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Construction of a genetic linkage map of the model legume Lotus japonicus using an intraspecific F2 population.

Among leguminous plants, the model legume Lotus japonicus (Regel) Larsen has many biological and genetic advantages. We have developed a genetic linkage map of L. japonicus based on amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), simple sequence repeat polymorphism (SSRP) and derived cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (dCAPS). The F2 mapping population used was derived from a cross between two L. japonicus accessions Gifu B-129 and Miyakojima MG-20. These parental accessions showed remarkable cytological differences, particularly with respect to size and morphology of chromosomes 1 and 2. Using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with BAC clones from Gifu B-129 and TAC (Transformation-competent Artificial Chromosome) clones from Miyakojima MG-20, a reciprocal translocation was found to be responsible for the cytological differences between chromosomes 1 and 2. The borders of the translocations were identified by FISH and by alignment toward the L. filicaulis x L. japonicus Gifu B-129 linkage map. The markers from the main translocated region were located on linkage groups 1 and 2 of the two accessions, Gifu B-129 and Miyakojima MG-20, respectively. The framework of the linkage map was constructed based on codominant markers, and then dominant markers were integrated separately in each linkage group of the parents. The resulting linkage groups correspond to the six pairs of chromosomes of L. japonicus and consist of 287 markers with 487.3 cM length in Gifu B-129 and 277 markers with 481.6 cM length in Miyakojima MG-20. The map and marker information is available through the World Wide Web at http://www.kazusa. or.jp/lotus/.
Exploring Travel Information Adoption on Social Media in the Chinese Context: An Extended ELM Model with Users’ Social Presence

Travel information adoption on social media has been acknowledged to be a complex process of both central route (argument quality) and peripheral route (source credibility). However, less effort has been placed on what triggers the persuasive communication process and how it varies. This study aims to examine the impact of technical adequacy (perceived interactivity, perceived personalization, perceived sociability) and users’ social presence on travel information adoption via social media. An extended resultant model from elaboration likelihood model (ELM) is constructed. Data (N=355) were collected from an online survey among Chinese consumers and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) for path analysis and two-way interaction for moderating effect. The results highlighted the role of technical adequacy in predicting both argument quality and source credibility of travel information on social media. The dual routes are correlated and in turn positively influence perceived information usefulness. Meanwhile, the persuasiveness of each route is moderated by individuals’ perception on social presence. Lastly, perceived information usefulness significantly affects travel information adoption. Implications particularly in practice are discussed.
Highly Bendable, Transparent Thin‐Film Transistors That Use Carbon‐Nanotube‐Based Conductors and Semiconductors with Elastomeric Dielectrics

We report the use of networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with high and moderate coverages (measured as number of tubes per unit area) for all of the conducting (i.e., source, drain, and gate electrodes) and semiconducting layers, respectively, of a type of transparent, mechanically flexible, thin-film transistor (TFT). The devices are fabricated on plastic substrates using layer-by-layer transfer printing of SWNT networks grown using optimized chemical vapor deposition (CVD) procedures. The unique properties of the SWNT networks lead to electrical (e.g., good performance on plastic), optical (e.g., transparent at visible wavelengths), and mechanical (e.g., extremely bendable) characteristics in this “all-tube” TFT that would be difficult, or impossible, to achieve with conventional materials.
Comparıson of extubatıon tımes between protocolızed versus automated weanıng systems after major surgery ın the ıntensıve care unıt

Background. Prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with adverse clinical outcomes for critically ill patients. Objective. To assess the the extubation times of protocolised versus automated weaning systems in patients after major surgery in intensive care unit. Design. Retrospective analysis. Measurements and results. We analyzed 70 patients with major abdominal or pelvic surgery. Patients that were used Draeger Evita2 Dura for weaning process named as the C (control) group (n=35) and patients that were used Draeger Evita2 XL Smartcare/PS named as the SC group (n=35). A physician evaluate the patient every 5 or 10 minutes in group C. Gender, age, weight, operation time, operation type, the total volume of intravenous infusion, bleeding, total dose of propofol, fentanyl citrate, rocuronium during surgery and extubation time were all recorded. All side effects included reintubation, bleeding, stroke, death, postoperative myocardial infarction were all recorded. The partial oxygen pressure (Pa02) and partial carbondioxide pressure (PaC02) were recorded before and after extubation. Results. Demographic data and operative data were similar between groups (p>0.05). The extubation time was similar between groups (SC group versus C group: 191,14±79,1 min versus 188,29±51,47 min, p=0,534. There was significant decrease in arterial PO2 and increase in arterial PCO2 after extubation in all groups. No side effects were observed. Conclusion. In conclusion, although we found no differences between SmartCare and control groups, the evaluating of the patient increased the workload in the control group. We think that SmartCare decreased the workload. Thus, it can be recommended for weaning process of patients after major surgery in intensive care unit. MEHMET TURAN INAL ( ) •
Modelling and solving building physics problems using MATLAB/Simulink

