Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Suppression of Transport of an Interacting Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Random Potential

We observe the suppression of the 1D transport of an interacting elongated Bose-Einstein condensate in a random potential with a standard deviation small compared to the typical energy per atom, dominated by the interaction energy. Numerical solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation reproduce well our observations. We propose a scenario for disorder-induced trapping of the condensate in agreement with our observations.
Telemonitoring in heart failure: fact, fiction, and controversy

: The facts, fiction, and controversial issues regarding contemporary use of telemonitoring in heart failure are discussed, along with implications for future research and clinical practice. Recent studies labeled as telemonitoring have reported findings inconsistent with large systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the literature on telemonitoring in heart failure. This review explores some of the reasons why these inconsistencies may exist and also discusses some of the key issues in the contemporary evidence and use of telemonitoring in heart failure.
Not Enough: Eﬀorts to Diversify Biogeosciences Beneﬁt Limited Segment of Society

We examined data from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest earth and space science society, to characterize cohort demographics of multiple milestones in a biogeoscientists’ career. Geoscientists of color and White women make up a smaller proportion of those participating in activities critical to transitioning from student to professional (submitting manuscripts, getting published, and being asked to review) in comparison to White men. However, gender parity for biogeo-scientists appears within reach at earlier career stages, with 37% AGU Biogeosciences members and 41% of Biogeosciences attendees at the Fall Meeting identifying as women in 2020. Unfortunately, data is lacking to make the same assessment for geoscientists of color. A large proportion of manuscripts are submitted by men (73%), many of which have no co-authors that identify as women or non-binary geoscientists, which likely points to inequitable resources and a greater service burden for scientists from historically excluded groups. Further, our communities’ bias of who we suggest as reviewers results in 85% of the reviewer invites going to White geoscientists and 63% going to men. Thus, while representation of diverse communities has improved in some areas, barriers to publishing results in journals not reﬂecting society: 25% and 22% of manuscripts were led by or included non-White geoscientists, respectively, and fewer than 5% and 7% were led by or included non-White, women geoscientists, respectively. Therefore, in sectors like academia where publishing remains critical for advancement, this process represents a signiﬁcant obstacle for biogeoscientists not already part of the majority.
Human Activity Recognition Based on Single Sensor Square HV Acceleration Images and Convolutional Neural Networks," in IEEE Sensors

—Human Activity Recognition (HAR) provides the context for many user-centered personal recommender systems in areas such as healthcare, sports, lifelong learning or home automation. Based on different types of sensors (either camera based, environmental sensors or wearable and mobile sensors) user related data provides the basis to extract movement related features from which the activity that the user is performing can be assessed. Among the different types of sensors, wearable sensors provide a user convenient, non-intrusive, always available alternative that has gained special attention for HAR. Wearable sensors will be a relevant part of the Internet of Things. This paper presents a novel mechanism to detect which particular activity a user is performing based on the data from a single tri-axial accelerometer. A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used in order to automatically extract the most relevant features to characterize acceleration patterns with inter-activity discrimination capacity. The user anchored coordinate system generating the data from the accelerometer sensor is transformed into a georeferenced coordinate system in order to estimate the horizontal and vertical acceleration components. A sliding window with 50% overlap is used to extract 5 seconds of acceleration data from which a square horizontal-vertical (HV) acceleration image is computed. Both monochrome and colored images are generated either by adding the influence of the time evolution of the acceleration series or not in the generated image. The results for both p-fold cross-validation and leave on out (L1O) approaches are presented using a public dataset. The results outperform by around 8% those obtained by the authors of the dataset in the case of using a p-fold cross-validation.
Sustainable tourism development in a Norwegian National Park Area - exploring social aspects.

