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Genetics of transfusion recipient alloimmunization: Can clues from susceptibility to autoimmunity pave the way?
No full textIntratumoral Gene Signatures and Host Genetic Variations Associated With Immune Responsiveness
No full textRoom energy demand and thermal comfort predictions in early stages of design based on the Machine Learning methods
No full textRecent studies have focused on data-driven methods for building energy efficiency, by using simulated or empirical data, for energy-based design assessment rather than the common physics-based techniques, which are mostly time-consuming. In this paper, the feasibility of using seven different Machine Learning models, including three single models and four ensemble ones, is studied to predict annual energy demand and thermal comfort of the model. For this purpose, 3024 synthetic samples of a single zone model with seven input features are simulated through the EnergyPlus engine for training in addition to 360 unseen samples as testing data for accuracy reporting. Heating and cooling demands, in addition to five annual thermal comfort indices, are calculated for each data point and used as target indices. Results show Extremely Randomized Trees and Random Forest models had the highest R2 of 0.99 and 0.85 for cooling and heating demands respectively. Also, the R2 of these models for predicting annual comfort was between 0.71 and 0.95. Results are then used to develop a prediction framework of thermal comfort and energy demand performance in the early stages of building design, where most of the information about building characteristics is not yet known.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Building Physic
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No full textcopies of this thesis in microform, paper or electronic formats. The author retains ownership of the copyright in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts fiom it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission. L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive permettant à la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou vendre des copies de cette thèse sous la forme de microfiche/nlm, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. L'auteur conserve la propriété du droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés ou autrement reproduits saris son autorisation. In The Name of Allah, The Gracious, The Merciful. To my wzfe and rny daughter, Zohreh and Sabrzna
Fair Benchmarking in Short‐Term Load Forecasting
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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.Performance comparisons in short-term load forecasting are often confounded by differences in preprocessing pipelines rather than reflecting intrinsic architectural capability. Variations in feature engineering, scaling, temporal windowing and data partitioning can dominate reported accuracy and obscure the actual behaviour of forecasting models. This study examines preprocessing–architecture interaction by benchmarking random forest, LightGBM, long short-term memory (LSTM), transformer and Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT) under a shared tabular preprocessing pipeline, ensuring strict control over data handling and evaluation conditions. Under this controlled setting, tree-based models exhibit strong predictive performance, whereas deep sequence models experience substantial degradation when temporal continuity is not explicitly represented. To isolate architectural sensitivity from preprocessing effects, we further conduct a within-architecture analysis by retraining an identical LSTM under a sequence-aware pipeline aligned with its temporal inductive bias. This realignment yields an order-of-magnitude reduction in RMSE, demonstrating that preprocessing design is a first-order determinant of deep sequence model performance. The results establish a transparent and reproducible benchmarking framework and highlight the importance of aligning data representation with model assumptions when interpreting comparative performance in time series forecasting.The authors have nothing to report
Analyzing Interval Systems of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I Infection of CD4+ T-Cells
No full textHuman T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) infects a type of white blood cell called a T lymphocyte. HTLV-I infection is seen in diverse region of the world such as the Caribbean Islands, southwestern Japan, southeastern United States, and Mashhad (Iran). This virus is the etiological agent of two main types of disease: HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis and adult T cell leukemia. Also, the role of HTLV-I in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as HTLV-I associated arthropathy and systemic lupus erythematosus is under investigation. In this chapter, the author considers an ODE model of T-cell dynamics in HTLV-I infection which was proposed by Stilianakis and Seydel in 1999. Mathematical analysis of the model with fixed parameters has been done by many researchers. The author studies dynamical behavior (local stability) of this model with interval uncertainties, called interval system. Also, effective parameters in the local dynamics of model are found. For this study, interval analysis and particularly of Kharitonov's stability theorem are used.</jats:p
Sustainability of open access citation advantage: the case of Elsevier’s author-pays hybrid open access journals
No full textA Critical Review of the Book Conjugation 2 with a Descriptive Analysis Approach
No full textTextbook criticism is of great importance and status. The book “Conjugation 2”, written by Ahmad Pashazanoos, while addressing issues related to the name, has tried with exercises at the end of each lesson to provide the audience with the opportunity to explore the material presented in practice. This book is a continuation of the book “Conjugation 1” by the same author. The present article critiques the two levels of form and content of this book by descriptive-analytical method and relying on the descriptive analysis approach. All the strengths and weaknesses of the book in the two areas of form, content and mistakes of the author have been pointed out by presenting documents and examples of the book. Finally, in general, this book can be called a scientific package that tries to provide inflectional content by deductive method (mentioning the rule and then providing an example witness( and the role of meaning and subtle semantic differences in different inflectional forms are insignificant
Leptopus gakalae Khazaei & Polhemus & Tahami 2020, n. sp.
