Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of yield and yield components of lamb’s lettuce (Valerianella locusta) grown in thin layer soilless systems

Abstract. Znidarcic D. 2016. Evaluation of yield and yield components of lamb’s lettuce (Valerianella locusta) grown in thin layer soilless systems. Nusantara Bioscience 8: 89-93. Growth and development of lamb’s lettuce (Valerianella locusta L.) have been studied on thin layer soilless systems in plastic greenhouse on the Laboratory field of Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. The trial lasted from 23rd of February till 10th of March 2016. The experiment was included cultivar 'Ljubljanski'. Four different substrates have been used: expanded clay aggregate, perlite, vermiculite, and peat. Seedlings were transplanted at distance of 10x10 cm. At the harvest the following parameters were measured: leaves fresh and dry yield, plant height, number of leaves per plant and the nitrate-N content in leaves. The overall effect of the type of substrate on lamb's lettuce growth and yield in the present experiment suggests that the examined materials are suitable substrates for lamb's lettuce soilless cultivation production. The outcomes of the research point to the fact that the lamb's lettuce in perlite treatments brings greater fresh yields compared to the other inert substrates. On the other hand, peat produced higher leaf dry mass as compared to other substrates. A quantitative analysis of the nitrate-N content in leaves showed that the peat is the most effective substrate in terms of low plant nitrate concentration.
Computer-Based Patient Records

I often hear the question posed, "WhY have computer based patient records (CPRs) not been more widely adopted? " From what I can tell, everyone wants a CPR in order to accomplish the Four "I"s: Improve efficiency; Increase flexibility; Inform the care process; and Implement changes in the care process. To improve efficiency, they need to address problems of availability, content, format and integration of patient records. Business restructuring, growth of managed care, and increased provider and patient choice drive the need for increased flexibility. Informing the care process becomes more important as they write contracts and seek to iiientify the critical areas for improvetnent. Finally, to impact these critical areas, they need a method to change the care process in a cost effective, sustainable manner. The ideal CPR captures patient data necessary to perform outcomes analylis, utilization review, profiling, cost, patient care and others. The possibility tantalizes hospital and manlged care administrators. However, these promises may be difficult to _ep. Delivering on those promises tthin reasonable cost targets reires considerable work. A great deal of data needed for a R are already available in existing
A Study of Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infection among Children with Febrile Seizures in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Background: Febrile seizures and Urinary tract infection (UTI) are the two common morbidities in children which are extensively studied, with prevalence ranging from 2-5% and 1-3% respectively. However, there is paucity of studies combining both morbidities especially in India. Objective: Primary objective of this study is to know the prevalence of Urinary tract infections in children with febrile seizures. Methods: Study includes 100 children with febrile seizures in the age group of 6months to 5 years after excluding neurological and congenital abnormalities. Complete urine examination, urine culture sensitivity and ultrasound abdomen were done in children with suspected UTI. Results: Mean age of presentation of febrile seizures is 34 months.89% children had generalised seizures. 9% cases had UTI with febrile seizures, 21.4% were infants. Conclusion: Urinary tract infection is one of the major etiological cause for febrile seizure in children, more
Blastomyces helicus, an Emerging Dimorphic Fungal Pathogen Causing Fatal Pulmonary and Disseminated Disease in Humans and Animals in Western Canada and United States

