Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Demographic characteristics of locals and jetsetters: A Study of Extensibility using the Neighborhood Connectivity Survey

Individuals connect to sets of places through travel, migration, social interactions, and telecommunications. This set of multiplex network connections comprises an individual’s extensibility, a human geography term representing geographic reach. Here, we attempt to uncover the demographic and behavioral factors that correlate with high or low extensibility. We used a dataset of 950 individuals’ self-reported surveys, and classify individuals into one of four different typologies: 1) hyperlocal, 2) majority local, 3) glocal, or 4) regional global patterns. We visualized individuals by their connection distances, strengths, types, and the diversity of connection destinations. We also tested whether these typologies correlate with local social support, ability to leverage social networks for disaster evacuation, frequency to travel or migrate between cities, and sociodemographic characteristics. We found that respondents who are white, married, and have higher educational attainment were significantly associated with the glocal pattern, while those who reported as Black/African American, single, and having high school (or less) educational attainment tend to have more local social and spatial ties. We also found that glocal individuals are more likely to travel or resettle across cities, enjoy higher local social support, and have more evacuation options via social networks than individuals with mostly local ties. Our findings can help policymakers understand how individuals may be likely to exhibit different types of extensibilities, and how these factors can be used as ‘rules of thumb’ for estimating who may have distant or nearby connections. Introduction People operationalize their social life through connections to a set of places. These places can be people’s childhood cities, locations of their families, regions of which they subscribed information, and locales where they have organization membership. Some individuals have many of these places, and some have few; some have distant connections and some have nearby connections. We might call someone a ’jetsetter’ if they connect to a variety of places or perhaps a ’homebody’ if they tend to enjoy having their ties and their energies invested in local places. These behaviors can be encompassed under the scholarly term extensibility , defined as the reciprocal of time-space convergence ( Janelle, 1973 ; Adams, 1995 ), the geographic spread or reach of an agent ( Adams, 2009 ), or geographic reach of a place or event ( Kwan, 2000) . When we map a place or an individual’s extensibility, it can create an ego-centric network ( Stutz, 1973 ) that links a place or an individual to all other places it connects to (e.g., where a person commutes in daily life). Such geographic reach can be considered as any connections with geographic space that allow us to leave the home, virtually, through others, or through movement.
Designing of next-generation dihydropyridine-based calcium channel blockers: An in silico study

Hypertension is a most prevalent problem in this world and it is seen among all races and all social classes. The trend of mortality rate has been increasing day by day. But different drug molecules have been utilised to control hypertension and associated problems. Dihydropyridine (DHP)-based drugs, which are calcium channel blockers (CCBs), are prescribed as a first-line option. It is well documented that minor changes to the core scaffold of an existing medicine can significantly improve its efficacy. The goal of this research was to develop prospective antihypertensive medicines using a 1,4-DHP scaffold and investigate their binding mechanisms with calcium channel proteins having Protein Data Bank IDs 5KLS and 5KLB. The binding efficiency of newly created prospective compounds such as calcium CCBs was predicted using molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation analyses in this study. The binding energy of the proteins with the newly created compounds ranged between -6.86 and −10.05 kcal/mol (Autodock 4.2). Compound 10 with the proteins had the lowest binding energies of −10.05 and −9.99 kcal/mol, which were lower than the commonly used drugs, amlodipine and nifedipine. The molecular mechanics/generalized born surface area calculations based on dynamics yielded good results, and MD simulation indicates that the complexes are stable.
Wind Turbine Blade Design

A detailed review of the current state-of-art for wind turbine blade design is presented, including theoretical maximum efficiency, propulsion, practical efficiency, HAWT blade design, and blade loads. The review provides a complete picture of wind turbine blade design and shows the dominance of modern turbines almost exclusive use of horizontal axis rotors. The aerodynamic design principles for a modern wind turbine blade are detailed, including blade plan shape/quantity, aerofoil selection and optimal attack angles. A detailed review of design loads on wind turbine blades is offered, describing aerodynamic, gravitational, centrifugal, gyroscopic and operational conditions.
Investigation of Electric Field Profile and associated parameters with Embedded Metal Layer in Field Plate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

