Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Methodology for measurement the energy efficiency involving solar heating systems using stochastic modelling

The purpose of the present study is to evaluate gains through measurement and verification methodology adapted from the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol, from case studies involving Energy Efficiency Projects in the Goias State, Brazil. This paper also presents the stochastic modelling for the generation of future scenarios of electricity saving resulted by these Energy Efficiency Projects. The model is developed by using the Geometric Brownian Motion Stochastic Process with Mean Reversion associated with the Monte Carlo simulation technique. Results show that the electricity saved from the replacement of electric showers by solar water heating systems in homes of low-income families has great potential to bring financial benefits to such families, and that the reduction in peak demand obtained from this Energy Efficiency Action is advantageous to the Brazilian electrical system. Results contemplate also the future scenarios of electricity saving and a sensitivity analysis in order to verify how values of some parameters influence on the results, once there is no historical data available for obtaining these values.
Field approaches of bacterial biocides and essential oils as integrated control measures against peanut crown rot disease

Lemon grass, thyme and rose essential oils have been found to have inhibitory effects against the mycelial growth of Aspergillus niger under in vitro conditions. Results indicated that all essential oils treatments significantly reduced the linear growth of A. niger. Complete reduction was obtained with thyme and lemongrass at concentration of 0.5%. Moreover, essential oils used to coat seeds and sown in soil drenched with B. subtilis resulted in a significant reduction of crown rot incidence of peanut, at both preand post-emergence stages under field conditions. Rose, thyme and lemongrass in descending order could reduce the incidence of crown rot at both pre-and postemergence stages at the two successive growing seasons 2011 and 2012. Higher protective effect against crown rot incidence at both preand post-emergence growth stages was observed when essential oils integrated with B. subtilis as an applied soil treatment than that of individual applied treatment. Also Rhizolex-T as seed treatment could significantly reduce disease incidence over the control treatment. As for the harvested yield, all treatments were significantly higher than that in the control treatment. The treatments of essential oils as seed dressing plus the bio-agent B. subtilis showed higher yield production than those treatments using an essential oil or B. subtilis alone. The present results show that application of essential oils in integration with the bio-agent B. subtilis may be considered as an applicable, safe and cost-effective method for controlling such soil-borne diseases.
EVALUATION OF SIX CAMEL BREEDS FOR HETEROZYGOCITY THROUGH RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM

In the camel tyrosinase gene, a restriction site provoked by the T variant was used in a special restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (PCR-RFLP) for genotyping of animals from six different Pakistani camel breeds (Marecha, Dhatti, Larri, Kohi, Campbelpuri and Sakrai). For this purpose, four new primer pairs were designed for sequencing the coding region of exon 1 of the tyrosinase gene. PCR reactions were carried out in a total volume of 25 µl using 100 ng genomic DNA to amplify a 474 bp fragment at 56°C. A SNP (T/C) at 200 bps was found and exploited with a Dde I restriction enzyme that resulted in three different genotypes i.e. TT, TC and CC in each studied camel breed. Significant differences in the genotype frequency between the breeds were recorded. The Sakrai breed showed a distinctly higher frequency of heterozygous animals compared to Marecha, Dhatti, Larri and Kohi breeds. Our new designed primers could be used for genotype screening of other camel breeds. However, for understanding the contribution of tyrosinase gene and its antagonist i.e. agouti in the coat colour production, complete sequence of the gene is imperative.
A converse for lossy source coding in the finite blocklength regime

—We present a converse bound for lossy source coding in the ﬁnite blocklength regime. The bound is based on d -tilted information, and it combines ideas from two different converse techniques by Kostina and Verd´u. When particularised to the binary and Gaussian memoryless sources, the new bound gives slightly tighter results in certain blocklength regimes.
First-order expansions for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in periodic homogenization

Abstract For a family of elliptic operators with periodically oscillating coefficients, $-{\rm div}(A(\cdot /\varepsilon )\nabla )$ with tiny ε > 0, we comprehensively study the first-order expansions of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions (eigenspaces) for both the Dirichlet and Neumann problems in bounded, smooth and strictly convex domains (or more general domains of finite type). A new first-order correction term is introduced to derive the expansion of eigenfunctions in L2 or $H^1_{\rm loc}$. Our results rely on the recent progress on the homogenization of boundary layer problems.
Effect of rhizobial nod factors (lipo­chitooligosaccharide) on seedling growth of blackgram under salt stress

