Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Administration of Tomato Juice or Aqueous Components of Tomato Reduces Fatigue Induced by Acute Treadmill Exercise

Physical exercise is a good means of enhancing and maintaining health. However, many people struggle to make exercise be a habit, in part because of the associated fatigue. The present study investigated the effects of tomato juice on fatigue induced by exercise in humans and mice. A study of 10 healthy men and women indicated that drinking tomato juice suppressed post-exercise increases in rated perceived exertion, a subjective fatigue indicator. In mice, a single administration of tomato juice significantly attenuated exercise-induced fatigue, as measured by locomotor activity and blood transforming growth factor β and corticosterone levels. The active substances in tomatoes, which were among the aqueous components as of tomato juice supernatant, showed the same anti-fatigue effects as whole tomato juice. Moreover, these effects were mimicked by water supplemented with the aqueous components (i.e., sugars, organic acids, and amino acids) and were likely exerted by two or more of these components. Our results suggest that consuming tomato juice prior to or during an exercise session can reduce post-exercise fatigue, which could encourage more individuals to incorporate a regular exercise regimen into their daily routine.
Zipf's Law and Writings on LIS

Presents the results of a study conducted to find out the validity of Zipf’s law related to the word length and the frequency of its uses in the case of library and information science literature. The results obtained from the analysis of six different samples obey Zipf’s law in all the cases with small deviations. The result provided by the sample comprising about 5,800 words fits the law best with just one deviation. The main exception is found to be one-letter words.
GEOGRAFÍA DE LOS PROCESOS DE INNOVACIÓN DEL CLÚSTER AERONAÚTICO ANDALUZ GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE ANDALUSIAN AEROESPACE CLUSTER

This paper aims at analyzing innovation in corporarions located within the so called innovation areas. Namely it will be studied wether there are significative differences in terms of innovation between firms located inside and outside innovation areas. Furthermore, it have been studied which factors might have the strongest effect on the attraction of innovative firms.
Cabinet Reshuffles and Ministerial Drift

A model of policy implementation in a parliamentary democracy as delegation between the prime minister and her cabinet ministers is introduced. Cabinet reshuffles can be pursued as a strategy to reduce the agency loss which occurs due to the different preferences of the actors. This work thus explains why prime ministers resort to reshuffles: cabinet reshuffles reduce the moral hazard facing ministers. This answer both augments and distinguishes this work from traditional perspectives on reshuffles that have emphasized the deleterious effects of reshuffles on ministerial capacity, and also from recent work that casts reshuffles as solutions to the adverse-selection problems inherent in cabinet government. The conclusion offers a preliminary test of some of the hypotheses generated by this theory.
Vibrational Frequencies and Raman Radial Breathing Modes of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Based on Continuum Mechanics

Carbon nanotube structures correspond to the vibrational frequencies and modes of CNTs. In this study, the vibrational frequencies and the Raman RBM (radial breathing mode) of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) embedded in elastic medium are simulated based on a continuum mechanics. According to this the theoretical analysis, we can understand how the vibrational modes of CNTs effect the RBM frequency shift. It is found that the vibrational frequency of RBM is complicated due to the van der Waals (vdW) interaction between layers of MWCNTs. The highest RBM frequency of MWCNTs depends mostly on the diameter of the innermost layer, being insensitive to the layer numbers. The analytical approximation offers a useful method for determining precisely the diameter of the MWCNTs.
Spillovers and Employment : A Micro-econometric Analysis

