Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fault Tolerant Stable Adaptive Fuzzy/neural Control for a Turbine Engine

Stimulated by the growing demand for improving the reliability and performance of systems, fault tolerant control has been receiving signiicant attention since its goal is to detect the occurrence of faults and achieve satisfactory system performance in the presence of faults. To develop an intelligent fault tolerant control system, we begin by constructing a design model of the system using a hierarchical learning structure in the form of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems. Afterwards, the fault tolerant control scheme is designed based on stable adaptive fuzzy/neural control, where its on-line learning capabilities are used to capture the unknown dynamics caused by faults. Finally, the eeectiveness of the proposed methods has been studied by extensive analysis of system zero dynamics and asymptotic tracking abilities for both indirect and direct adaptive control cases, and by \component level model" simulation of the General Electric XTE46 turbine engine.
Estimating individual treatment effects fromresponses and a predictive biomarker in aparallel group RCT

When being interested in administering the best of two treatments to an individual patient i, it is necessary to know the individual treatment effects (ITEs) of the considered subjects and the correlation between the possible responses (PRs) for two treatments. When data are generated in a parallel–group design RCT, it is not possible to determine the ITE for a single subject since we only observe two samples from the marginal distributions of these PRs and not the corresponding joint distribution due to the ’Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference’ [Holland, 1986, p. 947]. In this article, we present a counterfactual approach for estimating the joint distribution of two normally distributed responses to two treatments. This joint distribution can be estimated by assuming a normal joint distribution for the PRs and by using a normally distributed baseline biomarker which is defined to be functionally related to the sum of the ITE components. Such a functional relationship is plausible since a biomarker and the sum encode for the same information in a RCT, namely the variation between subjects. As a result of the interpretation of the biomarker as a proxy for the sum of ITE components, the estimation of the joint distribution is subjected to some constraints. These constraints can be framed in the context of linear regressions with regard to the proportions of variances in the responses explained and with regard to the residual variation. As a consequence, a new light is thrown on the presence of treatment–biomarker interactions. We applied our approach to a classical medical data example on exercise and heart rate.
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS RECONSIDERED : A CROSS-COUNTRY STUDY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT , VALUES AND RELIGION

Some scholars suggest that Western ideas of freedom, democracy and human rights are incompatible in Islamic and other cultures. Indeed, Samuel Huntington cautions that Western values are not universally shared, which may lead to a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. But other scholars suggest that the differences between civilizations can be largely explained in terms of economic development. Using the Gallup International Millennium Survey based on a random sample of 57,000 respondents in 60 countries, we provide strong support that higher levels of per capita GDP are not only associated with the selection of certain values held to be most important in life, but also with a decreasing importance accorded to religion. Moreover, we argue that if countries were able to successfully industrialize, value change would occur and the gap in values would narrow. The results of a simulation, for example, suggest that if countries where Muslim respondents reside were able to successfully industrialize, the current difference in values between Muslim and Protestant respondents would decrease.
WP-06-01 Objective Functions in Agricultural Decision-Making : A Comparison of the Effects of Expected Utility , Regret-Adjusted Expected Utility , and Prospect Theory Maximization

Simulated outcomes of agricultural production decisions in the Argentine Pampas were used to examine objective functions with greater psychological plausibility than expected utility (EU) maximization, in particular, regret-adjusted expected utility and prospect theory value maximization. For each objective function, we provide the distribution of production enterprises on a hypothetical 600 ha farm optimal for either land owners or tenants (owners are subject to an optimization constraint that reflects a crop-rotation regimen). We provide an explicit functional form for each objective function, propose an equivalent, but more mathematically-tractable formulation for the prospect theory value-function maximization, and explore a broad parameter space. Optimal enterprise allocation differs for the three objective functions and for different parameter values, especially for land tenants, whose enterprise allocation is less constrained. The effects of regret are minor compared to the effects of loss aversion and gainloss reference point of prospect theory. Our results demonstrate in a nonlaboratory decision context that psychologically plausible deviations from EU maximization matter. They can be used to explain observed land allocation decisions inconsistent with EU maximization and to identify segments of decision makers who differ in decision objectives or optimization constraints as the result of socioeconomic/demographic or psychological differences.
Sierpinski and Carmichael numbers

Abstract : We establish several related results on Carmichael, Sierpinski and Riesel numbers. First, we prove that almost all odd natural numbers k have the property that 2(exp n)k + 1 is not a Carmichael number for any n epilson N; this implies the existence of a set K of positive lower density such that for any k epsilon K the number 2(exp n)k + 1 is neither prime nor Carmichael for every K epilson N. Next, using a recent result of Matomaki we show that there are x1/5 Carmichael numbers up to x that are also Sierpinski and Riesel. Finally, we show that if 2(exp n)k+1 is Lehmer then n 150 omega(k)2 log k, where omega(k) is the number of distinct primes dividing k.
Wideband low noise amplifier design for software defined radio at 136 to 941 MHz

