Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Molecular Characterization of Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH) Gene of Field Isolate of Edwardsiella tarda

The E. tarda bacterial culture isolated from infected fish, was confirmed by morphological and biochemical characterization. GAPDH gene of 996 bp was amplified from bacterial genomic DNA. GAPDH gene was cloned in pTZ57R/T cloning vector. The positive clone was sequenced. The sequencing result showed very homology with published sequence from pathogenic E. tarda. The sequence (nucleotide and amino acid) divergence values were very low between E. tarda isolates from India (KF142190) and China (HQ697337-38) (Figure 4 and Figure 5). However, the divergence value was high when compared with E. tarda isolates from Japan (AB198939) and this value was higher than the inter-specific divergence value (E. tarda-E. ictaluri, E. tarda-E. coli & E. tarda-Klebsiella species).
Anais do III Congresso Brasileiro de Rochas Ornamentais

The cut and the improvement of ornamental rocks generates tons of rejects, that finish sand rivers to the areas of the quarries. Due to this, Environmental Institutions are acting massively close to those quarries, looking for a way to reduce the environmental impact. Based on this, the objective of this work was it of verifying the possibility of use of mineral rejects, originating from of a quarry of Bahia State, as mineral aggregate in asphalt mixture. For such, it took place a britagem, in order to if to obtain a group of aggregate in the following sizes: breaks 0, breaks 1 and stone powder. Later, it took place rehearsals of Los Angeles abrasion, form index, asphalt adhesiveness to joined great, angularity of small aggregate, real and apparent densities and granulometric distribution. Finally, rehearsals of mechanical resistance will be accomplished (LOTTMAN) with asphalt mixture being used such mineral rejects and a asphalt. The framing could be verified of the reject second all of the norms extolled for aggregates, being observed an Los Angeles abrasion, in throne of 20%, a form index nor prolonged nor annoying, around 58%, a good adhesiveness to the asphalt, angularity in throne of 20%, density values, in throne of 2,5 Kg/m, besides a framing in the strip C of granulometric distribution, according to norms of DNIT. After the verification of the framing of such reject as aggregate for paving bodies of proof of asphaltic mixtures are being prepared for accomplishment of rehearsals LOTTMAN, through the verification of the great tenor of asphalt. In that way, she can verify the mechanical resistance of the asphalt mixture constituted by such mineral rejects. However, it can be ended, that the reject framed it her according to the norms of DNIT for minerals aggregate, could be a new input for the paving section, as well as reducing the environmental impact caused by the quarries and sawmills.
Direct Visualization of Real-world Light Transport

Light transport in complex scenes with possibly intricate optical properties is difficult to grasp intuitively. The study of light transport has so far mainly been conducted by indirect observations. Cameras or human observers typically only sense the radiance reflected from a scene, i.e. the light directly emitted or reflected from the last bounce of a possibly much longer light path. Models for the propagation of light, however, typically assume light waves or rays, concepts which so far have been communicated in an abstract way using formulas or sketches. In this paper, we propose the use of fluorescent fluids for direct visualization of light transport in the real world. In the fluorescent fluid the traces of light become visible as a small fraction of the energy transported along the ray is scattered out towards the viewer. We demonstrate this visualization for direct illumination effects such as reflections and refractions at various surfaces, as well as for global effects such as subsurface light transport in translucent material, caustics, or interreflections. As this allows for the inspection of entire light paths, rather than the last scattering event, we believe that this novel visualization can help to intuitively explain the phenomena of light transport to students and experts alike.
Barotropic instability in the West Spitsbergen Current

