Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Perspective transformation for accurate detection of 3 D bounding boxes of vehicles in traffic surveillance

Detection and tracking of vehicles captured by traffic surveillance cameras is a key component of intelligent traffic systems. In this paper a novel method of detecting 3D bounding boxes of vehicles is presented. Using the known geometry of the surveilled scene, we propose an algorithm to construct a perspective transformation. The transformation enables us to simplify the problem of detecting 3D bounding boxes to detecting 2D bounding boxes with one additional parameter. We can therefore utilize modified 2D object detectors based on deep convolutional networks to detect 3D bounding boxes of vehicles. Known 3D bounding boxes of vehicles can be utilized to improve results on tasks such as fine-grained vehicle classification or vehicle re-identification. We test the accuracy of our detector by comparing the accuracy of speed measurement on the BrnoCompSpeed dataset with the existing state of the art method. Our method decreases the mean error in speed measurement by 22 % (1.10 km/h to 0.86 km/h ) and the median error in speed measurement by 33 % (0.97 km/h to 0.65 km/h mean), while also increasing the recall (83.3 % to 89.3 %).
Reveiw of "Factors controlling pCO2 variability in the eastern Gulf of Cádiz (SW Iberian Península)" by Jiménez-López et al.

The authors investigate factors controlling pCO2 variations in the Gulf of Cadiz. They use high quality data from 8 cruises incorporating underway data of pCO2, SSS, SST, and wind speed as well as discrete data for pH, AOU, and nutrients taken along three repeat transects during the cruises. They present spatiotemporal distributions of the underway data, the cruise averages of the discrete data, and the seasonal changes of the computed air-sea CO2 flux. The authors then discuss the factors influencing the pCO2 variability. Specifically, they quantify thermal/non-thermal controls of pCO2. They conclude that temperature and biological activity are the two principal factors that explain the temporal variability of pCO2. They also point out that continental inputs and mixing with water originating from warm ocean currents influence the spatial variability of pCO2.
Enhanced insulin secretion and im proved glucose tolerance in mice with homozygous inactivation of the Na C K C 2 Cl K cotransporter 1

The intracellular chloride concentration ([Cl]i) in b-cells plays an important role in glucose-stimulated plasma membrane depolarisation and insulin secretion. [Cl]i is maintained above equilibrium in b-cells by the action of Cl co-transporters of the solute carrier family 12 group A (Slc12a). b-Cells express Slc12a1 and Slc12a2, which are known as the bumetanide (BTD)-sensitive Na-dependent K2Cl co-transporters 2 and 1 respectively. We show that mice lacking functional alleles of the Slc12a2 gene exhibit better fasting glycaemia, increased insulin secretion in response to glucose, and improved glucose tolerance when compared with wildtype (WT). This phenomenon correlated with increased Journal of Endocrinology (2012) 215, 59–70 0022–0795/12/0215–059 q 2012 Society for Endocrinology Printed in Great sensitivity of b-cells to glucose in vitro and with increasedb-cell mass. Further, administration of low doses of BTD to mice deficient in Slc12a2 worsened their glucose tolerance, and low concentrations of BTD directly inhibited glucose-stimulated insulin secretion from b-cells deficient in Slc12a2 but expressing intact Slc12a1 genes. Together, our results suggest for the first time that the Slc12a2 gene is not necessary for insulin secretion and that its absence increases b-cell secretory capacity. Further, impairment of insulin secretion with BTD in vivo and in vitro in islets lacking Slc12a2 genes unmasks a potential new role for Slc12a1 in b-cell physiology. Journal of Endocrinology (2012) 215, 59–70
Engineering Learning Classroom Observation Tool 2

Timeri joined Mines in November of 2015 to support the growth and Development of the Trefny Innovative Instruction (I) Center, and to bring her extensive background in instructional coaching to the college level. Prior to joining Mines, Timeri worked for a nationally recognized online Learning and Assessment System called ShowEvidence where she supported educational institutions in transferring their teaching, learning, and assessment practices online to create greater coherence institutionally. Before that Timeri co-founded, built, and sold a curriculum and professional development company called Inquiry By Design that promotes best literacy instruction nationwide. Timeri recently coauthored ”Bringing Teacher Learning to Life: Courageous Teaching Using Peer Learning Labs to Elevate Efficacy” published by the Public Education and Business Coalition in December, 2015.
Gradient-free Online Resource Allocation Algorithms for Dynamic Wireless Networks

Future communication networks will be faced with supporting highly mobile, heterogeneous (including aerial) devices, which calls for new and efficient resource allocation policies that are able to adapt on-the-fly to the network dynamics while relying on little and possibly outdated information. The aim of this paper is twofold: to explicitly take into account the device mobility, their network connectivity patterns and behavior (which may be completely arbitrary and unpredictable); and to greatly reduce the information required at the transmitter. For this, we exploit the framework of online optimization and exponential learning to derive a provably efficient and gradient-free online power allocation algorithm relying only on a scalar-worth of feedback.
Where will You Setup Your Business Next ?