The low noise amplifier (LNA) for mobile software defined radio (SDR) in this work is targeted to be applied in a two-way communication mobile system architecture. The operating frequencies of the design were based on the TIA-603C standard for Land Mobile FM Communication Equipment (136-941MHz), which is the preferred standard used by established two-way radio suppliers. The technical specification was also deduced from the TIA-603C standard receiver system sensitivity and intermodulation. The LNA adopts a negative feedback wideband amplifier topology where the negative feedback is to counter the long RF trace problem inherited at the targeted frequencies. This proposed topology can solve the problem of economically impractical PCB size rendered by other wideband amplifier methods. The measured results show the proposed LNA has a stable gain of 12dB, more than 13dBm of IIP3 and a noise figure of less than 1.5dB. The whole design consumes 80mA of current from a 5V supply.
Impact of Channel Concatenation in 3D MIMO encoded 4x2mm Wave Wireless Communication System on Color Image Transmission

In this paper, we made a comprehensive BER performance simulative study on the color image transmission in a 3D MIMO encoded 4x2 mm Wave wireless communication system. The simulated system under investigation implements various types of modern and classical channel coding schemes such as Repeat and Accumulate(RA), cyclic redundancy check(CRC), (3,2) single paritycode(SPC), Bose-Chaudhuri- Hocquenghem(BCH), low-density parity check (LDPC), AES Block Cipher aided and ½-rated Convolutional both in indivitual and concatenated form. Based on the simulation result with MATLAB, it is quite noticeable that the simulated system is highly robust in retrieving transmitted color image under mmWave MIMO fading channel in QAM digital modulation and concatenated channel coding scheme with LDPC and ½-rated Convolutional . Keywords: 3D MIMO, l channel concatenation,, Bit Error rate (BER), AWGN and mmWave MIMO channel
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure?

Objective: To discuss the mechanism of action, the efficacy and the safety of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the treatment of alcoholism. Method: The published works on effective treatments for alcoholism is briefly reviewed and a prospective multidisciplinar y follow-up of recovery from alcoholism in two community cohorts of adolescent males followed from 1940 until the present day is reviewed. Conclusions: The suggested mechanism of action of AA is that it employs four factors widely shown to be effective in relapse prevention in addictions: external supervision, substitute dependency, new caring relationships and increased spirituality. In addition, AA serendipitously follows the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy in relapse prevention. Alcoholics Anonymous appears equal to or superior to conventional treatments for alcoholism, and the skepticism of some professionals regarding AA as a first rank treatment for alcoholism would appear to be unwarranted. Alcoholics Anonymous is probably without serious side-effects.
Automatic Program Repair with Condition Synthesis and Compound Mutations

We present PCR, a new automatic patch generation system. PCR uses a new condition synthesis technique to efficiently discover logical expressions that generate desired controlflow transfer patterns. Presented with a set of test cases, PCR deploys condition synthesis to find and repair incorrect if conditions that cause the application to produce the wrong result for one or more of the test cases. PCR also leverages condition synthesis to obtain a set of compound modifications that generate a rich, productive, and tractable search space of candidate patches. We evaluate PCR on a set of 105 defects from the GenProg benchmark set. For 40 of these defects, PCR generates plausible patches (patches that generate correct outputs for all inputs in the test suite used to validate the patch). For 12 of these defects, PCR generates correct patches that are functionally equivalent to developer patches that appear in subsequent versions. For comparison purposes, GenProg generates plausible patches for only 18 defects and correct patches for only 2 defects. AE generates plausible patches for only 27 defects and correct patches for only 3 defects.
(2R,1'S,2'R)- and (2S,1'S,2'R)-3-[2-Mono(di,tri)fluoromethylcyclopropyl]alanines and their incorporation into hormaomycin analogues

Summary Efficient and scalable syntheses of enantiomerically pure (2R,1'S,2'R)- and (2S,1'S,2'R)-3-[2-mono(di,tri)fluoromethylcyclopropyl]alanines 9a–c, as well as allo-D-threonine (4) and (2S,3R)-β-methylphenylalanine (3), using the Belokon' approach with (S)- and (R)-2-[(N-benzylprolyl)amino]benzophenone [(S)- and (R)-10] as reusable chiral auxiliaries have been developed. Three new fluoromethyl analogues of the naturally occurring octadepsipeptide hormaomycin (1) with (fluoromethylcyclopropyl)alanine moieties have been synthesized and subjected to preliminary tests of their antibiotic activity.
Trade-Offs between Growth Rate, Tree Size and Lifespan of Mountain Pine (Pinus montana) in the Swiss National Park

