Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A static jobs scheduling for independent jobs in Grid Environment by using Fuzzy C-Mean and Genetic algorithms

The concept of Grid computing is becoming a more important for the high performance computing world. Such flexible resource request could offer the opportunity to optimize several parameters, such as coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources. Specifically, we investigate the static job scheduling algorithm for independent jobs. In this paper we propose and evaluate experimentally a static scheduling for independent jobs that rely on determining job characteristics at runtime and jobs allocate to resources. We present a static job scheduling algorithm by using Fuzzy C-Mean and Genetic algorithms. Our model presents the strategies of allocating jobs to different nodes, which we have developed the model by using Fuzzy C-Mean algorithm for prediction the characteristics of jobs that run in Grid environment and Genetic algorithm for jobs allocated to large scale sharing of resources. The performance of our model in a static job scheduling have researchers will be discussed. Our model has shown that the scheduling system will allocate jobs efficiently and effectively.
Vascular smooth muscle PDE 5 is much more sensitive to N-alkylated zaprinast than platelet PDE 5

Background Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) play a key role in signal transduction downstream RCPGs by hydrolyzing specifically cyclic nucleotides. PDE is a superfamily of enzymes presently constituted of 11 gene families [1]. Among them, the PDE5 family is constituted by an unique gene with three different splice variants [2], and is characterized by its specificity for cGMP hydrolysis, the presence of cGMP-binding sites and its insensitivity to calciumcamoldulin. We have characterized PDE5 in vascular smooth muscle from human, bovine and rat aorta, and showed that zaprinast specifically inhibits PDE5 [3]. The specific inhibition of vascular PDE5 by zaprinast (1 μM) induces relaxation of rat aorta along with an increase in cGMP level [4]. Furthermore, we showed that PDE5 in platelets participates in controling aggregation [5]. The aim of the present study was to compare peptidic sequences, biochemical properties and pharmacological sensitivities of vascular PDE5 and platelet PDE5.
Black Box, Pandora's Box or Virtual Toolbox? An Experiment in a Journal's Transparent Peer Review on the Web

Abstract We all accept that peer review is an essential part of journal publication in all disciplines, but almost everyone is agreed that it could be improved. This article describes an experiment in peer review with a legal education journal The Law Teacher. It reports on the process, and describes ways in which the process can be improved for the future.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES OF THE OCEAN SEISMOGRAPHIC NETWORK , AND LEG 136 DRILLING RESULTS

approximately 243 m of sediment and 70 m into the basaltic basement. It will provide a site for borehole seismometer experiments that include noise measurements, recording of data from teleseismic events for comparison with an existing, high-quality station on Oahu, and testing of new broad-band sensors and other instrumentation for long term deployment. The 5-10-yr goal of the OSN is to establish a global network of 15-20 permanent seismic observatories in the deep ocean, with the expectation that these facilities will be shared with other fields of geoscience requiring long-term observations on the ocean floor. OSN will revolutionize studies of global Earth structure, upper mantle dynamics and lithosphere evolution, earthquake source mechanisms, oceanic crustal structure, tsunami warning and monitoring, and deep ocean noise propagation and generation. A significant part of this
Discovery of the optical counterpart to the X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545

We report optical and infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations that identify the counterpart to the 358.6-s X-ray transient pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545 with a moderately reddened V = 14.2 B0Ve star. This identification makes SAX J2103.5+4545 the Be/X-ray binary with the shortest orbital period known, Porb = 12.7 days. The amount of absorption to the system has been estimated to be AV = 4.2 ± 0.3, which for such an early-type star implies a distance of about 6.5 kpc. The optical spectra reveal major and rapid changes in the strength and shape of the Hα line. The Hα line was ini- tially observed as a double peak profile with the ratio of the intensities of the blue over the red peak greater than one (V/R > 1). Two weeks later this ratio reversed (V/R < 1). Subsequently, in less than a month, the emission ceased and Hα appeared in absorption. This fast spectral variability is interpreted within the viscous decretion disc model and demonstrates the significant role of the neutron star on the evolution of the circumstellar disc around the Be star. The implications of the small orbit and moderate eccentricity on the spin period of the neutron star are discussed.
Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from Sumatra

Black below. Fulvous above. Thorax with two rows of punctures. Elytra strongly punctate-striate, fulvous, each elytron with a spot near the scutellum and a larger one at the apex, black. — Length 2 lines. Var. The elytral spot near the scutellum absent.
Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Performance in Mango and Cashew Trees Under Different Management Regimens

