Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Dispersive Self-- Switching in DFB Lasers — Theory Versus Experiment

The single-mode model of dispersive selfQ-switching is extended to lasers containing a phase tuning section. The parameter set used for modeling is taken from independent measurements on existing self-pulsating devices. Detuning of the Bragg wavelengths by current induced heating is found, and this effect is included in the model. Calculated self-pulsation characteristics were compared quantitatively with experimental results on the device. A very good correspondence between theory and experiment is obtained, e.g., for conditions generating selfpulsations and for the frequency-current dependence. Dispersive self-Q-switching thus is confirmed as responsible mechanism for the high frequency DFB type self-pulsations. The modeling further shows that the delay between the stimulated emission within the device and the radiation of photons from the facets plays an important role for keeping the pulsations running.
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Purpose The objective was to evaluate the effects of mineral fertilizers and swine manure fertilization on soil aggregation indexes and on chemical and physical attributes of aggregates in Typic Hapludult managed under minimum tillage system. Method Experiment was implemented in 2013, in southern Brazil. The treatments were control, mineral fertilization (MF), swine manure compost + MF (SMC+MF); pig slurry + MF (PS+MF); PS to supply N for maize and black oat (PS100). In May 2015 and 2016, undisturbed soil samples were collected to obtain soil aggregates. Aggregates stability was evaluated through the mean weight diameter (MWD) and mean geometric diameter (MGD) indexes and aggregate distribution by diameter classes. In macroaggregates, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), clay flocculation degree (CF%) and ∆pH were evaluated. Results The use of swine manure, associated or not to MF, increases TOC and TN contents in soil aggregates in 67.02 and 125.87%, respectively, for SMC+MF treatment. However, it was not efficient in improving soil physical attributes, reducing soil aggregation indexes, mainly in the 5-10 cm layer, by the decreased values of MWD and MGD. This result corroborates with the increase in microaggregates in all treatments. This was a result of the negative ∆pH values and the increased CF%. Conclusion Despite the increase in organic matter contents observed in this study, this was not enough to guarantee an improvement in soil physical attributes over 4 years. These results show that management must be supported by several conservationist techniques in order to have soil quality.
The Evaluation of Formula 100 Utilization Program towards The Nutritional Status of Malnourished Children after Treatment at Muna District in 2016

Background: The total percentage of underweight children in Muna District was 11.8% and the percentage of severe wasted children was 6.3%. As recommended by World Health Organization (WHO),improvement in nutritional status of malnourished children is conductedby improving food supplementation. Giving therapeutic formula 100 (F-100), where F-100 is the food made from dairy products which given in transition and rehabilitation phase. Objectives:To fi gure out the admission of F-100 by malnourished children and to fi nd out the correlation between F-100 admission from malnourished children and the changing of nutritional status. Methods: This research is an observational study using the design of prospective cohort study. The sample were the whole children aged 12-24 months who suffered malnutrition with the total number up to 73 children who have fulfi lled the criteria of inclusion and exclusion. The study sample had received F-100 for 5 weeks. The data analysis used is univariate and bivariate. Results: Most of the subjects are included in the category of well admission (63.08%) by spending given F-100 and the rests are included in the category of less admission (36.92%) by not spending the given F-100. The result of Chi Square Test shows that there is correlation between the admission of F-100 and the changing of nutritional status (p=0.02) (RR=2.7, 95% CI=1.07-7.2). Conclusions: There is signifi cant correlation between the admission of F-100 and the changing of children’s nutritional status (p<0.05)
A Variant in XPNPEP 2 Is Associated with Angioedema Induced by Angiotensin I – Converting Enzyme Inhibitors

Centre de recherche du CHUM, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, and Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute, and Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montréal, Montreal; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Milan; Service de Néphrologie, CH La Beauchée, Saint-Brieuc, France; Service de Néphrologie-Hémodialyse, ARPDD, and Service de Néphrologie, CH Universitaire-Reims, Reims, France; Service d’Hémodialyse, CH Louis Pasteur, Cherbourg, France; Service d’Hémodialyse, CH Intercommunal de Cornouaille, and Service de Néphrologie-Hémodialyse, CH Laënnec, Quimper, France; and Hôtel-Dieu de Saint-Jérôme, Saint-Jérôme, Canada
MCDM techniques in environmentally conscious anufacturing and product recovery : State of the art ehmet

Increasing environmental awareness of customers and stricter environmental regulations by local governments force manufacturers to invest in environmentally conscious manufacturing which involves the application of green principles to all phases of a product’s life cycle from conceptual design to final delivery to consumers, and ultimately to the end of life (EOL) disposal. They also setup facilities for product recovery which is the recovery of materials and components from returned or EOL products via disas-
Evaluation of the Romosinuano cattle population structure in 1 Mexico using pedigree analysis 2 3 To appear in : 4

