Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The use of geospatial workflows to support automatic detection of complex geospatial features from high resolution images

A complex geospatial feature is spatially composed of member elementary features. The methods extracting elementary features from high resolution imageries are being mature. However, the detection of complex feature is still a nearly-blind point. This paper proposes an automatic approach using geospatial workflows to detect complex feature by identifying the spatial patterns like the contained member elementary features and the spatial relationships between member features and the surrounding environment. A prototype online system is realized for evaluation.
Management of challenging cases of patients with cancer‐associated thrombosis including recurrent thrombosis and bleeding: guidance from the SSC of the ISTH: a reply to a rebuttal

1 Carrier M, Khorana A, Zwicker J, Noble S, Lee A, The subcommittee on Haemostasis Malignancy for the SSC of the ISTH. Management of challenging cases of patients with cancer-associated thrombosis including recurrent thrombosis and bleeding: guidance from the SSC of the ISTH. J Thromb Haemost 2013; 1: 1–9. 2 Red Cross Issues Emergency Call for Blood and Platelet Donors. http://www.redcross. org/news/article/Red-Cross-Issues-EmergencyCall-for-Blood-and-Platelet-Donors. Accessed 26 August 2013. 3 Yuan S, Goldfinger D. Clinical and laboratory aspects of platelet transfusion therapy. www.uptodate. com. Accessed 26 August 2013. 4 Pemmaraju N, Kroll MH, Afshar-Kharghan V, Oo TH. Bleeding risk in thrombocytopenic cancer patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) receiving anticoagulation. https://ash.confex. com/ ash/2012/webprogram/Paper47208.html. Accessed 26 August 2013. 5 Soff GA. Pathophysiology and management of thrombosis in cancer: 150 years of progress. J Thromb Thrombolysis 2013; 35: 346– 351.
A Flexible Online Server for Machine Translation Evaluation

We present an Online Server for Machine Translation Evaluation that offers improvements over the standard usage of the typical scoring scripts. Users are able to interactively define their own test sets, experiments and pre-processing steps. Several scores are automatically calculated for submitted translations and the hypotheses and scores are organized and archived for later review. The server offers a nice web based user interface.
PROPHYLAXIS OF ATOPIC DISEASE BY SIX MONTHS' TOTAL SOLID FOOD ELIMINATION

ABSTRACT. One hundred and thirty‐five infants of atopic parents were exclusively breast‐fed for 6 months without any cow's milk based supplements. Of these infants 70 received no nourishment except breast milk during the 6 months, and 65 were started on solid foods at the age of 3 months. The diet of all the infants was similar during 6 to 12 months of age. The children were examined at the age of one year. In the exclusive breast milk group atopic eczema and food allergy were less frequent than in the solid food group. The results suggest that total solid food elimination for the first 6 months of life, in addition to exclusive breast milk feeding, is prophylactic for atopic disease in children who are at hereditary risk.
Appraisal of Memory Functioning and Memory Performance in Healthy Ageing and Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease

ABSTRACT Background/Aims: To compare memory evaluations in healthy older people and people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and present standardised individual and dyadic methods for classifying degree of memory awareness in the participants with dementia. Methods: Cross-sectional study evaluating awareness of memory functioning and performance and providing normative data for healthy individuals and couples, together with comparison data from people with AD. Results: As a group, older people are reasonably accurate raters of their own memory functioning and performance, although considerable individual differences can be observed, and control dyads show good comparative accuracy. Comparing normative data from the control group to data from participants with AD confirms that significant overestimation is a frequent feature among people with dementia, with approximately two-thirds showing this pattern, although significant under-estimation is also reliably observed in a small proportion of people with dementia. Different types of measure elicit different profiles of memory awareness in participants with dementia. Conclusion: Normative data from older individuals and couples provides useful percentile-based indices for determining level of memory awareness in people with dementia.
Antigen-Specific IgG Elicited in Subjects with Prostate Cancer Treated with Flt3 Ligand

Identifying appropriate prostate cancer-associated antigens is critical to the development of immunologic treatments for prostate cancer. Flt3 ligand, a growth and differentiation factor for dendritic cells, has shown modest clinical activity in prostate cancer, presumably by eliciting anti-cancer immune responses. The authors previously reported the results of a clinical trial in which some patients with metastatic prostate cancer treated with flt3 ligand developed autoimmune hypothyroidism with thyroid-specific antibodies. Given these findings, the authors hypothesized that anti-prostate immune responses might also have been elicited in some subjects treated with flt3 ligand. The authors now report the identification of prostate-associated proteins immunologically recognized in 13 prostate cancer patients treated with multiple cycles of flt3 ligand. Using a normal prostate cDNA expression library, and sera from subjects before and after treatment with flt3 ligand, a modified SEREX approach was used to identify six proteins to which IgG immune responses were augmented after flt3 ligand treatment compared with pretreatment. IgG responses to one protein, MAD-CaP-5, were not detectable in any of the subjects' sera before treatment but were elicited after therapy in one subject. The authors suggest that MAD-CaP-5 could be explored as a novel prostate cancer antigen, and that this approach can be used to identify immunologically recognized proteins following any specific intervention.
Self-Organization and Compositionality in Cognitive Brains: A Neurorobotics Study

