Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
APPRAISAL OF GENETIC DIVERSITY OF DIFFERENT PEACH CULTIVARS AND GENOTYPES THROUGH RAPD MARKERS

The present study was amid to investigate the genetic diversity of twenty peach cultivars and genotypes by RAPD primers at the Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, KPK Agricultural University Peshawar. The result indicated that fifteen primers (GLCO9, GLC20, GLA20, GLA13, GLB10, GLB20, GLB06, GLB19, GLA19, GLB19, GLD16, GLB15, GLA15, GLB12, GLB11) gave genetic distance among the peach cultivars and genotypes under study by PCR amplification. Average genetic diversity (estimated as genetic distance) ranged between 12 and 58%. The molecular size of most of the bands were from 150bp to 1000bp. Based on dandrogram analysis, Khyber 1 and Khyber 2 was grouped in cluster A, and Tex-A6-69 and BY-8-135 in cluster B, Candan and 6A were most closely related cultivars and genotypes among the 20 peach cultivars and genotypes while Lering, Flam crest, Tex x-9, early grand and Floradaking were distinctly grouped when compared with the rest of population.
Antinociceptive Effect of Intrathecally Administered Serotonin

It has been suggested that serotonin neurons and their pathways may mediate sensitivity to nociceptive stimuli by activating the descending inhibitory mechanisms at the spinal cord. This antinociceptive effect may be induced by direct administration of serotonin into the cerebrospinal fluid pathways. The experiment is designed to demonstrate the changes in the tail-flick response latency after the intrathecal injection of serotonin. Serotonin, 100 or 200 µg, administered into the lumbar intrathecal space, produced an analgesic effect for as long as 40 minutes. Behavioral and morphologic observations after serotonin injections showed no adverse reaction. It is assumed that serotonin molecules penetrate the spinal cord tissue and activate the antinociceptive serotonergic pathways.
Evaluation du dispositif de surveillance de la tuberculose bovine dans la faune sauvage en France à l'aide de méthodes épidémiologique, économique et sociologique

Les maladies animales emergentes, les maladies zoonotiques et le developpement du commerce international ont conduit a une augmentation des besoins en systemes de surveillance en sante animale performants. Toutefois, le contexte economique actuel conduit a des restrictions budgetaires importantes, induisant une diminution des ressources allouees a la surveillance. Dans ce contexte, l’evaluation reguliere des dispositifs de surveillance, sur lesquels sont fondees les decisions sanitaires, est indispensable afin de verifier leur bon fonctionnement, la qualite des donnees collectees, et permettre leur amelioration.Notre travail a porte sur l’evaluation d’un dispositif de surveillance complexe, Sylvatub, le dispositif de surveillance de l’infection a Mycobacterium bovis dans la faune sauvage, constitue de plusieurs composantes de surveillance et ciblant plusieurs especes sauvages. Nous avons applique quatre methodes d’evaluation : (i) une methode quantitative d’estimation de la sensibilite de la surveillance par arbres de scenarios, (ii) une methode quantitative d’estimation des couts de la surveillance, permettant le calcul d’un ratio cout-efficacite, (iii) une methode semi-quantitative permettant l’etude du fonctionnement general du dispositif et (iv) une methode qualitative permettant d’investiguer l’acceptabilite de la surveillance. Ces travaux ont permis d’evaluer le dispositif Sylvatub dans son contexte environnemental et economique, en integrant des facteurs comportementaux et sociaux, et ont permis la formulation de recommandations pour l’evolution du dispositif et son amelioration.Ces travaux ont egalement permis de souligner les avantages methodologiques et operationnels de l’utilisation complementaire de plusieurs methodes pour l’evaluation de dispositifs de surveillance complexes et proposent des perspectives methodologiques pour favoriser l’integration des methodes d’evaluation. L’evaluation du dispositif Sylvatub devra etre poursuivie et completee par celle du dispositif de surveillance en elevage bovin afin d’etudier les interconnexions entre les populations domestiques et sauvages dans ce systeme multi-hotes particulier.
Noncoding RNAs Binding to the Nucleoid Protein HU in Escherichia coli

