Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Viral Safety of Plasma-derived Blood Products. III. Effects of Virus Inactivation by Pasteurization in Human Serum Albumin Concentrates (Sekijyuji Albumin and Sekijyuji Albumin 25).

We investigated virus inactivation by two albumin products (Sekijyuji Albumin® and Sekijyuji Albumin 25® derived from human plasma with heat treatment at 60°C in liquid-phase (pasteurization) using several enveloped and non-enveloped viruses as marker viruses. Enveloped viruses were sindbis virus (SIN), vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) and human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). Non-enveloped viruses were polio virus (Polio V) and hepatitis A virus (HAV). The infectivity of all viruses except HAV was lost after 1hr heating, with logarithmic reduction value (LRV) for SIN, VSV, HSV-1, HIV-1 and Polio V of >5.1, >5.7, >4.3, >3.8 and >5.9, respectively. No significant difference in LRVs were observed between the two products. The infectivity of HAV, however, remained at 104.2-5.0 TCID50 even after 10hr heating and LRV stayed in the range of 1.9 to 2.7.
The Abyssal molluscan fauna of the Norwegian sea and its relation to other faunas

Abstract About 90 000 specimens of mollusks, from depths between 2 500 and 4 000 m in the Norwegian Sea, have been determined. They belonged to 25 species. Five species are described as new, Cuspidaria centobi (Bivalvia), Anekes undulisculpta, Crinolamia dahli, Cylichna lemchei (Gastropoda), and Siphonodentalium laubieri (Scapho-poda). Two of these, Anekes undulisculpta and Crinolamia dahli are type species of the new genera in which they are placed. The other species have been critically examined from a taxonomical point of view, as have the species previously recorded from the Polar Abyssal Basin, but not present in the Norwegian Sea. Some information is given about the feeding, anatomy, and larval development of the species. The origin and development of the fauna are discussed, and it is concluded that at least a part of the fauna is a reminiscence of the old North Pacific fauna that lived in the Polar Basin before this was disconnected from the North Pacific by the formation of Bering Strait. These s.
MODELAGEM DO CRESCIMENTO E DA PRODUÇÃO DE POVOAMENTOS DEEucalyptus EM NÍVEL DE DISTRIBUIÇÃO DIAMÉTRICA UTILIZANDO ÍNDICE DE LOCAL1

A predicao da producao de povoamentos florestais por classe diametrica e de suma importância quando se tem por objetivo gerar multiprodutos da madeira. Assim, objetivou-se, neste trabalho, estimar a producao de um povoamento de clones do hibrido de Eucalyptus urophylla x Eucalyptus grandis por classe diametrica, utilizando a variavel indice de local (S). A classificacao da capacidade produtiva de cada parcela foi feita por meio de curvas de indices de local, empregando-se os metodos da curva-guia e da equacao das diferencas. Em seguida, ajustou-se a funcao densidade de probabilidade (f.d.p.) Weibull de dois parâmetros pelo metodo da maxima verossimilhanca. Para a projecao dos parâmetros da f.d. p., utilizou-se um sistema de equacoes com inclusao da variavel S. A avaliacao do ajuste desse sistema foi feita por meio da analise dos graficos de residuos e das estatisticas de precisao: coeficiente de determinacao ajustado (R2ajust) e erro-padrao da media relativo (Syx%). O ajuste foi realizado utilizando 80% das parcelas e as 20% restantes, utilizadas para validacao. A classificacao da capacidade produtiva por meio de indices de local foi eficiente pelos dois metodos avaliados, sendo selecionado o metodo da curva-guia devido a sua simplicidade e facilidade de aplicacao. O sistema de equacoes com inclusao da variavel indice de local (S) foi preciso na modelagem da distribuicao diametrica do povoamento analisado. A aplicabilidade do sistema de equacoes se mostrou bastante eficiente para tres prognoses consecutivas.
Comparative life table parameters of beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Lep.: Noctuidae), on four commercial sugar beet cultivars

