Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Non-Linear Land Subsidence In Morelia, Mexico, Imaged Through Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry

Land subsidence affecting the city of Morelia in 20032010 is imaged with 23 ENVISAT scenes. Newly developed subsidence is recognized in the Rio Grande meander area, where thick compressible deposits suffer from accelerated aquifer compaction induced by recent groundwater extractions. Persistent Scatterer (PS) analyses using linear and quadratic deformation models both result in low density of targets, while smallbaseline interferograms show good coherence over the whole area. At the location of Prados Verdes II well, located in the center of this subsidence feature, -10 to -15 mm/yr LOS velocities are measured in 2003-2004, accelerating to -30 mm/yr in 2004-2005, -40 to -50 mm/yr in 2006-2007, and -60 to -70 mm/yr in 20082009. Along the vertical direction, cumulative deformation in 2003-2009 at the water well location is estimated at -280 mm. Accelerations as high as -1 to -1.5 mm/yr are observed by PS for the time period 2003-2010.
Fabrication of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films from Ball-Milled Nanoparticle inks under Various Annealing Temperatures

Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) has been recognized as a promising thin-film absorber material of chalcopyrite-related solar cells. A two-stage method for fabricating CZTS films using CZTS nanoparticles was developed. Nanocrystal inks fabricated by a ball-milling method was utilized to °C deposit CZTS precursors by spin-coating approach. The CZTS precursors were annealed in the sulfur atmosphere under different annealing temperatures ranging from 550 °C to 650 °C. Influences of annealing temperature on grain growth, composition, crystallinity, and photovoltaic properties of CZTS films were characterized. With the increase of annealing temperature, grain growth was enhanced, while the sulfur atomic ratio fist increased then decreased. The crystallinity of the films was significantly improved after the annealing, and the obvious peak of the secondary phase of ZnS, were observed from the X-ray diffraction results, when the annealing temperature increased to 625 °C. However, the secondary phase was not detected from the surface Raman spectrum. Through comparing the Raman spectrum of different areas of the CZTS film, secondary phases of ZnS and SnS were observed, indicating the decomposition of CZTS films, due to the high temperature. The highest conversion efficiency of 7.5% was obtained when the annealing temperature was 600 °C.
Chaos in the transient current through As2Te3(In) and Mackey-Glass Simulation of Hysteresis Effect on glass substrates

As2Te3(In) is a glass substrate (chalcogenide) that can be used in electronic devices in engineering such as computer memory arrays, display devices, optical mass memories because of its sensitivity to current transition. These glass substrates show chaotic behavior. In this study, we observed that by calculating the maximal Lyapunov exponents with non-linear time series analysis techniques. For this technique, at first linear auto-correlation function is used to show the delay time value in longrange correlation. However, the mutual information technique gives more reliable delay time value in short-range correlation. Estimated delay time values provide appropriate embedding dimensions by the false-nearest neighbors method. Attractor reconstruction is used for showing chaotic behavior, Hurst and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) are used to support chaoticity. Hurst analysis describe the motion of transient current in time evolution. Calculated values of DFA give us long range power of correlation exponents. We observe slow transient effects causing hysteresis in the current-voltage characterization. We find that the current-voltage (IV) measurement delay time. Furthermore, As2Te3(In) shows hysteresis effect. A delay differential equation such as Mackey-Glass which has both periodic and aperiodic solutions can be a useful simulation tool for I-V characterization of glass substrate, which indicated chaos or non-periodicity in time series, is claimed to constitute a suitable model.
Cross-lingual Joint Entity and Word Embedding to Improve Entity Linking and Parallel Sentence Mining