ABSTRACT Some unidentified RNA molecules, together with the nucleoid protein HU, were suggested to be involved in the nucleoid structure of Escherichia coli. HU is a conserved protein known for its role in binding to DNA and maintaining negative supercoils in the latter. HU also binds to a few RNAs, but the full spectrum of its binding targets in the cell is not known. To understand any interaction of HU with RNA in the nucleoid structure, we immunoprecipitated potential HU-RNA complexes from cells and examined bound RNAs by hybridization to whole-genome tiling arrays. We identified associations between HU and 10 new intragenic and intergenic noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), 2 of which are homologous to the annotated bacterial interspersed mosaic elements (BIMEs) and boxC DNA repeat elements. We confirmed direct binding of HU to BIME RNA in vitro. We also studied the nucleoid shape of HU and two of the ncRNA mutants (nc1 and nc5) by transmission electron microscopy and showed that both HU and the two ncRNAs play a role in nucleoid morphology. We propose that at least two of the ncRNA species complex with HU and help the formation or maintenance of the architecture of the E. coli chromosome. We also observed binding of HU with rRNA and tRNA segments, a few small RNAs, and a distinct small set of mRNAs, although the significance, if any, of these associations is not known.
c‐Jun and cyclin D1 proteins as mediators of neuronal death after a focal ischaemic insult

C-JUN, a transcriptional activator, as well as cyclin D1, a key regulator of the cell cycle, have been described in vitro as mediators of programmed neuronal death. After trophic factor deprivation, the activation of c-jun and cyclin D1 genes is considered as a necessary step within the cellular machinery that leads to cell death. We show here that both c-Jun and cyclin D1 proteins are present in neurones within the infarcted area after experimental cerebral ischaemia in the mouse. Since their presence was associated with DNA fragmentation revealed by the TUNEL procedure, we propose that c-Jun and cyclin D1 are involved in the process of neuronal death.
Urologic diseases in America project: urolithiasis.

PURPOSE We quantified the burden of urolithiasis in the United States by identifying trends in the use of health care resources and estimating the economic impact of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS The analytical methods used to generate these results have been described previously. RESULTS The rate of national inpatient hospitalizations for a diagnosis of urolithiasis decreased by 15% and hospital length of stay decreased from 2.6 to 2.2 days between 1994 and 2000. Rates of hospitalization were 2.5 to 3-fold higher for Medicare beneficiaries with little change between 1992 and 1998. Almost 2 million outpatient visits for a primary diagnosis of urolithiasis were recorded in 2000. Hospital outpatient visits increased by 40% between 1994 and 2000 and physician office visits increased by 43% between 1992 and 2000. In the Medicare population hospital outpatient and office visits increased by 29% and 41%, respectively, between 1992 and 1998. The distribution of surgical procedures remained relatively stable through the 1990s. Shock wave lithotripsy was the most commonly performed procedure, followed closely by ureteroscopy. Overall the total estimated annual expenditure for individuals with claims for a diagnosis of urolithiasis was almost $2.1 billion in 2000, representing a 50% increase since 1994. CONCLUSIONS The cost of urolithiasis is estimated at almost $2 billion annually and it appears to be increasing with time despite a shift in inpatient to outpatient treatment and the emergence of minimally invasive treatment modalities, perhaps because the prevalence of stone disease is increasing.
A system for practicing formations in dance performance supported by self-propelled screen

