Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Combined effect of ozone mixed with carbon dioxide on the mortality of five stored-product insects

A study to determine the effect of ozone mixed with carbon dioxide on controlling stored-grain insects was conducted in the storehouse. Adults of Sitophilus oryzae (L.), Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), Rhyzopertha dominica(F.), Oryzephilus surinamensis(L.) and 3 th larvae of Plodia interpunctella(Hubner) were exposed to the mixture of ozone and carbon dioxide. After exposure periods of 24 h, the insects were transferred to clean jars containing food and held at 27±2 o C and 65 ±5% R.H. Experiments were performed in different heights (30, 40, 50 and 100 cm) and nutrition materials (date, wheat and rice), in penetration tests and empty-space tests. In empty-space trials, the highest mortality was for P. interpunctella. In penetration tests, treatment with high-pressure ozone and carbon dioxide under different height and foodstuff may result in different rates of mortality. The mixture of ozone and carbon dioxide in the interaction between height and diet (heigh×diet) are not significant for the S. oryzae, T. castaneum, R. dominicaand P. interpunctellabut for O. surinamensis is significant. The influence of ozone gas and carbon dioxide in the date is more than rice and wheat. The mixture of ozone with carbon dioxide can be as suitable fumigant for decreasing phosphine and methyl bromide under ambient storage conditions in penetration and empty-space fumigations.
Effect of induced surgical stress and acute renal failure on disposition kinetics of ceftizoxime in goats

Ceftizoxime is a third generation cephalosporin used for the treatment of bacterial infections. Most of the cephalosporins are excreted by the kidney through glomerular filtration and tubular secretion. Renal impairment will result into a decreased renal clearance of these drugs. Therefore, acute renal failure may interfere with the excretion of these antibiotics resulting in alteration of their kinetics. Further some stressed conditions like surgical stress may alter the disposition kinetics of drugs. The present investigation was undertaken to study: (i) the disposition kinetics of ceftizoxime in goats with induced surgical stress and acute renal failure in comparision with normal goats, (ii) the other excretory pathway particularly through GI tract (Caecal pouch) and (iii) excretion of creatinine and BUN through GI tract to generate data in the selection of dosage regimen to treat surgical stress and acute renal failure cases. Twelve clinically healthy adult black Bengal female goats (10–12 kg of 1–11/2 years age) were utilized in the experiment. They were fed with balanced feed and water ad libitum. They were divided into three groups. Group I healthy goat (HG) and II (ARF) consisted of three animals in each group, while group III consisted of six animals which was again subdivided into groups IIIA and IIIB (Surical Stress, SS). In experiment 1, ceftizoxime (gift from Glaxo Smithkline Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Nashik, Maharashtra, India) was administered intravenously as a single dose (20 mg/kg) to group I(HG) goats and disposition kinetics and plasma protein binding studies were carried out. After one month interval of single intravenous administration the drug was administered by intramuscular route (thigh muscles) to the same group of goats. After i.v. and i.m. administrations blood samples were collected from the jugular vein at ‘0’ (before drug administration) and 0.08, 0.16, 0.33, 0.5, 0.66, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 h postdosing. Two millilitre of blood was collected in the above-mentioned time period except at 0.16, 0.33 and 0.66 h where 5 ml was collected for protein binding study. In experiment 2, the animals were subdivided into groups IIIA and IIIB. The area of operative site of the animals was closely shaved and prepared aseptically. After 15 min of deep sedation with xylazine hydrochloride (1 mg/kg, i.m.) Lignocaine hydrochloride (2%) was infiltrated locally at operative site and the animal was kept in left lateral recumbency. A vertical incision of about 6 cm length was made on the hollow of the flank. The incision was extended by blunt dissection through the external and internal oblique and transverse abdominal muscles. The peritoneum was opened Effect of induced surgical stress and acute renal failure on disposition kinetics of ceftizoxime in goats
Potato Tubers and Soil Aeration

