Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Fluctuating asymmetry in the body shapes of goby fish Glossogobius giuris from Agusan River, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.

This study was led in determining the health of area in Agusan River, Butuan City, Agusan Del Norte by looking into the level of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in populations of Glossogobius giuris. Numerous studies have shown that obtaining the FA can be used to evaluate the water quality including the health of the ecosystem. In this study, G. giuris was used due to its abundance in the area. Thinplate spline (TPS) series was used for landmark analyses of each sample and were subjected to Symmetry and Asymmetry in Geometric Data (SAGE) software. Results of the Procrustes ANOVA showed that individual symmetry of L-R sides presented were not significant. However, variations in both sides of the sexes were identified to be highly significant (p < 0.0001). The results of Principal Component (PC) scores present a high percentage FA of female (71.33%) and male (93.3611%), respectively. In females, all landmark points were affected in PC 1 (47.06%) and PC2 (17.32). In males, PC 1 (60.8437%) and PC 2 (18.913%) have all landmark points affected except for PC 2, where posterior end of the nuchal spine, ventral end of lower jaw articulation, posterior end of maxilla, anterior and posterior midline of orbit, dorsal end of operculum and dorsal base of pectoral fin were not affected. This study validates the use of FA in assessing the status of the ecological health of Agusan River.
The Allolobophora sturanyi species group revisited: Integrated taxonomy and new taxa (Clitellata: Megadrili)

The Allolobophora sturanyi Rosa, 1895 species group is revisited using DNA barcoding and morphology. Barcoding results corroborated the previous treatment of the Allolobophora sturanyi subspecies and furthermore proved that the morphologically similar Allolobophora gestroides Zicsi, 1970 species belong to this species group. Elaboration of new samples from the Apuseni Mts resulted in discovery of a new subspecies A. sturanyi biharica ssp. nov. from the summit of the Bihor range, and a new species A. zicsica from the Vladeasa range similar to A. gestroides described from Northern Hungary.
Aggregate Key Searchable Encryption: A Technique for Group Data Sharing on Cloud

:- Nowadays, everyone uses cloud storage to store their data on the cloud, so that it can be access their data from anytime, anywhere via internet. Organizations also employ cloud storage to increase their revenue as well as reduced the maintenance cost of the system. However, the user doesn’t have trust on the cloud service provider as he loses control over the data. To address a problem, user encrypts their data before uploading to public cloud storage. The efficiency of selectively sharing encrypted files with the many users’ demands separates encryption keys to be used for search as well as encryption. However, the data owner requires distribute a large number of keys to users and those users need to submit a large number of keyword trapdoors to perform searches over the shared data. This requires an efficient management of encryption keys for shared data access. Hence, we propose an Aggregate Key Searchable Encryption technique to share many files with a single key. The data owner distributes a single key for sharing group of files to the user and user submits a single trapdoor to perform searches over the shared files.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the accessory parotid gland Aksesuar parotis bezinin adenoid kistik karsinomu

Accessory parotid gland is a small salivary gland tissue separated from main part of parotid gland. It is located on the masseter muscle anterior to the Stensen’s duct. Tumors of accessory parotid gland are rare. In this article, we report an unusual case of adenoid cystic carcinoma involving accessory parotid gland. The patient presented with a progressively growing mass in the middle portion of her cheek. She underwent a partial parotidectomy including both the superficial and accessory lobes. The histopathologic diagnosis was adenoid cystic carcinoma of cribriform type.
Predicting Patients’ Use of Provider-Delivered E-Health: The Role of Facilitating Conditions

This chapter presents a new rational-objective (R-O) model of e-health use that accounts for effects of facilitating conditions as well as patients’ behavioral intention. An online questionnaire measured patients’ behavioral intention to use a new e-health application as well as proxy measures of facilitating conditions that assess prior use of and structural need for health services. A second questionnaire administered three months later collected patients’ self-reported use of e-health during the intervening period. The new model increased predictions of patients’ e-health use (measured in R2) by more than 300% over predictions based upon behavioral intention alone, and all measured factors contributed significantly to prediction of use during the three-month assessment period.
SIX SIGMA AS A TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT TOOL

The ultimate goal of most companies is to make money and even more money in the future. Part of increasing profits means reducing costs, improving quality and increasing throughput. This paper describes the use of Six Sigma methodologies as a tool in achieving Total Quality Management in the manufacturing environment, with specific emphasis on power transformer manufacturing. The concepts encompassed by Six Sigma are included, their relevance explained and some early results are shared. The measure, analyse, improve and control cycle is the main emphasis of this paper. It is concluded that by adopting Six Sigma as a Total Quality Management tool, company bottom lines are improved.
From Mice to Men: An Evolutionary Conserved Breakdown of the Epidermal Calcium Gradient and Its Impact on the Cornified Envelope

