Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
P 3 . 1 EXPLORING THE UTILITY OF CRTM IN ASSIMILATING CLEAR AND CLOUDY RADIANCES FOR FORECAST MODEL INITIALIZATION

The validation of radiative transfer model capabilities is the foundation for research in cloudy satellite radiance data assimilation. In this study, the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) version 2.0. 2 forward model (forward/observation operator) and the K-Matrix model are evaluated in the infrared range of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Imager. The sensors span broadly used infrared ranges, GOES Channel 2, 3, and 4 which central wavelengths are 3.9, 6.5, and 10.7 μm, respectively.
Hybrid HVDC Transmission Systems for Offshore Wind Farms

This work investigates the using of hybrid HVDC transmission systems, comprising a Voltage Source Converter (VSC) and a Current Source Converter (CSC), for Offshore Wind Farms. The paper describes the model and the control strategies proposed for this system. The hybrid model is implemented using PSCAD simulations to illustrate the proposed solution.
A hillslope-based aquifer model of free-surface flows in crystalline regions

Groundwater flow and transport models are primarily based on 3D processes accounting for multiple superposed aquifers. While this approach is adapted to the widest variety of aquifers, it can be simplified in some cases where flows do not extend other multiple layers. This is especially the case for free surface flows in the shallow upper layer of crystalline regions for which the weathered zone does not extend over more than a few tens of meters. We propose a simplified approach based on the decomposition of regions in watersheds and hillslopes, which can be deployed at the regional scale to assess aquifer responses to global climate evolutions and natural resource evaluations.
CHANGES IN GROWTH PARAMETER AND YIELD COMPONENT OF MID DURATION RICE UNDER DIFFERENT LEVEL OF N, P AND K, GROWN UNDER AEROBIC CONDITION

The experiment was conducted during kharifseason of 2010 at Instructional Cum Research Farm IGKV Raipur to investigate the “Effect of CPE Based Irrigation Schedules and Nutrient Management Practices On Aerobic Rice. ” The 24 treatment combinations consisted of 3 CPE based irrigation schedules i.e. @ 150% CPE, @ 100% CPE and @ 75% CPE and 8 nutrient management practices i.e. N0 P60 K100, N60 P60 K100, N120 P60 K100, N180 P60 K100, N120 P30 P100, N120 P0 K100, N120 P60 K50 and N120 P60 K0. The split plot design was followed with 3 replications having CPE based irrigation schedules as main plot treatment and nutrient management practices as sub plot treatment. A medium duration high yielding rice variety Mahamaya was taken as a test crop. The CPE based irrigation schedules did not influence significantly the growth parameters i.e plant height, No. of tillers, leaf area, dry matter accumulation and SPAD value. The growth parameters found to be equally effective under all irrigation schedules. Moreover effective tillers, grains panicle, test weight, sterility per cent and yields of grain and straw remained at par under all the irrigation schedules. The nutrient management practices significantly affected the growth, yield and nutrient concentration and uptake of rice. The application of N180P60K100, significantly increased the plant height, No. of tillers, leaf area, dry matter accumulation ,SPAD value at all the growth stages as compared to treatments of N0P60K100, N120P0K100 and N120 P60K0. The nutrients levels of N120P60K50 and N120P60K100 produced comparable plant height, No. of tillers, at all the growth stages to that of N180P60K100. These nutrient levels also found to equally effective for increasing yield components, grain yield, N, P and K concentration in grain and straw. The uptake of these nutrients also increased at aforesaid levels of nutrients. The increase in yield was mainly associated with significant increase in number of leaves, leaf area and dry matter accumulation.
Sevoflurane exposure induces short-term impairment of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in aged rats

As a type of common anesthetic, sevoflurane is taken as a risk factor for postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD), especially in aged patients. Experimental studies in animals have been done to explore the effects of sevoflurane exposure on cognitive function. Hippocampal synaptic plasticity is well recognized to involve in learning and memory in rodents. However, sevoflurane-induced changes in hippocampal synaptic plasticity on aged rats is still unclear. This study aimed to investigate the lasting effects of sevoflurane exposure on hippocampal synaptic plasticity in aged rats. In this study, 18-month old Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly assigned to 3 groups: Con group, Sevo 24 hour group and Sevo 72 hour group. The rats in the Sevo 24 hour group and Sevo 72 hour group received 1.5 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) sevoflurane for 2 hours. Then, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) at hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapse was respectively evaluated at 24 and 72 hours after sevoflurane exposure via in vivo electrophysiological experiments. Sevoflurane anesthesia significantly suppressed the induction of hippocampal LTP and LTD at 24 hours post-exposure (p<0.01). In contrast, induction of hippocampal LTP and LTD was not affected 72 hours after sevoflurane exposure (p>0.05). These findings show that exposure to 1.5 MAC sevoflurane for 2 hours in aged rats impaired induction of hippocampal LTP and LTD at 24 hours post-exposure, but not at 72 hours after anesthesia. Sevoflurane exposure can induce the short-term impairment of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in aged rats.
HOW FIRMS SHAPE MANAGERS: THE INFLUENCE OF STRATEGY ON TOP MANAGERS’ TURNOVER

