Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
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O’Neill, W. Charles. Physiological significance of volume-regulatory transporters. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Cell Physiol. 45): C995–C1011, 1999. — Research over the past 25 years has identified specific ion transporters and channels that are activated by acute changes in cell volume and that serve to restore steady-state volume. The mechanism by which cells sense changes in cell volume and activate the appropriate transporters remains a mystery, but recent studies are providing important clues. A curious aspect of volume regulation in mammalian cells is that it is often absent or incomplete in anisosmotic media, whereas complete volume regulation is observed with isosmotic shrinkage and swelling. The basis for this may lie in an important role of intracellular Cl2 in controlling volumeregulatory transporters. This is physiologically relevant, since the principal threat to cell volume in vivo is not changes in extracellular osmolarity but rather changes in the cellular content of osmotically active molecules. Volume-regulatory transporters are also closely linked to cell growth and metabolism, producing requisite changes in cell volume that may also signal subsequent growth and metabolic events. Thus, despite the relatively constant osmolarity in mammals, volume-regulatory transporters have important roles in mammalian physiology.
COPD_A_260735 1697..1711

Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Osaka, Japan Background: Oscillometry is a tool to measure respiratory impedance that requires minimal patients’ effort. In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the correlation of respiratory impedance at rest with exertional ventilatory parameters, including exercise tolerance, has scarcely been reported. In addition, the utility of oscillometric parameters might differ between the inspiratory and expiratory phases due to airflow obstruction during expiration, but the hypothesis had not been validated. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether oscillometric parameters are associated with exertional ventilatory parameters in patients with COPD. Methods: Fifty-five subjects with COPD who attended clinics at the National Hospital Organization Osaka Toneyama Medical Center performed spirometry, oscillometry, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) within 2 weeks. The correlations between parameters of spirometry, oscillometry, and CPET were analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, univariate, and multivariate analyses. Results: Respiratory reactance had better correlations with the CPET parameters than respiratory resistance. Moreover, inspiratory reactance at rest correlated with the CPET parameters stronger than expiratory reactance. In particular, inspiratory resonant frequency (Fres-ins) correlated with peak oxygen uptake (rS=−0.549, p<0.01) and dead space to tidal volume ratio at peak exercise (rS=0.677, p<0.01) and the best predicted expiratory tidal volume (VT ex) at peak exercise of all the oscillometric parameters (rS=−0.679, p<0.01). However, the correlation between Fres-ins and VT ex at peak exercise became weak in subjects with severe and very severe COPD during exercise. Conclusion: Measurement of respiratory reactance is useful for the effortless evaluation of not only exertional ventilatory parameters but exercise tolerance in patients with COPD. The correlation of respiratory impedance with exertional ventilatory parameters can become weak in patients with advanced COPD; thus, the measurement of oscillometry might not be appropriate for evaluating exertional ventilatory parameters of patients with advanced COPD.
Airborne Surveillance Networks with Directional Antennas

— Surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an important application in tactical networks. Such networks are challenged by the highly dynamic network topologies, which result in frequent link and route breaks. This requires robust routing algorithms and protocols. Depending on the coverage area, several UAVs may be deployed thus requiring solutions that are scalable. The use of directional antennas mitigates the challenges due to limited bandwidth, but requires a scheduling algorithm to provide conflict free schedules to transmitting nodes. In this article we introduce a new approach, which uses a single algorithm 1) that facilitates multi hop overlapped cluster formations to address scalability and data aggregation; 2) provides robust multiple routes from data generating nodes to data aggregation node and; 3) aids in performing distributed scheduling using a Time Division Multiple Access protocol. The integrated solution was modeled using Opnet and evaluated for success rate in packet delivery and average end to end packet delivery latency primarily. The notably high success rates important for surveillance purposes coupled with low latencies validate the use of the proposed solution in critical surveillance applications.
Li, Peng and Wang, Yachao and Adam, Grain Philip and Holliday, Derrick and Williams, Barry W. (2015) Three-phase AC-AC hexagonal chopper system with heterodyne modulation for power flow control

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SOFT PORK STUDIES.