Potato plants are more sensitive to soil oxygen stress than many other common crops. Some recent literature suggests this may be due to a relatively high oxygen requirement for tuber growth, rather than a greater requirement for the roots per se. Consequently, the oxygen consumption of growing potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum cv. Russet Burbank) was measured in the field on a Portneuf silt loam (coarse-silty, mixed, mask Durixerallic Calciorthid). Typical rates were 15 Ag O2 cm- 2hr- 1. A simple method for measuring soil oxygen diffusion rates in the laboratory was then devised, utilizing an oxygen meter and a stream of N2 gas. Soil conditions such as texture, bulk density, compaction around expanding tubers, oxygen sinks and water contents were studied with respect to their relative effects on limiting oxygen uptake by tubers. The minimum soil oxygen diffusion coefficient required for adequate tuber aeration is quite sensitive to the soil respiration rate and the depth of soil covering the tubers. Water contents of "field capacity" or a little wetter were found to not necessarily inhibit tuber aeration in loamy sand, silt loam, and silty clay soils provided the bulk densities were not excessive; i.e., greater than 1.6 or 1.7 Mg m- 3 in the silt loam. Reduced aeration due to compaction around growing tubers is a possibility in the silty clay, but probably not in well drained silt loam or loamy sand. The criteria for a minimum acceptable soil oxygen diffusion coefficient must be based on tuber periderm permeability, soil ethylene generation, and other anaerobic soil reactions, as well as tuber respiration per se.
Assessment of heavy metal concentrations in urban grown vegetables in Thika Town, Kenya

Consumption of leafy vegetables grown in urban areas contaminated with heavy metals is a major source of health problems for both humans and animals. This study was conducted to analyze the heavy metal levels in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentumL.) and spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) grown in Thika town. Heavy metal concentration was analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. The mean concentrations of lead (Pb), Zinc (Zn) and cadmium (Cd) in all the samples were more than the maximum permitted concentrations while there was no evidence of copper (Cu) contamination. Heavy metal uptake differences by the vegetables were attributed to plant differences in tolerance. Further Lead (mgkg-1) concentration in the vegetables was above the maximum limit of 0.3 mgkg-1 accepted for human health by World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Due to increased consumption of vegetables by urban communities, we suggest that it is important to treat industrial effluents which are significant sources of heavy metals and phyto-extract excess metals from polluted environments to reduce health risks. Key words: Lycopersicon esculentum, Spinacia oleracea, lead, zinc, cadmium, copper, atomic absorption spectrometry.
Incidence and Management of Splenic Injury in Abdominal Trauma

A prospective study of 109 patients with splenic injury due to abdominal trauma was collected from the causalty department of two centers, teaching hospital, Saddam Medical College and a AI-Yarmouk teaching hospital in the period from January 1992January 1997. The aim of our study is to evaluate the Incidence, causes and management of injured spleen with abdominal trauma taking into account that the spleen is the most common solid organ injured with blunt abdominal trauma(1), and major cause of this trauma Is auto-mobile accident, while In penetrating trauma (stab, shotgun) the incidence of splenic injury with associated injury come next in incidence. 60 patients out of 109 patient have splenic injury due to blunt trauma, while (49) patients got splenic injury from penetrating trauma. Since our policy is to explore all penetrating trauma the problem of early recognition arise In patients with blunt trauma whom need frequent physical examinations and close observation to detect signs of hypovolemia, because most trauma come to casualty at night without availability of aiding diagnostic tools like U/S, or precise lab service splenectomy was undertaken for 104 patients and successful splenoraphy was done for 5 patients. In our study there is no place for conservative treatment because there is no sound clinical or Investigation to depend on it to know with insurance about degree of splenic laceration and whether this laceration is isolated or associated with other intra-abdominal organic injury. Post splenectomy complication were mostly due to pulmonary and secondary wound infection
To Compare the Effect of Intrathecal 0 . 5 % Hyperbaric Bupivacaine 16 mg Over 0 . 5 % Hyperbaric Bupivacaine 16 Mg + 5 μg Dexmedetomidine with Respect to Haemodynamic Changes

