Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Peering Inside the PE: A Tour of the Win32 Portable Executable File Format

The format of an operating system's executable file is in many ways a mirror of the operating system. Although studying an executable file format isn't usually high on most programmers' list of things to do, a great deal of knowledge can be gleaned this way. In this article, I'll give a tour of the Portable Executable (PE) file format that Microsoft has designed for use by all their Win32®-based systems: Windows NT®, Win32sTM, and Windows® 95. The PE format plays a key role in all of Microsoft's operating systems for the foreseeable future, including Windows 2000. If you use Win32s or Windows NT, you're already using PE files. Even if you program only for Windows 3.1 using Visual C++®, you're still using PE files (the 32-bit MSDOS® extended components of Visual C++ use this format). In short, PEs are already pervasive and will become unavoidable in the near future. Now is the time to find out what this new type of executable file brings to the operating system party.
A practical research on dynamic traffic flow data profile

Traffic flow data are dynamic and stochastic, which is one of its key characteristics. The research on this characteristics is the basis of the research on the stability of traffic flow. Multiple methods are used in the process of traffic flow data. This article introduces the principle of profile of dynamic data. Using common data processing methods, this new data processing procedure visualizes the dynamic character of traffic flow data and brings in new methodology in traffic control, traffic data compression, traffic guidance and incident detection.
Does management walk the talk? Study of employee perceptions.

A survey-based study was conducted in one of the largest Australian Government Agencies with the aim to (1) empirically assess the extent to which employees’ perceived management receptivity to diversity management (PMRDM) varies by gender, ethnicity, age and organizational tenure and (2) examine the influence of various dimensions of organizational climate for diversity (OCFD) on PMRDM. Findings revealed that PMRDM varies by organizational tenure only, with employees with less than 1 year tenure perceiving that management is receptive to diversity management than those with 6 to 10 years and over 10 years tenure. Furthermore, of the 13 predictor variables, status, fairness, inclusion and treatment were found to be the predictors of PMRDM, explaining 63 per cent of the variance in PMRDM. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed and the limitations of the study are noted along with suggested avenues for future research.
Simultaneous measurement of serum retinol, tocopherols, carotenes, and carotenoids by high performance liquid chromatography

An isocratic, high‐performance liquid chromatography method is presented for the simultaneous analysis of retinol, tocopherols, carotenes, and other carotenoids. The method employs detection at two wavelengths (292 and 450 nm) and three internal standards, which are: retinyl acetate, alpha‐tocopheryl acetate, and retinyl palmitate. The use of the internal standards is important for accurate quantitation, especially to correct for recovery of beta‐carotene. The long‐term (n = 81, over three months) precision of the method ranged from a coefficient of variation of 8.2% for retinol to 16% for lycopene. This assay system provides accurate, precise, and rapid analysis and is suitable for longitudinal and cross‐sectional large‐scale epidemiological studies of these vitamins.
Joint Application Design: How to Design Quality Systems in 40% Less Time

A low viscosity high solids thermosetting coating composition useful in the packaging industry as a barrier coating and overprint varnish, based urea-formaldehyde crosslinking agents and low molecular weight polyols, is provided. These compositions provide rapid cure response and afford coatings having good gloss, clarity, and mar resistance and are non-blocking. The compositions do not contain aromatic solvents and are applicable by gravure or flexographic techniques.
Influência do tipo de parto no resultado do tratamento fisioterapêutico na incontinência urinária

Objectives: To analyze the influence of the type of delivery on the pelvic floor muscle strength (PFMS) of women with urinary incontinence (UI), before and after physical therapy intervention and the relationship between the different types of UI and type of delivery. Materials and Methods: In this nonrandomized, uncontrolled clinical trial, 46 women (35 to 78 years) with a medical diagnosis of UI (stress – SUI, mixed – MUI, urgency – UUI), who did not undergo gynecological surgery were included. The voluntaries were evaluated (perineometry and bidigital test) and undertook a conservative treatment consisting of pelvic floor exercise and transvaginal electrical stimulation. Results: The mean age was 53.6±10.5 years. Half the voluntaries had MUI, 39.1% had SUI and 10.9% UUI. After treatment, the women who had had normal delivery presented a significant increase in the PFMS, both measured by the perineometer (p=0.031; paired Student´s T test) and by the bidigital test (p≤0.05; Wilcoxon’s Test), while the women who had cesarean section or both types of delivery did not present a significant gain. The relationship between the type of delivery and types of UI did not present a significant difference. Over 80% of the women that had normal delivery or cesarean section were continent or satisfied after the treatment. Conclusion: The voluntaries that had normal delivery presented the greatest gains in the PFMS. Notwithstanding, the type of delivery did not influence the results of the physical therapy intervention regarding urinary continence, since the majority of the women treated reported being continent or satisfied with the treatment.
Bayesian mixtures for cluster analysis and flexible modeling of distributions

