Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Uma Abordagem não Intrusiva para Reconhecimento de Atividades em Casas Inteligentes Explorando Processamento Semântico*

O objetivo deste trabalho, denominado EXEHDA-AR (Execution Environment for Highly Distributed Applications-Activity Recognition), é prover recursos arquiteturais que permitam o reconhecimento de atividades no middleware EXEHDA, explorando uma abordagem baseada em processamento semântico. Para tanto foram concebidos componentes arquiteturais, os quais foram integrados ao Subsistema de Reconhecimento de Contexto e Adaptação do EXEHDA. Um estudo de caso sobre casas inteligentes foi desenvolvido para avaliar as funcionalidades propostas para o EXEHDA-AR, sendo obtida uma acurácia média de 94,36% no reconhecimento de atividades. Estes resultados apontam que métodos baseados em processamento semântico constituem uma alternativa viável, com baixo nível de intrusão.
A New Design of Robust H∞ Load-Frequency Controller for Optimal Coordination of Energy Generation in Power System Stability Using LMI Approach

This paper presents the problem of robust H∞ load frequency controller design and robust H￥ based approach called advanced frequency control (AFC). The objective is to split the task of balancing frequency deviations introduced by renewable energy source (RES) and load variations according to the capabilities of storage and generators. The problem we address is to design an output feedback controller such that, all admissible parameter uncertainties, the closed-loop system satisfies not only the prespecified H∞ norm constraint on the transfer function from the disturbance input to the system output. The conventional generators mainly balance the low-frequency components and load variations while the energy storage devices compensate the high- frequency components. In order to enable the controller design for storage devices located at buses with no generators, a model for the frequency at such a bus is developed. Then, AEC controllers are synthesized through decentralized static output feedback to reduce the complexity. The conditions for the existence of desired controllers are derived in terms of a linear matrix inequality (LMI) algorithm is improved. From the simulation results, the system responses with the proposed controller are the best transient responses.
Protective Role of Some Feed Additives against Dizocelpine Induced Oxidative Stress in Testes of Rabbit Bucks

As optimization of farm animals reproductive performance is a main objective, the present study was, undertaken to investigate the possible protective effect of vitamin C, vitamin E and olive pomace against dizocilpine (MK-801) induced oxidative stress and its resultant alterations on antioxidant status, spermiogram, hormonal, enzyme markers and histomorphology of testes of rabbit bucks during first and second month of the experiment. For this purpose thirty six male New Zealand White rabbits bucks were equally and randomly divided into six groups (6 in each) namely control injected with 1.0 ml sterile saline; second group was injected by dizocilpine at a dose 0.1 mg/kg. intraperitoneally (i.p.) for 5 consecutive days, the third group was subjected to dizocilpine and supplemented with “vitamin C” (1 g/L of drinking water) 1 g contain 100 I.U. vit C, while the forth group was subjected to dizocilpine and supplemented with “vitamin E” (50 ml/100 L of drinking water,1ml contain 20 I.U. vit E,) and those of the fifth group were supplemented with “vitamin C” plus “vitamin E”. All five groups were fed the same basal diet, while the sixth group was subjected to dizocilpine and fed diet which contains olive cake meal (10%). Results in first month revealed (1) significant decrease in spermiogram, antioxidative parameters, testicular estradiol, testosterone, enzyme markers and clear pathological changes in testes of dizocilpine group; (2) Significant improvement in the measured parameters of groups subjected to dizocilpine and supplemented with “vitamin E”, “vitamin C” and olive pomace; (3) significant increase of all measured parameters in the “vitamin C” plus “vitamin E” supplemented group. On the other hand, results at second month showed no difference between all groups in these parameters. Conclusively, it was obvious that the supplementation with vitamin C or/and vitamin E and olive pomace to male rabbits exposed to oxidative stress was associated with improved spermiogram, anti-oxidative parameters, hormonal and testicular enzymatic activities.
Use of non-classical feed resources and their influence on some performance indicators in rabbits.

