Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Distributed Systems: A Design Model for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

How do we prepare now for a future of unprecedented resource scarcity and environmental change? Unless we take radical steps to increase the resilience and sustainability of critical infrastructure, access to vital systems and services is at risk. This paper highlights the dynamic forces increasing the vulnerability of current infrastructure and services and presents the case for distributed systems as an alternative design model. We suggest this model exists in the natural environment and in production and consumption systems that have already begun adapting to conditions of increased uncertainty, resource scarcity and a ‘low-carbon’ future. A distributed approach to system design offers many benefits over traditional infrastructure models. Research and case studies strongly suggest such an approach can: - Increase the physical resilience of infrastructure - Foster social and institutional flexibility and innovation - Reduce the environmental footprint of production and consumption
The multivesicular body pathway: A newly discovered battlefield for gameplay between virus and host

The main protein components of the multivesicular body (MVB) pathway include endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) and vacuolar protein sorting 4 (VPS4). Recent studies revealed that late domain motifs of enveloped viruses, such as PTAP, YPxL and PPxY (x indicates any amino acid residues), can bind separately to tumor susceptibility gene 101 (TSG101), ALG-2-interacting protein X (ALIX) and neuronal precursor cell-expressed developmentally downregulated 4 (NEDD4), to directly or indirectly recruit ESCRT and VPS4 for budding and egress. Also discovered recently, MVB proteins can be regulated by the host cell to block virus budding, for example by conjugation of interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) protein to ESCRT III and NEDD4, phosphorylation of VPS37C by TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) and phosphorylation of MVB12. Thus, the MVB pathway is emerging as a newly discovered battlefield for the gameplay between virus and host, opening an avenue to design novel antiviral therapeutics.
Interpolation et optimisation spatio-temporelle pour l'estimation de poses de caméra à obturateur déroulant

Les applications de realite augmentee sur telephones mo-biles necessitent l’adaptation des algorithmes de vision auxcameras a obturateur deroulant presentes sur ces appareils.Cet article propose un nouveau modele geometrique de ca-mera a obturateur deroulant utilisant des B-Splines non-uniformes afin d’approximer fidelement la trajectoire de lacamera au cours du temps. Une methode d’ajustement defaisceaux integrant ce modele est decrite puis testee sur desjeux de donnees synthetiques. De plus, nous exposons unprocessus iteratif d’optimisation permettant une repartitionspatiale et temporelle des poses de controle de la courbe B-Spline adaptee a la dynamique de la trajectoire. Les ame-liorations apportees sont illustrees sur l’approximation detrajectoires simulees et de trajectoires reelles avec exploita-tion d’une verite-terrain donnee par un systeme de MotionCapture.
Eine Zwei ist eine Drei ist eine Vier

Schule im Blickpunkt. Informationen des Landeselternbeirats Baden-Wurttemberg 43 (2010) 4, S. 4-6 Padagogische Teildisziplin: Schulpadagogik; Bildungsorganisation, Bildungsplanung und Bildungsrecht;
Side Information in Bandit Problems & Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Non-Symmetric Channels

