Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Canaania obesa (Platyhelminthes: Dicrocoeliidae): redescription and new hosts records

The digenetic trematode Canaania obesa Travassos, 1944 (Dicrocoeliidae) was described as a parasite of the bile ducts of the rodent Akodon cursor Winge, 1887 (Cricetidae) collected in Santa Teresa, state of Espirito Santo, Brazil. In the present study, we report the occurrence of C. obesa infecting three additional sigmodontinae rodent species: Akodon montensis Thomas, 1913; Oligoryzomys nigripes Olfers, 1818 and Nectomys squamipes Brants, 1827, from three municipalities situated at Serra dos Orgaos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Scanning electron microscopy showed that this helminth has a leaf-like shape with conical extremities and the ventral mid body protrudes at the acetabulum level. The microtopography of the tegument shows a heterogeneous surface with smooth or wrinkled areas and several randomly distributed papillae. The cirrus is located just posterior to the oral sucker and is covered by smooth tegument without spines or papillae. The excretory pore is subterminal. The eggs are elliptic and operculate at one of the extremities. The present study adds new taxonomic characters to C. obesa. The municipalities of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Sumidouro are new geographical areas of distribution, and A. montensis, O. nigripes and N. squamipes are new host records for C. obesa.
Plasmonic LED device

Plasmonic nanostructures are known to influence the emission of near-by emitters. They can enhance the absorption and modify the external quantum efficiency of the coupled system. To evaluate the possibility of using plasmonics to enhance the light emission of a phosphor-converted LED device and create an efficient directional light source, regular arrays of aluminium nanoparticles covered with a red dye layer are investigated. In arrays of aluminum nanocylinders with a diameter of ca 140 nm combined with a thin (650 nm) layer of luminescent material, very narrow resonances have been observed, which lead to large enhancement factors of up to 70 and 20 for excitation with a directional blue laser source and a lambertian LED respectively, in a small spectral range for particular angles. The measured resonances agree very well with finite-difference time-domain numerical simulations. These changes in the angular emission profile of the red dye as well as the spectral shape of its emission can help to optimize the efficacy of phosphor-converted LED modules and increase the amount of useable light in a certain angular cone. Using Fourier microscopy, large modifications of the angular emission profile as well as spectral shaping are observed for these plasmonic LED devices if compared to reference samples without plasmonic nanostructures.
Psychological Ownership, Hope, Resilience and Employee Work Engagement among Teachers in Selected Mission Schools

Since the quality of education in Nigeria has continued to progressively decline in standard, there has been a sustained public outcry and suggestions on the possible ways to save the Nigerian education from total collapse. As a result many schools, especially the post primary schools (public) have undergone transformation. Teachers’ level of engagement has been suggested as one of the factors that may be responsible for this decline in education in Nigeria. The current study adopted the cross-sectional survey design to explore whether psychological ownership, hope and resilience could predict work engagement behaviour among teachers in selected mission schools. Contrary to speculation and in conflict with previous studies, results showed that psychological ownership did not predict work engagement behavior among teachers whereas hope and resilience significantly predicted work engagement behaviour among the teachers. The study’s implications point to the fact that since psychological ownership is seen as a vital organisational behavior, managers should endeavor to build a culture that will promote such ownership for the good of the organisation. Keywords: Psychological ownership, hope, resilience, employee work engagement
Rapid and brief communication Generalizing relevanceweightedLDA

In this paper, a new variant on linear discriminant analysis (LDA) that we refer to as generalizing relevance weighted LDA or GRW-LDA is proposed. GRW-LDA extends the applicability to cases that LDA cannot handle by combining the advantages of two recent LDA enhancements, namely generalized singular value decomposition based LDA and relevance weighted LDA. Experimental results on FERET face database demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. 2005 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DEFICITS AMONG OLDER HIV-INFECTED ADULTS

Recent findings The success of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has led to ageing of the HIV-infected population, which in turn contributes to the prevalence of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). Biomedical advances continue to clarify the pathophysiology of HAND despite effective cART, including chronic inflammatory and neurovascular causes. In recent months, associations between HAND and nonneurological medical diseases have been identified, as well as linkage to neuroimaging in those ageing with HIV. Developing effective screening tools to detect impairment remains an important scientific gap, although promoting factors associated with successful cognitive ageing is emerging as a possible means of enhancing quality of life.
Partial D 34 X X matching and D 35 X X search D 36 X X space D 37 X X reduction for QbE-STD I X XTaggedPD 38 X X

