Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of irrigation with magnetically treated water on faba bean growth and composition.

*Corresponding author Email: ahmed_shabaka@yahoo.com Phone: +20643381839 A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of irrigation with different magnetized water on faba bean (Vicia faba L) growth and composition. Prepared sandy soil was packed in plastic pots (5 kg capacity) at a rate of 4 kg. Faba bean seeds were cultivated at rate of 4 seeds/pot. After the germination,faba bean plants were thinned into 2 plants/pot. Both sewage sludge compost (SSC) and tricalcium phosphate (TCP) were added to the soil at a rate of 25 tones ha-1 and 720 kg ha-1,respectively. Irrigation water sources were magnetized by passing throws a magnetic field 1000 gauss magnetron unit of 0.5 inch diameter. Plant length, shoot and root fresh and dry weights of faba bean were significantly increased by using the different magnetized irrigation water sources compared with the non-magnetized water. Only root fresh and dry weights of faba bean plant were significantly increased by using magnetized irrigation water and the different soil organic and inorganic treatments. On the other, plant length, shoot and fresh and dry weights were not significantly affected by the combined effect of magnetism and soil treatments. Shoot N, P and K contents and uptake of faba bean were significantly increased by the individual and the combined application of SSC and TCP to soil compared with untreated soil. Shoot N, P and K contents and uptake of faba bean was significantly increased by using magnetized irrigation water compared with the non-magnetized water.Generally, using different magnetized irrigation water sources, soil salinity, soluble cations and anions were significantly decreased by using magnetized water. Soil salinity, soluble cations and anions were significantly increased by adding both the individual and the combined SSC and TCP. Available soil N, P and K were significantly increased by adding both the individual and the combined SSC and TCP. Using different magnetized water sources, available soil N, P and K were significantly increased.
Circularly polarized UHF RFID tag antenna with capacitive loading technique

A novel circularly polarized (CP) RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag antenna is proposed. The structure of this tag antenna is an eccentric circular slot patch type with two open slits. The planar size of this proposed UHF (ultrahigh frequency) RFID tag antenna is 100 × 100 × 1.6 mm3. To achieve good impedance matching and conjugate matching, the feeding strip with the tag chip loaded in between is designed as a T-shaped type with one end shorted to the ground, while the other end is used to provide capacitive coupling to the patch. The 10-dB return loss of the proposed tag antenna is 1.8% (911–928 MHz), and its corresponding 3-dB axial ratio (AR) band is 0.8% (921–929 MHz), which is enough to cover the 900 MHz UHF RFID applications.
Fowl adenovirus serotype 4: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic detection, and vaccine strategies

&NA; Fowl adenovirus (FAdV) serotype‐4 is highly pathogenic for chickens, especially for broilers aged 3 to 5 wk, and it has emerged as one of the foremost causes of economic losses to the poultry industry in the last 30 years. The liver is a major target organ of FAdV‐4 infections, and virus‐infected chickens usually show symptoms of hydropericardium syndrome. The virus is very contagious, and it is spread both vertically and horizontally. It can be isolated from infected liver homogenates and detected by several laboratory diagnostic methods (including an agar gel immunodiffusion test, indirect immunofluorescence assays, counterimmunoelectrophoresis, enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assays, restriction endonuclease analyses, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), real‐time PCR, and high‐resolution melting‐curve analyses). Although inactivated vaccines have been deployed widely to control the disease, attenuated live vaccines and subunit vaccines also have been developed, and they are more attractive vaccine candidates. This article provides a comprehensive review of FAdV‐4, including its epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic detection, and vaccine strategies.
Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies: Spectral and Geometric Methods

Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies: Spectral Methods. - The Lax Representation and the AKNS Approach. - The Direct Scattering Problem for theZakharov-Shabat System. - The Inverse Scattering Problem for the Zakharov-Shabat System. - The Generalized Fourier Transforms. - Fundamental Properties of the solvable NLEEs. - Hierarchies of Hamiltonian structures. - The NLEEs and the Gauge Transformations. - The Classical r-Matrix Method. - Integrable Hamiltonian Hierarchies: Geometric Theory of the Recursion Operators. - Smooth Manifolds. - Hamiltonian Dynamics. - Vector-Valued Differential Forms. - Integrability and Nijenhuis Tensors. - Poisson-Nijenhuis structures Related to the Generalized Zakharov-Shabat System. - Linear Bundles of Lie Algebras and Compatible Poisson Structures.
Physical activity, body fat, and serum c‐reactive protein in postmenopausal women with and without hormone replacement