An increasing body of literature suggests that the personal characteristics of top managers influence the strategic development of the firms they head. In this paper, we wish to add a new perspective to this literature, and argue that the development path of a firm will also have formative implications for a manager. Involvement in strategic activities geared towards the internal development of a firm makes managers build up commitment and emotional investment in the organization. In contrast, managers who spend a lot of time buying and selling off businesses will build up little social capital within their firm. We apply this perspective to examine the influence of firm development activity on top managers’ turnover, using event history analysis on the tenure of 437 top managers. The results show that internal reorganizations, as well as organic expansion decrease the likelihood that top managers will exit, irrespective of the firm’s performance. Engaging in divestitures, as well as engaging in acquisitions increases the probability that a top manager will leave the firm. In turn, these outcomes determine the subsequent development of the firm. Overall, the results help paint a more complete picture of the relationship between top management and firm strategy.
Mental Health Surveillance over Social Media with Digital Cohorts

The ability to track mental health conditions via social media opened the doors for large-scale, automated, mental health surveillance. However, inferring accurate population-level trends requires representative samples of the underlying population, which can be challenging given the biases inherent in social media data. While previous work has adjusted samples based on demographic estimates, the populations were selected based on specific outcomes, e.g. specific mental health conditions. We depart from these methods, by conducting analyses over demographically representative digital cohorts of social media users. To validated this approach, we constructed a cohort of US based Twitter users to measure the prevalence of depression and PTSD, and investigate how these illnesses manifest across demographic subpopulations. The analysis demonstrates that cohort-based studies can help control for sampling biases, contextualize outcomes, and provide deeper insights into the data.
Tambussi Immunotherapy in HIV disease : recent developments and future directions

Use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has changed the natural history of HIV infection decreasing mortality and morbidity [1]. Clinical improvement is due to qualitative and quantitative immune reconstitution after control of viral replication. Despite use of HAART, we are not able to fully reconstitute immune competence [2]. The goal of immunotherapy strategies (cytokines, therapeutic vaccines or immunomodulators), is to accelerate or improve the immune restoration and/or control of viral replication in association with cART or after its interruption. At the state of knowledge, it is clear that the decline of CD4 is only partially explained by the level of viral load; host factors and the degree of immune activation, play an essential role in the immunodeficiency. On the other hand, the level of immune restoration achieved with cART reduces AIDS events, but is not enough to obtain of mortality and morbidity rate close to the general population, except for patients with prolonged high CD4 T levels (> 500/mm3). Adjuvant immunotherapy with cytokines has been proposed as the ideal approach to modulate immune response by directly targeting the immune system. Intermittent treatment with Interleukin-2 (IL-2).
ONE WEEK FEED RESTRICTION IN EARLY WEANED RABBITS : 2-SLAUGHTER PARAMETERS AND MUSCLE FIBRE CHARACTERISTICS

The objective of present study was to evaluate the effect of one week feed restriction with two intensities on dressing out percentage, meat tenderness, cooking loss and muscle fibre characteristics in growing rabbits. Rabbits early weaned at 25 days of age (n=96) were divided into three groups: rabbits fed ad libitum (AL), rabbits restricted on 50 g of feed per rabbits per day (R50) and restricted on 65 g of feed per rabbit per day (R65). The period of trial lasted from 25 to 81 days with feed restriction realised from 32 to 39 days of age. Feed restriction did not affect dressing out percentage, loin percentage, meat tenderness and cooking loss. The significant interaction of feeding regime and age was detected in fibre cross sectional area of βR and αW fibres. Group R50 had the smaller (P≤0.001) area of βR fibres at 39 and also at 81 days of age than R65 or AL groups. The largest (P≤0.001) area of αW muscle fibres was observed in R65 group at 81 days of age compared to AL and R50. Fibre type distribution was not affected by feeding regime.
Why South Africa is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor: Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional Balassa-Samuelson sectoral transformation hypothesis, where high wages in high-productivity traded sectors increase wages throughout the economy, thus increasing prices on non-traded goods and revaluing the country's real exchange rate. Instead, the higher productivity of non-traded sectors experienced in South Africa induces a devaluation of the real exchange rate and a contraction of the traded sectors. The results of the estimation show evidence of this "inverse" Balassa-Samuelson effect for agriculture and manufacturing and in particular mining. This "inverse" Balassa-Samuelson effect has important distributional consequences: the high-productivity sectors are associated with cheaper goods and services for wealthy households. This in turn burdens poor households, which are more dependent on traded goods, with higher prices, which are a consequence of low productivity and high markups.
A mutant recombinant human endostatin containing the RGDRGD sequence suppresses tumor growth in a mouse xenograft model