Abstract Background Blastomyces helicus (formerly Emmonsia helica) is a recently described dimorphic fungus first isolated from a man who died of encephalitis in Alberta, Canada. The geographic range, epidemiology and clinical features are unknown. Methods We reviewed clinical and veterinary isolates of Blastomyces and Emmonsia at the University of Alberta Microfungus Collection and Herbarium and the UT Health San Antonio Fungus Testing Laboratory. Isolates were selected based on low B. dermatitidis DNA probe values and/or atypical morphology. DNA sequence analysis was performed. Epidemiological and clinical data were analyzed. Results Isolates of B. helicus were identified from eight human (Table 1) and five veterinary cases (Table 2). Mycelial and yeast-like phases of typical clinical isolates are shown in Figures 1 and 2, respectively. Isolates were referred from provinces and states shown in Figure 3.Table 1: Clinical isolates of Blastomyces helicus Case/year Location Medical history Sample Outcome c1/1970 Alberta Alcoholism, diabetes Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), lung Fatal c2/1992 Saskatchewan Chronic leukemia, steroids Blood, bone marrow, liver, sputum Fatal c3/1999 Texas Lupus Blood Unknown c4/2004 Alberta Unknown Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), blood Unknown c5/2010 California Liver transplant Blood, pleural fluid Fatal c6/2010 Texas Unknown CSF Unknown c7/2010 California HIV BAL Unknown c8/2017 Nebraska Unknown BAL, pleural fluid UnknownTable 2: Veterinary isolates of Blastomyces helicus Case/year Location Animal Sample v1/2005 Colorado Dog Lung v2/2007 Unknown Dog Lung v3/2009 Montana Cat Lung v4/2012 Colorado Cat Lung v5/2014 Colorado Unknown LungFigure 1. Mycelial phase of B. helicus (c2) at 25C showing typical helically coiled hyphae and absence of conidia.Figure 2. Yeast-like phase of B. helicus (c1) at 35C showing typical variably sized yeast-like cells in chains.Figure 3. Canadian provinces and US states from where Blastomyces helicus isolates were referre Conclusion Blastomyces helicus caused pulmonary and fatal disseminated disease, mainly in immunocompromised persons, and lung disease in companion animals in western Canada and US. Epidemiological investigations are needed to establish the burden of disease and geographic range of this pathogen. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.
Crossmodal Perception of Mismatched Emotional Expressions by Embodied Agents

Today an embodied agent generates a large amount of interest because of its vital role for human-human interactions and human-computer interactions in virtual world. A number of researchers have found that we can recognize and distinguish between emotions expressed by an embodied agent. In addition many studies found that we respond to simulated emotions in a similar way to human emotion. This study investigates interpretation of mismatched emotions expressed by an embodied agent (e.g. a happy face with a sad voice). The study employed a 4 (visual: happy, sad, warm, cold) X 4 (audio: happy, sad, warm, cold) withinsubjects repeated measure design. The results suggest that people perceive emotions not depending on just one channel but depending on both channels. Additionally facial expression (happy face vs. sad face) makes a difference in influence of two channels; Audio channel has more influence in interpretation of emotions when facial expression is happy. People were able to feel other emotion which was not expressed by face or voice from mismatched emotional expressions, so there is a possibility that we may express various and delicate emotions with embodied agent by using only several kinds of emotions.
IMMUNOTHÉRAPIE DE L'ALLERGIE ALIMENTAIRE ET ÉTUDE DES MÉCANISMES IMMUNOLOGIQUES ASSOCIÉS

L’allergie est devenue un probleme de sante majeur puisque depuis quelques annees, la prevalence des maladies liees a l’allergie a fortement augmente dans les pays industrialises. L’allergie alimentaire se caracterise par une hypersensibilite developpee contre des proteines allergeniques presentes dans les aliments. Certaines des reactions allergiques sont graves et peuvent parfois etre mortelles comme les chocs anaphylactiques. A l’heure actuelle, le seul moyen de traiter les allergies est l’immunotherapie specifique de l’allergene (ITS). L’ITS est deja pratiquee pour soigner certaines allergies, notamment respiratoires. Mais l’immunotherapie pour soigner des allergies alimentaires reste encore du domaine de la recherche. L’induction de tolerance du systeme immunitaire a un allergene par voie orale semble etre aujourd’hui une approche prometteuse. Notre laboratoire a developpe une strategie d’immunotherapie de l’allergie alimentaire par voie orale, en utilisant des plasmides codant pour des pseudo-particules virales (VLP) qui protegent l’antigene a delivrer. Ces particules, capables d’induire des reponses immunitaires de type Th1 peuvent etre utilisees pour contrer les reponses allergiques (reponse Th2). Nous avons teste des optimisations de la strategie d’immunotherapie en associant les plasmides codant pour les VLP (plasmoVLP) avec des plasmides codant des cytokines immunoregulatrices ; telles l’IL-2 et l’IL-10. Nous avons montre que l’association des plasmoVLP avec les pIL2 et pIL10 administre en preventif ameliore les effets therapeutiques des plasmoVLP chez la souris et permet une protection contre les signes cliniques jusqu’a neufs semaines apres la fin du traitement. En parallele, nous avons cherche a caracteriser les mecanismes par lesquels le systeme immunitaire muqueux de l’intestin capte les antigenes, en particulier les VLP. Nous avons developpe des outils qui permettent de suivre les VLP rendues fluorescentes et valide par cytometrie en flux et par microscopie confocale l’approche experimentale notamment apres administration au niveau des poumons. Par contre, nous nous sommes heurtes a des difficultes techniques pour reproduire ce type de resultats dans les intestins. Ce travail a neanmoins permis de mettre au point de nouvelles techniques jusqu’alors non utilisees au laboratoire et qui permettront de mieux caracteriser les mecanismes immunologiques mis en jeu lors de l’induction d’une tolerance contre les allergenes alimentaires.
Collective indexing of emotions in videos

