Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Access control framework for API-enabled devices in smart buildings

With the rapid advances of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in recent years, more devices around us are becoming connected to the Internet. Such devices are often equipped with web API, which allows them to work as a whole in smart buildings or cities, not as a standalone object that conventional devices used to be. In order to make these device API practical, security cannot be disregarded because the impact of a security breach in physical objects tends to be larger, as it directly affects the physical environment we live in. However, enforcing security for such devices is challenging, because it may consist of heterogeneous devices including those with limited resources. Additionally, devices in smart building environment may be attached or removed at any time dynamically. In order to fill up this gap, we present an access control framework for API-enabled devices in smart buildings. To accommodate a dynamic environment in smart buildings, we split security manager as a third party in the system. Complex security computations are delegated to the security manager so that resource-constrained devices can be securely handled as well in our framework. To guarantee only authorized user can access the device, the device is forced to ask security manager to evaluate requests. The proposed framework is implemented in the real smart building, which consists of more than 300 devices and its performance is evaluated by conducting a various of experiments. The average of response time has less than 0.1 seconds, which indicates that the proposed framework is reasonable to be practically used in a real smart building.
Second complete remission in an elderly patient with acute myeloid leukemia retreated with decitabine

A 67‐year‐old man with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was treated with low‐dose decitabine. He achieved a complete remission (CR) after two cycles of therapy, and he remained in remission during 1 year of treatment. He developed recurrent AML after discontinuation of decitabine. He was retreated with decitabine and again achieved a CR, which has been maintained for 6 months. This case demonstrates that durable responses can occur upon retreatment with decitabine. Am. J. Hematol. 81:543–545, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Characterization of In53, a Class 1 Plasmid- and Composite Transposon-Located Integron of Escherichia coli Which Carries an Unusual Array of Gene Cassettes

ABSTRACT Further characterization of the genetic environment of the gene encoding the Escherichia coli extended-spectrum β-lactamase, blaVEB-1, revealed the presence of a plasmid-located class 1 integron, In53, which carried eight functional resistance gene cassettes in addition toblaVEB-1. While the aadB and the arr-2 gene cassettes were identical to those previously described, the remaining cassettes were novel: (i) a novel nonenzymatic chloramphenicol resistance gene of the cmlAfamily, (ii) a qac allele encoding a member of the small multidrug resistance family of proteins, (iii) a cassette,aacA1b/orfG, which encodes a novel 6′-N-acetyltransferase, and (iv) a fused gene cassette,oxa10/aadA1, which is made of two cassettes previously described as single cassettes. In addition, oxa10 andaadA1 genes were expressed from their own promoter sequence present upstream of the oxa10 cassette.arr-2 coded for a protein that shared 54% amino acid identity with the rifampin ADP-ribosylating transferase encoded by thearr-1 gene from Mycobacterium smegmatisDSM43756. While in M. smegmatis, the main inactivated compound was 23-ribosyl-rifampin, the inactivated antibiotic recovered from E. coli culture was 23-O-ADP-ribosyl-rifampin. The integrase gene of In53 was interrupted by an IS26 insertion sequence, which was also present in the 3′ conserved segment. Thus, In53 is a truncated integron located on a composite transposon, named Tn2000, bounded by two IS26 elements in opposite orientations. Target site duplication at both ends of the transposon indicated that the integron likely was inserted into the plasmid through a transpositional process. This is the first description of an integron located on a composite transposon.
Only one Fitts' law formula please!

The HCI community uses at least four different formulas for Fitts' law. Each of them is derived from Shannon's information theory. This raises the question which formula is wrong and which is right. While the HCI community on the one hand gives free choice for the formula, it demands good statistical values for the evaluation on the other hand. From a scientific point of view this situation is not satisfying.
Institute of Physics Publishing Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Droplet-based Micro Oscillating-flow Pcr Chip

Polymerase chain reactions (PCR), thermally activated chemical reactions which are widely used for nucleic acid amplification, have recently received much attention in microelectromechanical systems and micro total analysis systems because a wide variety of DNA/RNA molecules can be enriched by PCR for further analyses. In the present work, a droplet-based micro oscillating-flow PCR chip was designed and fabricated by the silicon microfabrication technique. Three different temperature zones, which were stable at denaturation, extension and annealing temperatures and isolated from each other by a thin-wall linkage, were integrated with a single, simple and straight microchannel to form the chip's basic functional structure. The PCR mixture was injected into the chip as a single droplet and flowed through the three temperature zones in the main microchannel in an oscillating manner to achieve the temperature maintenance and transitions. The chip's thermal performance was theoretically analyzed and numerically simulated. The results indicated that the time needed for the temperature of the droplet to change to the target value is less than 1 s, and the root mean square error of temperature is less than 0.2 • C. A droplet of 1 µl PCR mixture with standard HPV (Human Papilloma Virus)-DNA sample inside was amplified by the present chip and the results were analyzed by slab gel electrophoresis with separation of DNA markers in parallel. The electrophoresis results demonstrated that the micro oscillating-flow PCR chip successfully amplified the HPV-DNA, with a processing time of about 15 min which is significantly reduced compared to that for the conventional PCR instrument.
Understanding survivors' reactions to downsizing in China