It is generally recognized that the fattening animal stores a more saturated type of body fat when the feed is low in ethersoluble substances than when oils such as corn, peanut, and soy bean are present even in moderate quantities. Recent work with hogs (1) has shown that the wide variations in composition of the body fat are in general closely related to the quantity and degree of unsaturation of the oil ingested in the feed. The most saturated fat was found in hogs fattened on the ration lowest in ether extract. Anderson and Mendel(2) and Eckstein (3) found that the addition of fatty substances to an otherwise fat-free ration altered the composition of the body fat of rats. In general the body fats resembled the ingested oils or other fatty substances as judged by the iodine numbers. Fat-free rations, high in carbohydrates as well as in proteins, produced body fats in rats with iodine numbers of 60 to 70. These values correspond to those found in the fat of hogs fed on rations moderately low in ether extract such as corn with tankage (4). The firm body fat which occurs in hogs, cattle, sheep, and other animals when feed fat is not an important constituent in the ration is made up largely of oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids combined in various glyceride combinations. Other fatty acids occur in relatively small amounts in the usual case. Contrary to statements frequently noted in articles and books on fats, lards may show a wide range in saturation, usually the result of the ingestion
Point Cloud Library: A study of different features part of the Point Cloud Library

— Point Cloud Library (PCL) is an open source library, written in C++, for 3D point cloud processing. It was published by Rusu et al after his PhD dissertation and his work at Willow Garage. It’s the epitome of 3D computer vision nowadays, and has numerous academic and industrial applications. This paper describes our work in the Point Cloud Library.
Health Risk Assessment in Agricultural Soil Potentially Contaminated by Geogenic Thallium : Influence of Plant Species on Metal Mobility in

In agricultural soils, thallium (Tl) of geogenic origin may represent a potential risk for human health, mainly via ingestion of food crops. In this work, a pot experiment was carried out to evaluate (1) the bioavailability of Tl and other potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in an agricultural soil with naturally occurring Tl; (2) the uptake and accumulation of PTEs in Lactuca sativa L. var. acephala, Diplotaxis tenuifolia L. DC and Silene latifolia Poir; (3) the health risks arising from plant and soil ingestion by different subpopulations and dermal contact of soil by farmers. In soil, only Tl and Pb pseudototal contents were above Italian screening values. Nevertheless, the promptly bioavailable contents of all PTEs were always below internationally recognized trigger values. Plants affected PTE bioavailability in soil by their rhizodepositions and accumulated PTEs in their shoots. Acceptable risks (hazard index < 1) arose from dietary intake of both L. sativa L. , D. tenuifolia L. and dermal contact of soil by farmers. Significant health risks can derive from the intake of S. latifolia Poir. (accumulating high Tl concentrations), in particular by children (HI = 74). In conclusion, an adequate management and crop selection are needed to profitably exploit soils with geogenic Tl for agricultural purposes.
An easily applicable method to analyze the foot energy 1 absorption and production during walking

Acknowledgements 10 The authors would like to thank Prof. Paolo Cavallari (DePT, University of Milan) for making available 11 his laboratory facilities. Chiara Palmisano was supported by a grant of the German Excellence 12 Initiative to the Graduate School of Life Sciences, University of Wuerzburg. 13 This work has been partially supported by the Lombardy Region grant: Linea R&S per 14 Aggregazione Project ID 147630 CUP E17H16001450009, and by Fondazione Mariani for Child 15 Neurology. 16
Cooperative Sensing and Wearable Computing for Sequential Hand Gesture Recognition

Hand gestures recognition (HGR) has been considered as one of the crucial research fields of human–computer interaction (HCI). Computer vision is a very active research field in the HGR, traditional vision-based methods, which used camera and ultrasonic/optical sensor to collect the videos or images of the hand gestures shown by participants, have some limitations, such as fixed in-lab location, complex lighting conditions, and cluttered backgrounds. In order to provide new approaches, we described the development of a novel hand gesture recognition system that combined wearable armband and smart glove made by customizable pressure sensor arrays to detect sequential hand gestures. A deep learning technique long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithm had been computed to build an effective model to classify hand gestures by training and testing the collected inertial measurement unit (IMU), electromyographic (EMG), and finger and palm’s pressure data. Furthermore, we built a relatively large database of ten sequential hand gestures consisted by five dynamic gestures and five air gestures collected from ten participants. Our experimental results showed an outstanding classification performance of the proposed LSTM algorithm. These findings have promising implications for sequential hand gesture recognition and the HCI research status.
Recursive application-survival in the lambda calculus

