Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison of subcutaneous ivermectin and oral moxidectin for the treatment of notoedric acariasis in hamsters

Thirty hamsters diagnosed with a Notoedres infestation on the basis of their clinical signs and skin scrapings were allocated to three matched groups. The hamsters in group 1 received ivermectin at 400 μg/kg subcutaneously once a week for eight weeks, those in group 2 were treated with moxidectin at 400 μg/kg orally once a week, and those in group 3 were treated with moxidectin at the same dosage, but twice a week. The hamsters' skin lesions were scored weekly on the basis of the severity of crusting, erythema, scaling and excoriations at various sites. In all three groups the lesion scores were significantly lower after four and eight weeks, and there was no significant difference between the efficacy of the treatments. However, at the end of the treatment, skin scrapings were negative in only 60 to 70 per cent of the animals in each group.
Optimal forwarding probability for real-time routing in wireless sensor network

In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), sensors gather information about the physical world and the base station makes decision and then performs appropriate actions upon the environment. This technology enables a user to effectively sense and monitor from a distance in real-time. WSN uses real-time forwarding which means messages in the network are delivered according to their end-to-end deadlines (packet lifetime). This paper proposes optimal forwarding probability for real-time routing protocol with load distribution (RTLD) that provides efficient power consumption, high packet delivery ratio and minimum control packet overhead in WSN. It combines packet reception rate (PRR), maximum packet velocity and the remaining power to achieve real-time routing in WSN. RTLD almost avoid routing holes problem by using the remaining power as a parameter of forwarding to distribute the forwarding load to all forwarding candidates.
UPPER LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF SMALL BODIES IN SEDNA-LIKE ORBITS BY THE TAOS PROJECT

We present the results of a search for occultation events by objects at distances between 100 and 1000 AU in light curves from the Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey. We searched for consecutive, shallow flux reductions in the stellar light curves obtained by our survey between 2005 February 7 and 2006 December 31 with a total of ∼4.5 × 109 three-telescope simultaneous photometric measurements. No events were detected, allowing us to set upper limits on the number density as a function of size and distance of objects in Sedna-like orbits, using simple models.
Anaerobic Digestion of Cassava Pulp with Sewage Sludge Inocula

The effectiveness of sludge inocula from a municipal carrousel oxidation ditch wastewater treatment plant was studied for both batch and semi-continuous anaerobic digestion (AD) of cassava pulp. In 1.25-L batch experiments, the following sludge inocula were used: I1 sludge from the hydrolysis acidification tank pre-acclimated with cassava pulp; I2, predigested sludge from the hydrolysis acidification tank; and I3, predigested sludge from the gravity thickening tank. In 1.0-L semi-continuous tests, mesophilic AD of cassava pulp inoculated with I3 was carried out at organic matter loading rates (OLRs) of 1.5 to 12.5 kg volatile solids (VS)/(m3 d), whereas 1.5 to 18.0 kgVS/(m3 d) was used for thermophilic AD. For batch operations, all sludge types could be used as the inoculum for the mesophilic AD of cassava pulp, whereas only I1 was used for thermophilic AD. The maximum specific methane yields were 0.333 and 0.395 m3/kgVSadded, respectively, for mesophilic and thermophilic batch digestion with I1. During semi-continuous AD of cassava pulp inoculated with I3, high specific methane yields of 0.334 to 0.336 m3/kgVSadded were obtained under both mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. For thermophilic AD of cassava pulp with sludge inocula, the range of optimum OLR was 2.5 to 15.0 kgVS/(m3 d), and that was 2.5 to 8.7 kgVS/(m3 d) for mesophilic AD.
An algorithm for enhancing macromodeling in finite element analysis of waveguide components

An algorithm for enhancing the finite element method with local model order reduction is presented. The proposed technique can be used in fast frequency domain simulation of waveguide components and resonators. The local reduction process applied to cylindrical subregions is preceded by compression of the number of variables on its boundary. As a result, the finite element large system is converted into a very compact set of linear equations which thus can be solved extremely fast.
The Design of Scalable Distributed Erlang

