Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An integrated spatial snapshot monitoring method for identifying seasonal changes and spatial changes in surface water quality

http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.jhydrol. 2016.05. 017 0022-1694/ 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author at: Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water, Ueberlandstr. 133, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland. Tel. : +41 58 765 5382. E-mail address: mario.schirmer@eawag.ch (M. Schirmer). Vidhya Chittoor Viswanathan , Yongjun Jiang , Michael Berg , Daniel Hunkeler , Mario Schirmer a,c,⇑
Measurement of heavy and light hole masses in InGaAs / InAlAs Quantum

Photocurrent measurements at 10K with different biases on lattice matched InGaAs/InAlAs multiple quantum wells (MQW) with different well widths (w=70Å, 85Å and 100Å) have been performed to obtain accurate values of perpendicular heavyand light-hole masses. The procedure suggested on this article uses transition energies from different electron-hole pairs at zero field to determine the masses. Since some of these transitions are forbidden for zero field, we extrapolate the bias dependent positions of all the observed transitions to obtain the zero field transition energies. By comparing these data with detailed numerical simulations we obtain values of the hole masses that fit the experimental data precisely.
Benefit of HER 2-Positive Breast Cancer Subtype Determination in Clinical Practice ?

1 Komplexní onkologické centrum Pardubického kraje, Multiscan, s.r. o. 2 Fakulta zdravotnických studií Pardubice, Univerzita Pardubice 3 Oddělení klinické a radiační onkologie, Pardubická nemocnice, Nemocnice Pardubického kraje, a.s. 4 Katedra radiobiologie, Fakulta vojenského zdravotnictví, Univerzita obrany, Brno 5 1. LF UK Praha 6 3. LF UK Praha 7 Katedra radiační onkologie, Institut postgraduálního vzdělávání ve zdravotnictví, Praha 8 Institut biostatistiky a analýz, LF MU, Brno 9 Chirurgická klinika, Pardubická nemocnice, Nemocnice Pardubického kraje, a.s.
Analytical Survey on the Two-Fluid Blood Flow through Stenosed Artery with Permeable Wall

The womersley flow of blood through constricted arteries is analyzed by considering the blood as a two-fluid model with the suspension of all the erythrocytes within the core region as a non-Newtonian fluid and also the plasma within the peripheral layer as a Newtonian fluid. The non-Newtonian fluid within the core region of the artery is assumed as a Herschel-Bulkley fluid and Casson fluid. The perturbation technique is employed to resolve the ensuing system of non-linear partial differential equations. Expressions for numerous flow quantities are obtained for the two-fluid Casson model. In the present paper, there's associate analysis on the varied researches. It's determined that the plug core radius, pressure drop, wall shear stress and also the resistance to flow are considerably terribly low for the two-fluid Casson model than those of the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model. Hence, the two-fluid Casson model would be a lot of helpful than the two-fluid Herschel-Bulkley model to research the blood flow through constricted arteries.
Investigating Flow Cytometry as a Potential Method for Real- time Analysis of Gene Expression following Escherichia coli Transformation

Bacterial transformation is commonly detected by growing colonies on selective media. This process is time consuming and labour intensive. The aim of this study was to develop a more efficient real-time method to observe gene expression following transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmid DNA. In this study, we investigated flow cytometry as a potential method for studying transformation. Rather than relying on colony formation to detect transformation, we hypothesised that flow cytometry could be used to detect transformation of single cells shortly after plasmid update. We used pGLO, a plasmid which carries a gene coding for green fluorescence protein gene linked to an arabinose inducible promoter. pGLO was used to transform BL21 E. coli. Fluorescence microscopy was used to observe cell morphology and to observe GFP expression over time following induction with arabinose. E. coli cells showed morphological changes during increased incubation times. The transformed cells showed green fluorescence 40 minutes after induction with L-arabinose. Using flow cytometry, we were able to detect cells expressing green fluorescence in cultures diluted 10^-4 through to 10^-7, which are expected to have 4000 cells/ml to 4 cells/ml respectively. We were able to detect 3 GFP positive cells in 3180 total cells using flow cytometry. Most notably, newly transformed cells were detected by flow cytometry 1 hour post-transformation. Taken together, these data suggest that flow cytometry can be used to study plasmid transformation and gene expression in realtime. It is also worth noting that variable cell shapes may interfere with measurements; however, this issue may be circumvented by reducing growth time after transformation, with flow cytometry analysis being completed within one hour of transformation.
Plant growth promoting endophytic bacteria: Boon to agriculture

Endophytic bacteria are group of plant associated bacteria that infects different plant tissues without showing any visual symptoms. This has attracted a great interest of different researchers in the field of agriculture. Endophytes promote plant growth and yield, suppress pathogens, help phosphate solubilization and contribute nitrogen assimilation to plants. Some endophytes are seed borne, but others have mechanisms to colonize the plants. With the intention to provide studies on endophytic bacteria, this review focuses on the role of endophytes with respect to plant growth promotion, phytoremediation, bicontrol and their metabolic potential.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE ENTERPRISE AND CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 1

