Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
KNOWLEDGE OF DAIRY ANIMAL OWNERS IN IMPROVED DAIRY HUSBANDRY PRACTICES IN TRIBAL AREA OF SOUTH GUJARAT

To study the knowledge of dairy animal owners in improved dairy husbandry practices a field survey in Vansada taluka was conducted during October 2008 to January 2009 and the information was collected. Twenty villages having functional primary milk producer’s co-operative societies were selected at random from 95 villages. From each selected village ten dairy animal owners were randomly selected for filling the questionnaire related to the study. The present study revealed that majority of dairy farmers had medium knowledge on different component of improved dairy husbandry practices viz. 71% for feeding, 63.5% for breeding, 68% for general management and 73.5% for healthcare. The overall knowledge levels of the respondents in improved dairy husbandry practices fall under low, medium and high categories are 14%, 76% and 10% respectively. The knowledge index of different aspect of improved dairy husbandry practices of feeding, breeding, general management and healthcare practices were 50.88, 80.93, 55.60 and 63.57%, respectively and overall knowledge index of improved dairy husbandry practices were 62.83% which indicated medium knowledge level of dairy farmers in the study area.
Predicting cognitive impairment in epilepsy: findings from the Bozeman epilepsy consortium.

We examined the contribution of age of seizure onset, seizure duration, seizure laterality, seizure location, gender, handedness, and cerebral speech representation to cognitive attainment in 1,141 patients with medically refractory seizures. The combined influence of the predictor variables was modest. Age of seizure onset was the best single indicator of Full Scale IQ (partial r = .23) and General Memory (partial r = .20). Laterality and location of dysfunction, and cerebral speech dominance were also relevant and independent indicators of aspects of cognition. Except for age of onset of seizures (early onset was associated with poorer cognitive attainment), however, the magnitude of the effects was limited.
Kalman filtering over unreliable communication networks with bounded Markovian packet dropouts

We address the peak covariance stability of time‐varying Kalman filter with possible packet losses in transmitting measurement outputs to the filter via a packet‐based network. The packet losses are assumed to be bounded and driven by a finite‐state Markov process. It is shown that if the observability index of the discrete‐time linear time‐invariant (LTI) system under investigation is one, the Kalman filter is peak covariance stable under no additional condition. For discrete LTI systems with observability index greater than one, a sufficient condition for peak covariance stability is obtained in terms of the system dynamics and the probability transition matrix of the Markov chain. Finally, the validity of these results is demonstrated by numerical simulations. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Spruce budworm outbreaks in eastern Quebec over the last 450 years

In this study we used dendrochronology to reconstruct the history of eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.)) outbreaks over the last 450 years in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of southeastern Quebec. In total, 260 tree cores were sampled from 204 beams in seven historic buildings and 12 trees in a virgin forest stand. Eight previously documented outbreaks (19751992, 19471958, 19141923, 18681882, 18321845, 18051812, 17521776, 17101724) and three presumed previous outbreaks (16781690, 16421648, 15771600) were identified based on periods of growth reduction. Of these 11 confirmed or presumed outbreaks, six were documented for the first time in eastern Quebec. Such data suggest that outbreak frequency has remained quite stable, with a mean interval of about 40 years between the midpoint of successive outbreaks since the mid-16th century. In addition, together with previous studies, our results indicate a strong spatial synchrony of spruce budworm outbreaks across central and easter.
Structural and functional analysis of Nup120 suggests ring formation of the Nup84 complex

The Nup84 complex constitutes a key building block in the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Here we present the crystal structure of one of its 7 components, Nup120, which reveals a β propeller and an α-helical domain representing a novel fold. We discovered a previously unidentified interaction of Nup120 with Nup133 and confirmed the physiological relevance in vivo. As mapping of the individual components in the Nup84 complex places Nup120 and Nup133 at opposite ends of the heptamer, our findings indicate a head-to-tail arrangement of elongated Nup84 complexes into a ring structure, consistent with a fence-like coat for the nuclear pore membrane. The attachment site for Nup133 lies at the very end of an extended unstructured region, which allows for flexibility in the diameter of the Nup84 complex ring. These results illuminate important roles of terminal unstructured segments in nucleoporins for the architecture, function, and assembly of the NPC.
Prospective cardiopulmonary screening program to detect chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in patients after acute pulmonary embolism