Electric field initiates various failure mechanism in an III-N based AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. The material properties of the GaN-HEMTs under the influence of electric field activates physical mechanisms like converse piezoelectric effect (CPE), crack/defect migration, trapping, which deteriorate the electrical behaviour of the device leading to permanent failure. The drain side of the gate edge has the highest electric field and is the hub of all the reliability concerns in a GaN HEMT, which is mitigated with field plate (FP) technology. However, the FP edge is now subjected to these degradation phenomena. The present work aims at suppressing the strong electric fields at the FP gate edge using an embedded metal layer that shields the electric field from reaching the gate edge. Calibrated numerical simulations have been carried out on the proposed device structure to observe the viability in consideration. It is found that the electric field at the FP edge reduces by around 3%. Also, CPE and electron temperature reduce by 20%, and 14%, respectively. Since the proposed device structure can considerably mitigate the electric field, CPE, and electron temperature, it is expected that it will pave a path for improved and reliable devices in the future.
Research on Diagnosis of Loss of Flow Accidents in Nuclear Reactor Coolant System

The reactor coolant system is one of the most important systems in a nuclear power plant. The safe and stable operation of the reactor coolant system is related to the safety of the nuclear power plant. With the rapid development of nuclear power technology, it is particularly important to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants. This paper takes the third-generation reactor AP1000 as the research object, firstly analyzes the typical accidents of the coolant system, and establishes a three-layer fault model, and then introduces the counterfactual reasoning method to take the Loss of Flow Accident as an example to identify the accident, and compares it with the traditional data-driven The Bayesian network diagnosis method was compared with the Bayesian network diagnosis method, and finally the accident was diagnosed by the simulation software Pctran. The results show that the method can accurately identify the fault and is better than the Bayesian method, which can provide decision support for accident handling and ensure the safety of the reactor.
Increasing value in development projects using Domain Mapping Matrix

Coordinating concurrent interdependent activities is an important method to accelerate the Product Development (PD) process and improve its value. In PD process, we can execute a small function adjustment of an activity in order to achieve a value-added improvement of the product. Two types of Domain Mapping Matrix (DMM) are proposed for showing the expected value improvement and coordinating relationship in the project. Expected Value Improvement Matrix can be utilized to identify which value domains of each activity have improvement opportunity and the degree of improvement. Coordination Support Matrix can help to find the coordinating relationship and efforts between supported activities in development projects. Based on these DMM, the method of evaluating value improvement is presented. An industrial example at an IT company is provided to illustrate the proposed DMM.
Consensus Protocol to Implement Target Tracking

Consensus protocol is suggested for target following of two non-holonomic robots. For moving robot platform, the computer that acts as the controller, and the robots to establish wireless local area network (WLAN), the remote control of the robot is achieved by transmitting data through cordless communication. Kinematics mathematical modelling and pose error model of the moving automaton are raised, applying consensus protocol to implement trajectory tracking. Emulation effects demonstrate that the suggested control way is feasible.
Formant Measure of Indian English Vowels for Speaker Identity

With the growth of communication technology, reliability and security of communication devices became a challenging job. Voice biometrics are becoming increasingly popular as a promising alternative to traditional passwords to authenticate the user on devices for secure communication. Speech processing technology in voice identification may ensures and secure the user access over a range of systems, devices, and services. The formant frequency is the resonant frequency of the vocal cord. Frame-to-frame formants achieved using linear predictive coding (LPC) analysis technique by obtaining the tops of the envelopes. The source voice for vowel is a periodic signal in combination of fundamental frequency and a random noise generator generates unvoiced consonants. In this study, we used voice test samples of different male speakers from age 15 to 20 years. From each speaker utterance of different Indian English words, including vowels and consonants recorded using a digital audio editor software GoldWave v6.57. Formant frequency extracted from the spectrogram of recorded words using MATLAB 2016a signal processing toolbox. Finally, presented an approach for extracting vowels in the words spoken based on three formant frequencies such F1, F2 and F3. The results has shown the significance of vowels in Indian English words when formant frequency of vocal tract is considered.
Intelligent Building with the Assistance for Blind People

Home Automation Systems and AAL Systems are nowadays very quickly developed technologies. It is used for the living space support, heating, zone temperature regulation and many other automatable comfort for operating and gaining the information of the humans and household condition. The system of home automation "RUDO" is equipped with the assistance technologies that allow blind people to fully operate the heating system, zone regulation and use PC at the professional level.
Development of a Geometric Cutting Aided System for Tin-sprayed Steel Mesh

