Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparison of the expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of endoglucanase II from Trichoderma reesei and endoglucanase I from Aspergillus aculeatus

Two distinct expression cassettes were synthesized by overlapping PCR for expressing the endoglucanase I gene (egl1) from Aspergillus aculeatus and the endoglucanase II gene (egl2) from Trichoderma reesei in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae host. One contained the anchored sequence from the S. cerevisiae cwp2 gene, while the other did not. The low and high copy number plasmids YCplac33 and YEplac195 were used. The enzymatic activities and viscosity changes in the YP-CMC medium varied between the eight recombinant yeast strains produced, and the greatest values were obtained with the YE-TrEII’ strain, which had an activity of 347.7 U/g dry cell weight (DCW) and viscosity at 12 h of 4.7% of the initial control value, respectively; YE-TrEII’ was YEplac195-based and contained T. reesei egl2 and no Cwp2 sequence. Strains YC-AaEI and YC-TrEII showed the lowest enzyme activitiy (80.5 and 30.4 U/g DCW, respectively) and viscosity changes at 12 h (20.5 and 26.2% of the initial control viscosity, respectively), which were YCplac33-based and contained the Cwp2 sequence. The results showed that gene copy number was the most significant factor to influence the expression of endoglucanases in S. cerevisiae, and the existence of Cwp2 sequence led to decreased enzymatic level and viscosity-reducing performance, while it was shown not to realize efficient surface display of these two endoglucanases.
Website Design and Usage Behaviour: An Application of the UTAUT Model for Internet Banking in UK

A well designed website brings numerous benefits to firms. Some of these benefits are well established. But whatelements of the website design really matter and how do these in turn influence website usage behaviour? Adopting the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as the theoretical foundation, wereport the findings from a survey of 316 users of internet banking; data were collected through an offlinequestionnaire developed based on the literature review and previous studies,directed to a convenience sample.Structure equation modelling, the two steps approach, starting with measurement model and then the structuralmodel was applied.We demonstrate that the technical, general content and appearance dimensions of a Web siteare the most important for users. In addition, these dimensions are significantly related to usage behaviourdirectly and indirectly through belief constructs. We also find that the impact of performance expectancy onusage behaviouris significant in predicting usage. Implications and Recommendationswere provided afterthorough discussion.
Early Quenching of Massive Protocluster Galaxies Around z=2.2 Radio Galaxies

Radio galaxies are among the most massive galaxies in the high-redshift Universe and are known to often lie in protocluster environments. We have studied the fields of seven z = 2.2 radio galaxies with High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) narrow-band and broad-band imaging in order to map out their environment using H alpha emitters (HAEs). The results are compared to the blank field HAE survey HiZELS. All of the radio galaxy fields are overdense in HAEs relative to a typical HiZELS field of the same area and four of the seven are richer than all except one of 65 essentially random HiZELS subfields of the same size. The star formation rates of the massive HAEs are lower than those necessary to have formed their stellar population in the preceding Gyr - indicating that these galaxies are likely to have formed the bulk of their stars at higher redshifts, and are starting to quench.
Comparison of Pre-Service Physics Teachers’ Conceptual Understanding of Dynamics in Model-Based Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Inquiry Environments

The focus of this study was to evaluate the impact of model-based inquiry on pre-service physics teachers’ conceptual understanding of dynamics. Theoretical framework of this research was based on models-of-data theory. True-experimental design using quantitative and qualitative research methods was carried out for this research. Participants of this study were 22 senior pre-service physics teachers. The instructional strategy in the experimental class was model-based inquiry (MBI) while it was inquiry in the control class. Data were collected by using Force Concept Inventory (FCI), video recordings, inquiry reports and the instructor’s field notes. The results of Mann-Whitney U tests for two classes’ pre-tests and post-tests indicated that there was not any significant difference between two classes’ performances before and after the treatment. On the other hand, the results of Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed that the experimental class’s post FCI scores were better than their pre FCI scores. The following conclusions can be drawn from the study: Putting modelling explicitly into the center of inquiry facilitates conceptual learning. Therefore, model building and formation in inquiry can be seen as a way not only to represent what learners have already known but also to generate new knowledge. Making associations with other phenomena under the framework of epistemic characters of knowledge and expanding on these associations with discussions in inquiry learning environment promote students’ understanding. Finally, model quality may stimulate science learning; however, more research is needed to extend this conclusion.
Reproductive biology of the spotback skate, Atlantoraja castelnaui (Ribeiro, 1907) (Chondrichthyes, Rajidae), in southeastern Brazilian waters

