Popularity prediction on Instagram using machine learning

In the last year, the research about new ways of using Machine Learning for the human profit has grown exponentially. At the same time, our society is evolving into new ways of communication and social interaction. Instagram is one of the faces of this change in the human evolution. Prediction systems and Artificial Intelligence are topics that are exploding right now. Companies are investing in challenges and experts to predict that product that a user will want, or that music that he will like, or that film that he will want to watch. There is a new challenging branch to be followed and that is Social Media. Predict the popularity of pictures, which one will be the most popular of the day, which is the best cut for a selfie to be more popular... This project tries to put these two realities together. The goal is to predict how many likes a post is gonna get before being posted on Instagram. This would only be possible right now thanks to Machine Learning. Machine Learning is this concept that we can train computers to identify patterns and data, and then use those patterns to predict off of new data. We will give samples of posts to our machine so it can find patterns and estimate and predict a result after being given some other input, based on the patterns that it learned. The system will consist of three sections: First, the input picture will be classified into one category depending on the theme of the picture using a retrained model based on Deep Learning. In this project we are going to take into account six categories: Animals, Food, Friends, Landscape, Quote and Selfie. Second, the input picture will be compared with a set of 200 pictures from the selected category that already have a score between 0 and 1 using another retrained model based on Deep Learning. An algorithm will make the comparison and will result in a histogram. The maximum point of the histogram will be the computed score of the input picture. Third, we will use that computed score from the second section as a variable in a regression, in order to get the final prediction of likes. Other variables are taken into account in this regression as well. As you can see in the description of the system, without Machine Learning it would be impossible, even for a human being, to identify all the necessary patterns and predict off new data accurately. Humans can typically create one or two good models a week; machine learning can create thousands of models a week

Shuffle on positive varieties of languages

We show there is a unique maximal positive variety of languages which does not contain the language (ab)*. This variety is the unique maximal positive variety satisfying the two following conditions: it is strictly included in the class of rational languages and is closed under the shuffle operation. It is also the unique maximal proper positive variety closed under length preserving morphims. The ordered monoids of the corresponding variety of ordered monoids are characterized as follows: for every pair (a, b) of mutually inverse elements, and for every element z of the minimal ideal of the submonoid generated by a and b, (abzab)^ω ≤ ab. In particular this variety is decidable

Nuevos registros y nuevas especies de la flora de la zona de AmotapeHuancabamba: Endemismos y límites biogeográficos

The taxonomy of the Ribes andicola group and Urtica is investigated for the relict forests in the AmotapeHuancabamba Zone and especially the relict forests of NW Peru. Three new species of Ribes are described, Ribes contumazensis as local endemic from Contumazá, R. colandina as widespread across the Andes from Lambayeque and La Libertad to Amazonas and R. sanchezii as endemic to forests overlooking the Marañon. Additionally, Ecuadoren R. austroecuadorense is recorded for the first time from Peru from forest relics in Huancabamba (Piura) and Chota (Cajamarca). Two new species of Urtica are described, U. urentivelutina as a local endemic on the slopes overlooking the Marañon near Chagual (La Libertad), and U. lalibertadensis which is widespread in La Libertad from Otuzco to Tayabamba. Urtica longispica is reported as new to the flora of Peru and U. macbridei is reported from northern Peru for the first time. Both Urtica and the Ribes andicola group can be considered as indicators of former forest cover, since they tenaciously persist after the felling of the forests. Their distribution indicates that a) some of the current forest fragments were once largely coherent forest belts (e.g., those of Santa Cruz and San Miguel) and b) some areas which have no coherent forest cover at present once had large and coherent montane forests (e.g., large parts of the Prov. Otuzco). Comparing the known distribution data for Urtica, the Ribes andicola group, the Passiflora lobbii group and Nasa (Loasaceae) it becomes evident, that a) the relict forests are still very poorly known, b) they are exceptionally rich in narrowly endemic taxa, some of which are here described and many of which undoubtedly remain to be discovered and c) they represent southernmost outposts for many Ecuadorean species and species groups.Se investiga la taxonomía del grupo de Ribes andicola y Urtica para los bosques relictos presentes en la zona de Amotape-Huancabamba y especialmente aquellos de la vertiente NO del Perú. Se describen tres nuevas especies de Ribes: Ribes contumazensis como especie local endémica de Contumazá, R. colandina distribuida en los Andes desde Lambayeque y La Libertad hasta Amazonas y R. sanchezii como endémica a los bosques de altura del Marañón. Adicionalmente, la especie ecuatoriana R. austroecuadorense es registrada por primera vez para el Perú procedente de los bosques relictos de Huancabamba (Piura) y Chota (Cajamarca). Así mismo, se describen dos nuevas especies de Urtica: U. urentivelutina, endémica local a las laderas altas del Marañón cerca a Chagual (La Libertad), y U. lalibertadensis distribuida desde Otuzco hasta Tayabamba en el departamento de La Libertad. Urtica longispica es registrada como nueva especie para la flora del Peru y U. macbridei es registrada por primera vez para el norte del Perú. Urtica y el grupo Ribes andicola pueden ser considerados como indicadores de la cubierta de bosques anteriores, puesto que persisten después que los bosques han sido talados. Su distribución indica que a) alguno de los actuales fragmentos de bosque fueron alguna vez grandes bosques coherentes a modo de una faja contínua (como los de Santa Cruz y San Miguel) y b) algunas áreas que en el presente no tienen ninguna cubierta de bosques contínuos, en el pasado fueron grandes y coherentes bosques montanos (e.g., grandes partes de la Prov. Otuzco). Comparando los datos de distribución conocida para Urtica, el grupo de Ribes andicola, el grupo de Passiflora lobbii y Nasa (Loasaceae), es evidente, que a) los bosques relictos son aún muy pobremente estudiados, b) ellos son excepcionalmente ricos en taxa estrechamente endémicos, algunos de los cuales son aquí descritos y muchos de ellos indudablemente permanecen aún sin ser descubiertos y c) ellos representan los límites más sureños para muchas especies ecuatorianas y ciertos grupos de especies

