Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Avaliação do risco de extinção do cervo-do-Pantanal Blastocerus dichotomus Illiger, 1815, no Brasil.

O estado de conservacao do cervo-do-pantanal, Blastocerus dichotomus (Illiger, 1815), foi avaliado de acordo com os criterios da IUCN (2001), com base nos dados disponiveis ate 2010. Sintese do processo de avaliacao pode ser encontrada em Peres et al. (2011) e em Beisiegel et al. (2012). A categoria proposta para o taxon e Vulneravel (VU) segundo o criterio A4ade, ou seja, ameacado, de acordo com informacoes sobre declinio populacional passado e projecao de declinio populacional futuro. Justificativa – O cervo-do-pantanal e a maior especie de cervideo da America Latina, alcancando ate 130 Kg. Habita varzeas das planicies de inundacao dos grandes rios e seus tributarios. Declinio populacional maior que 30%, porem menor do que 50% foi observado nos ultimos 18 anos (baseado em observacoes diretas) especialmente devido a construcoes de hidreletricas na Bacia do Rio Parana, que causou a extincao das populacoes de varias sub bacias. Existe alta atividade de caca na populacao dos Rios Araguaia, Parana e Guapore. As drenagens das varzeas para uso agropecuario reduzem o habitat da especie. Ha possibilidade futura de introducao de patogenos via ungulados domesticos (especialmente Orbiviroses – Araujo Junior et al. 2010, Duarte et al. 2001) na populacao do Pantanal, que representa 88% da populacao total da especie. A extensao de ocorrencia estimada e maior que 20.000 km2 e a area de ocupacao e maior do que 2.000 km2; a populacao estimada no Brasil e de 25.000 individuos maduros e analises quantitativas das probabilidades de extincao foram feitas para as populacoes do Rio Parana com baixa probabilidade de extincao em tres geracoes se as condicoes atuais forem mantidas. Desta forma, os criterios B, C, D e E nao se aplicam a especie. Nao existem evidencias de emigracao ou imigracao diferencial de individuos desta especie entre o Brasil e os paises vizinhos, portanto a categoria da especie nao e alterada quando se aplica a avaliacao regional. A categoria da especie nao mudou em relacao a avaliacao nacional anterior (MMA 2003).
Internet addiction as a comorbid condition among users with mild intellectual disability

1Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 2Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 3Department of Psychiatric Social work, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Jharkhand, India, 4Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 5SHUT Clinic, Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 6SHUT Clinic, Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 7SHUT Clinic, Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Spatio-Temporal Correlation Analysis of Air Quality in China: Evidence from Provincial Capitals Data

In China, public health awareness is growing as people get more concerned about the air quality. Based on the air quality index (AQI) of 31 provincial capital cities (2015–2018) in China, we studied the spatio-temporal correlations of air quality between cities. With spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal analysis, we systematically obtained many interesting results where the traditional analyses may be lacking. Firstly, the air quality of cities has spatial spillover and agglomeration effects and further the spatial correlation becomes higher with time. Secondly, there exists temporal correlation between the current AQI and its past values on multiple time scales, which shows certain periodicity. Thirdly, due to the changing characteristics of time, social activities and other factors affect the air quality positively. However, with the panel data model, the coefficients of spatio-temporal correlation vary for different cities.
The Antioxidant Profile Evaluation of Some Tomato Landraces with Soil Salinity Tolerance Correlated with High Nutraceuticaland Functional Value

