Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Age , Growth and Longevity of Kotschy ’ s Gecko , Mediodactylus kotschyi ( Steindachner , 1870 ) ( Reptilia , Gekkonidae ) from Central Anatolia , Turkey

We studied the age structure of Kotschy’s gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi, from the Sultan Mountains (Central Anatolia, Turkey) using the skeletochronological method. We examined the humeral diaphyseal cross sections of a total of 19 (six males and 13 females) museum specimens. Our results showed that the age structure ranged from three to seven years (mean = 4.2 years, SD = 1.47) in males and from two to eight years (mean = 4.5 years, SD = 1.81) in females. Both sexes reached sexual maturity after their second hibernation, and no statistically significant difference in age composition was observed between the sexes. There was a strong positive correlation between SVL and age (Spearman’s correlation coefficient, r = 0.93) and Von Bertalanffy growth curves fitted to the relationships between age (k = 0.80) and SVL (SVLmax = 42.4). In conclusion, M. kotschyi is a short-lived species with a high growth rate.
Soil seed bank and above-ground vegetation changes during grassland succession : Is space-for-time substitution an alternative to resampling ?

Changes of the above-ground vegetation and soil the seed bank were studied in a secondary oligotrophic montane grassland after abandonment and gradual colonisation by Norway spruce. The main aim was to compare the responses of the aboveand below-ground species composition and richness as well as seed density to successional development. Next aim was to study the relationship of aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank along the spruce colonisation gradient. Simultaneously, we asked whether two types of space-for-time substitution approaches give adequate approximation of trends compared to a plots re-sampling approach with a time lag of 11 years. The sample plots were obtained from a 160 m long transect established in the direction of spruce invasion from a linear source (former plantation). The above-ground vegetation was recorded in 2004 and 2015 on 155 circular permanent plots, 21 of which were also sampled for the soil seed bank. For the substitution approach, time was substituted either by the distance (plots differing in position along the spruce colonisation gradient were interpreted as consecutive successional stages) or by soil depth (the deeper soil layer was supposed to represent an earlier successional stage than the upper one). The composition of the soil seed bank was only weekly related to the above-ground vegetation and their dissimilarity increased with succession. Patterns in species composition and species richness of the above-ground vegetation indicated by distance-for-time substitution were similar to those indicated by re-sampling of plots. This implies that the species turnover and the decline along the colonisation gradient in the above-ground vegetation with time can be successfully predicted from studying the initial spatial patterns. Species composition of the soil seed bank differed among the years but not among the soil depth layers. However, differences in species richness were confirmed for both, among the deeper and upper soil depth layers as well as after 11 years. Space-for-time substitution approaches detected differences in seed bank species richness along the succession gradient neither for distance nor for soil depth. The decrease of the seed density with time was confirmed by all approaches used. Due to generally small numbers of species in the soil Manuscript received 20 April 2018, accepted 10 May 2018 Co-ordinating Editor: Steffen Boch 348 seed bank and the additional a strong temporal decrease of seed densities, the use of the seed bank for grassland restoration is limited. Our results also show that the temporal development of the seed bank species richness during secondary succession cannot be reliably predicted from spatial patterns recorded during a single unrepeated sampling. Taking also in to account the huge variance of successioninduced outcomes, we conclude that the distance-for-time substitution should be used with caution in studies focusing on the seed bank.
Measurement of the analyzing powers in pd elastic and pn quasi-elastic scattering at small angles at ANKE-COSY

The analyzing powers in proton-deuteron elastic and proton-neutron quasi-elastic scattering have been measured at small angles using a polarized proton beam at the COSY storage ring incident on an unpolarized deuterium target. The data were taken at 796 MeV and five higher energies from 1600 MeV to 2400 MeV. The analyzing power in pd elastic scattering was studied by detecting the low energy recoil deuteron in telescopes placed symmetrically in the COSY plane to the left and right of the beam whereas for pn quasi-elastic scattering a low energy proton was registered in one of the telescopes in coincidence with a fast scattered proton measured in the ANKE magnetic spectrometer. Though the experiment explores new domains, the results are consistent with the limited published information.
FOR ACHIEVING CONTINUOUS CERTIFICATION OF CLOUD SERVICES

