Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
2 The Fundamental Plane at z = 0 : 39 : Implications for the Evolution of M ⁄ L Ratios

We present results on the Fundamental Plane of early-type galaxies in the rich cluster CL 0024 + 16 at z=0.391. The internal velocity dispersions of the galaxies have been measured from a 19 hour integration at the MMT. The photometric parameters of the galaxies have been measured from deep HST images. The galaxies satisfy a tight Fundamental Plane relation which is similar to that at low redshift. The scatter is 15 % in logre, also very similar to that at low redshift. The data show that massive early-type galaxies existed at z=0.4, and extends earlier studies of the luminosities and colors of early-types in rich clusters. The evolution of the M⁄ L ratio is derived from the Fundamental Plane, by a comparison with Coma. The M⁄ L ratio increases by 31 12 % between z = 0:391, and z = 0:023. The evolution is low when compared to models for stellar populations. The expected evolution depends on the IMF, q0, and the formation redshift of the galaxies. The data are in agreement with high formation redshifts. The modeling is still uncertain, however, because of various possible biases. The most serious bias may be the progenitor bias: if the progenitors of some current day early-types are spirals at z = 0:4, they would not be included in the sample, and the sample would be biased towards the oldest galaxies. More data are needed to measure the evolution of the Fundamental Plane more precisely, and its scatter. There is a hint that the form of the Fundamental Plane changes with redshift, and this needs to be determined better. Deeper samples on more clusters would be valuable. Studies of the richest nearby clusters may help to test the underlying hypothesis that the Fundamental Plane is identical in all clusters. Pieter G. van Dokkum and Marijn Franx, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. , 281, 985 (1996) 10 FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES
Chiropractic care has an excellent safety record in Australia

The Chiropractors’ Association of Australia (CAA) is disturbed by recent media reports which question the safety and efficacy of chiropractic care, particularly concerning children. Both in Australia and around the world chiropractic care is a low risk modality of health care. There have been few if any serious adverse events reported in medical literature in the past twenty years despite utilisation rates for chiropractors increasing significantly in this time. In Australia there are more than 12 million visits to chiropractors each year. Over 1 million of these (approximately 8.6 per cent of visits annually) are paediatric visits.
Cardiac autonomic modulation during different modes of weaning of mechanical ventilation

Methods: Cardiorespiratory parameters (SBP, DBP, MAP, RR, SpO2) of 18 participants were collected and a cardio-frequency meter was placed. The subjects were kept in supine Fowler's position t, ventilating for 10 minutes in the assist-controlled (A/C) ventilation mode the synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) mode, pressure support ventilation (PSV) 18 and 10, and with nebulization through a T-piece. At the end of all ventilator modes, the pre-specified variables were measured. The HRV parameters were analyzed in the domains of time, frequency and geometric indexes.
MEASURING THE COMPETITIVENESS LEVEL IN FURNITURE SMEs OF SPAIN

The first decade of the 21st century is characterized for businesses uncertainty, market globalization, and a higher level of competitiveness, what makes small and medium enterprises rethink their strategies and adjust it to changes and requirements, such as market, clients and customers. Also, the market pressure about customizing even more the products and services demanded by consumers, is taking enterprises to adopt competitiveness as a strategy, which allows cost reductions through an efficient use of technology in the organization. Hence, in this empiric study trough a sample of 322 enterprises of the furniture industry in Spain, the effects of the competitiveness are analyzed in these companies. Results show that financial performance, cost reduction and the use of technology impact positively on the competitiveness level of companies, whereby could be considered that competitiveness is a good company strategy.
Write-after-Read Hazard Prevention in GPGPUsim

