Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antioxidants And Oxidant Statuses Of Growing Pigs Fed Graded Levels Of Crude Oil-Contaminated Diets

This study investigated the impacts of ingested graded levels of crude oil-contaminated diets on the antioxidant and oxidant statuses in the growing pig. 24 growing pigs weighing on average 8 ± 1.1 (mean ± SD) kg of body weight (BW) were used in the investigation. Pigs were randomly assigned to six dietary treatment groups of 4 pigs per treatment: 0g, 2g, 4g, 6g, 8g and 10g of crude oil/kg of diet, respectively. The experiment lasted for four weeks. Blood samples were collected from all treatment groups into EDTA treated tubes and immediately snap frozen for later anti-oxidant and oxidant analyses. Antioxidants: glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-P-x) and the oxidant malondialdehyde (MDA), respectively were analyzed for. There were no significant (P > 0.05) differences in all the antioxidants measured. Similarly, there were no significant (P > 0.05) differences in MDA contents for all dietary treatment groups. It was therefore concluded that crude oil contaminations up to 10g/kg of diet does not induce oxidative stress in growing pigs.
Critical Perspectives on Accounting

The ‘Triple Bottom Line’ (TBL) is a major and increasingly used socio-environmental accounting framework. However, critical academic examinations of this model have been remained scarce and most importantly, no real alternatives have been developed. Thus this theoretical paper provides a contribution to fill this gap. Through a critical analysis of the TBL, we argue that it suffers from severe limitations. In particular, it does not protect human and natural capital (HNC). As an answer to these problems, we propose and discuss another accounting framework, the ‘Triple Depreciation Line’ (TDL), which extends to HNC the powerful capitalist accounting tool for preserving financial capital – the historical cost accounting (HCA) and its planned depreciation. To this end, we analyse and (re-)define the concept of capital in an ecological accounting context. We clearly specify the assumptions on which the TDL relies, to facilitate comparisons or dialogues with other accounting models and to avoid misunderstanding as in the case of the TBL. These axioms concern what we call the ‘social’ (axioms SA1–2) and ‘corporate’ (axioms AA1–4) capital maintenance. While the two first appeal to the most precise ontological investigation possible of HNC, the others imply mainly the recourse to the HCA and its depreciation. 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Spinacia oleracea L. extract attenuates hippocampal expression of TNF-α and IL-1β in rats exposed to chronic restraint stress

Background: Restraint stress causes inflammation in nervous system that leads to emersion of neurodegenerative diseases. Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) contains different agents with antioxidant, antiapoptosis, and hepatoprotective properties. This study examined the effect of spinach hydroalcoholic extract (SHE) on TNF-α and IL-1β expression in hippocampus of male Wistar rats exposed to chronic restraint stress. Methods: Rats were divided into 6 groups of 5: (1) control (intact); (2) nS-S200; (3) nS-S400; (4) stress; (5) stress-S200; (6) stressS400. Groups 2 and 3 and groups 5 and 6 received S. oleracea leaf hydroalcoholic extract in 200 and 400 mg/kg doses for 21 consecutive days by gavage. Groups 4, 5 and 6 were put in a restrainer 6 hours per day for 21 consecutive days. Then, the expression of IL-1β and TNF-α mRNAs and neuronal death in the hippocampus of rats were assessed by real time PCR and Nissl staining, respectively. Oneway analysis of variance was used for data analysis, and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The results showed that the expression of IL-1β and TNF-α was increased in hippocampus of rats exposed to stress compared to control groups (p<0.001). Furthermore, the expression of these proinflammatory cytokines was decreased in the stress-S200 and stress-S400 groups when compared to stress group (p<0.001). Immobility also caused neuronal death in CA1 region of hippocampus, and SHE reduced damage in CA1 pyramidal neurons layer in stressed rats. Conclusion: Spinach decreases neuroinflammation in hippocampus of stressed rats, which may be due to its abundant antiinflammatory and antioxidant phytochemicals. The results of this study suggest that spinach may be effective in the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
PESARO 2014 Proceedings

In ISO-26262, the Automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) represents the degree of rigour that should be applied in the development, implementation and verification of a requirement in order to reduce and control the risk in the final product. The ASILs are allocated to the safety requirements which are inherited by the subsystems and components in a hierarchical approach. During the allocation process, the safety requirements could be decomposed over redundant elements. It is referred to as ASIL decomposition and is an important feature, as it helps to reduce the complexity and the development cost of the design. The decomposition could lead, however, to different allocations. In this paper, we propose an approach to find all the possible allocations in order to assist the analyst in reaching the optimal allocation.
James WEBB Space Telescope Deployment Tower Assembly Deploying Anomaly and Lessons Learned

