Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Anthropometric characteristics, body composition and somatotype of elite junior tennis players

Objectives: The aims of this study were to describe the anthropometric characteristics, body composition and somatotype of elite male and female junior tennis players, to compare the anthropometric data, body composition and somatotype of the first 12 elite junior tennis players on the ranking with the lower ranked players, and to establish an anthropometric profile chart for elite junior tennis players. Methods: A total of 123 (57 males and 66 females) elite junior tennis players participated in this study. The athletes were divided into two groups, the first 12 and the lower ranked players, according to gender. A total of 17 anthropometric variables were recorded of each subject. Results: There were no significant differences in height and weight between the first 12 and the lower ranked boys, while the first 12 girls were significantly taller than the lower ranked girls (p = 0.009). Significant differences were found for humeral and femoral breadths between the first 12 and the lower ranked girls (p = 0.000; p = 0.004, respectively). The mean (SD) somatotype of elite male junior tennis players could be defined as ectomesomorphic (2.4 (0.7), 5.2 (0.8), 2.9 (0.7)) and the mean (SD) somatotype of elite female junior tennis players evaluated could be defined as endomesomorphic (3.8 (0.9), 4.6 (1.0), 2.4 (1.0)). No significant differences were found in somatotype components between the first 12 and the lower ranked players of both genders. Conclusions: When comparing the first 12 and the lower ranked elite junior tennis players of both genders, no significant differences were observed in any measured item for the boys. By contrast, significant differences were observed in height and humeral and femoral breadths between the first 12 and the lower ranked girls, whereby the first 12 were taller and had wider humeral and femoral breadths than the lower ranked players. These differences could influence the playing style of junior female players.
Morphological Studies on the Vagina and Vestibule of Dromedary Camels (Camelus dromedarius)

*** *** SUMMARY: The camel (Camelus dromedarius) is an important multipurpose livestock species and its meat represents about 10% of the red meat consumption in Egypt. The reproductive efficiency of camel under natural condition is generally considered to be low. Sound knowledge about the tubular genital organs of this species might facilitate the application of new reproductive meth odology. Our study was therefore conducted to investigate the morphology of mucosal surface of vagina and vestibule on camels using ligh t, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The mucosal surface of vagina consisted of stratified columnar epithelium with m ucous secreting cells (goblet-like cells). SEM of vagina revealed the presence of longitudinal primary and secondary folds and small transverse folds. The columnar epithelium showed marked cell boundary and its apical surface was studded by a lot of microvilli. TEM confi rmed the presence of microvilli at apical surfaces and showed some secretory granules in the supranuclear region of the columnar epi thelium. The vestibule of dromedary camel was lined by stratified squamous keratinized epithelium. Basal lamina and stratum granulosum o f this epithelium showed strong PAS positive reaction. SEM of vestibule revealed the presence of small longitudinal and fine transvers e folds with a lot of mucous debris. However TEM of vestibule showed the stratified squamous keratinized epithelium with basal layer of cuboidal cells and superficial layers of squamous cells.
It's for Your Own Good: Benevolent Sexism and Women's Reactions to Protectively Justified Restrictions

Three studies examined women's reactions to ostensibly protective restrictions. In Study 1, only benevolently sexist women accepted a protectively justified (hypothetical) prohibition against driving on a long trip, but only when imposed by a husband (not a coworker). In Study 2, when women's actual romantic partners opposed their participation in a practicum counseling dangerous men, most reacted positively to a personalized protective justification (“I am concerned for your safety”), but only benevolently sexist women reacted positively when no justification was given. In Study 3, only benevolently sexist women accepted an explicitly group-based protective justification (“It is not safe for any woman”) for a partner's imagined opposition to an internship that involved interviewing criminals. By fusing benevolence with dominance, protective paternalism can lead women (especially those who are high on benevolent sexism) to accept restrictions.
Ist soziales Lernen auch politisches Lernen? Eine alte Kontroverse scheint entschieden.

Zusammenfassung Eine weit verbreitete alltagsweltliche Annahme versteht soziales Lernen auch als politisches Lernen. Diese Annahme wird unterstutzt durch eine Begrifflichkeit, die auch das Private als „politisch“ benennt bzw. „Demokratie-Lernen“ unterschiedslos auf das Leben, die Gesellschaft und den Staat bezieht. Um die Frage dieser Identitat wird seit langem gestritten. Schlagworter: Schule, Politische Bildung, Soziales lernen, Demokratielernen
What’s Age Got to Do With It? Partner Age Difference, Power, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Risk in Urban Adolescents

