Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DQα AND DQβ RFLP AND CELL SURFACE POLYMORPHISMS OF CLASS II HLA ANTIGENS

DQα and β DNA probes of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) were hybridized to restriction enzyme‐digested genomic DNA with the aim of establishing a correspondence between the polymorphisms recognized by classical serology and DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP). In DR homozygous human cell lines, three distinct PstI fragments were recognized by the DQα probe and four PstI fragments were recognized by the DQβ probe. Each fragment was associated with a different group of DR antigens. Three allelic forms of either DXα or β genes were identified, but none showed any strong association with DR or DQ. Family segregation analysis at the DNA level further confirmed the DR linkage of the DQ alleles in estimations of gene frequencies of different alleles of DQα, DQβ, DXα and DXβ. Evidence was presented that the DQα and DQβ allelic forms described at the DNA level correspond to polymorphic determinants at the cell surface which can be defined serologically or in cellular assays. Our data suggest that the HLA‐DQ subregion‐encoded alloantigens should be defined at the individual α and β chain levels.
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SELECTION OF CHAIRMAN OF OSIS USING ELECTRE METHOD IN SMK PGRI 35 WEST JAKARTA

In an organization choosing a leader who is highly dedicated, responsible and responsive to every problem is not easy. A leader is not only required to have intelligence and skill but also must have a soul of leadership, a great sense of responsibility and can be a role model. The purpose of this study was to determine the student council president using the ELECTRE method based on 4 (four) criteria, namely managerial ability, knowledge and skills, collaborative communication responsibilities and discipline. With the application of the ELECTRE method, it is expected to be able to achieve these objectives. With the implementation of the ELECTRE method in the process of electing the student council president at SMK PGRI 35 Jakarta, it can determine the student council chair with accurate results in accordance with the criteria given by the school. The results of calculations with the Electre method will obtain the highest rating, namely: A3 (Miranti Sofia) because if it indicates that the alternative is the chosen alternative.
The differential effects of Ligula intestinalis (L.) plerocercoids on host growth in three natural populations of roach, Rutilus rutilus (L.)

– This study reports the differential effect of the pseudophyllidean cestode, Ligula intestinalis, on the growth rates of three fish populations of the roach, Rutilus rutilus, under field conditions. Here, we show that only one host-population is affected by parasite-induced gigantism in the first 2 years of host life. Paradoxically, this increase in fish growth is strongly correlated with the parasitic load in plerocercoid stages, in that only the roach population subjected to the heaviest parasitic pressure shows an enhanced growth of cestode-parasitized individuals. This host gigantism observed in only one locality is associated with parasite-induced fish mortality occurring, on average, one year earlier in this fish population when compared to other populations. We discuss the different reasons for this differential parasite effect on growth enhancement across host-population in natural settings. Whether the growth effects represent an adaptive response by the host or a manipulation by L. intestinalis of the host, remains to be elucidated.
K+ channels in the plasma membrane of lily pollen protoplasts

Using the patch-clamp technique K+ channels could be observed in the plasma membrane of protoplasts from pollen grains of Lilium longiflorum. With depolarizing membrane potentials the open probability of the different K+ channels increased. Two K+ channel populations occurring occasionally had a single channel conductance of 120 pS and 42 pS, respectively. The most often observed K+ channel had a single channel conductance of 19 pS which showed an increase of channel activity with increasing free cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration. This channel population might be involved in the pathway of endogenous transcellular K+ currents which are activated during pollen tube tip extension.
SPORTİF REKREASYONEL ETKİNLİKLERE KATILAN KADINLARDA FİZİKSEL GÖRÜNÜŞ MÜKEMMELLİYETÇİLİĞİ VE PSİKOLOJİK İYİ OLUŞUN ÖZ GÜVEN ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ

Bu calismada, sportif rekreasyonel etkinliklere katilan kadinlarda fiziksel gorunus mukemmeliyetciligi ve psikolojik iyi olusun oz guven uzerine etkisinin arastirilmasi amaclanmistir. Calismada, katilimcilarin fiziksel gorunus mukemmeliyetciligini olcmek icin Yang ve Stoeber (2012) tarafindan gelistirilen Kolsallayan (2017) tarafindan Turkce uyarlamasi yapilan “Fiziksel Gorunus Mukemmeliyetciligi Olcegi”, katilimcilarin psikolojik iyi olus duzeylerini olcmek icin Diener ve ark. (2009) tarafindan gelistirilen Telef (2013) tarafindan Turkce uyarlamasi yapilan “Psikolojik Iyi Olus Olcegi” ve katilimcilarin oz guven duzeylerini olcmek icin Akin (2007) tarafindan gelistirilen “Oz Guven Olcegi” kullanilmistir. Orneklem seciminde kolayda ornekleme yontemi, verilerin toplanmasinda ise yuz yuze anket yontemi tercih edilmistir. Elde edilen verilerin analizinde SPSS paket programi araciligiyla Pearson Korelasyon ve Regresyon analizi kullanilmistir Arastirmaya, Sakarya ilinde sportif rekreasyonel etkinliklere katilan toplam 210 kadin gonullu olarak katilim gostermistir. Arastirma bulgulari incelendiginde, fiziksel gorunus mukemmeliyetciligi ve psikolojik iyi olus alt boyutlarinin ic ve dis oz guveni istatistiksel acidan anlamli olarak etkiledigi gorulmustur. Sonuc olarak, fiziksel ve psikolojik acidan kendilerini iyi hisseden kadinlarin oz guven duzeylerinin artis gosterdigi tespit edilmistir.
Information Acquisition and Secondary Market Liquidity

We develop a credit-risk model to study how information acquisition affects the liquidity in a secondary bond market. In our model, the creditors of a firm can acquire costly information about the firm and exploit the information advantage by selling their bonds to uninformed buyers. When a firm's fundamental deteriorates, creditors have higher incentives to acquire information, resulting in a higher degree of adverse selection in the secondary market. Consistent with empirical evidence, our model predicts that the trading volume and the transaction costs of bonds are both increasing in the credit risks of the underlying firms.
Road Detection for Reinforcement Learning Based Autonomous Car

Human mistakes in traffic often have terrible consequences. The long-awaited introduction of self-driving vehicles may solve many of the problems with traffic, but much research is still needed before cars are fully autonomous. In this paper, we propose a new Road Detection algorithm using online supervised learning based on a Neural Network architecture. This algorithm is designed to support a Reinforcement Learning algorithm (for example, the standard Proximal Policy Optimization or PPO) by detecting when the car is in an adverse condition. Specifically, the PPO gets a penalty whenever the virtual automobile gets stuck or drives off the road with any of its four wheels. Initial experiments show significantly improved results for PPO when using our Road Detection algorithm, as compared to not using any form of Road Detection. In fact, without this detection algorithm, the vehicle often gets into non-terminating loops (for example, driving into the dividers, getting stuck, or driving into a pit).
Molecular investigations in western palearctic water frogs

Abstract In the green frog hybrids there exists an exclusive cytogenetic reproductive mechanism, referred to as hybridogenesis, whose evolutionary value is still under debate. As a contribution to the knowledge of the possible link between reproductive strategies and phylogenetic relationships, the analysis of repetitive DNA elements in the genomes of the Balkan green frogs, Rana epeirotica and R. shqiperica was carried out to compare their molecular DNA organization with those already known for R. ridibunda and R. lessonae. The Balkan species were chosen, because they give rise to spontaneous, although infrequent and not hybridogenetic hybrids with R. ridibunda. The elements of the RrSl family, a centromeric satellite DNA previously isolated in R. ridibunda, are clustered at centromeric regions also in both Balkan species, although the molecular organization of the RrSl sequences proved to be most similar in R. ridibunda and R. epeirotica. Furthermore, a repetitive DNA family (R1BamHI) is interspersed throughout the genome and is highly conserved in all species examined. Notably, the RIBamHI sequences, correlated to members of the hAT family, represent the first transposable elements found in the genus Rana. In the light of the results obtained so far, further studies are in progress with the aim of isolating and characterizing new families of repeated DNA, as additional results are required to compare the genomes of the different frog species and infer phylogenetic deductions on the genome evolution accompanying the speciation process and occurring inside the Palearctic green frog system.
TWO DECADES OF RESEARCH ON EARLY CAREER FACULTIES (ECFs): A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TRENDS ACROSS REGIONS

