Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Mammalian signal recognition particle : involvement of both protein and RNA moieties in elongation arrest activity

La particule de reconnaissance du signal (SRP) joue un role essentiel dans le ciblage cotraductionnel des proteines membranaires et secretees vers le reticulum endoplasmique. La particule se compose d'un ARN de 300 nucleotides et de six proteines; elle est divisee en deux domaines fonctionnellement distincts: le domaine S et le domaine Alu. La liaison de SRP aux ribosomes synthetisant une chaine naissante contenant une sequence signal resulte en un arret de la traduction, designe arret d'elongation. Nous avons etudie le role des composants du domaine Alu de SRP dans la fonction d'arret d'elongation par une analyse mutationnelle et confirme le role de la proteine SRP14. Nous avons aussi demontre que l'affaiblissement de la formation de la conformation compacte du domaine Alu n'affecte pas l'arret d'elongation. Enfin nous avons demontre qu'une structure specifique de l'ARN du domaine Alu de SRP est necessaire a l'activite d'arret d'elongation.
Dietary Intake of Expectant Mothers

Maternal health, nutrition and education are important for the survival and well being of women and are the key determinants of the health and well being of the foetus. One of the major factors that promotes the health and well being of the mother is wholesome and nourishing diet. A woman's normal nutritional requirements increases during pregnancy to meet the needs of the growing foetus and of the maternal tissues associated with pregnancy.
Aerobic exercise produces changes in plasma IL-6 but not IL-1b in four-beat gaited horses

Exercise is an important stressor and is correlated with cytokine production in several tissues. There is little information about changes in interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-1b in four-beat gaited horses during a typical aerobic exercise challenge. The objective of this research was to characterise changes in plasma IL-6, IL-1b, cortisol and other blood biomarkers in four-beat gaited horses after a marcha simulation test. We subjected 12 fit horses (approximately 5 years old and 390 kg) to the marcha simulation test (MST) (i.e. a 10 min warm-up, 30 min at marcha and 15 min cool down). Blood samples were collected before the MST, immediately after the MST and 15 and 120 min after the MST (i.e. recovery). Results were analysed with One Way Repeated Measures ANOVA and a Tukey tests with P≤0.05 and Pearson correlation test. The highest value of plasma IL-6 was observed immediately after MST (6.85 pg/ml) (P≥0.05). IL-1 and cortisol did not change (P≥0.05). However, creatine kinase (CK) and aspartate aminotransferase.
A study on the application of wavelet analysis to power quality

The quality of electric power is a major concern, since poor electric power quality results in malfunctions, instabilities and shorter lifetime of the load. The poor quality of electric power can be attributed to power line disturbances such as waveshape faults, overvoltages, capacitor switching transients, harmonic distortion and impulse transients. For diagnosing power quality problems, the causes of the disturbances should be understood before appropriate actions can be taken. Monitoring the voltages and currents is the first requirement in this process. In order to determine the causes, one should be able to classify the type of disturbances from the monitored data. Several approaches such as point-to-point comparison of adjacent systems, neural networks and expert systems have been proposed and implemented in the past. Wavelet analysis is gaining greater importance for the recognition of disturbances. A study about the performance of wavelets in detecting and classifying the power quality disturbances is reported in this paper.
Comparative Analysis of Fecal Microbiota in 5 - 8-Year-old Children with and without Cow Milk Protein Allergy

Background: The bacterial diversity and microbial communities in the feces of children with cow milk protein allergy (CMPA) may be altered; these changes have not been clearly elucidated in 5 - 8-year-old children with CMPA. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the bacterial diversity and microbial communities of feces in 5 - 8-year-old children with CMPA and those of healthy children of the same age. Methods: Stool samples from 12 children with CMPA and 12 healthy individuals were collected. Total bacterial DNA of all samples were extracted and analyzed by polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) using bacterial v3 universal primers and the species-speciﬁc primers of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Clostridium coccoides. The preponderant bacterial bands were identified by gene sequencing. Results: The results revealed that the diversity of fecal dominant microbiota and C. coccoides group in children with CMPA were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than in healthy children. Meanwhile, a lower degree of diversity in the Bifidobacterium group and no difference in the diversity of the Lactobacillus group were found in the feces of children with CMPA. Bacteroides, Clostridium, and Escherichia coli were more abundant in the fecal microbiota of CMPA children than in healthy controls. In addition, C. celerecrescens was found only in the fecal microbiota of CMPA children, whereas B. bifidum was found only in the feces of healthy children. Conclusions: There were some notable changes in the fecal microbiota of 5 - 8-year-old children with CMPA.
Should Earnings Per Share (EPS) Be Taught as a Means of Comparing Intercompany Performance?

