Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Predicting the invasion range for a highly polyphagous and widespread forest herbivore

Here we compare the environmental niche of a highly polyphagous forest Lepidoptera species, the winter moth (Operophtera brumata), in its native and invaded range. During the last 90 years, this European tree folivore has invaded North America in at least three regions and exhibited eruptive population behavior in both its native and invaded range. Despite its importance as both a forest and agricultural pest, neither the potential extent of this species’ invaded range nor the geographic source of invading populations from its native range are known. Here we fit a climatic niche model, based on the MaxEnt algorithm, to historical records of winter moth occurrence in its native range and compare predictions of suitable distributions to records from the invaded range. We modeled this distribution using three spatial bins to overcome sampling bias for data obtained from public databases and averaged the multi-continental suitable habitat prediction. Results indicate that this species is distributed across a wide range of climates in its native range but occupies a narrower range in its invaded habitat. Furthermore, the lack of a close fit between climatic conditions in parts of its invaded range and its known native range suggests the possibility that this species has adapted to new climatic conditions during the invasion process. These models can be used to predict suitable habitats for winter moth invasions worldwide and to gain insight into possible origins of North American populations.
Can a Video Game and Artificial Intelligence Assist for Selecting National Soccer Squads

We have used the FIFA19 video game open dataset of soccer player attributes and the actual list of squads of national teams that participated in World Cup 2018, which almost coincides in time with the game’s release date. With the intended rationale behind that numerous expert game developers should have spent considerable amount of time to assess each individual player’s attributes; we can develop and test data science and machine learning tools to select national soccer teams in an attempt to assist coaches. The work provides detailed explanatory data analysis and state-of-the-art machine learning and interpretability measures.
Sex Differences in the Development of Moral Reasoning: A Critical Review.

WALKER, LAWRENCE J. Sex Differences in the Development of Moral Reasoning: A Critical Review. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1984, 55, 677-691. In this article the bases for recent allegations of sex bias in Kohlberg's theory of moral development are discussed. Studies comparing the development of moral reasoning between the sexes are then reviewed. Only a few inconsistent sex differences have been found in childhood and adolescence. Some studies indicate that, in adulthood, males evidence higher moral development than females, but in these studies sex differences are confounded with differences in level of education and occupation. A metaanalysis (a statistical procedure for combining findings) supported the conclusion that the overall pattern is one of nonsignificant sex differences in moral reasoning. Discussion focused on implications for moral development theory and research.
Diagnostic and prognostic role of liquid biopsy in non-small cell lung cancer: evaluation of circulating biomarkers

Lung cancer is still one of the main causes of cancer-related death, together with prostate and colorectal cancers in males and breast and colorectal cancers in females. The prognosis for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is strictly dependent on feasibility of a complete surgical resection of the tumor at diagnosis. Since surgery is indicated only in early stages tumors, it is necessary to anticipate the timing of diagnosis in clinical practice. In the diagnostic and therapeutic pathway for NSCLC, sampling of neoplastic tissue is usually obtained using invasive methods that are not free from disadvantages and complications. A valid alternative to the standard biopsy is the liquid biopsy (LB), that is, the analysis of samples from peripheral blood, urine, and other biological fluids, with a simple and non-invasive collection. In particular, it is possible to detect in the blood different tumor derivatives, such as cell-free DNA (cfDNA) with its subtype circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), cell-free RNA (cfRNA), and circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Plasma-based testing seems to have several advantages over tumor tissue biopsy; firstly, it reduces medical costs, risk of complications related to invasive procedures, and turnaround times; moreover, the analysis of genes alteration, such as EGFR, ALK, ROS1, and BRAF is faster and safer with this method, compared to tissue biopsy. Despite all these advantages, the evidences in literatures indicate that assays performed on liquid biopsies have a low sensitivity, making them unsuitable for screening in lung cancer at the current state. This is caused by lack of standardization in sampling and preparation of specimen and by the low concentration of biomarkers in the bloodstream. Instead, routinely use of LB should be preferred in revaluation of patients with advanced NSCLC resistant to chemotherapy, due to onset of new mutations.
Pathomorphological diagnosis of Hepatitis-hydropericardium syndrome in poultry: A case report

