Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
2016-05-02 Puig-Reig Geodynamics Revision

a Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere, Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, ICTJA-CSIC, Lluís Solé i Sabaris s/n, 4 08028 Barcelona, Spain. 5 dcruset@ictja.csic. es, jverges@ictja.csic. es 6 7 b Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Universitat de Barcelona, (UB), Martí i Franquès s/n, 8 08028 Barcelona, Spain. 9 i_cantarero@ub.edu, atrave@ub.edu 10 11 c Qatar Carbonate and Carbon Storage Research Center and Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial 12 College London, SW7 2BP, UK. 13 cedric.john@imperial.ac. uk 14 * Corresponding author 15 16 Abstract 17 The Puig-reig anticline, located in the South Pyrenean fold and thrust belt, developed during 18 the Alpine compression, which affected the upper Eocene-lower Oligocene sediments of the 19 Solsona and Berga Formations. In this study, we highlight the controls on formation of joints 20 and reverse, strike-slip and normal faults developed in the crest domain of the Puig-reig 21 anticline as well as the relationships between fluids and these fractures. We integrated 22 structural, petrographic and geochemical studies, using for the first time in SE Pyrenees the 23 clumped isotopes thermometry to obtain reliable temperatures of calcite precipitation. 24
Compressive Sensing ) ) en utilisant le Chaos

Résumé La méthode dite de l’acquisition comprimée plus connue sous le vocable anglo-saxon de ‘Compressive Sensing’ est une nouvelle méthode qui permet de capturer et de retrouver par la suite un signal échantillonné à des fréquences sous Nyquist. Afin de garantir la reconstitution parfaite du signal, cette méthode requière la construction d’une matrice dite ‘sensing’ matrice, possédant des propriétés d’inversion particulières. Ici, une construction de cette matrice à l’aide de séquences issues d’un système chaotique est proposée et il est prouvé que cette matrice vérifie avec une écrasante probabilité (supérieure à une construction aléatoire de type Gaussien) les propriétés de reconstruction requises.
Optimum Design of 2.4GHz Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)

A 2.4 GHz Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) design, optimization and simulation is presented in this paper. The optimization tool available in ADS software is employed to obtain minimum noise figure (NF) and minimum power consumption for an inductive source degeneration LNA topology. A comparison between this approach and another available analytical method is performed and found a significant improvement in noise figure (optimized NF=0.823), and in power consumption (optimized value =8.6 mW).
Assessment of vitamin E and Selenium administration on udder heath and milk yield in crossbred Karan Fries cows

The present study was conducted on 14 crossbred cows in NDRI Karnal.These14 crossbred cows were divided randomly into two groups of 7 animals each; untreated control and vitamin E and Se treatment group (5 doses of vitamin E (550 IU) and Se (15mg) administered through subcutaneously on day -30, -15, on the day of calving (day 0), day 15 and 30 of caving. CMT and electrical conductivity of milk and milk yield was monitored during postpartum period in cows. Per day milk production was increased (P<0.05) in treated group than control group. Electrical conductivity was significantly (P<0.05) higher on day 7 and day 35 in cows of control group than cows of treatment group. CMT score was observed lower in treatment group. Altogether, present study highlights the beneficial effect of administration of vitamin E and Se during peripartum period on milk yield and udder health of cross bred cows.
Observer design for bilateral teleoperators with variable time delays

: This paper addresses the control–observer design problem for bilateral teleoperation systems that employ communication channels that impose variable time delays. These delays are a function of diﬀerent factors such as, congestion, bandwidth or distance. Bilateral teleoperators allow people to perform complex tasks in remote or inaccessible environments. When a robots is operated remotely by use of teleoperator robot, it is desirable communicate contact force and position from the slave to master and vice versa. In order to kinesthetically couple the operator to the environment and increase the sense of telepresence, a teleoperation control–observer scheme for bilateral systems with variable time delays is given. It is shown that the velocity observation errors tend to zero while position tracking is achieved in free motion. Additionally, in constrained motion, the human operator applies the desired force on the remote environment. This paper presents only experiments, using the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to validate the scheme.
Biocontrol efficacy of local Trichoderma isolates against Fusarium oxysporum F. sp. lycopersici and Fusarium oxysporum F. sp. ciceri

