nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Alleviating network congestion for HPC clusters with fat tree interconnection leveraging software defined networking
Venue: 2016 3rd International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI)

Interconnection networks are essential elements in nowadays High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, which must meet the urgent requirement for fast and reliable communication from the HPC applications. As a consequence, the network performance have a great influence on the overall system one. However, traditional routing mechanisms and load balancing approaches cannot make efficient use of the network due to lack of network status information and flexible ways to perform dynamic controlling operations. As a solution, the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) network paradigm, offers great opportunities to enhance the network performance with its low cost traffic statistics monitoring mechanism and centralized network controller. In this paper, we present a congestion aware SDN controller for Fat tree interconnection network. We implement a network congestion detector based on the traffic monitoring mechanism in SDN. In addition, we design a traffic flow scheduler which is capable of dynamically redistributing the network traffics flowing along the congested path to the congestion free ones. The Ryu SDN Framework is employed in our implementation. Evaluation experiment conducted on the Mininet network emulator shows that our controller could efficiently alleviate the network congestion and achieve better use of the target network.
Efficient Partial Recovery of Flexible Rate Transceivers with SDN based Asymmetric Multipath Routing of IP Traffic

New optical elasticity features of bandwidth variable transponders together with intelligent recovery capabilities in optical transport networks might enable partial recovery of an optical wavelength capacity. However, current ECMP based mechanisms are unable to utilize partially recovered links efficiently. This paper presents software defined network (SDN) based asymmetric multipath routing, enabling the usage of these links. By introducing adapted fine granular load balancing and segment routing mechanisms, this new concept aims at making the most of the partially recovered capacity and thus reducing the required standby capacity for restoration. We outline the investigated SDN control architecture and introduce the practical design and implementation approach.
Rancang Bangun Alat Monitoring Jumlah Denyut Nadi Jantung Berbasis Android

Abstrak Denyut jantung/nadi merupakan indikasi penting dalam bidang kesehatan yang berguna sebagai bahan evaluasi efektif dan cepat serta berfungsi untuk mengetahui kondisi kesehatan pada tubuh seseorang. Metode pengukuran jumlah denyut nadi telah digunakan dokter untuk menentukan stres, relaksasi, tingkat kebugaran fisik, dan kondisi medis. Alat Monitoring Denyut Nadi (MDN) dirancang untuk menampilkan data denyut nadi secara realtime dan kontinyu di smartphone Android. Alat ini menggunakan sensor pulse yang diletakkan pada ujung jari tangan sebagai alat pendeteksi denyut nadinya yang diproses dengan mikrokontroler Arduino Uno dan menggunakan smartphone Android sebagai basis sistem yang diterapkan untuk mengoperasikan dan menampilkan data denyut nadi. Sistem koneksi antara alat dan smartphone Android menggunakan media Bluetooth Berdasarkan hasil pengujian bisa disimpulkan bahwa alat ini bisa bekerja dengan baik dengan perbandingan selisih hasil uji dengan alat Spot Vital Signs (SVS) sebesar 0,07 2,47 BPM dengan batas toleransi 5BPM. Alat ini juga dapat menyimpan data hasil pengukuran denyut nadi di aplikasi smartphone Android, sehingga dapat diolah untuk keperluan lebih lanjut. K ata kunci: denyut nadi/jantung, mikrokontroler A r d u i n o Uno, Android, sensor pulse
RANCANG BANGUN APLIKASI MONITORING DETAK JANTUNG MELALUI FINGER TEST BERBASIS ARDUINO

Perkembangan teknologi informasi saat ini sudah sangat pesat di berbagai bidang. Salah satunya adalah perkembangan teknologi dalam bidang jaringan berbasis sensor. Jaringan berbasis sensor merupakan kemampuan jaringan fundamental yang berbeda dari jaringan sensor biasa, yang memungkinkan adanya kerjasama, koordinasi dan kolaborasi antara perangkat sensor. Tidak terkecuali penggunaan sensor dalam bidang kesehatan. Teknologi di bidang kesehatan mengalami perkembangan yang sangat pesat ditandai dengan semakin banyaknya aplikasi teknologi untuk mendeteksi gejala suatu penyakit serta untuk memantau dan mengontrol kesehatan pada tubuh manusia berbasis mikrokontroler. Jantung merupakan salah satu organ tubuh manusia yang sangat berpengaruh bagi kesehatan yang perlu selalu dipantau dan dikontrol kondisinya. Alat untuk mengukur detak jantung yang sudah ada saat ini belum dapat dipantau melalui komputer atau jaringan. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, maka pada penelitian ini akan dibahas mengenai perancangan dan pembuatan aplikasi untuk monitoring detak jantung melalui finger test berbasis mikrokontroler arduino. Melalui alat ini, akan dapat dilakukan deteksi detak jantung menggunakan pulse sensor melalui finger test dan hasilnya dapat dipantau melalui sebuah aplikasi yang dapat diakses menggunakan komputer.
The Augmented Cognitive Mediation Model: Examining Antecedents of Factual and Structural Breast Cancer Knowledge Among Singaporean Women
Venue: Journal of health communication

