Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative Analysis of Various Techniques of IOT in Electric Vehicle

— Electric Vehicles are increasing day by day across the globe [3]. Electric vehicles, also known as EVs, are steadily gaining in popularity. Research has shown that electric cars are better for the environment. Electrical Vehicles (EVs) appeared as a solution to reduce CO2 emissions. They emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their life than a petrol or diesel car. Energy storage systems, usually batteries, are essential for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and all-electric vehicles (EVs). Batteries for electric vehicles are characterized by their relatively high power-to-weight ratio, specific energy and energy density; smaller, lighter batteries are desirable because they reduce the weight of the vehicle and therefore improve its performance. Most plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles use lithium-ion batteries. In the report, BNEF outlines that electric vehicles (EVs) will hit 10% of global passenger vehicle sales in 2025, with that number rising to 28% in 2030 and 58% in 2040. According to the study, EVs currently make up 3% of global car sales. Through their entire lifetime, electric cars are better for the climate. In the manufacturing process, electric vehicles will produce more global warming emissions than the average gasoline vehicle, because lithium-ion batteries require a lot of materials and energy to build. The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has
Sensors Deployment Strategies for Rescue Applications in Wireless Sensor (cid:23)etworks

— Wireless sensor networks (WS(cid:23)s) become a major tool for various security and surveillance applications to detect and monitor environmental changes, to control vehicle traffic, etc. For all these capabilities, we propose in this paper to use WS(cid:23)s in rescue applications. These applications are critical in terms of network response time when disaster strikes. The network response time is the time required by sensor nodes to detect victims’ positions and forward them to the sink node. In this paper, we consider two sensor nodes deployment strategies: linear and circular strategies. By deployment strategies, we mean initial nodes positioning and nodes movement procedures. Therefore, we simulate these two strategies under the WS(cid:23)et simulator and derived the Monitored Area Sweep Time (MAST) (i.e., the time required by sensor nodes to scan all the area coordinates to find victims) and the energy dissipation due to node mobility. Simulation results are verified using analytical expressions of the zone sweep time and the energy dissipation. Finally, we extend the behavior of the sensor nodes deployment strategies to support nodes communication so that mobile sensors can forward victims’ positions to the sink node.
Title: Improving patient selection for FDG-PET scanning in the staging of gastric cancer

Standard pre-treatment staging for gastric cancer includes computed tomography of the chest, abdomen and pelvis, gastroscopy and laparoscopy. Although 18F- Positron Emission Tomography combined with CT ( 18 F-FDG PET/CT) has been proven to be a useful staging tool in many cancers, some gastric cancers are not FDG avid and its clinical value is still debatable. Materials and Methods: Gastric cancer patients who had staging 18 F-FDG PET scans from 2002 to 2013 at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center were retrospectively analyzed and a systematic review was also conducted using PubMed between 2000 to March 2014 to investigate clinicopathological parameters associated with FDG avidity. A pre-treatment PET scoring system was developed from FDG avid predictors. Results: Both retrospective analysis of the 40 gastric cancer patients treated at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center and systematic literature review showed similar significant predictors of FDG avidity including large tumour size, non-signet ring cell carcinoma type and GLUT1 positive expression on immunohistochemistry. A PET scoring system was developed from these clinicopathological parameters which allowed FDG avid tumors to be detected with a sensitivity of 85% and specificity of 71%. Conclusions: A pre-treatment PET scoring system can assist in the selection of patients with gastric adenocarcinoma when considering staging FDG-PET scanning.
Formation of marine oil snow with surface water from Cook Inlet, AK

