Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Highlights from the Ninth International Society for Computational Biology ( ISCB ) Student Council Symposium 2013

A1 Highlights from the ISCB Student Council Symposium 2013 Tomás Di Domenico, Cynthia Prudence, Esmeralda Vicedo, Emre Guney, Anupama Jigisha, Avinash Shanmugam Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Département de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institut für Informatik, TU München, Munich, Germany; Center for Complex Network Research and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA E-mail: tdido@tdido.com. ar BMC Bioinformatics 2014, 15(Suppl 3):A1
Effects of Preincubation Storage Length and Egg Quality of Baladi Hatching Eggs on Hatchability Parameters

A total of 800 Baladi hatching eggs were obtained from the baladi population which has been randomly bred for several years in the Poultry and Livestock Experimental Station of the Animal Production Department, College of Food &Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University. Hatching eggs were randomly divided into 4 experimental groups (200 eggs in each). Each experimental group was divided into three weight groups (<52, 52-56 and >56g) and were stored for 0, 5, 10 and15 days under 80% relative humidity and 15±1 oC. Fresh eggs were individually weighed before and after storage and incubated following usual hatchery practices. Fifty eggs of each experimental groups were broken out at the end of storage period to determine the effect of storage length and egg group weight on some external (specific gravity and air cell depth) and internal (Haugh units, albumen and yolk pH) egg quality traits. Storage period had a significant (p≤ 0.05) negative effect upon fertile and total egg hatchability, early and total embryonic mortality and all studied egg quality characteristics, whereas egg weight group and EWxST had no significant effect upon all studied traits. From the results of the study we conclude that prolonged storage period of hatching eggs for 10 days or more had a pronounced adverse effect on egg quality and hatchability parameters. whereas egg weight group had statistically no adverse effect upon all
Comparative Analysis between SPECTMyocardial Perfusion Imaging and CT Coronary Angiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease

The study aims to discuss the relationship and difference between myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using SPECT and CT coronary angiography (CTCA) for diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). Five hundred and four cases undergoing MPI and CTCA were comparatively analyzed, including fifty six patients undergoing invasive coronary angiography in the same period. Among patients with negative MPI results, negative or positive CTCA occupied 84.7% or 15.3%, respectively. Among patients with positive MPI, positive or negative CTCA occupied 67.2% or 32.8%, respectively. Among patients with negative CTCA, negative or positive MPI occupied 94.4% or 5.6%, respectively. Among patients with positive CTCA, positive or negative MPI occupied 40.2% or 59.8%, respectively. Negative predictive value was relatively higher than the positive predictive value for positive CTCA eliminating or predicting abnormal haemodynamics. And there was no significant difference for sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of MPI or CTCA in diagnosing CAD. Both MPI and CTCA have good diagnostic performance for CAD. They provide different and complementary information for diagnosis and evaluation of CAD, namely, detection of ischemia versus detection of atherosclerosis, which are quite different but have a definite internal link for each other.
Title Finding Alpha-Helices in Skeletons Permalink

We consider a problem which is part of the process of determining the three-dimensional structure of a protein molecule using X-ray crystallography: given an estimated map of the electron density of the molecule as a function on three-dimensional space, we identify regions which are likely to belong to -helices. Our approach is to compute a new kind of skeleton the power shape and then identify the helical substructures within the power shape with a variant of geometric hashing.
Evol. Inst. Econ. Rev. 4(1): 27–53 (2007)

In this paper, we consider the two main causation mechanisms characterizing the Marxian theory: the one running from productive forces to relations of production (Marx I) and the other moving in the opposite direction (Marx II). We argue that Marx did not achieve a satisfactory integration of the two mechanisms and that he failed to point out how multiple technological-institutional paths may stem from the cumulative interactions between relations of production and productive forces. In spite of many important analytical insights, NIE has exacerbated the primacy of technology and productive forces, which characterized “Marx I”. After NIE, the analysis of the complex relations between “Marx I” and “Marx II” can still help to extend the scope of institutional theory and, in particular, its application to the comparative analysis of models of capitalism coexisting in the global economy.
GCOE Discussion Paper Series Global COE Program Human Behavior and Socioeconomic Dynamics

We study disclosure of information about the multidimensional state of the world when uninformed receivers’ actions affect the sender’s utility. Given a disclosure rule, the receivers form an expectation about the state following each message. Under the assumption that the sender’s expected utility is written as the expected value of a quadratic function of those conditional expectations, we identify conditions under which full and no disclosure is optimal for the sender and show that a linear transformation of the state is optimal if it is normally distributed. We apply our theory to advertising, political campaigning, and monetary policy. (JEL: D83, L15, M37, D72, E52)
Laparoscopic liver resection for colorectal metastases – results of treatment