Hepatitis-hydropericardium syndrome (HHS) is one of the important viral disease of poultry caused by adenoviral infection and its associated with economic losses in poultry industry throughout world. The present study describes cases of HHS in poultry, which was presented for necropsy to the Department of Veterinary Pathology, Khalsa College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Amritsar. Grossly, lesions included, pale, friable liver with contained numerous focal to coalescing pale necrotic areas and swollen kidneys with alternating areas of pale and hemorrhagic parenchyma; the bursa of Fabricius was enlarged and edematous. In heart varying degrees of hydropericardium containing clear, straw colored fluid (Pathognomonic lesion) was recorded. The histopathological lesions in the liver congestion, areas of focal hemorrhages and hepatitis. The hepatic cords in majority of the cases were dissociated and moderate number of hepatocytes showed varying degrees of fatty changes and necrotic changes. Based on gross and characteristic microscopic findings, the HHS was diagnosed in poultry.
EFFECT OF THE USE OF IMMERSION and INJECTION METHODS FOR EGG HATCHING OF BROILER BREEDERS IN THE AQUATIC EXTRACTS OF SOME PLANT SEEDS AS EARLY FEEDING

This study was conducted in Al-Anwar hatchery Babylon governorate for periods from 5/4/2019 to 27/4/2019 with the aim of showing the effect of applying the method of immersion and injection with aqueous extracts for some plant seeds (fenugreek, oats and basil) in some characteristics of hatching and hatched chicks. A total of 1050 eggs were used for hatching and were randomly divided into seven treatments with three replicates (50 eggs / replicate). Hatching eggs were immersed in aqueous extracts before incubation for 1 minute, while they were injected on the 17th day with amniotic fluid in a quantity of 0.2 ml. The experiment treatments were designed as follows: Treatment 1st, Control group (TC) and treatments 2 nd, (TDF) (Dipping fenugreek) 3 rd, (TIF) (Injection fenugreek) Included immersion and injection of hatching eggs with the aquatic extract of the fenugreek seeds, treatments 4th, (TDO) (Dipping oat ( 5 th,) TIO) (Injection oat ( Included immersion and injection of hatching eggs with the aquatic extract of the oat seeds, treatments 6th (TDB) (Dipping basil) 7 th (TIB) (Injection basil) Included immersion and injection of hatching eggs with the aquatic extract of the basil seeds, the concentration of all extracts was 6% of treatments’, respectively. The results of the current study indicated: The use of the method of immersion in the aqueous extract of fenugreek and basil seeds resulted in a significant improvement in chicks weight and hatching window, deterioration in most characteristics of hatching and hatched chicks for the treatment of basil extract injection (TIB) compared to control. In conclusion, that the application of immersion method for hatching eggs of broiler breeders with the aqueous extract of fenugreek and basil seeds has improved most of the characteristics of hatching and hatched chicks.
Community-Based RDF Partitioning

A common approach to processing large RDF datasets is to partition the data in a cluster of shared-nothing servers and then use a distributed query evaluation algorithm. It is commonly assumed in the literature that the performance of query processing in such systems is limited mainly by network communication. In this paper, we show that this assumption does not always hold: we present a new RDF partitioning method based on Louvain community detection, which drastically reduces communication, but without a corresponding decrease in query running times. We show that strongly connected partitions can incur workload imbalance among the servers during query processing. We thus further reﬁned our technique to strike a balance between reducing communication and spreading processing more evenly, and we show that this technique can reduce both communication and query times.
Culture and the Development of Everyday Social Explanation

The impact of cultural meaning systems on the development of everyday social explanation is explored in a cross-cultural investigation undertaken among Indian and American adults and children (ages 8, 11, and 15 years). It is demonstrated that at older ages Americans make greater reference to general dispositions and less reference to contextual factors in explanation than do Hindus. References to general dispositions also undergo a much greater developmental increase among Americans than among Hindus, whereas references to contextual factors show the opposite pattern of developmental change. Evidence suggests that these cross-cultural and developmental differences result from contrasting cultural conceptions of the person acquired over development in the two cultures rather than from cognitive, experiential, or informational differences between attributors. Discussion focuses on theoretical implications of such a demonstration for understanding: (a) the importance of integrating semantic with structural considerations in theories of social attribution, (b) the need to develop nbnteleoTogical frameworks for Interpreting age and cultural diversity in conceptualization, and (c) the role of cultural communication in the acquisition of everyday social knowledge. Cultural influences on attributional diversity have been somewhat neglected by psychological theorists. In most cases, developmental and cross-cultural differences occurring in attribution have been interpreted as arising from differences in attributors' cognitive capacities to process information concerning the covariation structure of experience and/or from differences in the objective experiences to which attributors have been exposed. The purpose of the present research is to demonstrate the impact of cultural meaning systems as a third variable, independent of such subjective and objective determinants, which must be taken into account to explain age and
Understanding the Reactivity of Dicalcium Silicate by Density Functional Theory

Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is a mixture consisting of various phases. Because of mineralogical complexity, the relationship between chemical reactivity of the mixture and each individual phase is still unanswered question. In this study, computational method based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) was applied to investigate the chemical reactivity of different polymorphs of dicalcium silicate crystals. At first, computationally generated dicalcium silicate crystals were geometrically optimized to achieve targeted convergence criteria for computing the total internal energy, lattice parameters, and atomic arrangement at 0K. The simulations performed explain well the thermodynamic stability as well as the synthesis temperatures of the different polymorphs of dicalcium silicate.
Analysis of Development Performance of the New Autonomous Region in Indonesia 2010-2014: Profile and Determinant

Blossoming territory is one of the efforts made by the government to improve the welfare of the community. This research is motivated by the high interest of the people and the People's Representative Council (PRC) to make their regional autonomous. On the other hand, according to the Ministry of the Interior of the New Autonomous Region, the results of the autonomous region still failed to develop. To see the welfare of the people in the region resulting from the autonomous, researchers tried to look at it based on the results of regional macro development. Therefore, a Regional Development Index (RDI) constructed, which uses the factor analysis weighting method. RDI can be used to see the achievements of the regional development in Indonesia by looking at the comparison of development outcomes. So that RDI can see the development performance of the new autonomous regency/city and see the comparison with the origin regency/city. Besides, researchers looked at the effect of the share of mining Regional GDP, the share of agricultural Regional GDP, the average length of school for workers (ALSW), the percentage of roads in a minimum good condition, and the growth of Regional Original Income (ROI) to development performance in the autonomous regency/city using the method of regression analysis with panel data. Based on the results obtained, development in the area of new autonomy is not much different from the development in the origin area. Also, the average length os school for workers (ALSW) and minimum road percentage both have positive and significant effects on RDI, while the share of agricultural GRDP has a negative and significant effect on RDI.
Study on the simultaneous genotyping of common ABO antigens and rare A2 antigen

Objective To set up the simultaneous genotyping of human ABO antigens by PCR-SSP assay,and to study on ABO blood group.Methods 13 pairs of sequence-specific primers were designed and synthesized.The annealing temperature for all the primer pairs,the concentrations of each primer pair and Mg~(2+) were adjusted to the optimum so that ABO alleles could be amplified simultaneously under the same PCR cycling parameters.The electrophoresis products were conducted simultaneously on the same agarose gel.34 samples of predetermined ABO phenotypes and 20 samples of A2 subgroups previously sequenced were genotyped by the method.Results A concordance rate of 100 percent was observed between the results of 54 samples by PCR-SSP and that of known common ABO phenotypes and rare A2 alleles.Conclusion ABO genotyping is appropriate for the routine ABO genotyping and research for Chinese population.
Decomposition dynamics and nutrient release of litters for four artificial forests in the red soil and hilly region of subtropical China

Litter decomposition and nutrient release of four artificial forests in the subtropical, red soil and hilly region of China were examined using the litter bag method within two consecutive years in this paper. Decomposition rates and the release dynamics of carbon and nitrogen of the four forests, Pinus massoniana, Pinus elliotti, Cunninghamia lanceolata and Schima superba+Pinus massoniana were measured. The experiments were conducted in two different decomposition conditions of aboveground and belowground. The orders of litter decay rates(annual mass loss) of the four forest types for aboveground group were P.massoniana S.superba+ P.massoniana P.elliottii C.lanceolata in the first experimental year, and P.massoniana S.superba+ P.massoniana C.lanceolata P.elliottii in the second year. The litter decay rates for aboveground group were generally higher than those for belowground group in the above forests, and that for P.massoniana forest was the highest among all during the whole experimental period. Litter decomposition processes were simulated using Olson′s exponential models, which were found the best of fits to the data. According to the models, it needs 4-10 years to reach the 95% of decay rate for the investigated forests in the experimental region, and the time is between that of 8-17 years for the warm temperate forest and that of 2-8 years for the south subtropical forest. Release dynamics of nutrients differed in four forest types and also by different decomposition periods. The release rates of carbon showed a continuously increasing pattern in all the forests and those for aboveground group were higher than those for belowground group. At the earlier decomposition stage, the absolute content of nitrogen was increased in P. elliottii forest, P. massonian and the mixed forest. Among all there was the most significant nitrogen accumulation, and therefore the lowest release rate of nitrogen for litters in P. elliottii forest during the two experimental years, which was strongly influenced by the initial ratio of carbon to nitrogen for litter samples in the overhead forest. The litter samples for Cunninghamia lanceolata had the lowest C/N ratio and therefore a relatively high release rate for nitrogen during the two experimental years.
Invitro Impact of Diallyl Disulphide (Dads) on the Biochemical Components of the Cell Envelope of Staphylococcus Aureus Atcc 25293

