Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Maternal Attributes Are Positively Associated with Feeding Practices of Children Aged 2-5 Years in West Java , Indonesia

Introduction: Feeding practices are influenced by multiple factors including maternal attributes, which can affect the health and nutritional status of children. The objective of this study was to investigate maternal factors associated with feeding practices of young children. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in five villages in Karawang District, West Java, Indonesia. Mothers of children aged 2-5 years (n=202) were interviewed on indicators of feeding practices, their knowledge and attitude on child feeding, selfperceived health status and exposure to health information. The data were analysed using multiple logistic regression to identify factors associated with feeding practices. Results: Most of the children achieved minimum dietary diversity (86.1%) and frequency of meal and snacking (71.8%). However, more than half of the mothers did not use a variety of cooking methods (73.3%), had poor feeding responsiveness (65.3%), and showed poor feeding practices during child’s illness/recovery (50.5%). Maternal attributes that were positively associated with healthy feeding practices were good knowledge and favourable attitude towards child nutrition and feeding practice, having exposure to nutrition/health information, and perceiving herself as healthy. Living as a nuclear family with only 1-2 children also contributed to favourable feeding practices. Conclusion: While most of the children achieved minimum dietary requirements, overall feeding practices could be improved with enhancing mothers’ knowledge on use of variety in cooking methods, feeding responsiveness during/after child’s illness, and exposure to nutrition/health information.
Semantic translation error rate for evaluating translation systems

In this paper, we introduce a new metric which we call the semantic translation error rate, or STER, for evaluating the performance of machine translation systems. STER is based on the previously published translation error rate (TER) (Snover et al., 2006) and METEOR (Banerjee and Lavie, 2005) metrics. Specifically, STER extends TER in two ways: first, by incorporating word equivalence measures (WordNet and Porter stemming) standardly used by METEOR, and second, by disallowing alignments of concept words to non-concept words (aka stop words). We show how these features make STER alignments better suited for human-driven analysis than standard TER. We also present experimental results that show that STER is better correlated to human judgments than TER. Finally, we compare STER to METEOR, and illustrate that METEOR scores computed using the STER alignments have similar statistical properties to METEOR scores computed using METEOR alignments.
An Assay for the Quantitation of Photofrin in Tissues and Fluids

A method for determining the concentration of Photofrin in tissues and biological fluids was developed. The procedure is based on the dissolution of biological material with Solvable a commercially available tissue so‐lubilizer, followed by porphyrin‐specific fluorescence detection and measurement. It was found necessary to use a quadratic standard curve for the estimation of unknown Photofrin concentrations. While this method is limited to compounds that are stable in strong base, it has the advantages of being sensitive, rapid and low cost.
Cutting Edge: IL-4-Mediated Protection of Primary B Lymphocytes from Apoptosis via Stat6-Dependent Regulation of Glycolytic Metabolism1

IL-4 prevents the death of naive B lymphocytes through the up-regulation of antiapoptotic proteins such as Bcl-xL. Despite studies implicating glucose utilization in growth factor-dependent survival of hemopoietic cells, the role of glucose energy metabolism in maintaining B cell viability by IL-4 is unknown. We show that IL-4 triggers glucose uptake, Glut1 expression, and glycolysis in splenic B cells; this is accompanied by increased cellular ATP. Glycolysis inhibition results in apoptosis, even in the presence of IL-4. IL-4-induced glycolysis occurs normally in B cells deficient in insulin receptor substrate-2 or the p85α subunit of PI3K and is not affected by pretreatment with PI3K or MAPK pathway inhibitors. Stat6-deficient B cells exhibit impaired IL-4-induced glycolysis. Cell-permeable, constitutively active Stat6 is effective in restoring IL-4-induced glycolysis in Stat6-deficient B cells. Therefore, besides controlling antiapoptotic proteins, IL-4 mediates B cell survival by regulating glucose energy metabolism via a Stat6-dependent pathway.
La gestión de carteras de renta fija

