Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Rhizome Extract of White Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roxb) Maintains Testicular Function of Aging Mice

Ginger is recognized as antioxidants and chemoprotective. Therefore the rhizome extract of this plant could allegedly reverse aging process. The study is intended to investigate the possible effects of rhizome extract of white ginger (Zingiber officinale Roxb.) on the testicular function of aging male mice (Mus musculus Linn.). Male albino mice aged 12-14 months, grouped into three consisted of 12 mice, were given extract orally as follows: 0 mg/kg (as a control), 50mg/kg and 100 mg/kg daily for 70 days. The testicular function parameters assessed were: the number of spermatogenic cells, the number and quality of sperm. Compared to control group, male mice treated with ginger extract showed significant high quality of sperm count, viability, motility and morphology (P<0.001). Histological parameters of the testis: pre-leptotene as well as pachytene spermatocytes and spermatids cells also significantly higher in the treated group (P <0.01) than that of control. In conclusion, rhizome extract of ginger effectively maintain function of reproductive system of male mice in aging process and, thus, ginger is potentially as the fertility and anti-aging herbs.
The influence of personal, relational, and contextual factors on forgiveness communication following transgressions

The way that individuals adapt to stress in their romantic relationships plays a major role in determining how satisfied they are in those relationships. This study used the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation model as a framework to examine how individuals adapt to the stressful event of a relational transgression in their romantic relationships. This study specifically looked at the effect of individuals’ attachment dimensions and the equity of their relationships as factors that influenced how they used forgiveness strategies after a relational transgression occurred. The results of the study revealed that there was a significant negative relationship between the explicit strategy and dismissiveness, a significant positive relationship between the minimizing strategy and preoccupation, a significant positive relationship between the non-verbal strategy and preoccupation, a significant negative relationship between the non-verbal strategy and fear of intimacy, and a significant negative relationship between the conditional strategy and security/confidence and fear of intimacy. The results also revealed that there were significant group differences between equity groups and three of the five forgiveness strategies. The results also showed that there were significant relationships between transgression severity and four of the five forgiveness strategies. Finally, the results revealed that there was a significant relationship between relational satisfaction and three of the five forgiveness strategies.
Matching Genotype and Phenotype: A Pragmatist Semiotic Analysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing1

Based on three years of ethnographic research, the author examines how laboratory geneticists using next-generation genomic sequencing technologies causally link a patient’s genotype and phenotype. At stake is the extent to which this technology breaks with Mendelian single gene–single trait genetic determinism. In spite of an abundance of genetic information that could be used to establish complex multicausal interactions at the molecular level, geneticists actively work to reconcile uncertainties, unknowns, and anomalies to broker monogenic causality. The author develops pragmatist semiotics as a novel analytical strategy to capture collective processes of signification.
Heterogeneous Problem-Solving Behavior and its Implications for Success in Unblind Innovation Contests

Innovation contests are increasingly adopting an “unblind” format where contest submissions and feedback are viewable by all contestants and the information structure changes dynamically during the contest. In such a format, contestants must weigh the cost of revealing their submissions against the benefits of learning and improvement of their submissions through emerging contest information. We seek to understand how contestants solve problems in unblind innovation contests and what the implications of their problem-solving behavior on contest outcomes are. We analyze problem-solving behavior among contestants in terms of how they make submissions to a contest—i.e., when does a contestant begin participation, how many submissions does a contestant make, what is the number of submissions over which a contestant actively participates, and how are a contestant’s submissions distributed through her active participation. The econometric analysis of a large dataset of unblind innovation contests and participating contestants indicates that, despite the potential for intellectual property loss from revealing of submissions, contestants who make their first submission earlier are more likely to succeed in the contest as their number of submissions increases. We also find that increasing the length of participation in a contest has a strong positive effect on a contestant’s likelihood of success. More importantly, our results indicate that contestants whose submission patterns in a contest exhibit greater positive skewness, mimicking the traditional innovation funnel process, have a higher likelihood of success. Departing from prior studies on “blind” formats, our study provides new evidence that the process of problem solving has significant implications for a contestant’s success, above and beyond her prior experience and success in contests characterized by visible and dynamic information structure. Working Paper – Please do not distribute without authors’ permission Last Updated 1/28/14
Chromosomal differentiation between populations of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) from the Göksu Delta and Orontes River (Turkey)

The karyotype of Clarias gariepinus was described by means of G-banding, C-banding, Q-banding, and Ag- NORs (NORs) staining in this study. Samples were collected from 2 regions of Turkey: the Goksu Delta and Orontes River. Although samples from both regions had the same diploid chromosome number and fundamental arm number, (2n = 56, FN = 100), they had remarkable differences in karyotype formula and distribution of rDNA sites, according to silver nitrate staining and G-banding. While the karyotype formula for Orontes River samples was 24m + 10sm + 10st + 12a, the Goksu Delta samples' was 28m + 6sm + 10st + 12a. Comparative analysis showed that there was intraspecific variability in NORs and different NOR numbers in the 2 populations. The study's findings show that the Goksu Delta and Orontes River samples differed from each other.
The role of pd hybridization in the metal-insulator transition in NdNiO3 heterostructure

