Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Unveiling the temporal dynamics in multi-longitudinal mode ytterbium-doped fiber lasers

In this work, we propose a unified spatio-temporal model to study the temporal dynamics in continuously pumped ytterbium-doped fiber lasers (YDFLs). Different from previously reported theories, this model is capable of obtaining the temporal evolution of an YDFL from relaxation oscillation region to relative stable region in different time scales ranging from sub-nanosecond to millisecond. It reveals that there exists dual time scale characteristics in the temporal evolution of a multi-longitudinal mode YDFL. Specifically, the temporal evolution would experience sharp change during one cavity round-trip while keep relatively stable between adjacent cavity round-trips. Representative cases are simulated to study the influences of structure parameters on the temporal dynamics and the longitudinal mode characteristics in YDFLs. Three types of temporal instabilities, i.e. sustained self-pulsing, self-mode locking, and turbulence-like pulsing, coexist in a multi-longitudinal mode YDFL. The simulation results clarify that the three temporal instabilities are all the reflectors of intrinsic characteristics of longitudinal modes superposition in multi-longitudinal mode YDFLs. In addition, the strength of the irregular sustained self-pulsing is the major issue which impacts the macroscopic temporal fluctuations in YDFLs.
The Comparisons of TOPSIS and AHP Method to Location Selected of Grass Flower Warehouse in Chiang Rai Province

The Comparisons of TOPSIS and AHP Method to Location Selected of Grass Flower Warehouse in Chiang Rai Province Martusorn Khangkhan 1 and Apichat Sopadang 2* 1,2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University 239 Huay Kaew Road, Muang District, Chiang Mai ,Thailand 50200 Email: martusorn2533@hotmail.com 1, apichat@eng.cmu. ac.th 2 Tel: 053-944125 Fax: 053-944185 E-mail: martusorn2533@hotmail.com Abstract This is an instruction for a manuscript preparation for the IE Network Conference. Please follow this guideline strictly as it would appear in the proceeding without retouching. An abstract should contain a single paragraph and its length should not exceed 25 lines. It should include a concise statement of objectives and a summary of important results. The purpose of this paper is to select warehouse location of grass flowers in Chiang Rai province comparing of two techniques Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) between the two techniques for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). For selected of grass flowers location warehouse in Chiang Rai Province. The entrepreneurs of grass flowers trading need to increase warehouse building to meet customer satisfaction. Thus, this paper is to surveyed 7 criteria of the entrepreneurs consist of size of property, property cost, labor cost, public utility, mode of transportation, ability to access of location and distance from supplier and investigated locating in 4 districts using conjunctive constrain method to screen the alternative consist of Mae Jan district, Mae Sai district, Chiang Saen district and Chiang Khong district were used to selection. The decisions making of location selection used by TOPSIS and AHP, the result of this comparison found that Tambon Pa Sang, Mae Chan district is appropriate located for building grass flowers warehouse in Chiang Rai province.
Decentralized Cooperative Communication-less Multi-Agent Task Assignment with Monte-Carlo Tree Search

Cooperative task assignment is an important subject in multi-agent systems with a wide range of applications. These systems are usually designed with massive communication among the agents to minimize the error in pursuit of the general goal of the entire system. In this work, we propose a novel approach for Decentralized Cooperative Communication-less Multi-Agent Task Assignment (DCCMATA) employing Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). Here, each agent can assign the optimal task by itself for itself. We design the system to automatically maximize the success rate, achieving the collective goal effectively. To put it another way, the agents optimally compute each following step, only by knowing the current location of other agents, with no additional communication overhead. In contrast with the previously proposed methods which rely on the task assignment procedure for similar problems, we describe a method in which the agents move towards the collective goal. This may lead to scenarios where some agents not necessarily move towards the closest goal. However, the total efficiency (makespan) and effectiveness (success ratio) in these cases are significantly improved. To evaluate our approach, we have tested the algorithm with a wide range of parameters(agents, size, goal). Our implementation completely solves (Success Rate = %100) a 20*20 grid with 20 goals by 20 agents in 7.9 s runtime for each agent. Also, the proposed algorithm runs with the complexity of O(N^2I^2 + IN^4), where the I and N are the MCTS iterative index and grid size, respectively.
Epidemiology of Cutaneous Candidiasis among Patients Attending Tikrit Teaching Hospital

