Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Flow Cytometry in Monoclonal Gammopathies

1 Laboratory of Experimental Hematology and Cell Immunotherapy, Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic 2 Babak Myeloma Group, Department of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 3 Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 4 Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic 5 Department of Internal Medicine – Hematooncology, University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic
Title: The habenula encodes motivation associated with primary punishment in humans

Affiliations: 1Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom. 2Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom. 3Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom. 4LREN, Département des neurosciences cliniques, CHUV, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. 5Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom.
A three-phase active power filter operating with fixed switching frequency for reactive power and current harmonic compensation

The performance and dynamic characteristics of a three-phase active power filter operating with fixed switching frequency are presented and analysed. The proposed scheme employs a pulse width modulation voltage source inverter and has two important characteristics. First, it operates with fixed switching frequency, and, second, it can compensate the reactive power and the current harmonic components of nonlinear loads. Reactive power compensation is achieved without sensing the computing the reactive component of the load current, thus simplifying the control system. Current harmonic compensation is done in the time domain. The principles of operation of the proposed active power filter along with the design criteria of the power and control circuit components are discussed in detail. Experimental results obtained from a 5 kVA prototype confirm the feasibility and the features of the proposed system. <<ETX>>
Synthesis and Characterization of Bioactive Cadmium (II) Complexes Derived from 4-Benzyloxybenzoylhydrazine with Different Aromatic Aldehydes

The reactions of the ligand precursor 4-benzyloxybenzoylhydrazine (2) with cinnamaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, 2,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde, 4-N,N dimethylaminobenzaldehyde, 4-methoxybenzaldehyde formed the ligands C6H5CH2OC6H4CONHN=CHR, where R=C6H5CH=CH, (3); C6H4(OH), (4); C6H3(OCH3)2, (5); C6H4N(CH3)2, (6); C6H4(OCH3), (7), respectively. The ligand precursor 4-benzyloxybenzoylhydrazine (2) was synthesized by the condensation reaction of ethyl-4-benzyloxybenzoate (1) with hydrazine hydrate. Ethyl-4-benzyloxybenzoate (1) was synthesized by the reaction of ethyl-4-hydroxybenzoate and benzyl bromide dissolved in acetone in presence of anhydrous potassium carbonate. By the reactions of the synthesized ligands with cadmium(II) acetate, a series of complexes [(C6H5CH2OC6H4CONHN=CHR)2Cd] were obtained, where R=C6H5CH=CH, (8); C6H4(OH), (9); C6H3(OCH3)2, (10); C6H4N(CH3)2, (11); C6H4(OCH3), (12). The complexes cannot be obtained via a template method. The compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis, conductivity measurements, UV-visible, FT-IR, 1H NMR spectral studies. The conductivity measurement data revealed that the complexes are non-electrolytic in nature. The UV-visible data of the complexes suggested the tetrahedral geometry of Cd(II) ion. The antibacterial results of the ligands (3-7) exhibited very low or no activity against pathogenic bacteria viz. gram positive (Bacillus anthracis, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus megaterium) and gram negative (Shigella flexneri, Escherichia coli, Shigella shiga), whereas their corresponding complexes (8-12) exhibited activity against the aforementioned bacteria but less than the standard drug, kanamycine. This implies that the activity showed by the complexes is solely responsible for the presence of Cadmium (II) ion.
Interactions between phytoplankton and zooplankton in the hypertrophic Swarzędzkie Lake in western Poland

