Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Variability in the Selection Patterns of Pronghorn: Are they Really Native Prairie Obligates?

In Canada, pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) are primarily considered a native prairie obligate because of their reliance on open grassland vegetation communities, although an assessment of local ecological knowledge suggests that pronghorn in Alberta select a variety of habitat from native prairie to cultivated lands. The primary objective of our study was to assess whether pronghorn in Alberta and Saskatchewan are native prairie obligates. Specifically, we addressed the following questions: 1) do individual pronghorn show similar selection patterns for native prairie and, therefore, support the notion that they are prairie obligates; 2) do pronghorn show consistent resource selection patterns at multiple scales (landscape and within-seasonal range); and 3) to what extent are selection patterns of pronghorn influenced by highways and roads. Within Alberta, we captured, collared, and monitored for one year individual female pronghorn in December 2003 (n = 24), March 2005 (n = 25), and March 2006 (n = 25). A detrended correspondence analysis of patterns of habitat selection revealed three distinct groups of pronghorn (r2 = 0.96, n = 55) that we labeled native, cultivated, and mixed, referring to the dominant land cover in their parturition ranges. We used logistic regression to model resource selection patterns of the three groups of pronghorn during the parturition and winter periods at the landscape and within-seasonal range scales. At the landscape scale, each group of pronghorn had top models consisting of the variables land cover, landform, distance to express highways, distance to arterial roads, and distance to collector roads for both periods. The native and mixed groups were less likely to use annual and perennial cropland than native prairie habitats, whereas the cultivated group was more likely to use annual and perennial cropland. At the within-seasonal range scale, the top models for each group in both seasons consisted of one or more road variables, but the top models exhibited poor model fit. Our results do not show a clear association for native prairie, which we would have expected if pronghorn were native prairie obligates, suggestive of plasticity in behavior. We acknowledge that patterns of habitat selection do not indicate habitat quality or fitness; therefore, to understand the individualand population-level consequences of selecting sub-optimal habitats, such as agricultural landscapes, further research is needed.
Modelling Body Mass Index Distribution using Maximum Entropy Density.

The objective of this paper is to model the distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) for a given set of covariates. BMI is one of the leading indicators of health and has been studied by health professionals for many years. As such, there have been various approaches to model the distribution of BMI. Furthermore, there are numerous studies which investigate the association between an individual’s physical and socio-economic attributes (covariates) to their BMI levels. This paper proposes the use of Maximum Entropy Density (MED) to model the distribution of BMI using information from covariates. The paper shows how covariates can be incorporated into the MED framework. This framework is then applied to an Australian data set. The results show how different covariates affect different moments of the estimated BMI distribution.
APPROXIMATE SOLUTION FOR AN INVERSE PROBLEM OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL ELLIPTIC EQUATION WITH MULTIPOINT NONLOCAL AND NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

In this work, we consider an inverse elliptic problem with BitsadzeSamarskii type multipoint nonlocal and Neumann boundary conditions. We construct the first and second order of accuracy difference schemes (ADSs) for problem considered. We stablish stability and coercive stability estimates for solutions of these difference schemes. Also, we give numerical results for overdetermined elliptic problem with multipoint Bitsadze-Samarskii type nonlocal and Neumann boundary conditions in two and three dimensional test examples. Numerical results are carried out by MATLAB program and brief explanation on the realization of algorithm is given.
The NTUT’s Text-to-Speech System for Blizzard Challenge 2018

This paper describes our first Deep Neural Network (DNN)based speech synthesis system submitted to Blizzard Challenge 2018. The focus of this work is to explore the capacities of DNNs. Therefore, our system is based on latest HMM/DNNbased Speech Synthesis System (HTS) toolkits (ver. 2.3.2). Although, the performance of our system is not good enough on naturalness and similarity, its speech pause and stress scores of audiobook paragraphs were almost above the average. This should be a good starting point for further performance improvement.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Abstract: A new local magnitude scale was developed for South Korea using seismograms of 269 earthquakes selected in the magnitude range 2.0 to 5.8 that occurred in and around the Korean Peninsula from 2001 to 2016. The peak amplitudes of synthetic Wood-Anderson seismograms were measured from three components of 6,327 observations recorded at distances of 10 to 600 km by 89 broadband seismic stations in South Korea. The vertical peaks and geometrical means of the horizontal peaks were used separately for both nonparametric and parametric methods. The empirical attenuation curve, station corrections, and magnitudes of the earthquakes were estimated simultaneously using each method, which yielded very similar results. The resulting parametric attenuation curves are logA0=-0.5869 log(R/100)-0.001680(R-100)-3 for the horizontal component and logA0=-0.5107 log(R/100)-0.001699(R-100)-3 for the vertical component, where R is the epicentral distance in kilometers. The application of these attenuation curves to the dataset showed that there was no trend in the magnitude residual with distance. The spatial variation of the station corrections generally correlated with the geological features underlying the seismic stations. The station corrections for the horizontal component varied more than those for the vertical component, suggesting that geological or local site effects have a stronger influence on horizontal amplitudes than on vertical ones. We found that ML from this study correlates well with Mw determined from S-wave source spectra.
CMAR_A_215586 9145..9152

