Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Roadmap Toward Model-Driven Feature Refactoring

A method is provided for producing a sterile and pyrogen-free column containing coupled protein for use in removing a predetermined substance from the blood of a human subject. The method abrogates sterilization of the finished protein-containing product by providing sterile and pyrogen-free raw materials at each production step. The method provides a pathogen-free, purified solution of protein which binds to a predetermined substance in human blood such as LDL or immunoglobulin. Typically, the protein is anti-human LDL immunoglobulin or anti-human Ig immunoglobulin. The method also provides a sterile and pyrogen-free column matrix material such as an agarose which is chemically activated, either using CNBr and triethylamine or using 1,1'-carbonyldiimidazole. The sterile and pyrogen-free, activated matrix material and the pathogen-free, purified protein solution are combined under aseptic conditions to effect the coupling of the protein to the matrix material, and the protein-coupled matrix material is filled under aseptic conditions into a sterile and pyrogen-free housing to produce a sterile and pyrogen-free column.
PRECISION ASTROMETRY WITH ADAPTIVE OPTICS

We investigate the limits of ground-based astrometry with adaptive optics using the core of the Galactic globular cluster M5. Adaptive optics systems provide near diffraction-limit imaging with the world's largest telescopes. The substantial improvement in both resolution and signal-to-noise ratio enables high-precision astrometry from the ground. We describe the dominant systematic errors that typically limit ground-based differential astrometry, and enumerate observational considerations for mitigating their effects. After implementing these measures, we find that the dominant limitation on astrometric performance in this experiment is caused by tilt anisoplanatism. We then present an optimal estimation technique for measuring the position of one star relative to a grid of reference stars in the face of this correlated random noise source. Our methodology has the advantage of reducing the astrometric errors to and faster than the square root of the number of reference stars, effectively eliminating noise caused by atmospheric tilt to the point that astrometric performance is limited by centering accuracy. Using 50 reference stars, we demonstrate a single-epoch astrometric precision of ≈1 mas in 1 s, decreasing to ≲100 μas in 2 minutes of integration time at the Hale 200 inch telescope. We also show that our astrometry is accurate to ≲100 μas for observations separated by 2 months. Finally, we discuss the limits and potential of differential astrometry with current and next-generation large-aperture telescopes. At this level of accuracy, numerous astrometric applications become accessible, including planet detection, astrometric microlensing signatures, and kinematics of distant Galactic stellar populations.
AESCRT: Agent enabled secure CRT based routing topology for MANET

In a MANET, existing techniques for secure routing involves key generation, encryption and decryption logics besides secret sharing. The dynamic nature of MANETs leads to insecurities and inconsistencies in secret sharing. The existing logics for securing the packet delivery seem to involve too many control signal interchanges. This often leads to congestion in the network, thus causing degraded performance. This paper proposes the use of multiple agents to detect secure routes with minimum load on the network. The Chinese remainder theorem is used in generating the secure key by the source node. Source node shares the secure key among all probable routes using multiple agents. These agents reduce control packet overheads and thus reduce congestion in the network. The final route is selected based on the highest weighted trust value of the routes. The three phased approach is aimed to increase the overall performance in the network and also control congestion in the network using agent based approach. Simulation results have been included to justify our claim.
COMPACT COMPLEMENTARY FOLDED TRIANGLE SPLIT RING RESONATOR TRIBAND MOBILE HANDSET PLANAR ANTENNA FOR VOICE AND WI-FI APPLICATIONS

In this work, a Complementary Folded Triangle Split Ring Resonator (CFTSRR) loaded triband mobile handset planar antenna is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a dumbbellshaped radiating element and two CFTSRR metamaterial unit cells. The dumbbell-shaped radiating element resonates at 5 GHz. The presence of CFTSRRs additionally offers two lower band resonance. The CFTSRR-1 and CFTSRR-2 exhibit negative permittivity at 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz, respectively. The proposed antenna is designed to resonate at 1.8 GHz (GSM1800 MHz), 2.4 GHz, and 5 GHz (IEEE802.11ax) for voice and Wi-Fi applications of the mobile handset, respectively. The proposed antenna demonstrates compactness up to 88.6% at 1.8 GHz. The parametric studies are investigated to optimize the antenna in desired frequency bands by using Ansys HFSS19 software. The simulated and measured results are discussed. The measured result shows −10 dB reflection coefficient with bandwidth about 250 MHz (1.6 GHz–1.85 GHz), 50 MHz (2.375 GHz–2.425 GHz), and 225 MHz (4.925 GHz–5.15 GHz) which are 14.5%, 2%, and 5% respectively around their center frequencies. The measured maximum gain is approximately 1.7 dBi, 8 dBi, and 11.5 dBi for 1.8 GHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5 GHz, respectively.
Identifying thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) using DNA Barcodes

