Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Materials, Systems and Structures (SMSS2019) Durability, Monitoring and Repair of Structures

Lime-based mortars seem to be preferred in repairing historical structures. The long-term performance of lime-based repair mortars is closely related to durability issues concerning the old structure substrate, the new repair mortars and the interface between the two aforementioned materials, which is also much influenced by the technique of mortars application. It is well known that durability is a multifunctional property affected by a number of parameters, including local environmental conditions. However, experience (based on research and survey of real case studies) showed that some of the parameters concerning the characteristics of materials play a dominant role in assessing the durability of repair lime-based mortars and have a direct impact on longevity of the repaired structure. This paper presents comments of review papers concerning research publications or case studies, as well as Master or PhD theses supervised or carried out by the members of RILEM TC 277 LHS. Through the review and evaluation of research and common practice concerning durability challenges, we anticipate to find answers to questions arising in assessing the durability of repair lime-based mortars, such as: the most often encountered failures due to mortar durability inadequacy, the mortar properties/characteristics that seem to be influential on durability, the test methods used for testing the durability of lime-based mortars and comments related to their applicability and performance and the importance of quality control and on site execution practices. Abstract Lime‐based mortars ‐ are preferred for the repair of historic structures, where they were used in the construction of the original. The long‐term performance of repair lime mortars is closely related to durability issues, concerning the old structure’s substrate, the new repair mortars and the interface between the two, which is also much influenced by the technique of mortar’s application. Durability is a multifunctional property affected by a number of parameters, including local environmental conditions. However, experience shows that some characteristics of materials play a dominant role for assessing the durability of repair lime mortars and have a direct impact on the longevity of the repaired structure. This paper presents a review of research; case studies and Master/PhD projects supervised by members of the RILEM TC 277‐LHS. Through this review we evaluate research and common practice concerning durability challenges and attempt to answer questions arising when assessing the durability of repair lime mortars including: 1) The most often encountered failures, due to inadequate mortar durability, 2) The characteristics of mortars that influence durability, 3) The methods used for testing the durability of lime‐based mortars, with an evaluation of their applicability and performance, 4) The importance of quality control and on‐site execution practices.
Biology: Dynamical representation of dominance relationships in the human medial prefrontal cortex

Romain Ligneul, Ignacio Obeso, Christian C. Ruff*, and Jean-Claude Dreher* 1 Neuroeconomics, Reward and decision making group, Center for cognitive neurosciences, CNRS, University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France 2 Current address: Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Motivational and Cognitive Control group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 3 Current address: Centro Integral en Neurociencias A.C. (CINAC), HM HospitalesPuerta del Sur and CEU-San Pablo University, Madrid, Spain 4 Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research (SNS-Lab), Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. * Equal contribution
Quantitative Multilevel Analysis of Central Metabolism in Developing Oilseeds of Brassica napus during in vitro culture

1 Running head: Central metabolism in oilseeds 2 3 4 To whom correspondence should be addressed: 5 Hardy Rolletschek, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), 6 Department of Molecular Genetics, Corrensstr. 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany, Tel. +49 7 (0)34982 5686; Fax +49 (0)39482 5500; E-mail: rollet@ipk-gatersleben.de 8 9 10 Research area: Biochemistry and Metabolism 11 12 Plant Physiology Preview. Published on May 5, 2015, as DOI:10.1104/pp.15. 00385
Adaptive Dynamics of Extortion and Compliance you. matters

Direct reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. For the iterated prisoner’s dilemma, a new class of strategies has recently been described, the so-called zero-determinant strategies. Using such a strategy, a player can unilaterally enforce a linear relationship between his own payoff and the co-player’s payoff. In particular the player may act in such a way that it becomes optimal for the co-player to cooperate unconditionally. In this way, a player can manipulate and extort his co-player, thereby ensuring that the own payoff never falls below the co-player’s payoff. However, using a compliant strategy instead, a player can also ensure that his own payoff never exceeds the co-player’s payoff. Here, we use adaptive dynamics to study when evolution leads to extortion and when it leads to compliance. We find a remarkable cyclic dynamics: in sufficiently large populations, extortioners play a transient role, helping the population to move from selfish strategies to compliance. Compliant strategies, however, can be subverted by altruists, which in turn give rise to selfish strategies. Whether cooperative strategies are favored in the long run critically depends on the size of the population; we show that cooperation is most abundant in large populations, in which case average payoffs approach the social optimum. Our results are not restricted to the case of the prisoners dilemma, but can be extended to other social dilemmas, such as the snowdrift game. Iterated social dilemmas in large populations do not lead to the evolution of strategies that aim to dominate their co-player. Instead, generosity succeeds.
Sign-changing radial solutions for the Schr\"odinger-Poisson-Slater problem

