Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The strict topology for $P$-spaces

AwrpaAcT. A P-space is a completely regular Hausdorff space X in which every G5 is open. It is shown that the generalized strict topologies f and flo coincide on C*(X), and that strong measuretheoretic properties hold; in particular, (C*(X), f,) is always a strong Mackey space. As an application, an example is constructed of a non-quasi-complete locally convex space in which closed totally bounded sets are compact.
Soil Transmitted Helminthes Prevalence among Pre-School Age Children in Elburgon Municipality, Kenya

The prevalence of soil transmitted helminthes infection in pre-school age children was assessed in Elburgon Municipality, Kenya using Kato Katz as the standard parasitological survey diagnostic technique. Children between 6 months and 5 years were examined for STH infections. Out of 179 children examined, 154 (86%) were positive for the STH studied with Trichuris trichura accounting for the highest infection with 91 (50.84%), Ascaris, lumbricoides 45 (25.14%), and hookworm 18 (10.06%). Multiparasitism was evident with an overall 48 (28%) infection with a combination of two or three of the STH species studied. The high STH prevalence reported in this study was a result of unhygiene living environment with conditions that facilitate STH infections and transmission. T. Trichura had the highest prevalence because this is an urban STH species as compared to A. lumbricoides and hookworm. STH in pre-school age children is a virgin field in helminthes control. Mass deworming programs and parental education are required for effective STH control in this age group population that other is most vulnerable to helminthes infection. Keywords: soil transmitted helminthes, pre-school age children, prevalence, kato katz
On the Restricted Divisor Function in Arithmetic Progressions

We obtain several asymptotic estimates for the sums of the restricted divisor function τM,N (k) = #{1 6 m 6 M, 1 6 n 6 N : mn = k} over short arithmetic progressions, which improve some results of J. Truelsen. Such estimates are motivated by the links with the pair correlation problem for fractional parts of the quadratic function αk2, k = 1, 2, . with a real α. Subject Classification (2010) 11N37
Developmental Expression of the Nfe 2-Related Factor ( Nrf ) Transcription Factor Family in the Zebrafish , Danio rerio

Transcription factors in the CNC-bZIP family (NFE2, NRF1, NRF2 and NRF3) regulate genes with a wide range of functions in response to both physiological and exogenous signals, including those indicating changes in cellular redox status. Given their role in helping to maintain cellular homeostasis, it is imperative to understand the expression, regulation, and function of CNC-bZIP genes during embryonic development. We explored the expression and function of six nrf genes (nfe2, nrf1a, nrf1b, nrf2a, nrf2b, and nrf3) using zebrafish embryos as a model system. Analysis by microarray and quantitative RT-PCR showed that genes in the nrf family were expressed throughout development from oocytes to larvae. The spatial expression of nrf3 suggested a role in regulating the development of the brain, brachia and pectoral fins. Knock-down by morpholino anti-sense oligonucleotides suggested that none of the genes were necessary for embryonic viability, but nfe2 was required for proper cellular organization in the pneumatic duct and subsequent swim bladder function, as well as for proper formation of the otic vesicles. nrf genes were induced by the oxidant tert-butylhydroperoxide, and some of this response was regulated through family members Nrf2a and Nrf2b. Our results provide a foundation for understanding the role of nrf genes in normal development and in regulating the response to oxidative stress in vertebrate embryos. Citation: Williams LM, Timme-Laragy AR, Goldstone JV, McArthur AG, Stegeman JJ, et al. (2013) Developmental Expression of the Nfe2-Related Factor (Nrf) Transcription Factor Family in the Zebrafish, Danio rerio. PLoS ONE 8(10): e79574. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0079574 Editor: Yann Gibert, Deakin School of Medicine, Australia Received March 27, 2013; Accepted September 24, 2013; Published October 24, 2013 Copyright: © 2013 Williams et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: This work was supported, in whole or in part, by National Institutes of Health grants F32ES019832 (to L.M.W.), F32ES017585 (to A.R.T.-L.), R01ES015912 (to J.J.S.), and R01ES016366 (to M.E.H.). This work was also supported by Walter A. and Hope Noyes Smith and the J. Seward Johnson Fund. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing interests: Dr. McArthur is the sole employee of Andrew McArthur Consulting. Dr. McArthur, a long-time colleague formerly at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, is a collaborator whose effort is paid for (by the grant to M.E.H.) as a consultant. The fact that Dr. McArthur collaborates with the authors as a private consultant does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. * E-mail: mhahn@whoi.edu
Pazarskis , Alexandrakis , Karagiorgos , 394-408 The Post-Merger Accounting Performance of Greek Listed Firms in South-Eastern European Countries

