Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An Appropriate Cloud Computing Business Model and Its Services for Developing Countries: A Comparison of Cloud Computing Business Model in Indonesia

This paper examined the business models of cloud computing and its services that appropriate with custumers needs in developing countries especially in Indonesia. The research was carried out through comparative analysis processes of the types of services that were offered by the cloud computing providers in Indonesia. It included the cloud computing providers from abroad which have customers in Indonesia. The expected results of this study were to get the information about cloud services in Indonesia (the cloud provider customers are from Indonesia) and to find out the most popular cloud services in developing countries, especially Indonesia.
Guanosine triphosphate interaction with an amino acid polymerization factor from E. coli.

least two stages of the process of protein synthesis. It is required for the enzymatic binding of amino-substituted aminoacyl-tRNA's (polypeptide initiators) to the ribosome-messenger complex at low Mg++ concentrations1-1 and for the subsequent amino acid polymerization process.6 We recently reported2 that GTP interacted with a protein present in an ammonium chloride wash of ribosomes to yield a complex which was retained on a millipore membrane. This activity traveled with one of the initiation factors (F2) when the two complementary components were separated by O-(diethylaminoethyl)cellulose (DEAE-cellulose) chromatography. In the present study more purified preparations of the two initiation factors have been found to have only slight GTP-binding capacity. However, it has been observed that most of the GTP-binding activity is present in the supernatant fraction and purifies together with amino acid polymerization factor T,6 which has been detected in the cruder initiation factor 1' 4preparations. In addition, the properties of the GTP-binding protein coincide closely with those of the more heat-labile component present in factor T, T0.7 This communication also describes some requirements of the GTPprotein interaction and some properties of the isolated complex.
Scene Understanding Using Internet Photo Collections

Scene Understanding Using Internet Photo Collections Ian Simon Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Steven M. Seitz Department of Computer Science and Engineering With billions of photos now online, much computer vision research has been devoted to using Internet photo collections for tasks such as visualization, learning object category models, and 3D scene reconstruction. While most of this recent work leverages the sheer quantity of online images, I present several approaches for using the distribution of images (and associated metadata) to extract structured information about 3D scenes. In essence, I use online photo collections as a proxy for human perception in aggregate, treating each photo as a statement about the world and not just a source of visual data. I present three examples of information extraction leveraging the distribution of online photos from the photo-sharing site Flickr. First, I demonstrate the selection of canonical views of objects and scenes via a greedy image clustering algorithm. Second, I show how scenes can be decomposed into individual objects by using a cue based on the field-of-view of large numbers of images. Finally, I extract scene-scale human movement patterns from the distribution of photo sequences. Based on these projects, I demonstrate applications to scene summarization, browsing, image/object tagging, and visualization. What objects and views do people find interesting? What is an object? How do people move around while exploring a scene? How do people frame their photos? In this thesis, I suggest a new way to answer such questions about the world, and our perception of it, using Internet photo collections.
Robust order execution under box uncertainty sets

Order execution for algorithmic trading has been studied in the literature as a means of determining the optimal strategy by minimizing a trade-off between expected execution cost and risk. However, the variance has been recognized not to be practical since it is a symmetric measure of risk and, hence, penalizes the low-cost events. In this paper, we propose the use of the conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) of the execution cost as risk measure for the multiple assets case order execution problem. In addition, for the particular box-type parameter estimation errors, we extend both the existing mean-variance approach and our proposed CVaR approach to their robust designs.
A Potential Role of Peritoneal Dialysis as ‘a Bridging Therapy’ to Other Renal Replacement Therapies

According to the most recent survey conducted by the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, there were approximately 186,000 patients undergoing dialysis in Japan at the end of 1998. Among them, 95% of these patients were maintained on hemodialysis (HD), and the remainder were receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) [1], indicating that the acceptance of PD in Japan is low compared to that in other countries [2]. The low utilization of PD in Japan raises questions concerning the reason for this disparity in the acceptance of these two renal replacement modalities. More than 30 years after becoming a clinical reality, HD has provided for excellent long-term survival of endstage renal disease patients in Japan. With the exception of diabetic patients, survival over 20 years has been reported in many Japanese dialysis patients on HD with many patients having a substantially well-rehabilitated state and with well-maintained QOL [1]. PD has been accepted as one of the useful renal replacement therapies (RRT) over the last decade. Yet, because of less clinical outcomes originating from a relatively small number of patients on long-term PD, the place of PD as an accepted modality of RRT still remains unidentified. Unlike other countries, kidney transplantation is very uncommon in Japan. Only 658 renal transplants (77% living related; 23% cadaver donors) were performed in 1998. The transplantation rate in the US is currently 47 transplants per million population compared to only 2 transplants per million population in Japan. Because of the minimal opportunity to receive a renal transplant in Japan and in view of the decreasing trend in the number of renal transplants performed in the last decade, dialysis therapy has been viewed by many Japanese patients and physicians as permanent RRT for almost all patients with end-stage renal failure. Focusing on the integration of RRT in patients with chronic renal failure who want to know which sequence of RRT will increase their total survival as long as possible, the present communication addresses how to select and integrate RRT under currently available dialysis modalities in Japan. Special attention is paid to the potential role of PD as ‘a bridging therapy’ to other RRT, especially in consideration of residual renal function (RRF).
Relationship Marketing: Old Wine in a New Bottle?

