Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Atomic Scale Modeling of Hydrogen and Helium in BCC Iron

Understanding the interactions of hydrogen and helium within ferritic steels will aid in the development of materials appropriate for next generation nuclear reactors. We discuss interatomic potentials appropriate for simulating these elements, presenting a potential for the H-He interactions. Preliminary results for small H-He bubbles in bcc iron are given and discussed.
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Department of Breast Surgery, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, People’s Republic of China Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer and the leading cause of death in women. Advances in early diagnosis and therapeutic strategies have decreased the mortality of BC and improved the prognosis of patients to some extent. However, the development of drug resistance has limited the success rate of systemic therapies. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in drug resistance in BC via various mechanisms, which contribute to a complex regulatory network. In this review, we summarize the latest findings on the mechanisms underlying drug resistance modulated by lncRNAs in BC. In addition, we discuss the potential clinical applications of lncRNAs as targeted molecular therapy against drug resistance in BC.
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Bile acids (BA) are essential modulators of lipid, glucose, and cholesterol homeostasis, but they exert cytotoxic effects in the cholestatic liver. Glucuronidation, catalyzed by the UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes is a pharmacologically relevant BA detoxification process. The present study characterized the BA-conjugating activity of the little-studied human UGTs of subfamily 2A: UGT2A1, 2A2, and 2A3. Recombinant UGT2As, expressed in baculovirus-infected insect cells, were assayed for the glucuronidation of six major bile acids: chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA), cholic acid (CA), lithocholic acid (LCA), deoxycholic acid (DCA), hyocholic acid (HCA) and hyodeoxycholic acid (HDCA). UGT2A3 exhibited detectable but very low activity with all the tested BA substrates. UGT2A1 was highly efficient in forming LCA-3 and LCA-24G, CDCA-24, DCA-24, HCA-24, and HDCA-24G, whereas UGT2A2 was the most active enzyme for CA-24G and CDCA-24G formation and also was able to generate HDCA-6G, HDCA-24G, LCA-24G, and HCA-24G. The Km values of UGT2A1 varied between 102.2 6 14.3 mM and 2.4 6 1.2 mM. With the exception of CA-24G, a low affinity substrate for UGT2A2, all the Km values for UGT2A2 were in the 100 to 400 mM range. We demonstrate the high reactivity of the human UGT2A1 and UGT2A2 for bile acid glucuronidation. The physiologic importance of these reactions to BA disposition remains, however, to be clarified in vivo.
Production of Electric Energy by Use of Wind Energy

Taking advantage of the wind is one of the oldest ways to acquire energy. Traditional wind power sources are classic windmills. Nowadays, we are trying to focus more on generating electricity from alternative sources and one of these sources is also the energy of the wind. The most often uses of the potential of wind power is to generate electricity. In addition, this energy is attractive today because its use does not produce any waste, does not pollute the air and does not have a negative impact on human health. Recently, we can recognize using of so-called "small wind power plants” in households. This paper provides an overview and technological solutions to be taken into account for designing and realizing the construction of a wind power plant. This paper proposed rotor with a horizontal axis which bears the designation of Savoni rotor. This paper represents a contribution to the development of the use of small wind power plants, as contains a large number of illustrations
Ecological Correlates of Reproductive Output in a Tennessee Population of Short's Bladderpod, Physaria globosa (Brassicaceae)

ABSTRACT Physaria globosa (Brassicaceae), commonly known as Short's Bladderpod, is a federally protected species restricted to Tennessee, Kentucky, and southern Indiana. In 2016, we studied aspects of life history and ecology in a population of P. globosa near Hartsville, Tennessee. Our objectives were to document fecundity-related life history traits and to examine the potential influence of light levels and soil depth on plant growth and reproductive output. In addition, we examined 45 herbarium specimens of P. globosa to assess the potential relationship between taproot size and number of inflorescences per plant. We found the strongest positive relationships between the number of flowering stems per plant and the number of flowers and fruits per plant. Relationships between light levels, soil depth, and biotic factors were only weakly significant. Taproot width was positively correlated with the number of flowering stems on herbarium specimens. Our findings increase the life history and ecology knowledge base available to guide ongoing recovery efforts for the species.
The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris

ABSTRACT Since its foundation in 1793, type specimens of 441 asteroid species and subspecies have been deposited in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris. The annotated catalogue of all these taxa is drawn up including species whose type material could not be found in the collection. Today the Paris museum houses 1011 asteroid type specimens representing 398 nominal species and subspecies, most of which were described by Lamarck (1816), Müller & Troschel (1842), Perrier (between 1869 and 1896) and Koehler (between 1895 and 1923). Though originating worldwide, species coming from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific Oceans, and Antarctic waters are more numerous. A biographical directory of all those involved either in the descriptions of the species or the collection of new material as well as their dedicatee is annexed to the catalogue. Revision of the Paris collection allows to propose taxonomic changes for two species of Müller & Troschel (Echinaster crassus Müller & Troschel, 1842 and Echinaster gracilis Müller & Troschel, 1842 are synonymized with Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840)) and five species of Perrier (Asterias borbonica Perrier, 1875 and Echinaster clouei Perrier, 1869 are synonymized with Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840), Oreaster clouei Perrier, 1869 and Oreaster mammosus Perrier, 1869 with Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830) and Ophidiaster chinensis Perrier, 1875 with Ophidiaster granifer Lütken, 1871). RÉSUMÉ Les types d'astéries actuelles (Échinodermes) du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Depuis sa fondation en 1793 le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris a intégré les spécimens types de 441 espèces et sous-espèces d'astéries. Le catalogue commenté de tous ces taxons est dressé ici, y compris les espèces dont le matériel type n'a pu être retrouvé dans la collection. Aujourd'hui le muséum de Paris conserve 1011 spécimens types d'astéries représentant 398 espèces et sous-espèces nominales. Décrites principalement par Lamarck (1816), Müller & Troschel (1842), Perrier (entre 1869 et 1896) et Koehler (entre 1895 et 1923), ces astéries sont originaires de toutes les mers du globe, mais proviennent majoritairement des océans Atlantique et Indo-Ouest Pacifique, ainsi que des mers antarctiques. Un répertoire biographique de toutes les personnes impliquées dans la description des espèces ou dans la récolte des spécimens types ainsi qu'à leurs dédicataires, accompagne le catalogue en annexe. La révision de la collection parisienne permet de proposer des changements taxonomiques pour deux espèces de Müller & Troschel (Echinaster crassus Müller & Troschel, 1842 et Echinaster gracilis Müller & Troschel, 1842 sont synonymes de Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840)) et cinq espèces de Perrier (Asterias borbonica Perrier, 1875 et Echinaster clouei Perrier, 1869 sont synonymes d'Echinaster purpureus (Gray, 1840); Oreaster clouei Perrier, 1869 et Oreaster mammosus Perrier, 1869 de Protoreaster lincki (Blainville, 1830); Ophidiaster chinensis Perrier, 1875 d'Ophidiaster granifer Lütken, 1871).
The Effects of Varying Nutrient Availability on Females and Hermaphrodites of the Gynodioecious Geranium maculatum

ABSTRACT Sexual dimorphism in plant growth and/or reproductive responses to the surrounding environment has been documented in some plant species. In gynodioecious plants, it is especially important to understand whether females and hermaphrodites differ in their response to environmental stressors, as the fitness of females relative to hermaphrodites determines the extent to which these separate sexes are maintained in natural populations. Soil nutrient availability is of particular importance given the different nutrient requirements of male and female sexual functions in plants. Here, we evaluated and compared the growth of females and hermaphrodites of Geranium maculatum in response to varying levels of nutrients. Using a greenhouse experiment, we manipulated the overall nutrient, nitrogen, and phosphorus levels in the soil and measured growth, allocation, and leaf quality responses in both females and hermaphrodites. We found that the sexes responded similarly in their growth and allocation responses to nutrient availability, despite evidence that female leaf chlorophyll content may have increased more than that of hermaphrodites across soil nitrogen levels. Our findings demonstrate that while hermaphrodites may differ from females in terms of their physiological response to varying nutrient levels, these slight physiological differences do not translate into meaningful growth differences.
Microarchitectural Attacks in Heterogeneous Systems: A Survey