Early Career Faculties (ECFs) are an important demographic of university faculty population shaping the future of the institution and higher education, despite the challenges they face as new academics. Analysis of scholarly output on ECFs offers useful data to inform and aid both national policy formulations and institutional planning decisions especially in ECFs’ support and development. Peer-reviewed high impact journals and academic databases provide highly valid and reliable sources of data and information on ECFs. This study examines the trend of ECFs research over two decades comparing scholarly output and research impact across global regions, in Web of Science and Scopus Elsevier. The bibliometric analysis highlights key topics of research and publications related to ECFs and identify the regions and countries most actively research on the topic. The trend of research on ECFs has been found to increase exponentially beginning the 1990s worldwide, mostly from western institutions (76%). Publications after the year 2012 focused more on issues related to ECFs’ preparation towards life in academia, their motivation, and challenges, the support structure for ECFs and strategies to adapt to life as faculty members. Such bibliometric analysis findings can be a useful reference for policy formulation within national or regional systems of higher education, and institutional strategic planning.
An Exploration of New Superintendent Mentoring and Goal Setting

Using surveys and focus group interviews, this study explored the perspectives of new school superintendents and their mentors on goal setting in relation to national leadership standards in a formal mentoring and induction program. While the two groups shared certain views, statistically significant differences were found. The mentees displayed a contextualized understanding of advocacy--more related to local community values and beliefs than those of national or international views. The issue of goal setting, or lack thereof, and the engagement of national leadership standards to mentoring are most prominent and novel in this study.
Optimal life histories for structured populations in fluctuating environments

Abstract I consider a population structured by age, size, condition, or any other relevant state variable. The environment fluctuates from year to year. Each year population members must make a reproductive decision before the environmental conditions of that year are known. I follow the standard approach in which one considers a subpopulation composed of individuals of the same genotype in an asexual species (or of individuals sharing the same allele for controlling behaviour in a sexual species). The fitness of the genotype is then defined as an appropriate growth rate for this subpopulation. The structure vector for the subpopulation describes the distribution of individual states of subpopulation members. Here the collective action of subpopulation members is viewed as giving an immediate reward to the genotype (or allele) and influencing the distribution of the structure vector next year. Fitness is characterised as the long-term average reward so obtained. Reproductive value is defined on structure vectors, that is, on distributions of states, not on individual states. An optimal strategy maximises the sum of the current reward and the expected reproductive value of the structure vector in one year's time. In this definition of optimality, individuals are allowed to base their actions on the current structure vector and hence on the current states of kin. When individuals are only allowed to base their actions on their own state, an optimal strategy maximises an appropriate average of current reward plus expected future reproductive value. The optimality criteria described lead to natural methods by which optimal strategies can be calculated.
Utilizing SDN to Deliver Maximum TCP Flow for Data Centers

