Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE Zebraﬁsh foxi one modulates cellular responses to Fgf signaling required for the integrity of ear and jaw patterning

conclude that foo expression is essential for pax8 expression probably downstream of Fgf signaling in a conserved pathway jointly required for integrity of patterning in the otic placode and pharyngeal pouches. We propose that correct placement of survival/proliferation cues is essential for shaping the pharyngeal cartilages and that evolutionary links between jaw and ear formation can be traced to Fgf-Foxi1-Pax8 pathways.
Network Topologies and Traffic Distribution Evaluation for Network Coding

— In this article, we evaluate network coding algorithm COPE using different topologies, traffic intensities and distributions in order to search for guidelines for network deployments and for better exploring the advantage of network coding opportunities. Using different network topologies we identify nodes that perform well with coding and nodes that do not find any coding opportunities. Results show that in all analyzed networks, although the COPE performs well in decreasing average network delay, there are only few nodes that perform coding operations and up to 25% of nodes that find no coding opportunities at all. Also in, randomly distributed traffic, there is only a fragment of packets that find coding pairs, thus showing place for significant improvements either in used algorithms or in designing networks.
Selection of Functional 5 (cid:2) cis -Acting Elements Promoting Efﬁcient Sindbis Virus Genome Replication

The 5 (cid:1) portion of the Sindbis virus (SIN) genome RNA is multifunctional. Besides initiating translation of the nonstructural polyprotein, RNA elements in the 5 (cid:1) 200 bases of the SIN genome RNA, or its complement at the 3 (cid:1) end of the negative-strand intermediate, play key roles in the synthesis of both negative- and positive-strand RNAs. We used here a combination of genetic and biochemical approaches to further dissect the functions of this sequence. Replacement of the SIN 5 (cid:1) end in defective-interfering (DI) and genome RNAs with sequences from a distantly related alphavirus, Semliki Forest virus (SFV), resulted in nonviable chimeras. The addition of ﬁve nucleotides from the 5 (cid:1) terminus of SIN restored negative-strand RNA synthesis in DI genomes but not their replication in vivo. Pseudorevertants of various SFV-SIN chimeras were isolated, and suppressor mutations were mapped to AU-rich sequences added to the 5 (cid:1) end of the original SFV 5 (cid:1) sequence or its “deleted” versions. Early pseudorevertants had heterogeneous 5 (cid:1) termini that were inefﬁcient
Platelet-Activating Factor in Human Luteal Phase Endometrium1

Platelet-activating factor (PAF; 1-0-alkyl-2-acesyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorykholine) is one of the most potent mediators of vascular permeability. PAF levels change in the rabbit endometriwn just prior to implantation, which suggests that PAF may be a key substance transducing preimplantation embryonic signals. To study whether PAF was present in the hwnan endometriwn, and if so, to determine the cellular origin and hormonal regulation of endometrial PAF, specimens were obtained from 14 women (aged 23-42 yr) undergoing elective hysterectomy during the luteal phase of the cycle (plasma progesterone levels >2 ng/ml). No specimens were taken from women with malignant uterine pathology. Stromal cells and epithelial glandular cells were separated by coliagenase and DNAse digestion, and then cultured to confluence in vitro in medium 199. Radioiminunoas-says of prostaglandin F (PGF) and prolactin and its cellular concentration is increased by progesterone.
Asymmetric Vortex Formation from Cones at Incidence – a Simple Inviscid Model

An inviscid model, originally proposed by Bryson to describe the formation of laterally-symmetric vortices above bodies of revolution at large angles of incidence, is extended to describe flows without lateral symmetry. Each vortex is represented by a single line-vortex and conditions of cross-flow stagnation are applied at the postulated separation lines. The transverse component of the force acting on each vortex is balanced by an equal and opposite force acting on the cut connecting it to the adjacent separation line. It is shown that this model allows asymmetrical vortices to form in the flow over slender circular cones even when the separation lines are disposed symmetrically.
Diets Containing (cid:2) -Linolenic ( (cid:3) 3) or Oleic ( (cid:3) 9) Fatty Acids Rescues Obese Mice From Insulin Resistance

