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Screening Out the Phytochemicals and Colour Values in White and Black Rice Lines and Its Interrelationship

Problem: Kavuni is a traditional black rice variety of Tamil Nadu, India it rich in nutritional and therapeutic properties. These traits it is not being cultivated widely, due to long duration, poor tillering and low yielding agronomic characters. Objectives: In the study, twenty three breeding rice lines from the cross between black kavuni and Co 50 were investigated for colour values and phytochemical viz., total phenols content (TPC), total flavonoids content (TFC) and total anthocyanin content (TAC). Methods: Twenty five rice samples were grouped as black and white rice based on colour of aleuronic layer by visual inspection. The color values expressed as L* (lightness), a* (redness), b* (yellowness), H° (hue) and C (chroma). TPC by the Folin–Ciocalteu method and expressed as milligram of gallic acid equivalent (mg GAE/g) per g. TFC by aluminum chloride method and expressed as mg catechin equivalent (mg CATE) per 100 g. TAC was measured by pH differential method, expressed as mg cyaniding 3-glucoside per 100 g (c3-glucoside/100 g). Main results: The black phenotype rice had low value in L*, b*, C, H° and high values in a* than the white color rice. In the black rice group, 145-6 breeding line had darker black aleuronic layer than other black rice. The TPC, TFC and TAC ranged between 0.74 -3.24 mg GAE/g, 12.79 – 82.58 mg CATE/100 g and 0.4-223.76 mg c3-glucoside/100 g, respectively. High level of TPC, TFC and TAC were recorded in black phenotypic rice, where as lower levels in white rice. The maximum amount of TPC and TAC were observed in 145-6 rice line, which on par with parent black kavuni rice. The maximum level TFC was observed in 144-2 rice line than the parent rice kavuni. The TPC, TFC and TAC were negatively correlated with L*, b*, C and H° values and positively correlated with a* values at 0.01 probability level. Among the 23 rice lines, based on TPC, TAC and TFC the superior breeding rice lines were 145-6 and 144-2 respectively. The results showed that dark black grain has higher phytochemicals than white grain. Main recommendation: The results indicate provide the opportunities to further increase the nutritional benefits of some food products from black rice in terms of therapeutic properties.
Gene expression pro fi ling identi fi es responsive patients with cancer of unknown primary treated with carboplatin , paclitaxel , and everolimus : NCCTG N 0871 ( alliance ) †

Gene expression profiling identifies responsive patients with cancer of unknown primary treated with carboplatin, paclitaxel, and everolimus: NCCTG N0871 (alliance)† H. H. Yoon1, N. R. Foster2, J. P. Meyers2, P. D. Steen3, D. W. Visscher4, R. Pillai5, D. M. Prow6, C. M. Reynolds7, B. T. Marchello8, R. B. Mowat9, B. I. Mattar10, C. Erlichman1 & M. P. Goetz1* Division of Medical Oncology; Alliance Statistics and Data Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Department of Medical Oncology, Meritcare Hospital CCOP, Fargo; Department of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Pathwork Diagnostics, Redwood City; Department of Medical Oncology, Iowa Oncology Research Association CCOP, Des Moines; Department of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Michigan Cancer Research Consortium, Ann Arbor; Department of Medical Oncology, Montana Cancer Consortium, Billings; Department of Medical Oncology/Hematology, Toledo Community Hospital Oncology Program CCOP, Toledo; Department of Medical Oncology/Hematology, Wichita Community Clinical Oncology Program, Wichita, USA
Impact Resisting Mechanisms of Shear-Critical Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with High-Performance FRC

