Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of the ILOVEYOU Worm

This worm was particularly virulent. In a few hours, it had spread worldwide. Among the institutions affected were the British Parliament, the United States Congress, the United States Air Force, and innumerable businesses and organizations. Most anti-virus vendors had signatures out within 24 hours, and several mailing lists described how to filter electronic mail to block any incoming instances of electronic mail containing the worm. Unfortunately, the nature of the filtering was not comprehensive, and copycat worms with differing subject lines slipped through. The seriousness of the problem increased as a variant informed people that about $300 had been charged to their credit card for a Mothers Day present, and they could click on the attachment to see the invoice. The latter step would ostensibly provide the information needed to challenge the unauthorized charge. That step introduced the worm onto the system.
Web Monitoring System and Gateway for Serial Communication PLC

Abstract An industrial process requires interacting with the rest of the plant, being able to exchange data with other devices and monitoring systems in order to optimize production, reporting information and providing control capabilities to distant users. Internet, and, especially web browsers are an excellent tool to provide information for remote users, allowing not only monitoring but also controlling the industrial process as an SCADA software or HMI system. The proposed system does not need specific proprietary software and its associated license costs. In this work, a webserver system is implemented under a Freescale microcontroller, acting as a gateway for a simple PLC with single RS232 communication capabilities. The webserver is modular, providing independent access to single I/O PLC locations. Different webpage design can offer different monitoring capabilities by combining the required I/O modules according to the required application without any change in the microcontroller programming. This capability is close to SCADA software or industrial HMI systems where custom screens can be made. This proposal offers a low cost and flexible monitoring solution to old or basic industrial processes controlled by PLC with low communication capabilities. Using a web browser, the system can be monitored from any internet capable device: PC, tablet, smartphone, etc. An example for a pneumatic PID levitation control system is given.
Liver Abscess: A Report of Three Cases

CASE 1. G. J., aged 31 years. This patient had taken ill seven days before admission to hospital and had complained of shivering, pain in the right side of the chest posteriorly and cough. Ten days before his illness began, he had returned from five years' service with the Army in Burma and West Africa. During the period of foreign service he had two attacks of bacillary dysentery and one attack of
A study of SnS recrystallization by post deposition treatment

Tin sulfide is one of the most promising alternative materials for photovoltaic. One main requirement for enhancing device efficiency is high quality SnS thin films. We present our study of recrystallization of SnS thin film by post deposition treatment at high temperature with KI and SnCl2. A recrystallization of SnS was achieved with both KI and SnCl2, but it has been observed that this phenomenon occurs only when SnS film is deposited at high temperature, whereas for low temperature-SnS film the treatment process produces a mix of secondary phases into the SnS matrix.
The Effectiveness of Early Vacancy Information in the Presence of Monitoring and ALMP

This paper studies the effectiveness of vacancy information from the public employment services (PES) in Germany, focussing on vacancy information obtained early in the unemployment spell. As in many other countries, the German activation practice combines information provision with monitoring to increase the willingness to apply. In case of a failed application, unemployed may participate in more intensive active labor market programs (ALMP). Exposure to monitoring or participation in ALMP is likely to confound the effect of information; our aim is to disentangle the different effects. Based on a flexible propensity score matching approach, we find that vacancy information increases the entry rate into unemployment predominantly by jobs mediated via the PES. Monitoring seems to reinforce this effect while limiting the crowding out of transitions made through other channels. In case of continued unemployment, early vacancy information reduces the participation rate in ALMP for some labor market groups. This is however not found to mediate the effect on employment transitions. We hence suggest that early vacancy information may increase the cost-effectiveness of the overall activation process even in the case of unsuccessful applications. Slight negative effects on employment quality seem to be driven by a combination of vacancy quality and monitoring.
Conception et évaluation d'un système transparent de capture de mouvements des mains pour l'interaction 3D temps réel en environnements virtuels. (Design and evaluation of a markerless hand motion capture system for 3d real time interaction in virtual environments)

The purpose of this thesis is to propose and evaluate a markerless system for capturing hand movements in real time to allow 3D interactions in virtual environment (VE). Tools such as keyboard and mouse are not enough for interacting in 3D VE; current motion capture systems are expensive and require wearing equipments. Systems based on cameras and image processing partially fill these gaps, but do not yet allow an accurate, efficient and real-time 3D motion capture. Our system provides a solution to this problem with a 3D camera. We have implemented modalities that allow a more natural interaction with objects and VE. The goal of our system is to obtain performances at least equal to those of common tools in virtual reality while providing a better overall acceptability (i.e., usefulness, usability, immersion). To achieve this goal, we conducted three experimental studies involving over 100 participants. With the first study, we compared the first version of our system (based on a 3D Camera MESA SwissRanger) to a traditional mouse, for a selection task. The second experiment was focused on the study of the realization of objects-manipulation tasks (position, orientation, scaling) and navigation tasks in VE. For this study, we compared the improved version of our system (based on Microsoft Kinect) with data gloves associated with magnetic sensors. An additional study concerns the evaluation of new modalities of interaction, implemented based on participants’ feedback of the second study.
Advanced vaginal opening and precocious activation of the reproductive axis by KiSS‐1 peptide, the endogenous ligand of GPR54