The most pressing question about cognitive brains is how they support the compositionality that enables combinatorial manipulations of images, thoughts, and actions. When addressing this problem with synthetic modeling, the conventional idea prevalent in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, generally, is to assume hybrid systems and corresponding neural network models, where higher order cognition is realized by means of symbolic representation and lower sensory-motor processes by analog processing. However, the crucial problem with such approaches is that the symbols represented at higher order cognitive levels cannot be grounded naturally in sensory-motor reality. The former are defined in a discrete space without any metric, and the latter are defined in a continuous space with a physical metric. These, therefore, cannot directly interact with each other, regardless of the interface that is assigned between them. The proposal in the current paper is to reconstruct higher order cognition by means of continuous neurodynamic systems that can elaborate delicate interactions with the sensory-motor level while sharing the same metric space. Our neurorobotics experiments-including language-action associations and the learning of goal-directed actions-show that the compositionality necessary for higher order cognitive tasks can be acquired by means of self-organizing dynamic structures, via interactive learning between the top-down intentional process of acting on the physical world and the bottom-up recognition of perceptual reality. Using robotic simulations, the current paper demonstrates that nonlinear dynamic phenomena, such as bifurcations and the chaotic dynamics induced by unstable fixed points, could play essential roles in realizing higher order functions.
[Physical and mental features of elderly persons who experienced group exercise for care prevention].

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to clarify the physical and mental features of elderly persons who experienced group exercise for care prevention. METHOD A group consisting of 92 elderly persons who had finished the group exercise program, one of the care prevention projects, in a town was surveyed (the experienced group) by anonymous self-administrative questionnaire. One hundred twenty-three elderly persons who had been attending community meetings were used as the control group. RESULT Valid responses were obtained from 66 persons in the experienced group (valid response rate: 71.7%) and 102 persons in the control group (valid response rate: 82.9%). Fifty-nine sex-and age-matched persons from each of the groups were selected for the analysis. Significant differences were not observed in the attributes between the two groups. In 4 of 5 items of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, the percentages of respondents who answered "possible to do alone" were significantly higher in the experienced group. In 6 of 14 items of "painful activities of daily life", the percentages of respondents were significantly lower in the experienced group. In 3 of 20 items on "relation with society", the scores were significantly higher in the experienced group. More persons actively went out or participated in social events in the experienced group. In the items of depression, the scores were significantly lower in the experienced group. There were significantly more persons who exercised daily in the experienced group. CONCLUSIONS It was easy to expect that the experienced group can maintain their functions in daily life and their physical and mental activities. Thus, it is suggested that group exercise has good effects on elderly persons in terms of care prevention.
The quest to exploit the Auger effect in cancer radiotherapy – a reflective review

Abstract To identify the emergence of the recognition of the potential of the Auger effect for clinical application, and after tracing the salient milestones towards that goal, to evaluate the status quo and future prospects. It was not until 40 years after the discovery of Auger electrons, that the availability of radioactive DNA precursors enabled the biological power, and the clinical potential, of the Auger effect to be appreciated. Important milestones on the path to clinical translation have been identified and reached, but hurdles remain. Nevertheless the potential is still evident, and there is reasonable optimism that the goal of clinical translation is achievable.
A self-calibration technique for active vision systems

A manipulator wrist-mounted camera considerably facilitates motion stereo, object tracking, and active perception. An important issue in active vision is to determine the camera position and orientation relative to the camera platform (head-eye calibration or hand-eye calibration). We present a technique for calibrating the head-eye geometry and the camera intrinsic parameters. The technique allows camera self-calibration because it requires no reference object and directly uses the images of the environment. Camera self-calibration is important especially where the underlying visual tasks do not permit the use of reference objects. Our method exploits the flexibility of the active vision system, and bases camera calibration on a sequence of specially designed motion. It is shown that if the camera intrinsic parameters are known a priori, the orientation of the camera relative to the platform can be solved using 3 pure translational motions. If the intrinsic parameters are unknown, then two sequences of motion, each consisting of three orthogonal translations, are necessary to determine the camera orientation and intrinsic parameters. Once the camera orientation and intrinsic parameters are determined, the position of the camera relative to the platform can be computed from an arbitrary nontranslational motion of the platform. All the computations in our method are linear. Experimental results with real images are presented.
Power quality analysis and system simulation on permanent magnet direct-drive wind turbine

