Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Alkaline Phosphatase in Shrimp Artemesia longinaris: Response to Feed

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the alkaline phosphatase activity in haemocytes and midgut gland of the penaeid shrimp Artemesia longinaris in relationship with different doses of vitamin D3 in feedand to estimate its potential use as biomarker for nutritional stress. A nine-week trial was carried out with juvenile shrimp in aquaria. Animals were fed semipurified feeds with increasing levels of vitamin D3 (0; 0.2; 0.375; 0.75 and 1 mg vitamin D3 kg-1 feed). Treatments without vitamin D revealed the significantly highest protein content in haemocytes (P<0.05), as the lowest values were recorded on 0.2 and 1 mg vitamin D kg-1 treatments. The analysis of protein content of midgut glands revealed a maximum content for diets containing 0.2 and 0.75 mg Vitamin D kg-1. The optimum pH value for alkaline phosphatase in midgut gland was 9.5. The results show the occurrence of alkaline phosphatase activity in the tissues of shrimp A. longinaris, describing higher enzymatic activity values in haemocytes than in midgut glands. The highest enzyme activity in haemocytes was observed for shrimp fed without vitamin D (1.235 abs min-1 mg protein-1), however, in midgut gland, the activity varied from 0.141 to 0.297 abs min-1 mg protein-1, with the highest values on 0 and 1 mg vitamin D kg-1. Histological analysis of the midgut gland confirmed a good health of the shrimp fed 0.375 and 0.750 mg vitamin D kg-1 and were used as optimal values for determining enzymatic activity. Shrimp fed diets lacking of vitamin D or 1 mg kg-1 showed signs of malnourishment. The results indicate that alkaline phosphatase activity in A. longinaris was influenced by dietary vitamin D and may be used as a biomonitor of nutritional stress.
RDB2OWL: AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR CONVERTING RELATIONAL DATABASES INTO OWL

One of the biggest advantages of the Semantic web is to describe data with a well-defined meaning and link between data by using the OWL (Web Ontology Language). Today most data are stored in relational databases. In order to reuse the data on the Semantic Web, there is a need for transforming the data stored in relational databases into the form of OWL Ontology. Some approaches have been proposed; however, most of their transformation rules have not been complete. This paper proposes some improved rules for transforming relational database into OWL Ontology. Most of all, all the steps in RDB2OWL are done automatically without any user intervention
8- Rural Homelessness

For the 1998 Symposium on Homelessness Research, rural homelessness was not assigned as a paper topic in its own right. Due to its increasing significance, the authors prepared a paper on rural homelessness for the 2007 Symposium. Given the somewhat limited formal research available, the authors supplemented their literature review with information from government documents and technical assistance materials as well as input from an expert panel of researchers and practitioners. The paper summarizes what is documented to date about the characteristics of people who are homeless in rural areas and examines whether rural homelessness and the service approaches to address it can be differentiated from urban homelessness. The authors identify gaps in current knowledge about rural homelessness and recommend new directions for research.
A Comparative Analysis of Palm Fruit Processing and Palm Oil Marketing in Anambra State , Nigeria

This study comparatively analyzed palm fruit processing and palm oil marketing in Anambra state of Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study included to ascertain and compare factors affecting palm fruit processing and palm oil marketing in the study area, estimate and compare their costs and returns among others. Five local government areas were selected from each of which 2 communities were randomly selected and from which 10 palm fruit processors and 10 palm oil marketers were randomly selected. This gives a sample size of 100 palm fruit processors and 100 palm oil marketers. Only primary data collected with the use of questionnaire was used. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools were used in analyzing the objectives. Results revealed that sex and labour cost are factors affecting palm fruit processing, while factors affecting palm oil marketing included labour cost, electricity cost, and price of palm oil. The study equally indicated indicates that palm fruit processing was more profitable than palm oil marketing. It was recommended that palm fruit processors should endeavor to make land available for their business whilelabour, transportation cost, loading/offloading costs should be reduced for more profit in palm oil marketing.
Combination value of diffusion-weighted imaging and dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI in astrocytoma grading and correlation with GFAP, Topoisomerase IIα and MGMT

