Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SAMAF

Audio fingerprinting techniques were developed to index and retrieve audio samples by comparing a content-based compact signature of the audio instead of the entire audio sample, thereby reducing memory and computational expense. Different techniques have been applied to create audio fingerprints; however, with the introduction of deep learning, new data-driven unsupervised approaches are available. This article presents Sequence-to-Sequence Autoencoder Model for Audio Fingerprinting (SAMAF), which improved hash generation through a novel loss function composed of terms: Mean Square Error, minimizing the reconstruction error; Hash Loss, minimizing the distance between similar hashes and encouraging clustering; and Bitwise Entropy Loss, minimizing the variation inside the clusters. The performance of the model was assessed with a subset of VoxCeleb1 dataset, a“speech in-the-wild” dataset. Furthermore, the model was compared against three baselines: Dejavu, a Shazam-like algorithm; Robust Audio Fingerprinting System (RAFS), a Bit Error Rate (BER) methodology robust to time-frequency distortions and coding/decoding transformations; and Panako, a constellation-based algorithm adding time-frequency distortion resilience. Extensive empirical evidence showed that our approach outperformed all the baselines in the audio identification task and other classification tasks related to the attributes of the audio signal with an economical hash size of either 128 or 256 bits for one second of audio.
A population‐based study of chronic eosinophilic leukemia‐not otherwise specified in the United States

Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Women and Newborn's Clinical Program, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, Salt Lake City, Utah Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Forage sorghum nutritive value: a review.

Francisco E. Contreras-Govea, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Science Center, New Mexico State University, Artesia, NM 88210; Mark A. Marsalis, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Science Center, New Mexico State University, Clovis, NM 88101; Leonard M. Lauriault, College Professor, Agricultural Science Center, New Mexico State University, Tucumcari, NM 88401; and Brent W. Bean, Professor and Extension Agronomist, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Amarillo, TX 79106
Effect of Nail Thickness on Visible Radiation Transmittance: Implications for New Photodynamic Therapy Technologies in Onychomycosis

Photodynamic therapy is taking importance as a nonintrusive treatment for nail onychomycosis. Knowledge of true transmittance values across nails could lead to qualitative and quantitative improvements in light‐based treatments. We have characterized the spectral transmittance of healthy and fungally infected human fingernails and toenails according to nail thickness, and we propose a surface transmittance model for the small‐scale optimization of light‐based treatments. Transmittance of fingernails and toenails was analyzed by means of spectroradiometric measurements under solar‐simulated visible light radiation (400 nm to 750 nm). The nail thickness was measured by means of microscope measurement. Transmittance was highest at longer wavelengths and decreased gradually as the wavelengths became shorter but with a significant nail transmittance of around 20% in the blue region of the spectrum. In the case of nails affected by onychomycosis, transmittance fell to under 10% because of the thickness of the nails, with no changes in spectral characteristics of transmitted light. Nail thickness is the main variable controlling exponentially light transmission in the visible spectrum and not only red radiation is effective for nail onychomycosis PDT. Blue light, the spectral band more effective for PPIX absorption is also effectively transmitted.
THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT OF DIFFERENT SPECTRAL REGIONS ON THE SYNTHESIS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN GHERKIN SEEDLINGS IN RELATION TO PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS I BIOSYNTHESIS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS

1) Dark-grown gherkin seedlings contain the sugar derivatives of p-coumaric acid and ferulic acid, present in both the cotyledons and hypocotyls, and a number of flavonols, occurring only in the cotyledons. Exposure of these seedlings to light results in an increase in the accumulation of these phenolic compounds after a lag of 1 1/2 to 2 hours. 2) The responsivity of this effect to radiation in the blue and far-red wavelength regions is higher than to red light. Both photoresponse I, the “high-energy reaction”, and photoresponse II, the phytochrome reaction, seem to be involved. 3) The distribution pattern of the phenolics in the hypocotyl changes in the course of the irradiation: An initial increase in the concentration of hydroxycinnamic acids is followed by a decrease, particularly in the apical part. The ratio of ferulic acid to p-coumaric acid increases and is always higher in the lower part of the hypocotyl than in the apical part. 4) The accumulation of hydroxycinnamic acids in the hypocotyl in red and far-red light is largely dependent on the presence of the cotyledons. In blue light there is also a considerable synthesis when the cotyledons are excised.
Changes in the mucous cells of the gills, buccal cavity and epidermis of the nine‐spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius L., induced by transferring the fish to sea water

