Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
RUNNING TITLE : Role of T 6 P / SnRK 1 in Salt Stressed Maize

1 2 3 4 5 RUNNING TITLE: Role of T6P/SnRK1 in Salt Stressed Maize 6 7 8 9 10 ADDRESS: 11 12 Name: L. Mark Lagrimini 13 Address: Department of Agronomy & Horticulture 14 University of Nebraska-Lincoln 15 377I Plant Science 16 Lincoln, NE 68583-0915 17 Telephone: 402-472-6585 18 E-Mail: mlagrimini2@unl.edu 19 20 21 22 23 RESEARCH AREA: Biochemistry and metabolism 24 25 Plant Physiology Preview. Published on August 12, 2015, as DOI:10.1104/pp.15. 00729
Technology of the Self and Classroom Management—A Systematic Approach for Teacher Students

In order to reduce the relatively high burden of teaching profession and to improve teachers’ skills in their interactions with students, a systematic introduction to Technologies of the Self and a continuous training of their use should be established in Teacher Education. We explored whether students in Teacher Education classify rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) as a useful Technology of the Self. We taught the basics of REBT in a university setting in addition to the traditional contents of Classroom Management research. Using a repeated-measures design, we explored the results of implementing Classroom Management research including a continuous and systematic teaching and training of a Technology of the Self that was based on REBT (N = 110 teacher students). We assessed varying degrees of realism in teaching (low, medium, high, control). The students evaluated the courses before (T1) and after taking them (T2) regarding their usefulness for teaching profession. The trainees also evaluated the usefulness of the course content 6 months after the course was finished (T3). The results show that applying a systematic Technology of the Self such as REBT and its affiliated rational emotive education (REE) is quite necessary and should be given high priority in teaching Classroom Management (CM).
APLICAÇÃO DA TECNOLOGIA DE IDENTIFICAÇÃO POR RÁDIOFREQÜÊNCIA (RFID) PARA CONTROLE DE BENS PATRIMONIAIS PELA WEB

Este artigo mostra o que vem a ser a tecnologia RFID, isto e, seus componentes, forma de funcionamento, aplicacoes e vantagens desta tecnologia. Muitas sao as aplicacoes da tecnologia RFID e algumas destas aplicacoes serao discutidas neste trabalho para que se tenha uma compreensao desta tecnologia. Alem disso, sera mostrado um caso de estudo da Embrapa Informatica Agropecuaria, que usa esta tecnologia para controle de bens patrimoniais.
Universidad y valor: escalas para medir el valor percibido por el alumno universitario

Las universidades publicas espanolas deben buscar nuevos caminos para conseguir una ventaja competitiva que les permita sobrevivir en el nuevo entorno que se le presenta. En este sentido, en los ultimos anos, gran parte de los investigadores han coincidido al senalar que una de las principales fuentes de ventaja competitiva es la creacion de un valor superior para el cliente. Por este motivo, continuando con el campo de investigacion que denominamos genericamente universidad y valor en el que nos encontramos trabajando, hemos querido profundizar en el estudio del valor percibido por los estudiantes, del servicio que le ofrece la universidad a nivel departamental. Asi, nos hemos centrado en adaptar una de las escalas existentes para medir el valor percibido, siviendo dicha escala adaptada, junto con los resultados de tecnicas cualitativas, para permitirnos extraer toda una serie de variables que influyen sobre el valor percibido por el estudiante universitario.
Embryonic Study Of Tracheo-Esophageal Region During Embryonic Development In Chick Embryo . ( Gallus Deomesticus L . )

