Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Coastal Landscape Vulnerability Analysis in Eastern China—Based on Land-Use Change in Jiangsu Province

The unreasonable land use in rapid urbanization areas induced by large-scale urban construction activities have caused massive ecological issues. In this study, landscape vulnerability index (LVI) and landscape human interference index (LHAI) were originally addressed and calculated using multi-temporal land-use data from 2000 to 2015. Then, the spatial-temporal relationship assessment model of landscape fragility caused by human activities were constructed for each county of Jiangsu Province, China, so as to analyze the spatial distribution of landscape vulnerability and determine the impacts of artificial disturbance on landscape vulnerability. The results showed: (1) The number of counties with middle and high landscape vulnerability increased from 20 in 2000 to 27 in 2015 with a peak value (33) in 2010. (2) Counties with high-intensity human activities showed an upward trend. (3) Land use generally has a significant and diverse impact on landscape vulnerability. At the county level, the LVI was positively correlated with the LHAI before 2010 and was followed by a negative correlation of them. As concluded from this study, a total of four sub-regions (continuous benefit zones, variable benefit zones, continuous harmful zones, and variable harmful zones) have been identified for sustainable landscape management in the future. (4) The LVI suggests that the landscape vulnerability in Jiangsu did not continue to deteriorate in the study period. Further, accelerated land exploitation has produced a positive impact on regional economic development and ecological protection. This study provided an effective method set for analyzing the environmental impacts caused by human activities and promoting future ecosystem management in coastal areas.
Regulation of Necroptosis by Phospholipids and Sphingolipids

Several non-apoptotic regulated cell death pathways have been recently reported. Necroptosis, a form of necrotic-regulated cell death, is characterized by the involvement of receptor-interacting protein kinases and/or the pore-forming mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein. Recent evidence suggests a key role for lipidic molecules in the regulation of necroptosis. The purpose of this mini-review is to outline the regulation of necroptosis by sphingolipids and phospholipids.
Potential distributions of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis causing anthrax in Africa

Background Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva) is an emergent bacterium closely related to Bacillus anthracis, the etiological agent of anthrax. The latter has a worldwide distribution and usually causes infectious disease in mammals associated with savanna ecosystems. Bcbva was identified in humid tropical forests of Côte d’Ivoire in 2001. Here, we characterize the potential geographic distributions of Bcbva in West Africa and B. anthracis in sub-Saharan Africa using an ecological niche modeling approach. Methodology/Principal findings Georeferenced occurrence data for B. anthracis and Bcbva were obtained from public data repositories and the scientific literature. Combinations of temperature, humidity, vegetation greenness, and soils values served as environmental variables in model calibrations. To predict the potential distribution of suitable environments for each pathogen across the study region, parameter values derived from the median of 10 replicates of the best-performing model for each pathogen were used. We found suitable environments predicted for B. anthracis across areas of confirmed and suspected anthrax activity in sub-Saharan Africa, including an east-west corridor from Ethiopia to Sierra Leone in the Sahel region and multiple areas in eastern, central, and southern Africa. The study area for Bcbva was restricted to West and Central Africa to reflect areas that have likely been accessible to Bcbva by dispersal. Model predicted values indicated potential suitable environments within humid forested environments. Background similarity tests in geographic space indicated statistical support to reject the null hypothesis of similarity when comparing environments associated with B. anthracis to those of Bcbva and when comparing humidity values and soils values individually. We failed to reject the null hypothesis of similarity when comparing environments associated with Bcbva to those of B. anthracis, suggesting that additional investigation is needed to provide a more robust characterization of the Bcbva niche. Conclusions/Significance This study represents the first time that the environmental and geographic distribution of Bcbva has been mapped. We document likely differences in ecological niche—and consequently in geographic distribution—between Bcbva and typical B. anthracis, and areas of possible co-occurrence between the two. We provide information crucial to guiding and improving monitoring efforts focused on these pathogens.
Vitamin C Activates the Folate-Mediated One-Carbon Cycle in C2C12 Myoblasts

Vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid, AA) is an essential cellular antioxidant and cofactor for several α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases. As an antioxidant, AA interacts with vitamin E to control oxidative stress. While several reports suggest an interaction of AA with folate (vitamin B9) in animals and humans, little is known about the nature of the interaction and the underlying molecular mechanisms at the cellular level. We used an untargeted metabolomics approach to study the impact of AA on the metabolome of C2C12 myoblast cells. Compared to untreated cells, treatment of C2C12 cells with AA at 100 µM resulted in enhanced concentrations of folic acid (2.5-fold) and 5-methyl-tetrahydrofolate (5-methyl-THF, 10-fold increase) whereas the relative concentrations of 10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate decreased by >90% upon AA pretreatment, indicative of increased utilization for the biosynthesis of active THF metabolites. The impact of AA on the folate-mediated one-carbon cycle further manifested itself as an increase in the levels of methionine, whose formation from homocysteine is 5-methyl-THF dependent, and an increase in thymidine, whose formation from deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP) is dependent on 5,10-methylene-THF. These findings shed new light on the interaction of AA with the folate-mediated one-carbon cycle and partially explain clinical findings that AA supplementation enhances erythrocyte folate status and that it may decrease serum levels of homocysteine, which is considered as a biomarker of cardiovascular disease risk.
Detecting Video Surveillance Using VGG19 Convolutional Neural Networks

