Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Histological and histomorphometrical changes of different regions of oviduct during follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle in adult Azarbaijan buffalo

Summary In this study the reproductive organs of adult and apparently healthy female Azarbaijan buffaloes were collected after slaughter from abattoir. Through observation of the ovaries, the luteal and follicular phases of each buffalo were specified. A total number of 36 oviducts at follicular phase and 36 oviducts at luteal phase were collected and 3 tissue samples were taken from 3 regions of infundibulum, ampulla and isthmus of each oviduct. Sections were stained through the use of HE the thick tunica muscularis in isthmus transports sperm cells up; and both require promoting fertilization to occur in ampulla.
Effects of Gymnema lactiferum leaf on serum glucose and cholesterol levels ofnormo-glycaemic Wistar rats

Gymnema lactiferum var. lactiferum is a twining plant which belongs to the family Asclepiadaceae(milk weed family). This plant is distributed in many South Asian countries including, Assam,Malay Peninsula, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. It is reported that G. lactiferum leaf powder is usedpopularly by the people in Jaffna, as a treatment for diabetes. The present study indicates that theleaf powder does not result in a significant reduction of FBS (p=0.64) or serum total cholesterollevels (p=0.49) when tested with normo-glycaemic Wistar rats following feeding for 4 weeks.Further the leaf extract did not produce any significant effect on blood glucose levels on theglucose challenge (p=0.26) in the normo-glycaemic Wistar rats.
Isolation of chloroplast FtsZ and AtpC, and analysis of protein targeting into the complex chloroplast of the haptophyte Pavlova pinguis

Haptophytes are abundant phytoplankton that possess 4 membrane-bound chloroplasts. These chloroplasts originated from a red alga that was taken up by a eukaryotic host cell. No previous work has reported on the protein targeting of haptophytes, except for computational analyses. We isolated the two genes encoding chloroplast proteins AtpC1 and FtsZ from Pavlova pinguis and analyzed their molecular structure. These proteins had a bipartite sequence at the N-terminus, which consisted of an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) signal sequence followed by a chloroplast transit peptide. To demonstrate the functionality of the ER signal sequences and the chloroplast targeting sequences in vivo, we fused the predicted ER signal sequence, chloroplast transit peptide, and bipartite sequence of AtpC1 and FtsZ individually to the N-terminus of green fluorescent protein (sGFP). This was then introduced into cultured tobacco cells. Microscopic observation revealed that the predicted ER signal sequences of AtpC1 and FtsZ had the ability to localize to the ER, and the following amino acids worked as a chloroplast transit peptide in the tobacco cells. We concluded that the AtpC1 and FtsZ of P. pinguis have a bipartite sequence at the N-terminus and a molecular structure in common with other independently established secondarily endosymbiotic algae.
Effect of Intensification on Grow Out of the Amazon River Prawn, Macrobrachium amazonicum

The effects of intensification on growth, survival, productivity, population structure, and distribution of harvested biomass in individual size classes of Macrobrachium amazonicum in semi-intensive culture were evaluated. Postlarvae (0.01 g) were stocked in 12 ponds at densities of 10, 20, 40, and 80/m2 (three replicates per treatment) and raised for 5.5 mo. Average individual weight significantly decreased and productivity significantly increased as stocking density increased (P 0.05). Prawn mean weight at harvest ranged from 3.6 (80/m2) to 7.0 g (10/m2). Average survival ranged from 65.5% (40/m2) to 72.8% (20/m2), while productivity ranged from 508 (10/m2) to 2051 kg/ha (80/m2). Harvested biomass showed a clear bimodal distribution in individual size classes indicating the occurrence of heterogeneous growth, which may affect management and market strategies. Harvested biomass of prawns weighing more than 7 g (the best market size) increases for stocking densities up to 40/m2 and stabilizes between 40 and 80/m2. Growth reduction was associated with a decreasing frequency and average weight of green claw 1 and green claw 2 male morphotypes and adult females as density increased. Thus, the distribution of male morphotypes and sexually mature females are affected by density-dependent factors. Results suggest that prawn density plays an important role on M. amazonicum grow-out phase, as has been demonstrated for other species of the genus Macrobrachium. M. amazonicum tolerates grow-out intensification and may be raised in both semi-intensive and intensive systems stocked at very high densities yielding high productivity.
NC 1 CELBR and NC 2 CELBR: Early Blight and Late Blight-resistant Fresh Market Tomato Breeding Lines

NC 1 CELBR and NC 2CELBR are sister lines developed in a long-term breeding program in North Carolina to combine early blight and late blight resistances into adapted fresh-market tomato backgrounds. The pedigree of the two breeding lines traces back to NC 215E-1(93), a large-fruited determinate line with moderate resistance to the foliage blight phase of early blight and high resistance to the stem lesion phase of early blight (Fig. 1). NC 215 E-1(93) has a complex pedigree extending back to NC EBR-1, which has moderate foliage resistance to early blight derived from the Lycopersicon hirsutum L. (currently Solanum habrochaites S. Knapp & D.M. Spooner) source PI 126445 and NC EBR-2, which has moderate foliage resistance and a high level of stem lesion resistance to early blight derived from Campbell 1943 (Gardner, 1988). The Ph-2 gene for late blight resistance was derived from Richter’s wild tomato, and the Ph-3 gene was derived from L. 3707, a selection of the Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium L. (currently Solanum pimpinellifolium L.) line PI 365957 obtained from the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC). The Ph-2 and Ph-3 genes from these small-fruited sources were backcrossed into NC 215E-1(93) to develop large-fruited lines, which were then crossed to combine the Ph-2 and Ph-3 genes into the early blight resistant background derived from NC 215E-1(93). The resultant F1 hybrid, NC 03220, was selfed, and 96 F2 generation plants were tested in growth chambers using detached leaf inoculations (Brusca, 2003) for combined resistance to isolates (Ph2-OC and Ph3-OC) that specifically overcame Ph-2 and Ph-3. Plants exhibiting a high level of resistance to inoculation with the two isolates (Ph2-OC and Ph3-OC) separately and in combination were selfed in the greenhouse, and F3 generation plants were evaluated in the field for combined resistance to early blight and late blight. Selections were made in the field for the best horticultural traits, including fruit size and smoothness combined with resistances to early blight and late blight. The field selections, 33EB-1(2004) and 45EB2(2004), leading to NC 1 CELBR and NC 2 CELBR, respectively, were derived from a single F2 plant that was homozygous for the Ph-2 and Ph-3 genes combined based on field trials in 2004 and subsequent years and verified by detached leaf inoculations in the growth chamber (Brusca, 2003).
Cultural negotiation: Moving beyond a cycle of misunderstanding in early childhood settings

Developing partnerships with families is critical in childcare services. However, families and early childhood educators bring to settings different cultural backgrounds, experiences and expectations of their role and the role of the childcare service. These differences can impact the family–educator partnership. This article examines some issues that arise when there is a disparity in understanding of expectations, which can result when educators are attempting to provide continuity of care-giving practices and families are hesitant about sharing their home practices. This study explores communication processes and expectations of continuity of care between home and early childhood setting. A social constructivism approach using qualitative methods of data gathering explored family and educator perceptions of continuity between home and setting. A cycle of misunderstanding is explained that ascribes characteristics of possible family educators’ responses as a result of a poor understanding between roles. The discussion draws together the need to ascertain processes for negotiating with families and exploring practices that support the building of partnerships between families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and educators in childcare settings.
Construction of Escherichia coli K-12 Strain Deficient in relA and spoT Using the λ Red Site-Specific Recombinase System

Previous studies have shown that an exposure to sub-inhibitory levels of kanamycin induces capsule synthesis which confers antibiotic resistance. To examine the role of spoT and relA genes in capsule synthesis and acquired physiological antibiotic resistance during sub-inhibitory kanamycin treatment, multiple studies were performed but showed inconclusive results. A potential explanation for the lack of success in the past was the use of genetic mutants containing a number of uncharacterized mutations, which resulted in limited comparability. In this study, the λ Red recombinase system has been utilized to construct an E. coli K-12 ΔrelAΔspoT mutant by disrupting the spoT gene in E. coli K-12 ΔrelA strain, JW2755-3. A PCR fragment was generated using primers with homologous sequences found upstream and downstream of the spoT gene, and a template plasmid, pKD3, carrying chloramphenicol resistance gene that is flanked by FLP recognition target sites. This product was electroporated into the strain JW2755-3 expressing the λ Red recombinase system. Five chloramphenicolresistant transformants were selected and PCR-tested for the presence of new junctions and locus-specific fragments. Construct SL11W447-4 had the correct structure as evidenced by four PCR tests performed using various combinations of locus- and cat-specific primers. This work provides a basis for future studies.
Improving Game-Based Learning Experience Through Game Appropriation

Computational Thinking is an essential concept in this technological age. Several countries have included this subject as part of their educational program, and many others intend to do it. However, this is not a regular subject like maths or history; it needs more training (to increase the capabilities/skills) than studying and memorizing concepts. So it comes clear that the introduction of Computational Thinking to students requires the choice of the most suitable learning resources. Game-Based Learning was proven to be an eﬀective teaching method. Therefore, we elected games as our learning resources. Nonetheless, we believe that the learning experience and motivation of students when playing games can be improved by choosing the most suitable game for each student. So, this paper focuses on the adaptation of Game-Based Learning to each student to develop Computational Thinking. We will argue that this adaptation can be done in a computer supported systematic way. To make that possible, on one hand, it will be necessary to classify games – an original ontology was used for that. On the other hand, it is crucial to establish the students’ proﬁle, having into consideration sociodemographic factors, personality, level of education, among others. Then, resorting to a similarity evaluation process it is feasible to choose the games that best ﬁt the players, augmenting the eﬀectiveness of the learning experience. We intend to start applying our approach – training Computational Thinking – to young students, since the ﬁrst scholar years. However, we are also considering its application to adults starting programming studies.
Deg Proteases in Arabidopsis thaliana

Two distinct peroxisomal targeting signals (PTSs), the C-terminal PTS1 and the N-terminal PTS2, are defined. Processing of the PTS2 on protein import is conserved in higher eukaryotes. Recently, candidates for the responsible processing protease were identified from plants (DEG15) and mammals (TYSND1). We demonstrate that plants lacking DEG15 show an expressed phenotype potentially linked to reduced β-oxidation, indicating for the first time the impact of protein processing on peroxisomal functions in higher eukaryotes. Mutational analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana DEG15 revealed that conserved histidine, aspartate, and serine residues are essential for the proteolytic activity of this enzyme in vitro. This indicates that DEG15 and related enzymes are trypsinlike serine endopeptidases. Deletion of a plant specific stretch present in the protease domain diminished but not abolished the proteolytic activity of DEG15 against the PTS2-containing glyoxysomal malate dehydrogenase. Fluorescence microscopy showed that a DEG15-green fluorescent protein fusion construct is Deg Proteases in Arabidopsis 28 targeted to peroxisomes in planta. In vivo studies with isolated homozygous deg15 knock-out mutants and complemented mutant lines suggest that this enzyme mediates general processing of PTS2-containing proteins.
Effects of habitat disturbance and pollination type on the interspecific variation in pollen-ovule ratios Vliv disturbance a způsobu opylení na vnitrodruhovou variabilitu v poměru mezi počtem pylových zrn a vajíček

In this study two important factors that are thought to govern interspecific variation in pollen-ovule ratios were examined. First, the effect of habitat disturbance on variation in pollen-ovule ratio was determined. The second factor studied was the pollination type, used as a surrogate for the efficiency of pollination. Because seed mass is known to be strongly correlated with the pollen-ovule ratio it was also included in the analyses to examine if a possible effect of habitat disturbance or pollination type is still valid after accounting for the effect of seed mass. Furthermore, phylogenetically comparative methods were used to investigate whether the correlations between traits were maintained through evolutionary history or are only present in recent species data, i.e. in analyses that do not consider phylogenetic relationships between species. In conflict with the reproductive assurance hypothesis, habitat disturbance did not have a significant effect on interspecific pollen-ovule ratio variation. In contrast, pollination type accounted for a significant proportion of the variation in pollen-ovule ratios, even after taking into account the strong effect of seed mass. General results do not differ between the cross-species and phylogenetic comparative approaches. The results both accord with the predictions of the sex allocation theory and the proposition that the chance of a pollen grain reaching a stigma governs the pollen-ovule ratio.
A Phylogenetic Analysis within Tribes Gloxinieae and Gesnerieae (Gesnerioideae: Gesneriaceae)

Abstract The evolution of floral symmetry in Asteridae has been of recent interest. Three genera with full or partial radial floral symmetry are found within tribes Gesnerieae and Gloxinieae of Gesneriaceae where the remaining taxa have bilaterally symmetrical flowers. These tribes have been shown to each be monophyletic and to be sister to each other, but a full analysis within each tribe has not demonstrated strongly supported sister group relationships among genera, especially those with radially symmetrical flowers. To assess sister group relationships more accurately, a phylogenetic analysis using GCYC (a Gesneriaceae homolog of CYCLOIDEA) sequences as well as four regions from the chloroplast genome (ndhF, trnL intron, trnF-trnL spacer, rpl20-rps12 spacer), ITS, and two paralogues of the nuclear encoded chloroplast expressed glutamine synthetase was conducted. The analyses for the most part resolved sister group relationships between radial and bilateral taxa with strong support as well as provided support for several clades within Gloxinieae and indicated that Phinaea is not a monophyletic genus.
OpusFilter: A Configurable Parallel Corpus Filtering Toolbox

This paper introduces OpusFilter, a flexible and modular toolbox for filtering parallel corpora. It implements a number of components based on heuristic filters, language identification libraries, character-based language models, and word alignment tools, and it can easily be extended with custom filters. Bitext segments can be ranked according to their quality or domain match using single features or a logistic regression model that can be trained without manually labeled training data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of OpusFilter on the example of a Finnish-English news translation task based on noisy web-crawled training data. Applying our tool leads to improved translation quality while significantly reducing the size of the training data, also clearly outperforming an alternative ranking given in the crawled data set. Furthermore, we show the ability of OpusFilter to perform data selection for domain adaptation.
The HW-TSC Video Speech Translation System at IWSLT 2020

The paper presents details of our system in the IWSLT Video Speech Translation evaluation. The system works in a cascade form, which contains three modules: 1) A proprietary ASR system. 2) A disfluency correction system aims to remove interregnums or other disfluent expressions with a fine-tuned BERT and a series of rule-based algorithms. 3) An NMT System based on the Transformer and trained with massive publicly available corpus.
Validation of a closed-housing filter skid for in-line sampling of aquatic organisms

MATTHEW R. FIRST1*, EDWARD J. LEMIEUX2, WAYNE B. HYLAND3, JONATHAN F. GRANT4, CAMERON S. MOSER5, SCOTT C. RILEY1, STEPHANIE H. ROBBINS-WAMSLEY1, MIA K. STEINBERG6, TIMOTHY P. WIER5 AND LISA A. DRAKE7 1 SAIC, INC., KEY WEST, FL, USA, NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, CODE 6130, WASHINGTON, DC, USA, AZIMUTH TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS, KEY WEST, FL, USA, BATTENKILL TECHNOLOGIES, MANCHESTER CENTER, VT, USA, EXCET, INC., KEY WEST, FL, USA, NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, CODE 6136, WASHINGTON, DC, USA AND NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, CODE 6136, KEY WEST, FL, USA
Automatic identification of knowledge related to dengue cases in the state of Piauí in public databases using Filtered-Association Rules Networks

Dengue is an endemic disease in Brazil since the 1980s and since 1996 in Piau ́ı. The number of cases increases each year, with the incidence of more severe symptoms. This research aimed to evaluate the use of an automatic knowledge identification technique in factors related to the number of dengue occurrences. We built a dataset formed by data available in the Information System for Notifiable Diseases (SINAN) and meteorological data of the municipalities of the coastal plain of Piau ́ı. The technique used was that of Filtered Association Rules Networks, which allows visual analysis of knowledge through the use of network structures and rules filtering. As a main result, we confirmed the understanding that the most significant number of cases occurs in May, as it is the moment when the rainfall indexes are decreasing, besides that socio-cultural and race factors do not interfere in the identification of the population of higher risk. This research presents the innovation of the use of a computational technique of automatic knowledge discovery that can assist in the elaboration of prevention actions by epidemiological surveillance.
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MODELING VOLTAGE IN BATTERY CELLS UNDER DISCHARGE

In this paper we review several approaches to mathematical modeling of simple battery cells and develop these ideas further with emphasis on charge recovery and the response behavior of batteries to given external load. We focus on models which use few parameters and basic battery data, rather than detailed reaction and material characteristics of a specific battery cell chemistry, starting with the coupled ODE linear dynamics of a kinetic battery model. We show that a related system of PDE with Robin type boundary conditions arises in the limiting regime of a spatial kinetic battery model, and provide a probabilistic representation of the solution in terms of Brownian motion with drift reflected at the boundaries on both sides of a finite interval. Moving on to nonlinear battery models we consider a discrete time Markov chain with states representing nominal and remaining capacities of the battery. A nonlinear ODE appears in a natural scaling limit, which leads to a wider class of nonlinear ODE which can be solved explicitly and compared with the capacities obtained for the linear models. To indicate the potential use of the modeling we discuss briefly comparison of discharge profiles and effects on battery performance.