En este trabajo se pretende analizar la gestion de las carteras de valores formadas exclusivamente por titulos de renta fija (bonos, obligaciones, deuda del Estado, etc.). Para ello se divide en tres partes. En la primera de ellas se estudia como se calcula el rendimiento de los titulos de renta fija y de las carteras formadas por ellos. En la segunda se analiza el riesgo de dichos titulos o carteras a traves de los importantes conceptos de duracion y convexidad, cuyo calculo, usos, ventajas y desventajas se analizan en profundidad. En la ultima parte se entra en la gestion de las carteras de renta fija, para ello se estudia la gestion pasiva, que es la que acometen los inversores que piensan que el mercado es eficiente en su forma intermedia, y la gestion activa que es la que realizan los inversores que piensan que el mercado es ineficiente.
A history of settlement on Nunivak Island, Alaska: Insights from recent investigations at Nash Harbor village

The prehistory of Nunivak Island, the third largest island off Alaska's coastline, offers unique insight into the human settlement of southwestern Alaska. To date, the earliest evidence for human occupation of coastal regions along the Bering Sea dates to ca. 2500 B.P. and marks the beginning of the Norton tradition in western Alaska. Offshore islands, such as Nunivak Island, appear to have been first occupied during this period. The human settlement on Nunivak Island is reconstructed through the Norton and Thule periods, based on the results of recent archaeological investigations at Nash Harbor village. Oral history interviews with contemporary Native elders and a review of ethnohistoric documents provide insights to changes concerning island lifeways resulting from the Russian's discovery of the island in 1821 and subsequent Euro-American influence.
A Comparison of Three Dietary Pattern Indexes for Predicting Biomarkers of Diet and Disease

Objective: Examination of dietary indexes in association with objective biomarkers of dietary intake and chronic disease risk is an important step in their validation. We compared three dietary pattern indexes—Healthy Eating Index (HEI), Recommended Foods Score (RFS-24 hour recall), and Dietary Diversity Score for recommended foods (DDS-R)—for their ability to predict biomarkers of dietary intake, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Methods: We used dietary and laboratory data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to study these associations in 8719 disease-free adults aged ≥20 y. The HEI, developed by the USDA, was a sum of scores on consideration of ten individual components; the RFS was a sum of all recommended foods (lean meat, poultry and fish, whole grains, fruits and juices, low-fat dairy, and vegetables) mentioned in the recall; the DDS-R examined whether or not a recommended food was mentioned from each of the five major food groups. The independent association of the dietary pattern indexes with body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and serum concentrations of several biomarkers were examined using regression methods to adjust for multiple covariates. Results: All indexes were strong independent positive predictors of serum concentrations of vitamin C, E, folate, and all carotenoids (p ≤ 0.00001), except lycopene, and were negative predictors of BMI, serum homocysteine, C-reactive protein, plasma glucose, and hemoglobin A1C (p < 0.05). The RFS and DDS-R were inversely associated with blood pressure and serum cholesterol (p ≤ 0.03). Conclusions: The RFS and DDS-R performed as well or better than the HEI for predicting serum concentration of nutrients and biomarkers of disease risk.
Psoriasis Therapy in Real Life: The Need for Registries

The introduction of new therapeutic options for the management of psoriasis is a challenge for the dermatology community, and new tools are needed to face this challenge. This article argues for the establishment of profession-based registries to collect solid, long-term data on the safety and effectiveness of different psoriasis treatment regimens. Managed by health care professionals, registries will be most successful if they enroll patients based on indications for treatment rather than on drugs given. This protects the evaluation process from commercial influences and allows a fair comparison of old- versus new-generation psoriasis treatments. In contrast to the patients in a registry who receive care in the natural clinical setting, subjects in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are selected according to study criteria and may therefore not reflect the experience of patients in clinical practice. It is possible that particular risks and opportunities in the real patient population may therefore go undetected in RCTs.
Design of MRAM-Based Magnetic Logic Circuits