Variable speed wind turbines yield more energy than the fixed speed wind turbines, reduce power fluctuations and improve reactive power supply. The power quality of permanent magnet wind turbine with a direct-drive generator (PMWT) has been analyzed in this paper. A simulation model of variable speed wind turbine was developed with the simulation tool of PSCAD/EMTDC. Component models and equations are addressed and their implementations in PSCAD/EMTDC are described. According to IEC61400-21, the effect of power fluctuations is quantified by measured active power, harmonics, and short term flicker severity of wind turbine. Emphasis is placed on the voltage flicker severity at various wind speed of PMWT, compared with fixed speed wind turbine. Simulation studies provide control performance and dynamic behavior of a direct-drive PMWT under varying wind speeds for power quality analysis.
Peculiarities of feed contamination with citrinin and ochratoxin A

Occurrence of citrinin and ochratoxin A in different feed ingredients and compound feeds was screened by accredited methods based on the indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. High frequency co-occurrence of both toxins was found in wheat grain and processed sunflower seeds. Citrinin levels exceeded those of ochratoxin A in the majority of co-contaminated feed samples, and the ratio of (1.1 - 10):1 proved to be the most frequent. A possible role of Aspergillus and Penicillium fungi in separate and simultaneous OTA and CIT occurrence in feeds is also discussed.
Heavy traffic steady state approximations in stochastic networks with Lévy inputs

It has recently been shown [3, 5] that in the heavy traffic limit, the stationary distributions of the scaled queue length process of Generalized Jackson Networks converges to the stationary distribution of its corresponding Reflected Brownian Motion limit. In this paper we show that such an "interchange of limits" is valid for the workload process of Stochastic Fluid Networks with Levy inputs. Our technique is of independent interest because we do not require the use of any Lyapunov techniques, a method that was used in the previous two papers.
MULTIPLE-F 0 ESTIMATION FOR MIREX 2015

In this submission for MIREX 2015 we propose a novel approach, referred to as combined frequency and periodicity (CFP), that detects pitches according to the agreement of a harmonic series in the frequency domain and a subharmonic series in the lag (quefrency) domain. The system takes the log-scaled spectrum as the frequency representation in the frequency domain and the generalized cepstrum as the periodicity representation in the lag domain. This approach aggregates the complementary advantages of the two feature domains and improves the robustness of the pitch detection function to the interference of the overtones of simultaneous pitches.
Low Leakage Circuits Design with Optimized Gate-length Biasing

With the technology process scaling, leakage power dissipation is becoming a growing number of percentage in total power dissipation. This study presents a new method in the gate-length biasing technique to achieve a cost-effective gate-length with a most benefit between leakage reduction and delay increasing. With the optimized gate-length, typical combinational and sequential circuits are realized and simulated using HSPICE with the BSIM4.6. 4 predictive models at a 45nm COMS process. The results show that leakage currents of typical combinational circuits reduce more and delay increase less. Moreover, leakage currents of mirror adder and transmission gate adder decrease 13.9% and 8.90%, respectively; and leakage power of 4-bit binary counters using C 2 MOS D Flip-Flop and Transmission-Gate D Flip-Flop reduce 38.36% and 20.05%, with the frequency of 5M, respectively. Therefore, the optimized gate-length biasing technique is an attractive approach in low power circuits design. DOI : http://dx.doi. org/10.11591/telkomnika.v12i4. 4791
Construction d'ontologie à partir de corpus de textes

Cet article presente une methode semi-automatique de construction d'ontologie a partir de corpus de textes sur un domaine specifique. Cette methode repose en premier lieu sur un analyseur syntaxique partiel et robuste des textes, et en second lieu, sur l'utilisation de l'analyse formelle de concepts "FCA" pour la construction de classes d'objets en un treillis de Galois. La construction de l'ontologie, c'est a dire d'une hierarchie de concepts et d'instances, est realisee par une transformation formelle de la structure du treillis. Cette methode s'applique dans le domaine de l'astronomie.
An investigation of psychological distress in patients who have been treated for head and neck cancer.

There is now ample evidence that psychological distress is common in patients with head and neck cancer and that psychology has a role in reducing this distress. In this study, the prevalence, nature, and correlates of distress were investigated, in 18 patients who were no longer being actively treated but were attending a follow-up clinic or support group (n= 9 each). Four of the patients had appreciable psychological distress and four each had anxiety or depression of at least borderline importance. The degree of depression and distress decreased with increasing age and there were trends for depression to decrease with time after the onset of the illness and to be slightly less common among those attending the support group (2/9 compared to 4/9). Numerous psychosocial difficulties were reported and perceptions of support available from friends and family were mixed. There are implications for services, and in particular, patients need to be given clear information about the resources available to give them psychosocial support.
Factors necessary for the growth of Bacteroides succinogenes in the volatile acid fraction of rumen fluid.

