Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Chemistry IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF Cissus vitiginea LEAVES

In living organisms, various reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) e.g., superoxide anions (O2 •– ), hydroxyl radicals ( • OH), nitric oxide radicals (NO • ) and non-radical compounds, can be formed by different mechanisms. It is unavoidable one because of they are continuously produced by the body’s normal use of oxygen. Such species are considered to be important causative factors in the development of diseases such as diabetes, stroke, arteriosclerosis, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases and the aging process (Velavan, 2011; Alma et al, 2003). This effect was significantly reversed by prior administration of antioxidant providing a close relationship between free radical scavenging activity (FRSA) and the involvement of endocrinological responses (Wiseman and Halliwell, 1996). The recent abundant evidence suggesting the involvement of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of various disorders and diseases has attracted much attention of the scientists and general public to the role of natural antioxidants in the maintenance of human health and prevention and treatment of diseases (Niki, 2010). Plant and its products are rich sources of a phytochemicals and ABSTRACT
Multiple-Input Single-Output Control for Extending the Steady-State Operating Range—Use of Controllers with Different Setpoints

This paper deals with a case when multiple inputs are needed to cover the steady-state operating range. The most common implementation is to use split range control with a single controller. However, this approach has some limitations. In this paper, we use multiple controllers with different setpoints and demonstrate that this structure can be optimal in some cases when the cost of the input can be traded off against the penalty of deviating from the desired setpoint. We describe a procedure to find the optimal setpoint deviations. We illustrate our procedure in a case in which three inputs (cooling and two sources of heating) are used to control the temperature of a room with a PID-based control structure and without the need of online optimization.
1 Running title : Foliar terpene emissions in Borneo 1 2 Correspondence :

30 We have conducted a screening study of leaf terpene emissions for 43 rainforest woody species of 31 Borneo. To the best of our knowledge, this study reports for first time the terpene emission capacity of 43 32 species belonging to 22 genera of rainforest woody plant species. We have used a general lineal model 33 (GLM) with phylogenetic control by the phylogenetic distance matrix when necessary. The proportion of 34 the species that emitted terpenes in this set of Borneo woody species was 95% and the species average 35 total terpene emissions of emitting species were 0.04-11.6 g g h, which is in the range of the reported 36 emissions in similar screening studies conducted in other biomes. Altogether, 85 terpene compounds were 37 detected, and 11 common mono and sesquiterpenes were identified and quantified. Only two of the 38 terpenes, ocimene and -terpinene, of the 11 determined compounds showed a phylogenetic signal. No 39 significant relationships were found between the terpene emissions and the physiological, chemical and 40 morphological foliar traits and the data also showed a lock of constant applicability of the “excess 41 carbon” hypothesis for this set of species. This evidence suggests multiple and diverse factors and 42 conditions driving plant chemistry in the tropical forests. 43 44 45
Purchase Intention towards Alternative Medicine: A Study from Consumers’ Perspective in Malaysia

Modern medication has proven to be effective in preventing and curing many types of illnesses and prolonging life of many people. However, as mod￾ern medicines rely on the issuance of synthetic med￾ications, they produce negative side effects that practically supersedes the advantages that one gains from using them. Therefore, consumers are in search of other types of medications particularly, alternative medicines. I
Oral glucose tolerance test as a screening tool in diagnostics of steroid-induced glucose intolerance – preliminary report

1Department of Endocrinology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Bielański Hospital, Warsaw Head of Department: Professor Wojciech Zgliczyński, MD, PhD 2Department of General and Experimental Pathology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw Head of Department: Dariusz Szukiewicz, MD, PhD 3Department of Systemic Connective Tissue Diseases, Eleonora Reicher National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Warsaw Head of Department: Professor Marzena Olesińska, MD, PhD
Allergenicity and Cross-Reactivity of 3 House Dust Mite Species Among Filipino Allergic Patients

The immunoglobulin E-binding activity of allergens from the house dust mite (HDM) Blomia tropicalis (Bt), Dermatophagoides farinae (Df), and Dermatopahagoides pteronyssinus (Dp) were determined using a panel of 210 allergic and 85 non-atopic Filipino subjects. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed that 91%, 89%, and 86% of Filipino allergic subjects tested are sensitized with Bt, Df, and Dp allergens, respectively. Western Blot Analysis identified multiple IgE reactivities of selected patients’ sera to HDM proteins with molecular weight ranging from 10–80 kDA. Absorption assays by inhibition ELISA showed that up to 60% inhibition can be detected between the three HDM species. The results obtained in this study suggest that Bt, Dp, and Df are important HDM species in the local population causing sensitization in the majority of allergic Filipino patients tested. The incorporation of Bt, Dp, and Df allergens in the panel of diagnostic allergens for HDM allergy are highly recommended.
What is the Level of Undergraduate Students’ Geographic Literacy in Turkey?

