Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Role of Diet-Fiber

: Diverticular disease is viewed, by most physicians, as a consequence of a diet which consumes inadequate amounts of fiber. Dietary fiber helps form large bulky stool, resulting in a larger radius colon that is less likely to permit segmentation and therefore less likely to develop diverticula. While as many as two-thirds of individuals in the West have diverticular disease by the age of 85, perhaps only 10-25% will manifest any related clinical symptoms. What distinguishes individuals who progress to symptomatic disease is still uncertain. Recent studies suggest that the natural history of diverticular disease bears many similarities to that of chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Some of the cellular mechanisms that underlie the development of chronic inflammation and inflammatory complications may be common to both diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel disease. The impact of decreased fiber has been explored largely as having physiologic effects in decreasing transit time and increasing intra-colonic pressure. Fiber has benefits both as a preventative measure not only by bulking stool but also due to its effects on colonic microflora and also as a treatment for symptomatic diverticular disease. The decrease in soluble fiber in our diets may have altered our gut flora, which may have significant immune consequences central to the pathophysiology of diverticulitis. This study aims to review the potential contribution of different types of fiber to the development of diverticular disease, the relationship between fiber and diverticular disease as both a preventative measure and a treatment as well as its potential influence on colonic flora with speculation on possible neglected areas of importance still left unanswered.
A motivação profissional dos professores de língua espanhola nos estados do Ceará e Piauí: uma análise após a revogação da lei 11.161/2005

A motivação de um(a) professor(a) como profissional na área de ensino de língua espanhola pode refletir nas suas ações, metodologias, estratégias de ensino e aprendizagem de seus alunos. Nesse contexto, considerando que a revogação da lei de obrigatoriedade da oferta de espanhol no Brasil, este artigo busca investigar as atuais motivações de professores de espanhol dos Estados do Ceará e do Piauí acerca dessa língua e das perspectivas para o seu ensino nos estados antes mencionado. Para tanto, baseia-se em estudos sobre motivação, situados na área de Linguística Aplicada. Além disso, para a obtenção dos dados, parte-se da observação direta extensiva, mediante a aplicação de questionário com professores de espanhol da rede pública estadual e/ou escolas de idiomas. Como resultado, averiguamos que a maioria dos professores investigados opta por valorizar o ensino e a oferta desta língua na rede estadual de ensino, portanto, não se mostram favoráveis à exclusão da disciplina de espanhol do currículo escolar por uma questão política e sem a devida discussão com os profissionais da área.
Functional analysis of the microRNA genes of C. elegans

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) were discovered in C. elegans during studies of the control of developmental timing. MicroRNAs are a large class of short non-coding RNAs found in many viruses, plants and animals that regulate gene expression through sequence-specific base-pairing with target mRNAs. Initial studies since the identification of many miRNAs only six years ago, have revealed their very diverse roles in biology. Yet, few miRNAs have been studied using loss-of-function mutations. We have generated deletion mutations in 87 miRNA genes in C. elegans, and performed an initial characterization of the 95 miRNA mutants available (86% of known C. elegans miRNAs). We found that the majority of miRNAs are not essential for the viability or development of C. elegans, and mutations in most miRNA genes do not result in grossly abnormal phenotypes. Within species, many miRNAs can be grouped into families according to their sequence similarities. We generated a collection of 12 multiply mutant C. elegans strains that each lacks an entire miRNA family. We found that at least four families display synthetic abnormalities, indicating that miRNAs within a family can have redundant functions. While single mutants are superficially wild-type, mutants deleted for all members of the mir-35 or the mir-51 families show embryonic or early larval lethality, mutants deleted for all members of the mir-58 family show an egglaying defect, and mutants deleted for some members of the let-7 family show defects in developmental timing. We developed a microarray technology suitable for detecting microRNAs and used this microarray to determine the profile of microRNAs expressed in the developing mouse brain. We observed a temporal wave of expression of microRNAs, suggesting that microRNAs play important roles in the development of the mammalian brain. We also performed a systematic expression analysis of 334 samples covering diverse human cancers, using a bead-based flow cytometric miRNA expression profiling method we developed. The miRNA profiles reflect the developmental lineage and differentiation state of the tumors, and reveal a general down-regulation of miRNAs in tumors compared to normal tissues. Thesis Supervisor: H. Robert Horvitz Title: Professor of Biology
CRC handbook of tapeworm identification

