Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Ethnobotanical importance and nutritional potential of wild edible fruits of Meghalaya state in India

The nutritional potential of five wild edible fruit s of the plant e.g. Debregeasia longifolia, Helicia erratica, Ilex venulosa, Rhus semialata and Spondias axillaris, co lle ted from Meghalaya state in India were evaluat ed by determining proximate and phytochemical composition . These plants are used by the local people of Me ghalaya state in India as their food. The present study rev ealed that for different plant species, the crude f at content ranged between 1.07±0.05 -7.39±0.02 % . The crude protein co tent was determined high in the fruits of Debre geasia longifolia (11.99±0.04%) and Rhus semialata (7.86±0 .03%) while the available carbohydrate content wa s highest in the fruits of Helicia erratica (88.96±0.07%). Th e energy content ranged from 342.15±0.13-419.09±0.0 6 kcal/100g in the various wild edible fruits. Among the various macronutrients estimated in the plant samples of different wild edible plants potassium was present in the highest quantity (2.98±0.2120.46±0.11 mg / g) followed by calcium (2.06±0.15-19.49±0.18 mg/g) and sodium (0.1 7±0.009-0.81±0.02 mg /g). Micronutrients, such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese and magnesium were analyzed in the different plant specimens. The result indi cates that nutritional values and mineral contents of these fr uits under investigation were richer than that of t he commercial fruits and could be used for nutritional purpose. T he present study also gives an account of ethnobota nical importance of the wild fruits under investigation.
The fostering role of information technology on SMEs' strategic purchasing, logistics integration and business performance

Scholarly concerns about the fostering role of information technology (IT) in supply chain management have increased dramatically over the past decades. Nevertheless, there are significant issues yet to be addressed and resolved, one of which relates to the influences of IT on strategic purchasing, logistics integration and business performance in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In view of the importance of IT in today’s business world, and supply chain management in particular, the current study seeks to investigate the influence of IT on SMEs’ performance and the mediating role of strategic purchasing and logistics integration. Four hypothesised relationships are tested with a sample of 162 SMEs in Zimbabwe. The results suggest that IT positively influences SMEs’ strategic purchasing, logistics integration and business performance in a significant way. The managerial implications of the findings are discussed, and the limitations and future research directions are indicated. Key words: strategic purchasing, information technology (IT), logistics integration,business performance, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Visualizing Accuracy to Improve Predictive Model Performance

Visualization methods have traditionally focused on visualizing retrospective data, often with the goal of helping users identify data attributes with strong associations to specific outcomes of interest. This can be very helpful during various stages of predictive model development including feature selection, feature construction, and model configuration. While less studied, visualization can also be a powerful tool in the steps that come after a model has been trained: validation and refinement. This paper describes our preliminary work exploring the use of interactive visualization for two specific validation and refinement tasks. In particular, we focus on (1) the visual identification of features associated with incorrect predictions, and (2) visual cohort segmentation to support the development of more targeted predictive models for poorly predicted sub-populations.
Domal uplift and volcanism in a collision zone without a mantle plume : Evidence from Eastern Anatolia

The Eastern Anatolia region is one of the best examples of a continental collision zone in the world. It also comprises one of the high plateaus of the Alpine-Himalaya mountain belt with an average elevation of ~2 km above sea level (Fig. 1). It displays shallow and diffuse seismicity (Fig. 2), indicating that the lithosphere is still being actively deformed as a result of diffuse north-south shortening. This implies that the collision is still in progress. Previous studies have shown that the Arabian plate made its initial contact with the Eurasian plate during the Late Eocene. The region underwent compressional tectonic evolution subsequently, but most of it lay beneath sea level during a period between the Late Eocene (~50 Ma) and Serravalian (~13 Ma). At about 13 Ma, the region was subjected to abrupt block uplift and consequently elevated above sea level. Uplift was followed by subaerial volcanic activity. Volcanism intensifi ed and had became widespread all over the region by about 7-8 Ma, while the region gradually acquired a regional domal shape comparable to that of the Ethiopian High Plateau. However, the dome structure in Eastern Anatolia has a north-south shortened asymmetrical shape, due to the compressional tectonic regime created by collision, in contrast to that of the Ethiopian High Plateau. At present, it is diffi cult to recognise the dome in topographic maps since the topography of the region has been strongly modifi ed by volcanoes and river drainage systems.
A New Modulation Strategy For The Grid Connected Cascaded Multi-Level PV Inverter To Minimize The Leakage Current

