Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Internal and External Grease Interceptor Performance for Removal of Food‐Based Fats, Oil, and Grease from Food Service Establishments

A research study was performed to determine the fats, oil, and grease (FOG) removal efficiency of internal flow‐based grease interceptors (FGI). A passive‐flow and a mechanical‐flow FGI unit were tested and their performance was compared to an external retention‐based grease interceptor (RGI). Experiments involved multiple parameters including three oil/water emulsion strengths, two influent liquid temperatures, and two flow rates. Overall, the RGI achieved approximately 80% FOG removal and the FGIs removed less than 50% under the tested conditions. One exception occurred during the passive FGI testing during which removal reached approximately 80%. This increased efficiency was likely due to the relatively weak emulsion exhibiting significantly large FOG globules. The FOG removal efficiency decreased with increased temperature because of increased breakage of FOG globules at the elevated temperature. These results suggest that emulsion strength significantly affects FOG removal efficiency of FGIs and should be considered in future manufacturer testing protocol.
Gadolinium‐Doped Iron Oxide Nanoprobe as Multifunctional Bioimaging Agent and Drug Delivery System

In this study, a high‐performance T1–T2 dual‐model contrast agent by gadolinium‐doped iron oxide nanoparticle (GION) is developed. Following its development, the application of this agent in vivo by combining doxorubicin (DOX) and folic acid (FA) (FA–GION–DOX) for targeted drug delivery to monitor cancer treatment is explored. GION showed transverse and longitudinal relaxivities up to 182.7 × 10−3 and 7.87 × 10−3m−1 s−1, respectively, upon Gd/Fe ratio in GION at 1/4. DOX released from FA–GION–DOX is pH dependent and only kills cancer cell after FA receptor‐mediated internalization into the acidic environment of endosomes and lysosomes. Systemic delivery of FA–GION–DOX significantly inhibits the growth of tumors and shows good magnetic resonance enhancement in a human cervical cancer xenograft model. Thus, FA–GION–DOX has a potential application for the targeted and magnetic resonance imaging guided therapy of cervical cancer.
Multi-dimensional traffic anomaly detection based on ICA

Some network anomalous events caused by same reason (e.g., DDoS, link failure) tend to present similar unusual change on multiple traffic observations, and this part of traffic usually exhibits anomalous features either on time or frequency domain. Motivated by this fact, this paper introduces a multidimensional traffic anomaly detection method based on independent component analysis (ICA). Considering traffic observation as a mixture of normal and anomaly that respectively generated by different reasons, we generalize ICA technology of blind sources separation problem to separate the potentially anomalous part from characteristics of individual traffic signal on time and frequent domain. We show that how principle component analysis is combined with sliding window analysis, to measure the degree of similarity among multiple abnormal parts with fine granularity. The evaluation using Abilene trace shows that our method is useful to detect anomalous traffic with small volume, and performs better than previous method.
Novel Analytical Calculation Method for the Non-Linear ψ-i-Characteristic of Switched-Reluctance-Machines in the Aligned Rotor Position

Knowing the non-linear ψ-i-characteristic is crucial for the design of switched reluctance machines, especially for the aligned position. So far, analytical calculations are based on complex models of the magnetic circuit or on functions needing a fitting procedure (using measured or FEM-calculated data). In this paper, a method is presented that requires only very few input data. In addition, these input data can be deduced easily from the geometry of the machine. Comparisons with measured data show quite a good correlation, qualifying this method to be used in the design procedure of new switched reluctance machines.
On Computation of Optimal Switching HJB Equation

This paper proposes an algorithm to compute the optimal switching cost from the dynamic programming Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. For the optimal switching control problem, the HJB equation is a system of quasi-variational inequalities (SQVIs) coupled by a nonlinear operator. By exploring the fundamental limit on the number of switches could occur in an optimal switching control signal and making use of the connections with the optimal stopping control problem, the coupled SQVIs are decoupled into a sequence of optimal stopping type quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs). The optimal stopping QVIs are solved by the approach of Markov chain approximation
Blood Pressure as an Independent Prognostic Factor in Acute Ischemic Stroke