No full textLeptopus gakalae n. sp. (Figs. 2–5) Type material examined. Holotype, male, IRAN, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Prov., Gakal Cave, 30°18’44”N, 51°9’28”E, 1100 m elev., 18 October 2015, Zohreh Khazaei (BPBM). Paratypes: IRAN, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer- Ahmad Prov.: 4 males, 5 females (one apterous), same data as holotype (1 female BPBM, remainder ZM-CBSU). Description. Winged male: Body length (from head to apical tip of forewings) 2.5–3.5 mm; maximum width (across hemelytra) 1.0 mm (Fig. 1). General coloration pale whitish-tan, with thorax and broad maculae on hemelytra yellowish-brown, appendages pale (Fig. 1); entire dorsal surface bearing moderately long, erect, stout, pale setae. Structural characters: Head length 0.60, width across eyes 0.90, brown; frons declivent, nearly vertical, bearing three long, stout, gold setae basally at junction with vertex; width of vertex 0.50, with semi-spherical protuberance medially bearing 2 ocelli; a pair (1 + 1) of whitish setae set at a short distance from each other immediately behind ocelli; two whitish setae anteriorly on midline of vertex; suture present at midline of vertex next to mid-projection of vertex; clypeus yellowish; posteroventral margins dark; three long, whitish spines ventrally to either side of longitudinal midline on post-genal sclerites. Eyes red, prominent, semi-circular, bearing short, pale ocular setae, inner margins bi-concave. Rostrum attaining fore coxae, segment II yellowish, longest, with two pairs (2+2) of long spines located on tubercles (Fig. 2); segment III yellowish, with two pairs of long tuberculate spines; segment IV shortest, dark brown at apex. Antennae with segment I short, 0.4× as long as segment II, thickened in the middle and narrowed proximally and apically; segment II 1.25× length of segment III, yellowish, clavate, and thickened apically; segments III and IV dark brown, segment IV 0.28× as long as segment III, with recumbent dark brown setae; lengths of segments I–IV = 0.15, 0.40, 0.80, 0.45. Pronotum length 0.60, maximum width 0.75, yellowish-brown, punctate, with scattered spines; pronotum partitioned into anterior and posterior parts near middle by prominent transverse furrow; anterior lobe with longitudinal furrow along midline, separating calli, each callus with two small angular processes; lateral margins very narrowly explanate, with scattered erect, spine-like pale brown setae. Scutellum length 0.25, width 0.35, brown with a pale tip, bearing a pair (1+1) of erect, spine-like pale brown setae on either side of midline; central section depressed. Elytra coleopteriform, completely sclerotized and lacking membrane; clavus and corium well defined, punctate, set with scattered erect, spine-like, pale brown setae, ground color whitish-tan, with prominent X-shaped, yellowish-brown fascia traversing center of corium (Fig. 2); hind wings reduced, half as long as forewings; basal section of hemelytra inside of medial fracture raised; hemelytral margin narrowly explanate, embolium only very weakly expanded. Abdomen brown dorsally, with 7 visible segments including medio- and laterotergites. Venter with mesosternum and metasternum brown, tumescent; abdomen yellowish-brown, bearing sparse inconspicuous pale setae. Legs yellowish-white with a preapical dark spot on femora; foretibia with three spines dorsally originating from tubercles (Fig. 3), apical 3 rd spine shorter, plus three light brown spines ventrally, the middle one longer; fore femur yellowish-white with a preapical dark spot, four fine tuberculate spines dorsally, the proximal one shorter, five tuberculate spines ventrally, the proximal 2 nd one and the apical 5 th one shorter; middle and hind femora yellowishwhite with a preapical dark spot; tarsi yellowish-white, middle and hind tarsi brown apically, claws also brown; apices of fore tibia and fore tarsus brown, fore tarsus also bearing long pale setae. Lengths of leg segments as follows: fore femur–tibia–tarsomere 1– tarsomere 2–tarsomere 3 = 0.85/0.85/0.05/0.10/0.10; middle femur–tibia–tarsomere 1– tarsomere 2–tarsomere 3 = 0.75/1.00/0.05/0.10/0.15; hind