Generally, it has been pronounced that the demand for animal products worldwide will drastically increase due to population boom in turn putting pressure on animal production systems. In view of meeting animal protein demand, suggestions have been put forward to the effect that mini-livestock production, which include rabbits should be part of the mainstream animal production strategies. However, it has been noted that commercial rabbit production has been adversely affected by the high cost of feeding and use of traditional feed stuff (grain and soya bean) that have direct competition with humans for food. There has been an unbearable continued increase in the cost of traditional feed resources (soya been, maize, millet, groundnut, fish meal etc.) in the past decade, which in turn has led to exorbitant rabbit feed prices and consequently expensive rabbit meat and their products. This on the backdrop that feeding is a very critical aspect of rabbit production enterprise that influence overall performance (growth, mortality, reproduction, carcass and meat quality) in rabbits. In this aspect, it has been recommended to explore non-classical (alternative or non-traditional or non-conventional) feed resources to depart from exorbitant cost of feeding and the cost related influence of feed resources due to direct competition between rabbits and humans for food, while maintaining improved rabbit productivity. A series of studies have been carried out targeted on some local non-classical feed resources on account of their nutritional values, as energy and protein sources in rabbits’ diets. The inferiority and unbalance nutritive quality of some of the non-classical feed resources is a major challenge which restrict their successful use in rabbit production. Initial assessment of some non-classical feed resources has reported low nutritive value that distinctly depress voluntary feed intake and nutrient digestibility which in turn adversely affect weight gain in rabbits. However, some non-classical feed resources tested have shown marked potential as energy and protein substitute sources in rabbits’ diets to enhance production. This point to the fact that successful use of non-classical feed resources can mitigate the current high cost and shortage of traditional feedstuffs, and also lessen the potential high competition between rabbits and humans on food. The purpose of this review is to discuss the use of non-classical feed resources and their influence on some performance indicators.
Deconstruyendo los trastornos del espectro autista: perspectiva clínica

El trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) es un termino utilizado para describir un grupo heterogeneo de ninos, cuyas caracteristicas comportamentales se solapan con manifestaciones clinicas de diversos trastornos del desarrollo, definido por su comportamiento. El TEA se debe a muchas etiologias, y su heterogeneidad genetica y fenotipica es consistente con bases moleculares clinicas y geneticas complejas, pero significativas. La heterogeneidad clinica y biologica del TEA es congruente con el punto de vista de que el TEA es la expresion de un desarrollo cerebral atipico que da lugar a manifestaciones clinicas variables, que reflejan diferentes vias geneticas y moleculares especificas. Es probable que existan genes de riesgo y factores precoces del entorno para el TEA que contribuyan a una trayectoria aberrante del desarrollo cerebral y de la conducta. Estas alteraciones llevan, hipoteticamente, a una interaccion social alterada y, como resultado, al desarrollo anormal de redes neuronales criticas para la interaccion comunicativa y social. Todo ello amplifica el desarrollo del proceso sociocomunicativo anormal, dando lugar a un sindrome de TEA completo. Hay esperanza en que la intervencion temprana pueda alterar estos problemas precoces del desarrollo y reconducir al nino a una trayectoria evolutiva mas tipica. Se discuten las limitaciones de la triada conductual utilizada para el diagnostico del TEA, especialmente se presentara una perspectiva de como estos resultados afectan el diagnostico y tratamiento de los ninos con TEA y de las fronteras clinicas del espectro autista.
Use of Ionic Liquid Under Vacuum Conditions

Ionic liquid (IL) is a kind of salt that can stay as a liquid phase even at room temperature. However, researchers sometimes prefer to call it room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) to distinguish between liquid salt at around room temperature and that at high temperature. Fig. 1 shows structural formulas of well-known ILs with their names and abbreviations. The liquid possesses several attracting characteristics like high ionic conductivity, wide electro‐ chemical windows, and negligible vapor pressure [1-5]. All features imply that IL has high stability and inertness, which have become very useful to utilize IL as electrolytes for Li-ion secondary batteries and PEM fuel cells, reaction solvents for organic synthesis and nanopar‐ ticle preparation, and lubricants usable in cosmic space [4].
NONLINEAR STIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE THERAPY OF BRAIN DISORDERS AND EFFICACY OF COGNITIVE TRAINING.

