Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
STRUCTURAL CORRELATION METHOD FOR PRACTICAL ESTIMATION OF PATIENT SPECIFIC PARAMETERS IN HEART RATE REGULATION

Numerous mathematical models have been proposed for prediction of baroreflex regulation of heart rate. Most models have been designed to provide qualitative pr edictions of the phenomena, though some recent model s have been developed to predict observed data. In th is study we show how sensitivity and correlation analy sis can be used for model reduction and for obtaining a set of identifiable parameters that can be estimated re liably given a model and an associated set of data. We sho w that the model developed by Bugenhagen et al. to predict heart rate dynamics in the Dahl SS rat can be simplified significantly, without loss of its abili ty to predict measured data.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs): Improvement of pulmonary function after percutaneous vertebroplasty

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The Synergistic Contribution of Lactobacillus and Dietary Phytophenols in Host Health

Phytophenols are found ubiquitously among all plants. They are important in diets rich in fruits and vegetables because these compounds provide health benefits to the host, ultimately decreasing the incidence of chronic diseases. These compounds act as natural antioxidants and provide anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibiotic, and antineoplastic properties. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced under normal physiological functions, and low/moderate levels are required for cellular turnover and signaling. However, when ROS levels become too high, oxidative stress can occur. Phytophenols quench ROS and ultimately avoid the damaging effects ROS elicit on the cell. The highest source of bioavailable phytophenols comes from our diet as a component usually esterified in plant fiber. For phytophenols to be absorbed by the body, they must be released by esterases, or other related enzymes. The highest amount of esterase activity comes from the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota; therefore, the host requires the activity of mutualis‐ tic bacteria in the GI tract to release absorbable phytophenols. For this reason, mutualis‐ tic bacteria have been investigated for beneficial properties in the host. Our laboratory has begun studying the interaction of Lactobacillus johnsonii N6.2 with the host since it was found to be negatively correlated with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Analyses of this strain have revealed two important characteristics: (1) It has the ability to release phytophenols from dietary fiber through the secretion of two strong cinnamoyl esterases and (2) L. johnso‐ nii also has the ability to generate significant amounts of H 2 O 2 , controlling the activity of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an immunomodulatory enzyme. Kd domain
First Record Of The Non-Native Pacu, Piaractus Brachypomus, In Lago Petén-Itzá, Guatemala, Central America

We documented the first record of the non-native species Piaractus brachypomus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) in Lago PeténItzá, Petén, Guatemala. One brined specimen was donated by a local fisherman in San Benito, El Petén. The captured specimen was reportedly collected in the southern basin of the lake. We used the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase I (COI) to validate identity of the specimen. We hypothesize that the local aquarium trade is the most likely source of introduction of the non-native Pacu in Lago Petén-Itzá. RESUMEN Documentamos el primer registro de la especie no nativa Piaractus brachypomus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) en el lago Petén Itzá, Petén, Guatemala. Un espécimen colectado en la cuenca sur del lago por pescadores locales de San Benito, Petén nos fue donado. La identificación a nivel de especie fue realizada utilizando el gen mitocondrial citocromo oxidasa I (COI). Hipotetizamos que individuos provenientes de acuarios ornamentales son la fuente más plausible de la introducción del pez no nativo Pacu en el lago Petén Itzá.
Regulation of Lactate Dehydrogenase in Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) Gills during Acclimation to Salinity Challenge

Upon salinity challenge, euryhaline teleosts immediately regulate the functions of many ion transporters and enzymes in gill mitochondrion-rich (MR) cells in order to maintain their internal homeostasis. A large amount of energy is necessary to operate these transporters and enzymes; however, the mechanism of energy metabolism in fish gills is still unclear. In the present study, tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) was used as a model animal to investigate the roles of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the energy metabolism of fish gills during acclimation to seawater (SW) challenge. Results of LDH isozyme gel electrophoresis and Western blotting demonstrated that LDH1 is the major form and LDH5 the minor form expressed in tilapia gill epithelial cells. Immunocytochemical experiments indicated that both LDH1 and LDH5 were expressed in MR cells (using Na(superscript +)-K(superscript +)-ATPase as a marker). Protein expression levels of LDH1 and citrate synthase (CS) increased immediately in the 1st hour of acclimation to SW, while that of LDH5 was significantly enhanced during the 1st-3rd h. Taken together, an energy metabolism model in gill epithelial cells during SW acclimation is proposed: the tricarboxylic acid cycle in MR cells is stimulated to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which initially triggers salt secretion; conversion of pyruvate to lactate is subsequently stimulated to enhance anaerobic respiration to produce additional energy.
Euroscepticism and the Global Financial Crisis

