Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Influence of sex and the slaughtering season on water-holding capacity and carcass composition in Istrian lambs

________________________________________________________________________________________ KAIC, A. , B. MIOC, I. SIRIC, V. DRŽAIC: Infl uence of sex and the slaughtering season on water-holding capacity and carcass composition in Istrian lambs. Vet. arhiv 86, 111-123, 2016. ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine infl uence of sex and slaughtering season on water-holding capacity and carcass composition in Istrian lambs, raised in a traditional farming system in the Istrian region. The study was carried out on a total of 32 lambs (16 males and 16 females) of Istrian breed, raised on a family farm, during the slaughtering season in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Female lambs had a signifi cantly higher cooking loss (P≤0.05) and proportion of loin-rib (P≤0.05), while male lambs had a signifi cantly higher head proportion(P≤0.05). Regarding tissue composition, it was found that in the loin-rib, female lambs had signifi cantly higher fat content (P≤0.05) and lower muscle content (P≤0.05) than males. Slaughtering season signifi cantly affected proportions of neck (P≤0.001), shoulder (P≤0.05), anterior rib (P≤0.001), loin-rib (P≤0.001), breast (P≤0.001), hind leg (P≤0.05) and kidney knob (P≤0.05). Furthermore, slaughtering season signifi cantly affected (P≤0.05) the composition of individual cuts, i.e. muscle proportion in the neck, loin-rib, breast and hind leg, bone proportion in the neck, shoulder, anterior rib and hind leg, and fat proportion in all cuts. The results of this study indicated that male and female Istrian lambs, reared under similar conditions, had very similar expression of the investigated traits. Slaughtering season affected most of the traits related to carcass composition. In order to provide more uniform carcasses on the market, it is necessary to ensure similar quality of feeds during the unfavourable seasons.
The influence of endurance and resistance exercise on muscle capillarization in the elderly: a review.

AIM Ageing is one of many factors altering skeletal muscle. Conflicting results from previous studies guided this review to identify what has been found to date regarding microvascular adaptations in skeletal muscle as the result of ageing or inactivity, and endurance or resistance training interventions. Additionally, this review attempts to identify the variety of parameters for determining capillarization and discuss why these might be contributing to the conflicting results. METHODS Electronic database searches were conducted for full-length articles using relevant keywords related to ageing, muscle capillarization and exercise in all fields. Cross-sectional, longitudinal, training and review papers were included. Several studies on younger subject adaptation were also included for comparison. RESULTS Ageing and inactivity both result in regressive structural and functional changes to skeletal muscle capillarization. The rate and magnitude of decline is still unknown. Endurance training can positively effect structural changes to capillarity. There is conflicting evidence regarding the effects of resistance training. Training intensity may be an important factor. Biopsy sampling, histological staining and several measurement protocols may be providing inaccurate estimations of capillarity. CONCLUSION Part of the difficulty in determining the nature of these relationships has been the inconsistency in research conducted regarding age groups and controlling for past and present activity patterns. Further difficulties comparing across studies arise due to the variety of methods and parameters used to sample and analyse muscle tissue. Standardizing methodology will allow future research to yield more consistent results.
Generalized Relay Selection for Network-Coded Cooperation Systems

We investigate the outage probability and diversity gain of generalized relay selection (GRS) for network-coded cooperation systems where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> sources use <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${M}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> relays to communicate with a single destination. Although it is common to select a set of the relays with the highest signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), reasons such as load balancing, scheduling, and others may force the selection of different relays. Thus, it is important to quantify and analyze the performance of any arbitrary selection of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${L}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> relays out of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${M}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (also known as GRS). We show that the full diversity gain of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${d={M}+1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is only persevered when <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${L} \ge {N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and the set of selected relays includes <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${N}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> highest SNR relays.
Community Satisfaction with Online Services in East Lombok Regency: (Case Study: BAKSO Application)

