Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
New theoretical highlighting on the molecular interactions of natural polyphenols : penetration in lipid membranes and oxidative dimerization

Les polyhenols sont des composes naturels presents dans les plantes. Ils ont de nombreux effets benefiques sur la sante humaine. Une partie de ces effets est attribuee a leur capacite au H-atom transfer (HAT). Les radicaux phenoxy (ArO●) formes sont stabilises de differentes manieres (formation de quinones, regeneration, formation d'adduits, dimerisation). Une partie de notre etude vise a rationaliser le processus de dimerisation entre les radicaux phenoxy. Cette reaction est classique dans la nature, il est a l'origine de la formation d'oligomeres naturels. Le processus est en deux etapes. La premiere est la formation de la liaison C-C ou C-O; elle n'est pas favorable puisqu'elle entraine une perte de planeite d'un noyau aromatique. La seconde est une tautomerisation qui permet de stabiliser et de rendre la reaction thermodynamiquement favorable. La seconde partie de ce travail est l'etude de l'interaction des polyphenols avec les bicouches phospholipidiques (membranes). Les membranes sont le siege du stress oxydant (peroxydation lipidique) qui entraine leur degradation. Les polyphenols sont des inhibiteurs de la peroxydation lipidique. Cette propriete est liee a i) leur capacite a reagir par HAT, ii) l'hydrophobicite et iii) la localisation et l'orientation de la molecule dans la membrane. Ces deux dernieres proprietes sont etudiees ici par dynamique moleculaire.
GAMA/H-ATLAS: common star formation rate indicators and their dependence on galaxy physical parameters

We compare common star formation rate (SFR) indicators in the local Universe in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) equatorial fields (∼160 deg2), using ultraviolet (UV) photometry from GALEX, far-infrared and sub-millimetre (sub-mm) photometry from Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey, and Hα spectroscopy from the GAMA survey. With a high-quality sample of 745 galaxies (median redshift 〈z〉 = 0.08), we consider three SFR tracers: UV luminosity corrected for dust attenuation using the UV spectral slope β (SFRUV, corr), Hα line luminosity corrected for dust using the Balmer decrement (BD) (SFRH α, corr), and the combination of UV and infrared (IR) emission (SFRUV + IR). We demonstrate that SFRUV, corr can be reconciled with the other two tracers after applying attenuation corrections by calibrating Infrared excess (IRX; i.e. the IR to UV luminosity ratio) and attenuation in the Hα (derived from BD) against β. However, β, on its own, is very unlikely to be a reliable attenuation indicator. We find that attenuation correction factors depend on parameters such as stellar mass (M*), z and dust temperature (Tdust), but not on Hα equivalent width or Sersic index. Due to the large scatter in the IRX versus β correlation, when compared to SFRUV + IR, the β-corrected SFRUV, corr exhibits systematic deviations as a function of IRX, BD and Tdust.
Determinants of Customer’s Equity: An Empirical Studies on BPRS Customers in Ex Banyumas Residency Central Java

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to find and analyze the determinants that significantly BPRS Customers Equity in ex. Banyumas residency, CentralJava. Problems of this research formulated in 7 hypotheses that SEM tests analysis with Lisrel 8.80 shoves ware and 335 respondents. Test resultshypothesis by using the descriptive and verified analysis. There is the influence positive and significances the customer Trust, and Satisfaction togetherto customers loyalty with impacts contributions (R2) 0.66 and F-account 12.50, and there is the influence positive and significances the customertrust, satisfaction, and customer loyalty variables together to customers equity with impacts contributions (R2) 0.84 and F-account 12.30, wherevercustomers loyalty is dominant variable to more influence for customer equity, than customer loyalty as full mediating variables for customers trust andcustomer satisfaction to BPRS customers equity in ex. Banyumass residency central Java. Advice managerial, to build customers equity, in the future,management BPRS have to build customers loyalty trough the customers relation management. While to improve customer’s loyalty, managementBPRS have to build customers trust, and customer satisfactions trough the promotion and education about sharia banking to BPRS customers Ex.Banyumass residency central Java.
In vitro conservation of certain endangered and rare species of Romanian spontaneous flora.