We consider the Schr\"odinger-Poisson-Slater (SPS) system in $\R^3$ and a nonlocal SPS type equation in balls of $\mathbb R^3$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show that for every $k\in\mathbb N$ each problem considered admits a nodal radially symmetric solution which changes sign exacly $k$ times in the radial variable. Moreover when the domain is the ball of $\mathbb R^3$ we obtain the existence of radial global solutions for the associated nonlocal parabolic problem having $k+1$ nodal regions at every time.
MRI EVALUATION OF BONE TUMORS AND TUMORS LIKE CONDITION

Background : MRI plays an important role in diagnosis and treatment of bone tumor in current scenario. MRI can differentiate bone tumor as either benign or malignant and determine its stage thereby helping in making decisions for type/site of biopsy and in planning treatment. Objective: The objectives of our study were to assess the diagnostic accuracy of MRI in bone tumor and tumor like conditions with histopathological correlation and to describe their spectrum and MRI features. Methods : This was a hospital based study carried out on cross sectional basis in the Department of Radiology over a period of one year. 32 patients who underwent MRI and histopathological examination of bone tumor and tumor like conditions were selected for the study. The true positive, false positive, true negative and false negative cases were determined considering histopathology as a gold standard and diagnostic accuracy was calculated. Result: Among 32 patients, 16 (50%) cases were diagnosed as benign tumor, 9 (28%) were diagnosed as tumor like condition, 5 (15.6%) cases were diagnosed as primary malignant tumor and 2 (6.2%) as metastatic tumor. GCT was the most common benign tumor (4,12.5%) and osteosarcoma (3, 9.4%) was the most common malignant tumor. Most cases (29, 90.6%) were accurately diagnosed on MRI and confirmed on histopathology. Diagnostic accuracy of MRI was between 93.7 to 100%. Conclusion: MRI was found to be a valuable modality of imaging in diagnosing various tumor and tumor like conditions of bone. hyperintense on T2W sequences. The lesion shows mild to moderate enhancement on post contrast images with few small non-enhancing areas within it.
CIA_A_310774 1119..1129

Point your SmartPhone at the code above. If you have a QR code reader the video abstract will appear. Or use: https://youtu.be/5WtzQX_CSEc Introduction: Maintaining skeletal muscle function throughout life is a crucial component of successful aging. Disadvantaged socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with adverse health outcomes, but has not been extensively studied for the muscle disease sarcopenia. We aimed to determine the prevalence of probable sarcopenia, a precursor to sarcopenia diagnosis, based on the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2 (EWGSOP2) guidelines overall, and according to SEP. Methods: This cross-sectional study comprised 3342 community-dwelling older adults [mean age (SD) 68.9 ± 6.3 years] from Wave 1 of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Probable sarcopenia was identified using gender-specific cut-off values for handgrip strength as recommended by EWGSOP2. SEP was defined by educational attainment. Multivariate regression analysis was employed to determine associations between probable sarcopenia and pre-defined risk factors. Results: Overall, 23.4% of the population had probable sarcopenia and was significantly higher in the subset with low compared with high SEP (28.9% vs 18.1%, p<0.001). Consistent with this, multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that disadvantaged SEP was a significant determinant of probable sarcopenia [OR, CI 1.48 (1.17, 1.87) p<0.001]. Other known risk factors, namely, increased age, low physical activity, comorbidity, and osteoarthritis were significantly associated with an increased likelihood of probable sarcopenia, while overweight/obesity appeared to be protective. Conclusion: Disadvantaged SEP was an independent determinant of probable sarcopenia in community-dwelling older adults. These findings highlight that SEP and health inequality should be considered in prevention and treatment policy for sarcopenia in the community.
Partial martingale diﬀerence correlation ∗

: We introduce the partial martingale diﬀerence correlation, a scalar-valued measure of conditional mean dependence of Y given X , adjusting for the nonlinear dependence on Z , where X , Y and Z are random vectors of arbitrary dimensions. At the population level, partial martingale diﬀerence correlation is a natural extension of partial distance correlation developed recently by Sz´ekely and Rizzo [14], which characterizes the dependence of Y and X , after controlling for the nonlinear eﬀect of Z . It extends the martingale diﬀerence correlation ﬁrst introduced in Shao and Zhang [10] just as partial distance correlation extends the distance corre- lation in Sz´ekely, Rizzo and Bakirov [13]. Sample partial martingale diﬀerence correlation is also deﬁned building on some new results on equivalent expressions of sample martingale diﬀerence correlation. Numerical results demonstrate the eﬀectiveness of these new dependence measures in the context of variable selection and dependence testing.
Design und Implementierung eines Digitalen Lernspiels zum Thema Email Phishing

