Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Obviating Session-to-Session Variability in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation-Based Brain–Computer Interface

Informative patterns of neural data obtained from electroencephalography (EEG) can be classified by machine learning techniques to improve performance of human-computer interaction. A rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system relies on single-trial classification of event-related potentials (ERP) to categorize target and non-target images. The system works well in well-controlled laboratory settings; however, transitioning this approach into more dynamic, unconstrained environments poses several significant challenges. One major challenge is how to address the problem of session-to-session variability in EEG decoding. For a new session, a time-consuming and laborious calibration procedure is usually required to collect sufficient individual data for training a new classifier. This paper employed a subspace decomposition algorithm, Signal-to-noise ratio Maximizer for event-related potentials (SIM), to improve the session-to-session transfer performance of the RSVP-based BCI system. EEG data were collected from 17 subjects, each of whom performed two task sessions on two different days. Compared with the standard hierarchical discriminant component analysis (HDCA) algorithm, the classification performance was significantly improved by combining the SIM algorithm with the HDCA algorithm. The mean area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) across all subjects was improved from 0.7242 to 0.8546. The results suggest that the proposed approach efficiently obviates the session-to-session variability in task-related ERP signals and thereby facilitates system calibration of the RSVP-based BCIs.
Adjuvant chemotherapy for elderly patients with colorectal cancer: a single-centre observational study in Japan.

Adjuvant chemotherapy improves the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) following radical resection. The aim of the present study is to review appropriate chemotherapeutic regimens for elderly patients. We examined 1138 Japanese patients who were operated for high-risk stage II or stage III CRC between July 2010 and June 2021 at our hospital. Patients were divided according to an age of 70 years. The efficacy of adjuvant therapy was analyzed in association with age and adjuvant chemotherapeutic regimens. A total of 507 patients (45%) were ≥70 years old. They were less likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy (p < 0.001) or palliative chemotherapy after recurrence (p < 0.001) than patients aged <70 years. Cancer-specific survival (CSS) in stage III CRC patients was longer in the <70 years group than in the ≥70 years group (p = 0.006); however, CSS by regimens did not significantly differ between these groups. Adjuvant chemotherapy was associated with the longer relapse-free survival of stage III CRC patients in the <70 years group (p = 0.005). Although adjuvant chemotherapy was associated with a favourable CSS regardless of age, the implementation rate of adjuvant chemotherapy for elderly CRC patients was low, which may explain shorter CSS in stage III CRC patients the ≥70 years group than in the <70 years group.
Soil degradation by erosion

Soil degradation by accelerated erosion is a serious problem and will remain so during the 21st century, especially in developing countries of the tropics and subtropics. Yet, its extent, severity, and economic and environmental impacts are debatable. Estimates of global and regional land area affected are tentative and subjective. Results of field measurements are often technique‐dependent. Considerable progress has been made in modeling soil erosion, yet field validation of these models remains to be done for principal soils and ecoregions. Similar to the land area affected, estimates of erosional impacts on crop yield, productivity and soil quality are tentative and subjective. Further, erosion‐induced losses on crop yield are scale‐dependent because of the compensatory beneficial effects on yields from depositional sites, and technology‐dependent because of the masking effects of input such as fertilizers and irrigation. Erosion caused changes in soil carbon dynamics and non‐point source water pollution are important environmental impacts. While erosion (e.g., detachment and transport) can lead to emission of trace gases into the atmosphere, deposition can bury and sequester some of the carbon. In addition to improving the database on the land area affected, there is also a need to assess erosional impacts on productivity and soil C balance at the watershed, regional, and global scale. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Transient Gulf Stream Meandering. Part I: An Observational Experiment

Abstract The results from an observational experiment on the mesoscale space-time variability of the Gulf Stream are reported. Various techniques, including aerial surveys, ship trackings of the 15C isotherm at 200 m, drogues and moored current meters were used and are compared, to give estimates of the variability of the motion over a wide range of scales. A two-week time series of daily tracks of the Stream near 70W are used to interpolate instantaneous paths over 2° of longitude. These paths provide the first detailed information on the small-scale variability of the path indicator of the Gulf Stream northeast of Cape Hatteras. Similarly, the long time series of triweekly aerial surveys provides a detailed picture of the evolution of a large-scale meander.
Neural based assessment of mind wandering during a fatigueinducing motor task: Is task failure due to fatigue or distraction?

