Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Accelerometer-based gait recognition via voting by signature points

A novel algorithm to recognise human identities via gait by body-worn accelerometers is presented. It uses acceleration information to measure human gait dynamics. Acceleration-based gait recognition is a non-intrusive biometric measurement, which is insensitive to changes of lighting conditions and viewpoint. The proposed algorithm first extracts signature points from gait acceleration signals, and then identifies the gait pattern using a signature point-based voting scheme. Experiments with a data set of 30 subjects show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms other existing methods and achieves a high recognition rate of 96.7% for the case of five accelerometers.
Price Discrimination in the Market for Corporate Law

This Article shows how Delaware uses its power in the market for incorporations to increase its profits through price discrimination. Price discrimination entails charging different prices to different consumers according to their willingness to pay. Two features of Delaware law constitute price discrimination. First, Delaware's uniquely structured franchise tax schedule assesses a higher tax to public than to nonpublic firms and, among public firms, to larger firms and firms more likely to be involved in future acquisitions. Second, Delaware's litigation-intensive corporate law effectively price discriminates between firms according to the level of their involvement in corporate disputes. From the perspective of social welfare, price discrimination between public and nonpublic firms is likely to enhance efficiency (although the efficiency effect of franchise tax price discrimination among public firms is indeterminate). By contrast, price discrimination through litigation-intensive corporate law is likely to reduce efficiency.
Assessment of work disability in seronegative spondyloarthropathy ( SpA )

Objective Seronegative spondyloarthropathy (SpA) such as ankylosing spondylitis (AS) affects patients during their working years and may contribute to work disability (WD). We determined the prevalence of WD (not working due to illness) and limitations in work productivity in AS using surveys, including the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ).
Clinical evaluation of the athlete

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that athletic training increases the likelihood of arrhythmias in predisposed athletes, sometimes resulting in sudden cardiac death (SCD). The clinical evaluation of athletes involves a directed history and examination and diagnostic tests including a 12 lead electrocardiogram and other heart rhythm assessment, functional assessment and advanced imaging modalities including echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance and computed tomography. This article discusses the diagnostic challenge that sets athletes apart from sedentary individuals: namely the physiological adaptations, referred to collectively as the “athletic heart” that occur as a result of training and that can mimic cardiac pathology.
ASYMPTOTICS FOR A GENERALIZED CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION WITH FORCING TERMS

Motivated by the physical theory of Critical Dynamics the Cahn-Hilliard equation on a bounded space domain is considered and forcing terms of general type are introduced. For such a rescaled equation the limiting inter-face problem is studied and the following are derived: (i) asymptotic results indicating that the forcing terms may slow down the equilibrium locally or globally, (ii) the sharp interface limit problem in the multidimensional case demonstrating a local influence in phase transitions of terms that stem from the chemical potential, while free energy independent terms act on the rest of the domain, (iii) a limiting non-homogeneous linear diffusion equation for the one-dimensional problem in the case of deterministic forcing term that follows the white noise scaling.
Teaching Mode of Higher Vocational English Under Web-based Environment

Higher vocational English is a foreign language course in vocational colleges. The level of a foreign language has become an important measurement to judge a modern person. It is important to improve one’s comprehensive qualities and abilities for individuals. Network education provides a completely new way of learning for people. English teaching under web-based environment is a kind of educational mode integrating computer technology, multimedia technology, network technology and modern educational method, through the multimedia teaching information collection, transmission, processing and sharing to realize the task of English teaching. Compared with the traditional English teaching mode, network English teaching has incomparable superiority. This paper based on the advantages of network platform, according to the characteristics of higher vocational education and the students, referenced the college English teaching reform, proposed a set of explorations for English teaching mode, achieved satisfactory result.
Time to onset of efficacy of the fast-disintegrating/rapid-release formulation of sumatriptan tablets in the acute treatment of migraine