Finite mixture models assume that a distribution is a combination of several parametric distributions. They offer a compromise between the interpretability of parametric models and the flexibility of nonparametric models. This thesis considers a Bayesian approach to these models, which has several advantages. For example, using only weak prior information, it can solve problems with unbounded likelihood functions, that can occur in mixture models. The Bayesian approach also allows an elegant extension of finite to (countable) infinite mixture models. Depending on the application, the components of mixture models can either be viewed as just a means to the flexible modeling of a distribution or as defining subgroups of a population with different parametric distributions. Regarding the former case consistency results for Bayesian mixtures are stated. An example concerning the flexible modeling of a random effects distribution in a logistic regression is also given. The application considers the goalkeeper’s effect in saving a penalty. In the latter case mixture models can be used for clustering. Bayesian mixtures then allow the estimation of the number of clusters at the same time as the cluster-specific parameters. For cluster analysis the standard approach for fitting Bayesian mixtures, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), unfortunately leads to inferential difficulties. The labels associated with the clusters can change during the MCMC run, a phenomenon called label-switching. The problem gets severe, if the number of clusters is allowed to vary. Existing methods to deal with label-switching and a varying number of components are reviewed and new approaches are proposed for both situations. The first consists of a variant of the relabeling algorithm of Stephens (2000). The variant is more general, as it applies to drawn clusterings and not drawn parameter values. Therefore it does not depend on the specific form of the component distributions. The second approach is based on pairwise posterior probabilities and is an improvement of a commonly used loss function due to Binder (1978). Minimization of this loss is shown to be equivalent to maximizing the posterior expected Rand index with the true clustering. As the adjusted Rand index is preferable to the raw index, the maximization of the posterior expected adjusted Rand is proposed. The new approaches are compared to the previous methods on simulated and real data. The real data used for cluster analysis are two gene expression data sets and Fisher’s iris data.
A User Study on Information Searching Behaviors for Designing User-centered Query Interface of Content-Based Music Information Retrieval System

The purpose of this study is to observe and analyze information searching behaviors of various user groups in different access modes for designing user-centered query interface of content-based Music Information Retrieval System(MIRS). Two expert groups and two non-expert groups were recruited for this research. The data gathering techniques employed in this study were in-depth interviewing, participant observation, searching task experiments, think-aloud protocols, and post-search surveys. Expert users, especially majoring in music theory, preferred to input exact notes one by one using the devices such as keyboard and musical score. On the other hand, non-expert users preferred to input melodic contours by humming.
Parathyroid carcinoma. Mini-series of patients successfully treated with minimally invasive surgery using intra-operative PTH assays, and literature review.

Parathyroid cancer is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism, with a surgeon anecdotally expected to see a single case in his/her entire career. In our unit, however, we have treated three patients recently. The accepted optimal treatment of parathyroid cancer is radical resection at the initial surgery, but a low index of suspicion means that most parathyroid cancers are not identified pre- or intra-operatively. This results in the majority of patients having inadequate surgery. All three patients were treated by minimally invasive surgery, with radical en bloc resection based on intra-operative suspicion of malignancy. Pre-operative imaging guides the neck exploration, and intra-operative PTH assays confirm excision of the source of excess PTH. All patients have remained well with no recurrence to date. We review the literature on parathyroid cancer, and suggest features that point to a parathyroid tumour being malignant.
New handoff initiation algorithm (optimum combination of hysteresis & threshold based methods)

Four major handoff initiation methods (maximum power handoff (MPH), absolute received power with threshold (TB), relative received power with threshold (RTB) and HYS) is introduced and by simulation in a ten-cell structure, they are compared based on performance metrics (e.g. HO, OUT, Ping-Pong and Delay). By employing handoff execution phase considerations in order to increase mean number of candidate base-stations, modified versions of algorithms are suggested. In order to improve the handoff initiation phase, optimum combination of hysteresis and threshold based methods are then presented. The new offered algorithm is a generalized combined form of hysteresis and threshold based methods with the consideration of all adequate base-stations.
Designing of a monocular see-through smart glass imaging system

Augmented reality systems are becoming very popular nowadays. One of the examples of such system is a monocular see-through smart glass display. Smart glasses can way simplify people’s life being. It can quickly find and visualize information, show a map and navigate you in a real time, and do many more different useful things. In such type of a system microdisplay is used as an image generator. We have used amlcd microdisplay with 640×480 resolution, 7.2×5.4 mm display size. This provides required angular pixel resolution of maximum 1.5 arcmin and diagonal field of view of minimum 20 degrees. To forward the image from microdisplay to the eye we have used several mirrors. We have considered a monocular see-through smart glass imaging system with the amlcd microdisplay as a source of imposed image. Thus, the main object of the research is to design and analyze an optical architecture for the monocular smart glass display and to provide required characteristics.
23. Facteurs prédictifs d’envahissement de plus de deux ganglions non sentinelles dans le curage axillaire en cas de ganglion sentinelle positif