During ground testing the Deployment Tower Assembly (DTA) on the James Webb Space Telescope occasionally failed to maintain the specified preload at the end of either stowed or deployed positions after the motor current was turned off. The design of this preload device relies on a magnetic detent brake attached to the motor rotor of a planetary gear motor. To study this characteristic a stepper motor model with dynamic loading conditions is developed using VISSIM program and the key parameters (i.e., Coulomb torque, magnetic detent torque, viscous torque, etc.) are derived by comparing the measured and the simulated data. The analytical tool illustrates that rotor backspin is caused by normal stepper motor response to an instantaneous transition from an energized holding state to a magnetic detent. Irregularities in both the magnetic detents and the various frictional elements within the system will cause variable holding capabilities that explain why backspin does not always occur. The key lesson learned is that magnetic detent holding capability is very sensitive to rotor dynamics and should not be based on torque capability from a test where loading is applied slowly (quasi-static torque). DTA GENERAL DESCRIPTION The James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Tower Assembly is deployed to separate the telescope and the platform so five sunshield layers can be deployed to reduce the solar energy radiating into the telescope. The need to thermally isolate the optical telescope and integrated science instrument elements from the spacecraft during operation is critical to the mission. It is the function of the Deployable Tower Assembly to produce that separation as well as to act as the permanent structural and utilities connection between the displaced elements. The overview of the Telescope and the DTA mechanism are shown in Figures 1 and 2. The detailed DTA drive is shown in Figure 3. Figure 1. James Webb Space Telescope Overview _____________________________________ Proc. ‘16th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium 2015’, Bilbao, Spain, 23–25 September 2015 (ESA SP-737, September 2015) Figure 2. DTA Overview The DTA consists of inner and outer tubes that translate relative to each other on rollers. The tubes are driven with a 6 ft ball screw that is mounted into a flexure at one end. The ball screw nut is coupled to a gear motor via a 1:1 spur gear. The gear motor consists of a 3phase, 4-pole, permanent-magnet stepper motor with an add-on magnetic detent brake, a resolver for position, and a 576:1 planetary gearbox (4-stage). The motor drives the ball screw nut which translates along the ball screw to pull the flexure to achieve stowed preload and to push it to achieve deployed preload as shown Figure 4.
Improve Quality and Efﬁciency of Textile Process using Data-driven Machine Learning in Industry 4.0

: The capabilities of self-awareness, self-prediction, and self-maintenance are important for textile factory in Industry 4.0. One of the most important issues is to intellectualize the way of setting operation parameters as the cyber-physical system (CPS), instead of using traditional trial and error method. To achieve these goals, this paper focuses on the relationship between key operation parameter and defect for machine learning to design an operation parameters recommender system (OPRS) in the textile industry. From the perspective of data science, this paper integrates historic manufacturing process data, such as machine operation parameters from warping, sizing, beaming and weaving process, and management experience data, such as textile inspection results from quality control section. Then, the regression models are applied to predict the textile operation parameters. This research also uses the clas-siﬁcation models to predict the quality of textile. Based on the ten-fold cross-validation testing, experimental results show that our model can achieve 90.8% accuracy on quality level prediction and the best regression model for predicting weaving operation parameters can reduce the mean square error (MSE) to 0.01%. By combining the above two models, proposed OPRS can provide a completed analysis data of operation parameters. It provides good performance when comparing with previous stochastic methods. As the proposed OPRS can support technician setting operation parameters more precisely even for a new type of yarn, it can help to ﬁx the tech skills gap in the textile manufacturing process.
Recommendation System for Assisting the Management of Information Technology

—Management of the problems occurred in environments that make use of the Information Technology (IT), together with the need for the quick response from the support teams area, a challenge for today. With this, organizations require systems to manage these incidents, as a Service Desk to centralize these records. The objective of this work is to integrate a system of Mobile Service Desk to a recommendation system that stores past interactions and automatically suggests as a possible solution for new similar incidents in the managed environment. As a contribution of this work, an algorithm was compared for similarity analysis and it has been integrated to the tool that showed the best results.
Determination of adipocyte cell size by H & E stained adipose tissue and collagenase digested isolated adipocytes

The aim is to compare the two methods H & E stained adipocytes and collagenase digested isolated adipocytes, and determine if collagenase digested isolated adipocytes analysis is an accurate method for cell size estimation. The adipose tissue samples (superficial subcutaneous adipose tissue; sSAT, deep subcutaneous adipose tissue; dSAT and visceral adipose tissue; VAT) were collected from three pregnant women undergoing caesarian section. The adipocyte size was determined in collagenase digested isolated adipocytes and H & E Staines adipocytes by ImageJ software and the two methods were compared. There were no significant difference in the two methods and was strongly correlated (r=0.99, P<0.01). The bias was observed between the collagenase digested isolated adipocytes and H & E stained adipose tissue since 97.48% of the total adipocytes was within the limit of agreement. In conclusion the collagenase digested isolated adipocytes can be used as an accurate and less cumbersome method for the cell size determination.
The Influence of Meteorological Conditions on the Icing Performance Penalties on a UAV Airfoil

