Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Database Content Exploration and Exploratory Analysis of User Queries

Content providers, such as enterprises and organizations who publish their content on the Internet, aim at making their content visible and easily accessible to the users. The vast amount of data contained in databases impedes their efforts, as users often find it challenging to navigate through the available data and find the items that best suit their needs. It is therefore necessary for content providers to motivate users to explore the available data and assist them in finding items that are interesting to them. State-of-the-art approaches such as top-k queries are not appropriate for data exploration as they require the users to be aware of the database structure and the content they are exploring. In this thesis, we study the problem of enhancing the visibility of database content through exploratory search and analysis. We propose exploratory algorithms that return to the user a small number of results, which at the same time provide a wide overview of the available content. In addition, we present algorithms that identify items that are appealing to users and can be exploited for offering users an insight of the available items and motivating them to explore the database. In particular, the main contributions of the thesis are: • We develop a framework for organizing and summarizing keyword search results based on their textual content and temporal data. • We introduce a new type of query, the eXploratory Top-k Join (XTJk) query, which creates object combinations that are better suited to user preferences than single objects, and we present algorithms for the efficient processing of XTJk queries. • We introduce the continuous influential query, which returns objects that are continuously attractive to a large number of users for long periods, and we present algorithms for the efficient retrieval of continuous influential objects. • We model the diversity of database objects based on user preferences, and we propose efficient algorithms for selecting products that are attractive to a wide range of users with diverse preferences. • We describe the Best-terms problem which is the problem of increasing the rank of a spatio-textual object through the enhancement of its textual description. We show that the problem is NP-hard and we present approximate algorithms that retrieve high quality results. The proposed approaches have been evaluated through extensive experimental evaluation. The experiments were conducted using both synthetic and real datasets and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methods.
Palpatory diagnosis and manipulative management of carpal tunnel syndrome: Part 2. 'Double crush' and thoracic outlet syndrome

Abstract The physician treating carpal tunnel syndrome needs to be aware of the possible concomitant occurrence of thoracic outlet syndrome, the so-called double crush syndrome. Palpation is used to differentiate carpal tunnel syndrome from thoracic outlet syndrome. Such palpatory examination assists the physician in planning the initial treatment, including osteopathic manipulation and self-stretching maneuvers, targeted specifically at the most clinically significant pathologic region. Supplemental physical medicine modalities such as ultrasound may enhance the treatment response. Some illustrative cases are reported.
The Role of Customer Value on Satisfaction and Loyalty ( Study on Hypermart ’ s Customers )

Since two decades ago research on value had been developed and is still ongoing until recent time. This research is aimed to examine and explain the relationship among customer value, loyalty program, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. This study was conducted at Hypermart in South Kalimantan which took 150 respondents from the Hypermart’s customers. The respondent was selected by using accidental sampling. The data analysis utilized Partial Least Square (PLS). The result demonstrates that there is positive and significant role of customer value on customer satisfaction. The remarkable finding of this research is that the role of customer value on customer loyalty is not significant. It means that customer value cannot directly make customers do beneficial activities for Hypermart: having high commitment, repurchase, cross-buying (increase the amount of purchase), and informing positive things to others. Moreover, customers will make better beneficial things for Hypermart when they are satisfied with product completeness, customer service, trading format and costumer communication, as well as membership card benefit.
The Cultivation and Conceptualization of Exotic Plants in the Greek and Roman Worlds

This dissertation is an investigation into how plants provide a way to explore cultural interactions between Greece and Rome and the east. I use India, a region that remained consistently exotic to most Greeks and Romans throughout antiquity, as a test case to examine how eastern plants were received and integrated into Greek and Roman culture. Throughout I use my test case as a focus and as an object of comparison: India is a constant reminder of what was conceptualized as exotic. My methodology is primarily “plants in text,” an approach that incorporates both the physical reality of plants for sale at the market as well as the imagined flora that grows at the end of the earth. The results of this inquiry show the value of investigating the cultural importance of plants and the mental constructs that surround them in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. These exotic plants are used both physically and mentally by the receiving culture: they are consumed as luxury goods or medicines, they are abstracted into symbols as part of ethnographic theories of place and people in Herodotus and the Alexander historians, they are integrated and explained in the systematic botany and pharmacology of Theophrastus and Dioscorides, and they are transformed into symbols of power in the royal gardens of the Seleucids or of decadence in the writings of Roman satirists. The receptions these exotic plants had in Mediterranean civilizations show in depth the different ways Greeks and Romans
A method to estimate digestible energy in horse feed.

