Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Performance, Carcass Quality and Fatty Acid Profile of Crossbred Wagyu Beef Steers Receiving Palm and/or Linseed Oil

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of palm and/or linseed oil (LSO) supplementation on carcass quality, sensory evaluation and fatty acid profile of beef from crossbred Wagyu beef steers. Twenty four fattening Wagyu crossbred beef steers (50% Wagyu), averaging 640±18 kg live weight (LW) and approximately 30 mo old, were stratified and randomly assigned in completely randomized design into 3 treatment groups. All steers were fed approximately 7 kg/d of 14% crude protein concentrate with ad libitum rice straw and had free access to clean water and were individually housed in a free-stall unit. The treatments were i) control concentrate plus 200 g/d of palm oil; ii) control concentrate plus 100 g/d of palm oil and 100 g/d of LSO, iii) control concentrate plus 200 g/d of LSO. This present study demonstrated that supplementation of LSO rich in C18:3n-3 did not influence feed intakes, LW changes, carcass and muscle characteristics, sensory and physical properties. LSO increased C18:3n-3, C22:6n-3, and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), however, it decreased C18:1t-11, C18:2n-6, cis-9, trans-11, and trans-10,cis-12 conjugated linoleic acids, n-6 PUFA and n-6:n-3 ratio in Longissimus dorsi and Semimembranosus muscles.
On-demand Query Processing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are designed for "a special purpose'', usually supporting some special functions, such as sensing environments, providing services. However, the traditional model of service accessing, such as the server/client model, can not be directly applied to MANETs, as the node, running the server, providing services, may be multi-hop distant, even mobile and thus unreachable from the client. This paper proposes a novel approach, by which a node can query other nodes by using the standard set of SQL (Structured Query Language) functions, which is the foundation of mobile databases. Analysis and simulation demonstrate that there is a tradeoff between the communication overhead and the query accuracy, which should be carefully weighed in the real network environment.
PRIS at TAC 2009: Experiments in KBP Track

This paper describes BUPT (pris) participation in entity linking task and slot filling task. The system adopts a two-stage strategy in entity linking task and slot filling task. In the first stage, the system carries out a basic topic relevance retrieval to get top k documents for each query. In the second stage, cross-document coreference resolution is based on automatic text summary and automatic entity relation extraction is based on CRFs.
Genome-Wide Identification and Mapping of NBS-Encoding Resistance Genes in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja

The majority of disease resistance (R) genes identified to date in plants encode a nucleotide-binding site (NBS) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain containing protein. Additional domains such as coiled-coil (CC) and TOLL/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains can also be present. In the recently sequenced Solanum tuberosum group phureja genome we used HMM models and manual curation to annotate 435 NBS-encoding R gene homologs and 142 NBS-derived genes that lack the NBS domain. Highly similar homologs for most previously documented Solanaceae R genes were identified. A surprising ∼41% (179) of the 435 NBS-encoding genes are pseudogenes primarily caused by premature stop codons or frameshift mutations. Alignment of 81.80% of the 577 homologs to S. tuberosum group phureja pseudomolecules revealed non-random distribution of the R-genes; 362 of 470 genes were found in high density clusters on 11 chromosomes.
Uplink Channel Allocation Scheme and QoS Management Mechanism for Cognitive Cellular-Femtocell Networks

Cognitive radio and femtocell are promising technologies which can satisfy the requirements of future mobile communications in terms of dynamic spectrum sharing and high user density areas. Providing quality-of-service (QoS) guaranteed realtime services is challenging issue of future cognitive cellular-femtocell mobile networks. In this paper, we introduce a user’s QoS management mechanism used to protect SINR of macro users from QoS violation caused by femtocell users. We design a novel uplink channel allocation scheme (denoted as “flexible scheme”) for real-time connections. The scheme uses the information of interference level and channel occupancy collected at cognitive femtocell access points and their covering macro base station (MBS) and apply relevant selection criteria to select an appropriate channel which causes the minimums interference to macro users of the covering MBS. Performance results prove that comparing with femtocell-access-point (FAP)-based and MBS-based uplink channel allocation schemes, the novel “flexible scheme” can provide lower unsuccessful probability of new connection requests.
Little geographic or host plant genetic variation in a Chionochloa (Poaceae) seed predator (Cecidomyiidae: undescribed species)

