Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nutritional value of lupin (Lupinus albus)-seed meal for growing pigs: availability of lysine, effect of autoclaving and net energy content

1.Two experiments were conducted to assess the nutritional value of lupin (Lupinus albus)-seed meal for growing pigs. In the first, the availability of lysine was assessed using slope-ratio analysis. In the second, the effects of autoclaving lupin seeds and formulating the diets on the basis of estimated digestible or net energy were assessed. 2. In the first experiment, the availability of lysine in three samples of lupin-seed meal was compared with that in meat-and-bone meal and soya-bean meal. Availability of lysine in the five protein concentrates, using food conversion efficiency on a carcass basis as the criterion of response, was (proportion of total): lupin-seed meal no. 1 0.44, no. 2 0.57, no. 3 0.53, meat-and-bone meal 0.42, soya-bean meal 0.80. 3. Availability estimates, based on protein deposited:food intake, were: lupin-seed meal no. 1 0.82, no. 2 0.73, no. 3 0.70, meat-and-bone meal 0.27, soya-bean meal 0.77. These estimates had higher standard deviations than those based on carcass response. 4. Regressing the measures of response v. lysine intake resulted in estimates of availability similar to, or higher than, the slope-ratio analysis but was associated with greater statistical invalidity and higher standard deviations. 5. The proportion of energy retained in the carcasses was unaffected by the inclusion levels of lysine or soya-bean meal. Energy retention was depressed (P < 0.05) with the three lupin-seed meals and the meat-and-bone meal. 6. In the second experiment, the response of pigs given a diet containing lupin-seed meal was inferior, on a carcass basis (P < 0.05), to that of pigs given a diet containing soya-bean meal formulated to similar total lysine and digestible energy contents. 7. The addition of soya-bean oil to the diet containing lupin-seed meal, to equalize the estimated net energy of the diet to that of the diet containing soya-bean meal, depressed protein deposition (P < 0.05) and increased fat deposition (P < 0.05), indicating that energy was not limiting the growth of pigs given the lupin-seed-meal diet. 8. Autoclaving the lupin-seed at 121°for 5 min had no effect on the growth of pigs, indicating that the low availability of lysine was not due to the presence of heat-labile anti-nutritional factors.
The Yeast Chromatin Remodeler RSC Complex Facilitates End Joining Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks

ABSTRACT Repair of chromosome double-strand breaks (DSBs) is central to cell survival and genome integrity. Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) is the major cellular repair pathway that eliminates chromosome DSBs. Here we report our genetic screen that identified Rsc8 and Rsc30, subunits of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromatin remodeling complex RSC, as novel NHEJ factors. Deletion of RSC30 gene or the C-terminal truncation of RSC8 impairs NHEJ of a chromosome DSB created by HO endonuclease in vivo. rsc30Δ maintains a robust level of homologous recombination and the damage-induced cell cycle checkpoints. By chromatin immunoprecipitation, we show recruitment of RSC to a chromosome DSB with kinetics congruent with its involvement in NHEJ. Recruitment of RSC to a DSB depends on Mre11, Rsc30, and yKu70 proteins. Rsc1p and Rsc2p, two other RSC subunits, physically interact with yKu80p and Mre11p. The interaction of Rsc1p with Mre11p appears to be vital for survival from genotoxic stress. These results suggest that chromatin remodeling by RSC is important for NHEJ.
Junctionless Tunnel Field Effect Transistor

In this letter, a double-gate junctionless tunnel field effect transistor (JL-TFET) is proposed and investigated. The JL-TFET is a Si-channel heavily n-type-doped junctionless field effect transistor (JLFET), which uses two isolated gates (Control-Gate, P-Gate) with two different metal work-functions to behave like a tunnel field effect transistor (TFET). In this structure, the advantages of JLFET and TFET are combined together. The simulation results of JL-TFET with high-<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$k$</tex></formula> dielectric material (TiO2) of 20-nm gate length shows excellent characteristics with high <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$I_{{\rm ON}}/I_{{\rm OFF}}$</tex></formula> ratio <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$(\sim 6\times 10^{8})$</tex></formula>, a point subthreshold slope (SS) of <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">${\sim}{\rm 38}~{\rm mV}$</tex></formula>/decade, and an average SS of <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">${\sim}{\rm 70}~{\rm mV}$</tex></formula>/decade at room temperature, which indicates that JL-TFET is a promising candidate for a switching performance.
Clinical yield of magnetoencephalography distributed source imaging in epilepsy: A comparison with equivalent current dipole method