This paper presents a large parameter study on meteorological conditions to investigate the aerodynamic performance degradation of UAVs for a wide range of icing conditions. The knowledge about weather influences is essential for the development of efficient icing protection. The numerical CFD simulations for ice accretion and performance evaluation were performed on the 2D airfoil RG-15, using FENSAPICE. The method is validated with literature and experimental data. The results show a significant deterioration of lift and drag for all selected icing conditions and a distinct dependency of temperature, liquid water content and ice mass on the aerodynamic performance.
Investigation of extended superconducting dome in protect-annealed Pr1.3-xLa0.7CexCuO4

Chun LIN, Masafumi HORIO, Keisuke KOSHIISHI, Suguru NAKATA, Kenta HAGIWARA, Yuxuan WAN, Masahiro SUZUKI, Kanta ONO, Koji HORIBA, Hiroshi KUMIGASHIRA, Shin-ichiro IDETA, Kiyohisa TANAKA, Taro OHGI, Takayuki KAWAMATA, Hidetaka SATO, Yoji KOIKE, Tadashi ADACHI, and Atsushi FUJIMORI Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan 2 Photon Factory, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, 102-8554, Japan
Earnings Inequality in Production Networks

This paper investigates the importance of firm-to-firm production network linkages for earnings inequality. We develop a quantitative model in which heterogeneous firms hire workers of different abilities in an imperfectly competitive labor market and source intermediates from heterogeneous suppliers in a production network. The model delivers an earnings equation with a firm-specific wage premium that depends endogenously on both firm productivities and firm-to-firm linkages in the production network. We establish identification of the model parameters and estimate them using linked employer-employee and firm-to-firm transactions data from Chile. Counterfactual simulations using our estimated model show that heterogeneity in network linkages explains 21% of log earnings variance, while passthrough of productivity shocks via network linkages explains between 20-25% of earnings volatility. We also examine the effects of a minimum wage policy and find strong spillover effects to worker earnings above the wage floor, with substitution of materials for labor explaining around 40% of these effects. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber. org.
Local treatment for liver oligometastases in breast cancer patients: identification of prognostic factors and exploration of appropriate treatment strategy

Background The role of local treatment for liver oligometastases in breast cancer patients has been controversial. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prognostic factors for overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) after hepatic local treatment and to explore appropriate therapy strategy in breast cancer patients with liver oligometastases. Methods A cohort of 91 patients with oligometastatic liver lesions identified from around 34,000 breast cancer patients between 2002 and 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. We collected and analyzed their clinicopathologic and outcome data. Results With a median follow up of 20.6 months [standard deviations (SD): 35.4], median OS and median PFS were 75.1 months [95% confidence interval (CI): 14.3–135.9 months] and 7.4 months (95% CI: 4.4–10.4 months), respectively. N3 stage, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtype, progressive disease (PD) after preoperative systemic therapy and older age of operation were associated with worse OS and PFS while postoperative systemic therapy alone, preoperative [partial response (PR)/stable disease (SD)] combined with postoperative systemic therapy indicated improved OS and PFS by univariate analysis. On multivariate analysis, N3 stage [hazard ratios (HR) 23.567; 95% CI: 1.751–317.277; P=0.017] and TNBC subtype (HR 10.758; 95% CI: 1.120–103.301; P=0.040) were related to worse OS. Likewise, N3 stage (HR 3.324; 95% CI 1.604–6.890; P=0.001) and TNBC subtype (HR 3.134; 95% CI: 1.015–9.674; P=0.047) remained associated with worse PFS. The postoperative mortality and morbidity were 0% and 1.099%, respectively. Conclusions In well-selected patients, local treatment of breast cancer liver oligometastases is safe and achieves relatively long OS, except patients with advanced N stage or aggressive subtype. Postoperative systemic treatment and effective preoperative systemic therapy combined with postoperative systemic therapy are the recommended treatment strategies.
Influence Of Total Quality Management Practices On The Performance Of The Construction Industry In Mombasa County, Kenya

