Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Kobe University Repository : Kernel タイトル Tit le A Case of Primary Systemic Necrot izing Vasculit is Present ing Primarily with Neurologic Involvement 著者

Systemic necrotizing vasculitis (SNV) is a type of vasculitis that presents with necrosis, predominantly involving large, medium-sized and small arteries. Peripheral neuropathy is a major clinical feature of the primary and secondary systemic vasculitides, and is often observed during the early phases of the disease, causing axonal neuropathy. The prevalence of central nervous system (CNS) involvement ranges from 4% to 45%. Encephalopathy, focal neurological deficits, and seizures are the most common manifestations and usually occur late during the course of SNV. In this report, we describe a 61-year-old woman with SNV who had both CNS and peripheral nervous system vasculitic involvement. We also discuss the pathophysiology of nervous system involvement in patients with SNV.
Short-term Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange and Net Primary Production in a Pannonian Sandy Grassland

Using portable, non-destructive own developed chambers (d=60 cm) and infrared gas analyses, the in situ field investigation was performed to study the seasonal and inter-annual dynamics of the stand level CO2-flux and production of sandy grassland that has been extensively grazed for decades. Furthermore, NEE measurements and biomass samples were used to identify the initial effects of grazing exclusion on CO2 exchange, aboveground phytomass and potential plant productivity in years of significantly different precipitation levels. A considerable inter-annual variation in all of the studied parameters was found both in the non-grazed and grazed stands. As a result of the grazing exclusion the CO2 uptake potential of the non-grazed stand increased by 13% compared to the grazed stand. It was more significant in the extreme dry year (220%), however, in wet year slightly lower average carbon sequestration was detected at the non-grazed stand (-13%), than that of the grazed area. Significant carbon sequestration potential was only detected during wet periods in both stands. The rate of CO2 uptake was found to be nearly six times higher in the non-grazed stand in the wet year than in the previous extremely dry year. The drought in 2003 significantly reduced the CO2 uptake of both stands, leading to lower annual net primary production and potential plant productivity. The annual net primary production dropped by almost 40% in the extremely dry year but then it rose by nearly two and a half times in the subsequent year with adequate rainfall.
Thermal niche, large‐scale movements and implications of climate change for a critically endangered marine vertebrate

Climate change is expected to have a number of impacts on biological communities including range extensions and contractions. Recent analyses of multidecadal data sets have shown such monotonic shifts in the distribution of plankton communities and various fish species, both groups for which there is a large amount of historical data on distribution. However, establishing the implications of climate change for the range of endangered species is problematic as historic data are often lacking. We therefore used a different approach to predict the implications of climate change for the range of the critically endangered planktivourous leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). We used long‐term satellite telemetry to define the habitat utilization of this species. We show that the northerly distribution limit of this species can essentially be encapsulated by the position of the 15°C isotherm and that the summer position of this isotherm has moved north by 330 km in the North Atlantic in the last 17 years. Consequently, conservation measures will need to operate over ever‐widening areas to accommodate this range extension.
The Sociocultural and Institutional Landscape of Childbearing Among PLHIV in Iringa , Tanzania

People living with HIV (PLHIV) continue to have children after being diagnosed with HIV, yet little research attention has been paid to actual lived childbearing experiences of PLHIV post-HIV diagnosis. We interviewed 10 HIV-positive women and 11 HIV-positive men in Iringa, Tanzania, about their experiences of conceiving and having children after being diagnosed with HIV. We adopted an approach to data analysis based on grounded theory and phenomenology. Participants’ experiences were shaped by social and institutional factors. Some participants reported pressures to bear children by partners and relatives, whereas others reported negative reactions from others concerning their pregnancies. Most participants had not discussed having children with a provider before attempting to conceive. Some reported being reprimanded by health providers for getting pregnant without seeking their advice. Consideration of support systems and challenges surrounding the childbearing experiences of PLHIV can help inform reproductive health interventions for those who desire children.
The conventional mechanism of mRNA recruitment to ribosomes in eukaryotes and factors involved in this process

The conventional paradigm of translation initiation in eukaryotes states that the cap-binding protein complex eIF4F (consisting of eIF4E, eIF4G and eIF4A) plays a central role in the recruitment of capped mRNAs to ribosomes. However, a growing body of evidence indicates that this paradigm should be revised. This review summarizes the data which have been mostly accumulated in a post-genomic era owing to revolutionary techniques of transcriptome-wide analysis. Unexpectedly, these techniques have uncovered remarkable diversity in the recruitment of cellular mRNAs to eukaryotic ribosomes. These data enable a preliminary classification of mRNAs into several groups based on their requirement for particular components of eIF4F. They challenge the widely accepted concept which relates eIF4E-dependence to the extent of secondary structure in the 50 untranslated regions of mRNAs. Moreover, some mRNA species presumably recruit ribosomes to their 50 ends without the involvement of either the 50 mG-cap or eIF4F but instead utilize eIF4G or eIF4G-like auxiliary factors. The long-standing concept of internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-elements in cellular mRNAs is also discussed.
Vortex breakdown state selection as a meta-stable process

