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Consideration of Soil Water Consumption of Juniperus macrocarpa in Semi-Arid Ecosystem in Western Crete , Greece

This study aimed at determining the transpiration water use of Juniperus macrocarpa in a closely to 40 year-old evenaged stand categorized into three classes based on canopy size, over a two-year period (2011-2012) located in Palaiochora, 77 km south of Chania, Crete. Sap flow techniques (Granier-type) were used to determine water use. Annual trends in sap flow were generally bell-shaped, and varying significantly between seasons and canopy classes. Winter sap flow was minimal but trees were active when temperatures were above freezing point and trees depended on deep water (below 60 cm) for transpiration. Rates increased from 1.46Ld-1 in winter to 3.32 Ld-1 in the spring, irrespective of tree canopy class, because of improvement in weather conditions. Maximum transpiration rates were observed during the growing season with an average of 134.42 Ld-1 for dominant trees and 8.68Ld-1 for suppressed ones. The daily variations in photosynthetically active radiation, vapor pressure deficit, air temperature, and surface soil water were the principal drivers for transpiration during the growing season. The findings have shown that climate in Crete does not limit the expansion of J. macrocarpa and that this expansion will have potential significant impacts on the ecohydrology of the system.
Ethanol Vapor Sensor Based on a Microfiber with Quantum- Dots Gel Coating

An ethanol vapor sensor based on a microfiber with quantum-dots (QDs) gel coating is proposed and demonstrated. The QDs gel was made from UV glue as the gel matrix and the CdSe/ZnS QDs with a concentration of 1mg/mL. The drawing and coating process were conducted by using a simple and low-cost home-made system. The bending, ethanol sensing, temperature response and time response tests were carried out, alternatively. The experimental results show that the fabricated sensor has a high sensitivity of -3.3%/ppm, a really low temperature cross-sensitivity of 0.17 ppm/℃ and a fast response time of 1.1s. The robust structure with ease of fabrication and excellent sensing performance render it a promising platform for real ethanol sensing application.
DNA Base Compoaition , Flagellation and Taxonomy of the Genua Rhizo & iurn

p u p s of Rhimbia. The pritrichously flagellated organisms, which usually p w fmt, have a low (guanine+cytosinc) composition in the range 5 8 * M 5 * 1 yo; these organisms occur in all Em-inoculation p u p investigated. From a cornparkan with Literature data it appears that this p u p is constituted by two subgmups: Rhiwbium hguminowrrrm and R. meiilo#i. The subplarly flagellated, slow-growing strains have 8 somewhat higher (guanine + csyhsim) wntent, mostly in the r 624-85*5 % ;
Association of CD 28 IVS 3 + 17 T / C polymorphism with soluble CD 28 in rheumatoid arthritis

Objective:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease of unkno wn etiology in which inflammatory pathology involves T cell activation and the CD28 costimulatory molec ul involved in T cell presentation. The gene includes the CD 28 IVS3 +17T/C polymorphism that could be associated with susc eptibility to RA whereas the soluble concentrations of CD28 (sCD28) could be related to clinical activity. Methods:We investigated the CD28 IVS3 +17T/C polymorphism in 200 RA p atients and 200 healthy subjects (HS). Furthermore, we quantified the sCD28 concentrations in 77 samples of each g roup. We applied indexes focused to determine the activity a nd disability (DAS28 and Spanish HAQ-DI, respectively) in RA p atients. Results:RA patients had significantly higher frequencies of the CD28 T allele compared to HS ( p = 0.032 OR= 1.59, C.I. 1.02–2.49). In addition, the IVS3 +17 T/T genotype frequenc y was also increased in RA vs. HS ( p = 0.026). The RA patients showed higher sCD28 serum levels than HS ( p = 0.001). Carriers of the T/T genotype in RA patients showed hi gher sCD28 levels than C/C carriers ( p = 0.047). In addition, a correlation between sCD28 and Spanis h HAQ-DI (correlation, 0.272; p =
0 credits AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS OF MODEL COMPARISON BENCHMARKS

