Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
MOND prediction of a new giant shell in the elliptical galaxy NGC 3923

Context. Stellar shells, which form axially symmetric systems of arcs in some elliptical galaxies, are most likely remnants of radial minor mergers. They are observed up a radius of similar to 100 kpc. The stars in them oscillate in radial orbits. The radius of a shell depends on the free-fall time at the position of the shell and on the time since the merger. We previously verified the consistency of shell radii in the elliptical galaxy NGC 3923 with its most probable MOND potential. Our results implied that an as yet undiscovered shell exists at the outskirts of the galaxy. Aims. We here extend our study by assuming more general models for the gravitational potential to verify the prediction of the new shell and to estimate its position. Methods. We tested the consistency of the shell radial distribution observed in NGC 3923 with a wide variety of MOND potentials of the galaxy. The potentials differed in the mass-to-light ratio and in distance to the galaxy. We considered different MOND interpolation functions, values of the acceleration constant a(0), and density profiles of the galaxy. We verified the functionality of our code on a Newtonian self-consistent simulation of the formation of a shell galaxy. Results. Our method reliably predicts that exactly one new outermost shell exists at a galactocentric radius of about 1900 '' (similar to 210 kpc) on the southwestern side of the galaxy. Its estimated surface brightness is about 28 mag arcsec(-2) in B - a value accessible by current instruments. This prediction enables a rare test of MOND in an elliptical down to an acceleration of a(0)/10. The predictive power of our method is verified by reconstructing the position of the largest known shell from the distribution of the remaining shells.
2 C 3 Exoenzyme from Clostridium Botulinum 2 . 1 C 3 Exoenzyme as Virulence Factor

Clostridium botulinum C3 is the prototype of C3-like ADP-ribosyltransferases that selectively ADP-ribosylate the small GTP-binding proteins RhoA/B/C and inhibit their downstream signaling pathways. It is used as pharmacological tool to study cellular Rho functions. In addition, C3bot harbors a transferase-independent activity on neurons to promote axonal and dendritic growth and branching. Many bacterial protein toxins interact specifically with proteins and/or other membrane components at the surface of target cells. Binding enables access to the appropriate cellular compartment so that the knowledge of the receptor allows essential insight into the mechanism of these toxins. Unlike other bacterial protein toxins (such as the clostridial C1 and C2 toxins from C. botulinum), C3 exoenzyme is devoid of a binding and translocation domain, with which toxins usually initiate receptor-mediated endocytosis followed by access to the intact cell. To date, no specific mechanism for internalization of C3 exoenzyme has been identified. Recently, vimentin was identified as membranous C3-binding partner involved in binding and uptake of C3. Although vimentin is not detected in neurons, vimentin is re-expressed after damage in regenerating neurons. Reappearance of vimentin allows C3 to get access to lesioned neurons/axons to exhibit axonotrophic and dentritotrophic effects.
Innovation – What and Why ?

Innovation has become one of the most important and effective ways of obtaining and sustaining competitive dominance in the market place over the past number of years. No longer can organisation depend the traditional performance metrics such as quality and efficiency in order to gain advantage over their competitors. This is true not only for large enterprises but also for small to medium enterprises. Innovation has traditionally been seen as key for those large enterprises that have money to invest and can afford to take risky investments. However, innovation plays an important role for the small to medium enterprises as the large companies often outsource many of their sub processes to them such as manufacturing. The main contribution of this paper offers a discussion of innovation management and collaboration; the paper will present the key differences between large enterprises and small to medium enterprises in relation to the innovation process; finally the paper will aim to identify areas of future research around this area that will contribute to the future competitive advantage of Irish SME’s in the national and international market place.
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Published Ahead of Print 21 March 2014. 10.1128/AEM.00306-14. 2014, 80(11):3350. DOI: Appl. Environ. Microbiol. and Dirk Springael Roelof van der Meer, René De Mot, Pierre-Joseph Vaysse Tekle Tafese Fida, Philip Breugelmans, Rob Lavigne, Jan Novosphingobium sp. Strain LH128 Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium Soil, in the Polycyclic Aromatic Solute Stress Mitigation and Survival in , a Gene Involved in opsA Identification of
Patellofemoral Joint Long-term Results After Hyaluronan-based MACT for the Treatment of Cartilage Lesions of the

http://ajs.sagepub. com/content/early/2016/01/08/0363546515620194 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0363546515620194 published online January 11, 2016 Am J Sports Med Maurilio Marcacci Elizaveta Kon, Giuseppe Filardo, Alberto Gobbi, Massimo Berruto, Luca Andriolo, Paolo Ferrua, Ilaria Crespiatico and Patellofemoral Joint Long-term Results After Hyaluronan-based MACT for the Treatment of Cartilage Lesions of the
Infrared Extinction Properties of Nanostructured and Conventional Particles