ABSTRACT: Background and Purpose: Blood pressure is elevated in most patients during acute ischemic stroke, but the prognostic significance of this is unclear as the current data yield conflicting results. Methods: Admission blood pressure from the 1281 patients in the Trial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) was analyzed for prognostic significance as well as the risk of hemorrhagic transformation. We also examined weighted-average blood pressure over seven days, and the impact of a 30% change in blood pressure in 24 hours. Patients with severe hypertension were excluded from the TOAST trial. Results: Increasing systolic blood pressure (SBP) on admission, but not diastolic (DBP) or mean arterial pressure (MAP) was predictive of poor outcome, but this effect was not significant after adjustment for other know prognostic factors. Increasing weighted-average SBP and MAP over seven days were predictive for poor outcome, but a 30% change in blood pressure over 24 hours was not. Conclusions: Admission blood pressure is not an independent prognostic factor in acute ischemic stroke, but the weighted-average of SBP and MAP over seven days probably does have predictive value with higher values having a worse prognosis. A prospective trial of blood pressure control during acute stroke is needed.
Improved snow cover monitoring method based on HJ-1B infrared data

Monitoring snow distribution area plays an important role in researching climate change and energy exchange process. Chinese small satellite constellation (abbreviated HJ constellation) is special for environment and disaster continuously monitoring or forecasting. By using HJ-1B CCD and infrared data or only using its infrared data, it can construct NDSI (Normalized Difference Snow Index) or MNDSI (Modified Normalized Difference Snow Index) respectively to detect snow area. However, obtaining the CCD and infrared images at the same time is impossible for the long time monitoring. Furthermore, snow area is mixed with vegetation, the snow index's value will be reduced, and snow area in these places could not be detected accurately. Therefore, this paper introduces an improved snow cover monitoring method based on MNDSI and priori information of vegetation to increase the detection accuracy of snow area by using HJ-1B infrared image. The proposed method has the higher precision than the compared method.
Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the DNA gyrase gyrA gene from the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida

The DNA gyrase gyrA gene from the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida 2148/89 was cloned, and the nucleotide sequence was determined. An open reading frame of 2,766 nucleotides was identified and was found to encode a protein of 922 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 101.1 kDa. The derived amino acid sequence shared a high degree of identity with other DNA gyrase A proteins, in particular, with other gram-negative GyrA sequences. When the amino acid sequence of A. salmonicida GyrA was compared with that of Escherichia coli GyrA, a number of conserved residues were present at identical coordinates, including the catalytic Tyr residue at position 122 (Tyr-122) and residues whose substitution confers quinolone resistance, notably, Ser-83, Ala-67, Gly-81, Asp-87, Ala-84, and Gln-106. An intragenic region corresponding to 48 amino acids, which is not present in E. coli or other bacteria, was identified in the C-terminal part of A. salmonicida GyrA. This intragenic region shared sequence identity with various DNA-binding proteins of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic origins.
VFI-Based Robotic Arm Control for Natural Adaptive Motion

Since neural oscillator based control methods can generate rhythmic motion without information on system dynamics, they can be a promising alternative to traditional motion planning based control approaches. However, for field application, they still need to be robust against unexpected forces or changes in environments so as to be able to generate “natural motion” like most biological systems. In this study a biologically inspired control algorithm that combines neural oscillators and virtual force is proposed. This work gives the condition with respect to parameters tuning to stably activate the neural oscillators. This is helpful to achieve motion adaptability to environmental changes keeping the motion repeatability. He efficacy and efficiency of the proposed methods are tested in the control of a planar three-linkage robotic arm. It is shown that the proposed controller generates a given circular path stably and repeatedly, even with unexpected contact with a wall. The adaptivity of motion control is also tested in control of a robotic arm with redundant degrees of freedom. The proposed control algorithm works throughout the simulations and experiments.
Claiming Rosa Parks: conservative Catholic bids for ‘rights’ in contemporary Latin America

When the Rosa Parks Prize was awarded to a conservative Argentine senator in 2009 for her outspoken opposition to contraception, sterilisation and abortion, it was clear that something odd was happening. This paper documents the appropriation of ‘human rights’ discourses by conservative Catholics in Latin America, where the recent success of reproductive and sexual rights social movements has generated a significant backlash. It specifically traces an effort by Catholic legal scholars to justify what they term ‘a distinctively Latin American approach to human rights’ while ignoring decades of human rights activism by others. Opponents of reproductive and sexual rights are deploying rights-talk selectively and strategically, it is argued, using this as secular cover to advance pro-life and pro-family policies.
Isolation of IgG3 from Normal Human Sera and from a Patient with Multiple Myeloma by Using Protein A‐Sepharose 4B

Affinity chromatography of IgG on protein A‐Sepharose was used to isolate the human subclass IgG3 from normal serum and from a patient with multiple myeloma. The isolated material was purified by chromatography mi Sephadex G‐150 and characterized immunochemically Ultracentrifugation studies gave s°20 values of about 6.30 for both normal and myeloma IgG3 Approximately 54 halfcystine residues per molecule of IgG3 were obtained as judged from amino acid analysts after performic acid oxidation of the proteins. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate of the isolated and reduced material resulted in two bands correspoding to molecular weights of approximately 23.000 and 56.000. respectively. The yield of normal human IgG3 represented 1%‐2% of the tout IgG.
Sinusoidal modeling based on instantaneous frequency attractors

