Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Impact of Eukaryotic Enteric Pathogens on Malian Children’s Gut Mycobiota

Eukaryotic enteric pathogens (EEP) are a public health issue in tropical areas. Yet, their interactions with the gut mycobiota remain poorly understood. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Malian children to analyze the impact of EEP on the gut fungal community. EEP were assessed by qPCR and the gut mycobiota was characterized by ITS1-2 metabarcoding in stool samples collected from 296 children. The 100 controls, in whom no EEP was detected, were compared to: a) 196 children with ≥1 EEP; b) 91 with only Blastocystis; c) 35 with only Giardia intestinalis; and d) 12 with another (<1% each) EPP. The gut fungal community structure was homogenous in each children’s group. Linear size-effect discriminant analysis highlighted five relatively more abundant species, including Fusarium longipes and Penicillium caseifulvum, in children with ≥1 EEP, whereas 28, including Aspergillus sydowii and Microdochium colombiense were more abundant in controls. Fusarium, Pyxidiophora, and Stereum abundance was higher in Blastocystis-infected children, whereas Ogataea and Allocryptovalsa were more abundant in controls. Sordariales and Mortierellales abundance was higher in Giardia intestinalis-infected children, whereas Agaricales and Capnodiales abundance was higher in controls. In conclusion, EEP do not significantly alter the gut fungal community structure, and further studies are warranted to confirm our findings that particular taxa are associated with susceptibility or resistance to specific EEP.
Routing Of Leo-Based Satellite Using Guided Mode

— Leo satellites are one of the most promising communication and plays important role in delivering high quality of data within the range of 500-1500 km. Leo satellites are for broadcasting internet and connecting remote places at the time of natural calamities. The Leo satellites are preferred due to less propagation delay and packet loss compared to Geo satellites. Generally the communication is done in indirect format means connecting the original satellite through intermediate ones. This leads to delay in process. To reduce that delay we are going to provide a direct communication to original satellite by knowing the co-ordinates of the particular satellites. In order to find out the co-ordinates of the satellites we need the routing protocols. The routing protocols of the satellites are based on the quality of service, multicast and multipath. By using the algorithms like ATM and switching, satellite network topology we are going to provide a direct communication with less propagation delay. The multimedia applications and live transmissions cannot bear packet loss, jitter, and timeliness and need the high throughput through the transmission. We did a survey for the best routing protocol for satellite networks.
A Multi-objective Control Strategy for Three Phase Grid-Connected Inverter during Unbalanced Voltage

Abstract This paper presents a new multi-objective control strategy for inverter-interfaced distributed generation (IIDG) to ensure its safe and continuous operation under unbalanced voltage sags. The proposed control strategy can effectively improve the low voltage ride through (LVRT) capability, reduce active power oscillations, and limit overcurrent simultaneously, which are marked as the most important control objectives of IIDG during unbalanced voltage sags. The advanced voltage support scheme, which utilizes positive sequence component, is firstly proposed to maximize the LVRT capability of IIDG during unbalanced voltage sags. Then, to ensure the safety of IIDG, the active power oscillation suppression and current limitation algorithm are designed individually. Based on the control algorithms of such objectives, the multi-objective control method, including scenario classification and reference current determination, is then presented to achieve such three objectives under various system conditions simultaneously. Finally, case studies and evaluations based on MATLAB/Simulink are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Vertical Gradient Temperature Difference of the Main Arch with Single Pipe Section in Tibet Based on Statistical Analysis