Introduction: Hyperbaric bupivacaine is commonly used as local anaesthetic for administering spinal anaesthesia. Spinal anaesthesia using local anaesthetic alone is associated with relatively short duration of action. Adjuvants are added to improve the quality, to accelerate the onset of action, prolong analgesia and to overcome the problems of spinal anaesthesia. Hypothesis: To compare the effect of intrathecal 0.5% Hyperbaric Bupivacaine 16mg over 0.5% Hyperbaric Bupivacaine 16 mg + 5μg Dexmedetomidine with respect to Haemodynamic changes. Sample Size: We conducted the study on 60 patients over a period of one year and six months from 1 March 2016 to 31 August 2017. Results: Our study show that supplementation of spinal bupivacaine with 5 microgram dexmedetomidine resulted stable hemodynamics. Study showed that there was no significant decrease in the mean heart rate in dexmedetomidine group when compared to Bupivacaine alone group. Conclusion: Our study showed that there was no significant decrease in the mean heart rate in dexmedetomidine group when compared to Bupivacaine alone group.
Effects of some oils used in broiler rations on performance and fatty acid compositions in abdominal fat

SUMMARY This study was carried out to examine how the fatty acid compositions of oils (sunflower, cotton, corn, flaxseed, soybean, olive, fish, tallow and rendering oils) were reflected in the products and their effects on the growing performance of broilers. Trial was carried out to determine the effects of the same fat sources on the performance of the broilers and fatty acid compositions of abdominal fat with totally 414 broiler chicks. Feed consumption, body weight, feed conversion, abdominal fat/carcass yield and fatty acid levels of abdominal fat were determined. At the end of trial, the lowest moderate body weight were found to be 1957.10 ; 1901.20 ; 2197.20 ; 2072.76 ; 2080.30 ; 1943.20 ; 1887.30 ; 2074.00 ; 2099.20 g, respectively. The lowest daily body weight increase was also observed at the group fed the fish oil (37.53 g) and the greatest daily body weight increased at the group fed the corn oil (43.85 g). The lowest feed conversion ratio 1.95 kg was observed at the group which consumed the ration containing corn oil. In samples of abdominal fats taken from broilers which consumed omega-3-rich fats, omega-3 fatty acids, showing omega-3/omage-6 fatty acids ratio significantly increased. The fat content and fatty acid composition of abdominal fat were determined. The level of fatty acid from the group consumed flax oil that was rich in omega3 was observed the highest (15.62 %), while the lowest level (2.02 %) was found in the group administered with rendering oil. Of all groups, the highest level (52.33 %) of saturated fatty acid was obtained from the group fed ration contained tallow. Consequently, the compositions of fatty acids from these sort of animal products presented for human consumption was seen to highly alter depending on nutrition. Especially, following consumption flax and oil, the ratio of omega-3 appeared to increase. The person who consume those might be speculated to be in low risk of being disordered by heart-vessel diseases.
Clinico-epidemiology of shigellosis in children suffering from Diarrhea in District Lahore, Pakistan

Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Rawalakot, University of Poonch, Pakistan Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Department of Biochemistry, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan *Corresponding author
Banal Nostalgia: Shaping Collective Memories In Advertisements

This study focuses on the social side of everyday nostalgia. Through a close examination of one advertising campaign, better understanding is sought of how everyday nostalgia works and how group-based and individual nostalgia interlock in advertising. In other words, the study demonstrates how advertising can at the same time invoke shared conceptions of nostalgic past and appeal personal nostalgic memories.
Multi-Stage Origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite, California: Implications for the Life Cycle of Supra-Subduction Zone Ophiolites