A restaurant business is a very prospective and profitable business nowadays. However, ensuring quality food, good stuff, inner-environment etc. is a big concern and most importantly before facing all these, the trickiest part is to choose a perfect place where a restaurant business will flourish. Without doing a perfect research on this area, setting up a restaurant may lead to an immediate downfall. Not only for choosing a preferred restaurant location, people are now hiring professionals to do ground check and here the data scientists are coming into play as a bigshot. This research is focused on suggesting a suitable place for setting up a restaurant business based on the existing data from Yelp where 75 features have been extracted for analysis. Several machine learning algorithms (Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree, Logistic Regression and Decision Tree with presort) have been used and juxtaposed to nurture out the suitable one. As yelp’s review is authentic and it is maintained regularly, we have considered the rating of a business as the point of suggestion. We have also looked at the comparative analysis of this algorithm and searched for an algorithm which gives us the best result.
ON SPEEDING UP VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION THROUGH INTEGRATED DATA DEDUPLICATION METHODS

Virtualization is a concept implemented as a major part of cloud computing infrastructure to offer everything as a service. Hypervisors are supported within the cloud computing platform using which many of the virtual machines can be created as per the demand of the end users. The Load on the virtual machines (VM) greatly varies while some are over used, some may be under used or average used. Migration of a process, data and sometimes both needs to be done from one VM to other in such a way that the load on the servers is well balanced leading to high performance computing. Load balancing helps in a big way especially in controlling server sprawling and efficient use of the computing resources. Live migration has to be undertaken seamlessly without the initiation of any process from the client application. During migration, movement of data from one server to another has to be undertaken which generally consume lot of time. Data stored on a server by a user is historical and live and enormous amount of duplicated data is stored on the server especially for maintaining different versions of the same data. Elimination of duplicated data before migration of the same from one server to the other will greatly enhance the speed of migration. This paper outlines some of the strategies for implementing data de-duplication within Migration processes.
Draft GBP 1 exerts inhibitory effects on acute viral myocarditis through the inhibition of inflammatory response of macrophage in mice

Journal: Biochemistry and Cell Biology Manuscript ID bcb-2018-0135.R3 Manuscript Type: Article Date Submitted by the Author: 05-Dec-2018 Complete List of Authors: Zhao, Ya-Nan; China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University Xu, Guang-Jun; China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University Yang, Ping; China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Cardiology Keyword: GBP1, Macrophages, Inflammation, Acute viral myocarditis, Apoptosis Is the invited manuscript for consideration in a Special Issue? : Not applicable (regular submission)
Chapter 2 Glycosphingolipids and insulin resistance

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Next Generation Wi-Fi : IEEE 802 . 11 ax 1024-QAM and DL OFDMA

IEEE 802.11ax is the new standard introduced by the IEEE that focuses on improving efficiency. Among others, two of the newly introduced features are 1024 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) and Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). In this paper, the expected throughput gain of 25% with the new 1024-QAM and expected latency reduction with downlink (DL) OFDMA are examined with state of the art reference boards of two different Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers. Using three Samsung S10 mobile phones as clients, experiments were performed to measure the increase in throughput and decrease in latency. The 25% increase in throughput with 1024-QAM was achieved, albeit with a maximum range of operation of approximately 2 meters at MCS 11. We observed a very low percentage of packets transmitted using DL OFDMA in the traffic profiles used. We conclude that the introduction of DL OFDMA does not have a significant impact on the latency with the test scenarios covered. The performance of DL OFDMA is heavily dependent on the ability of the access point to properly schedule DL OFDMA transmissions. The number of clients, packet size, and buffer size play an essential role in the scheduling process. Based on our measurements the benefit of DL OFDMA is expected to be limited unless the number of clients is substantially higher than the three clients used, as would be the case in a stadium, train, or mall.
A Fast and Efficient Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

The Blom’s scheme for key agreement between pairs of nodes requires exchange of a small amount of bits, uses simple computations, and also authenticates each other. This makes it attractive for use in Wireless Sensor Networks but, in its original form, it has limitations because of the contending requirements for large pairwise keys and limited memory in the nodes. Our implementation of the Blom’s scheme uses multiple keys, enabling it to derive large pairwise keys using the limited memory resources, while retaining all the desirable features of speed, compactness, and low energy usage. We implemented our scheme in a MICAz mote and present some experimental results on the memory, computation time, and energy requirements. We compared the performance with other public key cryptographic methods used in WSN. Our scheme, using 382 bytes of RAM, was able to compute 128-bits pairwise keys in times ranging from 34 ms to 1.9 s for networks with capture thresholds of 32 and about 2,000 nodes respectively. KeywordsBlom’s scheme; ad hoc networks; security; wireless sensor networks; key pre-distribution.
Geodynamics and tectonics Space geodetic observations of repeating slow slip events beneath the Bonin Islands Deasy Arisa and