Subclinical systemic inflammation is a hallmark of obesity and insulin resistance. The results obtained from a number of experimental studies suggest that targeting different components of the inflammatorymachinerymayresultintheimprovementofthemetabolicphenotype.Unsaturated fatty acids exert antiinflammatory activity through several distinct mechanisms. Here, we tested the capacity of (cid:2) 3 and (cid:2) 9 fatty acids, directly from their food matrix, to exert antiinflammatory activity through the G protein-coupled receptor (GPR)120 and GPR40 pathways. GPR120 was activated in liver, skeletal muscle, and adipose tissues, reverting inflammation and insulin resistance in obese mice. Part of this action was also mediated by GPR40 on muscle, as a novel mechanism described. Pair-feeding and immunoneutralization experiments reinforced the pivotal role of GPR120asamediatorintheresponsetothenutrients.Theimprovementininsulinsensitivityinthe high-fat substituted diets was associated with a marked reduction in tissue inflammation, decreased macrophage infiltration, and increased IL-10 levels. Furthermore, improved glucose homeostasis was accompanied by the reduced expression of hepatic gluconeogenic enzymes and reduced body mass. Thus, our data indicate that GPR120 and GPR40 play a critical role as mediators of the beneficial effects of dietary unsaturated fatty acids in the context of obesity-induced insulin resistance. ( Endocrinology 156: 4033–4046, 2015)
Menu Recognition Using Rendered Webpage Information and Machine Learning

Among the many components of a webpage, the web menu provides organization as well as information on the primary content of the website. By recognizing the menu existing within a webpage, it is possible to identify the overall structure of the website from the menu's information for crawling and indexing. Therefore, tasks can be performed efficiently without accessing the pages unnecessarily. In addition, a variety of applications could be developed through web menu detection. This paper suggests a method to categorize the web menu within a webpage using machine learning. Rendered attribute values of the web document are extracted with processed data to offer more choices in selecting the machine learning attributes. This paper also proposes and demonstrates a Chrome extension-based webpage document collector that effectively collects the final rendered form of a webpage in a browser and its internal data that are required when performing machine learning for web menu categorization. Lastly, a demo platform that can detect webpage menus in real time is designed based on the learned result.
3 D SEAFLOOR RECONSTRUCTION USING DATA FROM SIDE SCAN AND SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR

Side scan and synthetic aperture sonars are widely used imaging systems in the underwater environment. They are relatively cheap and easy to deploy, in comparison with more powerful sensors, like multibeam echosounders. Although side scan and synthetic aperture sonars does not provide seafloor bathymetry directly, their records are finally related to seafloor images. Moreover, the analysis of such images performed by human eye allows creating semi-spatial impressions of seafloor images obtained from side scan sonar echograms. In the paper, some techniques for 3 D seafloor shape reconstruction from side scan and synthetic aperture sonars are presented. They are based on Shape From Shading (SFS) approach, which is one of classical problems in computer vision. The method for reconstruction of 3D seafloor relief using the information from both the currently processed and previous ping is presented. The advantage of the presented methods is their simplicity and the ability to produce the results within sequential, i.e. “one run” processing of side scan sonar image. Another algorithm relies on estimating the altitude gradient of the insonified surface from sonar data, combined with the use of dimension of shadow areas for estimation of the current elevation change. The presented results are promising and also show to some extent how the performance of the proposed algorithm might be improved in further investigation.
Detection of Japanese and English Tweets Where Birthdays are Revealed to Other People

—These days, many people use a social networking service (SNS). When we use SNSs, we carefully protect the privacy of personal information: name, age, gender, address, telephone number, birthday, etc. However, we often reveal birthdays on SNS, not only ours but also of others. Birthday information can threaten our privacy and security when combined with other personal information. In this study, we investigated Japanese and English tweets where birthdays were revealed to other people, including unwanted audiences. We collected 1,000 Japanese tweets and 1,000 English tweets including word “birthday” and found about 30% of the collected Japanese tweets and 70% of the English tweets were tweets revealing someone’s birthdays to other people. Furthermore, about 70% of Japanese tweets and 90% of English tweets revealing someone’s birthdays to other people were ones where receivers’ birthdays were revealed. We obtained 88% accuracy when we applied support vector machine (SVM) machine learning techniques to classify Japanese and English tweets including word “birthday” into ones revealing birthdays of senders, receivers, and others. However, the recall rate of Japanese and English tweets revealing senders’ birthdays were only 17% and 30%, respectively.
Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Towards a robust sparse data representation in wireless sensor networks

—Compressive sensing has been successfully used for optimized operations in wireless sensor networks. However, raw data collected by sensors may be neither originally sparse nor easily transformed into a sparse data representation. This paper addresses the problem of transforming source data collected by sensor nodes into a sparse representation with a few nonzero elements. Our contributions that address three major issues include: 1) an effective method that extracts population sparsity of the data, 2) a sparsity ratio guarantee scheme, and 3) a customized learning algorithm of the sparsifying dictionary. We introduce an unsupervised neural network to extract an intrinsic sparse coding of the data. The sparse codes are generated at the activation of the hidden layer using a sparsity nomination constraint and a shrinking mechanism. Our analysis using real data samples shows that the proposed method outperforms conventional sparsity-inducing methods. Abstract —Sparse coding, compressive sensing, sparse autoen- coders, wireless sensor networks.
GENERATING POSITIVE EMOTIONS DURING DRIVING THE PRODUCT QUALITIES OF A CAR AFFECT EMOTIONAL CONDITIONS