Romania has a wide variety of local landraces and heirloom genotypes. Our study aims to assess the performance of twenty halotolerant tomato landraces, collected from areas with medium and high levels of soil salinity, in terms ofthe accumulation of antioxidant compounds in fruits and to cluster them according to their nutraceutical components. The tomatoes used in the study were harvested once they had attained full ripeness and then analyzed for lycopene (Lyc), ascorbic acid content (AsA), total phenolic content (TPC), and total antioxidant capacity (TAC). The results revealed major differences between genotypes in terms of nutraceutical values. According to principal component analysis, the tomato landraces were grouped into five clusters, characterized by different proportions of compounds with antioxidant activity. The high/moderate nutritional values of Lyc, TAC, TPC, and AsA were obtained from varieties taken from local lands with high soil salinity, over 6.5 dS m−1. These findings support the idea that metabolites and secondary antioxidants are involved in the process of stress adaptation, thereby increasing salinity tolerance in tomatoes. Our results show that there are tomato landraces with a tolerance of adaptation to conditions of high soil salinity and provide information on their ability to synthesize molecules with antioxidant functions that protect plants against oxidative damage.
Tunable electronic structure of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides for optoelectronic applications

Abstract Differing from its bulk counterparts, atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides that show strong interaction with light are considered as new candidates for optoelectronic devices. Either physical or chemical strategies can be utilized to effectively tune the intrinsic electronic structures for adopting optoelectronic applications. This review will focus on the different tuning strategies that include its physics principles, in situ experimental techniques, and its application of various optoelectronic devices.
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 ‐(γ‐l‐Glutamyl)‐l‐lysine (GGEL) is increased in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Huntington's disease

Pathological‐length polyglutamine (Qn) expansions, such as those that occur in the huntingtin protein (htt) in Huntington's disease (HD), are excellent substrates for tissue transglutaminase in vitro, and transglutaminase activity is increased in post‐mortem HD brain. However, direct evidence for the participation of tissue transglutaminase (or other transglutaminases) in HD patients in vivo is scarce. We now report that levels of Nε‐(γ‐l‐glutamyl)‐l‐lysine (GGEL)– a ‘marker’ isodipeptide produced by the transglutaminase reaction – are elevated in the CSF of HD patients (708 ± 41 pmol/mL, SEM, n = 36) vs. control CSF (228 ± 36, n = 27); p < 0.0001. These data support the hypothesis that transglutaminase activity is increased in HD brain in vivo.
A review of the recent advances in dielectric resonator antennas

ABSTRACT This paper presents a comprehensive review of the state of art techniques and geometries which have been explored in the areas of Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRA). With the evolution of first rectangular geometry to the current investigations, the basic aims of research in this field of electrical size miniaturization, retrofitting bandwidth as per commercial needs and radiation pattern stability by controlling the modes in the DRA still persist. Various techniques to miniaturize the physical and electrical size, mode excitation through varied mechanisms like probe, microstrip, slot, etc., improving bandwidth and radiation characteristics by various researchers have been included. The novel geometries and concept of fractals as introduced to the DRAs have also been addressed in this paper.
A New Record for the Flora of Turkey: Cerastium szowitsii Boiss. (Caryophyllaceae)

Calismanin amaci: Bu calismada, Turkiye'nin vaskuler bitki turlerinin cesitliligine katkida bulunulmasi amaclanmistir. Calisma alani: A8 Artvin: Hatila Vadisi Milli Parki, kayalik alanlar, yol kenari, Kuzeydogu Anadolu’da 559 m. Materyal ve yontem: 2011 ve 2012 yillarinda yapilan arazi calismalari sirasinda toplanan cok sayida bitki materyalleri standart herbaryum tekniklerine gore hazirlanmis ve uc ayri herbaryuma yerlestirilmistir. Temel sonuclar: Cerastium szowitsii Boiss. Turkiye florasi icin yeni bir tur olarak rapor edilmektedir. Arastirma vurgulari: Damarli bitkiler uzerine yapilan son calismalar, Turkiye’de dogal ve egzotik yeni bitki kayitlarinin yapildigini ortaya koymaktadir. Bundan dolayi bu tur calismalarin Kuzeydogu Anadolu’nun daglik kesimlerinde yapilmalidir.
Immune co-culture cell microarray – a feasible tool for high-throughput functional investigation of lymphocyte–cancer interactions