Source localization of interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs) is clinically useful in the presurgical workup of epilepsy patients. It is usually obtained by equivalent current dipole (ECD) which localizes a point source and is the only inverse solution approved by clinical guidelines. In contrast, magnetic source imaging using distributed methods (dMSI) provides maps of the location and the extent of the generators, but its yield has not been clinically validated. We systematically compared ECD versus dMSI performed using coherent Maximum Entropy on the Mean (cMEM), a method sensitive to the spatial extent of the generators.
Formation and Turnover of Neurons in Young and Senescent Animals: An Electronmicroscopic and Morphometric Analysis

Even though numerous light microscopic studies have been made of neurogenesis and gliogenesis, the identity of the proliferating cells and their eventual fates in normal adult grey matter is still controversial. To determine accurately the types of cells that are formed, the advantages gained by use of r3H]thymidine autoradiography with light microscopy need to be combined with the resolution of electron microscopy. Electron microscopic autoradiography used by itself so limits the sampling that a population of labeled cells is nearly impossible to detect in adult animals. In a large number of earlier studies on neurogenesis and gliogenesis it has been impossible to classify cells with any degree of certainty in sections more than 1 pm thick,76 and, as a result, it has been difficult to distinguish cells in the light microscope.23~25361~8z~g8 In addition, division of glial cells into the traditional categories (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia) often ends up with a large number of indeterminate cells, even when the electron microscope is used. 60,105 Most light microscopic studies using autoradiography of the cerebral cortex of normal adult mammals do not specifically subdivide labeled cells into glial types.2,35,47,64,82,86,87,112 Likewise, the few microneurons reported to be formed in the n e ~ b o r n ~ , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * ~ ~ * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ , ~ ~ ~ * ~ ~ or adult rodent2,5-9,8'-84,87 may be identified inaccurately in light microscopic analysis of thick paraffin s e ~ t i o n s . ~ , ~ ~ , ~ ~ It is generally believed that neurogenesis does not occur in the neocortex of mammals after birth.51*89,94,116 There are two main technical reasons why reports of neurogenesis in experi,mental and normal animals1~3~10~20~82-a4~87~g7~111 may have been ignored: (1) labeled cells appear to be small neurons, which cannot be distinguished with certainty in light micrographs from neuroglial (2) thick paraffin sections were used, which allows the possibility that grazed labeled neuroglial cells could have caused an underlying neuron to appear labeled. '. ' The incorporation of [3H]thymidine into newly synthesized DNA should result in a labeled subpopulation of cells. The quantification of this labeled subpopulation could be the basis for the calculations of such parameters as new cell formation or length of the cell cycle. The calculations often assume
Analyse et modelisation des parametres d'exploitation du stock de coquilles saint-jacques (pecten maximus, l.) en baie de saint-brieuc (manche ouest, france).

