Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Expression of putative effectors of different Xylella fastidiosa subspecies/strains reveals recognition and defense activation in various model plants

The re-emergence of Gram-negative bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in Europe in 2013 impelled the scientific community to discover novel strategies for crop protection. The wide host range of Xylella indicates the existence of yet not characterized pathogenic mechanisms to overcome plant defenses. The recent uprising accuracy of a variety of bioinformatics tools, with the ability to predict the function of putative microbial protein represent a useful approach for understanding which of these proteins are associated with pathogens virulence. In this study we collected a number of putative effectors from two X. fastidiosa strains: Temecula1 and CoDiRo and the subspecies (ssp.) Sandyi Ann-1. We designed an in-planta Agrobacterium based expression system that drives the expressed proteins to the cell apoplast, in order to investigate their ability to activate defense in various model plants. Furthermore, we organized the resulted proteins according to their sequential and structural similarities via the I-TASSER online tool. We identified that various X. fastidiosa proteins were able to differentially elicit cell death-like phenotypes in Nicotiana tabacum, N. sylvestris and N. benthamiana. These proteins are members of different enzymatic groups: a) hydrolases/hydrolases inhibitors, b) serine proteases and c) metal transferases. Collectively, we identified structurally similar proteins that were able to differentially elicit cell death-like phenotypes in different cultivars of the same species. Our findings provide the bases for further studies on the mechanisms that underlie host-defense activation by X. fastidiosa putative effectors, as well as, pathogens adaptation in susceptible hosts.
Assessing the mineral dust from North Africa over Portugal region using BSC-DREAM8b model

Abstract Over the last decade, air pollution has become a major problem in Portugal mainly due to the high concentrations of particulate matter in the atmosphere, which surpassed the daily limit values. An abundant type of natural atmospheric aerosol is related with the suspension and long–range transport of mineral dust from North Africa deserts. The main objective of this work was to assess the mineral dust over Portugal, namely in what concerns both long–term period (one year) and episode peaks. The BSC–DREAM8b v1.0 model was applied for the entire year of 2011 and the modeled surface concentrations were explored. The annual mean of the simulated dust has a magnitude of 2–6 μg m–3. The monthly average analysis highlights the largest mineral dust average values in April and May (about 4 μg m–3 higher than the other months). The influence of the transport of mineral dust from North Africa to Portugal is limited on time scale, since in 50% of the time this contribution is below 0.2 μg m–3. Only when high percentiles are analyzed the dust surface concentrations over Portugal become relevant (>3 μg m–3; with peak contribution around 10–25 μg m–3). To characterize the strongest episodes of dust, a group of days with modeled surface daily concentrations above 5 μg m–3 was selected, and data were extracted for 7 sites, spatially distributed along Portugal. A cluster analysis of the air parcels back trajectories that arrive at each site was performed in order to identify the mean flow patterns associated to each mineral dust episode. The prevalence of the flow regimes coming from North Africa during the episode days was different for the studied sites, with high frequency (above 70%) at south sites. This work contributes to the characterization and assessment of the dust episodes that affect Portugal, on a yearly basis and based on a modeling approach.
Forest Farmer Groups' Perception and Behavior in relation to Climate Change Mitigation

Forest Management Units (FMUs) plays important roles in Indonesia's commitment to mitigate climate change, especially in the land-based sector. Forest land in FMU is managed by FMU managers and communities around the forest. The study aims to identify people's perceptions and behavior around the RPH Mangunan related to climate change mitigation. Data collection methods are household surveys of KPH land users, in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, and focus group discussion. The data analysis method used is descriptive analysis. The result shows that forest farmers groups understood forests' ecological function. However, the level of community understanding regarding forest as carbon sinks and storage was still limited. Forest farmer group members are willing to be involved in protecting the forest. Forest farmer group members are still interested in carrying out agroforestry activities within the KPH area. Still, with the development of tourism, there has been a shift in agroforestry activities to ecotourism.
Attribute based Encrypted and Secured Cloud based Personal Health Record System

As cloud computing has become an incredibly important task in real life, security of privacy in many areas, in especially in the context of Personal Health Record (PHR), has indeed been given growing attention. The traditional encryption based on ciphertext policy (CP-ABE) allows you to control the scrambled PHR information policy in a fine-grained manner, however the accessing policy is also sent with the cipher text. The entry policy, however, cannot activate the anonymity of users, as it includes an excessively large number of confidential information from valid users of software. It is now important to ensure the privacy of users through hiding access strategies. The overwhelming majority of previous plans however have to deal with two problems: (1) certain plans do not accept a wide universe of the attributes, hence their common sense in PHR is considerably reduced and (2) the decryption costs are very high because the entry scheme is set up in cypher text. Their utility is thus drastically limited. To resolve these problems, we create a CP-ABE plot with proficient decryption, where both the scale of available parameters and the cost of decryption are steady. In addition, by using the dual system encoding technique, we demonstrate that the proposed conspire achieves full safety in the standard model.
AN EVALUATION OF TIME MOVEMENT ANTICIPATION AMONG FEMALE ATHLETES OF VARIOUS SPORTS