The objective of the research is to inform response decision-making and understanding of the potential association of spilled oil with marine snow in Cook Inlet, Alaska. While extensive research has been conducted on minerals aggregating with spilled oil, larger organic aggregates, such as marine snow, have only recently been studied as a transport mechanism. This knowledge gap in understanding the fate of oil was highlighted as part of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill. It was determined that significant percentages of spilled oil reached the seafloor as a result of association with marine snow during both DWH and the Ixtoc 1 blowouts. As development of oil resources continues in Alaska and the Arctic, marine snow is a significant oil exposure pathway that must be considered during oil spill response. In parallel with a corresponding sedimentation study, input from local, federal and industry experts was used to develop laboratory scale oil exposure experiments to evaluate the potential for oil-marine snow aggregate formation in Cook Inlet. Roller-bottle experiments were conducted from May to July 2019 to assess the interactions between a 5 μm sheen of Alaska North Slope crude oil and Cook Inlet surface water. Aggregate formation was documented and sinking flocs were observed and analyzed with fluorescence microscopy to estimate oil content. The total oil volumes estimated in aggregates were between 0.01 to 0.4 μl. Estimates of total oil volume associated with the aggregates ranged from 0.6 to 9.3 % ± 1.4% of the total oil volume (80 μl) that was added to the bottles. The incorporation of spilled oil in surface forming aggregates will contribute to understanding fate and response implications in Cook Inlet and other northern regions at risk of spilled oil entering the benthic food web via association with sinking marine snow.
ProTego-ACC: Access control and key management for healthcare systems

P reserving the confidentiality of sensitive Electronic Health Records (EHRs), stored on a medical server, is an essential issue in healthcare systems. The system should have the means to avoid unauthorized users from accessing this sensitive information. This security problem has been tackled in the ProTego project, where an access control mechanism is developed as an integral part of a toolkit for data protection in healthcare. Without the appropriate access control mechanisms, it is impossible to protect the EHRs. This white paper discusses multiple technical approaches to provide access control and key management for healthcare systems.
Enabling the data FAIRness of version control systems

Many kinds of different scientific data are being produced every day by research institutes across the globe. Scientists are interested in using this data, but often have difficulties when trying to obtain access to data that has been created and is stored by external organizations, due to incompatible data management standards. The Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Re-usability (FAIR) principles are guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship, which have been developed to facilitate knowledge discovery by introducing common standards for human and machine interaction with data, utilizing Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and metadata. Several technologies and services have been introduced which leverage these principles. However, all aforementioned standards, technologies, and services are intended for static data and do not provide adequate support for dynamic and evolutionary data, e.g. software source code, which is often managed by Version Control Systems (VCSs) such as Git and Subversion. This research investigated the current approaches to managing persistently identified data through VCSs and found them to be lacking in diversity of supported VCSs and persistent publishing systems, and proposed a novel system which allows for direct publishing of repositories from multiple VCSs to multiple, external publishing systems through a web-accessed interface. This initial idea has also been published as a poster in the 2019 eScience Proceedings [1], which originated from an industry problem posed by Grasple [2]. Additionally, at the end of the thesis, several assertions and conclusions about the state of the art of persistent publishing of evolutionary data, most notably software source code, are made which detail important problems that need additional solutions.
L γ INEQUALITIES CONCERNING POLYNOMIALS

: In this paper, ﬁrst, we obtain L γ analogue of an inequality concerning a polynomial p ( z ) = n P ν =0 a ν z ν of degree n having no zero in | z | < k , k ≥ 1 proved by Govil et al. [ Illinois Jour. of Math. , 23 , No 2 (1979), 319-329]. Second, we also prove L γ analogue of another inequality for a polynomial p ( z ) = n P ν =0 a ν z ν of degree n having all its zeros in | z | ≤ k , k ≤ 1 proved in the same paper. The results improve other known inequalities as well.
Examination of Best-time Estimation using Interpolation for Geotagged Tweets

—Various studies have been conducted to analyze social media data in real time and to extract events in the real world. A benefit of analysis using data with position information is that it can accurately extract the event from a target area to be analyzed. However, because the proportion of data with position information in social media data is small, the amount to analyze is insufficient in almost areas. In other words, the problem indicates that we cannot fully extract most events. Therefore, efficient analytical methods are necessary for accurate extraction of events with position information, even in areas with few data. For this research, we conducted an experiment using information interpolation to estimate the times for biological season observation using tweets with Twitter location information. Then we evaluated its effectiveness. Herein, we explain results obtained using interpolated information and analysis of cherry blossoms in Japan in 2016.
Commutators of BMO functions with spectral multiplier operators