Modern enterprises need to constantly develop their competences to meet market requirements. The development of these competences through the application of knowledge management (KM) and research and development works is insufficient. That is why companies are looking for new competences in their environment, among their suppliers, competitors, research institutions or universities. A still underestimated source of knowledge is the client. While the institutional client can often provide the company with access to important and valuable knowledge resources, the individual customer knowledge is often ignored in assessing the requirements for products or services. Classic Knowledge Management (KM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems collect information about the client and probably elementary knowledge from the client, but usually do not directly involve the client’s potential in the creation of new knowledge. A Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) system adequately fills this gap. The aim of the CKM is to optimize the exchange of knowledge between the company and its institutional and individual clients, and to use their creative potential. In this study, the CKM is defined as the activity consisting in planning, organizing and controlling projects in relation to the knowledge and innovative potential of the client. It is aimed at acquiring and developing customer knowledge by combining it with the knowledge of the company, and also creating new knowledge together with the client for the improvement of the company’s activity and creation of innovative solutions, products and services. The implementation of a CKM in an enterprise requires a specialized adaptation of the knowledge management system (KMS). Here, the KMS is defined as a set of principles, methods, means, knowledge (including information), people and their interrelationship networks, which allows to adopt and implement knowledge management strategies, functions and tasks in order to achieve the organization’s goals. Based on this definition, the KMS components were characterized, i.e.: people, a network of relationships, knowledge resources, instruments and methods as well as knowledge management principles. Next, the principles of choosing the CKM implementation style were discussed depending on the adopted strategy of personalization or codification. It has been established that prosumerism and/or communities of creation should be used in a KMS based on the codification strategy. In a KMS based on personalization strategy team-based co-learning, mutual innovation and/or joint intellectual property. The CKM focuses on the processes of: 1) acquiring knowledge about the client, 2) acquiring knowledge from the client, 3) transferring knowledge to the client (sharing knowledge, disseminating knowledge and/or sharing knowledge with the client), 4) co-creating knowledge with the client. In relation to these processes, some useful ways of their implementation have been discussed, including the level of suitability of the CRM system.
Diabetes and PreDiabetes among Adults in an Urban Slum in South East Nigeria

Background: Despite the rising prevalence of diabetes in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, few studies have assessed the prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes in people with low socioeconomic status or urban slums. Methods: Using the WHO STEP-wise approach to surveillance of noncommunicable diseases, we estimated the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes among adults 20 years and older living in two urban slums in Enugu south east Nigeria. Diabetes was defined as previous history of diabetes, use of hypoglycemic agents and fasting blood glucose within the diabetes range on two occasions during the survey period. Study duration was 5 months. Results: Out of the 811 individuals invited to the clinic, 605 (74.6%) participants had their fasting blood glucose measured based on the study protocol. The prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in the population was 11.7% (95% CI; 9.2 14.3) and 7.6% (95% CI; 5.0 9.7) respectively. About 54.9% were newly detected and 28.1% of them had normal control. The prevalence of diabetes peaked at 55 64 years. The odds ratio for diabetes was significantly higher in participants ≥ 45 years (1.033, 95% CI; 1.208 3.420), participants with hypertension (0.442, 95% CI; 0.257 0.762) and stroke (1.638, 95% CI; 0.459 5.848). Conclusion: There is a relatively high prevalence of diabetes among adults in two urban slums in Enugu. Public health educational measures promoting prevention and early detection of diabetes should be encouraged. Efforts should be made to educate the populace on the need for early detection and treatment.
On trap identification in triple-gate FinFETs and Gate-All-Around nanowire MOSFETs using low frequency noise spectroscopy

This paper brings a comparison of the traps identified in triple-gate FinFETS and Gate-All-Around (GAA) nanowire (NW) MOSFETs built with the same technological process. Traps have been identified using low frequency noise (LFN) spectroscopy, giving information on which process steps may be improved in order to build better devices.
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Treatment and Outcome Analysis : A 7-Years Experience in a Northern Part of Karnataka in Single Center

