Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Robust Quasi-Predictive Control of $LCL$-Filtered Grid Converters

This paper proposes a new control strategy for grid-connected $LCL$-filtered voltage source converters (VSCs). It is realized by cascading a proportional-resonant (PR) controller, which regulates the grid-side current, and a finite-set model predictive controller (FS-MPC), which is responsible for controlling the filter's capacitor voltage and active damping of the resonance. The overall control circumvents the drawbacks of using only the FS-MPC to control the converter, such as steady state tracking error, weighting factor tuning complexity, and need to use long prediction horizons for optimal performance, but it keeps its advantageous properties. Namely, due to FS-MPC's direct manipulation of the VSC switches, the pulsewidth-modulation delay does not exist, while a high sampling rate leads to only insignificant computational delay. As a consequence, the system achieves far less magnitude and phase roll-off in the high-frequency region that allows considerable increase of dynamic performance compared to conventional control approaches. Moreover, the inner FS-MPC-based regulator exhibits a flat frequency response, which indicates that there is no need for designing a dedicated AD. The overall control design procedure is then largely simplified as only the proportional gain of the PR controller needs to be tuned. These properties are proved using a describing function method where a linear approximation of the FS-MPC regulated VSC and an inner $LC$ filter is derived in the frequency domain and integrated together with the model of the PR controller and grid side inductor. The controller has been analyzed analytically and validated through experimental results, where design correctness and robustness to grid-side inductance variations have been tested.
Torque Distributed Control Strategy for the Dual Three-Phase PMSM in Hybrid Energy Storage System Application

This paper proposes a torque distributed control strategy for the multiphase machines in the hybrid energy storage system application. Different with the conventional energy current regulation method, the system energy management is researched by the machine torque distribution in different sets of windings. The load power is then afforded by the energy storage devices connected with the windings through the inverters. The principle of the distributed torque operation is explored with a dual three-phase permanent-magnet synchronous machine model and the asymmetrical windings operation is explained with the flux vector diagram. The windings decoupling compensation, flux observer, and parameter identification methods are presented. Based on the proposed strategy, a power frequency dividing coordinated regulation is achieved. The hybrid energy storage devices can directly respond to the average or instantaneous parts in the load torque and power fluctuation. Simulation and experiments are demonstrated with different operation cases.
Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) in a Saudi boy: an uncommon genodermatosis

A 6-year-old Saudi boy presented to our hospital with severe thrombocytopenia. The pat ient was managed for a long time (6 years) as having chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Later on features consistent with dyskeratosis congenita were recognized by the authors. The main features were: skin manifestations, nail dystrophy, alopecia totalis, microcephaly and mental retardation. The condition was associated with acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. At the age of 10, he developed pancytopenia and died at the age of 14 years from acute fulminant sepsis.
An embedded 65 nm CMOS baseband IQ 48 MHz-1 GHz dual tuner for DOCSIS 3.0

An embedded CMOS digital dual tuner for DOCSIS 3.0 and set-top box applications is presented. The dual tuner down-converts a total of ten 6 MHz Annex B channels or eight 8 MHz Annex A channels, for a maximum data rate of 320 Mb/s in Annex B and 400 Mb/s in Annex A mode. The dual tuner exceeds all the stringent SCTE 40 specifications over the 48-1004 MHz bandwidth, without using any external components or SAW filters. Enabling technologies are a harmonic rejection front-end, a low-noise high-frequency resolution PLL, and digital image rejection. To our knowledge this is the first reported multichannel broadband tuner embedded in a DOCSIS 3.0 System on a chip implemented in 65 nm pure digital CMOS technology.
Pro-Apoptotic Effects of Estetrol on Long-Term Estrogen-Deprived Breast Cancer Cells and at Low Doses on Hormone-Sensitive Cells

