Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nilai baik hati menerusi cerita rakyat Melayu terhadap masyarakat Melayu suatu aplikasi Teori Pengkaedahan Melayu

Cerita rakyat merupakan salah satu khazanah sastera Melayu yang cukup tenar hidup dalam masyarakat Melayu tradisional dan ia disampaikan secara lisan. Oleh itu, cerita rakyat sarat dengan perutusan nilai. Ini diterjemahkan menjadi nasihat yakni pengajaran. Kajian ini dilakukan untuk mengenal pasti dan menganalisis nilai baik hati menerusi cerita rakyat Melayu, khususnya kepada masyarakat Melayu. Nilai murni seperti baik hati kepada masyarakat Melayu sangat penting dijadikan sebagai satu medium perantaraan untuk mendidik moral masyarakat Melayu. Sesungguhnya setiap cerita-cerita rakyat yang didengari atau dibaca oleh masyarakat Melayu itu berupaya meresapkan idea dalam pemikirannya dan akan kekal menjadi ingatan sampai bila-bila. Jika baik olahan nilai murni dalam setiap cerita-cerita rakyat tersebut ia mampu membentuk nilai moral yang tinggi kepada masyarakat Melayu. Kajian yang dijalankan ini tertumpu untuk mengenal pasti dan menganalisis nilai murni baik hati dalam cerita rakyat Melayu. Teori Pengkaedahan Melayu digunakan untuk diaplikasikan dalam memantapkan lagi kajian ini. Hasil kajian mendapati cerita rakyat Melayu mempunyai hampir sepenuhnya nilai baik hati yang mempunyai fungsi penting dalam kalangan masyarakat Melayu.
Development of Bengali Named Entity Tagged Corpus and its Use in NER Systems

The rapid development of language tools using machine learning techniques for less computerized languages requires appropriately tagged corpus. A Bengali news corpus has been developed from the web archive of a widely read Bengali newspaper. A web crawler retrieves the web pages in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) format from the news archive. At present, the corpus contains approximately 34 million wordforms. The date, location, reporter and agency tags present in the web pages have been automatically named entity (NE) tagged. A portion of this partially NE tagged corpus has been manually annotated with the sixteen NE tags with the help of Sanchay Editor 1 , a text editor for Indian languages. This NE tagged corpus contains 150K wordforms. Additionally, 30K wordforms have been manually annotated with the twelve NE tags as part of the IJCNLP08 NER Shared Task for South and South East Asian Languages 2 . A table driven semi-automatic NE tag conversion routine has been developed in order to convert the sixteen-NE tagged corpus to the twelve-NE tagged corpus. The 150K NE tagged corpus has been used to develop Named Entity Recognition (NER) system in Bengali using pattern directed shallow parsing approach, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), Maximum Entropy (ME) Model, Condi
Priority-based Routing for Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks

Rapid advances in wireless sensor networks require routing protocols which can accommodate new types of power source and data of differing priorities. We describe a priority-based geographical routing scheme based on a solar-cell energy model. It exploits an algorithm (APOLLO) that periodically and locally determines the topological knowledge range of each node, based on an estimated energy budget for the following period which includes the current energy, the predicted energy consumption, and the energy expected from the solar cell. The second algorithm (PISA) runs on each node and uses its knowledge range to determine a route which meets the objectives of each priority level in terms of path delay and energy consumption. These algorithms maximize scalability and minimize memory requirements by employing a localized geographical routing method which only uses information about a node and its adjacent neighbors
Hypoxia-induced vasoconstriction in alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) intrapulmonary arteries: a role for endothelin-1?

SUMMARY Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) is an adaptive response that diverts pulmonary blood flow from poorly ventilated and hypoxic areas of the lung to better ventilated parts, matching blood perfusion to ventilation. HPV is an ancient and highly conserved response expressed in the respiratory organs of all vertebrates. However, the underlying mechanism and the role of the endothelium remain elusive. Isolated intrapulmonary arteries (internal diameter <346 μm) from the American alligator Alligator mississippiensis were mounted in microvascular myographs for isometric tension recording. Resting vessels and vessels contracted with either serotonin (5-HT) or endothelin-1 (ET-1) were exposed to sustained (45 min) hypoxia (PO2<5 mmHg). In ET-1-contracted vessels, hypoxia induced a monophasic, sustained and fully reversible constriction, which was independent of the endothelium. In relaxed or in 5-HT-contracted vessels, hypoxia did not cause constriction. The effects of ET-1, ETA and ETB as well as the general ET-receptor antagonist were studied. ET-1 caused a contraction of the pulmonary arteries through stimulation of ETA-receptors. ETA and ETB immunoreactive staining revealed the location of both receptors in the smooth muscle layer and of ETB receptors in the endothelium. In conclusion, because precontraction with serotonin did not facilitate HPV, the required precontraction in alligators seems specific to ET-1, which implies that ET-1 plays an important permissive role for the HPV response in alligators.
Emergent Median Sternotomy for Mediastinal Hematoma: A Rare Complication following Internal Jugular Vein Catheterization for Chemoport Insertion—A Case Report and Review of Relevant Literature

