Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of autonomy transparency in human-robot interactions : a preliminary study on operator cognitive workload and situation awareness in multiple heterogeneous UAV management

The autonomous capabilities in collaborative unmanned aircraft systems are growing rapidly. Without appropriate transparency, the effectiveness of the future multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) management paradigm will be significantly limited by the human agent’s cognitive abilities; where the operator’s CognitiveWorkload (CW) and Situation Awareness (SA) will present as disproportionate. This proposes a challenge in evaluating the impact of robot autonomous capability feedback, allowing the human agent greater transparency into the robot’s autonomous status - in a supervisory role. This paper presents; the motivation, aim, related works, experiment theory, methodology, results and discussions, and the future work succeeding this preliminary study. The results in this paper illustrates that, with a greater transparency of a UAV’s autonomous capability, an overall improvement in the subjects’ cognitive abilities was evident, that is, with a confidence of 95%, the test subjects’ mean CW was demonstrated to have a statistically significant reduction, while their mean SA was demonstrated to have a significant increase.
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The operation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures, features high multiplication factors at relatively low operation potentials, in both singleand double-THGEM configurations. We present some systematic data measured with UV-photons and soft x-rays, in various Ne mixtures. It includes gain dependence on hole diameter and gas purity, photoelectron extraction efficiency from CsI photocathodes into the gas, long-term gain stability and pulse rise-time. Position resolution of a 100× 100 mm2 X-ray imaging detector is presented. Possible applications are discussed.
THE EFFICACY OF MYCOSORB AND ZEOLITE TO ALLEVIATE T-2 TOXINS-INDUCED TOXICITY IN CULTURED OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS

Received at: 28/3/2015 Accepted: 20/4/2015 The aim of this work was to find out how Oreochromis niloticus were fed diets containing T-2 toxins for a period of 42 days as well as study the role of efficacy of two mycotoxin adsorbents to alleviate T2 toxins -induced toxicity. The O. niloticus were treated with 1 g /kg from both Mycosorb (G1) and Zeolite (G2), 0.1 mg/kg of T-2 in (G3), 0.1 mg/kg of T-2 + 1 g/kg Mycosorb in (G4), 0.1 mg/kg of T-2 + 1 g/kg Zeolite in (G5) and control negative group feed on basal commercial ration (G6). T-2 toxins was dissolved in 10 ml/kg of 7% (DMSO). These doses were added to feed daily for a period of seven weeks. Some biochemical blood serum indicators of liver and kidney functions, and leucogram were monitored as well as histopathological picture of some internal organs. The results revealed an increase in the levels of liver enzymes, urea and creatinine; meanwhile, the total protein, Ca, P and Mg, were decreased. It could be concluded that both Mycosorb and Zeolite may be useful tool to minimize the toxic effects of T-2 toxicity by its potent antioxidant activity. The kidney plays an important physiological. Fish treated with both Mycosorb and Zeolite showed an amelioration of the adverse effects of T-2 toxicity and significant improvement in serum electrolytes (calcium, inorganic phosphate, and magnesium) and creatinine level compared with the positive control group (P < 0.05). Mycosorb and Zeolite have the ability to improve the kidney function after T-2 intoxication of O. niloticus. Key word: T2 toxins, Oreochromis niloticus, blood picture, differential lymphocytes count and kidney function.
Speech , Hearing and Language : work in progress Volume 13 Lenition degrades information : consonant allophony in Ibibio

Consonantal lenition degrades information in the speech signal and should be understood as having an analogous impact on phonological representations. The point is illustrated by a phonological and instrumental study of Ibibio (Lower Cross, Nigeria). The more general claim is that informational asymmetries in the speech signal are matched by informational asymmetries in phonology.
GSM based Monitoring and Control of Systems