Anticipation in sport is the ability of the athlete to make decisions and to act ahead of time (Surkov, 1982). (Taylor 2016) noted that expert advantage in utilising informative cues for anticipation remains stable across sports, the cues that are most important or relevant for effective anticipation varies depending on the type of sport. Zhu ( 2012) mentioned that there is great potential in using technology-based assessment to overcome the limitations of traditional measurement methods. The Vienna Test System (VTS) developed by Schuh-fried GmbH (Moedling, Austria) is one such computerized system that is able to analyse many different sport psychology-related constructs. ZBA (Time/ Movement Anticipation Test) that measures time and movement anticipation ability, in which a green ball moves at a certain trajectory and suddenly disappears after a while. Participants are required to indicate where the ball hits the target line and the point on the target line where the ball will pass. The present study focused of highlighting possible differences in time and movement anticipation of visual stimuli movement. For this 45 university female athletes aged between 19 to 24 years with a mean and SD of 22.73± 2.14 of various sports (i.e. cricket, football and hockey; N=15 from each), ZBA was measured for mean deviation time (MDT)-slow and mean deviation time (MDT)-fast. ANOVA results revealed no significant difference among female athletes of different sports when considered on the score of MDT-slow (F(2,42)= 2.99, p= . 061). But in MDT-fast significant differences was found (F(2,42)= 6.98, p= . 002). Post-hoc test of Tukey HSD reveals significant difference in time movement anticipation between football and hockey group, also in football and cricket group.
EARLY CLINICAL EXPOSURE ON ENDOCRINE PHYSIOLOGY FOR FIRST-YEAR MBBS STUDENTS

This comparative study was conducted on 79 rst-MBBS students (31 females; 39.24% and 48 males; 60.76%) from a medical college in Western India to study the difference in scores after traditional didactic lectures and integrated teaching with early clinical exposure. After clarifying the purpose of the study and obtaining written informed consent, traditional didactic lectures were delivered as per syllabus for the rst-year MBBS course. Following this, the students took a pre-test that comprised ve questions (two marks per question; total 10 marks). After the pre-test, integrated teaching with early clinical exposure was conducted on the same topic. This was followed by a post-test that used a questionnaire that was identical to that of the pre-test. The differences between the preand post-test scores were highly signicant for both females (p<0.0001) and males (p<0.0001). Signicant gender differences in scores were observed both in the pre-test (p=0.005) and post-test (p=0.045).
The stability of methane hydrates in highly concentrated electrolyte solutions by differential scanning calorimetry and theoretical computation

Abstract The stability limits of methane hydrates have been investigated at pressures from 5 to 12 MPa by high-pressure differential scanning calorimetry, in sodium chloride and calcium chloride solutions, at concentrations ranging from pure water to saturated salt, in continuous solutions, in water-in-oil emulsions, as well as in complex dispersed media used as drilling fluids. Experimental results are in good agreement with available data, and concord well with predictions computed using the model of Van der Waals and Platteeuw (1959). DSC experiments revealed eutectic melting of solid mixtures of gas hydrate and crystallized salt. Corresponding invariant temperatures of melting and phase compositions were computed for various gas pressures. Complete phase diagrams are proposed for the systems (methane + water + sodium chloride) and (methane + water + calcium chloride) at 2 MPa and 10 MPa methane pressure.
Cognizance of stem cells: A gist

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells which usually arises from one cell (clonal) and has the characteristic of self renewal i.e ability to proliferate and differentiate into various styles of cells (potent). Depending upon the potencies there are different sources of stem cells. Pluripotent cells has the flexibility to differentiate into tissues from the three germ layers. There are various sources of stem cells with varying potencies. Pluripotent cells have the ability to differentiate into tissue from all 3 germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm). Multipotent stem cells may differentiate into tissue derived from a single germ layer like mesenchymal stem cells which form adipose tissue, bone, and cartilage thanks to the limited generation of most somatic cells, stem cells’ capacity to replenish damaged somatic cells and maintain a self-renewing reservoir of progenitors is crucial for homeostasis in many tissues of the many organisms. Thus, there’s an immense interest in understanding the mechanisms for self-renewal and differentiation in stem cells, given their potential applications in regenerative medicine and studies of human development or aging during this article we’ll describe about stem cells and various varieties of stem cells. Keywords: Stem cells, Differentiation, Adult stem cells, Embryonic stem cells, Induced pluripotent stem cells.
Students‟ Choice of Business Studies as Programme of study: The Case of Senior High Schools in the Wa Municipality

