Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fighting Disinformation Warfare with Artificial Intelligence Identifying and Combatting Disinformation Attacks in Cloud-based Social Media Platforms

—Following well-documented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and in the Brexit referendum in the U.K., law enforcement, intelligence agencies and social network providers worldwide have expressed growing interest in identifying and interdicting disinformation warfare. This paper reports on a research project being conducted by the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC) at Simon Fraser University (Canada) in cooperation with the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland). The research project involves the development of a method for identifying hostile disinformation activities in the Cloud. Employing the ICCRC’s Dark Crawler, Strathclyde’s Posit Toolkit, and TensorFlow, we collected and analyzed nearly three million social media posts, examining “fake news” by Russia’s Internet Research Agency, and comparing them to “real news” posts, in order to develop an automated means of classification. We were able to classify the posts as “real news” or “fake news” with an accuracy of 90.12% and 89.5%, using Posit and TensorFlow respectively.
Lymphocytic 2 (cid:57) ,5 (cid:57) -Oligoadenylate Synthetase Activity Increases prior to the Appearance of Neutralizing Antibodies and Immunoglobulin M and Immunoglobulin G Antibodies after Primary and Secondary Immunization with Yellow Fever Vaccine

Primary and secondary immunizations with live, attenuated yellow fever virus vaccine (17D strain) were performed in order to study the course of appearance of virus-neutralizing antibodies and immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies directed against the virus and the interferon-dependent enzyme 2 (cid:42) ,5 (cid:42) -oligoadenylate synthetase (2 (cid:42) ,5 (cid:42) AS) activity, determined in homogenates of peripheral B and T lymphocytes. From cellular ATP, this enzyme generates 2 (cid:42) ,5 (cid:42) -oligoadenylates which mediate degradation of viral mRNA by stimulation of a latent RNase. By day 4 after the ﬁrst immunization, the earliest and highest 2 (cid:42) ,5 (cid:42) AS activity was present in the T-lymphocyte fraction. By day 7, the enzyme activity was highest in the B-lymphocyte fraction. Virus- neutralizing antibodies appeared on day 7, and IgM antibodies were present on day 12. After the second immunization, performed
Delay Constrained ARQ Mechanism for MPEG Media Transport Protocol Based Video Streaming over Internet

—MPEG Media Transport (MMT) is a new international standard aiming at addressing the emerging multimedia services over heterogeneous packet-switched networks including Internet and broadcasting networks. Due to the heterogeneous characteristics of the broadcast and broadband networks, MMT provides an efficient delivery timing model to provide inter-network synchronization, measure various kinds of transmission delays and jitter caused by the transmission delay, and re-adjust timing relationship between the MMT packets to assure synchronized playback. Exploiting the delivery timing model, it is possible to accurately estimate round-trip time (RTT) experienced during MMT packet transmission. Based on the measured RTT, we propose an efficient delay constrained ARQ (Automatic Repeat reQuest) scheme which is applicable to MMT protocol based real-time video communication over IP networks.
A Comparison of Long Term Outcomes of Index Cryo-ablation Versus Radiofrequency Ablation in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation And Systolic Heart Failure

Background : Recent randomised studies have shown catheter ablation (CA) is an effective treatment for patients with AF and LV systolic dysfunction (LVSD), however the efficacy of an initial cryo-ablation strategy is unknown. We compared the long term outcomes of patients with an initial cryo-ablation (CRYO) versus radio-frequency ablation (RFA) strategy. Methods :
GTOC9: Results from the Xi’an Satellite Control Center (team XSCC)

This paper describes methods used by the team from the Xi’an Satellite Control Center (XSCC) for solving the 9th Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC9) problem. The removal of all 123 pieces of debris is accomplished using 12 launches in about 8 years time span, and the performance index ﬁnally ranked third in the competition. We reﬁned our results after the competition, and the improved solutions are also pre-sented.
Quantitative Analysis of Facial-Expression Training Application for Medical Doctors

— Establishing trust between a patient and a doctor depends as much on their relationship as on the doctor’s medical abilities. One of important factors in building and maintaining a relationship is whether the doctor produces facial expressions appropriate for the patient’s condition. We developed a facial-expression training application for medical students and tested its effectiveness as a training tool. In this application, Microsoft Cognitive Services Emotion API is used to analyze the facial expression. Prior to developing this application, we studied what kind of facial expressions were appropriate in a doctor-patient greeting situation. We focused on four conditions for practicing facial expressions. Three of them are greetings given by doctors at the beginning of medical interviews of adult patients in a general ward of a hospital. The fourth is a medical scenario in which a doctor puts a stethoscope to a patient's chest, i.e., auscultation. To verify the training application’s effectiveness, the facial expressions before and after learning with the application were evaluated by potential patients. The results confirmed the application’s utility.
mSmile is Necessary for Bronchial Smooth Muscle and Alveolar Myofibroblast Development