Recently, the environmental contamination caused by excessive use of chemical pesticides increased the interests in integrated pest management, where chemical pesticides are substituted by bio-pesticides to control plant and soil diseases. Trichoderma species are well known potential fungal bio-control agents against a wide range of soil borne plant pathogens. A total 25 Trichoderma isolates were isolated from soil samples collected from Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat, Unnao and Lucknow districts of U.P. Based on cultural and morphological characters, six Trichoderma isolates found efficient and taken for further studies. All six isolates were sent to NFCCI & FIS, Pune for species level identification. Based on the identification report from NFCCI, 4 isolates were identified as T. asperellum (CST-02, CST-09, CST-21, CST-22), one each as T. longibrachiatum (CST-14) and T. koningii (CST-05). The in vitro antagonistic activity of the 06 Trichoderma isolates was assayed against both test pathogens. Our results showed that the highest inhibitory effect was achieved by isolate CST-14 on growth of FOC and FOL as 33.4 and 37.1 per cent, respectively. Isolate CST-21 showed significant inhibition in mycelial growth against FOC as 30.0 per cent while, isolate CST-22 showed significant inhibition as 32.8 per cent in case of FOL. In case of volatile assay CST-14 again showed highest inhibitory effect against test pathogens ranged from 29.3 39.4 percent respectively. Similarly in case of non-volatile assay, 100 percent inhibition in mycelial growth of test pathogens caused by CST-14 @ 50% concentration. Present investigations concluded that isolates CST-14 (T. longibrachiatum) showed significant inhibitory effect against FOL and FOC. It can be used in the form of bio formulation for effective management of soil borne pathogens.
Phospholipid signalling in the salicylic acid pathway of Arabidopsis thaliana

Salicylic acid (SA) has a pivotal role in many plant stress and developmental responses but little is known about the early signalling events triggered by this molecule. Using Arabidopsis thaliana suspension cells, it was shown by in vivo metabolic phospholipid labelling with 33Pi that SA induced rapid and early decrease in a pool of phosphatidylinositol (PI). The decrease was accompanied by an increase in PI 4-phosphate and PI 4,5-bisphosphate contents. These changes could be inhibited by 30 µM wortmannine, but not by 1 μM wortmannine, implying that a type III PI 4-kinase was activated in response to SA. Therefore, a study of wortmannin effects on SA transcriptome was undertaken. Using the Complete Arabidopsis Transcriptome MicroArray (CATMA) chip, 773 SA-regulated genes were identified. Among these, the SA response of 112 was inhibited by 30 µM wortmannine, but not by 1 µM wortmannin. In parallel, it was discovered that phospholipase D (PLD) derived phosphatidic acid was important for the early SA-regulated gene expression. Microarray experiment aimed to identify genes regulated by PLD in response to SA revealed that out of 1327 genes regulated by SA, 97 genes were positively and 117 genes were negatively regulated by PLD. The wortmannin-sensitive pathway and PLD pathway regulons share an important overlap implying that the two enzyme activities act synergistically in the same signalling pathway in response to SA.
Facial Action Unit Detection with Capsules

In this paper we motivate the use of capsule networks for facial action unit detection. Action unit activations may be seen as local part deformations - for example AU 1,2, and 4 are deformations of the part ‘eyebrows’. Different part deformations in a regular convolutional network must be modeled and represented as separate neurons since each neuron has a scalar activation. However, with capsule networks different part deformations can be modeled by the same capsule since it has a more expressive vector based representation. We argue that this property makes capsule networks well suited for the task of action unit recognition and demonstrate this by developing and testing capsule networks for the AU recognition. We achieve state-of-the-art results on the BP4D and DISFA datasets. We analyse the learned capsules’ properties and ﬁnd that capsule magnitude correlates with expression intensity and that capsule pose captures varied attributes such as face size, lighting, pose, and skin color. Finally we use activation gradient ascent to visualize capsule direction, and ﬁnd that a single capsule can represent multiple deformations of the same part, while a single convolution neuron does not.
Establishment of the Two-dimensional Gel Electrophoretic Protein Map of the Human Sperm Head