A within-species trade-off between growth rates and lifespan has been observed across different taxa of trees, however, there is some uncertainty whether this trade-off also applies to shade-intolerant tree species. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationships between radial growth, tree size and lifespan of shade-intolerant mountain pines. For 200 dead standing mountain pines (Pinus montana) located along gradients of aspect, slope steepness and elevation in the Swiss National Park, radial annual growth rates and lifespan were reconstructed. While early growth (i.e. mean tree-ring width over the first 50 years) correlated positively with diameter at the time of tree death, a negative correlation resulted with lifespan, i.e. rapidly growing mountain pines face a trade-off between reaching a large diameter at the cost of early tree death. Slowly growing mountain pines may reach a large diameter and a long lifespan, but risk to die young at a small size. Early growth was not correlated with temperature or precipitation over the growing period. Variability in lifespan was further contingent on aspect, slope steepness and elevation. The shade-intolerant mountain pines follow diverging growth trajectories that are imposed by extrinsic environmental influences. The resulting trade-offs between growth rate, tree size and lifespan advance our understanding of tree population dynamics, which may ultimately improve projections of forest dynamics under changing environmental conditions.
Leveraging FDSOI through body bias domain partitioning and bias search

In FDSOI, sophisticated body biasing schemes can greatly reduce leakage or improve performance as well as efficiency. This paper proposes algorithms to determine body bias domain candidates which then merge those to reach a desired number of domains. Domain candidates are determined using an activation based approach, analyzing mapped Verilog netlists to identify which parts of the design are used under specified conditions. Body bias domain partitionings are then determined based on activation and the timing of the partitioned parts. The algorithms include a body bias assignment algorithm to reach given timing goals with multiple domains and cross-domain resource sharing. The approach is compatible with any synthesis optimization and is resource sharing aware. Using an implementation of the proposed algorithms, overall leakage can be significantly reduced in all scenarios while obtaining the same benefits of body biasing. The method is evaluated in STMicro's 28nm FDSOI and Renesas's 65nm SOTB.
Constraining the Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate in the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy RE J1034+396

We present a comprehensive study of the spectrum of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy RE J1034+396, summarizing the information obtained from the optical to X-rays with observations from the William Herschel 4.2 m Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, ROSAT, ASCA, and BeppoSAX. The BeppoSAX spectra reveal a soft component which is well represented by two blackbodies with kTeff = 60 and 160 eV, mimicking that expected from a hot, optically thick accretion disk around a low-mass black hole. This is borne out by our modeling of the optical-to-X-ray nuclear continuum, which constrains the physical parameters of a NLS1 for the first time. The models demonstrate that RE J1034+396 is likely to be a system with a nearly edge-on accretion disk (60°-75° from the disk axis), accreting at nearly Eddington rates (0.3-0.7LEdd) onto a low-mass black hole (Mbh ~ 2-10 × 106 M☉). This is consistent with the hypothesis that NLS1s are Seyfert-scale analogies of galactic black hole candidates. The unusually high temperature of the big blue bump reveals a flat power-law-like continuum in the optical/UV which is consistent with an extrapolation to the hard X-ray power law, and which we speculate may be similar to the continuum component observed in BL Lac objects in their quiescent periods. From the BeppoSAX and ASCA data, we find that the slope of the hard X-ray power law depends very much on the form of the soft component which is assumed. For our best-fitting models, it lies somewhere between α = 0.7 and 1.3 and thus may not be significantly softer than active galactic nuclei in general.
WITA — Application for wound analysis and management

Wound characterization is important task in chronic wounds treatment, because changes of the wound size and tissue types are indicators of the healing progress. Developed color image processing software analyze digital wound image and based on learned tissue samples performs tissue classification. Implemented statistical pattern recognition algorithm classifies individual pixels of the wound image based on color information. Classification parameters were learned from examples presented to the application during the learning process. Results of the analysis contain the wound image represented in pseudo colors as well as percentage of tissue types within the wound area. Accompanied database stores all relevant wound information. Stored information makes possible qualitative and quantitative tracking of wound healing process, which gives the clinician necessary information to evaluate and adjust used therapy.
Connectivity Management for Opportunistic Communications in PSN

A method and apparatus are disclosed for the mechanical sorting of mammalian spermatozoa by sex-type, into a fraction enriched in X-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa, and a fraction enriched in Y-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa. Because of their different DNA content, Y-chromosome spermatozoa are slightly smaller than X-chromosome spermatozoa. A column is packed with two sizes of beads. The size of the smaller beads is chosen such that, on average, Y-chromosome spermatozoa will readily fit into the interstices between the smaller beads, while X-chromosome spermatozoa, on average, will not readily fit into those interstices. The size of the larger beads is chosen such that the smaller beads will not readily fit into the interstices between the larger beads. A liquid sample containing the sperm is run through a column so that the liquid first encounters the larger beads, and then encounters the smaller beads. The beads act as a sieve, creating a fraction in the larger beads enriched in X-chromosome spermatozoa, and a fraction in the smaller beads enriched in Y-chromosome spermatozoa.
Error Convergence of the Filtered-X LMS Algorithm for Multiple Harmonic Excitation