The aim of this study was to investigate the separation of the trachea-esophageal region (TE) in the chick embryos (Gallus domesticus L.). TE development was followed between stage (14) to stage (19) of Hamburger and Hamilton (H&H). Many debates were found in recent researches as attempts to fill the gaps to complete knowledge about the mechanisms involved during the earlier stages of tracheaesophageal formation.The present deals with the histogenesis of TE region in chick embryos. The histological study revealed different developmental morphology of the pharyngeal lumen in the serial transverse sections. The histological results also demonstrated lateral compression of the wide lumen of the pharynx that is probably produced by the massive bilateral sclerotomal development accompanied by deviation of the anterior cardinal veins and the fusion of dorsal aorta
Biomass production and ion composition of some halophytes irrigated with different seawater dilutions

Halophytic plant species have different degrees of tolerance to salinity, the aim of our study is to investigate a number of Moroccan and acclimated halophytes in relation to their potential to be utilised as cash crops in areas affected by salinity or to be irrigated with seawater in coastal areas, and to determine the level of salinity tolerance of these plants. A quick check system was developed in IAV Hassan II (Agadir) for the selection of promising plants with adequate salt tolerance. In our study plants belonging to different families: Avicennia germinans (Avicenniaceae); Aster tripolium (Asteraceae); Batis maritima (Batidaceae); Limoniastrum multiflorum (Plumbaginaceae); Rottboellia fasciculata (Poaceae); Sesuvium verrucosum; Sesuvium portulacastrum (Aizoaceae) and Spartina alterniflora (Poaceae) were grown in the quick check system under greenhouse conditions and watered with 5 seawater concentrations (0% (control), 25%; 50%; 75% and 100% seawater) obtained by diluting seawater with tap water. Plants survived in all treatments, growth and biomass production were enhanced in most species by low salinity and differed from one species to another at high salinity. However signs of growth inhibition were noticed at high seawater concentrations. The ash content of plants varied with the species; it ranged from below 10% in the excluders (shoots of A. germinans, S. alterniflora, R. fasciculata and L. multiflorum) to over 40% in the includers (shoots of A. tripolium, B. maritima and the 2 Sesuvium) which accumulated high mineral levels. Inorganic matter increased with the increase of salinity up to a certain concentration depending on the species. Na and Cl were the dominant ions and their concentrations increased with the increase of seawater concentration while K concentration decreased.
Invasive Fungal Sinusitis Due to Scedosporium apiospermum in a Patient with AIDS

Gram staining of the fluid did not demonstrate any organisms. Culture of the fluid yielded Salmonella typhimurium . H e was treated with intravenous fluids, thiamine, diuretics, and amoxicillin/clavulanate but died on day 11. We reviewed the medical literature (irrespective of language) from 1983 to 1997 with use of MEDLINE for cases of PBP and extended the search to other referenced articles. Eligible cases had both culture of peritoneal fluid that yielded nonenteric salmonella and a clinical diagnosis of PBP with no evidence for a perforated viscus. We found 17 cases of PBP due to nonenteric salmonellae in addition to our two cases [3‐10] (table 1). Most patients had preexisting conditions, often associated with ascites, and presented with nonspecific symptoms. On the other hand, three of the patients had no known antecedent health problems: patient 1 in this report and the patients described by Laurens et al. [7] and Oliver et al. [10]. All three of these patients presented with acute abdominal emergencies, had preoperative diagnoses of acute appendicitis, and had a correct diagnosis of PBP only when pus was noted, and a perforated viscus was excluded, during laparotomy. The six deaths occurred in patients with disseminated gastric carcinoma, congestive heart failure with alcoholism, chronic active hepatitis with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematosus, and alcoholic cirrhosis (two cases). The age range for these patients was 27‐71 years (mean, 52 years; median, 57 years). Two of them were infected with Salmonella arizonae. There were no reported systematic differences in the management of fatal cases. Some of the patients who died did not undergo early diagnostic paracentesis despite presenting with ascites, abdominal pain, or constitutional symptoms. None of the cases in this review occurred as part of recognized outbreaks of salmonella infection. Both presentation and outcome of the three cases of salmonella PBP in previously healthy people were different. These patients
Crowds Revisited : Practically Effective Predecessor Attack

