Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A Test of the Supernova Trigger Hypothesis with 60Fe and 26Al

It is shown that if the 26Al inventory of the early solar system, taken as (26Al/27Al)=5×10−5, is a result of injection of fresh debris from a Type II supernova (SNII), then 60Fe/56Fe would have to be between 3×10−7 and 1×10−5. This inferred correlation of 26Al and 60Fe is based on the observation that both nuclei are produced dominantly in the O/Ne zone and that for SNII ejecta 26Al/60Fe is between 0.6 and 23. A similar correlation applies to 41Ca,36Cl,16O, and 18O, which are also produced in the same zone or in nearby regions. The supernova trigger hypothesis may be tested by determination of 60Ni excesses correlated with Fe in samples where 26Al was demonstrated to be present. From available experimental data, it appears that the observed abundance of 60Fe is too low to be compatible with a supernova trigger that injected the 26Al into the protosolar nebula. The same is true for 53Mn, a short-lived nucleus produced in the outer edge of the Ni core.
Cross-Regulation of JAK-STAT Signaling: Implications for Approaches to Combat Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Cancers

The Janus kinase–signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK–STAT) pathway is utilized by a range of cytokines (interferons, IL-2 and IL-6 amongst others) that control survival, proliferation and differentiation responses in diverse cell types. The realisation that unregulated activation of this pathway is a key driver of not only chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and psoriasis, but also many cancers has identified its components as targets for therapeutic intervention by small molecule inhibitors and biologicals. In this article, we will discuss how an increased understanding of JAK-STAT pathway architecture, the basis for its dysfunction in pathological states, and its regulation by other intracellular signaling pathways are illuminating multiple strategies to manipulate this pathway in several disease arenas.
SOME METHODS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY

The results of three methods developed for the calculation of healthy life expectancy will be discussed in this paper. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the healthy life expectancy (HALE) is defined as the average number of healthy years a person is expected to live in “full health”. In order to estimate HALE, WHO has developed a very complex methodology based on the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study. An alternative and simpler approach is to apply the First Exit Time Theory on the life table death density distribution in order to calculate the healthy life expectancy under severe and moderate disabilities. In a third approach the “force of mortality” μ(x) is used for that reason. Findings indicate that the three methods are in accordance to each other.
The global distribution of largest, deepest, and most intense precipitation systems

By grouping the contiguous precipitating area detected by the precipitation radar on board the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) core satellite, snapshots of precipitation systems are summarized as precipitation features (PFs), and their properties are cataloged from 1 year GPM observations. These PFs are categorized by their area and depth and convective intensity based on the 20 and 40 dBZ radar echo tops, respectively. The largest PFs are found mainly over ocean at the mid‐high latitudes, especially over southern ocean. The deepest PFs are mainly over tropical land, the West Pacific Warm Pool, and the Great Plains of the United States and Argentina. The most convectively intense PFs are dominant over land regions, including midlatitude and high latitude. The zonal precipitation contribution from extremely large precipitation systems is greater in midlatitude and high latitude than in the tropics. These extreme precipitation systems are rare but contribute significantly to the global precipitation. It is important to include their impacts in global climate models to correctly describe the global water cycle.
The role of green technologies in crises – Croatia case study

The collapse of the banking system, financial crisis and the fall of free economy only deepened the problems of energy and ecology crisis. However, since crises create also new opportunities, the process of recovery has also given rise to green economy based on green technologies. World of labour, human needs, natural resources and their interrelations are basic for green economy and technologies. It is the question of quality and not quantity. It is the recovery of individuals, communities and eco-systems. Green economy and green technologies are not just a question of environmental protection and energy security. They create new horizons making the economy like a sailing boat in the wind of eco-system, creating the harmony of nature and human needs. It is the answer to overall crises that went into full swing in 2009 and have lasted ever since. In this paper will be described system of green technologies and green economy in Croatia case study.
Heart rate monitoring in ultra-high-field MRI using frequency information obtained from video signals of the human skin compared to electrocardiography and pulse oximetry

Abstract Videos of the human skin contain subtle color variations associated with the blood volume pulse. This remote photoplethysmography signal can be used for heart rate monitoring and represents an alternative to signals obtained from contact-based hardware. We developed an algorithm that estimates the heart rate in real-time from photoplethysmography signals and evaluate its performance in the context of ultra-high-field magnetic resonance imaging. We compare its accuracy to heart rate values estimated from electrocardiography and finger pulse oximetry triggers, obtained from MR vendor-provided hardware. For eight subjects, two experiments are conducted with the patient table outside and inside a 7 Tesla scanner. During both 5 min setups, heart rates from the algorithm and contact-based methods are stored. Their comparison suggests technical feasibility of the contactless method but that it is inferior in accuracy compared to contact-based hardware and that low heart rates (≤50 beats per minute) and adequate illumination are major challenges for practical feasibility.
LOWER BOUNDS FOR THE BLOWUP TIME OF SOLUTIONS TO A NONLINEAR PARABOLIC PROBLEM