Emerging technologies are gaining an increasing attention due to the slowdown of CMOS development. NanoMagnet Logic (NML), among emerging technologies, increases the potentials for developing fully magnetic circuits. Using a magnet as a building block for logic circuits has the advantage to merge logic and memory in the same device. Moreover, circuits have low dynamic and no stand-by power consumption. Even though demonstrations exist for small circuits, the experimental feasibility of complex NML circuits still represents a critical point for this technology. In this paper, we outline the possibility to design NML circuits based on the technological structure of magnetic RAMs (MRAMs). NML circuits based on MRAMs rely on a well-developed technology that provides a natural interface with CMOS world. To study this new NML implementation a novel tool, NANOcom, was developed to easily design complex circuits. Simulations were then performed using an high-level behavioral model described using VHDL language. Two types of circuit layouts, based on different technological constraints, are investigated. To evaluate the performance of this new NML implementation, a 4-bit Galois multiplier is used as a testbench. The Galois multiplier is the basic block of cryptographic circuits, an ideal target for this technology. Results obtained are encouraging and can unlock interesting options for the future development of NML technology.
Long Range Optical Truck Tracking

Platooning applications require precise knowledge about position and orientation (pose) of the leading vehicle especially in rough terrain. We present an optical solution for a robust pose estimation using artificial markers and a camera as the only sensor. Temporal coherence of image sequences is used in a Kalman filter to obtain precise estimates. Furthermore based on the marker detections we utilize an adaptive model building algorithm which learns a keypoint based representation of the leading vehicle at runtime. The model is continuously updated and allows a markerless tracking of the vehicle for up to 70 meters even when driving at high velocities. The system is designed for and tested in off-road scenarios. A pose evaluation is performed in a
Using optical profilometry to characterize cell membrane roughness influenced by amyloid-beta 42 aggregates and electric fields

Abstract. The membrane roughness of Neuro-2a neroblastoma cells is measured by using noninterferometric wide-field optical profilometry. The cells are treated with the fibril and oligomer conformers of amyloid-beta (Aβ) 42, which is a peptide of 42 amino acids related to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. We find that both the Aβ42 fibrils and Aβ42 oligomers reduced the cell membrane roughness, but the effect of Aβ42 oligomers was faster and stronger than that of the fibrils. We also apply direct-current electric field (dcEF) stimulations on the cells. A dcEF of 300 mV/mm can increase the membrane roughness under the treatment of Aβ42. These results suggest that Aβ42 can decrease the membrane compliance of live neuroblastoma cells, and dcEFs may counteract this effect.
Stimulation of Lipogenesis by Pharmacological Activation of the Liver X Receptor Leads to Production of Large, Triglyceride-rich Very Low Density Lipoprotein Particles*

The oxysterol-activated liver X receptor (LXR) provides a link between sterol and fatty acid metabolism; activation of LXR induces transcription of lipogenic genes. This study shows that induction of the lipogenic genes Srebp-1c, Fas, and Acc1 upon administration of the synthetic LXR agonist T0901317 to C57BL/6J mice (10 mg/kg/day, 4 days) is associated with massive hepatic steatosis along the entire liver lobule and a 2.5-fold increase in very low density lipoprotein-triglyceride (VLDL-TG) secretion. The increased VLDL-TG secretion was fully accounted for by formation of larger (129 ± 9 nm versus 94 ± 12 nm, a 2.5-fold increase of particle volume) TG-rich particles. Stimulation of VLDL-TG secretion did not lead to elevated plasma TG levels in C57BL/6J mice, indicating efficient particle metabolism and clearance. However, T0901317 treatment did lead to severe hypertriglyceridemia in mouse models of defective TG-rich lipoprotein clearance, i.e. APOE*3-Leiden transgenic mice (3.2-fold increase) and apoE−/− LDLr−/− double knockouts (12-fold increase). Incubation of rat hepatoma McA-RH7777 cells with T0901317 also resulted in intracellular TG accumulation and enhanced TG secretion. We conclude that, in addition to raising high density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations, pharmacological LXR activation in mice leads to development of hepatic steatosis and secretion of atherogenic, large TG-rich VLDL particles.
Electromagnetic Compatibility of UHF-RFID to GSM