Predicting digestibility is a basic step for energy evaluation in horse feed. In horses, as in all species where microbial fermentation plays an important role in digestion, interactions between feed ingredients are even more important than those in other species. In horses suggestions for systems of energy evaluation usually refer to all feedstuffs and they are not limited to certain life stages or groups. It is quite common that the same mixed feed may be used for a leisure horse and a performance horse but in very different rations. Under these conditions it is not surprising that interactions between feedstuffs are widely neglected in predictive equations for digestible energy (DE). Several equations have been suggested that work quite well in some situations and lead to considerable errors in others (1,2). In our investigation we wanted to establish a predictive equation for DE on the basis of proximate nutrients with defined limitations for validity. The equation was derived mathematically from equations based on physiological considerations.
A pesca e os recursos pesqueiros na Amazônia Ocidental

A complexidade da pesca amazonica e muito alta. O predominio de procedimentos artesanais na deteccao dos cardumes e nas operacoes de captura e refletido na variedade de apetrechos e estrategias de pesca. Ao mesmo tempo, fatores ambientais e mercadologicos propiciam oferta e demanda para uma elevada diversidade de especies, incomum em pescarias comerciais. Um fator adicional de complexidade na pesca dessa regiao sao os diferentes tipos de usuarios dos recursos pesqueiros, com diferentes estrategias de pesca e diferentes comportamentos frente aos recursos e ao ambiente. Coexistem seis modalidades de pesca na bacia amazonica: uma pesca predominantemente de subsistencia, praticada por grupos familiares, pequenas comunidades, subestruturas etnicas e outras estruturas de pequeno port e que buscam a sobrevivencia fisica (1); uma pescaria comercial multiespecifica, destinada ao abastecimento dos centros urbanos regionais e praticada, em geral, por pescadores residentes nesses centros (2); uma pescaria comercial monoespecifica, voltada para a exportacao e dirigida principalmente a captura de bagres como a piramutaba Brachyplatystoma vailantii e o surubim Pseudoplatystoma filamentosum (3); uma pesca em reservatorios, resultante da construcao de grandes re p resas para geracao de energia eletrica, como Tucurui e Balbina, que vem sendo desenvolvida por uma nova categoria de pescadores denominados “barrageiro s” (4); uma pesca esport i va , que tem como especie alvo o tucunare Cichla sp. e vem sendo praticada principalmente em rios de aguas pretas; e, uma pescaria de especies ornamentais destinadas, principalmente, a exportacao e realizada pre d o m i n a n t e m e n t e no rio Negro e em seus afluentes (5). Neste artigo, fazemos uma bre ve revisao das modalidades de pesca que ocorrem na bacia amazonica, relatando os principais recursos explotados em cada uma delas e uma analise preliminar do estado de sustentabilidade do pro c e s s o de explotacao. Ao final, tecemos algumas consideracoes sobre estrategias de manejo, as quais consideramos promissoras para a pesca amazonica.
Phosphorylation-Independent Inhibition of Cdc28p by the Tyrosine Kinase Swe1p in the Morphogenesis Checkpoint