Title Space geodetic observations of repeating slow slip events beneath the Bonin Islands Author(s) Arisa, Deasy; Heki, Kosuke Citation Geophysical journal international, 210(3), 1494-1502 https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx258 Issue Date 2017-09-01 Doc URL http://hdl.handle. net/2115/67742 Rights This article has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Journal International ©: 2017 Deasy Arisa and Kosuke Heki Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Type article File Information GJI21
THE IMPACTS OF CULTURAL VALUES ON ELECTRONIC WORD OF MOUTH: OPINION LEADERSHIP AND OPINION SEEKING

Purpose: The importance of electronic word of mouth has been proven in consumer-dominated communication. It is also one of the most effective ways to influence consumers when it comes to the purchase decision process. What is more, Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are widely used in business research even though it has criticized. This study aims to explain the relationship between Hofstede's dimensions and two flip-side of electronic word of mouth (opinion leadership orientation and opinion seeking orientation at the individual level.
Effect of ursodeoxycholic acid on azoxymethane-induced aberrant crypt foci formation in rat colon : in vitro potential role of intracellular Ca

The studies were conducted to examine the precise nature of the suppressive effect of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) on colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF) formation. Fischer 344 rats were treated with a single dose of azoxymethane (AOM) (20 mg/kg, s.c.) and fed basal diet (MF) supplemented with UDCA (0.4%) during an initiation or a post-initiation stage. ACF were enumerated at the 2nd, 5th and 8th weeks after AOM administration (15-18 rats/group). The number of ACF in the UDCA treated group was decreased significantly in the initiation and post-initiation stages at the 2nd (P<0.01, P<0.0001) and 8th weeks (P<0.001, P<0.0001), respectively, compared with untreated controls. In the time-course experiments, the effect of continuous feeding of UDCA (0.4%) on ACF formation was evaluated. ACF number was decreased significantly (P<0.005) until the 16th week. UDCA showed a significant dose-dependent suppression of ACF number from a range of 0.1-0.4%UDCA. To approach thesubcellular mechanisms of the effect of bile acids, the intracellular free Ca concentration ([Ca]i) of bile acid-treated rat colonic cancer cells (ACL-15) was examined. DCA and CDCA, which are promotive on ACF formation, induced a rapid increase in [Ca]i, while UDCA and CA, which are suppressive or non-effective on ACF formation, did not. These findings suggest that the promotive effect of bile acids may involve intracellular Ca signaling. J. Med. Invest. 49 : 67-73, 2002
1 AN AUTOMATED SYNOPTIC TYPING SYSTEM USING ARCHIVED AND REAL-TIME NWP MODEL OUTPUT

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has developed an automated synoptic typing system using archived and real-time NWP model output. Objective synoptic typing is performed using a pattern recognition scheme with fields of mean sea level pressure (MSLP). Real-time NWP model output is then automatically classified to generate synoptic type guidance for storage in a Forecast Database for accessibility and verification. The synoptic types are derived using MSLP analyses over the Australian region from the BoM’s archived METANAL grids and the NCEP re-analysis dataset. Principal components were first computed to represent the features of the MSLP fields. Reducing the dimensionality of the dataset, the derived variables based on these principal components were then fed to a K-means unsupervised clustering scheme to derive the synoptic types. Real-time NWP model output extracted from the operational database is then classified using these synoptic types. Synoptic type guidance for a variety of NWP models is generated operationally and stored in the BoM’s Forecast Database (under development), a comprehensive real-time database which allows forecasters to flexibly display, assess, manipulate and store all types of observational data, NWP data, and processed data (analyses and forecasts). The real-time synoptic type guidance is accessible to new software applications used by forecasters, making the applications “context-sensitive” and allowing automatic presentation of statistical summaries of similar situations. Alerts for likely significant weather appropriate to the synoptic type may also be generated. The BoM’s synoptic typing system is unique in that no other operational system exists (to our knowledge) that incorporates both the development of synoptic types and generation of synoptic type guidance from the automatic classification of real-time NWP model output. The system continues to be under development. ___________________________________________
Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of CDH 1 hypermethylation in hepatocellular carcinoma : a meta-analysis

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WE _ 10 E DEGRADATION OF MONOETHANOLAMINE IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY FENTON ’ S REAGENT

