Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The phonology of Anatolian reduplication

In this paper we develop a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology of partial reduplication in the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. We argue that the reduplicative patterns of Hittite and Luwian differ from Proto-Anatolian, which exhibited an asymmetric treatment of verbal stems with initial consonant clusters: full copying of sibilant-stop clusters, but partial copying of stop-sonorant clusters. We contend that the phonological constraint driving this asymmetry, No Poorly-Cued Repetitions (Zukoff 2017a), was demoted within the separate prehistories of Hittite and Luwian due to independent phonological changes eliminating the distinction between these cluster types. Furthermore, we show that the proposed set of diachronic constraint re-rankings in Hittite and Luwian can be explained under Maximally Informative Recursive Constraint Demotion, a minor reformulation of the Recursive Constraint Demotion algorithm (RCD; Tesar 1995, Tesar and Smolensky 1998, 2000) that favors the high ranking of maximally informative winner-preferring constraints.
In vitro differences between the lymphocytes of normal subjects and atopics

Recently evidence has accumulated that atopic disease is associated with a deficiency of thymus‐derived (T) cells. This deficiency appears to be primary, rather than secondary to treatment or manifestations of the disease. Results of in vitro studies indicate that the deficiency is most pronounced in certain subpopulations of T cells, and therefore a disturbance of the balance between subsets of T cells, notably suppressor and helper T cells, may develop in vivo in atopics. Some results suggest that there is indeed a relative deficiency of suppressor T cells in atopic diseases, and thus the hyperproduction of IgE which is associated with these diseases may be explained.
GPrioSwap: towards a swapping policy for GPUs

Over the last few years, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become popular in computing, and have found their way into a number of cloud platforms. However, integrating a GPU into a cloud environment requires the cloud provider to efficiently virtualize the GPU. While several research projects have addressed this challenge in the past, few of these projects attempt to properly enable sharing of GPU memory between multiple clients: To date, GPUswap is the only project that enables sharing of GPU memory without inducing unnecessary application overhead, while maintaining both fairness and high utilization of GPU memory. However, GPUswap includes only a rudimentary swapping policy, and therefore induces a rather large application overhead. In this paper, we work towards a practicable swapping policy for GPUs. To that end, we analyze the behavior of various GPU applications to determine their memory access patterns. Based on our insights about these patterns, we derive a swapping policy that includes a developer-assigned priority for each GPU buffer in its swapping decisions. Experiments with our prototype implementation show that a swapping policy based on buffer priorities can significantly reduce the swapping overhead.
NEDD 4 single nucleotide polymorphism rs 2271289 is associated with keloids in Chinese Han population

Keloids are abnormally raised fibroproliferative lesions that usually occur following cutaneous traumas. Recently, a large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) has identified multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in three genetic loci that are associated with keloids in Japanese population. Subsequently, two reported loci 1q41 (rs873549 and rs1442440) and 15q21.3 (rs2271289) for keloids were confirmed in selected Chinese population. The association of these SNPs with clinical features of keloids, has not yet been studied. To explore the role of these SNPs in the pathogenesis of keloids, we performed a case-controlled study in another independent Chinese Han population to analyze the correlation between 4 SNPs (rs873549, rs2118610, rs1511412, rs2271289) and keloids phenotypes. 309 keloids patients and 1080 control subjects were included. The results showed that, in the dominant mode of inheritance, the minor allele T of SNP rs2271289 had significantly higher odd ratios (ORs) in the severe keloid group compared with both the controls and the mild keloid group. The ORs were maintained after Bonferroni’s correction (OR: 4.09, 95% CI: 1.78-9.37, P-value 3.25E-04). The ratio of the severe: mild OR for rs2271289 (dominant model) is (4.73/1.84=2.57). Similar associations in SNP rs2271289 were seen for groups with no family history and multiplesite compared with the control groups. No associations between keloid number, family history or severity relative to the controls were observed for the other three SNPs. Our data support that rs2271289 is strongly associated with severe keloids and might contribute to the complexity of clinical features of keloids.
Bis[1-(2,3-dimethylphenyl)piperazine-1,4-diium] bis(oxonium) cyclohexaphosphate dihydrate