La dynamique du stock est etudiee a partir de la structure demographique des captures commerciales depuis 1974, estimee selon un plan d'echantillonnage a deux niveaux (jour de sortie en mer, bateau). Un plan d'echantillonnage a stratification temporelle est propose. Une analyse des cohortes est conduite sur ces donnees ; des hypotheses sur les coefficients de mortalite naturelle et indirectement induite par la peche sont formulees. Des modeles de capturabilite par groupe d'âge sont ensuite construits. Pour les groupes d'âge 2 et 3, qui constituent l'essentiel de la ressource, la capturabilite est une fonction croissante de l'abondance du groupe d'âge et de la puissance motrice moyenne des navires de peche ; elle presente une valeur asymptotique maximale. Son allure est expliquee par : les caracteristiques de la drague et par la sedentarite de la ressource qui permet la concentration de l'effort de peche sur les secteurs les plus riches. Un modele structural de production a l'equilibre est construit. Les scenarios les plus plausibles des parametres de depart sont testes, par reconstitution des rendements par recrue ou des debarquements annuels. Les faibles valeurs du coefficient instantane de mortalite naturelle (0,15 et 0,20) et celles, fortes, du taux d'exploitation terminal (0,50) optimisent la reconstitution. Des isopletes de rendement et de fecondite par recrue sont presentees pour differentes valeurs de l'abondance du recrutement et de la puissance motrice moyenne de la flottille. Les parametres actuels de controle du regime d'exploitation (effort de peche nominal, âge de premiere capture) assurent a l'equilibre une production proche de l'optimale et une fecondite acceptable. Le flechissement actuel de la ressource s'explique par la variabilite interannuelle du recrutement et la coexistence de plusieurs metiers dans la baie qui provoque un accroissement constant de la puissance motrice des navires.
Rapid identification of Candida albicans by using Albicans ID and fluoroplate agar plates

Two commercially available agar media, Albicans ID and Fluoroplate, that use a chromogenic or a fluorogenic substrate for the detection and identification of Candida albicans were evaluated. From 1,006 clinical samples containing 723 yeast strains, 352 C. albicans strains were detected with either of the two media. The sensitivity of each of the two media was 93.8% and the specificity was 98.6%, with five false-positive reactions for Candida tropicalis and no false-negative reactions.
Epifluorescence , confocal laser microscopy and colocalization analyses in the study of protein glutathionylation in primary cultured fibroblasts and in their in situ extracted matrix

Fluorescence microscopy is an important tool in the investigation of protein modifications. Glutathione provides a mean of regulating protein function by glutathionylation, consisting in the formation of mixed disulphides linking cysteines with glutathione. The glutathionylation of proteins represents for the cell a mechanism to bond physiological processes, and/or adaptive stress responses, to changes in the intracellular redox states. Despite the role of oxidative stress biomarkers assumed recently by glutathionylated proteins in human diseases, so far no information is available on the intracellular distribution of glutathionylated proteins in human cell lines in steady state conditions. Using confocal laser microscopy and colocalization analysis, we report the compartmentalization of constitutively glutathionylated proteins in different intracellular districts, such as cytoskeleton, nuclear lamina, endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, in primary cultured fibroblasts. The tight association between glutathione and our interest proteins was clearly confirmed by the persistence of its distribution in in situ extracted matrix samples. Fluorescence imaging will provide an additional important tool to obtain a detailed subcellular visualization of this critical marker of protein oxidation, thus potentially allowing the identification of new pathogenic pathways in human diseases
Lyapunov-based environmental boundary tracking control of mobile robots

This paper considers the environmental boundary tracking problem where the objective is to steer a mobile robot to track the desired environmental boundary. Based on the kinematic model of the mobile robot, we design a kinematic control law for the robot to track the desired boundary. Kinematic control law needs perfect velocity tracking, which doesn't always hold for a mobile robot. So, dynamic control law is designed for the nonholonomic mobile robot to track a designated reference velocity, so as to track the desired environmental boundary. The stability of the designed control laws is verified by Lyapunov theory and Barbalat's Lemma and illustrated by simulation results.
Synaptic Facilitation: Long-Term Neuromuscular Facilitation in Crustaceans

Continuous stimulation at frequencies equal to or greater than 5 hertz for 20 to 30 minutes results in a two- to fivefold increase in the amplitudes of excitatory postsynaptic potential recorded from certain stretcher and opener muscles of decapod crustaceans. This long-term facilitation appears to result from an accumulation of sodium ions within the nerve terminals. It persists for at least 1 hour after stimulation has stopped.
Mid-Pleistocene environmental change in tropical Africa began as early as 1.05 Ma (palynological results of ODP Sites 1075)