Previous studies of unconfined swirling jets showed that both bubble and conical states of vortex breakdown can occur over a range of Reynolds numbers. State selection was postulated to be metastable, with small changes to initial conditions causing a discontinuous change to the final state for a particular final Reynolds-swirl number pair. Axisymmetric numerical simulations using a spectral element method of a swirling jet started from zero initial flow conditions show that the bubble state prevails at lower swirl ratios while the cone state dominates at higher swirl ratios. However, simulations where the jet evolution was started from a developed bubble state maintained that same state well into the region where previous simulations resulted in conical breakdown. These results give some indication of the inherent stability of the bubble state relative to the cone state. They also extend the work of Billant, Chomaz, and Huerre [ J. Fluid Mech. , 376:183--219, 1998] who observed the cone state from startup at swirl ratios slightly greater than the critical swirl ratio. In these simulations, perturbations cause the cone to be swept downstream only reappearing as a bubble with favourable perturbations.
Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina

Drawing upon the concept of ‘accumulation by dispossession’, this paper analyses the expansion of agrarian capital in Argentina. A case study illustrates the social and environmental impacts of the expansion of agribusiness in central Argentina and the social struggle – both rural and urban – that has arisen to resist this process. Although government policies after the 2001 crisis differ in many ways from those of the 1990s, current agrarian policies are not significantly distinct from those followed during the pre-crisis neoliberal period. Rather than ‘post-neoliberal’, the new model could thus be better described as ‘neo-extractivist’. With the connivance of the state, agribusiness is producing the largest-ever transformation of natural capital into economic capital in the history of the region. Moreover, the latest policy developments suggest that Argentina is on the threshold of a new and deeper stage of agrarian capital expansion and wealth concentration, this time operating at a much larger scale.
Stable trophic structure across coastal nekton assemblages despite high species turnover

The finding of invariant structures in species assemblages is of primary importance for ecology because it would suggest that, despite species turnover and environmental gradients, some self-organizing principles may shape these assemblages. Tropical estuarine and coastal ecosystems are ideal for investigating patterns in trophic structures because they contain many species and are characterized by a high variability for both biotic and abiotic variables. We used the data from a 150 km long transect in the Terminos Lagoon region (Campeche State, Mexico) where 37 stations were sampled monthly during 1 yr for both abiotic parameters and nektonic assemblages. We then quantified 3 complementary components of trophic diversity (trophic richness, trophic evenness and trophic divergence) and then challenged the idea that some stable structures may emerge. We found that abiotic parameters, space and time have weak explanatory power on trophic diversity indices. We also observed a high species turnover both at local and regional scales, but it was unrelated to the small variations of trophic diversity indices. This stability of trophic structure is partly due to the pre- dominance of the trophic class 3.25 to 3.5, which accounted invariably for between 50 and 60% of the total nekton biomass across space and time. These findings suggest that the species turnover observed in our system is not random but, rather, allows maintenance of the same abundance distri- bution along the trophic axis. The mechanisms underlying these emergent properties of trophic structures deserve to be investigated through the use of trophodynamic models.
Spanning tree modulus : deflation and a hierarchical graph structure

The concept of discrete p-modulus provides a general framework for understanding arbitrary families of objects on a graph. The p-modulus provides a sense of “structure” of the underlying graph, with different families of objects leading to different insight into the graph’s structure. This dissertation builds on this idea, with an emphasis on the family of spanning trees and the underlying graph structure that spanning tree modulus exposes. This dissertation provides a review of the probabilistic interpretation of modulus. In the context of spanning trees, this interpretation rephrases modulus as the problem of choosing a probability mass function on the spanning trees so that two independent, identically distributed random spanning trees have expected overlap as small as possible. A theoretical lower bound on the expected overlap is shown. Graphs that attain this lower bound are called homogeneous and have the property that there exists a probability mass function that gives every edge equal likelihood to appear in a random tree. Moreover, any nonhomogeneous graph necessarily has a homogeneous subgraph (called a homogeneous core), which is shown to split the modulus problem into two smaller subproblems through a process called deflation. Spanning tree modulus and the process of deflation establish a type of hierarchical structure in the underlying graph that is similar to the concept of core-periphery structure found in the literature. Using this, one can see an alternative way of decomposing a graph into its hierarchical community components using homogeneous cores and a related concept: minimum feasible partitions. This dissertation also introduces a simple greedy algorithm for computing the spanning tree modulus that utilizes any efficient algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees. A theoretical proof of the convergence rate is provided, along with computational examples. Spanning tree modulus: deflation and a hierarchical graph structure by Jason Clemens B.S., Missouri Valley College, 2012 M.S., Kansas State University, 2014 A DISSERTATION submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Mathematics College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2018 Approved by: Major Professor Nathan Albin
Subcritical Percolation with a Line of Defects