Background Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Understanding the incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism is important for evaluating the need for screening but is also a subject of debate because of different inclusion criteria among previous studies. We determined the incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism and the utility of a screening program for this disease. Design and Methods We conducted a cohort screening study in an unselected series of consecutive patients (n=866) diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism between January 2001 and July 2007. All patients who had not been previously diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) and had survived until study inclusion were invited for echocardiography. Patients with echocardiographic suspicion of PH underwent complete work-up for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, including ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy and right heart catheterization. Results After an average follow-up of 34 months of all 866 patients, PH was diagnosed in 19 patients by routine clinical care and in 10 by our screening program; 4 patients had chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, all diagnosed by routine clinical care. The cumulative incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after all cause pulmonary embolism was 0.57% (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.02–1.2%) and after unprovoked pulmonary embolism 1.5% (95% CI 0.08–3.1%). Conclusions Because of the low incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism and the very low yield of the echocardiography based screening program, wide scale implementation of prolonged follow-up including echocardiography of all patients with pulmonary embolism to detect chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension does not seem to be warranted.
Pharmacotherapy of cough-variant asthma

Cough-variant asthma is considered as an asthma subset in which chronic cough is the only symptom. It is believed to be more frequent and, hence, sometimes overdiagnosed in children, and shares with typical asthma eosinophilic airway inflammation and consequent bronchial hyper-responsiveness. Presently available therapies consist of bronchodilators, inhaled or oral corticosteroids, or leukotriene modifiers. However, the long-term efficacy of these agents in adults and children is not known. This review focuses on current therapies used for cough variant asthma, also highlighting potential therapeutic targets for this condition.
Automating Elimination of Idle Functions by Run-Time Reconfiguration

A design approach is proposed to automatically identify and exploit run-time reconfiguration opportunities while optimising resource utilisation. We introduce Reconfiguration Data Flow Graph, a hierarchical graph structure enabling reconfigurable designs to be synthesised in three steps: function analysis, configuration organisation, and run-time solution generation. Three applications, based on barrier option pricing, particle filter, and reverse time migration are used in evaluating the proposed approach. The run-time solutions approximate the theoretical performance by eliminating idle functions, and are 1.31 to 2.19 times faster than optimised static designs. FPGA designs developed with the proposed approach are up to 28.8 times faster than optimised CPU reference designs and 1.55 times faster than optimised GPU designs.
A speech coder for aeronautical telecommunications

British Telecom International (BTI) has introduced an aeronautica/ telephone service known as the Skyphone. This service uses 9.6 kbit/ s speech codecs because of the limited satellite power available. Because of the need to achieve operation of aeronautical te/ephones between any aircraft and any ground station in any country, the technica/ specifications have been agreed internationally. After extensive testing of the various speech codecs proposed for the service by companies from severa/ different countries, the codec designed at British Telecom Research Laboratories (BTRL) was found to be the best and is to be used both for international te/ephony and for air traffic control. This paper gives a brief description of the Skyphone and the factors which influence the speech codec design and then describes the codec designed by BTRL for the service.
Non-uniformly coupled LDPC codes: Better thresholds, smaller rate-loss, and less complexity

We consider spatially coupled low-density parity-check codes with finite smoothing parameters. A finite smoothing parameter is important for designing practical codes that are decoded using low-complexity windowed decoders. By optimizing the amount of coupling between spatial positions, we show that we can construct codes with excellent thresholds and small rate loss, even with the lowest possible smoothing parameter and large variable node degrees, which are required for low error floors. We also establish that the decoding convergence speed is faster with non-uniformly coupled codes, which we verify by density evolution of windowed decoding with a finite number of iterations. We also show that by only slightly increasing the smoothing parameter, practical codes with potentially low error floors and thresholds close to capacity can be constructed. Finally, we give some indications on protograph designs.
Fast and Controllable Simulation of the Shattering of Brittle Objects

We present a method for the rapid and controllable simulation of the shattering of brittle objects under impact. An object is represented as a set of point masses connected by distance‐preserving linear constraints. This use of constraints, rather than stiff springs, gains us a significant advantage in speed while still retaining fine control over the fracturing behavior. The forces exerted by these constraints during impact are computed using Lagrange multipliers. These constraint forces are then used to determine when and where the object will break, and to calculate the velocities of the newly created fragments. We present the details of our technique together with examples illustrating its use.
Immunology and Cell Biology of Parasitic Diseases 2013

1 Unidad de Biomedicina, Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida de Los Barrios No. 1 Los Reyes Iztacala, 54090 Tlalnepantla, Edo. De MEX, Mexico 2Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, Starling Loving Hall M418, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA 3Departamento de Inmunologı́a, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Escolar S/N Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, DF, Mexico
The Graphical Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Polyhedron: Symmetric Inequalities