ABSTRACT The morphogenesis checkpoint in budding yeast delays cell cycle progression in G2 when the actin cytoskeleton is perturbed, providing time for cells to complete bud formation prior to mitosis. Checkpoint-induced G2 arrest involves the inhibition of the master cell cycle regulatory cyclin-dependent kinase, Cdc28p, by the Wee1 family kinase Swe1p. Results of experiments using a nonphosphorylatable CDC28Y19F allele suggested that the checkpoint stimulated two inhibitory pathways, one that promoted phosphorylation at tyrosine 19 (Y19) and a poorly characterized second pathway that did not require Cdc28p Y19 phosphorylation. We present the results from a genetic screen for checkpoint-defective mutants that led to the repeated isolation of the dominant CDC28E12K allele that is resistant to Swe1p-mediated inhibition. Comparison of this allele with the nonphosphorylatable CDC28Y19F allele suggested that Swe1p is still able to inhibit CDC28Y19F in a phosphorylation-independent manner and that both the Y19 phosphorylation-dependent and -independent checkpoint pathways in fact reflect Swe1p inhibition of Cdc28p. Remarkably, we found that a Swe1p mutant lacking catalytic activity could significantly delay the cell cycle in vivo during a physiological checkpoint response, even when expressed at single copy. The finding that a Wee1 family kinase expressed at physiological levels can inhibit a nonphosphorylatable cyclin-dependent kinase has broad implications for many checkpoint studies using such mutants in other organisms.
Viral kinetics in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C patients during therapy with 2 different doses of peginterferon alfa‐2b plus ribavirin

Pegylated interferon (peginterferon) alfa‐2b plus ribavirin achieves a higher sustained response rate in patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) than standard combination therapy. This study evaluated HCV kinetics throughout therapy with 2 doses of peginterferon alfa‐2b and ribavirin in 55 patients. Twenty‐eight patients were randomized to receive a high once‐weekly dose of peginterferon alfa‐2b (3 μg/kg for 1 week, 1.5 μg/kg for 3 weeks, and 1.0 μg/kg for 44 weeks), and 27 patients were randomized to receive a low dose (0.5 μg/kg) for 48 weeks. Both groups also received 800 mg ribavirin daily. Mean baseline HCV RNA load, measured by reverse‐transcription polymerase chain reaction, was similar in both groups (5.32 ± 0.86 log vs. 5.15 ± 1.04 log). The 3‐μg/kg dose of peginterferon alfa‐2b inhibited HCV RNA more significantly than the 0.5‐μg/kg dose during the first 48 hours (2.08 ± 0.93 log vs. 1.09 ± 0.80 log; P < .001) and both increased at 72 hours (0.54 ± 0.73 log vs. 0.03 ± 0.36 log; P = not significant [NS]), but the high dose showed a greater reduction at the end of the week (1.07 ± 0.99 log vs. 0.72 ± 0.73 log). Both doses showed a progressive, slower viral decrease throughout therapy; however, HCV RNA became undetectable faster and in more patients with the high dose (22% vs. 7% at week 4, 56% vs. 44% at week 12, 69% vs. 63% at week 24, and 71% vs. 61.5% at the end of therapy). In conclusion, peginterferon alfa‐2b/ribavirin produces an initial rapid decline in HCV RNA levels, followed by a slower, progressive decrease, similar to the biphasic kinetic profile of standard combination therapy. Higher doses of peginterferon alfa‐2b also accelerate viral clearance.
A Mixed (Long- and Medium-chain) Triglyceride Lipid Emulsion Extracts Local Anesthetic from Human Serum In Vitro More Effectively than a Long-chain Emulsion

Background: Lipid emulsion infusion reverses cardiac toxicity of local anesthetics. The predominant effect is likely creation of a “lipid sink. ” This in vitro study determined the extent to which Intralipid® (Fresenius Kabi, Uppsala, Sweden) and Lipofundin® (B. Braun Melsungen AG, Melsungen, Germany) sequester anesthetics from serum, and whether it varies with pH. Methods: Bupivacaine, ropivacaine, and mepivacaine were added to human drug-free serum (pH 7.4) at 10 &mgr;g/ml. The lipid emulsions were added, and the mixture shaken and incubated at 37°C. Lipid was removed by ultracentrifugation and drug remaining in the serum measured. Additional experiments were performed using 100 &mgr;g/ml bupivacaine and at pH 6.9. Results: Lipofundin® extracted all three anesthetics to a greater extent than Intralipid® (34.7% vs.22.3% for bupivacaine, 25.8% vs.16.5% for ropivacaine, and 7.3% vs.4.7% for mepivacaine). By increasing either concentration of bupivacaine or lipid, there was an increase in drug extraction from serum. Adjusting the pH to 6.9 had no statistically significant effect on the percentage of bupivacaine sequestered. Conclusions: Bupivacaine, ropivacaine, and mepivacaine were sequestered to an extent consistent with their octanol:water partition constants (logP). In contrast with previous studies of extraction of lipids from buffer solutions, an emulsion containing 50% each of medium- and long-chain triglycerides extracted local anesthetics to a greater extent from human serum than one containing exclusively long-chain triglycerides, calling into question recent advanced cardiac life support guidelines for resuscitation from anesthetic toxicity that specify use of a long-chain triglyceride. The current data also do not support recent recommendations to delay administration until pH is normalized.
Presynaptic and postsynaptic relations of μ‐opioid receptors to γ‐aminobutyric acid‐immunoreactive and medullary‐projecting periaqueductal gray neurons

