Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of Different Low Protein Diets Supplemented with Vitamin E ……… Effect of Different Low Protein Diets Supplemented with Vitamin E, Nigella Sativa Seeds, and Green Tea on Renal Functions among Rats

: The present study was conducted to investigate the influence of vitamin E, Nigella Sativa seeds, green tea leaves and their combinations on renal functions of rats fed L-arginine diet. The two main experimental groups; include Group 1 (n=6 rats) used as a negative control group fed on basal diet and group 2 (n= 54 rats) fed on L-arginine diet (2% L-arginine) along the study period. After two week of feeding L-arginine diet, this group was divided into nine subgroups (6 rats each). Subgroup (1) was fed on L-arginine diet, as a control positive group; Subgroups (2 and 3) were fed on low protein diets (10% protein) supplemented with 100 and 200 mg vitamin E/ 100g diet, respectively. Subgroups (4 and 5) were fed on low protein diets supplemented with 2.5% and 5% Nigella Sativa seed/100g diet, respectively. Subgroups (6 and 7) were fed on low protein diets supplemented with 2.5% and 5% green tea/100g diet, respectively. Subgroups (8 and 9) were fed on low protein diets supplemented with 100 mg vitamin E, 2.5% Nigella Sativa seed and 2.5% green tea & 200 mg vitamin E, 5% Nigella Sativa seed and 5% green tea/100g diet, respectively. Food intake increased significantly among experimental groups fed 5% Nigella Sativa seeds and the group fed the higher concentration of mixture supplements, on the other hand body weight gain% increased significantly in all treated groups, except for group fed 5% green tea. All experimental groups with the two concentration from (vitamin E, Nigella Sativa seeds, green tea and their combinations) resulted in improvement in all parameters including (kidney functions, liver enzymes, lipid profile, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase), especially the group which fed the higher concentration of supplements. In conclusion, vitamin E, Nigella Sativa seeds, green tea leaves and their combination improved the nutritional and biological status of rats renal insufficiency Statistical analysis showed a significant increase p≤0.05 in kidney weight/ body weight% for control positive group compared with control negative group at (p<0.05). All treated groups showed significant decrease in kidney weight / body weight%, as compared to the positive control Feeding groups of rats on diets supplemented with the two concentrations of the combination and high concentration of green tea revealed the highest decrees in kidney weight/ body weight%.
EUROPEAN CLIMATE INVESTMENT INITIATIVE FISCALLY SUSTAINABLE? POLICY STUDY

This policy study assesses the long-run effects of a public investment initiative to close the EU’s green investment gap. By using semi-structural VAR models for the EU27 we produce the following main results: first, EU27 long-run multipliers of government investment on GDP are large . The estimates obtained in this study start at 0.56 on impact, increase to between 2.7 and 4.15 after a year and stabilise between 5.12 and 5.25 after ten years.
Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers

IZA DP No. 15698 NOVEMBER 2022 Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers* This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However, caseworkers differ substantially in the rate at which they impose broader job search. We exploit this heterogeneity in caseworker stringency and the random assignment of unemployed workers to caseworkers within local offices to evaluate the broader search requirement. Our results show that imposing the broader search requirements reduces job finding. We argue that restricting the job search opportunities forces unemployed workers to search sub-optimally which negatively affects labor market outcomes. JEL Classification: J22, J64, J65, J68, C93
Assessing the Argument Quality of Persuasive Essays using Neural Text Generation

In this thesis, we will explore the potential of large pre-trained Language Models to assess the Local Sufficiency quality dimension of an argument. We study two different approaches: (1) Directly assessing the Local Sufficiency of an argument as a (binary) classification task and (2) Indirectly assessing Local Sufficiency of an argument by generating a conclusion based on a set of premises first and afterward use the generated conclusion to augment the (binary) classification task in (1). We establish a new state-of-the-art Local Sufficiency assessment approach using the BERT model achieving 96.7% of human performance. Subsequently, we show that leveraging Argument Mining to obtain argumentative units and thus, following the Local Sufficiency definition more strictly, decreases the assessment performance. We also investigate the reasons for this behavior. In addition, we study the task of conclusion generation and its similarity to other tasks in the NLP domain using the BART model. We show that the conclusions generated by our models are of equal quality and could not be discriminated from those written by humans in a manual ranking study. Furthermore, we find that multiple different conclusions are equally likely to be drawn without further context of the conclusion target given a set of premises. Finally, using the generated conclusion to augment the Local Sufficiency assessment approach led to no performance improvements. Still, it revealed that, given the currently available datasets, the Local Sufficiency assessment of arguments relies mostly on the given premises and not on the corresponding conclusions, displaying the need for further research in this direction to better fulfill the task of Local Sufficiency assessment.
A review of African spirituality and food sovereignty and the gender aspects along the staple food value chain among smallholder farmers in western Kenya