Our lives depend on mobility, and we spend much of our precious time undertaking transportation activities during our daily routines. Generally, these activities may seem like a waste of time and turn out to be self-torture. What’s more, being a passenger is somehow more advanta-geous than being a driver, because drivers have to concentrate only on the activity of driving. Since traffic involves unexpected and unfortunate events, this stressful environment generates negative feelings. From this point of view, driving seems to be an activity generating more negative feelings than positive ones. In this framework, this study aims to ﬁnd out cues about driving activity and design solutions which generate positive effects by identifying the underly-ing reasons and expectations of the users with regard to product qualities.
Transfer, Assembly, and Embedding of Small CMOS-Die Arrays for the Build-Up of Flexible Smart Implants

The integration of small wafer-based devices into flexible polymeric systems allows the fabrication of smart systems. Such systems are of high interest and are being developed in different fields. Active implants for biomedical applications promise new insights and therapy possibilities including the novel field of electroceuticals, which focuses on the treatment of systemic diseases by neuromodulation. For the fabrication of a new active flexible microelectrode array, we developed a process that allows the embedding of an array of small CMOS dies into a polymer foil. The process includes a transfer printing process based on adhesion, transferring the desired of the separated dies from UV-curable dicing tape to a substrate coated with sugar solution. The transfer printing process has shown to be highly reliable and selective, yielding a transfer success rate of 100% in most cases. The relative position of the transferred dies is conserved to less than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$15~\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> lateral displacement. To evaluate the process, the pull-off strength of the employed silicone stamps was measured. For stamps made of soft silicone, a pulling strength up to 83 kPa was obtained. In addition to this, a process for the embedding of the dies into a flexible foil system is presented. Using polydimethylsiloxane, the topography due to the dies’ height is reduced from more than <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$200~\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to approximately <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10~\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, enabling the use of standard microelectromechanical fabrication processes on top.
The Seal Of Search Words In Many Descriptive Datasets

: Unlike the tree indicators used in existing companies, our index is less receptive when it comes to increasing dimensions and metrics with multidimensional data. The unwanted candidates are cut in line with the distances between the MBR of the points or keywords and also with the best diameter. NKS queries are useful for many applications, for example, to analyze images in social systems, search for graphics patterns, perform geographic searches in GIS systems, etc. We produce exactly as well as the approximate form of formula. In this document, we consider that objects marked with keywords are baked in a vector space. Keyword-based search in rich, multidimensional data sets helps with many new applications and tools. From these data sets, we observe the queries that request the most precise categories of points that comply with the set of confirmed keywords. Our experimental results in real and synthetic datasets reveal that ProMiSH has up to 60 times more acceleration in tree-based art techniques. We recommend a unique method known as ProMiSH that uses random index structures and random fragmentation and achieves high scalability and acceleration. We carry out extensive experimental studies to demonstrate the performance of the proposed techniques.
Swinger RNAs in the Human Mitochondrial Transcriptome Swinger RNAs in the Human Mitochondrial Transcriptome

Transcriptomes include coding and non-coding RNAs and RNA fragments with no apparent homology to parent genomes. Non-canonical transcriptions systematically transforming template DNA sequences along precise rules explain some transcripts. Among these systematic transformations, 23 systematic exchanges between nucleotides, i.e. 9 symmetric (X ↔ Y, e.g. C ↔ T) and 14 asymmetric (X → Y → Z → X, e.g. A → T → G → A) exchanges. Here, comparisons between mitochondrial swinger RNAs previously detected in a complete human transcriptome dataset (including cytosolic RNAs) and swinger RNAs detected in purified mitochondrial transcriptomic data (not including cytosolic RNAs) show high reproducibility and exclude cytosolic contaminations. These results based on next-generation sequencing Illumina tech- nology confirm detections of mitochondrial swinger RNAs in GenBank’s EST data base sequenced by the classical Sanger method, assessing the existence of swinger polymerizations.
Designing and stabilizing a non-planar femtosecond enhancement cavity to excite the nuclear transition of the low energy isomer state of Thorium-229

This master thesis deals with the coupling of an optical frequency comb to an enhancement cavity. The operation principle of an enhancement cavity will be explained, and different ways to build such a cavity will be discussed. It will also be shown which parameters are critical to get the highest possible intensity, how to couple the cavity to the frequency comb and stabilize it on resonance.
POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF COCOS NUCIFERA (COCONUT) WATER ON FEMALE RAT’S ESTROUS CYCLE

