Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON SOME ASPECTS OF KIKUYU

The preliminary studies presented in this paper were conducted prior to a comprehensive évaluation of child nutrition programmes among the Kikuyu in Kenya. They cover général aspects of Kikuyu food habits such as the foods presently in use, the classification of foods and food préférences for children. The emphasis is on the methods employed in these studies which can also be used elsewhere to obtain information vital to the évaluation and planning of child nutrition programmes. A discussion on foods used by the Kikuyu in the rural areas is accompanied by a list of food names in the vernacular. Certain changes that have occurred over the last decennia are briefly touched upon. A quick method of studying food classification is described. There are no indications that the Kikuyu food classification differs substantially from the nutritional assignation generally used. The remainder of the paper concentrâtes on the measurement of maternai food préférences. It is shown that the method of paired comparisons gives highly consistent and reliable results. Maternai préférences are also remarkably similar for différent parts of Kikuyu country with a high préférence for légumes and some starchy foods while certain cereals are held in conspicuously low regard.
Key Factors Affecting the B2B E-Commerce Evaluation and Outsourcing Practices in Australian and Taiwanese Hospitals

In recent years, hospitals around the world have started to invest more heavily in business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) in an attempt to control their escalating operating costs as well as to maximize their revenue. However, relatively little research has been conducted to examine how hospitals evaluate their B2B e-commerce investments and to what extent their B2B e-commerce benefits are realized. To remain competitive, hospitals must also enhance and maintain their IT/B2B e-commerce systems through both internal and non-internal sourcing activities. Hence, we take a multi-case study approach to investigate the practices and processes of B2B ecommerce evaluation and benefits realization and their relationships with outsourcing and various organizational factors in Australian and Taiwanese hospitals. The findings suggest that a significant proportion of the Australian and Taiwanese hospitals had used a formal or semi-formal IT/B2B investment evaluation methodology or process to evaluate their B2B investments. A key contribution of this study is the identification and examination of key B2B e-commerce investment evaluation and outsourcing practices issues and challenges faced by the Australian and Taiwanese hospitals.
A Computational Study on the Configurational Behaviors of Dihalodiazenes and their Analogues Containing P and As Atoms

In this research, we report the results of DFT calculations using xc-hybrid functional, B3LYP and employ NBO interpretation to investigate the stereoelectronic effects. Electrostatic and steric impacts on the conformational properties of 1,2-difluorodiazene (1), 1,2-dichlorodiazene (2) and 1,2-dibromodiazene (3) are also studied. Factors determining the thermodynamically stable molecular structure of 1,2-dihalodiazenes and their analogues containing P and As atom are discussed, and the energetic effects of intra-molecular hyperconjugations and steric repulsion in each molecular system are theoretically estimated using NBO theory. The Energy components calculated help us to justify the conformational behaviour of our target compounds. One of the interesting features extracted from NBO analysis is that dissociation energies are controlled by the stabilization energies associated with electron delocalizations in these compounds. The main parameter considered in this study is the Gibbs free energy estimated for cis and trans configurations of compounds and for the cis-to-trans conversion through rotation and inversion mechanisms.
Comparative Analysis of FeedforwardBackpropagation and Cascade Correlation Algorithm on BUPA Liver Disorder

— Neural Network(NN) is widely used in medical research because of its cost effectiveness and easy-to-use systems. NN plays an important role in the decision support system. The sole reason to use the efficient NN model is to manage the rapidly increasing medical data effectively and use these data points for accurate prediction of diseases and thereby providing better health care to the patients. In this paper we have made use of two classification algorithmsi.e
Anti-Microbial Properties of Secondary Metabolites of Marine Gordonia tearrae Extract

