Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING RECOMBINANT WIRAL ANTIGENS

Continuation-in-part of application No. 08/563,733, filed on Nov. 28, 1995, now abandoned, which is a division of application No. 08/049,531, filed on Apr. 20, 1993, now Pat. No. 5,470,720, which is a division of application No. 07/344.237, filed on Apr. 26, 1989, now Pat. No. 5,204.259, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 07/258, 016, filed on Oct. 14, 1988, now abandoned, and a continu ation-in-part of application No. 07/206,499, filed on Jun. 13, 1988, now abandoned, and a continuation-in-part of appli cation No. 07/191,229, filed on May 6, 1988, now aban doned, application No. 08/931,855, which is a continuation in-part of application No. 08/272.271, filed on Jul. 8, 1994, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application No. 07/616,369, filed on Nov. 21, 1990, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 07/573,643, filed on Aug. 27, 1990, now abandoned.
Investigating the effect of salt concentrations on the immune cell membrane protein CD45 D1-D4 in a supported lipid bilayer using hydrodynamic trapping

The immune system is a very complex system, aimed to protect the body from the many dangers that loom around us. A well-functioning immune system can fight of most invaders, remove foreign particles that entered our bodies, and take care of dead cells. The aim in this work is seeing how the protein CD45 (also known as PTPRC, protein tyrosine phosphatase, receptor type, C) is affected by salt concentration, more exactly how it is oriented on a lipid bilayer. CD45 have been observed to be essential for proper activation of T cells, but exactly how this is achieved on a molecular level is not known. Since the protein interact with its environment, its orientation may play an important role for the sensitivity and function of CD45. In order to investigate this, a combination of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, FRAP (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching) and hydrodynamic trapping have been used. The protein was attached to a supported lipid bilayer (SLB), which is a common cell membrane mimic. The orientation of the protein, i.e. its effective height, on the bilayer was measured using hydrodynamic trapping at different concentrations of sodium chloride at a physiological pH of 7.4. The diffusion of the protein across the SLB was also studied at different salt concentrations. The investigation implied a difference in the height of the proteins with it standing higher above the bilayer with increased salt concentration. This finding is important since it has consequences for how CD45 should be modelled on cell membrane mimics such as SLBs as well as on live cells.
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Uncovering Myself to Understand You Develándome a mí mismo para entenderte Sayra

Classroom incidents in which teachers have to exhibit their expertise at managing a class is commonplace in teachers’ daily routines, though sometimes some of those classroom incidents turn into critical moments. However, ordinary disruptive classroom situations are not as catastrophic as when teachers themselves provoke them. In addition, when some teachers have to face any sort of classroom disruption, most of them are unable to come up with any immediate and effective solutions. In this paper, we describe how we combined both the critical incident technique and the cooperative development theory so as to reflect upon a critical moment of each of us to be able to improve our viewpoints regarding the potential solutions that can emerge to cope with those critical moments in our own classrooms. The findings show that we strengthened our professional ties, we invigorated our teaching skills, and developed from our own insights into new perspectives in relation to how to better tackle classroom management difficulties. Finally, we share how profound the changes were which, additionally, were not only in the pedagogical sense.
PECVD-ONO : A NewDeposited Firing Stable Rear Surface Passivation Layer System for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

A novel plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposited (PECVD) stack layer system consisting of a-SiOx:H, a-SiNx:H, and a-SiOx:H is presented for silicon solar cell rear side passivation. Surface recombination velocities below 60 cm/s (after firing) and below 30 cm/s (after forming gas anneal) were achieved. Solar cell precursors without front and rear metallisation showed implied open-circuit voltagesVoc values extracted from quasi-steady-state photoconductance (QSSPC) measurements above 680 mV. Fully finished solar cells with up to 20.0% energy conversion efficiency are presented. A fit of the cell’s internal quantum efficiency using software tool PC1D and a comparison to a full-area aluminium-back surface field (Al-BSF) and thermal SiO2 is shown. PECVDONO was found to be clearly superior to Al-BSF. A separation of recombination at the metallised and the passivated area at the solar cell’s rear is presented using the equations of Fischer and Kray. Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) has been used to evaluate the hydrogen depth profile of the passivation layer system at different stages.
Teachers Matter : Teachers Supply as a Constraint on the Global Education