Purpose: Postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers often respond initially to tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitor therapy. Resistance to these treatments usually develops within 12 to 18 months. Clinical studies have demonstrated that high-dose estrogen can induce regression of these endocrine-resistant tumors. However, side-effects of high-dose estradiol (E2) or diethylstilbestrol (DES) limit their usage. Estetrol (E4) is the most abundant estrogen during pregnancy and has a long half-life and a low potential for side-effects. Estetrol might then provide benefits similar to DES on tumor regression but with lesser toxicity. Methods: In this study, we systematically evaluated the effects of E4 on cell proliferation and apoptosis in wild-type MCF-7 and long-term estrogen-deprived (LTED) MCF-7 cells and compared its effects with E2 and estriol (E3). Results: Estetrol induced apoptosis in LTED cells but stimulated growth of MCF-7 cells at concentrations from 10−11 to 10−8 M. These effects of E4 are similar to those of E2 but require much higher doses. Differing from E2, E4 at 10−12 M induced apoptosis in MCF-7 cells and another pregnancy estrogen, E3, acted similarly. No antagonistic effect of E4 or E3 against E2 occurred when they were combined. Conclusions: The pro-apoptotic effects of E4 and E3 on LTED cells and at low doses on MCF-7 cells indicate that these steroids could be used as therapeutic agents for endocrine-resistant or sensitive breast cancer.
Multi-objective Optimization Methods for Allocation and Prediction

In this thesis we focus on two different aspects of auctions and we employ techniques and methods from both operations research and computer science. _First,_ we study the allocation of tasks to agents at the end of an auction. Usually, tasks are allocated in such a way that minimizes the total cost for the auctioneer. This allocation is optimal in a one-shot auction, but if the auction is repeated, this can have negative consequences for the results in the long run. Therefore, we consider a fair allocation, which costs slightly more in a one-shot auction, but has positive effects on the participation level of agents and the total cost for the auctioneer in repeated auctions. _Second,_ we consider the auction design. How an auction is set up, like which tasks should be auctioned first, or what the starting price should be, impacts the result. Usually there are experts who know what has occurred in previous auctions and how a future auction should be designed in order to obtain the best results. However, historical auctions can obtain so much information that experts overlook things. We use a combination of machine learning and optimization models to extract information from historical auctions and use this information to help design future auctions for better results.
Multitarget likelihood for Track-Before-Detect applications with amplitude fluctuations

Track-Before-Detect methods jointly detect and track one or several targets from raw sensor measurements. They often require the computation of the measurement likelihood conditionally to the hidden state that depends on the complex amplitudes of the targets. Since these amplitudes are unknown and fluctuate over time this likelihood must be marginalized over the complex amplitude (i.e. phase and modulus). It has been demonstrated in [1] that this marginalization can be done analytically over the phase in the monotarget case. In this article, we first propose to extend the marginalization to the modulus in a monotarget setting, and we show that closed-forms can be obtained for fluctuations of type Swerling 1 and 3. Second, we demonstrate that, in a multitarget setting, a closed-form can be obtained for the Swerling 1 case. For Swerling 0 and 3 models, we propose some approximation to alleviate the computation. Since many articles consider the case of squared modulus measurements, we also consider this specific case in mono and multitarget settings with Swerling 0, 1 and 3 fluctuations. Finally, we compare the performance in estimation and detection for the different cases studied and we show the gain, both in detection and estimation, of the complex measurement method over the squared modulus method, for any fluctuation model.
Improving Students' Reading Comprehension of the Tenth Grade Class Akuntansi 3 of Smk Muhammadiyah 2 Pekanbaru Through Reading Aloud

This classroom action research was aimed to know whether reading aloud strategy can improve students' reading comprehension of the tenth grade class Akuntansi 3 of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Pekanbaru. This research consisted of one cycle. Thirty six students participated in this study. The data were collected from several sources; reading comprehension tests, observation sheets, and field notes. The result showed that the mean score of post test (80) was higher than mean score of pre-test (73). The observation result also showed that the there was an increase number of students' participation in every single activity. We can saw that there was the increasing average number become 94.44%. It means that more than 80% of students were active in teaching and learning process. It can be conclude that reading aloud strategy can improve students' reading comprehension of the tenth grade class Akuntansi 3 of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Pekanbaru.
Improved coherency-based wide-band equivalents for real time digital simulators