A 75 m long experimental arch with a 1.6 m diameter was constructed in Tibet for a one-year test to determine the most unfavourable vertical temperature difference for a single pipe in the main arch of a concrete-filled steel tube arch bridge. Actual temperature observation data were used to analyse the vertical temperature difference in the single circular pipe arch rib using statistical methods. The standard value for the vertical temperature difference in the single pipe under a return period of 50 years was calculated. The results showed that the influence range of the vertical gradient temperature was 25 cm. The vertical temperature difference followed a lognormal distribution, and the standard values of the positive temperature difference at the upper and lower ends of the single pipe were 16 and 10°C, respectively; the standard values of the negative temperature difference at the upper and lower ends of the single pipe were both -8°C under a return period of 50 years. These results are considerably different from the values specified in the current Chinese code. These could serve as references for calculations involving arch bridges in Tibet with single circular pipes in the main arches.
A NOVEL MINIATURIZED UWB BANDPASS FILTER BASING ON E-SHAPED DEFECTED MICROSTRIP STRUCTURE

This paper proposes a novel miniaturized UWB bandpass filter by cascading two miniaturized low-pass and high-pass modules. On account of the slow wave and stopband characteristic of defected microstrip structure(DMS), an E-shaped DMS with low-pass characteristic is presented, and an RLC equivalent circuit is utilized to analyze it. By three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling, the S parameters can be obtained to extract the initial parameter values of the RLC equivalent circuit and verify the validity of equivalent circuit in Advanced Design System. The high-pass module uses a lump element to reduce the circuit dimension. The high frequency selectivity can be achieved by loading L-shaped stubs, which produces one transmission zero at the upper band of passband and has a good rectangle coefficient of 1.2 (25 dB-bandwidth/3 dB-bandwidth ). To verify the idea, a compact UWB bandpass filter is simulated and fabricated. The result shows that the passband range is 3.1–10.6 GHz with 1 dB loss, and the measurement has a good agreement with the simulation. Besides, a notched wave working in X wave band can also be generated. Compared with the previous works, this UWB bandpass filter has the advantages of miniature and high selectivity.
Taxonomic studies on Anthaxiina Gory & Laporte de Castelnau and Curina Holynski (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)

Thailandia B l , 1990 is considered to be a subgenus of Anthaxia Eschscholtz, 1829, and the following new synonymies in Anthaxia are proposed: Anthaxia congolana Kerremans, 1909 = A. electra Cobos, 1967 syn. n. ; A. crassa Obenberger, 1922 = A. proserpina Cobos, 1967 syn. n. = A. hunti Th ry, 1930 syn. n. ; A. turneri Obenberger, 1931 = A. ceres Cobos, 1967 syn. n. ; and A. dilatipes Obenberger, 1928 = A. pilosa Th ry, 1928 syn. n. Cylindrophora Solier, 1849 is considered a full genus (formerly a subgenus of Anthaxia) and transferred to Curina, and the problem of its type species is discussed. A new genus, Romanophora gen. n. , is created for Anthaxia verecunda (Erichson, 1834) and placed in the Curina. The genus Brasilaxia Th ry, 1935 is discussed, and a new status for Bilyaxia Ho y ski, 1989 (formerly a subgenus of Anthaxia) is suggested together with new synonymy and new combination: Bilyaxia mariae (Cobos, 1956) stat. & comb. nov., B. bucki (Cobos, 1956) = B. kafkai B l , 1997, syn. n. A modified concept of Anthaxiina Gory & Laporte de Castelnau, 1839 and Curina Ho y ski, 1988 is proposed.
The Digital Challenges to Democracy: Social Media and New Information Paradigms

The social and political shifts being perpetuated by the Internet and social media are dominating contemporary discourse around politics, society and technology. The difficulties in regulating online practices, in advancing Internet literacy and moderating machine learning algorithms that govern online behaviour, and moreover in preventing malicious users from infiltrating the Internet have been highlighted by scholars in this domain. As the Internet and social media have become a ubiquitous and inseparable part of our lives, so have the social shifts brought on by them. The influence of modern technology on human behaviour, both personal and social, poses a great challenge to one of the most fundamental democratic principles; human free will. This thesis highlights the anti-democratic phenomena emerging out of the incessant use of the Internet in daily life, while also looking at precursors for these phenomena through history. This thesis employs formal analysis using natural language processing as well as actor-network theory to comprehend some of these phenomena. It also connects various theories proposed by thinkers like Kierkegaard, Chomsky and Foucault, and ideas expressed by researchers, authors and journalists in recent years, to sufficiently understand these phenomena. Through the discussions and analyses presented in this thesis, the dynamics of the social ills posed by the Internet can be better understood, and this can inform further research as well as policy-making aimed at combating these issues.
Site M0080

L.C. McNeill, D.J. Shillington, G.D. O. Carter, J.D. Everest, E. Le Ber, R.E. Ll. Collier, A. Cvetkoska, G. De Gelder, P. Diz, M. -L. Doan, M. Ford, R.L. Gawthorpe, M. Geraga, J. Gillespie, R. Hemelsdaël, E. Herrero-Bervera, M. Ismaiel, L. Janikian, K. Kouli, S. Li, M.L. Machlus, M. Maffione, C. Mahoney, G. Michas, C. Miller, C.W. Nixon, S.A. Oflaz, A.P. Omale, K. Panagiotopoulos, S. Pechlivanidou, M.P. Phillips, S. Sauer, J. Seguin, S. Sergiou, and N.V. Zakharova2
University of Birmingham The assessment and presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorder and associated characteristics in individuals with severe intellectual disability and genetic syndromes

Citation for published version (Harvard): Moss, J, Howlin, P & Oliver, C 2011, The assessment and presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorder and associated characteristics in individuals with severe intellectual disability and genetic syndromes. in J Burack, R Hodapp, G Iarocci & E Zigler (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Development. Oxford Library of Psychology, Oxford University Press. <http://eprints.bham. ac.uk/1431/>
The Economic Impact of Projected Affordable Housing Developments : Does the Supply Side Matter?

A key current objective of Scottish policymakers is to increase the availability of affordable and social housing, with an expectation that this will have both societal and economic impacts. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potential economic impacts of meeting the projections of affordable housing needed in Scotland to combat homelessness. Typical economic impact assessments of social housing investment have focused exclusively on the effect of expenditures on demand, using input-output models (IO). However, recently some have argued that housing, like transport, should be treated as a type of infrastructure investment that is likely also to have potential supply side impacts – such as an increase in both labour supply and productivity. In this paper, we use both IO and Computable Generable Equilibrium (CGE) models to evaluate the economic impact of social housing investment, with a particular emphasis on the supply side impacts.
Multi-Context Generation in Virtual Reality Environments Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

In this work, a Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach is proposed for Procedural Content Generation (PCG) that seeks to automate the generation of multiple related virtual reality (VR) environments for enhanced personalized learning. This allows for the user to be exposed to multiple virtual scenarios that demonstrate a consistent theme, which is especially valuable in an educational context. RL approaches to PCG offer the advantage of not requiring training data, as opposed to other PCG approaches that employ supervised learning approaches. This work advances the state of the art in RL-based PCG by demonstrating the ability to generate a diversity of contexts in order to teach the same underlying concept. A case study is presented that demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed RL-based PCG method using examples of probability distributions in both manufacturing facility and grocery store virtual environments. The method demonstrated in this paper has the potential to enable the automatic generation of a variety of virtual environments that are connected by a common concept or theme.
Leveraging Internet of Spatio-Health Things (IoSHT) for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic

—The COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic has shown far reaching sequels in all aspects of human lives ranging from rapid growth in active cases to economic and social disruption across the world. Motivated by the urgent need of combating COVID-19, researchers have put signiﬁcant efforts in developing pharmaceutical solutions (e.g. vaccine), modelling and analysing the disease spread patterns for effective preventive measures. It is absolutely necessary to develop an analytics framework by extracting and incorporating the knowledge of heterogeneous data-sources to deliver insights in improving administrative policy and enhance the preparedness to combat the pandemic. Speciﬁcally, human mobility, travel history and other transport statistics have signiﬁcant impacts on the spread of infectious disease. In this direction, this paper proposes a spatio-temporal knowledge mining framework to model the impact of human mobility and other contextual information over large geographic area in different temporal scales. The framework has three salient features, namely, (i) COVID-knowledge graph to discover correlations among mobility information and disease spread; (ii) Deep learning architecture to predict the next hot-spot zones; and (iii) providing necessary support in home-health monitoring utilizing Femtolet and fog/edge based solutions. The experimental evaluations on real-life datasets related to India illustrate the efﬁcacy of the proposed methods.
Identification and characterization of biocontrol bacterial strain 2P24 and CPF-10

Bacterial strains 2P24 and CPF-10 are two biocontrol agents isolated from wheat rhizosphere in Shandong Province. These two strains were classified into the genus of Pseudomonas by analyzing the 16S rDNA sequence. Further detection of physiological and biochemical characteristics revealed that both strains belonged to P. fluorescents The strain 2P24 fell into biovar I and CPF-10 fell into biovar V. Both 2P24 and CPF-10 produced several antifungal compounds, such as antibiotic 2, 4-di-acetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), siderophore (s) and extracellular pro-teinase, and showed inhibitory to Kastonia solanacearum, Fusarium oxysporum and Rhizoctonia solani in the dual-culture test in plates. In greenhouse, strain 2P24 and CPF-10 showed 63. 0% and 62. 4 % efficiency to control tomato bacterial wilt, respectively.
THAIWRITTENNET: THAI HANDWRITTEN SCRIPT RECOGNITION USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS

Thai is a non-tonal language usage for 70 million speakers in Thailand. A variety of Thai handwrit-ten styles has been a challenge in handwriting recognition. In this paper, we propose a novel “ThaiWrittenNet” based on Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet or CNN) with a cutout to identify the handwritten recognitions. Deep Belief Network (DBN) is also combined with Con-vNet to reduce network complexity. From the results, ThaiWrittenNet outperforms the flat Con-vNet and other handcrafted features with traditional machine learning algorithms. It appears that DBN helps ConvNet to improve the accuracy of Thai-handwritten recognition.
Mechanism of bacterial resistance to complement-mediated killing: inserted C5b-9 correlates with killing for Escherichia coli O111B4 varying in O-antigen capsule and O-polysaccharide coverage of lipid A core oligosaccharide

The interaction of C3 and terminal complement components with three isogenic strains of Escherichia coli O111B4 varying in outer membrane and capsule composition was examined. Strains CL99 and 1-1, which possess O-antigen capsule and 74 to 77% coverage of lipid A core oligosaccharide, were sensitive to killing in pooled normal human serum (PNHS) or magnesium ethylene glycoltetraacetic acid PNHS in the presence but not the absence of antibody, although 1-1 contained 35% more lipopolysaccharide than CL99 and was slightly less sensitive to alternative pathway killing. In contrast, strain 1-2 lacks O-antigen capsule but contains 84% coverage and resists serum killing in the presence and absence of antibody in both PNHS and magnesium ethylene glycoltetraacetic acid PNHS. All three strains consumed C3 and C9 when incubated in PNHS, but consumption was most rapid with 1-2, which also bound the largest number of C3 molecules per CFU. Between 15 X 10(3) and 24 X 10(3) molecules of C9 per CFU bound to CL99 and 1-1 during incubation in 10% PNHS or 10% magnesium ethylene glycoltetraacetic acid PNHS, and binding was relatively stable. Binding and release of 3 X 10(3) to 8 X 10(3) molecules of C9 per CFU was observed for strain 1-2. The majority of C9 bound to CL99 and 1-1 in the presence of antibody distributed with the outer membrane after lysis of the organisms in a French press, whereas only 16.1 to 20.1% of C9 was deposited on these organisms in the absence of antibody, and 31.5 to 39.8% of C9 on strain 1-2 with or without antibody sedimented with the outer membrane. Between 4.6 X 10(3) and 5.5 X 10(3) molecules of C9 per CFU remained bound in a salt- and trypsin-resistant form to the outer membrane of organisms that were killed, whereas fewer than 1.4 X 10(3) molecules of C9 per CFU were bound to the outer membrane of organisms not killed by serum. These results indicate that C5b-9 that is bound to the outer membrane of E. coli O111B4 in a form resistant to salt or protease elution correlates with bacterial killing.
Measurement of Polycentric County-Level Areas in a Rapid Urbanization Region from a Public Service Perspective

