Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
How Food Away From Home Affects Children's Diet Quality

Based on 2 days of dietary data and panel data methods, this study includes estimates of how each child’s consumption of food away from home, food from school (which includes all foods available for purchase at schools, not only those offered as part of USDA reimbursable meals), and caloric sweetened beverages affects that child’s diet quality and calorie consumption. Compared with meals and snacks prepared at home, food prepared away from home increases caloric intake of children, especially older children. Each food-away-from-home meal adds 108 more calories to daily total intake among children ages 13-18 than a snack or meal from home; all food from school is estimated to add 145 more calories. Both food away from home and all food from school also lower the daily diet quality of older children (as measured by the 2005 Healthy Eating Index). Among younger children, who are more likely than older children to eat a USDA school meal and face a more healthful school food environment, the effect of food from school on caloric intake and diet quality does not differ significantly from that of food from home.
Cooperative relay beamforming design for multi-cluster relay interference networks

In this work, we consider a multi-cluster amplified-and-forward (AF) relay interference network and design relay beam matrix for each cluster to maximize the minimum signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) at destinations subject to the relay power budget within each cluster. Both single and multiple source-destination (S-D) pair scenarios are considered. We propose a beam matrix structured as a weighted sum of two types of beam matrices: zero forcing (ZF) beam matrix for inter-cluster interference suppression, and another beam matrix for beamforming gain maximization within a cluster. Maximum ratio combing (MRC) and minimal mean square error (MMSE) are chosen to design the second beam matrix in single and multiple S-D pair scenarios, respectively. The optimal solution for each type of beam matrix is obtained in closed form. We then obtain the optimal weights to each type of beam matrix by transforming the max-min SINR problem and solving it via the SDR approach. Compared with applying the direct SDR approach to the original problem, our solution offers similar performance with significantly lower computational complexity. In addition, our proposed structured beam matrix clearly reveals the power shift between interference suppression among clusters and beamforming gain maximization within the cluster as the distance among clusters or the size of clusters changes.
Diagnosis of prostate carcinoma using multicompression strain imaging: data acquisition and first in vivo results

We present a new system for the acquisition of ultrasonic multicompression strain images of the human prostate in vivo. A mechanical force applied to the tip of an ultrasonic transrectal probe is measured continuously and ultrasonic RF-images are acquired consecutively at specified levels of tissue compression. An iterative phase-zero estimation method is used to obtain time delay estimates and the corresponding strain images from the acquired image sequence. We present phantom measurements as well as first in vivo results which are in good agreement to histological findings. Lateral tissue motion artifacts are corrected by a novel local companding method.
Representing Traffic Congestions on Moving Objects Trajectories

The discovery of moving objects trajectory patterns representing a high traffic density have been covered on different works using diverse approaches. These models are useful for the areas of transportation planning, traffic monitoring and advertising on public roads. Besides of the important utility, these type of patterns usually do not specify a difference between a high traffic and a traffic congestion. In this work, we propose a model for the discovery of high traffic flow patterns and traffic congestions, represented in the same pattern. Also, as a complement, we present a model that discovers alternative paths to the severe traffic on these patterns. These proposed patterns could help to improve traffic allowing the identification of problems and possible alternatives.
An Optimization Approach Toward Onboard Energy Management Systems

Optimization in the operation of electric power systems is an important task for both in land and onboard. The objective is to minimize operating cost index. Taking advantage of the scheme that onboard operator has the authority not only in the supply side but also in the demand size, an optimization approach toward onboard energy management system based on multiple attribute decision-making in the demand side is being developed. The model utilizes unit commitment and economic dispatch in the supply side and load management based on multiple attribute decision making in the demand side. As a part of the whole concept, this paper focused on the modelling and simulation of demand side. A user friendly demand side model consisting of Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch is developed by using LabVIEW, Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench. Data taken from 3 units of Steam Power Plant are simulated. It is then eventually confirmed that 9% total cost saving can be achieved in the selected load demand range.
Changes in Wage Inequality, 1970-1990

Differences in wages between skill groups declined in the 1970's and rose in the 1980's, but aggregate wage inequality grew throughout the period. This divergence remains a puzzle in recent studies of U.S. wage inequality. In this paper the sometimes divergent paths of inter-group and intra-group inequality are explained by the human capital approach. In it, wages are the return on cumulated human capital investments. In turn, interpersonal distributions of investments and of marginal rates of return on them are determined by individual supply and demand curves. Recent studies have shown that relative growth of human capital supply in the 1970's and of demand in the 1980's generated the U-shaped time pattern of ( differentials. Argument and evidence in this paper show that a widening of dispersion among individual demand curves started in the 1970's and generated a continuous expansion of ( group demand curves reflects a growing skill bias in the demand for labor. Aggregate inequality grew throughout the period because within group inequality accounts for the larger part of total inequality. The data also indicate that wage inequality grew in the face of stability in the dispersion of human capital and despite the likely decline in inequality of opportunity, as reflected in the decline in dispersion among supply curves.
Looking in the Right Places: Minority-Serving Institutions as Sources of Diverse Earth Science Learners

