Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Desmonostoc danxiaense sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) from Danxia mountain in China based on polyphasic approach

The recently established genus Desmonostoc was characterized by forming macroscopic colonies with diffluent mucilaginous envelopes embedding long vegetative filaments and possessing long chains of akinetes. The establishment of this new genus was further supported by the clustering of the 16S rRNA gene, which have a distinctive phylogenetic placement outside of Nostoc. In this study, a new cyanobacterial species was isolated from a wet rocky wall in Danxia mountain, Guangdong province, southern China, and the novel strains of this new species were evaluated by combining morphological characteristic and molecular data on the 16S rRNA gene and 16S-23S internally transcribed spacer (ITS). This new taxon was found to be closest to Desmonostoc species. The separation of the new species described here as Desmonostoc danxiaense, using morphological and molecular traits, was based on differences in phenotypic, 16S rRNA gene, ITS sequence and its secondary structure.
Prevalence of Partial Edentulism in Patients Visiting a University Dental Hospital

Oral health status of a population depends on edentulism (partial). Tooth loss has an impact in various aspects of quality of life of an individual. The prevalence and extent have been reduced in various countries because of advancing technologies. Various different classifications have been proposed in the previous literature for partial edentulism. This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from the period of June 2019 to April 2020 between the age group 25-40 years for the population visiting a private dental college. Data collection was done and statistically analyzed using SPSS Software. Out of the 4829 population included in the study, 42.4 % were female and 57.6% of the males. Based on the age, 50.3% were within 25-30years, 25.1% of them were 31-35 years and 24.6% of them between 36-40 years. Based on gender, Females were 42.3% and males were 57.6%. There was a significant association between the age, gender and missing tooth. It can be concluded that the prevalence of edentulism increases with age, thereby needing prosthodontic rehabilitation.
Molecular Identification of Fusarium Spp. Isolated From Wheat Based on Sequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Region

Molecular identification via Internal Transcribed Spacer region (nrDNA-ITS) sequencing of Fusarium spp. isolates from wheat originated from Stara Zagora region, were performed for the first time in Bulgaria. А total of 60 wheat samples (Triticum aestivum) were morphologically identified at the genus level as Fusarium spp. in advance. The rDNA-ITS region of all isolates was successfully amplified and the PCR products obtained were directly sequenced. After a comparison of detected sequences with NCBI database, members of three different fungal genera (Fusarium, Chaetomium, and Alternaria) were identified. Among Fusarium isolates, the F. tricinctum was prevailing, followed by F. poae. A total of three isolate F. proliferatum, F. graminearum and F. equiseti were presented with a single probe. The lowest genetic distance (0.004) was detected between F. tricinctum isolates. On the base of genetic distances, fungal isolates were grouped in two main clusters – one comprising F. tricinctum isolates and F. proliferatum, and second including F. equiseti, F. graminearum and F. poae. It could be concluded that the rDNA-ITS genome region of the genus Fusarium may be used as a suitable marker of early detection, accurate and reliable identification of Fusarium spp. contamination of wheat. The timely and accurate information would assist in the selection of appropriate approaches for control of fusarium infections and possible mycotoxins contamination of agricultural production.
Double Filtration Plasmapheresis Treatment of Refractory Multiple Sclerosis Relapsed on Fingolimod: A Case Report

Double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) is an emerging semi-selective apheretic method for treating immuno-mediated neurological diseases. Here we report the first case of steroid-refractory relapsed multiple sclerosis (MS) on Fingolimod (FTY), treated effectively by this technique, in a 37-year-old woman. This condition is thought to be caused by soluble inflammatory species, but its demyelinating pattern is unknown; moreover, despite megadoses of intravenous 6-methyl prednisolone, it induces severe neurological deterioration, but dramatically responded to DFPP in our patient. The clinical improvement was driven by a strong DFPP-induced anti-inflammatory effect, with significant reduction of C3/C4 components, total gamma globulin concentrations (IgG), and gamma-fibrinogen (FGG), resulting in a brain pseudoatrophy phenomenon. Our findings are: first, the steroid-refractory relapsed MS on FTY, however serious, can be treated with DFPP; second, given the good clinical improvement due to the DFPP-induced neuroinflammatory components removal, this clinical condition can be associated with a Lucchinetti pattern II of demyelination.
Correlation Coefficient and Path Analysis in Table Pea (Pisum sativumvar. Hortense L.)