Crowds is a peer-to-peer system for protecting users’ anonymity for web transactions. One of the more serious disadvantages of it is the degree of anonymity provided with respect to the colluding system members: the one who forwards a message to a colluding node is more likely to be the originator of the message than any other member in the system. Furthermore, with the system size growth, the probability that the request came from the initiator of the communication becomes more likely. In this paper we want to assess to which degree Crowds is applicable despite these weaknesses. To this end, we calculate the needed number of observations for colluding members in order to determine with arbitrary precision how often some users communicate with an external service. An additional question that will be addressed is the possibility to hamper this degradation of the provided anonymity level by a method for adaptive behavior of honest members.
On the role of numerical dissipation in stabilising under-resolved turbulent simulations using discontinuous Galerkin methods

We analyse numerical errors (dissipation and dispersion) introduced by the discretisation of inviscid and viscous terms in energy stable discontinuous Galerkin methods. First, we analyse these methods using a linear von Neumann analysis (for a linear advection-diffusion equation) to characterise their properties in wave-number space. Second, we validate these observations using the 3D Taylor-Green Vortex Navier-Stokes problem to assess transitional/turbulent flows. We show that the dissipation introduced by upwind Riemann solvers affects primarily high wave-numbers. This dissipation may be increased, through a penalty parameter, until a critical value. However, further augmentation of this parameter leads to a decrease of dissipation, reaching zero for very large values. Regarding the dissipation introduced by second order derivatives, we show that this dissipa- tion acts at low and medium wave-numbers (lower wave-numbers compared to upwind Riemann solvers). In addition, we analyse the Spectral Vanishing Viscosity (SVV) technique, previously used in continuous discretisations (e.g. Fourier), to find that with an appropriate kernel (which damps selected modes) it is possible to control the amount of dissipation introduced in the low and medium wave-number range. Combining these ideas, we finally propose a DG-SVV approach that uses a Smagorinsky model to compute the numerical viscosity. This DG-SVV approach is tested in an isotropic laminar/turbulent under-resolved scenario. Combining the SVV technique with a low dissipation Riemann solver, we obtain a scheme capable of maintaining low dissipation levels for laminar flows, whilst providing the correct dissipation for all wave-number ranges in turbulent regimes.
Janne Kokkala Quantum computing with itinerant microwave photons

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Ferroelectrics Study at Microwaves

Dielectric materials are of interest for various fields of microwave engineering. They are widely investigated for numerous applications in electronic components such as dielectric resonators, dielectric substrates, decoupling capacitors, absorbent materials, phase shifters, etc. Electric polarization and loss of dielectric materials are important topics of solid state physics as well. Understanding their nature requires accurate measurement of main dielectric characteristics. Ferroelectrics constitute important class of dielectric materials. Microwave study of ferroelectrics is required not only because of their applications, but also because important physical properties of theses materials, such as phase transitions, are observed at microwave frequencies. Furthermore, most of ferroelectrics have polydomain structure and domain walls resonant (or relaxation) frequency is located in the microwave range. Lattice dynamics theory also predicts strong anomalies in ferroelectric properties just at microwaves. That is why microwave study can support the investigation of many fundamental characteristics of ferroelectrics. Dielectric properties of materials are observed in their interaction with electromagnetic field. Fundamental ability of dielectric materials to increase stored charge of the capacitor was used for years and still used to measure permittivity and loss at relatively low frequencies, up to about 1 MHz (Gevorgian & Kollberg, 2001). At microwaves studied material is usually placed inside transmission line, such as coaxial or rectangular waveguide, or resonant cavity and its influence onto wave propagation conditions is used to estimate specimen’s properties. Distinct feature of ferroelectric and related materials is their high dielectric constant (ε = 102 – 104) and sometimes large dielectric loss (tanδ = 0.01 – 1). High loss could make resonant curve too fuzzy or dissipate most part incident electromagnetic energy, so reflected or transmitted part becomes hard to register. Also because of high permittivity most part of incident energy may just reflect from sample’s surface. So generally conventional methods of dielectrics study may not work well, and special approaches required. Another problem is ferroelectric films investigation. Non-linear ferroelectric films are perspective for monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) where they are applied as linear and nonlinear capacitors (Vendik, 1979), microwave tunable resonant filters (Vendik et al., 1999), integrated microwave phase shifter (Erker et al., 2000), etc. Proper design of these devices requires reliable evidence of film microwave dielectric constant and loss tangent. Ferroelectric solid solution (Ba,Sr)TiO3 (BST) is the most studied material for
High vitamin B 12 level and good treatment outcome may be associated in major depressive disorder

