Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Smoke Drying Techniques on the Proximate and Mineral Composition of Macrobrachium vollenhovenii (African River Prawn)

: This study was carried out to evaluate the nutritional composition of the African River Prawn (Macrobrachium vollenhovenii) in relation to Chokor (traditional) and Altona (improved traditional) drying techniques used in the preservation and processing of prawns by carrying out proximate composition analysis. The value obtained for the proximate analysis of Chokor and Altona smoke dried prawns were; Moisture (14.90% and 15.15%), Dry matter (85.10% and 84.85%), Protein (55.80% and 58.87%), Crude fat (1.95% and 1.98%), Crude fibre (21.40% and 13.11%), Carbohydrate (0.54% and 0.54%) and Ash (19.76% and 15.86%) respectively. The proximate mineral composition of Chokor and Altona smoke dried prawns were; Calcium (5.66% and 4.20%) and Phosphorus (9. 22% and 6.34%) respectively. Result shows there was no loss of nutritional value with respect to Chokor and Altona drying techniques used in the processing of prawns
Some Comments on Cp

We discuss the interpretation of Cp -plots and show how they can be calibrated in several ways. We comment on the practice of using the display as a basis for formal selection of a subset-regression model, and extend the range of application of the device to encompass arbitrary linear estimates of the regression coefficients, for example Ridge estimates.
A Refinement of the Myerson Value ∗ Atsushi Kajii

The Myerson value is an allocation rule which assigns a vector of payoffs to a collection of conferences. It treats direct and indirect connections of players in conferences equally, and thus assigns the same vector of payoffs to a large class of collections of conferences. This paper proposes and axiomatizes an allocation rule which distinguishes direct connections from indirect ones, and hence provides a refinement of the Myerson value. JEL classification: C71.
Documentación sobre arte y arqueología en el Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan. Análisis de la colección andalusí a través de sus documentos

La Documentacion es una ciencia que permite localizar, seleccionar, organizar y tratar cualquier tipo de informacion, independientemente del area cientifica que la haya originado. Partiendo de esta premisa, la presente tesis doctoral se centra en el analisis de la documentacion generada por las piezas andalusies conservadas en el Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, como paradigma de la relacion existente entre la Documentacion, el Arte y la Arqueologia. El Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan fue fundado por Guillermo de Osma (La Habana, 24 de enero de 1853 – Biarritz, 2 de febrero de 1922), politico e intelectual que destaco como coleccionista de antiguedades. Realizo sus adquisiciones con un claro objetivo: crear un corpus que sirviera para la investigacion del Arte, la Arqueologia y la Historia de Espana. Fiel a este principio, en 1916 creo junto a su mujer, Adela Crooke, el Instituto como centro de estudio de sus colecciones artisticas, arqueologicas, documentales, bibliograficas y numismaticas. Estos fondos han continuado enriqueciendose por los sucesivos directores y patronatos hasta la actualidad. Los objetivos de esta investigacion son: demostrar que la documentacion generada por las obras de arte y las piezas arqueologicas constituye un elemento de investigacion con caracteristicas propias y que proporciona un soporte esencial para el desarrollo de estudios cientificos en Arte y Arqueologia; establecer las tipologias documentales encontradas en el archivo del Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, como modelo para los estudios de Documentacion en Arte y Arqueologia; contribuir al mayor conocimiento de esta institucion, poniendo en valor sus colecciones a traves de la documentacion, y desarrollar un modelo de gestion documental valido para archivos historicos de instituciones similares.
Luxury primary care--market innovation or threat to access?

Primary care practitioners in several states have recently decided to restructure their practices in a way that enables them to see a much smaller number of patients and to spend more time with the ones they do see. Patients enrolled in these practices, referred to as “luxury primary care,” pay an annual fee to the practice. In return for this annual fee, they can expect certain amenities that are not currently part of primary care, such as access to their physicians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using cell phones or prompt paging devices.1 When they see their .
Age- and education-matched comparison of aging HIV+ men who have sex with men to general population on common neuropsychological assessments

Little is known about the impact of HIV and aging on cognitive functioning. This New York City cross-sectional study of aging HIV-positive gay and bisexual men assessed their neuropsychological state. Working memory and verbal abstract reasoning were relatively intact. After 55 years of age, attention abilities were impaired. Executive function impairment was present regardless of age and education. Results suggest the need for HIV-specific norms, and the use of neuropsychological assessments (i.e. baseline and over time) as a cost-effective way to assess HIV-related cognitive decline in developed and under-developed countries.
Gut Dysbiosis and Adaptive Immune Response in Diet-induced Obesity vs. Systemic Inflammation

A mutual interplay exists between adaptive immune system and gut microbiota. Altered gut microbial ecosystems are associated with the metabolic syndrome, occurring in most obese individuals. However, it is unknown why 10–25% of obese individuals are metabolically healthy, while normal weight individuals can develop inflammation and atherosclerosis. We modeled these specific metabolic conditions in mice fed with a chow diet, an obesogenic but not inflammatory diet—mimicking healthy obesity, or Paigen diet—mimicking inflammation in the lean subjects. We analyzed a range of markers and cytokines in the aorta, heart, abdominal fat, liver and spleen, and metagenomics analyses were performed on stool samples. T lymphocytes infiltration was found in the aorta and in the liver upon both diets, however a significant increase in CD4+ and CD8+ cells was found only in the heart of Paigen-fed animals, paralleled by increased expression of IL-1, IL-4, IL-6, IL-17, and IFN-γ. Bacteroidia, Deltaproteobacteria, and Verrucomicrobia dominated in mice fed Paigen diet, while Gammaproteobacteria, Delataproteobacteria, and Erysipelotrichia were more abundant in obese mice. Mice reproducing human metabolic exceptions displayed gut microbiota phylogenetically distinct from normal diet-fed mice, and correlated with specific adaptive immune responses. Diet composition thus has a pervasive role in co-regulating adaptive immunity and the diversity of microbiota.
Hyperglycaemia affects proximal gastric motor and sensory function in normal subjects

Objective: Hyperglycaemia delays gastric emptying in normal subjects and patients with diabetes mellitus by uncertain mechanisms and may affect the perception of somatic sensations. The effects of hyperglycaemia on the motor function of the proximal stomach and the perception of gastric distension were evaluated in normal subjects. Design: Paired studies were performed in randomized order in 10 healthy volunteers on separate days during euglycaemia and hyperglycaemia (blood glucose ≈ 15mmol/l). Methods: With a barostat and a balloon positioned in the proximal stomach, fasting subjects underwent a stepwise gastric distension. Each 2mmHg step was maintained at a constant pressure for 2min. The volume of the barostat balloon was measured and perception of the sensations of fullness, desire to belch, nausea, abdominal discomfort and hunger was scored at each step. Results: Hyperglycaemia was associated with an increase in proximal gastric compliance (P<0.01) evident from 2mmHg above basal intragastric pressure. Perception scores for the sensations of nausea and desire to belch were greater during hyperglycaemia than euglycaemia (P<0.05) in relation to both pressure at each step and volume. Hyperglycaemia did not affect perception of the sensations of abdominal discomfort, fullness or hunger. Conclusions: Hyperglycaemia increases proximal gastric compliance, reflecting a reduction in gastric tone. This may contribute to the previously observed delay in gastric emptying associated with hyperglycaemia. Hyperglycaemia appears to increase the perception of some of the sensations induced by gastric distension.
An assessment of teaching and learning about sustainability across the higher education curriculum

AN ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS THE HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM Jessica Ostrow Michel Although the majority of scientists agree that we are facing unprecedented climate crises, higher education’s engagement with environmental and sustainability problems is lacking. While the role of human behavior on climate change has been well established by science, these insights have yet to be adequately applied by citizens, thus exacerbating the consequent economic and social problems (like inequity and poverty). In response to the imminent danger of climate change, calls have come for citizens to be mindful of their actions to reverse the deteriorating trajectory of environmental and sustainability decline. In particular, policymakers have deemed higher education classrooms a promising site for equipping future generations of citizens to engage with sustainability. Formal teaching and learning surrounding sustainability-related subject matter, or Education for Sustainability (EfS), is the process of developing students’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors toward sustainability. However, EfS is not being incorporated into the higher education curriculum with either the quantity or quality necessary to steer society toward social change. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation study was to explore the amount of, and the effectiveness of, EfS in an institution of higher education, and to analyze whether EfS was related to students’ sustainability learning outcomes. Data collection took place at Michigan State University, a public, large-size, four-year institution. Students were surveyed at both the beginning and end of the fall 2017 semester to measure changes over one academic semester. Guided by the frameworks of opportunity to learn, cognitively responsive teaching, teaching for sustainability, and transformative sustainability learning outcomes, data were analyzed with logistic and ordinary least squares regression, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results found that approximately two-thirds of participants reported that they had the opportunity to learn about sustainability. On average, neither cognitively responsive teaching, nor teaching for sustainability, pedagogical approaches were employed to teach sustainability. Interestingly, though, when instructors surfaced students’ prior knowledge about sustainability while teaching the subject, students’ sustainability behaviors increased over the course of the semester. As such, this study illustrated the importance of the pedagogical technique of utilizing students’ prior knowledge when teaching them about sustainability in higher education.
Oncogenic Role of Epstein-Barr Virus-Encoded RNAs in Burkitt’s Lymphoma Cell Line Akata

ABSTRACT Our previous reports indicated that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) contributes to the malignant phenotype and resistance to apoptosis in Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) cell line Akata (N. Shimizu, A. Tanabe-Tochikura, Y. Kuroiwa, and K. Takada, J. Virol. 68:6069–6073, 1994; J. Komano, M. Sugiura, and K. Takada, J. Virol. 72:9150–9156, 1998). Here we report that the EBV-encoded small RNAs (EBERs) are responsible for these phenotypes. Transfection of the EBER genes into EBV-negative Akata clones restored the capacity for growth in soft agar, tumorigenicity in SCID mice, resistance to apoptotic inducers, and upregulated expression of bcl-2 oncoprotein that were originally retained in parental EBV-positive Akata cells and lost in EBV-negative subclones. This is the first report which provides evidence that virus-encoded RNAs (EBERs) have oncogenic functions in BL cells.
Co‐administration of IGF‐I and glycosaminoglycans greatly delays motor neurone disease and affects IGF‐I expression in the wobbler mouse: a long‐term study

The study on wobbler mouse has shown that the combined treatment with low doses of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and insulin‐like growth factor‐I (IGF‐I) fully prevented motor neurone death and forelimb impairment up to 9–12 weeks of a mouse's life. The effect was accompanied by the prevention of the early hypertrophy of wobbler neurones, an effect likely due to the promotion of neuronal survival. At the 18th week, wobbler mice treated with IGF‐I + GAGs still showed significantly improved forelimb function, reduced muscle atrophy and a higher number of cervical motor neurones. IGF‐I alone and GAGs alone were active up to the 3rd week of treatment; thereafter the beneficial effects of single treatments decreased drastically. GAGs and IGF‐I treatments also affected IGF‐I plasma and muscle levels. In wobbler mice there was a progressive reduction in IGF‐I plasma levels that was prevented by IGF‐I or GAGs alone and greatly increased, even above heterozygote levels, by the combination treatment. Such a powerful increase was correlated by a small enhancement in insulin‐like growth factor binding protein‐3 (IGFBP‐3) plasma levels, while treatment with IGF‐I alone affected very significantly both IGFBP‐1 and IGFBP‐3. Co‐treatment also prevented the decrease in IGF‐I content observed in vehicle‐treated wobbler mice forelimb muscles.
Academic self-concept and self-perceptions as learners: Do poor comprehenders differ from their peers?

The thesis is divided into two parts. Part A comprises a literature review of previous research on poor comprehenders (PCs), self-concept, children’s attribution styles, and how children with learning difficulties (LD) perceive themselves as learners. Research has indicated that children with LD often hold negative academic self-perceptions. Part B describes the empirical study which explored PCs’ vulnerability to negative self-perceptions as learners in comparison with their peers. Additionally their attribution styles were investigated. The sample comprised 114 children (aged 9-11) from a mainstream primary school. They were divided into groups of poor readers, good readers, PCs and low-average readers, using scores obtained using the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability (NARA-II). A structured interview was conducted to obtain information about each child’s controllability attributions (i.e. how much perceived control he/she had over successes and failures). Each child then completed three self-report questionnaires measuring academic self-concept, reading self-concept, and self-perceptions as learners. Teachers’ perceptions of their pupils as learners were sought through administration of a questionnaire. Results indicated that PCs were not differentiated from their peers in terms of attribution style, nor were they differentiated from good and low-average readers in their academic self-concept, reading self-concept or self-perceptions as learners. This is in contrast with poor readers, who held more negative self-perceptions than the other groups on all of these measures. Furthermore, only a small percentage of PCs recognised their reading comprehension difficulties. Class teachers’ perceptions of their pupils as learners were similar to those of the pupils with reading and comprehension difficulties (poor readers and PCs). Teachers’ perceptions of good and low-average readers were predominantly different from those of the pupils themselves. In addition, children’s national curriculum levels indicated that the majority of PCs were performing in the average range. The implications of these findings for educational professionals are discussed.
Partial Liquid Ventilation Reduces Fluid Filtration of Isolated Rabbit Lungs with Acute Hydrochloric Acid-induced Edema

Background Hydrochloric acid aspiration increases pulmonary microvascular permeability. The authors tested the hypothesis that partial liquid ventilation has a beneficial effect on filtration coefficients in acute acid-induced lung injury. Methods Isolated blood-perfused rabbit lungs were assigned randomly to one of four groups. Group 1 (n = 6) served as a control group without edema. In group 2 (n = 6), group 3 (n = 6), and group 4 (n = 6), pulmonary edema was induced by intratracheal instillation of hydrochloric acid (0.1 N, 2 ml/kg body weight). Filtration coefficients were determined 30 min after this injury (by measuring loss of perfusate after increase of left atrial pressure). Group 2 lungs were gas ventilated, and group 3 lungs received partial liquid ventilation (15 ml perfluorocarbon/kg body weight). In group 4 lungs, the authors studied the immediate effects of bronchial perfluorocarbon instillation on ongoing filtration. Results Intratracheal instillation of hydrochloric acid markedly increased filtration coefficients when compared with noninjured control lungs (2.3 ± 0.7 vs. 0.31 ± 0.08 ml · min−1 · mmHg−1 · 100 g−1 wet lung weight, P < 0.01). Partial liquid ventilation reduced filtration coefficients of the injured lungs (to 0.9 ± 0.3 ml · min−1 · mmHg−1 · 100 g−1 wet lung weight, P = 0.022). Neither pulmonary artery nor capillary pressures (determined by simultaneous occlusion of inflow and outflow of the pulmonary circulation) were changed by hydrochloric acid instillation or by partial liquid ventilation. During ongoing filtration, bronchial perfluorocarbon instillation (5 ml/kg body weight) immediately reduced the amount of filtered fluid by approximately 50% (P = 0.027). Conclusions In the acute phase after acid injury, partial liquid ventilation reduced pathologic fluid filtration. This effect started immediately after bronchial perfluorocarbon instillation and was not associated with changes in mean pulmonary artery, capillary, or airway pressures. The authors suggest that in the early phase of acid injury, reduction of fluid filtration contributes to the beneficial effects of partial liquid ventilation on gas exchange and lung mechanics.
Serous ovarian carcinoma recurring as a heterologous carcinosarcoma

Only two cases of recurrence of heterologous carcinosarcoma from adenocarcinoma of the ovary have been documented in the published literature. We report a case of serous ovarian carcinoma recurring as a heterologous carcinosarcoma. The immunohistochemical analysis of several biological parameters in primary ovarian adenocarcinoma and recurrent carcinosarcoma has been also performed.
Virulence of Chick Embryo Fibroblast‐Passaged Flury HEP Rabies Virus and Its Revertants in Mice

Chick embryo fibroblast‐passaged Flury high egg passage (HEP) rabies virus failed to kill nude mice or cyclophosphamide‐treated mice when inoculated intracerebrally. The virus regained neurovirulence for adult mice after three passages in mouse neuroblastoma C1300 cells (NA cells). However, even after 20 passages in NA cells, the virulence could not be increased to the level shown by the virus passaged several times in suckling mice.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANISATIONAL RESOURCES, CAPABILITIES, SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

The main objective that business organisations in particular should strive to attain is achieving a competitive advantage position relative to their competitors. This research empirically examined the importance of and emphasis placed on organisational resources, capabilities and systems in their relationships with competitive advantage. The overall findings indicated significant, positive effects of organisational resources, capabilities and systems collectively on competitive advantage, providing support and corroboration to the resource-based view (RBV). The total variance in competitive advantage accounted for by the multiple linear regression (MLR) model was 56.2%. In short, the findings from this study have not only contributed to the literature on the issue of the relationship between organisational resources, capabilities, systems and competitive advantage, but also provided vital information to both practitioners and policy makers on the subject matter.
Predictive role of transvaginal ultrasonographic measurement of cervical length at 34 weeks for late pre-term and late-term deliveries in nulliparous women

Abstract Objective: To investigate the predictive role of transvaginal ultrasonographic measurement of cervical length (CL) at 34 weeks of gestation in determining late-preterm and late-term deliveries in nulliparous women. Methods: CL was measured by transvaginal ultrasonography at 34 weeks in 318 women (singleton, nulliparous, low-risk and vertex presentation). All women were followed-up till birth and delivered at hospital. Deliveries were classifed according to gestational week as late-preterm (340/7 to 366/7 weeks), term (370/7 to 406/7 weeks) and late-term (410/7 to 416/7 weeks). Results: There was a significant correlation between CL at 34 weeks and gestational week at delivery (r = 0.614, p < 0.001). Receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis showed that CL measurement below 25.5 mm predicted late-preterm delivery with a sensitivity of 80.0%, specificity of 93.9%, positive predictive value (PPV) of 52.6% and negative predictive value (NPV) of 98.2%; while CL above 42.5 mm had 70.4% sensitivity, 93.5% specificity, 50.0% PPV and 97.1% NPV in prediction of late-term delivery. Conclusion: Measurement of CL with transvaginal ultrasonography at 34 weeks of gestation can be of beneficial in predicting the risk of late-preterm and late-term deliveries in nulliparous women.
The Importance of ADHD Subtype Classification for Educational Applications of DSM-V

Objective: An examination of the academic achievement of children with ADHD by stimulant treatment status must consider this heterogeneity of the disorder. With the dissemination of the final wave of data, the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study presents an opportunity to examine the academic achievement of students with ADHD using a large, community-based, and nationally representative sample over 4 years. Method: In Study 1, the association between stimulant treatment and academic achievement is examined over 4 years. In Study 2, the association between stimulant treatment and academic achievement is examined acknowledging the influence of subtype symptoms of ADHD using growth mixture modeling. Results: Results indicate significant differences in academic achievement according to long-term stimulant treatment status within each subtype symptom class. Conclusion: Research should acknowledge the influence of subtype symptoms when examining outcomes such as academic achievement. The upcoming DSM-V should consider the results as indicating the educational relevance of ADHD subtype classification. (J. of Att. Dis. 2010; 13(6) 573-583)