Background: This study aimed to retrospectively analyze of Treatment and Outcome in congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) patients in our department during a 7 year period. Patients and Methods: A retrospective study of of all CDH infants managed in our Neonatal and Pediatric Surgery department between July 2009 and July 2016. Prenatal and maternal as well as perinatal and neonatal data were collected, including outcome parameters. Results: Total 108babies were studied. The mean birth weight of the patients was 2,200 g and the mean gestational age was 36 weeks. The mean admission time for the patients was 72 hours. Major congenital anomaly was present in 11%. The mortality rate was 25%. Prenatal diagnosis babies, delay in diagnosis due to late referral, earlier gestational age at birth, lower birth weight, who required pre operative ventilator support and major congenital anomalies mainly cardiac anomalies were associated with high mortality rate. Conclusion: Our data suggest a higher survival rate. We speculate that today’s cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia are probably milder than in the past due to earlier and more detailed prenatal diagnosis and subsequent termination of pregnancies for the more severe forms of the disorder.
Performance prediction of cloud applications through benchmarking and simulation

As the cloud paradigm gains widespread adoption, the performance evaluation and prediction of cloud applications remain daunting tasks, not yet fully accomplished. Nevertheless, reliable performance figures are the key to take the cloud to the next step, in which it will be possible to predict the maintenance cost of the applications and to introduce richer service level agreements between service providers and consumer. In this paper, we propose a methodology based on benchmarking and simulation that aims at predicting the performance of cloud applications developed through the mOSAIC framework. We prove the efficacy of the methodology on a real case study, showing how it is possible to predict performance indexes throughput, message queue length,. under a generic workload, using pre-acquired benchmark results and simple simulation models.
Application of Original Ecological Design in Architectural Space Innovation Design

In this paper, we argue that the design of ecological architecture should take into consideration all kinds of architectural and environmental factors. In the construction, we should not only meet the requirements of the development of the ecological environment, but also meet the characteristics of people living. In order to integrate the environment in the process of architectural space design, it is necessary to take full account of the natural conditions and the ecological environment of the site of the building, and effectively integrate the ecological building technology into the architectural design, and finally put forward a design scheme with economic, social and environmental benefits.
Reconfigurable Bandpass Filter With Separately Relocatable Passband Edge

A reconfigurable bandpass filter (BPF) with separately relocatable passband edges is demonstrated. The proposed design approach exploits simple stub-based structures and varactor-tuned microwave resonators for the BPF realization. The filter bandwidth reconfigurability is obtained via a separate relocation of each passband edge, and the harmonics inherited in the varactor-tuned microwave resonators are easily suppressed with the stub-based structures. The fabricated filter has a low passband insertion loss (<; 2.0 dB), a 21.8% higher band edge tuning range, a 18.2% lower band edge tuning range, as well as wideband suppression (>; 15 dB at the frequencies up to 5.5 GHz).
Effects of inactivated and live cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on in vitro ruminal fermentation of diets with different forage:concentrate ratio

SUMMARY The effects of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, either inactivated (by osmotic pressure, designated IY) or provided as a culture containing live yeast cells (YC), on ruminal fermentation of two different diets were investigated in vitro. Total mixed rations (TMR) having forage:concentrate ratios of 0·6:0·4 (medium–high forage diet) and 0·2:0·8 (low-forage diet) were incubated in batch cultures of mixed ruminal micro-organisms to which either IY (to reach concentrations of 500 and 250 mg product/l incubation medium) or YC (at a concentration of 150 mg product/l) were added directly as powder. To evaluate the effects of the additive on ruminal microbial population, sheep used as donors of rumen fluid were allocated to three experimental groups: Control (no additive), IY and YC, that received a diet with the corresponding additive for 10 days. With both diets, YC decreased ruminal pH compared to control, whereas IY had no effect. Adding yeast products to the high-fibre diet affected total volatile fatty acid (VFA) production and VFA composition, in general with a slight increase in IY and a significantly greater increase in response to the addition of YC. Ammonia nitrogen (P=0·006), total gas production (P<0·001) and in vitro dry matter disappearance (IVD) (P<0·001) showed the highest values with YC. Methane production was higher than the control when the IY inoculum was used, and increased even more with the YC inoculum (P<0·001). With the high-concentrate TMR, no effects on total VFA concentration were observed when yeast additives were used. Similar trends were shown for lactate and methane production and total gas production, where values tended to be higher when using the YC inoculum (P values of 0·055, <0·001, 0·006 and <0·001, respectively). After 144 h of incubation, differences were observed only with the high-fibre diet in the cumulative gas production at 24 h of incubation and in the average fermentation rate, which was greater with YC, although the asymptotic gas production was not affected. These results indicate that live yeasts affect ruminal fermentation slightly more than inactivated yeasts, although both products require a regular administration and some adaptation of the ruminal microbial population for the stimulatory effects to become apparent. The effects of yeasts on ruminal fermentation are diet-dependent, being more noticeable with a high-fibre substrate, and subtle with a high-concentrate diet.
A Spatial and Temporal Exploration of the Determinants of Land Use Change , 1986 – 2010