Functional and comparative genomic analyses of an operon involved in fructooligosaccharide utilization by \u3ci\u3eLactobacillus acidophilus\u3c/i\u3e

Lactobacillus acidophilus is a probiotic organism that displays the ability to use prebiotic compounds such as fructooligosaccharides (FOS), which stimulate the growth of beneficial commensals in the gastrointestinal tract. However, little is known about the mechanisms and genes involved in FOS utilization by Lactobacillus species. Analysis of the L. acidophilus NCFM genome revealed an msm locus composed of a transcriptional regulator of the LacI family, a four-component ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transport system, a fructosidase, and a sucrose phosphorylase. Transcriptional analysis of this operon demonstrated that gene expression was induced by sucrose and FOS but not by glucose or fructose, suggesting some specificity for nonreadily fermentable sugars. Additionally, expression was repressed by glucose but not by fructose, suggesting catabolite repression via two cre-like sequences identified in the promoter–operator region. Insertional inactivation of the genes encoding the ABC transporter substrate-binding protein and the fructosidase reduced the ability of the mutants to grow on FOS. Comparative analysis of gene architecture within this cluster revealed a high degree of synteny with operons in Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, the association between a fructosidase and an ABC transporter is unusual and may be specific to L. acidophilus. This is a description of a previously undescribed gene locus involved in transport and catabolism of FOS compounds, which can promote competition of beneficial microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract

Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection potentiates adipose tissue macrophage polarization toward an anti-inflammatory M2 phenotype and contributes to diabetes progression in a diet-induced obesity model

Chronic obesity and Chagas disease (caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi) represent serious public health concerns. The interrelation between parasite infection, adipose tissue, immune system and metabolism in an obesogenic context, has not been entirely explored. A novel diet-induced obesity model (DIO) was developed in C57BL/6 wild type mice to examine the effect of chronic infection (DIO+I) on metabolic parameters and on obesity-related disorders. Dyslipidemia, hyperleptinemia, and cardiac/hepatic steatosis were strongly developed in DIO mice. Strikingly, although these metabolic alterations were collectively improved by infection, plasmatic apoB100 levels remain significantly increased in DIO+I, suggesting the presence of pro-atherogenic small and dense LDL particles. Moreover, acute insulin resistance followed by chronic hyperglycemia with hypoinsulinemia was found, evidencing an infection-related-diabetes progression. These lipid and glucose metabolic changes seemed to be highly dependent on TLR4 expression since TLR4-/- mice were protected from obesity and its complications. Notably, chronic infection promoted a strong increase in MCP-1 producing macrophages with a M2 (F4/80+CD11c-CD206+) phenotype associated to oxidative stress in visceral adipose tissue of DIO+I mice. Importantly, infection reduced lipid content but intensified inflammatory infiltrates in target tissues. Thus, parasite persistence in an obesogenic environment and the resulting host immunometabolic dysregulation may contribute to diabetes/atherosclerosis progression.Fil: Cabalén, María Eugenia. Universidad Católica de Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Cabral, Maria Fernanda. Universidad Católica de Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Sanmarco, Liliana Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Andrada, Marta Cecilia. Universidad Católica de Córdoba; ArgentinaFil: Onofrio, Luisina Inés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Ponce, Nicolás Eric. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Aoki, Maria del Pilar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Gea, Susana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; ArgentinaFil: Cano, Roxana Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones en Bioquímica Clínica e Inmunología; Argentin

