Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Green purchasing capabilities, practices and institutional pressure

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the green-purchasing capabilities required to ensure the successful implementation of green-purchasing practices under the forces of institutional pressure. Specifically, this paper explores the green-purchasing capabilities of buyer firms under the influence of institutional pressures in supplier selection, development, collaboration and evaluation in support of environmental purchasing. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire survey method was used to gather data from 163 ISO 14001-certified manufacturing firms in Malaysia. Partial least squares was used for hypotheses testing. Findings Green-purchasing capabilities, such as manufacturing, financial, intraorganisational and integration capabilities, have a significant positive effects on green-purchasing practices. However, innovation capabilities have no significant effect on green-purchasing practices. Regulation, customer and competitor pressure positively moderate the relationships between green manufacturing capabilities and practices. Practical implications The paper highlights the importance of green-purchasing capabilities in enhancing the green-purchasing practices of firms. The findings that pertain to moderating effect could be used to assist policy makers, particularly in setting appropriate policies and strategies to improve green purchasing. Originality/value Although more studies on green purchasing have been conducted in recent years, issues, such as the effect of green-purchasing capabilities on green-purchasing practices, are still unspecified. Besides, this study considers institutional pressure as the moderator when a model is constructed to exemplify the relationship between green-purchasing capabilities and practices.
Amplification and Analysis of Rbcl Gene (Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase) of Clove in Ternate Island

DNA Barcoding is recommended as a tool for identifying and confirming species within the taxonomy framework. The rbcL gene is the barcode DNA for plant species. Ternate Island is one of clove plantation center in North Maluku. The diversity and productivity of cloves on the Ternate island known since in earlier times. This study has a purpose to amplify the rbcL gene in clove plants collected from clove plantations of communities in Ternate island. Isolation of total DNA carried out with using ZymoBiomic (Zymo Research DNA Extraction) Kit from leaves tissue, then DNA specimen is amplified based on rbcL gene with forwarding sequence rbcLaF 5′-ATG TCA CCA CAA ACA GAG ACT AAA GC-3′ and reverse sequence is rbcLaR 5′-GTA AAA TCA AGT CCA CCR CG-3′. The results showed that the specimen was successfully amplified with an amplicon size of 600 bp. Furthermore, BLASTN analysis results note that the sequence has a similarity of 99% with Syzygium cumini vc. J.R. Abbott 23676 (FLAS) ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase large subunit (rbcL) gene, but phylogenetically the precise position of sample could not found because the limitation of rbcL gene.
Surface treatment, reflectance, and age effects on electronic‐paper reading performance

Abstract— This study is intended to explore the legibility and visual fatigue of different age users under various surface treatments and reflectance of electronic paper. Through the method of character‐search task, the results indicated that compared with single types of treatment [anti‐reflection (AR) 0.8%, anti‐glare, 43% haze), the compound treatment of anti‐reflection and anti‐glare (ARC) exhibited the same legibility, and it showed superior properties to effectively reduce visual fatigue. Hence, it is suggested that electronic‐paper manufacturers should choose the compound surface treatment for better visual performance. On the other hand, the findings also validated that enhancing the reflectance of electronic paper to the same level as regular paper (about 80%) is worthy to be practically implemented. Based on the results of this study, electronic‐paper manufacturers can take useful information to fulfill ergonomic requirements on product design.
A Fully Integrated 8-Channel Closed-Loop Neural-Prosthetic CMOS SoC for Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Control