The grass genus Chionochloa in New Zealand exhibits a high degree of mast seeding synchronised across species and habitats. Masting appears to be maintained by a predator satiation mechanism involving three pre-dispersal seed- and flower-feeding insects. It is not clear how important each of the three insects is in favouring the masting strategy. An undescribed cecidomyiid fly (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) may be particularly important, since its conspicuous larvae are found throughout the South Island of New Zealand on many Chinochloa species. Despite the wide distribution of the larvae, it is not clear whether they are conspecific. Since the species is undescribed and adults are rarely seen, there may be different species on different host plants or in different geographic areas. We used Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSRs) to determine whether cecidomyiid larvae found in four different areas in the South Island and on four species of Chionochloa exhibited molecular variation consistent with the presence of a single species of fly. Cluster analysis using Unweighted Pair-Group Method using Arithmetic averages (UPGMA) based on 38 ISSR fragments showed no clusters based on either host plant or geography. Analyis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) analyses showed statistically significant differentiation among both host populations and geographic populations, but most of the molecular variation was explained by individual variation within geographic regions and host-plant populations. Thus, the molecular variation in the cecidomyiid larvae suggests the presence of a single species of cecidomyiid. Our data, combined with previous population surveys, suggest that the cecidomyiid is the most widespread of Chionochloa seed predators and may provide the selective benefit for the synchronous flowering observed among different Chionochloa populations in New Zealand.
Autonomous Control of Interlinking Converter With Energy Storage in Hybrid AC–DC Microgrid

The coexistence of ac and dc subgrids in a hybrid microgrid is likely given that modern distributed sources can either be ac or dc. Linking these subgrids is a power converter, whose topology should preferably be not too unconventional. This is to avoid unnecessary compromises to reliability, simplicity, and industry relevance of the converter. The desired operating features of the hybrid microgrid can then be added through this interlinking converter. To demonstrate, an appropriate control scheme is now developed for controlling the interlinking converter. The objective is to keep the hybrid microgrid in autonomous operation with active power proportionally shared among its distributed sources. Power sharing here should depend only on the source ratings and not their placements within the hybrid microgrid. The proposed scheme can also be extended to include energy storage within the interlinking converter, as already proven in simulation and experiment. These findings have not been previously discussed in the literature, where existing schemes are mostly for an ac or a dc microgrid, but not both in coexistence.
SHORT-TERM WIND POWER AND SPEED FORECASTING USING SIMULTANEOUS PERTURBATION STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM

Wind energy is one of the most rapidly growing sources of electricity generation allover the world. However, operation of wind power becomes challenging because of its intermittent characteristics. Therefore, accurate wind power forecasting is essential for the sake of economic operation. This paper presents a novel technique for short-term wind power and wind speed forecasting (1 hour ahead) using a multi-layer feed-forward neural network (MFNN). The correlation coefficients and nondirectional t-test are used first to identify significant parameters for training MFNN. Then, a simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) algorithm is used to train the MFNN. A set of realistic wind power and wind speed measured in a wind farm was used for simulation. Comparative studies between SPSA and back-propagation algorithm are shown.
SEX DIFFERENCES IN CORTISOL LEVELS 1 Sex Differences in Cortisol Levels Hunter McGraw, Psychology Mentor: Dr. Michelle Arnhold, Biology University of Wisconsin-Superior McNair Scholars Program SEX DIFFERENCES IN CORTISOL LEVELS

Any situation that upsets an organism’s homeostasis is considered to be a stressor. This study focused on the differences present in salivary cortisol preand post-exercise and discusses any differences between males and females. By comparing the cortisol before and after a stressor, one is able to see if males and females handle and respond to stress differently. 10 males and 10 females participated in a 30 minute run at their choice of intensity. Heart rate and saliva samples were taken preand post-exercise. An enzyme-immunoassay (EIA) (Salmetrics) was used to analyze the cortisol concentrations within the saliva samples and averages for both the concentrations and heart rates were determined using standard methods. Heart rate post-exercise was significantly higher than pre-exercise heart rate in both males and females. The cortisol data showed a significant difference in males pre-exercise and females pre-exercise where the females had a higher salivary cortisol concentration. This study provided future stepping stones in understanding the differences between male and female stress responses.
Commissions 27 and 42 of the Iau Information Bulletin on Variable Stars Spectroscopic Binaries in the Open Cluster Trumpler 16 Revisited

