Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Photoemission Spectroscopy of Layered Halides - Pbi2 and Bii3

Note: Bell tel labs inc,murray hill,nj 07974. ecole polytech fed lausanne,ch-1007 lausanne,switzerland.ISI Document Delivery No.: DY032 Reference LSE-ARTICLE-1977-007View record in Web of Science Record created on 2006-10-03, modified on 2017-05-12
Genetic Polymorphisms of Cytochromes P450 in Finno-Permic Populations of Russia

Cytochrome P450 is an enzyme involved in the metabolism of phase 1 xenobiotics, toxins, endogenous hormones, and drugs, including those used in COVID-19 treatment. Cytochrome p450 genes are linked to the pathogenesis of some multifactorial traits and diseases, such as cancer, particularly prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. Genotyping was performed on 540 supposedly healthy individuals of 5 Finno-Permic populations from the territories of the European part of the Russian Federation. There was a statistically significant difference between Veps and most of the studied populations in the rs4986774 locus of the CYP2D6 gene; data on the rs3892097 locus of the CYP2D6 gene shows that Izhemsky Komis are different from the Mordovian and Udmurt populations.
EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AS REGULATORS OF IMMUNE FUNCTION IN TRAUMATIC INJURIES AND SEPSIS

ABSTRACT Despite advancements in critical care and resuscitation, traumatic injuries are one of the leading causes of death around the world and can bring about long-term disabilities in survivors. One of the primary causes of death for trauma patients are secondary phase complications that can develop weeks or months after the initial insult. These secondary complications typically occur because of systemic immune dysfunction that develops in response to injury, which can lead to immunosuppression, coagulopathy, multiple organ failure, unregulated inflammation, and potentially sepsis in patients. Recently, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been identified as mediators of these processes because their levels are increased in circulation after traumatic injury and they encapsulate cargo that can aggravate these secondary complications. In this review, we will discuss the role of EVs in the posttrauma pathologies that arise after burn injuries, trauma to the central nervous system, and infection. In addition, we will examine the use of EVs as biomarkers for predicting late-stage trauma outcomes and as therapeutics for reversing the pathological processes that develop after trauma. Overall, EVs have emerged as critical mediators of trauma-associated pathology and their use as a therapeutic agent represents an exciting new field of biomedicine.
Local Differential Privacy for Person-to-Person Interactions

Currently, many global organizations collect personal data for marketing, recommendation system improvement, and other purposes. Some organizations collect personal data securely based on a technique known as $\epsilon$-local differential privacy (LDP). Under LDP, a privacy budget is allocated to each user in advance. Each time the user's data are collected, the user's privacy budget is consumed, and their privacy is protected by ensuring that the remaining privacy budget is greater than or equal to zero. Existing research and organizations assume that each individual's data are completely unrelated to other individuals' data. However, this assumption does not hold in a situation where interaction data between users are collected from them. In this case, each user's privacy is not sufficiently protected because the privacy budget is actually overspent. In this study, the issue of local differential privacy for person-to-person interactions is clarified. We propose a mechanism that satisfies LDP in a person-to-person interaction scenario. Mathematical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed mechanism can maintain high data utility while ensuring LDP compared to existing methods.
Enhancing the Tensile-Shaping Stability of Soft Elongation Actuators for Grasping Applications

Soft elongation actuators are widely applied in soft robotic grippers, providing a promising solution to adjust the grasping range. However, there are some limitations in keeping their tensile shaping stability under high payloads. This work presents a universal variable stiffness mechanism called Cross-Fibre to reduce the deformation and improve the load-bearing capacity of soft elongation actuators. The proposed mechanism is composed of two symmetrical fibre loops in an up-and-down crossed arrangement around the soft elongation actuator. The fibre media on both sides can be stretched compliantly with the actuator, and thus achieve global variable stiffness. In addition, based on the soft elongation actuator with variable stiffness, this work also develops a novel soft gripper prototype for automatically adjusting the grasping range and enhancing grasping applications. Experiments demonstrate that the soft elongation actuator with Cross-Fibre effect has strong tensile-shaping ability, and the soft gripper can stably grasp objects weighting more than 1700 g. Such efficient performance will promote various applications in daily life and industry.
Analysis and design of terahertz antennas based on plasmonic resonant graphene sheets