Alkanolamines such as monoand diethanol-amine are routinely used for the removal of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from natural gas in a packed or tray tower. Periodic cleaning of the tower is done by high speed water jet and the wastewater generated contains a significantly high concentration of the amine. This wastewater is toxic to bacteria and cannot be treated in a conventional treatment unit by biological oxidation. An alternative technique of treatment is advanced oxidation such as UV-H2O2 or Fenton’s reaction. In the present work, Fenton’s reagent – a combination of ferrous sulfate and hydrogen peroxide – has been used to study the degradation of monoethnolamine in wastewater. Simulated wastewater was prepared by dissolving the amine in distilled water. Degradation studies were carried out in a jacketed glass reactor. Samples were drawn from time to time and the COD was determined to follow the course of degradation. The rate of degradation declines above a pH of 4 because of decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. The concentration of ferrous sulfate, the amount of hydrogen peroxide and the pH are the important parameters that determine the rate of reaction. The effects of all these parameters have been studied. The reaction proceeds very fast at the beginning but the rate of degradation slows down at larger time. The samples drawn at different times have been run on the HPLC to find out the degradation products. Over sixty percent degradation could be achieved by using nearly stoichiomentric quantity of hydrogen peroxide. A simple pathway of the oxidation process through is proposed.
, Manganese , and Selenium Status in Pre-and Postmenopausal Women During Sex Hormone Therapy

Background. The impact of estrogen deficiency after menopause on trace minerals has not been widely studied. Objectives. The aim of this study was to compare trace mineral levels of postmenopausal women with those of premenopausal women of similar age and to determine the impact of estrogen (ET) and estro-progestin (HT) therapy on them. Material and Methods. E2, FSH, Cu, Zn, Se, and Mn concentrations in serum and/or whole blood in 80 postmenopausal women (M1 group: 26 with surgically induced and 54 with physiological menopause) and in 40 premenopausal controls (C) were determined. In the M1 group the measurements were repeated after 4 months of ET or HT. Results. The study showed that trace mineral status in the postmenopausal women was slightly different from that of the C. The serum Zn level after menopause was considerably higher than that of the C and tended to decrease after ET, whereas it remained unchanged after HT. Serum Mn level after menopause was similar to that of the controls, but it decreased significantly after ET, whereas it remained unchanged after HT. The rest of the trace element concentrations showed only slight changes. Conclusions. The precise impact of estrogen deficiency after menopause and hormonal therapy on trace mineral status needs further large-population studies (Adv Clin Exp Med 2010, 19, 3, 337–345).
3 12-1-2009 ICT Usage in Microfinance Institutions in Uganda

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are always often faced with high operating costs to provide financial services to the poor people and Small and Medium Enterprises. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has been found to promote the dual objective of microfinance sustainability and outreach to the poor people. Using a quantitative survey and descriptive research approach, this paper has established the extent to which ICT has been used in the microfinance institutions in Uganda. Despite the barriers, ICT usage in MFIs has been on the rise; and different applications and technologies have been adopted by some MFIs to control costs, create efficiency and effectiveness in their operations, improve productivity, and increase outreach to the poor. Available ICT policies such as tax exemption on computer hardware are not sufficient to achieve the desired growth. Therefore the need for progressive policies that relate to ICT-based services and software to accelerate ICT usage especially in MFIs. The paper has provided a benchmark that can be used for further research especially in developing countries.
An Empirical Performance Analysis of Relative Keyword Search Techniques

In the EXISTING SYSTEM the Internet users increasingly demand for the keyword search interface to access the information effectively using the relational data. In the PROPOSED MODEL the relational keyword search were gathered together with different data models. We apply normalization Technique for the database to remove the redundancy of data. We will maintain a Index for every File or Content. File is stored in a Separate space and it’s Index is stored for the Related Data. The MODIFICATION in this project ranking the files based on keywords present in the database and number of click done by different users.
Histopathological changes in the gills of fresh water fish Channa striatus (Bloch) infected with Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS)

Fish diseases are the vital problem of the fishery industry. Fish requires optimal hydrobiological parameters for growth and survival. Poor pond management practices, higher stocking rate and uncongenial environmental conditions result into disease outbreaks. The current study was performed on Channa striatus which are also known as ‘Snake-heads’, that are infected with Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS). The acclimmatized fishes were classified with selective lesions as healthy and diseased fish; the latter were further classified as mildly infected, severely infected fish and their gills were examined for macroscopical and histological lesions. The Structural alterations such as change in shape, epithelial proliferation; lamellar fusion and necrosis were observed. It can be concluded from our study that structural and microscopic alterations in gills serve as biomarker for severity of EUS in fish.