In the title compound, 2C12H20N2 2+·2H3O+·P6O18 6−·2H2O, a protonated water molecule bridges the centrosymmetrical anionic P6O18 ring via O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The centrosymmetric hydrogen-bonded rings formed by four oxonium cations and four phosphate anions can be described by an R 4 8(36) graph-set motif. The ring motifs are connected by hydrogen bonds into inorganic layers perpendicular to [100]. The 1-(2,3-dimethylphenyl)piperazine-1,4-diium cations are located between the layers, compensating their negative charge and establishing N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds with the O atoms of the anionic framework.
Immunological Bases of Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration and Therapeutic Implications

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is a rare immune-mediated disease that develops mostly in the setting of neoplasia and offers a unique prospect to explore the interplay between tumor immunity and autoimmunity. In PCD, the deleterious adaptive immune response targets self-antigens aberrantly expressed by tumor cells, mostly gynecological cancers, and physiologically expressed by the Purkinje neurons of the cerebellum. Highly specific anti-neuronal antibodies in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid represent key diagnostic biomarkers of PCD. Some anti-neuronal antibodies such as anti-Yo autoantibodies (recognizing the CDR2/CDR2L proteins) are only associated with PCD. Other anti-neuronal antibodies, such as anti-Hu, anti-Ri, and anti-Ma2, are detected in patients with PCD or other types of paraneoplastic neurological manifestations. Importantly, these autoantibodies cannot transfer disease and evidence for a pathogenic role of autoreactive T cells is accumulating. However, the precise mechanisms responsible for disruption of self-tolerance to neuronal self-antigens in the cancer setting and the pathways involved in pathogenesis within the cerebellum remain to be fully deciphered. Although the occurrence of PCD is rare, the risk for such severe complication may increase with wider use of cancer immunotherapy, notably immune checkpoint blockade. Here, we review recent literature pertaining to the pathophysiology of PCD and propose an immune scheme underlying this disabling disease. Additionally, based on observations from patients' samples and on the pre-clinical model we recently developed, we discuss potential therapeutic strategies that could blunt this cerebellum-specific autoimmune disease.
Identification of the Functional Interleukin-22 (IL-22) Receptor Complex

Interleukin-10 (IL-10)-related T cell-derived inducible factor (IL-TIF; provisionally designated IL-22) is a cytokine with limited homology to IL-10. We report here the identification of a functional IL-TIF receptor complex that consists of two receptor chains, the orphan CRF2-9 and IL-10R2, the second chain of the IL-10 receptor complex. Expression of the CRF2-9 chain in monkey COS cells renders them sensitive to IL-TIF. However, in hamster cells both chains, CRF2-9 and IL-10R2, must be expressed to assemble the functional IL-TIF receptor complex. The CRF2-9 chain (or the IL-TIF-R1 chain) is responsible for Stat recruitment. Substitution of the CRF2-9 intracellular domain with the IFN-γR1 intracellular domain changes the pattern of IL-TIF-induced Stat activation. The CRF2-9 gene is expressed in normal liver and kidney, suggesting a possible role for IL-TIF in regulating gene expression in these tissues. Each chain, CRF2-9 and IL-10R2, is capable of binding IL-TIF independently and can be cross-linked to the radiolabeled IL-TIF. However, binding of IL-TIF to the receptor complex is greater than binding to either receptor chain alone. Sharing of the common IL-10R2 chain between the IL-10 and IL-TIF receptor complexes is the first such case for receptor complexes with chains belonging to the class II cytokine receptor family, establishing a novel paradigm for IL-10-related ligands similar to the shared use of the gamma common chain (γc) by several cytokines, including IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, and IL-15.
ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION METHOD FOR AVIRIS DATA IN TROPICAL REGIONS

