Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The wave-particle duality of the qudit-based quantum space demonstrated by the wave-like quantum functionals

: The wave-particle duality of the qudit-based quantum space is demonstrated by the wave-like quantum functionals and the particle-like quantum states. The quantum functionals are quantum objects generated by the basis qudit functionals, which are the duals of the basis qudit states. The relation between the quantum states and quantum functionals is analogous to the relation between the position and momentum in fundamental quantum physics. In particular, the quantum states and quantum functionals are related by a Fourier transform, and the quantum functionals have wave-like interpretations. The quantum functionals are not just mathematical constructs but have clear physical meanings and quantum circuit realizations. Any arbitrary qudit-based quantum state has dual characters of wave and particle, and its wave character can be evaluated by an observable and realized by a quantum circuit.
Collaborative Neural Rendering using Anime Character Sheets

Drawing images of characters with desired poses is an essential but laborious task in anime production. Assisting artists to create is a research hotspot in recent years. In this paper, we present the Collaborative Neural Rendering (CoNR) method, which creates new images for specified poses from a few reference images (AKA Character Sheets). In general, the diverse hairstyles and garments of anime characters defies the employment of universal body models like SMPL, which fits in most nude human shapes. To overcome this, CoNR uses a compact and easy-to-obtain landmark encoding to avoid creating a unified UV mapping in the pipeline. In addition, the performance of CoNR can be significantly improved when referring to multiple reference images, thanks to feature space cross-view warping in a carefully designed neural network. Moreover, we have collected a character sheet dataset containing over 700,000 hand-drawn and synthesized images of diverse poses to facilitate research in this area. The code and dataset is available at https://github.com/megvii-research/IJCAI2023-CoNR.
A literature survey of scientific research in the role of sleep in human cognition

In this paper, I report on a literature survey on research into sleep and its impact on “learning”. Sleep is an actively studied research topic and these studies date back to a few decades and the research is still emerging. Selected research papers imply how sleep changes to cerebral or intellectual portions of the brain which impacts learning and memory. In this paper, I summarize papers that discuss experimental observations on how sleep assists in the consolidation of memory. While the impacts of understanding the role of sleep are of societal importance its impact is beyond. Learning has been a foundational pillar of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which makes computers perform tasks that otherwise require human decision-making abilities. These intelligent computers have impacted tremendously but at the same time are limited by the ability and extent to which they can learn. As a final theme of this paper, I highlight research papers which are applying biological sleep concepts and exploring if Artificial Intelligence algorithms can also be made to incremental learn and consolidate memories, just like humans do it in sleep.
Combination Therapy of Ezetimibe and Rosuvastatin for Dyslipidemia: Current Insights

Abstract Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death around the world with various efforts being made to reduce risk in patients through preventive measures. One major method for prevention has been managing cholesterol, particularly low-density lipoprotein to decrease atherosclerotic plaque burden, potentially decreasing future cardiac complications. Statins have been the gold standard therapy for hypercholesterolemia treatment due to their ease of dosing, limited drug interactions, and favorable safety profile. Unfortunately, statin therapy alone is not always effective enough to adequately control a patient’s elevated lipid levels and combination therapy may be warranted. Ezetimibe is commonly added to regimens to help augment cholesterol lowering by inhibiting the absorption of cholesterol. The recent approval of a combination tablet of high-intensity rosuvastatin and ezetimibe has introduced a potentially more beneficial option for cholesterol management in addition to the only available combination of moderate intensity simvastatin and ezetimibe. We aimed to identify potential beneficial effects of ezetimibe by comparing its use in combination with high-intensity rosuvastatin compared to a statin therapy alone or in combination with moderate intensity simvastatin through a literature review. The current evidence indicated that combination therapy outperformed statin monotherapy in reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and patients were more likely to achieve their target low-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal level. This suggests rosuvastatin/ezetimibe combination holds a potential place in therapy for patients requiring a more aggressive reduction in cholesterol to help prevent atherosclerotic disease.
. High-performance WLAN architectures using MIMO technology in Line-of-Sight. In IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Mykonos IST

—This paper investigates the Packet-Error-Rate (PER) and throughput performance of WLANs in Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions. A novel antenna array architecture is proposed as a way of overcoming the problem of excessive correlation under these conditions. The performance of systems designed with the proposed method is assessed by means of link-level simulations using channels generated from an appropriate stochastic MIMO channel model. The results are validated using MIMO measurements at 5.2 GHz in an anechoic chamber and in an indoor office environment. Our study shows that a very substantial performance enhancement is possible, compared to conventional MIMO arrays, when the proposed architecture is employed. The difference between the modelled and measured cases was less than 0.5 dB at a PER of 10 -2 .
Title: Patterns in reduction or cessation of drinking in Australia (2001-2013) and motivation for change Motivation for reducing drinking in Australia