This paper presents a new pulse width modulation (PWM) technique for the minimization of leakage current in the transformer-less grid connected photovoltaic (PV) inverter system. The proposed PWM technique is applied to cascaded Multi Level Inverter (MLI) which has the advantages like requirement of reduced number of switches, high efficiency, low cost etc. The other advantage of proposed PWM technique is that it minimizes the leakage current of PV panels without addition of any extra switches. Also, the proposed PWM technique requires reduced number of carrier waves when compared to the conventional sinusoidal pulse width modulation technique (SPWM) for the given MLI. Complete details of the working principle with simulation and experimental results for the proposed PWM technique are presented in this paper. Keywords— Cascaded multilevel inverter, leakage current, pulse width modulation technique.
International Conference on Electrical Engineering , Informatics , and Its Education 2015 B31 Management Strategy of Hybrid Microgrid to Reduce Multiple Conversion

In the past few years, renewable energy sources (RES) demand has grown. Distributed generation based on wind, solar energy, biomass, microhydro become alternative power generation sources. Variation of the power generated by each source and the load that connected to microgrid system makes microgrid system become complicated. The application requires variation of power converter, like inverter, rectifier, boost, etc. Power converter is a power electronics equipment that is non linear, so the amount of power transformer equipment will increase the current and voltage harmonics on the microgrid system. This paper proposed management of hybrid microgrid. The concept introduces the reduction of multiple reverse conversions in an individual ac or dc microgrid and also facilitates connection to variable renewable ac and dc sources and loads to power systems. The model and simulation was built with Simulink/Matlab to verify the proposed system. Beside reduce the multiple conversion, DC and AC Microgrids can support each other, they operate togather and share surplus energy. Keywords— Hybrid Microgrid; Renewable Energy Source; Bidirectional Converter
Updating of hydrographic features in topographic base information based on airborne laser scanning data

The limited validity of maps over time and the consequent need to periodically update topographic base information has long been recognized. As all the other features, also hydrographic features in topographic databases require updates because of changes in land surface conditions, but also due to possible changes in user requirements and improvement of sensor technology. Traditionally updating of hydrographic features has been carried out by the photogrammetric techniques, which are, however, considered of having quality deficiencies for channel extraction at a basin scale (Heine et al., 2004).
Spa 13 of Shigella flexneri has a dual role : chaperone escort and export gate-activator switch of the type III secretion system

The type III secretion apparatus (T3SA) is used by numerous Gram-negative pathogens to inject virulence factors into eukaryotic cells. The Shigella flexneri T3SA spans the bacterial envelope and its assembly requires the products of ~20 mxi and spa genes. Despite progress made in understanding how the T3SA is assembled, the role of several predicted soluble components, such as Spa13, remains elusive. Here, we show that the secretion defect of the spa13 mutant is associated with lack of T3SA assembly which is partly due to the instability of the needle component MxiH. In contrast to its Yersinia counterpart, Spa13 is not a secreted protein. We identified a network of interactions between Spa13 and the ATPase Spa47, the C-ring protein Spa33, and the inner-membrane protein Spa40. Moreover, we revealed a Spa13 interaction with the inner-membrane MxiA and showed that overexpression of the large cytoplasmic domain of MxiA in the WT background shuts off secretion. Lastly, we demonstrated that Spa13 interacts with the cleaved form of Spa40 and with the translocator chaperone IpgC, suggesting that Spa13 intervenes during the secretion hierarchy switch process. Collectively, our results support a dual role of Spa13 as a chaperone escort and as an export gate-activator switch.
SEED PROTEOME ANALYSIS AND PROTEOME DYNAMICS DURING SEED

Despite the huge progress that has been made in the last decade, the molecular mechanisms regulating seed germination and early seed development are far from being resolved. Induction of metabolic genes involved in germination starts around 12 hours after imbibition. Thus, most of the early events are mediated by molecules stored in the seed during maturation and are not accessible to transcriptomic analyses. Proteome analysis has been extensively employed in the past but the coverage of observed seed proteome is relatively low even in present-day high-impact studies. Here, we analysed proteome of two model species, Arabidopsis thaliana and barley (Hordeum vulgare). We employed several complementary approaches to increase the proteome coverage and build a library suitable for targeted protein quantitation. The combination of fractionations and an alternative MS/MS data processing significantly improved our detection limits. Our results indicate that the seed proteome coverage is limited not only by extraction efficiency or depletion of abundant proteins, but also by an inadequate spectral data interpretation.
The Accelerated Literacy Program: Developmental Outline

Overview Accelerated Literacy is the name given to a variation of the Traeger Park Concentrated Encounter work (Gray 2014). It was developed when Gray was an Associate Professor and Director of the Schools and Community Centre at the University of Canberra in the 1990s (Gray 2007). Gray introduced the principles and strategies of the Traeger Park program to his undergraduate and graduate students and to the teachers working at the Centre who were seconded from the school system in the ACT. As he did at Traeger Park, Gray worked with the teachers at the Centre and especially with Wendy Cowey who worked closely with him to implement and demonstrate the strategies. They also worked together to extend the implementation of the program into Indigenous schools.
Real-time Progressive 3 D Semantic Segmentation for Indoor Scenes Supplementary Materials

