Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Joint Channel and Queue Aware Scheduling for Latency Sensitive Mobile Edge Computing With Power Constraints

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices by providing computation resources in their close proximity. However, the design of scheduling policies for MEC systems inevitably encounters a challenging optimization problem that should take both transmissions and computations into consideration. In particular, how to jointly schedule transmissions and computations should adapt to the cross-layer system dynamics, i.e., random task arrivals and channel state variations. We formulate this scheduling problem as a joint optimization problem for both transmissions and computations in order to minimize the power consumption of mobile devices, while meeting the latency requirement. With given distributions of the system dynamics, Markov decision process (MDP) is used to model the system operations. Based on this model, the power-optimal scheduling policy can be obtained by converting the joint optimization problem to linear programming (LP) by using variable substitutions and thus the optimal power-latency tradeoff can be achieved. When the distribution information of the system dynamics is unknown, we exploit the Lyapunov optimization to present a low complexity scheduling policy. Our theoretical analysis and extensive simulation studies show that our approach can offer a good tradeoff between power consumption and latency.
First report of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith, 1797) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), a new migratory pest in Korea.

The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith, 1797), originated from tropical and subtropical America is one of sporadic agricultural pests in the world. Since the moth has high migration capacity, it rapidly expanded the world distribution such as Africa in 2016, India in 2018, and East-Asian countries in 2019. In Korea, this species was firstly found at maize fields of Jeju Island, in early June 2019, and subsequently detected at many counties of Jeolla-do and Gyeongsang-do in June and July 2019. The first invaded populations of S. frugiperda in Korea were genetically confirmed as one species, S. frugiperda by using a mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene, and analyzed to be comprised of two haplotypes (hap-1 and hap-2) each belonging to different clades. Among 31 COI sequences, the hap-1 sequence was predominant, accounting for 93.5%.
G-1: new potential therapeutic option for ovarian cancer

G-1 was initially developed as a selective agonist for G-protein coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER). It has been widely used to investigate the function of GPER in many types of tissues and organs. Our most recent studies unexpectedly found that G-1, in a GPER-independent manner, suppressed ovarian cancer cell proliferation and induced cancer cell death via blocking tubulin polymerization.
Population‐ and community‐level rarity have opposing effects on pollinator visitation and seed set

When can small, isolated populations overcome the negative consequences of rarity? Despite considerable effort to understand threats to rare species, few studies consider how community context alters these threats. Plant–pollinator interactions offer the opportunity to test the effect of community context on rare species success, as plant–pollinator dynamics are thought to be influenced by neighbouring plants, both through competition for pollinators (reducing success in small populations) and attraction of potential pollinators (increasing success in small populations). Here, we test these predictions by experimentally decoupling community‐level rarity (relative abundance) from population‐level rarity (population size) in experimental two‐species fragments. We created experimental plant communities varying independently in population rarity (population size) and community rarity (relative abundance) of two annual plant species. We isolated plant roots to eliminate resource competition. We then compared the effects of population size versus relative abundance on pollinator visitation rates and an estimate of seed production. Both species had greatest pollinator visitation in large populations, but the negative effects of population rarity on visitation were partially offset when the neighbouring species was more abundant—community rarity offset the impacts of population rarity for the most common group of pollinators, solitary bees. These visitation trends impacted seed production for one species. When at low relative abundance, Polanisia dodecandra had higher seed set, matching increased visitation by solitary bees. Chamaecrista fasciculata showed no change in seed production with population‐ or community‐level rarity. Synthesis. Our results suggest that the surrounding community can offset the negative effects of low absolute abundance on fitness when neighbouring species are more abundant, and may ultimately maintain diversity even in fragmented ecological communities.
Efecto de la procedencia geográfica y de la fertilización en la fenología del brote terminal en plántulas de Pseudotsuga sp.

Con el proposito de evaluar las implicaciones del uso de germoplasma fuera de su habitat natural y en la produccion de plantas en vivero, se evaluo la influencia de la procedencia geografica, asi como el efecto de la fertilizacion, sobre las caracteristicas fenologicas del brote terminal en plantulas de Pseudotsuga sp. obtenidas de semillas procedentes de siete poblaciones de diferentes regiones del pais. Los resultados mostraron una variacion significativa (piUiUiUiUiU0.01) entre poblaciones en las fechas de inicio y terminacion y en la duracion del periodo de crecimiento del brote terminal, con diferencias de siete semanas entre las poblaciones extremas. El rompimiento de la yema terminal se correlaciono negativamente con la altitud del sitio de origen (r=-----0.78), sugiriendo una relacion adaptativa con la temperatura umbral requerida para iniciar el crecimiento del brote. Aunque no se encontro un patron geografico bien definido, las poblaciones del norte de Mexico tienen una estacionalidad de crecimiento del brote diferente a las del centro de Mexico. Ademas, las poblaciones del centro de Mexico presentaron menor heterogeneidad individual en los eventos fenologicos asociados al crecimiento del brote. Al utilizar una dosis elevada de fertilizacion se adelanto la fecha de inicio del crecimiento en 10 d y se retraso la formacion de la yema terminal en 9 d, aumentando el periodo de crecimiento del brote en casi tres semanas y reduciendo la heterogeneidad de los eventos fenologicos.
Application and Research Progress of Proteomics in Chicken Meat Quality and Identification: A Review

