Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
An improved bio‐optical model for the remote sensing of Trichodesmium spp. blooms

L � 1 . Using the in situ data set, this model is trained to successfully predict Trichodesmium blooms (� 92%) while minimizing false positive retrievals (� 16% of nonbloom observations). A validation of the approach applied to Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) ocean color imagery shows that the model correctly predicts 76% of the bloom occurrences of an independent validation data set of in situ Trichodesmium observations. Ultimately, maps of Trichodesmium bloom occurrence will provide a means of addressing the ecology of Trichodesmium and its contribution to new production of the world oceans.
The Active Fractional Order Control for Maglev Suspension System

Maglev suspension system is the core part of maglev train. In the practical application, the load uncertainties, inherent nonlinearity, and misalignment between sensors and actuators are the main issues that should be solved carefully. In order to design a suitable controller, the attention is paid to the fractional order controller. Firstly, the mathematical model of a single electromagnetic suspension unit is derived. Then, considering the limitation of the traditional PD controller adaptation, the fractional order controller is developed to obtain more excellent suspension specifications and robust performance. In reality, the nonlinearity affects the structure and the precision of the model after linearization, which will degrade the dynamic performance. So, a fractional order controller is addressed to eliminate the disturbance by adjusting the parameters which are added by the fractional order controller. Furthermore, the controller based on LQR is employed to compare with the fractional order controller. Finally, the performance of them is discussed by simulation. The results illustrated the validity of the fractional order controller.
E- and F-region coupling between an intense sporadic E layer and a mesoscale traveling ionospheric disturbance

Considerable controversy exists concerning the relative roles of the E- and F-regions in controlling irregularity formation in the mid-latitude ionosphere, largely because electric fields due to a plasma instability in one region may map to the other if the perpendicular scales are sufficiently large. In this paper we look at a particularly fortuitous data set in which both E- and F-region observations were made using incoherent scatter radar, GPS, lidar, and coherent scatter radar. In this event, a dense, patchy sporadic E layer was detected that exhibited type I (two-stream) coherent echoes while, at the same time, the F-layer plasma was highly structured with plasma drifts of hundreds of m/s. We examine this event in the context of a mesoscale traveling ionospheric disturbance. The data presentation will be followed by comparison with current theories for coupling between these two regions.
Mannanoligosaccharides or flavomycin in turkeys diets: effect on mucosa-associated microflora and growth performance

Maintaining gut health and well balanced intestinal microflora is important for the profitable production of high quality poultry. We investigated the impact of mannanoligosaccharides (MOS) in comparison with flavomycin on turkeys performance and intestinal colonization by harmful and beneficial microflora. Two hundred forty turkeys (four replicates of 12 birds per treatment) were fed on diet supplemented with flavomycin (8 mg/kg feed) or with low (1g/kg feed during the entire study), medium (4 and 2 g/kg feed in the first and second 8-week periods, respectively) and high (10 and 4 g/kg feed in the first and second 8-week periods, respectively) level of MOS. Basal diet without supplements was applied as control. After 16 weeks of feeding, the animals were sacrificed and microbial populations (Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, streptococci, Escherichia coli and other enterobacteria) attached to the colonic epithelium were assessed. Moreover, colonic epithelia were washed to remove the bound microorganisms and examined for their susceptibility for colonization by exogenous probiotic and pathogenic strains in vitro. In all experimental groups the reduction of the bacteria attached to the epithelium was found, except for increase of streptococci in flavomycinreceiving group and bifidobacteria in flavomycin and MOS-receiving groups. Higher doses of MOS had stimulating effect on body weight gain. In vitro studies revealed a great potential of MOS to reduce attachment of enterobacteria and in higher doses to enhance adhesion of Bifidobacterium and selected Lactobacillus strains (P<0.05).
Using Rapeseed Cake to Improve Fatty Acid Composition of Turkey Meat