Nuevos registros y nuevas especies de la flora de la zona de AmotapeHuancabamba: Endemismos y límites biogeográficos

Se investiga la taxonomía del grupo de Ribes andicola y Urtica para los bosques relictos presentes en la zona de Amotape-Huancabamba y especialmente aquellos de la vertiente NO del Perú. Se describen tres nuevas especies de Ribes: Ribes contumazensis como especie local endémica de Contumazá, R. colandina distribuida en los Andes desde Lambayeque y La Libertad hasta Amazonas y R. sanchezii como endémica a los bosques de altura del Marañón. Adicionalmente, la especie ecuatoriana R. austroecuadorense es registrada por primera vez para el Perú procedente de los bosques relictos de Huancabamba (Piura) y Chota (Cajamarca). Así mismo, se describen dos nuevas especies de Urtica: U. urentivelutina, endémica local a las laderas altas del Marañón cerca a Chagual (La Libertad), y U. lalibertadensis distribuida desde Otuzco hasta Tayabamba en el departamento de La Libertad. Urtica longispica es registrada como nueva especie para la flora del Peru y U. macbridei es registrada por primera vez para el norte del Perú. Urtica y el grupo Ribes andicola pueden ser considerados como indicadores de la cubierta de bosques anteriores, puesto que persisten después que los bosques han sido talados. Su distribución indica que a) alguno de los actuales fragmentos de bosque fueron alguna vez grandes bosques coherentes a modo de una faja contínua (como los de Santa Cruz y San Miguel) y b) algunas áreas que en el presente no tienen ninguna cubierta de bosques contínuos, en el pasado fueron grandes y coherentes bosques montanos (e.g., grandes partes de la Prov. Otuzco). Comparando los datos de distribución conocida para Urtica, el grupo de Ribes andicola, el grupo de Passiflora lobbii y Nasa (Loasaceae), es evidente, que a) los bosques relictos son aún muy pobremente estudiados, b) ellos son excepcionalmente ricos en taxa estrechamente endémicos, algunos de los cuales son aquí descritos y muchos de ellos indudablemente permanecen aún sin ser descubiertos y c) ellos representan los límites más sureños para muchas especies ecuatorianas y ciertos grupos de especies

Sistema web para el control de proyectos de software para la empresa IT Group Solution 365

La presente investigación tuvo como finalidad determinar la influencia de la implementación de un sistema web sobre una gestión de proyectos a fin de mejorar considerablemente las problemáticas que presentaba dicha empresa las cuales concluyeron y tuvimos como resultado que el sistema empleado si tuvo una influencia grande con resultados positivos en el aumento de los índices analizados ya que a la empresa estaba generándole una pérdida económica

On fixed points of the lower set operator

Lower subsets of an ordered semigroup form in a natural way an ordered semigroup. This lower set operator gives an analogue of the power operator already studied in semigroup theory. We present a complete description of the lower set operator applied to varieties of ordered semigroups. We also obtain large families of fixed points for this operator applied to pseudovarieties of ordered semigroups, including all examples found in the literature. This is achieved by constructing six types of inequalities that are preserved by the lower set operator. These types of inequalities are shown to be independent in a certain sense. Several applications are also presented, including the preservation of the period for a pseudovariety of ordered semigroups whose image under the lower set operator is proper

Clock and Power-Induced Bias Correction for UWB Time-of-Flight Measurements

Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) communication systems can be used to design low cost, power efficient and precise navigation systems for mobile robots, by measuring the Time of Flight (ToF) of messages traveling between on-board UWB transceivers to infer their locations. Theoretically, decimeter level positioning accuracy or better should be achievable, at least in benign propagation environments where Line-of-Sight (LoS) between the transceivers can be maintained. Yet, in practice, even in such favorable conditions, one often observes significant systematic errors (bias) in the ToF measurements, depending for example on the hardware configuration and relative poses between robots. This letter proposes a ToF error model that includes a standard transceiver clock offset term and an additional term that varies with the received signal power (RxP). We show experimentally that, after fine correction of the clock offset term using clock skew measurements available on modern UWB hardware, much of the remaining pose dependent error in LoS measurements can be captured by the (appropriately defined) RxP-dependent term. This leads us to propose a simple bias compensation scheme that only requires on-board measurements (clock skew and RxP) to remove most of the observed bias in LoS ToF measurements and reliably achieve cm-level ranging accuracy. Because the calibrated ToF bias model does not depend on any extrinsic information such as receiver distances or poses, it can be applied before any additional error correction scheme that requires more information about the robots and their environment