Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative evaluation of various immunodiagnostic tests for the diagnosis of Taenia solium cysticercosis in pigs, using fractionated antigens

ABSTRACT The sensitivity and specificity of double immunodiffusion (DID), indirect haemagglutination test (IHA), immunoelectrophoresis (IEP), counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were evaluated and compared using saline extracted of Taenia solium larval scolex and its Sephadex G-200 fractionated 1st and 2nd peak as antigens. Various immunodiagnostic tests gave different results with different antigens. Highest sensitivity (92·5%) was obtained with ELISA using 1st peak antigen and lowest sensitivity was obtained with DID. However, 88·4% and 84·6% sensitivity was obtained with IHA and CIEP respectively using scolex antigen. CIEP gave better results as compared to IEP. Crude antigen gave high sensitivity but less specificity. It was concluded that CIEP can be used as a field test for the anti-mortem diagnosis and ELISA can be employed for laboratory confirmation of T. solium cysticercosis in pigs using frationated 1st peak antigen.
Limited Capacity for Contour Curvature in Iconic Memory

We measured the difference threshold for contour curvature in iconic memory by using the cued discrimination method. The study stimulus consisting of 2 to 6 curved contours was briefly presented in the fovea, followed by two lines as cues. Subjects discriminated the curvature of two cued curves. The cue delays were 0 msec. and 300 msec. in Exps. 1 and 2, respectively, and 50 msec. before the study offset in Exp. 3. Analysis of data from Exps. 1 and 2 showed that the Weber fraction rose monotonically with the increase in set size. Clear set-size effects indicate that iconic memory has a limited capacity. Moreover, clear set-size effect in Exp. 3 indicates that perception itself has a limited capacity. Larger set-size effects in Exp. 1 than in Exp. 3 suggest that iconic memory after perceptual process has limited capacity. These properties of iconic memory at threshold level are contradictory to the traditional view that iconic memory has a high capacity both at suprathreshold and categorical levels.
Use of leucocyte‐poor blood components and HLA‐matched‐platelet donors to prevent HLA alloimmunization

Summary. Recent studies have shown that the incidence of alloimmunization due to repeated platelet transfusions from random donors may be reduced by the use of leucocyte‐poor blood components. These results were confirmed by this study, where 16% of patients with acute leukaemia undergoing initial chemotherapy and receiving leucocyte‐poor blood components developed lymphocytotoxic antibodies, compared with 48% of patients in a control group receiving standard (non‐leucocyte‐depleted) blood components. In a third group, who received leucocyte‐poor blood components and HLA‐matched platelets, none of the patients developed lymphocytotoxic antibodies. There was a low incidence of platelet‐specific antibodies (8%) but no difference between the three groups. Improved methods of removing leucocytes from blood components appear to offer the best approach for minimizing HLA alloimmunization, as the provision of HLA‐matched platelet donors for prophylactic platelet support of all patients is not feasible.
The Three Pillars of Corporate Social Reporting as New Governance Regulation: Disclosure, Dialogue, and Development

In this article I examine corporate social reporting as a form of New Governance regulation termed “democratic experimentalism. ” Due to the challenges of regulating the behavior of corporations on issues related to sustainable economic development, New Governance regulation—which has a focus on decentralized, participatory, problem-solving-based approaches to regulation—is presented as an option to traditional command-and-control regulation. By examining the role of social reporting under a New Governance approach, I set out three necessary requirements for social reporting to be effective: disclosure, dialogue with stakeholders, and the moral development of the corporation. I then assess current social reporting practices against these requirements and find significant problems. In response, I propose one option for solving those problems, and encourage future researchers to consider the demands of these three requirements and the possible trade-offs between them when attempting to find ways to improve social reporting practices.
Experimental characterization of a reverberation chamber excited by the source stirring technique