Brass flakes and carbon-based particulates are effective obscurants in the infrared (IR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum; however, they are toxic and can cause respiratory problems and environmental concerns. There is a need to develop or identify nontoxic IR obscurants. This research was conducted to determine the potential of nanostructured particles as IR obscurants. Three commercial nanostructured particles were compared with two conventional particles and common obscurants. Experiments involved dispersing a known mass of particles into a particle chamber and measuring the IR transmission through the chamber with a Fourier transform infrared analyzer and the mass concentration with filter samplers. The size distribution of the aerosolized particles was also measured with an aerodynamic particle sizer spectrometer. From the measured data, the mean values of the mass extinction coefficient, σm, and volume extinction coefficient, σv, for the spectral bands of interest (i.e., 3–5 μm and 8–12 μm) were calculated. Results showed that ISO fine test dust, NaHCO3 and NanoActive TiO2 (for 3–5 μm) appeared to be the most promising alternatives to brass or graphite flakes. By manipulating the size and/or morphology of these particles, it might be possible to enhance their IR extinction performance.
Analysis of Time-Resolved Tunnel Current Signal in Sub-Picosecond Range Observed by Shaken-Pulse-Pair-Excited Scanning Tunneling Miscroscopy

The data analysis procedure for the time-resolved tunnel current signal obtained by the shaken-pulse-pair method was studied. The fitting function composed of a step function and two double exponential functions that decay from delay time zero towards negative and positive infinities, respectively, reproduced the experimental data. In the analysis, the effects of the interference of the two pulses in a pulse pair, the finite width of impinging pulses, the amplitude of the delay time modulation and the lock-in time constant were considered, for obtaining accurate decay parameters.
The global oceanic freshwater cycle : a state-of-the-art quantification

Author Posting. © Sears Foundation for Marine Research, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of Sears Foundation for Marine Research for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Marine Research 68 (2010): 569-595, doi:10.1357/002224010794657164.
Physical Layer Security in HARQ-Assisted Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks

This paper investigates physical layer security (PLS) in hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where a security-required user is paired with a quality of service (QoS)-required user to perform NOMA in presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). We derive the closed-form expressions for connection outage probability (COP) of security-required and QoS-required users. In addition, the closed-form expressions for secrecy outage probability (SOP) secrecy transmission probability (RSP), and effective secrecy throughput (EST) of security-required user are also derived. Although the expression of SOP demonstrates that HARQ increases the risk of leaking confidential message to eavesdropper (Eve), however, from the perspective of Eve and security-required user, secrecy performance improves significantly, in terms of EST and RSP, when applying HARQ.
Component- based Capture & Replay vs. Visual GUI Testing: en Empirical Comparison in Industry

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are becoming an essential part of all software, which presents new challenges for high-level testing, i.e. GUI based system and acceptance testing. Currently, these tests are primarily performed through manual practices that are associated with problems such as high cost, tediousness and error proneness. These problems have been proposed to be solvable with automated testing techniques. However, support for automated high-level testing is still limited as Component-based Capture & Replay (CC&R), the most commonly used automated GUI based testing technique in industry today, suffers from various limitations that affect its usability, robustness and foremost maintainability, which leads to higher costs. However, Visual GUI Testing (VGT), a novel technique with promising characteristics such as high script robustness, has therefore been proposed as a more suitable technique in industrial practice than its predecessor CC&R. However, the body of knowledge regarding the VGT technique's applicability is limited in regards to the technique's maintenance cost and robustness. This thesis will present an empirical comparison in industry between CC&R and VGT. The goal of the thesis is to compare the two techniques in an industrial context and to further bridge the gap in empirical knowledge concerning the VGT technique's long term applicability in industrial practice. The thesis work was conducted at CompanyX, which develops schedule and long term planning systems for the avionics industry and was conducted in two phases. The first phase was a pre-study with the goal of determining the industrial context of CompanyX. The second phase was an industrial study performed with a quasi-experimental design which compared and evaluated the two testing techniques, in terms of development cost, maintenance cost and robustness. The results from this thesis work showed that there exists a statistically significant difference between the techniques in terms of development costs and robustness. However, the results showed that there was no statistical difference between the techniques' maintenance costs. Furthermore, both techniques were found to be applicable in industry and are powerful techniques for automated GUI based testing. However, the techniques have different benefits and drawbacks in different contexts, which indicates that a combination of the techniques would be the most beneficial. Further research is however required to verify this claim.
Radiative and convective heat transfer in microelectronics by B

