Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Intelligent Real-world Visual Auxiliary System

In this paper, the object recognition module of a visual auxiliary system, InVision, called IR-VP, is presented. (1) Deep multimodal neural network (DMNN) is presented to enhance CNNs’ sampling abilitiy and feature resolutions. (2) Deep distance learning (DDL) is presented to find similarity and reduce representation redundancy. (3) The light weight MobileNet is used to accelerate. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach signiﬁcantly outperforms state-of-the-arts.
Single-step prediction of genomic breeding value in a small dairy cattle population with strong import of foreign genes

The breeding value (EBV) of Holstein cattle milk performance from the first lactation was evaluated using a regular Animal Model or by Single-Step Prediction of the genomic breeding value (GEBV). A total of 838 bulls were genotyped using the Illumina BovineSNP50 Bead Chip V2. Two overlapping sets of milk performances were evaluated: calving years 1991-2004, with 729 341 lactations and 1 394 487 animals in the pedigree and calving years 1996-2009, with 808 436 lactations and 1 487 608 animals in the pedigree. The older data set included 526 genotyped bulls, in which the daughters' milk performance was known for 210 individuals. All of the genotyped animals were included in the newer data set. Of the young genotyped bulls from the older set, 279 had more than 50 daughters with performance records in the newer set. Genomic relationship matrices (G ) were constructed from the allele frequencies of the current genotyped popula- tion or by assuming a constant value of 0.5 for all loci. Using current allele frequencies, the correlation of G with the pedigree relationship (A ) was 0.74, while it was 0.77 when the constant value was used. G was blended with A with weights of 80 or 99%. The average EBV of the genotyped bulls exceeded the mean EBV of the entire population by 3 SD. Although the number of reference bulls was small, genotyping resulted in an increase of approximately 0.05 in the correlation of the GEBV of young bulls with their results after progeny testing. Only small differences in correlations were found in dependency on the methods used for the determination of G and in dependency on the weight used in blending G with A. Both EBV and GEBV in the older set showed higher correlations with the GEBV of the newer set than the EBV of the newer set.
A 28 GHz Linear Power Amplifier Based on CPW Matching Networks with Series-Connected DC-Blocking Capacitors

In this paper, the influence of the DC-blocking capacitors leveraged in coplanar waveguide (CPW) matching networks is studied. CPW matching networks with series-connected DC-blocking capacitors are less sensitive to capacitance and are adopted in a 28 GHz power amplifier (PA). The PA targeting fifth-generation (5G) phased array is developed in 90 nm silicon-on-insulator complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (SOI CMOS) technology. A stacked field-effect-transistor (FET) architecture is elected in the output stage to boost the output power and reduce the die area. The PA with a core area of 0.31 mm2 demonstrates a maximum small signal gain of 13.7 dB and a −3 dB bandwidth of 6.3 GHz (22.9–29.2 GHz). The PA achieves a measured saturated output power (Psat) of 14.4 dBm and a peak power added efficiency (PAE) of 25% for continuous wave signals. At 24/25.6/28 GHz, the PA achieves +7.87/+9.16/+10.7 dBm measured output power and 6.21%/8.11%/10.17% PAE at −25 dBc error vector magnitude(EVM) for a 250 MHz-wide 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (64-QAM). The developed linear PA provides a great potential for low-cost 5G phased array transceivers.
Classification of strains of Xantho-monas oryzae on the basis of their susceptibility against bacteriophages.

