Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Harvest and Food Habits of Waterfowl Wintering in Sinaloa, Mexico

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Application of Milk-Clotting Protease from Aspergillus oryzae DRDFS13 MN726447 and Bacillus subtilis SMDFS 2B MN715837 for Danbo Cheese Production

This study aimed to investigate the efficiency, biochemical composition, and sensory quality of Danbo cheese produced using proteases derived from the fungus and bacterium compared to the commercial product. A fungal enzyme from Aspergillus oryzae DRDFS13MN726447 and a bacterial enzyme from Bacillus subtilis SMDFS 2B MN715837 were produced by solid-state and submerged fermentation, respectively. The crude enzyme from A. oryzae DRDFS13 and B. subtilis SMDFS 2B was partially purified by dialysis and used for Danbo cheese production using commercial rennet (CHY-MAX® Powder Extract NB, Christian Hansen, 2235 IMCU/g) as a control. The Danbo cheese produced using dialyzed fungal enzyme (E1) (267 U/mL), dialyzed bacterial enzyme (E2) (522 U/mL), and commercial rennet (C) were analyzed for body property, organoleptic characteristics, and proximate and mineral composition when fresh and after 2 months of ripening. There was no significant difference in the cheese yield (C = 9 kg, E1 = 8.6 kg, and E2 = 8.9 kg) among the three treatments. The body properties of Danbo cheese produced with the fungal enzyme (E1) were firm and acceptable as the control (C), whereas the Danbo cheese produced by bacterial enzymes has shown a watery body. The overall organoleptic characteristics of Danbo cheese produced by the fungal enzyme (5.3) were similar to control cheese produced by commercial rennet (5.5). Both cheese types were significantly different in organoleptic properties from Danbo cheese produced by the bacterial enzyme (4.9). There was no significant difference (p>0.05) in the proximate composition between the ripened Danbo cheese produced by fungal enzyme and the control cheese except for crude protein content. However, the ripened cheese products showed a significant difference in their mineral composition except for sodium. In conclusion, this study demonstrated that the fungal enzyme from Aspergillus oryzae DRDFS 13 is more appropriate for Danbo cheese production than the bacterial enzyme from Bacillus subtilis SMDFS 2B. However, it requires further application of the enzymes for the production of other cheese varieties.
Using Disaster Outcomes to Validate Components of Social Vulnerability to Floods: Flood Deaths and Property Damage across the USA

Social vulnerability indicators seek to identify populations susceptible to hazards based on aggregated sociodemographic data. Vulnerability indices are rarely validated with disaster outcome data at broad spatial scales, making it difficult to develop effective national scale strategies to mitigate loss for vulnerable populations. This paper validates social vulnerability indicators using two flood outcomes: death and damage. Regression models identify sociodemographic factors associated with variation in outcomes from 11,629 non-coastal flood events in the USA (2008–2012), controlling for flood intensity using stream gauge data. We compare models with (i) socioeconomic variables, (ii) the composite social vulnerability index (SoVI), and (iii) flood intensity variables only. The SoVI explains a larger portion of the variance in death (AIC = 2829) and damage (R 2 = 0.125) than flood intensity alone (death—AIC = 2894; damage—R 2 = 0.089), and models with individual sociodemographic factors perform best (death—AIC = 2696; damage—R 2 = 0.229). Socioeconomic variables correlated with death (rural counties with a high proportion of elderly and young) differ from those related to property damage (rural counties with high percentage of Black, Hispanic and Native American populations below the poverty line). Results confirm that social vulnerability influences death and damage from floods in the USA. Model results indicate that social vulnerability models related to specific hazards and outcomes perform better than generic social vulnerability indices (e.g., SoVI) in predicting non-coastal flood death and damage. Hazard- and outcome-specific indices could be used to better direct efforts to ameliorate flood death and damage towards the people and places that need it most. Future validation studies should examine other flood outcomes, such as evacuation, migration and health, across scales.
Study of pulmonary function test in chronic renal failure and the effect of hemodialysis

Aim & objective: In this present study pulmonary function tests of chronic renal failure patients were compared with the normal healthy adults by the computerized spirometric values. Results: The lung function parameters in chronic renal failure are significantly reduced than the normal subjects. The lung function parameters were also measured in chronic renal failure who were undergoing regular hemodialysis A small but significant improvement in FVC, FEV1, FEV1%, PEF and FEF25- 75% was noticed consistently in most of the patients after hemodialysis. Though the improvement is more marked during 1 week of hemodialysis therapy, the values steadily and slowly improved after 3 months of hemodialysis therapy but was significantly lower than the normal values. None of our patients attained even near normal values at the end of 3 months of hemodialysis. Blood parameters like blood urea and serum creatinine levels were significantly reduced in repeated hemodialysis. Conclusion: This study reconfirms the already established fact of restrictive type of ventilatory defect in chronic renal failure patients this study has reflected the effects of hemodialysis on pulmonary function test in chronic renal failure patients over a short duration.
Relationship between Attitude towards Breastfeeding and Postpartum Depression in Kerman, Iran

