Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Down-Regulationof theHumanKallikreinGene 5 ( KLK 5 ) in ProstateCancerTissues

George M. Yousef, Andreas Scorilas, Albert Chang, Laura Rendl, Maria Diamandis, Klaus Jung, and Eleftherios P. Diamandis* Departmentof Pathologyand LaboratoryMedicine,Mount SinaiHospital,Toronto,Ontario,Canada Departmentof LaboratoryMedicineand Pathobiology,Universityof Toronto,Toronto,Ontario,Canada National Centerof Scientif|c Research‘‘Demokritos’’, IPC, Athens,Greece DepartmentofUrology,UniversityHospital Charite¤ ,HumboldtUniversity, Berlin,Germany
On self-similarity and stationary problem for fragmentation and coagulation models

We prove the existence of a stationary solution of any given mass to the coagulationfragmentation equation without assuming a detailed balance condition, but assuming instead that aggregation dominates fragmentation for small particles while fragmentation predominates for large particles. We also show the existence of a self similar solution of any given mass to the coagulation equation and to the fragmentation equation for kernels satisfying a scaling property. These results are obtained by applying a simple abstract result of functional analysis based on the Tykhonov fixed point theorem, and which slightly generalizes a method introduced in [26]. Moreover, we show that the solutions to the fragmentation equation with initial data of a given mass behaves, as t→ +∞, as the self similar solution of the same mass.
Inferring Evlolutionary Processes of Humans

Li, S. 2012. Inferring Evlolutionary Processes of Humans. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 997. 58 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8538-2. More and more human genomic data has become available in recent years by the improvement of DNA sequencing technologies. These data provide abundant genetic variation information which is an important resource to help us to understand the evolutionary history of humans. In this thesis I evaluated the performance of the Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) approach for inferring demographic parameters for large-scale population genomic data. According to simulation results, I can conclude that the ABC approach will continue to be a useful tool for analysing realistic genome-wide population-genetic data in the post-genomic era. Secondly, I implemented the ABC approach to estimate the pre-historic events connected with the “Bantu-expansion”, the spread of peoples from West Africa. The analysis based on genetic data with a large number of loci support a rapid population growth in west Africans, which lead to their concomitant spread to southern and eastern Africa. Contrary to hypotheses based on language studies, I found that Bantu-speakers in south Africa likely migrated directly from west Africa, and not from east Africa. Thirdly, I evaluated Thomson's estimator of the time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA). It is robust to different recombination rates and the least-biased compared to other commonly used approaches. I used the Thomson estimator to infer the genome-wide distribution of TMRCA for complete human genome sequence data in various populations from across the world and compare the result to simulated data. Finally, I investigated and analysed the effects of selection and demography on genetic polymorphism patterns. In particular, we could detect a clear signal in the distribution of TMRCA caused by selection for a constant-size population. However, if the population was growing, the signal of selection will be difficult to detect under some circumstances. I also discussed and gave a few suggestions that might lead to a more realistic path of successful identification of genes targeted by selection in large-scale genomic data.
Impact of Credit Access on Crop Farmers’ Well-being in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria

The role of credit in improving the well-being of farmers cannot be overemphasized and it has been discovered to be of great importance for the development of agriculture in Nigeria. Unfortunately, there has been low rate of its accessibility which consequentially affecting well-being of farmers in rural area. This study thus investigated the impact of credit access on crop farmers’ well-being in Osun state, Southwestern, Nigeria and data were collected using structured questionnaire administered to 150 farmers selected by multistage sampling techniques. The result shows that the crop farmers were in their active economic productive age with mean age 41years and majority obtained credit from Agricultural Credit Cooperative. Determinant factors influencing crop farmers’ access to credit in the study areas were age (p <0.10), marital status (p<0.05) and years of membership in farmers’ association (p<0.01)while significant credit variables affecting farmers’ well-being were amount of credit needed (p<0.01), credit purpose (p<0.01), credit ration(p<0.01), interest rate (p< 0.10) and disbursement lag (p<0.01). Thus, the study recommended that farmers should be encouraged to form groups for credit accessibility and use it for the farming purpose meant for to improve their well-being. Keywords: Credit, Credit Status, Credit Access, Well-being, Crop Farmers. DOI : 10.7176/JESD/10-4-11
Fractal Analysis of Viscous Fingering Instability of Two Reactive Miscible Fluids through Homogeneous Porous Media