Let L be a non-negative self adjoint operator on L2(X) where X is a space of homogeneous type. Assume that L generates an analytic semigroup e−tL whose kernel satisfies the standard Gaussian upper bounds. By the spectral theory, we can define the spectral multiplier operator F (L). In this article, we show that the commutator of a BMO function with F (L) is bounded on Lp(X) for 1 < p < ∞ when F is a suitable function.
University of Birmingham A topological view on algebraic computation models

We investigate the topological aspects of some algebraic computation models, in particular the BSS-model. Our results can be seen as bounds on how diﬀerent BSS-computability and computability in the sense of computable analysis can be. The framework for this is Weihrauch reducibility. As a consequence of our characterizations, we establish that the solvability complexity index is (mostly) independent of the computational model, and that there thus is common ground in the study of non-computability between the BSS and TTE setting.
Towards network based media processing using cloud technologies

Media delivery based on HTTP adaptive bitrate streaming protocol has become one of the most popular methods for streaming video and audio over the Internet. These services are commonly built on top of centralized infrastructures that rely on network conditions or computing resources, which may reduce performance applications on the client side. Massive increases in cloud technologies, such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), container as a service (CaaS), and new deployment paradigms like function as a service (FaaS) provide accessible deployment of virtual functions in multiple locations, which reduces various streaming performance constraints. However, there is no clear understanding of whether all cloud deployments are suitable for media delivery. This thesis develops a proof of concept for the deployment of media processing functions in the cloud. Three media processing use cases and a media streaming prototype for video ondemand (VOD) ad insertion are designed, implemented, and evaluated. Each of the three media processing use cases is evaluated in a specific deployment architecture to obtain key performance indicators (KPIs) for use in future networks, such as 5G and network-based media processing (NBMP).
Sequence Analysis and Evolutionary Perspectives of ROB-1 1B-Lactamase

The nucleotide sequence of the ROB-1 P-lactamase gene from Haemophilus influenzae plasmid RROb was determined. The structural gene encodes a polypeptide of 305 amimo acids, with an estimated molecular mass of 30,424 for the mature form of the protein. The ROB-1 gene showed low homologies with other P-lactamases at the nucleic acid level. By using two statistical computer methods, assessment of the extent of similarity between ROB-1 and other known ,B-lactamase amino acid sequences suggested that ROB-1 is a class A enzyme. Alignment of class A ,-lactamases with ROB-1 identified conserved residues. The use of a mutation matrix for detecting distance relationships indicated that ROB-1 has higher values and homologies with ,-lactamases of gram-positive bacteria, giving insight into its ancestry and divergence. ,-lactamase
mutation in ovarian cancer: testing, implications and treatment considerations.

: Ovarian cancer is a heterogeneous disease that encompasses a number of different cellular subtypes, the most common of which is high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). Still today, ovarian cancer is primarily treated with chemotherapy and surgery. Recent advances in the hereditary understanding of this disease have shown a significant role for the BRCA gene. While only a minority of patients with HGSOC will have a germline BRCA mutation, many others may have tumor genetic aberrations within BRCA or other homologous recombination proteins. Genetic screening for these BRCA mutations has allowed improved preventative measures and therapeutic development. This review focuses on the understanding of BRCA mutations and their relationship with ovarian cancer development, as well as future therapeutic targets.
Scattering-free channels of invisibility across non-Hermitian media: supplementary material

This document provides supplementary information to “Scattering-free channels of invisibility across non-Hermitian media,” https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.390788. In particular, we pro-vide detailed analytical derivations that are crucial for the completeness and understanding of the main results of the paper, together with additional numerical simulations to verify our approach.
Vegetation Management for Sagebrush-Associated Wildlife Species