Background: Despite of an increasing body of research the associations between vitamin B12 and folate levels and the treatment outcome in depressive disorders are still unsolved. We therefore conducted this naturalistic prospective follow-up study. Our aim was to determine whether there were any associations between the vitamin B12 and folate level and the six-month treatment outcome in patients with major depressive disorder. Because vitamin B12 and folate deficiency may result in changes in haematological indices, including mean corpuscular volume, red blood cell count and hematocrit, we also examined whether these indices were associated with the treatment outcome. Methods: Haematological indices, erythrocyte folate and serum vitamin B12 levels were determined in 115 outpatients with DSM-III-R major depressive disorder at baseline and serum vitamin B12 level again on six-month follow-up. The 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale was also compiled, respectively. In the statistical analysis we used chi-squared test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, the Student's t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and univariate and multivariate linear regression analysis. Results: Higher vitamin B12 levels significantly associated with a better outcome. The association between the folate level and treatment outcome was weak and probably not independent. No relationship was found between haematological indices and the six-month outcome. Conclusion: The vitamin B12 level and the probability of recovery from major depression may be positively associated. Nevertheless, further studies are suggested to confirm this finding. Background Low levels of vitamin B12 and folate have been found in the serum and red blood cells of patients with depressive disorders [1-4]. Older, physically disabled women with metabolically significant vitamin B12deficiency have been found to have a two-fold higher risk of depression than women with normal plasma levels of vitamin B12 [5]. The findings from three recent large population-based studies are, however, contradictory [6-8]. A Dutch study (n = 3884) suggested that B12 deficiency but not folate deficiency is independently related to depressive disorders [6]. Morris et al. [7] found a low folate status in depressed subjects in a sample of the general US population (n = 2948). Finally, a Norwegian study (n = Published: 02 December 2003 BMC Psychiatry 2003, 3:17 Received: 21 August 2003 Accepted: 02 December 2003 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral. com/1471-244X/3/17 © 2003 Hintikka et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
EVIDENCE FOR AN INTERMEDIATE LINE REGION IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI's INNER TORUS REGION AND ITS EVOLUTION FROM NARROW TO BROAD LINE SEYFERT I GALAXIES

A two-component model for the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been suggested for many years but not widely accepted. This model indicates that the broad line can be described with the superposition of two Gaussian components (very broad Gaussian component and intermediate Gaussian component (IMGC)) which are from two physically distinct regions, i.e., very broad line region (VBLR) and intermediate line region. We select a Sloan Digital Sky Survey sample to further confirm this model and give a detailed analysis of the geometry, density, and evolution of these two regions. The microlensing result of the BLR in J1131–1231 and some unexplained phenomena in reverberation mapping (RM) experiment provide supportive evidence for this model. Our results indicate that the radius obtained from the emission line RM normally corresponds to the radius of the VBLR, and the existence of the IMGC may affect the measurement of the black hole masses in AGNs. The deviation of NLS1s from the M–sigma relation and the type II AGN fraction as a function of luminosity can be explained in this model in a coherent way. The evolution of the two emission regions may be related to the evolutionary stages of the BLRs of AGNs from NLS1s to BLS1s. Based on the results presented here, a unified picture of the hierarchical evolution of a black hole, a dust torus, and a galaxy is proposed.
THE DENSITY FIELD OF THE 10k zCOSMOS GALAXIES