Aims: This paper examines: 1) change over time (2001-2013) in recently reducing or ceasing drinking in the Australian population, and 2) the reasons given for reducing or ceasing drinking in the most recent survey (2013); stratified by sex and age group. Methods: Data are from five waves of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey (N=119,397). Logistic regression models with interaction terms were used to identify a shift in sex or age over time in predicting reduction or cessation of drinking, and to predict motivations for reducing or ceasing drinking by sex and age. Results: Reports of recently reducing the quantity or frequency of drinking increased from 2001 to 2007, and remained stable between 2007 and 2013. There was a steady increase in the number of Australians reporting recently ceasing drinking from 2001 to 2013, with a significant effect for age (younger groups more likely than older groups to cease drinking in the past two waves). Reasons for reducing or ceasing drinking varied by age, with older people more likely to report health reasons, and younger people more likely to report lifestyle reasons or enjoyment. Conclusion: Increases over time in reports of reduction or cessation of drinking due to health, lifestyle, social and enjoyment reasons, suggests that the social position of alcohol in Australia may be shifting, particularly among young people.
Investigating the pathogenicity of Alternaria alternata on Lonicera japonica

The present study was carried out to investigate the pathogenicity of Alternaria alternata and the effect of its metabolites on L. japonica from 2015- 2016 in Birjand plain area in eastern Iran. A. alternata isolates were inoculated on L. japonica detached leaves in laboratory conditions, on plants by spore suspension in the greenhouse and young branches by fungal mycelia. The effect of A. alternata metabolites was examined by injection of extracted metabolites from a 10-day culture of the fungus in a Czapek broth media into the leaves of the plant. Inoculated detached leaves, after 3 to 7 days of inoculation, exhibited different ranges of chlorosis and necrosis, with or without a yellow halo around some of this spot. Leaves of inoculated plants in the greenhouse showed chlorosis, necrosis and leaf spots with (Mo8 isolate) or without (H44 isolate) a yellow halo. Inoculated stems demonstrated rotting and death in the inoculation site and wilting of stems. Metabolites of some isolates particularly isolate with a yellow halo (Mo8) in inoculated detached leaves, caused necrotic leaf tissues five days after injection. The results showed that A. alternata could be a cause of leaf spot, chlorosis, and necrosis, and the metabolites of some isolates can cause the death of leaf cells of L. japonica . This is the first report of the A. alternata pathogenicity on this plant in the eastern part of Iran.
Effects of Insulin Replacements, Inhibitors of Angiotensin and Protein Kinase C β ’s Actions to Normalize Cardiac Gene Expression and Fuel Metabolism in Diabetic Rats

High-density oligonucleotide arrays were used to compare gene expression of rat hearts from control, untreated diabetic, and diabetic groups treated with islet cell transplantation (ICT), protein kinase C β (PKC β ) inhibitor ruboxistaurin (RBX), or angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) captopril. Among the 376 genes which were differentially expressed between untreated diabetic and control hearts included key metabolic enzymes that account for the decreased glucose and increased free fatty acid (FFA) utilization in the diabetic heart. ICT or insulin replacements reversed these gene changes with normalization of hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and cardiac PKC activation in diabetic rats. Surprisingly, both RBX and ACEI improved the metabolic gene profile (confirmed by real-time RT-PCR and protein analysis) and ameliorated PKC activity in diabetic hearts without altering circulating metabolites. Functional assessments using Langendorff preparations and 13 C-NMR spectroscopy showed a 36% decrease in glucose utilization and an impairment in diastolic function in diabetic rats hearts, which were normalized by all three treatments. In cardiomyocytes, PKC inhibition attenuated FA-induced increases in the metabolic genes PDK4 and UCP3 and also prevented FA-mediated inhibition of basal and insulin-stimulated glucose oxidation. Thus, PKC β inhibitor or ACEI may ameliorate cardiac metabolism and function in diabetes partly by normalization of fuel metabolic gene expression directly in the myocardium.
Methodological Advances in Remote Sensing Image Processing

: Remote sensing image processing is nowadays a mature research area. The techniques developed in the field allow many real-life applications with great societal value. For instance, urban monitoring, fire detection or flood prediction can have a great impact on economical and environmental issues. To attain such objectives, the remote sensing community has turned into a multidisciplinary field of science that embraces physics, signal theory, computer science, electronics, and communications. From a machine learning and signal/image processing point of view, all the applications are tackled under specific formalisms, such as classification and clustering, regression and function approximation, image coding, restoration and enhancement, source un mixing, data fusion or feature selection and extraction. This paper serves as a survey of methods and applications, and reviews the last methodological advances in remote sensing image processing.
Cytokine and Chemokine mRNA Expressions After Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-Speci c Antigen Stimulation in Whole Blood From Hemodialysis Patients with Latent Tuberculosis Infection

