Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Exploration of Proteomics Analysis of Crop Milk in Pigeons (Columba livia) during the Lactation Period

Pigeon milk is a curdlike substance separated from the mature crop epithelium of breeders, associated with the rapid growth and development of squabs. The aim of this study was to investigate in detail the variations in the content of several important ingredients in crop milk. In this study, we utilized proteomic techniques to investigate the composition and changing pattern of crop milk protein of squabs on days 1 (D1), 3 (D3), and 7 (D7). Our results indicated that the crude protein contents in crop milk decreased with age, and they were up to 50% during the first 3 days. The proteomic data showed that a total of 2558 proteins were identified in all samples from three stages, and the top 15% crop milk proteins were ribosomal protein, keratin, peroxiredoxin, annexin, heat shock protein, and eukaryotic translation protein based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis and normalized spectral abundance factors (NSAFs) calculation. Furthermore, the compositions of crop milk protein between D1 and D3 were quite similar [51 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs)], while great proteomic differences were observed between D1/D3 and D7 (more than 240 DEPs). Additionally, gene ontology (GO) enrichment and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis showed that up-regulated DEPs mainly participate in immune response, while down-regulated DEPs were involved in cell differentiation and development as well as tRNA aminoacylation biosynthesis. In conclusion, DEPs were mainly related to protein synthesis, immunity, and antioxidation, which provided effective information for the development of artificial squab milk products in the future.
Influence Circle Covering in Large-Scale Social Networks: A Shift Approach

Given a specific propagation speed <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$h$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in a social network <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$G(V, E)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, an influence circle(IC) of a node <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$s$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in time <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$t$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is a node set of its influenced nodes, where the distance between <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$s$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and its expected influenced node <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$w$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is less than radius <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$r=ht$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Different from the Influence Maximization(IM) problem which finds a set of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula> initial seed nodes in a network so that the expected size of cascade is maximized, the aim of the proposed influence circle covering (ICCovering) problem in this work is to find a minimum number of seeds or ICs to cover the whole network. The general approach for this covering problem is greedy strategy, which iteratively selects a seed with the largest influence circle. However, the upper bound of greedy algorithms does not perform very well, and the value will increase further as the network scale expands. In this paper, we propose an <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-approximation partitioning algorithm for large-scale social networks, where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\alpha $ </tex-math></inline-formula> is the maximum number of outer edges of Voronoi cells appeared in the partition. The algorithm divides the input graph into smaller cells so that each cell can be solved separately, and a feasible solution to the input object can be constructed by combining the solutions of the smaller cells. When solving the smaller cells, we adopt the linear programming method. In order to improve its effectiveness and efficiency, we also propose two optimization algorithms. Extensive experiments on real social networks confirm the superiorities and effectiveness of our solution.
Statistical and geostatistical techniques for geospatial modeling of soil cation exchange capacity

ABSTRACT Soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) is a main criterion of soil quality and pollutant sequestration capacity. This research was carried out to evaluate cokriging prediction map of soil CEC spatial variability with the principal components derived from soil physical and chemical properties. Two hundred and forty-seven soil samples were collected that 75% of them were used for training soil CEC and 25% for testing of prediction. The first principal component (PC1) was highly correlated with soil CEC (r = 0.81, P < 0.01), whiles there was no significant correlation between CEC and PC2 (r = -0.19). Then, the PC1 was used as an auxiliary variable for the prediction of soil CEC in cokriging method. The determination coefficient (R2) of cross-validation for the test dataset was 0.47 for kriging and 0.71 for cokriging. Therefore, according to the results, principal components that have the highest positive and significant correlation with the dependent variable have the most potential for cokriging prediction.
Perception of patient safety among Final year MBBS students at King Edward Medical University Lahore

Introduction: Patient safety is a vital part of healthcare. It is vital for the medical students that the concepts of the “Do no harm” theory must be understood. Those that do not understand this ultimately perform poorly in healthcare practice. Therefore, it is very important that medical students must be tutored for the concept of good medical practice.Objective: To assess the patient safety perception among medical students in a public sector Medical College.Methods: A sample size of 179 medical students (n=179) from the final year were selected. A questionnaire tool was used to calculate the understanding of medical students. Participants' responses were recorded and computed into SPSS 19 for descriptive analysis.Results: About 55% of participants indicated a lack of knowledge regarding patient safety.25% of the medical students could not understand the type and nature of the iatrogenic error in providing good healthcare and exercising good medical practice. Also, 57% and 48 % of medical students were unable to understand that how to explain the iatrogenic error to patients, their attendants,s and their superiors respectively and 59% did not know that patient safety can be improved by targeted medical practice.Conclusion: The majority of the medical students in final year MBBS were unaware of patient safety and how to improve it. However, they showed keen interest in understanding it and applying the concept of good medical practice to ensure patient safety. KEYWORDS: Patient safety, undergraduates, knowledge, attitude
Monitoring and forecasting COVID-19 impacts on hotel occupancy rates with daily visitor arrivals and search queries