The meteoric growth of data over the internet from the last few years has created a challenge of mining and extracting useful patterns from a large dataset. In recent years, the growth of digital libraries and video databases makes it more challenging and important to extract useful information from raw data to prevent and detect the crimes from the database automatically. Street crime snatching and theft detection is the major challenge in video mining. The main target is to select features/objects which usually occurs at the time of snatching. The number of moving targets imitates the performance, speed and amount of motion in the anomalous video. The dataset used in this paper is Snatch 101; the videos in the dataset are further divided into frames. The frames are labelled and segmented for training. We applied the VGG19 Convolutional Neural Network architecture algorithm and extracted the features of objects and compared them with original video features and objects. The main contribution of our research is to create frames from the videos and then label the objects. The objects are selected from frames where we can detect anomalous activities. The proposed system is never used before for crime prediction, and it is computationally efficient and effective as compared to state-of-the-art systems. The proposed system outperformed with 81 % accuracy as compared to state-of-the-art systems.
Online sleep spindles detection with short and long time average ratio

Sleep spindles occurrence correlates with the consolidation of recently acquired information. The memory consolidation literature supports that there are more sleep spindles after a learning task. Thus, the detection of them does not only allow the classiﬁcation of the N2 sleep stage, further provides a quantiﬁcation value of memory replay and memory consolidation during sleep. Event detection is an important processing step performed in the analysis of diverse kinds of waveforms. The short and long term average ratio is the most widely used event detection approach to analyze passive seismic data and trigger the storing or discarding of data. Its popularity comes from its simplicity and the usage of a ﬁxed threshold determined by the intention of the data usage and not based on the signal dynamics. This work explores the usage of this event detection approach on the online detection of sleep spindles. The advantages of the detection performance with this feature over using the same binary classiﬁcation method using other fast calculation features come from its statistical properties. The classiﬁcation features compared are the root mean square amplitude, relative spindle power, and the Teager-Kayser energy operator.
Survey paper on replication strategies in cloud computing

- Cloud computing is one of the most recent domains in the field of computer science. It is growing exponentially day by day because of its features like virtualization, universal access, low cost and fault tolerance. Replication is one of the methods by which the cloud data center is able to provide effective fault tolerance. Replication is a method in which a replica of the original file or a part of the whole file is created. It is a crucial and effective strategy because it enables user to access the files even when the original file is damaged or even destroyed. Hence, it increases accessibility to the data stored in cloud center. In this paper we present the study of various techniques for replication.
Effect of Laser Cutting Parameters on the Heat Affected Zone and on the Boundary Layer in Steel Laser Processing

This paper investigates the effect of the laser cutting parameters on the heat-affected zone, and on the boundary layer of stainless steel processing. A new analytical resolution based on the boundary layer theory is used to deduce the interaction effects of the cutting parameters on the above zones. The results revealed that, the laminar nitrogen assist gas has a negligible effect on the HAZ depth but it has a remarkable effect on the molten boundary layer. It is also noticed that the pressure gradient remains very small compared to the interface shearing and the conductive heat losses from the cutting zone towards the substrate is dominant compared to the convective heat losses towards the gas.
A Brief Screening Measure for General Psychological Distress

Psychological distress refers to a state of emotional discomfort, often in reaction to stressors. It is predictive of psychiatric disorders and physical health syndromes (1). Most major assessment instruments designed to measure multiple psychiatric syndromes are saturated with psychological distress: typically evidenced by a common factor sharing a large percentage of statistical variance (2). Despite its transdiagnostic nature, most brief dimensional measures of distress in the public domain include only items assessing depression and anxiety. This may limit their ability to identify psychiatric disturbances outside of neuroses. For example, the Kessler-6, a brief metric used mostly in epidemiological research, includes items that assess feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, depression, inertia, fidgetiness, and restlessness (3). No item content of the Kessler-6 clearly taps hypomanic, psychotic, or social concerns. The purpose of this report was to develop a brief dimensional measure of psychological distress by selecting items representing a range of syndromes from a public-domain broad-scale assessment of maladjustment. The intention was, if successful, that the new measure might be used clinicians and researchers to screen for psychiatric disturbance pending additional study. METHOD
Heavy metals concentrations in selected areas used for urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

