Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Research of Correlation Power Analysis on a AES Implementations

Among various side-channel attacks, power analysis pose a serious threat to the security of different cryptographic implementations such as Simple Power Analysis (SPA), Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and Correlation Power Analysis (CPA). Such attacks typically involve representing the relationship between the instantaneous power consumption of a device executing a cryptographic algorithm, and certain intermediate data handled. In the present paper, we conduct a simulation-based correlation power attack and we demonstrate the experimental procedure of this attack against AES using two different devices: Xilinx Virtex TM-5 FPGA (XC5VLX30) and 8051-compatible microcontroller. The experimental results show that the AES hardware implementations have better resistance against power attack and the validity of power model used to calculate hypothetical power depends statistically on the implementation.
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS OF BRAND MANAGEMENT

Businesses are striving to build up a distinct image by making differences with small details in the eyes of customers who have freedom of choice in today’s competitive environment. Therefore, businesses are not only paying more attention to branding operations and endeavor to draw their clients to their own products, but they are spending time, money and making efforts to keep them to their brands and make them loyal to their own brands. One of the primary duties of business managers is determining the demands and needs of the target audience and developing strategies accordingly. And one of these strategic decisions is the brand management. Therefore, it can be argued that brand management is one of the most important strategic factors to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. It can be clearly seen that businesses which have succeeded in brand management especially of differentiated products called luxury goods are noticeable with respect to acquiring and sustaining a competitive advantage.
A case of a young girl with Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), dysmorphic features, short stature, and developmental delay – Is there a link?

Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) is a problem of ineffective hematopoesis, due to a clonal disorder of the hematopoetic stem cells. MDS is rare in children and considered premalignant as it often progresses to leukemia over time. There are known inherited predisposing conditions to MDS that have been reported in the literature. We describe the case of a 12-year-old girl with multiple dysmorphic features, short stature, and developmental delay with a new diagnosis of MDS (RAEB) with no confirmed genetic diagnosis linking all these features together. We propose that her underlying syndromic diagnosis may have predisposed her to MDS.
Allelic deletion at chromosome bands 11q14-23 is common in neuroblastoma.

BACKGROUND Neuroblastoma tumorigenesis may involve the differential inactivation of multiple tumor suppressor genes. Recent data have suggested that a neuroblastoma suppressor gene may be located on the long arm of chromosome 11 (11q). PROCEDURE We therefore analyzed 295 primary neuroblastomas from a representative group of patients for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 25 polymorphic markers spanning 11q. RESULTS LOH was observed in 129 primary neuroblastomas (44%), and a common region of LOH mapped to 11q14-23. No correlation was found between 11q LOH and adverse prognostic variables, but a strong inverse relationship between 11q LOH and MYCN amplification (P < 0.001) was observed. There was no difference in overall survival when patients were stratified by 11q LOH status. However, 11q LOH was associated with a decreased overall survival probability when patients whose tumors had a single copy of MYCN were analyzed separately (P = 0.008). CONCLUSION These data support the hypothesis that a tumor suppressor gene mapping within 11q14-23 is frequently inactivated during the malignant evolution of neuroblastoma.
Survey of Information Security Risk Assessment

In order to exploring the inherent rule of information security risk assessment development, based on information system or asset structure and operation status, a survey is proposed in which the common risk assessment methods are divided into four types: vulnerability identification and risk assessment, risk factors simulation and risk estimation, security situation assessment, the risk calculation based on business process analysis. The method on delving into the information system of the highest level structure--namely business process structure and change is advocated, on which business operating performance indicators are regarded as risk scale, so real-time and dynamically information security risk calculation is obtained. Finally, Based on an understanding of the information system structure and utilization, combined with feedback control theory, three levels of judgment is defined which positions information security risk assessment method status, and the information security risk assessment study on the return to the rule of non-linear system.
Multi-Criteria Supplier Selection Decisions in Supply Chain Networks : A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach

Competition among firms in current global market shifts to competition among networks of firms and it forces supply networks to negotiate and cooperate with all partners more than ever. Collaborative initiatives such as collaborative design, collaborative planning, forecasting and open collective innovations are increasingly accepted as approaches to effectively support decision-making processes in a variety of domains, including, manufacturing, education, healthcare and software industry (Camilleri and Hernández, 2016). Demands and constraints in the supply chain design operations are worthy of attention. The present paper is intended to study the supplier selection problem in a network of suppliers and buyers in the context of a multi-product supply chain. In the beginning, quality measures for supplier selection are collected and categorized into seven areas. Every quality area has been evaluated using the proposed fuzzy variables. In order to rank each product of each supplier in the view of every buyer, fuzzy AHP algorithm was applied. A multi-objective integer programing model was designed to make the whole network beneficial from cost as well as quality metrics. A Genetic Algorithm (3 dimensional) was presented in this study to gain acceptable solution in an advance way. An illustrative example is presented in this paper to transparent the proposed algorithm.
Increasing Capacity for Knowledge Translation: Understanding How Some Researchers Engage Policy-makers

