Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pattern recognition in building stock using geotopographic datasets

National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs) are collecting geotopographic datasets of the built environment of many countries [10]. In these datasets the geometry of buildings is usually represented with their 2D footprint and semantic information is limited to the address and perhaps the use of the building. While upcoming photogrammetric and remote sensing technologies were developed to facilitate the gathering of the geometries [7, 8, 27], constantly increasing urbanisation is bearing new challenges that cannot be solved with the information on hand [18].
MiniReview Yersinia virulence : more than a plasmid

The genus Yersinia is composed of 11 species, three of which are pathogenic in humans. The three pathogens, Y. pestis, Y. enterocolitica , and Y. pseudotuberculosis , cause a broad spectrum of disease ranging from pneumonic plague to acute gastroenteritis. Each of the three requires a large, well-defined plasmid for full virulence, as well as many chromosomally encoded virulence factors (CEVF). This review will describe these CEVF and their roles in virulence. In addition, a possible model for key events in Y. enterocolitica pathogenesis is described based on information revealed by analysis of several of the CEVF. (cid:223) 2001 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
On-line spectral library for gas chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

Invented more than three decades ago by Horning, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry under atmospheric pressure (GC-APCI-MS) has only recently emerged from years of obscurity. However, the general acceptance of GC-APCI-MS is certainly constrained by the lack of spectral libraries, which make the traditional GC-MS approaches so powerful. Here we present a concept of a GC-APCI-QqToF spectral library. The library is web-based, fully searchable and at moment includes spectra of 150 compounds from the most common chemical families. The fragmentation pattern of some chemical families is explained and a protocol for de novo identification has been provided in order to facilitate the identification of unknown compounds. A library for GC-APCI-QqToF is now publicly available online. its substitution with a H 2 O molecule at m/z 331.2650. reaction site, deuterated palmitic acid MS/MS experiments were carried out with an isolation window of 2 Da. The figure 2D shows the protonated molecule m/z 360.4827 (C 19 HD 31 O 2 Si + ), the loss of a CH 4 group at m/z 344.4493 and a substitution with a H 2 O molecule confirmed by the exact mass of 18.0106 Da and the isotopic distribution at m/z 362.4596. The data shows no involvement of a deuterium atom, which leads to the conclusion that the observed effect is related to the silylation group. The exact location of the reaction site might require an experiment with isotopically labelled derivatization reagent.
Local dynamics and strong correlation physics: One- and two-dimensional half-filled Hubbard models

We report on a nonperturbative approach to the one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard models that is capable of recovering both strong- $(U\ensuremath{\gg}t)$ and weak-coupling $(U\ensuremath{\ll}t)$ limits, with U the on-site Coulomb repulsion and t the kinetic energy. Dynamical corrections to the electron self-energy in the single particle Green function are explicitly included by expanding in terms of the 16 eigenstates that characterize two nearest neighbor sites. We first show that even when U is much smaller than the bandwidth, the Mott-Hubbard gap never closes at half filling in both 1D and 2D. Consequently, the Hubbard model at half filling is always in the strong-coupling nonperturbative regime. For both large and small U, we find that the population of nearest-neighbor singlet states approaches a value of order unity as $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{T}0$ as would be expected for antiferromagnetic order. We also find that the double occupancy is a smooth monotonic function of U and approaches the anticipated noninteracting limit of $1/4$ as $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{U}0$ and vanishes as $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{U}\ensuremath{\infty}. $ Finally, we compute the heat capacity $[C(T,U)]$ for both 1D and 2D. Our results for 1D at moderate to high temperatures are in quantitative agreement with those of the exact Bethe ansatz solution, differing by no more than $1%. $ In addition, we find that in 2D, the $C(T,U)$ curves vs T for different values of U exhibit a universal crossing point at two characteristic temperatures $T\ensuremath{\approx}1.7t\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.1t$ and $T\ensuremath{\approx}0.4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.1t$ as is seen universally in Hubbard models and experimentally in a wide range of strongly correlated systems such as ${}^{3}\mathrm{He},$ ${\mathrm{UBe}}_{3},$ and ${\mathrm{CeCu}}_{6\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Al}}_{x}. $ The success of this method in recovering well-established results that stem fundamentally from the Coulomb interaction suggests that local dynamics are at the heart of the physics of strongly correlated systems.
Effect of cis- and frans-Dichlorodiammineplatinum(ll) on Human Tumor Cell Proliferation in Diffusion Chambers in