As companies increasingly recognize the importance of interaction with customers, relationship marketing is assuming a central place in both marketing theory and practice. The purpose of this article is to investigate to what extent relationship marketing is founded on a solid and consistent theoretical basis so that it can be considered a new paradigm. The main contribution of the article is the integrative view of the origins, evolution and future of relationship marketing as well as the raise of some new insights that will be useful for continuing research in this field. In this regard, two important streams of research are examined and discussed – the Nordic School and the IMP Group – along with the contributions of the Anglo-Australian School and the relationship approach to branding. The main conclusion is that in spite of relationship marketing is being recognized as a major stream of research with greatest expression in the marketing field, it appears that it cannot yet be regarded as a new paradigm given the multiplicity of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Perception: A Model Comprising Two Modes of Consciousness

A model of human perception is proposed in which conscious awareness is assumed to be the result of two separate mechanisms each involving consciousness, one outer, sensori-produced, and one inner, conceptual. By mediation of flexible memory representations the sensory data of the outer consciousness give rise to a matched “copy” in the inner consciousness which conceptually organizes the former and also serves as input to the memory store. The model is applied to some perceptual problems in vision such as ambiguous stimuli, subjective contours, space perception, a case of metacontrast, and subliminal perception.
Review: Regulation of liver regeneration by pro‐inflammatory cytokines

The liver has tremendous regenerative capacity. This distinguishes it from other vital organs (e.g. the brain, heart and lungs) that cannot replace functional tissue once it has been destroyed. Although hepatocytes rarely proliferate in the healthy adult liver, virtually all surviving hepatocytes replicate at least once after 70% partial hepatectomy. Therefore, partial liver resection has been used to characterize mechanisms that regulate liver regeneration. Residual hepatocytes up‐regulate both proliferative and liver‐specific gene expression in order to preserve tissue specific function. In addition, hepatocyte proliferation is tightly co‐ordinated to complement regenerative responses in hepatic nonparenchymal cells (e.g. endothelia, biliary epithelia, stellate and Kupffer cells), so that the entire organ can be reconstituted within days. Studies with neutralizing antibodies to tumour necrosis factor‐α (TNF) clearly demonstrate that, after partial hepatectomy, TNF promotes liver cell proliferation. The present review focuses on the regulation of the hepatocyte proliferative response by pro‐inflammatory cytokines.
Year-Class Strength and Recovery of Endangered Shortnose Sturgeon in the Hudson River, New York

Abstract Shortnose sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum, a U.S. endangered species, has experienced a fourfold increase in abundance in the Hudson River in the past three decades. The age structure and trends in year-class strength of yearlings were investigated to evaluate the underlying pattern of annual recruitment that accompanied population recovery. Annuli in pectoral spine sections were used to estimate ages of specimens captured with gill nets bimonthly from November 2003 to November 2004. Age estimates (range = 5–30 years) were generated for 554 shortnose sturgeon ranging from 49 to 105 cm total length. Hindcast year-class strengths corrected for gear selectivity and cumulative mortality indicated high recruitments (31,000–52,000 yearlings) during 1986–1992. This interval was preceded and succeeded by approximately 5-year periods of lower recruitment (6,000–17,500 yearlings), suggesting 10-fold recruitment variability over the 20-year period. The pattern and relative magnitude of hindcast recruitment .
Prevalence of the Long‐Allele Genotype of the Serotonin Transporter‐Linked Gene in Female Centenarians

OBJECTIVE: To determine the distribution of the long and short allele of the serotonin 2 transporter (5-HTT) gene-linked polymorphism region ( 5-HTTLPR ) in centenarians. 3 Descriptive sampling. MEASUREMENTS: Buccal DNA from 68 centenarians was genotyped for the presence 7 of either the long ( l ) or the short ( s ) allele of the 5-HTT gene. 8 RESULTS: Female centenarians had a significantly higher l/l genotype frequency 9 compared to either form of the s genotype (p = 0.003) and a 2-fold greater l allele 10 frequency (p < 0.01) compared to male centenarians. 11 CONCLUSIONS: We report a significantly higher l / l genotype frequency compared to 12 either form of the s genotype in female centenarians. This finding may be suggestive of 13 higher serotonin efficiency in the brain of female centenarians that enable them to cope 14 with everyday living and adapt to aging and its limitations. 15
Evidence for Rare Capsular Switching in Streptococcus agalactiae