The awakening of the gonadotrophic axis at puberty is the end‐point of a complex cascade of sex developmental events that leads to the attainment of reproductive capacity. Recently, loss‐of‐function mutations of the gene encoding GPR54, the putative receptor for the KiSS‐1‐derived peptide metastin, have been linked to hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, both in rodents and humans. However, the actual role of the KiSS‐1/GPR54 system in the timing of puberty onset remains unexplored. We report herein that chronic central administration of KiSS‐1 peptide to immature female rats induced the precocious activation of the gonadotrophic axis, as estimated by advanced vaginal opening, elevated uterus weight, and increased serum levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and oestrogen. The central effect of KiSS‐1 upon LH release appeared to be mediated via the hypothalamic LH‐releasing hormone. In contrast, despite the well‐documented permissive role of body fat stores and the adipocyte‐derived hormone leptin in puberty maturation, acute activation of the gonadotrophic axis by KiSS‐1 was persistently observed in pubertal animals under food deprivation, after central immunoneutralization of leptin, and in a model of leptin resistance. Overall, the present results, together with our recent data on maximum expression of KiSS‐1 and GPR54 genes in the hypothalamus at puberty, provide novel evidence for a role of the KiSS‐1 system as a downstream element in the hypothalamic network triggering the onset of puberty.
The anterior pituitary, snakebite and Sheehan's syndrome.

In Burma, Russell's viper bite is a major public health problem, especially in rice field workers. Death frequently occurs from renal and cardiac failure. Prompted by observation of hypoglycaemia and reported necropsy findings of pituitary damage after Russell viper bite, Warrell and his co-workers in Rangoon succeeded in showing pituitary function defects in the victims [1], despite the difficulties with studies of acute illness in a rural background. Now the Hammersmith group [2] with a different set of Burmese researchers have confirmed the findings, showing bite by this viper to be a common cause of anterior pituitary failure in Burma. Between them the two groups have studied 36 long-term survivors, and have found frequent clinical evidence of pituitary hormone failure. This is supported by firm laboratory evidence in patients not on replacement for the hormone concerned, as follows: low testosterone in 16 of 33 tested, oligoor amenorrhoea in two of two, low thyroxine in 13 of 34, cortisol response to hypoglycaemia <500 nmol/1 in 10 of 14, and GH response to hypoglycaemia <20 mU/1 in 15 of 17. Showing the contribution of acute pituitary failure to morbidity and mortality in the acute illness is more difficult. All but one of the 20 patients of Proby el al. studied acutely had (sensibly, and presumably following the previous report of Tun-Pe et al.) been given large doses of corticosteroids before the samples were drawn for hormone analysis. The resulting suppression of the normal cortisol and growth hormone responses to severe acute illness makes it impossible to assess agonal levels of these hormones except in the few patients who had (normal) elevated levels. Similarly suppression of gonadotrophin function and lowering of T4 levels by both the severe acute illness and the steroids is admitted by Proby et al., and makes those measurements uninterpretable also. That the extent of the lowering of T4 or steroid levels indicates pituitary failure, rather than the effects of acute illness plus steroids, is not a legitimate plea a control group matched for severity and therapy would be required. Neither is hypoglycaemia recorded by Proby et al., again perhaps because of the steroid support given. However the samples showing pituitary insufficiency drawn by Tun-Pe and co-workers were taken before any corticosteroid therapy, and they also showed hypoglycaemia in three of seven patients tested. There is no doubt about the occurrence of acute anterior pituitary failure within hours of Russell's viper bite. The empirical use of high-dose steroids in India rests not on this, but on reduced mortality in rats [3].
Branding Smaller Destinations with Limited Budgets: The Example of Athens, Georgia

Branding has emerged as a major factor when marketing a destination. This factor is very important for smaller destinations which must usually work within the restriction of a limited budget. This article presents many ideas on how smaller destinations can develop a brand while keeping costs down, and includes a detailed, 17-point branding process that can be used by smaller destinations.
How to Make All Shareholders Equal: Evidence from Tickers' Informativeness