Entities, which refer to distinct objects in the real world, can be viewed as language universals and used as effective signals to generate less ambiguous semantic representations and align multiple languages. We propose a novel method, CLEW, to generate cross-lingual data that is a mix of entities and contextual words based on Wikipedia. We replace each anchor link in the source language with its corresponding entity title in the target language if it exists, or in the source language otherwise. A cross-lingual joint entity and word embedding learned from this kind of data not only can disambiguate linkable entities but can also effectively represent unlinkable entities. Because this multilingual common space directly relates the semantics of contextual words in the source language to that of entities in the target language, we leverage it for unsupervised cross-lingual entity linking. Experimental results show that CLEW significantly advances the state-of-the-art: up to 3.1% absolute F-score gain for unsupervised cross-lingual entity linking. Moreover, it provides reliable alignment on both the word/entity level and the sentence level, and thus we use it to mine parallel sentences for all (302, 2) language pairs in Wikipedia.
A PBMC-Based System to Assess Human T Cell Responses to Influenza Vaccine Candidates In Vitro

Vaccine development is an expensive and time-consuming process that heavily relies on animal models. Yet, vaccine candidates that have previously succeeded in animal experiments often fail in clinical trials questioning the predictive value of animal models. Alternative assay systems that can add to the screening and evaluation of functional characteristics of vaccines in a human context before embarking on costly clinical trials are therefore urgently needed. In this study, we have established an in vitro system consisting of long-term cultures of unfractionated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from healthy volunteers to assess (recall) T cell responses to vaccine candidates. We observed that different types of influenza vaccines (whole inactivated virus (WIV), split, and peptide vaccines) were all able to stimulate CD4 and CD8 T cell responses but to different extents in line with their reported in vivo properties. In-depth analyses of different T cell subsets revealed that the tested vaccines evoked mainly recall responses as indicated by the fact that the vast majority of the responding T cells had a memory phenotype. Furthermore, we observed vaccine-induced activation of T follicular helper cells, which are associated with the induction of humoral immune responses. Our results demonstrate the suitability of the established PBMC-based system for the in vitro evaluation of memory T cell responses to vaccines and the comparison of vaccine candidates in a human immune cell context. As such, it can help to bridge the gap between animal experiments and clinical trials and assist in the selection of promising vaccine candidates, at least for recall antigens.
Existence and Nonexistence of solutions to the Emden-Fowler equation on a geodesic ball in S[N]

where $N\geq 3,$ $S^{N}=\{x\in R^{N+1}||x|=1\},$ $\triangle_{S^{N}}$ is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $S^{N}. $ Here $B_{\theta_{0}}$ is a geodesic ball in $S^{N}$ with its geodesic radius $\theta_{0}\in(0, \pi)$ , and its center is located at the North Pole $P_{n}=(x_{1}, x_{2}, \ldots, x_{N+1})=(0,0, \ldots, 1)$. The above problem (1.1) is said to be the Emden equation. Usually, the above equation is considered on the Euclidean space $R^{N}$ . Namely similar problems to the following problem are studied by many mathematicians:
Spectral investigation and analytical application of the vinylamino-substituted haloquinone derivatives of Nizatidine and Ranitidine

Studies were carried out, for the first time, to investigate the formation and spectral characteristics of Nvinylamino-substituted haloquinone derivatives of nizatidine and ranitidine. The reactions involved the condensation of N-alkylvinylamine formed from the interaction between the free secondary amino groups in the investigated drugs and acetaldehyde with each of chloranil, bromanil, and 2,3-dichloronaphthoquinone. The experimental conditions affecting the reactions were optimized and the characteristics of the absorption spectra of the formed colored derivatives were established. Under the optimum reaction conditions and at the max of the formed derivatives, linear relationships were found between the absorbances and the concentrations of the investigated drugs in a concentration range of 10–250 g ml . The limits of assays detection were 2. 1–7.77 g ml . The precisions of the methods were satisfactory; the relative standard deviations were 1.13–1.73%. The proposed methods were successfully applied to the analysis of the studied drugs in pure and pharmaceutical dosage forms with good accuracy; the recovery percentages were 98.1–101.8 0.58–1.57%. The results were compared favorably with those of the official methods.
Systematic Review of the Roots of Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Systems: Learning from the past – looking into the future