Background: Breastfeeding and mother-infant physical contact play an essential role in the mother's emotional recovery and readjustment. The present study aimed to investigate the association between attitude toward breastfeeding and postpartum depression. Materials and Methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional and analytical study was conducted on 200 females with postpartum depression referred to rural and urban health centers, Kerman, Iran. The selection was carried out using the convenience sampling method. The mothers who met the inclusion criteria and had the willingness to participate were included in the study. They were called, and if they had inclusion criteria, they were asked to refer to health centers. Data were collected using a questionnaire about baseline characteristics and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Results: This study showed that there was no special baseline effect on total attitude and aspect of depression. The results showed a significant negative relationship of total attitude with anxiety (r=-0.213, p=0.003), depression (r=-0.163, p=0.022), and anhedonia (r=-0.213, p=0.003). There were the strongest and the weakest relationship between anhedonia and depression (r=0.567, p<0.001), and between total attitude and depression (r=-0.163, p=0.022), respectively. According to the results of the independent t-test, a significant relationship was observed between scores of depression and total attitude, which means that females with depression had a more negative attitude (p<0.001). Conclusion: The results of this study documented the relationship between the attitude towards breastfeeding with postpartum depression and anxiety.
Unsupervised Monocular Depth Learning in Dynamic Scenes

We present a method for jointly training the estimation of depth, ego-motion, and a dense 3D translation field of objects relative to the scene, with monocular photometric consistency being the sole source of supervision. We show that this apparently heavily underdetermined problem can be regularized by imposing the following prior knowledge about 3D translation fields: they are sparse, since most of the scene is static, and they tend to be constant for rigid moving objects. We show that this regularization alone is sufficient to train monocular depth prediction models that exceed the accuracy achieved in prior work for dynamic scenes, including methods that require semantic input. Code is at this https URL .
PARKING OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION ON SENTINEL-1 IMAGES

Abstract. This paper presents a method to estimate the occupancy ratio of parkings from SAR satellite images. The algorithm takes as input a series of Sentinel-1 images along with a mask indicating where the parking is located and returns for each image an occupancy ratio. The method is generic and can easily be extended. We validate our results in two parts. First, we have created a dataset of Sentinel-1 GRD image time series where each image is associated to a ground truth parking occupancy ratio. This ground truth is estimated thanks to a surveillance camera that permanently films and records the parking. We observe a strong correlation between the estimated occupancy rate and the ground truth occupancy rate. Secondly, we estimate the occupancy ratio of the 250 largest retail parkings in France from January 2018 to April 2020. We observe that weekly and seasonal patterns are consistent with consumer and economic trends. Parking occupancy estimations also plummet during the COVID-19 containment measures.
Submission Number: EB-20-00234 Do commodity price volatilities impact currency misalignments in commodity-exporting countries?

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between misalignments of real effective exchange rates and real commodity price volatilities in a sample of 46 commodity-exporting countries by considering financial development as the transition variable. We first estimate currency misalignments as deviations of the observed real effective exchange rates from their equilibrium values estimated using the behavioural equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) approach. Then, we rely on panel data and a smooth-transition regression model to estimate commodity price volatilities’ non-linear impacts on currency misalignments. Our results indicate that the estimated coefficients are highly significant, and demonstrate that real commodity prices’ volatility has a non-linear impact on currency misalignments depending on the country’s degree of financial development. We thank the French National Research Agency for financial support under Grant ANR-15-IDEX-02 “InnoFiRisk”. We are grateful to Carmen Reinhart for useful comments on earlier drafts. Submitted: March 19, 2020.
To Study Outcome of Various Surgical Methods in Fracture Neck of Femur in Elderly Patients Over 60 Years of Age

