Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fast vehicle detection using orientation histogram and segmented line projection

Fast detection of moving vehicle is essential for autonomous driving. In this paper we propose fast vehicle classification algorithm for autonomous vehicle using orientation histogram and segmented line projection, and also works well with in urban environment. The rapidness of our approach stems from the sequential laser data processing and orientation histogram techniques. Whereas accurate classification of point cloud into vehicle object is done in a 2D grid with segmented line projection. Experimental results show verification on data from outdoor scenes acquired from our electrical vehicle equipped with 2D laser scanners.
Significance of alpha brainwaves in meditation examined from the study of binaural beats

Human brain contains of approximately 100 billion neurons. Each neuron communicates with few ten thousands of other neurons in order to carry messages in the brain. Significant electrical activity is produced in the brain over synaptic joints of such neurons sending signals at very low frequencies below (50 Hz), thereby forming the brainwave pattern. The brainwaves are categorized as delta, theta, alpha and beta, as per different frequency ranges. In this paper, the effect of binaural beats on human mind is presented. Alpha binaural beats of 10 Hz are produced by creating the auditory illusion of 10 Hz in the brain by playing the binaural beats of 370 Hz and 380 Hz for left and right ear respectively. Binaural beats are effective only when heard through an earphone. In order to examine the effects of binaural beats on human brain, 10 people are subjected to these beats for 3 minutes. Using Matlab, the attention level and meditation levels are measured by alpha brainwaves, and the comparison graphs are plotted. Relative comparison is carried out for each persons state while listening to the binaural beats. This study provides scientific evidences for the common perception that alpha binaural beats and thus music can help a person in achieving a relaxed state of mind i.e., meditative state in a better way.
Standardization of References using Hidden Markov Model

Standardization of R eferences using H idden M arkov M odel by Swamynathan Sam bam urthy Dr. Kazem Taghva, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Computer Science University of Nevada, Las Vegas In general, technical papers are augmented with a list of bibliographic citations to support the arguments and the merits o f the approach presented. Each and every citation is made up of parts like author. Journal, volume, book etc. Extracting the parts of the citation from a written document and properly separating into its parts is the problem that is being addressed in this thesis. We use an Information Extraction (IE) technique based on Hidden Markov Model (HM M ) to solve this problem. This solution consists of the design of an H M M , the training of the HM M with tagged data, and an implementation of Forward Chaining algorithm for extraction of citation parts. Our test on a collection of J50 citations has recall and precision of 0.8 and 0.81 respectively.
Evaluating the use of twitter as a tool to increase engagement in medical education

Background: Social media is regularly used by undergraduate students. Twitter has a constant feed to the most current research, news and opinions of experts as well as organisations. Limited evidence exists that examines how to use social media platforms, such as Twitter, effectively in medical education. Furthermore, there is limited evidence to inform educators regarding social media's potential to increase student interaction and engagement. Aim: To evaluate whether social media, in particular Twitter, can be successfully used as a pedagogical tool in an assessment to increase student engagement with staff, peers and course content. Methods: First year biomedical science students at Monash University completing a core public health unit were recruited into the study. Twitter-related activities were incorporated into the semester long unit and aligned with both formative and summative assessments. Students completed a structured questionnaire detailing previous use of social media and attitudes towards its use in education post engagement in the Twitter-specific activities. Likert scale responses compared those who participated in the Twitter activities with those who did not using student's t-test. Results: A total of 236 (79.4%) of invited students participated in the study. Among 90% of students who reported previous use of social media, 87.2% reported using Facebook, while only 13.1% reported previous use of Twitter. Social media was accessed most commonly through a mobile device (49.1%). Students actively engaging in Twitter activities had significantly higher end-of-semester grades compared with those who did not [Mean Difference (MD) = 3.98, 95% CI 0.40, 7.55]. Students perceived that the use of Twitter enabled greater accessibility to staff, was a unique method of promoting public health, and facilitated collaboration with peers. Discussion: Use of social media as an additional, or alternate, teaching intervention is positively supported by students. Specific use of micro-blogs such as Twitter can promote greater student-staff engagement by developing an ongoing academic conversation.
Some invariant properties of a geographically structured finite population: distribution of heterozygotes under irreversible mutation.