Purpose – Using an organizational justice framework, this paper aims to examine survivors' attitudinal and behavioral correlates to downsizing in Chinese state‐owned enterprises (SOEs). Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted one qualitative study involving personal interviews and one quantitative study involving structured surveys to develop an understanding of the phenomenon.Findings – The studies revealed that justice‐enhancing managerial practices were associated with survivors' evaluations of their outcomes after the downsizing, which in turn, were related to survivors' positive attitudinal and behavioral reactions.Research implications/limitations – The findings suggest that organizational justice provides a useful avenue for understanding survivors' perspectives in the downsizing context in China. However, retrospective, cross‐sectional data were used. Future research might investigate causality in the downsizing process by using a quasi‐experimental design.Practical implications – Manag.
Game-theoretic resource allocation methods for device-to-device communication

Device-to-device communication underlaying cellular networks allows mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to use the licensed spectrum allocated to cellular services for direct peer-to-peer transmission. D2D communication can use either one-hop transmission (i.e. D2D direct communication) or multi-hop clusterbased transmission (i.e. in D2D local area networks). The D2D devices can compete or cooperate with each other to reuse the radio resources in D2D networks. Therefore, resource allocation and access for D2D communication can be treated as games. The theories behind these games provide a variety of mathematical tools to effectively model and analyze the individual or group behaviors of D2D users. In addition, game models can provide distributed solutions to the resource allocation problems for D2D communication. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the applications of game-theoretic models to study the radio resource allocation issues in D2D communication. The article also outlines several key open research directions.
Explaining the Adjustment of Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explain adjustment (diabetes-related quality of life, general well-being, and psychopathology) in adolescents with type 1 diabetes by testing the direct, mediating, and moderating effects of diabetes-specific and psychosocial factors, using an adapted version of the Disability-Stress-Coping model of Wallander and Varni. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 437 adolescents (54.5% girls; age range 11–19 years) with type 1 diabetes (mean ± SD diabetes duration 6.13 ± 3.78 years) were recruited from 25 hospitals in the Netherlands. Questionnaires were completed by the adolescents and their family members. Metabolic control was assessed by measuring A1C in all participants in one laboratory. RESULTS Diabetes stress mediated between A1C and adjustment, after controlling for protective factors, and explained an additional 16% variance in quality of life and a 15% variance in general well-being, whereas a 19% additional variance in psychopathology was explained by both diabetes-related and general stress. No moderating effects were identified after controlling for the main effects of all risk and protective factors in the model. CONCLUSIONS Both diabetes-related and general stress are critical predictors of the adjustment of adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Protective factors such as self-worth and social support may mediate the effects of generic stress and thus should be encouraged. Diabetes-related stress has the potential to displace the effects of protective factors and thus may play a critical role in the development of maladjustment in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question of Causal Relationships

A causal model of relationships between structural properties of states, civic culture attitudes of the general public, and change in level of democracy is tested with cross-national data. The model permits inferences about the possibility of unidirectional or reciprocal causation between civic culture attitudes and democracy, controlling for macrosocietal variables such as economic development, income inequality, and subcultural pluralism. Most civic culture attitudes do not have any significant impact on change in democracy. One of them, interpersonal trust, appears clearly to be an effect rather than a cause of democracy. The exception is the percentage of the general public that prefers gradual reform of society instead of revolutionary change or intransigent defense of the status quo. Support for gradual reform has a positive impact on change in democracy, and it is unrelated to a country's years of continuous democracy—findings that support the hypothesis of a unidirectional civic culture effect on democracy.
Marriages that Promote Growth

Abstract This study explores the process of relationship development in marriages that foster personal and relationship growth. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve individuals/six couples in marriages that promote individual and relationship growth. Grounded theory methodology was employed and “Empowering Connections” emerged as the core theme. Empowering connections are characterised by a process of growth captured by the following categories: “Connecting Emotionally,” “Loving Respectfully,” “Expanding One's Self,” and “Experiencing Empowering Connections. ” The results of the study contribute to the understanding of marriage and provide insight to premarital couples, people who want to improve their marriage, and to therapists working with couples.
Pulsed mass recruitment by a stingless bee, Trigona hyalinata

