Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Consumer preference and the technological and nutritional quality of different bean colours

Beans can be found in different grain colours, and for this reason, it is important to understand the technological and nutritional quality of the diverse types of beans that are consumed. The objectives of this work were to identify the traits that determine Brazilian consumer choice of different bean colours and to evaluate whether different bean colours present differences in technological and nutritional traits. For this purpose, beans of different colours (white, cranberry, matte red kidney, shiny red kidney, and black) were obtained from supermarkets. The samples were evaluated for consumer preference and the technological and nutritional traits of the beans. In southern Brazil, the majority of the survey participants (58%) preferred black beans, and their choice was based on consumption habit (66%) and grain colour (30%). Different bean colours presented differences for all traits related to technological and nutritional quality, except for potassium concentration. Consumption habit and grain colour defined consumer choice for black beans. Black beans were preferred by 58% of the participants, and this type of bean has high concentrations of calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and copper.
Molecular markers of biomass burning and primary biological aerosols in urban Beijing: size distribution and seasonal variation

Abstract. Biomass burning and primary biological aerosol particles account for an important part of urban aerosols. Floods of studies have been conducted on the chemical compositions of fine aerosols (PM2.5) in megacities where the haze pollution is one of the severe environmental issues in China. However, little is known about their size distributions in atmospheric aerosols in the urban boundary layer. Here, size-segregated aerosol samples were collected in Beijing during haze and clear days from April 2017 to January 2018. Three anhydrosugars, six primary saccharides and four sugar alcohols in these samples were identified and quantified by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Higher concentrations of a biomass burning tracer, levoglucosan, were detected in autumn and winter than in other seasons. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, mannitol and arabitol were more abundant in the bloom and glowing seasons. A particularly high level of trehalose was found in spring, which was largely associated with the Asian dust outflows. Anhydrosugars, xylose, maltose, inositol and erythritol are mainly present in the fine mode (<2.1 µm), while the others showed the coarse-mode preference. The concentrations of measured tracers of biomass burning particles and primary biological particles in the haze events were higher than those in the non-hazy days, with enrichment factors of 2–10. Geometric mean diameters (GMDs) of molecular markers of biomass burning and primary biological aerosols showed that there was no significant difference in the coarse mode (>2.1 µm) between the haze and non-haze samples, while a size shift towards large particles and large GMDs in the fine fraction (<2.1 µm) was detected during the hazy days, which highlights that the stable meteorological conditions with high relative humidity in urban Beijing may favor the condensation of organics onto coarse particles.The contributions of reconstructed primary organic carbon (POC) by tracer-based methods from plant debris, fungal spores and biomass burning to aerosol OC in the total-mode particles were in the ranges of 0.09 %–0.30 % (on average 0.21 %), 0.13 %–1.0 % (0.38 %) and 1.2 %–7.5 % (4.5 %), respectively. This study demonstrates that the contribution of biomass burning was significant in Beijing throughout the whole year with the predominance in the fine mode, while the contributions of plant debris and fungal spores dominated in spring and summer in the coarse mode, especially in sizes >5.8 µm. Our observations demonstrate that the sources, abundance and chemical composition of urban aerosol particles are strongly size dependent in Beijing, which is important to better understand the environmental and health effects of urban aerosols and should be considered in air quality and climate models.
Dominant Z-Eigenpairs of Tensor Kronecker Products are Decoupled and Applications to Higher-Order Graph Matching

Tensor Kronecker products, the natural generalization of the matrix Kronecker product, are independently emerging in multiple research communities. Like their matrix counterpart, the tensor generalization gives structure for implicit multiplication and factorization theorems. We present a theorem that decouples the dominant eigenvectors of tensor Kronecker products, which is a rare generalization from matrix theory to tensor eigenvectors. This theorem implies low rank structure ought to be present in the iterates of tensor power methods on Kronecker products. We investigate low rank structure in the network alignment algorithm TAME, a power method heuristic. Using the low rank structure directly or via a new heuristic embedding approach, we produce new algorithms which are faster while improving or maintaining accuracy, and scale to problems that cannot be realistically handled with existing techniques.
Endodontic mishaps among undergraduate dental students attending King Saud University and Riyadh Col