Resonant graphene antennas used as true interfaces between terahertz (THz) space waves and a source/detector are presented. It is shown that in addition to the high miniaturization related to the plasmonic nature of the resonance, graphene-based THz antenna favorably compare with typical metal implementations in terms of return loss and radiation efficiency. Graphene antennas will contribute to the development of miniature, efficient, and potentially transparent all-graphene THz transceivers for emerging communication and sensing application.
Lidocaine Nebulization Compared to Lidocaine Spray in Decreasing Pain, Cough and Breathless in Flexible Fiber Optic Bronchoscopy

Background: Flexible optical fiber bronchoscopy (FFB) is a visual airway tract examination for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. This procedure often causes discomfort for patients, such as cough, breathlessness and pain. Lidocaine is a topical anesthetic premedication used in bronchoscopy. This study compared the use of lidocaine nebulization and lidocaine spray in inhibiting pain, cough and breathlessness in complexity of flexible fiber optic bronchoscopy.Methods: Pretest and posttest control group clinical study was conducted in patients prior to bronchoscopy at RSUD Dr. Moewardi from February to March 2020. The samples were taken by consecutive sampling technique, then randomly assigned into either lidocaine spray or nebulization. Cough and pain were assessed with VAS score while breathlessness was assessed with Borg score. The data were analyzed statically by using Chi-square test with P<0.05 was considered significantResults: Cough scores were -17.78±11.66 for nebulization and -8.33±6.18 for spray (P=0.005). Pain score were -16.67±11.38 and -9.44±7.25 for nebulization and spray respectively (P=0.045). Borg score obtained the scores for nebulization and 0.06±0.42 for spray (P=1.000). Conclusion: Both lidocaine nebulization and spray were effective in decreasing breathlessness during bronchoscopy. However, lidocaine nebulization was more effective in decreasing cough and pain.
Wide temperature range blue phase liquid crystals for displays

We report wide temperature range blue phase liquid crystals for display applications. Systematical analysis of the relationship of dielectric anisotropy value (Δε) and the blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) temperature range shows that the BP temperature range increases as the Δε decrease. Additionally, we also find that as the chiral concentration of the blue phase increases, the BP temperature range decreases. The studied BPLCs also exhibit fast response time of 400 μs using IPS cells with a fixed cell gap and electrode line and space of 10 μm. These results can be explained based on the defect theory and would give effective guidance during the application of BPLC. Detailed physical, optical, dielectric and electro-optical study will be presented.
Performance of all-optical switching in long period fiber grating

We study the performance of all-optical switching in long period fiber grating based on the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. The switching rate of long period fiber grating in the on-resonance and off-resonance case is obtained, respectively. It is found that in both cases, the on-off ratio of all-optical switching in long period fiber grating can be improved remarkably, and the phenomenon of pulse breakup can be avoided effectively, by using the higher order super-Gaussian pulses.
GraffMatch: Global Matching of 3D Lines and Planes for Wide Baseline LiDAR Registration

Using geometric landmarks like lines and planes can increase navigation accuracy and decrease map storage requirements compared to commonly-used LiDAR point cloud maps. However, landmark-based registration for applications like loop closure detection is challenging because a reliable initial guess is not available. Global landmark matching has been investigated in the literature, but these methods typically use ad hoc representations of 3D line and plane landmarks that are not invariant to large viewpoint changes, resulting in incorrect matches and high registration error. To address this issue, we adopt the affine Grassmannian manifold to represent 3D lines and planes and prove that the distance between two landmarks is invariant to rotation and translation if a shift operation is performed before applying the Grassmannian metric. This invariance property enables the use of our graph-based data association framework for identifying landmark matches that can subsequently be used for registration in the least-squares sense. Evaluated on a challenging landmark matching and registration task using publicly-available LiDAR datasets, our approach yields a 1.7x and 3.5x improvement in successful registrations compared to methods that use viewpoint-dependent centroid and “closest point” representations, respectively.
An Exploration of the Role of Refined Value Importance in Consumers’ Sustainable Disposal Behaviors