Xanthomonas oryzae bacteriophage collected from various places of Japan could be classified into 4 strains, OP1, OP1h, OP1h2 and OP2 on the basis of their host range. It appeared that OP1 and OP1h2 were the ones more extensively distributed than the other phage strains in Japan.On the basis of susceptibility to these phage strains, 82 isolates of X. oryzae collected from various places of Japan were classified into 5 strains as follows;A strain: Susceptible to OP1, OP1h2 and OP2 but not to OP1hB strain: Susceptible to OP1h, OP1h2 and OP2 but not to OP1C strain: Resistant to all of these phagesD strain: Susceptible to OP1h2 and OP2 but not to OP1 and OP1hE strain: Susceptible to OP2 but not to OP1, OP1h and OP1h2Of these bacterial strains, A strain was the one most widely and commonly distributed in Japan, followed by B, D, C, and E strains in decending order. There was found no specific rule in the distribution pattern of these strains.
Design processes for enhancing museums through the use of technology and the involvement of local communities

The present contribution aims to present three different models that describe how a design process can advance a territory by enhancing its cultural heritage through museum exhibition systems. The models were developed starting from the analysis of four case studies: Museo Audiovisivo della Resistenza, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Atlantic Wall and Coordinamento delle Case Museo dei Poeti e Scrittori di Romagna. These case studies were selected and described on the basis of the characteristics they share: a strong connection with the territory, its history and its residents, the use of technology to improve the visitor experience and a participative approach to the design and development of the exhibition. The result of the case study analysis leads to the identification of three models: the first model is based on an interactive museum with custom technologies, the second on an interactive museum with a customizable system, and the third on an interactive museum with an open-source approach. In particular, the three models show that a greater degree of openness contributes to a greater involvement of local communities and a systemic enhancement of the territory.
Tunisian consumers perception and behavior towards organic food products

Organic agriculture production in Tunisia is relatively recent and was mainly oriented to the export market. However, local market demand is growing for such products. The objective of the current study is to assess consumers’ awareness and consumption of organic food products. A survey was implemented and included 250 respondents from the capital city Tunis. We used descriptive statistics, factor and cluster analysis to analyze the data. The results indicated that respondents’ perceptions towards organic food are positive. Four groups of consumers were identified with respondents from the main three groups have good understanding about organic food products characteristics. However, the proportion of consumers who purchase organic food on a regular basis is quite low (16%). Improving availability and access to organic products through the integration in mainstream sales channels and lower price premiums will help narrowing the gap between the intention to purchase organic products and the actual purchase. Nadhem Mtimet, Asma Souissi, Neama Mhamdi
A Novel Method of Optimal Capacitor Placement in the Presence of Harmonics for Power Distribution Network Using NSGA-II Multi-Objective Genetic Optimization Algorithm

One of the effective ways of reducing power system losses is local compensation of part of the reactive power consumption by deploying shunt capacitor banks. Since the capacitor’s impedance is frequency-dependent and it is possible to generate resonances at harmonic frequencies, it is important to provide an efficient method for the placement of capacitor banks in the presence of nonlinear loads which are the main cause of harmonic generation. This paper proposes a solution for a multi-objective optimization problem to address the optimal placement of capacitor banks in the presence of nonlinear loads, and it establishes a reasonable reconciliation between costs, along with improvement of harmonic distortion and a voltage index. In this paper, while using the harmonic power flow method to calculate the electrical quantities of the grid in terms of harmonic effects, the non-dominated sorting genetic (NSGA)-II multi-objective genetic optimization algorithm was used to obtain a set of solutions named the Pareto front for the problem. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the problem was tested for an IEEE 18-bus system. The results were compared with the methods used in eight other studies. The simulation results show the considerable efficiency and superiority of the proposed flexible method over other methods.
Estudio de genes candidatos sobre la efectividad y seguridad de la medicación anticonvulsiva en un grupo de pacientes colombianos afectados de epilepsia

