Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
IntelliNoC: A Holistic Design Framework for Energy-Efficient and Reliable On-Chip Communication for Manycores

As technology scales, Network-on-Chips (NoCs), currently being used for on-chip communication in manycore architectures, face several problems including high network latency, excessive power consumption, and low reliability. Simultaneously addressing these problems is proving to be difficult due to the explosion of the design space and the complexity of handling many trade-offs. In this paper, we propose IntelliNoC, an intelligent NoC design framework which introduces architectural innovations and uses reinforcement learning to manage the design complexity and simultaneously optimize performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability in a holistic manner. IntelliNoC integrates three NoC architectural techniques: (1) multifunction adaptive channels (MFACs) to improve energy-efficiency; (2) adaptive error detection/correction and re-transmission control to enhance reliability; and (3) a stress-relaxing bypass feature which dynamically powers off NoC components to prevent overheating and fatigue. To handle the complex dynamic interactions induced by these techniques, we train a dynamic control policy using Q-learning, with the goal of providing improved fault-tolerance and performance while reducing power consumption and area overhead. Simulation using PARSEC benchmarks shows that our proposed IntelliNoC design improves energy-efficiency by 67% and mean-time-to-failure (MTTF) by 77%, and decreases end-to-end packet latency by 32% and area requirements by 25% over baseline NoC architecture.
Multi-Style License Plate Recognition System using K-Nearest Neighbors

There are various styles of license plates for different countries and use cases that require style-specific methods. In this paper, we propose and illustrate a multi-style license plate recognition system. The proposed system performs a series of processes for license plate candidates detection, structure classification, character segmentation and character recognition, respectively. Specifically, we introduce a license plate structure classification process to identify its style that precedes character segmentation and recognition processes. We use a K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm with pre-training steps to recognize numbers and characters on multi-style license plates. To show feasibility of our multi-style license plate recognition system, we evaluate our system for multi-style license plates covering single line, double line, different backgrounds and character colors on Korean and the U.S. license plates. For the evaluation of Korean license plate recognition, we used a 50 minutes long input video that contains 138 vehicles of 6 different license plate styles, where each frame of the video is processed through a series of license plate recognition processes. From two experiments results, we show that various LP styles can be recognized under 50 ms processing time and with over 99% accuracy, and can be extended through additional learning and training steps.
Isolation and characterization of twenty-three microsatellite loci for the black rockfish, Sebastes schlegelii

Twenty-three polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed from the black rockfish, Sebastes schlegelii, with an enriched partial genomic library by magnetic beads and polymorphism of these loci was assessed in 32 individuals from a wild population. The loci yielded 2-19 alleles per locus, the observed, expected heterozygosity and polymorphic information content ranged from 0.063 to 1.000, 0.091 to 0.945 and 0.085 to 0.926, respectively. Twenty loci confirmed to Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and only one pairs of loci show significant linkage disequilibrium after Bonferroni’s correction. The availability of these markers will facilitate studies of the conservation genetics of S. schlegelii.
Kinetics of anode processes in ‘Chromispel‐C’ electrolyte for chromium plating

Abstract The kinetics of anode process occurring in ‘Chromispel‐C’, a non‐standard chloride electrolyte for chromium plating has been studied. The anodes investigated were prepared from platinum, silver, lead, Pb–Ca (0·11%Ca) alloy and M10 and P25 ceramal alloys. The processes occurring at the anode have been identified. The distribution of the total current among anode reactions was also established. The effects of electrolyte concentration, anode material, current density and temperature on current distribution were studied. The potentiodynamic polarisation curves were recorded under varying operational conditions of chromium plating and the general I versus E dependence established. The values of the corresponding corrosion potentials Ec, potentials E1 and E2, as well as the limiting currents I1 and I2 for the first and second step of the I versus E curve have been determined. The activation energy was calculated using the temperature kinetic model and the mechanism of electrode polarisation established. Platinum (and later, for economical practical reasons, platinised titanium) and P25 ceramal alloy are recommended as suitable anode materials.
A discussion of immersion in human computer interaction: the immersion model of user experience

I Dedication. II Acknowledgements . III Contributions to the thesis . III Chapter 6: Study of gesture based interaction . III Chapter 7: Study of seven stories museum . IV Message from the author . V Table of contents . VIII List of tables and figures . XIII Figures . XIII Tables . XV Glossary of terms . XVI Chapter 1: Thesis background & motivation . 1 1.0 Chapter overview . 1 1.1 Background to the research – motivation . 1 1.2 Development of the research . 3 1.3 The immersion model of user experience . 5 1.4 Aims and value of the research . 6 1.5 Structure of the thesis . 7 1.6 Chapter summary . 8 Chapter 2: Immersion . 9 2.0 Chapter overview . 9 2.1 Common views of immersion . 9 2.2 The value of immersion . 11 2.3 Immersion in HCI and UX. 14 2.4 Experiencing immersion . 15 2.4. 1 Deepening immersion . 17 2.4. 2 Diminishing immersion . 18 2.4. 3 Breaking immersion . 19
Fine-grained Warm Water Cooling for Improving Datacenter Economy