Data centers host tens of thousands of interconnected servers, and they need to move a vast amount of data from one server to another for mirroring and backup purposes. Many new network technologies have been used to provide high throughput for bulk transfers of data in data centers. One of the evolving structures is the software-defined network (SDN), which is a new network paradigm that eases network management by separating the control plane from the data plane. In this paper, we introduce a novel method of utilizing traditional TCP and SDN to deliver maximum flow throughput. We also discuss our evaluation of our new method, MaxFlowTCP, against StandardTCP, ParallelTCP, and MPTCP. The results show that MaxFlowTCP provides higher throughput for the tested topology. Compared to StandardTCP, MaxFlowTCP had 130% better throughput, and compared to ParallelTCP and MPTCP, it had an average of 40% more throughput.
Breeding status of Merlins Falco columbarius in the UK in 2008

Capsule The third national Merlin survey estimated a UK population of 1162 breeding pairs (95% CI: 891–1462). Aims To estimate the number of breeding Merlins (with associated 95% confidence intervals) in the UK and the four countries (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland), and to compare these with the relevant estimates from the 1993–94 Merlin survey. In addition, to calculate estimates of change for several regional populations with complete survey coverage during both national surveys. Methods A subset of 10-km squares (Raptor Study Group squares and randomly sampled squares) was surveyed across the breeding distribution of Merlins in the UK using standardised methods devised during the 1993–94 national survey. Results The population estimate for Merlins in the UK was 1162 breeding pairs, and in Britain was 1128 pairs (95% CI: 849–1427), which although 13% lower, was not significantly different from the British estimate of the 1993–94 survey. Scotland held the bulk (733 pairs) of the UK Merlin population, and smaller numbers of 301 pairs, 94 pairs and 32 pairs were estimated for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively. The population estimate for Wales may have been biased upwards by low coverage in the south of the country. Marked declines were noted in several regional Merlin populations, particularly in areas of northern England. Conclusions The 2008 Merlin survey suggests that the population in Britain has remained relatively stable since 1993–94, but with local declines, particularly in northern England. Currently, little is known about important drivers of regional population change in Merlins, but changes in land-use, prey populations and climate are likely to be important factors.
Improved Response Time and Energy Management for Mobile Cloud Computing Using Computational Offloading

The mobile devices capabilities are found to be greater than before by utilizing the cloud services. There are various of service rendered by the cloud paradigm and the mobile devices usually allows the execution of the resource-intensive applications on the resource- constrained mobile device to be offloaded to the cloudlets that are resource rich thus enhancing the its processing capabilities. But accessing the cloud services within the minimum response time and energy consumption still remains as a serious research problem. So the proposed method put forth in the paper scopes in developing a frame work to choose the optimal cloud service provider. The frame work proposed is categorized into two stages where the initial stage engages the classifier to segregate the mobile device according to the fuzzy K-nearest neighbor and cultivates an improved computational offloading employing the Hidden Markov Model and ACO- ant colony optimization. The algorithm proffered is implemented in the MATLAB version 9.1 and the performance is evinced on the basis of the response time, energy consumption and the processing cost. The results obtained through the proposed method proves to provide an 89% better response time, 95 % better energy consumption and 50% enhanced processing cost compared to the few existing computational offloading methods put forth for the mobile cloud computing.
Vegetative compatibility and transmission of hypovirulence-associated dsRNA in Sclerotinia homoeocarpa