Background: Femoral neck fractures in the elderly are very frequent and osteoporosis along with age are major predisposing factors, it represents a great health care problem which requires the best and cost effective treatment specially in a country like India where most of people coming to medical college are from poor and low socioeconomic status and farming is one of the major profession. The present study was conducted to compare and review two major modalities of surgical treatment with cancellous screw fixation (3 cancellous 6.5 mm partial threaded screw used in each case) and hemiarthroplasty (only bipolar). Approximately 10 to 20% of patients die within one year of a fracture neck of femur (mostly over 75 years of age) due to lack of proper treatment and ignorance. The purpose of this review is to compare the above mentioned surgical techniques with respect to movement of hip, complications and functional outcome. Methodology: The present study was conducted by department of Orthopaedics, Varun Arjun Medical College, Banthara Shahjahanpur. It was a prospective study among Patients admitted to orthopaedics department. The study was conducted from 1 st July 2016 to 30 th June, 2017. Total 62patients were selected with criteria as fracture duration should be within 3 weeks of injury, and having viable head of femur.39 patients have undergone cancellous screw fixation. 23 patients have under gone hemiarthroplasty. Results: The age group was in the range of 60 – 86 years, with the mean age of 66.5±6.50 years in cancellous screw fixation group and 77.51±7.49 years in hemiarthroplasty group.41 cases were female and 21 are male but in both the groups the fracture is not more than 3 weeks old with viable head. There was good post-operative range of movement both in Cancellous screw fixation group and the HRA Group as in Indian circumstances squatting is very common which is not possible after HRA so in most cases cancellous screw fixation is preferred by us as and where possible. Excellent to good /fair results were seen in 83% of patient in cancellous group fixation group and 74% of patients in HRA group.
Stability issues in Kaleckian models driven by autonomous demand growth—Harrodian instability and debt dynamics

Sraffian supermultiplier models, as well as Kaleckian distribution and growth models making use of non-capacity creating autonomous demand growth in order to cope with Harrodian instability, have paid little attention to the financial side of autonomous demand growth as the driver of the system. Therefore, we link the issue of Harrodian instability in Kaleckian models driven by non-capacity creating autonomous demand growth with the associated financial dynamics. For a simple model with autonomous government expenditure growth, zero interest rates and no consumption out of wealth, we find that adding debt dynamics does not change the results obtained by Lavoie (2016) for a model without debt, i.e. the long-run equilibrium is stable if Harrodian instability is not too strong and the autonomous growth rate does not exceed a maximum given by the long-run equilibrium saving rate. Introducing interest payments on government debt as well as consumption out of wealth into the model, however, changes the stability requirements: First, the autonomous growth rate of government expenditures should not fall short of the exogenous monetary interest rate. Second, this growth rate should not exceed a maximum given by the saving rate in long-run equilibrium minus the propensity to consume out of wealth. Third, Harrodian instability may be stronger than in the simple model without violating long-run overall stability, in particular, if the rate of interest is very low and the growth rate of government expenditures is close to the mentioned upper limit. We claim that, irrespective of the relevance or irrelevance of Harrodian instability, it is necessary to introduce financial variables into models driven by non-capacity creating autonomous demand in order to assess the long-run (in-)stability and sustainability of growth.
The Technical Qualities of the Elicited Imitation Subsection of The Assessment of College English, International (ACE-In)

The present study investigated technical qualities of the elicited imitation (EI) items used by the Assessment of College English – International (ACE-In), a locally developed English language proficiency test used in the undergraduate English Academic Purpose Program at Purdue University. EI is a controversial language assessment tool that has been utilized and examined for decades. The simplicity of the test format and the ease of rating place EI in an advantageous position to be widely implemented in language assessment. On the other hand, EI has received a series of critiques, primarily questioning its validity. To offer insights into the quality of the EI subsection of the ACE-In and to provide guidance for continued test development and revision, the present study examined the measurement qualities of the items by analyzing the pre- and post-test performance of 100 examines on EI. The analyses consist of an item analysis that reports item difficulty, item discrimination, and total score reliability; an examination of pre-post changes in performance that reports a matched pairs t-test and item instructional sensitivity; and an analysis of the correlation patterns between EI scores and TOEFL iBT total and subsection scores.The results of the item analysis indicated that the current EI task was slightly easy for the intended population, but test items functioned satisfactorily in terms of separating examinees of higher proficiency from those of lower proficiency. The EI task was also found to have high internal consistency across forms. As for the pre-post changes, a significant pair-wise difference was found between the pre- and post-performance after a semester of instruction. However, the results also reported that over half of the items were relatively insensitive to instruction. The last stage of the analysis indicated that while EI scores had a significant positive correlation with TOEFL iBT total scores and speaking subsection scores, EI scores were negatively correlated with TOEFL iBT reading subsection scores. Findings of the present study provided evidence in favor of the use of EI as a measure of L2 proficiency, especially as a viable alternative to free-response items. EI is also argued to provide additional information regarding examinees’ real-time language processing ability that standardized language tests are not intended to measure. Although the EI task used by the ACE-In is generally suitable for the targeted population and testing purposes, it can be further improved if test developers increase the number of difficult items and control the contents and the structures of sentence stimuli. Examining the technical qualities of test items is fundamental but insufficient to build a validity argument for the test. The present EI test can benefit from test validation studies that exceed item analysis. Future research that focuses on improving item instructional sensitivity is also recommended.
Does quality of care entail environmental impact? A blind spot in our knowledge

