Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pathological Investigations of Organ Affinity of Brucella Species and their Cross Species Transmission

Received: Revised: Accepted: Published online: January 28, 2017 April 24, 2017 May 12, 2017 July 03, 2017 The present study was conducted to determine the localization of Brucella species within different aborted tissues. Another objective was to determine its cross species transmission of Brucella in three main districts of Punjab, Pakistan with significant bovine population. The results revealed the presence of Brucella abortus (23.3%) only and none of bovine fetus was positive for Brucella melitensis (0%) while lung was the most prevalent targeted tissue for Brucella as compare to liver and stomach respectively in both cattle and buffaloes fetuses. The results also indicated increased Brucella incidence in cattle fetuses (30 & 13.3%) than buffalo fetuses (16.6 & 6.66%) (P=0.034) by both AMOS PCR and IHC respectively. We also found significantly more positive cases by AMOS PCR than IHC (P=0.024). These novel findings about best specimen selection for isolation of Brucella and absence of Brucella melitensis in bovines of Punjab Pakistan can be helpful in designing brucellosis control programs. ©2017 PVJ. All rights reserved
Regulatory Network Models in Biology

In this project, we studied transcriptional regulation in C. elegans through a network approach. We used techniques analyzing degree distribution, motifs, gene regulation subgraphs etc. to investigate various properties of the network. Our motif analysis discovered previously unknown motifs that are likely to have biological significance. We introduced a new technique for quantifying amount of gene regulation and formulated a new hypothesis to predict autoregulation. Our results will serve as a basis for future biological experiments.
Molecular S-genotyping of sweet cherry ( Prunus avium L . ) genetic resources

Sweet cherries are self-incompatible, which is determined by a gametophytic self-incompatibility system (GSI). The self-incompatibility is controlled by a multi-allelic S-locus. Knowledge about the S-allele constitution of the cultivars is essential for fruit growers and breeders. Recently, molecular PCR-based methods have been developed to distinguish all S-alleles in sweet cherries. In our work, we analysed S-locus genotypes by 13 universal and allele-specific PCR primer combinations within 117 registered, old and local sweet cherry cultivars from the Czech genetic resources of the Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology in Holovousy, the Czech Republic. We confirmed the previous S-genotyping for 66 accessions except for Drogans Gelbe, Hedelfinger, Erika, Meckenheimer Frühe, Badeborner, Bing, Alfa, Gamma, Huldra, Rivan, Valerij Tschkalov, Viola and Winkler’s Frühe. It could be due to either mislabelling or mistakes in the previous analyses. Newly, S-genotyping was determined for 51 accessions in which we found 4 new S-loci combinations. We detected the S-locus combinations in 19 incompatibility groups. The most frequent incompatibility groups were III (S3S4), II (S1S3), IV (S2S3), and VI (S3S6) with 22, 20, 12 and 12 genotypes, respectively.
Uterine de fi ciency of high-mobility group box-1 ( HMGB 1 ) protein causes implantation defects and adverse pregnancy outcomes

A reciprocal communication between the implantation-competent blastocyst and the receptive uterus is essential to successful implantation and pregnancy success. Progesterone (P4) signaling via nuclear progesterone receptor (PR) is absolutely critical for pregnancy initiation and its success in most eutherian mammals. Here we show that a nuclear protein high-mobility group box-1 (HMGB1) plays a critical role in implantation in mice by preserving P4-PR signaling. Conditional deletion of uterine Hmgb1 by a Pgr-Cre driver shows implantation defects accompanied by decreased stromal cell Hoxa10 expression and cell proliferation, two known signatures of inefficient responsiveness of stromal cells to PR signaling in implantation. These mice evoke inflammatory conditions with sustained macrophage accumulation in the stromal compartment on day 4 of pregnancy with elevated levels of macrophage attractants Csf1 and Ccl2. The results are consistent with the failure of exogenous P4 administration to rescue implantation deficiency in the mutant females. These early defects are propagated throughout the course of pregnancy and ultimately result in substantial subfertility. Collectively, the present study provides evidence that nuclear HMGB1 contributes to successful blastocyst implantation by sustaining P4-PR signaling and restricting macrophage accumulation to attenuate harmful inflammatory responses.
Competition between high-frequency traders , and market quality

