Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The mitochondrial genome of Nobia grandis Sowerby, 1839 (Cirripedia: Sessilia): the first report from the coral-inhabiting barnacles family Pyrgomatidae

Abstract This work presents the coral-inhabiting barnacle Nobia grandis Sowerby, 1839 complete mitochondrial genome, which is the first report from the family Pyrgomatidae (Cirripedia: Sessilia). The N. grandis mitochondrial genome is 15,032 bp in length, containing a total of 469 bp of non-coding nucleotides spreading in 11 intergenic regions (with the largest region of 376 bp). Compared with the pancrustacean ground pattern, there are not less than seven tRNAs rearranged in the N. grandis mitochondrial genome. Gene overlaps are founded in eight places. Nine PCGs (COX1-3, ATP6, ATP8, CYTB, ND2, ND3 and ND6) are encoded on the heavy strand while the remaining 4 PCGs and the two rRNAs are located on the light strand. As the first representative from the family Pyrgomatidae, the N. grandis mitochondrial genome will help us to explore the evolutionary history and molecular evolution of coral barnacles and Sessilia in future studies.
Behavioral / Systems / Cognitive Functional Organization of Visual Cortex in the Owl Monkey

Xiangmin Xu,1 William Bosking,2 Gyula Sáry,3,4 James Stefansic,1 Daniel Shima,1 and Vivien Casagrande1,3 1Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2175, 2Division of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, 3Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 372322175, and 4Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, H-6720
How Hierarchical Control Self-organizes in Artificial Adaptive Systems

Diverse, complex, and adaptive animal behaviors are achieved by organizing hierarchically structured controllers in motor systems. The levels of control progress from simple spinal reflexes and central pattern generators through to executive cognitive control in the frontal cortex. Various types of hierarchical control structures have been introduced and shown to be effective in past artificial agent models, but few studies have shown how such structures can self-organize. This study describes how such hierarchical control may evolve in a simple recurrent neural network model implemented in a mobile robot. Topological constraints on information flow are found to improve system performance by decreasing interference between different parts of the network. One part becomes responsible for generating lower behavior primitives while another part evolves top-down sequencing of the primitives for achieving global goals. Fast and slow neuronal response dynamics are automatically generated in specific neurons of the lower and the higher levels, respectively. A hierarchical neural network is shown to outperform a comparable single-level network in controlling a mobile robot.
SCM-Based Retransmission Scheme in Multi-Hop Relay Networks

Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in multi-hop relay in both academia and industry. By breaking a long-distance low-quality link into two or more high-quality segments, multi-hop relay is introduced to enable traffic/signaling forwarding between base station and mobile user with the benefits of throughput enhancement and coverage extension. In this paper, we propose a novel retransmission method, named SCM-based retransmission scheme, which is designed to take advantage of the multi-hop nature of the cellular network. Practically, we show that the proposed scheme improves performance with respect to its current solutions in terms of throughput, and cell latency.
Recruitment Sources and Post-Hire Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Unmet Expectations

Two decades ago it was hypothesized that met expectations mediate the relationship between recruitment sources (internal vs. external) and post-hire outcomes. The current study tested this mediator hypothesis with new employees and found that those who entered the organization via internal recruitment sources experienced less unmet expectations than employees recruited via external recruitment sources. In addition, unmet expectations mediated the relation between type of recruitment source (internal vs. external) and both job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The study also found a considerable number of employees who reported that they have used multiple recruitment sources.
An automatic recognition of fake Indian paper currency note using MATLAB

Counterfeit notes are one of the biggest problem occurring in cash transactions. For country like India, it is becoming big hurdle. Because of the advances in printing, scanning technologies it is easily possible for a person to print fake notes with use of latest hardware tools. Detecting fake notes manually becomes time-consuming and untidy process hence there is need of automation techniques with which currency recognition process can be efficiently done. Many techniques have been proposed with the use of MATLAB, feature extraction with HSV color space and other applications of image processing. We have implemented a fake note detection unit with MATLAB algorithm. This paper is a based on the same project to give solution for fake currency problem.
ECG Compression using the Three-Level Quantization and Wavelet Transform

Electrocardiogram signals are a very valuable source of data for physicians in diagnosing heart abnormalities. In this paper, we present an efficient technique for compression of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. A new thresholding method based on the three level of quantization is proposed for encoding samples using an Embedded Zero-tree Wavelet (EZW) and Huffman algorithms. The modified encoding algorithm allows an optimal data compression for a target bit rate and appeared superior to other wavelet-based ECG coders. Also, to improve the efficiency of the proposed method we propose to use different types of wavelet and compare their performances for compression of the ECG signals. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a good performance and less complexity for compression of ECG database from MIT-BIH database different types of wavelet transform.
The Dimensionality of Consumption Emotion Patterns and Consumer Satisfaction