This article investigates the benefits of market transparency by enhancing tickers' informativeness of stocks with non-conventional voting structure. Event study analysis shows that the TSX rule - to re-symbolise stocks with limited, multiple, restricted, subordinate, or no voting rights - had a negative and significant impact on the returns and the liquidity of the involved stocks. Equally important, I show that the voting premium, a proxy for the prevalence private benefits, has decreased significantly. Regression analysis suggests that a significant part of the variation in the event-driven results is explained by firm's agency costs, mainly the holding of the largest shareholder and her excess control. The evidence in this paper suggests that improving the information content of tickers of publicly traded securities have a significant impact on the ability of the market participants to revise the assessment of their holding (i.e. price-protect), emphasizing the importance of enhancing market transparency in curbing private benefits.
Competitive Advantage Through People

Sustainable competitive advantage has proved elusive for companies in the 1990s. While making enormous investments in technology, research, and state-of-the-art marketing, many of today9s managers continue to ignore the single most important factor in achieving and maintaining competitive success: people. Yet all evidence indicates that the source of competitive advantage is shifting from technology, patents, or strategic position to how a company manages its employees. In this excerpt from his newly published book, Competitive Advantage through People, Jeffrey Pfeffer describes how successful companies have overcome the barriers to change and offers a solid framework—with specific actions—for implementing these changes in any industry.
Duplicate Journal Title Detection in References

Our research efforts are oriented towards applying text mining techniques in order to help librarians make more informative decisions when selecting learning resources to be included in the library’s offer. The proper selection of learning resources to be included in the library’s offer is one of the key factors determining the overall usefulness of the library. Our task was to match abbreviated journal titles from citations with journals in existing digital libraries. The main problem is that for one journal there is often a number of different abbreviated forms in the citation report, hence the matching depends on the detection of duplicate records. We used character-based and token-based metrics together with a generated thesaurus for detecting duplicate records.
T‐follicular helper cell differentiation and the co‐option of this pathway by non‐helper cells

Summary: Human and mouse studies performed over the last decade have established that follicular helper T (Tfh) cells are a CD4+ helper subset specialized in the provision of help to B cells. Tfh differentiation is driven by expression of the transcriptional repressor B‐cell lymphoma‐6 (Bcl‐6), which turns on a program that guides T cells close to B‐cell areas where Tfh cells first provide help to B cells. Sustained Bcl‐6 expression promotes the entry of Tfh cells into follicles and modulates their cytokine expression profile so they can support and select germinal center B cells that have acquired affinity‐enhancing mutations in their immunoglobulin genes. Forkhead box 3 protein (Foxp3)+ regulatory T cells and invariant natural killer T (NKT) cells can also co‐opt the Bcl‐6‐dependent follicular differentiation pathway to migrate into B‐cell follicles and regulate antibody responses. The resulting NKT follicular helper cells drive a distinctive type of T‐dependent B‐cell response to lipid‐containing antigens, whereas FoxP3+ follicular regulatory (Tfr) cells exert a suppressive function on germinal centers. Elucidating how Tfr cells are functionally and numerically regulated and the factors that control the balance between Tfh and Tfr cells is likely to be critical for improved understanding of the pathogenesis and progression of autoimmunity and lymphomas of germinal center origin, and generation of effective vaccines.
Split-dose recovery is due to the repair of DNA double-strand breaks.

DNA double-strand breaks are the molecular lesions the repair of which leads to the reappearance of the shoulder observed in split-dose experiments. This conclusion is based on results obtained with the help of a diploid yeast mutant rad 54-3 which is temperature-conditional for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Two repair steps must be met to yield the reappearance of the shoulder on a split-dose survival curve: the repair of double-strand breaks during the interval between two doses and on the nutrient agar plate after the second dose. In yeast lethality may be attributable to either an unrepaired double-strand break (i.e. a double-strand break is a potentially lethal lesion) or to the interaction of two double-strand breaks (misrepair of double-strand breaks). Evidence is presented that the two cellular phenomena of liquid holding recovery (repair of potentially lethal damage) and of split-dose recovery (repair of sublethal damage) are based on the repair of the same molecular lesion, the DNA double-strand break.
Family Structural Norms Leading to Gender Disparity in Pakistan

The major purpose of this study was to explore the, “Family Structural Norms Leading to Gender Disparity in Pakistan”. It was concluded that Females are not consulted regarding their higher education, proper transport facilities are not managed by universities for female students, females have less access to higher education, There are inadequate and a very small number of women’s universities, family structural norms found not supportive for female education, females located in either urban or rural areas are facing the same problem of gender disparity regarding their education, and they have the same views that family structural norms are not supporting for their education. On the basis of these conclusions it is recommended that females should have the freedom to make their own decisions, especially regarding their education, proper transportation facilities should be arranged or managed them, it is necessary to enhance females’ enrolment in each and every tier and streamline of education to bring equity in gender, more women s’ universities should be established, Legislation should be done at central level as well as at provincial level to enhance the females’ enrolment in all tiers of education and all streamlines, and 50% seats should be reserved for female students in every discipline in the universities.
The Incidence of Skin Breakdown Associated With Use of Cervical Collars

