Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Socio-economic status in early childhood and severe mental illness: an empirical investigation of Danish men born in 1981

Severe mental illnesses are often burdensome, as they have an early onset. This paper examines the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) in early childhood and the probability of developing schizophrenia, affective disorders and personality disorders. We use longitudinal register data on all Danish men born in 1981 and control for family factors one year before their birth. The results show that men born in low-income families are more likely to be hospitalized with affective disorders. Men born into families where the father was not employed at the child's birth are more likely to be hospitalized with schizophrenia or personality disorder than men born into families where the father was a wage earner. The relative differences in the predicted probabilities of developing mental illnesses are large when we compare children who grew up in families with average characteristics to children who grew up in families with low SES.
RISK INVOKED SELF-SCHEDULING OF A GENCO IN THE DAY-AHEAD ENERGY MARKET

This paper proposes a novel Cauchy mutated Memetic Particle Swarm Optimization (CMPSO) algorithm to solve the risk invoked self-scheduling problem of price taking Generator Company (Genco) in a day-ahead energy market. In self-scheduling problem, certain risk is invoked due to uncertainty in forecasted electricity prices and fuel prices. The risk in the self-scheduling problem is modeled based on the portfolio selection. The risks in the forecasted energy prices are taken into account by using the covariance information of the available data. The Risk Invoked Self-Scheduling (RISS) is formulated as a mixed integer non-linear optimization problem and solved by using the proposed CMPSO. The effectiveness of the proposed CMPSO algorithm is demonstrated with two test systems.
Effect of Polyethylene Glycol Chain Length on PEGylation of Dendrimers

Aim: To check the effect of polyethylene glycol (PEG) chain length on PEGylation of dendrimers. Materials and Methods: In the present work, we have synthesized different PEGylated polyamidoamine dendrimers using six different PEG chains, i.e., PEG - 200, 300, 400, 600, 2000, and 6000. The PEGylated dendrimers were evaluated for color reaction ultraviolet, infrared, and nuclear magnetic resonance studies and compared with standard data. Results and Discussion: The plain dendrimers give violet color due to free NH2 groups. The intensity of violet color of 4.0 G dendrimers decreases on PEGylation, due to attachment of PEG chain on free NH2 groups which is responsible for violet color. The change in λmax values from 283 to 353 nm was observed, which shows the change in structure of dendrimers. On comparing, it was found that PEG 400 and 600 shows value near their expected values, i.e., 19,150 and 19,780, respectively. Conclusion: From the results of the present study, it can be concluded that PEGylation using PEG 400 and 600 gives a considerable level of attachment of PEG to dendrimers as compared to other PEG chains.
Glutaraldehyde‐crosslinked chitosan beads for controlled release of diclofenac sodium

An inexpensive and simple method was adopted for the preparation of chitosan beads, crosslinked with glutaraldehyde (GA), for the controlled release of diclofenac sodium (DS). The beads were prepared by varying the experimental conditions such as pH, temperature, and extent of crosslinking. The absence of any chemical interaction among drug, polymer, and the crosslinking agent was confirmed by FTIR and thermal analysis. The beads were characterized by microscopy, which indicated that the particles were in the size range of 500–700 μm and SEM studies revealed smooth surface and spherical shape of beads. The beads produced at higher temperature and extended exposure to GA exhibited lower drug content, whereas increased drug loading resulted in enhanced drug release. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 103: 211–217, 2007
Antihyperglycemic and antihyperlipidemic activities of ethanol extract of Ajuga remota Benth (Harmegusa) leaves in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats

The leaves of Ajuga remota benth have been utilized traditionally for the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus. However, its use has not been scientifically validated. The present study was therefore, aimed to assess the antihyperglycemic and antihyperlipidemic activities of ethanol extract of A. remota leaves in streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic rats. Antihyperglycemic and antihyperlipidemic activities of ethanol extract of A. remota leaves (AREt) were studied in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. The effect of extract on fasting blood glucose, body weight, lipid profile, serum, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, urea, creatinine and total protein were analyzed. Glibenclamide was used as standard drug. Ethanol extract of A. remota leaves has showed significant blood glucose lowering effect as compared to the diabetic control group. After diabetic rats were treated with 200 and 400 mg/kg ethanol extract of A. remota leaves for 28 days, there were a significant decrease in fasting blood glucose, total cholesterol, triacylglycerol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol, serum alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and alkaline phosphatase, and significant increase in body weight, serum total protein, high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels as compared to untreated control diabetic rats. The results of the present study showed that ethanol extract of A. remota leaves might be useful for management of diabetes mellitus and other associated abnormalities. The present study might support the traditional use of A. remota for diabetes mellitus treatment. Key words: Ajuga remota benth, diabetes mellitus, streptozotocin.
Mental Rehearsal Increases Liking for Repeatedly Exposed Stimuli

Mental Rehearsal Increases Liking for Repeatedly Exposed Stimuli Teri A. Kirby Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Anthony G. Greenwald, Ph.D. Psychology In 1968, Robert Zajonc proposed that mere repeated exposure—“a condition making the stimulus accessible to the individual's perception . is a sufficient condition for the enhancement of . attitude toward it” (p. 1). Influential reviews have concluded that minimal cognitive processing of repeated stimulus exposures, even so little as that involved in brief, visually masked (“subliminal”) presentations, produces the most reliable attitude boosts. Wide acceptance of that view may explain why relatively few studies have examined effects of variations in cognitive activity during repeated exposure. The present six experiments assessed effects of repeated exposures that were accompanied by mental rehearsal. The experiments uniformly revealed greater gains in liking for repeated stimuli (including letters, pronounceable non-words, and abstract images) when mental rehearsal was involved than when rehearsal was not involved. These results are not accommodated by the most widely accepted theory (perceptual fluency plus misattribution) of repeated exposure effects.
Mobile-based Crowdsourcing Platform for Post-2015 Governance: Possibilities for Developing Countries

The Millennium Development Framework has been criticized, as the progress towards achieving goals has been unequal. It has also been acknowledged that proper utilization of science, technology and information; access to technology and knowledge and good governance are the means of achieving the goals equally. In recent times, ‘crowdsourcing’ has been identified as one of the digital innovative ways to communicate with mass. Several initiatives have been executed through electronic participation model to provide services, collect reports during crisis and gather public opinion. This paper aims to discuss about the use of a potential mobile-based crowdsourcing framework and also suggests an ideal ‘mobile-based crowdsourcing model’ for developing world to reduce ‘digital divide’ and to provide smart governance to achieve the target of post-2015 UN Development agenda.
Assessment of Culturable Microbial Diversity Associated with Arnebia euchroma: A Critically Endangered Plant Growing in Trans-Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India

India, particularly the Trans-Himalayan region, is a varietal emporium of medicinal plants species and has been a major part of India‟s rich medicinal plant heritage (Alluri et al., 2005; Bhadrecha et al., 2017). This vast wealth is widely distributed in different parts of the country having specific phyto geographical entities. Medicinal plants are considered as the backbone of the traditional medicines being used worldwide. Owing to variations in altitude and topography, Himachal Pradesh, located in the lap of the Himalayas, has varied climatic conditions, which make this state ideal for the thriving of a wide diversity of medicinal plant species (Sharma and Mishra, 2009; Singh and Thakur, 2014). Consequently, the state is a bucket of large variety of medicinal herbs.
The estimation of pulmonary functions in various body postures in normal subjects