This is the first empirical evidence on the competition between high-frequency traders (HFTs) and its influence on market quality. We exploit the first entries of international HFTs into the Swedish equity market in 2009 and conduct a difference-in-differences analysis using trade-by-trade data. To further identify the effect, we use the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) tick size harmonization as an exogenous event that caused HFTs to start trading in stocks. When HFTs compete for trades their liquidity consumption increases. As a result, liquidity deteriorates significantly and short-term volatility rises.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUSTAINING LEAN IMPROVEMEN TS AND SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA

This paper shows a relationship between sustaining lean improvements and sustainable performance is at the roots of environmental sustai nability, economic sustainability and corporate soc ial responsibility (CSR) sustainability via proposed mo del to carry out an empirical research in Malaysian automotive industry. For this decade, automotive ma nuf cturing companies are dealing with the sustainability problems in input materials, manufac turing processes, and waste disposal, among others. Hence, this paper attempts to gain a picture of the current theme of emphasis on sustaining lean improvements indicators among the automotive manufa ct ring companies in Malaysia and also on sustainable performance. In brief, more extensive r esearch and collaboration is needed to increase understanding of sustaining lean improvements in ma ufacturing area and applications of sustainable.
A Review of Recent Advance in Online Spam Detection

Detecting spams in online social network and review platforms is a challenging task drawing attention from multidisciplinary research communities. It is a long lasting campaign between the fraudsters and platforms. In terms of data mining, spam detection is an anomaly detection task. Many algorithms which leverage the behavioral and linguistic features of the users and their posts have been proposed in this area. Graph model and deep model are gradually being adapted to this problem as well. In this survey, I review and critique three recently published papers focusing on different aspects of the spam detection problem. They employ graph model and deep model to solve the emerging and challenging problems in spam detection. The first paper encodes the edge direction information into an optimized belief propagation model. The second one firstly tackles cold start problem in spam detection with an unsupervised embedding model. The last paper proposes a framework to detect crowdsourced spammers. After reviewing the related work, I give a brief introduction of their proposed models plus some preliminary knowledge. Then I discuss the contributions and drawbacks of their models. At last, I propose some challenging problems in spam detection along with a couple of future research directions.
A Rate Control Scheme Compatible with a Legacy JPEG Decoder to Reduce Data Size Keeping Subjective Quality for Video Advertising on Mobile Devices

Video advertising has become important content for web advertising, especially in mobile devices. However, most mobile devices prohibit an auto-play function for video sequences on mobile web browsers. As a result, video coding standards such as MPEG4 and H.265 cannot be used for video advertising on mobile devices. Therefore, CSS image sprites that can show successive images are widely used to play video sequences for web advertising on mobile devices. This paper proposes a novel rate control scheme to improve the coding efficiency, based on CSS image sprites composed of successive still images coded using the JPEG standard. The proposed scheme controls data allocation to blocks according to the importance of the image regions during rate-distortion optimization of the JPEG encoding process. Subjective evaluation based on the Subjective Assessment Methodology for Video Quality (SAMVIQ) method using datasets created using DAVIS2017 and CG showed that the proposed scheme can reduce the total size of coded data while preserving the subjective image quality.
Endothelium Dysfunction as the Predictor of Oral Lichen Planus