An 8-channel closed-loop neural-prosthetic SoC is presented for real-time intracranial EEG (iEEG) acquisition, seizure detection, and electrical stimulation in order to suppress epileptic seizures. The SoC is composed of eight energy-efficient analog front-end amplifiers (AFEAs), a 10-b delta-modulated SAR ADC (DMSAR ADC), a configurable bio-signal processor (BSP), and an adaptive high-voltage-tolerant stimulator. A wireless power-and-data transmission system is also embedded. By leveraging T-connected pseudo-resistors, the high-pass (low-pass) cutoff frequency of the AFEAs can be adjusted from 0.1 to 10 Hz (0.8 to 7 kHz). The noise-efficiency factor (NEF) of the AFEA is 1.77, and the DMSAR ADC achieves an ENOB of 9.57 bits. The BSP extracts the epileptic features from time-domain entropy and frequency spectrum for seizure detection. A constant 30- μA stimulus current is delivered by closed-loop control. The acquired signals are transmitted with on-off keying (OOK) modulation at 4 Mbps over the MedRadio band for monitoring. A multi-LDO topology is adopted to mitigate the interferences across different power domains. The proposed SoC is fabricated in 0.18- μm CMOS and occupies 13.47 mm2. Verified on Long Evans rats, the proposed SoC dissipates 2.8 mW and achieves high detection accuracy (> 92%) within 0.8 s.
Degree semantics for Russian verbal prefixes: The case of pod- and do-

This paper proposes a formal semantic approach to Slavic verbal prefixes. A hypothesis is put forward according to which a verbal prefix imposes a relation between two degrees on a scale. One is a degree associated with the event denoted by the verbal predicate. The other one is the standard of comparison, contributed by a linguistic expression that appears in the sentence, or by the context. The scale to which the prefix applies is most typically contributed by the linguistic environment in which the prefix appears. The paper demonstrates how the proposed analysis applies to two specific morphemes in Russian: the prefixes pod- and do-.
Octopus skin ‘sight’ and the evolution of dispersed, dermal light sensing in Mollusca

Author(s): Ramirez, Merce Desmond | Advisor(s): Oakley, Todd H | Abstract: We now know that co-option, or reuse of ancestral components, plays a prominent role in the evolution of emergent systems, like the reuse of gene regulatory networks in the evolution of developmental programs for morphology. Do the evolutionary origins of animal behaviors show evidence of modular reuse that we find at other levels of biological organization? I found that the skin of Octopus bimaculoides is intrinsically light sensitive, and that bright light causes colored chromatophore organs in octopus skin to expand, even without input from the central brain or eyes. Because this Light-Activated Chromatophore Expansion (or LACE) behavior relies on evolutionary novel chromatophore organs, LACE is also an evolutionary novelty. As such, I can pinpoint its origin in evolutionary time and ask whether the ability of mollusc skin to sense light existed prior to the evolution of cephalopod chromatophores and LACE. I found expression of the same r-opsin based phototransduction genes in both O. bimaculoides eyes and skin, and the spectral sensitivity of LACE closely matches that of the r-opsin in octopus eyes, consistent with the hypothesis that r-opsin phototransduction underlies LACE. The r-opsin phototransduction cascade can be traced back to at least the last common ancestor of bilaterians, so did the reuse of the cascade in octopus skin arise before, in time with, or after the evolution of cephalopod chromatophores? After surveying 28 mollusc mantle transcriptomes for opsins, I found that r-opsin cascade genes are expressed across the molluscs, from multiple species in each of the major mollusc classes, and an ancestral state reconstruction suggests that the last common ancestor of molluscs expressed r-opsin in its mantle. Taken together, these results suggest that the evolution of LACE required co-option of an ancient phototransduction module, and that like the evolution of development and other emergent systems, reuse may play a fundamental role in the macroevolution of animal behaviors.
Alternative approaches to overcome diastasis of damaged peripheral nerves. A review article

CTT JOURNAL | VOLUME 8 | NUMBER 1 | MARCH-APRIL 2019 Oleg V. Galibin 1, German V. Medvedev 2, Pavel V. Popryadukhin 3, Pavel A. Kulagin 1, Alexandr A. Gusev 1, Galina P. Kossyakova 1, Natalia V. Mikhailova 1, Veronika D. Novak 1, Denis N. Solomitskiy 1, Igor O. Shemiakin 1, Vadim S. Gadzhiagaev 1, Maksat Kh. Gurbannazarov 1 1 First St. Petersburg State I. Pavlov Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia 2 Russian R. R.Wreden Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedy, St. Petersburg, Russia 3 Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia Alternative approaches to overcome diastasis of damaged peripheral nerves. A review article Cellular Th erapy and Transplantation (CTT). Vol. 8, No. 1, 2019 doi: 10.18620/ctt-1866-8836-2019-8-1-20-25 Submitted: 26 November 2018, accepted: 15 March 2019
Does the presence of certain bacterial family in the microbiome indicate specific indoor environment characteristics? A factorial design approach for identifying bio-fingerprints