The objective of this study is to screen four species of marine actinomycetes: Gordonia (SPTG111), Rhodococcus sp (BP33), Gordonia sp (BP5), Brevibacterium antarcterium (SPTG45). These bacteria were grown in seven different media, namely Braine Heart Infusion broth (BHIB), Nutrient broth, Marine broth, Trypticasein Soy Broth, Tryptic Soy Broth, Luria Bertani broth, and Lauryl Sulfate Broth. Brine heart infusion broth (BHIB) was used to growth bacteria for the antibacterial activity test. Crude extract of Gordonia tearrae was tested for antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans using agar diffusion method. The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of G. tearrae crude extract was determined by the microbroth dilution method. Ethyl acetate extract of this isolate showed significant antibacterial activity against Gram negative bacteria E. coli (20 mm), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (9 mm), Salmonella typhi (12 mm) and Gram positive bacteria E. faecalis (7 mm), Bacillus cereus (21 mm), and MRSA (30 mm), and yeast C. albicans (21 mm). The MIC value of antimicrobial activity ranged from 25 to 6.3 µg/ml.
Circuit theory based modeling and analysis of CMUT arrays

CIRCUIT THEORY BASED MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF CMUT ARRAYS Hüseyin Kağan Oğuz Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hayrettin Köymen Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr. Abdullah Atalar December, 2013 Many ultrasonic technology applications require capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) to be used in the form of large arrays to attain better performance in terms of powerful, broadband and beam-formed radiated acoustic signals. To entirely benefit from its important characteristics, it is necessary to use analysis tools that are capable of handling multiple CMUT cells. In this regard, finite element analysis (FEA) tools become unfit for use because in arrays with large number of cells it is computationally very cumbersome and often practically impossible. Although, some simplification had been done by assuming long 1-D CMUT array elements as infinitely long, the results of these FEA simulations are misleading. In these models only a single periodic portion is modeled and rigid boundary conditions are applied at the symmetry planes. All the cells are assumed to be electrically driven in phase with the rest of the cells and the solution obtained for this portion is extended over the entire element. However, these simple models are not exact, because they exclude the important effects of mutual acoustic interactions between the cells. In this work, we developed an accurate nonlinear equivalent circuit model for circular uncollapsed CMUT cells. We investigated the effects of mutual acoustic interactions in uncollapsed CMUT arrays and showed that the performance of the array is highly influenced with this phenomenon. These mutual acoustic interactions rise through the immersion medium caused by the pressure field generated by each cell acting upon the others. To study its effects, we connected each cell in the array to a radiation impedance matrix that contains the mutual radiation impedance between every pair of cells, in addition to their self radiation impedances. Hence, analysis of the performance of a large array became a circuit theory problem and can be scrutinized with circuit simulators. vi
Effects of Ewe Feeding System on Fatty Acid Profile of Cheese

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of both sheep diet structure (pasture vs. pasture supplemented with food concentrate and hay), and saponified fat supplement (sunflower oil) in the diet, on the fatty acids (FA) profile in the cheese fat (cottage cheese and pressed cheese). 68 Tzurcana sheep were divided into 4 homogeneous groups (17 sheep/group) which were subsequently randomly assigned to 1 of the 4 diets tested: P : grazing with no supplement, PC : grazing and supplementing the diet with 400 g concentrate/day; PCF : PC ratio supplemented with 0.5 kg meadow hay; PCFG : PCF ratio supplemented with 80g/day saponified fat (4% of DM-saponified sunflower oil). Since no significant differences were found regarding milkâ€™s fatty acid profile, between the PC and PCF sheep lots, the milk provided by the two groups was processed and analyzed as control sample. Supplementing grazing sheep diet with concentrate or concentrate plus meadow hay, even if it resulted in increased milk production it had a negative effect on nutritional quality of cheese fat obtained by processing milk. Thus, as compared with the control group where the diet was made up only of pasture, in the case of fat in dairy products there has been a significant increase of saturated fatty acids (SFA) share and a decreased content in monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). PUFA concentrations and especially C18:2 cis -9, trans -11 (rumenic acid) and C18:3 n-3 (I±-linolenic acid) (ALA) increased significantly in cheese fat when sheep diet -which contained concentrate and hay- was supplemented with saponified fats (sunflower oil). Cheeseâ€™s physico-chemical and organoleptic properties were not affected significantly by the diet structure and the fatty acid profile of their fat, respectively.
QUANTUM DOTS BASED MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOSYSTEMS FOR THERANOSTIC APPLICATIONS

