Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Visual Analytic for Improving Human Terrain Understanding

Abstract : Visual analytics are a growing area of research within the Department of Defense that targets the effective interleaving of analytical reasoning with interactive interfaces. Capitalizing on the human capacity for spatial reasoning, visual analytics enhance the decision maker's understanding of the underlying decision space by augmenting the assimilation of complex relationships. Towards this end, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed a software application that complements traditional social network analysis and allows for improved understanding of the human terrain. The software application, called the Heterogeneous Data Proximity Tool (HDPT), combines a data dimensionality reduction routine with multidimensional scaling to produce an analytic to visually interrogate the similarity or dissimilarity among a given set of high-valued individuals. The HDPT starts with a reference data set representing individuals with known group affiliations: insurgents, innocents, and criminals. As intelligence is collected about new individuals within an area of operation, HDPT computes and plots their relative positions with regard to the existing reference data. The resulting analytic portrays the relative position of the new individual's organizational orientation within the known human terrain. This paper presents the development of HDPT and the results from its participation in the FY12 Product Director Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C4ISR) & Network Modernization's Event 2012 (E12) field exercise.
Video Search Reranking Via Cross Reference Based Fusion Strategy

In this paper the video retrieval process is evaluated to produce the top ranked search results to the query relevance. i.e., every large search engine log shows that the users are really interested in top ranked result according to their query. Therefore, it is essential to achieve high accuracy in video search retrieval. Generally, the search query for video retrieval is converted to text query and then searches for the relevant results (videos). While many methods exist for improving video search performance, they pay less attention to the above factor or encounter difficulties in practical applications. To overcome the limitations of the existing reranking methods we present a flexible and effective method called Cross Reference Reranking (CRReranking), to improve the retrieval effectiveness. To provide high accuracy in video retrieval, CR-Reranking involves a cross reference method, to fuse multimodal features. Particularly, multimodal features are first taken separately to rerank the initial search results at the cluster level with cluster number, and then all the ranked clusters from different modalities are fused together and produce the top ranked search results with high relevance to user query.
Tracking Buses to Track Smartphone Users

The GPS location of a mobile device often corresponds to its ownerś location and is thus restricted to mobile apps which the user explicitly grants access permission. Meanwhile, real-time vehicle tracking for public transportation systems is increasingly available to the public in cities and many large universities. Using one such vehicle location API, we demonstrate a new side-channel localization attack by which a victim can be precisely geolocated if nearby buses from a public transit system can be detected by a malicious app. To evaluate this attack, we conduct 60 experiments of 200 localization attempts each across two regions (a large city and a university). We find that within half an hour, depending upon the capabilities of the bus detection method used, up to 39% of victims near a bus route can be located to within 20m of their exact location in either region. Using a simple early stopping heuristic, we also find that the time to detect some victims can be reduced to approximately 16 minutes with little degradation in localization accuracy.
Detergent (Thf) Mediated Zno Nanoparticles and Their Characterization

ZnO Nanoparticles are the formost and widely used in the field of biotechnology and molecular Nanoelectronics. Due to increasing demand, highly specified and monodispersed Nanoparticles formation is a revolutionary field. Here ZnO Nanoparticles are prepared by taking Tetrahydrofuran(detergent) as a solution phase instead of DMSO and other wet chemicals. It is proved to be the first preparation of ZnO Nanoparticles via detergent. The results are quite appreciable and less band gaplong range ordered ZnO Nanoparticles are obtained than the conventional route. Nanoparticles are examined through UV-Vis Spectroscopy, XRD and SEM analysis.
Findings of specific antibodies against Maedi-visna virus in sheep population in the region of Vojvodina.

