Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Genetic polymorphism of Staphylococcus epidermidis strains in patients of the Neonatal Intensive Care unit

Staphylococcus epidermidis — представитель нормальной микрофлоры человека, способный вызывать опасные заболевания у новорожденных с очень низкой и экстремально низкой массой тела при рождении. Различные штаммы S. epidermidis обладают разным спектром генов, ассоциированных с их резистентностью к антимикробным препаратам и патогенностью. По результатам анализа данных полных геномных секвенирований четырнадцати штаммов S. epidermidis изучено генетическое разнообразие штаммов, циркулирующих в отделении реанимации и интенсивной терапии новорожденных НЦАГиП им. В. И. Кулакова. Выявлена принадлежность штаммов к восьми сиквенс-типам, из которых чаще встречались ST2 и ST59, принадлежащие к единому клональному комплексу СС2. К данному клональному комплексу относились 10 из 14 штаммов. Показано, что изученные штаммы обладали широким спектром генов резистентности к антимикробным препаратам. Обнаружено 15 различных генов, обуславливающих резистентность штаммов к аминогликозидам, бета-лактамным антибиотикам, фузидиевой кислоте, макролидам, линкозамидам, стрептограмину B, тетрациклину и триметоприму. Выявлены гены, ассоциированные с патогенностью (aae, atlE, aap, embp), встречающиеся в геномах изученных штаммов с разной частотой. В геномах девяти штаммов был обнаружен инсерционный элемент IS256, а в геномах семи штаммов — гены ica-оперона, отвечающего за синтез белков матрикса биопленок.
A Human-Centric Approach to Simulation of IS Security Dynamics

This paper outlines a new approach to computer security using simulation to study computer security policy. We suggest that understanding the interactions between humans and information systems is central to creating effective security policy. Most previous research has focused on technical issues of system vulnerability or computer security tools. Our approach employs simulation models in order to understand how attackers and users react to varying levels of parameters such as computer security and system value.
Asymmetries in Monetary Policy Uncertainty: New Evidence from Financial Forecasts∗

We obtain measures of monetary policy uncertainty from the Blue Chip Financial Forecasts. The uncertainty associated with the federal funds rate captures conventional monetary policy uncertainty, while we use the uncertainty associated with the yields on 10-year Treasury notes to capture the unconventional monetary policy uncertainty. Our results show that monetary policy tightening and easing periods are distinctly associated with downside and upside uncertainty, respectively. Moreover, quantitative easing has not been successful in reducing monetary policy uncertainty, while forward guidance has been fairly successful in that. We subsequently analyze the effects of uncertainty conditional on being in a monetary tightening or easing cycle. Though in both cases the uncertainty has recessionary effects, the effects are stronger in easing relative to tightening. This is due to the fact that the expectations are relatively better anchored in tightening relative to easing. JEL classification: C18; C32; E02; E43; E52
Action Recogntion with Depth Maps Using HOG Descriptors of Multi-view Motion Appearance and History

—The goal of this work is to recognize human actions only using depth maps without additional joints information. As a practical solution, we present a novel volumetric representation of global shape of depth motion, Depth Motion Appearance (DMA). The proposed framework also extracts dynamic information of the body movements called Depth Motion History (DMH), an extended version of motion history image. In the framework, a huge amount of data of an action video is summarized into concise action representation maps observed from multi-view. A histogram of oriented gradients then describes local appearances and shapes of the DMAs and DMHs, which results in more compact and discriminative action representation. The presented method has been compared with the state-of-the-art approaches on a public dataset. The experimental result demonstrates that our approach achieves a better and more stable performance with a relatively smaller feature maps and lower complexity.
Kurumsal kaynak planlama uygulamalarında karşılaşılan engellerin yapısal modellemesi ve analizi