In this paper we analyze the relationship between R&D activity, spillovers and employment at the firm level. A reduced form labour demand equation is estimated. R&D expenditures can account for both product and process innovation. The analysis is based upon a new dataset composed of 879 worldwide R&D-intensive manufacturing firms whose information has been collected for the period 2002-2010. We use data from all EU R&D investment scoreboards editions issued every year until 2011 by the JRC-IPTS (scoreboards). The main contribution to the existing literature is to investigate also the impact of outside R&D activity on own employment level. In particular, the paper investigates the role of R&D spillovers within the pillars of the Triad: United States, Japan and European economic area, but it goes beyond the previous studies by considering more opportune spillover components. Indeed, the potential stock of spillovers is dissociated into four components: the national stock, the international stock, the intra-industry stock and finally the inter-industry one. In this way, we will be able to appreciate to what extent geographical and cultural contiguity matters, by using an updated sample relative to large worldwide firms. The empirical results suggest a significant impact of R&D spillover effects on firms’ employment but the results are quite differentiated according to the spillover stock type and this may represent a relevant source of policy implications.
Use of GA based approach for engineering design through WWW

Today's industrial environment requires engineering design to be achieved by geographically distributed engineering teams who may work on different computer platforms, so the analogy can be presented as the distributed constraint optimization problems. This paper presents an agile approach that carries out a concurrent optimization of a product design and its associate constraint satisfaction in manufacturing perspective. Also, the approach has been implemented through the World Wide Web (WWW) regardless of the geographical constraints and different platforms used. In this paper, the hybrid evolution computation (EC) approaches combing genetic algorithm and stochastic annealing algorithms are applied to find optimal or near optimal solutions for two engineering design cases. The main contribution of this paper is to provide an agile approach for solving the engineering design problem which is modeled by the nonlinear programming model, and the approach is implemented through the WWW regardless of the geographical constraints and different platforms used. Experimental results are presented to exhibit the superior performance of the proposed methodology.
Reconstruction of high-resolution Depth Map using Sparse Linear Model

In this paper, we propose a method that constructs a high-resolution depth image with high quality from a low-resolution depth image that is noisy and contains holes. We believe that the high-resolution depth map is generated by sparse linear combination of atoms from an over- complete dictionary, and the low-resolution depth map are the samples from the high-resolution depth map. Under Bayesian framework, we find the optimal sparse coefficient vector that represents the high-resolution map best. Comprehensive quantitative comparisons show that our method outperforms existing approaches when applied on Middlebury dataset, and qualitative comparison on real scenes indicates that our algorithm performs best.
The RBI's Monetary Policy Reaction Function Does monetary policy in India follow an inflation targeting rule?

The paper assesses the RBI’s monetary policy response function to economic conditions in India using limited dependent models. Given the non-uniform and discrete nature of intervention, these models are likely to provide a more appropriate framework of analysis than the linear “Taylor Rules” usually used. The main result of this paper is that the RBI’s monetary policy, since 2000, seems to have targeted the current output gap rather than inflation. There is evidence of greater persistence in the rate hike sequence than in the rate cut, which might be construed as indirect evidence of asymmetry in the response function. As possible explanation of the targeting of the output gap, we find that the current and lagged output gap does indeed affect inflation.
Thomas-Fermi approximation for Bose-Einstein condensates in traps

Thomas-Fermi theory for Bose-Einstein condensates in inhomogeneous traps is revisited. The phase-space distribution function of the condensate in the Thomas-Fermi limit $(\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{\ensuremath{\Elzxh}}0)$ is ${f}_{0}(\mathit{R},\mathit{p})\ensuremath{\propto}\ensuremath{\delta}(\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{-}{H}_{\mathrm{cl}})$ where ${H}_{\mathrm{cl}}$ is the classical counterpart of the self-consistent Gross-Pitaevskii Hamiltonian. Starting from this distribution function the Thomas-Fermi kinetic energy is calculated for any number of particles. Good agreement between the Gross-Pitaevskii and Thomas-Fermi kinetic energies is found even for low and intermediate particle numbers N. Application of this Thomas-Fermi theory to the attractive case and to the calculation of the frequencies of the monopole and quadrupole excitations in the sum rule approach yields conclusive results as well. The difference with the usual Thomas-Fermi approach to the Bose-Einstein condensates (large-N limit) is discussed in detail.
Efficacy and Safety of Long-term Complementary Treatment with Standardised European Mistletoe Extract (Viscum album L.) in Addition to the Conventional Adjuvant Oncological Therapy in Patients with Primary Non-metastatic Breast Cancer

