Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Taxonomie des pseudomonas phytopathogenes du groupe de pseudomonas syringae : etudes phenotypique et genotypique

La taxonomie des pseudomonas fluorescents phytopathogenes oxydase negative bien qu'ayant evolue dans le temps est actuellement floue et insatisfaisante. Ce groupe comprend 52 pathovars de p. Syringae et 5 especes proches (p. Cichorii et p. Viridiflava, p. Amygdali, p. Ficuserectae, p. Meliae). Les caracteres phenotypiques (20 caracteres biochimiques et l'assimilation de 147 substrats hydrocarbones) de 655 souches des pathovars de p. Syringae et des 5 especes proches ont ete etudies. Les donnees ont ete interpretees par l'utilisation d'une methode de taxonomie numerique et du coefficient de capacite de diagnostic (ccd). Les resultats font apparaitre la grande diversite phenotypique des pathovars p. Syringae. Des souches de certains pathovars comme pv. Glycineae, pv. Phaseolicola, pv. Savastanoi, pv. Porri, pv. Avellanae, pv. Persicae, pv. Tomato, pv. Morsprunorum, pseudomonas sp. (magnolia sp. ) forment des phenons que l'on differencie par les caracteres phenotypiques. D'autres pathovars comme pv. Syringae, pv. Pisi, pv. Aptata, pv. Atropurpurea, pv. Japonica, pv. Dysoxyli, pv. Eriobotryae, pv. Lapsa, pv. Striafaciens et pv. Atrofaciens s'agregent dans le meme phenon a des distances faibles et ne sont pas identifiables par les caracteres biochimiques. Les caracteres genomiques des souches-type des 52 pathovars de p. Syringae et des 5 especes proches ont ete etudies par hybridations quantitatives adn/adn par la methode de la nuclease s1. Il a ete mis en evidence 9 especes genomiques qui regroupent un nombre variable de pathovars: p. Syringae (10), p. Savastanoi (20), p. Tomato (14), p. Porri (8), p. Avellanae (2), p. Helianthi (2), p. Tremae (1), p. Cannabinae (1) et p. Viridiflava (2). La validation de ces 9 especes sera proposee. Cependant, aucune caracterisation biochimique ne permet pas encore leur identification
Src Family Tyrosine Kinase Signaling in Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst stage embryo and are characterized by self-renewal and pluripotency. Previous work has implicated the Src family of protein-tyrosine kinases (SFKs) in the self-renewal and differentiation of mouse ES (mES) cells. These kinases display dynamic expression and activity changes during ES cell differentiation, suggesting distinct functions in the control of developmental fate. To test the hypothesis that c-Src and its closest phylogenetic relative, c-Yes, act in biological opposition to one another, I first showed that enforced expression of active c-Yes blocked ES cell differentiation to embryoid bodies by maintaining pluripotency gene expression. To determine the interplay of c-Src and c-Yes in mES cell fate determination, I employed a chemical genetics approach to generate c-Src and c-Yes mutants that are resistant to A-419259, a potent pyrrolopyrimidine inhibitor of the Src kinase family. This method allowed us to investigate individual kinase function in the presence of A-419259. I found that c-Src activity alone induces mES cell differentiation to the ectoderm and endoderm, while c-Yes inhibits this process. These studies show that even closely related kinases such as c-Src and c-Yes have unique and opposing functions in the same cell type. While Src kinase signaling has been investigated in mES cells, the role of this kinase family in human ES (hES) cells is largely unknown. Using quantitative real-time RT-PCR, I determined the relative expression profile of individual SFK members in undifferentiated hES cells vs. embryoid bodies derived from them. Like mES cells, hES cells express multiple SFK members with dynamic transcription changes during EB differentiation, indicating that individual members may play non-redundant roles. To assess the role of SFK activity in hES cells, I treated hES cell cultures with SFK inhibitors. SFK inhibition maintained hES cell colony morphology and expression of the pluripotency marker Tra-1-60 in differentiation medium. These observations support a role for Src family kinase signaling in the regulation of hES fate, and suggest that some parallels may exist in mouse and human ES cells for this intracellular signaling network.
Opening Ceremonies of International Sports Events: The Other Face of Chinese Soft Power

Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between the opening ceremonies of international sports events and the building of a positive image of China. To do so, we draw on the concept of soft power, which establishes that one way in which states seek to achieve their goals in the international arena is through attraction rather than coercion. From this perspective, the construction of promedia images is one of the privileged means to deploy soft power. Thus, this paper examines the favourable projection of China’s image at inaugural ceremonies of international sports events. These images show China as a country heir to a millenary past and brilliant civilization, which aims to assist in the construction of a better future. The paper concludes by highlighting the importance of these events in the construction of a collective imaginary about what government elites establish regarding what China is and should be on the international stage.
Development of a sub-pixel analysis method applied to dynamic monitoring of floods

