Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Changes of Serum Calcium Concentration, Frequency of Ruminal Contraction and Feed Intake Soon after Parturition of Dairy Cows Fed Difructose Anhydride III

Requirements to control the large decrease in serum calcium (Ca) due to parturition and to increase the feed intake soon after parturition have been well accepted in dairy cows. This study was aimed to investigate the feed intake affected by serum Ca concentration with difructose anhydride (DFA) III supplement in dairy cows soon after parturition. Fourteen transition Holstein cows were divided into DFA and control (CONT) groups within 1 to 5 parity variations in each group. Measurement schedule for an individual cow was from 14 d before parturition to 7 d following parturition. The cows in DFA group were supplied 0.2 kg/head/d of DFA III feed containing 40 g of pure DFA III while the cows in CONT group received no DFA III. Other feeding procedures were the same for all cows in both groups. At parturition (d 0), serum Ca concentration sharply declined in both groups (p<0.05). Time interval for recovery from decreased serum Ca to its normal range (>9.0 mg/dL) tended to be faster in DFA group (12 h) than in the CONT group (48 h), but the differences were not significant. Active ruminal contraction was observed in DFA group at following parturition of d 1 (p<0.05), d 3 (p<0.05), and d 5 (p<0.01). Dry matter (DM) intake did not differ between the groups. However, positive correlations were observed between serum Ca concentration and ruminal contraction (p<0.001), and between ruminal contraction and DM intake (p<0.001) during following parturition. According to multiple regression analysis (R2 = 0.824, p<0.001), the DM intake was positively affected by serum Ca concentration and ruminal contraction. These results suggest that feed intake soon after parturition in dairy cows can be increased by improvement of serum Ca concentration and active ruminal contraction, but DFA III supplementation in this study did not improve the lower serum Ca concentration due to parturition.
Recognition of alternation paraphrases: a robust and exhaustive symbolic approach

In this paper we show how by incorporating linguistic knowledge in a shallow parser like XIP, it is possible to build a robust semantic parser which can cope with paraphrastic constructions involving alternations and/or lexical synonymy. The robustness of the parser is dependent on the amount of linguistic knowledge at disposal. For the moment, we have incorporated the VerbNet verb lexicon in our parser, so that it can recognise verb synonymy and meaning preserving alternations of declarative sentences. In the future, we want to extend the parser taking into consideration grammatical variations of declarative sentences and more complex cases of paraphrastic constructions, such as nominalisations and noun phrase-adjective substitution.
SVM BASED HUMAN DETECTION BY VIDEO ANALYSIS Ms .

Human detection is an important application where security is the main concern. This paper presents the machine vision approach for detection of human in video using support vector machine. To improve the efficiency of machine learning 3 statistical features are computed from haar wavelet transform which forms the training input to the SVM. This technique is demonstrated using real world video data and SVM classifier gives encouraging detection rate for these features.
The Cardioprotective Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide in Heart Diseases: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Potential

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is now recognized as a third gaseous mediator along with nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO), though it was originally considered as a malodorous and toxic gas. H2S is produced endogenously from cysteine by three enzymes in mammalian tissues. An increasing body of evidence suggests the involvement of H2S in different physiological and pathological processes. Recent studies have shown that H2S has the potential to protect the heart against myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, hypertrophy, fibrosis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and heart failure. Some mechanisms, such as antioxidative action, preservation of mitochondrial function, reduction of apoptosis, anti-inflammatory responses, angiogenic actions, regulation of ion channel, and interaction with NO, could be responsible for the cardioprotective effect of H2S. Although several mechanisms have been identified, there is a need for further research to identify the specific molecular mechanism of cardioprotection in different cardiac diseases. Therefore, insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying H2S action in the heart may promote the understanding of pathophysiology of cardiac diseases and lead to new therapeutic targets based on modulation of H2S production.
Development and Regeneration of Sensory Transduction in Auditory Hair Cells Requires Functional Interaction Between Cadherin-23 and Protocadherin-15