The design of tin-sprayed steel mesh is particularly important in the production of tin-sprayed steel mesh, which is the key to ensuring the function and quality of the tin-sprayed steel mesh. At present, the tin-sprayed steel mesh is still manually designed, and the design process is error-prone and inefficient. Therefore, a geometric cutting assistance system for tin-sprayed steel mesh of the combiner based on AutoCAD and ObjectARX was developed. The system adopts a parameterized design to realize the automatic operation of the steel mesh cutting process. First introduced the system development environment and composition architecture, and briefly explained the system interaction interface. Then it explains two key methods in the software system design and development process, including cutting quality control and finding the intersection of line segments. Finally, the actual case proves that the system greatly improves the efficiency and quality of steel mesh cutting.
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The Use of Repeated Forced Social Defeat as an Animal Stress Model

Over 50% of patients are resistant to current treatments for depression. With a lifetime prevalence of 20.6% among US adults, it is evident that the present understanding of major depressive disorder is limited, and current experimental methods are inadequate to decode the complex pathology of depression. This study used a novel animal model, Repeated Forced Social Defeat, to induce depressive-like symptoms in mice in order to add to the current literature on depression. The study sample comprised forty wild type male C57BL/6 inbred mice. The Tube Test was utilized to determine the established social rankings within each group of mice. This was followed by administration of the Tail Suspension Test and a second administration of the Tube Test. Repeated Forced Social Defeat was administered a week after the second round of Tube Test administration, followed by one last round of the Tail Suspension Test. Results indicate that the dominant mice did not display significantly greater immobility times than the subordinate mice in the Tail Suspension test prior to- and after administration of Repeated Forced Social Defeat. However, there was a non-significant trend towards the dominant mice displaying greater immobility times in comparison to the subordinate mice post social defeat. Evidently, while there were no significant differences, dominant mice seem to display less resilience following social defeat in comparison to subordinate mice. A possible explanation for a lack of significant differences is a small sample size and short period of administration. These findings demonstrate the potential of utilizing Repeated Forced Social Defeat as a means to induce depressive-like symptoms in mice, as well as the relevance of dominance hierarchies in predicting susceptibility to specific stressors. Further investigation of Repeated Forced Social Defeat is warranted.
Boosted Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Curriculum value-based reinforcement learning (RL) solves a complex target task by reusing action-values across a tailored sequence of related tasks of increasing difficulty. However, finding an exact way of reusing action-values in this setting is still a poorly understood problem. In this paper, we introduce the concept of boosting to curriculum value-based RL, by approximating the action-value function as a sum of residuals trained on each task. This approach, which we refer to as boosted curriculum reinforcement learning (BCRL), has the benefit of naturally increasing the representativeness of the functional space by adding a new residual each time a new task is presented. This procedure allows reusing previous action-values while promoting expressiveness of the action-value function. We theoretically study BCRL as an approximate value iteration algorithm, discussing advantages over regular curriculum RL in terms of approximation accuracy and convergence to the optimal action-value function. Finally, we provide detailed empirical evidence of the benefits of BCRL in problems requiring curricula for accurate action-value estimation and targeted exploration.
Power loss optimisation of foil coils for induction cooking

One of the main problems in induction cooking appliances is the relatively high temperature the inductor reaches. Self-heating is not the only issue, the heat transferred from the pot is also a concern, which elevates the inductor temperature beyond 200/spl deg/C. A copper foil coil in the inductor is considered a good solution for this application. This paper deals with how current distributes in this type of coil, and which are the proper foil section dimensions in order to obtain lower power losses (low temperature rise), with minimum volume of copper (low cost).
ProFactory: Improving IoT Security via Formalized Protocol Customization

As IoT applications gain widespread adoption, it becomes important to design and implement IoT protocols with security. Existing research in protocol security reveals that the majority of disclosed protocol vulnerabilities are caused by incorrectly implemented message parsing and network state machines. Instead of testing and ﬁxing those bugs after development, which is extremely expensive, we would like to avert them upfront. For this purpose, we propose P RO F AC - TORY which formally and unambiguously models a protocol, checks model correctness, and generates a secure protocol implementation. We leverage P RO F ACTORY to generate a group of IoT protocols in the Bluetooth and Zigbee families and the evaluation demonstrates that 82 known vulnerabilities are averted. P RO F ACTORY will be publicly available [1].
Fundamental Characteristics of Wi-Fi and Wireless Local Area Network Re-identification for Transportation

