Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Infrared Spectra of the Crystalline Inorganic Borates.

Infrared absorption spectra of anhydrous, crystalline, inorganic borates were obtained in the 2000 cm-1 to 300 cm-1 range. Compounds with B10 and B11 isotopes were prepared to assist interpretation. Spectral bands for all orthoborates and pyroborates and some metaborates could be assigned satisfactorily. Borates with complex ring-type anions generally exhibited spectra of such complexity that only superficial interpretation was attempted. From correlations between spectra and structure it appears that boron in 3-fold or in 4-fold coordination can be identified with reasonable assurance on the basis of the infrared spectrum alone. Absorption bands are tabulated for about 80 borates and typical spectra are shown.
Physical and chemical analysis of the experimental soil Soil physical analysis Soil chemical analysis Cation Meq /

Wahba HE, Motawe HM, Ibrahim AY. 2014. Effect of nitrogen fertilizers on productivity of Urtica pilulifera plant. Nusantara Bioscience 6: 49-56. Urtica pilulifera L. have been known for a long time as a medicinal plant for treatments of many diseases, but its agricultural studies and chemical composition did not have enough researches. Two field experiments were carried out at the experimental farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University during two successive seasons 2009 and 2010, to study the effect of nitrogen dressing application (Urea, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate) at different doses (0, 20, 40 and 60 N units/fed.) on growth, yield parameters and chemical composition of Urtica pilulifera plants. The results showed that the application of all nitrogen forms significantly increased the determined parameters as compared to untreated plants and the best treatment was ammonium sulfate at 60 N unit to increase quantitative and qualitative plant production.
Receiver function tomography of the central Tien

To obtain an image of the deep structure of the Tien Shan in central Asia, we invert P and S receiver functions jointly for almost 40 local broad-band seismograph stations. The inversion is performed using a simulated annealing technique. The combined inversion is an improvement on earlier studies, where P and S receiver functions were inverted separately. Using this approach, we deal with structural imaging problems that are usually investigated with teleseismic body wave and surface wave tomography techniques. We demonstrate that the uppermost mantle in the north of the central Tien Shan is composed of a highvelocity lid a few tens of kilometers thick above a pronounced low-velocity zone. The crustal structure in this region provides evidence of magmatic underplating. These features are likely related to a small plume that is manifested by basaltic eruptions of Cretaceous–Paleogene age. The low-velocity layer is also found in a southeast trending corridor, which may correspond to the Bachu uplift in the Tarim basin. Crustal thickness beneath the orogen varies from about 45 to about 70 km. The smallest values, most likely inherited from the pre-orogenic era, are found in a neighborhood of the Talas–Fergana fault. Similar values are characteristic of the Kazakh shield in the north and the Tarim basin in the south. The largest values are found beneath the bounding ranges. We infer that uplift of the central Tien Shan is unlikely to be caused by crustal shortening alone. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The Heart of China revisited: II Early Paleozoic (ultra)high‐pressure and (ultra)high‐temperature metamorphic Qinling orogenic collage

Orogens with multiple (ultra)high‐pressure ((U)HP) and (ultra)high‐temperature ((U)HT) metamorphic events provide a complex but telling record of oceanic and continental interaction. The Early Paleozoic history of the “Heart of China,” the Qinling orogenic collage, offers snapshots of at least three (U)HP and two (U)HT metamorphic events. The preservation of remnants of both oceanic and continental domains together with a ≥110 Myr record of magmatism allows the reconstruction of the processes that resulted in this disparate metamorphism. Herein, we first illuminate the pressure‐temperature‐time (P‐T‐t) evolution of the Early Paleozoic (U)HP and (U)HT events by refining the petrographic descriptions and P‐T estimates, assess published, and employ new U/Th‐Pb zircon, monazite, and titanite, and 40Ar‐39Ar phengite geochronology to date the magmatic and metamorphic events. Then we explore how the metamorphic and magmatic events are related tectonically and how they elucidate the affinities among the various complexes in the Qinling orogenic collage. We argue that a Meso‐Neoproterozoic crustal fragment—the Qinling complex—localized subduction‐accretion events that involved subduction, oceanic‐arc formation, and back‐arc spreading along its northern margin, and mtantle‐wedge exhumation and spreading‐ridge subduction along its southern margin.
The Nuclear Receptor REVERB a Regulates Fabp 7 and Modulates Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