Traditional ‘in situ’ measurement techniques often fail to record the spatial distribution of floodplains. In that case, remote sensing provides inexpensive and reliable methodologies to map flooded areas and compute flood damage. The identification and monitoring of floods, due to their highly dynamic nature, require the use of high-time-resolution satellite images with the drawback that such images usually have low to medium spatial resolution. In this context, the traditional classification techniques would not be suitable for delineating floods because they use ‘hard methods’ of classification, where the coarse pixel is assigned to a unique land cover class, generating inaccurate maps of the flooded area. In contrast, the ‘soft methods’ assign several land cover classes within the coarse pixels. In this article, the theoretical basis regarding an innovative methodology of sub-pixel analysis (SA) to identify flooded areas is developed. The improvement in flood delineation is achieved with the use of primary topographic attributes, which stem from a digital elevation model (DEM). The methodology was applied to the monitoring of flood events in the lower Senegal River Valley, using satellite images with moderate spatial resolution. The proposed methodology was demonstrated to be effective for mapping the flood extent: the correct mapping of flooded areas was about 80% in all considered regions, whilst the better performance of supervised classification was 53%.
Bayesian analysis made simple: An excel GUI for WinBUGS

It seems as if Bayesian statistics are everywhere these days, and having been trained strictly in the frequentist school it can be difficult to make a start with actually using these statistics in everyday work. This book is an intermediate treatment of Bayesian models of many different kinds with an admirable focus on actually using the models in applied situations. Models for data with spatial and temporal correlation are covered, as well as multilevel, SEM, and survival models. There is a very practical focus to the book, with real examples throughout as well as WinBUGS code for each application. Also commendable is the focus on model fit and checking, with a dedicated chapter as well as material throughout relating to model assumptions and techniques for use where standard assumptions are not met. Although the style is dry, it is accessible and this book should appeal to readers such as myself who are interested in learning more about the area as well as to more seasoned users of these types of models. Although including WinBUGS code is an asset to the book there is little explanation of the code, which can make grasping some of the more complex models rather difficult. Although detailed explanation of the code is rightly out of the remit of this book a few pointers with some of the more advanced bits or just better commenting of the code would be of a great help to relative newcomers to WinBUGS. The book achieves what it sets out to achieve very well. With its extensive index, voluminous examples, and full WinBUGS code, it should serve as a reference text for anyone using or learning about these models. Given the wide scope of the book, it may be best used in tandem with a fuller treatment of specific applications (e.g., multilevel models), but is an excellent introduction to using these models nonetheless.
The emergence of social enterprises through the initiative of self-organized citizens: an analysis starting from Olson's approach to the logic of collective action

ABSTRACT This article provides indirect empirical evidence with which to verify whether the logic of collective action maintained by Olson represents a sound theoretical approach to social enterprises. Our hypothesis is that, if a positive effect of participation in social enterprises on pro-social attitudes of members exists, when considering these organizations we should move from the approach proposed by Olson to the one proposed by Putnam, in the Tocqueville tradition. Overall, the existing empirical and experimental evidence seems to suggest that Putnam's approach to voluntary organizations is better able than Olson's to capture the organizational behavior of social enterprises, confirming that initiatives by self-organized citizens should be considered a possible convincing explanation for their emergence.
Norms Network Members Use: An Alternative Perspective for Indicating Network Success or Failure

ABSTRACT In this article it is argued that one approach to learn more on network success is by studying the norms network members use to control their own network. The results of this study in four health care networks indicate three norms to be central: the norm of network legitimacy, the norm of activating capacity, and the norm of network climate. By comparing the four networks it was explored if and why networks differ in the accomplishment of their own norms. Explanations for the reasonable success of networks can be found in the way the networks were initiated and the legitimacy of the networks. Moreover, only if networks are initiated by the network participants themselves does the network's age positively correlate with the network's activating capacity.
Public–private partnerships in the water reuse sector: a global assessment

Abstract Unlike contracts involving water provision, involving the private sector in water reuse projects is not seen as politically contentious. Water reuse remains a small element of public–private partnership contracts in general, but their frequency of use has increased, notably since 2005. These contracts are typically awarded in middle-to-high-income countries, and there is a relation between contract awards and water stress. In terms of population served, 5% of contracts were awarded in areas without water stress and 77% in areas with high water stress.
USAGE POTENTIAL OF FUEL CELLS FOR MANNED/UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES: DEVELOPMENTS, CURRENT STATUS