The cis and frans isomers of dichlorodiammineplatinum(ll) (DDP) were tested for their ability to inhibit human tumor cell proliferation in vivo. Cell-impermeable diffusion chambers con taining KB target cells were surgically implanted in the perito neal cavities of Fischer rats, which were, 1 day later, given i.p. injections of c/s-DDP (0.25 to 8.0 mg/kg), trans-DDP (8.0 mg/ kg), or 0.9% NaCI solution. Radiolabeled cis- and trans- [195mPt]DDPswere used to monitor the diffusion of DDP within the chamber fluid and the binding or uptake of DDP by the target cells. Cell counts following injection showed that c/s-DDP induced a progressive, dose-dependent loss in cell num ber so that, by the second day, the chambers of animals receiving c/s-DDP (8 mg/kg) contained less than 10% of the cell number found in the control or frans-DDP-treated cham bers. Despite the relative lack of biological activity of the trans- isomer, between 2- and 3-fold greater levels of 196mptactivity were detected in the fluid and target cells in chambers of animals receiving frans-[195mPt]DDP compared to c/s-[195mPt]-DDP injected animals. Scanning electron micrographs of target cells from c/s-DDP treated rats showed certain morphological features (cell surface blebs and the appearance of giant cells) that were not found in control target cell populations. The diffusion system was shown to be a reproducible, sensitive assay system which differentiated between c/s-DDP, a potent antitumor drug, and trans-DDP, a biologically ineffec tive isomer. In addition, it was possible using 195mPt-labeled DDP in this assay system to quantitate the relative concentra tions of the two isomers both surrounding and within the target cells.
Can Na 18 F PET/CT bone scans help when deciding if early intervention is needed in patients being treated with a TSF attached to the tibia: insights from 41 patients Henrik

Purpose To demonstrate the usefulness of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) bone scans for gaining insight into healing bone status earlier than CT or X-ray alone. Methods Forty-one prospective patients being treated with a Taylor Spatial Frame were recruited. We registered data obtained from successive static CT scans for each patient, to align the broken bone. Radionuclide uptake was calculated over a spherical volume of interest (VOI). For all voxels in the VOI, histograms and cumulative distribution functions of the CT and PET data were used to assess the type and progress of new bone growth and radionuclide uptake. The radionuclide uptake difference per day between the PET/CT scans was displayed in a scatter plot. Superimposing CT and PET slice data and observing the spatiotemporal uptake of 18 F − in the region of healing bone by a time-sequenced movie allowed qualita-tive evaluation. Results Numerical evaluation, particularly the shape and distribution of Hounsfield Units and radionuclide uptake in the graphs, combined with visual evaluation and the movies enabled the identification of six patients needing intervention as well as those not requiring intervention. Every revised patient proceeded to a successful treatment conclusion. Conclusion Numerical and visual evaluation based on all the voxels in the VOI may aid the orthopedic surgeon to assess a patient’s progression to recovery. By identifying slow or insufficient progress at an early stage and observing the uptake of 18 F − in specific regions of bone, it might be possible to shorten the recovery time and avoid unnecessary late complications.
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Herbivory by large vertebrates, including deer, has always been an important process in the ecology of lowland woodlands in Britain (Putman, 1996). Paradoxically, given the focus of this paper, they remove a far smaller proportion of the woodland annual primary productivity than their invertebrate herbivore counterparts (Putman, 1986; Packham et al., 1992). Nevertheless, evidence for considerable recent expansions in both population numbers and geographical range of several deer species in lowland Britain has drawn attention to the impact that they can have on various semi-natural habitats, especially mixed deciduous woodland (Putman and Moore, The impact of deer on lowland woodland invertebrates: a review of the evidence and priorities for future research
Convolution Neural Network with Selective Multi-Stage Feature Fusion: Case Study on Vehicle Rear Detection