Global scale article track and information share can be achieved by combining RFID technology with global network, i.e. mobile communication network. However, the power transmitted by RFID reader or responded by RFID tags would probably cause interference to the communication link between the phone and base station. This paper presents in what, condition a RFID system would not cause performance degradation to GSM network while the RFID system is integrated into the GSM network.
Medium term load forecasting for chaotic neural networks based on the Euclidean distance

The power load influenced by many random factors shows the nonlinear chaotic characteristics. At the present, the research on the load forecasting by using the chaos theory mainly focuses on the short term local load forecasting and the certification of chaotic characteristics is insufficient. In this study, the chaotic characteristics of Chinese medium term power load will be made a full proof and the chaotic neural network improved by the theory of Euclidean distance will be used to make a precise forecasting. Firstly, the data of the total electricity consumption from 70 months were processed by the first order difference after taking logarithm. Secondly, the Wolf algorithm and G_P algorithm were adopted to obtain maximal Lyapunov exponent and the fractal dimension, which proved that there are chaotic characteristics of Chinese medium term power load. Finally, the chaotic neural network based on the Euclidean distance was used to forecast. The results show an excellent effect of the method. There is a premising application of the chaotic neural network based on the Euclidean distance in the study of load forecasting.
Ceramide synthesis enhances transport of GPI‐anchored proteins to the Golgi apparatus in yeast.

Inhibition of ceramide synthesis by a fungal metabolite, myriocin, leads to a rapid and specific reduction in the rate of transport of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchored proteins to the Golgi apparatus without affecting transport of soluble or transmembrane proteins. Inhibition of ceramide biosynthesis also quickly blocks remodelling of GPI anchors to their ceramide‐containing, mild base‐resistant forms. These results suggest that the pool of ceramide is rapidly depleted from early points of the secretory pathway and that its presence at these locations enhances transport of GPI‐anchored proteins specifically. A mutant that is resistant to myriocin reverses its effect on GPI‐anchored protein transport without reversing its effects on ceramide synthesis and remodelling. Two hypotheses are proposed to explain the role of ceramide in the transport of GPI‐anchored proteins.
Application of the GCRO iterative algorithm for analysis of scattering from 3-D conducting structures

In this paper, a modified GMRESR algorithm is introduced and used for efficiently solving non-Hermitian linear systems that arise from EFIE formulation of electromagnetic scattering problems. This method utilizes the GMRES technique as the inner method, and does a global minimization of the error over both the inner search space and the outer search space. It leads to a significant reduction both in the number of iterations and solution time. Two numerical experiments examples are performed and comparison with other common iterative methods is made, which shows the GCRO algorithm is more efficient and robust.
An empirical research on the evolution model of competitiveness between different life cycle stages in Chinese enterprises

