Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
View integration technique using multi-resolution point clouds in 3D modeling

In this paper we focus on integrating multi-resolution data from different range sensors into complete 3D model. To simplify the process of building high-resolution model, we propose to create hierarchical structure of data, which contains measurements collected with both time of flight scanner and structured light projection system. Two approaches of view integration are compared with each other to formulate conclusion if combining data from different range sensors allows to improve integration process or leads to data redundancy. According to the first approach, data at higher resolution are mapped on those at lower resolution according to interest features extracted in the datasets. Interest points are calculated with Harris detector on base of curvature and texture (when available) and described with designed descriptors. Second approach assumes that only data at the highest resolution can be used and no reference is involved in integration process. At the end, the summarizing remarks are formulated according to the test results conducted on real 3D measurements.
Periodic acid-Schiff ’ s reagent assay for carbohydrates in a microtitre plate format

Microtitre plate colourimetric assays are widely used for analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates. However, mucins are often not easily detected, as they have low neutral sugar content. We have adapted and optimised the periodic acid-Schiff’s reagent (PAS) staining for microtitre plate assay by examining five factors; concentration and volume of periodic acid, oxidation time, volume of Schiff’s reagent and colour development time. This assay requires just 25 L of sample, utilises standardised Schiff’s reagent and has decreased assay time (140 minutes to completion). Seventeen monosaccharides (acidic, neutral, basic, phosphorylated and deoxy) and four disaccharides were assessed. PAS-positive carbohydrates (amino, N-acetylamino, deoxy and certain neutral monosaccharides and sialic acids) responded linearly within a 10 – 100 nmole range approximately, which varied for each carbohydrate. Assay response for fetuin and porcine gastric mucin (PGM) was linear up to 150 g (highest concentration tested), with no response from non-glycosylated protein. A lower response for asialofetuin was observed, but desialylated PGM preparations were similar or higher in response than their sialylated counterparts. The simplicity and low sample consumption of this method makes it an excellent choice for screening or quantitation of chromatographic fractions containing carbohydrates and glycoconjugates, especially in the case of mucins.
Evolución de la leptospirosis según el Sistema de Vigilancia Epidemiológica Nacional, Chile 2003-2009

Introduccion: En Chile, a partir de 2002 la leptospirosis es una enfermedad de notificacion obligatoria, universal e inmediata, ademas de ser agente de vigilancia de laboratorio. Objetivo: Describir la leptospirosis en Chile y su evolucion desde el inicio del sistema de vigilancia obligatoria hasta el ultimo ano de informacion disponible. Metodos: Se realizo un analisis descriptivo de los datos registrados desde 2003 al 2009, considerando las diferentes fuentes del Ministerio de Salud que notifican casos (registro obligatorio de casos, egresos hospitalarios, registro de laboratorio y defunciones). Por ser una zoonosis tambien se consideraron los casos animales registrados por el Servicio Agricola y Ganadero, de manera de establecer una asociacion en terminos de su distribucion espacial y temporal. Se distinguieron segun la Clasificacion Internacional de Enfermedades (CIE 10) los codigos A270 (Leptospirosis icterohemorragica), A278 (Otras formas) y A279 (Leptospirosis, no especificadas). Resultados: Luego del cruce de informacion desde las diferentes fuentes, se puede apreciar una sub-notificacion de la enfermedad, imposibilitando la determinacion de la tasa de incidencia y definiendola solo como tasa de notificacion. Discusion: De acuerdo a estos datos, la enfermedad tiende a disminuir. Existe correlacion entre las regiones que registran mayor numero de casos humanos y animales, correspondiendo a las regiones del Bio Bio y Maule, no existiendo concordancia en los anos de registro de casos. Se sugiere que el sistema de vigilancia de esta enfermedad sea sometido a una evaluacion, en terminos de su consistencia, exactitud, comparabilidad, validez, sensibilidad e integralidad.
The Overlapped Triple Circle Pulse Technique with Nd:YAG Laser for Refractory Hand Warts

Abstract Background and objective: Inadvertent superficial treatment of hand warts causes recurrence, whereas aggressive treatment can lead to tissue defects resulting in hand dysfunction. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a novel laser treatment modality for recalcitrant hand warts. Materials and methods: The study included 51 patients who were treated for 146 recalcitrant hand warts using 1064 nm long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser between 2011 and 2014. The laser treatment method is novel because each treated wart was aligned at the intersection point of the circles of 3 laser pulses per session. Results: Among the 146 hand warts, 88.35% were successfully treated with one session and 100% of those that required a second treatment session were treated successfully, based on the 12 month follow-up examination. Conclusions: Long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser treatment was observed to be a safe, rapid, and effective method for treating recalcitrant hand warts.
Preface: Peregrinations down memory lane