As knowledge acquisition is an important component of health communication research, this study examines factors associated with Singaporean women's breast cancer knowledge using an augmented cognitive mediation model. We conducted a nationally representative study that surveyed 802 women between the ages of 30 and 70 using random digit dialing. The results supported the augmented cognitive mediation model, which proposes the inclusion of risk perception as a motivator of health information seeking and structural knowledge as an additional knowledge dimension. There was adequate support for the hypothesized paths in the model. Risk perception was positively associated with attention to newspaper, television, Internet, and interpersonal communication. Attention to the three media channels was associated with interpersonal communication, but only newspaper and television attention were associated with elaboration. Interpersonal communication was positively associated with structural knowledge, whereas elaboration was associated with both factual and structural knowledge. Differential indirect effects between media attention and knowledge dimensions via interpersonal communication and elaboration were found. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Lightweight Method Level Energy Consumption Estimation for Android Applications
Venue: 2016 10th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering (TASE)

The energy consumption problem is a hot topic in Android communities. The high energy cost caused by improper development brings lots of complaints from users. An effective and efficient energy consumption analysis technique can guide the developers to improve the energy efficiency of their apps. Existing researches on this problem focus on either system entity level that gives the energy consumption of the hardware, or source line level that calculates the energy cost of source codes. With the consideration of accuracy and cost of analysis, this paper proposes a lightweight and automatic approach to estimate the method level energy consumption for Android apps. We construct a statistical model from a set of energy values obtained by Dalvik bytecode based instrumentation and software based measurement, to predict the energy consumption of execution sequences of methods. The experiments on several real world apps show that the proposed techniques have low overhead while persisting acceptable accuracy.
To Splint or Not to Splint: The Current Status of Periodontal Splinting.
Venue: Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology

Loss of tooth supporting structures results in tooth mobility. Increased tooth mobility adversely affects function, aesthetics, and the patient's comfort. Splints are used to over come all these problems. When faced with the dilemma of how to manage periodontally compromised teeth, splinting of mobile teeth to stronger adjacent teeth is a viable option. This prolongs the life expectancy of loose teeth, gives stability for the periodontium to reattach, and improves comfort, function and aesthetics. Although splinting has been used since ancient times, it has been a topic of controversy because of its ill effects on oral health, including poor oral hygiene and adverse effects on supporting teeth. There have been considerable advancements in the materials used for splinting, resulting in fewer ill effects. This article is intended to provide the clinicians with an updated overview of splinting, types and classification of splints, with their indications, contraindications,rationale and effects on oral health.
Plaster of Paris: the orthopaedic surgeon heritage
Venue: International Orthopaedics

Plastering is one of the most ancient of the building handicrafts. Plaster is the common name for calcium sulphate hemi hydrate made by heating the mineral gypsum, the common name for sulphate of lime. In the tenth century the Arabs used liquid plaster in orthopaedic treatment. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, patients with fractures of the lower extremities and often of the upper extremities as well were treated in bed with restriction of all activity for many weeks until the fractures united. It was the practice of surgeons to dress wounds and fractures at frequent intervals. The bandages, pads, and splints were removed, the fractures manipulated, and the dressings reapplied. The search for simpler, less cumbersome methods of treatment led to the development of occlusive dressings, stiffened at first with starch and later with plaster of Paris. The ambulatory treatment of fractures was the direct result of these innovations. Two military surgeons, Antonius Mathijsen of the Netherlands, and Nikolai Ivanovitch Pirogov of Russia, were responsible for the introduction of the new plaster bandage technique. At the beginning of the twentieth century the technique was improved by Jean Francois Calot, a French surgeon, who invented the hand manufacture of plaster bandage as a roll. During the twentieth century, walking cast and ambulation for fresh fractures were developed with plaster and pin incorporated in plaster; the open fracture care concept was introduced with plaster of Paris by Trueta before the external fixation.
A physiological control strategy for continuous flow left ventricular assist devices: The power ratio controller
Venue: 2016 European Control Conference (ECC)