[1] Barotropic instability in the shoreward branch of the West Spitsbergen Current is investigated on the basis of data from an array of current meter moorings along 78.83°N, across the upper continental slope and shelf break west of Svalbard. The slowly varying background current profile is modeled as an along-slope, asymmetric jet anchored to the shelf break. Numerical linear stability analyses are performed on the idealized current profile and topography, revealing the characteristic period, wavelength, and growth rate of unstable vorticity waves. Detailed analysis of the ambient current profile in 2007–2008 shows that unstable conditions are present during ∼40% of the 10 month measurement record, depending on the localization, width, and amplitude of the current jet. The resulting vorticity waves are localized at the shelf break and are able to exchange water masses across the oceanic Arctic front. Typical wavelengths and periods are 20–40 km and 40–70 h, respectively. Wavelet, coherence, and complex demodulation analyses of the current meter data confirm that transient signals of similar periodicity as predicted by the stability analysis exist in the data record, prominently during the winter and spring months. Estimates of the heat loss contribution from isopycnal diffusion reach 1.4 TW during the time intervals when unstable vorticity waves are active at the shelf break, implying that the dynamics of the West Spitsbergen Current play a significant role in the cooling process of the Atlantic water on the way to the Arctic Ocean. This cooling corresponds to an along-shelf cooling rate of −0.08°C per 100 km.
Consumption Inequality and Income Uncertainty

This paper places the debate over using consumption or income in studies of inequality growth in a formal intertemporal setting. It highlights the importance of permanent and transitory income uncertainty in the evaluation of growth in consumption inequality. We derive conditions under which the growth of variances and covariances of income and consumption can be used to separately identify the growth in the variance of permanent and transitory income shocks.Household data from the United Kingdom for the period 1968-1992 are used to show a strong growth in transitory inequality towards the end of this period while younger cohorts are shown to face significantly higher levels of permanent inequality.
On regular Dirichlet subspaces of $H^{1}(I)$ and associated linear diffusions

and (F , E) is a Dirichlet form on L(I). It is called regular on L(Ī)(= L(I)) if F∩C0(Ī) is dense both in F and C0(Ī), where C0(Ī) denotes the space of continuous functions on Ī with compact support. It is called recurrent if its extended Dirichlet space Fe contains the constant function 1. When I is finite, any regular Dirichlet subspace of (H(I), 1 2 D) is automatically recurrent. In this paper, we shall prove that the Sobolev space (H(I), 1 2 D) admits as its regular Dirichlet subspaces the following family of spaces (F , E )s∈S: F (s) := {u ∈ L(I) : u is absolutely continuous (1.2)
Determining the protective effect of agricultural crops on the soil erosion process using a field rainfall simulator.

In this paper the data measured by application of the MDS NZ2 field rainfall simulator have been used to demon strate the effect of vegetation cover on surface runoff generation and soil loss. The results of 15 experiments for two crops (oats and wheat) are presented. Canopy cover and the leaf area index are used to describe the vegetation development. Measured soil loss decreased with growing vegetation significantly from the maximum values 74.7 g/min for oats (38.4 g/min for wheat) to 0.4 g/min (1.5 g/min respectively) from the experimental plot of 16 m 2 . Thus, this work clearly demonstrates the positive effect of canopy development on soil loss. However, the ef fect of the developing cover on the surface runoff generation was not significant.
An Automatic Number Plate Recognition System using OpenCV and Tesseract OCR Engine

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a fairly well explored problem with many successful solutions. However, these solutions are typically tuned towards a particular environment due to the variations in the features of number plates across the world. Algorithms written for number plate recognition are based on these features and so a universal solution would be difficult to realize as the image analysis techniques that are used to build these algorithms cannot themselves boast hundred percent accuracy. The focus of this paper is a proposed algorithm that is optimized to work with Ghanaian vehicle number plates. The algorithm, written in C++ with the OpenCV library, uses edge detection and Feature Detection techniques combined with mathematical morphology for locating the plate. The Tesseract OCR engine was then used to identify the detected characters on the plate.
Comorbid Conditions in Child and Adolescent Patients Diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood psychiatric disorders. The worldwide prevalence of ADHD in children has been reported at 4-7%. Numerous populationand clinical-based studies have reported that more than half of cases of ADHD have at least one psychiatric comor‐ bidity. The presence of psychiatric comorbidities complicates the diagnosis, treat‐ ment, and prognosis of ADHD; thus, diagnosis of comorbidities is of great importance. Possible comorbidities should therefore be investigated in cases diagnosed with ADHD before treatment planning.
Late Blight of Potato (Phytophthora infestans) I: Fungicides Application and Associated Challenges