ABSTRACT The polysaccharide capsule is a major antigenic factor in Streptococcus agalactiae (Lancefield group B streptococcus [GBS]). Previous observations suggest that exchange of capsular loci is likely to occur rather frequently in GBS, even though GBS is not known to be naturally transformable. We sought to identify and characterize putative capsular switching events, by means of a combination of phenotypic and genotypic methods, including pulsed-field gel electrophoretic profiling, multilocus sequence typing, and surface protein and pilus gene profiling. We show that capsular switching by horizontal gene transfer is not as frequent as previously suggested. Serotyping errors may be the main reason behind the overestimation of capsule switching, since phenotypic techniques are prone to errors of interpretation. The identified putative capsular transformants involved the acquisition of the entire capsular locus and were not restricted to the serotype-specific central genes, the previously suggested main mechanism underlying capsular switching. Our data, while questioning the frequency of capsular switching, provide clear evidence for in vivo capsular transformation in S. agalactiae, which may be of critical importance in planning future vaccination strategies against this pathogen.
A MILP IGDT-based self-scheduling model for participating in electricity markets

Nowadays, generation companies (Gencos) require precise programs in order to gain more profit in deregulated environment of electrical industry. One of the foremost of these programs is acquiring the optimal way for incorporating of own units (self-scheduling). Meanwhile, Gencos deal with some uncertainties, like undetermined market clearing price (MCP) which sometime has tremendous effects on Gencos' profit. In this paper, uncertainty of MCP is modeled by using a non-probabilistic method, named information gap decision theory (IGDT). Likewise, it is assumed that transmission lines are considered by Gencos so that obtaining their pricing blocks. A mixed integer linear program (MILP) model is provided and solved for a risk-averse Genco. Conclusively, the model is applied to the 24-bus IEEE standard system.
Allogeneic stem-cell transplantation with fludarabine and 2-Gy TBI-based conditioning regimen for chronic hematological malignancy: A study of 25 consecutive patients and a literature review

We analyzed the outcome of 25 consecutive patients with chronic hematological malignancy who underwent allogeneic stem-cell transplantation conditioned with fludarabine (30 mg/m2/day, thrice) and total body irradiation (2 Gy). All patients received peripheral blood stem cells from an HLA-identical sibling donor. With a median follow-up of 769 days (range, 244 – 1231), the estimated 2-year overall survival (OS), event-free survival (EFS), transplantation-related mortality and relapse rates were 53%, 45%, 27%, and 39%, respectively. All patients had initial engraftment. Acute Grade II – IV graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was recorded in 14 patients (56%), including 7 (28%) with Grade III – IV GVHD. Sixteen of the 23 patients (70%) who survived more than 100 days developed chronic GVHD. OS and EFS were adversely influenced by acute Grade III – IV GVHD (p < 0.001 and p = 0.033, respectively), but chronic GVHD seemed to favorably influence these two parameters (p = 0.03 and p < 0.001, respectively). Patients with full-donor chimerism at day 30 had lower relapse rates, as did those who received high-dose allogeneic CD8+ lymphocytes with their graft (p = 0.026). Collectively, these results provide a framework for refining nonmyeloablative conditioning, to improve outcome with an acceptable risk of GVHD.
The joy of stress.

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing the joy of stress as the reading material.
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF RABBIT PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA – A

Population growth in the developed countries is stabilizing while that of developing countries including Nigeria is still increasing rapidly. This calls for increasing the production of livestock to meet the protein demand of the populace. Rabbits are characterized by small body size, short gestation period, high reproductive potential, rapid growth rate, genetic diversity, and their ability to utilize forages. Their by-products serve as major diet components and are devoid of fat thus making them suitable important source of protein. Rabbit meat is of high quality, being high in protein and low in fat content. Rabbit production can be integrated into small farming systems, with the rabbits being fed on crop residues, weeds, waste fruits, vegetables and poultry droppings. The manure can be used as fertilizer for crops and gardens. The housing systems and equipment examined were cages, feeders and other equipment for rabbits can be made using readily available materials such as split bamboo and raffia palm. Limitations to rabbit production in developing countries include the susceptibility of the animals to heat stress, and the degree of management skill necessary to raise rabbits successfully. This study further suggests areas of research needed on the nutritional value of tropical forages and by-products for rabbits. It is apparent that in many areas in developing countries, rabbit production could be an effective means of converting forages and by-products into high quality animal protein for human consumption. The study provides a benchmark for the understanding of prospects of rabbit production in Nigeria.
Clinical outcomes and CD4 cell response in children receiving antiretroviral therapy at primary health care facilities in Zambia.