In this paper we have proposed a method to make a base for the monitoring and Control of systems. The monitoring and Control of systems could be from monitoring of movements in any particular area to the monitoring of any external electrical, mechanical device. Every person is pocketed with the cell. So, taking the advantage of the same we developed the system for the monitoring and Control system using GSM technology. This will provide the owner, manager of the system to know about the working or any kind of default in the system. Also the system is controlled which is needed in special circumstances and is be implemented with the help of complete circuitry which is a different module (DTMF module) has a specific code as input through GSM encoder that is processed by decoder circuitry of our system. The goal is to find an improvement over the previous surveillance systems . The maintainability of the new and improved is quite efficient as it is easy to handle it by simple software demo. The facilities provided by it such as easy handling, a secrecy support, an immediate action are granted. A prototype is built in the Windows platform using C# to demonstrate the functioning of the entire system.
HPLC method optimization for the preclinical and clinical assessment of neurological disorders

Kynurenic acid (KYNA) has well-established protective properties against glutamatergic neurotransmission, which plays an essential role in the activation and sensitization process during some primary headache disorders. The goal of this study was to compare the effects of two KYNA analogs, N-(2-N,N-dimethylaminoethyl)-4oxo-1H-quinoline-2-carboxamide hydrochloride (KA-1) and N-(2-N-pyrrolidinylethyl)-4-oxo-1H-quinoline-2-carboxamide hydrochloride (KA-2), in the orofacial formalin test of trigeminal pain. Following pretreatment with KA-1 or KA-2, rats were injected with subcutaneous formalin solution in the right whisker pad. Thereafter, the rubbing activity and c-Fos immunoreactivity changes in the spinal trigeminal nucleus pars caudalis (TNC) were investigated. To obtain pharmacokinetic data, KA-1, KA-2 and KYNA concentrations were measured following KA-1 or KA-2 injection. Behavioral tests demonstrated that KA-2 induced larger amelioration of formalin-evoked alterations as compared with KA-1 and the assessment of c-Fos immunoreactivity in the TNC yielded similar results. Although KA-1 treatment resulted in approximately four times larger area under the curve values in the serum relative to KA-2, the latter resulted in a higher KYNA elevation than in the case of KA-1. With regard to TNC, the concentration of KA-1 was under the limit of detection, while that of KA-2 was quite small and there was no major difference in the approximately tenfold KYNA elevations. These findings indicate that the differences between the beneficial effects of KA-1 and KA-2 may be explained by the markedly higher peripheral KYNA levels following KA-2 pretreatment. Targeting the peripheral component of trigeminal pain processing would provide an option for drug design which might prove beneficial in headache conditions.
On Designing Distributed Auction Mechanisms for Wireless Spectrum Allocation

Auctions are believed to be effective methods to solve the problem of wireless spectrum allocation. Existing spectrum auction mechanisms are all centralized and suffer from several critical drawbacks of the centralized systems, which motivates the design of distributed spectrum auction mechanisms. However, extending a centralized spectrum auction to a distributed one broadens the strategy space of agents from one dimension (bid) to three dimensions (bid, communication, and computation), and thus cannot be solved by traditional approaches from mechanism design. In this paper, we propose two distributed spectrum auction mechanisms, namely distributed VCG and FAITH. Distributed VCG implements the celebrated Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism in a distributed fashion to achieve optimal social welfare, at the cost of exponential communication overhead. In contrast, FAITH achieves sub-optimal social welfare with tractable computation and communication overhead. We prove that both of the two proposed mechanisms achieve faithfulness, i.e., the agents’ individual utilities are maximized, if they follow the intended strategies. Besides, we extend FAITH to adapt to dynamic scenarios where agents can arrive or depart at any time, without violating the property of faithfulness. We implement distributed VCG and FAITH, and evaluate their performance in various setups. Evaluation results show that distributed VCG results in optimal allocation, while FAITH is more efficient in computation and communication.
GROWTH AND PLUMAGE DEVELOPMENT OF NESTLING LONG-EARED OWLS

