Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Analysis of a Novel Strain of Murine Gammaherpesvirus Reveals a Genomic Locus Important for Acute Pathogenesis

ABSTRACT Infection of mice by murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68) is an excellent small-animal model of gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis in a natural host. We have carried out comparative studies of another herpesvirus, murine herpesvirus 76 (MHV-76), which was isolated at the same time as MHV-68 but from a different murid host, the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis). Molecular analyses revealed that the MHV-76 genome is essentially identical to that of MHV-68, except for deletion of 9,538 bp at the left end of the unique region. MHV-76 is therefore a deletion mutant that lacks four genes unique to MHV-68 (M1, M2,M3, and M4) as well as the eight viral tRNA-like genes. Replication of MHV-76 in cell culture was identical to that of MHV-68. However, following infection of mice, MHV-76 was cleared more rapidly from the lungs. In line with this, there was an increased inflammatory response in lungs with MHV-76. Splenomegaly was also significantly reduced following MHV-76 infection, and much less latent MHV-76 was detected in the spleen. Nevertheless, MHV-76 maintained long-term latency in the lungs and spleen. We utilized a cosmid containing the left end of the MHV-68 genome to reinsert the deleted sequence into MHV-76 by recombination in infected cells, and we isolated a rescuant virus designated MHV-76(cA8+)4 which was ostensibly genetically identical to MHV-68. The growth properties of the rescuant in infected mice were identical to those of MHV-68. These results demonstrate that genetic elements at the left end of the unique region of the MHV-68 genome play vital roles in host evasion and are critical to the development of splenic pathology.
Analisa Pengaruh Persepsi Kegunaan, Persepsi Kemudahan, Sikap Penggunaan, Norma Subyektif, dan Persepsi Kontrol Perilaku Terhadap Minat Pengelola Perpustakaan Menggunakan Sistem Informasi Perpustakaan (SIPUS) Kota Surabaya

Perkembangan teknologi informasi yang kian cepat yang memicu penggunaan sistem informasi perpustakaan guna meningkatkan kemampuan dan kinerja perpustakaan dalam memberika respon secara tanggap kepada pengguna. Salah satu contoh sistem informasi perpustakaan adalah SIPUS yang dibangun oleh komunitas perpustakaan sekolah menengah pertama dan Badan Perpustakaan Kota Surabaya. Sistem informasi perpustakaan yang telah dibangun dibagikan pada seluruh anggota komunitas sebagai upaya pemerintah daerah untuk mengembangkan ilmu pengetahuan di sebuah sekolah. Fenomena yang ada pada saat ini justru banyak sistem informasi perpustakaan yang tidak dimanfaatkan secara optimal oleh pengelola perpustakaan dalam organisasinya. Oleh karena itu, disini akan diukur variabel-variabel yang dapat mempengaruhi penerimaan sistem informasi perpustakaan pada pengelola perpustakaan sekolah menengah pertama di Kota Surabaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan menggunakan variabel persepsi kemudahan, persepsi kegunaan, sikap penggunaan, norma subyektif, persepsi kontrol perilaku, dan minat perilaku dari teori kombinasi TAM dan TPB dalam penerimaan sistem informasi perpustakaan. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan dengan metode total sampling yang menghasilkan 36 pengelola perpustakaan sebagai responden penelitian. Adapun pengujiannya menggunakan uji validitas, reliabilitas, dan uji analisis data dengan uji normalitas, multikolinieritas,heterosdastisitas, regresi linier sederhana, regresi linier berganda, serta uji hipotesis dengan uji F. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya pengaruh signifikan variabel persepsi kemudahan terhadap persepsi kegunaan, persepsi kemudahan dakn kegunaan terhadap sikap penggunaan, dan sikap penggunaan, norma subyektif, dan kontrol perilaku terhadap minat perilaku pengelola perpustakaan.
Rank Fusion of Results from Multiple Search Engines: An Implementation

