Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evolution of Interstellar Medium, Star Formation, and Accretion at High Redshift

ALMA observations of the long wavelength dust continuum are used to estimate the interstellar medium (ISM) masses in a sample of 708 galaxies at z = 0.3 to 4.5 in the COSMOS field. The galaxy sample has known far-infrared luminosities and, hence, star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses ( ) from the optical–infrared spectrum fitting. The galaxies sample SFRs from the main sequence (MS) to 50 times above the MS. The derived ISM masses are used to determine the dependence of gas mass on redshift, , and specific SFR (sSFR) relative to the MS. The ISM masses increase approximately with the 0.63 power of the rate of increase in SFRs with redshift and the 0.32 power of the sSFR/sSFRMS. The SF efficiencies also increase as the 0.36 power of the SFR redshift evolution and the 0.7 power of the elevation above the MS; thus the increased activities at early epochs are driven by both increased ISM masses and SF efficiency. Using the derived ISM mass function, we estimate the accretion rates of gas required to maintain continuity of the MS evolution ( yr−1 at z > 2.5). Simple power-law dependencies are similarly derived for the gas accretion rates. We argue that the overall evolution of galaxies is driven by the rates of gas accretion. The cosmic evolution of total ISM mass is estimated and linked to the evolution of SF and active galactic nucleus activity at early epochs.
Integration of relative visual localization into the system of stabilization of swarms of autonomous helicopters

Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá návrhem, implementací a ověření funčnosti metod, které v roji bezpilotních helikoptér zajistí omezení daná relativní vizuální lokalizací a vzájemným působením bezpilotních helikoptér. Navržené metody mají za úkol zabránit nebezpečným kolizím mezi helikoptérami a působení proudu vzduchu vytvořeného rotorem helikoptéry na ostatní helikoptéry v roji. Navržené metody jsou implementovány do algoritmu únikového chování pro roje bezpilotních čtyř-rotorových helikoptér. Funkčnost navržených metod je ověřena simulacemi. Do simulace algoritmu únikového chování jsou implementovány složitější překážky, které napodubují překážky reálného světa. Pro ověření funkčnosti metod a analýzy chování roje bezpilotních helikoptér jsou použity simulace v programu Matlab. Klíčová slova Bezpilotní helikoptéry, autonomní roje, relativní vizuální lokalizace
Integrating mass spectrometry of intact protein complexes into structural proteomics

MS analysis of intact protein complexes has emerged as an established technology for assessing the composition and connectivity within dynamic, heterogeneous multiprotein complexes at low concentrations and in the context of mixtures. As this technology continues to move forward, one of the main challenges is to integrate the information content of such intact protein complex measurements with other MS approaches in structural biology. Methods such as H/D exchange, oxidative foot‐printing, chemical cross‐linking, affinity purification, and ion mobility separation add complementary information that allows access to every level of protein structure and organization. Here, we survey the structural information that can be retrieved by such experiments, demonstrate the applicability of integrative MS approaches in structural proteomics, and look to the future to explore upcoming innovations in this rapidly advancing area.
The TIGR Rice Genome Annotation Resource: improvements and new features

In The Institute for Genomic Research Rice Genome Annotation project (), we have continued to update the rice genome sequence with new data and improve the quality of the annotation. In our current release of annotation (Release 4.0; January 12, 2006), we have identified 42 653 non-transposable element-related genes encoding 49 472 gene models as a result of the detection of alternative splicing. We have refined our identification methods for transposable element-related genes resulting in 13 237 genes that are related to transposable elements. Through incorporation of multiple transcript and proteomic expression data sets, we have been able to annotate 24 799 genes (31 739 gene models), representing ∼50% of the total gene models, as expressed in the rice genome. All structural and functional annotation is viewable through our Rice Genome Browser which currently supports 59 tracks. Enhanced data access is available through web interfaces, FTP downloads and a Data Extractor tool developed in order to support discrete dataset downloads.
Voltage Sag Acceptability Assessment Using Multiple Magnitude-Duration Function