We consider the Bernoulli bond percolation process Pp,p′ on the nearest-neighbor edges of Zd, which are open independently with probability p < pc, except for those lying on the first coordinate axis, for which this probability is p′. Define ξp,p′:=−limn→∞n−1logPp,p′(0↔ne1) and ξp:=ξp,p. We show that there exists p′c=p′c(p,d) such that ξp,p' = ξp if p′ p′c. Moreover, p′c(p,2)=p′c(p,3)=p, and p′c(p,d)>p for d≥4. We also analyze the behavior of ξp−ξp,p′ as p′↓p′c in dimensions d=2,3. Finally, we prove that when p′>p′c, the following purely exponential asymptotics holds: Pp,p′(0↔ne1)=ψde−ξp,p′n(1+o(1)) for some constant ψd=ψd(p,p′), uniformly for large values of n. This work gives the first results on the rigorous analysis of pinning-type problems, that go beyond the effective models and don’t rely on exact computations.
HYDROGEOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSOIL AND SAPROLITE AND THEIR RELATION TO CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT , CENTRAL O ' AHU , HAWAI ' I

A detailed characterization was made of soil and saprolite core samples taken from seven locations in central Oahu pineapple fields. Groundwater in the area is contaminated with trace amoliIlts of the soil fumigants EDB, DBCP, and TCP. Samples were collected to a depth of 30 m in the unsaturated zone and tested for hydraulic and mineralogic properties to evaluate the geologic controls on contaminant transport from the surface soil to the groundwater. The geologic profile in the area consists of Oxisol surface soils grading into saprolite (highly weathered basalt). Soil water retention measurements conducted on tension table and pressure plate apparatus provided data for the determination ofporosity, bulk density, water-retention curves, and pore-size distributions. Hydraulic conductivity, as a function ofwatercontent and water tension, was estimated using the Marshall method. X-ray diffraction was used to determine the bulk mineralogy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used for detailed study of mineral morphology and composition and the degree of pore interconnections. The hydrogeologic conditions ofthe unsaturated zone were found to be extremely heterogeneous relative to hydrologic and mineralogic properties. Porosities were high (0.455-0.723), but generally over half of the pore space consisted of micropores. While not contributing much to water flow, the significant quantity of micropore water provides a temporary reservoir for solutes and could be expected to contribute to the retardationofpesticide movementinpercolating water. The calculated saturatedhydraulic conductivities ranged over five orders ofmagnitude (10--10mls). The SEM results suggested that preferential flow was occurring in channels betweenmacropores and alongjoints. The mineralogy results showed the most intense weathering at shallower depths, with primarily Fe and Ti oxides occurring to a depth of 6 to 12m, below which were mainly day minerals. The highly weathered upperzone had lost the parentbasalt structure and showed lower conductivities. The presence of kaolinite and halloysite closely correlated with pesticide residues in the subsurface; these clay minerals might have been entrapping the pesticides within their tubular structure. These residues are suspected to be weakly bound and might easily leach downward to the groundwater. The future impact of the residual pesticides on groundwater quality will depend on the rate of release of the entrapped pesticides and the degree ofdilution by infiltrating water.
Reconciling the differences between the length at which lambs' tails are commonly docked and animal welfare recommendations

The rationale for the length at which lambs’ tails are docked was investigated by comparing lambs with No-tail, Short, Medium (covering the vulva in ewe lambs and at a similar length in males), Long, and Undocked tails. In Experiment 1, dagging and shearing required additional effort in Long and Undocked animals. There were no differences in average dag scores, but few lambs had dags. Shorter tail docking resulted in significantly (P<0.05) lighter recto-coccygeal muscles (from 8.9 ± 0.5g in Undocked to 6.6 ±0.4g in No-tail). The tail stumps of half of the No-tail, Short and Medium showed evidence of neuroma development and degenerative nerve changes compared with few of the Long and Undocked lambs. In Experiment 2, restlessness, an indicator of pain and distress in rubber ring docked lambs, tended to be more pronounced the shorter the tail was docked. Experiment 3 compared typical farm practices (Short), with the AWAC-recommended length (Medium). The slightly longer length was associated with (1) more lambs difficult to dag (11/44 Medium vs. 4/44 Short; P<0.001); and (2) no perceived benefits in increasing tail length. While the traditional Short and Medium tails appear to be the most appropriate, pain and distress, neuroma development and rectal muscle function may also be affected by tail length. It is yet to be determined if these additional factors justify a change to current practices but that possibility is considered unlikely.
Affine LIBOR models driven by real-valued affine processes

