Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of fasting on serum lipids and lipoprotein profiles in the egg-laying hen ( Gallus domesticus )

The effects of a 24-h fast on serum lipids and lipoprotein profiles in commercial laying hens were investigated. Blood was analyzed at 34 and 46 weeks of age from Single Comb White Leghorn hens that had been either fed ad libitum or had been fasted for 24 h prior to collection. At 12 weeks, birds were divided into 16 biological isolation units, with 8 replicate units assigned to each treatment group. Four birds out of 10 in each unit were tagged for bleeding. Parameters evaluated included total serum cholesterol and triglycerides, mean diameters of very low density lipoproteins (VLDLs) for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles of serum total VLDL, mean total population VLDL particle diameter (MPD), and percentage serum cholesterol recovered in VLDL, low density lipoprotein (LDL), and high density lipoprotein (HDL) fractions. Fasting led to decreases in total serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and a decrease in mean serum VLDL particle diameter in the 90th population percentile. At Week 34, percentage serum cholesterol recovered from LDL was increased, whereas percentage serum cholesterol recovered from HDL was decreased due to fasting. At Week 46, MPD and percentage serum cholesterol recovered from VLDL were decreased, whereas percentage serum cholesterol recovered from HDL was increased due to fasting. It was concluded that a 24-h fast decreased serum lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) and the size of VLDL particles in the 90th population percentile in commercial laying hens. Furthermore, bird age influenced the effects of a 24-h fast on MPD and the redistribution of serum cholesterol among VLDL, LDL, and HDL particles. D 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Characterization of the anisotropic mechanical behaviour of colonic tissues: experimental activity and constitutive formulation

What is the central question of this study? The wall of the colon shows an anisotropic and non‐linear mechanical response, because of the distribution and mechanical properties of sub‐components. This study aimed to provide, by a coupled experimental and computational approach, a constitutive framework to interpret the mechanics of colonic tissues. What is the main finding and its importance? Tensile tests on tissue samples from pig colon were developed. The experimental data were processed to define proper constitutive formulations. Constitutive parameters were identified by the inverse analysis of experimental tests. The reliability of parameters was assessed by agreement between the experimental and model results and the satisfaction of material thermomechanics principles. The developed constitutive framework is capable of interpreting the general anisotropic and non‐linear mechanical behaviour of colonic tissues.
Critical Risk Factors in Virtual Software Projects

Virtual software development project teams are required more today primarily due to increased usage of outsourcing and offshoring with future predictions indicating a continued increase in usage. Many other driving factors such as reduced business travel due to security concerns, telecommunications improvements and improvements in collaboration tools have affected the dependence on virtual project teams. Risk management is attracting more attention in technology due to the field of project management and the continued incidence of software project failures. Little or no research has been conducted on the intersection of these three areas; virtual projects, project risk and project failure, being labeled as Virtual Software Project Risk. The goal of this research is to identify the critical risks in virtual software development projects. This research will contribute to industry through improvements in risk management strategies that can reduce or eliminate project failures. Fewer failures will provide benefits to corporations in cost savings and improved products and services.
Estrogen-Related Receptor α (ERRα) and ERRγ Are Essential Coordinators of Cardiac Metabolism and Function

ABSTRACT Almost all cellular functions are powered by a continuous energy supply derived from cellular metabolism. However, it is little understood how cellular energy production is coordinated with diverse energy-consuming cellular functions. Here, using the cardiac muscle system, we demonstrate that nuclear receptors estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) and ERRγ are essential transcriptional coordinators of cardiac energy production and consumption. On the one hand, ERRα and ERRγ together are vital for intact cardiomyocyte metabolism by directly controlling expression of genes important for mitochondrial functions and dynamics. On the other hand, ERRα and ERRγ influence major cardiomyocyte energy consumption functions through direct transcriptional regulation of key contraction, calcium homeostasis, and conduction genes. Mice lacking both ERRα and cardiac ERRγ develop severe bradycardia, lethal cardiomyopathy, and heart failure featuring metabolic, contractile, and conduction dysfunctions. These results illustrate that the ERR transcriptional pathway is essential to couple cellular energy metabolism with energy consumption processes in order to maintain normal cardiac function.
Building facade interpretation exploiting repetition and mixed templates