Some authors have claimed that the research field of decision support systems (DSS) is no longer current or of interest and has been replaced by Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) and Big Data research. In this paper we investigate the relationship of DSS to BI&A by presenting a systematic review of early DSS literature from 1922-1985 and its impact on BI&A to argue that BI&A research has its roots in data-driven decision support. The results of a review of 12 journals during the relevant timeframe confirm that BI&A has its foundations in DSS and can be considered a special category of decision support literature.
Instance Segmentation on Omni-directional Images Based on Mask R-CNN

Instance segmentation is of utmost importance for many applications of computer vision such as complex visual understanding, augmented reality, etc. With the appearance of portable omni-directional (OD) camera like Ricoh Theta [1], the on-line OD images is increasing dramatically, which will make instance segmentation and scene understanding of OD images become one of important studies in computer vision area. Mask R-CNN [2] is the state of the art for both objects detection and instance segmentation on conventional perspective images. However, the non-linear distortion invariance on OD image cannot be achieved because of the property of CNN which is designed for rectangular windows. In this paper, a system for simultaneously detecting objects and producing pixel-wise masks on OD images in an end-to-end manner is proposed. Instead of directly applying Mask R-CNN to the raw equirectangular images, we extend Mask R-CNN to tackle the problem of non-linear distortion. The results show that our proposed system can improve recall and precision on object detection. Moreover, it can produce satisfactory high-quality masks subjectively.
Pathologically-Validated Tumor Prediction Maps in MRI

Pathologically-Validated Tumor Prediction Maps in MRI Alex Barrington Marquette University, 2019 Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive cancer with an average 5-year survival rate of about 5%. Following treatment with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, diagnosing tumor recurrence requires serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Infiltrative tumor cells beyond gadolinium enhancement on T1-weighted MRI are difficult to detect. This study therefore aims to improve tumor detection beyond traditional tumor margins. To accomplish this, a neural network model was trained to classify tissue samples as ‘tumor’ or ‘not tumor’. This model was then used to classify thousands of tiles from histology samples acquired at autopsy with known MRI locations on the patient’s final clinical MRI scan. This combined radiological-pathological (rad-path) dataset was then treated as a ground truth to train a second model for predicting tumor presence from MRI alone. Predictive maps were created for seven patients left out of the training steps, and tissue samples were tested to determine the model’s accuracy. The final model produced a receiver operator characteristic (ROC) area under the curve (AUC) of 0.70. This study demonstrates a new method for detecting infiltrative tumor beyond conventional radiologist defined margins based on neural networks applied to rad-path datasets in glioblastoma.
Coast-reef scale physiological responses of Acropora muricata harboring Symbiodinium clade A