FCEL-07 Fuel cells are the most popular source of power for electric air vehicles in terms of being greener, more reliable and higher efficient. Although fuel cells have considerably superior properties, there are some problems to be solved, such as hydrogen storage, high cost and low flight endurance. Therefore, more researches are needed to solve these problems with developing technology. Purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of applications of hydrogen fuel cells in air vehicles. Therefore, the usage of hydrogen fuel cells like APU and propulsion application, advantages and working principles are presented and their challenges are determined. The latest research activities, hydrogen storage methods with challenges are analyzed and the developments of fuel cell powered air vehicles are discussed. As a result, this review is important in terms of compiling the latest technology for air vehicles, as well as fuel cell applications in large aircraft.
NOVEL GENE TARGETS ASSOCIATED WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF

(51) International Patent Classification: (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every G01N 33/50 (2006.01) kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BR, BW, BY, BZ, (21) International Application Number: CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DK, DM, DO, PCT/US201 1/030178 DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, (22) International Filing Date: HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IS, JP, KE, KG, KM, KN, KP, 28 March 201 1 (28.03.201 1) KR, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LT, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, (25) Filing Language: English NO, NZ, OM, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, RU, SC, SD,
LUBRICATION OF TEXTURED SURFACES

Textured surfaces create a lubrication film, which produces a load carrying capacity when there is no condition for the wedge effect. This phenomenon can have a large variety of industrial applications: it improves the functioning of mechanical seals, it can be used to manufacture partial textured thrust bearings, also it leads to an improvement of fuel consumption in the case of internal combustion engines by texturing the rings or the liner and by texturing the cage of cylindrical roller bearings their durability increases. The article presents all these applications and also a finite difference model for calculating the pressure distribution for a textured surface.
Prevalence and Outcome of Hysterectomy at the Douala General Hospital, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study

Citation: Egbe TO, Kobenge FM, Arlette MMJ, Eta-Nkongho E, Nyemb JE, et al. (2018) Prevalence and Outcome of Hysterectomy at the Douala General Hospital, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int J Surg Res Pract 5:092. doi.org/10.23937/2378-3397/1410092 Accepted: December 12, 2018 ; Published: December 14, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Egbe TO, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. International Journal of Surgery Research and Practice Open Access ISSN: 2378-3397
Graph-based image segmentation using weighted color patch

Constructing a discriminative affinity graph plays an essential role in graph-based image segmentation, and feature directly influences the discriminative power of the affinity graph. In this paper, we propose a new method based on the weighted color patch to compute the weight of edges in an affinity graph. The proposed method intends to incorporate both color and neighborhood information by representing pixels with color patches. Furthermore, we assign both local and global weights adaptively for each pixel in a patch in order to alleviate the over-smooth effect of using patches. The normalized cut (NCut) algorithm is then applied on the resulting affinity graph to find partitions. We evaluate the proposed method on the Prague color texture image benchmark and the Berkeley image segmentation database. The extensive experiments show that our method is competitive compared to the other standard methods with multiple evaluation metrics.
Natural Disasters and Industrial Production Efficiency: Evidence from Prewar Japan

In this paper, we investigate whether destruction due to natural disasters induces industries to increase their production efficiency using the case of prewar Japan, a period of frequent disasters and technological upgrading. To this end, we compile a regional sectoral data set of natural disaster destruction and production for machinery and textiles during the period. We then employ a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach to estimate the role of disaster events on changes in production efficiency. Our results show that earthquakes led to increases in efficiency for both machinery and textiles, although they were substantially greater for textiles due to recovery persisting longer. In contrast, climate-related natural disaster events played no role in production efficiency.
What Can Be Measured with Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy?

S. Blüml and A. Panigrahy (eds.), MR Spectroscopy of Pediatric Brain Disorders, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5864-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013 In this chapter, the basic principles and procedures of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), with emphasis on clinical and experimental work in humans, are illustrated. An in-depth understanding of the laws of physics and chemistry that make MRS (and MRI) possible is outside the scope.
A NOVEL APPROACH TO TARIFF DESIGN AND CUSTOMER CLASSIFICATION IN DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS

MANG-05 Developing energy policies to satisfy current demand while providing a sustainable development is one of the most important topics in current energy research areas. As more and cheaper Information Communication Technology (ICT) products are developed, penetration of those products in households and their total consumption is also increasing. Due to semirandom nature of household consumption behavior, residental customers are cause of peak loads which effects green house gasses, grid reliability and wholesale market prices.
THE EFFECT OF GEOGEBRA-ASSISTED DIRECT INSTRUCTION ON STUDENTS’ SELF-EFFICACY AND SELF-REGULATION