- There is vast literature on African spirituality under African traditional religion, but not much on African spirituality as a concept within the context of Kenya, whereas in the area of food sovereignty, most of the literature is on global food sovereignty and not much on food sovereignty in Kenya. On the other hand, there are studies done on food security in Kenya but with little mention of its relationship with food sovereignty. The spirituality practiced by small holder farmers is not outside of their culture which in turn governs its application to the community’s food systems and their practices towards their own food sovereignty. A smallholders farmers spirituality is also not separate from their ethnic identity and how their ethnic identity influences their farming practices which are able to sustain the community. Both
Warming experiments test the sensitivity of an endangered butter�y across life history stages

Introduction: The Karner blue butter�y (Lycaeides melissa samuelis, KBB) is a federally listed endangered species living in disjunct habitats within the Midwest and Eastern United States. As a hostplant specialist and an ectotherm, the KBB is likely to be susceptible to effects of climate change. Aims/Methods: We undertook warming experiments to explore the temperature sensitivity of various KBB life history stages and traits. Over a two-year period, we exposed all KBB life stages to temperature increases of +2, +4, and +6 (cid:0)C above historic (1952-1999) mean temperatures. We analyzed the effect of these treatments on life history parameters likely related to �tness and population size, including development time, voltinism, degree-day accumulation, body weight, and morphology. Results: Warming treatments resulted in earlier emergence and accelerated development, leading to additional generations. Warming also decreased the number of degree-days required to initiate spring hatch and eclosion. As treatment warmth increased, adult body mass, length, and area decreased and voltinism increased. Females with lower adult mass and smaller body size produced fewer eggs. Discussion: Our data suggest a trade-off between accelerated development and body size. Furthermore, an increase in adult mass and abdominal area was associated with reduced fecundity.
Application of arti ﬁ cial intelligence in the diagnosis of subepithelial lesions using endoscopic ultrasonography: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is the most common method for diagnosing gastrointestinal subepithelial lesions (SELs); however, it usually requires histopathological con ﬁ rmation using invasive methods. Arti ﬁ cial intelligence (AI) algorithms have made signi ﬁ cant progress in medical imaging diagnosis. The purpose of our research was to explore the application of AI in the diagnosis of SELs using EUS and to evaluate the diagnostic performance of AI-assisted EUS. Three databases, PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library, were comprehensively searched for relevant literature. RevMan 5.4. 1 and Stata 17.0, were used to calculate and analyze the combined sensitivity, speci ﬁ city, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and summary receiver-operating characteristic curve (SROC). Eight studies were selected from 380 potentially relevant studies for the meta-analysis of AI-aided EUS diagnosis of SELs. The combined sensitivity, speci ﬁ city, and DOR of AI-aided EUS were 0.92 (95% CI, 0.85-0.96), 0.80 (95% CI, 0.70-0.87), and 46.27 (95% CI, 19.36-110.59), respectively). The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.92 (95% CI, 0.90-0.94). The AI model in differentiating GIST from leiomyoma had a pooled AUC of 0.95, sensitivity of 0.93, speci ﬁ city of 0.88, PLR of 8.04, and NLR of 0.08. The combined sensitivity, speci ﬁ city, and AUC of the AI-aided EUS diagnosis in the convolutional neural network
Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals

Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization’s human capital. In the public sector, where salary increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage on nonmonetary working conditions to retain their employees. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage aspects of their job by evaluating the impact on nurse retention of a programme that encouraged public hospitals to increase staff retention through data monitoring and improving the non-pecuniary aspects of nursing jobs. Employing rich employee-level administrative data from the universe of English NHS hospitals, and a staggered difference-in-difference design, we find that the programme has improved nursing retention within hospitals, decreased exits from the public hospital sector, and decreased mortality by preventing 11.400 patient deaths within 30 days from hospital admission. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages, and they are especially policy-relevant in the health care context, where such shortages have potentially negative effects on patient outcomes.
Alteration in the Translation of Indonesian Novel into English

This research article discusses one of the adjustment techniques namely alteration found in the translation of an Indonesian novel into English. The data source is an Indonesian novel entitled Lelaki Harimau and its translation in English, Man Tiger. The novel in the source language shows sophisticated style of writing involving the use of poetic as well as expressive words that it becomes a challenging task for the translator to find the equivalents. It needs a special skill to provide the same messages to the readers of the target language text. It is therefore the translation involves not only one kind of adjustment but also two other kinds under Nida’s adjustment techniques as an effort to get the closest and natural equivalent. This research just focuses on the third kind of adjustment technique, alteration. The objectives of this research are to reveal the types of alteration adjustment technique found in the first one hundred sentences of the novel considered as the introduction part and to identify the kind of information adjusted. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. The results show that all types of alteration adjustment technique are involved and the kinds of information adjusted are syntactical as well as cultural.
Understanding Airline Passengers during Covid-19 Outbreak to Improve Service Quality: Topic Modeling Approach to Complaints with Latent Dirichlet Allocation Algorithm