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures typically present brittle failures by shear or punching under impact loading. High-performance fiber-reinforced concrete (HPFRC) has great potential due to its superior strength and energy absorption. The higher price and environmental cost of HPFRC compared to conventional RC can be effectively overcome by partially strengthening impact-sensitive RC members with HPFRC. To study the feasibility of this technique, HPFRC was applied as a tensile layer at the bottom of RC beams. Drop weight impact tests were carried out on beams with two values (35 and 55 mm) of HPFRC thickness, in addition to companion RC beams. Results show that the impact response can be divided into two stages: a first stage governed by local effects and shear plug formation at midspan, and a second stage governed by global beam behavior with formation of shear web cracks. A new resisting mechanism was observed for beams strengthened with HPFRC, as the strengthening layer worked similarly to a stress ribbon retaining the damaged RC and reducing fragmentation-induced debris. Such mechanism was fully achieved by the specimens with 35 mm HPFRC layer but was limited for the specimens with 55 mm HPFRC layer due to impact-induced interface debonding.
Interpolating between Optimal Transport and MMD using Sinkhorn Divergences

Comparing probability distributions is a fundamental problem in data sciences. Simple norms and divergences such as the total variation and the relative entropy only compare densities in a point-wise manner and fail to capture the geometric nature of the problem. In sharp contrast, Maximum Mean Discrepancies (MMD) and Optimal Transport distances (OT) are two classes of distances between measures that take into account the geometry of the underlying space and metrize the convergence in law. This paper studies the Sinkhorn divergences, a family of geometric divergences that interpolates between MMD and OT. Relying on a new notion of geometric entropy, we provide theoretical guarantees for these divergences: positivity, convexity and metrization of the convergence in law. On the practical side, we detail a numerical scheme that enables the large scale application of these divergences for machine learning: on the GPU, gradients of the Sinkhorn loss can be computed for batches of a million samples.
Spectral Line Surveys of Evolved Stars

Abstract The observation of evolved stars in selected evolutionary stages allow us to track the evolution of the physical properties and chemical composition of the matter that is being returned to the interstellar medium during these last stages of the life of stars. While the dust component can be characterized through the observation of the spectral energy distribution in the infrared part of the spectrum, spectral line surveys carried out in a wide spectral band provide the best probe of the physical properties and chemical composition of the gas phase. In this lecture we review the different line surveys carried out toward these objects and their impact in our understanding of the chemical complexity evolution in the circumstellar envelopes around evolved stars.
A Finite Element Analysis Model for Partial Discharges in Silicone Gel under a High Slew Rate, High-Frequency Square Wave Voltage in Low-Pressure Conditions

Wide bandgap (WBG) devices made from materials such as SiC, GaN, Ga 2 O 3 and diamond, which can tolerate higher voltages and currents compared to silicon-based devices, are the most promising approach for reducing the size and weight of power management and conversion systems. Silicone gel, which is the existing commercial option for encapsulation of power modules, is susceptible to partial discharges (PDs). PDs often occur in air-filled cavities located in high electric field regions around the sharp edges of metallization in the gel. This study focuses on the modeling of PD phenomenon in an air filled-cavity in silicone gel for the combination of (1) a fast, high-frequency square wave voltage and (2) low-pressure conditions. The low-pressure condition is common in the aviation industry where pressure can go as low as 4 psi. To integrate the pressure impact into PD model, in the first place, the model parameters are adjusted with the experimental results reported in the literature and in the second place, the dependencies of various PD characteristics such as dielectric constant and inception electric field on pressure are examined. Finally, the reflections of these changes in PD intensity, duration and inception time are investigated. The results imply that the low pressure at high altitudes can considerably affect the PD inception and extinction criterion, also the transient state conditions during PD events. These changes result in the prolongation of PD events and more intense ones. As the PD model is strongly dependent upon the accurate estimation electric field estimation of the system, a finite-element analysis (FEA) model developed in COMSOL Multiphysics linked with MATLAB is employed that numerically calculates the electric field distribution.
High-level mupirocin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria isolated from diseased companion animals