The remote sensing has been defined as a group of activities that has for objective to characterize the properties of the objects through the detection, registration, and analysis of the radiant flow emitted, or reflected by them. The essence of this activity is based in the identification of objectives and in the discrimination among them, in that the radiation received by the sensor becomes the base of the whole the process. However, the mechanism of acquisition of this radiation is not ideal, since between the sensor and the surface there exists an extremely dynamic medium: the atmosphere. This atmosphere interacts with the electromagnetic radiation, provoking significant alterations in the coming radiant flow from the target.
Phosphatidylcholine‐specific phospholipase C regulates activation of RAW264.7 macrophage‐like cells by lipopeptide JBT3002

Phospholipase activities are thought to be involved in the activation of macrophages by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Because our previous studies showed that the synthetic lipopeptide JBT3002 might activate macrophages via signaling pathways similar to those used by LPS, we investigated whether phospholipase activities are required for activation of macrophages by JBT3002. Treatment of RAW264.7 murine macrophage‐like cells with JBT3002 stimulated expression of both inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and tumor necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α) in a dose‐dependent manner. The JBT3002‐induced production of nitric oxide and TNF‐α was significantly inhibited by tricyclodecan‐9‐yl xanthogenate (D609), a selective inhibitor of phosphatidylcholine (PC)‐specific phospholipase C (PC‐PLC). JBT3002‐induced expression of steady‐state mRNA for both iNOS and TNF‐α was inhibited by D609. Cells treated with JBT3002 had greater production of diacylglycerol (DAG) in 2 min, which lasted for at least 30 min and could be blocked by D609. Activation of RAW264.7 cells was not affected by butanol, a PC‐specific phospholipase D inhibitor, and treatment with JBT3002 did not affect phosphatidic acid formation. RAW264.7 cells treated with DAG analogue 1‐oleoyl‐2‐acetyl‐sn‐glycerol, in the presence of interferon‐γ, produced TNF‐α. These results suggested that activation of RAW264.7 cells by JBT3002 requires PC‐PLC activity.
Flexible road and tyremodelling based on ADAMS

MSC. ADAMS, a multibody dynamics software, is powerful in modelling of complex mechanical systems and realizes fine simulation on vehicle-pavement coupled system (VPCS). Existing MSC. ADAMS treats pavement as a rigid body and simplifies tyres as a group of mathematical formulas. Therefore, finite element model of tyre and road is the basis of flexible VPCS modelling. In this paper, finite element model of tyre and road was established and introduced into MSC. ADAMS through the MNF file. After the spatial position of finite element model was adjusted, a three-way force could be applied between tyre and road surface by setting their contact pattern. An elaborate VPCS model can be established by combining the universal vehicle prototype model and the established flexible road and tyre model based on MSC. ADAMS.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SPINOSAD AND NEEM EXTRACT AGAINST Spodoptera littoralis ( BOISD . ) AND Spodoptera exigua ( HUBNER ) : EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES TO ENHANCE THE BIOPESTICIDE PERSISTENCE WITH NATURAL UV PROTECTANTS UNDER FIELD-SUNLIGHT CONDITIONS OF SAUDI ARABIA

The proliferation of environmental pollution and development of insect resistance awareness against chemical insecticides as well as Bacillus thuringiensis, the entomopathogenic bacteria, has led to a growing interest in the use of bio-pesticides like neem extract, baculoviruses, and spinosad in crop protection. These bio-pesticides are not only effective, but also safe, eco-friendly, and have narrow species spectra (Summer et al., 1975; Burges et al., 1980). These advantages support bio-pesticides to be the promising alternatives to reduce the dependency on harmful chemical insecticides. Bio-pesticides have been successfully tested against several insect pests and several commercial products, are readily available in the market, predominantly in USA and Europe (Villaverde et al., 2016; Butt et al., 1999). In 1990, the bio-pesticide, SpinTor based on the active ingredients spinocyn A and spinocyn D was discovered by Mertz and Yao (1990) from the fermentation of the soil Actinomycetes bacterium (Saccharopolyspora spinosa). Spinosad is an insect control agent that provides high efficacy against numerous lepidopteran larval stages infesting various crops. It is primarily composed of two active components, spinosyn A and spinosyn D. It has low toxicity to the beneficial insects (DeAmicis et al., 1997; Kirst et al., 1992) but is rapidly degraded in the environment (Yano et al., 2002). Moreover, the azadirachtin, the protein isolated from neem extract, has a wide spectrum against insect pests. Its application has caused a significant reduction in the weight of gypsy moth larvae that was probably because of decline in the host feeding (Cook et al., 1997). Liang et al. (2003) evaluated three commercial insecticides, AgroneemTM, EcozinTM, and NeemixTM in the laboratory against diamond back moth (Plutella xylostella). All these products exhibited significant anti-feedant effect. The larvae on treated leaves Pak. J. Agri. Sci., Vol. 54(3), xxx-xxx; 2017
Interactive Exploration of Large Decision Tree Ensembles

