Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of antibiotic growth promotor and dietary protease on growth performance, apparent ileal digestibility, intestinal morphology, meat quality and intestinal gene expression in broiler chickens: a comparison.

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of supplementing broiler diets with a dietary protease on growth performance, digestive function, intestinal morphology, and meat quality as compared with feeding diets with or without an antibiotic growth promoter (AGP). A total of 240 1-day-old male chicks (Cobb 500, 48.3 ± 3.3 g) were distributed to 3 treatments with 8 replicates (10 birds per replicate). Three treatments were: 1) corn-soybean meal basal diets (CTRL); 2) basal diets with 0.003% avilamycin (AB); 3) basal diets with 0.0125% protease (PRT). The diets were provided as mash form, and birds were fed ad libitum during the whole experimental period. On d 45, birds were euthanized, and tissue and digesta samples were collected. On d 46, the remaining birds were processed in a commercial slaughterhouse, and breast muscle samples were collected. Despite a trend for a decreased feed conversion ratio (FCR) in the AB group during the whole phase (P = 0.071), no significant differences in growth performance parameters and relative weights of organs were observed (P > 0.05) among the groups. The AB and PRT groups showed significantly greater apparent ileal digestibility of amino acids compared with the CTRL group (P < 0.05). The PRT group significantly improved the morphology of duodenum and jejunum (P < 0.05). No differences were detected for meat quality, white striping and woody breast among the groups (P > 0.05). For the gene expressions, the AB group showed a greater level of B0-system neutral amino acid co-transporter 1 (B0AT1) and excitatory amino acid transporter 1 (EAAC1) mRNA abundance compared with PRT group while a significantly lesser level of cationic amino acid transporter 1 (CAT1) mRNA abundance was observed in the AB group compared with CTRL group (P < 0.05). The PRT group had a lesser level of peptide transporter 1 (PepT1) mRNA abundance in the jejunum than the CTRL group (P < 0.05). The highest mRNA abundances of zonula occludens-1 (ZO1) and cadherin 1 (CDH1) were observed in the CTRL group (P < 0.05). In conclusion, supplementation of avilamycin tended to reduce FCR and significantly improved amino acids utilization and supplementation of dietary protease significantly enhanced intestinal morphology and amino acids utilization in broilers. In that respect, exogenous protease use appears to be an interesting tool to be considered in AGP reduction strategies.
METAPHORICAL REALIZATION OF LEXICAL COHESIVE SETS IN THE OPENING PAGE OF ANNE BRONTE’S "THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL"

The two notions of cohesion and coherence give shape to the text by establishing a reasonable connectedness and flow of ideas, turning the text to a unified whole, a sort of connectedness achieved by overt and covert markers alike, which may and may not be linguistically encoded. This article builds on some hints in the literature for a look at the possibly pronounced links between metaphor and manifest text connectedness, that is, lexical cohesion, exploring the role of metaphor in achieving cohesion and coherence within the very first context-setting page of a nineteenthcentury novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Mapped out in the article are the lexical cohesive sets deployed on the page analyzed, the interrelated chains, and some suggested stylistic explanations for these cohesive phenomena. It follows from the analysis that metaphors in the cohesive sets contribute to the cohesiveness and the coherent meaning of the text, accompanying lexical cohesion on many occasions on this single page of a work of fiction. What is proposed here is the possibility for further research that metaphor, cohesion, and coherence might not only go hand in hand in some types of texts, but might also be interwoven in such way as to blur the boundaries therein. All of this has implications for the analysis, exploration and understanding of text and discourse in some genres, especially literary ones, as well as attempts to think of models to accommodate lexical cohesion and metaphor at the same time.
IMAGE ENCRYPTION USING PERSUASIVE CUED CLICK POINTS WITH MODIFIED EAES IN CLOUD STORAGE