The potential for research to influence policy, and for researchers to influence policy actors, is significant. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of health services researchers engaging in (or not able to engage in) policy-relevant research. Semistructured telephone interviews were completed with 23 experienced researchers.The results paint a complex and dynamic picture of the policy environment and the relationship between government officials and academic researchers. Elements of this complexity included diverse understandings of the nature of policy and how research relates to policy; dealing with multiple stakeholders in the policy-making process; and identifying strategies to manage the different cultures of government and academia.
UV Enhanced Field Emission Performance of Mg-Doped ZnO Nanorods

Vertical Mg-ZnO nanorods were synthesized on glass substrates using a low-temperature hydrothermal method. The field emission performance of Mg-ZnO nanorods was greatly enhanced by UV light illumination. It was found that the Mg-ZnO nanorods grown at 80 °C were structurally uniform and well oriented with pure wurtzite structure. Mg-ZnO nanorod exhibited turn-on fields was 2.27 V/μm, and field enhancement factors (β) was 2212. UV illumination of the Mg-ZnO nanorod reduced the turn-on electrical field from 2.27 to 1.97 V/μm and enhanced the β from 2212 and 4136.
Vitamin E Treatment for Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is characterized histologically by the ballooning of hepatocytes, lobular inflammation and steatosis. If this diagnosis is suspected, it is important to exclude other causes of liver dama - ge, especially excessive consumption of alcohol. Nevertheless, to date, a biopsy is the only method available to confirm the diagnosis. Vitamin E should be considered a first-line therapy for treatment of this disease because several clinical studies have shown that a dose of 800 UI/day improves the histology of non-diabetic adults suffering from NASH even when there is no significant impact on fibrosis. These results were confirmed by biopsies. Despite the proven benefits of the use of this drug, it is important to be aware that its use cannot replace changes in diet and exercise but rather should be seen as a complement to these measures.
CERVICAL DEFORMITY CORRECTION

SUBAXIAL CERVICAL DEFORMITIES most often occur in the sagittal plane, primarily as kyphosis. Kyphosis may develop secondary to advanced degenerative disease, trauma, neoplastic disease, or after surgery. Whatever the cause, the development of cervical deformity should be avoided and corrected when appropriate because the greater the deformity, the greater the probability of an associated neurological deficit or chronic pain. Patients usually present with mechanical type cervical pain, with or without neurological deficit (i.e., myelopathy). They may also be relatively asymptomatic. Work-up includes appropriate imaging studies, such as radiographs, including dynamic images, and magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography myelography. The deformity may be accurately assessed and an appropriate surgical strategy undertaken. Depending on flexibility of the deformity and the presence or absence of facet ankylosis, a dorsal, ventral, or combined approach may be used. All approaches are unique in their ability to correct a deformity and in their associated complications. A comprehensive discussion of each is undertaken.
Alleviating adversarial attacks via convolutional autoencoder

In order to defend adversarial attacks in computer vision models, the conventional approach arises on actively incorporate such samples into the training datasets. Nonetheless, the manual production of adversarial samples is painful and labor intensive. Here we propose a novel generative model: Convolutional Autoencoder Model to add unsupervised adversarial training, i.e., the production of adversarial images from the encoded feature representation, on conventional supervised convolutional neural network training. To accomplish such objective, we first provide a novel statistical understanding of convolutional neural network to translate convolution and pooling computations equivalently as a hierarchy of encoders, and sampling tricks, respectively. Then, we derive our proposed Convolutional Autoencoder Model with the ‘adversarial decoders’ to automate the generation of adversarial samples. We validated our proposed Convolutional Autoencoder Model on MNIST dataset, and achieved the clear-cut performance improvement over the normal Convolutional Neural Network.
Etude, développement et validation d'un concept d'architecture électronique sans temps mort pour TEP de haute sensibilité