Purpose – The object of this empirical research study is emotion, as depicted and aroused in videos. This paper seeks to answer the questions: Are users able to index such emotions consistently? Are the users' votes usable for emotional video retrieval? Design/methodology/approach – The authors worked with a controlled vocabulary for nine basic emotions (love, happiness, fun, surprise, desire, sadness, anger, disgust and fear), a slide control for adjusting the emotions' intensity, and the approach of broad folksonomies. Different users tagged the same videos. The test persons had the task of indexing the emotions of 20 videos (reprocessed clips from YouTube). The authors distinguished between emotions which were depicted in the video and those that were evoked in the user. Data were received from 776 participants and a total of 279,360 slide control values were analyzed.Findings – The consistency of the users' votes is very high; the tag distributions for the particular videos' emotions are stable. The fi.
Cancer incidence and mortality among uranium miners in the Příbram region of the Czech Republic

It is well established that underground miners exposed to radon progeny experience higher rates of lung cancer [1]. Several cohort studies of uranium miners have confirmed this, although magnitudes of associations vary somewhat between studies. Studies also suggest that radon may be associated with cancer types other than lung [1]. But, many of these findings are based on external comparison populations and may not evaluate individual radon exposure. More internal studies of dose-response relationships between radon and cancer subtypes are necessary. We investigated several subtypes of cancer incidence and mortality among underground uranium miners exposed to low and moderate levels of radon progeny.
Dimethyl 4-(4-ethoxyphenyl)-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate

In the title molecule, C19H23NO5, the dihedral angle formed by the benzene ring and the planar part of the dihydropyridine ring is 83.52 (5)°. The dihydropyridine ring adopts a flattened boat conformation. In the crystal, molecules are linked by N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating chains running parallel to [100]. The crystal structure is consolidated by C—H⋯O contacts.
POLG1 in idiopathic Parkinson disease

We studied POLG1 in 140 UK patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD) and 279 Italian patients with PD and compared them to a UK control group (n = 207) and an Italian control group (n = 285). Our observations do not support a role for common POLG1 genetic variants in PD and indicate that dominant POLG1 mutations are a rare cause of parkinsonism in the general population.
Descoberta de conhecimentos sobre a esquistossomose e partir de documentos científicos utilizando técnicas de mineração de texto

O presente estudo objetivou aplicar tecnicas de mineracao de texto para a descoberta de conhecimentos sobre a esquistossomose a partir de documentos cientificos disponiveis no acervo Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Trata-se de um estudo retrospectivo e exploratorio da base de dados memorias.ioc. fiocruz.br , a partir da qual foram obtidos 179 resumos de artigos cientificos publicados no periodo de 2005 a 2015, selecionados pelo descritor “schisto”. Foram utilizadas tecnicas de mineracao de textos (text mining) com o auxilio do software Weka 3.6. 12 (Universidade de Waikato – Nova Zelândia). A extracao de termos mais frequentes foi realizada pelo metodo de indexacao Frequencia do Termo – Frequencia Inversa de Documentos (TF-IDF). A categorizacao de documentos, por sua vez, aconteceu por dois metodos: classificacao por aprendizado de maquina, utilizando arvores de decisao, e classificacao por agrupamento. Posteriormente, o conhecimento revelado foi avaliado por especialistas da area e foram fornecidos indicadores sobre o desempenho do metodo desenvolvido.
Artificial Inductance Concept to Compensate Nonlinear Inductance Effects in the Back EMF-Based Sensorless Control Method for PMSM

