Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Part of the job is to change the job - a follow-up on horizontal career development and the changing roles of health librarians

Background The concepts of library and librarianship, as well as the roles of the (health) librarians, are changing, and, as a matter a fact, more rapidly – and perhaps also more profoundly – than ever, so that nothing else is permanent but change. The paper is a follow-up study of my paper on the possibilities of horizontal career development and the changing roles of librarians, presented year 2006 in the 10th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Methods The study is based on interviews and a questionnaire, and compares the results three years ago and now. It takes a look on what has been going on since autumn 2005 concerning task rotation and national or international career mobility as means and possibilities in horizontal career development in Kuopio University Library. The subject is then discussed in reflection to the literature on the subject. Aims The aim of the study is to collect information on the activities towards changing roles and staying in control of the changes, and to determine new goals in order to find implications for practice and research on the fields of career and professional development. I also aim to find implications for both practice and research in the field of continuing professional development of health librarians and the health librarianship profession. Background In 2005, my study on the possibilities of horizontal career development and the changing roles of librarians in Kuopio University Library showed that task rotation, job exchange, and international mobility are compatible with the values of Kuopio University Library and in accordance with the library’s strategy. According to the survey there would be potential for two different types of change: 1) internal task rotation in the library from three to six months at a time, and 2) international exchange for short periods, less than three months at a time.2 The purpose of this paper is to identify changes in the attitudes towards and the
Ju l 2 00 4 Medium-modified fragmentation of b-jets tagged by a leading muon in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

The possibility to observe the medium-modified fragmentation of hard b quarks tagged by a leading muon in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is analyzed. We have found that reasonable statistics, ∼ 104 events per 1 month of LHC run with lead beams, can be expected for the realistic geometrical acceptance and kinematic cuts. The numerical estimates on the effect of the medium-induced softening b-jet fragmentation function are given. ——————————————— a e-mail: igor@lav01.sinp. msu.ru b e-mail: lis@alex.sinp. msu.ru c e-mail: snigirev@lav01.sinp. msu.ru d e-mail: teplov@lav01.sinp. msu.ru
An Intelligent Session Transition System Towards Low Power Walking Step Estimation

Activity tracking has gained prominence with the phenomenal growth of fitness devices and ever increasing fitness awareness and step count has emerged as the primary fitness parameter. Step count is typically derived from continuous motion signal analysis. Either a dedicated hardware processing unit or a software signal processing unit, continuously counting repetition in motion signal is the common implementation choice. While dedicated hardware increases the BOM (Bill of Material), the software pedometer incurs high power consumption. In this paper, we proposed a power efficient step estimation algorithm without continuous high power requirement even in motion at an acceptable accuracy using smartphone’s tri-axial accelerometer data. Keywords—Software pedometer; step count; step estimation; accelerometer; fitness device; smartphone
Genetic Properties Influencing the Evolvability of Gene Expression

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A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Mobile User Positioning in Cellular Networks

The outstanding growth of location-based services and applications for mobile devices has motivated research about wireless positioning techniques for outdoor and indoor environments. In the present paper, a machine learning approach is proposed for finding the mobile user location. More precisely, a hybrid machine learning technique is proposed to obtain the position of a mobile user in an outdoor environment of cellular networks. The proposal employs k-Nearest Neighbors as a regression model to find the distances between the mobile and the base stations, and Genetic Algorithms to estimate mobile position. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better performance than the COST-231/Nelder-Mead trilateration technique. Friedman and Nemenyi tests are used to statistically validate the results. Keywords— Mobile positioning, machine learning, cellular networks.
CRB 1 Gene Mutations Are Associated with Keratoconus in Patients with Leber Congenital Amaurosis

RESULTS. The mean age of the patients was 34.5 years (range, 13–74). Visual acuities ranged from 20/40 to light perception. Corneal topography was successfully collected in 15 of the cases. Five of the 16 cases had slit lamp and/or topographic features consistent with keratoconus. One patient had a clinical picture that was keratoglobus-like. Of these six cases, four had a CRB1 mutation and two had a CRX mutation. Of the three subjects with the CRX mutation, one had keratoconus, one had the keratoglobus-like presentation, and one was normal. Our cohort represents 14 separate, unrelated families. Only one family comprised multiple members with LCA. These were three affected brothers, one with keratoconus, all with CRB1 mutations.
CaSiO 3-perovskite in diamond confirms the recycling of oceanic crust 3 into the lower mantle 4 5