Despite various studies regarding polycentric development at metropolis or even larger spatial scales, there is little systematic analysis regarding the rapid urbanization area at the county-level scale. Therefore, this study explored polycentric development in 52 county-level administrative units in Zhejiang Province, China, from a public service perspective. Based on point-of-interest data, our analysis detected the intra-county urban centers and measured their polycentric characteristics. According to the number, scale, and equilibrium value of intra-county polycentricity, the 52 county-level units were classified into three types using a two-step cluster algorithm method. The empirical results suggest that polycentric characteristics vary in the rapid urbanization area, and the spatial distribution of typological units is characterized by agglomeration. Topographical condition, fixed assets investment, public transportation, and residential consumption ability are highly associated with the classification of polycentric urban areas. The conclusion of this study would help local governments initiate better urban development policies and provide potential research directions for further studies about the relationship of inter-county urban centers.
Diversity of ichthyofauna in Hiran-II reservoir, Gujarat (India)

The present study deals with ichthyofaunal diversity of Hiran-II reservoir, Gujarat. Sampling was carried out on monthly basis from January 2019 to February 2020. Total 23 species from 6 orders, 10 families and 19 genera were recorded during the present study. The range of water parameters such as temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen alkalinity and hardness were recorded and found suitable for fish production. Dominant family Cyprinidae with 12 species and 08 genera followed by Bagridae with 03 species 02 genera and other all families Claridea, Heteropneustidae, Cichilidae, Channidae, Gobiidae, Belonidae, Mastacembelidae, Poecilidae and Anguilidae contributed single species with single genera. Regarding conservation status out of 23 fish species 21 species least concern and 2 species near threaten. During month of December (post monsoon) highest fish diversity was found. Seasonal diversity indices such as Shannon-Wiener species diversity, Pielou’s evenness, Margalef’s species richness, were calculated based on the abundance of fish species to access the ecosystem health of Hiran-II reservoir. These studies will be help for the maintenance and regulation of Ichthyofauna and other aquatic ecosystem of the Hiran-II reservoir.
Spatio-Temporal Overlap between Local and Non-Local Reed Warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus During the Autumn Migration Period

Summary. During the autumn migration period, northern populations commonly reach southern stopover sites where they meet conspecifics that may still be breeding or at least still at their breeding sites. Establishing whether local breeding birds overlap temporally with migrants is essential to studying the strategies adopted by the former when they have to suddenly cope with conspecific influxes. Our objectives here were (1) to establish the phenology of local and transient birds within the study area and (2) to test whether biometrics can differentiate between these two groups. Local reed warblers were observed nesting until the end of July; these birds were recaptured up to late August (although very few later than mid-August), suggesting that at least some individuals depart from the area before most nonlocals arrive. Local breeding birds were found to have longer wings than non-locals. A discriminant function classified 73.4% of the non-local and local reed warblers correctly, indicating considerable morphological overlap between the two groups.
Spatial and Temporal Modelling for Sustainable Management of Semi-Arid Rangelands The Wildlife versus Livestock Issue in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Southern Kenya

The aim of this research was to develop a methodology to integrate information on the spatial and temporal diversity of tropical rangelands ecosystems, e.g., the Amboseli ecosystem in South East Kenya, including both biophysical and human aspects, and to apply this information in integrated environmentally sound management of natural resources. Furthermore, the model should not only consider the "protected" area itself, e.g., the Amboseli National Park, but should take the surrounding areas (Maasai controlled group-ranches) with human activities (where the impact is often coming from) in consideration as well.