Abstract ABSTRACT We report the growth rates and plumage development of Long-eared Owls (Asio otus) in two developmental stages from hatching to fledging, the nestling period (1–22 days) and prefledging period (23–37 days). We used the logistic growth equation to model nestling mass gain. Mass gain was most rapid during the nestling period. Average mass gain per day was highest between seven and 13 days of age. At 16 days of age nestlings displayed defined facial disks and complete second down. Nestlings left the nest at 22 days of age. Mass gain slowed considerably after nest departure and continued to slow up to fledging. Appearance of defensive and concealment behaviors occurred nearly simultaneously with departure from the nest. To our knowledge this is the first detailed report of nestling growth rates and plumage development for Long-eared Owls in North America.
ANTIMICROBIA L POTENTIAL OF P O LYHERBO - MINERAL FORMULATION JATYADI TAILA - A REVIEW

Jatyadi taila is a Polyherbo - mineral ayurvedic preparation which is used for topical application on the burns and scald s. In ayurveda Jatyadi taila is an extremely useful as wound healer as it possesses antimicrobial activity. It is also useful in various skin afflictions. This formulation chiefly contains the plants Curcuma longa , Azadirachta indica , Symplocos racemosa , J asminum auriculatum , Sesame indicum , Copper which individually have been successfully shown antimicrobial activity scientifically. This review explains the antimicrobial potential of each ingredient present in this polyherbo - mineral ayurvedic formulation a nd needs a scientific exploration so as to document its therapeutic effectiveness.
Trend of Life Expectancy in Sudan Dr .

The main objective of this paper is to construct a time series model to monitor and forecast the life expectancy at birth in Sudan. To achieve this objective, a series of life expectancy at birth ranged from 1990 to 2013was obtained from the Sudan Central Bureau of statistics and United Nation Annual Reports, time series analysis technique mainly box and Jenkins were used to find the required model . Analysis done by e-views package. The paper conclude that The most proper time series model to forecast the life expectancy at birth in Sudan is the ARIMA model, The highest forecasted Life Expectancy at Birth in the Sudan for the coming ten years will be attained in year 2023 as 66.4835 years and finally The life expectancy at Birth in Sudan is increasing at a decreasing rate.
Personnel/Human Resources Management: A Political Influence Perspective

It was suggested over 10 years ago that new and different perspectives should be applied to the Personnel/Human Resources Management (P/HRM)field in an effort to promote theory and research and expand our understanding of the dynamics underlying P/HRM processes. This article tries to address this suggestion in three ways. First, it proposes a political influence perspective as an alternative way to view P/HRM decisions and actions. Second, it reviews research investigating political influence in key P/HRM areas. Third, it examines the strengths and limitations of the political influence perspective relative to other perspectives.
Tricalcium Phosphate Nanostructures Loaded with Bisphosphonate as Potential Anticancer Agents

Nanostructured calcium phosphate carriers are emerging as a bisphosphonate delivery system that has demonstrated inhibitory effects in preventing bone metastasis, thereby improving the treatment of breast cancer. In this research, the inhibitory effect of loaded zoledronic acid (ZA) in tricalcium phosphate nanostructures (TCPNs) synthesized with the co-precipitation method was investigated. The results of microstructural analysis indicated that the sintering temperature has a slight influence on the synthesized crystallite size. The sintered crystallite size of tricalcium phosphate (TCP) at 800 °C (b-TCP) and 1450 °C (a-TCP) was calculated to be in the nanoscale range. The inhibitory effect of TCPNs (with different phases) on cancer cell lines including MCF-7 (breast cancer) and G-292 (osteosarcoma cancer) was investigated. In vitro results confirmed that the TCPNs were able to inhibit the proliferation of breast cancer cells. Experimental results of MCF-7 cell culture after two days proved that the growth of the cancer cells was inhibited by about 61 % and 83 % after treatment with b-TCP and a-TCP, respectively. Bisphosphonate-loaded TCPNs had no toxicity according to MTT assay results, but did have an inhibitory effect on MCF-7 cancer cells. The time dependence of ZA drug release from a and b-TCP and its effect on MCF-7 and G-292 cell treatment was investigated. The results suggested that TCPNs are promising materials that could be developed for treating local bone and breast cancers.
Yield option pricing in the generalized Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Model.