Research on bee communication has focused on the ability of the highly social bees, stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) and honeybees (Apidae, Apini), to communicate food location to nest–mates. Honeybees can communicate food location through the famous waggle dance. Stingless bees are closely related to honeybees and communicate food location through a variety of different mechanisms, many of which are poorly understood. We show that a stingless bee, Trigona hyalinata, uses a pulsed mass–recruitment system that is highly focused in time and space. Foragers produced an ephemeral, polarized, odour trail consisting of mandibular gland secretions. Surprisingly, the odour trail extended only a short distance away from the food source, instead of providing a complete trail between the nest and the food source (as has been described for other stingless bees). This abbreviated trail may represent an intermediate strategy between full–trail marking, found in some stingless bees, and odour marking of the food alone, found in stingless bees and honeybees.
Information landscapes

We give a new interpretation to the concept of "landscape". This allows us to develop a new theoretical model to study search algorithms. Particularly, we are able to quantify the amount and quality of "information" embedded in a landscape and to predict the performance of a search algorithm over it. We conclude presenting empirical results for a simple genetic algorithm which strongly support this idea.
Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics for Public Key Certification

This paper investigates the role of trust metrics in attack-resistant public key certification. We present an analytical framework for understanding the effectiveness of trust metrics in resisting attacks, including a characterization of the space of possible attacks. Within this framework, we establish the theoretical best case for a trust metric. Finally, we present a practical trust metric based on network flow that meets this theoretical bound.
Susceptibility to cerebral infarction in the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat is inherited as a dominant trait.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Susceptibility to cerebral infarction was compared in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive (SHRSP), normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats, and F1 hybrids derived from a SHRSP/WKY cross. METHODS The proximal left middle cerebral artery (MCA) was occluded under anesthesia and infarct volume assessed 24 hours later by magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed 5 days later by quantitative histopathology. Total hemispheric infarct volume was expressed as a percentage of the total brain volume. RESULTS Infarct volumes measured by MRI in adult SHRSP (19.5 +/- 2.0%) and F1 hybrid rats (19.4 +/- 1.9%) were significantly greater than in WKY (11.1 +/- 2.4; CI [6.07, 10.76]) and (5.93, 10.52), respectively, P<. 001). Sensitivity to an ischemic insult was unrelated to blood pressure: although systolic blood pressures differed between young versus adult male SHRSP and between female versus male SHRSP and F1 hybrids, infarct volumes were equal. A close correlation was found between infarct volumes measured by MRI and histology (r=.92, P<.0001). CONCLUSIONS Outcome to MCA occlusion (MCAO) measured with MRI provides a reproducible and nonterminal quantitative phenotypic marker of stroke susceptibility in the SHRSP. This is the first study to employ MCAO with MRI to quantify stroke susceptibility in F1 hybrid rats and indicates a dominant mode of inheritance for this phenotype.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus and ABO/Rh blood groups

Sir, Many studies have designed to determine the association between ABO blood group phenotypes and many disorders, including stomach carcinoma and peptic ulcer. [1,2] There are controversies studies reports regarding association of diabetic mellitus type 2 and blood groups. [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] Therefore, we evaluate this association in Iranian type 2 diabetics compared with normal population. This study was conducted in central part of Iran (Isfahan) in 2012 on 130 diabetic patients and 7996 normal population as the control group. Participants in both case and control groups were selected using convenience time-based sequential sampling method. A total of 8126 participant were evaluated. Mean age was (49.23 ± 12.58). 5143 were male and 2983 were female. Table 1 shows the distribution of the blood groups in diabetes mellitus patients and controls. Blood group B+ was more common in diabetic patients (30.8% in case group vs. 24.9% in controls), but it was not statistically significant (P = 0.746). In case group, 115 (88.5%) patients had positive and 15 (11.5%) patients had negative Rh blood group. In control group, 7111 (88.9%) participants had positive and 885 (11.1%) had negative Rh blood groups (P = 0.865). As there were several controversies in different ethnic groups, we may suggest performing more developed studies considering ethnicity as a contributing factor in patients with diabetic mellitus.
Introducing pharmacovigilance to postgraduate pharmacy students in Nepal.

