Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Low voltage ride through (LVRT) ability of DFIG based wind energy conversion system-I

Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs) are nowadays extensively used in variable speed wind power plants. Doubly fed induction generators (DFIG) offer many advantages such as reduced converter rating, low cost and reduced losses with an improved efficiency, easy implementation of power factor correction schemes, variable speed operation and four quadrants active and reactive power control capabilities. Due to variable speed operation total energy output is much more in case of DFIG based WECS so capacity utilization factor is improved and cost of per unit energy is reduced. But the main disadvantage of DFIG is that it is very sensitive to grid disturbance/fault, especially for the voltage dip. Since the doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) has been widely used in wind energy conversion, the low voltage ride through (LVRT) technology of the DFIG has been investigated extensively in recent times. This paper focuses on the Asymmetrical fault ride-through capability of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) based WECSs. The paper also provides an overview on the interaction between variable-speed DFIG based WECSs and the power system subjected to disturbances. The dynamic behaviour of DFIG wind turbines during Asymmetrical grid faults is simulated and assessed.
Neuroin fl ammation in preterm babies and autism spectrum disorders

Genetic anomalies have a role in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Each genetic factor is responsible for a small fraction of cases. Environment factors, like preterm delivery, have an important role in ASD. Preterm infants have a 10-fold higher risk of developing ASD. Preterm birth is often associated with maternal/fetal inflammation, leading to a fetal/neonatal inflammatory syndrome. There are demonstrated experimental links between fetal inflammation and the later development of behavioral symptoms consistent with ASD. Preterm infants have deficits in connectivity. Most ASD genes encode synaptic proteins, suggesting that ASD are connectivity pathologies. Microglia are essential for normal synaptogenesis. Microglia are diverted from homeostatic functions towards inflammatory phenotypes during perinatal inflammation, impairing synaptogenesis. Preterm infants with ASD have a different phenotype from term born peers. Our original hypothesis is that exposure to inflammation in preterm infants, combined with at risk genetic background, deregulates brain development leading to ASD.
Session Speakers Abstract SESSION I : Viruses : From Environments to Clinics Tuesday , June 19 th , 2018 8 : 30-10 : 00 AM IS 02 Towards a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine

Despite FDA-approved vaccines and antivirals, seasonal and pandemic influenza remain serious threats associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. While annual seasonal influenza virus vaccination is frequently effective – albeit underutilized in most countries – a safe universal influenza virus vaccine providing broad and long-lasting immunity would represent a major breakthrough. We have developed vaccine constructs which express chimeric hemagglutinins resulting in the redirection of the immune response away from the immunodominant (variable) head domain of the hemagglutinin towards the much more conserved stalk of the hemagglutinin and the highly conserved neuraminidase. Such vaccine constructs work well in animal challenge models and are currently tested in clinical trials in humans. The mechanism by which these novel vaccines mediate protection is via antibodies which do not rely on hemagglutination inhibitory (HI) activity but rather on ADCC (antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity) effects, activation of complement and/or inhibition of virus replication through directly binding to viral proteins. It is hoped that the universal influenza virus vaccine based on chimeric hemagglutinins will provide long-lasting protection against all seasonal and pandemic influenza virus strains in the future.
The Role of Accounting Education in Sustainable Entrepreneurship

This study aimed at investigating how accounting education influences successful sustainable entrepreneurship on three dimensions; Environmental, Social and Economical? The statistical population of this study is the chief executive officers of companies, and accounting lectures. To achieve this purpose, research questions were raised and a review of extant literature was made. In order to gather the necessary data for the study, a well-structured questionnaire was administered on the chief executive officers of companies, and accounting lectures . For statistical analysis of data chi-square test were used. Our findings revealed that accounting education promotes successful sustainable entrepreneurship.
Elevation of Seizure Thresholds: A Comparison of Cerebellar Stimulation, Phenobarbital, and Diphenylhydantoin

Generalized EEG seizures were induced in acute, conscious New Zealand albino rabbits with intravenous pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) (10 or 15 mg/kg) or electrical stimulation of the frontal cerebral cortex (ELEC) (50 Hz, 1 msec pulse duration, 2 sec train duration, 4.0–7.6 V). Three anticonvulsant treatments were compared: (1) electrical transhemispheral stimulation of the ansiform or simplex cerebellar lobes (10 Hz, 1.5 msec, 3–4 V), (2) phenobarbital (PB) (25 mg/kg, i.v.), and (3) diphenyl‐hydantoin (DPH) (30 mg/kg, i.v). After treatment, increments in PTZ dose or stimulation voltage were applied until a seizure was evoked that approximated the original in severity and duration. PTZ seizure thresholds were not elevated by DPH, and electrically induced seizure thresholds were not elevated by cerebellar stimulation (CBL). The four remaining seizure threshold elevations (increase in PTZ dose or stimulation voltage) were significant at a level of 0.025 or greater. Comparison of the elevations of seizure thresholds showed no differences at the 0.01 level of significance. Thus, no differences were seen between elevation of PTZ seizure thresholds by CBL or PB, or elevation of electrically induced seizure thresholds by PB or DPH, when examined on an acute basis.
Behavior Capture: Building Believable and Effective AI Agents for Video Games