The function of the nuclear receptor Rev-erba (Nr1d1) in the brain is, apart from its role in the circadian clock mechanism, unknown. Therefore, we compared gene expression profiles in the brain between wild-type and Rev-erba knock-out (KO) animals. We identified fatty acid binding protein 7 (Fabp7, Blbp) as a direct target of repression by REV-ERBa. Loss of Reverba manifested in memory and mood related behavioral phenotypes and led to overexpression of Fabp7 in various brain areas including the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampus, where neuronal progenitor cells (NPCs) can initiate adult neurogenesis. We found increased proliferation of hippocampal neurons and loss of its diurnal pattern in Rev-erba KO mice. In vitro, proliferation and migration of glioblastoma cells were affected by manipulating either Fabp7 expression or REVERBa activity. These results suggest an important role of Rev-erba and Fabp7 in adult neurogenesis, which may open new avenues for treatment of gliomas as well as neurological diseases such as depression and Alzheimer. Citation: Schnell A, Chappuis S, Schmutz I, Brai E, Ripperger JA, et al. (2014) The Nuclear Receptor REV-ERBa Regulates Fabp7 and Modulates Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis. PLoS ONE 9(6): e99883. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0099883 Editor: Henrik Oster, University of Lübeck, Germany Received February 20, 2014; Accepted May 19, 2014; Published June 16, 2014 Copyright: 2014 Schnell et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: Funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Velux Foundation and the State of Fribourg is gratefully acknowledged. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: urs.albrecht@unifr.ch ¤a Current address: Vifor Pharma, Fribourg, Switzerland ¤b Current address: The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America ¤c Current address: Dept. of Biochemistry, Sciences II, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland ¤d Current address: Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, EPFL Innovation Park, Lausanne, Switzerland
Comparison of approaches for developing self-adaptive systems

The engineering of software systems enables developers to create very powerful, complex and highly customized software systems by utilizing newest technical capabilities. However, these systems often are error-prone, inflexible, non-reusable and expensive to maintain. Self-adaptation attends to these challenges, offering new ways to automate the adjustment of a system's structure and state. For that reason, many software development approaches specifically consider self-adaptability, leading to a high diversity of methodologies with different characteristics and areas of application. This work addresses this issue by presenting a taxonomy for the analysis and comparison of different approaches for developing self-adaptive systems. In addition, different sample approaches are presented, demonstrating how these dimensions can be applied to compare and classify related work.
Design and Evaluation of Nonlinear Verification Device for Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzers

A simple diode-based nonlinear verification device (NVD) design for nonlinear vector network analyzers is presented together with an improved figure of merit (FOM) parameter that is insensitive to impedance match and isolates variation of the device’s nonlinear parameters. The stability over 84 h and load–pull performance of this new design have been evaluated.
Wind Energy: Forecasting Challenges for Its Operational Management

Renewable energy sources, especially wind energy, are to play a larger role in providing electricity to industrial and domestic consumers. This is already the case today for a number of European countries, closely followed by the US and high growth countries, for example, Brazil, India and China. There exist a number of technological, environmental and political challenges linked to supplementing existing electricity generation capacities with wind energy. Here, mathematicians and statisticians could make a substantial contribution at the interface of meteorology and decision-making, in connection with the generation of forecasts tailored to the various operational decision problems involved. Indeed, while wind energy may be seen as an environmentally friendly source of energy, full benefits from its usage can only be obtained if one is able to accommodate its variability and limited predictability. Based on a short presentation of its physical basics, the importance of considering wind power generation as a stochastic process is motivated. After describing representative operational decision-making problems for both market participants and system operators, it is underlined that forecasts should be issued in a probabilistic framework. Even though, eventually, the forecaster may only communicate single-valued predictions. The existing approaches to wind power forecasting are subsequently described, with focus on single-valued predictions, predictive marginal densities and space-time trajectories. Upcoming challenges related to generating improved and new types of forecasts, as well as their verification and value to forecast users, are finally discussed.
A SensitiveBioluminescentImmunoinhibitionTest for CK-B SubunitActivityand a CK-MB Specific ELISA Compared : Correlationwith Agarose Electrophoresisand Influenceof CK-lsoenzyme Profileon Results

Searching for alternatives to the imprecise spectrophotomettic tests for low-concentration creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) isoenzyme MB (CK-MB), we investigated the analytical performance of two potentially superior approaches-a bioluminescent immunoinhibition assay (I, LKB-Wallac) and an ELISA (enzyme-labeled immunosorbent assay) technique (II, Hybritech)-in comparison with an electrophoretic method (III, Beckman). Only I showed good between-day precision (CV 8.3%) at the upper reference limit, allowing reproducible assay of CK-B subunit activity down to at least 3 U/L. In conditions where CK isoenzyme assays remained unaffected by CK-MM concentrations, test results were proportional to the amount of CK-MB in the sample up to at least 50 U/L for I, 120 g/L for II, and 100 U/L for III (r >0.998 by linear regression analysis). For CK-MB-positive samples, the data by I correlated more closely with values by Ill (n = 24; r = 0.994) than did results by II (n = 15; r = 0.909), but both methods were equally effective in discriminating between samples with or without electrophoretically supranormal CKMB activity (93% sensitivity). II was entirely CK-MB specific, whereas CK-B activity by I was consistently (18/18) increased in CK-MB-negative samples containing CK-BB (n = 6; r = 0.996) or macro CK, types 1 or 2 (n = 12; r 0.930). I is highly sensitive for screening for increased non-MM CK activity, the nature of which should be subsequently clarified by electrophoresis.
Comparative evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity of Triphala and commercially available Toothpastes: An in-vitro study