This article describes in detail an experimental technique and an implementation of a numerical model, in MATLAB/Simulink, used in laboratory classes of the Civil Engineering course at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University. This work aims to motivate the students to combine laboratory experiments with computer simulation. The present work also illustrates the moisture buffer capacity of building materials. The moisture buffer capacity of building materials in transient conditions was tested in small-scale laboratory tests. Alongside, was a numerical simulation tool for hygrothermal performance analyses of buildings and building materials and both results were compared. The experiment illustrates the importance of materials moisture buffer capacity in the hygrothermal behaviour of buildings; and it is important to have in mind that the majority of students do not have the opportunity to gain ‘hands on’ familiarity with the interplay between diffusion and sorption, nor do they have the opportunity of seeing, in practice, how it is possible to characterize porous materials in terms of their impact on indoor environment
PADS : A Policy Architecture for Building Distributed Storage Systems

This paper presents PADS, a new policy architecture that makes it easier to develop distributed storage systems. PADS is based on two key ideas. First, a distributed storage system is implemented by specifying a control plane that embodies the design policy of the system over a data plane that provides a set of common mechanisms. Second, the control plane policy is separated into routing policy which specifies how data flows through the system and blocking policy which forces reads, writes, and data propagation to wait until system consistency and durability invariants are met. The argument for PADS is simple: PADS qualitatively reduces the effort to build new systems. For example, using PADS we were able to construct a dozen significant distributed storage systems spanning a large portion of the design space.
Ready for boarding? The effects of a boarding school for disadvantaged students

Boarding schools substitute school to home, but little is known on the effects this substitution produces on students. We present results of an experiment in which seats in a boarding school for disadvantaged students were randomly allocated. Boarders enjoy better studying conditions than control students. However, they start outperforming control students in mathematics only two years after admission, and this effect mostly comes from strong students. After one year, levels of well-being are lower among boarders, but in their second year, students adjust: well-being catches-up. This suggests that substituting school to home is disruptive: only strong students benefit from the boarding school, once they have managed to adapt to their new environment.
Deficit Of Executive Cognitive Functioning In Adolescents Showing Signs Of Deviant Behavior

The adolescence is known to be accompanied by an increased rate of risky, asocial and delinquent behavior collectively referred as deviant behavior. The present work addresses the question of whether this increase in a deviant behavior in adolescents is related to a deficit in basic components of executive functions such as ability to sustain and focus attention as well as suppress irrelevant information. We conducted an experiment in which these basic components of executive functions were compared for two groups: a target group (D-group) of adolescents showing signs of deviant behavior (58 participants including 32 males and 26 females), and a control group (C-group) of adolescents showing typical developmental profile (58 participants including 46 males and 12 females). All participants first completed Achenbach checklist to assure correctness of their assignment to a particular group. Then the Raven's Progressive Matrices test was administered to estimate non-verbal intellect. Finally, executive functions were scored with the computerized versions of Stroop Color and Word Test, Bourdon-Wiersma test, two-colored Schulte-Gorbov tables test. The data of all there computerized test showed that adolescents from D group demonstrated poorer performance (committed more errors and showed slower performance) as compared to their peers from C group. The results suggest that weakness/disruption of executive functions is tightly related to signs of deviant behavior and support the view that there might be a causal relationship between the former and the latter. © 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy. org.UK
A non-photorealistic rendering algorithm for cartoons

In this paper, a non-photorealistic rendering technology of cartoons is studied. A new algorithm which can automatically generate cartoon paintings is proposed. This method needs no user's participation and no drawing skills. Firstly, by using the bilateral filtering, the abstract visually appealing and restrain minor features can be highlighted. Second, the abstract image is quantified to imitate the coloring style of the cartoon. Third, FDOG filter is used to draw contour lines of the abstract image to further improve visualization. Last, the quantized image and the contour image are fused to produce an image with the cartoons. The result shows that cartoons generated by this algorithm have characters of art aesthetic and a better visualization.
Localization in digital maps for road course estimation using grid maps

