Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Population Dynamics of Manure Inhabiting Arthropods Under an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program in New York Poultry Facilities—3 Case Studies

SUMMARY Many arthropods inhabit caged-layer poultry manure, including pest and beneficial species. The primary pests are the house fly, Musca domestica L. , and the darkling beetle, Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer). The house fly is ubiquitous and rapidly infests newly accumulating poultry manure, often reaching enormous numbers. Flies pester farm workers, birds, and when emigration occurs, neighbors. The darkling beetle is a pest in older manure, causing damage to building infrastructure and if infested manure is spread onto fields, the beetles can fly in large numbers to nearby neighbors. The beneficial species comprise a mite and a beetle predator and a complex of parasitoid species, all of which can effectively reduce fly populations. In addition, the use of insecticides alone is no longer a viable fly management option. However, recent fly management developments that can easily be used by poultry producers now make a successful fly management program a reality. In this 20-wk study, arthropod populations under an intensive house fly integrated management program (IPM) in three high-rise, caged-layer poultry facilities in New York were monitored. Producers using IPM strategies successfully established the predatory hister beetle, Carcinops pumilio (Erichson), using three release strategies. Predatory mite populations were low throughout the study; however, strategic releases of parasitoids resulted in very high levels of house fly parasitism. Furthermore, the infrequent house fly outbreaks required only minimal insecticide applications. Producers using this IPM program successfully managed house fly populations in their facilities.
GaN-on-Si HEMTs above 10 W/mm at 2 GHz together with high thermal stability at 325°C

In this paper, the possibility to achieve output power density exceeding 10 W/mm at 2 GHz using 1 mm gate width GaN HEMTs on 4” large diameter Si (111) substrate is demonstrated for the first time. Additionally, storage tests at 325°C reveal the high thermal stability of these devices which we attribute to the in-situ grown SiN cap layer. These data are a first step towards a cost-effective high RF power density for high reliability GaN-on-Si HEMT technology.
Choice Experiments: Application to Air Quality Policy Options and Investigation of Method's Incentive Compatibility

I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Jill Phillips Collins entitled Choice Experiments: Application to Air Quality Policy Options and Investigation of Methods Incentive Compatibility.  I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Economics.
Kinetics of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Decay following Entry into Resting CD4+ T Cells

ABSTRACT In untreated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, most viral genomes in resting CD4+ T cells are not integrated into host chromosomes. This unintegrated virus provides an inducible latent reservoir because cellular activation permits integration, virus gene expression, and virus production. It remains controversial whether HIV-1 is stable in this preintegration state. Here, we monitored the fate of HIV-1 in resting CD4+ cells by using a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter virus carrying an X4 envelope. After virus entry into resting CD4+ T cells, both rescuable virus gene expression, visualized with GFP, and rescuable virion production, assessed by p24 release, decayed with a half-life of 2 days. In these cells, reverse transcription goes to completion over 2 to 3 days, and 50% of the viruses that have entered undergo functional decay before reverse transcription is complete. We distinguished two distinct but closely related factors contributing to loss of rescuable virus. First, some host cells undergo virus-induced apoptosis upon viral entry, thereby reducing the amount of rescuable virus. Second, decay processes directly affecting the virus both before and after the completion of reverse transcription contribute to the loss of rescuable virus. The functional half-life of full-length, integration-competent reverse transcripts is only 1 day. We propose that rapid intracellular decay processes compete with early steps in viral replication in infected CD4+ T cells. Decay processes dominate in resting CD4+ T cells as a result of the slow kinetics of reverse transcription and blocks at subsequent steps. Therefore, the reservoir of unintegrated HIV-1 in recently infected resting CD4+ T cells is highly labile.
POPULATION DYNAMIC MODELS GENERATING SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE GAMMA TYPE

Abstract This paper deals with processes generating species abundance distributions of the gamma type, including Fisher's logarithmic series model, MacArthur's broken stick model and the extended gamma model. Speciation is described by a Poisson process and density-dependence within species is given by the logistic growth function. Environmental fluctuations are modelled by constant environmental variances in specific rates of population growth. All models are based on diffusion approximations for the abundance of each species. The simplest case of independent identically distributed abundances is generalized in two ways. Interspecific competition is introduced in a way that makes the total abundance for the community constant. The stationary distribution for the corresponding multivariate diffusion for the relative abundances is the Dirichlet distribution, though with a slight reduction in the shape parameter compared to the case of independent abundances. Heterogeneity between the species is discussed in general and exemplified by two types of mixing in Fisher's model leading to Kempton's generalized log-series model.
Clinical Cancer esearch cer Therapy : Preclinical e of CAAT / Enhancer Binding Protein Homologous Protein anobinostat-Mediated Potentiation of Bortezomib-ced Lethal Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in R tle Cell Lymphoma Cells