Palynological records from the Congo fan reveal environmental change in equatorial Africa occurring 1.05 Ma ago, 100 k.y. before the mid-Pleistocene climatic shift at 0.9 Ma. Prior to 1.05 Ma, a glacial-interglacial rhythm is not obvious in the African vegetation variation. Afterwards, Podocarpus spread in the mountains of central Africa mainly during glacials and Congo River discharge decreased. The sequence of vegetation variation associated with the mid-Pleistocene glacials and interglacials differed from that observed during the late Pleistocene. Between 0.9 and 0.6 Ma, interglacials were characterized by warm dry conditions and glacials were characterized by cool humid conditions, while during the past 0.2 Ma glacials were cold and dry and interglacials warm and humid. Our data indicate that before the Northern Hemisphere ice caps dramatically increased in size (0.9‐0.6 Ma), low-latitude climate forcing and response in the tropics played an important role in the initiation of 100 k.y. ice-age cycles. During the mid to late Pleistocene, however, the climate conditions in the tropics were increasingly influenced by the glacialinterglacial variations of continental ice sheets.
Complete mitochondrial genomes of two relatively closed species from Gymnocypris (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae): Genome characterization and phylogenetic considerations

The complete mitochondrial genome for Gymnocypris eckloni and Gymnocypris przewalskii ganzihonensis is 16,686 and 16,682 bp in size, respectively. Both of the mitochondrial genomes have identical genomic organization and structure including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and 1 control region as found in other vertebrates, with the exception of 86 bp non-coding nucleotides between tRNAThr and tRNAPro. The phylogenetic analyses based on the concatenated nucleotide sequence of 12 PCGs on the heavy strand supported a relatively closed relationship among G. eckloni, G. p. przewalskii and G. p. ganzihonensis. The sequence divergence between G. eckloni and G. przewalskii, as well as within G. przewalskii, is relatively low compared to the average sequence divergence among other cyprinid fishes, suggesting that they are the most closely related species resulted from a relatively recent speciation event. The estimated molecular divergence time is coincided with a relatively recent speciation event occurring during the separation of the Yellow River and Qinghai Lake.
A one-quadrant discrete-time cellular neural network architecture for pixel-level snakes: B/W processing

This paper introduces a one-quadrant discrete-time cellular neural network architecture for the pixel-level snakes, an active-contour-based technique. The motivation behind such an architecture is to have a subsequent on-chip implementation with better figures of merit, especially area consumption and processing speed. The current paper goes through the B/W operations performed in the pixel-level snake algorithm.
DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES AND THE STRUCTURE OF COMMUNITIES IN RURAL AUSTRALIA

This article examines the relationship of drug use with the social and economic characteristics of rural communities in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Data is derived from the 1996 Australian Census of Population and Housing, and data on drug-related offenses from the NSW police between 1995 and 1999. Arrest rates for breaking and entering, assault, and vandalism showed statistically significant associations across types of rural communities, but drug-related arrests varied considerably less. The widespread, relatively-even distribution of drug arrests in rural NSW suggests that the underlying causes of drug-related violations are unique when compared to other types of crime. [Translations are provided in the International Abstracts Section of this issue. ]
Iterative Visual Clustering for Learning Concepts from Unstructured Text

Discovering concepts from vast amount of text is is an important but hard explorative task. A common approach is to identify meaningful keyword clusters with interesting temporal distributive trends from unstructured text. However, usually lacking clearly defined objective functions, users’ domain knowledge and interactions need to be feed back and to drive the clustering process. Therefore we propose the iterative visual clustering (IVC), a noval visual text analytical model. It uses different types of visualizations to help users cluster keywords interactively, as well as uses graphics to suggest good clustering options. The most distinctive difference between IVC and traditional text analytical tools is, IVC has a formal on-line learning model which learns users’ preference iteratively: during iterations, IVC transforms users’ interactions into model training input, and then visualizes the output for more users interactions. We apply IVC as a visual text mining framework to extract concepts from nursing narratives. With the engagement of domain knowledge, IVC has achieved insightful concepts with interesting patterns.
Telnet terminal-type option