Background. Triphala is an ayurvedic herbal formulation consisting of the dried fruits of three medicinal plants Terminalia chebula, Terminalia belerica and Phyllanthus embelica, which is used for conditions like headache, constipation, liver conditions and it possess anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-aging properties. Aim. The present study was undertaken to assess the antimicrobial properties of Triphala in comparison with commercially available toothpastes. Materials and Methods. The standard stock culture of Streptococcus mutans strain from Microbial type culture collection (MTCC), Chandigarh and clinical culture of Streptococcus mutans isolated from the plaque samples of the patients were used. The antimicrobial activity of ethanol extracts of Triphala and commercially available toothpastes (Product 1and Product 2) against MTCC strain and clinical isolate of Streptococcus mutans was evaluated using agar gel diffusion method. Further, Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC)/ Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) values were obtained using broth dilution method. Statistical analysis. The collected data were statistically analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to evaluate the differences. The threshold for the statistical significance was set at P<0.05. Results. The present study showed that Triphala has significant antimicrobial activity when compared to commercially available Product 1 and Product 2 toothpaste (P<0.05). Conclusions. Triphala has significant antimicrobial activity and thus can be employed as an effective anti-plaque agent and can be used in the prevention of dental caries. Since Triphala is of herbal nature, it can be easily extracted and is cost effective.
Occurrence and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella spp Isolated from Raw Cow's Milk from Shahahrekord, Iran

The World Health Organization has recently pointed out an alarming increase in the incidence of antibiotic resistant strains of Salmonella, which are due to the use of antibiotics in intensive breeding. Salmonella spp is one of the main causes of forborne illness worldwide. Conventional plating methods for the detection of these microorganisms in food are well established. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence and antibiotic resistance of Salmonella species from raw cow's milk samples in Shahrekord city. A total 350 raw cow' bulk milk samples were collected from commercial dairy herds in Shahrekord city. Using cultural method, 14 of 350 raw cow's milk samples (4%) were contaminated with Salmonella. In the present study Salmonella isolates showed resistance to: Nalidixic acid, Cephalothin, Ampicillin, Streptomycin, Neomycin, Chloramphenicol and Tetracycline.
SDN-based Incast Congestion Control Framework for Data Centers: Implementation and Evaluation

Due to the partition/aggregate nature of many distributed cloud-based applications, incast trafﬁc carried by TCP abounds in data center networks (DCNs). TCP, being agnostic to such applications’ trafﬁc patterns and their delay-sensitivity, cannot cope with the resulting congestion events, leading to severe performance degradation. The co-existence of such incast trafﬁc with other throughput-hogging elastic trafﬁc ﬂows in the network worsens the performance further. In this paper, relying on the programmability of Software Deﬁned Networks (SDN), we address this problem in an efﬁcient and easily deployable manner to make it appealing to DCN operators and clients alike. We propose a SDN-based incast congestion control framework based on SDN controller and the hypervisor/vswitch programmability without modifying the guest VM nor the SDN-capable switches. We assess the performance of the proposed scheme via real deployment in a small-scale testbed and ns2 simulation in larger environments. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework can help incast trafﬁc achieve faster completion time without affecting long-lived ﬂows performance.
Asthma and allergies among adolescents: comparison of symptoms and prevalence between urban and rural settings -

