Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Cosine similarity based filter technique for feature selection

Filter-based feature selection techniques are less complex compare to Wrapper-based feature selection techniques in case of High Dimensional datasets. In this paper, we proposed a filter method feature selection, which is Cosine Similarity-based Filter feature selection Technique (CSF) for High-Dimensional Datasets. In this method, absolute cosine similarity with respect to class label is used to ordering the features and from ordered features list a user-defined number of features is selected. Dataset with selected features is tested for classification accuracy using Multi-classifier system (K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Classification and Regression Tree (CART), Naïve Bayes (NB) and Support Vector Machine (SVM)). This method is applied to four high-dimensional binary class datasets and obtained accuracy shows that method is either better or equivalent compared to other existing methods.
Marketing skierowany do kobiet

Kobiety podejmują decyzje, w tym decyzje zakupowe, inaczej niż mężczyźni. To efekt emocjonalnych i społecznych różnic między płciami. Akronim "Czujesz" (Człowiek, Zbawicielka, Uporządkowanie, Jednocześnie, Empatia, Społeczność, Zmysłowo) opisuje syntetycznie kobiecy kod komunikacji: wartości emocjonalne, wokół których skonstruowanie przekazu marketingowego do kobiet może zwiększyć jego skuteczność. Różnicowanie komunikatu marketingowego na adresowany do kobiet lub do mężczyzn, albo wzbogacanie istniejącego komunikatu o elementy, które wzmocnią przekaz do klientek to strategie, które mogą być w dzisiejszych czasach skuteczne. Sprzedaż produktów kobietom wymaga przygotowania i otwarcia na dialog, ale przynosi wymierne korzyści w postaci zwiększenia obrotów i zyskania lojalnej, promującej markę konsumentki.
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in pregnant women

The present work aimed to evaluate the seroprevalen ce of Toxoplasma gondii and their associated risk factors among the pregnant women. This study was ca rried out from 2009 to 2010 in 232 pregnant women attending the private hospitals in and around Salem, Tamil Nadu. Anti-toxoplasma specific IgG and IgM were assessed using Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test kits. Of these 232 samples, anti-toxoplasma specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies were detected in 23 (9.9%) cases while 9 (3.9%) had positive anti-toxoplasma specifi c immunoglobulin M (IgM) suggestive of acute infection during or just before pregnancy. A struct ured questionnaire interview for pregnant women was performed to investigate the risk factors assoc iated with the T. gondii infection. The higher infection rate of 7.9% (for anti-toxoplasma IgG ant ibodies) was found with pregnant women living in rural area (15 subjects) than in urban area (8 subj ects) and it was statistically significant (P<0.03) . A few risk factors such as stillbirth (P<0.02), miscarria ge (P<0.009), rearing cat as pet animal (P<0.005) a nd outdoor gardening (P<0.03) were statistically assoc iated with the seroprevalence rate. Even with low seroprevalence rate of 9.9% latent infection and 3. 9% acute infection there is a need for the pregnant women to be educated on the ways to minimize the ex posure to T. gondii infection and to reduce the risk of congenital transmission.
Inhibition of Trehalase Activity Enhances Trehalose Accumulation in Transgenic Plants

As a first step toward the exploitation of the disaccharide trehalose as a stress-protective and preservative agent in plants, we engineered trehalose biosynthesis in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and potato (Solanum tuberosum) by introducing the otsA and otsB genes from Escherichia coli, which encode trehalose-6-phosphate synthase and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase, respectively. In leaves of transgenic tobacco plants, very low levels of trehalose accumulation were obtained (0.11 mg g-1 fresh weight), whereas in transgenic potato tubers, no trehalose accumulated at all. Plant trehalase activity was shown to affect the accumulation of trehalose in these plants. An increase in trehalose accumulation, up to 0.41 and 4.04 mg g-1 fresh weight in tobacco leaves and potato microtubers, respectively, was noted when the potent trehalase inhibitor validamycin A was added to in vitro plants and to hydroponically grown greenhouse plants. Stunted growth and the formation of lancet-shaped leaves by trehalose-accumulating tobacco plants suggest a negative effect of trehalose biosynthesis on N. tabacum development. It is surprising that experiments with wild-type plants cultured in the presence of validamycin A indicate that, despite current belief, the capacity to synthesize trehalose may not be restricted to primitive phyla of vascular plants and certain “resurrection plants,” but may exist throughout the angiosperms.
China in the International Segmentation of Production Processes

