Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The effect of pomegranate seed powder addition on radical scavenging activity determined by TLC–DPPH test and selected properties of gluten-free pasta

ABSTRACT The aim of the present work was to study the effect of pomegranate seeds powder (PSP) supplementation to gluten-free (GF) sheeted pasta on cooking properties, sensory characteristics and antioxidants properties using TLC-DPPH test. Five levels of pomegranate seed powder were used (2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0 and 12.5%) on formula replacement basis. Antioxidant potential of GF pasta increased with the addition of pomegranate seeds powder. The GF pasta without additives and with 2.5% concentration of PSP did not reveal ability to scavenge free radicals. The highest aforementioned activity was observed for crude pomegranate seed extract followed by GF pasta with 12.5, 10.0, 7.5 and 5.0% addition of PSP. The total dietary fibers content of pasta increased from 5.68 to 14.80 g/100 g with the increase in the incorporation of PSP from 0 to 12.5%. The results revealed that cooking loss of gluten-free pasta increased from 9.09 to 10.18%, whereas pasta firmness decreased from 381.43 to 366.30 N, upon incorporation of PSP. Pomegranate seeds powder decreased the lightness of the pasta from 82.26 to 57.27. Sensory analysis suggested that control pasta (without PSP) and pasta supplemented with low levels of PSP have the most acceptable quality. In conclusion, incorporating PSP at low levels enhanced the nutritional quality of pasta without a significant adverse effect on its cooking, textural and sensory properties. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Extração de DNA a partir de coágulos sanguíneos bovinos.

Foi otimizada uma metodologia de extracao de DNA genomico a partir de coagulo sanguineo. Amostras de sangue com e sem anticoagulante EDTA para a obtencao dos coagulos sanguineos foram coletadas em bovinos nos estados de Rondonia e Acre para pesquisa de Anaplasma marginale. Para a extracao de DNA a partir do coagulo sanguineo testaram-se dois tipos de tecido de nylon: no tratamento 1, o tecido utilizado apresentava diâmetro dos poros de 200 µm e no tratamento 2, tecido com poros de diâmetro de 1.200 µm. As amostras de sangue com anticoagulante representaram o tratamento 3, sendo este considerado como tratamento controle. Apos a quebra mecânica, os coagulos sofreram centrifugacao a 7.000 RPM por 15 minutos passando atraves das malhas dos tecidos utilizados nos tratamentos 1 e 2. A extracao de DNA das amostras a partir do coagulo centrifugado e do sangue total se deu atraves da utilizacao de kit comercial para extracao de DNA genomico. A quantificacao do DNA obtido foi realizada atraves de espectrofotometria a 260 e 280 m, sendo sua integridade verificada atraves de eletroforese em gel de agarose. As amostras de DNA obtidas a partir dos diferentes protocolos foram utilizadas como molde para amplificacao, por PCR, do gen msp5 de A. marginale. A quantidade de DNA obtida pelos tratamentos 1 e 2 foi semelhante a do sangue total (33,39 ± 1,17; 31,76 ± 0,663; 32,35 ± 0,676, respectivamente). A pureza do DNA nas amostras obtidas a partir dos tratamentos 1 e 2 foram semelhantes a do sangue total (A260/280 = 1,61 ± 0,068; 1,58 ± 0,035; 1,63 ± 0,028, respectivamente). A utilizacao de tecidos de organza ou tipo filo se mostrou como uma metodologia apta a ser incorporada como metodo de rotina para extracao de DNA a partir de coagulo sanguineo bovino por ser uma metodologia simples, rapida, barata e reproduzivel para a obtencao de quantidades consideraveis de DNA de boa qualidade para utilizacao em estudos de epidemiologia molecular em patologias bovinas.
Nanostructures for polymer-based organic photovoltaics

In this thesis, the influence of external parameters during the processing procedures on the active layer morphology of the polymer:fullerene PTB7:PCBM bulk heterojunction system are thoroughly investigated. It is ascertained that the power conversion efficiency can be easily manipulated by varying these external parameters (a slight chemical modification of the used polymer, the usage of host solvent, or an additional solvent treatment). The focus of the present work is to elucidate the relationship between the active layer morphology and the corresponding power conversion efficiency.
A One-Pass Tree-Shaped Tableau for Defeasible LTL

10 Defeasible Linear Temporal Logic is a defeasible temporal formalism for representing and verifying 11 exception-tolerant systems. It is based on Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and builds on the preferential 12 approach of Kraus et al. for non-monotonic reasoning, which allows us to formalize and reason with 13 exceptions. In this paper, we tackle the satisfiability checking problem for defeasible LTL. One of the 14 methods for satisfiability checking in LTL is the one-pass tree shaped analytic tableau proposed by 15 Reynolds. We adapt his tableau to defeasible LTL by integrating the preferential semantics to the 16 method. The novelty of this work is in showing how the preferential semantics works in a tableau 17 method for defeasible linear temporal logic. We introduce a sound and complete tableau method for 18 a fragment that can serve as the basis for further exploring tableau methods for this logic. 19
Affine extractors and AC0-Parity