Background: In many referral centres, laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) is a well-established method for the management of colorectal liver metastases (CLM). The aim of this study was to review a single institution experience. Methods: Between April 2008 and September 2016, 58 patients underwent LLR for various benign and malignant liver tumours. The analysis included 12 patients operated for CLM. The primary outcomes of this prospective non-randomized study included operative procedure and operating time (minutes), estimated blood loss (mL), conversion rate, R0 resections, resection margins (mm), length of hospital stay (days), post-operative morbidity, and mortality. The secondary outcome of the study was survival analysis. Results: Eight patients (67 %) underwent atypical LLR. The mean operating time was 130 minutes (range 60–210 minutes), and the mean estimated blood loss was 140 mL (range < 50–600 mL). In one patient LLR was converted to open procedure (conversion rate 8 %). Seven patients (58 %) had one liver metastasis. The mean size of metastases was 3.6 cm (range 1–9 cm). R0 resection was achieved in all cases. The mean resection margin was 6.8 mm (range 2–15 mm). The mean length of hospital stay was 6 days (range 3–12 days). Morbidity and mortality were 0 %. The median follow-up for surviving patients was 13 months. Nine patients are alive with no evidence of disease, two patients are alive with disease and one patient died of disease. Conclusion: LLR is feasible and safe for the treatment of CLM, and there is no compromise of oncological surgical principles. Cite as: Zdrav Vestn. 2017;86:87–94.
Estimating the number of people using existing WiFi access point in indoor environment

In various situations, there are demands for estimating the number of people in an area. On the other hand, the number of WiFi access points and WiFi client devices have been widely increasing in recent years. In this paper, we propose methods for estimating the number of people using information on the received signal strength in existing WiFi networks. To estimate the number of people, we apply linear regression-based approach and support vector regression-based approach in this paper. To evaluate our proposed methods, we construct an experimental environment in our laboratory with an existing WiFi access point. Through experimental evaluation, we show that the accuracy of support vector regression-based method is better than that of linear regression-based method. In addition, we show that the accuracy rate of support vector regression-based method for estimating the number of people is 0.772, that for estimating the degree of congestion is 0.946, and that for estimating the presence/absence of people is 0.982. Key–Words: WiFi, IoT, RSSI, people detecting, people counting, indoor environment, machine learning
Multi-robot Autonomous Soccer using OpenCV and Hough Transform Gradients

RoboCup is an international robotic soccer challenge that promotes robotics and artificial intelligence research. Every year, robotics researchers enter the competition in which their team of robots tries to play a game of soccer. In our project, we simplified this challenge and created a soccer game played between two TurtleBots, one acting as a kicker and the other as a goalie. This project centers around computer vision, using OpenCV and Hough Transform Gradients to track important objects in the scene.
Regulation of the Xenopus Xsox 17 α 1 promoter by co-operating VegT and Sox 17 sites

The gene encoding the Sox F-group transcription factor Xsox17α1 is specifically expressed throughout the entire region of the Xenopus blastula fated to become endoderm, and is important in controlling endodermal development. Xsox17α1 is a direct target of the maternal endodermal determinant VegTand of Sox17 itself. We have analysed the promoter of the Xenopus laevis Xsox17α1 gene by transgenesis, and have identified two important control elements which reside about 9 kb upstream at the start of transcription. These elements individually drive transgenic endodermal expression in the blastula and gastrula. One contains functional, cooperating VegT and Sox-binding consensus sites. The Sox sites in this region are occupied in vivo. The other responds to TGF-β signals like Activin or Nodals that act through Smad2/3. We propose that these two regions co-operate in regulating the early endodermal expression of the Xsox17α1 gene. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. Open access under CC BY license.
A Rose to Success : Shocks to the Flower Industry and Education in Colombia

This paper investigates the impact the fresh-cut flower industry had on investments in human capital in Colombia. I study how schooling completion and enrollment respond to local employment shocks. My empirical strategy exploits municipal variation in the geo-climatic suitability for floriculture, together with time variation from the industry’s growth. I show that blooming periods for the flower industry are associated with a differential increase in the probability that a student will graduate from secondary schooling. I do not find evidence of an asymmetrical impact by gender, which I interpret to be indicative of a dominance of an income effect, and an absence of a substitution effect, particularly for girls. My results remain robust to different forms of shock aggregation, and accounting for differential trends by municipality characteristics.
Investigation of Informal Healthcare Payments after Health Transformation Plan : A Case Study in the Southeast of Iran