پارامترهای جدول زندگی کرم برگ‌خوار چغندرقند، Spodoptera exigua (Hubner)، روی چهار رقم چغندرقند (Renger،‌ FD0005،‌ Dorothea و شیرین) در دمای 1 ± 27 درجه‌ی سلسیوس، رطوبت نسبی 5 ± 60 درصد و دوره‌ی نوری 16 ساعت روشنایی و 8 ساعت تاریکی تحت شرایط آزمایشگاهی تعیین شد. لاروها روی تمام ارقام به‌طور کامل رشد کردند. طولانی‌ترین و کوتاه‌ترین کل دوره‌ی رشدی به‌ترتیب روی ارقام FD0005 و Renger به‌دست آمد. شاخص رشد (D.I.) مرحله‌ی لاروی از 90/4 روی Renger تا 97/5 روی شیرین متغیر بود. امید به زندگی (ex) در ابتدای زندگی آفت روی ارقام فوق به‌ترتیب 94/26، 39/31، 51/30 و 16/30 روز تعیین شد. مقادیر انتروپی (H) جدول زندگی نشان داد که منحنی بقا روی تمام ارقام به‌صورت محدب (نوع اول) می‌باشد. مقدار نرخ ناخالص باروری از 93/1499 تخم روی Dorothea تا 67/2034 تخم روی Renger نوسان داشت. کم‌ترین مقدار نرخ خالص تولید مثل (R0) روی رقم Renger مشاهده شد (59/253 ماده / ماده / نسل). نرخ ذاتی افزایش جمعیت (rm)از 2335/0 روی رقم Renger تا 2309/0 روی رقم FD0005 متغیر بود. متوسط مدت زمان یک نسل (T) روی ارقام مختلف اختلاف معنی‌داری داشت. برازش منحنی بقای افراد بالغ با مدل Weibull نشان داد که نوع منحنی بقا روی تمام ارقام از نوع اول می‌باشد، بدین‌معنی که بیش‌ترین مرگ و میر در افراد بالغ در اواخر عمر اتفاق می‌افتد. نتایج حاکی از این بود که رقم Renger نسبت به سایر ارقام در شرایط آزمایشگاهی نامناسب‌تر می‌باشد. نتایج این تحقیق اطلاعات مفیدی را در مورد تأثیر چهار رقم تجاری چغندرقند روی پتانسیل رشد جمعیت کرم برگ‌خوار در اختیار قرار می‌دهد.
Inhibitory effects of reserpine and carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone on fluoroquinolone resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii

Mechanisms of bacterial resistance to fluoro-quinolones may be grouped into three principal categories: gene mutations of DNA topoisomerase Ⅱ (GyrA or GyrB), DNA topoisomerase Ⅳ (ParC or ParE), decrease of outer membrane permeation and upregulation of multi-drug efflux pump (active efflux system). 1 Efflux pumps are transport proteins removing toxic substrates (including virtually all classes of clinically relevant antibiotics) from cells to the external environment. These proteins exist in both Gram positive bacteria and Gram negative bacteria as well as in fungi and mammalian (tumour) cells.2-4 It has been reported that alkaloid reserpine and carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) can inhibit NorA multi-drug efflux.5,6 In order to explore the universality of drug efflux in microorganisms, 85 strains of Acinetobacter baumannii (A. Baumannii) were tested using reserpine and CCCP. The quinolone-resistant-determining region (QRDR) of gyrA and parC genes in 35 isolates of A. Baumannii were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced by DNA sequencer. The correlation between resistant mutation regularity and bacterial drug efflux were analysed.
Molecular identification of moderately halophilic bacteria and extremely halophilic archaea isolated from salted sheep skins containing red and yellow discolorations

moleCular IDeNtIfICatIoN of moDerately haloPhIlIC baCterIa aND extremely haloPhIlIC arChaea ISolateD from SalteD SheeP SkINS CoNtaINING reD aND yelloW DISColoratIoNS by C. akpolat,1 a. ventosa,2 M. BiRBiR,3* C. sánChez-poRRo2 and p. CaGlayan3 1Institute for Graduate Studies in Pure and Applied Science, University of Marmara, 34722 Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain 3Division of Plant Diseases and Microbiology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Marmara, 34722 Istanbul, Turkey
Analyse par émission acoustique de l'endommagement et de la rupture du béton polymère en fluage = Acoustic emission analysis of polymer concrete damage in creep