In this paper, we present a visual exploration tool for tree-ensemble based prediction models in order to make them more interpretable and explicable for users with little machine learning knowledge. Tree ensembles like Gradient Boosted Trees are commonly used for prediction tasks. While their performance is outstanding, their lack of interpretability still limits their broader use in the business world. We propose a novel approach for presenting specific features distributed throughout large tree sets to render decisions intelligible. In a preliminary user study with machine learning consultants we collected valuable feedback which strongly hints towards the usefulness of our approach. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. ing with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. CHI ’19 HCMLP Workshop, May 04, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK © 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5971-9/19/05. $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.1122456 Interactive Exploration of Large Decision Tree Ensembles CHI ’19 HCMLP Workshop, May 04, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
A predictive bandwidth reservation strategy based on mobile station's weekly histories for macrocellular wireless networks

One of the major challenges in the cellular networks is to guarantee the quality of service of the handoff calls by prioritizing them over the new calls. An operative approach to prioritize the handoff calls over the new calls is by reserving bandwidth for the handoff calls in the potential next cell that a mobile station may visit. Improving the prediction of potential next cell that a mobile station may visit will cause better bandwidth utilization. In this paper, we propose a predictive bandwidth reservation strategy that improves prediction by means of storing weekly movement probabilities of mobile station based on Markov modeling techniques. In order to decreasing the storage space that is needed for storing the mobile station's movement probabilities, we adopted a dynamic hashing approach. Simulation results show that the weekly prediction in this strategy significantly improves bandwidth utilization, and the adopted dynamic hashing approach caused the overhead of storage space to be acceptable.
Effect of Ginkgo biloba Leaf Powder on Growth Performance , Meat Quality and Antioxidant Activity of Muscle in Growing-Finishing Pigs

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of Ginkgo biloba (G. biloba) leaf powder on growth performance, meat quality and antioxidant activity of muscle in growing-finishing pigs. A total of 75 finishing barrows were randomly distributed to 5 groups, receiving basal diet (Control), basal diet supplemented with 0.50% coarse G. biloba leaf powder (CG) or basal diet supplemented with 0.05% (UG1), 0.25% (UG2) and 0.50% (UG3) ultrafine G. biloba leaf powder, respectively. Meat quality of longissimus dorsi muscle and leg muscle was improved by addition of UG, which was consistent with the simultaneously enhanced antioxidant capacity of muscles. Additionally, pigs fed diet supplemented with CG also exhibited improved antioxidant status of measured muscles than that of control. The antioxidant capacity of both longissimus dorsi muscle and leg muscle of pigs fed CG and UG especially the UG were better than that of the control. In conclusion, addition of G. biloba leaf powder resulted in improvement in meat quality and antioxidant capacity of muscle and this effect was more pronounced when supplementing ultrafine G. biloba leaf powder.
HIGH-GRADIENT TESTING OF SINGLE-CELL TEST CAVITIES AT KEK / NEXTEF

So far, we have developed X-band high-gradient accelerating structures of prototypes for normal-conducting linear colliers in a comprehensive way, establishing a full production process including fabrication and test. On the other hand, focusing on the fact that we do not know both the high-gradient limit of performance and breakdown trigger mechanism on the normal-conducting RF acceleration, we have built a new test stand for fresh basic study on RF breakdown in vacuum, where we use compact test structures with an RF field concentrated in a single test cell. In this paper, we report on the status of the new test stand called “Nextef / Shield-B,” including its trigger system and various detectors installed to Shield-B.
Haptical Music Player

