Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Inheritance of SSR and SNP loci in an oil palm interspecific hybrid backcross (BC2) population.

The oil palm species, Elaeis oleifera although it produces lower oil yield than its African counterpart Elaeis guineensis, does possess certain unique traits that are of interest to breeders. E. oleifera has slower annual height increment, higher level of carotenoids and unsaturated fatty acids. A number of interspecific hybrid crossing programmes have been initiated to introgress the unique characteristics of E. oleifera into high yielding planting materials. As such, an appropriate backcross interspecific hybrid population (BC2) could be used to develop genetic maps and identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) linked to traits of interest, which will be potentially helpful in reducing the number of breeding cycles. The objective of this study was to determine the heritability of SSR and SNP loci in oil palm. Seventy-five palms from a BC2 population were selected as the mapping population. A total of 4966 (4451 SNP and 515 SSR) markers were screened and 2135 (43%) were polymorphic and mostly contributed by the female parent. The level of polymorphism exhibited by the BC2 population was similar for both marker systems. Genotyping results revealed a sufficient number of co-dominant polymorphic markers that are important in genetic mapping studies. Chi-square test showed that 87.6% of the markers were in accordance to the expected Mendelian segregation ratios. The results indicated that they are stably inherited and suitable for genetic mapping studies and also have proven to be useful as fingerprinting tools to assess the genetic purity in controlled crosses.
Amusia

This report reviewed recent cases of amusia and drew the following conclusions. First, amusia is an ill-defined condition. The classical definition restricted amusia to musical disorders caused by brain lesions. By the end of the last century, however, some researchers included developmental or innate musical disorders in amusia. Second, although recent case reports were based on the classical schema of amusia, there have been an increasing number of case studies that have described more restricted and specific symptoms, such as receptive amusia for harmony or musical alexia for rhythm notation. Third, although we can now obtain more accurate information about the brain lesions, we have not taken advantage of this information. Traditionally, it has been thought that the pitch element of vocal performance is referred to the right frontal or temporal lobe. Lastly, the relationship between musical function and degenerative disease deserves attention. Degenerative diseases can cause either a musical deficit or, paradoxically, improve musical function. For example, the musical competence of some patients improved after selective atrophy of the left hemisphere. In conclusion, recent ideas concerning the relationship between music and the brain have been derived from patients with brain damage, developmental disorders, and degenerative diseases. However, there is a missing link with respect to amusia. We know a lot about the cognitive aspect of music, but the 'true' function of music from an evolutionary perspective, something that is lacking in amusia, is not known.
Extrudate swell of Newtonian fluids from annular dies

Extrudate swell of Newtonian fluids has been studied extensively for flows through slit and capillary dies. Both experimental and numerical results have been obtained by several researchers. The first experimental results were reported for capillary dies (Middleman and Gavis, 1961). The first numerical results for capillary dies were obtained by Tanner (1 973) who used the finite element method to determine a 13% swelling of the extruded liquid jet. Following Tanner’s work various publications have established numerically the Newtonian swell as being about 13% for capillary dies and about 19% for slit dies. A comprehensive review of these efforts is presented by Mitsoulis et al. (1984). Apart from the swelling ratios, the numerical results also provide several other aspects of the flow, such as the excess pressure drop over and above the pressure drop that would result if the fluid were in fully developed flow in the die, streamlines, velocity, and pressure and stress distributions inside the die and outside in the exiting stream. Extrudate swell from annular dies has also received some attention in recent years (Orbey and Dealy, 1984). The main efforts are directed toward experimental investigation of the swelling of polymer melts used in the extrusion blow-molding process. Due to the lack of a reliable constitutive equation that can describe viscoelastic polymer behavior adequately, no numerical simulation has been carried out to study extrudate swell of real polymers from annular dies. The only numerical simulation to date has been performed for a theoretical upper-convected Maxwell fluid for a value of diameter ratio K = 0.75 (Crochet and Keunings, 1980). Since all fluids a t very low flow rates behave essentially as Newtonian fluids, it is of interest to examine also extrudate swell of Newtonian fluids in annuli. It is the purpose of this note to provide the corresponding results from numerical calculations on Newtonian fluids for various diameter ratios in flow through annular dies.
K-Same-Siamese-GAN: K-Same Algorithm with Generative Adversarial Network for Facial Image De-identification with Hyperparameter Tuning and Mixed Precision Training