Objective: To construct the two-dimensional electrophoretic (2-DE) protein map of the human sperm head. Methods: Protein extracts of the normal human sperm and sperm head were loaded on an 18 cm immobilized pH gradients (IPG) strip holder and separated with isoelectric focusing electrophoresis as the first dimension, and then with upright SDS-PAGE as the second. Different protein spots between them were compared with Image Master 3.0, and so were the maps of method Ⅰwith Urea/Thiourea/Guanidine HCl and method Ⅱ with Kit/ Guanidine HCl. Results: Of the whole-sperm proteome, 802 protein spots were obtained by method Ⅰ, and 797 by method Ⅱ. Among them, distribution patterns of 492 spots were the same. A sperm protein map was constructed with 1 107 protein spots after the interaction of the spots obtained by both the methods. Of the sperm-head proteome, 428 protein spots were obtained, all found in the whole-sperm protein map after comparison. Conclusion: Both the methods could be complementarily used to construct a sperm protein map, and the map could serve as a model for the establishment of the sperm protein profile.
Role of huntingtin phosphorylation at serine 421 in Huntington Disease

Huntington Disease (HD) is a lethal neurodegenerative disorder that results from polyglutamineexpansion in the huntingtin protein. Despite the widespread tissue expression pattern of huntingtin, there is selective degeneration of specific neurons populations in the brain. The regulation of huntingtin by posttranslational modifications, such as phosphorylation, is not well understood. The objective of this thesis was to conduct molecular and cell biological studies to determine whether huntingtin was regulated by phosphorylation and what role this might play in the disease. I found that huntingtin is phosphorylated on serine-421 (S421) by the pro-survival signalling protein kinase Akt (PKB) in the brain under normal physiological conditions. There are differences in the basal endogenous phosphorylation state of huntingtin in different regions of the brain and regions more susceptible in the disease have lower levels of S421 phosphorylation. Consistent with the hypothesis that S421 phosphorylation protects against the toxicity of polyglutamine-expanded huntingtin, S421 phosphorylation is reduced in the presence of the HD mutation. Furthermore, I discovered significant relationships between the phosphorylation status of huntingtin and pathological processes in the disease, including the cleavage and nuclear localization of polyglutamineexpanded huntingtin. The S421 site is close to the proteolytic domain containing the caspase cleavage sites (aa500-600) and phosphorylation at S421 reduces the cleavage of huntingtin. The nuclear localization of huntingtin fragments is also known to be important in the disease. 1 directly assessed whether phosphorylation at S421 alters the nuclear localization of huntingtin using subcellular fractionation and immunofluorescent techniques. Phosphorylation at S421 reduces the nuclear localization of both full length huntingtin and huntingtin fragments. Further, the l-586aa huntingtin fragment is specifically trafficked and concentrated in the nucleus, providing a functional link between cleavage and nuclear localization that may be mediated by S421 phosphorylation. Phosphorylation at S421 is a dynamic means of regulating huntingtin and is implicated in HD because it is reduced by the polyglutamine-expansion and modifies key pathogenic processes such as the cleavage and nuclear localization of huntingtin. The integration of signalling pathways on huntingtin and the phosphatase regulation of huntingtin phosphorylation are enticing therapeutic possibilities for modulating the pathogenesis of HD.
Remodeler sa vie® (Lifestyle Redesign) : première étude pilote auprès d’aînés franco-canadiens

Description. Récemment traduit et adapté au contexte franco-canadien, le programme Remodeler sa vie (Lifestyle Redesign) vise le développement de modes de vie sains et porteurs de sens. On connaît toutefois peu l’influence de ce programme chez les aînés francophones. But. Décrire l’influence du programme Remodeler sa vie sur l’équilibre de vie, l’engagement dans les activités signifiantes, la compassion et la gratitude d’aînés franco-canadiens. Méthodologie. Une étude pilote mixte (préexpérimental et qualitatif clinique) a été réalisée auprès de 16 aînés répartis en deux groupes (avec et sans incapacités). Des questionnaires pré et post-intervention ainsi que des entretiens semi-dirigés ont été complétés. Résultats. Une augmentation de l’équilibre de vie de l’ensemble participants (p = 0,03) et de l’engagement dans des activités signifiantes des aînés sans incapacité (p = 0,02) a été observée. Les participants rapportaient des améliorations pour l’ensemble des résultantes. Conséquences. Remodeler sa vie est un programme prometteur pour promouvoir la santé des aînés franco-canadiens.
Interactive Subsurface Scattering for Materials With High Scattering Distances

