Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mantids selectively process lepidopteran prey 1 2 3 4 5 Pretty picky for a generalist : impacts of toxicity and nutritional quality on mantid prey 6 processing 7

22 Prey have evolved a number of defenses against predation, and predators have developed 23 means of countering these protective measures. Although caterpillars of the monarch butterfly, 24 Danaus plexippus L. are defended by cardenolides sequestered from their host plants, the 25 Chinese mantid Tenodera sinensis Saussure guts the caterpillar before consuming the rest of the 26 body. We hypothesized that this gutting behavior might be driven by the heterogeneous quality 27 of prey tissue with respect to toxicity and/or nutrients. We conducted behavioral trials in which 28 mantids were offered cardenolide-containing and cardenolide-free D. plexippus caterpillars and 29 butterflies. In addition, we fed mantids starved and unstarved D. plexippus caterpillars from each 30 cardenolide treatment and non-toxic Ostrinia nubilalis Hubner caterpillars. These trials were 31 coupled with elemental analysis of the gut and body tissues of both D. plexippus caterpillars and 32 corn borers. Cardenolides did not affect mantid behavior: mantids gutted both cardenolide33 containing and cardenolide-free caterpillars. In contrast, mantids consumed both O. nubilalis and 34 starved D. plexippus caterpillars entirely. Danaus plexippus body tissue has a lower C:N ratio 35 than their gut contents, while O. nubilalis have similar ratios; gutting may reflect the mantid’s 36 ability to regulate nutrient uptake. Our results suggest that post-capture prey processing by 37 mantids is likely driven by a sophisticated assessment of resource quality. 38
A CHnMM Approach for Multi Stroke Gesture Recognition on Touch Input Devices

A modeling approach for spatio-temporal movement trajectories that is based on the stochastic model class called conversive hidden non-Markovian models (CHnMMs) has already been implemented for single stroke gesture recognition. This thesis extends the previous work by applying the state of art model to work with multi-stroke gestures. We define a set of fourteen gestures which differ in terms of number of strokes and speed of execution. Two separate approaches for recognition of those gestures, one that creates a single model per stroke and another that creates a single model per gesture are presented. With these models, we analyze the shape of the gesture’s motion trajectories and the temporal and spatial relations between trajectories in order to characterize a multi-stroke gesture. To set-up, train and validate our systems, we built a multi-stroke gesture dataset formed by 2870 gestures collected from 11 volunteers. Experimentation are carried out to identify the trustworthiness and weaknesses of the procedures. Both approaches are evaluated using recognition of touch gesture experiments and are compared with $N multi-stroke recognizer results. The results show better recognition rate for single model per gesture approach compared to both single model per stroke and $N multi-stroke gesture recognizer. Based on these results we concluded that CHnMM is promising and can recognize multi-stroke gesture when both shape and time dimension are taken into account. Also, as a possible use-case of this model, a prototypical gesture authentication system is implemented on a web based platform.
TUOMINEN Relationship Fading in Cultural Sponsorships

The purpose of the study is to describe, analyse, and understand the process of inter-organisational relationship fading in the context of cultural sponsorships. The empirical case study examines one three-year cultural-sponsorship relationship between the Finnish Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma) and a Finnish media company (MTV3). The qualitative single-case study evaluates both actors in a focal cultural-sponsorship relationship using a dyadic approach. In this study, the triggers of relationship fading were first broadly elaborated into structural and situational triggers. Theoretically, the triggers of relationship fading were further categorised into structural predisposing triggers, situational precipitating triggers, situational attenuating, and structural attenuating triggers. The empirical study reveals that the triggers of relationship fading may emanate both from the structural context in which this time-bound cultural-sponsorship relationship is embedded and from the situational process itself. Structural predisposing triggers, situational precipitating triggers, and situational attenuating triggers could be recognised in the empirical case. However, any structural attenuating triggers could not be identified. Most of the triggers are passive and indirect – that is, they initiate and contribute to the long process of fading, after which the cultural-sponsorship relationship comes to an ultimate end. In other words, the structural and situational triggers of fading affect the development of the relationship by gradually reducing the sponsor’s motivations to invest and develop the cultural-sponsorship relationship. RAMI OLKKONEN, Docent Turku School of Economics and Business Administration • e-mail: rami.olkkonen@tukkk.fi PEKKA TUOMINEN, Docent Turku School of Economics and Business Administration • e-mail: pekka.tuominen@tukkk.fi 68 L T A 1 / 0 5 • R . O L K K O N E N A N D P . T U O M I N E N
Hybrid Geo-Location Routing Protocol for Indoor and Outdoor Positioning Applications