I. Duke, James A. , 1929CRC handbook of medicinal herbs. II. Title. and are used only for identification and explanation, without intent to infringe. VVG, ZUL), Sore Throat (f, ZUL), Sprain (f: ZUL), Toothache (f, ZUL), Worm (1, VVG, ZUL). snipe, C? a? p? e? l? l? a? , CRC handbook of tapeworm identification, How to know the Molecular genetic approaches to parasite identification: their value. including rabbits, snakes, and lizards, as well as worms and insects. Handbook of Tapeworm Identification. Boca. Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. Skryabin KI.
Relation-Aware Global Attention for Person Re-Identification

For person re-identification (re-id), attention mechanisms have become attractive as they aim at strengthening discriminative features and suppressing irrelevant ones, which matches well the key of re-id, i.e., discriminative feature learning. Previous approaches typically learn attention using local convolutions, ignoring the mining of knowledge from global structure patterns. Intuitively, the affinities among spatial positions/nodes in the feature map provide clustering-like information and are helpful for inferring semantics and thus attention, especially for person images where the feasible human poses are constrained. In this work, we propose an effective Relation-Aware Global Attention (RGA) module which captures the global structural information for better attention learning. Specifically, for each feature position, in order to compactly grasp the structural information of global scope and local appearance information, we propose to stack the relations, i.e., its pairwise correlations/affinities with all the feature positions (e.g., in raster scan order), and the feature itself together to learn the attention with a shallow convolutional model. Extensive ablation studies demonstrate that our RGA can significantly enhance the feature representation power and help achieve the state-of-the-art performance on several popular benchmarks. The source code is available at https://github.com/microsoft/Relation-Aware-Global-Attention-Networks.
Colonisation of the Mucosae - Adherence Factors and their Interaction with Host Cells

RESUME : La première étape de nombreuses infections bactériennes est la colonisation des surfaces de l’hôte, c’est-à-dire les muqueuses et la peau. L’adhésion des bactéries aux muqueuses est médiée par des structures présentes à la surface de la cellule bactérienne, appelées adhésines, qui interagissent avec des composant présents à la surface de la cellule eucaryote ou à hauteur de la matrice extra-cellulaire, appelés récepteurs. Les propriétés d’adhésion des bactéries furent décrites pour la première fois au début du 20e siècle, mais l’étude des adhésines bactériennes ne débuta véritablement que dans les années 1950. Aujourd’hui des dizaines d’adhésines bactériennes sont connues, ainsi que trois types d’interactions adhésines-récepteurs : protéine-carbohydrate, protéine-protéine et hydrophobine-hydrophobine.
A vantagem competitiva nas instituições de ensino básico sob a perspectiva da teoria baseada em recursos.

Strategic management tries to explain through theories and concepts, how institutions, in various segments of the market, can achieve a good performance and stand out from the others. Considering the number of institutions of basic education and the great competitiveness among them, it was decided to study this sector, to better understand the phenomenon of Competitive Advantage in the market. Thus, with the purpose of identifying which companies in this branch obtain competitive advantages, and what their sources, this work has as general objective, to analyze the competitive implications in the educational institutions in the municipality of Caruaru - Pernambuco according to the assumptions of the RBV. In order to reach the objectives, bibliographical researches of the main national and international authors on subjects of the organizational context, such as: Resourced-Based View - RBV and VRIO model, by Barney and Hersterly (2007). The data collection was done through the application of a questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The research arrived at the results of which all the schools possessed resources considered valuable for the company, it was found during the research that schools A and D have a temporary competitive advantage. Company B has competitive parity with respect to educational institutions in the city, and company C in turn presented a competitive disadvantage in relation to the others. This is because despite retaining valuable resources, the company lacks rare, costly resources to imitate and does not utilize the company's ability to exploit the resources it owns. Of the resources considered strategic, the main one is the human resource. None of the companies contained in this research presented a sustainable competitive advantage.
Effect of data quality on genetic parameters for days to first insemination in dairy cattle.

