Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SimilarAPI: Mining Analogical APIs for Library Migration

Establishing API mappings between libraries is a prerequisite step for library migration tasks. Manually establishing API mappings is tedious due to the large number of APIs to be examined, and existing methods based on supervised learning requires unavailable already-ported or functionality similar applications. Therefore, we propose an unsupervised deep learning based approach to embed both API usage semantics and API description (name and document) semantics into vector space for inferring likely analogical API mappings between libraries. We implement a proof-of-concept website SimilarAPI (https://similarapi.appspot.com) which can recommend analogical APIs for 583,501 APIs of 111 pairs of analogical Java libraries with diverse functionalities. Video: https://youtu.be/EAwD6l24vLQ
Do higher resource capture ability and utilization efficiency facilitate the successful invasion of exotic plant? A case study of Alternanthera philoxeroides.

We tested the hypothesis that introduced populations may have higher resource capture ability and utilization efficiency than native ones of invasive plants. We compared ecophysiological traits including maximum photosynthetic rate (Pmax), apparent quantum yield (Q), specific leaf area (SLA), photosynthetic energy use efficiency (PEUE), photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (PNUE), water use efficiency (WUE), mass-based and area-based leaf construction cost (CCmass and CCarea), and mass-based and area-based leaf nitrogen concentration (Nmass and Narea) between native (Argentina) and introduced (USA) populations of two varieties (North Apa and South Apo) of Alternanthera philoxeroides under common garden conditions in China. For Apo and Apa, Pmax, Q, Nmass and WUE were not significantly different between native and introduced populations; introduced populations had significantly lower SLA and lower CCmass but significantly higher Narea and CCarea than native ones. For Apa, the introduced populations showed significantly lower PEUE and lower PNUE while for Apo, PEUE and PNUE were not significantly different between native and introduced populations. The results indicated that introduced populations of A. philoxeroides do not show higher resource capture ability and resource utilization efficiency than their native ones in the common garden experiment, suggesting that these traits may not necessarily contribute to successful invasion of invasive plants.
Microtopography, Microenvironments, and Weed Populations in Ridge-Tilled Soybean1

The effects of microtopographic position on soil microenvironment and weed populations in ridge-tilled soybean were evaluated on three farms in Iowa in 1989 and 1990. In both years, over all weed species (primarily giant foxtail, green foxtail, yellow foxtail, redroot pigweed, and Pennsylvania smartweed), seedling emergence was highest in late May and early June, with few seedlings emerging after mid-June. Weed populations were highest in May and early June, after which rotary hoeing and cultivation reduced weed numbers in all plots. Microtopographic position (row, shoulder, and furrow) had a large effect on soil microenvironment and weed populations. Furrows were the wettest position through most of the growing season. Rows were the warmest position early in the season and the coolest position late in the season. Cumulative weed emergence early in the season was closely related to growing degree days, which accumulated faster in the row position than the furrow position. Following rotary hoeing and cultivation, the row position had significantly more total weeds than the shoulder and furrow positions on all farms in August of both years. Nomenclature: Giant foxtail, Setaria faberi Herrm. #3 SETFA; green foxtail, Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv. # SETVI; Pennsylvania smartweed, Polygonum pensylvanicum # POLPY; redroot pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus L. # AMARE; yellow foxtail, Setaria glauca (L.) Beauv # SETLU; soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr. Additional index words: Conservation tillage, mechanical weed control, seedling emergence, weed density, weed population dynamics. Abbreviations: GDD, growing degree days.
Status of Iodine Content of Salt and Urinary Iodine Excretion Levels in India

molecules of the essential amino acid tyrosine, regulate cellular oxidation and hence effect calorigenesis, thermoregulation and intermediary metabolism. These hormones are necessary for protein synthesis and they promote nitrogen retention, glycogenolysis, intestinal absorption of glucose and galactose, lipolysis and uptake of glucose by adipocytes. Synthesis and secretion of T and T are under the 4 3 control of the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) which is secreted from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. TSH stimulates iodide transport from the blood into thyroid cells, oxidation of iodide to iodine and iodine binding to tyrosine. Synthesis of thyroid hormones is regulated by the levels of circulating free T and T as a 4 3
Inhibition of Giant Kelp Recruitment by an Introduced Brown Alga

