Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Multiple Tasks-Based Multi-Source Domain Adaptation Using Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

In single-source unsupervised domain adaptation (SUDA), it is often assumed that a single-source domain can cover all target domain features. However, the limitation of labeled samples means that a model trained on a labeled source domain cannot always cover all target representations in practice. Therefore, multi-source unsupervised domain adaptation (MSUDA) has recently become an attractive topic because it can provide richer information than SUDA. In the MSUDA setting, multiple labeled source datasets and an unlabeled target dataset are available. The differently labeled source domains follow distinct distributions to provide different contributions to the target domain. Therefore, when combining multiple source domains into one source domain, the model tends to focus on whichever source domain makes a dominant contribution to the target domain, which induces bias in learning in the MSUDA setting. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a divide-and-conquer-based MSUDA framework that divides the MSUDA problem into multiple tasks (SUDAs) that it then conquers using multiple task-specific models. Each task is a pair that consists of a single source domain and a target domain, and the tasks provide different views on the target domain because each task has a different source domain. Then, they cooperate to supplement their knowledge via collaborative learning. This cooperation between multiple views can suppress noisy information and preserve critical information, thus mitigating the negative transfer problem during DA and significantly boosting the classification accuracy on the target domain as a result. The proposed method achieved state-of-the-art performance on several real-world visual domain adaptation datasets.
V-Pen: An Acoustic-Based Fine-Grained Virtual Pen Input System Using Hand Tracking

Acoustic-based hand-tracking technology leads to the next generation of the Human-Computer interaction (HCI) mechanism. This approach uses embedded speakers and microphones on commercial devices to send and receive acoustic signals simultaneously, then the echo can be processed to obtain the hand’s position. However, existing tracking approaches do not support multistroke input, as a result, the trajectory is incapable of character recognition with models trained by simple character images from databases such as MNIST and EMNIST. In this article, V-Pen is proposed to estimate the status of the hand with the energy information acquired from the echo. Subsequently, Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences are used to obtain the initial position of the hand and track the hand continuously with the change of phase for a smooth trajectory. While inputting the characters, V-Pen allows the user to input multiple strokes to get rid of redundant trajectory which affects the recognition. The results show that V-Pen achieves an average error of 4.3 mm for tracking and 94.8% recognition accuracy for 52 English letters, ten numbers, and 20 Chinese characters.
Village Unit Cooperatives on Dynamic Capability and Creative Capability Adaptation to Innovation Performance: The Role of Competitive Advantage

This study aims to examine the dynamic capability model and its implications for innovation performance in the context of competitive advantage. The research design used is causal quantitative research using survey methods. Respondents were 106 managers of village unit cooperatives in the Kediri and Madiun areas, East Java, Indonesia. The measurement variable uses seven Linkert scales. Partial Least Square (PLS) is used to test the causal relationship between constructs. Based on the results of the analysis, it shows that dynamic capabilities and adaptive creative capabilities do not have a positive effect on innovation performance, dynamic capabilities and adaptive creative capabilities have a positive effect on competitive advantage. Competitive advantage has a positive effect on innovation performance. Finally, the results provide support for the model of dynamic capabilities, adaptive creative capabilities, and the implications of innovation performance in the context of competitive advantage, therefore village unit cooperatives must increase the elements of competitive advantage by increasing dynamic capabilities and adaptive creative capabilities to managers.
Trends of Tibet's Dry-Wet Condition under Future Climate Scenario