* Zueva Marina Vladimirovna 1 . Professor of Pathophysiology, Dr. Biol. Sci., Head of the Department of Clinical Physiology of Vision,Federal State Budgetary Institution ―Moscow Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases", Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, 14/19 Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya Street, Moscow, 105062, Russian Federation. Manuscript Info Abstract . Manuscript History
Sensory Perception of Selected Phenolic Acids Found in Whole Grains

SENSORY PERCEPTION OF SELECTED PHENOLIC ACIDS FOUND IN WHOLE GRAINS Allison Langfried Advisor: University of Guelph, 2013 Professor L. Duizer This thesis is an investigation of the sensory attributes of selected phenolic acids found in whole grains. Salivary protein-phenolic acid interactions were also investigated using SDSPAGE to further understand possible mechanisms of astringency development in low molecular weight polyphenols. Sensory attributes of aqueous solutions of ferulic acid and vanillic acid were determined to be sour, bitter and astringent, as determined by a trained panel. Time-intensity studies on the temporal component of bitterness, sourness and astringency of phenolic acids revealed that bitterness and astringency of the phenolic acid solutions increased with repeated exposures. The precipitation of salivary proteins was not found to be required for the development of astringency of ferulic, vanillic or gallic acid. These results suggest that salivary protein binding activity may not be an accurate measure of the astringency of all polyphenols.
Wavelet estimation of semiparametric errors in variables model

Most of the work on wavelet estimation when the variables are measured with errors have centered around nonparametric approaches which cause curse of dimensionality. In this paper it is aimed to avoid this complexity using wavelet semiparametric errors in variables regression model. Using theoretical arguments for nonparametric wavelet estimation a wavelet approach is represented to estimate partially linear errors in variables model which is a semiparametric model when explanatory variable of nonparametric part has measurement error. Assuming that the measurement error has a known distribution we derive an estimator of the linear parts' parameter. In simulation study derived method is compared with no measurement error case.
Observational constraints on recent increases in the atmospheric CH4 burden

Measurements of atmospheric CH4 from air samples collected weekly at 46 remote surface sites show that, after a decade of near‐zero growth, globally averaged atmospheric methane increased during 2007 and 2008. During 2007, CH4 increased by 8.3 ± 0.6 ppb. CH4 mole fractions averaged over polar northern latitudes and the Southern Hemisphere increased more than other zonally averaged regions. In 2008, globally averaged CH4 increased by 4.4 ± 0.6 ppb; the largest increase was in the tropics, while polar northern latitudes did not increase. Satellite and in situ CO observations suggest only a minor contribution to increased CH4 from biomass burning. The most likely drivers of the CH4 anomalies observed during 2007 and 2008 are anomalously high temperatures in the Arctic and greater than average precipitation in the tropics. Near‐zero CH4 growth in the Arctic during 2008 suggests we have not yet activated strong climate feedbacks from permafrost and CH4 hydrates.
LE-PAROLE Project: The Italian Syntactic Lexicon

This paper presents a large scale Syntactic Computational Lexicon, representative of Italian modem language use. The entries were in fact selected on frequency criteria from the n x Corpus and the syntactic patterns encoded were partly inferred from their contexts of occurrence. This lexicon was elaborated in the framework of the EC LE-PAROLE project which developed large, generic and re-usable written language resources in most EU languages. The lexica linguistic specifications, based on EAGLES recommendations and on the GENELEX model, were implemented in the LE-PAROLE model. This paper aims to provide an overview of the Italian instantiation of the PAROLE syntactic lexicon and of the coverage of the syntactic structures handled. It illustrates languagespecific linguistic and lexicographic choices concerning crucial issues to a lexicon building process.
Estimation of the Demand for Money in Iran

