Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Are omega-3 fatty acids efficacious in the treatment of depression? A review

The hypothesis that omega-3 fatty acids may play a role in preventing and treating depression is based on correlative associations between fish consumption, omega-3 fatty acid intake and the prevalence of major depressive disorder. Reduced omega-3 fatty acid erythrocyte levels have been found in individuals with depressive disorders. These observational findings are unable to establish a causal relationship between omega-3 fatty acids and depression. The results of randomized controlled trials of omega-3 fatty acids for depressive disorders are inconclusive and also fail to prove causation. The therapeutic efficacy of omega-3 fatty acids appears to be moderate at best but is more likely to be minimal or non-existent. Potential long-term adverse effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation should be considered. Large-scale, well-controlled clinical trials are required to establish potential anti-depressive effects of omega-3 fatty acids. Such studies need to consider baseline values of omega-3 fatty acids and symptom severity, the dosage and types of the fatty acids used, the duration of supplementation and the concomitant use of medication. Conclusive evidence of the efficacy of omega-3 fatty acids in depression is currently lacking. The recommendation of potentially ineffective therapies may have considerable opportunity costs, with other possibly more useful treatments remaining unutilized.
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet: An online questionnaire based-study in a Spanish population sample just before the Covid-19 lockdown

Background: The Mediterranean Diet (MD) has been associated with a reduced risk of developing several pathologies, such as cardiovascular diseases. Despite this, adherence to MD in the general population has decreased in the past years. Due to COVID-19 crisis, eating habits of the population are being affected, thus data assessing these habits just before lockdown are important to determine how they are modified. The Mediterranean Diet Quality Index (KIDMED) questionnaire was used to evaluate adherence to MD just before COVID-19 lockdown.Methods: The KIDMED survey was launched through the Google platform for surveys, from 2/20/20 until 3/13/20. Additionally, questions about gender, weight and height for body mass index (BMI) calculation, academic degree, and nationality were included. Multivariate linear regression was performed for data analysis.Results: A total of 861 completed surveys were collected. Some surveys were discarded because data was missing (18), the participants were not of Spanish nationality (18), or because they did not belong to the age groups included in the study (19). The remaining 804 surveys were divided into the following age groups: 15-24 (n=160), 25-34 (n=158), 35-54 (n=363) and 55-69 (n=123). In the 15–24-year-old group, 71.9% had a BMI between 18-24.9, but only 28.1% reached an index ≥8 in the KIDMED questionnaire. Adherence to MD improved as the age in the groups increased, but so did the BMI, especially in the oldest group. In all adult groups, approximately 50% had a university education. Overall, lower BMI was significantly related to females, younger age and a higher degree of studies. On the other hand, the higher adherence to MD was related to older age and a higher degree of education. Conclusions: The improved adherence to MD was not associated with a reduced BMI. Maybe other factors, like sedentary life or hormonal changes, known to impact people while aging, have influenced our results. Possibly, adherence to MD might have played a protective role, at least partially, against an even higher BMI. More research is needed to fully determine the impact of adherence to MD in the Spanish population, also after COVID-19 lockdown.Keywords: Mediterranean diet, KIDMED, Body mass index, Spain
Seroprevalence of Immunoglobulin G Antibody among Contacts of COVID19 Cases: A Study from India

Objective: To estimate Covid19 seropositivity among contacts of cases and to compare the seropositivity among different types of contact for assessing the differential risk & transmission dynamics.Material and Methods: A large-scale population-based serosurvey was carried out among the general population of Ahmedabad during the second half of October 2020. The contacts of cases were selected based on the population proportion and enrolled as an additional category. The seropositivity among the contacts was estimated using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and compared with different types of contact and available demographic factors.Results: As of October 2020, the seropositivity against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) among contacts of cases in Ahmedabad was 26.0% [95% confidence interval 24.2–28.0]. The seropositivity among family contacts was significantly higher (28.8%) compared to other contacts (24.4%) (Z=2.19, p-value=0.028). This trend was seen across all age groups and both sexes. The seropositivity was higher among females (27.7%) compared to males (24.5%) but the difference was statistically not significant (Z=1.64, p-value=0.101). In terms of age groups, the positivity had an increasing trend up to 60 years but declined after that.Conclusion: A seropositivity of 26.0% among contacts indicates that a large proportion of contacts demonstrated Immunoglobulin-G antibodies. This highlights asymptomatic transmission and/or low sensitivity of the diagnostic tests. The current strategy for contact tracing and testing among contacts is justified based on the significantly higher seropositivity among family contacts.
Oxidized Mantle Sources of HIMU and EM-type Ocean Island Basalts