A multiple magnitude-duration (MMD) function is proposed for voltage sag acceptability assessment. The MMD function is a statistical representation of voltage sag derived from its rms analysis. The MMD function maps a series of correlated sag magnitude and duration points onto the standard power acceptability curve, revealing the dynamic characteristic of voltage sag across the standard power acceptability curve. It allows nonrectangular voltage sag, such as voltage sag due to transformer energization, induction motor starting, multistage fault, self-extinguishing fault, and voltage sag influenced by induction load to be assessed. The practicality and advantage of the proposed MMD acceptability assessment is evaluated using practical data and IEEE1159.2 waveforms set on an ITIC and SEMI F47 standard power acceptability curve. The evaluation results show that the proposed MMD function yields higher resolution and improved acceptability assessment accuracy compared to the conventional single-point mapping assessment.
Osteonecrosis: A treatment related toxicity in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)—experiences from trial ALL‐BFM 95

Osteonecrosis (ON) as a complication during treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has gained rising attention over the past decade. Corticosteroids, representing an essential element of antileukemic therapy, are known to induce ON, which in turn may cause significant morbidity. Due to spontaneous reporting of affected patients with ON, a group‐wide evaluation was performed to determine incidence, risk factors, and morbidity for ON.
Two-Dimensional Displacement Analysis of Piezoelectric Transducer Array Elements

En partant du cas isotrope, on montre que la pression mode de vibration de l'element de ceramique piezoelectrique des reseaux de transducteurs peut etre etudie en etablissant les ondes de Lamb d'ordre nul symetriques stationnaires
The Factor Structure of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory

In the first study, we administered the 40-item Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; Raskin & Terry, 1988) to 843 female and 843 male college students, most of whom were Euro-American, to comprehensively assess the NPI factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis. Initial exploratory common factor analyses (N = 724) revealed a 2-factor model (Leadership/Authority and Exhibitionism/Entitlement). Subsequently, we used confirmatory factor analysis in a separate sample (N = 724) to evaluate the Emmons (1987) 4-factor model, the Raskin and Terry (1988) 7-factor model, the Kubarych, Deary, and Austin (2004) 2- and 3-factor models, and our 2-factor model. Finally, we assessed construct validity by correlating the scale scores with the Five-factor model of personality in an independent sample (N = 238). The 2-factor models for the NPI we obtained in this study and by Kubarych et al. (2004) appeared to be the most parsimonious models, with both a good fit to the data and satisfactory internal consistency values; so they are recommended for use. However, additional NPI research is needed to rescale, modify, or omit several NPI items and develop gender-equivalent items.
Requirement of essential Pbp2x and GpsB for septal ring closure in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

Bacterial cell shapes are manifestations of programs carried out by multi‐protein machines that synthesize and remodel the resilient peptidoglycan (PG) mesh and other polymers surrounding cells. GpsB protein is conserved in low‐GC Gram‐positive bacteria and is not essential in rod‐shaped Bacillus subtilis, where it plays a role in shuttling penicillin‐binding proteins (PBPs) between septal and side‐wall sites of PG synthesis. In contrast, we report here that GpsB is essential in ellipsoid‐shaped, ovococcal Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), and depletion of GpsB leads to formation of elongated, enlarged cells containing unsegregated nucleoids and multiple, unconstricted rings of fluorescent‐vancomycin staining, and eventual lysis. These phenotypes are similar to those caused by selective inhibition of Pbp2x by methicillin that prevents septal PG synthesis. Dual‐protein 2D and 3D‐SIM (structured illumination) immunofluorescence microscopy (IFM) showed that GpsB and FtsZ have overlapping, but not identical, patterns of localization during cell division and that multiple, unconstricted rings of division proteins FtsZ, Pbp2x, Pbp1a and MreC are in elongated cells depleted of GpsB. These patterns suggest that GpsB, like Pbp2x, mediates septal ring closure. This first dual‐protein 3D‐SIM IFM analysis also revealed separate positioning of Pbp2x and Pbp1a in constricting septa, consistent with two separable PG synthesis machines.
Built-in current sensor for /spl Delta/I/sub DDQ/ testing

