard ratios of 9.0 (95% CI 3.1-26) for 1-year follow-up, 4.3 (2.2-8.5) for 5-year follow-up, and 3.1 (1.7-5.6) for up to 32 years of follow-up. Compared with rheumatoid factor concentrations <15 IU/mL, the multivariable adjusted hazard ratios for deep venous thrombosis during maximum follow-up were 1.3 (1.0-1.5) for 15-29 IU/mL, 1.7 (1.0-2.8) for 30-59 IU/mL, 2.4 (1.3-4.3) for 60-119 IU/mL, and 3.0 (1.6-5.6) for ≥120 IU/mL (trend P = 6 × 10(-7)). Results were similar in the 2 studies separately. Obese men and women age >60 years with rheumatoid factor concentrations ≥120 IU/mL had 10% and 8% 5-year risk of deep venous thrombosis. CONCLUSIONS Increased rheumatoid factor in the general population was associated with up to 3-fold increased long-term risk and up to 9-fold increased 1-year risk of deep venous thrombosis.
On Clause and Intonational Phrase in Japanese : ! e Syntactic Grounding of Prosodic Constituent Structure E S

+is paper reviews evidence from recent research on Japanese sentence prosody, in particular Kawahara and Shinya (2008) on coordinated clauses and Kubo (1989) et seq, Deguchi and Kitagawa (2002) et seq, Ishihara (2002) et seq and Hirotani (2003) et seq on matrix and embedded wh-questions, which suggests that syntactic clauses correspond to a domain for certain of the phonological and phonetic phenomena that define the intonational patterns of Japanese sentences. +e finding that there is a clause-grounded intonational phrase domain of phonological representation in Japanese is predicted by a universal theory of the prosodic hierarchy as grounded in a universal theory of the syntaxphonology interface (Selkirk 2005). +is paper lays out a new universal Match theory of the syntax-prosodic constituency interface, according to which designated syntactic constituent types are called on to match up with corresponding prosodic constituent types. Match theory may be construed as a component of the theory of Spell-Out in minimalist phase theory (Chomsky 2001). +e data also shows that recursive intonational phrase structure is produced when the universal Match Clause constraint is satisfied on nested clausal domains. +is is expected if indeed the availability of recursive prosodic structure derives from the organization of syntactic structure, through the agency of constraints on the syntax-phonology interface. +is theory that prosodic constituent structure above the foot is syntactically grounded thus meshes well with the Ito and Mester 2007 claim that the prosodic hierarchy repertoire is universal and highly restricted and that recursivity in prosodic structure is systematic.
Assessing IT Educational Pathways that Support Rural Broadband: Strategies for Aligning IT Curricula, Policy, and Employer Needs

ABSTRACT In this National Science Foundation Advanced Technician Education program (NSF ATE) project, we aimed to explore factors that would strengthen the rural IT employee workforce and improve educational support related to broadband, telecommunications, and networks in rural settings. Using multiple methods to triangulate rural IT program curricula content with employers’ perceptions and new professionals’ on-the-job experiences, we gained an understanding of common general and technical competencies, perceived rural IT technician workforce readiness, and strategies to bring educational experiences in alignment with professional performance. We also offer findings concerning alignment of technician pathways and recommendations for how to transfer identified competencies to other similar rural markets, along with examples of extensions of this work for exploring and assessing IT pathways.
Online Identification with Reliability Criterion and State of Charge Estimation Based on a Fuzzy Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter for Lithium-Ion Batteries

In the field of state of charge (SOC) estimation, the Kalman filter has been widely used for many years, although its performance strongly depends on the accuracy of the battery model as well as the noise covariance. The Kalman gain determines the confidence coefficient of the battery model by adjusting the weight of open circuit voltage (OCV) correction, and has a strong correlation with the measurement noise covariance ( R ). In this paper, the online identification method is applied to acquire the real model parameters under different operation conditions. A criterion based on the OCV error is proposed to evaluate the reliability of online parameters. Besides, the equivalent circuit model produces an intrinsic model error which is dependent on the load current, and the property that a high battery current or a large current change induces a large model error can be observed. Based on the above prior knowledge, a fuzzy model is established to compensate the model error through updating R . Combining the positive strategy ( i.e. , online identification) and negative strategy ( i.e. , fuzzy model), a more reliable and robust SOC estimation algorithm is proposed. The experiment results verify the proposed reliability criterion and SOC estimation method under various conditions for LiFePO 4 batteries.
Using linguistic patterns in FCA-based approach for automatic acquisition of taxonomies from Malay text

