Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of dietary energy and crude protein levels on growth performance, blood profiles, and carcass traits in growing-finishing pigs

Abstract This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary energy and crude protein (CP) levels on growth performance, blood profiles, and carcass traits in growing-finishing pigs. A total of 180 crossbred pigs ([Yorkshire × Landrace] × Duroc) with an average body weight of 30.96 ± 3.068 kg were used for a 12-week feeding trial. Experimental pigs were allotted to a 2 × 3 factorial arrangement using a randomized complete block (RCB) design. The first factor was two levels of dietary metabolizable energy (ME) density (13.40 MJ/kg or 13.82 MJ/kg), and the second factor was three dietary CP levels based on subdivision of growing-finishing phases (high: 18%/16.3%/16.3%/13.2% middle: 17%/15.3%/15.3%/12.2% and low: 16%/14.3%/14.3%/11.2%). Average daily gain (ADG) and gain-feed ratio (G:F ratio) decreased as dietary CP level was decreased linearly (linear, p < 0.05; p < 0.05, respectively) in the early growing period, and G:F ration also decreased as dietary CP level was decreased linearly (linearly, p < 0.05) over the whole growing phase. Over the entire experimental period, G:F ratio decreased as dietary ME level decreased (p = 0.01). Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) concentration was increased as dietary energy level decreased in growing period (p < 0.01). During finishing period, total protein concentration was decreased by lower dietary energy level (p < 0.05). In this study, there were no significant differences in proximate factors, physiochemical properties, muscle TBARS assay results, pH changes, or color of pork by dietary treatments. However, saturated fatty acid (SFA) increased (p < 0.01) and polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) decreased (p < 0.05) when ME was decreased by 0.42 MJ/kg in growing-finishing pig diets. In addition, monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) tended to increase when CP level was decreased in growing-finishing pig diets (p = 0.06). A growing-finishing diet of 13.82 MJ/kg diet of ME with the high CP level can improve growth performance and show better fatty acids composition of pork.
Analysis of Angular Threshold Criteria for Transient Instability Identification in Uncertain Power Systems

This paper addresses the problem of finding a threshold (critical value of rotor angle) for the identification of transient instability by the sole use of the information on rotor angles. Several threshold values for rotor angles have been used in the past without a clear agreement on a standard value. In this paper a probabilistic approach to the problem is proposed, so that for any network a threshold can be defined based on set accuracy, while at the same time minimizing the instability identification time. Results demonstrate that highly accurate robust rotor angle thresholds can be found, even for highly uncertain power networks with a high penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES).
Ensemble Visual Tracking with Online Multi-view Randomized Trees and Subspace Update *

Visual tracking is still a challenging problem. Tracking drift easily takes place when foreground and background appear similar. In this paper, in order to alleviate the tracking drift problem, we propose a novel visual tracking method by combining multi-view randomized trees and subspace update in an ensemble tracking framework. In our proposed framework, an adaptive multi-view randomized trees is firstly introduced to obtain the accurate confidence map of foreground objects and background. It is the first time that the multi-view randomized trees is introduced into ensemble tracking to improve the accuracy. Secondly, a mean shift tracker detects the object location by seeking the best mode on the confidence map. Moreover, with random forest classifier, the application range of mean shift tracker is also extended from the RGB color space to high-dimensional feature space. To prevent the model from accumulated wrong update, an incremental principal component analysis tracker is implemented as an extra supplement for the ensemble framework to keep the discriminative ability of the tracker. Experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed tracking algorithm consistently provides more powerful ability to decrease the tracking drift than other state-of-the-art approaches.
Inhaled GM-CSF in neonatal mice provides durable protection against bacterial pneumonia