Two major topics are discussed in this thesis: side information in the context of learning vs. control and capacity-approaching error correcting codes for non-standard channels. Side Information in Bandit Problems: The two-armed bandit problem is a classical model characterizing the conflict between learning and control. The decision maker samples one arm at each time instant in order to maximize the total reward (the control task), while the reward distribution for each individual arm must be learned through the same sampling process as well (the learning task). In this thesis, an extension of this traditional setting is studied, under which the decision maker has access to some side information before deciding which arm to pull. Various degrees of improvement are identified and proven when considering general evenly distributed side information random processes, including independent and identically distributed random processes, Markov chains, and deterministic periodic sequences as special cases. In particular, it is shown that the well-known logarithmic lower bound for the regret in traditional bandit problems can be surpassed by explicit algorithms, achieving new, more favorable performance bounds. These results can be applied to a broad range of problems including clinical trials, early exercise strategies for the American put options, and beam selection in multiple antenna communication systems. Low-Density Parity-Check Codes on Non-Symmetric Channels: The near-Shannon-capacity performance of Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) and turbo codes has stimulated considerable research in coding theory in recent years, and significant successes have been established for standard memoryless binary-input/symmetric-output channels. In this work, the density evolution method is generalized for non-symmetric memoryless channels. This is achieved by complementing the asymptotic performance concentration theorem with a perfect projection convergence theorem. Some implications of these results include stability conditions for non-symmetric channels, the local optimality of belief propagation decoding, and the typicality of linear LDPC codes, which further justifies the application of other existing tools, e.g. EXtrinsic InformaTion (EXIT) chart analysis, on non-symmetric channels. This new powerful density evolution method successfully bridges the gap between symmetric channels and general memoryless channels, and is demonstrated on a simple non-symmetric model for optical storage channels. Various finitedimensional bounds on the decodable thresholds are derived, including the best bound for fading channels to date.
TREATING HEART PATIENTS BY ENHANCING POSITIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY INTERVENTION

Objective: To manage the symptoms of coronary heart disease throughenhancing positive emotions. Methodology: In this cross sectional study, data was collected from a sample ofcardiac patients from Institute of Cardiology Multan from 1st March to 31st May2017. CHD patients of this sample were selected on the basis of their similarcharacteristics and equal scores on measures. Then utilizing the experimentalapproach, CHD patients were randomly assigned to the intervention and controlgroups. Only CHD patients in intervention group received the positive emotiontherapy. Both groups provided data on measures of gratitude, optimism,happiness, and CHD symptoms before and after administering positive emotionintervention to intervention group. In this study independent and paired sample ttests,the analyses of comparison between and within the both groups wereemployed. Results: A sample of 127 cardiac patients were included in the study. CHDpatients were 40. Patients were randomly assigned to the intervention (n=20)and control groups (n=20). Only CHD patients in intervention group received thepositive emotion therapy. A significant decrease in CHD symptoms and anincrease in positive emotions of patients in intervention group after receiving thepositive therapy than before was found. Patients of intervention group were foundwith low CHD symptoms and high positive emotions after therapy than that ofcontrol group. Conclusion: Thus the finding of the present study suggests positive psychologyintervention was found effective for enhancing positive emotions in CHD patients. Key Words: Gratitude, Happiness, Optimism, CAD Symptoms, Positiveintervention
Comparison Analysis on Medical Data Mining for Drug Suggestion

The drug back reaction measurement is the most important part of the drug safety assessment. In the early days, the measurement is made by trailing the impact after the course of many examples. In the pharmaceutical industries, the most interesting research topic is adverse drug detection which rules the world. In the 21century, the data available in the medical field gave an important development in motivating of an adverse event. Recently, many people put forward the statistical data and also the mining methods which are largely implemented to detect the drug adverse event. In the following paper, we explain more methods explained by expert’s researchers in the dynamic domain of data.
Meiotic behavior in wild and domesticated species of Passiflora

O comportamento meiotico de 14 taxons foi analisado. As especies foram agrupadas de acordo com o valor de n (6, 9 e 12) para estudos estatisticos. Algumas especies apresentaram associacoes tetravalentes ou cromossomos univalentes em diacinese, prevalecendo formacao de bivalentes. O teste de qui-quadrado revelou diferencas significativas na frequencia de quiasmas entre especies para grupos com n = 9 e n = 6. Houve predominância de quiasmas intersticiais em quase todas as especies estudadas. O grupo com n = 12 foi o unico cujo comportamento meiotico foi considerado similar devido a quantidade de quiasmas por celula, tendencia a localizacao intersticial de quiasmas. Algumas especies apresentaram irregularidades meioticas, tais como cromossomos retardatarios ou precoces em meiose I. Na telofase II os percentuais de irregularidades meioticas foram baixos. Irregularidades na orientacao das fibras dos fusos ocorreram em alto percentual no final da meiose II, sendo tambem responsaveis por produtos pos-meioticos anormais. As irregularidades observadas durante a meiose podem ter influencia sobre o percentual de graos de polen estereis e o sucesso de cruzamentos interespecificos em especies de Passiflora.
The cellular pathway of photosynthate transfer in the developing wheat grain. I. Delineation of a potential transfer pathway using fluorescent dyes

