Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Monocular and Dichoptic Interactions between Moving and Stationary Stimuli

Visual motion of a physically stationary stimulus can be induced by the movement of adjacent stimuli. The frequencies of motion reports and the angular separations required to induce motion were determined for a number of stimulus configurations. A stationary stimulus was fixated in the centre of the display and the point at which induced motion was initially reported was measured. In the first experiment either one or two stationary stimuli were presented in the centre of a display and either one or two similar stimuli moved horizontally towards them. The percentage of trials on which motion was induced varied with the display configuration, being greatest with two moving and one stationary stimuli. The angular separations at which motion was reported were about 2 deg for all conditions. In the second experiment the binocular interaction of such induced motion was examined. A single static fixation stimulus was presented binocularly and a range of monocular or dichoptic conditions was examined: a single moving stimulus to one eye, two moving stimuli to one eye, or two moving stimuli dichoptically. Induced motion was reported on about 90% of the trials for the monocular and dichoptic conditions with two moving stimuli. Motion was first induced at similar angular separations by two moving stimuli, whether presented monocularly or dichoptically. Binocular interaction was further examined with a display that induced motion in the stimulus presented to one eye but not in that presented to the other: this resulted in the apparent motion in depth of the binocularly fixated stimulus.
İşsizliğin İntihar Üzerindeki Etkileri: Türkiye İçin Bir Nedensellik Analizi

Issizlik, birey uzerinde olumsuz bircok soruna neden olan karmasik bir olgudur. Bireyin intihar egiliminin artmasi da bu olumsuzluklardan biridir. Bu calismanin amaci issizlik ve intihar arasindaki iliskinin ekonometrik acidan incelenmesidir. Calismada, 2005M1-2015M12 donemi issizlik orani ve gecim zorlugu-ticari basarisizlik nedenli intihar orani Turkiye verileri kullanilmistir. Veriler, Kapetanios (2005) coklu yapisal kirilmali birim kok testi Matlab 2009 programi, Maki (2012) coklu yapisal kirilmali es butunlesme testi Gauss 10 programi ve Toda-Yamamoto (1995) nedensellik analizi Eviews 9 programiyla degerlendirilmistir. Cikan sonuclar, issizlik ve intihar arasinda nedensellik iliskisinin oldugunu gostermektedir .
Arterial abnormalities of the hand in athletes

Vascular lesions of the hand may be seen in athletes exposed to repetitive blunt trauma. Thirteen athletes seen from 1983 to 1988 experienced symptoms related to hand ischemia. Nine were professional baseball catchers. The majority of patients complained of chronic symptoms, including cold hypersensitivity (four pa tients), finger numbness (one), finger coolness (three), and finger blanching (three). Two patients had acute symptoms with sudden posttraumatic hand ischemia with finger and palmar pain. Diagnosis was established by history and physical examination and confirmed by noninvasive testing. Testing included use of Doppler examination and cold tolerance examination with thermistors. Two athletes required angiographic eval uation because of severe ischemia and continuous pain. All patients in this group were managed nonopera tively. Those with chronic complaints were counseled regarding cold avoidance and instructed to increase their glove padding. The two patients with acute symp toms required vasodilator (papaverine chloride) infu sion, followed by intravenous heparin and dextran. All baseball catchers returned to their sport with dissipa tion of symptoms.
Effects of Road Clearings on Movement Patterns of Understory Rainforest Birds in Central Amazonia

Abstract: The impacts of potential linear barriers such as roads, highways, and power lines on rainforest fauna are poorly understood. In the central Brazilian Amazon, we compared the frequency of local movements (≤300 m long) of understory birds within intact forest and across a 30‐ to 40‐m‐wide road over a 2‐year period. Rainforest had regenerated along some road verges, to the extent that a nearly complete canopy was formed in some areas, so we also assessed whether this facilitated bird movement. Movement data were determined from 1212 recaptures of 3681 netted birds at six study sites. The road significantly inhibited total bird movement across roads at five of the six sites. Bird foraging guilds varied in their responses to the road and different ages of regrowth. Movements of frugivorous and edge and gap species were not inhibited at any site, whereas most forest‐dependent insectivores (mixed‐species flocks, terrestrial species, and army‐ant followers) had markedly inhibited road‐crossing movements, except at sites with extensive regrowth. Solitary understory species were especially vulnerable, rarely crossing even roads overgrown by tall regrowth. For sensitive species, road‐crossing movements were inhibited because individuals tended to avoid both edge‐affected habitat near the road and the road clearing itself. Our results suggest that even narrow roads with low traffic volumes can reduce local movements of many insectivorous birds in Amazonia.
MC4CSLTA: An Efficient Model Checking Tool for CSLTA