ABSTRACT Despite gains over the last decade, the geoscience student population in the United States today continues to lag other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines in terms of diversity. Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) can play an important role in efforts to broaden underrepresented student engagement with Earth Science content, especially in collaborations with other institutions and organizations that allow MSIs to share their expertise. Knowing which MSIs have Earth-related degree programs can help facilitate such collaboration. This commentary describes an effort to find and raise the visibility of these programs. In 2013, the abundance of geoscience departments at MSIs was roughly half that seen in U.S. higher-education institutions. Yet we found that nearly a third of MSIs offered one or more Earth-related degree programs. In addition, more than half of the academic units offering Earth-related degrees were interdisciplinary rather than traditional geoscience departments. It is clear that students are learning about the Earth in a wider variety of places than geology programs. These programs could provide models for supporting diverse students in the geosciences, as well as sites for potential collaborations aimed at further increasing the diversity of the geoscience workforce.
Constrained iterative learning control of liquid slosh in an industrial packaging machine

Considers the problem of moving a container with liquid without too much slosh in an industrial packaging machine, There is no measurement of the slosh available in the machine to use for control, it is however possible to measure the slosh in a testbed. The problem is to determine the shape of the open loop acceleration reference that is programmed in the motion control system that controls the movement of the containers. In the paper the acceleration reference is calculated using iterative learning control where the results of an experiment are used to refine the acceleration reference to be used in the next iteration.
Study of pool scrubbing events under jet injection regime

Submerged jet hydrodynamics might have a significant role in the attenuation of radioactivity releases during nuclear power plant accidents. In particular, these studies are important in Steam Generator Tube Rupture accidents (SGTR accident) for Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs), Station Black-Out (SBO events) in Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) or in severe accidents, like the one occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Pool scrubbing has been habitually associated with globular discharges, i.e. at low injection velocities. Following this tradition, the SPARC90 code was developed to determine the trapping of fission products in pools during severe accidents, but only under these low injection velocity conditions. SPARC90 code assumes that the carrier gas enters the water pond at low or moderate velocities, forming a big bubble that eventually detaches from the injection pipe. However, there are a number of possible scenarios in which the capture of fission products in aqueous ponds might also occur under the jet injection regime, in which particle laden gases may enter the water at very high velocities resulting in a submerged gas jet. The present paper introduces the fundamentals, major hypotheses and code modifications developed in order to estimate particle removal during gas injection in pools under jet regimes. A simplified, yet reliable, approach to the submerged jet hydrodynamics was implemented based upon updated equations of jet hydrodynamics and aerosol removal, ensuring that both gas-liquid and droplet-particle interactions are correctly accounted for. The resultant code modifications were validated as far as possible, however, no suitable hydrodynamic tests were found in the literature. Hence, an indirect validation approach, based on data from pool scrubbing experiments, had to be employed. Moreover, validation was further limited by the scarcity of pool scrubbing tests under jet regimes (e., g., ACE, LACE, POSEIDON II and RCA experiments). This confrontation has been satisfactory, the experimental data and the simulations follow the same trends. We must highlight some main points, such as the capability of SPARC90-Jet to capture the increasing tendency of DF with both, aerosol diameter and pressuresubmergency, catching not only the experimental trend but also the magnitude. Finally, emphasize the substantial improvement achieved with regard to the old SPARC90 code version, which has been clearly shown when comparing the SPARC90 and the SPARC90-Jet results against the available experimental data. But nevertheless, the work presented along this paper should be considered as a step towards an effective comprehension of the jet injection regime.
Why be a rewarding trap? The evolution of floral rewards in Arum (Araceae), a genus characterized by saprophilous pollination systems