Maedi-visna disease is a viral disease present in sheep. The virus is an ovine progressive pneumonia virus from ovine lentivirus species. Maedi-visna disease is spread all over the world and can be found in many countries. Symptoms of the disease are very often hidden and develop very slowly, but economic losses can be significant and the final result is always death. Maedi-visna virus causes changes mostely in lungs, udder, brain and joints. Clinical symptoms that can apper at first are apathy, weight loss followed by weakness and exhaustion. The aim of this study was to perform an analisys for the presence of specific antibodieas against Maedi-visna virus among sheep in Vojvodina with ELISA method. Blood samples were collected from 1500 sheep and 320 samples were found positive, which makes 21% of positive findings. The samples were collected from three different regions in Vojvodina and the percentage of positive findins varied from 14 – 30%, depending on the region. Among a certain number of blood samples taken from rams (88), in this study, positive findings were gained from 6 rams, what makes 6,81%. Analysis was done among the breeds and mixed breeds. This number of positive samples should be considered a significant finding and much more attention should be given to serological and clinical findings of Maedi-visna disease in Vojvodina region.
Audio-visual Analyses of Differences Between Natural and Teaching Styles for Mandarin Tone Production

In order to examine the acoustic and visual information that is used by speakers to facilitate the perception of Mandarin tones, 4 Chinese native speakers were video-taped and asked to produce Mandarin tones/words in natural and teaching speaking styles as the experimental materials for a tone identification task. Acoustic and visual analyses of the produced materials were conducted to evaluate the characteristics of the tones/words produced in both speaking styles. Acoustic results showed that as compared to natural style, speakers in teaching style produce Mandarin tones in a more “exaggerated” way, represented mainly by prolonging the pronunciation of the tones. Visual analyses revealed that speakers in teaching mode signaled more visual information/facial motions than in the natural style. Furthermore, the types of facial motions (horizontal and vertical movement) displayed are associated with tone variations.
Beautiful City: Leisure Amenities and Urban Growth

Modern urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision of consumer leisure amenities as a way to attract population, especially the highly skilled and their employers. However, past studies have only provided indirect evidence of the importance of leisure amenities for urban development. In this paper we propose and validate the number of leisure trips to MSAs as a measure of consumer revealed preferences for local leisure-oriented amenities. Population and employment growth in the 1990s was about 2 percent higher in an MSA with twice as many leisure visits: the third most important predictor of recent population growth in standardized terms. Moreover, this variable does a good job at forecasting out-of-sample growth for the period 2000-2006. "Beautiful cities" disproportionally attracted highly-educated individuals, and experienced faster housing price appreciation, especially in supply-inelastic markets. Investment by local government in new public recreational areas within an MSA was positively associated with higher subsequent city attractiveness. In contrast to the generally declining trends in the American central city, neighborhoods that were close to "central recreational districts" have experienced economic growth, albeit at the cost of minority displacement.
The impact of the internet on small independent record labels: an exploratory study

This paper explores and evaluates the business and distribution models of small independent record labels. Small independent record labels were chosen, as literature on the subject to date only explains the impact the Internet has had on the music industry from the mainstream record labels point of view. Our exploratory survey findings suggest that the Internet had a significant effect on small independent record labels. The paper discusses the implications of these early findings and suggests possible ways forward.
Larval development in European hake (Merluccius merluccius L.) reared in a semi‐intensive culture system

Eggs of European hake (Merluccius merluccius L.) were stripped from fish caught at sea. Larvae were kept under semi-intensive conditions at around 12°C. In addition, eggs were incubated in single wells at 9.2, 12.7 and 14.5°C, where hatching, development and survival were closely examined. During the larval stage, a total of 299 larvae were sampled to follow development and growth. In addition a small number of juveniles were sampled. Larvae hatched approximately 4 days after fertilization, and were 2.9 mm in total length (TL). At 6-day post hatching (dph), the larvae were 4.1 mm (TL), the jaw apparatus was developed, and the larvae had started to feed. Most of the growth during the early larval period is restricted to the head, and there is almost no increase in length for the first 3–4 weeks post hatching. Teeth and pelvic fins appear at 25 dph. Development of unpaired fins at approximately 30 dph marks the start of the larval–juvenile transition. Weaning to formulated feed was accomplished 50 dph, when external morphology was similar to that of adult hake.
Isolation and evaluation of summer legumes Rhizobia as PGPR