A different route of administering GM-CSF may selectively manipulate tissue-resident macrophages to therapeutic benefit. Pneumonia poses profound health threats to preterm infants. Alveolar macrophages (AMs) eliminate inhaled pathogens while maintaining surfactant homeostasis. As AM development only occurs perinatally, therapies that accelerate AM maturation in preterms may improve outcomes. We tested therapeutic rescue of AM development in mice lacking the actin-bundling protein L-plastin (LPL), which exhibit impaired AM development and increased susceptibility to pneumococcal lung infection. Airway administration of recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) to LPL−/− neonates augmented AM production. Airway administration distinguishes the delivery route from prior human infant trials. Adult LPL−/− animals that received neonatal GM-CSF were protected from experimental pneumococcal challenge. No detrimental effects on surfactant metabolism or alveolarization were observed. Airway recombinant GM-CSF administration thus shows therapeutic promise to accelerate neonatal pulmonary immunity, protecting against bacterial pneumonia.
A 76-81GHz FMCW Transceiver with 3-Transmit, 4-Receive Paths and 15dBm Output Power for Automotive Radars

A fully-integrated 76-81GHz FMCW transceiver in 65-CMOS is presented for automotive radar applications. The transceiver consists of 3-transmiter, 4-receiver, FMCW synthesizer and ADC with decimation filters. The transmitter, with a TX chain including a push-push doubler, a 3-stage power amplifier employing neutralization technique and 2 power-combined topologies, shows an output power of 15dBm. The receiver, with an LNA employing a 3-stage neutralized common source (CS) with inductive degeneration, achieves a noise figure of 15dB, an input P-1dB of −20dBm, and an ENOB of 10.2-b for ADC. The double tuning modulated PLL provides FMCW waveform with −81dBc/Hz phase noise at 1MHz offset and chirp rate of 50MHz/us. The power consumption of the entire transceiver is 1.06W.
Low-Resistance and high-Strength Copper Direct Bonding in no-Vacuum Ambient Using Highly (111)-Oriented Nano-Twinned Copper

In this study, we fabricated (111)-oriented nt-Cu microbumps with 30 µm in diameter, and bonded them together using chip-to-chip bonding scheme in N2 ambient, without vacuum. A well bonded interface in the Cu-to-Cu joint was identified by the microstructure observation. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images showed a void-less bonding interface within the bonded Cu joint. In addition, a die shear test was conducted. The test results revealed that the shear strength is 124 MPa, which is nearly two times higher than the SnAg solder joint (64 MPa). It indicates that the Cu joint is more robust than the SnAg joint. In addition, fracture analysis showed that the joint fractured in a ductile manner. Besides, we also performed the resistance measurement by using Kelvin probes on the bonded chip-to-chip test vehicles. The resistance is 4.12 mΩ for a single joint and its contact resistivity is 4.26 × 10-8 Ω·cm2. More than 30% resistance reduction has been confirmed as compared to the SnAg solder joint (6.32 mΩ). Moreover, we can further reduce the joint resistance by the second annealing process. The resistance can be brought down to 3.27 mΩ with a resistivity of 3.14 × 10^-8 Ω·cm^2. There is a nearly 50% resistance reduction The resistance for second annealed Cu joint is close the ideal bulk Cu. In summary, the chip-to-chip copper direct bonding has been successfully achieved and low resistance Cu-to-Cu joints has been realized by using (111) oriented nt-Cu in no-vacuum ambient.
Studies of the Electron Density Modifications in the Ionosphere Excited by the Powerful Radio Wave with Frequencies near the 4th Electron Gyroharmonic

We present results on plasma perturbations in the F-region ionosphere caused by HF heating in the vicinity of the 4th electron gyroharmonic. The experiments were conducted at HAARP heating facility in June 2014. On the first time at HAARP the multi-frequency Doppler Sounder which measures the phase and amplitude of reflected sounding radio waves was used for the diagnostic of the plasma perturbations. These measurements were complemented by the observations of the Stimulated Electromagnetic Emission (SEE) for different pumping frequencies. We detected plasma expulsion from the reflection region of the pumping wave, and from the upper hybrid region. We found also how the anomalous absorption (AA) of the sounding waves, as well as the SEE spectral structure and intensity depend on the offset of the pumping frequency from the 4th electron gyroharmonic. A review of studies of the ionosphere pumped by the powerful high-frequency radio radiation of the Sura facility, carried out by measuring the optical emission of the ionosphere, is presented.
Enhancing Open-Circuit Voltage and Charge Transportation for Ternary Organic Solar Cells With Energy Cascade Double Nonfullerene Acceptors

