Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nota lepidopterologica

We use mitochondrial markers to examine the genetic status of European subpopulations ofLuperina nickerlii Freyer, 1 845 (Noctuidae) in Britain, Ireland, Spain and the Czech Republic. We show that all the populations sampled belong to the same species Luperina nickerlii, despite considerable differences in appearance, ecology and population isolation. Neighbour-joining tree based on mitochondrial markers showed only three populations as separate clusters: gueneei, nickerlii and knilli. We show that subspecies leechi, albarracina and demuthi are genetically close to each other and that both leechi and gueneei show significantly lower heterozygosity than the other subspecies sampled. L. n. albarracina and knilli show high genetic variability. Isolation by distance was not supported in this study, suggesting populations were probably linked to each other in the recent past.
Traumatic Craniocervical Dissociation in Patients with Congenital Assimilation of the Atlas to the Occiput

Traumatic atlantooccipital dissociation (AOD) is a severe and usually fatal injury. Patients with assimilation of the atlas to the skull are exposed to a higher risk of injury and delay diagnosis due to the abnormal anatomy. We report two cases of acute traumatic craniocervical dislocation in patients with baseline congenital assimilation of the atlas to the skull. Computer tomography (CT) was used to identify the injury. Computer tomography angiography (CTA) showed variations of the vertebral arteries' location on both patients. Assimilation of the atlas was complete in patient one and partial in patient two. Emergent surgical instrumentation and fusion were performed with a very careful and meticulous posterior dissection. As general rule, most of the patients with CCD will undergo occiput to C2 posterior segmental instrumentation and fusion. In the presented cases, a more extensive fusion was necessary based on the type and severity of the CCJ injury and the anatomical anomalies associated. Postoperatively, patient one remained neurologically intact and patient two died. Alternative fixation techniques should be used to minimize risk of VA injury during the surgical procedures.
Design of far-"eld and near-"eld broadband beamformers using eigen"lters

This paper discusses two novel non-iterative design procedures based on eigen"lters for designing broadband beamformers with an arbitrary spatial directivity pattern for an arbitrary microphone con"guration. In the conventional eigen"lter technique a reference frequency-angle point is required, whereas in the eigen"lter technique based on a TLS (total least squares) error criterion, no reference point is required. It is shown how to design broadband beamformers in the far-"eld, near-"eld and mixed near-"eld far-"eld of the microphone array. Both eigen"lter techniques are compared with other broadband beamformer design procedures (least-squares, maximum energy array, non-linear criterion). It will be shown by simulations that among the considered non-iterative design procedures the TLS eigen"lter technique has the best performance, i.e. best resembling the performance of the non-linear design procedure but having a signi"cantly lower computational complexity. 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 43.60. Gk; 43.72. Ew; 43.72. Kb
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Yingchao Hu Yapei Zhu Wen Zhang Jinghe Lang Li Ning 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Gynecologic Oncology, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, People’s Republic of China Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in women. Due to a lacking of early detection method, its five-year survival rate is only 30%. Nevertheless, novel biomarkers for diagnosis remain to be discovered. The potential of microRNA signatures in the diagnosis of EOC has been especially described in recent years. In our previous experiments, we identified that circBNC2 was downregulated in EOC specimens, and was associated with advanced tumor stage and lymph node metastasis (LNM) by performing circRNA-sequencing analysis. The aim of this study was to explore the diagnostic value of circBNC2 in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Methods: Plasma from 249 age and menopause-matched women (83 with EOC; 83 with benign ovarian cyst; 83 were healthy volunteers) was collected prior to surgery. CircBNC2 was analyzed using reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Cancer antigen 125 (CA125) and human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) were analyzed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Receiver operating curve (ROC), the area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity and specificity were estimated. Results: CircBNC2 was downregulated in EOC and had higher ROC AUC in comparing EOC to benign (ROC AUC 0.879, sensitivity 96.4%, specificity 80.7%) or healthy (ROC AUC 0.923, sensitivity 95.2%, specificity 85.5%) cohorts than HE4 (ROC AUC: 0.742, benign cohort; 0.779, healthy cohort) and CA125 (ROC AUC: 0.373, benign cohort; 0.713, healthy cohort). Early stage EOC vs benign (ROC AUC 0.864, sensitivity 92.0%, specificity 80.7%) and healthy (ROC AUC 0.908, sensitivity 92.0%, specificity 85.5%) cohorts could be significantly separated by circBNC2. CircBNC2 performed alike in preand postmenopausal women, within EOC compared to the benign or healthy cohort. Conclusion: CircBNC2 is downregulated in EOC (both in tissue and plasma samples) and might present promising novel biomarker for EOC. Further studies are needed to verify our results. Impact: CircBNC2 is downregulated in EOC and warrants investigation in a screening study in females at risk for EOC.
The accuracy of white blood cell count in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis using age-sex-adjusted receiver operating characteristic approach