The shortage of donor hearts is pushing the development of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) as permanent solution for advanced cardiovascular diseases (CVD) In actual implants, the rotary speed of the LVAD is set to a constant speed leading to a non physiological behaviour of the system. The missing adaption of the cardiac output (CO) produces serious problems like ventricular suction or pulmonary edema. In this paper, a novel physiological controller is designed. The Power Ratio (PR) controller regulates the rotary speed in order to obtain a fixed ratio (r) between the hydraulic and the ventricular power. This factor can be useful in future applications of ventricular recovery. The control strategy aims at imitating the Frank Starling mechanism. A circulatory system model is used to study the controller response to changes in preload, afterload, contractility, heart rate and to a sudden preload drop. The restoration of the Frank Starling mechanism is assessed. PR controller results are compared to constant speed mode and show a superior behavior. Over sensitivity is detected in preload and contractility experiments. Therefore, a detailed analysis of the theoretical foundations is done. A flow limiter is designed to avoid problems related to that issue.
The Fintech Revolution: An Opportunity for the West African Financial Sector

Fintech provides alternative solutions and business models that could render traditional banking processes obsolete. This paper assesses the opportunity that could be taken to West Africa by using Fintech's financial system. It describes the current West African financial sector, the way of digitization settlement, and lastly, the financial market segments of Fintech. Financial sector creates a massive amount of data exploiting by Fintech companies that are using to segment customer populations, identify opportunities for new products and services and optimize pricing. In this segment, products may use data and analytics to computerize the decision making processes. Innovative start ups, retailers, established banks, card companies and other payment services providers are the Payment systems that underpin the services that enable funds to be transferred between people and institutions. For the financial system (banking) Fintech offers sustainable and realistic opportunities by enhancing the value proposition and driving sales, reducing operating costs, making easy access to loans, and lowering interest rates. After showing the advantages of using Fintech services, the findings are that Fintech could improve both financial services and access to services in the West African economy.
Sensing the future of HCI
Venue: Interactions

Touch, taste, and smell are an underexplored design space in the context of interactive experiences. By understanding the ways in which our senses process information and how they relate to one another, it will be possible to create richer experiences for humantechnology interactions. We need to design interfaces that allow the stimulation of unexplored sensory inputs as well as interfaces that take into account the relationships between the senses. Digital Taste Interface is a method for simulating the sensation of taste by actuating the human tongue through electrical and thermal stimulation. AromaShooter is a smell delivery device, contains six scent cartridges and connects to a computer via USB. Taste+ is an interface where the user can augment the flavors of food and beverages by applying weak and controlled electrical pulses on their tongue using electronically enhanced everyday utensils such as spoons and beverage bottles. It is crucial to determine the meaningful design space for multisensory interactive experiences. At the same time, it is also key to understand the unique properties of each sensory modality before designing for their sensory integration in the design of interactive systems.
MicroRNA profiles in colorectal carcinomas, adenomas and normal colonic mucosa: variations in miRNA expression and disease progression
Venue: Carcinogenesis

Roughly 27% of miRNAs are commonly expressed in colonic tissue; of these, over 86% are dysregulated between carcinoma and normal tissue when applying a false discovery rate of 0.05. MiRNA expression from normal to adenoma to carcinoma varied by miRNA and its frequency of expression in the population.
Estimating energy consumption based on natural terrain classification for mobile robots

This paper presents a novel algorithm that estimates energy consumption of exploration robots for the efficient mobility in natural terrain. The energy estimation method is beneficial to the energy management problem to establish the robot autonomy, especially in energy limited environments such as planetary surfaces and isolated volcanoes. The key idea of the proposed approach is to employ the terrain classification into the dynamics based energy estimation model, so that it can adapt to the variability of terrain properties. A vibration based terrain classifier is proposed in this paper, which analyzes vibration signals in the time frequency domain and learns terrain patterns by a supervised learning technique. The terrain classification results are used to determine terrain dependent parameters in the energy estimation model. A field test has been conducted in a volcanic field to show the validity of the proposed algorithm. The proposed method successfully demonstrates the capability to estimate energy consumption, while it raises discussions about determining terrain types in real natural terrain.
Quarks and gluons in the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics

In this dissertation we study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter by approaching the theory of quantum chromodynamics in the functional approach of Dyson Schwinger equations. With these quantum (field) equations of motions we calculate the non perturbative quark propagator within the Matsubara formalism. We built up on previous works and extend the so called truncation scheme, which is necessary to render the infinite tower of Dyson Schwinger equations finite and study phase transitions of chiral symmetry and the confinement/deconfinement transition. In the first part of this thesis we discuss general aspects of quantum chromodynamics and introduce the Dyson Schwinger equations in general and present the quark Dyson Schwinger equation together with its counterpart for the gluon. The BetheSalpeter equation is introduced which is necessary to perform two body bound state calculations. A view on the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics is given, including the discussion of order parameter for chiral symmetry and confinement. Here we also discuss the dependence of the phase structure on the masses of the quarks. In the following we present the truncation and our results for an unquenched Nf 2 1 calculation and compare it to previous studies. We highlight some complementary details for the quark and gluon propagator and discus the resulting phase diagram, which is in agreement with previous work. Results for an equivalent of the Columbia plot and the critical surface are discussed. A systematically improved truncation, where the charm quark as a dynamical quark flavour is added, will be presented in Ch. 4. An important aspect in this investigation is the proper adjustment of the scales. This is done by matching vacuum properties of the relevant pseudoscalar mesons separately for Nf 2 1 and Nf 2 1 1 via a solution of the Bethe Salpeter equation. A comparison of the resulting Nf 2 1 and Nf 2 1 1 phase diagram indicates that a dynamical charm quark has no influence on the phase structure. An open question about the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics is the importance of hadronic degrees of freedom. These are subject to an exploratory study
Multi attribute approach to sustainable supply chain management under uncertainty
Venue: Ind. Manag. Data Syst.

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and provide a comprehensive and quantitative method to assess performance. The study applied interval valued triangular fuzzy numbers associated with grey relational analysis to improve the insufficient information and overcome the incomplete system under uncertainty. The findings support the argument that the triple bottom line is insufficient to cover the entire concept of SSCM; in particular, the aspects of operations, stakeholders and resilience have not been addressed in previous studies. The results reveal that the triple bottom line concept is insufficient to illustrate the principles of SSCM and to provide an extensive basis for theory development. The aspects and criteria considered in the study only relate to the studied company and may need to be reviewed when applied to other industries. The methodology and findings of the study demonstrate the core applications of criteria ranking and identify priority areas that utilize less investment but that may maintain the studied company's current performance. Suggestions for the prioritization of criteria to enhance SSCM performance are provided. The present study provides three valuable contributions. First, it adopts collaboration theory to furnish a theoretical foundation for SSCM. Second, the proposed hybrid method is able to overcome uncertainty and subsequently evaluate SSCM while utilizing incomplete and imprecise information. Third, the evaluation provides significant results for consideration in decision making by the studied company.
The Teams Corpus and Entrainment in Multi Party Spoken Dialogues
Venue: EMNLP

When interacting individuals entrain, they begin to speak more like each other. To support research on entrainment in cooperative multi party dialogues, we have created a corpus where teams of three or four speakers play two rounds of a cooperative board game. We describe the experimental design and technical infrastructure used to collect our corpus, which consists of audio, video, transcriptions, and questionnaire data for 63 teams (47 hours of audio) We illustrate the use of our corpus as a novel resource for studying team entrainment by 1) developing and evaluating teamlevel acoustic prosodic entrainment measures that extend existing dyad measures, and 2) investigating relationships between team entrainment and participation dominance.
Observed evidence of the anomalous South China Sea western boundary current during the summers of 2010 and 2011

Seven years of directly measured current data from a mooring in the Xisha area of the South China Sea (SCS) together with shipboard ADCP and satellite data, have shown the western boundary current (WBC) anomaly and its vertical structure during the summers of 2010 and 2011. The observed WBC presented obvious year to year variability, especially in the summer. Overall, the summer mean velocity at the mooring site over 7 year (2007 2013) was northeastward. The moored ADCP showed that the northeastward velocity was particularly strong in the summer of 2010, but the increase was confined in the upper 120 m. In contrast, the northeastward current disappeared throughout the observed depth range (from 50 to 450 m) in the summer of 2011. Even at the deepest observed position, the monthly velocity anomalies reached 14 cm s( 1) westward and 12 cm s( 1) southward in the zonal and meridional directions, respectively. Both the Vietnam offshore current (VOC) and double gyres in the western SCS disappeared and the southern anticyclonic gyre expanded to strengthened the northward WBC in the summer of 2010. However, in summer of 2011, the VOC intensified, and the northern cyclonic gyre enlarged with its northern edge reaching 18 degrees N, slightly north of mooring site, which weakened the northeastward WBC. The observed SCS circulation anomalies during 2010 and 2011 were mainly induced by the basin scale wind field anomalies associated with the 2009/2010 El Nino and 2010/2011 La Nina.