ABSTRACT Omics analyses often result in dozens to hundreds of potential targets, requiring validation for their biological relevance. Current high-throughput functional investigation methods are frequently labor-intensive, expensive, and display low reproducibility. The Immune Co-Culture Cell Microarray (ICCM) is a formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded cell block microarray based on co-cultures of patient-derived tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and their autologous melanoma cells. Each ICCM slide represents the same experiment and can be stained using standard immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence techniques. Functional dynamics assessment of both proteins and microRNAs using ICCM stained slides demonstrated similar findings to flow cytometry assays and to previously published patient-derived biopsy reports.
Graphene-Based Frequency-Conversion Mixers for High-Frequency Applications

This article presents the recent development of frequency-conversion mixer circuits employing graphene-based electron devices targeting microwave and millimeter-wave applications. Mixer circuits that have been reported using graphene field-effect transistors and graphene diodes are investigated. The concept of operation of these circuits utilizing the unique properties of graphene as well as their performance metrics are discussed in comparison with their counterparts realized based on conventional semiconductor technologies. In addition, the demanded improvement in the properties of the graphene electron devices for better circuit performance is highlighted.
Trends in Interventional Cardiology: What 2019 Left PromisingHopes in Interventional Cardiology Practice?

Citation: Han Naung Tun. “Trends in Interventional Cardiology: What 2019 Left Promising Hopes in Interventional Cardiology Practice? ”. EC Cardiology 7.3 (2020): 01-03. *Corresponding Author: Han Naung Tun, Council on Clinical Practice, Clinical and Research Working Groups, European Society of Cardiology and National Representative of Heart Failure Specialist of Tomorrow for Myanmar in European Heart Failure Association, European Society of Cardiology, France.
Changes in primary and secondary growth as influenced by crop load in ‘Fantasmet’® apricot trees

Summary The effect of crop load on the growth dynamics of individual shoots was analysed in apricot trees in the third growing season, comparing their development at two initial locations along the bearing branch. Growth dynamics were observed throughout the growing season, from April to August, and took into account both primary growth (i.e.number of expanded leaves) and secondary growth (i.e. basal diameter increment). Crop load influenced primary growth rhythmicity and more precisely growth resumption within the growing season. The length of the growing period and the number of expanded leaves were more signi®cantly reduced on shoots originated from a proximal position along the branch than in a distal position. Thus, crop load enhanced the acrotonic distribution of branching. The allometric relationship between the basal diameter and the number of expanded leaves per shoot was not dependent upon shoot type, location or crop load treatment. Arguments are provided supporting the hypothesis that cambial growth occurring soon after the expansion of the preformed leaves is responsible for cessation of primary growth. This competition was shown to be independent of crop load and to involve only vegetative organs. These results indicate that the sink demand of the secondary growth and the resulting competition with the primary growth should be taken into account in the carbon economy of fruit trees, and that the competition between organs is not equally distributed between the organs of a given type but depends on their relative location.
A multiple feature fusion framework for video emotion recognition in the wild

Human emotions can be recognized from facial expressions captured in videos. It is a growing research area in which many have attempted to improve video emotion detection in both lab‐controlled and unconstrained environments. While existing methods show a decent recognition accuracy on lab‐controlled datasets, they deliver much lower accuracy in a real‐world uncontrolled environment, where a variety of challenges need to be addressed such as variations in illumination, head pose, and individual appearance. Moreover, automatically identifying the key frames consisting of the expression from real‐world videos is another challenge. In this article, to overcome these challenges, we provide a video emotion recognition via multiple feature fusion method. First, a uniform local binary pattern (LBP) and the scale‐invariant feature transform features are extracted from each frame in the video sequences. By applying a random forest classifier, all of the static frames are then labelled by the related emotion class. In this way, the key frames can be automatically identified, including neutral and other expressions. Furthermore, from the key frames, a new geometric feature vector and the LBP from three orthogonal planes are extracted. To further improve robustness, audio features are extracted from the video sequences as an additional dimension to augmenting visual facial expression analysis. The audio and visual features are fused through a kernel multimodal sparse representation. Finally, the corresponding emotion labels to the video sequences can be assigned when a multimodal quality measure specifies the quality of each modality and its role in the decision. The results on both acted facial expressions in the Wild and MMI datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several counterpart video emotion recognition methods.
Systemic expression of defense response genes in wheat spikes as a response to Fusarium graminearum infection