Kurumsal Kaynak Planlama (KKP), kurumlarin tum is sureclerinin butunlesik bir veri tabanindan yonetilmesini saglamaktadir. Kurulum surecinde, kurulum yapilan firmanin is surecleri ve ilgili KKP sistemi uzerinde karmasik ve uygulamasi zorlu bircok degisiklik yapilmasi gerekmektedir. KKP yazilimlarinin kurulumu esnasinda karsilasilan engeller kurulumun basarisini olumsuz sekilde etkilemektedir. Bu nedenle KKP kurulum surecinde karsilasilan zorluk ve engellerin analiz edilmesi, bu engellerin ortadan kaldirilmasi icin bir ihtiyac halini almistir. Bu calisma Turkiye’deki kucuk ve orta olcekli isletmelerde KKP kurulum surecinde karsilasilan engelleri tanimlanmakta ve bunlarin birbirleri ile iliskilerini analiz ederek, engelleri anlamamiza katki saglamaktadir. Boylece calismanin sonunda KKP kurulum surecinin daha kolay ve sorunsuz yonetilmesine yonelik oneriler sunulmaktadir. Bu amac dogrultusunda literatur taramasi yapilmis ve tespit edilen engeller, uzman akademisyen ve sektor calisanlari tarafindan degerlendirilerek guncellenmis ve bu calismada ele alinan engellerin listesi belirlenmistir. Belirlenen bu engellerin birbirleri ile iliskilerini tanimlamak icin anketler olusturulmus ve uzman gorusleri alinmistir. Toplanan veriler Yorumlayici Yapisal Modelleme ve MICMAC (Cross Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification) yontemleri ile analiz edilerek engeller arasi yapisal iliski modeli ortaya konmustur. Modelin islerligi KKP kurulum surecinde olan ve sogutucu dolap uretimi yapan orta olcekli bir firma vakasi ile irdelenmistir. Bu calisma, KKP kurulum surecinin onundeki engellerin daha iyi anlasilmasi ve sureci sekteye ugratan durumlarin onune gecilmesini mumkun kilmasi ile hem literature hem de sektor yetkililerine net katki saglamaktadir.
EFEITOS DO TREINAMENTO AERÓBIO E RESISTIDO SOBRE A QUALIDADE DE VIDA RELACIONADA À SAÚDE E CAPACIDADE FUNCIONAL EM HIPERTENSAS

Resumo Objetivos: Avaliar os efeitos do treinamento aeróbio e resistido na qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde (QVRS) e capacidade funcional (CF) em hipertensas. Metodologia: Ensaio Clínico, hipertensas, ≥ 50 anos, teste ergométrico satisfatório. Dois meses (2X/semana). Grupo aeróbio (GA) (n=21): caminhada leve a moderada; resistido (GR) (n=20): até 50-60 % de 1 RM. 2 séries, 12-15 repetições. Antes e após a intervenção aplicado o SF-36 e o TC6`: CF. Estatística: testes comparativos, p<0,05. Resultados: Melhora em 7 domínios no GA e no GR. CF: melhora nos dois grupos (p≤0,001). Conclusões: Os dois tipos de EF melhoraram a QVRS e CF.
ICIMP 2011 Proceedings

Most active measurement projects are limited by the number of measurement points and, consequently, the number of perspectives they have on the Internet. The goal of the RIPE NCC Atlas project is to deploy up to 100,000 active measurement monitors around the Internet. An extende d version of Hubble, which finds routing “black holes” is a motivating application. Increasing the number of measurement points by two orders of magnitude requires new measurement approaches. For example, Atlas Hubble needs to perform traceroute type path discovery from many sources to a small number of destinations. It is important to optimise the load placed on the destination monitors, especially if they are located at the edges of the Internet. Doubletree is a path discovery optimisation technique that may be applicable. To date, Doubletree has only been investigated for a small number of sources to many destinations. This paper reports on a simulation study of Doubletree for the many sources, few targets case. Initial results indicate that Doubletree may be very effective in this case but further work is needed to understand the impact of the sharing of coordination information. Keywords-Doubletree; traceroute; active measurement;
Hybrid Fractal Boundary MIMO Antenna for Multiband Applications