The hypertrophic Swarzedzkie Lake, Poland, is characterized by high species diversity, abundance and biomass of both phytoplankton and zooplankton (up to 99.5 mg WW L −1 and 817.75 μg DW L −1 , respectively). The community grazing rate calculated with the use of two empirical models, and based on herbivorous crustaceans, peaked in spring and early autumn up to 150.6% of water filtered per day, and was the lowest during winter. Simple statistics revealed a positive correlation between zooplankton biomass and chlorophyll a concentration (r = 0.404, P = 0.033) and between zooplankton abundance and phytoplankton biomass (r = 0.42, P = 0.028). Canonical statistics indicated, however, that the relationship exists only with size groups and/or living forms of a few taxonomical groups of phytoplankton. Redundancy analysis (RDA) confirmed a positive influence of the community grazing rate on micro- and nanoplanktonic Cryptophyceae, but not on the microplanktonic Cyanobacteria, as was suggested by canonical correlation analysis. RDA also indicated a weak negative influence on nanoplanktonic Euglenophyceae and Chlorophyceae exerted by filtering crustaceans. Some taxonomically diverse flagellated nanoplanktonic algae were grazing sensitive, whereas microplanktonic cryptophytes and coenobial green algae were significantly grazing resistant.
Studying syntactic variation using convergent evidence from psycholinguistics and usage

It is becoming increasingly accepted that speakers have richer knowledge of linguistic constructions than the knowledge captured by their categorical judgments of grammaticality (Bard, Robertson, and Sorace, 1996; Bender, 2005; Bresnan, 2007a,b; Bresnan, Cueni, Nikitina, and Baayen, 2007; Bresnan and Ford, In Press; Bresnan and Hay, 2008; Bresnan and Nikitina, 2009; Chater and Manning, 2006; Gries, 2003a; Manning, 2003). Speakers have reactions to linguistic expressions that are more finegrained than can be captured by a categorical yes – no response or even by a system allowing responses like good, ? , ? , * and ** (Bard et al 1996; Bresnan, 2007a; Bresnan et al 2007; Bresnan and Ford, In Press; Featherston, 2007; Gilquin and Gries, 2009). Moreover, expressions that linguists have sometimes categorised as “ungrammatical” have been found to be accepted by people (Bresnan, 2006; Wasow and Arnold, 2005) or found to be used by speakers and to sound good compared to the examples contrived by linguists (Bresnan and Nikitina, 2009; Stefanowitsch, 2007). Many researchers today thus see the need for placing less emphasis on linguists’ judgments of grammaticality and more emphasis on usage and experimental data, procedures that would be in line with Labov’s (1975) call for the use of convergent evidence and a recognition of the inconsistency of intuitions about constructed examples typically used by linguists.
Incremental SVM for Online Product Review Spam Detection

Reviews are very important for potential consumer’ making choices. They are also used by manufacturers to find problems of their products and to collect competitors’ business information. But someone write fake reviews to mislead readers to make wrong choices. Therefore detecting fake reviews is an important problem for the E-commerce sites. Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are very important text classification algorithms with excellent performance. In this paper, we propose a new incremental algorithm based on weight and the extension of Karush – Kuhn-Tucker(KKT) conditions and Convex Hull for online Review Spam Detection. Finally, we analyze its performance in theory.
One GPU to Snoop Them All: a Full-Band Bluetooth Low Energy Sniffer

Sniffing Bluetooth data sessions is considered a difficult task, because of the frequency-hopping channel access scheme this technology implements. In this paper we present a novel open-source sniffer that can monitor Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) traffic on all channels in real time. The sniffer builds on a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) framework to capture the entire BLE spectrum and exploits Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) capabilities to channelize and process BLE traffic in real time. We show that our sniffer can easily and reliably detect active BLE connections, and infer their properties, including Access Address, CRC values and hopping sequences. From a general standpoint, we show that tracking many BLE data sessions at the same time becomes feasible even with relatively inexpensive equipment, as we are able to discover up to 24 simultaneous sessions within 80 ms on average.
Nonlegume Expression Hemoglobin Genes Retain Organ-Specific in Heterologous Transgenic Plants