Time to onset of efficacy of the fast-disintegrating/rapid-release formulation of sumatriptan tablets in the acute treatment of migraine Reto Agosti , Carl G. H. Dahlöf , Wim m. mulleners , martin W. Jones , Chris Webster e and Colleen Few e Headache Center Hirslanden Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Gothenburg Migraine Clinic, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Neurology, Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen, The Netherlands GlaxoSmithKline, Greenford, United Kingdom GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States
Face Recognition without Identification

Most people have had the experience of recognizing a person’s face as familiar despite failing to identify who the person is or where the person was seen before. Many domains of research have aimed to study this phenomenon; thus, there exist many research paradigms for attempting to tap it in laboratory settings. Among these paradigms are dual-process recognition memory paradigms within the recognition memory literature (e.g., Yonelinas, 2002), feeling-of-knowing paradigms within the metacognition literature (Koriat, 1995), and face identification paradigms within the more general face recognition literature (e.g., Burton, Bruce & Hancock, 1999).
Enhanced Lactic Acid Production From Cheese Whey With Nutrient Supplement Addition

Continuous mix batch bioreactors were used to investigate the effects of various concentrations (0, 5, 10 and 15 g/L) of two nutrients (Yeast extract and Lactamine AA) on the growth of Lactobacillus helveticus (ATCC 15009) and the production of lactic acid from cheese whey. The experiments were conducted under controlled pH and temperature of 5.5 and 42oC, respectively. The results indicated that yeast extract at a concentration of 10 g/L gave the highest cell growth, lactose utilization and lactic acid yield. The use of nutrients at low concentrations significantly decreased the lag period whereas lactic acid inhibition was observed when both nutrients were added at concentrations above 10 g/L. The results from this study showed that yeast extract was superior to Lactamine AA in its influence (improved yield and conversion efficiency) when used as nutrient during batch fermentation experiments of lactic acid production from cheese whey. The specific lactose utilitization and lacitc acid production rates were calculated for the lag, growth, stationary, and death phases under nutrient supplemented and non-supplemented conditions. The cells inability to deplete the residual lactose in the medium was an indication of lactic acid inhibition.
Univariate unobserved-component model with a nonrandom-walk permanent component

In this article, we revisit the univariate unobserved-component (UC) model of the US GDP by relaxing the traditional random-walk assumption of the permanent component. Since our general UC model is unidentified, we investigate the upper bound of the contribution of the transitory component, and find the GDP fluctuation is dominated by the permanent component.
Algılanan Yönetici Desteği Ölçeği: Geliştirilmesi, Geçerliliği ve Güvenirliliği

Calisma kosullarinin degismesi calisanlarin yoneticilerinden bekledigi destek konularini da degistirmekte ve cesitlenmektedir. Bu cercevede, calisma oncelikle nitel ve onu destekleyen nicel bir arastirma olarak sekillenerek, nicel ve nitel arastirma yontemlerinden olusan bir arastirma haline gelmistir. Arastirmanin nitel kisminda alan yazin taramasi sonucu yonetici destegi algisini olcmek icin var olan olcekler incelenip yari yapilandirilmis bir form kullanilarak 26 beyaz yakali banka calisani ile gorusme gerceklestirilmis ve 52 maddelik bir form elde edilmistir. Sonrasinda bu form, 2 uzman ve 2 akademisyen gorusu ile 31 maddelik taslak form haline getirilmistir. Arastirmanin nicel kisminda ise, elde edilen taslak form, oncelikle 102 beyaz yakali banka calisanina uygulanmis ve yapisal gecerlilik analizleri icin ayni bankada calisan farkli 353 beyaz yakali calisana uygulanarak yeni bir algilanan yonetici destegi olcegi gelistirilmistir. Elde edilen veriler isiginda, gelistirilen 7 ifadeli algilanan yonetici destegi olcegi, somut ve soyut olarak adlandirilan iki boyutlu bir yapi sergilemistir.
Implementation Complexity for Achieving Bit Permutations in One or Two Cycles in Superscalar Processors