We use the current sample of ∼10,000 zCOSMOS spectra of sources selected with IAB < 22.5 to define the density field out to z ∼ 1, with much greater resolution in the radial dimension than has been possible with either photometric redshifts or weak lensing. We present the new algorithm that we have developed (ZADE) to incorporate objects not yet observed spectroscopically by modifying their photometric redshift probability distributions using the spectroscopic redshifts of nearby galaxies. We present a number of tests on mock catalogs used to justify this approach. The ZADE algorithm allows us to probe a broader range of galaxy environments and reduce the Poisson noise in the density field. The reconstructed overdensity field of the 10k zCOSMOS galaxies consists of cluster-like patterns surrounded by void-like regions, extending up to z ∼ 1. Some of these structures are very large, spanning the ∼50 h−1 Mpc transverse direction of the COSMOS field and extending up to Δz ∼ 0.05 in redshift. We present the three-dimensional overdensity maps and compare the reconstructed overdensity field to the independently identified virialized groups of galaxies and clusters detected in the visible and in X-rays. The distribution of the overdense structures is in general well traced by these virialized structures. A comparison of the large-scale structures in the zCOSMOS data and in the mock catalogs reveals an excellent agreement between the fractions of the volume enclosed in structures of all sizes above a given overdensity between the data and the mocks in 0.2 < z < 1, although in the data these overdense regions are in generally larger contiguous structures.
Full-wavefield Redatuming of Perturbed Fields with the Marchenko Method

Wavefield extrapolation, or redatuming, is a critical step for imaging. It is particularly challenging in areas such as subsalt or under complex overburdens. The framework of Marchenko redatuming allows for the retrieval of up- and downgoing fields at chosen locations in the subsurface that contain primary arrivals and internal multiples, while requiring relatively little knowledge of the subsurface model. In this paper, we present a new form of the Marchenko system for perturbed fields. Based on this system, we present a new iterative scheme that explicitly reconstructs only the unknown perturbations to the Marchenko focusing functions, and by consequence only the perturbed/scattered up- and downgoing Green’s functions. This new scheme departs from previous versions of the method in that it requires additional inputs, which include an extra initial focusing operator and perturbations to the surface reflection data. We validate our method with numerical tests, showing that it is particularly well-suited to properly handle complex models with large/sharp constrasts such as salt boundaries. We foresee this new approach to be of use not only in general imaging applications, but also for time-lapse studies as it can directly redatum time-lapse changes.
Semana de Engenharia 2010 Guimarães , 11 a 15 de Outubro ROBUST DISTRIBUTED DATA AGGREGATION

Data aggregation plays an important role in the design of scalable systems, allowing the determination of meaningful system-wide properties to direct the execution of distributed applications. In the particular case of wireless sensor networks, data collection is often only practicable if aggregation is performed. Several aggregation algorithms have been proposed in the last few years, exhibiting different properties in terms of accuracy, speed and communication tradeoffs. However existing approaches exhibit many dependability issues when used in faulty and dynamic environments. In this work, we propose a novel fault-tolerant averaging based data aggregation algorithm: Flow Updating. The algorithm is based on manipulating flows (in the graph theoretical sense), that are updated using idempotent messages, providing it with unique robustness capabilities. Experimental results have shown that Flow Updating outperforms previous averaging algorithms in terms of time and message complexity, and unlike them it self adapts to churn without requiring any periodic restart, supporting node crashes and high levels of message loss.
Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in birth cohort sizes, and labor demand shocks associated with balance of payments crises and natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain, and the UK, in contrast, is largely insensitive to these shocks, responding only to civil and military conflict. The results are consistent with US immigration policy toward Latin America (which is relatively permissive toward illegal entry) being mediated by market forces and immigration policy in the other countries (which favor skilled workers and asylum seekers, among other groups) insulating them from labor market shocks in the region.