Model-driven engineering promotes the migration from code-centric to model-based software development. Systems consist of model collections integrating different concerns and perspectives, while semi-automated model transformations generate executable code combining the information from these. Increasing the abstraction level to models required appropriate management technologies supporting the various software development activities. Among these, model comparison represents one of the most challenging tasks and plays an essential role in various modelling activities. Its hardness led researchers to propose a multitude of approaches adopting different approximation strategies and exploiting specific knowledge of the involved models. However, almost no support is provided for their evaluation against specific scenarios and modelling practices. This thesis presents Benji, a framework for the automated generation of model comparison benchmarks. Given a set of differences and an initial model, users generate models resulting from the application of the first on the latter. Differences consist of preconditions, actions and postconditions expressed using a dedicated specification language. The generator converts benchmark specifications to design-space exploration problems and produces the final solutions along with a model-based description of their differences with respect to the initial model. A set of representative use cases is used to evaluate the framework against its design principles, which resemble the essential properties expected from model comparison benchmark generators.
The effect of MTHFR C 677 T polymorphism on type 2 diabetes mellitus with vascular complications in Chinese Han population : A meta-analysis

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase plays an important role in folate metabolism. Individuals who are type 2 diabetes mellitus have greatest risk for the development of vascular complications. The results of studies which assessed the association between MTHFR C677T polymorphism and T2DM with vascular complications were inconsistent in the Chinese Han population. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to assess the associations between MTHFR C677T polymorphism and T2DM with vascular complications in the Chinese Han population. We collected all relevant articles on MTHFR C677T polymorphisms and T2DM with vascular complications in the Chinese Han population in multiple electronic databases which were searched to December 2013. Fixed-effects and random-effects meta-analyses were performed to assess the odds ratios (ORs). Stratified Analysis, sensitivity Analysis and publication bias were examined. A total of 1984 diabetic patients with vascular complications and 1703 single diabetic patients were found in meta-analysis. There was a significant association between MTHFR C677T polymorphisms and T2DM with vascular complications under recessive genetic model, dominant genetic model, homozygous genetic model, heterozygous genetic model and allele comparison. Sensitivity analysis indicated that the overall result was dependable. Our meta-analysis suggests the MTHFR C677T polymorphisms is associated with T2DM with vascular complications in the Chinese Han population.
Fe 2 O 4 / poly ( vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene ) 0-3 nanocomposites

Free-standing flexible magnetoelectric 0-3 composite films, comprising Ni0.5Zn0. 5Fe2O4 (NZFO) ferrite nanoparticles in a poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] copolymer matrix, have been prepared at low temperatures by solvent casting and melt crystallization. Ferroelectric, piezoelectric, magnetic and direct magnetoelectric properties of the nanocomposites depend strongly on ferrite concentration. Magnetoelectric voltage coefficients increase linearly with applied dc magnetic-bias fields up to 5 kOe and show no hysteresis. At this field, a maximum magnetoelectric voltage coefficient of 1.35 mV cm -1 Oe -1 was obtained for samples with 15 wt. % ferrite using a 40 kHz resonant signal. PACS: 75.85. +t, 77.55. Nv, 75.75. Fk, 77.65. -j, 75.80. +q, 75.50. Gg, 77.80. -e
BiLSTM Classifier Bilateral optic neuropathy due ethambutol isoniazid and treatment N iterations Document sentences Sentence Encoding Layer Inference LayerGraph

Document-level relation extraction is a complex human process that requires logical inference to extract relationships between named entities in text. Existing approaches use graphbased neural models with words as nodes and edges as relations between them, to encode relations across sentences. These models are node-based, i.e., they form pair representations based solely on the two target node representations. However, entity relations can be better expressed through unique edge representations formed as paths between nodes. We thus propose an edge-oriented graph neural model for document-level relation extraction. The model utilises different types of nodes and edges to create a document-level graph. An inference mechanism on the graph edges enables to learn intraand inter-sentence relations using multi-instance learning internally. Experiments on two document-level biomedical datasets for chemical-disease and genedisease associations show the usefulness of the proposed edge-oriented approach.1
Dental Health Status of Children and Adolescent with Special Health Care Needs