The increasing importance of secure information processing in publicly accessible Internet and wireless networks poses new challenges in the architecture of future generalpurpose processors. Symmetric-key cryptography algorithms are an important class of algorithms used to achieve confidentiality. Many of them use a category of operations that are not well supported by today’s word-oriented microprocessors: bit-oriented permutations. In this paper, we show how arbitrary bit permutations within a word can be achieved in just one or two cycles. This improves upon the O(n) instructions needed to achieve any one of n! permutations of n bits in existing RISC processors; it also improves upon recent work that achieves this in O(log(n)) instructions and cycles. This paper contributes two new architectural solutions, one with only microarchitecture changes, and another with ISA support as well. Slightly enhanced 4-way and 2-way superscalar microprocessors can achieve arbitrary 64-bit permutations in one or two cycles. We also define new architectural concepts for (s,t) datapaths and functional units, and grouped instructions. Keywords—cryptography; bit permutation; superscalar; processor architecture; instruction set architecture (ISA); microarchitecture;
Risk assessment of the environmental impact of Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming

Geir Lasse Taranger1, Orjan Karlsen2*, Raymond John Bannister1, Kevin Alan Glover1, Vivian Husa1, Egil Karlsbakk1, Bjorn Olav Kvamme1, Karin Kroon Boxaspen1, Pal Arne Bjorn3, Bengt Finstad4, Abdullah Sami Madhun1, H. Craig Morton1, and Terje Svasand1 Institute of Marine Research, PB 1870, N-5817 Bergen, Norway Institute of Marine Research, Austevoll Research Station, N-5392 Storebo, Norway Institute of Marine Research, PB 6404, N-9294 Tromso, Norway Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PB 5685 Sluppen, N-7485 Trondheim, Norway *Corresponding author: tel: +47 4691 2740; fax: +47 5618 2222; e-mail: OrjanK@imr.no
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyforest of BOSS quasars

We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the Lyα forest of high-redshift quasars. The study uses 48,640 quasars in the redshift range 2.1≤ z≤ 3.5 from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III). At a mean redshift z = 2.3, we measure the monopole and quadrupole components of the correlation function for separations in the range 20h −1 Mpc < r < 200h −1 Mpc. A peak in the correlation function is seen at a separation equal to (1.01± 0.03) times the distance ]
System Overview 2 . 1 Proposed System

Air pollution monitoring is extremely important as air pollution has a direct impact on human health and environment. In this paper we introduce a wireless sensor network system for participatory air pollution monitoring. The traditional air quality monitoring system, controlled by the Pollution Control Department, is extremely expensive. Analytical measuring equipment is costly, time and power consuming. In contrast to traditional air pollution monitoring stations, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of low power, low cost WSN based Air Pollution Monitoring System which provides real time monitoring of polluted materials at proper locations by using distributed (real time) air pollution monitoring systems.
Detailed balance theory of excitonic and bulk heterojunction solar cells

A generalized solar cell model for excitonic and classical bipolar solar cells describes the combined transport and interaction of electrons, holes, and excitons in accordance with the principle of detailed balance. Conventional inorganic solar cells, single-phase organic solar cells and bulk heterojunction solar cells, i.e., nanoscale mixtures of two organic materials, are special cases of this model. For high mobilities, the compatibility with the principle of detailed balance ensures that our model reproduces the Shockley-Queisser limit irrespective of how the energy transport is achieved. For less ideal devices distinct differences become visible between devices that are described by linear differential equations and those with nonlinear effects, such as a voltage-dependent collection in bipolar $p\text{\ensuremath{-}}i\text{\ensuremath{-}}n$-type devices. These differences in current-voltage characteristics are also decisive for the validity of the reciprocity theorem between photovoltaic quantum efficiency and electroluminescent emission. Finally, we discuss the effect of band offset at the heterointerface in a bulk heterojunction cell and the effect of the average distances between these heterointerfaces on the performance of a solar cell in order to show how our detailed balance model includes also these empirically important quantities.
An enhanced text classifier for automatic document classification

