Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Solar based Three-Level NPC Inverter with Advanced Control Strategy

In solar PV or wind energy applications, utilizing maximum power from the source is one of the most important functions of the power electronic systems [3]–[5]. In three-phase applications, two types of power electronic configurations are commonly used to transfer power from the renewable energy resource to the grid: single-stage and double-stage conversion. In the double-stage conversion for a PV system, the first stage is usually a dc/dc converter and thesecond stage is a dc/ ac inverter. The function of the dc/dc converter is to facilitate the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of the PV array and to produce the appropriate dc voltage for the dc/ac inverter.
Feature Extracted Classifiers Based on EEG Signals: A Survey

This paper discusses and surveys feature extracted classification algorithms that used in the field of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems, based on ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG) signals. It presents the most common algorithms which have been employed in the context of BCI, then describes and categorizes them depending on highlighted properties. On the basis of the literature of this study, we evaluated as well as summarized the algorithms in terms of accuracy and performance, in order to facilitate the choosing process of the best classifier, regarding an appropriate feature extracted in the castoff in EEG-based BCI investigation. A significant contribution of this study, as well as highlighting the current widely used methods which are posted in the tables in Appendix; we have discussed and contributed a significant way in order to facilitate choosing the best classifier to be used within the field of BCI. Widely used techniques and algorithms are categorized in a final table which could explore many ideas for the researchers who are looking for a most suited method. (Abuhashish F.A, Sunar M.S, Kolivand H, Basori A.H, Mohamad D.B. Feature Extracted Classifiers Based on EEG Signals: A Survey, Life Sci J 2013;10(4):364-375) (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com . 50
Therapeutic Target Identification for Lung Cancer

It is known that the cause of cancer could be due to the gain of function of an oncoprotein (OCP) or the lost of function of a tumor suppressor protein (TSP). These proteins are potential targets for drugs. Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Taiwan. In this study, differential expressed genes (DEGs) are identified, using the Bioconductor package, via expression dataset generated from human lung adenocarcinoma tumor and adjacent non-tumor tissues. By integrating complementary resources, that is, microarray (ArrayExpress), protein-protein interaction (BioGrid), and protein complex (MIPS); it is found that certain cancer-related DEGs match with known protein complexes. After constructing the lung cancer protein-protein interaction network (PPIN), we performed graph theory analysis of PPIN. Highly dense modules (k-clique communities) are identified, which are potential cancer-related protein complexes. Up-clique and down-clique genes were used as queries to perform functional annotation clustering on DAVID. Over-represented or enriched biological processes and pathways are determined. Our findings suggest a potential relationship between those processes (as well as pathways) and cancer, which deserve further drug-gene interaction and potential drugs investigation.
Migrations- und Arbeitsmarktwirkungen der Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit

Im Mai 2011 stellt Deutschland als eines der letzten EU-Lander gegenuber den acht im Jahre 2004 beigetretenen ost- und mitteleuropaischen EU-Landern die volle Arbeitnehmerfreizugigkeit her. Es ist von hohem Interesse, welche Migrationswirkungen der damit verbundene Verlust von Steuerungsmoglichkeiten nach sich ziehen wird. Die bislang vorliegenden Studien unterstellen uberwiegend ein Beitrittsszenario, in dem alle EU-Lander gleichzeitig die uneingeschrankte Arbeitnehmerfreizugigkeit herstellen. Tatsachlich aber erfolgte eine gestaffelte Abschaffung von Mobilitatseinschrankungen. Im Ergebnis konnten die Migrationsstrome dauerhaft umgeleitet worden sein. Nach einer Schatzung auf Basis von aktuellen Befragungsdaten des Eurobarometers sind in den ersten Jahren nach dem Wegfall der Einschrankungen der Freizugigkeit durchaus hohe Zuwanderungszahlen zu erwarten. Langfristig bleibt der Zustrom aber vor allem im Vergleich zu fruheren Zuwanderungswellen moderat. Die Zuwanderung aus Osteuropa kann allerdings helfen, die konjunkturell bedingt hohe Nachfrage nach Arbeitskraften, die mit der demografisch bedingten Schrumpfung des heimischen Arbeitskraftepotenzials verbunden ist, zu kompensieren.
AGRUPAMIENTO DEL COMPORTAMIENTO REPRODUCTIVO DEL PEPINO PROCEDENTE DE SEMILLAS ACONDICIONADAS Y ROBUSTECIDAS MEDIANTE ANÁLISIS MULTIVARIADO.