Rafal K.Farhan *, Thekra Ahmed* & Saad I. Mohammad**. *Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Tikrit University. **College of Health & Medical Technologies, Middle Technical University. Abstract Background: Cutaneous candidiasis is a term of infection by candida yeast. it involves skin in anywhere of the body, but most often occurs in warm, moist, creased areas such as under breast in women , buttock region in babies, armpits , groins and between fingers. Cutaneous candidiasis are more common in newborn and elderly. Risk of infection occur in people who are diabetic mellitus, antibiotics use, steroid treatment & chemotherapy. Material &methods A cross sectional study was conducted at dermatological outpatient in Tikrit Teaching Hospital during a period from 1st September 2015 to 1st of January 2016. The number of patients attending the outpatient clinic during this period were sixty five, of them 16 patient included in this study had superficial candidiasis. Presumptive diagnosis is made during clinical examination, while a definite diagnosis is obtained by scraping the site of the rash swabs then obtaining material for microscopic examination and culture. Results 37.5% of patient with candidiasis were males and 62.5% were females. Intertrigo was the most form of cutaneous candidiasis found in 37.5% followed by napkin rash (31.2%). diabetic and children under five years found to be the common predisposing factors. Recommendations: Good skin care is essential for dealing fungal infections in diabetes and children, skin should be kept clean and dry, especially the skin folds areas.
Illustration of the Varying Coefficient Model for Analyses the Tree Growth from the Age and Space Perspectives

The one of reasons that trees grow over the year but may grow di fferently could be relative spatial conditions where trees have grown. From this, we introduce a statistical model called the varying coefficient model used in Satoh and Yanagihara (2010) and Tonda et al. (2010) to estimate e ffects on the tree growth from the age and relative space perspectives. This model is an appealing way to understand the tree growth, which is because 1) the space e ffects can be added in the growth curve model and visually checked by drawing contours and cubic diagrams, and 2) both the space and the age effects are with their confidence interval values, and also a hypothesis test can be conducted, which attains the confidence of the estimation result. The model is applied to a data of Cryptomeria japonica in Yoshimotoet al. (2012), the longitude and latitude are used as the space information, and the significant spatial e ff ct of the DBH on the stem volume regarded as the tree growth was seen from the estimation result.
The effect of intermittent activity on Postprandial Lipemia in children

XIII CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION . 15 BACKGROUND . 15 Sedentary behavior . 15 THESIS RATIONALE . 17 Choice of participants . 18 Study design and physical activity intensity . 18 Outcome measures . 19 Choice of equipment . 19 Activity measurement . 19 Blood withdrawal method . 20 Selected diet . 21 Participant behavior . 22 Choice of analysis . 23 ORIGINALITY OF THE THESIS . 23 PURPOSE . 24 HYPOTHESIS . 24 THESIS ORGANISATION . 24 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW . 26 ABSTRACT . 26. 26 INTRODUCTION . 27 METHODS . 28
Constraining dynamic TOPMODEL responses for imprecise water table information using fuzzy rule based performance measures