Research shows that consumers’ personal values influence their pro-environmental behaviors. However, studies of values and proenvironmental behavior have not examined how refined values relate to a range of sustainable disposal behaviors. In the current study, we examine associations between consumers’ refined value priorities and their behavior in four sustainable product disposal domains (recycling, donating, composting, and membership of giving/sharing groups) in a large and diverse sample of Australian adults. We show clear evidence of systematic relations between refined values and behaviors in each of these domains. While we show that motivationally aligned refined self-transcendence values are positively and self-enhancement values negatively associated with recycling, donating, and composting, we find the reverse relations for membership of giving/sharing groups. Our findings suggest that the study of consumers’ refined values across a range of behaviors can offer a more nuanced understanding of what motivates them to engage in sustainable product disposal behaviors, with the potential to inform the development of more targeted policies and initiatives encouraging consumer participation.
Core Infrastructure and Manufacturing Activity in the Indian States: Does the Income Group Matter?

Taking the data for 17 Indian states for the period running 1991–2017, the study investigates relationship between infrastructure and manufacturing value added at the overall as well as segregated levels to study the spatial differences. Preliminary tests of cross-section dependence point to the existence of dependence among the cross sections after which second-generation testing procedures are applied. Spatial differential impact of infrastructure on the performance of manufacturing activity is estimated using fixed/random effect modelling. The empirical results show that infrastructure index exerts positive and significant impact on the manufacturing performance with estimate of 0.20 for all states in India and 0.49 for high-income states. Similarly, individual components of infrastructure influence manufacturing activity differently. Road infrastructure is influencing manufacturing performance negatively in high-income states while it is positive for other states; teledensity exerts positive influence in case of middle-income states while the impact is negative in case of low-income states. Dumitrescu and Hurlin’s causality test shows bidirectional causality from infrastructure to manufacturing output. JEL Codes: D02, E62, H54, L94, L96
BIG-Net: Deep Learning for Grasping With a Bio-Inspired Soft Gripper

In this letter, a grasping neural network for a bio-inspired gripper (BIG-Net) trained on a synthetic dataset is proposed for the picking of novel objects. The grasp feasibility is evaluated by tracking the deformation of the soft gripping pad and three types of gripping forces during simulation. Over 420 K grasp scenes with 4.3 B grasps have been synthesized with stacked objects to train the neural network, instead of isolated objects in many existing methods. The BIG-Net takes in a depth image and provides pixel-wise grasp parameters for a grasp scene. Various experiments in both simulation and real world indicate that the BIG-Net grasping method outperforms the traditional and state-of-the-art methods. It achieves the average grasp success rates of 94% for the random picking of household items in clutter and 86% for adversarial items at real-time speeds (25 ms).
Colors, Luminosities, and Masses of Disk Galaxies

We explore the known dependence of the slope of the Tully-Fisher (TF) relation on observational wavelength using a large multifrequency galaxy data-base. We confirm that (1) in the infrared the slope of the TF relation is close to the value expected for constant mass-to-light ratio, while in the visible it increases with mass. Equivalently we show that the infrared luminosity is a good tracer of the dynamical mass in galaxies, whereas the fraction of blue light decreases with increasing mass. (2) B-H increases with mass (H luminosity) for galaxies of a given Hubble type and, at fixed H luminosity, it is larger in early morphological types. (3) The present star-formation rate and the H I content per unit mass both decrease with increasing dynamical mass
Simulation-Based Finite Sample Linearity Test Against Smooth Transition Models