Query-by-Example approach of spoken content retrieval has gained much attention because of its feasibility in the absence of speech recognition and its applicability in a multilingual matching scenario D42X X . This approach to retrieve spoken content is referred to as D43X X Query-byD44X X Example D45X X Spoken D46X X Term D47X X etection (QbE-STD). The state-of-the-art QbE-STD system performs matching between the frame sequence of query and test utterance via Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm. In realistic scenarios, there is a need to retrieve the query which does not appear exactly in the spoken document. However, the appeared instance of query might have the different suffix, prefix or word order. The DTW algorithm monotonically aligns the two sequences and hence, it is not suitable to perform partial matching between the frame sequence of query and test utterance. In this paper, we propose novel partial matching approach between spoken query and utterance using modified DTW algorithm where multiple warping paths are constructed for each query and test utterance pair. Next, we address the research issue associated with search complexity of DTW and suggest two approaches, namely, feature reduction approach and Bag-of-Acoustic-Words (BoAW) model. In feature reduction approach, the number of feature vectors is reduced by averaging across the consecutive frames within phonetic boundaries. Thus, a lesser number of feature vectors require fewer number of comparisons and hence, DTW speeds up the search computation. The search computation time gets reduced by D48X X 6D49X X D50X X 49% with a slight degradation in performance as compared to no feature reduction case. In BoAW model, we construct term frequency-inverse document frequency ðtf idf Þ vectors at segment-level to retrieve audio documents. The proposed segment-level BoAW model is used to match test utterance with a query using ðtf idf Þ vectors and the scores obtained are used to rank the test utterance. The BoAW model gave more than D51X X 80% recall value on D52X X 70% top retrieval. To re-score the detection, we further employ DTW search or modified DTW search to retrieve the spoken query from the selected utterances using BoAW model. QbE-STD experiments are conducted on different international benchmarks, namely, MediaEval spoken web search SWS 2013 and MediaEval query-by-example search on speech QUESST 2014. 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Veno-sinus Thrombosis Hyperhomocysteinemia and Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase C 677 T Polymorphism in Cerebral

There is limited data on the role of hyperhomocysteinemia as a risk factor for cerebral veno-sinus thrombosis (CVT) in Indians. We examined the association between plasma homocysteine (Hcy), methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism, and CVT in 185 patients with aseptic CVT (puerperal 80 and nonpuerperal 105) and 248 healthy controls (puerperal 67 and nonpuerperal 181). Fasting Hcy was higher in patients compared to controls (20.25 + 5.97 vs 9.81 + 5.19 mmol/L, P < .001) and associated with 4.54-fold (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.74-7.53) increase in risk of CVT. Risk was higher in puerperal (odds ratio [OR]: 8.7, 95% CI: 2.73-26.91) compared to nonpuerperal CVT (OR: 3.82, 95% CI: 2.096.96). Plasma Hcy was higher in MTHFR 677TT compared to 677CT and 677CC genotypes (34.44 + 32.8 vs 25.81 + 33.3 vs 18.50 + 23.7 mmol/L, respectively, P < .001), but the risk associated with MTHFR 677TT was insignificant (OR: 1.91, 95% CI: 0.53-7.06). We conclude that hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk marker for Indian patients with aseptic CVT. MTHFR 677TT genotype is not linked with CVT but is a determinant of plasma Hcy.
ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy

Authors/Task Force Members: Michele Brignole (Chairperson) (Italy)*, Angelo Auricchio (Switzerland), Gonzalo Baron-Esquivias (Spain), Pierre Bordachar (France), Giuseppe Boriani (Italy), Ole-A Breithardt (Germany), John Cleland (UK), Jean-Claude Deharo (France), Victoria Delgado (Netherlands), Perry M. Elliott (UK), Bulent Gorenek (Turkey), Carsten W. Israel (Germany), Christophe Leclercq (France), Cecilia Linde (Sweden), Lluı́s Mont (Spain), Luigi Padeletti (Italy), Richard Sutton (UK), Panos E. Vardas (Greece)
Volos, Greece REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN OVEREDUCATION

This paper focuses on overeducation from the regional perspective. The supply of highly educated workers has increased since the late 20th century but the demand has not necessarily increased equivalently. This mismatch might create problems at the labour market, for example unemployment and overeducation. Individuals are not totally mobile and prefer to search for a job near their residential location. If accessible jobs do not correspond to the educational level of the job seeker, he or she may have to accept a job below his or her educational level. Spatial mismatch between jobs and workers has been noticed in several studies (see e.g. Büchel & van Ham 2003). Spatial mobility of workers, migration and commuting, can reduce spatial mismatch. The aim of this paper is to find out whether there are regional differences in the proportion of overeducated labour force. Finnish micro level data are used in the analysis. The sample consists of 149 908 individuals who were employed in 2000. Overeducated workers are identified with a statistical measure. * I would like to thank Professor Hannu Tervo, Professor Jaakko Pehkonen, Professor Paavo Okko, Dr. Mika Haapanen and Dr. Jani Ursin for their valuable comments. This study is part of a project “Human Capital, Agglomeration Economies and Regional Concentration” supported by Academy of Finland. Financial support from Academy of Finland and Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
IDENTIFYING TIME AND HISTORY DEPENDENCIES OF ACTIVITY CHOICE