Background: The frequently measured index of pulmonary function is vital capacity which gives useful information about the strength of respiratory muscles and other aspects of lung function. The purpose of the study was to investigate changes that occur in vital capacity in different postural attitudes like standing, supine, right lateral, left lateral positions compared with the reference position such as upright sitting in normal subjects. Methods: Young non-smoker healthy male medical students (n=20, age 19-22 years) of PSG Medical College participated as volunteers in this study. Pulmonary function tests like forced vital capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in one second (FEV 1 ), FEV 1 to FVC% i.e. (FEV 1 %) was recorded in various postures using computerized spirometer in BIOPAC systems, Inc., MANBSL3S, student version, following the standard procedure. Results: A repeated measure ANOVA-multiple comparison study revealed FVC, FEV 1 and FEV 1 % values in standing posture was significantly higher than supine, sitting, right and left lateral positions. Conclusions: Naturally, in standing posture factors contributing to increased vital capacity are increased, vertical diameter of thorax which increases thoracic capacity volume and lung compliance increasing lung volume.
Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Multiple Feature Transfer Learning Network

The intelligent fault diagnosis methods have gained great success, they usually depend on large amounts of labeled data. Unfortunately, it is a realistic problem to collected massive labeled data in actual industrial scene. In addition, even labeled data is easy to collect, the methods trained by these labeled data may not be able to classify unlabeled data obtained under different working states. Inspired by transfer learning, in the paper we propose a deep learning-based fault diagnosis method named multiple feature transfer learning network (MFTLN) to resolve the data distribution difference due to changed working conditions. MFTLN employee multiple extractors to get domain-invariant features and align source domain and target domain by maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) metric. We performed six bearing fault diagnosis transfer learning experiments to verify the superiority of the proposed method, the experimental results indicated that the recognition accuracy of the proposed method is obviously higher than those of the other 5 popular domain adaptive fault diagnosis methods when the target domain data is unlabeled.
Conservation status of wild mammals in Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary, the Western Ghats, India

For proper management of a wildlife reserve, it is essential to get estimates of occurrence, abundance, density and biomass of herbivores that in turn determine the density of carnivores. The Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (BRT WLS) is a critical conservation region as it is a living bridge between the Eastern and the Western Ghats of southern India. We made repeated walks of 795.5 km on 33 random line transects covering a total distance of 93 km in the sanctuary. During these walks, we recorded the sightings of herbivores using rangefinder, compass and GPS. We also surveyed the sanctuary driving a jeep during nights to detect typically nocturnal mammals. We analysed the data using DISTANCE software. We recorded 31 species of herbivores and the density of these species differed among habitats that included evergreen, moist deciduous, dry deciduous and scrub forests. Several nocturnal species, including elusive small cats were sighted. We found that leaving out elephants, the herbivore biomass in BRT WLS was 4,127.82 kg/km(2). This places BRT among some of the herbivore-rich wildlife reserves in the country. We recommend that BRT be notified as a Tiger Reserve.
RESONANCE SPLITTING IN TWO COUPLED CIRCULAR CLOSED-LOOP ARRAYS AND INVESTIGATION OF ANALOGY TO TRAVELING-WAVE OPTICAL RESONATORS

A well known property of large circular closed-loop arrays is that when the dimensions and the distance of the cylindrical dipoles are properly chosen,the arrays possess very narrow resonances. As far as single isolated loop arrays are concerned,the phenomenon has been predicted and analyzed in the past in the framework of "two-term" theory. In the present paper the same methodology is,for the first time,applied to investigate the system of two coupled identical circular arrays. It is found that the spectral profile of this new array is characterized by the coupling-induced splitting of the resonances of the single loop array into symmetric and antisymmetric supermodes,in direct analogy with other types of coupled electromagnetic cavities. Due to the circular symmetry of the individual arrays,the phenomenon is strongly correlated to the optical counterpart of two coupled traveling-wave optical resonators, such as whispering gallery or microring resonators. By borrowing the resonance splitting model from optical resonators,this analogy connection is investigated and interesting conclusions are reached.
In vitro regeneration through direct shoot organogenesis in Honey Orange (Citrus tangerina)