For the distribution of information related to the wide range of topics the World Wide Web is emerging as an important medium. There are hundreds of millions of pages on the web today and this number is growing exponentially day by day. Looking for something valuable from this ocean of information is quite difficult and this is where rank fusion of results from multiple search engines comes into play. User searches the web in order to retrieve the useful document. A simple web search engines have comparatively small coverage as well as other problem that restrict their capacity to return important documents. The use of multiple searching is the solution for the above problem. It is a tool that sends the queries given by the user to multiple search engines and joins the results that are presented before the user. This improves the coverage and helps in recognizing the power and advantage of different search engines. Present search shows the result in an order that may not be according to the preferences of a particular user. It mostly happens that a URL that the user would like to visit is showing at the last and irrelevant URLs show at very first. In our multiple search engines, several search engines are employed and based on the prior order of clicking the URLs, search results are arranged. This is obtained by assigning weights to different search engines. Thus, a user interface has been implemented in order to provide the ranked results from multiple search engines.
Proof System for Plan Verification under 0-Approximation Semantics

In this paper a proof system is developed for plan verification problems $\{X\}c\{Y\}$ and $\{X\}c\{KW p\}$ under 0-approximation semantics for ${\mathcal A}_K$. Here, for a plan $c$, two sets $X,Y$ of fluent literals, and a literal $p$, $\{X\}c\{Y\}$ (resp. $\{X\}c\{KW p\}$) means that all literals of $Y$ become true (resp. $p$ becomes known) after executing $c$ in any initial state in which all literals in $X$ are true.Then, soundness and completeness are proved. The proof system allows verifying plans and generating plans as well.
AN EFFICIENT APPROXIMATION OF THE CORONAL HEATING RATE FOR USE IN GLOBAL SUN–HELIOSPHERE SIMULATIONS

The origins of the hot solar corona and the supersonically expanding solar wind are still the subject of debate. A key obstacle in the way of producing realistic simulations of the Sun–heliosphere system is the lack of a physically motivated way of specifying the coronal heating rate. Recent one-dimensional models have been found to reproduce many observed features of the solar wind by assuming the energy comes from Alfvén waves that are partially reflected, then dissipated by magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. However, the nonlocal physics of wave reflection has made it difficult to apply these processes to more sophisticated (three-dimensional) models. This paper presents a set of robust approximations to the solutions of the linear Alfvén wave reflection equations. A key ingredient of the turbulent heating rate is the ratio of inward-to-outward wave power, and the approximations developed here allow this to be written explicitly in terms of local plasma properties at any given location. The coronal heating also depends on the frequency spectrum of Alfvén waves in the open-field corona, which has not yet been measured directly. A model-based assumption is used here for the spectrum, but the results of future measurements can be incorporated easily. The resulting expression for the coronal heating rate is self-contained, computationally efficient, and applicable directly to global models of the corona and heliosphere. This paper tests and validates the approximations by comparing the results to exact solutions of the wave transport equations in several cases relevant to the fast and slow solar wind.
A comparative study of density models for gas identification using microelectronic gas sensor

The aim of this paper is to compare the accuracy of a range of advanced density models for gas identification from sensor array signals. Density estimation is applied in the construction of classifiers through the use of Bayes rule. Experiments on real sensors' data has proved the effectiveness of the approach with an excellent classification performance. We compare the classification accuracy of four density models, Gaussian mixture models, generative topographic mapping, probabilistic PCA mixture and k nearest neighbors. On our gas sensors data, the best performance was achieved by the Gaussian mixture models.
Entropy-Based Registration of Point Clouds Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Smartphone GPS

Automatic registration of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds is a crucial but unresolved topic that is of great interest in many domains. This study combines terrestrial laser scanner with a smartphone for the coarse registration of leveled point clouds with small roll and pitch angles and height differences, which is a novel sensor combination mode for terrestrial laser scanning. The approximate distance between two neighboring scan positions is firstly calculated with smartphone GPS coordinates. Then, 2D distribution entropy is used to measure the distribution coherence between the two scans and search for the optimal initial transformation parameters. To this end, we propose a method called Iterative Minimum Entropy (IME) to correct initial transformation parameters based on two criteria: the difference between the average and minimum entropy and the deviation from the minimum entropy to the expected entropy. Finally, the presented method is evaluated using two data sets that contain tens of millions of points from panoramic and non-panoramic, vegetation-dominated and building-dominated cases and can achieve high accuracy and efficiency.
Social networks of people with mild intellectual disabilities : Characteristics and interventions