The ventrolateral portion of the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is one brain region in which ligands of the μ‐opioid receptor (MOR) produce analgesia. In the PAG, MOR ligands are thought to act primarily on inhibitory [e.g., γ‐aminobutyric acidergic (GABAergic)] neurons to disinhibit PAG output rather than directly on medullary‐projecting PAG neurons. In this study, the ultrastructural localization of MOR immunolabeling was examined with respect to either GABAergic PAG neurons or PAG projection neurons that were labeled retrogradely from the rostral ventromedial medulla. Immunoreactivity for MOR and GABA often coexisted within dendrites. Dual‐labeled profiles accounted for subpopulations of dendrites containing immunoreactivity for either MOR (65 of 145 dendrites; 45%) or GABA (65 of 183 dendrites; 35%). In addition, nearly half of PAG neuronal profiles (148 of 344 profiles) that were labeled retrogradely from the ventromedial medulla contained MOR immunoreactivity. MOR was distributed equally among retrogradely labeled neuronal profiles in the lateral and ventrolateral columns of the caudal PAG. With respect to the presynaptic distribution of MOR, approximately half of MOR‐immunolabeled axon terminals (35 of 69 terminals) also contained GABA. Some MOR and GABA dual‐immunolabeled axon terminals contacted unlabeled dendrites (11 of 35 terminals), whereas others contacted GABA‐immunoreactive dendrites (15 of 35 terminals). Furthermore, axon terminals synapsing on medullary‐projecting PAG neurons sometimes contained immunoreactivity for MOR. These data support the model that MOR ligands can act by inhibiting GABAergic neurons, but they also provide evidence that MOR ligands may act directly on PAG output neurons. In addition, MOR at presynaptic sites could affect both GABAergic neurons and output neurons. Thus, the disinhibitory model represents only partially the potential mechanisms by which MOR ligands can modulate output of the PAG. J. Comp. Neurol. 419:532–542, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Scalable 5 G MPSoC Architecture

The huge diversity of 5G application requirements and associated modem protocols impose high demands on radio platforms in terms of scalable latency, reliability, and computation performance. In this paper, we scope a scalable MPSoC solution that can handle a plurality of parallel sliced links. It has a core manager and a network-on-chip manager to schedule, prioritize, as well as supervise the current computations. This includes the required reliability control. Moreover, keeping the locality of data and programs under control to adhere to the required latency and low-energy constraints. Ideas sketched in this paper can form the basis to derive solutions that enable efficient low-power realizations. Keywords—5G signal processing, Heterogeneous MPSoC, Baseband Architecture
The Terrestrial Bioluminescent Animals of Japan

Light production by organisms, or bioluminescence, has fascinated not only scientists but also ordinary people all over the world, and it has been especially so in Japan. Here we review the biological information available to date for all luminous terrestrial animals known from Japan, particularly focusing on their diversity and systematics, their biology and ecology in Japan, and putative function and biochemistry of their luminescence. In total 58 luminous terrestrial animals have been described from Japan, which consist of 50 fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), one glowworm beetle (Coleoptera: Phengodidae), two fungus gnats (Diptera: Keroplatidae), one springtail (Collembola), one millipede (Diplopoda), one centipede (Chilopoda) and two earthworms (Oligochaeta). For all except some firefly species, the DNA “barcode” sequences of a cytochrome oxidase subunit I region are provided. We also introduce how intricately the seasonal appearance and glimmering of luminous insects, in particular those of fireflies, have been interwoven into the culture, art, literature and mentality of Japanese people.
Single-View Sketch Based Surface Modeling