Disrupted lung alveolar myoﬁbroblast and bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) cell development may lead to pulmonary disorders such as broncho-pulmonary dysplasia. The molecular mechanisms that regulate BSM and alveolar myoﬁbroblast development are not fully understood. Here we show that mSmile (murine Smile), a novel transmembrane protein with tetratricopeptide repeats, functions in lung alveolar myoﬁbroblast and BSM cell development. mSmile mutant mice exhibit early neonatal lethality with few mice surviving up to 3 weeks. Mutant lungs display both airway branching morphogenesis defect during fetal lung development and alveolarization defect after birth. These defects are associated with reduced numbers of BSM cells in the peribronchial subepithelial region and clefts and myoﬁbroblasts in alveolar septae. Expression of ﬁbroblast growth factor-10 and its down stream target Bmp-4 , which are important for BSM formation, is decreased. In vitro , mSmile mutant embryonic ﬁbroblasts show reduced receptor activation and induction of myoﬁbroblast formation in response to Transforming growth factor- b (Tgf- b ), indicating that mSmile may mediate myoﬁbroblast development through modulation of Tgf- b signaling. These studies identify mSmile as a novel gene specifying both the BSM and lung alveolar myoﬁbroblast lineages, contributing to our understanding of the biological control of the development of these cells, and may provide insights into the aberrant smooth muscle and alveolar myoﬁbroblast development that occur in pathological conditions. Anat Rec, 295:167–176, 2012. V V C 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Real-time Air Quality monitoring for Smart Buildings in the IoT age

— The reduction of energy consumption and the people’s well-being, in smart buildings, rely on an accurate monitoring of the air quality. Thereby, herein an experimental platform is proposed to achieve this aim, which is inspired on an Internet of Things paradigm. The proposed approach is characterized by its scalability and its energy efficiency. Moreover, it is an end-to-end platform, as it permits to take measurements of the air quality, to store and process the information in a fusion center and to display in real-time the air quality in the Internet users’ devices.
Economics Discussion Papers 2017-2 GLOBALIZATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN PAKISTAN

This study analyzes the impact of globalization on unemployment in Pakistan, using annual data for the period 1980 to 2013. Using the ARDL econometric framework, we find that the economic, political and social aspects of globalisation differ in their effects. The data suggest that political and social integration, whilst beneficial in the short run, increase the long run expected unemployment rate. Economic integration appears to be only marginally beneficial in the short run; it is significantly beneficial in the long run but cointegration with the other aspects of globalisation means that it cannot fully counteract their undesirable long-run effect.
Chen Efficiency Analyses of Higher Education in Taiwan: Implications to Higher Education

 Abstract — This study applies nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze Taiwan’s 46 comprehensive and 73 technical universities from 2012 to 2017. The inter-category comparison of efficient universities percentage reveals that, on the whole, private universities outperform public universities in the same category. In addition, comprehensive universities outperform technical universities. However, the trend analyses confirm that facing the challenge of higher education crisis, performance improvement is much more urgent for private comprehensive universities (PriCU), public technical universities (PubTECH) and private technical universities (PriTECH) than for public comprehensive universities (PubCU), especially for PriTECH. The crisis in higher education has hit private universities harder than public ones, and technical universities harder than comprehensive ones, and is worsening fast. Moreover, for PubCU, PubTECH and PriTECH, improving overall operational efficiency, promoting management efficiency, and innovating teaching and research are just as important as optimizing the scale of operations. Conversely, for PriCU, they should first of all put more emphasis on scale efficiency improvement to boom their efficiencies. In terms of scale efficiency, this requires consideration of both pure technical efficiency and returns to scale, so no combination of mergers seems able to improve efficiency while addressing its immediate crisis. That thus suggests PriCU, PubTECH and PriTECH should take other ways, such as to raise income from outputs other than tuition fees, rather than merger, to reduce the shock as could as possible and thus improve their scale efficiency. Finally, the robustness test suggests consolidated estimation is more objective and fair evaluation of university
Identification of Dengue Serotypes in Children with Dengue Infection at Yangon Children’s Hospital in 2015