Weaver ants are used for biological control of insect pests in plantation crops. To obtain proper pest control, ant densities need to be high. Food availability and nesting facilities on host plants and management practices may affect ant performance. In the present study, we tested the effect of two host plant species (mango and cashew) and three different management practices (ants only, ants fed with sugar and ants combined with the soft chemical insecticide Spinosad) on weaver ant performance. Performance was assessed over a 22 month period, as an index value based on the number of ant trails per tree and as the number of ant nests per tree. A total of 216 trees (72 per treatment) were observed in each crop. In all treatments, the ants performed better in mango compared to cashew. Using the index based performance measure, ants also performed better in the sugar treatment as compared to the two other treatments, whereas this was not the case in cashew. We conclude that sugar feeding can be used to increase ant populations in mango. We also found that the treatment with Spinosad in combination with ants showed performance equal to the treatments with only ants, suggesting that Spinosad did not negatively affect ant populations. We therefore conclude that Spinosad is compatible with the use of weaver ants in integrated pest management programs.
Texture Enhancement Based on FBM Model Evaluation and a Single Image Regularized Analysis

Super Resolution of natural images has conquered great advancement where as coming to textures it’s an ongoing challenge. Specifically stochastic texture enhancement provides the opportunity to recover lost details during acquisition time[1]. Traditional approaches often yield cartoon like images and even quality may be compromised. So an approach using Fractional Brownian Motion (FBM) for characterizing stochastic textures is proposed in this paper.
The challenges and opportunities of addressing particle size effects in sediment source 1 fingerprinting : a review 2

J. Patrick Laceby, Olivier Evrard, Hugh G. Smith, Will H. Blake, Jon M. Olley, Jean P. G. Minella 3 Philip N. Owens 4 5 a Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), Unité Mixte de Recherche 8212 (CEA/CNRS/UVSQ), Université Paris-Saclay, 6 Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France 7 b School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZT, UK 8 c School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK 9 d Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4101, Australia 10 e Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Department of Soils, 1000 Roraima Avenue, 97105-900 Santa Maria, RS, Brazil 11 f Environmental Science Program and Quesnel River Research Centre, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, V2N 12 4Z9, Canada 13 14 Abstract: 15
Nanowire-Based Nanoelectronic Devices in the Life Sciences

The interface between nanosystems and biosystems is emerging as one of the broadest and most dynamic areas of science and technology, bringing together biology, chemistry, physics, biotechnology, medicine, and many areas of engineering. The combination of these diverse areas of research promises to yield revolutionary advances in healthcare, medicine, and the life sciences through the creation of new and powerful tools that enable direct, sensitive, and rapid analysis of biological and chemical species. Devices based on nanowires have emerged as one of the most powerful and general platforms for ultrasensitive, direct electrical detection of biological and chemical species and for building functional interfaces to biological systems, including neurons. Here, we discuss representative ex amples of nanowire nanosensors for ultrasensitive detection of proteins and individual virus particles as well as recording, stimulation, and inhibition of neuronal signals in nanowire-neuron hybrid structures.
2 Strong Redundancy 2 . 1 The System and Its Performance Requirement

The redundancy of a structure refers to the extent of degradation which the structure can suffer without losing some specified elements of its functionality. However, since future structural degradation is unknown during design and analysis, it is evident that structural redundancy is related to robustness against uncertainty. We propose a quantitative and widely applicable concept of “strong redundancy” and show its relation to the info-gap robustness of the structure. In particular, one of our propositions establishes general conditions in which the strong redundancy is equivalent to the robustness. We also define a concept of “weak redundancy” and present propositions which relate it to the strong redundancy and the robustness. We illustrate our results with several heuristic and engineering examples.
Budgetary decomposition and yield spreads

ABSTRACT With a panel VAR of 10 Euro area countries, we studied the budgetary determinants of government bond yield spreads vis-à-vis Germany between 1999Q1 and 2012Q4. We find that rising bid ask, VIX and debt differentials increase yield spreads; and improvements in the budget balance, higher growth prospects and depreciation lower the spreads. Moreover, rises in public wages or in social expenditure increase spreads, while increases in direct and indirect taxes lower the yield spreads. In the post-2007Q3 crisis period, rising expenditure components (except subsidies) increased spreads.
The University of Bradford Institutional Repository