Especimenes de Atlantoraja castelnaui fueron obtenidos a traves de siete barcos de pesca comercial operando en aguas del sudeste brasilero, desde marzo de 2005 hasta abril de 2006. Un total de 53 machos fueron capturados y analizados, con longitudes totales comprendidas entre 17,9 y 111,0 cm. De acuerdo con el analisis de la longitud del clasper y de la glandula del clasper, peso de los testiculos, diametro de los lobulos testiculares y espinas alares, el tamano de primera madurez sexual fue estimado en 91,0 cm. Cincuenta y cuatro hembras de entre 17,4 y 116,0 cm de longitud total fueron capturadas. De acuerdo con las observaciones del ancho del utero y de la glandula oviductal, del peso de los ovarios y del diametro del mayor foliculo vitelogenico, el tamano de primera madurez sexual fue estimado en 105,0 cm. La vitelogenesis comenzaria cuando los foliculos alcanzan un tamano de 1,0 cm y la ovulacion cuando alcanzan 3,0 cm de diametro. El numero maximo de foliculos vitelogenicos observado en esta especie fue de 20. A pesar de ser A. castelnaui una especie ovipara y por tanto, con una fecundidad relativamente alta en comparacion con otros elasmobranquios, su gran tamano la convierte en una especie sumamente susceptible a la presion de pesca, siendo incluso ya considerada como especie en peligro de extincion. Por tales motivos, el conocimiento de sus parametros reproductivos podra resultar en un manejo adecuado de los stocks.
Contagion in International Stock and Currency Markets During Recent Crisis Episodes

This paper investigates contagion across stock and currency markets of China, Eurozone, India, Japan and US during global financial crisis and Eurozone crisis. The crisis periods are selected using Markov-switching models for US and Eurozone markets. We, then, utilize the DCC-GARCH model to estimate conditional correlation among the assets and test for contagion/flight to quality effects during the crises. The results show significant contagion as well as flight to quality effects both across and within asset classes. We examine the impact of financial stress index on the correlation across markets and find that portfolio diversification benefits for equity markets may be non-existent.
Probability Distribution Characteristics for Surface Air–Sea Turbulent Heat Fluxes over the Global Ocean

To analyze the probability density distributions of surface turbulent heat fluxes, the authors apply the twoparametric modified Fisher–Tippett (MFT) distribution to the sensible and latent turbulent heat fluxes recomputed from 6-hourly NCEP–NCAR reanalysis state variables for the period from 1948 to 2008. They derived the mean climatology and seasonal cycle of the location and scale parameters of the MFT distribution. Analysis of the parameters of probability distributions identified the areas where similar surface turbulent fluxes are determined by the very different shape of probability density functions. Estimated extreme turbulent heat fluxes amount to 1500–2000 W m22 (for the 99th percentile) and can exceed 2000 W m22 for higher percentiles in the subpolar latitudes and western boundary current regions. Analysis of linear trends and interannual variability in the mean and extreme fluxes shows that the strongest trends in extreme fluxes (more than 15 W m22 decade21) in the western boundary current regions are associated with the changes in the shape of distribution. In many regions changes in extreme fluxes may be different from those for the mean fluxes at interannual and decadal time scales. The correlation between interannual variability of themean and extreme fluxes is relatively low in the tropics, the SouthernOcean, and the Kuroshio Extension region.Analysis of probability distributions in turbulent fluxes has also been used in assessing the impact of sampling errors in theVoluntaryObserving Ship (VOS)-based surface flux climatologies, allowed for the estimation of the impact of sampling in extreme fluxes. Although sampling does not have a visible systematic effect onmean fluxes, sampling uncertainties result in the underestimation of extreme flux values exceeding 100 W m22 in poorly sampled regions.
Probability Neglect: Emotions, Worst Cases, and Law