Thrips tabaci Lindeman is an extensively distributed pest insect in many areas that affects plants through direct feeding and at the same time, it makes damage as a vector of different viruses. As a basic first step to control pests is authentic identification, but the inability to determine morphological characters of thrips species makes this process very difficult. For creating an identification key for T. tabaci, an economically important species present in Iran, four individuals were selected from four different sites of Mashhad and the vicinity, each as a separate population. The method was based on nucleotide sequencing analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase I (COI) gene. Phylogenetic analyses conducted by the neighbor-joining method yielded almost identical phylogenetic reconstructions of trees that separated thrips based on the geographic origin. Molecular data indicate that different thrips species are located in distinct groups. These results show that molecular keys can be a useful method to provide much-needed information on thrips identification for pest management officers and quarantine purposes.
Female signals enhance the efficiency of mate assessment in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

Recent evidence suggests that males adjust their sexually selected display traits in response to female behaviors during courtships. Little is known, however, about whether females signal to influence male displays and whether females benefit from this interaction. Male courtship displays in the satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) are highly intense and aggressive. Females may use these displays as indicators of mating benefits, but these displays often startle females and disrupt courtship. Previous studies have shown that successful males decrease female startling by adjusting their display intensity according to female crouching behaviors, suggesting that crouching behaviors function as signals. Here we address whether female crouching is a signal by using observations of natural courtship behaviors. In addition, we examine why females differ in signaling and whether females benefit from signaling. First, we find that female crouching is related to the likelihood that females will be startled by male displays, suggesting that crouching signals the degree of display intensity that females will tolerate from a male without being startled. Second, we find that female tolerance for intense display increases during successive courtships as females assess potential mates, and that female tolerance may also be affected by age and condition. Third, we find evidence that females that reduce startling by signaling their intensity tolerance are more efficient in mate searching. These results suggest that females signal to influence how males display their sexually selected traits, and by doing so, females may increase their benefits in mate choice. Copyright 2004.
Provably Sound Browser-Based Enforcement of Web Session Integrity

Enforcing protection at the browser side has recently become a popular approach for securing web authentication. Though interesting, existing attempts in the literature only address specific classes of attacks, and thus fall short of providing robust foundations to reason on web authentication security. In this paper we provide such foundations, by introducing a novel notion of web session integrity, which allows us to capture many existing attacks and spot some new ones. We then propose FF+, a security-enhanced model of a web browser that provides a full-fledged and provably sound enforcement of web session integrity. We leverage our theory to develop Sess Int, a prototype extension for Google Chrome implementing the security mechanisms formalized in FF+. Sess Int provides a level of security very close to FF+, while keeping an eye at usability and user experience.
TouringMachines: an architecture for dynamic, rational, mobile agents

The computer-controlled operating environments at such facilities as automated factories, nuclear power plants, telecommunications centres, and space stations are continually becoming more complex. As this complexity grows, it will be increasingly difficult to control such environments with centralised management and scheduling policies that are both robust in the face of unexpected events and flexible at dealing with operational and environmental changes that might occur over time. One solution to this problem which has growing appeal is to distribute control of such operations to a number of intelligent , task-achieving computational agents. Real-world domains are likely to be populated by multiple agents. In such domains agents will typically perform a number of complex tasks requiring some degree of attention to be paid to environmental change, temporal constraints , computational resource bounds, and the impact the agents' shorter term actions might have on their longer term goals. Operating in the real world means having to deal with unexpected events at several levels of gran-ularity — both in time and space. While agents must remain reactive in order to survive, some amount of strategic and predictive decision making will be required if agents are to coordinate their actions with other agents and handle complex tasks in an effective manner. This dissertation presents a new integrated agent architecture, designed to provide rational, autonomous, mobile agents with the diverse range of behaviours normally required to carry out complex, resource-constrained tasks in dynamic, real-time, multi-agent domains. Upon surveying a collection of existing architectures and after due consideration of the requirements for producing effective, robust, and flexible behaviours in a particular class of such domains, the resulting software control architecture — the TouringMachine agent architecture — has been designed through integrating a number of de-liberative and non-deliberative control functions. Arranged in a layered fashion , the combination of these functions endows agents with a rich collection of reactive, goal-oriented, reflective, and predictive capabilities. In recognition of the complex relationship which exists between an agent's internal configuration, its task environment, and its ensuing behavioural repertoire , the agent architecture has been implemented in conjunction with a feature-rich, instrumented simulation testbed. The testbed, which permits the creation of a diverse set of single-and multi-agent navigation task scenarios , has been used to evaluate the utility of the architecture and to identify some of its main strengths and weaknesses. Declaration I hereby declare that this dissertation is the result of …
Ganesh-Holistic Version Control in a Structure Based Environment Research Group : Programming Systems Semester : DAT 5 / F 9 D Project Period : September 1 st – December 21 st , 1998 Project Group : E 1209 a