This study was neccesitated with a view of getting to know the influence of total quality management hones on the development business execution. In this manner the examination specifically dug deeper in by applying the following objectives thereof; determining the extent to which management commitment impacts the execution of firms in the construction industry; establishing the extent to which employee involvement impacts the execution of firms in the construction industry; examining the extent to which continuous improvement impacts the execution of firms in the construction industry and assessing the extent to which customer focus impacts the execution of firms in the construction industry. The study was comprised of five chapters to ensure that all crucial components of the project are captured. Chapter one discussed TQM practices and its importance; the issue articulation; the reason for the investigation; particular targets; look into questions; examine speculation; essentialness of the examination; suppositions of the examination; constraints of the examination; delimitation of the examination and meaning of terms. Chapter two had related studies on the construction industry and total quality management concept. It also discussed various concepts of total quality management concepts and theories that informed the study. The chapter ended with a research gap. Chapter three examined the technique utilized as a part of directing the investigation containing the examination plan, populace, information accumulation methodology and investigation. The objective populace for this study comprised all NCA certified building and construction firms within Mombasa County, Kenya. The population of this group included 377 registered building and construction firms. The study sample size was 75% leading to 285 firms. The study made use of questionnaire during data collection. The questionnaires were individually distributed to respondents in hard copies on a drop and pick later basis mode. Clear insights, for example, mean and standard deviation were utilized to portray the conveyance of estimations by carrying out descriptive investigation, hypothesis test, Pearson relationship examination and numerous relapse investigations were led. All things considered, the information gathered was then prepared by utilizing the SPSS software version 22. In chapter four, the study found that management commitment influences firm performance of in building construction industry positively by 0.053; that employee involvement influences firm performance of in building construction industry positively by 0.167; that continuous improvement influences firm performance of in building construction industry positively by 0.101; that customer focus influences firm performance of in building construction industry positively by 0.125. The study recommended more studies to be carried out in different counties located in Kenya but in the same sector to find out the consistency of the results in chapter five.
International Journal of Social Science and Economic Research

The average wage growth in Kenya has been growing with a low rate of about 5% per year. Kenya achieved foreign direct investments of 1.55% ($990 m) of the GDP in the year 2014, indicating a small increase from 0.68% achieved in 2013. This study sought to determine the impact of FDI on the private sector wage levels in Kenya. The specific objective was to determine the effect of FDI on wage level in private sector. Purposive sampling method was used to select a sample private sector wage levels for 30 years between 1985 and 2014. Error correction model was developed from the data, which was used to make inferences on the relationship between FDI and private sector wage levels in Kenya. The findings of the study revealed that there existed an insignificant negative relationship between FDI and private wage level with a p – value of 0.2435>0.05. The model was found to be not a good predictor since its R of 0.26<0.5. The study recommended suitable policies to improve economic development and achieve vision 2030 and also help local investors and foreign investors in understanding the circumstances surrounding them. The study will benefit the government as it will recommend suitable policies to improve economic development and revenue generation.
The impact of associated large-fiber peripheral neuropathy on health-related quality of life in Parkinson’s disease – results from a Romanian cohort

background. Recent studies described a higher prevalence of peripheral neuropathy (PN) in Parkinson’s disease that was linked to L-Dopa exposure. Peripheral neuropathies are known causes of a decreased health-related quality of life (HrQoL). Until now, no studies addressed the issue of how or if associated PN in PD affects HrQoL. Methods. In a cross-sectional, observational study, 73 non-demented PD patients, from which 36 with confirmed PN based on clinical (using the Toronto Clinical Neuropathy Scale-TCSS) and nerve conduction studies completed the Romanian version of PDQ-39. results. Significant differences between mean scores in Motor (49.86 (27.61) vs. 31.50 (26.24), p = 0.005), Activities of daily living (49.86 (27.61) vs. 31.75 (30.10), p = 0.003) and body discomfort (52.54 (29.54) vs. 23.64 (18.48), p = 0.002) domains of PDQ-39 in the PN-PD group versus non-PN group were observed. TCSS significantly correlated to motor, emotional well-being and body discomfort domains (r = 0.406 p< 0.001; r = 0.316 p = 0.007; r = 0.356 p = 0.002, respectively). The multivariate linear regression model showed that motor impairment and PN correlated to motor domain (beta = 0.601, p = 0.000; beta = 0.211 p = 0.041, respectively) and PN significantly correlated to body discomfort domain (beta = 0.314, p = 0.020) of PDQ-39. conclusions. The presence of associated PN in PD determines a further deterioration of HrQol in subjects with already a poorer HrQol.
Swoozy - An Innovative Design of a Distributed and Gesture-based Semantic Television System

In this article, we describe an innovative approach to an intelligent television system named Swoozy that enables viewers to discover extended information such as facts, images, shopping recommendations or video clips about the currently broadcasted TV program by using the power of technologies of the Semantic Web (Web 3.0). Via a gesture-based user interface viewers will get answers to questions they may ask themselves during a movie or TV report directly on their television. In most cases, these questions are related to the name and vita of the featured actor, the place where a scene was filmed, or purchasable books and items about the topic of the report the viewer is watching. Furthermore, a new interaction concept for TVs is proposed using semantic annotations called “Grabbables” that are displayed on top of the videos and that provide a semantic referencing between the videos’ content and an ontological representation to access Semantic Web Services. Keywords–interactive television system; Semantic Web Technologies; Web 3.0; video annotation; gesture-based interaction.