Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Magnetohydrodynamic flow of squeezed Maxwell nano-fluid with double stratification and convective conditions

This article is made to discuss the effect of magnetohydrodynamic on squeezing flow of the nanoparticles between two confined boundaries. Constitutive expressions are utilized for convectively heated Maxwell nano-fluid using Buongiorno’s model in the mathematical development of considered flow problem. Here system of transport equations incorporates the combined impacts of thermophoresis diffusion, Brownian diffusion, and double stratification. Non-linear coupled ordinary differential equations are transformed by employing suitable similar transformations. The formulated non-linear system is evaluated successfully via convergent approach, that is, Homotopy analysis method. The graphical analysis is carried out for different active physical flow parameters. Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are also treated graphically. The results portray that the velocity profile shows cross flow behavior for increasing values of material parameter. Moreover, for dominant values of Biot number, convective effects dominant on plate surface and help the temperature and nanoparticles concentration to increase rapidly near the surface.
Effects of trehalose and resveratrol on sperm cell parameters after cryopreservation

: Background: Freezing human semen is considered an effective technique in assisted reproductive techniques (ART). During cryopreservation, sperm cells are exposed to chemical and physical stress, resulting in damage to the axonum, increased morphological deficits in the middle segment, and decreased sperm motility. In this study, the effects of trehalose and resveratrol antioxidants on sperm parameters during freezing and thawing processes were evaluated. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 40 normal semen samples divided into 7 groups. The effects of these antioxidants on sperm parameters were investigated by computer analysis (CASA) and sperm chromatin (SCD) evaluation. It should be noted that P <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Group 3 (freezing and treating with 100 mM trehalose) showed the highest percentage of motility, acrosome membrane integrity, and plasma membrane integrity compared to the control group and had healthier DNA after thawing and fewer survival of sperm. Conclusion: According to the results, it can be concluded that trehalose samples in general improve the quality of semen and even after thawing it is involved in maintaining sperm motility. Resveratrol causes toxicity at high concentrations and causes undesirable changes in osmotic pressure, but at low concentrations it has beneficial effects on sperm survival and inhibits ROS as a potent antioxidant.
Characterization and fabrication of a (6H)-SiC as a piezoresistive pressure sensor for high temperature applications

CHARACTERIZATION AND FABRICATION OF a(6H)-SIC AS A PIEZORESISTIVE PRESSURE SENSOR FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS by Robert Sylvester Okojie A prototype monolithic 6H-SiC pressure sensor operational up to 350°C, with potential to operate up to 600°C, was batch fabricated and tested. At temperatures higher than 450°C, silicon diaphragms creep under minimal load. To operate beyond 450 °C, therefore, the use of 6H-SiC was proposed. However, three key technological issues fabrication, high temperature metallization, and gage factor characterization had to be resolved. Since conventional fabrication technology is not applicable to SiC due to its near inert chemistry, photoconductive selectivity techniques to etch the piezoresistors were developed. Techniques to wet etch the cavities in a dark current mode were developed, resulting in 251.1m diaphragms free of etch-pits and hillocks. Average etchrates between 0.6 and 0.8). i1i/min. were achieved. Ti/TiN/Pt and Ti/TaSi 2/Pt multilayer metallization schemes that maintained stable contact resistivity on n-type 6H-SiC epilayers after more than twenty hours of heat treatment at 600°C in air were demonstrated. The characterization research revealed that the longitudinal and transverse gage factors were 22 and 19, respectively, at room temperature. They increased in absolute values with temperature, and then assumed constant values of 11 and 9, respectively, above 400 °C. The experimental data obtained demonstrated for the first time that 6H-SiC pressure sensors capable of operating up to 600°C can be fabricated and manufactured. CHARACTERIZATION AND FABRICATION OF cc(6H)-SiC AS A PIEZORESISTIVE PRESSURE SENSOR FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS by Robert Sylvester Okojie A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering May 1996 Copyright © 1996 by Robert Sylvester Okojie
with Disease Risk by Their Structural Motifs and Correlates DRB1*08:01 and DRB1*11:01 Is Predicted Dehydrogenase Complex-E2 Epitopes by Differential Binding of Pyruvate