Mediastinal hematoma is a rare complication following insertion of a central venous catheter with only few cases reported in the English literature. We report a case of a 71-year-old female who was admitted for elective chemoport placement. USG guided right internal jugular access was attempted using the Seldinger technique. Resistance was met while threading the guidewire. USG showed a chronic clot burden in the RIJ. A microvascular access was established under fluoroscopic guidance. Rest of the procedure was completed without any further issues. Following extubation, the patient complained of right-sided chest pain radiating to the back. Chest X-ray revealed a contained white out in the right upper lung field. She became hemodynamically unstable. Repeated X-ray showed progression of the hematoma. Median Sternotomy showed posterior mediastinal hematoma tracking into right pleural cavity. Active bleeding from the puncture site at RIJ-SCL junction was repaired. Patient had an uneventful recovery. Injury to the central venous system is the result of either penetrating trauma or iatrogenic causes as in our case. A possible explanation of our complication may be attributed to the forced manipulation of the dilator or guidewire against resistance. Clavicle and sternum offer bony protection to the underlying vital venous structures and injuries often need sternotomy with or without neck extension. Division of the clavicle and disarticulation of the sternoclavicular joint may be required for optimum exposure. Meticulous surgical technique, knowledge of the possible complications, and close monitoring in the postprocedural period are of utmost importance. Chest X-ray showed to be routinely done to detect any complication early.
Importance of the Two Dissimilatory (Nar) Nitrate Reductases in the Growth and Nitrate Reduction of the Methylotrophic Marine Bacterium Methylophaga nitratireducenticrescens JAM1

Methylophaga nitratireducenticrescens JAM1 is the only reported Methylophaga species capable of growing under anaerobic conditions with nitrate as electron acceptor. Its genome encodes a truncated denitrification pathway, which includes two nitrate reductases, Nar1 and Nar2; two nitric oxide reductases, Nor1 and Nor2; and one nitrous oxide reductase, Nos; but no nitrite reductase (NirK or NirS). The transcriptome of strain JAM1 cultivated with nitrate and methanol under anaerobic conditions showed the genes for these enzymes were all expressed. We investigated the importance of Nar1 and Nar2 by knocking out narG1, narG2 or both genes. Measurement of the specific growth rate and the specific nitrate reduction rate of the knockout mutants JAM1ΔnarG1 (Nar1) and JAM1ΔnarG2 (Nar2) clearly demonstrated that both Nar systems contributed to the growth of strain JAM1 under anaerobic conditions, but at different levels. The JAM1ΔnarG1 mutant exhibited an important decrease in the nitrate reduction rate that consequently impaired its growth under anaerobic conditions. In JAM1ΔnarG2, the mutation induced a 20-h lag period before nitrate reduction occurred at specific rate similar to that of strain JAM1. The disruption of narG1 did not affect the expression of narG2. However, the expression of the Nar1 system was highly downregulated in the presence of oxygen with the JAM1ΔnarG2 mutant. These results indicated that Nar1 is the major nitrate reductase in strain JAM1 but Nar2 appears to regulate the expression of Nar1.
Health-related quality of life and need for IVF in 1000 Italian infertile couples.

BACKGROUND A specific and still poorly investigated issue in the field of infertility is represented by the impact that the need for IVF techniques may have on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). METHODS A total of 1000 consecutive couples (1000 women and 1000 men) were invited to complete the Health Survey Short Form (SF-36) questionnaire separately, prior to initiating their first IVF attempt in our unit. Patients were also invited to report about demographic and clinical characteristics. RESULTS A total of 1936 (96.8%) agreed to participate. Male SF-36 scores were higher than those reported by women. Duration of infertility and previous IVF attempts significantly influenced HRQoL (P < 0.01). When scores were plotted in relation to the normative source of the Italian general population stratified by gender, corresponding age and geographical area, the subjective health profile did not significantly differ from the normative sample for both women and men. CONCLUSION The need for IVF did not seem to markedly influence subjective health status. Conversely, duration of infertility and failure to achieve a pregnancy through IVF might have a negative impact.
HAIL: a language for easy and correct device access

