Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Hybrid GA–MLPNN Model for One-Hour-Ahead Forecasting of the Global Horizontal Irradiance in Elizabeth City, North Carolina

The use of photovoltaics is still considered to be challenging because of certain reliability issues and high dependence on the global horizontal irradiance (GHI). GHI forecasting has a wide application from grid safety to supply–demand balance and economic load dispatching. Given a data set, a multi-layer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) is a strong tool for solving the forecasting problems. Furthermore, noise detection and feature selection in a data set with numerous variables including meteorological parameters and previous values of GHI are of crucial importance to obtain the desired results. This paper employs density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA II) algorithms for noise detection and feature selection, respectively. Tuning the neural network is another important issue that includes choosing the hidden layer size and activation functions between the layers of the network. Previous studies have utilized a combination of different parameters based on trial and error, which seems to be inefficient in terms of accurate selection of the desired features and also tuning of the neural network. In this research, two different methods—namely, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and genetic algorithm (GA)—are utilized in order to tune the MLPNN, and the results of one-hour-ahead forecasting of the GHI are subsequently compared. The methodology is validated using the hourly data for Elizabeth City located in North Carolina, USA, and the results demonstrated a better performance of GA in comparison with PSO. The GA-tuned MLPNN reported a normalized root mean square error (nRMSE) of 0.0458 and a normalized mean absolute error (nMAE) of 0.0238.
Evaluation of The Implementation of The Internal Quality Assurance System Using The Cipp Evaluation Model

CIPP Model. The purpose of this study was to determine: the effectiveness of the SPMI implementation at STKIP SITUS Banten using the CIPP evaluation model. The study was conducted at the STKIP Situs Banten using the CIPP evaluation method. To conduct a comprehensive assessment, the CIPP model requires that multiple aspects of a program be considered, including input from representative stakeholders. These aspects are evaluated through four major evaluations context (X1), input (X2), process (X3), and product (X4), which provide data to assess the overall program. Collecting data with a questionnaire filled out by 200 respondents lecturers and education staff. And the research sample was randomly selected. The results showed: Evaluation of the implementation of the internal quality assurance system at STKIP Situs Banten using the CIPP evaluation model was effective category.
Characterization of critical network components of coupled oscillators

This dissertation analyzes the fundamental limits for the determination of the network structure of loosely coupled oscillators based on observing the behavior of the network, specifically, node synchronization. The determination of the requisite characteristics and underlying behaviors necessary for the application of a theoretical mechanism for determining the underlying network topology in a network of loosely coupled natural oscillators are the desired outcome. To that end, this effort defines an analytical framework where key components of networks of coupled oscillators are isolated in order to determine the relationships between the various components. The relationship between the number of nodes in a network, the number of connections in the network, the number of connections of a given node, the distribution of the phases of the network, and the resolution of measurement of the components of the network, and system noise is investigated.
The effect of initial conditions on late time asymptotics and mixing for multimode Richtmyer-Meshov Instability

In this paper, we investigate the development of a material interface perturbed by a spectrum of modes when subjected to an acceleration by a shock wave. We use the Eulerian Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) code, Raptor, for the multi-fluid simulations. In two-dimensions we consider a number of broadbanded initial spectrum over a range of Atwood numbers accelerated by a weak M=1.3 shock wave. For a given realization, we consider decomposing into three cases: 1) the full broad-banded spectrum, 2) the long wavelength modes, and 3) the short wavelength modes. Here long or short is determined by comparison with the transverse dimension, L, of the computational domain. It is found that the subsequent evolution of the overall mixed width reaches an asymptotic t θ scaling for both bubbles and spikes. In the broad-banded and short wave length cases, the spikes and bubbles evolve in an Atwood number independent manner with θ = 0.4, approximately. The long wavelength case exhibits the strong spike Atwood number dependence given previously in the literature (Alon et al. (1995)). In threedimensions, we reconsider the weak shock case as well as the strong shock (M=5) case. The weak shock case gives, for broad-banded perturbations, an asymptotic scaling for both bubbles and spikes of θ = 0.5 at At=0.6. The evolution of the amount of mixed material also grows with a square root dependence. Including additional accelerations from the incident shock wave reflecting off of a solid end-wall, increases the rate of mixing as well as spike and bubble velocities while maintaining the same power law dependence. Turbulence, as defined by Zhou et al. (2003), appears only after the second acceleration. Simulation results for the high Mach number case will be given. Additional diagnostics such as Fourier spectra within the mixing region and advanced visualizations of the flow fields during the evolution will also be given. References
Cigarette smoking causes apoptotic death, senescence, and impairment of repair

Mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned media recovers lung fibroblasts from cigarette smoke1 induced damage 2 3 Sun-Yong Kim, Ji-Hyun Lee, Hyo Jeong Kim, Mi Kyeong Park, Jin Won Huh, Jai Youl 4 Ro, Yeon-Mok Oh, Sang-Do Lee, Yun-Song Lee 5 6 Division of Pharmacology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung 7 Biomedical Research Institute, Suwon, Republic of Korea, 8 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of 9 Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea, 10 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asthma Center, and Clinical Research 11 Center for Chronic Obstructive Airway Diseases, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan 12 College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 13 14 Running Title: Recovery of lung fibroblasts 15 16 Corresponding author: Yun-Song Lee, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon 440-746, 17 Republic of Korea. Tel: +82 31-299-6190; Fax: +82 31-299-6209; E-mail: yslee@skku.edu 18 Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol (February 3, 2012). doi:10.1152/ajplung.00288. 2011
Real Time Face Recognition using Steerable Filters and Template Matching

: In this paper a technique of Face Recognition is discussed . Face detection in the image is an important research branch of face recognition. For the purpose of recognising the faces in images efficiently, a face recognition method based on face-template is proposed. According to the character of density of the feature organs such as eye, ear, nose, mouth, part of cheek in the face images, the frontal full face-template is constructed. And the frontal half face template is constructed directly based on density symmetry of face-template. Template formation required to figure out the region containing facial components. This is done using steerable filters. Eyes usually contain both dark and bright pixels in the luma component. Gray scale morphological operations like dilation and erosion are performed on the image to emphasize brighter and darker pixels in the luma component around eye regions. We further notice that the mouth has a relatively lower response in the C r /C b feature but a high response in C r2 . Therefore, the difference between C r2 and C r /C b
EFFECT OF SACCAHAROMYCES CEREVICIAE (INACTIVATED YEAST) ON QUAIL FED RATION CONTAMINATED WITH FUMONISIN B1 MYCOTOXICOSIS

In this study, 160 day-old, Japanese quail chicks were randomly assigned into four groups, 40 birds of each. The first control group was fed on a basal diet (group1) and the other 3 groups were fed basal diet supplemented with 0.5% yeast, 0.5% yeast + 200mg fumincin-B1/ kg diet and 200mg fumincin-B1/ kg diet, respectively. The results of fumincin-B1(FBI) supplemented group showed a significant on increase in mortality rate, alanine amonotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), cholesterol, uric acid and createnine and a decrease in body weight, hatchability, fertility and hatching weight, hematological parameters, serum total proteins, globulins and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity in comparison with the control group. Yeast supplementation was found to alleviate the toxic effects of FB1.
Accounting Information and Value Relevance in an Economy Under Recession: The Nigeria Experience

This study examined accounting information system and value relevance in accounting in an emerging economy under recession. The objective was to examine the relationship between accounting information and value relevance of commercial banks. Time series data was sourced from the financial statements and annual reports of quoted commercial banks from 2000-2015. Earnings per share and dividend per share was modeled as the function of ordinary share capital, book value of equity, earnings before interest and tax, market value of equity, cash flow and leverage ratio. Multiple regressions were formulated to explore the relationship between the variables. Model I found that all the independent variables have positive relationship with earnings per share while model II found that cash flow and leverage ratio have negative effect on dividend per share. The regression summary prove that model I have an R2 of 72.7% and 62.3%, f-statistics of 7.007 and probability of 0.000162 while model II found an R2 of 75.9% and 66.7%, f-statistics of 8.293, probability of 0.000049. From the above, we conclude that accounting information have significant relationship with value relevance among the commercial banks. The study recommend well formulated policies for the validity of accounting information that can enhance value relevance.
Morphological Differentiation and Factors Affecting the Growth and Pathogenicity of Some Colletotrichum spp.

