Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Identification and characterization of miRNA169 family members in banana (Musa acuminata L.) that respond to fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense infection in banana cultivars

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in plant resistance to pathogen infections. However, little is known about the role of miRNAs in banana Fusarium wilt, which is the most economically devastating disease in banana production. In the present study, we identified and characterized a total of 18 miR169 family members in banana (Musa acuminata L.) based on small RNA sequencing. The banana miR169 family clustered into two groups based on miRNA evolutionary analysis. Multiple sequence alignment indicated a high degree of sequence conservation in miRNA169 family members across 28 plant species. Computational target prediction algorithms were used to identify 25 targets of miR169 family members in banana. These targets were enriched in various metabolic pathways that include the following molecules: glycine, serine, threonine, pentose, glycerolipids, nucleotide sugars, starch, and sucrose. Through miRNA transcriptomic analysis, we found that ma-miR169a and ma-miR169b displayed high expression levels, whereas the other 16 ma-miR169 members exhibited low expression in the HG and Baxi banana cultivars. Further experiments indicate that there were negative relationships between ma-miR169a, ma-miR169b and their targets basing on their expression levels to Foc4 (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4) infection in resistant cultivars. But they were low expressed in susceptive cultivars. These results suggested that the expression levels of ma-miR169a and ma-miR169b were consistent with the resistance degree of the banana cultivars to Foc4. The analysis presented here constitutes a starting point to understand ma-miR169-mediated Fusarium wilt resistance at the transcriptional level in banana and predicts possible candidate targets for the genetic improvement of banana resistance to Foc4.
Climatic niche shift and possible future spread of the invasive South African Orchid Disa bracteata in Australia and adjacent areas

Orchids are generally regarded as plants with an insignificant invasive potential and so far only one species has proved to be harmful for native flora. However, previous studies on Epipactis helleborine and Arundina graminifolia indicate that the ecological aspects of range extension in their non-native geographical range are not the same for all species of orchids. Disa bracteata in its native range, South Africa, is categorized as of little concern in terms of conservation whereas in Australia it is naturalized and considered to be an environmental weed. The aim of this research was to determine the ecological preferences enabling the spread of Disa bracteata in Western and South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania and to evaluate the effect of future climate change on its potential range. The ecological niche modeling approach indicates that most of the accessible areas are already occupied by this species but future expansion will continue based on four climate change scenarios (rcp26, rcp45, rcp60, rcp85). Further expansion is predicted especially in eastern Australia and eastern Tasmania. Moreover, there are some unpopulated but suitable habitats in New Zealand, which according to climate change scenarios will become even more suitable in the future. The most striking result of this study is the significant difference between the environmental conditions recorded in the areas which D. bracteata naturally inhabits and invasive sites—that indicates a possible niche shift. In Australia the studied species continues to populate a new niche or exploit habitats that are only moderately represented in South Africa.
Relationship between Respiratory and Periodontal Health in Adults: A Case–Control Study

Aims and Objectives: The colonization of the respiratory pathogens has been found in the oral cavity. In the high-risk patients for lung infection; the risk factor is the high colonization of the respiratory pathogens in the oral cavity. The present study was performed with an aim to investigate the relationship between periodontal health and respiratory diseases. Material and Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in the individuals who were attending the outpatient department of dentistry and those who signed the informed consent to participate in the study. A total of 198 patients were included in the present study. Ninety-nine patients with respiratory diseases were included in the test group and 99 patients with normal pulmonary function were added in the control group. Spirometry was used for the confirmation of the lung diseases. We had assessed the clinical parameters such as plaque index, gingival index, loss of attachment, and community periodontal index with the help of SPSS software 15 and compared between cases and controls. Results: The mean age of control patients were 35.12 and for respiratory patients was 43.32. There were 65 males and 34 females in case group with respiratory diseases. The controls consisted of 63 males and 36 females. The high scores for various gingival and periodontal indexes in respiratory patients confirmed more periodontal destruction with respect to that group, compared to the nonrespiratory group. Conclusion: It is concluded that a strong association between periodontitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was found. The assessment of the risk factors along with patient education regarding the risk should be done so that suitable intervention strategies can be implemented.
Expanding the Molecular Glycophenotype Ontology to include model organisms and acquired diseases

Glycans are an underappreciated class of molecules despite the fact that they are implicated in more than 100 known diseases. We have developed an ontology model that captures glycan abnormalities at the molecular level (glycophenotypes) called the molecular glycophenotype ontology (MGPO). Only 30% of known glycosyltransferases have been implicated in human genetic disorders of glycosylation. Ortholog glycosyltransferases from model organism can cover relevant biological information on potential human diseases. Thus, extending MGPO to represent additional phenotypes and support annotation of model organism data will help cross-species comparison. Expansion of MGPO will also include annotation of glycophenotypes from acquired diseases. Keywords—glycansglycophenotypesdiseasesmodel organisms.
First Steps in Pixel Privacy: Exploring Deep Learning-based Image Enhancement against Large-Scale Image Inference

