Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
SIMULATION OF LIGHTNING SURGES ON POWER TRANSMISSION TOWER USING EMTDC

Modeling of transmission tower and lightning surge analysis are important factors to study the effects of the lightning strokes on the insulation of power system. Parameters of 500KV Tenaga Nasional Berhad’s (TNB) tower have chosen for the purpose of this modeling. In this paper, the response of the surges strike on the transmission line towers has been obtained at different heights of the tower using CIGRE formulas. It has been found that simulated results have a close agreement with the measured tower surge response obtained from previous studies. EMTDC has been selected as the software used to generate the appropriate data needed to demonstrate this phenomenon.
Fractal Dlmenslon of the spatlal Dlstrlbutlon of WAoWups lanceolato ln a Troplcal Raln Forest, at Lambtr, Sarawak

We analized the character of distributional p ttem of Dryobalanops hnceolata by calculating the conelation dimension. We counted points reflected at the boundary as well as at the comer to correct the lack of points near the boundary. Its correlation dimension is about 1.33 with small scale and it has some remarkable decreases and increases in dimension, suggesting the change of the character of the distribution. Comparing the correlation dimension with the box dimension and l4eln index, correlation dimension is sensitive to the scale where the distributional character changes. Therefore the conelation dimension can be a new index that shows the change of the characters of distribution in scale.
Goniochromatic assessment of gray scales for color change

: The dependence of color differences on the illumination and viewing directions for two widely-used gray scales for color change (SDCE and AATCC) was evaluated through measuring the spectral bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) by a gonio-spectrophotometer of metrological quality. Large incidence and viewing angles must be specially avoided using these gray scales because in these conditions color differences vary considerably from those established in ISO 105-A02 and ASTM D2616-12. While the visual appearance of the SDCE and AATCC gray scales for color change is similar, our results indicate that their goniochromatic properties are very different. Finally, some recommendations to use these gray scales for visual experiments are given.
The bcl-3 Proto-Oncogene Encodes a Nuclear IidB-Like Molecule That Preferentially Interacts with NF-KB p50 and p52 in a Phosphorylation-Dependent Manner

The product of the putative proto-oncogene bcl-3 is an IKcB-like molecule with novel binding properties specific for a subset of the rel family of transcriptional regulators. In vitro, Bcl-3 protein specifically inhibited the DNA binding of both the homodimeric NF-KcB p5O subunit and a closely related homolog, p52 (previously p49), to immunoglobulin K NF-cB DNA motifs. Bcl-3 could catalyze the removal of these proteins from DNA. At concentrations that significantly inhibited DNA binding by homodimeric p5O, Bcl-3 did not inhibit binding of reconstituted heterodimeric NF-KB (p5O:p65), a DNA-binding homodimeric form of p65, or homodimers of c-Rel. Phosphatase treatment of Bcl-3 partially inactivated its inhibitory properties, implicating a role for phosphorylation in the regulation of Bcl-3 activity. Bcl-3, like p5O, localizes to the cell nucleus. In cells cotransduced with Bcl-3 and p5O, both molecules could be found in the nucleus of the same cells. Interestingly, coexpression of Bcl-3 with a p50 mutant deleted for its nuclear-localizing signal resulted in the relocalization of Bcl-3 to the cytoplasm, showing
Study of the boundary layer flow control using synthetic jets by means of spectro-consistent discretizations

Synthetic jets have emerged as fluid devices for active control boundary layer separation and turbulence. In the proposed TFM the interaction of a modelled synthetic hijet with a laminar boundary layer will be investigated numerically using a incompressible Navier–Stokes solver.The main goals of the present TFM are oriented to:-The numerical simulation of synthetic jets into a laminar boundary layer and, -to perform a systematic parametrisation of the synthetic jet in order to characterise the level of flow control in the boundary layer.
Insulin Secretion in the Spontaneous Rats

KIMURA, K. , TOYOTA, T. , KAKIZAKI, M. , KUDO, M. , TAKEBE, K. and GoTo, Y. Impaired Insulin Secretion in the Spontaneous Diabetes Rats. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1982, 137 (4), 453-459 Dynamics of insulin and glucagon secretion were investigated by using a new model of spontaneous diabetes rats produced by the repetition of selective breeding in our laboratories. The perfusion experiments of the pancreas showed that the early phase of insulin secretion to continuous stimulation with glucose was specifically impaired, although the response of the early phase to arginine was preserved. The glucose-induced insulin secretion in the nineth generation (F8) which had a more remarkably impaired glucose tolerance was more reduced than in the sixth generation (F5). No significant difference of glucagon secretion in response to arginine or norepinephrine was noted between the diabetes rats and control ones. The present data indicate that the defective insulin secretion is a primary derangement in a diabetic state of the spontaneous diabetes rats. This defect in the early phase of glucose-induced insulin secretion suggests the specific impairment of the recognition of glucose by the pancreatic j9-cells. The spontaneous diabetes rats are very useful as a model of a disease for investigating pathophysiology of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. insulin; glucagon; spontaneous diabetes rats
Development of Electric Propulsion Motors with Integrated Power Electronics