We propose a sinusoidal synthesis method based on the instantaneous frequency (IF) attractors which well correspond to harmonic frequency trajectories. We demonstrate that IF attractors can be directly applied to sinusoidal synthesis. Since the continuity of IF attractors is well-defined and simple to detect, extraction of IF attractors can be done without any explicit constraint and needs no complicated algorithm such as peak-tracking of short-time spectra. We also describe the procedure for sinusoidal synthesis and precise phase estimation along with examples.
Human pose estimation with multiple mixture parts model based on upper body categories

Abstract. The problem of human pose estimation in still images is considered. Most previous works predicted the pose directly with either local deformable models or a global mixture representation in the pose space. We argue that this process of pose estimation can be divided into different stages. We propose a new two-stage framework for human pose estimation. In the pre-estimation stage, there are three steps: upper body detection, model category estimation for the upper body, and full model selection for pose estimation. A new method based on pairwise scores of the upper body is proposed for upper body detection. In the estimation stage, we address the problem of a variety of human poses and activities. The upper body-based multiple mixture parts (MMP) model is proposed. This model not only joins different mixture models together, but can also analyze activities with complex kinematic structures. The model is compared with the state-of-the-art. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the MMP model.
The effect of melengestrol acetate (MGA) on ovarian function and fertilization in beef heifers.

Heifers were given . 5 or 1 mg/day of melengestrol acetate (MGA) for 14 days to investigate the effect of dose and time of initial treatment on the following parameters: 1) ovarian morphology 2) luteinizing hormone (LH) and progesterone levels in blood 3) cervical mucus index 4) estrus and 5) ovulation and fertilization following mating. Average time for estrus from last MGA feeding was 7.26 days in 1 mg MGA heifers (p less than .01) and 4.75 days in . 5 mg MGA-synchronized heifers. 47% of the heifers given MGA on Day 15 failed to become synchronized whereas only 20% of those given MGA on Day 4 failed. Major physiologica l changes occurred in ovaries as a result of MGA treatment; there were f ewer mature follicles and more very large follicles compared with controls. Cervical mucus index coincided with estrus in only 1/3 of the MGA-treated heifers. Serum LH levels were higher (p less than .05) in those heifers first treated on Day 15 rather than on Day 4 and in animals receiving . 5 mg MGA. MGA-treated heifers had more uncleaved ova indicating a higher rate of fertilization failure. It is concluded that fertility is reduced in matings at the first synchronized estrus following MGA treatment.
Short-term herbivory has long-term consequences in warmed and ambient high Arctic tundra

Climate change is occurring across the world, with effects varying by ecosystem and region but already occurring quickly in high-latitude and high-altitude regions. Biotic interactions are important in determining ecosystem response to such changes, but few studies have been long-term in nature, especially in the High Arctic. Mesic tundra plots on Svalbard, Norway, were subjected to grazing at two different intensities by captive Barnacle geese from 2003–2005, in a factorial design with warming by Open Top Chambers. Warming manipulations were continued through 2014, when we measured vegetation structure and composition as well as growth and reproduction of three dominant species in the mesic meadow. Significantly more dead vascular plant material was found in warmed compared to ambient plots, regardless of grazing history, but in contrast to many short-term experiments no difference in the amount of living material was found. This has strong implications for nutrient and carbon cycling and could feed back into community productivity. Dominant species showed increased flowering in warmed plots, especially in those plots where grazing had been applied. However, this added sexual reproduction did not translate to substantial shifts in vegetative cover. Forbs and rushes increased slightly in warmed plots regardless of grazing, while the dominant shrub, Salix polaris, generally declined with effects dependent on grazing, and the evergreen shrub Dryas octopetala declined with previous intensive grazing. There were no treatment effects on community diversity or evenness. Thus despite no changes in total live abundance, a typical short-term response to environmental conditions, we found pronounced changes in dead biomass indicating that tundra ecosystem processes respond to medium- to long-term changes in conditions caused by 12 seasons of summer warming. We suggest that while high arctic tundra plant communities are fairly resistant to current levels of climate warming, underlying ecosystem processes are beginning to change. In addition, even short bouts of intense herbivory can have long-term consequences for some species in these communities.
Content protection technology for a novel removable drive