The clinical use of endostatin has been hampered by its insolubility, instability, and frequent dosing schedule. In the current study, we genetically engineered a mutant recombinant human endostatin (rhES) by introducing an integrin binding motif RGDRGD via site-directed mutagenesis. MTT assays showed an IC50 of 185 μg/mL for wildtype rhES and 27 μg/mL for the mutant rhES (P<0.05). Wound assays further demonstrated a migration inhibitory rate of 69.0% for wildtype rhES and 90.0% for the mutant rhES (P<0.05). Mouse xenograft assays showed a tumor inhibitory rate of 40.7% for the wildtype rhES group and 51.1% for the mutant rhES. Immunohistochemical staining further revealed that the mutant rhES caused a more significant reduction in mean microvessel density and VEGF and PCNA expression than wildtype rhES (P<0.05). These findings demonstrate that the mutant rhES with the RGDRGD motif possesses more potent tumor inhibitory effects than wildtype rhES. The mutant rhES may be further studied as a biological agent to improve tumor therapeutic efficacy.
The BEA-2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction

This paper reports on the BEA-2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction (GEC). As with the CoNLL-2014 shared task, participants are required to correct all types of errors in test data. One of the main contributions of the BEA-2019 shared task is the introduction of a new dataset, the Write&Improve+LOCNESS corpus, which represents a wider range of native and learner English levels and abilities. Another contribution is the introduction of tracks, which control the amount of annotated data available to participants. Systems are evaluated in terms of ERRANT F_0. 5, which allows us to report a much wider range of performance statistics. The competition was hosted on Codalab and remains open for further submissions on the blind test set.
16 S rRNA gene sequence analysis of lactic acid bacteria isolated from fermented foods in Thailand

INTRODUCTION The National Inst i tute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) of Japan and the National Center for Genet ic Engineer ing and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) of Thailand concluded their memorandum of understanding in accordance with the Convention on Biological Diversity, which promotes cooperative researches on the conservation and the sustainable use of biological resources in Japan and Thailand for academic, industrial, and other purposes. It is expected that the utilization and commercialization of biological resources will provide some benefits to both countries. The NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC) and the BIOTEC Culture Collection (BCC) started joint research projects on bacteria, yeasts, and fungi to enrich the microbiological resources and to develop the knowledge and skills of the scientists in both collections. We began a collaborative research focused on acetic acid bacteria in 2005 and published its results (Muramatsu et al., 2009). In this paper, we report our study on lactic acid bacteria that we started in 2008. Lactic acid bacteria have been used to ferment foods before the existence of microorganisms was *Corresponding author E-mail: miyashita-mika@nite.go. jp Accepted: January 18, 2012 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis of lactic acid bacteria isolated from fermented foods in Thailand
Chapter 3 Applications of Cholangiopancreatoscopy in Pancreaticobiliary Diseases

Recent advances in imaging technology provide improved direct visualization of the common bile duct (CBD) and pancreatic duct (PD) using small caliber endoscopes and thus allow a wide array of therapeutic interventions. This chapter will review the technique of cholangiopancreatoscopy (CP), indications, effectiveness, and complications as well as the current commercially available options. We will discuss various methods of diagnostic and therapeutic cholangioscopy such as intraductal tissue sampling and biopsy in patients with indeterminate biliary strictures along with its role in the management of difficult bile duct stones. Finally, we will also analyze the role of pancreatoscopy in the evaluation of suspected neoplasms of the pancreas, assessment of pancreatic duct (PD) strictures, and in the treatment of pancreatic duct stones.
Combination of Periodontic and Orthodontic in Treating Pathological Migration : Systematic Review

