nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Learning compact binary quantization of Minutia Cylinder Code
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB)

With explosive growth in fingerprint database, Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) has become more difficult than ever. Consequently, it is necessary to get an effective and discriminative fingerprint feature binary representation. In this paper, we firstly analyze the characteristic of Minutia Cylinder Code (MCC) representation to find that it is strongly bit correlated and with a lossy binary quantization. Accordingly, we propose an optimization model to learn a feature projection matrix resulting in dimensionality reduction as well as diminishing quantization loss. Eventually, the real valued version of MCC is learnt to get Compact Binary Minutia Cylinder Code (CBMCC) with balanced independent property and minimal binary quantization loss. The performance test shows that CBMCC is effective and discriminative as it has maximum intra bit variance while minimum inter bit correlation. Furthermore, numerous experiments on public databases demonstrate that CBMCC is advantageous for fingerprint retrieval since it achieves a high correct index performance with a fairly low penetration rate.
Experience of Exclusion: Tamil Cinema and Male to Female Transgender Community

The Male to Female (MtF) Transgender community emerges as the most visible queer culture in India. Cinema provides viewers the ideologies and beliefs sensationally through celebrities and distorts reality. The primary objective of this study is to describe the role of Tamil Cinema on Social exclusion of MtF Transgender community of Tamil Nadu. The study based on the face to face survey analysis of 416 MtF Transgender individuals of Tamil Nadu. The study shows that Transgender people are significantly excluded from family and forced to drop out from school and largely involve in sex work and begging for living because of their transgender identity. The perception of the Transgender community clearly describes that Tamil Cinema negatively propagates and maintains the dominant ideology about Transgender people in society. The control of communication mutes the Transgender community and the unequal power relationship drives them to the multidimensional social exclusion in Tamil Nadu.
A versatile reconfigurable antenna for Cognitive Radio
Venue: 2016 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)

This paper presents a versatile reconfigurable antenna capable of spectrum sensing along with various reconfiguration features. The proposed antenna senses the spectrum by semicircular structure from 3 GHz to 10 GHz to identify the spectrum conditions. After recognizing the spectrum condition, the proposed antenna can reconfigure its polarization state, bandwidth and radiation pattern. Polarization reconfigurability is achieved by using a switchable slot in the circular antenna at 5.1 GHz. Radiation pattern reconfigurability is achieved by shorting the parasitic ring at 7 switchable posts via PIN diodes. Bandwidth reconfigurability is obtained by switching two active ports. Measured and Simulated results of the proposed antenna shows very good agreement, hence, validating the design.
The influence of challenging goals and structured method on Six Sigma project performance: A mediated moderation analysis
Venue: Eur. J. Oper. Res.

Over the past few decades, Six Sigma has diffused to a wide array of organizations across the globe, which has been fueled by the reported financial benefits of Six Sigma.  Six Sigma entails carrying out a series of Six Sigma projects that improve business processes. Scholars have investigated some mechanisms that influence project success, such as setting challenging goals and adhering to the Six Sigma method. However, these mechanisms have been studied in a piecemeal fashion and do not provide a deeper understanding of their interrelationships. Developing a deeper understanding of these mechanisms helps identify the contingency and boundary conditions that influence Six Sigma project execution. Drawing on Sociotechnical Systems theory, this research conceptualizes and empirically examines the interrelationships of the key mechanisms that influence project execution. Specifically, we examine the interrelationship between Six Sigma project goals (Social System) adherence to the Six Sigma method (Technical System) and knowledge creation. The analysis uses a mediation moderation approach which helps empirically examine these relationships. The data come from a survey of 324 employees in 102 Six Sigma projects from two organizations. The findings show that project goals and the Six Sigma method can compensate for one another. It also suggests that adherence to the Six Sigma method becomes more beneficial for projects that create a lot of knowledge. Otherwise the method becomes less important. Prior research has not examined these contingencies and boundary conditions, which ultimately influence project success.
Lean six sigma project management a stakeholder management perspective