The aim of this study was to assess the dental caries experience, of children and adolescent with special health care needs. The study entailed the clinical examination of 86 children and adolscent, between 6 and 19 years old, who were attending special school in Prishtina, Kosovo. The children with special health care needs were grouped in four types of disabilities: Mental Retardation, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and Autistic Disorder. DMFT index (Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth) was used to record the dental status; only permanent dentitions was considered Carries examination were carried out in accordance with WHO criteria. The Results: showed that prevalence of caries was very high (95%), only five children were without caries. Mean DMFT for all participants was around 5.92±3.76. Level of treated teeth was very low (8%), extracted teeth was 10%, while number of decayed teeth was (82%). Cerebral Palsy group had the highest DMFT scores (7.9±4.6) compared with other types of disabilities. Children in this study had a high prevalence of dental caries and it is associated with high rate of untreated teeth. The treatment needs are extremely high in all groups of children with disabilities. It is important for the dentist to focus on a preventive approach and provide proper dental education to parents of children and adolescent with special health care needs. They would benefit from parental education on diet modification, improvement of oral hygiene practices and regular dental visits. Clinical article (J Int Dent Med Res 2018; 11(3): 945-949)
Towards Gender Equality through Fairtrade ? A Case Study on Small-scale Tea Farmers in Nandi Hills , Kenya

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the gendered impacts Fairtrade has on smallholder tea producers through a case study of the Sireet cooperative in Western Kenya. While previous studies have extensively elaborated on the overall impact of Fairtrade on poverty reduction and the livelihoods of farmers, a gender differentiated impact assessment has been substantially neglected. Through an embedded mixed methods approach, the study investigated how Fairtrade directly and indirectly impacts female and male farmers on three levels: 1) the individual regarding income and employment opportunities, 2) the household in terms of intra-household gender dynamics, and 3) gendered participation at the cooperative level. The findings suggest that Fairtrade standards and mechanisms have a limited direct impact on all three levels. The cooperative’s initiatives, especially trainings, as well as gendered prioritisation and approach potentially have a greater impact on gender. The outcomes of this study indicate that while Sireet policies on gender issues are largely lacking, official cooperative membership has proven a crucial factor in generating Fairtrade benefits for both men and women. The inclusion through membership however, does little to tackle gender inequalities and embedded gender roles.
Efeitos da manobra de compressão e descompressão torácica em pacientes submetido à ventilação mecânica

INTRODUCAO: Os pacientes internados em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) que necessitam de ventilacao mecânica (VM) estao mais susceptiveis ao desenvolvimento de complicacoes respiratorias, principalmente a atelectasia e a broncopneumonia. Para que haja reversao ou mesmo prevencao dessas areas atelectasiadas, sao utilizadas tecnicas fisioterapeuticas de expansao pulmonar, dentre elas destaca-se a manobra de compressao e descompressao toracica (MCDT). OBJETIVO: Avaliar as alteracoes respiratorias e hemodinâmicas apos aplicacao da MCDT nos pacientes em uso de VM. METODO: Tratou-se de um estudo prospectivo, intervencionista, onde foram incluidos 65 pacientes em VM ha mais de 24 horas. Todos os pacientes receberam manobras de higiene bronquica e apos 30 minutos foram aplicadas 20 repeticoes da manobra de compressao e descompressao toracica em dez respiracoes consecutivas no hemitorax direito e depois dez no hemitorax esquerdo. Os dados foram coletados antes, imediatamente apos e apos um, cinco, dez, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 e 40 minutos da aplicacao da MCDT. Para analise estatistica foram utilizados testes: Shapiro Wilks, Anova, Wilcoxon, T - Student, com nivel de significância adotado de 5%. RESULTADOS: Foi observado aumento estatisticamente significante do volume corrente inspiratorio (pre: 458,2ml ± 132,1; pos 1 min: 557,3 ± 139,1; pos 40 min: 574,4 ± 151), volume minuto corrente (pre: 7,0L/min ± 2,7; pos 1 min: 8,7 ± 3,3; pos 40 min: 8,8 ± 3,8) e oximetria de pulso (pre: 97,4% ± 2,2; pos 1 min: 97,9 ± 1,8; pos 40 min: 98,2 ± 1,6). Ocorreu reducao no PetCO2 expirado (pre: 35,1mmHg ± 9,0; pos 1 min: 31,5 ± 8,2; pos 40 min: 31,5 ± 8,2). Nao houve alteracao significante da frequencia cardiaca (pre: 94,5bpm ± 20,5; pos 1 min: 94,7 ± 20,5 e pos 40 min: 94,9 ± 20,2) e pressao arterial media (pre: 91,2mmHg ± 19,1; pos 1 min: 89,5 ± 17,7 e pos 40 min: 89,0 ± 16,8). CONCLUSAO: A MCDT possibilita a otimizacao dos volumes pulmonares e oximetria de pulso e reducao do PetCO2 sem promover alteracoes hemodinâmicas nos pacientes submetidos a ventilacao mecânica. Abstract
Structuralmapping : how to study the genetic architecture of a phenotypic trait through its formation mechanism