ABSTRACT The most common adverse complication associated with cervical immobilization is skin breakdown. The purpose of this prospective, descriptive study was to assess the incidence of tissue breakdown associated with cervical immobilization. In this convenience sample of 484 patients, skin breakdown was noted in 33 (6.8%) patients. All cases of documented skin breakdown were stage I or II, with only 2 (0.4%) patients having stage III breakdown. Days in the cervical collar is a significant predictor of skin breakdown, along with presence of edema. Results from this study demonstrate that there is a very low incidence of complications of skin breakdown associated with the use of Aspen cervical collars. The collars are safe and effective to use in patients with actual or suspected head or spine injuries.
Old-age Tourism Wishes Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting: Based on Push-pull Theory

On the basis of the push and pull theory,baking pension of Hainan Province as a tourist destination,the elderly ethnic minority areas were studied,using structural equation modeling to push and pull factors and participate affect the relationship will,willingness to recommend the wishes and concerns between the empirical analysis to reveal the full impact of the pension system travel wishes. The results showed that: ①Push and pull dimensions of each potential interactions between factors,push and pull factors of tourism willingness had direct,positive impact on relations; ②Gender,age,education,annual income,such as different attributes directly affected the relationship between the tension force,while the relationship between the factors were different according to different groups; ③The elderly tourism wishes mostly affected by motive factor,push factor than pull force factor; ④Tourism wishes subject to greatest influence was the willingness to participate,followed by the willingness to recommend and attention will.
Partial suppression of the fission yeast rqh1− phenotype by expression of a bacterial Holliday junction resolvase

A key stage during homologous recombination is the processing of the Holliday junction, which determines the outcome of the recombination reaction. To dissect the pathways of Holliday junction processing in a eukaryote, we have targeted an Escherichia coli Holliday junction resolvase to the nuclei of fission yeast recombination‐deficient mutants and analysed their phenotypes. The resolvase partially complements the UV and hydroxyurea hypersensitivity and associated aberrant mitoses of an rqh1− mutant. Rqh1 is a member of the RecQ subfamily of DNA helicases that control recombination particularly during S‐phase. Significantly, overexpression of the resolvase in wild‐type cells partly mimics the loss of viability, hyper‐recombination and ‘cut’ phenotype of an rqh1− mutant. These results indicate that Holliday junctions form in wild‐type cells that are normally removed in a non‐recombinogenic way, possibly by Rqh1 catalysing their reverse branch migration. We propose that in the absence of Rqh1, replication fork arrest results in the accumulation of Holliday junctions, which can either impede sister chromatid segregation or lead to the formation of recombinants through Holliday junction resolution.
Angiotensin AT1/AT2 Receptors: Regulation, Signalling and Function

Angiotensin II (Ang II), the biologically active component of renin-angiotensin system (RAS), acts through two receptor subtypes, the AT1 and the AT2 receptor. All classic physiological effects of Ang II, such as vasoconstriction, aldosterone and vasopressin release, sodium and water retention and sympathetic facilitation, are mediated by the AT1 receptor. Ang II, via its AT1 receptor, is also involved in cell proliferation, left ventricular hypertrophy, nephrosclerosis, vascular media hypertrophy, endothelial dysfunction, neointima formation and processes leading to athero-thrombosis. Recent investigations have established a role for the AT2 receptor in cardiovascular, brain and renal function as well as in the modulation of various biological processes involved in development, cell differentiation, tissue repair and apoptosis. This review summarizes new insights in the regulation, signalling and (patho-) physiological functions of AT1 and AT2 receptors. An extensive review on angiotensin receptors has been published recently (de Gasparo M et al., Pharmacol Rev 2000; 52: 415-72).
A National Study of State Credentialing Requirements for Administrators of Special Education.

N Most of the states requiring credentialing of administrators of special education reported having continuing education/professional development requirements for administrators to keep their credentials active. N Lashley and Boscardin (2003) found there is a severe shortage of appropriately trained administrators of special education. While some states have been quite rigorous, clearly defining competencies and expectations for special education administrators, many states remain vague, with no such definitions or guidelines. Instead, these states have elected to allow the administrator of special education role to be filled by administrators who are not trained in special education or special education administration. In addition, compounding this issue is a growing trend in which universities are discontinuing their special education administration programs by not replacing retiring faculty with this area of expertise, or by allowing faculty to be absorbed by other programs. Following the passage of No Child Left Behind and with the advent of Race to the Top, all teachers are required to be highly qualified. However, little has been written about the qualifications of educational administrators, and administrators of special education in particular. This research study investigates credentialing requirements for