Even in protected areas, it is inevitable that any human use will produce some impact on the natural resources. The present study sought to identify visitors’ tolerance for potential negative ecological impacts resulting from tourism activities and facilities in a Norwegian national park context. The measurements were based on park visitors’ expressed degree of acceptance of negative effects on particular species of wildlife (wild reindeer and raptors) and on vegetation. Attitudes were analysed through the use of four psychographic scales, reflecting respondents’ nature orientations, their specific facility desires, their preferences in a wilderness setting and their concerns about human interaction with the natural environment. Findings demonstrated that the psychographic scales explained more variation in attitudes than social background and trip characteristics. Higher levels of education among visitors were, however, strongly associated with increased ecological concern. The salient ecological awareness among park visitors in general (which was particularly expressed among highly educated individuals) signifies the potential strategic alliance between tourism and conservation interests.
Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter Effectiveness Study

This study examines the different ways that Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) campus chapters engage their officers and volunteers, collaborate with external publics and fundraise to help eliminate substandard housing. The information for the study was collected through a survey sent to 271 campus chapters and interviews with five campus chapters, as well as reviewing current literature on employee engagement, trends in youth volunteering and corporate social responsibility. The study aligns strengths of certain campus chapters with areas of improvement of others that campus chapters can utilize to help improve their effectiveness.
Optimizing Bayesian networks for recognition of driving maneuvers to meet the automotive requirements

An Object Oriented Bayesian Network for recognition of maneuver in highway traffic has demonstrated an acceptably high recognition performance on a prototype car with a Linux PC having an i7 processor. This paper is focusing on keeping the high recognition performance of the original OOBN, while evaluating alternative modelling techniques and their impact on the memory and time requirements of an ECU-processor for automotive applications. New challenges are faced, when the prediction horizon is to be further extended.
Approximation Algorithms for Scheduling with Rejection on Two Unrelated Parallel Machines

In this paper, we study the scheduling problem with rejection on two unrelated parallel machines. We may choose to reject some jobs, thus incurring the corresponding penalty. The goal is to minimize the makespan plus the sum of the penalties of the rejected jobs. We first formulate this scheduling problem into an integer program, then relax it into a linear program. From the optimal solution to the linear program, we obtain the two algorithms using the technique of linear programming rounding. In conclusion, we present a deterministic 3-approximation algorithm and a randomized 3-approximation algorithm for this problem.
A survey on tomato leaf grey spot in the two main production areas of Argentina led to the isolation of Stemphylium lycopersici representatives , which were genetically diverse and differ in virulence

Tomato gray leaf spot was first reported in Argentina in 1990. Since then, the disease has not only increased in endemicc areas , but also disseminated in other tomatogrowing areas. In a survey of plantas with typic symptoms of Tomato grey leaf spot disease we isolated 27 Stemphylium representatives representatives from the two main tomato-growing areas of Argentina . Cultural features such as sporulation, conidia morphometry among others revealed high variability between isolates, which was confirmed by Inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR)-PCR technique A molecular phylogenetic analysis comprising the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpd) gene partial sequences Powered by Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® from Aries Systems Corporation unambiguously identified all isolates as Stemphylium lycopersici. Based on disease severity on detached leaves, isolates were grouped in three cathegories high, medium and low virulent one. No correlation was found between phenotypic orgenotypic characters and the geographical origin of the isolates. Suggested Reviewers: Abbas Nasehi abbasnasehi@yahoo.com He has work in the field Daisuke Kurose daikuro@affrc.go. jp Bram Hanse hanse@irs.nl Isidre Llorente isidre.llorente@udg.edu Powered by Editorial Manager® and ProduXion Manager® from Aries Systems Corporation
of Renewal of Fear Using Context Similarity with Spider Fearful Individuals