ABSTRACT One of the common problems faced by scientists in the post-genomic era is understanding the molecular mechanism of the role of genes in the quality of meat. Although proteomics has successful applications in the field of agriculture, medicine, and biological science, its application in meat science, especially in poultry meat science is relatively new. There are few recent reports on the application of proteomics in meat science, but none of them provide a detailed overview of the progress of the application of proteomics in chicken meat quality and identification. With the deepening of research, it has become necessary to summarize the research content and progress of proteomics in chicken meat science in the past decade. Therefore, this paper reviews the progress in the application of proteomics in chicken meat quality performance (edible, processing, and growth) and identification, and summarizes the molecular mechanisms and biomarkers involved in the process. Significance: This review would act as a reference for future research, improvement of processing strategy and identification of adulteration of chicken meat science.
Assessing Sustainability Performance at the Farm Level: Examples from Greek Agricultural Systems

In recent years, farmers and policymakers have faced ample challenges and have struggled to support the sustainability of the agricultural sector. Sustainable agriculture encompasses multiple concepts, and its performance produces extensive debate about data requirements, appropriate indicators, evaluation methods, and tools. Under the European Union (EU) financed project FLINT (Farm Level Indicators for New Topics in policy evaluation), detailed data have been collected at the farm level to provide broader coverage of sustainability indicators on a wide range of relevant topics to facilitate the assessment of sustainability performance. The approach has been applied in a pilot network of representative farms at the EU level, considering the heterogeneity of the EU farming sector to provide data infrastructure with up to date information for sustainability indicators. This study aims to assess sustainability performance at the farm level in Greece. Representative and dominant agricultural systems, such as permanent crops, olive trees, arable crops, and livestock (sheep) farms, comprise the Greek sample. It uses the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methodology and attempts to gain insights into the sustainability performance of agricultural systems. The outcome of the sustainability assessment reveals knowledge and develops support for strategic farm choices in order to support both farmers and policymakers towards more sustainable development plans. The results indicate that three typical Mediterranean farming systems, namely permanent crops, olive trees, and extensive livestock systems (sheep farms), are more sustainable in contrast to intensive and arable crop farms.
Development and validation of nomograms for predicting overall and cancer-specific survival in young patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Background Young patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represent a distinct subgroup of patients with this disease. This study aimed to construct nomograms to predict the overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) of young patients with NSCLC. Methods NSCLC patients under 50 years old diagnosed between 2010 and 2016 were selected from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and randomly divided into training (n=1,357) and validation (n=678) cohorts at a ratio of 2:1. Independent prognostic factors for OS or CSS were identified through the log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards models or competing risk model and further integrated to construct nomograms. The predictive capability of the nomogram was assessed by Harrell’s concordance index (C-index), the calibration curve and risk group stratification. Results A total of 2,035 patients were enrolled. In the training cohort, insurance, marital status, histological type, grade, T stage, N stage and surgery were identified as independent prognostic for OS and CSS. The C-index value were 0.759 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.731–0.787] for OS and 0.810 (95% CI: 0.803–0.818) for BCSS in the training cohort and 0.751 (95% CI: 0.711–0.790) for OS and 0.807 (95% CI: 0.795–0.819) for CSS in the validation cohort. The calibration curves showed optimal agreement between the predicted and actual survival both in internal and external validation. In addition, patients in the validation cohort within different risk groups exhibited significantly different survival even in each TNM stage. Conclusions Nomograms were developed and validated to predict OS and CSS of young patients with NSCLC in our study. A prospective study with more potential prognostic factors and the latest TNM classification is required to ameliorate this model.
Implement the particle finite element method in ABAQUS

We implement the particle finite element method (PFEM) in the general numerical simulation framework ABAQUS to investigate the quasi-static collapse of two-dimensional granular columns and landslides. As a recently proposed continuum approach, the PFEM inherits both the solid mathematical foundation of the particle of the traditional finite element method and the flexibility of particle methods in simulating ultra-large deformation problems. In our work, the governing equations of the PFEM are solved by the ABQUS iteratively to improve the accuracy and efficiency of simulation results. The typical collapse patterns of granular columns are reproduced in the PFEM simulation, and the physical mechanism behind the collapse phenomenon is evaluated. We compare the simulated collapse processes with the experimental observations, where a satisfactory agreement is achieved.
End-To-End Auditory Object Recognition Via Inception Nucleus