Existing algorithms for rendering subsurface scattering in real time cannot deal well with scattering over longer distances. Kernels for image space algorithms become very large in these circumstances and separation does not work anymore, while geometry‐based algorithms cannot preserve details very well. We present a novel approach that deals with all these downsides. While for lower scattering distances, the advantages of geometry‐based methods are small, this is not the case anymore for high scattering distances (as we will show). Our proposed method takes advantage of the highly detailed results of image space algorithms and combines it with a geometry‐based method to add the essential scattering from sources not included in image space. Our algorithm does not require pre‐computation based on the scene's geometry, it can be applied to static and animated objects directly. Our method is able to provide results that come close to ray‐traced images which we will show in direct comparisons with images generated by PBRT. We will compare our results to state of the art techniques that are applicable in these scenarios and will show that we provide superior image quality while maintaining interactive rendering times.
Progressive Acquisition of SVBRDF and Shape in Motion

To estimate appearance parameters, traditional SVBRDF acquisition methods require multiple input images to be captured with various angles of light and camera, followed by a post‐processing step. For this reason, subjects have been limited to static scenes, or a multiview system is required to capture dynamic objects. In this paper, we propose a simultaneous acquisition method of SVBRDF and shape allowing us to capture the material appearance of deformable objects in motion using a single RGBD camera. To do so, we progressively integrate photometric samples of surfaces in motion in a volumetric data structure with a deformation graph. Then, building upon recent advances of fusion‐based methods, we estimate SVBRDF parameters in motion. We make use of a conventional RGBD camera that consists of the colour and infrared cameras with active infrared illumination. The colour camera is used for capturing diffuse properties, and the infrared camera‐illumination module is employed for estimating specular properties by means of active illumination. Our joint optimization yields complete material appearance parameters. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with extensive evaluation on both synthetic and real data that include various deformable objects of specular and diffuse appearance.
The Plasmodium falciparum eIK1 kinase (PfeIK1) is central for melatonin synchronization in the human malaria parasite. Melatotosil blocks melatonin action on parasite cell cycle

Melatonin and its indoles derivatives are central in the synchronization of malaria parasites. In this research, we discovered that melatonin is unable to increase the parasitemia in the human malaria Plasmodium falciparum that lacks the kinase PfeIK1. The PfeIK1 knockout strain is a valuable tool in the screening of indol‐related compound that blocks the melatonin effect in wild‐type (WT) parasite development. The assays were performed by using flow cytometry with simultaneous labeling for mitochondria viability with MitoTracker Deep Red and nucleus staining with SYBR Green. We found that Melatotosil leads to an increase in parasitemia in P. falciparum and blocks melatonin effect in the WT parasite. Using microscopy imaging system, we found that Melatotosil at 500 nM is able to induce cytosolic calcium rise in transgenic PfGCaMP3 parasites. On the contrary, the compound Triptiofen blocks P. falciparum cell cycle with IC50 9.76 µM ± 0.6, inhibits melatonin action, and does not lead to a cytosolic calcium rise in PfGCaMP3 parasites. We also found that the synthetic indol‐related compounds arrested parasite cycle for PfeIK1 knockout and (WT) P. falciparum (3D7) in 72 hours culture assays with the IC50 values slighting lower for the WT strain. We concluded that the kinase PfeIK1 is central for melatonin downstream signaling pathways involved in parasite cell cycle progression. More importantly, the indol‐related compounds block its cycle as an upstream essential mechanism for parasite survival. Our data clearly show that this class of compounds emerge as an alternative for the problem of resistance with the classical antimalarials.
Structure and Properties of Graphene Oxide Aerogels by Freeze-Drying Process