This paper presents the implementation of a built-in current sensor for /spl Delta/I/sub DDQ/ testing. In contrast to conventional built-in current monitors, this implementation has three distinctive features: 1) built-in self-calibration to the process corner in which the circuit under test was fabricated; 2) digital encoding of the quiescent current of the circuit under test for robustness purposes; and 3) enabling versatile testing strategy through the implementation of two advanced /spl Delta/I/sub DDQ/ testing algorithms. The monitor has been manufactured in a 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS technology and it is based on the principle of disconnecting the device under test from the power supply during the testing phase. The monitor has a resolution of 1 /spl mu/A for a background current less than 100 /spl mu/A or 1% of background currents over 100 /spl mu/A to a total of 1-mA full scale. The sensor operates at a maximum clock speed of 250 MHz. The quiescent current is indirectly determined by counting a number of clock pulses which occur during the time the voltage at the disconnected node drops below a reference voltage value. Basically, at the end of the count period, the counted value is inversely proportional to the quiescent current of the device under test. Then, a /spl Delta/I/sub DDQ/ unit processes the counted number and the outcome is compared with a reference number to determine whether a defect exists in the device under test. Accuracy is improved by adjusting the value of the reference number and the frequency of the clock signal depending upon the particular process corner of the circuit under test. The monitor has been verified in a test chip consisting of one "DSP-like" circuit of about 250,000 transistors. Experimental results prove the usefulness of our approach as a quick and effective means for detecting defects.
Reproductive biology Themitochondrial DNA content of cumulus granulosa cells is linked to embryo quality

V. Desquiret-Dumas, A. Clément, V. Seegers, L. Boucret, V. Ferré-L’Hotellier, P.E. Bouet, P. Descamps, V. Procaccio, P. Reynier, and P. May-Panloup* Département de Biochimie et Génétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, 49933 Angers Cedex 9, France PREMMi/Pôle de Recherche et d’Enseignement en Médecine Mitochondriale, Institut MITOVASC, CNRS 6214, INSERM U1083, Université d’Angers, Angers, France Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, 49933 Angers Cedex 9, France SFR ICAT, Université Angers, Angers, France DRCI, Cellule Data Management, CHU Angers, Angers, France Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers, 49933 Angers Cedex 9, France
Low‐Density Lipoprotein Apheresis Using Double Filtration Plasmapheresis: 27‐Month Use in a Child With Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

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Two novel kinases phosphorylate tau and the KSP site of heavy neurofilament subunits in high stoichiometric ratios

We have identified, purified, and characterized two neurofilament/tau kinases from bovine brain, PK36 and PK40, with apparent Mr of 36,000 and 40,000 and with novel biochemical properties. A specially designed immunoassay for phosphorylated epitopes in neurofilament (NF) proteins was used in the early stages of the purification. Neither kinase is closely associated with the cytoskeleton. Both kinases phosphorylate bovine intermediate (NF-M) and heavy (NF-H) NF subunits and also bovine tau at the expected KSP sequences, though other sites cannot be ruled out. In human paired helical filaments, tau, phosphorylated at these same KSP sites, is a major characterized constituent. Neither kinase is activated by the usual second messengers. Tau and the above NF subunits are phosphorylated in high stoichiometric ratios. In the intermediate NF subunit, all the expected sites appear to be phosphorylated, but in the heavy NF subunit only 7 out of the greater than 40 expected sites can be phosphorylated by our kinases. We demonstrate that both kinases can induce considerable shifts of apparent Mr with SDS-PAGE for tau and, for the first time in vitro, also for the intermediate NF subunit. Interestingly, PK36 and particularly PK40 are strongly inhibited by an excess of free ATP. We propose that during normal aging, and in Alzheimer's disease, age-related mitochondrial dysfunction would reduce ATP levels, which in turn might release the neurofilament/tau kinase from inhibition with consequent paired helical filament formation.
Mammalian sperm translate nuclearencoded nuclearencoded nuclearencoded proteins by mitochondrialtype mitochondrialtype mitochondrialtype ribosomes