Le present travail s'interesse a l'identification par emission acoustique et a l'analyse des mecanismes d'endommagement du beton polymere soumis a charges importantes et sur longues durees. Des essais sont conduits sur des eprouvettes prismatiques sollicitees en fluage, en flexion 3 points. Les signaux de l'emission acoustique generes par les eprouvettes sont recueillis et ont ete analyses par la technique d'analyse statistique multivariable (methode de coalescence floue) et par analyse en composantes principales. Cette analyse est basee sur des parametres issus de l'analyse temporelle conventionnelle des donnees d'EA (amplitude, energie, nombre de coups.) afin de distinguer les signatures correspondants aux differents mecanismes d'endommagement du materiau (microfissuration de la resine, decohesion resineagregats, et la rupture des agregats) avec leurs chronologie d'apparition au cours de l'essai en fluage. L'analyse des activites acoustiques au cours des essais de fluage nous a permis ensuite de trouve une correlation interessante entre le temps de rupture et le temps de transition du fluage primaire/secondaire. Ce resultat peut etre utilise pour la prediction de la rupture des materiaux granulaires a base polymere au cours des essais de longues durees.
Studies on Larval Trematodes from Kentucky with a Summary of Known Related Species

Although larval trematodes have received much attention in adjacent states, abstracts of the present study (Cable, 1935a, b) constitute the only record in the literature of cercariae from Kentucky. The present report is limited to the trematode parasites of a single snail species, Goniobasis semicarinata (Say), collected over a period of three years in the vicinity of Berea, Kentucky. These collections have yielded four new species of cercariae of types not commonly reported from freshwater habitats in the United States. For this reason, it seems desirable to describe these forms as completely as possible.
Gardening Increases Vegetable Consumption in School-aged Children: A Meta-analytical Synthesis

Although a handful of published reports suggest that garden-based nutrition education programs are effective in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, many of these studies have low statistical power because of small sample sizes and lack of long-term data. In this study, we used meta-analytical techniques to examine the efficacy of garden-based nutrition education programs for increasing children’s nutrition knowledge, preference for fruit and vegetables, and/or consumption of fruit and vegetables. We confined our analysis to peerreviewed studies that examined programs that were delivered to children in the United States. We looked at the relative impacts of garden-based nutrition education programs, compared with experimental controls (i.e., no nutrition education) and nutrition education programs without a gardening component. We compared the results of our meta-analysis with those of a vote counting analysis to illustrate the importance of repeated studies and quantitative analysis. In our vote counting analysis, the majority of the outcomes were nonsignificant in the control and nutrition education groups, but positive and significant for the gardening group. Our quantitative analysis of the impacts of gardening education programs on children’s nutrition knowledge, preference for fruit and vegetables, and/or consumption of fruit and vegetables was limited by the small number of studies that reported the full suite of descriptive statistics needed to conduct a meta-analysis. Nonetheless, one striking and robust result emerged: gardening increased vegetable consumption in children, whereas the impacts of nutrition education programs were marginal or nonsignificant. We suggest two nonmutually exclusive hypotheses to explain our results: gardening increases access to vegetables and gardening decreases children’s reluctance to try new foods. Our results suggest that gardening should be an integral component of wellness programs and policies. A historical lack of funding has impeded both the broader adoption of school gardens and rigorous research on the social, behavioral, and academic impacts of gardening on children. Recently, however, there has been an increase in federal support for gardening and garden-based research projects—a trend that we hope will continue and grow.
Cross-Domain Relationship Prediction by Efficient Block Matrix Completion for Social Media Applications

The online social media has experienced vigorous evolution. Diversified needs of information acquisition and retrieval on social media platforms have been evoked by massive users. While all sorts of application demands meet with explosive data growth, the development of effective methodologies has become emergent. By taking full advantage of rich context, we propose a heterogeneous object relation matrix completion approach (EBMC) which jointly complements the relationship between the heterogeneous data objects. Specifically, we detect the Place-of-Interest (POI) with mean shift algorithm on the GPS information of the social image collection. Then, a batch matrix completion and learning method is developed by optimizing a unified objective function to learn the POI-specific user-image, image-tag and user-tag relationships. Finally, we decompose the whole learning problem into a set of POI-specific subtasks, which corresponding to the relation data blocks separated by the POI structure. Through experiments on tasks of image annotation and user retrieval based on image similarity of real-world social media datasets, we found that our proposed method achieved good performance.
Uptake, Localization, and Speciation of Iron and Boron in the Brown Algae Ectocarpus siliculosus and Macrocystis pyrifera