A facile method to obtain multifunctional nanosystems encapsulating both imaging agents and drug molecules is presented in this work. One of the modern concepts in the therapy of cancer diseases is "theranostic" (from therapy + diagnostics), that means the application of multifunctional systems to deliver the chemotherapeutic drug and the use of fluorescence agent for the imaging the treatment efficiency by monitoring the effect of the active substance on the targeted tumoral cells. The silica nanoparticles were used as matrix to encapsulate quantum dots as bioimaging agents, as they are easy to be prepared as water dispersible and stable in the physiological environment. Quantum dots from CdTe were prepared using a simple hydrothermal method, with citrate and hydrophilic polymer as stabilizer. The anticancer drug Topotecan was used as chemotherapeutic agent, coencapsulated with the semiconducting nanocrystals into the silica matrix. The complex theranostic systems were characterized by using DLS and TEM. Optical properties of the quantum dots were investigated using fluorescence spectra in various environments. The possibility to use the silica fluorescent nanosystems with Topotecan content in bioimaging was studied using fluorescence microscopy on HeLa cell culture.
The improvement of geotechnical subsurface models through the application of S-wave reflection seismic exploration

Due to its relatively high sensitivity to the distribution of elastic parameters, the seismic technique is quite suitable for geotechnical subsurface investigations. However, practical implementation of the P-wave exploration technique for soft-soil and shallow-groundwater conditions, as often encountered in the Netherlands, may often prove problematic; the highimpedance contrast at the groundwater table may induce strong reverberations and guided waves, resulting in a distortion of the seismic record at shallow depth. The use of buried sources may be of some advantage, but at the cost of a considerable decrease in the speed of operation.
Wildland-urban interface communities' response to post-fire salvage logging.

Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not been clear, however, whether the public that has been most affected by wildfires—those that live near burned areas—support or oppose postfire logging. In this research we use focus groups and stakeholder interviews in urban interface communities that have experienced significant wildfires to examine in some detail the perspectives these members of the public have regarding salvage logging. Public support for salvage logging in communities that have recently experienced wildfires was much stronger than hypothesized at the beginning of this study from our review of the number of unsuccessful salvage logging proposals or even popular press reports. Key reasons for supporting salvage logging were that letting useful timber rot was wasteful, that it improves the postfire aesthetics and safety of the forest, and that it can provide some income for local postfire restoration activities. Caveats include assuring that any environmental impacts, such as new roads, are mitigated postlogging, and assuring that appropriate snags are left to provide wildlife habitat.
The Position of Traditional Anatolian Jewellery in the Jewellery Sector and Production Problems

Traditional jewelry is a symbol of Anatolian culture. Anatolia has a rich identity in respect to handcrafts and nearly all of Anatolia districts have its own identical handicrafts. Jewelry is among this handicrafts that is produced only in special area and symbolizes its own region. Unfortunately, technological achievements adversely effects the traditional jewelry production such as, reducing the demands of them and decreased interest. The jewelry industry prefers the mass production techniques and this leads to destruction of traditional jewelry preferences. Nowadays, traditional jewelry is about to be destroyed. In this research, the position of traditional Anatolian jewelry in the jewelry sector will be investigated. In this context, firstly the Anatolian’s traditional jewelry will be introduced then, the position of traditional jewelry will be researched and the results will be explained, and suggestions for solutions will be presented.
NLTE solar irradiance modeling with the COSI code