The present study aimed to investigate the value of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) combined with dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in astrocytoma grading, and correlated MRI scan parameters of values of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and relative cereberal blood volume (rCBV) with the immunohistochemical (IHC) indices of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), topoisomerase IIα (Topo IIα) and O 6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT). A total of 123 patients with pathologically confirmed astrocytomas of differing grades underwent DWI and DSC scans. The values of the ADC and relative cerebral blood volume rCBV were compared with the grade II–IV astrocytomas. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to compare astrocytoma grading efficiency of ADC, rCBV and the combination of the two values. The parameters of ADC and rCBV with GFAP, Topo IIα and MGMT indices were then correlated. The differences in ADC values were significant between the grades II, III and IV astrocytomas, and the rCBV values for grades II, III and IV were also significant. The combination of DWI and DSC demonstrated the highest values for area under curve in identifying grades II and III, and identifying grades III and IV, respectively. GFAP displayed a positive correlation with ADC and a negative correlation with rCBV. Topo IIα exhibited a negative correlation with ADC, and a positive correlation with rCBV. No correlation was observed between MGMT and ADC or rCBV. The combined application of DWI and DSC may increase astrocytoma grading accuracy. Values of ADC and rCBV exhibit certain correlations with IHC indices, and may predict degree of malignancy of astrocytoma.
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT WARM-UP METHODS ON FLEXIBILITY JUMPING AND BALANCE

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of three different warm-up methods on flexibility, jumping and balance. 28 male students (age 22.002.00 years) from Faculty of Yasar Dogu Sport Sciences were enrolled in the study. Three different warm-up methods including static, dynamic and jogging were applied to the subjects at 24 hours intervals. Study group was subjected to flexibility, jumping and static and dynamic balance tests 4 minutes after each warm-up application. Data analysis showed that flexibility values measured after static warm-up were higher than those obtained after dynamic warm-up and jogging (p<0.01). Jumping values after static warm-up were found to be significantly higher than those obtained after jogging (p<0.05). In dynamic balance measurement, “average balance error after jogging” was found worse than dynamic warm-up (p<0.05). Static balance results showed that values after static and dynamic warm-up were better than those obtained after jogging (p<0.05). In conclusion flexibility values after static warm-up were found to be higher than those obtained after dynamic and jogging warmup. Static warm-up was found to cause greater increase in jumping performance in comparison with jogging. Balance values after jogging were worse than those obtained after static and dynamic warm-up.
Community-Level Influences and the Sexual Behavior of Young Black South Africans

Most existing research concerning community influences on young people’s behavior has been conducted in the United States, with its particular social and economic context. Using a large sample of young people from the Durban metropolitan area in South Africa linked to several sources of community-level information, we examine associations between concentrated disadvantage, social disorder, and social cohesion and sexual debut and unprotected sex. Using multilevel discrete time hazard models and multilevel logistic regression models, we find that net of a wide array of individual and household characteristics, young men and women in communities with relatively high levels of concentrated disadvantage have a greater hazard of sexual debut and a higher risk of unprotected sex. Sex-stratified models reveal that the impact of concentrated disadvantage is greater for females when considering sexual debut, but does not differ by sex in models predicting unprotected sex. Our results regarding social disorder and social cohesion, by contrast, show only mixed support for expectations based on US theories. Social disorder is positively associated with the hazard of sexual debut, though only for females, and social disorder is unexpectedly negatively associated with the risk of unprotected sex for males. Social cohesion reduces the risk of unprotected sex, but only for males. We discuss these results in light of previous work on contextual effects in the US and the backdrop of the HIV epidemic in South Africa.
Automatic interpretation of clock drawings for computerised assessment of dementia

The clock drawing test (CDT) is a standard neurological test for detection of cognitive impairment. A computerised version of the test has potential to improve test accessibility and accuracy. CDT sketch interpretation is one of the first stages in the analysis of the computerised test. It produces a set of recognised digits and symbols together with their positions on the clock face. Subsequently, these are used in the test scoring. This is a challenging problem because the average CDT taker has a high likelihood of cognitive impairment, and writing is one of the first functional activities to be affected. Current interpretation systems perform less well on this kind of data due to its unintelligibility. In this thesis, a novel automatic interpretation system for CDT sketch is proposed and developed. The proposed interpretation system and all the related algorithms developed in this thesis are evaluated using a CDT data set collected for this study. This data consist of two sets, the first set consisting of 65 drawings made by healthy people, and the second consisting of 100 drawings reproduced from drawings of dementia patients. This thesis has four main contributions. The first is a conceptual model of the proposed CDT sketch interpretation system based on integrating prior knowledge of the expected CDT sketch structure and human reasoning into the drawing interpretation system. The second is a novel CDT sketch segmentation algorithm based on supervised machine learning and a new set of temporal and spatial features automatically extracted from the CDT data. The evaluation of the proposed method shows that it outperforms the current state-of-the-art method for CDT drawing segmentation. The third contribution is a new v handwritten digit recognition algorithm based on a set of static and dynamic features extracted from handwritten data. The algorithm combines two classifiers, fuzzy k-nearest neighbour’s classifier with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which take advantage both of static and dynamic data representation. The proposed digit recognition algorithm is shown to outperform each classifier individually in terms of recognition accuracy. The final contribution of this study is the probabilistic Situational Bayesian Network (SBN), which is a new hierarchical probabilistic model for addressing the problem of fusing diverse data sources, such as CDT sketches created by healthy volunteers and dementia patients, in a probabilistic Bayesian network. The evaluation of the proposed SBN-based CDT sketch interpretation system on CDT data shows highly promising results, with 100% recognition accuracy for heathy CDT drawings and 97.15% for dementia data. To conclude, the proposed automatic CDT sketch interpretation system shows high accuracy in terms of recognising different sketch objects and thus paves the way for further research in dementia and clinical computer-assisted diagnosis of dementia.
Self-Construal Between Han and Uyghur in China Relational Self Versus Collective Self : A Cross-Cultural Study in Interdependent