In previous publications, we could establish that a hallmark of human skin aging is the breakdown of the epidermal calcium gradient. This redistribution of calcium has many implications, including a restructuring of the cornified envelope, a reduced epidermal barrier function, a change in lipid composition, a reduced skin hydration, and an increased skin pH. Especially the age-dependent change in the cornified envelope composition was solely studied in human foreskin samples. The aim of this study was to confirm that this effect is neither restricted to UV-protected skin area nor limited to a specific sex. In addition, we wanted to show that the collapse of the epidermal calcium gradient is not only a hallmark of human skin aging, but is also evolutionarily conserved in mammals. By using such techniques as IHC, Western blot analysis, and RT-PCR, we could demonstrate the following: (1) A change in the epidermal calcium gradient is in fact the most important sign of epidermal aging in mammals (as shown in female human eyelids and mouse skin samples of the external ear-shell); (2) The disturbed calcium homeostasis affects the expression and crosslinking of most cornified-envelope-specific genes such as loricrin and filaggrin. In this way, we could establish that the age-dependent altered composition of the cornified envelope is a typical sign of skin aging not only in humans, but in mice, too. This makes the mouse an important model organism to study these changes.
Resveratrol improves cognition of rats impaired by carotid artery stenosis through the cholinergic system

Evidence has suggested resveratrol has multiple biological effects, including anti-oxidative, antiinflammatory and anti-carcinogenic properties. The neuroprotective role of resveratrol has been recently reported in animal models of neurodegenerative disease including Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. However, the mechanism remains unclear. Here we present our results of resveratrol’s therapeutic effect in improving the cognition of rats with brain impaired by carotid artery stenosis. Morris water maze experiment exhibited that treatment with resveratrol can markedly recover the memory and learning ability of the rats, confirming the neuroprotective function of resveratrol. We also demonstrated that the expression of three key proteins in the rat hippocampus cholinergic system, ChAT, AChE and Vacht, was greatly reduced under carotid artery stenosis condition, but after treatment with resveratrol the expression of all three was significantly enhanced. We further showed that the mRNA levels of these 3 proteins in the rat hippocampus were dramatically reduced by carotid artery stenosis, but were significantly increased by resveratrol application. These results demonstrated that resveratrol’s neuroprotective function is probably through the cholinergic system, and suggest resveratrol can be a potential drug target for Alzheimer’s disease.
An improved approach to report creatinine-corrected analyte concentrations in urine

Abstract Traditionally, urinary analyte concentrations (UACObs) are divided by the observed urine creatinine (UCRObs) concentrations to allow for hydration correction. However, this method ignores the variability in the levels of urine creatinine due to such factors as age, gender, race/ethnicity, and others. Consequently, a method to develop a correction factor that incorporates adjustment due to most, if not all the factors that may affect urine creatinine concentrations was developed. This correction factor is applied to UCRObs to determine UCRCorr, which can then be used in place of UCRObs to compute modified creatinine-corrected analyte concentration as UACObs/UCRCorr instead of UACObs/UCRObs. For this study, data for urine creatinine from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for 2007–2010 were used to develop this correction factor to account for variability in urine creatinine due to age, race/ethnicity, gender, and body mass index. For each participant, correction factor β and its standard error for each of the 64 categories of age-race/ethnicity-gender were computed. In order to compute creatinine-corrected analyte concentration, observed analyte concentration was divided by the corrected value of observed urine creatinine whereas the corrected value of urine creatinine was the observed value minus the correction factor. Correction factor for each participant was a random number drawn from the normal distribution with mean β and standard deviation SE. The proposed methodology was applied to the 2009–2010 NHANES data for urinary 3-phenoxybenzoic acid, for 2013–2014 NHANES data for urinary cadmium and lead, and NHANES 2011–2012 data for urinary perchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate.
Rhombic alternative tableaux, assemblees of permutations, and the ASEP

In this paper, we introduce therhombic alternative tableaux, whose weight generating functions providecombinatorial formulae to compute the steady state probabilities of the two-species ASEP. In the ASEP, there aretwo species of particles, oneheavyand onelight, on a one-dimensional finite lattice with open boundaries, and theparametersα,β, andqdescribe the hopping probabilities. The rhombic alternative tableaux are enumerated by theLah numbers, which also enumerate certainassembl ees of permutations. We describe a bijection between the rhombicalternative tableaux and these assembl ees. We also provide an insertion algorithm that gives a weight generatingfunction for the assemb ees. Combined, these results give a bijective proof for the weight generating function for therhombic alternative tableaux.
Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of the Volatile Composition of the Flower and Fruit of Solanum sisymbriifolium (Litchi Tomato)

