Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
1 FASH and MASH : F emale and M ale A dult human phantoms based on polygon me SH surfaces Part I : Development of the anatomy

Among computational models, voxel phantoms based on computer tomographic (CT), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or colour photographic images of patients, volunteers or cadavers became popular in recent years. Although being true to nature representations of scanned individuals, voxel phantoms have limitations, especially when walled organs have to be segmented or when volumes of organs or body tissues, like adipose, have to be changed. Additionally, the scanning of patients or volunteers is usually made in supine position, which causes a shift of internal organs toward the ribcage, a compression of the lungs and a reduction of the sagittal diameter especially in the abdominal region compared to the regular anatomy of a person in upright position, which in turn can influence organ and tissue absorbed or equivalent dose estimates. This study applies tools developed recently in the areas of computer graphics and animated films to the creation and modelling of 3D human organs, tissues, skeletons and bodies based on polygon mesh surfaces. Female and male adult human phantoms, called FASH (Female Adult meSH) and MASH (Male Adult meSH), have been designed using software, like MakeHuman, Blender, Binvox and ImageJ based on anatomical atlases, observing at the same time organ masses recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection for the male and female reference adult in report No. 89. 113 organs, bones and tissues have been modelled in the FASH and the MASH phantoms representing locations for adults in standing posture. Most organ and tissue masses of the voxelized versions agree with corresponding data from ICRP89 within a margin of 2.6%. Comparison with the mesh-based male RPI_AM and female RPI_AF phantoms shows differences with respect to the material used, to the software and concepts applied and to the anatomies created.
Recent Advances in Controlling Cardiacmyoctye Differentiation from Embryonic Stem Cells

beta nerve growth factor ( β NGF), and retinoic acid to direct the differentiation of human ES-derived cells in vitro. They found that the EBs differentiate selectively into mesodermal, endodermal, or ectodermal lineages. However, these did not result in homogeneous differentiation of ES cells. candidate cell source for cardiac cell therapy. However, it is not known what specific cell type or condition is the most appropriate for transplantation. It is reported that transplanted mouse ES cells in the infarcted heart inhibit apoptosis, fibrosis, and hypertrophy, thereby reducing adverse remodeling, resulting in the improvement of cardiac function (Singla et al., 2007) (Singla and McDonald, 2007) (Xie et al., 2007). Several recent studies have demonstrated that human ES cell-derived CMs survive after transplantation into infarcted rodent hearts, form stable cardiac implants, and result in preserved contractile function. To investigate the ischemic environment of host myocardium affects transplanted pluripotent cells, van Laake et al. (van Laake et al., 2009) cultured mouse ES cells in medium containing ischemic myocardial interstitial fluid (iMIF) and found that the ischemic/infarcted environment is favorable to stem cell-mediated angiogenesis, but hostile to cardiac myogenesis. These findings indicated mouse ES cell-mediated improvement of cardiac function after transplantation of pluripotent cells do not reflect remuscularization. Although cell transplantation has modestly improved cardiac function, major challenges including increasing cell survival, engraftment, and functional integration with host tissue. Pluripotency is a prerequisite for the subsequent coordinated differentiation of embryonic stem cells into all tissues of the body. This book describes recent advances in our understanding of pluripotency and the hormonal regulation of embryonic stem cell differentiation into tissue types derived from the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm.
Document de travail Working paper The Effects of Mass Layoffs on Mental Health Mai 2019 DT n ° 78

This article assesses the effects of mass layoffs on the mental health of workers remaining in plants after layoffs, using a French survey merged with administrative health insurance data covering the period 2010–2013. We rely on the consumption of psychotropic drugs prescribed by doctors as an indicator of mental health. Results show that mass layoffs induce a sizeable rise in the use of psychotropic drugs amongst job stayers: we measure an increase of 41% in psychotropic drug consumption rates amongst them after displacement, as compared with the pre-displacement period. We find evidence for a social gradient whereby employees belonging to the lowest socio-economic are more affected by the adverse effect of mass layoffs on their mental health, leading to psychotropic drug consumption, than those in the highest socio -economic groups.
Transport of Juvenile Cod (Gadus morhua) and Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) from Iceland to Greenland – Is there Environmental Forcing?