Hemoglobin genes from the nitrogen-fixing nonlegume Parasponia andersonii and the related non-nitrogen-fixing nonlegume Trema tomentosa have been isolated [Landsmann et al. (1986). Nature 324, 166-168; Bogusz et al. (1988). Nature 331, 178-1801. The promoters of these genes have been linked to a 8-glucuronidase reporter gene and introduced into both the nonlegume Nicotiana tabacum and the legume Lotus corniculatus. 60th promoters directed root-specific expression in transgenic tobacco. When transgenic Lotus plants were nodulated by Rhizobium loti, both promoter constructs showed a high level of nodule-specific expression confined to the central bacteroid-containing portion of the nodule corresponding to the expression seen for the endogenous Lotus leghemoglobin gene. The T. tomentosa promoter was also expressed at a low level in the vascular tissue of the Lotus roots. The hemoglobin promoters from both nonlegumes, including the non-nodulating species, must contain conserved cis-acting DNA signals that are responsible for nodule-specific expression in legumes. We have identified sequence motifs postulated previously as the nodule-specific regulatory elements of the soybean leghemoglobin genes [Stougaard et al. (1987). EMBO J. 6, 356535691.
Short-Run Dynamics between Trading Participants in Bursa Malaysia During QE and Post-QE Exit

JEL Classification C10; G11; G14. This study investigates the trading dynamics between institutional, foreign and retail investors during Quantitative Easing (QE) Tapering and post-QE exit. An analytical framework is developed to classify all transactions into trading, short-selling or information flow. Notably our results show: Firstly, during QE tapering, there is shortselling by Foreign Investor. Foreign Sales also provides cue to Local Institutional Sales. Net buyers are Local Institution; Secondly, in Post-QE exit, Foreign Sales is the most endogenous variable. Net sellers are Foreign, followed by Local Retail; Thirdly, from 7 to 12 months in Post-QE exit, there are short-selling by Foreign and Local Institution corresponding to sharp market downtrend. Net sellers are Foreign and Retail. Overall, Local Institutional is the net buyer in all sub-periods while Foreign fund is the net seller during Post-QE periods. Our result recognizes the importance of Local Institutional Investors in withstanding the selling pressure of foreign investors during the QE exit periods. This paper contributes to the extant literature by providing the usefulness of trading participant statistics to market players in the backdrop of market uncertainty due to QE exit.
On Sobolev orthogonal polynomials

Sobolev orthogonal polynomials have been studied extensively in the past quarter-century. The research in this field has sprawled into several directions and generates a plethora of publications. This paper contains a survey of the main developments up to now. The goal is to identify main ideas and developments in the field, which hopefully will lend a structure to the mountainous publications and help future research. c ⃝ 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. MSC 2010: primary 33C45; 33C50; 41A10; secondary 42C05; 42C10
Roles of Hydrocarbons in the Recognition Systems of Insects

SYNoPsisIS. Many bioassays have shown that cuticular hydrocarbons are used in the recognition systems of both solitary and social insects. The function of insect recognition systems is to enable an insect to recognize, and possibly discriminate, its own species, sex, or kin from that of other insects. The primary function of cuticular hydrocarbons is to protect the insects from desiccation. Hydrocarbons can be removed from insect cuticles and characterized with gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry. Studies using such analytical techniques have revealed that insect hydrocarbon compositions are species-specific, sex-specific and, in social insects, colony- and caste-specific. Furthermore, recognition bioassays have confirmed that certain components of the cuticle of some insect species are sex attractants as well as aphrodisiacs or sex inhibitors. Other bioassays have shown that hydrocarbons are important in facilitating colony structure in social insects. In addition, the hydrocarbons of some parasitic insects appear to mimic those of their host species. Thus, hydrocarbons are proving to be very important in the everyday activities of many insect species.
Interactions between root and shoot competition vary among species