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Current algebras and light-cone quantization in 3+1 dimensions

A polarization of the Lie algebras $Map(C, G)$ of gauge transformations on the light-cone $C\subset\RM^4$ is introduced, using splitting of the initial data on $C$ for the wave operator to positive and negative frequencies. This generalizes the usual polarization of affine Kac-Moody algebras to positive and negative frequencies and paves the way to a generalization of the highest weight theory to the $3+1$ dimensional setting.
Next-generation ammonia pretreatment enhances cellulosic biofuel production

A new liquid ammonia pretreatment methodology called Extractive Ammonia (EA) was developed to simultaneously convert native crystalline cellulose Iβ (CI) to a highly digestible cellulose IIII (CIII) allomorph and selectively extract up to ∼45% of the lignin from lignocellulosic biomass with near-quantitative retention of all polysaccharides. EA pretreated corn stover yielded a higher fermentable sugar yield compared to the older Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) process while using 60% lower enzyme loading. The EA process preserves extracted lignin functionalities, offering the potential to co-produce lignin-derived fuels and chemicals in the biorefinery. The single-stage EA fractionation process achieves high biofuel yields (18.2 kg ethanol per 100 kg untreated corn stover, dry weight basis), comparable to those achieved using ionic liquid pretreatments. The EA process achieves these ethanol yields at industrially-relevant conditions using low enzyme loading (7.5 mg protein per g glucan) and high solids loading (8% glucan, w/v).
Diabetes, hyperglycaemia and mortality in disabled older women: The Women's Health and Ageing Study I

Aims Diabetes is associated with increased mortality in older adults, but the specific contributions of diabetes‐associated clinical conditions and of increasing hyperglycaemia to mortality risk are unknown. We evaluated whether cardiovascular disease, comorbidities, or degree of hyperglycaemia, particularly severe hyperglycaemia, affected diabetes‐related mortality risk in older, disabled women.
Experiment and Simulation Study on the Breakdown Current, Velocity, and E-Field in Air Gap Discharge

The breakdown current, current impulse velocity, and E-field in air gap discharge are of interest among researchers on high-voltage engineering and lightning study. It is the breakdown current and current impulse velocity that govern the radiated E-field property. The current impulse velocity, however, is not well addressed in the literature. In this paper, we use a self-developed high-speed observation system, a Rogowski coil, and a transient E-field sensor to measure the current impulse propagation velocity, breakdown current, and vertical E-field in the rod-to-plane discharge after the air gap breakdown under dc voltage. From the time difference of arrival of light signals in different receiving channels, the resultant current impulse propagation velocity is measured as 6.81 ± 0.57 × 106 m/s. Meanwhile, the breakdown current at the bottom of the grounded rod electrode has a peak value of approximately 1.3 kA and 10%–90% rise time of 40 ns, and the transient vertical E-field at ground level has an amplitude of approximately 15 kV/m and 10%–90% rise time of 64 ns. In addition, according to the measured breakdown current and resultant current impulse velocity, the vertical E-field is computed by using the finite-difference time-domain method in the two-dimensional cylindrical coordinate system. The computed vertical E-field agrees well with the measured E-field, validating our measured current impulse velocity. Besides, the computed horizontal E-field and azimuthal H-field are also analyzed. Finally, the influence of current impulse velocity on the vertical and horizontal E-field and azimuthal H-field is discussed.
Body Packing and Its Radiologic Manifestations: A Review Article

