Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Maximization of the oil and aromatics yields obtained from pyrolysis of 1 scrap tire rubber 2 3

12 13 This research study reveals the results of the experimental study of the scrap tire rubber pyrolysis in a fixed bed 14 tubular reactor for the maximization of pyrolytic oil and aromatic compounds of high industrial value present in 15 the oil (benzene, toluene, xylenes, alkylbenzenes and cymenes). An experimental 4x3 design was performed using 16 as dependent factors: temperature and nitrogen flow. A maximum oil yield of 42.6 wt% was obtained at an 17 operating temperature of 600 °C and a nitrogen volumetric flow of 233 Nml/min. As for the main compounds of 18 the oil, a maximum yield of aromatics was found at 466 °C and a nitrogen volumetric flow of 155 Nml/min. 19 ANOVA showed that temperature is the most influential variable on the oil yield, while the nitrogen volumetric 20 flow did not present any statistical significance on it. On contrary, in the case of aromatic yield, ANOVA showed 21 that both the temperature and the nitrogen volumetric flow had an influence on it. On average, an oil fraction with 22 a density of 850.8 kg/m was obtained, its calorific value was higher than 42.12 MJ/kg, and its acidity of 0.789 23 mg KOH/g. 24 25
Curcumin Prevents Mucositis and Improves Patient Compliance in Head & Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Radio-Chemotherapy

Oral mucositis is a common complication and a dose limiting toxicity in up to 90% of head & neck cancer patients (HNCP) undergoing radio-chemotherapy. Several adjuvant agents like folic acid, Vit-E, antibiotic mouth rinse etc. have been tried without remarkable success. Curcumin is known to have antioxidant and free radical scavenging activity that had shown its radio protective potential in in vitro studies. Objective of this pilot study was to evaluate effects of curcumin on mucositis in HNCP undergoing radio-chemotherapy. An open labelled controlled trial was conducted, 95 HNCPs in historic control group were given conventional radio-chemotherapy and 109 HNCP in trial group were given 2 gm of curcumin /day in addition to conventional therapy for two months starting from 3 days before planned radiation. Mucositis gradation as per WHO oral toxicity scale was done weekly for the whole radio-chemotherapy period. Incidence of mucositis in each grade, and patient compliance were compared in both control and curcumin treated group by Chi-square test (P ≤ 0.05). There was a significant decrease in incidence of mucositis from 92% to 51% (P ≤ 0.001) and in grade III and IV mucositis from 51.6% to 12.8% (P≤ 0.001) among control and curcumin treated group respectively. Patient compliance in terms of completion of scheduled RT dose, increased from 52.6% to 89.0% (P≤0.001). Curcumin showed a remarkable adjuvant protective activity to radio-chemotherapy in HNCP. So, a well-designed RCT with a long term follow up for prognostic implications is imperative.
Mercia Mudstone as a Triassic aeolian desert sediment

It has been suggested that at least parts of the Mercia Mudstone in the English Midlands are closely related to loess, or loess-like sediments. It seems likely that the Mercia Mudstone is an ancient form of parna, the aeolian desert sediment formed in the Australian Quaternary. This is essentially a form of loess having silt-sized particles and an open depositional packing. Loess-like systems tend to collapse when loaded and wetted, and this appears to have occurred in the mudstone. The collapse behaviour of the Mercia Mudstone is probably the strongest indication of a loessic origin. Study of the Mercia may throw some light on the nature of parna the most characteristic of the Australian loesses. The original idea appears to be due to Bosworth (1913), that the Mercia Mudstone Group (which he of course knew as the Keuper Marl) was possibly in part a loessic or loess-like deposit that had been formed by arid desert processes. In the recent report on the Mercia Mudstone prepared by the British Geological Survey (Hobbs et al, 1998) this idea is still given some credence, as one of the ways in which the Mercia Mudstone was formed. The idea deserves more discussion, from two points of view, as part of a further consideration on the mode of formation of the Mercian, and as a means of providing more data on loessic processes associated with hot deserts. The desert loess problem has been discussed for many years, in particular since the Smalley & Vita-Finzi paper of 1968. They claimed that there were no specifically desert processes which could produce the fine material needed for loess deposits and this claim is still being discussed (Sun, 2002). Bosworth saw loess as a desert sediment. Today, loess is seen more as a glacial phenomenon, related to cold phases of the Quaternary, rather than as a desert material. The nature of ‘desert’ loess and the nature of desertrelated loessic processes is still being questioned (Wright, 2001) and the nature of the Mercia Mudstone may throw some light on nearly contemporary processes.
T H 2-polarized CD4 + T cells and macrophages limit efficacy of radiation therapy

