Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The miRNAomes in Rehmannia glutinosa Roots Exposed to Different Levels of Replanting Disease Pressure

Root development in the medicinal plant Rehmannia glutinosa is severely disordered by replanting disease, which occurs when it is grown in the same soils over consecutive seasons. Following the demonstration of changes to the miRNAome of the R. glutinosa plants in the second year of cultivation, a fuller experiment was organized to track the root miRNAomes over four successive plantings. Four small RNA libraries were generated from the roots of one year’s planted (free of replanting disease) and 2‒4 years’ continuous cultivation (replanting disease) R. glutinosa plants, respectively. Sequencing of these libraries revealed the presence of 18 novel and 344 conserved miRNA families. The abundance of many of the miRNAs varied between the four libraries, consistent with the notion that replanting disease reflects the outcome differential miRNA transcription. A combined bioinformatic and degradome sequencing approach allowed the identification of 69 differentially abundant (DA) miRNA targets, leading to the recognition that particular miRNA/target modules may be important for the expression of the disease. The expression profiles of 28 key miRNAs and their targets implied that the longer years of continuous cultivation was extended, the more severe tendency of these profiles’ changes would be. The indication was that the miRNAs-responsive continuous cultivation pressure reprogrammed gene expression patterns, which disordered hormone signaling, repressed core mechanisms, weakened stress tolerance and resulted in forming the disease in R. glutinosa. In conclusion, the key miRNAs involved in important roles of replanting disease and were a crucial basis for exploration in the disease forming repertoire. © 2017 Friends Science Publishers
Algicidal Effect of Serratia sp. PDGS120915 against Harmful Dinophyceae Algae

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can cause massive economic losses. In this study, the bacterial strain PDGS120915 produced a red pigment (prodigiosin). It was isolated from lightly contaminated stream water taken from Busan, Korea. The isolated strain was identified as Serratia sp. by 16S rDNA sequence analysis and morphological characteristics. Prodigiosin from Serratia sp. PDGS120915 was extracted and purified by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). This pigment showed algicidal activity against dinophyceae, Alexandrium catenella, Gymnodinium impudicum, and Cochlodinium polykrikoides. The algicidal activity of this prodigiosin against dominant bloom-forming dinophyceae on the Korean coast was examined, and it exhibited high algicidal activity against A. catenella (83.4%), G. impudicum (92.1%), and C. polykrikoides (92.3%). Furthermore, prodigiosin from Serratia sp. PDGS120915 showed a broad range of algicidal activity against raphidophyceae (Chattonella marina, Heterosigma akashiwo), coscinodiscophyceae (Skeletonema costatum), and bacillariophyceae (Nitzschia pungens). The optimum concentration of this activity was observed at 5 ppb. Additionally, algicidal activity increased rapidly after 9-h and showed more than 80% algicidal activity at 12-h. Our research suggested that the algicidal bacterium Serratia sp. PDGS120915 and its algicidal compound, prodigiosin, could be a potential bio-agent for the prevention and control of harmful algal blooms.
Ozone profile smoothness as a priori information in the inversion of limb measurements

Abstract. In this work we discuss inclusion of a priori information about the smoothness of atmospheric profiles in inversion algorithms. The smoothness requirement can be formulated in the form of Tikhonov-type regularization, where the smoothness of atmospheric profiles is considered as a constraint or in the form of Bayesian optimal estimation (maximum a posteriori method, MAP), where the smoothness of profiles can be included as a priori information. We develop further two recently proposed retrieval methods. One of them - Tikhonov-type regularization according to the target resolution - develops the classical Tikhonov regularization. The second method - maximum a posteriori method with smoothness a priori - effectively combines the ideas of the classical MAP method and Tikhonov-type regularization. We discuss a grid-independent formulation for the proposed inversion methods, thus isolating the choice of calculation grid from the question of how strong the smoothing should be. The discussed approaches are applied to the problem of ozone profile retrieval from stellar occultation measurements by the GOMOS instrument on board the Envisat satellite. Realistic simulations for the typical measurement conditions with smoothness a priori information created from 10-years analysis of ozone sounding at Sodankyla and analysis of the total retrieval error illustrate the advantages of the proposed methods. The proposed methods are equally applicable to other profile retrieval problems from remote sensing measurements.
Energy Aware Compilers