The characteristic of enterprise competitiveness is different between different life cycle stages. In this paper we surveyed the enterprise competitivenesspsilas differences in various stages of the life cycle and the evolution model of three aspects of enterprise competitiveness as resource, capability and dynamic capability by questionnaire survey. The result shows that there are significant differences between different life cycle stages of enterprise competitiveness in China. The enterprise competitiveness is stronger and stronger during the periods from the enterprisepsilas birth to maturity, while in the enterprisepsilas recession period the competitiveness becomes much weaker. The competitivenesspsilas constitutive features in each stage are as follows: in the enterprisepsilas born stage the enterprise is lack of resources and its competition mainly relies on the ability; in the enterprisepsilas growth stage the enterprisepsilas resources become richer and are as important as enterprisepsilas ability in the constitution of enterprise competitiveness; in the maturity stage the enterprisepsilas people, money and material resources all become very rich but the role of capability in enterprise competitiveness begins to decrease; in the enterprisepsilas recession stage the enterprise resources begin to exhaust, and the enterprisepsilas competitiveness returns to rely on capability, and in this period the enterprisepsilas learning ability, innovation ability and dynamic mechanisms perform worst, which will affect the enterprisepsilas revival and lead to the ultimate death of enterprise. These conclusions have great value for reference to the enterprisepsilas competitive strategy making for different life cycle stages.
Los desafíos de la competitividad. La innovación organizativa y tecnológica en la empresa española

Conocer la naturaleza y extension de los cambios tecnologicos y las innovaciones organizativas, describir las nuevas practicas de gestion de los recursos humanos, analizar los factores asociados a su implantacion y reconocer las estrategias que las empresas espanolas utilizan para mejorar su capacidad de competir, constituyen los objetivos basicos de esta obra.Para realizar esta ambiciosa tarea se dispone de una rigurosa evidencia empirica consistente en una muestra de 965 establecimientos industriales de cincuenta o mas empleados, de todos los ambitos geograficos, tamanos y sectores de actividad.Los resultados obtenidos en este trabajo permiten concluir que el impulso modernizador que incorpora la empresa espanola es modesto. Hay mas tradicion y rutina que innovacion.No obstante, la obra tambien constata la existencia de un grupo reducido de empresas excelentes que avanzan en el diseno de estructuras mas planas y permeables, y los muros entre las funciones y departamentos se hacen mas tenues o desaparecen, se trabaja con equipos y grupos donde la cooperacion entre los protagonistas de la accion colectiva emerge con notable intensidad. Este colectivo de las mejores empresas espanolas, ha integrado con coherencia las nuevas tecnologias con el cambio de la estructura interna y obtiene un alto compromiso de sus trabajadores cada vez mas responsables y autonomos.La obra es una referencia imprescindible para el amplio colectivo de investigadores en los ambitos de la Economia de la Empresa, Economia Industrial, gestion de recursos humanos, gestion de calidad y, en general, para quienes quieran profundizar en el conocimiento de la empresa espanola y el compromiso que esta adquiriendo para mejorar su capital organizativo y humano. Provider_Name: Fundacion BBVA / BBVA Foundation
Conjugal mobilization of plasmid DNA: termination frequency at the origin of transfer of plasmid R1162

Conjugal transfer of plasmid R1162 is initiated and terminated at a 38-bp origin of transfer (oriT). Plasmids containing two directly repeated copies of oriT were used to determine the actual frequency of termination at this site. This frequency was calculated both for oriTnic, a mutated origin that cannot act as the initiation site of transfer, and for an unmutated oriT where transfer had been initiated. In both cases, the termination frequency decreased as the distance between the initiation and termination sites became greater and was significantly less than one for plasmids the size of R1162. A substantial proportion of recipient cells received more than one plasmid copy during transfer. Our results indicate that termination is inefficient but that this is partly compensated for by the transmission of multiple plasmid copies.
Revisiting the diacylglycerol‐induced insulin resistance hypothesis

Obesity is associated with skeletal muscle insulin resistance, which is a crucial step in the development of type 2 diabetes. Among the mechanisms by which obesity may lead to insulin resistance, lipotoxicity is one of the hypotheses being explored; others include inflammation or the oxidative stress hypotheses. This review focuses on the role of diacylglycerols (DAG), a family of lipid metabolites implicated in the pathogenesis of lipotoxicity and insulin resistance. While recent studies report contradictory results in humans with regard to the importance of DAG‐induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, other current literature highlight a potential role for DAG as signalling molecules. This review will discuss possible hypotheses explaining these contradictory results and the need to explore further the role of DAG in human metabolism.