We study a simple and general template for constructing affine extractors by composing a linear transformation with resilient functions. Using this we show that good affine extractors can be computed by non-explicit circuits of various types, including AC0-Xor circuits: AC0 circuits with a layer of parity gates at the input. We also show that one-sided extractors can be computed by small DNF-Xor circuits, and separate these circuits from other well-studied classes. As a further motivation for studying DNF-Xor circuits we show that if they can approximate inner product then small AC0-Xor circuits can compute it exactly – a long-standing open problem.
Developmental Review on Child Art

Children adore art because they use it as language to express how they feel and to communicate with the outside world where words may fail. Child art is an instrument for the children as they discover the world through intellectual, emotional and physical methods. Every child uses art to make their decisions, have fun with other children and themselves, and as a way to express their emotions. The use of art by children can be interpreted differently by the different viewers. To the child however, it is not a time to critique the final product that comes from art, but it is a time to enjoy the moment of painting different colors and making shapes and curved lines come to life. It is in art that the children gain the control of their thoughts and can deliver what they desire most from their thoughts to the canvas. Art is a child’s way of understanding the world, interacting with it, and expressing what they feel about the world as their mind and body develops, without which the cognitive, sensory, and motor skills will not develop well.
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Irma M Puspitasari * Rano K Sinuraya * Cherry Rahayu Witriani Witriani Uzlifatul Zannah Auliani Hafifah Ajeng R Ningtyas Hilda Vildayanti 1Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Indonesia; 2Center of Excellence in Higher Education for Pharmaceutical Care Innovation, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Indonesia; 3Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia; 4Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jatinangor, Indonesia
The Potential Functions of Protein Domains during COVID Infection: An Analysis and a Review

Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a large viral family that can evolve rapidly emerging new strains that cause outbreaks and life-loss, including SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). CoVs encode a diverse number of proteins, ranging from 5 proteins in bat CoV, to 14 in SARS CoV, which could have implication on viral tropism and pathogenicity. Here, we highlight the functional protein motifs (domains) that could contribute in the coronavirus infection and severity, including SARS-CoV-2. For this role, we used the experimentally validated domain (motif) datasets that are known to be crucial for viral infection. Then, we highlight the potential molecular pathways and interactions of SARS-CoV-2 proteins within human cells. Interestingly, the C-terminal of SARS-CoV-2 nsp1 protein encodes MREL motif, which a signature motif of the tubulin superfamily, and regulate tubulin expression. The C-terminal region of nsp1 protein can bind to ribosome and regulation viral RNA translation.
Evaluation of the relationship between human brucellosis and pregnancy loss

Aim: Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella. The disease causes genitourinary systeminvolvement and abortion, which is the most critical complication of the disease, in cattle. Although it is known to cause spontaneousabortion, preterm birth and intrauterine death in humans, the number of systematic studies on the subject is limited. This studycompared the patients who experienced pregnancy loss and women who carried their pregnancy to term without any problems interms of serology for brucellosis in our region which is an endemic region.Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the Clinic of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in GaziantepUniversity Hospital between August 2012-June 2013. The study was conducted with 71 patients who experienced intrauterinepregnancy loss and 109 women who carried their pregnancy to term without any problems as the control group, wherein all subjectswere aged between 18 and 40. These two groups were in a similar age group and had a similar gestational age.Results: There were 4 (5,6%) subjects who were brucella-positive in the patient group and 1 (0,9%) subjects who were brucella-positive in the control group according to the serology for brucellosis. C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, aspartateaminotransferase, abortus, and parity were significantly high in women who experienced pregnancy loss (p<0.05). The rate of livingin rural areas as well as the frequency of fever, chills, shivering and lower back pain was significantly high in the patient group.When the patient group was divided into two subgroups according to the serology for brucella, patients with positive serology had asignificantly higher rate of joint pain and animal contact (livestock farming) history. Although there was no significant relationshipbetween brucella agglutination titration and pregnancy loss, the number of the brucellosis patients and agglutination titrations werehigher particularly in the group of women who experienced pregnancy loss.Conclusion: Prospective studies that will be conducted with larger patient groups are required to better reveal the relationshipbetween pregnancy and brucellosis. Moreover, serology for brucella can be used as a screening method to provide early treatmentand prevent complications associated with brucellosis during pregnancy follow-up especially in endemic region.
Analysis of Convergence for the Ecuadorian case at the cantonal level in the period: 2007-2017