The effects of hydration-dehydration treatments on the germination, establishment and yields of two cucumber varieties cultivated in Cuba was evaluated. The obtained results were processed by means of principal components analysis. The plants coming from seed priming and hardening by means of two or three cycles of partial hydrate, respectively, they showed a reproductive behavior very different to the production control, in what concerns fundamentally to germinative parameters, production and of relative biomass of vegetative structures. It also determined that the germination rate is positively correlated with the dry weight of the plants, yield and relative biomass of fruit.
Physiological characterization of a mouse model of cachexia in colorectal 1 liver metastases 2 3

Physiological characterization of a mouse model of cachexia in colorectal 1 liver metastases 2 3 Kate T. Murphy, Adam Struk, Cathy Malcontenti-Wilson, Christopher Christophi and 4 Gordon S. Lynch 5 6 Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of 7 Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 8 Liver and Pancreas Research Group, Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, 9 Austin Health, Heidelberg 3084, Australia 10 †Recently deceased 11 12 Running Head: Cachexia in colorectal liver metastases 13 14 Author Contributions: K.T. M. conceived and designed the study, performed passage 15 injections, biochemical and molecular biological assays, analyzed the data and prepared and 16 revised the manuscript. A.S. performed passage injections, animal monitoring, dissections, 17 grip strength and rotarod analyses, and immunohistochemistry. C.M. W. performed passage 18 injections and intrasplenic injections. C.C. and G.S. L. participated in the design and 19 coordination of the study and helped draft and revise the manuscript. All authors read and 20 approved the final manuscript. 21 22 Correspondence to: Kate T. Murphy, Ph.D. 23 Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory 24 Department of Physiology 25 The University of Melbourne 26 Victoria 3010 Australia 27 Ph: +61 3 8344 0065 28 Fax: +61 3 8344 5818 29 Email: ktmurphy@unimelb.edu. au 30 31 Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (March 13, 2013). doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00057. 2013
3-Axis accelerometer and strain sensor readout for MEMS-based capacitive sensors

A low-power capacitive readout for MEMS-based strain sensors and accelerometers is presented. A novel technique to optimise the trade-off between gain, bandwidth and noise is introduced. The readout can work with both types of sensors in the range of ±2.5g and ±20,000 μe. Artefact cancellation such as residual motion is suppressed due to accurate control of the 3dB point in the built-in filter of the architecture. A figure of merit of 4.41×10 F√(W/Hz) was achieved. The ASIC was developed using a 0. 25μm CMOS technology.
Rap Machine

We present Rap Machine, an image based lyrics generator. We use a CNN model extract features from images, caption the image using a RNN model, and generate lyrics in the style of an artist using a sequence to sequence model. We train and evaluate our image captioning model using the Flickr 8k dataset, and use lyrics from several artists across different genres and writing styles to train and generate lyrics based on the caption we obtained from the image captioning model.
Printed in the United Kingdom Context-Sensitive Reward Shaping for Sparse Interaction Multi-Agent Systems

Potential-based reward shaping is a commonly used approach in reinforcement learning to direct exploration based on prior knowledge. Both in singleand multiagent settings this technique speeds up learning without losing any theoretical convergence guarantees. However, if speedups through reward shaping are to be achieved in multi-agent environments, a different shaping signal should be used for each context in which agents have a different subgoal or when agents are involved in a different interaction situation. This paper describes the use of context aware potential functions in a multi-agent system in which the interactions between agents are sparse. This means that, unknown to the agents a priori, the interactions between the agents only occur sporadically in certain regions of the state space. During these interactions, agents need to coordinate in order to reach the global optimal solution. We demonstrate how different reward shaping functions can be used on top of FCQ-learning; an algorithm capable of automatically detecting when agents should take each other into consideration. Using FCQ-learning, coordination problems can even be anticipated before the actual problems occur, allowing the problems to be solved timely. We evaluate our approach on a range of gridworld problems, as well as a simulation of Air Traffic Control.
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics Uncertainty and Economic Activity : A Global Perspective

The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics based on the premise that uncertainty causes economic activity to slow down and contract. In this paper, we study the interrelation between financial markets volatility and economic activity assuming that both variables are driven by the same set of unobserved common factors. We further assume that these common factors affect volatility and economic activity with a time lag of at least a quarter. Under these assumptions, we show analytically that volatility is forward looking and that the output equation of a typical VAR estimated in the literature is mis-specified as least squares estimates of this equation are inconsistent. Empirically, we document a statistically significant and economically sizable impact of future output growth on current volatility, and no effect of volatility shocks on business cycles, over and above those driven by the common factors. We interpret this evidence as suggesting that volatility is a symptom rather than a cause of economic instability.
Romantism, Amazement, Imagination—A trias religiosa