The Coast Range ophiolite of California is one of the most extensive ophiolite terranes in North America, extending over 700 km from the northernmost Sacramento Valley to the southern Transverse Ranges in central California. This ophiolite, and other ophiolite remnants with similar mid-Jurassic ages, represent a major but short-lived episode of oceanic crust formation that affected much of western North America. The history of this ophiolite is important for models of the tectonic evolution of western North America during the Mesozoic, and a range of conflicting interpretations have arisen. Current petrologic, geochemical, stratigraphic, and radiometric age data all favor the interpretation that the Coast Range ophiolite formed to a large extent by rapid extension in the fore-arc region of a nascent subduction zone. Closer inspection of these data, however, along with detailed studies of field relationships at several locales, show that formation of the ophiolite was more complex, and requires several stages of formation. Our work shows that exposures of the Coast Range ophiolite preserve evidence for four stages of magmatic development. The first three stages represent formation of the ophiolite above a nascent subduction zone. Rocks associated with the first stage include ophiolite layered gabbros, a sheeted complex, and volcanic rocks with arc tholeiitic or (more rarely) low-K calc-alkaline affinities. The second stage is characterized by intrusive wehrlite-clinopyroxenite complexes, intrusive gabbros, Cr-rich diorites, and volcanic rocks with high-Ca boninitic or tholeiitic ankaramite affinities. The third stage includes diorite and quartz diorite plutons, felsic dike and sill complexes, and calc-alkaline volcanic rocks. The first three stages of ophiolite formation were terminated by the intrusion of mid-ocean ridge basalt dikes, and the eruption of mid-ocean ridge basalt or ocean-island basalt volcanic suites. We interpret this final magmatic event (MORB dikes) to represent the collision of an active spreading ridge. Subsequent reorganization of relative plate motions led to sinistral transpression, along with renewed subduction and accretion of the Franciscan Complex. The latter event resulted in uplift and exhumation of the ophiolite by the process of accretionary uplift.
Coulomb friction oscillator : Modelling and responses to harmonic loads and base excitations

Abstract In this paper we revisit a mass–spring–friction oscillator, where the friction refers to Coulomb's perfect dry contact friction. We refine the model formulation of the friction force and find that the equation of motion of the oscillator is a two-phase linear system with a slide-stick switch, rather than the usual three-phases equations. Also we obtain a simple slide–slide condition. Then the exact solution of the response to simple harmonic loading is obtained. With the aid of the long-term behavior of the exact solution, the steady motions of the oscillator with 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 stops per cycle are categorized in the parametric space of the ratios of forces and frequencies. Stops of zero duration are further classified into two types: normal stops and abnormal stops, the criteria of which are also given.
The Mesenchymal-Like Phenotype of the MDA-MB-231 Cell Line

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are progenitor cells that can be isolated from all connective tissues such as bone, adipose, cartilage, blood and muscle (Wang et al., 2009). MSCs have recently been described to localise within breast carcinomas where the stem cells integrate into tumour-associated stromal tissues whereby the MSCs promote breast cancer cell invasion and metastasis (Karnoub et al., 2007). Previous studies have demonstrated that when combine with weakly metastatic human breast carcinoma cells, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) increase the metastatic potency of the cancer cells greatly (Hombauer & Minguell, 2000). This phenomenon was significantly observed in MCF-7 cells where increase in cancer cell proliferation was observed when the cancer cells were co-cultured on the BMSCs feeder layer. Furthermore, light and epifluorescence microscopy studies revealed that the MCF-7 cluster grew in a dispersed fashion on the BMSCs feeder layer due to the decrease expression of adhesive molecules, such as E-cadherin and epithelial-specific antigen (ESA), in the cancer cells. The interaction between the MCF-7 cells and the BMSCs likely causes the loss of the adhesive molecules in the cancer cells. A phenomenon similar to this interaction was also observed in our recent study. Indeed, the study found that the growth of the MCF-7 cells was enhanced not only when the cancer cells were adhesively co-cultured with the BMSCs but also when they were co-cultured non-adhesively. In the adhesive cell interaction, the growth or proliferation rate of the MCF-7 cells, which was measured by colony size, was observed to increase when the cancer cells were cocultured on the BMSCs feeder layer (Fig. 1A and Fig. 1B). The non-adhesive interaction of the MCF-7 cells with BMSCs was also found to increase the growth of the cancer cells. When the cancer cells were incubated with the conditioned medium (culture supernatant) of the BMSCs, the proliferation rate of the MCF-7 cells increased approximately 16.6% when compared to the proliferation rate of the cancer cells incubated with growth medium only (Fig. 1C). This phenomenon indicates that the increase in the proliferation rate of the cancer cells due to the presence of the BMSCs must not be related to a direct physical cell–cell interaction, as similar findings are observed in both the adhesive and non-adhesive coculture conditions. Note: In this chapter, adhesive co-culture is defined as the growth of cancer cells on a nontumorigenic cell monolayer where direct physical cell–cell interaction occurs. Non-adhesive
Children's exposure to domestic and family violence Key issues and responses

