Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FIRST RECORD OF A BOMBYX MORI NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS

The Mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori) number of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and microsporidia (Jiang and Xia, 2014, RameshThese diseases are known to occur in almost all the silkworm rearing areas of the world causing considerable damage t silkworm cocoon breeding. The nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) is the most har the sericulture industry, often causing severe economic losses (Khurad et al, 2004, Ponnuvel et al., 2003, Ramesh Babu 2009). Baculoviruses are viruses/pathogens that produce typically fatal infections in insects and other arthropods. are members of the Baculoviridae family constituted by a large double-stranded covalently closed circular DNA genome (Herniou et al, 2011). More than 700 baculoviruses have been isolated from invertebrates and reported in the literature.
Modeling and optimization of process variables of wire-cut electric discharge machining of super alloy

This paper presents the behavior of Udimet-L605 after wire electric discharge machining and evaluating the WEDM process using sophisticated machine learning approaches. The experimental work is depicted on the basis of Taguchi orthogonal L27 array, considering six input variables and three interactions. Three models such as support vector machine algorithms based on PUK kernel, non-linear regression and multi-linear regression have been proposed to examine the variance between experimental and predicted outcome and preferred the preeminent model based on its evaluation parameters performance and graph analysis. The grey relational analysis is the relevant approach to obtain the best grouping of input variables for maximummaterial removal rate and minimum surface roughness. Based on statistical analysis, it has been concluded that pulse-on time, interaction between pulse-on time x pulse-off time, spark-gap voltage and wire tension are the momentous variable for surface roughness while the pulseon time, spark-gap voltage and pulse-off time are the momentous variables for material removal rate. The micro structural and compositional changes on the surface of work material were examined by means of SEM and EDX analysis. The thickness of the white layer and the recast layer formation increases with increases in the pulse-on time duration. 2016 Karabuk University. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
THE ARTICULATORY REALITY OF CORONAL STOP ' DELETION ' Ruaridh Purse

Coronal Stop Deletion has been the subject of sociolinguistic inquiry in several varieties of English, and has enjoyed a special place in the pantheon of variable linguistic phenomena since its first description in [6]. Robust morphological conditioning (more deletion in monomorphemes like pact, than with -ed suffixes like in packed) suggests a phonological rather than phonetic character. However, the presumption of a categorical, structure-preserving, deletion process is largely an artifact of the articulatory-acoustic relation in stop consonants; anything less than full closure is not perceived as a stop. I present Electromagnetic Articulography results from the speech of several native speakers of American English, finding that deletion without residual tongue tip raising is rare, but some individuals produce articulatory categories that correlate non-deterministically with perceived deletion. Further, the investigation of a gradient measure for degree of tongue tip raising reveals systematic effects of articulatory interval duration, task, and morphological class.
Data Popularity - Aware Replication Strategy For Cloud Storage

Replication is one of the important roles in cloud storage to improve data availability, fault tolerance and throughput for users and control storage cost. As data access pattern changes every time, the nature of popular files is unpredictable and unstable. Therefore, data popularity is taken into account as an important factor in replication. Data popularity in replication impacts an efficient storage because it is able to reduce waste storage for unpopular files. Also, data locality is a key issue in storage system and this consequence occurs performance overhead of system. Therefore, this paper introduces a replication strategy for cloud storage. The proposed strategy contains two portions; replica popularity and replica placement. First for replica popularity, popularity is taken into account by analyzing the changes in data access pattern. Second for replica placement, replicas are placed and performed on dedicated assigned nodes in order to enhance data locality. The proposed placement algorithm is able to avoid the overloaded problem of nodes by considering the load of nodes such as disk utilization, adjustable disk bandwidth and CPU utilization. This proposed strategy will be efficient for cloud storage.
The Novel Study of IMODTM against HIV-1, P24 production

1 Cell biology department, science faculty, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran 2 Applied biotechnology research center, Baqiyatallah medical Science University, Tehran, Iran Shiraz HIV/AIDS Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran Applied virus and vaccine research center, Baqiyatallah medical Science University, Tehran, Iran Islamic Azad University, central Tehran Branch, Young Researchers club, Tehran, Iran
Growing up with a Chronic Disease: The Impact on Children and Their Families

Preface and Overview. 1. Chronic Disease: The Nature of the Challenge. 2. Chronic Disease in Infancy. 3. The Importance of School for Normal Development. 4. 'Storm and Stress': The Impact of Chronic Disease During Adolescence. 5. Concepts of Stress and Coping. 6. Mothers and Fathers. 7. Impact of Chronic Disease on Parents and Their Relationships with Their Children. 8. Consequences of Parenting Styles for Childrens' Adjustment to Treatment. 9. The Impact of Chronic Disease on Sibling Relationships. 10. Towards a Comprehensive System of Care for Children with Chronic Disease.
Determinants of Farmers ' Willingness to Pay for Attributes of Improved Variety Maize Seed in Western Mid-Hills of Nepal