The first observations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in East and West Greenland waters date back to the 16 century. This paper analyses interactions of 0-group cod and one-year old cod with environmental data. The biological and oceanographic data sets used for the analysis were obtained during annual surveys of RV “Walther Herwig” to East and West Greenland waters (1982-2003). A negative significant correlation exists between one-year old cod, NAO index and the mean baroclinic flows of the cold polar component of the West Greenland Current. By means of the distribution and abundance of 0-group haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) it is demonstrated that the penetration of demersal fish is dependant on warming effects in the marine ecosystems of West and East Greenland. It is suggested that the advection of warm, saline water masses to banks and slopes off West Greenland favoured environmental conditions under which gadoids, such as cod and haddock live in these waters. The paper concludes that the concurrent warming trends observed in air temperatures and ocean temperature since 1993 off West Greenland have led to temperatures exceeding 6°C in the bottom water layers off West Greenland, temperatures which appear to be suitable especially for haddock. The temperature at 200 m depth at Fyllas Bank section station 4 as observed during autumn 2003, was the warmest on record. Warming in West Greenland waters is suggested to be the environmental variable responsible for the present high abundance of young gadoids around East and West Greenland.
The Relationship between Retirement and Socio-economic Position Arina den Besten 428689 Supervisor :

This research investigates the relationship between retirement timing, the availability of pathways towards retirement and socio-economic position. Three indicators of socioeconomic position are used: the European Socio-economic Classification (ESec), the Standard International Occupational Prestige Scale (SIOPS) and the International Socio-Economic Index of occupational status (ISEI). Using two samples of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and a piecewise-constant exponential model, a clear social gradient in retirement timing is established. Members of the petit bourgeoise, higher salariat and agricultural self-employed, together with workers in occupations with high prestige or high social status often retire late. Furthermore, workers in physically demanding jobs are found to retire more often involuntarily. The views stated in this thesis are those of the author and not necessarily those of Erasmus School of Economics or Erasmus University Rotterdam.
INFLUENCE OF BEECH ON FOREST-FLOOR HUMUS AND TOPSOIL BELOW SPRUCE ON THE ACIDIC SPRUCE-BEECH

Properties of forest floor humus are attributable to both mineral soil properties and vegetation covering the soil. Some tree species proved their ability to produce litter-fall rich in nutrients. This is particularly important on mountain naturally acidic sites that experienced air-pollution load in 1980s. Our study was conducted on such a site in the Jizera Mts. , Czech Republic. There were sampled both forest floor and soil under European beech canopy (transect point B00), 10 m from beech crown’s margin (B10) and under spruce canopy situated 20 m from beeches (B20). Forest floor samples were taken using a metal frame 25 cm × 25 cm in order to quantify particular layers. Results showed a forest floor-improving effects of beech group on adjacent spruce stand (B10) such as increased pH, higher K, Ca, Mg and higher base saturation (V) compared to B20 with minimal influence of beech. This trend was not directly reflected in mineral topsoil (Ah) though some differences were also found there. Lower N, P and higher Mg were in B00 and B10. Therefore beech share is likely to influence P pool negatively in mountain forest soil. For more information see Summary at the end of the article. Klíčová slova: nadložní humus; půdní chemismus; meliorace půdy; buk; smrk
Three-wave mixing mediated femtosecond pulse compression in BBO

Nonlinear pulse compression mediated by three wave mixing is demonstrated for ultrashort Ti:Sapphire pulses in a type II phase matched BBO crystal using noncollinear geometry. 170 μJ pulses at 800 nm with a pulse duration of 74 fs are compressed at their sum frequency to 32 fs with 55 μJ of pulse energy. Experiments and computer simulations demonstrate the potential of sum frequency pulse compression to match the group velocities of the interacting waves to crystals which were initially not considered in the context of nonlinear pulse compression.
J-PARC RCS: high-order field components inherent in the injection bump magnets and their effects on the circulating beam during multi-turn injection

We investigated the cause of the residual beam loss during multi-turn injection of the J-PARC 3-GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). In the RCS, four sets of injection bump magnets (pulsed dipole magnets) are employed for multi-turn injection. Numerical simulations considering the actual magnetic field profiles of the injection bump magnets well reproduced the empirical beam loss, and pointed that a 3rd-order random betatron resonance driven by a sextupole field component inherent in the injection bump magnets is the major source of the beam loss. In this paper, we describe the detailed mechanism of emittance growth and beam loss caused by such a high-order field component of the injection bump magnets including their correction scenario.
THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL IN PREDICTING AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT OF GENERATION

The present study investigated the role of psychological capital to affective commitment. Affective commitment is employee’s emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in the organization. Psychological capital is positive psychological state of development and is characterized by self efficacy, optimism, hope, and resiliency. This is the first study to examine the role of psychological capital on affective commitment by using generation Y in Jakarta as participants. They were 176 male and female employees who were varied in age, job level, employment status, tenure, educational background, and work location. Data was gathered by using two measures: psychological capital and affective commitment scale. Interestingly, this study revealed that psychological capital significantly predict affective commitment in statistical point of view but not in practical implication. Regression analysis reported that psychological capital contribute only 2% to affective commitment among Indonesian generation Y.
On the generalized Drazin inverse in a Banach algebra