Rhizobia are bacteria well known for biological nitrogen fixation through symbioses. These bacteria may also perform as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). In this study the role of rhizobia as PGPR was studied. Rhizobia was isolated from the root nodules of various summer legumes including Glycine max (Soybaen), Vigna radiata (Mung bean), Vigna unguiculata (Cowpea), Susbenia grandiflora (Sesbania) and Cymposistetra gonoloba (Guar) grown at New Developmental Farm (NDF), the University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan during summer 2011. Rhizobia were isolated from root nodules by using yeast minitol agar media, pure culture of each isolate was prepared and examined for various PGPR traits. Data revealed that 9, 83, 47 and 21% of tested strains were found to produce cyanide (HCN), siderophores, indole-acetic acid (IAA) and solubilized phosphorus respectively. Among the tested rhizoial isolates, rhizobia isolated from Vigna radiata showed highest PGPR activity fallowed by Glycine max while relatively lower PGPR activity was observed for rhizobial isolates of Cymposistetra gonoloba (Guar). All the tested isolates were gram negative. Soybaen and cowpea isolates were found to be fast growing while mung bean, susbenia and guar were slow growing in nature. This study indicates that rhizobial isolates of Vigna radiata and Glycine max have the capability to be used as PGPR.
Evaluating Fitness Functions for Automated Code Transformations

Software engineering is a very broad field, where numerous disciplines focus on software maintenance and evolution. They are important due to the problem of today’s need for constant changes in software. In the early days of computer science and technology, the need for change was not so frequent, with mostly major releases and significant improvements, but now it seems like the need for changing never stops, and the deadlines are a matter of days and weeks, rather than months and years. Software quality is the key element a piece of software should have. Nowadays, software is present everywhere, new software is also being produced and it needs to be constantly maintained in order to preserve its quality. Maintenance can emerge in perfective, adaptive and corrective form, based on what kind of changes it focuses on. However, despite the effort to develop software that conforms to the requirements, some errors show when the software goes into operation. It is possible that some errors were not discovered in time and software has to evolve in the sense of functionalities, environment and scale, in order to have a long life. These changes have to be performed quickly and because of tight schedules, the cost can be quite high. Sometimes, when software systems need significant changes, or have been changed too many times, they need to be reengineered. Software evolution is often defined as repeated reengineering, or as a single cycle of a possibly infinite process of creating a better system. The process of evolution in a dynamic system is never completely finished and every step of it has to be done in as fast as possible. When a need for reengineering emerges, the main thing is to fully understand the software and its functionalities, so that the modifications do not cause any new defects, but rather cause improvement and that they are done in a logical manner [Yang and Ward 2003; Tripathy and Naik 2014].
Open Fabric for Deep Learning Models

We will show the advantages of using a fabric of open source AI services and libraries, which have been launched by the AI labs in IBM Research, to train, harden and de-bias deep learning models. The motivation is that model building shouldn’t be monolithic. Algorithms, and operations, to build and reﬁne models should be modularized and reused as needed. The componentry presented meets these requirements and shares a philosophy of being framework and vendor agnostic as well as extensible. To train models in the cloud in a distributed, framework agnostic way, we use the Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL). To launch adversarial attacks against the model in order to harden it, we use the Adversarial Robustness Toolkit (ART). We detect and remove bias using AI Fairness 360 (AIF360). And we publish to the open source developer community using the Model Asset Exchange (MAX). This will overall demonstrate operations on deep learning models, and a set of developer APIs, that will help open source developers create robust and fair models for their applications, and for open source sharing. We will also call for community collaboration on these projects of open services and libraries, to democratize the open AI ecosystem.
The influence of shrub species and fine-scale plant density on arthropods in a semiarid shrubland