Although differences between independent and interdependent self-construals have been extensively investigated, few studies have considered intra-cultural variability in self-construal in China. In the present research, we aimed at exploring ethnic group differences in interdependent self-construal. We first compared self-reported importance of the private self, relational self, and collective self between the Uyghur and the Han—two ethnic groups in China. The results show that the Han viewed the collective self to be less important than the private self and the relational self, while the Uyghur exhibited a different pattern, rating the collective self as more important than the private self and the relational self (Study 1). Three follow-up selfreferential memory experiments provided further support for the difference in interdependent self-construal between the Han and the Uyghur. Specifically, only the Han participants exhibited significantly better memories of mother-referenced information than famous-person-referenced information (Study 2). In contrast, only the Uyghur participants exhibited significantly better memories of group-referenced information (Studies 3 and 4). These marked ethnic differences in interdependent self-construal suggest that the Han privilege the relational self and the Uyghur the collective self, thus highlighting the intra-cultural variability of interdependent self-construal in Chinese populations.
Supplemental Material for Presence of an intra-lithospheric discontinuity in the central and western North China Craton : implications for destruction of the craton

Teleseismic waveform data used in this study came from a linear seismic array deployed by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the “Destruction of the North China Craton (DNCC)” project, a multidisciplinary scientific project launched by the NSF of China in 2008. The seismic array ran roughly E-W from around the boundary between the eastern NCC and the TNCO, crossed the Ordos block and ended at the Qilian orogenic belt which borders the NCC to the southwest (Fig. 1), with a total length of ~1000 km. It consists of 64 broadband stations with an average intra-station distance of ~15 km. Each station operated for a period of 10-18 months from December 2006 to May 2008.
Summary of Research Interests From Sparsity in Images and Information Science to Efficient PDE Solvers

Images are ubiquitous today. Nearly every mobile phone has an integrated camera and selfies are de rigueur. More importantly, images have become essential in remote sensing, medicine, biology, and computer vision. Indeed, images provide a rich description about the reality around us. In the visible spectrum, they tell us something about our environment and allow us to navigate safely or reach for objects. Images, however, extend also to other spectra and allow us to see through objects or measure quantities at very small scales. In medical imaging we extract information from images about a physical reality that is hardly accessible to inspection otherwise. No matter what imaging modality one uses, automated image analysis is key.
Color Quality Metrics Recent Progress and Future Perspective | NIST

The color quality of light sources for lighting includes the effects of white light chromaticity, as well as color rendition characteristics, including color fidelity and the aspects related to color preference and perception. In this paper, the current standards and the latest research on white light chromaticity and color saturation preferences are overviewed. The characteristics of TM-30 Fidelity Index and Gamut Index from the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) are examined in comparison to the Color Rendering Index (CRI). Current activities in International Commission on Illumination (CIE) related to these and future perspective of color quality metrics are discussed.
Subject-Specific Science Teachers' Views of Alternative Assessment.