It is difficult to write device drivers. One factor is that writing low-level code for accessing devices and manipulating their registers is tedious and error-prone. For many system-on-chip based systems, buggy hardware, imprecise documentation, and code reuse worsen the situation further. This paper presents HAIL (Hardware Access Interface Language), a language-based approach to simplify device access programming and generate error checking code against bugs in software, hardware, and documentation. HAIL is a domain-specific language that specifies all aspects of a device's programming interface and the access methods in a particular system and OS. A compiler automatically checks the specification and translates it into C code for device access, with optional debugging code. The generated code can be included directly into device driver code. In the paper, we argue that HAIL lowers development effort, incurs minimal runtime overhead, and reduces device access related bugs. We also show that the HAIL specification can be reused for different operating systems, thereby reducing porting costs.
A Multi-attribute Combinatorial Auction Approach to Electronic Procurement Mechanism Design

This article focuses on mechanism design in public procurement settings involving combinatorial auctions. An important difference between combinatorial and forward auctions for procurement is that multiple attributes of the items for sale must be represented, since buying is more complicated than selling. We propose a new mechanism for multi-attribute combinatorial procurement auctions by revising mechanisms associated with the past proposals of Groves and Clark that are specifically designed to deal with the issue of social welfare maximization in the public procurement setting. Our multi-attribute Vickrey-GrovesClarke (MA-VCG) mechanism is incentive-compatible, provides constraints on partial participation, is budget-balanced, and also is efficient in quasi-linear preferences. In consideration of the profit perspective of the auctioneer, we also propose a payment function to implement the goal of achieving minimal costs for the government auctioneer, and appropriate benefits for participating suppliers. We also provide a brief numerical illustration of our MA-VCG mechanism in action, as well as consideration of its limitations.
Foliar tern erature-respiration response functions for bl ’ oad-leaved a tree specie in the southern Appalachians

We n&asured leaf respiration in 18 eastern deciduous forest tree species to determine if there were differences in tempera i m-respiration response functions among species or among c opy positions. Leaf respiration rates were measured in situ an4 on detached branches fordcerpensylvanicum L. , A. rubrum i. , Betula spp. (B. alleghaniensis Britt. and B. renta L.), Caryq glabra (Mill.) Sweet, Cornus jloridu L. , Fraxinus spp. (primarily E americana L.), Liriodendmn tulipijkra L. , Mag~oliafraseri Walt. , Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. , Oxydendrum arbo kun L. , Platanus occidentalis L. , Quercus alba L. , Q. cocci Rhododendron imum 7’ilia americana L USA. Dark respira ‘on was measured on fully expanded leaves
Rotating Disks in High-Mass Young Stellar Objects

We report on the detection of four rotating massive disks in two regions of high-mass star formation. The disks are perpendicular to known bipolar outflows and turn out to be unstable but long-lived. We infer that accretion onto the embedded (proto)stars must proceed through the disks with rates of ~10-2 M☉ yr-1.
Gender and Age Estimation from Synthetic Face Images with Hierarchical Slow Feature Analysis

Our ability to recognize the gender and estimate the age of people around us is crucial for our social development and interactions. In this paper, we investigate how to use Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) to estimate gender and age from synthetic face images. SFA is a versatile unsupervised learning algorithm that extracts slowly varying features from a multidimensional signal. To process very high-dimensional data, such as images, SFA can be applied hierarchically. The key idea here is to construct the training signal such that the parameters of interest, namely gender and age, vary slowly. This makes the labelling of the data implicit in the training signal and permits the use of the unsupervised algorithm in a hierarchical fashion. A simple supervised step at the very end is then sufficient to extract gender and age with high reliability. Gender was estimated with a very high accuracy, and age had an RMSE of 3.8 years for test images.
Replay attack prevention for iris biometrics

The paper presents an original, independent of typical cryptographic techniques, method of biometric replay attack prevention for iris biometrics. The proposed solution takes advantage of appropriate enhancements of iris templates and relies on appropriate data alteration within the image space resulting in significant changes of the resulting code in the iris feature space. Proposed methodology may be embedded into any non-reversible iris coding, yet in the reference implementation the authors propose to use an original Zak-Gabor-based iris coding. Minimal dependency between the iris image alteration procedure and the resulting iris template in Zak-Gabor coding enables transmitting the iris image alteration code and the resulting iris template even in a plan text without lessening the systempsilas security. The BIOBASE iris image database, as collected in NASK Biometric Laboratories, was used for the method development. The proposed methodology was evaluated with a body of different image alteration codes and with the use of the largest publicly available database from BATH University - DB 1600. The results prove the high potential of the method.
Mapping of image processing systems to FPGA computer based on temporal partitioning and design space exploration