This study examines the international mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of Greek firms in South-Eastern European countries. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the post-merger performance of Greek listed firms in the Athens Stock Exchange that executed as acquirers one merger or acquisition in a five-year-period (from 1998 to 2002). For the purpose of the study, a set of twenty ratios is employed, in order to measure firms’ post-merger performance and to compare preand post-merger accounting data for three years before and after the M&As events. The selected countries of South-Eastern Europe for the research sample are the three countries with the larger Greek investments in that period: Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The results revealed that the international M&As activities of the Greek listed sample firms in the selected countries of this research have not lead them to enhanced post-merger performance, but, in general, to an accounting performance deterioration that also have a negative impact on three profitability examined ratios. Also, the most interesting that is revealed is that the worsening of the two years after the M&As is greater in the next period (three years after the examined event) and there is no negative or positive ratio significant change in the first year after the international M&As. Last, the study further analyses these ratio results with the method of payment of the acquiring firms: cash and stock exchange (with minor cash amounts); the conclusion for this is that the method of payment has no impact on the post-merger accounting performance of the examined firms.
Analysis of Morphology, Luminescent Properties and Illuminating Durability of Photoluminescent Fibre

Bu calismada, luminesans malzeme iceren iplik ve kumas numunelerinin morfolojisi, yuzey ve gerilme ozellikleri ile parlama yogunlugu ve emisyon (yayinim) bozunma karakterleri analiz edilmistir. Luminesans (parlayan) iplik ve kumaslari dort farkli isik turu (UV, TL84, D65 ve F) ile 1 ve 5 dakika olmak uzere iki farkli surede aktive (sarj) edilmistir. Aktivasyon suresi, isik turu, numune formu ve agirliginin, baslangic isik (parlama) yogunlugu ve parlakligin zamana bagli olarak degisimine etkisi belirlenmistir. Calismada, gunluk kullanim veya tekstil prosesleri sirasinda karsilasilan surtme ve yikama etkilerinin parlama ozelliklerine etkisi incelenmistir.
Solar total irradiance variations and the global sea surface temperature record

The record of globally averaged sea surface temperature (SST) over the past 130 years shows a highly significant correlation with the envelope of the 11-year cycle of solar activity over the same period. This correlation could be explained by a variation in the sun's total irradiance (the solar “constant”) that is in phase with the solar-cycle envelope, supporting and updating an earlier conclusion by Eddy (1976) that such variations could have played a major role in climate change over the past millennium. Measurements of the total irradiance from spacecraft, rockets, and balloons over the past 25 years have provided evidence of long-term variations and have been used to develop a simple linear relationship between irradiance and the envelope of the sunspot cycle. This relationship has been used to force a one-dimensional model of the thermal structure of the ocean (Hoffert et al., 1980), consisting of a 100-m mixed layer coupled to a deep ocean and including a thermohaline circulation. The model was started in the mid-seventeenth century, at the time of the Maunder Minimum of solar activity, and mixed-layer temperatures were calculated at 6-month intervals up to the present. The total range of irradiance values during the period was about 1%, and the total range of SST was about 1°C. Cool periods, when temperatures were about 0.5°C below present-day values, were found in the early decades of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There is direct evidence for the latter period from the historical SST record and some indirect evidence for the earlier cool period. While many aspects of the study are unavoidably simplistic, the results can be taken as indicating that solar variability has been an important contributor to global climate variations in recent decades. It has probably not been the only contributor, however, and in particular, the growing atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases may well have played an important role in the immediate past. This role is likely to become even more important in the near future.
Samvaadhana: A Telugu Dialogue System in Hospital Domain