Rapeseed is the most widely used oil crop in Europe and it is an ideal raw material for the production of biodiesel. Because of a high nutritional value and a relatively high omega-3 fatty acids content, rapeseed cake can be used in poultry nutrition for the enrichment of meat and eggs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the possibility of using rapeseed cake in diets for turkeys for the purpose of enriching turkey meat with omega-3 fatty acids. In the study, 120 male day-old Nicholas 700 turkeys were used and randomly divided into 3 groups, each group with 4 replications (n= 10). The control groups of turkeys were fed on compound feed without rapeseed cake and the experimental groups were fed with 5 or 10% share of rapeseed cake in compound feed. Based on the results obtained, we can conclude that the share of rapeseed cake of 5 or 10% in the compound feed did not cause any adverse impact on the performance of turkeys. Also, we established that there was an increase of the amount of omega-3 fatty acids with increased share of rapeseed cake and there was a positive trend of a decrease of the ratio of omega-6/omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Positive financial effect of fattening can be expected, because rapeseed cake is a cheaper source of protein in comparison with the commonly used soybean meal. Therefore, rapeseed cake can be recommended in fattening of hybrid turkeys, with a share up to 10% in the compound feed.
Deep spectroscopy of nearby galaxy clusters – II. The Hercules cluster

We carried out the deep spectroscopic observations of the nearby cluster A2151 with AF2/WYFFOS@WHT. The caustic technique enables us to identify 360 members brighter than $M_r = -16$ and within 1.3$R_{200}$. We separated the members into subsamples according to photometrical and dynamical properties such as colour, local environment and infall time. The completeness of the catalogue and our large sample allow us to analyse the velocity dispersion and the luminosity functions of the identified populations. We found evidence of a cluster still in its collapsing phase. The LF of the red population of A2151 shows a deficit of dwarf red galaxies. Moreover, the normalized LFs of the red and blue populations of A2151 are comparable to the red and blue LFs of the field, even if the blue galaxies start dominating one magnitude fainter and the red LF is well represented by a single Schechter function rather than a double Schechter function. We discuss how the evolution of cluster galaxies depends on their mass: bright and intermediate galaxies are mainly affected by dynamical friction and internal/mass quenching, while the evolution of dwarfs is driven by environmental processes which need time and a hostile cluster environment to remove the gas reservoirs and halt the star formation.
Selection of big sagebrush by sage grouse

Fet-ding sites of wintering sage grouse (Ccntrocercus ur()))hasianus ) were located, one each in stands ot three subspecies of big sagebrush {Artemisia tridentata: ssp. tridciitata, basin; ssp. vaseyana. mountain; and ssp. ivtjomin^ensis, Wyoming). Evidences of diflerential use of plants within subspecies were observed. Whole leaves from fed-on and nonfed-on big sagebrush plants were examined for intrasubspecies chemical comparisons of crude protein, phosphorus, in vitro digestibilit\ , and monoterpenoids. No significant differences were detected e.xcept for in vitro digestibility (<f Wyoming fed-on and nonfed-on big sagebrush and monoterpenoid content of basin big sagebrush. Nutritive content of all three subspecies was high, which may in part help to explain wintering sage grouse weight
Scaling range of velocity and passive scalar spectra in grid turbulence

Isotropic velocity and scalar fluctuations are closely approximated by slightly stretching a heated grid flow through a short (1.36:1) contraction. The heating is such that temperature serves as a passive scalar, and the velocity/scalar time scale ratio is about one. At small values of Taylor microscale Reynolds number (10 102) indicate that, to obtain a 5/3 scaling range, Rλ must exceed 103. The ratio (5/3 + mu)/mθ is approximately 2, in close conformity with the proposal of Danaila and.
Patterns of seasonal and tidal feeding activity in the dendrochirote sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the Bay of Fundy, Canada