Following a natural disappearance of the native giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera, an invasion of the introduced brown alga Sargassum muticwn appeared to prevent giant kelp recruitment. Experimental removal of adult S. muticum resulted in a significant increase in giant kelp recruitment compared to nonremoval areas. Two requirements for the successful establishment of giant kelp appeared to be: 1) an absence of S. muticum, and 2) the presence of nearby giant kelp adults to supply sufficient spores. Higher densities of giant kelp in removal areas persisted throughout the period when S. muticum dies back to a perennial holdfast. Shading at a critical time in the giant kelp life cycle is suggested äs a possible mechanism for the Inhibition of giant kelp recruitment.
Morphometrics, Distribution, Growth, and Maturity of Offshore Sand Launce (Ammodytes dubius) on the Nova Scotia Banks

A population of Ammodytes dubius occurs on the Nova Scotia banks, the fish being much larger than those reported previously for the species. The ranges of vertebral and anal fin ray numbers for A. dubius are extended. Research records of the launce, from catches and from stomach contents of predators, indicate that it is widely distributed over the banks throughout the year, but is concentrated in depths of 20–50 fath. Maturity data show that it is a winter spawner. A tentative growth curve, based on age–length determinations using otoliths, indicates that the growth pattern is similar to that of A. lanceolatus. The launce is shown to be an important item in the diet of cod and a constituent, in the egg or the adult stage, in the diets of many other commercially exploited fishes of the Nova Scotia banks.
Stress-Based Metrics Revisited: A Comparative Exercise in Scansion Systems and their Implications for Iambic Pentameter

1. Theories of Metre, Theories of Language Harvey Gross once characterized the field of prosody as populated by a group of ‘cranks and faddists’. 1 Truly, few fields have suffered so much from fundamental disagreements over basic terminology, splintering metrists into a wide array of schools, charted helpfully by TVF Brogan in his English Versification, 1570-1980. According to that taxonomy, there are quantitative, temporal, and stress-based approaches, to which we today might add phrasal and cognitive approaches as well. Yet, over the past fifty years, what we might term popular discussion of the field has been dominated by two approaches within the stress-based school: traditional stress metrics and generative metrics. Traditional stress metrics, widely adopted by prosody handbooks and pedagogic poetic texts, takes its terminology from the discourse about Classical metres. Generative metrics applies the theory and terminology of generative linguistics to poetic metre. To the extent that average readers today even think of metre, they most likely think in terms of one of these conventional methodologies (or they may know of more novel approaches adapted from them by individual practitioners like Peter Groves,
Transient-state Kinetics of Enzyme IICB , a Glucose Transporter of the Glc Phospho enol pyruvate Phosphotransferase System of Escherichia coli : EQUILIBRIUM AND SECOND ORDER RATE CONSTANTS FOR THE GLUCOSE BINDING AND PHOSPHOTRANSFER REACTIONS

