Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SmartAuth: User-Centered Authorization for the Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) platforms often require users to grant permissions to third-party apps, such as the ability to control a lock. Unfortunately, because few users act based upon, or even comprehend, permission screens, malicious or careless apps can become overprivileged by requesting unneeded permissions. To meet the IoT’s unique security demands, such as cross-device, context-based, and automatic operations, we present a new design that supports user-centric, semantic-based “smart” authorization. Our technique, called SmartAuth , automatically collects security-relevant information from an IoT app’s description, code and annotations, and generates an authorization user interface to bridge the gap between the functionalities explained to the user and the operations the app actually performs. Through the interface, security policies can be generated and enforced by enhancing existing platforms. To address the unique challenges in IoT app authorization, where states of multiple devices are used to determine the operations that can happen on other devices, we devise new technologies that link a device’s context (e.g., a humidity sensor in a bath room) to an activity’s semantics (e.g., taking a bath) using natural language processing and program analysis. We evaluate SmartAuth through user studies, ﬁnding participants who use SmartAuth are signiﬁcantly more likely to avoid overprivileged apps.
[Protocols for the health surveillance of fisherman].

AIM To define protocols for health surveillance of workers in the marine fishing sector for specific occupational risk factors, considering the latest and most advanced scientific knowledge. MATERIALS AND METHODS The specific literature was analyzed to identify the occupational risk factors to which fishermen are exposed. Then, for each risk factor a protocol for the relative health checkups and their time schedule was defined. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The risk factors to which fishermen are exposed are essentially noise, vibrations, solar and ultraviolet radiation, climatic agents (heat, cold, wind, rain, damp), chemical agents, shifts, work rate, night work, physical strain, stress, manual handling of loads, upper limb repetitive tasks, incongruous postures. The health protocols stipulate the health screening investigations to be carried out in all workers of a homogeneous group, and in-depth diagnostic investigations to be carried out in symptomatic workers. Complementary health investigations must be focused on a functional exploration of the organs specifically exposed to the risk factor. For hearing impairments due to noise exposure, the medico-legal measures with which the occupational health physician must comply, in cases of occupational disease, are indicated.
Locating unified power flow controller for enhancing power system loadability

In a power system transmission network, there are some corridors which are lightly loaded whereas some of the corridors are critically loaded and thus power system is operating near to critical state. Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) plays a vital role in improving the power system performance, both the static and dynamic, and enhanced the system loading capability by rerouting the power flow in the network. Due to excessive cost, these devices must be located optimally. This paper suggests the suitable locations to enhance the system loadability with unified power flow controller (UPFC), a very versatile and powerful FACTS controller. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is tested and illustrated on 5-bus and IEEE 14-bus systems
Further evidence to support weight loss and lifestyle interventions for people taking antipsychotic medications

ABSTRACT FROM: Green CA, Yarborough BJ, Leo MC, et al . The STRIDE weight loss and lifestyle intervention for individuals taking antipsychotic medications: a randomized trial. Am J Psychiatry 2015;172:71–81. Increasing weight is the leading risk factor for many life-shortening illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes.1 Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia are at increased risk of medical comorbidities, including metabolic syndrome, leading to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. As a result, life expectancy is shorter than those in the general population.2 The elevated cardiometabolic risks can be due to inadequate nutrition, limited access to medical care, sedentary lifestyle, smoking and treatments such as prescription of antipsychotic medications. Healthy lifestyle interventions developed specifically for people with mental illness are essential in the treatment and prevention of reduction of weight gain and risk of diabetes. This study was a multisite parallel two-arm …
The effect of country of origin on brand equity: an empirical study on generic drugs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of country of origin image on brand equity of branded generic drugs.Design/methodology/approach – Brand equity of branded generics is examined through an analytical review. Country of origin image is hypothesised to influence components of brand equity, i.e. brand strength and brand awareness, which in turn influence brand equity. An empirical investigation was carried out among professionally similar respondents, i.e. doctors of different categories in Kolkata megapolis, India.Findings – Results showed that country of origin image had a positive and significant effect on components of brand equity, i.e. brand strength and brand awareness, derived from factor analysis conducted on brand equity components. The result also showed that country of origin image of branded generics significantly, but indirectly, affected brand equity through the mediating variables, brand strength and brand awareness.Research limitations/implications – Different varia.
Why do creative companies locate in creative clusters in China