With the increasing proliferation of hardware accelerators and the predicted continued increase in the heterogeneity of future computing systems, it is necessary to understand the security properties of such systems. In this survey article, we consider the security of heterogeneous systems against microarchitectural attacks, with a focus on covert- and side-channel attacks, as well as fault injection attacks. We review works that have explored the vulnerability of the individual accelerators (such as Graphical Processing Units, GPUs, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGAs) against these attacks, as well as efforts to mitigate them. We also consider the vulnerability of other components within a heterogeneous system such as the interconnect and memory component. We believe that this survey is especially timely, as new accelerators and heterogeneous systems are being designed such that these designs understand the security threats and develop systems that are not only performant but also secure.
Anomaly Analysis in Images and Videos: A Comprehensive Review

Anomaly analysis is an important component of any surveillance system. In recent years, it has drawn the attention of the computer vision and machine learning communities. In this article, our overarching goal is thus to provide a coherent and systematic review of state-of-the-art techniques and a comprehensive review of the research works in anomaly analysis. We will provide a broad vision of computational models, datasets, metrics, extensive experiments, and what anomaly analysis can do in images and videos. Intensively covering nearly 200 publications, we review (i) anomaly related surveys, (ii) taxonomy for anomaly problems, (iii) the computational models, (iv) the benchmark datasets for studying abnormalities in images and videos, and (v) the performance of state-of-the-art methods in this research problem. In addition, we provide insightful discussions and pave the way for future work.
Lyrics Analysis of the Arab Singer Abdel ElHalim Hafez

In this work we analyze the lyrics of one of the most famous and influential Arab artists in the twentieth century, namely, (Abdel ElHalim Hafez). Lyrics analysis provides a deep insight into the artist’s career evolution and his interactions with the surrounding environment including the social, political, and economic conditions. In order to perform such analysis we had to collect and compile the lyrics of Abdel ElHalim accompanied with the necessary metadata into an organized and structured form. The data are preprocessed by removing stop words and doing some normalization operations over the songs’ prose. We did not perform any lemmatization or stemming as the original form of the tokens convey much more information than the source words. We performed a lexical analysis in order to study both the lexical density and diversity over the course of Abdel ElHalim’s career life. We have as well studied the most significant words, idioms, and terms played in the songs using tools such as word clouds and more quantitative measures such as term frequency-inverse document frequency. We have divided the career life of Abdel ElHalim into sub-decades of length 5 years and all analyses are done both in a yearly fashion and more coarsely over such sub-decades. We have found a strong correlation between our statistical analysis and the socio-political status in Egypt and the Arab world during that time. This is especially relevant knowing that Abdel ElHalim is very much truly considered the son of the generation of the 1952 revolution in Egypt. The significance of Abdel ElHalim and his lyrics stem essentially from being contemporaneous to radical changes in Egypt across all sectors including political (support of liberation movements across the world, and the conflict with Israel), and socio-economic (especially changing the social class structure in Egypt). We also investigated the potential effectiveness of PoS (Part of Speech) tagging in genre analysis and classification.
Recent Advances in LoRa: A Comprehensive Survey

