Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the selection patterns of domesticated ramie

Abstract Although domestication has dramatically altered the phenotype, physiology, and life history of ramie (Boehmeria nivea) plants, few studies have investigated the effects of domestication on the structure and expression pattern of genes in this fiber crop. To investigate the selective pattern and genetic relationships among a cultivated variety of ramie (BNZ: B. nivea, ZZ1) and four wild species, BNT (B. nivea var. tenacissima), BNN (B. nivea var. nipononivea), BNW (B. nivea var. nivea), and BAN (B. nivea var. viridula), in the section Tilocnide, we performed an RNA sequencing analysis of these ramie species. The de novo assembly of the “all‐ramie” transcriptome yielded 119,114 unigenes with an average length of 633 bp, and a total of 7,084 orthologous gene pairs were identified. The phylogenetic tree showed that the cultivar BNZ clustered with BAN in one group, BNW was closely related to BNT, and BNN formed a separate group. Introgression analysis indicated that gene flow occurred from BNZ to BNN and BAN, and between BAN and BNN. Among these orthologs, 2,425 and 269 genes underwent significant purifying and positive selection, respectively. For these positively selected genes, oxidation–reduction process (GO:0055114) and stress response pathways (GO:0006950) were enriched, indicating that modulation of the cellular redox status was important during both ramie fiber evolution and improvement. Two genes related to the suppression of flowering and one gene annotated as a flowering‐promoting factor were subjected to positive selection, probably caused by human manipulation. Additionally, five genes were homologs of those involved in abiotic stress tolerance and disease resistance, with higher expression levels in the cultivar BNZ than in the wild species. Collectively, the results of this study indicated that domestication has resulted in the upregulation of many genes involved in the abiotic and biotic stress responses, fiber yield, and plant growth of ramie.
Support vector machine-based algorithm for post-fault transient stability status prediction using synchronized measurements

The paper first shows that the transient stability status of a power system following a large disturbance such as a fault can be early predicted based on the measured post-fault values of the generator voltages, speeds, or rotor angles. Synchronously sampled values provided by phasor measurement units(PMUs) of the generator voltages, frequencies, or rotor angles collected immediately after clearing a fault are used as inputs to a support vector machines (SVM) classifier which predicts the transient stability status. Studies with the New England 39-bus test system and the Venezuelan power network indicated that faster and more accurate predictions can be made by using the post-fault recovery voltage magnitude measurements as inputs. The accuracy and robustness of the transient stability prediction algorithm with the voltage magnitude measurements was extensively tested under both balanced and unbalanced fault conditions, as well as under different operating conditions, presence of measurement errors, voltage sensitive loads, and changes in the network topology. During the various tests carried out using the New England 39-bus test system, the proposed algorithm could always predict when the power system is approaching a transient instability with over 95% success rate.
A 2.4GHz sub-harmonically injection-locked PLL with self-calibrated injection timing

A low-phase-noise integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) is attractive in many applications, such as clock generation and analog-to-digital conversion. The sub-harmonically injection-locked technique, sub-sampling technique, and the multiplying delay-locked loop (MDLL) can significantly improve the phase noise of an integer-N PLL. In the sub-harmonically injection-locked technique, to inject a low-frequency reference clock into a high-frequency voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), the injection timing should be tightly controlled. If the injection timing varies due to process variation, it may cause a large reference spur or even cause the PLL to fails to lock. A sub-harmonically injection-locked PLL (SILPLL) adopts a sub-sampling phase-detector (PD) to automatically align the phase between the injection pulse and a VCO. However, a sub-sampling PD has a small capture range and a low bandwidth. The high-frequency non-linear effects of a sub-sampling PD may degrade the accuracy and limit the maximum speed of a VCO. In addition, a frequency-locked loop is needed for a sub-sampling PD. A delay line is manually adjusted to achieve the correct injection timing. However, the delay line is sensitive to process variations. Thus, the injection timing should be calibrated.
Psychological Mechanisms Predicting Wellbeing in Pet Owners: Rogers’ Core Conditions versus Bowlby’s Attachment