To wonder is a gift of the romanticist in particular. Wonder seeks explanation. If reason doesn’t provide that, imagination provides a way out. One imagines a transcendental world of which the God-idea may become the central point and the explanatory model of that that invoked wonder. The God-idea implies wonder, wonder that live exists, that things exist at all. Wonder promotes religiosity—i.c. , the need to provide life with a vertical dimension—and religiosity facilitates, in its turn, wonder. Thus the circle is closed: romanticism, wonder, imagination, religiosity, wonder. A circle providing life with an important bonus, i.e., sense, meaning with a supernatural signature. This augments the chance that hope will be preserved, even as dark clouds begin to hover above one’s life.
Gender and Overconfidence by Claes Bengtssona

Do males differ from females in terms of self-confidence? The structure of the Economics I exam at Stockholm University provides an opportunity to shed some light on this question. By answering an extra, optional question, the students can aim for a higher mark. We find a clear gender difference in that male students are more inclined than female students to take this opportunity. This difference in selfassessment is more pronounced among younger than among older students.
Isolation of Allergic Fungal Microflora from the Aero-Spora of Khammam District, India

The outdoor allergens are predominantly constituted by plant pollens and fungal spores. The outdoor allergens on the other hand are represented by allergens from dust mites, cockroaches and pets.The indoor environments the fungus settled on the beds, carpets, mattresses (Meriggi et al., 1996; Pasanen et al., 1992; Katz et al., 1999). Fungi are ubiquitous air borne allergens cause of human diseases like allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, bronchial asthma, and allergic Broncho-pulmonary mycoses resulting from exposure to spores (Braun, 2003).
An activated CD 8 + lymphocyte appears in lymph nodes of rhesus monkeys early after infection with simian immunodeficiency virus

Although alterations in T lymphocyte subset distribution and function in the peripheral blood of HIV-infected humans are well defined, the extent to which these reflect changes in other lymphoid compartments is unclear. Wehave characterized the coincident changes in PBLand lymph nodes (LN)1 after simian immunodeficiency virus of macaques (SIY,.5) infection of rhesus monkeys. Whereas no consistent change in CD8+PBLwas noted during the first 60 d after infection, CD8+ lymphocytes increased significantly in number in LN. These CD8+LN lymphocytes exhibited an increased expression of MHCclass II and a decreased expression of leukocyte adhesion molecule-l, suggesting that they were activated, but interestingly did not express CD25 (IL-2 receptor). Moreover, there was no evidence that these CD8+LN cells were proliferating, suggesting that they had migrated to the LN. These changes in the LN CD8+ lymphocyte population preceded any detectable change in the light microscopic appearance of the LN. WhenSIV.5specific effector T cell responses were assessed, the magnitude of virus-specific effector activity was nearly identical in the PBLand LNof each monkey studied. However, the presence of SIV. ,,,-specific effector cells in the LN did not correlate with the presence of CD8+, MHCclass II+ cells. These findings suggest that this numerically important CD8+ lymphocyte subpopulation may serve a regulatory function. (J. Clin. Invest. 1991. 88:1113-1120.)
The Surprising Ingredients of Swedish Success – Free Markets and Social Cohesion

New IEA paper demonstrates that Swedish success is a result of the free market and not the welfare state Executive Summary: Sweden did not become wealthy through social democracy, big government and a large welfare state. It developed economically by adopting free-market policies in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It also benefited from positive cultural norms, including a strong work ethic and high levels of trust. As late as 1950, Swedish tax revenues were still only around 21 per cent of GDP. The policy shift towards a big state and higher taxes occurred mainly during the next thirty years, as taxes increased by almost one per cent of GDP annually The rapid growth of the state in the late 1960s and 1970s led to a large decline in Sweden’s relative economic performance. In 1975, Sweden was the 4th richest industrialised country in terms of GDP per head. By 1993, it had fallen to 14th. Big government had a devastating impact on entrepreneurship. After 1970, the establishment of new firms dropped significantly. Among the 100 firms with the highest revenues in Sweden in 2004, only two were entrepreneurial Swedish firms founded after 1970, compared with 21 founded before 1913. High levels of equality and favourable social outcomes were evident before the creation of an extensive welfare state. Moreover, generous welfare policies have created numerous social problems, including high levels of dependency among certain groups. Descendants of Swedes who migrated to the USA in the 19th century are characterised by favourable social outcomes, such as a low poverty rate and high employment, despite the less extensive welfare state in the USA. The average income of Americans with Swedish ancestry is over 50 per cent higher than Swedes in their native country. Third World immigrants have been particularly badly affected by a combination of high welfare benefits and restrictive labour market regulations. In 2004, when the Swedish economy was performing strongly, the employment rate among immigrants from non- Western nations in Sweden was only 48 per cent. Since the economic crisis of the early 1990s, Swedish governments have rolled back the state and introduced market reforms in sectors such as education, health and pensions. Economic freedom has increased in Sweden while it has declined in the UK and USA. Sweden’s relative economic performance has improved accordingly.
Mortalidad neonatal en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: desigualdades territoriales en el acceso a los servicios de salud