The multicore revolution means that the number of cores in commodity machines is growing exponentially. Many expect 100,000 core clouds/platforms to become commonplace, and the best predictions are that core failures on such an architecture will become relatively common, perhaps one hour mean time between core failures. The RELEASE project aims to scale Erlang to build reliable general-purpose software, such as server-based systems, on massively parallel machines. In this paper we present a design of Scalable Distributed (SD) Erlang – an extension of Distributed Erlang functional programming language for reliable scalability. The design focuses on three aspects of Erlang scalability: 1) scaling the number of Erlang nodes by eliminating transitive connections and introducing scalable groups (s groups), 2) managing process placement in the scaled networks by introducing semi-explicit process placement, and 3) preserving Erlang reliability model.
3-(4-Methoxyphenyl)-1,3-selenazolo[2,3-b][1,3]benzothiazol-4-ium hydrogen sulfate

The title compound, C16H12NOSSe+·HSO4 −, was obtained from a mixture of 3-(4-methoxyphenyl)[1,3]selenazolo[2,3-b][1,3]benzothiazol-4-ium chloride and potassium hydrogen sulfate. In the cation, the benzene ring is twisted by 71.62 (7)° from the tricycle mean plane. In the crystal, O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the anions into chains along [100]. The anions in adjacent chains are linked via weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The crystal packing exhibits short intermolecular contacts between the chalcogen unit and the O atoms: Se⋯O(anion) 2.713 (3), Se⋯O(cation) 2.987 (3) and S⋯O(anion) 2.958 (3) Å.
Esquema de anotación para categorización de citas en bibliografía científica

Citation analysis that uses counting methods causes deformations in impact factor assessment. To enrich impact factor calculation is necessary to understand the kind of influence that the contributions of an author have over another´s work. For this purpose, it is required to perform citation content analysis to obtain its function, polarity and influence in a context within an article that mentioned it. In this paper, we focus in the definition of an annotation scheme aimed at creating a public access corpus that be the basis of collaborative work in this field, in order to develop citation content analysis to obtain criteria for impact evaluation.
Anomaly between Jaccard and Tanimoto Coefficients

The binary feature vector is one of the most common representations of patterns and measuring similarity and distance measures play an important role in many statistical problems such as clustering, classification, etc. Numerous binary similarity and distance measures have been proposed in various fields. Some measures have been identified as the same mathematically. Here measure equivalency is formally defined and several anomalies of some binary similarity measures are introduced.
CHAPTER 23 Assessing Personality and Psychopathology with Projective Methods

531 PROBLEMS WITH DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS 531 PROBLEMS WITH COMMON METAPHORS AND MODELS 533 The Blank Screen Metaphor 533 The X-Ray Metaphor 534 The Need for an Informed Conceptual Framework 535 THE BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE PROCESS MODEL 535 Self-Expressive and Organizational Components 535 The Projective Test Stimulus Situation 536 Processing the Stimulus Situation 536 The Free-Response Format 537 A Behavioral Approach to Validity 539 Functional Equivalence and Generalization 540 Conclusion 541 INTERPRETIVE AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 541 Synthetic, Configurational Interpretation 541 Psychological Testing, Not Psychological Tests 542 Self-Disclosure and Response Sets 542 Test or Method? 544 Contribution to Assessment Relative to Self-Report Tests 546 PROJECTIVE TEST CONTROVERSY FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 547 Emerging Clinical Needs versus Scientific Aspirations 547 The Polarized and Moralistic Debate Continues 547 Recognition of Differences and a Resolution? 548 REFERENCES 549
Opencast Matterhorn: A community-driven open source software project for producing, managing, and distributing academic video