L'electronique de lecture des tomographes a emission de positrons (TEP) est performante, mais possede son lot de qualites et de defauts. Hautement incriminee, spontanement, dans l'explication de la sensibilite assez pauvre de ces instruments, il ressort tout d'abord de l'etude presentee que les temps morts repartis relatifs a l'electronique n'incombent aux pertes de donnees qu'a hauteur de 16% pour une activite injectee typique de 10 microCi/ml. Les taux d'acquisition bruts pourraient ainsi etre majores de 20% par la suppression des saturations. A regarder plus en details la philosophie de l'acquisition sur ces imageurs, il apparait un caractere limitant davantage encore la sensibilite : la resolution temporelle. Elle conditionne, au premier ordre, les possibilites de rejection des evenements fortuits, d'une partie des diffuses et donc du bruit, finalement rapporte au signal materialise par les vraies coincidences. Une minimisation de la resolution temporelle passe par la suppression des acteurs inutiles et l'adoption d'une technique d'etiquetage temporel adaptee (filtrage optimal). Ce faisant, la resolution intrinseque des voies de lecture est diminuee d'un facteur 7, se reduisant a 350 ps. Le plancher du fenetrage en coincidence peut etre abaisse substantiellement et le NECR augmente de 50% en consequence. A ce stade, un algorithme de mesure du temps de vol (TOF) peut etre implemente. Opportuniste, il promet une reduction de la variance associee au bruit de 430%, ce gain se repercute sur le NECR. Au final, le cumul des idees permet d'esperer gagner un ordre de grandeur sur le rapport signal sur bruit NECR, avec l'espoir d'examens cliniques raccourcis d'autant. Dans ce contexte, il est apparu legitime d'imaginer un nouveau synoptique d'acquisition pour TEP entierement pixelises. Le nombre de canaux explose au passage, par rapport a ce qui existe. Ceci est en partie compense par la decision d'integrer l'electronique au maximum. Les mesures d'energie et de temps sont prevues sur une seule et meme voie d'acquisition, avec une lecture en continue et sans temps mort des evenements incidents. Le developpement de l'electronique est en cours, ce manuscrit donne une description des trois premiers blocs. A terme, la realisation d'un demonstrateur est prevue.
Cutting Edge: Highly Alloreactive Dual TCR T Cells Play a Dominant Role in Graft-versus-Host Disease1

Alloreactivity is the response of T cells to MHC molecules not encountered during thymic development. A small population (1–8%) of peripheral T cells in mice and humans express two TCRs due to incomplete allelic exclusion of TCRα, and we hypothesized they are highly alloreactive. FACS analysis of mouse T cell MLR revealed increased dual TCR T cells among alloreactive cells. Quantitative assessment of the alloreactive repertoire demonstrated a nearly 50% reduction in alloreactive T cell frequency among T cells incapable of expressing a secondary TCR. We directly demonstrated expansion of the alloreactive T cell repertoire at the single cell level by identifying a dual TCR T cell with distinct alloreactivities for each TCR. The importance of dual TCR T cells is clearly demonstrated in a parent-into-F1 model of graft-vs-host disease, where dual TCR T cells comprised up to 60% of peripheral activated T cells, demonstrating a disproportionate contribution to disease.
Effective 1/Nc expansion in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model.

The 1/[ital N][sub [ital c]] expansion is developed for the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model, a commonly used low-energy model of QCD. The next to leading order in this expansion that represents pion and sigma meson exchange in the gap equation is evaluated perturbatively. These contributions are seen to be differing in sign, a feature that is due to their opposite parities. Physically one can interpret this meson exchange as giving rise to screening ([pi]) or antiscreening ([sigma]) of the bare four-point interaction. As a consequence of the higher isospin degeneracy of the pion, the contributions from it are found to dominate. In total, we find that the resulting corrections to the usual Hartree approximation are of the order of 10%, justifying [ital a] posteriori the perturbative approach.
Transplantation of mouse embryonic stem cells induces hematopoietic and tissue chimerism in rats

Baertschiger RM, Gonelle‐Gispert C, Morel P, Sgroi A, Serre‐Beinier V, Stouffs M, Jaconi ME, Bühler LH. Transplantation of mouse embryonic stem cells induces hematopoietic and tissue chimerism in rats. Xenotransplantation 2010; 17: 362–369. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S.
Evaluación de EDCA 802.11e en tiempo real con agrupamiento por clases de prioridad

Resumen. Un sistema de control basado en red (NCS) sobre redes inalambricas (WNCS) presenta problemas de confiabilidad y temporizado propios de los canales de radio y de los mecanismos de control de acceso al medio (MAC) que provocan latencias impredecibles y perdida de paquetes. El MAC de EDCA (Enhanced Distributed Channel Access), del estandar 802.11e, provee cuatro niveles de Calidad de Servicio (QoS) diferenciados, que no garantizan un retardo acotado para el envio de paquetes. En [1] se propuso una variante de EDCA para tiempo real, denominada RT-EDCA (Real Time EDCA). RTEDCA ofrece dos alternativas, la primera asigna una prioridad a cada mensaje y la segunda asigna una prioridad a un grupo de mensajes (agrupamiento por clases de prioridades). Este trabajo compara el rendimiento de RT-EDCA en sus dos alternativas y EDCA. El tiempo de respuesta y el periodo minimo fueron los parametros evaluados por medio de simulaciones realizadas en ns-2, para llevar acabo las comparaciones.
Inferring the Location of Twitter Messages Based on User Relationships