The in vitro method of breeding of vulnerable, rare and endangered species allows for their conservation and the repopulation of areas where they have become extinct or are in dange of disappearing. The in vitro culture can be initialized starting from different types of explants: apex (apical, lateral), inforescence (or bud), bulb (or bulb scales), leaves (segments of leaves), stem (sapling, tip, nodes), seeds, embryos etc. The culture mediums used can be simple (without hormones) , with supplemented hormonal balance according to the plants' nature (auxines or cytochinines in moderate doses of 0.1-0.5 mg/l) or with substitute hormonal balance via natural extracts (corn embryos, malt, coconut milk, pumpkin extract, etc.). The medium in which hormones are substituted by adding natural plant extracts are a very cost-effective way of breeding the respective species. The number of individual plants obtained from an explant depends on the nature of the species and of the explant, and on the composition of the medium. The micromultiplied species which have evolved through complete in vitro organogenesis (Dianthus spciculifolius Schur. (Doronicum, Fritillaria, Leontopodium, Lilium) adapted to the ex vitro environment up to 65-100%. Syringa josikaea J. Jack adapted up to 50%. Daphne, Drosera anglica and rotundifolia and Paeonia adapted unde 50%. Dianthus petraeus and Drosera intermedia adapted poorly or not at all, due to the fact that the neoplantules did not grow roots (chart 2). In this last case, we intervened by adding a complex hormonal balance with higher concentrations of hormones, in order to boost plant vigor, induce the growth of roots, control de normal organization of the plant and increase the adaptation percentage. Newly formed plantules can withstand mini-layering in vitro in order to increase the multiplication rate.
Eurobase, Progress Report and First Impressions on Bird Species

After years of contributing bird strike summaries to the Air Forces Flight Safety Committee Europe (AFFSC(E)) it was recognised in the late nineteeneighties that collecting the actual details of bird strikes in one combined European Military Bird Strike Database (EURBASE) would yield much more information. At the 20th IBSC meeting in 1990 a preliminary study on the bird strike reports over the year 1988 of six Air Forces was presented. From then on the database increased rapidly, not in the least because along with new data also data from previous years was contributed. Standardisation of data was encouraged by the introduction of the European Military Bird Strike Form (EURFORM). Over the years progress reports on the EURBASE project were presented for AFFSC(E) and IBSC. The Military Agency for Standardisation (MAS) adopted EURFORM as an annex to the Standard NATO agreement 3879 FS. At the 24th IBSC meeting in 1998 an extensive inventory of quantity and completeness of the then available database of 34,564 bird strikes was presented. This paper is to be considered a progress report in that it gives an overview of the 40640 contributions, as per January 2003, specified per Air Force and per year. The database is also used to make preliminary statements about bird species involved in bird strikes. Therefore the 30% of cases in which the bird species was known is dealt with in more detail. These details show that with all the limitations of the mixed set of data it is possible to reveal facts that cast a better light on the nature of bird strikes. Another useful application for EURBASE data is demonstrated in a pilot study in which EURBASE information on individual bird strikes and data from the Flycatcher tracking radar will be used to analyse the altitudes of bird flight in relation to meteorological conditions. More specifically, soaring and gliding birds such as birds of prey and swifts, two groups either responsible for extensive damage to aircraft or numerous bird strikes, will be studied. Flight altitudes of soaring birds are strongly influenced by thermal updrafts and other forms of lift. It is still unclear, however, what influences the flight altitudes of swifts. The EURBASE will be used as a data source for locations and altitudes of flight of these species, which will then be analysed in relation to local meteorological conditions such as thermal depth, temperature and humidity. This pilot study is a small part of the Bird Avoidance Model presently being developed at the University of Amsterdam in co-operation with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology SOVON.
Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci for Bacterial Blight Resistance Derived from Oryza meyeriana and Agronomic Traits in Recombinant Inbred Lines of Oryza sativa