The purpose of this study was to investigate the high-level mupirocin resistance (HLMR) in Gram-positive bacteria isolated from companion animals. A total of 931 clinical specimens were collected from diseased pets. The detection of mupirocin-resistant bacteria and plasmid-mediated mupirocin resistance genes were evaluated by antimicrobial susceptibility tests, polymerase chain reactions, and sequencing analysis. Four-hundred and six (43.6%) bacteria were isolated and 17 (4.2%), including 14 staphylococci and 3 Corynebacterium were high-level mupirocin-resistant (MICs, ≥ 1,024 ug/mL) harboring mupA. Six staphylococci of HLMR strains had plasmid-mediated mupA-IS257 flanking regions. The results show that HLMR bacteria could spread in veterinary medicine in the near future.
Topicality in Icelandic: Null Arguments and Narrative Inversion

This paper discusses topicality in Icelandic grammar as realized in several phenomena: referential third person pro drop in Old Icelandic, diverse types of topic drop in Old and Modern Icelandic, and Narrative Inversion (declarative VS clauses), also in both Old and Modern Icelandic. These phenomena all involve aboutness topics, given topics or both, thus showing that distinct types of topicality are active in Icelandic. However, in contrast to Italian, Icelandic does not provide evidence that different topic types have different structural correlates, a fact that suggests that topicality types are not generally structuralized in language (while not excluding that a topicality hierarchy may be PF-licensed by externalization properties specific to languages like Italian). Topicality is presumably a universally available category or phenomenon, but it is plausibly an interface third factor phenomenon (in the sense of Chomsky 2005), not provided by Universal Grammar but interacting with it in the shaping of externalized grammar, differently so in different languages. (Less)
Activity-and pharmacology-dependent modulation of adult neurogenesis in relation to Alzheimer’s disease

Reductions in adult neurogenesis have been previously documented in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, notably occurring at the same age when spatial memory deficits first appeared. As these findings associated reduced neurogenesis with behavioral deficits in the 3xTg model, we tested whether activity and pharmacological interventions known to increase neurogenesis could prevent deficits in spatial memory in the 3xTg model. We chronically administered the antidepressant fluoxetine to one group of mice, allowed open access to a running wheel in another, and combined both treatments in a third cohort. All treatments lasted 11 months in order to test the ability to induce neurogenesis and preserve spatial memory. Backcrossed 3xTg mice had low levels of neurogenesis that were increased by wheel running. However, 3xTg mice, at an age of 20 months, did not exhibit any deficit in spatial learning or memory as measured in the Morris Water Maze. The 3xTg mice expressed prominent intraneuronal Aβ levels in the cortex and amygdala, but very little in the CA1 hippocampal subfield. Running appeared to increase Aβ, while fluoxetine seemed to reduce Aβ accumulations however the overall density of Aβ and AT8 tau accumulations was not significantly altered by the test conditions. Our results indicate that the 3xTg mice, when backcrossed to a C57Bl6 strain, lose their behavioral phenotype documented in the unmodified 3xTg mouse maintained on a hybrid genetic background. We conclude that running and synergistic treatment of running and fluoxetine increases long-term survival of neurons generated during middle-age in the backcrossed 3xTg mouse model of AD.
Environmental Aspects of Inter-City Passenger Transport

Many governments in different parts of the world are investing in high speed rail. Some of them do so thinking that it will be an important part of climate change mitigation. Intercity traffic over medium distances is particularly interesting in the environmental context as it constitutes the only transport segment where aircraft, trains, coaches and cars naturally compete for market shares. This report calculates the effect on emissions from building a new high speed link that connects two major cities located 500 km apart. It assumes that emissions from new vehicles and aircraft in 2025 can be used as a proxy for the emissions during a 50 year investment depreciation period. The emissions from the marginal production of electricity, used by rail and electric vehicles, are estimated to amount on average to 530 gram per kWh for the entire period. Fuels used by road vehicles are assumed to be on average 80 percent fossil and 20 per cent renewable (with a 65% carbon efficiency in the latter case).
Quantum ergodicity for sub-Riemannian Laplacians