In this paper, a dialogue system for Hospital domain in Telugu, which is a resource-poor Dravidian language, has been built. It handles various hospital and doctor related queries. The main aim of this paper is to present an approach for modelling a dialogue system in a resource-poor language by combining linguistic and domain knowledge. Focusing on the question answering aspect of the dialogue system, we identified Question Classification and Query Processing as the two most important parts of the dialogue system. Our method combines deep learning techniques for question classification and computational rule-based analysis for query processing. Human evaluation of the system has been performed as there is no automated evaluation tool for dialogue systems in Telugu. Our system achieves a high overall rating along with a significantly accurate context-capturing method as shown in the results.
Prospects for Agricultural Sustainable Intensification: A Review of Research

In recent years, as a way to achieve higher agricultural output while reducing the negative impact of agricultural production on the environment, agricultural sustainable intensification has attracted worldwide attention. Under the framework of "connotation definition-measuring method-influencing factor-implementation path", this paper systematically sorts out the main research results in the field of agricultural sustainable intensification. The results show that: (1) The connotation of agricultural sustainable intensification has not been clearly defined. It is widely believed that sustainable intensification has the characteristics of increasing production and reducing environmental damage, and is widely used in agricultural, biological and environmental sciences; (2) The measurement methods and indicators of agricultural sustainable intensification are diverse, and the measurement cases are mainly distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa and America; (3) The influencing factors of agricultural sustainable intensification can be roughly divided into four aspects: socio-economic factors, farmers' own characteristics and natural factors, among which population pressure is the potential driving force for agricultural sustainable intensification; (4) The most obvious feature of agricultural sustainable intensification is the reduction of the yield gap. The strategy of implementing agricultural sustainable intensification can be attributed to the effective use of inputs and the adoption of sustainable practices and technologies. Therefore, the implementation path can be summarized as enhancing the effectiveness of external inputs to the agricultural system and optimizing the practice and technology mix within the crop production system. Finally, this paper concludes that research on connotation definition, influencing mechanism, different regional models, incentive mechanism for farmers, impact evaluation and system design of agricultural sustainable intensification should be strengthened in future.
Imported Brucellosis In The Era Of Dramatically Increasing Immigrants And Foreign Travelers From Endemic Areas: Occupational Hazards Of Secondary Infection Among Laboratory Technicians In A Nonendemic Country

Background Brucellosis, an important zoonotic disease, is endemic in various parts of the world. Patients diagnosed with brucellosis in developed countries are often travelers and immigrants from endemic areas. This pathogen is listed as biosafety level 3, which means that it is highly contagious and therefore a risk to clinical laboratory technicians. Case presentation A 43-year-old Chinese man, who could not understand Japanese, visited our hospital because of an intermittent fever that had persisted for 5 months. Associated symptoms included muscle pain whenever he had a fever. He reported currently working as a welder in Japan. However, his previous employment working in animal husbandry in Heilongjiang, mainland China was not determined at the initial visit owing to language barriers. Two sets of blood culture showed nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli, initially misidentified as Ochrobactrum anthropi and subsequently identified as Brucella abortus. Six-week doxycycline and rifampicin were administered, with intravenous gentamicin for the initial 1 week. The patient recovered without relapse, confirmed by the negative result of a Brucella agglutination test. The patient’s wife and three laboratory technicians were required to undergo blood examinations, which revealed no evidence of infection; however, they received prophylaxis with 3 weeks’ doxycycline and rifampicin. Conclusion In nonendemic countries, immigrants with imported brucellosis can be treated, to prevent secondary brucellosis infection, an occupational hazard among laboratory technicians. Greater attention is needed for positive findings of blood cultures, which may initially be misidentified as O. anthropi. When providing medical care for immigrants with fever of unknown origin, it is especially important for primary care physicians to overcome language barriers so as to assess pertinent information regarding their home country, such as previous employment, to prevent the spread the imported zoonoses in the era of a dramatically increasing number of immigrants and foreign travelers.
Validation of a Culturally Appropriate Social Capital Framework to Explore Health Conditions in Canadian First Nations Communities