In situ field observations of the suspension-feeding North Atlantic sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa from the Bay of Fundy, Canada, conducted over a 3 yr period, revealed a seasonal feeding rhythm. Sea cucumbers extended their tentacles and began feeding in March/April and ceased feeding in September/October. There were significant relationships between this feeding activity daylength and the quality of the seston, but not its concentration. Together daylength and chloropigment concentration explained 49% of the variability in the percentage of feeding sea cucumbers. Feeding activity was not significantly correlated with the distinct temperature cycle observed in the study area. Feeding activity was influenced by the state of the tide, water temperature and by daylight during some periods of the feeding season. However, for most of the year these factors appeared not to be important. Sea cucumbers increased their rate of tentacle insertion into the mouth as the quality of the seston increased. The rate of tentacle insertions increased with increasing seston chloropigment concentration but decreased with increasing current speed. These 2 environmental variables explained about 28% of the variability in tentacle insertion rates. Seston quality is likely the major environmental variable influencing seasonal feeding behaviour and feeding rate in this species.
Antioxidant Activities of Rubus coreanus Miquel and Morus alba L. Fruits

The antioxidant activities of extracts from Rubus coreanus Miquel (black raspberry) and Morus alba L. (mulberry) fruits were investigated using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay, 2,2-azino-bis-(3-ethylbenzo- thiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS) assay, and reducing power assay. Aqueous mixtures of ethanol, methanol, and acetone were analyzed in order to determine the most effective extraction solvent for the two fruits. Black raspberry and mulberry extracts with the 60:40 acetone-water mixtures (v/v) showed the highest DPPH radical scavenging activities (56.2 and 85.2%, respectively) compared to the other extraction solvents. The 60% acetone extract was finally selected as an extraction solvent and then sequentially fractionated according to solvent polarity. Among the fractions of the two fruits, the ethyl acetate fraction showed the highest antioxidant activity as well as total phenolic and total flavonoid contents. In addition, there were high correlation coefficients between antioxidant activities and their contents. The EC50 value of the ethyl acetate fraction from mulberry fruit was 2.2 times lower than that of butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) in DPPH assay. The major phenolic acid and anthocyanin of the two fruits were protocatechuic acid and cyani- din-3-glucoside, respectively.
Multiclass imbalance learning

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Perceived Organizational Support as a Mediator of the Relationship between Effort-Reward Fairness, Affective Commitment, and Intention to Leave

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between perceived effort-reward fairness, perceived organizational support, affective commitment, and intention to leave. Survey was used as a data collection method in this study. 176 junior and middle level managers working in service industries in the city of Istanbul in Turkey took the survey. Data obtained from surveys was analyzed through the SPSS statistical package software (v.18). Hierarchical regression analysis was employed to test the hypotheses in this study. The results show that perceived organizational support fully mediates the positive relationship between effort-reward fairness, affective commitment, and perceived organizational support while fully mediating the negative relationship between effort-reward fairness and intention to leave.
The impact of internal environmental factors on the level of adoption of human resource information system: the case of manufacturing companies in Western province of Sri Lanka

The aim of this study is to identify the impact of internal environmental factors on the level of adoption of Human Resource Information System (HRIS). The current study was designed to identify the impact of internal environment factors on the level of adoption of HRIS in manufacturing companies in western province of Sri Lanka. A structured questionnaire was designed, pre-tested, modified, and used to capture data on a cross-section of HRIS adoption manufacturing companies in Western province. Findings of this study concluded that internal environmental factors such as socio technology skills of CEO, top management support, centralization and HRIS experience of employees have a positive impact on the level of adoption of HRIS. In addition, this study provides some insights into the level of adoption of HRIS by manufacturing companies, which will aid HR practitioners to acquire a better understanding of the current status, benefits, and barriers on adoption of HRIS. However, there may be other factors which need inclusion to better explain extent of adoption of HRIS in manufacturing companies in western province of Sri Lanka.
Hydro-elastic finite element model of a vocal fold replica