The objective was to determine whether higher physical activity is associated with lower serum C‐reactive protein (CRP), independent of oral hormone replacement therapy (HRT) status and body fatness, in 133 postmenopausal women using a cross‐sectional exploratory design at a university research laboratory. The subjects were 133 postmenopausal women, age 50–73 years, with no evidence of coronary artery disease or diabetes. The main outcome measures were: serum CRP, physical activity as measured by Stanford 7‐day activity recall, body fat (both total and regional) as measured by dual energy X‐ray absorptiometry (DXA), and anthropometry (waist and hip circumference). Secondary outcome measures included fasting plasma glucose and insulin as well as fasting serum triglycerides, total cholesterol, high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol, and low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol. Higher physical activity energy expenditures were significantly associated with lower serum CRP levels (r = −0.18, P = 0.041), independent of oral HRT use, age, smoking behavior, alcohol consumption, aspirin use, and statin use. However, in the complete multivariate model, which included body fat, older ages (P = 0.047), greater trunk fat masses (P < 0.001), any oral HRT use (P < 0.001), and unopposed oral estrogen use (P = 0.012) were the sole independent predictors of higher serum CRP levels. The complete multivariate model accounted for 58% of the variance in serum CRP. We conclude that the association between higher physical activity and lower serum CRP levels is dependent on the lower body fat of the more active women, yet independent of oral HRT use. Future intervention trials should determine whether diet‐ and exercise‐related reductions in body fat may be effective ways to diminish the proinflammatory effects of oral HRT in postmenopausal women. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 15:91–100, 2003. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Spinal fusion with recombinant human growth and differentiation factor‐5 combined with a mineralized collagen matrix

The availability of recombinant osteoinductive growth factors and new osteoconductive matrices offers an alternative to the use of autogenous bone (autograft) for grafting indications. This study evaluates the bone‐forming activity of a mineralized collagen matrix combined with recombinant human growth and differentiation factor‐5 in a rabbit posterolateral spinal fusion model. The activity of three distinct matrix‐growth factor formulations is assessed by radiographic, histologic, and mechanical strength methods. Results show that the radiographic density, histologic quality, and mechanical strength of fusion at 12 weeks post‐treatment rank consistently within the treatment groups. Optimal formulations are shown to perform similar to autograft in both the rate and strength of fusion. Fusion rates as high as 80% are observed within specific matrix/growth factor formulations. The average biomechanical strength of treated motion segments in the most efficacious formulation is 82% higher than that obtained with autograft, although this difference is not statistically significant. The fusion mass formed in response to matrix/growth factor formulations is composed of normal trabecular bone with a thin outer cortical plate and modest hematopoietic bone marrow. These results demonstrate that the combination of a mineralized collagen matrix with recombinant human growth and differentiation factor‐5 maximizes the inherent conductive and inductive properties of each component, respectively, to provide an effective alternative to autograft for bone grafting procedures. Anat Rec 263:388–395, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Iterative coded multiuser detection with a Verdu soft demodulator

Two iterative multiuser detection receivers from the literature are considered for a system with multiple convolutionally-coded asynchronous users. Both receivers operate directly on matched-filter outputs with colored noise samples, but one utilizes the Verdu (see Multiuser Detection, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998) forward-backward detection algorithm, and the other we shall recognize as employing a suboptimal approximation of the Verdu algorithm. The iterative receivers are described in terms of the soft-input soft-output modules for distributed iterative decoding of code networks [1]. The performance of the Verdu-based iterative receiver is simulated for three multiuser examples taken from the literature. Conclusions are made based on empirical results for the equal power and unequal power scenarios.
Treatment of cardiac allografts with established leukocyte infiltration by modulation of alpha4 (CD49d) and leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (CD11a/CD18) integrin function.