An experiment was layout at the Horticulture Research Centre, SVPUAT, Meerut During 2018-2020 to estimate correlation coefficients and path coefficient analysis in Table pea using 36 genotypes including eight parents and 28 F1 on nine quantitative characters. Correlation coefficient result showed that seed yield per plant have highly significant and positive correlation with number of pods per plant (0.821, 0. 818), length of first fruiting node (0.587, 0.585), number of seeds per pod (0.547, 0.517), days to 50% flowering (0.467, 0.464), plant height (0.447, 0.447), width of pod (0.387, 0.284), length of pod (0.375, 0.363) and number of first fruiting node (0.353, 0.349). Path coefficient result showed that the highest positive direct effect on seed yield per plant was exhibited by several pods per plant, several seeds per pod and days to 50% flowering at both genotypic and phenotypic level.
Causal Association Between Birth Weight and Adult Diseases: Evidence From a Mendelian Randomization Analysis

Background It has long been hypothesized that birth weight has a profound long-term impact on individual predisposition to various diseases at adulthood: a hypothesis commonly referred to as the fetal origins of adult diseases. However, it is not fully clear to what extent the fetal origins of adult diseases hypothesis holds and it is also not completely known what types of adult diseases are causally affected by birth weight. Determining the causal impact of birth weight on various adult diseases through traditional randomised intervention studies is a challenging task. Methods Mendelian randomisation was employed and multiple genetic variants associated with birth weight were used as instruments to explore the relationship between 21 adult diseases and 38 other complex traits from 37 large-scale genome-wide association studies up to 340,000 individuals of European ancestry. Causal effects of birth weight were estimated using inverse-variance weighted methods. The identified causal relationships between birth weight and adult diseases were further validated through extensive sensitivity analyses and simulations. Results Among the 21 adult diseases, three were identified to be inversely causally affected by birth weight with a statistical significance level passing the Bonferroni corrected significance threshold. The measurement unit of birth weight was defined as its standard deviation (i.e. 488 grams), and one unit lower birth weight was causally related to an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial infarction (MI), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and BMI-adjusted T2D, with the estimated odds ratios of 1.34 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.17 - 1.53, p = 1.54E-5], 1.30 (95% CI 1.13 - 1.51, p = 3.31E-4), 1.41 (95% CI 1.15 - 1.73, p = 1.11E-3) and 1.54 (95% CI 1.25 - 1.89, p = 6.07E-5), respectively. All these identified causal associations were robust across various sensitivity analyses that guard against various confounding due to pleiotropy or maternal effects as well as inverse causation. In addition, analysis on 38 additional complex traits found that the inverse causal association between birth weight and CAD/MI/T2D was not likely to be mediated by other risk factors such as blood-pressure related traits and adult weight. Conclusions The results suggest that lower birth weight is causally associated with an increased risk of CAD, MI and T2D in later life, supporting the fetal origins of adult diseases hypothesis.
Implementasi Deep Learning Untuk Deteksi Ekspresi Emosi Pada Twitter

Twitter menjadi salah satu media berjejaring yang digunakan oleh peneliti pada bidang penelitian media sosial. Banyak hal yang bisa diteliti dari kumpulan tweet. Salah satu yang populer dilakukan adalah menganalisa emosi dari tweet. Emosi dapat dideteksi melalui ekspresi suara, wajah, maupun tulisan. Dalam penelitian ini, dilakukan deteksi ekspresi emosi pada konteks tulisan atau teks dari Twitter. Memahami emosi dengan konteks tulisan cukup sulit karena ekspresi wajah dan/atau suara tidak diketahui. Penelitian untuk menganalisa emosi yang dilakukan pada Twitter juga masih banyak yang menggunakan metode machine learning. Untuk itu penelitian kali ini dilakukan dengan metode deep learning dengan menggunakan metode LSTM-GloVe untuk mendeteksi label emosi dari suatu tweet berbahasa Indonesia. Data yang digunakan berjumlah 4.403 dari 5 jenis emosi yaitu marah, sedih, bahagia, cinta dan takut dari penelitian “Emotion Classification on Indonesian Twitter Dataset”. Dari hasil uji coba dengan menggunakan metode LSTM-GloVe didapatkan nilai precision, recall, dan F1 masing-masing sebesar 33%, 38%, dan 35%. Adapun nilai loss dan accuracy dari pengujian model tersebut sebesar 1,29 dan 0,5.
A Novel Approach to Clustering Genome Sequences Using Inter-nucleotide Covariance