This paper introduces an approach which enables very large power systems to be modeled on real time electromagnetic transients (EMT) digital simulators. This is achieved using an improved wide-band multi-port equivalent, which reduces a large power network into a small manageable equivalent model that preserves wideband behaviors. The low frequency or electromechanical transients are captured with a Transient Stability Analysis (TSA) type electromechanical equivalent derived using coherency based reduction techniques. The high frequency behavior is accurately captured by placing in parallel with the TSA equivalent, a passive Frequency Dependant Network Equivalent (FDNE). The validity of the proposed technique is demonstrated by comparing the approach with detailed electromagnetic simulations of a modified version of the New England 39 Bus Test System that includes an HVDC infeed. The power of the method is demonstrated by the real-time electromagnetic transient simulation of a large 2300 bus 139 generator system.
Improvements in the uncertainty model in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature (GISTEMP) analysis

16 We outline a new and improved uncertainty analysis for the Goddard Institute of Space 17 Studies (GISS) Surface Temperature product version 4 (GISTEMP v4). Historical spa18 tial variations in surface temperature anomalies are derived from historical weather station 19 data and ocean data from ships, buoys and other sensors. Uncertainties arise from mea20 surement uncertainty, changes in spatial coverage of the station record, and systematic bi21 ases due to technology shifts and land cover changes. Previously published uncertainty 22 estimates for GISTEMP included only the effect of incomplete station coverage. Here, we 23 update this term using currently available spatial distributions of source data, state-of-the24 art reanalyses and incorporate independently derived estimates for ocean data processing, 25 station homogenization and other structural biases. The resulting 95% uncertainties are 26 near 0.05◦C in the global annual mean for the last 50 years, and increase going back fur27 ther in time reaching 0.15◦C in 1880. In addition, we quantify the benefits and inherent 28 uncertainty due to the GISTEMP interpolation and averaging method. We use the total 29 uncertainties to estimate the probability for each record year in the GISTEMP to actually 30 be the true record year (to that date), and conclude with 86% likelihood that 2016 was 31 indeed the hottest year of the instrumental period (so far). 32
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of volatile oil obtained from Aegle marmelos leaves collected from foothills of Shivalik range

Aim: Aegle marmelos (L.) Correa belongs to the Rutaceae family and is abundantly available all over India, and almost every part of this plant is used in traditional medicine. Materials and Methods: In the present work, we isolated volatile oil using the standard method of hydrodistillation from the leaves of A. marmelos. Further, the analysis of the oil was performed by capillary gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Results and Discussion: The percentage yield of oil was 0.91 (v/m). Further, the analysis of the oil resulted in the identification of 13compounds comprising more than 85 % of the total oil. The leaf oil was constituted mainly of monoterpene compounds, and the major compounds included a relatively stable terpene-limonene (67.83 %) and caryophyllene (8.76 %).
The Irish Helicobacter pylori Working Group consensus for the diagnosis and treatment of H. pylori infection in adult patients in Ireland.

BACKGROUND Irish eradication rates for Helicobacter pylori are decreasing and there is an increase in the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These trends call into question current management strategies. OBJECTIVE To establish an Irish Helicobacter pylori Working Group (IHPWG) to assess, revise and tailor current available recommendations. METHODS Experts in the areas of gastroenterology and microbiology were invited to join the IHPWG. Questions of relevance to diagnosis, first-line and rescue therapy were developed using the PICO system. A literature search was performed. The 'Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation' approach was then used to rate the quality of available evidence and grade the resulting recommendations. RESULTS Key resultant IHPWG statements (S), the strength of recommendation and quality of evidence include S8: standard triple therapy for 7 days' duration can no longer be recommended (strong and moderate). S9: 14 days of clarithromycin-based triple therapy with a high-dose proton pump inhibitor (PPI) is recommended as first-line therapy. Bismuth quadruple therapy for 14 days is an alternative if available (strong and moderate). S12: second-line therapy depends on the first-line treatment and should not be the same treatment. The options are (a) 14 days of levofloxacin-based therapy with high-dose PPI, (b) 14 days of clarithromycin-based triple therapy with high-dose PPI or (c) bismuth quadruple therapy for 14 days (strong and moderate). S13: culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing should be performed following two treatment failures (weak and low/very low). CONCLUSION These recommendations are intended to provide the most relevant current best-practice guidelines for the management of H. pylori infection in adults in Ireland.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Virtually Better Diabetes Care?