Most present compiler enhancements concentrate on enhancing execution time. With the inexorably boundless utilization of installed frameworks, in any case, control/energy utilization is likewise turning into an essential issue. This is especially valid for battery-worked gadgets where control utilization has top of the line status along with execution and frame consider. As both chip densities and check frequencies relentlessly ascend in current microchips, energy utilization is rapidly joining execution as a key outline imperative. Control issues are progressively imperative in implanted frameworks, particularly those found in convenient gadgets. Much investigate has concentrated on the memory subsystems of these gadgets since they are a main energy shopper. Compiler advancements that are generally used to build execution have demonstrated much guarantee in moreover lessening store energy utilization. In this paper we concentrate on the connection between executions arranged compiler advancements and memory energy utilization and show that the best execution advancements don't really create the best energy conduct in memory. We additionally demonstrate a straightforward metric that a power-streamlining compiler can use with a specific end goal to catch the energy effect of potential improvements. Next, we exhibit heuristic calculations that decide an appropriate advancement technique given a memory energy upper bound. At long last, we exhibit that our methodologies will increase considerably more significance in the future when spillage energy is required to assume a significantly bigger part in the add up to energy utilization condition.
How Young Canadian Women Make Sense of their Experiences of Sexting

HOW YOUNG CANADIAN WOMEN MAKE SENSE OF THEIR EXPERIENCES OF SEXTING Erin Dawn Watson Advisor: University of Guelph, 2018 Professor R.R. Milhausen Sexting, which refers to the exchange of erotic content via mobile or internet device, is an increasingly common activity among emerging adults (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, & Zickuhr, 2010; PEW Research Centre, 2010; Samimi & Alderson, 2014). Much of the current research on sexting focuses on the associations between sexting and risk or harm, specifically for women (e.g. Benotsch, Snipes, Martin, & Bull, 2013; Dir, Cyders, & Coskunpinar, 2013; Perkins, Becker, Tehee, & Mackelprang, 2014). However, emerging research suggests sexting can also have benefits for young women, including experiences of pleasure and opportunities for self-exploration (Bond, 2011; Ringrose, Gill, & Livingstone, 2013). The purpose of this research was to investigate how young Canadian women describe their experiences with sexting. Specifically the study answered the following research questions: (1) How/in what ways do young Canadian women use sexting? (2) What role does sexting play in young Canadian women’s lives, sexualities, and relationships? (3) How does sexting impact young Canadian women? (4) What do young Canadian women need to support safe and enjoyable sexting? Thirty women between the ages of 18-25 were recruited online from Southern Ontario colleges and universities and were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis suggested 7 key themes (in no specific order). Sexting supports: (1) Empowerment: from pleasing others to speaking up more and attending to their own sexual needs; (2) Pleasure: from the expansion of sexual possibilities; (3) Safety and Comfort: sexting was described as safer and more comfortable than in-person communications, but led to increased fears about privacy; (4) Self-Discovery: by aiding in the exploration of sexual tastes and orientation; (5) Optimal Self-Representation: helping women “craft” ideal representations of themselves; and (6) Intimacy and Connection: helping to increase trust, improve communication, and maintain relationships. The women also described the impact of, and how they navigated or resisted, gendered sexual expectations ((7) Sexual Scripts). The study contributes to the literature by helping contextualise young women’s experiences of sexting and illuminating how young women could be better supported in their sexting behaviours. The results of this study can be used inform policy, curriculum and advocacy initiatives.
Model Predictive Control System Design for Boiler Turbine Process

MPC is a computer based technique that requires the process model to anticipate the future outputs of that process. An optimal control action is taken by MPC based on this prediction. The MPC is so popular since its control performance has been reported to be best among other conventional techniques to control the multivariable dynamical plants with various inputs and outputs constraints. In the present work the control of boiler turbine process with three manipulated variables namely fuel flow valve position, steam control valve position and feed water flow valve position and three controlled variables namely drum pressure, output power and drum water level deviation [8] has been attempted using MPC technique. Boiler turbine process is very complex and nonlinear multivariable process. A linearized model obtained using Taylor series expansion around operating point has been used.
Gravity Effects on Neutrino Masses in Split Supersymmetry

The mass differences and mixing angles of neutrinos can neither be explained by R-parity violating split supersymmetry nor by flavor blind quantum gravity alone. It is shown that combining both effects leads, within the allowed parameter range, to good agreement with the experimental results. The atmospheric mass is generated by supersymmetry through mixing between neutrinos and neutralinos, while the solar mass is generated by gravity through flavor blind dimension five operators. Maximal atmospheric mixing forces the tangent squared of the solar angle to be equal to 1/2. The scale of the quantum gravity operator is predicted within a 5% error, implying that the reduced Planck scale should lie around the grand unified theory scale. In this way, the model is very predictive and can be tested at future experiments.
VARIATION IN MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TWO RUBBERWOOD CLONES IN RELATION TO PLANTING DENSITY