INTRODUCTION Interval from calving to first breeding is regarded as one of the most important practical measures of reproductive performance (Thaller, 1998). Extended intervals may be caused by post-partum metritis, endocrine dysfunction that delays the establishment of regular estrus cycles, and depressed expression of estrus behavior. Undetected estrus is one of the major contributors to extended intervals to first breeding or conception.
Early Reflections of an Historian on Feminism in Egypt in Time of Revolution

* I would like to take the opportunity to express my deep gratitude to Margot Badran, whose work has been a constant source of inspiration since I started my research on Egyptian feminism. Her generous comments have been instrumental in the final draft of this article, which represents my first step beyond my Doctoral research, and into the study of contemporary Egyptian feminism. I am grateful also to the friends and colleagues in Cairo who made this research possible. Claudia Ruta (Un Women), Carmine Cartolano and Gennaro Gervasio for sharing their contacts and expertise; all the women’s and human rights activists who generously offered their time in days of hard work. A special thanks to my assistant researcher, Estella Carpi, for transcribing the interviews, and to my colleagues and friends Luca Anceschi, Maurizio Marinelli, Serena Tolino, Eileen Walsh, and Sonia Wilson, for their thought provoking comments.
Detection of content-level collusive activities in online social networks

Twitter, as a micro-blogging service has been increasingly used to express opinions, promote brands and share news. Often, the popularity of a tweet is denoted by how other users of the platform are reacting to it. Retweets are a very important aspect of the endorsement of tweets - a high number of retweets gain a lot of attention. This has led to the creation of unfair methods for gaining a high number of retweets as a natural way of gaining retweets is very time-consuming – one such shortcut is to approach the blackmarket services, and gain retweets for their own tweets by retweeting other customers’ tweets. Thus, the users intrinsically become a part of a collusive ecosystem controlled by these services. In this project, we expand on the idea of collusion by proposing CoReRank , an unsupervised al-gorithm to rank users and tweets based on their participation in the collusive ecosystem. Later, we also leverage the presence of sparse labelled data to formulate its semi-supervised version called CoReRank+ .
Performance and Comparative Analysis of Math Function Based Controller Combined with PID and PI for Smooth Transition of Energy Sources

Received: 12 November 2018 Accepted: 20 January 2019 Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) with battery and ultra-capacitor (UC) gives good results for Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV)/Electric Vehicle (EV) application due to its inherent high energy and high power densities. High power capability of UC can be utilized during cold starting and sudden requirement of the EV. Normal power need can be supplied by the battery itself only. The main obstacle with HESS based EVs is the transition between battery and UC. The smooth transition plays a key role in improving battery life. The main aim of this work is to develop a control technique for automatic switching between energy sources corresponding to the speed of the motor. In the proposed control action, motor speed plays a major role in switch the energy sources in HESS. To attain the objective, another controller has been designed with four math functions corresponding to the speed of the motor termed as Math Function Based (MFB) controller. Thereafter the designed MFB controller combined with a conventional PI controller applied to the entire circuit at different load conditions. In the same way, MFB with PID controller also applied to the circuit. Finally, comparative analysis has been done between two hybrid controllers. The MATLAB/Simulink results of MFB with PI and MFB with PID has been attained and also compared, discussed.
Book Reviews