In 1960 I was looking for an interesting thesis topic. My advisor, Professor Harold Hand of the University of Illinois, suggested that I combine my two interests of language teaching and psychology and gave me a month to research the possibilities in this area. After a concentrated period of reading and searching, I gathered together my 3 by 5 cards and went to see Professor Hand. I reported to him that, from my reading, it was clear that, in the present state of the field, it would be impossible to apply the psychologists' theories to the processes of language learning and teaching. To this he replied “Then you go and do it. ”
Concept feedback in computer-graded assignments

Information technology in education has greatly enhanced feedback for students and instructors. However, the feedback for instructors has been more difficult to get as individualization of problems has evolved in sophistication and complexity to insure that students are inhibited from mindless copying other students' work without impeding useful collaboration. This has led to a redesign of the problem coding and assessment tools in newly developed software to enable meaningful feedback. The method used and examples of concept feedback are presented and discussed.
Strong Replication in the GlobData Middleware

GLOBDATA is a project that aims to design and implement a middleware tool offering the abstraction of a global object database repository. This tool, calledCOPLA, supports transactional access to geographically distributed persistent objects independent of their location. Additionally, it supports replication of data according to different consistency criteria. For this purpose,COPLA implements a number of consistency protocols offering different tradeoffs between performance and fault-tolerance. This paper presents the work on strong consistency protocols for the GLOBDATA system. Two protocols are presented: a voting protocol and a non-voting protocol. Both these protocols rely on the use of atomic broadcast as a building block to serialize conflicting transactions. The paper also introduces the total order protocol being developed to support large-scale replication.
Dominant Resource Fairness with Time Constraints in Cloud Computing

Fair resource is a key building block of any shared computing system. Recently fair division theory has emerged as a promising approach for the allocation of multiple computational resources among users. While in reality users are not all present in the system simultaneously. Dominant Resource Fairness(DRF) satisfies SI , PE AND EF, but violates SP. We have introduced Dominant Resource Fairness with Time Constraints (TDRF), a fair sharing model that generalizes max-min fairness to multiple resource types. TDRF has lots of good properties, it satisfies DSI, PE and SP. Users can exchange resources which are user don not need for resources which are user need by exchange mechanism. TDRF think about the time factor to improve the overall effectiveness of the system. If users stay the system more longer, the resources which user contributes will be use more longer by other users. We construct TDRF mechanisms that provably satisfy properties, and analyze the performance.
[Overweight/obesity in women and its implication in breast cancer: age of diagnosis].

UNLABELLED Overweight, obesity, and breast cancer are three pathologies that are endemic in the world today and which have a great impact on society. Many research studies are currently trying to discover possible associations between these factors and to specify the links between them. OBJECTIVE To verify whether there is a direct connection between overweight/obesity in women with breast cancer and its relation to age of diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample population in this study was composed of 118 women (32-76 years of age) who had been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2009-2011 at the Centro Oncológico Estatal ISSEMyM [National Cancer Institute of Mexico]. An observational, descriptive, and transversal study was performed in which a random sample of n = 60 women was divided into two groups. The first group was composed of women with breast cancer, but who were of normal weight. The second group was composed of women with breast cancer, but who were either overweight or obese. In both groups, the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) was applied, and the BMI (weight and height) was determined as well as waist circumference. RESULTS A statistically significant relation was found between age of diagnosis and weight (normal/overweight/obese) of the subjects (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The results obtained show that overweight and obesity are directly linked to breast cancer and age of diagnosis. Breast cancer was diagnosed earlier in women of normal weight.
Multi‐bit Sigma‐Delta Modulator for Low Distortion and High‐Speed Operation

A multi‐bit sigma‐delta modulator architecture is described for low‐distortion performance and a high‐speed operation. The proposed architecture uses both a delayed code and a delayed differential code of analog‐to‐digital converter in the feedback path, thereby suppressing signal components in the integrators and relaxing the timing requirement of the analog‐to‐digital converter and the scrambler logic. Implemented by a 0.13 μm CMOS process, the sigma‐delta modulator achieves high linearity. The measured spurious‐free dynamic range is 89.1 dB for −6 dBFS input signal.
Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English

In this chapter, we discuss the syntactic and discourse properties of a number of adverbs in Old and Middle English, concentrating on þa and þonne, which both have ‘then’ as their literal meaning. This may seem like a small topic, but in fact, we will show that the syntactic and discourse properties of these adverbs reveal a good deal about the changing organisation of clause structure and discourse during the Old English period and the transition to Middle English. Building our argument around the properties of these adverbs, we will address a number of core issues in the analysis of Old English clause structure, such as the shift from parataxis to hypotaxis, the underlying motivation for the Verb Second constraint, and the changing position of various types of subject. An important implication of our discussion will turn out to be that the syntactic organization of the clause, at least in Old English, is interwoven with discourse organization much more closely than has been thought so far, and that the transition to Middle English is one that results in a more strictly syntactic organization of the clause.
Particle-based Semiconductor Device Simulation Accelerated by GPU computing