For a data holder, such as a hospital or a government entity, who has a privately held collection of personal data, in which the revealing and/or processing of the personal identifiable data is restricted and prohibited by law. Then, “how can we ensure the data holder does conceal the identity of each individual in the imagery of personal data while still preserving certain useful aspects of the data after de-identification? ” becomes a challenge issue. In this work, we propose an approach towards high-resolution facial image de-identification, called k-Same-Siamese-GAN, which leverages the k-Same-Anonymity mechanism, the Generative Adversarial Network, and the hyperparameter tuning methods. Moreover, to speed up model training and reduce memory consumption, the mixed precision training technique is also applied to make kSS-GAN provide guarantees regarding privacy protection on close-form identities and be trained much more efficiently as well. Finally, to validate its applicability, the proposed work has been applied to actual datasets - RafD and CelebA for performance testing. Besides protecting privacy of high-resolution facial images, the proposed system is also Justified for its ability in automating parameter tuning and breaking through the limitation of the number of adjustable parameters.
Expression of cancer-associated genes in prostate tumors at mRNA and protein levels

G. V. Gerashchenko, O. V. Grygoruk, E. E. Rosenberg © 2019 G. V. Gerashchenko et al.; Published by the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NAS of Ukraine on behalf of Biopolymers and Cell. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics ISSN 0233-7657 Biopolymers and Cell. 2019. Vol. 35. N 1. P 39–53 doi: http://dx.doi. org/10.7124/bc.000995
Relative Efficiency of Drag Fabrics for Collection of Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Larvae, Nymphs, and Adults

Abstract The blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis Say) vectors several bacterial, protozoan, and viral human pathogens. The known distribution, abundance, and phenology of I. scapularis within its estimated range are incomplete. This gap in knowledge is problematic because these factors are important for determining acarological risk of exposure to infected ticks. Consequently, enhanced surveillance of I. scapularis is being promoted and supported in the United States. Although the most common method for collecting I. scapularis is by dragging a sturdy cloth along the ground, there are no published empirical data showing which drag fabric is most effective. We used a randomized block design to directly compare the relative efficiencies of canvas, corduroy, and flannel drags for the collection of larval, nymphal, and adult I. scapularis. Overall, flannel was the most effective fabric and canvas was the least effective. Significantly more adults were collected on flannel than on canvas or corduroy, and the same number of nymphs was collected on flannel and corduroy. Significantly more larvae were collected on flannel than on canvas, but one-third of larvae could not be removed from the former fabric by lint-rolling, and handpicking was difficult. Our findings support the use of flannel drags to maximize sampling effort for collection of I. scapularis, especially adults to determine the presence of ticks and tick-borne pathogens when density and infection prevalence are low, with the caveat that detection and removal of larvae are time-consuming.
Evaluation of a treatment program for dating violence

The specialized literature does not report the design and evaluation of intervention alternatives for adolescents and young adults involved in acts of dating violence, a problem that reaches high prevalence rates. This study aimed to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a program for young unmarried couples who have experienced violence, using a quasiexperimental design with pretest-posttest and intact groups (experimental and control), in which 12 heterosexual couples of young people participated, all of them between 17 and 26 years-old, linked through a call made by different media in their city of residence, six assigned to the experimental group and six to the control group. The program is developed in 10 Evaluación de un programa de tratamiento para los malos tratos en el noviazgo César Armando Rey-Anacona; Jorge Arturo Martínez-Gómez; Paola Andrea Castro-Rodríguez; Lizeth Fernanda Lozano-Jácome How to cite this article: Rey-Anacona, C.A. , Martínez-Gómez, J.A. , Castro-Rodríguez, P.A. & Lozano-Jácome, L.F. (2020). Evaluation of a Treatment Program for Dating Violence Acta Colombiana de Psicología, 23(1), 92-105. doi: http://www.doi. org/10.14718/ ACP.2019. 23.1. 5 Recibido, octubre 16/2018; Concepto de evaluación, febrero 10/2019; Aceptado, febrero 24/2019 93 Rey-Anacona, C.A. , Martínez-Gómez, J.A. , Castro-Rodríguez, P.A. & Lozano-Jácome, L.F.
Binary Classification of Gaussian Mixtures: Abundance of Support Vectors, Benign Overfitting, and Regularization

