Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
E-Voting using Blockchain Technology

Democratic voting is a crucial and serious event in any country, the current voting scheme in any country is through ballot paper or by use of EVM. These processes have many drawbacks such as transparency, low voter turn-out, tampering of votes, distrust in the election body, forging of unique Id (voter id card), delay in giving out results and the most important is security issues. Security of digital voting is always the biggest concern when considering to implement a digital voting system. With such monumental decisions at stake, there can be no doubt about the system’s ability to secure data and defend against potential attacks. One way the security issues can be potentially solved is through the use of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology offers infinite number of applications. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that allows digital assets to be transacted in a peer-to-peer decentralized network. A distributed ledger technology is an exciting advancement in this regard. Block is a collection of all the transactions. Blockchain possess salient features such as immutability, Decentralization, Security, Transparency and anonymity. Blockchain with smart contracts emerges as a promising candidate for building a safer, secure and transparent E-voting systems. In this paper we have implemented and tested a sample e-voting application as a smart contract for the Ethereum network using the blockchain technology through wallets and the Solidity language. Limited amount of token(gas) is given in the wallet which is exhausted when the user votes thus preventing duplicity of votes. This paper also highlights the pros and cons of using blockchain technology and also demonstrates a practical system by showcasing a webapp for voting and its limitations. Keywords— E-voting, Smart-contracts, Blockchain, Ethereum
Prevalence of Cachexia After Curative Cisplatin-Based Concurrent Chemoradiation in Head and Neck Cancers

Willian das Neves Silva Sao Paulo University Faculty of Medicine: Universidade de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Medicina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-0025 Thomas Giollo Rivelli Sao Paulo University Faculty of Medicine: Universidade de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Medicina Eduardo Furquim Simao Sao Paulo University Faculty of Medicine: Universidade de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Medicina Marco Aurelio Vamondes Kulcsar Universidade de São Paulo Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo Gilberto de Castro Junior (  gilberto.castro@usp.br ) Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina: Universidade de Sao Paulo Faculdade de Medicina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8765-3044
A Deep Learning Based Approach to Detect Suspicious Weapons

Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed a lot of terrorist and criminal activities. The Public Surveillance System has gained a lot of importance as a response to counter these activities. Various state governments have started to install cameras in their densely populated and important cities to safeguard their citizens. To cover a complete city under a surveillance network of thousands of cameras, hundreds of security personnels are needed to monitor its video feed in real-time. To make this task cost-effective and feasible, one security personnel is monitoring nearly 6 – 8 cameras which usually leads to failure in detection of threats. One slip of concentration can cause damage to many lives. This research paper determines the optimized, efficient & faster way to detect commonly used weapons like AK47, Hand Revolver, Pistol, Combat Knife, Grenade, etc. in a live video feed.
Economic and Noneconomic Forces on Remittance Receiving: A Panel Analysis of Top Remittance Sending Countries Towards Bangladesh

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the impacts of economic and non-economic factors on the remittance receiving of Bangladesh. The study focuses on quantitative analysis of unbalanced panel data of 8 countries on remittance receiving of Bangladesh for the period of 1981-2019 by employing fixed effects model and random effects model. The results show that crude oil price, domestic credit to private sector of host country, and global financial crisis of 2008-10 have significant positive impact on remittance receiving of Bangladesh. GDP per capita of home country has significant negative impact which is an evidence of altruistic motive of migrant workers to remit more money. The impact of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 is found significantly positive as it resulted into strict change in monetary regulation by spreading more money from informal channel to formal channel. The political unrest in Bangladesh during 2007-08 has insignificant positive impact what means the non-democratic and army backed 1/11 government did not help to grow the remittance receiving. Inflation rate of host country has insignificant positive impact and FDI to GDP of host country has insignificant negative impact.
DYNAMIC MULTICAST ROUTING BASED ON THE MINIMUM CONGESTION PROBABILITY ROUTING 1

We study the establishment of point-to-multipoint virtual channel connection (VCC) in ATM networks which uses Virtual Paths (VP’s). The purpose of this paper is to extend the “Minimum Congestion Probability Routing”(MCPR) algorithm in VP-based ATM networks proposed in [MAR95] to an adaptive multicast routing algorithm with constrained end-to-end cell loss probability. The problem of multicast routing is to construct a graph (tree or ring topology). Based on MCPR, four multicast tree algorithms are designed for the dynamic multicast routing problem. The first algorithm extends the MCPR to the multicast routing problem, which is applied from a source to each destination. The second algorithm considers the partially formed tree, but the MCPR only permits direct routes. The third and the fourth algorithms enable alternative routes to construct the partially formed tree; alternative routes, where transit nodes are also a destination node, are priorised. Moreover, the fourth algorithm priorises some alternative routes over direct routes. Finally, multicast ring algorithms, when all (or several) nodes are simultaneously source and destination, are considered.
Comparative Study of Security Measures in Android and iOS