The purpose of this paper is to understand the success of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in banking and financial services industry and to develop a structured stakeholders management model for successful LSS project management.  A two phase methodology is used. Phase 1 establishes the literature to understand two key process improvement methodologies Lean and Six Sigma and to derive synergies by their combination leading to success in banking and financial services. The literature also helps to recognize the importance of stakeholder management in LSS projects and to understand how it helps in accelerating change in organizations. Phase 2 of the methodology is based on the interviews conducted by 56 global LSS project managers. This is to understand the practical challenges faced by the LSS project managers in banking and financial services tying back to the existing literature.  The paper identifies the possible opportunities for structured stakeholder management.
Prevalence of the different Axis I clinical subtypes in a sample of patients with orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders in the Andalusian Healthcare Service
Venue: Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the prevalence of each of the different clinical subtypes of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in a sample of patients with this pathology. In addition, a second objective was to analyze their distribution according to gender.  To this end, the results of 1603 patients who went to the Unit of Temporomandibular Disorders in the Cordoba Healthcare District because they suffered from this pathology were analyzed. In order to diagnose them, the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) were applied, analyzing the different Axis I subtypes (myopathy, discopathy and arthropathy) and obtaining the combined Axis I for each patient and the relation of all these variables according to gender. The null hypothesis test confirmed the lack of connection between the gender variable and the different subtypes in the clinical analysis, and between the former and the combined Axis I of the RDC/TMD.  The prevalence was high for the muscle disorders subtype in general, showing an 88.7% prevalence, while the presence of discopathies or arthropathies was much lower. Among discopathies, the most frequent ones were disc displacements with reduction, with 39.7% and 42.8% for the left and right temporomandibular joints (TMJ) respectively, while the prevalence of arthropathies was 26.3% for the right TMJ and 32.9% for the left TMJ. The bivariate analysis on the connection with gender reveals a p> 0.05 value for the muscle and arthralgia subtypes.  The patients seen at the TMD Unit where mostly middle aged women whose main clinical axis subtype was the muscle disorder subtype. For their part, both discopathies and arthropathies, although present, are much less prevalent. RDCTMD, axis I, orofacial pain, temporomandibular disorders, gender.
A high fidelity microwave driven two qubit quantum logic gate in 43Ca+

Quantum computers offer great potential for significant speedup in executing certain algorithms compared to their classical counterparts. One of the most promising physical systems in which implementing such a device seems viable are trapped atomic ions. All of the fundamental operations needed for quantum information processing have already been experimentally demonstrated in trapped ion systems. Today, the remaining two obstacles are to improve the fidelities of these operations up to the point where quantum error correction techniques can be successfully applied, as well as to scale up the present systems to a higher number of quantum bits (qubits) This thesis addresses both issues. On the one hand, it decribes the experimental implementation of a high fidelity two qubit quantum logic gate, which is the most technically demanding fundamental operation to realise in practice. On the other hand, the presented work is carried out in a microfabricated surface ion trap an architecture that holds the promise of scalability. The gate is applied directly to hyperfine "atomic clock" qubits in 43 Ca ions using the near field microwave magnetic field gradient produced by an integrated trap electrode. To protect the gate against fluctuating energy shifts of the qubit states, as well as to avoid the need to null the microwave field at the position of the ions, a dynamically decoupled Molmer Sorensen scheme is employed. After accounting for state preparation and measurement errors, the achieved gate fidelity is 99.7(1)p. In previous work, the same apparatus has been used to demonstrate coherence times of T a 2 50 s and all single qubit operations with fidelity 99.95p. To gain access to the "atomic clock" qubit transition in 43 Ca a static magnetic field of 146G is applied. The resulting energy level Zeeman structure is spread over many times the linewidth of the atomic transition used for Doppler cooling. This thesis presents a simple and robust method for Doppler cooling and obtaining high fluorescence from this qubit in spite of the complicated level structure. A temperature of 0.3mK, slightly below the Doppler limit, is reached.
Agent Based Simulation Model for Assessment of Financing Scenarios in Highway Transportation Infrastructure Systems

AbstractThere is an urgent need for policies to close the existing financing gap for civil infrastructure. However, identification of the desired scenarios for the closure of the financing gap is complex because there are many factors that affect investment in infrastructure. Thus, comprehensive models are required to (1) simulate the impacts of policies, and (2) identify the highly likely scenarios for desired policy outcomes. The objective of this paper is to create a simulation model for ex ante analysis of financing policies in highway transportation infrastructure in the United States. Using the agent based technique, this model simulates the microbehaviors of state Departments of Transportation, private institutional investors, and the public. Using the output of the simulation model, financing landscapes of the U.S. transportation infrastructure are developed. The simulated landscape is shown to be helpful in identifying the highly likely scenarios leading to a high level of investment in highway t.
When DNA and culture clash.
Venue: Science