In this paper, we use Monte Carlo (MC) testing techniques for testing linearity against smooth transition models. The MC approach allows us to introduce a new test that differs in two respects from the tests existing in the literature. First, the test is exact in the sense that the probability of rejecting the null when it is true is always less than or equal to the nominal size of the test. Secondly, the test is not based on an auxiliary regression obtained by replacing the model under the alternative by approximations based on a Taylor expansion. We also apply MC testing methods for size correcting the test proposed by Luukkonen, Saikkonen and Terasvirta (Biometrika, Vol. 75, 1988, p. 491). The results show that the power loss implied by the auxiliary regression‐based test is non‐existent compared with a supremum‐based test but is more substantial when compared with the three other tests under consideration.
Hollow core photonic crystal fiber surface-enhanced Raman probe

The authors demonstrate a hollow core photonic crystal fiber (HCPCF) surface-enhanced Raman probe consisting of a HCPCF with Au nanoparticles coated on the inner surface of the air holes serving as the substrate of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The experimental results indicate that the confinement of light inside the HCPCF and the coating of nanoparticles/analyte inside the air holes of the HCPCF offer a large area for the light to interact with the SERS particles. An optimized design of the HCPCF is provided to further improve the probe sensitivity.
Increased sensitivity to chemically induced colitis in mice harboring a DNA-binding deficient aryl hydrocarbon receptor

Abstract The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), a transcription factor best known for mediating toxic responses of environmental pollutants, also integrates metabolic signals to promote anti-inflammatory responses, intestinal homeostasis, and maintain barrier integrity. AHR regulates its target genes through direct DNA-binding to aryl hydrocarbon response elements (AHREs) but also through tethering to other transcription factors in a DNA-binding independent manner. However, it is not known if AHR’s anti-inflammatory role in the gut requires its ability to bind to AHREs. To test this, we determined the sensitivity of Ahrdbd/dbd mice, a genetically modified mouse line that express an AHR protein incapable of binding to AHREs, to dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis. Ahrdbd/dbd mice exhibited more severe symptoms of intestinal inflammation than Ahr+/+ mice. None of the Ahrdbd/dbd mice survived after the 5-day DSS followed by 7-day washout period. By day 6, the Ahrdbd/dbd mice had severe body weight loss, shortening of the colon, higher disease index scores, enlarged spleens, and increased expression of several inflammation genes, including interleukin 1b (Il-1b), Il-6, Il-17, C-x-c motif chemokine ligand 1 (Cxcl1), Cxcl2, Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase (Ptgs2), and lipocalin-2. Our findings show that AHR’s DNA-binding domain and ability to bind to AHREs are required to reduce inflammation, maintain a healthy intestinal environment, and protect against DSS-induced colitis.
Interaction of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid and Ca2+ on Phenolic Compounds Bioaccumulation in Soybean Sprouts under NaCl Stress

NaCl stress can enhance the accumulation of phenolic compounds in soybean during germination. In the present study, effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and Ca2+ on the biosynthesis of phenolic compounds in soybean sprouts germinated with NaCl stress were investigated. Results showed that addition of Ca2+ increased the content of total phenolics, phenolic acids, and isoflavonoids in soybean sprouts by ca. 15%, 7%, and 48%, respectively, through enhancing the activities of three key enzymes involved in the biosynthesis. On the other hand, addition of LaCl3, a calcium channel blocker, inhibited the synthesis of phenolic compounds, indicating that Ca2+ plays an important role in the synthesis of these compounds in soybean sprouts. Addition of GABA can increase the content of Ca2+ in soybean sprouts by ca. 20% and alleviate the inhibition of LaCl3 on phenolics biosynthesis in soybean sprouts. Similarly, addition of Ca2+ can reverse the inhibition of 3-mercaptopropionate, an inhibitor of endogenous GABA synthesis, on the biosynthesis of phenolic compounds in soybean sprouts under NaCl stress. To conclude, both GABA and Ca2+ can enhance the biosynthesis of phenolic compounds in soybean sprouts and there was an interaction between their effects on the promotion of phenolic compounds biosynthesis.
Adaptive Approach to Time-Frequency Analysis of AE Signals of Rocks