A present trend in the study of the symmetric traveling salesman polytope is to use, as a relaxation of the polytope, the graphical traveling salesman polyhedron ($\g$). Following a parallel approach for the asymmetric traveling salesman polytope, we define the graphical asymmetric traveling salesman problem on a general digraph $D$ and its associated polyhedron $\ga(D)$. We give basic polyhedral results and lifting theorems for $\ga(D)$ and we give a general condition for a facet-defining inequality for \g\ to yield a symmetric facet-defining inequality for \ga. Using this approach we show that all known major families of facet-defining inequalities of \g\ define facets of \ga. Finally, we discuss possible extension of these results to the asymmetric traveling salesman polytope.
Motivational Workshops for Low Achieving High School Students in Order to Help Them Improve Their Career Maturity.

of a Major Applied Research Project Presented to Nova University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education MOTIVATIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR LOW ACHIEVING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ORDER TO HELP THEM IMPROVE THEIR CAREER MATURITY By Thomas R. Coleman May, 1975 Many of the students that come.to Essex County College fail. Many reasons for this failure are given. Some say that the student is not intelligent enough to meet the academic requirements of . a two year college. Others say the failure is due to the lack of preparation provided by primary and secondary schools. Still others say that the student fails because he lacks motivation. And even others say that the student does not have clear goals toward which to strive and therefore fails from lack of direction. While one can not be absolutely certain as to the reason for an individual's lack of success there is little doubt that the many community college teachers blame the primary and secondary schools for much of the student's failure in higher education. It was decided that instead of criticising the secondary schools for the lack of student success in college,that it would be better if some way could 4
Adaptation of Cryo‐Sectioning for IEM Labeling of Asymmetric Samples: A Study Using Caenorhabditis elegans

Cryo‐sectioning procedures, initially developed by Tokuyasu, have been successfully improved for tissues and cultured cells, enabling efficient protein localization on the ultrastructural level. Without a standard procedure applicable to any sample, currently existing protocols must be individually modified for each model organism or asymmetric sample. Here, we describe our method that enables reproducible cryo‐sectioning of Caenorhabditis elegans larvae/adults and embryos. We have established a chemical‐fixation procedure in which flat embedding considerably simplifies manipulation and lateral orientation of larvae or adults. To bypass the limitations of chemical fixation, we have improved the hybrid cryo‐immobilization–rehydration technique and reduced the overall time required to complete this procedure. Using our procedures, precise cryo‐sectioning orientation can be combined with good ultrastructural preservation and efficient immuno‐electron microscopy protein localization. Also, GFP fluorescence can be efficiently preserved, permitting a direct correlation of the fluorescent signal and its subcellular localization. Although developed for C. elegans samples, our method addresses the challenge of working with small asymmetric samples in general, and thus could be used to improve the efficiency of immuno‐electron localization in other model organisms.
Academic achievement trajectories of homeless and highly mobile students: resilience in the context of chronic and acute risk.

Analyses examined academic achievement data across third through eighth grades (N = 26,474), comparing students identified as homeless or highly mobile (HHM) with other students in the federal free meal program (FM), reduced price meals (RM), or neither (General). Achievement was lower as a function of rising risk status (General > RM > FM > HHM). Achievement gaps appeared stable or widened between HHM students and lower risk groups. Math and reading achievement were lower, and growth in math was slower in years of HHM identification, suggesting acute consequences of residential instability. Nonetheless, 45% of HHM students scored within or above the average range, suggesting academic resilience. Results underscore the need for research on risk and resilience processes among HHM students to address achievement disparities.
Supercoiling response of a bacterial tRNA gene.

The effect of DNA supercoiling on transcription of a bacterial tRNA gene has been analysed in vitro and in vivo. The Escherichia coli tyrT gene is found to be completely dependent on negative supercoiling when transcription is assayed in vitro at physiological salt concentrations and this supercoiling dependence is shown to be a property of the primary promoter sequences. The supercoiling sensitivity can however be removed by reducing the salt concentration below 50 mM KCl. The effect of supercoiling in vivo was analysed by measuring the activity of the tyrT promoter on a galK fusion vector in E. coli strains that have mutations in either the DNA gyrase or topoisomerase I genes. Surprisingly, in view of the dramatic in vitro effects, supercoiling could be either increased or decreased relative to the wild‐type in vivo level without causing any change in tyrT promoter activity.
Is science communication its own field

The present comment examines to what extent science communication has attained the status of an academic discipline and a distinct research field, as opposed to the common view that science communication is merely a sub-discipline of media studies, sociology of science or history of science. Against this background, the authors of this comment chart the progress science communication has made as an emerging subject over the last 50 years in terms of a number of measures. Although discussions are still ongoing about the elements that must be present to constitute a legitimate disciplinary field, we show here that science communication meets four key elements that constitute an analytical framework to classify academic disciplines: the presence of a community; a history of inquiry; a mode of inquiry that defines how data is collected; and the existence of a communications network.
Changes in the Perceived Epidemiology of Primary Hyperaldosteronism

