Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DESIGN OF MULTIPLYING DELAY LOCKED LOOP FOR DIFFERENT MULTIPLYING FACTORS

Clock multiplication is not possible with delay locked loops. However, ever increasing requirements for clock multiplication in analog integrated circuits has lead to the research in several avenues including ring oscillator and LC oscillator. Ring oscillators are typically used in clock multipliers of digital chips due to their smaller area, easier design, and larger frequency range compared to LC oscillators. However, ring oscillators typically exhibit much larger phase noise than their LC counterparts (for same power consumptions). This tradeoff provides an additional motivation to explore for various techniques to reduce phase noise in ring oscillators and Multiplying Delay Locked Loops (MDLL) offered an attractive alternative. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for the design of Multiplying Delay Locked Loop for different multiplying factors.
Investigation of substrate water interactions at the high-affinity Mn site in the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex

18O isotope exchange measurements of photosystem II (PSII) in thylakoids from wild-type and mutant Synechocystis have been performed to investigate binding of substrate water to the high-affinity Mn4 site in the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). The mutants investigated were D1-D170H, a mutation of a direct ligand to the Mn4 ion, and D1-D61N, a mutation in the second coordination sphere. The substrate water 18O exchange rates for D61N were found to be 0.16±0.02 s−1 and 3.03±0.32 s−1 for the slow and fast phases of exchange, respectively, compared with 0.47±0.04 s−1 and 19.7±1.3 s−1 for the wild-type. The D1-D170H rates were found to be 0.70±0.16 s−1 and 24.4±4.6 s−1 and thus are almost within the error limits for the wild-type rates. The results from the D1-D170H mutant indicate that the high-affinity Mn4 site does not directly bind to the substrate water molecule in slow exchange, but the binding of non-substrate water to this Mn ion cannot be excluded. The results from the D61N mutation show an interaction with both substrate water molecules, which could be an indication that D61 is involved in a hydrogen bonding network with the substrate water. Our results provide limitations as to where the two substrate water molecules bind in the OEC of PSII.
Design of efficient electrically small dual band monopole antenna using negative permittivity metamaterial structures

The dual band EESA using negative permittivity MTM structures is introduced and fabricated. The proposed negative permittivity MTM structures are operated by inductance L3 and L4. The proposed EESA, which is compared with calculations of Chu limits, has very low Q, wide impedance bandwidth and high efficiency is obtained. Therefore, proposed EESA will be applied to new generation wireless communication systems for required small antenna.
A Computational Model of Minimal Consciousness Functions

Interest in Human Consciousness has been revived in the late 20 century from different scientific disciplines. Consciousness studies involve both its understanding and its application. In this paper, a computational model of the minimum consciousness functions necessary in my point of view for Artificial Intelligence applications is presented with the aim of improving the way computations will be made in the future. In section I, human consciousness is briefly described according to the scope of this paper. In section II, a minimum set of consciousness functions is defined based on the literature reviewed to be modelled, and then a computational model of these functions is presented in section III. In section IV, an analysis of the model is carried out to describe its functioning in detail. Keywords—Consciousness, perception, attention.
When Newsworthy is Not Noteworthy

In the history of news production, the gap between editors' news judgment and audience interest has been widely noticeable. In scholarly research, while news consumption remains a central focus, the value of news content as a product has rarely been examined from the audience's perspective. News is almost always presumed by scholars and practitioners to be of value, which, however, is not necessarily the case in today's media environment. The recent decline in news consumption from the traditional media is often attributed to demographic factors, particularly age. However, such age-oriented narratives shift the responsibility away from news providers to users. From the media economics standpoint, when news organizations fail to address users' needs and wants, the product delivers limited utility and demand would dwindle as a result. This study conceptualizes and empirically examines the “noteworthiness” of news content as perceived by the general public. Results based on a national survey of US internet users show that only about one-third of the content produced by the mainstream news media is perceived as noteworthy. While previous studies identified demographics as significant predictors of news consumption, findings from this study suggest that perceived noteworthiness is a stronger factor influencing news consumption in terms of news enjoyment, newspaper and TV news use, and paying intent for print newspapers. Instead of using technology to pursue a particular demographic group, news organizations should rethink their content strategy and prioritize audience-oriented value creation to serve news consumers at large.
Early Nutrition and Growth until the Corrected Age of 2 Years in Extremely Preterm Infants