The fact that renewal of fear can be due to a contextual mismatch between the exposure treatment context and the context where subsequent re-encountering occurs suggests that exposure does not completely remove the underlying fear associations. Conducting exposure in a context that is similar to the re-encounter context may be an effective method of attenuating renewal of fear. The current study examined the effects of context similarity using a single session in-vivo exposure in a sample of 61 moderate to high spider fearful first year psychology students at Griffith University (mean age was 25.36 years). Participants received standardised, in-vivo exposure with a golden orb spider. Fear was measured using self-report, behavioural avoidance, and heart rate measures. Four different contexts were utilised for this study with two being located indoors and two located outdoors. Self-reported fear ratings and heart rate showed that conducting exposure in contexts that are similar to subsequent re-encounter contexts attenuated renewal. This study shows how a simple modification to the exposure process can enhance the long-term cross contextual generalizability of exposure treatment in spider fearful individuals.
A study on toxin genes and cytotoxicity levels of Bacillus cereus in various ready-to-eat foods and pastry products in Turkey Journal of Istanbul Veterınary Scıences

Bacillus cereus is a spore-forming and toxin-producing gram-positive bacteria widely isolated from soils, meat, milk, and vegetables. It is recognized as one of the pathogenic bacteria that can lead to food poisoning and food spoilage in food service systems due to its ease of contamination of foods and lack of guarantee of elimination by pasteurization and sanitation practices. B. cereus causes two types of diseases mainly characterized by diarrhea and vomiting type syndrome with the toxins it produces. Toxins produced by B. cereus are mainly heat-stable emetic toxin and three different heat-labile enterotoxins. Foodborne illnesses of the diarrheal type are caused by the single protein toxin; cytotoxin K (CytK), and both tripartite toxins; hemolysin BL (Hbl), and the non-hemolytic enterotoxin (Nhe), whereas the emetic type, is caused by an emetic toxin cereulide. In this study, 225 ready-to-eat foods and pastry products were analyzed for B. cereus , its toxin profiles, and cytotoxicity effects. Multiplex PCR is used to identify the presence of the Hbl, CytK, and emetic toxin encoding genes. Component-specific antibody-based ELISA tests were utilized to determine the Hbl-L 2 and NheB components. Cytotoxic activity of the B. cereus isolates on Vero cells was also identified. In total, B. cereus was detected in 37 out of 225 (16.4%) food samples. From the positive 37 B. cereus isolates, the ces gene was not identified, whereas 91.9% (34) Nhe, 56.8% (21) Hbl, and 8.1% (3) CytK encoding genes revealed positive results on PCR analysis. PCR results were also compatible with ELISA and Cytotoxicity tests. In a nutshell, 16.4% prevalence of B. cereus in foods is insufficient, and the presence or absence of toxin genes may not yield reliable results. It is critical to detect pathogenic B. cereus toxin gene profiles as well as toxin production ability at the same time. This study presents for the first time, data from a cell culture cytotoxicity test using specific monoclonal antibody-based sandwich ELISA and multiplex PCR for
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manufacturer has produced tapered, more flexible guidewires that straighten arterial contours less and push the burr into the edge of a curve less forcefully. The distal 9 cm of the drive shaft tubing was removed, also making the shaft more flexible. With evolution of the shaft-guidewire system biased cutting is reduced. However, in severely angulated segments such as the takeoff of a left circumflex from the left main coronary artery with an angle > 1200, a more substantial wire (type C or Extra Support) can be preshaped to match the anatomy. This lesion specific prebending provides more complete abrasion of the plaque with decreased deeply biased cutting.
Enhanced Graph Rewriting Systems for Performance Aware Dynamic Software Architectures