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic is greatly affecting the hospitality industry worldwide. Lodging demand is severely reduced as people's fear of coronavirus spreading risk in hotels. This research makes a timely contribution to the hospitality literature by proposing the mixed data sampling models (MIDAS) to monitor and forecast latest hotel occupancy rates with high-frequency big data sources, such as daily visitor arrivals and search query data. Quantitative evidence from Macau from January to July 2020 confirms that MIDAS models can measure the dynamic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on hotel occupancy and have a better prediction accuracy and explanation ability than competitive models. Industry practitioners can adopt this big data analytical framework to make daily or monthly updates of lodging demand, conduct scenario analysis, plan and trace the recovery schedule during and post COVID-19 phases. Finally, managerial implications and future work are highlighted.
Toothbrushes as a Source of DNA for Gender and Human Identification—A Systematic Review

Background: Few studies have reported the use of toothbrushes as a reliable source of DNA for human or gender identification. The present systematic review with the available information was conducted to answer the focus question “Is a toothbrush a reliable source of DNA for human or gender identification? ”. Methods: The keyword combination “Toothbrush” and “DNA” was used to search databases including MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science along with a manual search of reference lists of relevant articles. Duplicates and irrelevant articles were excluded, and the remaining articles were fully read for the final selection of articles. The risk of bias of the included studies was evaluated using the Appraisal tool for Cross-Sectional Studies (AXIS tool). Results: Of the 130 articles obtained, 122 duplicates or irrelevant articles were eliminated. Following the full-text reading of eight articles, five articles were selected based on eligibility criteria. The five studies reported that a toothbrush is a good source of DNA irrespective of the time interval. In a few studies some samples were not sufficient for complete DNA profiling due to factors such as the method of DNA extraction. Conclusion: Although a toothbrush is an excellent source of DNA for human and gender identification, future studies with a larger sample size, appropriate control group, and standardized technique of DNA extraction need to be conducted. Additionally, factors influencing the quantity and quality of DNA in toothbrushes need to be determined with standardized techniques.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND INHIBITORY EFFECTS OF NECTANDRA GRANDIFLORA LEAVES ESSENTIAL OIL AGAINST WOOD DECAY FUNGI

The environmental toxicity and potential human health problems that can be caused by most common wood preservatives are pushing forward the search of safe preservatives from renewable resources. Consequently, several studies have been realized to assess the potential of plant extracts in terms of fungal resistance for wood products. In this context, the present work aims to evaluate the inhibitory effects of essential oil obtained from the leaves of Nectandra grandiflora against wood decay fungi. Chemical characterization was carried out by gas chromatography and the antifungal activity was performed by the radial growth technique. Firstly, the potato sucrose agar medium was supplemented with essential oil at concentrations ranging from 0 (control) to 5.0 μL·mL. Afterwards, mycelial discs of Pycnoporus sanguineus and Gloeophyllum trabeum were transferred to the plates and the results were evaluated by the probit method. Chemical analysis revealed a complex mixture of sesquiterpenoids in the essential oil, which presented dehydrofukinone as a major compound. The essential oil and dehydrofukinone proved to be effective in the mycelial growth control of G. trabeum and P. sanguineus. These preliminary reports demonstrated the suitability of the N. grandiflora essential oil as a component of preservative solutions.
Effect of Immediate Breast Reconstruction after Standardized Breast Cancer Surgery on the Quality of Life of Patients: A Prospective Multicenter Study