The GPGPUsim simulator has a detailed model of streaming multiprocessor microarchitecture including scheduling logic that facilitates both instruction level parallelism and thread level parallelism. However, the pipeline performance model lacks proper safeguards against write-after-read hazards. The absence of mechanisms to enforce strict ordering of register file accesses permits more instruction level parallelism than would be otherwise achievable. This biases simulation results for some benchmarks and is potentially misleading to users of the simulator. In this paper, a few implementations of hazard handling mechanisms are considered, each with its own implementation complexity and granularity of bookkeeping. Evaluation of each mechanism’s impact on performance is included as well as demonstration of the variation on conclusions that may be drawn from experiments depending on the choice of write-after-read hazard handling technique.
Safety, Tolerability, and Effect on Opioid Use of Meloxicam IV Following Orthopedic Surgery

Objective A Phase 3 randomized multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (NCT02720692) compared once-daily intravenous (IV) meloxicam 30 mg to placebo, when added to the standard of care pain management regimens, in adults with moderate-to-severe pain following major elective surgery and concluded that meloxicam IV had a safety profile similar to placebo and reduced opioid consumption. Methods In this post hoc subgroup analysis of orthopedic surgery subjects, 379 subjects received meloxicam IV 30 mg or IV-administered placebo every 24 hrs for ≤7 doses. Safety was assessed via AEs, laboratory tests, vital signs, and ECG, with an emphasis on specific AEs, including injection site reactions, bleeding, cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, thrombotic, and wound healing events. Daily opioid consumption was assessed during treatment. Results Among meloxicam IV-treated subjects, 64.7% experienced ≥1 AE versus 68.8% of placebo-treated subjects. Investigators assessed most AEs to be mild or moderate in intensity and unrelated to treatment. Total opioid consumption (36.8 mg versus 50.3 mg IV morphine equivalent dose; P=0.0081) and opioid consumption during time points 0‒24, 24‒48, 0‒48, and 0‒72 hrs were statistically significantly lower in the meloxicam IV group. Conclusion Meloxicam IV demonstrated no significant differences in the number and frequency of AEs versus placebo in subjects following orthopedic surgery. Opioid consumption was reduced in the meloxicam IV group versus placebo. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT02720692).
Cretaceous tectonostratigraphy of the Faroe – Shetland region 1

This study presents an appraisal of the Cretaceous tectonostratigraphical development of the 6 Faroe–Shetland region. It combines details of the rock record with seismic stratigraphical 7 information, and the resulting stratigraphic framework provides constraints on the timing and 8 nature of sedimentary basin development in the Faroe–Shetland region, with implications for 9 the Late Mesozoic development of the NE Atlantic Rift Zone. The division of the Cretaceous 10 succession into two megasequences (K1 & K2) provides a first-order analysis of basin 11 development. The components of the K1 megasequence represent the rift initiation and early 12 syn-rift phases that span the late Berriasian–Turonian, whereas the K2 megasequence 13 represents the rift climax incorporating basin enlargement and increased subsidence during 14 the Coniacian–Maastrichtian. A higher resolution (secondto third-order) analysis of the 15 component depositional packages highlights a sedimentary succession that is punctuated by 16 episodes of uplift, erosion and contractional deformation. This pattern of coeval extension 17 and compression is consistent with intra-plate strike-slip tectonic activity linked to the 18 development of the NE Atlantic Rift Zone, and modulated by plate boundary processes, 19 including Atlantic spreading and Alpine orogenic activity. There is no evidence for a 20 substantive through-going marine connection in the Faroe–Shetland region until the Late 21 Cretaceous. 22
Hydrotreating of Methyl Esters to Produce Green Diesel over Co- and Ni-Containing Zr-SBA-15 Catalysts