Tip links are extracellular filaments that connect pairs of hair cell stereocilia and convey tension to mechanosensitive channels. Recent evidence suggests that tip links are formed by calcium-dependent interactions between the N-terminal domains of cadherin-23 (CDH23) and protocadherin-15 (PCDH15). Mutations in either CDH23 or PCDH15 cause deafness in mice and humans, indicating the molecules are required for normal inner ear function. However, there is little physiological evidence to support a direct role for CDH23 and PCDH15 in hair cell mechanotransduction. To investigate the contributions of CDH23 and PCDH15 to mechanotransduction and tip-link formation, we examined outer hair cells of mouse cochleas during development and after chemical disruption of tip links. We found that tip links and mechanotransduction with all the qualitative properties of mature transduction recovered within 24 h after disruption. To probe tip-link formation, we measured transduction currents after extracellular application of recombinant CDH23 and PCDH15 fragments, which included putative interaction domains (EC1). Both fragments inhibited development and regeneration of transduction but did not disrupt transduction in mature cells. PCDH15 fragments that carried a mutation in EC1 that causes deafness in humans did not inhibit transduction development or regeneration. Immunolocalization revealed wild-type fragments bound near the tips of hair cell stereocilia. Scanning electron micrographs revealed that hair bundles exposed to fragments had a reduced number of linkages aligned along the morphological axis of sensitivity of the bundle. Together, the data provide direct evidence implicating CDH23 and PCDH15 proteins in the formation of tip links during development and regeneration of mechanotransduction.
Sequence of a putative human housekeeping gene ( HK 33 ) localized on chromosome 1 ( Alternative polyadenylation ; four transcripts ; ubiquitous expression ; chromosomal location )

A gene @X33) localized on human chromosome 1 has been detected by crossreaction of its fusion protein with a monospecific antiserum directed against human vitamin-D-binding protein (hDBP; group-specific component). Its cDNA sequence analysis showed no evident homologies neither to the sequence encoding hDBP nor to any other sequence. The largest cDNA clone of 3.2 kb includes a 897-bp coding region and a large 3’ untranslated region with at least four polyadenylation sites. Further cDNA amplification using PCR demonstrated a total cDNA length of approx. 3.7 kb. Northern blot analysis revealed signals at about 2.2-2.5 kb and 4.0 kb, the shorter transcripts representing mRNAs using one of the two polyadenylation sites at about 2.0 kb. Synthesis of the 299-amino-acid polypeptide (33 kDa) in the bacterial host, with subsequent Western blot analysis, verified the sequence-specific recognition by the hDBPspecific antiserum. The search of protein databanks revealed no homology of HK33 to any known sequence. Since the gene is transcribed in all cells and tissues tested so far, it is a strong candidate for another housekeeping gene.
Wideband circularly polarized antenna for GPS/Glonass

In this paper, a novel circularly polarized, single-feed microstrip antenna is presented. The operating frequency can be controlled by adjusting the S-slot arm lengths and the feed point. The design has a reduced antenna size compared to the conventional circularly polarized microstrip antenna at a given operating frequency. Further more, the circularly polarized radiation quality is excellent over the entire upper hemisphere. The simulated 10dB return loss bandwidths is about 10% (1500M∼1655M), which covers the global positioning system and Glonass.
Mining Human Location-Routines Using a Multi-Level Approach to Topic Modeling

In this work we address the problem of modeling varying time duration sequences for large-scale human routine discovery from cellphone sensor data using a multi-level approach to probabilistic topic models. We use an unsupervised learning approach that discovers human routines of varying durations ranging from half-hourly to several hours. Our methodology can handle large sequence lengths based on a principled procedure to deal with potentially large routine-vocabulary sizes, and can be applied to rather naive initial vocabularies to discover meaningful location-routines. We successfully apply the model to a large, real-life dataset, consisting of 97 cellphone users and 16 months of their location patterns, to discover routines with varying time durations.
Scalable Urban Data Collection from the Web

Easy access to different necessities of daily life makes a city more livable. This has motivated urban planning researchers to quantify urban accessibility from official city data. However, due to the manual nature of data collection, these earlier survey based analyses were limited in scope and scalability, and mostly offered insights on cities of developed countries like the UK and the USA. Using Google Places data that is crowd-sourced around the world, this paper gathers walkability information for twenty-five cities across five continents. We detail the collection methodology of this unprecedented dataset and show useful applications of this data in urban analysis: e.g., how different areas within a city compare against each other in terms of accessibility and which areas in a city would benefit the most from the least intervention.
Application of MMLS3 in laboratory conditions for moisture damage classification of bitumen stabilised materials

The Model Mobile Load Simulator (MMLS3) is a one-third scale accelerated pavement testing (APT) device. It is well engineered and widely used for simulating long-term pavement performance under in-service conditions. However, the current laboratory-testing protocol using MMLS3 is not defined for testing bitumen stabilised materials (BSMs), such as foamed bitumen and emulsion stabilised materials. The process associated with moisture ingress and damage in the BSMs layer is complex and can occur over a long time, under in-service conditions. It is believed that APT research into moisture damage of BSMs can provide invaluable insights into distress mechanisms in spite of accelerated damage compressed into a shorter time frame. This paper presents the results of an experiment using wet MMLS3 trafficking, aimed at providing measurable damage that can distinguish between resistance of different BSMs. The mix compositions investigated comprised aggregates blends with and without reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and different binder types (bitumen emulsion and foamed bitumen) and addition of active filler (cement and lime). The findings show that the revised MMLS3 testing protocol, as developed for the BSMs investigation, can be used to distinguish between the mixtures of high resistance and high susceptibility to moisture damage.
Evaluation of a dynamic arm support for seated and standing tasks: a laboratory study of electromyography and subjective feedback