It is widely accepted that spermatozoa are translationally silent. The present study demonstrates, for the first time, incorporation of labeled amino acids into polypeptides during sperm capacitation, which was completely inhibited by mitochondrial translation inhibitors but not by the cytoplasmic translation inhibitor. Unlike 80S cytoplasmic ribosomes, 55S mitochondrial ribosomes were present in polysomal fractions, indicating that these ribosomes are actively involved in protein translation in spermatozoa. Inhibition of protein translation significantly reduced sperm motility, capacitation and in vitro fertilization rate. Thus, contrary to the accepted dogma, nuclear genes are expressed as proteins in sperm during their residence in the female reproductive tract until fertilization.
Dynamical constraints on the extreme low values of the potential vorticity in the ocean

High-resolution two and three-dimensional numerical experiments are used to study the manner in which advection of potential vorticity (PV) by frontal instabilities growing out of an initially symmetrically unstable flow or forced by destabilizing wind-forcing constrains the extreme minima in the PV to values near zero. The instabilities act as a PV pump, upwelling high PV water from the pycnocline while subducting low PV surface water. The positive correlation between the velocity and PV fields results in an upward eddy PV flux. When the baroclinic flow is forced by down-front winds, which exert an upward, PV-reducing, frictional PV flux, the eddy and surface frictional PV fluxes were found to scale with one another. This PV pump mechanism tends to increase PV in the surface boundary layer and constrains the extreme low values of the PV from dropping below zero at the expense of reducing the PV in the pycnocline. When the wind alternates orientation between down-front and up-front orientations, PV is both removed from and injected into the fluid. The PV pump mechanism limits the reduction of PV by down-front winds but not the enhancement of PV by up-front winds, causing the skewness of the isopycnal PV distribution to become positive.
Visual determination of 3D grasping points on unknown objects with a binocular camera system

In the field of hand-eye coordination, most state-of-the-art systems still require the user to select the grasping points manually. We present a system which autonomously determines 3D grasping points on unknown objects from a pair of greyscale images. The object to be grasped is segmented automatically when put into the scene. Grasping points are searched on the object silhouette; their stability is evaluated by a heuristic algorithm, primarily based on the skeleton of the region. The 3D grasping pose is estimated by triangulation using a simplified geometrical model of the camera system; the corresponding points in the second image are determined via dynamic programming. The whole system has been implemented and validated on the experimental hand-eye system MINERVA.
Orthogonal Nonnegative Locally Linear Embedding

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) decomposes a nonnegative dataset X into two low-rank nonnegative factor matrices, i.e., W and H, by minimizing either Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence or Euclidean distance between X and WH. NMF has been widely used in pattern recognition, data mining and computer vision because the non-negativity constraints on both W and H usually yield intuitive parts-based representation. However, NMF suffers from two problems: 1) it ignores geometric structure of dataset, and 2) it does not explicitly guarantee parts-based representation on any datasets. In this paper, we propose an orthogonal nonnegative locally linear embedding (ONLLE) method to overcome aforementioned problems. ONLLE assumes that each example embeds in its nearest neighbors and keeps such relationship in the learned subspace to preserve geometric structure of a dataset. For the purpose of learning parts-based representation, ONLLE explicitly incorporates an orthogonality constraint on the learned basis to keep its spatial locality. To optimize ONLLE, we applied an efficient fast gradient descent (FGD) method on Stiefel manifold which accelerates the popular multiplicative update rule (MUR). The experimental results on real-world datasets show that FGD converges much faster than MUR. To evaluate the effectiveness of ONLLE, we conduct both face recognition and image clustering on real-world datasets by comparing with the representative NMF methods.
The Informative Vector Selection in Active Learning using Divisive Analysis