Ji Young Park Department of Internal Medicine, Park Clinic, Busan Sung-Bae Park Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan Heechul Park Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan Jungho Kim Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan Ye-Na Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Kosin University Gospel Hospital, Busan Sunghyun Kim (  shkim0423@cup.ac.kr ) Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan
Shugra: A Shufﬂing-Driven Graph Convolutional Network Accelerator

—As the wide adoption of graph convolutional net- 1 works sparks the development of specialized hardware acceler- 2 ators, an important challenge remains largely unnoticed, such 3 that when the graph is sparse, the data movement between the 4 on- and off-chip memory becomes the dominant factor to the 5 performance of the accelerators. This paper presents a new 6 notion, namely shufﬂing-driven approach, to promote on-chip 7 data reuse by grouping related data to feed the accelerator. Unlike 8 prior approaches that exploit matrix tiling, this proposal allows 9 elements distributed in discontinuous rows and columns to form 10 a group. It represents a powerful approach that incorporates the 11 matrix tiling technique as a special case. It therefore achieves 12 better data locality by providing broad options on data arrange- 13 ments than that of previous approaches. 14 The idea is realized with a novel shufﬂing-then-grouping tech- 15 nique, a set of optimizations that enable the efﬁcient exploration 16 of the enormous searching space of possible data arrangements, 17 and a new accelerator, Shugra , that performs timely computations 18 on the shufﬂed data with a novel translation unit. Evaluation 19 of an FPGA prototype on ﬁve real-world workloads shows that 20 Shugra achieves 1 . 6 × speedup, up to 2 . 07 × , compared to a state- 21 of-the-art GCNs accelerator GCNAX. 22 with It processes reuses the O off-chip
The teleseismic signature of fossil subduction

a of geological terranes the Pacific continuous of on the the address fundamental questions concerning the nature of continental evolution and variations in structure and geometry of the subsurface early to In this study, we present teleseismic receiver-function images of the mantle below the Wopmay orogen from 20 three-component, broadband seismic stations installed in the Northwest Territories as part of the joint Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology NOrthwest near-vertical reflection profile Our results provide important constraints on the nature and geometry of shallow upper mantle structures that yield insight into the importance of subduction processes in the stabilization of the Slave craton.
mHealth Technology and Nurse Health Coaching to Improve Health in Diabetes: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Chronic diseases, including diabetes mellitus, are the leading cause of mortality and disability in the United States. Current solutions focus primarily on diagnosis and pharmacological treatment, yet there is increasing evidence that patient-centered models of care are more successful in improving and addressing chronic disease outcomes. The objective of this clinical trial is to evaluate the impact of a mobile health (mHealth) enabled nurse health coaching intervention on self-efficacy among adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus. A an total health behavior decisions. All participants completed a baseline survey and follow-up surveys at 3 and 9 months. Primary and secondary outcomes include diabetes self-efficacy, hemoglobin A (HbA ), and quality of life measures. Data collection for this trial, funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, will be completed by December 2017. Results from the trial will be available mid-2018. This protocol details a patient-centered intervention using nurse health coaching, mHealth technologies, and integration of patient-generated data into the EHR. The aim of the intervention is to enhance self-efficacy and health outcomes by providing participants with a mechanism to track daily activity by offering coaching support to set reasonable and attainable health goals, and by creating a complete feedback loop by bringing patient-generated data into the EHR.
Non-displaceable binding is a potential confounding factor in 11 C-PBR28 TSPO PET studies

The positron emission tomography (PET) ligand 11 C-PBR28 binds to the 18kDa translocator protein (TSPO), a biomarker of glia. In clinical studies of TSPO, the ligand total distribution volume, V T , is frequently the reported outcome measure. Since V T is the sum of the ligand specific (V S ) and non-displaceable binding (V ND ), differences in V ND across subjects and groups will have an impact on V T . Methods : Here, we used a recently developed method for simultaneous estimation of V ND (SIME) to disentangle contributions from V ND and V S . Data from four previously published 11 CPBR28 PET studies were included: (i) before and after a lipopolysaccharide challenge (8 subjects), (ii) in alcohol use disorder (14 patients, 15 controls), (iii) in first-episode psychosis (16 patients, 16 controls), and (iv) in Parkinson’s disease (16 patients, 16 controls). In each dataset, regional V T estimates were obtained with a standard two-tissue compartment model, and brain-wide V ND was estimated with SIME. V S was then calculated as V T –V ND . V ND and V S were then compared across groups, within each dataset. Results: A lower V ND was found for individuals with alcohol use disorder (34%, p=0.00084) and Parkinson’s disease (34%, p=0.0032), when compared to their corresponding controls. We found no difference in V ND between first-episode psychosis patients and their controls, and the administration of lipopolysaccharide did not change V ND . Conclusion: Our findings suggest that in TSPO PET studies, non-displaceable binding can differ between patient groups and conditions and should therefore be taken into account.
Effect of some herbal infusions consumed in Sri Lanka on the steady state blood levels and toxicity of carbamazepine and theophylline