Coral bleaching events are increasing worldwide as a result of climate change. Coral show differential bleaching susceptibilities depending on host and/or symbiont responses to changing environmental factors. Coral responses have been shown to vary over broad geographical scales with thermally-disparate environments. Of these, physiological characteristics such as Symbiodinium density and size, chlorophyll a content and estimated productivity along a coast-reef scale (<1 km) remain to be thoroughly understood. In this study, we examined these characteristics seasonally in Acropora muricata colonies that harbor Symbiodinium clade A along a coast-reef scale in Belle Mare lagoon, Mauritius. The studied reef and coast habitats are characterized by contrasting thermal and light conditions as well as bleaching histories, with bleaching occurring only at the reef site in 2009. We observed higher symbiont density in winter for coast colonies but similar symbiont cell size compared to reef colonies. These two parameters showed seasonal variation. Chlorophyll a content was 30% lower in reef than coast colonies, irrespective of sampling season and was significantly influenced by site. Estimated productivity was influenced by both site and season, with summer samples of coast colonies displaying 56% higher values than reef colony samples. This significant difference was maintained but less pronounced (18%) in winter samples. Our data suggest that Symbiodinium clade A may show physiological acclimatization along a coast-reef scale possibly as a consequence of difference in temperature and light conditions and nutrient concentrations at these two sites.
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1Department of Anesthesiology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250021, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anesthesiology, Qingyun County People’s Hospital, Dezhou 253700, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Qianfoshan Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Shandong University, Jinan 250014, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China Background: Bupivacaine (BUP) acts as a local anesthetic, which is extensively used for clinical patients but could generate neurotoxicity in neurons. Tetramethylpyrazine (TET) exhibits strong neuron protective effects against neurotoxicity. Hence, we investigate the effect of TET on BUP-induced neurotoxicity in SH-SY5Y cells. Methods: CCK-8 assay was used to detect cell proliferation in SH-SY5Y cells. In addition, Western blotting was used to examine Bax, Bcl-2, active caspase 3, LC3II, Beclin 1 and p-62 protein levels in cells. Moreover, ELISA assay was used to detect the levels of total glutathione (GS), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in cells. Results: In this study, we found that TET attenuated the neurotoxicity of BUP on SH-SY5Y cells. Meanwhile, TET alleviated BUP-induced apoptosis in SH-SY5Y cell via decreasing the expressions of active caspase-3 and Bax and increasing the expression of Bcl-2. In addition, monodansylcadaverine staining assay and Western blotting results confirmed that TET induced autophagy in SH-SY5Y cells via increasing the LC3II/I and Beclin 1 levels. Furthermore, TET attenuated BUP-induced oxidative damage in SH-SY5Y cells via upregulation of the levels of total GS and SOD and downregulation of the level of MDA. Interesting, the protective effects of TET against BUP-induced neurotoxicity in SH-SY5Y cells were reversed by autophagy inhibitor 3-methyladenine (3MA). Conclusion: These data indicated that TET may play a neuroprotective role via inhibiting apoptosis and inducing autophagy in SH-SY5Y cells. Therefore, TET may be a potential agent for the treatment of human neurotoxicity induced by BUP.
IIW Document No. IX-2165-05 MODELLING OF HAZ HARDNESS IN C-Mn PIPELINE STEELS SUBJECTED TO IN-SERVICE WELDING PROCEDURES

Welding onto pressurized pipelines that contain flammable fluid, in order to facilitate repairs or branch connections, is a critical procedure with considerable risk to personnel and infrastructure. Limiting the heat input is obviously an important consideration to prevent “burn-through”, but the potential for rapid cooling of the weldment increases its susceptibility to hydrogen assisted cold cracking (HACC). Therefore, one of the more important factors for in-service welding procedure development relates to the increased risk of formation of hard, brittle microstructures in the grain coarsened heat affected zone (GCHAZ) of the weld, microstructures that increase the risk of HACC. The current work has been successful in utilizing dilatometric simulations to derive two new hardness prediction models that more accurately predict hardness in the GCHAZ for typical in-service welding applications than a commercially adopted and widely used hardness prediction algorithm. Although it is acknowledged that further work is required to validate the models for a wider range of in-service welding conditions, the performance of the models demonstrates their potential for developing improved in-service welding procedures.
Clinical implementation of breast cancer genomics