DRB1*08:01 (DR0801) and (DR1101) are highly homologous alleles that have opposing effects on susceptibility to primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). DR0801 confers risk and shares a key feature with other HLA class II alleles that predispose to autoimmunity: a nonaspartic acid at beta57. DR1101 is associated with protection from PBC, and its sequence includes an aspartic acid at beta57. To elucidate a mechanism for the opposing effects of these HLA alleles on PBC susceptibility, we compared the features of epitopes presented by DR0801 and DR1101. First, we identiﬁed DR0801- and DR1101-restricted epitopes within multiple viral Ags, observing both shared and distinct epitopes. Because DR0801 is not well characterized, we deduced its motif by measuring binding afﬁnities for a library of peptides, conﬁrming its key features through structural modeling. DR0801 was distinct from DR1101 in its ability to accommodate charged residues within all but one of its binding pockets. In particular, DR0801 strongly preferred acidic residues in pocket 9. These ﬁndings were used to identify potentially antigenic sequences within PDC-E2 (an important hepatic autoantigen) that contain a DR0801 motif. Four peptides bound to DR0801 with reasonable afﬁnity, but only one of these bound to DR1101. Three peptides, PDC-E2 145–159 , PDC-E2 249–263 , and PDC-E2 629–643 , elicited high-afﬁnity T cell
Population, development and human resources

In their paper “Population, Development, and Human Natures”, Paul and Anne Ehrlich discuss the “critical challenge of the decades ahead to incorporate the lagging four-fifths of the world’s still expanding population into the global economy while preserving the life-support systems that make our planet habitable”. They emphasize the second part of the challenge, i.e. how to ensure that, whatever development results, it will not threaten the Earth’s life support systems. When thus formulated, hardly anyone will question this challenge, but the authors seem to have a more ambitious goal. The concepts of strong and weak sustainability, as described by Turner (1990) for example, allow for a choice between keeping all natural capital intact and preserving essential life-support systems, but with some substitution. The authors clearly advocate strong sustainability. Their paper alludes to five major developmental threats to the attainment of this goal: (i) population growth; (ii) excessive consumption in developed countries; (iii) technological development; (iv) lack of public consciousness about the need to curb the first two; and (v) weakness of political mechanisms to create a consensus around this need and to act accordingly.
Stakeholder management in construction (editorial)

Interest in stakeholders has grown considerably since Freeman’s (1984) seminal work Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach was published . Over 100 papers concerning what has become termed ‘stakeholder theory’ were published by 1995 alone (Donaldson and Preston 1995, p.65), with many more published since. Increasingly, stakeholders have been referred to in mainstream media and government communications, not just in academic texts (Friedman and Miles 2002).
A REVIEW ON ANEMIA IN PREGNANCY CONDITION

Anemia during pregnancy is a global public health challenge facing the world today and it’s associated with poor maternal and perinatal outcome. Nearly two-thirds of pregnant and one-half of non-pregnant women in developing counties have anemia. In India about 49.7% pregnant women suffer from anemia (WHO global database) and 20% maternal death’s contributed by anemia. Prevalence of anemia in pregnancy varies considerably because of differences in socioeconomic conditions, lifestyles and health seeking behaviors across different cultures. Women of low socio-economic groups and teenagers are more susceptible towards anemia during pregnancy. Anemia is diagnosed by studying the hemoglobin concentration and also a peripheral blood smear for the characteristic red blood cell changes. Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and folate deficiency anemia (FDA) commonest causes of anemia in pregnancy. To avoid a anemia oral iron and folate supplement are given to a pregnant women.
LncRNA NDRG1 aggravates progression and EMT of osteosarcoma by sponging miR-96-5p through the PI3K/AKT pathway