ABSTRACT The class of affine LIBOR models is appealing since it satisfies three central requirements of interest rate modeling. It is arbitrage-free, interest rates are nonnegative, and caplet and swaption prices can be calculated analytically. In order to guarantee nonnegative interest rates affine LIBOR models are driven by nonnegative affine processes, a restriction that makes it hard to produce volatility smiles. We modify the affine LIBOR models in such a way that real-valued affine processes can be used without destroying the nonnegativity of interest rates. Numerical examples show that in this class of models, pronounced volatility smiles are possible.
THE INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH ON THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) is one of three science instruments on the Spitzer Space Telescope. The IRS comprises four separate spectrograph modules covering the wavelength range from 5.3 to 38 μm with spectral resolutions, R λ ∆λ 90 and 600, and it was optimized to take full advantage of the very low background in the space environment. The IRS is performing at or better than the pre-launch predictions. An autonomous target acquisition capability enables the IRS to locate the mid-infrared centroid of a source, providing the information so that the spacecraft can accurately offset that centroid to a selected slit. This feature is particularly useful when taking spectra of sources with poorly known coordinates. An automated data reduction pipeline has been developed at the Spitzer Science Center. Subject headings: Instrumentation: spectrographs – Infrared: general
Time series analysis of agro-meteorological through algorithms scalable data mining case: Chili river watershed, Arequipa

The paper proposes a model for predicting climate change, using algorithms in mining techniques based on approximate data, applied to agro-meteorological data, by identifying groups search of motifs and time series forecasting. To achieve the goal you work with the water balance components: flow, precipitation and evaporation; also took into account the climatic variety seasons marked by humidity (December, January, February, March) and dry (other months) providing better to abstract sub-classification for temporary data processing three classification techniques: linear regression, Naive Bayes and neural networks, where the results of each algorithm are compared with other results. Then the mathematical method of linear regression predicting water balance components for a period of approximately 12 months on the data of dams Pane and Fraile Water Resources in River Basin Chili, Arequipa is performed.
VALENCE AROUSAL PositiveNegative Intense Mild PleasantUnpleasant Passive Active Happy Delighted Excited Pleased Alarmed Frustrated Serene Sleepy Calm Releaxed Sad Tired Bored Depressed Upset Stressed

Most of the existing music recommendation systems use collaborative or content based recommendation engines. However, the music choice of a user is not only dependent to the historical preferences or music contents. But also dependent to the mood of that user. This paper proposes an emotion based music recommendation framework that learns the emotion of a user from the signals obtained via wearable physiological sensors. In particular, the emotion of a user is classified by a wearable computing device which is integrated with a galvanic skin response (GSR) and photo plethysmography (PPG) physiological sensors. This emotion information is feed to any collaborative or content based recommendation engine as a supplementary data. Thus, existing recommendation engine performances can be increased using these data. Therefore, in this paper emotion recognition problem is considered as arousal and valence prediction from multi-channel physiological signals. Experimental results are obtained on 32 subjects’ GSR and PPG signal data with/out feature fusion using decision tree, random forest, support vector machine and k-nearest neighbors algorithms. The results of comprehensive experiments on real data confirm the accuracy of the proposed emotion classification system that can be integrated to any recommendation engine.
Dynamic Jahn–Teller Effect in the Metastable High-Spin State of Solvated [Fe(terpy)2]2+

Characterizing structural distortions in the metastable spin states of d4–d7 transition metal ion complexes is crucial to understand the nature of their bistability and eventually control their switching dynamics. In particular, the impact of the Jahn–Teller effect needs to be assessed for any electronic configuration that could be effectively degenerate, as in e.g. the high-spin (HS) manifold of highly symmetric homoleptic FeII complexes. However, capturing its manifestations remains challenging since crystallization generally alters the molecular conformations and their interconversion. With the rapid progress of ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy, it is now possible to collect data with unprecedented signal-to-noise ratio, opening up for detailed structural characterization of transient species in the homogeneous solution phase. By combining the analysis of picosecond X-ray absorption spectra with DFT simulations, the structure of the photoinduced HS state is elucidated for solvated [Fe(terpy)2]2+.
PR ] 6 N ov 2 01 6 CLIQUE COLOURING OF BINOMIAL RANDOM GRAPHS

A clique colouring of a graph is a colouring of the vertices so that no maximal clique is monochromatic (ignoring isolated vertices). The smallest number of colours in such a colouring is the clique chromatic number. In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the clique chromatic number of the random graph G(n, p) for a wide range of edge-probabilities p = p(n). We see that the typical clique chromatic number, as a function of the average degree, forms an intriguing step function.