Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
LQG control approach to Gaussian broadcast channels with feedback

The problem of communicating over an N-user additive white Gaussian noise broadcast channel with feedback is studied from a control theoretic perspective. We construct a code for this channel and characterize the set of achievable rates using the theory of linear quadratic Gaussian control. In the special case of a two-receiver channel with independent Gaussian noises, the rate region achieved by this code includes a previous result by Elia and is strictly greater than the rate region achieved by Ozarow and Leung. We establish that there exists a specific correlation among the noises at the receivers for which the ratio of the sum-rate achieved by our code and sum-rate capacity without feedback is N in the limit as the available power at the transmitter tends to infinity. This generalizes a previous result by Gastpar and Wigger for the two-user broadcast channel to the case of N receivers.
Clipping Alters the Response of Biomass Allocation Pattern under Nitrogen Addition in an Alpine Meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Growth of alpine plants is primarily limited by low available nitrogen in the soil.Both nitrogen addition and grazing affect soil nutrient availability and uptake of alpine plants,and consequently influence community productivity.To understand the effects of nitrogen addition and grazing on the ecosystem function,nitrogen addition experiment in combination with simulated grazing(clipping) has been conducted in an alpine ecosystem on the northern Tibetan Plateau since 2010.The levels of nitrogen addition in stimulated grazed(G+N) and non-grazed plots(NG+N) were controlled at 0(N0),10(N10),20(N20) and 40(N40) kg N·hm-2·a-1,respectively.Net nitrogen mineralization was measured by in-situ close-top incubation during the growing season in 2011.Nitrogen addition and clipping had different effects on the biomass allocation of alpine plants.Nitrogen addition mainly stimulated the above-ground productivity in non-grazed plots,but enhanced below-ground productivity in grazed plots.Although about 15%-20% of the above-ground biomass was removed by clipping,there is no difference of total biomass between grazed and non-grazed plots or even higher in grazed than non-grazed plots,owing to stimulating effects of nitrogen enrichment on the compensatory growth of alpine plants.Moreover,the different responses of biomass allocation to nitrogen addition and clipping were also reflected in the pattern closely related to soil nitrogen supply potential.Net nitrogen mineralization was negatively correlative with the above-ground biomass in non-grazed plots,but with below-ground biomass in grazed plots.It is indicated that alpine plants responded to soil nutrient and grazing by altering the allocation pattern of photosynthetic assimilates.The present study also suggested that in alpine meadow limited by available nutrient,nitrogen addition may stimulate compensatory growth of plants.
From Clusters to Graphs - Toward a Scalable Viewing of News Videos

In this paper, we present a novel approach that combines density-based clustering and graph modeling to create a scalable viewing application for the exploration of similarity patterns in news videos. Unlike most existing video analysis tools that focus on individual videos, our approach allows for an overview of a larger collection of videos, which can be further examined based on their connections or communities. By utilizing scalable reading, speci昀椀c subgraphs can be selected from the overview and their respective clusters can be explored in more detail on the video frame level.
Instructions for Preparing Manuscripts for ICMU 2012

These pages provide an example of the layout and style for 100% reproduction which is required for the preparation of no more than eight page papers for the ICMU 2012 technical proceedings. Please study the enclosed materials before beginning the final preparation of your paper. Proofread your paper carefully before submitting (as it will appear in the published volume in exactly the same form). The PDF file of the manuscripts must be submitted electrically using ICMU paper submission system by January 13th, 2012. The URL of ICMU2012papersubmissionsystemis(http://review.icmu.org/). Begin your paper with an Abstract of no more than 20 lines. Please thoroughly summarize your article in this section since this text will be used for on-line listing and classification of the publication.
The Role of Landscape Architecture Profession In Two Different Contexts: A Comparative Review of the Practitioners in Responding To Climate Change Adaptation

In the context of rising concerns about global warming and sustainable development this paper examines the challenges of landscape architecture (LA) in developing and developed countries in handling climate change adaptation. The paper aims to find how the LA institutes define their professionals’ roles in dealing with society and environment. It seeks to focus on the professionals’ involvement in climate change adaptation programs in Indonesia and Australia. The paper seeks to determine how contextual factors such as institutional roles and types of prevalent governance systems shape the development of landscape architecture discipline and its professional capability with respect to other related built environment professions (architecture and planning). The websites of the ISLA (Indonesian Society of Landscape Architects) and the AILA (Australian Institutes of Landscape Architects) are examined and analysed from the perspective of professional principles of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). The aim is to determine the LA practitioners’ awareness and approaches in handling climate change challenges in various roles and capabilities. It has found that the professional institute in Australia has been involved in the educational program to equip their practitioner members to have a basic knowledge and further application of climate change adaptation in their design and planning projects; whereas in Indonesia the practitioners are actively involved in community capacity building to increase people’s awareness and participation in mitigating the climate change at local as well as regional levels. Findings from the study seek to establish the universality of the LA profession and its relevance in both developed and developing countries.
Interpretation of Image for Pest Detection by Employing SVM Classifier