When strong emotions are triggered by a risk, people show a remarkable tendency to neglect a small probability that the risk will actually come to fruition. Experimental evidence, involving electric shocks and arsenic, supports this claim, as does real-world evidence, involving responses to abandoned hazardous waste dumps, the pesticide Alar, and anthrax. The resulting "probability neglect" has many implications for law and policy. It suggests the need for institutional constraints on policies based on ungrounded fears; it also shows how government might effectively draw attention to risks that warrant special concern. Probability neglect helps to explain the enactment of certain legislation, in which government, no less than ordinary people, suffers from that form of neglect. When people are neglecting the fact that the probability of harm is small, government should generally attempt to inform people, rather than cater to their excessive fear. But when information will not help, government should respond, at least if analysis suggest that the benefits outweigh the costs. The reason is that fear, even if it is excessive, is itself a significant problem, and can create additional significant problems.
Aging with the HIV-AIDS Disease

The paradigm of diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patients´ with HIV disease has changed. If in its beginning death was certain, now with the development of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) it is a chronic disease like Diabetes Mellitus (DM) or Arterial Hypertension (AH). With these changes, patients became older and with more morbidity, some associated with the infection and persistent inflammation, some with the therapy and another group has emerged-HANA (HIV nonassociated AIDS conditions), affecting all organs and systems. The approach of these patients includes a multidisciplinary team. The is no manuscript regarding to this theme in the Portuguese reality.
Effect of ion drift on shock waves in an un-magnetized multi-ion plasma

During the last few decades, multi-component/dusty plasmas have received considerable attention from researchers due to their omnipresence in astrophysical, space and laboratory plasmas. For example, dusty plasmas occur in planetary atmospheres and rings1,2 and comets;3 nearer Earth they occur in the Earth’s mesosphere4 and ionosphere5 and also in laboratory plasmas used for the formation of ‘plasma crystals’6 and fusion devices.7 The addition of dust to plasmas increases their complexity due to the excitation of different eigen modes like Dust Acoustic Waves (DAWs),8 Dust Ion Acoustic Waves (DIAWs),9 Dust Lattice Waves (DLWs),10 etc.
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in People Affected with Diabetes in Primary Care

Several studies suggest that the cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates of persons with type 2 diabetes are about two to four times higher than those of the general popula‐ tion. It is therefore considered necessary to develop specific tools to evaluate and reduce CVD risk in this population. In the present chapter, main CVD risk scores were explored: from the Framingham study developed in the 1960s to the last diabetes-specific models, passing through the concept of diabetes as a “CVD risk equivalent”. The scores devel‐ oped in Italian population were specifically explored. The Italian experience, according to other countries, emphasizes that it may be appropriate for each country to validate exist‐ ing models and eventually to adapt them to the different settings to improve targeted risk management.
Relationships between valued action and well-being across the transition from high school to early adulthood

Well-being promotes positive outcomes, which may include the ability to live according to one’s values, and values-congruent living may be a source of well-being. The current longitudinal study tested bi-directional relationships between subjective well-being and the extent to which values are seen as personally important, pressured by others, activated and successfully enacted. Participants were 468 young people (51.9% female) who responded to questionnaires in the final year of high school (Grade 12) and again approximately one year later. Regression analyses showed that life satisfaction predicted increasing value importance, activity and successful enactment. Valued action did not predict later well-being, when baseline levels of well-being were controlled. Positive changes in well-being over time were correlated with increased value importance, decreased pressure and greater success in enacting values. The findings build on a small body of research exploring the reciprocal interaction of well-being and valued action, and have implications for interventions.
Clinical significance of sella turcica morphologies and dimensions in relation to different skeletal patterns and skeletal maturity assessment