Summary Factors necessary for the growth of Bacteroides succinogenes and present in the volatile acid fraction of rumen fluid have been identified. Any one of the branched-chain saturated acids, isobutyric, isovaleric, or dl-α-methyl- n -butyric acid can be used as one component. Any one of a number of straight-chain saturated fatty acids can be used as the second component. These include C 5 to C 8 acids. Some activity for the second component was found in stearic and palmitic acid but none in lauric acid. Minimum concentrations for good growth when n -valeric and isovaleric acids were used were about 3 and 1.5 μM, respectively, per 10ml. of medium. All available strains of Bact. succinogenes require these acids. After this work was submitted for publication, Bentley et al. reported that the volatile acids, n -valeric, isovaleric, isobutyric, and caproic, or their amino acid precursors, stimulated cellulose digestion and the conversion of urea nitrogen into protein by rumen microorganisms as measured by the artificial rumen technique (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 76: 5000. 1954).
An improved adaptive neural network compensation of pivot nonlinearity in hard disk drives

In hard disk drives (HDDs), the movement of the read/write (R/V) head is driven by voice-coil-motor (VCM) which is supported by a pivot cartridge consisting of a pair of preloaded ball bearings. The pivot friction nonlinearity is defined as the frictional hysteresis that occurs at the bearing of the actuator pivot in the hard disk drives. This nonlinear effect can be observed as a large gain reduction especially in the low-frequency range and will cause large residual errors and/or high-frequency oscillations which in turn affect track-following and seeking performance. Basically, the linear techniques were usually used to suppress the influences by raising the low-frequency gain but were limited b.y the Bode's gain-phase relationship. In this paper, an improved adaptive neural network (NN) controller is designed to compensate for the pivot nonlinearity. To capture the time- varying uncertainties and nonlinearity, the adaptive tuning scheme is employed for the NN weights and the width in RBF functions. The proposed scheme has the advantages of fast convergence for parameter estimation and improvement of high hump of the magnitude of closed-loop sensitivity function. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Spatial stimulus response compatibility for a horizontal visual display with hand and foot controls

In this study, two experiments were conducted to examine spatial stimulus–response compatibility (SRC) effects for a horizontal visual display with hand and foot controls. In experiment 1, the hand and foot controls were in a hands above and feet below vertical plane, such that the display and controls were orthogonal to each other. In experiment 2, the foot pedals were moved forward and placed directly underneath the front row of signals, resulting in an additional horizontal display and control relationship. The results of experiment 1 revealed a strong orthogonal SRC effect, such that the best performance was for the front signals with hand controls and rear signals with foot pedals, which was not altered with the presence of horizontal location mappings in experiment 2. These findings indicate that the front-hand/rear-foot mapping relationship was quite robust with regard to changes in the relative locations of the hand and foot response devices. Statement of Relevance: The results of this study provide useful ergonomics recommendations for designing control consoles with visual signals presented in a horizontal plane and control devices operated by hands and feet. They are helpful for improving efficiency and overall system performance in person–machine systems.
The Effect of DC Bias Conditions on Ferrite Core Losses

In switched-mode power supplies - the predominant type of power converter in contemporary electronic equipment - ferrite magnetic components under dc bias conditions are typically large and have relatively high losses. The nature of these losses is not widely understood, and research in this area has been hampered by the difficulty of obtaining accurate core loss measurements. This paper reviews previous studies on the nature of core losses under dc bias, and presents new results, measured by a technique that has not previously been utilized for the measurement of core losses under dc bias conditions. The results show that ferrite core losses increase significantly with an increasing dc bias, and highlight the need for further research over a wider range of conditions to fully characterize the phenomenon.
Intestinal mucosal lesion in low-flow states. I. A morphological, hemodynamic, and metabolic reappraisal.

Sequential studies of the intestinal mucosal lesion in low-flow states revealed that the extent of the damage is dependent upon flow. Microscopic evidence of epithelial disruption at the subnuclear portion and subsequent lifting off of the epithelial layer is presented and correlated with the postulated metabolic transport barrier at the epithelial-capillary interface. The formation of such a barrier may be related to the peculiar anatomico-physiological arrangements of the intestinal villi and may deprive the epithelial cells of important substrates during and after a period of hypoperfusion. The concept of intestinal mucosal necrobiosis is reappraised in the light of such findings, and an explanation is presented for certain paradoxes observed in the bioenergetic studies as well as for the high susceptibility of the intestinal mucosa to damage in the low-flow states.