The study applies the current knowledge on microbiome in built environments towards identifying microbes, specifically bacteria as bio-fingerprints which can reflect indoor space and occupant characteristics. Data were collected from the literature on the bacterial family and the indoor environment. The factorial design approach was applied to quantify and compare the influence of selected indoor environmental parameters, sampling region (air or surface), sampling locations (residence or non-residence), gender and age and their interactions on the types and concentration of detected bacterial families. Factorial design analysis identified and confirmed Corynebacteriaceae and Lactobacillaceae as the gender signature for males and females, respectively. The significant bacterial families across all scenarios are: Corynebacteriaceae, Propionibacteriaceae, Bacillaceae, Staphylococcaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Methylobacteriaceae, Moraxellaceae, Micrococcaceae, Enterobacteriaceae, Rhodobacteraceae, Streptococcaceae and Pseudomonadaceae. Higher concentrations of Propionibacteriaceae indicate that the specific location is an adult-occupied space. Staphylococcaceae presence is the bio-fingerprint of contaminated air of hospitals bio-fingerprint and Moraxellaceae on hospital surfaces are distinct characteristics. Streptococcaceae is a bio-fingerprint of contaminated air of schools and other children-occupied spaces. Enterobacteriaceae is a bio-fingerprint of contaminated air of non-residence locations. Bacillaceae does not indicate any indoor characteristics.
Lipids and oxidative stress in blood serum of alloxan-induced diabetic rats: possible effects on liver and kidney tissues.

Experimental diabetes mellitus in rats was produced by a single dose of 200 mg of alloxan /kg body weight given intraperitoneally as an aqueous solution. The diabetic rats showed abnormal high blood glucose and variable increments in serum total lipids as well as in other serum lipid constituents particularly the triglycerides. Certain pathological abnormalities could be detected in both liver and kidney, particularly when the disturbances in glucose and lipid metabolism were more pronounced in a group of diabetic rats that received no insulin treatment {NIT} or after four weeks of the onset of diabetes. On the other hand, putting the group of diabetic rats on an insulin regimen from the start of the diabetic condition resulted in a significant restoration of most evaluated parameters to values almost similar to those of normal control animals. Diabetic rats receiving no insulin treatment showed a markedly significant loss in body weight; and started to gain body weight gradually when put on the proper insulin regimen.
Trabectedin Drug Holiday and Rechallenge in Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Report of 4 Cases and Literature Review

Soft tissue sarcomas are rare neoplasms, with a high mortality rate. Few drugs are available for the treatment of patients affected by metastatic sarcomas, who still have a 5-years survival rate lower than 20%. However, some of the more recent therapies can obtain long lasting responses in a portion of patients, such as Trabectedin. We analyzed four such cases treated at our Institute after progression to an anthracycline based regimen. In each case a therapeutic pause was proposed after at least 6 months of therapy with Trabectedin and in three out of four patients a re-challenge was proposed at progression, achieving again disease control or response. In two cases oligo-progressive sites were treated with localized therapies as stereotactic radiotherapy, delaying the systemic treatment re-start. In this article the reports of the patients involved are presented with a concise review of the relevant literature. Our findings support the favorable safety profile of Trabectedin and the feasibility of drug holidays, which should be at least discussed with the patient.
Characterization and Cultivation of Marine Protist, Thraustochytrium striatum for High-Value Bioproducts