It is shown that the distribution of the sum of heterozygotes, due to mutant gene(s), that appear in a finite population is invariant under geographical structure, provided that the mutant gene has additive effect on fitness and migration does not change the genetic constitution as a whole population. The expected number of heterozygotes is 2 N when Ns = 0 and gradually rises to 4 N as Ns increases provided s remains small, where N = the total population size and s = selective advantage of a mutant gene. The distribution of the heterozygosity summed over those generations in which the gene frequency in the entire population is specified, is also shown to be invariant. In the case of a neutral mutant, the density is equal to 4(1 − Y ) where Y is the frequency of the mutant in the whole population, and in the selectively advantageous case, it is approximately equal to a constant function 4, provided that the population size times selection coefficient is sufficiently large. These quantities conditional on the fixation of the mutant are shown to be invariant and some special cases are obtained explicitly.
On the diets of calanoid copepods

A review of the literature (ca 1900 to 1992) on copepod feeding indicates that combinations of stochashc and deterministic processes result in behaviors, or feeding strategies, that optirnize nutritional gain from the food environment, and further, that strategies change in response to environmental variability. Because the diet is the product of a feeding strategy, one may gain insight into the ways in which copepods respond to their food environments by measuring their diets. Investigations of the hnks between copepod feeding and production suggest that dietary diversity is often a key to the procurement of a nutritionally complete ration, and the optimization of secondary production within constraints dictated by the physical environment. The ability to eat different kinds of foods (ornnivory) and the tendency to include a variety of foods in the daily ration may enhance the probabhty of obtaining a nutritionally complete ration in variable, nutritionally dilute, food environments. The notion that the relationshp between feeding and production in copepods is driven by clletary diversity is derived in part from a recent recognition of the diversity of microplanktonic organisms that potentially or actually contribute to the diet. Further, the concept is consistent with current trophic dynamic models in which food webs are envisioned as complex interwoven systems rather than short, simple chains.
Game-changing opportunities for wireless personal healthcare and lifestyle

In recent years, Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory healthcare have become more than just buzzwords. Silicon is playing an important enabling role in this gradual, but certain revolution of our healthcare system: Silicon will become more essential, in view of the many challenges in realizing ubiquitous monitoring, real-time diagnostics, and patient-centric therapies. By reviewing world-wide technology breakthroughs, as well as healthcare-related trials with wireless sensors in Body-Area-Network (BAN) configurations, we will demonstrate that application validation for personal diagnostics and theranostic products is driving game-changing circuit and system innovation. Visionary applications such as brain-computer interfaces sound like magic! However, with every new generation of technology and application algorithms, wearable wireless systems become less obtrusive, higher performing, and more autonomous. The envisaged large-scale deployment of wearable healthcare and lifestyle add-ons that can monitor systemic factors such as stress and emotions, will revolutionize how we live, play, and work. But, none of these developments is heralding a “Brave New World” instead, they will foster and strengthen the role and impact of each individual along the path to a longer, healthier and happier life.
Loyalty Myths Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out Of Businessand Proven Tactics That Really Work

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Specialty Store and Multi-Brand Store loyalty: An Indian consumer perspective

In the competitive era of retailing, retailers need to understand the importance of store format preferences. The study aimed to understand consumer store loyalty; in-depth interview was conducted to examine consumer store loyalty antecedents for two retail formats: specialty stores and multi brand stores. The study conceptualizes store loyalty factors like program loyalty, trust and brand commitment. Trust and brand commitment act as mediating factors between store image and store loyalty formats, and also between brand image and store loyalty formats. The findings highlight how consumer store loyalty preference differ for these two formats. Keywords: brand image, brand commitment, program loyalty, retail store loyalty, store image, trust.
Thrombocytopenia in HIV-infected and uninfected hemophiliacs. Multicenter Hemophilia Cohort study.

To determine the incidence and prognostic significance of thrombocytopenia among hemophiliacs, we analyzed clinical and hematologic data from the Multicenter Hemophilia Cohort study. Nineteen percent of HIV-infected subjects had thrombocytopenia (platelet count of <100,000/mm3) noted at least once, compared to 3% of HIV-uninfected subjects. For HIV-infected subjects, the prevalence of thrombocytopenia rose in the first 5 years after seroconversion and was twice as common in subjects age >35 years compared to younger subjects. The risk increased after an AIDS-defining illness, particularly among older subjects, nearly one-half of whom had thrombocytopenia within 1 year after AIDS. When adjusted for age and CD4-positive lymphocyte counts, thrombocytopenia was associated with an increased risk of death [relative risk (RR) 1.7, 95%CI = 1.2-2.3] but with little change in the risk of progression to AIDS (RR = 1.2, 95%CI = 0.8-1.7). Treatment with zidovudine was associated with a decreased risk of thrombocytopenia (RR = 0.5, 95%CI = 0.3-0.7). Although 59 HIV-infected subjects died of hemorrhage, only 11 (19%) of the 59 had a reported platelet count of <50,000/mm3, and only 2 (3%) of the deaths were temporally associated with thrombocytopenia. Thus, the risk of death was increased for thrombocytopenic HIV-infected hemophiliacs but this was not explained by an increased risk of developing AIDS and was rarely associated with death from bleeding.
A Model for Transport across the Tropical Tropopause.