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Opencast Community, a global community of individuals, institutions, and commercial stakeholders exchanging knowledge about all matters relevant in the context of academic video and promoting projects in this context. It also gives an overview of the most prominent of these projects, Opencast Matterhorn – a community‐driven open source solution for producing, managing, and distributing academic video. Design/methodology/approach – The paper will demonstrate that Opencast Matterhorn is satisfying institutional needs to manage audiovisual content more efficiently as video is becoming a significant resource in research and education. Furthermore, the paper highlights that Opencast Matterhorn as a product and as a project is open for contributions from the research community and provides an excellent environment for the integration of research results from media analysis, multimedia authoring, search technologies, and other related fields. Findings – Opencast Matterhorn provides a scalable open source solution for universities to manage academic video. Its service‐oriented architecture makes it customizable to institutional needs and open for contributions from users as well as media research. Originality/value – The paper provides an insight to the idea of Opencast, the Opencast Community, and Opencast Matterhorn – and how they will help academic institutions to better manage and exploit the full richness of educational video.
Channel adapted CDMA for MAI/ISI-free power optimized burst transmission with space diversity at the base station

This paper considers the uplink and the downlink of a DS-CDMA multiuser communication system based on burst transmission over frequency selective channels. The purpose is to evaluate the performance gain obtained if space diversity is introduced at the base station with an optimized set of codes. The codes are designed in order to minimize the emitted power at the mobile stations (in case of uplink transmission) or at the base station (in case of downlink transmission) while allowing the complete elimination of the intersymbol interference (ISI) and multiple-access interference (MAI) if filters matched to the total impulse responses are used at the receiver. An iterative algorithm is used to generate the codes. The comparison is made with the performances reached when a conventional set of codes is used. It is shown that the precoding scheme based on channel adapted codes significantly outperforms a system based on a conventional set of codes.
A Bifunctional Glycosyltransferase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens Synthesizes Monoglucosyl and Glucuronosyl Diacylglycerol under Phosphate Deprivation*

Background: Despite the high diversity of glycolipids found in many organisms, only a few glycosyltransferases have been isolated. Results: A bifunctional glycosyltransferase, synthesizing glucuronosyl or monoglucosyl diacylglycerol, was isolated from Agrobacterium. Conclusion: Glycolipids and other nonphospholipids can mutually replace each other, enhancing the ability to adapt to changing environments. Significance: This is the first report on the isolation of a glucuronosyl diacylglycerol synthase. Glycolipids are mainly found in phototrophic organisms (like plants and cyanobacteria), in Gram-positive bacteria, and a few other bacterial phyla. Besides the function as bulk membrane lipids, they often play a role under phosphate deprivation as surrogates for phospholipids. The Gram-negative Agrobacterium tumefaciens accumulates four different glycolipids under phosphate deficiency, including digalactosyl diacylglycerol and glucosylgalactosyl diacylglycerol synthesized by a processive glycosyltransferase. The other two glycolipids have now been identified by mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as monoglucosyl diacylglycerol and glucuronosyl diacylglycerol. These two lipids are synthesized by a single promiscuous glycosyltransferase encoded by the ORF atu2297, with UDP-glucose or UDP-glucuronic acid as sugar donors. The transfer of sugars differing in their chemistry is a novel feature not observed before for lipid glycosyltransferases. Furthermore, this enzyme is the first glucuronosyl diacylglycerol synthase isolated. Deletion mutants of Agrobacterium lacking monoglucosyl diacylglycerol and glucuronosyl diacylglycerol or all glycolipids are not impaired in growth or virulence during infection of tobacco leaf discs. Our data suggest that the four glycolipids and the nonphospholipid diacylglyceryl trimethylhomoserine can mutually replace each other during phosphate deprivation. This redundancy of different nonphospholipids may represent an adaptation mechanism to enhance the competitiveness in nature.
A test of sensory bias for long tails in the house finch