Creative clusters have been drawing the attention of academia. The prevalence of creative clusters is closely linked to creative companies’ willingness to locate in clusters. Researchers have been exploring the reasons behind from the perspective of locational factors. However, the debate between hard and soft factors has been going on. This paper attempts to reveal why creative companies locate in creative clusters in China, with the empirical case of 751 D Park from Beijing. By identifying four categories of locational factors as conventional, clustering, lifestyle and old industrial building factor, this factor framework is justified with tenant companies in 751 D Park. Also, the construction and management of this cluster is studied, to understand the background and the way they keep the appealing of the cluster. The results show that 751 work on both hard and soft factors to maintain the attractiveness, and on the tenants’ side, four groups of factors are important drivers of locating in creative clusters to various extent. Clustering factors are still the most important attractions of creative clusters to creative companies, and old industrial building factor is of increasing importance.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Cannibalism in a size-structured population : energy extraction and control

Recent size-structured cannibalistic models point to the importance of the energy gain by cannibals and also show that this gain may result in the emergence of giant individuals. We use a combination of a 10-year field study of a perch (Perca fluviatilis) population and quantitative within-season modeling of individual and population-level dynamics to investigate which mechanisms are most likely to drive the dynamics of the studied perch population. We focused on three main aspects to explain observed discrepancies between earlier model predictions and data: (1) introduction of more than one shared resource between cannibals and victims, (2) whether or not several victim age cohorts are necessary to allow giant growth, and (3) the intensity of inter-cohort competition between young-of-the-year (YOY) perch and 1-yr-old perch. At the start of the study period, the perch population was dominated by ‘‘stunted’’ perch individuals, and recruitment of perch to an age of 1-yr-old was negligible. Following a major death in adult perch, strong recruitments of perch to 1-yr-old were thereafter observed for a number of years. As 1-yr-olds these successful recruiters subsequently starved to death due to competition with the new YOY. The few surviving adult perch accelerated substantially in growth and became ‘‘giants. ’’ At the end of the study period, the perch population moved back to the situation with stunted individuals. There was a high agreement between observed diets of cannibalistic perch and those predicted by the model for both the stunted and the giant phases. Analyses of growth rates showed that cannibalistic perch could become giants on a diet of YOY perch only, but that a supplement with the second shared resource (macroinvertebrates) was needed to reach the observed sizes. Modeling of growth and diet in the giant phase showed an exploitative competitive effect of YOY perch on 1-yr-old perch, but a restriction in habitat use of 1-yr-old perch had to be assumed to yield the observed growth rate and diet. The resource dynamics of zooplankton and macroinvertebrates were both accurately predicted by the model. Also, YOY perch mortality was accurately predicted and, furthermore, suggested that one of the trawling methods used may underestimate the number of YOY perch when they increase in size. We conclude that the presence of a second shared resource and the restricted habitat use and absence of cannibalistic consumption by 1-yr-old perch individuals are two important mechanisms to explain the discrepancy between model predictions and data. Our results also point to the fact that that the dynamics observed may be explained by complex dynamics not involving the presence of a giant and dwarf cycle.
Web News Summarization via Soft Clustering Algorithm

As the information available on the internet is growing explosively, this paper proposed a new method of web news summarization via sentence clustering algorithm. It adopted cluster algorithm to cluster all the sentences. Feature fusion will be used to extract summary sentences. Experimental result shows that the proposed summarization method can improve the performance of summary.
A review of a multiple retailer's labour turnover

There has been much research carried out into the topic of labour turnover over many years. Staff who are satisfied are more likely to stay working for a business. Research has also shown that there can be many reasons for dissatisfaction, and that they will vary in different situations. One of the main aims of this work was to carry out research into the causal effects of labour turnover at Livingston's. This was achieved in the form of a self‐completion postal questionnaire, which sought to measure staff opinions and attitudes, from a census of part‐time staff. The main drivers of turnover identified were: pay rates; lack of career development; hours of work; training; poor staff recognition; staff facilities; staffing levels; staff uniform; and communications.
Quality-of-Life after Anterior Skull Base Surgery: A Systematic Review

Abstract Background Improved treatment and survival of patients with skull base tumors has made the assessment of quality-of-life (QoL) in this population increasingly important. This article provides a comprehensive systematic review pertaining to QoL assessment in adults undergoing anterior skull base surgery. Methods We performed a literature search using the electronic databases of Ovid Medline and Embase. Additional articles were identified through a search using the phrase anterior skull base. Further articles were sought through hand-searching relevant journals and reference lists of identified articles. Results Our search strategy identified 29 articles for inclusion in our systematic review, with considerable variation between studies in population characteristics, methodological design and quality, follow-up length, and outcome assessment. The most commonly used QoL tools were the Karnofsky Performance Status and the Anterior Skull Base Questionnaire. QoL following anterior skull base surgery appears to improve beyond preoperative levels in the months after surgery. For patients undergoing endoscopic skull base surgery, the gain in QoL appears to be greater and may manifest earlier, with no clear long-term deleterious effect on sinonasal outcomes compared with open surgery. Conclusions QoL after anterior skull base surgery in adults appears to improve within several months of surgery, but earlier and to a larger extent if the endoscopic approach is used. Given the relative paucity and heterogeneity of anterior skull base tumors, large-scale prospective multicentre studies utilizing valid and reliable multidimensional QoL tools are required. This may result in improved patient care, by understanding patients' needs better and facilitating the provision of reliable outcome data for clinical trials.
A Review of Direct Marketing and How It Can be Applied to the Wine Industry

