Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Neuromarketing: a historical review

Neuroscience, the study of the brain and how humans process their daily activities, has always been part of other fields (such as neuropsychology in the psychological context). However, 2002 is known as the year neuromarketing was first coined by Professor Ale Smidts, describing it as the study of the brain and how it processes activities about consumer context (purchase behavior – how and why they buy). Further reviews showed that before coining the term, companies were already adopting neuromarketing through systems such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). To further demonstrate its essence, this review discussed its historical dimension, and findings show that it is a revolutionary area of marketing. Although limited empirical studies have been conducted within the context of neuromarketing, the review shows that it can address the challenges of reliability, validity, and generalizability that come with the conventional approaches in marketing research. However, it is suggested that the field of neuromarketing needs empirically-based works, urgently.
Adherence to healthy eating index-2015 and metabolic syndrome in a large sample of Iranian adults

Purpose Dietary intake is a modifiable risk factor for metabolic syndrome (MetS). Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the association between the Healthy Eating Index-2015 (HEI-2015) and MetS. Design/methodology/approach MetS was diagnosed among 2,326 adults. Dietary intake was assessed by a validated food frequency questionnaire. The HEI-2015 was administered to assess the diet qualities. Multivariate logistic regression was also used to evaluate the relationship of HEI-2015 with MetS and its components. Findings The odds of MetS was lower in women who were in the third quintile of HEI-2015 compared with those in the first quintile after adjusting for age and energy intake (OR: 0.62, CI: 0.41 to 0.93). In addition, moderate adherence to HEI-2015 reduced the odds of high fasting blood glucose levels in both men and women (OR men: 0.30, CI: 0.11 to 0.85 OR women: 0.34, CI: 0.14 to 0.79). However, these relations were not linear. Adherence to HEI-2015 had no significant relationship with the prevalence of MetS and its components in the whole population. Originality/value A significant relationship was observed between moderate adherence to HEI-2015 and fasting blood glucose in both men and women. Moreover, moderate adherence to this dietary pattern decreased the prevalence of MetS in women.
Adaptive controller design for fixed-time leader-following consensus of multi-agent systems with discontinuous dynamics

This paper investigates the adaptive fixed-time consensus of a class of multi-agent systems with discontinuous dynamics. First, under the framework of Filippov solutions, a new theorem is established to achieve fixed-time consensus of discontinuous multi-agent systems using the proposed control protocol. Furthermore, an adaptive control protocol is provided in the second theorem that highly improves the control signals of the system. Finally, numerical simulations are worked out to illustrate the effectiveness of our theoretical results.
Infer related genes from large scale gene expression dataset with embedding

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been utilized for classification and prediction task with remarkable accuracy. However, its implications for unsupervised data mining using molecular data is under-explored. We adopted a method of unsupervised ANN, namely word embedding, to extract biologically relevant information from TCGA gene expression dataset. Ground truth relationship, such as cancer types of the input sample and semantic meaning of genes, were showed to retain in the resulting entity matrices. We also demonstrated the interpretability and usage of these matrices in shortlisting candidates from a long gene list. This method is feasible to mine big volume of biological data, and would be a valuable tool to discover novel knowledge from omics data. The resulting embedding matrices mined from TCGA gene expression data are interactively explorable online (http://bit.ly/tcga-embedding-cancer) and could serve as an informative reference.
Consumer‐mediated indirect interaction with a native plant lowers the fitness of an invasive competitor