Radiation therapy (RT) and chemotherapy (CTX) following surgery are mainstays of treatment for breast cancer (BC). While multiple studies have recently revealed the significance of immune cells as mediators of CTX response in BC, less is known regarding roles for leukocytes as mediating outcomes following RT. To address this, we utilized a syngeneic orthotopic murine model of mammary carcinogenesis to investigate if response to RT could be improved when select immune cells or immune-based pathways in the mammary microenvironment were inhibited. Treatment of mammary tumor-bearing mice with either a neutralizing monoclonal antibody (mAb) to colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) or a small molecule inhibitor of the CSF-1 receptor kinase (i.e., PLX3397), resulting in efficient macrophage depletion, significantly delayed tumor regrowth following RT. Delayed tumor growth in this setting was associated with increased presence of CD8 + T cells, and reduced presence of CD4 + T cells, the main source of the T H 2 cytokine interleukin (IL)4 in mammary tumors. Selective depletion of CD4 + T cells or neutralization of IL4 in combination with RT, phenocopied results following macrophage depletion, whereas depletion of CD8 + T cells abrogated improved response to RT following these therapies. Analogously, therapeutic neutralization of IL4 or IL13, or IL4 receptor alpha deficiency, in combination with the CTX paclitaxel resulted in slowed primary mammary tumor growth by CD8 + T cell-dependent mechanisms. These findings indicate that clinical responses to cytotoxic therapy in general can be improved by neutralizing dominant T H 2-based programs driving protumorigenic and immune suppressive pathways in mammary (breast) tumors to improve outcomes. by either reducing the presence of macrophages in tumors, or by blocking induction of their T H 2-polarization. Herein we report that regrowth of mammary tumors following RT correlates with influx of T H 2-polarized macrophages; inhibiting macrophage recruitment after RT by neutralizing CSF-1 or blocking CSF-1R kinase activity significantly slows tumor regrowth. Moreover, our data indicate that RT promotes T H 2-polarization of infiltrating IL4-expressing CD4 + T cells, and that either depleting these or neutralizing IL4 slows tumor regrowth following RT, thus demonstrating that therapeutic targeting of T H 2 cytokines and the myeloid cells they regulate can enhance response to cytotoxic therapy. associated with reduced myeloid-dependent angiogenesis (34,36). Other studies in melanoma reported that RT as monotherapy promotes CD8 + T-cell infiltration (35), and that CSF-1R-blockade improves efficacy of adoptive T-cell transfer (18,36). These studies are in agreement with findings herein and elsewhere (16,24,33) that macrophages in tumor parenchyma limit CD8 + T-cell recruitment and effector function, and thereby restricts efficacy of cytotoxic therapies.
Intercropping Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) at Different Population Densities with Maize (Zea mays L.) on Yield Component, Yield and System Productivity at Mizan Teferi, Ethiopia

The present study was carried out to evaluate maize soybean intercropping effect on yield components and yield of the intercrops and to identify the optimum population density and variety of soybean maximizing productivity of the system. Treatments were maize hybrid (BH540) at recommended population density and three soybean varieties (AFGAT, Awassa95 and Crawford) in a factorial combination of three planting densities (25%, 50% and 75%) of the recommended population density of soybean with the respective sole of each variety of component crops were arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Sole cropped maize grain yield (3189.80 kg ha -1 ) was non-significantly greater than intercropped (2753.70 kg ha -1 ) by means of 13.67%. However, maize intercropped with Awassa-95 at 50% planting density showed a yield advantage of 23.71% over sole cropped maize. A 100-seed weight (g) of soybean showed a significant difference due to varieties and cropping system. Soybean seed yield of 1993.61 and 747.48 kg ha -1 was obtained from sole and intercropped soybean, respectively. The intercropping system increased 100 seed weight by 12.84% and reduced seed yield on average 62.51% compared to sole cropped. In all combinations, LER was greater than one justified that a yield advantage of (14-32%) and (6-28%) as depicted by LER 1.14-1.32 and 1.06 -1.28 due to varieties and planting densities, respectively. Generally, as LER was superior in all intercrops evaluating that the productivity of maize-soybean intercropping showed a higher relative yield advantage of 32% over sole cropping. Therefore, a variety Awassa-95 at 50% planting density was better in resources utilization attributed to yield under this additive intercropping system.
Comparative Study of Significance of Serum Cystatin-C, Serum Creatinine and Microalbuminuria Estimation in Patients of Early Diabetic Nephropathy