4.1. China’s Specialisation Profile by Stage of Production 264.2. The Geographic Dimension of China’s Specialisation by Stage ofProduction 274.3. China’s Trade by Sector and Stage of Product ion 304.4. The Splitting-up of the Value-Added Chain Between China’s and itsPartners in Selected Sectors 32
Pose-Free Face Swapping Based on a Deformable 3D Shape Morphable Model

SUMMARY Traditional face swapping technologies require that the faces of source images and target images have similar pose and appearance (usually frontal). For overcoming this limit in applications this paper presents a pose-free face swapping method based on personalized 3D face modeling. By using a deformable 3D shape morphable model, a photo-realistic 3D face is reconstructed from a single frontal view image. With the aid of the generated 3D face, a virtual source image of the person with the same pose as the target face can be rendered, which is used as a source image for face swapping. To solve the problem of illumination di ﬀ erence be-tween the target face and the source face, a color transfer merging method is proposed. It outperforms the original color transfer method in dealing with the illumination gap problem. An experiment shows that the proposed face reconstruction method is fast and e ﬃ cient. In addition, we have conducted experiments of face swapping in a variety of scenarios such as children’s story book, role play, and face de-identiﬁcation stripping facial information used for identiﬁcation, and promising results have been obtained.
A multicoincidence study of fragmentation dynamics in collision of γ-aminobutyric acid with low-energy ions.

Fragmentation of the γ-aminobutyric acid molecule (GABA, NH(2)(CH(2))(3)COOH) following collisions with slow O(6+) ions (v≈0.3 a.u.) was studied in the gas phase by a combined experimental and theoretical approach. In the experiments, a multicoincidence detection method was used to deduce the charge state of the GABA molecule before fragmentation. This is essential to unambiguously unravel the different fragmentation pathways. It was found that the molecular cations resulting from the collisions hardly survive the interaction and that the main dissociation channels correspond to formation of NH(2)CH(2)(+), HCNH(+), CH(2)CH(2)(+), and COOH(+) fragments. State-of-the-art quantum chemistry calculations allow different fragmentation mechanisms to be proposed from analysis of the relevant minima and transition states on the computed potential-energy surface. For example, the weak contribution at [M-18](+), where M is the mass of the parent ion, can be interpreted as resulting from H(2)O loss that follows molecular folding of the long carbon chain of the amino acid.
Effects on competitiveness and innovation activity from the integration of strategic aspects with social and environmental management

This paper analyses the nature and details of the impact which the integration of social and environmental considerations with business strategy has on different dimensions of competitiveness and innovation activity on the firm level. Its objective is to answer the question as to whether a positive link exists between integration and the effects of environmental and social performance on competitiveness and innovation activity. After presenting a theoretical framework based on extant work, the paper introduces the research methods and variables. Subsequently results are presented for four different dimensions of competitiveness, namely market-related, image-related, efficiency-related and risk-related advantage as well as for innovatory activity in terms of product and process innovation. These raise the possibility that the process of integration is more important for bringing about a positive link than a resulting integration type. Based on the results, implications are discussed and we shall draw the conclusions from the findings.
The resettlement of short-term prisoners: an evaluation of seven Pathfinders