Plant species of the genus Arum typically have lure-and-trap pollination systems that are saprophilous (i.e. attracting flies or beetles searching for breeding sites in decaying organic matter). They have been assumed to always attract and trap their pollinators by deception because the inflorescences provide unsuitable breeding grounds for pollinators. The present study explored the possibility that one species, Arum creticum Boiss. & Heldr. , which has yellow, sweet-smelling inflorescences, rewards its pollinators and that this increases its success in attracting pollinators over its close relative, Arum idaeum Coust. & Gadoger. The relationship between rewards provided, floral structure, insect attraction, and pollen import and export was examined in two naturally occurring sympatric populations of A. creticum, A. idaeum, and their natural hybrids. The results showed that plants providing more pollen were visited by larger numbers of females of a mining bee Lasioglossum marginatum Brulle as well as adults and nymphs of a hemipteran bug Dionconotus cruentatus creticus Heiss. In A. creticum, L. marginatum was found to be a better outcrossing vector than D. cruentatus in areas where both pollinators occurred because L. marginatum individuals carried more pollen on their bodies and travelled greater distances between inflorescences, thus increasing the potential for outcrossing. The finding that floral rewards may result in increased fitness, compared to nonrewarding systems that rely on attracting saprophilic pollinators, suggests that it is possible for rewarding species to evolve from saprophilous systems. © 2006 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006, 88, 257–268.
The Fate of the Southern Weddell Sea Continental Shelf in a Warming Climate

AbstractWarm water of open ocean origin on the continental shelf of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas causes the highest basal melt rates reported for Antarctic ice shelves with severe consequences for the ice shelf/ice sheet dynamics. Ice shelves fringing the broad continental shelf in the Weddell and Ross Seas melt at rates orders of magnitude smaller. However, simulations using coupled ice–ocean models forced with the atmospheric output of the HadCM3 SRES-A1B scenario run (CO2 concentration in the atmosphere reaches 700 ppmv by the year 2100 and stays at that level for an additional 100 years) show that the circulation in the southern Weddell Sea changes during the twenty-first century. Derivatives of Circumpolar Deep Water are directed southward underneath the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf, warming the cavity and dramatically increasing basal melting. To find out whether the open ocean will always continue to power the melting, the authors extend their simulations, applying twentieth-century atmospheric.
Survey on Parallel Computing and Performance Modelling in High Performance Computing

The parallel programming come a long way with the advances in the HPC. The high performance computing landscape is shifting from collections of homogeneous nodes towards heterogeneous systems, in which nodes consist of a combination of traditional out-of-order execution cores and accelerator devices. Accelerators, built around GPUs, many-core chips, FPGAs or DSPs, are used to offload computeintensive tasks. Large-scale GPU clusters are gaining popularity in the scientific computing community and having massive range of applications. However, their deployment and production use are associated with a number of new challenges including CUDA. In this paper, we present our efforts to address some of the issues related to HPC and also introduced some performance modelling techniques along with GPU clustering.
Transcript accumulation of putative drought responsive genes in drought-stressed chickpea seedlings

Differential display reverse transcriptase PCR was used to identify cDNA sequences induced by drought in chickpea seedlings. The sequences of differentially expressed cDNAs: 192, 214, 219 and H1 showed high similarities at the protein level to known drought-inducible genes encoding for alanine aminotransferase, βAKIN1, a proteine kinase from the SnRK1 complex, lipid binding protein and COR protein, respectively. No significant similarity was found with the candidate sequence 277. Semiquantitative multiplex PCR was used to verify that differentially amplified cDNAs were derived from differentially expressed genes. Relative quantification of the candidate sequences in the controls (wellwatered seedlings) of drought-tolerant cv. ICCV2 and drought-susceptible cv. ILC3279 confirmed their induction upon drought in both cultivars. The transcript accumulation of the highly induced sequences, 219 and H1, was more important in the tolerant than the susceptible cultivar. These sequences are likely to be associated with drought tolerance in chickpea seedlings in contrast to sequences 214 and 277 which showed no variation in the mRNA accumulation between cultivars. The effect of ABA treatment on the mRNA accumulation of the isolated sequences 192, 214, 219 and H1 was analyzed. Sequences H1 and 192 were up-regulated by ABA treatment whereas sequences 214 and 219 were not, indicating an ABAdependent and ABA-independent pathways in signal transduction in response to drought stress in chickpea seedlings.
Recent Advances in Unconventional Lithography for Challenging 3D Hierarchical Structures and Their Applications

In nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanofabrication is critical. Among the required processes for nanofabrication, lithography is one of core issues. Although conventional photolithography with recent remarkable improvement has contributed to the industry during the past few decades, fabrication of 3-dimensional 3D nanostructure is still challenging. In this review, we summarize recent advances for the construction of 3D nanostructures by unconventional lithography and the combination of two top-down approaches or top-down and bottom-up approaches. We believe that the 3D hierarchical nanostructures described here will have a broad range of applications having adaptable levels of functional integration of precisely controlled nanoarchitectures that are required by not only academia, but also industry.
Methodological approach to the construction of cultural heritage ontology

The use of ontologies to model historical knowledge is a key aspect of the integration of the information technologies for many historical institutions. The authors of the article summarize the conclusion that for the creation of ontology with culturally-historical knowledge bases the methodology METHONTOLOGY is the most appropriate method. The different stages of the methodology are also considered.
The use of Phyllanthus niruri L. as an immunomodulator for the treatment of infectious diseases in clinical settings