We demonstrate that the parallel computing with graphic processing unit (GPU) effectively accelerates a particle-based carrier transport simulation called EMC/MD method. The simulation speed is increased by parallelizing the point-to-point Coulomb’s force calculation, which is sufficient to accomplish a device characteristic simulation of nanostructured metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) including source and drain diffusion regions. The EMC/MD simulation powered by GPU computing is a useful tool to investigate the statistical variability analysis of nano-scale transistors.
Human-computer interface design : success stories, emerging methods, and real-world context

Preface Part I Success Cases Usability for Fun and Profit: A Case Study of the Design of DEC Rally Version 2 Dennis Wixon and Sandy Jones Rapid, Integrated Design of a Multimedia Communication System Ellen Francik The Xerox Star: An Influential User Interface Design Lawrence H. Miller and Jeff Johnson Project Ernestine: Analytic and Empirical Methods Applied to a Real-World CHI Problem Michael E. Atwood, Wayne D. Gray, and Bonnie E. John Pioneers and Settlers: Methods Used in Successful User Interface Design Stuart K. Card Part II Emerging Methods Improving User Interfaces and Application Productivity by Using the ITS Application Development Environment John D. Gould, Jacob Ukelson, and Stephen J. Boies Lessons in Choosing Methods for Designing Complex Graphical User Interfaces Carrie Rudman and George Engelbeck Getting Around the Task-Artifact Cycle: How to Make Claims and Design by Scenario John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson Mapping the Method Muddle: Guidance in Using Methods for User Interface Design Judith S. Olson an Thomas P. Moran Part III Real-World Context Organizational Obstacles to Interface Design and Development: Two Participant Observer Studies Steven E. Poltrock and Jonathan Grudin System Design Practice, Emerging Development Acceleration Strategies, and the Role of User-Centered Design R. Jay Ritchie and Judith A. List Bringing Usability Effectively into Product Development Peter F. Conklin Accepting the Challenge John L. Bennett Part IV Synthesis and Closing Discussion Respect and Beyond Clayton Lewis and Peter Polson Index
Future of Psychiatry, Cultural Competency, and Adolescent Medicine

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com neuropsychiatric disorders is increasing on an annual basis. 2011 World Health Organization’s annual statistics has shown that approximately 14 percent of global burden has been attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders and these burdens occur due to “chronically disabling nature of depression and other common mental disorder, substance abuses, and psychosis” [3]. According to 2013 report from National Institute of Mental Health (Table 1), there are approximately 43.8 million adults (i.e. ≥ 18 years old) are suffering from any mental illnesses (AMI) [4]. A limitation of an annual report is that it does not necessarily reflect true statistics of neuropsychiatric disorders because there are people who have not been diagnosed or detected.
Time-aware Recommender System Using Naïve Bayes Classifier Weighting Technique

Collaborative filtering method have been widely used in the recommender system which has problems of scalability and highly time consuming between the process of recommendation and traditional method didn't concern over the difference of time that a user has rating for an item. In this paper, we proposed a Naive Bayes Classifier technique that uses the user rating for the item and item information to construct a model with time awareness. It will provide better scalability and accuracy recommendation result even the system has more sparsity. In addition, it decreases time consuming by constructing a model in the offline and calculate the recommendation results in online phase. We show the result from our proposed can make the system get more efficient.
Multimodal Working Memory: The Unfolding Story

Given the prevalence of information overload, it is essential that systems are designed utilizing multiple communication media. Wickens' (1984) Multiple Resource Theory (MRT) suggests that performance efficiency may be realized via multiple sensory, processing, and response modalities. Recently, modality-specific working memory (WM) subsystems have been proposed, which include verbal, visual, spatial, kinesthetic, tactile, and tonal components. However, it has yet to be determined if modality-specific subsystems exhibit separate systems with their own resources, or if all or a subset of these systems shared certain resources in a global WM unit. The purpose of this study was to examine if the modality-specific subsystems were indicative of separate WM resources or shared common resources. Results demonstrated no interference between modality-specific subsystems, suggesting that they pull from separate WM resource pool. These findings support the expansion of the MRT to a multimodal WM processing system and great promise for multimodal design.
A timing analysis tool for VLSI CMOS synchronous circuits

Timing modeling and analysis of VLSI CMOS circuits is a very important part of the practice in design of complex digital circuits. The tool named TIME, a timing analyzer developed to utilize a timing model we introduced recently, is described in this paper. Its implementation is briefly described, and emphasis is given in this paper to the description of the semi-empirical modeling of delays in complex circuits. The model we introduce has a latency time in addition to a linear-RC estimate, aiming at an increased accuracy on the estimation of gate delays by taking a transistor-level description of VLSI circuits. The results obtained by the implementation of the delay model in the TIME tool are herein described. The tool can predict delays in synchronous circuits with errors of less than 6% when compared to SPICE electrically simulated delays, and comparisons to the predictions of the timing model proposed by Horowitz (1984) and of the timing verifier CRYSTAL are also shown.
Iranian Students‟ Recognition of Derived Nouns: Do Students Deal with Words as Entire Units Directly or through a Process of Word Building Strategy?