Background: White blood cell (WBC) counts are commonly used for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in the early stages of pain. However, the effect of certain confounders, particularly age and sex, has been less focused. The purpose of this study was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of white blood cells in the prediction of acute appendicitis using age-sex-adjusted receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Methods: In this cross sectional study, 131 patients who had undergone appendectomy were studied during 2010-2011. Patients were placed in the normal appendix and acute appendicitis groups. ROC regression was used to identify the effects of the variables of age and sex on the diagnostic accuracy of WBCs using the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Statistical analysis was conducted in Stata 12 software. Results: In ROC regression method, the AUC for the variable of WBC was 0.643 (95% CI: 0.555-0.725) without adjustment for age and sex variables, 0.672 (0.584-0.751) with an age-adjusted variable, 0.698 (0.612-0.775) with a sex-adjusted variable, and 0.710 (0.624-0.786) with both age-sex adjusted variables. Conclusion: Results indicated that age-sex adjusted variables increased the diagnostic accuracy of the WBC test for predicting acute appendicitis using ROC regression method for the WBC test.
2 Basic Concepts and Theory

This chapter starts with an introduction of the machine-tool-workpiece loop stiffness and deformation, and then fundamentals of vibrations and followed by the definition and categories of machining chatter. It is not the purpose of this chapter to present the general theory of vibration and chatter in depth as there are a number of excellent books and papers available on these subjects. It is intended from the machining system’s viewpoint to provide the basic concept and formulations and the necessary theory background for the following up chapters. Furthermore, the generic concept and classification of machining instability are proposed based on the analysis of various machining instable behaviors and their features.
PII: S0166-8641(00)00089-4

Brouwer’s homological degree has the multiplicative property for the composition of maps. That is, if f :X → Y andg :Y → Z are maps between closed oriented manifolds X,Y,Z of the same dimension, then|deg(g ◦ f )| = |deg(f )||deg(g)|. Hopf’s absolute degree is defined for maps between all n-manifolds, whether orientable or not, and is equal to the absolute value of the Brouwer degree if the manifolds are orientable. It is shown that the absolute degree does not always have the multiplicative property for compositions, but that it does have this property for orientable maps, i.e., for maps that do not map any orientation-reversing loop to a contractible one. If at least one of f and g is not an orientable map, the absolute degree of the composition g ◦ f can still be calculated from the absolute degrees of f and g if additional information about these two maps and a “correction term”κ(f,g) that depends on the homomorphisms of the fundamental groups induced byf andg are included. Although the Nielsen root number is closely related to the absolute degree, the multiplicative property for compositions can fail to hold for it even if the manifolds are orientable, but it does hold after the insertion of the correction term κ(f,g). Other interpretations of this correction term are presented. Given maps fi :Xi → Yi betweenni -manifolds, fori = 1,2, the Brouwer degree of their Cartesian product f1 × f2 :X1 × X2 → Y1 × Y2 has the multiplicative property|deg(f1 × f2)| = |deg(f1)||deg(f2)|. The results obtained concerning the multiplicative property for the composition of maps are used to investigate the multiplicative property for the Cartesian product of maps. We include an appendix on maps of aspherical spaces: Building on previous results of Brooks and Odenthal we show that if f :X → Y is a map of connected compact infrasolvmanifolds of the same dimension, then the Nielsen root number and absolute degree of f are equal.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. AMS classification: 55M20; 55M25; 57N99 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: rbrooks@bates.edu (R.B.S. Brooks), rfb@math.ucla. edu (R.F. Brown), schirmer@carleton.ca (H. Schirmer). 0166-8641/01/$ – see front matter  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PII: S0166-8641(00)00089-4 6 R.B.S. Brooks et al. / Topology and its Applications 116 (2001) 5–27
Interpreting Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Russian Inflectional Morphology

Morphological inﬂection, as an engineering task in NLP, has seen a rise in the use of neural sequence-to-sequence models (Kann and Sch¨utze, 2016; Cotterell et al., 2018; Aha-roni and Goldberg, 2017). While these out-perform traditional systems based on edit rule induction, it is hard to interpret what they are learning in linguistic terms. We propose a new method of analyzing morphological sequence-to-sequence models which groups errors into linguistically meaningful classes, making what the model learns more transparent. As a case study, we analyze a seq2seq model on Russian, ﬁnding that semantic and lexically conditioned allomorphy (e.g. inanimate nouns like ZAVOD ‘factory’ and animates like OTEC ‘father’ have different, animacy-conditioned accusative forms) are responsible for its relatively low accuracy. Augmenting the model with word embeddings as a proxy for lexical semantics leads to signiﬁcant improvements in predicted wordform accuracy.
Stress Analysis of an Underground Steel Pipeline Considering Corrosion Defect