Recent studies of monetary demand indicate that simple sum measurement of monetary aggregates in money demand is invalid; unless the monetary components of aggregates are perfect substitutes. Thus all predictions of monetary policies based on simple sum method of aggregation should be reevaluated. This paper focuses on the demand for money in Iran and utilizes the demand systems approach in the context of locally Flexible Functional Forms – the Generalized Leontief (GL). It also pays explicit attention to the theoretical regularity conditions of positivity, monotonicity and curvature. Without satisfaction of all these theoretical regularity conditions, the resulting inferences are worthless. The resulting estimates indicate that the Morishima elasticities of substitution between demand deposits and time deposits are less than unity, which indicates a low elasticities of substitution among these two monetary components.
How can we evaluate conservation auctions? Three Possible methods

By design, tenders are used when costs are unknown. But if costs are unknown, how can we evaluate the tenders, when their evaluation involves measuring their cost-effectiveness? We identify three approaches: theoretical, empirical and experimental. We first use experimental data to compare the efficiency of each approach, then apply the most efficient one to field data from the Scottish fishing vessel decommissioning program. We estimate the potential errors one would make in using a less efficient approach. In this case, we demonstrate a novel use of controlled lab experiments for interpreting field data and evaluating policy effectiveness.
Potential of Bacterial Endophytes as Plant Growth Promoting Factors

Endophytes colonize plants without causing any negative effects on them. They share a symbiotic relationship with their host and exert beneficial effects on them. They use various direct and indirect mechanisms to promote plant growth. A number of culture dependent and independent methods have been used to isolate and study endophytic bacteria. The endophyte communities isolated mainly belong to Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes. Bacteria utilize certain traits to colonize plants. In this colonization process various compounds released by both plants as well as bacteria play a major role. The plant growth promoting effects of bacterial endophytes have been seen in numerous important crops and it has been observed that they confer protection from various environmental stress factors as well.
Nanoemulsion: A Novel Drug Delivery Tool

Nanoemulsion (NE) is defined as an O/W or W/O emulsion producing a transparent product that has a droplet size from 20-200nm and does not have the tendency to coalesce. It is promising for transdermal delivery of drugs as an efficient route of drug administration. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the advantages of nanoemulsions for the transdermal delivery of drugs. In transdermal delivery, the goal of dosage design is to maximize the flux through the skin into systemic circulation. A useful strategy for improving percutaneous flux is to improve the concentration of drug or choose an appropriate vehicle for the transdermal delivery. The nanoemulsions system should be a promising vehicle due to powerful ability to deliver drug through skins. With these approaches, the aim of this present study is to review the potential of nanoemulsion formulation for transdermal delivery of pure phytopharmaceuticals and poorly soluble drugs. Some nanoemulsions have however exhibited sufficiently high level of stability for them to be proposed as vehicle for drug delivery. Using the transdermal route eliminates the side effects, increases patient compliance, avoids first-pass metabolism, enhance bioavailability and maintains the plasma drug level for a longer period of time. Cosmetics formulations require this delivery system in order to show their effect more prominently.
Performance Evaluation and Comparative Analysis of Different Filters for Noise Reduction

The quality of microscopic images is generally degraded during the image acquisition by quantizing noise, electrical noise, light illumination etc. Noise reduction is considered as a very important preprocessing step as the quality of the images can determine the accuracy of the results. The work done focuses on the noise reduction using different filters on the different types of noises applied on the common digital images and specifically the Leukemia images. 40 images were taken for the comparison purpose; 20 digital images and 20 Leukemia images of different types of Leukemia. The qualitative as well as quantitative analysis of the performance of the filters on the different noises is done. For the quantitative analysis the parameters used for the evaluation of the images are MSE, PSNR and CoC. For the qualitative analysis visual analysis in terms of quality is also done using the resultant images and their histograms. Simulation has been done in Matlab 11b. From the test cases it has been observed that Adaptive Filter produces good results on Salt and Pepper, Speckle and Gaussian noise in case of the digital images. Whereas in case of Leukemia images results of Median Filter are best for the Gaussian, Poisson and Speckle noise corrupted images.
Rhamm-/- mice are defective in skin wound repair due to aberrant ERK1,2 signaling in fibroblast migration

