Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE OF NONLETHAL EFFECTS OF A PREDATOR ON PREY GROWTH

Predators can have a large influence on their prey through induced changes in prey phenotype. Such “nonlethal” predator effects have been abundantly demonstrated empirically in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. But the extent to which changes in species traits alter short-term responses such as growth rate or probability of survival is not clear. Here we develop models to examine the nonlethal effects of predators on prey growth. Our analyses illustrate how the nonlethal effects of predators on individual prey growth depend on environmental context; e.g., factors such as focal species density, competitor density, resource dynamics, and the timescale over which the interactions occur. This context dependence arises because of complex interactions of three mechanisms; (1) the direct negative effect of induced reduction in foraging rates, which is opposed by (2) the potential positive effects of reductions in intra- and interspecific competition, and (3) resource responses to reduced foraging. We present new empirical work, and review previous work, on larval-anuran growth that is in general support of model predictions. The framework presented here can serve to facilitate the design and interpretation of experimental results and predict how the nonlethal predator effect on prey growth in natural systems will vary over time and space.
MASKKOT: A Tool for Annotating Entities through the OKKAM Service

The Semantic Web is facing the important challenge to maintain its promise of a real world-wide graph of interconnected resources. Unfortunately, while URIs almost guarantee a direct reference to entities, the relation between the two is not bijective. Many different URI references to same concepts and entities can arise when - in such a heterogeneous setting as the WWW - people independently build new ontologies, or populate shared ones with new arbitrarily identified individuals. The proliferation of URIs is an unwanted, though natural effect strictly bound to the same principles which characterize the Semantic Web; reducing this phenomenon will improve the recall of Semantic Search engines, which could rely on explicit links between heterogeneous information sources. To address this problem, in this paper we present an integrated environment combining the semantic annotation and ontology building features available in the Semantic Turkey web browser extension, with globally unique identifiers for entities provided by the okkam Entity Name System, thus realizing a valuable resource for preventing diffusion of multiple URIs on the (Semantic) Web.
Vibration and buckling analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates with improved transverse shear stiffness based on the first-order shear deformation theory

An improved transverse shear stiffness for vibration and buckling analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates based on the first-order shear deformation theory is proposed in this paper. The transverse shear stress obtained from the in-plane stress and equilibrium equation allows to analytically derive an improved transverse shear stiffness and associated shear correction factor of the functionally graded sandwich plate. Sandwich plates with functionally graded faces and both homogeneous hardcore and softcore are considered. The material property is assumed to be isotropic at each point and vary through the plate thickness according to a power-law distribution of the volume fraction of the constituents. Equations of motion and boundary conditions are derived from Hamilton’s principle. The Navier-type solutions are obtained for simply supported boundary conditions, and exact formulae are proposed and compared with the existing solutions to verify the validity of the developed model. Numerical results are obtained for simply supported functionally graded sandwich plates made of three sets of material combinations of metal and ceramic, Al/Al2O3, Al/SiC and Al/WC to investigate the effects of the power-law index, thickness ratio of layer, material contrast on the shear correction factors, natural frequencies and critical buckling loads as well as load–frequency curves.
Supervised classification for object identification in urban areas using satellite imagery

This paper presents a useful method to achieve classification in satellite imagery. The approach is based on pixel level study employing various features such as correlation, homogeneity, energy and contrast. In this study gray-scale images are used for training the classification model. For supervised classification, two classification techniques are employed namely the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and the Naïve Bayes. With textural features used for gray-scale images, Naïve Bayes performs better with an overall accuracy of 76% compared to 68% achieved by SVM. The computational time is evaluated while performing the experiment with two different window sizes i.e., 50 × 50 and 70 × 70. The required computational time on a single image is found to be 27 seconds for a window size of 70 × 70 and 45 seconds for a window size of 50 × 50.
mpact of the construction of a large dam on riparian vegetation cover t different elevation zones as observed from remotely sensed data

The impact of the construction of a large dam on riparian vegetation cover can be multifold. How the riparian vegetation cover changes at different elevation zones in response to the construction of a large dam and the subsequent impound of reservoir water is still an open question. In this study, we used satellite remote sensing data integrated with geographic information system (GIS) to monitor vegetation cover change at different riparian elevation zones on a large spatial scale, taking the Three Gorges Dam in China as an example. Due to the large scale of this newly formed reservoir, it is expected to impact the riparian vegetation canopy both directly and indirectly. We chose to monitor vegetation cover changes along the 100 km riparian stretch of river directly upstream of the Three Gorges Dam site, over the construction period of eleven years (2000–2010), using MODIS vegetation indices products, digital elevation model (DEM) data from ASTER, and the time series water level data of the Three Gorges reservoir as the data sources. Results show that non-vegetated area increased in the inundated zone (below 175 m), as expected; area of densely vegetated land cover increased within the elevation zone of 175–775 m and no change in vegetation cover was observed above 775 m in elevation. Regression analysis between the vegetation index data and the reservoir water level shows that increasing water levels have had a negative impact on vegetation cover below 175 m, a positive impact on vegetation cover is limited to the region between 175 and 775 m, and no significant impact was observed above 775 m. MODIS EVI product is less sensitive in mapping non-vegetated land cover change, but more sensitive in mapping vegetated land cover change, caused by the reservoir water level variation; both products are similar in effectively tracking a trend between land cover change in each elevation zone with time or with reservoir water
The Consecutive Interpreting Approach and Its Effects on L2 Written Reproduction