Classification of DNA sequences is an important issue in the bioinformatics study, yet most existing methods for phylogenetic analysis including Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) are time-consuming and computationally expensive. The alignment-free methods are popular nowadays, whereas the manual intervention in those methods usually decreases the accuracy. Also, the interactions among nucleotides are neglected in most methods. Here we propose a new Accumulated Natural Vector (ANV) method which represents each DNA sequence by a point in ℝ18. By calculating the Accumulated Indicator Functions of nucleotides, we can further find an Accumulated Natural Vector for each sequence. This new Accumulated Natural Vector not only can capture the distribution of each nucleotide, but also provide the covariance among nucleotides. Thus global comparison of DNA sequences or genomes can be done easily in ℝ18. The tests of ANV of datasets of different sizes and types have proved the accuracy and time-efficiency of the new proposed ANV method.
Nursing Records: Factors that May Contribute to Deficienciesin Reports on Wound Dressings

Introduction: Defined as the act of transcribing, records support research in several areas. In health care the nursing team produces a lot of information about the patient care and is responsible for more than 50% of the information contained in the patient’s medical record. The need to register complete and concise records is underscored. Objective: Identify factors that may contribute to deficiencies in records of wound dressings made by nurses. Method: Descriptive exploratory study with a quantitative approach, carried out in a teaching hospital located in the Centre-West Region of Brazil. Using a questionnaire containing open and closed questions, 56 healthcare nurses were interviewed. Results: As for the execution of registration of nursing actions in medical records, it was found that less than half of them (48.2%) reported some difficulty. Most participants reported difficulties motivated by personal, operational and professional preparation aspects, in reporting dressings. Lack of time and human resource, overwork, difficulties in accessing the patient’s medical record, interruptions in procedures, and lack of guidance are factors that contribute to deficiency or absence of records on dressings. Conclusion: There were factors for the absence of information in records among the studied group. The identification of these motives and their resolutions are the path to offering differentiated qualified service. Continuing education measures are recommended for the qualification of those responsible for the records, as well as a reorganization of activities carried out by nurses in the inpatient units.
Management of Apple Maturity and Postharvest Storage Conditions to Increase Polyphenols in Cider

Hard cider production in the United States has increased dramatically during the past decade, but there is little information on how harvest and postharvest practices affect the chemistry of the resulting cider, including concentrations of organoleptically important flavanols. For 2 years we assessed fruit, juice, and cider from a total of five apple (Malus ×domestica Borkh.) cultivars in two experiments: sequential harvests and postharvest storage. Different cultivars were used in 2015 and 2016 with the exception of ‘Dabinett’, which was assessed in both years. There were no differences in polyphenol concentrations in cider made from fruit that was harvested on three separate occasions over a 4-week period in either 2015 or 2016. Fruit storage durations and temperatures had little influence on the chemistry when the experiment was conducted in 2015, but polyphenol concentration was greater after storage in the 2016 experiment. In 2016, total polyphenols in ‘Dabinett’ ciders were 51% greater after short-term storage at 10 °C and 67% greater after long-term storage at 1 °C than the control, which was not subjected to a storage treatment. In 2016, total polyphenols in ‘Binet Rouge’ ciders were 67% greater after short-term storage at 10 °C and 94% greater after long-term storage at 1 °C than the control. Although results varied among cultivars and harvest years, storing apples for longer periods of time and at warmer temperatures may be a strategy to increase polyphenol, particularly flavanol, concentrations in hard cider.
Using human factors engineering and Garvin’s product quality to develop a basketball shoe taxonomy

