Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Kowbel Our understanding of systematic relationships and population structure will benefit from high-resolution analysis of nuclear DNA

Powerful analyses of population structure require information from multiple genetic loci. To help develop a molecular toolbox for obtaining this information, we have designed universal oligonucleotide primers that span conserved intron-exon junctions in a wide variety of animal phyla. We test the utility of exon-primed, introncrossing amplifications by analyzing the variability of actin intron sequences from humpback, blue, and bowhead whales and comparing the results with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotype data. Humpback actin introns fall into two major clades that exist in different frequencies in different oceanic populations. It is surprising that Hawaii and California populations, which are very distinct in mtDNAs, are similar in actin intron alleles. This discrepancy between mtDNA and nuclear DNA results may be due either to differences in genetic drift in mitochondrial and nuclear genes or to preferential movement of males, which do not transmit mtDNA to offspring, between separate breeding grounds. Opposing mtDNA and nuclear DNA results can help clarify otherwise hidden patterns of structure in natural populations.
Xerox TREC-3 Report: Combining Exact and Fuzzy Predictors

Cet article presente deux techniques de traitement de l'information lors d'une recherche d'information en texte integral, l'une pour les travaux ad hoc et l'autre pour les travaux de routine, chacune explorant les combinaisons de predicteurs exactes et flous. Les experiences de travail de routine puis les experiences ad hoc sont donc presentees, et enfin, les resultats de ces experiences sont discutees ainsi que les experiences possibles pour l'avenir
Experimental and regional variations in Na+‐dependent and Na+‐independent phosphate transport along the rat small intestine and colon

Despite the importance of extracellular phosphate in many essential biological processes, the mechanisms of phosphate transport across the epithelium of different intestinal segments remain unclear. We have used an in vitro method to investigate phosphate transport at the brush border membrane (BBM) of intact intestinal segments and an in vivo method to study transepithelial phosphate absorption. We have used micromolar phosphate concentrations known to favor NaPi‐IIb‐mediated transport, and millimolar concentrations that are representative of the levels we have measured in luminal contents, to compare the extent of Na+‐dependent and Na+‐independent phosphate transport along the rat duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and proximal and distal colon. Our findings confirm that overall the jejunum is the main site of phosphate absorption; however, at millimolar concentrations, absorption shows ~30% Na+‐dependency, suggesting that transport is unlikely to be mediated exclusively by the Na+‐dependent NaPi‐IIb co‐transporter. In the ileum, studies in vitro confirmed that relatively low levels of phosphate transport occur at the BBM of this segment, although significant Na+‐dependent transport was detected using millimolar levels of phosphate in vivo. Since NaPi‐IIb protein is not detectable at the rat ileal BBM, our data suggest the presence of an as yet unidentified Na+‐dependent uptake pathway in this intestinal segment in vivo. In addition, we have confirmed that the colon has a significant capacity for phosphate absorption. Overall, this study highlights the complexities of intestinal phosphate absorption that can be revealed using different phosphate concentrations and experimental techniques.
European Myeloma Network Guidelines for the Management of Multiple Myeloma-related Complications

The European Myeloma Network provides recommendations for the management of the most common complications of multiple myeloma. Whole body low-dose computed tomography is more sensitive than conventional radiography in depicting osteolytic disease and thus we recommend it as the novel standard for the detection of lytic lesions in myeloma (grade 1A). Myeloma patients with adequate renal function and bone disease at diagnosis should be treated with zoledronic acid or pamidronate (grade 1A). Symptomatic patients without lytic lesions on conventional radiography can be treated with zoledronic acid (grade 1B), but its advantage is not clear for patients with no bone involvement on computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. In asymptomatic myeloma, bisphosphonates are not recommended (grade 1A). Zoledronic acid should be given continuously, but it is not clear if patients who achieve at least a very good partial response benefit from its continuous use (grade 1B). Treatment with erythropoietic-stimulating agents may be initiated in patients with persistent symptomatic anemia (hemoglobin <10g/dL) in whom other causes of anemia have been excluded (grade 1B). Erythropoietic agents should be stopped after 6–8 weeks if no adequate hemoglobin response is achieved. For renal impairment, bortezomib-based regimens are the current standard of care (grade 1A). For the management of treatment-induced peripheral neuropathy, drug modification is needed (grade 1C). Vaccination against influenza is recommended; vaccination against streptococcus pneumonia and hemophilus influenza is appropriate, but efficacy is not guaranteed due to suboptimal immune response (grade 1C). Prophylactic aciclovir (or valacyclovir) is recommended for patients receiving proteasome inhibitors, autologous or allogeneic transplantation (grade 1A).
Guarding Fat Polygons and Triangulating Guarded Polygons

In this paper we study three related problems: (i) Given a fat polygon P , we show how to find a set G of points in P such that every point on the boundary of P sees at least one point of G. The set G is said to guard the boundary of P and its cardinality depends on the shape parameters of P . Fat polygons are often used to model more realistic inputs. (ii) Given k points that guard the boundary of P , we show how to compute O(k) points that guard the interior of P . (iii) Given k points that guard P , we provide two simple O(kn) time algorithms to triangulate P : one that triangulates the polygon when the guards are given as input and the other slightly more complicated algorithm that triangulates the polygon when the guards are not given.
Neuromuscular, endocrine, and perceptual fatigue responses during different length between-match microcycles in professional rugby league players.