The paper describes a new adaptive approach to the investigation of acoustic emission of rocks, the anomalies of which may serve as short-term precursors of strong earthquakes. The basis of the approach is complex methods for monitoring acoustic emission and for analysis of its time-frequency content. Piezoceramic hydrophones and vector receivers, installed at the bottom of natural and artificial water bodies, as well as in boreholes with water, are used as acoustic emission sensors. To perform a time-frequency analysis of geoacoustic signals, we use a sparse approximation based on the developed Adaptive Matching Pursuit algorithm. The application of this algorithm in the analysis makes it possible to adapt to the concrete characteristics of each geoacoustic pulse. Results of the application of the developed approach for the investigation of acoustic emission anomalies, occurring before earthquakes, are presented. We analyzed the earthquakes, that occurred from 2011 to 2016 in the seismically active region of the Kamchatka peninsula, which is a part of the circum-Pacific orogenic belt also known as the “Ring of Fire”. It was discovered that geoacoustic pulse frequency content changes before a seismic event and returns to the initial state after an earthquake. That allows us to make a conclusion on the transformation of acoustic emission source scales before earthquakes. The obtained results may be useful for the development of the systems for environmental monitoring and detection of earthquake occurrences.
Supernova remnant candidates from the Parkes 2.4-GHz survey

25 supernova remnant (SNR) candidates are presented from the recent Parkes 2.4-GHz survey of the southern Galactic plane. Their angular diameters range from approximately 16 arcmin to 18°. Polarized emission is also detected from some of these candidates. The inclusion of these objects in current SNR catalogues will raise the number of large SNRs (diameters ≳20 arcmin) in the longitude range 270° ≤/≤ 360° to a value comparable to that of the northern Galactic plane (0° ≤/≤ 90°). An excess of SNR candidates around longitudes of 310°-330° is noted, suggesting that these objects, which are mainly of large angular diameter (greater than 2°), may form part of a nearby 'cluster' of remnants. Comparisons with the 4.85-GHz PMN survey are also given. Pulsar associations are considered, although only one possible candidate has been found.
The European Space Agency's LISA mission study: status and present results

The European Space Agency is currently pursuing a comprehensive industrial study of the complete LISA mission within a contract awarded to Astrium Satellites GmbH in 2005. The study is in its final phase and has developed a consolidated mission and payload concept. The feasibility and robustness of the mission concept has been confirmed. The mission performance and the resulting technical requirements have been investigated in detail and converted into an optimised technical design for instrument, spacecraft and constellation. Designed mainly in order to cope with the dynamics of the LISA constellation, three suitable instrument architectures have been defined: (1) two independently rotating optomechanical/reference sensor assemblies serving the adjacent interferometer arms with stationary laser beam path inside, (2) one fixed opto-mechanical and two reference sensors assembly with telescope in-field pointing of laser beams, (3) one fixed opto-mechanical assembly with telescope in-field pointing of laser beams and one active reference sensor. The final baseline selection will be guided by mission robustness and reliability, technical complexity, cost and engineering budgets.
RANDOM VECTORS WITH VALUES IN QUATERNION HILBERT SPACES

The paper is devoted to a systematic study of basic primary concepts and facts that could be regarded as a part of the apparatus of a future theory of quaternion random variables and vectors. Mainly we deal with the infinite-dimensional case. Defined and analyzed are basic concepts of the theory such as mathematical expectation, covariance and cross-covariance operators, characteristic functional, Gaussian measures--for random vectors with values in separable Hilbert space over the field of quaternions. The paper is self-contained. However, conceptually it can be regarded as a natural continuation of the work of N. N. Vakhania and N. P. Kandelaki [Theory Probab. Appl. , 41 (1996), pp. 116--131], in which random vectors with values in complex Hilbert spaces are considered; the organization of this paper is similar to that earlier work. Despite an apparent similarity in the formulations, noncommutativity in the quaternion case brings in a specific peculiarity, often hidden and unexpected. Indeed, to overcome.