Like many natural and other man-made objects, buildings contain repeating elements. The repetition is an important cue for most applications, and can be partial, approximate or both. This paper presents a robust and accurate building facade interpretation algorithm that processes a single input image and efficiently discovers and extracts the repeating elements (e.g. windows) without any prior knowledge about their shape, intensity or structure. The method is based on locally registering certain key regions in pairs and using these matches to accumulate evidence for averaged templates. These templates are determined via the graph-theoretical concept of minimum spanning tree (MST) and via mutual information (MI). Based on the templates, the repeating elements are finally extracted from the input image. Real scene examples demonstrate the ability of the proposed algorithm to capture important high-level information about the structure of a building facade, which in turn can support further processing operations, including compression, segmentation, editing and reconstruction.
Prevalence of Hymenolepis nana in Human Beings in and Around Multan-Pakistan

The present study was conducted to examine the prevalence of Hymenolepis nana (cestoda: Hymenolepididae). A total of 936 stool samples were collected from patients, visiting Bhutta Pathology Laboratory Multan. 17 stool samples were found positive showing an overall prevalence of 1.81%. H. nana was more prevalent in male patients (2.13%) as compared to females (1.49%) and age wise prevalence showed that the parasite was only present in patients of age group 4-days to 10 years (1.91%).
Geometry of Artificial ECM: Sizes of Pores Controlling Phenotype Expression in BMP-Induced Osteogenesis and Chondrogenesis

This study aims to elucidate the feasible geometry of the scaffolds in bone and periodontal tissue engineering. Several biomaterials with different geometries are compared in terms of their patterns of ectopic BMP-induced chondrogenesis and osteogenesis. The materials include a honeycomb-shaped hydroxyapatite (HCHAP) with different tunnel sizes, a laser-perforated collagen membrane (LPM), and CPSA bioglass fibers. Implanted pellets were removed at 1-4 weeks and analyzed for bone and cartilage formation histologically and biochemically. Porous particles of hydroxyapatite (PPHAP), porous blocks of hydroxyapatite (PBHAP), and LPM did not induce detectable cartilage formation. In straight tunnel structures with various diameters in honeycomb-shaped hydroxyapatite (HCHAP), tunnels with smaller diameters (approximately 0.1 mm) induced cartilage followed by bone formation, while one with a larger diameter (0.35 mm) directly induced bone formation within the tunnels. It is concluded that the "vasculature-inducing geometry" of the carrier as an ECM is crucially important for osteogenesis.
Wrinkling Scales of Turbulent Premixed Propagating Flame Fronts Obtained From LIF-OH Imaging

A key outstanding issue with turbulent premixed flames lies in modeling the burning rate which may be related to the flame surface density if the laminar flamelet assumption applies. Although it is generally accepted that, in the flamelet regimes, higher turbulence levels increases flame wrinkling and hence its surface density, recent imaging experiments are not consistent making this a controversial issue. More measurements of flame surface density and wrinkling scales with varying turbulence levels are, therefore, needed. This paper presents images of OH made using Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) in flames propagating from rest in a chamber where a series of baffles plates and obstacles are positioned in its path. From the OH images, a twodimensional flame surface contour is interpreted along the sharply defined edge between the burnt and un-burn region of the transient flow. Using the first derivative of this contour wrinkling scale and the degree of flame front contortion can be calculated and used in a qualitative capacity for describing the instantaneous flame front structure. For this study, the effects of obstacle geometry and hence turbulence levels on the structure of a premixed flame in a rectangular explosion vessel is examined. The wrinkling scales obtained here will also be relevant in the Large Eddy Simulation of these flows.
Ozone Exposure in Vivo and Formation of Biologically Active Oxysterols in the Lung