Plants stand as an infinite and important natural resource for drug development, novel chemotypes, pharmacophores, and other valuable bioactive agents, for a multitude of therapeutic indications. Many of the nature-derived compounds have been directly utilized as drug entities; while many others can also serve as chemical models for the design, synthesis or semi-synthesis of novel drug molecules. A tremendous number of natural compounds are currently in various stages of clinical development, highlighting the significance and persisting viability of the nature-derived products as sources of new drug candidates[1-8]. This paper reviews Phyllanthus niruri L. (P. niruri), one herb species among the gigantic number of medicinal plants that have widely been studied worldwide. P. niruri (Euphorbiaceae) is a worldwide distributed tropical plant acclaimed for its versatile ethnomedicinal uses[9,10]. It features multiple pharmacological properties such as an immunomodulator, anti-viral, antibacterial, diuretic, anti-hyperglycemia and hepatoprotector[10,11]. Therefore, it is not surprising that P. niruri ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT
Multi-Objective Binary Fish School Search

Fish school search (FSS) algorithm has inspired several adaptations for multi-objective problems or binary optimization. However, there is no particular proposition to solve both problems simultaneously. The proposed multi-objective approach binary fish school search (MOBFSS) aims to solve optimization problems with two or three conflicting objective functions with binary decision input variables. MOBFSS is based on the dominance concept used in the multi-objective fish school search (MOFSS) and the threshold technique deployed in the binary fish school search (BFSS). Additionally, the authors evaluate the proposal for feature selection for classification in well-known datasets. Moreover, the authors compare the performance of the proposal with a state-of-art algorithm called BMOPSO-CDR. MOBFSS presents better results than BMOPSO-CDR, especially for datasets with higher complexity.
Phosphate and Potassium Solubilizing Bacteria from Weathered Materials of denatured Rock Mountain, Ha Tien, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam

Twenty-five strains were isolated on Aleksandrov medium from sample soils/weathered rocks of Ha Tien Mountain, Kien Giang, Vietnam. Their colonies were round or irregular, white to yellow and their shape was rod, motile. Seventeen of twenty-five bacterial strains were identified by PCR technique with specific primers fd1 and rP, they were capable of dissolving both phosphate and potassium and seven strains had high phosphate and potassium dissolution capacity (>10 mg l-1 P2O5 and >50 mg l-1 K2O) effectively. These seven strains were chosen to sequence, DNA sequencing were compared with GenBank database of NCBI by BLAST N software. The results showed that DNV16 strain was similarity of 99% with EU977655.1 (Microbacterium hominis), TC1D strain was a 99% similarity with FN547417.1 (Flectobacillus sp.), CH9E strain was a 99% similarity of 99% with GQ861463.1 (Agrobacterium tumefasciens), TC1A strain was similarity of 99% with HM003210.1 (Bacillus cereus) and FJ976533.1 (Bacillus coagulans), CH7A strain was 99% similarity with EU048539.1 (Bacillus cereus) and GQ214131.1 (Bacillus subtilis) and TD6B strain was a 99% similarity wih AB301013.1 (Bacillus subtilis) and CH7D strain was similarity of 98% with FJ976616.1 (Bacillus megaterium). Seven strains related with Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus coagulans closely in phylogenetic tree.
PERFORMANCE OF SAVONIUS ROTOR AS A WATER CURRENT TURBINE

Ocean current energy systems are at an early stage of development with only a small number of prototypes and demonstrations to date. Ocean currents are a potentially significant and currently untapped resource of energy. Energy can be extracted from the ocean currents using submerged turbines that are similar in function to wind turbines but capture energy through a hydrodynamic rather than aerodynamic mechanism. This paper discusses the performance of three different types of Savonius rotors used as water current turbines. This is the first time such rotors have been used as water current turbines. They were tested to determine a suitable water current turbine for a micro seafloor power generation system.
APPLICATION BASED UNDERSTANDING AND CLASSIFYING WEB QUIRES

Existing search services rely solely on a query's occurrence in the document collection to locate relevant documents. They typically do not perform any task or topic-based analysis of queries using other available resources, and do not leverage changes in user query patterns over time. In this paper provided within a set of techniques and metrics for performing temporal analysis on query logs. The metrics proposed for our log analysis are shown to be reasonable and informative, and can be used to detect changing trends and patterns in the query stream, thus providing valuable data to a search service. We continue with an algorithm for automatic topical classification of web queries. Results are presented showing that our classification approach can be successfully applied to a significant portion of the query stream, making it possible for search services to leverage it for improving search effectiveness and efficiency.