Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Relationship Between IgE-Mediated Sensitization to Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxin B, Asthma Severity, and Atopy

The superantigenic properties of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins (SEs) (S aureus enterotoxins A [SEA], B [SEB], and C [SEC]) and of toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST-1) considered as a group have been associated with atopic dermatitis [1], chronic rhinosinusitis [2,3], and asthma [2,4]. The presence of serum specific IgE (sIgE) against a mix of SEs (SE-sIgE) has been suggested as an important risk factor for severe asthma in adult asthma patients with poor lung function and eosinophilia [5-7]. However, few studies analyze each SE individually. In particular, the presence of sIgE to SEB (SEBsIgE) has been associated with severe atopic dermatitis [8], although there is still little evidence of an association between SEB-sIgE and asthma [9,10]. The aim of this study was to determine whether the presence of SEB-sIgE is associated with asthma severity, level of control, and atopy in an asthmatic population. A retrospective observational study was conducted among patients aged ≥18 years with a diagnosis of asthma in the Severe Asthma Unit at La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, Spain between 2009 and 2013. Sensitization was defined as SEB-sIgE ≥0.35 kU/L. The local Clinical Research Ethics Committee approved the study protocol (PI-2986). Patients were classified based on asthma severity as per the Spanish Guidelines on the Management of Asthma (GEMA) [11]. Uncontrolled patients were those who experienced exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids for at least 3 consecutive days or admission to hospital in the year prior to the study [12]. Atopy was determined based on the results obtained with skin prick testing and/or sIgE to common aeroallergens, as follows: pollens (Cupressus arizonica, Platanus acerifolia, Olea europaea, Lolium perenne, Artemisia vulgaris, Salsola kali, Parietaria judaica), house dust mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, Dermatophagoides farinae), animal dander Manuscript received April 23, 2020; accepted for publication July 25, 2020.
A Deep Graph Neural Networks Architecture Design: From Global Pyramid-like Shrinkage Skeleton to Local Topology Link Rewiring

Expressivity plays a fundamental role in evaluating deep neural networks, and it is closely related to understanding the limit of performance improvement. In this paper, we propose a three-pipeline training framework based on critical expressivity, including global model contraction, weight evolution, and link's weight rewiring. Specifically, we propose a pyramidal-like skeleton to overcome the saddle points that affect information transfer. Then we analyze the reason for the modularity (clustering) phenomenon in network topology and use it to rewire potential erroneous weighted links. We conduct numerical experiments on node classification and the results confirm that the proposed training framework leads to a significantly improved performance in terms of fast convergence and robustness to potential erroneous weighted links. The architecture design on GNNs, in turn, verifies the expressivity of GNNs from dynamics and topological space aspects and provides useful guidelines in designing more efficient neural networks.
A Preliminary Study of Nutritional Quality of Five Drought Tolerant Millets

Seeds from greenhouse-grown plants of five food millet crops—[barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea Link.), finger millet (Eleusine coracana Gaertn.), kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum L.), little millet (Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult.), and proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)] contained 10.4, 5.5, 7.2, 1.3, and 17.1 percent protein; 69, 29, 239, 105, and 32 Fe (mg/100 g); and 33, 22, 23, 31, and 37 (mg/100 g) Zn, respectively. Concentrations (g/100 g) of oil in seeds varied from 1.32 for finger millet to 3.58 for little millet. The oil concentrations for barnyard, kodo, and proso millets were 1.59, 1.64, and 3.36 g/100 g, respectively. Predominant fatty acid in the oil in the seed of these millets was C18:2 followed by C18:1, and C16:0. Concentration of omega-3 fatty acid (a heart-healthy oil) was 1.06, 0.62, 1.01, 0.91, and 3.11 g/100 g in barnyard, kodo, little, proso, and finger millet, respectively. Oils from seeds of these millet crops were essentially free from concentration of anti-nutritive fatty acid C22:1 (Erucic acid). Concentrations (g/100 g) of total sugars varied from 0.96 for barnyard millet to 2.09 for finger millet. The total sugar concentrations for kodo, little, and proso millets were 1.81, 1.95, and 1.99 g/100 g, respectively. Fructose, glucose, sucrose, maltose, raffinose, and stachyose concentrations varied from 0.05 to 0.47, 0.44 to 0.85, 0.44 to 0.98, 0.02 to 0.33, 0.005 to 0.083, and 0.002 to 0.053, respectively for barnyard, kodo, little, proso, and finger millet, respectively. Results indicated that these millet crops have potential as sources of healthy food and it might be worthwhile to further study their production potential.
Study of menstrual pattern changes in patients accepting injection depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate versus levonorgestrel intrauterine system