This demo presents MC4 CSLTA, an efficient Markov chain Model Checker for (four) the stochastic logic CSLTA. In CSLTA formulas are either steady state queries or path formulas, where accepting paths are specified through a Deterministic Timed Automata (DTA). MC4CSLTA takes as input a labeled CTMC, a query, one or more DTA involved in the query (possibly expressed in parametric form), and computes the needed probability to assess the truth value of the formula. MC4CSLTA is written in C++, and is publicly available for the research community.
Sensitivity-enhanced optical temperature sensor with cascaded LPFGs

We propose a new structure of optical fiber temperature sensor with cascaded long-period fiber gratings (LPFGs) and investigate the temperature dependent loss of cascaded LFPGs. Each of the cascaded LPFGs has the same resonance wavelength with the same temperature change, because the cascaded LPFGs are made of a heat-shrinkable tube and a screw. The total resonance loss of proposed cascaded LPFGs shows higher temperature sensitivity than that of a single LPFG. The thermal coefficient of 4-cascaded LPFG also shows more than 4 times larger than that of a single one.
IoT Communication Security Issues for Companies: Challenges, Protocols and The Web of Data

Abstract This article analyzes and highlights the security perspective of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices and their communication challenges, as IoT is considered one of the key emerging fields in Industry 4.0. The IoT architectures can consist of physical systems, virtual ones or even hybrids, combining a collection of different physically active things, sensors, cloud services, specific IoT protocols, communication layers, users and developers. On top of all, it is the business layer, because the scope of the entire IoT environment is to deliver data, to monitor and to facilitate the management of complex processes. In order to facilitate the data exchange between the IoT layers, there have been developed a series of protocols particular to the IoT domain. As in many IT related fields, the solutions are not perfect from the data security and privacy perspectives, many challenges being still open research issues. As the two concepts of IoT and Cloud of Things are connected, bringing real world data into the Cloud to process it, raises Cloud Computing security concerns regarding the privacy and security of data. Although in recent years, many efforts have been made to improve Cloud Computing security, there are risks that need to be taken into consideration. From the Web of Data’s point of view, things are even more prone to security risks. Because privacy is one of the fundamental right of digital users, it is extremely important for new technologies to comply with privacy regulations and policies, such as the new European data protection and privacy frameworks. In this context, companies must take into account standards, challenges and new trends in IoT. In the absence of specific measures, raw or processed data can be easily stolen from the Web of Data. In this paper we analyze and present the main protocols of communication in the IoT field from a data security perspective. Also, we do a review of the main architectures that can improve the security of the communication between IoT devices and the Cloud data storage.
Uniform Parametric Convergence in the Adaptive Control of Mechanical Systems

It is known in the practice of closed-loop identification of mechanical systems that, since the Lagrangian dynamic model is linear in the constant physical parameters, a sufficient condition for parameter convergence is that the system follows reference trajectories that render the regressor matrix persistently exciting. This was established many years ago for a particular robot adaptive controller by Slotine and Li. This result is based on adaptive linear systems theory and relies on the condition that the applied control law makes the robot asymptotically track the imposed rich reference trajectories. This paper revisits this problem and establishes a proof that this condition is not only sufficient but also necessary to establish the stronger property of uniform global asymptotic stability of the overall closed-loop system. Our proof is based on modern tools and a relaxed formulation of the condition of persistency of excitation, tailored for nonlinear systems. Hence, it is not limited to the controller of Slotine and Li but applies to many other reported controllers. Furthermore, we give sufficient conditions for exponential stability (hence, in particular for uniform exponential parameter convergence). Finally, we provide some experimental results, illustrative of our theoretical findings.
Identification of Apple Tree Leaf Diseases Based on Deep Learning Models