Summary of problems In summary, then, as many previous studies have found, the short - t e r m prisoners taken on by the sevenPathﬁnders had multiple serious social and individual problems. The average number of ‘signiﬁcant problems’per prisoner was 4.1. Over half were assessed as having signiﬁcant problems in relation to accommodationand drugs, and over 40 per cent in relation to thinking skills and employment (women’s needs wereparticularly prominent in the areas of drugs and employment). Moreover, the indications were that, withoutassistance, the prison experience would exacerbate some of these problems: in particular, the proportionsexpecting to leave prison without a job or permanent accommodation were higher than the pro p o rt i o n swithout jobs or permanent accommodation pre-sentence.While there were fairly close associations, in each prison, between the problems most frequently identiﬁed as‘ s i g n i ﬁ cant’ and the problems given highest priority in prisoners’ action plans, it also appeared that bothassessments and prioritisation were inﬂuenced to some extent by the expertise and orientation of the agencytaking the lead role. The ‘voluntary-led’ schemes, where staff expertise and knowledge was mainly in thetraditional ‘prisoners’ welfare’ area, all identiﬁed accommodation most often as a signiﬁcant problem and allset it as the ﬁrst priority in the highest proportion of cases. By contrast, the probation-led projects appeared to be much more aware of deﬁcits in thinking skills, attitudes,education or training. Whereas in the (voluntary) Pathﬁnders in Birmingham and Lewes, no prisoners weredeemed to need help with ‘thinking skills’ as the highest priority, in the probation-led schemes in Ox/Bucks,Parc and Hull this was set at top priority in 21 per cent, 18 per cent and 9 per cent of cases respectively. Ofcourse, these were also the three prisons which ran the F.O. R. … A Changeprogramme, training in whichundoubtedly contributed to staff awareness of this kind of problem. Interestingly, OASys scores, which are intended to provide a standard ‘objective’ assessment of problems,also varied to a greater degree than one might expect, suggesting that they too may be inﬂuenced more thanpreviously thought by the background or approach of the assessor.
Embedding a Carbon Nanotube across the Diameter of a Solid State Nanopore

A fabrication method for positioning and embedding a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) across the diameter of a solid state nanopore is presented. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is used to grow SWNTs over arrays of focused ion beam (FIB) milled pores in a thin silicon nitride membrane. This typically yields at least one pore whose diameter is centrally crossed by a SWNT. The final diameter of the FIB pore is adjusted to create a nanopore of any desired diameter by atomic layer deposition, simultaneously embedding and insulating the SWNT everywhere but in the region that crosses the diameter of the final nanopore, where it remains pristine and bare. This nanotube-articulated nanopore is an important step towards the realization of a new type of detector for biomolecule sensing and electronic characterization, including DNA sequencing.
MOTOR UNIT FIRING RATES IN POSTPOLIO AND CONTROL SUBJECTS DURING SUBMAXIMAL CONTRACTION

Postpolio patients have a deficit in strength recovery after isometric activity. The cause for this is unknown, but may be the result of higher motor unit firing rates during the activity, which leads to excessive fatigue of the motor units. The purpose of this study was to determine whether postpolio subjects recruited motor units at higher firing rates than control subjects. Twelve control and seven postpolio subjects were tested for maximal voluntary contraction of the quadriceps isometrically. Randomly, subjects performed isometric contractions for five 10-s periods freely against gravity (threshold) and at 20% and 40% of maximal voluntary contraction. Decompositional motor unit electromyographic analysis was used to measure motor unit amplitude, motor unit firing rate and counted number of motor units identified. Analysis was by univariate analysis of variance. Motor unit firing rate was not significantly greater (P>0.05) in postpolio subjects than control subjects at all three levels of contraction. Thus, it is unlikely that an increased motor unit firing rate leads to the deficit in recovery of strength in postpolio subjects
Broadband CPW-fed circularly polarized square slot antenna with combining C-shaped strip and asymmetry ground plane

A new broadband circularly polarized (CP) square slot antenna with coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed is designed in this paper. An asymmetry ground plane makes the adjacent resonant mode to merge into a wide operation bandwidth, and the C-shaped structure can offer the current path, two orthogonal electric fields with a 90° phase difference for exciting a circular polarization radiation wave. The measured impedance bandwidth (VSWR ≤ 2) is 0.92 GHz (46% relative to the center frequency at 2 GHz). The 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) is 0.65 GHz (32.5% relative to the center frequency at 2 GHz), and antenna peak gain is 3.31 dBi with gain variations of less than 1 dB.
Effects of the Similarity of Required Responses on Fractionated Reaction Time