This paper examines a problem in the interaction between a soil medium that experiences frost heave and thaw settlement in a closed system, and an underground steel pipeline. To perform this analysis, a submodel and a global model were set up, considering a corrosion pit on a pipe wall. The comparative analysis of the theory and the actual performances was valuable in that it established a level of confidence in the application of the introduced theory to the field. The numerical results show the influence of frost heave and thaw settlement of a granite soil medium on a temperature-dependent stress field on a wall of a pipeline buried in South Korea.
An Alternative Version of Purchasing Power Parity

A vast literature on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) has evolved and PPP has become the most popular concept in international finance. PPP is applied with various price indices such as consumer price index, wholesale price index, etc. In this article, we introduce a revised version of PPP equation for financial products, which is strongly supported by our panel data analysis.
Bone Morphogenetic Protein-6 (BMP-6) induces atresia in goat primordial follicles cultured in vitro1

Araújo V.R. , Lima-Verde I.B. , Name K.P.O. , Báo S.N. , Campelo C.C. , Silva J.R. V. , Rodrigues A.P.R. & Figueiredo J.R. 2010. Bone Morphogenetic Protein-6 (BMP-6) induces atresia in goat primordial follicles cultured in vitro. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 30(9):770-776. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Laboratório de Manipulação de Oócitos e Folículos Pré-Antrais, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Av. Paranjana 1700, Campus do Itaperi, Fortaleza, CE 60740-000, Brazil. E-mail: val_exclusiva@yahoo.com. br This study investigated the effects of bone morphogenetic protein 6 (BMP-6) on in vitro primordial follicle development in goats. Samples of goat ovarian cortex were cultured in vitro for 1 or 7 days in Minimum Essential Medium (control medium) supplemented with different concentrations of BMP-6. Follicle survival, activation and growth were evaluated through histology and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). After 7 days of culture, histological analysis demonstrated that BMP-6 enhanced the percentages of atretic primordial follicles when compared to fresh control (day 0). Nevertheless, BMP-6 increased follicular and oocyte diameter during both culture periods. As the culture period progressed from day 1 to day 7, a significant increase in follicle diameter was observed with 1 or 50ng/ml BMP-6. However, on the contrary to that observed with the control medium TEM revealed that follicles cultured for up to 7 days with 1 or 50ng/ml BMP-6 had evident signs of atresia. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that BMP-6 negatively affects the survival and ultrastructure of goat primordial follicles.
Location-based Services: User Interface for Pedestrian Navigation Systems

The purpose of this report is to review the research field of location-based services, in particular, the user interface for indoor navigation systems. Indoor navigation system, also called pedestrian navigation system, is a growing research field. It is currently gaining more attention due to the development of alternative localisation methods that does not involve the use of GPS. Where GPS has always been the driving force behind outdoor navigation, it remains unsuitable for indoor navigation. The report breaks down the field of indoor navigation systems into the different types of devices and interfaces used by these types of navigation systems. Based on existing studies, the overall state of the field is described and possible gaps in the field are indentified.
Network and Border Effects: Where Do Foreign Multinationals Locate in Germany?

This study assesses the determinants of location choices of foreign multinational firms at the level of German federal states. Adjacency and existing firm networks are assumed to influence the investors’ profits in a given location by overcoming informational disadvantages when entering the new market. A conditional and a nested logit model resemble the structure of the location choice process of individual investors well. By using affiliate-level data between 1997 and 2005, the results confirm that firms react positively to local demand, a common border and existing firm networks, while unit labour costs exhibit the expected negative impact. In the sectoral estimations, it is shown that these effects vary in their relevance among manufacturing and service affiliates, and between upstream and downstream activities.
School of Economics and Finance Categorization and Coordination

The use of coarse categories is prevalent in various situations and has been linked to biased economic outcomes, ranging from discrimination against minorities to empirical anomalies in financial markets. In this paper we study economic rationales for categorizing coarsely. We think of the way one categorizes one’s past experiences as a model of the world that is used to make predictions about unobservable attributes in new situations. We first show that coarse categorization may be optimal for making predictions in stochastic environments in which an individual has a limited number of past experiences. Building on this result, and this is a key new insight from our paper, we show formally that cases in which people have a motive to coordinate their predictions with others may provide an economic rationale for categorizing coarsely. Our analysis explains the intuition behind this rationale. JEL Classification: D83, C72.
Does the E-Marketing Determine the Sustainable Performance of Firm’s Sportswear Industry in Thailand