Early diagnosis and accurate identification of apple tree leaf diseases (ATLDs) can control the spread of infection, to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, improve the yield and quality of apple, and maintain the healthy development of apple cultivars. In order to improve the detection accuracy and efficiency, an early diagnosis method for ATLDs based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is proposed. We first collect the images of apple tree leaves with and without diseases from both laboratories and cultivation fields, and establish dataset containing five common ATLDs and healthy leaves. The DCNN model proposed in this paper for ATLDs recognition combines DenseNet and Xception, using global average pooling instead of fully connected layers. We extract features by the proposed convolutional neural network then use a support vector machine to classify the apple leaf diseases. Including the proposed DCNN, several DCNNs are trained for ATLDs recognition. The proposed network achieves an overall accuracy of 98.82% in identifying the ATLDs, which is higher than Inception-v3, MobileNet, VGG-16, DenseNet-201, Xception, VGG-INCEP. Moreover, the proposed model has the fastest convergence rate, and a relatively small number of parameters and high robustness compared with the mentioned models. This research indicates that the proposed deep learning model provides a better solution for ATLDs control. It could be also integrated into smart apple cultivation systems.
La place de la posture dans le diagnostic et les décisions thérapeutiques

La posturologie et le systeme postural encore tres meconnus par bon nombre depraticiens sont pourtant indispensables a la pratique odontologique. L'occlusion, les yeux et la posture sont interdependants et se compensent mutuellement en cas de desequilibre afin de maintenir l'equilibre orthostatique au cours de la station debout et du mouvement.Tout chirurgien-dentiste devrait alors avoir conscience que toute modification del'occlusion pourrait avoir des consequences sur l'equilibre postural du patient.Ce travail a pour but de presenter le systeme postural, son mode de fonctionnement, les elements de diagnostic d'une deficience posturale ainsi que son traitement qui necessite une prise en charge multidisciplinaire.
Birth month variation in atopic and non‐atopic rhinitis

The association of birth month with the development of atopic and non‐atopic rhinitis was investigated in 327 adults in south‐west London. Birth month was a significant risk factor for both atopic and non‐atopic rhinitis in subjects whose age at onset was under 20 yr. but not in those who were older at onset. The odds of being born in May June were 1·68(95%CI: 1·03–2·76) for atopic rhinitic subjects and 1·90 (95% CI: 1·11–3·25) for non‐atopic rhinitic subjects. The birth month effect was not related to the criteria used to determine subjects “atopic status or to subjects” clinical characteristics, apart from their age at onset. The findings suggest that atopic and non‐atopic rhinitis have a common aetiology which does not depend on infant sensitization to seasonal allergens.
Redes neurais apoiando a tomada de decisão na análise de crédito bancário e detecção do câncer de mama

As Redes Neurais Artificiais (RNAs) tem sido utilizadas nas soluções de variados problemas, dentre eles, os que envolvem tomada de decisões. Neste escopo, o objetivo desta pesquisa é apresentar uma ferramenta que dê suporte ao processo de decisão médica no diagnóstico do câncer de mama e da concessão de crédito bancário a clientes de um banco, por meio da utilização de uma RNA Multilayer Perceptron. Verificando-se sua eficácia e a melhor convergência, por meio do Modelo de Validação Cruzada (k=5), para o treinamento e testes de RNA’s. Os testes foram realizados com diferentes números de neurônios na camada escondida, utilizando-se como comparativo o erro quadrático médio, visando otimizar o desempenho da RNA. Uma taxa de aprendizado em torno de 0,9 foi adequada nas simulações para os dois problemas. Os resultados elencados indicam a eficiência da técnica, para ambos os problemas, haja vista que a capacidade de generalização das RNAs testadas foi em média de 97,31% para o diagnóstico do câncer de mama e 99,1% para a concessão de crédito bancário.
Milbemycins: More than Efflux Inhibitors for Fungal Pathogens