Vision-based vehicle detection is the most basic and important technology in advanced driver assistance systems. In this paper, we propose a vehicle detection framework using selective multi-stage features in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to improve vehicle detection performance. A 10-layer CNN model was designed and visualization techniques were used to selectively extract features from the activation feature map, called selective multi-stage features. The proposed features contain characteristic vehicle image information and are more robust than traditional features against noise. We trained the AdaBoost algorithm using these features to implement a vehicle detector. The experimental results verified that the proposed vehicle detection framework exhibited better performance than previous frameworks.
Edinburgh Research Explorer Webs and Posets

The non-Abelian exponentiation theorem has recently been generalised to correlators of multiple Wilson line operators. The perturbative expansions of these correlators exponentiate in terms of sets of diagrams called webs, which together give rise to colour factors corresponding to connected graphs. The colour and kinematic degrees of freedom of individual diagrams in a web are entangled by mixing matrices of purely combinatorial origin. In this paper we relate the combinatorial study of these matrices to properties of partially ordered sets (posets), and hence obtain explicit solutions for certain families of web-mixing matrix, at arbitrary order in perturbation theory. We also provide a general expression for the rank of a general class of mixing matrices, which governs the number of independent colour factors arising from such webs. Finally, we use the poset language to examine a previously conjectured sum rule for the columns of web-mixing matrices which governs the cancellation of the leading subdivergences between diagrams in the web. Our results, when combined with parallel developments in the evaluation of kinematic integrals, oﬀer new insights into the all-order structure of infrared singularities in non-Abelian gauge theories.
RUNNING HEAD: LANGUAGE CATEGORISATION AND BODY PART REPRESENTATIONS

Tactile perception is referenced to, and modulated by, body parts and their boundaries. For example, tactile distances presented over the wrist are perceptually elongated relative to those presented within the hand or arm. This phenomenon is argued to result from a segmentation of tactile space according to body parts and their boundaries, i.e., touches presented within a body part are perceived as being more similar, and therefore closer together, whereas those that straddle a body part boundary (e.g. presented across two body parts) are perceived as more distinct and thus further apart. We tested the hypothesis that language shapes this effect by providing consolidatory labels for categories and boundaries, as it does in other perceptual domains. We examined the perceptual elongation of distance over the wrist in a group of Croatian adults (n = 37) whose first language does not differentiate between hand and arm at the wrist in common noun terms (instead, the Croatian word “ ruka ” encompasses the entire limb). Croatian adults, like UK adults reported in a previous study (Le Cornu Knight, Longo & Bremner, 2014), perceived distances presented proximodistally over the wrist boundary as longer than those presented mediolaterally, whereas the reverse was found for both the hand and the arm. This pattern of results was remained when Croatian participants were split into two groups of inexperienced or proficient English-language speakers. This is striking evidence that body part boundaries consistently modulate tactile perception, despite differences in the linguistic distinctions of such body parts made by one’s first language.
Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (cid:1) in Insulin Action in Cultured Human Skeletal Muscle Cells

An association between glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) in skeletal muscle and insulin resistance has been demonstrated in type 2 diabetic patients. In addition, inhibition of GSK3 improves insulin action. The aim of the present study was to elucidate the role of the (cid:1) -isoform of GSK3 in insulin resis- tance in human skeletal muscle cells from nondiabetic subjects maintained in culture. Transfection of muscle cells with specific antisense oligonucleotides resulted in a 30–50% de-crease of GSK3 (cid:1) protein expression ( P < 0.05). Whereas nei- ther the basal fractional velocity of glycogen synthase (GS FV) (anindicatoroftheactivationstateoftheenzyme)norglucoseuptake(GU)werealtered,reducingGSK3 (cid:1) expression resulted in increases in insulin stimulation of both GS FV and GU. GSK3 (cid:1) overexpression (60–100% increase over control) did not alter basal GS FV or GU but impaired insulin stimu- lation of both responses. Knockdown of GSK (cid:1) also led to an increase in insulin receptor substrate-1 protein expression but did not alter insulin stimulation of pS473-Akt phosphorylation. However, GSK3 (cid:1) overexpression impaired insulin ac- tion on pS473-Akt. In summary, we concluded the following: 1) modulationofGSK3 (cid:1) expressionhasnoeffectonbasalGUand glycogen synthase activities; 2) reduction of GSK3 (cid:1) expression results in improvements in insulin action; and 3) eleva- tion of GSK3 (cid:1) in human skeletal muscle cells can induce insulin resistance for several responses. We conclude that GSK3 (cid:1) is an important regulator of muscle insulin action.
Revisiting the Seven Strong Claims about Successful School Leadership