Driven by the increasing power consumption of datacenters, the industry is focusing more on water cooling for improving the energy efficiency. Using warm water to cool servers has been considered as an efficient method to reduce the cooling energy. However, warm water cooling may lead to the risk of cooling failure and its energy efficiency suffers from the thermal imbalance among servers, due to the lack of fine-grained cooling control. In this paper, we propose a hybrid cooling architecture design that incorporates thermoelectric cooler into the water cooling system, to deal with cooling mismatching in a fine-grained manner. We exploit the warm water cooling strategy and design an adaptive cooling control framework according to workload variations, to make water cooling system more economical for datacenters. We evaluate the hybrid water cooling design based on a real hardware prototype and cluster traces from Google and Alibaba. Compared with conventional water cooling system, our hybrid water cooling system can reduce the energy consumption by 58.72%~78.43% to handle the cooling mismatching.
Referee home bias due to social pressure. Evidence from Spanish football

This paper analyses referee home bias due to social pressure with data from the matches played in the First Division of the Spanish football league between the 2002/03 and 2009/10 seasons. The aim is to assess the behaviour of the referee in relation to two decisions, namely free kicks awarded and players booked. The variables used to explain referee behaviour are the number of spectators attending matches, the percentage occupation of the stadium and the existence or not of running tracks, all of which are intended to represent social pressure, in addition to referee experience. Furthermore, two control variables concerning ball possession and shots at goal are included. Regarding methodology, two random effects panel data regression models are estimated. The first model explains the difference in the number of home team fouls and away team fouls, while the second explains the difference in yellow and red cards shown to local and away teams. The results obtained cannot confirm, at least in the period under analysis, that Spanish football referees have been biased in favour of the home team when it comes to awarding free kicks. However, once a free kick has been awarded, there does appear to be a referee home bias in the punishment a player receives for committing a foul. These findings suggest that when there is a large crowd in the stadium, the referee tends to find it easier to book away team players than home players. A sensible hypothesis that could explain this result is that the time the referee has to make a decision does affect the final outcome. While referees are not biased when it comes to awarding a free kick, they are when given more time to make a decision, allowing social pressure to work in favour of the home time.
A system for creating lecture video clipshows

This research achieves two main goals: First it proposes a set of extensions to the existing Opencast Matterhorn lecture video capture system, which should enhance its effectiveness and enable the collection of fine-grained datasets for further research. These extensions allow users to quickly and easily create, find, tag, annotate, and share `clipshows' of their video recorded classes both publicly and privately. Second, the tracking data generated when users create or view the clipshows using these extensions are used to analyze the efficacy of the system.
Measurement of change in thickness of cylindrical shell caused by remote actuation for assessment of viscoelasticity of arterial wall

In this paper, for assessment of the viscoelastic property of the arterial wall, a method is proposed for measuring elastic moduli at multiple frequencies by generating the change in internal pressure due to remote cyclic actuation. From basic experiments using a silicone rubber tube, it was found that the change in internal pressure at the ultrasonic beam position (for measurement of the elastic modulus) can be generated by remotely applied actuation. Furthermore, from resultant minute changes in wall thickness of less than 10 /spl mu/m measured by the phased tracking method, elastic moduli were obtained at multiple actuation frequencies.
Linebacker: Preserving Victim Cache Lines in Idle Register Files of GPUs

Modern GPUs suffer from cache contention due to the limited cache size that is shared across tens of concurrently running warps. To increase the per-warp cache size prior techniques proposed warp throttling which limits the number of active warps. Warp throttling leaves several registers to be dynamically unused whenever a warp is throttled. Given the stringent cache size limitation in GPUs this work proposes a new cache management technique named Linebacker (LB) that improves GPU performance by utilizing idle register file space as victim cache space. Whenever a CTA becomes inactive, linebacker backs up the registers of the throttled CTA to the off-chip memory. Then, linebacker utilizes the corresponding register file space as victim cache space. If any load instruction finds data in the victim cache line, the data is directly copied to the destination register through a simple register-register move operation. To further improve the efficiency of victim cache linebacker allocates victim cache space only to a select few load instructions that exhibit high data locality. Through a careful design of victim cache indexing and management scheme linebacker provides 29.0% of speedup compared to the previously proposed warp throttling techniques.
Integrative analysis of common genes and driver mutations implicated in hormone stimulation for four cancers in women