Let us consider a sub-Riemannian (sR) metric on a closed three-dimensional manifold with an oriented contact distribution. There exists a privileged choice of the contact form, with an associated Reeb vector field and a canonical volume form that coincides with the Popp measure. We establish a Quantum Ergodicity (QE) theorem for the eigenfunctions of any associated sR Laplacian under the assumption that the Reeb flow is ergodic. The limit measure is given by the normalized Popp measure. This is the first time that such a result is established for a hypoelliptic operator,whereas the usual Shnirelman theorem yields QE for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a closed Riemannian manifold with ergodic geodesic flow. To prove our main theorem, we first establish a microlocal Weyl law, which allows us to identify the limit measure and to prove the microlocal concentration of the eigenfunctions on the characteristic manifold of the sR Laplacian. Then, we derive a Birkhoff normal form, thus showing that, in some sense, all contact 3D sR structures are microlocally equivalent. The quantum version of this normal form provides a useful microlocal factorization of the sR Laplacian. Using the normal form, the factorization and the ergodicity assumption, we finally establish a variance estimate, from which QE follows.
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Repeated unidirectional introgression towards Populus balsamifera in contact zones of exotic and native

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The critical factors of IT governance and its impact on organizational performance in Malaysian manufacturing industry

The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which senior management's involvement and demographics of organizational affect the effectiveness of IT governance with the performance of organizations. This is a combination of exploratory and descriptive research that aims to investigate the determinants of IT governance and its effects on organizational performance in Malaysian manufacturing companies. The sample size of 357 collected for this research. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized in this research to investigate the measurement and structural model simultaneously. The findings demonstrated the relationships between the senior management's involvement and organizational demographics, effective its governance and organizational performance in manufacturing companies in Malaysia. This research is the construction of a theoretically based model which assimilates the senior management's involvement and organizational demographics, effective IT governance, and performance of organizations. Likewise, discover the most crucial elements that affect effective IT governance to improve the manufacturing company's performance.
The Effect of Using Virtual Laboratory in Guided Inquiry Learning on Cognitive Learning Outcomes of Physics

The cognitive learning outcomes of physics is an indicator of success in learning. To obtain good physics learning result, it needs combination of media and learning model which able to construct students understanding. The use of virtual laboratory in guided inquiry learning models aims to train students to discover concepts independently and construct their knowledge. This study aims to determine the effect of the use of virtual laboratory in guided inquiry learning model to the cognitive learning outcomes of physics students. This research is a quasi experimental research with posttest only control group design. The study involved 58 students divided into two groups, the experimental group and the control group. Data were analyzed using Anova one way test. The results showed that the students' cognitive learning outcomes differ significantly between the experimental group and the control group. It can be concluded that the use of virtual labs in guided inquiry learning model influences the students' cognitive learning outcomes.
Temporal Variation in Venom Yield of the Australian Funnel-Web Spider Atrax sutherlandi (Hexathelidae: Atracinae)

Summary Temporal variation in the venom yield of spiders is a relatively poorly understood phenomenon. We investigated temporal variation in venom yield of the Australian funnel-web spider Atrax sutherlandi Gray 2010 (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). The venom yield of spiders collected and milked in winter was 62.9% higher than those collected and milked in autumn, despite all undergoing acclimatization (45 days in darkness at 10°C and 100%RH) before milking. Our findings highlight the potential effects of seasonality on spider venoms and lay the groundwork for future studies to investigate the evolutionary and ecological correlates of this phenomenon further.
Forging Effective Strategies to Combat Iron Deficiency Fortification : Overcoming Technical and Practical Barriers 1 , 2