Objetivos: explorar posibles determinantes geneticos de respuesta al tratamiento anticonvulsivante, en un grupo de pacientes epilepticos colombianos. Diseno: estudio observacional analitico prospectivo de cohorte. Se incluyeron 77 pacientes epilepticos colombianos adultos, procedentes de la Liga Central Contra la Epilepsia y de Mederi, para evaluar los siguientes polimorfismos geneticos: CYP2C9*2 (rs1799853), CYP2C9*3 (rs1057910), C3435T (rs1045642) y IVS5-91 G>A (rs3812718), y la asociacion con la respuesta al tratamiento. Los pacientes fueron seguidos durante el tiempo suficiente para confirmar la existencia de epilepsia farmacorresistente (EFR) o de respuesta al tratamiento, y la ocurrencia de reacciones adversas al medicamento (RAM). Estas fueron evaluadas de acuerdo con la causalidad, prevenibilidad, intensidad y presentacion clinica mediante criterios predeterminados. Resultados: 53,2% de los pacientes padecia EFR y el 87% de ellos empleaba fenitoina. No hubo asociacion entre las variantes geneticas evaluadas y EFR, o la dosis de mantenimiento de fenitoina. Se encontro asociacion entre la presencia de alelos mutantes de CYP2C9 y el desarrollo de reacciones adversas vestibulo-cerebelosas (p = 0,001). El 78% de los pacientes presento por lo menos una RAM, siendo las mas frecuentes las que afectaron el sistema nervioso central (57%). El 30% de las RAM se asociaron con factores geneticos del paciente y el 69% de ellas se catalogaron como prevenibles. 36,6% de los casos de fallo terapeutico pudieron explicarse por interacciones medicamentosas, por lo que en realidad pudieron corresponder a casos de “pseudorresistencia”. Conclusiones: los alelos *2 y *3 de CYP2C9 se asociaron significativamente con RAM vestibulo-cerebelosas en una muestra de pacientes epilepticos colombianos. Es posible que los genes ABCB1 y SCN1A no solo cumplan un rol como farmacogenes sino como biomarcadores de enfermedad. Es necesario implementar programas de farmacovigilancia en pacientes epilepticos con el fin de optimizar la relacion beneficio – riesgo de la medicacion antiepileptica.
Stream Processing on Clustered Edge Devices

The Internet of Things continuously generates avalanches of raw sensor data to be transferred to the Cloud for processing and storage. Due to network latency and limited bandwidth, this vertical offloading model, however, fails to meet requirements of time-critical data-intensive applications which must act upon generated data with minimum time delays. To address such a limitation, this article proposes a novel distributed architecture enabling stream data processing at the edge of the network, broadening the principle of enabling processing closer to data sources adopted by Fog and Edge Computing. Specifically, this architecture extends the Apache NiFi stream processing middleware with support for run-time clustering of heterogeneous edge devices, such that computational tasks can be horizontally offloaded to peer devices and executed in parallel. As opposed to vertical offloading on the Cloud, the proposed solution does not suffer from increased network latency and is thus able to offer 5-25 times faster response time, as demonstrated by the experiments on a run-time license plate recognition system.
Diagnosis in children with exercise-induced respiratory symptoms: a multi-centre study