Context. The solar irradiance is known to change on time scales of minutes to decades, and it is suspected that its substantial fluctuations are partially responsible for climate variations. Aims. We are developing a solar atmosphere code that allows the physical modeling of the entire solar spectrum composed of quiet Sun and active regions. This code is a tool for modeling the variability of the solar irradiance and understanding its influence on Earth. Methods. We exploit further development of the radiative transfer code COSI that now incorporates the calculation of molecular lines. We validated COSI under the conditions of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) against the synthetic spectra calculated with the ATLAS code. The synthetic solar spectra were also calculated in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) and compared to the available measured spectra. In doing so we have defined the main problems of the modeling, e.g., the lack of opacity in the UV part of the spectrum and the inconsistency in the calculations of the visible continuum level, and we describe a solution to these problems. Results. The improved version of COSI allows us to reach good agreement between the calculated and observed solar spectra as measured by SOLSTICE and SIM onboard the SORCE satellite and ATLAS 3 mission operated from the Space Shuttle. We find that NLTE effects are very important for the modeling of the solar spectrum even in the visual part of the spectrum and for its variability over the entire solar spectrum. In addition to the strong effect on the UV part of the spectrum, NLTE effects influence the concentration of the negative ion of hydrogen, which results in a significant change of the visible continuum level and the irradiance variability.
Ballistic transport in semiconducting carbon nanotubes

We report on electronic transport in devices consisting of individual semiconducting singled-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) grown by a chemical vapor deposition technique and contacted by metal electrodes. Low-temperature electronic transport at negative gate bias indicates the SWNTs act as single quantum dots with a length on order of the electrode spacing, indicating that the mean free path is greater than the contact spacing (∼1 μm). Upon increasing gate bias, an intermediate multiple quantum dot regime is observed, followed by a gapped region at positive gate bias. At room temperature and zero gate bias a mean free path of 700 nm is determined using electrostatic force microscopy to probe the local potential in the SWNT.
Strategic Emerging Industries in China: Literature Review and Research Prospect

Based on the research articles about the strategic emerging industries in China of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) on http://www.cnki. net/ from 2010 to 2014, we analyze the research literature from quantitative and qualitative perspective and prospect the future research directions of the strategic emerging industries in China. The research data shows that the studies on strategic emerging industries in China have developed rapidly these years, the high-level research results are increasingly abundant, but some problems should be further studied. And we believe that the researchers should focus on the empirical studies based on the development of the practices, and make efforts to construct a whole systematic research framework and pay more attention to the studies on strategic human resources.
New Late Pleistocene faunal assemblages from Podhale Basin, Western Carpathians, Poland: preliminary results

Interdisciplinary studies in Ob3azowaCave undertaken near its western entrance and in a new archaeological site in Cisowa Rock yielded finely layered sedimentary sequences with an abundant fossil fauna of mainly small vertebrates and scarce archaeological finds. In this paper we present a preliminary palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction of the sequences dated aroundMIS 2/MIS 1 boundary on the basis of small mammal assemblages. The faunal changes appear to be gradual in spite of abrupt climatic changes expected to occur at that time. The environmental and faunal results are discussed with other sequences of similar age in Poland.
Surface-mode enhanced photonic-crystal nano-imaging observed by a scanning near-field optical microscope

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the sub-wavelength loss-less nano-imaging effect achieved by the surface-mode coupling in a negative refraction silicon photonic crystal at a wavelength of 1100 nm. The surface mode and nano-imaging effect of the photonic crystal are experimentally studied with a scanning near-field optical microscope. The thickness and the wavelength dependence of the full width at half maximum of the focal spot reveal a direct evidence of the surface-mode enhanced nano-imaging effect, which is consistent with the simulation. As a consequence, a focal spot with a lateral resolution of λ/3 at the predicted wavelength has been achieved.
Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4-α, Glucocorticoid Receptor and Heat Shock Protein 70 mRNA Expression during Embryonic Development in Chickens

