Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Development and Release Timeline

ZIO (standing for “The Ultimate I/O” Framework) was developed for CERN with the specific needs of physics labs in mind, which are poorly addressed in the mainstream Linux kernel. ZIO provides a framework for industrial, highbandwidth, high-channel count I/O device drivers (digitizers, function generators, timing devices like TDCs) with performance, generality and scalability as design goals. Among its features, it offers abstractions for • both input and output channels, and channel sets • run-time selection of trigger types • run-time selection of buffer types • sysfs-based configuration • char devices for data and metadata • a socket interface (PF ZIO) as alternative to char devices In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of ZIO, and describe representative cases of driver development for typical and exotic applications: drivers for the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card, see [1]) boards developed at CERN like the FMC ADC 100Msps digitizer, FMC TDC timestamp counter, and FMC DEL fine delay. MOTIVATION AND REQUIREMENTS The initial motivation behind the development of ZIO arose in 2011, after a careful analysis of Comedi and IIO, the I/O frameworks existing at that time in the staging area of the Linux kernel source tree. It was clear that both alternatives were not suitable, generic nor complete enough for the needs of data acquisition systems like the ones at CERN or other physics laboratory facilities, where high performance and diversity of available hardware impose stringent conditions. For example, block transfers, output, fine timestamping or mmap/DMA were absent in IIO and definitely required. As announced in [2], the design and development of a Linux kernel framework for I/O better suited to the needs of physics laboratories was initiated, with these aims in mind: • digital and analog input and output; • one-shot and streaming (buffered) data acquisition or waveform play; • high resolution (under 1ns) timestamping of data blocks; • generic coverage of resolution, sampling rate, data sizes, calibration, offset and gain parameters; • pluggable buffer and trigger types; • low overhead; • support for DMA; • bit grouping in digital I/O; • clean design conforming to Linux kernel practice, with the intention to integrate in the mainstream kernel. Development and Release Timeline Alessandro Rubini and Federico Vaga started ZIO development in October 2011, as part of their collaboration with CERN BE/CO/HT section [3], within the Open Hardware initiative. Its ongoing development can be followed in the project page at the Open Hardware Repository, http://www.ohwr. org/projects/zio. By May 2012, ZIO was mature enough to make its realworld debut in the experimental setting of the LNGS neutrino speed measurements [4]. At around the same time, development of the PF ZIO network type was started by Simone Nellaga [5]. The first official release of ZIO v1.0 appeared in January 2013. Contributions have continued ever since by the three core developers, adding features, test benches, fixing bugs and the ongoing development of PF ZIO.
Stem cell heterogeneity – a prerequisite for successful (dental) regeneration

Advancements in regenerative dentistry could soon equip dentists with tools to regenerate dental pulp and other tissues. Developing effective regenerative therapies has proven to be a challenging task due to the complexity of tooth structure, functional and aesthetic requirements, safety and patient factors. However, recent studies looking at behaviour of adult mesenchymal stem cells in murine teeth in vivo offer new insights for development of translational approaches for tissue regeneration. Molecular heterogeneity within the mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) niche has recently been studied in vivo using genetic lineage tracing and single-cell RNA sequencing. The role of an established, Thy1 (CD90)-marked sub-population is studied in homeostasis and following stimulation of increased growth of mouse incisors. Recent results suggest that this subpopulation plays a specific role in rapid growth, during development as well as in stimulated increased growth and can be replenished by activation of dormant stem cells. These findings have implications for development of new, targeted regenerative therapies harnessing the potential of tissue-resident stem cells in a surgical intervention or non-surgical, molecular signal delivery approach.
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Real-time stream processing has become increasingly important in recent years and has led to the development of a multitude of stream processing systems. Given the varying job workloads that characterize stream processing, these systems need to be tuned and adjusted to maintain performance targets in the face of variation in incoming traffic. Current auto-scaling systems adopt a series of trials to approach a job’s expected performance due to a lack of performance modelling tools. We find that general traffic trends in most jobs lend themselves well to prediction. Based on this premise, we built a system called Caladrius that forecasts the future traffic load of a stream processing job and predicts its processing performance after a proposed change to the parallelism of its operators. Experimental results show that Caladrius is able to estimate a job’s throughput performance and CPU load under a given scaling configuration.
Universal Schemes in Information Theory Lecture 4-10 / 06 / 2011 Context Tree Weighting ( CTW )