Cocos nucifera (coconut) is frequently consumed by many for nutritional and medicinal purposes. This study evaluated the influence of coconut water on irregular estrous cycle in female Wistar rats. Thirty rats with irregular estrous cycles were divided into 3 groups (n=10) and administered orally with coconut water (1 or 2 ml) or bromocriptine (0.04 mg/kg) once daily for 14 days (3½ cycles for 4-day cycle). Estrous cycles of treated rats were determined via daily examination of vaginal smears from the fourth day of administration for 10 days. Estrous cycles of 80% of the rats that received 1 ml coconut water returned to normal, whereas 50% of the rats that were administered 2 ml coconut water or bromocriptine showed regular estrous cycles at the end of the treatment period. The result suggests that coconut water has high potency and efficacy to normalize irregular estrous cycle in female rats.
An Implementation of the OGC’s WFS Gazetteer Service Application Profile CASE: The EuroGeoNames Central Service Renewal

—Gazetteer Service is a Web Service that provides access to geographical names data sets. The service interface has been recently specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as an Application Profile (AP) of the well-known Web Feature Service (WFS). The service interface was implemented in the context of the EuroGeoNames Central Service renewal project. This work represents one of the first real-life implementations of the specification and serves as a test of its adaptability in the European multi-lingual environment. The experiences are encouraging.
Comparison of bulk FinFET and SOI FinFET

In this study, we compare the differences and advantages between Bulk FinFET and SOI FinFET. The results are simulated by using the ISE TCAD software. By changing the parameters of the gate voltage, drain voltage and gate length to analysis which characteristic is better. Through the experiment results, we demonstrate that the SOI FinFET have the better characteristics than bulk FinFET[1].
Synthesizing Bell States using Universal Quantum Gates

Quantum Computing has experienced a considerable growth in recent times. Though quantum computers have proved to be useful due to applications of Grover’s search algorithm and Shor’s factorisation algorithm, there exist certain difficulties for implementing scalable quantum computers such as decoherence. Decoherence affects entanglement of two qubits, a phenomenon which perhaps serves as the basis for various crucial applications of quantum computers. Bell state is a pivotal phenomenon based on Qubit entanglement serving useful purpose in Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Information exchange. Bell state is a disposition in which two qubits are entangled with each other, such that if the state of one qubit changes, the other will also change simultaneously. In this paper we propose a novel algorithm to implement bell states using universal gates only. An error comparison has been performed between the conventional algorithm consisting of Hadamard gate and the proposed algorithm consisting of universal gates. After running for several iterations on a real quantum computing system, the proposed algorithm proves to be more accurate as qubits were observed to collapse in desired states at a greater number of instances than the conventional algorithm.
South Africa’s growth revival after 1994 Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers: 01/06 \

This paper sets out to identify, describe and seek causes for South Africa’s growth revival since 1994. Following an analysis of the initial conditions for an economic recovery in 1994, growth accounting is used to distinguish the relative contributions of capital, labour and total factor productivity to this growth revival at the aggregate, sectoral and sub-sectoral (for manufacturing) levels. There is a substantial South African literature on the evolution of capital, labour and productivity which is combined here with the empirical evidence of the last decade to judge the potential contribution of these factors to the growth recovery. This paper finds that openness (to trade and capital flows) and a stable macroeconomic environment (partly attributable to policy) have been leading causes of South Africa’s growth recovery .
Online Junction Temperature Extraction of SiC Power mosfets With Temperature Sensitive Optic Parameter (TSOP) Approach

Accurate information of the junction temperature of SiC power mosfets ensures safe operation and helps reliability assessment of the devices. In this paper, an online junction temperature extraction method is proposed based on the electroluminescence phenomenon of the body diode of SiC power mosfets. It is found that during the forward conduction interval of the body diode, visible blue light is emitted around the chip, which ascribes to the radiative recombination in the low doped region of SiC mosfets. Experimental results suggest the light intensity changes linearly with the variation of the temperature and behaves as a temperature sensitive optic parameter (TSOP). Further, an electro-thermal-optic model is proposed to reveal the relationship between the electroluminescence intensity, forward current, and junction temperature. Based on the TSOP, an online junction temperature extraction method is proposed for SiC mosfets and verified in an SiC mosfet based inverter. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, the proposed junction temperature measurement method is contactless and immune from the aging of the package.
1-7 The Effects.qxd

The aim of the present study was to find out the influence of cadmium on Na+, K+, Ca++ and Mg++ levels in serum of Tilapia nilotica. Cadmium effected serum Na+, K+, Ca++ and Mg++ ion levels. Cadmium caused an increase in the sodium level and a decrease in the potassium level in the serum. This might be due to a change in the Na+/K+-ATPase activity and intercellular and intracellular distribution of sodium and potassium under the effect of cadmium. Serum calcium level showed a decrease, possibly due to inhibition of calcium transport by cadmium at the gill tissue chloride cells. Cadmium caused an increase in serum magnesium level in contrast to the calcium level. The decrease in serum calcium level might also affect the magnesium level indirectly.