Accounting standards state that the purpose of presenting earnings per share (EPS) is to provide financial statement users with information on the performance of a single entity. Yet, several textbook authors go further to state that EPS can be used to make comparisons among firms. In this article, the authors show that although EPS comparisons among large publicly traded companies may be appropriate, such comparisons should not be made among small publicly traded firms because the number of common shares outstanding represents a poor scaling measure for entity size. As such, accounting professors should refrain from teaching EPS as a tool for making intercompany performance comparisons or at the very least should warn students of the pitfalls of making such comparisons.
Body parts reduction and self-objectification in the objectification of sexualized bodies

Reduction aux parties du corps et auto-objectivation dans l’objectivation de corps sexualisesUne etude recente suggere que les hommes et les femmes percoivent de facon analytique les corps feminins (vs. masculins) sexualises, suggerant que les femmes sexualisees sont percues de facon similaire aux objets. Cet article propose d’examiner si l’objectification cognitive des corps feminins sexualises est associee a une focalisation sur les parties du corps feminin. En vue de tester cette proposition, nous avons demande a des participants de regarder des photographies de parties de corps feminins et masculins presentes soit en isolation, soit dans le contexte d’un corps global, et de realiser des jugements de reconnaissance. Nous predisions une interaction entre le genre du corps sexualise et la tâche de reconnaissance, avec une meilleure reconnaissance des parties de corps feminin sexualise lorsque ces parties sont presentees en isolation (vs. dans le contexte d’un corps global). Nous nous attendions a un pattern de resultats inverse en ce qui concerne la reconnaissance des corps masculins. Les resultats indiquent que les parties de corps feminins sont en effet mieux reconnues en isolation que dans le contexte d’un corps entier. En revanche, les parties de corps masculins n’ont pas ete mieux reconnues dans le contexte d’un corps entier. De plus, nous predisions que l’auto-objectification serait associee aux scores de reconnaissance du corps et l’analyse des correlations a revele que plus le niveau d’auto-objectification des participants est eleve, plus les scores de reconnaissance des corps entiers est faible. Cette tendance est davantage marquee pour la perception des corps feminins. En revanche, nous n’avons pas trouve de correlation entre le trait d’auto-objectification et la perception des parties de corps. Les implications pour la theorie de l’objectification et les recherches futures seront egalement discutees.
This Way or That: Determining Where to Look First

Twenty-one undergraduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute volunteered to take part in the study, with 8 participants removed due to poor calibration. The experimental paradigm follows a typical visual search experiment where one must find a target (L) among distractors (T). Participants were instructed to find the target as quickly as possible. Stimulus density was varied within subject such that the distribution of stimuli was either constant across all four quadrants (No Difference) or for one quadrant interstimulus density was 1/2 (Medium Density – as per Figure 1) or 1/4 (High Density) that of the other quadrants.
Russian Television Today: Primetime Drama and Comedy

Introduction: Sweeping Statements and Broad Horizons 1. Action Heroes: Don Quixote or James Bond? 2. Adaptations: TV Drama vs. Literary Prestige 3. Soaps: The Influence of Latin America 4. Costume Drama: "Life as It Really Is" 5. Melodrama: Little People in the Big City 6. Heroines: Airports, Planes and Wedding Trains 7. Comedy: Nervous Giggling and its Serious Object 8. Law and Order: Making Sense of Something 9. Criminal Series: Soviet Traditions Come Home. Conclusion: Fighting the Good Fight. Filmography
Anti-inflammatory Activity of Herbal Medicines: Inhibition of Nitric Oxide Production and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Secretion in an Activated Macrophage-like Cell Line

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (HC), Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fischer (GU), Forsythia suspense (Thunb.) Vahl (FS), and Lonicera japonica Thunb. (LJ) are Chinese herbs known to possess anti-inflammatory properties. The effects of aqueous extracts of these herbs on the production of the pro-inflammatory mediators, nitric oxide (NO) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) were examined in an activated macrophage-like cell line, RAW 264.7 cells. Aqueous extracts from FS at 0.0625–2.0 mg/ml inhibited in vitro production of NO and secretion of TNF-α in a dose-dependent manner. FS at 1.0–2.0 mg/ml and 0.125–2.0 mg/ml significantly inhibited NO production and TNF-α, respectively. An extract of LJ demonstrated potent inhibition of both NO production and TNF-α secretion in a dose-dependent manner. An aqueous extract from HC inhibited NO production in a dose-dependent manner, but minimally (approximately 30%) inhibited TNF-α secretion at 0.0625 and 0.125 mg/ml. In contrast, an aqueous extract of GU had a minimal effect on b.
Game-theoretic cooperativity in networks of self-interested units