: Rapid development of complex video games introduces new challenges for the creation of AI agents. Two important problems in this area are believability and effectiveness of agents‘ behavior, i.e. human-likeness of the characters and their high ability to achieve own goals. In this paper, we shortly examine the concepts of believability and effectiveness, and show how the combination of learning by observation and case-based reasoning (―behavior capture‖) can be used to create a believable and effective AI, suitable for practical systems.
Interactive Augmented Reality through Network

In this paper we designed networked AR (Augmented Reality) system that supports augmentation of remote real object with local virtual object. This makes AR system be possible with the situation that real world doesn’t exist or cannot exist with local area. Furthermore, in the case that there are many locals with one remote of real world, we can have interaction with augmented virtual object at any of locals and share the interaction result with the other locals in the network. After describing each technique for the proposed system, we suggested applications of our interactive AR system.
Clinical Endpoints and Economic Parameters for Market Access and Value Creation

On the contrary to limited and shrinking health care budgets, there is an ever increasing pressure on healthcare system providers for more and newer resource-oriented health care along with significant cost constraints. Therefore, one should not be surprised if an effective new therapy does not find its way in practice within publicly funded health care systems. The influence of any therapy on health care costs and outcomes is essential important and is most often considered by decision makers, who have difficult task of making a choice whether already scarce resources should be invested in providing a the therapy or not. Usually simultaneous use of economic evaluation helps estimate the clinical benefits and costs of a therapy. Evidence of value for money is increasingly desired along with clinical safety and efficacy by stakeholders spread across formulary committees, reimbursement authorities, and national health-care systems etc. Today a variety of tools and techniques are available for conducting economic analyses of medical interventions, however one of the most common methodological approaches is to collect data on outcomes and costs alongside clinical trials. Moreover, the opportunities presented by utilizing real world evidence model in day-to-day clinical setup should be well utilized for capturing economic endpoints. Physicians, Patients, payers, providers and policy makers the 5 Ps are looking for awareness, adoption, affordability and accessibility the 4As. To achieve this Clinical-economic evaluation is critical for any new technology.
CLONING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN AUX / IAA GENE IN POPULUS DAVIDIANA × P . ALBA VAR . PYRAMIDALIS AND THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ITS TIME-COURSE EXPRESSION AND THE LEVELS OF INDOLE-3-ACETIC IN SAPLINGS INOCULATED WITH TRICHODERMA

PodaAUX/IAA gene, encoding an early-stage responsive protein to auxin in Populus davidiana × P. alba var. pyramidalis (Shanxin poplar), was cloned. The length of mRNA transcript of Poda AUX/IAA was 741bp, encoding a 248amino-acid protein product, Poda AUX/IAA ORF analysis suggested that Poda AUX/IAA contained one conserved domain (pfam02309). Predicted molecular weight of Poda AUX/IAA was found to be 27kDa and its theoretical isoelectric point was determined as 8.21. Poda AUX/IAA was predicted to be a hydrophilic nucleoprotein and its multi-sequence alignment analysis showed that it shares high identity in four conserved domains with eight AUX/IAA proteins in other Populus species and these sequences of Poda AUX/IAA shared highest similarity with Pt-IAA14.1 in P. trichocarpa. In this study, we found that Poda AUX/IAA was expressed in both leaves and roots of Shanxin poplar. Three strains of Trichoderma asperellum were used to inoculate Shanxin poplar saplings. Inoculated saplings were cultured for 72 h. It was then found that IAA levels in both leaves and roots of inoculated saplings gradually increased and time-course expression patterns of PodaAUX/IAA was changed along with IAA levels. Results of Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated a negative correlation between expression levels of Poda AUX/IAA and IAA levels in both leaves and roots of Shanxin poplar saplings when compared with control. Negative correlation in inoculated saplings were less significant, probably as a result of Trichoderma inducing.
Color Categorization in Bilingual Populations : Korean-English Bilinguals

