Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Diagnostic Assessment of Occupational Asthma Due to Persulfate Salts in a Professional Hairdresser - A Case Report

Many different causative agents have been ascribed to occupational asthma (OA). Persulfate salts are low molecular weight chemical compounds widely used in different manufacturing processes, particularly in the cosmetics industry. Persulfate-induced asthma may represent 4% of all OA cases,1 and although the first cases due to persulfate salts were described approximately 30 years ago,2 the prevalence of the disease, its mechanisms, the risk factors for its development, the value of diagnostic tests, and the progression of these patients remain unknown. We report the case of a hairdresser with respiratory symptoms associated with exposure to persulfate salts. The diagnosis of occupational asthma due to this compound was confirmed only by specific bronchial challenge test.
AEGIS: Galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions from the X-Ray to Radio

The All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS) team presents broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs), from X-ray to radio wavelengths, for 71 galaxies spanning the redshift range 0.55-1.16 (⟨z⟩ ~ 0.7). Galaxies with secure redshifts are selected from a small (22 arcmin2) subsection of the Keck/DEIMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey in the Extended Groth Strip field that has also been targeted for deep panchromatic imaging by ultraviolet (120-250 nm), optical (360-900 nm), optical/near-infrared (440-1600 nm), near-infrared (1200-2200 nm), mid/far-infrared (3.6-70 μm), and radio (6-20 cm). A typical galaxy in our sample is MB = -19.82. The ultraviolet to mid-infrared portion of their SEDs are found to be bracketed by two stellar-only model SEDs: (1) an early burst followed by passive evolution and (2) a constant star formation rate since early times. This suggests that few of these galaxies are undergoing major starbursts. Approximately half the galaxies show a mid- to far-infrared excess relative to the model SEDs, consistent with thermal emission from interstellar dust. Two objects have power-law SEDs, indicating that they are dominated by active galactic nuclei; both are detected in X-rays. SEDs, from the ultraviolet to the infrared, follow expected trends: redder SEDs are associated with red U - B, early-type morphology, and low [O II] emission, and vice versa for blue SEDs.
Actin-binding Proteins Coronin-1a and IBA-1 are Effective Microglial Markers for Immunohistochemistry

This study identifies the actin-binding protein, coronin-1a, as a novel and effective immunohistochemical marker for microglia in both cell cultures and in formaldehyde-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue. Antibodies to coronin-1a effectively immunostained microglia in human, monkey, horse, rat, and mouse tissues, even in tissues stored for long periods of time. The identity of coronin-1a-immunoreactive cells as microglia was confirmed using double immunolabeling with cell type-specific markers as well as by morphological features and the distribution of immunoreactive cells. These properties are shared by another actin-binding protein, IBA-1. Unlike IBA-1, coronin-1a immunoreactivity was also detected in lymphocytes and certain other hematopoietic cells. The results indicate that both coronin-1a and IBA-1 are robust markers for microglia that can be used in routinely processed tissue of humans and animals. Because both coronin-1a and IBA-1 are actin-binding proteins that play a role in rearrangement of the membrane cytoskeleton, it suggests that these proteins are critical to dynamic properties of microglia.
Discovery of irradiation-induced variations in the light curve of the classical nova V2275 Cyg (N Cyg 2001 No. 2)

We present charge-coupled device (CCD) photometry, light curve and time-series analysis of the classical nova V2275 Cyg (N Cyg 2001 No. 2). The source was observed for 14 nights in total in 2002 and 2003 using an R filter with the 1.5-m Russian-Turkish joint telescope (RTT150) at the TUBITAK National Observatory in Antalya, Turkey, as part of a large programme on the CCD photometry of cataclysmic variables. We report the detection of two distinct periodicities in the light curve of the nova: (a) P 1 = 0.31449(15) d [7.6 h], and (b) P 2 = 0.017079(17) d [24.6 min]. The first period is evident in both 2002 and 2003 whereas the second period is only detected in the 2003 data set. We interpret the first period as the orbital period of the system and attribute the orbital variations to aspect changes of the secondary irradiated by the hot white dwarf (WD). We suggest that the nova was a supersoft X-ray source in 2002 and, perhaps, in 2003. The second period could be a quasi-periodic pscillation originating from the oscillation of the ionization front (due to a hot WD) below the inner Lagrange point or a beat frequency in the system as a result of the magnetic nature of the WD if steady accretion has already been re-established.
Non-Structured Initial Assessment of Psychiatric Client in Music Therapy