Background: Extremely preterm birth is associated with a high risk of extrauterine growth retardation, which has been linked with adverse developmental outcomes. Objective: We investigated whether nutritional management during the first 7 days of life affects growth patterns until the corrected age of 2 years in extremely preterm infants. Study Design: A retrospective study of 78 extremely preterm (<28 weeks' gestation) neonates was conducted. Data regarding parenteral and enteral intake of energy, protein, lipids, and carbohydrates during the first 7 days of life were collected from patient records. The outcome measures included weight, height, and head circumference with Z scores at term-equivalent age and the corrected ages of 1 and 2 years. Analyses were performed with hierarchical-linear mixed models. Results: Nutritional intake during the first week of life did not reach the current recommendations. The total energy intake during the first 7 days of life was statistically significantly associated with weight, length, and head circumference until the corrected age of 2 years after adjusting for potential confounding factors. Individual macronutrient intake displayed no association with growth patterns. Conclusions: Energy intake during the first 7 days of life is associated with growth until the corrected age of 2 years. These results provide support for the aggressive early nutritional management of extremely preterm infants.
Scripting the Cloud with Skywriting

Recent distributed computing frameworks--such as MapReduce, Hadoop and Dryad--have made it simple to exploit multiple machines in a compute cloud. However, these frameworks use coordination languages that are insufficiently expressive for many classes of computation, including iterative and recursive algorithms. To address this problem, and generalise previous approaches, we introduce Skywriting: a Turing-powerful, purely-functional script language for describing distributed computations. In this paper, we introduce the main features of Skywriting, and outline our novel cooperative task farming execution engine.
Accelerating Range Query Processing on R-Tree Using Graphics Processing Units

SUMMARY Recently, various research e ﬀ orts have been conducted to develop strategies for accelerating multi-dimensional query processing us-ing the graphics processing units (GPUs). However, well-known multi-dimensional access methods such as the R-tree, B-tree, and their variants are hardly applicable to GPUs in practice, mainly due to the characteristics of a hierarchical index structure. More speciﬁcally, the hierarchical structure not only causes frequent transfers of small volumes of data but also provides limited opportunity to exploit the advanced data parallelism of GPUs. To address these problems, we propose an approach that uses GPUs as a bu ﬀ er. The main idea is that object entries in recently visited leaf nodes are bu ﬀ ered in the global memory of GPUs and processed by massive parallel threads of the GPUs. Through extensive performance studies, we observed that the proposed approach achieved query performance up to ﬁve times higher than that of the original R-tree.
PENGARUH TERAPI MUSIK TERHADAP PERUBAHAN TINGKAT DEPRESI PADA LANSIA DI PSTW (PANTI SOSIAL TRESNA WREDHA) UNIT BUDI LUHUR, KASONGAN, BANTUL YOGYAKARTA

The increasing of a person's age will be accompanied by a variety of physical, psychological and social setbacks. Psychological deterioration is often encountered in the elderly such as feeling useless, easily upset, insomnia, stress, and depression. One way of therapy used for the elderly to reduce the level of depression is the use of keroncong music therapy. The results of preliminary studies of the interviews showed three people claim to have difficulties sleeping at night, and sometimes feel afraid when there is an earthquake. Two elderly people that would rather be alone than to gather with other seniors, and 1 elderly claimed almost every day has no appetite. The research objective is to determine the effect of music therapy to changes in rates of depression in the elderly in PSTW (Panti Sosial Tresna Wredha) Budi Luhur’s Unit, Kasongan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. This type of research is quantitative. The design of experimental research with pre-posttest design tets. Large of sample was 52 respondents with using a sampling technique was purposive sampling. the instrument uses a questionnaire study of depression.the comparative test analysis tools using Wilcoxon Rank test. Results showed before keroncong music therapy given there are 21 people with mild depression (77.8%), moderate depression was 6 people (22 , 2%), after being given keroncong music therapy one respondent (3.7%) were depressed, 12 people (44.4%) had mild depression, 14 people (51.9%) became normal. the test results of Wilcoxon Rank test shows the value of Z = -2.412 and p = 0.016. So that concluded there is the influence of music therapy to changes the rates of depression to the elderly in PSTW (Panti Sosial Tresna Wredha) Budi Luhur’s Unit, Kasongan, Bantul, Yogyakarta.
Analysis and design of a tactile sensor detecting strain distribution inside an elastic finger

Humans obtain complex information using different tactile receptors in the skin of the finger. Artificial tactile sensors capable of detecting complex information can be realized by imitating certain characteristics of the human finger, such as the geometry of the finger and the location of the tactile receptors. We analyze the strain distribution that occurs inside an elastic finger having a curved surface when the finger is in contact with an object. Detection of the shear strain distribution pattern is found to be important. In addition a strain distribution sensor is developed, in which strain gages bonded on thin plates are arranged at uniform intervals inside the curved surface of an elastic finger made of silicone rubber. The geometry of the elastic finger is designed by calculating the contact condition between the finger and objects with/without tangential load using FE (finite element) analysis. The fundamental characteristics of the strain distribution sensor are confirmed.
UMA ANÁLISE DAS ESCALAS DE MENSURAÇÃO DO CONSTRUTO “IMAGEM DE PAÍS”