Grid maps are a reliable representation of the environment. Based on a generic grid map definition, this paper presents three formulations: a laser scanner based occupancy grid, a video grid based on the Inverse Perspective Mapping and a novel feature grid, where lane marking features are used. Furthermore, this contribution presents a road course estimation based on such grid maps which yields estimations above 120m. Therefore, a digital road map (comparable to maps of GPS navigation systems) is matched to a grid map. Thus, a global position in the road map is estimated. Finally, a novel evaluation approach is presented to quantize the results of this grid map based map match.
Migration as an active strategy to escape the ‘second closet’ for HIV-positive gay men in Barcelona and Rome

ABSTRACT Centred around the life narratives of HIV-positive gay migrants in two Mediterranean cities, Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain) and Rome (Italy), this paper frames their decision to migrate towards the big city as an active strategy to escape the ‘second closet’, a concept introduced by Berg and Ross in 2014 to refer to the hiding of HIV-positivity by gay men to avoid negative social condemnation. In line with recent literature on gay migration that has emphasized its relational and situated character, the paper focuses on several factors leading to the decision to migrate: sexual desire and the imagery of the big city; the configuration of the welfare regime allowing free access to antiretroviral therapies (ARTs); access to employment in the services sector; and the absence of strong ties in the new city. Methodologically the paper draws from in-depth interviews conducted with 24 HIV-positive gay men between 2014 and 2016.
The Role of Implicit Memory in Controlling a Dynamic System

The relationship between implicit memory and implicit learning is explored. Dienes and Fahey (1995) showed that learning to control a dynamic system was mediated by a look-up table consisting of previously successful responses to specific situations. The experiment reported in this paper showed that facilitated performance on old situations was independent of the subjects’ ability to recognize those situations as old, suggesting that memory was implicit. Further analyses of the Dienes and Fahey data replicated this independence of control performance on recognition. However, unlike the implicit memory revealed on fragment completion tasks, successful performance on the dynamic control tasks was remarkably resilient to modality shifts. The results are discussed in terms of models of implicit learning and the nature of implicit memory.
Reconstruction of gene regulatory network from microarray time series data using transfer entropy

Reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks from microarray time series data has been a challenging problem due to the limit of available data. In this paper, a new approach is proposed based on the concept of transfer entropy. Using this information theoretic measure, causal relations between pairs of genes are assessed to draw a causal network. A heuristic rule is then applied to differentiate direct and indirect causality. Simulation on a synthetic network showed that the transfer entropy can identify causality with similar recall but higher precision comparing to mutual information based method. Application of the method has produced a scale-free topological network with hub nodes representing essential genes. Analysis on a subnet work of twenty genes has proven that the method identified many causal interactions with biological information supports.
The Angular Momentum Content and Evolution of Class I and Flat-Spectrum Protostars

We report on the angular momentum content of heavily embedded protostars on the basis of our analysis of the projected rotation velocities (v sin i) of 38 Class I/flat-spectrum young stellar objects recently presented by Doppmann and others. After correcting for projection effects, we find that infrared-selected Class I/flat-spectrum objects rotate significantly more quickly (median equatorial rotation velocity ∼38 km s-1) than classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs; median equatorial rotation velocity ∼18 km s-1) in the ρ Ophiuchi and Taurus-Aurigae regions. Projected rotation velocity (v sin i) is weakly correlated with Teff in our sample but does not seem to correlate with Brγ emission (a common accretion tracer), the amount of excess continuum veiling (rk), or the slope of the spectral energy distribution between the near- and mid-IR (α). The detected difference in rotation speeds between Class I/flat-spectrum sources and CTTSs proves difficult to explain without some mechanism that transfers angular momentum out of the protostar between the two phases. Assuming that Class I/flat-spectrum sources possess physical characteristics (M*, R*, and B*) typical of pre–main-sequence stars, fully disk-locked Class I objects should have corotation radii within their protostellar disks that match well (within 30%) with predicted magnetic coupling radii. The factor of 2 difference in rotation rates between Class I/flat-spectrum and CTTS sources when interpreted in the context of disk-locking models also implies a factor of 5 or greater difference in mass accretion rate between the two phases. A lower limit of ∼ 10-8 M⊙ yr-1 for objects transitioning from the Class I/flat-spectrum stage to CTTSs is required to account for the difference in rotation rates of the two classes by angular momentum extraction through a viscous disk via magnetic coupling.
Interactive Lighting and Material Design System for Cyber Worlds