Geographic literacy is a skill that plays a significant role in our everyday lives, whether or not we are geographers. Given the importance of this subject, the geographic literacy rate of the students in different levels should be determined and road maps should be put forward. The purpose of this study is to reveal Turkish undergraduate students’ level of geographic literacy through a nationwide survey conducted in universities and put forward these results for decision makers and educators. A total of 1589 undergraduate students from 127 different universities and representing 191 different departments throughout Turkey participated in the survey. Students’ knowledge of 76 basic geographic terms and 15 multiple-choice questions regarding geographic knowledge were investigated. The answers of the students and the relationships between some demographic characteristics and answers were analyzed by using SPSS software. The study revealed that the students “have some knowledge to explain” the terms in general and have 84.33% success in answering the questions. The terms students “know enough to explain” are among the common environmental problems seen in Turkey. This success should be continued. However, students’ lacking knowledge should be further investigated by educational authorities.
Proverb Treatment in Malay-English Machine Translation

– Machine translation is a process by which computer software is used to translate a text from one natural language, in this case Malay, to another, English. They are normally short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorisable form and which is handed down from generation to generation. Although proverb do beautifies Malay literature, this brings challenges to machine translation since proverb cannot be translated literally, rather logically. This paper is to propose a research on proverb treatment in Malay-English machine translation. The treatment process started by identifying the Malay proverbs using the pattern matching approach. After the identification, the proverb will be translated into the meaning in English. To avoid literal (direct) translation a lookup table of the Malay proverb and the actual meaning in English has been prepared. There is another challenge, the ambiguity of the proverb meaning (there are Malay proverbs with several different meanings). To resolve this ambiguous issue, the possibility theory will be implemented with the help of the one of the WordNet feature, the semantic labeling.
NLM’s System Description for the Fourth i2b2/VA Challenge

The NLM team participated in the concept extraction, assertion classification and relation extraction tasks of the Fourth i2b2 Challenge. After exploring rulebased approaches to the tasks, the team has resorted to supervised machine learning methods. The results varied by task. The concept extraction task suffered from over-training, achieving 0.60 0.74 F1-score in the evaluation (compared to 0.93 cross-validation results on the training set). The performance of the assertion classifiers in the evaluation was consistent with that in training, achieving an overall 0.93 F1score. An SVM classifier demonstrated mixed behavior in the relation extraction task: it was overtrained for two relations with few positive examples, and the results were consistent with training for the remaining relations (achieving an overall 0.67 F1score on the test set.) The improvements in relation extraction due to feature selection observed in crossvalidation evaluations during training were not observed in the test evaluation. The assertion and relation classifiers applied to concepts extracted by our system maintained their respective performance, but the scores were much lower than for the groundtruth based evaluation.
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece

The application of selected geophysical methods within the framework of an Urban Geology investigation program performed by IGME at Nafplion city, contributed to the overall geo-scientific characterization of the study area. The methodology adopted included the application of Time Domain Electromagnetic, Electrical resistivity tomography, Gravity and Seismic Crosshole surveys. The results of the geophysical investigation provided quantitative information regarding the distribution of seawater intrusion in the area and determined factors controlling its extent within the investigated region. The intrusion may occur in three distinct horizons. The first within the shallow unconfined aquifer within the top 12 meters of fluvial deposits showing values of electrical conductivity in the range of 1 and 4 Siemens/m, corresponding to TDS values between 5000 and 20000 mg/L, as determined by the TEM surveys. Lower conductivity values between 0.3 and 1 Siemens/m are found within the second aquifer occurring between 15 and 45 meters. Similar order of conductivity values are found within the deeper horizon, lying below 45 meters depth, attributed also to seawater intrusion mainly in carbonate formations. Areas of fresh groundwater, were delineated by a combination of TEM, ERT and gravity methods. These areas are structurally controlled by faults and the presence of impermeable flysch overlying the limestone formation.
Does Aid Help Refugees Stay? Does Aid Keep Refugees Away?