The open cluster Trumpler 16 is near the Carina nebulae (NGC 3372). There is a large amount of literature on the clusters in this region. The spectral morphology of members of Trumpler 16 has been studied by Levato & Malaroda (1982) and references therein. The cluster distance has been determined using different methods, and there is an agreement around 3.5 Kpc. This value is obviously dependeds on the interstellar absorption which may be abnormal for this cluster. Trumpler 16 is a rich cluster with a large variety of objects like WR stars, O3 stars, spectroscopic binaries and the singular η Carinae. The age estimated for Trumpler 16 is aproximately 10 7 years (Massey & Johnson, 1993). The study of spectroscopic binary systems is needed in order to tackle one of the most classic problems in astronomy namely the stellar mass determination. A good knowledge of mass for individual stars allows its calibration with other stellar parameters which are most easily observable, and also permits to test current stellar evolution theories. Spectroscopic binaries in open clusters are important in yet another context. It has been proposed that the average projected rotational velocity of the stars in an open cluster depends on its content of close spectroscopic binaries and magnetic chemically peculiar stars (Abt & Sanders, 1973). Both tidal and magnetic braking are responsible for reducing the axial rotation. (Levato et al, 1987; Abt et al. 1973) We used the Jorge Sahade-2. on the blue wavelength region were recorded on a TEK1024 CCD and the one pixel resolution is 0. 14Å. The usual flat-fields and bias frames were obtained each night and the wavelength calibration was done using a Th-Ar lamp. The reduction was made with the standard procedure, using IRAF 1 We have selected five stars for this project, probable members of Trumpler 16, from Levato et al. (1991). Three of them were chosen because the number of observations in their radial velocity curves was smaller than ten, and the other two because the authors considered them as radial velocity variables. To derive the radial velocities we have measured the Doppler shifts of
Successive Overrelaxation for Support Vector Regression

Abstract: Training a SVR (support vector regression) requires the solution of a very large QP (quadratic programming) optimization problem. Despite the fact that this type of problem is well understood, the existing training algorithms are very complex and slow. In order to solve these problems, this paper firstly introduces a new way to make SVR have the similar mathematic form as that of a support vector machine. Then a versatile iterative method, successive overrelaxation, is proposed. Experimental results show that this new method converges considerably faster than other methods that require the presence of a substantial amount of data in memory. The results give guidelines for the application of this method to large domains.
Multichannel Sampling and Reconstruction of Bandlimited Signals in Fractional Fourier Domain

The classical multichannel sampling theorem for common bandlimited signals has been extended differently to fractional bandlimited signals associated with the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT). However, the implementation of those existing extensions is inefficient because of the effect of spectral leakage and hardware complexity. The purpose of this letter is to introduce a practical multichannel sampling theorem for fractional bandlimited signals. The theorem which is constructed by the ordinary convolution in the time domain can reduce the effect of spectral leakage and is easy to implement. The classical multichannel sampling theorem and the well-known sampling theorem for the FRFT are shown to be special cases of it. Some potential applications of this theorem are also presented. The validity of the theoretical derivations is demonstrated via simulations.
Evaluation of multiple choice questions using item analysis tool: a study from a medical institute of Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Background: Multiple choice question (MCQ) assessments are becoming popular means to assess knowledge for many screening examinations among several fields including Medicine. The single best answer MCQs may also test higher-order thinking skills. Hence, MCQs remain useful assessment gadget. Objectives: 1) To evaluate Multiple Choice Questions for testing their quality. 2) To explore the association between difficulty index (p-value) and discrimination indices (DI) with distractor efficiency (DE). 3) To study the occurrence of functioning distractors for MCQs. Methods: Total five MCQ test sessions were conducted among interns of a medical institute of Ahmedabad city Gujarat, between April 2016 to March 2017, as part of their compulsory rotating postings in the department. The average participation in each of the sessions was 17 interns, thus a total of 85 interns getting enrolled. For each test session, the questionnaire consisted of forty MCQs having 4 options including a single best answer. The MCQs were analyzed for difficulty index (DIF-I, p-value), discrimination index (DI), and distractor efficiency (DE). Results: Total 85 interns attended the tests consisting of total 200 MCQ items (questions) from four major medical disciplines namely - Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Community Medicine. Mean test scores of each test ranged from 36.0% to 45.8%. The reliability of the tests, the Kuder Richardson (KR) 20, ranged from 0.29 to 0.52. The standard error of Measurement ranged from 2.59 to 2.79. Out of total 200 MCQs, seventy nine (n=79) had Discrimination index (DI) <0.15 (poor), and 61 had DI ≥0.35 (excellent). Easy items having average DE of all tests was 20.1%. Conclusions: Items having average difficulty and high discrimination with functioning distractors should be incorporated into tests to improve the validity of the assessment.
Increased Systemic Th17 Cytokines Are Associated with Diastolic Dysfunction in Children and Adolescents with Diabetic Ketoacidosis