To the Editor. Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities related to the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problems.1 Pharmacovigilance programs can play an important role in early detection and prevention of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Healthcare professionals should be aware of the existing pharmacovigilance programs in their country and should report (ADRs) as a part of their professional obligation. The pharmacist can promote the development, maintenance, and ongoing evaluation of a program to reduce the risks of ADRs by detecting, reporting, and assessing any suspected ADRs. A pharmacist can educate the staff (physicians, nurses, etc.) and encourage compliance with the ADR reporting program. Studies from both developed 2 and developing countries document a poor knowledge of, attitude toward, and practice of pharmacovigilance among pharmacists.3 Developed countries have incorporated pharmacovigilance teaching in the pharmacy curriculum.4 In Nepal, the pharmacy curriculum trains students to work in an industry and there is less emphasis on pharmacy practice and social pharmacy-related issues. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety are one of the neglected areas. The Kathmandu University in Nepal conducts a 2-year masters in pharmacy (MPharm) program in pharmaceutical care. During the 2-year course, the students are posted in teaching hospitals and participate in ward rounds with the clinicians. Pharmacovigilance is not being taught to these students. The regional pharmacovigilance center of Western Nepal is the pioneer in introducing the concept of pharmacovigilance in Nepal. The first year MPharm students of Kathmandu University visited the Manipal Teaching Hospital, a tertiary care teaching hospital attached with the regional pharmacovigilance center, for their 1-week hospital orientation program in June 2008. During their 1-week program, an education module in pharmacovigilance was conducted for them. The objectives of the module were to introduce the present national pharmacovigilance program of Nepal to the students, emphasize the importance of pharmacovigilance programs, and also familiarize them with a few operational aspects of pharmacovigilance programs. To start with, students were divided into 3 groups. The module had 4 parts.
Gossip and counselling: The tendency to gossip and its relation to vocational interests

Abstract In this study we attempted to treat gossip as a psychological disposition related to vocational interests, using a newly developed instrument, the Tendency to Gossip Questionnaire (TGQ). One hundred and twenty Israeli students (58 females, 62 males) at the Haifa Technion and the University of Haifa were administered the TGQ together with the Social Desirability Scale and the Ramak-Vocational Interests Questionnaire. We found that: (a) women tended to report that they gossiped more than men did, but this difference was confined to one specific content area of gossip only; and (b) interest in people-oriented professions was related to the tendency to gossip even when social desirability and gender were controlled for statistically. The last finding supports the ‘spillover’ hypothesis (Staines, 1980) on the relationship between vocational and avocational interests. The positive relationship between the tendency to gossip and an interest in people-oriented professions might mean that both derive from.
The Internet as a newly emerging risk environment for sexually transmitted diseases.

CONTEXT Transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with unprotected sex among multiple anonymous sex partners. The role of the Internet in risk of STDs is not known. OBJECTIVE To compare risk of STD transmission for persons who seek sex partners on the Internet with risk for persons not seeking sex partners on the Internet. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey conducted September 1999 through April 2000. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A total of 856 clients of the Denver Public Health HIV Counseling and Testing Site in Colorado. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-report of logging on to the Internet with the intention of finding sex partners; having sex with partners who were originally contacted via the Internet; number of such partners and use of condoms with them; and time since last sexual contact with Internet partners, linked to HIV risk assessment and test records. RESULTS Of the 856 clients, most were white (77. 8%), men (69.2%), heterosexual (65.3%), and aged 20 to 50 years (84. 1%). Of those, 135 (15.8%) had sought sex partners on the Internet, and 88 (65.2%) of these reported having sex with a partner initially met via the Internet. Of those with Internet partners, 34 (38.7%) had 4 or more such partners, with 62 (71.2%) of contacts occurring within 6 months prior to the client's HIV test. Internet sex seekers were more likely to be men (P<.001) and homosexual (P<.001) than those not seeking sex via the Internet. Internet sex seekers reported more previous STDs (P =.02); more partners (P<.001); more anal sex (P<.001); and more sexual exposure to men (P<.001), men who have sex with men (P<.001), and partners known to be HIV positive (P<.001) than those not seeking sex via the Internet. CONCLUSIONS Seeking sex partners via the Internet was a relatively common practice in this sample of persons seeking HIV testing and counseling (representative of neither Denver nor the overall US population). Clients who seek sex using the Internet appear to be at greater risk for STDs than clients who do not seek sex on the Internet. JAMA. 2000;284:443-446
Paper Special Section on Networking Technologies for Overlay Networks Sens: a Scalable and Expressive Naming System for Resource Information Retrieval

SUMMARY We have designed a scalable and expressive naming system called SENS, capable of retrieving information of computing and content resources distributed widely across the Internet through exact queries and multi-attribute range queries over resource names. Our system utilizes a descriptive naming scheme to name resources and a multi-dimensional resource ID space for message routing through an overlay network of name servers (NSs). The resource ID space is constructed on the overlay network based on CAN routing algorithm. Our novel mapping scheme between resource names and resource IDs preserves resource ID locality while still achieving good load balancing regarding resource information distribution. We also propose a multicast routing algorithm to deliver resource information and a broadcast routing algorithm to route query messages to corresponding NSs with small cost of message transmission. Our simulation results show that our system can achieve good routing performance and load balancing.