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in neuromuscular, perceptual and hormonal measures following professional rugby league matches during different length between-match microcycles. METHODS Twelve professional rugby league players from the same team were assessed for changes in countermovement jump (CMJ) performance (flight time and relative power), perceptual responses (fatigue, well-being and muscle soreness) and salivary hormone (testosterone [T] and cortisol [C]) levels during 5, 7 and 9 d between-match training microcycles. All training was prescribed by the club coaches and was monitored using the session-RPE method. RESULTS Lower mean daily training load was completed on the 5 d compared with the 7 and 9 d microcycles. CMJ flight time and relative power, perception of fatigue, overall well-being and muscle soreness were significantly reduced in the 48 h following the match in each microcycle (P < .05). Most CMJ variables returned to near baseline values following 4 d in each microcycle. Countermovement jump relative power was lower in the 7 d microcycle in comparison with the 9 d microcycle (P < .05). There was increased fatigue at 48 h in the 7 and 9 d microcycles (P < .05) but had returned to baseline in the 5 d microcycle. Salivary T and C did not change in response to the match. DISCUSSION Neuromuscular performance and perception of fatigue are reduced for at least 48 h following a rugby league match but can be recovered to baseline levels within 4 d. These findings show that with appropriate training, it is possible to recover neuromuscular and perceptual measures within 4 d after a rugby league match.
ProLoSAC: An Improved RANSAC Algorithm for Pairwise Registration of 3D Point Clouds

Registration of partially overlapping 3D point clouds of an object is the initial phase in the 3D modeling pipeline. The automatic coarse alignment of a pair of 3D images is usually performed by 3D feature matching. Robust estimators like RANSAC are employed for 3D transformation estimation from point correspondences obtained by feature matching, in the presence of outliers. The number of RANSAC iterations required depends directly on the number of correspondences and inliers. Many variants of RANSAC have been proposed for the computer vision tasks like stereo matching, structure and motion estimation, image retrieval etc. This paper presents a study on the potential of two widely stated RANSAC variants - PROSAC and LoSAC - for 3D registration. Further, a new algorithm -ProLoSAC - which combines the relative merits of the two is proposed. The proposed algorithm has been evaluated on different pairs of partially overlapping 3D views of three different 3D models. The results indicate that the proposed algorithm finds the best transformation in less iteration compared to the other algorithms.
A Joint Evaluation of Dictionary Learning and Feature Encoding for Action Recognition

Many mid-level representations have been developed to replace traditional bag-of-words model (VQ+k-means) such as sparse coding, OMP-k with k-SVD, and fisher vector with GMM in image domain. These approaches can be split into a dictionary learning phase and a feature encoding phase which are often closely related. In this paper, we jointly evaluate the effect of these two phases for video-based action recognition. Specially, we compare several dictionary learning methods and feature encoding schemes through extensive experiments on the KTH and HMDB51 datasets. Experimental results indicate that fisher vector performs consistently better than the other encoding methods, and sparse coding is robust to different dictionaries even random weights. In addition, we observe that the advantages of sophisticated mid-level representations do not come from their specific dictionaries but the encoding mechanisms, and we can just use randomly selected exemplars as dictionaries for most of encoding methods. Finally, we achieve the state-of-the-art results on the HMDB51 and UCF101 by combining our configurations with improved dense trajectory features.
FROM CONTROL TO VALUE CO-CREATION: TOWARDS A SHARED LEADERSHIP MODEL IN AFRICA

It is a given that Africa is at present embroiled in leadership throes. This leadership dilemma casts a long shadow of disempowerment on the continent to develop politically as well as limits the continent to effectively co-create value and wealth. This is inextricably linked to the continent’s political leadership that is ad nauseam exclusive of the people. This is therefore a colossal impediment to Africa’s political stability as well as shared, collegial leadership. In this paper, value co-creation will be used as an umbrella word to denote continental competitive edge in global marketplace of political leadership and value creation. An overriding denominator of Africa’s leadership malaise is the leaders’ inability to involve the people in the management of state. This has left a drawn-out aftertaste of control, a euphemism for dictatorship, and has inexorably impinged on the continent’s value cocreation and development. The main thrust of this paper is: to achieve value co-creation and good political leadership on the continent, shared model of leadership is a precondition. Shared leadership is a multidirectional, collegial activity that emphasises all hands to the pump in leadership. Thus, this paper proposes this model for good leadership and governance on the African continent.
Study on the construction of metal mine production information management system with UML