Although both consumption emotion and satisfaction judgments occur in the postpurchase period, little is known about their correspondence. This article investigates the interrelationships between the two constructs by way of taxonomic and dimensional analyses to identify patterns of emotional response to product experiences. Five discriminable patterns of affective experience were uncovered, which were based on three independent affective dimensions of hostility, pleasant surprise, and interest. The results extend prior findings of a simple bidimensional affective-response space and reveal that satisfaction measures vary in their ability to represent the affective content of consumption experiences. Copyright 1991 by the University of Chicago.
A anomalia da política de ciência e tecnologia

On the periphery of capitalism, Science and Technology Policy (STP) results from the combination of two dynamics: one inherent to the STP as a public policy, and other due to the peripheral condition. The first, generic, can be found "in pure form" in advanced countries and is responsible for the STP anomaly. The second, specific to peripheral countries, gives to their STPs an atypical character. Due to the peripheral socioeconomic and political context, the actors involved in their implementation manifest behaviors systematically different from those observed in (and modeled by) advanced countries. Inserted in an effort to understand the peripheral STP, this paper argues that the anomaly foundation is the myth of Neutrality and Determinism of Technoscience that orients it since when the State decides to influence technological change and research.
Credibility Evaluation and Results with Leader-Weight in Opinion Mining

A plethora of information is recently flooding the Internet with a rapid surge in Internet usage. Information easily available on the Internet help researchers understand people they study. The existing techniques of the opinion mining usually consist of sentiment classification, feature-based opinion mining, summarization, comparative sentence and relation mining, opinion search, opinion spam, and the linguistic dictionary construction such as the WordNet. This paper, however, proposes differing methods of opinion mining from existing ones. The methods we present here enable credibility evaluation and result conversion using influence of each opinion holder on the Internet and their personal information, which are an analysis-result of LIWC, including their background information and tendency.
A Manually Operated, Advance Off-Stylet Insertion Tool for Minimally Invasive Cochlear Implantation Surgery

The current technique for cochlear implantation (CI) surgery requires a mastoidectomy to gain access to the cochlea for electrode array insertion. It has been shown that microstereotactic frames can enable an image-guided, minimally invasive approach to CI surgery called percutaneous cochlear implantation (PCI) that uses a single drill hole for electrode array insertion, avoiding a more invasive mastoidectomy. Current clinical methods for electrode array insertion are not compatible with PCI surgery because they require a mastoidectomy to access the cochlea; thus, we have developed a manually operated electrode array insertion tool that can be deployed through a PCI drill hole. The tool can be adjusted using a preoperative CT scan for accurate execution of the advance off-stylet (AOS) insertion technique and requires less skill to operate than is currently required to implant electrode arrays. We performed three cadaver insertion experiments using the AOS technique and determined that all insertions were successful using CT and microdissection.
Modeling analogy as probabilistic grammar

Formal implemented models of analogy face two opposing challenges. On the one hand, they must be powerful and flexible enough to handle gradient and probabilistic data. This requires an ability to notice statistical regularities at many different levels of generality, and in many cases, to adjudicate between multiple conflicting patterns by assessing the relative strength of each, and to generalize them to novel items based on their relative strength. At the same time, when we examine evidence from language change, child errors, psycholinguistic experiments, we find that only a small fraction of the logically possible analogical inferences are actually attested. Therefore, an adequate model of analogy must also be restrictive enough to explain why speakers generalize certain statistical properties of the data and not others. Moreover, in the ideal case, restrictions on possible analogies should follow from intrinsic properties of the architecture of the model, and not need to be stipulated post hoc.
High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals Single Nucleotide Variants in Longer-Kernel Bread Wheat

The transcriptomes of bread wheat Yunong 201 and its ethyl methanesulfonate derivative Yunong 3114 were obtained by next-sequencing technology. Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the wheat strains were explored and compared. A total of 5907 and 6287 non-synonymous SNVs were acquired for Yunong 201 and 3114, respectively. A total of 4021 genes with SNVs were obtained. The genes that underwent non-synonymous SNVs were significantly involved in ATP binding, protein phosphorylation, and cellular protein metabolic process. The heat map analysis also indicated that most of these mutant genes were significantly differentially expressed at different developmental stages. The SNVs in these genes possibly contribute to the longer kernel length of Yunong 3114. Our data provide useful information on wheat transcriptome for future studies on wheat functional genomics. This study could also help in illustrating the gene functions of the non-synonymous SNVs of Yunong 201 and 3114.
Why don't families get along with eco-feedback technologies?: a longitudinal inquiry