A potential cellular pathway for photosynthate transfer between the crease phloem and the starchy endosperm of the developing wheat grain has been delineated using fluorescent dyes. Membrane permeable and impermeable dyes have been introduced into the grain through the crease phloem, the endosperm cavity or the dorsal surface of the starchy endosperm. The movement of the symplastic tracer 5-(6)-6-carboxyfluorescein (CF) derived from 5-(6)-6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate (CFDA), from either direction between the crease phloem and the endosperm cavity, indicated that the symplastic pathway was operative from the crease phloem to the nucellar projection. Furthermore, the inward movement of apoplastic tracer trisodium, 3-hydroxy-5,8,10-pyrentrisulphonate (PTS) from the endosperm cavity and that of CF following plasmolysis showed that there was a high resistance to solute transfer within the apoplast of the pigment strand. All dyes entered the modified aleurone and adjacent sub-aleurone bordering the endosperm cavity. Subsequent movement of the symplastic tracers CF and sulphorhodamine G (SRG) into and through the endosperm was rapid. However, the movement of apoplastic tracers PTS and Calcofluor White (CFW) was relatively slow and with tissue plasmolysis, CF was confined to the cytoplasm of the modified aleurone and subaleurone cells. Together, these results demonstrate that there is a high resistance to solute movement within the apoplast of the cells bordering the endosperm cavity. We propose that photosynthate transfer is via the symplast to the nucellar projection where membrane exchange to the endosperm cavity occurs. Uptake from the cavity is by the modified aleurone and small endosperm cells prior to transfer through the symplast to and through the starchy endosperm.
Contents of certain chemical components in shallot bulbs after harvest and long-term storage

Shallot is one of the vegetables, which are especially abounding in flavonoids, phenolic acids and other compounds with antioxidative properties. Among Allium vegeta- bles it is also distinguished with good storage ability. The studies conducted in the years 2007-2009 included the assessment of dry matter, flavonoids and phenolic acid contents in shallot bulbs immediately after harvest and drying off, as well as after long-term stor- age (5 months in the temperature 0-1 o C and humidity of 86%). The studies concerned 3 cultivars of shallot: 'Ambition F1', 'Bonilla F1' and 'Matador F1'. The bulbs of these cultivars were obtained from seedlings planting. For chemical analyses bulb samples with the diameter of 25-30 mm were selected, as such constituted the greatest participation in the obtained yield. The contents of total and reducing sugars, flavonoids (converted into quercetin), as well as phenolic acids (converted into coffeic acid) were determined in fleshy scales, whereas in dry scales only the contents of flavonoids and phenolic acids were determined. The dry matter of fleshy scales in the examined shallot cultivars was on average 16.65%. From among three examined cultivars the bulbs of 'Bonilla F1'had sig- nificantly greater dry matter (18.03% on average). The contents of total sugars in shallot bulbs was on average 6.32% immediately after harvest and 5.71% after 5 months of stor- age. Similarly as in the case of dry matter, the bulbs of 'Bonilla F1' cultivar turned out to be the most abounding both in total and reducing sugars. The examined cultivars signifi- cantly differed in the contents of flavonoids and phenolic acids both in dry and fleshy scales. In all the cultivars the dry scales contained more than 50 times more flavonoids and more than 34 times more phenolic acids, as compared with fleshy scales. Long-term storage of shallot bulbs significantly affected the decrease of flavonoid contents, slight decrease of total sugars, but a significant increase of phenolic acids. From among the ex- amined cultivars 'Ambition F1' was characterized with the lowest contents of all the ana- lyzed components.
Adjusted Probabilistic Broadcasting for Hovering Information