Viscous fingering instability in porous media is one of the natural processes which is widely used in many different type of problems, such as Enhanced oil recovery process. In this paper nonlinear simulation of viscous fingering instability of miscible reactive interface through homogeneous porous medium is examined. In this case, the fluid produced at the interface can be considered similar to the coastline, so mono and multi fractal analysis can be performed. First the concentration contours are plotted in differnet models of instability, then by using image processing, the fractal dimension of image is computed for both fractal and multifractal cases in different times. It can be seen that the fractal dimension in the instability problems can be one of the important parameters that describes the complexity of the patterns. The multifractal spectrum curves are plotted for different image of instability and the results show that when the leading or trailing front is unstable the growth of disturbances over the time lead to an increase in the amount of fractal dimension. However when both leading and trailing fronts are unstable, the interaction between the fingers and different fingers pattern may lead to a decrease in fractal dimension.
Explorer Multi-User Millimeter Wave Cloud Radio Access Networks with Hybrid Precoding

This paper investigates the performance of cloud radio access networks (CRANs) for a downlink multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where randomly distributed remote radio heads (RRHs) supported by a central base band unit (BBU) communicate with multiple mobile equipment (MEs). The fronthaul and access link transmissions are implemented with mmWave frequency bands. The RRHs and MEs are modelled as independent poisson point processes (PPPs). We characterize the outage probability, average latency and throughput of this system under essential factors, such as blockages, RRH density and path loss. Two specific ME association scenarios are considered: best channel participation (BCP) and nearest neighbour participation (NNP). We derived for both scenarios, closed-form expressions of outage probability in the noise-limited case, and upper and lower bounds of outage probability in the interference-limited case. Our results show blockages and path loss to have a positive effect of decreasing outage probability. Larger antenna arrays are shown to compensate for communication degradation (outage performance and latency) with higher RRH deployment, which can be considered a trade-off between inter-cluster interference (ICI) and RRH density. Finally, we show that for the ME association process, BCP is the most viable for mmWave CRAN systems due to its outperforming NNP.
Revalidation of the Holistic Comfort Questionnaire – Family for caregivers of people with advanced chronic disease

Background: Comfort is essential in nursing practice, so useful and valid assessment tools are required. Objectives: To analyze the psychometric properties of the Holistic Comfort Questionnaire – Family (HCQ-F) for the Portuguese population and assess the level of comfort among caregivers of people with advanced chronic disease. Methodology: A methodological study with a quantitative approach was conducted with 314 caregivers. The psychometric properties were analyzed using descriptive summary measures, item-total correlations, and Cronbach’s alpha. Factor analysis was performed using Varimax orthogonal rotation and extraction factors with eigenvalues > 1. Results: The internal consistency and factor analysis of the HCQ-F items resulted in the Holistic Comfort Questionnaire – Caregivers – Portugal (HCQ-C-PT) with 18 items that were distributed by 3 factors: relief, ease, and transcendence (α = .795). Conclusion: Based on validity and reliability results, the HCQ-C-PT proved to be suitable for assessing comfort in caregivers of people with advanced chronic disease.
A Novel Approach of Image Ranking based on Enhanced Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

