Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Processed Beverages on Dialysable Iron From Rice Based Meals in Comparison with Fresh Fruits

The investigation is aimed at analysing the effect of fruits and processed beverages on the dialysable iron content of a rice based meal with four differ ent green leafy vegetables (GLV). Rice (150g), red gram (30g) and a GLV (150g) forming the meal components were pressure -cooked and homogenised . To each of the meal, one of the following was added at 400 g or ml/meal level fresh fruit pulp or juice (four varieties), reconstituted juice powders (RJP), fruit squashes, ready to drink fruit beverage (RTD) and carbonated beverages (CB). Two brands of each processed beverages were used. Dialysable iron content of diets increased by 16-104% on addition of fruit pulp and by 45-263% on addi tion of fruit juices over the respective control diets. Among the processed juices, RJP enhanced the dialysable iron by 30-81%, fruit squashes by 20-138%, RTD by 33-96% and carbonated beverages by 1-131% with different brands. Differences observed in the two brands of processed beverages could be attributed to their ascorbic acid and citric acid contents. Hence, it can be concluded that addition of fruit/fruit juice, either in natural or synthetic forms containing organic acids i.e., citric, ascorbic or maleic acids will definitely increase the iron dialysability of cereal meal indicating enhanced iron bioavailability.
TEFL Graduate Supervisees' Views of Their Supervisors' Supervisory Styles and Satisfaction with Thesis Supervision.

A R T I C L E H I S T O R Y Content list available at http://ijltr.urmia. ac.ir Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research ijltr.2018. 20490 / 10.30466 64 Abate Demissie Gedamu/TEFL graduate supervisees’ .
Reproductive biology and feeding of Curimatella lepidura (Eigenmann & Eigenmann) (Pisces, Curimatidae) in Juramento reservoir, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Reproductive biology and feeding of Curimatella lepidura (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889) were studied in Juramento reservoir, Sao Francisco River basin, Southeastern Brazil. Histological analyses and gonadosomatic indexes revealed females and males in reproductive activity from October to March and total spawning occurring from January to March coupled with the peak of spermiating males. In the dry season, the fishes accumulated energetic reserves for reproduction during a short rainy season. The species presented sexual dimorphism, being females larger than males and sexual maturation occurring close to 7.7 cm standard length for females and 7.1 cm for males. C. lepidura presented iliophagous feeding habit, ingesting mainly sediment/detritus and a small amount of acari, algae, Tricoptera insects and Ostracoda crustaceans, suggesting a probable role in nutrient recycling of the Juramento reservoir.
Climate Impact of Polar Mesospheric and Stratospheric Ozone Losses due to Energetic Particle Precipitation

Energetic particles enter the polar atmosphere and enhance the production of nitrogen oxides and hydrogen oxides in the winter stratosphere and mesosphere. Both components are powerful ozone destroyers. Recently, it has been inferred from observations that the direct effect of energetic particle precipitation (EPP) causes significant long-term mesospheric ozone variability. Satellites observe a decrease in mesospheric ozone by up to 34 % between EPP maximum and EPP minimum. Here, we analyze the climate impact of polar mesospheric and polar stratospheric ozone losses due to EPP in the coupled climate model MPI-ESM. Using radiative transfer modeling, we find that the radiative forcing of a mesospheric ozone loss during polar night is small. Hence, climate effects of a mesospheric ozone loss due to energetic particles seem unlikely. A stratospheric ozone loss due to energetic particles warms the winter polar stratosphere and subsequently weakens the polar vortex. However, those changes are small, and few statistically significant changes in surface climate are found.
Role of the Public Sector in Agricultural Coopetition: Place-based Marketing in Post-WTO Rural Taiwan

Since the Uruguay round, the trend of liberalization in agricultural trade has been unstoppable. Although countries were eager to become members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the 1990s, agricultural production, trade and consumption patterns have also been undergoing rapid changes both in developed and developing regions. How have governments in different countries reacted to these changing realities and challenges? In addition to practicing conventional protectionism, such as farm subsidies and tariff wars to sustain the domestic agricultural industry, what else can the public sector do to reform agriculture? This research studied four public-private partnership cases in southern Taiwan to demonstrate an alternative governmental response to the changing agricultural trade, where the public sector induces competing farmers to cooperate. Specifically, the government encouraged the farmers in rural communities to engage in a so-called "state-led coopetition" strategy to promote place-based marketing and collectively create a competitive advantage in the post-WTO era. The research focuses on why and how competing farmers cooperate and the impact of state intervention on coopetition. In terms of research contribution, this study first addresses the theoretical and empirical deficiencies in discussing the role of the public sector in coopetition strategy. Second, after a careful examination of the motivation, implementation and outcome in the four state-led coopetition cases, four major findings are identified to advance coopetition theory building. These findings are the following: 1) crises are focusing events that induce coopetition behavior; 2) competing firms in state-led coopetition cooperate and compete differently than in a typical business environment; 3) not all coopetition that is led by the public sector is unintentional; and 4) state-led coopetition generates extra public value.
The Role of Political Uncertainty in Australian Financial Markets