BACKGROUND Leukocyte infiltration is a landmark feature of organ rejection. The present study was undertaken to determine whether monoclonal antibodies (mAb) against alpha4 (CD49d) and/or leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1; CD11a/CD18) would reverse ongoing rejection in a mouse C57BL/6-to-BALB/c heart transplant model. METHODS Control animals had rejection on postoperative day (POD) 8. Treatment with mAb started on POD 4 when leukocyte infiltration was well established. The recipients were treated with (1) mAb LFA-1, (2) mAb alpha4, and (3) mAbs LFA-1 + alpha4 at a dose of 6 mg/kg/day i.v. on PODs 4, 5, and 7. Untreated and rat IgG-treated animals were used as controls. RESULTS Control animals experienced rejection on POD 8. Treatment with mAb against LFA-1 or alpha4 alone prolonged allograft survival to 17.0+/-3.2 and 24.3+/-4.6 days, respectively (P < 0.01 vs. controls). Combination therapy with both mAb increased allograft survival to 28.2+/-3.7 days (P < 0.01 vs. controls). Sequential pathological studies showed the mAb to alpha4, but not LFA-1, markedly reduced the degree of lymphocytic infiltration in cardiac allografts. In contrast, a different pattern was observed using in vitro studies: mAb to LFA-1, not alpha4, significantly reduced proliferative responses in mixed lymphocyte culture and interleukin-2 production from recipient splenocytes on POD 8. CONCLUSION These data indicate that integrins play an important role in rejection. Although the effect of mAb against alpha4 and LFA-1 may involve different mechanisms, treatment with mAbs to integrins may be valuable in future clinical transplantation by averting ongoing rejection and prolonging graft survival.
Cerebellar involvement in executive control

The cerebellum has long been considered to be mainly involved in motor function. In the last 20 years, evidence from neuroimaging studies and from investigations of patients with cerebellar lesions has shown that the cerebellum plays a role in a range of cognitive functions. While cerebellar contributions have been shown for learning and memory, the cerebellum has also been linked to higher order cognitive control processes frequently referred to as executive functions. Although it is widely accepted that the cerebellum contributes to cognitive processing, the nature of cerebellar involvement is not well understood. The present paper focuses on the role of the cerebellum in executive processing, reviewing findings derived from neuroimaging studies or from studies investigating deficits related to cerebellar dysfunction. As executive functions cannot be considered as a unitary concept, special emphasis is put on cerebellar contributions to different aspects of executive control such as working memory, multitasking or inhibition. Referring to models derived from motor control, possible mechanisms of cerebellar involvement in executive processing are discussed. Finally, methodological problems in assessing executive deficits in general and in assessing the cerebellar contribution to executive processing in particular are addressed.
Annexin II/Annexin II receptor axis regulates adhesion, migration, homing, and growth of prostate cancer

One of the most life‐threatening complications of prostate cancer is skeletal metastasis. In order to develop treatment for metastasis, it is important to understand its molecular mechanisms. Our work in this field has drawn parallels between hematopoietic stem cell and prostate cancer homing to the marrow. Our recent work demonstrated that annexin II expressed by osteoblasts and endothelial cells plays a critical role in niche selection. In this study, we demonstrate that annexin II and its receptor play a crucial role in establishing metastasis of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cell lines migrate toward annexin II and the adhesion of prostate cancer to osteoblasts and endothelial cells was inhibited by annexin II. By blocking annexin II or its receptor in animal models, short‐term and long‐term localization of prostate cancers are limited. Annexin II may also facilitate the growth of prostate cancer in vitro and in vivo by the MAPK pathway. These data strongly suggest that annexin II and its receptor axis plays a central role in prostate cancer metastasis, and that prostate cancer utilize the hematopoietic stem cell homing mechanisms to gain access to the niche. J. Cell. Biochem. 105: 370–380, 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Randomized trial of one versus two adjuvant hyperthermia treatments per week in patients with superficial tumours.