This work explores the performance of Zr-SBA-15 as a support for the conversion of methyl esters into green diesel. Thereby, a series of SBA-15 samples incorporating different amounts of Zr into the walls have been synthesized and impregnated with Ni and Co as hydrogenating species. All materials have been characterized, pelletized and tested in the hydrotreating of methyl esters using a fixed-bed tubular reactor at 300 °C, 30 bar of H2 and a continuous flow of 0.1 mL/min for 6 h. Co and Ni phases are present both over the surface and within the pores of the support. Interactions between the metals and the Zr species are more pronounced for Co-containing samples, leading to smaller Co particles at low Si/Zr ratios. Materials having higher Zr contents resulted in more methyl ester conversion, although an adequate metal-support combination was required to promote the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) route. Co/Zr-SBA-15 materials exhibited more conversion (>90%) and higher yields of C11-C20 hydrocarbons (>60%) than their Ni-based counterpart catalysts. Specifically, Co/Zr-SBA-15(17) sample showed remarkable behavior, favoring the HDO pathway (n-C18/(n-C18 + n-C17) > 0.5), while keeping the methyl esters’ conversion close to 100% along the time on stream. These results evidence a synergistic effect between Co and Zr.
An Improved Deep Learning Approach based on Variant Two-State Gated Recurrent Unit and Word Embeddings for Sentiment Classification

Sentiment classification is an important but challenging task in natural language processing (NLP) and has been widely used for determining the sentiment polarity from user opinions. And word embedding technique learned from a various contexts to produce same vector representations for words with same contexts and also has been extensively used for NLP tasks. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are common deep learning architecture that are extensively used mechanism to address the classification issue of variable-length sentences. In this paper, we analyze to investigate variant-Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) that includes encoder method to preprocess data and improve the impact of word embedding for sentiment classification. The real contributions of this paper contain the proposal of a novel Two-State GRU, and encoder method to develop an efficient architecture namely (E-TGRU) for sentiment classification. The empirical results demonstrated that GRU model can efficiently acquire the words employment in contexts of user’s opinions provided large training data. We evaluated the performance with traditional recurrent models, GRU, LSTM and Bi-LSTM two benchmark datasets, IMDB and Amazon Products Reviews respectively. Results present that: 1) proposed approach (E-TGRU) obtained higher accuracy than three state-of-the-art recurrent approaches; 2) Word2Vec is more effective in handling as word vector in sentiment classification; 3) implementing the network, an imitation strategy shows that our proposed approach is strong for text classification.
Citizen Science Office, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Previous surveys for mammals in the Baldwin Hills were limited to small mammals, primarily rodents. Using remotely triggered wildlife cameras, we document the assemblage of mid-sized carnivores currently inhabiting areas comprising the Baldwin Hills, including Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area and the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook. This assemblage includes native and introduced mammal species with generalist habits able to adapt and thrive in human altered environments. Most of these generalists directly or indirectly benefit from subsidized feeding by humans. At least one native carnivore, the gray fox, is apparently suppressed by the presence of the larger coyote. In contrast to generalists, mid-sized mammals suspected to be sensitive to habitat fragmentation were absent from the Baldwin Hills despite records of their occurrence prior to substantial urbanization. We include western spotted skunks and long-tailed weasels in the latter category. The occurrence of feral domestic cats at subsidized feeding stations may attract coyotes to those parts of the Baldwin Hills.
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Department of Ophthalmology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan Purpose: Due to the mechanical vulnerability of eyes that have undergone penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), it is clinically important to evaluate the possibility of corneal wound dehiscence by blunt impact. We have previously developed a simulation model resembling a human eye based on information obtained from cadaver eyes and applied three-dimensional finite element analysis (FEA) to determine the physical and mechanical response to an air gun impact at various velocities on the post-PKP eye. Methods: Simulations in a human eye model were performed with a computer using a FEA program created by Nihon, ESI Group. The air gun pellet was set to impact the eye at three-different velocities in straight or 12° up-gaze positions with the addition of variation in keratoplasty suture strength of 30%, 50% and 100% of normal corneal strength. Results: Furthermore to little damage in the case of 100% strength, in cases of lower strength in a straight-gaze position, wound rupture seemed to occur in the early phase (0.04–0.06 ms) of impact at low velocities, while regional break was observed at 0.14 ms after an impact at high velocity (75 m/s). In contrast, wound damage was observed in the lower quadrant of the suture zone and sclera in 12° up-gaze cases. Wound damage was observed 0.08 ms after an impact threatening corneoscleral laceration, and the involved area being larger in middle impact velocity (60 m/s) simulations than in lower impact velocity simulations, and larger damaged area was observed in high impact velocity cases and leading to corneoscleral laceration. Conclusion: These results suggest that the eye is most susceptible to corneal damage around the suture area especially with a straight-gaze impact by an air gun, and that special precautionary measures should be considered in patients who undergo PKP. FEA using a human eyeball model might be a useful method to analyze and predict the mechanical features of eyes that undergo keratoplasty.
Developing Decision Tree based Models in Combination with Filter Feature Selection Methods for Direct Marketing