Assume we have a sequence x = (x1, x2, . . . , xN ) drawn from Pa(x N ) that we want to compress. If the probability distribution of the source is known, we can use a compression algorithm that makes use of this probability to perform the compression, like Arithmetic or Huffman coding. In the case where the actual distribution Pa(x N ) is unknown, we can still compress the sequence by using a universal compression algorithm like Lempel Ziv or the CTW that do not need the probability distribution of the source. On the other hand, if we are interested in estimating the probability distribution of x , since we know that a good compressor implies a good estimate of Pa(x N ), we could use the compression result of LZ to implicitly compute the probability distribution. The CTW algorithm does it better, because it actually estimates the probabilities before the compression, so that we use them to our purposes. Assume that we have a sequence x and we need a good estimate of the probability PL(x N ). To address this problem, we are going to rely on the fact that a good compressor of the sequence implies a good estimate of Pa(x N ). The latter will be shown in the following sections. Depending on the assumptions that we make on the statistical properties of the source we use different approaches. For example, for i.i. d sources, we are going to present the Arithmetic Coding, and for more general models the Context Tree Weighting.
Author ' s personal copy Finance and consumption volatility : Evidence from India

The main objective of this paper is to explore the determinants of private consumption growth volatility in India, focusing on the role of financial sector policies. Using data for India over the period 1950–2005, the results show that the implementation of financial repressionist policies is strongly associated with lower consumption volatility. The results remain robust after controlling for a wide range of macroeconomic shocks and variables. The presence of a threshold effect implies that the benefits of financial reforms in reducing consumption volatility can only be reaped when the financial system becomes sufficiently liberalized. The results also indicate that the presence of a more open financial system may serve to dampen fluctuations in private consumption. 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Fabrication and Simulation of CMOS-compatible Photodiodes by Nicole

CMOS-compatible photodiodes are becoming increasinging important devices to study because of their application in combined electronic-photonic systems. They are already used as inexpensive optical transceivers in fiber optic telecommunications systems and they have the potential to be integrated in a number of applications. This thesis focuses on germanium photodiodes to be used in an integrated electronicphotonic analog-to-digital converter. It specifically studies the dark current, responsivity, and frequency response of Ge-on-Si LPCVD-grown diodes that will be used in such a system. It outlines a process that can be used to add metal contacts to pre-existing diodes and discusses characterization procedure. It was found that previously fabricated 50 pm square diodes had leakage current of 0.25 uA at -1 V, but responsivity of -5 mA/W. Diodes with higher leakage current, 1.1 piA at -1 V, had a higher responsivity of -0.5 A/W. Spreading resistance profiles (SRP) indicate that better control of the n-type contact is needed to systematically reproduce these results. Furthermore, spreading resistance analysis demonstrated that elimination of the p-type seed during growth will result in a more abrupt junction, for which simulations predict an improved frequency response. Simulations indicate that removal of the p-type seed and associated autodoping should increase the frequency response from -1.6 GHz to 1-4 GHz. Better control of the n-type profile can further increase the frequency response from '14 GHz to -27 GHz. Thesis Supervisor: Judy L. Hoyt Title: Professor
Factors affecting the shoulder proprioceptive sense among male volleyball players

Proprioceptive sense plays an important role in shoulder joint movements and stability especially in executing performance like playing voleyball. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different positions, the rotator cuff muscle fatigue and experience on shoulder proprioceptive sense among male volleyball players. Twenty elite and 20 beginner volleyball players participated in this cross-sectional study. Shoulder proprioceptive sense was determined by measuring participant's perception of joint position with the joint at 90° abduction, external rotation and 90° abduction, neutral rotation. Participants were tested at 2°/s before and after exercising on an isokinetic-testing machine until fatigued with dominant extremities were assessed. The results revealed significant difference between proprioceptive senses of beginner volleyball players at 10-20° and 15-20° in external rotation before fatigue. The proprioceptive sense of elite volleyball players before and after fatigue was statistically different at 20°, whereas for the beginner players significance was indicated at 10 and 15°. However, no significant difference was found between elite and beginners in the proprioceptive scores at the 3 angles in both directions before and after the fatigue test. It was concluded that the effect of fatigue on proprioceptive sense is related to experience, but experience itself had no effect on proprioceptive sense.
Lipoxygenase-derived eicosanoids in myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury: the role of sensory C-fibres and TRPV1

4 innvervating the heart are associated with their cell bodies, TRPV1 expression may be increased, possibly under the control of neurotrophic factors. Together, the findings from this thesis identify a novel 12-LOX/AA/TRPV1 pathway activated and up-regulated during myocardial I/R injury, providing an endogenous damage-limiting mechanism – the targeting of which may prove useful in treating myocardial infarction or protecting against I/R injury associated with common surgical procedures including cardiac transplantation.
Acid Prevents oxLDL-Induced Apoptosis by Activating JNK / Nrf 2 Survival Signals in Macrophages