-The rapid growths of the technology, the user and organizations have stored their confidential data and private images in the cloud storage. This can be a new trend of outsourcing a database to authorized users. The authorized user is called a cloud service provider. Lots of service providers are available in now-a-days. The confidential data and private images need a security in the cloud storage. The double way of authentication scheme to protect the information such as data is embedding into the images these images are retrieved as original using Reversible Data Hiding techniques (RDH). The hidden data to be protected by using the persuasive cued click - points (CCPs) with Modified Efficient AES for providing a better security in the cloud database. The proposed method generates a random key is called SALT key for an image encryption. The SALT key increases the security of confidential data by the combination of data and images. The whole or partial confidential document hidden into the image, the cover image is split into a number of blocks. The user clicks an image randomly each clicks ahead of the next click until the third click to expand the image. Therefore, unauthorized user or untrusted service providers couldn’t gain the attempt of tracking the actual content which was stored by the data owner whether it may be an individual user or an organization. The proposed system is used to reduce the complexity of an algorithm and has civilized the performance result of an image encryption.
Health Security: Towards a Hybrid Information Network for Coordinating Foodborne Disease Outbreak

Foodborne disease outbreaks are increasingly seen greater concern to the public health authorities. It has also become a global research agenda to identify improved pathways to coordinating outbreak detection. Furthermore, there is a significant need for timely coordination of potential foodborne disease outbreak in order to reduce the number of infected individuals and the overall impact on public health security. Therefore, this study aims to offer a new approach for coordinating foodborne disease outbreak. Firstly, it identifies the current coordination processes and challenges together with brief analysis of the problems. Secondly, it explores the social media surveillance strategies, usage, and their esteemed power of information dissemination. Finally, based on social media and hierarchical coordination approach, a hybrid information network model is proposed for improving coordination of outbreak detection.
The role of piscivores in a species-rich tropical river

The Role of Piscivores in a Species-Rich Tropical River. (August 2004) Craig Anthony Layman, B.S., University of Virginia; M.S., University of Virginia Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Kirk O. Winemiller Much of the world’s species diversity is located in tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems, and a better understanding of the ecology of these systems is necessary to stem biodiversity loss and assess communityand ecosystem-level responses to anthropogenic impacts. In this dissertation, I endeavored to broaden our understanding of complex ecosystems through research conducted on the Cinaruco River, a floodplain river in Venezuela, with specific emphasis on how a human-induced perturbation, commercial netting activity, may affect food web structure and function. I employed two approaches in this work: (1) comparative analyses based on descriptive food web characteristics, and (2) experimental manipulations within important food web modules. Methodologies included monthly sampling of fish assemblages using a variety of techniques, large-scale field experiments, extensive stomach content and stable isotope analyses. Two themes unite the information presented: (1) substantial spatial and temporal variability in food web structure, and (2) how body-size can be used to generalize species-interactions across this complexity. Spatial variability occurred at various scales, from among small fish assemblages on seemingly homogeneous sand banks, to differences among landscape scale units (e.g. between lagoons and main river channel). Seasonal variability was apparent in predation patterns, with relative prey
Induced responses and developmental changes of direct and indirect defenses in the young leaves of the neotropical tree genus Inga

Plant-herbivore interactions are the most common macroscopic interactions on the planet and are an important mechanism for maintaining species coexistence. Tropical young leaves are under higher and more constant herbivore pressure than their temperate zone counterparts. Therefore tropical leaves are predicted to invest in constitutive defenses (always expressed) over induced defenses (expressed only when herbivores are present). However, there is little empirical evidence to support this hypothesis. In addition, little is known about developmental changes in defense investment during tropical young leaf development regardless of herbivore presence. In this dissertation, I demonstrated that younger leaves are better defended than more mature leaves in four species of the Neotropical tree genus Inga. In addition to chemical defenses, Inga species produce nectar on their leaf surfaces to attract ants that in turn patrol the leaves and remove herbivores. Through natural observations and experimental nectar manipulation I demonstrated that plants with higher nectar production rates received more ant bodyguards. I then showed that investment in both ant defense and chemical defense were highest in the youngest leaves. While investment in both of these defenses continued during young leaf development, the relative investment per leaf tissue decreased significantly as leaves expanded. Through experimental manipulation of ant presence and herbivore presence I also demonstrated that tropical young leaves have a limited capacity to induce their defenses. I
On the Evolution of the Vertebral Column of Fishes

