Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The present in retrospect: Press reporting of UK General Elections, 1918–2015

This article provides a unique content analysis of 100 years of national press coverage of UK General Elections and tests four claims about historical trends in election news reporting in democratic systems: (1) that coverage is becoming more focussed on political leaders at the expense of other political sources; (2) that reporting of the personalities and personal lives of politicians has expanded; (3) that editorial treatment of politicians has become increasingly negative and (4) that news coverage is increasingly obsessed with the conduct of politics rather than its substantive content. Through the detail of this analysis, we identify areas of historical continuity as well as change and challenge overly neat periodisations and simple histories of election news reporting.
Does Health-Oriented Tourism Contribute to Sustainable Mobility?

Previous research has concentrated on traffic and health-related effects in relation to arrival patterns (e.g., stress in connection with means of transport, travel distance, and time). However, tourist mobility behavior during a vacation and potential health-related associations as well as its correlation with physical activity habits and mobility patterns at home seems to have barely been examined. To address this research gap, the study at hand applied a mixed-method approach in three tourism destinations in Tyrol, Austria. The study examined tourists’ mobility as well as their physical activity at home and at the holiday destination. Results show that the preferred transport mode (arrival and on-site) is the private car, due to its flexibility and comfort. Hotel front desks, as the main information source, determine tourists’ behavioral aspects during a vacation. General mobility routines show differences between everyday life and holiday situations, and physical activity is important for the overall satisfaction of tourists, which proves to be more intense and frequent during a vacation than in everyday life. Seven percent of the tourists participating in the research stated that they had changed their daily mobility behavior after their return, with most of them walking or cycling more often. This study contributes to research in the field of sustainable tourist mobility and physical activity behavior and highlights the necessity for further specific analyses.
EVALUACIÓN DE CERA ORGÁNICA APLICADA SOBRE FRUTOS DE LITCHI (Litchi chinensis Sonn) EN MANEJO POSTCOSECHA.

RESUMEN Hoy en dia el Mercado Mexicano exporta productos que no coinciden con el enorme potencial de produccion que se tiene en cuanto a suelos y climas se refiere, ya que podria aprovechar esa ventaja para exportar un gran numero de cultivos de potencial economico. El presente trabajo se realizo con el objetivo de alargar la vida de anaquel de las frutas del Litchi mediante la aplicacion de Cera de Candelilla (Euphorbia antisyphilitica) organica en diferentes concentraciones, en distintas formas de almacenamiento y con el factor de una camara fria y en el medio ambiente. Las principales variables evaluadas fueron: la cantidad de frutos danados, deshidratados, frutos retirados por perdida de color, frutos en mal estado, y perdida de peso; dichos datos se graficaron mediante un analisis descriptivo donde nos mostraran como se fueron comportando los tratamientos durante los dias de evaluacion; cuales fueron los mejores tratamientos de acuerdo a lo antes mencionado, y como principal factor a evaluar sera la perdida de peso y el total de frutos en buen estado.
A survey of the application of Web 2.0 in Australasian university libraries

Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overall picture of the application of Web 2.0 technologies in Australasian university libraries. The focus of the research was what types of Web 2.0 technologies were applied in such libraries as well as their purposes and features. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis was used in terms of quantitative approach. A checklist as the main research instrument was developed based on other checklists and questionnaires, and synthesized ideas from literature. Data were collected by accessing all Australasian university library web sites within two weeks. Then, Microsoft Excel was utilized as a main tool to synthesize and analyze data, and present results. Findings: At least two‐thirds of Australasian university libraries deployed one or more Web 2.0 technologies. Only four Web 2.0 technologies were used for specific purposes and with some basic features. The general Web 2.0 application indexes were still low as the mean application index was 12 points and the highest index was 37 points (out of 100). Research limitations/implications: A combination of content analysis with survey and/or interview may enable future researchers to analyze other aspects (e.g. the application of internal wikis or the use of instant messaging for reference services) of Web 2.0 that a single method of content analysis could not gain. Originality/value: This unique study explores the application of Web 2.0 in a wide scope including any Australasian university libraries that deployed any types of Web 2.0 technologies. This study is useful for Australasian university libraries in evaluating/deploying Web 2.0. Library managers, librarians and other university libraries may also find this helpful once they want to implement such technologies in their libraries.
Characterization and Use of Mammalian-Expressed Vaccinia Virus Extracellular Membrane Proteins for Quantification of the Humoral Immune Response to Smallpox Vaccines