Results of a multicentre, comparative, epidemiological cohort study in Germany and Switzerland Paul R. Bocka, Walter E. Friedelb, Jürgen Hanischa, Marita Karasmanna, and Berthold Schneiderc Institute for Medical Research and Statistics, IFAG Basel AGa, Basel (Switzerland), Hospital Bad Bocklet, Department of Oncologyb, Bad Bocklet (Germany), and Institute of Medical Statistics, University of Hannover, Medical Schoolc, Hannover (Germany)
Group completion and units in I-spaces

The category of I-spaces is the diagram category of spaces indexed by finite sets and injections. This is a symmetric monoidal category whose commutative monoids model all E-infinity spaces. Working in the category of I-spaces enables us to simplify and strengthen previous work on group completion and units of E-infinity spaces. As an application we clarify the relation to Gamma-spaces and show how the spectrum of units associated with a commutative symmetric ring spectrum arises through a chain of Quillen adjunctions.
Coupled measurements of hydraulic permeability and full stiffness tensor compaction trends in artificial shales

Understanding of compaction trends of elastic and hydraulic properties in anisotropic shales is crucial for exploration of energy resources, ecological disposal of nuclear waste, and hydrogeological applications. However, complexity of the natural shale mineralogy and lack of quality data available for analysis results in poor knowledge of these compaction trends. Careful control over the shale mineralogy, pore fluid composition and applied stresses allows us to simulate the natural environments and acquire quality data on the properties of artificial shales. Here for the first time we present methodology and describe a setup that allows simultaneous acquisition of all five independent elastic constants and extremely low hydraulic permeability values of transversely isotropic artificial shale samples during mechanical compaction experiments (porosity decrease from 40% to 10%). Hydraulic permeabilities of artificially compacted samples are comparable to the ones of natural shales. Permeability drops exponentially with compaction. Silt fraction and clay mineralogy are the two key parameters that are responsible for broad variations of permeability in shales with the same porosity. We provide analytical equations that allow calculating permeability if porosity and silt fraction are known. Elastic constants of clay matrix exhibit positive linear trends with the porosity decrease. Small variations in clay mineralogy have a minor effect on absolute values of elastic coefficients or anisotropy but lead to noticeable increase of the compressional (VP) to shear (VS) velocities ratio at the same porosity. Finally, strong correlations (R2 above 0.95) of the hydraulic permeability with acoustic impedance and VP/V S ratio are observed for all the prepared samples.
PICTURING IRONY: the subversive power of photography

There are two good reasons why we should regard irony as more than merely an interesting aside. The first has to do with the increasing salience of irony not just in contemporary photography but in the arts more generally. The postmodernist distrust of meta-narratives and dominant representations has given rise to an increasingly self-questioning and self-referring style of art. During the last two decades in particular there has been a tendency among artists to use photography not as a definitive record of reality, but as a conspicuous artifice, one possible representation among many equally plausible representations of how the world appears. Since one of the main functions of irony is to subvert dominant representations, it is not surprising to find that irony figures prominently in photography today. The challenge is to understand how it works.
Kiwifruit causal mapping in 2008: Comparisons to 2005 and to other sectors

This work was funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (Contract Number AGRB0301). ARGOS also acknowledges financial assistance from: ZESPRI Innovation Company, Fonterra, Merino New Zealand Inc., COKA (Certified Organic Kiwifruit Growers Association) and in-kind support from Te Runanga O Ngāi Tahu.
The impact of organisational culture on gold mining activities in the Free State