The amount of unique phishing emails is steadily increasing and even though technical solutions are evolving, they are incapable of eliminating this threat completely. Therefore, educating users about the dangers of such emails is more relevant than ever. To facilitate the learning process and to encourage users to study the subject, digital learning games were devised. This master thesis covers the design and implementation of the anti-phishing learning game More Than Meets The Eye. The development is based on other state-of-the-art anti-phishing learning games and literature on the subject. More Than Meets The Eye tasks its users to create phishing emails from predefined options, which aims to ensure that users achieve a high comprehension level of the subject. Throughout the game, the users learn how to identify specific phishing features by carefully reading the content of each predefined option. Moreover, the game verifies that users understand which parts of an email indicate phishing by tasking them to match text excerpts from their created phishing emails with corresponding phishing features. The game was tested via a usability study, resulting in an update based on the received criticism, mainly in regards to the game’s instructions. Apart from that, all test users found the game engaging and were able to gain a deeper understanding of phishing emails and anti-phishing measures. M. Drevers – Design and Implementation of a Digital Learning Game about Email Phishing 1
In Vitro E ﬀ ect of Putty Calcium Silicate Materials on Human Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells

: New bioactive materials have been developed for retrograde root ﬁlling. These materials come into contact with vital tissues and facilitate biomineralization and apical repair. The objective of this study was to evaluate the cytocompatibility and bioactivity of two bioactive cements, Bio-C Repair (Angelus, Londrina, Pr, Brazil) and TotalFill BC RRM putty (FGK, Dentaire SA, La-Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland). The biological properties in human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLSCs) that were exposed to Bio-C Repair and TotalFill BC RRM putty were studied. Cell viability, migration, and cell adhesion were analyzed. Moreover, qPCR and mineralization assay were performed to evaluate the bioactivity potential of these cements. The results were statistically analyzed using ANOVA and the Tukey test ( p < 0.05). It was observed that cell viability and cell migration in Bio-C Repair and TotalFill BC RRM putty were similar to the control without statistically signiﬁcant di ﬀ erences, except at 72 h when TotalFill BC RRM putty was slightly lower ( p < 0.05). Excellent cell adhesion and morphology were observed with both Bio-C Repair and TotalFill BC RRM putty. Both cements promoted the osteo- and cementogenic di ﬀ erentiation of hPDLSCs. These results suggest that Bio-C Repair and TotalFill BC RRM putty are biologically appropriate materials to be used as retrograde obturation material. washed with PBS, and then incubated for 15 min at 4 ◦ C with monoclonal antibodies conjugated with ﬂuorescent dyes. The following antibody cocktails were used: MSC-positive cocktail (CD90, CD105, and CD73) and MSC-negative cocktail (CD34, CD14, CD20, and CD45) (MiltenyiBiotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany). Results were evaluated using FlowJo software (FlowJo LLC, Ashland, OR, USA).
Nonclassical diffusion with memory

We consider the nonclassical diffusion equation with hereditary memory ut−Δut−Δu−∫0∞κ(s)Δu(t−s)ds+φ(u)=f on a bounded three‐dimensional domain. Setting the problem in the past history framework, and with very general assumptions on the memory kernel κ, we prove that the related solution semigroup possesses a global attractor of optimal regularity. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
EFFECT OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-I AND EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR ON IN VITRO EMBRYO PRODUCTION IN CATTLE

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of supplementing in vitro maturation medium and culture medium with insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), epidermal growth factor (EGF) and a combination of them on the development of in vitro–matured and fertilized (IVM/IVF) bovine oocytes, as well as their developmental rate to cleavage and blastocyst stages. For this purpose, 464 bovine ovaries were collected from Beni Suef abattoir; oocytes were aspirated and used for in vitro maturation and subsequent embryo development. The current results revealed that supplementing maturation and culture media with a combination of IGF-I and EGF was the best treatment for improving rates of IVM, IVF, cleavage and blastocyst development. Addition of IGF-I or EGF into maturation medium had insignificant effect on IVM rate but significantly enhanced subsequent embryonic development as compared to control. Moreover, including IGF-I in culture medium significantly improved cleavage, morula and blastocyst rate as compared to EGF-group.
Physical Performance measures Predict Incident Cognitive Decline among Intact Older Adults? A 4.4 year follow up study Predict among Adults?