An effective double nonfullerene acceptors ternary organic solar cell (OSC) was systemically investigated to improve the performance of OSCs by doping higher lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level nonfullerene acceptor ITIC-Th into the PBDB-T-SF: IT-4F active layer. Compared with binary OSCs, the power conversion efficiency of the optimal ternary OSCs with 20 wt% ITIC-Th content is improved from 9.84% to 11.0%, which was attributed to simultaneous improvements in the open-circuit voltage (Voc) and fill factor with a slightly reduction in short-current density (Jsc). The optimal devices show appropriate cascaded LUMO energy level, small aggregation phases of film morphology and higher hole–electron mobility, which are favorable to charge dissociation and significantly beneficial for efficient charge generation and collection. Moreover, under 20 wt% ITIC-Th, the impedance spectra analysis reveals that the smoother surface of the active layer presents a good Ohmic contact for better charge transportation by establishing more potential pathways.
SBP2 deficiency in adipose tissue macrophages drives insulin resistance in obesity

SBP2 loss in macrophages drives adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance during obesity. Proinflammatory activation and accumulation of adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) are associated with increased risk of insulin resistance in obesity. Here, we described the previously unidentified role of selenocysteine insertion sequence–binding protein 2 (SBP2) in maintaining insulin sensitivity in obesity. SBP2 was suppressed in ATMs of diet-induced obese mice and was correlated with adipose tissue inflammation. Loss of SBP2 initiated metabolic activation of ATMs, inducing intracellular reactive oxygen species content and inflammasome, which subsequently promoted IL-1β–associated local proliferation and infiltration of proinflammatory macrophages. ATM-specific knockdown of SBP2 in obese mice promoted insulin resistance by increasing fat tissue inflammation and expansion. Reexpression of SBP2 improved insulin sensitivity. Last, an herbal formula that specifically induced SBP2 expression in ATMs can experimentally improve insulin sensitivity. Clinical observation revealed that it improved hyperglycemia in patients with diabetes. This study identified SBP2 in ATMs as a potential target in rescuing insulin resistance in obesity.
Impacts of Feeder Failure Statistics on EV-Supported Distribution System Reliability Improvement

Electric vehicle parking lots (EVPLs) create new alternatives for planning and operation of distribution systems with its aggregated EV potential and charging/discharging coordination. On the other hand, distributed storage support of EVPLs changes the distribution system topology because of bidirectional power flows. Therefore, distribution system reliability improvement through highly penetrated distributed energy resources (DERs) has got the attraction of power system operators. However, this improvement so does the operation philosophy of EVPL storage capacity are strongly correlated with the feeder failure statistics. The objective of this study is therefore devoted to the sensitivity of EV supported distribution system reliability improvement on the failure rate of feeder components, such as transformers, busbars and cables. Several case studies regarding the supporting status of EVPL are generated to quantify the impacts of the failure rate of these elements on distribution system reliability. The results will guide the utilities on how they can optimize the benefits of EVPL support in terms of system reliability.
Data-driven Control Design Schemes in Active Distribution Grids: Capabilities and Challenges

Today, system operators rely on local control of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as photovoltaic units, wind turbines and batteries, to increase operational flexibility. These schemes offer a communication-free, robust, cheap, but rather sub-optimal solution and do not fully exploit the DER capabilities. The operational flexibility of active distribution networks can be greatly enhanced by the optimal control of DERs. However, it usually requires remote monitoring and communication infrastructure, which current distribution networks lack due to the high cost and complexity. In this paper, we investigate data-driven control algorithms that use historical data, advanced off-line optimization techniques, and machine learning methods, to design local controls that emulate the optimal behavior without the use of any communication. We elaborate on the suitability of various schemes based on different local features, we investigate safety challenges arising from data-driven control schemes, and we show the performance of the optimized local controls on a three-phase, unbalanced, low-voltage, distribution network.
Simulation of Frequency-Selective Properties of Meteor Scatter Radio Links

