Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Gluteus medius and thigh muscles electromyography during load carrying walking

This study compares the electromyographic (EMG) peak amplitude changes of gluteus medius (Gmed), vastus medialis (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL) and biceps femoris (BF) during load carrying walking due to the increased load. The percentage of maximum isometric voluntary contractions (%MVIC) of both limbs and 3D kinematic of lower limbs were detected on eighteen resistance-trained men (mean age ± SD, 31 ± 3.4 years) while carrying loads of 25, 50 and 75% of their body mass (BM). The repeated measurement ANOVA was used to evaluate the differences in muscles %MVIC and 3D kinematics at all load conditions. Significant differences were found for Gmed %MVIC (F3,99 = 19.8, p < 0.001). Gmed activity was significantly different between load carrying walking with 25% of BM (mean ± SD, 20 ± 12%MVIC), 50% of BM (32 ± 17%MVIC) and 75% of BM (45 ± 26%MVIC) condition. Differences were found in hip flexion at Gmed EMG peak (F3,96 = 14, p < 0.001), between 25% of BM (18 ± 11°) and 50% of BM (29 ± 7°). No significant differences were found for thigh muscles, when thigh muscle activity did not exceed 30%MVIC even at 75% of BM condition. Load carrying walking is an exercise which activates Gmed more than thigh muscles. This exercise increases the Gmed activity along with increased loads and it should be regarded as a complex Gmed strengthening exercise. This exercise is recommended for strengthening the Gmed with low activation of VL and VMO.
Reduced Lysosomal Acid Lipase Activity in Blood and Platelets Is Associated With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether blood total lysosomal acid lipase activity (BT-LAL) levels are uniquely associated with the noncirrhotic and cirrhotic stages of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and with protection from NAFLD in metabolically/genetically predisposed subjects and a normal liver. To clarify which enzyme-carrying circulating cells are involved in reduced BT-LAL of NAFLD. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, BT-LAL was measured by a fluorigenic method in patients with NAFLD (n = 118), alcoholic (n = 116), and hepatitis C virus-related disease (n = 49), in 103 controls with normal liver and in 58 liver transplant recipients. Intracellular platelet and leukocyte LAL was measured in 14 controls and 28 patients with NAFLD. RESULTS: Compared with controls, (i) BT-LAL and LAL in platelets, but not in leukocytes, were progressively reduced in noncirrhotic NAFLD and in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-related cirrhosis; (ii) platelet and leukocyte counts did not differ in patients with noncirrhotic NAFLD; and (iii) BT-LAL did not differ in alcoholic and hepatitis C virus noncirrhotic patients. BT-LAL progressively increased in controls with metabolic syndrome features according to their PNPLA3 rs738409 steatosis-associated variant status (II vs IM vs MM), and their BT-LAL was higher than that of noncirrhotic NAFLD, only when carriers of the PNPLA3 unfavorable alleles were considered. Liver transplant recipients with de novo NAFLD compared with those without de novo NAFLD had lower BT-LAL. DISCUSSION: LAL in blood and platelets is progressively and uniquely reduced in NAFLD according to disease severity. High BT-LAL is associated with protection from NAFLD occurrence in subjects with metabolic and genetic predisposition. Low LAL in platelets and blood could play a pathogenetic role in NAFLD.
Liberalizing Trade and Finance