High parallelism degree is fundamental for high speed image processing systems. Modern FPGA devices can provide such parallelism plus flexibility. Temporal partitioning techniques can be used to implement large systems, splitting them into partitions (called contexts), multiplexed in a FPGA. This approach can increase the effective FPGA area, allowing high parallelism in the application tasks. However, the context reconfigurations can cause performance decrease. Intensive parallelism exploration of massive image data application compensates this overhead and can improve global performance. In this work, one reconfigurable computer platform and design space exploration techniques are proposed for mapping of image processing applications into FPGA slices. A library with different hardware implementation for different parallelism degree is used to better adjust space/time for each task. Experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the approach when compared to the optimal mapping reached by exhaustive timing search in the complete design space exploration.
Cross-Talk between Dnmt2-Dependent tRNA Methylation and Queuosine Modification

Enzymes of the Dnmt2 family of methyltransferases have yielded a number of unexpected discoveries. The first surprise came more than ten years ago when it was realized that, rather than being DNA methyltransferases, Dnmt2 enzymes actually are transfer RNA (tRNA) methyltransferases for cytosine-5 methylation, foremost C38 (m5C38) of tRNAAsp. The second unanticipated finding was our recent discovery of a nutritional regulation of Dnmt2 in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Significantly, the presence of the nucleotide queuosine in tRNAAsp strongly stimulates Dnmt2 activity both in vivo and in vitro in S. pombe. Queuine, the respective base, is a hypermodified guanine analog that is synthesized from guanosine-5’-triphosphate (GTP) by bacteria. Interestingly, most eukaryotes have queuosine in their tRNA. However, they cannot synthesize it themselves, but rather salvage it from food or from gut microbes. The queuine obtained from these sources comes from the breakdown of tRNAs, where the queuine ultimately was synthesized by bacteria. Queuine thus has been termed a micronutrient. This review summarizes the current knowledge of Dnmt2 methylation and queuosine modification with respect to translation as well as the organismal consequences of the absence of these modifications. Models for the functional cooperation between these modifications and its wider implications are discussed.
Inducible resistance to herbivory in Fucus vesiculosus—duration, spreading and variation with nutrient availability

Inducible resistance in plants is a defense strategy for avoiding the negative conse- quences of herbivory on plant fitness. Since resistance is costly, the induction of resistance may depend on resource availability. Resource-based plant-herbivore hypotheses predict that the cost of producing carbon-based defensive metabolites will be higher when an excess of nutrients is available for growth. We tested experimentally the effect of nutrient availability on the occurrence, duration and within-alga spread of inducible resistance in the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus L. Based on feed- ing preference bioassays using the herbivore Idotea baltica (Pallas), simulated grazing of F. vesiculo- sus caused a clear, rapid, induced resistance that disappeared after 10 to 38 d. Furthermore, the induction of resistance does not spread to neighboring fronds or to growing tips above the point of simulated grazing. Induced resistance against isopod grazing, however, was not explained by increased production of phlorotannins, despite their putative role in the defense against herbivory. Phlorotannin production responded most strongly to nutrient enhancement, which reduced the phlorotannin concentration of the alga. Nutrient enhancement, however, did not affect the induction of resistance. The occurrence of induced resistance together with the lack of correlation between the phlorotannin concentration and the food preferences of herbivores imply that I. baltica is not deterred by the total quantity of phlorotannins; there may, however, be other, as yet unknown, rapidly induc- ing substances in F. vesiculosus that are capable of functioning as feeding deterrents to isopod graz- ers. Resistance may also arise as a side-effect of substances with a functional role, for instance in wound-healing processes. The localized nature and short duration of such deterrence imply that it may be inefficient as a general defense against herbivory, but may benefit the alga by dispersing future damage within the individual and avoiding the breakage of whole fronds.
Las FARC y el Gobierno colombiano en el discurso periodístico de la prensa española. Una aproximación desde el ACD

This paper seeks to analyze the headlines of the Spanish newspaper El Pais, through the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). In this sense, the text is developed from some theoretical assumptions made by the Dutchman, Teun van Dijk. The discourse produced by this mass media newspaper in the context of the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC proves of great interest in the identification of the treatment that the media give to this process and also in the observation of how discourse intervenes in the process of projection and enunciation of a global phenomenon whose main actor is Colombia. Thus, this study will be carried out through the analysis of the macrostructure of the discourse, specifically on a semantic level, and in which, global coherence and local coherence will be studied with the microstructures of meaning.