The political and social transformation process in South Africa is forcing organisations to avoid the sensitive, unpleasant and potentially volatile behaviour at workplace that can arise when groups or individuals who differ work together or come into close contact with each other. Therefore, management developed a corporate culture which creates an environment that is conducive to performance improvement, shapes the way people act and interact, as a result, this culture influences how things get done. The corporate culture encompasses the organisation`s goals, business ethics and dominant ideologies. Based on the results of this study, these cultural changes ought to be driven by the fact that employees respond to the way in which the organisation treats them. The research aims to investigate the impact of organisational culture on the gold mining activities. The impact of organisational culture is demonstrated through a sense of identity and unity of purpose by the members of the organisation, commitment of employees to their work and existence of strategies and programmes which provide guidance on what is expected. The premise is that organisational culture determines socialisation, power relationship, policies and procedures, reward systems, communication systems and ideology, all of which have a significant impact on the day to day experiences of all employees.
Grazing by Antarctic krill Euphausia superba on Phaeocystis antarctica: an immunochemical approach

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for Phaeocystis antarctica was devel- oped and used to determine the extent of grazing by Euphausia superba on this prymnesiophyte. First, a specific antiserum to P. antarctica was produced and tested on phytoplankton cells and extracts. Then, the antiserum was tested on extracts of stomachs from krill fed diets of either Thalas- siosira antarctica or P. antarctica, and also on mixtures of these extracts. The antiserum response was a logarithmic function of the percentage of the extract mixture that came from P. antarctica-fed krill. In the field, the antiserum was tested on krill collected during December 1996 to February 1997 in the Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research study region west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The antiserum response suggested that krill ingested P. antarctica at 20% of the stations tested, most of them in nearshore areas. Krill grazed P. antarctica only at stations where concentrations of the marker pig- ment for P. antarctica, 19'-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin, were above 0.150 µg l -1 . At these stations, the percentage of P. antarctica in the krill stomach extracts was positively correlated with chlorophyll a concentrations, but negatively correlated with the proportion of P. antarctica within the phytoplank- ton community. Overall, P. antarctica appeared to comprise a relatively small proportion of the phyto- plankton utilized by krill, both spatially and temporally.
Cooperation and Trust in Japanese and British Samples: Evidence From Incomplete Information Games

Most human relationships are characterized by reciprocal patterns of give-and-take that can be studied using a decision-making task called the Centipede game. The game involves 2 players alternating in choosing between cooperation and defection, with their choices affecting payoffs to themselves and the co-player. We compared trust and cooperation of Japanese and U.K. samples in the Centipede game. To increase the game’s applicability to real-life decision situations, we added 3 treatment conditions to manipulate payoff information. Our between-subjects design comprised the following 4 conditions: (a) full payoff information, (b) full payoff information framed as percentages, (c) partial payoff information with absolute (own payoff) information only, and (d) partial payoff information with relative information only. Comparing Japanese and U.K. students’ decisions, the Japanese cooperated significantly more frequently than the British. The manipulation of payoff information also affected decision making. In Japan, both treatment conditions with incomplete information yielded significantly higher cooperation levels than the control. In the U.K., only the condition with absolute payoff information produced significantly higher cooperativeness. Overall, these findings suggest that Japanese samples cooperate more frequently in repeated interactions than British samples and that this may be due to the assurance-based trust elicited by reciprocal relationships that has been identified as a typical feature of Japanese culture. In situations with incomplete information, expectations about the stake size may guide decision making, with lower expectations resulting in higher cooperation levels.
High level production of the recombinant gag24 protein from HIV-1 IN Escherichia coli

The gag24 gene of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) was expressed under the control of the tryptophan promoter in Escherichia coli . The effect of several parameters on the production of gag24 was studied. The expression level achieved (25%) depended on the host strain and the induction conditions. The developed fermentative process was scaled-up to 50 L, where 417 mg/L of volumetric production and 34 mg/L.h of productivity, were obtained. Keywords: Escherichia coli , gag24, HIV-1, scale-up
Current status of root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) in Tamil Nadu