Plant-resident arthropods are closely tied to the distribution of their hosts across multiple spatial scales. Shrubs provide habitat for a range of arthropods, and variations within shrubland ecosystems may affect arthropod communities. We examined the role of shrub species and density in structuring arthropod communities in an encroached Australian woodland using two common and widespread shrub species, Turpentine (Eremophila sturtii) and Silver Cassia (Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia). We found five times more arthropods (Psocoptera, Collembola and Hemiptera) on Eremophila compared with Senna. Furthermore, Psyllidae were found only on Eremophila. In total we recorded 39 Hemipteran species; 13 from Eremophila, 16 from Senna and 10 common to both shrub species. Each shrub species supported a unique arthropod assemblage, even though they grow in close proximity (<15 m). In contrast, we found limited effects of fine-scale plant density, with plants growing in low and high density supporting similar arthropod communities. Our study indicated that isolated shrubs in these woodlands support a variety of arthropods, and shrub species is a more important driver of arthropod community structure than fine-scale density.
Peritoneal Metastasis as Extramedullary Myeloma

A 71 year old woman with a prolonged history of cured breast cancer after lumpectomy and radiation in 1991. She presented with unspecific symptoms of fatigue, increased abdominal size. Her labs showed acute renal failure and the imaging demonstrated innumerable deposits on omentum, serosa of intestine, pleura and pericardium. Tumor markers of the gynecologic and mammary malignancies were high [CA-125 of 94 units/ml (0-35) and CA15-3 of 788.6 units/ ml (1-30)]. Cytology of the ascetic fluid is suspicious for carcinoma but not definitive. Omental biopsy demonstrates poorly differentiated malignant cells; however immunostaining indicates diffuse positivity for CD138 with restricted kappa light chains the marker of plasma cells disorders. Bone marrow is involved with plasma cells in 5% and Multiple Myeloma (MM) profile was positive to monoclonal IgG Kappa. Patient initiated treatment with Velcade, Cyclophosphamide and Dexamethasone (CyBorD). Resultantly, FISH showed Del 17p (TP53) in 49% and repeat CT scan showed progressing disease after the first cycle of CyBorD. Treatment was switched to Daratumumab, Velcade and Dexamethasone. The patient’s nutrition continued to be poor and her breathing worsened due to pleural effusion. Finally, palliative care was consulted and hospice was chosen. Wael Toama1*, George Ansstas2 and Keith Stockerl-Goldstein2 1Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, USA 2Department of Hematology and Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, USA Wael Toama, et al., Journal of Hematology & Multiple Myeloma Remedy Publications LLC. 2018 | Volume 3 | Issue 1 | Article 1013 2 (SPEP) and Urine Protein Electrophoresis (UPEP) demonstrate a gamma-restricted peak. Serum protein immunofixation demonstrates a monoclonal IgG Kappa. Serum free light chain studies are as follows: kappa 374 mg/dL (0.33-1.94), lambda 0.6 mg/dL (0.6-2.6), kappa/lambda ratio 603.2. Serum IgG is elevated at 3,644 mg/dL (700-1,600). B2 Microglobulin (B2MG) is elevated at 31.3 mg/L (1.02.5). Additionally, IgA and IgM are low. Skeletal survey is negative for any lytic lesions. Bone marrow is involved with plasma cells in 5%. SPEP completed 5 years in 2012 ago demonstrated a mildly elevated peak gamma of 1.9 and IgG kappa monoclonal. The SPEP was repeated in 2015, demonstrating an increase in gamma from 1.9 to 2.1 with the same immunofixation finding. In light of the above findings, the patient was told she has monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Therapy was initiated with VCD/ CyBorD: Velcade, Cyclophosphamide and Dexamethasone. Resultantly, FISH showed Del 17p (TP53) in 49% and repeat CT scan showed progressing disease after the first cycle of CyBorD. Treatment was switched to Daratumumab, Velcade and Dexamethasone. The patient’s nutrition continued to be poor and her breathing worsened due to pleural effusion. Finally, palliative care was consulted and family chose hospice.
Does Upper Trapezius Activity IncreaseSubstantially Over a 2-Minute Push-Up Bout?