The importance of the problems attempted in the present communication needs no special comment, but I have much pleasure in expressing my thanks to generous friends for kind assistance. Mr. Adam Sedgwick put at my disposal his probably unique and comprehensive collection of well-preserved embryos and prepared slides, illustrative of the development of Scyllium, Acanthias , and Acipenser .
Dimorfismo, produção de enzimas funcionais e adesinas de Candida albicans: Mini Revisão.

Candida albicans pode causar infeccoes de risco em pacientes imunocomprometidos. Varios fatores de virulencia contribuem para a patogenicidade de C. albicans, incluindo a capacidade de aderir as celulas epiteliais e endoteliais por expressao de adesinas. O patogeno secreta enzimas que sao adicionais a sua patogenicidade; proteinases que hidrolizam ligacoes peptidicas e fosfolipases que hidrolizam fosfolipideos. As proteinases tem papel auxiliar em favorecer a adesao, causando estrago ao tecido e participando do processo de disseminacao por infeccao intravenosa. A capacidade para alternar seu crescimento entre formas de levedura e hifa esta frequentemente relacionado com patogenicidade. C. albicans filamentosa nao expoe ? -glucana na cicatriz do brotamento desde que a separacao entre mae e filha nao ocorre, e assim a forma filamentosa falha para ativar defesa mediada por receptor dectina-1, incluindo a fagocitose, ativacao de producao de reativos de oxigenio, e secrecao de IL-12. O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi rever os artigos relacionados com fatores de virulencia de C. albicans para aumentar nossa compreensao da patogenese de C. albicans. Palavras chaves:
Discovery of Nucho-Dorsal Glands in Rhabdophis adleri

Abstract: The nuchal and nucho-dorsal glands are unique defensive organs that have been found in only 13 species of Asian natricine snakes. In Rhabdophis such nuchal glands have been described in nine species, whereas the absence of the glands has been also reported in a few species, including R. adleri. We reexamined the absence/presence of the nuchal glands ofR. adleri by dissection of two freshly dead individuals and a recently preserved specimen, as well as by careful reobservation of six type specimens, in which the absence of the glands had been reported. The glands were found both in the neck and along the entire length of the body in the three new specimens. We also confirmed the presence of the glands, at least in the anterior part of the body, in three type specimens. We conclude that the glands were simply overlooked in the original description and that R. adleri possesses nuchodorsal glands that extend over the full length of the body, including the neck region.
Dynamics of the rDNA locus and its retrotransposable elements

This thesis investigated the close interaction that exists between the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene locus, a multiple gene family organized as a tandem repeat, and the retrotransposable elements R1 and R2 which exclusively insert into the 28S rRNA genes and prevent them from making functional 28S rRNA. The dynamics of this system are subject to evolutionary forces including natural selection, recombination and retrotransposition. We have applied both empirical and theoretical approaches to investigate the effects of each of these forces. In the first half of the thesis we scored individual R2 insertions in 16 D. simulans lines derived from one population. Several lines were identified to have high rates of retrotransposition (~0.15 new insertions /generations /locus), other lines had intermediate levels of activity and the remained lines had no activity. Lines with high R2 retrotransposition rates had greater numbers of R2 elements and a greater fraction of their rDNA units were inserted by R2. We found that R2 retrotranspositions occurred in both female and male germ lines, mostly late in germ line cell development, and was correlated with large deletions of the ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) locus. In the second half of the thesis, we generated a computer simulation model of the rDNA locus with recombination, R1 and R2 retrotransposition and natural selection. The best-fit parameter spaces involved frequent recombinations which leaded to rDNA loci that were 2-3 times larger than what was required by natural selection.
Desenvolvimento produtivo de colmeias de abelhas Melipona scutellaris