1: Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, I-35131, Padova, Italy 9 2: Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Vancouver, Canada 10 3: Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia 11 4: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Botticelli 23, I-20133 Milano, Italy 12 5: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E9 13 6: Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, UK 14 7: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 15 8: CNR-Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse – Sezione di Padova, Via G. Gradenigo 6, I-35131, Padova, Italy 16 9: University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, john.gurney@msgroup.net 17 10: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, andy.moore. bots@googlemail.com 18 11: Petra Diamonds, Bryanston, South Africa, jim@petradiamonds.com 19 20 21
Crystal structure and genetic modi fi cations of FI-CMCase from Aspergillus aculeatus F50

Cellulose is the major component of the plant cell wall and the most abundant renewable biomass on earth, and its decomposition has proven to be very useful in many commercial applications. Endo-1,4-bD-glucanase (EC 3.2.1.4; endoglucanase), which catalyzes the random hydrolysis of 1,4-b-glycosidic bonds of the cellulose main chain to cleave cellulose into smaller fragments, is the key cellulolytic enzyme. An endoglucanase isolated from Aspergillus aculeatus F-50 (FI-CMCase), which is classified into the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 12, was demonstrated to be effectively expressed in the industrial strain Pichia pastoris. Here, the crystal structure and complex structures of P. pastoris-expressed FI-CMCase were solved to high resolution. The overall structure is analyzed and compared to other GH12 members. In addition, the substrate-surrounding residues were engineered to search for variants with improved enzymatic activity. Among 14 mutants constructed, one with two-fold increase in protein expression was identified, which possesses a potential to be further developed as a commercial enzyme product. © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Age related ultrastructural changes in lymphoid organs of Nandanam layer chicken ( Gallus domesticus )

Transmission electron microscopic studies on thymus, spleen and caecal tonsil of layer chicken was done from day-old to forty weeks of age. The thymic gland showed a thin connective tissue capsule. In thymic parenchyma, lymphocytes, retiucloepithelial cells, myoid cells and macrophages were the predominant component. Erythrocytes, granulocytes, mast cells and plasma cells were also observed. The Hassall’s corpuscles and myoid cells were also noticed. Marked involutary changes were noticed in forty weeks. The spleen was encapsulated by a connective tissue capsule with ill developed trabeculae. The white pulp was composed of lymphoblasts, lymphocytes, follicular dendritic and reticulum cells. Red pulp was composed of pulp cords consisted of erythrocytes and other cellular population. In caecal tonsil, the capsule of the germinal centre consisted of many layers of flattened reticular cells separated with an intercellular substance. The germinal centre consisted of lymphoblasts, lymphocytes, reticular cells, plasma cells, mast cells and macrophages. In forty week-old birds, the lymphocytic population was observed to be comparatively reduced and more of fibroblasts and collagen fibres were noticed.
Smart Wheelchair Control using Android Application and Patient Monitoring with GSM Alert System

Low limb impaired patients experience difficulties in doing their daily activities. The smarter solution to this concept is Smart Wheelchair. The proposed system is a robotic wheelchair that can be commanded by patient himself/herself. This system provides flexibility to choose different modalities to command the wheelchair, in addition to be suitable for people with different levels of disabilities. Patient can command the wheelchair with their eye blinks, eye and head movements and through brain signals. The wheel chair can also be operated like an autoguided vehicle or in an autonomous way. The system provided with an easy to use and flexible graphical user interface onboard a personal digital assistant, which is used to allow users to choose commands to be sent to the robotic wheelchair. Several experiments were carried out with people with disabilities, and the results validate the developed system as an assistive tool for people with distinct levels of disability.
DETERMINATION OF GLUCOSE CONTENTS IN KENAF ( Penentuan Kandungan Glukosa dalam Kenaf )

Kenaf is one of the potential plant fibres used in research on the extraction and recovery of glucose. Kenaf fiber is comprised of a kenaf core (KC) and kenaf bast (KB). This study was performed to explore a hot water pre-treatment (HWP) using boiling water immersion for 2 hours on both KC and KB. Alkaline treatment using 6% (w/v) sodium hydroxide (NaOH) aqueous solution was subsequently performed for 3 hours at room temperature. The percentages of -cellulose and hemicellulose in both KC and KB were found to increase after HWP. On the contrary, the percentages of -cellulose and hemicellulose decreased upon NaOH treatment. The percentage of Klason lignin was reduced when KC and KB had undergone the HWP and NaOH treatments. A Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis (FTIR) revealed the removal of lignin from both parts of kenaf fibre after the NaOH treatment. This was confirmed when the peaks at 1735 cm and 1246 cm disappeared after the treatment. Glucose as part of carbohydrates was determined in the fibre and filtrate using phenol sulfuric (PS) and dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) analyses respectively. PS analysis indicated that the amount of glucose in KC-HWP (0.17 mg/g) was higher than in untreated KC (0.13 mg/g) and KC-NaOH (0.09 mg/g). The untreated KB showed the highest glucose content (0.36 mg/g), followed by KB-HWP (0.29 mg/g) and KB-NaOH (0.18 mg/g). Meanwhile, DNS analysis disclosed that the glucose concentrations in the KC filtrate for both treatments were 0.05 mg/mL. In contrast, the DNS analysis for KB showed a slightly lower glucose concentration in the KB-HWP filtrate (0.062 mg/mL) compared to the KB-NaOH (0.064 mg/mL). The glucose production was highly related to the composition of -cellulose in the kenaf fibers.
An Overview on Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Detection using Cell Image Segmentation