Empirical research on the influence of language on cognition often focuses on the domain of color categorization. With a global increase in bilingualism, investigating how semantic information is cognitively processed by speakers of two languages is especially important. For example, it remains uncertain whether a bilingual’s sensory representation of color appearance similarity is affected by their linguistic representations of color semantics. The literature on this topic has primarily examined the color naming of bilingual participants in non-English language modes. To address this gap in the literature, the present study compares color categorization and naming of bilinguals in both of their known languages. The study investigates Korean-English Bilinguals as the Korean color lexicon has interesting features that differentiate it from the English color lexicon. In particular, research suggests that Korean has two highly salient basic color terms for the region of color space that in English language would be described with the single color term “green” (Roberson, Hanley & Pak, 2008). We examine whether bilingual participant’s categorization of colors vary across language of testing, especially in relation to categorization and naming observed for the green region of color space involving category differences across Korean and English.
Applying an ‘ encounter-type ’ haptic display to telexistence

We have proposed an ‘encounter-type’ haptic display, which has many advantages over the ‘mounting-type’ in displaying a realistic sense of touch. However, it was difficult to use this type of display in telexistence. In this paper, we propose and discuss a method for applying encounter-type displays to telexistence in the real world. In addition, we report on prototype systems.
Control of decoherence

We discuss three control strategies aimed at countering the effects of decoherence: the first hinges on frequent projective measurements, the second on frequent unitary “kicks” (“bang-bang” pulses) and the third on a strong continuous coupling. Decoherence is suppressed if the frequency N of the measurements/kicks is large enough or if the coupling K is sufficiently strong: in all these cases, the Hilbert space of the system splits into invariant subspaces, among which any transition is hindered. However, if N or K are large, but not extremely large, all these control procedures accelerate decoherence.
Novel insights into PepT 1 transporter mediated dipeptide functionalized PLGA nanoparticles for docetaxel oral delivery

P-121 Novel insights into PepT1 transporter mediated dipeptide functionalized PLGA nanoparticles for docetaxel oral delivery Yuqian Du , Jin Sun , Lin Li , Zhonggui He * Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, China Municipal Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, China E-mail: duyuqian@hotmail.com
Characterization of recombination-deficient mutants of Bacillus subtilis

An isogenic set of "prophage-free," DNA repair-proficient and -deficient strains of Bacillus subtilis were characterized phenotypically. The mutant strains were provisionally classified into four categories on the basis of their sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, their ability to release phage after lysogenization followed by damage to chromosomal DNA, and their impairment in genetic exchange. The properties of double Rec- mutants showed that recF and addA belong to different epistatic groups, whereas recF, recL, and recH fall into the same group. More than one pathway for genetic exchange might be operative in B. subtilis.
Use of proton nmr spectroscopy to measure propofol metabolites in the urine of the female Caucasian patient.

1. Six female Caucasian patients received i.v. doses of propofol (2.7 +/- 0.3 (SE) mg/kg) for induction of anaesthesia. Anaesthesia was maintained with nitrous oxide, oxygen and enflurane for periods up to 3 h. A total urine collection was made from each subject for 24 h after administration of propofol; samples were concentrated and analysed for propofol metabolites by nmr spectroscopy. 2. By 24 h, 50.9 +/- 4.0% of the dose of propofol was recovered as metabolites. The proportions of propofol metabolites, 1-quinol glucuronide (1-QG), 4-quinol glucuronide (4-QG), propofol glucuronide (PG) and 4-quinol sulphate (4-QS) recovered in urine (0-24 h) of the patients were 12 +/- 1, 8 +/- 2, 76 +/- 4 and 4 +/- 1% respectively. However, one patient showed a metabolite profile in which PG comprised 93% and 1-QG 7% of the total metabolites. 3. Nmr spectroscopy has been shown to be a satisfactory method for the quantification of propofol metabolites in urine without the necessity for reference samples.
Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Membrane Protein 2A Contributes to Anoikis Resistance through ERK Activation

ABSTRACT Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with various malignancies, including epithelial cancers. In this study, we analyzed the effect of EBV infection on epithelial cells by using EBV-converted epithelial cells. In EBV-positive cells, the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway is constitutively activated. Inhibition of ERK activity leads to reduced anoikis resistance; therefore, EBV-positive cells are more resistant to anoikis, a type of apoptosis induced by cell detachment, than are EBV-negative cells. Among the viral genes expressed in EBV-positive cells, the latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) is responsible for induction of ERK-mediated anoikis resistance, although the expression level of LMP2A is much lower in EBV-positive cells than in EBV-transformed B cells. Further analysis demonstrated that LMP2A downregulation of the proanoikis mediator Bim through proteasomal degradation is dependent on the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM). These findings suggest that LMP2A-mediated ERK activation is involved in the generation of EBV-associated epithelial malignancies.
of O 2 O User Behavior Based on Stimulus-Organism-Response Model