Automatic classification has become an important research area due to the exponential growth of digital content in the modern world. Evidently, manual classification of documents is very painstaking and laborintensive task. It takes much time to organize a collection of documents according to the subject area. This research has developed a computer programme that can automatically classifying a given text document. Therefore, the user gets correct classification results just after feeding the document to the new system. For the process of classification, we use a new algorithm developed by enhancing basic form of an existing text classifier called tf-idf. The results were obtained for classification accuracy of the new text classification algorithm. They were compared with the results obtained for the basic tf-idf classifier. The research revealed that, the newly developed classifier algorithm can obtain better classification accuracy than the basic tf-idf classifier. Journal of the University Librarians Association, Sri Lanka, Vol. 16, Issue 2, July 2012, Page 138-159 DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.4038/jula.v16i2. 5205
Problems of Lexical Decomposition: The Case of Yoruba Complex Verbs

This study presents a description and analysis of the problems associated with the identification of the internal structure as well as the derivational sources of the Yoruba complex verbs. I attempt the lexical decomposition of these composite forms within the framework of a lexical morphology visa-vis my knowledge as a native speaker of the language. I find that some complex verbs have had their forms modified, thereby causing some disturbances in the recognition of their component forms. I also find that a sizeable number of Yoruba verbs are not only complex but are also deemed to be either fossilized or completely opaque to any synchronic analysis. A number of hypotheses about the apparent derivational history and processes of this class of verbs are postulated. In conclusion, I posit that the absence of formal written tradition in the distant past among the Yoruba people, coupled with the paucity of research in the areas of historical linguistics in the language, account for the reasons why some verbs appear recalcitrant and defy systematic morphological analysis.
Group actions on graphs related to Krishnan-Sunder subfactors

We describe the principal graphs of the subfactors studied by Krishnan and Sunder in terms of group actions on Cayley-type graphs. This leads to the construction of a tower of tree algebras, for every positive integer k, which are symmetries of the Krishnan-Sunder subfactors of index k 2 . Using our theory, we prove that the principal graph of the irreducible infinite depth subfactor of index 9 constructed by Krishnan and Sunder is not a tree, contrary to their expectations. We also show that the principal graphs of the Krishnan-Sunder subfactors of index 4 are the affine A and D Coxeter graphs.
A SHOX2 loss-of-function mutation underlying familial atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation (AF), as the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia, is associated with substantially increased morbidity and mortality. Aggregating evidence demonstrates that genetic defects play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of AF, especially in familial AF. Nevertheless, AF is of pronounced genetic heterogeneity, and in an overwhelming majority of cases the genetic determinants underlying AF remain elusive. In the current study, 162 unrelated patients with familial AF and 238 unrelated healthy individuals served as controls were recruited. The coding exons and splicing junction sites of the SHOX2 gene, which encodes a homeobox-containing transcription factor essential for proper development and function of the cardiac conduction system, were sequenced in all study participants. The functional effect of the mutant SHOX2 protein was characterized with a dual-luciferase reporter assay system. As a result, a novel heterozygous SHOX2 mutation, c.580C>T or p.R194X, was identified in an index patient, which was absent from the 476 control chromosomes. Genetic analysis of the proband's pedigree revealed that the nonsense mutation co-segregated with AF in the family with complete penetrance. Functional assays demonstrated that the mutant SHOX2 protein had no transcriptional activity compared with its wild-type counterpart. In conclusion, this is the first report on the association of SHOX2 loss-of-function mutation with enhanced susceptibility to familial AF, which provides novel insight into the molecular mechanism underpinning AF, suggesting potential implications for genetic counseling and individualized management of AF patients.
Penalty-free sparse PCA Conference or Workshop Item