The vast demand for diverse applications raises new networking challenges, which have encouraged the development of a new paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT), e.g., LoRa. LoRa is a proprietary spread spectrum modulation technique that provides a solution for long-range and ultra-low power-consumption transmission. Due to promising prospects of LoRa, significant effort has been made on this compelling technology since its emergence. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey of LoRa from a systematic perspective: LoRa analysis, communication, security, and its enabled applications. First, we summarize works focusing on analyzing the performance of LoRa networks. Then, we review studies enhancing the performance of LoRa networks in communication. Afterward, we analyze the security vulnerabilities and countermeasures. Finally, we survey the various LoRa-enabled applications. We also present comparisons of existing methods, together with insightful observations and inspiring future research directions.
Toward Accurate and Fast Summation

We introduce a new accurate summation algorithm based on the error-free summation into floating-point buckets. Our algorithm exploits ideas from Zhu and Hayes’ OnlineExactSum, but it uses a significantly smaller number of accumulators and has a better instruction-level parallelism. In the default setting, our implementation aaaSum returns a faithfully rounded floating-point approximation of the true sum. We also discuss possible modifications for the computation of reproducible, correctly rounded, and multiple precision floating-point approximations. The computational overhead for any of these modifications is kept comparably small. Numerical tests demonstrate that aaaSum performs well for very small to large problem sizes, independent of the condition number of the problem. We compare our algorithm with other accurate and high-precision summation approaches.
Do’s, Don’ts, and the Rhythms of the Urban Everyday

Rimini Protokoll’s Do’s and Don’ts (2018) takes spectators on tours through cities in a disused truck to observe contemporary urban life. Commentary from nonprofessional (yet “expert”) performers and video interludes dissect and challenge the rules and norms of the 21st-century metropolis. Lucinda Childs’s 1964 Street Dance frames and historically contextualizes the discussion of performance “in” and “of” the city.
Von Neumann regular rings with tailor-made ideal lattices

Shaped cellulosic fibers are produced by nitrosating and dissolving a cellulosic material in an aprotic solvent selected from the group consisting of a dialkylacylamide and dimethylsulfoxide and regenerating the dissolved cellulose by contacting the cellulose solution with a regenerant. The regenerant is butanol, pentanol or benzyl alcohol where the solvent is a dialkylacylamide and propanol, butanol or benzyl alcohol where the solvent is dimethylsulfoxide. The fibers have a generally crenulated shape as regenerated and require no special spinnerette designs nor special spinning conditions.
Small inertial effects on a spherical bubble, drop or particle moving near a wall in a time-dependent linear flow

The problem of a spherical drop of arbitrary density and viscosity moving near a wall under the effect of a body force is analysed theoretically in the limit where the wall lies in the inner region of the flow disturbance, the distance between the drop and the wall being large compared to the drop radius. The drop may move in an arbitrary direction with respect to the wall, and the undisturbed flow field is assumed to comprise a steady uniform shear or solid-body rotation and a time-dependent uniform stream, the variations of which take place over time scales large compared to the viscous diffusion time. An exact force balance with no limitation on the magnitude of inertial effects is obtained by using the reciprocal theorem. Explicit expressions for the contributions of temporal acceleration, slip and shear or rotation to the total hydrodynamic force are derived in the limit of small-but-finite inertial effects. The connection between these near-wall results and inertial lift and drag corrections in an unbounded flow is discussed. Situations of particular interest in which the lift force results from a combination of contributions due to unsteadiness and advection, like the case of a particle moving near the bottom wall of a centrifuge, are also examined.
Distributed space‐time block coding based cooperative generalized spatial modulation