The drought is one of the important meteorological disasters in Tibet,and occurs in varying degrees each year.The drought has a great impact on the agriculture and livestock production.It has an important significance that forecasting the trends of Tibet′s dry-wet condition under future climate scenario for prevention and reduction of losses caused by drought in the region.Based on the daily data of A2 climate scenario(2011-2050) and baseline climate condition(1961-1990) from the regional climate model PRECIS with resolution of 50km×50km,reference crop evapotranspiration was calculated according to Penman-Monteith equation recommended by FAO.In terms of grades of wetness index from Chinese Climate Classification Criterion,Tibet is classified into arid,semi-arid,semi-humid and humid zones,respectively.The possible temporal-spatial changes of dry-wet condition in Tibet from 2011 to 2050 were analyzed based on wetness index.The results showed that: the amount of precipitation and reference crop evapotranspiration in the most regions of Tibet would increase from 2011 to 2050 compared with the baseline climate conditions from 1961 to 1990.The increase range of reference crop evapotranspiration was less than that of precipitation.However,the inter-regional differences were both significant;in the next 40 years,Tibet′s climate showed a warming and wetting trend in general.The reducing trends in arid and semi-arid areas were clear.And the increase range of average temperature was far greater than that of wetness index.Environmental water and heat factors were higher and drought gradually decreased.It was more conducive to the improvement of ecological environment;however,the different climatic zones in dry-wet conditions at different times showed different trends.The area′s reducing trend in the arid and semi-arid region and the expanding trend in the humid and semi-humid region during 2021 to 2030 would be obvious compared with the baseline climatic conditions.And the area′s reducing trend in the arid and humid region and the expanding trend in the semi-arid and semi-humid region during 2031 to 2050 would be obvious compared with the baseline climatic conditions.
In Silico and Experimental Outcomes of the Expression of miR508-5p and miR-635 in Tumor Tissues of Patients with Breast Cancer

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is a malignant tumor that occurs in the epithelial tissue of the breast gland and has become the most common malignancy in women. Various studies have reported the effect of epigenetic changes, including DNA methylation and microRNAs, on breast carcinogenesis. microRNAs play an important role in the post-transcriptional regulation of genes and are important regulators of oncogenic pathways. Studying microRNAs in BC facilitates the development of targeted therapies and early detection of this cancer. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the expression level of miR-508-5p and miR-635 in BC tumor tissues compared to healthy marginal tissues. Methods: In silico analysis confirmed microarray datasets (GSE40525, GSE44124 and GSE45666) downloaded from the GEO database. The analysis was defined using the Affy packages in R software to screen remarkably dysregulated miRNAs attended by utilized to predict the potential biological processes and molecular pathways of miR-508-5p and miR-635. Experimental statistical significance of differences in miRNA relative expression results was analyzed by pair-wise fixed reallocation randomization test as a statistical model included in the REST (relative expression software tool). Results: GEO microarray data set, similar to qPCR results, showed that miR-508-5p was downregulated in the sample group by a mean factor of 0.327 (S.E.M range is 0.031-2.000). Moreover, miR-635 was upregulated in the sample group by a mean factor of 2.361 (S.E.M range is 0.250-16.000). Conclusion: miR-508-5p was downregulated, while miR-635 was upregulated in BC tissues. They may be proposed as diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers for patients with BC.
Factores predictivos de sensibilidad materna en infancia temprana

0 0 1 160 917 Pia 7 2 1075 14.0 Normal 0 false false false ES-CL JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:. 0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-language:ES;} La sensibilidad materna se define como la habilidad de la madre para tomar conciencia, interpretar adecuadamente y responder de forma apropiada y contingente a las senales y comunicaciones del infante (Ainsworth el al., 1978). Esta se encontraria relacionada con multiples factores. Diversos estudios senalan que el genero del nino(a), el nivel socioeconomico, nivel educacional de la madre, entre otros, explican las diferencias en sensibilidad materna. A partir de estos antecedentes, el presente estudio reporta los resultados de un trabajo acerca de las variables predictoras de sensibilidad materna en una muestra de diadas madre- hijo(a) de un ano de edad que asisten a sala cuna. La sensibilidad materna se evaluo con la Escala de Sensibilidad del adulto, E.S. A (Santelices et al, 2012) y las variables sociodemograficas con un cuestionario ya validado en estudios previos. Los resultados reflejan efectivamente que tanto el nivel educacional de la madre, su edad y el nivel socioeconomico son predictores estadisticamente significativos de la sensibilidad materna.
The effects of land use on biomass and catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities

An understanding of the factors influencing microbial diversity in soils is essential to predict the effects of current land use trends on diversity. In this study, the effects of soil management (high and low input systems and pasture) on microbial biomass and diversity was investigated. Respiration responses to specific substrate were used to measure soil microbial diversity. Catabolic evenness and richness of microorganisms as a measure of soil microbial diversity was measured. In comparison with agricultural systems, pasture resulted in an increase in organic matter and microbial biomass. However, in the soil managements, in high input systems, basal respiration was higher than other soil managements, suggesting the presence of a small but highly metabolically active micro floral community. Analysis of catabolic response profiles demonstrated that there were large differences in the catabolic capability of the soil microbial communities under different soil management type. Values for Shannon’s and Simpson’s diversity indices indicated that greatest catabolic existed under native grassland and least diversity under high input systems. This was attributed to broad range of organic pool in pasture. It was concluded that soil management has a substantial effects on the size, activity and diversity of the soil microbial community and that these changes could be broadly related to changes in soil organic matter content. Although the implications of losses of microbial diversity are unknown, but diversity may results more resilient to stresses or disturbances.
Underlying issues on the selection, use and conservation of building limestone

Abstract An argument is presented that, despite popular assumptions, many limestones, especially the wide range of clastic and, in general, granular limestones, do not decay in a steady and predictable pattern in response to slow dissolution. Instead these stones, especially when used in construction in polluted environments, invariably decay episodically through physical breakdown. Most commonly this is accomplished through a variety of salt weathering mechanisms that, if unconstrained, can lead to the rapid, catastrophic decay of building blocks and their complete loss – a process that has driven the extensive programmes of stone replacement that are typical of buildings constructed of these stones. In polluted environments, especially those rich in sulphur and particulates, the most common constraint on accelerated decay has been the rapid development of gypsum crusts that, for example, could rapidly ‘heal’ the scars left by contour scaling. It is ironic, therefore, that any reduction in pollution could conceivably lead to increased erosion by retarding this healing process. Because of this temporal variability of decay and its translation into spatial complexity, it is important that further research is undertaken to understand controls on the decay of these important building stones so that future conservation strategies can be appropriately informed.
Divergent selection in a Mediterranean pine on local spatial scales

The effects of selection on an organism's genome are hard to detect on small spatial scales, as gene flow can swamp signatures of local adaptation. Therefore, most genome scans to detect signatures of environmental selection are performed on large spatial scales; however, divergent selection on the local scale (e.g. between contrasting soil conditions) has also been demonstrated, in particular for herbaceous plants. Here, we hypothesised that in topographically complex landscapes, microenvironment variability is strong enough to leave a selective footprint in the genomes of long‐lived organisms. To test this, we investigated paired south‐ versus north‐facing Pinus pinaster stands on the local scale, with trees growing in close vicinity (≤820 m distance between paired south‐ and north‐facing stands), in a Mediterranean mountain area. While trees on north‐facing slopes experience less radiation, trees on south‐facing slopes suffer from especially harsh conditions, particularly during the dry summer season. Two outlier analyses consistently revealed five putatively adaptive loci (out of 4034), in candidate genes two of which encoded non‐synonymous substitutions. Additionally, one locus showed consistent allele frequency differences in all three stand pairs indicating divergent selection despite high gene flow on the local scale. Permutation tests demonstrated that our findings were robust. Functional annotation of these candidate genes revealed biological functions related to abiotic stress response, such as water availability, in other plant species. Synthesis. Our study highlights how divergent selection in heterogeneous microenvironments shapes and maintains the functional genetic variation within populations of long‐lived forest tree species, being the first to focus on adaptive genetic divergence between south‐ and north‐facing slopes within continuous forest stands. This is especially relevant in the current context of climate change, as this variation is at the base of plant population responses to future climate.
Diet of reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus at two stopover sites in Morocco during autumn migration

Le regime alimentaire de la Rousserolle effarvatte (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) pendant la migration automnale (septembre-octobre 2000) a ete etudie par analyse de regurgitats dans deux zones humides marocaines, Kerbacha en region Mediterraneenne et Sidi Bou Ghaba en region Atlantique. Dix-sept categories de proies ont ete identifiees dans 88 regurgitats totalisant 789 items, avec une predominance de guepes (Hymenopteres) et de coleopteres a Kerbacha, et de fourmis (ailees et non ailees) et coleopteres a Sidi Bou Ghaba. La distribution taxinomique des proies et leur diversite different significativement entre les deux sites. Les oiseaux consomment un plus petit nombre de proies de plus grande taille et de plus faible mobilite a Sidi Bou Ghaba, comparativement a Kerbacha ou un grand nombre de petites proies volantes caracterisent la majorite des regurgitats. Ces differences sont vraisemblablement dues a des variations dans la disponibilite locale des proies qui peuvent expliquer en partie les strategies migratoires differentes utilisees aux deux sites. Ainsi, le court sejour et le taux d'engraissement eleve a Kerbacha peuvent etre associes a un taux d'alimentation superieur grâce a l'abondance de quelques taxons fortement consommes. A Sidi Bou Ghaba, ou la duree de stationnement est plus longue et le taux d'engraissement moindre, les rousserolles ont un regime alimentaire plus diversifie et un taux d'alimentation faible suggerant que les proies sont generalement peu abondantes a l'exception des fourmis volantes, une ressource alimentaire ponctuellement surabondante mais peu previsible dont les rousserolles font bon usage.
Jeptha Knob, Kentucky, a probable meteorite impact structure

Jeptha Knob is a deformed structure, 4.5 km in diameter, composed entirely of carbonate rocks in the stable craton of North America. At Jeptha Knob, conventional evidence of meteorite impact, shock metamorphism, has not been found. I used calcite twin analysis to test the hypothesis that Jeptha Knob is a meteorite impact crater. Calcite twinning gives differential stresses of >170 MPa in rocks that were 600 to ≈800 m below the surface when the rocks were deformed. Under these conditions, high differential stresses cannot be explained by tectonic processes. In addition, twin intensities are >150 twins/mm which are >50% higher than the highest twin intensities observed in limestone from a wide variety of tectonic settings. Twin intensities and differential stresses are the same magnitudes as those found at Serpent Mound, a proven impact structure. Consistent with meteorite impact, differential stresses increase toward the center of the structure. If one accepts that Jeptha Knob is a marine impact crater, then (1) the presence of high temperature (>250°C) thick twins in calcite from a resurge deposit; (2) the extensive dolomitization of the central uplift with water/rock ratios >1.0; and (3) two episodes of calcite twin recorded incremental strains, are explained.
Relative quantum yield of O(1 D 2) following ozone photolysis between 275 and 325 nm

Relative values of the quantum yield of O(1D2) from the photolysis of ozone in the wavelength region 275–325 nm have been measured by observing infrared fluorescence following the reaction O(1D2) + CO2 → O(3PJ) + CO2((mnp) indicating multiply vibrationally excited CO2 with m quanta in the symmetric mode ν1, n in the (doubly degenerate) bend ν2, and p in the asymmetric stretch ν3)), using the frequency-doubled output of a narrow-band dye laser as the photolysis source. The location and shape of the falloff in O(1D2) yield near 310 nm confirms the results of previous studies made with other means of quantifying O(1D2). A “tail” in the quantum yield at longer wavelengths, not consistently observed in other experiments, is clearly evident here. The quantum yield also appears to decrease slowly at wave-lengths shorter than about 290 nm.
MAGNETOMETER-ONLY ATTITUDE AND RATE ESTIMATES DURING THE EARTH RADIATION BUDGET SATELLITE 1987 CONTROL ANOMALY*