Oxygen fugacity (fO2) is a fundamental variable in igneous petrology with utility as a potential tracer of recycled surficial materials in the sources of mantle-derived lavas. It has been postulated that ocean island basalts (OIB) have elevated fO2 relative to mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) owing to more oxidized source regions. To clarify this issue, trace-element systematics of olivine grains are reported from OIB lavas with HIMU (high-; Mangaia, Canary Islands), enriched mantle (EM; Samoa; São Miguel, Azores Islands) and depleted MORB mantle (DMM; Pico, Azores) Sr-Nd-Pb-Os isotopic signatures, to constrain the fO2 of each magmatic system. Despite sampling distinct mantle reservoirs based on radiogenic isotope systematics, these OIB suites show similar fO2, ranging from +1.5 to +2.9 FMQ, with an average of 2.0 ± 0.7 FMQ, significantly higher than MORB at +0.6 ± 0.2 FMQ using the same oxybarometer. OIBs show no correlation between fO2 and bulk rock isotopic ratios or parental magma compositions. The lack of correlations with isotopic signatures likely results from radiogenic isotope signatures being hosted in volumetrically minor trace element enriched mantle lithologies, while fO2 reflects the volumetrically dominant mantle component. Higher fO2 in OIB relative to MORB implies a uniformly oxidizing plume source mantle that may be the result of either a common oxidized oceanic crust-rich reservoir parental to all modern plume lavas, or preservation of un-degassed and oxidized mantle domains formed early in Earth history.
Going Beyond Images: 3D-Aware Representation Learning for Visuomotor Control

: 1 Humans have a strong intuitive understanding of the 3D environment around 2 us. The mental model of the physics in our brain applies to objects of different 3 materials and enables us to perform a wide range of manipulation tasks that are 4 far beyond the reach of current robots. In this work, we desire to learn models 5 for dynamic 3D scenes purely from 2D visual observations. Our model combines 6 Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and time contrastive learning with an autoencoding 7 framework, which learns viewpoint-invariant 3D-aware scene representations. We 8 show that a dynamics model, constructed over the learned representation space, 9 enables visuomotor control for challenging manipulation tasks involving both rigid 10 bodies and ﬂuids, where the target is speciﬁed in a viewpoint different from what 11 the robot operates on. When coupled with an auto-decoding framework, it can even 12 support goal speciﬁcation from camera viewpoints that are outside the training 13 distribution . We further demonstrate the richness of the learned 3D dynamics 14 model by performing future prediction and novel view synthesis. Finally, we 15 provide detailed ablation studies regarding different system designs and qualitative 16 analysis of the learned representations. 17
FINGERPRINT PATTERN DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN TYPE II DIABETES MELLITUS AND NORMAL INDIVIDUALS AMONG EGYPTIAN POPULATION: A PILOT STUDY FROM CAIRO, EGYPT

Fingerprints are skin markings delineated by epidermal ridge patterns present on the skin of the hands’ fingers and palms. There is a positive association between fingerprint distribution and different diseases like diabetes mellitus, making it a useful tool for its prediction. The study aimed to determine if fingerprint pattern distribution could be used as an early screening tool for predicting type II diabetes among at risk Egyptian populations. This study was carried out on 138 patients with type II diabetes mellitus diagnosed at the diabetic clinic, Al kasr Alainy hospital, Cairo city, between September and December 2019. Another 138 participants were included as a control group for this study. The fingerprint distribution pattern between the diabetics and the control showed insignificant (p>0.05) differences except for whorls which showed significantly lesser distribution among diabetics. The ulnar, radial, and double loops were insignificantly (p>0.05) more, while the arch & composite patterns were insignificantly (p>0.05) lesser in diabetics compared to control. The study concluded that the distribution pattern of a fingerprint is not a definitive predictive tool for type II diabetes mellitus.
Recent advances in dynamic docking for drug discovery

Molecular docking allows the evaluation of ligand‐target complementarity. This is the crucial first step in small‐molecule drug discovery. Over the last decade, increasing computer power and more efficient molecular dynamics (MD) software have prompted the use of MD for molecular docking. The resulting dynamic docking offers major improvements by (1) taking full account of the structural flexibility of the drug‐target system and (2) allowing the computation of the free energy and kinetics associated with drug binding. Here, we examine the recent advances in dynamic docking, while also considering the challenges and limitations that this powerful approach must overcome to impact fast‐paced drug discovery. WIREs Comput Mol Sci 2017, 7:e1320. doi: 10.1002/wcms.1320
GENETICALLY IMPROVEMENT OF SOME PERFORMANCE TRAITS OF EGYPTION LOCAL CHIKENS BY TRANSFERRING GROWTH HORMONE GENE FROM BROILER