Deep neural networks generalize well despite being exceedingly overparameterized and being trained without explicit regularization. This curious phenomenon has inspired extensive research activity in establishing its statistical principles: Under what conditions is it observed? How do these depend on the data and on the training algorithm? When does regularization benefit generalization? While such questions remain wide open for deep neural nets, recent works have attempted gaining insights by studying simpler, often linear, models. Our paper contributes to this growing line of work by examining binary linear classification under a generative Gaussian mixture model. Motivated by recent results on the implicit bias of gradient descent, we study both max-margin SVM classifiers (corresponding to logistic loss) and min-norm interpolating classifiers (corresponding to least-squares loss). First, we leverage an idea introduced in [V. Muthukumar et al., arXiv:2005.08054, (2020)] to relate the SVM solution to the min-norm interpolating solution. Second, we derive novel non-asymptotic bounds on the classification error of the latter. Combining the two, we present novel sufficient conditions on the covariance spectrum and on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) under which interpolating estimators achieve asymptotically optimal performance as overparameterization increases. Interestingly, our results extend to a noisy model with constant probability noise flips. Contrary to previously studied discriminative data models, our results emphasize the crucial role of the SNR and its interplay with the data covariance. Finally, via a combination of analytical arguments and numerical demonstrations we identify conditions under which the interpolating estimator performs better than corresponding regularized estimates.
Breaking multivariate records

For a sequence of i.i. d. $d$-dimensional random vectors with independent continuously distributed coordinates, say that the $n$th observation in the sequence sets a record if it is not dominated in every coordinate by an earlier observation; for $j \leq n$, say that the $j$th observation is a current record at time $n$ if it has not been dominated in every coordinate by any of the first $n$ observations; and say that the $n$th observation breaks $k$ records if it sets a record and there are $k$ observations that are current records at time $n - 1$ but not at time $n$. For general dimension $d$, we identify, with proof, the asymptotic conditional distribution of the number of (Pareto) records broken by an observation given that the observation sets a record. Fix $d$, and let ${\mathcal K}(d)$ be a random variable with this distribution. We show that the (right) tail of ${\mathcal K}(d)$ satisfies \[ {\mathbb P}({\mathcal K}(d) \geq k) \leq \exp\left[ - \Omega\! \left( k^{(d - 1) / (d^2 + d - 3)} \right) \right]\ \ \mbox{as $k \to \infty$} \] and \[ {\mathbb P}({\mathcal K}(d) \geq k) \geq \exp\left[ - O\! \left( k^{1 / (d - 1)} \right) \right]\ \ \mbox{as $k \to \infty$}. \] When $d = 2$, the description of ${\mathcal K}(2)$ in terms of a Poisson process agrees with the main result from Fill [Comb. Probab. Comput. 30 (2021) 105--123] that ${\mathcal K}(2)$ has the same distribution as ${\mathcal G} - 1$, where ${\mathcal G} \sim \mbox{Geometric$(1/2)$}$. Note that the lower bound on ${\mathbb P}({\mathcal K}(d) \geq k)$ implies that the distribution of ${\mathcal K}(d)$ is NOT (shifted) Geometric for any $d \geq 3$. We show that ${\mathbb P}({\mathcal K}(d) \geq 1) = \exp[-\Theta(d)]$ as $d \to \infty$; in particular, ${\mathcal K}(d) \to 0$ in probability as $d \to \infty$.
Untangling posterior growth and segmentation by analyzing mechanisms of axis elongation in hemichordates

Significance Comparative developmental studies from the segmented phyla, arthropods and chordates, has led to speculation that mechanistic coupling of posterior growth and segmentation is an ancient character of bilaterian trunk development. However, many phyla are characterized by animals with long unsegmented trunks. Currently, there are no functional studies that have investigated the mechanistic basis of trunk elongation in these phyla, which is crucial for making firm conclusions about the relationship of conserved regulatory networks and ancestral trunk morphological organization. Our results, together with results from protostomes, challenge hypotheses suggesting that the ancestral bilaterian trunk must have been segmented and highlight the flexibility of developmental programs in organismal evolution. The trunk is a key feature of the bilaterian body plan. Despite spectacular morphological diversity in bilaterian trunk anatomies, most insights into trunk development are from segmented taxa, namely arthropods and chordates. Mechanisms of posterior axis elongation (PAE) and segmentation are tightly coupled in arthropods and vertebrates, making it challenging to differentiate between the underlying developmental mechanisms specific to each process. Investigating trunk elongation in unsegmented animals facilitates examination of mechanisms specific to PAE and provides a different perspective for testing hypotheses of bilaterian trunk evolution. Here we investigate the developmental roles of canonical Wnt and Notch signaling in the hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii and reveal that both pathways play key roles in PAE immediately following the completion of gastrulation. Furthermore, our functional analysis of the role of Brachyury is supportive of a Wnt-Brachyury feedback loop during PAE in S. kowalevskii, establishing this key regulatory interaction as an ancestral feature of deuterostomes. Together, our results provide valuable data for testing hypotheses of bilaterian trunk evolution.
A comparative study of Trypanosoma sp. (Protozoa: Kinetoplastida) parasitizing four species of loricarides in the Brazilian Amazon