This study aimed to discover subject-specific science teachers’ views of alternative assessment. The questionnaire by Okur (2008) was adapted and deployed for data collection. The sample consisted of 80 subject-specific science teachers drawn from the cities of Trabzon, Rize and Erzurum in Turkey. In analyzing data, Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 18, Issue 8, Article 5, p.2 (Jun., 2017) Ali KOLOMUÇ Subject-specific science teachers’ views of alternative assessment Copyright (C) 2017 EdUHK APFSLT. Volume 18, Issue 8, Article 5 (Jun., 2017). All Rights Reserved. descriptive analysis was employed for identifying how often the subject-specific science teachers use the alternative assessment and which of the alternative assessment techniques are frequently preferred. Also, how gender variable affects their preference and/or self-competency was analyzed via independent samples t-test. In light of the results, it can be deduced that the subject-specific science teachers tended to use such traditional assessment techniques as multiple choice test, concept map, written test, and matching test. Further, the main barrier to involve the alternative assessment in science classes seems to be the high-staking nation-wide exams in Turkey that deploy only multiple-choice questions. Therefore, any change in assessment strategy of the high-staking nation-wide exams may foster teachers to enrich their preferences of alternative assessment and empower its possible use in science classes.
Children ’ s False Memories i BACKWARD AND FORWARD ASSOCIATIVE STRENGTH Backward and Forward Associative Strength in Children ’ s False Recall for DRM and Categorical Word

Recent findings with children and adults propose that the developmental increase in the DRM false memory illusion is not related to children’s increased ability to process relational meaning across list items as proposed by Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT). These studies show that the effects of semantic information are limited to true memories. Unlike the propositions of FTT, this suggests that false memories do not benefit from this type of information. Previous research with adults has demonstrated that the DRM false memory illusion using recall tasks is strongly related to DRM lists’ backward associative strength (BAS). However, the role of lists’ associative strength has not yet been examined on children’s false recall. This study sought to examine the role of associative strength on children’s false recall using the DRM paradigm and to further examine the role of semantic information on children’s true and false memories. Children with the ages of 5, 7, and 11 years, studied and recalled 12 (6 DRM, 6 category) word lists with varying backward and forward associative strengths. To examine the role of semantic information, half of the children in each age group were provided with descriptive labels prior to list presentation. Results indicated that children’s false recall of category and DRM lists were effected by different variations of associative strength, where the highest rates of false recall was obtained from DRM lists with high backwardhigh forward associative strength, and category lists with high backward-low forward associative strength. This also varied within each age group. Children’s true and false recall benefited from descriptive labels. However, the increase in false memories can be attributed to the strong associative relations between the descriptive label and the critical lures of category lists. When associative relations between descriptive labels and critical lures were low, as Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Children ’ s False Memories iv in DRM lists, there was no beneficiary effect of labels on false recall. These results suggests that as in adults, children’s false memories occur as a result of associative activation, whether from backward or forward associative links with list items or descriptive labels. This is in line with false memory theories based on network models of semantic knowledge (such as activation/monitoring theory), where falsely reporting the critical lure within the DRM paradigm results from its activation through highly related list items. Children’s increased susceptibility to the false memory illusion may be related to an increased automaticity in processing associative relations between list items and the lure rather than an increased ability to extract meaning across list items. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Children’s False Memories v Table of
Soc . Physiol . Sci . 39 ( 1 ) , 91-101 Orexin-1-Receptor Blocker , Sb-334867 May Affect Body Weight And Protect Against Hypoglycemia Induced By Paradoxical Sleep Deprivation In Adult Male Rats

Background: Sleep deprivation (SD) can affect health through its effects on many systems. Orexin is involved in regulation of many physiological functions including sleep. This can give an explanation and a way of protection against some hazards of SD. Aim: To test the protective effect of orexin-1 receptor (OX1R) blocker, SB-334867 on changes in food intake, blood glucose level and insulin sensitivity caused by SD.Method: 72 adult male rats arranged in 4 equal groups: control group, SD group, SD-OX1R blocked group & SD-DMSO group. The 3 SD groups are subjected to 8 days of paradoxical SD using the modified multiple platform method. The SDOX1R blocked group was injected intraperitoneally daily with single dose of SB-334867 dissolved in 2 ml DMSO and diluted 1:1000 in saline (3 mg/kg/day). The SD-DMSO group was injected by DMSO alone. Food intake, body weight, blood fasting glucose & insulin levels were assessed and insulin resistance was calculated using HOMA-IR formula.Results: The SD and SD-DMSO groups showed loss of weight inspite of increased food intake plus hypoglycemia with increased insulin sensitivity. The SD-OX1R blocked group showed no significant change in food intake but more drop in body weight plus delayed changes in fasting blood glucose and insulin sensitivity. Conclusion: SD can affect health through its effect on food intake and induction of hypoglycemia. OX1R blocker, SB-334867 protects against the increase in food intake and delays increased insulin sensitivity and subsequent hypoglycemia. So, orexin most probably is a mechanism by which SD causes these changes. Keywords