nthracnose is a major disease of different commercial crops. Colletotrichum spp. isolates were obtained from different fruit and vegetable plants showing anthracnose symptoms. Colletotrichum spp. isolates which were isolated from guava ( Psidium guajava ), mango ( Mangifera indica ), strawberry ( Fragaria ananassa ), pepper ( Capsicum sp.) and tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) were used to carry out this study. Based on cultural and morphological characteristics there are large differences among fungal species of Colletotrichum spp. isolates in addition to their pathogenic effects. Colletotrichum spp. differed and distinguished according to conidial morphology. Effect of temperature degrees on mycelial growth of Colletotrichum spp. isolates from mango, guava and pepper indicate that optimal growth rates were recorded at 30ºC. However, 25ºC was the optimum temperature for strawberry fungal isolates. Host range studies reveal that mango Colletotrichum spp. isolate causing severe or moderately rot for apple, peach, mango and strawberry fruits, but appeared less symptoms on tomato and lemon fruits. This study has brought to light a wide variation in the pathogenicity, morphological physiological characters of different Colletotrichum spp. isolates. piperatum Such results indicate that the tested hosts showed differ in their susceptibility to the five Colletotrichum isolates, based on the external rotted areas in proportion to the total areas of the fruits. Because of its economic importance as a plant pathogen, Colletotrichum has received a lot of attention from numerous authors to detect it in plant tissue. variations among fungal species of Colletotrichum isolates according to morphological characteristics were recorded. The species were differed and distinguished based on conidial morphology. The isolates had optimal growth rates at 30ºC which isolated from mango, guava and pepper. Whereas, the optimum temperature of strawberry isolates was recorded at 25ºC. Mango isolate was capable of causing severe or moderately severe rot on a wide host range. This study has brought to light a wide variation in the pathogenicity, morphological physiological characters of different Colletotrichum isolates.
Expression of Three Genes for Elongation Factor lax during Morphogenesis of Mucor racemosust

Three genes, TEF-1, -2, and -3, encode elongation factor la in Mucor racemosus. Neutral and alkaline Si nuclease analyses revealed that the genetic organization is unique for each of the genes. The number and size of the intervening sequences vary in these closely related genes, which suggests that complex genetic rearrangements gave rise to the elongation factor la gene family. Nucleotide sequence data from restriction fragments isolated from the 5' and 3' ends of TEF-2 and -3 confirmed the presence of a second intervening sequence in these genes. These data along with S1 nuclease mapping revealed a region at the 3' end of the three genes which was predicted to be transcribed but untranslated. Unique oligonucleotides containing 19 bases were synthesized to hybridize to this unique trailer region in the elongation factor la transcripts. These oligonucleotides were used as probes in standard Northern analysis of RNA purified from M. racemosus cells of several morphological types. It was determined that all three genes were expressed in the cell morphological types studied. However, the accumulated level of transcript derived from each gene varied considerably, with TEF-I mRNA present in approximately twofold greater quantity than the TEF-3 transcript and up to sixfold greater quantity than TEF-2. The level of TEF-I and -2 mRNA varied little among the cell morphological types studied, whereas TEF-3 mRNA was present in twofold greater quantity in sporangiospores than in either germlings or yeast cells which had been induced to undergo morphogenesis to hyphae. These data suggest that there is differential expression of the genes encloding elongation factor la in M. racemosus.
Germfree Mice Control Pulmonary Bacterial Infection in Inflammatory Response and Ability To Transient TLR Activation Restores

Mammals are colonized by an astronomical number of commensal microorganisms on their environmental exposed surfaces. These symbiotic species build up a complex community that aids their hosts in several physiological activities. We have shown that lack of intestinal microbiota is accompanied by a state of active IL-10–mediated inﬂammatory hyporesponsiveness. The present study investigated whether the germfree state and its hyporesponsive phenotype alter host resistance to an infectious bacterial insult. Experiments performed in germfree mice infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae showed that these animals are drastically susceptible to bacterial infection in an IL-10–dependent manner. In germfree mice, IL-10 restrains proinﬂammatory mediator production and neutrophil recruitment and favors pathogen growth and dissemination. Germfree mice were resistant to LPS treatment. However, priming of these animals with several TLR agonists recovered their inﬂammatory responsiveness to sterile injury. LPS pretreatment also rendered germfree mice resistant to pulmonary K. pneumoniae infection, abrogated IL-10 production, and restored TNF- a and CXCL1 production and neutrophil mobilization into lungs of infected germfree mice. This effective inﬂammatory response mounted by LPS-treated germfree mice resulted in bacterial clearance and enhanced survival upon infection. Therefore, host colonization by indigenous microbiota alters the way the host reacts to environmental infectious stimuli, probably through activation of TLR-dependent pathways. Symbiotic gut colonization enables proper inﬂammatory response to harmful insults to the host, and increases resilience of the entire mammal-microbiota consortium to environmental pressures. The Journal of
Rigidity of Thin Disk Configurations.