Abstract Wheat spikes infected by Fusarium graminearum result in Fusarium head blight, a devastating disease of wheat. The spikes respond to infection by inducing a set of defense response genes in infected spikelets much as has been shown in other plant-pathogen interactions. To determine whether defense response genes are expressed systemically within F. graminearum -inoculated wheat spikes, we examined transcript accumulation of four defense response genes (peroxidase, PR-1, PR-3 and PR-5) in colonized and uncolonized portions of wheat spikes of resistant and susceptible genotypes. We determined whether sampled regions of point-inoculated wheat spikes were colonized or not using a Fusarium spp. -specific plate assay and an F. graminearum isolate expressing β-glucuronidase (GUS). The GUS-expressing F. graminearum isolate proved particularly useful for visualizing and following the spread of the fungus and for measuring the amount of fungal biomass in spike tissues. We found that transcripts of the four defense response genes accumulated in both colonized and uncolonized regions of spikes of resistant and susceptible genotypes at 48 h after inoculation. These results demonstrate that direct contact with the pathogen is not required for induction of defense response genes and that these genes are activated in both susceptible and resistant genotypes.
A study of pollen viability and longevity in Gokarn (Clitoria ternatea) a medicinal plant.

=HIND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE= SUMMARY Clitoria ternatea L, a naturally grown medicinal plant, endophyte free, planted in Dhanvantari Udyan, College of Agriculture, Kolhapur was selected for present investigation. Locally it is called as Gokarn / Asian pigeonwing, used to study the viability of pollen grains and its longevity. Among different staining methods, tetrazolium test used to assess ponen viability. The fully fertile, five plants randomly selected for collection of pollens from 7 to 11.30 a.m. at every half an hour interval. These pollen grains were stained by using 0.3% TIC (2,3,5-trphenyl tetrazolium chloride) prepared in 0.5% and 1% sucrose solution to prevent bursting and swelling of pollen grains and incubated in dark at 30+2C for 30 and 60 min, respectively at 70 % relative humidity. At the end of incubation period, viable pollen grains turned red and central area was observed. The more viability is observed in 30 min incubation period in both 0.5 and 1% sucrose solution as compared with 60 min incubation period. In 0.5% sucrose solution, the more viability was observed between 8-10 a.m. and the viability was less before 8 and after 10 a.m. in 30 min incubation. Similar results were observed in 1 % sucrose solution in 30 min incubation. In 60 min incubation period, the pollens were more viable between 8-10.30 a.m. and less viable before 8 and after 10.30 a.m. in 0.5% sucrose solution. While in same incubation period (60 min) with 1 % sucrose solution showed more viability between 8-10 a.m. and less viability before 8 and after 10 a.m. From these observations, it has been concluded that the pollen viability and longevity of Clitoria ternatea L. was maximum at 8-10 a.m. during October 2007 at Kolhapur centre. These properties of pollen should be considered to increase efficiency of breeding programme and selection of suitable pollinizer in Clitoria ternatea L. a important medicinal plant.
Exigências térmicas de Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera, Culicidae) em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

The thermal requeriments of Culex quinquefasciatus (Say, 1823) and the number of generations in the year are determined. The colony to obtain eggs, larvae, pupae and adults was established under laboratory conditions. Every stage was maintained at constant temperature (15, 20, 25 and 30oC), in cameras, with relative humidity of 80% ± 5 and photophase of 12 hours, to settle down the thermal inferior limit and the thermal constant by the method of the hiperbole. The thermal inferior limit to phase of egg, larvae and pupa were respectively 10.0, 9.1 and 10.2oC, and 10.2oC to all the aquatic cycle, with a thermal constant of 207.2 degree-day, with the mean of 15.5 generations per year in Pelotas, State of Rio Grande do Sul.
Coral Reef Biodiversity