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . iv TABLE OF CONTENTS . v LIST OF TABLES . ix LIST OF FIGURES . ix SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS . xii Chapter 1 Literature Review . 1 1.1 Long chain fatty acids from marine protists . 1 1.2 Extracellular enzymes from marine protists . 4 1.3 Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) from marine protists . 7 1.4 Astaxanthin production from marine protists . 10 1.5 Kinetic modeling of high valuable products formation . 12 Chapter 2 Comprehensive Study of Cultivation Conditions and Methods on Lipid Accumulation of a Marine Protist, Thraustochytrium striatum . 17 2.0 Introduction . 17 2.1 Materials and Methods . 19 2.1.1 Microorganism and cultivation . 19 2.1.2 Effect of cultivation conditions on cell growth and lipid production in batch operation . 19 2.1.3 Fed-batch cultivation . 21 2.1.4 Lipid analysis. 21 2.1.5 Qualitative enzyme assays . 22 2.1. 6 Data analysis . 23 2.2 Results and Discussion . 23 2.2.1 Growth analysis of T. striatum . 23 2.2.2 Effect of glucose concentration . 24 2.2. 3. Effect of YEP concentration . 25 2.2. 4. Effect of salinity . 26 2.2. 5 Effect of initial medium pH . 27 2.2. 6 Effect of rotation speed . 28 2.2. 7 Effect of different carbon and nitrogen sources . 30 2.2. 8 Fed-batch cultivation . 33
ENVELOPED VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES (eVLPs) EXPRESSING MODIFIED FORMS OF ZIKA VIRUS PROTEINS E AND NS1 PROTECT MICE FROM ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION

While Zika virus (ZIKV) infection induces mild disease in the majority of cases, it has been identified as responsible for microcephaly and severe neurological disorders in recent 2015-2016 outbreaks in South America and the Caribbean. Since then, several prophylactic vaccine strategies have been studied. Here, we describe the development of a ZIKV candidate vaccine consisting of bivalent enveloped virus-like particles (eVLPs) expressing a modified form of E and truncated NS1 (EG/NS1) proteins. In EG/NS1, the E transmembrane/cytoplasmic tail has been replaced with those domains from the VSV G protein and a β-domain of NS1 was fused in-frame to Gag from Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV). Immunization of BALB/C mice demonstrated that bivalent EG/NS1 and monovalent EG eVLPs induced comparable levels of antibody (Ab) titers but that EG/NS1 induced much higher neutralizing activity, comparable to naturally acquired anti-ZIKV immunity. In contrast, monovalent NS1 eVLPs did not induce a significant anti-NS1 Ab response but promoted strong T cell immunity that was also elicited with EG/NS1 eVLPs. ZIKV challenge studies in C57BL/6-IFNαR−/− mice demonstrated that EG/NS1 eVLPs conferred 100% protection against clinical disease after ZIKV challenge compared to 80% protection after EG eVLP vaccination, with protection against challenge correlating with neutralizing antibody titers and overt signs of infection. Author Summary Zika virus has caused rapidly spreading epidemics with potentially severe neurological symptoms including microcephaly in new born babies. Rapid progress has been made with several candidate vaccines under clinical evaluation but no vaccine or treatment is yet available. In this context, we have produced and tested recombinant virus-like particles that incorporate one or two Zika virus proteins, E and NS1 that have been modified for optimal efficacy. Our immunogenicity studies in mice showed a synergistic effect of both proteins in the bivalent vaccine. NS1 induced a strong T cell response enhancing the neutralizing antibody production induced by the E protein. In challenge experiments, the bivalent vaccine protected 100% of mice from clinical signs of Zika virus infection. These products could be further used to explore Zika virus correlates of protection and evaluated as vaccine candidates.
Electronic Supplementary Information Degradation of ZIF-8 in Phosphate Buffered Saline Media

Miriam de J. Velásquez-Hernández, Raffaele Ricco, Francesco Carraro, Ted Limpoco, Mercedes Linares-Moreau, Erich Leitner, Helmar Wiltsche, Johannes Rattenberger, Hartmuth Schröttner, Philipp Frühwirt, Eduard M. Stadler, Georg Gescheidt, Heinz Amenitsch, Christian J. Doonan, Paolo Falcaro a Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria. b Department of Chemistry, The University of Adelaide, 5005 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. c Insitute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, 8010, Graz, Austria. d Graz Centre for Electron Microscopy (ZFE), 8010 Graz, Austria. e Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria. f Oxford Instruments GmbH Asylum Research, 65205 Wiesbaden, Germany. E-mail: christian.doonan@adelaide.edu. au, paolo.falcaro@tugraz.at
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability

This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965–75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North–South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40 years after the war. The overall effect of bombing on the long-term disability rate among the Vietnamese population is highest among heavily bombed districts. Districts in the top bombing quintile experience a 25% relative increase in the rate of disability attributable to bombing compared with districts in the lowest bombing quintile. Effects are highest on the prevalence of severe disability and among cohorts before the war’s end. A smaller, yet significant, effect is found among cohorts born after the war. The article finds further evidence of indirect channels through which bombing may have impacted on long-term disability including adverse effects on nutritional environment and human capital attainment. These findings add to the evidence from Vietnam and indicate that wars inflict costs on the health of human populations that last longer than those relating to economic growth and welfare.
Effects of Leaf Surface Energy on Pesticidal Performance

Surface energy is widely used in the industry to predict behavior of spray droplets on solid surfaces. The targets of pesticide applications which are used extensively in agricultural production are mainly plant leaf surfaces. Digitization of leaf surfaces to estimate the spread and adhesion of a pesticide application is an important approach in providing descriptive information. In this regards, from intensive agricultural products Triticum aestivum L. , Citrus sinensis, Fragaria ananassa, Vitis vinifera L. , Cucumis sativus, Capsicum annuum L. culture plants, Elymus repens and Sinapis arvensis from weeds were used to determine surface energy. The leaf surface energies were determined by evaluating the contact angles of the drips while obtained from surface tension and its components from known liquids pure water, diiodomethane and formamide liquids on the surface of the leaves according to five different methods. Wu and Equation of State methods have been found to give more accurate results than other methods. Elymus repens and Triticum aestivum L. plants among the statistically three significant grouped leaves were reduce the spreading and sticking of droplets applied on the leaves by providing a more spherical droplet formation. The Fragaria ananassa leaves have encouraged the higher surface energy that they have the spread of the drips on the leaf surface.
A COMPARATVE STUDY ON DIAGNOSTIC YIELD BETWEEN CENTRIFUGED METHOD OF CYTOLOGY AND CELL BLOCK TECHNIQUE

Cytological examination of serous fluids is of paramount importance in disease diagnosis. Cell blocks are particularly useful when the cytological abnormalities are misleading, such as in reactive mesothelial cells or obscure as in occasional well differentiated adenocarcinoma. In the present study, these methods are applied to pleural and peritoneal fluids to conclude the diagnosis as inflammatory, benign or malignant lesion. A sample of 110 fluids obtained during August 2011 to August 2012 in the Department of Pathology, Narayana Medical College, Nellore. Out of 110, 76 (69%) are pleural and 34 (31%) were peritoneal samples. Men were 56.4% and women were 43.6% and the mean age of the study was 50.19 with a standard deviation of 14.81. Among 110 fluids 15 were clinically diagnosed as malignant effusions. Out of which 11 were reported as positive for malignant cells and 4 cases were negative. 3 cases were reported as positive for malignant cells in which they were clinically not diagnosed. Out of 110 cases, 12 were reported as positive for malignant cells by smear whereas 14 cases were reported as positive for malignant cells by cell block. The diagnostic yield is increased by cell block technique. The cell block technique not only increased the positive results, but also helped to demonstrate better architectural patterns which could be of great help in approaching the correct diagnosis of the primary site. Keywords: Cell Block Technique, Cytospin smear, Diagnostic Yield, Adeno carcinoma
Quality in Coriander leaves as influenced by growing conditions

A study was conducted in the plains of Kerala to investigate the performance of coriander leaffor its quality aspects in open and rain shelter conditions. The study suggested that significantlyhigher herbage and biomass yield (g/ plant) was observed from plants grown in rain shelter(9.21 and 12.78) compared to the open field (8.41 and 11.34). Among the varieties, Arka Isharecorded the highest herbage and biomass yield (10.46 and 14.13g/plant) followed by CO-1(8.97and 12.70). There was a significant higher vitamin C content (mg/100g) in open field(189.72) compared to rain shelter ( 124.55) and volatile oil ranging from 0.05-0.06 % in boththe growing conditions and were on par. Total chlorophyll content was recorded more in openfield (1.98) than in rain shelter (1.92) Among the varieties, total chlorophyll was more in CO-4(2.33). However, this need to be confirmed by further studies.