In 2009, the new Course of Study for senior high schools was announced by the MEXT for implementation in April 2013. It declares that English classes should be conducted in English by integrating four key linguistic areas. The aim of the present study was to examine how verbal practices based on the Consecutive Interpreting Approach, the basis of which is comprised of shadowing and reproduction, had an effect on L2 written reproduction. The approach was used with 105 students for 14 weeks. Written reproduction activities and their results were then examined. A quantitative analysis revealed that 96 students succeeded in accurately writing out 82.33% of the text consisting of 167 words. Also, the mean value for class satisfaction reached 3.80 out of 4.00. The suggestions made within this study should therefore assist in developing a new instruction method that conforms to the new Course of Study.
Di ff erentiation of Short , Single-Stranded DNA Homopolymers in Solid-State Nanopores

Kimberly Venta, ) Gabriel Shemer, ) Matthew Puster, Julio A. Rodrı́guez-Manzo, Adrian Balan, Jacob K. Rosenstein, Ken Shepard, and Marija Drndi c* Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States, and School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States. K. Venta and G. Shemer contributed equally to this work.
The SAFETY Program: A Treatment-Development Trial of a Cognitive-Behavioral Family Treatment for Adolescent Suicide Attempters

The purpose of this article is to describe feasibility, safety, and outcome results from a treatment development trial of the SAFETY Program, a brief intervention designed for integration with emergency services for suicide-attempting youths. Suicide-attempting youths, ages 11 to 18, were enrolled in a 12-week trial of the SAFETY Program, a cognitive-behavioral family intervention designed to increase safety and reduce suicide attempt (SA) risk (N = 35). Rooted in a social-ecological cognitive-behavioral model, treatment sessions included individual youth and parent session-components, with different therapists assigned to youths and parents, and family session-components to practice skills identified as critical in the pathway for preventing repeat SAs in individual youths. Outcomes were evaluated at baseline, 3-month, and 6-month follow-ups. At the 3-month posttreatment assessment, there were statistically significant improvements on measures of suicidal behavior, hopelessness, youth and parent depression, and youth social adjustment. There was one reported SA by 3 months and another by 6 months, yielding cumulative attempt rates of 3% and 6% at 3 and 6 months, respectively. Treatment satisfaction was high. Suicide-attempting youths are at high risk for repeat attempts and continuing mental health problems. Results support the value of a randomized controlled trial to further evaluate the SAFETY intervention. Extension of treatment effects to parent depression and youth social adjustment are consistent with our strong family focus and social-ecological model of behavior change.
Transcription and Characterization Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from a Normalized Full-Length cDNA Library of Loquat Fruit at Different Developmental Stages

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) fruit is popular for its delicious taste, rich nutrients and medical value. But the available genome resources on loquat fruit development and ripening are very limited presently. In this study, an improved normalized full-length cDNA library construction method was established mainly by the duplex-specific nuclease (DSN) normalization strategy and the SMART Kit. Sequencing results from randomly 8972 Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) in loquat fruit cDNA library revealed 7451 unigenes with 70.3% non-redundancy rate and an average length 1.1 kb. Further, 2896 unigenes with potential full-length cDNAs were functionally classified and annotated by Gene Ontology (GO). Besides, some significant functional genes related to loquat fruit development and ripening were characterized and analyzed their expression patterns including three ethylene receptors (EjETR 1-3) and one ethylene transcription factor (EjETF), six cell wall expansin genes (EjEXPA 1-6) and the three key enzyme genes of carbohydrate metabolism (SS-S, SS-C, SPS). The establishment of normalized cDNA library with high ratio full-Length unigenes will make great contribution in discovering novel genes resource and promoting fruit quality improvement genetic engineering and molecular breeding of loquat. © 2018 Friends Science Publishers
CARBON–NITROGEN–OXYGEN “BREAKOUT” AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN CLASSICAL NOVAE