femur–tibia– tarsomere 1– tarsomere 2– tarsomere 3 = 0.95/1.45/0.05/0.15/ 0.20. Male genitalia with parameres symmetrical, elongate, apices broadly rounded (Fig. 4). Winged female: Similar to winged male in general structure and coloration (Fig. 2); length 3.20, maximum width 1.20. Etymology. The specific name “gakalae” refers to the Gakal Cave, where the type series was collected. Remarks. Our new species clearly belongs to the clade containing Leptopus, Leptopoides J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus, 1991, and Patapius Horvath, 1912, due to the presence of stout spines on both of the first two visible rostral segments (J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus 1991, Linnavuori & van Harten 2002). It runs to the genus Leptopus in the key of J. Polhemus & D. Polhemus (1991), based on the presence of short, slender ocular setae, and the presence of two divergent rows of stout spines on the fore tibia (Fig. 3). Seven species of Leptopodidae have been previously recorded from Iran (Hoberlandt 1983, Schuh et al. 1987, Ghahari et al. 2013): Erianotus lanosus Dufour, 1834; Patapius sentus Drake & Hoberlandt, 1951; Patapius spinosus (Rossi, 1790); Valleriola assouanensis (Costa, 1875); Leptopus decus Drake, 1955; Leptopus hispanus Rambur, 1840; and Leptopus marmoratus (Goeze, 1778). The Iranian records for L. marmoratus provided by Sakenin et al. (2010) and Samin et al. (2011) have, however, been called into question (see subsequent discussion under that species). Most of the above species records also lack information on ecological context, although Patapius spinosus was noted as having been taken from the margins of a small stream near Ramhormoz in Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2009). In addition to the two widespread species L. hispanus Rambur (Fig. 7) and L. marmoratus (Fig. 10), which occur primarily to the west of Iran from southern Europe through the Balkans to trans-Caucasia, three additional species, L. travancorensis Distant, L. scitulus Drake (Fig. 8) and L. decus Drake, have been described from the western areas of India; the latter taxon was described from Punjab, and its range extends westward to the Sistan & Baluchestan Province of Iran. Given that no overall revision of Leptopodidae has been undertaken since that of Horváth (1911), which is now taxonomically incomplete, it has been necessary to accurately determine that our new species from Iranian caves is indeed discrete from those previously described. The second author examined specimens of all the taxa noted above during a visit to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and was able to verify that L. gakalae is distinct from all of them (see key). Another species of Leptopus, L. markusiki Vinakurov, 2012, has been described from moderate elevation in the Himalayan foothills of Himanchal Pradesh state (Vinokurov 2012) but has not been examined by the authors. However based on the figures provided by Vinokurov (2012), this species is easily separated from L. gakalae by its blotched rather than fasciate color pattern on the hemelytra, and the distinctive, club-like structure of the male paramere. Habitat notes. Gakal Cave is located in the Zagros Mountains woodland, where Persian oak is the dominant tree (Fig. 1). In the dark zone of the cave, there is a puddle of water supplied with a spring and fed by water dripping down into the puddle from the cave’s ceiling (Fig. 6). The Zohreh River is the nearest surface water feature, lying about 10 km east of the cave. The specimens were collected in the entrance zone, where they could be seen clearly with the amount of sunlight coming in. The leptopodids were observed adjacent to a population of Collembola, which may provide a food source.Published as part of Khazaei, Zohreh, Polhemus, Dan A. & Tahami, Mohadeseh S., 2020, A new species of Leptopus (Heteroptera: Leptopodidae) from caves in Iran, with notes on other cavernicolous Iranian Heteroptera, pp. 246-258 in Zootaxa 4763 (2) on pages 248-251, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/375830
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