This paper is based on the grounded theory study, in which experienced music therapy clinicians were interviewed and their conception of an initial assessment were examined in detail. The main result of the study is a qualitative synthesis of initial assessment procedures, including the description of the process how a therapist gains his/her understanding of a client during an assessment period. In practice, an overall structure and a setting of assessment sessions enable practical activities, which are client-centered and usually non-structured. Activities can be seen as a chain of interactional conditions, under which the necessary data is collected: acting, experiencing, encountering, sharing and finally, discreet discussion of what happened and what is perceived. This leads furthermore to reflective working of a therapist and forming more whole conception of the client’s situation and the elements related. When summing up an initial assessment period and drawing up conclusions, therapist uses several sources of information. The process of gaining understanding is constructive, and in an ideal situation the whole multidisciplinary team can take advantage of the cumulative knowledge of initial assessment in music therapy.
Problematic Situation Analysis and Automatic Recognition for Chinese Online Conversational System

Automatic problematic situation recognition (PSR) is important for an online conversational system to constantly improve its performance. A PSR module is responsible of automatically identifying users’ un-satisfactions and then sending feedbacks to conversation managers. In this paper, we collect dialogues from a Chinese online chatbot, annotate the problematic situations and propose a framework to predict utterance-level problematic situations by integrating intent and sentiment factors. Different from previous work, the research field is set as open-domain in which very few domain specific textual features could be used and the method is easy to be adapted to other domains. Experimental results show that integrating both intent and sentiment factors gains the best performance.
Bounds on Rayleigh-Benard convection with general thermal boundary conditions. Part 1. Fixed Biot number boundaries

We investigate the influence of the thermal properties of the boundaries in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection on analytical bounds on convective heat transport. Using the Doering-Constantin background flow method, we systematically formulate a bounding principle on the Nusselt-Rayleigh number relationship for general mixed thermal boundary conditions of constant Biot number \eta which continuously interpolates between the previously studied fixed temperature ($\eta = 0$) and fixed flux ($\eta = \infty$) cases, and derive explicit asymptotic and rigorous bounds. Introducing a control parameter R as a measure of the driving which is in general different from the usual Rayleigh number Ra, we find that for each $\eta > 0$, as R increases the bound on the Nusselt number Nu approaches that for the fixed flux problem. Specifically, for $0 R_s = O(\eta^{-2})$ for small \eta) the Nusselt number is bounded as $Nu \leq c(\eta) R^{1/3} \leq C Ra^{1/2}$, where C is an \eta-independent constant. In the $R \to \infty$ limit, the usual fixed temperature assumption is thus a singular limit of this general bounding problem.
A cluster-profile representation of emotion using agglomerative hierarchical clustering

The proper representation of emotion is critical to automatic classification systems. In previous research, we demonstrated that emotion profile (EP) based representations are effective for this task. In EP-based representations, emotions are expressed in terms of underlying affective components from the subset of anger, happiness, neutrality, and sadness. The current study explores cluster profiles (CP), an alternate profile representation in which the components are no longer semantic labels, but clusters inherent in the feature space. This unsupervised clustering of the feature space permits the application of a systemlevel semi-supervised learning paradigm. The results demonstrate that CPs are similarly discriminative to EPs (EP classification accuracy: 68.37% vs. 69.25% for the CP-based classification). This suggests that exhaustive labeling of a representative training corpus may not be necessary for emotion classification tasks.
Whole-Genome Sequencing of Native Sheep Provides Insights into Rapid Adaptations to Extreme Environments

Global climate change has a significant effect on extreme environments and a profound influence on species survival. However, little is known of the genome-wide pattern of livestock adaptations to extreme environments over a short time frame following domestication. Sheep (Ovis aries) have become well adapted to a diverse range of agroecological zones, including certain extreme environments (e.g., plateaus and deserts), during their post-domestication (approximately 8–9 kya) migration and differentiation. Here, we generated whole-genome sequences from 77 native sheep, with an average effective sequencing depth of ∼5× for 75 samples and ∼42× for 2 samples. Comparative genomic analyses among sheep in contrasting environments, that is, plateau (>4,000 m above sea level) versus lowland (<100 m), high-altitude region (>1500 m) versus low-altitude region (<1300 m), desert (<10 mm average annual precipitation) versus highly humid region (>600 mm), and arid zone (<400 mm) versus humid zone (>400 mm), detected a novel set of candidate genes as well as pathways and GO categories that are putatively associated with hypoxia responses at high altitudes and water reabsorption in arid environments. In addition, candidate genes and GO terms functionally related to energy metabolism and body size variations were identified. This study offers novel insights into rapid genomic adaptations to extreme environments in sheep and other animals, and provides a valuable resource for future research on livestock breeding in response to climate change.
Auto-tuning sliding mode control for induction motor drives