Cancer is one of the leading cause of death of women worldwide, and breast, ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancers contribute significantly to this every year. Developing early genetic-based diagnostic tools may be an effective approach to increase the chances of survival and provide more treatment opportunities. However, the current cancer genetic studies are mainly conducted independently and, hence lack of common driver genes involved in cancers in women. To explore the potential common molecular mechanism, we integrated four comprehensive literature-based databases to explore the shared implicated genetic effects. Using a total of 460 endometrial, 2,068 ovarian, 2,308 breast and 537 cervical cancer-implicated genes, we identified 52 genes which are common in all four types of cancers in women. Furthermore, we defined their potential functional role in endogenous hormonal regulation pathways within the context of four cancers in women. For example, these genes are strongly associated with hormonal stimulation, which may facilitate rapid diagnosis and treatment management decision making. Additional mutational analyses on combined the cancer genome atlas datasets consisting of 5,919 gynaecological and breast tumor samples were conducted to identify the frequently mutated genes across cancer types. For those common implicated genes for hormonal stimulants, we found that three quarter of 5,919 samples had genomic alteration with the highest frequency in MYC (22%), followed by NDRG1 (19%), ERBB2 (14%), PTEN (13%), PTGS2 (13%) and CDH1 (11%). We also identified 38 hormone related genes, eight of which are associated with the ovulation cycle. Further systems biology approach of the shared genes identified 20 novel genes, of which 12 were involved in the hormone regulation in these four cancers in women. Identification of common driver genes for hormone stimulation provided an unique angle of involving the potential of the hormone stimulants-related genes for cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
STUDY OF THE CALCULATION METHOD OF SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS OF RECTANGLE ENCLOSURE WITH AN ELECTRICALLY LARGE APERTURE

An analytical model based on the Bethe’s theory of diffraction by small holes is presented to predict the shielding effectiveness (SE) of metallic rectangular enclosure with electrically large aperture under plane wave illumination over a wide frequency range (0 ∼ 3GHz). In this model, the aperture is represented as electric and magnetic dipoles located at the center of the aperture, and the coupling relation between external plane wave and electromagnetic field inside the enclosure is established. The approximate solution of electromagnetic field distribution inside the enclosure is obtained in terms of the integrals of the electric and magnetic dynamic Green function. Finally, the influence of enclosure thickness on SE is calculated by introducing thickness attenuation coefficient. The model considers the effect of the thickness on the calculation results and is simple with low computation complex and high estimation accuracy. Besides, the effects of parameters like enclosure and aperture dimensions, aperture and observation point positions, incident and polarization direction of the plane wave on SE can be analyzed comprehensively based on the model. Simulation results of the proposed model are in accord with that of the TLM method, which verifies the accuracy and reliability of the model.
Globalization, creative destruction, and labour share change: evidence on the determinants and mechanisms from longitudinal plant-level data

We examine the sources and micro-level mechanisms of the changes in the labor share of value added. We link the micro-level dynamics of the labor share change with that of productivity and wage growth. Using a useful variant of the decomposition method we make a distinction between the change in the average plant and the micro-level restructuring. With Finnish plant-level data covering three decades we show that micro-level restructuring is the link between the declining labor share and increasing productivity in 12 manufacturing industries of four regions, and that increased international trade is a factor underlying those shifts.
A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO MODEL CALIBRATION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN POTENTIAL DROP MEASURING

The direct current potential drop method is a widespread technique used to monitor fatigue-related crack initiation and growth. However, to determine the size of cracks in a structure indirectly via potential drop measurements in the presence of unknown material-dependent parameters bears not only the challenge of model calibration but of parameter estimation as well. A solution to this inverse problem is accomplished by a Bayesian approach. Therefore, physics and measuring characterising models as well as prior information on the unknown crack size and unknown parameters are specified. Within this thus defined probabilistic state space model, Bayesian inference is performed to infer the crack size of fatigue-tested specimens from potential drop measurements while taking into account persistent variabilities and uncertainties. The results obtained in the form of joint conditional posterior distributions are utilised to calibrate the potential drop measuring and to estimate the unknown parameters on the one hand as well as to estimate the crack size on the other hand. By comparison with experimentally acquired actual crack size data, the proposed Bayesian approach is found to yield accurate results, rendering the methodology highly promising. 350 Available online at www.eccomasproceedia. org Eccomas Proceedia UNCECOMP (2017) 350-371 ©2017 The Authors. Published by Eccomas Proceedia. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of UNCECOMP 2017. doi: 10.7712/120217.5375. 17094 Thomas Berg, Sven von Ende and Rolf Lammering Cycles U (V ) Potential drop measurements Cycles a (m ) Crack propagation a(m) U (V ) Calibration curve Figure 1: Direct current potential drop method: The initially unknown relation between potential drop U and crack size a is utilised to determine the crack propagation path a over cycles N .
BRCA Genes: The Role in Genome Stability, Cancer Stemness and Therapy Resistance