In this short article, we study the blow-up properties of solutions to a parabolic problem with a gradient nonlinearity under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. By constructing an auxiliary function and by modifying the first order differential inequality technique introduced by Payne et al., we obtain a lower bound for the blow-up time of solutions in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ Rn for any n ≥ 3. This article generalizes a result in [16].
OpenNMT System Description for WNMT 2018: 800 words/sec on a single-core CPU

We present a system description of the OpenNMT Neural Machine Translation entry for the WNMT 2018 evaluation. In this work, we developed a heavily optimized NMT inference model targeting a high-performance CPU system. The final system uses a combination of four techniques, all of them lead to significant speed-ups in combination: (a) sequence distillation, (b) architecture modifications, (c) precomputation, particularly of vocabulary, and (d) CPU targeted quantization. This work achieves the fastest performance of the shared task, and led to the development of new features that have been integrated to OpenNMT and available to the community.
Driving Style Recognition Based on Driver Behavior Questionnaire

The ability to classify driver behavior lays the foundation for more advanced driver assistance systems. The present study aims to research driver pattern and classification feature. Driver behavior self-reported investigation was conducted with standardized driver behavior questionnaire (DBQ) by 225 nonprofessional drivers on the internet in Beijing. Questionnaire’s reliability was verified by statistics analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to analyze the underlying factor structure. Speed advantage, space occupation, the contend right of way and the contend space advantage were extracted from the ques-tionnaire results to quantify driver characteristics. Based on fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm and taking the four factors as pattern features, the number of driver classification distribution was discussed. Then the number of driver classification was determined by statistical indices. The comparison of classification results with the survey finding on whether the driver occurred in traffic accidents within five years shows that the classification result is the same as the actual driving conditions. Finally, correlation between the demographic and types of driving behavior has been analyzed. Female were more likely than male to careful driving, and the older the driver and the less driving experience, the more careful and moderate driving behavior is.
Coordinate tropic hormone regulation of mRNAs for insulin-like growth factor II and the cholesterol side-chain-cleavage enzyme, P450ssc, in human steroidogenic tissues

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are single-chain polypeptides important for cell proliferation and growth. IGFs are produced in several tissues, suggesting that they function in a paracrine or autocrine fashion as well as func-tioning as endocrine hormones. We studied the hormonal regulation of IGF-I and IGF-II mRNA in human steroidogenic tissues. In cultured human ovarian granulosa cells, follicle-stimulating hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, and dibutyryl cAMP increased IGF-ll mRNA, but corticotropin [adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)], chorionic somatomammotropin, growth hormone, prolactin, dexamethasone, estradiol, and progesterone had no effect. In cultured human fetal adrenal cells, ACTH and dibutyryl cAMP increased IGF-ll mRNA accumulation, but human chorionic gonadotropin and angiotensin II did not. The same five size species of IGF-II mRNA were detected in transfer blots of RNA from granulosa cells and fetal adrenal cells, and all of these increased after hormonal stimuli. Dibutyryl cAMP also increased IGF-II mRNA accumulation in cultured human placental cells. Accumulation of mRNA for the cholesterol side-chain-cleavage monooxygenase [P450ssc; cholesterol,reduced-adrenal-ferredoxin:oxy-gen mRNA in human ovarian granulosa cells. Furthermore, we show that IGF-II mRNA is stimulated by the same, tissue-specific pituitary tropic hormones that stimulate steroid hormone synthesis. Gonadotropins stimulate granulosa cells and ACTH stimulates fetal adrenal cells to accumulate IGF-II and P450scc mRNAs in parallel. Dibutyryl cAMP (Bt2-cAMP) increases IGF-II and P450scc mRNA in both these tissues and in the placenta. In contrast, IGF-I mRNA is barely detectable in these cells and does not increase detect-ably in response to these hormonal stimuli. These data indicate that pituitary tropic hormones that stimulate steroidogenesis via cAMP also stimulate cell-specific accumulation of IGF-II mRNA by the same cAMP-dependent mechanism. This suggests that pituitary tropic hormone stimulation of IGF-II mediates growth of steroidogenic tissues.
YES, IT IS ME: EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT TO SELF-PRESENTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOG

As information technology (IT) continues to permeate everyday life experiences, it is no longer simply a tool to improve task performance; people use technology to present themselves and fulfill their inner desires. Yet, there are few studies examining this new aspect of information technology. To fill this gap in the literature, we propose the concept of self-presenting IT, a class of information technology whose primary purpose is to present users’ self-image, either actual or possible. We consider two examples of self-presenting IT: blogs and social network sites (SNS). We propose that actual and possible self-presentations can be either strategic or expressive and further argue that strategic self-presentation appeals to a cognitive assessment of technology, while expressive self-presentation appeals to an affective process. Finally, we argue that people are more likely to use SNS for actual self-presentations and blogs for possible self-presentations. We test our theory using the data collected from 321 bloggers and 299 SNS users. Our findings reveal the separate roles of actual and possible self-presentation with blogs and SNS in influencing perceived usefulness and emotional attachment to IT. However, contrary to our expectation, perceived usefulness for self-presentation in isolation does not have a direct impact on a user’s commitment to IT. Our results show simply improving perceived usefulness is not enough to sustain the use of self-presenting IT – we must make sure that individuals are emotionally attached to IT to in order to strengthen their commitment to the technology.
DEVELOPMENT OF A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF THE TOTAL HUMAN MODEL FOR SAFETY (THUMS) AND APPLICATION TO CAR-PEDESTRIAN IMPACTS

“THUMS (Total Human Model for Safety)”, as shown in Figure 1, is a finite element model of a human body developed to study various injury mechanisms, and is used as a substitute for the crash test dummies used for car occupants and pedestrians. “THUMS” is designed so that the whole body can be deformed and modeled in detail up to an AM50%ile size. In this paper, “THUMS” is used as a pedestrian model and it is validated through the verification of pedestrian’s whole body kinematics and lower extremity injuries. The simulation results are in good agreement with car-pedestrian impact test results using cadavers.
Optimal designs for three-dimensional shape analysis with spherical harmonic descriptors

We determine optimal designs for some regression models which are frequently used for describing three-dimensional shapes. These models are based on a Fourier expansion of a function defined on the unit sphere in terms of spherical harmonic basis functions. In particular, it is demonstrated that the uniform distribution on the sphere is optimal with respect to all Φ p criteria proposed by Kiefer in 1974 and also optimal with respect to a criterion which maximizes a p mean of the r smallest eigenvalues of the variance-covariance matrix. This criterion is related to principal component analysis, which is the common tool for analyzing this type of image data. Moreover, discrete designs on the sphere are derived, which yield the same information matrix in the spherical harmonic regression model as the uniform distribution and are therefore directly implementable in practice. It is demonstrated that the new designs are substantially more efficient than the commonly used designs in three-dimensional shape analysis.
Layer disturbances and the radio-echo free zone in ice sheets

Abstract. Radio-echo sounding of the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets often reveals a layer in the lowest hundreds of meters above bedrock more or less free of radio echoes, known as the echo-free zone (EFZ). The cause of this feature is unclear, so far lacking direct evidence for its origin. We compare echoes around the EPICA drill site in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, with the dielectric properties, crystal orientation fabrics and optical stratigraphy of the EPICA-DML ice core. We find that echoes disappear in the depth range where the dielectric contrast is blurred, and where the coherency of the layers in the ice core is lost due to disturbances caused by the ice flow. At the drill site, the EFZ onset at ~2100 m marks a boundary, below which the ice core may have experienced flow induced disturbances on various scales. The onset may indicate changing rheology which needs to be accounted for in the modeling of ice sheet dynamics.
NU Voice Conversion System for the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018

This paper presents the NU (Nagoya University) voice conversion (VC) system for the HUB task of the Voice Conversion Challenge 2018 (VCC 2018). The design of the NU VC system can basically be separated into two modules consisting of a speech parameter conversion module and a waveform-processing module. In the speech parameter conversion module, a deep learning framework is deployed to estimate the spectral parameters of a target speaker given those of a source speaker. Speciﬁcally, a deep neural network (DNN) and a deep mixture density network (DMDN) are used as the deep model structure. In the waveform-processing module, given the estimated spectral parameters and linearly transformed F 0 parameters, the converted waveform is generated using a WaveNet-based vocoder system. To use the WaveNet-based vocoder, there are several generation ﬂows based on an analysis-synthesis framework to obtain the speech parameter set, on the basis of which a system selection process is performed to select the best one in an utterance-wise manner. The results of VCC 2018 ranked the NU VC system in second place with an overall mean opinion score (MOS) of 3 . 44 for speech quality and 85% accuracy for speaker similarity.
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TRANSFER OF HABITUATION SHOWS AN INTERACTION BETWEEN NEURONAL CIRCUITS OF THE GILL WITHDRAWAL REFLEX IN APLYSIA CALIFORNICA