For very slow white dwarf accretors in cataclysmic variables, Townsley & Bildsten found a relation between the accretion rate and the central temperature Tc of the white dwarf. According to this relation, for less than 10−10 M☉ yr−1, Tc is much lower than 107 K. Motivated by this study, we follow the thermonuclear runaway on massive white dwarfs (MWD = 1.25–1.40 M☉) with Tc lower than 107 K, accreting matter of solar composition. We demonstrate that in this range of the relevant parameter space (Tc, MWD, and ), the slope of the relation between the peak temperatures achieved during the runaway and Tc becomes much steeper than its value for Tc above 107 K. The peak temperatures we derive can lead to nuclear breakout from the conventional “hot carbon–nitrogen–oxygen” cycle. When breakout conditions are achieved the heavy-element abundances can show a much wider variety than what is possible with the common enrichment mechanisms.
An area law for one-dimensional quantum systems

We prove an area law for the entanglement entropy in gapped one-dimensional quantum systems. The bound on the entropy grows surprisingly rapidly with the correlation length; we discuss this in terms of properties of quantum expanders and present a conjecture on matrix product states which may provide an alternate way of arriving at an area law. We also show that, for gapped, local systems, the bound on Von Neumann entropy implies a bound on Rényi entropy for sufficiently large α<1 and implies the ability to approximate the ground state by a matrix product state.
Learning to Search for Datasets

Over the years, search engines have developed to return a broad range of retrievable items, from documents to answers, people, locations, and products. Research datasets are increasingly being turned in retrievable items too. This raises a number of interesting challenges. Starting from the user end (What do users want from datasets) to increasing the retrievability of datasets (What kind of contextual information is available to enrich datasets so as to make the more easily retrieval) to optimizing rankers for datasets in the absence of large volumes of interaction data (How can we train learning to rank datasets algorithms in weakly supervised ways).
MILE TTS for Tamil and Kannada for blizzard challenge 2013

We participated in the Blizzard Challenge 2013 for Tamil and Kannada, using our unit selection based concatenative speech synthesis system. Sentence level viterbi search is used to select the reliable speech units among a set of candidate units. The same Text-to-Speech synthesis framework is used to synthesize speech in both the Indian languages. The given Wikipedia and semantically unpredictable test sentences are synthesized using IIIT-H Indic corpus and the listening test results reported by the blizzard evaluation team is discussed. The letter code for MILE TTS is “R”.
Ischemia Reperfusion Injury of Kidney-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Renal Phenotypic and Functional Characterization

J. Soloski and Hamid RabbMiguel Ascon, Vladimir Savransky, Robert B. Colvin, Mark Dolores B. Ascon, Sergio Lopez-Briones, Manchang Liu,http://www.jimmunol.org/content/177/5/3380J Immunol€2006; 177:3380-3387; ;Referenceshttp://www.jimmunol.org/content/177/5/3380.full#ref-list-1This article cites 35 articles, 7 of which you can access for free at: Subscriptionshttp://jimmunol.org/subscriptionsInformation about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: Permissionshttp://www.aai. org/ji/copyright.htmlSubmit copyright permission requests at: Email Alertshttp://jimmunol.org/cgi/alerts/etocReceive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at:
The Natural Host Range Shift and Subsequent Evolution of Canine Parvovirus Resulted from Virus-Specific Binding to the Canine Transferrin Receptor

ABSTRACT Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a host range variant of a feline virus that acquired the ability to infect dogs through changes in its capsid protein. Canine and feline viruses both use the feline transferrin receptor (TfR) to infect feline cells, and here we show that CPV infects canine cells through its ability to specifically bind the canine TfR. Receptor binding on host cells at 37°C only partially correlated with the host ranges of the viruses, and an intermediate virus strain (CPV type 2) bound to higher levels on cells than did either the feline panleukopenia virus or a later strain of CPV. During the process of adaptation to dogs the later variant strain of CPV gained the ability to more efficiently use the canine TfR for infection and also showed reduced binding to feline and canine cells compared to CPV type 2. Differences on the top and the side of the threefold spike of the capsid surface controlled specific TfR binding and the efficiency of binding to feline and canine cells, and these differences also determined the cell infection properties of the viruses.
TIRADS score is of limited clinical value for risk stratification of indeterminate cytological results.

CONTEXT Thyroid nodules with cytological indeterminate results represent a daily and recurrent issue for patient management. OBJECTIVE The primary aim of our study was to determine if TIRADS (Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System) could be used to stratify the malignancy risk of these nodules and to help in their clinical management. Secondary objective was to estimate if this risk stratification would change after reclassification of encapsulated non-invasive follicular variant of papillary carcinomas (FVPTC) as non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm (NIFTP). PATIENTS AND METHODS Single-center retrospective study of a cohort of 602 patients who were referred for ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration from January 2010 to December 2016 with an indeterminate cytological result and in whom histological results after surgery were available. TIRADS score was prospectively determined for all patients included. Nodules that had been classified as FVPTC were submitted to a rereading of histological report and reclassified as NIFTP when judged relevant. A table of malignancy risk crossing Bethesda and TIRADS results was built before and after this reclassification. RESULTS The study included 602 cytologically indeterminate nodules. TIRADS score was positively correlated with the malignancy rate (P < 0.0001). Risk stratification with TIRADS was significant only in Bethesda V nodules (P = 0.0004). However, the risk of malignancy in this Bethesda V category was always above 45%, whatever the TIRADS score. CONCLUSION For a clinician facing an indeterminate cytological result for a thyroid nodule, return to TIRADS score is of limited value in most conditions to rule in or rule out malignancy and to guide subsequent management of patients.
Dual-Branch MRC Receivers in the Cellular Downlink under Spatial Interference Correlation