The study presented in this article deals with the use of word-building strategy, one which helps EFL students' skill of word recognition. There are two observable strategies which are usually employed in working out the meaning of unknown words: The direct method refers to students' general attempt to learn vocabulary items without any conscious attention to the internal structure of the word. The second which is a word building process relies on the ability to work out the meaning of the item by analyzing the constituent parts of the word. The effect of each strategy could by subject to controversy. Is it the word building processes which might be used as a major strategy or is it dealing with words as entire units without attending to the parts? Thirty under-graduate students majoring in TEFL at Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, participated in a task involving them in finding translation equivalents of lexical items presented to them in two translation tasks which required them to give the Persian (L1) translations for English words (L2). The words given to them in the tow tasks included both stem words as well as derived words. An Interview was run to get information about how the participants recognized the meaning of the words which were given to them to translate. The results of our comparison of the data showed that few students out of the entire population seemed to have and employ word-building knowledge. The majority did not use word-building knowledge in recognizing derived words; they favored an approach which involved attention to the whole unit. Students’ word recognition was the found to be the consequence of frequency of exposure rather than knowledge of parts. Explanations are introduced for why EFL participants prefer to expand their vocabulary knowledge without much relying on derivations information available to them.
Ebola: Why This Epidemic is Different and Long Term Solutions

This is an article on the on-going 2014 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic. It looks at few key differences in the epidemiology of the past and present outbreak and suggests solutions to help victims of the outbreak. It also offers opinions on how to build a stronger health system to prevent and respond adequately to future epidemics.
Segmentation of range and reflectance images with an expert system

We propose a new image segmentation technique based on a combination of both global and local segmentation methods applied to range images and those applied to reflectance images. A high level image processing based on on expert system CLIPS combines all the information produced by the different segmentation methods and gives a good parameterization of all object surfaces included in the images. We show the contribution of such a system with respect to image segmentation.
Retinex image enhancement via a learned dictionary

Abstract. The main aim of this paper is to study image enhancement by using sparse and redundant representations of the reflectance component in the Retinex model over a learned dictionary. This approach is different from existing variational methods, and the advantage of this approach is that the reflectance component in the Retinex model can be represented with more details by the dictionary. A variational method based on the dynamic dictionaries is adopted here, where it changes with respect to iterations of the enhancement algorithm. Numerical examples are also reported to demonstrate that the proposed methods can provide better visual quality of the enhanced high-contrast images than the other variational methods, i.e., revealing more details in the low-light part.
An efficient message digest algorithm (MD) for data security

Presents a new proposed message digest (MD) algorithm. Many of its characteristics (application domain, performance and implementation structure) are similar to those of the MD4 family of hash functions. The proposed algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128/160-bit fingerprint or message digest. New features of the proposed algorithm include the heavy use of data-dependent rotations and the inclusion of integer multiplication as an additional primitive operation. These proposed features are expected to provide a high security level with enhancement in throughput. The proposed algorithm is intended for digital signature applications, where a large file must be compressed in a secure manner before being signed (encrypted) with a private secret key under a public-key cryptosystem. The proposed algorithm is designed to be quite fast on 32-bit machines. In addition, it does not require any large substitution tables, so that the algorithm can be coded quite compactly. We describe its general characteristics, architecture and implementation, and give a complete specification for MD-160/128. Several test vectors are used to inspect the validity of the proposed algorithm. Also, we compare the software performance of several MD4-based algorithms, which is of independent interest. Simulation results show that the throughput of the proposed MD-128 algorithm is about 76.4 Mbit/s while that of RIPEMD-128 (Race Integrity Primitives Evaluation MD, 128-bit) is about 69.8 Mbit/s.
Selective Chemical Wet Etching of Si 0.8 Ge 0.2 /Si Multilayer

We investigate the effect of the ageing time and etching time on the etching rate of SiGe mixed etching solution, namely 1 vp HF (6%), 2 vp H₂O₂ (30%) and 3 vp CH₃COOH (99.8%). For this etching solution, we found that the etch rate of SiGe layer is saturated after the ageing time of 72 hours, and the selectivity of Si 0.8 Ge 0.2 layer and Si layer is 20:1 at ageing time of 72 hours. The collapse was appeared at the etching time of 9min with etching solution of after saturation ageing time.