This work was supported by the High Level Innovation Teams and Distinguished Scholars in Guangxi Universities (grant number: GUIJIAOREN201642HAO), the Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Bases and Talents of Guangxi (grant number: 2016AD05050), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi (grant number 2018GXNSFDA281023), and the New Centaury National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project of Guangxi (grant number: GUIZHENGFA210647HAO).
Studies on seasonal variations in four inorganic elements in muscle tissue of Xenentodon cancila ( Hamilton-Buchanan 1822 ) from Mehadrigedda reservoir of Visakhapatnam , India

Concentration of four inorganic elements calcium, phosphorus, iron and copper were estimated in the muscle of Xenentodon cancila from Mehadrigedda reservoir during pre-monsoon, monsoon and postmonsoon seasons. The composition of calcium was 0.51, 0.56, 0.59, phosphorus 0.88, 0.85, 0.89, iron 0.34, 0.36, 0.39, and copper 0.03, 0.03, 0.04 respectively in pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. The fish has abundant amount of Ca and P, whereas, Cu and Fe were in trace amounts.
EasyChair Preprint No 1353 Semantic Modeling of Building Construction Emission Knowledge

Previous works on estimating construction carbon emissions from energy consumption were primarily capitalizing on the quantity of construction materials, equipment and an emission inventory. It is envisaged that with the aid of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies that are featured by semantic-rich data and information, the present-day practice of energy and emission estimation can be well improved. Despite an ideal BIM model typically encompasses information that ranges across building design, construction and operation details, a rationale around how to leverage semantic-rich BIM to address building energy consumption and carbon emission topics is still unclear. Under this backdrop, this study is centered on formulating a semantic-rich building energy consumption ontological model that is capable of accurately calibrating the energy consumption and emissions of a building. The formulated model will consider various factors that can affect the calibration and estimation such as materials, fabrication, logistics, processing, and the like.
Role of FOXC1 in regulating APSCs self-renewal via STI-1/PrPC signaling

Forkhead box protein C1 (FOXC1) is known to regulate developmental processes in the skull and brain. Methods: The unique multipotent arachnoid-pia stem cells (APSCs) isolated from human and mouse arachnoid-pia membranes of meninges were grown as 3D spheres and displayed a capacity for self-renewal. Additionally, APSCs also expressed the surface antigens as mesenchymal stem cells. By applying the FOXC1 knockout mice and mouse brain explants, signaling cascade of FOXC1-STI-1-PrPC was investigated to demonstrate the molecular regulatory pathway for APSCs self-renewal. Moreover, APSCs implantation in stroke model was also verified whether neurogenic property of APSCs could repair the ischemic insult of the stroke brain. Results: Activated FOXC1 regulated the proliferation of APSCs in a cell cycle-dependent manner, whereas FOXC1-mediated APSCs self-renewal was abolished in FOXC1 knockout mice (FOXC1-/- mice). Moreover, upregulation of STI-1 regulated by FOXC1 enhanced cell survival and self-renewal of APSCs through autocrine signaling of cellular prion protein (PrPC). Mouse brain explants STI-1 rescues the cortical phenotype in vitro and induces neurogenesis in the FOXC1-/- mouse brain. Furthermore, administration of APSCs in ischemic brain restored the neuroglial microenvironment and improved neurological dysfunction. Conclusion: We identified a novel role for FOXC1 in the direct regulation of the STI-1-PrPC signaling pathway to promote cell proliferation and self-renewal of APSCs.
BAGAÇO DE CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR: ANÁLISE DE POLIFENÓIS, COMPOSTOS COM ATIVIDADE

Sugarcane bagasse is a solid residue widely produced in Brazil and represents a great opportunity for exploration as source of functional compounds. Thus, the objective of the present work is to evaluate of total polyphenol, compounds with antioxidant and antibacterial activity. The results showed that aqueous extract from the sugarcane bagasse was not capable to inhibit the growth of important foodborne bacteria. Total polyphenolic content measured was 728,201±58,21 mg of gallic acid equivalent per 100g and flavonol content of 325,143±19,03 mg of rutin equivalent per 100 grams of dried bagasse. The antioxidant capacity was able to scavenge 5,05%±0,003% of DPPH radicals and presented ABTS scavenge capacity of 67,535± 10,44 mmol of trolox equivalent per 100 grams of dried bagasse. Thus, the present work may contribute to further studies to evaluate the residue to be used as functional component in industrial applications.
MENGGUNAKAN LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING ( LPC )

The security of computer devices is very necessary to keep the data in it can be securely maintained. In this research, security application for windows login process that uses user's voice and speech is built. The method used is Hidden Markov Model (HMM) method to identify matches user speech that is to say words that have meaning. Later it also used Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) as a feature extraction to recognize the user voice characteristic who uttered these words. Applications that built with both methods is a desktop application for the training and testing of user's voice and speech and the startup application for login process on computer devices. In this research, LPC methods implementation produces the same speech recognition to a different user by 100%, speech recognition that is different from the same user by 100%. Whereas HMM method application generates voice recognition based on the number of training by 84%, voice recognition based on the number of words spoken by 100%. For voice and speech recognition with a different tone of voice by the same user with average as many as 94%. This application is built with Delphi 7 programming language.
DNA-based identification of the lichen-forming genus Pertusaria ( Pertusariales , Ascomycota ) in the mangrove ecosystem of eastern Thailand