Making a career choice is a major decision phase in every students’ life. Students have to consider several factors before making a decision as to which programme to pursue at high school. The purpose for the study was to find out the factors (extrinsic and intrinsic) that influence students’ choice of business studies as programme of study in the senior high schools. The study employed descriptive survey design.Using census, 95 students were employed to respond to the survey questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential (independent t-test) statistics. The study found self-interest (M=2.85; SD=0.79) in the subject and ability to progress (M=3.06; SD=0.83) in educational career to tertiary institutions as the most influential intrinsic factors students consider in making a decision of programme choice. Thepossibility of getting high pay job after graduation was the most influential extrinsic factor students consider in a making choice of business studies programme. Gender was however, found not to have significant influence on the choice of a programme of study in the senior high school. Based on the findings, it was therefore recommended that the Ministry of Education through National Council for Curriculum and Assessment should place premium on student’s interest (selfmotivation in the subject) in designing the business studies curricula at the high school level; Equally, the nursing and teacher training colleges in Ghana should allow all high school business studies graduates equal access to admission.
SÜNKROONGENERAATORI ERGUTUSSÜSTEEMI (BASLER DECS-250) REAALAJASIMULATSIOONIDE

Author: Mihkel Saar Type of the work: Master Thesis Title: Design and Analysis of a Test Bed for Synchronous Generator Excitation Control System (Basler DECS-250) and Real Time Digital Simulator Date: 24.05. 2019 60 pages (the number of thesis pages including appendices) University: Tallinn University of Technology School: School of Engineering Department: Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics Supervisor(s) of the thesis: Associate Professor Jako Kilter, Early Stage Researcher Tanel Sarnet
Load shedding in power system considering the generator control and AHP algorithm

This paper proposes the load shedding method with considering the ranking load importance factors. The amount of shedding power is calculated based on the Primary and Secondary adjustments to restore the system’s frequency back to allowed range. The ranking and distribution shedding power on each load bus will be prosed based on the AHP algorithm. Loads with the smaller importance factor will have priority to be shed with the larger amount of shedding power and vice versa. The experimental and simulated results will be estimated on IEEE 37bus system, the results show that the proposed method can help the frequency restores back to nominal range and reduce damages compared to the UFLS method. Keywords— Load shedding, Primary control, Secondary control, AHP algorithm, Frequency control.
Potential Landslide Detection in Kelok Sembilan Flyover Using SAR Interferometry

Kelok Sembilan flyover is located in West Sumatra-Riau province connection, Indonesia. Landslide occurs along with the connection every year. However, detecting and obtaining scientific information about the potential landslide zone in the area is difficult because it is mountainous, and there is no disaster equipment monitoring installed on it. Here, we identify the area that potential landslide using Satellite Radar SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar) technology with high accuracy until millimeter unit. Also, we showed how to observe the potential landslide with a low penetrate radar signal (C-band) and shifted polarization due to the topography in the vegetation area. The observation data is extracting from satellite Sentinel- 1A/B provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). The satellite is C-band frequency with 5.5 cm wavelength and 5 x 20-meter range-azimuth resolution. The acquisition time of SAR data is starting from October 2014 to August 2018, which is supported by 119 images. Processing the SAR data is using the Quasi-Persistent Scatterer technique to improve the number of scatterers in a non-urban area. Both ascending and descending orbit of the satellite with both VV and VH polarization were selected to confirm potential landslide detection consistency. The result of processing was validated with GPS geodetic by DGPS network configuration. Based on the QPS processing, five areas with significant land movement have been detected; one of them is collapse after ten days since the last data observation. The land movement range in the area is approximately more than 500 millimeters in four years.
Solution of a Certain Nonlocal ODE by Reduction to a Riemann-Hilbert Problem

We solve a certain integro-differential equation by reduction to a Riemann-Hilbert (RH) problem. In the process we illustrate the little-known maxim “research problems are hard”. To reduce dryness we have removed all the silicon packets from this document and included an excessive number of footnotes. The Baśılica de la Sagrada Famı́lia in Barcelona was designed by the architect Antoni Gaud́ı. The basilica is chaotic; yet it accomplishes its goal. One feels that there is always more to see, more crevices demanding attention. The present problem may evoke similar emotions, but throughout this work, remember the Basilica; there is beauty in the chaos; the microscopic may be appalling, the macroscopic remains undeniably effective. Photo Credit: Traveldigg.com.
THE MECHANISM OF IMAGE FORMATION IN ENGLISH MEDIA DISCOURSE TEXTS

