Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
International Scientific Collaboration in Research of Depression based on Social Network Analysis

Methods: There were 127676 records about depression retrieved from science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) of web of science. Additionally, some methods such as social network analysis (SNA), centrality analysis were used in this study. Results: Collaboration has been increasing at the level of authors, institutions and countries in depression in recent ten years. We selected the top 100 prolific authors, institutions and countries to construct collaborative map respectively. Rush,AJ and Fava,M were the central authors ,Harvard university was the central institution and America was the central country of the whole network in terms of the three kinds of centralities. The rate of economic development in countries affected collaborative behavior. Conclusion: Based on the results, we should encouraged multiple collaboration types in depression research which not only help researchers to master the forefront research hotspots but also provide scientific basis for clinical research on depression and reasonable suggestions to make policies in order to promote the development of this area.
Diferenças de género numa amostra de pessoas com doença cardiaca

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases are not unique to either men or women, so that it is important to know what differences exist between the sexes, since it is a fact that the physical and psychosocial problems that distinguish them can influence the various areas of their health, particularly cardiovascular health. Objectives: To identify gender differences in a sample of people with heart disease. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional study with descriptive and multivariate data analysis using logistic regression. Results: The data indicated that women are more anxious (OR = 2.78; p = 0.018), have low perceived control (OR = 3.06; p = 0.008), do not smoke (OR = 4.41; p = 0.028) and do not drink alcoholic beverages (OR = 5.67; p = 0.000). Conclusions: Nurses should be aware that gender differences between men and women make mean they differ in terms of cardiovascular risk. For this reason, they should be aware of the need to identify the factors that can influence the risk and define and implement interventions that reduce this risk for each gender.
A national study on trends and variations of French floods and droughts

A French national project was set up in 2002 in order to study the variation of floods and droughts in France, based on a large set of discharge (data series. Numerous approaches can be used to study trends and variations on hydrological data series, e.g. statistical tests, segmentation procedures, Bayesian approaches, and multivariate or regional models. A comparative analysis aimed at defining a general framework for the selection of a limited number of tests, based on the statistical properties of the hydrological data series (sample size, autocorrelation) and the prior knowledge of the type of distribution and the expected change. The first results on a set of about 200 French long data series do not show conclusive proof that climatic change has affected flood and drought regimes. A Bayesian model has finally been developed to incorporate hydrological nonstationarity into frequency analysis, using MCMC algorithms for the weighting of different time dependent models.
Roles of Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase in Edwardsiella tarda Pathogenesis

A research group demonstrated that the 37 kDA protein of Edwardsiella tarda, a causing causative agent of edwardsiellosis in fish, exhibited high antigenicity in Japanese flounder. The research group also showed that the N-terminus amino acid sequences of the 37 kDa protein were mapped to the N-terminus of GAPDH (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase). Using degenerated primer sets based on the known N-terminus sequence, the corresponding E. tarda DNA was amplified and cloned. The nucleotide sequences of the cloned gene revealed high homology with a bacterial gene for GAPDH, as we was expected. The amino acid sequence of E. tarda GAPDH (etGAPDH) revealed a <70% similarity with GAPDH proteins in other Enterobacteriaceae. With the application of artificial protein overexpression system in Escherichia coli, the recombinant etGAPDH (rGAPDH) was produced and purified. In this study, Using the purified rGAPDH, the etGAPDH specific polyclonal antibody has been was generated using the purified rGAPDHin this study. The immunoblotting analyses demonstrated that the location of the GAPDH protein is located with the association of is associated with the envelops of E. tarda. The rGAPDH was administrated into Japanese flounder via IP route for evaluation of the protective ability. Although the specific antibody titer against etGAPDH was increased about 3-fold after 4 weeks post-vaccination, the survival rates of vaccinated Japanese flounder and the control group with wild type E. tarda was were 12.5% and 0%, respectively. Our results indicated that rGAPDH is immunoreactive antigen but that it will not generate protective immunity in Japanese flounder.
Implementation of Gabor Filters Combined with Binary Features for Gender Recognition

The human face is an important biometric Includes a great deal of useful information, such as gender, age, race and identity.Gender classification is very convenient for humans,but for a computer this is a challenge. Recently, gender classification from face images is of great interest.Gender detection can be useful for human-computer interaction, Such as the designation of individuals.Several algorithms have been designed for this purpose and the proportion of each of these issues has been resolved, our proposed method is based on Gabor filters and Local Binary Patterns (LBP), which extract facial features that these characteristics are robust against interference. In order to achieve an appropriate classification, we used self-organizing neural networks, in this neural network weights are extracted for each gender with little error.The results are compared with existing data sets that this comparison will prove the superiority of the proposed method. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.11591/ijece.v4i1. 4348
Destination Management Plans: Use of Language as Representation of Power