Copyright: ©2019 The Author(s); Published by Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Investigation of Informal Healthcare Payments after Health Transformation Plan: A Case Study in the Southeast of Iran
A STRIP COOLING PROCESS REPRESENTATION ON THE BASIS OF RADIAL BASIS NEURAL NETWORKS

The paper considers and simulates a neural network-based strip cooling process in a hot-strip mill. This process is outlined in a figure highlighting the main functional areas. A hybrid algorithm for training a radial basis neural network is described. A program was developed in the Mathcad programming unit to implement the mathematical model of the researched neural network. The input and output variables of the strip cooling process were selected, the initial data were normalized. Training and validation samples are drawn using Microsoft Access queries. A number of computational experiments were conducted for this model to obtain the optimum structure and parameters of the radial basis neural network. The results of neural network training, graphs of deviations of model values from the set ones in training and validation samples are given. The root-mean-square and relative network errors were found using the unnormalized output data.
Numerical investigation of heat transfer in film layer under supersonic condition of convergent-divergent transition

The distribution of film cooling effectiveness in supersonic mainstream of circle-rectangular Convergent-Divergent transition has been numerically investigated under different pressure ratios. The shock wave exerted superior influence on film cooling. In supersonic main flow, extra compression waves formed in upstream of the film holes, resulted by the obstruction of the multiple cooling jets. This exerted extra pressure to the boundary-layer, induced adverse pressure gradient, and led to weakening of the film flow attachment ability and decreasing of local cooling effectiveness. Bow oblique shock wave occurred in front of holes, the two oblique bow shaped low pressure zones formed on both sides of the hole, and low cooling effectiveness zones appeared accordingly. The inefficient region at the leading edge of the hole destroyed the film developing between holes, decreased the cooling effectiveness accumulation in the rear part. The decrease of hole incline angle caused an increase of cooling effectiveness, which reduced reverse velocity gradient caused by shock wave in the boundary-layer and improved film attachment. The influence of main flow pressure ratio to film cooling was also investigated, and found with increasing of the ratio, the influence will became even significant.
Finding predictive search queries for behavioral targeting

Behavioral targeting refers to the use of historical user internet activity to improve the relevance of internet advertisements that are shown to that user. We study one class of features — search queries — that are thought to be a good indicator of user interest. Several feature selection techniques are employed to find informative lists of queries for each behavioral targeting category of interest. These queries are then evaluated in a click probability model, which attempts to predict the probability that a user will click a given ad shown on some page, based on historical search queries of the user, features of the page, and features of the ad. Our experiments on a large amount of display advertisement data show that queries obtained by our feature selection techniques can improve click prediction for some behavioral categories. Furthermore, we demonstrate that for some categories, the top 20 queries are surprisingly relevant towards their corresponding behavioral category, despite being induced from historical data using purely statistical methods.
Intelligent Recommendation System using Semantic information for Web Information Retrieval

Due to increase in current websites, the web users have been offered with numerous choices and because of this there exists an inability in decision making by the web user while surfing the web. Thus, the user needs the effective and useful suggestion or recommendation for accessing the website efficiently. Therefore, the recommendation results are very useful for the user by handling the website in an efficient way. The core technique of the webpage recommendation rules is prediction and learning process. These processes are used for appraising what users would like to view in the future website and learn the users’ behaviors. In particular, this predicting and learning process can suggest an interesting item from the huge set of item based on the knowledge obtained about an active user. The proposed system predicts user navigational preferences from their previous activities and those learned pattern is used for recommending more preferable web sites to web users. Before recommending the pages to the user a collaborative filtering mechanism has been used to refer the historic visiting preferences of a user with other users of having the same interest.
“ Problems of Nonlinear Dynamics and Physics of Condensed Matter ”

The nonlinear vibrations of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes are analysed. The Sanders-Koiter elastic shell theory is applied in order to obtain the elastic strain energy and kinetic energy. The carbon nanotube deformation is described in terms of longitudinal, circumferential and radial displacement fields. The theory considers geometric nonlinearities due to large amplitude of vibration. The displacement fields are expanded by means of a double series based on harmonic functions for the circumferential variable and Chebyshev polynomials for the longitudinal variable. The Rayleigh-Ritz method is applied to obtain approximate natural frequencies and mode shapes. Free boundary conditions are considered. In the nonlinear analysis, the three displacement fields are re-expanded by using approximate eigenfunctions. An energy approach based on the Lagrange equations is considered in order to obtain a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The total energy distribution of the shell is studied by considering combinations of different vibration modes. The effect of the conjugate modes participation is analysed.
N ov 2 00 9 Errors in Estimating Ω Λ due to the Fluid Approximation