A pesar de los esfuerzos realizados para reducir la mortalidad neonatal en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, y de la implementacion del Seguro Universal Materno Infantil (SUMI), los datos revelan que el progreso ha sido mas lento que lo logrado en cuanto a la reduccion de la mortalidad infantil en general. En ese contexto, el interes principal de esta investigacion es definir las caracteristicas de la mortalidad neonatal en el pais. El estudio parte del analisis econometrico de los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Demografia y Salud (ENDSA) de 2008. El objetivo es visualizar como el lugar de procedencia incide en el riesgo de muerte del recien nacido. Los hallazgos revelan que, en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, el riesgo de muerte neonatal esta condicionado por el acceso a los servicios de salud, debido a las disparidades territoriales a nivel urbano y rural. Estas disparidades se traducen en barreras de acceso economicas, geograficas y de exclusion que disminuyen la equidad en el acceso y la utilizacion de los servicios de salud, refuerzan los determinantes sociales que inciden en la muerte del recien nacido y limitan el acceso a intervenciones oportunas y adecuadas en la atencion materno-neonatal.
Elektret- und Piezoelektret-Energy-Harvester

Der Begriff „Energy-Harvesting“ (auf Deutsch „Energieernte“) beschreibt die Umwandlung von Energie aus unterschiedlichen Umgebungsquellen (z.B. optische, thermische oder mechanische Quellen) in elektrische Energie [1,2]. Somit können typischerweise drahtlose Sensornetze versorgt werden, die sich auf Maschinen oder Fahrzeugen an schwer erreichbaren Stellen befinden. Die Erzeugung von elektrischer Versorgung aus der Umgebung erspart einem das regelmäßige Austauschen oder die Aufladung eines Batteriesystems.
Receiver-based Backbone Construction and Maintenance for Wireless Sensor or Multi-Hop Networks

Energy savings and topology control are needed tasks of many sensor network applications. Sensors are assumed to be randomly deployed and shall organize themselves independently after deployment. Moreover, sensor networks shall operate as long as possible warranting network connectivity. To support these tasks we propose the maintenance of a virtual backbone. Nodes not participating in the backbone shutdown their radios and go to sleep for a certain time. The backbone nodes are adaptively altered according to the current network conditions. The backbone is thus able to deal with node failures and/or movements. The non-backbone nodes follow long sleep cycles during which they frequently wake up to check the network conditions. After a long sleep period the backbone is reestablished by the base station. The algorithm shows good approximation of the minimum number of nodes in the backbone after backbone setup, as well as the ability to repair link breaks on demand with short delays and low message overhead.
Evolutionary Restoration Ecology

Although restoration biology is commonly depicted as an ecological field, it is in many ways an evolutionary science. When we manage habitats to enhance or impair the performance of target species we are implicitly managing adaptation. In the past, restoration practitioners have emphasized preserving genetic diversity as a resource for future evolution (Lesica and Allendorf 1999; Broadhurst et al. 2008). Here, we discuss ways in which evolution on contemporary time scales (within a few hundred generations) might also be important to restoration outcomes. Such contemporary evolution is relatively common in nature and commonly associated with colonization and anthropogenic disturbances, situations that often prevail in restoration contexts (Hendry and Kinnison 1999; Stockwell and Weeks 1999; Bone and Farres 2001; Reznick and Ghalambor 2001; Stockwell et al. 2003; Hendry et al. 2008; Merila and Hendry 2014). Contemporary evolution not only results from natural and anthropogenic changes, but it reciprocally influences population, community, and ecosystem processes that are central to restoration success (Fussmann et al. 2007; Kinnison and Hairston 2007; Carlson et al. 2014). Thus, conservation and restoration will benefit from considering evolution in not only the past, but also the present, and future.
Pruning neural networks by minimization of the estimated variance

This paper presents a series of results on a method of pruning neural networks. An approximation to the estimated variance of errors, V, is constructed containing a supplementary parameter, a - the estimated variance itself being the limit of the function, V, as a tends to zero. The network weights are fitted using a minimization algorithm with V as objective function. The parameter, a, is reduced successively in the course of fitting. Results are presented using synthetic functions and the well-known airline passenger data. We find, for example, that the network can discover, in the course of being pruned, evidence of redundancy in the variables.