Background: Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. is used as traditional remedy in South America, recently this plant considered as new edible source. Berries and flower of S. sisymbriifolium have a characteristic fragrance. The pleasant fragrance of the S. sisymbriifolium could be considered as a source of food additive or preservative. Methods: The essential oils of the flower and fruit of S. sisymbriifolium Lam. (litchi tomato) were isolated by hydrodistillation method and tested for antibacterial and antioxidant potentials also these volatile oils analyzed by the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (GC-FID). The antimicrobial activity of the essential oils of fruits and flowers were tested against Staphylococcus aureus using the well diffusion method and their free-radical-scavenging activity were assessed by the 2, 2-diphenyl-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) assay. Results: The essential oil of flower was characterized by a high content of aldehydes and aliphatic hydrocarbons (66.8%) and the essential oil of the fruit has high amount of fatty acids and their derivatives (80.1%). Heptadecane (37.9 %) and 9,12,15-octadecatrienal (22.7%) were the main compounds in flower whereas the fruits essential oil contained hexadecanoic acid (77.4%) and ambrettolide (7.4%). The essential oils showed antibacterial activity against S. aureus in 60 and 80 µg/mL for fruit and flower, respectively. In antioxidant activity assay fruit essential oil (with100 µg/mL) showed better activity in compression to flower essential oil with 83.33% activity. Conclusion: This study showed that litchi tomato can be considered as a new source of edible compounds. Flower showed suitable antioxidant and antibacterial activity. This study also can be present an overview about chemical marker compounds of Solanum genus.
Home 2006 Team Description

This paper describes how the scientific advances of the AllemaniACs soccer team can be applied for the 2006 AllemaniACs@Home challenge. In contrast to the team description paper for the AllemaniACs Mid-Size team, we focus on the low-level robot control software which allows us to use the same robots and software in the @Home
Antimutagenic effect of Kenyan Tea cultivars in a bacterial test system

The antimutagenic effects of the aqueous tea extracts from Kenyan black, green and purple cultivars were evaluated by the Ames test using Salmonella typhimurium tester strains TA 1538. Results obtained showed that tea had no toxicity or mutagenic activity at a concentration of 20% (w/v) unlike the mutagen sodium azide. However, using the formulae, percentage inhibition = [1-T/M] ×100 where T is number of revertants per plate in presence of mutagen and test sample and M is number of revertants per plate in positive control, tea extracts had a significant (P
Impact of Mobility on Physical Layer Security Over Wireless Fading Channels

Wireless physical layer security has attracted great attention in recent years. Although mobility is an intrinsic property of wireless networks, most of the existing works only consider static scenarios and the impact of mobility on wireless physical layer security is not well understood. To fill this gap, in this paper, we investigate physical layer security in the scenario with a random mobile receiver under Rayleigh fading channel. We consider a common scenario where a base station or access point communicates to a random mobile receiver with a passive eavesdropper in a circular region. The secrecy performances under three typical random mobility models are studied: random waypoint model (RWP); random direction model (RD); and border move model. We investigate the secrecy characteristics of the mobile user under steady-state running and provide a general analytical framework for computing the ergodic secrecy capacity. We derive tractable closed-form expressions of positive secrecy capacity probability and secrecy outage probability for RWP and RD mobility users, respectively. By comparing the secrecy performance of mobility with static case, we find that the RWP mobile user can achieve much better secrecy performance than the others. We then investigate the secrecy performance of RWP mobile user with pause time. Furthermore, the two types of secrecy improvement strategies for random mobile users are proposed. In the first strategy, a transmit subcell for RWP users is bounded. We allow the transmitter to communicate with the mobile user only when he is moving within the subcell. In the other strategy, the transmitter is turned on only when the evaluated secrecy performance reaches to a required level. We strike a good trade-off between the secrecy improvements and transmit outage probability. Extensive simulation results validate our theoretical analysis. Finally, we extend our framework to other realistic scenarios, including nodes moving in other shapes of areas, and multiple non-cooperative and cooperative eavesdroppers.
FraMoTEC : Modular Task-Environment Construction Framework for Evaluating Adaptive Control Systems