| Glucocorticoids (GCs) play a vital role during embryonic development. Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha (HNF4α) is a transcription factor that has been shown to be crucial for hepatocyte differentiation and development of the liver. Here we aimed to disclose the differences in embryonic expression of hepatic HNF4-α, glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) between slow and fast growing broiler chickens embryos. Fast-growing chicken and slow-growing chicken eggs were incubated and liver samples from the embryonic development at embryo 10 (E10), (E14), (E18) and day 1 post hatch (D1) were collected. Quantitative PCR used to measure hepatic mRNA expression of GR, HSP70 and HNF4-α. Hepatic mRNA expression of HNF4-α was significantly higher in fast-growing chicken embryos at all the embryonic stages investigated. However, hepatic GR mRNA expression was significantly higher in fast-growing chicken embryos only on E10. Hepatic mRNA expression of HSP70 was significantly (P<0.05) higher in fast-growing chicken embryos at E18 and D1 posthatch stages. Our data may provide the first evidence that hepatic expression of HNF4-α, GR and HSP70 differs between fast-growing and slow-growing chickens embryos, which may account to some extent for the breed disparities in embryonic development.
Cyt‐Geist: Current and Future Challenges in Cytometry: Reports of the CYTO 2018 Conference Workshops

Kamila Czechowska,* Joanne Lannigan, Lili Wang, Judith Arcidiacono, Thomas M. Ashhurst, Ruth M. Barnard, Steven Bauer, Cláudia Bispo, Diana L. Bonilla, Ryan R. Brinkman, Maciej Cabanski, Hyun-Dong Chang, Lina Chakrabarti, Grace Chojnowski, Bunny Cotleur, Heba Degheidy, Gelo V. Dela Cruz, Steven Eck, John Elliott, Rachel Errington, Andy Filby, Dominic Gagnon, Rui Gardner, Cherie Green, Michael Gregory, Christopher J. Groves, Christopher Hall, Frederik Hammes, Michael Hedrick, Robert Hoffman, Jaroslav Icha, Johanna Ivaska, Dominic C. Jenner, Derek Jones, Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Christian Kukat, David Lanham, Silas Leavesley, Michael Lee, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Virginia Litwin, Yanli Liu, Jenny Molloy, Jonni S. Moore, Susann Müller, Jakub Nedbal, Raluca Niesner, Nao Nitta, Betsy Ohlsson-Wilhelm, Nicole E. Paul, Stephen Perfetto, Ziv Portat, Ruben Props, Stefan Radtke, Radhika Rayanki, Aja Rieger, Samson Rogers, Peter Rubbens, Robert Salomon, Matthias Schiemann, John Sharpe, Soren Ulrik Sonder, Jennifer J. Stewart, Yongliang Sun, Henning Ulrich, Gert Van Isterdael, Alessandra Vitaliti, Caryn van Vreden, Michael Weber, Jakob Zimmermann, Giacomo Vacca, Paul Wallace, Attila Tárnok
Starburst galaxies in the COSMOS field: clumpy star-formation at redshift 0 < z < 0.5

At high redshift, starburst galaxies present irregular morphologies, with 10-20\%\ of their star formation occurring in giant clumps. These clumpy galaxies are considered to be the progenitors of local disk galaxies. To understand the properties of starbursts at intermediate and low redshift, it is fundamental to track their evolution and possible link with the systems at higher $z$. We present an extensive, systematic, and multi-band search and analysis of the starburst galaxies at redshift ($0 < z < 0.5$) in the COSMOS field, as well as detailed characteristics of their star-forming clumps by using Hubble Space Telescope/Advance Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS) images. Their principal properties, sizes, masses, and star formation rates are provided. The individual star-forming knots in our sample follow the same L(H$\alpha$) vs. size scaling relation than local giant HII regions (Fuentes-Masip et al. 2000). However, they slightly differ from the one provided using samples at high redshift. This result highlights the importance of spatially resolving the star-forming regions for this kind of study. Star-forming clumps in the central regions of Mknots galaxies are more massive, and present higher star formation rates, than those in the outskirts. This trend is smeared when we consider either the mass surface density or surface star formation rate. Sknot galaxies do show properties similar to both dwarf elliptical and irregulars in the surface brightness ($\mu$) versus M$_{host}$ diagram in the $B-$band (Amorin et al. 2012), and to spheroidals and ellipticals in the $\mu$ versus M$_{host}$ diagram in the $V-$band (Kormendy \&\ Bender 2012). Sknot galaxies might be transitional phases of the BCD class, with their properties consistent with spheroidal like, but blue structures.