This paper manages another kind of early detection of pest’s framework. The leaves images influenced by pests are gained by utilizing a computerized camera. The leaves with pest images are prepared for getting a dark shaded image and afterward utilizing image division, image order systems to identify pests on leaves. The image is moved to the examination calculation for reporting the quality. The strategy that is advanced in this framework is both image handling and delicate processing. The images are procured by utilizing an advanced camera of roughly 12 M-Pixel resolution in 24-bits shading goals. The images are then moved to a PC and signified in MATLAB software from which digital images were achieved. Recognition of irritation in the images, segmentation, include extraction was performed by the calculations for the sensed vermin. At last, SVM was utilized for characterization and accomplished exact outcomes with consolidated highlights
Influence Of Service Quality, Performance Expectations, System Quality, Information Quality On User Satisfaction In Implementation Cooperative Application At Smkn 11 Malang

: Studies This investigate quality service, expectations performance, quality system, quality information, and satisfaction user in context application cooperative school at SMKN 11 Malang. With sample consists of 73 members cooperative school, research This detail characteristics qualities it and test it impact to satisfaction user through approach Quantitative includes survey as well as analysis statistics. Study results describe that quality service, expectations performance, quality system, quality informationally positive influence level satisfaction user in use application cooperative school. Implications, study This potential for increase management effective cooperative school, improve welfare of teachers and staff, as well increase income school at SMKN 11 Malang. Findings this too can function as guidelines for institution any other education you want repair management cooperative school they through optimization technology information.
Economic Impacts of Drought on Agriculture

Water security features prominently among the grand challenges of humanity in a quest for sustainable future. Southern European countries, Italy in particular, are highly vulnerable to droughts. In this article we estimate the drought-related losses in agriculture in terms of reduced yield and output for the selected, most important crops; and social impacts of droughts in the Po River Basin District (PRBD). To do this we first explore the regional impact assessment techniques based on production data collected or estimated at provincial (NUTS3) and lower (agricultural region, RA) spatial scale and then use partial equilibrium approach to modelling drought impacts in terms of yield, net revenue and employment.
Based Perspective - Improved Survival After Heart Failure: A Community

Background— Heart failure is a highly prevalent, morbid, and costly disease with a poor long-term prognosis. Evidence-based therapies utilized over the past 2 decades hold the promise of improved outcomes, yet few contemporary studies have examined survival trends in patients with acute heart failure. The primary objective of this population-based study was to describe trends in short-and long-term survival in patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). A secondary objective was to examine patient characteristics associated with decreased long-term survival. Methods and Results— We reviewed the medical records of 9748 patients hospitalized with ADHF at all 11 medical centers in central Massachusetts during 1995, 2000, 2002, and 2004. Patients hospitalized with ADHF were more likely to be elderly and to have been diagnosed with multiple comorbidities in 2004 compared with 1995. Over this period, survival was signi ﬁ cantly improved in-hospital, and at 1, 2, and 5 years postdischarge. Five-year survival rates increased from 20% in 1995 to 29% in 2004. Although survival improved substantially over time, older patients and patients with chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, anemia, low body mass index, and low blood pressures had consistently lower postdischarge survival rates than patients without these comorbidities. Conclusion—
Crash Recovery

DEFINITION In contrast to transaction aborts, a crash is typically a major failure by which the state of the current database is lost or parts of storage media are unrecoverable (destroyed). Based on log data from a stable log, also called temporary log file, and the inconsistent and/or outdated state of the permanent database, system recovery has to reconstruct the most recent transaction-consistent database state. Because DBMS restart may take too long to be masked for the user, a denial of service can be observed. Recovery from media failures relies on the availability of (several) backup or archive copies of earlier DB states – organized according to the generation principle – and archive logs (often duplexed) covering the processing intervals from the points of time the backup copies were created. Archive recovery usually causes much longer outages than system recovery.
OC-002 Team simulation training for medical emergencies in the endoscopy unit

