Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
unctional MRI of emotional memory in adolescent depression osemary

Introduction: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. Moodcongruent biases in memory tasks are frequently reported in MDD patients, with facilitated memory for negative stimuli. Most functional MRI studies to date have examined the neural correlates of these biases in depressed adults, with fewer studies in adolescents with MDD. Investigation of MDD in adolescence may aid greater understanding of the aetiology and development of the disorder. Methods: Cognitive biases were investigated in 56 MDD patients aged 11–17 years and a matched group of 30 healthy control participants with a self-referential memory task. Behavioural performance and BOLD fMRI data were collected during both encoding and retrieval stages.
Effect of biological treatment and ultraviolet (UV)-C radiation disinfection process on wastewater bacterial community as assessed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) fingerprints

The rotating biological contactor (RBC) process was frequently used for the biological wastewater treatment in order to remove pollutants and to improve the water qualitybefore discharge to the environment. The presence of bacteria species in the secondary treated wastewater indicates the necessity of a tertiary treatment process [ultraviolet (UV)-C radiation disinfection] to reduce the number of living organisms in the water. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) method using 16S rDNA was commonly used for a direct comparison of structural diversity among different microbial communities. In the present study, community in treated and untreated wastewater from RBC treatment plantwas investigated using DGGE coupled with sequence analysis of 16S rRNA gene fragments from bands of interest. The analysis of the DGGE profiles and the sequence of the dominant DGGE bands showed a variability of the bacterial community with season. DGGE patterns of samples collected in summer were more complex than those collected in winter. In addition, the investigation of the effect of increasing UV253.7 germicidal doses on the bacterial community, in secondary treated wastewater effluent, revealed variabilityin bacterial tolerance to UV253.7 radiation. This variability is inter-specific and is dependent on the UV-C dose used and the bacterial specie irradiated. Consequently, this study demonstrated that DGGE method coupled with sequencing provides precise information on RBC and UV-C wastewater treatment process. Key words: Wastewater, biological treatment, bacterial communities, polymerase chain reaction - denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE), 16S rDNA, ultraviolet (UV)-C radiation disinfection.
Robust risk estimation using exact resampling criteria for the kNN algorithm

In the binary classication framework, a closed form expression of the cross-validation Leave-p-Out (LpO) risk estimator for the k Nearest Neighbor algorithm (kNN) is derived. It is used to study the LpO risk minimization strategy for choosing k in the passive learning setting. The impact of p on the choice of k and the LpO estimation of the risk are inferred.
Characterization of Natural and Affected Environm nts High-Resolution Temporal and Spatial

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Lanthanide-encoded Polystyrene Microparticles: Formation Kinetics and New Syntheses

Lanthanide-encoded Polystyrene Microparticles: Formation Kinetics and New Syntheses Taunia Lydia Lynn Closson Masters of Science Graduate Department of Chemistry University of Toronto 2014 To obtain a better understanding of how lanthanide-encoded polystyrene microparticles are formed during their synthesis, I carried out kinetic studies of two-stage dispersion copolymerization (2-DisP) of styrene and acrylic acid, with or without added TmCl3, in ethanol in the presence of poly(N-vinyl2-pyrrolidone) (PVP) as a polymeric stabilizer. Particles of narrow size distribution and micrometer diameters were obtained, allowing us to compare rates of monomer conversion, Tm ion incorporation, and growth in particle size. The most striking result was that at the higher levels of TmCl3 most of the metal ion incorporation occurred late in the reaction. I examined the syntheses of polystyrene microparticles using end-functionalized macromonomers as stabilizer via dispersion polymerization (DisP). Although the synthesis in 95 % ethanol was successful, the particles were not colloidally stable in water. I also investigated the role of the co-stabilizer TX305 on the passive adsorption of proteins onto PS particles synthesized via DisP and 2-DisP.
Disagreement Can Be Inviting: A Cooperative Learning Approach.

This paper presents a rationale for the compatibility of cooperative learning and invitational education. Invitational education focuses on how teachers can invite students to see themselves as able, valuable, and self-directing in an interactive group situation. Specifically, the rationale demonstrates how cooperatively structured disagreement can take place in an inviting manner. One method for structuring cooperative controversy is described and the findings from a limited research project on this method is summarized. A pilot study is reported in which college of education students participated in cooperative disagreement on a controversial topic in education. (JD) ****************** ***** * ***** ***************** ********** ** ***** ******** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ****************** ***** *************** ********** ***** ***** *************
Reference ResToRinG CaPitaLiZaTion in # TweeTs NEBHI ,