Collapsed formation in a group dance will greatly reduce the quality of the performance even if the dance in the group is synchronized with music. Therefore, learning the formation of a dance in a group is as important as learning its choreography. However, if someone cannot participate in practice, it is difficult for the rest of the members to gain a sense of the proper formation in practice. We propose a practice-support system for performing the formation smoothly using a self-propelled screen even if there is no dance partner. We developed a prototype of the system and investigated whether a sense of presence provided by both methods of practicing formations was close to the sense we really obtain when we dance with humans. The result verified that the sense of dancing with a projected video was closest to the sense of dancing with a dancer, and the trajectory information from dancing with a self-propelled robot was close to the trajectory information from dancing with a dancer. Practicing in situations similar to real ones is able to be done by combining these two methods. Furthermore, we investigated whether the self-propelled screen obtained the advantages of dancing with both methods and found that it only obtained advantages of dancing with projected video.
Persistent enteral infections with adenovirus types 1 and 2 in infants: no evidence of reinfection

SUMMARY Isolates of adenovirus types 1 and 2, obtained from 11 infants with prolonged faecal excretion (up to 515 days), were compared by DNA restriction analysis with seven standard endonucleases which recognize hexanucleotides and two additional endonucleases which recognize tetranucleotides. In all instances identical genome types were identified in isolates obtained early and late after infection. Our interpretation of these data is that a chronic persistent infection occurred in these children. and not a reinfection with the same serotype.
Are Olfactory Images Sensory in Nature?

We investigated the features of olfactory mental images by comparing odour images with perceptual and semantic representations. Participants who were assigned to three groups made similarity judgments about 17 common odours by smelling odours, imagining odours, or on the basis of the meaning of odour source names. In the smelling group, every pair of odours was compared. In the imagining group, imagined odours were compared twice, both before and after associative learning of the odour/name combinations. In the meaning group, the odour source names were compared in terms of general word meanings. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis was applied to each group of similarity data and three-dimensional sensory, mental, and semantic spaces were composed. 17 elements in the mental and semantic spaces were super-imposed onto the sensory space by Procrustes rotation. We found that the averaged distances of the 17 elements between the sensory and the mental spaces (either before or after learning) were smaller than those between the sensory and semantic spaces. We suggest that odour images have sensory features, especially after associative learning between perceived odours and their names.
RES: A Resource-Efficient System for Monitoring Flow Distribution

Knowledge of flow distributions from a stream of packets passing through a network link helps a network operator infer traffic demands, characterize source traffic, and detect traffic anomalies. Flow monitoring provides critical information for many network applications, and some approaches have been proposed to address flow monitoring. However, they either lack accuracy, or require intensive computing resources. In this paper, we propose a ResourceEfficient System (called RES) for monitoring flow distribution, which consists of Double sampling module, Online streaming module, and Offline processing module. Using real network traffic traces, we show that the RES indeed produces the desired accuracy in monitoring flow distribution.
Dynamic friction closure

This paper newly proposes dynamic friction closure, under which a moving object is completely stopped within a predetermined length through the work due to Coulomb friction between an object and a gripper. There are two conditions for achieving it: The geometrical condition, ensuring the robot motion to meet with an object at an appropriate catching point, and frictional stopping capability, ensuring the moving distance of object is less than the predetermined distance under a limited grasping force. Through the simple analysis on catching a 2D circular object by a parallel jaw gripper, we newly found that even under the same total energy of object, the distance changes depending upon the ratio between initial rotational and translational velocity. For a 3D sphere object, the maximum moving distance is provided with the initial kinetic energy.
Méthodologie d’exploration de corpus et de formalisation de règles grammaticales pour les langues des signes (Methodology for corpus exploration and grammatical rule building in Sign Language) [in French]

Cet article présente une méthodologie visant, à partir d'une observation de corpus vidéo de langue des signes, à repérer puis formaliser les régularités de structure dans les constructions linguistiques. Cette méthodologie est applicable à tous les niveaux du langage, du sub-lexical à l'énoncé complet. En s'appuyant sur deux exemples, il présente une application de cette méthodologie ainsi que le modèle AZee qui, intégrant la souplesse nécessaire en termes de synchronisation des articulateurs, permet une formalisation des règles repérées.
The Primary Cilium as the Cell's Antenna: Signaling at a Sensory Organelle