Body packing is described as using the abdominal or pelvic cavity for concealing illegal drugs. Leakage from the packets may cause catastrophic effects on smugglers and medical history is not reliable in these patients. Moreover, new sophisticated smuggling techniques make it imperative that radiologists and emergency physicians understand and familiarize themselves with the different radiological manifestations of ingested drug packets. Currently, there is no gold standard for imaging patients suspected of body packing; nevertheless, computed tomography (CT) seems to be the best modality for packet detection and unenhanced CT without bowel preparation is a reliable technique for detection of ingested packets. On abdominal radiography, packets may be visualized as oval or round radiopaque foreign bodies surrounded by a gas halo. In the literature, sensitivity of abdominal radiography is reported from 74% to 100%. Visualization of the drug packets may be strikingly hampered by administration of oral or intravenous contrast medium in abdomino-pelvic CT; hence, contrast-enhanced CT does not seem to be a suitable modality for searching the ingested packets in suspicious smugglers.
Optimal scanning, display, and segmentation of the International Labor Organization (ILO) X-ray images set for pneumoconiosis

A method for scanning and displaying chest radiographs (X-rays) is presented. The new method treats the scanning as independent of the image display, allowing for maximum information content to be captured during the scanning process, and then for this information to be optimally displayed using a new function for maximizing the contrast variation throughout the image. The quality of the digitized X-ray images was compared against the original X-ray films and was found to be of comparable visualization quality. The rib parenchyma is then segmented by an active shape model.
Towards intelligence engineering in agent-based systems

In this paper, we consider intelligence as an explicit requirement in modern information systems and introduce intelligence engineering as the application of a systematic and disciplined approach to the development, operation, and maintenance the intelligence. After categorizing intelligence sub-characteristics based on an extensive quantitative analysis, we choose learning as the most frequent sub-characteristic of intelligence and present a process for specifying learning in intelligent systems. This process is based on Organizational Multiagent System Engineering (O-MaSE) process framework and extends this framework to cover Learning Analysis (LA) concepts. More precisely, by using O-MaSE meta-model and LA meta- models, alongside applying the process for development a system, we study the potentials of the process framework in specifying learning concepts. Based on the discovered shortcomings of the process, we propose extensions to enrich the process for specifying learning, namely for Requirements gathering, Goal modeling, Knowledge modeling and Environment specification. The applicability of the extended O-MaSE is evaluated by applying it on a Book Trading System (BTS). Based on this systematic process, software development benefits from the more specific assumptions on capabilities expected for learning, and it moves towards more sophisticated engineering practices which prevents implicit or Ad-hoc activities for developing features of intelligent.
Vasoactive Drugs Influence Aortic Augmentation Index Independently of Pulse-Wave Velocity in Healthy Men

Aortic augmentation index, a measure of central systolic blood pressure augmentation arising mainly from pressure-wave reflection, increases with vascular aging. The augmentation index is influenced by aortic pulse-wave velocity (related to aortic stiffness) and by the site and extent of wave reflection. To clarify the relative influence of pulse-wave velocity and wave reflection on the augmentation index, we studied the association between augmentation index, pulse-wave velocity, and age and examined the effects of vasoactive drugs to determine whether altering vascular tone has differential effects on pulse-wave velocity and the augmentation index. We made simultaneous measurements of the augmentation index and carotid-to-femoral pulse-wave velocity in 50 asymptomatic men aged 19 to 74 years at baseline and, in a subset, during the administration of nitroglycerin, angiotensin II, and saline vehicle. The aortic augmentation index was obtained by radial tonometry (Sphygmocor device, PWV Medical) with the use of an inbuilt radial to aortic transfer function. In multiple regression analysis, the aortic augmentation index was independently correlated only with age (R =0.58, P <0.0001). Nitroglycerin (3 to 300 &mgr;g/min IV) reduced the aortic augmentation index from 4.8±2.3% to −11.9±5.3% (n=10, P <0.002). Angiotensin II (75 to 300 ng/min IV) increased the aortic augmentation index from 9.3±2.4% to 18.3±2.9% (n=12, P <0.001). These drugs had small effects on aortic pulse-wave velocity, producing mean changes from baseline of <1 m/s (each P <0.05). In healthy men, vasoactive drugs may change aortic augmentation index independently from aortic pulse-wave velocity.
Filter bank design based on discriminative feature extraction