In recent years researchers have provided novel problem solving techniques based on swarm intelligence for solving difficult real world problems such as traffic, routing, networking, games, industries and economics. Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) was first developed by Dervis Karaboga [1]. When the robust performance is desired by means of searching something, the swarms does it better; by adaptation of greedy selection and random search. The ABC algorithm simulates the foraging behavior of honey bees. The local search in two stages in each step and global search are responsible for making this algorithm a robust search technique. The details of this algorithm are discussed here. Because of its very strong search process, computational simplicity and ease of modification according to the problem, the ABC algorithm is now finding more widespread applications in business, scientific and engineering circles. In this paper, we provide a thorough and extensive overview of most research work focusing on the application of ABC, with the expectation that it would serve as a reference material to both old and new, incoming researchers to the field, to support their understanding of current trends and assist their future research prospects and directions. Also new proposed architecture of Enhanced ABC algorithm for image ranking is also given here.
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and synthetic 2 D Mammography versus Digital Mammography : Evaluation in a Population-based Screening Program 1

Radiology: Volume 287: Number 3—June 2018 n radiology.rsna. org 787 1 From the Cancer Registry of Norway, PO Box 5313, Majorstuen, Oslo 0304, Norway (S.H., Å.S.H.); Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway (S.H.); Departments of Radiology (T.H., H.B., L.R.) and Pathology (D.P.), Vestre Viken Hospital, Drammen, Norway; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash (C.I.L.); University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Wash (C.I.L.); Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Seattle, Wash (C.I.L.); Departments of Radiology (J.A., E.V.) and Pathology (P. Suhrke), Vestfold Hospital, Tønsberg, Norway; and Departments of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (S.H.B.B., R.G., P. Skaane) and Pathology (J.L.), Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. Received June 15, 2017; revision requested August 14; revision received January 4, 2018; accepted January 5. Address correspondence to S.H. (e-mail: solveig. hofvind@kreftregisteret.no).
KIM KUNTZE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ORGANIC PHOTOSWITCHES FOR FUNCTIONAL LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS

KIM KUNTZE: Synthesis and characterization of organic photoswitches for functional liquid crystalline materials Tampere University Master of Science Thesis, 73 pages, 20 Appendix pages January 2019 Master’s Degree Programme in Chemistry Major: Chemistry (honors) Examiners: Prof. Arri Priimägi, Dr. Zafar Ahmed
PROXIMATE COMPOSITION AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTIC OF RABBITS FED GRADED LEVELS OF SWEET POTATO VINE SUPPLEMENTED WITH METHIONINE AND LYSINE 1

A ten week feeding trial was carried out to investigate composition and carcass characteristic of seventy-two (72) weaned mixed breed rabbits of both sexes. The initial live weight of the rabbits ranges from 600g to 1130g, and were randomly allocated to twelve treatment diets in a 3 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement experiment in a completely randomized design. The factors were: (1) Sweet potato vine at levels of 0, 15 and 30%, (2) methionine at low (0.07kg) and high (0.10kg) supplementary levels and (3) lysine at low (0.12kg) and high (0.15kg) supplementary levels. Abdominal fat deposit decreased as level of sweet potato vine increased. 15% sweet potato vine inclusion level supported intestine weight and 0% sweet potato vine gave highest kidney weight. Carcass composition parameters except moisture were highest in rabbits fed 30% sweet potato vine inclusion level. The sweet potato vine and methionine interaction showed that at 15% sweet potato vine inclusion and low methionine level, moisture content was highest and high crude protein proportion. Thirty percent sweet potato vine and low lysine level supported crude protein and ash deposition in carcass. Thirty percent sweet potato vine, high methionine and high lysine improved crude protein deposition only. Thirty percent sweet potato vine, low methionine and low lysine level supported ether extract deposition, while thirty percent sweet potato vine, high methionine and low lysine encouraged ash deposition in carcass of rabbit. It was therefore concluded that feeding sweet potato vines to rabbits with lysine and methionine improves the deposition of nutrients in carcass.
Digital Image Forgery and Techniques of Forgery Detection : A brief review

Digital images are all around us-from our mobile phones to the pages of online websites. Digital images are used in almost every field whether it is information forensic, journalism, criminal and forensic investigations or medical fields and many more. Because of the large availability and popularity of user-friendly image editing tools and software it become easy to alter the images but such modified images pose some serious dangers or problems in some fields where the genuineness of image has a prime important and in such fields it become very difficult to verify the authenticity and probity of digital images. Digital image forgery is the process of tampering contents of an image that is changing the meaning of image without leaving any detectable clues. In this paper, we present a review of various types of digital image forgery and forgery detection techniques.
Equally despised, equally despising: bridging the gap between religious minorities in a city