Diastolic dysfunction suggestive of diabetic cardiomyopathy is established in children with T1DM, but its pathogenesis is not well understood. We studied the relationships of systemic inflammatory cytokines/chemokines and cardiac function in 17 children with T1DM during and after correction of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Twenty seven of the 39 measured cytokines/chemokines were elevated at 6–12 hours into treatment of DKA compared to values after DKA resolution. Eight patients displayed at least one parameter of diastolic abnormality (DA) during acute DKA. Significant associations were present between nine of the cytokine/chemokine levels and the DA over time. Interestingly, four of these nine interactive cytokines (GM-CSF, G-CSF, IL-12p40, IL-17) are associated with a Th17 mediated cell response. Both the DA and CCL7 and IL-12p40, had independent associations with African American patients. Thus, we report occurrence of a systemic inflammatory response and the presence of cardiac diastolic dysfunction in a subset of young T1DM patients during acute DKA.
MRI–ultrasound fusion for guidance of targeted prostate biopsy

Purpose of reviewProstate cancer (CaP) may be detected on MRI. Fusion of MRI with ultrasound allows urologists to progress from blind, systematic biopsies to biopsies, which are mapped, targeted and tracked. We herein review the current status of prostate biopsy via MRI/ultrasound fusion. Recent findingsThree methods of fusing MRI for targeted biopsy have been recently described: MRI–ultrasound fusion, MRI–MRI fusion (‘in-bore’ biopsy) and cognitive fusion. Supportive data are emerging for the fusion devices, two of which received US Food and Drug Administration approval in the past 5 years: Artemis (Eigen, USA) and Urostation (Koelis, France). Working with the Artemis device in more than 600 individuals, we found that targeted biopsies are two to three times more sensitive for detection of CaP than nontargeted systematic biopsies; nearly 40% of men with Gleason score of at least 7 CaP are diagnosed only by targeted biopsy; nearly 100% of men with highly suspicious MRI lesions are diagnosed with CaP; ability to return to a prior biopsy site is highly accurate (within 1.2 ± 1.1 mm); and targeted and systematic biopsies are twice as accurate as systematic biopsies alone in predicting whole-organ disease. SummaryIn the future, MRI–ultrasound fusion for lesion targeting is likely to result in fewer and more accurate prostate biopsies than the present use of systematic biopsies with ultrasound guidance alone.
Ieee Computer Graphics and Applications 37 Nonrigid-deformation Recovery for 3d Face Recognition Using Multiscale Registration

F ace recognition is highly preferable to other biometrics for many applications, including surveillance, access control, and machine-human interaction, mainly because it's nonintru-sive. However, traditional 2D recognition systems don't work well when handling variations in pose, light conditions, and expression. For face recognition to achieve high accuracy, it must employ different capture modalities. With the development of scanning technology, acquisition of 3D shapes is becoming more accurate and less intrusive. This allows for low-cost 3D facial recognition by measuring the face's geometry. This method can potentially overcome traditional meth-ods' sensitivity to pose and illumination. Even though matching local regions on faces can achieve good performance under certain conditions , 1,2 we believe that using global features is promising because it can handle more characteristics. Our method relies on nonrigid deformation, an important global feature, to differentiate inter-personal disparities. We divide face recognition into two phases: enrollment and authentication. 3 Using a reference model, all faces register their deformations. During authentication, our method directly compares the deformations retrieved from the database with the scanned faces, using a distance metric (see Figure 1). (For a look at other methods for deformation extraction, see the sidebar.) We propose a novel way to find the mapping between two shapes. Our method involves an extended tool you can use for point-set correspondence and nonrigid-deformation extraction. To increase accuracy, it employs a multiscale approach incorporating manifold harmonics, a variation of spectral-geometry analysis.
A dual-band RF transceiver for multistandard WLAN applications

A new dual-band RF transceiver is presented for 2.4- and 5.2-GHz multistandard wireless local area networks. The proposed dual-band RF transceiver integrates a concurrent dual-band front-end, a triple-band frequency synthesizer, and a band-sharing in-phase/quadrature modulator/demodulator to maximize component and power reuse. The design is started with the examination of an enhanced dual-band heterodyne architecture and then the optimal circuit partition to satisfy the multistandard requirements. Key dual-band circuits are designed and integrated with other building blocks for experimental demonstration. The measurement shows that eight 5-GHz channels and 13 2.4-GHz channels can be synthesized within 130 /spl mu/s with phase noise less than -98 dBc/Hz at 100-kHz off carrier and spur suppression greater than -65 dBc. The transmitted P/sub 1 dB/ power is 25/20 dBm at 2.4/5.2 GHz, respectively, with the modulation accuracy error-vector magnitude (EVM) values varying from 3.57% to 7.19%. The receiver gain is 20/31 dB at 2.4/5.2 GHz front-end and 70 dB at IF back-end with EVM within 2.32% to 10% from -70- to -17-dBm received power range.