Seed dispersal is a primary driver, via propagule pressure, of biological invasions. In animal‐dispersed plants, theory predicts that indirect ecological interactions at the neighbourhood scale may determine landscape‐scale patterns of seed dispersal and predation, and thus invasion. Indirect interactions in seed dispersal may arise between two plant species if shared seed dispersal agents adjust their foraging decisions to the relative frequencies of co‐occurring seeds. We used seed‐tracking experiments and empirically parameterized simulations to test the hypothesis that an indirect interaction between two plant species, mediated by scatterhoarding rodents that both consume and disperse seeds, affects recruitment of an invasive tree. We predicted that acorns of Quercus rubra (invasive in Central Europe) would experience higher caching (and therefore survival) rates when they co‐occurred with native Quercus petraea than when they occurred in isolation, that Q. petraea acorns would survive at lower rates with Q. rubra relative to isolation, and that this interaction would facilitate Q. rubra seedling recruitment in Q. petraea forests. Contrary to expectations, the presence of Q. petraea reduced caching of Q. rubra acorns, and co‐occurrence with Q. rubra increased caching of Q. petraea. Thus, a rodent‐mediated indirect interaction may be slowing rather than facilitating the Q. rubra invasion. However, our simulations indicate that the magnitude of this indirect interaction will change nonlinearly as Q. rubra becomes more dominant on the landscape, and that the pace of invasion will accelerate as the alien species is released from the rodent‐mediated effect of Q. petraea. Synthesis. The presence of native Quercus petraea decreases recruitment rates of Quercus rubra, and consequently, slows down the invasion process. The strong dependence of pairwise interactions on the presence of a third‐party species emphasizes the role of indirect interactions in the invasion processes.
Video communication for teleconferencing using edge computing

: This paper proposes a backbone network resource optimization algorithm for video communications of teleconferencing that use edge computing. In the current video communication architecture, the key component, the multi-point control unit (MCU), is deployed in the central cloud server, and its bandwidth consumption in the backbone network becomes huge as the video resolution and the frequency of use increase. By using edge computing, MCU can be deployed at the entrance node of the backbone network. This can reduce the bandwidth consumption of the backbone network. However, the edge deployment and routing (EDR) problem, which is classiﬁed as NP-hard, should be solved to achieve suﬃcient bandwidth reduction. To solve the EDR problem within a feasible time, we propose a divide and merge algorithm using the linear programming approach. We demonstrate that, with our algorithm, bandwidth consumption using edge computing is reduced by approximately 30% compared to the current architecture on a world-wide network.
Penerapan Metode Single Exponential Smoothing untuk Memprediksi Penjualan Katering pada Kedai Pojok Kedaung

Kedai Pojok Kedaung merupakan sebuah Rumah Makan yang sudah lebih dari 10 tahun dan banyak dikenal oleh masyarakat luas khususnya dilingkungan masyarakat Kalimantan Timur, yang sudah menjadi partner dalam melayani jasa catering untuk perusahaan pertambangan. Namun, di dalam proses pengelolaan data masih dilakukan secara manual menggunakan alat tulis, kalkulator, buku sebagai media pencatatan dan disimpan dalam bentuk arsip yang tidak tertata rapi. Selain itu, dalam membuat laporan sering terjadi kesalahan dalam penghitungan. Hal tersebut menyebabkan tingginya risiko kesalahan dan kehilangan informasi data-data yang dikelola. Sehingga membutuhkan waktu yang relatif lama untuk mengatur proses bisnis yang ada disana. Selanjutnya, setiap jenis usaha apapun tentu memerlukan persiapan agar dapat menunjang proses penjualannya. Dalam memenuhi permintaan pesanan katering yang tidak menentu terkadang menimbulkan masalah saat ada permintaan dalam jumlah yang lebih besar ataupun kecil. Berdasarkan permasalahan di atas, maka akan dikembangkan suatu Sistem prediksi yang dapat menangani, mengolah dan meminimalisir kesalahan data-data tersebut. Serta dapat membantu pemilik dalam mengelola usahanya. Didalam implementasinya data yang diolah sebanyak 11 periode yang disajikan per bulan, hasil yang didapatkan dari penelitian ini adalah hasil analisa dari metode Single Exponential Smoothing untuk memperoleh informasi prediksi penjualan dan nilai kesalahan serta persentase kesalahan menggunakan metode MAD dan MAPE.
Evolutionary Analysis of Minor Histocompatibility Genes In Hydra