- Smartphones are among the most demanding popular technologies in today’s technological era. They are comfortable for the use of personnel, and their adaptable functionalities give them a reputation in the competitive world of current technology. One of those devices’ essential functionalities is to store-consumer personal data. A user’s personal data includes anonymity and private details and is quite significant. That’s why smartphones are becoming a hacker’s main focus now-a-days. Therefore, the mobile protection infrastructure is one of the key research issues within the research community. In the world of operating systems for smartphones, iOS and Android are seen as the leaders. This paper focuses on those two operating systems in terms of the security technologies they adopt. A review of iOS and Android literature on security technologies is presented in this research article. The paper takes suitable examples to assess the strengths of the method used by the two operating systems. Finally, we conclude the paper by inferring which operating system is more
Evaluation of various legume species and varieties grown in Latvia as a raw material of plant-based protein products

Nutrition value of legumes has been traditionally attributed to its high protein content. Protein content of legumes is variable dependent on different species and varieties, and highly affected by environmental factors. Usually protein quality is characterized by its owns amino acid profile in nutritional point of view. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the protein contents and amino acid profiles of pea (Pisum sativum L), faba beans (Vicia faba L) and soya (Glycine max L) grown in Latvia and evaluate their potential for food production. Overall results of a five-year analysis (2013 2017) showed that the protein content of peas, faba beans and soybean ranged from 20.0 to 26.1%, 26.6 to 30.5% and 35.9 to 40.9%, respectively. The corresponding values of total crude fat ranged from 0.8 to 1.2%, 0.7 1.3% and 16.6 to 19.3%, respectively. Results of study showed that the protein content of peas, faba beans and soybean was not differed by growing system (p < 0.05). The percentage of essential amino acids for pea, faba bean and soya were 34 to 38%, 57 to 59% and 62 to 64% respectively. The composition of pea flakes was preserved protein content of raw material. The pea flakes has high content of lysine of 10.1 g kg-1, phenylalanine+thyrosine of 11.6 g kg-1 and the sum of essential amino acids of 66.4 g kg-1. In nutritional point of view, pea flakes could be product with high-quality protein composition.
Using the integration of GIS and RS in the initial selection of the site for the construction of the new Al Diwaniyah city and its alternatives in Iraq

Sustainable development has the highest priority in all parts of the world and developing countries, and one of the most important issues in the field of urban planning is the correct and proper planning for urban expansion and the establishment of new cities and the correct use of land use in these cities and obtaining the best sustainable situation. As Al Diwaniyah Governorate in Iraq suffers from a severe shortage of urban and residential areas, with a significant increase in random growth and encroachment on other lands. From this logic, the integration of both remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems data and the overlap of these programs between them and the production of analyzes, images and results in this work was made to propose a new city in the Al Diwaniyah governorate for the governorate center with an area of 129 km2. Where more than one area has been studied according to criteria, the most important of which is the lack of transgressions and encroachments in the proposed area and taking into consideration not to overtake agricultural areas, as Al Diwaniyah Governorate is one of the agricultural governorates and it was important to choose areas with the least vegetation cover, and through geographic information systems, an area was chosen Northeast of the old city, with an area of 49 km2, which represents 38% of the area of the old city. And use vegetation indicators to map and define vegetation cover and cultivated land versus urban and barren areas. This indicator is the Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), The results obtained indicated that the area of the proposed area is 49 km2 and about 5 km2 of green and cultivated lands are 10.2% of the total area of the proposed area. The size of the proposed area, which constitutes a suitable and good proportion for a new city.
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Overshadowed during the 1980s by A Nation at Risk ( ), tech prep emerged onto the scene during the 1990s after passage of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act Amendments (commonly known as Perkins II), containing Title IIIE, the Tech Prep Education Act. This legislation targeted federal policy and funding toward the implementation of 2+2 programs linking curriculum in secondary schools and two-year colleges. Among other goals, tech prep was intended to establish formal articulation agreements identifying seamless and increasingly rigorous academic and career-technical programs having a logical progression from the secondary to the postsecondary level. The integration of academic and vocational (career-technical) education, applied and contextual learning, teacher and counselor inservice, and other instructional and support strategies were encouraged by the tech prep approach (see, for example, ; ).
Chitin Nanofibrils-Chitosan Composite Films: Characterization and Properties