Exercise-induced respiratory symptoms (EIS) are common in childhood and reflect different diseases that can be difficult to diagnose. In children referred to respiratory outpatient clinics for EIS, we compared the diagnosis proposed by the referring primary care physician with the final diagnosis from the outpatient clinic and described diagnostic tests performed and treatment prescribed after the diagnostic evaluation.Observational study nested in the Swiss Paediatric Airway Cohort (SPAC), which includes respiratory outpatients aged 0-16 years.We included children with EIS as main reason for referral. Information about diagnostic investigations, final diagnosis, and treatment prescribed came from outpatient records.214 were referred for EIS (mean age 12 years, 99 (46%) female). The final diagnosis was asthma in 115 (54%), extrathoracic dysfunctional breathing (DB) in 35 (16%), thoracic DB in 22 (10%), asthma plus DB in 23 (11%), insufficient fitness in 10 (5%), chronic cough in 6 (3%), and other diagnoses in 3 (1%). Final diagnosis differed from referral diagnosis in 115 (54%). Spirometry, body plethysmography and measurements of exhaled nitric oxide were performed in almost all; exercise-challenge tests in a third. 91% of the children with a final diagnosis of asthma were prescribed inhaled medication and 50% of children with DB were referred to physiotherapy.Diagnosis given at the outpatient clinic often differed from the diagnosis suspected by the referring physician. Diagnostic evaluation, management and follow-up were inconsistent between clinics and diagnostic groups, highlighting the need for diagnostic guidelines in children seen for EIS.Exercise-induced symptoms are common in childhood but not easy to diagnose because different diagnoses share similar clinical presentationsOnly few studies focused on children with exercise-induced symptoms and all have included selected groups of patients with difficult-to-diagnose problemsExercise-induced respiratory symptoms was the main reason for referral in one fifth of the children referred to paediatric respiratory outpatient clinics.Dysfunctional breathing is an under-recognised diagnosis; it was frequently diagnosed in the outpatient clinic (in 37%) but rarely suspected by the referring physician (6%)Diagnostic evaluation, management, and follow-up were inconsistent between clinics highlighting the need for diagnostic guidelines in children seen for EIS.
The effects of ski area expansion on elk.

We documented responses of 2 populations of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) to disturbances associated with ski-area expansion. Development at the first study site (Vail) consisted only of physical disturbances (disturbed ground = 3-5o/o), while development at the second study site (Beaver Creek) was primarily increases in human activity. Elk use at Vail after development decreased to 30/% of pre-development elk use. This decrease was primarily influenced by a decrease in elk use of the most developed bowl, where elk use in the first post-development year was 4% of pre-development levels. We detected no changes in use of the remaining, less developed bowls. We were unable to detect a statistical difference when we pooled elk-use data at the Beaver Creek study site, but when we analyzed each area within this study site, we detected a dramatic decrease in the number of elk observed in 1 area (elk use in the first post-development year was 2% of pre-development use). After development, elk use at the Beaver Creek study site was lowest when human activity was highest. Post-development elk use at both study sites indicated elk partially acclimated behaviorally because the number of elk seen increased linearly each year after development. Since these relationships may level off in later years, complete recovery should not be assumed.
Missed connections and embarrassing confessions: Using big data to examine sex differences in sexual omission and commission regret.

Error management theory (EMT; Haselton & Buss, 2000) draws on parental investment theory (Trivers, 1972) and signal detection to make novel predictions about human cognitive biases and their adaptive implications. EMT predicts that heterosexual men overperceive sexual interest from women, whereas women underperceive honest signals of relationship commitment from men. In turn, sexual strategies theory (Buss & Schmitt, 1993) predicts that men may experience more regret over romantic or sexual omission (missed opportunities), whereas women may experience more regret over romantic or sexual commission (regretting past decisions). We tested these predictions using craigslist’s missed connections (personal ads posted by people on craigslist.org seeking to contact someone they saw briefly in public) and FMyLife.com’s (FML) love and intimacy sections (embarrassing incidents that people experience and choose to share online anonymously). We recorded missed connections for men seeking women and women seeking men in all 50 U.S. states at 3 time points (N 61,000). We also recorded FMLs posted by men and women over a 3-year span (N 3,500). Consistent with EMT, parental investment theory, and sexual strategies theory, men were more likely to post missed connections (sexual or romantic omission regret), whereas women were more likely to post in FML’s love and intimacy sections (sexual or romantic commission regret). We discuss EMT’s broad theoretical implications for psychology.
Diseño, modelado 3D y optimización del comportamiento mecanoacústico de un nuevo tubo de ventilación transtimpánico