Hovering information is generated by specific area in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) to be attached to the anchor area for some time. To improve the reachability, flooding is a fundamental mechanism with hovering information. Probabilistic flooding schemes are proposed to deduce the number of broadcasts. This paper proposed an adjusted probabilistic broadcasting (APB) for hovering information. Hovering node broadcasts hovering information with p1 when an uninformed node enters the range of hovering node. Nodes within hovering area relay the received hovering information with probability p2. The probability p1 and p2 are decided by informed and uninformed neighbors, respectively. The analysis shows that the APB outperforms other candidate hovering information algorithms in terms of the number of broadcasts.
Different ways to build unaccusativity: Spanish versus English and Japanese

In these examples we see a verb in the causative alternation in three languages displaying three different strategies for the construction of the intransitive alternant, i.e., the one which allows the obviation of the semantic cause through the suppression of the external argument. If unaccusativity refers to those verbs or syntactic configurations where the subject is the entity undergoing a change (thus, an internal argument), verbs like sink show that unaccusativity can be syntactically built, since their notional object has the possibility of moving to the subject position when there is no distinct entity responsible for the initiation of its change of state. Verbs like sink are transitive verbs with the possibility of becoming unaccusative. The object’s promotion to subject position depends on the presence of a cause, so we must have a clear notion about causativity before attempting any explanation of unaccusativity. Why did languages develop a grammaticalized expression of cause? And then, why do languages show divergent strategies to allow the non-expression of cause? In our vision, argument structure is a system that delimitates the denotation of the verb by composition. If sink denotes any event of sinking, the presence of one or two arguments has no other meaning than that of tying the denotation of the verb to one unique event of sinking by virtue of the unambiguous referential capabilities of the DPs involved. Tradition connected argument structure with θ-roles, with the baroque supposition that verbs carried not only their own meaning, but actively selected the role of the participants involved in the action and depended on their presence to be grammatically satisfied. Consequently, verbs with transitivity alternations must be explained by lexical transformations, which are stipulative, not needed under our view, and counterintuitive with respect to the behavior and expressive capabilities of the verbs under consideration. It seems to us that there is no sense in explaining the grammatical binding of the verb sink with its external argument by virtue of its semantic contribution of agentivity, when it can be grammatically suppressed under certain (pragmatic) circumstances without losing the supposition that the event was volitionally caused by someone. The consequent syntactic case rearrangement of the object does not seem to support the rigid θ-grid view either.
IP Core Protection and Hardware-Assisted Security for Consumer Electronics

IP Core Protection and Hardware-Assisted Security for Consumer Electronics presents established and novel solutions for security and protection problems related to IP cores (especially those based on DSP/multimedia applications) in consumer electronics. The topic is important to researchers in various areas of specialization, encompassing overlapping topics such as EDA-CAD, hardware design security, VLSI design, IP core protection, optimization using evolutionary computing, system-on-chip design and application specific processor/hardware accelerator design. The book begins by introducing the concepts of security, privacy and IP protection in information systems. Later chapters focus specifically on hardware-assisted IP security in consumer electronics, with coverage including essential topics such as hardware Trojan security, robust watermarking, fingerprinting, structural and functional obfuscation, encryption, IoT security, forensic engineering based protection, JPEG obfuscation design, hardware assisted media protection, PUF and side-channel attack resistance.
Good Portrait Selection Based on Deep Learning Using Facial Expressions

This paper suggests an algorithm to choose good pictures among a bundle of pictures. Since it is very hard to collect private selections of good images from people, the paper divides facial expressions into ten categories, and add ‘good’ tags to photos included in some categories like wink or grin. The proposed algorithm uses convolution neural networks (CNN) to classify the pictures as good or not. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the algorithm is 97.15%, and average execution time is 0.3 seconds. For application purposes, the proposed algorithm is further applied to a group photo in order to count the number of faces that look good.
Aedes aegypti infestation-associated containers in Lisa municipality