ownload pose: Bortezomib induces unfolded protein response (UPR) and endoplasmic reticulum stress, aswell ibits clinical activity in patients with relapsed and refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Here, we ined the molecular basis of the improved in vitro and in vivo activity of the combination of the pane deacetylase inhibitor panobinostat and bortezomib against human, cultured, andprimaryMCL cells. erimental Design: Immunoblot analyses, reverse transcription-PCR, and immunofluorescent and n microscopy were used to determine the effects of panobinostat on bortezomib-induced aggreformation and endoplasmic reticulum stress in MCL cells. ults: Treatment with panobinostat induced heat shock protein 90 acetylation; depleted the levels of ock protein 90 client proteins, cyclin-dependent kinase 4, c-RAF, andAKT; and abrogated bortezomibed aggresome formation in MCL cells. Panobinostat also induced lethal UPR, associated with tion of CAAT/enhancer binding protein homologous protein (CHOP). Conversely, knockdown OP attenuated panobinostat-induced cell death of MCL cells. Compared with each agent alone, tment with panobinostat increased bortezomib-induced expression of CHOP and NOXA, as well reased bortezomib-induced UPR and apoptosis of cultured and primary MCL cells. Cotreatment anobinostat also increased bortezomib-mediated in vivo tumor growth inhibition and improved al of mice bearing human Z138C MCL cell xenograft. clusion: These findings suggest that increased UPR and induction of CHOP are involved in enCon hanced anti-MCL activity of the combination of panobinostat and bortezomib. Clin Cancer Res; 16(19); 4742–54. ©2010 AACR.
Analysis of marketed versus not-marketed mobile app releases

Market and user characteristics of mobile apps make their release managements different from proprietary software products and web services. Despite the wealth of information regarding users' feedback of an app, an in-depth analysis of app releases is difficult due to the inconsistency and uncertainty of the information. To better understand and potentially improve app release processes, we analyze major, minor and patch releases for releases following semantic versioning. In particular, we were interested in finding out the difference between marketed and not-marketed releases. Our results show that, in general, major, minor and patch releases have significant differences in the release cycle duration, nature and change velocity. We also observed that there is a significant difference between marketed and non-marketed mobile app releases in terms of cycle duration, nature and the extent of changes, and the number of opened and closed issues.
Intuitive vibro-tactile feedback for human body movement guidance

Humans rely on the feedbacks they received from a teacher in learning a new motor skill. Tactile feedback is effective in motor learning as it is direct and real-time. We proposed a 3D Orientation Guide (3DOG) which is made up of three coin-sized vibrating motors (tactors) to create meaningful tactile feedback to give users easily interpreted instruction on how to adjust their forearm postures and inform users of the correct forearm motion. The tactors are circling around the forearm and each tactor is assigned two vibration patterns corresponding to an axial movement in positive and negative directions respectively. The layout and vibration pattern design is evaluated through the usability test. 3DOG is proved to be able to create an intuitive tactile feedback which directs motion effectively. When it is integrated with a motion capture system, the device can track and correct body postures that has application in diverse areas, such as rehabilitation, assisting learning motor skills that have requirement for movements with high accuracy. 3DOG has a promising future because of its wearability, effectiveness, small size, and low cost.
Fixed-dose pyronaridine-artesunate combination for treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in pediatric patients in Gabon.

BACKGROUND The development of novel artemisinin-combination therapies suitable for the treatment of pediatric patients suffering from malaria is a research priority. The aim of this study was to investigate a novel fixed-dose pyronaridine-artesunate combination for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Gabonese patients 2-14 years old. METHODS The study was designed as an open-label dose-escalation study recruiting 60 pediatric patients sequentially in 4 treatment cohorts: study drugs were administered once daily for 3 days, as tablet coformulations (pyronaridine:artesunate ratios of 6:2, 9:3, and 12:4 mg/kg) and as a granule coformulation (pyronaridine:artesunate ratio of 9:3 mg/kg). The primary end points were tolerability, safety, and pharmacokinetics of pyronaridine-artesunate treatment. Efficacy was treated as a secondary outcome measure. RESULTS The drugs had a good tolerability and safety profile, at all dose levels. Pharmacokinetic analysis revealed a dose-dependent increase in the maximum plasma/blood concentration and the area under the curve, as well as comparable relative bioavailability for the granule coformulation. Polymerase chain reaction-corrected cure rates at day 28 were 100% in per-protocol analysis, at all dose levels. CONCLUSIONS Pyronaridine-artesunate is a promising novel artemisinin-combination therapy for pediatric patients with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, and the development of both the tablet and the granule coformulations is warranted.
Gender and municipal politics: problems, perspectives and possibilities