We embed communication paradigms in the lambda calculus. These communication paradigms are well known in software engineering: Agents, information passing, and interactions. Agents, in the context of the lambda calculus, are lambda terms which behave as self-contained computational entities that have the ability to interact with and communicate information to other agents. Both interaction and communication are facilitated by application in the lambda calculus. When agents interact with other agents, the result is either an agent, or another interaction of agents. We call this property "application survival". The behaviour of a set of agents is specified by a particular form of recursively defined systems of equations. We develop techniques for analysing and solving such systems of equations, and lambda defining the agents characterised by such systems. The result is a technique for lambda defining terms given by some specification: (a) We first try to describe a part of the desired term, as a result of the interaction of agents. The result of this step is a recursively defined system of equations. (b) We analyse the system of equations and assess the information-passing mechanisms needed. (c) We lambda define the agents. (d) We use these agents to compute the part of the problem that we characterised in terms of the interaction of agents. (e) We lambda define a term with the desired properties. We apply our theory to a wide range of problems: The study of fixed points and fixed-point combinators, solving systems of equations, Godelisation as an operator in the lambda calculus, and the efficient computation of functions on the H. den Hoed binary numeral system, with a complexity that is independent of the reduction strategy.
A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationships between O3 Sorption and Its Acute Effects on Plant Leaves Using Image Instrumentation

We examined the relationships between O3 sorption and the acute effects of the O3 on sunflower leaves, such as changes in stomatal response and visible injury, using an image instrumentation method. The results obtained were as follows: 1) Changes in stomatal response to O3 varied randomly at different sites on a leaf, and were not dependent on the integrated O3 sorption at these sites. This result suggests that there are differences in stomatal sensitivity to O3 among local sites on a leaf. 2) The degree of visible injury at local sites on a leaf, which reached chlorosis and necrosis, was not related to the integrated O3 sorption at these sites. This result suggests that the differences in the degree of the visible injury among local sites on a leaf are dependent on differences not only in factors related to O3 sorption, but also in other physiological factors among these sites.
Edinburgh Explorer The visible hand and the crowd

The effectiveness and creativity of Linux, Wikipedia and a plethora of other distributed innovation systems has attracted the attention of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. The hallmark of these distributed innovation systems is that value creation transcends the boundaries of hierarchically organized firms. To date, only relatively few studies have focused on the organization design of distributed innovation systems. This conceptual paper addresses this lacuna by asking: How does organization design structure relationships in distributed innovation systems, including interactions between the “visible hand” of the manager and the “crowd” of distributed innovation? The purpose of this paper is to shift the unit of analysis of organization design from the individual firm to networks of actors providing a framework to study how design organizes distributed innovation systems. In order to do so three design mechanisms (interface design; the design of participatory architectures; and the design of evaluative infrastructures) are proposed through which firms and other network actors organize their encounter in “the open” and through which they manage communication, coordination of tasks and control in distributed innovation systems.
ReviewOrganic dairy cattle: Do European Union regulations promote animal welfare?Eugénie Duval 1

Animal welfare is an emerging concept in EU law; with the advent of specific regulations intending to protect animals. The approach taken by European lawmakers is to provide “minimum standards” for conventional farming; argued by some as failing to adequately protect animals. In contrast, the EU organic farming regulations aim to “establish a sustainable management system for agriculture” and promote “high animal welfare standards”. The first aim of this review was to identify key areas where there are clear improvements in quality of life for dairy cattle housed under the EU organic regulations when compared to the conventional EU regulations. Using the available scientific evidence, our second aim was to identify areas where the organic regulations fail to provide clear guidance in their pursuit to promote high standards of dairy cattle welfare. The greater emphasis placed on natural living conditions, the ban of some (but unfortunately not all) physical mutilations combined with clearer recommendations regarding housing conditions potentially position the organic dairy industry to achieve high standards of welfare. However, improvements in some sections are needed given that the regulations are often conveyed using vague language, provide exceptions or remain silent on some aspects. This review provides a critical reflection of some of these key areas related to on-farm aspects. To a lesser extent, post farm gate aspects are also discussed
Effect of Air Pollutants on Increased Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis; a Review