Objective To investigate the impact of immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after standardized breast cancer (BC) surgery on the quality of life of patients. Methods A total of 878 BC patients were included, who were diagnosed and treated in the breast surgery department between January 2016 and December 2018. The patient underwent immediate postoperative breast reconstruction surgery. Subsequently, safety, efficacy, and postoperative morphology were scored and evaluated for the comprehensive analysis of the clinical therapeutic effects. Results With longer postoperative time, a lower proportion of the follow-up population experienced limb edema, capsular contracture, infection, calcifications around the prosthesis, prosthesis dislocation, delayed wound healing, chronic lymphadenopathy, pain, and prosthesis rupture, indicating a high safety. And the follow-up patients' breast appearance and shape largely returned to normal at 12 months postoperatively. Additionally, patients with 3 and 6 months of follow-up had a higher quality of life and better aesthetic breast reconstruction outcomes compared to the perioperative period. Conclusion The implementation of standardized IBR after breast cancer improves the quality of life of patients after surgery with fewer complications and a good safety profile.
Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Pop Up Book Berbasis Kearifan Lokal pada Pembelajaran Tematik di Sekolah Dasar

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan produk media ajar berupa media pop up book berbasis kearifan lokal. Pada pembelajaran tematik kelas V SD N Mandi Angin yang valid dan praktis untuk digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran. Metode penelitian yakni R&D (Research and development), dengan model pengembangan ADDIE yang digunakan analisa, perancangan, pengembangan, implementasi dan evaluasi. Berdasarkan hasil analisis penilaian yang diperoleh dari ahli validasi bahasa, media dan materi memperoleh rata- rata skor yang memenuhi kriteria valid. Kemudian hasil analisis kepraktisan siswa dan guru memperoleh rata- rata skor yang memenuhi kriteria sangat praktis. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa media pop up book berbasis kearifan lokal pada pembelajaran tematik valid dan praktis digunakan dalam proses pembelajaran
Effect of phosphoric acid and acetic acid addition on the hydrogen evolution using Ni based catalyst prepared in ethanol, methanol, and water solvents

ABSTRACT Ni-based catalysts were synthesized in water, methanol and ethanol solvents by chemical reduction with sodium borohydride (NaBH4). The obtained catalyst for the first time was used to catalyze the NaBH4 hydrolysis reaction with phosphoric acid and acetic acid including different concentrations. The maximum hydrogen production rates obtained in the hydrolysis reaction including 0.5 M phosphoric acid and 0.1 M acetic acid of the Ni-based catalyst prepared in ethanol solvent were 5214 and 3650 ml g−1 min−1, respectively.
Phytochemical Screening and Evaluation of Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activity of Mahonia napaulensis (Jamanemandro) Bark Extract

Mahonia napaulensis also known as “Jamanemandro” in Nepali is a medium-sized stiff evergreen shrub widely distributed in South East Asia at an altitude of 1000-2000m, is traditionally used to treat dysentery and eye inflammation. This research focuses on screening of the phytochemicals, antimicrobial, and antioxidant properties of this plant. The methanolic extract was prepared using a Soxhlet apparatus. The antioxidant properties of extract were carried out by 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values from 2-2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging. The phytochemical screening confirmed the presence of terpenoids, reducing sugars, tannins, alkaloids, glycosides including cardiac glycosides and steroids. The antimicrobial activity was studied using the disc diffusion method in five different human pathogens named Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, and Shigella spps. The methanol extract was compared with standard chloramphenicol and showed that methanolic extract of is M.napaulensis exhibit maximum effect against S. aureus with higher growth inhibition zones (27.3 mm), followed by P. aeruginosa, Shigella spps. , E. coli and S. typhi. These antimicrobial properties showed similar effect to that of positive control, chloramphenicol. The IC50 values from DPPH radical scavenging were 230.89 µg/mL and 182.73 µg/mL of methanol extract and ascorbic acid, respectively. Due to this antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of M. napaulensis it was widely applicable in biomedical field.
Comparison of goose down and woolen pillows in terms of house dust mites

Abstract This study was conducted to compare the goose down and the woolen pillows in terms of number of house dust mites per gram of dust. The study was conducted in Kars province, Turkey in September 2020. A total of 180 house dust samples were collected from 45 randomly selected houses in various districts of the city. The number of houses in which at least one sample was positive regarding mites was found to be 39 (86.66%). Overall, 137 (76.11%) of dust samples were mite positive. This rate was 87.77% in dust samples of woolen and 64.44% in dust samples of goose down pillows. The number of mites/g dust varied between 15 and 625 in mite-positive woolen pillows, 10 and 420 in mite-positive goose down pillows. Mean number of mites per g of dust was 127.67 in woolen pillows and 79.39 in goose down pillows. A statistically significant difference was found between woolen and goose down pillows in terms of the number of mites per gram of dust (P<0.05). A total of 1,362 mite specimens were isolated from the dust samples. As a result of the identification of isolated specimens; a total of 16 species belong to 10 genera and 6 families were determined. Of these; Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Trouessart, 1897) (65.85%), Lepidoglyphus destructor (Schrank) (9.25%) and Acarus siro Linnaeus (6.16%) were the most dominant species in terms of number of specimens.
Forecasting Are We More Moral Than We Think ? : Exploring the Role of Affect in Moral Behavior and