Development of open pollinated improved varieties and make them available for seed multiplication and distribution among maize growers is the important interventi-on made by public sector maize research program in Nepal. Twenty improved maize varieties has been developed and most of them carry farmer preferred attributes for different agro ecological conditions. However, the coverage of such varieties is still low. This is mostly due to less focus on multiplication and marketing of improved variety maize seed with proper pricing strategy based on farmer’s willingness to pay. Questionnaire survey was conducted among two hundred households selected through purposive random sampling in western mid hills of Nepal to assess the determinants of farmer’s willingness to pay and their preferred attributes for improved variety maize seed. Secondary data also used and focus group discussions were carried out as required. Farmers ranking of seven promising varieties was carried out based on their preferred attributes. Contingent valuation method with five price bands was used to estimate the farmer’s willingness to pay for improved variety maize seed. The Tobit regression model was employed with dependent variable, farmer’s willingness to pay for improved variety maize seed to determine the effects of explanatory variables. The result showed that educational level of the household head, cultivated land holding size, availability of agriculture training, frequency of contact with extension agent and awareness about market price of product were positively and significantly contributing to the probability of willingness to pay whereas, availability of farm worker i.e. number of economically active household member and distance from nearest road head has negative effect. The major implication of this study is to design the policy and programs for the development of new improved varieties of maize with aggressive and farmer friendly marketing strategy, together with private sector involvement to reap the benefits of improved maize varieties, and get return on research investment. Farmer’s willingness to pay showed that there is enough room for private seed enterprises participation if proper marketing strategy is employed to promote improved variety maize seed among growers. However, there is still need to develop nonprofit community based seed production and distribution system and at the same time provide price subsidy to reach maize growers with improved variety maize quality seed characterizing, small holders, residing in remote areas, low level of education, sporadic extension contacts and untrained in modern agriculture production system. Efforts are also needed to enhance farmer’s willingness to pay through promotion of positively contributing variables.
Barriers and opportunities to oral health in Dutch-Moroccan children in the Netherlands : a narrative report

Introduction Previous studies showed that 5-year-old Dutch-Moroccan children had significantly higher dmft scores compared to Dutch children of the same age, even after correction for socio-economic status. The mechanisms underlying this difference are little understood. Aim To explore cultural factors involved in poorer oral health of Dutch-Moroccan children by identifying knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of their mothers concerning their children’s oral health. Methods In 2012 mothers of Dutch-Moroccan preschool children in two cities in the Netherlands were interviewed in two focus groups (n = 16) or individual semi-structured interviews (n = 13). Semi structured interviews were also c onducted with three oral health professionals, working with Dutch-Moroccan children, and one physician from an under-five-clinic. All interviews were voice recorded, transcribed and inductively coded. MAXQDA software was used for data analysis. Results All mothers mentioned pain complaints, swelling and black front teeth as oral health problems in their children. Although mothers were aware that brushing teeth and reducing sugary snacks are effective preventative strategies, they did not sufficiently implement these measures. This was due to lack of brushing skills, insufficient awareness of the daily sugar intake of their children and their childrearing concerning these measures. Most mothers indicated they felt empowered in making dental care decisions. Conclusions This research revealed the presence of knowledge on preventive strategies regarding their children’s oral health in Dutch-Moroccan mothers, but an inadequate implementation of these measures in their daily lives. Additional qualitative research is needed to gain deeper insight for broader exposure of values, knowledge and culture.
Managerial Response to Macroeconomic Uncertainty: Implications for Firm Profitability

This paper examines how agents’ response to macroeconomic uncertainty affects firms’ revenues, expenses, and profitability in a global sample of firms spanning 1997 to 2018. Consistent with consumers reducing purchases and managers cutting costs, I find that increases in macroeconomic uncertainty lead to both lower revenues and lower expenses. The net short-term effect on profitability is positive as the reduction in expenses exceeds the fall in revenues. This favorable profitability effect is attenuated for firms whose institutional environment restrains cost-cutting, holds for both the cash and accrual components of earnings, and is robust to instrumental variable estimation employing exogenous variation in macroeconomic uncertainty arising from natural disasters, political unrest, revolutions, and terrorist attacks.
E 97 , 022801 ( 2018 ) Triple-line kinetics for solid films