Largely because many Arabs marry cousins or other close relatives, Saudi Arabia, like much of the Middle East, has a high rate of inherited genetic diseases. Research on these diseases has been booming here, culminating in a project called the Saudi Human Genome Program. Fowzan Alkuraya, a young geneticist who may be the country's leading gene sleuth, and colleagues are harnessing cheap, next generation DNA sequencing to pin down mutations underlying unexplained diseases. They have analyzed the DNA of more than 10,000 patients in the past 5 years, solving many cases and turning up many new disease genes. Saudi researchers hope the growing catalog of disease mutations they have found will help individual families with inherited diseases have healthy babies. Their work could also lead to premarriage DNA tests for young people that could bring down the prevalence of those diseases here. But first, Saudi geneticists will have to get past the worsening budget crisis here triggered by the global drop in oil prices.
The Foundation of Operational Logistics

The term Operational Level of War or in short Operational Level has emerged in the West in the 1982 revision of the US Army Field Manual FM 100 5. This term was redefined in the 1986 version of that manual and since then it has been under continuous examination and review, and a source for debate amongst commanders and military scholars in particular in conjunction with the related term: Operational Art  The 1997 edition of that manual  introduced a new term Operational Level of Conflict and the 2012 edition  (now called ADRP 3 0) defines yet another term: Unified Land Operations as activities aimed at "seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in sustained land operations through simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations." The logistics that supports and sustains these operations is called operational logistics (OpLog)
Internet banking service quality and its implication on e customer satisfaction and e customer loyalty

The purpose of this paper is to examine the internet banking service quality and its implication on e customer satisfaction and e customer loyalty.  A total of 1,000 questionnaires were distributed for internet banking customers and 520 were returned (resulting 52 percentage of response rate) Findings The results confirmed that the all four dimensions (personal need, site organization, user friendliness, and efficiency of website) are distinct constructs. The results also indicated that internet banking service quality consisting of four dimensions has appropriate reliability and each dimensions has a positive significant relationship with internet banking service quality. The efficiency of banking website is the important aspect of internet banking service quality. The finding found that the relationship between internet banking service quality, e customer satisfaction and e customer loyalty are significant.  The results show that the high.
Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change
Venue: Climate Change Responses

BackgroundTrait evolution and plasticity are expected to interactively influence responses to climate change, but rapid changes in and increased variability of temperature may limit evolutionary responses. We use historical specimens to document changes in the size and thermoregulatory traits of a montane butterfly, Colias meadii, in Colorado, USA over the past 60 years (1953 2012) We quantify forewing wing length, ventral wing melanin that increases solar absorption, and the length of thorax setae that reduces convective heat loss.ResultsThe mean of all three traits has increased during this time period despite climate warming. Phenological shifts may have extended the active season earlier at low elevations and later at high elevations, increasing exposure to cool temperatures and selecting for increases in thermoregulatory traits. Fitness increases at higher elevations due to warming could also increase thermoregulatory traits. Warmer temperatures during pupal development and later flight dates in the season are associated with decreased wing melanin, indicating a role of phenotypic plasticity in historical trait changes.ConclusionsPhenotypic shifts result from a complex interplay of ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change. Environmental variability within and across seasons can limit the evolutionary responses of populations to increasing mean temperatures during climate change.
Recent changes in plant and animal distribution in the southern extreme of the Paranaense biogeographical province (northeastern Buenos Aires province, Argentina) Ecological responses to climate change?