Carcinogenesis is a multistep process, and tumors frequently harbor multiple mutations regulating genome integrity, cell division and death. The integrity of cellular genome is closely controlled by the mechanisms of DNA damage signaling and DNA repair. The association of breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 with breast and ovarian cancer development was first demonstrated over 20 years ago. Since then the germline mutations within these genes were linked to genomic instability and increased risk of many other cancer types. Genomic instability is an engine of the oncogenic transformation of non-tumorigenic cells into tumor-initiating cells and further tumor evolution. In this review we discuss the biological functions of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and the role of BRCA mutations in tumor initiation, regulation of cancer stemness, therapy resistance and tumor progression.
Overview of fast on-board integrated battery chargers for electric vehicles based on multiphase machines and power electronics

The study provides an extensive overview of on-board integrated chargers for electric vehicles that are based on multiphase (more than three phases) machines and power electronics. A common attribute of all discussed topologies is that they do not require a charger as a separate device since its role is transferred to the already existing drivetrain elements, predominantly a multiphase machine and an inverter. The study demonstrates how additional degrees of freedom that exist in multiphase systems can be conveniently utilised to achieve torque-free charging operation. Therefore, although three-phase (or multiphase) currents flow through machines' stator windings, they do not generate any torque; thus the machines do not have to be mechanically locked. Cost and weight saving is achieved in this way, while the available space is increased. For each topology operating principles are explained, and its control elaborated in detail for both charging and vehicle-to-grid mode. Finally, the validity of theoretical considerations and control algorithms of some of the existing charging solutions is experimentally verified and experimental performance of all discussed topologies is compared.
Cardioprotective Potential of Plant-Derived Molecules: A Scientific and Medicinal Approach

Since the beginning of human civilization, plants have been used in alleviating the human distress and it was recorded for about thousands of years ago that the plants are being used for medicinal purposes. Natural bioactive compounds called phytochemicals are obtained from medicinal plants, vegetables, and fruits, which functions to combat against various ailments. There is dire need to explore the plant biodiversity for its medicinal and pharmacological potentials. Different databases such as Google scholar, Medline, PubMed, and the Directory of Open Access Journals were searched to find the articles describing the cardioprotective function of medicinal plants. Various substances from a variety of plant species are used for the treatment of cardiovascular abnormalities. The cardioprotective plants contain a variety of bioactive compounds, including diosgenin, isoflavones, sulforaphane, carotinized, catechin, and quercetin, have been proved to enhance cardioprotection, hence reducing the risk of cardiac abnormalities. The present review article provides the data on the use of medicinal plants particularly against cardiac diseases and to explore the molecules/phytoconstituents as plant secondary metabolites for their cardioprotective potential.
Abnormalities of the Optic Nerve in Down Syndrome and Associations With Visual Acuity

Background: Various ocular anomalies are present in the vast majority of individuals with Down syndrome; however, we know little about optic nerve abnormalities. The aim of this cross-sectional comparative study was to describe optic disc morphology in patients with Down syndrome and to determine if the differences found are potentially related to visual acuity. Subjects/methods: Assessable fundus images were obtained in 50 children with Down syndrome and 52 children without Down syndrome. Morphological analysis of the optic nerve was performed, including the disc-to-macula distance (DM) to disc diameter (DD) ratio (DM/DD), the cup-to-disc ratio and optic disc ovality. Data relating to ophthalmological status were retrospectively analyzed to evaluate the possible causes of reduced visual acuity. Results: DM/DD was significantly larger (p = 0.0036) and the cup-to-disc ratio was significantly smaller (p = 0.018) in children with Down syndrome, compared to controls. The optic discs were also more frequently torted (p = 0.034), tilted (p = 0.0049) and oval (p = 0.026). Furthermore, crescents (p = 0.0002), peripapillary atrophy (p = 0.0009), and pigment anomalies (p < 0.0001) were also more prevalent in children with Down syndrome than in those without. Visual acuity was significantly lower in children with Down syndrome compared to controls with similar refraction problems and strabismus prevalence (p < 0.0001). The mean DM/DD and the presence of a crescent was not directly related to visual acuity (r = 0.39, p = 0.31), (r = 0.35, p = 0.12) respectively. Visual acuity was diminished in 80% of children with Down syndrome and the smallest discs and in 84% of those with tilted discs. However, other causes may contribute to the diminished visual acuity in these cases. Conclusion: The optic nerve head in children with Down syndrome is affected by various anatomical and developmental abnormalities. Unrelated to refraction (spherical equivalent), the optic discs appear smaller and more frequently mal-inserted in Down syndrome. Optic disc hypoplasia, as well as severe tilting, may reduce vision but they do not represent major contributors to the decrease of vision in such children. As these children often have multiple ocular and neurosensory problems, it remains challenging to relate visual acuity problems with a specific abnormality. Smaller discs may lead to optic disc drusen formation in children with Down syndrome.