An earlier study of our research group formulated a conceptual framework of social capital for First Nation communities and developed a culturally appropriate instrument for its measurement. We tested this instrument further with the Manitoba (Canada) First Nations Regional Health Survey, 2003. Using data from this survey, we investigated the bonding dimension of the social capital conceptual framework, with a total sample of 2,765 First Nations individuals living in 24 Manitoba First Nations communities. Twenty seven Likert-scale survey questions measured aspects of bonding social capital, socially-invested resources, ethos, and networks. Validation analyses included an evaluation of internal consistency, factor analyses to explore how well the items clustered together into the components of the social capital framework, and the ability of the items to discriminate across the communities represented in the sample. Cronbach’s Alpha was computed on the 27 scale items, producing an Alpha of 0.84 indicating high internal consistency. The factor analyses produced five distinct factors with a total explained variance of 54.3%. Lastly, a one-way analysis of variance run by community produced highly significant F-ratios between the groups on all twenty-seven bonding items. The culturally-sensitive items included in the social capital framework were found to be an appropriate tool to measure bonding aspects among Manitoba First Nations communities. Research and policy implications are discussed.
NEW TYPES OF FUZZY n-ARY SUBHYPERGROUPS OF AN n-ARY HYPERGROUP

In this paper, the new notions of ``belongingness ($in_{gamma}$)"and ``quasi-coincidence ($q_delta$)" of a fuzzy point with a fuzzyset are introduced. By means of this new idea, the concept of$(alpha,beta)$-fuzzy $n$-ary subhypergroup of an $n$-aryhypergroup is given, where $alpha,betain{in_{gamma}, q_{delta},in_{gamma}wedge q_{delta}, ivq}$, andit is shown that, in 16 kinds of $(alpha,beta)$-fuzzy $n$-arysubhypergroups, the significant ones are the$(in_{gamma},in_{gamma})$-fuzzy $n$-ary subhypergroups,$(in_{gamma},ivq)$-fuzzy $n$-ary subhypergroups and the$(in_{gamma}wedge q_{delta},in_{gamma})$-fuzzy $n$-arysubhypergroups.
Antimicrobial activities of Moringa oleifera seed and seed oil residue and oxidative stability of its cold pressed oil compared with extra virgin olive oil

Moringa oleifera (MO) seed contains highly valuable substances with an impressive range of medicinal, cosmetic and food uses. MO seed, seed oil and its residue were investigated for antioxidant and antimicrobial activities against selected foodborne microorganisms using disc diffusion and minimum inhibitory concentration. In addition, the physico-chemical properties, fatty acid compositions and oxidative stability of cold pressed MO seed oil in comparison with those of extra virgin olive (EVO) oil were also evaluated and the results indicated that MO residue had the highest antioxidant activity followed by oil and seed, respectively. The extracts of MO seed and residue against Staphylococcus aureus showed the maximum inhibition zone of 20.67 and 24.67 mm, respectively, at 100 mg/ml concentration. In comparison, MO seed oil contained a high level of oleic acid (71.87%) to that of EVO oil (78.10%). MO seed oil was much more stable against oxidation than EVO oil based on the oxidative stability index results.
Interactive Nature-Inspired Heuristics for Automatic Facial Composite Generation