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate procedural errors occurring during conventional root canal treatment performed by undergraduate students attending two dental schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was distributed to 600 undergraduate dental students from the Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy (RCsDP) and the College of Dentistry at King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Participants were senior male and female dental students from the 4 th to 6 th years at RCsDP and the 4 th to 5 th years at KSU. Participants were asked to record their endodontic mishaps; these data were analyzed using IBM SPSS software. Chi-square (X2 ) tests were carried out to compare pairs of groups; significance was established at 5% (p < 0.05). Results: The percentage of endodontic mishaps was 68%. The majority of students who made endodontic mishaps were male (73.6%) (X2 =8.74, =0.002). Most mishaps occurred in the posterior area (63.96%) and those with curved roots (39.46%). Conclusion: The frequency of endodontic mishaps occurring at both schools was found to be higher in 4 th year students from KSU, but this dramatically decreased in the 5 th year. Variable results were obtained from the RCsDP 4 th year students, but they did not improve in the 5 th and 6 th year. We believe that the use of step-down techniques utilizing flexible nickel titanium files and more training in the lab will cause potentially fewer procedural complications at both schools.
Non-parametric Bayesian Forecasts Of Election Outcomes

Although there is much literature that covers election outcome forecasting, few to no methods of prediction have been able to consistently deliver accurate results. This problem essentially stems from the fact that election results are greatly influenced by idiosyncratic factors. This makes model selection difficult as, at the time of election, it is not clear which (type of) model will perform best. In this research, the problem of election forecasting is approached with a non-parametric Bayesian individual-level model using voting intentions and sociodemographic variables on Dutch elections in 2010 and 2012. Making use of a Dirichlet Process mixture (DPM) model, a flexible model specification is proposed. This specification is useful as the model’s flexible nature allows it to be able to adapt to the characteristics of a new election. Furthermore, results of previous elections can be incorporated by adapting the prior specification. The results show that the DPM model improves on the forecast of the benchmark election models. Using the outcome of the DPM model applied to earlier years, forecasts of present elections can be further improved.
A prospective study of comparison of efficacy and safety between levocetirizine and olopatadine in chronic idiopathic urticaria

Aims and Objective: The aim was to compare efficacy and safety of olopatadine with levocetirizine in patients of chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU). Materials and Methods: This was a prospective, open, parallel, comparative randomized study. After assessing inclusion and exclusion criteria, patients were randomized and divided into two treatment groups: Group A (n = 77) received levocetirizine 5 mg once a day orally, and Group B (n = 77) received olopatadine 5 mg twice a day orally for 6 weeks. Patients were evaluated in terms of parameters under study that is, urticarial activity score (UAS), dermatological life quality index (DLQI), visual analog scale (VAS) (daytime sedation), and adverse drug reactions monitoring at every (2 weeks) visit. Statistical Analysis: We used the Student′s t-test and the analysis of covariance for comparison of the results and the Chi-square test for comparison of incidence of adverse effects . Results: Both drugs reduced UAS significantly (P < 0.05) at all visits and olopatadine reduced UAS more than levocetirizine at 2 weeks (P < 0.05). Both drugs altered VAS at all visits significantly; however, inter-group differences were not significant. Each drug reduced DLQI score significantly. Levocetirizine reduced more DLQI than olopatadine, but the difference was not significant (P > 0.05). Olopatadine was associated with more side-effect profile, and most common side-effect was somnolence in both groups. Conclusion: Levocetirizine is a marginally superior drug as compared with olopatadine for long-term treatment of CIU in Indian population.
AIRWAY IMPEDANCE, HETEROGENEITY AND VARIABILITY IN ADULT ASTHMA

While bronchodilator (BD) reversibility is a feature of asthma, the relative contributions of small and large airways to BD is unclear, and the effect of small-airway heterogeneity on respiratory system impedance, Zrs has not been directly quantified. Furthermore while short-term variability in Zrs has been contentiously ascribed to asthma, how it may relate to airway pathology is unclear. This thesis addresses these questions, and contributes a novel method to remove transient artifacts. I found that while respiratory system resistance Rrs decreased due to BD in both health and asthma, elastance, Ers derived from the reactance (Xrs) decreased only in asthma. Using a multi-branch airway tree model, the large airway response in Rrs to BD was nearly identical in both healthy and asthmatic subjects, while the small airways accounted for nearly all the differences in Rrs and Xrs in asthma, suggesting that Xrs may be a sensitive measure of small-airway function in asthma. When comparing Ers to the frequency dependence of Rrs in graded heterogeneity, I found as expected the frequency dependence of Rrs increased with heterogeneity, but depended largely on the frequency range, while Ers also increased with heterogeneity, but independent of frequency. Thus, Ers may be a more useful measure of small-airway dysfunction and asthma. I also developed an automated technique based on the discrete wavelet transform to eliminate transient artifacts in Zrs which achieved sensitivity and specificity greater than 95%. While Rrs and Xrs responded significantly to bronchonstriction and BD in both health and asthma, variation in Rrs and Xrs were altered only in asthma, but the changes in variation did not exceed the changes in Rrs and Xrs, and variability was not associated with lack of asthma control. Thus, confirming that while variability in Rrs and Xrs may be distinguishing features of asthma, they may not have much more clinical significance than Rrs and Xrs. This thesis has shown that while Rrs, its variability, and the frequency dependence of Rrs, and its responses to agonists are altered in asthma, Ers may be a better distinguishing measure of asthma because it can be mechanistically related to smallairway dysfunction.
Bachelor thesis