The main result of this thesis is a rigidity theorem for configurations of closed disks in the plane. More precisely, fix two collections C and C̃ of closed disks, sharing a contact graph which (mostly-)triangulates the complex plane, so that for all corresponding pairs of intersecting disks Di, Dj ∈ C and D̃i, D̃j ∈ C̃ we have that ](Di, Dj) = ](D̃i, D̃j). We require the extra condition that the collections are thin, meaning that no pair of disks of C meet in the interior of a third, and similarly for C̃. Then C and C̃ differ by a Euclidean similarity. Our proof is elementary, using essentially only plane topology arguments and manipulations by Möbius transformations. In particular, we generalize an argument which was previously used by Schramm to prove the rigidity of configurations of pairwise interiorwise disjoint closed disks having contact graphs triangulating the complex plane. It was previously thought that his proofs depended too crucially on the pairwise interiorwise disjointness of the disks for there to be a hope for generalizing them to the setting of configurations of overlapping disks. Analogous versions of our rigidity theorem have easier proofs via a discrete version of the Maximum Modulus Principle in the case where C and C̃ share a contact graph which (mostly-)triangulates the hyperbolic plane, or the Riemann sphere. We describe these proofs as well. These are relatively straightforward generalizations of the corresponding proofs in the case of configurations of pairwise interiorwise disjoint disks. Then by a simple argument via covering space theory and the Uniformization Theorem, we get an analogous rigidity statement for thin disk configurations having contact graphs triangulating an arbitrary Riemann surface. We include a brief and gentle introduction intended for non-mathematicians. Then we give a survey of the field of circle packing, which is the area that our result fits into. We also state some open problems and conjectures from this area, including conjectured generalizations both of our main result and of our main technical theorem.
Early Childhood Education Papers The Influence of Self-Adjustment on Social Interaction of 4-5 Years Children

The ability to interact socially is one aspect of the characteristics of growth and development. The inhibition of the self-adjustment process can interfere with the child’s social interaction process. Social interactions that do not meet social expecta-tions will endanger social acceptance by the group. This will eliminate the opportu-nity for children to learn socially. The absence of adjustments between parties who interact also makes the process of social interaction disrupted and can be stopped. This study aims to determine the effect of the adjustment on the social interaction of children in TK Pertiwi 2 Serang. This research is quantitative with the method of Simple Linear Regression Analysis. The population of the study is all children aged 4-5 years in Serang Village with a sample of 38 children. The sampling technique is Purposive Sample, which is the determination of samples with certain considerations. The research data are obtained through validity and reliability tests of 41 items and 0.937 for the adjustment scale and 39 items and 0.950 for the scale of social interaction. Based on the results of Simple Linear Regression analysis, a correlation value of 0.804 is obtained. It means the relationship between the variables of self-adjustment and social interaction is high. The coefficient of determination is 64.7%, rounded up to 65% positive effect, meaning that the better the child’s adjustment, the better the social interaction. While 35% are other factors that are not examined. The calculation results obtained by the regression equation Y = 21.121 + 0.765X. The equation corresponds to a simple linear regression formula, Y = a + bX, where Y is the dependent variable, a constant, b regression coefficient, X independent variable. And
STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP OF 1,4-DIHYDROPYRIDINES AS POTENTIATORS OF THE CFTR CHLORIDE CHANNEL

Mutations occurring in the CFTR gene, encoding for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator chloride channel, cause cystic fibrosis (CF). Mutations belonging to class II, like ∆ F508, give rise to a protein with both a defective maturation and altered channel gating. Mutations belonging to class III, like G551D and G1349D, cause only a gating defect. We have previously identified anti-hypertensive 1,4-dihydropyridines (DHPs), a class of drugs which block voltage-dependent Ca 2+ channels, as effective potentiators of CFTR gating, able to correct the defective activity of CFTR mutants (Pedemonte et al., Mol Pharmacol 68: 1736-1746, 2005). However, optimization of potency for CFTR vs Ca 2+ channels is required to design selective compounds for CFTR pharmacotherapy. In the present study, we have established DHP structure-activity relationship (SAR) for both CFTR potentiation and Ca 2+ channel inhibition using cell-based assays for both types of channels. A panel of 333 felodipine analogs was studied to understand the effect of various substitutions and modifications in the DHP scaffold. Our results show that alkyl substitutions at the para -position of the 4-phenyl ring lead to compounds with very low activity on Ca 2+ channels and with a strong effect as potentiators on the ∆ F508, G551D, and G1349D CFTR mutants. concentrations that are considerably higher that those effective on Ca 2+ channels. A better understanding of structural features required for CFTR activation may help in the development of more selective and effective DHP-based potentiators. In the present study, we have established DHP structure-activity relationship (SAR) for both CFTR activation and Ca 2+ channel blockade. To this purpose, we screened a set of 333 felodipine analogs using cell-based assays to determine their activity on three CFTR mutants ( ∆ F508, G551D, and G1349D) and on DHP-sensitive Ca 2+ channels. Our results show that modifications of the DHP scaffold, particularly in the 4-phenyl ring, may lead to compounds with highly improved selectivity for CFTR.