42 Introduction. 44 Methods. 45 Intrinsic subtyping of ER positive, tamoxifen-treat d breast cancer using the PAM50 assay. 53 Comparisons between gene expression and clinical as s ys for hormone receptors and proliferation. 55 Comparison of fixed models of prognosis in node neg ative breast cancer. 57 Comparison of fixed models of prognosis in node pos itive breast cancer. 58 Discussion. 61 Acknowledgements. 64 Tables. 65 Figures. 74 References. 79 IV. PROGNOSITIC UTILITY OF DNA COPY NUMBER ABBERATIONS IN BREAST CANCER. 83 Abstract. 83 Introduction. 85 Methods. 86
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1Department of Food Science, College of Agriculture, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 91201, Taiwan; 2Cardiovascular Center, Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung City 81362, Taiwan; 3Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan City 71003, Taiwan; 4Institute of Medical Science, College of Health Science, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan City 71101, Taiwan Background: Thymoquinone (TQ) is a safe nutrient isolated from the seeds or volatile oil extract of Nigella sativa. In addition to its benefits in glucose regulation, TQ improves feeding disorders in diabetic animals. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogs improve glycemic control and ameliorate obesity or hyperphagia. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of GLP-1 in TQ-induced anorexia. Method: Type 2 diabetes was induced in rats by nicotinamide and streptozotocin injection. TQ was orally administered to diabetic rats at different doses for 45 days. Following TQ treatment, changes in serum glucose levels, GLP-1 concentration, body weight, food intake, and water intake were determined. To further explore the interaction between GLP-1 and TQ, the inhibitor of dipeptidyl peptidase 4, sitagliptin and the GLP-1 receptor antagonist exendin 9–39 (Ex 9–39) were separately administered to TQor vehicle-treated diabetic rats. Results: TQ treatment attenuated hyperglycemia and reduced hyperphagy and water intake in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats in a dose-dependent manner. Moreover, TQ treatment elevated plasma GLP-1 levels compared to those in control rats. The effects of TQ were enhanced by treatment with sitagliptin and reduced by the injection of Ex 9–39 into the brain. In contrast, similar treatment with another antioxidant (either ascorbic acid or N-acetylcysteine) produced the same anorexic effect as TQ without changing the plasma GLP-1 levels in diabetic rats. Therefore, TQ attenuated hyperphagy while increasing plasma GLP-1 levels and had antioxidant-like effects. Conclusion: TQ increased endogenous GLP-1 levels to reduce hyperphagy in diabetic rats.
Custom-made healthcare

In this paper, we investigate in a controlled laboratory experiment physician behavior in the case of payment heterogeneity. In the experiment, each physician provides medical care to patients whose treatments are paid for either under fee-for-service (FFS) or capitation (CAP). We observe that physicians customize care in response to the payment system. A FFS patient receives considerably more medical care than the corresponding CAP patient with the same illness and treatment preference. Physicians over-serve FFS patients and under-serve CAP patients. After a CAP payment reduction in the experiment we observe neither a quantity reduction under CAP nor a spillover into the treatment of FFS patients. Highlights:  Capitation or fee-for-service  Payment heterogeneity  Fee regulation: a cut in the lump-sum payment under capitation
A Critical review on video scene segmentation and Recognition

-The review of all the ten papers on the basis of video scene segmentation for text detection and recognition, among all these papers one is best paper “Robust Wavelet Transform Based Technique for Video Text Detection” they got the text detection and recognition rate is 96.7%. In this paper, they propose a new method based on wavelet transform, statistical features and central moments for both graphics and scene text detection in video images.
Opportunities and Challenges of Entrepreneurship Approach for People with Disability Empowerment in a Developing Country

People with disability (PWD) became significant issue in development, hence local government in Indonesia try to accommodate in their program. Unfortunately, most PWD empowerments are performed by government through a conventional program. This article describes the implementation of entrepreneurship approach on PWD empowerment in Resapombo Village, Blitar District Indonesia. A qualitative approach was employed by researchers to explore the innovativeness of PWD empowerment program, to identify the opportunities and the challenges for the development. This study found that new issue in academic field, development for social entrepreneurship study, and public-private partnership-based initiatives are the opportunities of entrepreneurship approach on PWD empowerment, while changing people perception about PWD, limited financial support, and low level reward for social workers are identified as challenges of this program. The study provides recommendations for government to invites more social stakeholders to participate in PWD empowerment and providing incentives. This study also provides opportunities for the scholars to examine and to develop new conceptual model in PWD empowerment, specifically on entrepreneurship approach for PWD. Keywords—people with disability; empowerment; entrepreneurship approach