Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of PCR for the Identification of Mycoplasma spp. and Mycoplasma genitalium congenital infection in cord blood

Background: Congenital infections are the most important threat to human fetal health caused by bacterial, viral, and fungal agents. In this study, PCR diagnostic method has been used on umbilical cord samples to diagnose bacterial agents such as Mycoplasmas, especially Mycoplasma genitalium. Materials and Methods: This study was performed on 100 cord blood samples from cesarean section patients. Limit of detection (LOD) and specificity tests of both PCR was performed. DNA samples were extracted by the DNG plus method and amplified by the PCR technique. The optimized PCR product of 715 bp for Mycoplasma spp. and 427 bp for M. genitalium was amplified and observed on 1.5% gel electrophoresis. DNA specificity testing of seven other organisms revealed a 100% specificity of these primers. The detection limit was set at 100 copy / reaction for Mycoplasma.spp and 1000 copy / reaction for M. genitalium. Results: Of the 100 samples examined, 5 samples were positive for Mycoplasma spp, and no positive cases were observed for M. genitalium. Maternal infections can have important consequences on the fetus. Conclusion: Molecular methods such as PCR could be used for rapid identification of important factors in congenital infections, such as mycoplasma, and provide a good prognosis.
Review and Revision of Nysius Dallas of Australia and South West Pacific (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Orsillidae)

During a review of Australian Nysius Dallas, types of all species recorded from Australia and its territories and neighbouring areas in the South West Pacific were examined. As a result of this, the following synonymies have become necessary: Nysius andrewsi Izzard and N. usingeri Izzard as junior synonyms of N. vinitor Bergroth; N. clevelandensis Evans, N. turneri Evans, N. pacificus China, N. dissimilis Izzard, and N. villicus Van Duzee as junior synonyms of N. caledoniae Distant. Other species from Australia and the South West Pacific which have had their status confirmed in this study are: N. spectabilis Distant, N. pulchellus Stal, N. picipes Usinger, N. oceanicus Usinger, and N. femoratus Van Duzee. A lectotype is designated for N. vinitor Bergroth. A key to all species now recognised from Australia and the SW Pacific is provided.
BIODIVERSITY OF AQUATIC PLANTS IN THE EAST AL-HAMMAR MARSHES IN IRAQ

This study assesses aquatic plant diversity in the East Al-Hammar marshes depression using a diversity index. The study was conducted every two months from January 2018 to December 2018 and specimens were collected from three sites in the East Al-Hammar depression, Iraq (Al-Saddah, Al-Mafraq and AlBurga). The aquatic plants of East Hammar include 43 species, 33 genera and 21 families. More than 50% of the species belong to only six rich families: Chenopodiaceae with 5 sp. , Asteraceae (Composite) with 4 sp. , Poaceae (Gramineae) with 5 sp. and Potamogetonaceae with 4 sp. , Four taxa were submersed plants: Typha domingensis Pers. , 1807 was the most dominant group (54.2%) followed by Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrader) Palla. , 1888. (35.4%) and Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. , 1841 (10.4%). aquatic plants diversity studied by using relative abundance index, Shanon-Winner index, richness Index and Jaccard index.
Strong variability of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL) in August 2016 at the Himalayan foothills