This article explores the link between the financial crisis and Euroscepticism at the level of public opinion, building on and developing further the literature on the impact of economic, identity and institutional factors on Euroscepticism. It argues that the economic crisis did not substantially bring economic factors back in as an important source of Euroscepticism, even though the most pronounced increase in Euroscepticism has taken place in the countries most affected by the crisis. By contrast, national identity and political institutions play an increasingly important role in explaining public Euroscepticism.
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria as Growth Promoters for Wheat: A Review

Wheat is the major grain that sustains humanity. Wheat grown in temperate climate and it is staple food for 35% of world’s population. On other hand, it provides more calories and protein in the diet than any other crop. Wheat (Triticum spp., most commonly T. aestivum) is a cereal grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) originally from the Levant region but now cultivated worldwide. In 2016, world production of wheat was 749 million tonnes, making, it the second most-produced cereal after maize (1.03 billion tonnes), with more than rice (499 million tonnes) (United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization. 2016). Since 1960, world production of wheat and other grain crops has tripled and is expected to grow further through the middle of the 21st Century. World trade in wheat is greater than for all other crops combined. Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetal protein in human food, having a protein content of about 12% [1,2], which is relatively high as compared to other major cereals and staple foods. When eaten as the whole grain, wheat is a source of multiple nutrients and dietary fiber, and is associated with lower risk of several diseases, including coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. PGPR are beneficial for plant growth and also referred as Increasing Bacteria (YIB). They can affect plant growth and yield in a number of ways and enhancement reproductive growth is documented in a range of crops like cereals, pulses, ornamentals, vegetables, plantation crops and some trees. Treatments with PGPR increase germination percentage, seedling vigour, emergence, plant stand, root and shoot growth, total biomass of the plants, seed weight, grains, fodder and fruit yields etc [3,4].
Formation Control for a Fleet of Autonomous Ground Vehicles: A Survey

Autonomous/unmanned driving is the major state-of-the-art step that has a potential to fundamentally transform the mobility of individuals and goods. At present, most of the developments target standalone autonomous vehicles, which can sense the surroundings and control the vehicle based on this perception, with limited or no driver intervention. This paper focuses on the next step in autonomous vehicle research, which is the collaboration between autonomous vehicles, mainly vehicle formation control or vehicle platooning. To gain a deeper understanding in this area, a large number of the existing published papers have been reviewed systemically. In other words, many distributed and decentralized approaches of vehicle formation control are studied and their implementations are discussed. Finally, both technical and implementation challenges for formation control are summarized.
Biosensing, Cytotoxicity, and Cellular Uptake Studies of Surface-Modified Gold Nanorods

Herein we report biorecognition studies of protein IgG using biocomapatible gold nanorods as molecular probes. Surface modification of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)-stabilized gold nanorods was carried out by using poly(styrenesulfonate) (PSS) to reduce the toxicity of as-synthesized gold nanorods caused by free CTAB. ζ potential analysis confirmed charge reversal on the surface of gold nanorods caused by the PSS coating. Surface plasmon resonance exhibited by gold nanorods has been employed as a tool for analyzing the binding events for biomolecules. TEM results, showing the aggregation of gold nanorods, in addition to the shift in surface plasmon resonance peak in UV−vis absorption measurements, upon the interaction of biomolecules with gold nanorods, confirmed molecular binding. Morphological changes caused by the cellular uptake of gold nanorods before and after PSS modification have been observed. Cell viability studies using gold nanorods were performed to study the cytotoxic effects of thes.
Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of the association of crude extracts of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi and Lippia sidoides Cham. against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

L.S. Pedrosa, M.C. V.V. Costa, C.E.O. Costa Júnior, R.O. A. Melo, I.F. A.C. de Souza, E.G. Solidônio, J.F. C. Albuquerque and K.X. F.R. Sena 1 Department of antibiotics, Federal University de Pernambuco. Av. Prof. Artur de Sá, S/N. Cidade Universitária. CEP: 50740-520. Recife-PE, Brazil 2 Department of Nuclear Energy, Federal University de Pernambuco. Av. Prof. Luiz Freire, 1000. Cidade Universitária. CEP: 50740-000. Recife-PE, Brazil 3 Integrated College of Pernambuco. Avenue Caxangá, 4477 Várzea, Recife PE, 50740-000. Recife-PE, Brazil
DFlood Disturbance and the Distribution of Riparian Species Diversity STOR