The paper describes a method for simulation of frequency-selectivity of meteor scatter channel that takes into account its nonstationarity, nonreciprocity, and stochastic nature. The amplitude-frequency and phase-frequency responses of the channel obtained by averaging large number of single meteor radio reflections modeled for the typical meteor radio link of Moscow-Kazan of 720-km length are presented. A problem of nonsimultaneous detection of radio signals with large frequency diversity is discussed.
SEASONAL ABUNDANCE OF SIX DOMINANT FILAMENTOUS CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES IN MICROBIAL MATS FROM MANGROVE BACKWATERS IN SANDSPIT PAKISTAN

Microbial mats in the mangrove forests of Sandspit coast area, south of Karachi, Pakistan were studied between Jan 2012-Jan 2014. Six major filamentous cyanobacteria belonging to three genera Oscillatoria (3), Spirulina (2) and Phormidium (1) were identified in the backwaters mat samples. One of the cyanobacterium species Spirulina labyrinthiformis is reported from this site for the first time in Pakistan. The most dominant species was Oscillatoria brevis (22% abundance), closely followed by Phormidium tenue (21%). These filamentous forms were present in all seasons and tolerated varying physico-chemical ranges such as temperature (15-28oC), pH (6.8-7.5), salinity (36-42‰) and dissolved oxygen (0.201-0.543ppm). Chlorophyll a levels in mat area sediments were ranged between 0.039 up to 5.050 mg/g. The minimum and maximum biovolume was 0.174 and 1.649mml respectively. We observed a strong positive correlation (p<0.05) between observed filamentous form of cyanobacteria and field parameters such as water-soil-air temperatures, pH and dissolved oxygen. The outcome suggests a potential for detailed molecular microbial mat study. Further studies are required to understand the interactions of microbial mat with soil and water components.
22nm FD-SOI Technology with Back-biasing Capability Offers Excellent Performance for Enabling Efficient, Ultra-low Power Analog and RF/Millimeter-Wave Designs

This paper addresses the impact of back-gate biasing to DC, RF/millimeter-Wave (mmWave) and high frequency (HF) noise in 22nm FD-SOI technology (GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22FDX® technology). The front-gate and the back-gate cut-off frequency fT, together with the maximum oscillation frequency fMAX, were extracted from the four-port S-parameters data. The maximum achieved front-gate/back-gate fT and fMAX for the NFET is 350/85 GHz and 370/23 GHz respectively. In addition, 22FDX® technology demonstrated a tuneable HF noise parameter by using the back-gate biasing to achieve best-in-class low noise level. Two front-end (FE) modules were presented, which exploit the unique feature of back-gate. This unique feature allows superior designs with excellent combination of performance, power consumption and development cost, for emerging applications such as IoT, Telecommunication UE, RF and mmWave circuits with high speed connectivity and networking.
CUNI Submission for Low-Resource Languages in WMT News 2019

This paper describes the CUNI submission to the WMT 2019 News Translation Shared Task for the low-resource languages: Gujarati-English and Kazakh-English. We participated in both language pairs in both translation directions. Our system combines transfer learning from a different high-resource language pair followed by training on backtranslated monolingual data. Thanks to the simultaneous training in both directions, we can iterate the backtranslation process. We are using the Transformer model in a constrained submission.
An Integrated Effectiveness Framework of Mobile In-App Advertising

Advertising in mobile apps has recently become one of the most popular advertising channels for businesses when its annual revenue has rapidly increased year over year. On this kind of advertising, the app publishers do not only play a critical role in the ad serving process but also receive a significant portion of the advertising revenue. Their goal of maximizing the revenue sometimes contradict with those of the advertisers. This research conceptualises the role of publishers and proposes an integrated effectiveness framework to further improve the effectiveness of mobile in-app advertising not for one but all participants involved. In specific, this research explores the factors being controlled by publishers and evaluates their impact on the common outcome metric of mobile in-app advertising. An application of the proposed effectiveness framework might help to increase the global mobile in-app advertising revenue significantly higher by balancing the benefits of all participants.
Influence of Human Insulin and Insulin Analogues on the Expression of Insig-2 mRNA in 3 T 3L 1 Adipocytes