Machine learning approaches to auditory object recognition are traditionally based on engineered features such as those derived from the spectrum or cepstrum. More recently, end- to-end classification systems in image and auditory recognition systems have been developed to learn features jointly with classification and result in improved classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end deep neural network to map the raw waveform inputs to sound class labels. Our network includes an "inception nucleus" that optimizes the size of convolutional filters on the fly that results in reducing engineering efforts dramatically. Classification results compared favorably against current state-of-the-art approaches, besting them by 10.4 percentage points on the Ur- bansound8k dataset. Analyses of learned representations revealed that filters in the earlier hidden layers learned waveletlike transforms to extract features that were informative for classification.
Redefining public values: data use and value dilemmas in education

ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how values in education are negotiated and partly redefined by teachers, school leaders and local administrators with data use and accountability. Two dilemmas are prominent for the teachers: 1) Testing and data use are perceived as important to meet the needs of the students and to create transparency and initiating innovation in schools, yet they lead to performance pressure on the students and narrow the societal mandate in education, and 2) Although it is important to identify students at the lowest proficiency levels, the established accountability chains acknowledge the progress of these students and the teachers’ efforts only to a limited extent. However, values such as meeting the needs of individual students, transparency and innovation/renewal are partly redefined and narrowed on other institutional levels. The dilemmas represent real normative conflicts in public services that are ultimately unsolvable yet not necessarily at odds with professional values.
Seasonal Incidence of Aphid, Aphis craccivora (Koch) Infecting Yard Long Bean, Vigna unguiculata sub spp. Sesquipedalis

Yard long bean, Vigna unguiculata sub spp. sesquipedalis is a delicious fresh vegetable belonging to the family Fabaceae. It is also known by other names like asparagus bean, sting bean, long podded cowpea, snake bean and body bean (Purseglove, 1977). It is a highly nutritive vegetable containing a good amount of digestible protein both in pods (23.5 26.3%) and in leaves (Ano and Ubochi, 2008). It can be used as fodder, vegetable, green legume as well as green manure crop. The area of yard long beans in India is about International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 12 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
COMPARATIVE EFFICACY OF Piper guineense (SCHUM AND THONN) AND PIRIMIPHOS METHYL ON Sitophilus zeamais (MOTSCH.) (EFICACIA COMPARATIVA DE Piper guineense (SCHUM AND THONN) Y PIRIMIPHOS METHYL SOBRE Sitophilus zeamais (MOTSCH.))

SUMMARY Powdered seeds of black pepper Piper guineense Schum and Thonn applied at 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4g/50g of maize grains were evaluated for maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais control. An insecticide treatment (1g pirimiphos methyl/50g grain) and an untreated control were included. The effect of particle sizes of the seed powder from P. guineense was also evaluated. Percentage weevil mortality was recorded at 3, 5, 7, 14 and 21 days after infestation. At 5 days post-treatment, all rates of seed powder caused significantly higher mortality than the control while the synthetic insecticide recorded 100% mortality. The finer particle sizes (1mm, 600µm) of the pepper seed powder compared favourably with pirimiphos methyl in the control of S. zeamais. Grains treated with the powder showed significant reduction in the number of progeny derived from surviving S. zeamais. There was no observable feeding damage on grains treated with the higher concentrations and finer particle sizes. The results provide a scientific rationale for the use of P. guineense in post-harvest protection.
Impact of board characteristics on governance, environmental and ethical disclosure

The purpose of this study is to investigate how board characteristics impact the governance, environmental and ethics disclosure. Board characteristics such as board size, gender diversity, board independence, CEO/chair duality and board meeting are included. ,This study is based on a sample of 82 companies listed in the SBF120 between 2012 and 2017. A number of econometric techniques are used such as generalized least squares to test the panel regressions. ,Board independence, board gender diversity and board meetings have a positive and significant influence on governance, environmental and ethics disclosure. Board size is positively and significantly associated only with corporate environmental disclosure. The adoption of Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI, G4) has not affected or biased the corporate governance (CG), environmental and ethics disclosure. ,This study adds to the literature on management reporting behavior and ethics and contributes to the extant CG literature by offering new evidence on the disclosure of good CG practices as well as environmental and ethics behavior. This study offers new insights about the potential influence of board characteristics on such specific disclosure practices focusing “during the optional period of GRI4 and after their mandatory adoption”.
Effect of Potassium Chloride (KCl) on Biochemical and Morphological Parameters of Triticum aestivum L.

