Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multi Degrees of Freedom Robust Magnetic Levitation Control of a Flexible Transport Mover with Disturbance Observer and State Feedback Control

In this study, a flexible transportation mover, based on magnetic levitation (maglev) principle, which contains hybrid electromagnets and linear induction motors (LIM) is proposed. Magnetic levitation force and inclination torque characteristics of the mover are analyzed using 3D Finite Element Method (FEM). Dynamic models representing multi degrees of freedom (DoF) maglev motion characteristics of the mover are developed by using magnetic equivalent circuit approach in conjunction with FEM analysis results. The mover dynamics shows non-linear characteristics and are unstable from the point view of controllability. In order to address the issue of instability and to precisely control the levitation gap clearance of the mover, a state feedback integral (SFI) controller is designed for each DoF with centralized control approach. The SFI controller design is based on the pole assignment method; the controller poles are determined by applying canonical polynomial of Manabe. The mover includes only optical displacement sensors that measure the gap clearance of the associated magnet poles. Other states required in effective operation of the SFI control are estimated and integrated into the control loop by means of designing disturbance observer (DO). The disturbance observer is capable of estimating external disturbance and as well as parameter uncertainty into a unique total disturbance value. By properly scaling and feedforwarding this estimated total disturbance value, robust control of the gap clearance is achieved. The performance of the proposed control algorithm is experimentally compared with the I-PD (modified PID) controller. The experimental results have shown effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm even in unbalanced loading conditions for each DoF
Social Networking: Harnessing the Potentials for Information Dissemination in Nigeria

Social networking is a new form of information dissemination platform, using WWW, COM as its driver. It uses the social media site as an interface for sharing information and content like photos, video, messages and academic resources. This paper focuses on social networking and its potentials for information dissemination in Nigeria. It examines the various social networking sites and their relevance to individuals and university Libraries in sharing of personal information and library content. It explored the implication of social networking for libraries and the role of the librarian. The paper conclude that Social networking is a useful platform for information dissemination, but faced with challenges, such as lack of awareness, copyright issues, lack of training program on the use of social media site, bandwidth problem, technophobia and unreliable power supply, and recommended periodic training and awareness campaign to enable librarians and users take full advantage of the media for information dissemination. Keywords : Social networking, social media, media education
La dislessia: tecnologie efficaci per il recupero delle abilità di letto-scrittura

In this paper, we wonder whether, to what extent and in which contexts technologies can be considered effective in the recovery of the read&write ability in cases of dyslexia. For this purpose a research on Google Scholar was accomplished aimed at identifying, according to the typical hierarchy of relevance adopted in an evidence-based perspective, first meta-analysis and systematic reviews, then critical reviews, and finally individual experimental researches with big sample. At the end of the research three major critical reviews and six individual researches emerged. All of them are carried out from 2004 until today, and are related to speech synthesis, speech recognition, Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI), hypermedia and multimedia electronic text, programs of reading and spelling and phonological awareness. Although many critical issues remain open and the results are difficult to generalize, given to the differences between the contexts and the languages of the researches, the study shows that the most effective technologies for dyslexia are the drill and practice software for phonological learning, the speech recognition software and other tools to support electronic writing.
Revisão Sistemática sobre Alfabetização Computacional

This systematic review aims to consolidate the understanding of the term "Computer Literacy", which corresponds to the classification of the first stage of learning skills and knowledge about the aspects of information and communication technology (ICT). In addition to this concept, the study also aims to assess the range of knowledge and skills related to computer literacy. This review was based on ACM and ERIC research bases, comprising the period of the last 10 years, and adding some extra articles that were deemed relevant. The conclusion indicates that Computer Literacy has a dynamic nature – exhibiting evolution over time – and an inherent need to upgrade constanly in order to keep up with information and communication technology’s evolutionary curve.
The Catalyst Scholarship Program at Hunter College. A partnership among earth science, physics, computer science and mathematics.

The Catalyst Scholarship Program at Hunter College of The City University of New York (CUNY) was established with a four-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund scholarships to 40 academically talented but financially disadvantaged students majoring in four disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Scholarships were awarded to students in their junior or senior years majoring in computer science, geosciences, mathematics and physics to create two cohorts of students that spend a total of four semesters in an interdisciplinary community. The program includes mentoring of undergraduate students by faculty and graduate students (peer-mentoring), a sequence of three semesters of a one-credit seminar course and opportunities to engage in research activities, research seminars and other enriching academic experiences. This article describes the program, presents a four-year overview of accomplishments and lessons learned, results of an assessment performed at the end of the fourth year of the award and a discussion of the process of establishing the program, from the original plans to its implementation at the institution.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: To The Editor:

It’s been a long time coming, but this new issue of On CUE will not disappoint. Full of relevant research, useful teaching activities, points of view, and reflections on events you may have missed, we think you will find 13.1 useful and informative. We begin this issue with three feature articles. First, Joseph Falout presents his research into the effects of foreign language anxiety, both positive and negative, on students in supplementary English classes. Next, Thomas Orr explains the need for standards for ESP professionals and proposes some preliminary criteria. Finally, Matthew Apple reflects on the writing instruction background of university students in his writing classes. In the Opinion & Perspective section, John Burrell presents his thoughts on the current state of the job market for university educators in Japan and offers some advice for those hoping to build a meaningful career here. The Chalkface section provides two classroom applications. First, Brian Nuspliger explains his strategy for teaching pronunciation using world populations. And Alex Gilmore provides an exercise for developing students’ strategic competence. In the Research Digest, Christopher Sullivan gives an overview of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar and examines its advantages, criticisms, and applications in light of two recent articles on the subject. Next, Parrill Stribling reviews the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 12.0, statistical software for research. This issue offers reviews of two recent conferences. First, Martha Robertson and Lewis Malamed tell us what happened at Lao TESOL’s 5th annual conference in February of 2004. David Woodfield reports on the 2004 JALT Pan-Sig conference held at Tokyo Keizai University in May. Rounding out this issue is Debra L. Simms-Asai’s review of Professional Development in Language Education Series: Vols. I, II, & III. More changes to On CUE are on the way. At JALT 2004, the CUE executive decided to make efforts to reach out to the broader university English teaching community. As a first step, we will begin providing Japanese summaries of feature articles from issue 13.2. As always, your feedback and suggestions are encouraged. And your submissions are very much needed and appreciated. Enjoy issue 13.1.
A multi-objective optimization method on consumer's benefit in peer-to-peer energy trading

—In recent years, many countries have been promoting the shift from centralized energy systems to distributed ones for clean energy utilization. Direct energy trading among consumers has drawn increasing interest in the development of efﬁcient utilization of distributed energy systems. However, a part of consumers might not be able to receive electricity from their preferred suppliers since some suppliers have limited capacity of supplying electricity. This occasion leads to a decrease in the consumer’s beneﬁt. Existing studies are mainly focused on not the equity of prosumer’s beneﬁt but the efﬁciency of resource allocation. Therefore, a mechanism that satisﬁes not only balance between supply and demand but market participants’ preferences is required. In this paper, a multi-objective optimization problem as market mechanism is proposed to improve both the equity of consumer’s beneﬁt and the efﬁciency of resource allocation. For solving the proposed optimization problem, six Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are selected. Simulation results show that the selected EAs can be classiﬁed into two types: (i) algorithms optimizing both the efﬁciency of resource allocation and the equity of consumer’s beneﬁt and (ii) algorithms optimizing only one of the two objectives.
Plant Canopies: Their Growth, Form and Function: The description and measurement of plant canopy structure

Introduction Plant canopy structure is the spatial arrangement of the above-ground organs of plants in a plant community. Leaves and other photosynthetic organs on a plant serve both as solar energy collectors and as exchangers for gases. Stems and branches support these exchange surfaces in such a way that radiative and convective exchange can occur in an efficient manner. Canopy structure affects radiative and convective exchange of the plant community, so information about canopy structure is necessary for modelling these processes. In addition to considering how canopy structure and environment interact to affect the processes occurring in the plant community, the influence of the canopy on the environment should also be considered. The presence and structure of a canopy exert a major influence on the temperature, vapour concentration, and radiation regime in the plant environment. Interception and transmission of precipitation are also affected, as are soil temperature and soil heat flow. Canopy structure can therefore be important in determining the physical environment of other organisms within the plant community, and can strongly influence their success or failure. Plant canopy structure can indirectly affect such processes as photosynthesis, transpiration, cell enlargement, infection by pathogens, growth and multiplication of insects, photomorphogenesis, and competition between species in a plant community. The indirect influence on soil moisture and temperature can also affect root growth, evaporative water losses from the soil, residue decomposition and other soil microbial processes.
Clinical spectrum and outcome of paraquat poisoning in a tertiary care teaching hospital

Background: Paraquat is most common insecticide compound used for suicidal consumption in rural part of the Karnataka next to organo-phosphorous compound. It produces various local and systemic manifestations in the early course. It is very notorious to cause multi-organ dysfunction and mortality within 24 hours in severe amount of consumption. Lack of specific antidote and high-quality evidence based medicine makes the management of paraquat poisoning challenging. Hence, we took up the study to evaluate the clinical features, course and management option for the poisoning. Methods: It is an observational study conducted at HIMS, Hassan. History was collected from patient and bystanders. Clinical features, laboratory parameters were noted regularly and frequently. Patient’s complications were identified initially and treated accordingly. All the data collected were tabulated and statistically analysed. Results: Out of 110 patients, 72 were females and 38 were males; most of them were in the age group of 30-40 years. Mild poisoning was noted in 30, moderate in 56 and 24 patients were severe. Most common symptom was nausea and signs were oral cavity ulcers followed by tachycardia and tachypnoea. The overall mortality was 72%, 18% were recovered fully and 10% patients left against medical advice. Conclusions: Since there is a lack of antidote management of paraquat is challenging. Early gastric lavage, aggressive fluids, IV methyl prednisolone and N-Acetyl-Cysteine is beneficial.
Is p53 gene mutation an indicatior of the biological behaviors of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma

AIM: To evaluate mutant p53 gene in primary hepatocellular carcinoma and to investigate the correlation between it and the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma.METHODS: Mutations of p53 gene were examined using antihuman p53 monoclonal antibody and immunohistochemical staining in 79 resected hepatocellular carcinomas. The correlations among variables of p53 positivity and invasiveness, disease free interval and survival were studied.In addition, in those who developed recurrence, the correlation among p53 positivity, clinical features and postrecurrence survival were also studied.RESULTS: Of these 79 cases, 64 (81%) had p53 mutation.Those patients with mutant p53 positivityhad significantly more tumor recurrence (76.6 % vs 40.0 %, P=0.0107). However, the COX proportional hazards model showed that p53 overexpression had only weak correlations with recurrence free interval and survival time (P=0.088 and 0.081), which was probably related to the short duration of follow-up. The invasiveness variables may be predictors of HCC recurrence. On univariate analysis, more patients with mutant p53 positivity had vascular permeation [78.1vs 40.0 %, P=0.0088, O.R. (odds ratio) =5.3], grade Ⅱ-ⅣV differentiation (98.4 vs 80.0 %, P=0.0203, O.R. =15.7), no complete capsule (82.8 vs 53.3 %, P=0.0346, O.R. =4.2)and daughter nodules (60.9 vs. 33.3 %, P=0.0527, O.R.=3.1) than patients with negative p53 staining. Onmultivariate analysis, only vascular permeation and grade of differentiation remained significant (P=0.042 and 0.012). There was no statistically significant correlation betweenthe status of p53 in the primary lesion and the clinical features of recurrent hepatocellular carcinomas examined,including extrahepatic metastasis (P=0.1103) and the number of recurrent tumors (P= 1.000) except for diseaseover more than one segment in the extent of recurrent tumors (P=0.0043). The post-recurrence median survival was lower in patients in whom p53 mutation had been detected in the primary lesion with a weak significance (3.42 mont
Recherche de nouvelles protéines humaines se liant à l'ADN méthylé

L'epigenetique est un composant essentiel du fonctionnement des genomes eucaryotes. Les divers phenomenes epigenetiques modifient l’etat chromatinien et participent a la plasticite du genome, mais aussi au maintien de son identite fonctionnelle a travers les generations cellulaires. Parmi ces processus, la methylation de l’ADN joue un role fondamental dans la regulation de l’expression des genes.Chez les mammiferes, la methylation de l'ADN est associee a la repression transcriptionnelle, et elle remplit au moins trois fonctions essentielles. Premierement, elle permet de reprimer les sequences repetees afin de preserver l’integrite du genome. Deuxiemement, la methylation controle l’expression des genes soumis a l’empreinte parentale, qui sont des regulateurs cruciaux du developpement et de la vie adulte. Enfin, la methylation permet de reprimer certains genes tissu-specifiques dans les organes ou ils doivent etre silencieux. En plus de ces roles physiologiques, la methylation est liee au cancer. En effet, des patrons de methylation anormaux sont frequemment observes dans les cellules tumorales, et ces anomalies participent a la transformation cellulaire par plusieurs mecanismes.La methylation exerce ces effets par l'intermediaire de proteines dediees, qui reconnaissent specifiquement l'ADN methyle et controlent la transcription en modulant la chromatine. Trois familles de proteines liant l'ADN methyle sont connues chez les mammiferes, et elles totalisent entre elles neuf membres. De nombreux arguments suggerent que cette liste est encore incomplete, et que des proteines humaines liant l'ADN methyle restent a decouvrir. Dans cette optique, nous avons opte pour deux types d’approches distinctes, une approche basee sur la litterature et une approche genetique. L’etude des proteines candidates ne nous a pas permis d’identifier de nouvelles proteines liant l’ADN methyle et l’approche genetique par phage display a revele deux proteines interessantes, CHD3 et HMGB1 qui doivent desormais etre validees par des approches in vivo et in vitro.Par ailleurs, nous avons entrepris l’etude de la regulation des elements repetes par la proteine Zbtb4 chez la souris. Les experiences preliminaires indiquent une possible regulation des satellites mineurs par Zbtb4. Le role de cette regulation sera, par la suite, approfondi.
Psychiatric co-morbidities in patients of dhat syndrome: A cross-sectional study in a tertiary care centre