ABSTRACT Existing antifungal agents are still confronted to activities limited to specific fungal species and to the development of resistance. Several improvements are possible either by tackling and overcoming resistance or exacerbating the activity of existing antifungal agents. In Candida glabrata, azole resistance is almost exclusively mediated by ABC transporters (including C. glabrata CDR1 [CgCDR1] and CgCDR2) via gain-of-function mutations in the transcriptional activator CgPDR1 or by mitochondrial dysfunctions. We also observed that azole resistance was correlating with increasing virulence and fitness of C. glabrata in animal models of infection. This observation motivated the re-exploitation of ABC transporter inhibitors as a possible therapeutic intervention to decrease not only the development of azole resistance but also to interfere with the virulence of C. glabrata. Milbemycins are known ABC transporter inhibitors, and here we used commercially available milbemycin A3/A4 oxim derivatives to verify this effect. As expected, the derivatives were inhibiting C. glabrata efflux with the highest activity for A3 oxim below 1 μg/ml. More surprising was that oxim derivatives had intrinsic fungicidal activity above 3.2 μg/ml, thus highlighting effects additional to the efflux inhibition. Similar values were obtained with C. albicans. Our data show that the fungicidal activity could be related to reactive oxygen species formation in these species. Transcriptional analysis performed both in C. glabrata and C. albicans exposed to A3 oxim highlighted a core of commonly regulated genes involved in stress responses, including genes involved in oxidoreductive processes, protein ubiquitination, and vesicle trafficking, as well as mitogen-activated protein kinases. However, the transcript profiles contained also species-specific signatures. Following these observations, experimental treatments of invasive infections were performed in mice treated with the commercial A3/A4 oxim preparation alone or in combination with fluconazole. Tissue burden analysis revealed that oxims on their own were able to decrease fungal burdens in both Candida species. In azole-resistant isolates, oxims acted synergistically in vivo with fluconazole to reduce fungal burden to levels of azole-susceptible isolates. In conclusion, we show here the potential of milbemycins not only as drug efflux inhibitors but also as effective fungal growth inhibitors in C. glabrata and C. albicans.
Construction of mathematic model for automatic summarization

Automatic summarization is need of the era. Mathematical method can help logic analysis. However, there is no any previous study about mathematic description of automatic summarization. A mathematic model of automatic summarization is established and discussed in the paper. The model makes use of meta-knowledge to describe the composition of summary and help to calculate the semantic distance between summary and source document. It is proposed that how to get meta-knowledge aggregate and their weight are the key problems in the model. There is also a discussion of how to select output summary in the paper. The mathematic description of automatic summarization is useful for the application of automatic summarization and automatic assessment for summaries. An experiment and results are described in the paper to explain the application of mathematic model in details.
Analyse entropique et multi-échelle pour la fatigue et la rupture thermomécanique

Ce travail de these apporte une contribution a l’utilisation de grandeurs thermodynamiques ainsi que geometriques en mecanique. La premiere partie de ce manuscrit est consacree a l’etude de la fatigue oligocyclique, et de l’entropie de rupture en fatigue. Des entropies de rupture en fatigue sont estimees experimentalement par diverses relations et sont comparees aux modeles empiriques utilises dans la litterature. Il apparait que ces diverses entropies de rupture sont tres proches ce qui permet de conclure qu'il existe une entropie de rupture constante liee uniquement au materiau. Pour les modeles empiriques, une extension du modele de Ramberg-Osgood cyclique prenant en compte la variation temporelle de la contrainte est proposee et une etude sur l'imprecision du modele de Park et Nelson est realisee. Puis, une etude des differentes phases durant le test de fatigue est effectuee a travers l’etude de l’endommagement lie a l’entropie accumulee par le materiau. Une extension par l’utilisation du concept d’exergie permet la mise en evidence d’une nouvelle quantite, une exergie associee au travail de deformation plastique faisant intervenir une notion de qualite de la deformation plastique. Dans une deuxieme partie, la diffusion de l’entropie d’echelle est etudiee et permet de creer divers comportements dependants d’echelle. Elle permet d’etudier la log-periodicite d’un fractal deterministe fini (ou prefractal) ou de verifier la construction de geometries deterministes finies dependantes d’echelle. Une application de ces modeles dependants d’echelle est effectuee dans le cadre de la determination de proprietes mecaniques, pour l’analyse de facies de rupture et pour la fragmentation. Finalement un lien possible entre comportement mecanique, geometrie et theorie constructale est presente.
4.7 A sub-ns response on-chip switched-capacitor DC-DC voltage regulator delivering 3.7W/mm2 at 90% efficiency using deep-trench capacitors in 32nm SOI CMOS