Ozone toxicity in the lung is thought to be mediated by products derived from the reaction of ozone with components of the lung epithelial lining fluid. Cholesterol is an abundant component of this epithelial lining fluid, and it is susceptible to ozonolysis, yielding several stable products including 3β-hydroxy-5-oxo-5,6-secocholestan-6-al and 5β,6β-epoxycholesterol. Both 5β,6β-epoxycholesterol and its metabolite, cholestan-6-oxo-3,5-diol, have been shown to cause cytotoxicity in vitro, suggesting that they may be potential mediators of ozone toxicity in vivo. An ozone-sensitive mouse strain, C57BL/6J, was exposed to varying concentrations of ozone (0.5-3.0 ppm), and subsequently the levels of these cholesterol ozonolysis products were quantitated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, lavaged cells, and lung homogenate. An ozone dose-dependent formation of these biologically active oxysterols was observed in vivo, supporting a role for these compounds in ozone toxicity. Since the 5β,6β-epoxycholesterol metabolite, cholestan-6-oxo-3,5-diol, was isobaric with other cholesterol ozonolysis products, 3β-hydroxy-5-oxo-5,6-secocholestan-6-al and its aldol condensation product, 3β-hydroxy-5β-hydroxy-B-norcholestan-6β-carboxaldehyde, detailed mass spectral analysis using electron impact ionization was utilized to differentiate these isobaric cholesterol ozonolysis products. The specific detection of cholestan-6-oxo-3,5-diol in lung homogenate after ozone exposure established formation of 5β,6β-epoxycholesterol within the lung after exposure to 0.5 ppm ozone.
An on-chip temperature sensor by utilizing a MOS tunneling diode

A simple metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) tunneling diode was demonstrated for application to an integrated temperature sensor. The MOS diode equipped with a 21-/spl Aring/ oxide was biased inversely at 1.8 V to monitor its substrate temperature through gate current. The gate current increased more than 700 times when the diode was heated from 20 to 110/spl deg/C. An exponential fitting curve correlated the gate current and the substrate temperature. Moreover, characteristics of the diode were analyzed though C-V and I/sub 1.8 V/-n/sub i/ curves. The good temperature response of the MOS tunneling diode might be useful in self-diagnosis or self-protection IC applications.
Touch-less Fingerprint Recognition System

Touch-less fingerprint recognition is regarded as a viable alternative to contact-based fingerprint recognition technology. It provides a near ideal solution to the problems in terms of hygienic, maintenance and latent fingerprints. In this paper, we present a touch-less fingerprint recognition system by using a digital camera. Specifically, we address the constraints of the fingerprint images that were acquired with digital camera, such as the low contrast between the ridges and the valleys in fingerprint images, defocus and motion blurriness. The system comprises of preprocessing, feature extraction and matching stages. The proposed preprocessing stage shows the promising results in terms of segmentation, enhancement and core point detection. Feature extraction is done by Gabor filter and the favorable verification results are attained with the Support Vector Machine.
Partitionnement dans les systèmes de gestion de données parallèles. (Data Partitioning in Parallel Data Management Systems)