La region norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires, en Argentina, sufrio un incremento ininterrumpido de los valores de precipitaciones y temperatura durante las ultimas decadas. El objetivo de la presente contribucion es analizar los efectos de dicho cambio climatico en la distribucion de la fauna y flora local. El analisis resulto en el reconocimiento de corrimientos en la distribucion de un total de 117 especies. Estos cambios fueron representados por una expansion hacia el sur progresiva de especies presentes tipicamente en areas subtropicales. Como todos estos cambios tienen una orientacion y direccion similar, e incluyen un gran numero de plantas y animales con diferentes requerimientos ecologicos, se concluye que estos cambios de distribucion geografica son probablemente una respuesta a la alteracion climatica.
Physiological and ecological factors influencing recent trends in United States forest health responses to climate change

The health of United States forests is of concern for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, forest commercial values, and other reasons. Climate change, rising concentrations of CO2 and some pollutants could plausibly have affected forest health and growth rates over the past 150 years and may affect forests in the future. Multiple factors must be considered when assessing present and future forest health. Factors undergoing change include temperature, precipitation (including flood and drought) CO2 concentration, N deposition, and air pollutants. Secondary effects include alteration of pest and pathogen dynamics by climate change. We provide a review of these factors as they relate to forest health and climate change. We find that plants can shift their optimum temperature for photosynthesis, especially in the presence of elevated CO2, which also increases plant productivity. No clear national trend to date has been reported for flood or drought or their effects on forests except for a current drought in the US Southwest. Additionally, elevated CO2 increases water use efficiency and protects plants from drought. Pollutants can reduce plant growth but concentrations of major pollutants such as ozone have declined modestly. Ozone damage in particular is lessened by rising CO2. No clear trend has been reported for pathogen or insect damage but experiments suggest that in many cases rising CO2 enhances plant resistance to both agents. There is strong evidence from the United States and globally that forest growth has been increasing over recent decades to the past 100+ years. Future prospects for forests are not clear because different models produce divergent forecasts. However, forest growth models that incorporate more realistic physiological responses to rising CO2 are more likely to show future enhanced growth. Overall, our review suggests that United States forest health has improved over recent decades and is not likely to be impaired in at least the next few decades.
Closed loop control of novel transformer less inverter topology for single phase grid connected photovoltaic system
Venue: 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)

In grid connected mode of distributed generation applications, the elimination of line frequency transformer is possible without impacting system characteristics related to grid integration, ground leakage current, dc injection, safety issues etc. This paper presents the design, modeling, simulation and implementation of closed loop operation of a novel inverter topology suitable for transformer less single phase grid connected photovoltaic systems. The control scheme ensures extraction of maximum power from the solar Photovoltaic (PV) source, synchronization with the grid and controlled active and reactive power transfer to the grid. Simulation results with both dc source and solar PV as input, incorporating MPPT, are discussed in the paper. Implementation of a 250W laboratory prototype has been carried out using dSPACE DS1103 PPC controller board and the results of the grid connected mode of operation are presented in the paper.
Gender equality in emergency medicine: Ignorance isn't bliss
Venue: Emergency medicine Australasia EMA

The concepts of discrimination and inequity based on gender, age, race and sexuality are issues that unfortunately remain prominent in Australia, New Zealand and across the globe. Gender equality is a broad topic spanning societal, political and industrial domains and is associated with a diverse range of behaviours and attitudes requiring attention. The United Nations HeForShe campaign is a powerful global initiative to promote the achievement of gender equality. Two of its core strategic pillars are 'acceleration of women's economic empowerment' and 'advancing women's political participation and leadership' Emergency medicine (EM) is a young specialty that prides itself on being progressive; however, these two pillars continue to require improvement within academic and clinical EM in Australasia. Although much of the dialogue is specific to female trainees and FACEMs, this editorial and the associated articles in this series will also explore the less publicised issues affecting our male EM workforce.
Women in Academic Medicine Leadership: Has Anything Changed in 25 Years?
Venue: Academic medicine journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Over the past 25 years, the number of women graduating from medical schools in the United States and Canada has increased dramatically to the point where roughly equal numbers of men and women are graduating each year. Despite this growth, women continue to face challenges in moving into academic leadership positions. In this Commentary, the authors share lessons learned from their own careers relevant to women's careers in academic medicine, including aspects of leadership, recruitment, editorship, promotion, and work life balance. They provide brief synopses of current literature on the personal and social forces that affect women's participation in academic leadership roles. They are persuaded that a deeper understanding of these realities can help create an environment in academic medicine that is generally more supportive of women's participation, and that specifically encourages women in medicine to take on academic leadership positions.