Given cloud services growing diffusion in business environments, cloud providers are searching for novel ways to provide effective assurances to cloud consumers. Continuous service certification (CSC) recently emerged as a promising way to address cloud consumers’ assurance needs, which stem from the inherent complexity and dynamics of today’s cloud environments. One CSC approach is to use the monitoring data of a provider’s cloud infrastructure for (semi-)automated certification processes. While a monitoring-based CSC approach has the potential to provide ongoing assurances concerning key properties of a cloud infrastructure (e.g., service availability and security), research to date lacks guidance on how to design and implement monitoring-based CSC. Following the design science paradigm with an exploratory inductive research approach, we contribute to the design knowledge base for CSC by proposing meta-requirements and design principles based on comprehensive interviews with cloud experts, and by offering insights into the development and evaluation of a prototypical artefact in a realistic scenario of a German cloud provider. Continuing our research will provide the design knowledge needed by cloud providers to implement monitoring-based CSC and thus will help address the deficiencies and assurance needs of today’s cloud environments.
ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC NOISE FROM A MAIN ROAD CROSSING A CITY

The impact of road traffic on the environment is practically determined by a calculation procedure. Reliable calculation results require reliable sources determination. The theme of this study was to prepare the noise map of the area traversed by a major road, inside a neighbourhood which is part of an urban agglomeration, and to assess the effect of the noise on the population. No input data was available, so all the necessary data was collected on site, or taken from free available sources. The paper presents the sources of map data, the methods used to collect and process road traffic data, and the methods and tools used to process the outputs. Beside the noise mapping software, are used GPS, GIS and CAD techniques.
Qualitative Research on Medication Safety among Nurses and Pharmacists in Hospital

Medication safety is one of the integral practices for every healthcare provider. It is one of the major components in health care delivery system because it can cause potential harm to patients This qualitative study focuses on nurses’ and pharmacists’ experiences and perspectives on medication safety and hope that this study can contribute in safe medications or and improved patient care. The findings indicate that both pharmacists and nurses share a responsibility preventing medication error. Implementing safety practices is paramount and improvement in clinical knowledge may help in their working circumstances.
Sentiment Analysis: A Comparative Study of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms Using Rapid miner

: Sentiment Analysis is an important and a very active area of research. It is being used by various public and non-public organizations to find out sentiments of the web users about their product and services, which results in making some important and effective decisions. The sudden growth of social media applications has resulted in the generation of a huge amount of opinionated data which is mostly being used in research work. Sentiment Analysis is a sub-discipline of natural language processing, where the main idea is to understand polarity of a sentence, paragraph or whole document by analysis of textual data gathered from various sources. This paper is giving a comparative analysis of four supervised machine learning techniques (Support Vector Machine, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree and Neural Network)used for sentiment analysis on the basis of different performance parameters. In this comparative study,it is analyzed that SVM (Support Vector Machine) has greater performance than other three supervised machine learning techniques.
Epidemiological investigation and risk factors of Peste des petitis ruminants ( PPR ) in yaks ( Bos grunniens ) and cattle in five regions of China

To investigate the prevalence of Peste des petitis ruminants in yaks and cattle in poorly studied areas of China. A total of 1202 and 560 blood samples were collected from yaks and cattle, respectively and processed using a commercial ELISA kit. Multivariable logistic regression model was piloted to find the variables, potentially associated with exposure of PPR infection in yaks and cattle. Results indicated that the overall prevalence of PPR in yaks was 11.2%. A total 66 (11.8%) out of 560 were examined out to be positive to PPR in cattle in Jiangxi province. According to conditional stepwise logistic regression, region, age and gender were found to be the more influencing risk factors in yaks, while region and age were found to be the potential risk factors in cattle. The current results reported the prevalence and associated risk factors of PPR in bovine for the first time in China.
GEOSPATIAL VARIATION OF WEATHER PARAMETERS AND AIR QUALITY AT OLOGBO FLOW STATION IN EDO STATE , NIGERIA

One of the characteristics of petroleum industry in developing countries is incessant flare of gases with its attendant socio-ecological impacts. Gas flaring has not only contributed to poor environmental quality and pollution but play remarkable role in micro-climate modification. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of gas flaring on air quality of Ologbo flow station, Edo state. Data was collected for air within defined distances from the flaring point in accordance with standard procedure. A 4 km distance from the flare facility was buffered. Sampling sites 1, 2, and 3 are within the vicinity of the flare facility, while the control point (Evbuarhue) is located 30 km from the fence of the flare facility. Air Quality measurements were done for carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), methane CH4 and ammonia (NH3) using toxic gas monitors meter; toxic EEX 79 IICT3-T4 and CE89/336/EEC. The Ambient Air Quality and humidity were analyzed in situ using the standards adopted by the Federal Ministry of Environment. Temperature was discovered to have risen by 10C at station 1. Relative humidity was recorded as 63%. Average total suspended particulates, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide ammonia and methane were recorded as 2.25, 1.2, 3.0, 0.014, 0.01 and 0.01 ppm, respectively. These values exceeded results obtained at control site. Standard deviation varied from 1.35 for temperature, 7.8 for relative humidity, 1.19 for total suspended particulates, 0.84 for nitrogen dioxide, 1.87 for carbon monoxide, 0.007 for sulphur dioxide and 0.00 for ammonia and methane. With continuous flare of gas, the study area will over time undergo further alterations in its air quality.
Possible involvement of PI 3 K / AKT / mTOR signaling pathway in the protective e ff ect of selegiline ( deprenyl ) against memory impairment following ischemia reperfusion in rat