Almost every vertebrate cell has a specialized cell surface projection called a primary cilium. Although these structures were first described more than a century ago, the full scope of their functions remains poorly understood. Here, we review emerging evidence that in addition to their well-established roles in sight, smell, and mechanosensation, primary cilia are key participants in intercellular signaling. This new appreciation of primary cilia as cellular antennae that sense a wide variety of signals could help explain why ciliary defects underlie such a wide range of human disorders, including retinal degeneration, polycystic kidney disease, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, and neural tube defects.
Performance evaluation of distributed Track-to-Track fusion systems

Implications of network-centric considerations provide additional challenges for fusing track information from distributed and heterogeneous sources. In this paper a multisensor tracking system that consists of distributed active and passive sensors is used to describe a distributed Track-to-Track (T2T) fusion system. Network-centric operations manifest an extended design space for the distributed T2T fusion systems. This paper describes a Design of Experiments (DoE) approach to comprehend the extended design space of the distributed T2T fusion systems. Using statistical analysis techniques, ANOVA and Tukey HSD tests, we quantify the impact of key system design variables on the distributed T2T fusion system performance. The sensitivity analysis, based on statistical results, establishes the significance of interactions between system design variables and emphasizes the need for design and evaluation of the distributed T2T fusion systems in a system of systems context.
Detection of numeric abnormalities of chromosome 17 and p53 deletions by fluorescence in situ hybridization in pleomorphic adenomas and carcinomas in pleomorphic adenoma

A fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technique using specific DNA probes allows for the detection of chromosomal aberrations and gene deletions and gains, even in interphase nuclei in human solid tumors. A high frequency of aberrations of chromosome 17 and mutation of the p53 gene have been reported in some human tumors. The correlation of p53 expression with abnormalities of chromosome 17 and p53 gene deletion in salivary gland tumors has not yet been investigated.
Design and Fabrication of Monolithic Distributed Traveling-Wave Photodetectors Integrated With Polymer Optical Waveguides

We have designed and fabricated monolithic distributed balanced traveling-wave metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors (MSM PDs) distributed along single-mode polymer optical waveguides. We demonstrate that monolithically integrated polymer optical waveguides on a semiconductor can provide efficient optical interconnects in an optoelectronic circuit. A responsivity of 0.44 A/W and a 3-dB bandwidth of 10 GHz were obtained in a PD array with five MSM PDs. A high photocurrent of 7.3 mA was measured in an array having eight MSM PDs. Impulse response measurements were performed and the results were compared with frequency domain results.
Parameters optimization for a scalable multiple description coding scheme based on spatial subsampling

In this work, we design a multiple description coding (MDC) system for video streams moving from the concept of spatial MDC and introducing an efficient algorithm to obtain substreams that exploits some form of scalability. We first generate four subsequences by sub-sampling, then, from these four subsequences, by jointly coding two of them, we generate two descriptions. Finally, each description is compressed independently with the recent H.264/SVC video coding standard. In order to achieve some sort of scalability, for each description, we predict one of the original subsequences from the other one via inter layer prediction, thus generating a base layer, containing one subsequence, and an enhancement layer, containing the other one. In this paper, we present some results, varying the fraction of the total rate assigned to the base layer, in order to find the better value that guarantees the optimal performances in case not all the (sub)streams are received.
Adaptive SelectiveVerification

We consider Denial of Service (DoS) attacks within the province of a shared channel model in which attack rates may be large but are bounded and client request rates vary within fixed bounds. In this setting it is shown that the clients can respond effectively to an attack by using bandwidth as a payment scheme and time-out windows to adaptively boost request rates. The server will be able to process client requests with high probability while pruning out most of the attack by selective random sampling. Our protocol, which we call Adaptive Selective Verification (ASV) is shown to be efficient in terms of bandwidth consumption using both a theoretical model and network simulations. It differs from previously-investigated adaptive mechanisms for bandwidth-based payment by requiring very limited state on the server.
SAR Image Compression Using Multiscale Dictionary Learning and Sparse Representation