Previous work has shown that Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) can be used to automatically acquire taxonomies from Indo-European text. The taxonomies are built via FCA using syntactic dependencies as attributes such as verb/head-object, verb/head-subject and verb/prepositional phrase-complement. This paper discusses the overall process of learning taxonomy using FCA with the same syntactic dependencies as the English language which is then applied on Malay texts. Malay, an Austronesian language follows the same Subject-Verb-Object sentence structure like English but syntactically different. The result shows a lower recall and precision compared to related work in other languages. The poor result is caused by several factors such as the selection of smoothing technique. The experimental result indicates that the current smoothing technique with FCA does not produce good results. Therefore, as an addition to the syntactic dependencies, we used linguistic pattern such as Hearst’s pattern in finding similarities between terms. We compare the results of our technique against the cosine used in the FCA-based taxonomy learning approach. The proposed technique attains both higher precision and recall than the previous technique.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS

Purpose. In this research we have tried to identify the impact of emotional intelligence on the managerial effectiveness. Design. The domains of emotional intelligence identified by the dr. Daniel goleman namely self-awareness, self-regulation, social skill & empathy have been tested to include in the listing of 16 managerial skills namely confidence in subordinates, communication and task assignment, networking, colleagues management, discipline, informal communication, management of market environment, conflict resolution, integrity and communication, client management & competence, motivating, delegation, image building, welfare management, consultative, & inspection and innovation the scale developed by seeta gupta in 1996. Statistical package for the social science is used for analysis. Descriptive analysis is used to define the key aspects and sample formation. Two tailed pearson correlation was applied to check and test the relationship among the variables used in the research. Regression analysis was used to identify the significance, magnitude and direction of the variables Findings and implications. We have concluded that all four traits of emotional intelligence have been found significant, therefore suggested to include them in the scale of managerial effectiveness.
On the Geometry of the Second Fundamental Form of Translation Surfaces in E3

In this paper we study the second fundamental form of translation surfaces in E3. We give a non-existence result for polynomial translation surfaces in E3 with vanishing second Gaussian curvature KII. We classify those translation surfaces for which KII and H are proportional. Finally we obtain that there are no II-minimal translation surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space.
Effect of gap junction distribution on impulse propagation in a monolayer of myocytes: a model study.

AIMS To use microstructural computer models to study how four features of myocardial architecture affect propagation: brick wall tissue structures, jutting at cell ends, gap junction distribution and conductance along cell borders, and increased structural discontinuity. METHODS AND RESULTS Simulations of longitudinal and transverse plane wave propagation and point propagation were performed in several two-dimensional (2D) microstructural models of adult cardiac tissue. Conduction velocities and maximum upstroke velocities were measured for a range of gap junction conductances and distributions. In tissue models with normal to low connectivity, brick wall architecture and jutting decrease cell-to-cell delay, increase longitudinal conduction velocity, and decrease longitudinal maximum upstroke velocity. Transverse conduction velocity also increases if the overlap or jutting introduces additional lateral (side-to-side) connections between myocytes. Both end-to-end and side-to-side interplicate gap junctions increase longitudinal and transverse conduction velocity; however, side-to-side interplicate gap junctions have the greatest influence on transverse conduction velocity and longitudinal and transverse maximum upstroke velocity. CONCLUSION The complex structure of myocardium creates additional pathways of current flow that enhance both longitudinal and transverse propagation. These alternative pathways of current help to maintain conduction as connectivity between cells decreases.
A smart internet searching service for internet and weblog users - based on Taiwanese searching preferences

Information seeking is getting more difficult, because there is too much information on the nets. In order to increase the accuracy of searching results, a user must possess information skills, such as Boolean logic: “and”, “or” etc. He also needs to know when to use general search or blog search to get more suitable results. Unfortunately, not everyone has these skills. In this research, a searching service is proposed. It is smarter because users describe their needs and situations, the system makes decisions of what kind of search engines to use, where (local dataset or Internet resource) to look, and what terms to be used in this search. Furthermore, mobile devices and mobile communication are very popular. The system also compiles the search results into an appropriate format for their current devices, so the reading can be enjoyable. The whole experience environment is based on service oriented architecture. Therefore, it would be a scalable, dynamic and reliable system.