Reductions in physical performance, cognitive impairment (CI) and decline (CD), are common in older age, but few prospective cohort studies have considered the relationship between these domains. In this study we investigated whether reduced physical performance and low handgrip/ lower limbs strength, could predict a higher incidence of CI/CD during a 4-year follow-up among a cohort of elderly individuals. From 3,099 older community-dwelling individuals initially enrolled in the Progetto Veneto Anziani (PRO.V.A.) study, 1,249 participants without CI at the baseline were included (mean age 72.2 years, 59.5 % females). Physical performance measures included the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), 4m gait speed, chair stands time, leg extension and flexion, handgrip strength, and 6-Minute Walking Test (6MWT), categorized in gender-specific tertiles. CI was defined as a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score below 24; CD a decline of 3 or more points in the MMSE without CI. At baseline, participants developing CI during follow-up scored significantly worse across all physical performance measures compared to those that retained normal cognitive status. After adjusting for potential confounders, a significant trend for MMSE changes was noted for all physical performance tests, except for the SPPB and chair stands time. Multinomial logistic regression revealed that slow gait speed at baseline significantly predicted CD at follow up. Poor SPPB performance and slower gait speed predicted the onset of CI at the follow-up. In conclusion, slow walking speed appears to be the best independent predictor of poor cognitive status over a 4.4-year follow-up, while other items of SPPB were also significantly associated with CI.
The Vedic -YA-Presents: Passives and Intransitivity in Old Indo-Aryan

Preface Contents Abbreviations Introduction Vedic -ya-formations: preliminaries Syntactic and semantic preliminaries Corpus of texts and evaluation of evidence The structure of the survey of -ya-presents A Survey of Vedic -ya-presents Middle -ya-presents with suffix accentuation Middle -ya-presents with root accentuation Middle -ya-presents with fluctuating accentuation Unaccented middle -ya-presents Active -ya-presents Cyati presents A Systematic Analysis and Classification of -ya-presents Morphophonological classes of -ya-stems Semantics of -ya-presents Transitivity alternations and paradigmatic oppositions within the system of -ya-presents Remarks on paradigmatic properties of -ya-presents -ya-passives and other passive formations Diathesis fluctuations in -ya-presents Vedic -ya-presents in a diachronic perspective Appendices Post-Vedic -ya-presents: a selection Vedic quasi-denominatives and their passives -ya-passives and other formations attested in the passive usage: a synopsis Bibliography Texts Secondary literature Abbreviations Indices Index verborum Index locorum Index rerum
Association between virulence factors and antibiotic resistance in E.coli patients in Banha between virulence factors and antibiotic oli isolated from urinary tract infection anha University Hospitals between virulence factors and antibiotic urinary tract infection s, Egypt

This study aim isolated from patients with UTI, and biofilm formation and antibiotic University were isolates method was used to detect biofilm formation. Isolated strains were screened for harbo Hly resistance against the Sixty two detected in among Cnf in the comparison resistance to Tazobactamclavulanic acid and difference ceftriaxoneresistant is a genes among the importancevirulence factors and antimicrobial resistance should be periodically evaluated in each health care facilities. Abstract This study aimed to assess the antibiotic resistance pattern among isolated from patients with UTI, to detect the presence of virulence factors and biofilm formation and to evaluate the relation between virulence factors and antibiotic resistance. A cross sectional study was niversity Hospitals, Egypt from May to November, 2020. Urine samples were obtained from included patients. Vitek-2 was used for isolates and perforrming antimicrobial suscebtipility testing. method was used to detect biofilm formation. Isolated strains were screened for harboring virulence genes A, and Cnf1 using multiplex PCR. E.coli isolates showed highest resistance against ampicillin 86(96.6%) followed cefazolin the most susceptibility was to both imipenem and Sixty two (67.7%) isolates were multidrug-resistant. detected in 54(60.7%) isolates. FimH has the highest prevalence 63(70.8%) among E. coli isolates, followed by PapC 37(41.6%) Cnf 1 genes 2(2.2%). The prevelance of the FimH gene was in the strains resistant to ampicillin, cefazolin, ceftazidime and comparison to the susceptible strains. The Pap resistance to ceftazidime, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid Tazobactam. The Cnf1 gene was related to resistance to amoxicillin/ clavulanic acid and nitrofurantoin. There was a difference between biofilm production and resistance to ampicillin, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime and ciprofloxacin. In resistant E. coli showed high prevelance among isolates 62 is a significant clinical challenge. The highest prevalence of virulence genes among the E coli strains such as FimH and importance in pathogenesis of UTI caused by E coli virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance should be periodically evaluated in each health care facilities.
Approximations Of Bond And Swaption Prices In A Black–Karasiński Model

We derive semi-analytic approximation formulae for bond and swaption prices in a Black–Karasinski (BK) interest rate model. Approximations are obtained using a novel technique based on the Karhunen–Loeve expansion. Formulas are easily computable and prove to be very accurate in numerical tests. This makes them useful for numerically efficient calibration of the model.