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected the airline industry, as it has many sectors, and has created tremendous financial pressure on companies. Flight bans, new regulations, and restrictions increase consumer complaints and are emerging as a big problem for airline companies. Understanding the main reasons triggering complaints and eliminating service failures in the airline industry will be a vital strategic priority for businesses, while reviewing the dimensions of service quality during the COVID-19 pandemic provides an excellent opportunity for academic literature. In this study, 10,594 complaints against two major airlines that offer full-service and low-cost options were analyzed with the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm to categorize them by essential topics. Results provide valuable information for both. Furthermore, this study fills the gap in the existing literature by proposing a decision support system to identify significant service failures through passenger complaints in the airline industry utilizing e-complaints during an unusual situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students

Abstract Given the prominence of sustainability in current global crises and the commitment of societies to the Sustainable Development Goals, this mixed methods study ascertains how Dutch higher education students (N = 549) integrate sustainability into their life purposes. From quantitative data, we identified four purpose profiles: purposeful (33%), dreamer (32%), self-oriented (18%), and disengaged (17%), signifying a potential commitment to sustainability among over half of the participating students. However, technology students differed from other respondents in that fewer of them were identified as having a purposeful profile and more of them were disengaged. The data reveal happiness (61%), work (22%), and sustainability (22%) as the most frequently mentioned contents of purposes, implying a more self-oriented picture than indicated in the profiles. The two case studies illustrate concrete ways of manifesting sustainability as a purpose in life. We discuss the educational implications of this, especially the need to enhance sustainability education in the domain of technology.
Intergenerational concordance of brain structure between depressed mothers and their never-depressed daughters

Parents have significant genetic and environmental influences, which are known as intergenerational effects, on the cognition, behavior, and brain of their offspring. These intergenerational effects are observed in patients with mood disorders, with a particularly strong association of depression between mothers and daughters. The main purpose of our study was to investigate female‐specific intergenerational transmission patterns in the human brain among patients with depression and their never‐depressed offspring.
Muscarinic and N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor blockade reveal differences in hippocampal local field potentials in mice with low cholinergic tone

We hypothesize that hippocampal local field potentials in acetylcholine (ACh)‐deficient mutant mice, compared to wild‐type (WT) mice, will show lower sensitivity to muscarinic cholinergic antagonist scopolamine (5 mg/kg i.p.) but higher sensitivity to NMDA receptor antagonist 3‐(2‐carboxypiperazin‐4‐yl)propyl‐1‐phosphonic acid (CPP, 10 mg/kg i.p.). Recordings were made during walk and awake‐immobility (IMM) in WT mice, and in mice with forebrain knockout (KO) of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) gene, or heterozygous knockdown of VAChT gene (KD). Scopolamine or CPP did not significantly alter walk theta frequency, which was higher in KD than WT/KO mice. Scopolamine decreased theta power peak rise during walk in WT/KD mice but not in KO mice, while CPP suppressed theta peak rise more in WT/KO mice than KD mice. During IMM, scopolamine decreased gamma1 (γ1, 30–58 Hz) power more in KD/WT mice than KO mice, while delta (1–4 Hz) power and delta‐gamma cross‐frequency coherence (CFC) were increased in all mouse groups during IMM or walk. During walk, scopolamine increased delta and beta (13–30 Hz) power and decreased gamma2 (γ2, 62–100 Hz) power and theta‐γ2 CFC more in WT/KD than KO mice. Theta‐γ2, but not theta‐γ1, CFC increased with theta‐peak‐frequency in WT/KD mice, and was suppressed by scopolamine at high theta (8–10 Hz) frequency; theta‐γ2 CFC in KO mice was not significantly altered by scopolamine. CPP decreased beta and gamma power more in KD/KO mice compared to WT mice, while delta power and delta‐gamma CFC were increased in all mouse groups. ACh deficiency exacerbates the attenuation of beta and gamma power by CPP. We conclude that both muscarinic and NMDA transmission contribute toward hippocampal theta, beta, and gamma power, and a decrease in gamma power or theta‐gamma CFC may be associated with loss of arousal and cognitive functions.
A Case of Giant Cell Arteritis Presenting As Catastrophic Posterior Circulation Stroke: A Diagnostic Dilemma