This report presents the development of the Ganesh system, a programming environment that supports collaborative development of software. The specific goal of this project is to integrate version control and configuration management in a structure based editor. Such an editor provides facilities for visualization and direct manipulation of the program structure, which increases overview significantly. Standard UML class diagrams are used to achieve a wellknown notation when making the structures explicit.
Leadership in fish shoals

Leadership is not an inherent quality of animal groups that show directional locomotion. However, there are other factors that may be responsible for the occurrence of leadership in fish shoals, such as individual differences in nutritional state between group members. It appears that front fish have a strong influence on directional shoal movements and that individuals that occupy such positions are often characterised by larger body lengths and lower nutritional state. Potential interactions between the two factors and their importance for positioning within shoals need further attention. Initiation of directional movement in stationary shoals and position preferences in mobile shoals need to be addressed separately because they are potentially subject to different constraints. Individuals that initiate a swimming direction may not necessarily be capable of the sustained high swimming performance required to keep the front position or have the motivation to do so, for that matter. More empirical and theoretical work is necessary to look at the factors controlling positioning behaviour within shoals, as well as overall shoal shape and structure. Tracking of marked individuals whose positioning behaviour is monitored over extended time periods of hours or days would be useful. There is an indication that shoal positions are rotated by individuals according to their nutritional needs, with hungry fish occupying front positions only for as long as necessary to regain their nutritional balance. This suggests that shoal members effectively take turns at being leaders. There is a need for three-dimensional recordings of shoaling behaviour using high-speed video systems that allow a detailed analysis of information transfer in shoals of different size. The relationship between leadership and shoal size might provide an interesting field for future research. Most studies to date have been restricted to shoals of small and medium size and more information on larger shoals would be useful.
Hidden hearing loss with envelope following responses (EFRs): The off-frequency problem

DTU Orbit (09/08/2019) Hidden hearing loss with envelope following responses (EFRs): The off-frequency problem Recent animal studies have shown that noise over-exposure can cause the loss of auditory nerve (AN) fiber synapses without causing hair cell loss (see Kujawa and Liberman (2015) for a review). This AN fiber synapses loss has been termed "hidden hearing loss" or "synaptopathy", since it is not reflected in the traditional puretone threshold. The envelope following response (EFR) has been proposed as a potential objective method to assess synaptopathy in humans (i.e., Bharadwaj et al., 2015). Encina-Llamas et al., (2016) reported different trends in EFR levelgrowth functions recorded using two modulation depths in normal-hearing (NH) and mild hearingimpaired (HI) listeners. The EFR is a gross encephalographic potential that represents the encoding of the envelope of the stimulus, arising from synchronized neural activity from all excited frequencies and fibers. In this study, an computational model of the AN was used to investigate the effects of off-frequency contributions (i.e. away from the characteristic place of the stimulus) and the differential loss of different AN fiber types on EFR level-growth functions.
Integrated K+ channel and K+-Cl− cotransporter functions regulate fin proportionality in zebrafish

The coordination of growth during development establishes proportionality within and among the different anatomic structures of organisms. Innate memory of this proportionality is preserved, as shown in the ability of regenerating structures to return to their original size. Although the regulation of this coordination is incompletely understood, mutant analyses of zebrafish with long-finned phenotypes have uncovered important roles for bioelectric signaling in modulating growth and size of the fins and barbs. To date, long-finned mutants identified are caused by hypermorphic mutations, leaving unresolved whether such signaling is required for normal development. We isolated a new zebrafish mutant, schleier, with proportional overgrowth phenotypes caused by a missense mutation and loss of function in the K+-Cl− cotransporter Kcc4a. Genetic depletion of Kcc4a in wild-type fish leads to a dose-dependent loss of growth restriction in fins and barbs, supporting a requirement for Kcc4a in regulation of proportion. Epistasis experiments suggest that Kcc4a and the two-pore potassium channel Kcnk5b both contribute to a common bioelectrical signaling response in the fin. These data suggest that an integrated bioelectric signaling pathway is required for the coordination of size and proportion during development. Graphical Abstract
FINAL VERSION DO NOT MAKE MORE CHANGES The Power of Prediction with Social Media