The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) experienced an uncontrolled tumble on July 2, 1987, with spacecraft rates of the order of 2 deg/sec. The high rates made the Sun and Earth sensors unreliable and the gyro telemetry saturated, so that the three-axis magnetometer (TAM) was the only useful attitude sensor. ERBS attitude and rates for the high-rate period are estimated using TAMONLY—a recently developed system lhat estimates attitude and rates using a TAM and sp i ecraft dynamical models. The spacecraft rates estimated by the Kalman filter and by the deterministic algorithm in TAMONLY agree closely, both algorithms confirming rates as high as 2 deg/sec. Comparisons with valid gyro data indicate rate accuracies of 0.1 deg/sec, and the TAM residuals indicate attitude accuracies of 2.5 deg. The effects of models of thrusters, spacecraft mass properties, and filter noise parameters are described.
THE INFLUENCE OF TECTONICS ON THE ENTRAPMENT OF OIL IN THE DEZFUL EMBAYMENT, ZAGROS FOLDBELT, IRAN

The timing of the orogenic events associated with the closure of South Tethys significantly influenced the generation, migration and entrapment of petroleum in the Zagros Foldbelt of Iran. This influence was particularly important in the Dezful Embayment, which is one of the world's richest oil provinces, containing some 8% of global oil reserves in an area of only 60,000 sq. km. In the Dezful Embayment, oil and associated gas occur in two carbonate reservoirs ‐ the Sarvak Formation of Cenomanian to Turonian age, and the Oligocene ‐ Early Miocene Asmari Formation, sealed by the evaporites of the Gachsaran Formation. The oil and associated gas are trapped in large “whaleback” anticlines which formed during the Neogene Zagros orogeny. Two excellent source rocks, the Albian Kazhdumi Formation and the upper part of the Pabdeh Formation (Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene), supplied the Asmari and Sarvak reservoirs and with them form the Middle Cretaceous to Early Miocene Petroleum System. This system was found to be independent of older petroleum systems.
SOME THOUGHTS ON PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR THE KRILL FISHERY

The concept of precautionary measures for krill is discussed. A precautionary catch limit, based on the potential yield model developed by the CCAMLR Scientific Committee's Working Group on Krill (WG-Krill) is discussed and it is concluded that such a method is appropriate in setting an overall precautionary catch limit in large areas, such as Statistical Area 48, but the approach requires considerable refinement to provide a sufficient safeguard for land-based predators. A new approach is described which takes account of the requirements of land-based predators. Implementation of the approach is discussed and the question of how the method relates to the current CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program (CEMP) is considered.
Diacerein Loaded Novasome for Transdermal Delivery: Prepartion , In-Vitro Characterization and Factors Affecting Formulation

Diacerein (DCN) is a semi-synthetic anthraquinone derivative of Rhein that is indicated for the management of osteoarthritis. Diacerein exhibits poor dissolution in the GIT fluids and suffers from low bioavailability upon oral administration in addition to the laxative effect of Rhein metabolites. The aim of the present study was to develop novasomal vesicles with optimized entrapment efficiency and size to serve as a carrier for transdermal delivery of diacerein. Novasomal vesicles were prepared by thin film hydration method thin film hydration. The prepared vesicles were optimized utilizing different surfactant to cholesterol molar ration, sonication type, different sonication times and varying fatty acid level. The prepared vesicles were characterized for drug entrapment efficiency, vesicle size and PDI. The best formula was further investigated for zeta potential ten TEM and compatibility study by FTIR analysis. Results showed that F6 was the best formula regarding it vesicle size 275.2± 2.68nm , entrapment efficiency 69.415± 0.234 % and PDI 0.309± 0.016. In conclusion , novasomal dispersion could be successfully formulated with thin film hydration method. Keywords: Diacerein , Novasome , Transdermal Delivery ,Vesicular System .