The back EMF-based sensorless control method is very popular for permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) in the medium- to high-speed operation range due to its simple structure. In this speed range, the accuracy of the estimated position is mainly affected by the inductance, which varies at different loading conditions due to saturation effects. In this paper, a new concept of using a constant artificial inductance to replace the actual varying machine inductance for position estimation is introduced. This facilitates greatly the analysis of the influence of inductance variation on the estimated position error, and gives a deep insight into this problem. It also provides a simple approach to achieve a globally minimized position error. A proper choice of the artificial machine inductance may reduce the maximum position error by 50% without considering the actual inductance variation in the control algorithm. Analytical and experimental results are given for validating the proposed theory.
Anion transport in oocytes of Xenopus laevis induced by expression of mouse erythroid band 3 protein‐‐encoding cRNA and of a cRNA derivative obtained by site‐directed mutagenesis at the stilbene disulfonate binding site.

A vector was constructed containing a cDNA for mouse band 3 obtained from Demuth et al. (1986, EMBO J., 5, 1205‐1214), a synthetic linker (containing 5′‐non‐translated region, start codon and a coding region for the first 12 N‐terminal amino acids), and RNA polymerase promoters suitable for in vitro transcription of cRNA. After injection of the cRNA into the cytoplasm of Xenopus oocytes and incubation for 16 h, expression of mouse band 3 was demonstrated by immunoprecipitation, immunohistochemical methods and influx or efflux measurements with 36Cl‐. Antisense cRNA inhibits the expression. Lysines 558 and 561 were replaced by asparagines using oligonucleotide‐directed mutagenesis. Like the original band 3, the mutant shows stilbene disulfonate‐inhibitable anion exchange. However, in contrast to the original band 3, inhibition by 4,4′‐diisothiocyano dihydrostilbene‐2,2′‐disulfonate (H2DIDS) is no longer irreversible. This indicates that thiourea bond formation between H2DIDS and band 3 involves one of the two modified lysine residues. It also shows that the two lysine residues are not essential for the execution of the anion transport function of band 3. The results described suggest that the cDNA clone of Demuth et al. (1986) encodes a protein with properties that are representative for the properties of the bulk of the band 3 protein in the plasma membrane of the red cell of the mouse.
The statistical laws of popularity: universal properties of the box-office dynamics of motion pictures

Are there general principles governing the process by which certain products or ideas become popular relative to other (often qualitatively similar) competitors? To investigate this question in detail, we have focused on the popularity of movies as measured by their box-office income. We observe that the log-normal distribution describes well the tail (corresponding to the most successful movies) of the empirical distributions for the total income, the income on the opening week, as well as the weekly income per theater. This observation suggests that popularity may be the outcome of a linear multiplicative stochastic process. In addition, the distributions of the total income and the opening income show a bimodal form, with the majority of movies either performing very well or very poorly in theaters. We also observe that the gross income per theater for a movie at any point during its lifetime is, on average, inversely proportional to the period that has elapsed after its release. We argue that (i) the log-normal nature of the tail, (ii) the bimodal form of the overall gross income distribution and (iii) the decay of gross income per theater with time as a power law, constitute the fundamental set of stylized facts (i.e. empirical ‘laws’) that can be used to explain other observations about movie popularity. We show that, in conjunction with an assumption of a fixed lower cut-off for income per theater below which a movie is withdrawn from a cinema, these laws can be used to derive a Weibull distribution for the survival probability of movies that agrees with empirical data. The connection to extreme-value distributions suggests that popularity can be viewed as a process where a product becomes popular by avoiding ‘failure’ (i.e. being pulled out from circulation) for many successive time periods. We suggest that these results may apply beyond the particular case of movies to popularity in general.
Propuesta de aplicación de la tecnología MIMO masivo a las comunicaciones móviles 5G