Methodologies forcorrect by construction reconfigurationscan efficiently solve consistency issues in dynamic software architectures. At the same time, they may be unfit to characterize a system from a performance perspective. This stems from efficiency and applicability limitati ons in handling time-varying characteristics and related intr adependencies. In order to lift these restrictions, an exten sion to graph rewriting systems is proposed herein. Noticeably, the resulting formalism integrates changing constra ints that reflect the adequacy of a configuration in accordance to potentially concurrent secondary objectives (e.g., quali ty of service, energy consumption, and robustness). The suitabi lity of this approach, as well as the restraints of currently available ones, are illustrated and analysed with referenc e to a concrete use case. This last, known as DIET, consists in a load balancing application for dispatching computationa l jobs in a distributed infrastructure, which is part of SysFe raDS, a broader industrial solution for federating and managing hybrid HPC environment. This investigation demonstrates that the conceived solution can: (i) express any kin d of algebraic dependencies between evolving requirements and properties; (ii) ease the manipulation of attributes of the system and its elements with respect to classic methodoloResearch presented in this paper have been partially funded by the ANR in the context of SOP project ANR-11-INFR-001 C. Eichler· T. Monteil · K. Drira CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, Fra nce E-mail:{authorname}@laas.fr C. Eichler· P. Stolf IRIT; 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France E-mail:{authorname}@irit.fr C. Eichler· T. Monteil · P.Stolf· K. Drira Univ de Toulouse, UPS F-31400, INSA, F-31400, UTM, F-31100 Toulouse, France A. Grieco Politecnic di Bari, Via Orabona 4 70125, Bari, Italy gies; (iii) provide an efficient access to attribute values; (iv) be fruitfully exploited in software management systems; (v ) guarantee theoretical properties of a grammar, like its ter mination.
Switching from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate to tenofovir alafenamide or dual therapy-based regimens in HIV-infected individuals with viral load 50 copies/mL: does estimated glomerular filtration rate matter?

Our aim was to evaluate the association between recent eGFR values and risk of switching from TDF to TAF or dual therapy (DT) in real life. HIV-positive patients achieving HIV-RNA ≤50 copies/mL for the first time after starting a TDF-based regimen were included. Kaplan–Meier (KM) curves and Cox regression models were used to estimate the time from TDF to switch to TAF or DT. 1486 participants were included: median (IQR) age 36 (30–42) years; baseline CKD-EPI eGFR 99.92 (86.47–111.4) mL/min/1.73m 2 . We observed a consistently higher proportion of people with HIV-RNA ≤50 copies/mL who switched from TDF to TAF rather than to DT. By competing risk analysis, at 2 years from baseline, the probability of switching was 3.5% (95% CI 2.6–4.7%) to DT and 46.7% (42.8–48.5%) to TAF. A significantly higher probability of switching to TAF was found for patients receiving INSTI at baseline versus NNRTIs and PI/b [KM, 65.6% (61.7–69.4%) vs. 4.0% (1.8–6.1%) and 59.9% (52.7–67.2%), respectively; P < 0.0 0 01]. eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73m 2 both as time-fixed covariate at baseline or as current value was associated with a higher risk of switching to DT [aHR 6.68 (2.69–16.60) and 8.18 (3.54–18.90); P < 0.001] but not to TAFbased cART [aHR 0.94 (0.39–2.31), P = 0.897; and 1.19 (0.60–2.38), P = 0.617]. Counter to our original hypothesis, current eGFR is used by clinicians to guide switches to DT but does not appear to be a key determinant for switching to TAF. © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )
Switching from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate to tenofovir alafenamide coformulated with rilpivirine and emtricitabine in virally suppressed adults with HIV-1 infection