Political sociology has an important role in explaining the history, development, and consequences of neoliberal globalization. Specifically, our methods and theory are equipped to address the role of states and the political economy in shaping processes and outcomes of globalization, but also to examine specific forms of collective action aimed at building neoliberal institutions – or challenging and transforming them. This chapter addresses the ways that the collective action of US corporate leaders ushered in neoliberalization through trade policy, closely interacting with state officials and institutions. As Hopewell (2016: 18, emphasis in original) further qualifies, neoliberal globalization “is an institution-building project” geared to the construction of new rules, regulations, and institutions with the aim to expand markets globally. Treating neoliberal trade policies as part of a historical project – made and remade by collective actors – offers a framework for exploring the intersection of class and state actors in the emergence and transformation of neoliberal globalization. Using the case of US trade policy at its hegemonic heights (Arrighi 1994), this chapter differentiates the political action of corporations from nation-state actors to specify conditions where corporate class actors become political drivers of neoliberalization. First, trade policy theory is summarized to point out the relative silence of corporate collective action as a driver of US trade liberalization across successive periods. Second, the chapter revisits a critical moment in the late 1960s to reveal the political role of US corporate leaders acting collectively to upend the postwar Keynesian monetary order and dramatically enlarge trade liberalization. This expands on Harvey’s (2005) assertion that neoliberalism was “a class project” and Arrighi’s (1994) explication of the world historic shift in the US hegemonic project toward neoliberalism domestically and internationally. Third, the chapter offers a glimpse at the collective action of corporations that brought class actors into
Describing the Differences in the Professional Development needs of Traditionally and Alternatively Certified Agriculture Teachers in Louisiana.

For decades, teacher education programs have suffered from teacher shortages in many content areas. Due to high teacher turnover rate there has been an increase in the number of teachers who are entering the field through alternative certification programs. It has been noted that the professional development needs of traditionally and alternatively certified teachers may differ drastically. The purpose of this study was to identify the professional development needs of agriculture teachers in Louisiana based on certification type. Data were collected at each of the three Louisiana FFA Leadership Camp sessions during the Louisiana Agriculture Teacher’s Association meeting held on the first day of camp. In all, 190 agriculture teachers registered for camp and 164 completed the instrument, representing an 86.0% response rate of camp attendees and 62.8% of the total agriculture teacher population. The results from this study indicated that professional development related to Program Management was the only statistically significant difference between the two groups. Specifically, the traditionally certified teachers felt a greater need for professional development in this area. Based on this research, there may be less difference in the professional development needs of teachers based on certification type in Louisiana than expected compared to previous research.
Family life cycle and preferences for a mega-sporting event package: The case of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games

Mega-sporting events often contribute to both financial and nonfinancial aspects of a destination. Nonetheless, several problematic issues (e.g. risk/safety issues, high travel costs, and online broadcasting) require a hosting destination focusing more on marketing and promotion strategies to boost event attendance. As such, this study aims to understand the optimal bundling package strategy for a mega-sporting event by investigating the effect of customers’ life cycle stage on their preferences in purchasing an event-related package. Several event package features used in this study are important determinants of mega-sporting event participation. More important, respondents in different family life cycle stages showed different levels of sensitivity to each package attribute, thereby constructing different preferences. The result of this study would be useful information for designing more attractive mega-sporting event packages and/or target marketing strategies focusing on different life stages.
Geometric Partitioning of Complex Surface Measurements

Dimensional inspection of microparts is challenging. Optimized processes, such as microdeep-drawing with tailored tools, even increase the requirements. While the development of fast and precise data acquisition techniques is in progress and various solutions already exist, the geometrical evaluation of measuring data still shows open questions: 1) the evaluation methods for freeform surfaces do not provide information in a form that can be directly used to assess dimensional tolerances; 2) manual association of approximating geometric elements to points is not suited for high inspection rates; and 3) partitioning based on the nominal workpiece coordinate system is affected by alignment uncertainties. An algorithm was developed for the automated evaluation of surface measuring data composed of geometric primitives, such as planes, cylinders, and tori, which combines and optimizes the estimation of geometric parameters together with the automatic partitioning of the measured points. This article presents the extension of this holistic approximation (HA) with root point iteration in order to evaluate more complex geometric elements. The verification of the extended HA for a 2-D combination of lines and an ellipse shows no systematic error and achievable uncertainties below 0.8 $\mu \text{m}$ for the approximated shape parameters of an ellipse for simulated surface data with uniformly distributed noise in the range of 1.0 $\mu \text{m}$ . The validation in comparison with commercial metrology software finally exhibits the full potential of the extended HA. As a result, a fully automatic dimensional evaluation is possible, providing geometric parameters that can directly be compared to nominal specifications and tolerances.
Strategier för internationaliserade byggarbetsplatser - Arbetsledares perspektiv