This scoping review examines the conceptual relationship between the terms “environmental sustainability” and “quality of care” as used in academic studies on health care. We performed searches in Scopus and PubMed looking for potential semantic and practical associations between sustainability and quality of care, including potential conflicts. For the first part about associations, 11 search strings were used resulting in 1,488 studies of which 8 were eventually selected for analysis. For the latter part about conflicts, 4 search strings were used resulting in 45 studies of which 6 remained for analysis. Information about the following aspects was extracted from the studies that were included: interpretation and definition of sustainability, dimensions of quality of care, and tensions between quality and sustainability. Merely a few studies address a relationship betweenenvironmental sustainability and quality of care. Only “patient-centredness” and “safety” are associated with sustainability in academic literature. “Effectiveness” is rather interpreted as opposing it. “Efficiency” seems to be both associated and opposed to sustainability. The conceptual relationship between environmental sustainability and quality of care has not been thouroughly examined in academic studies which implies a blind spot in our knowledge. Only one study reports on conceptual and practical work for incorporating sustainability as a dimension of health care quality.
LEPROSY CONTROL PROGRAM IN A HYPERENDEMIC CAPITAL: AN OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMA DE CONTROLE DA HANSENÍASE EM CAPITAL HIPERENDÊMICA: UMA AVALIAÇÃO OPERACIONAL PROGRAMA DE CONTROL DE LA LEPRA EN UNA CAPITAL HIPERENDÉMICA: UNA EVALUACIÓN OPERACIONAL

Objective: assess the Leprosy Control Program in a hyperendemic capital in Brazil. Method: assessment study, developed in all health institutions that operated in the Leprosy control program in the city of São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, covering all new and contact cases of leprosy notified in 2012. Results: the program was classified as “Good” when considering the abandonment rates (3.4%) and the degree of physical disability in the diagnosis (94.6%). The indicators proportion of discharge due to cure (42.5%) and proportion of examined contacts (29.1%) were ranked as “Precarious”. The indicator proportion of cured cases per year with assessment of degree of physical disability upon discharge was classified as “Regular” (82.5%). Conclusion: The Leprosy Control Program in the city has not been working in an effective and problem-solving manner, suggesting that the quality of the case monitoring until the completion of treatment is deficient.
NUEVOS RESTOS DE UN ODONTOCETI FÓSIL (MAMMALIA: CETACEA, PHYSETEROIDEA) PARA EL MIOCENO TARDÍO DE PANAMÁ, AMÉRICA CENTRAL NEW FOSSIL REMAINS OF AN ODONTOCETI (MAMMALIA: CETACEA, PHYSETEROIDEA) FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF PANAMA, CENTRAL AMERICA

A fragment of a crown and an isolated lower commissural tooth of a sperm whale of the Family Phy- setheridae are described. The dental remains were recovered from the upper bathyal sediments of the Chagres Forma- tion (late Miocene), with a strong Pacific affinity in the locality of the Pina Town in the Caribbean littoral of Panama.
Psychological Status and Irritable Bowel Syndrome among Healthcare Workers

Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder with a global prevalence characterized by disturbances in bowel habits in the absence of known organic pathology. Psychological stress has been blamed to be a major factor leading to gastrointestinal symptoms. Aim of work: To assess the prevalence and predictors of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among healthcare workers (HCWs) together with assessment of the psychological status of this affected cohorts. Materials and methods: A retrospective cohort study was carried out during the period from November 2018 to June 2019 at a tertiary care hospitals in an Egyptian governorate on 622 participants distributed as HCWs (No=402) working at the studied hospitals and a control group (No=220) visiting the Family Medicine outpatient clinic at the same hospitals. A questionnaire including Rome III diagnostic criteria had been administered to the studied groups. Regarding the psychiatric state of the studied participants, the Arabic version of Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMA) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scale were used. Results: The study showed that the prevalence of IBS was 14.4% among HCWs vs. 8.8% among controls. Regarding awareness of IBS, 73.4% of HCWs reported awareness vs. 23% among controls but regarding misconception of IBS, it was reported among 32.3% of controls vs. 17.7% among HCWs. Regarding psychiatric status, emotional stress, anxiety, depression, and mixed-status; the study reported higher percentage among IBS patients P<0.001. Logistic regression was performed to ascertain the effects of sex, emotional stress, anxiety, depression, working hours and specialty on the likelihood that participants who have IBS and it was statistically significant, χ2= 75.15, p < 0.001. The model correctly classified 87.6% of cases. HCWs suffering from emotional stress or depression were 2 and 3 times respectively more likely to exhibit IBS. Conclusion: IBS was more prevalent among HCWs together with psychiatric disorders giving high priority to in-depth analysis of the work environment to stand on all factors and finding a solution to this critical problem.