Evolutionary Analysis of Minor Histocompatibility Genes In Hydra Nojood Aalismail Hydra is a simple freshwater solitary polyp used as a model system to study evolutionary aspects. The immune response of this organism has not been studied extensively and the immune response genes have not been identified and characterized. On the other hand, immune response has been investigated and genetic analysis has been initiated in other lower invertebrates. In the present study we took initiative to study the self/nonself recognition in hydra and its relation to the immune response. Moreover, performing phylogenetic analysis to look for annotated immune genes in hydra gave us a potential to analyze the expression of minor histocompatibility genes that have been shown to play a major role in grafting and transplantation in mammals. Here we obtained the cDNA library that shows expression of minor histocompatibility genes and confirmed that the annotated sequences in databases are actually present. In addition, grafting experiments suggested, although still preliminary, that homograft showed less rejection response than in heterograft. Involvement of possible minor histocompatibility gene orthologous in immune response was examined by qPCR.
A LICENSE TO KILL: UNDERSTANDING NATURAL KILLER CELL LICENSING TO FIGHT CANCER

VI List of Illustrations . X Figure Twenty-Four: Comparison of intracellular metabolites found in expanded licensed and unlicensed single KIR positive NK cells. XI List of Tables . XII Abbreviations . XIII Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 1.1 Natural Killer Cell Biology . 1 1.2 NK cell Education . 4 1.3 NK cell Expansion . 9 1.4 NK cell Metabolism . 11 1.5 Regulation of Glycolysis . 13 Chapter 2: Materials and Methods . 15 Human Subjects . 15 NK Cell Isolation . 15 KIR and HLA Typing . 15 Licensed and Unlicensed NK cell Discrimination . 16 Flow Cytometry . 16 Cell Sorting . 17 Cell Expansion . 17 Cell Culture . 17 Cytotoxicity Assays . 17 VIII Metabolic Inhibitors . 18 Mass Cytometry . 18 Telofish with CyTOF . 18 Extracellular Flux Assays . 19 siRNA Knockdown . 20 Cross-linking NK Cells for Protein Expression Analysis . 20 Reverse Phase Protein Array . 22 Western Blot . 34 NMR . 34 Statistics . 35 Chapter 3: Specific Aims . 37 Chapter 4: Understanding intrinsic mechanistic differences between licensed and unlicensed NK cells . 38 4.1 Licensed and unlicensed NK cell subset distribution before and after expansion . 39 4.2 Determining the proliferative capacity between licensed and unlicensed NK cells . 42 4.3 Determining the telomere length between licensed and unlicensed NK cells . 48 4.4 Determining differences in signaling pathways between licensed and unlicensed NK cells . 53 Chapter 4 Discussion . 70 Chapter 5: Understanding the role of metabolism in licensed and unlicensed NK cell cytotoxicity . 75 5.1 Determining the effect AMPK signaling has on NK cell cytotoxicity . 76 5.2 Determining the effect AMPK signaling has on NK cell expansion . 78 5.3 Evaluation of licensed and unlicensed NK cell subsets utilization of glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration . 80
Technology in Context: The Surprising Social Upsides of Constant Connectivity

The need to physically distance ourselves in order to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic has left much of the world more reliant on technology to meet our social needs than ever before. Until the virus is contained, the safest way to maintain relationships with many of the people we care about is digitally. Yet the very same technologies that make social distancing bearable have been cited as leading causes of social isolation, mental health issues, and even acts of mass violence.
Metasurfaces as Artificial Crystals for Electromagnetic Polarization Handling

Metasurfaces acting on electromagnetic fields have emerged as powerful tools that can address all the wave’s degrees of freedom: amplitude, phase and polarization. It is especially with respect to polarization that their role is steadily growing: metasurfaces can indeed perform, by design, operations that would usually require very specific, delicate and expensive natural or synthetic ordinary crystals. Here, I will first briefly review the history of light polarization, and its connection with ordinary crystals. Subsequently, I will highlight in which sense metasurfaces are artificial quasi-two-dimensional crystals, evidencing their potential as future polarization-handling (meta) materials.
Evaluation of Character Association in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Genotypes for Yield and Yield Related Traits