Background: Diabetes has become the most common single cause of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in most countries. About 20-30% of patients with type 1 or type 2 Diabetes develop evidence of nephropathy. Recent studies have now demonstrated that the onset and course of DN can be ameliorated to a significant degree by several interventions but these interventions have their greatest impact if instituted at a point very early in the course of the development of this complication. Materials and methods: The diabetic patients visiting the Nephrology and Medicine OPDs were selected and evaluated for serum cystatin C, blood urea, serum creatinine and urine microalbumin. The patients were divided into three groups according to duration of diabetes. Group 1 with diabetes between 5-10 years, group 2 with diabetes between 10-15 years and group 3 with diabetes more than 15 years All statistical analyses were done using Microsoft Excel for Windows VII version, SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) and GraphPad Prism 6.0 version. Results: Serum cystatin C was significantly increased in Group 2 (p<0.01) along with increase in urine micral but serum creatinine levels showed no significant changes. ROC for cystatin C was 0.93 where as for creatinine it was 0.79. Conclusion: Serum cystatin C is a better marker for early diabetic nephropathy than serum creatinine and equally effective as urine micral.
Volatility in the Indian Financial Market Before, During and After the Global Financial Crisis

The ARCH/GARCH time series models are employed to examine the volatility in the Indian financial market during 2000-14, by using all eight Indian stock indices, i.e. BSE SENSEX, BSE 100, BSE 200, BSE 500, CNX NIFTY, CNX 100, CNX 200 and CNX 500. The impact of the global financial crisis on the volatility of returns is analyzed by splitting the time series into three phases: the pre-crisis period (200006), the crisis period (2007-10) and the post-crisis period (2011-14). The best fitted model is used to predict the conditional variance of the differenced series of returns, which is found to be stationary.
The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US

Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that have hit Western economies since the late 1990s – import competition from China and the introduction of industrial robots. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure across US local labor markets over time, we first verify that both shocks led to a steep reduction in manufacturing employment. Next, we present our main results, and show that, on average, robots caused a sizable reduction in population size, whereas trade with China did not. The decline in population size due to robots resulted from reduced in-migration into rather than increased out-migration away from affected areas. In the second part of the paper, we explore the mechanisms behind these results. We show that the two labor market shocks differ in their propagation across industries within local labor markets: while robots caused negative spillovers to service industries, Chinese imports, if anything, favored employment growth outside of manufacturing. We provide suggestive evidence that these propagation patterns are responsible for the differential migration response.
Paying Attention to Video Object Pattern Understanding

This paper conducts a systematic study on the role of visual attention in video object pattern understanding. By elaborately annotating three popular video segmentation datasets (DAVIS<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{16}$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mrow/><mml:mn>16</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="shen-ieq1-2966453.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>, Youtube-Objects, and SegTrack<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$_{V_2}$</tex-math><alternatives><mml:math><mml:msub><mml:mrow/><mml:msub><mml:mi>V</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:msub></mml:math><inline-graphic xlink:href="shen-ieq2-2966453.gif"/></alternatives></inline-formula>) with dynamic eye-tracking data in the unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) setting. For the first time, we quantitatively verified the high consistency of visual attention behavior among human observers, and found strong correlation between human attention and explicit primary object judgments during dynamic, task-driven viewing. Such novel observations provide an in-depth insight of the underlying rationale behind video object pattens. Inspired by these findings, we decouple UVOS into two sub-tasks: UVOS-driven Dynamic Visual Attention Prediction (DVAP) in spatiotemporal domain, and Attention-Guided Object Segmentation (AGOS) in spatial domain. Our UVOS solution enjoys three major advantages: 1) modular training without using expensive video segmentation annotations, instead, using more affordable dynamic fixation data to train the initial video attention module and using existing fixation-segmentation paired static/image data to train the subsequent segmentation module; 2) comprehensive foreground understanding through multi-source learning; and 3) additional interpretability from the biologically-inspired and assessable attention. Experiments on four popular benchmarks show that, even without using expensive video object mask annotations, our model achieves compelling performance compared with state-of-the-arts and enjoys fast processing speed (10 fps on a single GPU). Our collected eye-tracking data and algorithm implementations have been made publicly available at <uri>https://github.com/wenguanwang/AGS</uri>.
Restriction Enzyme Analysis of Thymidine Kinase Gene in Four Iranian Isolates of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 0

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Optimal Fiscal Policy without Commitment: Revisiting Lucas-Stokey

According to the Lucas-Stokey result, a government can structure its debt maturity to guarantee commitment to optimal fiscal policy by future governments. In this paper, we overturn this conclusion, showing that it does not generally hold in the same model and under the same definition of time consistency as in Lucas-Stokey. Our argument rests on the existence of an overlooked commitment problem that cannot be remedied with debt maturity: a government in the future will not necessarily tax above the peak of the Laffer curve, even if it is ex ante optimal to do so.
Improvement of Salt Tolerance and Growth in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by Co-Inoculation with Native Rhizobial Strains