Political decision-makers advocate foreign aid as a powerful tool to reduce flows of refugees struck by civil wars, natural disasters, and other humanitarian crises. This article analyzes whether and to what extent inflows of foreign aid are indeed effective in reducing the outflows of refugees from recipient countries. More specifically, we estimate the causal effects of total aid inflows on total refugee outflows in a monadic setting, as well as the effect of aid inflows on the flow of refugees to the respective donor country in a dyadic setting. We combine refugee data from UNHCR for 143 countries of origin over the 1976-2014 period with OECD data on bilateral official development assistance. The interaction of donorgovernment fractionalization and a recipient country’s probability to receive aid provides a powerful and excludable instrumental variable, controlled for the levels of the interacted variables, various control variables, and fixed effects for country and time. While our results provide no robust evidence that total aid inflows reduce refugee outflows, donors appear to be successful in reducing refugee inflows into the donor country itself. These effects appear to be driven by the donor government receiving policy concessions from allied recipient governments rather than by aid tackling the root causes of displacement. JEL classification: H84, F35, F59
Amity Journal of Economics-F.1.1

This research paper has attempted to scrutinize the international trade sector of the three South Asian countries namely India, Pakistan and Nepal using the Marshall-Lerner Condition. The period from 1991-2014 is particularly interesting to study as it involves various reforms, policy measures and economic situations which led to structural changes in the domestic markets of these countries and as a result affected their international share. The sole stimulus to explore this region came as very few studies were undertaken to verify the J-curve pattern using the Marshall-Lerner Condition in any of these countries which are historically, culturally and economically well integrated with each other. In order to derive the conclusion, an export-import model is created by the annual data of five variables namely; Exports, Imports, GNI, Exchange Rate and the World Income taken from World Bank database (for total exports and imports). This model is analyzed using the best possible econometric technique where all these variables are tested for Stationarity and then for Cointegration via SAS and finally OLS technique has been applied in order to find the import and export elasticity. Overall, the results of this study suggest a fulfillment of the Marshall-Lerner Condition criteria in all the three countries but the degree of satisfaction differs due to the export and import elasticity and the factors effecting them . The findings are also supported with the theoretical aspects. Thus, establishing the relationship between a country’s trade balance and the domestic currency carries practical significance for the nation’s monetary policy. Therefore, this paper serves as a stepping stone towards future research on which the policies can be adopted in India, Pakistan and Nepal & this will be helpful for the growth and development of the global market as a whole. This research will provide a trademark improvement in the field of economics as it is integrating the two most important aspects which are “Economic Scenario of Instability and Recession” with the “theoretical support” and hence providing a “platform for development”.
NC-01ATTENTIONAL AND LANGUAGE FUNCTIONING IN ADULT PATIENTS WITH GLIOMA: A VOXEL-BASED LESION-SYMPTOM MAPPING STUDY.

OBJECTIVE: We statistically examined the relationship between lesion presence and neurocognitive performance on tasks of attention and language on a voxel-by-voxel basis in adult brain tumor patients using voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM). VLSM is an innovative technique that has primarily been used in studies of stroke patients. METHODS: 98 right-handed adult patients with glioma were administered a neuropsychological battery comprised of 10 tasks: Digit Span Forward & Backward from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Verbal Fluency (FAS, Animals), Woodcock-Johnson III Word Attack, and subtests of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination: Boston Naming Test, Complex Ideational Material, Commands, Responsive Naming, and Reading Sentences & Paragraphs. T2-weighted images were registered to a T1-weighted MNI atlas and the tumor region was contoured using a semi-automated thresholding technique. For a voxel, a general linear model was run to determine the relationship between cognitive performance and lesion presence, with medical and demographic characteristics specified as covariates. This analysis was repeated for each voxel with each subtest. Suprathreshold cluster-based analysis was used to correct for multiple comparisons. RESULTS: VLSM analysis identified several clusters of voxels with a significant relationship (p < .05) between lesion presence and neurocognitive performance on tasks of attention and language, and these significant clusters were depicted on high resolution statistical maps (1 mm3). Three composite maps were then generated, identifying the key anatomic structures involved in the attention/working memory cognitive domain (primarily frontal regions including dorsolateral prefrontal cortex), the expressive language cognitive domain (primarily lateral temporal regions), and the receptive language cognitive domain (primarily lateral and mesial temporal regions along with auditory cortex). CONCLUSION: These findings identify some of the key anatomic structures involved in attentional and language functioning in adult patients with glioma using an innovative lesion analysis technique.
Evaluation of Adblock Software Usage