Menstrual disorders are common gynaecological problem for medical visits among women of reproductive age. Heavy menstrual bleeding affects up to 30% of women in their reproductive period. In the United States, more than 600,000 hysterectomies are performed annually. Approximately 90% of these were for benign diseases including menstrual disorders (approximately 17% of the total number of hysterectomies) such as heavy menstrual bleeding. Heavy menstrual bleeding, defined objectively as blood loss 80 mL or more per menstrual cycle, is an important cause of iron-deficiency anemia and adversely affects health-related quality of life.
Predictive tool for frictional performance of piston ring-pack/liner conjunction

Fundamental understanding of piston ring-pack lubrication is essential in reducing engine friction. This is because a substantial portion of engine frictional losses come from piston-ring assembly. Hence, this study investigates the tribological impact of different piston ring profiles towards engine in-cylinder friction. Mathematical models are derived from Reynolds equation by using Reynolds’ boundary conditions to generate the contact pressure distribution along the complete piston ring-pack/liner conjunction. The predicted minimum film thickness is then used to predict the friction generated between the piston ring-pack and the engine cylinder liner. The engine in-cylinder friction is predicted using Greenwood and Williamson’s rough surface contact model. The model considers both the boundary friction and the viscous friction components. These mathematical models are integrated to simulate the total engine in-cylinder friction originating from the studied piston ring-pack for a complete engine cycle. The predicted minimum film thickness and frictional properties from the current models are shown to correlate reasonably with the published data. Hence, the proposed mathematical approach prepares a simplistic platform in predicting frictional losses of piston ring-pack/liner conjunction, allowing for an improved fundamental understanding of the parasitic losses in an internal combustion engine.
COMPARISON OF THE COOKING CHARACTERISTICS AMONG TRUE POTATO SEED (TPS) AND SEED POTATO VARIETIES AFTER MICROWAVE HEATING

The microwave heating has become widely popular in potato processing because of its high heating rate, short processing time, and for controlling undesirable changes in starch. In the experiment potato columns of TPS potato ‘BARI TPS-1’ and local potatoes ‘Diamant’, ‘Tel Pakri’ and ‘Romana’ were heated with 50 mL of water for 0, 20, 40, 60, 90, 120, 240, and 300 sec by a microwave oven; and the changes in potato columns were analyzed physiologically and histologically to investigate how potato tuber and starch condition changes in local potato and TPS tubers after microwave heating. The ‘BARI TPS-1’ potato columns resulted comparatively higher rate of weight loss and firmness loss percentage than the other seed potato varieties, indicating that temperature rapidly increased in TPS tuber columns than that of the others. Among local varieties ‘Tel Pakri’ gave a relatively higher weight loss and firmness loss percentage than the others. This study also showed comparatively higher solubility percentage in ‘BARI TPS-1’ tuber than the other local varieties, suggesting rapid disruption of swollen starch granule and faster starch degradation in TPS than the other local potato starches. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images of starch granule showed rapidly ruptured and clumped starch granules in ‘BARI-TPS-1’ than the others, indicating TPS starch might obtain gelatinization temperature within a shorter period of microwave heating than that of the other varieties.
Maintaining User Engagement in an Infectious Disease Surveillance-Related Citizen Science Project

Over the past fifteen years, infectious disease surveillance has evolved to include online citizen science projects that implement active digital data collection. Flu Near You (FNY) is an online participatory surveillance system in the United States that collects weekly health reports from its volunteers. Because high engagement levels and consistent participation of users are essential to accurately track disease and estimate burden, FNY implemented three measures: (1) adding a new feature in that allows website visitors to submit a health report without registering, (2) administering user surveys at the end of each influenza season, and (3) partnering with Science Friday (SciFri) (a weekly public radio program that discusses topics relevant to science, nature, and technology) with the goals of increasing the number of weekly participant reports, improving the frequency of user reporting, and understanding user motivation. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of these three measures. The number of registered users who submitted only one report decreased after allowing users to submit reports without registering. The survey indicated that respondents were primarily motivated by the importance of disease tracking and by a desire to participate in a citizen science project. Finally, users who registered from SciFri were highly engaged and also motivated by a desire to participate in a citizen science project.
GENETIC EVALUATION AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BODY WEIGHT AND MILK PRODUCTION IN KURDI SHEEP