Actuellement, un certain nombre d’équipes et notamment nord-américaines ne réalisent plus de curage axillaire en cas de ganglion sentinelle (GS) positif. En eff et, plusieurs études publiées récemment n’ont pas mis en évidence d’augmentation de récidives en cas d’abstention de curage axillaire dans ces situations [1-4]. Néanmoins, les indications de traitements adjuvants sont souvent posées sur le statut ganglionnaire.
Impact of a severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in the emergency department: an experience in Taiwan

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in the emergency department (ED). Methods: Computerised records of all ED visits in January and May 2003 were analysed and compared, representing before and during the SARS epidemic respectively. Data were grouped into two categories. Group 1 was the indicators of impact on patients, including visitor's condition classification, number of patients that died on arrival (DOA), received cardiopulmonary resuscitation, underwent endotracheal intubation, needed mechanical ventilation, discharged against medical advice (AAD), died in the ED, and the admission rate to wards. Group 2 was the indicators of impact on the quality of medical care, including number of visits that returned within 72 hours (early returns), underwent chest radiography, upper abdomen sonography or computed tomography, and the length of stay. Results: There were 6650 and 3901 consecutive encounters in January and May 2003 respectively. There were significant differences on condition classifications (p = 0.000), increased rate of patients that underwent endotracheal intubation (p = 0.003), needed mechanical ventilation (p = 0.020), and admission (p = 0.000). The rate of AAD decreased significantly (p = 0.024). There was no significant difference on early returns, although the length of stay in the ED increased (p = 0.043). The number of visits that underwent chest radiological examination increased (p = 0.000) and upper abdomen sonography (p = 0.007) decreased significantly in May. Conclusions: SARS had an impact on the medical service system and decreased visits by 40% in the ED. Patients visiting the ED had more severe conditions than before. The impact of SARS on quality of medical care can be minimised when adequate infection control measures are applied.
'Home - or a hole in the ground'? : spaces of possibility in African American literature

This thesis argues for a unique relationship between African American literature and liminal space, predicated on the historical facts of North American slavery. While recent critics of African American literature have argued for the importance of historical and civic space in shaping racialised discourse, theA‚Â· role of liminal space has not been well examined. This thesis examines texts by three African American writers - Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Ellison and John Edgar Wideman - and one Canadian Caribbean author, Nalo Hopkinson, to argue that their literary representations of liminality perform two functions: firstly, symbolising the experience of slavery and its attendant experiences of incarceration; and secondly, problematising mainstream categories of race and identity. By investigating the narrative construction of these liminal spaces, this thesis will extend the categories of 'African American' and the 'novel' in two important directions: towards the future and into the 'black Atlantic'. The following five chapters will address how the symbolic use of narrative liminality enables black writers to resist or appropriate the cultural and ideological structures imposed by white Europeans in the New World and also those structures later developed within a rapidly urbanising society. Firstly, Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative addresses the restrictive architecture of slavery and domesticity and, through Linda Brent's attic hideaway, Jacobs expresses a A‚Â·concern with endurance and female authority. The Ralph Ellison chapter examines the shifting nature of liminality and subjectivity in the post-slavery migration environment; Invisible Man's cellar engages with racialised tropes of deterrito'rialisation and desire. John Edgar Wideman addresses ideas of race and artistic responsibility in his treatment of a contemporary suburban bombsite, assessing the difficulty of achieving spaces of possibility in the face of racialised urban decay. Jhe concluding chapter uses Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction to challenge the essentialist construction of an African American liminal aesthetic by enacting its subversive qualities across the geographical boundaries of the black Atlantic. Hopkinson's projection of a racialised underground onto the new spaces of technology also disturbs traditional models of genre and discourse.
Mediface: anticipative data entry interface for general practitioners

The paper describes an effort to make computer interfaces more intelligent in facilitating the coding of clinical information. We believe the interface should be sufficiently efficient and easy-to-use that a physician can code information during the consultation without detracting from doctor-patient interaction. In this way the benefits of a "clinical workstation" setting, such as best practices guidance and drug interaction detection, are maximised. We pursue the strategy of applying machine learning to existing databases of electronic medical records to develop probabilistic models of general practice. Based on this model, we have simulated and prototyped data entry interfaces with "hot lists" (short pick list menus of relevant items) and dynamic graphical depictions of contextually likely clinical data.
A Fast Orientation Invariant Detector Based on the One-stage Method