Primary aldosteronism has been considered a rare disease in the past years, affecting 1% of the hypertensive population. Subsequently, growing evidence of its higher prevalence is present in literature, although the estimates of disease range from 5 up to 20%, as in type 2 diabetes and resistant hypertension. The main reasons for these variations are associated with the selection of patients and diagnostic procedures. If we consider that hypertension is present in about 20% of the adult population, primary aldosteronism can no longer be considered a rare disease. Patients with primary aldosteronism have a high incidence of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and kidney complications. The identification of these patients has therefore a practical value on therapy, and to control morbidities derived from vascular damage. The ability to identify the prevalence of a disease depends on the number of subjects studied and the methods of investigation. Epidemiological studies are affected by these two problems: there is not consensus on patients who need to be investigated, although testing is recommended in subjects with resistant hypertension and diabetes. The question of how to determine aldosterone and renin levels is open, particularly if pharmacological wash-out is difficult to perform because of inadequate blood pressure control.
Aboriginal Students and School Mobility in British Columbia Public Schools.

In British Columbia, K-12 school Aboriginal students’ completion rates are far from equivalent to those of their non-Aboriginal peers. In addition, there is a high degree of variability in Aboriginal students’ school completion rates across schools and communities. Administrative data associating approximately 1.5 million school census records of students enrolled in public schools province-wide over 13 years were examined. A longitudinal cohort design was employed to examine individual-level and school-level differences in the school completion outcomes of Aboriginal students. Findings indicate that school change, or student mobility, of secondary Aboriginal students was a prevalent feature in Aboriginal high school trajectories. A negative relationship exists between the frequency of school change during the high school years and Aboriginal students’ school completion.
Shelf‐derived iron inputs drive biological productivity in the southern Drake Passage

In the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) fronts interact with shelf waters facilitating lateral transport of shelf‐derived components such as iron into high‐nutrient offshore regions. To trace these shelf‐derived components and estimate lateral mixing rates of shelf water, we used naturally occurring radium isotopes. Short‐lived radium isotopes were used to quantify the rates of shelf water entrainment while Fe/228Ra ratios were used to calculate the Fe flux. In the summer of 2006 we found rapid mixing and significant lateral iron export, namely, a dissolved iron flux of 1.1 × 105 mol d−1 and total acid leachable iron flux of 1.1 × 106 mol d−1 all of which is transported in the mixed layer from the shelf region offshore. This dissolved iron flux is significant, especially considering that the bloom observed in the offshore region (0.5–2 mg chl a m−3) had an iron demand of 1.1 to 4 × 105 mol Fe. Net vertical export fluxes of particulate Fe derived from 234Th/238U disequilibrium and Fe/234Th ratios accounted for only about 25% of the dissolved iron flux. On the other hand, vertical upward mixing of iron rich deeper waters provided only 7% of the lateral dissolved iron flux. We found that similarly to other studies in iron‐fertilized regions of the Southern Ocean, lateral fluxes overwhelm vertical inputs and vertical export from the water column and support significant phytoplankton blooms in the offshore regions of the Drake Passage.
[Soft tissue profile changes in micrognathia after distraction osteogenesis].

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of distraction osteogenesis for severe micrognathia by comparing the pre- and post-operative profile and mentolabial relationship. METHODS 16 cases underwent temporal-mandibular joint plasty and temporal fasciomuscular flap transfer. The mandibular distraction began at the 5th postoperative day at a rate of 0.8 mm a day, two times a day. Bony and soft tissue cephalometry were performed before and after operation. T-test was used to study the change after distraction osteogenesis. RESULTS There were significant differences in facial convexity, lower facial height, lower lip length, inter-labial distance, the ratio of lip to mental, the distance from lip to esthetic plane, the depth of mentolabial crease and the thickness of mental soft tissue. CONCLUSIONS Mandibular distraction osteogenesis can markedly improve the soft tissue profile of the middle and lower face for severe micrognathia.
2nd Order Cyclostationarity of OFDM Signals: Impact of Pilot Tones and Cyclic Prefix

This paper deals with 2nd order cyclostationarity of orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signals. A new generalized formula for the spectral correlation density (SCD) function is derived. Compared to related work in the literature, our derivation is not restricted to the case that all sub-carriers of an OFDM signal carry statistically independent data. The reason for that is that correlated data in terms of pilot tones are typically introduced on different carriers for channel estimation and synchronization purposes. The new formula allows us to analyze the impact of such pilot tones on the SCD. In addition, it gives extra information about the impact of the cyclic prefix.