ABSTRACT While pet ownership may confer physical and psychological health benefits, existing research presents inconsistent findings, and the psychological mechanisms through which health benefits might be conferred are unknown. Exploring human–pet relationships from the perspectives of Bowlby’s attachment theory, namely “attachment-related anxiety” and “attachment-related avoidance,” and Rogers’ core conditions including “unconditional positive regard” and “empathy” may highlight the psychological mechanisms involved. This study compared quality of life (QOL) and psychopathology in pet owners with those without pets. In the pet owners, we additionally assessed pet attachment, and perceived empathy, unconditionality, and congruence in the human–pet relationships. We then compared the relative value of Bowlby’s attachment versus Rogers’ core conditions in human– pet relationships as predictors of wellbeing in pet owners. Overall, pet owners and non-pet owners did not significantly differ in terms of QOL or psychopathology. However, in pet owners, secure pet attachments were associated with lower psychological distress and psychopathology, and those perceiving higher levels of Rogers’ core conditions from their pets had higher QOL. Bowlby’s pet attachment insecurity predicted psychological distress and psychopathology, while Rogers’ total core conditions in pets were significantly predictive of QOL of owners. Differences in wellbeing may not be reliably discernable between pet owners and non-pet owners, as wellbeing is related not to pet ownership alone but to qualities of individual human–pet relationships. The results provide new information about psychological mechanisms through which human–pet interactions are conferred, and support for the applicability of both Bowlby’s and Rogers’ concepts.
Green human resource practices and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment: the roles of collective green crafting and environmentally specific servant leadership

Abstract Green behavior among employees can contribute to the green performance of organizations. Regardless of the salience of human resource (HR) practices in translating organizational strategy into employee behaviors, this role of green HR practices in shaping employee green behavior has been under-explored. Through surveys of the participants from tour operators in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, our study seeks to investigate how green HR practices impact organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) at team and individual levels as well as the mechanisms underlying such effects. The results demonstrated the positive relationships between green HR practices and collective as well as individual OCBE. Collective green crafting was found to mediate these relationships. Besides, environmentally specific servant leadership served as a moderator to strengthen the effects of green HR practices on collective green crafting as well as OCBE at team and individual levels. We anticipate our research to solicit further investigations into mechanisms underlying the nexus between green HR practices and employee green behavior. Discussion on the implications for tourism practitioners is presented.
Continuous Locational Marginal Pricing (CLMP)

This paper proposes a solution to eliminate the step change in the curve of location marginal price (LMP) with respect to load variation. The new solution is named continuous locational marginal pricing (continuous LMP or CLMP) because it is a continuous function with respect to load. The present LMP methodology leads to a step change when a new constraint, either transmission or generation, becomes binding as load increases. Similarly, there is also a step change of LMP if an existing constraint is no longer binding when load decreases. The proposed CLMP methodology smooths the step changes in the price curve and introduces a fourth component, future limit risk (FLR) price, in addition to the present three LMP components, Energy Price, Congestion Price, and Loss Price. Also, FLR is an indication of how close the present system state moves to the next constraint. An algorithm is proposed in this paper to give a technically efficient method to calculate CLMP and FLR price. Two case studies are presented to demonstrate the proposed CLMP methodology.
Phytoplankton Community of Taylor Creek in the Niger Delta Using Diversity Indices

This study evaluated the phytoplankton community of Taylor creek from Polaku to Agbia between November 2013 and July 2014. Sampling was carried out in 12 locations along the stretch of the creek following standard protocol. The phytoplankton enumeration was done and identified accordingly. In all the 12 locations, 100 species of phytoplankton belonging to 14 taxonomic groups including Bacillariophyta (31 species), Chlorophyta (25 species), Pyrrophyta (4 species), Cyanophyta (17 species), Spermatophyta (9 species), Euglenophyta (3 species), Phaeophyta (1 species), Heterokontophyta (2 species), Myxophyta (1 species), Xanthophyta (1 species), Chrysophyta (2 species), Lycopodiophyta (1 species), Cryptophyta (1 species), Dinophyta (2 species). Bacillariophyta, Chlorophyta, Cyanophyta and Spermatophyta with occurrence rate of 36%, 34%, 10% and 10%, respectively were the predominant phytoplankton in the study area occurring in all the locations across the period of the study. The various species have some distinct environmental condition that enable them thrive in their niche, and this determines the structure of the phytoplankton in the study area. The diversity indices provided information about the distribution and health condition of the creek. The study showed significant relationships between Shannon-Wiener, Menhinick, Margalef, equitability and Fisher-alpha indices. The ecosystem showed moderate to heavy pollution based on Shannon Wiener index. There is the need for improved method of waste disposal and other anthropogenic activities being carried in and/ or within the creek.
A low power low phase noise 1.6 GHz LC-VCO in 130 nm CMOS technology

this paper presents a low-supply voltage LC Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) which operates at 1.6 GHz, the latter is designed using TSMC 130 nm CMOS RF Technology. The varactor configuration used in this work is A-MOS. This VCO design achieves −123.201 dBc/Hz and −132.57 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz and 3 MHz offset frequencies, respectively. The VCO consumes 1.62 mW from 1.2 V supply. The calculated Figure-of-Merit (FoM) of the proposed VCO reaches −185.1 dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset.
Femtosecond Laser-assisted Inverted Mushroom Keratoplasty