We propose an object detection method that predicts the orientation bounding boxes (OBB) to estimate objects locations, scales and orientations based on YOLO (You Only Look Once), which is one of the top detection algorithms performing well both in accuracy and speed. Horizontal bounding boxes(HBB), which are not robust to orientation variances, are used in the existing object detection methods to detect targets. The proposed orientation invariant YOLO (OIYOLO) detector can effectively deal with the bird’s eye viewpoint images where the orientation angles of the objects are arbitrary. In order to estimate the rotated angle of objects, we design a new angle loss function. Therefore, the training of OIYOLO forces the network to learn the annotated orientation angle of objects, making OIYOLO orientation invariances. The proposed approach that predicts OBB can be applied in other detection frameworks. In additional, to evaluate the proposed OIYOLO detector, we create an UAV-DAHUA datasets that annotated with objects locations, scales and orientation angles accurately. Extensive experiments conducted on UAV-DAHUA and DOTA datasets demonstrate that OIYOLO achieves state-of-the-art detection performance with high efficiency comparing with the baseline YOLO algorithms.
Tracking Objects using Artificial Neural Networks and Wireless Connection for Robotics

Tracking objects are used in many areas, and one of them is robotics. The goal in this work focuses on a robot that can follow an object that is in front of it. This application has two links: wireless and Bluetooth. The first one connects a mobile phone mounted on a robot for image acquisition and a personal computer (PC), and the second links a PC and a mobile robot to control the motors by open source, Arduino Board. The algorithm uses several patterns for training the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and for object identification. Then, it is complemented by the extraction feature in Hue Saturation Value (HSV) color space. This algorithm uses C ++ language with OpenCV libraries for computer vision.
Diagnostics for Targeted NSCLC Therapy

Despite an increasing number of molecular biomarkers identified in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the number of approved therapy options targeting these biomarkers remains limited. Although some biomarkers may influence the therapy outcome of a distinct drug and have been shown to be useful in phase 2 or 3 clinical studies, diagnostics of biomarkers without an approved drug available or a possible off-label use is currently too expensive for routine diagnostics in non-academic institutions. For this reason, the present review is intended to summarize the current state of the art of molecular diagnostics that is both available and could lead to therapy guidance in NSCLC courses. Thereby, economic aspects are taken into account in order to take up the cudgels for a more comprehensive, even if more expensive, diagnostic scheme that in turn may save enormous costs by reducing therapy costs.
Myocarditis heart failure: A review of clinical status and meta-analyses of diagnostic performance of cardiac magnetic resonance and therapeutic value of immunosuppressive therapy

Myocarditis heart failure or inflammatory cardiomyopathy is a polymorphic disease complicated by heterogeneous clinical presentation and evolution. Patients with myocarditis presenting with severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and life-threatening arrhythmias represent a demanding challenge to clinicians. Although molecular evaluation of the myocardium using endomyocardial biopsy and modern techniques of cardiovascular imaging provide valuable insights into its etiology and pathophysiology, diagnosis remains a clinical challenge because of varied modes of clinical presentation, diversity of approaches to diagnosis, a spectrum of clinical courses and unsettled perspective on therapeutics in different patient settings and viral pathologies. This review seeks to frame recent clinical advances in diagnosing and managing myocarditis HF within the latest understanding of clinical presentation, etiology and pathophysiology obtained from experimental animal models and clinical trials. The objective is to improve understanding of the clinical status of myocarditis heart failure. *Correspondence to: Aref Albakri, St-Marien hospital Bonn Venusberg, department of internal medicine, Bonn, Germany, E-mail: arefalbakri@yahoo.com
A Non-Blocking Design Paradigm for WDM Mesh Backbone Networks and Its Performance Analysis

Current network design problems can be solved by offline or online methods. Offline methods are criticized for their complexity and inflexibility, whereas online methods lack guaranteed optimality. Non-blocking properties, which are typically studied in switching structures, could be used to evaluate the capability of a switching structure to handle dynamic traffic. This dissertation extends the study of non-blocking networks to general-connected mesh WDM backbone networks. This study begins by finding that a set of special graphs have certain non-blocking properties, and that non-blocking routing algorithms can be designed to be implemented in a distributable manner without a central decision system. The in-depth philosophy of this research is to investigate the relationship among these non-blocking properties, the topography of the network, and the power of these distributed routing algorithms. This design paradigm is illustrated by applying it to a potential implementation for NSFNet. After confirming that NSFNet is NOT non-blocking, we propose a virtual topography that makes NSFNet virtually non-blocking, along with system diagrams for the node structures and the discussion of the implementation framework. To evaluate the performance of the non-blocking algorithms, we compare the performance of our proposed online algorithm with other algorithms in a general traffic scenario.