Lichen planus is a common disease among pathologies of the oral mucosa. The polygenic nature of this illness causes different approaches to it`s treatment. Numerous disturbances, including microvasculature disorders, occur in case of inflammatory-destructive process. Oral cavity microcirculation abnormalities of patients with lichen planus were investigated guided by the Laser doppler flowmetry at term before treatment and 12 months after it. The conventional treatment was administered for all patients, including local application of Tizol with L-arginine, systemic treatment consisted of endothelium protective action drug prescription. The basal bloodstream estimation and the amplitude frequency response analysis (using method of wavelet decomposition) were carried out. The attained results were compared with the indices of normal healthy control middle age subjects. Administration of Tisol with L-arginine application and Vazoton increased the vasomotor activity of vessels, the contribution of low-frequency flux motions and the local blood velocity. Clinical article (J Int Dent Med Res 2019; 12(3): 997-1003)
Generating Text From Latent Space Creating novel news headlines from latent space using a Variational Autoencoder Author

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are, together with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), one of the most popular deep generative models of this moment. Its applications can be found in, for instance, computer vision and natural language processing. While GANs have difficulty in working with text, due to the fact that text is discrete data, VAEs are perfectly suitable for working with discrete data. In this paper, an extensive explanation on the working of VAEs is given. The VAE is discussed from both a probability model and neural network model perspective. Furthermore, we carry out an experiment in which a VAE is proposed to generate novel text. To this end, a VAE consisting of a bi-LSTM encoder and a LSTM decoder is used to encode text to a latent space. We used the proposed VAE to generate novel text, by interpolating in the latent space. Although it is technically possible to use the VAE for text generation, the generated sentences are not coherent or grammatically correct. More research is necessary to identify factors that have a positive effect on the quality of the generated sentences.
Prevalência e fatores associados à percepção negativa da saúde em pessoas idosas no Brasil

OBJETIVO: Analisar os fatores associados a percepcao negativa de saude em idosos brasileiros. METODOS: Estudo de base populacional com delineamento transversal realizado no ano de 2009, em tres cidades do Brasil. A amostra estratificada de forma aleatoria simples foi composta de 909 adultos de 60 a 91 anos. Na identificacao dos fatores associados com a percepcao negativa de saude (PNS), foi realizada analise bruta e mutivariavel por estimativas das Razoes de Prevalencia (RP), por meio da regressao de Poisson; p < 0.05. RESULTADOS: A prevalencia para PNS foi de 49,6%, e apos analise multivariada foi observado associacao para os homens com o aumento da idade RP = 1,03 (IC = 1,01 - 1,06), risco de desnutricao RP = 1,66 (IC = 1,13 - 2,43) e incapacidade funcional RP = 1,79 (IC = 1,21-1,77). Para as mulheres, o uso superior a dois medicamentos RP = 1,41 (IC = 1,13 - 2,52), hipertensao arterial RP = 1,52 (IC = 1,43 - 1,97) e a incapacidade funcional RP = 1,36 (IC = 1,13 - 1,86). CONCLUSOES: Quase a metade dos idosos possuem uma PNS, de maneira que acoes preventivas de diminuicao ao uso de medicamentos e comportamentos que favorecam melhores condicoes nutricionais devem estar atreladas as politicas publicas a promocao da autonomia funcional e do bem-estar dos idosos.
Sleep Bruxism and Associated Factors in Preschool Children of Campina Grande, Northeast of Brazil

Copyright: © 2017 Luciana de Barros Correia Fontes. 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. Sleep Bruxism and associated factors in preschool children of Campina Grande, Northeast of Brazil 1Janaína Benício Marques, 2Criseuda Maria Benício Barros, 3Rosa Maria Mariz de Melo Sales Marmhoud Coury, 4Vanessa da Nóbrega Dias, 5Joselúcia da Nóbrega Dias, 6Luciana Cidrim Calado, 7Viviany Andrea Meireles Alves, 8Niedje Siqueira de Lima, 9Leonardo Cavalcanti Bezerra Santos, 10Sônia Maria Soares da Silva,*11Luciana de Barros Correia Fontes *Department of Clinics and Preventive Dentistry, Federal University of Pernambuco (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE), Recife,
Strength of Ties with Innovation Partners , Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Performance : Evidence from China ( Full Paper Submission )