One hundred and sixteen isolates of Sclerotinia homoeocarpa, the causal agent of dollar spot of turfgrass, were collected from golf courses at nine locations in southern Ontario and one location in Nova Scotia. Isolates were assessed for vegetative compatibility in culture, and four types of reactions were observed. These reactions were examined for transmission of hypovirulence-associated double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and the results indicated that vegetative incompatibility in S. homoeocarpa ranged from fully to partially incompatible. The fully incompatible reaction strongly restricted transmission of hypovirulence-associated dsRNA whereas the partially incompatible reactions allowed limited spread between vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs), suggesting that vegetative incompatibility is not an absolute barrier to the transmission. Intra- and inter-location VCG tests detected vegetative incompatibility at 7 of the 10 locations, but there were only four unique VCGs among the 116 isolates. These VCGs were compared with representative isolates of six VCGs identified in Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Three VCGs in the present study correspond to VCG-A, -B, and -E, respectively, and one VCG, named VCG-G, was a new group. In southern Ontario, VCG-B was the most commonly recovered VCG, comprising 56.0% of the sampled isolates, and was present at nine locations. VCG-A and -G comprised 11.2 and 31.9% of the sampled isolates and were present at three and seven locations, respectively. VCG-E was only detected at one location. These results support the hypothesis that there is limited diversity among VCGs in S. homoeocarpa. The transmission of hypovirulence-associated dsRNA among VCGs and the relatively simple genetic structure, as reflected in the small number of VCGs within populations of S. homoeocarpa, is consistent and supportive of the use of hypovirulence as a biocontrol agent for dollar-spot management.Key words: Sclerotinia homoeocarpa, dollar spot, turfgrass, vegetative compatibility, hypovirulence, double-stranded RNA, dsRNA.
Interference Reduction Using Principles and Application of Cognitive Radar in Pulse Jammer Suppression

The increase in the number of emitters operating at a frequency close to that of the modern radar systems impose a major challenge on the rapidly developing market for communication systems and the increasing demand for electromagnetic spectrum. Interference problems occur when multiple radar systems of the same type operate in the same environment with limited bandwidth availability and leads to frequency regions overlap. The radar systems incur significant performance losses due to the inferences caused under such circumstances. The concept of Cognitive Radar can provide solutions for such issues. This paper provides an improved Cognitive Radar architecture to address these challenges. The strong interference signals are suppressed using adaptive processing technique. The significant market advantages and application overview of this system is also presented in this paper.
Incorporation of bacteriocin in plastic retains activity and inhibits surface growth of bacteria on meat

The bacteriocin, nisin, was incorporated into a polyethylene based plastic film and retained activity against the indicator bacteria Lactobacillus helveticus and Brochothrix thermosphacta . Beef carcass surface tissue sections (BCT) topically inoculated with the psychrotrophic spoilage bacterium B. thermosphacta were vacuum-packaged both with and without wrapping with the nisin impregnated plastic and held at 4° C. An initial reduction of 2 log10cycles of B. thermosphacta was observed with nisin-impregnated wrapped BCT within the first 2 days of storage. After 20 days of refrigerated storage, B. thermosphacta populations from nisin impregnated plastic wrapped samples were significantly less than (P<0·05) control vacuum-packaged samples; log105·8 vs 7·2 cfu cm−2respectively. Temperature abuse was simulated by shifting inoculated packs from 4° C (after 2 days) to 12° C. Again, by 20 days, the B. thermosphacta populations of treated samples wrapped with nisin impregnated plastic were significantly less than (P<0·05) control vacuum-packaged samples; log103·6 vs 6·3 cfu cm−2respectively. This work highlights the potential for incorporating antimicrobial peptides with a wider and different range of inhibitory activity directly into plastics of different properties for use in controlling food spoilage as well as preservation to enhance product microbial safety.
A CRITICAL REVIEW AND LOCAL AUDIT OF THE PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILL-HEALTH IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS

Objective: To establish if depression results in poor adherence to therapy in patients with heart diseases. Methods: This concept scoping study was conducted in two phases; the first was a systematic review of the literature, and the second part was local data analysis. Statistical analysis was performed using RevMan® V.5. 3 (Cochrane Community). Results: Patients who received multidisciplinary collaborative care showed significantly reduced major adverse cardiac outcomes in patients with cardiovascular diseases. They also demonstrated higher rates of self-reported remission of depression. The review also showed endpoint mortality after PCI was associated with patients having depression. Local population data showed that 26% of heart failure patients had mental ill health comorbidity, however, only 12% had a formal diagnosis recorded. Conclusion: Depression is associated with poor cardiac outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease. It is widespread in patients with cardiovascular disease and must be screened for throughout the management plan.