Interactive rendering under complex real world illumination is essential for many applications such as material design, lighting design, and virtual realities. For such applications, interactive manipulations of viewpoints, lighting, BRDFs, and positions of objects are beneficial to designers and users. This paper proposes a system that acquires complex, all-frequency lighting environments and renders dynamic scenes under captured illumination, for lighting and material design applications in cyber worlds. To capture real world lighting environments easily, our method uses a camera equipped with a cellular phone. To handle dynamic scenes of rigid objects and dynamic BRDFs, our method decomposes the visibility function at each vertex of each object into the occlusion due to the object itself and occlusions due to other objects, which are represented by a nonlinear piecewise constant approximation, called cuts. Our method proposes a compact cut representation and efficient algorithm for cut operations. By using our system, interactive manipulation of positions of objects and real time rendering with dynamic viewpoints, lighting, and BRDFs can be achieved.
Electric Field-Responsive Mesoporous Suspensions: A Review

This paper briefly reviews the fabrication and electrorheological (ER) characteristics of mesoporous materials and their nanocomposites with conducting polymers under an applied electric field when dispersed in an insulating liquid. Smart fluids of electrically-polarizable particles exhibit a reversible and tunable phase transition from a liquid-like to solid-like state in response to an external electric field of various strengths, and have potential applications in a variety of active control systems. The ER properties of these mesoporous suspensions are explained further according to their dielectric spectra in terms of the flow curve, dynamic moduli, and yield stress.
ADAMA: a pattern language for adherence analysis and adaptation of agile methods to the MR-MPS model

In this paper we present a pattern language called ADAMA to assist the adherence analysis and adaptation of agile methods to the Brazilian Reference Model for Software Process Improvement (MR-MPS). ADAMA makes the adherence analysis and subsequent adaptation of agile methods more systematic, controlled and less error prone than if it was conducted in a completely ad-hoc way. ADAMA have proven to be a successful solution, as it was already applied in the analysis and adaptation of three agile methods in contrast to the MR-MPS model before being documented as a pattern language. ADAMA was applied in a case study and it was possible to adapt an agile method to be in accordance with the G maturity level of the MR-MPS.
Insight to Hyponymy Lexical Relation Extraction in the Patent Genre Versus Other Text Genres

Due to the large amount of available patent data, it is no longer feasible for industry actors to manually create their own terminology lists and ontologies. Furthermore, domain specific thesauruses are rarely accessible to the research community. In this paper we present extraction of hyponymy lexical relations conducted on patent text using lexico-syntactic patterns. We explore the lexico-syntactic patterns. Since this kind of extraction involves Natural Language Processing we also compare the extractions made with and without domain adaptation of the extraction pipeline. We also deployed our modified extraction method to other text genres in order to demonstrate the method’s portability to other text domains. From our study we conclude that the lexico-syntactic patterns are portable to domain specific text genre such as the patent genre. We observed that general Natural Language Processing tools, when not adapted to the patent genre, reduce the amount of correct hyponymy lexical relation extractions and increase the number of incomplete extractions. This was also observed in other domain specific text genres.
Belief-state Monte-Carlo tree search for Phantom games

Playing games with imperfect information is a very challenging issue in AI field due to its high complexity. Phantom game is a kind of such games, which usually has a large game-tree complexity and has little research achievements until now. In Phantom games, rational human players commonly select actions according to their beliefs in the game, which can be represented as a concept of belie f-state. To the best of our knowledge, our paper is the first article to incorporate belief-states in the Monte-Carlo Tree Search, and the proposed algorithm is named BS-MCTS (Belief-state Monte-Carlo Tree Search). In BS-MCTS, a belief-state tree, in which each node is a belief-state, is constructed and the search procedure is in accordance with beliefs updated by heuristic search information. We also present two novel implementations in the belief learning, that are Opponent Guessing and Opponent Predicting, concerning the probability on the possible states and on future actions of the opponent respectively. To prove the effectiveness of our algorithm, BS-MCTS is applied to Phantom Tic-Tac-Toe and Phantom Go against other Monte-Carlo methods. The experimental results demonstrate that our method is outstanding and advanced. Moreover, based on BS-MCTS, our Phantom Go program had consecutively won three championships in Chinese National Tournaments.
Estimating Mann–Whitney-Type Causal Effects for Right-Censored Survival Outcomes

Abstract Mann–Whitney-type causal effects are clinically relevant, easy to interpret, and readily applicable to a wide range of study settings. This article considers estimation of such effects when the outcome variable is a survival time subject to right censoring. We derive and discuss several methods: an outcome regression method based on a regression model for the survival outcome, an inverse probability weighting method based on models for treatment assignment and censoring, and two doubly robust methods that involve both types of models and that remain valid under correct specification of the outcome model or the other two models. The methods are compared in a simulation study and applied to an observational study of hospitalized pneumonia.