The South Asian summer monsoon is associated with a large-scale anticyclonic circulation in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS), which confines the air mass inside. During boreal summer, the confinement of this air mass leads to an accumulation of aerosol between about 13 km and 18 km (360 K and 440 K potential temperature), this accumulation of aerosol constitutes the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL). We present balloon-borne aerosol backscatter measurements 5 of the ATAL performed by the Compact Optical Backscatter Aerosol Detector (COBALD) instrument in Nainital in Northern India in August 2016, and compare these with COBALD measurements in the post-monsoon time in November 2016. The measurements demonstrate a strong variability of the ATAL’s altitude, vertical extent, aerosol backscatter intensity and cirrus cloud occurrence frequency. Such a variability cannot be deduced from climatological means of the ATAL as they are derived from satellite measurements. To explain this observed variability we performed a Lagrangian back-trajectory analysis using 10 the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS). We identify the transport pathways of air parcels contributing to the ATAL over Nainital in August 2016, as well as the source regions of the air masses contributing to the composition of the ATAL. Our analysis reveals a variety of factors contributing to the observed day-to-day variability of the ATAL: continental convection, tropical cyclones (maritime convection), dynamics of the anticyclone and stratospheric intrusions. Thus, the ATAL is a mixture of air masses coming from different atmospheric height layers. In addition, contributions from the model boundary 15 layer originate in different geographic source regions. The location of strongest updraft along the backward trajectories reveal a cluster of strong upward transport at the southern edge of the Himalayan foothills. From the top of the convective outflow level (about 13 km; 360 K) the air parcels ascend slowly to ATAL altitudes within a large-scale upward spiral driven by the 1 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-552 Preprint. Discussion started: 22 June 2020 c © Author(s) 2020. CC BY 4.0 License.
Reactive-transport model on Arctic shelves: a focus on subsea permafrost affected sediments

Arctic sediments are expected to contain a large quantity of methane and to be underlayered by subsea permafrost, a carbon stock whose extent is unknown and whose biogeochemical properties have not been explored yet. High methane concentrations (up to 500 nM) have been measured in the waters corresponding to the East Siberian Arctic Shelf [1], but its origin is still debated [2, 3], whether originating from methanogenetic degradation of organic matter stored in thawing subsea permafrost or from the destabilization of gas hydrates occurring below the Arctic shelves [4]. While some purely geophysical simulations of subsea permafrost vertical and lateral extent are available, no diagenetic biogeochemical model has been developed so far. Here we present the first setup of such a model: a version of the Biogeochemical Reaction Network Simulator (BRNS) [5] specifically tailored to simulate Arctic shelves and its typical processes. Our simulations aimed at describing such an environment: a sediment column threaded by an upgoing flow of water rich in methane nourishing a microbial community that is able to perform Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane (AOM). This last process, unlike the Aerobic Oxidation of Methane (AeOM) [6], increases alkalinity and, in an iron rich environment as the Arctic shelves, triggers a biogeochemical reaction network, which may lead to pyrite and authigenic carbonate precipitation. The latter is a distinguishing feature associated with methane seepage and can provide an indication of temporal dynamics of the AOM which, upon comparison with field samples, could serve as a proxy to reconstruct sediment diagenetic history or to validate the model itself. The version of BRNS we implemented goes beyond the simplification which describes AOM as a second order reaction, but envisages a kinetic as well as thermodynamic constraint on it [7]. We focused our attention on the effects that the presence of methane has on the biogeochemistry of the sediment column, assessing the efficiency of the AOM filter on oxidizing dissolved gas and testing how the explicit bioenergetic limitations affect the process. We will present how a methane release, e.g. as aftermath of thawing subsea permafrost, alters the benthic exchange fluxes of quantities like DIC and alkalinity. Transient and equilibrium states will be also presented to show the time scale needed for the microbial community to develop and adapt to change in methane flux from below.
A study of customers' expectations and customers' perceptions of service quality in the selected spas in Bangkok By Yuliya Amelchenko

The primary aim of this research was to study customers' expectations and customers' perceptions of the service quality in the selected spas in Bangkok, and Gap 5 which is the difference between expectations and perceptions. The selected spas in Bangkok were: 15 day spas, 15 hotel/resort spas, and 3 medical spas. Another aim of the research was to identify the demographic characteristics of the spa users and to find out whether there is difference in expectations and perceptions of the customers when classified by age, gender, income, occupation and nationality. The researcher adopted and adapted the questionnaire from the SERVQUAL Model developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry in 1985. The questionnaires were distributed to 396 spa users in the selected spas In Bangkok. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed with the help of SPSS. The researcher applied Descriptive Analysis to describe the demographic characteristics of the respondents as well as the obtained SPSS output tables of the research hypotheses. As the Inferential Analysis, the researcher applied The Paired Samples T Test to identify whether there is difference between customers' expectations and customers' perceptions of service quality in the selected spas in Bangkok. The One-Way ANOVA Test was applied in order to find whether there is difference in expectations of service quality and difference in perceptions of it when classified by demographic characteristics. The Results showed that there was a statistically significant gap between customers' expectations and customers' perceptions of service quality regarding all SERVQUAL dimensions. One-Way ANOVA Test results showed that there was no difference in expectations and no difference in perceptions of service quality when classified by demographic characteristics. The only demographic factor which resulted in difference of customers' expectations of service quality was occupation. As a conclusion of the findings of the research, the researcher stated that Gap 5 which is the discrepancy between Expected and Perceived service quality happened to exist and it resulted into a Negative Disconfirmationwhen expectations exceeded perceptions. Hence, the customers of the selected spas in Bangkok were dissatisfied with the services offered.
A Review of and Some Results for Ollivier–Ricci Network Curvature