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo realizar uma revisao da literatura sobre o construto imagem de pais, de forma a entende-lo mais profundamente e analisar as escalas de mensuracao existentes. Foi possivel perceber que as fronteiras entre os conceitos percepcao, imagem e atitude sao muito sutis. Alem disso, muitas vezes a forma como o construto e conceituado nao e a mesma pela qual ele e operacionalizado. A partir dos resultados obtidos nesta revisao, concluiu-se que a escolha da escala e da teoria a ser aplicada para medir imagem de pais influenciam significativamente o resultado do trabalho.
Involvement of ROP6 and clathrin in nodulation factor signaling

The symbiotic association between the legume Lotus japonicus and the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Mesorhizobium loti results in the formation of root nodules. This process begins with the recognition of the rhizobial nodulation factor (NF) by the NF receptors (NFR) at the cell surface of the host roots. The downstream signaling cascades after NFR recognition have not been fully characterized. We recently identified a clathrin heavy chain 1 (CHC1) from L. japonicus as a potential target of the NF signaling cascades. CHC is a known central component in the clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) in eukaryotic cells. The CHC1 gene was highly expressed in Rhizobium-infected root hairs and the CHC1 protein was present in cytoplasmic punctate structures near the infection pockets and along the infection thread membrane. Furthermore, expression of a dominant-negative variant of CHC1 or treatment with a chemical inhibitor of CME resulted in impaired phenotypes in the NF signaling, rhizobial infection and nodulation. These findings open a new avenue for future work aiming at understanding the role of endocytosis in NF signaling pathway and rhizobial infection.
Fiber Optic Fabry-Perot Current Sensor Integrated with Magnetic Fluid Using a Fiber Bragg Grating Demodulation

An optical fiber current sensor based on Fabry-Perot interferometer using a fiber Bragg grating demodulation is proposed. Magnetic fluid is used as a sensitive medium in fiber optical Fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity for the optical characteristic of magnetic-controlled refractive index. A Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is connected after the F-P interferometer which is used to reflect the optical power at the Bragg wavelength of the interference transmission spectrum. The corresponding reflective power of the FBG will change with different external current intensity, due to the shift on the interference spectrum of the F-P interferometer. The sensing probe has the advantages of convenient measurement for its demodulation, low cost and high current measurement accuracy on account of its sensing structure. Experimental results show that an optimal sensitivity of 0.8522 nw/A and measurement resolution of 0.001 A is obtained with a FBG at 1550 nm with 99% reflectivity.
On the mechanisms of the basal alkaline secretion in the rat ileum in vivo.

Basal alkaline secretion of the denervated rat ileum was monitored by a pH-stat method. Changes of transepithelial electrical potential difference (PD) were also continuously registered. In other experiments net fluid transport was measured with a gravimetric method. The importance of the enteric nervous system for the recorded variables was investigated by giving i.v. hexamethonium, neuropeptide Y (NPY) or methionine-enkephalin or by stimulating electrically the mesenteric nerves surrounding the superior mesenteric artery. Alkaline secretion was inhibited by about 20% by mesenteric nerve stimulation or by neuropeptide Y (NPY) or met-enkephalin i.v. A somewhat greater inhibition (approximately 30%) of transepithelial electrical potential difference was elicited by the mesenteric nerve stimulation and NPY whereas met-enkephalin did not cause any transepithelial electrical potential difference change. Net fluid absorption was markedly diminished (by approximately 65-75%) by met-enkephalin but not by NPY. The cellular mechanisms underlying alkaline secretion were investigated by means of amiloride, SITS and acetazolamide. The basal alkaline secretion and transepithelial electrical potential difference were not influenced by 10(-3)M or 10(-4) SITS. In contrast 10(-3) M amiloride caused a significant increase of alkaline secretion but not of transepithelial electrical potential difference. A 35% reduction in the alkaline secretion but not transepithelial electrical potential difference was observed after acetazolamide had been given intravenously. A similar decrease was observed after giving hexamethonium. We conclude: (1) Enteric nerves are of comparatively small importance in controlling the ileal alkaline secretion recorded during basal conditions; (2) About 35% of the basal ileal alkaline secretion is carbonic anhydrase dependent. This mechanism is not influenced by nicotinic receptor blockade; (3) Under the present experimental conditions there may be an alkaline secretion which is concealed by a simultaneously operating Na+/H+ exchanger and; (4) No consistent quantitative correlation exists between alkaline secretion, transepithelial electrical potential difference and net field transport in the denervated rat ileum.
THE HUMAN CONNECTOME: A COMPLEX NETWORK