This project aims to translate the most basic music elements from a music MIDI file into an enjoyable and coherent haptic vibration. To achieve this goal a simple entertainment setup was developed. This setup consist of 3 main parts synchronized with the musical piece; a MIDI music player, a simple musical structure animation and an event based haptic vibration. The notes’ pitch, timing and duration are used as parameters to generate a real time haptic vibration. In order to do that, an event based haptic vibration is calculated depending on the note’s pitch and duration; using a sine damping function. The haptic vibration is displayed on a haptic device, resembling the tactile sensation of the note’s sound, all of this in synchrony with the music animation and the MIDI player sound.
Psychometric Properties of the Greek Version of the « Kuopio University Hospital Transformational Leadership Scale » ( KUHTLS )

Background: The successful practice of nursing care requires ef fective management of the available resources. Every nurse has to take initiatives and exploit opp ortunities for improving the operation of the nursi ng team. Aim: Translation, cultural adaptation and checking the reliability of the Greek version of the KUHTLS. Material and methods: The Greek version of the KUHTLS is an anonymous self-administered scale, containing 48 closed questions, with a 5 point Like rt scale responsive options. Data were collected fr om 315 nurses working in the Hospitals of Paphos and Nicos ia, while 60 nurses completed both the test and the retest questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis and Conf irmatory Factor Analysis, were performed for checki ng the construct validity of the questionnaire. The test–r e est reliability and the internal consistency were also examined. Statistical analysis performed by the use of IBM SPSS Amos 22.0. Statistical significance le vel was set at p=0.05. Results: The questionnaire translated into Greek and twelve factors were initially exported, which consolidated under conceptual coherence in 7 factors, correspond ing to the original questionnaire’s subscales. The Cronbachα coefficient for the overall questionnaire was 0.95 , while for the subscales were: Decision 0.72, Appr eciation 0.73 Growth 0.80, Justice 0.70, Performance 0.81, I ndividuality 0.83 and Administration 0.86. The ICC and Pearson r was p <0.001 for all the questions. CFA confirmed the sev en factor construction. The final Greek version of the questionnaire includes 47 questions. The mean age of the participants was 31.37 years. The highest mean value was observed in the factor "Just ice » (3.75 ± 0.93). Conclusions: The questionnaire is a reliable tool for assessing the Transformational Leadership in the Greek speaking population. Further studies are recommende d for refining the instrument. The multidimensionality of nursing care and the modern trends of Nursing requi change and transformation in nursing leadership tyles. The present study contributes to the understanding of the factors that favor or impede the exercise of nursing leadership.
Full waveform inversion using blended acquisition geometry

We introduce a strategy for beyond-alias interpolation of seismic data using singular spectrum analysis. First, in the frequency-space (f-x) domain, a Hankel matrix is built from the spatial samples of the low frequencies. To perform interpolation at each specific frequency, the spatial samples are interlaced with zero samples. Then, another Hankel matrix is built form the zero-interlaced vector of data in a given frequency. Next, the rank-reduced eigenstate of the Hankel matrix at low frequencies is used for beyond-alias conditioning of the Hankel matrix at given frequency. Finally, an anti-diagonal summation of the conditioned Hankel matrix gives the final interpolated data. Synthetic and real data examples are provided to examine the performance of the proposed interpolation method.
Common View Time Transfer by diffuse reflections from Space Debris Objects

Optical two way time transfer between ground stations in common view can be achieved by diffuse laser pulse reflections from space debris items. These echo signals are detected by two stations individually from time of flight measurements of short laser pulses. Modeling the tumbling motion of the selected space debris target allows for a significant reduction of the return signal scatter. Uncertainties for the transfer of time appear to be reducible to less than 100 ps. This paper outlines the application of the Lomb-Scargle algorithm and illustrates it’s application to accurate optical time transfer over larger distances.