The paper describes a set of measurements carried out in a reverberating chamber and aimed to characterize the field statistics when the source stirring technique is applied. Twenty antennas are used to build up the radiating system and to cover the operational frequency range 1 GHz-3 GHz. The quartiles of the received power distributions are analyzed over a wide frequency range showing satisfactory matching with the expected theoretical distribution. Polar plots and the cumulative distribution functions (CDF) of the rectangular and total field components are also checked at several frequencies. Finally, the uniformity analysis, applied to a typical working volume, shows that the array is able to perform a source stirring of the RC field that fulfills the IEC 61000-4-21 requirements.
Histological and Histochemical Studies of the Aorta and Pulmonary Trunk in STZ-induced Diabetic Wistar Rats Treated with Momordica charantia

La diabetes mellitus (DM) es una enfermedad metabolica grave con complicaciones micro y macro vasculares que resultan en una significativa morbilidad y mortalidad. El presente estudio investigo los efectos de Momordica charantia (M. charantia) sobre los cambios histologicos de la aorta y el tronco pulmonar en ratas Wistar con diabetes inducida por estreptozotocina. Cuarenta ratas Wistar adultas sanas de ambos sexos fueron asignadas al azar en cinco grupos A, B, C, D y E, 8 ratas cada grupo. El grupo A fue control (ratas normales); el grupo B fue de ratas diabeticas inducidas experimentalmente; el grupo C fue de ratas diabeticas tratadas con extractos metanolicos de M. charantia por dos semanas (grupo de retirada); grupo D fue de ratas diabeticas tratadas con extractos metanolicos de M. charantia durante cuatro semanas, y el grupo E fue de ratas diabeticas tratadas con glimepirida durante cuatro semanas. Los tejidos obtenidos se incluyeron en parafina y se tineron con tecnica de rutina y tinciones especiales. Los resultados histologicos revelaron alteraciones morfologicas en la aorta y el tronco pulmonar de las ratas diabeticas. El analisis histoquimico revelo tambien la deposicion anormal de glucogeno en estos vasos de ratas diabeticas. Tanto M. charantia y glimperida atenuaron las alteraciones morfologicas y redujeron los depositos de glucogeno. En conclusion, la M. charantia tiene un efecto de mejora prometedor sobre los cambios en la morfologia de la aorta y el tronco pulmonar en ratas Wistar diabeticas inducidas por STZ y, por extension, pueden ser relevantes en el manejo de alteraciones cardiovasculares asociadas con la DM.
What Matters Most: Information or Interaction? The Importance of Behavioral Rules on Network Effects for Contagion Processes

We consider a finite population of agents and define a contagion process as the dynamics by which an action, which is initially played by only a small subset of agents, is adopted by the entire population. Each agent has a set of neighbors with whom he shares information and a set of partners with whom he plays a game. These two sets may or may not coincide. Each period, agents choose their actions based on what they observe from their neighbors, and get some payoff from playing a game with their partners. We show that contagion of an action that is risk dominant and efficient is obtained through partners when agents imitate-the-best, and through neighbors when agents use a myopic best response.
FORMULACIJA FIBER ELEMENTA PRILIKOM NELINEARNE ANALIZE RAMOVA FIBER ELEMENT FORMULATION FOR INELASTIC FRAME ANALYSIS

Savremeni standardi u građevinarstvu podrazumevaju primenu nelinearne analize u svakodnevnoj inženjerskoj praksi [2, 10]. Do sada su formulisani brojni konačni elementi koji uzimaju u obzir različite nelinearne uticaje. Prilikom nelinearne analize ramova, linijski gredni elementi u širokoj su upotrebi zbog svoje jednostavnosti i kompjuterske efikasnosti. Fiber elementi raspodeljene plastičnosti pokazali su se kao vrlo uspešni pri modeliranju čeličnih, betonskih i spregnutih konstrukcija [6, 12]. U ovom radu razmatraju se dve formulacije fiber konačnog elementa prema metodi deformacija i metodi sila, kao i njihova upotreba prilikom nelinearne analize ramova. Pažnja je usmerena na tačnost određivanja lokalnog i globalnog odgovora konstrukcije, u zavisnosti od korišćene formulacije ovog konačnog elementa.
BDNF overexpression produces a long‐term increase in myelin formation in the peripheral nervous system