Traditional supervised machine learning techniques require training on large volumes of data to acquire efficiency and accuracy. As opposed to traditional systems Active Learning systems minimizes the size of training data significantly because the selection of the data is done based on a strong mathematical model. This helps in achieving the same accuracy levels of the results as baseline techniques but with a considerably small training dataset. In this paper, the active learning approach has been implemented with a modification into the traditional system of active learning with version space algorithm. The version space concept is replaced with the divisive analysis (DIANA) algorithm and the core idea is to pre-cluster the instances before distributing them into training and testing data. The results obtained by our system have justified our reasoning that pre-clustering instead of the traditional version space algorithm can bring a good impact on the accuracy of the overall system’s classification. Two types of data have been tested, the binary class and multi-class. The proposed system worked well on the multi-class but in case of binary, the version space algorithm results were more accurate.
Mode Counting in Rectangular, Cylindrical, and Spherical Cavities With Application to Wireless Measurements in Reverberation Chambers

The accuracy of wireless measurements in a reverberation chamber depends on the mode density. Reverberation chambers are normally rectangular in shape, but could also be made cylindrical or spherical. In this paper, modes in classical rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical cavities are counted over large frequency ranges in order to determine the number of modes over a specific excitation bandwidth as a function of frequency, i.e., mode density. The cavities are then judged by these mode densities for applications to reverberation chambers.
Introduction à la pratique de la diffraction des rayons X par les poudres

Ce livre est la mise en forme, plus complete, d'un cours dispense ces dernieres annees dans le cadre de l'Ecole Doctorale de l'Universite Bordeaux I, et pour la "formation permanente" au sein de notre laboratoire d'exercice, l'"Institut de Chimie de la Matiere Condensee de Bordeaux" (ICMCB CNRS). Localement cette formation est apparue necessaire compte tenu d'une baisse importante de l'initiation a la cristallographie dans les cursus de base. Deux raisons principales semblent a l'origine de cette relative desaffection. D'abord une dispersion (administrative) des centres d'interet. Pluridisciplinaire, la cristallographie intervient dans des domaines scientifiques varies: sciences des materiaux, physique du solide, chimie, biochimie, mineralogie, geologie, pharmacie, archeologie,. D'autre part, ces dernieres annees ont vu le developpement de nombreux logiciels, souvent universitaires et libres d'acces, tant dans le domaine des monocristaux que dans celui des poudres, que les concepteurs s'evertuent a rendre accessibles a des non inities. La contrepartie est parfois, faute de bonnes bases, une utilisation tres discutable de ces "boites noires" cristallographiques.
The Use of Thiopentone/Propofol Admixture for Laryngeal Mask Airway Insertion

An admixture of thiopentone and propofol was evaluated against propofol for laryngeal mask airway (LMA) insertion. Eighty-one ASA 1 and 2 18- to 65-year-old patients, premedicated with 7.5 mg midazolam orally were assigned randomly to receive either propofol 1% or an admixture of thiopentone and propofol (1.25% and 0.5% respectively), both at a dose of 0.25 ml.kg–1. Satisfactory conditions for insertion were achieved with the admixture, which was comparable to propofol (73% vs 85%, P>0.05). There was no statistical difference in the incidence or severity of gagging, coughing, inadequate jaw relaxation and laryngospasm. The incidence of hypotension was lower in the admixture group (51% vs 78%, P=0.02). The duration of apnoea was not different between the admixture and propofol group (mean 103s vs 109 s respectively, P>0.05). We conclude that thiopentone/propofol admixture can be a suitable alternative to propofol for LMA insertion, producing less hypotension while allowing cost savings of up to 45%. An admixture of thiopentone and propofol (1.25% and 0.5% respectively) can produce suitable conditions compared to propofol 1%, for laryngeal mask insertion. In addition to cost containment, the admixture also produces less hypotension.