32 Background: Romosinuano cattle breed in Mexico has been practically isolated and needs 33 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 34  Corresponding author: Km 38.5 Carretera México-Texcoco, Chapingo, México CP 56230. Tel. : +52-595952-1621. E-mail: rodolforv@correo.chapingo. mx eISSN: 2256-2958 Rev Colomb Cienc Pecu 2019; 32(4) to be characterized for a sustainable genetic management. Objective: To assess the evolution 35 of the structure and genetic diversity of the Romosinuano breed in Mexico, through pedigree 36 analysis. Methods: Pedigree data came from the Asociación Mexicana de Criadores de 37 Ganado Romosinuano y Lechero Tropical (AMCROLET). The ENDOG program (4.8 38 version) was used to analyze two datasets, one that includes upgrading from F1 animals (UP) 39 and the other with only straightbred cattle (SP). For both datasets, three reference populations 40 were defined: 1998-2003 (RP1), 2004-2009 (RP2) and 2010-2017 (RP3). The pedigree 41 included 3,432 animals in UP and 1,518 in SP. Demographic parameters were: Generation 42 interval (GI), equivalent number of generations (EG), pedigree completeness index (PCI), 43 and gene flow among herds. Genetic parameters were: Inbreeding (F) and average 44 relatedness (AR) coefficients, effective population size (Nec), effective number of founders 45 and ancestors, and number of founder genome equivalents. Results: The GI varied from 6.10 46 to 6.54 for UP, and from 6.47 to 7.16 yr for SP. The EG of the UP and SP improved >63% 47 from RP1 to RP3. The PCI increased over time. No nucleus or isolated herds were found. 48 For RP3, F and AR reached 2.08 and 5.12% in the UP, and 2.55 and 5.94% in the SP. For 49 RP3, Nec was 57 in the UP and 45 in the SP. Genetic diversity losses were attributed mainly 50 (>66%) to genetic drift, except for RP3 in the SP (44%). Conclusions: After the 51 Romosinuano breed association was established in Mexico, a reduction of the genetic 52 diversity has been occurring, mainly due to random losses of genes. 53
Teaching Black Boys in Early Childhood Education : Promising Practices from Exemplar Teachers

© 2017 Essien 5 In 1984, Jawanza Kunjufu penned the landmark book, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys. In this book, he critiqued educators for their perpetuation of systems and practices that reified oppression of Black communities, particularly Black boys. He decried the numerous inadequacies of the American educational system, arguing that educators who continued practices that led to poor outcomes for Black males were participants in a conspiracy to destroy them. While there are now numerous programs, interventions, conferences, symposia, books, and journals dedicated to exploring challenges facing Black males (Harper, 2010a), little movement has been seen in the relative performance of Black boys in comparison to their peers. Journal of African American Males in Education Fall 2017 Vol. 8 Issue 2
UNIVERSIDAD DE ESPECIALIDADES ESPÍRITU SANTO Facultad de Artes Liberales PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR AND ITS RELATION WITH ENGAGEMENT: TEAM VS SUPERVISOR TRABAJO DE TITULACIÓN QUE SE PRESENTA COMO REQUISITO PREVIO A OPTAR EL GRADO DE PSICOLOGÍA ORGANIZACIONAL Nombre del estudian

Organizations usually pursue their employees’ desire of being synchronized, without diminishing their well-being. The following study attempts to identify how agreements in perceived organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) between employees and supervisors affect the levels of engagement. The participants were 608 employees and 86 supervisors from 7 different Ecuadorian companies. Four categories were created according to the agreement between the supervisor and the team’s perceived OCB using standard deviation. ANOVA analysis allowed to identify the engagement differences on each of the categories. The results demonstrated that engagement levels had their maximum values in low disagreement categories for both employees and supervisors, though categories of high agreement/disagreement have adequate levels of engagement. These results contribute to agreement perspective studies in organizations, and discover that low levels of disagreement of team’s perceived OCB can generate positive results, hence boosting further research.
FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH : AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA

Since the financial crisis occurred in the mid of 1997, generally the government of Asian countries have difficulties in supporting their economic growth. This paper attempts to analyze the relationship between fiscal variables, including government expenditure, revenue and output in Malaysia and Indonesia. The relationship between government expenditure and revenue will be tested by co integration and causality test, meanwhile the effect of government expenditure and revenue on output will be tested using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). The result shows that there are strongly long run relationship between fiscal variables and output in these two countries. More active fiscal policy is recommended in Malaysia, meanwhile a better fiscal management must be applied in Indonesia.
WP / 18 / 279 Can Good Governance Lower Financial Intermediation Costs ?