Background: Sella turcica is a saddle-like structure based on the roof of the sphenoid bone and has an important role in orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning. The aims of the study were to assess sella shape and size in an adolescent Iraqi sample in different skeletal classes and to verify the possibility of clinical application of sella turcica in skeletal maturity estimation. Materials and Methods: The study sample composed of (140) Iraqi adolescent subjects aged 10-16 years (91 females, 49 males); every subject had true lateral cephalometric radiograph. The sample was subjected to 2 classifications: the 1st included three skeletal classes according to ANB angle, and the 2nd included accelerative and decelerative groups according to maturity indicators of cervical vertebrae seen radiographically. In each classification, sella size was measured using three linear measurements (S.length, S.depth, and S. diameter). Results: Most of sella turcica measurements were not different statistically among the skeletal classes, and that specific sella turcica linear measurements can not be obtained for each specific skeletal class throughout the pubertal period. Normal sella was the predominant over the other morphological aberrations in both classification systems, while these morphologies occurred more frequently in class II and III. Sella depth and diameter were significantly higher in the decelerative than accelerative group, while non significant difference was found concerning sella shapes between the two groups. Conclusions: It was concluded that Sella depth and sella diameter measurements can be utilized clinically for pubertal growth phase determination, while sella morphology can not be diagnostic for the accelerative and decelerative pubertal growth phases.
Visualizing Workload and Emotion Data in Air Traffic Control - An Approach Informed by the Supervisors Decision Making Process

—The work of a supervisor, working in an area control center in air trafﬁc control, seems to be rarely addressed by research. Within this paper, we present a preliminary study that deals with the supervisors decision making process, current practices and interfaces. Based on this study, we derived design guidelines to the development of a visualization, displaying the air trafﬁc controllers’ workload and emotional state, thus supporting the supervisors decision making.
Maladaptive Responses to Relationship Dissolution: The Role of Relationship Contingent Self‐Worth

The present study examined responses to romantic breakup as a function of relationship contingency of self-worth (CSW)—the degree to which individuals base self-worth on being in a romantic relationship. Relationship CSW was hypothesized to be a vulnerability factor, exacerbating affective and behavioral responses to romantic relationship dissolution. Results of structural equation modeling (N = 312) revealed that among participants who reported a breakup over the past year, those who more strongly based self-worth on being in a relationship reported greater emotional distress and obsessive pursuit of their ex-partners than did those with lower relationship CSW. Specifically, emotional distress partially mediated the link between relationship CSW and obsessive pursuit. Implications of relationship CSW for interpersonal motivation and well-being are discussed. jasp_769 1749.1773
Age differences in consumer financial capability