ABSTRACT Understanding and controlling phase transition in the transition-metal oxides is interesting from the fundamental physics point of view. The pd hybridization are of considerable issue to tune the phase transition temperature. Here, the transport properties of the NdNiO3 with artificial ultra-thin NiO insert layer have been investigated. The relationship between the essential parameters of the pd hybridization (T) and the metal-insulator transition (MIT) temperature has been clearly elucidated a monotone decreasing relationship. This work realized the combination of the engineering hybridization and the phase transition temperature, which might be significant for the development of multifunctional materials in the transition-metal oxides. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT IMPACT STATEMENT The pd hybridization are of considerable issue to tune the phase transition temperature. Here, the pd hybridization have been tuned and elucidated a monotone decreasing relationship with the metal–insulator transition temperature.
The Quality of the Human Factor and its Implications for Network Dynamics and Small Business Growth and Development 1 Abstract

Kwame Owusu-Ampomah This paper explores using network theory, in real terms, to explain economic growth and/or organizational performance, and its implications for small business growth and development. Whereas network theory suggests that networks support organisational and/or economic performance descriptive notions of the concept are vague, and network attributes are difficult to measure; how networks work is also unclear. Many observers maintain that trust is the key determinant of network outcomes. In this article it is argued that this position runs the risk of reductionism. The paper postulates that the primary determinant of economic performance in network relationships is the quality of the human factor, of which trust is only one but an important component. The relevance of this thesis in small business growth and development is explored, drawing on data from a study on the network perspective of the growth paths of small clothing manufacturing enterprises in Durban.
Diet of the white‐dotted skate, Bathyraja albomaculata, in waters of Argentina

Summary The present paper analyzes the diet, feeding strategy and niche width of Bathyraja albomaculata over the Patagonian continental shelf and upper slope. The diet comprised a variety of 14 small invertebrates, although the most important prey were polychaete worms. The opheliid polychaete Travisia sp. and the gammarid amphipod Cirolana sp. were the main prey present in stomach contents of B. albomaculata. No differences were found between the diets of males and females, however ontogenetic changes were detected. Skates 40 cm DW largely consumed polychaetes. As size increased, polychaetes became more important and the importance of amphipods decreased. B. albomaculata showed a narrow food niche and a marked specialization towards polychaetes.
Blunt abdominal trauma with unexpected anaphylactic shock due to rupture of hepatic hydatid cysts

Hydatid disease, caused by the cestode Echinococcus, is common in Mediterranean regions. Depending on its size, an intact cyst may be ‘silent’ or may compress adjacent organs, causing symptoms. The cystic stage of Echinococcus granulosus is commonly located in the liver, which frequently results in a long symptom-free period [1] . Rupture of a hydatid cyst commonly gives rise to allergic phenomena, including anaphylactic shock [2] . Anaphylactic reactions due to hydatid cyst perforation usually occur during needle aspiration or open
Bird communities of different woody vegetation types from the Niraj Valley, Romania

Erzsébet DOMOKOS*, József DOMOKOS Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Department of Pharmaceutical Botany and Cell Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mures, Romania Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences, Sapientia University, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
Impairment of in vitro embryonic development with a corresponding ele-vation of oxidative stress following nicotine treatment in mice: Effect of variation in treatment duration

This study was designed to investigate the effects of nicotine on in vitro embryo development at a variable duration of treatment schedule. A concomitant oxidative stress level was also evaluated. Four- to six-week-old female mice (Mus musculus) were injected (s.c.) with nico-tine (5.0 mg/kg/day) for 7, 14 or 28 consecutive days. Animals were superovulated and co-habitated overnight with fertile male at a ratio 1:1. Forty-eight hours post-coitum, blood samples of the animals were collected for manoldialdehyde (MDA) estimation. On sacrifice, ovaries including the fallopian tubes were excised. Fallopian tubes were flushed and the normal embryos were subjected to in vitro culture. Out of 783 retrieved embryos, only 61% were found normal. Nicotine increased the number of abnormal embryos (61.7 ± 9.3) as compared to controls (40.3 ± 8.1). None of the embryos formed blastocyst following nicotine treatment for 7 days. When the length of treatment was extended for 14 days, embryonic development reached only up to 8-cell stage. However, most of the embryos stopped dividing at 2-cell stage after 28 days of nicotine treatment. Plasma MDA concentration was found to be higher in all the three groups of nicotine-treated experimental mice compared to control groups. Ovarian MDA levels showed a significant difference between the groups of animals treated with nicotine for 14 days and 28 days, but not between two other treated groups, those received nicotine for 7 days and 14 days, respectively. In conclusion, the degree of im-paired development of the preimplanted embryos seems to be directly correlated with the length of nicotine treatment with a corresponding increment of oxidative stress.
Interacting User-Generated Content Technologies: How Questions and Answers Affect Consumer Reviews