Purpose: To evaluate best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), refractive outcome, corneal topography, optical coherence tomography, and endothelial cell density 12 months after femtosecond laser-assisted inverted mushroom keratoplasty. Methods: We performed a prospective study of a surgical case series of 5 patients undergoing femtosecond laser-assisted inverted mushroom keratoplasty for pseudophakic bullous keratopathy or pre-Descemet X-linked ichthyosis. The femtosecond laser was used to create a top-hat configuration in the donor cornea and recipient cornea. Laser parameters were as follows: energy, 4.0 (anterior inner vertical side cut and horizontal lamellar cut) and 7.0 μJ (posterior outer vertical side cut); spiral pattern with a firing rate of 15 kHz. The size of the anterior inner diameter was 7.4 mm in the donor cornea and 7.0 mm in the recipient cornea. The posterior outer diameter was 9.0 mm in all eyes. Results: At 6 and 12 months after surgery, all corneal grafts were clear and showed an excellent adaptation of the lamellar donor and recipient wound surfaces. At 12 months postoperatively, BCVA averaged 20/32 (range, 20/60-20/20), refractive cylinder averaged −3.20 ± 2.0 D, topographical cylinder averaged 3.26 ± 2.1 D, and the mean endothelial cell density was 1793 ± 491 cells/mm2 (range, 954-2237 cells/mm2). The mean central corneal thickness and thickness of the posterior shelf was 517 ± 3 and 175 ± 8 μm, respectively. Conclusions: The femtosecond laser-assisted inverted mushroom keratoplasty shows good promise in surgical treatment of corneal diseases. The multiplanar fit between the donor and recipient cornea allows early suture removal and visual rehabilitation.
Semantic Component Retrieval in Software Engineering

In the early days of programming the concept of subroutines, and through this software reuse, was invented to spare limited hardware resources. Since then software systems have become increasingly complex and developing them would not have been possible without reusable software elements such as standard libraries and frameworks. Furthermore, other approaches commonly subsumed under the umbrella of software reuse such as product lines and design patterns have become very successful in recent years. However, there are still no software component markets available that would make buying software components as simple as buying parts in a do-it-yourself hardware store and millions of software fragments are still lying un(re)used in configuration management repositories all over the world. The literature primarily blames this on the immense effort required so far to set up and maintain searchable component repositories and the weak mechanisms available for retrieving components from them, resulting in a severe usability problem. In order to address these issues within this thesis, we developed a proactive component reuse recommendation system, naturally integrated into test-first development approaches, which is able to propose semantically appropriate, reusable components according to the specification a developer is just working on. We have implemented an appropriate system as a plugin for the well-known Eclipse IDE and demonstrated its usefulness by carrying out a case study from a popular agile development book. Furthermore, we present a precision analysis for our approach and examples of how components can be retrieved based on a simplified semantics description in terms of standard test cases.
Ein Rahmenwerk für die qualitative Analyse der Paarprogrammierung

Zusammenfassung: Das Software Engineering befasst sich mit systematischen Methoden um Softwaresysteme (oft sozio-technische Systeme) zu entwickeln, zu betreiben, zu warten sowie wieder außer Betrieb zu nehmen (IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology). Hierbei spielen nicht nur technische, sondern auch organisatorische und menschliche Faktoren eine Rolle. Im Rahmen der Präsentation wird anhand einer Reihe von Literaturstudien aufgezeigt, wie diese Aspekte von der Software-Engineering-Forschung adressiert werden. Es wird darauf eingegangen, dass die Software-Engineering-Forschung zum überwiegenden Teil präskriptiv arbeitet. Empirische Studien setzen darüber hinaus in der Regel quantitative Methoden ein, obwohl in vielen Bereichen noch nicht geklärt ist, welche Faktoren überhaupt für einen bestimmten Effekt, z.B. Qualitätssteigerung, in Frage kommen. Außerdem wird erläutert, dass in der Software-EngineeringForschung kaum Erkenntnisse aus anderen Disziplinen, wie z.B. solche aus der Soziologie, einbezogen werden (siehe z.B. Glass et al., „An analysis of research in computing discipline“, 2004). Vor dem Hintergrund, dass das Software Engineering als Wissenschaft in großen Teilen noch nicht als reif angesehen werden kann, wird deshalb propagiert, verstärkt qualitative Methoden in der SoftwareEngineering-Forschung einzusetzen z.B. um eine Basis für geeignete quantitative Studien zu legen. Als passende qualitative Methode wird die Grounded Theory Method nach Strauss und Corbin vorgeschlagen und in ihre zentralen Praktiken eingeführt.
An Experimental Study of Hybrid Machine Learning Models for Extracting Named Entities