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) has been remained an important agricultural crop in resolving global food issues through decades. The crop has experienced enormous growth in terms of production throughout the world in recent decades because of improvement in agricultural mechanization, fertilizers application and irrigation practices. Nevertheless, a significant proportion of this valuable crop is still vulnerable to losses due to prevalence of different viral, bacterial, fungal and nematodes infestations. Late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, is one of the most threatening pathogenic diseases which not only results in direct crop losses but also cause farmers to embrace huge monetary expenses for disease control and preventive measures. The disease is well known for notorious ‘Irish Famine’ which resulted in drop of Irish population by more than 20% as result of hunger and potato starvation. Globally, annual losses of crop and money spend on fungicides for late blight control exceeds one trillion US dollars. This paper reviews the significance of late blight of potato and controlling strategies adopted for minimizing yield losses incurred by this disease by the use of synthetic fungicides. Advantages and disadvantages of fungicides application are discussed.
A Review on Wireless Sensor Network in Intelligence Vehicle Monitoring System Using IOT

— in today’s world the life has become very fast. The main object of this paper is to review the past work of vehicle tracking, monitoring and alerting system GPS is one of the technologies that are used in a large number of applications today. One of the applications is tracking your vehicle and keeps regular monitoring on them. This tracking system can inform you the location and route travelled by vehicle, and that information can be observed from any other remote location. It also includes the web application that provides you exact location of the target. This system enables us to track target. This system uses GPS and GSM technologies. In this electronic document a comprehensive review of all well-known tracking & monitoring techniques has been presented.
Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zones: Addressing Local Problems with Local Solutions

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) describes the strategies and infrastructure it has developed to fund its placed-based initiatives to address the social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities. Using a data driven and community-led approach, RIDOH funded 10 local collaboratives, each with its own, geographically-defined “Health Equity Zone,” or “HEZ,” and, to support the collaboratives, created a new “Health Equity Institute,” a “HEZ Team” of 9 seasoned project managers, and direct lines of communications between these assets and the Office of the Director of Health.
Beta-Globin Gene Haplotypes in Manipur, North-east India

Abstract A sample of 204 individuals belonging to five different population units of Manipur, viz. the Meitei, Gangte, Thadou, other Kuki, and Kabui has been analyzed for beta globin gene cluster, considering seven loci to bring out a first hand information on haplotype frequencies of beta globin in the state. A common trend of allelic frequencies observed in the present data are the high frequencies of HindIIε, Avallβ and Hinflβ and relatively low frequencies of HindlllGγ, HindIIIAγ, HindII5’ψ β and HindII3’ψβ. The frequency of Framework 1(presence of both AvaIIβ and HinfIβ sites) ranges from nil to 17.65% in the present data of Manipur. The frequency of Framework 2 ranges from 33% to 66% and that of Framework 3 from 33% to 55%. One noteworthy observation is the association of HbβEE exclusively with Framework 2, which suggests a similar mutational origin of HbE in South-east Asia and North-east India. Only five beta globin haplotypes are found in the present data. Haplotypes +——+ and +——+-, the most common in Japanese, Cambodians, Koreans, South Chinese, Samoans and Thais, are the most frequent haplotypes in Manipur too.
Improving Human-Robot Handover Research by Mixed Reality Techniques

Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) have already been incorporated into robotic systems for various applications in the domain of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), such as telerobotics or as a tool for robotics software development and debugging. In this context, MR techniques allow to enrich the user’s experience so that he or she is able to interact with the robot more efficiently. Moreover, robots can be simulated in an immersive VR environment to conduct highly controlled experiments. Close interaction scenarios like handovers, conducted either in the physical or virtual world, have their own inherent limits, e.g., with respect to safety as well as a fixed body structure of the robot in the physical world and degree of realism or level of detail in virtual environments. Therefore, we explore several MR techniques to overcome these limitations. MR devices, such as the Microsoft HoloLens, allow to augment real environments with visualized sensor data as well as to simulate robotic parts like virtual robot heads or arms attached to a physical robot. This enables HRI experiments that were difficult or impossible to conduct before.
Assessing High-Throughput Descriptors for Prediction of Transparent Conductors

The growth of materials databases has yielded significant quantities of data to mine for new energy materials using high-throughput screening methodologies. One application of interest to energy and optoelectronics is the prediction of new high performing p-type transparent conductors (TCs). However, screening methods for such materials have never been validated over the breadth of computed materials properties. In this study, we compile an experimental data set of 74 bulk crystal structures corresponding to known state-of-the-art n-type and p-type TCs and compute a series of corresponding computational descriptor properties. Our goals are to (1) compare computational descriptors to experimentally demonstrated properties of real materials in the data set, (2) determine the ability of ground state, density functional theory (DFT)-based computational screening methodologies to identify these experimentally realized TCs, and (3) use this understanding to estimate reasonable screening cutoffs for four commonl.
Characterization of Regional Influence of Fine Carbonaceous Particles at Gosan, Korea

Aims: This study aimed to study the long-range transport of anthropogenic carbonaceous aerosol at Gosan, Korea Study Design: Chemical composition of fine particles (aerodynamic diameter < 2.5㎛) and PAHs of TSP measured at Gosan during six intensive measurement periods covering four seasons. And the chemical characteristics of particulate matter were classified and compared each other according to the major source areas identified by using backward trajectory analysis in order to study the impact of distant source regions on the carbonaceous aerosol at Gosan, Korea. Place and Duration of Study: Sample: Gosan, Jeju Island in Republic of Korea, from 13 to 25 Nov. 2001, from 29 Mar. to 11 Apr. 2002, from 27 Aug. to 11 Sep. 2002, from 14 to 26 Feb 2003, from 6 to 22 Jun. 2003, and from 18 Aug. to 1 Sep. 2003. Methodology: In order to investigate the chemical composition of fine particles, 7 major ion components, 21 trace elements, organic and elemental carbon of PM2.5 were measured. In addition, particulate hazardous pollutants including 17 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were analyzed. The measured data were classified according to the dominant source area identified with the three-day backward trajectory analysis. Then several ratios of species combining EC, OC, SO42-, K+ and PAH compounds were used to identify potential sources of carbonaceous materials. Results: Quite different characteristic in the chemical composition of fine particles was observed by regional groups of backward trajectories. Concentrations of ion components including secondary aerosol such as SO42- and NH4+ were relatively high when air masses were originated from north China. Concentrations of OC and gaseous PAHs were higher when they transported from Japan than from other source regions. High concentrations of secondary aerosols as well as particulate PAHs were observed in the air mass from north China with a higher correlation between them. Elemental carbon had a better correlation in this case not only with secondary aerosols, but also with OC and CO, implying that carbonaceous materials were originated from long-distance combustion sources. Especially positive correlation with benzo(ghi)perylene suggested that they also had a vehicular origin. Conclusion: The results showed that biomass burning and vehicular emissions mainly influenced ambient fine particles when they derived from north China and the Korea peninsula while fossil fuel combustion chiefly affected them when they originated in south China during six intensive measurement periods.
Eastern Baltic cod : perspectives from existing data on processes affecting growth and survival of eggs and larvae