This study developed a method for investigating mind wandering (MW) in a fatigue-inducing motor task. To develop research protocols to assess fatigue in clinical cohorts, it is important that participants perform the task at hand to the best of their ability and with their complete attention. Therefore, it is important to know if the participant fails in the task due to fatigue or lack of sustained attention as a result of MW. Two cohorts of 12 healthy controls and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) subjects performed a hand-grip fatigue-inducing motor task while EMG and EEG were simultaneously recorded. Frontal midline theta (FMT) and parietal alpha power were calculated throughout the task. While no significant differences were obtained in the FMT power for both cohorts, significant differences in parietal alpha power for the healthy subjects across the task shows they may have experienced MW unlike CFS subjects, who had to put in consistent effort to sustain attention during the task, which could imply fewer MW events. Assessing MW using EEG can serve as an objective marker for evaluating performance in a task and, for assessing the impact of fatigue on the ability to sustain attention.
Early phase evaluations of GLI vicarious calibration factors for ocean-color channels

The GLI was launched on board the ADEOS-II on December 14, 2002. For the early phase evaluations of the observation radiances, the GLI calibration team carried out vicarious calibrations by using MOBY measurements. To achieve the calibrations, we used two methods, which utilize two near-infrared channels and the measurement of the aerosol optical thickness, to predict the aerosol optical properties. Applying these methods, we derived early GLI vicarious calibration factors for ocean-color channels.
Pretoria Saltpan crater: Impact origin confirmed

The origin of the well-preserved, 1.13-km-diameter Pretoria Saltpan crater in South Africa has been debated throughout this century. The structure of this Pleistocene crater resembles that of other simple, bowl-shaped impact craters, but the presence of volcanic intrusive rocks along the crater rim has suggested a cryptovolcanic origin. In 1989 a drill core from the crater became available. The core was studied in detail to establish a paleoenvironmental record for the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere by analyzing the undisturbed crater sediments that had accumulated since formation of the crater, and to determine the origin of the crater. The discovery of shock-metamorphosed quartz and feldspar fragments, melt breccia and siderophile element-enriched glasses, and sulfide spherules in crater breccia deposits provides clear evidence for the impact origin of the Pretoria Saltpan crater.
Oxygen Transfer in a Fluctuating Capillary Fringe

Dynamic fluctuations in water table elevation cause the entrapment of air, which affects the hydraulic properties of the porous medium in the capillary fringe as well as the biogeochemical status of the underlying, potentially O2–depleted groundwater. In this study, we conducted quasi two‐dimensional flow‐through experiments at the laboratory bench scale to investigate in detail the mass transfer of O2 in a fluctuating capillary fringe. We evaluated the effects of different boundary conditions such as single drainage and imbibition events as well as periodic fast and slow water table fluctuations. High‐resolution vertical profiles of O2 concentration, measured at two distances in the horizontal groundwater flow direction, and mass fluxes, determined in the effluent of the flow‐through chamber, were used to quantify O2 transfer under the different boundary conditions applied. The results show that the partitioning between the aqueous and the gaseous phases plays a significant role in the supply of O2 to groundwater at medium time scales. In the case of fast water table fluctuations, the specific yield has to be considered. The experiments with a periodically changing boundary condition demonstrate that highly dynamic fluctuations of the water table enhance the mass transfer of O2 from the atmosphere into the groundwater when compared with steady‐state conditions. Moreover, the characteristics of the water table fluctuations determine a specific dynamic response of the system: we observed an approximately double amount of O2 transferred to the groundwater when applying slow fluctuations compared with the case of cyclic, abrupt changes in the water table elevation.
Comparative genomics analysis of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains from a community

Background Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a multidrug-resistant (MDR) opportunistic pathogen with high resistance to most clinically used antimicrobials. The dissemination of MDR S. maltophilia and difficult treatment of its infection in clinical settings are global issues. Methods To provide more genetic information on S. maltophilia and find a better treatment strategy, we isolated five S. maltophilia, SMYN41–SMYN45, from a Chinese community that were subjected to antibiotic susceptibility testing, biofilm formation assay, and whole-genome sequencing. Whole-genome sequences were compared with other thirty-seven S. maltophilia sequences. Results The five S. maltophilia strains had similar antibiotic resistance profiles and were resistant to β-lactams, aminoglycosides, and macrolides. They showed similar antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, including various efflux pumps, β-lactamase resistance genes (blaL1/2), aminoglycoside resistance genes [aac(6’), aph(3’/6)], and macrolide-resistant gene (MacB). Genome sequencing analysis revealed that SMYN41-SMYN45 belonged to sequence type 925 (ST925), ST926, ST926, ST31, and ST928, respectively, and three new STs were identified (ST925, ST926, and ST928). Conclusion This study provides genetic information by comparing genome sequences of several S. maltophilia isolates from a community of various origins, with the aim of optimizing empirical antibiotic medication and contributing to worldwide efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance.
1994 compilation of analytical data for minor and trace elements in seventeen GSJ geochemical reference samples, "Igneous rock series"