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated systemic vasculitis usually seen in the older population. We describe a case of a 75-year-old woman who presented with jaw claudication and temporal headache. A colour duplex ultrasonography and later biopsy of the temporal arteries confirmed GCA and she was commenced on oral steroids. She was subsequently readmitted with a new worsening vision of both eyes and confusion. Her brain images revealed acute bilateral vertebral artery thrombus with haemorrhagic transformation. She was loaded on intravenous steroids. The next day she developed vomiting, bilateral visual loss and a cardiac arrest from ventricular fibrillation. Following the return of spontaneous circulation, she was taken to the cardiac catheterisation laboratory for a coronary angiogram, which showed diffuse thrombus at the apical left anterior descending artery. A bedside echocardiogram revealed a sizable left ventricular thrombus. She was managed with heparin and antiplatelet therapy. This case presented a complex diagnostic dilemma to the medical team as vasculitis, atherosclerosis, and cardiac emboli could have contributed to her stroke and visual loss. This patient also had some vascular risk factors for occlusive cerebrovascular disease, potentially suggesting a clinical event with multiple aetiologies. Stroke and visual loss are rare but serious complications of GCA, which require a high index of suspicion and early treatment with corticosteroids to improve prognosis. Although a temporal artery biopsy remains to be the definitive diagnostic modality for GCA, the use of radiological investigations in the diagnosis of GCA is increasingly common. A non-invasive colour duplex ultrasonography of the temporary arteries could be used to assess GCA in highly suspected patients. Echocardiograms and contrast-enhanced body imaging should be performed in patients with suspected or established GCA to assess for secondary thromboembolic and vascular complications.
Brain structure analysis of different age groups of Diannan small‐ear pigs

Abstract The objective of the study is to investigate the brain development and atrophy of Diannan small‐ear pigs in different ages using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A total of 12 Diannan small‐ear pigs were included and divided into the young group, adult group, and middle‐and‐old age (M&O) group according to their age. The brain structure of pigs was scanned using MRI, and the brain data obtained were statistically analyzed by signal conversion and image reconstruction. Compared with the young group, the signals of most brain structures in the adult group and M&O group were significantly decreased (p < 0.05). Compared with the adult group, the signal intensity of the right caudate nucleus and the right lateral ventricle in the M&O group was significantly increased, while the signal intensity of other regions was almost significantly decreased (p < 0.05). Compared with the young group, both adult and M&O groups had some degree of brain atrophy. Brain atrophy in the precuneus and the inferior temporal gyrus was more predominant in the M&O group in comparison with the adult group. The present study demonstrated that the brain signal of Diannan small‐ear pigs gradually diminished with age, while the degree of brain atrophy was the opposite, providing the basic data on the brain of Diannan small‐ear pigs.
Present Evidence of Determinants to Predict the Efficacy of Renal Denervation

Sympathetic overactivation is one of the main contributors to development and progress of hypertension. Renal denervation (RDN) has been evidenced by series of clinical trials for its efficacy and safety to treat overactivated sympathetic nervous system induced diseases. However, the results were inconsistent and not all patients benefited from RDN. Appropriate patient selection and intraoperative factors to improve the efficacy of RDN need to be solved urgently. Over the decade, research studies on the correlations between indicators and the antihypertensive effects have been conducted and made a fairly well progress. Herein, we comprehensively reviewed the research studies on how to make RDN more predictable or improve the efficacy of RDN and summarized these potential indicators or devices which might be applied in clinical settings.
Observation of Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations in a graphene ring

We investigate experimentally transport through ring-shaped devices etched in graphene and observe clear Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations. The temperature dependence of the oscillation amplitude indicates that below 1 K, the phase coherence length is comparable to or larger than the size of the ring. An increase in the amplitude is observed at high magnetic field, when the cyclotron diameter becomes comparable to the width of the arms of the ring. By measuring the dependence on gate voltage, we find that the Aharonov-Bohm effect vanishes at the charge neutrality point, and we observe an unexpected linear dependence of the oscillation amplitude on the ring conductance.
Exposure Assessment for Even and Odd modes of Highly Resonant Wireless Power Transfer System

In this study, exposure assessment was carried out for a highly resonant wireless power transfer (HR-WPT) system operating on two splitting frequencies. The HR-WPT system is designed and electric and magnetic fields from the system are calculated by operating the system in two resonant modes. The electric and magnetic field strengths for the two modes are compared, and the specific absorption rates in a wholebody voxel human model for the two modes are estimated. The results are discussed in compliance with the international safety guidelines.
Isomorphisms of continuous function spaces

The following theorem, which strengthens the classical theorem of Stone, is proved: If there is an isomorphism ~ of C(X) onto C(IO (,1", Y-compact) with l[ 9 I1" II ,0-1 II < 2, then X and Y are homeomorphic.