INTRODUCTION: Aedes aegypti has great ecological plasticity that allows it to use a range of containers to lay its eggs. OBJECTIVE: to identify the main containers associated with indoor and outdoor infestation by this species. METHODS: one municipality of the City of Havana (Lisa) was completely sampled during November 2007 and January 2008; all water containers were checked and also breeding reservoirs were classified into 10 groups. RESULTS: a total number of 773 containers were found positive to this vector; 654 of them (84.6 %) outdoors and 119 (15.4 %) indoors. Forty eight different containers were detected outdoors and 31 indoors. The main positive groups found inside and outside the house were water containers amounting to 45 (37.81 %) and 314 (48.01 %) respectively, and non-useful artificial containers covering 27 (22.68 %) and 209 (31.95 %), respectively. Tanks located on the ground indoors and outdoors represented more than half of the positive containers, that is, 23 (51.11 %) and 180 (57.32 %) whereas in the group of non-useful artificial containers located outdoors, cans showed the highest positivity rate with 57 (27.28 %), followed by casseroles and a group of various reservoirs which accounted for the highest positivity indoors, that is, 12 (44.44 %). CONCLUSIONS: the containers associated with the highest rate of infestation by Ae. aegypti indoors and outdoors were water tanks and the group of nonuseful artificial containers, taking also into account vases, water glasses for religious ritual offerings, flower pots and toilets inside the house, and troughs, tyres and sewages outside.
An experimental study to assess the effectiveness of reminiscence therapy on the level of depression among geriatrics in a WHO society, Greater Noida, UP

Aging is not a disease, but the final stage of normal life. “Old age is an incurable disease”. “You do not heal old age”, “you protect it”, “you promote it”, “and you extend it”. The degree of adaptation to the fact of aging is crucial to a man’s happiness in the phase of later life. Failure to adapt can result in bitterness, inner withdrawal, weariness of life and depression. The difficult changes that many geriatrics can lead to depression especially in those without a strong support system1. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of Reminiscence therapy on the level of depression among geriatrics. Objectives 1.To assess the pre and post-test level of depression among elderly people in a selected society. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of reminiscence therapy on the level of depression among elderly people in a selected society.3. To associate the post level of depression among elderly people with their selected demographic variables (age, sex, marital status, education, religion, source of income, type of family, number of children, habitant and history of physical illness.) Methodology: The research design was Pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design7, the setting chosen to conduct study was a WHO Society, Greater Noida, UP201306. The sample was geriatric peoples of age 60-80yr, Sample size was 50, The sampling technique used was purposive sample technique7. The geriatric peoples who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected as samples and were given Reminiscence therapy. The scale adapted to measure geriatric depression was a standardised Geriatric depression scale with 30 dichotomous type questions with yes or no response2. The interpretation of the score cut-off; Normal 0-9, Moderate depressive 10-19, and severe depressive 20-30.The data gathered and analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics method and interpretation is made on the basis of objectives of the study. Major findings: The analysis of the study findings revealed that the pre-test mean was 13.08 with a standard deviation of 5.094 and the post-test mean was 7.54 with a standard deviation of 2.70. The paired calculated value of t=10.28 was found to be highly statistically significant at p<0.02. Chi square test revealed that there is no association between the demographic variables. Conclusion: The study infers that there was highly statistically significant reduction in the level of depression among the geriatrics after providing the reminiscence therapy on depression to the geriatric
APPLYING MULTIPLE MULTIDIMENSIONAL KNAPSACK PROBLEM TO DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING IN DISTRIBUTED EXASCALE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Dynamic and Interactive nature of the processes in the Distributed Exascale computing system requires the system to be able to make Load Balancing in runtime. In this paper proposed applying Multiple Multidimensional Knapsack Problem for overcome imbalance at time of occurrence of the dynamic and interactive event at Distributed Exascale computing environment.