This paper argues that better governance practices can reduce the costs, risks and uncertainty of financial intermediation. Our sample covers high-, middleand low-income countries before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that net interest margins of banks are lower if various governance indicators are better. More cross-border lending also appears conducive to lower intermediation costs, while the level of capital market development is not significant. The GFC seems not to have had a strong impact except via credit risk. Finally, we estimate the size of potential gains from improved governance. JEL Classification Numbers: A13, G21, G38, K42
Title Baseline survey of the anatomical microbial ecology of an important food plant : Solanum lycopersicum ( tomato ) Permalink

Background: Research to understand and control microbiological risks associated with the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables has examined many environments in the farm to fork continuum. An important data gap however, that remains poorly studied is the baseline description of microflora that may be associated with plant anatomy either endemically or in response to environmental pressures. Specific anatomical niches of plants may contribute to persistence of human pathogens in agricultural environments in ways we have yet to describe. Tomatoes have been implicated in outbreaks of Salmonella at least 17 times during the years spanning 1990 to 2010. Our research seeks to provide a baseline description of the tomato microbiome and possibly identify whether or not there is something distinctive about tomatoes or their growing ecology that contributes to persistence of Salmonella in this important food crop. Results: DNA was recovered from washes of epiphytic surfaces of tomato anatomical organs; leaves, stems, roots, flowers and fruits of Solanum lycopersicum (BHN602), grown at a site in close proximity to commercial farms previously implicated in tomato-Salmonella outbreaks. DNA was amplified for targeted 16S and 18S rRNA genes and sheared for shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Amplicons and metagenomes were used to describe “native” bacterial microflora for diverse anatomical parts of Virginia-grown tomatoes. Conclusions: Distinct groupings of microbial communities were associated with different tomato plant organs and a gradient of compositional similarity could be correlated to the distance of a given plant part from the soil. Unique bacterial phylotypes (at 95% identity) were associated with fruits and flowers of tomato plants. These include Microvirga, Pseudomonas, Sphingomonas, Brachybacterium, Rhizobiales, Paracocccus, Chryseomonas and Microbacterium. The most frequently observed bacterial taxa across aerial plant regions were Pseudomonas and Xanthomonas. Dominant fungal taxa that could be identified to genus with 18S amplicons included Hypocrea, Aureobasidium and Cryptococcus. No definitive presence of Salmonella could be confirmed in any of the plant samples, although 16S sequences suggested that closely related genera were present on leaves, fruits and roots.
JGM X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease case with a novel missense mutation in GJB 1 gene

X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX) is the second most common among all types of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). Its prevalence is estimated to be 7% to 16% of all CMT cases, while it is a rare cause of peripheral neuropathy [1]. Most of CMTX cases are by mutations in GJB1 gene, and are labeled as CMTX1 (MIM #302800). CMTX1 share common features with CMT such as progressive motor weakness, wasting of the lower extremities and foot deformities, hypoactive deep tendon reflexes (DTRs), and sensory abnormalities. Interestingly, CMTX1 has distinct features not found in most other types of CMT: the antecedent central nervous system (CNS) involvement, which involves white matter changes in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy abnormalities [13]. CMTX1 follows X-linked dominant inheritance, and male patients are more severely affected than female patients. GJB1 encodes a gap junction protein, also known as connexin 32. Mutation in GJB1 can lead to dysfunction of ion exchange in the cell membrane. So far, more than 400 mutations in GJB1 have been identified [1]. Here, we report a CMTX1 case with a novel mutation in GJB1. We believe this report may expand the mutation spectrum CMTX1, and help raise awareness of CMTX1 often misdiagnosed as CNS disease.
EasyChair Preprint No 746 Generalizing Robot Imitation Learning with Invariant Hidden Semi-Markov Models

Generalizing manipulation skills to new situations requires extracting invariant patterns from demonstrations. For example, the robot needs to understand the demonstrations at a higher level while being invariant to the appearance of the objects, geometric aspects of objects such as its position, size, orientation and viewpoint of the observer in the demonstrations. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that learns a joint probability density function of the demonstrations with invariant formulations of hidden semi-Markov models to extract invariant segments (also called sub-goals or options), and smoothly follow the generated sequence of states with a linear quadratic tracking controller. The algorithm takes as input the demonstrations observed with respect to different coordinate systems describing virtual landmarks or objects of interest, and adapts the segments according to the environmental changes in a systematic manner. We present variants of this algorithm in latent space with low-rank covariance decompositions, semi-tied covariances, and non-parametric online estimation of model parameters under small variance asymptotics; yielding considerably low sample and model complexity for acquiring new manipulation skills. The algorithm allows a Baxter robot to learn a pick-and-place task while avoiding a movable obstacle based on only 4 kinesthetic demonstrations.
Title of Paper: THE EFFECT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION ON SUDANESE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION Author: Ishraga