Rhamm-/- mice are defective in skin wound repair due to aberrant ERK1,2 signaling in fibroblast migration. Cornelia Tolg 1 , Sara R. Hamilton 2 , Kari-Anne 3 , Paul Walton 3 , James B. McCarthy 4 , Mina J. Bissell 5 , Eva A. Turley 3* London Regional Cancer Program, Cancer Research Laboratories (London, Ontario, Canada); London Regional Cancer Program, Cancer Research Laboratories (London, Ontario, Canada) Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and University of Minnesota and Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada); Canada) Comprehensive Cancer Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA); Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA). * To whom correspondence should be addressed London Regional Cancer Program 790 Commissioners Rd E, London, Ontario, Canada N6A4L6 Business Phone: 519-685-8600 ext 53677 FAX: 519-685-6816 Home Phone: 519-675-1883 Email: eva.turley@lhsc.on. ca Condensed title: Repair of skin wounds is aberrant in Rhamm-/- mice Key words: hyaluronan, Rhamm, CD44, ERK1, CD168, fibroplasia, wound repair Number of characters (not including Materials and Methods): 49,815 Number of characters in Materials and Methods: 11,261 Number of words in Abstract: 161
The mysterious Of?p class and the magnetic O-Star Θ1 Ori C: confronting observations

In recent years, the stars of the Of? p category have revealed a wealth of peculiar phenomena: varying line proles, photometric changes, and X-ray overluminosity are only a few of their characteristics. Here we review their physical properties to facilitate comparisons among the Galactic members of this class. As one of them has been proposed to resemble the magnetic oblique rotator θ1 Ori C, though with a longer period, this latter object is also included in our study to illuminate its similarities and differences with the Of? p category.
Physical, chemical and microbiological aspects during the dry and rainy seasons in a pond covered by macrophyte used in aquaculture water supply

OBJETIVO: O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar durante as estacoes seca e estacao chuvosa a qualidade da agua de um viveiro, coberto por macrofitas, utilizado como sistema de abastecimento de agua para aquicultura; METODOS: Foram estabelecidos 6 pontos para a coleta das amostras de agua na superficie do viveiro, envolvendo entradas e saidas da agua. As coletas foram realizadas mensalmente entre junho de 2008 e maio de 2009; RESULTADOS: Os pontos P1, P2 e P3 devido a entrada de agua no viveiro apresentaram maiores concentracoes de nutrientes com elevado estado trofico e, a entrada de capivaras nestes locais promoveu a suspensao do sedimento e aumento de coliformes fecais. Ha significativas diferencas (p < 0,05) nas concentracoes de nutrientes na agua entre seca e chuva, com o escoamento de agua gerado pela precipitacao carreando material do entorno do viveiro para a agua; CONCLUSOES: O sistema estudado sofre influencia direta da precipitacao e da ausencia de manejo adequado da area do entorno. Durante a estacao chuvosa a qualidade da agua ficou comprometida com aumento da concentracao de nutrientes, coliformes fecais e reducao do oxigenio dissolvido na agua, devido ao material aloctone proveniente da area ao redor do viveiro, afetando negativamente o sistema de abastecimento.
Understanding car ownership motivations among Indonesian students

ABSTRACT Car and motorcycle ownership levels are increasing rapidly in southeast Asian developing countries, leading to unsustainable developments. In this article we focus on car ownership motivations in Bandung, Indonesia, where cars have become the main contributor to traffic congestion. We suggest that attitudes toward cars are important for explaining car ownership trends. Using data from 500 undergraduate students from one university in Bandung, this study constructs five factors regarding car perception through principle component analysis: symbolic/affective, arrogant prestige, independence, comfort, and social/env. care. These five factors plus some sociodemographic variables, such as monthly income, are used as explanatory variables for modeling car ownership using structural equation modeling. Our results suggest that primarily independence, arrogant prestige, and some sociodemographic variables significantly influence car purchase decisions. We discuss tentative implications for transport policy, given the limitations of our sample.