Dynamic TOPMODEL is applied to the Maimai M8 catchment (3.8 ha), New Zealand using rainfall–runoff and water table information in model calibration. Different parametric representations of hillslope and valley bottom landscape units (LU’s) were used to improve the spatial representation of the model structure. The continuous time series water table information is obtained from tensiometric observations from both near stream (NS) and hillslope (P5) locations having different responses to rainfall events. For each location, and within an area equivalent to an effective model gridscale (25 m), a number of tensiometer readings at different depths were available (11 for the NS site and nine for the P5 site). Using this information a distribution of water table elevations for each time step at each location was calculated. The distribution of water table elevations was used to derive fuzzy estimates of the water table depth for the whole time series that includes the temporal variability of the uncertainty in the observations. These data were used to constrain the spatial representation of the model having previously conditioned the model using the rainfall–runoff data. Model conditioning was assessed using the Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation procedure. Results show that many combinations of parameter values for the two LU’s were able to simulate the rainfall–runoff data. Further constraining of the model responses using the fuzzy water table elevations at both locations considerably reduced the number of behavioural parameter sets. An evaluation of the distributions of behavioural parameter sets showed that improvements to the model structure for the two LU’s were required, especially for simulations of the response at the hillslope location. q 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Learning about the Intermediate Neutron-capture Process from Lead Abundances

Lead (Pb) is predominantly produced by the slow neutron-capture process (s process) in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. In contrast to significantly enhanced Pb abundances predicted by low-mass, low-metallicity AGB models, observations of Magellanic post-AGB stars show incompatibly low Pb abundances. Observations of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars whose s-process enrichments are accompanied by heavy elements traditionally associated with the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) have raised the need for a neutron-capture process operating at neutron densities intermediate to the s and r process: the so-called i process. We study i-process nucleosynthesis with single-zone nuclear-network calculations. Our i-process models can explain the heavy-element abundance patterns measured in Magellanic post-AGB stars including their puzzlingly low Pb abundances. Furthermore, the heavy-element enhancements in the post-AGB and CEMP-i stars, particularly their Pb abundance, allow us to characterize the neutron densities and exposures of the i process that produced the observed abundance patterns. We find that the lower-metallicity CEMP-i stars ( ) have heavy-element abundances best matched by models with higher neutron densities and exposures (τ > 2.0 mbarn−1) compared to the higher-metallicity post-AGB stars ( , τ < 1.3 mbarn−1). This offers new constraints and insights regarding the properties of i-process sites and demonstrates that the responsible process operates on timescales of the order of a few years or less.
On the associated primes of the generalized $d$-local cohomology modules

The first part of the paper is concerned to relationship between the sets of associated primes of the generalized d-local cohomology modules and the ordinary generalized local cohomology modules. Assume that R is a commutative Noetherian local ring, M and N are finitely generated R-modules and d, t are two integers. We prove that AssH d(M,N) = ∪ I∈Φ AssH t I(M,N) whenever H i d(M,N) = 0 for all i < t and Φ = {I : I is an ideal of R with dimR/I ≤ d}. In the second part of the paper, we give some information about the non-vanishing of the generalized d-local cohomology modules. To be more precise, we prove that H d(M,R) ̸= 0 if and only if i = n − d whenever R is a Gorenstein ring of dimension n and pdR(M) < ∞. This result leads to an example which shows that AssHn−d d (M,R) is not necessarily a finite set.
HIGH DENSITY AERIAL IMAGE MATCHING:

Ongoing innovations in matching algorithms are continuously improving the quality of geometric surface representations generated automatically from aerial images. This development motivated the launch of the joint ISPRS/EuroSDR project “Benchmark on High Density Aerial Image Matching”, which aims on the evaluation of photogrammetric 3D data capture in view of the current developments in dense multi-view stereo-image matching. Originally, the test aimed on image based DSM computation from conventional aerial image flights for different landuse and image block configurations. The second phase then put an additional focus on high quality, high resolution 3D geometric data capture in complex urban areas. This includes both the extension of the test scenario to oblique aerial image flights as well as the generation of filtered point clouds as additional output of the respective multiview reconstruction. The paper uses the preliminary outcomes of the benchmark to demonstrate the state-of-the-art in airborne image matching with a special focus of high quality geometric data capture in urban scenarios. * Corresponding author
Virtual Piano using Computer Vision