A study was carried out to examine the performance of blackgram seedlings under varying levels of salinity and to ascertain the remedial effect of lipo chitooligosaccharide (LCO) against salinity stress. Higher germination percentage, root and shoot length, vigour index and salt tolerance index and lower phytotoxicity of roots and shoots (0) were observed in control (no salinity) treatment irrespective of priming. Salinity negatively influenced the seedling growth and as the salinity increased the seedling growth characters were drastically reduced. The nod factor treated blackgram seedlings had relatively higher germination percentage , root and shoot length, vigour index and salt tolerance index and lower phytotoxicity of roots and shoots. Seed priming with nod factor was found to have significant effect on eliminating the effects of salinity.
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS APPLYING TO DETECT DAMAGE IN CARBON FIBER / EPOXY COMPOSITES

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged as one of the most useful tools in Artificial Intelligence (AI), being used in the most applications, such as engineering, economics, and health. Due to their great capacity for learning, adaptation, and generalization, ANNs can handle linear and nonlinear models that other methods are not capable to solve. Composite materials are increasingly used in critical and demanding applications, mainly due to its high specific strength and stiffness. However, the challenging of the current Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methodologies includes identification, detection, and quantification of the damage and, also the prediction of the residual resistance/life of the structure. Therefore, this work proposes a methodology based on ANNs to detect damage in composite structures. Initially, the vibrationbased method was applied using Frequency Response Functions (FRFs) along with Principal Component Analysis (PCA). This tool seeks to reduce the dimensionality of the original data while maintaining its characteristics. Next, a multi-layer neural network was developed for detecting damage in composite plates made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP). Finally, it is discussed the potentialities and limitations of the methodology for use in damage detection systems. Key-words: Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), composite materials, damage detection, Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
The Decision for Regenerative Endodontic Therapy

Regenerative endodontics is described as biologically based procedures designed to replace damaged structures, including dentin and root structures, as well as cells of the pulp-dentin complex, and is considered as an optimal approach for treating the immature permanent tooth with a necrotic pulp. Since the establishment of the foundations of regenerative endodontic therapy in 1960’s a plethora of relevant clinical cases and studies have been published. However, until now the case selection as well as the clinical protocol applied during regenerative endodontic therapy have not been totally determined and supported by clinical studies with high level of evidence. This review summarizes the current literature regarding the prognostic factors and clinical outcomes of regenerative endodontic therapy and the various applied clinical protocols in terms of administration of mechanical instrumentation, irrigation, intracanal medicaments, intracanal bleeding and intracanal coronal barrier. The aim of this review is to clarify and determine all the factors that willcontribute to the decision making for the application of regenerative endodontic therapy.
Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces in CP 2

In this paper we use a new equivalent condition of Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian surfaces in CP2 to show that any Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian torus in CP2 can be constructed from a pair of commuting Hamiltonian ODEs on a finite dimensional subspace of a certain loop Lie algebra, i.e., is of finite type. Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): Primary 53C40; Secondary 53C42, 53D12.
AFIrM: An Adaptive Functional Middleware

Languages commonly used to implement adaptive middleware systems are object-oriented with reflective capability, what entails in performance overhead, exposure of internal structure and also limits the abstraction level. In this paper, we propose an adaptive middleware, namely AFIrM, developed in Haskell, a purely functional language whose features like algebraic data types, no reflection, and control of side effects, provide a new approach for developing this kind of system. The evaluation of the proposed middleware concentrated on measure the impact caused by the use of functional features on its execution. We intend that developers of Haskell applications use the proposed middleware as a solution to deal with distribution and adaptation issues, and also to show that purely functional programming can facilitate the development of adaptive middleware systems, and hence should be considered as an alternative to traditional approaches.
The Raine Study has ethics approval from the Human Research Ethics Committees at King Edward Memorial Hospital , Princess Margaret

Background: Various environmental stressors in pregnancy have been reported to affect high blood pressure (BP) in adult offspring. However, few studies have examined the effect of prenatal maternal psychological stress on offspring BP and BMI in early adulthood. Method: In 957 Raine cohort participants, regression analyses were used to examine the association between the count of maternal life stress events experienced during pregnancy and offspring BP and BMI at age 20. Results: Prenatal life stress associated positively with offspring BMI but inversely with SBP. After adjustment for confounders each additional prenatal life stress event reduced offspring SBP by 0.66 mmHg (P1⁄40.013) in those with an average BMI and lowered the odds of systolic (pre)hypertension by 17% (odds ratio1⁄4 0.83; P1⁄40.008). The inverse relationship between prenatal life stress and adult SBP was stronger in offspring with higher BMI. On the contrary, each unit increase in prenatal life stress score predicted a BMI increase of 0.37 kg/m (P1⁄40.022). Longitudinal analysis showed similar effects of prenatal life stress for offspring BMI from age 8 and SBP from age 14. Conclusion: This study has shown that maternal stress in pregnancy significantly associated with BMI from early childhood, but contrary to our hypothesis predicted lower resting SBP and lower odds of systolic (pre)hypertension in young adult offspring. The effect of prenatal life stress on BP was accentuated by a higher BMI. Fetal programming events as a result of prenatal stress may underpin some of these relationships.
Auroral streamers: characteristics of associated precipitation, convection and field-aligned currents