The neurotrophin brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is an endogenous regulator of the myelination process during development in the peripheral nervous system. Enhancement of myelin formation by BDNF is mediated by the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR. Although this neurotrophin is a positive modulator of myelination during early development, the final effects of BDNF on myelin sheaths after active myelination is completed are largely unknown. Using BDNF transgenic mice, we examined the long‐term effects of BDNF on myelination of the peripheral nervous system in vivo. Elevation of BDNF levels in the transgenic mice produced an increase in both the rate and extent of the myelination process. BDNF enhanced and accelerated myelin formation during early development and this increase in myelin content and thickness was maintained in adulthood. Besides enhanced myelination, BDNF also influenced axon caliber size but to a lesser extent. This lagging increase in axon caliber compared to myelin suggests that the axon size is not the only determinant of myelin thickness. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Structural analysis of the capsid polypeptides of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2

Capsids of herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2 contain seven polypeptides ranging in molecular weight from 154,000 to 12,000 (termed NC-1 through NC-7 in order of descending molecular weight). Antibodies prepared to HSV-1 capsid polypeptides isolated from sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels reacted in an immunofluorescence assay against HSV-1-infected KB cells. Three of the antibodies (anti-NC-1, anti-NC-2, and anti-NC-3,4) also reacted with HSV-2-infected cells. Tryptic peptide analysis showed that each of the HSV-1 capsid polypeptides had a unique methionine peptide profile, and none appeared to be derived from the major capsid polypeptide. Comparative peptide analysis of HSV-1 and HSV-2 showed that one polypeptide (NC-7, 12,000 molecular weight) had an identical methionine peptide profile and a very similar arginine peptide profile in both virus types. The arginine peptide profile of NC-7 of HSV-1 was very different from the arginine profile of KB histone H4. Although there were certain intertypic similarities in the methionine peptide profiles of the other capsid components especially in NC-1 (the major capsid protein), there was no case where the tryptic peptides were identical in the two virus types.
Analysis of RGU Photometry in Selected Area 51

A low-latitude anticenter eld (l = 189, b =+ 21) is investigated by using the full calibration tools of RGU photometry. The observed RGU data are reduced to the standard system and the separation of dwarfs and evolved stars is carried out by an empirical method. Stars are categorized into three metallicity classes, i.e. 0:25 < [M=H] +0:50, 1:00 < [M=H] 0:25, and [M=H] 1:00 dex, and their absolute magnitudes are determined by the corresponding color-magnitude diagrams. The unusually large scattering in the two-color diagrams is reduced by excluding 153 extra-galactic objects, identifying them compared with the charts of Basel Astronomical Institute and University of Minnesota, and by the criterion and algorithm of Gaidos et al. [1]. The local logarithmic space density for giants, D(0) = 6:75, lies within the local densities of Gliese and Gliese & Jahreiss. The local luminosity function in our work for the absolute magnitude interval 3 <M (G) 7 agrees with Hipparcos’ luminosity function better than Gliese’s luminosity function, whereas it is larger than these luminosity functions for the interval 7 <M (G) 8. This discrepancy may be due to many reasons, i.e. cumulative catalog errors, binarity etc.
On the equivalence between CMC and TIM

Abstract In this paper we present an equivalence between TIM, a machine developed to implement non-strict functional programming languages, and the set of Categorical Multi-Combinators, a rewriting system developed with similar aims. These two models of computation at first appear to be quite different, but we show a direct equivalence between them, thereby adding some new structure to the ‘design-space’ of abstract machines for non-strict languages.
Extubation failure in the elderly $