Despite growing awareness of the problem, the diabetes epidemic shows no signs of abating and continues to pose a public health problem of grave concern (1). Nonpharmacologic interventions focused on lifestyle modifications, including diet and exercise, remain a major component of therapy. Individualized nutrition therapy has been shown to be effective for improvement of the metabolic profile and weight loss. However, most studies of popular diets are usually of short duration and have high attrition rates (15–50% within 1 year) (2). Adherence to any prescribed diet is a real challenge, especially when we are surrounded by easily accessible, processed food of high caloric and low nutritional value. It is therefore not surprising that lifestyle modification often fails, and as health care providers (HCPs), we find ourselves compelled to add more and more pharmacotherapies and often recommend metabolic surgery to achieve therapeutic goals. Indeed, despite significant advances in pharmacotherapy, there has been no significant change in the percentage of people who achieve therapeutic goals (3). A key question that needs to be addressed is how HCPs can help patients adhere to a treatment plan that will enable them to achieve and sustain improvements in metabolic control. One of the most essential components of diabetes care is access to an HCP. There is a significant shortage of primary care providers and endocrinologists in the United States, with the rising number of patients with diabetes outstripping the number of HCPs (4). Endocrinologists are asked to see more patients in less time, and new patients may have to wait for months to be seen. The problem is even worse for patients in remote areas, who must travel long distances to be seen. It is also commonly observed that patients …
A scalable formal method for design and automatic checking of user interfaces

The article addresses the formal specification, design and implementation of the behavioral component of graphical user interfaces. The complex sequences of visual events and actions that constitute dialogs are specified by means of modular, communicating grammars called VEG (Visual Event Grammars), which extend traditional BNF grammars to make them more convenient to model dialogs.A VEG specification is independent of the actual layout of the GUI, but it can easily be integrated with various layout design toolkits. Moreover, a VEG specification may be verified with the model checker SPIN, in order to test consistency and correctness, to detect deadlocks and unreachable states, and also to generate test cases for validation purposes.Efficient code is automatically generated by the VEG toolkit, based on compiler technology. Realistic applications have been specified, verified and implemented, like a Notepad-style editor, a graph construction library and a large real application to medical software. It is also argued that VEG can be used to specify and test voice interfaces and multimodal dialogs. The major contribution of our work is blending together a set of features coming from GUI design, compilers, software engineering and formal verification. Even though we do not claim novelty in each of the techniques adopted for VEG, they have been united into a toolkit supporting all GUI design phases, that is, specification, design, verification and validation, linking to applications and coding.
slan/M-DC8+ cells constitute a distinct subset of dendritic cells in human tonsils

Human blood dendritic cells (DCs) include three main distinct subsets, namely the CD1c+ and CD141+ myeloid DCs (mDCs) and the CD303+ plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs). More recently, a population of slan/M-DC8+ cells, also known as “slanDCs”, has been described in blood and detected even in inflamed secondary lymphoid organs and non-lymphoid tissues. Nevertheless, hallmarks of slan/M-DC8+ cells in tissues are poorly defined. Herein, we report a detailed characterization of the phenotype and function of slan/M-DC8+ cells present in human tonsils. We found that tonsil slan/M-DC8+ cells represent a unique DC cell population, distinct from their circulating counterpart and also from all other tonsil DC and monocyte/macrophage subsets. Phenotypically, slan/M-DC8+ cells in tonsils display a CD11c+HLA-DR+CD14+CD11bdim/negCD16dim/negCX3CR1dim/neg marker repertoire, while functionally they exhibit an efficient antigen presentation capacity and a constitutive secretion of TNFα. Notably, such DC phenotype and functions are substantially reproduced by culturing blood slan/M-DC8+ cells in tonsil-derived conditioned medium (TDCM), further supporting the hypothesis of a full DC-like differentiation program occurring within the tonsil microenvironment. Taken together, our data suggest that blood slan/M-DC8+ cells are immediate precursors of a previously unrecognizedcompetent DC subset in tonsils, and pave the way for further characterization of slan/M-DC8+ cells in other tissues.
Effectiveness of self-compassion on distress tolerance, emotion regulation and anxiety sensitivity in divorced women