In this paper, we present several enhancement approaches for the Pixel Privacy Task of MediaEval 2018. The goal of this task is to use image enhancement techniques to fool the state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (ConvNet) classifiers in scene classification problem, and maintain the visual appeal of images. Our proposed approaches are based on image crop, adversarial perturbations and style transfer, respectively. Firstly, we showed the potential influence of easy-to-use image processing operations, i.e., cropping (center cropping and random cropping). In perturbation-based approach, we apply a white-box technique, which makes use of the information of ConvNet classifiers. Based on the experiments, we observed some limitations of this approach, caused by, for example, image preprocessing. In addition, we demonstrated the style transfer-based approach, which was not developed for privacy protection, could be also used to reduce the effectiveness of the classifiers for Large-scale Image Inference. Specifically, we implement black-box techniques based on the Generative Adversarial Network. Experimental results showed that style transfer-based approach could address privacy protection and appeal improvement simultaneously.
The 2018 Medico Multimedia Task Submission of Team NOAT Using Neural Network Features and Search-based Classification

In this paper, we describe our approach for the classification of medical images depicting the human gastrointestinal tract. Search-based classification is performed in three stages. In the first stage, we extract deep features for each image using pre-trained deep-learning models [1]. In the second stage, we use LIRE [3] to index the generated features, so that we can then, in the final stage, search the index for similar images and make our predictions based on the results. With this approach, we achieved a MCC score of 0 , 54 and a accuracy of 0 , 94, which shows that deep features combined with search-based classification are a viable option for medical image analysis.
Team ORG @ GameStory Task 2018

This paper describes the approach of the organizers’ team for a submission to the GameStory task at MediaEval 2018. Goal of the task is to provide a summary of a match of Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), a popular e-sports game, that boils down a long game to it’s most important events and delivers a story on the progress of the match. Our approach was to provide match statistics and overlay them with events and highlights of the game. We focused on ends of critical rounds, i.e. the rounds where one team took the lead over the other one, and kill streaks, where one player eliminated a substantial number of other players in short time.
Exploring Three Views on Image Enhancement for Pixel Privacy

The aim of the MediaEval 2018 Pixel Privacy task is to increase image appeal while blocking automatic inference of sensitive scene information. We investigate three different views from which we could consider enhancement: the view of the image aesthetics field, the view of automatic large-scale aesthetics inference models, and the view of social media users who reflect on their own photographic practices. Systematic image editing can do better than one-size-fits-all-filters with helping casual social media users find the desired photo look. Machine learning aesthetics assessment falls short when inferring individual preferences. A qualitative user study gives insight into the diversity and complexity of preferences.
Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective

1. SYNTACTIC ARGUMENTATION AND RADICAL CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR 2. Parts of Speech 3. Syntactic Categories and Semantic Relativity 4. Grammatical Relations/Syntactic Roles 5. DEPENDENCY, CONSTITUENCY, AND LINEAR ORDER 6. A Radical Approach to Syntactic Relations 7. Heads, Complements, and Adjuncts 8. THE VOICE CONTINUUM 9. The Coordination-Subordination Continuum 10. Syntactic Theory and the Theory of Language
The Integrative use of Anatomy Ontology and Protein-protein Interaction Networks to Study Evolutionary Phenotypic Transitions

Studying evolutionary phenotypic transitions, such as the fin to limb transition, is popular in evolutionary biology. The recent advances in next-generation technologies have accumulated large volumes of genomics and proteomics data, which can be used to analyze the genetic basis for evolutionary phenotypic transitions. Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks can be used to predict candidate genes and identify gene modules related to evolutionary phenotypes; however, they suffer from low gene prediction accuracy. Therefore, an integrative framework was developed using PPI networks and anatomy ontology, which significantly improved the accuracy of network-based candidate gene predictions in zebrafish and mouse. This integrative framework will also be used to identify gene modules associated with the fin to limb transition and to study the changes in these modules which lead to the phenotypic change. KeywordsAnatomy ontology; network analysis; proteinprotein interactions; data integration; gene prediction.
Etude et réalisation d'une électronique rapide à bas bruit pour un détecteur de rayons X à pixels hybrides destiné à l'imagerie du petit animal