Can people accurately predict how they will act in a moral dilemma? Our research suggests that in some situations, they cannot, and that emotions play a pivotal role in this dissociation between behavior and forecasting. In the current experiment, individuals in a moral action condition cheated significantly less on a math task than participants in a forecasting condition predicted they themselves would cheat. Furthermore, we found that participants in the action condition displayed significantly more physiological arousal, as measured by preejection period, skin conductance response (SCR), and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), and that the underestimation effect was mediated by SCR and RSA together. This research suggests that the affective arousal present during real-life moral dilemmas may not be fully engaged during moral forecasting, and that this may account for the moral forecasting errors that individuals make. This research has the potential to inform past work in the field of moral psychology, which has largely ignored actual behavior.
Contribution of Recycled Moisture to Precipitation: A Modified D‐Excess‐Based Model

Defining moisture sources and evolution of precipitation is of significance for further exploration of complex hydro‐climatic interactions, especially under global warming with alternations of evapotranspiration capacity and precipitation moisture source structure. As a sensitive indicator, d‐excess has been widely used to quantify the proportion of recycled vapor to precipitation (fre). However, existing d‐excess‐based models ignore to take transpiration vapor into account and the calculated fre tends to be lower than the true value, thus underestimating the importance of recycled vapor in precipitation. Herein, the existing model was modified with transpiration vapor considered and applied in Guyuan, China located in a monsoon marginal zone with complex precipitation moisture sources. After modification, the estimated annual average fre was increased from 7.5% to 14.8%, well calibrating the existing model. This study highlights the contribution of transpiration vapor to precipitation and provides more information on the formation and evolution of precipitation to better serve future hydro‐climatic research.
Inverse scattering transform for the complex coupled short‐pulse equation

In this paper, we develop the Riemann–Hilbert approach to the inverse scattering transform (IST) for the complex coupled short‐pulse equation on the line with zero boundary conditions at space infinity, which is a generalization of recent work on the scalar real short‐pulse equation (SPE) and complex short‐pulse equation (cSPE). As a byproduct of the IST, soliton solutions are also obtained. As is often the case, the zoology of soliton solutions for the coupled system is richer than in the scalar case, and it includes both fundamental solitons (the natural, vector generalization of the scalar case), and fundamental breathers (a superposition of orthogonally polarized fundamental solitons, with the same amplitude and velocity but having different carrier frequencies), as well as composite breathers, which still correspond to a minimal set of discrete eigenvalues but cannot be reduced to a simple superposition of fundamental solitons. Moreover, it is found that the same constraint on the discrete eigenvalues which leads to regular, smooth one‐soliton solutions in the complex SPE, also holds in the coupled case, for both a single fundamental soliton and a single fundamental breather, but not, in general, in the case of a composite breather.
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) Promotes Plant Tolerance to Drought

A growing body of research points to a positive interplay between viruses and plants. Tomato yellow curl virus (TYLCV) is able to protect tomato host plants against extreme drought. To envisage the use of virus protective capacity in agriculture, TYLCV-resistant tomato lines have to be infected first with the virus before planting. Such virus-resistant tomato plants contain virus amounts that do not cause disease symptoms, growth inhibition, or yield loss, but are sufficient to modify the metabolism of the plant, resulting in improved tolerance to drought. This phenomenon is based on the TYLCV-dependent stabilization of amounts of key osmoprotectants induced by drought (soluble sugars, amino acids, and proteins). Although in infected TYLCV-susceptible tomatoes, stress markers also show an enhanced stability, in infected TYLCV-resistant plants, water balance and osmolyte homeostasis reach particularly high levels. These tomato plants survive long periods of time during water withholding. However, after recovery to normal irrigation, they produce fruits which are not exposed to drought, similarly to the control plants. Using these features, it might be possible to cultivate TYLCV-resistant plants during seasons characterized by water scarcity.
Dementia

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