A novel 2×2 MIMO antenna using crown square curve and koch curve is proposed and designed on RT/duroid having thickness of 3.175mm, loss tangent of 0.0009 and dielectric constant of 2.2, by employing MoM based IE3D software. In this geometry, koch curve is etched at the boundary of the iterated crown square patch antenna to produce a fractal boundary and fractal elements are placed parallel to each other at an inter-element distance of 25mm for good isolation. The resulting MIMO system operating at four resonating frequencies, gives much higher gains and bandwidths for all the operating frequencies. Furthermore, it exhibits impedance bandwidth (S 11 Â 5 10dB) with isolation better than -15dB, which are accepted threshold values for the MIMO systems. Hence, a good MIMO antenna is designed giving excellent output characteristics.
Impacts of Web-Based Collaboration in Managerial Control and Work Practices: The Case of Introducing a Web-Based Collaboration Platform in a Construction Consortium

The focus of this paper is on the implementation of collaboration technologies in the context of the construction industry. Our empirical setting involves the introduction of a web-based collaboration platform for improving project management and control in a construction consortium, constituted of geographically dispersed organisations. The main objectives of this study have been to investigate how collaborative technology mediates in complex processes (task allocation, time scheduling, coordination of the building process) and how it contributes to the co-ordination among the multiple organizations (prime contractor, contractors and their various sub-contractors) participating in the consortium.
Infrastructure investments, public transport use and sustainability: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan

In many cities in the developing world, public transport infrastructure has not kept up with dramatic urban growth. Car ownership is growing rapidly among higher-income families, worsening traffic congestion, increasing carbon emissions, and potentially fostering land-use patterns that hamper mobility of the poor. To address these challenges, over two hundred cities across Asia, Africa and Latin America have either built, or are planning mass transit systems. In this paper, we provide a credible causal estimate of the effect of mass transit on commuting in Lahore, Pakistan. With pre-BRT survey data on household characteristics, we use areas which were slated for transit routes that have not yet been built as a comparison group for those connected by the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line. We find that access to the new transit line reduced both the time and cost of commuting, with an estimated 30% increase in public transport use in nearby areas and an estimated 35,000 commuters who switched from private modes. The mass transit line attracts a larger proportion of highly educated riders than those who rode public transport before its introduction, suggesting that its high quality and reliability make public transport options acceptable to a broader part of the population. Even though the capital cost of the transit line was substantial, and its fare is subsidized, most riders are willing to pay a substantially higher fare that could make the service financially more sustainable.
Seasonal temperature dynamics of Lake Erçek water column, Eastern Anatolia/Turkey

Erçek Gölü, Türkiye’nin doğusunda farklı iklim sistemlerin kesiştiği kilit bir noktada yer almasıyla birlikte, Van Gölü’nden sonra havzada yer alan ikinci büyük kapalı havza gölüdür. Su kolonunda daha önce gerçekleştirilen çalışmalar, su kolonunun yıl boyunca sıcaklığında meydana gelen değişimlerin açıklanması için yeterli değildir. Bu çalışma kapsamında 2016-2017 yılları arasında 12 ay süresince gölün en derin noktasından dikey olarak su kolonunda CTD cihazı ile sıcaklık ölçümleri yapılmıştır. Göl suyu sıcaklığının değişiminin incelendiği bu çalışmada elde edilen veriler kapsamında, göl su kolonunun mayıskasım ayları arasında termal tabakalanma gösterdiği ve kış mevsiminde su kütlesinin karıştığı ortaya konulmuştur. Tüm veriler doğrultusunda Erçek Gölü “Holomiktik Göl” sınıfına dahil edilmiştir. Lake Erçek is located in eastern Turkey which has a key point where different climatic systems intersect and after Lake Van it is the second largest closed basin lake in the basin. Previous studies in the water column are not sufficient to explain changes in the temperature of the water column throughout the year. Wihtin the scope of this study, temperature measurements were carried out in the water coloumn vertically from the deepest point of the lake for 12 months between 2016-2017 with CTD device. In this study, the change of the lake water temperature was examined and it was revealed that the lake water column showed thermal stratrification between may and november and the water body mixed in winter. All data showed that Lake Erçek is included in “Holomictic Lake” class.
Buchheim, Lukas und Ulbricht, Robert: Dynamics of Political Systems