The gill withdrawal reflex (GWR) and its subsequent habituation can be evoked by tactile stimulation of the siphon or gill when the CNS is either intact or removed. It has been suggested that the neural circuits that mediate the GWR evoked at these two loci are parallel and independent. We provide three lines of evidence which show that these circuits interact and, therefore, comprise a single integrated system. Firtly, siphon and gill stimulation evoked similar excitatory responses in the central gill motor neurones. Secondly, the GWR habituated by repetitive stimulation at one locus was dishabituated by stimulation of the other locus. Thirdly, transfer of habituation occurred. Although the transfer was seen neurally at the level of central gill motor neurones, transfer of habituation also occurred after the CNS was removed. Therefore, the neuronal circuits mediating the reflexes evoked at the siphon and gill interact within both the CNS and PNS. The PNS is largely responsible for mediating this gill behaviour that is based on such interactions, while the CNS provides suppressive and facilitatory plasticity to these responses to enable Aplysia to better adapt to a changing environment.
The Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Risk Behaviour: A Systematic Literature Review of High-Risk Groups, with a Focus on South Africa

Manuela G. Neuman1,2,*,†, Michelle Schneider3,†, Radu M. Nanau1,2, Charles Parry3,4 and Matthew Chersich5,6 1Departments of Pharmacology & Toxicology and International Health, University of Toronto, 2In Vitro Drug Safety and Biotechnology, MaRS, Toronto, ON, 3Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, 4Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, 5Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health University of Witwatersrand, 6International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, 1,2Canada 3,4South Africa 5,6Belgium
Deep Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Blue Star Clusters in NGC 3597

We have analyzed HST/WFPC2 images of NGC 3597 and find ∼700 compact objects surrounding the galaxy with an average (B-R)0 ∼ 0.6. We propose that the majority of these objects are young globular clusters. They have a spread in colors that is consistent with that expected for a population of young clusters with a common age and spread induced by photometric errors and reddening within NGC 3597. If these objects were similar to the Galactic globular cluster system seen at a younger age, we would predict a turnover in the luminosity function at B ∼ 23. However, we find that the luminosity function for the clusters is increasing to the limits of our photometry (B ∼ 27).
Positron Emission Tomography in the Diagnosis and Management of Coronary Artery Disease

Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are encouraging precise non-invasive imaging modalities that allow imaging of the cellular function of the heart, while other non-invasive cardiovascular imaging modalities are considered to be techniques for imaging the anatomy, morphology, structure, function and tissue characteristics. The role of cardiac PET has been growing rapidly and providing high diagnostic accuracy of coronary artery disease (CAD). Clinical cardiology has established PET as a criterion for the assessment of myocardial viability and is recommended for the proper management of reduced left ventricle (LV) function and ischemic cardiomyopathy. Hybrid PET/CT imaging has enabled simultaneous integration of the coronary anatomy with myocardial perfusion and metabolism and has improved characterization of dysfunctional areas in chronic CAD. Also, the availability of quantitative myocardial blood flow (MBF) evaluation with various PET perfusion tracers provides additional prognostic information and enhances the diagnostic performance of nuclear imaging.
Sire X Herd and Sire X Herd-Year Interactions on Genetic Evaluation of Buffaloes

The USA was the largest cow's milk producer in the world in 2010 accounting for 14.6% of world production. World cow's milk production in 2010 stood at nearly 600 million tonnes, with the top ten producing countries accounting for 55.7% of production. The USA is the largest cow's milk producer in the world accounting for 14.6% of world production, producing over 87 million tonnes in 2010, an increase of 1.8% when compared to 2009 (DAIRYCO, 2012).
Britain and Ireland

This volume consists of twelve essays on theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the British Labour Party. It explores such themes as British ‘exceptionalism’ in social democracy, the nature of the Labour left, and Labour’s relationships with the working class and the trade union movement. The highlights of this collection include Steve Ludlam’s thoughtful discussion of private– public sectoral divisions within the union movement, and Mark Wickham-Jones’s account of Labour’s ideological insularity and its mistrust of ‘theory’ (especially when it originates from abroad). Lawrence Black’s engaging historical chapter on the working classes’ apathy towards high-minded socialist ideals is a useful antidote to leftist complaints that Labour failed to build or even offer a New Jerusalem.