The present study was conducted to identify the current status of root knot nematodes in Tamil Nadu. Totally 20 districts were surveyed (2015-2016) for presence of root knot nematodes from various crop ecosystems and it revealed seven species viz., Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica, M. arenaria, M. hapla, M. graminicola, M. enterolobii (Syn: M. mayaguensis) and M. naasi. Among these species, M. incognita was present in all districts of Tamil Nadu that were surveyed. M. incognita, M. javanica, M. arenaria, M. graminicola and M. enterolobii were present in tropical and sub tropical regions and M. hapla and M. naasi were present in temperate regions especially in the Nilgiris. M. incognita populations were found mixed with M. javanica in some samples collected in tropical areas, while M. hapla populations were mixed with M. incognita and M. naasi in certain temperate regions. Incidence of M. naasi seems to be first report from India and it was spotted from Orange Jessamine (Cestrum aurantiacum) belonging to solanaceae family and grown as a hedge plant in the Nilgiris. M. enterolobii is an emerging problem in guava and has been reported first from Tamil Nadu in recent years and wide spread now across the Country. Meloidogyne spp. are usually differentiated by posterior cuticular pattern (PCP) and stylet length of second stage juveniles.
The singular role of the atmospheric stability in forest fires

Low stability favors the upward transport of the hot air generated by combustion. On the contrary, strong stability diminishes the potential for this vertical movement. Therefore, it could be concluded that low stability favors fire development. But this study shows that low stability increases fire activity only in dry atmospheric conditions. Statistical analysis of more than 70,000 fires in the period 1993-2005 (JulySeptember) for Galicia (NW Spain) indicates that the daily number of forest fires is greater on dry days with low stability. This dependence on stability, however, reverses for moist days. The lowest values of the daily number of forest fires occur on those days with low stability coupled with high humidity. This bimodal and seemingly contradictory dependence of fire occurrence with respect to atmospheric stabil ity causes misleading results in simple statistical correlations between stability and the number of fires. Furthermore, this contradictory role of the atmospheric stability implies ambiguous values in risk indices that apply simple numerical addition to stability and humidity.
Bases para implementar estrategias de restauración: el sistema socio-ecológico San Nicolás Zoyatlan (Guerrero, México).

En America Latina las comunidades indigenas se han distinguido por la continua marginacion y degradacion de sus sistemas socio-ecologicos (SSE). San Nicolas Zoyatlan (Guerrero, Mexico) es un ejemplo de esta problematica. Con el proposito de establecer estrategias de restauracion, realizamos un diagnostico in situ para evaluar el estado actual de la comunidad y sus factores de disturbio. Se integraron metodos de las ciencias ambientales y sociales para analizar, en un contexto diacronico y sincronico, como se han utilizado los recursos naturales del SSE. Los resultados indican que el disturbio ecologico cronico del sistema y los conflictos agrarios han contribuido a la degradacion de la dinamica de la vegetacion y el suelo. La vegetacion se encuentra empobrecida y domina el bosque tropical caducifolio (BTC) secundario arbustivo, ademas el riesgo de degradacion del suelo es alto, a pesar del conocimiento y aprecio que los habitantes ostentan sobre este recurso. Para revertir estos problemas, definimos practicas de rehabilitacion con la participacion de los habitantes. En sus terrenos se establecieron sistemas agroforestales (SAFs) y plantaciones (PLs) utilizando 18 especies nativas al BTC de la region. La eleccion de especies se determino con base en las preferencias locales. La evaluacion que estamos realizando indica que a mas de una decada los SAFs y las PLs son mantenidos y manejados por los habitantes, esto se refleja en la talla actual de las plantas cuyos aportes contribuyen a mejorar las caracteristicas fisicas y quimicas del suelo, como la formacion de agregados, la capacidad de intercambio cationico y el contenido de materia organica. Sin embargo, concluimos que es necesario confirmar que los procesos ecosistemicos y servicios ambientales esten recuperados y se mantengan en el tiempo, ademas de determinar como han influido e influiran los factores socioeconomicos en el mantenimiento de las practicas de rehabilitacion.