For an on-chip or fully integrated microprocessor power-delivery system, the on-chip power converter must 1) be designed using the same technology as the microprocessor, 2) deliver high power density to supply a microprocessor core with small area overhead, 3) achieve high efficiency, and 4) perform fast regulation over a wide voltage range for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). On-chip switched-capacitor (SC) converters have gained increasing popularity for this application due to their ease of integration using only transistors and capacitors readily available in the chosen technologies [1-6].
Interactions between membrane IgM and the cytoskeleton involve the cytoplasmic domain of the immunoglobulin receptor

Cross‐linking induced interactions between the membrane form of immunoglobulin (mIg) and the cytoskeletal matrix have been described by several groups. To date, the function of mIgM association with the cytoskeleton is not yet understood. Delineation of the molecular basis of these interactions will be instrumental in elucidating their function. We have previously shown that the Igα/β heterodimer is not required for ligand‐induced mIgM binding to the cytoskeleton. In this study, we have investigated the role of other B cell‐specific proteins in mediating these interactions. For this, we expressed mIgM in the non‐hematopoietic human cervical carcinoma cell line HeLa S3 and verified the capacity of the surface‐expressed IgM to interact with the cytoskeletal matrix upon cross‐linking with anti‐μ chain antibodies. We show here that only the mIgM molecule itself and no other B cell‐specific protein(s) is required in mediating mIgM interactions with actin filaments. In an attempt to determine the cytoskeleton‐binding site of mIgM we investigated the role of the cytoplasmic tail of mIgM (KVK) in binding the receptor to actin‐based microfilaments. Using mutated forms of mIgM expressed in J558L cells, we show here that KVK plays a role in mediating these interactions. The absence of KVK did not, however, completely abrogate mIgM‐cytoskeletal interactions, suggesting that there are additional molecular requirements for the ligand‐induced mIgM binding to the cytoskeletal matrix.
Fiscal policy under imperfect competition : A survey Economics

This paper surveys the link between imperfect competition and the effects of fiscal policy on output, employment and welfare. We examine static and dynamic models, with and without entry under a variety of assumptions using a common analytical framework. We find that in general there is a robust relationship between the fiscal multiplier and welfare, the tantalizing possibility of Pareto improving fiscal policy is much more elusive. In general, the mechanisms are supply side, and so welfare improving policy, whilst possible, is not a general result. Submitted as Survey and Overview JEL E62
Association Analysis of the Partially Duplicated α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Genetic Variant and Alzheimer’s Disease

Changes in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been demonstrated for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Of these receptors, the α7 nAChRs, which are abundant on hippocampal interneurons, have been implicated in the cytotoxic role of the β-amyloid. Increased mRNA levels of α7 nAChR in the peripheral lymphocytes and hippocampus of AD patients have been reported. We tested the hypothesis that the allelic variant, 2bp deletion, of the partially duplicated α7 nAChR gene confers susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease. The –2bp polymorphism was examined in 120 patients with AD and 98 normal controls. The distribution of the partially duplicated α7 nAChR genotypes (p = 0.372) and alleles (p = 0.465) did not differ significantly for AD patients and controls. This negative finding suggests that the partially duplicated α7 nAChR genetic polymorphism contributes no major effect to the development of AD. However, we suggest that the other genetic variation of the α7 nAChR gene, related to AD or the associated symptomatology, merits further investigation.