A criacao de especies nativas de abelhas, tambem conhecidas como abelhas sem ferrao, tem despertado interesse geral na area, em funcao da facilidade de manejo e da qualidade dos produtos. No entanto, pouco se sabe sobre sua producao e sua biologia e por isto o presente trabalho acompanhou o desenvolvimento de colmeias de Melipona scutellaris, avaliando os seus parâmetros produtivos em ambiente de criacao. Como o crescimento de uma colmeia tem como parâmetro o armazenamento de alimento, e como no caso da abelha M.scutellaris este armazenamento e feito em potes construidos com cera, foram feitas contagens dos potes nas colmeias classificando-os como: potes abertos, potes fechados e potes vazios, separando-os de acordo com o conteudo (mel ou polen). Foram medidas as suas dimensoes e anotadas para posterior avaliacao dos dados. Com os resultados pode-se averiguar que as colmeias apresentam quantidades de potes diferentes, variando em funcao do numero de individuos que colaboram para este fator. Confirmou-se que, quando o alimento e escasso no pasto apicola, as abelhas usam o alimento armazenado nos potes, em funcao da diminuicao de materia-prima na entressafra.
APPLICATION OF THE MULTIRESPONSE OPTIMISATION SIMPLEX METHOD TO THE BIODIESEL - B100 OBTAINING PROCESS

The process of obtaining B100 biodiesel from vegetable oil and animal fat mixtures by transesterification under basic conditions was optimised using the super-modified simplex method. For simultaneous optimisation, yield, cost, oxidative stability and Cold Filter Plugging Point (CFPP), were used as responses, and the limits were established according to the experimental data and the conformity parameters established by legislations. Based on the predictive equations obtained from the simplex-centroid design-coupled functions, the multi-response optimisation showed an optimal formulation containing 38.34 % soybean oil, 21.90 % beef tallow and 39.25 % poultry fat. The validation showed that there are no significant differences between the predicted and experimental values. The simplex-centroid mixture design and simplex optimisation methods were effective tools in obtaining biodiesel B100, using a mixture of different raw materials.
DXSLAM: A Robust and Efficient Visual SLAM System with Deep Features

A robust and efficient Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system is essential for robot autonomy. For visual SLAM algorithms, though the theoretical framework has been well established for most aspects, feature extraction and association is still empirically designed in most cases, and can be vulnerable in complex environments. This paper shows that feature extraction with deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be seamlessly incorporated into a modern SLAM framework. The proposed SLAM system utilizes a state-of-the-art CNN to detect keypoints in each image frame, and to give not only keypoint descriptors, but also a global descriptor of the whole image. These local and global features are then used by different SLAM modules, resulting in much more robustness against environmental changes and viewpoint changes compared with using hand-crafted features. We also train a visual vocabulary of local features with a Bag of Words (BoW) method. Based on the local features, global features, and the vocabulary, a highly reliable loop closure detection method is built. Experimental results show that all the proposed modules significantly outperforms the baseline, and the full system achieves much lower trajectory errors and much higher correct rates on all evaluated data. Furthermore, by optimizing the CNN with Intel OpenVINO toolkit and utilizing the Fast BoW library, the system benefits greatly from the SIMD (single-instruction-multiple-data) techniques in modern CPUs. The full system can run in real-time without any GPU or other accelerators. The code is public at https://github.com/ivipsourcecode/dxslam.
Bone segmentation in contrast enhanced whole-body computed tomography