Purpose: This study analyzes the use of the BAKSO (Create Online Population Administration) application for users, namely employees of the East Lombok Regency Population and Civil Registration Office and the Admin of each village. The measurement uses variables consisting of infrastructure, ICT, bureaucracy, leadership, and implementation of digital government.Methods: The method used is a quantitative type, primary data in the form of a survey of 115 respondents from East Lombok Regency Population and Civil Registration Office office employees and village admins who used the BAKSO application (Create Online Population Administration). Using the Likert Scale (1: strongly disagree, 2: disagree, 3: neutral, 4: agree, and 5: strongly agree). The analysis technique for this study uses SmartPLS 3.Results: The results of this study show that infrastructure and ICT variables have a positive and significant influence on the implementation of digital government in the implementation of the BAKSO application. Meanwhile, bureaucratic and leadership variables have little impact and are substantial in implementing the BAKSO application in East Lombok Regency.Novelty: This study is unique because it examines users who are also employees who use the BAKSO application (Make Online Population Administration) with a measuring indicator, namely the online service index (OSI); most of the previous research on this theory was only oriented to assessing public satisfaction with online services. This research provides a new perspective on using the Online Service Index (OSI) on the scope of application-based online services from an employee perspective. In addition, the empirical contribution lies in the professionalism of employees in using the BAKSO application. So that later, it can provide space for the government to pay attention to human resources in running Online Service Index (OSI)-based application services.
Pathophysiology and treatment of patients with globus sensation ―from the viewpoint of esophageal motility dysfunction―

"Globus sensation" is often described as the sensation of a lump in the throat associated with dry swallowing or the need for dry swallowing, which disappears completely during eating or drinking and for which no organic cause can be established. Due to the uncertain etiology of "globus sensation", it remains difficult to establish standard treatment strategies for affected patients. Lately most attention has been focused on gastroesophageal reflux disease and several reports have indicated that there is a close relationship between esophageal acid reflux and globus sensation. Nowadays, empirical therapy with a high dose of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) is considered to be indicated for patients with globus sensation, after excluding organic diseases such as pharyngeal cancer, Zenker's diverticulum, or thyroid enlargement. If patients are nonresponsive to PPI therapy, evaluation of esophageal motility should be done. In our recent study, 47.9% had abnormal esophageal motility, with the most common esophageal motility abnormality being an ineffective esophageal motility in PPI-resistant patients with globus sensation. This suggests that prokinetics alone or adding prokinetics to PPI should be the treatment to be considered, although few studies have investigated the efficacy of prokinetics in the treatment of patients with globus sensation. If patients without any esophageal motility dysfunctions are nonresponsive to PPI therapy, either cognitive-behavioral therapy, anti-depressants, or gabapentin could be helpful, although further well-designed, randomized controlled large-scale studies will be necessary to determine the effectiveness of each treatment strategy on patients with globus sensation.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption without bootstrapping

Fully homomorphic encryption(FHE) is the cryptosystem which supports both addition and multiplication. The existence of the cryptosystems which have efficiency and fully homomorphism would bring great practical implications in the outsourcing of private computations, for instance, in the context of cloud computing. But FHE scheme which runs fast for practical use is not proposed until now because the scheme requires huge complexity. This book, therefore, provides the new fully homomorphic encryption scheme without “bootstrapping” which runs fast for practical use. The system runs on octonion ring over the finite field Fq. The security of this system is based on the computational difficulty to solve the multivariate algebraic equations. To break this cryptosystem it is thought that we probably need to solve the multivariate algebraic equations that is equal to solving the NP complete problem. Then it is thought that this system is immune from the attacks by the quantum computers. This book is written for graduate students to active researchers.
Iron Deficiency and Acute Seizures: Results from Children Living in Rural Kenya and a Meta-Analysis

Background There are conflicting reports on whether iron deficiency changes susceptibility to seizures. We examined the hypothesis that iron deficiency is associated with an increased risk of acute seizures in children in a malaria endemic area. Methods We recruited 133 children, aged 3–156 months, who presented to a district hospital on the Kenyan coast with acute seizures and frequency-matched these to children of similar ages but without seizures. We defined iron deficiency according to the presence of malarial infection and evidence of inflammation. In patients with malaria, we defined iron deficiency as plasma ferritin<30µg/ml if plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) was<50mg/ml or ferritin<273µg/ml if CRP≥50mg/ml, and in those without malaria, as ferritin<12µg/ml if CRP<10mg/ml or ferritin<30µg/ml if CRP≥10mg/ml. In addition, we performed a meta-analysis of case-control studies published in English between January 1966 and December 2009 and available through PUBMED that have examined the relationship between iron deficiency and febrile seizures in children. Results In our Kenyan case control study, cases and controls were similar, except more cases reported past seizures. Malaria was associated with two-thirds of all seizures. Eighty one (30.5%) children had iron deficiency. Iron deficiency was neither associated with an increased risk of acute seizures (45/133[33.8%] cases were iron deficient compared to 36/133[27.1%] controls, p = 0.230) nor status epilepticus and it did not affect seizure semiology. Similar results were obtained when children with malaria, known to cause acute symptomatic seizures in addition to febrile seizures were excluded. However, in a meta-analysis that combined all eight case-control studies that have examined the association between iron deficiency and acute/febrile seizures to-date, iron deficiency, described in 310/1,018(30.5%) cases and in 230/1,049(21.9%) controls, was associated with a significantly increased risk of seizures, weighted OR 1.79(95%CI 1.03–3.09). Conclusions Iron deficiency is not associated with an increased risk of all acute seizures in children but of febrile seizures. Further studies should examine mechanisms involved and the implications for public health.
Efficient Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks: The Single-Copy Case