In this research, an attempt to prepare a prototype of fully biodegradable nanocomposite films for food packaging was made by using commercial chitosan (CS) and chitin nanofibrils (CN). If food products could be packaged in these innovative films instead of paper (cellulosic) ones, the speed of deforesting in Europe will be diminished, thus improving the ecological situation and climate. In the paper, properties of the CS/CN films are described. The prototype films have been prepared from aqueous viscous CS/CN slurries by casting technique. The effect of many operating variables on morphology and properties of the nanocomposite CS/CN films such as sorption of water vapors, oxygen permeability, contact angle, mechanical stability and thermostability is analyzed and discussed. The examined variables are CN content, type of plasticizers (polyglycerols) and their content, type of metal ions such as Mg+2, Ca+2, Ba+2 and type of various additives (gelatin, lignin and monolignols) or surface modifiers (polylactides, polyglycerol polyricinoleate). Special attention was paid to the study of the effect of the storage time of the slurries on their aging and mechanical characteristics of CS/CN films.
12 Energetic responses to food availability in the great apes: implications for hominin evolution

The past 40 years of great-ape field research have seen the accumulation of a wealth of data that can be used tomake predictions about the behavior of early hominins. We have only just begun, however, to undertake great-ape field studies that incorporate a physiological component in the wild. Understanding how the energetic and reproductive systems of living hominoids respond to environmental variation allows us to build more informed models with which to reconstruct the behavior, morphology, and responses to ecological pressures that were present in great-ape and human ancestors. Fruit is the favored, although not always the most common, food of the great apes, and all ape populations that rely on fruit experience fluctuations in its availability. Given the importance of fruit in ape diets, such fluctuations are likely to have a major impact on these animals’ biology and behavior. The primary goal of this chapter is to discuss how differences in overall fruit availability and fallback foods play a central role in shaping energetic and reproductive responses of the great apes, and then to examine the implications of this for hominin evolution. A review of the literature reveals that relatively few studies present quantitative data on changes in diet or energetics over time. Descriptions are more likely to be statements about how diet or behavior changes in response to fluctuations in food availability. Thus, a secondary aim is to suggest ways in which data from both previous and future research can be presented in order to facilitate truly comparative studies of food availability and energetics.
THE STRUCTURE OF HARADAITE AND A NOTE ON THE Si-O BOND LENGTHS IN SILICATES

Haradaite, SrVSi207, is orthorhombic, space group Amam, with four for mula units in the cell, a=7.06, b=14.64, c=5.33•ð. The structure contains Si4012 chains which are joined together by vanadium to form a sheet closely related to those in lamprophyllite, bafertisite and astrophyllite. These mine rals may conveniently be called quasi-layer silicates. There are two kinds of bridge bonds in the chain: one is a nonlinear bond (•ÚSi-O-Si 150•‹) of length 1.664•}0.008•ð, the other is a linear bond of length 1.578•}0.009•ð. The non-bridge bonds have a length 1.598•}0.03A. A general survey on the Si-O bond lengths in silicates shows that, for non linear cases, the mean value of bridge bonds is 1.641•ð and that of non-bridge bonds 1.605•ð, and for linear cases, these values are respectively 1.59•ð and 1.63•ð.
Realtime stock prediction using Transformations and Modeling

: Real time stock prediction is growing demand with dynamic changing markets. Especially sentiments of the market are going to change the stock price dynamically, giving fund managers challenging scenario when they are investing. This paper proposes stock prediction model aiding stock agents to predict closing prices and current price of the stock. The algorithm models the stock tick and balance data parameters using KPCA Trans-formation and Artificial neural network model. Our stock predictor is cost optimized and end to end delay optimized to achieve real time stock prediction. Stock predictor is architected using Clean architecture and GRPC based microservices which gives the advantage of real time modifications, pluggability with minimum validation costs. Secure and cost-effective data backup features of the cloud will give additional cost advantage to the companies implementing the new stock predictor services.
Finite-trace and generalized-reactivity specifications in temporal synthesis