Objective: To observe the different influence on the expression of Insig-2 mRNA under the condition of human insulin and insulin analogues in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes. Methods: First, experiment in vitro, to culture 3T3-L1 preadipocytes in the solution, which contains human insulin or insulin analogues. The expression of insig-2 mRNA in the 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and the differentiating 3T3-L1 adipocytes was examined by RT-PCR. Second, experiment in vivo, to inject insulin analogues, including insulin glargine and detemir, into the subcutaneous tissue of Wistar Rats. One month later, all rats were dissected to examine the expression of insig-2 mRNA in adipocytes. Results: The expression of insig-2 mRNA in the 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and the differentiating 3T3-L1 adipocytes intervened by insulin detemir was lower than human insulin and other analogy (P<0.05). Also, the decrease in phenomenon would be detected in the in vivo experiment (P<0.05). However, there were no significant difference both lipid and glucose homeostasis in wistar rats. CONCLUSION: The expression of insig-2 mRNA in 3T3-L1 adipocytes could be decreased by insulin detemir. [Ren Jian, Su Jie, Tian Chenguang. Influence of Human Insulin and Insulin Analogues on the Expression of Insig-2 mRNA in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes. Life Sci J 2014;11(7):96-101]. (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 13
Machine Translation from an Intercomprehension Perspective

Within the first shared task on machine translation between similar languages, we present our first attempts on Czech to Polish machine translation from an intercomprehension perspective. We propose methods based on the mutual intelligibility of the two languages, taking advantage of their orthographic and phonological similarity, in the hope to improve over our baselines. The translation results are evaluated using BLEU. On this metric, none of our proposals could outperform the baselines on the final test set. The current setups are rather preliminary, and there are several potential improvements we can try in the future.
INTER-TEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE MARGINAL DISUTILITY OF TRAVEL TIME AND TRAVEL COST DRAFT 2010-0519

The marginal disutility of time and cost are key parameters in most forecasting models used for applications. Since valuation of infrastructure investments requires prediction of travel demand for future evaluation years, it is important to know how the marginal disutilities of time and cost develop over time. Using two identical stated choice experiments conducted with an interval of 13 years, 1994 and 2007, we estimate the inter-temporal variation in marginal utilities of travel time and cost. We find that the marginal disutility of time has remained constant across the samples. The marginal disutility of cost has, on the other hand, decreased. The decrease of the marginal disutility of travel cost is explained by income increases. We find little evidence to support recommendations on changing the travel time parameter in travel demand forecasting models, but clear evidence to support a recommendation that the income elasticity of the cost parameter should be assigned the relevant income elasticity of the value of travel time. Inter-temporal variation in the marginal disutility of travel time and travel cost BÖRJESSON, Maria 12 th WCTR, July 11-15, 2010 – Lisbon, Portugal
ffects of light intensity on the growth and leaf development of young tomato lants grown under a combination of red and blue light iao

We used red light-emitting diodes (LEDs, R) and blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs, B) to obtain the different light intensities of uniform spectra and investigated the effects of different light intensities on growth and leaf development of young tomato plants. The results showed that fresh weight, dry weight, stem diameter and health index were superior in plants grown under 300, 450 and 550 mol m−2 s−1. The energy efficiency was highest under 300 mol m−2 s−1. When photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) −2 −1 herry tomato rowth eaf development EDs ight intensity oung plants increased from 50 to 550 mol m s , a decrease in the specific leaf area (SLA) was observed. Under 300 and 450 mol m−2 s−1, the thickness of leaves, palisade parenchyma and spongy parenchyma were the bigger, and the stomatal frequency and stomatal area per unit leaf area were also higher. The highest net photosynthesis rate (Pn) was observed under 300 mol m−2 s−1. Our results implied that, compared to other light treatments, 300 mol m−2 s−1 was more suitable for the culture of young tomato plants and there was no substantial gain from a PPFD above 300 mol m−2 s−1. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.