Variation in mechanical properties of two rubberwood clones in relation to planting density. Hevea brasiliensis as a fast-growing species with rotation age of about 25 years is usually managed under intensive silviculture techniques. Normally, it has a high amount of lower quality juvenile wood that needs to be characterised for proper usage. Samples from four planting densities (500, 1000, 1500 and 2000 trees ha-1) of two new rubberwood clones [RRIM 2020 (A) and RRIM 2025 (B)] were subjected to selected mechanical tests. Significant differences in modulus of rupture (MOR) and modulus of elasticity (MOE) between planting densities were found except for MOE from clone B. The significant difference in clone B for compression parallel to grain was between the lowest planting density and the rest. In clone A, the significant difference for hardness was between densities of 1000 and 2000 trees ha-1 and in clone B between 500 and 1000 trees ha-1. Planting density was responsible for significant differences in shear parallel to grain between the lowest and highest planting densities in clone A and between 500 and 1500 trees ha-1 in clone B. Wood density moderately correlated with mechanical properties, so the regression equations were established directly with the planting densities. Properties including compression and hardness from clone A and MOE and compression from clone B were not successfully quantified in relation to planting density using a regression approach. Consequently, the mechanical properties in young trees were not highly affected by planting density. There were more visible differences between low and extreme planting densities than with moderate densities. Low planting density emerged as the optimum density.
Measuring market power in the Iberian electricity wholesale market through the residual demand curve

The existence of market power in the electricity market is a recurrent issue. Measuring and understanding market power practices in the Iberian electricity market turn out to be interesting: though a liberalized market, two integrated firms control 80% of total demand and there is a strong - often direct - intervention of government in the market. For various reasons, among which the difficulty in obtaining reliable, extensive data stands out, market power in the Iberian electricity market has rarely been measured. This work aims to contribute to a better knowledge of the way market power occurs. We calculate the elasticity of residual demand to evaluate the two dominant firm’s market power, using hourly bides in the Spanish spot market for the period July-August 2004 to 2006. Although our approach was highlighted by Frank Wolak work on the electricity sector, we extend it and discuss its constraints. We discuss the results obtained in the light of the evolution of the electricity sector during that period.
Vole Population Dynamics During the Succession of a Commercial Forest in Northern Finland

Voles are the main prey item for many mammalian and avian predators. Changes in vole abundance affect predator density directly and influence small game species indirectly. To test the hypothesis that intensive management of boreal forests increases vole population density, we surveyed small mammals twice during 2006–2010 in forests representing four succession stages in Taivalkoski, northern Finland. We focused on the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) and the field vole (Microtus agrestis) and found that bank voles were more numerous in all stages of succession while densities of both species were lowest in young (24–30-year-old) forest stands. We also found that field voles increased after clear-cutting. Based on this study, current forestry practice in Finland has a clear impact on the abundance of these voles.
A New Record of Cornudiscoides proximus Gussev, 1976, a Freshwater Monogenean and its Phylogeny, Inferred from Partial Sequence of 28S rDNA

The present communication deals with the study of a monogenean Cornudiscoides proximus Gussev, 1976 collected from the gill filaments of Mystus vittatus (Bloch, 1794) from Hastinapur, U.P., India. Gussev (1976) described this monogenean from the gill filaments of the same host at Lucknow. Agrawal and Vishwakarma (1996) re- described this species in detail from the type host and locality and added M. tengra, as an additional host. Besides recording the species in a new locality, phylogenetic analysis based on partial 28S rDNA sequence of C. proximus Gussev, 1976 was also conducted, using neighbour joining and maximum parsimony in order to investigate the validity of this species in the genus. Cornudiscoides Kulkarni, 1969.
Implementation of a Class of True Digital Control (TDC) in the Navigation of a Ground Vehicle

In this research, experimental work and simulations are carried out to evaluate the Proportional–Integral–Plus (PIP) control methodology which has been applied to a ground vehicle, which may be used in landmines detection. The objective of this work is to evaluate the controller in terms of tracking performance. A primitive route planning algorithm has been proposed to control the vehicle when it encounters an obstacle in its path. This algorithm of collision-free path is automatically generated, given the location of the obstacle. The approach utilizes an experimental data-based model of the vehicle in discrete–time which suitable for PIP control system design. The results of the experimental study have shown that the designed trajectory is comfortably met by using a straightforward fixed gains linear PIP algorithm. The vehicle starts to maneuver and it stops at the desired position at the desired orientation with a small acceptable margin of error which proves the validity of the PIP control algorithm.
How students' exogenous characteristics affect faculties’ inefficiency. A heteroscedastic stochastic frontier approach