The growing number of Muslim immigrants in Moscow presents a significant challenge for intergroup relations in an urban context. Among Muscovites, Seventh-day Adventists as a religious minority appear to share a common prejudice against another minority: Muslim immigrants. This study seeks to determine factors that influence negative attitudes of these Adventists toward immigrants and to build a model for prejudice reduction. The proposed model includes two dependent variables (social distance and prejudice), five moderating variables (symbolic threat, realistic threat, ethnocentrism, stereotypes, and intergroup anxiety), and three independent variables (intergroup contact, in-group identity, and spirituality). Data collected from sixteen churches and 394 respondents were analyzed using AMOS-17 and a structural equation modeling software package. The study found that spirituality, realistic threat, and intergroup anxiety have a direct effect on prejudice and accounts for 72% of its variance. Realistic threat and prejudice have a direct effect on social distance and explain 41% of its variance. Further, the study found that spirituality, realistic threat, and stereotypes have a direct effect on intergroup anxiety and explain 31% of its variance. It was also found that realistic threat have a direct effect on stereotypes and explain 28% of its variance. The findings of this study suggest a certain level of negative attitudes expressed by one religious minority toward another; it also suggests spirituality to be the primary means in reducing prejudice among the Seventh-day Adventists toward Muslim immigrants. This study has found realistic threat to have a more significant effect on attitudes of church members than symbolic threat. Likewise, the moderating effect of the emotional factor (intergroup anxiety) has a far greater influence on prejudice and social distance than that of the cognitive factor (stereotypes). This study could be useful for intergroup-relations researchers, particularly those focusing on relations between religious minority groups. It can also be relevant for Christian leaders in order to educate their churches in cross-cultural communication and cultural diversity.
Tilburg University Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-Bref quality of life assessment

Background. The paper reports on the development of the WHOQOL-BREF, an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100 quality of life assessment. Method. The WHOQOL-BREF was derived from data collected using the WHOQOL-100. It produces scores for four domains related to quality of life : physical health, psychological, social relationships and environment. It also includes one facet on overall quality of life and general health. Results. Domain scores produced by the WHOQOL-BREF correlate highly (0±89 or above) with WHOQOL-100 domain scores (calculated on a four domain structure). WHOQOL-BREF domain scores demonstrated good discriminant validity, content validity, internal consistency and test–retest reliability. Conclusion. These data suggest that the WHOQOL-BREF provides a valid and reliable alternative to the assessment of domain profiles using the WHOQOL-100. It is envisaged that the WHOQOLBREF will be most useful in studies that require a brief assessment of quality of life, for example, in large epidemiological studies and clinical trials where quality of life is of interest. In addition, the WHOQOL-BREF may be of use to health professionals in the assessment and evaluation of treatment efficacy.
Facilitating cloud radar and lidar algorithms: The Cloudnet Instrument Synergy/Target Categorization product

Introduction The core instrumentation for clouds and aerosols quality controlled-observations at a CloudNet station comprises: i) Lidar/ceilometer providing profiles of a. attenuated backscatter coefficient from aerosol and cloud b. linear depolarisation ratio ii) Doppler cloud radar operating at 35 or 94GHz, providing profiles of a. reflectivity, Z, b. mean Doppler velocity, v, c. Doppler spectral width, v, d. standard deviation of the mean Doppler width, vbar e. linear depolarisation ratio, LDR. iii) Microwave radiometer providing a. brightness temperatures at two or more wavelengths in the range 20-30 GHz b. derived water vapour and liquid water path iv) Additional observations a. surface rain rate from raingauge b. radiosonde profiles, or NWP model output (temperature, pressure, humidity, winds)
Edible Bitter Mushroom from Besut , Malaysia Short Communication Edible Bitter Mushroom from Besut , Malaysia