The behavior of theoretical neural networks is often described in terms of competition and cooperation. I present an approach to network learning that is related to game and team problems in which competition and cooperation have more technical meanings. I briefly describe the application of stochastic learning automata to game and team problems and then present an adaptive element that is a synthesis of aspects of stochastic learning automata and typical neuron‐like adaptive elements. These elements act as self‐interested agents that work toward improving their performance with respect to their individual preference orderings. Networks of these elements can solve a variety of team decision problems, some of which take the form of layered networks in which the ‘‘hidden units’’ become appropriate functional components as they attempt to improve their own payoffs.
Student Employment and Perceptions of Service-Learning

Community service-learning is a “high impact” teaching strategy that responds to contemporary challenges facing higher education. Some faculty, however, remain reluctant to use service-learning in their courses because they believe it does not fit into busy student schedules, given increases in the percentage of employed students and increases in their average number of hours worked per week. This study was undertaken to determine if students’ views of the learning they derived from community service-learning were affected by their employment. Students (N = 173) from two universities completed a survey at the end of their service-learning courses, where they reported both the number of hours they work on average per week and their perceptions of service-learning. The main findings were: a) students’ perceptions of service-learning were not adversely affected by their employment; b) the overwhelming majority of students reported very positive perceptions of service-learning; and c) although first- generation students of color (but not first-generation white students) worked significantly more than non-first-generation students, they reported positive perceptions of service-learning consistent with the overall sample. These findings support service-learning as a valuable teaching-learning strategy in college courses for all students, including those who work significant numbers of hours per week.
Review of 2013-2014 Mobile Medical Applications: Regulatory Challenges and Precedents

This project aims to offer a review of mobile medical apps and the most important changes that happened in this sector in 2013 and 2014. We start with a discussion about the regulation of these devices in the United States, the European Union, and Brazil. 2013 was a significant year because of the publication of important guidelines about regulation and classification of mobile apps as medical devices. We further discuss how the manufacturers look at the requirements of safety and efficiency and how they are assessing these outcomes. Next, we explore the value proposition of mobile medical applications. Finally, we explore three case studies of mobile medical applications; one intended for imaging diagnostics, called ResolutionMDTM, by Calgary Scientific Inc., another, MyVisonTrackTM, by Virtual Art and Science, Inc., and a third, unregulated application from GN ReSound called ReSound SmartTM. The information for this project was mainly gathered using secondary research. For this purpose, we used databases, medical, business and mobile health reports, medical journals, and medical and mobile health websites. The time frame for data was mainly between 2010 and 2014, with only one reference each from 2002, 2004, and 2008. As the world becomes increasingly more mobile and moves to a value-based healthcare system, mobile medical applications offer a huge opportunity to provide cost-effectiveness, patient empowerment and good health outcomes. 2013 and 2014 were significant years for the first steps of the regulatory agencies towards more structured guidance on this matter, but health application developers seemingly have yet to fully understand the importance of providing safer and more efficient apps to patients and providers.
Sémantique des systèmes de contrôle d'accès:Définition d'un cadre sémantique pour la spécification, l'implantation et la comparaison de modèles de contrôle d'accès

Un des aspects de la securite en informatique concerne le controle des acces aux donnees d'un system. Nous utilisons les methodes formelles pour aborder le controle d'acces avec pour objectif a long terme le developpement d'une bibliotheque certifiee de politiques de securite. Tout d'abord, il s'agit de formaliser les politiques considerees afin d'identifier les hypotheses implicites et d'expliciter le systeme a modeliser. Ensuite, il s'agit de mecaniser cette formalisation. Nous presentons un exemple d'implantation d'un modele de controle d'acces au sein de l'atelier Focal, nous permettant de concevoir un moniteur de reference appliquant la politique de Bell et LaPadula au sein d'un SGBD. Enfin, pour permettre une reutilisation plus facile des developpements formels obtenus, nous introduisons un cadre semantique abstrait permettant de specifier, d'implanter et de comparer des modeles de controle d'acces. Ce cadre caracterise des proprietes de simulation entre implantations permettant d'exprimer qu'un modele est plus restrictif qu'un autre
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INSTAGRAM WRITING COMPARED TO TEACHER CENTERED WRITING TO TEACH RECOUNT TEXT TO STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW MOTIVATION (The Case of Eight Grade Students in SMP Kesatrian 1 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016)