Author(s): Miller, Eric Paul | Abstract: This work is divided into two parts : (I) cell surface binding, uptake, and storage of iron in brown algae, and (II) boron uptake, localization, and speciation in brown algae. Iron is an essential element for all living organisms due to its ubiquitous role in redox and other enzymes, especially in the context of respiration and photosynthesis. Although the iron uptake and storage mechanisms of terrestrial/higher plants have been well- studied, the corresponding systems in marine algae have received far less attention. Chapter I focuses on these mechanisms in two brown seaweeds : Ectocarpus siliculosus and Macrocystis pyrifera. Through the course of experiments, it was found that a significant amount of iron was bound extracellularly. While this phenomenon is widely recognized and has prompted the development of experimental protocols to eliminate its contribution to iron uptake studies, its potential biological significance as a concentrated iron source for marine algae is only now being recognized. In this study, using an interdisciplinary array of techniques, we explore the nature of the extensive and powerful iron binding on the surface of both laboratory and environmental samples of Ectocarpus and Macrocystis. We propose that the surface binding properties of Ectocarpus and Macrocystis allow it to function as a quasi-biological metal ion "buffer" facilitating iron uptake under the widely varying external iron concentrations found in coastal marine environments. Short-term radiolabeled iron uptake studies verified that iron is taken up in a time- and concentration-dependent manner consistent with an active transport process. Using a combination of Mossbauer and XAS spectroscopies, a mineral core has been identified as the likely storage form. Genomic and microscopic analyses indicate that this iron store is more likely vacuolar-based than of protein origin. In chapter II, I describe boron uptake, speciation, localization and possible biological function in Macrocystis and Ectocarpus. In contrast to the generally boron-poor terrestrial environment, the concentration of boron in the marine environment is relatively high (0.4 mM) and while there has been extensive interest in its use as a surrogate of pH in paleoclimate studies in the context of climate change-related questions, the relatively depth independent, and the generally non- nutrient-like concentration profile of this element have led to boron being neglected as a potentially biologically relevant element in the ocean. Results herein indicate that boron is taken up by a facilitated diffusion mechanism against a considerable concentration gradient. Furthermore, in both Ectocarpus and Macrocystis some boron is most likely bound to the cell wall constituent alginate and the photoassimilate mannitol located in sieve cells. These results indicate possible biological roles for boron as an osmoprotectant and/or metabolite transporter
Perancangan Kontrol Alat Musik Angklung Menggunakan Arduino, ESP8266, dan Android

Jurnal ini menjelaskan tentang pembuatan alat kontrol alat musik angklung menggunakan Arduino dan Android. Alat ini membantu meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat tentang alat musik tradisional, khususnya Angklung. Bahasa pemrograman yang digunakan adalah bahasa pemrograman C untuk alat Arduino dan Java untuk aplikasi Android. Alat kontrol ini memanfaatkan teknologi nirkabel yaitu wifi. Alat yang telah dibuat ini berhasil diimplementasikan dengan hasil yaitu sebuah rangkaian elektronik yang terhubung dengan satu set alat musik angklung dan sebuah aplikasi pengontrolnya. Untuk menggunakan alat ini, pengguna cukup menekan beberapa tombol not yang diinginkan dalam antarmuka aplikasi Android yang telah terhubung dengan angklung, lalu angklung akan berbunyi sesuai dengan not yang diinginkan pengguna.
Biocontrol by yeasts of blue mould of citrus fruits and the mode of action of an isolate of Pichia guilliermondii

SummaryNineteen yeast isolates, from different fruits, were tested for antagonistic activity against blue mould (Penicillium italicum) on artificially wounded citrus fruits. Strains 1 A, 5A, and 29A of Pichia guilliermondii, strains 21D, 22D and 30F of Candida famata and strain 13 L of C. sake reduced infection from 86 to 98% compared with the control. Isolate 5 A of P. guilliermondii was the most effective antagonist and its mode of action was investigated further. Its activity against the pathogen declined when the number of yeast cells inoculated in the wound was reduced although it showed good ability to colonize the wound site and grow rapidly, cell numbers increasing by up to 60-fold within 24 h. Scanning electron microscopy of the wound also showed attachment of the yeast cells to the pathogen hyphae. The high antagonistic activity of isolate 5A appeared to be related to its capability to occupy space and use nutrients available in the wound, thus depriving the pathogen of them. It also induced in .
Evaluation of Serum Uric Acid, Serum Magnesium and Lipid Profiles in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients for the Risk Factor of Cardiovascular Disease