Internet of Things (IoT) essentially demands smart connectivity and contextual awareness of current networks with low power and cost effective wireless solutions. Routing is the backbone of the system controlling the flow of transmission. This work demonstrates a collation between performance investigations of a location-based routing protocol Geocast Adaptive Mesh Environment for Routing with contextual information collected from Global Positioning System (GPS) and Framework for Internal Navigation and Discovery (FIND) respectively. The systems are evaluated based on various metrics i.e. Accuracy, Packet Delivery Ratio and Packet Overhead by means of Network Simulator (NS-2). FIND shows enhanced performance in most cases as compared to GPS for indoor and outdoor environments. The results of this research can be deployed in different areas such as in-building navigation, hospital patient tracking, Smart City context aware service provisioning and Industry 4.0 deployments.
Effectiveness of Domain Adaptation in Japanese Predicate-Argument Structure Analysis

This paper proposes introducing domain adaptation into Japanese predicate-argument structure (PAS) analysis. Our investigation of a Japanese balanced-corpus revealed that the distribution of argument types is different across text media, particularly the difference is signiﬁcant when the argument is exophoric. The past Japanese PAS analysis research has disregarded this tendency. We start with an RNN-based PAS analyzer as a baseline, extending it by introducing three kinds of domain-adaptation techniques and their combinations. The evaluation experiments using a Japanese balanced-corpus (BCCWJ) con-ﬁrmed that the domain-adaptation is effective for improving the performance of the Japanese PAS analysis.
Funkcionális idegsebészeti beavatkozások a mozgászavarok kezelésében

Tartalom Bevezetés . 2 Klinikailag fontosabb mozgászavarok . 2 Parkinson-kór . 2 Parkinson-kór motoros és nem motoros tünetei . 3 Parkinson-kór diagnózisának felállítása . 3 Parkinson-kórt utánzó egyéb kórképek . 4 Kivizsgálási algoritmus Parkinson-kór esetében . 5 Parkinson-kór gyógyszeres kezelési lehetősége . 6 Esszenciális tremor . 10 Esszenciális tremor gyógyszeres kezelési lehetőségei . 10 Disztónia . 11 Disztónia klinikai jellemzése . 11 A disztóniák gyógyszeres kezelése . 13 Mély agyi stimuláció . 14 Funkcionális idegsebészeti beavatkozások történeti áttekintése . 14 Mély agyi stimuláció működési elve . 15 Műtéti kivizsgálás . 17 Műtéti indikációk és hatékonyság. 17 Műtét . 19 Műtét utáni gondozás . 19 Összefoglalás . 20 Köszönetnyilvánítás . 20 Irodalomjegyzék . 20 Táblázat. 25 Ábrák . 29 Tesztkérdések . 33
Aspirin desensitization in patients with coronary artery disease: Cost savings

differential clinical diagnosis, like transfusion associated circulatory overload (TACO), have been ruled out. As a conclusion, we recognize that blood transfusion derivatives can trigger episodes of severe respiratory insufficiency, but their relation to ARDS with DAD is still unknown. It is evident that improving the diagnosis accuracy seems to be an initial and basic requirement to enhance the efficacy and effectiveness of future treatment.
PROXIMATE COMPOSITION OF PADINA BOERGESENII-A BROWN ALGA FROM VADAKKADU COASTAL REGIONS , SOUTHEAST COAST OF INDIA