In innovation networks, firm innovation performance is affected by external tie strength and internal knowledge absorptive capacity. This study aims to empirically examine the path relationship between tie strength, absorptive capacity (ACAP) and firm innovation performance. Based on data from 278 Chinese manufacturing firms, this study demonstrates that tie strength is positively related to innovation performance. We also find that ACAP mediates the relationship between tie strength and innovation performance. The results also show that in private firms and traditional manufacturers, tie strength has no direct effect on innovation outcomes, but it can influence innovation indirectly through ACAP.
SQuAD : Eliminate What You Don ’ t Know

Machine reading comprehension is an active field of research that involves reading, understanding, and answering questions about a passage of text. The recent publication of BERT, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (Devlin et al. 2018), brought significant, near instantaneous, performance gains to this field. Specifically, BERT improved state of the art performance in both SQuAD 1.1 and SQuAD 2.0 (Rajpurkar et al. 2018) simply through the use of BERT’s contextual encodings to identify answer spans in a passage. However, our experiments show that models based on BERT still perform poorly at identifying unanswerable questions in SQuAD 2.0. To improve upon this, thereby improving BERT’s performance on the dataset as a whole, we ensemble the fully fine-tuned BERT model with an analogous BERT verifier model that shares the same architecture. We show that the verifier’s ability to identify unanswerable questions materially improves upon the performance of a BERT model that has been fully fine-tuned on the SQuAD 2.0 dataset.
OVERVIEW ON GAS DISCHARGE OCCURRING IN AIR INSULATED METAL ENCLOSED SWITCHGEAR

Compact 40.5kV air insulated metal enclosed switchgear with VCB is mostly used in power substation of 220kV and industry consumer with heavy loads. Practical operation of many years has proven that many faults had occurred in 40.5kV air insulated metal enclosed switchgear. Statistic date shows the most fault and failure is resulted from the poor insulation performance. Moreover, different discharge type will occur in the same insulation component used in different operation conditions of switchgear. In this paper, the most common insulation components of spout and bushing used in air insulated metal enclosed switchgear were reviewed on faults and failures. Specially, simulation was implemented on the typical fault occurring in bushing, simulation results show that simulation is a useful tool used to analysing the defects of product design and manufacturing process.
Sensors Module Information Storage Actuators Module Reward Generator Observation Renderer Agent Communications Module

State-of-the-art multi-robot information gathering (MR-IG) algorithms often rely on a model that describes the structure of the information of interest to drive the robots motion. This causes MR-IG algorithms to fail when they are applied to new IG tasks, as existing models cannot describe the information of interest. Therefore, we propose in this paper a MR-IG algorithm that can be applied to new IG tasks with little algorithmic changes. To this end, we introduce DeepIG: a MR-IG algorithm that uses Deep Reinforcement Learning to allow robots to learn how to gather information. Nevertheless, there are IG tasks for which accurate models have been derived. Therefore, we extend DeepIG to exploit existing models for such IG tasks. This algorithm we term it model-based DeepIG (MB-DeepIG). First, we evaluate DeepIG in simulations, and in an indoor experiment with three quadcopters that autonomously map an unknown terrain profile built in our lab. Results demonstrate that DeepIG can be applied to different IG tasks without algorithmic changes, and that it is robust to measurement noise. Then, we benchmark MB-DeepIG against state-of-the-art informationdriven Gaussian-processes-based IG algorithms. Results demonstrate that MB-DeepIG outperforms the considered benchmarks.
Loneliness , Meaning in Life and Depressive Symptoms among First Year Engineering Students