In this study a sequential model of activity patterns is formulated that consists of time- and history-dependent models of activity choice. This analytical framework is used to identify time-of-day and history-dependent characteristics of activity choice by statictically testing a series of hypotheses. The results indicate that the simplest expression of the history of activity engagements is an adequate descriptor, and also that non-home-based activity choice is conditionally independent of the activities in the previous chains, given the activities pursued in the current trip chain. Interdependencies of activity types across trip chains are also characterized by estimated model coefficients. The results of the study indicate that the decisions associated with the entire activity pattern can be decomposed into interrelated activity choices whose conditional dependencies can be statistically evaluated.
An empirical study of the relationships within the categories of the EFQM model

The relationships within the categories of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) self-assessment model are analysed in this article, based on 242 independent assessments carried out in the European region with the highest density of EFQM awards (the Basque Autonomous Community, in Spain). The main finding of the article is that the relationships within the categories of the EFQM are robust, despite the fact that there exist relationships among some of its enablers and results that fail to reach a suitable level of validity. These findings coincide with the conclusions reached in studies carried out previously on the Malcolm Baldrige model. The conclusions reached in the article may be of interest for both the academic and the professional spheres of activity.
SRTM 3″ DEM (versions 1, 2, 3, 4) validation by means of extensive kinematic GPS measurements: a case study from North Greece

In 2000, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) provided for the first time a global high-quality digital elevation model (DEM) at resolution levels of one and three arcseconds, using single-pass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry. In January and February 2008, an extensive four-day kinematic global positioning system (GPS) (KGPS) campaign was carried out in the vicinity of the city of Thessaloniki (North Greece), during which more than 60 000 points were collected, providing an unprecedented density of measurements in the order of 20 points km−2. The purpose of the present study was to assess the vertical accuracy of the four versions of SRTM 3″ DEMs that are currently available over the Internet for public use, on the basis of the KGPS data collected.
Accounting Information Quality in Emerging Markets: Conservatism in Financial Reporting of Vietnamese Firms in the Context of International Economic Integration

We test conservatism in financial reporting of Vietnamese listed firms over the period of 2005 to 2014. We find that Vietnamese financial statements ensure conservatism’s specifications consisting of asymmetric gain and loss recognition timeliness and asymmetric persistence of earnings changes. We further find that the degree of conservatism has increased significantly over the post-crisis economic restructuring period. The findings provide empirical evidence to the improved quality of accounting information in Vietnam. Keywords : Accounting; Accounting Information; Financial Reporting JEL Classifications : M40, M48
enoising star map data via sparse representation and ictionary learning

As the highest precision devices of celestial navigation system [1], star sensors have been getting more and more attention in recent years. In which the star image positioning and recognition is the key technology of CNS, while the extraction of stars from star maps is the first step. By the background noise, there are some error extractions when traditional methods are used, which can even lead to the failure of parse representation edundant dictionary tar pattern recognition oise suppression star map matching. To solve this problem, a denoising method based on overcomplete sparse representation is presented in this paper. This method uses the adaptive sparse decomposition of star map in the redundant dictionary to process the threshold, as a result, the reliability of star extraction is improved. The experimental results show that the correct rate of this method that extracting star after reducing background noise of star map is close to 100%.
changes in abundance and sequence of embryonic miRNAs Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA induce reproducible Material

Genome Res. August , 2012 22: 1477-1487 Ylva Ekdahl, Hossein Shahrabi Farahani, Mikaela Behm, et al. development A-to-I editing of microRNAs in the mammalian brain increases during Genome Res. August , 2012 22: 1533-1540 Shahar Alon, Eyal Mor, Francois Vigneault, et al. Systematic identification of edited microRNAs in the human brain Genome Res. August , 2012 22: 1488-1498 M. Bryan Warf, Brent A. Shepherd, W. Evan Johnson, et al. C. elegans Effects of ADARs on small RNA processing pathways in
Stylistics versus Statistics: A corpus linguistic approach to combining techniques in forensic authorship analysis using Enron emails