One test for thermotolerance development in a clinical situation is to evaluate the effects of altering the hyperthermia fractionation interval on tumour response to thermoradiotherapy. Between 1983 and 1990 44 evaluable advanced superficial tumours of miscellaneous origin in 41 patients were randomized to receive either once-weekly or twice-weekly external microwave hyperthermia treatments combined with radiation therapy. The mean age of patients was 62 years, and 85% had failed previous therapy. All lesions were less than 8 x 8 x 4 cm (L x W x D) and were heated by external 915 MHz microwaves. The mean radiation dose was 44 +/- 3 Gy (mean +/- SE) in the once-weekly group and 46 +/- 3 Gy in the twice-weekly group (p = 0.64). The mean volume of the lesions heated once weekly was 17 +/- 6 versus 23 +/- 5 cm3 for those heated twice weekly (p = 0.45). Hyperthermia was administered once weekly for 4.6 +/- 0.2 sessions (range 3-7) or twice weekly for 8.1 +/- 0.3 sessions (range 4-10). Thermometry was performed using 3.4 +/- 0.2 catheters and 5.1 +/- 0.6 thermal sensors per tumour in the once-weekly group, and 2.7 +/- 0.2 catheters and 5.8 +/- 0.3 thermal sensors per tumour in the twice-weekly group. Of the 44 evaluable randomized lesions a complete response (CR) at 2 months post-treatment was observed in 59% (13/22) heated once weekly and 55% (12/22) in those heated twice weekly. The prognostic factors predictive of tumour complete response were found by logistic regression analysis to be radiation dose and tumour volume, while the prognostic factors predictive of duration of response (Cox proportional hazards analysis) were median minimum tumour temperature (Tmin), minimum tumour temperature during the first heat treatment (Tmin1) and tumour volume. The duration of local control in lesions with Tmin < or = 39.5 degrees C was 11.7 +/- 1.9 months while for lesions with Tmin > 39.5 degrees C it was 23.0 +/- 4.2 months (p = 0.01). The ED50 was calculated by logistic regression to be 40 Gy (95% CI = 22-54 Gy) for once- and twice-weekly heated lesions. There was not a significant difference in tumour response or duration of response between populations randomized to receive once- versus twice-weekly hyperthermia treatments. There was also no difference in skin reaction rates between once- and twice-weekly hyperthermia treatments, nor could a correlation be found between any thermal parameter and skin reactions. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Training & Quality Assessment of an Optical Character Recognition Model for Northern Haida

We are presenting our work on the creation of the first optical character recognition (OCR) model for Northern Haida, also known as Masset or Xaad Kil, a nearly extinct First Nations language spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada. We are addressing the challenges of training an OCR model for a language with an extensive, non-standard Latin character set as follows: (1) We have compared various training approaches and present the results of practical analyses to maximize recognition accuracy and minimize manual labor. An approach using just one or two pages of Source Images directly performed better than the Image Generation approach, and better than models based on three or more pages. Analyses also suggest that a character’s frequency is directly correlated with its recognition accuracy. (2) We present an overview of current OCR accuracy analysis tools available. (3) We have ported the once de-facto standardized OCR accuracy tools to be able to cope with Unicode input. Our work adds to a growing body of research on OCR for particularly challenging character sets, and contributes to creating the largest electronic corpus for this severely endangered language.
Prevalence of Helminthiasis in Buffaloes in Cattle Colony Hyderabad

The prevalence of helminthiasis was found to be 15.2 % in buffaloes. Out of 500 samples examined, 9.2 % and 5.4 % were infected with nematodes and trematodes respectively. Mixed infection was observed in 0.6 %. The chief helminths identified were: Toxocara vitulorum (3.6 %), Fasciola gigantica (3.2 %) Oesophagostomum radiatum (3.0 %) Strongyloides papillosus (2.4 %), Fasciola hepatica (2.2 %), Ostertagia ostertagi (1.0 %), Paramphistomum cervi, (0.8 %) and Trichuris Spp. (0.2 %).
On the Testing of Ground‐Motion Prediction Equations against Small‐Magnitude Data