type="main" xml:id="acfi12107-abs-0001"> Within the developed world, recent Australian political history is uniquely turbulent. This situation invokes indecision regarding investment decisions in both the real economy and the financial markets. This paper explores the relationship between uncertainty in Australian federal election polling and resulting financial market uncertainty. Empirical evidence suggests that increasing (decreasing) levels of uncertainty around the election result induce higher (lower) levels of uncertainty in financial markets. The effect is more pronounced as polling day approaches. Industry-level analysis suggests that the base materials sector is most significantly affected by election uncertainty in Australia.
Educator-Perceived Affects of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Deaf Children: A National Survey Study

The relationship between autism spectrum disorders and deafness continues to be one that is relatively unexplored. When autism and deafness occur together, a diagnosis of either condition may be missed or diagnosed late. For example, a deaf child may be diagnosed severely autistic only because it seems that comprehension and receptive abilities are lacking and a hearing test is simply not administered. Conversly, an individual may be diagnosed as deaf because a physician explains away atypical behavior as characteristic of being deaf, failing to consider autism. Truth is, however, it is highly probable that the two occur together, more so than previously thought (Garreau, Barthelemy, & Sauvage, 1984 as cited in Roper et al., 2003). In this survey study, this relationship is explored further, surveying the administrators of schools for the deaf around the nation. In doing so, those with first-hand experience describe: the areas in which deaf children with autism struggle the most, methods that best help this population of students learn, and which approaches to communication work best.
Cooperative visible light positioning systems

COOPERATIVE VISIBLE LIGHT POSITIONING SYSTEMS Osman Erdem M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Advisor: Sinan Gezici December 2017 Light emitting diode (LED) based visible light positioning (VLP) systems offer an alternative approach to commonly used radio frequency (RF) based positioning systems. In the literature, VLP studies are performed only for noncooperative systems. In this thesis, received signal strength (RSS) based cooperative localization is proposed for visible light systems. The effects of cooperation on the localization accuracy of visible light positioning systems are illustrated based on a Cramér-Rao lower bound expression. The obtained expression is generic for any three-dimensional configuration and covers all possible cooperation scenarios via definitions of connectivity sets. In addition, a low-complexity positioning algorithm is proposed for cooperative location estimation. Numerical results are presented to investigate the significance of cooperation and to evaluate performance of the proposed algorithm in various scenarios.
Effect of butylated hydroxytoluene on post-thawed semen quality of beetal goat buck, Capra hircus.

Present study was conducted to evaluate the effect butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) on post-thawed semen quality of Beetal goat buck semen. Semen was obtained from six bucks using artificial vagina and cryopreserved in tris egg yolk extender and semen quality was assessed on the basis of post-thaw sperm motility, viability, plasma membrane integrity, and acrosomal membrane status. Ejaculates were pooled and extended to the concentration of 2 × 10 9 spermatozoa per mL in tris egg yolk extender (300 mOsmol/L). Tris egg yolk extender containing various concentrations of BHT (0.0, 2.0 and 5.0 mM) was prepared. French straws (0.5 mL) were manually filled with semen, gradually cooled from 39 o C to 4 o C and finally, cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen at -196 o C. Five straws from each treatment (BHT (0.0, 2.0 and 5.0 mM)) were thawed and evaluated under phase-contrast microscope (40 ×) for sperm motility, whereas sperm viability, plasma membrane integrity and acrosomal integrity were assessed by the supravital staining, hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST) and normal acrosomal reaction, respectively. The results showed that only acrosomal integrity was improved (P < 0.05) by the addition of BHT in semen extender. Motility was suppressed (P < 0.05) by increasing BHT concentration. The maximum motility of sperm was achieved with 0.0 mM BHT. The HOST response and viability of spermatozoa were increased by addition of 2 and 5 mM BHT, but this increment was not statistically significant. In conclusion, the addition of BHT to semen extender can partially improve semen quality of Beetal goat.
Modern dietary patterns based on territorial origin - a review

There are different dietary patterns around the globe formed on the account of various anthropogenic factors: cultural, economic and globalization. Human food consumption patterns can be formulated and defined depending on habitat. For example, since Scandinavian countries are surrounded by seas, fishery was quite developed historically, and even today, seafood constitutes a large part of daily Scandinavian food plate. On the other hand, world globalization has led to the appearance of such unhealthy food consumption patterns as unbalanced nutrition or refined product excess in a daily diet. There is a strong association between unhealthy eating habits and diseases, which means that healthy eating habits could lower a wide range of such disease emergence possibility as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. The review discusses types of modern dietary patterns around the globe – their origins, main principles and effects on health, comparison of nutrient ratios among the most popular dietary patterns (Nordic diet, Mediterranean diet, Okinawa diet) and the “unhealthy” Western diet.
Epistemological Predictors of Prospective Biology Teachers' Nature of Science Understandings