We review eastern Baltic cod literature to identify areas for future research involving egg and larval stages. Egg and larval abundances have been estimated for several decades in all of the major spawning areas. Using a subset of the available data we show that the timing of peak egg abun- dance in one of these areas (Bornholm Basln) vanes seasonally by at least 2 mo. Trends in egg and larval abundance over time are not obvious due to differences In gear type, sampling intensity, and sur- vey timing relative to spawning dates Interannual differences in larval transport away from spawning areas may also contribute to variability in abundance estimates The results of broad-scale zooplankton surveys suggest that the abundance and types of potential prey in the Baltic Sea are similar to those in other regions and perhaps suitable for moderate-to-fast larval growth However, few systematic sur- veys have described food concentrations at appropriate scales for cod larvae, and the species composition of larval diets is unknown. Growth rates for Baltic cod larvae have not been measured and cannot be compared with rates in other areas or to vanatlons in biotic and ab~otlc factors. Large gaps exist in our knowledge of processes affecting egg and larval growth and survival, but some promising areas of research are indicated. In particular the seasonality of spawning, deep water oxygen concentrations, predation on eggs, and larval food production require further investigation
Preparedness and Practice Management Skills of Graduating Dental Students Entering the Work Force

Dental education aims to produce competent graduates with the ability to provide quality care to the patients and facilitate the smooth integration into professional practice. The objective of this study was to explore the overall preparedness of graduands for integrating into professional practice. The survey was tested for reliability and analysed the career paths, learning preferences, overall knowledge, and confidence amongst graduating dentists in integrating and managing a dental practice on graduation. Sixty-nine students (89.6%) in age group of 20–50 years participated in the study. Students indicated a high level of confidence in their skills and ability to work in a team in a practice or collaboratively with other colleagues and specialists but expressed some reservation on their practice management skills (73.1%). Challenges in gaining employment and pressures to repay educational debts are amongst the reasons for graduands preferring a paid job immediately on graduation regardless of demographics. Students indicated that an increase in speciality training and clinical/outreach placements could enhance employability. This study explores the students’ perception of their confidences, knowledge, learning preferences, and practice management skills as a method of evaluating their preparedness to practice on graduation and provides a base line for curriculum structuring to prepare graduands to enter the competitive dental work force.
Performance of cavity backed inverted microstrip broadband antenna

An inverted microstrip circular patch with a parasitic element printed back to back on the same substrate and backed by a cylindrical metallic cavity is investigated as a compact integratable broadband antenna. The cavity effect in changing its impedance behavior is thoroughly examined and an optimized X-band design is presented. As much as 11% bandwidth is apparent from the design data. Principal plane radiation patterns are also examined showing above 98 % efficiency and 10.97 dB directivity.
The Proposed Effects of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD) Supplementation on Energy Metabolism

Energy metabolism is a process that is essential in the maintenance of life and has obvious roles with regards to sporting performance. Oxygen’s role in aerobic respiration is to act as the final hydrogen/electron accepter to form water. If oxygen is not present the whole aerobic pathway cannot occur and so the body will rely on energy produced anaerobically. The question instantly raised is to whether oxygen is ever in short supply, does it become a limiting factor for energy metabolism? The body will adapt to training in a variety of manners so that only under extreme conditions is oxygen a limiting factor. All of these adaptations are beneficial from an exercise performance standpoint and increase the efficiency of the complex metabolic process. There are still however questions surrounding the idea that NAD+ plays a key role in this process and whether increasing the synthesis/concentration would be advantageous for the trained individual. Nicotinamide, nicotinic acid, tryptophan and nicotinamide riboside are all natural substances that are acquired in the diet. Due to the protein and other biosynthetic uses of tryptophan it may not be as efficient or indeed practical to use tryptophan as a supplement. Supplementation of nicotinamide and nicotinic acid appears to increase NAD+ biosynthesis and the intracellular NAD+ pool. Whether these effects can aid in sporting performance is currently unanswered with no research in this area.