This RFC specifies a standard for the Internet community. Hosts on the Internet that exchange terminal type information within the Telnet protocol are expected to adopt and implement this standard. This standard supersedes RFC 930. A change is made to permit cycling through a list of possible terminal types and selecting the most appropriate
Chlamydia pneumoniae Major Outer Membrane Protein Is a Surface-Exposed Antigen That Elicits Antibodies Primarily Directed against Conformation-Dependent Determinants

ABSTRACT The major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Chlamydia trachomatis serovariants is known to be an immunodominant surface antigen. Moreover, it is known that the C. trachomatis MOMP elicits antibodies that recognize both linear and conformational antigenic determinants. In contrast, it has been reported that the MOMP of Chlamydia pneumoniae is not surface exposed and is immunorecessive. We hypothesized that the discrepancies betweenC. trachomatis and C. pneumoniae MOMP exposure on intact chlamydiae and immunogenic properties might be because the focus of the host's immune response is directed to conformational epitopes of the C. pneumoniae MOMP. We therefore conducted studies aimed at defining the surface exposure of MOMP and the conformational dominance of MOMP antibodies. We present here a description of C. pneumoniaespecies-specific monoclonal antibody (MAb), GZD1E8, which recognizes a conformational epitope on the surface of C. pneumoniae. This MAb is potent in the neutralization ofC. pneumoniae infectivity in vitro. Another previously described C. pneumoniaespecies-specific monoclonal antibody, RR-402, displayed very similar characteristics. However, the antigenic determinant recognized by RR-402 has yet to be identified. We show by immunoprecipitation ofC. pneumoniae with GZD1E8 and RR-402 MAbs and by mass spectrometry analysis of immunoprecipitated proteins that both antibodies GZD1E8 and RR-402 recognize the MOMP of C. pneumoniae and that this protein is localized on the surface of the organism. We also show that human sera fromC. pneumoniae-positive donors consistently recognize the MOMP by immunoprecipitation, indicating that the MOMP ofC. pneumoniae is an immunogenic protein. These findings have potential implications for both C. pneumoniae vaccine and diagnostic assay development.
Using Support Vector Machine and Local Binary Pattern For Facial Expression Recognition

In this paper we propose an efficient brain tumor detection method, which can detect tumor and locate it in the brain MRI images. This method exactly the tumor by using K-means algorithm followed by object labeling algorithm. Also some preprocessing steps (median filtering and morphological operations) are used for tumor detection purpose. It is observed that the experimental results of the proposed method gives better result in comparison to other technique. Brain tumor is inherently serious and life-threatening. Tumors are of different types and they have different Characteristics and different treatment. Tumor is an uncontrolled growth of tissues in any part of the body. This paper introduces inefficient detection of brain tumor from cerebral MRI images. Most Research in developed countries show that the number of people who have brain tumors were died due to the fact of inaccurate detection. CT scan or MRI that is directed into intracranial cavity produces a complete image to detect the tumor some preprocessing steps are used i.e. median filtering and morphological operation. After this by applying K means method then binarized image is labeled using Object Labeling algorithm. The purpose of this algorithm is to label different objects within the image. The tumor is extracted from the MR image and its exact position and the shape also determined. The stage of the tumor is displayed based on the amount of area calculated from the cluster.
Antenna radiation pattern control using EBG/AMC surfaces for street furniture applications

This paper describes initial research into exploiting EBG structures to reduce the dimensional profile of street furniture antennas. One antenna of interest is normally mounted on the walls of buildings and is designed to radiate energy as close to endfire as possible. This enables efficient communication with mobile phones along the street, rather than illuminating buildings located opposite the antenna. The paper focuses on detailing the theoretical approach of how one would use an EBG surface to direct antenna energy away from boresight. This approach is validated via simulations of a dipole spaced 0.25lambda away from a square patch EBG, reducing the profile of the structure by 36.5%. The frequency range of interest for this paper is 880-960MHz.