A histochemical analysis of mucous cells in the gills, buccal cavity and epidermis of the nine-spined stickleback, Pungitius pungitius L. , using alcian blue and PAS, showed that most cells contained more than one type of glycoprotein. In all regions, the cell content of sialylated glycoproteins increased, and of sulphated glycoproteins decreased during adaptation to sea water. The histochemical properties of the cuticle-secreting cells in the epidermis were less easy to study, but it seems that their content of neutral glycoproteins increased and their content of acid glycoproteins decreased, during adaptation to sea water. Mucous cells were generally less common in seawater-adapted animals, though in the epidermis of fish kept in sea water for 21 days, there were as many as in the freshwater controls. Sulphated glycoproteins may be more effective than others in freshwater osmoregulation for they are highly charged and could attract cations strongly. They may also help to combat bacterial and fungal infections, and perhaps these are less likely when laboratory fish are transferred to sea water.
Conjugation of micro/nanocurcumin particles to ZnO nanoparticles changes the surface charge and hydrodynamic size thereby enhancing its antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus

Nanobiotechnology‐mediated synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles, micro/nanocurcumin, and curcumin–ZnO nanocomposites and their characterization followed by comparative study of their antibacterial, antioxidant, and iron‐chelating efficiency at various dosages are discussed. Micro/nanocurcumin and ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized using curcumin and zinc nitrate as precursor and then conjugated by sonication to synthesize curcumin–ZnO nanocomposites. The synthesized nanoparticles were then characterized by using ultraviolet‐visible spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction, Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy, and dynamic light scattering analysis. After that, the antibacterial activity of the synthesized nanoparticles was evaluated by the optical density (OD600) method against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus cells. The DPPH (2,2‐diphenyl‐1‐picrylhydrazyl ), hydroxyl radical scavenging activity, and ferrous ion–chelating efficiency of synthesized nanoparticles were evaluated by spectrophotometry analysis. Nanocurcumin (mean zeta potential = −25 mV; average hydrodynamic diameter = 410 nm) based coating of ZnO nanoparticles (mean zeta potential = −15.9 mV; average hydrodynamic diameter = 274 nm) to synthesize curcumin–ZnO nanocomposites (mean zeta potential = −18.8 mV; average hydrodynamic diameter = 224 nm) exhibited enhanced zeta potential, which resulted in reduced agglomeration, smaller hydrodynamic size in water, improved aqueous solubility, and dispersion. All the aforesaid factors including the synergistic antibacterial effect of ZnO nanoparticle and micro/nanocurcumin contributed to increased antibacterial efficiency of curcumin–ZnO nanocomposites. Micro/nanocurcumin due to its better water solubility and small hydrodynamic diameter exhibited enhanced antioxidant and ferrous ion–chelating efficiency than curcumin.
Studies on the Structure of the Maize Plant

There is a basic pattern for most grasses and this pattern is repeated throughout each plant, in reproductive as well as vegetative parts. The main axis of the maize plant bears leaves and buds on opposite sides of successive nodes. This pattern extends to the branches, the tassel, and to the ear. In the maize tassel and ear the parts and even their arrangement may be modified, but the basic arrangement is still that of the stem of any grass. This can be seen easily in the lateral branches of the tassel and in ears with only four rows of grain. All parts of the maize plant are made up of similar units. The name "phytomer" has been applied to these (see Esau, 1943, for a discussion of this as applied to the stem). A phytomer consists of an axillary bud at its lower end, a section of the stem (the internode), and is terminated by a leaf. It corresponds to Collins' (1919) alicole, although his original definition included only the spikelet or pair of spikelets and not the associated portion of cob or stem. Because the maize pattern is repeated throughout the plant we can expect almost any change in one part to be repeated in homologous parts. For example, when hairs on the leaf sheath are large and numerous, there will be large and numerous hairs on the glumes of tassel and ear. Because of this repetition of plant pattern, some organs which are not strictly homologues will reflect changes in other parts. Thus, in one race of Bolivian maize, when the tassel branches and the rows of spikelets on the central spike are nearly doubled in number, the number of rows of grains on the ear and vascular strands in the stem are correspondingly increased. The extent of variation in the grasses is greatest in the flowering parts and least in the vegetative areas of the plant. Thus the leaves are still arranged dichotomously in the Bolivian maize even though the number of tassel branches and rows of grains has been doubled.
The Peak in North American Ichneumonid Species Richness Lies Between 38 Degrees and 42 Degrees N

An evaluation of the geographic distribution of °60% of the 2809 described Nearctic Ichneumonidae shows that of the species whose latitudinal ranges contact a given latitudinal band, the number per million square kilometres is greatest between latitude 37.5° and 42.4°N, with °900 species/106 km2. The most severe absolute drop in species richness occurs in moving southward from the 37.5°—39.9° band to the 38.0°—37.4° band, with virtually no change in land mass over the same latitudinal change, and the smallest drop in species richness occurs in moving from the 32.5°—34.9° band to the 30.0°—32.4° band, where the land mass is almost halved. Of species whose southern range ends in a particular latitudinal band, the number per million square kilometres is greatest for 32.5°—34.4°N and drops away gradually in both directions. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that parasitic Hymenoptera do not increase in species richness with decreasing latitude to the same degree as their hosts. Various hypothes.
Smart Homes Based on Blockchain for Security