: It is obvious that the diverse array of wildlife species using sagebrush habitats has a similarly wide range of habitat requirements. Vegetation management for biological diversity on a landscape scale should take these diverse habitat requirements into consideration. Management for any one species may or may not provide the habitat requirements for other species. Creating a mosaic of habitats with multiple-aged stands of sagebrush and varying degrees of herbaceous and shrub cover would provide the diverse vertical and horizontal vegetation composition and structure required by diverse wildlife species.
Celebrity endorsement: The effects of social comparisons on women's self-esteem and purchase intensions

In this research we investigated the interplay between celebrities holding positive vs. negative media images and women’s self-esteem and purchase intensions. Study 1 documents that “good” celebrities decrease consumers’ self-esteem while a “bad” celebrity increase self-esteem. Study 2 shows that changes in self-esteem transfer to the product if consumers engage in an assimilating comparison process. Study 3 demonstrates that for consumers low in true self-esteem, a bad celebrity increases and a good celebrity decreases purchase intentions. In contrast, for women high in true self-esteem, a positive celebrity leads to greater intentions to purchase the celebrity-endorsed product.
INFLUENCE OF FINISH LINE DESIGN ON THE VERTICAL MARGINAL DISCREPANCY OF ENAMIC HYBRID CERAMIC: IN VITRO STUDY

Aim of the study : The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of finish line design (chamfer and shoulder) on the vertical marginal gap distance, and fracture resistance of Hybrid ceramic (Vita Enamic, VITA Zahnfabrik, Bad Sackingen, Germany). Materials and Methods : Two stainless steel dies were machine milled to simulate a tooth preparation for a ceramic crown of a mandibular second molar with two finish line configurations 1mm chamfer and 1 mm shoulder . Each die was 6-mm in height, 8-mm in cervical diameter, 6mm in occlusal diameter and had a total occlusal convergence of 16 o . Digitalization of both dies and milling of hybrid restorations was made using CAD-CAM technology. Sixteen full coverage hybrid ceramic crowns were constructed from milled Vita Enamic hybrid ceramic blocks. The samples were divided into two equal groups’ eight samples for each finish line tested. -Group Ac: eight samples (n=8) with Chamfer finish line.Group Bs: eight samples (n=8) with Shoulder finish line. All restorations were positioned onto a digital-microscope, magnification 50 X, and the images were captured and transferred to a IBM personal computer equipped with the Image-tool software to measure the vertical marginal gap distance. Results: The results showed a statistically significant difference between the two groups (Ac, Bs) where the mean values were (35.44μm and 48.36μm) respectively at p=0.002.
The epidemiological characteristics of pediatric Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from inpatients and outpatients at Beijing Children's Hospital

Background: The epidemiological data of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates are important for the practice of treatment and prevention. This research aiming to explore the epidemiological characteristics of pediatric S. pneumoniae isolated from outpatients and inpatients.Methods: S. pneumoniae were isolated from unsterile samples of inpatients and outpatients younger than five years old between March 2013 and February 2014. The serotypes were determined by diagnostic pneumococcal antisera, and resistance against 13 antibiotics was tested by either the E-test or the disc diffusion method. The sequence types (STs) were analyzed with multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Results: The five dominant serotypes obtained from inpatients were 19F(32.9%), 19A(20.7%), 23F(10.7%), 6A(10.0%), and 14 (8.6%), while those in the outpatients were 19F (13.6%), 23F (12.9%), 6A (10.0%), 6B (10.0%), and 19A (7.9%). The coverage rates of the 7-, 10- and 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine formulations were high. The non-susceptibility to penicillin, cefuroxime, imipenem, erythromycin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole among the inpatient isolates were 7.1%, 92.8%, 65.7%, 100%, and 85.0%, respectively, while those among the outpatient isolates were 0.7%, 50.0%, 38.6%, 96.4%, and 65.7%, respectively. There were 45 and 81 STs detected from the pneumococci from inpatients and outpatients, respectively. CC271 was more prevalent in inpatients.Conclusions: The vaccine related serotypes were still prevalent either in inpatient department or in outpatient department, the prevalent serotypes and MLSTs with serious antibiotic resistance. More effective measures should be implemented to prevent S. pneumoniae diseases.
PHYTASE IN LOW PHOSPHORUS BROILER DIETS 1 Effect of supplementation of phytase to diets low in inorganic phosphorus on growth 2 performance and mineralization of broilers