هدیکچ یسررب فده اب رضاح شهوژپ لمح رب یرو تقفردو اارر ییشخبرثا ان ه ه میح تی،ایشیرپ یسایسح و تهاا ا،ی یبارایضا فرگ مان،ا . ریضاح شهوژپ شور یشیاایآ ل ، ش پ حرط اب دایآ سپ هورگ اب دایآ . ردب هادگ تریییضایح شهوژپ رایاآ یهاایج گربرر هدی،ر له تهاا ا،ی هجارا هدییک اییس رر اراح راییف هرواییشا زکارا ب 6931 نیا رر . ردب ی،دل، شور یا شهوژپ ر گ ییایلتحا ر غ یفرایییصح شرالگ و ،ابهطوار . دییف هراقتییسا نیدب ردییص یا ک ا ا هجارا تهاا ا،ی زکارا ب هدییک رادیهح ت اراح هروایییشا 93 رق، یب ردیییص اب و باخت،ا ،ابهطوار شرالگ هورگ رر یفرایییصح شیاایآ هورگ . دییتفرگ رارا هادگ هورگ و شیایایآ ایه رر ه ، و هاا ور یط ار ییییفیداآ هوادا 8 یییسهج 33 ت ار فایرر ا ،ا دییارف دط رر ار هوادا نیا هادگ هورگ ک ردب ییاح رر نیا . دی،ردل، ن ما . ررر، فاییرر شهوژپ ااییییشیییسرپ اه هراقتیییسارردا شهوژپ نیا رر گربرر هد،ر و یرسق،راگر ان ه یتواییف ه میح اهرربهار ااییشیسرپ ت ارایرله 2332 ترهاگ و ز،دل یییسر ی،ان ه ی،ایییشیرپ لمح ای تا ت) 2332 و ) ااییشیسرپ یباراضا ساسح ر تزکراا و ده فراگ تدیدهف 2332 ) هرار . ردب همح هد یف ب شهوژپ یا یصاح اه س،ایراودک مر، طسدح فا راز رایاآ 23 SPSS رردا یزنح همحو . فرگ رارا همح یا یییصاح جیات، هرار یک رار ایییش، ایه لمح رب یرو یتقیییفردو ایارر ی،ایییشیرپ ر f=28/87, p<0/0001 ) ت اینی یه هی یمیییح یبثا ر f=41/47,
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE UNIVERSITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROJECTS: AN INVESTIGATION ON THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES

Today, the number of social responsibility projects has increased day by day. Consumers have been very interested in the importance of social responsibility in the stages of production and in the products and services they will buy, and in how the voters attach importance to the social responsibility projects of the parties and candidates they will vote. In this process, educational institutions encourage their students to undertake social responsibility projects in the course of education, and even place them in curricula with different names. Social responsibility projects carried out at this stage have been presented to the public through different means of communication. It is very important how these projects have been presented on the social media platforms which are accepted as new media with millions of users.In this study, we tried to show how universities have used social media platforms in the promotion of their social responsibility projects. For this purpose, the three most populous European countries (Germany, France, the UK) and the most populous country (Turkey) of the candidate countries were selected as the sample. According to URAP (Universities Ranking by Academic Performance) 2017, the accounts of the most successful universities of the selected countries (England - University of Oxford, France - Pierre Marie Curie Universite Paris, Germany Ruprecht Karls Universitat Heidelberg were analyzed by content analysis method. In the light of findings, it was tried to show how universities have used social media in promoting their social responsibility projects comparatively