The aim of this project is to experiment with different interactive nature-inspired heuristics to automatically generate a target picture through determining the vector of parameter values of an active appearance model (AAM). The AAM forms a statistical model of the human face from an input database of face images. Using this model, it is possible to generate faces which may not even exist in the original database. The natureinspired heuristics used in this study are genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, particle swarm optimization and differential evolution. In the interactive versions of these heuristics, users get involved in the algorithm in either the fitness evaluation or the selection stages.
BI Approach for Business Performance

New low-cost data storage technologies and the vast availability of Internet connection facilitated access at large quantities of data for both individuals and firms. The importance of real time access to important information for the success of a business is crucial. Its importance has continually risen, based on Internet development and growing sources of information. As a result, firms collected huge quantities of data in their effort to understand their business evolution, enhance their performance and create a strong relationship with the employees, clients and partners. Exploiting that storage data is difficult, from transforming it into meaningful data, until its use in order to increase firm’s competitiveness. Usually, in a firm, data are dispersed in a large variety of systems, many companies having difficulties in organizing and interpreting them. These companies own fragmented tools and data, the final image of the business being an incomplete one. Their accessibility promises the opening of many prospects and raises a tempting question: is it possible to convert data in information and knowledge which that the decision factor can use in order to help and improve firms and public administrations management? In this paper we present the actual state of business intelligent systems, global and local. Sustaining this argument, we propose a model of business intelligence (BI), building a data warehouse and using some analysis tools, in order to monitor and count the web traffic from both the visitor prospective, as well as from the website’s prospective. We underline the importance of relative new business tools (such as BI), combined with some modern performance management techniques in order to increase a firm’s competitiveness.
Centrifuge modelling of the use of densification as a liquefaction resistance measure for bridge foundations

Bridges built on saturated deposits of loose sand in seismically active areas are, regardless of their size, critical structures during seismic events. In fact, the location of these structures increases the risk of liquefaction-induced foundation failure. In addition, the consequence of their collapse is not limited to the direct human and economic losses but also creates a traffic impediment that severely affects postearthquake rescue of human lives and properties and imposes a long-term disruption of social life. Small to medium size bridges found in this environment are particularly vulnerable to the effects of liquefaction, as they are frequently built, especially in developing countries, on shallow foundations.
Effects of supplemental microbial phytase on performance of broiler chickens

Three trials were conducted on a total of 5100 broiler chicks (0-5.5 weeks) to study the effects of different microbial phytase (Aspergillus niger) supplementations (250-1000 phytase units = PU/g) on the performance and bone mineralization of birds and on the utilization of phosphorus compared with the effects of mineral P additions as dicalcium phosphate. The basal diets (negative controls) were principally composed of soya bean meal (SBM) and grain (wheat, barley, oats) supplemented with up to 0.10% mineral P; the positive control diets were supplemented with 0.24-0.30% mineral P. Compared with the negative control groups, which were fed diets with 0.05% mineral P either during the whole rearing period or during the starting period only, phytase addition increased live weight by 4-7% and feed intake by 3-9% (Trials 1 and 2). Tibia values indicated that with low mineral P supplementations (0.05 and 0.10%), phytase additions have a non-significant effect on bone mineralization. If mineral P is not added, the tibia values show a marked response to phytase (Trial 3). Utilization of P increased from 50.9% to 60.0% when phytase (1000 PU/g) was added to the diets without mineral P supplementation (Trial 3). Utilization of P was only 34.5% in the positive control diet (0.3% mineral P). The results were obviously affected by the intrinsic phytase activity in grain and the dietary calcium level, and suggest that, in SBM-grain-based diets with very low (0.05%) or no mineral P supplementation, weight gain can be increased by adding phytase up to 1000 PU/g. This supplemented phytase activity is apparently sufficient for adequate bone mineralization.