The genus Pertusaria (Pertusariales, Ascomycota) is a diverse group of crustose lichens which is rich in secondary metabolites. However, studies concerning diversity of these lichens, especially in mangrove habitats are limited. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore and assess the diversity of the Pertusaria species occurring in the mangrove ecosystem of eastern Thailand. Their phylogenetic relationships were inferred using maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian analyses based on the mitochondrial SSU rDNA sequence data. Our results revealed that both ML and Bayesian tree topologies were congruent. Most of the Pertusaria species obtained form well-supported clades within the Pertusaria s.str. group, except for Pertusaria cf. violacea which is nested within the Variolaria group. Interestingly, Thai specimens of P. pertusa are not placed in the same clade with the type specimen. Based on our field observation, most species were found in the mid-intertidal Rhizophora zone, while P. cicatricosa was able to survive in the seaward Avicennia-Sonneratia zone. Additional studies with extended sampling will be necessary to address species boundaries of Pertusaria cf. violacea and P. pertusa.
Chapter 5 Fast and Slow Feedbacks in Future Climates

This chapter was originally published in the book The Future of the World's Climate. The copy attached is provided by Elsevier for the author's benefit and for the benefit of the author's institution, for non-commercial research, and educational use. This includes without limitation use in instruction at your institution, distribution to specific colleagues, and providing a copy to your institution's administrator.
Water-Soluble Phthalocyanines Selectively Bind to Albumin Dimers: A Green Approach Toward Enhancing Tumor-Targeted Photodynamic Therapy

Targeted delivery of therapeutic agents is of particular interest in the field of cancer treatment. However, there is an urgent need for developing clinically promising targeting approaches that can be readily administered in a green manner. Methods: Five phthalocyanine derivatives bearing different anionic and cationic groups were designed and synthesized. Then, their binding affinity with albumin were studied using gel assays, optical spectra and computational simulation. Finally, in vitro and in vivo fluorescence imaging and photodynamic therapy (PDT) evaluations were carried out. Results: The two positively charged compounds could selectively bind to albumin dimer over albumin monomer, while the three negatively charged phthalocyanines could bind to both albumin monomer and dimer. Following systemic administration, the phthalocyanines show improved tumor accumulation via transport by natural albumin. PDT evaluations indicate that one of the positively charged compounds, ZnPcN4, shows outstanding phototherapeutic efficacy against tumors in preclinical models. Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate that the use of water-soluble phthalocyanines as photosensitizers and in vivo albumin as a natural carrier may provide a green and efficient approach for tumor-targeted imaging and therapy.
Manic episode after Amisulpride monotherapy : an unexpected presentation

Amisulpride is anunique atypical antipsychotic with a mechanism of action on dopamine receptors that is effective in positive as well as negative symptoms. There are some reports of Amisulpride being useful in treatment resistant depression as well. Mania has been reported as a result of Amisulpride so far in only two cases. We present here as case with psychotic features that developed mania induced by Amisulpride at a dose of 150mg.
We chat Uses And Gratifications Among Young Malaysian Adults In Klang Valley , Malaysia

The uses and gratifications (U&G) theory has been widely used in research related to conventional media and now the internet media and mobile platforms. In Malaysia, a number of Internet-related studies revolve around the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) and most studies on U & G have been conducted in the U.S. and U.K., but not Asia. This study will focus specifically on WeChat, a popular instant messaging platform, to obtain information that will add to the limited research on U & G in Malaysia in the context of the internet media. WeChat was launched in China in 2011 and to date there are 500 million users in China and over 100 million outside China. WeChat was launched in Malaysia in June 2012 and currently it is used by 33% of the total number of Malaysians using instant messaging applications in Malaysia. This study on WeChat and U & G will focus on the following research questions (1) the reasons why respondents use WeChat; 2) the timeframe and duration of respondents; 3) which gratification type do respondents seek the most in using WeChat; and 4) how WeChat usage differ between male and female respondents. This research adopts the quantitative approach, using a sample size of 400 undergraduate respondents who are active We Chat users from four randomly selected private universities in Klang Valley. The research results showed that social gratification is the strongest gratification sought by respondents compared to process and content gratifications. This finding was similar to other social media research done earlier. Results also showed that majority of respondents used WeChat because their friends and family also used it. Most of the respondents have been using We Chat between one to two years. The respondents spent an average of 30min 1hour (67.75%) on WeChat per-day. There was no statistically significant gender-related differences in WeChat usage and gratifications.