Intermittently connected mobile networks are wireless networks where most of the time there does not exist a complete path from the source to the destination. There are many real networks that follow this model, for example, wildlife tracking sensor networks, military networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), etc. In this context, conventional routing schemes would fail, because they try to establish complete end-to-end paths, before any data is sent. To deal with such networks researchers have suggested to use flooding-based routing schemes. While flooding-based schemes have a high probability of delivery, they waste a lot of energy and suffer from severe contention which can significantly degrade their performance. With this in mind, we look into a number of ldquosingle-copyrdquo routing schemes that use only one copy per message, and hence significantly reduce the resource requirements of flooding-based algorithms. We perform a detailed exploration of the single-copy routing space in order to identify efficient single-copy solutions that (i) can be employed when low resource usage is critical, and (ii) can help improve the design of general routing schemes that use multiple copies. We also propose a theoretical framework that we use to analyze the performance of all single-copy schemes presented, and to derive upper and lower bounds on the delay of any scheme.
Provably Secure Ubiquitous Systems: Universally Composable RFID Authentication Protocols

This paper examines two unlinkably anonymous, simple RFID identification protocols that require only the ability to evaluate hash functions and generate random values, and that are provably secure against Byzantine adversaries. The main contribution is a universally composable security model tuned for RFlD applications. By making specific setup, communication, and concurrency assumptions that are realistic in the RFID application setting, we arrive at a model that guarantees strong security and availability properties, while still permitting the design of practical RFID protocols. We show that two protocols are provably secure within the new security model. Our proofs do not employ random oracles - the protocols are shown to be secure in the standard model under the assumption of existence of pseudo-random function families
QRCODE: Quasi-Residual Convex Deep Network for Fusing Misaligned Hyperspectral and Multispectral Images

Considering that hyperspectral image (HSI) is often of lower spatial resolution when compared to multispectral image (MSI), an economical approach for obtaining a high-spatial-resolution (HSR) HSI is to fuse the acquired HSI and MSI, thereby greatly facilitating the subsequent material identification and classification in satellite remote sensing. As satellite-acquired HSI and MSI are often misaligned, the proposed deep neural network does not require the input HSI/MSI to be spatially co-registered, making the challenging fusion network design even more difficult. In this study, we propose a streamlined and efficient convex model integrated into the subnetwork, which obviates the need for complex network structures in learning spatial–spectral relationships, effectively guiding the quasi-residual learning task in our alignment-free fusion network. The convex subnetwork is a low-rank model that leverages the convex geometric structure implicitly embedded in the hyperspectral signature space. To address the misalignment between HSI and MSI effectively, we introduce a novel shifted window attention module (SWAM) that exploits the neighboring correlation in the feature domain, significantly enhancing the performance and stability of the fusion task. Capitalizing on the redundancy among spectrums, we employ grouped convolution to decrease the computational complexity without causing additional performance degradation. The proposed quasi-residual convex deep (QRCODE) network demonstrates the state-of-the-art performance in alignment-free HSI/MSI fusion tasks.
Maximizers versus satisficers: Decision-making styles, competence, and outcomes

Our previous research suggests that people reporting a stronger desire to maximize obtain worse life outcomes (Bruine de Bruin et al., 2007). Here, we examine whether this finding may be explained by the decision-making styles of self-reported maximizers. Expanding on Schwartz et al. (2002), we find that self-reported maximizers are more likely to show problematic decision-making styles, as evidenced by self-reports of less behavioral coping, greater dependence on others when making decisions, more avoidance of decision making, and greater tendency to experience regret. Contrary to predictions, self-reported maximizers were more likely to report spontaneous decision making. However, the relationship between self-reported maximizing and worse life outcomes is largely unaffected by controls for measures of other decision-making styles, decision-making competence, and demographic variables.
From regenerative dentistry to regenerative medicine: progress, challenges, and potential applications of oral stem cells

Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and epithelial stem cells play essential roles in tissue repair and self-healing. Oral MSCs and epithelial stem cells can be isolated from adult human oral tissues, for example, teeth, periodontal ligament, and gingiva. Cocultivated adult oral epithelial stem cells and MSCs could represent some developmental events, such as epithelial invagination and tubular structure formation, signifying their potentials for tissue regeneration. Oral epithelial stem cells have been used in regenerative medicine over 1 decade. They are able to form a stratified cell sheet under three-dimensional culture conditions. Both experimental and clinical data indicate that the cell sheets can not only safely and effectively reconstruct the damaged cornea in humans, but also repair esophageal ulcer in animal models. Oral MSCs include dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs), stem cells from exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED), stem cells from apical papilla (SCAP), periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs), and mesenchymal stem cells from gingiva (GMSCs). They are widely applied in both regenerative dentistry and medicine. DPSCs, SHED, and SCAP are able to form dentin–pulp complex when being transplanted into immunodeficient animals. They have been experimentally used for the regeneration of dental pulp, neuron, bone muscle and blood vessels in animal models and have shown promising results. PDLSCs and GMSCs are demonstrated to be ideal cell sources for repairing the damaged tissues of periodontal, muscle, and tendon. Despite the abovementioned applications of oral stem cells, only a few human clinical trials are now underway to use them for the treatment of certain diseases. Since clinical use is the end goal, their true regenerative power and safety need to be further examined.
Estimating the Effect of School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Improvements on Pupil Health Outcomes

Background: We conducted a cluster-randomized water, sanitation, and hygiene trial in 185 schools in Nyanza province, Kenya. The trial, however, had imperfect school-level adherence at many schools. The primary goal of this study was to estimate the causal effects of school-level adherence to interventions on pupil diarrhea and soil-transmitted helminth infection. Methods: Schools were divided into water availability groups, which were then randomized separately into either water, sanitation, and hygiene intervention arms or a control arm. School-level adherence to the intervention was defined by the number of intervention components—water, latrines, soap—that had been adequately implemented. The outcomes of interest were pupil diarrhea and soil-transmitted helminth infection. We used a weighted generalized structural nested model to calculate prevalence ratio. Results: In the water-scarce group, there was evidence of a reduced prevalence of diarrhea among pupils attending schools that adhered to two or to three intervention components (prevalence ratio = 0.28, 95% confidence interval: 0.10, 0.75), compared with what the prevalence would have been had the same schools instead adhered to zero components or one. In the water-available group, there was no evidence of reduced diarrhea with better adherence. For the soil-transmitted helminth infection and intensity outcomes, we often observed point estimates in the preventive direction with increasing intervention adherence, but primarily among girls, and the confidence intervals were often very wide. Conclusions: Our instrumental variable point estimates sometimes suggested protective effects with increased water, sanitation, and hygiene intervention adherence, although many of the estimates were imprecise.
Reversing insect adaptation to transgenic insecticidal plants

The refuge–high–dose strategy for delaying insect adaptation to transgenic plants produces non–transgenic plants that enable survival of susceptible individuals. Previous theoretical work has suggested three requirements for success of the refuge–high–dose strategy: a low initial frequency of the resistance allele, extensive mating between resistant and susceptible adults and recessive inheritance of resistance. In order to understand an observed decrease in resistance frequency and improve the potential for managing resistance better, we used analytical and simulation models for exploring the conditions that prevent or reverse the evolution of resistance, even when resistance is not rare initially. Assuming random mating and recessive or nearly recessive inheritance of resistance, the factors favouring reversal of resistance are non–recessive costs of resistance, low initial resistance allele frequency, large refuges, incomplete resistance and density–independent population growth in refuges.
Kinetic of RelA Activation Controls Magnitude of TLR-Mediated IL-12p40 Induction1

IL-12 is a crucial cytokine for dendritic cell-mediated induction of Th 1 cell differentiation. TLR ligands induce IL-12 to differing extents. Stimulation of dendritic cells allowed for the differentiation of three groups of TLRs; potency to induce IL-12 decreased in the order of TLR7/9, TLR3/4, and TLR1/2/6 stimulation. The MAPK, PI3K, and IRF (IFN regulatory factor) signaling pathways could be ruled out to be the cause for the differences in IL-12p40 induction. However, we observed that stimulation of dendritic cells with different TLR ligands resulted in striking differences in the kinetics of NF-κB activation. LPS induced a rapid but short-lived activation of RelA, whereas CpG-DNA stimulation resulted in prolonged RelA activity at the IL-12p40 promoter. Only TLR2 and TLR4 ligands were capable of inducing S536 phosphorylation of RelA, which has been proposed to be responsible for early termination of NF-κB activation. It is suggested that differences in the kinetics of a common TLR signaling module affect the biological response patterns of various TLRs, with IL-12p40 being a gene that needs prolonged NF-κB activation.