This article studies the question and answer (Q&A) technology of electronic commerce platforms, an increasingly common form of user-generated content that allows consumers to publicly ask product-specific questions and receive responses, either from the platform or from other customers. Using data from a major online retailer, the authors show that Q&As complement consumer reviews: unlike reviews, questions are primarily asked prepurchase and focus on clarification of product attributes rather than discussion of quality; answers convey fit-specific information in a predominantly sentiment-free way. Drawing on these observations, the authors hypothesize that Q&As mitigate product fit uncertainty, leading to better matches between products and consumers and, therefore, improved product ratings. Indeed, when products suffering from fit mismatch start receiving Q&As, their subsequent ratings improve by approximately . 1 to . 5 stars, and the fraction of negative reviews that discuss fit-related issues declines. The extent of the rating increase due to Q&As is proportional to the probability that purchasers will experience fit mismatch without Q&A. These findings suggest that, by resolving product fit uncertainty in an e-commerce setting, the addition of Q&As can be a viable way for retailers to improve ratings of products that have incurred low ratings due to customer–product fit mismatch.
The Use of Dynamic Assessment by Educational Psychologists in the UK

Training in Dynamic Assessment (DA) was rarely available in the UK until 1994. This is the first study to explore the outcomes of its availability in terms of the practice of DA and perceptions about it among educational psychologists (EPs). One hundred and nineteen EPs, who had taken positive steps to inform themselves about DA by undertaking some degree of training or by joining a DA interest group, were surveyed to explore the extent of their initial training in DA, subsequent use of it and issues of implementation. Overall, the 88 responses (74%) received suggest, among those surveyed, widespread awareness of DA as a model of cognitive assessment and positive attitudes to it, coupled with a low level of implementation. The low level of use was frequently attributed to insufficient training in DA, to lack of time due to other assessment priorities, often set by the local education authority, and to lack of the ongoing expert support felt to be necessary to maintain use of a demanding form of assessment. The authors take the position that the EP's repertoire would be enriched by improved knowledge of and training in DA. The research raises important issues for cognitive assessment and raises the broader question whether there is a need for the more proactive involvement of educators in enhancing the cognitive functioning of children.
The Process of Inflation in the Labor Market

CHANGES IN AGGREGATE demand are the fundamental source of changes in the price level. In the long run, the supply of resources determines the volume of real output, the quantity of money determines the nominal value of output, and the price level is the ratio of the two. Economists who disagree with Milton Friedman's famous dictum that "itiflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon" have doubts mainly about the mechanism linking monetary expansion to inflation. Underlying my discussion of the role of labor markets in the process of inflation is the hypothesis that an increase in aggregate demand raises employment and reduces unemployment. The economy then moves up and to the left along the Phillips curve and wages start to rise more rapidly. Finally, prices rise in the face of increasing costs. If aggregate demand is stabilized at the new, higher, level, the economy comes to rest with a correspondingly higher wage and price level. The inflationary btilge in real aggregate demand disappears as the process reaches its conclusion. The intellectually weak link in this description of the process of inflation is the Phillips curve. Most economists regard the negative relation between tmemployment and wage inflation as a plausible empirical generalization without a firm grounding in economic theory. Recently offered theories of
DeClarE: Debunking Fake News and False Claims using Evidence-Aware Deep Learning

Misinformation such as fake news is one of the big challenges of our society. Research on automated fact-checking has proposed methods based on supervised learning, but these approaches do not consider external evidence apart from labeled training instances. Recent approaches counter this deficit by considering external sources related to a claim. However, these methods require substantial feature modeling and rich lexicons. This paper overcomes these limitations of prior work with an end-to-end model for evidence-aware credibility assessment of arbitrary textual claims, without any human intervention. It presents a neural network model that judiciously aggregates signals from external evidence articles, the language of these articles and the trustworthiness of their sources. It also derives informative features for generating user-comprehensible explanations that makes the neural network predictions transparent to the end-user. Experiments with four datasets and ablation studies show the strength of our method.
THREE DIMENSIONAL KINEMATICS AND LOWER LIMB EMG OF ACL DEFICIENT KNEE JOINT WEARING A FUNCTIONAL KNEE BRACE DURING RUNNING