Direct Marketing is a form of advertising strategies which aims to communicate directly with the most potential customers for a certain product using the most appropriate communication channel. Banks are spending a huge amount of money on their marketing campaigns, so they are increasingly interested in this topic in order to maximize the efficiency of their campaigns, especially with the existence of high competition in the market. All marketing campaigns are highly dependent on the huge amount of available data about customers. Thus special Data Mining techniques are needed in order to analyze these data, predict campaigns efficiency and give decision makers indications regarding the main marketing features affecting the marketing success. This paper focuses on four popular and common Decision Tree (DT) algorithms: SimpleCart, C4.5, RepTree and Random Tree. DT is chosen because the generated models are in the form of IF-THEN rules which are easy to understand by decision makers with poor technical background in banks and other financial institutions. Data was taken from a Portuguese bank direct marketing campaign. A filter-based Feature selection is applied in the study to improve the performance of the classification. Results show that SimpleCart has the best results in predicting the campaigns success. Another interesting finding that the five most significant features influencing the direct marketing campaign success to be focused on by decision makers are: Call duration, offered interest rate, number of employees making the contacts, customer confidence and changes in the prices levels.
U.S.-China Bilateral Trade Flows and U.S. Employment

The U.S.-China diplomatic relationship today is shaped significantly by economic factors. Recent strains of literature have expanded our understanding of how international economic policy choices have effected U.S. workers and labor markets. This paper extends this research by imposing bilateral symmetry in the trade flow calculations of previous works, which historically have considered U.S. exports globally. I build on the net-impact analysis of Feenstra, Ma, and Xu (2017b) and adopt the instrumental variable strategy used in Acemoglu et al. (2016), which uses Chinese trade flows with eight additional high-income countries to avoid endogeneity when comparing U.S.-China trade. From this analysis, I determine that between 1991 and 2011, a one percentage point increase in an industry’s exposure to Chinese imports led to a -1.32 percentage point decrease in employment within that industry. I also find that for the same period of time, a one percentage point increase in export exposure led to a 3.51 increase in employment for a given industry.
CircCDYL Serves as a New Biomarker in Mantle Cell Lymphoma and Promotes Cell Proliferation