Adolescent girls with older male main partners are at greater risk for adverse sexual health outcomes than other adolescent girls. One explanation for this finding is that low relationship power occurs with partner age difference. Using a cross-sectional, descriptive design, we investigated the effect of partner age difference between an adolescent girl and her male partner on sexual risk behavior through the mediators of sexual relationship power, and physical intimate partner violence (IPV), and psychological IPV severity. We chose Blanc’s framework to guide this study as it depicts the links among demographic, social, economic, relationship, family and community characteristics, and reproductive health outcomes with gender-based relationship power and violence. Urban adolescent girls (N = 155) completed an anonymous computer-assisted self-interview survey to examine partner and relationship factors’ effect on consistent condom use. Our sample had an average age of 16.1 years with a mean partner age of 17.8 years. Partners were predominantly African American (75%), non-Hispanic (74%), and low-income (81%); 24% of participants reported consistent condom use in the last 3 months. Descriptive, correlation, and multiple mediation analyses were conducted. Partner age difference was negatively associated with consistent condom use (−.4292, p < .01); however, the indirect effects through three proposed mediators (relationship power, physical IPV, or psychological IPV severity) were not statistically significant. Further studies are needed to explore alternative rationale explaining the relationship between partner age differences and sexual risk factors within adolescent sexual relationships. Nonetheless, for clinicians and researchers, these findings underscore the heightened risk associated with partner age differences and impact of relationship dynamics on sexual risk behavior.
Human Endometrial Transforming Growth Factor-α: A Transmembrane, Surface Epithelial Protein That Transiently Disappears During the Midsecretory Phase of the Menstrual Cycle

Objectives: To characterize the forms of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-α) in normal human endometrium, to evaluate the regional and temporal changes in TGF-α expression, and to correlate the pattern of TGF-α expression with physiologic events in the endometrium. Methods: Immunohistochemistry and Western blot analyses were performed using two TGF-α antisera, one raised against the active extracellular N-terminus and the other recognizing the intracellular carboxy terminus of the protein. Immunohistochemistry was performed on hysteroctomy specimens from premenopausal women with normal menstrual cycles. Soluble and membrane-bound endometrial proteins were isolated from fresh tissue for Western blot analysis. Results: Antibodies recognizing the intracellular and extracellular domains of TGF-α exhibited identical immunohistochemical staining patterns. Transforming growth factor-α localized primarily to endometrial epithelial cells, and the most intense staining was in the luminal surface epithelium. In the surface epithelium, TGF-α staining was intense in the proliferative phase, decreased during the early secretory phase, was at its nadir in the midsecretory phase, and rebounded in the late secretory phase. Western blot analysis demonstrated two transmembrane forms. The 28-kD protein contained both intracellular and extracellular antigens, and the 18-kD protein contained only the intracellular antigen. Conclusion: Western blot data were consistent with the hypothesis that the extracellular segment of TGF-α is cleaved from the transmembrane precursor in vivo, as has been demonstrated in other tissues. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated that the TGF-α antigens are concentrated in the luminal surface epithelium and decline and disappear in the early to midsecretory phase. These findings suggest that the most active period of membrane-bound TGF-α cleavage corresponds with the interval during which preimplantation embryos are in the uterine cavity.
Translocator protein (18 kDa) ligand PK 11195 induces transient mitochondrial Ca2+ release leading to transepithelial Cl− secretion in HT‐29 human colon cancer cells

Background information. TSPO (translocator protein), known previously as PBR (peripheral‐type benzodiazepine receptor), is a 18 kDa protein expressed in the mitochondrial membrane of a variety of tissues. TSPO has been reported to be over‐expressed in human colorectal tumours and cancer cell lines, but its function is not well characterized.
Placental Infarction Leading to Fetal or Neonatal Death: A Prospective Study

The pathogenesis of perinatal death due to placental infarction was analyzed in a large prospective study that included more than 1000 medical, demographic, hereditary, and postmortem variables. The disorder was the fifth most frequent cause of death in the study with a perinatal mortality of 2.26/1000 births. Its frequency was directly correlated with the gravidas' blood pressures, an effect augmented by albuminuria and work during pregnancy. Fatal infarcts were increased 20-fold with glomerulonephritis, fivefold with abruptio placentae, and twofold when the gravidas' hemoglobins were over 12 g/100 ml. Maternal weight gains were suboptimal and the involved neonates had a pattern of growth retardation characteristic of undernutrition. The disorder was more frequent when the gravida had made few prenatal visits for medical care and had had prior unsuccessful pregnancies.
Cognitive factors in anorexia nervosa: a case history.