Maintaining appropriate levels of disc-pad interface temperature is critical for the overall operating effectiveness of disc brakes and implicitly the safety of the vehicle. Measurement and prediction of the distribution and magnitude of brake friction interface temperatures are difficult. A thermocouple method with an exposed hot junction configuration is used for interface temperature measurement in this study. Factors influencing the magnitude and distribution of interface temperature are discussed. It is found that there is a strong correlation between the contact area ratio and the interface maximum temperature. Using a designed experiment approach, the factors affecting the interface temperature, including the number of braking applications, sliding speed, braking load and type of friction material were studied. It was found that the number of braking applications affects the interface temperature the most. The real contact area between the disc and pad, i.e. pad regions where the bulk of the kinetic energy is dissipated via friction, has significant effect on the braking interface temperature. For understanding the effect of real contact area on local interface temperatures and friction coefficient, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is conducted. It is found that the maximum temperature at the friction interface does not increase linearly with decreasing contact area ratio. This finding is potentially significant in optimising the design and formulation of friction materials for stable friction and wear performance.
SLoPCloud: An Efficient Solution for Locality Problem in Peer-to-Peer Cloud Systems

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) cloud systems are becoming more popular due to the high computational capability, scalability, reliability, and efficient data sharing. However, sending and receiving a massive amount of data causes huge network traffic leading to significant communication delays. In P2P systems, a considerable amount of the mentioned traffic and delay is owing to the mismatch between the physical layer and the overlay layer, which is referred to as locality problem. To achieve higher performance and consequently resilience to failures, each peer has to make connections to geographically closer peers. To the best of our knowledge, locality problem is not considered in any well known P2P cloud system. However, considering this problem could enhance the overall network performance by shortening the response time and decreasing the overall network traffic. In this paper, we propose a novel, efficient, and general solution for locality problem in P2P cloud systems considering the round-trip-time (RTT). Furthermore, we suggest a flexible topology as the overlay graph to address the locality problem more effectively. Comprehensive simulation experiments are conducted to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed algorithm in most of the well-known P2P overlay networks while not introducing any serious overhead.
Terminology for Benchmarking Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Controller Performance

This document defines terminology for benchmarking an SDN controller's control plane performance. It extends the terminology already defined in RFC 7426 for the purpose of benchmarking SDN controllers. The terms provided in this document help to benchmark SDN controller's performance independent of the controller's supported protocols and/or network services.
Feeling the Shape: Active Exploration Behaviors for Object Recognition With a Robotic Hand

Autonomous exploration in robotics is a crucial feature to achieve robust and safe systems capable to interact with and recognize their surrounding environment. In this paper, we present a method for object recognition using a three-fingered robotic hand actively exploring interesting object locations to reduce uncertainty. We present a novel probabilistic perception approach with a Bayesian formulation to iteratively accumulate evidence from robot touch. Exploration of better locations for perception is performed by familiarity and novelty exploration behaviors, which intelligently control the robot hand to move toward locations with low and high levels of interestingness, respectively. These are active behaviors that, similar to the exploratory procedures observed in humans, allow robots to autonomously explore locations they believe that contain interesting information for recognition. Active behaviors are validated with object recognition experiments in both offline and real-time modes. Furthermore, the effects of inhibiting the active behaviors are analyzed with a passive exploration strategy. The results from the experiments demonstrate the accuracy of our proposed methods, but also their benefits for active robot control to intelligently explore and interact with the environment.
Effect of the Decrease in Luminance Noise Range on Color Discrimination of Dichromats and Trichromats

Color vision assessment can be done using pseudoisochromatic stimuli, which has a luminance noise to eliminate brightness differences between the target and background of the stimulus. It is not clear the influence of the luminance noise on color discrimination. We investigated the effect of change in the luminance noise limits on color discrimination. Eighteen trichromats and ten congenital dichromats (eight protans, two deutans) had their color vision evaluated by the Cambridge Colour Test, and were genetically tested for diagnostic confirmation. The stimuli were composed of a mosaic of circles in a 5° circular field. A subset of the circles differed in chromaticity from the remaining field, forming a letter C. Color discrimination was estimated in stimulus conditions differing in luminance noise range: (i) 6–20 cd/m2; (ii) 8–18 cd/m2; (iii) 10–16 cd/m2; and (iv) 12–14 cd/m2. Six equidistant luminance values were used within the luminance noise limits with the mean stimulus luminance maintained constant under all conditions. A four-alternative, forced-choice method was applied to feed a staircase procedure to estimate color discrimination thresholds along eight chromatic axes. An ellipse model was adjusted to the eight color discrimination thresholds. The parameters of performance were threshold vector lengths and the ellipse area. Results were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test with a significance level of 5%. The linear function model was applied to analyze the dependence of the discrimination parameters on the noise luminance limits. The first derivative of linear function was used as an indicator of the rate of change in color discrimination as a function of luminance noise changes. The rate of change of the ellipse area as a function of the luminance range in dichromats was higher than in trichromats (p < 0.05). Significant difference was also found for individual thresholds in half of the axes we tested. Luminance noise had a greater effect on color discrimination ability of dichromats than the trichromats, especially when the chromaticities were close to their protan and deutan color confusion lines.
Benchmarking Methodology for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Controller Performance