This paper presents numerical and experimental results of heat transfer by radiation, convection and conduction in hybrid microelectronic circuits. We chose a heat source with a non-uniform temperature distribution, which agrees with typical cases frequently met in electronics. In this work we evaluate a complex heat transfer coefficient including the non-linear phenomenon for radiative and convective heat dissipation. We apply thermography to confirm the correctness of the simulation.
Structure Analysis and Application of Big Data from the Energy Internet in Laogang Solid Waste Recycling Base

Laogang solid waste recycling base is the main place of Shanghai’s domestic waste disposal, including all kinds of electricity, heat, gas energy and load. On the basis of the independent operation of multi-energy networks, such as electricity, heat and gas, the construction of energy internet with electricity as the core and the comprehensive utilization of various energy sources have been constructed. Through the intelligent monitoring device installed in Laogang base, the real-time monitoring of the energy data including electricity, heat and gas is completed, and the concrete calculation algorithm of the big data is analyzed. Meanwhile the analysis and the application of the data are displayed.
An Ant Learning Algorithm for Accelerometer-based Gesture Recognition

Today’s emerging gesture recognition techniques have enriched the ways of human machine interaction. With the popularity of smart devices such as iPhone and iPod Touch, accelerometer-based gesture recognition for facilitating such interactions is becoming even more pervasive and promising. Accelerometer-based gesture recognition systems have been extensively discussed in many previous related work. Currently, there are several techniques being applied for recognizing gestures, most well-known algorithms are Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). However, they do have shortcomings: 1) HMM requires a sizeable amount of training data, and suffers from the high computational overhead for both training and classification. 2) The processing time of DTW depends on both the length and number of templates. In this thesis, we introduce a novel gesture recognition algorithm named the Ant Learning Algorithm (ALA), which aims at addressing some of the limitations with the currently two leading algorithms, especially HMM. It takes advantage of the pheromone mechanism from ant colony optimization and uses pheromone tables to represent gestures, which scales well with gesture complexity. ALA requires minimal training instances and greatly reduces the computational overhead required by both training and classification. The experimental results show that ALA can achieve a high recognition accuracy of over 90% with only one training instance and exhibits good generalization.
Light-Weight Recurrent Deep Learning Algorithm for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

Energy management is one of the latest advances in the field of smart home technologies. Finding a way to save energy will help us to save money and reduce the emission of CO2 to the atmosphere, therefore preserving our environment. This study presents an improved architecture of long-short term meory (LSTM) to disaggregate individual appliance power signals from the overall power consumption of whole house. In order to reduce the training time, the proposed model has less parameters while the accuracy of estimation maintains the same or above that of the original LSTM model. The proposed deep learning structure has been tested on IAWE dataset. Experimental results show that relative error, mean absolute error and executing time have improved compared to the original LSTM structure.
Dual Vector Control Strategy for a Three-Stage Hybrid Cascaded Multilevel Inverter

This paper presents a voltage control algorithm for a hybrid multilevel inverter based on a staged-perception of the inverter voltage vector diagram. The algorithm is applied to control a three-stage eighteen-level hybrid inverter, which has been designed with a maximum number of symmetrical levels. The inverter has a two-level main stage built using a conventional six-switch inverter and medium- and low- voltage three-level stages constructed using cascaded H-bridge cells. The distinctive feature of the proposed algorithm is its ability to avoid the undesirable high switching frequency for high- and medium- voltage stages despite the fact that the inverter’s dc sources voltages are selected to maximize the number of levels by state redundancy elimination. The high- and medium- voltage stages switching algorithms have been developed to assure fundamental switching frequency operation of the high voltage stage and not more than few times this frequency for the medium voltage stage. The low voltage stage is controlled using a SVPWM to achieve the reference voltage vector exactly and to set the order of the dominant harmonics. The inverter has been constructed and the control algorithm has been implemented. Test results show that the proposed algorithm achieves the desired features and all of the major hypotheses have been verified.
Understanding the effects of temporal energy-data aggregation on clustering quality