Experimental vocal fold replicas are currently used in speech production studies in order to validate simplified models on controllable devices. In addition to in-situ mechanical characterization, it is important to be able to understand their behavior when changing assembly properties or using parameters control to tune the folds, by developing a model able to predict their static and dynamic motions. This also enables to describe more complex vibration behaviors which could be harder to observe experimentally. This paper first presents a hydro-elastic finite element model of a single vocal fold. Numerical results are discussed, along with a parametric analysis. Then this model is extended to take into account the effect of the water pressure on the inflation of the folds and on the resonance frequencies. A hyper-elastic calculation is first used to simulate the latex inflation. An updated Lagrangian approach processes it as a pre-stress term in a modal analysis calculation for the small amplitude vibrations of the hydro-elastic structure, which allows to model the water pressure influence on the mechanical resonances of the simulated replica.
VALE-Emotions: Aplicación móvil de enseñanza para individuos con Desordenes del Espectro Autista

En este articulo, se presenta el desarrollo de una aplicacion movil interactiva para fortalecer el aprendizaje de reconocimiento de emociones en ninos con Desordenes del Espectro Autista (ASD, en ingles). Esta App forma parte de un Avanzado Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizaje (VALE, en ingles), propuesto por los autores para soportar actividades de ensenanza y aprendizaje. La App VALE-Emotions esta fundamentada en las seis emociones basicas estudiadas por (Paul Ekman, 1992), pero no esta limitada solo al reconocimiento de tales emociones en sus maximos niveles de intensidad. De hecho, la App permite determinar el reconocimiento efectivo de estas emociones a diferentes niveles de intensidad. Tales niveles de intensidad son generados por una codificacion propuesta por los autores mediante un DFE (Expresiones Faciales Dinamicas, en espanol) usando avatars virtuales. Cada actividad de aprendizaje es realizada a traves de aplicaciones de entrenamiento y evaluacion, dando la oportunidad a los usuarios de desarrollar, aprender y fortalecer libremente habilidades sociales de una manera entretenida. Ademas, se reportan los resultados de experimentacion usando VALE-Emotions en individuos con ASD. En general, los participantes mostraron una eficiente respuesta a los estimulos durante las actividades desarrolladas obteniendo un alto y rapido reconocimiento de ciertas emociones.
Delineation Lithuanian agricultural land for agro-ecological suitability for farming using soil and terrain criteria

Abstract The aim of investigation is to analyse and classify the state of agricultural land affected by naturalbiophysical, that is, soil and terrain-slope, handicaps on its overall agro-ecological suitability for agricultural use. For the classification of land for suitability with respect to sustainable use and efficient protection, the following actual criteria were selected: soil texture, soil drainage and terrainslope. For identifying the relatively homogeneous areas, the Ward hierarchical cluster method was used. According to our estimates, Lithuanian agricultural land with unfavourable soil texture, poorly soil drainage and steep slopes covers an area of 33.59, 4.76 and 1.03% of total agricultural area, respectively. On the basis of functional classification of state of agro-ecological conditions of Lithuania, two orders of suitability (S-suitable, N-not suitable) and five land suitability classes were identified and delineated: S1 (highly suitable) included 10 district municipalities, S2 (moderately suitable) included 12 district municipalities, S3 (marginally suitable) included 15 district municipalities, N1 (currently not suitable) included 10 district municipalities and N2 (permanently not suitable) included 4 district municipalities. S3 occupies the largest (29.80%) share of the Lithuanian territory and N2 the least (5.66%). The land suitable for agriculture means with suitability classes S1, S2 and S3 was found on an area of 2,960,562 ha, which is 81.6% of the total land. In addition, soil texture was the most important factor causing differences in the classes of suitability. On the basis of natural limiting factors from an agronomic and eco-environmental perspective, the optimal sustainable development in agrosphere and a balanced-practical concept of land management and proper land use policy is presented. It is a reasonable base for agroecological regionalisation of Lithuania.
Tumbling buildings , wine aromas and tennis players : Fictive and metaphorical motion across genres