In a previous study, Ito (1990) who used a rapid two-element force-production task, found that the simple reaction time (RT) to initiate the second element was shorter when a sequence was made up of homogeneous elements than when a sequence was made up of heterogeneous elements. The purpose of the present study was to replicate and extend the earlier experiment by adding a control condition and by fractionating RT into premotor time and motor time. Simple RT, premotor time, and motor time to initiate the first element were not different across conditions, suggesting the possibility of distributed programming of the sequence elements. The homogeneous condition, however, produced shorter simple RT and premotor time to initiate the second element than did the heterogeneous and control conditions, which were not significantly different from each other. These findings were discussed in terms of different programming demand during the RT interval.
[Determination of pathogens in blood in disseminated gonococcal infection. Case report and overview of the literature].

Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been recognized as causative agent of infectious disease not only of the genital region but also of other organs already at the end of the 19th century, disseminated gonococcal infection as a clinical entity has been defined fairly recently, i.e., during the last decade. In particular, it has been very difficult for a long time to detect Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the blood of patients suffering from this form of gonorrhea. Therefore, the case of a 22-year-old woman is presented who developed fever, arthritis, and pustules and from whose cervix, rectum, and blood Neisseria gonorrhoeae could be grown. Based on the reports in the literature and our own experience indispensable and further desirable diagnostic measures to be adopted in such cases are discussed.
Phosphorylation of dedicator of cytokinesis 1 (Dock180) at tyrosine residue Y722 by Src family kinases mediates EGFRvIII-driven glioblastoma tumorigenesis

Glioblastoma, the most common primary malignant cancer of the brain, is characterized by rapid tumor growth and infiltration of tumor cells throughout the brain. These traits cause glioblastomas to be highly resistant to current therapies with a resultant poor prognosis. Although aberrant oncogenic signaling driven by signature genetic alterations, such as EGF receptor (EGFR) gene amplification and mutation, plays a major role in glioblastoma pathogenesis, the responsible downstream mechanisms remain less clear. Here, we report that EGFRvIII (also known as ΔEGFR and de2-7EGFR), a constitutively active EGFR mutant that is frequently co-overexpressed with EGFR in human glioblastoma, promotes tumorigenesis through Src family kinase (SFK)-dependent phosphorylation of Dock180, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rac1. EGFRvIII induces phosphorylation of Dock180 at tyrosine residue 722 (Dock180Y722) and stimulates Rac1-signaling, glioblastoma cell survival and migration. Consistent with this being causal, siRNA knockdown of Dock180 or expression of a Dock180Y722F mutant inhibits each of these EGFRvIII-stimulated activities. The SFKs, Src, Fyn, and Lyn, induce phosphorylation of Dock180Y722 and inhibition of these SFKs by pharmacological inhibitors or shRNA depletion markedly attenuates EGFRvIII-induced phosphorylation of Dock180Y722, Rac1 activity, and glioblastoma cell migration. Finally, phosphorylated Dock180Y722 is coexpressed with EGFRvIII and phosphorylated SrcY418 in clinical specimens, and such coexpression correlates with an extremely poor survival in glioblastoma patients. These results suggest that targeting the SFK-p-Dock180Y722-Rac1 signaling pathway may offer a novel therapeutic strategy for glioblastomas with EGFRvIII overexpression.
The Role of Advertising and Promotion Strategy of Media Firms in Two-Sided Markets with Negative Network Externality

Regarding to the dynamic game relation between media and manufacturer (advertiser) in practice and to the enhancement of marketing awareness about media brand in itself, We intend to explore the role of advertising and promotion strategy of media firms in two-sided markets with negative cross-market network effect. Two Stackelberg game models composed of one manufacturer and two competing media firms are developed and compared. This paper examines the influences of advertising and promotion strategy of media firms on its own competitive advantages and the manufacturer's advertising strategies.
Epidemiology of sudden coronary death: population at risk.