Analytical data for minor and trace elements published or communicated to us, on seventeen GSJ (Geological Survey of Japan) reference samples, “Igneous rock series” received up to April 1994 are compiled. The data were evaluated statistically in consideration of analytical methods. Based on the selected available data, 1994 recommended and proposed values for 65 minor and trace elements are presented.
Seidr: A toolkit for calculation of crowd networks

Gene network analysis offers a powerful tool to extract key players in complex RNA sequencing experiments which cannot be adequately examined via binary differential expression analysis. A number of gene network inference algorithms have been published, but any algorithm based on a single statistic tends to suffer from bias towards a particular type of interaction. The DREAM 5 challenge offered a potential solution via aggregation of several methods into a combined crowd network. Here we present Seidr , a unified tool to create gene networks and combine them into a unified meta-network. Seidr is implemented with a focus on speed and makes heavy use of parallelism where applicable.
The Influence of Internet Celebrities’ Expertise and Attraction on Residents’ Intention to Purchase Household Energy-Saving Products in the Context of an Online Community

In the past few years, internet celebrities have become a new and important way to get people to buy energy-saving products. Their psychological mechanisms for promoting fans’ intention to purchase have become the focus of academic attention, but a unified conclusion has yet to be reached. This study uses online communities as a scenario, with the characteristics of influencers’ expertise, social attraction, and task attraction as antecedent variables and social cognitive theory and parasocial interaction theory as the theoretical basis to explore their influence on fans’ intention to purchase household energy-saving products. The study investigates the mediating role of parasocial relationships and the moderating role of fans’ green self-efficacy in influencing internet celebrities’ expertise and attraction of fans’ parasocial relationships. The results showed that the parasocial relationships formed between fans and influencers mediated the relationship between the expertise and attraction of influencers and fans’ intention to purchase energy-saving products and that “green self-efficacy” positively moderated the parasocial relationships formed between fans and internet celebrities in terms of their expertise and task attraction. The moderating effect of “green self-efficacy” on the parasocial relationships between fans and internet celebrities was insignificant.
Combined BBB-penetrant tyrosine kinase inhibitor and intracranial radiotherapy versus BBB-penetrant tyrosine kinase inhibitor alone for the treatment of EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases

Purpose This study was to determine whether combining blood-brain-barrier-penetrant tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), osimertinib, with intracranial radiotherapy (TKI + RT) would confer bene�ts exceeding those of osimertinib alone (TKI-alone) in terms of treatment outcomes among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with brain metastases and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation. Methods This single-center retrospective study focused on gamma-knife radiosurgery (GKRS) and whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT). Treatment outcomes included intracranial local tumor control, intracranial distant tumor control and overall survival (OS) rates. Results This study included 567 brain metastases in 69 patients: TKI-alone (n = 38) and TKI + RT (n = 31) including GKRS (n = 25) and WBRT (n = 6). Intracranial local tumor control at 36 months was signi�cantly higher in the TKI + RT than in the TKI-alone (77% vs. 23%; p < 0.001). Intracranial distant tumor control was signi�cantly higher in the TKI + RT than in the TKI-alone (median survival: 23.2 ± 1.5 vs. 8.7 ± 0.2 months; p < 0.001). We observed no difference between the two cohorts in terms of OS (p = 0.271). T790M point mutation (HR = 0.359, p = 0.008) and TKI + RT (HR = 0.396, p = 0.010) were positively correlated with intracranial local tumor control. The number of brain metastases was negatively correlated with intracranial distant tumor control (HR = 2.253, p = 0.034) and OS (HR = 2.049, p = 0.019).
Examination Of Physical Activity and Body Composition Levels of Adolescents

Purpose of the Study: The study aimed to examine adolescents' physical activity and body composition levels according to various variables. Materials and Methods: The participant group of this study consisted of a total of 1104 children (551 girls and 553 boys between the ages of 10-14, enrolled in primary schools in Ankara. In our study, physical activity questionnaire for children (PAQ-C) scale was used to determine the weight, height, BMI measurements, and physical activity level. Result: According to the findings, a significant difference was found in the physical activity levels of boys according to the types of transportation to school (p<0.05). When children's sleep duration is examined, boys' and girls' BMI and physical activity levels are similar (p>0.05). Significant differences were found in the BMI and physical activity levels of both boys and girls during the daily use of the technological device (p<0.05). A negative correlation (p<0.05) was found between the daily use of technological devices, sleep duration, and physical activity levels of boys and girls, and a positive correlation with BMI (p<0.05). Conclusions: Prolonged screen time is thought to affect body Composition and physical activity level negatively. It is thought that the sleeping time should be 8 hours and the screen time should be less in order for BMI and physical activity level to be at appropriate levels.
A possible influence of recent polar stratospheric coolings on the troposphere in the northern hemisphere winter