The purpose of this study was to investigate epistemological predictors of nature of science understandings of 281 prospective biology teachers surveyed using the Epistemological Beliefs Scale Regarding Science and the Nature of Science Scale. The findings on multiple linear regression showed that understandings of definition of science and objectivity in science were negatively predicted by beliefs in inborn learning ability (ILA) and requirement for time in learning (RTL), while tentativeness was positively predicted by the same belief factors. Also, understandings of characteristics of scientific knowledge were positively predicted by beliefs in ILA and RTL, and hierarchy between laws and theories were negatively predicted by beliefs in ILA, RTL and development of learning ability with opportunity and support.
Codling moth granulovirus: variations in the susceptibility of local codling moth populations.

This study is part of a BMELV (German Federal Ministry for, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection) project for prevention of codling moth damage by long-term population control in large areas. Specimens from local codling moth populations were collected in fall 2003 from three different orchards in the South of Germany; two of them having been treated with granulovirus of codling moth (CpGV Madex 2 and/or Granupom) over many years (Lake Constance II and South Baden) and one since two years (Lake Constance I). In autumn 2004, specimens from populations in four other orchards with serious CM problems were collected to investigate whether more populations were involved in that region. Furthermore, the population Lake Constance I and South Baden were tested again. During the season, the location South Baden was almost weekly treated with 100 ml/ha of Madex 2 to test whether the level of susceptibility would change after such heavy treatments. The susceptibility of the offsprings of the overwintering generation to CpGV was investigated in the spring of the following year in bioassays on artificial diet and compared to a laboratory strain of the codling moth. The results indicated significant differences in sensitivity to the virus between the local codling moth populations. The LC50-values showed that in 2004, South Baden and Lake Constance II were more than thousand fold less susceptible than the populations Lake Constance I and the laboratory strain. The results from the bioassays in 2005 confirmed the low susceptibility of South Baden and of the new locations in Saarland and from an orchard 100 km away from South Baden. The population Lake Constance I, on the other hand, maintained its high sensitivity to the virus. The slope of the dose-mortality-regression lines of the unsusceptible populations was significantly lower than those of the susceptible ones, including that of the laboratory strain. This indicates a high inhomogeneity in the individual response of the unsusceptible larvae against the virus. Actually, the problem of reduced sensitivity to the virus seems to be limited to a few orchards in Germany, the majority of orchards being not affected.
Subalternity and Language: Overcoming the Fragmentation of Common Sense

The topics of language and subaltern social groups appear throughout Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. Although Gramsci often associates the problem of political fragmentation among subaltern groups with issues concerning language and common sense, there are only a few notes where he explicitly connects his overlapping analyses of language and subalternity. We build on the few places in the literature on Gramsci that focus on how he relates common sense to the questions of language or subalternity. By explicitly tracing out these relations, we hope to bring into relief the direct connections between subalternity and language by showing how the concepts overlap with respect to Gramsci's analyses of common sense, intellectuals, philosophy, folklore, and hegemony. We argue that, for Gramsci, fragmentation of any social group's 'common sense', worldview and language is a political detriment, impeding effective political organisation to counter exploitation but that such fragmentation cannot be overcome by the imposition of a 'rational' or 'logical' worldview. Instead, what is required is a deep engagement with the fragments that make up subaltern historical, social, economic and political conditions. In our view, Gramsci provides an alternative both to the celebration of fragmentation fashionable in liberal multiculturalism and uncritical postmodernism, as well as other attempts of overcoming it through recourse to some external, transcendental or imposed worldview. This is fully in keeping with, and further elucidates Gramsci's understanding of the importance of effective 'democratic centralism' of the leadership of the party in relation to the rank and file and the popular masses.
Improved Vaccine Design and Delivery as Part of an Integrated Approach toMeet the Public Health Challenge of Typhoid Fever in Developing Countries