During translocation across the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli, glucose is phosphorylated by phospho-IIA and Enzyme IICB, the last two proteins in the phosphotransfer sequence of the phosphoenolpyruvate:glucose phosphotransferase system. Transient state (rapid quench)methods were used to determine the second order rate constants that describe the phosphotransfer reactions (phospho-IIA to IICB to Glc) and also the second order rate constants for the transfer from phospho-IIA to molecularly cloned IIB, the soluble, cytoplasmic domain of IICB. The rate constants for the forward and reverse phosphotransfer reactions between IIA and IICB were 3.9 10 and 0.31 10 M 1 s , respectively, and the rate constant for the physiologically irreversible reaction between [P]IICB and Glc was 3.2 10 M 1 s . From the rate constants, the equilibrium constants for the transfer of the phospho-group fromHis of [P]IIA to the phosphorylation site Cys of IIB or IICB were found to be 3.5 and 12, respectively. These equilibrium constants signify that the thiophospho-group in these proteins has a high phosphotransfer potential, similar to that of the phosphohistidinyl phosphotransferase system proteins. In these studies, preparations of IICB were invariably found to contain endogenous, firmly bound Glc (estimatedK D 10 M). TheboundGlcwaskineticallycompetentandwas rapidly phosphorylated, indicating that IICB has a randomorder, Bi Bi, substituted enzyme mechanism. The equilibrium constant for the bindingofGlcwasdeduced fromdifferences in the statistical goodness of fit of the phosphotransfer data to the kineticmodel.
Bio-Economics of Tropical Spiny Lobster Farming in Indonesia

Significant tropical spiny lobster puerulus settlements have been found in bays around central Indonesia, leading to the development of lobster growout aquaculture starting in 2008. In recent years grow-out farming has all but stopped due to the development in 2013 of the export market for lobster juveniles to Vietnam, as well as the 2015 introduction of a government policy banning capture of small wild-caught lobsters. We compare results of a 2016 recall survey of 96 lobster farming households with 2011 survey data. Before the industry’s demise, lobster grow-out was only marginally profitability due to the lack of low-cost juveniles and inefficient feeding practices. We recommend lifting the government ban on wild capture of small lobster to allow the legal benefit of juvenile exports and to allow the aquaculture industry to regenerate. We suggest that the government could best serve the lobster industry by investing in research into sustainable fishing of the puerulus resource and low-cost formulated lobster diets.
COMPARING MACHINE LEARNING METHODS ON CONCEPT DRIFT DETECTION FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE

In this work we present a comparison of various machine learning algorithms with the objective of detecting concept drifts in data streams characteristical for condition monitoring of industrial production plants. Although there is a fair number of contributions employing machine learning algorithms in related fields such as traditional time series forecasting or concept drift learning, data sets with sensor streams from a production plant are rarely covered. This work aims at shedding some light on the matter of how efficient the depicted algorithms perform on concept drift detection to pave the way for Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and which intermediate data processing steps therefore might be beneficial.
Immunologic responses against hydrolyzed soy protein in dogs with experimentally induced soy hypersensitivity.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether dogs with experimentally induced type I hypersensitivity against soy protein would respond to soy hydrolysate and develop cutaneous or gastrointestinal tract reactions after intradermal and oral challenge exposure. ANIMALS 12 naïve Beagle pups (9 sensitized and 3 control dogs). PROCEDURE 9 dogs were sensitized against soy protein by administration of allergens during a 90-day period. After the sensitization period, serum concentrations of soy-specific IgE were determined and an intradermal test was performed to confirm the dogs were sensitized against soy protein. An intradermal challenge test and an oral challenge test with native and hydrolyzed soy protein were conducted on 6 sensitized and 2 control dogs. RESULTS High serum concentrations of soy-specific IgE and positive results for the intradermal test were observed for the 9 sensitized dogs after completion of the sesitization process. Sensitized dogs challenge exposed with hydrolyzed soy protein had a reduced inflammatory response after intradermal injection and no clinical response after an oral challenge exposure, compared with responses after intradermal and oral challenge exposure with native soy protein. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Soy-sensitized dogs did not respond to oral administration of hydrolyzed soy protein. Thus, hydrolyzed soy protein may be useful in diets formulated for the management of dogs with adverse reactions to food.
Biological Aspects of Endemism in Higher Plants