In 2008 we published an article in this journal entitled Seven Strong Claims about Successful School Leadership (Leithwood, Harris and Hopkins, 2008). The article was based on a major literature review that was summarised in a paper published by the National College for School Leadership in England. Both the NCSL paper and our subsequent article, proved to be more popular than we anticipated and have been extensively cited over the past 10 years (Hallinger, in press). This article revisits each of the seven claims, summarizing what was said about each in the original publications, weighing each of the claims considering recent evidence, and proposing revisions or refinements as warranted. At the outset, the claims were introduced with the following caveat: These claims are not all strong in quite the same way, as we shall explain, but they all find support in varying amounts of quite robust empirical evidence, the first two having attracted the largest amount of such evidence. Those in leadership roles have a tremendous responsibility to get it right. Fortunately, we know a great deal about what getting it right means. The purpose of this article is to provide a synopsis of this knowledge. (Leithwood et al, 2008, p. 27)
J ENA E CONOMIC R ESEARCH P APERS Fairness norms can explain the emergence of specific cooperation norms in the Battle of the Prisoners Dilemma

Cooperation norms often emerge in situations, where the long term collective beneﬁts help to overcome short run individual interests, for instance in repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) situations. Often, however, there are diﬀerent paths to cooperation, beneﬁting diﬀerent kinds of actors to dif-ferent degrees. This leads to payoﬀ asymmetries even in the state of cooperation, and consequently can give rise to normative conﬂicts about which norms should be in place. This norm-coordination problem will be modeled as a Battle of the Sexes game (BoS) with diﬀerent degrees of asymmetry in payoﬀs. We combine the PD and the BoS to the 3 × 3 Battle of the Prisoners Dilemma (BOPD) with several asymmetric cooperative and one non-cooperative equilibria. Bame theoretical and “behavioral” predictions are derived about the kind of norms that are likely to emerge under diﬀerent shadows of the future and degrees of asymmetry and tested in a lab-experiment. Our experimental data show that game theory fairly well predicts the basic main eﬀects of our experimental manipulations, but “behavioral” predictions perform better in describing the equilibrium selection process of emerging norms.
TOWARDS A GENERATIVE ELECTRONICA: HUMAN-INFORMED MACHINE TRANSCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS IN MAXMSP

We present the initial research into a generative elec-tronica system based upon analysis of a corpus, describing the combination of expert human analysis and machine analysis that provides parameter data for generative algorithms. Algorithms in MaxMSP and Jitter for the transcription of beat patterns and section labels are presented, and compared with human analysis. Initial beat generation using a genetic algorithm utilizing a neural net trained on the machine analysis data is discussed, and compared with the use of a probabilistic model.
Synthesis of Metallo- (cid:2) -Lactamase VIM-2 Is Associated with a Fitness Reduction in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