The proximate composition of Padina boergesenii (Allender & Kraft) a brown alga from Vadakkadu coastal regions; Southeast coast of India was analyzed. Dry matter, crude protein, ether extract (lipids), carbohydrates, ash and total dietary fiber content of three samples were determined by standard methods. P. boergesenii showed a high content of ashes (45.65%), carbohydrates (44.05%) and total dietary fiber (4756% on dry basis). About 8.69% of protein, 1.23% of lipids was low. The species showed temporal variations in the percentages of proteins, lipids, minerals, dietary fiber contents, and non-nitrogenous extracts. Padina boergesenii presented comparable values to those of algae used actually as food in the region.
Vectorization of Text Documents for Identifying Unifiable News Articles

Vectorization is imperative for processing textual data in natural language processing applications. Vectorization enables the machines to understand the textual contents by converting them into meaningful numerical representations. The proposed work targets at identifying unifiable news articles for performing multi-document summarization. A framework is introduced for identification of news articles related to top trending topics/hashtags and multi-document summarization of unifiable news articles based on the trending topics, for capturing opinion diversity on those topics. Text clustering is applied to the corpus of news articles related to each trending topic to obtain smaller unifiable groups. The effectiveness of various text vectorization methods, namely the bag of word representations with tf-idf scores, word embeddings, and document embeddings are investigated for clustering news articles using the k-means. The paper presents the comparative analysis of different vectorization methods obtained on documents from DUC 2004 benchmark dataset in terms of purity.
Understanding iOS-based Crowdturfing Through Hidden UI Analysis

A new type of malicious crowdsourcing (a.k.a., crowdturﬁng) clients, mobile apps with hidden crowdturﬁng user interface (UI), is increasingly being utilized by miscreants to coordinate crowdturﬁng workers and publish mobile-based crowdturﬁng tasks (e.g., app ranking manipulation) even on the strictly controlled Apple App Store. These apps hide their crowdturﬁng content behind innocent-looking UIs to bypass app vetting and inﬁltrate the app store. To the best of our knowledge, little has been done so far to understand this new abusive service, in terms of its scope, impact and techniques, not to mention any effort to identify such stealthy crowdturﬁng apps on a large scale, particularly on the Apple platform. In this paper, we report the ﬁrst measurement study on iOS apps with hidden crowdturﬁng UIs. Our ﬁndings bring to light the mobile-based crowdturﬁng ecosystem (e.g., app promotion for worker recruitment, campaign identiﬁcation) and the un-derground developer’s tricks (e.g., scheme, logic bomb) for evading app vetting.
An overview on epiphytism as a direct mechanism of facilitation in tropical forests

Direct facilitation is characterized by the positive effect of one individual on the other through changes in abiotic conditions and the creation of novel habitats. We aimed to present a systematic review of the literature about direct facilitation in tropical forests, emphasizing knowledge gaps and suggesting future lines of inquiry. We asked: (1) What is the existing literature about direct facilitation in tropical forests? (2) What kind of methodological approach (experimental or observational) has been more used? (3) What kind of study, pairwise species or community level, are more common? (4) What vegetative habits are more common between facilitators and facilitated species? (5) What hypotheses are more commonly tested? (6) How often epiphytism has been approached as facilitation? Based on literature search, we found thirty-five studies examining direct facilitation in plants mainly in the Neotropics (69%). The number of observational and experimental studies was similar. Most studies were based on pairwise comparisons of species. Trees were the most common nurse plants representing 51% of the studies, followed by shrubs (20%). This was the same for facilitated plants: trees corresponded to 48% and shrubs to 21%. The most common facilitation mechanism in tropical forest was the improvement of aboveground microclimate conditions (43%). Epiphytism is still marginally explored (11%, only 4 out of 35 studies) as a direct mechanism of facilitation. Given that about nine per cent of the world vascular flora are epiphytes that demand facilitators to survive, it is timely to widen the scope of field studies about facilitation towards such direct mechanisms.
Biosurfactants-facilitated leaching of metals from spent 1 hydrodesulfurization catalyst 2 Running title : Bioleaching of spent catalysts