Abstract Ground‐motion prediction equations (GMPE) are essential in probabilistic seismic hazard studies for estimating the ground motions generated by the seismic sources. In low‐seismicity regions, only weak motions are available during the lifetime of accelerometric networks, and the equations selected for the probabilistic studies are usually models established from foreign data. Although most GMPEs have been developed for magnitudes 5 and above, the minimum magnitude often used in probabilistic studies in low‐seismicity regions is smaller. Disaggregations have shown that, at return periods of engineering interest, magnitudes less than 5 may be contributing to the hazard. This paper presents the testing of several GMPEs selected in current international and national probabilistic projects against weak motions recorded in France (191 recordings with source–site distances up to 300 km, 3.8≤ M w ≤4.5). The method is based on the log‐likelihood value proposed by Scherbaum et al. (2009). The best‐fitting models (approximately 2.5≤LLH≤3.5) over the whole frequency range are the Cauzzi and Faccioli (2008), Akkar and Bommer (2010), and Abrahamson and Silva (2008) models. No significant regional variation of ground motions is highlighted, and the magnitude scaling could be the predominant factor in the control of ground‐motion amplitudes. Furthermore, we take advantage of a rich Japanese dataset to run tests on randomly selected low‐magnitude subsets, and confirm that a dataset of ∼190 observations, the same size as the French dataset, is large enough to obtain stable LLH estimates. Additionally we perform the tests against larger magnitudes (5–7) from the Japanese dataset. The ranking of models is partially modified, indicating a magnitude scaling effect for some of the models, and showing that extrapolating testing results obtained from low‐magnitude ranges to higher magnitude ranges is not straightforward.
Deep Learning for NLP (without Magic)

Machine learning is everywhere in today’s NLP, but by and large machine learning amounts to numerical optimization of weights for human designed representations and features. The goal of deep learning is to explore how computers can take advantage of data to develop features and representations appropriate for complex interpretation tasks. This tutorial aims to cover the basic motivation, ideas, models and learning algorithms in deep learning for natural language processing. Recently, these methods have been shown to perform very well on various NLP tasks such as language modeling, POS tagging, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis and paraphrase detection, among others. The most attractive quality of these techniques is that they can perform well without any external hand-designed resources or time-intensive feature engineering. Despite these advantages, many researchers in NLP are not familiar with these methods. Our focus is on insight and understanding, using graphical illustrations and simple, intuitive derivations. The goal of the tutorial is to make the inner workings of these techniques transparent, intuitive and their results interpretable, rather than black boxes labeled ”magic here”. The first part of the tutorial presents the basics of neural networks, neural word vectors, several simple models based on local windows and the math and algorithms of training via backpropagation. In this section applications include language modeling and POS tagging. In the second section we present recursive neural networks which can learn structured tree outputs as well as vector representations for phrases and sentences. We cover both equations as well as applications. We show how training can be achieved by a modified version of the backpropagation algorithm introduced before. These modifications allow the algorithm to work on tree structures. Applications include sentiment analysis and paraphrase detection. We also draw connections to recent work in semantic compositionality in vector spaces. The principle goal, again, is to make these methods appear intuitive and interpretable
The enhanced treatment efficacy of invasive brain glioma by dual-targeted artemether plus paclitaxel micelles

Abstract High grade-gliomas are highly invasive and prone to metastasis, leading to poor survival and prognosis. Currently, we urgently need a new treatment strategy to effectively inhibit glioma. In this study, artemether and paclitaxel were used as two agents for tumour suppression. Two functional materials were synthesised and modified on the surface of the micelle as targeting molecules. The addition of two functional materials confers the ability of the micelles to effectively cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and then target the glioma cells. Thus, this dual-targeted delivery system allows the drug to play a better role in inhibiting tumour invasion and vasculogenic mimicry (VM) channels. In this paper, the anticancer effects of dual-targeted artemether plus paclitaxel micelles on glioma U87 cells were studied in three aspects: (I) In vitro and in vivo targeting assessment, including the role of penetrating BBB and targeting glioma; (II) In vitro regulation of invasion-associated proteins; (III) Inhibition of VM channels formation and invasion in vitro; (IV) The study of pharmacodynamics in tumour-bearing mice. These results suggest that dual-targeted artemether plus paclitaxel micelle may provide a new strategy to treat glioma via inhibiting invasive and VM channels.