The article details the reasons for the growth of direct marketing and the basic principles as they are applied to the wine industry. To use direct marketing successfully its role as an application of the marketing concept needs to be understood. In particular, the use of database marketing is described; and eight key steps towards establishing and implementing a database are given.
Rendezvous with Tat: Transactivator of Transcription during Human Immunodeficiency Virus Pathogenesis

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a deadly disease caused by HIV, declared as a global catastrophe engulfing millions of lives per year. It took ~1.8 million lives in the year 2010 a lone, as per reports of UNAIDS. HIV-1 is an enveloped retrovirus, having genome composed of two copies of ssRNA. It attacks the T-lymphocytes of the hosts, c auses several multifaceted immune failures and fina lly leads to fatality. Our articles focuses on small re gulatory tat (transactivator of transcription) gene which is responsible for the initiation and elongation of vi ral transcription through the LTR transactivation. It consists of two exons combining to form protein of 101 amino acids that enhances the efficiency of viral transcription. Tat exon 1(1-72) is important for viral transcripti on and Tat exon 2 (73-101) is important for cell adhesion and several activities like cellular uptake of the exogenous Tat, apoptosi s, improvement of HIV-1 replication and IL-2 super ind uction in HIV-1-infected T cells. Tat plays vital role in LTR transcription, reverse transcriptions, Kaposi's sarcoma, neuropathogenesis, immunosuppression, concluding its importance. Eventually in future approaches, tat gene can be targeted for gene based drug targeting as Tat exon 1 is quite conserved and Tat exon 2 has important conserved motifs, which can behave as potent drug t argets. Our review recommends to focus over tat gene, which might prove as a lead in HIV research, which should be treated with ssense of urgency.
Reliability of thyristor-based memory cells

This is the first published study of the reliability of Thyristor-based high-speed memories. The T-RAM (Thyristor-based Random Access Memory) was characterized using test structures and multi-megabit product die fabricated in a 130nm SOI logic technology. The reliability lifetime of a nominal bit was investigated by subjecting TCCT devices (Thin Capacitively Coupled Thyristor) to a DC current stress. The resulting acceleration model yields a lifetime of 1.0E+40 yrs for the Data-1 state and 1.0E+5 yrs for the Data-0 state. These long lifetimes are consistent with the 26 FIT long-term failure rate found for 9 Mb arrays, from dynamic lifetest on 9Mb & 18Mb T-RAM product die having full SRAM functionality. The susceptibility of T-RAM arrays to soft errors was assessed by accelerated neutron testing, and accelerated alpha testing, of 9Mb T-RAM product die as well as 9Mb SRAM product die from three suppliers. n-SER for the T-RAM is 610 FIT/Mb, better than the average of 700 FIT/Mb for 6T SRAM technology. Exposure of the T-RAM product die to X-rays showed that they tolerate doses of 450 rad or more (3–4x the dose for X-ray inspections) without degradation of nominal TCCT retention times, and without functional failure of memory cells. Taken together, the results of this study shows that T-RAM is a reliable memory technology.
Coverage Probability using EM waves for UWSN in Shadowing Environment

A channel model is introduced which considers shadowing fading on coverage probability for underwater sensor networks using electromagnetic signals. A model for finding the probability of detection and coverage using log normal shadowing fading has been derived. A comparative study between the sensing channel model and existing model for terrestrial sensor networks is also presented. It is observed the introduced sensing channel model uses far less number of sensors for coverage of underwater networks in comparison to terrestrial networks.
Génération de MNT d'une zone montagneuse par radargrammétrie et approche multi-échelle. (DEM generation of montains area by using radargrammetric processing and multiwindows approach)