The work was conducted with collaboration of all authors. Author Sunil designed the study, conducted the research and wrote the protocol. Author KDS guided author Sunil during whole research period, managed the literature searches and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Author MK performed and managed the statistical analyses. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. ABSTRACT One hundred and seventy barley rowed barley. Biological yield/plant, harvest index, number of tillers/plant, days to 75% flowering and peduncle extrusion length had positive direct effects on grain yield/plant for the six rowed barley. This suggested that selection will be quite efficient in enhancing yield and its contributing traits in context of germplasm evaluated.
New records of Leopardus tigrinus (Carnivora: Felidae) in the Department of Santander, Colombia

Leopardus tigrinus is the smallest native cat species of America. In Colombia, the species has been rarely registered in agricultural landscapes and mostly registered in highlands of natural habitats like mountain forests, cloud forests, and paramos. However, recent trail-camera and roadkills records have increased the reports of this species into the country, showing that it is also living close to cities. Here, we report the trail camera observations of two individuals of L. tigrinus in the vicinity of Bucaramanga, Santander. This is the third and northern-most record of the Northern Tiger Cat in the department of Santander. Additionally, we made comments on key local challenges for the conservation of this threatened species.
Keywords that characterise Shakespeare’s (anti)heroes and villains

This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaron, Lear, Edmund, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The chapter discusses how, once contextualised, these keywords provide useful insights into their feelings/thoughts towards others, events, motivations to act, etc. In terms of findings, only Aaron denotes his "villainy" directly. Tamora, in contrast, draws upon a keyword that is denotatively positive; in context, though, "sweet" reveals her womanly wiles. "Weep", for Lear, and "legitimate" and "base", for Edmund, problematize their status as (one-dimensional) villains. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth draw upon grammatical keywords, "if " and "would" in ways that signal something about their (deteriorating) emotional and social positions as much as their villainous intentions.
Impact of degradation and restoration on soil fungi and extracellular enzyme activity in alpine rangelands on the Tibetan Plateau

ABSTRACT Degradation and enclosure can change plant composition and soil properties, thereby alter soil microbial community, diversity and activity. This study used high-throughput sequencing and microplate fluorometric to determine the patterns of soil fungal community and extracellular enzyme activity (EEA) under degradation and restoration on the Tibetan Plateau. Three degradation (including: non-degraded, DN; moderately degraded, DM; and severely degraded, DS) and three enclosure (including: 5 years, EI; 10 years, EII; and 15 years, EIII) treatments were set up. DM and DS increased the species richness of fungi compared with DN. EI decreased the fungal diversity compared with DS while EII significantly increased it. DM significantly increased EEA while DS had no significant effect on any EEA compared to DN. EI decreased EEA (significant for βX), EII increased EEA (significant for βG) compared with DS while EIII had no significant effect. This variation of EEA among different degradation and enclosure treatments could be partially explained by soil properties and fungal community but had no relation with plant properties. The degradation could change soil fungi and extracellular enzyme activity and may adversely affect vegetation health in the alpine ecosystem. Enclosure could partially reverse these changes, but long-term field experiments are still needed.
Hol tart a világ az egyetemi rangsorokról való gondolkodásban? • The Current State of Knowledge about University Rankings

In the advanced economies, the choice of university is one of the most important, irreversible decisions. As long as merely 3–5 per cent of a cohort went to universities, the subject matter had not much relevance at the societal level. This is one of the reasons why it took so long for mainstream economists to realize that this is not only a matter for the individuals, because universities play a paramount role in overall economic development and the fight against poverty. Once it is realised that universities are important because a large segment of the young cohorts is affected, than the comparison among universities and the ranking of universities is necessary. This essay provides a summary of the changes in ranking both at the global and the Hungarian
PATÓGENOS EM DUAS ESPÉCIES DE BIVALVES COMERCIALMENTE IMPORTANTES DO ESTUÁRIO DO RIO PACOTI, ESTADO DO CEARÁ, BRASIL