We developed specifications for a new type of removable storage medium called an information versatile disk for removable usage. The objects of these specifications range from the physical layer to the application layer in order to achieve the interoperability among various appliances. This paper describes a security architecture to control content utilization, a logical format based on the UDF file system, and an interface protocol applicable for AT attachment. The interface protocol conforms to the architecture and the format and is based on the public key infrastructure. It is applicable to systems based on superdistribution.
Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making through a Cloud Infrastructure: The Dicode EU project

The goal of the Dicode project is to facilitate and augment collaboration and decision making in data-intensive and cognitively-complex settings. To do so, it will exploit and build on the most prominent high-performance computing paradigms and large data processing technologies to meaningfully search, analyze and aggregate data existing in diverse, extremely large, and rapidly evolving sources.
Constitutive Activation of the Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Alters the Spatial Proximity of Transmembrane 7 to the Ligand-binding Pocket*

Activation of G protein-coupled receptors by agonists involves significant movement of transmembrane domains (TM) following binding of agonist. The underlying structural mechanism by which receptor activation takes place is largely unknown but can be inferred by detecting variability within the environment of the ligand-binding pocket, which constitutes a water-accessible crevice surrounded by the seven TM helices. Using the substituted cysteine accessibility method, we initially identified those residues within the seventh transmembrane domain (TM7) of wild type angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor that contribute to forming the binding site pocket. We have substituted successively TM7 residues ranging from Ile276 to Tyr302 to cysteine. Treatment of A277C, V280C, T282C, A283C, I286C, A291C, and F301C mutant receptors with the charged sulfhydryl-specific alkylating agent MTSEA significantly inhibited ligand binding, which suggests that these residues orient themselves within the water-accessible binding pocket of the AT1 receptor. Interestingly, this pattern of acquired MTSEA sensitivity was greatly reduced for TM7 reporter cysteines engineered in a constitutively active mutant of the AT1 receptor. Our data suggest that upon activation, TM7 of the AT1 receptor goes through a pattern of helical movements that results in its distancing from the binding pocket per se. These studies support accumulating evidence whereby elements of TM7 of class A GPCRs promote activation of the receptor through structural rearrangements.
A batch algorithm using iterative application of the Viterbi algorithm to track cells and construct cell lineages

Advances in microscope hardware in the last couple of decades have made it possible to acquire large data sets with image sequences of living cells grown in cell culture. This has led to a demand for automated ways of analyzing the acquired images. This article presents a new algorithm for tracking cells and constructing cell lineages in such image sequences. The algorithm uses information from the entire sequence to make local decisions about cell tracks and can therefore make more robust decisions than algorithms that process the data sequentially. It also incorporates image-based likelihoods of cell division and cell death into the tracking, without having to resort to separate detection algorithms or post processing of tracks. The algorithm consists of a scoring function to rank tracks and an iterative algorithm that searches for the highest scoring tracks, in a computationally efficient way, using the Viterbi algorithm.
Investigating the act of deception in online-Islamic Content

Deception in online content is not uncommon. This research focuses on investigating deception in the context of online-Islamic content. Previous studies have shown that some of the online content claiming to be about Islamic values, ethics and ideology is in fact aimed at deceiving people about the truth of Islamic ideologies, values and ethics. Through content analysis, several websites with Islamic content were evaluated to identify criteria of deception. The study was conducted with 24 respondents. Nine main scaled items were generated and tested using correlation analysis and analysis of variance (ANDVA). Descriptive statistics show that the content of Islamic websites may reveal whether the website in question is deceptive or otherwise; background knowledge of Islam aided identification of deceptive websites. The use of a single-informant method and focus on selected Islamic websites are some of the constraints of this study. Future research may consider incorporating a multiple response method, longitudinal design and covering samples across different countries.
User‐Controllable Color Transfer

This paper presents an image editing framework where users use reference images to indicate desired color edits. In our approach, users specify pairs of strokes to indicate corresponding regions in both the original and the reference image that should have the same color “style”. Within each stroke pair, a nonlinear constrained parametric transfer model is used to transfer the reference colors to the original. We estimate the model parameters by matching color distributions, under constraints that ensure no visual artifacts are present in the transfer result. To perform transfer on the whole image, we employ optimization methods to propagate the model parameters defined at each stroke location to spatially‐close regions of similar appearance. This stroke‐based formulation requires minimal user effort while retaining the high degree of user control necessary to allow artistic interpretations. We demonstrate our approach by performing color transfer on a number of image pairs varying in content and style, and show that our algorithm outperforms state‐of‐the‐art color transfer methods on both user‐controllability and visual qualities of the transfer results.