Leukemia is a disease that affects blood forming cells in the body. Early detection of the disease is necessary for proper treatment management. Abnormal white blood cells or blasts play important role for hematologists in their diagnostic process. The diagnosis and treatment of diseases have been significantly simplified by the Differential Counting of white blood cells as it furnishes critical information required by pathologists. The practice of manual counting of the white blood cells suffer from the obvious disadvantages associated with human errors. Naturally an automated process would be the ideal solution to such a problem. Digital image processing technique could help them by enhancing the visibility in their analysis and diagnosis. White blood cell segmentations are an important research issue in Hematology. Our research proposes a segmentation of nucleus and cytoplasm of white blood cell slides. In this paper, an overview of various techniques used for Leukemia Detection using cell image segmentation is discussed.
Plate Recognition using Color Fea of Persian License Plates

Car license plate recognition is addressed in of intelligent transportation systems, it is absolutely essential to implement a strong license plate recognition system. Efforts were made to put forward a novel reliable method for car license plate recognition in Iran. system comprises three main parts. The first part is the license plate detection stage. The blue color feature of the license plate margin along with Scale Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm were used for this purp the presented method over the database was approximately second. License plate morphological features were utilized upon character segmentation. Using these features, areas with sizes close to that of the characters of a license plate may be searched probabilistic neural network together with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) was employed at the character recognition stage. For this stage, an accuracy of nearly 97% in 55 milliseconds for each license plate was achieved
Cooling provisioning and reliability implications for cost-efficient datacenters

OF THE DISSERTATION Cooling Provisioning and Reliability Implications for Cost-efficient Datacenters by Ioannis Manousakis Dissertation Director: Thu D. Nguyen Today and for the foreseeable future, demand for datacenter capacity is constantly increasing worldwide, primarily driven by cloud computing. Large cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google are currently deploying multi-gigawatt facilities annually. This staggering growth is costly. Just for datacenter infrastructure, excluding IT equipment, energy and maintenance costs, these companies spend approximately ten dollars to house each useful Watt of IT equipment. Due to the huge monetary incentives, cloud providers have made significant strides in reducing both capital (provisioning) and operations costs of their datacenters primarily via the adaptation of cost-efficient cooling technologies. However, significant opportunities still exist. Thus, this dissertation is dedicated to cost-efficient methods for provisioning the datacenter cooling infrastructure and the implications to server reliability. In the first part of this dissertation, we propose a method to reduce cooling costs by underprovisioning the cooling infrastructure of datacenters. Cooling costs still represent a significant capital and operational expense, mainly because cloud providers typically provision their cooling infrastructure for the worst-case scenario (i.e., very high load and outside temperature at the same time). Since extreme conditions occur very rarely, it is cost efficient to provision for less capacity (under-provision) and manage the rare
hanging wage structure and education in Vietna 1993 – 1998 : The roles of demand

This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to vocational training for males, amid the rapid growth in the representation of better-educated females in the private sector where education is valued higher could be responsible for what have occurred. A direct assessment of the role of demand using a simple demand and supply framework developed by Katz-Murphy (1992) is undertaken. The result suggests an increase in the relative demand for better-educated workers appears to play an important role in explaining the earnings differentials between workers of different education groups. Education reform to better suit the needs of the postreform emerging market, on-the-job training for workers, as well as equal access to education are some policy options that hold the key to reduce wage inequality between different education groups.
A Markovian Approach for Attack Resilient Control of Mobile Robotic Systems