Protocatechuic acid (PCA), one of the main metabolites of complex polyphenols, exerts numerous biological activities including antiapoptotic, anti-inflammatory, and antiatherosclerotic effects. Oxidised LDL have atherogenic properties by damaging arterial wall cells and inducing p53-dependent apoptosis in macrophages. This study was aimed at defining the molecular mechanism responsible for the protective effects of PCA against oxidative and proapoptotic damage exerted by oxLDL in J774 A.1 macrophages. We found that the presence of PCA in cells treated with oxLDL completely inhibited the p53-dependent apoptosis induced by oxLDL. PCA decreased oxLDL-induced ROS overproduction and in particular prevented the early increase of ROS. This decrease seemed to be the main signal responsible for maintaining the intracellular redox homeostasis hindering the activation of p53 induced by ROS, p38MAPK, and PKCδ. Consequently the overexpression of the proapoptotic p53-target genes such as p66Shc protein did not occur. Finally, we demonstrated that PCA induced the activation of JNK, which, in turn, determined the increase of nuclear Nrf2, leading to inhibition of the early ROS overproduction. We concluded that the antiapoptotic mechanism of PCA was most likely related to the activation of the JNK-mediated survival signals that strengthen the cellular antioxidant defences rather than to the PCA antioxidant power.
BNL-93944-2010-CP Extended defects in as-grown CdZnTe

We characterized samples cut from different locations in as-grown CdZnTe (CZT) ingots, using Automated Infrared (IR) Transmission Microscopy and White Beam X-ray Diffraction Topography (WBXDT), to locate and identify the extended defects in them. Our goal was to define the distribution of these defects throughout the entire ingot and their effects on detectors’ performance as revealed by the pulse-height spectrum. We found the highestand the lowestconcentration of Te inclusions, respectively, in the head and middle part of the ingot, which could serve as guidance in selecting samples. Crystals with high concentration of Te inclusions showed high leakage current and poor performance, because the accumulated charge loss around trapping centers associated with Te inclusions distorts the internal electric field, affects the carrier transport properties inside the crystal, and finally degrades the detector’s performance. In addition, other extended defects revealed by the WBXDT measurements severely reduced the detector’s performance, since they trap large numbers of electrons, leading to a low signal for the pulse-height spectrum, or none whatsoever. Finally, we fully correlated the detector’s performance with our information on the extended defects gained from both the IRand the WBXDT-measurements.
Behavo.ial and Cognitive Positions

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Tangram: Integrated Control of Heterogeneous Computers

Resource control in heterogeneous computers built with subsystems from different vendors is challenging. There is a tension between the need to quickly generate local decisions in each subsystem and the desire to coordinate the different subsystems for global optimization. In practice, global coordination among subsystems is considered hard, and current commercial systems use centralized controllers. The result is high response time and high design cost due to lack of modularity. To control emerging heterogeneous computers effectively, we propose a new control framework called Tangram that is fast, globally coordinated, and modular. Tangram introduces a new formal controller that combines multiple engines for optimization and safety, and has a standard interface. Building the controller for a subsystem requires knowing only about that subsystem. As a heterogeneous computer is assembled, the controllers in the different subsystems are connected hierarchically, exchanging standard coordination signals. To demonstrate Tangram, we prototype it in a heterogeneous server that we assemble using components from multiple vendors. Compared to state-of-the-art control, Tangram reduces, on average, the execution time of heterogeneous applications by 31% and their energy-delay product by 39%.
Modulação do metabolismo muscular de glicose e proteínas pelo exercício em ratos diabéticos

Exercise has been indicated in the treatment of diabetes mellitus and its metabolic complications, but the mechanisms involved in this intervention are not completely known. Researches with animal models offer a great opportunity to further study this issue. However, some results are challenged due the lack of information about the intensity of the effort performed by the animal during exercise. Therefore, the present study was designed to analyse the effects of physical training at the intensity of the aerobic-anaerobic transition (determined by the lactate minimum test or the maximal lactate steady state test), on muscle metabolism of proteins and glucose and on the endothelial function in alloxan diabetic rats. For this purpose, 3 separated sets of experiments were performed. Adult Wistar rats received monohidrated alloxan from Sigma (30 mg/Kg of body weight, i.v.). As controls were used vehicle-injected (citrate buffer) rats. Two weeks after drug application, the animals performed tests to determine the aerobic-anaerobic transition exercise intensity, and then, part of the animals were submitted to swimming training 1h/day, 5 days/weeks, with an overload equivalent to the aerobic-anaerobic transition, during 6-8 weeks. The animals were evaluated "in vivo" for glucose tolerance and sacrificed for material collection aimig "in vitro" analyses on soleus muscle: glucose uptake and oxidation, glycogen synthesis, lactate production, protein synthesis and degradation; and on aorta artery: endothelial function through vascular reactivity to acetilcholine and sodium nitroprussiate. All assessments occurred 48 hours after exercise. In general, we observed improvements on glucose tolerance and on glucose and protein metabolism in isolated soleus muscle, as well as improvements in the endothelial fuction in the exercised diabetic animals. Beside, both protocols used for exercise intensity determination were senstive to the physiological
Modeling Sustainable Earnings and P / E Ratios Using Financial Statement Information