Characterizing topological properties and anomalous behaviors of higher-dimensional topological spaces via notions of curvatures is by now quite common in mainstream physics and mathematics, and it is therefore natural to try to extend these notions from the non-network domains in a suitable way to the network science domain. In this article we discuss one such extension, namely Ollivier’s discretization of Ricci curvature. We first motivate, define and illustrate the Ollivier–Ricci Curvature. In the next section we provide some “not-previously-published” bounds on the exact and approximate computation of the curvature measure. In the penultimate section we review a method based on the linear sketching technique for efficient approximate computation of the Ollivier–Ricci network curvature. Finally in the last section we provide concluding remarks with pointers for further reading.
Effect of feeding a rumen modifier on nutrient intake, growth and performance of buffalo calves

The study was conducted to see the effect on nutrient intake, growth and performance of buffalo calves by feeding a rumen modifier which is mixture of RM-7 [neem seed cake (Azadirachta indica), mahua seed cake (Madhuca longifolia), fennel seed (Foeniculum vulgare), harad (Terminalia chebula), fruit pulp of bahera (Terminalia bellirica), fruit pulp of amla (Phyllanthus emblica) and ajwain seed (Trachyspermum ammi) in 2:2:2:1:1:1:1 proportion] and sodium sulphate. The experiment was conducted on 21 growing buffalo calves divided into three groups, in a completely randomized design for a period of 120 days. The animals were fed roughage: concentrate in 50:50 ratio and the diet was isonitrogenous. The control group (T1) were fed basal diet, treatment group (T2) fed basal diet plus rumen modifier (RM-7 @2% DMI + sodium sulphate @0.06%) and treatment group (T3) fed basal diet plus rumen modifier (RM-7 @4% DMI + sodium sulphate @0.06%). The daily dry matter intake and digestibility showed no significant difference (P>0.05) when compared to control. The growth rate showed increasing trend numerically in treatment group when compared to control but was not significant (P>0.05). The study concludes that we can feed rumen modifier without any adverse effect on health of animal.
A Computational Approach to Analyzing the Twitter Debate on Gaming Disorder

The recognition of excessive forms of media entertainment use (such as uncontrolled video gaming or the use of social networking sites) as a disorder is a topic widely discussed among scientists and therapists, but also among politicians, journalists, users, and the industry. In 2018, when the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to include the addictive use of digital games (gaming disorder) as a diagnosis in the International Classification of Diseases, the debate reached a new peak. In the current article, we aim to provide insights into the public debate on gaming disorder by examining data from Twitter for 11 months prior to and 8 months after the WHO decision, analyzing the (change in) topics, actors, and sentiment over time. Automated content analysis revealed that the debate is organic and not driven by spam accounts or other overly active ‘power users. ’ The WHO announcement had a major impact on the debate, moving it away from the topics of parenting and child welfare, largely by activating actors from gaming culture. The WHO decision also resulted in a major backlash, increasing negative sentiments within the debate.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Three-dimensional fracture continuum characterization aided by surface time-domain electromagnetics and hydrogeophysical joint inversion — proof-of-concept Permalink