Biosurfactants-facilitated leaching of metals from spent 1 hydrodesulfurization catalyst 2 Running title: Bioleaching of spent catalysts 3 Shareefah ALsaqer1, Meena Marafi2, Ibrahim M. Banat3, Wael Ismail1* 4 1Environmental Biotechnology Program, Life Sciences Department, College of Graduate 5 Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain 6 2Petroleum Refining Department, Petroleum Research and Studies Center, Kuwait 7 Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, Kuwait 8 3School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry 9 BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland, UK 10 *Corresponding author: Environmental Biotechnology Program, Life Sciences 11 Department, College of Graduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain, 12 Tel: +97336146948; Fax: +97317239664, E-mail: waelame@agu.edu. bh 13
The ‘ Heart ’ of Things : A Conceptual M etaphoric Analysis of Heart and Related Body Parts in Thai , Japanese and English

Data from Thai, Japanese and English in the metonymic/metaphoric uses of heart (cf. Gibbs, 1994; Johnson, 1987; Lakoff, 1987; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) as well as “head” and “belly/stomach” are analyzed for underlying conceptual metaphoric patterns and their expression of various aspects of interpersonal relationships, emotions, and modes of rationality in the Thai, Japanese and English languages. This cross-cultural study reveals significant conceptual differences about the culturally specific communicative goals represented in “heart” expressions in these three languages. In Thai there is a particularly rich vocabulary centered on jai (heart). The Thai data reveal a monistic cultural construct in which the emotive aspects of relationships are conjoined with senses of rational discourse. Japanese data similarly tends to fuse the mode of rational discourse with the emotive but primarily uses hara (belly) expressions in doing so. English in contrast maintains a sharp dichotomy between rationalities (head/mind) and emotions (heart), reflecting the dualism of Western cultural tradition. This study focuses on how the functional use of the “heart” and related expressions reveal cultural constructs of communication style through an analysis of the underlying conceptual metaphors.
Biomedical waste management in Sonam Norbu Memorial Govt. District Hospital Leh-Ladakh

In present study attempt has been made to assess generation and management of biomedical waste at Sonam Norbu Memorial Govt. District Hospital Leh-Ladakh. The study revealed that in the hospital 267.7 g per bed per day of BMW is generated and hospital has adopted Biomedical waste management rule 2016 partially because so far as collection of Biomedical waste is concerned hospital is using four colour dust bins in all the wards, blood bank, laboratory and OPD whereas after collection the disposal of biomedical waste is not done as per BMW rule 2016.
Content Based Color Image Retrieval Using SVM with Deep Learning Technic

— Content-based image retrieval aims to retrieve images from a database which are similar to each other in terms of their visual contents. Over the years, various feature descriptors based on color, texture and shape information have been proposed to characterize visual elements of image and video data. These features have subsequently been employed to improve the automated search and retrieval of image and videos in CBIR applications. The applications of CBIR are: users searching a particular image on the web, Various types of professionals like police force for picture recognition in crime prevention, Medicine diagnosis, Architectural and engineering design, Fashion and publishing, Geographical information, remote sensing systems and home entertainment. However, selecting and developing methods for correctly identifying and effectively integrating suitable visual features for a specific vision task remain a very challenging problem. The proposed method uses support vector machines for retrieval of images based on content. First, 190 dimensional feature vectors are extracted and similarity metrics is defined. Using the SVM learning techniques, the images which are similar to the query image are retrieved.
THE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN OIC COUNTRIES

This article attempts to investigate the possible r ol of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a means o f development financing and international cooperation in the case of some OIC countries. The author gives, first, a theoretical account of the role of FDI, the benefits and costs of such a mode of financing to developing countries and som e policy measures needed to enhance the flow of FDI to developing cou ntries. He then analyses the flow of FDI to selecte d OIC countries in terms of volume and sectoral distribution. The s tudy concludes that, despite the important and poss ible constructive role of FDI, the most needy developing countries ar e those which attract FDI the least. The main reas on i that because foreign investors seek mainly more profitable and s ecured investment opportunities, they are attracted towards locations that can provide these requirements. Unfortunately this is not the case for the majority of the OIC de veloping countries. The study concludes that the developing OIC countri es need to do a lot of homework to create an enviro ment conducive to FDI, and that they need to attain a mi ni um level of economic and institutional developme nt before they could hope to attract substantial FDI. They have to , a least in the medium-term, depend mainly on the ir domestic resources to finance their development needs, and c o sider FDI as a supplement to their endogenous eff orts.
STRESS MODULATORY EFFECT OF ESTROGEN IN SHELL GLAND