CONTEXT The Zambian Ministry of Health provides pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) at primary care clinics in Lusaka, where, despite scale-up of perinatal prevention efforts, many children are already infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). OBJECTIVE To report early clinical and immunologic outcomes of children enrolled in the pediatric treatment program. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Open cohort assessment using routinely collected clinical and outcome data from an electronic medical record system in use at 18 government primary health facilities in Lusaka, Zambia. Care was provided primarily by nurses and clinical officers ("physician extenders" akin to physician assistants in the United States). Patients were children (<16 years of age) presenting for HIV care between May 1, 2004, and June 29, 2007. INTERVENTION Three-drug ART (zidovudine or stavudine plus lamivudine plus nevirapine or efavirenz) for children who met national treatment criteria. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Survival, weight gain, CD4 cell count, and hemoglobin response. RESULTS After enrollment of 4975 children into HIV care, 2938 (59.1%) started ART. Of those initiating ART, the median age was 81 months (interquartile range, 36-125), 1531 (52.1%) were female, and 2087 (72.4%) with World Health Organization stage information were in stage III or IV. At the time of analysis, 158 children (5.4%) had withdrawn from care and 382 (13.0%) were at least 30 days late for follow-up. Of the remaining 2398 children receiving ART, 198 (8.3%) died over 3018 child-years of follow-up (mortality rate, 6.6 deaths per 100 child-years; 95% confidence interval [CI], 5.7-7.5); of these deaths, 112 (56.6%) occurred within 90 days of therapy initiation (early mortality rate, 17.4/100 child-years; post-90-day mortality rate, 2.9/100 child-years). Mortality was associated with CD4 cell depletion, lower weight-for-age, younger age, and anemia in multivariate analysis. The mean CD4 cell percentage at ART initiation among the 1561 children who had at least 1 repeat measurement was 12.9% (95% CI, 12.5%-13.3%) and increased to 23.7% (95% CI, 23.1%-24.3%) at 6 months, 27.0% (95% CI, 26.3%-27.6%) at 12 months, 28.0% (95% CI, 27.2%-28.8%) at 18 months, and 28.4% (95% CI, 27.4%-29.4%) at 24 months. CONCLUSIONS Care provided by clinicians such as nurses and clinical officers can result in good outcomes for HIV-infected children in primary health care settings in sub-Saharan Africa. Mortality during the first 90 days of therapy is high, pointing to a need for earlier intervention.
Lab-on-a-CD

The field of centrifugal microfluidics has experienced tremendous growth during the past 15 years, especially in applications such as lab-on-a-disc (LoD) diagnostics. The strength of LoD systems lies in its potential for development into fully integrated sample-to-answer analysis systems. This review highlights the technologies necessary to develop the next generation of these systems. In addition to outlining valving and other fluid-handling operations, we discuss the recent advances and future outlook in four categories of LoD processes: reagent storage, sample preparation, nucleic acid amplification, and analyte detection strategies.
Active Portals to Support Collaborative Business Processes

The trend to collaborative business processes requires ways to identify and configure collaborative technologies to support such processes. Collaborative business processes are usually open in the sense that the process steps followed cannot be completely predefined and emerge over time. They must, however, be aligned to organizational goals. The paper suggests that modeling concepts used to develop well defined systems are not applicable for designing collaborative systems and alternative concepts are needed to do so. The paper defines collaborative concepts to model collaborative systems and ways to support them using software agents. It defines software requirements and stresses the need to provide software agents to assist system evolution as collaborative processes emerge and an approach to analyzing agent requirements.
Prevalence of obesity in children after therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

To confirm an impression that many survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are overweight or obese, we retrospectively examined the medical records of 414 patients for height and weight at diagnosis, at completion of treatment, and at annual intervals thereafter. The body mass index, weight/height2, was used as a measure of fatness; population norms for the index were established from 9,003 people between the ages of 1 and 30 years who were examined in a national health survey. The percentile of each patient's index was determined at each observation date. At diagnosis, the study sample was skewed toward leanness; however, at cessation of therapy, the fatness distribution resembled population norms. Statistically significant increases in fatness occurred during the first year off therapy, at the end of which 35% of the children were above the 80th percentile (i.e., overweight) and 12% were above the 95th percentile (i.e., obese). Only 12% were below the 20th percentile. This skewed distribution persisted during the subsequent 4-year follow-up period. Cranial irradiation was associated with a large increase of fatness in one group available for comparisons. Our findings indicate that the first year following cessation of therapy is a time of excessive weight gain among pediatric ALL patients.