While evaluation of specialized tools can be restricted to the task they were designed to perform, evaluation of more general abilities and adaptation requires testing across a large range of tasks. To be helpful in the development of general AI systems, tests should not just evaluate performance at a certain point in time, but also facilitate the measurement of knowledge acquisition, cognitive growth, lifelong learning, and transfer learning. No framework as of yet offers easy modular composition and scaling of task-environments for this purpose, where a wide range of tasks with variations can quickly be constructed, administered, and compared. In this paper we present a new framework in development that allows modular construction of physical task-environments for evaluating intelligent control systems. Our prototask theory on which the framework is built aims for a deeper understanding of tasks in general, with a future goal of providing a theoretical foundation for all resource-bounded real-world tasks. The tasks discussed here that can currently be constructed in the framework are rooted in physics, allowing us to analyze the performance of control systems in terms of expended time and energy.
First record of Hydrogonium gregarium (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) in Russia: an interesting extension of the species’ distribution to the heart of the permafrost zone

Hydrogonium gregarium (Mitt.) Jan Kucera, previously known from Southeast Asia, Japan, and scattered occurrences in Pacific North America south to Mexico, is reported for the first time in Russia from the central part of Yakutia at the western foothills of the Verkhoyansk Range. Both morphology and nuclear ITS sequence data confirm its identity with H. gregarium var. gregarium. The species is described and illustrated, and its habitat is briefly discussed.
PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF OBJECT ACQUISITION USING AUTOMATIC SCANNING AND FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING

This paper presents a comparison of object acquisition in an HCI system using two different techniques: automatic scanning and facial feature tracking. In automatic scanning the focus moves from one object to next object automatically after a predefined time period called scanning time. Automatic scanning has been implemented by using MATLAB algorithm which virtually activates the tab key after each scanning time and the focus moves from object to object. The user activates a selection trigger for selection of the object when the focus comes over the object of interest. Whereas, in facial feature tracking approach the mouse cursor is moved in proportion to the movement of user’s face. To implement this technique Camera Mouse has been used which requires a simple webcam. It continuously takes facial images of the user and finds the mouse cursor position from the face coordinates. The two techniques are compared based upon accuracy and acquisition time for acquisition of text and graphic objects.
Determinants and Prevalence of Stunting among Rural Kavreli Pre-School Children

Background: The hyperglycemic population in pregnancy consists of two main cohortssubjects with onset or first recognition during pregnancy (Gestational diabetes mellitus -GDM) and subjects with preexisting history of diabetes mellitus. The prevalence of GDM has been steadily increasing with the rise of obesity and unhealthy life style reaching up to 14 % annually in many countries including the United States. Hyperglycemia from any cause can seriously affect both mother and baby and increases the risk of complications during pregnancy, labor and after delivery. Aim: We aimed to study any baseline obstetric history differences as well as labor outcomes and neonatal characteristics between the two groups, Group Aimpaired glucose tolerance and recent diagnosis of pregnancy induced diabetes mellitus ( n=240), and, Group Bknown history of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus and already on medication (n=240). Methods: This is a prospective, open label, double arm, observational, longitudinal registry study. The registry was launched with immediate effect in December 2012 and recruitment of subjects continued until January 2014. After fulfilling the inclusion criteria, a total of 480 subjects comprising two equal groups (Group A with a known history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and Group B with GDM) were recruited; their obstetric history captured and they were followed up on a regular basis till delivery. Mode of delivery and neonatal status especially APGAR status at birth, 5 minutes and 10 minutes were closely monitored and captured using an eCRF by the study physicians. Results: Statistical analysis revealed a significant difference in the obstetric history-parity (p=0.000), previous abortion history (p=0.007), previous caesarean sections (p= 0.000) and type of delivery (vaginal, caesarean, vacuum (p value= 0.000, 0.000 and 0.006 respectively) while there were no statistically significant variations amongst the neonatal statuses except for higher birth weight (p=0.02) and neonatal complications (p=0.033). Conclusion: Hyperglycemia with pregnancy is a steadily increasing problem that can seriously affect both mother and baby as shown in the present study, however, the present study did not show any significant differences in the weeks of delivery (preterm vs term). Also, the present study revealed more congenital heart problems, especially septal defects, among offspring of mothers with overt type 2 DM due to the chronicity of hyperglycemia compared with offspring of mothers with gestational diabetes.
Systematic Liquidity Risk and Stock Price Reaction to Shocks: Evidence from London Stock Exchange

This study examines the relationship between systematic liquidity risk and stock price reaction to large one-day price changes (or shocks). We base our analysis on 642 constituents of the FTSEALL share index. Our overall results are consistent with Brown et al.’s (1988) uncertain information hypothesis. However, further analysis suggests that stocks with low systematic risk react efficiently to shocks of different signs and magnitudes whereas stocks with high systematic liquidity risk overreact to negative shocks and underreact to positive shocks. Thus, trading on price patterns following shocks may not be profitable, as it involves taking substantial systematic liquidity risk.