The main barriers to successful iron fortification are the following: 1) finding an iron compound that is adequately absorbed but causes no sensory changes to the food vehicle; and 2) overcoming the inhibitory effect on iron absorption of dietary components such as phytic acid, phenolic compounds and calcium. These barriers have been successfully overcome with some food vehicles but not with others. Iron-fortified fish sauce, soy sauce, curry powder, sugar, dried milk, infant formula and cereal based complementary foods have been demonstrated to improve iron status in targeted populations. The reasons for this success include the use of soluble iron such as ferrous sulfate, the addition of ascorbic acid as an absorption enhancer or the use of NaFeEDTA to overcome the negative effect of phytic acid. In contrast, at the present time, it is not possible to guarantee a similar successful fortification of cereal flours or salt. There is considerable doubt that the elemental iron powders currently used to fortify cereal flours are adequately absorbed, and there is an urgent need to investigate their potential for improving iron status. Better absorbed alternative compounds for cereal fortification include encapsulated ferrous sulfate and NaFeEDTA, which, unlike ferrous sulfate, do not provoke fat oxidation of cereals during storage. Encapsulated compounds also offer a possibility to fortify low grade salt without causing off-colors or iodine loss. Finally, a new and useful additional approach to ensuring adequate iron absorption from cereal based complementary foods is the complete degradation of phytic acid with added phytases or by activating native cereal phytases. J. Nutr. 132: 806S–812S, 2002.
An upgraded comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Tardigrada tree of life

Providing accurate animals’ phylogenies rely on increasing knowledge of neglected phyla. Tardigrada diversity evaluated in broad phylogenies (among phyla) is biased towards eutardigrades. A comprehensive phylogeny is demanded to establish the representative diversity and propose a more natural classification of the phylum. So, we have performed multilocus (18S rRNA and 28S rRNA) phylogenies with Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood. We propose the creation of a new class within Tardigrada, erecting the order Apochela (Eutardigrada) as a new Tardigrada class, named Apotardigrada comb. n. Two groups of evidence support its creation: (a) morphological, presence of cephalic appendages, unique morphology for claws (separated branches) and wide‐elongated buccopharyngeal apparatus without placoids, and (b) phylogenetic support based on molecular data. Consequently, order Parachela is suppressed and its superfamilies erected as orders within Eutardigrada, maintaining their current names. We propose a new classification within the family Echiniscidae (Echiniscoidea, Heterotardigrada) with morphological and phylogenetic support: (a) subfamily Echiniscinae subfam. n. , with two tribes Echiniscini tribe n. and Bryodelphaxini tribe n. ; (b) subfamily Pseudechiniscinae subfam. n. , with three tribes Cornechiniscini tribe n. , Pseudechiniscini tribe n. and Anthechiniscini tribe n. ; and (c) subfamily Parechiniscinae subfam. n. , with two tribes Parechiniscini tribe n. and Novechiniscini tribe n. Reliable biodiversity selection for tardigrades in broad phylogenies is proposed due to biased analyses performed up to now. We use our comprehensive molecular phylogeny to evaluate the evolution of claws in the clawless genus Apodibius and claw reduction across the Tardigrada tree of life. Evolutionary consequences are discussed.
Exploring the Effects of Using Game on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery: A Case Study in Instructional Material and Media Development Class

— The fundamental issue is how to teach vocabulary as effectively as possible, since vocabulary became the most important factor in learning English. Vocabulary should not be learnt separately or by memorization without understanding. This aimed to explore the effectiveness of using game in Instructional material and media development (IMALD) classroom. This study adopts a qualitative methodology. Vocabulary test and observation were also done to support this research. The result of this study indicates that there is improvement on student vocabulary mastery. Student motivation and involvement during teaching learning process was also increasing. The results of the tests showed that most of students get high scores when translating English vocabulary. The implementation of games and other supporting fun activities succeeded in helping students to learn and understand new vocabulary. Overall, using games during teaching English was successful in improving students’ vocabulary mastery. Implications of the study suggested that teachers should apply games in teaching vocabulary in order to provide students an effective learning.