Sliding mode control offers great potential to deal with uncertainties such as parameter variation and external load disturbances in controlling induction motor drives. The main obstacle of conventional sliding mode control is the presence of chattering phenomenon. It is known that the large switching gain of sliding mode control is proportional to the chattering level, and normally a large switching gain is applied to handle the uncertainties. In this paper, this chattering phenomenon is significantly reduced by a newly developed algorithm. The control algorithm incorporates the adjustment of switching gain value and variation of the boundary layer to replace the discontinuous function in conventional sliding mode control. As a result, the boundary layer and the switching gain will change in the presence of uncertainties and load disturbances. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed sliding mode control is superior in reducing the chattering phenomenon and handling the external load disturbances.
A Small Wiki for Personality Genetics

Many genetic association studies on personality traits exist, and several meta-analyses have already been performed: On a serotonin transporter gene polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and anxiety-related traits. But also other polymorphisms and traits have been examined in meta-analyses. 11, 12 These meta-analyses typically focus on a single personality trait and a single polymorphism. The wiki system presented here handles multiple polymorphisms across multiple personality traits. Genetic association data in the wiki web interface
Athermal and isothermal characteristics in diffusionless martensitic transformations

Martensitic transformations (MT) constitute an important class of solidsolid transitions, famous for special properties which they give to materials, like shape memory effect, superelasticity or magnetocaloric effect. One of the fundamental issues related to the nature of the MTs is the role of thermal fluctuations during the transformation. From this point of view, the MTs are usually classified as athermal (thermal fluctuations are not involved into the MT and the fraction of martensite is a function of only the driving force like temperature/stress/magnetic field) or isothermal ones (thermal fluctuations are involved and the MT becomes time-dependent). Although this problem is known for decades, it remains a matter of controversies and intense discussions. A new interest to this long-standing problem the athermal/isothermal nature of the martensitic transformations has emerged due to a discovery of the isothermal nature of the novel metamagnetic Ni–Mn–X, X=In,Sn,Sb,Al alloys. Metamagnetic alloys are multiferroic systems which exhibit macroscopic ordering of the lattice strains (appearance of the elastic martensitic variants) and of the magnetic moments in the high-temperature phase (ferromagnetic domains are formed). Therefore, the MTs in metamagnetic alloys become magnetostructural transitions and a clear understanding of the role of the interaction between the magnetic and elastic subsystems with respect to the athermal/isothermal nature of the MT does not exist. On the other hand, the isothermal effects are not exclusive properties of metamagnetic alloys, so that conventional non-magnetic Ni–Ti–X, X=Fe,Cu alloys have been investigated. This alloys system is especially important since it has found the majority of commercial applications. In the present work an extensive experimental study of the isothermal effects in non-magnetic Ni–Ti–X (X=Fe, Cu) and metamagnetic Ni–Mn–In– Co alloys has been performed by means of the resistance and, to a less extent, anelasticity studies, resulting in the following main results and conclusions. The standard doctrine ascribes isothermal transformations to diffusive processes. In the present work we show that the isothermal MTs are inherent in some diffusionless transformations. Another common belief is that the isothermal nature of MTs is due to the nucleation process, whereas the growth of the martensitic variants is athermal. In the present work we draw an inverse picture and claim that, within our laboratory observation window and in the materials studied, the thermally activated motion of the martensitic interfaces is responsible for the isothermal nature of MTs. A number of phenomenological regularities have been put into evidence,
A Possible Quantum Model of Consciousness Interfaced with a Non-Lipschitz Chaotic Dynamics of Neural Activity (Part I)

A model of consciousness and conscious experience is introduced. Starting with a non-Lipschitz Chaotic dynamics of neural activity, we propose tha t the synaptic transmission between adjacent as well as distant neurons should be regulated in b rain dynamics through quantum tunneling. Further, based on various studies of different prev ious authors, we consider the emergence of very large quantum mechanical system representable by an abstract quantum net entirely based on quantum-like entities having in particular the i mportant feature of expressing self-reference similar to what occurs in consciousness. The proper ties of such quantum-like mind entities are discussed in detail. A quantum-like model of consci ous experience is also discussed. It is shown that such quantum mechanical entities are able to a rrange themselves alternatively on the basis of the subject story, memory, and pain-pleasure in res ponse to an external stimulus, thus giving the subject the possibility to response to the stimulus on the basis of his emotion as well as cognitive state. Finally, we discuss the possible connections between the quantum-like model introduced in this paper and the chaotic behaviors often identifi ed experimentally in studies on brain dynamics. Part I of this article contains: Introduction; 1. N on Lipschitz Terminal Dynamics of Single Neuron Activity; and References; 2. Quantum Mechanical Properties of Neuron Dynamics; and 3. A Quantum Model of Consciousness I.
Low-Complexity Lattice Reduction-Aided Channel Inversion Methods for Large-Dimensional Multi-User MIMO Systems