This study was carried out at the private field Jezhnikan village ,Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq. The data set used was (245) records from(101) ewes and (5) sires (rams) of Kurdi sheep over the period April (2018) until May( 2020), in order to study the genetic evaluation and non-genetic factors (age of dam, month of lactation, sex, type of birth and year of birth) relationship between ewe's weight at mating ,birth and milking with daily milk production (DMP), total milk production (TMP). The overall mean of the daily milk production (TDM) and total milk production (TMP) (470.90gm )and (45.95kg) respectively. The results showed that the age of dam, Month of lactation, sex and type of birth affected significantly (p≤0.05) on daily milk production and total milk production, excepted year of birth was non-significant effected on milk production. Ewes aged 4years and 5≥ years 2 year old ewes produced significantly (P≤ 0.05) lower (DMP), (386.67gm) than 3year (423.26gm) than 4 years (480.67gm) and 5≥ (493.97 gm.) old ewes. The heritability estimate of (DMP) was found to be (0.13). The repeatability estimate of (DMP) was found to be (0.22). however, the genetic and phenotypic correlation had non-significant effected between milk production and ewes weights at mating, birth and milking, the breeding value of sire (rams)ranged between(-1.194 to1.520),it was concluded that the most of genetic and non-genetic factors showed a significant impact in the performance of Kurdi sheep which requires study and determine the impact of interest and administrative aspects of the herd to increase performance and maximize economic return.
Comparative Study of Post-Marriage Nationality Of Women in Legal Systems of Different Countries

Growth in the number of villages from year to year shows a significant increase. One of the reasons is the high number of village expansion plans. Since the promulgation of Government Regulation Number 72 of 2005 concerning Villages has had an implication on the increasing demands for village expansion. The main purpose of the division of villages is to prosper the community. To accelerate the process of improving the welfare of the village community the government changed the status of the village into a rural tourism. This study tried to analyze the welfare of the people of Sumberbrantas Village after the village division and was determined as a rural tourism and the factors that influence it. The welfare of the people of Sumberbrantas Village after the village division and being designated as a rural tourism has shown good progress due to the development of economic activities and adequate road infrastructure. However, more serious attention needs to be paid to improving education and health services and the promotion of rural tourism.
DETECTION OF VEGETATION CHANGES WITH NDVI AND EVI REMOTE SENSING INDICES OF THE GROWING SEASON IN PASTURES (CASE STUDY: PLAIN RANGELANDS OF GOLESTAN PROVINCE)

In studies of environmental sciences and natural resources, vegetation should be continuously examined both quantitatively and qualitatively as a variable factor affecting biotic conditions, the importance of which is clear to researchers given that pastures cover most of the land areas globally. In this study, detection of vegetation changes was evaluated by the image subtraction method in NDVI and EVI vegetation indices of the growing season in plain rangelands of Golestan province. In this study, the MOD013Q1 product was used for vegetation sensing data of MODIS sensor images located on the deck of Terra satellite during 2000-2012 on the dates of the vegetation growing season in pastures of Golestan province. Results showed that the NDVI and EVI were complementary to each other in the detection of vegetation changes with a correlation value of 0.98%. Moreover, the EVI was not as accurate as the NDVI, resulting from a high reflectance in the infrared band relative to red band in arid areas.
THE ADOPTION OF GREEN INNOVATION IN THE SCOTTISH CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CONTEXT

The growing interest in environmental innovation has led to an increase in the number of research studies around that area in different industries (Dutz & Sharma, 2012). The construction industry is a critical industry for the study of environmentalor sustainabilityrelated issues, considering that, it is responsible for some of the most serious impacts on the environment. Indeed, there is a growing concern regarding environmental impacts resulting from construction activities. By comparison with other industries, its activities are considered as making a major contribution to environmental problems (Ball, 2002; Tam, Tam & Tsui, 2004; Tam & Tam, 2008). In the United Kingdom (UK), specifically, the construction sector contributed 11.2% of the total of UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 (Office for National Statistics, 2015) while around 420 million tonnes of construction material is consumed by the construction industry each year, whereby approximately 120 million tonnes is wasted (EISC, 2012). It shows that, by its nature, construction is not an environmentally-friendly activity.
The Effect of Mixed Inoculum Addition Concentration and Fermentation Time on the Characteristics of Dry Cocoa Beans (Theobroma cacao L.)