This paper examines constraints to full enrollment in developing countries and finds that a shortage of human resources, in the form of mediumto highly educated adults, are a significant factor. To date, studies on constraints to full enrollment have focused on finances (national income), population growth, and political commitment, thus missing, this paper suggests, one of the most important limiting factors. In fact, when adult secondary education is taken into account, there is no residual statistical correlation between school enrollment and national income or population growth. In addition, the paper shows that in counties with very low levels of adult secondary education, two compensating mechanisms often come into play, namely that a larger portion of the well-educated adults is teaching and that class sizes tend to be larger. Both of these mechanisms can significantly raise enrollment levels. The analysis finally suggests that as a shortage of well-educated adults is a real constraint to full enrollment in many countries, targeted policies and programs need to address human resources, rather than to provide just financial support to education. Recommended Citation Wils, Annababette and O’Connor, Raymond, 2004. Teachers Matter: Teacher Supply As A Constraint On The Global Education Transition. Working Paper WP-04-01. Education Policy and Data Center, Washington, DC (FHI 360). EPDC The Education Policy and Data Center (EPDC) was launched in 2004 with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, as an associate award under the Education Quality Improvement Program 2: Policy, Systems, Management (EQUIP2), to increase the breadth and depth of information easily accessible to researchers and practitioners in international education. In the first two years, the Center will focus on 20 selected countries with a major donor presence (USAID, World Bank and others). Within three to five years, the Center will expand to include 50 countries, and eventually, all developing countries.
Theoretical and practical approaches for time series prediction

The goal of this paper is to discuss two different modern approaches for modeling and prediction of time series – general regression neural networks and support vector regression. It is known that the performances of different approaches from machine learning field are strongly dependent on data. We apply and evaluate our methods on eight different real meteorological series. In order to increase the SVR performances we develop a method for obtaining a SVR optimal multiple kernel.
Monetary Policy and the Dutch Disease E¤ects in a Small Open Oil Exporting Economy

In this paper, I compare, rst, the impact of a windfall and a boom sectors on the economy of an oil exporting country and their welfare implications; in a second step, I analyze how monetary policy should be conducted to insulate the economy from these shocks. To do so, I built a Multisector DSGE model with nominal and real rigidities. The main nding is that Dutch disease e¤ect arise after spending and resource movement e¤ects in the following cases: i) exible prices and wages both in the case of a windfall and in the case of a boom; ii) exible wage and sticky price only in the case of a xed exchange rate. In other cases, Dutch disease e¤ect can be avoided if: prices are sticky and wages are exible when the exchange rate is exible; iii) prices and wages are sticky whatever the objective of the central bank is in both cases: windfall and boom. I also compare the source of uctuation that leads to Dutch disease e¤ect and I conclude that the windfall leads to a strong e¤ect in terms of de-industrialization compared to a boom. The choice of exible exchange rate regime also helps to improve welfare. Keywords: Monetary Policy, Dutch Disease, DSGE model. JEL classi cation: E52; F41;Q40. Université Lyon 2. E-mail : benkhodja@gate.cnrs. fr. Tel. : +33 (0) 4.37. 37.65. 77 Fax : +33 (0)4.37. 37.60. 24 École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines GATE-CNRS. Bureau R130 15, Parvis René Descartes 69342 Lyon cedex 07 France yI would like to thank Jean pierre Allegret, Alain Sand, Hafedh Bouakez, Ali Dib, Aurélien Eyquem, Edmar de Almeida and all participants at GATE-CNRS seminar and International Conference on Environment and Natural Resources Management in Developing and Transition Economies, the 34th International Association for Energy Economics and the society for computational economics for their helpful comments and discussion.
Project 036 Parametric Uncertainty Assessment for Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)

Project Funding Level According to the original project plan, the funding from the FAA is $175,000 for 12 months. The Georgia Institute of Technology has agreed to a total of $175,000 in matching funds. The project was augmented for the period for 12/1/2016 to 3/31/2017 to add additional tasks. The augmented funding from the FAA is $80,000 for 4 months. The Georgia Institute of Technology has agreed to additional $80,000 in matching funds. The next augmentation was for $300,000 for the period of performance of 4/1/2017 to 8/31/2018. The Georgia Institute of Technology has agreed to additional $300,000 in matching funds.
surgical treatment for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis Clinical values of control over pain and pain coping strategies in

Background Control over pain and pain coping strategies are associated with pain intensity as well as psychological status and subjective disability in patients experiencing pain. The present study assessed the clinical values of control over pain and pain coping strategies in surgical treatment for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis using mediation analysis. Methods Sixty-two patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (median age, 70 years; 34 men, 28 women) were evaluated before surgery. The pain intensity and area, psychological status/subjective disability ( Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire), and control over pain/pain coping strategies (Coping Strategies Questionnaire) were assessed. Mediation analysis, which consisted of serial regression analyses, mainly tested whether (1) control over pain/pain coping strategies were predicted by pain characteristics and (2) control over pain/pain coping strategies predicted psychological status/subjective disability after controlling for pain characteristics. Results Control over pain was predicted by pain intensity (regression coefficient, −0.33; p = 0.01); moreover, it predicted walking ability (standardized partial regression coefficient, 0.31; p = 0.01) and social function (0.38; p = 0.00) after controlling for pain intensity. Although increasing activity level, one pain coping strategy, was predicted by pain intensity (regression coefficient, −0.30; p = 0.02), it did not predict walking ability (standardized partial regression coefficient, 0.07; p = 0.53) or social function (0.13; p = 0.33) when considering pain intensity. Conclusions In this cohort, mediation analysis demonstrated that pain intensity did not directly affect perceived walking ability or social function, but did affect control over pain; moreover, control over pain affected walking ability and social function. Clinical relevance These findings are useful for a deep understanding of the relationships between pain and subjective disability in preoperative patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. More attention should be given to patients’ thoughts about pain such as control over pain. keywords: lumbar spinal stenosis, control over pain, pain coping strategies, mediation volume 10 article 22 doi: 10.14444/3022
3 Factorizing Shortest Paths with Randomized Optimum Models

Randomized Optimum models (RandOMs) are probabilistic models that define distributions over structured outputs by making use of structured optimization procedures within the model definition. This chapter reviews RandOMs and develops a new application of RandOMs to the problem of factorizing shortest paths; that is, given observations of paths that users take to get from one node to another on a graph, learn edge-specific and userspecific trait vectors such that inner products of the two define user-specific edge costs, and the distribution of observed paths can be explained as users taking shortest paths according to noisy samples from their cost function.
Determinants of the uptake of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (pcv-10) in Makindu District, Kenya

Over 1.8 million children under five years of age die from pneumococcal disease (PD) every year worldwide, most of them living in developing countries. In Kenya, pneumococcal infections are the leading cause of hospital admissions among children under five years. In 2008, pneumonia was the second leading cause of death among children under five years, with over 30,000 childhood deaths, accounting for 16% of child mortality in Kenya. Immunization is the cornerstone of health care policy and a key component in infectious disease prevention. Kenya rolled out the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV-10) vaccine in January 2011, in all government hospitals with an aim of covering over 70% invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD) by the end of 2011. The vaccine uptake at Makindu district has been sub-optimal and the reasons not yet determined, hence the need for this study. The objective of this study was therefore, to establish the caregivers and healthcare workers level of knowledge, attitude and practices and healthcare system influence on the uptake of the PCV-10. In a cross-sectional study, caregivers of children aged 3-12 months (n=374), health workers (n=32) and the healthcare system organization were investigated. The caregivers and healthcare workers were interviewed using structured interview schedules, questionnaires and observational checklist were used to collect additional information on healthcare system functioning. Data was entered, coded and analyzed using Microsoft excel and SPSS. Differences in proportions between groups were compared using the Chi square and Fishers‘ exact tests. Of the 374 children, 292 (78.1%) had received the PCV-10 vaccination. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that marital status of the caregiver (P=0.022), health facility delivery (P<0.0001), and knowledge of Kenya Expanded Program for Immunization (KEPI) immunization schedule (P=0.048), PCV-10 vaccine (P<0.0001), and hospital treatment for pneumococcal sick children (P=0.036) were associated with increased uptake of PCV-10 vaccination. However, low uptake of PCV-10 vaccination was associated with caregiver work related reasons (P<0.0001), and health facility challenges such as lack of vaccines (P=0.012), and inconvenient vaccination schedules (P=0.002). Healthcare workers level of qualification (P<0.0001) and attendance of KEPI refresher courses (P=0.041) significantly influenced the uptake of PCV-10 vaccination. The findings demonstrate healthcare systems shortfalls contributing to low vaccine uptake. This study recommends that health promotional interventions that target imparting of PCV-10 and KEPI knowledge to caregivers and healthcare staff, and enhancing healthcare system functioning may improve uptake of PCV-10 immunization.
Stereopsis Based Registration with Photometric Features

In this paper, we present a robust registration method based on photometric features. The correct estimation of the transformation between the range data measured at distinct viewpoints is the key issue on registration. There are two main approaches: one is the range data oriented approach and the other is the image data oriented approach. In the range data oriented approach, the computational time is normally high, and we need relatively accurate range data in order to compute the correct transform. In case of the image based approach, only the interest points (photometric features) are generally used to estimate the transform so it is more efficient. In practice, the extracted features can be erroneous, and, of course, the range data may have errors. In this paper, we present the method to select the correct photometric features and range data, and also propose the technique to merge the points while re-estimating transformation matrix. The experiment shows the proposed approach is robust to the erroneous data.
Comparing Target Sets for Stance Detection: A Case Study on YouTube Comments on Death Penalty