Short-term cerebral ischemia led to memory dysfunction. There is a pressing need to introduce effective agents to reduce complications of the ischemia. Involvement of PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway has been determined in the neuroprotective effect of various agents. Selegiline (deprenyl) possessed neuroprotective properties. In this study global ischemia/reperfusion was established in rats. Selegiline (5mg/kg for 7 consecutive days) administrated via intraperitoneal route. Possible involvement of PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway was evaluated using qRT-PCR, immunohistochemistry and histophatologic evaluations in the hippocampus. Spatial memory was evaluated by morris water maze (MWM). Results showed that ischemia impaired the memory and ischemic rats spent more time to find hidden platform in the MWM. Ischemia significantly decreased levels of PI3K, AKT and mTOR in the hippocampus. Histopathologic assessment revealed that the percent of dark neurons significantly increased in the CA1 area of the hippocampus of ischemic rats. Selegiline improved the memory as ischemic rats spent fewer time to find hidden platform in the MWM. Findings showed that selegiline increased the level and expression of PI3K, AKT and mTOR as well as decreased the proportion of dark neurons in the CA1 area of the pyramidal layer of the hippocampus. We concluded that selegiline, partially at least, through increases the expression of PI3K, AKT and mTOR as well as decreases the percent of dark neurons in the hippocampus could improve the memory impairment following the ischemia in rats.
IITP-MT System for Gujarati-English News Translation Task at WMT 2019

We describe our submission to WMT 2019 News translation shared task for Gujarati-English language pair. We submit constrained systems, i.e, we rely on the data provided for this language pair and do not use any external data. We train Transformer based subword-level neural machine translation (NMT) system using original parallel corpus along with synthetic parallel corpus obtained through back-translation of monolingual data. Our primary systems achieve BLEU scores of 10.4 and 8.1 for Gujarati→English and English→Gujarati, respectively. We observe that incorporating monolingual data through back-translation improves the BLEU score significantly over baseline NMT and SMT systems for this language pair.
LIQUID AGENT TRANSPORT AROUND SOLID OBSTACLES

The focus of this effort is to investigate the dispersal of liquid fire suppression agents around solid obstacles, and obtain a better understanding of the physical processes of droplet transport in cluttered spaces. An experimental investigation is presented to examine the flow field dynamics of highly turbulent flow over obstacles, and spray transport in such flow fields. The obstacles of interest were a cylinder and body-centered cube (BCC) arrangement of spheres. Transport of both water droplets and seed particles was characterized upstream and downstream of these obstacles using particle image velocimetry (PIV). Data were recorded for the cylinder at ambient temperature and after being heated to 423 K to estimate the effects of the hot cylinder surface on droplet transport. The results indicate that smaller droplets are entrained into the recirculation region behind the cylinder while the larger droplets impact the cylinder surface, accumulate, and drip off, or disperse radially away from the surface regardless of their interaction with the cylinder. The flow over the heated cylinder indicates the formation of layer of vaporizing liquid on the downstream side of the cylinder in the shear region between the recirculation zone and free stream. In addition, surface cooling that resulted from spray impingement was around 50 % of the preset cylinder temperature. For the BCC (with a blockage ratio of about 64 %), there is both transport of droplets and seed particles around and through the BCC, as well as significantly more liquid accumulation and dripping than for the cylinder.
Diversity and distribution of pollinators of temperate fruit crops of Shimla hills in Himachal Pradesh

Present studies on diversity and distribution of various insect visitors to six temperate fruit crops was made by collecting the pollinators in different orchards located at Kandyali (2550 m), Ghumali (2070 m) and Dhamandri (1575 m) of Shimla hills (Himachal Pradesh), during March to May, 2004. Insect diversity studies showed that these temperate fruit crops were visited by 70 species of insects belonging to 6 orders and 27 families of class Insecta. Of these, 24 species belonged to Hymenoptera, 24 to Diptera, 16 to Lepidoptera, 3 to Coleoptera, 2 to Hemiptera and 1 to order Thysanoptera. Hymenopterans and dipterans constituted an important group of insect pollinators.
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF PINEAPPLE JUICE ( ANANASCOMOSUS ) 1