The analysis of discursive practices and language is critical to understand power relationships and power struggles. In particular, control over orders of discourse by institutional and societal power-holders is one factor in the maintenance of their power. This paper analyses how Tourism Queensland used political language and symbols to legitimate and generate support for its decisions. The destination management plans, developed for the 13 Queensland regions, were analysed using an automated content analysis software combined with quantitative network theoretic measurements. These methods prove to be effective in identifying the main concepts contained within the documents and their interrelationships. Results show that the core concepts of the destination management plans relate to the social impact that tourism has on communities as well as to the importance of the marketing and promotion of tourism. On the other hand, some concepts on which academics have focused, such as sustainability and collaboration, do not appear core elements in how Tourism Queensland prescribed tourism to be managed through its official discourse.
Oral health status of teenagers and young adults with intellectual impairment in Athens, Greece

Aim and objectives: To assess the oral health status in Greek teenagers and young adults with intellectual impairment. The objectives were to: evaluate their oral hygiene level, caries experience, restorative care, need for periodontal treatment and frequency of orthodontic anomalies; collect, through questionnaires, information regarding their family characteristics, medical profile, oral hygiene and dietary habits; and evaluate the influence of these factors on their oral health status. Design: 87 students (53 males, 34 females) with intellectual impairment and mean age of 21.08 years (±4.17) attending a special school in Athens participated in the study. Periodontal condition, caries incidence, dental treatment needs and malocclusion were evaluated by clinical examination in the special school’s dental office. Results: The periodontal treatment need index revealed that 60.56% of the students were in need of periodontal treatment. The mean DMFT index was 8.9 (±7.2) and caries represented the largest part of the score (mean DT: 5.4, ±5.1). Results for the restorative index showed that only 24% (±30.3) of the carious teeth surfaces were treated. Orthodontic anomalies were found in 58% of the students with a greater prevalence of crossbites and open bite. Furthermore, from regression analysis, there was an association between intellectual impairment, dental status and paternal educational level. Conclusions: Teenagers and young adults with intellectual impairment attending a special school in Athens, Greece had poor oral hygiene and increased needs for dental and periodontal treatment. Students with more severe intellectual impairment had lower caries prevalence but worse periodontal condition.
Current understanding and future research directions at the onset of the next century of sintering science and technology

Sintering and accompanying microstructural evolution is inarguably the most important step in the processing of ceramics and hard metals. In this process, an ensemble of particles is converted into a coherent object of controlled density and microstructure at an elevated temperature (but below the melting point) due to the thermodynamic tendency of the particle system to decrease its total surface and interfacial energy. Building on a long development history as a major technological process, sintering remains among the most viable methods of fabricating novel ceramics, including high surface area structures, nanopowder-based systems, and tailored structural and functional materials. Developing new and perfecting existing sintering techniques is crucial to meet ever-growing demand for a broad range of technologically significant systems including, for example, fuel and solar cell components, electronic packages and elements for computers and wireless devices, ceramic and metal-based bioimplants, thermoelectric materials, materials for thermal management, and materials for extreme environments. In this study, the current state of the science and technology of sintering is presented. This study is, however, not a comprehensive review of this extremely broad field. Furthermore, it only focuses on the sintering of ceramics. The fundamentals of sintering, including the thermodynamics and kinetics for solid-state- and liquid-phase-sintered systems are described. This study summarizes that the sintering of amorphous ceramics (glasses) is well understood and there is excellent agreement between theory and experiments. For crystalline materials, attention is drawn to the effect of the grain boundary and interface structure on sintering and microstructural evolution, areas that are expected to be significant for future studies. Considerable emphasis is placed on the topics of current research, including the sintering of composites, multilayered systems, microstructure-based models, multiscale models, sintering under external stresses, and innovative and novel sintering approaches, such as field-assisted sintering. This study includes the status of these subfields, the outstanding challenges and opportunities, and the outlook of progress in sintering research. Throughout the manuscript, we highlight the important lessons learned from sintering fundamentals and their implementation in practice.
Phytoconstituents, antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of the leaves of Persea americana Mill cultivated in Ghana