Beneficial association of rhizobial strains with leguminous plants may result in the enhancement of nodulation in the root and overall plant performance. In this study, the efficacy of inoculation was tested with pre-isolated Rhizobium phaseoli R9 and Mesorhizobium ciceri R6 as a single and in combined treatments on common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in a field experiment at soil salinity level of 5.6 dS m over two growing seasons. The bacterial inoculations increased the plant height, root and shoot biomass, grain yield, number of nodules per plant, nodule dry weight, and root length of common bean, with a significant difference. Compared to single inoculation, coinoculation of the rhizobial strains was more effective in all plant parameters and increased the seed yield by 35.1 and 37.9%, respectively, over the two consecutive seasons compared to the uninoculated control. Chemical analysis showed a significantly (P< 0.05) higher protein and oil content in the seeds of the co-inoculated plants than those of the control. The result of the experiment showed a strong correlation (r= 0.87) between the increased nodule dry weight and seed yield of common bean. It might be concluded that co-inoculation with rhizobial strains could be the most effective biofertilization strategy for achieving greater nodulation and yield of common bean under saline conditions of
Sensor Modalities and Fusion for Robust Indoor Localisation

The importance of accurate and e ﬃ cient positioning and tracking is widely understood. However, there is a pressing lack of progress in the standardisation of methods, as well as generalised framework of their evaluation. The aim of this survey is to discuss the currently prevalent and emerging types of sensors used for location estimation. The intent of this review is to take account of this taxonomy and to provide a wider understanding of the current state-of-the-art. To that end, we outline various sensor modalities, as well as popular fusion and integration techniques, discussing how their combinations can help in various application settings. Firstly, we present the fundamental mechanics behind sensors employed by the localisation community. Furthermore we outline the formal theory behind prominent fusion methods and provide exhaustive implementation examples of each. Finally, we provide points for future discussion regarding localisation sensing, fusion and integration methods.
A multi-species collision operator for gyrokinetic codes : Validation with the code GYSELA

Core fusion plasmas are almost collisionless as the plasma density and temperature in the core of fusion devices are extremely small and high, respectively. Nevertheless, accounting for collisions remains essential for three main reasons. First, to a large extent, collisions govern the level of large scale flows – both the mean ion poloidal flow and turbulence-driven zonal flows – via the friction on trapped particles. Second, neoclassical transport can reveal dominant (or at least competitive) with respect to turbulent transport in certain regimes such as transport barriers, or for certain classes of particles such as heavy impurities like tungsten. Third, and more fundamentally, collisions ensure the relaxation of the distribution function towards a Maxwellian. In turn, they are critical for gyrokinetic simulations since they smooth out small scale structures in velocity space, contributing to numerical stability.
CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOMASS SOLID WASTE

In most of the south Asian countries agricultural by-products and waste of wood industries are the major biomass solid wastes. Utilizing these wastes for improved energy recovery a tremendous energy saving could be realized. Pyrolysis, a thermochemical conversion process has been projected as one of the most competitive ways of producing liquid fuel from organic solid waste. For this purpose studies on the characteristics of solid wastes are essential in selecting suitable feedstocks as well as in the design and construction of a suitable thermal conversion system. In this study investigations have been conducted on the characterization of locally available agricultural by-products: rice-straw, jute-stick and bagasse. This primary characterization included the physical properties, proximate analysis, elemental analysis, calorific value and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The physical characteristic of these wastes such as particle size distribution and bulk density have been considered. The elemental composition by ultimate analysis, in terms of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur (CHNOS) content of the selected biomass was determined. The thermal characteristics of the selected solid wastes were obtained by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). From these studies it is found that rice-straw, jutestick and bagasse are good feedstocks for conversion to get liquid fuel. It is also found that the operating temperature range of the conversion system to be designed for the selected biomass is 300 to 600C. Thus, further pyrolysis studies may be proceeded using these feed materials.
Application of supercritical fluids for polyphenolic compounds extraction from olive pomace

Olive wastes generated during the olive oil processing produces a high impact on the environment. The compositions of these raw materials include antioxidants. These are products with relevant applications in the pharmaceutical and food industry. In this work, olive waste is use as a raw material for the development of extraction processes. It was demonstrated the effect of the use of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) before the solvent extraction. For this, the SFE was carried out with variations in the process pressure (200, 250 and 300 bar). In addition, carbon dioxide was used as solvent and ethanol 60% as co-solvent. The best conditions for each one of the olive tree residues and the polyphenolic compounds present were determined. As a result, it was obtained that the highest antioxidant activity occurred when the process was carried out at 300 bar. Additionally, compounds with high antioxidant properties such as hydroxytyrosol, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and ferulic acid were identified.