__Background:__ Tenofovir alafenamide, a tenofovir prodrug, results in 90% lower tenofovir plasma concentrations than does tenofovir disproxil fumarate, thereby minimising bone and renal risks. We investigated the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of switching to a single-tablet regimen containing rilpivirine, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide compared with remaining on rilpivirine, emtricitabine, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. __Methods:__ In this randomised, double-blind, multicentre, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial, HIV-1-infected adults were screened and enrolled at 119 hospitals in 11 countries in North America and Europe. Participants were virally suppressed (HIV-1 RNA <50 copies per mL) on rilpivirine, emtricitabine, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for at least 6 months before enrolment and had creatinine clearance of at least 50 mL/min. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive a single-tablet regimen of either rilpivirine (25 mg), emtricitabine (200 mg), and tenofovir alafenamide (25 mg) or to remain on a single-tablet regimen of rilpivirine (25 mg), emtricitabine (200 mg), and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (300 mg), with matching placebo, once daily for 96 weeks. Investigators, participants, study staff, and those assessing outcomes were masked to treatment group. All participants who received one dose of study drug and were on the tenofovir disoproxil fumarate regimen before screening were included in primary efficacy analyses. The primary endpoint was the proportion of participants with less than 50 copies per mL of plasma HIV-1 RNA at week 48 (by the US Food and Drug Administration snapshot algorithm), with a prespecified non-inferiority margin of 8%. This study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01815736. __Findings:__ Between Jan 26, 2015, and Aug 25, 2015, 630 participants were randomised (316 to the tenofovir alafenamide group and 314 to the tenofovir disoproxil fumarate group). At week 48, 296 (94%) of 316 participants on tenofovir alafenamide and 294 (94%) of 313 on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate had maintained less than 50 copies per mL HIV-1 RNA (difference -0·3%, 95·001% CI -4·2 to 3·7), showing non-inferiority of tenofovir alafenamide to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. Numbers of adverse events were similar between groups. 20 (6%) of 316 participants had study-drug related adverse events in the tenofovir alafenamide group compared with 37 (12%) of 314 in the tenofovir disoproxil fumarate group; none of these were serious. __Interpretation:__ Switching to rilpivirine, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide was non-inferior to continuing rilpivirine, emtricitabine, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in maintaining viral suppression and was well tolerated at 48 weeks. These findings support guidelines recommending tenofovir alafenamide-based regimens, including coformulation with rilpivirine and emtricitabine, as initial and ongoing treatment for HIV-1 infection. __Funding:__ Gilead Sciences.
Agent-Based Approach for Manufacturing Integration: The Ciimplex Experience

The production management system used by most manufacturers today consists of disconnected planning and execution processes and lacks the support for interoperability and collaboration needed for enterprise-wide integration. This situation often prevents the manufacturer from fully exploring market opportunities in a timely fashion. To address this problem, we are exploring an agent-based approach to intelligent enterprise integration. In this approach, a set of agents with specialized expertise can be quickly assembled to help with the gathering of relevant information and knowledge, to cooperate with each other and with other parts of the production management system and humans to arrive at timely decisions in dealing with various enterprise scenarios. The proposed multiagent system, including its architecture and implementation, is presented and demonstrated through an example integration scenario involving real planning and execution software systems.
Local Navigation for Unmanned Group Vehicles

Abstract : This document surveys existing methods of local navigation of mobile robots. It analyzes the state of the art in both indoor obstacle avoidance techniques and those for outdoor rough terrain. A variety of techniques such as Potential Fields, Vector Field Histogram, and Dynamic Window are examined in detail, in addition to outdoor systems such as Ranger, Morphin and the NIST Demo III architecture. Finally, it discusses the applicability of robot motion planning algorithms like Rapidly Exploring Random Trees to the robot navigation problem.
Encoding Vertices in Rectangular Grid Graphs with Eliminating Errors

We assume that an undirected rectangular grid graph models a message transportation between computers in a computer network. We consider a routing scenario in this network and label each vertex with a binary string by using a particular approach. According to routing scenario we consider , the messages are sent with a header of a message between two distinct computers in the graph . We present a way to encode the paths that represent the routes in the network. We aim that these codes prevent errors which distruct the message transportation in the network and may cause network traffic.
Distributive Rho-Calculus

The rewriting calculus has been introduced as a general formalism that uniformly integrates rewriting and λ -calculus. In this calculus all the basic ingredients of rewriting such as rewrite rules, rule applications and results are (cid:28)rst-class objects. The rewriting calculus has been originally designed and used for expressing the semantics of rule based as well as object oriented paradigms. We have previously shown that convergent term rewriting systems and classic strategies can be encoded naturally in the calculus. In this paper, we go a step further and we propose an extended version of the calculus that allows one to encode unrestricted term rewriting systems. This version of the calculus features a new evaluation rule describing the behavior of the result structures and a call-by-value evaluation strategy. We prove the con(cid:29)uence of the obtained calculus and the correctness and completeness of the proposed encoding.