Scholars of local government have repeatedly lamented the lack of literature on the subject (e.g., Mowbray 1997; Pini, Previte, Haslam & McKenzie 2007). As Dollery, Marshall and Worthington (2003: 1) have commented, local government has often been the ‘poor cousin of its more exalted relatives in terms of the attention it attracts from the research community. ’ The exalted relatives Dollery et al. (2003) refer to are national political environments, where women’s participation has elicited significant attention. However, the dearth of research on the specific subject of women’s representation in local government is rarely acknowledged (Neyland & Tucker 1996; Whip & Fletcher 1999). This edited book attempts to redress this situation. Each chapter applies an explicit gender analysis to their specific topic of focus, making ‘gender visible in social phenomenon; [and] asking if, how, and why social processes, standards, and opportunities differ systematically for women and men’ (Howard, Risman & Sprague 2003: 1). These analyses in the local government context are critical for understanding the extent and nature of balanced representation at all levels of government. Furthermore, some women start their elective careers serving on school boards, city or town councils or as mayors, before progressing to state and national legislative offices. Hence, the experiences of women in local government illustrate broader notions of democracy and may for some individual women, shape their opportunities further along the political pipeline.
Modulation of Tight Junction Structure and Function by Kinases and Phosphatases Targeting Occludin

Tight junctions (TJs) typically represent the most apical contacts in epithelial and endothelial cell layers where they play an essential role in the separation of extracellular or luminal spaces from underlying tissues in the body. Depending on the protein composition, TJs define the barrier characteristics and in addition maintain cell polarity. Two major families of integral membrane proteins form the typical TJ strand network, the tight junction-associated MARVEL protein (TAMP) family members occludin, tricellulin, and MarvelD3 as well as a specific set of claudins. Occludin was the first identified member of these tetraspanins and is now widely accepted as a regulator of TJ assembly and function. Therefore, occludin itself has to be tightly regulated. Phosphorylation of occludin appears to be of central importance in this context. Here we want to summarize current knowledge on the kinases and phosphatases directly modifying occludin, and their role in the regulation of TJ structure, function, and dynamics.
Corporate Rebranding Strategy and Gender Patterns: Impacts on Rebranded Brand Attitudes and Ambivalence Towards Rebranding

This paper aims to examine the impacts of rebranding strategies and gender patterns on consumers’ ambivalent attitudes towards rebranding and rebranded brand attitude. Three types of revolutionary rebranding strategies are manipulated in the test and the results seconded the proposition that the choice of rebranding strategies affects respondents’ brand attitudes and ambivalence towards rebranding significantly. Results show that the more varied a rebranded corporate brand name from the familiar parent brand names, the weaker is the brand association between them. Radically Changed (RC) corporate brand name is consistently perceived to be different from a Joined Name (JN) and an Acquirer Dominnat (AD) name, and has the highest mean scores across all tests. Significant interaction effects between gender and rebranding strategy are obtained and detail comparisons between both genders are made across three rebranding strategies. Women are found to experience higher mixed feelings, and hence portray higher ambivalence scores than men. Marketing and theoretical implications are discussed.
Data Integration Progression in Large Data Source Using Mapping Affinity

Many kind of pattern integration need to be effectively analyzed in large data which require extremely accurate pattern. Data integration is the problem of combining data residing at different sources, and providing the user with a unified view of these data. Existing patterns integration extracts low quality of pattern mapping in large databases and the systems focus only on identifying useful patterns at the attribute-value level. We propose a generalized technique to enable seamless integration of Multiple Data Sources It improves the quality of pattern reorganization significantly. Finally, experiments are conducted on few datasets, and the results of the experiments show that our method is useful and efficient.
Hybrid page segmentation using multilevel homogeneity structure

This paper presents a hybrid method of page segmentation based on the combination of connected component analysis and classification on multilevel homogeneous regions. This suggests an iterative method. In which, connected component analysis is used to classify the non-text elements at each level of homogeneous region, and multilevel homogeneity structure is used to ensure this classification can identify all non-text elements. The result of this iterative method is the two documents, text document and non-text document. On text document, adaptive mathematical morphology in each text homogeneous region will give us the corresponding text region. On the non-text document, more detailed classification of the non-text components are made to get separators, tables, images, etc. For evaluation, we experiment our method with datasets from ICDAR2009 page segmentation competition. According to the results, our proposed method achieves the higher accuracy compared to other methods. This proves the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed method.
Word Sense Determination using WordNet and Sense Co-occurrence