Au cours des dernieres annees, le volume des donnees qui sont capturees et generees a explose. Les progres des technologies informatiques, qui fournissent du stockage a bas prix et une tres forte puissance de calcul, ont permis aux organisations d'executer des analyses complexes de leurs donnees et d'en extraire des connaissances precieuses. Cette tendance a ete tres importante non seulement pour l'industrie, mais a egalement pour la science, ou les meilleures instruments et les simulations les plus complexes ont besoin d'une gestion efficace des quantites enormes de donnees.Le parallelisme est une technique fondamentale dans la gestion de donnees extremement volumineuses car il tire parti de l'utilisation simultanee de plusieurs ressources informatiques. Pour profiter du calcul parallele, nous avons besoin de techniques de partitionnement de donnees efficaces, qui sont en charge de la division de l'ensemble des donnees en plusieurs partitions et leur attribution aux nœuds de calculs. Le partitionnement de donnees est un probleme complexe, car il doit prendre en compte des questions differentes et souvent contradictoires telles que la localite des donnees, la repartition de charge et la maximisation du parallelisme.Dans cette these, nous etudions le probleme de partitionnement de donnees, en particulier dans les bases de donnees paralleles scientifiques qui sont continuellement en croissance. Nous etudions egalement ces partitionnements dans le cadre MapReduce.Dans le premier cas, nous considerons le partitionnement de tres grandes bases de donnees dans lesquelles des nouveaux elements sont ajoutes en permanence, avec pour exemple une application aux donnees astronomiques. Les approches existantes sont limitees a cause de la complexite de la charge de travail et l'ajout en continu de nouvelles donnees limitent l'utilisation d'approches traditionnelles. Nous proposons deux algorithmes de partitionnement dynamique qui attribuent les nouvelles donnees aux partitions en utilisant une technique basee sur l'affinite. Nos algorithmes permettent d'obtenir de tres bons partitionnements des donnees en un temps d'execution reduit compare aux approches traditionnelles.Nous etudions egalement comment ameliorer la performance du framework MapReduce en utilisant des techniques de partitionnement de donnees. En particulier, nous sommes interesses par le partitionnement efficient de donnees d'entree
Intraday Behavior of Stock Prices and Trades around Insider Trading

"Our evidence indicates that insiders' trades provide significant new information to market participants and they are incorporated more fully in stock prices as compared to noninsiders' trades. We find that market professionals do not front-run insiders' trades. Both insiders' purchases and sales result in significant contemporaneous and subsequent price impact, while sales by large shareholders result in a contemporaneous stock price decline that is subsequently reversed. The arrival of insider purchases reverse the prevailing negative order imbalances from third party trades and lead to piggy-backing by market professionals resulting in subsequent market purchase orders as well as stock price increases. " Copyright (c) 2010 Financial Management Association International.
Authorship Attribution with Convolutional Neural Networks and POS-Eliding

We use a convolutional neural network to perform authorship identification on a very homogeneous dataset of scientific publications. In order to investigate the effect of domain biases, we obscure words below a certain frequency threshold, retaining only their POS-tags. This procedure improves test performance due to better generalization on unseen data. Using our method, we are able to predict the authors of scientific publications in the same discipline at levels well above chance.
Inhibition of Human Subconjunctivol Fibroblost Proliferation By Immunotoxin

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On functionals satisfying a data-processing theorem

It is shown that the rate-distortion bound (R(d) \leq C) remains true when -\log x in the definition of mutual information is replaced by an arbitrary concave (\cup) nonincreasing function satisfying some technical conditions. Examples are given showing that for certain choices of the concave functions, the bounds obtained are better than the classical rate-distortion bounds.
Silicon-Based On-Chip Electrically-Tunable Spectral Shaper for Continuously Tunable Linearly Chirped Microwave Waveform Generation

A silicon-based on-chip electrically-tunable spectral shaper for the generation of a tunable linearly chirped microwave waveform (LCMW) based on spectral shaping and wavelength-to-time (SS-WTT) mapping is designed, fabricated, and demonstrated. The on-chip spectral shaper has a Michelson interferometer structure with two linearly chirped waveguide Bragg gratings (LC-WBGs) incorporated in its two arms. Due to the wavelength-dependent length difference between the two arms of the interferometer, the spectral response of the spectral shaper exhibits a wavelength-dependent free spectral range, which is required for the generation of an LCMW based on SS-WTT mapping. To enable electrical tuning of the spectral response, a lateral PN junction is introduced to each of the waveguides where the LC-WBGs are inscribed. Thanks to the plasma dispersion effect, the spectral response of the spectral shaper can be tuned by changing the bias voltages applied to the PN junctions, which would lead to the tuning of the generated LCMW. A theoretical analysis on the LCMW generation is performed, which is verified by an experiment in which an electrically-tunable spectral shaper is fabricated using a CMOS-compatible process with 248-nm deep ultraviolet lithography. By independently controlling the bias voltages to the PN junctions, a continuous tuning of the generated LCMW is demonstrated.
Petrous Carotid Exposure with Eustachian Tube Preservation: A Morphometric Elucidation