A model of convective and advective transport across the tropical tropopause is described. In this model overshooting convective turrets inject dehydrated tropospheric air into a tropical ‘‘tropopause layer’’ (TTL) bounded approximately by the 50- and 150-hPa surfaces, a layer similar to the ‘‘entrainment zone’’ at the top of the planetary boundary layer. The overshooting process occurs only in limited regions. In the TTL, mixtures of overshooting and ambient air undergo buoyancy-driven settling, then slowly loft through the TTL and eventually enter the main stratosphere throughout the Tropics. It is found that for reasonable parameter settings the combined action of convection, isentropic mixing, and advection by the large-scale circulation in the model can produce realistic water vapor and ozone profiles while balancing the energy budget. Some of the observed peculiarities that can be simulated are (i) the widespread absence of vapor saturation at the tropopause despite tropical mean upward motion, (ii) an ozone minimum below the mean tropopause, and (iii) the typical location of stratiform cloud tops below the mean tropopause. In contrast to inferences from typical ‘‘cold trap’’ models, the relative humidity of air crossing the tropopause is found to be sensitive to ice microphysics.
Sustainability Reporting by U.S. Cities: A Review of Practice and Theory

This paper examines the state of sustainability reporting by local U. S. governments within the context of three frequently cited voluntary disclosure theories. Referencing the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting guidelines, 69 graduate accounting students evaluated 60 U.S. local governments’ sustainability reports. The results provide evidence that local U. S. governments do not meet the minimum GRI reporting guidelines or provide for transparency in reporting.
Contrast-enhanced thoracic 3D-MR angiography in infants and children.

PURPOSE To optimise breath-hold contrast-enhanced MR angiography (MRA) in infants and children with suspected congenital heart or thoracic vessel malformation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty-nine children (median age 1 year) were examined, using five different ultrafast MRA sequences with a TR between 3.2 and 5.0 ms and the contrast agent meglumine gadoterate. A test injection was used to determine contrast travel time. Different parameters for contrast injection were evaluated. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measurements were performed and image quality and injection timing were evaluated. RESULTS MRA was successful in all patients and image quality was considered very good in 52%. Adequate SNR was achieved with no significant differences between the MR sequences. SNR decreased only 25-30% between subsequent scans. The mean contrast dose was 0.23 mmol/kg. The mean scan time was 12.5 +/- 3.8 s; the shorter scan times made dynamic examinations possible with high temporal resolution. Highest spatial resolution was obtained with TR 4.6/5.0 sequences. CONCLUSION A contrast dose of 0.2 mmol/kg b.w. is recommended with an injection rate of 0.5 to 1.2 ml/s, depending on patient size and scan time. The scan delay time should equal the contrast travel time for optimal vessel enhancement. In the future, contrast-enhanced MRA may be a potential alternative to angiocardiography in infants and children.
HCV screening practices and prevalence in an MCO, 2000-2007.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine screening for the hepatitis C virus antibody (anti- HCV) among persons most likely to be infected. Little is known about anti-HCV screening and prevalence in routine practice settings. We studied anti-HCV screening rates, anti-HCV positivity, and demographic and risk factors associated with increased likelihood of anti-HCV screening or positivity in a managed care organization (MCO). METHODS This was a retrospective observational study of 17-to-74-year-old MCO enrollees from 2000 to 2007 (N = 557,056; 1,949,499 enrollee years). The primary outcome measures were likelihood of anti-HCV screening and HCV positivity (both in the total population and among those screened). Independent variables were: birth cohort, gender, HCV risk factors, and socioeconomic status (SES) and race of residents' neighborhoods. Likelihood of each outcome as a function of the independent variables was estimated using logistic regression. RESULTS Over the 8-year period, 4.31% of the total population received anti-HCV screening; 0.22% had a positive HCV result. Among those screened, HCV positivity was 5.15%. HCV screening and positivity rates increased over time. Both likelihood of HCV screening and HCV positivity were highest (P <0.05) among persons born during 1945-1964, males, those with HCV risk factors, and residents of neighborhoods of lower SES or with higher percentages of African Americans. CONCLUSIONS Although HCV screening and detection improved in this MCO over an 8-year period, anti-HCV screening was lower than expected. Many persons at risk for HCV remained unscreened. Strategies for improving anti-HCV screening in routine practice are recommended for patients at increased risk.
Mechanisms by which Activated Macrophages Inhibit Lymphocyte Responses