This paper presents a thorough analysis regarding the error signal convergence of the filtered-X LMS algorithm based on the approach of considering a diagonalized system describing the adaptive filter misalignment. For applications where the number of adaptive filter coefficients is chosen to be greater than or equal to the ratio of the fundamental disturbance period to the sampling period, a simple mathematical description of the error signal is derived that approximates the actual convergence process with numerically given error bounds. The analysis consists of two parts: a formal description of the error convergence using suitable expressions for eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and initial state of the filter misalignment; and a rearrangement to a form that is no longer exactly diagonal, but depends only on known values and allows for an approximation of the ideal convergence process. Finally, the exact and approximate convergence behavior are compared in simulations.
The Unified Model of Active Galactic Nuclei. I. Non-Hidden Broad-Line Region Seyfert 2 and Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

The unified model of Seyfert galaxies suggests that there are hidden broad-line regions (HBLRs) in Seyfert 2 galaxies (S2s). However, there is increasing evidence for the appearance of a subclass of S2s lacking HBLRs (non-HBLR S2s). An interesting issue arises as to the relations of non-HBLR S2s with other types of Seyfert galaxies and whether or not they can be included in the unified model. We assemble two subsamples consisting of 42 non-HBLR S2s and 44 narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) with redshift z ≤ 0.05 from published literatures to explore this issue. We compare black hole masses in the galactic centers, accretion rates, and infrared color ratio (f60 μm/f25 μm) as a potential indicator of the dusty torus orientation, [O III] λ5007, radio, and far-infrared luminosities. We find that non-HBLR S2s and NLS1s have (1) similar distributions of black hole masses [ × 107 M☉] and Eddington ratios (LBol/LEdd ~ 1); (2) significantly different distributions of f60 μm/f25 μm ratios; and (3) similar distributions of bulge magnitudes and luminosities of [O III], radio, and far-infrared emission. The similarities and differences can be understood naturally if they are intrinsically the same, but non-HBLR S2s are viewed at larger angles of the observer's sight than NLS1s. We thus suggest that non-HBLR S2s only have "narrower" broad-line regions and that they are the counterparts of NLS1s viewed at high inclination angles. The absence of the polarized emission line in non-HBLR S2s is caused by the less massive black holes and high accretion rate similar to NLS1s. The implications of the unification scheme of non-HBLR S2s and NLS1s are discussed.
Model-based Opponent Modelling in Domains Beyond the Prisoner's Dilemma

This paper examines the suitability of the model-based opponent modelling algorithm it-us-l* for domains beyond the prisoner’s dilemma it was initially designed for. An offline modelling framework is constructed where it-us-l* is used to create opponent models whose usage is deferred until a later point in time. This allows evaluation of the modelling procedure in a variety of abstract games – games without a payoff matrix – to measure the performance of the created models. A special focus is set on games with more than two players, as it will be shown that these can be reduced, from the perspective of the modelling procedure, to two player games.
A Framework for Cooperative 3D Mapping of Unstructured Environments

Cooperative nature in robots is a much sought after feature. Weakness of individual entities in the system could be over come by cooperation, which also brings in reliability and speed. Application of Computer Vision in robotics has brought in many new path breaking techniques, especially into aerial robotics. It has also managed to upstage the use of traditional inertial sensing methods for control and stabilization. With more computation power being packed onboard the robotic platforms, it is now possible to run some of the state-of-the-art Computer Vision and Control algorithms on the platform itself. We present a hybrid solution involving a vision based markerless Simultaneous Localization and Mapping algorithm and fudicial markers in a framework to achieve cooperative 3D mapping of unstructured environments.
An enhanced respiratory rate monitoring method for real tracheal sound recordings

This paper addresses the problem of non-invasive respiratory rate (RR) monitoring using single channel tracheal sound (TS) recordings. We have recently developed a robust respiratory phase segmentation method based on genetic algorithm (GA) which works well only for preprocessed clean TS. Therefore, an enhanced respiratory phase monitoring method is proposed in this paper by exploiting the signal redundancy to our existing method. In this context, appropriate overlapping windows have been applied to ensure sufficient redundancy of TS signals. The performance of the enhanced method is analyzed for different types of real TS and standard preprocessed TS. The average accuracy of respiratory phase segmentation found for real TS is comparable to that of the standard preprocessed data by our proposed method.