ABSTRACT The licensed smallpox vaccine Dryvax is used as the standard in comparative immunogenicity and protection studies of new smallpox vaccine candidates. Although the correlates of protection against smallpox are unknown, recent studies have shown that a humoral response against the intracellular mature virion and extracellular enveloped virion (EV) forms of vaccinia virus is crucial for protection. Using a recombinant Semliki Forest virus (rSFV) vector system, we expressed a set of full-length EV proteins for the development of EV antigen-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) and the production of monospecific antisera. The EV-specific ELISAs were used to evaluate the EV humoral response elicited by Dryvax and the nonreplicating modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) in mouse vaccination experiments comparing doses and routes of vaccination. Quantitatively similar titers of antibodies against EV antigens A33R, A56R, and B5R were measured in mice vaccinated with Dryvax and MVA when MVA was administered at a dose of 108 plaque-forming units. Further, a substantial increase in the EV-specific antibody response was induced in mice inoculated with MVA by using a prime-boost schedule. Finally, we investigated the abilities of the EV-expressing rSFV vectors to elicit the production of polyclonal monospecific antisera against the corresponding EV proteins in mice. The monospecific serum antibody levels against A33R, A56R, and B5R were measurably higher than the antibody levels induced by Dryvax. The resulting polyclonal antisera were used in Western blot analysis and immunofluorescence assays, indicating that rSFV particles are useful vectors for generating monospecific antisera.
Self‐face processing in a callosotomy patient

Self‐face recognition is reserved for humans, apes and possibly dolphins and is thought to be a marker of self‐awareness. Previous data have indicated that self‐face recognition may be mediated via frontal right hemisphere circuits within the brain. Testing patient M.L. , who underwent a total callosotomy, we found that when searching for the self‐face in a series of morphs (composite facial images made up of his own and a famous face in inversely varying percentages) the patient made (i) more true‐positive and (ii) fewer false‐positive responses when responding with the right hemisphere (i.e. indicating with the left hand). There was no hand difference when searching for familiar faces. These data imply a right hemisphere processing advantage for self‐faces.
ESTIMATION OF MIDFOOT AND ANKLE KINETICS DURING WALKING 1

The Oxford Foot model (OFM) [2] is a multi-segment representation of the foot available as a plugin for the Vicon Nexus software package (Vicon, Oxford Metrics, UK). This model represents the foot as three independent rigid segments: The hallux, the forefoot and the hindfoot and computes threedimensional intra-segment kinematics. No kinetic data are provided, however as with the Plugin-gait model (PIG) (Vicon, Oxford Metrics, UK), segment embedded axes defined by virtual markers contained in the model output files can be used in conjunction with force plate data to compute intra-foot segment dynamics [5].
The effect of test distance on the CN lantern results

The purpose of this study is to determine how the viewing distance affects the pass/fail results of the CN Lantern (CNLan). The CNLan is a color vision test designed for the railway industry. It presents 15 triplets of colored lights that could be any combination of red, green and yellow. The test was viewed from 4.6 m and 2.3 m. Sixty-seven color-defectives participated in the first part of the study. Sixty-six percent of the subjects repeated the experiment 10 days later. There was a significant (P < 0.05) decrease in the mean number of errors from 7.6 to 4.3 as the distance decreased. There was also a corresponding increase in the percentage of subjects who passed from 9.0% at 4.6 m to 20.9% at the 2.3 m viewing distance. None of the subjects who passed at the longer distance failed at the shorter distance. The replication results were statistically identical to the first session (P > 0.05). Decreasing the CNLan viewing distance by 50% does decrease the number of errors and increase the pass rate. This indicates that some color-defectives could work in the railway yards where the sighting distances for the signal lights are shorter than on the main track.
STUDY OF TOTAL SEED STORAGE PROTEINS IN ETHIOPIAN MUSTARD (BRASSICA CARINATA A. BRAUN) GERMPLASM

The Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata A. Braun) germplasm, comprising 94 accessions was characterized for total seed storage proteins using sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The germplasm accessions were obtained from PGRP Gene bank, Institute of Agri-Biotechnology and Genetic Resources (IABGR), NARC, Islamabad Pakistan. To our information, no studies have yet been carried out in Pakistan on the genetic evaluation of B. carinata genotypes based on total seed protein. Total seed proteins were electrophoretically separated on 12.25% polyacrylamide gels using standard protocols. A total of 31 polypeptide bands were observed, of which 14 (45.27%) were polymorphic and 17 (54.83%) were monomorphic. The molecular weight of various bands ranged from 8 to 180 KDa. Similarity coefficients varied from 0.50 to 1.00. The dendrogram based on dissimilarity matrix using unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages (UPGMA) separated all accessions into five main groups. Overall low level of genetic variability was observed for SDS-PAGE (single dimension) in Pakistani local accessions, while medium to high level of genetic variability was observed for exotic material. As SDS-PAGE alone did not reveal high level of genetic variability, hence 2-D gel electrophoresis along with other advanced type molecular markers may reveal variability with more help. Our investigation suggests that more germplasm of Ethiopian mustard need to be acquired to broaden the genetic base for research and development.
The microtubule end-binding protein EB2 is a central regulator of microtubule reorganisation in apico-basal epithelial differentiation

Summary Microtubule end-binding (EB) proteins influence microtubule dynamic instability, a process that is essential for microtubule reorganisation during apico-basal epithelial differentiation. Here, we establish for the first time that expression of EB2, but not that of EB1, is crucial for initial microtubule reorganisation during apico-basal epithelial differentiation, and that EB2 downregulation promotes bundle formation. EB2 siRNA knockdown during early stages of apico-basal differentiation prevented microtubule reorganisation, whereas its downregulation at later stages promoted microtubule stability and bundle formation. Interestingly, although EB1 is not essential for microtubule reorganisation, its knockdown prevented apico-basal bundle formation and epithelial elongation. siRNA depletion of EB2 in undifferentiated epithelial cells induced the formation of straight, less dynamic microtubules with EB1 and ACF7 lattice association and co-alignment with actin filaments, a phenotype that could be rescued by inhibition with formin. Importantly, in situ inner ear and intestinal crypt epithelial tissue revealed direct correlations between a low level of EB2 expression and the presence of apico-basal microtubule bundles, which were absent where EB2 was elevated. EB2 is evidently important for initial microtubule reorganisation during epithelial polarisation, whereas its downregulation facilitates EB1 and ACF7 microtubule lattice association, microtubule-actin filament co-alignment and bundle formation. The spatiotemporal expression of EB2 thus dramatically influences microtubule organisation, EB1 and ACF7 deployment and epithelial differentiation.
CANCER PREVENTION: ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES AMONG BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This study intended to investigate the attitudes and practices of cancer prevention among Black South African university students. Opsomming Die doelwit van hierdie navorsing was om die houdings en praktyke vir die voorkoming van kanker onder swart studente aan Universiteite in Suid Afrika na te vors. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.
Does the Market Value Mandated Disclosure ?