With the development of Internet technology, nowadays more and more people choose online shopping. Based on Stimulus-Organism-Response model, according to user pleasure and arouse, this paper builds a concept model that influence customers’ shopping indication. In the theory research phase, this paper comes up with four factors, which affect user behavior, that is information richness, personality, economic and visually. Those four factors work as intermediate variables. At the empirical research part, this paper presents Elemi and MeiTuanWaiMai as respondents to conduct formal researches. The reliability, validity, factor analysis and regression analysis were performed by using SPSS and EXCEL data analysis software, and the following conclusions were drawn: pleasure and arousal have significant positive effect on user’s purchase intentions; information richness, personalized, economy and visually have profound effects on both pleasure and arousal, while the abundant information play a negative role in pleasure. Finally, this paper summarizes the results of the study, and make some guidance based on research findings.
Chapter 2 Role of MicroRNAs in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common autoimmune disease. The hallmarks of RA are synovial inflammation and hyperplasia, autoantibody production, systemic features, and deformity. A lot of researchers have paid attention to the possibility that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a role in the pathogenesis of RA. miRNAs are a class of small noncoding RNAs, which have 18–25 nucleotides. These small RNAs modify gene expression by binding to target messenger RNA (mRNA), and they block the translation or induce the degradation of target mRNA. Biological relevance of miRNAs has been investigated in physiological and pathological conditions. A growing body of evidence suggests that miRNAs participate in the inflammatory disorders including RA. In this chapter, an overview of biogenesis and function of miRNAs has been presented to introduce researchers to the changes and functional regulation of the key miRNAs in RA and to provide current knowledge in miRNA and RA. It is important to understand the relationship between the key miRNAs and RA pathology as modulation of specific miRNA alterations could be of great pharmaceutical interest in the future.
Assess Spontaneous Baroreflex in Diabetic Subjects and Aged Persons Using Pressure Pulse Analysis

Cardiac autonomic dysfunction is a serious condition in elderly and diabetic subjects. Baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), measured from pulse intervals and blood pressure, has been proven as an effective indicator. This paper proposes an index that replaces blood pressure with amplitudes of the pressure pulse. 89 subjects were recruited and divided into three groups: healthy young subjects (Group 1, n=33), healthy elders (Group 2, n=28), and type-2 diabetic patients (Group 3, n=28). The wrist pulse pressures of each subject were measured for 5 min to obtain pulse-pulse intervals and amplitudes. The spontaneous sequence technique was then used to calculate the pulse-pulse interval to amplitude ratio (PAR). The reproducibility of the PAR and agreement with spectral analysis of heart rate variability in Group 1 participants were verified. Significant differences between different groups in the PAR (Group 1 vs. Group 2: 0.79±0.40 vs. 0.54±0.23, P=0.032; Group 2 vs. Group 3: 0.54±0.23 vs. 0.47±0.26, P=0.009) and a negative linear relationship between the PAR and risk factors of autonomic dysfunction were found. The proposed index does not require blood pressure calibration or professional expertise for conducting measurements, making it convenient for assessing autonomic function at home.
Current harmonics of voltage-source active rectifier with random switching frequency

This paper presents the issue of current harmonics drawn from the grid by three-phase voltage-source active rectifiers when the switching frequency of the devices is random; it is not an integer multiple of the supply frequency (50 Hz). The first part compares the harmonic analysis calculations derived for the piecewise linearized simplified current waveform and the simulations in the random frequency case. The second part presents a comparison of the current harmonic analysis when the switching frequency is the integer multiple of the supply frequency and when it is not. The second part also shows a dependence of the current spectrums on the random switching frequencies. This paper verifies, that the same conclusions of the previous publications apply to both the switching frequency that is the integer multiple of the supply frequency and the random switching frequency.
Challenges to quality and equity in educational performance for Latin America , a PISA 2012 perspective

This paper analyses the educational performance of eight PISA 2012 Latin American countries relative to the OECD focusing on equity in the distribution of outcomes. We consider first the results of those countries in terms of the shares of high and low performing students. Next we study how much those performances depend on the students’ family background. We use the data on mathematical competencies in PISA 2012 and compare the results of those students coming from disadvantaged and advantaged families, identified with those in the first and fourth quartiles of the distribution of the index of Economic and SocioCultural Status. The main results of this study are: (i) The differences in the educational systems between Latin American countries and the OECD are much larger than suggested by country rankings based on mean performance. (ii) The share of Latin American students exhibiting high performance is extremely thin, particularly among disadvantaged students, whereas low performance is pervasive across all students regardless of family background. (ii) Socio-economic conditions strongly determine high performance, much more than in the OECD.