Traditional approaches for genetic mapping are to simply associate the genotypes of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) with thephenotypic variation of a complex trait. Amoremechanistic strategyhas emerged to dissect the traitphenotype into its structural components andmap specific QTLs that control themechanistic and structural formation of a complex trait.We describe and assess such a strategy, called structuralmapping, by integrating the internal structural basis of trait formation into aQTLmapping framework.Electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) hasbeen instrumental for describing the structural components of a phenotypic trait and their interactions.Bybuilding robustmathematical models on circuit EIS data and embedding these models within a mixture model-based likelihood for QTL mapping, structural mapping implements the EM algorithm to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of QTL genotype-specific EIS parameters.The uniqueness of structuralmapping is to make it possible to test a number of hypotheses about the pattern of the genetic control of structural components.Wevalidated structuralmapping by analyzing an EIS data collected for QTLmapping of frost hardiness in a controlled cross of jujube trees.The statistical properties of parameter estimates were examinedby simulation studies. Structuralmapping can be a powerful alternative for genetic mapping of complex traits by taking account into the biological and physicalmechanisms underlying their formation.
Study on Biofilm Producing Bacterial Isolates in Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection

Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) are one of the most common cause of Healthcare associated infections. Cause of CAUTI is the formation of pathogenic microbial biofilm in the indwelling urinary catheters which provides survival benefit to the colonized organism by providing protection from environmental stresses and also causing decreased susceptibility to antibiotics leading to persistent and recurrent infections. The present study was conducted to detect biofilm production by isolates from patients with CAUTI, and their association with antibiotic resistance. This prospective study was done on 484 hospitalized patients in different wards with indwelling urinary catheter of more than 2days. CAUTI was diagnosed based on the CDC guidelines 2017. Uropathogens were identified and their antibiotic susceptibility was performed following standard microbiological methods. Biofilm detection was done by Tissue Culture Plate method. Among 484 patients catheterized, 134 developed CAUTI. The most common organism isolated was E.coli (39%), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (28%). Among the isolates 63 (47%) were biofilm producers. Biofilm producing strains showed relatively higher antibiotic resistance than non-producers. Among the 65% of multi drug resistant (MDR) isolates, 62% were biofilm producers, showing significant association between biofilm production and multidrug resistance. Emerging multidrug resistance (MDR) of the uropathogens due to this biofilm formation is a big challenge in the management of catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). Hence early detection and newer management protocols may be deployed.
Adoption of ICT in horticulture : Confronting scientists ’ opinions with practice in Flanders , Belgium