This document defines methodologies for benchmarking control plane performance of SDN controllers. SDN controller is a core component in software-defined networking architecture that controls the network behavior. SDN controllers have been implemented with many varying designs in order to achieve their intended network functionality. Hence, the authors have taken the approach of considering an SDN controller as a black box, defining the methodology in a manner that is agnostic to protocols and network services supported by controllers. The intent of this document is to provide a method to measure the performance of all controller implementations.
Clinical features, risk factors, and impact of antibiotic treatment of diarrhea caused by Shigella in children less than 5 years in Manhiça District, rural Mozambique

Objectives During the period from December 2007 to November 2012, the epidemiology of diarrhea caused by Shigella was studied among children <5 years of age residing in Manhiça District, Southern Mozambique. Materials and methods Children from 0 to 5 years with moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) and less severe diarrhea (LSD) were enrolled along with matched controls (by age, gender, and neighborhood). Age-stratified logistic regression analyses were conducted to identify clinical features and risk factors associated with Shigella positivity in cases of diarrhea. The impact of antibiotic treatment was assessed for patients with known outcome. Results A total of 916 cases of MSD and 1979 matched controls, and 431 cases of LSD with equal number of controls were enrolled. Shigella was identified as significant pathogen in both cases of MSD and LSD compared to their respective controls. Shigella was detected in 3.9% (17/431) of LSD compared to 0.5% (2/431) in controls (P=0.001) and in 6.1% (56/916) of MSD cases compared to 0.2% (4/1979) in controls (P<0.0001), with an attributable fraction of 8.55% (95% CI: 7.86–9.24) among children aged 12–23 months. Clinical symptoms associated to Shigella among MSD cases included dysentery, fever, and rectal prolapse. Water availability, giving stored water to child, washing hands before preparing baby’s food, and mother as caretaker were the protective factors against acquiring diarrhea caused by Shigella. Antibiotic treatment on admission was associated with a positive children outcome. Conclusion Shigella remains a common pathogen associated with childhood diarrhea in Mozambique, with dysentery being a significant clinical feature of shigellosis. Adherence to the basic hygiene rules and the use of antibiotic treatment could contribute to the prevention of most of diarrhea due to Shigella.
QoS Guaranteed Batch Scheduling for Optical Switches Based on Unequal Weight Sequence

Due to the reconfiguration overhead of optical fabrics, batch scheduling method is generally used to schedule an optical packet switch, with a necessary speedup inside the switch to ensure 100% throughput with a bounded packet delay. Existing algorithms take each traffic matrix as a batch, and adopt traffic matrix decomposition techniques to decompose it into the sum of a set of weighted permutation matrices (which are then used as switch configurations). Nevertheless, existing algorithms adopt an equal weight for all switch configurations, meaning that each configuration should be held for the same time duration to transmit packets. We observe that this rigid strategy may limit the flexibility of the scheduling and result in a large speedup requirement due to inefficient time slot utilization. Motivated by this observation, we propose a UWS (Unequal Weight Sequence) algorithm to decompose the traffic matrix. UWS uses a different weight for each switch configuration. It first takes an arithmetic progression as the starting weight sequence, and then adjusts the weights for configurations to ensure 100% throughput with a bounded packet delay (such that QoS can be guaranteed). We theoretically prove that the worst case speedup of UWS will never be larger than that of the best existing ADAPT algorithm. Simulation results indeed demonstrate a speedup improvement of around 15%.
Evaluating container-based virtualization overhead on the general-purpose IoT platform

Virtualization has become a key technology that provides several advantages (e.g., flexibility, migration, isolation) for a plethora of computing infrastructures. However, traditional virtualization models are not suitable for embedded IoT platforms due to the virtualization layer verhead. New virtualization proposals such as container-based approaches arise as an option where performance is not impacted. However, when working on general-purpose embedded platforms, some studies have demonstrated that applications on container-based virtualization on embedded devices present considerable performance overhead. Since most performance evaluations on platforms using containers were run on servers, this study expands the testbed scenario by analyzing several metrics that measure the overhead of container-based virtualization layer on embedded IoT devices. Results demonstrated improvements up to 23% in terms of performance and up to 32% in terms of EDP.