Reproduction in a majority of birds occurs at a specific time of the year that is the most favorable to the survival of young and their parents. Seasonal reproduction in birds ensures the hatching of young and dwelling in most favorable environmental conditions, like the availability of food and water. Birds have to predict the time of rich food resources. This ability is under the control of endogenous circannual rhythms (Gwinner, 2003) which is synchronized by periodically changing environmental factors. The changes in day-length are the most important signal for setting the appropriate time of year for bird reproduction. Other signals including the presence of mate, nest site, social interaction temperature or appearance of rich food supply are important for final tuning the exact moment of reproduction. The environmental components used in the timing of reproductive function include photoperiod, temperature, rainfall, humidity, food, and water in addition to other intrinsic mechanisms which may be hormonal and neural.
Cultivation of Pleurotus Mushroomsin Axenic Culture through the Use of Crop Residues

The axenic method for cultivation presents the potential for regular and safe production as it provides for the sterilization of substrates, reduces the early period of production and maintains controlled and predictable conditions in the development of the mushrooms. This study aims to evaluate the axenic cultivation of Pleurotus sajor-caju, Pleurotus ostreatoroseus and Pleurotus citrinopileatus in three different substrates. The substrates of Ricinuscammunis L. , Oriza sativa L. and Pennisetumpurpureum L. were rehydrated for 24 hours, drained and packaged. Each of the substrates were autoclaved, inoculated with spawn 3% (w/w) and incubated for colonization after cooling. For fruiting, the bags were stored in a fructification chamber (25°; RH: 75-90%). After harvesting, fresh weight, yield and biological efficiency were measured. P. citrinopileatus provided the highest average fresh mass (79.42g) and productivity (15.88%) when grown in agricultural residues of mamona. The highest biological efficiency (54.80%) was found in P. ostreatoroseus when grown in rice straw. The substrates of mamona residues and rice straw are the most appropriate for the cultivation of P. citrinopileatus and P. ostreatoroseus, respectively. The data presented in this study indicates that the cultivation of Pleurotus sp. in different substrates offers a cost-effective agricultural alternative for agriculture.
Documento de Trabajo-2017 / 14 New Approaches to the Study of Long Term Non-Employment Duration in Italy , Germany and Spain

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using administrative longitudinal databases. Nonemployment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits and the long-term inactive. Many of the non-employed individuals will never return to the official labour market. We estimate the magnitude and duration of non-employment, applying the survival methodology developed in recent years to deal with ‘workforce disposal’. Long-term non-employment (LTNE) may lead to dramatic changes in individual lifestyles, family and childbearing projects, levels of poverty and welfare at large.
Development and Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against The Canine Parainfluenza Virus Protein

Wenxi He1,2#, Yujiao Cao1,2#, Fan Li1,2#, Caihong Liu1,2, Xiangdong Li1,3, Yao Xiao1,3, Norman Spibey1, Hongchao Wu1,2, Lingxiao Wang1,2, Hangtian Ding1,2, Liying Hao1,3, Junhua Deng1,3, Yuxiu Liu1,2* and Kegong Tian1,2* 1National Research Center for Veterinary Medicine, China 2Pulike Biological Engineering Co. Ltd, China 3Luoyang Putai Bio-Tech Co. Ltd, China #These authors are equally contribute to this work
Numerical Methods for ODEs Luis Ángel Larios Cárdenas 1 Numerical Solutions for Ordinary Differential Equations

It is the exception rather than the rule when an ordinary differential equation of the general form dy dx = f(x, y) can be solved exactly and explicitly by elementary methods (e.g. separable equations, linear equations, etc.) For example, consider the following ODE: dy dx = e −x (1) A solution for (1) is simply an anti-derivative of e−x2 . But it is known that every integral of f(x) = e−x2 is a non-elementary function.