In this article, we present a new approach to illustrate the production information of metal mine specified in object-oriented ideas for modeling more humanized and easily understanding system of digital mine. According to the present status of metal mine production in China and the functions of the whole process of mining, we use Unified Modeling Language (UML) to express the first abstract concept of mine entities from real world to information world and then design the spatial information database and finally implement parts of metal mine production system.
Increasing Healthy Start food and vitamin voucher uptake for low income pregnant women (Early Years Collaborative Leith Pioneer Site)

Poverty has a detrimental impact on health and wellbeing. Healthy Start food and vitamin vouchers provide support for low income families across the UK, but at least 25% of eligible women and children miss out. We set out to increase uptake, with an aim of 90% of eligible women and children (n~540 eligible, varying over time) receiving vouchers in the initial team's catchment area by December 2015. Starting with one midwife and one pregnant woman in March 2014 we used the model for improvement to identify ways to improve documentation, sign up, and referral. Weekly data on process measures and monthly data on voucher receipt were plotted on run charts. Comparing medians for January-June 2014 and March-August 2015 there was a 13.3% rise in voucher receipt in Lothian (increase from 313 to 355 women), versus an 8.4% decline for the rest of Scotland (fall from 1688 to 1546 women). Figures varied by team, influenced by staff, family, and area factors. The initial aim proved unrealistic, as signing up a woman for vouchers increases both the numerator and denominator. Accordingly, the percentage uptake has not increased at a regional level (remains at 75%), though the figure for the initiating team (“team 3” in graphs) has increased from 73.0% (January 2014) to 79.0% (November 2015). We have continued testing, achieving recent increases in the number of women referred for welfare rights advice on benefits, tax credits, employment rights, childcare, and debt, securing on average £4,500 per client during 2015/16 (£404k for 89 clients by mid September 2015). This improvement project, part of the Early Years Collaborative in Scotland, has had a measureable impact on pregnant women across Lothian. Success has relied on testing, an electronic maternity record, rapid dissemination of findings through direct engagement with clinical teams, and persistence. Our findings have relevance across the UK, particularly at a time of worsening finances for many families.
Unilateral Weighted Jaccard Coefficient for NLP

Similarity measures are essential to solve many pattern recognition problems such as classification, clustering, and retrieval problems. Various similarity measures are categorized in both syntactic and semantic relationships. In this paper we present a novel similarity, Unilateral Weighted Jaccard Coefficient (uwJaccard), which takes into consideration not only the space among two points but also the semantics among them in a distributional semantic model, the Unilateral Weighted Jaccard Coefficient provides a measure of uncertainty which will be able to measure the uncertainty among sentences such as "man bites dog" and "dog bites man".
Exponentially Tapering Ground Wires for Elmore Delay Reduction in On Chip Interconnects

In this paper inter metal capacitors of ground wires are considered, for the first time in Elmore delay calculations of clock distribution interconnect networks. Analytical models for capacitance calculation of inter metal wires which are exponentially tapered are presented. In addition, the tapering of the ground wire for reducing this delay is proposed. The results show that by a exponentially tapering of the ground wires in the clock distribution networks , a 17% reduction in the Elmore delay of interconnects is achieved in compare with not tapering ground wires.
Blind and Efficient Serial Search Strategy for Ultrawideband Signal Initial Acquisition

The problem of initial acquisition of ultrawideband (UWB) signals in the dense multipath channel is addressed. We demonstrate the advantages of designing the acquisition system so that the size of the uncertainty region is a Fibonacci number and propose a simple search strategy for coarse synchronization that uses no channel knowledge, extending a previous work where we proposed a method based on the golden section, which practically achieved the minimum mean acquisition time (MAT) under a simplistic model. We derive the MAT of the new strategy for this model and compare it with simulation results for a realistic propagation scenario with a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). There is an agreement between the theoretical and simulated MATs, which is limited by the differences between the two models. Simulations from moderate to high SNRs confirm that the proposed strategy provides a simple way to achieve the performance of the best strategies for acquisition of wide-bandwidth signals. In particular, it is similar in terms of complexity and performance to the popular bit reversal search, thus providing alternatives in the choice of design parameters wherever the bit reversal search is advisable.
Entropy of Extremal Black Holes in Two Dimension

In this paper we apply the entropy function formalism to the two-dimensional black hole which come from the compactification of the heterotic string theory with the dilaton coupling function. We find the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy from the value of the entropy function at its saddle point. Also we consider higher derivative terms. After that we apply the entropy function formalism to the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) model where we consider the effect of string-loop to this model.
Detection and estimation of T wave alternans with matched filter and nonparametric bootstrap test