Understanding how the competition varies with productivity is essential for differentiating among alternative models of plant community organization. Prior attempts to explain shifts in root and shoot competition along gradients have generally assumed an additive interaction between the two competitive forms, using an experimental design which does not fully separate both above- and belowground processes. At the most basic level, few field studies have separated root and shoot competition, and we have limited knowledge about both the relative importance of these processes, and how they interact to affect plant growth in the field. Presented here are findings from a field study in which root and shoot competition were experimentally separated by using root exclusion tubes and neighbor tiebacks in an early successional community. Individuals of four species (Abutilon theophrasti, Amaranthus retroflexus, Rumex crispus, and Plantago lanceolata) were grown at two levels of fertilization with full competition, aboveground competition only, belowground competition only, or neither above- nor belowground competition. Competition was measured as competitive response, which is the natural log of the relative biomass of a target plant grown with competition compared to growth without competition. In contrast to predictions from current models of productivity-competition relationships, but in agreement with other experimental studies, there was no change in the strengths or root, shoot, or total competition with a modest increase in productivity. Despite no effect of fertilization on the strength of competition, the form of interaction between root and shoot competition varied both as a function of species identity and fertilization. For both of the rosette forming species, the combined effects of root and shoot competition were less than predicted assuming no interaction (a “negative interaction”), with one species switching from a negative to an additive interaction with fertilization. The fact that fertilization caused a shift in the root-shoot interaction, but not in the total strength of root and shoot competition, suggests that the root-shoot interaction is itself a highly labile variable. If root-shoot interactions are common in natural systems, then simply measuring the strength of one form of competition in no way provides any information about the overall importance of that competitive form to plant growth.
Scanning electron microscopy of the callose wall and intermeiocyte connections in angiosperms

Scanning electron microscope studies of anthers of the dicotyledons Helianthus annuus, Solanum tuberosum, and Lupinus polyphyllus, and the monocotyledons Iris pseudo-acoris and a Lilium hybrid revealed discontinuities or holes in the meiocyte callose wall and continuity of the plasma membranes of adjacent meiocytes. The holes in the callose wall generally were confined to areas where neighboring meiocytes were in contact. The holes varied in size within locations and between taxa. The largest holes, about 2.4 μm diameter, were found in Lupinus. Fixation in standard acid–alcohol fixatives resulted in marked plasmolysis and loss of cytoplasmic detail, but the nucleolus and bivalents were readily apparent. Fixation in buffered glutaraldehyde, with or without postfixation in OSU4, preserved the cytoplasmic organelles and plasmolysis was minimal, but bivalents could not be distinguished. All fixatives preserved the nuclear membrane so that the nuclear region was clearly delimited from the cytoplasm.
Efﬁcient Data Transmission using Opportunistic Routing in Underwater Sensor Networks

—An Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) has many unique features that makes it different from terrestrial network. This includes lower bandwidth, longer propagation delay, dynamic topology, high error rate, and energy constraint. To overcome the limitations of such an environment, opportunistic routing has recently attracted much attention due to its ability to improve the performance of UWSNs in terms of life time ratio and energy saving. With the aid of opportunistic data routing, underwater sensors can collaboratively route a packet towards the destination which is a more adequate approach for sparse and lossy channels. In this paper we proposed a new method called Efﬁcient Data Transmission using Opportunistic Routing with address to efﬁcient packet transmission. This is an anycast, geographic and opportunistic routing protocol that routes data packets from sensor nodes to multiple sonobuoys (sinks) at the seas surface. When the node is in a communication void region, switches to the recovery mode procedure which is based on topology control through the depth adjustment of the void nodes, instead of the traditional approaches using control messages to discover and maintain routing paths along void regions. Simulation results show that proposed scheme signiﬁcantly improves the network performance when compared with the baseline solutions, even in hard and difﬁcult mobile scenarios of very sparse and very dense networks and for high network trafﬁc loads
Novel biofunctional high porous polymer scaffolds and techniques controlling angiogenesis for the regeneration and repair of the degenerated intervertebral disc

The Disc Regeneration Project ended on 31 October 2012. Over its four year research period, all project deliverables and objectives had been achieved. Furthermore, this was a project whose combined energy, creativity and expertise has generated a wealth of knowledge and insights ripe for exploitation. This is a seminal project, destined to make a signi cant impact in IVD therapeutic and clinical practice and its contiguous areas, where researchers seek to employ tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies similar to those devised and adopted in this interdisciplinary study.
Urbanization and Evolution in Aquatic Environments