: Internet of Things (IoT) security and privacy stay a significant challenge, principally because of the large scale and distributed nature of IoT networks. Blockchain-based approaches offer localised security and privacy, nevertheless they involve important energy, delay, and process overhead that's not appropriate for many resource unnatural IoT devices. In our previous work, we have a tendency to bestowed a light-weight representation of a before Christ notably back-geared to be used in IoT by eliminating the Proof of labor (POW) and therefore the idea of coins. Our approach was exemplified during a good home setting and consists of 3 main tiers namely: cloud storage, overlay, and good home. during this paper we have a tendency to withdraw deeper and description the varied core parts and functions of the good home tier. every good house is equipped with associate invariably on-line, high resource device, called ” miner ” that's to blame for handling all communication among and external to the house. The mineworker conjointly preserves a personal and secure before Christ, used for dominant and auditing communications. we have a tendency to show that our projected BC-based good home framework is secure by completely analysing its security with regard to the elemental security goals of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility. Finally, we have a tendency to gift simulation results to focus on that the overheads (in terms of traffic, interval and energy consumption) introduced by our approach ar insignificant relative to its security and privacy gains.
Bell, Beth T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6587-0336, Cassarly, Jennifer A. and Dunbar, Lucy (2018) Selfie-Objectification: Self-Objectification and Positive Feedback (“Likes”) are Associated with Frequency of Posting Sexually Objectifying Self-Images on Social Media. Body

21 The present study is the first to examine the extent to which young adult women post 22 objectifying self-images on social media, and whether the frequency of posting such content 23 can be predicted by self-objectification and positive feedback (likes). Eighty-six young adult 24 women from the UK (Age M = 19.88; SD = 1.34, Range = 18-24) completed self-report 25 measures of self-objectification and social media use. The 20 most recent images they had 26 posted on their personal Instagram accounts were downloaded (Image N = 1720) and content 27 analysed for self-objectifying content. The analysis found that 29.77% of participants’ 28 Instagram images were objectified, though there were individual differences. Higher 29 frequency of posting objectified self-images was associated with trait self-objectification and 30 receiving more likes on this type of self-image, relative to non-objectified self-images. The 31 implications of the novel findings for objectification theory are discussed within. 32
Perspectives on Affective Computing For the Early Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Diseases

There are differences between healthy subjects that present a normal aging and subjects that even without showing symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases are already in the previous stages of the disease, when it comes to process emotions. In this way, it would be possible to use the recognition of emotions as a method of aid for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases in early stages. However, apathy, mobility difficulties, and changes in emotional regulation associated with normal aging make it difficult to detect emotional disturbances. Therefore, in this article we propose the development of experimentation protocols that allow the evaluation of the emotional state of subjects through based-home affective computing technologies.
Plant penetration by pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) of different plant range

Plant penetration by the stylets of six clones of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, on Vicia faba (acceptable to all clones) and Pisum sativum (acceptable to 3/6 clones) was investigated by the DC electrical penetration graph technique. In a 10 h recording period, 93% of 144 aphids exhibited sustained feeding on phloem sap. Significant interclonal differences were observed for the incidence of potential drops (indicative of brief punctures of plant cells) and the duration of waveform E1 (insect salivation into a sieve element). In addition, the total duration of the sieve element phase and the duration of completed ‘bouts’ of sustained feeding differed between the two test plants, in a fashion varying between clones. However, these differences could not be related to the acceptability of plants to the different aphid clones. The duration of the stylet pathway phase preceding the first sustained feeding on phloem sap did not vary significantly with either aphid clone or plant. It is concluded that the resistance of P. sativum to certain A. pisum clones does not arise from factors impeding either stylet penetration through the plant tissues or the maintenance of feeding from the sieve elements. It is proposed that host plant affiliation of A. pisum may be mediated primarily by specific olfactory or gustatory cues, before the aphid initiates stylet penetration of the plant.
BIRAFFE: Bio-Reactions and Faces for Emotion-based Personalization

In this paper we introduce the BIRAFFE data set which is the result of the experiment in a(cid:27)ective computing we conducted in early 2019. The experiment is part of the work aimed at the development of computer models for emotion classi(cid:28)cation and recognition. We strongly believe that such models should be personalized by design as emotional responses of di(cid:27)erent persons are subject to individual di(cid:27)erences due to their personality. In the experiment we assumed data fusion from both visual and audio stimuli both taken from standard public data bases (IADS and IAPS respectively). Moreover, we combined two paradigms. In the (cid:28)rst one, subjects were exposed to stimuli, and later their bodily reactions (ECG, GSR, and face expression) were recorded. In the second one the subjects played basic computer games, with the same reactions constantly recorded. We decided to make the data set publicly available to the research community using the Zenodo platform. As such, the data set contributes to the development and replication of experiments in AfC.
The CAT model: Predicting air temperature in city streets on the basis of measured reference data