The objective of this study is to analyze the existence of convergence and determine its magnitude at the cantonal level for the Ecuadorian economy during the period 2007 to 2017. Following the methodology proposed by Quah, the transition matrix of the Ecuadorian economy at the cantonal level is estimated, following the postulates of Barro and Sala-i-Martin, the sigma convergence process is identified and an econometric model is estimated using OLS and cross-sectional data, to determine the existence and magnitude of the beta convergence. The main findings indicate that Ecuador shows an improvement in the final mobility situation. Furthermore, the absolute convergence rate amounts to 3.62% annual average at the cantonal level, while, by including conditioning factors in relation to physical infrastructure of households, electricity consumption and education, the speed of convergence amounts to 4.67% average annual, which denotes key areas of intervention, among others, in order to shorten territorial gaps in Ecuador.
Taxing Externalities of Individuals’ Mobility: Income-related Differences in Response

In the light of recent policy developments in Switzerland, a randomized control trial, which tracked the mobility behavior of about 3,500 individuals, was conducted. Treatments consisted of a purely information-based nudge and a Pigovian tax, charging the marginal external costs of individuals. This thesis focuses on the effect heterogeneity concerning income per person using DiD and quantile regression. The nudge is shown to have no significant effect, while high incomes react most to the Pigovian tax. Additionally, it is found that individuals generally react more, the more external costs they initially have. However, this trend is not true for those with the highest external costs, where both treatments show a high variance in treatment response. Jakob Roth CONTENTS Master Thesis
Manifold Alignment across Geometric Spaces for Knowledge Base Representation Learning

Knowledge bases have multi-relations with distinctive properties. Most properties such as symmetry, inversion, and composition can be handled by the Euclidean embedding models. Nevertheless, transitivity is a special property that cannot be modeled efficiently in the Euclidean space. Instead, the hyperbolic space characterizes the transitivity naturally because of its tree-like properties. However, the hyperbolic space reveals its weakness for other relations. Therefore, building a representation learning framework for all relation properties is highly difficult. In this paper, we propose to learn the knowledge base embeddings in different geometric spaces and apply manifold alignment to align the shared entities. The aligned embeddings are evaluated on the out-of-taxonomy entity typing task, where we aim to predict the types of the entities from the knowledge graph. Experimental results on two datasets based on YAGO3 demonstrate that our approach has significantly good performances, especially in low dimensions and on small training rates.
Trophic behavior of insectivorous birds in agroforestry systems immersed in mesophilic forest

In order to know the hunting techniques that birds use in the capture of their prey, from August (2018) to January (2019), the bird monitoring was applied, using systematic sampling, point count with fixed radius and intensive search. Observation frequency (FO) and relative abundance index (IAR) were determined. To determine association between birds and hunting techniques, Poisson regression analysis (ARP) was applied. To learn more important hunting techniques, principal component analysis (ACP) was applied. To determine differences between hunting techniques and infer if what is recorded is present, Kruskal-wallis and X were applied. FO notes that the most frequent hunting techniques are collect (63.7%), inspect (15.32%) and boost (8.06%). The IAR suggests average values of 0.24; 0.25; 0.333; 0.142. The ARP suggests better fit models with an AIC= 49.506. The ACP explains 100% inertia. Kruskal-wallis shows differences in CT and CTPT-BMM. The X evidence that what is recorded is expected. There is evidence of sympatric coexistence in registered bird species because there is no competition for the resource or the hunting technique used to capture their prey.
Effects of Byproduct Amendment on Enzyme Activities and Physicochemical Properties of Acidic Orchard Soil from Jiaodong Peninsula of China

ABSTRACT Application of byproduct amendment containing silicon, calcium, magnesium, and potassium has been shown to improve acidic soil quality in Jiaodong Peninsula of China. In this study, we explored the influences of amendment supplemented with and without urea on the physicochemical properties as well as microbial activities of acidic soil from Jiaodong over a 120-day period. With the amendment, the electronic conductivity and pH of soils changed. The amendment treatment significantly reduced inorganic nitrogen content and increased microbial biomass nitrogen content during the whole incubation period. The microbial biomass, activities of phenol oxidase and dehydrogenase were increased by the addition of amendments, while the soil respiration, catalase and urease activity were declined. Our results indicated that application of byproduct amendment could improve the chemical and biological properties of the acidic orchard soils from Jiaodong over a short time period of investigation.
Markovian classification of SAR images using G0I model

When processing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, there is a strong need for statistical models of scattering to take into account multiplicative noise. For instance, the classification process needs to be based on the use of statistics. Our main contribution is the choice of an accurate model for SAR images over urban areas and its use in a Markovian classification algorithm. Clutter in SAR images becomes non-Gaussian when the resolution is high or when the area is manmade. Many models have been proposed to fit with non-Gaussian scattering statistics (K, Weibull, Log-normal, etc.), but none of them is flexible enough to model all kinds of surfaces. Frery et al. [IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 35 (1997) 648–659] proposed a new class of distributions, G distribution, arising from the multiplicative model. Classical distributions such as K are particular cases of this new class. A special case of this class called G0 is shown able to model extremely heterogeneous clutter, such as that of urban areas. The quality of the classification obtained by mixing this model and a Markovian segmentation is high.
THE STRUCTURE OF CLASSIFIER-MODIFIER RECURSION IN THAI1