In this letter, we focus on a new compression scheme for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) amplitude images. The last decade has seen a growing interest in the study of dictionary learning and sparse representation, which have been proved to perform well on natural image compression. Because of the special techniques of radar imaging, SAR images have some distinct properties when compared with natural images that can affect the design of a compression method. First, we introduce SAR properties, sparse representation, and dictionary learning theories. Second, we propose a novel SAR image compression scheme by using multiscale dictionaries. The experimental results carried out on amplitude SAR images reveal that, when compared with JPEG, JPEG2000, and a single-scale dictionary-based compression scheme, the proposed method is better for preserving the important features of SAR images with a competitive compression performance.
The Stone Cooperation with Sustainable Jeju Island for Mobile Crowdsensing Internet of Things

On Jeju Island in Korea, the stone walls are connected to each other as the stone cooperation networks, called as the Goendam (Speaking Language as the Goendang) and relate to the Social Custom Family Networks (SCFN). Therefore, we consider the SCFN based traditional Jong Nang 3-bit digital gate to connect with the mobile crowdsensing IoT systems. The social communication custom of Jeju Island is well-matched to the mobile crowdsensing eco-system of IoT.
REMOOV : A Tool for Online Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Machine Translation

REMOOV is a tool for online handling of out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in statistical machine translation. REMOOV employs four techniques. Spelling expansion and morphological expansion are used to produce alternative in-vocabulary (INV) forms of OOV words. Dictionary term expansion and proper name transliteration produce target translations directly. These techniques can be used to expand the phrase table utilized in decoding or as part of an input/output lattice expansion. Results of using REMOOV show a consistent improvement over a state-of-the-art baseline. This paper describes the different components and parameters of the REMOOV tool.
An Environmentally Relevant Organochlorine Mixture Impairs Sperm Function and Embryo Development in the Porcine Model1

Abstract We evaluated the effects of an environmentally relevant mixture of more than 15 organochlorines on the development of pig oocytes and sperm during in vitro fertilization (IVF). Oocytes were cocultured with sperm in IVF medium containing increasing concentrations of an organochlorine mixture, similar to that found in women of highly exposed populations. Exposure to the organochlorine mixture diminished oocyte penetration rates and polyspermy in a linear manner. The mixture did not affect rates of cleavage nor development to multicell embryos. However, rates of development to the blastocyst stage were lower at the highest concentration at which oocyte penetration was observed. The same experiment was performed using oocytes that were preexposed during in vitro maturation. This greater exposure to the mixture also reduced penetration in a dose-response manner and affected polyspermy. Frozen-thawed pig sperm were also cultured in IVF medium containing the same organochlorine concentrations. Sperm motility parameters were immediately reduced in a dose-dependant manner by the organochlorines, followed by diminished viability 2 h later. From these results, it appears that reduced sperm quality would account for decreases in fertilization, polyspermy, and blastocyst formation. These results suggest that exposing porcine oocytes and sperm to an environmentally pertinent organochlorine mixture in vitro disrupts the oocyte block to polyspermy, sperm fertility, and further embryonic development, and supports recent concerns that such pollutants harm reproductive health in humans and other species.
Immortalization of rat embryo fibroblasts by mutant polyomavirus large T antigens deficient in DNA binding

We have identified a putative DNA-binding domain in polyomavirus large T antigen. Mutations introduced into the gene between amino acids 290 and 310 resulted in proteins that no longer bound to the high-affinity binding sites on the polyomavirus genome, showed no detectable nonspecific DNA binding, and were not able to initiate DNA replication from the viral origin. These mutant T antigen genes were introduced into rat embryo fibroblasts together with the neomycin resistance gene to allow selection for growth in the presence of G418. All the mutations tested facilitated the establishment of these cells in long-term culture at an efficiency indistinguishable from that of the wild-type protein.