Abstract. During the long-duration steady convection activity on 11 December 1998, the development of a few dozen auroral streamers was monitored by Polar UVI instrument in the dark northern nightside ionosphere. On many occasions the DMSP spacecraft crossed the streamer-conjugate regions over the sunlit southern auroral oval, permitting the investigation of the characteristics of ion and electron precipitation, ionospheric convection and field-aligned currents associated with the streamers. We confirm the conjugacy of streamer-associated precipitation, as well as their association with ionospheric plasma streams having a substantial equatorward convection component. The observations display two basic types of streamer-associated precipitation. In its polewardmost half, the streamer-associated (field-aligned) accelerated electron precipitation coincides with the strong (≥2–7μA/m2) upward field-aligned currents on the westward flank of the convection stream, sometimes accompanied by enhanced proton precipitation in the adjacent region. In the equatorward portion of the streamer, the enhanced precipitation includes both electrons and protons, often without indication of field-aligned acceleration. Most of these characteristics are consistent with the model describing the generation of the streamer by the narrow plasma bubbles (bursty bulk flows) which are contained on dipolarized field lines in the plasma sheet, although the mapping is strongly distorted which makes it difficult to quantitatively interprete the ionospheric image. The convective streams in the ionosphere, when well-resolved, had the maximal convection speeds ∼0.5–1km/s, total field-aligned currents of a few tenths of MA, thicknesses of a few hundreds km and a potential drop of a few kV across the stream. However, this might represent only a small part of the associated flux transport in the equatorial plasma sheet. Key words. Ionosphere (electric fiels and currents). Magnetospheric physics (aurroal phenomena; energetic particles, precipitating)
Impact of municipal waste water of Quetta city on biomass, physiology and yield of canola (Brassica napus L.).

The present study was carried out in order to investigate the impact of municipal wastewater effluents of Quetta city on the biomass, physiology, and productivity of two canola (Brassica napus L.) cultivars viz., Oscar and Rainbow. Plants were grown in pots from seed to maturity during 2005-2006 growth season. Different concentrations of effluents (T1: 20%; T2: 40%; T3: 60%; T4: 80; T5: 100%) were supplied to plants as a soil drench compared to control plants (T0) receiving normal tap water. The wastewater effluents were highly alkaline in nature along with very high Electrical Conductivity, Biological Oxygen Demand; Chemical Oxygen Demand; Sodium Adsorption Ratio, Total Suspended Solids and minerals concentrations have found well above threshold limits set for the usage of municipal wastewater for irrigation purposes. Growth performance of both canola cultivars showed statistically significant effects on some physiological attributes. All treated plants showed reductions in growth and yield parameters, but T5 treated plants were most affected compared to control. There were significantly higher reductions in stomatal conductance (49% in Oscar; 53% in Rainbow), transpiration rate (62% Oscar; 67% in Rainbow), and photosynthetic rate (62% in Oscar; 69% in Rainbow) of T5 treatment plants compared with control. Both pigments of chlorophyll (a and b) responded efficiently to the applied stress of wastewater effluents showing reductions in chlorophyll a and b by 68-82% in cv. Oscar and 74-86% in cv. Rainbow. Similarly, fresh and dry biomass also showed reductions in different effluents treated plants (T1 to T5) ranging from 2-78% in both the cultivars of canola. Drastic reductions were recorded in the number of siliqua per plant (70-72%), seeds per plant (84-85%), seed weight per plant (87-90), and in the harvest index (72-74%) in cultivars Oscar and Rainbow, respectively than that of control. The overall result of the municipal wastewater impacts on canola cultivars are alarming, as Pakistan is an agrarian country and the agriculture sector bears the brunt of country’s economy. This study urged the vital significance of recycling the liquid wastewater effluents before discharge otherwise these could seriously affect the growth and productivity of plants.
Sensing Capability of Fluorescent Sodium Salt of Amoxicillin