Bacterial blight (BB) is one of the major diseases that affect rice productivity. In previous studies, BB resistance was transferred to cultivated rice Oryza sativa from wild rice Oryza meyeriana using asymmetric somatic hybridization. One of the resistant hybrid progenies (Y73) has also been shown to possess novel resistance gene(s) different from any of those previously associated with BB resistance. We have mapped quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for BB resistance in a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population derived from a cross between Y73 and a BB-susceptible cv. IR24. Five QTLs were detected where Y73 alleles contributed to increased BB resistance. Three minor QTLs were identified on chromosomes 3, 10 and 11, and two major QTLs on chromosomes 1 and 5, respectively. QTL on chromosome 5, designated qBBR5, had the strongest effect on BB resistance, explaining approximately 37% of the phenotypic variance. Using the same RIL population, we also mapped QTLs for agronomic traits including plant height (PH), heading date (HD), plant yield (PYD) and PYD component traits. A total of 21 QTLs were identified, of which four were detected for PH, six for HD, three for panicle number per plant (PNPP), one for spikelets per panicle (SPP), six for 1000-grain weight (TGW) and one for PYD. qPH1 (a QTL for PH) was found in the same interval as qBBR1 for BB resistance, and qHD11 for HD and qBBR11 for BB resistance also shared a similar interval. Additionally, BB resistance was significantly correlated with PH or HD in the RIL population. This suggests that the resistance genes may have pleiotropic effects on, or close linkage to, genes controlling PH or HD. These results will help deduce the resistance mechanisms of the novel resistance gene(s) and provide the basis for cloning them and using them in marker-assisted breeding.
Climate change and historical biogeography of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides

Aim Marine sessile inter-tidal invertebrates are expected to undergo shifts in distribution due to climate change. Using a combination of survey and transplant data with thermal modelling, we investigated the role of climate on the poleward contraction of the southern range edge of the north temperate barnacle Semibalanus balanoides. Location Western Atlantic of the United States. Methods Barnacle surveys were conducted along the east coast of the United States in 1963 and 2007. Presence, absence and abundance data were collected and the time periods were compared. Transplant experiments monitoring survival with relation to temperature were conducted upon S. balanoides along the more southerly portion of their range, and modelling predicting barnacle survival with relation to biogeography was completed. Results The southern limit of S. balanoides has contracted approximately 350 km to the north. Main conclusions The changes thus far observed in climate along the east coast of the United States have contributed to the southern limit range contraction of S. balanoides. Further changes in the biogeography of S. balanoides are expected with continued climate warming.
Habitat use by breeding Tree Sparrows Passer montanus

Tree Sparrows Passer montanus showed a strong preference for nest-sites adjacent to wetland habitats, and avoidance of sites on intensively managed mixed farmland distant from Rutland Water. A variety of wetland edge habitats were frequently used by foraging adult birds when provisioning nestlings, and invertebrate prey of aquatic origin was frequently recorded in chick diet. We suggest that the wetland edge habitats at the study sites played a key role in providing adequate diversity and availability of suitable invertebrate prey to allow successful chick rearing throughout the long breeding season of this multi-brooded passerine. It is possible that large areas of formerly occupied farmland in the UK no longer provide these invertebrate resources due to the effects of intensification in the late 20th century. There was no evidence that the availability of supplementary seed food within 1 km of the nest-site influenced nest-site choice, or affected productivity. It is probable that the importance of seed food resources to the persistence of Tree Sparrow populations operates on a larger spatial scale than that tested in this study, due to the greater mobility of Tree Sparrows in the non-breeding season, when seed resources are most likely to be a key limiting factor. When considering conservation management aimed at recovering breeding populations of Tree Sparrows, the key resources of seed food, invertebrate food and nest-sites must be made available at appropriate spatial scales.
Development and use of avian pneumovirus reverse genetics systems.