The purpose of this study is to examine age differences in financial capability. Financial capability is measured by five variables: objective financial literacy, subjective financial literacy, desirable financial behavior, perceived financial capability, and a financial capability index. Financial capability is expected to increase with age. Specifically, we expect older consumers to demonstrate higher levels of both objective and subjective financial literacy, more desirable financial behaviors, a higher level of perceived financial capability, and a higher score on the financial capability index. Data from the 2012 National Financial Capability Study in the U.S. was used to examine the associations between age groups and financial capability variables. One-way ANOVAs were used to examine age differences in financial capability variables. Then multiple regressions were used to examine age differences after controlling for socio-demographic and financial variables. The results indicated that age differences in four financial capability variables showed similar patterns. Young adults aged 18–24 had the lowest scores on objective financial literacy, subjective financial literacy, perceived financial capability, and the financial capability index. The results have implications for consumer educators to provide effective financial education for all age groups.
Effect of Implant-Supported Fixed Prosthesiswith or Without Cantilever Extensions on Marginal Bone Loss with Regarding to Technica l Complications . Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Purpose: The aim of this study was to test the significant differences of the Marginal Bone Loss (MBL) between implant supported fixed prosthesis with or without cantilever extensions, and to assess whether or not reconstructions with cantilever extensions increase the incidence of technical complications Materials and Methods: A comprehensive electronic searching in PubMed and Cochrane databases up to July 2017 with language restriction to English only. Weinclude any RCT, controlled clinical trials and cohort studies reporting data with regard to the outcome of treatment with implant-supported FPDs with cantilever extensions after a mean function time of at least 3 years. In addition, a manual searchingwas performed for related journals from January 2011 to July 2017. A meta-analysis was performed on all included studies by using a random effect model (mean, 95%confidence intervals [CI]) to pool the effect size. Result: Initial screening and manual searching result in 115 articles from which only 5 articles compatible with our inclusion criteria. No statistical significance was foundbetween implant supported fixed prosthesis with or without cantilever extensions (confidence interval CI = 95 and P = 0.31). Conclusion: No strong evidence to support the difference between implant supported fixed prosthesis with or without cantilever extensionsin the amount of MBL.
Impact of household processing methods on the nutritional characteristics of pearl millet (Pennisetumtyphoideum): a review

Pearl millet contains 300Kcal of energy, 9-13% protein, 5-8% fat and 62-70% starch. The energy density of pearl millet grain is relatively higher compared with maize, wheat, or sorghum. The higher energy density in pearl millet is attributed to the presence of higher fat content. It is also high in polyunsaturated fats and linolenic acid. Minerals including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron and copper are found to be higher in pearl millet compared to corn. It has favorable amino acid balance with high level of essential amino acids and superior in vitro pepsin digestibility values makes pearl millet highly nutritious. Although, pearl millet is nutritionally superior compared to cereals, it is underutilized and neglected due to non-availability in convenience form. The major limitations in producing various pearl millet products are the small grain size, the large germ and presence of various anti-nutrients, poor digestibility of proteins & carbohydrates and low palatability. Processing plays an important role in enhancing digestibility and nutritive value of pearl millet. The present review focuses on the impact of simple household processing methods on the nutritional quality of pearl millet.
Quantification of total phenolic compound and in vitro antioxidant potential of fruit peel extracts.

This study was undertaken to evaluate the potential of fruit waste materials as source of natural antioxidant. The fruit peels including mango, guava and papaya peel were used in this study. The total phenolic content (TPC) was determined by Folin-Ciocalteu assay while antioxidant activities were determined by using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), 2,2-diphenyl1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging, ferric thiocynate (FTC) and thiobarbituric acid (TBA) assays. These antioxidant activities were compared to synthetic antioxidants, BHA/ BHT combination and ascorbic acid. The results demonstrated that TPC ranged from 3.23 to 15.84 g GAE/100 g extract. Mango peels extract exhibited highest TPC compared to guava peel and papaya peel extract. In the FRAP assay, mango peel extract at 200 ppm, guava peel extract at 400 ppm and papaya peel extract at 1200 ppm, exhibited reducing power comparable to the permissible amount of BHA/BHT at 200 ppm. At concentration of 250 μg/ml, the DPPH radical scavenging activity of extracts and standards decreased significantly in the order of mango peel extract > guava peel extract > BHA/BHT > ascorbic acid > papaya peel extract. For the FTC assay, the antioxidant activity of mango peel extract was significantly higher than ascorbic acid, guava peel and papaya peel extract but lower than BHA/BHT while in the TBA assay, percentage inhibition of BHA/BHT and ascorbic acid were found to be higher than fruit peel extracts. The quantitative analysis for flavonoids showed the presence of catechin, epicatechin and kaempferol in the peel extracts.