Although maximal-ratio combining (MRC) has be- come a widespread diversity-combining technique, its perfor- mance under interference is still not very well understood. Since the interference received at each antenna originates from the same set of interferers, but partially de-correlates over the fading channel, it exhibits a complicated correlation structure across antennas. Using tools from stochastic geometry, this work develops a realistic analysis capturing the interference correlation effects for dual-branch MRC receivers in a downlink cellular system. Modeling the base station locations by a Poisson point process, the probability of a typical dual-branch MRC receiver being covered by its serving base station is derived. For the interference-limited case, this result can be further simplified to an easy-to-use single-integral expression. Using this result, it is shown that ignoring interference correlation overestimates the true performance by 3%-10%, while assuming identical interference levels across antennas underestimates it by <2%. In both cases, however, the true diversity order of dual-branch MRC is preserved. Finally, the performance of MRC and selection combining under spatial interference correlation is compared. Index Terms—Multi-antenna receivers, maximal-ratio combin- ing, interference correlation, Poisson point process.
RELAXATION OF FLUID SYSTEMS

We propose a relaxation framework for general fluid models which can be understood as a natural extension of the Suliciu approach in the Euler setting. In particular, the relaxation system may be totally degenerate. Several stability properties are proved. The relaxation procedure is shown to be efficient in the numerical approximation of the entropy weak solutions of the original PDEs. The numerical method is particularly simple in the case of a fully degenerate relaxation system for which the solution of the Riemann problem is explicit. Indeed, the Godunov solver for the homogeneous relaxation system results in an HLLC-type solver for the equilibrium model. Discrete entropy inequalities are established under a natural Gibbs principle.
A Concurrent Dual-Band and Dual-Mode Frequency Synthesizer for Radar Systems

A simultaneous dual-band dual-waveform frequency synthesizer suitable for radar applications is presented. By using a K-band integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) in conjunction with a W-band frequency modulation loop, a K-band sinusoidal carrier and W-band frequency-modulated continuous-wave frequency chirp can be generated concurrently. Due to the single PLL architecture for dual-band signal generation, additional loop filter, phase frequency detector, and dividers are no longer required for reduced chip area and power consumption. Fabricated in a 90-nm CMOS process, the proposed circuit occupies an area of 1.26 mm $\times1.675$ mm and consumes a dc power of 67 mW from a supply voltage of 1.2 V.
Contrast Study of Treating Schizophrenia by Ziprasidong and Risperidone

Objective To explore domestic Ziprasidone treatment on schizophrenia and the side effects.Methods Total 60 cases of patients with schizophrenia were randomly divided into Ziprasidone group(30 cases) and Risperidone group(30 cases). Carries on the clinical check experiment,Two groups of medicines therapeutic dose respectively is 80~160mg/d and 3~6mg/d,the treatment course is 8 weeks.Indicators include the effect of positive and negative symptom scale(PANSS) and overall clinical impression scale(CGI),adverse reactions indicators for adverse reactions Symptom Rating Scale(TESS) and the laboratory.Results At the end of treatment,both groups PANSS score in the group,were significantly reduced(P0.01). By PANSS total points: Ziprasidone group(52.6±10.2%),Risperidone group(71.8±11.6)%;The total efficiency: Ziprasidone group 73.3%,91.7% of Risperidone group,Two groups of the difference was significant(P0.05). Ziprasidone and Risperidone groups haue no significant difference in the overall adverse reactions,but there are similarities and differences between the performance of adverse reactions.Conclusion Domestic Ziprasidone treatment of schizophrenia is an effective,safe drugs,Although less effect on Risperidone,but adverse reaction and Risperidone have different performance,with the choice of medication and individual treatment guide.
125 μm-cladding 2LP-mode and 4-core Multi-core Fibre with Air-hole Structure for Low Crosstalk in C+L Band

We realized a 125 μm-cladding 4-core fibre that supports 2LP mode in the C+L band. A low crosstalk characteristic of −30 dB/100km and the 12 spatial channels were realized simultaneously by intentionally constructing four-air-holes using an over-cladding bundled rod technique.