To date, the edible bitter mushroom that available in Besut known with the only name kulat gelam. Whether in Terengganu or Kelantan, the mushroom that provides bitter taste will be obtained in certain season especially raining season in habitat of gelam trees. However, people from communities in Besut, Terengganu and some from Kelantan called the name of pokok gelam to different species of trees. In Besut, the tree was referred to Acacia mangium while in Kelantan they referred to Melaleuca cajuputi. Even in Malaysian rain forest, there was found the tree that related to the gelam name, that is gelam bukit tree from the species of Leptospermum from Fagaceae family. Field survey had been done in the habitat of the bitter mushroom found, assisted by local people. Through this research, we had been observed for the relationship between the bitter mushrooms in Besut area with the so called gelam tree. Comparison had been made with the previous record of bitter mushroom in local and at the other countries. The nomination of this bitter mushroom was well-matched with the possible details accounts and found it significance to the name of Tylopilus felleus (Bull.) Karst. , from Boletaceae family and some synonyms. There was ectomychorrizal relationship between kulat gelam and Acacia mangium trees. A simple experiment done to obtain the pH value of fresh juice found at pH 5, while the moisture content was 91.38 % and ethanolic extraction produced 26.09 % yield. Some macroscopic characters of the species had been recorded and the specimen deposited in herbarium. It is important to identify each fungus correctly for the status of its edibility and risks of poisonous, where it possible to cause fatal. Hence, this research may provide basic knowledge for the wild fungi identification and ecosystem management.
Effect of Summer Pruning and Some Bio-Stimulants on Bud Fertility, Vegetative Growth, Yield and Fruit Quality of Vitis vinifera cv. "Superior" Grapevines

This investigation was carried out during 2013 and 2014 seasons on ten-years-old Superior seedless grapevines grown in a sandy loam soil at El-Khatatba, Menoufiya governorate. The objective of this investigation was to study the effect of summer pruning and some bio-stimulants on bud fertility, vegetative growth, yield and fruit quality. The vines were cultivated at 2 X 3 meters apart and irrigated by the drip irrigation system, according to cane-pruning under the Spanish Baron trills system. The treatments were applied as follows: inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), inoculation with yeast (Y), summer pruning (Sp), (AM) + yeast (Y), (AM) + summer pruning (Sp), yeast (Y) + summer pruning (Sp), (AM) + yeast (Y) + summer pruning (Sp) and control (Uninoculated vines). The results showed that all treatment significantly increased bud fertility percentage and Fruitful coefficient in the second season than the control. Moreover, the combination of Arbuscular mycorrhiza + Yeast + Summer pruning recorded the highest significant values of yield per vine, cluster weight as well as the physical and chemical characteristics of berries. Dynamics of wood ripening, total chlorophyll and percentages of total nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium of the leaves and total carbohydrates of the canes were also improved. Concerning, microbiological activity in the rhizosphere, it was noticed that percentage of infection of AM-mycorrhizae, spore numbers of AM-mycorrhizae, the populations of total microorganism and yeast populations increased in the rhizosphere as a result of inoculation of AM-mycorrhizae and yeast.
MUSTACHE: Multi-Step-Ahead Predictions for Cache Eviction

In this work, we propose MUSTACHE, a new page cache replacement algorithm whose logic is learned from observed memory access requests rather than fixed like existing policies. We formulate the page request prediction problem as a categorical time series forecasting task. Then, our method queries the learned page request forecaster to obtain the next k predicted page memory references to better approximate the optimal Bélády’s replacement algorithm. We implement several forecasting techniques using advanced deep learning architectures and integrate the best-performing one into an existing open-source cache simulator. Experiments run on benchmark datasets show that MUSTACHE outperforms the best page replacement heuristic (i.e., exact LRU), improving the cache hit ratio by 1.9% and reducing the number of reads/writes required to handle cache misses by 18.4% and 10.3%.