– The effective integration of electric power in future naval ships requires the development of technologies that allow for volume and mass reduction of critical components. The University of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics is studying the potential for volume and mass reduction through the integration of power electronics into an electric propulsion motor. Two conceptual designs of a motor with integrated power electronics are presented. Integration of power electronics into the motor frame offers space saving advantages, allowing the motor and power electronics to share the same housing and cooling system. Accordingly, significant mass and volume reductions are possible in the power electronics housing and cooling auxiliaries.
The use of requirements in rigorous system design

Requirements define the functionality of a software system and its design and performance constraints. Before a system is designed, it is useful to construct a formal statement of its requirements. The goal of this research has been to incorporate requirements into the design process. We have developed a methodology that uses the requirements of a system to guide its design. Although there are existing systems that support the formal statement of requirements, the major emphasis of these systems is on analyzing the requirements for properties such as consistency, completeness and data lifetime. Those methodologies that do address the problem of realizing a high level design from a set of requirements differ from this strategy in not dealing with a complete system design at each level. Using our methodology, a system is derived incrementally from the initial statement of its requirements. The resulting hierarchy of system designs is one of detail, not of system structure or functionality. Each level in the hierarchy is a complete, self-contained, description of the system; each level is derived from, and is more detailed than, the previous level. A level consists of a model of the system and requirements constraining the model. The methodology permits developing models for specific application areas. Adjacent levels in the hierarchy are related by the design decisions which transform the preceding level into the succeeding level. Design decisions are mappings from one part of a model to the corresponding part of the model at the next level. Each level that is introduced must be shown to be a valid implementation of its predecessor. The methodology defines verification steps that must be taken as new levels are produced. This highlights one of the benefits of using this design strategy. It might be quite difficult to show that a system implementation satisfies some high level requirement such as fault-tolerance. It is easier to show that the high level requirement is satisfied by a somewhat lower level specification, that each lower level specification is satisfied by a still lower level specification, and finally that a specification is satisfied by the implementation.
Tissue-specific Expression of the Mouse a2(1) Collagen Promoter STUDIES IN TRANSGENIC MICE AND IN TISSUE CULTURE CELLS*

We sought to determine the cis-acting elements re- sponsible for the pattern of tissue specific expression of the mouse a2(I) collagen gene. Using an RNase pro- tection assay we first verified that expression of the a2(I) collagen gene is mainly confined to tendons, bone, and skin in mice. Both transgenic mice and DNA transfection of tissue culture cells were used as experimental approaches. Transgenic mice lines were generated harboring chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) chi- meric genes that contained either (a) 2000 base pairs (bp) of 5”flanking sequences of the mouse a2(I) colla- gen gene plus additional sequences between +418 and +1524 of the first intron of this gene or (b) the same promoter sequences without intron sequences or (c) the 350-bp proximal promoter sequences. Transgenic mice containing both types of 2000-bp promoters showed a pattern of CAT expression that was tissue specific. The presence of sequences of the first intron in the transgene did not increase the level of promoter activity. Transgenic mice harboring the 350-bp 02(I) collagen promoter also showed a pattern that was tissue-specific except that high level expression also occurred in the brain. This suggests that negative regulation is an important component of tissue-specific expression. In order to analyze the first 350 bases in detail, we per- formed transient expression experiments, using promoter fragments attached to the luciferase reporter gene.
Proposition 66 Collaborating with Wikis By

As the Internet revolution presses on, computer-mediated communications through social (conversational) technologies also seem to advance every day. (Social sites such as MySpace and Facebook, commercial sites such as Amazon.com and eBay, and media sites such as Flickr and YouTube, to name a few applications, have become very popular.) Given the fast-rising number of these technologies, the confused might recall that people form online communities by combining one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many communication modes. The commonality is that all tap the power of new information and communications
Time-Domain Finite Elements for Virtual Testing of Electromagnetic Compatibility

The paper presents a time-domain finite-element solver developed for simulations related to solving electromagnetic compatibility issues. The software is applied as a module integrated into a computational framework developed within a FP7 European project High Intensity Radiated Field – Synthetic Environment (HIRF SE) able to simulate a large class of problems. In the paper, the mathematical formulation is briefly presented, and special emphasis is put on the user point of view on the simulation tool-chain. The functionality is demonstrated on the computation of shielding effectiveness of two composite materials. Results are validated through experimental measurements and agreement is confirmed by automatic feature selective algorithms.
CTX-M-15 Extended-Spectrum ββ-Lactamase 생성 Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis에 Case Report of Pediatric Gastroenteritis Due to CTX-M-15 Extended-Spectrum β -Lactamase-Producing Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis

A clinical isolate of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis in Korea was found to produce the extend-ed-spectrum β -lactamase CTX-M-15. The isolate was recovered in 2008 from the stool of a 3-yr-old boy with gastroenteritis. This isolate was found to be resistant to multiple drugs, including ampicillin, piperacillin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, and aztreonam. The resistance to cefotaxime was transferred by conjugation to recipient Escherichia coli J53. The patient was eventually successfully treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. This is the first report of the bla CTX-M-15 gene in S. enterica serotype Enteritidis in Korea . (Korean J Lab Med 2009;29:461-4)
Optimising treatment outcomes in adolescents with eating disorders: 2 The potential role of cognitive behavioral therapy

Objective: While family based treatment (FBT) is the leading psychological therapy for 4 adolescents with eating disorders, it is not universally effective or suitable. This study 5 considered the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy for eating disorders (CBT-ED) in 6 adolescent cases where FBT was not fully effective or where it was not applicable to the 7 individual case. 8 Method: A transdiagnostic case series of 54 adolescents with eating disorders (52% with 9 anorexia nervosa; 31% with atypical anorexia nervosa) were offered CBT-ED following 10 previous treatment using FBT or following FBT being judged inappropriate. Pre-post outcomes 11 were assessed using standardised measures of eating attitudes and clinical impairment, and 12 weight change was measured for the patients with anorexia nervosa. 13 Results: The rate of attrition was similar to that found in other CBT-ED studies (38.9% of 14 patients who started CBT-ED; 59.3% of those offered CBT-ED). The patients showed positive 15 outcomes on all measures, regardless of whether they had previously been treated with FBT. 16 Effect sizes were moderate to large. Severity and duration of the eating disorder were 17 unrelated to outcomes. 18 Discussion: CBT-ED merits consideration as a second-line approach for adolescents with 19 eating disorders when FBT has not been effective or could not be applied. There is no 20 evidence that previous failure to benefit from FBT impairs outcome from subsequent CBT-ED, 21 and severity and duration of the eating disorder did not influence outcome. Treatment 22 matching for adolescents with eating disorders might consider the role of previous treatment 23 outcomes and family availability in determining optimum treatment strategies for individuals.
source-dependent transcription of CRE-containing genes in vascular smooth muscle

source-dependent transcription of CRE-containing genes in vascular smooth muscle. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2006. Ca 2 (cid:1) handling has immediate physiological and long-term genomic effects on vascular smooth muscle function. Previously we showed that Ca 2 (cid:1) entry through voltage-dependent Ca 2 (cid:1) channels (VDCCs) or store-operated Ca 2 (cid:1) channels (SOCCs) results in phosphorylation of the Ca 2 (cid:1) / cAMP response element (CRE)-binding protein in cerebral arteries. Here, oligonucleotide array analysis was used to determine gene transcription proﬁles resulting from these two Ca 2 (cid:1) entry pathways in human cerebrovascular smooth muscle cell cultures. Results were conﬁrmed and expanded using quantitative RT-PCR, Western blot, and immunoﬂuorescence. A distinct, yet overlapping, set of CRE-regulated genes was induced by VDCC activation using K (cid:1) membrane depolarization vs. SOCC activation by thapsigargin (TG). Membrane depolarization selectively induced a sustained increase in early growth response-1 (Egr-1) mRNA and protein, which were inhibited by the VDCC blocker nimodipine and the SOCC inhibitor 2-aminoethoxydiphenylborate (2-APB). TG selectively induced a sustained increase in MAPK phosphatase-1 (MKP-1) mRNA and protein, and these effects were decreased by 2-APB, but not by nimodipine. The physiological agonist ANG II also stimulated expression of Egr-1 and MKP-1. Coadministration of 2-APB prevented expression of Egr-1 and MKP-1, whereas nimodipine blocked only Egr-1 expression. TG and ANG II induced phosphorylation of ERK, which was sensitive to 2-APB and was selectively required for CRE-binding protein phosphorylation. Our ﬁndings thus indicate that Ca 2 (cid:1) entry through VDCCs and store-operated Ca 2 (cid:1) entry can differentially regulate CRE-containing genes in vascular smooth muscle and also imply that agonist-induced signals involved in modulation of gene transcription can be controlled by multiple sources of Ca 2 (cid:1) .
Network Coding Aware Cooperative MAC Protocol for Wireless AdHoc Networks