The aim this study to see the difference in the success rate of a combination of periodonticorthodontic treatments in treating pathological migration cases with and without periodontal surgery. A systemic review was performed to articles published from January 2005 to December 2017. An electronic database search within Wiley resulted 243 articles and 5 articles from PubMed, yet only 5 articles considered to meet the inclusion criteria. PRISMA guidelines and PICO question were used in this review. A total of 15 patients were treated with surgical techniques, and 2 patients with nonsurgery techniques are included in the article. The combination of periodontic-orthodontic treatment with periodontal surgical techniques indicates a less period of treatment (between 6 to 19 months), yet those who did not perform periodontal surgery showed longer period of treatment (between 22 to 33 months). Combined orthodontic treatment improves periodontal conditions from the site of the damaged bone. Bone morphology altered by orthodontic treatment may improve the results of treatment guided tissue regeneration. This study confirms the possibility of a combined orthodontic periodontal approach that prevents periodontal tissue destruction and results in improved aesthetics as a result of rearrangement and increased papilla height. Compared to non-surgical therapy treatment, surgical therapy has a better result and usually heals faster. Review (J Int Dent Med Res 2019; 12(2): 755-759)
GLOBULIN-1 PROMOTER FROM MAZE AND METHOD OF USING SAME

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Genetic variation in Fusarium oxysporum f . sp . conglutinans strains causing fusarium-wilt of canola in Western Canada

Fusarium wilt of canola (Brassica napus L.), caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp conglutinans (Wollenweber) Snyder & Hansen(FOC), is a disease that has recently been discovered in Western Canada. It has already been observed that canola cultivars differ in their susceptibility to this disease, with resistance likely coming predominantly from a monogenic source. Breeders and pathologists have been interested in investigating the variation in the pathogen population to assist breeding efforts. Sequence related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) molecular analysis was used on 89 isolates of the pathogen isolated from fusariuminfected canola plants grown throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. A very high percentage (99%) of variation was caused by diversity within geographic populations, with the number of polymorphic loci (r) within each population ranging from 100 % for Alberta, 97% for Saskatchewan. However the r-value for Manitoba was only 30%, probably due to the low # of isolates. On the other hand Nei’s genetic distance didn’t differentiate the three geographic populations as they clustered as one group on the dendrogram probably due to gene flow among the Fusarium oxysporum populations occurring across Western Canada. The isolates from different host species were diverse in genetics. Our data suggests that there are significant polymorphisms between FOC strains implicating diversity among isolates from Western Canada. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the genetic variation determination of the fusarium-wilt pathogen strains from canola.
The MMP-2, MMP-9 Expression and Collagen Density of the Ambonese Banana Stem Sap Administration on Wound Healing

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) will degrade of the extracellular matrix and proteins, including collagen, elastin, gelatin, matrix glycoproteins and proteoglycans. It affects the BMP in the process of differentiation and new bone tissue remodeling. Ambonese banana (Musa paradisiaca var. Sapientum) have potency to accelerate wound healing throught platelet derived growth factor (PDGF-BB) signaling. The research was conducted to prove the role of ambonese banana stem sap gel (GEGPA) on the MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression affected to collagen density of tooth extraction wound healing. This study used 24 male wistar rats were divided into 2 groups: one is a control without being treated, and the other one is a group GEGPA dose 60 mg in 4% Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose. All groups were examined for the expression of MMP-2, MMP-9, and collagen density in alveolar socket areas on day 7 and 14. The results showed there were significant differences in the expression of MMP-2, MMP-9, and collagen density in the alveolar socket healing between day 7 and 14 (p=0.00 and p=0.00). There was a strong correlation p=0.963 between the inhibition of MMP-2, MMP-9 and the increasing of collagen density. It is concluded that GEGPA increases collagen density on wound healing of tooth extraction through inhibition MMP-2 and MMP-9.
An Intelligent Testing Strategy for Vocabulary Assessment of Chinese Second Language Learners

Vocabulary is one of the most important parts of language competence. Testing of vocabulary knowledge is central to research on reading and language. However, it usually costs a large amount of time and human labor to build an item bank and to test large number of students. In this paper, we propose a novel testing strategy by combining automatic item generation (AIG) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT) in vocabulary assessment for Chinese L2 learners. Firstly, we generate three types of vocabulary questions by modeling both the vocabulary knowledge and learners’ writing error data. After evaluation and calibration, we construct a balanced item pool with automatically generated items, and implement a three-parameter computerized adaptive test. We conduct manual item evaluation and online student tests in the experiments. The results show that the combination of AIG and CAT can construct test items efficiently and reduce test cost significantly. Also, the test result of CAT can provide valuable feedback to AIG algorithms.