Prior to the passage of the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments, firms moving from the Over-TheCounter (OTC) market to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) subjected themselves to more stringent mandated disclosure requirements in return for the greater visibility and liquidity available on the exchange. The passage of the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments eliminated the differences in the mandated disclosures between these markets. Prior literature finds that firms experience significant abnormal returns when they announce intentions to list their shares on the NYSE. If investors value mandated disclosure, the returns generated by announcing a move from the OTC market to the NYSE should be lower after the passage of the 1964 Amendments. We examine the returns for 288 firms announcing intentions to move from the OTC market to the NYSE before and after the passage of the 1964 Amendments. We report no difference in the announcement period returns. This suggests investors place little value on mandated disclosure. *We would like to thank Utpal Bhattacharya and Harold Mulherin for their helpful comments. We are grateful to Betsy Laydon and Sandro Santoro for excellent research assistance. 1 Does the Market Value Mandated Disclosure?
Inter‐harmonic parameters estimation in power grid based on accelerated PSO and T
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A novel method on inter-harmonic parameters estimation is proposed. It contains two steps: pre-calculation and solution optimisation. An interpolated-discrete fourier transform (DFT)-based algorithm with a fifth-order-triangular and eleventh-order-rectangular (T5R11) window is applied in the pre-calculation process. Owing to mainlobe interferences caused by inter-harmonics in the frequency domain, the accelerated particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm is proposed to optimise the solution of pre-calculation. Three aspects in the PSO are accelerated including utilising the especial DFT expression of T5R11 window, applying a changing inertia weight and locking the frequency. From the view of estimating accuracy, the errors caused by spectral leakage can be restrained to a degree of 10−11 by using T5R11 window, and the relative errors of parameters could be optimised to a degree of 10−5 at the tenth generation in the accelerated PSO. More simulations show that the proposed method can address many complex situations caused by inter-harmonics, and corresponding detection accuracies satisfy the requirements of national and international standards.
Potential of Fish Wastes as Feedstock for Biodiesel

Fish wastes are the discarded parts include the internal organs, viscera, bones, trimmings, tails, fins and skin of fishes. These discarded portions while disposing of cause major environmental damage. Usually, the discarded parts of fishes are ground into fishmeal for livestock and aquaculture feed. This study was undertaken to explore biodiesel production based on the fatty acids composition. The fish waste sample was collected from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah fish market. The sample was drained for excess water and oven-dried at 55°C - 60°C for complete dryness. Crude oils were extracted in petroleum ether in Soxhlet extraction method. Methylation of the extracted crude fish oil was carried out to yield fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). The FAME was analyzed by GCMS system and the reference to NIST library was used to identify the fatty acids present in the FAME. A total of 21 fatty acids were identified that composed of 53.53% saturated fatty acids (SFA), 22.1% monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) and 24.37% polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). The important fatty acids [myristic acid (C14:0), palmitic acid (C16:0), palmitoleic acid (C16:1), oleic acid (C18:1), linoleic acid (C18:2), linolenic acid (C18:3), docosapentaenoic acid (C22:5) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6)] found in fish oil indicated the potentiality of biodiesel production if fish waste was stocked. The highest percentage of SFA causes higher viscosity, cetane number and density and hence these properties of biodiesel produced from the fish waste are expected to be high. Therefore, the fish waste has high potential of fatty acid in FAME to produce biodiesel through transesterification process.
Dextro Propoxyphene and the Ventilatory Response to Carbon Dioxide in Man †

Dextro propoxyphene (Darvon®) is an orally effective analgesic said to be equipotent on a weight basis with codeine both in experimental animals and in man. ' When administered parenterally in 50 mg. doses it has also been reported3 to produce analgesia equivalent to that observed following 50 mg. of meperidine. Codeine and meperidine as well as other narcotics are recognized respiratory depressants when employed in therapeutic amounts. '" The respiratory depression frequently is not clinically apparent but is readily detected when technics are employed which allow measurement of the response of the respiratory center to carbon dioxide. ' Although dextro propoxyphene has been reported as producing no grossly evident alterations in respiration under clinical conditions,"8 its effect on respiration has not been examined under controlled experimental conditions. The present report concerns the effect of dextro propoxyphene on the ventilatory response to alterations in carbon dioxide tension experimentally produced in normal man.
OF MULTIPLICATIVE DIRAC STRUCTURES