User interaction in social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, is increasingly becoming a source of useful information on daily events. The online monitoring of short messages posted in such networks often provides insight on the repercussions of events of several different natures, such as (in the recent past) the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the royal wedding in Britain and the death of Osama bin Laden. Studying the origins and the propagation of messages regarding such topics helps social scientists in their quest for improving the current understanding of human relationships and interactions. However, the actual location associated to a tweet or to a Facebook message can be rather uncertain. Some tweets are posted with an automatically determined location (from an IP address), or with a user‐informed location, both in text form, usually the name of a city. We observe that most Twitter users opt not to publish their location, and many do so in a cryptic way, mentioning non‐existing places or providing less specific place names (such as “Brazil”). In this article, we focus on the problem of enriching the location of tweets using alternative data, particularly the social relationships between Twitter users. Our strategy involves recursively expanding the network of locatable users using following‐follower relationships. Verification is achieved using cross‐validation techniques, in which the location of a fraction of the users with known locations is used to determine the location of the others, thus allowing us to compare the actual location to the inferred one and verify the quality of the estimation. With an estimate of the precision of the method, it can then be applied to locationless tweets. Our intention is to infer the location of as many users as possible, in order to increase the number of tweets that can be used in spatial analyses of social phenomena. The article demonstrates the feasibility of our approach using a dataset comprising tweets that mention keywords related to dengue fever, increasing by 45% the number of locatable tweets.
Longitudinal Study of Relations Between School Achievement and Smoking Behavior Among Secondary School Students in Finland: Results of the ESFA Study

The aim of this study was to explore a longitudinal bi-directional relationship between school achievement and smoking behavior. The sample consists of 2,188 Finnish students in grades 7–9. Data were collected at three separate occasions between the years 1998 and 2000. Three hypothesized conceptual models were developed and tested using path analyses by structural equation modeling (SEM). Students that performed poorly at school smoked weekly six times more than those who achieved the highest school grade point averages at the age of 15. Using SEM, the findings suggest that not only does deterioration of school achievement contribute to progression in smoking uptake continuum but also vice versa progression in smoking uptake continuum to deterioration of school achievement over time (CFI = .997). There were no moderating effects of gender or treatment condition in the proposed models. Both deterioration of school achievement and progression in smoking uptake continuum predicted changes in other behavior during the first two years in secondary school in Finland.
Neuropsychological assessment in epilepsy

The role of the neuropsychological assessment in the management of people with epilepsy has evolved considerably over the past 25 years. This paper describes some of the most common applications of a neuropsychological assessment in the diagnosis, management and treatment of people with epilepsy. It describes the factors that influence the interpretation of neuropsychological test scores in this patient group and outlines the limitations of the investigation. It gives guidelines for the optimal timing of a referral, together with timelines and indications for reassessment, and provides a checklist to help the referring clinician get the most from a neuropsychological assessment for their patients with epilepsy.
Environmental economics in UK environmental policy: Defra's 25 Year Environment Plan

ABSTRACT Defra (UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) published its 25 Year Environment Plan in January 2018. The Plan sets out the Government's goals for improving the environment with the ambition to leave a better environment for the next generation. It places natural capital at the very centre of its approach to future environmental policy. This paper draws on a speech given by Defra's Chief Economist to the annual applied environmental economics conference, envecon, in March 2018. It sets out a broad overview of the 25 Year Environment Plan, how natural capital underpins it, and the value of environmental economics in making environmental policy.
Development of Cell-Based Assays for In Vitro Characterization of Hepatitis C Virus NS3/4A Protease Inhibitors

ABSTRACT A recombinant vaccinia virus, expressing the NS3-to-NS5 region of the N clone of hepatitis C virus (HCV), was generated and utilized both in a gel-based assay and in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to evaluate the pyrrolidine-5,5-trans-lactams, a series of inhibitors of the HCV NS3/4A protease. The absolute levels of processed, mature HCV nonstructural proteins in this system were found to decrease in the presence of the trans-lactams. Monitoring of this reduction enabled end points and 50% inhibitory concentrations to be calculated in order to rank the active compounds according to potency. These compounds had no effect on the transcription or translation of the NS3-5 polyprotein at concentrations shown to inhibit NS3/4A protease, and they were shown to be specific inhibitors of this protease. The ELISA, originally developed using the vaccinia virus expression system, was modified to utilize Huh-7 cells containing an HCV replicon. Results with this assay correlated well with those obtained with the recombinant vaccinia virus assays. These results demonstrate the utility of these assays for the characterization of NS3/4A protease inhibitors. In addition, inhibitors of other viral targets, such as polymerase and helicase, can be evaluated in the context of the replicon ELISA.