Diallyl Disulphide (DADS) is a phytochemical found in the plants of the genus Allium. It is the principal organosulphuric component of distilled garlic oil. Many medicinal benefits like antimicrobial, antiviral and insecticidal are attributed this compound. However the biochemical explanation for such an action remains unexplored. This current study strives to explore the explanation for antimicrobial activity of the compound using the most common skin inhabitant Gram positive bacteria, commonly causing nosocomial infections- Staphylococcus aureus. The Minimum Inhibition Concentration (MIC), Minimum Bactericidal (MBC) Concentration of DADS, its effect on growth curve and time kill curve of S. aureus has been established. In the current study S. aureus was cultured in the broth containing 1/8 MIC of DADS. The staphylococcal cells were harvested; biochemical components were extracted and quantitated using appropriate biochemical analytic tests. The biochemical components focused on were of those abundantly present and those that contribute to the materialization of the staphylococcal cell envelope total lipids, total lipid phosphorous and total carbohydrates. The biochemical component extracts of S. aureus tested revealed significant reduction in the total lipids (70%), total lipids phosphorous (50%) and total carbohydrates (34%). This reduction in the components may be attributed to the hypolipidemic and hypoglycemic properties of DADS and could further lead to changes in the anabolic processes. Since the cell envelope of the bacterial cell is primarily made up of lipids, phospholipids and peptidoglycan (a carbohydrate polymer). The evident reductions in the studied components indicate reflective impact of DADS on the cell envelope of S. aureus. This study can be extrapolated in innovation of a new phytochemical-antibiotic against the life threatening multidrug resistant human pathogens
The effect of gradient nonlinearities on fiber orientation estimates 1 from spherical deconvolution of diffusion MRI data 2 3

9 Gradient nonlinearities in MRI cause spatially varying mismatches between the imposed and the 10 effective gradients and can cause significant biases in rotationally invariant diffusion MRI measures 11 derived from e.g. diffusion tensor imaging. The estimation of the orientational organization of fibrous 12 tissue, which is nowadays frequently performed with spherical deconvolution techniques ideally using 13 higher diffusion weightings, can likewise be biased by gradient nonlinearities. We explore the 14 sensitivity of two established spherical deconvolution approaches to gradient nonlinearities, namely 15 constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) and damped Richardson Lucy (dRL). Additionally, we 16 propose an extension of dRL to take into account gradient imperfections, without the need of data 17 interpolation. Simulations show that using the effective b-matrix can improve dRL fiber orientation 18 estimation and reduces angular deviations, while CSD can be more robust to gradient nonlinearity 19 depending on the implementation. Angular errors depend on a complex interplay of many factors, 20 including the direction and magnitude of gradient deviations, underlying microstructure, SNR, 21 anisotropy of the effective response function, and diffusion-weighting. Notably, angular deviations can 22 also be observed at lower b-values in contrast to the perhaps common assumption that only high b23 value data is affected. In in-vivo Human Connectome Project data and acquisitions from an ultra-strong 24 gradient (300 mT/m) scanner, angular differences are observed between applying and not applying 25 the effective gradients in dRL estimation. As even small angular differences can lead to error 26 propagation during tractography and as such impact connectivity analyses, incorporating gradient 27 deviations into the estimation of fiber orientations should make such analyses more reliable. 28
A Two-Stage Optimization Scheme of Fuel Consumption and Drivability for Plug-In HEVs

This paper addresses an energy consumption optimization problem with consideration of drivability improvement for series-parallel plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Consumption of fuel and electricity are chosen as the cost function of the optimization, and the acceleration rate is involved in the constraint for improving drivability. Then, a two-stage optimization scheme is proposed, which consists of the long-term off-line optimization and the short-term on-line optimization. In the former, the entire route is dealt with as previously known, and the optimal mode switching and engine power are provided by solving the optimization problem, and in the latter, the short-term local optimization in the fashion of receding horizon is used to obtain optimality regarding the actual route situation where the vehicle-toeverything-based driver’s demand prediction is involved instead of requiring previous information of the future horizon. The proposed controller was evaluated in the case of a long driving situation including the city and the motorway that required a high-power acceleration. The performance was improved in consideration of the drivability, and the fuel economy was optimized in comparison to the charge depleting and charge sustaining strategy.