We develop a model of regime dynamics that embeds the principal transition scenarios examined by the literature. Political systems are a priori unrestricted and dynamics emerge through the combination and interaction of transition events over time. The model attributes a key role to beliefs held by political outsiders about the vulnerability of regimes, governing the likelihood and outcome of transitions. In equilibrium, transition likelihoods are declining in a regime’s maturity, generating episodes of political stability alternating with rapid successions of revolts, counter revolts, and reforms. The stationary distribution of regimes is bimodal. The model dynamics match the data remarkably well.
The Hyperfine Structure of the OH* Emission Spectrum andits Benefits for Combustion Analysis

The hyperfine structure of the OH radical emission spectrum was used to derive hydrogen flame temperatures in a research rocket combustor. A spectral resolution of less than 1nm was realized, revealing single molecular emission lines. Hence, relative intensities of several emission lines in the ultraviolet regime were investigated regarding temperature. Two groups of lines were used in order to correlate values of heat release with band intensities. Using an optically accessible diagnostic element, optical fiber, and a high-resolution spectrograph, measurements were conducted during LOX/gH2 combustion runs at the European research test bench P8. The feasibility of line-of-sight flame temperature measurements in the vicinity of the injector element was shown. Temperature values of (3200±200)K were determined. Experimentally obtained values are in good agreement with simulation data.
Simulacijska analiza utjecaja zavisnih kvarova na raspoloživost optičke transportne mreže

Sažetak—Rastuće brzine prijenosa optičke komunikacijske tehnologije postavljaju pitanje zaštite i oporavka mreže u slučaju pojave kvarova, obzirom da oni utječu na raspoloživost usluga koje mreža nudi. Povećanje broja čvorova i veza u mreži rezultira povećanjem učestalosti dvostrukih kvarova. Zbog činjenice da nije uvijek moguće osigurati prostornu razdvojenost kabela povećava se i broj zavisnih kvarova, kod kojih kvar jednog mrežnog elementa rezultira kvarom jednog ili više drugih. Rad započinje pregledom osnovnih termina optičke komunikacijske tehnologije i raspoloživosti mreže, zatim se analiziraju višestruki kvarovi i zavisni kvarovi, a naposlijetku govorimo o pristupima izračunu pouzdanosti mreže; zbog složenosti analitičkog pristupa naglasak se stavlja na simulacijske metode i daje se pregled alata koji ih implementiraju.
Evidence on the Decision Usefulness of Fair Values in Business Combinations

In 2001, SFAS 141 (ASC 805) required that identifiable assets and liabilities acquired in a business combination be initially recorded at fair value rather than pre-acquisition book value. The FASB argued that fair value measurement would provide more decision-useful information about future cash flows following business combinations. However, opponents argued that fair values are often difficult to estimate and may be too noisy to be useful. In this study, we examine whether fair value measurement for identifiable assets and liabilities provides incremental decision-useful information about post-acquisition cash flows and offer two main findings. First, we find that fair values have incremental predictive ability for post-deal cash flows (beyond pooled book values), but only in limited circumstances: (i) horizontal (i.e., same-industry) deals, (ii) deals that do not involve R&amp;D-intensive targets, and (iii) deals in which managers have less incentive to over-allocate purchase price to goodwill. This suggests that fair value measurement in business combinations only enhances decision usefulness in transactions when fair values are more reliably estimable and/or less subject to manager incentives. Second, we find that analysts update their cash flow forecasts to reflect the information provided by fair value disclosures, but only in transactions where we find that fair values are decision useful. Overall, our results suggest that there are limits in the extent to which fair value measurement for acquired identifiable assets and liabilities provides decision-useful information about future cash flows, and that capital market participants appear to recognize those limits as reflected in their decision making.
A Principled Approach to Selective Context Sensitivity for Pointer Analysis