A possible influence of the recent cooling trends in the polar stratosphere on the tropospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere winter is studied over the period from 1979 to 1992. Changes in circulation associated with cooling trends in the stratosphere are compared with those triggered by heating due to volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere, which are considered as a prototype of the atmospheric responses to an external forcing. In both cases, strengthening of the stratospheric polar night jets are observed in early winter and perturbations in zonal-mean zonal winds propagate down into the troposphere by forming dipole type anomalies which are associated with changes in planetary waves.
Journeys to Crime: Assessing the Effects of a Light Rail Line on Crime in the Neighborhoods

: The implementation of new transit lines is some times dogged by concerns that such lines may increase crime rates in station neighborhoods. Affluent communities have often complained that transit lines transport crime to the suburbs. This study focuses on the Green Line transit system in Los Angeles and examines its effects on crime in the adjacent areas. The Green Line light rail system passes through some high-crime inner city neighborhoods and terminates at its western end in affluent suburban communities. The study examines neighborhood level and municipality-wide crime trends for five years before and five years after the inception of the line. A piecewise regression model is developed to evaluate the impact of the opening of the line in the station neighborhoods. GIS analysis is also utilized to identify spatial shifts in crime hot spots for municipalities abutting the Green Line. At the end, the study establishes that the transit line has not had significant impacts on crime trends or crime dislocation in the station neighborhoods, and has not transported crime from the inner city to the suburbs. Abstract The implementation of new transit lines is some times dogged by concerns that such lines may increase crime rates m station neighborhoods. Affluent communities have often complained that transit lines transport crime to the suburbs. This study focuses on the Green Line transit system m Los Angeles and e:kammes its effects on crime m the adjacent areas. The Green Line hght rml system passes through some high-crime inner city neighborhoods and terminates at its western end in affluent suburban communities The study examines neighborhood level and municlpahty-wide crime trends for five years before and five years after the inception of the line. A plecewise regression mode1 is developed to evaluate the impact of the opening of the line m the station neighborhoods. GIS analysis is also utilized to identify spattal shifts in crime hot spots for the mumcIpahties abutting the Green Line. At the end, the study establishes that the transit line has not had significant impacts on crime trends or crime dislocation m the station neighborhoods, and has not ~ransported crime from the inner city to the suburbs.
Non‐conservative mixing behavior of colored dissolved organic matter in a humic‐rich, turbid estuary

The estuarine mixing behavior of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) absorbance was investigated in combined field and laboratory studies. From February to October 1998, surface water samples were collected along 9 transects in the Tyne estuary, Northeast England, from the tidal limit into the coastal North Sea. In 8 of these transects, mixing plots of absorbance vs. salinity indicated substantial removal of CDOM absorbance (average: 32%) in the upper estuary. Results from laboratory studies under simulated estuarine conditions suggest that an average of 21% (range: 9–39%) of riverine CDOM may be removed by adsorption onto suspended sediment, while CDOM flocculation accounted for an average removal of only 6% (range: 0–18%). We propose that adsorptive removal exerts a major control on CDOM in estuaries with elevated turbidity levels.
Biodiversity on the land and in the sea: when it converges, challenges in common

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Biodiversity on the land and in the sea : when it converges, challenges in common J. Blondel
KALIBRASI PARAMETER KAMERA DENGAN PLATE CALIBRATION PADA 3D LASER SCANNER

Kalibrasi kamera merupakan hal yang penting pada 3D laser scanner, untuk menentukan posisi kamera terhadap koordinat dunia didalam frame. Pada penelitian-penelitian sebelumnya banyak yang menggunakan papan siku sebagai cheesboard kalibrasi, ini menimbulkan permasalahan pemantulan sinar laser menjadi tidak merata dikarenakan terdapat kotak hitam dan putih sehingga kotak hitam banyak menyerap sinar laser dibandingkan kotak putih. Pada penelitian ini kami mencoba memperbaikinya dengan merubah letak cheesboard berada dibawah sehingga papan siku dapat maksimal memantulkan sinar laser. Hasil sementara yang didapat adalah kamera dapat terkalibrasi menggunakan plate calibration dengan focal leght fc = [ 689.727533646402090 ; 688.701046438875550 ]; Principal point: cc = [ 351.977481986223210 ; 248.370491399469810 ]; ukuran gambar nx = 640; ny = 480 pada kamera PROLINK PPC2050. Sehingga didapat koordinat 3D dalam frame tersebut dan juga posisi kamera terhadap koordinat frame.