In this study, two novel distributed space‐time block coding based cooperative generalized spatial modulation networks are proposed, and their theoretical analyses are derived. The first network is a three‐node cooperative system, consisting of a source (S), a relay (R), and a destination (D). In this design, S sends a GSM symbol to R and D in the broadcast phase. In the relay phase, if R decodes the received signal correctly, it encodes the orthogonal counterpart of the GSM symbol, and sends it to D. If R has a decoding error, it sends a failure to S, and S realizes the R's transmission. The second network is designed with two relays. Here, S sends the GSM symbol to R1 , R2 , and D in the broadcast phase. In the relay phase, if both relays decode the incoming signal correctly, R1 regenerates the GSM symbol coming from S, and R2 encodes the orthogonal version of it. After encoding, both send them to D in a successive manner. If any or both relays fail, S sends the symbol of R2 in the relay phase. Theoretical and asymptotic analyses as well as simulation results are provided for both networks. It is seen that derived analytical expressions match with the simulation curves. Moreover, since we use the GSM in the proposed methods, their data rates are higher for the same number of transmit antennas. Even for the same spectral efficiency, they provide a significant diversity gain and a better error performance than the existing methods.
An algorithm for detecting and quantifying disturbance and recovery in high‐frequency time series

Determining when a disturbance has occurred, its severity, and when the system recovered, is important to numerous questions in the aquatic sciences. This problem can be conceptualized as the timing and degree of perturbation from a typical state, and when the system returns to that typical state. We present an algorithm for detecting disturbance and recovery designed for high‐frequency time series, e.g., data produced by automated sampling devices in instrumented buoys and flux towers. The algorithm quantifies differences in the empirical cumulative distribution functions of moving windows over reference and evaluation periods, and is sensitive to changes in the mean, variance, and higher statistical moments. Tests on simulated data show it accurately identifies disturbance and recovery. Three case studies illustrate the application of our algorithm in different empirical settings. A case study on dissolved oxygen in a Florida, USA estuary following a hurricane identified the disturbance and recovery 73 d later. A case study on air temperature and net ecosystem exchange in the Florida everglades identified cold snaps coinciding with periods of reduced carbon uptake. A case study on rotifer abundance following zebra mussel invasion in the Hudson River, NY showed rotifer collapse following invasion and recovery over a decade later. Methods such as ours can improve understanding response to disturbance and facilitate comparative and synthetic study of disturbance impacts across ecosystems.
A total variation-morphological image edge detection approach

We present image edge detection using the total variation functional and morphological methods. First, we derive the total variation functional from first principles and vector gradient method. The total variation functional is then minimized using the Euler-Lagrange optimization method. The steady state equation which results from the minimization of the total variation functional is then used as an anisotrpic filter on images. While the total variation method has proven to be a better edge detector than the Marr-Hildreth method, it also segments the image into regions delineated by strong edges. To achieve results similar to the Marr-Hildreth method, we apply morphological considerations. We develop new operations based on erosion, dilation, opening and closing to achieve morphological edge detection of total variation filtered images.
Flavonoid Glycoside Diosmin Induces Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest in DLD-1 Human Colon Cancer Cell Line

Abstract The purpose of this study was to see if diosmin induced apoptosis and inhibited cell proliferation in DLD-1 cell lines. The assays such as MTT, DCFDA, AO/EtBr, cell cycle analysis, annexin V-FITC apoptosis by flow cytometry, gene expression analysis were done to evaluate the in vitro anti-colon cancer potential of diosmin in DLD-1 human colon cancer cell line. While analyzing the results of MTT assay it is observed that when different concentrations of diosmin were induced, it was discovered that DLD-1 cells were killed in a dose-dependent manner. Diosmin mediated apoptosis induction is observed through AO/EtBr double staining method. Diosmin treatment in DLD-1 cell line generates high amount of ROS which is being analyzed using ROS DCFDA assay. While using flow cytometry to investigate the effect of diosmin on cell cycle distribution, it was found that diosmin-induced cell cycle arrest occurs in the S phase. When diosmin is administered, the proportion of surviving cells decreases, confirming the existence of cell death induction via apoptosis using the annexin V staining method. Diosmin upregulated mRNA levels expression of p53 and p21, indicating that diosmin induced S phase arrest and apoptosis in DLD-1 cells is controlled in part by the p21/p53 signaling pathway. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT