Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A comparative analysis of gene expression among castes of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes using expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and a microarray

Termites (Isoptera) are separated into morphologically and behaviorally specialized castes of sterile workers and soldiers, and the reproductive alates. Previous research on eusocial insects has indicated that caste differentiation has a genetic basis. Although much has been studied about the genetic basis of caste differentiation and behavior in the honey bee, Apis mellifera, termites remain comparatively understudied. Therefore, my objective was to compare the gene expression patterns of different castes of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes based on EST analyses and a microarray. Soldier, worker, and alate caste and two larval life stage cDNA libraries were constructed, and ~15,000 randomly chosen clones were sequenced to compile an EST database. Putative gene functions were assigned based on a BLASTX Swissprot search. Categorical expression patterns for each library were compared using the in silico methods of BLAST2GO and r-statistics. I chose 2,240 unique-ESTs based on their putative function and sequence quality, which I used to fabricate a Combimatrix microarray. I used the microarray to compare expression levels between workers and soldiers from Kansas and Florida populations. Seventy to ninety percent of the sequences from the ESTs of each caste and life stages had no significant similarity to those in existing databases. All libraries contained sequences with putative reproductive functions, which was unexpected in the non-reproductive soldier and worker castes. Sequences of interest that showed a putative bias among castes include a viral protein in soldiers and a possible chemosensory protein in alates, which may be involved in termite reproductive functionality or communication. The microarray showed increased expression in the soldier caste of a sequence that matched tropomyosin and an increased expression level of a sequence that matched a PDZ-domain containing protein in some worker samples. This study leads to several candidate genes of potential caste specific function, which can be further tested using functional analysis and between the different castes and life stages of R. flavipes. These genes include the sequences similar to pebIII and RGS-GAIP. I have also expanded upon the available sequences for this termite and utilized the r-statistic in silico method for the first time to putatively compare gene expression in the different castes of a eusocial insect. The in silico analysis allowed us to identify several genes which may show biased expression patterns in the different cDNA libraries and which may reveal caste-specific expression controlling important functions after further analysis. These candidates include: an alate-biased gene, which had a predicted function of neurotransmitter secretion and cholesterol absorption as well as a late larval-biased gene which was predicted to be involved in protein biosynthesis and ligase activity.
The Angular Gyrus

There is considerable interest in the structural and functional properties of the angular gyrus (AG). Located in the posterior part of the inferior parietal lobule, the AG has been shown in numerous meta-analysis reviews to be consistently activated in a variety of tasks. This review discusses the involvement of the AG in semantic processing, word reading and comprehension, number processing, default mode network, memory retrieval, attention and spatial cognition, reasoning, and social cognition. This large functional neuroimaging literature depicts a major role for the AG in processing concepts rather than percepts when interfacing perception-to-recognition-to-action. More specifically, the AG emerges as a cross-modal hub where converging multisensory information is combined and integrated to comprehend and give sense to events, manipulate mental representations, solve familiar problems, and reorient attention to relevant information. In addition, this review discusses recent findings that point to the existence of multiple subdivisions in the AG. This spatial parcellation can serve as a framework for reporting AG activations with greater definition. This review also acknowledges that the role of the AG cannot comprehensibly be identified in isolation but needs to be understood in parallel with the influence from other regions. Several interesting questions that warrant further investigations are finally emphasized.
Prevalence of work related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and ergonomic risk assessment among readymade garment workers of Bangladesh: A cross sectional study

Background Work related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) are one of the most common occupational diseases which mainly affects the lower back, neck and upper and lower extremities. The aim of this study was to determine prevalence of WMSDs in nine body regions among Ready Made Garment (RMG) workers in Bangladesh and ergonomics assessment of their exposure to risk factors for the development of WMSDs. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among 232 RMG employees (male: 46; female: 186; age: >18yrs) from nine RMG factories in Dhaka division during October 2015 to February 2016. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire consist of demographic questions, Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire-Extended (NMQ-E) for WMSDs assessment in nine body regions and Quick Exposure Check (QEC) method for ergonomic assessment. Prevalence of WMSDs for each body region was determined. The association between WMSDs and ergonomic assessment of their exposure to risk factors were also analyzed. Results Respondents’ mean age was 31.3 years (SD = 7). Their mean Body Mass Index (BMI) was 23.51 kg/m2 (SD = 3.74). Among 186 female respondents, 46 reported lower back pain (24.7%) and 44 reported neck pain (23.7%). Among 46 male respondents, 10 reported neck pain (21.7%) while 6 reported knee pain (13%). Statistically significant relationship was found between twelve month WMSDs in anatomical region in elbows (p = 0.02), hips (p = 0.01), knees (p = 0.01) and ankle (p = 0.05) with age; upper back (p = 0.001), elbows (p = 0.001), wrists (p = 0.03), hips (p = 0.001) and ankles (p = 0.01) with job experience; hips with BMI (p = 0.03); elbows (p = 0.04) with daily working hour. QEC assessment showed that level of exposure to WMSDs risk was high among 80% of the study population (p<0.003). Conclusion The study found that lower back and neck were the most affected areas among RMG workers. Moreover, QEC findings warned the level of exposure to WMSDs risks is high and ergonomics intervention along with investigation and change to decrease exposure level is essential. Addressing musculoskeletal risk factors through ergonomic interventions in terms of working space, workers sitting/standing posture, seat and hand position during work and work-rest cycle are encouraged in RMG sector and policy makers.
Detection of Risk Factor Interactions in Cerebral Palsy Using Statistical Methods

Background: The interaction of the risk factors is an important focus in medical study. The etiology of CP is multi-factorial and usually arises from a series of causal pathways. Objectives: Theaimof thisstudywasto comparefourstatisticalmethodsto detecttheinteractionsof riskfactorsof cerebralpalsy (CP). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 225 children aged 1 - 6 years were studied during 2008 and 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Penalized logisticregression(PLR),multifactordimensionalityreduction(MDR),logicregression(LR)andclassiﬁcationregression(CR)meth-ods were used to detect interactions. Results: There was an interaction between the consanguinity factor and gender, asphyxia, preterm delivery, vaginal delivery, previous pregnancies, history of pregnancy, history of illness, sepsis, and small for gestational age (SGA). The methods used in this study were detect two-way (6 terms), three-way (11 terms) and four-way (2 terms) interaction terms. Of these interactions, asphyxia × consanguinity interaction was detected by MDR, LR, and CR methods. Conclusions: Our ﬁndings showed that the consanguinity factor had an interaction with most of the risk factors and especially consanguinity × asphyxiatermwasdetectedinallmethods. Sothisinteractiontermisveryimportantforconsideringbyclinicians.
GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN LINSEED GERMPLASM

Tadesse T. , Singh H. and Weyessa B. 2009. Genetic Divergence in Linseed Germplasm. J. Innov. Dev. Strategy. 3(2):13-20 Genetic diversity study on 81 linseed genotypes were conducted at two locations, Sinana and Robe in the highlands of Bale, in order to assess the nature and magnitude of genetic diversity for yield, yield related traits and oil content. The D 2 analysis allowed the 81 genotypes of linseed to be identified into ten distinctive clusters. The analysis indicated that genetic diversity was not necessarily related with geographic diversity. The observation suggested that accessions from different agro ecological zones fall in the same cluster and, thus, indicated their closeness. On the other hand, accessions from the same agro ecology were distributed to different clusters. Therefore, accessions from different regions might have the same genetic background and those from the same origin might have different genetic background. Maximum distance was observed between cluster I and IV (D 2 =762.3) at Sinana and between cluster I and III (880.65) at Robe whereas the minimum distance was between cluster VIII and IX (D 2 = 17.4) at Sinana and between cluster IX and X (D 2 = 20.837) at Robe. However, the analysis suggested that here is considerable diversity among the germplasm accessions included in the present study. There is good scope to bring about improvement through hybridization and selection by crossing accessions from different clusters.
Evolution and Structure of Biomolecules

Evolving molecules: DNA, RNA, ProteinsSeveral structures areresolved: we have the set of coordinates foralmost all atom positionsThere are several levels of structure organizationDNA RNA ProteinsI desoxyribonucleotidessequenceribonucleotidessequenceamino-acids se-quenceII double-helix loop and stem (dou-ble stranded regions)loop, helices, turns,strands and sheetsIII | yes, for rRNA andtRNAdomain organizationIV | rRNA a lot of protein com-plexes
Supplementary material

age, gender, race/ethnicity, Census Region, metropolitan status, education, household income, branch of service, and years in service. An iterative proportional fitting (raking) procedure was used to produce the final post-stratification weights. All participants provided informed consent and the study was approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Editorial

It is our honour to present the seventh issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing featuring research papers coordinated and edited on behalf of the SIGraDi organisation. Some information about SIGraDi may shed some light in the work here published. SIGraDi stands for “Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital” (www.sigradi.org) the principal Latin-American association of individuals (researchers, academics, students, and professionals) involved in digital graphics in design. Our organization provides the opportunity for people from Latin America and the rest of the world to meet and share their knowledge and expertise in this area. SIGraDi is seven years old and could be characterised by its adherence to 6 “I”s. First, SIGraDi believes in Interdisciplinarity. Its membership and meetings bring together individuals from a wide variety of fields that start with architecture but rapidly move into graphic, industrial, and textile design, urban planning, the visual and performing arts, cinematography, engineering, computer science and mathematics. Second, SIGraDi’s focus is decidedly International but is trying to strike a balance between the global and the regional.Third, it is committed to Informatics, that is, the new media and electronic technologies of our information age.We strive to remain alert to its impacts. Fourth, our community is Inclusive, as we seek to open opportunities to a diverse rang of people, voices, approaches, ideologies and so on. Fifth, SIGraDi seeks Innovation. It is only through creativity and experimentation that the world in general and the CAAD community in particular will find solutions to its growing challenges. Sixth and finally, we see our organization as Intimate because it encourages warm relationships among its members. Cultivating trust and friendship creates the foundation from which honest criticism and the sharing of knowledge and work can take place most fruitfully. For this issue, we invited presenters at our last conference to devote time and effort to significantly develop their research for publication in IJAC. Except for one of them, this research would normally have been presented in either Spanish or Portuguese.Were it not for this opportunity, these excellent studies would remain inaccessible to the English speaking world and most of the international CAAD community.This would surely be a loss for everybody.An essential mission of both IJAC and SIGraDi is to advance the state-of-the-art of architectural and design computing by including world-class work that provide the widest possible representation of ideas, methods, technologies, and so forth. We are confident that the reader will find that the selected work contributes to this cause. The first two articles by Senegala and Muñoz & Lopez look critically at
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Comparison of Effects of Active Recovery and Deep Water Running on Soccer Players Indices of Muscular Damage

Introduction: The present research was aimed at comparison of effects of active recovery and deep water running on serum levels of Creatine Kinase (CK), Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) and, Aspartate Aminotransferases (AST) as indices of muscular damage subsequent to a simulated soccer game among 19-21 year old players of Ahwaz Naft soccer team present in premier league. Method: 18 players of Naft soccer team were randomly assigned to either of the two 9 membered groups of active recovery (AR) and deep water running (DWR). Afterwards, the aforementioned participants took part in a 90 minute (including two 45 minute rounds of random activity) simulated soccer activity that was primarily designed by Bangsbow (1991) and modified by Bishop et al., (1999). After the activity, one group was administered an active recovery while the other was administered deep water running recovery. In order to compare the changes of variables in the aforementioned groups, the statistical method of mixed variance analysis among subjects was used. Findings: The difference between changes of variables between the groups of AR and DWR was not statistically significant (P= 0.541, P= 115 and P= 748 respectively for LDH, CK and AST). Conclusion: It seems that there is no statistically significant difference between the effects of active recovery and deep water running recovery on muscular damages of soccer players after a period of playing. However still more research is required in this regard.
Supplementary Information

We combined published food webs from [1], [2], and [3]. Of the 358 food webs available 2 from [1], 58 were rejected because their original source was unpublished or could not be 3 retrieved. We further eliminated 13 source or sink webs (which describe feeding links 4 flowing from or to a particular resource or top predator rather than the interactions of an 5 entire community), 8 plant-pollinator webs, 33 host-parasitoid webs, and 2 networks de6 scribing competitive interactions. Additionally, we eliminated 2 webs describing inferred 7 interactions in an extinct community, 2 webs describing compartments rather than par8 ticular species, 11 “generalised schemes” that were not based on direct field data, and 4 9 webs where it was not clear which of several described study sites were used to construct 10 the food web (and therefore the latitude of the food web could not be included). This left 11 us with 226 webs from [1]. 12
JCB_201407016 1..15

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 208 No. 6 713–727 www.jcb. org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201407016 JCB 713 *C. Reyes and C. Serrurier contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to Sylvie Tournier: sylvie.tournier-gachet@univ-tlse3.fr; or Yannick Gachet: yannick.gachet@univ-tlse3.fr Abbreviations used in this paper: CPC, chromosomal passenger complex; HP1, heterochromatin protein 1; rDNA, ribosomal DNA; SMC, structural maintenance of chromosome; SPB, spindle pole body. Introduction
Specification of the quality of ionising radiations for unified dosimetry in radiobiology and radiological protection

It is widely agreed in radiobiological and biophysical research that the DNA is the dominant target which can lead to terminal biological damage in the form of cancer or cell death. A main objective in radiation protection is to set the limits of the possible harmful effects to the general population exposed to ionising radiation at low level (environmental level). The initial slope of the dose-response curve is found to be an appropriate parameter to achieve this objective. Bench mark data sets of the initial effects of ionising radiation on cells in vitro were formed which include both physical characterisation of the radiation and the radiobiological parameters. These data-bases include the mammalian cell end-points: cellular inactivation, chromosome dicentrics, HPRT mutations and oncogenic transformations. On the molecular scale, the data­ bases include single-strand and double strand breaks induced in the DNA of boih mammalian and non-mammalian cells. Analysis of bio-effect mechanisms of damage to mammalian cells in terms of the quality parameter ‘mean free path for linear primary ionisation’ for ionising radiation, strongly suggest that there is a common mechanism for the biological endpoints of dicentrics, mutations, and oncogemc transformations. A unified response is obtained for all types of heavy ions and all cells which show: a common inflection point at inter-spacing distance equivalent to '\,0 1.4 ± 0.5 nm, a saturation region at A < Ao and almost constant slope for 1 > Ao. The lethal lesions are identified as dsb’s in the intracellular DNA. It follows that radiation risk factors can be determined on the basis of simple ratios to the inactivation cross sections. The size of these genes are found to be in close proximity to the optimised saturation levels. The probabilities of risk with respect to inactivation, for chromosome dicentrics, oncogenic transformations, and mutations of the HPRT gene -4 -5 are respectively 0.18, 1.6 x 10 and 2.91 x 10*. The same analysis shows that sparsely ionising radiations, which have lower effect cross-sections by an order of magnitude or more, can never reach saturation.
A Technique to Color-Mark Incubating Gulls

--Modification of a method used to mark Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) produced a technique suitable for color-marking Herring (Larus argentatus), Great Black-backed (L. marinus), and Laughing (L. atricilla) Gulls. Gulls marked themselves while incubating artificial eggs treated with a mixture of petroleum jelly and Rhodamine B. Marks persisted on gulls a minimum of 28-42 d. Low levels of mortality (0.05-0.27%) and nest destruction (0.46%) were associated with this technique. Substitution of Malachite Green for Rhodamine B proved ineffective, suggesting this method is best suited for water soluble dyes. T•,CNICA PARA MARCAR A GAVIOTAS CON COLORES DURANTE LA INCUBACI(•N Sinopsis.--Una modificaci6n del m6todo utilizado para marcar a garzas ganaderas (Bubulcus ibis) produjo una t6cnica adecuada para marcar con colores a individuos de Larus argentatus, L. marinus, 3⁄4 L. atricilla. Las gaviotas se marcaron a sl mismas mientras incubaban huevos artificiales tratados con una mezcla de vaselina 3⁄4 rodamina B. Las marcas permanecieron visibles en las gayiotas pot un mlnimo de 28-42 d. Bajos niveles de mortalidad (0.05-0.27%) 3⁄4 destrucci6n de nidos (0.46%) fueron asociodos a la t6cnica de marcar. Una sustituci6n de la rodamina B pot verde de malaquita prob6 set inefectiva, 1o que sugiere que el nuevo m6todo es mils adecuado para tintes solubles en agua. Paton and Pank (1986) described a technique that permitted the colormarking of large numbers of colonial birds with minimal disturbance. A mixture of silica gel and Rhodamine B powder was placed on Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) eggs, and egrets color-marked themselves while incubating. Paton and Pank (1986) suggested this method could be applied to light colored birds, such as other egrets and larids, but cautioned that the effect of the gel and dye mixture on egg survival was unknown. While investigating gull movements, we developed a marking technique, based on that of Paton and Pank (1986), that has minimal effect on egg and adult survival. Here we describe the technique and report on its effectiveness for marking three species of gulls.
Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Background: We explored the potential relationship between steady state serum bilirubin levels and the incidence of cholelithiasis in the context of UGT1A1 gene A(TA)nTAA promoter polymorphism in Omani sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients, homozygotes for African (Benin and Bantu) and Arab-Indian  S haplotypes, but sharing the same microgeographical environment and comparable life style factors. Methods: 136 SCA patients were retrospectively studied in whom imaging data including abdominal CT scan, MRI or Ultrasonography were routinely available. Available data on the mean steady state hematological/biochemical parameters (n=136), s haplotypes(n=136),  globin gene status (n=105) and UGT1A1 genotypes (n=133) were reviewed from the respective medical records. Results: The mean serum total bilirubin level was significantly higher in the homozygous UGT1A1(AT) 7 group as compared to UGT1A1(AT) 6 group. Thus, not cholelithiasis but total serum bilirubin was influenced by UGT1A1 polymorphism in this SCA cohort. Conclusion: As observed in other population groups, the UGT1A1 (AT) 7 homozygosity was significantly associated with raised serum total bilirubin level, but the prevalence of gallstones in the Omani SCA patients was not associated with  thalassaemia, UGT1A1 polymorphism, or  s haplotypes. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. Chronic hemolysis in sickle cell anemia (SCA), results in hyperbilirubinemia, as the water insoluble bilirubin needs to be enzymatically converted into water soluble bilirubin glucoronides, for its elimination through bile by uridine glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzyme. 1,2 Chronic hyperbilirubinemia, thus over time, can lead to the formation of gall stones (cholelithiasis), a common