We present a derivation of the triple-line kinetic boundary conditions for a solid film in contact with a solid substrate for both nonconserved (evaporation-condensation) and conserved (surface diffusion) dynamics. The result is obtained via a matched asymptotic expansion from a mesoscopic model with a thickness-dependent wetting potential (or disjoining pressure) and mobility. In the nonconserved case, we obtain a single boundary condition, which relates the triple-line velocity with the deviation of the contact angle from its equilibrium value. In the conserved case, two kinetic boundary conditions are needed. They relate the velocity and mass flux at the triple line to the contact angle deviation and discontinuity of the chemical potential. These linear relations are described by three kinetic coefficients. The conditions under which the kinetic coefficients remain finite are obtained. We find, for example, that some kinetic coefficients diverge within the conserved model in the presence of van der Waals interaction.
Experimental Analysis of Boundary Approximation Models

A human eye can differentiate between various objects by viewing at their shape, color and other features. To add this knowledge to the system we implement techniques for approximating boundary of a given object. The advantage of this boundary representation is that the compactness of the image is increased which helps in effective memory utilization. Boundary representation has various applications in the robotic vision system, in catastrophic collisions interpretation between geological tectonic plates, in performing various geometrical transformations, curve fitting, face recognition, detecting object in image and video, surface area calculation and many more. However, shape representation and description is a difficult task. Problem becomes more complex when shape or image is often corrupted with noise and other defects. Different boundary representation techniques are studied to understand boundary approximation of a given symmetric or non symmetric object. In this paper three selected methods-chain codes, signature method and splitting method have been implemented with different parametric variations and modifications for boundary approximation of a given symmetric or non symmetric object. The chain code of the surface boundary obtained has been compressed for effective memory utilization and time constraints. An important widely used boundary representation model called signature method has been experimentally analyzed for understanding the effect of boundary approximation with least number of reference points. A model has also been developed which uses the splitting method to approximate the boundary. This model has been modified to understand the effect of outcome on the number of selected reference points. Keywords— Canny edge detection; chain codes; dilation; erosion; morphology; signature method.
Power Oscillation Damping from OffshoreWind Farms Connected to HVDC via Diode Rectifiers

Diode rectifiers (DRs) have elicited increasing interest from both industry and academiaas a feasible alternative for connecting offshore wind farms (OWFs) to HVDC networks. However,before such technology is deployed, more studies are needed to assess the actual capabilities ofDR-connected OWFs to contribute to the secure operation of the networks linked to them. This studyassessed the capability of such an OWF to provide support to an onshore AC network by means of(active) power oscillation damping (POD). A semi-aggregated OWF representation was considered inorder to examine the dynamics of each grid-forming wind turbine (WT) within a string whenproviding POD, while achieving reasonable simulation times. Simulation results corroboratethat such an OWF can provide POD by means of OWF active power controls similar to thosedeveloped for OWFs connected to HVDC via voltage source converters, while its grid-forming WTsshare the reactive power consumption/production and keep the offshore voltage frequency andmagnitude within their normal operating ranges. Open-loop test results show that such capabilitycan, however, be restricted at operating points corresponding to the lowest and highest values ofactive power output.
Design and Implementation of Z Source Sparse Matrix Converter for Variable Frequency Drives

This paper presents a novel Z-source sparse matrix converter (ZSMC) for variable frequency drives. The structure of a Sparse Matrix Converter (SMC) reduces the number of unipolar power semiconductor switches. But the innate limitation of SMC is the low voltage transfer ratio of conventional matrix converters. Hence, the ZSMC is developed that employs a Z-source network with SMC to boost up the voltage. Even though the ZSMC is a two-stage converter, it directly connects between a source and a load through a Z-source network. S ince the only purpose of Z source network is voltage boosting, ZSMC has been designed to have smaller passive components. Therefore, the output of the ZSMC is directly affected by disturbances of the input-voltage source. The circuit diagram of Z-Source Sparse matrix converter has been simulated using MATLAB/SIMULINK to verify its
1 Interrupt Processing in Concurrent Processors

The taxonomy of interrupt processing strategies has several possible uses. One is to help processor designers systematically explore their options when designing an interrupt processing system, or to help researchers compare interrupt processing strategies and determine their similarities and differences. However, for those readers who don’t fit into the two previous categories this taxonomy can serve as an overview of the way interrupts can be implemented, with references provided in case the reader wishes to gain a more detailed understanding of a particular interrupt processing strategy.
Effects of Lactobacillus salivarius on oral cancer cell proliferation and apoptosis in vitro