Meteorological measurements required for the development of a design scheme that responds to the local environment are generally recorded by the weather service in stations that are assumed to be representative of the surrounding region. However, no account is taken of the changes in conditions caused by urban development, even though differences between meteorological conditions within cities compared with adjacent rural areas (the heat island effect) have been noted as early as Roman times, and may be substantial. A new computer model (CAT) provides data representing realistic site-specific air temperature in a city street based only on data from standard weather stations such as those operated at local airports and descriptors of the two sites. The CAT model has been tested on field data measured in a monitoring program carried out in Adelaide in 2000-2001. After calibrating the model, predicted air temperature correlated well with measured data in all weather conditions over extended periods. Conference theme: Architecture and the environment
Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation can improve the prognosis of high-risk paediatric t(8;21) acute myeloid leukaemia in first remission based on MRD-guided treatment.

Background: Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with t(8;21) (q22;q22) is classified as a low-risk group. However, relapse is still the main factor affecting survival. We aimed to investigate the effect of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) on reducing recurrence and improving the survival of high-risk pediatric t(8;21) AML based on minimal residual disease (MRD)-guided treatment, and to further explore the prognostic factors to guide risk stratification treatment and identify who will benefit from allo-HSCT. Methods: Overall, 129 newly diagnosed pediatric t(8;21) AML patients were included in this study. Patients were divided into high-risk and low-risk group according to RUNX1-RUNX1T1 transcript levels after two cycles of consolidation chemotherapy. High-risk patients were divided into HSCT group and chemotherapy group according to their treatment choices. The characteristics and outcomes of 125 patients were analyzed. Results: For high-risk patients, allo-HSCT could improve 5-year relapse-free survival (RFS) rate compared to chemotherapy (87.4% vs. 61.9%; P = 0.026). Five-year overall survival (OS) rate in high-risk HSCT group had a trend for better than that in high-risk chemotherapy group (82.8% vs. 71.4%; P = 0.260). The 5-year RFS rate of patients with a c-KIT mutation in high-risk HSCT group had a trend for better than that of patients with a c-KIT mutation in high-risk chemotherapy group (82.9% vs. 75%; P = 0.400). Extramedullary infiltration (EI) at diagnosis was associated with a high cumulative incidence of relapse for high-risk patients (50% vs. 18.4%; P = 0.004); allo-HSCT can improve the RFS (P = 0.009). Conclusions: allo-HSCT can improve the prognosis of high-risk pediatric t(8;21) AML based on MRD-guided treatment. Patients with a c-KIT mutation may benefit from allo-HSCT. EI is an independent prognostic factor for high-risk patients and allo-HSCT can improve the prognosis.
In vitrostudy of phagocytic ability ofMytilus galloprovincialisLmk. haemocytes

In vitroassays were performed to assess the phagocytic ability of mussel haemolymph cell types. Among the haemocyte types, the granulocytes showed an important phagocytic activity whereas the hyalinocytes did not, thus indicating that mussel haemocytes are functionally heterogeneous. Phagocytic activity of acidophilic granulocytes was higher than basophilic ones. Ultrastructural study showed thatVibrioP1 cells were internalised in phagosomes and then digested. As a result of the digestive process, concentric lamellae and other degraded materials were produced inside the phagosomes, and non degraded materials gave rise to residual bodies which could be discharged from the cells. Similar events were observed in the phagocytic process of zymosan particles. The study of influence of temperature on phagocytosis activity revealed that the percentage of phagocytic cells was lower at 10° C than at 20° C and 30° C. Phagocytosis activity was higher in the assays performed at 15 ppt than those at 25 ppt and 36 ppt. No significant differences on percentage of phagocytic cells were found between young and adult mussels. Generation of superoxide anion by haemocytes using zymosan as a phagocytosis stimulant was demonstrated through the nitroblue tetrazolium reduction test.
PRODUCTION OF ESTERS BY DIFFERENT YEAST STRAINS IN SUGAR FERMENTATIONS

The production of the acetates of isoamyl alcohol and phenethyl alcohol and the ethyl esters of the C6-C10 fatty acids was investigated in semiaerobic sugar fermentations by 56 strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and 3 strains of S. uvarum. The S. cerevisiae yeasts generally produced more esters than the S. uvarum yeasts. Isoamyl acetate was the main component in the ester fractions examined and others in decreasing order, were ethyl caprylate, ethyl caproate, ethyl caprate and phenethyl acetate.