Abstract Energy data often is available at high temporal resolution, which challenges the scalability of data-analysis methods. A common way to cope with this is to aggregate data to, say, 15-minute-interval summaries. But it often is not known how much information is lost with this, i. e. , how good analysis results on aggregated data actually are. In this article, we study the effects of aggregating energy data on clustering. We propose an experimental design to compare a wide range of clustering methods found in literature. We then introduce different ways to compare clustering results obtained with different aggregation schemes. Our evaluation shows that aggregation affects the clustering quality significantly. Finally, we propose guidelines to select an aggregation scheme.
Crustacean shell bio-refining to chitin by natural deep eutectic solvents

Abstract This study provides a complete evaluation of a sustainable zero-waste process for the recovery of added value biomaterials from the abundant shrimp shell biomass waste using natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES). The process parameters for the fractionation of α-chitin, minerals and protein was followed using on-line measurements. Furthermore, the quantitative analysis of isolated chitin, minerals and solvent waste streams were examined. The dominant fractionation mechanisms are explained through the analysis of the liquid and solid fractions. Four of the most promising, and commercially available, NADES consisting on mixtures of Choline Chloride-Lactic Acid (CCLA), Choline Chloride-Malonic Acid (CCMA), Choline Chloride-Urea (CCUR) and Choline Chloride-Citric Acid (CCCA), were tested. The highest chitin extraction yield obtained was < 90% using CCLA, leading to purity higher than 98%. Moreover, it is possible to recycle this particular NADES several times, while having no loss in the shrimp shell fractionation capability.
Design of Easter Island Energy Supply by Renewable Energy Sources

Supplying energy to isolated places is the main issue due to the geographical location, which in this case study is the Easter Island. Fossil fuels are the main sources of the energy demand in the island. This paper has considered several local energy sources in order to take advantage of them. A design proposal has been developed, and simulations have also been carried out to estimate energy savings of the island, with future energy demand forecasting as well.
FPGA Based Short-Range Targets Detection System with FMCW Radar

Aiming at the problem that there exists distance blind area for traditional pulsed radar so as to it cannot realize the detection of targets within short range. A solution based on the frequency-modulated continuous wave system is proposed to meet the demand of short-range targets detection. By adopting the zero intermediate frequency receiving scheme, using the transceiver split antennas, and with the frequency modulation continuous wave, the blind area ranging from Om to 150m is effectively achieved. In this paper, the principle of short-range targets detection is given and the signal processing process of FMCW radar implemented by FPGA with limited resources is emphatically introduced. The results of simulation and field test verify the feasibility of our system solution.
The Effectiveness of Teaching a Life Skills Program in a Sport Context

It is generally accepted that sport programs are among the most popular activities for boys and girls. Recent evidence suggests that participation in organized sport programs has increased significantly (Ewing & Seefeldt, 2002), and, for this reason, youth sport programs represent a significant socialization opportunity. It is no surprise then, that there have been recent calls asking for closer scrutiny to be paid to these programs as well as for additional energy devoted to their improvement (Danish, 2000; Larson, 2000). Although several authors have acknowledged that participation in sports may have the potential to enhance personal development (e.g., Danish, Petitpas, & Hale, 1992; Smoll & Smith, 2002), there is nothing about sport itself that is magical. Being on the field or the court does not contribute to positive youth development. It is the experience of sport that may facilitate this result. Researchers who have studied the effects of participation in sport have found both positive and negative effects (Mahoney & Stattin, 2000; Strean & Garcia Bengoechea, 2001). Mahoney and Stattin (2000) found that the structure and context of the activity was important in determining whether participation led to positive or negative outcomes. Strean and Garcia Bengoechea (2001) found that it was the individual’s experience of sport that determined whether participation was viewed as positive or negative. Therefore, it is probably not the mere participation in sport that enhances positive development but the individual’s experience in sport that may be the critical factor. For personal growth to be realized, youth sport programs must be developed with this goal in mind. We must emphasize the valuable skills and attitudes
Performance Enhancement of Modified Multiband Stacked Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Communication

This paper proposes a modified multilayer Aperture Coupled Stacked Microstrip patch antenna. The multiband Circular Polarization is achieved by corner truncation, embedding slits and introducing inclined slots. A good quality Circular Polarisation performance is achieved by varying the size of the inclined slots and four corner truncations. In the third layer, additional central sphere is introduced providing wide bandwidth. Optimization is achieved by variation of the patch parameters. Finally, a comparison is made with respect to the number of layers of the antenna. The proposed design provides good results with three layers, achieving optimization. The Stacked Patch antenna provides better mobility, better orientation between the transmitter and receiver than the Linearly Polarized Antenna. The Satellite Communication performs better in C band (4-8) GHz and in X band (8-12) GHz than in Ku band (12-18) GHz. The objective is to obtain low axial ratio at the desired frequencies.