The use of motion verbs to convey a dynamic view of intrinsically static scenes and/or entities (e.g. climbing roads) has been well documented within cognitive linguistics. However, most research has focused on general and, often, de-contextualised language and has not gone beyond what is referred to as fictive or abstract motion (Talmy 1996, 2000; Matlock 2004; Langacker 1986, 1987; Matsumoto 1996), explaining the phenomenon as the result of cognitive operations which have nothing to do with metaphor as this is understood within the cognitive paradigm. The present work explores motion verbs in tennis match reports, architectural reviews and tasting notes, and discusses their metaphorical quality since the target domains are not related to motion, but use elements from that domain to comment upon such abstract concepts as victory and defeat in tennis, as well as more concrete entities like wines and buildings. I am particularly concerned with how those topics are metaphorically rendered in texts. Thus, versus the mainstream view of the source domain as bearing the brunt in a metaphorical mapping, I will attempt to show that in order to analyse, interpret and understand metaphor the topic at issue –i.e. the target in the mapping– should not be neglected. However, this claim can only be sustained if metaphor is explored from a situated perspective, that is, one that narrows the study to a manageable and concrete discourse instance –e.g. one or several genres– and uses both real and abundant data –an endeavour that benefits greatly from the use of corpora.
Evaluation of apoptosis in myocardial injury in cases of medicolegal death

The most common cause of sudden unexpected deaths is cardiovascular system diseases. Ischemic heart injuries take the biggest part in this group. Cardiac diseases such as coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction play a significant role in forensic medicine practice due to being very common and fatal. Therefore, many methods are being tried in postmortem diagnosis and reliability and validity studies are performed for these methods. In this study, we aimed to investigate the postmortem diagnostic features of apoptosis in the myocytes in myocardial injury. For this reason, apoptosis conditions were evaluated using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labelling (TUNEL), Bcl-2, Fas, and p53 immunohistochemical staining methods in the myocardial tissues of 43 medicolegal autopsies. The cases that have 75% or more stenosis in at least one of the coronary arteries and that had been diagnosed with myocardial infarction apoptosis markers are stained in a higher rate. In the cases that have 50% or more stenosis in at least one coronary artery, Fas and bax staining were found as statistically significant. Apoptosis may be helpful in diagnosing the cases with myocardial injury such as acute myocardial infarction and Bcl-2, bax, Fas, p53 markers and TUNEL staining method may be used for his purpose. We think that these methods may be insufficient due to the low specificity and suggest supporting them with other methods.
Genomic Structure and Expression of the Porcine ACTC 1 Gene

Stratil A. , Horák P., Nesvadbová M. , Van Poucke M. , Dvořáková V. , Stupka R. , Čítek J., Zadinová K. , Peelman L.J., Knoll A. (2018): Genomic structure and expression of the porcine ACTC1 gene. Czech J. Anim. Sci., 63, 371–378. A partial cDNA (~1200 bp) of the porcine ACTC1 gene was identified in the subtracted foetal hind limb muscle cDNA library (44 days of gestation; using m. biceps femoris cDNA as the driver). Using specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers, a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clone containing the genomic ACTC1 gene was identified and the gene was sequenced. Specific PCR primers designed from the BAC and cDNA sequences were used for amplification and comparative sequencing of ACTC1 of Pietrain and Meishan pigs. The gene is approximately 5.4 kb in length, is composed of 7 exons, and has a coding sequence containing 1134 bp. The gene was mapped using the INRA-Minnesota porcine radiation hybrid (IMpRH) panel to chromosome 1, with SW65 as the closest marker (41 cR; LOD = 7.73). Differences were observed in tissue-specific expression of ACTC1 that was studied by transcription profiling in 28 porcine tissues. Developmental differences in muscle and heart were analysed by real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were found in intron 1. One adequately informative SNP (FM212567.1:g.901C>G) was genotyped by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism, and allele frequencies in eight pig breeds were calculated.