Cooperative communication, which utilizes neighboring nodes to relay the overhearing information, has been employed as an effective technique to deal with the channel fading and to improve the network performances. Network coding, which combines several packets together for transmission, is very helpful to reduce the redundancy at the network and to increase the overall Throughput. Introducing network coding into the cooperative retransmission process enables the relay node to assist other nodes while serving its own traffic simultaneously. To leverage the benefits brought by both of them, an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is needed. In this paper, we propose a novel network coding aware cooperative MAC protocol, namely NCAC-MAC, for wireless ad hoc networks. The design objective of NCAC-MAC is to increase the throughput and reduce the delay. Simulation results reveal that NCAC-MAC can improve the network performance under general circumstances comparing with two benchmarks.
Psychological Ownership and Absenteeism Relationship in the Aviation Sector

Due to the fact that absenteeism causes job loss, it may lead to an increase in the cost. In that sense, it is important to establish a policy for forming psychological appropriation in order to make employees come to work. In this study, it is aimed to measure if the employees’ sense of psychological appropriation in aviation industry affects their absenteeism. It is intended to make a quantitative research so as to identify this relationship. This study has been applied to the employees working at the managements in Sabiha Gökçen and Cengiz Topel airports. According to the anaylsis of the research data, it has been understood that there is not a direct relationship between psychological appropriation and absenteeism. Nevertheless, it has been concluded that there is a meaningful relationship between sub-dimnesions of absenteeism and psychological appropriation. This result is a result that will satisfy the organization management in reducing the rate of absenteeism of employees.
Abnormal Return and Market Efficiency at Stockholm Stock Exchange

Background and purpose In Sweden private savings in stocks has experienced a large increase and in year 2006 there were 6.7 million people, or 77 per cent of the population owning stocks. A recent study shows that more than every other Swede has deficient knowledge in trading with stocks. Since small private investors often do not know how to gather and interpret information they must utilize investment advices. The large increase in private savings in stocks, the lack of investment knowledge together with the large increase in Internet usage has resulted in investment advice seeking on the Internet. One of the largest sources of investment advices on the Internet in Sweden today is Avanza.se. The purpose with our thesis is to describe and analyze if, after a buy recommendation issued at Avanza’s website, the effects with respect to abnormal return and market efficiency differ significantly depending on a company’s capitalization value.
Macrophage activation. Potential for cancer therapy.

Tumoricidal activity of activated macrophages has been clearly demonstrated by various in vitro and in vivo studies of a wide variety of animal tumor systems. Recent in vitro studies have shown that human peripheral blood monocytes can also be activated to generate similar tumoricidal activity. Significant inhibi- tion of spontaneous lung and liver metastases in different animal tumor systems has been demonstrated with intravenous therapy of macrophage-activating agents such as muramyl dipeptide and C-reactive protein delivered in liposomes. These studies provide a rationale for a similar approach in clinical cancer therapy, particularly in an adjuvant setting. The distinct advantages of this approach include low toxicity, nonspecificity of tumor-cell killing, tumoricidal activity against drug-resistant tumor cells and cells with metastatic potential, and lack of development of tumor cells resistant to macrophage killing. Admittedly, these advantages are only theoretical at this stage, and appropriate clinical trials must be carried out to demonstrate whether they can be realized in a clinical setting.
Anomalous Cognition in the Context of Time: Does the Viewer Describe a Deterministic or a Probabilistic Future?

—In this process-oriented study, we examined the influence of the time dimension on Psi effects in two experimental conditions (present vs. future). For data collection, selected viewers with experience in the remote viewing method gathered information about targets that were distant in space (the present) and time (the future). In this study, we did not balance the two time conditions. The present condition was composed of binary truth statements consisting of two possible options related to current world knowledge. The future condition consisted of two options that were not yet determined at the time of viewing, but which depended on the outcome of future mixed martial arts fights. According to the associative remote viewing (ARV) method, the binary outcomes of the present and future options were each associated with a photo, which had to be described by the viewers. An independent judge analyzed the viewers’ qualitative reports through binary correspondence ratings amounting to a hit (1) or no hit (0) per trial. Independently of the time condition, a Psi effect could be observed. The hit rates of the judge (0.88 and 0.62 for the present and future, respectively) were significantly higher than the expected value (0.5) under the null hypothesis (present: p < .001, ES P = .73; future: p = .027, ESF = .22; binomial distribution). In addition, the hit rates in the two time conditions differed significantly from each other ( χ 2 = 9.01; df = 1, p < 0.003). The results confirm the hypothesis that Psi is not completely independent of the time dimension and that the hit rate is influenced by a priori target probabilities. With regard to the Informational Psi (I Ψ ) theory, we will discuss the implications of a probabilistic future for the understanding of Psi effects.