3 Introduction . 3 Method . 10 Participants . 10 Materials . 12 Design . 13 Procedure . 15 Analysis . 16 Results . 16 Discussion . 27 Conclusion and limitations . 30 Acknowledgements . 30 References . 31 Appendices . 33 Appendix A . 33 Appendix B . 34
Reabilitação de pacientes com LER/DORT: contribuições da fisioterapia em grupo

OBJETIVO: Avaliar os beneficios da associacao do tratamento cinesioterapeutico com as dinâmicas de grupo, numa abordagem mais integral do processo saude-doenca, na recuperacao e na reabilitacao de portadores de LER/DORT em relacao a funcionalidade e ao retorno ao trabalho. METODO: vinte e quatro pacientes diagnosticados com LER/DORT foram distribuidos aleatoriamente em intervencoes individuais e grupais, em 2008. O protocolo de cinesioterapia foi o mesmo nas duas intervencoes e durou 10 sessoes. Apos os exercicios, foram abordados aspectos psicossociais importantes para o tratamento. A analise das intervencoes ocorreu atraves da avaliacao da funcionalidade pelo Questionario DASH e por uma entrevista semiestruturada para avaliar qualitativamente o impacto dessas intervencoes no quadro clinico e na qualidade de vida apos o tratamento. RESULTADOS: A avaliacao da funcionalidade identificou que em nenhuma das intervencoes houve alteracao das funcoes dos membros superiores. Na analise das entrevistas, observou-se que os participantes relataram uma percepcao de melhora do quadro clinico e da funcionalidade em suas vidas, mas que nao foi suficiente para assegurar o retorno ao trabalho. CONCLUSAO: As reflexoes criadas nas duas intervencoes permitiram uma abordagem mais global do processo de adoecimento, recuperacao e reabilitacao do paciente com LER/DORT, mas nao foram suficientes para garantir o retorno ao trabalho.
D L ] 1 5 M ay 2 01 0 Proviola : a Tool for Proof Reanimation ⋆

To improve on existing models of interaction with a proof assistant (PA), in particular for storage and replay of proofs, we introduce three related concepts, those of: a proof movie, consisting of frames which record both user input and the corresponding PA response; a camera, which films a user’s interactive session with a PA as a movie; and a proviola, which replays a movie frame-by-frame to a third party. In this paper we describe the movie data structure and we discuss a prototype implementation of the camera and proviola based on the ProofWeb system [7]. ProofWeb uncouples the interaction with a PA via a webinterface (the client) from the actual PA that resides on the server. Our camera films a movie by “listening” to the ProofWeb communication. The first reason for developing movies is to uncouple the reviewing of a formal proof from the PA used to develop it: the movie concept enables users to discuss small code fragments without the need to install the PA or to load a whole library into it. Other advantages include the possibility to develop a separate commentary track to discuss or explain the PA interaction. We assert that a combined camera+proviola provides a generic layer between a client (user) and a server (PA). Finally we claim that movies are the right type of data to be stored in an encyclopedia of formalized mathematics, based on our experience in filming the Coq standard library.
Under Consideration for Publication in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Optimal Multi-binding Unification for Sharing and Linearity Analysis

In the analysis of logic programs, abstract domains for detecting sharing properties are widely used. Recently the new domain ShLin ω has been introduced to generalize both sharing and linearity information. This domain is endowed with an optimal abstract operator for single-binding unification. The authors claim that the repeated application of this operator is also optimal for multi-binding unification. This is the proof of such a claim.
Ju n 20 19 Fully-heavy tetraquarks

Ming-Sheng Liu ∗, Qi-Fang Lü †, Xian-Hui Zhong ‡, Qiang Zhao § 1) Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, and Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Changsha 410081, China 2) Institute of High Energy Physics and Theoretical Physics Center for Science Facilities, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3) School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China and 4) Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
The prevalence of depression and the association between depression and kidney function and health-related quality of life in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease: a multicenter cross-sectional study Clinical Interventions in Aging