The present study was aimed to investigate isolation, cloning and sequencing of chicken Growth hormone gene (cGH) from chicken (cobb 500 broilers) then transfer chicken Growth hormone gene by two methods the first gene transfer method by using sperm-mediated gene transfer (SMGT) technique and the second gene transfer method using bioresonance (Bio) to local chicken strain (Bandarah). This study was investigate for two generation. The body weight at hatch and 4 weeks of age increased by 3.32 and 8.09 g for SMGT method and by 1.27 and 5.22g for Bio method respectively. The SMGT method was increased the body weight at 12 wk of age by 60.17 and 7.96 g for males and females respectively. The growth rate during 0-4 weeks of age was 131.64, 130.68 and 132.35%, for SMGT, Bio and control respectively. In conclusion cGH Gene successfully isolate, molecular cloning from Cobb 500 and transferring by two methods SMGT and Bio to produce transgenic chickens of a local strain in Egypt . SMGT is an efficient method that will hopefully facilitate the implementation of strategies for securing the benefits that can be expected to arise from the introduction of transgenic chicken, Bio open important new perspectives in the field of animal transgenic would be more rapid, with quick and effective delivery of genes to target tissues. Chicken cGH gene was effect in all growth traits and moved from the first generation to the second generation with the same shape and increased the effect. The second generation gave higher body weight at 0,4,8 and 12 weeks of age.
EXAMINING COMPETENCE IN ACTION RESEARCH OF BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS IN CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES

Background and Purpose: This study examined the self-perceived competence in action research components of basic education teachers in Cebu City as one form of identifying their challenges in doing AR. The results aimed to provide baseline information for the planned professional development program. Methodology: It employed a sequential explanatory design (QUAN→qual). It is characterized by collecting and analyzing quantitative data in the primary phase and then by collecting and analyzing qualitative data. There were 166 teachers who participated in the online survey. These teachers previously underwent professional development programs in designing AR projects, and two-thirds did an AR. Using their responses, they were grouped through a hierarchical clustering technique to create distinct groups of teachers sharing the similarity of competence or needs in the AR components. The cluster analysis yields four groups. Eventually, eight teachers were interviewed regarding their responses, which means two teachers represented each cluster. Findings: For very few teachers in cluster one (n=4), they regard selecting AR topic, planning the project, analyzing and presenting data, and integrating ethics as areas of non-difficulty while integrating technology, reflecting on AR, and communicating results as areas of difficulty. For the majority of the teachers belonging in cluster 2 (n=76), cluster 3 (n=37), and cluster 4 (n=49), all AR components are regarded as difficult, indicating all are critical areas for professional development. Journal of Nusantara Studies 2021, Vol 6(2) 202-230 ISSN 0127-9386 (Online) http://dx.doi. org/10.24200/jonus.vol6iss2pp202-230 203 Contributions: A conventional way of conducting needs assessment of teachers’ competence in AR as a basis for professional development program is done through calculating the mean and standard deviation per AR competence or skills of all teachers participating in a survey. However, this method disregards the individual professional needs of teachers as it presents the general level of competence in each skill set. The professional needs may vary from one teacher to another. Thus, this study presents a novel way of examining teachers’ needs in AR by using cluster analysis to homogenously group participants according to the similarity of their responses or professional needs. This gives key reference points on which AR skills need to be improved for teachers belonging to the same group when planning a teacher development program in AR.
Pathological Impact of Johne’s Disease in Cattle: A Review Article

Johne’s disease is an international healthiness problem affecting ruminants. It is caused by Myobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis (MAP). It has serious production-limiting important and also caused significant cost-effective loss in flocks due to direct impact on delayed/reduced breeding, infertility, culling, mortality, and milk reduction. This disease is problematic to diagnose because of elongated incubation times. Proof of identity this disease subclinical can shed the organism as a source of infection for other herds; so, it is critical for control. The present study deals with the morphological (grossly, histopathologically and histochemically) characterization of the disease in cattle. The corpse appears hidebound with sunken eyes and with persistent and nonresponsive diarrhea. The necropsy of visceral showed gelatinization and outlying fat. Grossly chiefly pathological alterations in digestive tract such as severe congested of small intestine with marked thickening of its wall a combined with enlargement of mesenteric lymph nodes and gallbladder appear distension with severe thickening walls and blood mixed with bile. Histopathological examinations revealed severe infiltrations of inflammatory cells such as macrophages, lymphocytes, and epithelioid cells with multiple langhans giant cells in bowel layers and mesenteric lymph nodes with diffuse lepromatous reaction were observed in these lymph nodes and other organs like liver, tonsils and kidney. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
Visualization & Prediction of COVID-19 Future Outbreak by Using Machine Learning