This study aims to find out the effect of Geogebra Assisted Direct Instruction on students' self-efficacy and self-regulation. This is a mixed method research with a sequential explanatory strategy, while the research design is a pretest and posttest unequivalent group design. The experimental group applied Geogebra Assisted Direct Instruction while the control group used conventional learning. The population in this study is the third semester students who have studied Field and Space Analytic Geometry. The research sample was selected using cluster random sampling technique. The research instruments were self-efficacy and self-regulation questionnaires for quantitative data and interview sheets for qualitative data. Data analysis was performed quantitatively using inferential statistical analysis and qualitatively analyzing the results of interview with students. The results showed that there was a significant effect of geogebra-assisted direct instruction on the achievement of students' self-efficacy and self-regulation. From the interviews it was found that the application of Geogebra-assisted Direct Instruction can facilitate the achievement of students' self-efficacy and self-regulation.
Associations of Bone Turnover Markers with Cognitive Function in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Background Patients undergoing hemodialysis experience a greater risk of cognitive impairment than the general population, but limited data elucidates the biomarkers on this. We evaluated the association of bone turnover markers on cognitive function among 251 prevalent hemodialysis enrollees in a cross-sectional study. Methods 251 hemodialysis patients (median age = 57.8, 55% men) and 37 control subjects (mean age = 61.2, 56% men) without a prior stroke or dementia diagnosis were enrolled. Serum concentrations of 8 bone markers were analyzed as the association of cognitive function (Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI)) using linear regression analysis. Results A lower cognitive function was noted in hemodialysis patients compared to control subjects. The receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL) was the only bone marker found to be associated with cognitive function (MoCA and CASI tests) in hemodialysis patients without a prior stroke or dementia diagnosis. In stepwise multiple linear regression analysis, the association remained significant in MoCA (β = 1.14, 95% CI 0.17 to 2.11) and CASI (β = 3.06, 95% CI 0.24 to 5.88). Short-term memory (β = 0.52, 95% CI 0.01 to 1.02), mental manipulation (β = 0.51, 95% CI 0.05 to 0.96), and abstract thinking (β = 0.57, 95% CI 0.06 to 1.09) were the significant subdomains in the CASI score related to RANKL. Conclusions Serum RANKL levels were potentially associated with better cognitive function in hemodialysis patients. Further large-scale and prospective studies are needed to confirm our findings.
Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities

: Yogyatā or mutual congruity between the meanings of the related words is an important factor in the process of verbal cognition. In this paper, we present the computational modeling of yogyatā for automatic parsing of Sanskrit sentences. Among the several deﬁnitions of yogyatā we modeled it as an absence of non-congruity. We discuss the reasons behind our modeling. Due to lack of any syntactic criterion for viśeṣaṇa (adjectives) in San-skrit, parsing Sanskrit texts with adjectives resulted in high number of false positives. Hints from the vyākaraṇa texts helped us in the formulation of a criterion for viśeṣaṇa with syntactic and ontological constraints, which provided us a clue to decide the absence of non-congruity between two words with respect to the adjectival relation. A simple two way classiﬁcation of nouns into dravya and guṇa with further sub-classiﬁcation of guṇas into guṇavacanas was found to be necessary for handling adjectives. The same criterion was also necessary to handle the ambiguities between a kāraka and non-kāraka relations. These criteria together with modeling yogyatā as an absence of non-congruity resulted in 81% improvement in the precision.
Staff experiences of the REFOCUS intervention to support recovery in mental health: A qualitative study nested within a cluster randomized controlled trial

Background: The REFOCUS intervention was a whole team, complex intervention, designed to increase the recovery support off ered by community based, mental health staff . The intervention consisted of two components: Recovery promoting relationships, which focused on how staff work with service users, and Recovery working practices, which focused on what activities and tasks staff and service users could do together.
HIV SERVICES INTEGRATION WITH SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION/ TUBERCULOSIS/ REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTION SERVICES

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has compelled the fields of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV/AIDS to better leverage their strengths. This paper reviews the literature of the subject with a special focus on identifying experiences, models, and good practices. Experiences from India are also highlighted. The feasibility of integration, in light of India’s governmental policies and health system, is outlined through an examination of the potential opportunities and existing barriers to different types of linkages between SRH and HIV services. AIDSTAR­One John Snow, Inc. 1616 Fort Myer Drive, 11th Floor Arlington, VA 22209 USA Phone: 703­528­7474 Fax: 703­528­7480 E­mail: aidstarone­info@jsi.com Internet: aidstar­one.com