The financial statement analysis in this paper yields a summary number that informs about the sustainability (or persistence) of earnings and the trailing P/E ratio. The P/E ratio is the amount paid for a dollar of current earnings. Investors buy future earnings, so should pay less for current earnings if the earnings cannot be sustained in the future. While income statements identify some transitory items, the investor remains uncertain about whether earnings are sustainable. This paper specifies and estimates a model that employs financial statement information to indicate the probability of earnings being sustainable. The paper also specifies and estimates a P/E model that incorporates that information. In out-of-sample prediction tests, the analysis reliably identifies unsustainable earnings and explains cross-sectional differences in P/E ratios. Further, stock returns can be predicted when the market’s P/E ratio differs from that indicated by the model.
Tolerant Testing of Product Distributions

We study the problems of identity and closeness testing for n-dimensional product distributions. Given two distributions P and Q over the boolean hypercube, Canonne et al. [5] and Daskalakis et al. [10] showed tight sample complexity bounds for distinguishing between P = Q and dTV (P,Q) > . However, their analysis does not show tolerance with respect to natural distance measures, a requirement in most applications of these tests. Here, we design algorithms for tolerant identity and closeness testing for product distributions over any alphabet and also show nearly matching lower bounds on the sample complexity with respect to n. Our study gives a fine-grained understanding of how the sample complexity of tolerant testing varies with the distance measures used. ∗Partially supported by DST Ramanujan grant DSTO1358 and DRDO Frontiers Project DRDO0687. †Partially supported by NSF CCF 1422668, CCF 1849048 ‡Partially supported by DRDO Frontiers Project DRDO0687. §Partially supported by NSF CCF 1422668, CCF 1849048.
Mammalian Hybrids and Generic Limits

A taxonomic level, the genus, is analyzed from the perspective of reproduction isolation. It is concluded that if species are, by definition, reproductively isolated, then species in one genus should not be capable of breeding with species in other genera. A survey of reported mammalian intergeneric hybrids and the application of reproductive criteria to the definition of the category of genus led to the recommendation of a number of taxonomic changes in the content of genera. These include the following genera, with synonyms in parentheses: Macropus (Thylogale, Osphranter, Megaleia, Wallabia); Cercopithecus (Papio, Macaca, Cercocebus, Mandrillus, Cynopithecus, Theropithecus, Erythrocebus, Allenopithecus, Comopithecus); Grampus (Steno, Tursiops); Canis (Alopex, Urocyon, Fennecus, Vulpes, Cerdocyon, Dusicyon); Ursus (Thalarctos, Selenarctos); Melursus (Helarctos): Felis (Panthera); Arctocephalus (Zalophus); Tayassu (Dicotyles); Cervus (Dama, Axis, Elaphurus); Bos (Bibos, Bison); Tragelaphus (Taurotragus, Boocercus); Cephalophus (Sylvicapra); Alcelaphus (Damaliscus, Beatragus); Connochaetes (Gorgon); Kobus (Adenota, Onotragus); Capra (Ovis, Ammotragus).
Performance Analysis of Wi-max IDMA Using Different Methodologies

: Mobile communication in today’s era requires high data rates with flawless connectivity and lower bit error rate. Traditional WIMAX system in use are unable to provide flawless data rates in conjunction with fewer bit error rates. Therefore keeping in view the era of 5G communication in research this thesis has proposed a novel radon transform based Wimax system. The system built compares the performance of DFT based WIMAX system , DWT based WIMAX and proposed radon transform based WIMAX system. From the simulation results the FRAT-WIMAX-IDMA system performs better as compared to DFT-WIMAX-IDMA and DWT-WIMAX-IDMA system in term of BER performance for next generation wireless communication system. The parameter taken for research in this project are no. of data points in the test signal, speed of transmission of test signal and finally the no of zero padding done in the WIMAX domain. The entire simulation model has been done in Matlab 2014 environment and the results have shown that at some selected parameters radon transform based WIMAX system outperforms DWT as well as DFT based WIMAX system.