Rarity of all sorts piques the curiosity of humans. Rare objects, whether discoveries of natural origin or artifacts of cultures, arc avidly sought by collectors and are treasured, housed, and exhibited for the benefit of others. This fascination with that which is rare may partially explain the naturalists' and systematists' time-honored preoccupation with rare and endemic taxa. To be sure, there are sound justifications for acquiring and studying rare organisms. But we suspect that the rarity-seeking syndrome in humans has fostered much of the biologist's preoccupation with rare and endemic plants and animals. The late twentieth century has witnessed exceptional concern for rare organ­ isms and at the same time has seen many rare plants and animals brought close to extinction (22) . The extirpation of rare taxa as well as efforts to preserve rare organisms is the product of the vast human influence on the world's biota. Threatened or endangered taxa have received prime press coverage and, in some instances, legal protection. The Rare and Endangered Species Act of 1973 (US 92nd Congress) and subsequent congressional actions constitute one such response to the threatened loss of the rarer examples of biological divers­ ity. We have no problem, then, in finding a wealth of literature on efforts to conserve rare species. Sources of information on what is rare and on the magnitude of the threat to survival range from the Federal Register's list of
The Stata Journal

In this article, I discuss a method by Erikson et al. (2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102: 9730–9733) for decomposing a total effect in a logit model into direct and indirect effects. Moreover, I extend this method in three ways. First, in the original method the variable through which the indirect effect occurs is assumed to be normally distributed. In this article, the method is generalized by allowing this variable to have any distribution. Second, the original method did not provide standard errors for the estimates. In this article, the bootstrap is proposed as a method of providing those. Third, I show how to include control variables in this decomposition, which was not allowed in the original method. The original method and these extensions are implemented in the ldecomp command.
Predicting marine phytoplankton community size structure from empirical relationships with remotely sensed variables

The size composition of primary producers has a potential influence on the length of marine food chains and carbon sinking rates, thus on the proportion of primary production (PP) that is removed from the upper layers and available to higher trophic levels. While total rates of PP are widely reported, it is also necessary to account for the size composition of primary producers when developing food web models that predict consumer biomass and production. Empirical measurement of size composition over large space and time scales is not feasible, so one approach is to predict size composition from environmental variables that are measured and reported on relevant scales. Here, we describe relationships between the environment and the size composition of phytoplankton communities, using a collation of empirical measurements of size composition from sites that include polar, tropical and upwelling environments. The size composition of the phytoplankton communities can be predicted using two remotely sensed variables, chlorophyll-a concentration and sea surface temperature. Applying such relationships in combination allows prediction of the slope and location of phytoplankton size spectra and estimation of the percentage of different sized phytoplankton groups in communities.
Prediction and Analysis of Degree of Suicidal Ideation in Online Content

Machine learning (ML) has increasingly been used to address the growing burden of mental illness and lack of access to quality mental health care. Recently such models have been applied to online data, such as social media postings to augment mental health screening. Despite the potential of these methods, online ML classifiers still perform poorly in multi-class settings. In this thesis, we propose the usage of novel document embeddings and mental health based user embeddings for triaged suicide risk screening. Machine learning to infer suicide risk and urgency is applied to a dataset of Reddit users in which the risk and urgency labels were derived from crowdsource consensus. We show that the document embedding approach outperforms count-based baselines and a method based on word importance, where important words were identified by domain experts. We examine interpretable features and methods that help to discern and explain risk labels. Finally, we find, using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model, that users labeled at-risk for suicide post about different topics to the rest of Reddit than non-suicidal users. Thesis Supervisor: Rosalind Picard Title: Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Harmonic Signal Seperation in Domestic Loads through Blind Source Technique

The harmonic signals measured at the main power supply that contains various unknown original independent harmonics are analysed using an enhanced Fast ICA algorithm using Blind Source Separation Technique. Using the FastICA the harmonics signals are separated by the differentiating factor of the power loads and are analyzed. The mixed signal is measured with a current sensor and goes through the existing FastICA unction and cross-correlation of signals that are developed to separate and identify multiple unknown type of appliance. Keywords-blind source separation, harmonic analysis, domestic loads
Regeneration of plants from rice caryopsis derived callus culture of Nigerian local cv. Suakoko 8 and a NERICA cv. FARO 55