Sudden coronary death is a major manifestation of clinical coronary artery disease which doubles in incidence with each decade of life after age 45, with women lagging behind men in incidence by 20 years. Some 14% of heart attacks present as sudden death, and 41% of deaths from coronary disease are sudden deaths. Half of all sudden coronary deaths occur in persons without prior overt coronary artery disease. Persons with established coronary disease are at a three- to fourfold increased risk of sudden death, but the proportion of coronary deaths due to sudden death is no higher. This report examines how sudden death evolves over the long term in the general population and in persons with overt coronary artery disease, and attempts to delineate prime candidates and modifiable predisposing factors using the Framingham Heart Study. In asymptomatic persons the risk of sudden death varies over a wide range in relation to risk factors such as systolic blood pressure, serum cholesterol, cigarette smoking, heart rate, electrocardiographic abnormality and relative weight. Multivariate combination of these risk factors identifies 38.6% of sudden deaths in men and 43.8% of sudden deaths in women in the upper quintile of multivariate risk, which are, respectively, 6.0 and 5.8 times greater than the proportion of sudden deaths in the lowest quintile. When overt coronary artery disease is manifest, the major risk factors have less influence on sudden death risk, which becomes determined chiefly by indicators of intrinsic myocardial damage. With cardiac failure there is an eightfold increased risk of sudden death in men, and cardiac failure without concomitant coronary artery disease imposes a 2.7-fold increased risk. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Comorbidity between epilepsy and depression: Experimental evidence for the involvement of serotonergic, glucocorticoid, and neuroinflammatory mechanisms

Depression represents one of the most common comorbidities of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and has profound negative impact on the quality of life of patients with TLE. However, causes and mechanisms of depression in TLE remain poorly understood, and effective therapies are lacking. We examined whether a commonly used model of TLE in rats could be used as a model of comorbidity between epilepsy and depression suitable for both mechanistic studies and for the development of mechanism‐based antidepressant therapies. We established that animals that had been subjected to lithium chloride and pilocarpine status epilepticus (SE) and developed spontaneous recurrent seizures, exhibited a set of impairments congruent with a depressive state: behavioral equivalents of anhedonia and despair, dysregulation of the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, and compromised raphe‐hippocampal serotonergic transmission. Pharmacologic studies have suggested that depressive impairments following SE develop as a result of enhanced interleukin‐1β signaling in the hippocampus, which leads to depression via inducing perturbations in the HPA axis and subsequent deficit in the raphe‐hippocampal serotonergic transmission.
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Comparisons of the Predominant Fecal Microbiota Compositions of a Group of Pediatric Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and Their Healthy Siblings

ABSTRACT Although only poorly documented, it can be assumed that intensive antibiotic treatments of chronic lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) also affect the diversity and metabolic functioning of the gastrointestinal microbiota and potentially lead to a state of dysbiosis. A better knowledge of the differences in gut microbiota composition and stability between patients with CF and healthy subjects could lead to optimization of current antibiotic therapies and/or development of add-on therapies. Using conventional culturing and population fingerprinting by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of 16S rRNA amplicons, we compared the predominant fecal microbiota of 21 patients with CF and 24 healthy siblings in a cross-sectional study. General medium counts, as well as counts on media specific for lactic acid bacteria, clostridia, Bifidobacterium spp. , Veillonella spp. , and Bacteroides-Prevotella spp. , were consistently higher in sibling samples than in CF samples, whereas the reverse was found for enterobacterial counts. DGGE fingerprinting uncovered large intersubject variations in both study groups. On the other hand, the cross-sectional data indicated that the predominant fecal microbiota of patients and siblings had comparable species richness. In addition, a longitudinal study was performed on 7 or 8 consecutive samples collected over a 2-year period from two patients and their respective siblings. For these samples, DGGE profiling indicated an overall trend toward lower temporal stability and lower species richness in the predominant fecal CF microbiota. The observed compositional and dynamic perturbations provide the first evidence of a general dysbiosis in children with CF compared to their siblings.