Depuis l'invention du scanner, les detecteurs a integration de charges sont largement employes pour les applications d'imagerie biomedicale utilisant des rayons X. Neanmoins, des alternatives existent. Les developpements realises en instrumentation pour les experiences en physique des hautes energies ont permis l'emergence d'une nouvelle technologie de detection directe a base de semiconducteur. Cette nouvelle technologie, appelee detecteur a pixels hybrides, fonctionne en mode comptage de photons et permet de selectionner l'energie minimum des photons comptes. Le groupe imXgam du CPPM developpe le demonstrateur PIXSCAN, un tomodensitometre a rayons X base sur le detecteur a pixels hybrides XPAD. L'objectif de ce developpement est d'evaluer l'impact de la technologie a pixels hybrides sur la qualite des images et sur la dose delivree lors d'examens tomodensitometriques du petit animal. Suite a un premier prototype de detecteur a pixels hybrides XPAD1 demontrant la faisabilite du projet, un imageur complet XPAD2 a ete concu et integre dans le demonstrateur PIXSCAN. Depuis, avec l'evolution de l'industrie de la microelectronique, des ameliorations notables ont ete envisageables. Pour reduire la taille des pixels et ameliorer la precision en energie des detecteurs, une troisieme version XPAD3 a ete developpee et sera prochainement integree dans un demonstrateur PIXSCAN de deuxieme generation. Dans ce projet, mon travail de these a porte sur une participation a la conception des electroniques de lecture des detecteurs, la caracterisation des circuits et des detecteurs a pixels hybrides ainsi que sur la definition d'une architecture d'autocalibration des pixels en energie.
A New Methodology for the Design of Robust Supply Chains Based on Orthogonal Arrays DOE and Computer Simulation

This paper presents a new approach to estimate supply chain (SC) robustness using fractional factorial design based on orthogonal arrays design of experiments (DOE) and computer simulation. It defines supply chain robustness as a function of the main parameters that set the SC inventory control policy. The new methodology uses Taguchi’s orthogonal arrays to estimate the robustness effect of each parameter in the supply chain. The research considers supply chain robustness as being insensitive to noises to the supply chain design parameters. Three traditional inventory control policies are considered for a supply chain comprising of a retailer and a manufacturer: (Q, r), (S, s), and (MA, r). To estimate the SC performance for each scenario, simulation experiments were performed. The most robust SC scenario was identified as having the manufacturer operating with (Q,r) and the retailer with (MA,r).
Selección automática de imágenes. Photo- Storytelling

En este proyecto se estudia como generar un resumen de una coleccion de fotografias seleccionandolas automaticamente.Se construye un sistema capaz de permitir a un usuario subir una coleccion de imagenes a una plataforma web, que estas sean procesadas y posteriormente darle la opcion de generar un resumen automatico de su coleccion personal.Realizar la seleccion automatica de imagenes es una tarea muy compleja debido a todos los factores a tener en cuenta a la hora de escogerlas. Eventos temporales, estetica de las imagenes, personajes que deben o no aparecer en la seleccion son algunos de los factores importantes y que hay que tener muy en cuenta a la hora de realizar la seleccion automatica.En este proyecto veremos como se ha construido el sistema, como se ha implementado el algoritmo de seleccion automatica y las mejoras que se han llevado a cabo para mejorarlo en precision y tiempo de ejecucion.Para la evaluacion del algoritmo implementado se han realizado pruebas con usuarios que nos han permitido detectar algunos de los problemas del algoritmo.Finalmente, se presentan las conclusiones y el trabajo futuro.
Rings: Symbols of Wealth, Power and Affection

Rings are unique among personal adornments: none other carries such a weight of symbolism. Rings can be enjoyed for themselves as objects of beauty; but equally fascinating are the meanings that have been attached to them. With rings, lovers and wedded couples pledged their faith, kings and popes exercised their power, noblemen displayed their lineage, merchants marked their goods. Rings warned their wearers to meditate on salvation; commemorated the dead; proclaimed loyalties. Almost every example awakens a human story to life. To her history of rings from the Middle Ages to modern times, Diana Scarisbrick brings an unequalled knowledge of remarkable treasures in museums, private collections and salerooms. She notes the choice of specific gems, the role of the goldsmith, and changes in taste, design and attitudes; and she unravels the iconography of rings. Memoirs, inventories and imaginative literature, together with contemporary portraits, illuminate the social context. Rings of significance and rings for show, rings that have adorned the fingers of Richard Coeur-de-Lion and the Duchess of Windsor all are described, explained and illustrated in enlargements that convey the excitement of handling the jewels themselves. Infinitely precious yet unobtrusive, personal and enigmatic, rings still speak to us in a language that defies time. Diana Scarisbrick is an art historian specializing in the history of jewelry and engraved gems. She has curated exhibitions on jewelry at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She writes a monthly jewellery column for "Harpers and Queen" magazine, and contributes regularly to "Country Life", "Apollo" and "The Burlington Magazine".
Dysinhibition im sensorische System bei Patienten mit zervikaler Dystonie