Zhen Wang Nanjing Medical University Jie Zhu Nanjing Medical University Qixiu Han Nanjing Medical University Lingfeng Yu Nanjing University Ziying Liu Nanjing University Jianhao Huang Southern Medical University Yan Zhu Jinling Hospital Hao Zhu Jinling Hospital Gentao Fan Jinling Hospital Qikai Tang Jiangsu Province Hospital and Nanjing Medical University First A liated Hospital Ji Qian A liated Yixing Hospital of Jiangsu University Guangxin Zhou (  zhougxnj1@163.com ) Nanjing Medical University
Treatment of Leather Industry Wastewater with Sequential Forward Osmosis (FO) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) Hybrid Processes and Recoveries of Economical Merit Materials

The leather industry wastewaters have high COD, turbidity, pH, conductivity, Total Solids (TS), Suspended Solids (SS), sulphate, chlorides, chromium and colour. A pre-filtration device was used with a 25-micron pore size cartridge before FO experiments. FO membrane had symmetric channels on both sides of the membrane was made from commercial Cellulose Triacetate (CTA). This allowed for both the feed and draw solutions to flow tangential to the membrane. The variation of increasing of water flux (5 L/m 2 h, 7 L/m 2 h, 9 L/m 2 h, 12 L/m 2 h, 15 L/m 2 h, 17 L/ m 2 h, 18 L/m 2 h and 20 L/m 2 h) on the draw solid concentrations and effects of operating times (30 min, 60 min, 80 min, 90 min and 100 min) on the water flux were studied in FO membrane. The variation of recovery percentage versus time and the effects of flow rates (30 L/h-220 L/h) on the rejection efficiency and the removals of the pollutant removals (COD, turbidity, pH, conductivity, Total Solids (TS), Suspended Solids (SS), sulphate, chlorides, chromium and colour) were studied in FO. RO experiments were performed in a spiral wounded membrane. Effect of increasing pressures (4 bar, 8 bar, 16 bar and 20 bar) and operating times (10 min, 20 min, 30 min, 60 min, 80 min and 100 min) on the permeate flux was studied at a temperature of 25°C. A linear positive correlatıon between applied pressure and water flux was detected as the pressure was increased from 2 bar to 20 bar in FO. At higher draw solution at constant pressure, both rejection and water flux increased in FO. The recovery percentage both in distilled water and in leather industry versus operating time in FO. Flow rate flux decreased slightly throughout 60 min of operation, then it reached at a plateau at Jw values of 278 L/m 2 h and 265 L/m 2 h respectively. The maximum COD, turbidity, conductivity, TS, SS, sulphate, chloride and chromium and colour removals were 90%, 89%, 91%, 91%, 91%, 88%, 90%, 87% and 91%, respectively, in the permeate of the FO at 16 bar pressure while the removals of these parameters varied between 98% and 99% in RO at a transmembrane pressure of 20 bar. The high COD concentrations at 20 bar pressure did not decrease the permeate flux in RO. The permeate flux is not dependent on time. The highest permeate flux was detected as 781 and 760 after 30 min in distilled water and leather industry, respectively. The permeate of the RO meets wıth the dıscharge standards of water quality for irrigation water while 2380 g/L chromium, 1263 g/L gelatine, and 1134 g/L gelatine were recovered from the RO retentate/concentrate during the treatment of 1 m 3 leather wastewater. The total cost assessment was calculated based on annualized investment and operational cost. In order to treat 10 m 3 leather industry wastewater, the total cost was calculated as 1.01 USD. The revenue coming from the recoveries of merit materials was 88 USD during the treatment of the 10 m 3 leather industry.
Seasoned Equity Offering in Thailand

— The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal fund raising strategy through equity issuance in Thailand. Contrary to the Pecking Order Theory suggesting raising funds from firm’s retained earnings as the first source, following by debt, and lastly issuing equities, there exist more than 2,700 seasoned equity offering (SEO) events during 1999 to 2014 in Thailand; all of data used for this research is acquired from SETSMART database. Moreover, the trend has been increasing substantially in the past 5 years. Key main sectors issuing stocks are property and construction (27%), services (16%), industrials (11%) and financials (10%). Previous researches found a negative stock return from SEO. It is therefore interesting to explore why many firms still issue stocks to raise capital. This research applies event study methodology in identifying the impact of SEO event to the abnormal return comparing with the benchmark, SET return in this case. The empirical analysis shows a matched result with other countries, giving -0.6% abnormal return on the 1-day event window at 1% confidence level, and may drop down to -20.7% within the first year. This is consistent throughout all event windows: short-term (1 day to 1 week), intermediate term (6 months to 1 year), and long-term (> 1 year). Specifically, private placements (PPs) give a less negative return than public offerings (POs) due to the difference in level of information availability. The implication of SEO is that firms may need to raise money via SEOs in order to 1) grab the opportunities when stock prices are high, 2) secure the fund and 3) use to reduce financial distress.
Building Secure Clouds by Perpetual Auditing using Blockchain Technology