The human brain is a complex network. An important first step toward understanding the function of such a network is to map its elements and connections, to create a comprehensive structural description of the network architecture. This paper reviews current empirical efforts toward generating a network map of the human brain, the human connectome, and explores how the connectome can provide new insights into the organization of the brain's structural connections and their role in shaping functional dynamics. Network studies of structural connectivity obtained from noninvasive neuroimaging have revealed a number of highly nonrandom network attributes, including high clustering and modularity combined with high efficiency and short path length. The combination of these attributes simultaneously promotes high specialization and high integration within a modular small‐world architecture. Structural and functional networks share some of the same characteristics, although their relationship is complex and nonlinear. Future studies of the human connectome will greatly expand our knowledge of network topology and dynamics in the healthy, developing, aging, and diseased brain.
An Empirical Investigation of Data Governance: the Role of Accountabilities

Data governance has recently received attention as a way to improve company-wide data quality management. As with other governance concepts, accountabilities is central to data governance-roles and responsibilities must be introduced that facilitate the processing of data according to company needs. Marketing is one business area where data-driven decision-making has shown promise, and which is likely to benefit from company-wide data governance. However, empirical investigations of data governance are still limited. This research analysed survey data in Japan that investigated the hypothesized relationships of accountabilities in data governance to perceived performance in marketing activities via the intermediate variable of data utilization. The research found positive links between these variables, showing one avenue by which data governance is effective. However, it should be noted that in the case of larger companies, this link was confirmed only between accountabilities and data utilization. In practical terms, the result can be used to promote data governance in companies. Future research potential is suggested at the end of the paper.
Towards a Mobile Health Context Prediction: Sequential Pattern Mining in Multiple Streams

Context prediction is an emerging topic in the fields of data mining and information management which is both promising and challenging. Predicting the location of mobile objects was a frequently tackled subtask of mobile context prediction in recent researches. For scenarios of managing health information of mobile persons, the prediction of near future health status of persons is at least equally important to predicting their location. We introduce in this paper, to the best of our knowledge, a first method for predicting a next health context of mobile persons equipped with body sensors and a mobile device. The suggested Prefix Span-based method searches for sequential patterns within multiple streaming inputs from the body sensors as well as other contextual streams that influence the health context. We discuss additionally the implementation of our method in an energy aware mobile-server environment.
Eigenfaces and eigenvoices: dimensionality reduction for specialized pattern recognition

There are hidden analogies between two dissimilar research areas: face recognition and speech recognition. The standard representations for faces and voices misleadingly suggest that they have a high number of degrees of freedom. However, human faces have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth in predictable locations; such constraints ensure that possible images of faces occupy a tiny portion of the space of possible 2D images. Similarly, physical and cultural constraints on acoustic realizations of words uttered by a particular speaker imply that the true number of degrees of freedom for speaker-dependent hidden Markov models (HMMs) is quite small. Face recognition researchers have adopted representations that make explicit the underlying low dimensionality of the task, greatly improving the performance of their systems while reducing computational costs. We argue that speech researchers should use similar techniques to represent variation between speakers, and discuss applications to speaker adaptation, speaker identification and speaker verification.
The dS/dS Correspondence

We present a holographic duality for the de Sitter static patch which consolidates basic features of its geometry and the behavior of gravity and brane probes, valid on timescales short compared to the decay or Poincare recurrence times. Namely de Sitter spacetime dSd(R) in d dimensions with curvature radius R is holographically dual to two conformal field theories on dSd−1(R), cut off at an energy scale 1/R where they couple to each other and to d − 1 dimensional gravity. As part of our analysis, we study brane probes in de Sitter and thermal Anti de Sitter spaces, and interpret the terms in the corresponding DBI action via strongly coupled thermal field theory. This provides a dual field theoretic interpretation of the fact that probes take forever to reach a horizon in general relativity.
Immaturity of Visual Fixations in Dyslexic Children

To our knowledge, behavioral studies recording visual fixations abilities in dyslexic children are scarce. The object of this article is to explore further the visual fixation ability in dyslexics compared to chronological age-matched and reading age-matched non-dyslexic children. Fifty-five dyslexic children from 7 to 14 years old, 55 chronological age-matched non-dyslexic children and 55 reading age-matched non-dyslexic children participated to this study. Eye movements from both eyes were recorded horizontally and vertically by a video-oculography system (EyeBrain® T2). The fixation task consisted in fixating a white-filled circle appearing in the center of the screen for 30 s. Results showed that dyslexic children produced a significantly higher number of unwanted saccades than both groups of non-dyslexic children. Moreover, the number of unwanted saccades significantly decreased with age in both groups of non-dyslexic children, but not in dyslexics. Furthermore, dyslexics made more saccades during the last 15 s of fixation period with respect to both groups of non-dyslexic children. Such poor visual fixation capability in dyslexic children could be due to impaired attention abilities, as well as to an immaturity of the cortical areas controlling the fixation system.