This study was carried out to assess the concentration of heavy metals in selected areas used for urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam and compare them with permissible limit from the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) in order to establish risk levels. Samples were collected from six sites of Tazara mchichani, Ubungo darajani, Kigogo darajani, Temeke wailers, Tegeta and Bunju, which reflect frequently flooded and non-flooded areas and areas within the city and at the outskirts. The samples were analyzed for Zinc (Zn), Chromium (Cr), Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb) and Copper (Cu) as these are the common heavy metals in the city. The highest value of Cu (8.98 mg/kg), Zn (57.10 mg/kg) and Pb (33.70 mg/kg) were observed in Tazara Mchichani, which may reflect pollution from various manufacturing industries surrounding the areas including steel, iron, food processing and detergents. Bunju had the lowest Cu and Zn levels in the soil, averaging 1.92 mg/kg and 13.53 mg/kg, respectively, while Kigogo Darajani had the lowest Pb concentrations of 6.88 mg/kg. High and low values of Cr were observed in Tegeta and Temeke Wailes with the mean concentrations of 15.29 and 3.66 mg/kg respectively. The Cd level was high in Temeke Wailes, Kigogo Darajani and Tegeta with mean concentration of 0.26 mg/kg. The lowest Cadmium concentration (0.15 mg/kg) was observed at Tazara Mchichani. Heavy metal concentrations in the six sites were within the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) permissible limit, suggesting that no serious health hazards are expected. Flood seem not to influence toxic elements distribution as flooded area like Ubungo darajani, Tazara mchichani and Kigogo darajani had similar levels of concentrations of studied metals compared to non flooded areas of Temeke wailers, Tegeta darajani and Bunju.
Is High Body Mass Index in Elderly Harmless?

A series of studies has defended higher body mass index (BMI) of the elderly as preventive, but the obesity may play an important role in the development of other diseases, such as, fasting hyperglycemia that may progress to diabetes and in contrast, decreased physical activity plays an important role in the onset of chronic diseases in the elderly. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between obesity, measured by body mass index (BMI) and the physical activity level, assessed by the IPAQ as risk factors for fasting hyperglycemia in older people. Methods: 803 elderly volunteers who participate in the project EPIDOSO II from the Center for the Study of Aging Federal University of São Paulo was part of the research. This is a prospective cohort study assessing the elderly in the SP. This elderly population is evaluated by many health professionals through medical, physical, nutritional and psychological evaluations. It is also performed blood exams for the measurement of fasting glucose. Laboratory results were related to body mass index and physical activity level of each individual. The results showed that obesity and decreased physical activity can lead to changes in fasting glucose. This study makes us rethink the tolerance of a higher BMI in the elderly population, proving the relationship of metabolic risk with increasing BMI and low International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ).
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis - spectrum of high-resolution CT findings

Poster: "ECR 2017 / C-2207 / Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis - spectrum of high-resolution CT findings" by: "C. A. Baracas, I. Rolla, A. L. Fernandes, I. Neves, M. J. Ribeiro, M. C. Tavares; Matosinhos/PT"
Influences of Different Calcination Ambiences on Phase Composition, Morphologies of Ceramic Coatings on Ti–6Al–4V Alloy by Micro-Arc Oxidation

Compound ceramic coatings with the main crystal phase of Al2TiO5 (as-coated samples) were prepared in situ on the surface of Ti-6Al-4V alloy by means of pulsed bi-polar micro-arc oxidation (MAO) in an NaAlO2 solution. The coated samples were calcined in argon and air at 1000°C, respectively. The phase composition, surface and section morphology, and element contents of the ceramic coatings were investigated by X-ray diffractometry (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF). The samples were treated in argon and the as-coated ones were calcined in air at 1000°C to study the anti-oxidation properties of the samples. The results show that Al2TiO5 had been decomposed in an hour and transformed into α-Al2O3 and rutile TiO2 in air. However, Al2TiO5 had been decomposed in four hours in argon and the final coating surface was completely composed of α-Al2O3. The content of Al2O3 was decreased from outside to inside layers and Ti2O3 was formed in the coating. Furthermore, the morphology of the ceramic coatings after the calcination was different. The coatings calcined in argon were finer; the grains and pores were smaller than those in air.
Factors affecting food intake and the role of Nutrition Education in the understanding and implementation of healthy dietary habits in Saudi adolescent girls