The goal of this study was to determine whether a new dynamic arm support system reduced shoulder and arm muscle load for seated and standing hand/arm tasks. The new system provides support for both horizontal and vertical arm motion. A total of 11 participants performed ten tasks (five seated and five standing) both with and without the arm support. Outcomes were assessed with electromyography and subjective feedback. Muscle activity was measured over the dominant side supraspinatus, triceps and forearm extensor muscles. Significant (p < 0.01) reductions in static muscle activity were observed in one of ten tasks performed with the support device for the supraspinatus muscle, in five tasks for the triceps and in one task for forearm extensor muscles. Likewise, a significant improvement in subjective measures was reported with the support device for ‘ease of task’ for two of ten tasks, for ‘forearm comfort’ for three of ten tasks and for ‘shoulder effort’ for six of ten tasks. The results suggest that a dynamic forearm support may improve subjective comfort and reduce static muscle loads in the upper extremity for tasks that involve horizontal movement of the arms. For rapid motions, the value of the support is limited due to internal inertia and friction.
Precise exceptions in asynchronous processors

The presence of precise exceptions in a processor leads to complications in its design. Some recent processor architectures have sacrificed this requirement for performance reasons at the cost of software complexity. We present an implementation strategy for precise exceptions in asynchronous processors that does not block the instruction fetch when exceptions do not occur; the cost of the exception handling mechanism is only encountered when an exception occurs during execution - an infrequent event.
Adopting user profiles and behavior patterns in a Web-TV recommendation system

With recent advances in consumer electronics, it is noted that personalization and interactivity have become two challenging issues to further improve user experiences in watching TV. As there are thousands of TV programs broadcasted everyday, people may spend much time in finding their desirable programs. In view of this, we focus on developing a proper recommendation scheme in the Web-TV environment so that users can be recommended with appropriate programs. Specifically, we propose to estimate user preferences and ratings with both explicit and implicit information provided by users. Moreover, a prototype system which utilizes the adaptive recommendation approach is developed to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed scheme in this paper.
A not so brief commentary on cosmological entropy bounds

There has been, quite recently, a discussion on how holographic-inspired bounds might be used to encompass the present-day dark energy and early-universe inflation into a single paradigm. In the current treatment, we point out an inconsistency in the proposed framework and then provide a viable resolution. We also elaborate on some of the implications of this framework and further motivate the proposed holographic connection. The manuscript ends with a more speculative note on cosmic time as an emergent (holographically induced) construct.
Temporal Query Answering in the Description Logic EL

Context-aware systems use data collected at runtime to recognize certain predefined situations and trigger adaptations. This can be implemented using ontology-based data access (OBDA), which augments classical query answering in databases by adopting the open-world assumption and including domain knowledge provided by an ontology. We investigate temporalized OBDA w.r. t. ontologies formulated in EL, a description logic that allows for efficient reasoning and is successfully used in practice. We consider a recently proposed temporalized query language that combines conjunctive queries with the operators of propositional linear temporal logic (LTL), and study both data and combined complexity of query entailment in this setting. We also analyze the satisfiability problem in the similar formalism EL-LTL.
Specific pattern of early white‐matter changes in pure hereditary spastic paraplegia

Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are genetically and clinically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders. Most MR studies on HSP include very heterogeneous samples of patients, and findings were inconsistent. Here, we examined six patients with pure HSP and SPG4 mutations by clinical evaluation, detailed neuropsychological testing, and neuroimaging analyses, including conventional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and brain volumetry. Differences of voxel‐wise statistics and ROI‐based analysis of DTI data between patients and 32 healthy volunteers were evaluated. Although conventional MRI and brain volumetry were normal, DTI revealed widespread disturbance of white matter (WM) integrity (P < 0.001), mainly affecting the corticospinal tract. With longer disease duration, frontal regions were also involved. The WM changes were also present in subclinical subjects harbouring the pathogenic mutation. These subtle WM abnormalities have functional relevance because they correlated with clinical symptoms. Thus, early alterations of nerve fibres, which can be detected by DTI, might serve as a biological marker in HSP, in particular with respect to future longitudinal studies. © 2010 Movement Disorder Society
Nucleation ability of multiwall carbon nanotubes in polypropylene composites