In Space Invaders Nirmal Puwar weaves together a compelling narrative of the underlying constraints placed upon women and ethnic minorities by institutional somatic norms. She assiduously focuses on the collisions, disruptions and burdens that manifest when ‘different’ bodies come to inhabit, or ‘invade’, institutional spaces. By challenging the privileged subtexts of whiteness and masculinity through a series of British-based case studies from Westminster to academia, Puwar elucidates how ‘certain types of bodies [. ] are tacitly designated as being the “natural” occupants of such spaces with others marked out as trespassers’ (p. 8). Each case study details the ways in which even small numbers of ‘different’ bodies carry an amplified sense of presence that incites (for those who have their ontological security thrown into question) anxiety, suspicion and supersurveillance. This entails, Puwar contends convincingly, a heavy burden of representation weighted on the ‘space invaders’, involving both a burden of doubt (and thus proof) as collectively competent, and a burden of bodily compliance to the symbolic capital expression of respectability (see also Skeggs, 1998). As such, to ‘whitewash’ (or de-feminise) one’s ‘bodily gestures, social interests [and] value systems’ (p. 150) can be deemed a stipulation for institutional survival and progression, with a failure to do so being an ultimately stifling, renegade act. Puwar commences, in the opening chapter ‘Men and Empire’, with a brief depiction of the colonial legacy that hangs over our post-colonial era in the racialised and gendered configuration of the public sphere and body politic. In the following two chapters, ‘Dissonant Bodies’ and ‘(In)Visible Universal Bodies’, she unravels the present-day disruption of institutional spaces by bodies barred earlier but who are now promised formal endorsement. In so doing, she expounds how these ‘different’ bodies nevertheless confront a subtler form of exclusion driven by the implicit somatic norms of the white masculine body. Thereafter, in the chapters’ ‘Performative Rites: ill-fitting suits’ and ‘Imperial/Legitimate Language’, Puwar deals with the controlling power of affective labour. She argues, for example, that the performance required to function within the ‘violent political theatre’ (p. 86) of the House of Commons places an especially heavy burden on female and ethnic minority MPs who are type-cast by their visible markings and are required to counteract the supposedly innate, negative traits of these markings. In the final chapter, ‘Becoming Insiders’, Puwar suggests that those marked as different who want to succeed in the institutional arena are forced to contemplate a kind of social cloning; in other words, to secure career success one ends up having to concur in an ontological denial (yet importantly, as Puwar notes, not all are equal in their ability to comply). To me, this is one of the most interesting observations of the book, but one which is slightly underdeveloped in terms of thinking through the more subtle disparities of Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 317–328, June 2006
Uptake of Trace Metals and Rare Earth Elements from Hornblende by a Soil Bacterium

Analysis of trace elements released from hornblende between pH 6.5 and 7.5 in the presence of Arthrobacter sp. shows that Fe, Ni, V, Mn, and, to a lesser extent, Co are preferentially released into solution relative to bacteria-free experiments. This enhanced release into solution could be due to contributions from the slightly lowered pH, the presence of low molecular weight organic acids (LMWOAs), or the presence of a catecholate siderophore in experiments with bacteria. The best explanation for enhanced metal release is siderophore complexation at the mineral surface followed by release to solution. However,the relative rates of metal release to solution in these experiments do not strictly follow the trend predicted by the relative ordering of metal hydrolysis, which might be predicted for siderophore-promoted dissolution. For some of these metals, release to solution is fast initially in biotic experiments, but concentrations in solution reach a steady state value or decrease with time as the bacteria cell numbers increase exponentially. Lack of enhanced release to solution for some metals and decreases in release rate with time for others may be explained by uptake into bacteria. Many of the metals predicted to strongly complex with siderophore (including Al, Ti, Fe, Cu) are heavily taken up into cellular material. The relative ordering of organic ligand-element complexation may therefore partially explain the relative ordering of uptake of trace metals and rare earth elements into cell material. Fractionation of heavy rare earth elements taken up into cellular material is also very strong, and increases from Ho to Lu. Strong fractionation in uptake of some elements by bacteria may create biological signatures either in the mineral substrate or in any mineral precipitates associated with the cellular material.
EFICIÊNCIA DO USO DE FÓSFORO EM GENÓTIPOS DE ARROZ CULTIVADOS EM SOLOS DE TERRAS ALTAS