The article shows the main factors of adblocking software usage. The study was based on data obtained by a web questionnaire. The research was focused on evaluation of adblocking software usage factors in five categories: (1) gender, age, and education; (2) use of advertising and sources of knowledge about advertising; (3) technical and social reasons for blocking online advertisements; (4) usage of an adblock-wall; and (5) type of online advertisement. An evaluation of adblock usage factors revealed four main technical reasons for adblock usage connected with website technology and web development problems – interruption, amount of ads, speed, and security; and one social reason for adblock usage, namely, the problem of privacy.
MENGGUNAKAN ALGORITMA INTERPOLATION SEARCH UNTUK SMARTPHONE BERBASIS ANDROID

Public Phone application is the application that contains telephone numbers of public services, as well as equipped with emergency telephone numbers such as telephone numbers police stations, fire stations, hospitals and many other agencies offices. Phone public service also includes the address and google maps feature to find out where we are located as well as the location of a public office who want to visit in the area such as the solution of the problems in communicating. In making the application of the Public Service Telephone Kendari required algorithm or method that is effective, because the search process is one important part of the data processing. The algorithm used is Interpolation Search. Interpolation Search is a search algorithm that is more efficient than the algorithms Binary and Sequential Search. This is because the algorithm is no need to explore every element of the table. On the menu there is a phone text auto-complete feature that allows users to search for the name of the agency in question. Results of this research is the Public Service Telephone applications Kendari implemented on Android Operating System and built using the Android programming language. Keywords— Public Phone, Interpolation Search, Auto Complete Text, Android Aplikasi Telepon Layanan Publik di Area Kendari dengan Fitur Autocomplete Text IJCCS Vol. x, No. x, July 201x : first_page – end_page 90
Style Transplantation in Neural Network-based Speech Synthesis 

The paper proposes a novel deep neural network (DNN) architecture aimed at improving the expressiveness of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) by learning the properties of a particular speech style from a multi-speaker, multi-style speech corpus, and transplanting it into the speech of a new speaker, whose actual speech in the target style is missing from the training corpus. In most research on this topic speech styles are identified with corresponding emotional expressions, which was the approach accepted in this research as well, and the entire process is conventionally referred to as “emotion transplantation”. The proposed architecture builds on the concept of shared hidden layer DNN architecture, which was originally used for multi-speaker modelling, principally by introducing the style code as an auxiliary input. In this way, the mapping between linguistic and acoustic features performed by the DNN was made style dependent. The results of both subjective or objective evaluation of the quality of synthesized speech as well as the quality of style reproduction show that in case the emotional speech data available for training is limited, the performance of the proposed system represents a small but clear improvement to the state of the art. The system used as a baseline reference is based on the standard approach which uses both speaker code and style code as auxiliary inputs.
The effect of canonical word order on the production and comprehension of pseudoclefts in L2

This study investigated the effect of word order and age on the production and comprehension of pseudoclefts in L2 across two experiments. For each experiment 16 female students aged between 179 and 210 months were recruited from a secondary school. These students were divided into two groups based on their age range; one group for investigating the effect of word order and age on the production and another on the comprehension of pseudoclefts in L2 by a test including 27 items. The items of the test included 10 Subject pseudocleft, 10 Object pseudocleft and 7 fillers. Production was examined by a sentence repetition task and comprehension by a picture selection task. The results indicated that (i) Word order is a determining factor in production and comprehension of pseudoclefts in L2. (ii) Age does not significantly affect production or comprehension of pseudoclefts in L2.
Fundamental Limits of Age-of-Information in Stationary and Non-stationary Environments

We study the multi-user scheduling problem for minimizing the Age of Information (AoI) in cellular wireless networks under stationary and non-stationary regimes. We derive fundamental lower bounds for the scheduling problem and design efficient online policies with provable performance guarantees. In the stationary setting, we consider the AoI optimization problem for a set of mobile users travelling around multiple cells. In this setting, we propose a scheduling policy and show that it is 2-optimal. Next, we propose a new adversarial channel model for studying the scheduling problem in non-stationary environments. For N users, we show that the competitive ratio of any online scheduling policy in this setting is at least Ω(N). We then propose an online policy and show that it achieves a competitive ratio of O(N2). Finally, we introduce a relaxed adversarial model with channel state estimations for the immediate future. We propose a heuristic model predictive control policy that exploits this feature and compare its performance through numerical simulations.