1Bioinformatics Department of Predictive Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Cell Signal Transduction Laboratory, Bioinformatics Center, Henan Provincial Engineering Center for Tumor Molecular Medicine, School of Software, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Abstract: Gene expression profiling data with long-term clinical follow-up information are great resources to screen, develop, evaluate and validate prognostic biomarkers in translational cancer research. However, an easy-to-use interactive online tool is needed to analyze these profiling and clinical data. In the current work, we developed OSacc (Online consensus Survival analysis of ACC), a web tool that provides rapid and user-friendly survival analysis based on seven independent transcriptomic profiles with long-term clinical follow-up infor-
Biology-Inspired techniques for Self Organization in dynamic Networks Demonstrator 2: Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

In this document we describe the demonstrator which was developed to validate the solutions developed for routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and report results obtained with it. The purpose of the demonstrator as stated in the project’s technical annex is to test the effectiveness of the solutions developed for routing MANETs considering a city-like environment containing basic elements of real-world scenarios such as buildings/obstacles, streetconstrained movements, and realistic traffic patterns. With the support of the QualNet simulator, we have set up a simulation environment with such characteristics, using the map of Lugano (Switzerland) as a template. We have run extensive simulation experiments in order to test the performance of AntHocNet, the biologically-inspired routing algorithm we developed, in this realistic environment. The performance of AntHocNet has been assessed versus that of AODV and OLSR. To provide a sound validation of the algorithms, we have considered many different scenarios varying a wide range of aspects such as the number of nodes, the amount and type of data traffic, the communication model (e.g., client-server and peer-to-peer), the response to sudden disruptive events (e.g., appearance of hot-spots and clusters of new nodes), etc. We show that over the wide range of experiments reported, AntHocNet shows better performance than AODV and OLSR. Specifically, it delivers more data, with less delay and delay jitter. Moreover, in the majority of tests, AntHocNet uses less overhead than the competitor algorithms to provide this better service.
Best response adaptation under dominance solvability

Two new properties of a finite strategic game, strong and weak BR-dominance solvability, are introduced. The first property holds, e.g., if the game is strongly dominance solvable or if it is weakly dominance solvable and all best responses are unique. It ensures that every simultaneous best response adjustment path, as well as every non-discriminatory individual best response improvement path, reaches a Nash equilibrium in a finite number of steps. The second property holds, e.g., if the game is weakly dominance solvable; it ensures that every strategy profile can be connected to a Nash equilibrium with a simultaneous best response path and with an individual best response path (if there are more than two players, switches from one best response to another may be needed). In a two person game, weak BR-dominance solvability is necessary for the acyclicity of simultaneous best response adjustment paths; if the set of Nash equilibria is rectangular, it is also necessary for the acyclicity of best response improvement paths. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Number: C 72.
Improving Natural Language Understanding by Reverse Mapping Bytepair Encoding

We propose a method called reverse mapping bytepair encoding, which maps named-entity information and other word-level linguistic features back to subwords during the encoding procedure of bytepair encoding (BPE). We employ this method to the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (OpenAI GPT) by adding a weighted linear layer after the embedding layer. We also propose a new model architecture named as the multi-channel separate transformer to employ a training process without parameter-sharing. Evaluation on Stories Cloze, RTE, SciTail and SST-2 datasets demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach.
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

In this paper we empirically investigate the theoretical results obtained in Zaby (2009). From the theoretical model, which introduces the decision to patent into a setting with horizontally differentiated products we deduce several hypotheses and test these empirically. We find that the propensity to patent increases when market entry costs decrease. Furthermore, if the disclosure requirement linked to a patent has an impact, the propensity to patent decreases with the strength of the disclosure effect.
Cognitive Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Depression

\s=b\Seventy patients with nonbipolar affective disorder who completed a 12-week course of either cognitive therapy (CT), pharmacotherapy, CT plus active placebo, or CT plus pharmacotherapy were assessed one month, six months, and one year after termination of active treatment. Of the 44 patients who had originally responded to treatment, 16 relapsed as defined by reentry into treatment or by self-reported depression scores in the moderately depressed range. Twenty-eight patients remained well during the one-year follow-up. Patients with relatively high levels of remaining depressive symptoms on completion of treatment relapsed more often than those who had little or no residual depression. Further, at treatment termination, patients who relapsed had significantly higher scores on a measure of dysfunctional attitudes. Patients who had received CT (with or without tricyclic antidepressants) were less likely to relapse in the one-year follow-up period than patients who received pharmacotherapy. (Arch Gen Psychiatry 1986;43:43-48)
MicroRNA-761 targets FGFR1 to suppress the malignancy of osteosarcoma by deactivating PI3K/Akt pathway