At the 5 EFITA/WCCA conference it was indicated that ICT adoption in agriculture remains a universal and significant problem (Gelb and Parker, 2005). At the conference a paper on scientists’ opinions with respect to ICT adoption in horticulture was presented (Taragola and Gelb, 2005). The objective of the current paper is to confront scientists’ opinions with the opinions and behaviour of horticultural growers in Flanders, Belgium. Data were collected at a sample of 208 horticultural businesses in Flanders in 2005. The results reveal that 90,9 % of the growers own a PC. χ2-tests show a statistically significant association with business size, age and education level of the firm manager. At the holdings without a PC ‘lack of ICT technical proficiency’, ‘too hard to use/unfriendly’ and ‘fear of technology’ are more important factors limiting ICT adoption than at the holdings with a PC which is not used for business purposes. At these businesses, the most limiting factor is ‘the understanding how to get a benefit from the various ICT options’. These results are in line with the opinions of the scientists in the EFITA questionnaires over time, which indicated a shift from ICT technical proficiency as limiting factor towards the lack of understanding how to get a benefit of the various ICT options (Gelb et al., 2004). At the businesses with a PC for business purposes, the results reveal that the use of ICT for management purposes is not fully exploited. The PC is used mostly for home banking, communication with the auction, invoicing, word processing, etc. In the future more research will be needed to address this problem.
Sports socialisation of 11 to 20 year old Brazilian girls in the 1990s : a social psychological study

This doctoral thesis sets out to make an original contribution to an underdeveloped field of research. It analyses in detail the sports socialisation of 11 to 20 year old schoolgirls in the 1990s in Brazil. Admittedly, there is an acknowledged and growing body of research on this subject, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world and in other European countries. In Brazil, however, there is a real dearth of thoroughgoing analysis of its complexities. By means of substantial empirical data analysis (1 497 subjects, aged between 11 and 20) this study in social psychology not only brings to light the very real problems of female adolescent socialisation into sport and other physical activities. It also sets these problems in a far more complex context than existing research in Brazil has been prepared to do. To this end both institutional (social, cultural, economic, political) and individual (above all gender) variables will be examined together. The substantial critical review encompasses the state of research in the subject of women's sports socialisation over the last twenty-five years. It presents patterns in an international context, discusses the under-representation of women and goes on to consider institutional and individual factors with a bearing on women's sport participation. A final review section on the adolescent will provide the hypotheses which are tested against the empirical findings, by use of a questionnaire (included in the appendix). After a careful presentation of the methodology, a detailed breakdown of the results is then presented. 42.8% of respondents played at least one sport once a week, and the index of participation decreased from the age of 13. Volleyball, gymnastics and swimming are practised, and football and weight-lifting considered the least appropriate forms of sporting practice for women. Motives adduced for participation included health, being in shape, and making friends. In terms of influences, the PE teacher emerges as the most important socialising agent. The analysis made of the situation of sports in Brazil reveals the persistence of stereotypes and consequent low levels of women's sports participation. The final chapter engages in a thoroughgoing critique of these findings in both an international and national context and makes some suggestions as to potential political applications of the results.
JIST : Just-InTime scheduling translation for parallel processors 1

The application fields of bytecode virtual machines and VLIW processors overlap in the area of embedded and mobile systems, where the two technologies offer different benefits, namely high code portability, low power consumption and reduced hardware cost. Dynamic compilation makes it possible to bridge the gap between the two technologies, but special attention must be paid to software instruction scheduling, a must for the VLIW architectures. We have implemented JIST, a Virtual Machine and JIT compiler for Java Bytecode targeted to a VLIW processor. We show the impact of various optimizations on the performance of code compiled with JIST through the experimental study on a set of benchmark programs. We report significant speedups, and increments in the number of instructions issued per cycle up to 50% with respect to the non-scheduling version of the JIT compiler. Further optimizations are discussed.
CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM FOR SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO METHODS AND ITS APPLICATION TO BAYESIAN INFERENCE BY NICOLAS CHOPIN

The term “sequential Monte Carlo methods” or, equivalently, “particle filters,” refers to a general class of iterative algorithms that performs Monte Carlo approximations of a given sequence of distributions of interest (πt ). We establish in this paper a central limit theorem for the Monte Carlo estimates produced by these computational methods. This result holds under minimal assumptions on the distributions πt , and applies in a general framework which encompasses most of the sequential Monte Carlo methods that have been considered in the literature, including the resample-move algorithm of Gilks and Berzuini [ J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Stat. Methodol. 63 (2001) 127–146] and the residual resampling scheme. The corresponding asymptotic variances provide a convenient measurement of t he precision of a given particle filter. We study, in particular, in some typical examples of Bayesian applications, whether and at which rate these asymptotic variances diverge in time, in order to assess the long term reliability of the considered algorithm.