In this research, Piano performances have been analyzed only based on visual information. Computer vision algorithms, e.g., Hough transform and binary thresholding, have been applied to find where the keyboard and specific keys are located. At the same time, Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) has been also utilized to find whether specific keys are pressed or not, and how much intensity the keys are pressed only based on visual information. Especially for detecting intensity, a new method of utilizing spatial, temporal CNNs model is devised. Early fusion technique is especially applied in temporal CNNs architecture to analyze hand movement. We also make a new dataset for training each model. Especially when finding an intensity of a pressed key, both of video frames and their optical flow images are used to train models to find effectiveness.
Circulating Monocytes, Tissue Macrophages, and Malaria

Malaria is a significant cause of global morbidity and mortality. The Plasmodium parasite has a complex life cycle with mosquito, liver, and blood stages. The blood stages can preferentially affect organs such as the brain and placenta. In each of these stages and organs, the parasite will encounter monocytes and tissue-specific macrophages—key cell types in the innate immune response. Interactions between the Plasmodium parasite and monocytes/macrophages lead to several changes at both cellular and molecular levels, such as cytokine release and receptor expression. In this review, we summarize current knowledge on the relationship between malaria and blood intervillous monocytes and tissue-specific macrophages of the liver (Kupffer cells), central nervous system (microglia), and placenta (maternal intervillous monocytes and fetal Hofbauer cells). We describe their potential roles in modulating outcomes from infection and areas for future investigation.
Synthetic presentation of noncanonical Wnt5a motif promotes mechanosensing-dependent differentiation of stem cells and regeneration

A rational approach promotes mechano-dependent osteogenesis and effective bone regeneration with conjugated biomimetic peptide. Noncanonical Wnt signaling in stem cells is essential to numerous developmental events. However, no prior studies have capitalized on the osteoinductive potential of noncanonical Wnt ligands to functionalize biomaterials in enhancing the osteogenesis and associated skeleton formation. Here, we investigated the efficacy of the functionalization of biomaterials with a synthetic Wnt5a mimetic ligand (Foxy5 peptide) to promote the mechanosensing and osteogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells by activating noncanonical Wnt signaling. Our findings showed that the immobilized Wnt5a mimetic ligand activated noncanonical Wnt signaling via the up-regulation of Disheveled 2 and downstream RhoA-ROCK signaling, leading to enhanced intracellular calcium level, F-actin stability, actomyosin contractility, and cell adhesion structure development. This enhanced mechanotransduction in stem cells promoted the in vitro osteogenic lineage commitment and the in vivo healing of rat calvarial defects. Our work provides valuable guidance for the developmentally inspired design of biomaterials for a wide array of therapeutic applications.
Insights From a National Sample

Although living in prison is difficult for all inmates, anecdotal evidence and a small number of qualitative studies on women’s prisons suggest that females have greater social support needs while incarcerated. This claim is important for a more complete understanding of adjustment to prisons. In particular, extraand intrainstitutional social support mechanisms may reduce the inmate-perceived stresses associated with imprisonment and yield fewer official rule infractions. Using a multilevel analysis, the authors explore ties between social support mechanisms and reported rules infractions of a nationally representative sample of male and female state prison inmates. Findings suggest that female inmates experienced more social support than did their male counterparts. Some of the included social support mechanisms seem to affect inmates’adjustment to prison, and the effect of marital status on misconduct varies by gender. The implications of these findings for understanding prison life and for prison administrators are also examined.
UPTAKE OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS AS INFLUENCED BY GRADED LEVELS OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS ON GLADIOLUS (GLADIOLUS GRANDIFLORUS L.) CV. WHITE PROSPERITY IN COASTAL A.P., INDIA

A study was undertaken to find out the uptake of nitrogen and phosphorus versus the application of graded doses to gladiolus cv. White prosperity at Horticultural College and Research Institute, Venkataramannagudem (A.P.), India in the year 2012-13. The spike yield was maximum with nitrogen dose of 300 kg ha-1, phosphorus dose of 200 ha-1 both individually and in combination. The total weight of corm per plant was maximum with the treatment combination of nitrogen at 400 kg ha-1 plus phosphorus at 200 kg ha-1. The highest dry weight of whole plant was registered with the application of nitrogen at 400 kg ha-1 plus phosphorus at 250 kg ha-1 and the same treatments resulted in the highest dry weight of spike. However, the increase over 300 kg ha of nitrogen and 200 kg ha of phosphorus was not statistically significant. The uptake of nitrogen and phosphorus was recorded highest with a dose of nitrogen at 300 kg ha-1 plus phosphorus at 200 kg ha-1.
638. Comparative Genomics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Isolated From Children with Pneumonia: South Korea, 2010–2016