Aim: To assess the relationship between loneliness, meaning in life and depressive symptoms among first year engineering students. Method: The study adapted a descriptive and co-relational research design. Data was collected from a sample of 205 first year engineering students from colleges in Kozhikode, using convenient sampling method. The scales used were UCLA Loneliness Scale (version 3), Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and DASS-21. Results: An inverse relationship exists between loneliness and meaning in life (r= -0.369, p< 0.01), and between meaning in life and depressive symptoms (r= -0.438, p< 0.01). A positive correlation was found between loneliness and depressive symptoms (r= 0.577, p<0.01). The regression coefficient of loneliness on meaning in life was 0.130, of meaning in life on depressive symptoms was 0.192, and of loneliness on depressive symptoms was 0.333. Conclusion: Loneliness explained a greater variance in depressive symptoms. Meaning in life was found to have a greater effect on depressive symptoms of non-depressed population than of the depressed population.
Collar Rots in Forests of Northwest Germany Affected by Ash Dieback

The formation of collar rots in association with ash dieback was studied under different site conditions. The fungal community associated with lesions, necroses and stem collar rots, especially the occurrence of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus at these symptomatic plant tissues, was investigated. Filamentous fungi and Phytophthora spp. were isolated from affected tissues of stem collar rots of various developmental stages. Tissue samples of collar rots were collected from 32 ash trees in seven different forest plots located in Northwest Germany. Obtained isolates were assigned to morphotypes and identified based on mycelial morphology and by molecular methods. Primary agents causing collar rots were identified and the influence of site conditions was derived. The studied stem collar rots were assigned to five symptomatic categories: (0) without collar rots or lesions, (1) emerging collar rots, (2) larger collar rots without visible wood decay, (3) advanced collar rots with visible wood decay and (4) collar rots, necroses or lesions associated with dark sap oozing. In most of the studied collar rots that were collected in Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony, H. fraxineus was isolated and assumed to be the primary agent. From samples of category 0 neither H. fraxineus nor other fungi or Phytophthora species were isolated. From collar rots of the other symptomatic categories, varying quantities of endophytic, saprotrophic and pathogenic species had been isolated. Overall, the number of isolated species was higher in advanced stages of collar rot. Most common species were H. fraxineus and Neonectria punicea, followed by Diaporthe eres, Botryosphaeria stevensii, Gibberella sp. , Fusarium solani and Cadophora sp. However, collar rots in early stages were only associated with H. fraxineus and N. punicea. Armillaria or Phytophthora species were only isolated from advanced collar rots or occurred under special side conditions.
IMC Based PID Controllers Retuning and Its Performance Assessment

Internal Model Control (IMC) is the basis of a systematic program Q on the parameters of the concept and is based on the many modern control technology control system design. The present research work presents a novel control scheme for tuning PID controllers using Internal Model control with the filter time constant optimized using Bee colony Optimization technique. The robustness is measured by a two-block structured singular value, and the disturbance rejection is measured by the minimum singular value of the integral gain matrix. PID controllers are used widely in Industrial Processes. Criteria based on disturbance rejection and system robustness are proposed to assess the performance of PID controllers. Tuning of PID controllers is accomplished using Internal Model control scheme. In this paper, we propose an optimal filter design IMC IMCPID controller for unstable process better set point tracking. IMC includes tuning of filter constant λ. The controller is suitable for different values of the filter tuning parameters to achieve the desired response in due IMC method is based on pole-zero offset, including IMC design principle method causes the response sets a good point. However, in a stable long lag time of load disturbances leading to undesirable process which is the result of the IMC control industry. Therefore, IMC has been a popular design process processing industry, especially as a means for adjusting the single-loop, PID controllers.
Work-Family Interference and Satisfaction among Indian Women

The study examined the relationship of work-family interference with two aspects of satisfaction: Work and family. Data were gathered by means of a questionnaire administered to a sample of 300 married Indian working women, who were predominantly Hindus. The women represented a wide variety of occupations and voluntarily participated in the research. Results indicate a negative relationship of role interference with both aspects of satisfaction that is, family and work, regardless of occupational status. Implications of the findings both for researchers and for policy makers are discussed.