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. typhi) is a significant cause of typhoid fever in humans. Gastrointestinal infections with this and the closely related bacterium S. paratyphi that causes paratyphoid fever pose a public health challenge, particularly in developing countries where people of all age groups are commonly affected. However, limited data exist to estimate the total clinical burden of such enteric fever in Asian and African countries. Despite the demonstrated success of a number of typhoid vaccines, these are still not deployed widely enough to protect whole communities. In typhoid fever-endemic areas especially there is a pressing need to consider the introduction into routine public health programs of new generation typhoid vaccines. To this end, several novel conjugate vaccines have undergone clinical trials for human use. The optimum age at which children are immunized needs to be re-evaluated as there is a requirement for an efficacious and potent vaccine that can be used in children below the current vaccination window of two to five years of age. This review highlights the key virulence factors of S. typhi that are associated with antibiotic resistance and considers the need to introduce widespread public vaccination programs to help combat typhoid fever worldwide. Improvement in sanitation and water systems is the principal long-term solution to disease prevention. In addition, early diagnosis and appropriate treatment can reduce rates of morbidity and lessen disease severity in individual patients, even in regions with restricted health care facilities. In order to support national vaccination programs, in locations where typhoid fever is endemic a range of policies on public health education, good hygiene practices, increased quality of the supply of drinking water and regular monitoring of S. typhi antibiotic resistance patterns should be instigated.
Achievement goals in educational contexts: A social psychology perspective

Research on achievement goals usually defines mastery goals as the desire to acquire knowledge, and performance goals as the desire to outperform (or not to underperform) others. Educational contexts are most of the time social contexts, involving various persons and groups, of various hierarchical positions, and various cultural and ideological contexts. Surprisingly, most research in the achievement goal field has been conducted at an individual level of analysis. In the present paper, we will review the social consequences and antecedents of goal endorsement. This research indicates that goals strongly affect the way one behaves with co-learners. Moreover, it suggests that more than merely individual dispositions, goals reflect the social relation students have with other persons, institutions, and with the society to which they belong. We conclude this paper by setting an agenda for future achievement goal research.
Influence of moult and location on patterns of daily movement by Egyptian Geese in South Africa

Abstract The daily movements of 18 Egyptian Geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca) in South Africa were recorded using satellite telemetry. General additive mixed models were used to explain the distances moved by the birds at different times of the day, correcting for sex, site, season and individual. Distances moved by birds in the mesic, winter-rainfall, south-western region (Strandfontein) of South Africa were compared with movements in the semi-arid, summer-rainfall region (Barber-span) of northern South Africa. Moulting birds all remained at single wetlands during moult, displayed crepuscular patterns of activity and nocturnal retreats to safety. At the end of moult, birds dispersed away from moulting sites. The longest daily distances travelled by individuals took place mainly just before moult was due to start or within the first 10 days after completing moult, providing strong evidence that Egyptian Geese undertake moult migrations. The daily pattern of movement was strongly skewed, with >70% of flights being short (<10 km) and longer flights mainly occurring at night (88%). There were considerable differences in patterns of dispersal between birds at the summer-rainfall site and the winter-rainfall one. Summer-rainfall birds undertook long-distance movements between wetlands whereas Winter-rainfall birds appeared to move randomly and over short distances.
Gender Differences in Online Shopping: Are Men More Shopaholic Online?

The purpose of this research is to see how the difference of gender influenced the preference in online shopping. We focus on the emotional level, the level of practicality, and the level of trust felt by every individual regarding online shopping, which relates towards the frequency of online shopping and the total amount spent on online shopping. The technique of data collection is done via a questionnaire that can be filled online. This research found that women are online shopping more than men, but regarding total spending, men spend more than women. Level of trust becomes the biggest factor for men in deciding how often they do online shopping and how much money they spend. Men’s risk aversion influences their activities in online shopping, while women’s risk aversion has no significant effects.
Simulation of wind-induced snow transport and sublimation in alpine terrain using a fully coupled snowpack/atmosphere model

In alpine regions, wind-induced snow transport strongly influences the spatio-temporal evolution of the snow cover throughout the winter season. To gain understanding on the complex processes that drive the redistribution of snow, a new numerical model is developed. It directly cou- ples the detailed snowpack model Crocus with the atmo- spheric model Meso-NH. Meso-NH/Crocus simulates snow transport in saltation and in turbulent suspension and in- cludes the sublimation of suspended snow particles. The cou- pled model is evaluated against data collected around the ex- perimental site of Col du Lac Blanc (2720 m a.s.l., French Alps). First, 1-D simulations show that a detailed represen- tation of the first metres of the atmosphere is required to reproduce strong gradients of blowing snow concentration and compute mass exchange between the snowpack and the atmosphere. Secondly, 3-D simulations of a blowing snow event without concurrent snowfall have been carried out. Re- sults show that the model captures the main structures of at- mospheric flow in alpine terrain. However, at 50 m grid spac- ing, the model reproduces only the patterns of snow erosion and deposition at the ridge scale and misses smaller scale patterns observed by terrestrial laser scanning. When acti- vated, the sublimation of suspended snow particles causes a reduction of deposited snow mass of 5.3 % over the calcu- lation domain. Total sublimation (surface + blowing snow) is three times higher than surface sublimation in a simulation neglecting blowing snow sublimation.