Utlandsk arbetskraft blir allt vanligare inom den svenska byggsektorn och det ar inte ovanligt att totalentreprenorer anlitar underentreprenorer med utlandska yrkesarbetare. En flersprakig byggarbetsplats kan dock forsvara kommunikation mellan de olika aktorerna, syftet med studien ar darfor att undersoka arbetsledares perspektiv pa arbetsmiljofragor pa byggarbetsplatser med utlandska arbetstagare med malet att identifiera strategier och praktiska metoder som kan forbattra arbetsmiljon pa byggarbetsplatser med avseende pa kommunikation. Studien utfordes genom semistrukturerade respondentintervjuer och analyserades med tematisk analys. Intervjuerna utgick fran intervjuguider for att besvara fragestallningar om vilka utmaningar och fordelar som uppstar vid internationalisering av byggarbetsplatser, vilka strategier som anvands inom byggproduktion for att underlatta kommunikation pa en flersprakig arbetsplats, samt vilka strategier som bor implementeras for att underlatta internationalisering av svenska byggarbetsplatser. Analysen genererade fyra teman: Internationalisering - Strategiskt val for bestallaren och arbetstagaren; Kommunikationssvarigheter samt hierarki inom utlandska arbetares arbetsled skapar problem; Olika arbetsvillkor har betydelse for effektivitet och sakerhet; Strategier for internationalisering. Rapporten identifierar flera strategier som kan underlatta internationalisering samtidigt som den belyser flera problemomraden dar det finns utrymme for forbattring. Internationalisering av svenska byggarbetsplatser blir en alltmer vanligare forekomst. For att framtida forbattringsarbeten betraffande internationalisering ska lyckas bor arbetsledares perspektiv tas i beaktan. Intervjuer utfordes i Skane, Sverige, med arbetsledare fran svenska och utlandska foretag under april och maj 2019.
Analyzing Group-Level Emotion with Global Alignment Kernel based Approach

From the perspective of social science, understanding group emotion has become increasingly important for teams to considerably accomplish organizational work. Currently, automatically analyzing the perceived affect of a group of people has been received increasingly interest in affective computing community. The variability in group size makes difficulty for group-level emotion recognition to straightforwardly measure the feature distance of two group-level images. Recent works attempted to resolve the preceding problem by using feature encoding. However, the early works lack of efficiency. To alleviate this problem, this article aims to design a new method to effectively analyze the group behavior from a group-level image. Motivated by time-series kernel approaches explored in dynamic facial expression classification, this article mainly concentrates on global alignment kernel and design support vector machine with the combined global alignment kernels (SVM-CGAK) to better recognize group-level emotion. Specifically, we first propose to use global alignment kernel to explicitly measure the distance of two group-level images. For improving the performance of global alignment kernel, we use the global weight sort scheme based on their spatial relation information to sort the faces from group-level image, making an efficient data structure to the global alignment kernel. With this new global alignment kernel, we construct the backbone of SVM-CGAK, namely, support vector machine with global alignment kernel. Furthermore, considering the challenging environment, we construct two global alignment kernels based on Reisz-based Volume Local Binary Pattern and deep convolutional neural network features, respectively. Lastly, to make the robustness of group-level emotion recognition, we propose SVM-CGAK combining both global alignment kernels with multiple kernel learning approach. It can enhance the discriminative ability of each global alignment kernel. Intensive experiments are conducted on three challenging group-level emotion databases. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves promising performance for group-level emotion recognition compared with the recent state-of-the-art methods.
Financial risk contagion to real sector in Iran: A VAR-BEKK-GARCH approach