In this paper we propose an optimal planning strategy against malicious attacks on stochastic robotic cyberphysical systems (CPS). By injecting erroneous information and compromising sensor data, an attacker can hijack a system driving it to unsafe states. In this work we bear on the problem of choosing optimal actions while one or more sensors are not reliable. We assume that the system is fully observable and at least one measurement (however unknown) returns a correct estimate of a state. We build an algorithm that leverages the theory of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to determine the optimal policy to plan the motion of unmanned vehicles and avoid unsafe regions of a state space. We identify a new class of Markovian processes, which we call Redundant Observable MDPs (ROMDPs), that allows us to model the effects of redundant attacked measurements. A quadrotor case study is introduced and simulation and experimental results are presented to validate the proposed strategy.
Molecular investigationofthe distribution , abundanceand diversityofthegenusPseudoalteromonas inmarine samples

diversityofthegenusPseudoalteromonas inmarine samples Torben L. Skovhus, Carola Holmström, Staffan Kjelleberg & Ingela Dahllöf Department of Microbiology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark; School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and Department of Marine Ecology, National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark
Minimax risk over / p-balls for / q-error

Consider estimating the mean vector 0 from data N,(O, a2I) with l~ norm loss, q > 1, when 0 is known to lie in an n-dimensional 1 v ball, p e (0, oe ). For large n, the ratio of minimax linear risk to minimax risk can be arbitrarily large if p < q. Obvious exceptions aside, the limiting ratio equals 1 only if p = q = 2. Our arguments are mostly indirect, involving a reduction to a univariate Bayes minimax problem. When p < q, simple non-linear co-ordinatewise threshold rules are asymptotically minimax at small signal-to-noise ratios, and within a bounded factor of asymptotic minimaxity in general. We also give asymptotic evaluations of the minimax linear risk. Our results are basic to a theory of estimation in Besov spaces using wavelet bases (to appear elsewhere).
Role of Alternative Splicing of the Serotonin Receptor 2 C in the Prader – Willi Syndrome

The 5-HT 2C receptor pre-messenger ribonucleic acid (pre-mRNA) undergoes both editing and alternative pre-mRNA splicing. Both events occur in the cell nucleous and are summarized below. RNA editing is the chemical modification of RNA bases. Common editing events include 2¢-O-methylation, the addition of a methyl group on the ribose; conversion of cytidine to uridine; and conversion from adenine to inosine. The modification of the bases is catalyzed by deaminating enzymes that hydrolyze specific amino groups of the bases. The cytidine-to-uridine editing is catalyzed by cytidine deaminase, and the adenine-to-inosine editing is catalyzed by adenosine deaminase acting on RNAs (ADARs) (reviewed in Jepson and Reenan 2008 and Mehler and Mattick 2007). Editing of RNA has multiple effects on the resulting RNAs. It can lead to alteration of coding capacity, altered microRNA (miRNA) or small inhibitory RNA (siRNA) target populations, heterochromatin formation, nuclear sequestration, cytoplasmic sequestration, inhibition of miRNA and siRNA processing, and altered alternative splicing patterns (Nishikura 2006). The 5-HT 2C receptor pre-mRNA undergoes adenine-to-inosine editing on at least five editing sites. The combination of these sites could generate 32 isoforms theoretically, but not all the predicted mRNA forms have been identified (reviewed in Werry et al. 2008). As the translational machinery interprets an inosine as a guanosine the adenine-to-guanine editing changes the protein sequence that is encoded by the edited pre-mRNA. Due to the degeneracy of the genetic code, some of the edited mRNAs encode the same protein, which reduced the number to proteins generated by editing to 24.
Tabletop Exercise for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Local Public Health Agencies

New influenza A virus subtypes, similar to those that caused the three pandemics of the 20th century, are likely to emerge in the 21st century as well. This manual presents a fully customizable template for a tabletop exercise for pandemic influenza preparedness that can be used by state and local health agencies and their healthcare and governmental partners as an exercise in training, in building relationships, and in evaluation.
DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL-TIME MICROCOMPUTER-BASED DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR A VERY LOW FREQUENCY (VLF) MONITOR FOR SPACE WEATHER STUDIES

Ionosphere is the region in the atmosphere where ionization takes place. Its structure varies by altitude, time, and other solar or cosmic activities that affect the propagation of radio signals. Variations in the signal strengths of very low frequency signals as a result of ionospheric changes is a way to measure changes and disturbances in the ionosphere. Stanford University developed a VLF based monitor called SuperSID for monitoring changes within the ionosphere. In this project, an enhanced version of the SuperSID software was introduced, which includes a real-time visualization of signal strength versus time plot for the current day; and a plot function for a quiet day curve. The constructed microcomputer-based data acquisition system was validated using another SuperSID monitor from Stanford. Both are stationed in Manila, Philippines and are configured to monitor NWC (19.8 kHz) and NDT (22.2 kHz) transmitters. A statistical test was performed to validate the association between the monitors and resulted with an average correlation coefficient of 0.958 and 0.948 for NWC and NDT transmitters. Also, a successful characterization of solar flare and thunderstorm was done using an enhancement algorithm.