Garvin’s seminal work “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean? ” defines product quality based on five approaches: transcendent, product-based, user-based, manufacturing-based, and value-based. In addition to presenting five definitions of product quality, Garvin presents eight dimensions of product quality: performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability, aesthetics, and perceived quality. The purpose of this research is to present a taxonomy for establishing product quality metrics for basketball shoes based on Garvin’s eight dimensions and the user-based definition of product quality. There is no clear explanation for what constitutes a properly fitted and usable basketball shoe. Constructing a multi-dimensional basketball shoe quality taxonomy, as presented in this paper, captures relationships between features and user needs to improve the fitness for use in basketball shoes beyond commonly-used marketing jargon. Several contextual relationships of basketball are identified and associated with the requirements of basketball players, thereby resulting in a basketball shoe quality taxonomy that defines the relationships of shoe features to user preference. This taxonomy can be used to derive what product quality means to the basketball athlete and thus improve the decision-making process for the basketball shoe wearer and coaching staff.
Motor cortical beta transients delay movement initiation and track errors

Motor cortical activity in the beta range (13-30 Hz) is a hallmark signature of healthy and pathological movement, but its behavioural relevance remains unclear. Recent work in primates and human sensory cortex suggests that sustained oscillatory beta activity observed on average, may arise from the summation of underlying short-lasting, high-amplitude bursts of activity. Classical human movement-related event-related beta desynchronisation (ERD) and synchronization (ERS) may thus provide insufficient, non-dynamic, summaries of underlying focal spatio-temporal burst activity, limiting insight into their functional role during healthy and pathological movement. Here we directly investigate this transient beta burst activity and its putative behavioural relevance for movement control, using high-precision magnetoencephalography (MEG). We quantified the subject-specific (n=8), trial-wise (n>12,000) dynamics of beta bursts, before and after movement. We show that beta activity on individual trials is dominated by high amplitude, short lasting bursts. While average beta changes generally manifest as bilaterally distributed activity (FWHM = 25mm), individual bursts are spatially more focal (FWHM = 6 mm), sporadic (1.3 −1.5/s), and transient (mean: 96 ms). Prior to movement (the period of the classical ERD), the timing of the last pre-movement burst predicts movement onset, suggesting a role in the specification of the goal of movement. After movement (the period of the classical ERS), the first beta burst is delayed by ~100ms after a response error occurs, intimating a role in error monitoring and evaluation. Movement-related beta activity is therefore dominated by a spatially dispersed summation of short lasting, sporadic and focal bursts. Movement-related beta bursts coordinate the retrieval and updating of movement goals in the pre- and post-movement periods, respectively.
Chitosan Oligosaccharides Show Protective Effects in Coronary Heart Disease by Improving Antioxidant Capacity via the Increase in Intestinal Probiotics

We explored the effects of chitosan oligosaccharides (COS) on coronary heart disease (CHD) patients. The component of COS was measured by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). CHD patients were evenly assigned into the COS group (COG) and the placebo group (CG). The duration of treatment was 6 months and therapeutic results were explored by measuring left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) value, Lee scores, quality of life (QOL), blood urea nitrogen, and serum creatinine. The intestinal flora were determined by 16s rDNA sequencing. The circulating antioxidant levels and lipid profiles were compared between two groups. There were 7 different degrees of polymerization (DP4-10) in COS. Lee scores, QOL scores, and LVEF values in the COG group were higher than those in the CG group (P < 0.05). COS treatment improved blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine when compared with controls (P < 0.05). Circulating antioxidant levels were higher in the COG group than in the CG group. COS consumption increased the serum levels of SOD and GSH and reduced the levels of ALT and AST (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, lipid profiles were improved in the COG group. COS consumption increased the abundance of Faecalibacterium, Alistipes, and Escherichia and decreased the abundance of Bacteroides, Megasphaera, Roseburia, Prevotella, and Bifidobacterium (P < 0.05). On the other hand, COS consumption increased the probiotic species Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, and Phascolarctobacterium. The increased species have been reported to be associated with antioxidant properties or lipid improvement. COS had similar effects with chitohexaose on the growth rate of these species. Therefore, COS ameliorate the symptoms of CHD patients by improving antioxidant capacities and lipid profiles via the increase of probiotics in the intestinal flora.
VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND THREATS TO MONTANE TEMPERATE ECOSYSTEMS IN HINDUKUSH RANGE, SWAT, PAKISTAN