Dengue is the most important arthropod-borne viral infection of humans. All four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-DENV4) were circulating in Myanmar and DENV-1 was the most frequently isolated one starting in 2001. To identify dengue serotype, a total of 234 paired serum samples were collected from patients with clinically suspected dengue infection attending Medical Wards of Yangon Children’s Hospital from January to July 2015. The convalescent serum samples (S2) were tested by Immunochromatographic tests. The proportion of serologically confirmed cases was 76% (178 out of 234). Out of these, 178 seropositive cases, 46(26%) were diagnosed as primary and 132(74%) as secondary dengue infection. Among 46 cases of primary infection, 24(52%) were DHF grade I, 10(22%) were grade II, grade III and grade IV were 7(15%) and 5(11%), respectively. Among 132 cases of secondary infection, 72(55%) were DHF grade I, 24(18%) were grade II, 19(14%) were grade III and 17(13%) were grade IV. DHF GI and DHF GII (mild form of dengue) were the most common in both infections. The corresponding acute phase serum (S1) of the ICT positive (S2) samples with <5 fever days were selected for virus isolation by tissue culture in C6/36 mosquito cell lines and further typed with serotype specific monoclonal antibodies to four dengue viruses by using Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay. Out of 103, dengue virus was isolated from 20 samples accounting for 19% isolation rate. Among isolated dengue viruses, 14(70%) were DENV-1, 2(10%) were DENV-2, 1(5%) was DENV-3 and 3(15%) were found to be of concurrent infections (1 case of DENV-1+DENV-2 and 2 cases of DENV-1+DENV-4). In Myanmar, since 2001 except in 2007, the predominant one was serotype 1. The present study showed that it has not changed. Concurrent infections were also detected in 2015 but they did not associate with severe form of disease.
Contemporary Smart Cities: Key Issues and Best Practices

—The goal of the paper is to summarise the most common key issues and best practices of contemporary smart cities based on a globally selected and analysed research corpus with governmental and business documents from the last three years. The paper also provides a comparative analysis of the corpus with recently published academic sources. The ultimate goal is to create a framework study of the contemporary smart city landscape to support the connected research projects from different disciplines, and also, to give ammunition for policy makers of future cities to their strategies.
Some extractable iron contents as influenced by some organic manures application in the soils of Lake Geriyo, Adamawa state, Nigeria

Organic manures are safer sources of plant nutrients and a good source of micronutrients therefore; pot experiments were carried out to estimate some extractable iron contents as influenced by organic manure application in the soils of Lake Geriyo, Adamawa state, Nigeria. Two types of organic manures; poultry droppings, cow dung and control were used for the experiment. Three levels of organic manures; 5, 10 and 15 tons per hectare (ton ha -1 ) and three sampling time (30, 60 and 90 DAS were laid down in a completely randomized (CRD) design replicated three times. Results obtained revealed that rate, type of organic manures and time of submergence significantly (P ≤ 0.05) changed Fe content in the soil. Mean extractable iron concentrations of 42.01, 56.13 and 24.63 mgkg -1 were recorded for ammonium oxalate extractable iron, Citrate Bicarbonate Dithionite extractable iron and sodium pyrophosphate extractable iron in the first experiment while 45.81, 59.29 and 28.89 mgkg -1 were recorded for the second experiment respectively. However, CBD which extracts both amorphous and crystalline Fe recorded the highest Fe contents throughout the treatments with poultry droppings applied pots recording superior values than that of cowdung manure. similarly, higher values of oxa-Fe and Pyro-Fe were recorded in both manures compared to the control. In conclusion poultry droppings may result in iron accumulation and toxicity hence should be used with caution in the soil of Lake Geriyo and similar soils to avoid serious soil reduction leading to iron toxicity and soil phosphorus antagonism.
Enhanced efflux pump expression in Candida mutants results in decreased manogepix 1 susceptibility 2 Running Title : Efflux mutants altered in manogepix susceptibility 3 4

Manogepix is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent that inhibits glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) 25 anchor biosynthesis. Using whole genome sequencing, we characterized two efflux-mediated 26 mechanisms in the fungal pathogens Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis that result in 27 decreased manogepix susceptibility . In C. albicans , a gain-of-function mutation in the 28 transcription factor gene ZCF29 activated expression of ATP-binding cassette transporter genes 29 CDR11 and SNQ2. In C. parapsilosis , a mitochondrial deletion activated expression of the major 30 facilitator superfamily transporter gene MDR1 .
In Vivo Metabolic Roles of G Proteins of the Gi Family Studied with Novel Mouse Models.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the target of ~30-35% of all FDA-approved drugs. The individual members of the GPCR superfamily couple to one or more functional classes of heterotrimeric G proteins. The physiological outcome of activating a particular GPCR in vivo depends on the pattern of receptor distribution and the type of G proteins activated by the receptor. Based on the structural and functional properties of their α-subunits, heterotrimeric G proteins are subclassified into four major families: Gs, Gi/o, Gq/11, and G12/13. Recent studies with genetically engineered mice have yielded important novel insights into the metabolic roles of Gi/o-type G proteins. For example, recent data indicate that Gi signaling in pancreatic α-cells plays a key role in regulating glucagon release and whole body glucose homeostasis. Receptor-mediated activation of hepatic Gi signaling stimulates hepatic glucose production, suggesting that inhibition of hepatic Gi signaling could prove clinically useful to reduce pathologically elevated blood glucose levels. Activation of adipocyte Gi signaling reduces plasma free fatty acid levels, thus leading to improved insulin sensitivity in obese, glucose-intolerant mice. These new data suggest that Gi-coupled receptors that are enriched in metabolically important cell types represent potential targets for the development of novel drugs useful for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and related metabolic disorders.
The CoGripper: a Cooperative Gripper for Smart Factories