Though alternans phenomena in the cardiac repolarization phase has been shown to be related to arrhythmgenesis, a definitive estimation method from the T wave of ECG recordings is not yet available. We propose a statistical signal processing scheme which compares the T-wave morphology of even and odd beats by using a running matched filter, in order to increase the signal to noise ratio of the estimation. Given that previously proposed hypothesis tests for alternans detection rely on the knowledge of noise statistical distribution, we also analyzed the usefulness of a nonparametric bootstrap test. Data set composed of 100 ECG recordings included in the Challenge Database were used. Principal Component Analysis was previously made for multilead recordings. Subsequent preprocessing for each available lead consisted of conventional baseline removing, filtering, R-wave detection, exclusion of too noisy segments, T-wave segmentation, and template generation for even and odd beats. The difference between the template and a given beat was obtained by minimizing the absolute error of their comparison with a windowed circular shift. A paired bootstrap resampling test was made for deciding whether the averaged differences between the template and the T-waves were significant compared to the noise level.
A Kalman Filter for Wall

We have implemented a wall following control law which takes its input signal from a kalman lter. The kalman lter comprises a wall model as well as the control law dynamics. The beneets of using this kalman lter approach include: (i) the eeect of sensor's noise on the control law is lessen, (ii) a compromise between the control's law operational conditions 1 and the actual environment is achieved, (iii) reliable methods can be implemented to detect when the control law should no longer be executed. We propose a system architecture that allows to detect inconsistences between the environment and the kalman lter's dynamic and measurement models. We develop a strategy for a smooth change to a new wall model (if possible), whenever the current wall model is no longer valid.
Improve - HDL - a DO-254 formal property checker used for design and verification of avionics protocol controllers

Today's airplane consists of a big network linking embedded controllers to sensors/actuators and communications equipment onboard. Efforts made in recent years to simplify network wirings have resulted in significant reductions in the aircraft weight and labor required to run wiring harnesses. This has often come out at the cost of a more complex data bus architecture (bi-directional protocol instead of unidirectional protocol). As DO-178B is a requirement for certifiable avionics SW design, DO-254 is a set of design guidelines for airborne HW electronics. DO254 considers the use of formal methods and requirements traceability when developing HW to support safety-critical (Level A or B) functions. This article presents a static formal approach that may be used, in combination with requirements traceability features, to apply formal methods in the design and verification of HW controllers to support such protocols as ARINC 429, ARINC 629, MIL-STD-1553B, etc. Model simulation is today's standard practice in verifying HW electronics. A major drawback in simulation is the lack of exhaustive checking, since simulation results are only a function of the testbench scenario defined by the designers. For example, using simulation one cannot guarantee such system behaviors as "the controller shall always respond to a request," "acknowledge shall always arrive no later than N cycles," "the controller shall not drop any data," "the controller shall not lock up," etc. improve-HDL is a formal property checker that complements simulation in performing exhaustive debugging of VHDL/Verilog register-transfer-level HW models of complex avionics protocol controllers without the need to create testbenches. Reqtify is used to track requirements throughout the verification process and to produce coverage reports. Using improve-HDL coupled wit
High manganese concentrations in rocks at Gale crater, Mars

The surface of Mars has long been considered a relatively oxidizing environment, an idea supported by the abundance of ferric iron phases observed there. However, compared to iron, manganese is sensitive only to high redox potential oxidants, and when concentrated in rocks, it provides a more specific redox indicator of aqueous environments. Observations from the ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover indicate abundances of manganese in and on some rock targets that are 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than previously observed on Mars, suggesting the presence of an as‐yet unidentified manganese‐rich phase. These results show that the Martian surface has at some point in time hosted much more highly oxidizing conditions than has previously been recognized.
Victims as Offenders: The Paradox of Women's Violence in Relationships

Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One - Introduction Chapter Two - Prior Research Findings and Controversies Chapter Three - Background: Site, Data, Methods and Program Philosophy. Chapter Four - The Police Ride-Along Study Chapter Five - Hearing from Criminal Justice Professionals and Social Service Providers Chapter Six - A Day in the Life: Inside a Female Offender's Treatment Group Chapter Seven - "Violent" Women: Motivations and Context Chapter Eight - Summary: The Findings and their Policy Implications Appendix A - Summaries of Domestic Violence Calls for Police Service References Index.
AMHCD: A Database for Amazigh Handwritten Character Recognition Research

In this paper, we describe the first version of a database that contains handwritten Amazigh characters (AMHCD). As present the database consists of 25,740 isolated and labeled Amazigh handwritten characters produced by 60 writers. This database has been developed at the IRF-SIC Laboratory of the university Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco. It is designed for training and testing recognition systems for handwritten Amazigh characters. This database is available for researches and academic uses.