The tangent lifts of higher order of Dirac structures and some properties have been defined in [9] and studied in [11]. By the same way, the tangent lifts of higher order of Poisson structures have been studied in [10] and some applications are given. In particular, the authors have studied the nature of the Lie algebroids and singular foliations induced by these lifting. In this paper, we study the tangent lifts of higher order of multiplicative Poisson structures, multiplicative Dirac structures and we describe the Lie bialgebroid structures and the algebroid-Dirac structures induced by these prolongations. Introduction We denote by LG and LA the categories of Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids, respectively. There is a natural functor A : LG → LA, which maps each object G ∈ LG to the object AG ∈ LA, and every morphism of Lie groupoids φ : G1 → G2 is mapped to the Lie algebroid morphism Aφ : AG1 → AG2. It is called the Lie functor and preserves the product bundles. Let G be a Lie groupoid over a manifold M , we denote by G(2) the set of composable groupoid pairs and we recall that, a Poisson groupoid is a pair (G; ΠG) where ΠG is a Poisson structure on G which is multiplicative in the sense that the graph of the multiplication map Λ = { (g, h, gh) , (g, h) ∈ G(2) } is a coisotropic submanifold of G×G×G , where G means that G is equipped with the opposite Poisson structure. We say that the bivector ΠG is a multiplicative bivector. On the other hand, it is well known that Lie bialgebroid is a 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: primary 53C15; secondary 53C75, 53D05.
Vibrotactile speech tracking support: cognitive prerequisites.

Fourteen postlingually hearing-impaired participants took part in an intervention study on the potential benefit of three types of tactile aids (i.e., the Tactilator, Minivib 3, and the Tactaid 7). Although training by means of computerized tracking had substantial effects on speech tracking rate, no differential effects of type of aid emerged. However, a cognitive test battery revealed that training efficacy is directly dependent on the cognitive prerequisites of the individual speechreader. The speed with which an individual can make phonological judgments (i.e., rhyme judgments) and visual word decoding from lipreading proved to be critical cognitive skills. We conclude that these skills must be further assessed and taken into account when rehabilitation/training programs are launched.
Performance of Human Papillomavirus DNA and mRNA Testing Strategies for Women with and without Cervical Neoplasia

ABSTRACT In the present study we investigated the cross-sectional positivity for DNA and E6/E7 mRNA from high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types in 643 women with high-grade cervical neoplasia (135 cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 [CIN2], 495 cases of CIN3/adenocarcinoma in situ [ACIS], and 13 cases of invasive carcinoma) and in 736 women with normal cytology by using the Amplicor and PreTect HPV-Proofer assays. In addition, genotyping was performed using Linear Array for women with normal cytology and a positive HPV test and in all women with histologically confirmed CIN2+. In women with normal cytology, 8.3% (61/736) were Amplicor positive and 3.3% (24/736) were PreTect HPV-Proofer positive (P < 0.001). Concordant results between the Amplicor and PreTect HPV-Proofer tests were present in 90.3% (665/736). In women with CIN2+ lesions 96.4% (620/643) were positive by Amplicor, 98.4% (633/643) by linear array, and 64.1% (412/643) by PreTect HPV-Proofer. Concordant results for the three HPV assays were present in 63.8%. The genotype profile detected by linear array and PreTect HPV-Proofer showed substantial agreement for HPV types 16, 18, 33, and 45. HPV type 16 and/or 18 was detected in 58.8% (378/643) of the women with high-grade neoplasia. Detection of E6/E7 mRNA by PreTect HPV-Proofer increased with severity of the cervical lesion. Detection of HPV DNA, however, was not associated with histology grade. In conclusion, the detection of HPV varied according to the assay used, and the concordance between the tests was poor. Our results indicate that mRNA testing may be a biomarker for progression of cervical neoplasia, but the optimal genotype mix remains to be determined.