Eco-feedback domestic technologies have gained momentum over the last decade. Yet, while a wide range of research prototypes and commercial products has been proposed, their acceptance by families is still limited. In this paper we report on our findings from interviews with 15 dual income families, during a year-long deployment of an eco-feedback technology that attempted to inquire into the factors that prohibited its adoption. We found the non-adoption of our system to be rooted in a number of systemic failures, relating to the physical context, the families' social dynamics and the roles assumed by family members, as well as families' priorities and the non-negotiability of their routines. Motivated by prior work and our empirical findings we propose three distinct dimensions but also phases in the adoption of eco-feedback technologies: orientation, incorporation and social integration, and discuss how these may hint at different barriers in the adoption of eco-feedback technologies.
Transfusion‐related acute lung injury caused by an NB2 granulocyte‐ specific antibody in a patient with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

HLA and granulocyte‐specific antibodies have been implicated in the production of transfusion‐related acute lung injury (TRALI). Reported here is a case that suggests that the patient's preexisting condition may play an important role in determining whether TRALI develops upon transfusion of blood products containing anti‐white cell (WBC) antibodies. A 29‐year‐old woman with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) underwent an uneventful 1.5‐volume plasma exchange, which was followed by the transfusion of 2 red cell (RBC) units. At the end of the second RBC transfusion, the patient developed clinical signs and symptoms of noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. Serologic studies demonstrated that the serum from the second RBC donor had no HLA antibodies but did have a granulocyte‐specific antibody (anti‐NB2) that caused the agglutination of the recipient's granulocytes, which were NB2 positive. Serum from the donor of the first RBC unit and serum from the donors of units used in the exchange had no HLA or granulocyte‐ specific antibodies that reacted with the recipient's WBCs. Because the donor implicated in this reaction had a history of 21 blood donations, none of which had been associated with a transfusion reaction, we suggest that the patient's preexisting condition played a significant role in this episode of TRALI, owing to the granulocyte‐specific antibody.
Solving the Heterogeneous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem using K-Means Clustering and Valid Inequalities

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is one of the most popular routing problems. In the CVRP, a fleet of capacitated vehicles located at a central depot are used to deliver products to a set of geographically dispersed customers with known demand. In this work, a new two-step approach to solve the CVRP with a heterogeneous fleet is proposed. In the first step; a balanced K-means clustering algorithm is used to aggregate the customers into balanced clusters. In the second step, clusters are assigned to vehicles and a MIP model is solved with adding valid inequalities that are used to reduce the volume of the mathematical model. Then the problem is disaggregated to find the detailed tours for each vehicle. The proposed approach was used to solve benchmark problems from literature, and it proved its efficiency in terms of quality, vehicle utilization, and computational time. The contribution of this work is combining the clustering algorithm with cutting techniques in order to find near-optimal solutions within reasonable computational times.
Compressing File Collections with a TSP-Based Approach

Delta compression techniques solve the problem of encoding a given target file with respect to one or more reference files. Recent work in [15, 12, 7] has demonstrated the benefits of using such techniques in the context of file collection compression. In these scenarios, files are often better compressed by computing deltas with respect to other similar files from the same collection, as opposed to compressing each file by itself. It is known that the optimal set of such delta encodings, assuming that only a single reference file is used for each target file, can be found by computing an optimal branching on a directed graph. In this paper we propose two techniques for improving the compression of file collections. The first one utilizes deltas computed with respect to more than one file, while the second one improves the compressibility of batched file collections, such as tar archives, using standard compression tools. Both techniques are based on a reduction to the Traveling Sales Person problem on directed weighted graphs. We present experiments demonstrating the benefits of our methods.
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Self-Reported Visual Impairment Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults

This study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for self-reported visual impairment among American adults. Data were collected via telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample (n= 1,219) aged 45 and older and were weighted for population parameter estimates. Hierarchical logistic regression examined independent risk factors of self-reported visual impairment. Seventeen percent of adults aged 45 and older self-reported visual impairments, increasing to 26.5% of those aged 75 and older. Greater age, not being Hispanic, in poor or fair self-rated health, and low availability of informal social support were significant risk factors associated with visual impairment. The prevalence of vision problems among adults suggests unmet needs for both basic eye care and vision rehabilitation interventions to reduce functional limitations that can result from visual impairment. Longitudinal research is needed to examine prevalence and incidence of vision loss as a function of population aging and changing health behaviors.
INPP4B is upregulated and functions as an oncogenic driver through SGK3 in a subset of melanomas