Asset market interconnectedness can give rise to significant contagion risks during periods of financial crises that extend beyond the risks associated with changes in volatilities and correlations. These channels include the transmission of shocks operating through changes in the higher order comovements of asset returns, including changes in co-skewness arising from changes in the interaction between volatility and average returns across asset markets. These additional contagion channels have nontrivial implications for the pricing of options through changes in the payoff probability structure and more generally, in the management of financial risks. The purpose of this study was to investigate the financial risk contagion from the financial sector to the real sector of the economy using VAR-BEKKGARCH for the active industries in the Tehran Stock Exchange during the period of 1388-1395. The estimated coefficients for considering the period of the crisis and the recession in the stock market indicate that the coefficients are positive for the effect of the outflow in the stock market. Also, in the case study, there is a probability of financial risk fluctuation between the investigated industries. In addition, the results indicate that the risk and turmoil among the active industries in the stock market and the real sector of the Iranian economy are tangible.
Evaluation of Singlet Oxygen Scavenging Capacity of Peppermint (Mentha Piperita L.), Marjoram (Origanum Majorana L.), Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis L.) And Sage (Salvia Officinalis L.) on Fatty Acid Photooxidation

Lipid photooxidation is the undesirable chemical process in which singlet oxygen result in the peroxidation of fatty acids. In this study leaves methanolic extracts of peppermint (Mentha piperita L.), marjoram (Origanum majorana L.), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) and sage (Salvia officinalis L.) were applied as the natural singlet oxygen scavenger. Amount of flavonoid compounds as the singlet oxygen scavenger agent in these plant species were decreased in the order of peppermint > marjoram> sage > rosemary. Also, The rate of quenching of singlet oxygen in the presence of 1,4-Diazabicyclo[2.2. 2]octane (DABCO) as a well-known singlet oxygen scavenger and highly effective synthetic antioxidants in food industry such as Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), tert-Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) and peppermint decreased in the order of peppermint > BHA > TBHQ > DABCO >. Furthermore, photooxidation of oleic acid as an unsaturated fatty acid in the presence of DABCO, peppermint, BHA and TBHQ indicated a preservation of 82.77%, 73.39%, 71.57% and 53.10% on peroxidation of oleic acid, respectively which reveals peppermint has an efficient role on protection of fatty acids from photooxidation. Practical application: In this study, it was confirmed that peppermint (Mentha piperita L.) performs an effective role in restricting or limitation of singlet oxygen generation and fatty acid photooxidation. In vitro study of scavenging effect of peppermint can correlate laboratory results to commercial scale up. However, this would also necessitate the progress of improved methods for the measurement of lipid peroxidation in vivo in the presence of peppermint.
RNF40-dependent epigenetic regulation of actin cytoskeletal dynamics is required for HER2-driven mammary tumorigenesis

The HER2-driven breast cancer subtype displays a particularly aggressive behavior. Alterations of the epigenome are common in cancers and represent attractive novel molecular therapeutic targets. Monoubiquitination of histone 2B (H2Bub1) by its obligate heterodimeric E3 ubiquitin ligase complex RNF20/RNF40 has been described to have tumor suppressor functions and loss of H2Bub1 has been associated with cancer progression. In this study, we utilized human tumor samples, cell culture models, and a mammary carcinoma mouse model with tissue-specific Rnf40 deletion and identified an unexpected tumor-supportive role of RNF40 in HER2-positive breast cancer. We demonstrate that RNF40-driven H2B monoubiquitination is essential for transcriptional activation of RHO/ROCK/LIMK pathway components and proper actin cytoskeleton dynamics through a trans-histone crosstalk with histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3). Collectively, this work demonstrates a previously unknown essential role of RNF40 in HER2-positive breast cancer, revealing the RNF20/RNF40/H2Bub1 axis as a possible tumor context-dependent therapeutic target in breast cancer. Statement of significance HER2-positive breast cancer patients frequently develop resistance to anti-HER2 therapies. Here we demonstrate that RNF20/RNF40-mediated H2B monoubiquitination supports the oncogenic properties of cancer cells of this subtype by regulating actin dynamics. The RNF20/RNF40/H2Bub1 axis may therefore represent an attractive drug target for novel therapies.
Post‐discharge nutrition for the preterm infant