In Ceara State’s estuaries, the mangrove oyster, Crassostrea rhizophorae and the cockle Anomalocardia brasiliana are harvested by local communities, representing a very important socioeconomic activity. Whereas the pathogens can cause mortality in mollusk populations, this study aimed to investigate the occurrence of parasites in C. rhizophorae and in A. brasiliana from Pacoti River estuary, Ceara State. During the period from February, 2008 to January, 2009, samples of cockles and oysters (n = 360 per species) were collected monthly for histopathological analyses. The results in cockles showed bacterial colonies rickettsia-type (7.2%), metazoan possibly bucephalids (35.8%), Tylocephalum (31.7%) and metacercariae of trematodes (0.5%). In oysters, it was observed protozoa of the genera Nematopsis (83%), unidentified protozoans (3.9%), Ancistrocoma (7.2%) and the metazoa : Urastoma (0.8%), bucephalids (0.2%) and Tylocephalum (3%). Despite the high prevalence of Nematopsis in oysters, damage was not observed in the tissues of infected animals. In contrast, the infestation by bucephalids in the gonads caused the castration of the host. The results indicate that those mollusk species must be monitored in their habitat so as to keep pace with the evolution of the prevalence and the appearance of new pathogens.
Colonization of bacteria and diatoms on an artificial substrate in a marine lake (eastern Adriatic Sea, NE Mediterranean)

The initial colonization of bacteria and diatoms on a immersed artificial substrate and the development of diatom assemblages in relation to physico-chemical parameters were investigated on a weekly basis at one station in the marine Lake Mrtvo More, South Croatia, from April to October 2016. According to TRIX trophic index, lake showed different trophic character: (i) oligotrophic (at the beginning and the end of the study), (ii) mesotrophic (the end of June to mid-July), (iii) eutrophic (the end of July to mid-September). Heterotrophic bacteria increased to peak abundances (69,268 cells cm–2) at the beginning of June when the diatoms abundances start to increase. The lake has high diatom species richness (285 diatom taxa within 72 genera), with the highest species diversity index in August. Among diatoms, adnate were the primary colonizers, particularly Cocconeis dirupta W.Gregory var. flexella (Janisch and Rabenhorst) Grunow and Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenberg var. scutellum, while motile taxa joined the fouling communities from July to September. This study showed close relationship between diatom species composition and changes of physico-chemical parameters, particularly the nutrient concentrations.
The effect of nanocrystalline cellulose and TEMPO-oxidized nanocellulose on the compatibility of polypropylene/cyclic natural rubber blends

The effect of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and nanofiber cellulose (NFC) was estimated as a means of reinforcing and compatibilizing agent of polypropylene/ cyclic natural rubber (PP/CNR) blend in terms of mechanical and thermal properties. The morphological effect of NCC and NFC on the PP/CNR blend property was determined through several characterization techniques, i.e. SEM, contact and TGA/DTG. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images revealed that the addition of NCC and NFC became more homogenous than without the addition of nanocellulose. The improvement of nanocomposites was also observed on the result of interphase surface tension and thermal stability. This improvement was assumed as the result of physically/ chemically interaction of nanocellulose with the backbone of PP and CNR, in which the nanocellulose can be imagined acting as a bridge to link the PP and CNR’s backbone.
Ride-Hailing Order Dispatching at DiDi via Reinforcement Learning

Order dispatching is instrumental to the marketplace engine of a large-scale ride-hailing platform, such as the DiDi platform, which continuously matches passenger trip requests to drivers at a scale of tens of millions per day. Because of the dynamic and stochastic nature of supply and demand in this context, the ride-hailing order-dispatching problem is challenging to solve for an optimal solution. Added to the complexity are considerations of system response time, reliability, and multiple objectives. In this paper, we describe how our approach to this optimization problem has evolved from a combinatorial optimization approach to one that encompasses a semi-Markov decision-process model and deep reinforcement learning. We discuss the various practical considerations of our solution development and real-world impact to the business.
Sistemática e taxonomia de Hyphessobrycon luetkenii (Boulenger, 1887) (CHARACIFORMES: CHARACIDAE)

xv Apresentação. 1 Referências Bibliográficas. 5 Capítulo 1 – Systematics of Hyphessobrycon luetkenii (Boulenger, 1887) (Characiformes: Characidae). 11 Abstract. 12. 12 Resumo. 12