Abstract Background This study applied high-throughput whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technologies to investigate the comparative genomics of 30 M. pneumoniae strains isolated from children with pneumonia in South Korea during two epidemics from 2010 to 2016 in comparison with a global collection of 48 Mycoplasma pneumoniae strains which includes seven countries ranging from 1944 to 2017. Methods A total number of 30 M. pneumoniae strains were selected for whole-genome sequence analysis from two epidemics, 2010–2012 and 2014–2016. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of all M. pneumoniae strains was performed using the Illumina MiSeq desktop sequencer. Comparative genomic analysis was performed using BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG), MAUVE, MAFFT, CLC Phylogeny Module, SnpEff, and Pathosystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC). Results The 30 Korean strains had approximately 40% GC content and ranged from 815,686 to 818,669 base pairs, coding for a total of 809 to 828 genes. Overall, BRIG revealed 99% to>99% similarity among strains. The genomic similarity dropped to approximately 95% in the P1 type 2 strains when aligned to the reference M129 genome, which corresponded to the region of the p1 gene. MAUVE detected four subtype-specific of which were all hypothetical proteins except for one tRNA insertion in all P1 type 1 strains. eBURST analysis demonstrated two clonal complexes which are accordant with the known P1 typing, with higher diversity among P1 type 2 strains. The phylogenetic tree constructed with 78 genomes including 48 genomes outside Korea, formed three clusters, in which the sequence type 3 strains from Korea were divided into two P1 type 1 clusters. Conclusion The comparative genomics of the 78 M. pneumoniae strains including 30 strains from Korea by WGS reveals structural diversity and phylogenetic associations, even though the similarity across the strains was very high. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.
Automatic Genre-Driven Layout Generation∗

It has long been recognized in natural language generation that, for generated texts to be realistic, they will have to consist of more than simple sets of strings separated by fullstops. A common assumption in this work has been that the form of information presentation straightforwardly follows the rhetorical structure. More recently, this assumption has been shown to be too simple to account for naturally occuring document design: not only the document content, but also the visual appearance of the presented information, serves to achieve the communicative goal of the author. The design of this visual appearance therefore needs to be controlled more flexibly. In this paper, we present a general algorithm for layout production which, dependent on features of the chosen genre, transforms a rhetorical structure into a not necessarily isomorphic layout structure. The algorithm has been implemented as the XSL stylesheet gemLayout. We illustrate gemLayout in two different genres drawn from a growing corpus of multimodal documents, bird guides and instruction manuals.
Procedural Justice in Algorithmic Fairness

As algorithms increasingly take managerial and governance roles, it is ever more important to build them to be perceived as fair and adopted by people. With this goal, we propose a procedural justice framework in algorithmic decision-making drawing from procedural justice theory, which lays out elements that promote a sense of fairness among users. As a case study, we built an interface that leveraged two key elements of the framework---transparency and outcome control---and evaluated it in the context of goods division. Our interface explained the algorithm's allocative fairness properties (standards clarity) and outcomes through an input-output matrix (outcome explanation), then allowed people to interactively adjust the algorithmic allocations as a group (outcome control). The findings from our within-subjects laboratory study suggest that standards clarity alone did not increase perceived fairness; outcome explanation had mixed effects, increasing or decreasing perceived fairness and reducing algorithmic accountability; and outcome control universally improved perceived fairness by allowing people to realize the inherent limitations of decisions and redistribute the goods to better fit their contexts, and by bringing human elements into final decision-making.