Biodiversity varies considerably in Southern Californian riparian vegetation. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis posits greatest diversity in settings that are subject to moderate-intensity disturbance. Flood intensity tends to vary systematically in water­ sheds, potentially imposing patterns of biodiversity. In two study watersheds, species rich­ ness increases with flood severity. Diversity, or heterogeneity, is less predictable: Biodiversity patterns in these watersheds are complicated by atypical patterns offlood severity. Although riparian diversity may be intimately dependent on flood disturbance, the relationship is pre­ dictable only with due attention to the physiographic details of individual stream networks.
Rule-based Approach to Extracting Location, Creator and Membership-related Information from Wikipedia-based Information-rich Taxonomy for ConceptNet Expansion

In this paper we present a method for extracting IsA assertions (hyponymy relations), AtLoca-tion assertions (informing of the location of an object or place), LocatedNear assertions (informing of neighboring locations), CreatedBy assertions (informing of the creator of an object) and MemberOf assertions (informing of group membership) automatically from Japanese Wikipedia XML dump ﬁles. These assertions would be suitable for introduction to the Japanese part of the ConceptNet common sense knowledge ontology. We use the Hyponymy extraction tool v1.0, which analyzes deﬁnition, category and hierarchy structures of Wikipedia articles to extract IsA assertions and produce an information-rich taxonomy. From this taxonomy we extract additional information, in this case AtLocation, LocatedNear, Cre-atedBy and MemberOf types of assertions, using our original method. The presented experiments prove that we achieved our research goal on a large scale: both methods produce satisfactory results, and we were able to acquire 5,866,680 IsA assertions with 96.0% reliability, 131,760 AtLoca-tion assertion pairs with 93.5% reliability, 6,217 LocatedNear assertion pairs with 98.5% reliability, 270,230 CreatedBy assertion pairs with 78.5% reliability and 21,053 MemberOf assertions with 87.0% reliability. Our method surpassed the base-line system in terms of both precision and the number of acquired assertions.
Computation of continuous and piecewise affine Lyapunov functions for discrete-time systems

In this paper, we present a new approach for computing Lyapunov functions for nonlinear discrete-time systems with an asymptotically stable equilibrium at the origin. Given a suitable triangulation of a compact neighbourhood of the origin, a continuous and piecewise affine function can be parameterized by the values at the vertices of the triangulation. If these vertex values satisfy system-dependent linear inequalities, the parameterized function is a Lyapunov function for the system. We propose calculating these vertex values using constructions from two classical converse Lyapunov theorems originally due to Yoshizawa and Massera. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the proposed approach.
Boldness and Reproductive Fitness Correlates in the Eastern Mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki

Animals are known to exhibit ‘personality’; that is, individual differences in behaviour that are consistent across time and ⁄ or situations. One axis of personality of particular importance for behavioural ecology is boldness, which can be defined as the tendency of an individual to take risks. The relationship between individual personality and fitness correlates, particularly those involved in reproduction, remains largely unexplored. In the current study, we used female Eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) to ascertain whether certain reproductive traits (e.g. stage of pregnancy, fecundity) are correlated with individual personality in two wild populations in New South Wales, Australia. To quantitatively assess this relationship, we tested individual fish for their level of boldness, as measured by their latency to exit a refuge and tendency to shoal in a novel environment. We also quantified individual differences in general activity and tendency to swim near the water surface and substratum. For both populations taken together, bolder individuals tended to be smaller, relatively less fecund (when taking body size into account), and spent more time near the water surface than near the substratum compared with timid individuals. Individual boldness was not correlated with either general activity or stage of pregnancy. To our knowledge, our study characterizes for the first time a relationship between an individual personality trait (boldness) and a reproductive fitness correlate (fecundity) in fishes.
CANASAT PROJECT : MONITORING THE SUGARCANE HARVEST TYPE IN THE STATE OF S Ã O PAULO , BRAZIL