The repeating classifier-modifier sequence that occurs within Thai nominals has been analyzed as an additional projection of ClassifierP with mandatory movement operations (Singhapreecha 2001). It has also been suggested that there is a prosodic break preceding it, hence requiring recourse to apposition (Visonyanggoon 2000 and Jenks 2011). This study provides experimental support for the structures of the Thai nominals containing one, two, three and four classifiermodifier sequences. The results from the attachment experiment reveal that the number of the sequences affects how the speakers comprehend the nominals and that their comprehension differences reflect two divergent syntactic structures. For the nominals with one classifiermodifier sequence, the sequence tends to attach the lower DP in the structure while those with two classifier-modifier sequences are likely to be ambiguous between high and low attachment interpretations. Following the results of the relative clause attachment experiment in Dillon et al. 2018, I propose that both of these nominals have embedded structures similar to restrictive relative clauses and the entire DP subsequently undergoes obligatory roll-up movement. For those with three and four classifier-modifier sequences, the preference for high attachment suggests that these sequences should be analyzed as appositive phrases.
Preliminary Screening for Natural Bioactive Compounds in Potato Peel Fermentation Broth

Potato is one of the most consumed vegetable in the world which generates a large fraction of peel wastes. Potato peel waste (PPW) has been successfully fermented using mixed microbial culture (MMC) to produce mainly lactic acid. During fermentation, the MMC changes from a very diverse bacterial consortium to mainly (86%) Lactobacillus species by 16S rRNA gene sequencing which suggests that antimicrobial and bioactive compounds are produced during fermentation. This preliminary study examined the main compositional changes during fermentation as well as analysis of broth extracts. The PPW fermentation broth were extracted with CH2Cl2, n-hexane, CHCl3 and ethyl acetate and the extracts analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry and sodium decyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) to GC-MS analysis led to the identification of bioactive compounds and some were found to have potential antimicrobial, prophylactic, and other curative activities. The findings of this study indicate that PPW is a promising candidate as a valuable source for future biochemical production research.
DELIRIUM AND LENGTH OF STAY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT DELIRIUM E TEMPO DE PERMANÊNCIA EM UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA DELIRIUM Y TIEMPO DE PERMANENCIA EN LA UNIDAD DE CUIDADOS INTENSIVOS

Objective: to analyze the association between delirium and length of stay in the Intensive Care Unit. Method: prospective cohort study conducted in the intensive care unit of a university hospital of São Paulo, Brazil, between October and December 2017. The participants were all patients aged over 18 years. The independent variables were the clinical and demographic data, and the length of stay. The dependent variable was the delirium, measured by the instrument Confusion Assessment Method (ICU). Data analysis was performed with descriptive statistics, Spearman’s correlation, V Cramer test, and the logistic regression model to test the association. Results: delirium was identified in 48.5% of severe patients and correlated with the number of doses of medicine and length of stay. The condition of liberation showed a significant difference between patients with and without delirium. Conclusion: the length of stay increased in almost 10.0% the chance of delirium in the Intensive Care Unit.
The Association of Household Garbage Management and Socioeconomic with Underweight in Children Under Five in Lebak District and Tangerang City, Banten, Indonesia

Underweight in infants and under-five children may cause growth and developmental disorders and it remains one of the major factors causing child mortality, illness and disability. Underweight is still one of the nutritional problems in Indonesia and the government is undertaking all efforts and drawing up effective strategies to reduce the prevalence of underweight in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to see what factors were associated with underweight in under-five-year-old children in Lebak Regency and Tangerang City, Banten Province. The study applied the logistic regression method using the 2013 Basic Health Research. Underweight in children was calculated by converting the anthropometric measurements into a standardized value (Z-score), which was then presented in the index of body weight for age. The results obtained among 492 infants revealed there were 28.5% (about 75 children under five) with underweight status. Children from families who did not apply good sanitation by disposing of garbage in an unsanitary manner had a risk of 15.2 folds (OR = 15.2, 95% CI = 4.69-49.65) to be underweight compared with those who had good sanitation behaviors. Children under five from families with a low socioeconomic status had a risk of 2.5 folds (OR = 2.5, 95% CI = 1.12-5.53) to suffer from underweight compared to those who had a high socioeconomic status. The conclusion is sanitation and socioeconomic status are related to the underweight status of children under five in Lebak Regency and Tangerang City.