METHOD AND RESULTS This paper reports on an anorexic adolescent female with a history of attentional problems and on the favorable effects on eating-disordered behavior of a pharmacotherapeutic intervention for attentional deficits. DISCUSSION The role of cognitive and attentional deficits in the initiation and maintenance of eating disorders (ED) is discussed and guidelines for the use of stimulant medication with anorexic patients are presented.
Diagnostic assay for Helicobacter hepaticus based on nucleotide sequence of its 16S rRNA gene

Conserved primers were used to PCR amplify 95% of the Helicobacter hepaticus 16S rRNA gene. Its sequence was determined and aligned to those of related bacteria, enabling the selection of primers to highly diverged regions of the 16S rRNA gene and an oligonucleotide probe for the development of a PCR-liquid hybridization assay. This assay was shown to be both sensitive and specific for H. hepaticus 16S rRNA gene sequences.
The pharmacokinetics of corticosteroid agents

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The State‐of‐the‐Art in Predictive Visual Analytics

Predictive analytics embraces an extensive range of techniques including statistical modeling, machine learning, and data mining and is applied in business intelligence, public health, disaster management and response, and many other fields. To date, visualization has been broadly used to support tasks in the predictive analytics pipeline. Primary uses have been in data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and diagnostics. For example, scatterplots and bar charts are used to illustrate class distributions and responses. More recently, extensive visual analytics systems for feature selection, incremental learning, and various prediction tasks have been proposed to support the growing use of complex models, agent‐specific optimization, and comprehensive model comparison and result exploration. Such work is being driven by advances in interactive machine learning and the desire of end‐users to understand and engage with the modeling process. In this state‐of‐the‐art report, we catalogue recent advances in the visualization community for supporting predictive analytics. First, we define the scope of predictive analytics discussed in this article and describe how visual analytics can support predictive analytics tasks in a predictive visual analytics (PVA) pipeline. We then survey the literature and categorize the research with respect to the proposed PVA pipeline. Systems and techniques are evaluated in terms of their supported interactions, and interactions specific to predictive analytics are discussed. We end this report with a discussion of challenges and opportunities for future research in predictive visual analytics.
A COHERENT STUDY OF EMISSION LINES FROM BROADBAND PHOTOMETRY: SPECIFIC STAR FORMATION RATES AND [O iii]/Hβ RATIO AT 3 < z < 6

We measure the Hα and [O iii] emission line properties as well as specific star formation rates (sSFRs) of spectroscopically confirmed 3 < z < 6 galaxies in COSMOS from their observed colors versus redshift evolution. Our model describes consistently the ensemble of galaxies including intrinsic properties (age, metallicity, star formation history), dust attenuation, and optical emission lines. We forward-model the measured Hα equivalent widths (EW) to obtain the sSFR out to z ∼ 6 without stellar mass fitting. We find a strongly increasing rest-frame Hα EW that is flattening off above z ∼ 2.5 with average EWs of 300–600 Å at z ∼ 6. The sSFR is increasing proportionally to ( 1 + z ) 2.4 at z < 2.2 and to ( 1 + z ) 1.5 at higher redshifts, indicative of a fast build-up of mass in high-z galaxies within e-folding times of 100–200 Myr at z ∼ 6. The redshift evolution at z > 3 cannot be fully explained in a picture of growth driven by cold accretion. We find a progressively increasing [O iii]λ5007/Hβ ratio out to z ∼ 6, consistent with the ratios in local galaxies selected by increasing Hα EW (i.e., sSFR). This demonstrates the potential of using “local high-z analogs” to investigate the spectroscopic properties and relations of galaxies in the re-ionization epoch.
Sources and physiological significance of plasma dopamine sulfate.

Dopamine in the circulation occurs mainly as dopamine sulfate, the sources and physiological significance of which have been obscure. In this study, plasma concentrations of dopamine sulfate were measured after a meal, after fasting for 4 days, and during i.v. L-DOPA, nitroprusside, or trimethaphan infusion in volunteers; after dopamine infusion in patients with L-aromatic-amino-acid decarboxylase deficiency; in arterial and portal venous plasma of gastrointestinal surgery patients; and in patients with sympathetic neurocirculatory failure. Meal ingestion increased plasma dopamine sulfate by more than 50-fold; however, prolonged fasting decreased plasma dopamine sulfate only slightly. L-DOPA infusion produced much larger increments in dopamine sulfate than in dopamine; the other drugs were without effect. Patients with L-aromatic amino acid decarboxylase deficiency had decreased dopamine sulfate levels, and patients with sympathetic neurocirculatory failure had normal levels. Decarboxylase-deficient patients undergoing dopamine infusion had a dopamine sulfate/dopamine ratio about 25 times less than that at baseline in volunteers. Surgery patients had large arterial-portal venous increments in plasma concentrations of dopamine sulfate, so that mesenteric dopamine sulfate production accounted for most of urinary dopamine sulfate excretion, a finding consistent with the localization of the dopamine sulfoconjugating enzyme to gastrointestinal tissues. The results indicate that plasma dopamine sulfate derives mainly from sulfoconjugation of dopamine synthesized from L-DOPA in the gastrointestinal tract. Both dietary and endogenous determinants affect plasma dopamine sulfate. The findings suggest an enzymatic gut-blood barrier for detoxifying exogenous dopamine and delimiting autocrine/paracrine effects of endogenous dopamine generated in a "third catecholamine system. "
Communicative Language Testing: Current Issues and Future Research

This article discusses a range of current issues and future research possibilities in Communicative Language Testing (CLT) using, as its departure point, the key questions which emerged during the CLT symposium at the 2010 Language Testing Forum. The article begins with a summary of the 2010 symposium discussion in which three main issues related to CLT are identified: (a) the “mainstreaming” of CLT since 1980, (b) the difficulty for practitioners in utilising and operationalising models of communicative ability, and (c) the challenge of theorising a sufficiently rich communicative construct. These issues are each discussed and elaborated in turn, with the conclusion drawn that, whereas the communicative approach lies dormant in many test constructs, there is scope for a reinvigorated communicative approach that focuses on “adaptability. ” A number of future research directions with adaptability at the forefront are proposed.
Ongoing measles outbreak in Wallonia, Belgium, December 2016 to March 2017: characteristics and challenges

We describe characteristics of an ongoing measles outbreak in Wallonia, Belgium, and difficulties in control measures implementation. As at 12 March 2017, 177 measles cases were notified, of which 50% were 15 years and older, 49% female. Atypical clinical presentation and severe complications, mainly among adults, in combination with late notification, low or unknown vaccination coverage of contacts, infected healthcare workers and increased workload due to contact tracing, are the main concerns for outbreak management.
Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation and Balanced Dynamics

Abstract The problem of spurious excitation of gravity waves in the context of four-dimensional data assimilation is investigated using a simple model of balanced dynamics. The model admits a chaotic vortical mode coupled to a comparatively fast gravity wave mode, and can be initialized such that the model evolves on a so-called slow manifold, where the fast motion is suppressed. Identical twin assimilation experiments are performed, comparing the extended and ensemble Kalman filters (EKF and EnKF, respectively). The EKF uses a tangent linear model (TLM) to estimate the evolution of forecast error statistics in time, whereas the EnKF uses the statistics of an ensemble of nonlinear model integrations. Specifically, the case is examined where the true state is balanced, but observation errors project onto all degrees of freedom, including the fast modes. It is shown that the EKF and EnKF will assimilate observations in a balanced way only if certain assumptions hold, and that, outside of ideal cases (i.e., .
In Planta Recognition of a Double-Stranded RNA Synthesis Protein Complex by a Potexviral RNA Silencing Suppressor[C][W][OPEN]

This work reports the detailed molecular function of TGBp1, a suppressor of RNA silencing encoded by a potexvirus. TGBp1 interacts with SGS3 and RDR6 and aggregates SGS3/RDR6 bodies in the cytoplasm, thereby inhibiting dsRNA synthesis. Thus, this work sheds new light on the dsRNA synthesis–mediated secondary siRNA pathway as another general target of viral suppressors of RNA silencing. RNA silencing plays an important antiviral role in plants and invertebrates. To counteract antiviral RNA silencing, most plant viruses have evolved viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs). TRIPLE GENE BLOCK PROTEIN1 (TGBp1) of potexviruses is a well-characterized VSR, but the detailed mechanism by which it suppresses RNA silencing remains unclear. We demonstrate that transgenic expression of TGBp1 of plantago asiatica mosaic virus (PlAMV) induced developmental abnormalities in Arabidopsis thaliana similar to those observed in mutants of SUPPRESSOR OF GENE SILENCING3 (SGS3) and RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE6 (RDR6) required for the trans-acting small interfering RNA synthesis pathway. PlAMV-TGBp1 inhibits SGS3/RDR6-dependent double-stranded RNA synthesis in the trans-acting small interfering RNA pathway. TGBp1 interacts with SGS3 and RDR6 and coaggregates with SGS3/RDR6 bodies, which are normally dispersed in the cytoplasm. In addition, TGBp1 forms homooligomers, whose formation coincides with TGBp1 aggregation with SGS3/RDR6 bodies. These results reveal the detailed molecular function of TGBp1 as a VSR and shed new light on the SGS3/RDR6-dependent double-stranded RNA synthesis pathway as another general target of VSRs.