Introduction and Objetive: We show a new trans-tympanic ventilation tube whose design and mass are intended to solve the undesirable effects that appeared during the insertion of currently commercialized ventilation tubes; We analyze its mechanical behavior in a 3D model of the ear in order to optimize its acoustic behavior. Methods: For the design of the tube an autoCAD software was used; The mechanical behavior was analyzed in a 3D dynamic computerized model of the human ear based on the finite element method (FEM). Results: The new ventilation tube has a size and mass significantly smaller than those currently available in the market, which causes less interference in the vibration of the eardrum-osicular system; Its design facilitates it to remain inserted while the patient's conditions so advise avoiding its fall into the middle ear cavity or its early extrusion. Conclusions: The biological and acoustic advantages of the new developed tube (with less mass and whose design avoids the complications of the current ones) can open a new possibility of treatment of chronic seromucous otitis media.
Stakeholders’ Social Network in the Participatory Process of Formulation of Natura 2000 Management Programme in Slovenia

Stakeholder participation has become an important driving force in policy decision-making and implementation, particularly in the nature conservation sector, where complex interactions and conflict of interest between stakeholders are common. A stakeholder analysis, which was complemented with a social network analysis, was used to examine the cooperation and conflict network between stakeholders, their institutions, and sectors in the case of the formulation of the Natura 2000 Management programme in Slovenia for the period 2015–2020 (PUN). Using data from a web survey (n = 167), cooperation and conflict networks were analysed while using degree centrality, indegree centrality, betweenness centrality, and blockmodeling. The results of the stakeholder analysis showed that the highest number of stakeholders that are involved in the participatory process of PUN was from the forestry and hunting sector, followed by the agriculture and nature conservation sector. The results of the cooperation network showed that the network is highly centralized, with only few institutions taking a central position in the PUN process (Institute for Nature Conservation, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, and the Slovenian Forest Service). Moreover, the nature conservation sector was, on average, a sector with the highest concentration of power. In addition, in the cooperation network, which was fragmented across sectors, there were institutions that belonged to the same sector, which tended to cooperate with each other. The analysis of the conflict network showed that institutions with a central position in the cooperation network also had a central role in the conflict network. In addition, conflicts between institutions more frequently appeared among institutions from different sectors. The exceptions were institutions from the fishery and water sector, as this sector seemed to have many conflicts within it. Based on a blockmodeling, four groups of institutions were identified according to their cooperation network (core institutions, semi-core institutions, semi-periphery institutions, and periphery institutions). Our finding suggested that the participatory process of formulating PUN needs to be improved in such a way that in the future various stakeholders, especially excluded local ones, are more actively involved and a balance of the power between the stakeholders involved achieved.
Gender underlies the formation of STEM research groups

Abstract Research groups are the cornerstone of scientific research, yet little is known about how these groups are formed and how their organization is influenced by the gender of the research group leader. This represents an important gap in our understanding of the processes shaping gender structure within universities and the academic fields they represent. Here, we report the results of an email survey sent to department chairs and discipline‐specific listservs. We received responses from 275 female and 175 male research group leaders. Most respondents were biologists (n = 328) but psychology (n = 27), chemistry (n = 16), physics (n = 32), and mathematics (n = 30) were also relatively well represented. We found that men were self‐reported as overrepresented in research groups in the physical sciences, particularly at later career stages. Within biology, male and female group leaders reported supervising a disproportionate number of same‐gender trainees (students and postdoctoral fellows), particularly early in their careers. These self‐reported patterns were driven primarily by gender‐based differences in the pool of students applying to their research groups, while gender differences in acceptance rates played a seemingly smaller role. We discuss the implications of our results for women continuing into the professoriate and for the recruitment of young scientists into research groups.
“Expect the Unexpected:” Experiences of U.S.-Trained Student Affairs Professionals Working Abroad

Opportunities for student affairs work outside of the United States continue to increase because of the value of the U.S. student affairs model in the growing number of branch campuses and U.S.-inspired institutions. This qualitative study explored the student-focused and institutional experiences of 29 student affairs professionals abroad. The findings include a recognition of the universality of student needs, the applicability of student development theory in a global context, and unique positions and organizational structures abroad.