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REPUTATION BASED TRUST MANAGEMENT FOR CLOUD SERVICES

Trust Management is one of the most important factors for the success and adaption of the cloud computing. Cloud Services are distributed, non-transparent and highly dynamic in nature. These introduce more issues like availability, security and privacy. Trust management and consumers have interactions between them. These interactions may involve consumer’s information which is more sensible. So protecting consumer’s privacy is not an easy task. Malicious users may create problems for cloud services. In this paper, we are presenting a reputation based trust management model which consist of identity management which is used for the registration and list the malicious users. Trust management is used to take feedback of the user, provide the trust result of the cloud service and used to add the cloud services which are available in the internet
The impact of a community-based mental health awareness programme

j Abstract This grass-roots level mental health awareness programme considerably increased use of a community-based mental health services in a part of Nigeria where knowledge about treatability of mental illness was limited. The benefits of the programme were sustained for a significant period after the initial awareness programme. In order for attitude changes to be reinforced, similar awareness programmes must be repeated at regular intervals.
A new early occurrence of Cervidae in North America from the Miocene-Pliocene Ellensburg Formation in Washington, USA

A new fossil cervid from the Craig’s Hill locality of the Miocene-Pliocene Ellensburg Formation in the State of Washington, USA, may be one of the oldest fossil deer yet found in North America, underlying a date of 4.9 Ma ± 0.1 Ma. This mandible fragment with m2, m3, and associated p2 has a size that does not distinguish it from Bretzia pseudalces, Odocoileus hemionus, or Capreolus constantini, and distinguishes it from Eocoileus gentryorum and Odocoileus lucasi only in having a thinner p2. A strong paraconid on the p2, and ectostylids and cingulids on the m2 and m3 link it most strongly with Bretzia pseudalces, but these are also intermittently present in Odocoileus hemionus. Because of the close geographic and temporal proximity of Bretzia pseudalces in the Ringold Formation, and its shared morphology with Bretzia, we are tentatively assigning this specimen to cf. Bretzia. Meaghan M. Emery-Wetherell. Central Washington University, 400 E University Way, Ellensburg, Washington, USA. Meaghan.wetherell@cwu.edu Joseph F. Schilter. Shannon & Wilson, 400 N 34th St #100, Seattle, Washington, USA. Joseph.schilter@gmail.com
APPLYING THE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL TO ANALYSE ONLINE ADVERTISING: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF MODERATORS OF USAGE AMONG NIGERIA-BASED SMALL BUSINESSES

This paper empirically analysed the usage of online advertising of Nigeria-based small businesses using Facebook and Google. Framed around the Technology Acceptance Model, the paper sought to identify moderators of online advertising within the Nigerian small business sector. The study adopted the survey research design. Multistage sampling technique involving stratification, simple random and purposive selection aided the selection of 279 small business operator respondents in six capital cities (Owerri, Uyo, Ikeja, Markurdi, Jalingo, and Kano), one from each geopolitical zone. The instrument of data collection was questionnaire. Data were analysed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. The study found that awareness, education, technological resources and perceived benefits positively moderated online advertising usage. However, external pressure showed a significant but weak relationship to online advertising usage. The paper recommends that small business operators should invest in online advertising training of staff to benefit maximally in the Internet economy.
Ocular Complications of Diabetes Mellitus Except for Diabetic Retinopathy

The Ocular complications of diabetes mellitus except for diabetic retinopathy have been poorly studied compared retinal complications, which are the main cause of blindness. We report the results of a prospective study reviewing the different ocular conditions encountered during diabetes. Four hundred (400) eyes of two hundred (200) patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes were examined during a period of 8 months. All included patients underwent a complete ophthalmological examination. Fifty-seven diabetic patients were diagnosed of an ocular disease at a frequency of 28.5%. There were 42 male and 17 female patients with an average age of 57, 5 years old. The average duration of diabetes was 11.8 years. Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus was present in 59.6% of cases. Cataracts were the most common ocular diseases diagnosed in 45.6% of cases followed by primary or chronic open-angle glaucoma in 22.9% and hyperopia in 12.3% of cases. Corneal sensitivity was decreased in 52% of cases and bilateral optic neuropathy was found in 3.4% of cases (two hundred eyes). The ocular complications of diabetes mellitus except for diabetic retinopathy, are dominated by cataracts and glaucoma. But there are also neuropathies that may cause blindness. These conditions should therefore also be systematically screened for evaluations and reviews of potential degenerative complications in patients with diabetes mellitus.
Suspicious URL Detection with Machine Learning

: The web has turned into a key worldwide stage and a basic part of the general public that pastes together day by day correspondence, sharing, exchanging, joint effort, and administration conveyance. Countless associations overall depend on the web for their day by day activities, either totally or just too some degree. These days, the trust in an association vigorously relies upon the nature of its web nearness, which must pass on a feeling of trust and steadfastness to its users over the time. Websites have been created or controlled by attackers for use as attack instruments. A client's machine can be tainted and barged in simply by visiting a pernicious web page, and this sort of attack is known as a drive-by download attack.