In this paper, we provide pricing formulae for both European and American yield options in the generalized Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (1985) single-factor term structure model with time-dependent parameters. Our results are established by forward-neutral pricing. The law of the generalized CIR short term interest rate process under the forward-neutral probability is obtained by using results on the relation between the generalized square-root process and squared Bessel processes with time-varying dimension.
Mitigating atmospheric noise for InSAR using a high resolution weather model

A high resolution weather model is used to predict atmospheric delays for the acquisition times of synthetic aperture radar images over Hawaii. Refraction of the radar by water vapor in the atmosphere in Hawaii leads to apparent ground‐motions with wavelengths and magnitudes similar to the actual ground motions generated by tectonic and volcanic processes. We examine the potential for a weather model to help characterize the atmospheric component in InSAR scenes and find that in the best cases it models the observed delays well, reducing the variance at wavelengths of 30 km and greater by ∼60%, while even in the worst cases it provides an independent means of quantifying the expected variance in the image due to the atmosphere.
A Matter of Context: A Comparative Study of Media Environments and News Consumption Gaps in Europe

Research has shown that individual-level characteristics such as socioeconomic status and political interest are becoming more important as predictors of news consumption in a rapidly changing media environment. Despite this general trend, this article argues that the importance of individual-level predictors of news consumption varies between national media environments. We use extensive survey data from 16 European countries and multilevel modeling in order to investigate both contextual-level and cross-level effects on news consumption. The results show that media environment characteristics have additional effects on news consumption beyond the effects of individual-level characteristics such as education and political interest, but also moderating impacts on these individual-level predictors of news consumption. More specifically, national media environments characterized by higher levels of newspaper-centrism are related to smaller gaps in newspaper reading between those with high and low levels of education and political interest. Lower degrees of newspaper-centrism are, on the other hand, related to a weaker “lower-class bias” of television news and larger gaps in news consumption between those with and without high political interest. These findings are discussed in light of previous research on news consumption, knowledge, and participation gaps as well as cross-national comparative research.
THE DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL AND POLARIZATION ESTIMATION USING COPRIME ARRAY: A RECONSTRUCTED COVARIANCE MATRIX APPROACH

In this paper, we propose a novel direction of arrival (DOA) and polarization estimation method to address the problem of a coprime polarization-sensitive array (PSA). For a PSA, there may be a zero element in the covariance matrix when the polarized signal comes from a specific direction. To overcome this problem, we utilize the reconstructed received data to obtain a new covariance matrix whose elements are all non-zero. Then, the coprime MUSIC and sparse signal reconstruction algorithms are used for DOA estimation. In addition, the power of noise can be estimated in this polarization model, which improves upon the sparse signal reconstruction algorithm. Compared with the normalized algorithm, the proposed method offers favorable performance in terms of accuracy. Furthermore, our method can identify the peaks of the true DOAs at a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
LARVICIDAL ACTIVITY OF Vitex negundo Linn . ( LAGUNDI ) AGAINST MOSQUITO LARVAE

Mosquitoes have been a constant problem in the community as they continuously transmit serious diseases. Therefore, this study aimed to eliminate larvae of mosquitoes using Vitex negundo Linn. ethanol leaf extracts. This was done by comparing the span of time the larvae were exterminated upon exposure to treatments with three various ethanol leaf extract concentrations. The three concentrations of ethanol leaf extracts were 30%, 60%, and 90% with commercial insecticide as the positive control and the extracting solvent ethanol as the negative control. Three trials with three replicates with ten larvae each replicate were utilized in the study. The time (in minutes) of mortality was measured for each treatment application and the significance between the treatments was analyzed using the One-Way ANOVA and Tukey Test. Results showed a statistically significant difference between the 30% extract when compared to the 60% extract, 90% extract, positive control insecticide and control ethanol. The 60% extract, 90% extract and ethanol displayed a statistically insignificant difference when compared to the positive control. The Vitex negundo Linn. ethanol leaf extract therefore has larvicidal activity against mosquito larvae, though thorough processing is still necessary for assured efficiency.
Nanostructured Thin Coatings from Chitosan and an Elastin-Like Recombinamer with Acute Stimuli-Responsive Behavior