The leaves of Persea americana are widely used for ethno-medicinal purposes worldwide. This study assessed the antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the methanol, ethyl acetate, chloroform and petroleum ether leaves extracts of P. americana. Extracts displayed variable antimicrobial activities that were microorganism-specific. The methanolic extract displayed the most potent antimicrobial activities with the largest zones of inhibition (0-1.8 mm) in the agar diffusion assay and with the lowest minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) in the broth dilution assay against a panel of microorganisms that included Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans. The ethyl acetate extract exhibited the most potent antioxidant potential with the lowest EC50 of 4.15x10-30 g/ml for the peroxide radical scavenging activities. The data supports the ethnomedicinal use of the leaves of P. americana for the management of infections and for other symptoms whose etiology may be linked to oxidative stress. Key words: Persea americana, antioxidant, antimicrobial, phytochemical screening, minimum inhibitory concentration.
Enhancement of Drugs Bioavailability by Floating Drug Delivery System – A Review

Gastric emptying is a complex process and one of the most important obstacles in the better absorption and enhances bioavailability of oral drug delivery system. In recent years various scientific and technological advancements have been made in the research and development of oral drug delivery systems to overcoming physiological adversities, such as short gastric residence times (GRT) and unpredictable gastric emptying time (GET). In order to avoid such adversities, efforts have been made to increase the retention time of the drug-delivery systems for more than 12 hour via floating drug delivery system. Floating delivery systems or hydro dynamically controlled systems are low density systems that have sufficient buoyancy to float over the gastric content and remain buoyant in the stomach. The recent development of these systems includes their physiological and formulation variables affecting the gastric retention and to design the single and multiple-unit floating systems and their formulation, evaluation aspects are covered in detail. This article aims at reviewing the numerous techniques that has been designed till date for optimizing floating drug delivery system (FDDS), and also summarize the evaluation of FDDS of tablet dosage forms.
The efficacy of herbal products as antioxidant in cushioning the effects of short-term exposure of female rats to low dose of environmental toxicity

Introduction: Natural products can be more active than we consider them. Some herbs used by man can boost the body’s antioxidant level. This herb that serves as vegetable have also been identified as a cure some illnesses and also restore the integrity of the organs of the body. Objective: This research investigated the efficacy of as a natural antioxidant for reducing toxicity. Materials and Methods: Twenty five (25) rats with average weight of 145 g were randomly assigned into five groups and received standard rat’s diet and allowed water ad libitum. Group A (negative control) received normal saline. Group B and C received Lead acetate solution (1.5 mg/kg) in addition to the extract serving as low and high dose groups respectively. Group D (positive control) received Lead acetate solution only while group E was given ethanolic extract only to ascertain if it has any deleterious effects. Results: The animals showed an increase in both the body, uterine and ovarian weight when compared to group D. The SOD activity reduced in both B and C while increasing in D but E had a normal SOD level. On examination of the ovary and uterus microscopically, the alterations seen in the photomicrophic plates includes damages and reduced folliculogenesis with a marked increase in the number of atretic follicles, oedema, necrotic zones, etc. These changes were restored to near normal following the administration of the extract. Conclusion: The finding of this research shows that natural products are capable of removing oxidative radical produced in the body thereby detoxifying the body and reproductive organs.
Direction Detecting System of Indoor Smartphone Users Using BLE in IoT

Indoor organization user activity’s (UA) direction detection monitoring system and also emergency prediction are major challenging tasks in the field of the typical body sensor and indoor fixed sensor networks. In this paper, indoor UA based direction detection monitoring system is achieved by the combination of both the orientation sensor and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in user’s smartphones belonging to the Internet of Things (IoT). The orientation sensor senses the actual orientation of the user and BLE transmits the sensed BLE signals to monitoring system using star topology in IoT. In monitoring system, classification algorithm is used to identify the directions of the smartphone users. The emergency situation of the user is also predicted based on signal variation instantly in real time. The user activity’s signals are captured using LabVIEW toolkit then applied to various classification algorithms such asRF—91.42%, Ibk—90.55%, j48— 85.61%, K*—73.54% are the results obtained. An average of 85% was obtained in all the classifi- cation algorithims indicating the consistency and accuracy in detecting the directions of the users. RF was found to be the best among all the classification algorithms. IoT enabled devices have high demand in near coming future, moreover smartphones users increase day by day, hence implementing and maintaining the above said system would be much easier and cheaper compared to other conventional networks.
STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF EDAPHIC ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY AND ITS USE AS BIOINDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE

We analyzed arthropod community structure and composition among different anthropogenic systems. The study was conducted in areas of secondary forest (control system), Eucalyptus plantation and pasture, where we sampled arthropods using pitfall traps. The systems did not differ in mean richness and mean abundance of arthropods, however, eucalyptus presented the highest total richness. The systems supported different arthropod communities in relation to structure and species composition. Pasture was the most simplified and different system in comparison to the others, probably because it is more open and presents low complexity. Our results demonstrate that different anthropogenic systems exhibit communities that reflect its characteristics, corroborating the evidence that human impacts are capable of changing community composition and structure. Our study serves to understand arthropod response in face of environmental disturbance, selecting indicator morphospecies and orders of arthropods for different anthropogenic systems and providing valid information for the development of conservation strategies.
Tunable Slit Loaded Stacked Circular Microstrip Antenna for Multiband applications

In the present endeavor a tunable (frequency agile) stacked slit loaded circular microstrip antenna has been presented for wireless systems. The frequency agility has been achieved by loading a varactor diode. The antenna is able to operate in five bands. One of these bands hopes over different bands while others are fixed at 1.9611GHz, 2.1179GHz, 2.3018GHz and 2.6203GHz. The bands are useful for different wireless applications. The mathematical model presented here is very accurate and gives clear picture of facts happening in the antenna. Antenna parameters like return loss, resonant frequency, gain, directivity, co and cross polar patterns have been obtained from simulation and numerically. The simulated results agree well with the numerical data. The gain of 6.78dBi and directivity of 7.53 dB has been achieved from the proposed tunable structure.
A quick protocol to facilitate the selection of putative delayed ripening transgenic papaya lines for field evaluation

A quick protocol is needed to determine transgene, ACC oxidase 2 expression in putative transgenic Eksotika papaya lines targeting at selecting potential lines for field evaluation. In this study, three housekeeping genes, 18S ribosomal RNA, 40S ribosomal protein and actin, were used for normalisation of the ACC oxidase 2 gene expression. Comparison with a non-transformed seedling-derived plants revealed that 42 putative transgenic lines exhibited between 2- and 5-fold reduction of ACC oxidase 2 expression level. Based on the gene expression data of the in vitro putative transgenic papaya plants obtained, 24 independent potential lines were selected for field evaluation. Gene expression analysis on field grown papaya plants showed similar profile of ACC oxidase 2 expression levels as compared to in vitro papaya plants. Increase in storage shelf life was also examined in the transgenic lines grown in the field with the most potential transgenic line was 27-3, which required 14 days to achieve full yellow colour index. Overall, the findings in this study revealed that reduction of ethylene was successful in the Eksotika papaya by manipulating the ACC oxidase 2 using the antisense technique. This reflects that future production of longer shelf life Eksotika papaya fruits is possible through antisense technique and it will help boost the papaya industry further by opening up new export markets in distant destinations.
An Evaluation of Alternative Equity Indices - Part 1: Heuristic and Optimised Weighting Schemes

There is now a dazzling array of alternatives to the market-cap approach to choosing constituent weights for equity indices. Using data on the 1,000 largest US stocks every year from 1968 to the end of 2011 we compare and contrast the performance of a set of alternative indexing approaches. The alternatives that we explore can be loosely categorised into two groups. First, a set of weighting techniques that Chow et al (2011) describe as “heuristic. ” The second set are based upon “optimisation techniques,” since they all require the maximisation or minimisation of some mathematical function subject to a set of constraints to derive the constituent weights. We find that all of the alternative indices considered here would have produced a better risk-adjusted performance than could have been achieved by having a passive exposure to a market capitalisation-weighted index. However, the most important result of our work stems from our ten million Monte Carlo simulations. We find that choosing constituent weights randomly, that is, applying weights that could have been chosen by monkeys, would also have produced a far better risk-adjusted performance than that produced by a cap-weighted scheme.
Six Weeks of Moderate Functional Resistance Training Increases Basal Metabolic Rate in Sedentary Adult Women

International Journal of Exercise Science 11(2): 32-41, 2018. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is a significant contributor to total daily energy expenditure. Traditional resistance exercise has been shown to elicit fat free mass (FFM) related increases in BMR. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a functional resistance exercise program on the BMR of a group of previously sedentary adult women in a free-living condition. 19 sedentary, apparently healthy women underwent body composition analysis and had BMR assessed before and after a 6-week functional resistance training program. The resistance training program was designed to be progressive in volume and intensity, and to be achievable for novice exercisers. Following exercise training, BMR significantly increased (+246.76Kcal*day-1 ± 231.48, t=4.64, p<.001), while no changes were observed in percent body fat, FFM, fat mass (FM), or BMI (all p>.05). There was also a modest increase in total mass (+0.63 ± 0.87 Kg t=3.16, p=.005). Results from this study suggest that 6 weeks of functional, progressive, resistance exercise can elicit significant improvements in BMR in previously sedentary adult women; but does not elicit significant changes in body composition, FFM, or FM.