Introduction: Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare subtype of B-cell lymphoma. Circular (circ) RNA is a member of the non-coding RNA family. However, clinical references to circRNAs in MCL are not clear. Methods: In this study, we detected the expression level of circCDYL in the plasma of MCL patients compared to healthy donors by the quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The diagnostic value of circCDYL was determined using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. We constructed a circCDYL short hairpin RNA plasmid and infected the MCL cell line, Z138, to detect its effect on cell proliferation. Results: CircCDYL was high expressed in the plasma of MCL patients. The ROC curve showed that circCDYL had diagnostic value (area under the curve (AUC) = 0.856). Functionally, circCDYL knockdown inhibited MCL cell proliferation. We conducted bioinformatics analyses and identi ﬁ ed a circCDYL-micro (mi)RNA – mRNA/long non-coding (lnc) RNA network, highlighted by ﬁ ve miRNAs (hsa-miR-129-5p, hsa-miR-3163, hsa-miR -4662a-5p, hsa-miR-101-3p, and hsa-miR-186-5p), three lncRNAs (MALAT1, NEAT1, and XIST), and ﬁ ve mRNAs (NOTCH1, FMR1, ABCB1, TWIST1, and VEGFA). Conclusion: These ﬁ ndings indicate that circ-CDYL might serve as a potential diagnostic biomarker in clinical practice.
Molecular mechanisms underlying increased radiosensitivity in human papillomavirus-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is an important type of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The traditional risk factors for OPSCC include carcinogen intake, smoking, alcohol consumption, and lifestyle. In recent years, cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related OPSCC have gradually increased. At present, HPV-related OPSCC in developed Western countries comprise up to 90% of all OPSCC cases, while in other developing countries, the proportion of HPV-related OPSCC cases is also gradually increasing. Compared with HPV-negative OPSCC, HPV-positive OPSCC patients have better overall survival rates and local control rates and this improved prognosis may be related to the increased radiosensitivity of HPV-positive tumors. Due to this more favorable prognosis, many downgraded treatment schemes are gradually emerging, including simple radiotherapy instead of concurrent radiotherapy or reduced radiotherapy dose. However, there is insufficient theoretical basis for such schemes. Some studies have shown that delayed repair of DNA damage after radiation, G2/M arrest, increased hypoxia, and decreased proliferation capacity are the main reasons for the increased radiosensitivity of HPV-positive tumor cells. In this review, we discuss the four principles of tumor cell damage caused by radiation, including repair, reoxygenation, redistribution, and regeneration in order to reveal the mechanism whereby HPV increases the radiosensitivity of tumor cells. An attempt was made to provide sufficient information to facilitate more individualized treatment for HPV-positive OPSCC patients, under the premise of good tumor control.
Can a Growing World be Fed when the Climate is Changing?

We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural land expansion. Policy experiments with the model suggest that optimal GHG taxes are high and future temperatures held well below 2°C.
’ s response to reviews Title : Road proximity , air pollution , noise , green space and neurologic disease incidence : A population-based cohort study

(1) This an interesting paper on the association between neurologic disease incidence and exposure to road proximity, air pollution, noise and greenness. The authors investigated non-Alzheimer's dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. Although I find the paper important, I think that the results are in some way overstated. The only outcome consistently associated with proximity measures was NAD, while the only outcome associated with exposure to different air pollutants (PM2.5 and NO2) was PD. MS resulted associated to major road proximity and to PM2.5 (once greenness was taken into account).
Running head: PRESCHOOLERS’ SADNESS FOR EXCLUDED PEERS

We investigated the relations between anticipation of sadness for excluded peers, sympathy, and prosocial behavior in a sample of 127 Italian preschoolers (Mage = 4.84 years, SD = 0.85). Children attributed emotions to hypothetical excluded peers who exhibited withdrawn versus aggressive behavior, and these attributions were coded for the presence and intensity of sadness. Teachers rated children’s sympathy and prosocial behavior via questionnaire. In general, children attributed more sadness to the withdrawn excluded peer than the aggressive excluded peer. A path analysis revealed that those who anticipated higher levels of sadness for the withdrawn excluded peer were rated higher in sympathy and, in turn, higher in prosocial behavior. Attributing high levels of sadness to withdrawn excluded peers—who portray relatively heightened need—may be an early social-emotional characteristic of children who are more sympathetic and more likely to channel other-oriented concerns into prosocial actions.
Stochastic Modeling Neutral Evolution by an Iambp of Cortisol Secretion of Breast Cancer

Objective Fatigue is one of the most common and distressing symptoms by cancer patients and survivors. To evaluate cortisol responses to an experimental psychologic stressor in fatigued and non fatigued survivors. The focus is the frequency spectrum of the Infinite-Allele Markov branching process (IAMBP), namely the proportion having a given number of copies at a specified time point.