Rapid propagation of Honey orange (Citrus tangerina) was achieved by induction of shoots from epicotyl and cotyledonary node explants and rooting of cotyledonary node derived shoots. Significant explant differences were observed in the induction of direct shoots. Cotyledonary node explant is the most efficient in regeneration frequency followed by epicotyl explant. Cotyledonary node explants cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 8.88 μM N6-benzyladenine (BA) and 0.54 μM α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) developed more than five shoots per explant. The isolated shoots transferred onto the MS medium supplemented with 5.4 μM NAA rooted 100% within 30 days.
Characterization of LeCOP1 gene in Lycopersicon esculentum treated with various abiotic and oxidative stresses

A full-length cDNA of LeCOP1 was isolated from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Phylogenetic analysis based on the deduced amino acid sequence of LeCOP1 cDNA revealed high sequence similarity to COP1 protein in Ipomoea nil (84% identity) and in Arabidopsis (77%). LeCOP1 shared high sequence identity with a hypothetical protein in Vitis vinifera and E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase COP1 in Pisum sativum (76%). LeCOP1 gene exists single copy in the tomato genome. Expression of LeCOP1 gene under abiotic and oxidative stresses was investigated, including exposure to 200 mM NaCl, 200 mM mannitol, cold (4°C), 100 iM abscisic acid (ABA), 10 mM hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) and 50 iM methyl vilogen (MV). LeCOP1 was significantly respectively induced at 1, 6, and 24 h after mannitol, NaCl and cold treatment. It was also induced after H2O2 treatment at 24 h. However, LeCOP1 was not induced by MV treatment. These observations suggest that LeCOP1 gene may be involved in abiotic and oxidative stresses. Key words : LeCOP1, Lycopersicon esculentum, abiotic stress, oxidative stress.
Efficacy of information and communication technology in digitalized students’ records management in universities in Eastern Uganda

This quantitative study examined the efficacy of adopting information and communication technology (ICT) in digitalized students’ records management among university staffs in Eastern Uganda. The study used cross-sectional and descriptive survey designs. The target population was 402 staff members involved in students’ records management, of which 129 participants were obtained using stratified, proportionate, and simple random sampling techniques. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire that measured the levels of ICT adoption and effectiveness of digitalized students’ records management. Findings revealed that the level of ICT adoption and digitalised students’ records management in the universities was generally moderately high. It was further revealed that an increase in the level of ICT adoption was associated with higher effectiveness of digitalized students’ records management and vice versa. It was recommended that managements of the universities need to procure enough ICT equipment such as computers for the staff to promote effective digitalized students’ records management. Training needs assessment and continuous professional training in the field of ICT was required all the time for the staff to keep abreast technological changes in students’ records management.
Isolation, characterization and genetic variability studies of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus is an important nosocomial pathogen causing variety of diseases in human beings. Its spread and resistance towards the antibiotics is a major concern to mankind. In the present study sputum samples collected from suspected persons in the Nagercoil Township were subjected to various biochemical tests. These tests confirmed the identity of the pathogen as S. aureus. Variation was observed in their resistance towards various commercial antibiotics and polymorphism was observed at the molecular level among the four isolates. The S. aureus isolate SA2 was totally different in its sensitivity pattern and was polymorphic from the other isolates whereas SA3 was distantly related to the other bacterial isolates. © 2011 Universal Research Publications. All rights reserved
The Effects of Different Undergraduate Mathematics Courses on the Content Knowledge and Attitude towards Mathematics of Preservice Elementary Teachers.

Preservice elementary teachers have been shown to generally possess poor mathematical knowledge (e.g. Goulding, Rowland, & Barber, 2002) and also strong negative attitudes toward mathematics (e.g. MacNab & Payne, 2004). Recently, national organizations have proposed interventions to address these issues (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, 2001). This paper analyzes the impact of a content course intervention. When compared to a control group, the experimental group had a significantly more positive attitude toward mathematics. When previous achievement was partially controlled for, the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on a measure of content knowledge.
A core‐top study of dissolution effect on B/Ca in Globigerinoides sacculifer from the tropical Atlantic: Potential bias for paleo‐reconstruction of seawater carbonate chemistry