This paper analyzes the pattern of growth of the Metropolitian Region of San José, Costa Rica, and how it has changed over time. The analysis is based on maps of the build-up area of the region for three points in time—1986, 1997, and 2010. These maps were developed using both supervised and unsupervised Landsat satellite images classified using land cover metrics following Angel et al. (2005) and Burchfield (2006). The results show that the region is more dispersed and less dense than other Latin American cities. However, over time, the build-up area has become more compact than in the initial observation period. To explain the possible determinants of growth and sprawl of the metropolitan build-up area, we use econometric analysis that shows statistically significant associations, consistent with theory, among sprawl and accessibility, hydrogeological resources and population, and prevalent agricultural crops.
Elevated Endothelin‐1 Levels Are Associated With Decreased Arterial Elasticity in Hypertensive Patients

Endothelin‐1 stimulates collagen synthesis and is increased in hypertension, but its effect on collagen degradation remains unknown. The current study tested the hypothesis that elevated endothelin‐1 levels are associated with decreased collagenase activity, markers of collagen degradation, and arterial compliance in hypertensive patients. Normotensive (n=10) and hypertensive (n=13) patients who were not on any antihypertensive medication were recruited, and small and large artery elasticity index, systemic vascular resistance, pulse pressure, and blood pressure were determined using blood pressure waveform analysis. Large artery elasticity index and collagen degradation products were decreased whereas endothelin‐1, systemic vascular resistance, and pulse pressure were elevated in hypertensive patients. Plasma endothelin‐1 was negatively correlated with a cross‐linked C‐terminal telopeptide of collagen type I, a collagen degradation marker (r=−0.43; p=0.04), collagenase matrix metalloproteinase‐1 (r=−0.48; p=0.02), and large artery elasticity (r=−0.45; p=0.03) and positively correlated with pulse pressure (r=0.68; p=0.0005). These results suggest that endothelin‐1 contributes to decreased arterial compliance in hypertension via inhibition of collagen degradation.
Glucocorticoids and Stress: Permissive and Suppressive Actions

Protection against stress by glucocorticoids is discussed in relation to their permissive and suppressive actions. Evidence from the last decade is summarized regarding the physiological nature of the suppressive actions, and the hypothesis that they prevent stress-activated defense mechanisms from overshooting and damaging the organism. Support for this hypothesis has come from observations on how endogenous or administered glucocorticoids control inflammatory and immune responses, protect in endotoxic and hemorrhagic shock, regulate central nervous system responses to stimuli, and moderate many defense reactions through suppression of cytokines and other mediators. Studies showing that glucocorticoids permissively induce receptors for several mediators that they suppress have led to a model in which stimulated activity of a mediator system is increased permissively through induction of mediator receptors and decreased through suppression of mediator production.
COHESIVE ZONE MODELING OF FAILURE IN UNDERFILLED BGA-PCB ASSEMBLIES UNDER BENDING

A cohesive zone model (CZM) was developed to simulate the delamination behavior of multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs) assembled with ball grid array (BGA) components that were reinforced with an underfill epoxy adhesive. Two different delamination modes were observed in the bending specimens: delamination at the interface between the solder mask and the first conducting layer of the PCB, and PCB subsurface delamination at the interface between the epoxy and glass fibers of one of the prepreg layers. The cohesive parameters for each of the two delamination interfaces were determined from fracture tests of bending test specimens consisting of PCB substrates bonded with the underfill adhesive. The model was able to accurately predict the fracture load and failure mode of the underfilled BGA-PCB assemblies.
Design of an Underactuated Gripper with a Floating Differential Actuator

Underactuated grippers are developed to grasp objects of varying shape and sizes without the need to rely on sensors and feedback systems. This main aspect makes underactuated grippers efficient in their ability to automatically distribute the actuation force to multiple outputs. Besides actuating multiple phalanges by the actuation principle, it is also possible to drive multiple fingers. An interesting approach is to give the actuator a spatial degree of freedom and suspend it such that it can provide its power both to the shaft as to the unconstrained degree of freedom. There already exist designs that apply this working principle to distribute a force to two and four fingers, without the need for additional differential mechanisms. In both cases the fingers are divided into two pairs, where one pair is connected to the rotor and the other to the stator. When the actuator is activated a force is transferred to the fingers connected to the rotor. The reaction force, caused by the actuation force, is acting on the stator and this force is transferred to the fingers connected to the stator. The aim of this report is to determine how the floating actuator principle can best be implemented such that the number of outputs is as high as possible. The theoretical maximum number of outputs a floating actuator differential can achieve is seven, namely six spatial degrees of freedom and the actuated shaft. In this report it was found that it highly unlikely that this system can provide seven outputs for a sufficient workspace, due to kinematic restraints introduced by dependencies between the orientation and the position of the actuator. For the concept with a maximum of six outputs the floating actuator principle can provide ample torque for a sufficient range of motion for the fingers. The prototype, as developed in this report, shows that the floating actuator principle works for a system with six outputs.