This paper presents a method of word sense disambiguation that assigns a target word the sense that is most related to the senses of its neighbor words. We explore the use of measures of relatedness between word senses based on a novel hybrid approach. First, we investigate how to "literally" and "regularly" express a ''concept". We apply set algebra to Wordnet's synsets cooperating with Wordnet's word ontology. In this way we establish regular rules for constructing various representations (lexical notations) of a concept using Boolean operators and various word forms in synset(s). Then we construct a formal mechanism for quantifying and estimating the semantic relatedness between concepts-we facilitate "concept distribution statistics" to determine the degree of semantic relatedness between two lexically expressed concepts. Then we applied the measure of semantic relatedness to the WSD task. The experimental results showed good performance on Semcor, a subset of Brown corpus. We observe that measures of semantic relatedness are useful sources of information for word sense disambiguation
Detecting Patterns in Irregular Time Series with Fractal Dimension

Fractal geometry is a tool to quantitatively describe objects that are considered as extremely complex and disorder. Fractals are objects which have a similar appearance when viewed at different scales. They are assigned a dimension which is non integer. In particular, time series data has been represented as a curve with dimension between one and two. Effective algorithm for fractal dimension is developed based on fractal interpolation functions so that it can be applied to time series interpreting the chaotic behaviour. The fractal dimension is computed for these times series of irregular types and discriminate the patterns depending on similarity. We have applied these fractal analysis techniques to electroencephalogram (EEG) time series data from a number of electrodes fixed in the brain cortex. Detection of the fractal patterns in each electrode positions is useful for analyzing the brain activity.
Alcohol and Other Drug Problems Among Homeless Veterans: A Life-Course Theory of Forgiveness

SUMMARY This study of 310 women and 315 men is one of the first investigations of a theoretical model of alcohol and other drug abuse among homeless veterans. The sample consists of inpatients in a Domiciliary program at Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Using structural equation modeling, it is observed that forgiveness amplifies the inverse relationships of caregiver attachment and spiritual well-being to alcohol and other drug abuse. In contrast, forgiveness reduces the relationships of abuse, distress, and depression to alcohol and other drug abuse. The treatment implications for homeless veterans are discussed. Spiritual issues and forgiveness are long-neglected topics in treatment programs for substance abusers.
Have the Elusive Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae Been Discovered?

The recent detection of Hα emission in the Type Ia supernova SN 2002ic could be taken to mean that the elusive progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae have finally been identified. At first glance, the observation appears to support a single-degenerate scenario, in which the white dwarf accretes from a normal companion. In this Letter we show that the opposite may be true, and the observations may support the merger of two white dwarfs as the cause for Type Ia supernovae.
Observations on the Incidence of Absolute Pitch (AP) Ability in the Early Blind

My experiences visiting schools for the blind and visually disabled in the south of England during the last two years indicate that there is a significant distribution of AP abilities within this particular school population. Such data began to surface incidentally, almost accidentally, during an empirical 'school-based study of musical mental imagery in the early blind (i.e. children having a clinical record of blindness either due to congenital factors, or due to accident during the first few days following birth; in either case the effect is the same in that the children have no usable sight from birth). My co-researcher and I found that many of our young subjects would identify alphabetically, and without prompting, the pitches that they were listening to in one of the sub-tests. This led us to incorporate a small AP test for each subject into our research programme, requiring each blind child to identify verbally a random selection of six pitches drawn from the three octaves around middle Con a piano. It must be stressed that this was not a formally constructed piece of data gathering but rather an attempt by us to incorporate some incidental measure of AP ability into an already lengthy individual test procedure. So bearing this caveat in mind, the incidence of this particular AP ability amongst our sample of early blind children, drawn from four special schools for the blind, was as follows:
Estimation of Actual Evapotranspiration using Remote Sensing data

Estimation of actual evapotranspiration (AET) and its spatial distribution are important to understanding of catchment hydrology. The AET is driven by net energy available to evaporate water from soil and vegetation surfaces, and to transpirate water from vegetation. However, estimating AET is difficult as the evapotranspiration process involves complex physical and biological processes. It is further complicated when there is lack of measured meteorological variables data which are required for estimation. These data are essential to quantify the availability of net energy and the aerodynamic effects of the evapotranspiration process. Remote sensing (RS) data, which are widely available and easily accessible than the measured ground data, can be used to estimate the availability of net energy for AET. However, still some measured ground data are required to quantify the aerodynamic effects on AET. In this study, remote sensing data and readily available climate datasets were used as inputs to an energy balance technique to estimate AET, as an alternative to the traditional ET estimation procedures, which require measured hydrometeorological data. The Macalister subcatchment in the Thomson catchment in Victoria (Australia) was used as the case study considering the study period from January 2003 to December 2008.