This thesis empirically investigates how a corpus linguistic approach can address the main theoretical and methodological challenges facing the field of forensic authorship analysis. Linguists approach the problem of questioned authorship from the theoretical position that each person has their own distinctive idiolect (Coulthard 2004: 431). However, the notion of idiolect has come under scrutiny in forensic linguistics over recent years for being too abstract to be of practical use (Grant 2010; Turell 2010). At the same time, two competing methodologies have developed in authorship analysis. On the one hand, there are qualitative stylistic approaches, and on the other there are statistical ‘stylometric’ techniques. This study uses a corpus of over 60,000 emails and 2.5 million words written by 176 employees of the former American company Enron to tackle these issues in the contexts of both authorship attribution (identifying authors using linguistic evidence) and author profiling (predicting authors’ social characteristics using linguistic evidence). Analyses reveal that even in shared communicative contexts, and when using very common lexical items, individual Enron employees produce distinctive collocation patterns and lexical co-selections. In turn, these idiolectal elements of linguistic output can be captured and quantified by word n-grams (strings of n words). An attribution experiment is performed using word n-grams to identify the authors of anonymised email samples. Results of the experiment are encouraging, and it is argued that the approach developed here offers a means by which stylistic and statistical techniques can complement each other. Finally, quantitative and qualitative analyses are combined in the sociolinguistic profiling of Enron employees by gender and occupation. Current author profiling research is exclusively statistical in nature. However, the findings here demonstrate that when statistical results are augmented by qualitative evidence, the complex relationship between language use and author identity can be more accurately observed.
Wireless Protocols for Anti Cloning and Security

RFID system (Radio-Frequency Identification) is a technology for automated identification of objects and people. Human beings are smart enough to identify an object under a variety of challenge circumstances. RFID systems are emerging as one of the most pervasive computing technologies. But there are still a large number of problems that are to be addressed. One of the fundamental issues still to be addressed is privacy, which concludes association threat, location threat, preference threat, constellation threat, transaction threat, action threat and breadcrumb threat (Kim, J., Yang, C, Jeon, J,2007). Misbehaviours of both readers and tags will lead to attacks to the system. The common attacks on the readers, tags and the air interface between them comprise: Tracking or Tracing, Tamper, Clandestine Scanning, Counterfeit Tags, Cloning Tags, Eavesdropping, Replay, man-in-the-middle attack, Spoofing, Differential power analysis, Timing Attacks, Denial of Service, Physical Attacking and so on (P. Cuenca and L. Orozco-Barbosa, 2006.),(Kim, J., Yang, C, Jeon, J, 2007). Due to scarceness of resources most of the proposed protocols were designed using symmetric key cryptographic algorithms. However, it has been shown that it is inevitable to use public-key cryptographic algorithms to satisfy these requirements. A number of mechanisms have been devised to overcome the problems related to security and privacy issue of RFID systems. In this paper we propose three anonymous RFID authentication protocols and prove that they are secure in the traditional cryptographic framework. Our model allows most of the threats that apply to RFIDs systems including, denial of service, impersonation, malicious traceability, information leakage through power analysis and active man-in-the middle attacks. Our protocols are efficient and scalable.
Cem Ibis on liver damage induced by biliary obstruction in rats Urtica dioica Protective effect of

The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible protective effects of Urtica dioica (UD) against liver damage in the common bile duct-ligated rats. A total of 24 male Sprague Dawley rats were divided into three groups, namely, control, bile duct ligation (BDL) and BDL þ received UD groups, containing eight animals in each group. The rats in UD-treated groups were given UD oils (2 ml/kg) once a day intraperitoneally for 2 weeks starting 3 days prior to BDL operation. The change demonstrating the bile duct proliferation and fibrosis in expanded portal tracts includes the extension of proliferated bile ducts into the lobules; inflammatory cell infiltration into the widened portal areas were observed in BDL group. Treatment of BDL with UD attenuated alterations in liver histology. The a-smooth muscle actin, cytokeratin-positive ductular proliferation and the activity of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling in the BDL were observed to be reduced with the UD treatment. The data indicate that UD attenuates BDL-induced cholestatic liver injury, bile duct proliferation and fibrosis.
Digestion of Food Ingredients and Food Using an In Vitro Model Integrating Intestinal Mucosal Enzymes

This study focuses on the development of an in vitro digestion model simulating oral, gastric and small intestinal fluids, applicable to the digestion of all three macronutrients, carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. To that aim, the effect of integrating intestinal mucosal enzymes in the small intestinal phase of the digestion reaction was investigated, together with that of other parameters including pepsin and pancreatin concentration, and pH of the small intestinal phase. Individual carbohydrate and protein ingredients for which digestive properties in vivo are generally understood (i.e. common corn starch, whey protein isolate) were used as reference substrates to validate the model and, at the end of development, the model was applied to evaluate the digestion of a reference lipid ingredient (i.e. olive oil) and of all three macronutrients present in a whole food system. Carbohydrate, protein and lipid hydrolysis was monitored, respectively, by quantitation of glucose, free amino groups and free fatty acids released at different times of digestion. The results demonstrate that including intestinal mucosal enzymes in the intestinal phase of digestion in vitro allows efficient digestion of starch and other carbohydrates into final product glucose and it also influences protein hydrolysis. Digestion profiles consistent with published in vitro and in vivo data support the validity of the developed method as an advanced tool for screening digestion of all three macronutrients whether presented alone or in a whole food system, all in a single digestion reaction.