Problem statement. One of the main aspects that modern linguistics deals with is investigating various types of discourses and their peculiar features. One of the most complex discourses is mass media discourse that usually refers to interactions that take place through a broadcast platform, whether spoken or written, in which the discourse is oriented to a non-present reader, listener or viewer. The aim of the research work is to analyze British media discourse and show its peculiarities. Media discourse in foreign linguistics is considered to be a multidisciplinary field, being the subject of UDC 378:821:811.111-26 DOI:
A Manipulation of Semantic Meanings as a Humor Construction Strategy

This research is conducted to reveal how humorous utterances are constructed by manipulating semantic meaning especially dealing with lexical semantics. Lexical semantics provides multiple meanings that portray their meanings’ relationship among a word and they are potentially exploited to elicit humor. This research examines utterances manipulating lexical semantics as the strategy of humor creation in Mind Your Language situation comedy. Applying a descriptive qualitative approach, the findings indicate that five types of lexical semantics are utilized as strategies of humorous utterances creation. Those types of lexical semantics are polysemy, homonymy, homophone, hyponymy, dan synonymy. Because of their multiple relation meanings, the speaker can refer to other meanings to construct different meanings with the hearer. The speaker constructs an incongruent meaning between what the hearer’s perception is and what the speaker meant. The deviation of lexical semantics between the hearer and the speaker completely illustrates the concept of incongruity theory of humor.
Characteristics and gel properties of gelatin from goat skin as affected by spray drying

ABSTRACT Gelatin powder from goat skin prepared by spray drying at various inlet temperatures (160–200°C) was characterized. Predominant particle sizes were in the range of 4.65–5.14 µm. Gelatin powder was mostly concave in shape with varying sizes, depending on inlet temperatures used. All gelatin powders were creamy whitish. Powder generally became more yellowish as the inlet temperature of spray drying increased (p < 0.05). All gelatins contained α-chain as the dominant constituent. Nevertheless, α-chain of gelatin spray dried at 200°C was almost disappeared. Gel strength of gelatin decreased as the inlet temperature for spray drying increased (p < 0.05). Gelatin with inlet temperature of 160°C had the highest gel strength (260 g) (p < 0.05), which was comparable to the freeze-dried counterpart (268 g) (p > 0.05). Goat skin gelatin spray dried with inlet temperatures of 160 or 180°C had higher gel strength than commercial bovine gelatin (p < 0.05). All gelatins had solubility greater than 90% in the wide pH ranges (1–10). Therefore, spray drying with appropriate inlet temperature could be an effective means for production of gelatin powder from goat skin, exhibiting the properties equivalent to commercial bovine gelatin.
Amezua Hormaza, Leire A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT FOR TRAINING OPERATORS FOR AS- SEMBLY TASKS INVOLVING HUMAN- COBOT INTERACTIONS

Amezua Hormaza, Leire: A virtual reality environment for training operators for assembly tasks involving human-cobot interactions Master Thesis Tampere University Automation Engineering May 2019 The introduction of collaborative robots in the industry requires new training methods. Users without experience in collaborative tasks with robots present insecurity at the beginning, reducing their productivity until they become familiar with this type of process. To address this problem the training method must take place in an environment where the user feels comfortable working with the cobot to overcome the insecurities. This thesis aims at defining a training method for users to get used to working with collaborative robots. The method covers every kind of robot and task. In addition, this research looks for a training that takes place outside the production line so as not to affect the productivity of the plant. The document presents the background of training methods in the industry and new trends in this field such as virtual reality and the evolution of interactions with robots. A patent landscape is included to evaluate the current situation in the investigation and development of these fields. This thesis work proposes an interactive and immersive virtual reality training based on WebGL. It consists on a simulation where the operator interacts in real time with a cobot executing a collaborative task. By using WebGL you can access the simulation directly from the browser and without restrictions in the virtual reality equipment. The scenario presents the assembly of a box in collaboration with the YuMi cobot of ABB. The tools, models and techniques used for the implementation are described. Taking advantage of the properties of virtual reality to facilitate the learning of the task, the simulation offers a user assistance system that is explained in detail. This method has been tested in a group of student engineers who performed the simulation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of this proposal to help operators in their learning of collaborative tasks. The results show a greater acceptance and confidence of the users to perform the task with the cobot after the simulation while they learnt the entire process of the task. It is concluded therefore with this thesis that the proposed method is valid for user training in collaborative tasks. It is hoped that this work will serve as a basis for future research in the incorporation of WebGL and virtual reality in the training of industrial processes.