In the present work, chitosan (CHI) and elastin-like recombinamers (ELRs) were used to conceive nanostructured thin films driven by sequential electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL), a simple and versatile technique that discards the use of harmful reagents. Two similar ELRs were engineered to contain negatively charged aminoacids and organized and a single monoblock or a triblock. The buildup of the films was monitored in real time using a quartz-crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). Wettability transitions were observed from a moderate hydrophobic surface to an extremely wettable upon increasing the temperature to 50 °C, accompanied by topography changes at the nanoscale as assessed by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Furthermore, the dependence on time for the surface molecular rearrangement was studied for the films with each ELR. The potential of this technology may stimulate the development of devices and biomaterials for biomedical applications in the near future, such as surfaces with tunable and patterned cell adhesion, while the use of ELRs will allow developing polypeptides with biological significance.
An Overview of Image-Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)

Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) has undergone a continuous evolution of refinements leading up to the sophisticated techniques currently implemented as standard treatment, in radiation oncology clinics. This paper aims to summarize, in a general fashion, the key advances that have resulted in the ability of radiation oncologists to deliver increased radiotherapy doses to tumors, reduce doses to normal tissues, limit treatment related toxicity/complications, and increase patient convenience.
Experimental rate coefficients of F 5+ recombining into F 4+

Recombination spectra of F 5+ producing F 4+ have been investigated with high-energy resolution, using the CRYRING heavy-ion storage ring. The absolute recombination rate coefficients are derived in the centre-of-mass energy range of 0−25 eV. The experimental results are compared with intermediate-coupling AUTOSTRUCTURE calculations for 2s−2p (� n = 0) core excitation and show very good agreement in the resonance energy positions and intensities. Trielectronic recombination with 2s 2 −2p 2 transitions are clearly identified in the spectrum. Contributions from F 5+ ions in an initial metastable state are also considered. The energy-dependent recombination spectra are convoluted with Maxwell-Boltzmann energy distribution in the 10 3 −10 6 K temperature range. The resulting temperature-dependent rate coefficients are compared with theoretical results from the literature. In the 10 3 −10 4 K range, the calculated data significantly underestimates the plasma recombination rate coefficients. Above 8 × 10 4 K, our AUTOSTRUCTURE results and plasma rate coefficients from elsewhere show agreement that is better than 25% with the experimental results.
Alternating Direction Methods of Multipliers with the BFGS update for Convex Optimization Problems

Alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) have been well studied and effectively used in various application fields. At each iteration, the classical ADMM must solve two subproblems exactly. To overcome the difficulty of computing the exact solution of the subproblems, some proximal terms are added to the subproblems. Recently, Gu and Yamashita studied a special proximal ADMM whose regularized matrix in the proximal term is generated by the BFGS update (or Limited memory BFGS) at every iteration for a structured quadratic optimization problem, and reported that the numbers of iterations were almost same as those by the exact ADMM in their numerical experiments. In this paper, we propose such a proximal ADMM with BFGS update for more general convex optimization problems. The convergence of the proposed method is proved under standard assumptions.
Grid Computing Standards

In this paper we present most accepted standardization approaches concerning grid computing. Standardization has always been a key issue when talking about widespread commercialization and enterprise applications. In centre of interest are standards published by the Global Grid Forum and OASIS. These standards are OGSA, OGSI and WSRF. They base on Web Services. To complete the overview a standard conform implementation is presented: Globus Toolkit. In order to give a practical relation two examples will be briefly discussed. The first one is a sample implementation with Globus Toolkit and the second one is a real life example about scientific computing.