Stance on topics such as the death penalty is often expressed by discussing subordi-nated or related targets (e.g. costs of execution ). This implicit way of communication is typically modelled by deﬁning a set of explicit targets, which are related to the topic (e.g. death is irreversible ). As these sets can be created in different ways, it remains an open question whether all meth-ods result in equally good target sets. Thus, we collect a new dataset of YouTube comments on the death penalty and annotate it with stance based on two target sets: (i) one expert set extracted from idebate.com and (ii) one representing the wisdom of the crowd from reddit.com . We systematically compare these two sets for reliability, coverage and topicality. We ﬁnd that both sets have have strengths and weaknesses, but that they complement each other well in how they describe stance in our dataset. Our analysis shows that the composition of target sets is an important and non-trivial subtask of stance and sentiment analysis, which is worth investing efforts in.
Data Fusion of Scanned Black and White Aerial Photographs with Multispectral Satellite Images

To date, countless satellite image fusions have been made, mainly with panchromatic spatial resolution to a multispectral image ratio of 1/4, fewer fusions with lower ratios, and relatively recently fusions with much higher spatial resolution ratios have been published. Apart from this, there is a small number of publications studying the fusion of aerial photographs with satellite images, with the year of image acquisition varying and the dates of acquisition not mentioned. In addition, in these publications, either no quantitative controls are performed on the composite images produced, or the aerial photographs are recent and colorful and only the RGB bands of the satellite images are used for data fusion purposes. The objective of this paper is the study of the addition of multispectral information from satellite images to black and white aerial photographs of the 80s decade (1980–1990) with small difference (just a few days) in their image acquisition date, the same year and season. Quantitative tests are performed in two case studies and the results are encouraging, as the accuracy of the classification of the features and objects of the Earth’s surface is improved and the automatic digital extraction of their form and shape from the archived aerial photographs is now allowed. This opens up a new field of use for the black and white aerial photographs and archived multispectral satellite images of the same period in a variety of applications, such as the temporal changes of cities, forests and archaeological sites.
“ A case study in Mobile Software Engineering : Artemis , a mobile application to combat violence against women

Software engineering has faced many challenges since it was formulated as a discipline, since several paradigms have emerged, some have matured and others simply disappeared with time. Its concepts are evolving and being used for several years, always adapting to new realities, with mobile computing could not be different. Mobile computing has been introduced in the context of computing for a while now, but only a few years ago, driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, there was a breakthrough and popularization of this paradigm. New technologies were developed and eventually were released the first development kits for mobile platforms, presenting to the developer a completely new way to create and deliver their applications. The evolution of mobile software followed the evolution of hardware, which in each new launch brought a new possibility for the developer. But this facility to develop and publish to mobile platforms took its toll, applications have evolved and become more complex, but little or no software engineering was being applied in the development of these applications, or tools were used that do not fit in the mobile context. And more developers seeking to enter the mobile world has brought some concepts based on web development that does not fit perfectly with the paradigms of mobile computing. The objective of this dissertation is to present the key aspects of mobile computing and show the need for applying software engineering in this context, thus applications can be developed exploiting the full potential of mobile technologies. As part of this work it is also proposed a mobile solution to work in a real life problem, which is violence against women. Thus it is shown that computing and mobile software can act on problems of our daily life, in order to make it better.
How my brother Leon brought home a wife, and other stories

Throughout the entire 152 year-history of La Union, several sons and daughters have contributed to the evolving national history. Some of these names have a familiar ring to us today: Diego Silang, patriot and hero; Camilo Oasis, senator and educator; Francisco Ortega, Speaker pro-tempore; Alejo Mabanag, senator; Mariano Madriaga and Enrique Sobrepeña, religious leaders; Manuel Arguilla, author; Angel Anden, journalist and academician; Nicolas Zafra, historian and educator; Laureana Novicio Luna, mother of the illustrious Luna brothers; Magnolia Antonino, senator and businesswoman, Manuel Cases, parliamentarian; Epifanio Castillejos, bureaucraft;, Joaquin Ortega, lawyer and assemblyman; Jose Aspiras, congressman and exsecretary of tourism; Juvenal Guerrero, ex-justice of the Supreme Court; Victor F. Ortega, congressman and constitutional convention delegate and now governor; Fortunato Abat, soldier diplomat; Arteimio Tadiar, an officer and a gentlemen; Sixto Domondon, jurist; Melchor P Aquino, noted ambassador and columnist, Justo O. Orros, Jr. Ambassador to Mexico.