Knee braces have been found to provide limited stability to the ACL deficient (ACLD) knee in situations where the ,knee is loaded during sporting movements. Variability of the gait cycle of the injured knee during strenuous activity with and without a functional knee brace can be expected. Three dimensional (3D) kinematic and electromyography (EMG) data were collected for ten consecutive gait cycles from each participant after running 6 min on a treadmill under both braced and unbraced conditions. Bracing significantly reduced the abduction angle throughout the gait cycle however without reducing the total range of motion (p < 0.05). The functional knee brace showed a consistent trend of setting the ACLD knee in an external rotation position, thus avoiding internal rotation. Our findings supported the mechanical contributions of the brace in limiting abduction and suppressing internal rotation for ACLD knee during strenuous activities.
Unsupervised domain adaptation of deep object detectors

Domain adaptation has been understood and adopted in vision. Recently with the advent of deep learning there are a number of techniques that propose methods for deep learning based domain adaptation. However, the methods proposed have been used for adapting object classiﬁcation techniques. In this paper, we solve for domain adaptation of object detection that is more commonly used. We adapt deep adaptation techniques for the Faster R-CNN framework. The techniques that we adapt are the recent techniques based on Gradient Reversal and Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) reduction based techniques. Among them we show that the MK-MMD based method when used appropriately provides the best results. We analyze our model with standard real world settings by using Pascal VOC as source and MS-COCO as target and show a gain of 2.5 mAP at IoU of 0.5 over a source only trained model. We show that this improvement is statistically signiﬁcant.
Characterization of constituents, quality and stability of pomegranate seed oil (Punica granatum L.)

This study aimed to characterize pomegranate seed oil and evaluate its quality and stability parameters against those of linseed oil. The profile of fatty acids and phytosterols and the content of tocopherols were analyzed by gas chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography, respectively. The quality of both oils was assessed as recommended by the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) and stability was evaluated using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), β-carotene bleaching (coupled oxidation of β-carotene/linoleic acid) and Rancimat® assays. While α-linolenic acid (52%) was the most abundant fatty acid in linseed oil (LO), punicic acid (55%) was highest in pomegranate seed oil (PSO). Tocopherols and phytosterols (175 and 539 mg/100 g, respectively) were greater in PSO than in LO (51 and 328 mg/100 g, respectively). Both oils met quality standards. The β-carotene bleaching and the DPPH assays showed greater oxidative stability for PSO than for LO. The Rancimat® method, on the other hand, indicated low stability for both oils.
Sound production by Atlantic Cod during spawning

Abstract Using captive groups of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua from two Northwest Atlantic populations (western Scotian Shelf and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence), we quantified the temporal patterns and behavioral contexts of sound production during the spawning season. We found that sound production occurs most frequently during the peak of the spawning period, particularly after the onset of darkness. The rate of sound production by males in the western Scotian Shelf group was 8.4 times greater on average than that of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence group, and this corresponded to differences in the mass of the sound-producing musculature. Based on behavioral observations during daylight hours, we found that sounds were associated with both courtship behavior and agonistic displays. Although sounds were produced on only 14.5% of the occasions in which a male and female swam together in a “ventral mount,” limited data suggest that ventral mounts accompanied by sound were more likely to lead to spawning. Whi.
Mg/Ca ratios of single planktonic foraminifer shells and the potential to reconstruct the thermal seasonality of the water column

Mg/Ca ratios of surface and subsurface dwelling foraminifera provide valuable information about the past temperature of the water column. Planktonic foraminifera calcify over a period of weeks to months. Therefore, the range of Mg/Ca temperatures obtained from single specimens potentially records seasonal temperature changes. We present solution-derived Mg/Ca ratios for single specimens of the planktonic foraminifera species Globigerinoides ruber (pink), Globigerinoides ruber (white), and Globorotalia inflata from a sediment trap off northwest Africa (20°45.6′N, 18°41.9′W). Cleaning of single specimens was achieved using a flow-through system in order to prevent sample loss. Mg/Ca ratios of surface dwelling G. ruber (pink) show strong seasonality linked to sea surface temperature. Mg/Ca ratios of G. ruber (white) do not show such seasonality. Subsurface dwelling G. inflata flux is largest during the main upwelling season, but Mg/Ca ratios reflect annual temperatures at intermediate water depths. The sediment trap time series suggests that changes in the range of Mg/Ca ratios exhibited by single specimens of G. ruber (pink) and G. inflata from the sedimentary record should provide information on the past temperature range under which these species calcified. Statistical analysis suggests detectable changes in the Mg/Ca range are ≥0.80 mmol/mol (G. ruber (pink)) and ≥0.34 mmol/mol (G. inflata). For G. ruber (pink), such changes would indicate changes in the seasonal sea surface temperature range >4°C or a shift in the main calcification and reproductive period. For G. inflata, such changes would indicate >1.7°C changes in the thermocline temperature or a change in the depth habitat.