Purpose: MicroRNA-761 (miR-761) has been reported to be deregulated in many types of human cancers and play important roles in cancer genesis and progression. However, the biological roles of miR-761 in osteosarcoma (OS) and the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Methods: The expression of miR-761 in OS tissues and cell lines was analyzed using RT-qPCR. A series of gain-of-function tests were performed, and status of malignancy was evaluated on basis of proliferation, migration, invasion, and apoptosis using different assays to determine the regulatory roles of miR-761 in OS cells in vivo and in vitro. Notably, the mechanisms underlying the action of miR-761 in the pathogenesis of OS were investigated using bioinformatic analysis, luciferase reporter assay, RT-qPCR and Western blotting. Results: The results showed that miR-761 expression was decreased in OS tissues and cell lines and is closely correlated with clinical stage and distant metastasis in OS patients. Patients with OS having low miR-761 expression showed worse prognosis compared to OS patients with high miR-761 expression. Restoring the miR-761 expression level decreased OS cell proliferation, migration, and invasion in vitro; promoted cell apoptosis in vitro; and impaired tumor growth in vivo. In addition, ﬁ broblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) was found as a direct target gene of miR-761 in OS cells. Furthermore, silencing FGFR1 expression stimulated the tumor-suppressing roles of miR-761 upregulation in OS cells, whereas the activity of miR-761 overexpression in OS cells was abolished by the restoration of FGFR1 expression. Moreover, restoration of miR-761 expression deactivated the PI3K/ Akt pathway in vitro and in vivo. Conclusion: These results suggest that miR-761 plays anti-cancer roles in OS by directly targeting FGFR1 and deactivating the PI3K/Akt pathway. The newly identi ﬁ ed miR-761/ FGFR1/PI3K/Akt pathway partially illustrates the mechanism of OS pathogenesis and presents a novel candidate therapeutic target for antitumor therapy.
CADMIUM INDUCED MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYTOTOXIC EFFECTS ON DIFFERENT PLANT PARTS OF MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.) SEEDLINGS : EVIDENCE FOR ALTERATIONS IN NUTRIENT DYNAMICS AND ENZYME ACTIVITIES

Cadmium (Cd) stress induced changes in morphology, phytotoxic effects of varied maize seedling plant parts were investigated and these changes were correlated with the alterations in nutrient dynamics and enzyme activities. The Cd stress was imposed through Hoagland Nutrient Solution (HNS) and the treatments were 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 μm. Samples were collected from 14 days old seedlings with four well-unfurled leaves. Changes in morphology and phytotoxicity were analyzed through shoot length, root length, leaf length & width and leaf area. Chlorophyll, relative water content, cell membrane stability and nitrate reductase (NRase) were estimated to understand the functioning of maize under Cd stress. The data were statistically analyzed using IRRISTAT and treatment means were compared by Duncan’s Multiple Range Test (DMRT). Lower concentration of Cd did not produce visible toxicity symptoms but concentration beyond 30 μm was fatal. The correlation values for Cd retention capacity of different tissues were estimated by using SPSS. Positive correlation between media Cd and tissue Cd content was realized. Cd at higher concentrations caused root decay and reduced nutrients uptake. Roots were more sensitive than leaves. Plant height, leaf area and chlorophyll b were reduced significantly at higher concentrations. The activity of nitrate reductase (NRase) was significantly reduced in younger leaves. Increased tissue Cd concentration had reduced uptake of nitrogen, potassium, zinc, manganese whilst phosphorus uptake was enhanced. The normal metabolic functioning of maize was altered at Cd stress. The root sensitivity, RWC, CMS, level of chlorophyll b and NRase in leaves under Cd stress could be used as markers to select the Cd stress tolerant maize genotypes that would be used for maize improvement programs targeted to the niche environments.
Third way for the third world: Poverty Reduction, Social Inclusion and the rise of ‘inclusive’ liberalism