Background: Asthma and allergies have developed into the most popular chronic diseases in children. Little information is available about the prevalence of these diseases in Saudi Arabia, especially among the adolescents and in rural areas. So, our aim is to describe the prevalence of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema symptoms in the rural and urban areas from Riyadh region–Saudi Arabia. Objective: To assess the prevalence of allergic diseases (bronchial asthma, rhinitis, and eczema) in adolescents, compare the prevalence of allergic diseases between the adolescents living in the urban area and those living in the rural area, and assess the relationship between asthma and other allergic diseases. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the intermediate and high schools in the Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia. The Arabic version of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Children (ISAAC) questionnaire tool was distributed to 568 students in the rural area and 556 students in the urban area. The factors such as lifetime, 12 months, and the severity prevalence were determined for asthma, rhinitis, and eczema symptoms. Result: The mean age of the participants was 16.5 years. The prevalence of lifetime wheeze, asthma diagnosed by physician, and wheezing during the last 12 months was 19.2%, 23.1%, and 10.3%, respectively. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of lifetime wheeze between the adolescents of the rural (19%) and urban (19.4%) (p = 0.86) areas. The prevalence of rhinitis symptoms in the last 12 months among the students was 28.1%, with no significant difference between the rural and urban regions. Allergic rhinitis was highly associated with lifetime wheeze [odds ratio (OR) = 2.94, p < 0.001], asthma diagnosed by physician (OR = 2.73, p < 0.001), and exercise-induced wheeze (OR = 3.55, p < 0.001). Conclusion: The prevalence of asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in Saudi Arabia is elevated, although it is near to the reported prevalence ranges from many countries. Asthma, rhinitis, and eczema symptoms show a similar prevalence between the adolescents of the rural and urban areas. Asthma symptoms are strongly associated with rhinitis and eczema symptoms.
Disability compensation seeking among veterans evaluated for posttraumatic stress disorder.

OBJECTIVE This study sought to further examine the relationship between compensation-seeking status and reporting of symptoms among combat veterans who were evaluated for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS Archival data were drawn for 320 adult male combat veterans who were consecutively evaluated at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) PTSD outpatient clinic from 1995 to 1999. The veterans were compared on variables from their clinical evaluation, including diagnostic status and self-report measures such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, which includes scales designed to detect feigned or exaggerated psychopathology. RESULTS Compensation-seeking veterans reported significantly more distress across domains of psychopathology, even after the effects of income had been controlled for and despite an absence of differences in PTSD diagnoses between groups. However, compensation-seeking veterans also were much more likely to overreport or exaggerate their symptoms than were non-compensation-seeking veterans. CONCLUSIONS This study provided further evidence that VA disability compensation incentives influence the way some veterans report their symptoms when they are being evaluated for PTSD. These data suggest that current VA disability policies have problematic implications for the delivery of clinical care, evaluation of treatment outcome, and rehabilitation efforts within the VA.
Testicular and epididymal ultrasonography in Santa Inês lambs raised in Brazil

The objective of this work was to study, through ultrasonographic evaluation, changes in testes and epididymides of clinically healthy, peripubertal and pubertal Santa Inês lambs raised in Brazil. Periodic evaluations of weight, biometric characteristics (scrotal circumference, width and length) and ultrasound examinations of the testes and epididymides of 20 lambs were performed between 84 and 280 days old at intervals of 28 days. Scans were performed in the sagittal, transverse, frontal and oblique planes to evaluate the echotexture of the testicular parenchyma and mediastinum and the tail epididymis as well as the thickness and width of the mediastinum testis. The testicular parenchyma demonstrated a homogeneous echogenicity pattern ranging from low to moderate. The echogenicity of testicular parenchyma increased in direct proportion to animal age, being higher in pubertal lambs when compared to prepubertal at the same age. The mediastinum testis was observed in 100% of the evaluated animals, regardless of the scan plane used, and was classified as diffuse or moderately or highly echogenic. Echogenicity and the thickness of the mediastinum testis increased in direct proportion to animal age. The epididymal tail was presented in hypoechoic relation to the testicular parenchyma. Based on these results, it was concluded that ultrasound is useful tool for selection and morphophysiological evaluation of Santa Inês lambs on peripubertal and pubertal phases, when used in combination with other methods such as semen evaluation.
Understanding the Sources of Risk Underlying the Cross Section of Commodity Returns

We show that a model featuring an average commodity factor, a carry factor, and a momentum factor is capable of describing the cross-sectional variation of commodity returns. More parsimonious oneand two-factor models that feature only the average and/or carry factors are rejected. To provide an economic interpretation, we show that innovations in equity volatility can price portfolios formed on carry with a negative risk premium, while innovations in our measure of speculative activity can price portfolios formed on momentum with a positive risk premium. Furthermore, we characterize the relation of the factors with the investment opportunity set.
High-Directivity, Electrically Small, Low-Profile Near-Field Resonant Parasitic Antennas

A combination of metastructures is used to achieve high directivity, electrically small, low-profile, linear (LP) and circularly polarized (CP) near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) antennas. A conformal metamaterial-inspired Egyptian axe dipole antenna is introduced, and its performance characteristics are presented. The electrically small, low-profile LP and CP high-directivity systems are achieved by amalgamating this NFRP antenna with an electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure, which acts as an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) ground plane. As with all of the nonconformal metamaterial-inspired antennas, the designs of the driven and parasitic elements of these low-profile antennas are tailored to achieve nearly complete matching of the entire system to a 50- source without any matching network and to yield high radiation efficiencies.