The rheological property of pineapple juice was investigated over a wide range of temperature (30 to 75°C) using a Couette rotational viscometer. The speed of rotation of the outer cylinder varied from 5.1 to 1021 s. The values of viscosity was in the range of 12.65 cP to 300 cP and was dependent on the temperature as well as the shear rate applied. From the results obtain, the test pineapple juice exhibited a non-Newtonian flow behaviour known as shear-thinning behaviour typical of pseudoplastic fluids. This was further confirmed using the Power-law and Herschel-Bulkley model. Arrhenius-type equation was used to analyse the effect of temperature on the juice and equation parameters were obtained. Thus, using the Arrhenius equation and parameters, the viscosity of pineapple juice at any temperature for a specific shear rate can be predicted. Coefficient of determination obtained were between 0.9  0.95
Antioxidant Capacity and Behavioral Relevance of a Polyphenolic Extract of Chrysanthellum americanum in a Rat Model of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Chrysanthellum americanum L. (Vatke) is a medicinal plant from the Compositae family used in west-African traditional medicine, known for its flavonoid and saponin richness and for its strong antioxidant potential. In the present study, we assessed the effects of Chrysanthellum americanum polyphenolic extract in the psychological stress-induced rat model of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic functional digestive tract disorder marked by immune and inflammatory-related disturbances of central nervous and peripheral intestinal systems, which is often associated with mood disorders including depression and anxiety. Consequently, memory impairment, anxiety and depression behavioral indicators, and cerebral oxidative stress biomarker dynamics were evaluated in a multifactorial heterotypic stress-exposed IBS rats after 6-day gavage with polyphenolic C. americanum extract (100 mg/kg body weight). Y-maze, elevated plus maze, and forced swimming tests were used for assessing behavioral responses. Administration of the extract exhibited significant anxiolytic and antidepressant-like effects coupled with significantly increased temporal lobe antioxidant enzyme specific activity (superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase) and decreased malondialdehyde levels, a well-known lipid peroxidation marker. Furthermore, linear regression statistical analyses showed significant correlations between the oxidative stress parameters and behavioral tests. In conclusion, our results suggest that the administration of Chrysanthellum americanum polyphenolic extract could ameliorate mood and cognitive disturbances related to stress-induced in an IBS rat model. This could be also related to cerebral oxidative stress status attenuation.
1 C 9 orf 72 binds SMCR 8 , localizes to lysosomes and regulates mTORC 1 signaling

Hexanucleotide expansion in an intron of the C9orf72 gene causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. However, beyond bioinformatics predictions that suggested structural similarity to folliculin, the Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome tumor suppressor, little is known about the normal functions of the C9orf72 protein. To address this problem, we used genome-editing strategies to investigate C9orf72 interactions, subcellular localization, and knockout (KO) phenotypes. We found that C9orf72 robustly interacts with SMCR8 (a protein of previously unknown function). We also observed that C9orf72 localizes to lysosomes and that such localization is negatively regulated by amino acid availability. Analysis of C9orf72 KO, SMCR8 KO, and double-KO cell lines revealed phenotypes that are consistent with a function for C9orf72 at lysosomes. These include abnormally swollen lysosomes in the absence of C9orf72 and impaired responses of mTORC1 signaling to changes in amino acid availability (a lysosome-dependent process) after depletion of either C9orf72 or SMCR8. Collectively these results identify strong physical and functional interactions between C9orf72 and SMCR8 and support a lysosomal site of action for this
Selective Effects of Psychotherapy on Frontopolar Cortical Function in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Objective—Exposure therapy is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but a comprehensive, emotion-focused perspective on how psychotherapy impacts brain function is lacking. Here, we assess changes in brain function following prolonged exposure therapy across three emotional reactivity and regulation paradigms. Methods—Individuals with PTSD underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at rest and while completing three tasks assessing emotional reactivity and regulation. Individuals were then randomized to prolonged exposure treatment (N=36) or waitlist (N=30) and underwent Correspondence To: Amit Etkin, M.D., Ph.D., 401 Quarry Road, MC 5797, Stanford, CA 94305; 650-725-5736; amitetkin@stanford.edu. *Equal contributions as first authors Location of Work: Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Road, MC5797, Stanford, CA 94305; VA Palo Alto (Sierra-Pacific MIRECC), 3801 Miranda Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304 Previously Presented at: Conference of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), Hollywood, FL, USA, Dec. 6th-10th 2015 Disclosures All other authors report no financial conflicts of interest. ClinicalTrials.gov Name: Brain Imaging of Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01507948 ClinicalTrials.gov url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01507948 HHS Public Access Author manuscript Am J Psychiatry. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2018 December 01. Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2017 December 01; 174(12): 1175–1184. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp. 2017.16091073. A uhor M anscript