Dhat syndrome is a culture-bound syndrome characterised by inappropriate and excessive distress of losing semen from one’s body and thereby leading to multiple vague psychological and somatic symptoms. It is presumed that several of these symptoms could possibly be of other co-morbid psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was to assess these co-morbidities with the help of a comprehensive diagnostic tool. Utilizing the purposive sampling technique, a total of 100 patients of Dhat syndrome who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria of this study were enrolled. They were administered Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) to assess co-morbid psychiatric disorders. Overall, 37% of the patients had co-morbidity of at least one psychiatric disorder. Out of these 37 patients with psychiatric co-morbidity, major depression was the most common diagnosis (43.2%) followed by generalized anxiety disorder (16.2%), obsessive compulsive disorder (10.8%), panic disorder (5.4%), alcohol dependence (8.1%), alcohol abuse (5.4%), other substance abuse (5.4%), other substance dependence(2.7%), and social anxiety disorder (2.7%). We concluded that a co-morbidity of various psychiatric disorders is common in patients of Dhat syndrome and it is not only important to consider Dhat syndrome as a distinct psychiatric entity but also to address various psychiatric conditions co-morbid with it for the sake of overall better outcome. Keywords: Dhat syndrome, Co-morbidity, Psychiatric disorders
LIVE-ATTENUATED VACCINES AGAINST INFLUENZA VIRUSES AND ROLE OF NS1 IN HOST RESPONSE

Title of Document: LIVE-ATTENUATED VACCINES AGAINST INFLUENZA VIRUSES AND ROLE OF NS1 IN HOST RESPONSE Yibin Cai, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor, Daniel R. Perez, Department of Veterinary Medicine (1). In this study, we improved the hatchability (! 90%) of egg embryos after vaccination with live attenuate influenza vaccines using modified H7 and H9 hemagglutinin (HA) proteins with amino acid substitutions at the cleavage site for those found in the H6 HA subtype. A single dose in ovo vaccination of 19-day old eggs provided complete protection against homologous challenge with low pathogenic H7 and H9 virus in ! 70% of chickens at 2 or 6 weeks post-hatching. (2). The HA titer of a recombinant live-attenuated influenza vaccine (2 mouse-adapted(ma) Ca/04 H1N1:6WF10att) against pandemic H1N1 was improved through egg adaptation. By whole viral genome sequencing and with viral knetics study of reverse genetics viruses, I found an aminno acid substitution in PA polymerase subunit, at position 59, from glutamic acid to valine, which is responsible for the enhancement of HA and viral titer. This mutation did not impair the temperature sensitive phenotype of prototypic live attenuated backbone, WF10att. The PA E59V mutation moderately enhanced the HA and viral titer of wt WF10 and ty/04att backbones. However, it had no effect on two commercially licensed influenza vaccine internal backbones PR/8or ca Ann Arbor/60. Interestingly, although the E59V had no significant effect on increasing HA/NP ratio of the wt WF10 or WF10att system; both backbones resulted in higher antigenic content on viral particles than PR/8or ca Ann Arbor/60-based virus particles. (3). Our laboratory previously generated an adapted virus from wildtype duck H9N2, A/duck/Hong Kong/702/79 virus, through 23 serial passages in lung of quail (QA23). QA23 gained the new phenotype of replicating and transmitting efficiently in chickens and quail. NS1 protein localization studies demonstrated that QA23 NS1 was mainly distributed in the cytoplasm; while WT702 NS1 predominantly accumulated in the nucleus; and nuclear localization sequence 2 is important for the nuclear import of NS1. QA23 NS1 up-regulated the viral protein synthesis in DF1 cells; did not affect the inhibition of IFN"; and greatly reduced the apoptotic activity level during infection. However, there is no evidence showing that QA23 NS1 is associated with the enhanced replication and transmission of the virus in quail. LIVE-ATTENUATED VACCINES AGAINST INFLUENZA VIRUSES AND ROLE OF NS1 IN HOST RESPONSE
Robust Real-time Detection of Abandoned Objects using a Dual Background Model

Detection of abandoned objects for smart video surveillance should be robust and accurate in various situations with low computational costs. This paper presents a new algorithm for abandoned object detection based on the dual background model. Through the template registration of a candidate stationary object and presence authentication methods presented in this paper, we can handle some complex cases such as occlusions, illumination changes, long-term abandonment, and owner’s re-attendance as well as general detection of abandoned objects. The proposed algorithm also analyzes video frames at specific intervals rather than consecutive video frames to reduce the computational overhead. For performance evaluation, we experimented with the algorithm using the well-known PETS2006, ABODA datasets, and our video dataset in a live streaming environment, which shows that the proposed algorithm works well in various situations