Article history: Received: 20 December 2015 Accepted in revised form: 11 February 2016 ABSTRACT Oral cancer is a serious and growing problem in many parts of the world. Probiotic was suggested as a prophylactic measure in many cancers including oral cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible inhibitory mechanism of Lactobacillus Salivarius Ren on oral cancer cells (TCA-8113). The effect of L. Salivarius Ren on cell proliferation, apoptosis, Expression of COX-2 were also assessed. The results showed that L. Salivarius Ren suppressed cellular proliferation accompanied by enhanced apoptosis, down regulated the COX-2 mRNA levels and protein expression significantly. The results from this study suggest that L. Salivarius Ren exhibits a marked antitumor effect. One of the antitumor mechanisms of L. Salivarius Ren may be that its inhibition of COX-2 led to reduced proliferation and induction of apoptosis.
H2@BUCC18: Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings

This paper presents our solution for the BUCC 2018 Shared Task on parallel sentence extraction from comparable corpora. Our system identiﬁes parallel sentence pairs in French-English corpora by following a hybrid approach pairing multilingual sentence-level embed-dings, neural machine translation, and supervised classiﬁcation. Our system consists of a two-step process. In the ﬁrst step, to reduce the size and the noise of the candidate sentence pairs, we ﬁlter the target translation candidates using the continuous vector representation of each source-target sentence pair learned using a bilingual distributed representation model. Then we select the best translation using a neural machine translation system or a binary classiﬁcation model. We achieve an F 1 -score of up to 75.2 and 76.0 on the BUCC18 train and test sets respectively.
Adult Sex Ratios and Sex-selective Abortion in China

Using China census data from 1990, this paper presents empirical evidence for the hypothesis that adult sex ratios affect propensities to engage in sex-selective abortion through a negative feedback process. The hypothesized mechanism is that parents will adopt a mixed strategy and adjust the degree to which they invest in either sex in response to imbalances in the adult sex ratio so as to maximize their own reproductive fitness. Parents living in areas with a low adult sex ratio should demonstrate a high propensity to engage in sex-selective abortion for a son, and parents living in areas with a high adult sex ratio should demonstrate a low propensity to engage in sex-selective abortion for a son, or even to sex-selectively abort for a daughter. Separate analyses were performed for all first, second, and third order births, as well as additional analyses where the sex composition of previous births was taken into account. No significant relationship was found for first order births, but a large and statistically significant effect was found for second order and third order births. This relationship was also dependent upon the sex composition of earlier births, and the relationship was found to be strongest for those mothers who had previously given birth to sons. The results suggest an interaction between cultural preferences, economic utility-maximizing behaviour, and a desire to maximize reproductive fitness.
Moment or Momentum ? An Empirical Study on Users ’ Continuous Participation in Online Weight-loss Communities

Lu (Lucy) Yan ∙ Yong Tan {yanlucy@indiana.edu ∙ ytan@uw.edu} _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Patient-centric online platforms for seeking peer support and engaging in health activities become increasingly popular among patients. Although online healthcare communities are found to be helpful, the effectiveness of such communities in improving patients’ long-term health management has been overlooked. In this study, we examine users’ continuous participation in online healthcare communities, which is particularly important for those with chronic conditions. Through analyzing users’ activities in a weight-loss community over a 3-year period, we find that those who continuously participate are more likely to self-monitor their lifestyle, which implies that online healthcare communities are an effective means for patients’ lifelong disease management. Our analysis results also show that, although users are attracted to the massive amounts of information available in online communities, it is the opportunity to participate in behavior change that leads to their continuous participation. Surprisingly, our results indicate that the exchange of social support among users is not effective in ensuring their continuous participation, a finding that is different from that of prior studies on the short-term effect of social support. Because users need to actively engage in health behaviors to derive long-term benefits, and online healthcare communities need to have enough social resources to be sustainable, our findings are useful for both users with chronic conditions and service providers.
Investigating the Variability of Voice Quality and Pain Levels as a Function of Multiple Clinical Parameters

Pain is an internal construct with vocal manifestation that varies as a function of personal and clinical attributes. Understanding the vocal indicators of pain-levels is important in providing an objective analytic in clinical assessment and intervention. In this work, we focus on investigating the variability of voice quality as a function of multiple clinical parameters at different pain-levels, specifically for emergency room patients during triage. Their pain-induced pathological voice quality characteristics are naturally affected by an individual attributes such as age, gender and pain-sites. We conduct a detailed multivariate statistical analysis on a 181 unique patient’s vocal quality using recordings of real triage sessions. Our analysis show several important insights, 1) voice quality only varies statistically with pain-levels when interacting effect from other clinical parameters is considered, 2) senior group shows a higher value of voicing probability and shimmer when experiencing severe pain, 3) patients with abdomen pain have a lower jitter and shimmer during severe pain that is different from patients experiencing musculoskeletal pathology, and 4) there could be a relationship between the variation in the voice quality and the neural pathway of pain as evident by interacting with the pain-site factor.