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Mineral bioavailability in three locally consumed pulses processed using popular methods: interpreted using molar ratios with phytic acid

Pulses, an essential component of the Sri Lankan diet, have high levels of phytic acid (PA) which chelate essential mineral nutrients limiting their bioavailability. Three locally grown pulses; mung beans, black gram and soya bean were investigated to determine the effects of popular processing methods on their Zn, Fe and Ca bioavailability as affected mainly by phytic acid (PA). Processed mung beans ( Vigna radiata var . MI 6) and black gram ( Vigna mungo var. MI 1) had very high levels of PA. In mung beans, with increasing germination time, a significant decrease (P=0.05) in PA from 2517 to 1998 mg per 100g (dry weight basis) was observed but PA:Zn molar ratio did not improve. Natural fermentation of black gram, did not affect PA level effectively, but levels decreased when inoculated with a lactic acid bacterium or with Pantoea agglomerans . In soya bean ( Glycine max var. Pb ), significant (P=0.05) reduction in PA was observed in tempeh (487 mg/100 g dry weight). Overall, in soya products, the Zn bioavailability has increased from low to moderate levels in both tofu and tempeh. The molar ratio of PA:Fe was lower in all soya products. Although, PA:Zn molar ratio has decreased in germinated mung beans, the Ca x PA:Zn ratio exceeded 0.5 indicating that Ca influences Zn bioavailability DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.4038/cjsbs.v41i1. 4534 Ceylon Journal of Science ( Bio. Sci. ) 41 (1): 19-26, 2012
Spin evolution of a proto-neutron star

This work was partially supported by “NewCompStar” (COST Action MP1304), and by the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 Grant No. StronGrHEP-690904. J. A. P. acknowledges support by the MINECO Grants No. AYA2013-42184-P and No. AYA2015-66899-C2-2-P.
Metal content and elemental composition of particles in cohesive sediments of the Lerma River, México

The concentration of Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn and Pb, enrichment factors and the elemental composition, morphology and relative abundance of particles were evaluated in cohesive sediments of the upper course of the Lerma River, Mexico. The heavy metal concentration in the cohesive sediments decreased in the following sequence: Fe > Mn > Zn > Cr > Cu > Pb. The results of enrichment factors show that Fe and Mn are conservative, Cu, Cr and Pb are lightly enriched and Zn is moderately enriched. Generally, the particle groups decrease in the follow sequence: aluminosilicate > silica > iron > sulfur > metals > calcium carbonate > calcium/phosphorus > manganese. The Fe and Mn concentrations in cohesive sediments are produced principally by natural contributions, whereas Cr, Cu, Zn and Pb concentrations are produced mainly by anthropic contributions.
The Effects of Selected Elements of Communal Schools on Middle and High School Mathematics Achievement.

Although current policy debate on school restructuring is centered on choice, empowerment, and professionalization issues, the effects of communally organized schools has received little attention. This paper postulates that student achievement, particularly in mathem.tics, is related to selected elements of communal schools (shared norms and values, teacher collaboration, and focus on student learning). The paper also assumes tnat the sense of community as indicated by these elements differs Jetween middle schools and senior high schools. Supposedly, middle schools have a greater tendency than high schools to be organized communally rather than bureaucratically. Exploratory data analysis of survey data from a national sample of middle-school students and their mathematics teachers (the Longitudinal Study of American Youth) yields mixed results. Middle schools and high schools have similar organizational structures. Further, student achievement growth in middle schools is related to two critical elements of community: shared norms, values, and beliefs, as indicated by teacher commitment; and focus, on student learning, as indicated by teacher expectations. Similarly, student achievement in high school appears to be related to teacher commitment, collaboration, and focus on students. An appendix describing variables, and four statistical tables are attached. Contains 49 references. (MLH) * *,r * ** * *' **,c*** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. 1111PARTMENT Or EDUCATION Deco to Educate:mu Rsercn end Intormement E D CA nom". RE SOURCES INFORMATION CENTER iERICI Tme document nee Neon teModuced Id 00 ',Om ON WWI, Or oteemieuen cotemelme tt 0 *knot chand have teen toO to . 010/00 OIOdeetdo Quoddy Pant{ ot view Or 00140S MOON eft 1114 &Cu. meet 00 not necemenle MeNdent official OERI poeson o. pawl/ THE EFFECTS OF SELECTED ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL SCHOOLS ON MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT Pedro Reyes and Edward J. Fuller The University of Texas at Austin
Smoothing the Bumpy Road to Antiarrhythmic Drug Development.

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. ” 1 Frank A. Clark The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) is predicted to increase exponentially over the coming decades,2 which will have important implications for patients’ health, quality of life, and the global economy. The Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) trial found that pharmacological rate-control strategies are equivalent to rhythm control for reduction of mortality in AF.3 However, it is widely believed that these results reflect the limited efficacy and significant adverse event profile of current antiarrhythmic drugs. Indeed, retrospective substudies of the AFFIRM data demonstrated improved mortality in patients who remained in sinus rhythm during treatment.4 More importantly, these patients have reduced symptoms and a better quality of life. Article see p 2203 The development of safe and effective antiarrhythmic drugs is therefore an important goal for both individual patients and for public health. Unfortunately, we have had limited success in bringing new antiarrhythmic drugs to market, and many that have been approved have significant safety liabilities limiting their general applicability. These obstacles have led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon drug development for AF. To streamline the enterprise and allay concerns, robust preclinical research is necessary to identify concepts and drug candidates that have a high chance of success. The article by Aguilar et al5 is the report of such an effort. A significant drawback of current atrial antiarrhythmics such as flecainide, dofetilide, ibutilide, and sotalol is the risk of ventricular proarrhythmia. Therefore, to make pharmacological rhythm control an attractive therapeutic strategy, the development of drugs that do not affect ventricular electrophysiology is of prime importance. Atrial selectivity is a term used to describe drugs that have increased electrophysiological effects in the atria over the ventricles. This is in …
Morphological aspects of the ovaries of turtle Kinosternon scorpioides raised in captivity

The swear turtle "jurara" (Kinosternon scorpioides) is a mud turtle of the Amazon region exposed to disordering capture in the rural areas of Maranhao, Brazil. Despite its popularity in these areas, little meaningful information regarding the reproductive morphology is currently available, fact that impedes the adoption of policies for preservation of the species. To obtain more information, we studied the ovarian morphology adult jurara females kept in captivity by morphological and morphometric analysis in the dry and rainy season. The results revealed that all females were sexually mature and were in a vitellogenic period. The ovaries are two irregular structures composed by follicles in different stages of development (primary, secondary and tertiary) scattered in a stroma of loose connective highly vascularized tissue. The ovary weight was 6.25±4.23g and 2.27±1.42g, for the right and left one respectively. The gonadosomatic indexes were 2.06% for the dry season and 1.79% for the rainy season. The average of the follicles was 29.83 units per ovary. Microscopically, the mature ovaries revealed a basal layer composed by four cellular layers: the inner and outer theca, stratum granulosum with perivitelline membrane and zona radiata with vitelline membrane. No significant differences were observed in the ovaries either in the dry or wet period.
GENERALISED RANDOM BINNED ANTENNA ARRAYS

In binned arrays, radiators are classically located according to a uniform probability distribution. By doing so, it has been shown that they have the same mean radiation pattern as totally random arrays (i.e., the ones for which the radiators’ positions are continuous independent and identically distributed random variables defined over the whole array aperture) but a lower variance. In this paper, we introduce a new class of generalised binned arrays by generalising the rule for assigning the radiators’ positions. These new binned arrays, while maintaining the aforesaid advantage (in terms of the variance behaviour), allow to set the mean radiation pattern according to some design requirements. The achievable performance is estimated by measuring how much the radiation pattern deviates from the desired mean radiation pattern by resorting to the up-crossing theory. In particular, the study is developed for the case of symmetric arrays, which allows for easier maths. The paper includes an extensive numerical analysis which allows to check the developed theory. In particular, it focuses on the comparison between the generalised binned array and the totally random ones. A comparison with the nonuniform arrays coming from the density tapering approach is also presented. The latter appears natural in view of the new bins selection rule, which, as will be shown, is a sort of density-tapering in which the role of the reference current is played by the radiators’ position density distribution.
SOCIO-CULTURAL EVALUATION OF ATTITUDE OF THE YOUTH AGAINST BRANDED CLOTHING

The research has been planned and conducted with the aim of socio-cultural evaluation of the attitude of the undergraduate and graduate students in various countries against the branded clothes and comparing the differences amongst the countries. 406 students who were selected as a result of the random sampling amongst the university students who attend universities in Ankara, coming from Ankara in Turkey, Nicosia in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (T.R.N.C.), Liverpool in England and student from Turkic Republics constitute the sampling of the research. The data collected by the survey form which is developed by the researcher has been analyzed by using Social Sciences Statistics Package (SPSS). At the end of the result, it was concluded that students who are following their educations in the countries which had been determined to have different socio-cultural values adopted the branded clothes, however, they could hardly afford to have one as the prices are high. It has also been determined that students in the western countries that manufacture and sell the brand are less fond of brands and that students define those in branded clothes as leaders, wealthy and having a good taste. In terms of attitude points against the branded clothes, no difference in terms of sex and eduation level has been determined, but it has been determined that there were differences in terms of country, income of the family and age groups, and these dirrences were evaluated.
Analysis and design of broadside-coupled striplines-fed bow-tie antennas

The design of a bow-tie antenna fed by broadside-coupled striplines (BCS) for the 2.4-GHz ISM band is described. The two fins of the bow tie are, respectively, on the two sides of the substrate. The feeding balanced lines adopted are the BCS. A quarter-wave transformer is used to transform the microstrip line input to the BCS feed. An analysis method based on the mixed-potential integral equation method is used to characterize the input characteristics of the bow-tie antenna. The numerical results obtained are in good agreement with the experimental data. Through experiments with bow-tie antennas of various extended angles, the bow-tie antenna with a 90/spl deg/ extended angle exhibits the widest bandwidth in the desired frequency band, which has a bandwidth of 19% for a VSWR<1.5:1.
Modular software for artificial arms design

This paper presents a modular software for design artificial arms controllers. This software offers specific solutions for training the patients in order to refine the biosignals' control and optimal choice of the adequate prosthesis solutions. Using this software the patients learn how to control the biosignals by means of their visual correlation to the movements of an already attached virtual artificial arms. Based on data offered by the identification and training phases, one can choose an artificial arm solution among those available, best suited to the patient's case and abilities, along with his financial availability, required by one choice or another. Using this software the patients can save time and money, both because of delays and prosthesis mismatching elimination and because of the patient's involvement in picking up the appropriate solution.
String Experiments for the Nuclear and Particle Sciences and Non-Physics Disciplines

A method for inducing string vibrations in Hydrogen (Tahan 2014, 2015b) permits access to a fifth dimension ofgravitons and superparticles (Tahan 2011, 2012, 2013). The technique can be used for nuclear and particlescience studies generally, particularly for investigations of membrane (brane) structures including SU(3) work.
Direct Observation of para-Xylylene as the Decomposition Product of the meta-Xylyl Radical Using VUV Synchrotron Radiation

Xylyl (methylbenzyl) radicals are important combustion intermediates, formed in the pyrolysis and oxidation of xylenes and other substituted aromatic fuel additives. We have used VUV synchrotron radiation and imaging photoelectron photoion coincidence (iPEPICO) spectroscopy techniques to identify para-xylylene as the dominant stable C8H8 product arising from thermal decomposition of the meta-xylyl radical. A complex rearrangement from a meta- to a para-substituted aromatic, supported by quantum chemical calculations, can rationalize the observed reaction products. This work provides the first experimental evidence for the pyrolysis products of the meta-xylyl radical and can explain why the decomposition of this radical is considerably slower than that of the ortho and para isomers. This study emphasizes the utility of VUV synchrotron radiation and iPEPICO spectroscopy to tackle the reaction mechanism of combustion-relevant processes.
Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Social Loafing: The Role of Personality, Motives, and Contextual Factors

The present study integrates the literature on social loafing and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The authors examined the roles of personality, motives, and contextual factors in influencing the work behaviors of OCB and social loafing. In a sample of 341 individuals working in project groups, with data collected over 3 time periods, the authors found that conscientiousness was negatively related to social loafing. They also found the known positive relation of OCB with conscientiousness. Felt responsibility was negatively related to social loafing. The authors found no significant relations between social loafing and OCB motives.
A High Performance Packet Core for Next Generation Cellular Networks

Cellular traffic continues to grow rapidly making the scalability of the cellular infrastructure a critical issue. However, there is mounting evidence that the current Evolved Packet Core (EPC) is ill-suited to meet these scaling demands: EPC solutions based on specialized appliances are expensive to scale and recent software EPCs perform poorly, particularly with increasing numbers of devices or signaling traffic. In this paper, we design and evaluate a new system architecture for a software EPC that achieves high and scalable performance. We postulate that the poor scaling of existing EPC systems stems from the manner in which the system is decomposed which leads to device state being duplicated across multiple components which in turn results in frequent interactions between the different components. We propose an alternate approach in which state for a single device is consolidated in one location and EPC functions are (re)organized for efficient access to this consolidated state. In effect, our design "slices" the EPC by user. We prototype and evaluate PEPC, a software EPC that implements the key components of our design. We show that PEPC achieves 3-7x higher throughput than comparable software EPCs that have been implemented in industry and over 10x higher throughput than a popular open-source implementation (OpenAirInterface). Compared to the industrial EPC implementations, PEPC sustains high data throughput for 10-100x more users devices per core, and a 10x higher ratio of signaling-to-data traffic. In addition to high performance, PEPC's by-user organization enables efficient state migration and customization of processing pipelines. We implement user migration in PEPC and show that state can be migrated with little disruption, e.g., migration adds only up to 4μs of latency to median per packet latencies.
Impact of Deforestation on Regional Precipitation over the Indochina Peninsula

It is now widely recognized that tropical deforestation can change the regional climate significantly. The increasing population and the spreading deforestation in the Indochina Peninsula, especially in Thailand, make it urgent to assess the effects of deforestation on the regional climate. Most of the previous numerical experiments generally have shown that decreases in precipitation occur as a result of deforestation. However, in most cases, these hydrometeorological changes have not been detected in observations. In this study, the nonparametric Mann‐Kendall rank test and linear regression analysis were applied to analyze precipitation data obtained over a period of more than 40 yr, for each month, at each meteorological station in Thailand. Significant decreases in precipitation over Thailand were detected only in the time series of monthly precipitation in September. Amounts of precipitation recorded at many meteorological stations in September have decreased by approximately 100 mm month21 (approximately 30% relative change) over the past three or four decades. Numerical experiments with a regional climate model based on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System with a simple land surface scheme were carried out for the Indochina Peninsula. In these experiments, the type of vegetation in the northeastern part of Thailand was specified as either short vegetation (the current vegetation type) or forest (the former vegetation type). The experiments were carried out using the initial and boundary meteorological conditions of August and September in 1992‐94. The initial and boundary conditions were interpolated from the data of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction‐National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalysis. In these numerical experiments, a decrease in precipitation over the deforested area was obtained for September, but not for August. The magnitude of the mean decrease in precipitation over the whole deforested area in these experiments was 26 mm month21 (7% relative change), and the local maximum decrease was 88 mm month21 (29% relative change). Precipitation in the wet season over the Indochina Peninsula basically occurs under the influence of the Southeast Asian summer monsoon system. The strong summer monsoon westerlies bring abundant moisture to the Indochina Peninsula as a source of precipitation. The monsoon westerlies are the predominant external force influencing the regional climate. However, the strong westerlies over the Indochina Peninsula disappear in September, although that is typically the month of maximum precipitation. Accordingly, it is inferred that the effect of local deforestation appears significantly only in September because of the absence of this strong external force.
FOREIGN AID FLOWS AND REAL EXCHANGE RATE: EVIDENCE FROM SYRIA

This paper uses time series data from Syria for the period 1965 to 1997 to test the aid and i°Dutch diseasei± hypothesis. We employ the relatively new approach to cointegration, known as the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach. We find no support for this hypothesis neither in the long run nor in the short run. On the contrary, our results indicate that foreign aid flows are associated with depreciation of the real exchange rate. The main policy implication, based on the long run results, is that Syria can continue to receive aid without fears of impairing its export competitiveness.
Estimates for multilinear commutators of generalized fractional integral operators on weighted Morrey spaces

Let $L$ be the infinitesimal generator of an analytic semigroup on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ with Gaussian kernel bounds, and let $L^{-\alpha/2}$ be the fractional integrals of $L$ for $0<\alpha<n$. Assume that $\vec{b}=(b_1,b_2,\cdots,b_m)$ is a finite family of locally integrable functions, then the multilinear commutators generated by $\vec{b}$ and $L^{-\alpha/2}$ is defined by \begin{equation*} L_{\vec{b}}^{-\alpha/2}f=[b_m,\cdots,[b_2,[b_1,L^{-\alpha/2}]],\cdots,]f \end{equation*} when $b_j\in BMO(w)$, $j=1,2,\cdots,m$, the authors obtain the boundedness of $L_{\vec{b}}^{-\alpha/2}$ on weighted Morrey spaces.