Avian pneumovirus (APV) has remained an important pathogen of domestic fowl since its isolation in the 1970s. A reverse genetics system for APV was developed that affords direct manipulation and analysis of the molecular biology, pathogenicity, and tropism of APV. Using a synthetic minigenome system, the M2-1 protein was found to enhance transcription but not be essential for replication and the APV M2-2 protein was shown to inhibit transcription of a reporter gene. The viral cis-acting sequences were mutated to determine their role in transcription. Initially, a series of mutations originating from vaccine candidates were introduced into the gene end sequence of the LUC gene. The levels of LUC reporter protein expression in the mutants was 40-70% of normal, thus demonstrating a mechanism for reduction of virus immunogenicity as the result of a single point mutation. Heterologous rescue of the APV minigenome was carried out using plasmids expressing the RSV, PVM and hMPV proteins and showed that homologous protein: protein interactions were necessary for minigenome transcription. An APV cloned virus rescue system (Naylor et al., 2004) was used to create APV viruses which contained the gene encoding enhanced green florescent protein (eGFP) either within intact APV, or in mutants lacking the SH and G genes or lacking the SH gene alone. It was demonstrated that the SH and G genes are not essential for APV replication in vitro and in vivo and that the APV genome is capable of accepting insertions of foreign material. Expression of eGFP from the recombinant viruses was investigated in vivo in turkeys at 3 and 5 days post infection. eGFP was found in the sinus tissue of the birds infected with the virus containing the full complement of virus genes in addition to that encoding eGFP.
Can protoplast production from in vitro cultured shoots of Tanacetum vary during the season

Valo on elintarkea yhteyttaville kasveille ja se vaikuttaa kasvin fysiologiaan, morfologiaan, seka geneettisiin ja kemiallisiin toimintoihin. Valon vaikutus voi olla kuitenkin erilainen tai jopa vahingollinen solukkoviljelyssa kasvatettujen kasvien kasvuun ja solujen toimintaan. Esimerkiksi protoplastit ovat soluseinattomia kasvisoluja, joiden avulla voidaan somaattisesti fuusioida risteytymattomia kasvilajeja kasvinjalostuksessa. Suojaavan seinan puuttuessa protoplastit ovat erityisen herkkia esimerkiksi valaistuksen muutoksille. Tutkimuksessa kasiteltiin valovoimakkuuden ja vuodenajan merkitysta kahden Tanacetum sukuun kuuluvan kasvin in vitro kasvuun ja protoplastien tuotantoon. Pietaryrtin (Tanacetum vulgare L.) ja pyrethrumin (Tanacetum cinerariifolium (Trevir.) Schiltz-Bip) solukkoviljeltyjen versojen lehtia kaytettiin lahtomateriaalina protoplastien eristamiseen.Valon voimakkuus vaikutti erityisesti pietaryrtin versojen kasvuun ja protoplastien tuottoon. Voimakkaassa valossa kasvatetut versot olivat lyhyempia ja nayttivat punaisemmilta lisaantyneen antosyaniinin takia. Kun naita versoja kaytettiin lahtomateriaalina protoplastien eristamiseen, protoplastien eristys onnistui harvemmin ja eristettyjen protoplastien maara tuoretta lehtigrammaa kohti oli pienempi kuin himmeassa valossa tuotetussa lahtomateriaalissa. Protoplastien tuotto pietaryrtilla ja pyretrumilla vaihteli eri vuodenaikoina. Parhaiten protoplastien eristys onnistui talvella ja kevaalla, jolloin myos eristettyjen protoplastien maara oli suurin. Tutkimus puoltaa aikaisempia havaintoja himmean valon edullisesta vaikutuksesta protoplastien tuottoon. Vuodenajan merkitysta solukkoviljelyyn on tutkittu vahan. Tama tutkimus kuitenkin antoi viitteita siita, etta myos vuodenaika tai siihen liittyvat tekijat saattavat vaikuttaa in vitrossa kasvatettujen versojen kasvuun ja/tai protoplastieristyksen onnistumiseen.
A review of the subfamily Eliminiinae (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Austrobalanidae), including a new genus, Protelminius nov., from the Oligocene of New Zealand

The Elminiinae, comprising the four-plated taxa Elminius Leach, 1825 (one species), Austrominius Buckeridge, 1983 (six species), †Matellionius Buckeridge, 1983 (one species), a new Oligocene genus, †Protelminius (one species), plus the six-plated Hexaminius Foster, 1982a (two species), is reviewed and current geographic distributions of its species updated. While originally restricted to southern Australia, New Zealand and southernmost South America, one species, A. modestus (Darwin, 1854), was introduced to England during World War II and is now more widely distributed in Europe. The status of four questionable species of Austrominius, currently attributed to a restricted region within South Australia, is discussed. A re-evaluation of the subfamily’s morphology, triggered by recent phylogenetic studies, suggests it be removed from the lower Balanoidea and placed closest to the lower Tetraclitoidea, i.e. to a position envisaged for Elminius s.l. in Darwin (1854). The fossil record of the revised Austrobalanidae is re-evaluated in light of palaeogeography, indicating that the family may have originated during the Eocene in waters off what is now the Antarctic Peninsula.
The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of multiple natural enemies