The paper describes two hybrid neural network models for named entity recognition (NER) in texts, as well as results of experiments with them. The first model, namely Bi-LSTM-CRF, is known and used for NER, while the other model named Gated-CNNCRF is proposed in this work. It combines convolutional neural network (CNN), gated linear units, and conditional random fields (CRF). Both models were tested for NER on three different language datasets, for English, Russian, and Chinese. All resulted scores of precision, recall and F1-measure for both models are close to the state-of-the-art for NER, and for the English dataset CoNLL-2003, Gated-CNN-CRF model achieves 92.66 of F1-measure, outperforming the known result.
Fluorescent gas sensors based on nanoporous optical resonators (microcavities) infiltrated with sensory emissive polymers

In this contribution we report fluorescent gas chemosensors for detection of nitroaromatic vapors and other classes of volatile organic compounds based on porous silicon (PSi) microcavity (MC) infiltrated with sensory emissive polymers. Such hybrid functional sensors have several advantages over traditional fluorescent chemosensors, where the sensory polymers are deposited on flat substrate. This includes a high interfacial area of nanoporous Si (high sensitivity), narrow fluorescent band due to photon confinement, dependence of the spectral peak position on nature of analyte (enhanced selectivity), and fast recovery time. We demonstrated that deep and uniform polymer infiltration is critical for effective gas sensing and investigated the experimental conditions required for preparation of high quality hybrid sensors. In the case of deep infiltration, the broad polymer fluorescence (FWHM ∼ 100 nm) shows a narrowing to the resonance peak (FWHM ∼ 10 nm) with narrow intensity angle diagram. In addition, the potential of the sensor array platform and sensor recovery under ultrasound power is discussed.
Proton-induced damage in JFET transistors and charge preamplifiers on high-resistivity silicon

The results discussed in this paper are relevant to junction field effect transistors (JFETs) and JFET-based charge sensitive amplifiers fabricated in a detector compatible process. Such structures were irradiated with 27 MeV protons to evaluate the suitability of the technology for space applications and high-energy physics experiments from the standpoint of radiation tolerance. The process investigated in this work, originally designed for the fabrication of silicon detectors to be operated in a fully depleted condition, has been tuned to embed N-channel JFETs, NMOS devices and bipolar transistors in the same high resistivity substrate. The most significant electrical parameters have been monitored after exposing the test structures to different proton fluences in order to characterize their total dose and bulk damage response. Comparison with the results from previous irradiations with /spl gamma/-rays might be helpful in shedding light on the fundamental mechanisms underlying radiation damage in JFET silicon devices.
The relationship between maternal health literacy with Prenatal Cares in pregnant women referring to health centers

Background and objective: Â Maternal health literacy is a key and important factor in ensuring prenatal cares, prenatal health, and the successful outcomes of this period. Due to the high significance of health literacy during pregnancy and its direct effect on fetus, the present research was conducted to determine the relationship between maternal health literacy with prenatal cares in pregnant women. Methods: This descriptive â�� analytical and cross- sectional study was performed in 2017 on 130 pregnant women referred to centers and comprehensive health service bases of Bushehr city to perform prenatal care. The sample were selected by simple randomized method. Data was collected by using Maternal Health Literacy and Pregnancy Outcome Questionnaire (MHLAPQ). Data was analyzed by SPSS software (version 15) and inferential statistics, independent t test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation. Results: Â The mean score of maternal health literacy was 88. 5Â±13.2. There was significant relationship between maternal health literacy and educational level, job, number of pregnancy (P<0.05). Pearson correlation coefficient showed significantly positive relation between health literacy with prenatal cares and pregnancy outcomes (P<0.05). Conclusion: Because of the importance of health literacy in mother and newborn health and for promoting health literacy and consequently prenatal care and pregnancy outcomes it is necessary for national health authorities to develop more plans to improve health literacy and empowerment of this group. Paper Type:research article
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DAN LEVERAGE TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN DENGAN KUALITAS LABA SEBAGAI VARIABEL MEDIASI

This study aims to obtain evidence of the influence of good corporate governance as measured by the number of boards of directors, institutional ownership, audit committee, and auditor’s reputation and leverage have an influence on the value of the company through the quality of earnings at manufacturing companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The population used in this study is a manufacturing company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013-2016. Sampling technique in this study using simple random sampling, the number of samples 40 companies.The test results show that the number of boards of directors proved to negativelyaffect the value of the company. Institutional ownership and leverage are not proven to affect the value of the company. The auditor’s reputation proved to have a positive effect on the company’s value.The quality of profit is able to mediate the relationship between the number of boards of directors against the value of the company. The quality of profit is not a mediating variable between institutional ownership and the auditor’s reputation of the firm’s value. The quality of profit is able to mediate the relationship between leverage to firm value. The quality of earnings has an influence on the firm value.