Children's exposure to domestic and family violence has become a prominent policy issue comparatively recently. In the past two decades, empirical evidence about the extent to which children are exposed to domestic and family violence and the negative effect this has on their development has created an impetus for policy responses to this issue. Such responses are also reflected in the recognition that exposure to family violence is a form of child abuse in some state and territory child protection frameworks, the Australian Government's National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children 2009-2020 (COAG, 2009b), and the federal Family Law Act 1975 (Cth).
SIMPLIFICATION OF RATIONAL ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS IN A CAS ENVIRONMENT: A TECHNICAL-THEORETICAL APPROACH

In this paper we analyze and discuss the influence of CAS technology and an Activity designed with a Technical-Theoretical approach on two 10 grade students’ thinking on a Task related to simplifying rational algebraic expressions. The theoretical elements adopted in this study are based on the instrumental approach. Results indicate that CAS and a technical-theoretical-oriented Activity provoked students to theorize on certain aspects of the simplification of rational expressions, thus illustrating the epistemic role of CAS technique and its influence in improving students’ learning with respect to specific technical-theoretical components of rational expressions.
On nouns, verbs, lexemes, and lemmas: Evidence from the spontaneous speech of seven aphasic patients

Background: Although disproportionate impairment of noun or verb retrieval has been described on the basis of the evidence from several aphasic cases since the mid 1980s, with different theoretical frames being proposed to account for noun–verb dissociation, very few studies have dealt with this dissociation in spontaneous speech. Aims: The objectives of this study were to investigate (i) whether the dissociation also emerged in connected speech, and (ii) whether the analysis of patients' narratives could shed light on the functional damage underlying their grammatical-class-specific impairment. Methods & Procedures: Two non-fluent verb-impaired patients, two fluent verb-impaired patients, and three fluent noun-impaired patients participated in this study. Their noun–verb dissociation was preliminarily assessed through a picture-naming task, following which their spontaneous speech was collected and analysed using a single-case approach, taking into consideration both lexical productivity (as indicated by the number of different tokens produced by the patients) and lexical diversity (as indicated by the number of different types and stems used by the patients). Outcomes & Results: Non-fluent verb-impaired patients tended to produce a lower proportion of verb types than unimpaired control participants, as opposed to fluent verb-impaired patients, who produced a normal verb rate in their spontaneous speech on all counting procedures. One out of three fluent noun-impaired patients produced a lower proportion of noun tokens, types, and stems compared to normal speakers. Conclusions: The data presented in this paper indicate that noun–verb dissociation as assessed in picture-naming tasks might not emerge in spontaneous speech and indicates the need for the inclusion of a lemma level in models of word production that aims at explaining grammatical-class-specific impairments in people with aphasia.
Detecting Anomaly in Big Data System Logs Using Convolutional Neural Network

Nowadays, big data systems are being widely adopted by many domains for offering effective data solutions, such as manufacturing, healthcare, education, and media. Big data systems produce tons of unstructured logs that contain buried valuable information. However, it is a daunting task to manually unearth the information and detect system anomalies. A few automatic methods have been developed, where the cutting-edge machine learning technique is one of the most promising ways. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for anomaly detection from big data system logs by leveraging Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Different from other existing statistical methods or traditional rule-based machine learning approaches, our CNN-based model can automatically learn event relationships in system logs and detect anomaly with high accuracy. Our deep neural network consists of logkey2vec embeddings, three 1D convolutional layers, dropout layer, and max-pooling. According to our experiment, our CNN-based approach has better accuracy(reaches to 99%) compared to other approaches using Long Short term memory (LSTM) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) on detecting anomaly in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) logs.