A filter bank model, which achieves minimum error, is investigated in this paper. A bank-of-filter feature extractor module is comprehensively optimized with the classifier's parameters for minimization of the errors occurring at the back-end classifier. The method has been applied to readjusting Mel-scale and Bark-scale based filter banks for the Japanese vowel recognition task, the framework being provided by the minimum classification error (MCE)/generalised probabilistic descent method (GPD). The results show suggestive phenomena underlying the accuracy of the proposed approach. <<ETX>>
Simulation of Benthic Ripples and Transport Processes for SAX

Abstract : Our goal is to provide a complete simulation code that will represent and predict the sediment transport and bed features on the continental shelf at user-specified resolution by using state-of-the-art algorithms for the physics and numerics of the simulation code. Our primary objective is to simulate the ripple climate on the bed of the inner shelf at depths on the order of 20 meters and over domains ranging from centimeters to kilometers in support of the Ripples DRI experiments and analyses. Our secondary objective is to use simulation to better understand the physics of ripple formation and sediment transport in this environment. A third objective is to create a powerful and fast parallel numerical code system by the synthesis of a number of our computational tools.
Effect of Cerium (Ce3+) doping on structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of Barium Ferrite (BaFe12O19)

Ce<sup>3+</sup>-substituted barium ferrite powder with chemical composition BaCe<sub>x</sub>Fe<sub>12-x</sub>O<sub>19</sub> (where x= 0.2 and 0.8) have been synthesized by using sol-gel auto combustion. The X-ray diffractometer (XRD) patterns show that with the increase Ce<sup>3+</sup> content, the lattice constants (a and c) increased. SEM images show the formation of hexagonal platelet like structure. Magnetic measurements show the increase in magnetic saturation (M<sub>s</sub>) and remenant magnetization (M<sub>r</sub>) to 56.68emu/g and 29.66emu/g respectively. The coercivity (H<sub>c</sub>) decreased to 3357.26Oe with increase in compositions from x=0.2 to 0.8. The dielectric behavior of synthesized barium ferrite powders were measured by the vector network analyzer (VNA) for the X-band (8.2-12.4 GHz) frequency range.
Scalable Preference Learning from Data Streams

We study the task of learning the preferences of online readers of news, based on their past choices. Previous work has shown that it is possible to model this situation as a competition between articles, where the most appealing articles of the day are those selected by the most users. The appeal of an article can be computed from its textual content, and the evaluation function can be learned from training data. In this paper, we show how this task can benefit from an efficient algorithm, based on hashing representations, which enables it to be deployed on high intensity data streams. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on four real world news streams, compare it with standard approaches, and describe a new online demonstration based on this technology.
Development of risk factor scales for stalking-like behaviors following the end of a romantic relationship, and their predictive capabilities

(いわゆるストーカー規制法)が施行されて以来,警察 において取り扱われるストーカー事案は年々増加傾向 にあり,2013年以降は実に 2万件を超えている(警察庁, 2016)。 ストーカー規制法は,ストーカー行為等によっ て引き起こされる多種多様な事件に対応するために, 2013年には電子メールの連続送信が,2016年には SNS やブログへの執拗な書き込みが規制対象となるよう改 正がなされてきた。 また,ストーカーに関する問題は 近年メディアで取り上げられることも多く,ストーキ ングは時に殺人や傷害といった凄惨な事件に至る可能 性をも孕んでおり,それは社会的問題になっていると 言っても過言ではないだろう(島田,2016)。 しかしな がら,心理的な側面を加味してストーカー加害のリス ク要因に関する検討を行った研究は,本邦ではいまだ 親密な関係破綻後のストーカー的行為のリスク要因 に関する尺度作成とその予測力 1, 2
Does Conquest Pay?: The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies

List of Figures and Tables Ch. 2 When Does Conquest Pay? Ch. 3 Nazi-Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1944 Ch. 4 Belgium and Luxembourg, 1914-1918 Ch. 5 The Ruhr-Rhineland, 1923-1924 Ch. 6 The Japanese Empire, 1910-1945 Ch. 7 The Soviet Empire, 1945-1989 Ch. 8 The Spoils of Conquest Notes Works Cited Index