Introduction Medical simulation is as an attractive way to practice clinical skills to improve confidence, teamwork and outcomes.1 The endoscopy unit is an arena in which a heterogenous group of patients present with complex medical comorbidities. While emergencies are uncommon, they require prompt & seamless management. Simulation is common in industries such as aeronautics to practice rare but predictable incidents. Simulation is also used for teaching endoscopy. We therefore piloted novel simulation training in medical emergencies for our own unit's endoscopy staff (ES) before rolling this out across our trust in East Kent. Methods We conducted three half-day sessions in a dedicated simulation complex. ES were divided into teams of two nurses and a healthcare assistant rotating through scenarios such as anaphylaxis and angina followed by feedback, tutorials & literature. The scenario room was equipped with a sophisticated mannequin capable of speech & respiration attached to monitoring including pulse, oxygen saturations & blood pressure manipulated from a control room. The room was fitted with cameras and microphones to assist feedback. There was a viewing chamber in which ES could watch their colleagues. Written candidate feedback was obtained. Results In April 2010, six of our ES completed the pilot session. In September 2010 & 2011, 12 ES from two hospitals in our trust completed the session. None of the ES had ever had specific training in this area and were not confident in their abilities prior to the session. The vast majority found the training to be enjoyable, useful and that it enhanced their confidence. Conclusion Simulation is becoming recognised as an important training tool in rehearsing responses to a variety of clinical settings. Our experience demonstrates that our ES did not feel confident in recognising and managing medical emergencies perhaps as they do not encounter them as frequently as ward nurses. The absence of such training is an omission in improving patient safety. The use of training in teams which work together on a daily basis helped reduce anxiety and improved confidence and the overall realism of the simulation. The staff strongly felt that this training was realistic and targetted to their learning needs and experience. While the use of our sophisticated simulation facility was advantageous in running our programme this is not critical to propagating this to other trusts. The mannequin and much of the equipment is portable and our next aim is to bring the simulation inside the endoscopy room to enhance realism and facilitate transfer to any endoscopy unit. Competing interests None declared. Reference 1. Ruesseler M, Weinlich M, Müller MP, et al. Simulation training improves ability to manage medical emergencies. Emerg Med J 2010;27:734–8.
Becker Digital

Objective: Smartphone apps and mobile devices are an emerging method of healthcare data collection. This study sought to understand how physicians currently view mobile health (mHealth) technologies and use them in patient care. Methods: A total of 186 physicians affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA completed a survey in 2016 regarding their current implementation of mHealth technologies for patient care and support for further development. Results: More than half of respondents were willing to discuss health apps and mobile devices with patients. However, most were not currently recommending them to patients. Apps/devices that encouraged a healthy diet and weight or tracked heart rate received the highest satisfaction ratings. Apps/devices that accessed the EMR (electronic medical record) remotely, provided medication reminders, or enrolled research subjects garnered the most interest despite respondents lacking prior experience. A majority agreed that collected biometrics are useful for promoting a healthy lifestyle (68%), tracking medical treatment (64%), or conducting research (56%); and agreed that proof of accuracy and precision (81%) and the efficient integration of collected data (68%) are necessary improvements. Uploading data automatically and updating physicians in real-time was the most preferred method of data integration into the EMR. Conclusions: Physicians show interest in using mHealth technologies for patient care but have limited experience, usually with those specific to their specialties. Proof of quality and a method to integrate data into the EMR are necessary for a mainstream role in healthcare.
Some remarks on resolving seamounts in satellite gravity

We examine peak‐to‐trough gravity anomaly amplitudes over seamounts, comparing gravity derived from satellite altimetry with gravity measured by ships. We also compare amplitudes from linear and higher‐order (non‐linear) computations, and conclude that two‐term forward modeling of seamounts should be adequate. Altimetric amplitudes are within 90% of ship amplitudes at seamounts greater than 14 km in characteristic radius. At smaller seamounts, altimetric amplitude is reduced, probably due to smoothing filters used to process the altimeter data. Perhaps fortuitously, this amplitude loss nearly matches the amplitude under‐estimate that occurs if one assumes the forward model should contain only a linear term. Thus bathymetric prediction by linear filtering may do a fairly good job of resolving seamounts much smaller than 14 km in characteristic radius.
Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling

During the Middle Miocene, Earth's climate transitioned from a relatively warm phase (Miocene climatic optimum) to a colder mode with reestablishment of permanent ice sheets on Antarctica, thus marking a fundamental step in Cenozoic cooling. Carbon sequestration and atmospheric CO2 drawdown through increased terrestrial and/or marine productivity have been proposed as the main drivers of this fundamental transition. We integrate high-resolution (1-3 k.y.) benthic stable isotope data with X-ray fluorescence scanner-derived biogenic silica and carbonate accumulation estimates in an exceptionally well preserved sedimentary archive, recovered at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1338, to reconstruct eastern equatorial Pacific productivity variations and to investigate temporal links between high- and low-latitude climate change over the interval 16-13 Ma. Our records show that the climatic optimum (16.8-14.7 Ma) was characterized by high-amplitude climate variations, marked by intense perturbations of the carbon cycle. Episodes of peak warmth at (Southern Hemisphere) insolation maxima coincided with transient shoaling of the carbonate compensation depth and enhanced carbonate dissolution in the deep ocean. A switch to obliquity-paced climate variability after 14.7 Ma concurred with a general improvement in carbonate preservation and the onset of step-wise global cooling, culminating with extensive ice growth over Antarctica ca. 13.8 Ma. We find that two massive increases in opal accumulation ca. 14.0 and ca. 13.8 Ma occurred just before and during the final and most prominent cooling step, supporting the hypothesis that enhanced siliceous productivity in the eastern equatorial Pacific contributed to CO2 drawdown.
Simulation of Long-Term and Regional Environmental Effects of Different N Applications in the Winter Wheat/Summer Maize System

【Objective】 As the overuse of N application in the winter wheat/summer maize rotation system and the enhanced environmental effects,this research aims at the long-term and regional environmental effects of different N applications,and to definite the regional environmental effects and the potential of N reduction in the winter wheat/summer maize system. 【Method】The simulation of different N application in winter wheat/summer maize was conducted for 15 years by using the research method which combined the location tests and the biogeochemical model together. 【Result】 The result indicated that crop yield increased by increasing N application.The increase of crop yield was limited when the N application rate ranged from 240 kg.hm-2to 300 kg.hm-2,and the N leaching enhanced,the residual inorganic N in the soil increased.The loss of total N reduced under the two regulations,30% i.e.the regional N application rate reduced by 30% and the optimized N application,which lead to 67.23% and 79.93% reduction of N leaching,respectively,thus decreasing the N environmental risk. 【Conclusion】The N environmental effects of the winter wheat/summer maize rotation system increased by increasing N application in the area around Bohai Bay.The planting pattern of winter wheat/summer maize has the potential of N reduction,and reduce 30% of regional N application has the obvious reduction of environmental effects.The middle of Hebei Province and the east and southwest of Shandong Province have the most obvious potential of saving N.
Inter!hemispheric asymmetryin the earlyPleistocene Pacificwarmpool

]ThepositionofthesouthernboundaryofthePacificwarm pool is shown to have been stable since the earlyPleistocene, based upon a planktic foraminiferal Mg/Ca! derived reconstruction of subtropical sea surface temperaturein the Coral Sea. This contrasts with previous reconstructionsshowing warm pool contraction from the north and east andmeans that the early Pleistocene warm pool was morehemispherically asymmetric than its present configuration.The latter was not established until∼1Ma, supporting astrengthening of the northern Hadley Cell, which wasnot replicated in its southern counterpart, prior to theMid! Pleistocene Transition.
Determination of the best indirect selection criteria in Iranian durum wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes under irrigated and drought stress conditions

In order to evaluate and classify morphological and morpho-physiological traits of durum wheat genotypes in drought and irrigated conditions 200 durum wheat genotypes were sown in modify augmented design with four replications during 2013- 2014 farming season. Two replications were considered as drought condition and two as irrigated. Factor analysis based on principal component analysis method and varimax rotation indicated that four important factors accounted for about 87 and 92 percent of the total variation among traits in drought and irrigated conditions, respectively. In drought stress condition, the first factor assigned 37 percent of total variation between traits and was significantly related with spike yield and it’s components. Therefore, this factor was regarded as spike seed yield factor. Other factors in drought stress condition accounted for 22, 16 and 12 percent of variation between traits and were entitled as plant seed yield, spike density and assimilate transmission factors, respectively. In irrigated condition, the first factor assigned 36 percent of total variation between traits and was significantly related with traits plant and spike seed yield, plant and spike harvest index, No. seed/spike and plant height. This factor was regarded as plant seed yield factor. Other factors in irrigated condition accounted for 24, 18 and 14 percent of variation between traits and were entitled as production, assimilate transmission and spike density factors, respectively. Overall, results revealed effect of different environments on extracted factors, percent of variation accounted for by factors and traits related with each factor.