The sensory bias model of sexual selection proposes that female preferences for certain male traits result from biases in the female sensory system that existed prior to the evolution of the preferred trait. Phylogenetic tests of the sensory bias hypothesis have provided evidence for pre-existing bias in several species, but the hypothesis has not been tested relative to elongated tail feathers, a widespread sexually selected trait in birds. Elongated tails occur sporadically across avian taxa, including cardueline finches (family Fringillidae), suggesting that long tails evolved independently in many lineages. To determine whether a female preference for longer tails predated the evolution of long tails in cardueline finches, we tested female preferences for artificially lengthened tail feathers in male house finches, Carpodacus mexicanus. The house finch is a cardueline finch species with a tail that does not appear to be elongated or sexually selected. In mate choice experiments, females did not demonstrate a preference for lengthened tails over controls. This negative result fails to support the hypothesis that elongation of tail feathers resulted from exploitation of a widespread sensory bias. Copyright 1998 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
Le problème de la stabilité du Système solaire, de Lagrange à nos jours

L'attraction mutuelle des planetes peut-elle rompre la belle regularite du mouvement keplerien des planetes autour du Soleil, que la loi de l'attraction universelle etait initialement censee expliquer? Nous retracons certaines idees mathematiques qui ont emerge des tentatives de resolution du plus ancien des problemes de Dynamique, depuis les travaux de Lagrange (1736-1813), puis ceux de Poincare ou Arnold, jusqu'a certains travaux plus recents conduisant a l'abandon total du dogme de la stabilite.
Gauge invariance and mass. I. Abelian case.

It is shown that Abelian vector-boson theories can be formulated in a gauge-invariant way, without the need of Higgs bosons. Familiar Proca and Stueckelberg formulations appear as particular gauges. The Stueckelberg gauge is not fixed simply by a gauge condition. Rather, it is the fixing of a particular evolution of gauge degrees of freedom.
A Test Case Prioritization Based on Degree of Risk Exposure and its Empirical Study

We propose a test case prioritization strategy for risk based testing, in which the risk exposure is employed as the key criterion of evaluation. Existing approaches to risk based testing typically employ risk exposure values as assessed by the tester. In contrast, we employ exposure values that have been determined by experts during the risk assessment stage of the risk management process. If a given method produces greater accuracy in fault detection, that approach is considered more valuable for software testing. We demonstrate the value of our proposed risk based testing method in this sense through its application.
Changes in the proton-motive force in Escherichia coli in response to external oxidoreduction potential.

The pH homeostasis and proton-motive force (Deltap) of Escherichia coli are dependent on the surrounding oxidoreduction potential (ORP). Only the internal pH value and, thus, the membrane pH gradient (DeltapH) component of the Deltap is modified, while the membrane potential (DeltaPsi) does not change in a significant way. Under reducing conditions (Eh < 50 mV at pH 7.0), E. coli decreases its Deltap especially in acidic media (21% decrease at pH 7.0 and 48% at pH 5.0 for a 850-mV ORP decrease). Measurements of ATPase activity and membrane proton conductance (CH+m) depending on ORP and pH have shown that the internal pH decrease is due to an increase in membrane proton permeability without any modification of ATPase activity. We propose that low ORP values de-energize E. coli by modifying the thiol : disulfide balance of proteins, which leads to an increase in the membrane permeability to protons.
Growth (and Segregation) by Rail: How the Railways Shaped Colonial South Africa

The railway played a large part in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century globalization since, to bene & t from the international economy, peripheral countries needed cheap inland transport. This pa- per discusses how the railway transformed the economy of South Africas Cape Colony during the & rst era of globalization. A very large share of the Colonys GDP came from rail transportits resource saving eect was one of the highest in the world at that time. We estimate that 46 to 51% of the Colonys increase in labor productivity between 1873 and 1905 came directly from the railway, whether from investment in the rail network or from savings in transport costs. We argue that it was the boom in diamond production, necessitating the building of the railway to connect the Kimberley diamond & elds with the international economy, that weighted the Colonys economy so heavily towards the rail trans- port sector. The railway not only boosted the Colonys growth, it also re-shaped its economic geography, organizing it around the railway lines that connected the diamond mines with the ports. Areas not served by the railway missed out on the bene & ts of globalization. As these areas were mostly populated by blacks, the railway helped to create a dual economy with a racial social divide and was later instrumental in creating black � homelandsand establishing the apartheid institutions. JEL CODES: N4, H4, O Key wordsrailways, Cape Colony, South Africa, social savings, economic geography, segregation
Effects of water adsorption in hydrophilic polymers