In order to increase the sustainability the ethanol pr duction process from sugarcane, it is necessary to educe actions that harm the environment. One of these actions is the burning of sugarcane straw prior to harvest. In Brazil, agro-e nvironmental protocols between the government and the sugar-ethanol sector have be en signed. The agro-environmental protocol in the s ate of São Paulo requires the total termination of burning by 2017. To meet the o bjectives of the protocol, remote sensing satellite images are used to monitor and inspect the burning reduction each season. Using sa tellite images, the Canasat project has mapped the h arvesting method (with or without burning) in the state of São Paulo since th e 2006/07 season. The objective of this study is to present the methodology utilized and to evaluate the evolution of the harvesting met hod between the 2006/07 and 2008/09 seasons. The ha rv st type was also evaluated for each declivity class. Results demonstr ated that the unburnt harvest increased from 50.9% in the 2006/07 season to 65.8% in the 2008/09 season. In the three seasons a nalyzed, approximately 97% of the total area availa ble for harvest in the state is located in areas with a favorable declivity for har vesting without burning, i.e., mechanically. The we stern region of the state had the greatest expansion in sugarcane cultivated area and lso the largest increases in areas of unburnt har vest.
Role of transurethral resection of the prostate in the management of prostate cancer

Abstract Introduction: Prostate cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in men, after lung cancer. The gold standard procedure in prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis is the ultrasound guided prostate biopsy. Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) used in solving the bladder outlet obstruction, can have a role in detection of PCa. The aim of this retrospective study is to examine the role of transurethral resection of the prostate in the diagnosis and therapy of prostate cancer. Materials and methods: At the Urology Clinic of Targu Mures we performed a total of 474 TURP over a two year period (2011-2013). The patients had a mean age of 71.857 years, and the indications were PCa with bladder outlet obstruction or bladder outlet obstruction with unknown causes but some with suspicion of PCa. Results: In case of 474 patients with TURP performed for bladder outlet obstruction, the histopathology findings were the following: 61 cases with newly diagnosed PCa, some in spite of normal PSA values, 23 cases with already hormone treated prostate cancer, while in 50 cases TURP was preceded by prostate biopsy (in 8 cases with increased PSA and several negative biopsies, we could confirm PCa of the peripheral zone of the prostate). Conclusion: TURP remains the elective surgical therapy of the bladder outlet obstruction, caused by BPH and even prostate cancer. Obtaining a greater volume of prostate tissue can help in the detection of prostate cancer in its early stages, especially in the transitional zone.
Google Earth as a Powerful Tool for Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Applications: A Review

Google Earth (GE), a large Earth-observation data-based geographical information computer application, is an intuitive three-dimensional virtual globe. It enables archaeologists around the world to communicate and share their multisource data and research findings. Different from traditional geographical information systems (GIS), GE is free and easy to use in data collection, exploration, and visualization. In the past decade, many peer-reviewed articles on the use of GE in the archaeological cultural heritage (ACH) research field have been published. Most of these concern specific ACH investigations with a wide spatial coverage. GE can often be used to survey and document ACH so that both skilled archaeologists and the public can more easily and intuitively understand the results. Based on geographical tools and multi-temporal very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery, GE has been shown to provide spatio-temporal change information that has a bearing on the physical, environmental, and geographical character of ACH. In this review, in order to discuss the huge potential of GE, a comprehensive review of GE and its applications to ACH in the published scientific literature is first presented; case studies in five main research fields demonstrating how GE can be deployed as a key tool for studying ACH are then described. The selected case studies illustrate how GE can be used effectively to investigate ACH at multiple scales, discover new archaeological sites in remote regions, monitor historical sites, and assess damage in areas of conflict, and promote virtual tourism. These examples form the basis for highlighting current trends in remote sensing archaeology based on the GE platform, which could provide access to a low-cost and easy-to-use tool for communicating and sharing ACH geospatial data more effectively to the general public in the era of Digital Earth. Finally, a discussion of the merits and limitations of GE is presented along with conclusions and remaining challenges.
On multiple classes of gamma-ray bursts, as deduced from autocorrelation functions or bivariate duration/hardness ratio distributions

Autocorrelation functions (ACFs) of 119 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) monitored by the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on Swift are calculated. Contrasting with previous results for smaller numbers of bursts from other missions, the widths of the ACFs are not bimodally distributed. Although the distribution appears slightly asymmetrical, underlying mixtures of distributions can also probably be ruled out. Factors contributing to differences between the results presented here, and those in the literature, may include the differences in energy passbands used, and the superior sensitivity of the BAT instrument (which affects e.g. the redshift distribution of the detected GRB). The second part of the paper is concerned with the fitting of mixtures of bivariate Gaussians to the joint duration/hardness ratio data of 325 GRBs. A careful analysis confirms that a three-component mixture is the statistically most acceptable, but it is shown that the implied marginal distribution of the hardness ratios does not fit the data very well. It is also stressed that mixture components cannot automatically be assumed to represent different classes of GRBs. The point is illustrated by showing two substantially different, but statistically almost equivalent, mixture models for the distribution of 571 BAT-determined GRB durations.