The fermentation process has an important role in determining the quality of cocoa beans by forming taste, color, aroma, and appearance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of inoculum concentration and fermentation time on the characteristics of dry cocoa beans and determine the best conditions for both inoculum addition concentration and fermentation time to produce dry cocoa beans under Indonesian national standards. The research used completely randomized design with two factors; the first factor was the starter concentration consisting of controls (0%), 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, and 2% (v/w). The second factor is the fermentation time, namely 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, and 5 days. Treatment was repeated twice to get 50 units of the experiment. The results showed that the addition concentration of mixed inoculum ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum ) had a significant effect on changes in temperature and pH during fermentation, and it also had a significant effect on total unfermented beans. This study showed that time fermentation treatment had a very significant effect on all tests. The interaction of the two treatments had a significant effect on temperature changes during fermentation; it also significantly affected total unfermented beans. According to the Indonesian National Standard of cocoa beans, the best treatment, and the fastest fermentation time to produce the first quality standard (cut test) is a concentration of 1% mixed inoculum and fermentation in 3 days.
Non-English Majors’ Writing Self-Efficacy and Attribution in Learning English as a Foreign Language

This study examines the relationship between writing self-efficacy, attribution, and writing proficiency of college students in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The scales of writing self-efficacy and attribution were administered to 142 Chinese first-grade non-English majors. Research findings showed that these EFL learners maintained a medium level of writing self-efficacy and tended to attribute their writing outcomes to internal causes. Independent sample t-test indicated that gender exerted no significant influence on EFL writing self-efficacy, and only the attribution cause luck significantly differed between boys and girls. Besides, high-achievers reported stronger writing self-efficacy and skill self-efficacy, while no significant difference in task self-efficacy was found between high-achievers and low-achievers. One-way ANOVA results revealed that regardless of writing level, students tended to attribute their writing success or failure to internal factors such as ability and effort, while low-achievers were also inclined to attribute externally. Pedagogical implications were also discussed.
Cognitive Neuroscience Analyses of Memory: A Historid Perspective

As part of the general trend toward interdisciplinary research in recent years, a growing number of investigators have come to consider both cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives when theorizing about memory. Although such cognitive neuroscience analyses are a relatively recent development, the approach has precedents in earlier scientific thinking about memory. In this article we present a historical review of three major issues in memory research-consolidation processes, the nature of memory representations, and multiple memory systems. We discuss the nature of the relation between cognitive Cognitive neuroscience is a fundamentally interdisciplinary pursuit that draws on the methodological tools and theoretical frameworks of both of its constituent disciplines. In doing so, it promises to provide a more complete understanding of mnemonic processes than could be achieved by either discipline alone. During the past few decades, the cognitive neuroscience approach has become increasingly prominent in the analysis of memory. A growing number of cognitive scientists have made use of findings and ideas about brain function (e.g., Schacter, 1985a; McClelland and Rumelhart, 1986a, 1986b; Shimamura, 1989), and similarly an increasing number of neuroscientists have drawn on cognitive theories and paradigms (e.g., Kean & Nadel, 1982; Mishkin & Petri, 1984; Squire, 1987). Although still in its infancy, this approach has already begun to yield important insights into various aspects of memory, and there is every reason to believe that it will become even more prominent in the future. Although the emergence of widespread interest in cognitive neuroscience analyses of memory is a relatively recent phenomenon, the approach itself is not entirely without precedent in the history of scientific thinlung about memory. Thus, for example, investigators such as Ribot (1882), Burnham (1903), Semon (19041921),
The morphological characters and DNA barcoding identification of sweet river prawn Macrobrachium esculentum (Thallwitz, 1891) from Rongkong watershed of South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Abstract. Jurniati, Arfiati D, Andriyono S, Hertika AMS, Kurniawan A, Tanod WA. 2021. The morphological characters and DNA Barcoding identification of sweet river prawn Macrobrachium esculentum (Thallwitz, 1891) from Rongkong watershed of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 113-121. Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Palaemonidae), play an essential role in freshwater ecosystems. Apart from being a crucial biotic component, freshwater prawns are also an important fishery commodity. The sweet river prawn Macrobrachium esculentum (Thallwitz, 1891) is a freshwater prawn that inhabits the Wallacea area and is a key constituent of crustacean biodiversity. However, morphological studies on Macrobrachium prawns that inhabit Sulawesi are still minimal. This study is the first report on the morphological and DNA barcoding identification of freshwater prawn M. esculentum downstream of the Rongkong watershed in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The morphological characterization includes morphometric and meristic characteristics and is complemented by the DNA barcoding of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) region. The analysis of the morphometric characteristics showed the formation of two population groups: the Waelawi River group and the Salujambu-Pombakka Rivers group. However, the meristic characteristics of M. esculentum from the three rivers were not significantly different. Meanwhile, the DNA barcoding analysis confirmed that the samples collected from the three rivers belong to the same species. This study provides information on the identification of M. esculentum inhabiting the Rongkong watershed and its population characters and grouping based on morphometric and meristic characteristics. This information can contribute to the management of fishery resources and the conservation of M. esculentum prawn resources in the Rongkong watershed, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.