A drawback of the sparse principal component analysis (PCA) procedures using penalty functions is that the number of zeros in the matrix of component loadings as a whole cannot be specified in advance. We thus propose a new sparse PCA procedure in which the least squares PCA loss function is minimized subject to a pre-specified number of zeros in the loading matrix. The procedure is called unpenalized sparse matrix PCA (USMPCA), as it does not use a penalty function and obtains component loadings matrix-wise, i.e., simultaneously rather than sequentially. The key point of USMPCA is to use the fact that the PCA loss function can be decomposed into sum of two terms, one of them irrelevant to loadings, and another one being a function easily minimized under the considered cardinality constraint. This decomposition makes it possible to construct an efficient alternate least squares algorithm for USMPCA. Another useful feature is that the PC score matrix is column-orthonormal, which helps to define naturally the percentage of explained variance by the sparse PCs. USMPCA is illustrated with real data examples.
Isotopic evidence for volatile replenishment of the Moon during the Late Accretion

Abstract The traditional view of a dry, volatile-poor Moon has been challenged by the identification of water and other volatiles in lunar samples, but the volatile budget delivery time(s), source(s) and temporal evolution remain poorly constrained. Here we show that hydrogen and chlorine isotopic ratios in lunar apatite changed significantly during the Late Accretion (LA, 4.1–3.8 billion years ago). During this period, deuterium/hydrogen ratios in the Moon changed from initial carbonaceous-chondrite-like values to values consistent with an influx of ordinary-chondrite-like material and pre-LA elevated δ37Cl values drop towards lower chondrite-like values. Inferred pre-LA lunar interior water contents are significantly lower than pristine values suggesting degassing, followed by an increase during the LA. These trends are consistent with dynamic models of solar-system evolution, suggesting that the Moon's (and Earth's) initial volatiles were replenished ∼0.5 Ga after their formation, with their final budgets reflecting a mixture of sources and delivery times.
A simple method for DNA extraction from activated sludge

A protocol for DNA extraction directly from activated sludge is described. Sludge samples were lysed by glass bead and CTAB. The extracted DNA was purified with phenol: chloroform: isoamyl alcohol mixture and precipitated in sodium acetate and isopropanol. The proposed protocol is simple, rapid and required small sample size, yielding about 40.5 ± 1.8 μg DNA g-1 sludge. The quality of DNA is good enough for successful PCR amplifications of 16S rDNA, 16S rDNA V3 region and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of archaeal population. This described method can also be applied to other environmental samples such as whey and soil.
ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTY OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS (CARVEDILOL, ENALAPRIL, AND AMLODIPINE) ON LIVER FUNCTION IN ANIMAL (RATS) MODELS

ABSTRACT Objective: The antihypertensive drugs (beta-blockers - carvedilol, calcium channel blocker - amlodipine, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor - enalapril) were investigated for its hepatoprotective effect by antioxidant property against carbon tetrachloride (CCl )-induced acute liver damage on albino rats. Methods: In this study the liver was damaged by giving Carbon tetra chloride (CCl 4 )-1 ml/kg-p.o. After giving CCl (1 ml/kg), it significantly elevated the serum levels of biochemical markers such as serum glutamate-pyruvate transaminase, serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, protein, and depleted antioxidant enzymes glutathione. After treatment with carvedilol (10 mg/kg), enalapril (0.5 mg/kg), and amlodipine (10 mg/kg) for 2 weeks, these drugs were significantly reduces the elevated levels of biochemical markers mentioned above. Conclusion: These results suggest that these antihypertensive drugs may have the potential therapeutic value in the treatment of CCl 4 -induced hepatic damage and some liver diseases. Hepatoprotective activity of these drugs may be attributed to the antioxidant principles in it. Keywords: Antioxidant, Carvedilol, Enalapril, Amlodipine, Carbon tetrachloride, Hepatoprotective. 4 4