Most of the work on collaborative robots (cobots) and more in general on physical human robot interaction have focused on robotic arm design and control. This has led to a novel generation of collaborative robots that can safely interact with a human operator. Although robot end-effectors are most of the time the part of the robot more proximal to the human partner in collaborative scenarios, only a few works have been dedicated to the design and the control of collaborative grippers. The Schunk Co-Act Gripper [1] is an example of gripper designed for collaborative robotics, even if it still needs a complex system to be safe and can deal with a limited type of object’s geometries. Another example of a plug–and–play gripper is represented by the RG6 Collaborative Gripper [2], that however can be controlled only through the robotic arm interface thus limiting its applicability in many collaborative contests. We will present a soft–gripper explicitly devoted to an easy and safe interaction with human operators in cooperative tasks. The key ingredient of the soft-gripper is the intrinsic softness of the device, i.e., its embodied ability to comply and adapt to features of the objects and of the environment. The proposed device, that we named the Co-Gripper (see Fig. 1), is a wireless underactuated tendon-driven gripper, with four flexible fingers composed of three softrigid modules each. A wireless implementation allows to easily integrate the gripper both on actuated arms and on passive structures. Also, its control interface is extremely simple and can be used both in industrial and more general service application, without the need for specific knowledge
Analysis for ARQ Protocols on Multi Channels by using MIMD Congestion Control Algorithm

: In this paper we proposed to improve channels transmission rate but different time-invariant error rates. By assuming the Gilbert– Elliott model (GEM)for each channel and TCP for high speed the additive increase multiplicative decrease algorithm used in the standard TCP, Scalable TCP uses a multiplicative increase, multiplicative decrease (MIMD) algorithm for the window size evolution , we extend our analysis to time-varying channels. We compute the probability mass functions of the sequencing buffer occupancy and the sequencing delay for time-invariant channels. Our approach is based on the logarithm of the window size evolution has the same behavior as the workload process in a standard G/G/1 queue. The Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the equivalent queue is then shown to directly provide the throughput of the congestion control algorithm (CCA) and the higher moments of the window size.
Comparative Evaluation of Alternative Addressing Schemes

—Alternative addressing schemes are developed to be ﬂexible and user friendly, while at the same time unambiguous and processable in an automated way. In this paper, four schemes are compared to WGS84 latitude and longitude coordinates - an addressing scheme for itself. An experiment with human users checks how user friendly the various schemes are and what classes of errors the users make. The results show that comprehensible and recognizable address elements are contributing towards a user friendly address scheme.
Degradation kip1 and p27 with Impaired NFAT Nuclear Translocation Administration of Ovalbumin Is Associated T Cell Hyporesponsiveness Induced by Oral

Oral tolerance is an important physiological component of the immune system whereby the organism avoids dangerous reactions such as hypersensitivity to ingested food proteins and other luminal Ags which may cause tissue damage and inﬂammation. In addition, it has been shown in animal models and in humans that oral tolerance can be applied to controlling undesired immune responses, including autoimmune diseases, allergies, and organ transplant rejections. However, the molecular mechanisms of oral tolerance have been poorly deﬁned. In this study, we investigated the molecular basis underlying the hyporesponsiveness of orally tolerant CD4 T cells using a TCR transgenic mouse system in which oral tolerance was induced by long-term feeding with high dose Ag. We demonstrate that the hyporesponsive state of the CD4 T cells was maintained by a selective impairment in the TCR-induced calcium/NFAT signaling pathway and in the IL-2R-induced degradation of p27 kip1 and cell cycle progression. Thus, physiological mucosal tolerance is revealed to be associated with a unique type of T cell hyporesponsiveness which differs from previously described anergic T cells. The Journal of Immunology, 2002, 169: 4723–4731.
S ynthesizable Design and Simulation Analysis of Improved Performance of Reversible Circuits Using Conservative Logic Gates

: In recent trends in digital system design is based on reversible circuit’s logic. Because of this logic design has low energy dissipation. The digital circuits are in ideal conditions the power dissipation is zero. These factors are improving the densities and speed of the digital circuits. The sequential circuits like D latch, master slave D flip-flop, double edge triggered flip-flop are designed using Toffoli gate and the outputs of a reversible latch to realize the designs of double edge triggered flip-flop and the master-slave D flip-flop are presented in this paper. The proposed design is compared with Fredkin gate and Wallace tree multiplier.