Segmentation of bone regions allows for enhanced diagnostics, disease characterisation and treatment monitoring in CT imaging. In contrast enhanced whole-body scans accurate automatic segmentation is particularly difficult as low dose whole body protocols reduce image quality and make contrast enhanced regions more difficult to separate when relying on differences in pixel intensities. This paper outlines a U-net architecture with novel preprocessing techniques, based on the windowing of training data and the modification of sigmoid activation threshold selection to successfully segment bone-bone marrow regions from low dose contrast enhanced whole-body CT scans. The proposed method achieved mean Dice coefficients of 0.979 ± 0.02, 0.965 ± 0.03, and 0.934 ± 0.06 on two internal datasets and one external test dataset respectively. We have demonstrated that appropriate preprocessing is important for differentiating between bone and contrast dye, and that excellent results can be achieved with limited data.
Non-convex Learning via Replica Exchange Stochastic Gradient MCMC

Replica exchange Monte Carlo (reMC), also known as parallel tempering, is an important technique for accelerating the convergence of the conventional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. However, such a method requires the evaluation of the energy function based on the full dataset and is not scalable to big data. The naïve implementation of reMC in mini-batch settings introduces large biases, which cannot be directly extended to the stochastic gradient MCMC (SGMCMC), the standard sampling method for simulating from deep neural networks (DNNs). In this paper, we propose an adaptive replica exchange SGMCMC (reSGMCMC) to automatically correct the bias and study the corresponding properties. The analysis implies an acceleration-accuracy trade-off in the numerical discretization of a Markov jump process in a stochastic environment. Empirically, we test the algorithm through extensive experiments on various setups and obtain the state-of-the-art results on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, and SVHN in both supervised learning and semi-supervised learning tasks.
The Ubiquity of AGN Winds in Seyfert 1 Galaxies at Low Redshift

The optical spectra of 3896 Seyfert 1 (Sy1) galaxies detected with WISE at z < 0.4 were analyzed for evidence of outflows. In 37% of the Sy1s in our sample, the outflows appear as broad, blue-shifted, spectrally resolved components of the [O iii]λ5007 Å emission line, with a mean maximum velocity Vmax ∼ 1014 km s−1 that is consistent with AGN winds. For each Sy1, we deduced the black hole (BH) mass, bolometric luminosity, Eddington ratio, and power-law index of the continuum, which we compared with the star formation rate (SFR) and host morphology. Having separated our sample in two spectroscopic subgroups—Sy1s with only broad Balmer lines (Sy1B) and those with both narrow and broad (Sy1N) lines—and distinguishing those that show as outflow (Sy1Bw and Sy1Nw), we report the following differences: (1) the BH mass is systematically higher and the power-law steeper in the Sy1B–Sy1Bw than in the Sy1N–Sy1Nw; (2) Vmax is higher in the Sy1Bw than in the Sy1Nw, correlated in both groups with the BH mass and bolometric luminosity; (3) the Eddington ratio and SFR are higher in the Sy1 with outflows; and (4) the specific star formation rates (sSFRs) of the Sy1s are normal for their morphology and mass, typical of early-type spiral galaxies in the green valley, far from the quenched regime. From these results, we conclude that AGN winds in Sy1s are triggered by higher accretion rates and probably radiatively launched, and there is no clear evidence of an effect on the star formation.
OCMR (v1.0)--Open-Access Multi-Coil k-Space Dataset for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Cardiovascular MRI (CMR) is a non-invasive imaging modality that provides excellent soft-tissue contrast without the use of ionizing radiation. Physiological motions and limited speed of MRI data acquisition necessitate development of accelerated methods, which typically rely on undersampling. Recovering diagnostic quality CMR images from highly undersampled data has been an active area of research. Recently, several data acquisition and processing methods have been proposed to accelerate CMR. The availability of data to objectively evaluate and compare different reconstruction methods could expedite innovation and promote clinical translation of these methods. In this work, we introduce an open-access dataset, called OCMR, that provides multi-coil k-space data from 53 fully sampled and 212 prospectively undersampled cardiac cine series.