Inadvertent injury to eustachian tube leading to cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea is a known complication associated with drilling of Glasscock's triangle to expose the horizontal petrous internal carotid artery (ICA) for management of difficult tumors (especially malignant) or aneurysms at the cranial base. Contrary to the usual approach, we hypothesize that a "medial-to-lateral" approach to Glasscock's triangle drilling will minimize eustachian tube injury. Four formalin-fixed human cadaveric heads were dissected, and underwent appropriate morphometric analysis; yielding a total of eight datasets. The diameter of the horizontal petrous ICA exposed was 4.7 ± 0.9 mm (range, 3.8 to 5.6 mm). The mean distance from the medial carotid wall midpoint to the medial-most point on the eustachian tube was 6.35 ± 0.58 mm (range, 5.4 to 7.1 mm), yielding a "safety zone" for eustachian tube, ranging 0.2 to 1.9 mm lateral to the lateral carotid wall. With the medial-to-lateral approach, the eustachian tube remained preserved in all the specimens. The results of our study provide a practical, consistent, and safe method of maximizing horizontal petrous carotid artery exposure while minimizing the eustachian tube injury.
Discrimination, affect, and cancer risk factors among African Americans.

OBJECTIVES To examine whether stress or depressive symptoms mediated associations between perceived discrimination and multiple modifiable behavioral risk factors for cancer among 1363 African American adults. METHODS Nonparametric bootstrapping procedures, adjusted for sociodemographics, were used to assess mediation. RESULTS Stress and depressive symptoms each mediated associations between discrimination and current smoking, and discrimination and the total number of behavioral risk factors for cancer. Depressive symptoms also mediated the association between discrimination and overweight/obesity (p values < .05). CONCLUSIONS Discrimination may influence certain behavioral risk factors for cancer through heightened levels of stress and depressive symptoms. Interventions to reduce cancer risk may need to address experiences of discrimination, as well as the stress and depression they engender.
Successful management of super‐refractory status epilepticus with thalamic deep brain stimulation

Super‐refractory status epilepticus is a condition characterized by recurrence of status epilepticus despite use of deep general anesthesia, and it has high morbidity and mortality rates. We report a case of a 17‐year‐old boy with a prolonged super‐refractory status epilepticus that eventually resolved after commencing deep brain stimulation of the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus. Later attempt to reduce stimulation parameters resulted in immediate relapse of status epilepticus, suggesting a pivotal role of deep brain stimulation in the treatment response. Deep brain stimulation may be a treatment option in super‐refractory status epilepticus when other treatment options have failed. ANN NEUROL 2017;81:142–146
Observable Behavior for the Veri cation of Probabilistic Concurrent Processes

We propose to verify probabilistic processes by relating the observable behavior of a process (what its environment can perceive from its execution) and the notion of satisfaction of a temporal logic. We do so in a non-deterministic, timed process calculus with probabilistic choice. In addition to combine both non-deterministic and probabilistic choices, the proposed calculus allows to de ne a parametrizable notion of probabilistic eventuality. We give an operational semantics for the calculus based on the probabilistic automaton model. Such a semantics allows to interpret the observable behavior of a process as the structures upon which satisfaction is de ned in Hansson and Jonsson's PCTL.