- The modern method of storing the data is a cloud server. But due to security and privacy concerns about the dependability of their CSP, consumers of Cloud service are irresolute to select cloud services. Hence, avoid this circumstance, we bring in an in-built verifier to validate the data regularly in the cloud. Cloud service mainly approached these matters by building assurance and enhancing the clarity of the cloud service provider. Along with CS, Perpetual Auditing (PA) of the cloud server is determined to increase the reliability of the certificates. Also, by implementing the blockchain technology, the user's data will be split into blocks and stored in different servers which makes the data more secure. It also audits the transactions in the cloud by the users.
LARVICIDAL AND REPELLENT ACTIVITY OF LAGENARIA SICERARIA (CUCURBITACEAE) EXTRACTS AGAINST THE HOUSE FLY: MUSCA DOMESTICA (DIPTERA: MUSCIDAE) By

The present study performed at evaluating the potency of methanol, acetone, chloroform and petroleum ether extracts of Lagenaria siceraria leaves against the 3 rd instar larvae of the housefly, Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) which consider as a diseases vector. The repellent efficacy of the pre-pared plant extracts against M. domestica adults was examined. All plant extracts showed a larvicidal activity against the 3 rd instar larvae of M. domestica larvae; however, the petroleum ether extract was found that to be the more effective than chloroform, acetone and methanol extracts. The LC 50 values of methanol, acetone, chloroform and petroleum ether extracts recorded 468.5, 432.1, 433.8 and 101.4ppm; respectively. As well, at the LC 50 values of the tested extracts exhibited repellent activity against M. domestica adults. The effective plant extract that exhibited high antifeedant or repellency action was petroleum ether extract as compared to chloroform, acetone and methanol extracts. These results demonstrated that methanol, acetone, chloroform and petroleum ether extracts of L. siceraria leaves can be used as pest control even in their crude form. These results may provide an opportunity to develop alternatives to costly organic pesticides with some available cheap plants which are usually safe to the environment and to living organisms.
Mining Associated pattern from wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

: Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a vibrant technology where data management and processing is a topic in several research areas. The main objective of WSN based applications is to make real time decisions. This can remove different challenges like resource-constrained computing, communication capabilities in WSN. These challenges motivate to extract useful data from large set of data base or data streams. There are numerous algorithms are used for mining knowledge from sensor stream. These algorithms are mine frequent pattern from WSN. Here a comparative study of existing data mining techniques and their objectives are presented.
Bluetooth Based Optical System for E-Measurement (Bose)

To ease the measurement of electrical parameters while troubleshooting and testing the system is made easier with the help of Bluetooth based optical system. Parallel actions like monitoring and measuring are quite risky while working on electrical circuits. There are chances for loss of focus which may lead to inaccuracy or even physical damages. Visualization can be enhanced, when the readings are projected at the glasses worn by the operator. It supports the operator to concentrate on the circuit. Our project aim in developing such device which can be used for Visualizing the parameters as then multimeter reads.
Reply to the letter to the editor 'Addressing the quality of the ESMO-MCBS' by Del Paggio.

cetuximab-based necessary to elucidate the subset of mCRC patients with RAS wild-type and R who may derive beneﬁt from cetuximab. The exploratory analysis using spider plots may enable us to ﬁnd cer-tain responders to cetuximab in future biomarker studies.
A low-cost SVM classifier on FPGA for pedestrian detection

—Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is an intensive computational part of a pedestrian detection system. A real-time system requires the classifier to be implemented in embedded platforms. In this paper, a hardware accelerator for the SVM classifier, which is part of the pedestrian detection system, has been designed and implemented on FPGA. The accelerator, which targets low latency and on-chip memory use, can be scaled to different input image sizes. The memory usage of the accelerator alone is 77% of the state of the art implementation. The accelerator is demonstrated by being integrated into a pedestrian detection. It increases the system’s throughput by 1.9 times.
On Conformal Deformations II

The conformal index counts the number of exactly marginal deformations. In 4d the index is given by the number of chiral primary operators of dimension 3 moded out by the complexified global group, where the quotient is defined as usual by imposing a D-term. Here we show its consistency with the Leigh-Strassler method for weakly coupled theories, and we test it against known examples. In several examples this method discovers extra exactly marginal deformations beyond those of Leigh-Strassler. [This is an unpublished paper dated 3.3. 03. ]
Cell Biology and Signal Transduction Critical sequence motifs in transit peptide

The transit peptides of nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins are necessary and sufficient for targeting and import of proteins into chloroplasts. However, the sequence information encoded by transit peptides is not fully understood. In this study, we investigated sequence motifs in the transit peptide of the small subunit of the rubisco complex (RbcS) by examining the ability of various mutant transit peptides to target GFP reporter proteins to chloroplasts in Arabidopsis leaf protoplasts. We divided the transit peptide into eight blocks (T1 through T8), each consisting of 8 or 10 amino acids (aa), and generated mutants that had alanine substitutions, or deletions, of one or two T blocks in the transit peptide. In addition, we generated mutants that had the original sequence partially restored in single or double-T block alanine substitution mutants. Analysis of chloroplast import of these mutants revealed several interesting observations. Single T-block mutations did not noticeably affect targeting efficiency, except in T1 and T4 mutations. However, double-T mutants, T2A/T4A, T3A/T6A, T3A/T7A, T4A/T6A, and T4A/T7A, caused a 50-100% loss in targeting ability. T3A/T6A and T4A/T6A mutants produced only precursor proteins, whereas T2A/T4A and T4A/T7A mutants produced only a 37-kD protein. Detailed analyses revealed that ML in T1, LKSSA in T3, FP and RK in T4, CMQVW in T6, and KKFET in T7 play important roles in chloroplast targeting. In T1, the hydrophobicity of ML is important for targeting. LKSSA in T3 is functionally equivalent to CMQVW in T6 and KKEFT in T7. Furthermore, subcellular fractionation revealed that alanine substitution in T1, T3 and T6 produced soluble precursors whereas alanine substitution in T4 and T7 produced intermediates that were tightly associated with membranes. These results demonstrate that the transit peptide contains multiple motifs and that some of them act in concert or synergistically. supplemented with Na 2 CO 3 or Triton X-100 to a final concentration of 0.1 M or 1%, respectively, incubated on ice for 30 min, and subjected to ultracentrifugation at 100,000 X g for 30 min. These fractions was analyzed by Western blotting. The protein blots were developed with an ECL kit (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ) and images were obtained using a LAS3000 image capture system (FUJIFILM, Tokyo, Japan). The amount of protein on the immunoblots was determined by measuring the intensity of the bands with LAS3000 software.
Tutorial: Integrated-photonic switching structures

Recent developments in waveguided 2 × 2 and N × M photonic switches are reviewed, including both broadband and narrowband resonant devices for the Si, InP, and AlN platforms. Practical actuation of switches by electro-optical and thermo-optical techniques is discussed. Present datacom-and-computing applications are reviewed, and potential applications are proposed for chip-scale photonic and optoelectronic integrated switching networks. Potential is found in the reconfigurable, programmable “mesh” switches that enable a promising group of applications in new areas beyond those in data centers and cloud servers. Many important matrix switches use gated semiconductor optical amplifiers. The family of broadband, directional-coupler 2 × 2 switches featuring two or three side-coupled waveguides deserves future experimentation, including devices that employ phase-change materials. The newer 2 × 2 resonant switches include standing-wave resonators, different from the micro-ring traveling-wave resonators. The res.