Due to the paucity of essential nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and occasionally iron, the waters of the belt of oceans on both sides of the Equator (30 N to 30 S) are known as the “Blue Deserts”. The short supply of these nutrients limits phytoplankton growth and the development of the entire food web depending on their photosynthesis. In these seas, the lush coral reefs, teeming with life are virtual oases. Coral reefs are a special case of bioherms, or wave resistant limestone structures of biological origin. Such marine formations consist of the cemented skeletons of living reef forming organisms, and their dead remains. Such reefs were constructed by various sessile organisms like oysters, vermetid gastropods, serpulid polychaets, calcifying red algae, hydrozoans and corals. The latter, namely the tropical coral reefs are by far the most extensive reef type. The 2500 species of corals form the framework of the diverse and colorful tropical reef ecosystem, which is the marine counterpart of the tropical rain forest. Besides the hermatypic species, there are various dwellers in the reef area that make up that highly diverse community, which represents the peak of the evolution of Life on our Planet in the marine domain. These reefs constitute a major repository of our Planet’s biodiversity, and are in recent years showing an alarming decrease in vitality. This spreading decline has been attributed mainly to Global warming, probably aggravated by increased UV radiation, marine pollution and human encroachment in general.
Performance Comparison of Lossless Compression Strategies for Dynamic Vision Sensor Data

Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) are emerging neuromorphic visual capturing devices, with great advantages in terms of low power consumption, wide dynamic range, and high temporal resolution in diverse applications. The capturing method results in lower data rates than conventional video. Still, such data can be further compressed. This is an emerging research area and a performance comparison of different compression strategies for these data is still missing. This paper addresses lossless compression strategies for data output by neuromorphic visual sensors. We compare the performance of a number of strategies, including the only strategy developed specifically for such data and other more generic data compression strategies, tailored here to the case of neuromorphic data. We perform the comparison in terms of compression ratio, as well as compression and decompression speed. According to the detailed experimental analysis, LZMA achieves the best compression ratio among all the considered strategies. On the other hand, Brotli achieves the best trade-off between speed (compression and decompression) and compression ratio.
FPGA and ASIC realisation of EMD algorithm for real-time signal processing

In this study, the authors have proposed both field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) based realisation of the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithm for the real-time signal processing. Here, a single module is used for the calculation of maxima and minima, and another single module is used for the calculation of upper and lower envelopes instead of using separate modules for each calculation. In this work, the traditional cubic spline interpolation has been replaced with sawtooth transform followed by a smoothing module called moving average. In this study firstly, Verilog-HDL code for the EMD is written using Xilinx Vivado and tested in the simulation phase, later dumped into Digilentinc Basys 3 FPGA board to do the hardware verification. For ASIC, the code is synthesised using Cadence Genus tool with the semi-conductor laboratory 180 nm cell library and the layout is made in the Cadence Innovus tool. The proposed EMD can work with a clock/sampling rate up to 25 MHz and has a layout area of 3.9 mm 2 . For the reduction of power consumption of the overall system, clock gating has been used which helps to reduce the dynamic power of the modules, when they are not in use.
Comparative Modeling Studies of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate Synthase (MEP pathway) from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

AbstractTuberculosis is a major health problem in humans because of its multidrug resistance and discovering new treatmentsfor this disease is urgently required. The synthesis of isoprenoids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been reported asan interesting pathway to target. In this context, 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway of M. tuberculosishas drawn attention. The MEP pathway begins with the condensation of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and pyruvate forming1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) which is catalyzed by 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS). As thereis no X-ray structure was reported for this target, comparative modeling was used to generate the three dimensionalstructure. The structure was further validated by PROCHECK, VERIFY-3D, PROSA, ERRAT and WHATIF. Moleculardocking studies was performed with the substrate (Thiamine pyrophosphate) and the reported inhibitor 2-methyl-3-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-4H-pyrazolol[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-one) against the developed model to identify thecrucial residues in the active site. This study may further be useful to provide structure based drug design.Key words: 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS), Homology Modeling, Molecular Docking, Drug Design,Tuberculosis