Background and Objective: Dyslipidemia is one of the common disorders which are seen in most of the diabetes patients, which causes cardio vascular diseases. However, serum uric acid and lipid profiles are considered as the potential risk factor for developing diabetes, hypertension, stroke and cardiovascular diseases. Also the direct association of trace elements such as serum magnesium and hs-CRP in type 2 diabetes has been observed. The aim of the present study is to evaluate serum uric acid, serum magnesium and lipid profiles in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients for the risk factor of cardiovascular disease and its comparison with non diabetic subjects. Materials and Methods: This case-control study was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry, PIMS, Udaipur. The study included 100 patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (both males and females) who were recruited from the institute’s medicine OPD and wards and 100 healthy controls (both males and females) with normal plasma glucose and with no symptoms suggestive of DM were included in the study. All the Biochemical parameters analysis was done on fully automated analyzer-ERBA 360 EM. Original Research Article Sogani et al.; IJBCRR, 29(7): 10-17, 2020; Article no.IJBCRR. 50832 11 Results: The mean values of serum lipid profiles (serum cholesterol, serum triglycerides, VLDL, LDL) were compared between healthy controls and patients with type 2 DM, showed highly significant difference in patients with type 2 DM as compared with healthy controls (p<0.001). However, on comparing HDL between healthy controls and patients with type 2 DM, the difference seems to be significant (p<0.05). The mean values of RBS, HbA1c, uric acid and hs-CRP were highly significant in patients with type 2 DM as compared with healthy controls (p<0.001). The mean values of serum magnesium showed significant difference between healthy controls and patients with type 2 DM p<0.05). Interpretation and Conclusion: The common lipid abnormalities seen during diabetes induce dyslipidemia causing the development of CVD’s among diabetic patients. Also elevated levels of hsCRP, hyperuricemia, hypomagnesium suggest that it could be a better prognosis for CVD’s and stroke in diabetic patients.
Observations on Living Hemocytes in Wing Veins of the Cockroach Blaberus Giganteus (L.) (Orthoptera: Blattidae)

The hemocytes were observed daily in the wing veins during the insect's adult life. Blood circulation in the wing was vigorous and constant in young adults, but declined and was variable with increasing age. All of the veins gradually became occluded to some degree by hemocytes, but the main ones supported blood flow until the insect's death. With declining circulation in old adults, gas-hemocyte agglomerations developed around many tracheae, the hemocytes engulfing and surrounding gas bubbles that escaped from the tracheae. The hemocytes were divisible into two main classes, prohemocytes and plasmatocytes, which are described. The main class, plasmatocytes, were flexible and distinctive when young but became lax and variable in form and structure with increasing age, and according to the cell's history. This resulted in an apparently diverse cell complex.
Genomic Polymorphism Analysis using Microsatellite MarkersGenomic Polymorphism Analysis using Microsatellite Markers in Gyeongju Donggyeong Dogs

This study was conducted to find a useful marker for gene polymorphism analysis using Microsatellite marker (MS marker) in Gyeongju Donggyeong dog. Twenty three MS marker analyzed the genetic features of DNA using 100 Gyeongju Donggyeong dogs in Gyeongju area. It was performed multiplex PCR with 3 set primer divided 9, 10 and 4 by analysis of conditions among MS markers. The results were calculated heterozygosity, polymorphic information content (PIC), allele frequency and number of allele at each locus using Microsatellite Toolkit software and Cervus 3.0 program. Total 148 alleles were genotyped to determine and average 6.43 alleles was detected. FH3381 had the highest of 15 alleles and FH2834 had the lowest of 2 alleles. Expected heterozygosity had a wide range from 0.282 to 0.876 and had average value of 0.6496. Also, Observed heterozygosity had a more wide range from 0.200 to 0.950 and had average value of 0.6404. PIC had range from 0.262 to 0.859 and average PIC was calculated 0.606. Especially, FH2998 represented the highest rate of observed heterozygosity of 0.950 and FH3381 represented the highest rate of expected heterozygosity of 0.876 and PIC of 0.859. The use of these markers was considered to be useful to study genetic traits of Gyeongju Donggyeong dog. (