El trabajo realizado se desarrolla en un entorno en constante evolucion y transformacion. No es otro sino el de las comunicaciones moviles. Las comunicaciones moviles han transformado y siguen transformando la forma en la que nos comunicamos y accedemos a la informacion, tendiendo hacia un mundo en el cual cada elemento con el que interaccionamos esta conectado. Por tanto, el numero de dispositivos conectados y la cantidad de ancho de banda requerido aumentan exponencialmente a lo largo de los anos. Es aqui donde aparece la necesidad de una nueva generacion de comunicaciones moviles que de cabida a todos estos elementos y requisitos. Se han desarrollado diversas tecnologias para conformar la quinta generacion movil con iniciativa privada y publica de grandes empresas y universidades. El 5G no solo va a ser una evolucion natural del 4G tal como ha sucedido en anteriores ocasiones, sino que va a tener un enfoque que permita una alta conectividad con todos los usuarios y dispositivos, teniendo en cuenta aspectos no considerados en otras evoluciones, como es la energia consumida y la latencia, ademas de la capacidad del canal, el ancho de banda y una buena conectividad. Entre todas las tecnologias desarrolladas se propone estudiar el MIMO Masivo para comunicaciones moviles, debido a que es una tecnologia que ofrece grandes posibilidades y ofrece buenas caracteristicas conformes a las del 5G. Ya son sabidas las bondades de la tecnologia MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output), y su escalado a un gran numero de antenas, cientos de antenas, permite incrementar las ventajas de esta tecnologia anadiendo ademas un ahorro energetico al no necesitar tanta potencia en transmision. El MIMO Masivo va de la mano de un salto de frecuencia en las ondas de radio para conseguir una mayor miniaturizacion de las estaciones base de los sistemas moviles sin recurrir a grandes infraestructuras. La estructura propuesta sera la siguiente: El proyecto constara de una parte inicial descriptiva sobre el 5G, exponiendo todas las posibilidades de las tecnologias candidatas para hacerlo viable y los requisitos establecidos para ser considerada la proxima generacion movil. Una vez explicadas estas tecnologias, se procedera a un desarrollo del Multiple Input Multiple Output para dar paso a su escalado masivo, con todas sus posibilidades e inconvenientes. Por ultimo, se realiza una propuesta de estructura de antena que permita representar una de las caracteristicas mas importantes de MIMO, la conformacion de haz o beamforming. Se realizara una simulacion de varios conformadores de haz, obteniendo resultados, conclusiones y su aplicacion a las comunicaciones moviles.
AVALIAÇÃO DA EFICIÊNCIA BANCÁRIA POR MEIO DA ABORDAGEM DE INTERMEDIAÇÃO: UMA ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DE INSTITUIÇÕES FINANCEIRAS BRASILEIRAS

Este estudo avalia, de forma comparativa, por meio da abordagem de intermediacao, o grau de eficiencia de 99 instituicoes financeiras que atuaram, em 2013, no mercado financeiro brasileiro. Foi a atividade de intermediacao financeira que gerou o surgimento e a consolidacao das instituicoes financeiras por todo o mundo. Portanto, essa foi uma das razoes que motivou a escolha da abordagem de intermediacao para se avaliar a eficiencia das instituicoes financeiras. Acredita-se que seja relevante avaliar se tais instituicoes, no Brasil, estao conseguindo ser eficientes em sua atividade mais tradicional, a intermediacao financeira. E importante ressaltar que, alem da abordagem de intermediacao, ha tambem duas outras principais abordagens para se avaliar a eficiencia das instituicoes financeiras: producao e rentabilidade. A tecnica data envelopment analysis (DEA), cuja aplicabilidade para avaliacao da eficiencia bancaria e muito difundida na literatura, foi adotada para calcular os escores de eficiencia das instituicoes, que foram classificadas de acordo com quatro criterios: origem do capital, porte, risco ( rating de credito) e setor de atuacao. Foram identificadas 22 instituicoes com maior grau de eficiencia, havendo certa heterogeneidade em relacao a origem do capital, porte e setor de atuacao. Por outro lado, foi identificado um indicio de que ha uma relacao diretamente proporcional positiva entre o rating de credito e a eficiencia.
In-cement technique for revision hip arthroplasty.

Sir, We read with interest the article by Quinlan et al[1][1] in the June 2006 issue entitled ‘In-cement technique for revision hip arthroplasty’. Although by and large I agree with their results and conclusions, I do have certain concerns. First, the authors have not commented on the