The effects of concurrent administration of herbal infusion prepared from dried flowers of Cassia auriculata or aerial parts of Cardiospermum halicacabum on (a) steady state serum levels of carbamazepine and theophylline and (b) changes in toxicity as assessed by changes in general behaviour, haematological parameters, and liver and kidney function that may occur due to drug interaction, were investigated using Wistar rats as the experimental model. Results obtained demonstrate that a herbal infusion prepared from Cassia auriculata flowers could significantly increase the steady state serum levels of both carbamazepine (by 47.1%, P < 0.04) and theophylline (by 32.5%, P < 0.02), while a infusion prepared from Cardiospermum halicacabum enhanced serum levels of only theophylline (by 48.2%, P < 0.02) and had no effect on the levels of carbamazepine, when compared with the levels in animals receiving only the conventional drugs for the same time period. No apparent changes in toxicity were observed in animals receiving either of the herbal infusions concurrently with carbamazepine or theophylline. Cassia auriculata infusion has therefore the potential to influence the bioavailability of both carbamazepine and theophylline, and Cardiospermum halicacabum has the potential to influence the bioavailability of theophylline, and hence the therapeutic actions of these conventional drugs. Therefore, concurrent administration of carbamazepine or theophylline with herbal infusions containing Cassia auriculata or Cardiospermum halicacabum is best avoided by patients receiving either of the above conventional drugs for any clinical condition.
Alveolar Macrophages of Apoptotic T Cells by Resident Murine Deficient In Vitro and In Vivo Phagocytosis

Apoptotic lymphocytes are readily identiﬁed in murine lungs, both during the response to particulate Ag and in normal mice. Because apoptotic lymphocytes are seldom detected in other organs, we hypothesized that alveolar macrophages (AM f ) clear apoptotic lymphocytes poorly. To test this hypothesis, we compared in vitro phagocytosis of apoptotic thymocytes by resident AM f and peritoneal macrophages (PM f ) from normal C57BL/6 mice. AM f were deﬁcient relative to PM f both in percentage containing apoptotic thymocytes (19.1 6 1% vs 96 6 2.6% positive) and in phagocytic index (0.23 6 0.02 vs 4.2 6 0.67). This deﬁciency was not due to kinetic differences, was seen with six other inbred mouse strains, and was not observed using carboxylate-modiﬁed polystyrene microbeads. Annexin V blockade indicated that both M f types cleared apoptotic T cells by a mechanism involving phosphatidylserine expression. By contrast, neither mAb blockade of a variety of receptors (CD11b, CD29, CD51, and CD61) known to be involved in clearance of apoptotic cells, nor the tetrapeptide RGDS (arginine-glycine-aspartic acid-serine) blocked ingestion by either type of macrophage. To conﬁrm these studies, apoptotic thymocytes were given intratracheally or i.p. to normal mice, and then AM f or PM f were recovered 30–240 min later. Ingestion of apoptotic thymocytes by AM f in vivo was signiﬁcantly decreased at all times. Defective ingestion of apoptotic lymphocytes may preserve AM f capacity to produce proinﬂammatory
The Use of Innovative Learning Methods in the System of Modern Economic Education in the Russian Federation

– We proposed ways to solve the issues by applying the latest learning models used in the formal and informal education processes, in particular, the methods of case study, brainstorming, gamification, and mass open online courses; considered the relevance of using the methods and their implementation in the economic and business education; and provided examples of successful application of the state-of-the-art teaching modes in Russia. The study has shown that a more thorough implementation of the theoretical background of the education process can be achieved by combining innovative and conventional methods. The obtained results can be used in developing curricula and education programs, as well as in the process of bringing the education system of the Russian Federation in compliance with the modern requirements.
Role of PKC isoforms in modulation of injury and repair of the intestinal barrier

Gastrointestinal cells express a diverse group of protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms that play critical roles in a number of cell functions, including intracellular signaling and barrier integrity. PKC isoforms expressed by gastrointestinal epithelial cells consists of three major PKC subfamilies: conventional isoforms ( α , β 1, β 2, γ ), novel isoforms ( δ , ε , θ , η , µ ), and atypical isoforms ( λ , τ , ζ ). This review highlights recent discoveries, including our own, that some PKC isoforms in gastrointestinal epithelia monolayer cell culture are involved in injury to, while others are involved in protection of, intestinal barrier integrity. For example, certain PKC isoforms aggravate oxidative damage while others protect against it. These findings suggest that development of agents that selectively activate or inhibit specific PKC isoforms may lead to new therapeutic modalities for important gastrointestinal disorders such as cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.