Die Bedeutung des sensorischen Systems in der Pathophysiologie der zervikalen Dystonie wurde bereits seit Beschreibung der „sensory tricks“ (‚geste antagonistique’) mit dieser Erkrankung in Verbindung gebracht. In der letzten Zeit wurde das Ausmas des Einflusses des sensorischen Systems fur die Entwicklung und Auspragung der dystonen Symptome zunehmend diskutiert. Wir konnten eine ungenugende Hemmung des sensorischen Systems bei zervikaler Dystonie mittels fMRT demonstrieren. Dies entspricht fruheren elektrophysiologischen Ergebnissen. Die Beobachtung der sensorischen Dysinhibition spiegelt sehr wahrscheinlich eine generelle Dysinhibition des somatosensorischen Systems bei zervikaler Dystonie wieder und zeigt, dass diese weder auf das motorische System noch auf die direkten neuronalen Reprasentation der von der Dystonie betroffenen Muskeln beschrankt ist. Der SMA unterstutzt die neuronale Uberaktivitat bei fehlender oder unzureichender Ruckmeldung der durch BoTN-A gelahmten Muskeln, wahrend er eine verminderte Aktivitat bei besonders schwer betroffenen Patienten (z.B. bei hohem TWSTRS-Wert) zeigt, bei welchen ein besonders hoher Muskeltonus anzunehmen ist.
Resource allocation systems

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Anomalias congênitas em fetos bovinos abortados no Sul do Brasil

Abortion, stillbirth and neonatal death are important causes of production losses to the livestock industry. Abortions caused by congenital anomalies may occur sporadically, or appear in epidemics. This retrospective study was conducted at Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and included 307 cases of bovine abortion submitted for diagnosis from September 2001 to March 2007. Most of them were from southern Brazil. Ten cases (3.25%) of congenital anomalies were seen. The most frequent congenital anomalies were artrogryposis, Amorphous globosus, and cleft palate (palatoschisis). Infectious causes were investigated, but only BVDV infection was detected by immunohistochemistry in one case, which was affected with porencephalia.
Attrition in Relationship to the Psychotherapy Delivery System

Attrition from treatments of all health varieties has long been an annoyance to researchers and practitioners. This paper looks at attrition in less pejorative terms and weaves it, briefly, into a conceptually new arrangement, viz., the study of the service delivery system. This system has known empirical/statistical and conceptual parameters that make the system robust and ubiquitous. What was once a pejorative understanding of attrition now becomes a Phoenix arising from the ashes to bloom and develop in new and heuristic directions. Some new directions stimulate study of the service delivery system, qua system, and many hypotheses arising therefrom.
Um Algoritmo para Roteamento com Interferência Mı́nima

Minimum Interference Routing is instrumental to MPLS Traffic Engineering under realistic assumptions of unknown traffic demand. This work presents a new algorithm for minimum interference routing, called Light Minimum Interference Routing (LMIR). This algorithm introduces a new approach for critical link identification that reduces the computational complexity. Results, derived via simulation, show that LMIR is precise and has low computational complexity.
Paradigms behind a discussion on artificial intelligent/smart systems

We use the description of the foregoing paradigms for the benefit of an intelligent vs. smart discourse: 1) AS with consciousness would be the result of the development of quantum computers. 2) AS based on logical modules are implemented using our present computers. AS based on expedient recognizers of the outside-world features are implemented with artificial neural networks with chaotic behavior that generates symbols. 4) AS which have been implemented with low-level behavioral modules generate reactivity. The "difference" between intelligent and smart discourses boils down to the fact that intelligent systems are those with the greatest degree of smartness. The ASs proposed here always implies restricted resources for problem solving. Typically, systems or machines are dubbed "smart" when they solve special problems with fewer resources than the brain. Each smart AS is self-organized. We postulate that the combining of paradigms leads to the implementation of artificial systems that are smarter than their components alone. We suspect that this is what the Body Brain does dynamically. The mechanism of the Body Brain makes its smartness superior to that of any other mechanism because it is supported by a large menu of resources combined by the brain on demand.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

was taken too late in the course of illness. e Inconclusive tests may include (i) a positive screening test on a single real-time reverse transcription PCR target without further con ﬁ rmation and (ii) evidence of sero-reactivity by a single convalescent serum sample, ideally taken at least 14 days after exposure by a screening assay (ELISA or IFA) and a neutralization assay in the absence of molecular con ﬁ rmation from respiratory specimens.