Efficient and safe production of hydraulically fractured reservoirs 9 benefits from the prediction of their geometrical attributes. Geophysical meth10 ods have the potential to provide data that is sensitive to fracture geometries, 11 alleviating the typically sparse nature of in situ reservoir observations. More12 over, surface-based methods can be logistically and economically attractive 13 since they avoid operational interference with the injection-well infrastruc14 ture. This contribution investigates the potential of the surface-based time15 domain electromagnetic (EM) method. EM methods can play an important 16 role owing to their sensitivity to injection-induced fluid property changes. Two 17 other advantageous factors are the EM signal-enhancing effect of vertical steel18 cased wells and the fact that injected proppants can be enhanced to produce 19 a stronger electrical conductivity contrast with the reservoir’s connate fluid. 20 Nevertheless, an optimal fracture characterization will no doubt require the 21 integration of EM and reservoir injection and production data. We hence carry 22 out our investigations within a hydrogeophysical parameter estimation frame23 work where EM data and injection flow-rates are combined in a fully coupled 24 way. Given the interdisciplinary nature of coupled hydrogeophysical inverse 25 modeling, we dedicate one section to laying out key aspects in a didactic man26 ner. 27
A Skull of Plesiaceratherium gracile (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from a New Lower Miocene Locality in Shandong Province, China, and the Phylogenetic Position of Plesiaceratherium

ABSTRACT A well-preserved fossil skull from a new locality in Jijiazhuang, Changle County, Shandong Province, China, is attributable to Plesiaceratherium gracile. Other rhinoceroses from the nearby Shanwang Basin of Linqu County, Shandong, formerly described as Aceratherium sp. and Plesiaceratherium shanwangensis are also referable to P. gracile. The new skull demonstrates the presence in P. gracile of the following characters: continuous labial cingula on lower cheek teeth; skull roof with nearly flat profile; and external auditory pseudomeatus ventrally closed, proceeding dorsocaudally in a shallow groove. Comparison of Plesiaceratherium with Brachypotherium pugnator Matsumoto, 1921, suggests that referral of the latter to Plesiaceratherium should be reconsidered. A phylogenetic analysis based on 314 characters scored for 39 terminal taxa places Plesiaceratherium mirallesi in a basal position within Rhinocerotidae, and recovers other species of Plesiaceratherium as a clade that is well separated from B. pugnator and is sister to the [Subchilotherium [Acerorhinus [Shansirhinus, B. pugnator [Chilotherium]]]] grouping. Based on this result and a reevaluation of the anatomy of ‘P.’ mirallesi, we propose that the genus Dromoceratherium should be revived to accommodate this species as D. mirallesi. The occurrence of P. gracile at Jijiazhuang indicates that the fossiliferous diatomaceous shales of this locality were deposited during the lower Miocene.
Anthropogenic Land Subsidence in SE Sicily

We present the results of a multi-temporal, differential interferometric synthetic aperture 15 radar (DInSAR) analysis aiming to identify active surface deformation phenomena in southeastern 16 Sicily. The study area has been chosen because of its strong seismicity, high concentration of industrial 17 and agricultural activities, and high density of people living in the coastal area. Furthermore, the 18 morphology, lithology and climatic feature of this sector of the Hyblean foreland are suitable for an 19 interferometric analysis, providing a high coherence over the area. 20 We used the Small BAseline Subset (SBAS) multitemporal DInSAR technique from Berardino et al., 21 2002, to calculate mean ground velocity maps and displacement time series from a large data set of 22 European Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS 1-2) images spanning the time period 1992-2000. 23 The reliability of the DInSAR results was tested calculating the EastSAR and UpSAR values over two 24 permanent global positioning system (GPS) stations in the area, and comparing them with the EastGPS 25 and UpGPS values. The residuals between GPS and DInSAR velocities were 1 and 0.6 mm/yr for the Up 26 and East components, respectively. Four main subsiding areas, previously undetected, have been 27 identified, in correspondence of the towns of Augusta, Siracusa, Priolo, and Villasmundo. The 28 observed deformation phenomena are located within coastal structural basins, filled with Pleistocene 29 and Holocence deposits, except the Villasmundo land subsidence which is located on the Hyblean 30 Anthropogenic Land Subsidence in SE Sicily 20/01/2012 2 plateau. The measured deformation rates reach values up to -18 mm/yr in Augusta, -6 mm/yr in 31 Siracusa, -5 mm/yr in Villasmundo and -4.5 mm/yr in Priolo. The examination of velocity profiles, 32 time series, and geological data allows us to relate all the detected deformation patterns primarily to 33 groundwater over-exploitation. A multi-dimensional interpolation with kriging was performed to obtain 34 a field subsidence map. A first order elastic deformation model was used to simulate the peculiar 35 features of the Villasmundo subsidence. 36 37
Dynamic Symbiont An Interactive Urban Design Method Combining Swarm Intelligence and Human Decisions