The matter content of the Universe is strongly inhomogeneous on small scales. Motivated by this fact, we consider a model of the Universe that has regularly spaced discrete masses, rather than a continuous fluid. The optical properties of such space-times can differ considerably from the continuous fluid case, even if the ‘average’ dynamics are the same. We show that these differences have consequences for cosmological parameter estimation, and that fitting to recent supernovae observations gives a correction to the inferred value of ΩΛ of ∼ 10%.
Battery Based Vertical Handover between WiMAX and WLAN Technologies

Nowadays, the battery life time becomes one of the most important challenges of the next generation wireless networks especially for mobile equipments that support more than wireless technologies. Different wireless technologies have different battery energy consumption levels. In this paper we propose a methodology for triggering the handover process among different wireless technologies based on the user terminal battery level status. Our study will efficiently saves the battery life time of the user terminal based on its surrounding wireless access technologies and its mobile terminal capabilities. Moreover we introduce a simple and easy concept for how to exchange this handover information from the user terminal to the network node to guarantee the smooth handover process.
RECOMMANDATIONS Recommandations de pratiques cliniques de l ’ EASL . Prise en charge de l ’ hépatite chronique B EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines . Management of chronic hepatitis B European Association for the Study of the Liver

Les connaissances sur l’histoire naturelle de l’infection par le virus de l’hépatite B (VHB) et le potentiel thérapeutique de cette maladie se sont améliorées. Plusieurs nouveaux agents antiviraux efficaces ont été évalués et autorisés à la prescription depuis la dernière conférence internationale de consensus sur l’hépatite B qui s’est tenue en 2002 [1]. L’objectif de ces recommandations de pratiques cliniques de l’EASL est de mettre à jour les recommandations pour une prise en charge optimale de l’hépatite chronique B. Ces recommandations de pratiques cliniques ne concernent ni la prévention, ni la vaccination. Des difficultés à établir des schémas thérapeutiques pour le traitement de l’hépatite chronique B persistent et sont à l’origine d’incertitudes. Dès maintenant, les cliniciens, les malades et les autorités de santé publique doivent continuer à faire des choix fondés sur l’évidence qui n’est pas entièrement affinée.
Resilient Deployment of Drone Base Stations

Drone base stations have emerged as a promising solution to the requirements of future cellular networks which may not be fully met by the existing terrestrial base stations. The main reasons for the superiority of DBSs are the higher probability of line of sight (LoS) and mobility in the sky which provides better adaptation to the demands of users. However, drones are complex electro-mechanical systems and more prone to the errors compared to that of radio communication systems. With the help of onboard sensors, failure tendency of a drone can be estimated and this information can be used to determine the positions of DBSs. In this work, we address the problem of DBSs' deployment where one of the DBSs is assumed to have a high probability of failure. Our proposed algorithm jointly determines the positions of DBSs before a failure occurs and paths to be followed in order to recover the network. Our simulations show that our proposed algorithm provides significant gain in the minimum user data rate performance of the network during recovery phase with tolerable loss in the initial performance compared to the benchmark algorithm.
MOLECULAR DOCKING OF ZSTK 474 DERIVATIVES AS POTENTIAL PI 3 K INHIBITORY AGENTS

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta (PI3K) controls a range of cellular processes. Its overexpression is found in many human tumors. PI3K inhibitors are potential anticancer agents and anti-inflammatory agents for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Derivatives of ZSTK474, an effective inhibitor of PI3K, were screened virtually by computational docking for inhibitory activity towards PI3K. Some of modeled compounds showed better docking energies than ZSTK474 indicating that the former could be potent enzyme inhibitors. Additional binding energy was provided by extra ligand-protein interactions. Substituents in morpholine and benzimidazole rings cause increase and decrease of ligand-protein binding, respectively. Energetically favorable ZSTK474 derivatives satisfy Lipinski’s Rule of five which testifies to their druglikeness (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and possible pharmacological
No . 267 Foreign Banks and the Mexican Economy , 1997-2004 by

In 1997 Mexico allowed foreign banks unrestricted entry to the market, allowing multinational banks to acquire almost all of Mexico’s large banks. At the same time, the Mexican banking system began to limit private credit, in both absolute and relative terms. We investigate the hypothesis that these phenomena are related, and find for the null hypothesis: the contraction in credit is not related to foreign entry. The evidence does suggest, however, that foreign banks are better able to screen borrowers and charge lower interest margins than domestic banks. The evidence also suggests that foreign entry is associated with increased bank administrative efficiency. The implication is that foreign entry has produced welfare gains to consumers. JEL Codes: G18, G21, O54