During the past decade it has become apparent that macrophages are not just passive carriers of antigen to lymphocytes. Macrophages and macrophage products stimulate responses of Tand B-lymphocytes in vitro (van Furth 1975, Rosenthal 1975, Nelson 1976). However, when macrophages are present in supraoptimal numbers they can inhibit immune responses. This has been shown for primary antibody production ia culture (Perkins & Makinodan 1965, Parkhouse & Dutton 1966, Diener et al. 1970); mitogen induced polyclonal Bor T-lymphocyte responses (Folch & Waksman 1973, Waldman & Gottlieb 1973, Bakd & Kaplan 1977); mixed lymphocyte reactions (Fembach et al. 1976, Oehler et al. 1977); and the generation of cells cytotoxic for tumour cells and allogeneic lymphocytes (Kxmg et al. 1977, Weiss & Fitch 1977). These inhibitory effects of macrophages are non-specific in the sense that they are exerted against a variety of Tand B-ljnmphocyte responses to antigens and mitogens. However, the functional state of macrophages affects both their ability to increase and to suppress immune responses. As pointed out previously (Allison & Davies 1975), macrophages can be activated in several ways to produce a variety of responses, defined in biochemical or functional terms. These are not always equivalent, so that is necessary in each case to define the activating agent used and the responses measured. Macrophage-activating agents include various organisms producing infectious diseases, some of which act as polyclonal mitogens and some as immunosuppressive agents. Many adjuvants exert their primary effects on macrophages. Often the immunopotentiating and immunosuppres-
Correlation between Reduced Daptomycin Susceptibility and Vancomycin Resistance in Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus

ABSTRACT We present here findings of a strong positive correlation between reduced daptomycin susceptibility and vancomycin resistance in vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA). This correlation is related to cell wall thickening, suggesting that, similar to the case with vancomycin resistance in VISA, the physical barrier of a thickened cell wall may contribute to daptomycin resistance in S. aureus.
THE EFFECT ON TRUST TO ORGANIZATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT VIOLATION

Psychological contract is non-physical agreement is in addition to economic agreements on wages and working conditions. Employees assure to work, and loyalty with this non-physical treaty and they expect safety, respectful relationship, better status. The definition of trust weaved in this research is the willingness of a party to be defenseless to the actions of another party relied on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability to show or control that other party (Mayer, Davis ve Schoorman, 1995; Schoorman, ve Davis, 2007). The aim of this study is to determine the public employees working in Eskisehir the effect on trust to organization and their psychological contract violation. In this study, approximately 120 public employees working in Eskisehir survey be conducted. In this study, survey questions will emanate psychological contract violation scale made by Robinson and Rousseau (1994), organizational trust scale is Nyhan and Marlow (1997). According to the results found that the trust of the employees and the administrators decreases when the employees have violated the psychological contract.
TRANSFORMATION OF BACTERIA INTO L FORMS BY AMINO ACIDS,

the alkaline growth of a few nonlactose fermenting cultures (probably those related to Escherichia) became green when suspended in the bromthymol blue solution. Many methods were tried for studying this phenomenon: rapid transfer of young cultures to reduce the amount of hydrogen ions carried over from the previous growth; addition of buffer to the culture medium; variations in the bromthymol solution, in an effort to control diffusion of the intracellular hydroxyl ions; microscopic examination of the cells under different conditions; applying the bromthymol blue solution in a "Chapman cup" (J. Bact., 63, 147, 1952); resuspension of centrifuged packed cells; and treatment of ultrafiltered cells. Obviously the cells can be washed only in a solution which does not cause diffusion of the intracellular hydroxyl ions. The simplest method was found to be as follows: spread the growth on the surface of a plate of tergitol-7 agar and incubate up to 6 hours at 37 C. Collect a loopful of the growth and emulsify it in 0.5 ml of 0.01 per cent bromthymol blue adjusted to its pK value. Shake gently and examine after standing a few minutes. Cultures which have an intracellular acid reaction are green; those with an alkaline reaction are blue. The results depend on the balance between the intraand extracellular H and OH ions.
Student incentives: More than a free condom

The University of Greenwich used to charge a £50 fine if a student failed to register before a certain deadline. Would this £50 ‘fine’ for late registration be more effective if it was changed to a £50 ‘bonus’ for early registration? Besides a possible increase in efficiency, could this small change bring about increased happiness both for staff, who become bonus-givers rather than fine-imposers, and students, who are confronted with pleasing bonuses rather than fines and harsh language? Simply, by reframing the proposition, we may get a very different response, as argued by Thaler and Sunstein (2008).