EnglishBrazilian soils are highly deficient in essential nutrients to rice crop development, mainly in cerrado soils. Rice phosphorus requirement is high and the crop yield is often limited by the unavailability of this nutrient. This paper aimed to verify the existence of differences inphosphorus use efficiency among rice cultivars grown in southern upland of Estate of Tocantins. The evaluated cultivars were BRS – Primavera, BRSMG – Conai, BRS – Sertaneja, BRS – Bonanca, BRS – Aroma, Pepita, Serra Dourada, Bolinha, Japones e Monarca. To simulate environments with low and high levels of phosphorus, doses of 20 and 120 kg ha-1 of P2O5 were applied. The evaluated characteristics were plant height, number of days to heading, number of panicles per m2 , one hundred grains mass, grains yield and chlorophyll indexes. Therefore, it was concluded that: (i) the cultivars BRS – Primavera and Bolinha are efficient and responsive to P fertilization; (ii) the bigger dose of P resulted in higher plant height for cultivars BRS – Sertaneja, Bolinha, Japones and Monarca and greater one hundred grain mass for cultivars BRS – Sertaneja, BRS – Bonanca, BRS – Primavera, BRS – Aroma and Monarca, besides the anticipation of heading date, higher number of panicles, indexes of chlorophyll a, b, total and grain yield. portuguesOs solos brasileiros sao altamente deficientes em nutrientes essenciais ao desenvolvimento da cultura do arroz, principalmente os solos de cerrado. O arroz e extremamente exigente em fosforo e possui produtividade limitada vista a grande indisponibilidade deste nutriente. Objetivou-se com este trabalho verificar a existencia de diferencas entre cultivares de arroz quanto a eficiencia ao uso de fosforo em solos de terras altas, no sul do Estado do Tocantins. Os cultivares avaliados foram BRS – Primavera, BRSMG – Conai, BRS – Sertaneja, BRS – Bonanca, BRS – Aroma, Pepita, Serra Dourada, Bolinha, Japones e Monarca. Simulando ambientes com baixo e alto nivel de fosforo, foram aplicadas doses 20 e 120 kg ha-1 de P2O5. As caracteristicas avaliadas foram altura das plantas, dias para florescimento, numero de paniculas por m2 , massa de cem graos, produtividade de graos e indices de clorofilas. Desta forma, conclui-se que: (i) os cultivares BRS – Primavera e Bolinha sao eficientes e responsivos a adubacao de P; (ii) a maior dose de fosforo resultou em maior altura de plantas para os cultivares BRS – Sertaneja, Bolinha, Japones e Monarca e maior massa de cem graos para os cultivares BRS – Sertaneja, BRS – Bonanca, BRS – Primavera, BRS – Aroma e Monarca, alem de proporcionar menor numero de dias para florescimento, maior numero de paniculas, clorofila a, b, total e produtividade de graos.
Don’t Neglect the Obvious: On the Role of Unambiguous Words in Word Sense Disambiguation

State-of-the-art methods for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) combine two different features: the power of pre-trained language models and a propagation method to extend the coverage of such models. This propagation is needed as current sense-annotated corpora lack coverage of many instances in the underlying sense inventory (usually WordNet). At the same time, unambiguous words make for a large portion of all words in WordNet, while being poorly covered in existing sense-annotated corpora. In this paper we propose a simple method to provide annotations for most unambiguous words in a large corpus. We introduce the UWA (Unambiguous Word Annotations) dataset and show how a state-of-the-art propagation-based model can use it to extend the coverage and quality of its word sense embeddings by a significant margin, improving on its original results on WSD.
A machine learning approach to portfolio pricing and risk management for high‐dimensional problems

We present a general framework for portfolio risk management in discrete time, based on a replicating martingale. This martingale is learned from a finite sample in a supervised setting. Our method learns the features necessary for an effective low‐dimensional representation, overcoming the curse of dimensionality common to function approximation in high‐dimensional spaces, and applies for a wide range of model distributions. We show numerical results based on polynomial and neural network bases applied to high‐dimensional Gaussian models. In these examples, both bases offer superior results to naive Monte Carlo methods and regress‐now least‐squares Monte Carlo (LSMC).