Many transportation agencies use re-identification technologies to identify vehicles at multiple points along the roadway as a way to measure travel times and congestion. Examples of these technologies include license plate readers, toll tag transponders, and media access control (MAC) address scanners for Bluetooth devices. Recent advancements have allowed for the detection of unique MAC addresses from Wi-Fi and wireless local area network (WLAN) enabled devices. This paper represents one of the first attempts to measure the fundamental characteristics of Wi-Fi re-identification technology as it applies to transportation data collection. Wi-Fi sampling rates, re-identification rates, range, transmission success rates, and probability of discovery of sensors and mobile devices were measured, and a model of probability of detection is presented. Field tests found that mobile phones routinely experienced significant time gaps between Wi-Fi transmissions. The study recommends that Wi-Fi sensors be deployed at low-volume, low-speed roadways, with sensors positioned near intersections where vehicles are likely to slow or stop. Due to Wi-Fi’s relatively low probability of discovery, the technology may produce poor results in applications that require re-identifying vehicles over multiple consecutive sensors.
Development of a method and a test rig to evaluate the outer handle snap back sound of passenger cars

For a premium car the sound of each component is important for the overall impression of the car. Among others like for example seat adjusters and the door closing, the sound of the outer door handle snap back is one of the first the customer experiences in a dealership. To be able to evaluate this sound in an early stage of development, a test rig and a method is developed in this thesis. Furthermore requirements in terms of objective measures are determined which correlate to the subjective impression of a customer. This study is focused on one particular handle design which is modified in different ways in order to obtain different snap back sounds. All possible combinations of these modifications are recorded and the acceleration is measured on various points. This is done on three different measurement setups each. One setup is the handle mounted on the complete vehicle, second the handle mounted on a metal sheet, and third only the handle itself. The recordings of the complete vehicle measurement are used to perform a listening test to find out what high quality of a door handle snap back means for a potential customer. The result of this subjective investigation is compared to the analysis of the objective microphone signal and then step by step transferred to the results of the acceleration measurements of the complete vehicle setup, the metal sheet setup and the single handle setup. Finally as the outcome of this study a correlation between the subjective perception and the objective measurement of the door handle snap back sound could be found. v CHALMERS, Master’s Thesis BOMX02-16-66 It is shown that it is possible to use a test rig with a very reduced design. Moreover a suggestion for a requirement curve in terms of acceleration level on the handle is given. CHALMERS, Master’s Thesis BOMX02-16-66 vi
Angle-monotonicity of theta-graphs for points in convex position

For a real number 0 < γ < 180 ◦ , a geometric path P = ( p 1 , . . . , p n ) is called angle-monotone with width γ from p 1 to p n if there exists a closed wedge of angle γ such that every directed edge −−−−→ p i p i +1 of P lies inside the wedge whose apex is p i . A geometric graph G is called angle-monotone with width γ if for any two vertices p and q in G , there exists an angle-monotone path with width γ from p to q . In this paper, we show that for any integer k ≥ 1 and any i ∈ { 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 } , the theta-graph Θ 4 k + i on a set of points in convex position is angle-monotone with width 90 ◦ + iθ 4 , where θ = 360 ◦ 4 k + i . Moreover, we present two sets of points in the plane, one in convex position and the other in non-convex position, to show that for every 0 < γ < 180 ◦ , the graph Θ 4 is not angle-monotone with width γ . ,
REVIEW Leptin and hyperleptinemia – from friend to foe for cardiovascular function

The obese gene product, leptin, plays a central role in food intake and energy metabolism. The physiological roles of leptin in human bodily function have been broadened over the past decade since leptin was ﬁrst discovered in 1994. Evidence has suggested that leptin plays a speciﬁc role in the intricate cascade of cardiovascular events, in addition to its well-established metabolic e ﬀ ects. Leptin, a hormone linking adiposity and central nervous circuits to reduce appetite and enhance energy expenditure, has been shown to increase overall sympathetic nerve activity, facilitate glucose utilization and improve insulin sensitivity. In addition, leptin is capable of regulating cardiac and vascular contractility through a local nitric oxide-dependent mechanism. However, elevated plasma leptin levels or hyperleptinemia, have been demonstrated to correlate with hyperphagia, insulin resistance and other markers of the metabolic syndrome including obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension, independent of total adiposity. Elevated plasma leptin levels may be an independent risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. Although mechanisms leading to hyperleptinemia have not been well described, factors such as increased food intake and insulin resistance have been shown to rapidly enhance plasma leptin levels and subsequently tissue leptin resistance. These ﬁndings have prompted the speculation that leptin in the physiological range may serve as a physiological regulator of cardiovascular function whereas elevated plasma leptin levels may act as a pathophysiological trigger and/or marker for cardiovascular diseases due to tissue leptin resistance.