The rapid proliferation of microblogs such as Twitter has resulted in a vast quantity of written text becoming available that contains interesting information for NLP tasks. However, the noise level in tweets is so high that standard NLP tools perform poorly. In this paper, we present a statistical truecaser for tweets using a 3-gram language model built with truecased newswire texts and tweets. Our truecasing method shows an improvement in named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging tasks. NEBHI, Kamel, BONTCHEVA, Kalina, GORRELL, Genevieve. ResToRinG CaPitaLiZaTion in #TweeTs. In: 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media in conjunction with WWW 2015. 2015. p. 1111-1115
Assessing Performance and Competition Among Three Laricobius (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) Species, Predators of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)

ABSTRACT Predation, egg production, and survivorship of Laricobius nigrinus Fender, L. rubidus LeConte, and L. osakensis Montgomery and Shiyaki, predators of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae Annand, were investigated in the laboratory and in the field. In individual assays in the laboratory, L. rubidus oviposited fewer eggs than either L. nigrinus or L. osakensis. In assays containing congeneric or conspecific groups of adult Laricobius, L. osakensis preyed upon the greatest number of ovisacs. The number of ovisacs preyed upon was not different between treatments with all three species and those with only L. osakensis or L. nigrinus. Adult predators fed on few predator eggs and when they did no species preference was observed. The numbers of A. tsugae ovisacs fed upon did not differ significantly by groups of congeneric or conspecific Laricobius larvae. Laricobius adults and larvae had high survival rates throughout all experiments. In the field, L. nigrinus and L. rubidus were enclosed in sleeve cages with both high (>120 ovisacs) and low (<90 ovisacs) A. tsugae densities for 1 wk. All branches with caged beetles had significantly greater numbers of ovisacs preyed upon than branches caged without beetles. No differences in predation or egg production were found among the conspecific and congeneric groupings. Predation was uniformly greater on high prey-density branches than on low prey-density branches. Survivorship among predators did not differ significantly at either prey density. Results from both laboratory and field experiments suggest that these species are able to coexist and can be released in the same location for biological control of A. tsugae.
Magic Mirror and Hand-held and Wearable

A Magic Mirror paradigm is an augmented reality (AR) system where a camera and display device act as a mirror where one can see a reflection of oneself and virtual objects together. Fiducial markers mounted on a number of hand held and wearable objects allow them to be recognized by computer vision, different virtual objects can be rendered relative to the objects depending on the chosen theme. The experience can be enjoyed by many onlookers without special equipment, unlike other AR experiences such as with HMD’s or tablet PC’s. A series of theoretical and practical problems were overcome to produce a working system suitable for educational and entertainment for the public.
Impact of convection and resistivity on angular momentum transport in dwarf novae

The eruptive cycles of dwarf novae (DN) are thought to be due to a thermal-viscous instability in the accretion disk surrounding the white dwarf (WD). This model has long been known to imply a stress to pressure ratio \alpha ~0.1 in outburst compared to \alpha ~ 0.01 in quiescence. Such an enhancement in $\alpha$ has recently been observed in simulations of turbulent transport driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) when convection is present, without requiring a net magnetic flux. We independently recover this result by carrying out PLUTO MHD simulations of vertically stratified, radiative, shearing boxes with the thermodynamics and opacities appropriate to DN. The results are robust against the choice of vertical boundary conditions. The thermal equilibrium solutions found by the simulations trace the well-known S-curve in the density-temperature plane. We confirm that the high values of \alpha ~ 0.1 occur near the tip of the hot branch of the S-curve, where convection is active. However, we also present thermally-stable simulations at lower temperatures that have standard values of \alpha ~ 0.03 despite the presence of vigorous convection. We find no simple relationship between \alpha and the strength of the convection, as measured by the ratio of convective to radiative flux. The cold branch is only very weakly ionized so, in the second part of this work, we studied the impact of non-ideal MHD effects on transport. We include resistivity in the simulations and find that the MRI-driven transport is quenched (\alpha ~ 0) below the critical density at which the magnetic Reynolds number R_m \leq 10^4. This is problematic as X-ray emission observed in quiescent systems requires ongoing accretion onto the WD. We verify that these X-rays cannot self-sustain MRI-driven turbulence by photo-ionizing the disk and discuss possible solutions to the issue of accretion in quiescence.
Food security and food sovereignty

The terms food security and food sovereignty originally emerged as separate terms to describe different things. The former is a concept that describes a condition regarding access to adequate food, while the latter is more explicitly a political agenda for how to address inadequate access to food and land rights. Over the past decade, the critical food studies literature has increasingly referred to these terms as being oppositional to each rather than relational to one another. This commentary reflects on the emergence and rationale behind this binary and argues that the current oppositional frame within the literature is problematic in several ways. First, critics of food security have inserted a rival normative agenda into what was originally a much more open-ended concept. Second, the grounds on which that normative agenda is assigned to food security are shaky on several points. Given these problems, the commentary argues that the juxtaposition of food security and food sovereignty as competing terms is in many ways more confusing than helpful to policy dialogue on questions of hunger and the global food system.
Unified Structural Representation of the southern California 1 crust and upper mantle 2 3