The nonisothermal crystallization of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWNT)/isotactic polypropylene (iPP) nanocomposites was investigated. The results derived from the differential scanning calorimetry curves (onset temperature, melting point, supercooling, peak temperature, half-time of crystallization, and enthalpy of crystallization) were compared with those of neat iPP. The data were also processed according to Ozawa's theory and Dobreva's approach. These results and X-ray diffraction data showed that the MWNTs acted as α-nucleating agents in iPP. Accordingly, MWNT/iPP was significantly different from neat iPP: A fibrillar morphology was observed instead of the usual spherulites. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 41: 520–527, 2003
Optimized Scheduling Strategies for Hybrid Density Functional theory Electronic Structure Calculations

Hybrid Density Functional Theory (DFT) has recently gained popularity as an accurate model of electronic interactions in chemistry and materials science applications. The most computationally expensive part of hybrid DFT simulations is the calculation of exchange integrals between pairs of electrons. We present strategies to achieve improved load balancing and scalability for the parallel computation of these integrals. First, we develop a cost model for the calculation, and utilize random search algorithms to optimize the data distribution and calculation schedule. Second, we further improve performance using partial data-replication to increase data availability across cores. We demonstrate these improvements using an implementation in the Qbox Density Functional Theory code on the Mira Blue Gene/Q computer at Argonne National Laboratory. We perform calculations in the range of 8k to 128k cores on two representative simulation samples from materials science and chemistry applications: liquid water and a metal-water interface.
Software Requirements Triage and Selection: State-of-the-Art and State-of-Practice

Software requirement triage and selection in market-driven requirements engineering is a crucial activity for the success of a project, product and company. This paper presents state-of-the-art and state-of-practice in requirements triage and selection through systematic literature review and an industrial survey. Industry practitioner can read solutions that have been proposed in literature and most applicable challenges and factors considered today and factors to be considered ideally to address the challenges, which have been collected through the survey. For researchers, the results show which challenges still needs to be addressed.
Arthrographic studies of wrist ganglions.

Simple wrist ganglions were studied by carpal arthrography in fifty-nine patients. In about two thirds of these the contrast medium filled the ganglions, and tortuous narrow duct connections with the carpal joint cavity were seen. By injecting the ganglion, however, no such connection could be demon
TweetGenie: Development, Evaluation, and Lessons Learned

TweetGenie is an online demo that infers the gender and age of Twitter users based on their tweets. TweetGenie was able to attract thousands of visitors. We collected data by asking feedback from visitors and launching an online game. In this paper, we describe the development of TweetGenie and evaluate the demo based on the received feedback and manual annotation. We also reflect on practical lessons learned from launching a demo for the general public.
The Relationship between Trunk Function and Injury among Junior High School Soccer Players

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between trunk stability and injury among young soccer players. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 19 male soccer players in junior high school. The presence of injury was noted, and trunk stability was measured by using the bench test and sideways bench test, which were modified from “The 11+” exercises. [Results] There was no significant difference in endurance time in the bench test or sideways bench test between the injury group (n=9) and non-injury group (n=10). Comparison within each group revealed no significant difference in endurance time between the right and left sideways bench tests in the non-injury group; however, the time in the left sideways bench test was significantly longer than that in the right in the injury group. [Conclusion] This study suggests that there is a relationship between asymmetric trunk stability and injury. Further research investigating the relationship between asymmetric trunk function and balance skills is necessary.
Oil Production from Yarrowia lipolytica Po1g Using Rice Bran Hydrolysate

The purpose of this study was to produce microbial oil from Yarrowia lipolytica Po1g grown in defatted rice bran hydrolysate. After removing oil from rice bran by Soxhlet extraction, the bran is subjected to acid hydrolysis with various sulfuric acid concentrations (1–4% v/v), reaction times (1–8 h), and reaction temperatures (60–120°C). The optimal conditions for maximum total sugar production from the hydrolysate were found to be 3% sulfuric acid at 90°C for 6 h. Glucose was the predominant sugar (43.20 ± 0.28 g/L) followed by xylose (4.93 ± 0.03 g/L) and arabinose (2.09 ± 0.01 g/L). The hydrolysate was subsequently detoxified by neutralization to reduce the amount of inhibitors such as 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural to increase its potential as a medium for culturing Y. lipolytica Po1g. Dry cell mass and lipid content of Y. lipolytica Po1g grown in detoxified defatted rice bran hydrolysate (DRBH) under optimum conditions were 10.75 g/L and 48.02%, respectively.