It has been recently shown that B/Ca in planktonic foraminiferal calcite can be used as a proxy for seawater pH. Based on the study of surface sediments (multi‐cores) retrieved along a depth transect on the Sierra Leone Rise (Eastern Equatorial Atlantic), we document the decrease of B/Ca and Mg/Ca of Globigerinoides sacculifer shells with increasing water depth and dissolution. This effect of dissolution on B/Ca may potentially represent a severe bias for paleo‐pH reconstructions using this species. Samples of G. sacculifer were analyzed independently at two laboratories for B/Ca and Mg/Ca. Both sets of results show a systematic decrease of B/Ca and Mg/Ca along the depth transect, with an overall loss of ~14 µmol/mol (~15%) for B/Ca and of ~0.7 mmol/mol (~21%) for Mg/Ca between the shallowest (2640 m) and the deepest (4950 m) sites. Because of this dissolution effect, surface water pH reconstructed from B/Ca of G. sacculifer decreases by ~0.11 units between the shallowest site and the deepest site, a magnitude similar to the expected glacial/interglacial surface water pH changes.
Enhancing Data Security during Transit in Public Cloud

Cloud computing has developed as a widespread model in computing world in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. A cloud computing scenario usually tailors the server as needed. Cloud computing pattern also brings out several new challenges in data security and access control when consumers outsource delicate data for sharing on cloud servers. Data security and admission control is one of the most challenging ongoing study in cloud computing. Therefore, it is essential that organizations regularly addresses risks such as location of data, industry compliance decrees and third party duties surrounding the usage and processing of sensitive data. However, security and privacy are still termed by many organizations as the highest inhibitors of cloud services adoption, which leads to introduce cloud encryption systems through anonymization.
Goldfish Pyramidal and Stellate Neurons Respond Differently to Anoxia

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.iii TABLE OF CONTENTS.v LIST OF FIGURES.vii ABBREVIATIONS.viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.1 1.1. The Story of Oxygen.1 1.2. Oxygen in Metabolism.2 1.3. Metabolic Demands of the Brain . 3 1.4. Neuronal Survival During Anoxia.5 1.5. Anoxia Tolerance in Nature . 8 1.5. 1. Chrysemys picta belli.9 1.5. 2. Spermophilus parryii parryii.9 1.5. 3. Carassius carassius and Carassius auratus . 10 1.6. Anoxic Brain in Anoxia Tolerant Organisms . 12 1.7. Oxygen Sensation by Neurons and Anoxic Defense Response . 14 1.8. γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA). 16 1.9. GABA Receptors.17 1.10. Inhibitory and Excitatory Actions of GABA.20 1.11. GABA During Anoxia.22 1.12, Rationale for study.23 CHAPTER 2: MATERIALS AND METHODS.26
great expeCtatIons: the BIasIng eFFeCts oF reported ChIld BehaVIor proBlems on eduCatIonal expeCtanCIes and suBsequent aCademIC aChIeVement

Parental and child expectations of educational achievement have each been linked to a range of beneficial child outcomes. less is known about the formation of educational expectations, the potential biasing impact of child behavior problems on these expectations, and the prospective influence of expectations on child performance. to test these links, we analyzed longitudinal data (baseline, 5 year follow-up) for 884 children (53% female; M age =9.75 years) and their primary caregivers. Parent-reported child behavioral problems predicted parents’ educational expectations for their children over and above the children’s achievement scores. Parental expectations influenced children’s own expectations, an effect partially mediated by parental involvement in educational activities. Parental educational expectations also influenced children’s academic performance five years later, even controlling for the children’s baseline academic achievement. this influence was partially mediated by children’s expectations; both parent and child expectations had substantial independent effects on academic achievement. these data suggest that parents appear to view child behavior problems as indicative of persistent underlying characteristics, and adjust educational expectations downwards. lower expectations prospectively reduced child academic performance above and beyond indicators of child competence (such as past performance). these data indicate the importance of parent appraisals of child behavior and suggest avenues for intervention.