The main objective of the study is to explore the e-marketing as a determinant of the sustainable performance of firm’s Sportswear industry in Thailand. The present study is unique because of its focus on the e marketing in general and its impact on the sustainable organizational performance. Empirical evidence has been provided by this study for the hypothesized theoretical associations in accordance with the research framework. The study has surveyed the sportswear manufacturing firms. The final sample is 238 and response rate is 43 percent. The SEMPLS is used to analyse the data. The findings of the study have provided support to the hypothesized results. Several important implications can be made by this research. The research has identified several relations with regard to the literature on sustainability. The study has tested the direct and indirect relations among the variables, which were identified by the literature. The understanding of managers for achieving sustainable business performance through use of e marketing practices can be enhanced by the suggested model. Moreover, the e marketing process improves when it involves the technological aspects. From practical aspects, the study motivates the shareholders, top management, government, marketing department, policy makers, and practitioners to improve the sustainability of business.
Working Papers 17-10 “ War and Conflict in Economics : Theories , Applications , and Recent Trends ”

We review the main economic models of war and conflict. These models vary in details, but their implications are qualitatively consistent, highlighting key commonalities across a variety of conflict settings. Recent empirical literature, employing both laboratory and field data, in many cases confirms the basic implications of conflict theory. However, this literature also presents important challenges to the way economists traditionally model conflict. We finish our review by suggesting ways to address these challenges. JEL classifications: D72, D74, F51, F52, F54, H56, N4, Q34
Understanding Costumer Intention in Using Online Ticket Purchasing as Self-Service Technology

This study present and modifies the technology acceptance model (TAM) in understanding behavioural intention to use for online ticket purchasing. With 306 respondent, this study identifies the relationship and influence among perceived ease of use, technology readiness, perceived usefulness, attitude towards using, and behavioural intention to use. The findings revealed that technology readiness is the determinant factor in forming an attitude towards using and perceived usefulness on the contrary. These findings can be used for Cinema company to attract more people using online ticket purchasing since its still lack of user although this technology exists for customer benefit.
New reflectometer in a Lower Hybrid Current Drive on Tore Supra

In order to increase plasma temperature up to thermonuclear condition, the plasma can be heated by RF waves. The coupling of RF waves at ICRH or LHCD frequencies to plasma depends strongly on the electronic density and its gradient in front of the RF antenna. [1] A new reflectometer has been installed on a lower hybrid launcher of Tore Supra. It aims to measure the density profile in front of the coupler for a better understanding and control of LH coupling. The diagnostic expounded is based on the fast sweep heterodyne reflectometer scheme, developed for Tore Supra systems [2] [3] and recently installed on JET [4]. The band, 55-90 GHz (E band) in X-Mode is optimized for edge profile measurement with a sweeping time of 20 μs. The signal is launched though 3m WR28 waveguides, located in the centre of the LH coupler. Due to space constraints, open waveguides stand in place of antennas. The design of a reflectometer in a heating system leads to specific problems which are touched on, such as dilatation, vacuum and electric insulation, multi-reflexion on the LH coupler. New signal processing based on tomogram technique is applied to resolve the multicomponent aspect of the reflected signal [5]. Most of theses issues are intended for ITER ICRH antennas, where 4 reflectometers are foreseen to measure the edge density. Involvement in CYCLE project is also presented.
Grey Relational Classification of Consumers' Textual Evaluations in E-Commerce

Companies have gained important advantages by the development of electronic commerce. Consumer evaluations in electronic environment offer great possibilities for analysis. The fact that the consumer opinions are comprised of textual data, analyzes have complicated and challenging process. In recent years, it is seen that text mining methods are used in analyzes in the literature. However, the evaluations of consumers which are formed by short texts make it necessary to realize the analysis with insufficient data. The weighting methods such as Term Frequency and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency as well as common used classification algorithms such as Naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machine have some inadequacies in short text analysis. In this study, a grey relational classification model based on Vector Space Model and Bag of Words has been developed. The model was first applied to the positive-negative categorization of the evaluations, then, applied to the classification of negative evaluations. It was determined that the accuracy level of the model is higher than the classification algorithms commonly used in short text. According to the results of the research, 9637 negative evaluations in 24479 consumer opinion were determined, and 50.4% of the negative evaluations were found to have the most problems related to product.
Models for open quantum systems with applications to holonomic gates and quantum transport

Open quantum systems play a major role in many field of physics since quantum systems are generally very hard to screen from the environment, which makes noise and decoherence a major setback in quantum technologies such as quantum computers. In this dissertation we carry out a study of open quantum systems in several paradigms: in the context of holonomic quantum computation, where it is shown that the environment can improve the implementation of a quantum gate; in the context of transport in a Bosonic chain, where some entropic quantities are calculated; in the context of quantum to classical transition, where quantum darwinism is characterized in an exactly soluble model; and in the study of an exact solution to a Fermionic model, using non-equilibrium Green’s functions.