The present study investigates how Potassium chloride (KCl) affects and alters the biochemical and morphological characters of Triticum aestivum L variety (Ghanimat). The experiment was arranged in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) under the natural light condition. Potassium chloride (KCl) applied as foliar spray at the dose of (20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 ppm) on wheat plant. Morphological parameters including shoot length, root length, fresh and dry weight, relative water contents, leaf area, leaf no, root no were analyzed along with biochemical contents including Chlorophyll a b, protein, proline, sugar, carotenoid, phenol and amino acid contents. Results showed that the maximum concentration of morphological parameters observed at different applied potassium chloride but maximum morphological parameters are high in (control 20, 40, and Original Research Article Rasheed et al.; AJRIB, 3(3): 10-17, 2020; Article no.AJRIB. 55213 11 60 ppm). Biochemical contents show that maximum concentration of Chlorophyll a b, protein, proline, sugar, carotenoid, phenol and amino acid contents observed in (control 100, and 40 ppm). The current study revealed that KCL deficiency as well as excess concentration affects plant growth and various morpho-physiological processes. The usage of optimum KCl we can improve the T. aestivum L quantitatively and qualitatively.
Anatomy of the vegetative organs of Tradescantia pallida purpurea.

This paper presents an anatomical study of the structure of the roots, stems and leaves of Tradescantia pallida cv. purpurea. The tuberised root of this species has a primary structure, typical one for the herbaceous monocotyledonous plants. The stem also has a primary structure, with two concentrical rings of closed collateral vascular bundles. The structure of the leaf is a heterogenous one, with adaxial uniseriate epidermis, multiseriate hypodermis, uniseriate palisade mesophyll, multiseriate spongy mesophyll, and uniseriate abaxial epidermis. Leaves are dorsiventral, hypostomatic, with tetracytic stomatal complex. The epidermis presented non-ramified bicellular protecting trichomes and epidermal cells have anthocyanins in the vacuolar sistems. In the parenchyma and collenchyma of these vegetative organs, there are many calcium oxalate crystals, particularly tetragonal ones.
Two-component signal transduction

Global perspective Cross regulation and the phosphate regulon Complex phosphate regulation by sequential switches in B subtilis Antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces Genetic switches controlling sporulation in B subtilis The mechanism of the EnvZ-OmpR response to osmotic stress Two-component switches in the caulobacter cell cycle Nitrogen regulation in E coli Hexosephosphate uptake in E coli The mechanism of NtrC stimulation of transcription Mechanism of transcription activation and repression by Spo0A Control of Salmonella typhimurium virulence Regulation of Agrobacterium tumifaciens virulence Control of nitrogen fixation The nitrate reductase system of E coli Degradative enzyme synthesis in B subtilis The vancomycin resistance story Alginate production in Pseudomonas Regulation of anaerobiosis in E coli Regulation of gene transfer in E coli Communication modules in signal transducing genetic switches The structure of response regulator modules The mechanism of the phosphotransfer reaction Control of chemotaxis Myxococcus frizzy genes Conjugal DNA transfer in Bacteriodes
A review of acoustic playback techniques for studying avian vocal duets

Playback experiments involve the broadcast of natural or synthetic sound stimuli and provide a powerful tool for studying acoustic communication in birds. Playback is a valuable technique for exploring vocal duetting behavior because it allows investigators to test predictions of the various hypotheses for duet function. Here, we adopt a methodological perspective by considering various challenges specific to studying duetting behavior, and highlighting the utility of different playback designs for testine duet function. Single-speaker playback experiments allow investigators to determine how duetting birds react to different stimuli, but do not simulate duets in a spatially realistic manner. Multi-speaker playback experiments are superior to single-speaker designs because duet stimuli are broadcast with spatial realism and unique and additional predictions can be generated for testing duet function. In particular, multi-speaker playback allows investigators to evaluate how birds respond to male versus female duet contributions separately, based on reactions to the different loudspeakers. Interactive playback allows investigators to ask questions about the time- and pattern-specific singing behavior of birds, ana to understand how singing strategies correspond to physical behavior during vocal interactions. Although logistically challenging, interactive playback provides a powerful tool for examining specific elements of duets (such as the degree of coordination) and may permit greater insight into their functions from an operational perspective. Interactive playback designs where the investigator simulates half of a duet may be used to describe and investigate the function of pair- specific and population-wide duet codes. Regardless of experimental design, all playback experiments should be based on a sound understanding of the natural duetting behavior of the species of interest, and should aim to produce realistic and carefully controlled duet simulations. Future studies that couple playback techniques with other experimental procedures, such as Acoustic Location System recordings for monitoring the position of birds in dense vegetation or multimodal techniques that combine acoustic with visual stimuli, are expected to provide an even better understanding of these highly complex vocal displays.