This phytosociological study conducted during 2013-2017 summed up 15 communities including 5 each for trees, shrubs and herbs. Quantitative attributes of vegetation were recorded by using quadrate method i.e. 10 m trees, 5 m for shrubs and 1 m quadrate for herbs. Edaphic attributes were enumerated by employing standard methods. Among tree species highest Family Importance Value was recorded for Pinnaceae (190.85) and lowest for Anacardiaceae (2.39). For shrubs Rosaceae (101.44) had highest FIV and lowest for Rubiaceae (1.89). For herbaceous members highest FIV was recorded for Poaceae (182.15) and lowest for Paeoniaceae (0.42). Three communities viz. PinusDiospyrosQuercus community, IndigoferaCotoneasterJasminum community and Apluda-Cynodon-Heteropogon community were established at Lower Chail site. While Upper Chail comprised Pinus-Quercus-Juglans, Rubus-Isodon-Ricinus and Apluda-Heteropogon-Poa communities. Community structure was quite different at Shanku site which established Quercus-Abies-Pinus, Sarcococca-Daphne-Berberis and Cynodon-Apluda-Bergenia communities respectively. Similarly, Cedrus-Abies-Pinus, ParrotiopsisVibernum-Berberis and Chrysopogon-Themeda-Cynodon communities were established at Dabargai. At Bishigram, Picea-Pinus-Abies, Parrotiopsis-Cotoneaster-Indigofera and Cenchrus-Medicago-Rumex communities were present. Soils were mildly acidic and had low organic matter content. Vegetation was found to be under severe biotic stress. Deforestation is threatening these ecosystems and conservation of montane temperate forests in this zone is need of the day.
Discovery of Reidite in the Lunar Meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir 169

An exceedingly small number of high‐pressure polymorphs have been discovered in lunar samples. This situation does not seem to reconcile with the prolonged, intense bombardment of the lunar surface, which should produce suitable conditions for the formation of such polymorphs. Here we report the discovery of reidite, a high‐pressure polymorph of ZrSiO4 with scheelite structure in lunar meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir (SaU) 169. The reidite occurs mainly as lamellae hosted within zircon, likely corresponding to a deviatoric‐dominated transformation. The presence of reidite in the regolith portion of SaU 169 indicates a narrow temperature and pressure path constrained by the phase stability under low pressure and suggests heterogeneous shock features in the porous lunar regolith where the ambient temperature increases much higher than that in compact rocks. The inventory of high‐pressure polymorphs might be restricted by such unusual cooling processes lunar samples experienced.
Is OJ 287 a Single Supermassive Black Hole?

Light curves for more than century optical photometric observations of the blazar OJ 287 reveals strong flares with a quasi-period of about 12 years. For a long time, this period has been interpreted by processes in a binary black hole system. We propose an alternative explanation for this period, which is based on Doppler factor periodic variations of the emitting region caused by jet helicity. Using multi-epoch very large baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations carried out in a framework of the MOJAVE (Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments) program and other VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) archival experiments at the observing frequency of 15 GHz, we derived geometrical parameters of the jet helix. To reach an agreement between the VLBI and photometric optical observation data, the jet component motion at a small angle to the radial direction is necessary. Such non-radial motion is observed and, together with the jet helical shape, can be naturally explained by the development of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in the parsec-scale outflow. In this case, the true precession of the OJ 287 jet may manifest itself in differences between the peak flux values of the 12-year optical flares. A possibility to create this precession due to Lense–Thirring effect of a single supermassive black hole is also discussed.