Day by day, the accumulative incidence of COVID-19 is rapidly increasing. After the spread of the Corona epidemic and the death of more than a million people around the world countries, scientists and researchers have tended to conduct research and take advantage of modern technologies to learn machine to help the world to get rid of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. To track and predict the disease Machine Learning (ML) can be deployed very effectively. ML techniques have been anticipated in areas that need to identify dangerous negative factors and define their priorities. The significance of a proposed system is to find the predict the number of people infected with COVID19 using ML. Four standard models anticipate COVID-19 prediction, which are Neural Network (NN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Bayesian Network (BN) and Polynomial Regression (PR). The data utilized to test these models content of number of deaths, newly infected cases, and recoveries in the next 20 days. Five measures parameters were used to evaluate the performance of each model, namely root mean squared error (RMSE), mean squared error (MAE), mean absolute error (MSE), Explained Variance score and r2 score (R2). The significance and value of proposed system auspicious mechanism to anticipate these models for the current cenario of the COVID-19 epidemic. The results showed NN outperformed the other models, while in the available dataset the SVM performs poorly in all the prediction. Reference to our results showed that injuries will increase slightly in the coming days. Also, we find that the results give rise to hope due to the low death rate. For future perspective, case explanation and data amalgamation must be kept up persistently.
CLEANING OF CERAMIC ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES AFTER FILTRATION OF HAY HYDROLYSATE

Hydrolysis of the lignocellulosic biomass results in the release of high-value chemicals that during industrial processing can be recovered with membrane technologies. To maintain an effective performance of the membranes used in the technological processing of biomass, their regular cleaning is essential. Although several guidelines may be found for membrane cleaning in the cases of organic fouling, the data for cleaning membranes fouled by hydrolyzed lignocellulosic biomass is limited. Current research is aimed to evaluate physical (air backpulse) and common cheap chemical membrane cleaning methods. The results showed that air backpulse alone had a minor (9%) effect on the membrane cleaning. The alternation of NaOH (1 %) solution with the NaClO (200 mg/L of Free chlorine) was the most effective approach for membrane cleaning. The cleaning effectiveness was 95.1 % for 50 nm membrane and 89 % for 200 nm membrane, indicating that membranes used for hydrolyzed lignocellulosic biomass filtration can be effectively cleaned using affordable and accessible chemicals.
Could Gamification Present a Significant Topic for the Philosophy of Sport?

This article focuses on the phenomenon of gamification in the context of the philosophy of sport. Gamification is usually understood as a process of adding games or game-like elements to some activity in order to encourage participation. It takes the techniques that game designers use to engage players and applies them to motivate people in different spheres of our lives. It should be emphasized that gamification itself is not about games; it is not about the digital world, nor is it primarily about sport. However, it is a phenomenon that originated in the world of games and gained its content in the digital world. Gamification is also close to the phenomenon of play because it was invented by those people who were playing games. The main question asked in the text is whether gamification, although it is not primarily about games or sports, can be a crucial topic for the philosophy of sport. This article proposes some opportunities for philosophical approaches to gamification within kinanthropology. The ethical discourse is mentioned in the context of normative ethics. The ontological discourse is followed in the context of the digital world and the phenomenon of sportification. One of the possible areas of interest in the philosophy of sport can be presented by monitoring and scheduling endurance sports activities. This issue is developed within the article on the ontological level, especially. The sociologically based study about gamification-form-above and gamification-from-below by Woodcock and Johnson is examined via Patočka’s concept of three movements of human existence. It was included in the article mainly as an example to illustrate the great diversity of possible philosophical approaches. It appears that gamification in sport is rapidly spreading, and it will be examined within different empirical studies more and more. This article argues that this phenomenon is also an interesting topic for the philosophy of sport.
Making Lab-grown Afterlife

This article examines the making and makers of “memorial diamonds. ” These are “natural” diamonds identical to gemstones found in nature but produced in laboratories with carbon sourced from genetic material (cremation ashes) or other objects of symbolic and emotional value. Threading corporality and objectified life forms, we examine the transformation from ashes to the “afterlife” of these “living” objects that are at once synthetic and organic. We ask, first, what material and affective properties distinguish synthetic diamonds from those extracted from nature? Second, how are these living and memorialized representations of inert substances – in continuity with bodily elements of the deceased – valued and mediated through “real” human, though artificially grown, natural objects? Drawing from research with the leading companies in the memorial diamond business in Switzerland and the United States, this article suggests that these diamonds’ singular connection to the human body offer a window into the transmutations between nature and the artificial, memory and material likeness, life and death.