The capability of already available antibiotic drug ‘amoxicillin’ based on its fluorescent property has been explored. The fluorescent sodium salt of amoxicillin was used for the detection of heavy metals in aqueous solutions. It was found that Copper and Silver has a quenching effect on the fluorescence of amoxicillin. Cu2+ ions were detected in aqueous solution up to 1x10-7 M and Ag1+ ions up to 1x10-6 M. Hg2+ ions were also detected in aqueous samples but in high concentration.
MATERIALS ANDMETHODS Study population and design We studied patients older than 30 years with stage I – II untreated essential hypertension

Journal of Hypertension 2015, 33:393–400 First Cardiology Clinic, University of Athens, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece, Department of Cardiology, IRCCS Ospedale San Luca, Istituto Auxologico Italiano and Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy and Division of Vascular Surgery, First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece Objective: Beneficial effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on both blood pressure (BP) levels and variability have been documented in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). We investigated the relevant impact of different dosing times of antihypertensive drugs beyond CPAP application.
Research on License Plate Location in Different Scenes

There are many license plate location methods, but the factors affecting the extraction of license plate information are different in different scenarios. Current research has not systematically classified the scenarios applicable to the license plate location method according to the actual situation. In order to locate the license plate accurately and quickly in different environments. This paper makes experiments, comparisons and analyses on the location effects of different license plate location algorithms in different situations, and obtains the applicable scenarios of each license plate location algorithm: the color segmentation algorithm is suitable for the case of high brightness, the Canny operator edge detection method for license plate location is suitable for the case of noise, and the combination of blind deconvolution, morphology and texture feature analysis. License Plate Recognition and Location Algorithms are suitable for the situation of motion blur, noise and other interference factors.
Joko matematikoen hurbilketa : kasu diskretua ( Mathematical Games Approximation : the Discrete Case )

Game-theory is the set of mathematical tools to study the rational behavior of interacting agents or players. When the number of players is large, mean-field games have been proposed as an approximation of non-cooperative finite games. Contrarily to most of the literature in this area, we analyse mean-field games when the number of possible actions that players can take is discrete. We consider that players are symmetric and that the cost function and the dynamics of the players are continuous. In this article we show that a solution of these type of mean-field games always exists.
Porous Medium Model of Sap Flow in Trees

In an effort to better understand the dynamics of sap flow, with a particular interest in winter sap flow in maple trees, a PDE model is created and tested. The model follows the work done by Chuang et al., and treats the wood as a porous medium. Darcy’s Law and conservation laws are used to link sap flux to transpiration. A comparison of results to those of Chuang et al. is made to determine the validity of the model.
A Method for Detecting Femur Fracture Based on SK-DenseNet

In clinical diagnosis, automatic fracture detection can reduce misdiagnosis which caused by fatigue and inexperience of radiologists, and provide support for reducing patient suffering and preventing disease progression. This paper proposes a SK-DenseNet model to detect femur fracture based on DenseNet network. It uses SK module to adjust the size of receptive fields adaptively, adopts Focal loss function to update parameter, and uses Grad-CAM method to visualize the femoral detection results. It can improve the interpretability of the fracture detection model. This paper used the femoral dataset to verify the performance of the mode. Our model achieves an accuracy of 0.9117, with the kappa coefficient is 0.8228. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed model is better than the traditional deep learning model.
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© 2016 Wiley Perio ABSTRACT Enantioselectivity of chiral pesticides in environmental safety has attracted more and more attention. In this study, we evaluated the enantioselective toxicity of rac-metalaxyl and R-metalaxyl to zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos through various malformations including pericardial edema, yolk sac edema, crooked body, and short tails. The results showed that there were significant differences in toxicity to zebrafish embryos caused by rac-metalaxyl and R-metalaxyl, and the LC50s at 96 h are 416.41 (353.91, 499.29) mg · L and 320.650 (279.80, 363.46) mg · L, respectively. In order to explore the possible mechanism of the development defects, the genes involved in the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis (vtg1, vtg2, cyp17, cyp19a, cyp19b) and hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis (dio1, dio2, nis, tg, tpo) were quantified by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). The results revealed that there were no significant differences in the expression of vtg1, vtg2, cyp17, cyp19a, and cyp19b after exposure to racmetalaxyl. However, the expression of vtg1, cyp19a, and cyp19b decreased significantly after exposure to R-metalaxyl. And likewise, rac-metalaxyl only caused the upregulation of dio2, while Rmetalaxyl suppressed the expression of dio1 and tpo and induced the expression of dio2 and nis. The change of gene expression may cause the enantioselectivity in developmental toxicity in zebrafish embryo. The data provided here will be helpful for us to comprehensively understand the potential ecological risks of the currently used chiral fungicides. Chirality 28:489–494, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.