By using a heteroscedastic stochastic frontier model, this paper focuses on how students' exogenous characteristics (such as personal demographic information, pre-enrollment educational background and household economic status) affect faculties’ inefficiency. Using individual data on freshmen enrolled at a public owned university in Italy over the 2002-2008 period, we focus both on the direction of this influence on technical inefficiency and on the magnitude of the related partial effects. A measure of R2 has also been calculated in order to evaluate the overall explanatory power of the exogenous variables used. The empirical evidence reveals the validity of the heteroscedastic assumption, giving credit to the use of some students’ individual characteristics according to which the inefficiency is allowed to change. Moreover, the estimates suggest that the university could improve the students’ performances by investing in labour inputs.
THE 2004 BBN/LIMSI 10xRT ENGLISH BROADCAST NEWS TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM

This paper describes the 2004 BBN/LIMSI 10xRT English Broadcast News (BN) transcription system which uses a tightly integrated combination of components from the BBN and LIMSI speech recognition systems. The integrated system uses both cross-site adaptation and system combination via ROVER, obtaining a word hypothesis that is better than is produced by either system alone, while remaining within the allotted time limit. The system configuration used for the evaluation has two components from each site and two ROVER combinations, and achieved a word error rate (WER) of 13.9% on the Dev04f set and 9.3% on the Dev04 set selected to match the progress set. Compared to last year’s system, there is around 30% relative reduction on the WER.
Unpacking how digital endorsement of sports celebrities affects fan behavior

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A Secure and Privacy Preserving Technique in Distributed Information Sharing using AES Encryption and Genetic

In many organizations distributed information sharing is used to share data in a large network. In distributed Information sharing there are many chances to hack the technical and personal information of client and server in a network. Earlier Information Brokering methods are used where brokers are used to share the information among the clients and servers. This approach has a drawback where the brokers cannot be trusted to share information. In this paper we propose a technique to preserve the security and privacy of the distributed network where information is shared. We also use a shared medium as an interface between the server and client. AES encryption is used to encrypt the information in server which is to be sent to the client. In shared medium we use Digital Signature Algorithm to perform client authentication to send the information to the requested client. Genetic Algorithm is another technique which is used to detect the attackers who tries to hack the information in shared medium. Since we use two cryptographic techniques the security maintained will be high. Use of Genetic Algorithm also enhances the security measures of the system and it will be difficult for attackers to hack the information easily. We use the above three techniques to improve the performance measure.
Regeneration Response of Juniperus procera and Olea europaea subsp cuspidata to Exclosure in a Dry Afromontane Forest in Northern Ethiopia

Abstract The Afromontane forests of northern Ethiopia have been degraded and fragmented for centuries. Recently, efforts have been made to restore these forests by protecting them from livestock interference. In this study, the natural regeneration of Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl. and Olea europaea L. subsp cuspidata (Wall. ex G. Don) Cif. is investigated under protected conditions after 3 years of enclosure and under open management systems in a dry Afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia. Data on the floristic and structural compositions of the vascular plants were collected using 32 randomly selected plots (20 m × 20 m), while nested plots (10 m × 10 m) were used to investigate the seedling bank at the protected and adjacent open sites. The results reveal that there was a significantly higher regeneration of O. europaea on the protected site than on the open site (P = 0.01). However, there was no significant difference between the 2 sites for J. procera (P = 0.16). Thus, protecting the degraded forest in northern Ethiopia seems to be an appropriate management option for the regeneration of O. europaea. The regeneration status of J. procera at both sites is poor, which indicates that protecting the forest from livestock and human disturbance is unlikely to lead to regeneration of this species. Further investigation of other factors that hinder the regeneration of J. procera is therefore recommended.
The InterMesh Network Architecture-Demo Proposal

There is an indispensable need for inter-networking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMANand cellular-based wireless mesh networks. Currently, the Internet protocol (IP) is employed to provide this functionality at the network layer. However, today’s Internet implementation, despite its great success, has several limitations, including: 1) the overloading of the IP address to simultaneously indicate network location and node identity, 2) the absence of a trustworthy environment for users to communicate, and 3) the questionable availability of centralized infrastructure and services. The advent of ubiquitous computing paradigms and the success of emerging access networks present an inflection point for introducing fundamental paradigm shifts towards designing a future internetwork. The InterMesh architecture [1] is a novel architecture with the goal of inter-networking heterogeneous mesh networks to provide a seamless service to individual network entities. The following key design concepts distinguish InterMesh: • Intrinsic support for unstructured networks; • persistent identification/naming and certification of network entities; • a novel approach to dynamic and extensible network management and service provisioning using mobile agents; and • seamless mobility. InterMesh achieves convergence through a uniform Persistent Identification and Networking Layer (PINL), allowing mesh communities to form “on-the-fly” and merge with other networks. The PINL identifies network entities with persistent identifiers (PIs), that are globally unique, secure and accountable by design. This paper reviews the system components and functionality, and discusses the proposed conference demonstration.