SUMMARY We propose a sketch-based modeling system where all user input is performed from a unique viewpoint. The strokes drawn by the user must not then be restricted to the drawing plane: their orientation in the 3D space is automatically determined by the system. The desired surface is reconstructed from a grid made of two groups of similar lines, that are considered co-planar. The orientation of the two sets of planes is determined by assuming that at the intersection of a representative line of each group, those two lines are perpendicular.
Distribution of RuBisCO Genotypes along a Redox Gradient in Mono Lake, California

ABSTRACT Partial sequences of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) (EC 4.1.1.39) genes were retrieved from samples taken along a redox gradient in alkaline, hypersaline Mono Lake, Calif. The form I gene (cbbL) was found in all samples, whereas form II (cbbM) was not retrieved from any of the samples. None of the RuBisCO sequences we obtained were closely related (nucleotide similarity, <90%) to sequences in the database. Some could be attributed to organisms isolated from the lake (Cyanobium) or appearing in enrichment cultures. Most (52%) of the sequences fell into in one clade, containing sequences that were identical to sequences retrieved from an enrichment culture grown with nitrate and sulfide, and another clade contained sequences identical to those retrieved from an arsenate-reducing, sulfide-oxidizing enrichment.
Improved Music Genre Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

In recent years, deep neural networks have been shown to be effective in many classiﬁcation tasks, including music genre classiﬁcation. In this paper, we proposed two ways to improve music genre classiﬁcation with convolutional neural networks: 1) combining max- and average-pooling to provide more statistical information to higher level neural networks; 2) using shortcut connections to skip one or more layers, a method inspired by residual learning method. The input of the CNN is simply the short time Fourier transforms of the audio signal. The output of the CNN is fed into another deep neural network to do classiﬁcation. By comparing two different network topologies, our preliminary experimental results on the GTZAN data set show that the above two methods can effectively improve the classiﬁcation accuracy, especially the second one.
Reactive Power as an Ancillary Service

This paper addresses the problem of reactive power procurement by an independent system operator (ISO) in deregulated electricity markets. A reactive bid structure is proposed in the context of a reactive power market. Based on the reactive power price offers and technical constraints involved in reactive power planning, a two-tier approach is developed to determine the most beneficial reactive power contracts for the ISO. The reactive capability of a generator and, therefore, the opportunity costs in providing reactive power is also included in the model. Uncertainty in reactive demand and in reactive bids of participating parties is incorporated through Monte Carlo simulations and the expected reactive power procurement plan for the ISO is hence determined. The CIGRÉ 32-bus network, approximately representing the Swedish system, is used for the studies.
Compressed sensing for near range MIMO radar in multipath environment

Compressed sensing is investigated for positioning and extracting Doppler information of moving point-like targets in a multipath environment. The configuration for this purpose includes a 4×4 MIMO radar system, a limited number of targets and two PEC walls in distances of about a few wavelengths from each other. Ray optics up to the first order is used to compute the received signal at each sensor.
Improved Disturbance Detection Technique for Power-Quality Analysis

This paper presents an improved technique for detecting disturbances in voltage signals for power quality analysis. The main advantage of the proposed technique lies in its capability to detect disturbances when power frequency is time-varying. In addition, the technique is capable of detecting disturbances in frames corresponding to 1/64 of the fundamental component. Simulation results indicate that the proposed technique can offer improved performance in comparison with previous one.
Multi‐protein complexes in the cis Golgi of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with α‐1,6‐mannosyltransferase activity

Anp1p, Van1p and Mnn9p constitute a family of membrane proteins required for proper Golgi function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We demonstrate that these proteins colocalize within the cis Golgi, and that they are physically associated in two distinct complexes, both of which contain Mnn9p. Furthermore, we identify two new proteins in the Anp1p–Mnn9p‐containing complex which have homology to known glycosyltransferases. Both protein complexes have α‐1,6‐mannosyltransferase activity, forming a series of poly‐mannose structures. These reaction products also contain some α‐1,2‐linked mannose residues. Our data suggest that these two multi‐protein complexes are responsible for the synthesis and initial branching of the long α‐1,6‐linked backbone of the hypermannose structure attached to many yeast glycoproteins.