The origin of the adsorption-induced phenomena in hydrophilic polymers, such as cellulose, lies at the atomistic scale. We use molecular dynamic simulations to investigate the mechanisms by which the adsorbing polymers change their properties upon water adsorption. Despite of their limited spacial and temporal capabilities MD simulations are able to reproduce the hygroscopic swelling and moisture softening effects in several natural polymeric systems, such as crystalline and amorphous cellulose, hemicellulose, or lignin. The revealed picture of adsorption shows a complex dependency between system porosity, water concentration, chemical potential and number of hydrogen bonds. Clear correlation between the number of hydrogen bonds, porosity and mechanical moduli implies that the dynamics of hydrogen bonds is an underlying mechanism of the adsorption process in hydrophilic polymers. The adsorbed water molecules, attracted by sorption sites tend to break the hydrogen bonds between the polymer residues that are responsible for the mechanical stability of the system. As a result, the number of hydrogen bonds decreases with water concentration which causes a substantial decrease in elastic modulus. This plasticization effect causes the polymer matrix to yield under swelling pressure exerted by the water molecules clustered in the nanopores under higher-than-bulk density. Thus, as the adsorbed amount increases, the pore structure of the polymer evolves in such a way that the average pore size increases and the pores merge. The evolution of the pores topology makes that the diffusion of water changes non-linearly with water content. Highlighting the central role of hydrogen bonds in adsorption process helps understanding the concept of hydrophilicity in polymers and enables further research in a more application-oriented direction, e.g. wood industry, moisture sensors/actuators.
A new surgical technique using steel suture for trans-scleral fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lenses

Background: A new emerging complication of trans-scleral fixation of posterior chamber (PC) intraocular lens (IOL) with polypropylene suture is high rates of spontaneous dislocation of the IOL due to disintegration or breakage of suture. Materials: We report a new surgical technique of trans-scleral fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lens (SF PCIOL) with steel suture to eliminate the complication of dislocation of IOL fixed with polypropylene suture in one adult and a child. Results: We successfully achieved stable fixation and good centration of IOL after SF PCIOL with steel suture in these patient having inadequate posterior capsular support. Both eyes achieved best corrected visual acuity 20/40 at 18 months follow-up. Conclusions: Steel suture is a viable option for trans-scleral fixation of posterior chamber intraocular lens.
Omics-based Medicine and Systems Pathology

Summary Objectives: Recent important advances in the human genomics and post-genomic “omics” are now bringing about a new medical care which we call “omics-based medicine”. In this article, we investigated the development and future possibilities of omics-based medicine. Methods: We divided the development of omics-based medicine into three generations in order to clarify the main clinical goals and characteristics of informatics method of each generation, together with its future possibilities. Results: The first generation of omics-based medicine started with “genomic medicine” based on the inborn individual differences of genome. It has opened the study of genetic polymorphism of the diseases and promoted the personalized medication based on the pharmacogenetic/pharmacogenomic difference of the drug response. In the second generation of omics-based medicine, owing to the advances in the high-throughput technology, vast amount of the various post-genomic disease omics data containing comprehensive molecular information of diseased somatic cells has become available. It reflects the ongoing state of diseases more closely and enables the predictive medicine such as prognosis prediction of disease by applying the data-driven analysis. Finally, due to the rapidly growing knowledge about the cellular molecular network, system-level understanding of the disease, called systems pathology, becomes possible. It can fully exploit the substantial contents of disease omics and will lead to a comprehensive understanding of disease process by using model-driven analysis. Conclusion: Omics-based medicine and systems pathology will realize a new personalized and predictive medicine.