31 We present a new, 3D description of crust and upper mantle velocity structure in 32 southern California implemented as a Unified Structural Representation (USR). The 33 USR is comprised of detailed basin velocity descriptions that are based on tens of 34 thousands of direct velocity (Vp, Vs) measurements and incorporates the locations and 35 displacement of major fault zones that influence basin structure. These basin 36 descriptions were used to developed tomographic models of crust and upper mantle 37 velocity and density structure, which were subsequently iterated and improved using 3D 38 waveform adjoint tomography. A geotechnical layer (GTL) based on Vs30 39 measurements and consistent with the underlying velocity descriptions was also 40 developed as an optional model component. The resulting model provides a detailed 41 description of the structure of the southern California crust and upper mantle that reflects 42 the complex tectonic history of the region. The crust thickens eastward as Moho depth 43 varies from 10 to 40 km reflecting the transition from oceanic to continental crust. Deep 44 sedimentary basins and underlying areas of thin crust reflect Neogene extensional 45 tectonics overprinted by transpressional deformation and rapid sediment deposition 46 since the late Pliocene. To illustrate the impact of this complex structure on strong 47 ground motion forecasting, we simulate rupture of a proposed M 7.9 earthquake source 48 in the Western Transverse Ranges. The results show distinct basin amplification and 49 focusing of energy that reflects crustal structure described by the USR that is not 50 captured by simpler velocity descriptions. We anticipate that the USR will be useful for a 51 broad range of simulation and modeling efforts, including strong ground motion 52 forecasting, dynamic rupture simulations, and fault system modeling. The USR is 53 available through the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) website 54 (www.scec.org). 55 56
Genetic differentiation in marine and estuarine natural populations of Crassostrea angulata

Electrophoretic examination of 8 allozyme l o c ~ In 10 Spanish natural populations of Crassostrea angulata revealed a high level of genetic variability in terms of average allele number, polymorphism and mean heterozygosity. Significant departures of genotypic frequencies from the HardyWeinberg conditions, which could not be explained after pooling alleles, were displayed at some loci. All populat~ons showed a deficit of heterozygotes, according to Selander's D Het.t. ,,,E. ,,t. , l)/Het.r,XFrC,c~t]; moreover, the mean D index across populations was negative for thc Lap, Mdh-l. Mdh-2, Me-2 and Xdh genes, consistent with Frr estimates, which indicates deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium within the total population. In contrast, loci Mel and Pgi were at equilibrium and Pgm showed a heterozygous excess. Null alleles appeared in Lap and Mdh-l loci, which could have been responsible for the disequilibrium, at least in Mdh-I, because the increase of frequencies of null alleles was also related to the increase in the def~cit of heterozygotes. Although a high level of gene flow between populations was detected, heterogeneity in the allelic frequencies of Lap, Mdh-1, A4dh-2, Me-2, Pgn? and Xdh genes was shown to occur Mean FST (F-statistic indicat~ng deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equil~brium among populations) across loci was 0.031, meaning a slight genetic differentiation; however, no relationships were shown to exist between genetic distances, geographic distances and their location (estuarine or marine sites).
Production of interleukin 27 by human neutrophils regulates their function in response to bacterial infection

Septicemia is the most severe form of melioidosis caused by the Gram-negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei. Here, we showed that levels of IL-27p28 transcript and protein were both significantly elevated in patients with sepsis, particularly melioidosis and in patients with unfavorable disease outcome. Moreover, monocytes/macrophages and neutrophils were the major source of IL-27 during infection. Addition of exogenous IL-27 in vitro resulted in significantly increased bacterial survival, reduced B. pseudomallei-induced oxidative burst and enhanced IL-1beta and TNF-alpha production by purified neutrophils from healthy subjects. Finally, blockade of endogenous IL-27 in neutrophils using soluble IL-27 receptor antagonist prior to infection led to significantly reduced survival of bacteria and decreased IL-1beta, but not TNFalpha production. These results indicate a potential role of IL-27 in suppression of antibacterial defense mechanisms that might contribute to disease severity in sepsis. The targeting of this cytokine may be beneficial in the management of human sepsis.
Approximate Accuracy Approaches to Attribute Reduction for Information Systems

The key problem for attribute reduction to information systems is how to evaluate the importance of an attribute. The algorithms are challenged by the variety of data forms in information system. Based on rough sets theory we present a new approach to attribute reduction for incomplete information systems and fuzzy valued information systems. In order to evaluate the importance of an attribute effectively, a novel algorithm with rigorous theorem is proposed. Experiments show the effect of proposed algorithm.
and Antitumor Activity T Cell Numbers, Effector Function, + CD8 Enhances Peptide Vaccine-Induced a IFN-Helen