Purpose: The prevalence of depression and the relationship between depression and kidney function and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are not well understood in elderly patients with predialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of depression and the association between depression and kidney function and HRQOL. Patients and methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1079 elderly participants with CKD were recruited at 32 clinical centers located within 26 cities throughout 24 provinces in China. Demographic information and laboratory analyses were collected. Symptoms of depression were assessed using the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15). HRQOL was evaluated using the Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 (KDQOL-36) instrument. Results: The prevalence of depression was 23.0%. The estimated glomerular ﬁ ltration rate (eGFR) was negatively correlated with the GDS score whether it was treated as a categorical variable (r= − 0.097, P =0.001) or as a continuous variable (r= − 0.100, P =0.001). Marital status, education level, history of CVD and diabetes, CKD stage and proteinuria con ﬁ rmed to be independent and signi ﬁ cant predictors of depression in patients with CKD. Compared with CKD 1 – 2 patients, we observed an increase of 0.541 and 4.171 in the odds for developing depression in patients CKD 4 (odds ratio [OR] =1.541; P =0.031) and CKD 5 (odds ratio [OR] =5.171; P <0.001), respectively. We observed negative and signi ﬁ cant correlations with the GDS score for the following components: PCS (r= − 0.370, P <0.001), MCS (r= − 0.412, P <0.001), burden of kidney disease (r= − 0.403, P <0.001), symptoms and problems of kidney disease (r= − 0.360, P <0.001) and effects of kidney disease (r= − 0.355, P <0.001). Depression was an independent and signi ﬁ cant predictor of all the subcomponents of the HRQOL. Conclusions: The prevalence of depression in elderly patients with CKD was high and was negatively correlated with kidney function. Depression had a major negative impact on HRQOL.
Are sustainable tourism policies and strategies working in Tanzania

This article briefly explores the development of tourism in Tanzania and then focuses primarily on relevant tourism policies adopted by the Tanzanian Government in order to grow the industry in a sustainable manner. Although these policies have been effective for a decade since their introduction, indications are that they are now falling short of expectations. A bureaucratic style of government as well as the apparent incompatibility of sustainable tourism policies and subsistence farming on communal-land, count among the main reasons for the possible collapse of the policies. With the main emphasis on economic gains, both environmental sustainability and socio cultural aspects have been assigned a much lower priority. The article explores the main problem areas that have emerged in recent years, and briefly looks at similar policies in other African countries for possible solutions. Keywords : Tourism policies, tourism industry, tourism development.
O ct 2 01 7 E 8 orbits of IR dualities

We discuss USp(2n) supersymmetric models with eight fundamental fields and a field in the antisymmetric representation. Turning on the most generic superpotentials, coupling pairs of fundamental fields to powers of the antisymmetric field while preserving an R symmetry, we give evidence for the statement that the models are connected by a large network of dualities which can be organized into orbits of the Weyl group of E8. We make also several curious observations about such models. In particular, we argue that a USp(2m) model with the addition of singlet fields and even rank m flows in the IR to a CFT with E7×U(1) symmetry. We also discuss an infinite number of duals for the USp(2) theory with eight fundamentals and no superpotential.
Garlic Powder Effect on Plasma Renin Activity, and Cardiovascular Effects of Intravenous Angiotensin I and Angiotensin II in Normotensive and Hypertensive Male Rats

Background: Hypertension is amongst major health issues in developed countries, which results in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Garlic plays an important role in the reduction of hypertension. Objectives: The aim of the this study was to investigate the effect of consumption of garlic powder on blood pressure and renin angiotensin system in a nitric oxide deficiency hypertension model in male rats. Materials and Methods: In this study, thirty-two adult male Wistar rats (200 - 250 g) were randomly divided to four groups as follows: normotensive, normotensive-garlic, hypertensive and hypertensive-garlic. Oral N-nitro-L arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) was used to induce hypertension. Normotensive-garlic and hypertensive-garlic groups were fed 900 mg of garlic powder daily by oral gavage for forty-five days. At the beginning of the experiments, systolic blood pressure was measured. Immediately after the end of the experimental procedure animals were anaesthetized by pentobarbital, blood samples were collected and, after injection of angiotensin I, angiotensin II and captopril, blood pressure was re-measured. Plasma renin activity was also measured. Results: At the beginning and at the end of experiments, systolic blood pressure was higher in the hypertensive groups than the normotensive group. However, at the end of the study, diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial pressure were higher in the hypertensive groups than the normotensive group. Angiotensin I level was low in the normotensive group whereas plasma renin activity was high in the hypertensive group. After different doses of injection of angiotensin I and angiotensin II, mean arterial pressure was significantly increased in the normotensive-garlic and the hypertensive-garlic groups, respectively. By using captopril, mean arterial pressure and its changes were not significant after injection of different doses of angiotensin I in different groups. Conclusions: Garlic powder consumption can reduce blood pressure, yet in this model, it did not have an effect on the interaction between renin angiotensin system and nitric oxide inhibition.