Context sensitivity is an essential technique for ensuring high precision in static analyses. It has been observed that applying context sensitivity partially, only on a select subset of the methods, can improve the balance between analysis precision and speed. However, existing techniques are based on heuristics that do not provide much insight into what characterizes this method subset. In this work, we present a more principled approach for identifying precision-critical methods, based on general patterns of value flows that explain where most of the imprecision arises in context-insensitive pointer analysis. Using this theoretical foundation, we present an efficient algorithm, ZIPPER, to recognize these flow patterns in a given program and employ context sensitivity accordingly. We also present a variant, ZIPPERe, that additionally takes into account which methods are disproportionally costly to analyze with context sensitivity. Our experimental results on standard benchmark and real-world Java programs show that ZIPPER preserves effectively all of the precision (98.8%) of a highly precise conventional context-sensitive pointer analysis (2-object-sensitive with a context-sensitive heap, 2obj for short), with a substantial speedup (on average, 3.4× and up to 9.4×), and that ZIPPERe preserves 94.7% of the precision of 2obj, with an order-of-magnitude speedup (on average, 25.5× and up to 88×). In addition, for 10 programs that cannot be analyzed by 2obj within a three-hour time limit, on average ZIPPERe can guide 2obj to finish analyzing them in less than 11 minutes with high precision compared to context-insensitive and introspective context-sensitive analyses.
Large-Scale Similarity-Based Time Series Mining

Measuring the (dis)similarity between time series is the main procedure of several algorithms for mining this kind of data, which is ubiquitous in the day-by-day of human beings. While providing satisfactory results, similaritybased methods usually suffer from a high time complexity. This work summarizes a thesis on developing algorithms that allow the similarity-based mining of temporal data in a large scale. The contributions of the thesis have implications in several data mining tasks, such as classification, clustering and motif discovery, as well as applications in music data science.
Modifiable risk factors for SIDS in Germany: Results of GeSID

Background: The incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been falling in Germany over the last decade. However, little is known about the prevalence and the importance of well‐known risk factors in Germany since a local prevention campaign in 1992. Design: A 3‐y, population‐based, case‐control study was conducted in half of Germany, consisting of 333 cases. All sudden and unexpected deaths in infancy, if they fitted the inclusion criteria, were included in the study. Parental interview was carried out soon after the death, and three living control infants, matched for age, gender, region and sleep time, were recruited. Results: The prevalence of placing infants prone to sleep was only 4% in the control group, but this was associated with a markedly increased risk of SIDS (adjusted odds ration, aOR=6.08). Other modifiable risk factors for SIDS were: maternal smoking during pregnancy, breastfeeding for less than 2 wk (aOR=1.71) and co‐sleeping (aOR=2.71), while using a pacifier during the last sleep reduced the risk (aOR=0.39).
The Bracketing Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0)

This document describes the bracketing guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank Project. The goal of the project is the creation of a 100-thousand-word corpus of Mandarin Chinese text with syntactic bracketing. The Chinese Treebank has been released via the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and is available to the public. This document can be divided into six parts. Section I discusses six fundamental grammatical relations that are represented in the Treebank. Section II introduces the bracketing tagset, which includes 23 syntactic labels, 26 functional tags, and 7 tags for null elements. Section III, IV and V specify our annotation schemata for noun phrases, verbs phrases, and other minor categories, respectively. Section VI describes our treatment for empty categories, such as trace for syntactic movement, PRO for control, and pro for argument drop. Section VII and VIII cover the coordinated clauses and subordinating clauses. Section IX, X and XI specify the way we handle punctuation, ambiguity, and some problematic cases. Comments University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-00-08. This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn. edu/ircs_reports/39 The Bracketing Guidelines for the Penn Chinese Treebank (3.0) Principal Authors: Nianwen Xue, Fei Xia Major Contributors: Shizhe Huang, Anthony Kroch