Inositol polyphosphate 4-phosphatase type II (INPP4B) negatively regulates PI3K/Akt signalling and has a tumour suppressive role in some types of cancers. However, we have found that it is upregulated in a subset of melanomas. Here we report that INPP4B can function as an oncogenic driver through activation of serum- and glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 3 (SGK3) in melanoma. While INPP4B knockdown inhibited melanoma cell proliferation and retarded melanoma xenograft growth, overexpression of INPP4B enhanced melanoma cell and melanocyte proliferation and triggered anchorage-independent growth of melanocytes. Noticeably, INPP4B-mediated melanoma cell proliferation was not related to activation of Akt, but was mediated by SGK3. Upregulation of INPP4B in melanoma cells was associated with loss of miRNA (miR)-494 and/or miR-599 due to gene copy number reduction. Indeed, overexpression of miR-494 or miR-599 downregulated INPP4B, reduced SGK3 activation, and inhibited melanoma cell proliferation, whereas introduction of anti-miR-494 or anti-miR-599 upregulated INPP4B, enhanced SGK3 activation, and promoted melanoma cell proliferation. Collectively, these results identify upregulation of INPP4B as an oncogenic mechanism through activation of SGK3 in a subset of melanomas, with implications for targeting INPP4B and restoring miR-494 and miR-599 as novel approaches in the treatment of melanomas with high INPP4B expression.
Dingoes on Fraser Island—Tourism Dream or Management Nightmare

Fraser Island is a unique tourist destination catering to more than 300,000 visitors annually. A significant attraction of the World Heritage-listed island are the dingoes, which are regarded as one of the purest strains in Australia. The dingo population is estimated to be between 150 and 200 animals and their conservation is of national significance. Concerns have long been expressed about the potential for dangerous interactions between dingoes and humans. As visitation to the Island has increased, aspects of the environment have changed and dingoes have altered their normal habits. Management practices have focussed on removing unnatural food sources, such as open rubbish dumps, and educating the public. On April 30, 2001, dingoes mauled a 9-year-old boy to death and the public demanded firm management decisions. However, the fundamental question remained. Do we manage the animals or the people? Public opinion was polarised. This article describes the issues and politics of managing dingoes and tourists on Fraser Island, and highlights how a single serious incident can influence management decisions.
The Role of Trust and Risk in Mobile Commerce Adoption within South Africa

South Africa holds the promise of a fast take-off in mobile commerce (M-commerce), potentially leapfrogging the country past its low Internet penetration. However, consumers demonstrate a lack of enthusiasm, possibly due to a lack of trust. This research investigates a model that incorporates trust and risk factors to explore adoption of M-commerce. A survey was used to test the trust model using partial least squares (PLS). The study determined that personal characteristics and influence the perceived trustworthiness of the vendor, technology and the institutional framework. Although systems-based trust influences the intention to use M-commerce services, none of the other trust types did. Risk only impacted trust (negatively) but had no direct impact on intention to adopt. Amongst early adopters, M-commerce benefits such as compatibility and image were at least as, if not more, important than trust.
A multi-cycle fixed point square root module for FPGAs

This paper presents a module that solves the square root by obtaining a number of more significant bits from a look-up table as an approximate root. A set of possible roots are then appended and squared for comparison to the original radicand, finely tuning the calculation. The module stops as soon as it finds an exact root, therefore not all entries take the same number of cycles, reducing the number of iterations required for full resolution. The proposed FPGA module overcomes a Xilinx’s logiCORE IP in terms of resources utilization and in several cases latency due to its flexible structure configuration.
Effect of Model Sorptive Phases on Phenanthrene Biodegradation: Molecular Analysis of Enrichments and Isolates Suggests Selection Based on Bioavailability

ABSTRACT Reduced bioavailability of nonpolar contaminants due to sorption to natural organic matter is an important factor controlling biodegradation of pollutants in the environment. We established enrichment cultures in which solid organic phases were used to reduce phenanthrene bioavailability to different degrees (R. J. Grosser, M. Friedrich, D. M. Ward, and W. P. Inskeep, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66:2695–2702, 2000). Bacteria enriched and isolated from contaminated soils under these conditions were analyzed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and sequencing of PCR-amplified 16S ribosomal DNA segments. Compared to DGGE patterns obtained with enrichment cultures containing sand or no sorptive solid phase, different DGGE patterns were obtained with enrichment cultures containing phenanthrene sorbed to beads of Amberlite IRC-50 (AMB), a weak cation-exchange resin, and especially Biobead SM7 (SM7), a polyacrylic resin that sorbed phenanthrene more strongly. SM7 enrichments selected for mycobacterial phenanthrene mineralizers, whereas AMB enrichments selected for a Burkholderia sp. that degrades phenanthrene. Identical mycobacterial andBurkholderia 16S rRNA sequence segments were found in SM7 and AMB enrichment cultures inoculated with contaminated soil from two geographically distant sites. Other closely relatedBurkholderia sp. populations, some of which utilized phenanthrene, were detected in sand and control enrichment cultures. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that different phenanthrene-utilizing bacteria inhabiting the same soils may be adapted to different phenanthrene bioavailabilities.