Human impacts on freshwater and marine ecosystems have long been of special concern due to water’s essential role in ecosystem functioning and human civilization. Urban development causes a large number of changes in all types of aquatic environments, from small ephemeral pools to rivers to great lakes to expansive coastal habitats. These changes can strongly influence evolution of life in the water by altering selection, gene flow, and genetic drift. Yet our understanding of the evolutionary consequences of urbanization on aquatic organisms is still in early stages. This chapter reviews the impacts of urbanization on aquatic taxa, examining the evolutionary consequences (known or likely) of four major types of urban-induced changes to ecosystems: biotic interactions, physical environment, temperature, and pollution. By drawing connections between literature on ecological and evolutionary impacts in aquatic urban environments, the chapter concludes that (1) several anthropogenic factors seem to commonly drive evolutionary and phenotypic change (organic-compound pollution, altered temperature, and hydrologic shifts), (2) predictability of evolutionary changes are often taxa specific, and may commonly depend on the focal ‘scale’ (e.g., whole-organism performance, morphology, or gene), and (3) there are a few key ‘frontier topics’ (altered biotic interactions, artificial light, sound pollution, and fragmentation) where additional research on phenotypic evolution would be particularly informative.
Observations on the Microanatomy of Coccolithus Pelagicus and Cricosphaera Carterae, With Special Reference to the Origin and Nature of Coccoliths and Scales

Coccolith structure, mode of origin and arrangement on the cell surface have been investigated in two marine coccolithophorids, Coccolithus pelagicus (Wall.) Schiller and Cricosphaera carterae (Braarud et Fagerland) Braarud, by means of light microscopy and electron microscopy of whole mounts and sections. The presence of flagellar bases in Coccolithus pelagicus is also demonstrated in spite of the fact that the cells of this phase of the life-history are non-motile. In both organisms the coccoliths are shown to be accompanied by unmineralized scales, details of which are illustrated; in particular, each coccolith is attached to the margin of an unmineralized oval plate which completely covers the central ‘pore’ on the side towards the subtending cell. Scales and coccoliths arise within the cisternae of the single Golgi body in a manner closely resembling the origin of scales in species of Chrysochromulina. It is therefore suggested that the coccoliths of the two taxa investigated can be interpreted as modified (and calcined) scale rims.
Effect of Growth Regulators on in vitro Multiplication of Potato

Effects of different concentrations of GA3 and BAP (Benzylamino purine) on in vitro multiplication of potato variety “Desiree” were studied. For rapid multiplication, different concentrations of GA3 were used. Maximum shoot length i.e. 8.96 cm was obtained when 4 mg L -1 GA3 was applied. Number of nodes was not significantly affected by any of the GA3 concentrations (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mg L -1 ) used in this study. Maximum number of shoots (14) was obtained when 2 mg L -1 BAP was applied.
A Comparison of the U.S. Food Supply With the Food Guide Pyramid Recommendations

Information on the extent to which eating patterns differ from dietary recommendations is a key tool for policymakers and nutrition educators in the effective targeting of educational messages. This chapter uses aggregate food supply data, adjusts for losses, and converts the remaining supply into daily per capita Food Guide Pyramid servings. These are then compared with Pyramid servings recommendations for the U.S. population. Annual 1992-96 growth rates in per capita servings are compared with those needed to meet Food Guide Pyramid servings recommendations by 2005.
The numbers behind successful transformations

As part of an analysis we term “transformatics,” we’ve assembled and scrutinized a data set of more than 200 large transformations stretching back nearly a decade. More recently, we isolated the 82 public companies that had undertaken a full-scale transformation and had an observable 18-month transformation track record to see what we could learn from a statistical analysis of their experiences. The research highlighted four indicators that showed a statistically significant correlation with top-quartile financial performance during the 18-month test period (for more about the methodology, see sidebar “Transformatics: Inside the metrics of transformation”). Taken together, the four indicators suggest some potential lessons for senior managers seeking to maximize the odds of a successful transformation. Let’s look at each in turn. The numbers behind successful transformations