Social media today provide an impressive amount of data about users and their societal interactions, thereby offering computer and social scientists, economists, and statisticians – among others– many new opportunities for research exploration. Arguably, one of the most interesting lines of work is that of predicting future events and developments based on social media data, as we have recently seen in the areas of politics, finance, entertainment, market demands, health, etc. In fact, an average of one in seven research papers presented at the WWW, ICWSM and IEEE SocialCom Conferences between 2007 and 2012 contain the term “predict” in their title. This upward trend, starting from 0 in 2006 and reaching 18% in 2012, shows a significant interest of the research community in predicting with Social Media. But what can be successfully predicted and why? Since the first algorithms and techniques emerged rather recently, little is known about their overall potential, limitations and general applicability to different domains. Better understanding the predictive power and limitations of social media is therefore of utmost importance, in order to be successful and avoid false expectations, misinformation or unintended consequences. Today, current methods and techniques are far from being well understood, and it is mostly unclear to what extent or under what conditions the different methods for prediction can be applied to social media. While there exists a respectable and growing amount of literature in this area, current work is fragmented, characterized by a lack of commonly accepted evaluation approaches. Yet, this research seems to have reached a sufficient level of interest and relevance to justify a dedicated section. This special section aims to shape a frame of important questions to be addressed in this field, and fill the gaps in current research with presentations of early research on algorithms, techniques, methods and empirical studies aimed at the prediction of future or current events
Real-time Obstacle Avoidance and Mapping for AUVs Operating in Complex Environments

The paper describes an effort to combine real-time obstacle avoidance with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating in close proximity to obstacles and man-made structures such as ship hulls and piers. Our work makes two primary contributions: (1) we demonstrate the application of the Atlas framework for large-scale mapping with wide-beam undersea sonar data for mapping of bridge pilings, and (2) we introduce a new obstacle avoidance technique for undersea vehicles based on the use of virtual observations predicted from the SLAM map. We demonstrate a method for obstacle avoidance using a perspective of the environment incorporating both prior knowledge from the map and from recent or current observations. Our method is especially useful in feature-based SLAM architectures where obstacles are only partially observable or features require preliminary tracking prior to being committed to the map.
Performance of a partitioned visual feedback controller

We present a novel approach we call partitioning where the robot's degrees-of-freedom (DOF) are categorized into two classes based on joint kinematics and dynamics to design a coupled multi-input control system. We use image data to visually servo the first class of joints that have quick response time. Position-based data is used to kinematically servo the second class of joints that have large kinematic range. The net effect is an active-vision system that synergistically tracks a diverse range of targets (without using CAD-based models) over a wide bandwidth of motion dynamics.
Brane world: Disappearing massive matter

In a brane (domain wall) scenario with an infinite extra dimension and localized gravity, bulk fermions and scalars often have bound states with zero 4-dimensional mass. In this way massless matter residing on the brane may be obtained. We consider what happens when one tries to introduce small, but non-vanishing mass to these matter fields. We find that the discrete zero modes turn into quasi-localized states with finite 4-dimensional mass and finite width. The latter is due to tunneling of massive matter into extra dimension. We argue that this phenomenon is generic to fields that can have bulk modes. We also point out that in theories meant to describe massive scalars, the 4-dimensional scalar potential has, in fact, power-law behavior at large distances.
Computer-Based Attention-Demanding Testing Unveils Severe Neglect in Apparently Intact Patients

We tested a group of ten post-acute right-hemisphere damaged patients. Patients had no neglect according to paper-and-pencil cancellation tasks. They were administered computer-based single- and dual-tasks, requiring to orally name the position of appearance (e.g. left vs. right) of briefly-presented lateralized targets. Patients omitted a consistent number of contralesional targets (≈ 40%) under the single-task condition. When required to perform a concurrent task which recruited additional attentional resources (dual-tasks), patients’ awareness for contralesional hemispace was severely affected, with less than one third of contralesional targets detected (≈ 70% of omissions). In contrast, performance for ipsilesional (right-sided) targets was close to ceiling, showing that the deficit unveiled by computer-based testing selectively affected the contralesional hemispace. We conclude that computer-based, attention-demanding tasks are strikingly more sensitive than cancellation tasks in detecting neglect, because they are relatively immune to compensatory strategies that are often deployed by post-acute patients.