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the English language in Sudanese identity construction after the Naivasha agreement between the South and the North of Sudan in 2005. An attempt is also made to examine associations between students’ educational backgrounds and identity. The population of this study is the students of three private universities. The researcher has designed a structured interview for the students. The findings presented here are from a few selected subjects. The results reveal that English has played a role in Sudanese students’ identity construction. Moreover, it has been found that English emerges as a dominant language, English is viewed as a pragmatic language and a language of empowerment, and a sense of “othering” is clearly identified among the students that have a good command of English.
Interactive comment on “ Reactive nitrogen in Mexico City and its relation to ozone-precursor sensitivity : results from photochemical models ” by S . Sillman

General comments In this paper the authors examine the relation between reactive nitrogen and secondary species and ozone-NOx-VOC sensitivity in Mexico City (MC) based on CIT modeling for the year of 1997, and compare with those in other cities they studied previously. Their results show that while some indicator relations established previously still hold for Mexico City, such as the ratios of H2O2/HNO3 and O3/NOy, many indicators behave differently, such as higher PAN/O3 and O3/HNO3, due to high organic nitrate production and low HNO3 formation. They also found a mixed sensitivity of O3-NOxVOC chemistry in MC domain-wise, different from recent modeland measurementbased studies, which they attribute to changes in emissions over time. The paper
International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering

Mesothelioma, which is a disease of the pleura and peritoneum, is an asbestos-related environmental disease in undeveloped countries. Although the incidence of this disease is lower than that of lung cancer, the reaction it creates in society is very high. In this study, 9 different classification algorithms of data mining were applied to the Mesethelioma data set obtained from real patients in Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine and loaded into UCI Machine Learning Repository, and the results were compared. When the obtained results were examined, it has been seen that Artificial Neural Network (ANN) had %99.0740 correct classification ratio.
BIOCHEMICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE LIVER OF DIOXIN (TCDD)- INTOXICATED RABBITS

2,3,7,8- Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is a highly persistent trace environmental contaminant that represents one of the most potent toxicants known to man. Dioxin is the name generally given to a class of super-toxic chemicals, formed as a by–product of the manufacture, molding, or burning of organic chemicals and plastics that contain chlorine. Oxidative stress may play a role in the toxic manifestations of dioxin. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the dose-dependent effects of dioxin on various indices of oxidative stress along with other biochemical parameters in blood and liver of male rabbit, and to examine the histopathological consequences in the liver. Twenty four male rabbits were divided randomly into three groups. The first group (12 rabbits) served as control and vehicle-carrier. The other two groups, six rabbits each, received different oral doses of dioxin (3 and 6 µg/kg body weight) on seven consecutive days. Dioxin caused exaggerated oxidative stress response in dioxin-treated rabbits as indicated by significant changes in total antioxidant capacity, malondialdehyde (MDA), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and reduced glutathione (GSH) levels. Other biochemical parameters analyzed were also altered either slightly or significantly. The dioxin-mediated oxidative stress appears to cause hepatic histological changes. The hepatic tissue displayed microvesicular steatosis, and degenerative as well as necrotic changes. These changes were particularly prominent with the higher dose. In conclusion the results indicated that, the treatment of rabbits with dioxin may cause oxidative stress response and changes in some biochemical parameters and hepatic histological architecture in a dose-dependent manner.
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Supplementary data tml http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing. org/content/suppl/2014/02/10/rspb.2013. 3159.DC1. h "Data Supplement" References http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing. org/content/281/1780/20133159.full. html#ref-list-1 This article cites 36 articles, 11 of which can be accessed free Subject collections (1679 articles) ecology  Articles on similar topics can be found in the following collections Email alerting service here right-hand corner of the article or click Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article sign up in the box at the top
IMPACT: Interfaces for Operator-Autonomy Teaming

This symposium provides an overview of a research effort that integrated several autonomy advancements into a control station prototype to flexibly team a single human operator with heterogeneous unmanned vehicles. The autonomy related technologies optimize asset allocation, plan vehicle routes, recommend courses of action and provide a distributed support architecture featuring an extensible software framework. This effort also integrated these technologies with novel human-autonomy interfaces that allow operators to effectively manage UxV via high level “play” commands. Evaluation results indicate that the innovative approach supports operator-autonomy teaming for effective management of a dozen simulated vehicles performing base defense tasks.