Low-complexity precoding {algorithms} are proposed in this work to reduce the computational complexity and improve the performance of regularized block diagonalization (RBD) {based} precoding {schemes} for large multi-user {MIMO} (MU-MIMO) systems. The proposed algorithms are based on a channel inversion technique, QR decompositions{,} and lattice reductions to decouple the MU-MIMO channel into equivalent SU-MIMO channels. Simulation results show that the proposed precoding algorithms can achieve almost the same sum-rate performance as RBD precoding, substantial bit error rate (BER) performance gains{,} and a simplified receiver structure, while requiring a lower complexity.
The role of property tax incentives in urban regeneration and property market failure in Dublin

5 P roperty tax incentives or selective waivers have been used extensively in Ireland in the last 25 years to stimulate property development and investment for urban regeneration. This paper investigates their prolonged use and examines their contributory role in the property crash and resulting financial crisis in 2008. Prolonged interventions can result in extensive distortion of property market operations. As a result, interventions aimed at revitalising a failing market become embedded in market processes to the extent that they may contribute to a more general subsequent market failure. This paper examines the recent experience in the use of tax incentives in urban regeneration in Dublin during the period 1986–2011. The effects of the property-and area-based tax incentive schemes initiated under the Finance Act of 1986 and Urban Renewal Act of 1986 are examined. The paper provides an overview of the benefits, costs, and impacts of the incentives from an urban development market perspective. The tax schemes are examined in terms of the rationale for their introduction and their effectiveness in operation from the public exchequer perspective. This examination is placed in the context of current debates on urban regenera-tion and the use of fiscal incentives in an international perspective. In order to gain insight into the specific performance of the incentives in relation to policy objectives, selected interviews were carried out to obtain the opinions of policy makers and planning interests. Introduction Privately led urban regeneration has been promoted in many cities worldwide to improve the use of public funds, increase devolution of central government responsibilities, enhance the functions delegated to the local level, and create public–private partnerships. Business improvement districts (BIDs) and city improvement districts (CIDs), in particular , have developed as models for revitalising commercial areas in declining inner-city areas as well as in high-to low-income neighbourhoods (McGreal et al. 2002). City property development regeneration schemes have been linked to the evolution of an urban entrepreneur-ialism (McGuirk and MacLaran 2001) and the rise of neoliberal forms of gov-ernance as competition between cities in the global economy becomes greater than ever (Peyroux 2006). Research confirms that selective tax waivers and other incentives for developers , investors, and residents can play a significant role in improving the physical and economic environment in research also suggests that tax-based measures need to operate within a clear planning, regulatory, and budgetary framework. It is also essential to recognise the different ways such …
A Model-Based Approach for Robustness Test Generation

Since Critical Infrastructures (CI) strongly rely on network services, robustness testing is a key step to assure the resilience of such systems in the presence of abnormal situations. This work proposes a dynamic robustness test cases generation from state models, using an executable version of the model. A meta-heuristics search based algorithm is used to generate test cases taking into account the control and data aspects of the model.
Phase reconstruction of spectrograms based on a model of repeated audio events

Phase recovery of modified spectrograms is a major issue in audio signal processing applications, such as source separation. This paper introduces a novel technique for estimating the phases of components in complex mixtures within onset frames in the Time-Frequency (TF) domain. We propose to exploit the phase repetitions from one onset frame to another. We introduce a reference phase which characterizes a component independently of its activation times. The onset phases of a component are then modeled as the sum of this reference and an offset which is linearly dependent on the frequency. We derive a complex mixture model within onset frames and we provide two algorithms for the estimation of the model phase parameters. The model is estimated on experimental data and this technique is integrated into an audio source separation framework. The results demonstrate that this model is a promising tool for exploiting phase repetitions, and point out its potential for separating overlapping components in complex mixtures.
DNA Gyrase Genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a Single Operon Driven by Multiple Promoters

ABSTRACT The two genes encoding DNA gyrase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis are present next to each other in the genome, with gyrB upstream of gyrA. We show that the primary transcript is dicistronic. However, in addition to the principal promoter, there are multiple weaker promoters that appear to fine-tune transcription. With these and other mycobacterial promoters, we propose consensus promoter sequences for two distinct sigma factors. In addition to this, the gyr genes in M. tuberculosis, as in other species, are subject to autoregulation, albeit with slower kinetics, probably reflecting the slower metabolism of the organism.
Context-based hierarchical saliency detection for mobile hotspot

Embedded hotspot applications, especially advertisements, supporting by 3/4G technology are now rising rapidly. Defining hotspot by finding attention region using saliency is one of interesting. In this paper, we proposed context-based hierarchical saliency feature detection. To construct saliency map, two main features are considered as the context, local and global features. The areas that have distinctive color which obtains high saliency, and blurred areas which give low saliency are considered as local. Moreover, the frequency-occurring information is consider as background which is pressed is considered as global. In experiments, our proposed method comparing with conventional hierarchical saliency framework shows high the recall and F-measure value.