The structure and properties of graphene oxide aerogels (GOA), prepared by a modified Hummer’s method followed by a freezing-drying process in addition to a pre-oxidized procedure, were studied through FTIR, Raman, SEM and XDR techniques. FTIR results indicated the existence of -C-O, -C-OH and -C=O function groups on the GOA surface. Therefore, the D band intensity of GOA sample exhibited remarkable increasing in the Raman spectra compared with of graphite; it may be due to change the order-structure of graphite to disorder-structure of GOA. The diffractive peak for the graphite at 2θ of 26.5° vanishes instead the one around 10.0° occurred in the XRD pattern for the GOA supported that the structure and d-spacing changed seriously from graphite to GOA. The SEM images revealed that the micro-structure of graphene layer of GOA was wrinkler and softer than that of graphite, however, the former involved fewer lamellar layer appearance with wrinkles on the edges of the graphene. All the characterized evaluation confirmed that the graphite powder has been transformed into a GOA structure through the modified Hummers’ method.
MediaEval 2019: LRCNs for Stroke Detection in Table Tennis

Recognizing actions in videos is one of the most widely re-searched tasks in video analytics. Sports action recognition is one such work that has been extensively researched in order to make strategic decisions in athletic training. We present a model to classify strokes made by table tennis players as a part of the 2019 MediaEval Challenge. Our approach extracts features into a spatio-temporal model trained on the MediaEval Sports Video Classification dataset to detect the move made.
Deep Neural Network Based Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition in VOCALISE using x-Vectors

In this article we present a Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based version of the VOCALISE (Voice Comparison and Analysis of the Likelihood of Speech Evidence) forensic automatic speaker recognition system. DNNs mark a new phase in the evolution of automatic speaker recognition technology, providing a powerful framework for extracting highly-discriminative speaker-specific features from a recording of speech. The latest version of VOCALISE aims to preserve the ‘open-box’ philosophy of its predecessors, offering the forensic practitioner flexibility in the configuration and training of all parts of the automatic speaker recognition pipeline. VOCALISE continues to support both legacy and state-of-the-art speaker modelling algorithms, the latest of which is a DNN-based ‘x-vector’ framework, a state-of-the-art approach that leverages a DNN to extract compact speaker representations. Here, we introduce the x-vector framework and its implementation in VOCALISE, and demonstrate its powerful performance capabilities on some forensically relevant data.
Effect of Plant Growth Regulator on Growth, Yield and Quality of Apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) cv. Royal Delicious

The present study was conducted at a full bearing orchard of apple at Wathoo, Shopian near KVK Balpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. This investigation was done to study the effect of plant growth regulator on growth, yield and quality of apple cv. Royal Delicious during the year 2019. The results reviled that maximum shoot growth (29.75 cm), leaf chlorophyll content (49.60 SPAD), fruit length (78.01 mm), fruit diameter (76.32 mm), fruit volume (242.67 cm3), fruit weight (213.46 g), Fruit yield (203.10 Kg/tree) and fruit specific gravity (0.93) were observed in T5 (Kromolin 1.0 ml/L with wetcit). However, the maximum fruit firmness (5.86 kg/cm 2 ) recorded in T2 (Kromolin 0.5ml/L without wetcit). While, there was no significant effect of the fruit colour through application of Kromolin, but numerically the maximum fruit colour (4%) was recorded under T2 (Kromolin 0.5ml/L without wetcit). Similarly, there was no significant effect in the chemical parameters vis (TSS, TSS/acid ratio, total sugar, reducing sugar) with different concentration of kromolin but numerically the highest T.S. S. (13.53 o Brix), TSS/ Acid ratio (56.36), total sugar (9.21 mg/100g), reducing sugar (6.39 mg/100g and lowest acidity (0.24 %) registered in T5 (Kromolin 1.0 ml/L with wetcit). However, a significant effect in fruit ascorbic acid (3mg/100g) has been recorded in T5 (Kromolin 1.0 ml/L with wetcit) as compared to control.