L'imagerie par Radar a Synthese d'Ouverture (ROS) offre de nombreux axes de recherche en teledetection. Les capteurs ROS satellitaires peuvent fournir des images haute resolution, de jour comme de nuit, par tout temps. Parmi toutes les utilisations possibles de ces images radar, nous nous interessons ici a l'obtention de Modeles Numeriques de Terrain (MNT) a partir de couples d'images ROS stereoscopiques : la radargrammetrie. Une application radargrammetrique necessite la maitrise de la geometrie de la prise de vue, de la mise en correspondance (ou appariement) des images ainsi que de la reconstruction geometrique par resolution des equations de localisation multi-scenes. L'appariement se fait par correlation, de facon similaire aux methodes de photogrammetrie utilisees en imagerie optique. Pour ameliorer les performances lors de l'appariement, il est interessant de mettre en oeuvre un filtrage du speckle (bruit multiplicatif propre aux images radar), ainsi qu'une technique pyramidale afin d'accelerer les traitements et de reduire les erreurs d'appariement. De plus, l'utilisation de la mise en geometrie epipolaire permet de reduire la zone de recherche. Dans la zone d'etude a forts reliefs qui nous concerne, ces methodes permettent de generer un MNT satisfaisant mais encore imprecis. Les methodes tirees de la photogrammetrie ne sont pas suffisantes pour etre directement appliquees sur les images radar. Des methodes specifiques sont necessaires et nous proposons alors une nouvelle approche, qui consiste a utiliser des fenetres de correlation de tailles differentes : l'approche multi-fenetre. Nous procedons notamment a une dilatation en distance de la taille de ces fenetres, afin de compenser le phenomene de compression d'une image a l'autre. Nous montrons que cette nouvelle methode permet de fiabiliser l'appariement et d'ameliorer les resultats de reconstruction altimetrique.
A variational EM algorithm for large databases

The EM algorithm is one of the most popular statistical learning algorithms. It is a method for parameter estimation in various problems involving missing data. However, it is a batch learning method and often requires significant computational resources. So we need to develop more elaborate methods to adapt the databases with a large number of records or large dimensionality. In this paper, we present an algorithm which significantly reduces the intensity of computation. The algorithm is based on partial E-steps which has the standard convergence guarantee of EM. It is a version of the incremental EM algorithm which cycles through data cases in blocks. We confirm that the algorithm can reduce computational costs evidently through its application to large databases.
A cross‐cultural assessment of the satisfaction formation process

Consumer satisfaction continues to be an important area of both academic research and managerial interest. Yet most satisfaction research has utilized US subjects to develop and test satisfaction theory. The purpose of this research is to test the basic disconfirmation of expectations model in a very different culture than the USA, and compare the results to a matched sample of subjects in the USA. Specifically, a sample of student subjects from Taiwan is compared to a sample of student subjects in the USA. The results indicate support for the generalizability of the model in this Asian culture.
Hospital and 1-year outcomes of septic syndromes in older people: a cohort study.

PURPOSE Our objective was to describe the relationship between sepsis syndrome mortality and cognitive and physical disability in elderly persons. METHODS A 1-year consecutive cohort study in clinical beds of a university hospital was performed. Variables were severity of sepsis syndrome, organ failure, functional status, age, sex, and positive cultures. Outcomes were in-hospital and 1-year mortalities. RESULTS The study included 137 patients (>70 years), both sexes. Data from 116 (84.5%) patients were obtainable at 1-year follow-up. Forty-eight (35%) patients presented with sepsis (11/137, 8%) or severe sepsis (37/137, 27%). In-hospital mortality was 15.3% (0% for sepsis and 21.8% if severe) and increased with organ failure (p <.0001). One-year mortality was 54.78% (63/116), mostly related to severe sepsis; predictors were severe organ failure (p <.0001), prior functional status (p =.0005), and Mini-Mental State Examination (p =.03). Prior functional status and organ failure were independent predictors. CONCLUSIONS In-hospital and 1-year mortality increased with septic syndrome severity, prior functional status, and organ failure.
Phosphodiesterase inhibitors suppress IL-12 production with microglia and T helper 1 development

The effects of phosphodiesterase inhibitors (PDEIs) on interleukin (IL)-12 production by microglia, antigen-presenting cells in the central nervous system (C NS), were examined to learn how they affect T cell differentiatio n in the C NS. PDEIs significantly suppressed the microglial IL-12 production, as determined by reverse transcriptase-po lymerase chain reaction for IL-12 p35 and p40 mRNA expression and by an ELISA specific for IL-12 functional hetero dimer, p70. In addition, the PDEI ibudilast also suppressed interferon-g, but not IL-4 or IL-10, production by myelin oligodendro cyte glycoprotein (MO G)-specific T cells reactivated with MO G in the presence of microglia. Thus, PDEIs may also suppress differentiatio n of T helper 1 (Th1) in the C NS. PDEIs can be of use for future therapeutic strategy to treat Th1-mediated diseases, such as multiple sclerosis.
Maturidade de Sistemas de Gestão da Qualidade como um Construto de Segunda Ordem Maturity of Quality Management Systems as a Second-order Construct

The increased demand for ISO 9001 certification has motivated the search for methodologies to measure the maturity of Quality Management Systems (QMS's), but research on this topic are still scarce in the literature. Thus, this article aims to perform an empirical investigation, from the conceptual model developed using factor analysis, identifying the constructs of the first order to contribute to the validation of research instruments in this area of knowledge. It was used a survey research with the participation of 187 companies. The results demonstrated that besides those constructs identified in the literature a new one is presented.