Summary To determine the causes, risk factors and complications of planned extubation failure of critically ill elderly patients, we conducted a prospective study of 175 consecutive patients ( X 70 years old) admitted with respiratory failure. Thirty-six (21%) failed extubation within 72 h after planned extubation. Compared to a younger age group ( o 70 years old) matched for severity of illness, inability to handle secretions (20%) was the most common reason of airway causes leading to extubation failure in the elderly while upper airway obstruction (22%) was the predominant cause in the control group. As for nonairway causes, COPD related hypercapnic respiratory failure accounted for the majority of cases in both groups. After adjusting for severity of illness, elderly patients who required reintubation had a higher risk of developing nosocomial pneumonia. The presence of underlying pulmonary disease (odds ratio (OR), 2.9; 95% conﬁdence interval (CI) 1.2 – 6.9), length of intubation 4 4 days (OR, 4.3; 95% CI 1.8 – 10.2), and albumin levels o 2 : 5g/ dl (OR, 2.7; 95% CI 1.2 – 6.7) were independently associated with extubation failure in the old. Objective measurements of cough strength and secretion volume are needed to reduce the morbidity of elderly patients at risk for extubation failure.
The Impact of Customer Relationship Characteristics on Profitable Lifetime Duration

The authors develop a framework that incorporates projected profitability of customers in the computation of lifetime duration. Furthermore, the authors identify factors under a manager's control that explain the variation in the profitable lifetime duration. They also compare other frameworks with the traditional methods such as the recency, frequency, and monetary value framework and past customer value and illustrate the superiority of the proposed framework. Finally, the authors develop several key implications that can be of value to decision makers in managing customer relationships.
Uterine heterologous malignant mixed Müllerian tumor in a dwarf rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Malignant mixed Müllerian tumor (MMMT) is a rare neoplasm of the female genital system. A case of MMMT in the uterus of an 8-year-old female dwarf rabbit, which died with clinical signs associated with severe acute dyspnea and anorexia, is described. At necropsy, an oval, firm tumor was found in each of the 2 uterine horns. Numerous metastases were scattered throughout the mediastinum, thoracic diaphragm, and all pulmonary lobes. Microscopically, the tumors consisted of a poorly demarcated, unencapsulated neoplasm, composed of closely associated carcinomatous and sarcomatous components and areas of osteosarcomatous differentiation. Metastases were composed entirely of the sarcomatous component with osteosarcomatous differentiation. Immunohistochemically, the neoplastic epithelial component was positive for cytokeratin and negative for α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), vimentin, and desmin. The sarcomatous component was diffusely and strongly positive for vimentin, focally positive for α-SMA (<20% of cells positive), and negative for desmin. The neoplasm was diagnosed as a heterologous MMMT with metastases to the lung, mediastinum, and thoracic diaphragm.
Le contrôle de la publicité destinée aux enfants: une démarche expérimentale pour étudier les effets de contexte

Cet article presente une demarche experimentale ayant pour but d'estimer l'impact du programme TV entourant des annonces sur l'efficacite de ces annonces aupres d'enfants âges de 8 a 12 ans. Un plan experimental 2*2 a ete utilise dans lequel l'affect induit par le programme et l'implication lors de l'exposition aux annonces ont ete manipules.
The Presence or Absence of Latent Epstein-Barr Virus Does Not Alter the Sensitivity of Burkitt’s Lymphoma Cell Lines to Proteasome Inhibitors