There has been discussion regarding microbial phytase replacing inorganic phosphorus ( P ) 20 supplementation in broiler diets. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to examine the effect 21 of phytase supplementation on diets low in inorganic P. Ross 308 broilers (n=288) were fed 22 one of six experimental diets in four phases. The control diet had 16.20, 10.90, 9.40 and 23 6.10g/kg inorganic P in the Starter, Grower 1, Grower 2 and Finisher phase respectively. The 24 remaining diets had 10.50g/kg inorganic P in the Starter phase. Two of the diets had graded 25 reductions in inorganic P of 5.10, 3.60 and 0.60g/kg or 2.00, 0.50 and 0.60g/kg for the Grower 26 1, Grower 2 and Finisher phase respectively, plus 500 FTU phytase. Three of the diets had 27 inorganic P levels of 0.40, 0.50 and 0.60g/kg for the Grower 1, Grower 2 and Finisher diets 28 respectively and either 500, 750 or 1000 FTU phytase. Broiler performance was analyzed at 29 d10, 20, 26 and 35. On d35 ileal calcium ( Ca ) and P digestibility and tibia bone strength, 30 mineralization and mineral content were analyzed. There were no significant differences 31 between the control diet and diet containing 1000 FTU phytase and low inorganic P in the 32 grower or finisher diets based on bird performance, tibia strength and Ca and P digestibility. 33 Birds fed the control diet had significantly higher BWG (P = 0.001), bone strength (P<0.001) 34 and ash content (P<0.001) compared to birds fed the diets with 500 FTU or 750 FTU phytase 35 and low inorganic P in the grower and finisher stages. This may be due to incomplete 36 dephosphorylation of the inositol ring of phytate with these doses of phytase, but with 1000 37 FTU phytase there was almost complete phosphate hydrolysis of each phytate. This study 38 showed that relying on phytase alone to ensure full supply of P in broiler diets is viable in 39 finisher diets but is not recommended in grower diets unless phytase is supplied at doses of 40 1000 FTU or greater. 41
Rice MicroRNA Effector Complexes and Targets

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small silencing RNAs with regulatory roles in gene expression. miRNAs interact with Argonaute (AGO) proteins to form effector complexes that cleave target mRNAs or repress translation. Rice ( Oryza sativa ) encodes four AGO1 homologs (AGO1a, AGO1b, AGO1c, and AGO1d). We used RNA interference (RNAi) to knock down the four AGO1s. The RNAi lines displayed pleiotropic developmental phenotypes and had increased accumulation of miRNA targets. AGO1a, AGO1b, and AGO1c complexes were puriﬁed and further characterized. The three AGO1s all have a strong preference for binding small RNAs (sRNAs) with 5 9 U and have Slicer activity. We cataloged the sRNAs in each AGO1 complex by deep sequencing and found that all three AGO1s predominantly bound known miRNAs. Most of the miRNAs were evenly distributed in the three AGO1 complexes, suggesting a redundant role for the AGO1s. Intriguingly, a subset of miRNAs were speciﬁcally incorporated into or excluded from one of the AGO1s, suggesting functional specialization among the AGO1s. Furthermore, we identiﬁed rice miRNA targets at a global level. The validated targets include transcription factors that control major stages of development and also genes involved in a variety of physiological processes, indicating a broad regulatory role for miRNAs in rice.