Natural organisms are infected by many different parasites, and how these parasites interact with each other has important ecological and evolutionary implications. This study is to understand how organisms with different transmission strategies effect the evolution of each other. Parasites that transmit vertically benefit from the host having a high reproductive rate whilst hosts that transmit horizontally are not affected by host reproduction. Some horizontal parasites may reduce host fecundity to benefit their own replication within the host. Therefore there will be clear conflict between vertically and horizontally transmitted parasites. The evolution of traits such as vertically transmitted `protection' and `sabotage' are likely to be costly in terms of other life history traits. In the presence of such `trade-offs,' the parasite population will evolve towards the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) that balances the costs and benefits of these strategies in response to a horizontally transmitted parasite. The ecology of the interaction of vertically and horizontally transmitting parasites is also examined. Further to this, field data is used to construct a model of two horizontally transmitting parasites, a pathogen and a parasitoid that occur on the Orkney Isles. We demonstrate how each of them, and both in combination, may have a large effect on resultant dynamics of winter moth, Operophtera brumata, populations.
Intérêt de l'Approche Centrée Patient dans la prise en charge de l'insuffisance cardiaque chronique : revue synthétique de la littérature

INTRODUCTION : L'insuffisance cardiaque chronique est une cause majeure de morbimortalite a travers le monde. Comme toute pathologie chronique, sa prise en charge necessite l'implication du patient. L’approche centree sur le patient (ACP) est un modele theorique dans lequel le patient est place au centre de sa prise en charge. Elle prend en compte la perspective du patient et sa realite biopsychosociale et agit sur la relation entre le soignant et le patient pour developper les capacites d'auto-soin de celui-ci. L’objectif de notre revue etait d’evaluer l’efficacite des interventions basees sur l’ACP dans la prise en charge de l'insuffisance cardiaque chronique chez l’adulte. METHODE : Une recherche bibliographique a ete effectuee entre octobre et decembre 2017 sur Pubmed et Cochrane. Ont ete incluses les etudes realisees en ambulatoire, qui evaluaient des interventions basees sur au moins une dimension de l’ACP, avec pour criteres de jugement la mortalite, les hospitalisations, la qualite de vie et les capacites d'auto-soin. RESULTATS : 11 etudes ont ete incluses. 1 etude parmi 3 concluait a l'efficacite de l'ACP sur la mortalite, 2 etudes parmi 4 sur les hospitalisations, 3 etudes parmi 6 sur la qualite de vie et enfin 5 etudes parmi 6 sur les capacites d'auto-soin. Les autres etudes aboutissaient a des resultats non significatifs. CONCLUSION : Notre revue n'a pas permis de demontrer l'efficacite de l'ACP sur la mortalite des patients insuffisants cardiaques, mais elle revele une efficacite moderee sur les hospitalisations et sur la qualite de vie, et surtout un impact important sur les capacites d'auto-soin. Elle a mis en lumiere l'inadaptation de l'essai controle randomise pour evaluer correctement les interventions complexes comme l'ACP. Les resultats sont malgre tout encourageants et incitent a etudier la combinaison de l'ACP avec des interventions de type « disease management » afin d'ameliorer la prise en charge des patients insuffisants cardiaques chroniques.
Effect of barley-legume intercrop on disease frequency in an organic farming system

The effect of barley-legume intercrop in an organic farming system on disease incidence was investigated. The legumes were lupin, faba bean and pea. Diseases were detected on pea and barley. On pea, only ascochyta blight (Ascochyta pisi) was observed. When either pea variety was intercropped with barley, the level of ascochyta blight was reduced. Net blotch (Pyrenophora teres), brown rust (Puccinia recondita) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei) (in order of incidence) were monitored on barley between flag leaf emergence and heading. The levels of all three diseases were reduced in every intercrop treatment compared to the barley monocrop. However, this reduction was only statistically significant in the pea treatments for net blotch.