Newly designed, ‘enriched,’ formulas are now available for the formula feeding premature infant after hospital discharge. These new formulations add to the array of milks from which to choose when the discharge of the premature infant is approaching. However, the data to support optimal or reference nutrient intakes to use for the premature infant in the post‐discharge are lacking. Breastfeeding should be encouraged as its beneficial effects may be related to the duration in which it is fed. Infants at risk for growth failure in the post‐discharge period, such as infants unable to consume ad libitum intakes of milk, and who already have growth faltering or abnormal nutritional indices, may benefit for the addition of enriched formula. This review summarizes the recent data and comments on recommendations on post‐discharge nutrition for premature infants.
Victimization, Offending, and Expectations for Future Success among High-Risk Youth

ABSTRACT The present study examined consequences of a well-established criminological phenomenon, the victim-offender overlap, and how its prevalence and effects are influenced by the inclusion of indirect victimization, an often overlooked form of victimization. Specifically, we examined how experiencing and/or witnessing victimization, engaging in delinquent behavior, and the combination of these experiences (i.e., the victim-offender overlap) influence an adolescent’s expectations for achievement in work, family, and law-abiding behavior in adulthood. Using data from Pathways to Desistance, a longitudinal study of adolescent offenders, we distinguished between direct and indirect victimization, as well as proximal and distal victimization and offending experiences, to assess their independent and collective effects. Findings demonstrate the importance of considering the consequences of indirect victimization, the combination of victimization and offending experiences influence how adolescents perceive their futures, and more distal experiences with crime are not predictive of expectations for success in adulthood.
Pengaruh Latihan Plyometric Menggunakan Metode Circuit terhadap Kemampuan Smash Atlet Bolavoli

Masalah dalam penelitian ini adalah masih rendahnya kemampuan smash atlet bola voli, karena kurangnya daya ledak otot tungkai sehingga atletmengalami kendala pada saat melakukan smash. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh latihan plyometrics menggunakan metode circuit terhadap kemampuan smash atlet bola voli. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian eksperimen semu dengan rancangan one group pree test-post test. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan secara total sampling yaitu adalah teknik pengambilan sampel dimana jumlah sampel sama dengan populasi, jadi jumlah sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 8 orang atlet putra. Untuk mengukur kemampuan smash digunakan tes kemampuan smash. Teknik analisa datamenggunakan analisis komparasi dengan menggunakan rumus uji t-test. Hasil penelitian: Terdapat pengaruh latihan plyometrics menggunakan metode circuit terhadap kemampuan smash atlet bola voli, dimana thn = 12,81 g ttn = 2,365. Ratarata kemampuan smash bola voli tes awal atlet adalah 4,88 dan rata-rata kemampuan smash bola voli tes akhir atlet adalah 8,25
The Quality of Carrot after Field Biostimulant Application and after Storage

The carrot (Daucus carota L.) is a staple vegetable in human nutrition in Europe. In recent years, the use of biostimulants in vegetable crops has become a way to affect the quantity and quality of yields. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the type and methods of biostimulant (natural seaweed extract Kelpak and synthetic Asahi) application on the nitrates and nitrites content in carrot roots after harvest and storage. The study was based on a strict field experiment with carrot cv. ′Karotan′, conducted in Poland (53°13′N; 17°51′E) in three successive growing seasons and after six months of storage (RH 95%, and air temperature +1 °C). The biostimulants were applied during the growing season in a foliar form. The content of NO3ˉ and NO2ˉ in carrot after harvest depended on the dose and the date of biostimulant application. The single application of biostimulant Kelpak as well as two times of Asahi had no effect on the nitrate and nitrite content, while the application of Kelpak in a total dose of 6 or 7 dm3 ha−1 increased them. The maximum intake of nitrates and nitrites following the harvest and storage was, respectively, 7.1, 2.3% and 6.7, 2.1% of the ADI.