Trypanosomes are flagellate hemoparasites that infect a wide variety of vertebrates, with neotropical freshwater fish of the Loricariidae family among their known hosts. The present study describes the morphometry of three morphotypes of Trypanosoma sp. parasites of four species of loricariids in the Brazilian Amazon. Between April and May 2018, 28 specimens of Pterygoplichthys pardalis were captured in Pacoval Lake and one specimen of Hypostomus sp. , one specimen of Squaliforma sp. and one representative of Lamontichthys cf. stibaros were collected from the mouth of the Tapajós River, in an area known as Enseada Grande, located in the municipal region of Santarém, in the west of the state of Pará, Brazil. A blood sample was collected by cardiac puncture and smears were prepared. The trypanosomes were photographed to allow morphometry to be carried out. The specimens of Squaliforma sp. , Lamontichthys cf. stibaros and Hypostomus sp. exhibited infection with trypanosomatids whereas of the 28 specimens of P. pardalis, only five were infected by Trypanosoma sp. , representing a prevalence of 17.86%, with a mean infection intensity of 11 × 104 parasites/mL and an average abundance of 0.37. The presence of three morphological types of Trypanosoma sp. infecting the Loricariids was identified. Morphotype A was identified infecting P. pardalis and L. cf. stibaros, morphotype B infected Squaliforma sp. and Hypostomus sp. and morphotype C infected only L. cf. stibaros. Mixed infection by morphotypes A and C was observed in L. cf. stibaros.
API: Boosting Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Agent-Permutation-Invariant Networks

Multi-agent reinforcement learning suffers from poor sample efﬁciency due to the exponential growth of the state-action space. Considering a homogeneous multiagent system, a global state consisting of m homogeneous components has m ! differently ordered representations, thus designing functions satisfying permutation invariant (PI) can reduce the state space by a factor of 1 m ! However, mainstream MARL algorithms ignore this property and learn over the original state space. To achieve PI, previous works including data augmentation based methods and embedding-sharing architecture based methods, suffer from training instability and limited model capacity. In this work, we propose two novel designs to achieve PI, while avoiding the above limitations. The ﬁrst design permutes the same but differently ordered inputs back to the same order and the downstream networks only need to learn function mapping over ﬁxed-ordering inputs instead of all permutations, which is much easier to train. The second design applies a hypernetwork to generate customized embedding for each component, which has higher representational capacity than the previous embedding-sharing method. Empirical results on the SMAC benchmark show that the proposed method achieves 100% win-rates in almost all hard and super-hard scenarios ( never achieved before ), and superior sample-efﬁciency than the state-of-the-art baselines by up to 400%.
Introduction to Comparative Dispute Resolution

This collection explores processes of and issues in dispute resolution, both generally and in specific contexts.1 It is comparative in purpose, looking at issues either broadly or with reference to one or more of a wide range of jurisdictions and societies.2 Taken together, the book offers new understandings of theoretical, comparative and transnational dimensions of the manner in which societies and their legal systems respond to ‘trouble’ in social relations (Llewellyn and Hoebel 1941). Where tensions and similar difficulties arise between parties in conflict or competition, they and significant others often explore the possibility of resolving or at least containing the parties’ quarrel over their differences. This collection provides a wide range of analyses of how disputes are handled and often resolved3 and, in so doing, also brings together scholars of dispute resolution across several generations. Interest in processes and institutions of dispute management has already created an impressive story and generated an important history, but the significance of disputes and conflict in social life means that this interest continues to grow. This collection is a contribution to comparative studies in this field. More specifically, the chapters gathered here offer valuable new or extended insights into a wide range of issues. A distinctive consideration is given to aspects of the spectrum of responses to disputes, especially those of dispute avoidance and violence. A number of chap-
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LossDetection: Real-Time Packet Loss Monitoring System for Sampled Traffic Data

Packet loss is common in networks, which leads to network quality of service degradation. Packet loss is an essential and concerning symptom when the quality of service is degraded. Therefore, real-time passive packet loss detection is conducive to estimating network services. Existing passive packet loss detection methods mainly study the packet loss for TCP using header information from full traffic. However, it cannot infer packet loss status for UDP due to its limited header information and is too costly to perform full acquisition in real networks. To address these problems, we propose a framework called LossDetection based on packet sampling and Feature-Sketch to detect packet loss in real time for both TCP and UDP. The result shows that our methodology can detect packet loss with an accuracy of 98%-100% at a sampling rate of 1/16. Furthermore, our extensive evaluation demonstrates that LossDetection is easy to implement in a software router and achieves low memory and detection latency while providing real-time information about packet loss.