have type I latency. The cell lines were cultured under standard sterile tissue culture conditions with 5% CO 2 . Medium was RPMI-1640 supplemented with L -glutamine (Fischer Cellgro, Mediatech, Herndon, Va., USA), supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (Gibco/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif., USA) and penicillin/streptomycin (Mediatech). Bortezomib (Velcade ) was obtained commercially from Millenium Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, Mass., USA), lactacystin, epoxomycin and MG132 were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo., USA). Cell proliferation was measured using a 96-well plate nonradioactive proliferation kit supplied by Promega (Madison, Wisc., USA). After a 3-hour incubation, the color reaction was measured in a spectrophotometer at 490 nm. Viability and cell numbers were determined using 0.4% trypan blue (Invitrogen). Apoptosis was detected using the Annexin V-PE Apoptosis Kit supplied by BD Pharmingen (San Diego, Calif., USA). The cell cultures were treated with bortezomib for 24 h. The cells were washed twice in PBS, stained with PE-conjugated Annexin V and 7-AAD (incubation 15 min in the dark). Apoptosis was measured by flow cytometry and categorized as necrotic, early and late apoptotic. Our experiments show only minor differences in sensitivity to the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib ( table 1 ). Similarly, no differential effect was seen in response to the proteasome inhibitors epoxomicin and MG132, and Proteasome inhibitors are a new type of drug with significant activity against multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphomas and possibly other malignancies. Proteasome inhibitors target the proteasome, a multicatalytic proteinase complex which is responsible for the majority of intracellular protein degradation. In vitro, proteasome inhibitors have preferential activity against transformed cells. The study of cell lines resistant to proteasome inhibition suggested an involvement of the heat shock pathway in the resistance to proteasome inhibitors [for a review, see ref. 1 ]. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human  herpes virus intimately involved in the pathogenesis of Burkitt’s lymphomas (BL) [2] . Recently, data were presented suggesting that EBV-positive lymphoblastoid cell lines were resistant to the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib, whereas a panel of EBV-negative cell lines was sensitive to bortezomib [3] . Two pairs of cell lines were established from BL in which latent EBV was eradicated by treatment with hydroxyurea [4] . Accelerated loss of EBV episomes provided EBV-positive and -negative clones of similar genetic background. We asked the question if EBV positivity protected cells from proteasome inhibitors, as this would have major implications for the treatment of EBV-positive malignancies. The BL cell lines Mutu Clone 3 (EBV+) and Mutu Clone 4 (EBV–) and Akata 1B6 (EBV+) and Akata 2A8 (EBV–) were established as described [4, 5] . All cell lines Received: March 18, 2008 Accepted after revision: May 6, 2008 Published online: July 2, 2008
Integrating saliency and ResNet for airport detection in large-size remote sensing images

Automatic airport detection has received great attention due to the importance of airports in both military and civilian uses. This paper focuses on automatic airport detection in large-size remote sensing images under a two-step object detection framework. In the first step, both geometrical saliency and local entropy saliency are improved to find more accurate ROIs for detecting airports in large-size remote sensing images. The geometrical saliency is based on line features of airports, and line segment detector (LSD) is used to detect line segments. Then, line group weighted saliency map is generated after line connection, and local entropy saliency map is created by further considering the entropy difference between neighbor pixels. Finally, ROIs can be obtained by combining these two saliency maps. The improved saliencies could make airports prominent as a whole instead of many separated parts, and it could find more accurate ROIs than traditional saliency methods. In the second step, deep residual learning network (ResNet) is used to determine whether a ROI should be labeled as an airport. The unobvious features of airports could be further extracted by ResNet, which greatly promotes the robustness of the proposed two-step object detection method. The experiments on large-size remote sensing images have shown that the proposed method could reduce false alarms greatly compared with both the traditional two-way saliency (TWS) airport detection method and the state-of-the-art object detection method of single shot multi-box detector (SSD).
Overextension and underextension in the child's expressive and receptive speech

ABSTRACT The tendency of 30 children between the ages of 2; 0 and 2; 1 to overextend and/or underextend newly uttered, but previously understood words in comprehension and production was examined. It was found that both overextensions and underextensions occurred in comprehension and in production. Similarly, in both modes of speech children made more underextensions to peripheral than to central referents, and more overextensions to perceptually similar than to perceptually dissimilar nonreferents. The frequencies of overextensions and underextensions, however, were not the same in comprehension and production. Overextensions occurred more frequently in comprehension than in production, while conversely underextensions occurred more frequently in production than in comprehension. These data are discussed in terms of differences between children's and adult's word meanings, and between comprehension and production.