The regeneration protocol for rice plants from callus culture obtained from dehusked and sterilized whole rice seeds (caryopses) of a popular Nigerian local cultivar Suakoko 8, and a NERICA cultivar FARO 55 is described. Utilizing a modified Nippon Barre medium (NBm) consisting of: Macro N6, Micro B5, Fe-EDTA, B5 vitamin and 30 mg/l of locally produced St Louis® sugar (to save cost) supplemented with casein hydrolysate and proline, and with cytokinin and auxin hormones (ratio 1:10), profuse and friable calli were obtained at 25oC in the darkness. The friable calli produced were transferred to fresh medium once every week for three weeks before transferring them to pre-regeneration medium containing ABA and NAA (replacing 2-4,D in the callus induction medium), and incubated for 9 days in the darkness at 25oC. Finally the creamy calli were transferred into regeneration medium containing high cytokinin (3 mg l–1 BAP) with incubation at 28oC and 12 h – photoperiod. Regeneration of plantlets was obtained between two to four weeks of transfer on the regeneration medium. The regeneration frequency (efficiency) of 53 and 42% were obtained for Suakoko 8 and FARO 55. Regenerated plants also produced viable seeds and hence fertile plants. Key words: Embryogenic calli, regeneration, Suakoko 8, FARO 55, new rice for Africa (NERICA), Oryza sativa, Oryza glaberrima.
ESTIMATING THE PARAMETERS OF SURVIVAL AND MIGRATION OF INDIVIDUALS IN METAPOPULATIONS

Ecologists working with metapopulations are interested in the rate of migration among several local populations, mortality during migration, and the scaling of migration rate with habitat patch area and isolation. We describe a model of individual capture histories obtained from multisite mark–release–recapture studies, which allows one to measure these parameters using maximum likelihood estimation. The model yields separate estimates of mortality within habitat patches and mortality during migration, on the assumption that only the latter is affected by the isolation of the source population. The model is suitable for studies involving 10 or more populations, with differences in habitat patch areas and isolation, and in which several hundred individuals have been marked and recaptured. We apply the model to a metapopulation of the butterfly Melitaea diamina with 14 local populations, 557 marked individuals, and 1301 recaptures. Immigration and emigration scaled as patch area to power 0.2. Roughly half of the daily losses of individuals from habitat patches of 1 ha in area were due to emigration, 1 km, and 16% of all deaths were estimated to have occurred during migration. Programs are available to calculate the parameter estimates, their confidence intervals, and goodness-of-fit tests.
Využití svalového laloku v rekonstrukci recidivy ischiadického dekubitu

Aim: Our aim was to analyze the results of surgical reconstruction of recurrent ischiadic pressure ulcer using the turnover hamstring fl ap and to describe the re-use of turnover biceps femoris fl ap in recurrent ischiadic pressure ulcer. Materials and methods: There were 16 patients included in our study (15 male, with the mean age of 47 years), who underwent reconstruction of recurrent ischiadic pressure ulcer between 1. 1. 2016 and 31. 5. 2018 using the turnover hamstring muscle fl ap in combination with fasciocutaneous posterior thigh fl ap. The recurrence and complications during the one-year follow-up were recorded. Results: There was one recurrence (6.25%) and five complications (31.25%) during the one-year follow-up. All complications were healed conservatively (without surgery). Conclusion: The recurrence of ischiadic pressure ulcer depends not only on the method of surgical reconstruction, but also on the general and nutritional state of the patient, compliance of the patient and other factors. The turnover hamstring muscle fl ap seems as a reasonable option for reconstruction of the recurrent ischiadic pressure ulcer.
Microbial diversity in soil: effect of releasing genetically engineered micro‐organisms

This review examines the potential for change in microbial diversity, with the emphasis on bacteria, in soil resulting from the introduction of genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs). With the advent of GEMs came the impetus for new technologies to recover these micro‐organisms from soil and to assess their effects on microbial diversity. This review also presents general aspects of and genetic approaches to accessing bacterial diversity in the environment.