Linear Temporal Logic ( LTL ) synthesis aims at automatically synthesizing a program that complies with desired properties expressed in LTL . Unfortunately it has been proved to be too difficult computationally to perform full LTL synthesis. There have been two success stories with LTL synthesis, both having to do with the form of the specification. The first is the GR(1) approach: use safety conditions to determine the possible transitions in a game between the environment and the agent, plus one powerful notion of fairness, Generalized Reactivity(1), or GR(1) . The second, inspired by AI planning, is focusing on finite-trace temporal synthesis, with LTL $$_f$$ f ( LTL on finite traces) as the specification language. In this paper we take these two lines of work and bring them together. We first study the case in which we have an LTL $$_f$$ f agent goal and a GR(1) environment specification. We then add to the framework safety conditions for both the environment and the agent, obtaining a highly expressive yet still scalable form of LTL synthesis.
Scenic Landscape Quality and Recreational Activities in Natural Forest Parks, Iran

One of the problems in forest park management, planning, and design is the tendency to consider recreation independent from aesthetic preferences and ecological objectives. This paper presents the findings of an examination of recreational activities in relation to aesthetics and ecological potentials in Siangtan Forest Park in Iran. Although protected areas constitute most of this 591 ha park, it is the most popular forest park in Iran with a high number of visitors annually. The study consists of two main sub-studies: discovering the users' aesthetic preferences based on two different techniques of visual and verbal assessments, and finding users' recreational activities according to a questionnaire and an observation study. The results showed considerable difference between places preferred for activities and those valued for scenic beauty. Moreover concentrated recreational activities often happen in places other than what has been predicted and designed for. The study also reveals that the judgments about forest parks depended on the method of assessment.
Stage Re-Matching as a Result of Droplet Evaporation in a Compressor

An existing one dimensional stagewise compressor stability analysis programme has been extended to incorporate a model for humidity and droplet evaporation. In its modified form the model shows the extent of stage re-matching when ingesting modest amounts of water. The water distribution throughout the flow is assumed to be homogeneous. The stage interactions of an aircraft engine compressor are investigated for different environmental operating conditions. The effects of humidity on stage loading are small while the evaporation of water causes a significant shift of the operating point along the characteristics.Copyright © 1995 by ASME
Phenotypic and functional characterisation of circulating cytomegalovirus-specific T cells in healthy virus carriers and lung transplant candidates

Background. Deficiencies in CMV-specific T cell immunity pre-transplant increase patient risk of CMV reactivation and disease post-transplantation. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare CMV-specific cellular immunity in healthy virus carriers and lung transplant candidates pre-transplant to identify key immune mediators associated with functional defects in CMV-specific T cells. Methods. A prospective cohort study of 43 adult lung transplant candidates and 14 healthy virus carriers was conducted in Brisbane, Australia. Intracellular cytokine staining and immune phenotyping (by multiparametric flow cytometry) were performed to explore phenotypic and functional characteristics of CMV-specific T cells. Results. In this study, 60% of lung transplant candidates were CMV-seropositive pre-transplant. The numbers of CMV-specific T cells in the periphery were comparable between CMV-seropositive lung transplant candidates and healthy virus carriers. Effector molecule (CD107a, IFN-{gamma}, TNF-, and IL-2) expression on CMV-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T cells was significantly higher in CMV-seropositive lung transplant candidates compared to healthy virus carriers. However, expression of key T cell function mediators (CD11a, CD29, CD49f, and Granzyme B) was significantly higher in CMV-seropositive lung transplant candidates compared to healthy virus carriers. Conversely, expression levels of CD49d, CD103, and Eomes on T cells and CMV-specific T cells were significantly lower in CMV-seropositive lung transplant candidates compared to healthy virus carriers. Conclusions. The findings from this study reveal significant phenotypic differences between healthy virus carriers and lung transplant candidates. Assessment of pre-existing CMV-specific T-cell immunity in lung transplant candidates may help to inform and personalise post-transplant clinical management.
A Comparison of Overlapping Community Detection Algorithms on Facebook Network

) which is faster than CPM as it finds cliques of fixed size instead of all values of k [9]. In the first phase, SCP detects k -cliques by checking all the ( k −2)-cliques in the common neighbors of two endpoints when links are inserted to the network sequentially in order of decreasing weights. In the second phase, the k -community is detected by finding the connected components in the ( k − 1)-clique Projection of the bipartite representation, in which one type of node represents a k clique and the other denotes a ( k − 1)- clique. Since each k -clique is processed exactly twice, the running time grows linearly as a function of the number of cliques. SCP allows multiple weight thresholds in a single run and is faster than CPM. The