In our experiments, the main source of fluctuation is usually come from new section of the scene is being scanned. We consider this as a trade-off between stability in accuracy and the capability to progressively fix segmentation errors. In the case if we only adhere to the temporal consistency, the system might stuck in the same segmentation over and over, even if the segmentation is deemed incorrect. In our system, we actually represented this trade-off by a weighted sum in the CRF unary term of time t. Here is a plot that shows accuracy over time when we change the weighting parameter τ for a typical scene. In our experiment, we set τ = 0.5 since it gives a good trade-off between temporal consistency and segmentation accuracy.
in press-uncorrected proof Review Antimicrobial peptides from amphibians

Increased prevalence of multi-drug resistance in pathogens has encouraged researchers to focus on finding novel forms of anti-infective agents. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) found in animal secretions are components of host innate immune response and have survived eons of pathogen evolution. Thus, they are likely to be active against pathogens and even those that are resistant to conventional drugs. Many peptides have been isolated and shown to be effective against multi-drug resistant pathogens. More than 500 AMPs have been identified from amphibians. The abundance of AMPs in frog skin is remarkable and constitutes a rich source for design of novel pharmaceutical molecules. Expression and post-translational modifications, discovery, activities and probable therapeutic application prospects of amphibian AMPs will be discussed in this article.
Networked Experiments in Global E-Science

In current economic and scientific scenarios, interactions and organization models tend to be more and more oriented to flexibility of relationships, heterogeneity of elements, and collaboration among divisions. A possible approach, which is a technical solution and an organizing paradigm at the same time, is based on the concept of Virtual Organization. This paper, starting from the Virtual Organization paradigm and from workflows, shows an approach to the definition and execution of distributed scientific experiments as set of services executed on distributed collaborating sites at different heterogeneous organizations. The focus is on flexibility, reuse, orchestration, collaboration, and interoperability of services within a cooperation process. The workflow of the experiment can be specified by actors with low information technology but high domain knowledge. The context of the work is e-Science, in particular, bioinformatics, but the presented concepts can be easily generalized and extended to other classes of business interaction.
Educational Intervention on Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Breast Cancer Self Examination

The aim of the study is to assess the effect of the educational intervention regarding breast cancer among high school students. A quasi-experimental pre and posttest design were utilized to fulfill the aim of this study. This study was conducted in the classrooms of the selected female high private and governmental schools. Riyadh, Kingdome of Saudi Arabia. The school was selected by simple random sampling technique and sampling units were selected consecutively. The study was conducted on 400 high school female students in in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire to assess student' knowledge and attitude regarding breast cancer was developed to elicit student's information which include Data were collected from November to December 2017. Students total knowledge level of breast cancer was increased after posttest. They had a remarkable improvement in understanding of the disease which was verified with statistical significance difference than in the pretest. The educational intervention was good enough to improve student’s knowledge, understanding and attitude regarding breast cancer. Educational programs are required to be implemented that utilize social and cultural factors are crucial for social awareness including such critical topics in the high school curriculum.
CAFFEIC ACID AVERTED INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR COLCHICINE-INDUCED MEMORY DEFICITS IN RATS

In elderly people chronic oxidative stress initiates a cascade of neurodegenerative events that hasten severe memory decline akin to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and not commensurate to normal age-associated dementia. Caffeic acid (CA) is a natural bioactive polyphenol known to possess robust antioxidant property. The present study investigated repercussions of chronic administration of CA against colchicine (COL) induced oxidative stress and inflammation in brain of rats. Wistar rats (200 g) were subjected to stereotaxic surgery and slow intra cerebro ventricle (ICV) injection of colchicine (15μg/rat) was given to induce AD type dementia. CA (50 and 100 mg/kg, p.o.) was administered to separate groups of rats for 25 successive days. Morris water maze (MWM) and elevated plus maze (EPM) paradigms were utilized to assess the spatial memory of rats. After behavioural studies, rats were sacrificed and whole brain lipid peroxidation (TBARS), reduced glutathione (GSH) and TNF-α levels were measured. CA treatment for 25 days negated the COL triggered cognitive deficits as evident by a significant (p<0.001) reduction in mean escape latency during training trials and enhanced (p<0.001) percent of time spent in target quadrant [TSTQ (%)] during probe trial in MWM test, and reduction (p<0.001) in transfer latency in EPM test. Furthermore, CA (50 and 100 mg/kg) attenuated COL induced rise in brain TBARS as well as TNF-α and simultaneously enhanced the GSH content. CA ameliorates COL induced dementia by attenuating the brain oxidative damage and neuroinflammation in rats.
Comparison of methods for the determination of Tesla turbine performance