Type I IFNs, including IFN- (cid:1) , enhance Ag presentation and promote the expansion, survival, and effector function of CD8 (cid:2) CTL during viral infection. Because these are ideal characteristics for a vaccine adjuvant, we examined the efﬁcacy and mechanism of exogenous IFN- (cid:1) as an adjuvant for antimelanoma peptide vaccination. We studied the expansion of pmel-1 transgenic CD8 (cid:2) T cells speciﬁc for the gp100 melanocyte differentiation Ag after vaccination of mice with gp100 25–33 peptide in IFA. IFN- (cid:1) syner-gized with peptide vaccination in a dose-dependent manner by boosting relative and absolute numbers of gp100-speciﬁc T cells that suppressed B16 melanoma growth. IFN- (cid:1) dramatically increased the accumulation of gp100-speciﬁc, IFN- (cid:3) -secreting, CD8 (cid:2) T cells in the tumor through reduced apoptosis and enhanced proliferation of Ag-speciﬁc CD8 (cid:2) T cells. IFN- (cid:1) treatment also greatly increased the long-term maintenance of pmel-1 CD8 (cid:2) T cells with an effector memory phenotype, a process that required expression of IFN- (cid:1) receptor on the T cells and IL-15 in the host. These results demonstrate the efﬁcacy of IFN- (cid:1) as an adjuvant for peptide vaccination, give insight into its mechanism of action, and provide a rationale for clinical trials
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Precise tests of a quark mass texture Permalink

The relations IVub/Vcbl = (mu/mc) 12 and IVid/V'tsl = (md/ms) 1 between the CKM matrix elements and the quark masses are shown to imply a remarkably precise determination of the CKM unitarity triangle or of the Wolfenstein parameters p, 1J consistent with the data so far. We view this as a clean test of a quark mass texture neatly arising from a hierarchical breaking of a U(2) flavour symmetry.
Dispersion Models and Electromagnetic FDTD Analyses ofNanostructured Metamaterials using Parallel Computer

Metamaterial which has negative permittivity and permeability is investigated via computer simulations. Effects of the nanostructure on dielectric and magnetic properties of the material are taken into account by introducing the Drude-Lorentz model in the materials dispersion. We include multi-band process in the dielectric response in order to reproduce accurately experimental values of bulk Au thin film. Size effect on the dispersion is examined by comparing the model with that of a noble metal particle. Based on the dispersion model constructed, we analyze the electromagnetic response of nanostructured metamaterials to evanescent waves at microwave and optical frequencies via finite-difference time-domain simulatioins on parallel computer. A re-focusing and an amplification of the evanescent waves propagating through a metamaterial, consisting of metal slab/vacuum stacking, is demonstrated for the frequencies of 30GHz and 744THz.
ii Project Information Title : Multivariate Kernel Functions for Categorical Variables Name :

Facultat d’Informatica de Barcelona Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics Informatics Engineer by Carlos Garćıa Márquez This project investigates kernels specially designed for their use on categorical data, and introduces a new family of kernel functions grounded on the use of the probabilistic structure of the data. This new family is based on the generalisation of existing kernels for binary variables -where the inputs belong to 0, 1to a probabilistic framework where the inputs belong to (0, 1).
Firm compliance to regulatory enforcement of industrial wastewater standards in Kenya

Regulatory enforcement and industrial non-compliance are very familiar issues in environmental protectlon and water resource management. Current thinking recognizes the insufficiency of the traditional regulatory enforcement structures that are based orthodox deterrence theory. There are, therefore increasing shlfts among some industrialized countrles towards "new regulatory reglmes" that focus on management styles, and forms of selfregulation, based on innovatlve and incentive devlce. However, the orthodox instruments remain the principie means for regulatory enforcement among many developing countries. Our goal in this paper ¡s to examine the effects of these (traditional) regulatory enforcement instruments on firm' compliance to wastewater standards in Kenya. We (i) examine the state of wastewater regulatory compliance and infractlons; (ii) construct and estímate a model of enforcement incidence based on monitorlng, inspections, warning letters, and court prosecutions; and (iii) discuss the linkages in the enforcement framework, and behaviour of firms). We use primary and secondary data from 53 industrial plants across 5 urban areas. The results of our model help us to identify flaws In the existing regulatory and enforcement "reglme". 'This paper ¡s based on chapter 8 of my Ph. D. dissertation. While claiming responsibility for errors, 1 would llke to acknowledge the comments of Prof. Ole Jess Olsen, Prof. Soren Lund, Dr, Dr. Claes Brundanlus, who were members of my dissertation committee and Dr. Poul Ove Pedersen. The study was conducted as part of the DANIDA/ENRECA activlty organised jolntly between Institute for Development Studies (University of Nairobi) and the Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen. IDS Working Paper 537