Antibiotic resistance, especially due to (cid:2) -lactamases, has become one of the main obstacles in the correct treatment of Salmonella infections; furthermore, antibiotic resistance determines a gain of function that may encompass a biological cost, or ﬁtness reduction, to the resistant bacteria. The aim of this work was to determine in vitro if the production of the class B (cid:2) -lactamase VIM-2 determined a ﬁtness cost for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. To that end the gene bla VIM-2 was cloned into the virulent strain S . Typhimurium SL1344, using both the tightly regulated pBAD22 vector and the natural plasmid pST12, for inducible and constitutive expression, respectively. Fitness studies were performed by means of motility, growth rate, invasiveness in epithelial cells, and plasmid stability. The expression of bla VIM-2 was accompanied by alterations in micro- and macroscopic morphology and reduced growth rate and motility, as well as diminished invasiveness in epithelial cells. These results suggest that VIM-2 production entails a substantial ﬁtness cost for S . Typhimurium, which in turn may account for the extremely low number of reports of metallo- (cid:2) -lactamase-producing Salmonella spp. kDa band, compatible with VIM-2 (predicted molecular weight, 28.3 kDa) and suggestive of the induced synthesis of such enzymes. (cid:2) -Lactamase activity was then assessed by the iodometric overlay method (27) using 500 (cid:4) g/ml ampicillin as the substrate; while the crude extract of the induced strain SL1344(pLV1 bla TEM-1 ::kan) showed imme- diate (cid:2) -lactamase activity ( (cid:5) 30 s), no activity was detected with the extract of the uninduced strain SL1344(pLV1 bla TEM-1 ::kan), indicating ar- abinose-regulated VIM-2 production. On the other hand, the crude extracts of control strains SL1344(pBAD22) and induced SL1344(pLO5 bla TEM-1 ::kan) also displayed (cid:2) -lactamase activity, albeit not as readily as SL1344(pLV1 bla TEM-1 ::kan). ThecrudeextractofstrainSL1344(pBAD22 bla TEM-1 ::kan) showed no activity, with or without induction. wild SL1344(pBAD22),
Effect of sowing durations and planting geometries on growth, productivity and quality of garden cress (Lepidium sativum)

A field experiment was conducted during the winter (rabi) seasons of 201112 and 201213 on a clay loam soil at Udaipur, Rajasthan, to study the effect of sowing durations and planting geometries on growth, productivity and quality of garden cress or chandrasur (Lepidium sativum L.). The treatments comprising 4 sowing durations (41 standard meteorological week 814 October, 43th standard meteorological week 2228 October, 45 standard me- teorological week 0511 November, 47th standard meteorological week 1925 November) and 4 stand geom- etries (30 cm 10 cm, 30 cm 15 cm, 40 cm 10 cm, 40 cm 15 cm) were laid out in factorial randomized block design (RBD). Significantly the highest number of branches (18.8), dry-matter accumulation by plants, crop-growth rate (CGR) (31.2 g/m2/day at 80100 days after sowing), days to 50% flowering and days to 50% pod formation and seed yield (2.2 t/ha), straw yield (8.7 t/ha) and quality traits were recorded when crops was sown during 43 standard meteorological week. While sowing during 43 and 41 standard meteorological weeks being at par with each other. The highest net returns ( 75.1103/ha) and benefit: cost ratio (4.4) were also recorded with 43 stan- dard meteorological week. Planting geometries at 30 cm 10 cm resulted in significantly highest crop-growth rate (CGR) (29.4 g/m2/day at 80100 DAS), seed yield (2.0 t/ha) straw yield (8.3 t/ha), net returns ( 68.0 103/ha) and benefit: cost ratio (4.0) over other planting geometries and remained at par with planting geometry at 40 cm 10 cm. Therefore, crop sown with 43 standard meteorological week at 30 cm 10 cm planting geometries for obtain- ing higher seed yield, quality traits and net returns.
University of Birmingham Raising the topic of weight in general practice

Objective: To explore general practitioners ’ (GPs) and primary care nurses ’ perceived barriers to raising the topic of weight in general practice. Design: A qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). 34 semistructured interviews were conducted to explore views, opinions and experiences of initiating a discussion about weight. Content and thematic analyses were used to analyse the interview transcripts. Setting: General practices located in one primary care trust in the South West of England. Participants: 17 GPs and 17 nurses aged between 32 and 66 years. The modal age range for GPs was 30 – 39 years and for nurses, 40 – 49 years. Results: Barriers were synthesised into three main themes: (1) limited understanding about obesity care, (2) concern about negative consequences, and (3) having time and resources to raise a sensitive topic. Most barriers were related to raising the topic in more routine settings, rather than when dealing with an associated medical condition. GPs were particularly worried about damaging their relationship with patients and emphasised the need to follow their patient ’ s agenda. Conclusions: Uncertainty about obesity, concerns about alienating patients and feeling unable to raise the topic within the constraints of a 10 min consultation, is adding to the reluctance of GPs and nurses to broach the topic of weight. Addressing these concerns through training or by providing evidence of effective interventions that are feasible to deliver within consultations may lead to greater practitioner engagement and willingness to raise the topic. of