As per World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the cause for more than two million deaths every year. Mostly, outdoor air pollution results in reduced lungs function and increased respiratory disease. Therefore, breathing polluted air is as dangerous as eating/drinking polluted food/water. TB (Tuberculosis) is a major public health threat globally and India is the country with the highest burden of both TB and MDR TB (multi drug resistant tuberculosis). TB is a highly contagious air born disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis . People with compromised immune systems, malnutrition, diabetes, etc. are more prone to TB infection. According to WHO most of the TB deaths (95%) are reported from low and middle income countries where people are exposed to smoggy air for a long period of time. However no studies confirm that outdoor air pollution has impact on TB in these countries. Some studies have suggested that ambient air pollution might increase the risk of pulmonary TB. Few studies have indicated link between air pollution and incidence of TB. A study conducted in Chengdu, China reported positive association of air pollutants such as particulate matter <10 µm (PM 10 ), NO 2 and SO 2 with the occurrence of TB. Another study in China reported that air pollution such as PM 2.5 , PM 10 , O 3 , and CO is associated with increased risk of DR-TB (drug resistant tuberculosis). A study conducted in Tehran, Iran reported that long term exposure to PM 2.5 and CO has positive association with TB development. Various studies suggested that socially deprived, crowded and poor ventilated areas have higher TB prevalence. These studies suggested that mitigating air pollutants might help in reduction of TB incidence.
CONSEQUENCES OF THE PROLIFERATION OF LUPUS NEPHRITIS

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, auto immune disorder and multisystem. This disease is non-predictable and its nature is episodic. Its severe complication includes Kidney inflation. Material and Methods: For the research purpose 43 cases were short listed with an incidence of III/IV lupus nephritis. These patients visited OPDs and clinics from January, 2016 to October, 2017 with an additional 6-month follow-up. Nine of them were treated with mycophenolate and remaining thirty-four were treated with cyclophosphamide. At the end of six months’ proteinuria and glomerular estimation of filtration rate was administrated in the patients. Response was also calculated in the patients. Results: Complete or partial response was observed in the 44 percent of the cases in the six months’ duration whereas 64 percent of the cases were noted for their response at one year. Factors linked with the response of six months include old age at the time of diagnosis, hypertension, activity, time frame of indications before therapy and chronicity indices. Hypertension and chronic index are indicators of logistic regression response at the time of six months. Our research paper the cases of proliferative lupus represent lower rate if proteinuria, eGFR and elevated scores of chronicity when compared to African-American and Caucasian cases. Associated factors with response at six months include old age at the time of diagnosis, hypertension, activity, time frame of indications before therapy and chronicity indices. In Caucasian case similar short-term results were observed.
Regulation of Food Intake, Energy Balance, and Body Fat Mass: Implications for the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Obesity

Context: Obesity has emerged as one of the leading medical challenges of the 21st century. The resistance of this disorder to effective, long-term treatment can be traced to the fact that body fat stores are subject to homeostatic regulation in obese individuals, just as in lean individuals. Because the growing obesity epidemic is linked to a substantial increase in daily energy intake, a key priority is to delineate how mechanisms governing food intake and body fat content are altered in an obesogenic environment.
Actuator Disc Approach of Wind Turbine Wake Simulation Considering Balance of Turbulence Kinetic Energy

The operation of the wind turbines downstream is affected by the wake of the wind turbines upstream. Wind turbine wake flow is investigated by applying the actuator disc (AD) method. The modified k-ε turbulence model is proposed by using both the turbulent kinetic energy source term and the dissipation rate source term to improve the standard k-ε turbulence model for coordinating the generation and the dissipation of the turbulent kinetic energy. The dissipation rate parameter C4ε that obeys a parabolic distribution is used, based on theoretical analysis. The force distributed on the AD is also used instead of a constant, as used in the classical AD method. The simulation results were consistent with the measurements that correspond to different kinds of wind turbines and conditions. The nacelle and the inflow turbulence intensity have great influences on accurately simulating the wake, so it is necessary to imitate the rotor along with the nacelle and accurately measure the inflow turbulence intensity.