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify changes in the magnitude of muscle activity in the upper trapezius muscle group during a 2-minute push-up test. Methods: Twenty-six college-aged males performed a 2-minute standardized push-up test. Upper Trapezius (UT) muscle activity was recorded throughout the test using surface electromyographic (EMG) electrodes. Individual portable force plates placed under each hand recorded the percent of body weight as a representation of force output over the hands throughout the bout. Results: Normalized muscle activity increased (p=0.23) from the start to the end of the bout, while force output decreased significantly (p=0.00) throughout the bout. Conclusion: The decrease in force output through the hands does not appear to coincide with increased activity in the upper trapezius. It is speculated that the decrease in force output at the end of the bout is a result of the lower body supporting a larger percent of body weight (likely observed through increased hip flexion); an altered body position that requires less activation of the UT.
Measuring the Effectiveness of Online Advertising: The Tunisian Context

The development of the Internet tool was accompanied by a business turnaround which has deep effects on the rules of marketing and particularly company-customers relationships. The graphical interface that the Web can create between the company and its customers promotes its use as a medium of marketing communication. The advantages of e-communication are endless for companies, including timeliness, cost and interactivity. However, users are daily confronted with large masses of information which may affect the issue of effectiveness of this communication form. Therefore, it is necessary to know whether the information transmitted is accessed and if it achieves the objectives associated with it. In other words, to what extent the internet communication is effective. In this research, efficiency is studied through two indicators: the advertising memorization and the click on the pop-up advertising. The empirical study was conducted on a sample of 200 Internet users. The statistical analysis used is descriptive analysis and logistic regression. The main empirical results show that memory is largely affected by the location in the screen, size and animated banner advertising. As for the "click", it’s related to the colors used in the banner, size and clarity of the message.
Clemens, J (2005) Occurrence of shigellosis in the young and elderly in rural China: results of a 12-month population-based surveillance

In 2002, populationand treatment center–based surveillance was used to study the disease burden of shigellosis in rural Hebei Province in the People’s Republic of China. A total of 10,105 children with diarrhea or dysentery were enrolled. Infants were treated most frequently for diarrhea (1,388/1,000/year) followed by children 5 years old (618/1,000/year). Shigellosis was treated most often in children 3–4 years old (32/1,000/year) and people > 60 years of age (7/1,000/year). Fifty-six percent (184 of 331) Shigella isolates were detected in patients who had non-bloody diarrhea. Shigella flexneri was identified in 93% of 306 isolates. The most common S. flexneri serotypes were 1a (34%), X (33%), and 2a (28%). More than 90% of the Shigella isolates were resistant to cotrimoxazole and nalidixic acid, but remained susceptible to ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, and gentamicin. Widespread resistance to antibiotics adds urgency to the development and use of vaccines to control shigellosis.
The Value of Cultural Heritage Sites in Armenia: Evidence from a Travel Cost Method Study

This paper applies the travel cost method to visits to cultural sites in Armenia by domestic visitors. Respondents intercepted at four cultural monuments provided information on their visitation patterns, experience at the site, perception of the state of conservation of the monuments, and rating of the quality of the services and infrastructures. We combine actual trips with stated trips under hypothetical programs that would enhance the conservation of the monuments and improve one of (i) the cultural experience at the site, (ii) the quality of the infrastructure, or (iii) the quality of the services, and use the combined actual and stated trips to fit a panel data model. Our investigation shows that that there are significant use values associated with the four study monuments, and that conservation programs and initiatives that improve the cultural experience, or simply make it easier for the respondent to reach and spend time at the monument, are valued by domestic visitors and would encourage higher visitation rates.