This final project is based on a study which attempts to examine the effectiveness of instagram writing compared to teacher centered writing to teach recount text to students with high and low motivation of SMP Kesatrian 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2015/2016. This final project has several objectives; to measure how effective instagram writing is to teach recount text to students with high motivation, to measure how effective instagram writing is to teach recount text to students with low motivation, to measure how effective teacher centered writing is to teach recount text to students with high motivation, to measure how effective teacher centered writing is to teach recount text to students with low motivation and to measure how effective instagram writing is compared to teacher centered writing to teach recount text to students with high and low motivation. This study was conducted by using Experimental research with 40 students participated. Those students were divided into experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught writing recount text by using instagram as a teaching technique, whereas the control was taught by using teacher centered writing. Results indicated that the final average score of experimental group was 73. Meanwhile, the control group got a lower average score with 67.15. After calculating the significance of the test, the result of the t-value was 2.210 and t-table was 2.002. With regard to the previous results, it can be concluded that teaching recount text using instagram resulted a better achievement. Besides, the t-value of the post test was higher than the critical value which meant that the difference was statistically significant. Thus, the higher achievement of experimental group indicated that the use of instagram promoted a better understanding for students with high and low motivation which improved the quality of their writing.
Fatores prognósticos no carcinoma espinocelular de cavidade oral Prognostic factors in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity

Devido a incerteza da evolucao do câncer oral e que os pesquisadores procuram fatores que possam influenciar no prognostico. OBJETIVO: Avaliar em pacientes com carcinoma espinocelular de cavidade oral variaveis que possam influenciar no tempo de sobrevida. MATERIAIS E METODOS: Analisados dados de 45 pacientes no periodo de Janeiro de 2001 a Janeiro de 2006. As curvas de sobrevida foram estimadas pelo metodo de Kaplan-Meier e para compara-las os testes de log-rank e o modelo de regressao de Cox. Desenho do Estudo: Analise retrospectiva. RESULTADOS: A sobrevida global foi de 39% em 5 anos. Apenas as variaveis, metastase cervical (p=0,017), radioterapia pos-operatoria (p=0,056) e margens comprometidas (p=0,004) tiveram significância estatistica. A sobrevida foi menor em pacientes: com metastase cervical; com margens comprometidas e os submetidos a radioterapia pos-operatoria, ou seja, nos tumores mais agressivos. Apos ajustamento, a radioterapia nao mostrou significância estatistica. Provavelmente a sobrevida de 39% seja pelo elevado numero de pacientes com metastase (52,2%) e pelo fato da amostra ser basicamente de cânceres de lingua e assoalho (82%), os de controle mais dificil. CONCLUSAO: A metastase cervical e o comprometimento das margens cirurgicas sao os fatores prognosticos no carcinoma de cavidade oral que influenciaram na sobrevida.
„Wie du mir, so ich dir”︁

Ob im Internethandel, in betrieblichen Boni-Systemen oder bei multilateralen Verhandlungen — „Reziprozitat” kann ein Schlussel zum Erfolg sein. Die Verhaltensokonomie will mit experimentellen Methoden und spieltheoretischen Modellen das Prinzip gezielt nutzbar machen.
Exploring the Vulnerability of Single Shot Module in Object Detectors via Imperceptible Background Patches

Recent works succeeded to generate adversarial perturbations on the entire image or the object of interests to corrupt CNN based object detectors. In this paper, we focus on exploring the vulnerability of the Single Shot Module (SSM) commonly used in recent object detectors, by adding small perturbations to patches in the background outside the object. The SSM is referred to the Region Proposal Network used in a two-stage object detector or the single-stage object detector itself. The SSM is typically a fully convolutional neural network which generates output in a single forward pass. Due to the excessive convolutions used in SSM, the actual receptive field is larger than the object itself. As such, we propose a novel method to corrupt object detectors by generating imperceptible patches only in the background. Our method can find a few background patches for perturbation, which can effectively decrease true positives and dramatically increase false positives. Efficacy is demonstrated on 5 two-stage object detectors and 8 single-stage object detectors on the MS COCO 2014 dataset. Results indicate that perturbations with small distortions outside the bounding box of object region can still severely damage the detection performance.
The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program

It comes as no surprise that the students who read often are the students who read well. How, then, can we get the rest of our students reading? Is it enough to set aside in-class time for sustained silent reading? Or should we set up a more structured program-one that ensures "all" of our students are engaged in their reading and that they do so on a regular basis for the pleasure of it? Janice Pilgreen knows from hard-won experience that it takes a lot of time, effort, and know-how to put an effective sustained silent reading program into practice. In "The SSR Handbook," she's done most of the work for you, not only providing an overview of the underlying research, but also reviewing eight essential factors that ensure a program's success. Pilgreen explicitly identifies these factors, then explains in detail how to incorporate them into your own program. The book also features lots of resources to help you implement your program, including support organizations, book clubs, classroom magazine subscription titles/addresses, favorite young adult series books within various genres, comic book titles, lower-level reading books for adolescents, and publishing company names, addresses, and phone numbers. Best of all, there are reproducible student and parent inventories, reading records, and other forms to assist you with the process. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of what SSR is, why it's important, and how to implement it in their own schools and classrooms. Just as important, they will be motivated and energized enough to want to develop new programs or modify existing programs right away.