A numerical and experimental investigation of the Tesla turbine is presented in the paper. The experiment is conducted for various inlet pressure and load. The roughness of the rotor disc is determined as it is a key factor to obtain high turbine efficiency and power. The numerical investigations are performed for the same conditions as in the experiment. The computational results are compared with the analytical model. Comparison of performance characteristics show a relatively good agreement between the experiment and CFD. The analytical model overestimates distributions of pressure and circumferential velocities, although the predicted power is on the similar level as in the experiment and CFD.
The Advance Research and Analysis of Electrocardiogram Pattern Classification

As one of the classical applications on pattern recognition research,electrocardiogram(ECG) pattern classification is important for wearable ECG device,dynamic ECG,intensive care unit and the relationship research between cardiac activities and diseases.Application oriented analysis on ECG classification approach is presented here.First of all,recent developing methods for ECG pattern classification,such as knowledge inference model,structural pattern recognition and statistical pattern recognition,are reviewed,along with detailed disadvantages and prospects for each of the method.Then,the challenges and possible approaches,including classifier construction for practical complex data,annotation of large-scale ECG databases,evaluation standards for classification model and domain feature representation,are discussed as well.
Circuits and Technology for Digital's StrongARM(tm) and ALPHA Microprocessors

Since the introduction of the first ALPHA microprocessor in 1992, Digital has maintained leadership in absolute CPU performance. During the past year, Digital s StrongARM(tm) processor has also achieved a leadership position as the fastest CPU capable of operating from a single AA battery cell. Some of the key techniques used to achieve this performance are described in this invited paper.
A jerk threshold-based Involuntary Lateral Movement algorithm

Algorithms for automatic fall detection are often studied in the field of ambulatory human health supervision. These algorithms are developed to generate hospital emergency alarms. In the present paper, Involuntary Lateral Movements (ILM) are presented. ILM are a premature sign of health deterioration. Therefore, this algorithm embedded in a sensor device could be used for continuous health monitoring in ambulatory situations. Several studies show that human bodies try to minimize acceleration body movements, so they are based on minimum jerk. The proposed algorithm is based on a jerk threshold detection. In this work it is supposed that ILM will produce important jerk values above other daily movements, so that they can be distinguished using a threshold.
An Initial Framework to Unpack Long-Term Acceptance of Robots at Home

It has been recognized that long-term effects ex- ist in the interaction with robotic technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about how the temporal ef- fects are associated with domestic robots. To bridge this gap, we undertook a long-term field study. We distributed Roomba vacuuming robots to 30 households, and observed the use over six months. During this study, which spans over 149 home visits, we identified how householders accepted robots as a part of the households via four temporal stages of pre-adoption, adoption, adaptation, and use/retention. With these findings, we took the first step toward establishing af ramework, Domestic Robot Ecology (DRE). It shows a holistic view on the relationships that robots shape in the home. Further, it articulates how those relationships change over time. We suggest that DRE can become a useful tool to help design toward long-term acceptance of robotic tech- nologies in the home.
Brief paper Multirate versions of sampled-data stabilization of nonlinear systems

The problem of state feedback sampled-data stabilization of nonlinear systems is considered under the “low measurement rate” constraint and in the presence of (not necessarily small) time delay in the measurement channel. A multirate control scheme is proposed that utilizes a numerical integration scheme to approximately predict the current state from the delayed measurements. For both the controller emulation approach and the approach based on approximate discrete-time model of the system, we show that under standard assumptions the closed-loop multirate sampled data system is asymptotically stable in the semiglobal practical sense. An illustrative example of sampled-data control of vertical take o9 and landing aircraft is discussed. 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Application on the Time-domain Differential Signal Detection Technique of OFDM

It is predicted that OFDM technique will become the mainstream technique of the forth generation mobile communication system.Its characteristic that each subcarrier is orthogonal can not only reduce the interference between the subcarriers,but also improve the utilization ratio of the frequency spectrum.Meanwhile,the system can antagonize the frequency selective fading and the selective interference very well.The binary data bit of OFDM is modulated on the corresponding subcarrier by PSK or QAM.The receiving end is needed to detect the signal to restore the signal exactly.The time-domain differential signal detection technique is implemented by comparing the amplitude and the phase of the current OFDM sign subcarrier and the previous one.
1.5–V high–drive second generation current conveyor

This paper presents a low voltage CMOS second generation current conveyor with rail-to-rail input and output dynamic ranges. The circuit includes also a class AB output stage with high driving capability. A prototype has been fabricated using the 0.6-µm AMS technology. The circuit supplied with ±0.75V exhibits rail-to-rail capability and an input resistance at the X terminal of about 150Ω. Thanks to the class AB behavior, the current drive capability is better than 0.8mA, which is about 40 times the quiescent current in the output branch.