Can a virtual city game be built by both the public and computer-based on real-site data? In the current process of deepening global connectivity, requirements for an effective urban design are no longer limited to functions or aesthetics, but a smart, dynamic complex with multi-interactions of data, group behaviours, and physical space. This paper introduces the logic of swarm intelligence and particle system for proposing a new urban design methodology. The platforms range from simulations that quantify the impact of the disruptive interventions of city activities to communicable collaboration between different users in a UI system, which creates virtual connections between optimized urbanscape and users. In the design system, based on the context data, the computer firstly simulates and optimizes the existing 2D activity joints between the people and analyzed the current spatial connection nodes into certain design rules. Through optimal programming for spatial connection and data iterations, the activity connection structures in the second simulation are abstracted into a set of interactive 3D topographic. The final data-visualization results are presented as a co-building megacity in a virtual construction game. Users can choose the virtual building unit types and intuitively influence the future urbanscape decision through virtual construction.
Analysis of Deep Learning Algorithms for Breast Cancer Diagnosis on WBC

- In clinical conclusion, the expectation of an illness plays a significant role in breaking down the medical pictures. An undesirable sudden cell development in any piece of the organ is known as a tumor. Tumor might be benign or malignant. Harmful/malignant tumors are viewed to be very risky. Along these lines, the early detection of even the Architectural Distortion (AD) of the tissue cells helps forestalling cancer. In ladies, breast cancer is treated as the most critical issue. There are different specialist studies about the prediction of breast cancer malignant growth. This paper plots to survey and analyze different deep learning procedures that are explicitly considered on breast cancer prediction. The approach is to actualize ML algorithms with the necessary parameters for training and testing for better execution. Right now, careful overview on AI algorithms (SVM, DT-C4.5, Naïve Bayes, k-NN and ANN) is finished considering the ongoing exploration papers on expectation of breast cancer growth tumors on the Wisconsin Database from the UCI Repository.
todes, the co-localization of TIR-like genes with the Mi-1 gene may imply a role for TIR-like genes in the resist-

Transport inhibitor 1 (TIR1) is an auxin receptor that plays a pivotal role in auxin signaling. It has been reported that TIR-like genes are present in a gene cluster carrying the Mi-1 gene which confers resistance to nematodes, aphids and whiteflies. Since auxin is involved in the pathogenicity of tumor-inducing pathogens like nematodes, the co-localization of TIR-like genes with the Mi-1 gene may imply a role for TIR-like genes in the resistance conferred by the Mi-1 gene. In this study, we monitored the TIR-like transcript abundance (TTA) in both roots and leaves of nematode-resistant and –susceptible tomato lines. Our results demonstrate that TTA in roots, but not in leaves, was lower in nematode-resistant tomatoes than that in nematode-susceptible ones. In order to test whether the TIR-like genes are involved in nematode resistance mediated by the Mi-1 gene, we transiently silenced the Mi-1 gene homologues in a nematode-resistant tomato line and then measured TTA. Results showed that knocking down the expression of the Mi-1 gene homologues had no effect on TTA, therefore, we concluded that involvement of TIR-like genes in the response of tomato roots to nematodes is probably independent of the Mi-1 gene homologues. Further, we propose a possible explanation for the association between TTA and resistance to root-knot nematodes in tomato.