In the wake of frank neo-liberalism, and in the context of rising security fears, ways are being found to provide market liberalism with a more inclusive face. The Poverty Reduction Strategies currently dominating international development, and Thirdway OECD ‘Social Inclusion’ policy frames claim common purpose to promote ‘opportunity, empowerment and security’ for people and places on the peripheries of global economies and societies. They share commitments to global economic integration and openness, market led growth, ‘good’ and ‘joined up’ governance, local and social partnerships, and wide-ranging activation of ‘capacities’. But the high rhetorical aspirations of liberalism to social ‘inclusivity’ have so far overreached empirical gains for the poor. Drawing on developing country examples of Poverty Reduction Strategy and public policy in New Zealand’s current Labour government, this paper sketches salient features of ‘inclusive’ liberalism. It critically examines its status as a Polanyian turn within a wider liberal project, which seeks to re-embed and legitimate a liberal social and economic order.
TITLE Improving Written Expression of Seventh Grade Mildly Intellectually Disabled Students Utilizing a Basal

Improving Written Expression of Seventh Grade Mildly Intellectually Disabled Students by Utilizing a Basal Reading Program, Journal Writing Strategies, and Computer Applications. Wimberly, Sabrenai R. , 1994: Practicum Report, Nova Southeastern University, Ed.D. Program in Child and Youth Studies. Special Education/Language Arts/Cooperative Learning/Collaborative Instruction This practicum was designed to increase mildly intellectually disabled students/written communication skills by demonstrating functional written expression skills in daily assignments and in social communication. A sequenced reading and language program with the integration of journal writing and computer applications were utilized. Students with mild disabilities were provided a structured, language rich environment in which to communicate. The writer planned structured activities that involved reading, audiovisuals, current events, and cooperative activities along with a structured, daily writing program. Collaboration was an important aspect in that students were involved in many role playing and verbal rehearsal activities to increase conversation and writing skills. Writing to convey a message was emphasized initially and students were introduced to the functions of words in sentences. Progress was monitored using holistic scoring methods. Review of the practicum outcomes revealed seven out of ten students were able to demonstrate functional written expression skills in journals and on daily assignments after a competent writer had modeled structure. Students interaction in cooperative activities provided an excellent platform for writing. Students displayed motivation to communicate. Appropriate usage of mechanics is documented along with increases in correctly spelled words, sentence length, and legibility. Reading and language instruction reinforced mechanics rules and built upon them. Increased success is predicted if more time is provided for the program. Permission Statement As a student in the Ed.D Program in Child and Youth Studies, I do (X) do not ( ) give permission to Nova University to distribute copies of this practicum report to individuals. It is my understanding that Nova will not charge for this dissemination except to cover the costs of microfiching, handling, and mailing of the materials.
Many Americans Have Prediabetes and Should Be Considered for Metformin Therapy Running title: Metformin indicated in many prediabetic patients

Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA,Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory Program in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Epidemiology (EPICORE), Atlanta, GA, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA
Speed and ACcuracy of Absolute Pitch Judgments

Nine subjects, 5 of whom claimed absolute pitch (AP) ability (4 from childhood, 1 by self-training) were given a pitch judgment task in which they had to strike notes on the piano as rapidly as possible to match random{ -ed tape-recorded piano notes. S'imulus set sizes were 64, 16, or 4 consecutive semitones, or 7 diatonic notes of a designated octave. A control '-ask involved mot'r movements to notes announced in advance, with the effect that set size was 1. Accuracy, measured on the basis of deviations of responses from targets, significantly differentiated AP from NAP (non-AP) subjects at all set sizes except the control task. For both groups, accuracy increased as set size decreased. Decision times, measured as that part of total 3 response time before a movement to the response note began, decreased as set size decreased, but did not differentiate AP and NAP subjects. The performance of the trained AP subject was not distinguishable from that of the remaining AP subjects either in accuracy or decision time. Results are discussed in terms of a two-factor theory of AP ability whereby NAP subjects use only relative tone height as the basis of judgment but AP subjects also use standards of tone chroma stored in long-term memory. The abnormally high channel. capacities and rates of information gain for AP subjects are interpreted on the basis of transmission of information in two channels, whereas NAP subjects transmit information in only one channel.
Phenolic, dietetic fibre and sensorial analyses of apples from regional varieties produced in conventional and biological mode

In the present work apples from eleven regional varieties originating from Portugal were studied in terms of their content in phenolic compounds and dietetic fibres (soluble and insoluble). In some cases, apples from two different production modes were analysed: conventional and biological. Some of the most commercialized apples in Portugal were also studied for comparison purposes. In addition, a sensorial evaluation of some of the varieties was performed. From the present work it was possible to conclude that the regional varieties studied contain higher amounts of dietetic fibre than those of commercial varieties and other fruits. With respect to the content in total phenolic compounds, the apples of regional varieties showed values clearly higher than those quantified in commercial varieties, and being concentrated mainly on the peel, then on the seeds, and finally on the pulp. From the sensorial analyses was possible to infer that the regional varieties which were more appreciated were Bravo de Esmolfe and Camoesa de Alcongosta.