Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Trust Issues: A Case Study of the Relationship Between Trust and Reform Implementation

TRUST ISSUES: A CASE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUST AND REFORM IMPLEMENTATION Courtney Wilson Old Dominion University Director: Dr. Jay P. Scribner Reform creation and implementation tends to focus on the mechanics needed to ensure intended outcomes are achieved. School relationships are affected by the tension caused by reform implementation. Research suggests trust among teachers and between teachers and their administrator affects the way teachers make sense of, implement, and use new reform efforts. Given the demands reforms place on schools, trust has the potential to impact and encourage the implementation of reform and the maintenance of relationships. A qualitative case study method was used to decipher the impact trust plays in the implementation of reform. The concept of trust is used to explore and examine the experiences of one administrator and eight teachers. Interviews were conducted and transcribed. Transcriptions were coded, and recurring concepts, ideas, and themes were collected using a database. An analysis of the data revealed successful implementation was underscored by positive relationships with high levels of trust among teachers. Data also illuminated the value of relationships between teachers and their administrator to buy-in and the completion of tasks associated with reforms. Familiarity, risk, and vulnerability were found to be deciding factors in the maintenance of trust, relationships, and reform implementation. Study findings add to the current knowledge and literature regarding the importance of trust throughout the implementation of reform.
Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Deuterium-Depleted Water plus Rosa damascene Mill. Essential Oil via Cyclooxygenase-2 Pathway in Rats

Objectives: Natural medicine has been proposed in treating of sepsis in the worldwide. So, in this study, the effect of deuterium-depleted water (DDW) alone and adjuvant with Rosa damascene Mill. essential oils (RD) was considered through the evaluation of oxidative stress/antioxidant parameters and the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inflammatory gene in liver damage caused by sepsis. Materials and Methods: The rats were randomly divided into 5 groups: 1) laparotomy (LAP) group; 2) cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) group; 3) DDWs (15ppm and 30 ppm doses) groups; 4) DDWs (15ppm and 30 ppm doses) plus RD (100mg/kg.bw); 5) indomethacin (2 mg/kg.bw) as a positive control. The treatments were daily done for two weeks and creation of CLP model was occurred on the 15th day. Then, the animals were killed and their liver tissue were separated for histopathologic and biochemical assessments. Results: Our results demonstrated that the treatment of animals with DDWs and DDWs plus RD were effective due to regulating the oxidative stress/antioxidant parameters including lipid peroxidation (LP), glutathione (GSH), glutathione s-transferases (GST), myeloperoxidase (MPO), ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) and inflammatory parameters such as prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and COX-2. Pathological studies also showed that sepsis led to the liver tissue injuries, which can be reduced by treatments. un c rre ct d p roo f
LIMITAÇÕES NA PRODUÇÃO DE VINHÁTICO (Plathymenia reticulata Benth) POR MINIESTAQUIA

O vinhático (Plathymenia reticulata Benth) é uma das espécies nativas do Brasil, de interesse econômico e ambiental. Sua propagação tem sido realizada por sementes, entretanto, o difícil acesso às matrizes, os intervalos longos de frutificação e dificuldade de armazenamento destacam a importância de técnicas que permitam a propagação clonal da espécie. Estudos conduzidos com minicepas de vinhático, advindas de mudas produzidas por sementes têm demonstrado que, embora as minicepas apresentem boa brotação, o enraizamento das miniestacas é muito baixo. Com isso, objetivou-se neste trabalho, avaliar a produção de mudas de vinhático por miniestaquia, utilizando diferentes técnicas de manejo para induzir o enraizamento. Foram realizados dois experimentos em casa de vegetação, sendo que, no primeiro, as minicepas foram obtidas a partir de mudas produzidas via semente de progênies de onze matrizes, das quais se promoveu a coleta sucessiva de miniestacas, sendo estas submetidas a diferentes concentrações do regulador de crescimento AIB (0, 2.000, 4.000, 6.000 e 8.000 mg.L-1). No segundo experimento foi utilizado o manejo de luz (sombreamento na base da brotação e sombreamento total da minicepa) e de nutriente, com aplicação de nitrogênio (4 g.L-1 de ureia) nas minicepas. As miniestacas produzidas foram avaliadas quanto à capacidade de enraizamento e anatomia na base da miniestaca. No primeiro experimento verificou-se uma variação de sobrevivência e tolerância à poda apical entre as progênies das matrizes analisadas, com destaque para progênie da matriz DOM, que apresentou o maior percentual na primeira coleta (88,2%), e uma sensibilidade das progênies NELI, ZE1 e ZE2 aos efeitos do manejo e às condições ambientais no minijardim clonal. O vinhático respondeu de forma positiva à coleta sucessiva de brotações, com aumento do número de brotações produzidas a partir do quarto mês de coleta (210 dias). Não houve efeito significativo no enraizamento de mudas de vinhático quando submetido a concentrações crescentes de AIB, nem quanto ao tipo de manejo de luz e nitrogênio utilizados para estimular o enraizamento de miniestacas. Não foram observadas barreiras anatômicas ao enraizamento dos clones nos diferentes tipos de manejos avaliados.
Cell signaling and communication in the development and function of the C. elegans reproductive system

CACN-1/Cactin is a conserved protein identified in a genome-wide screen for genes that regulate distal tip cell migration in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. In addition to possessing distal tip cells that migrate past their correct stopping point, animals depleted of cacn-1 are sterile. In this study, we show that CACN-1 is needed in the soma for proper germ line development and maturation. When CACN-1 is depleted, sheath cells are absent and/or abnormal. When sheath cells are absent, hermaphrodites produce sperm, but do not switch appropriately to oocyte production. When sheath cells are abnormal, some oocytes develop but are not successfully ovulated and undergo endomitotic reduplication (Emo). Our previous proteomic studies show that CACN-1 interacts with a network of splicing factors. Here, these interactors were screened for germ line phenotypes using RNAi. Depletion of many of these factors led to missing or abnormal sheath cells and germ line defects, particularly absent and/or Emo oocytes. These results suggest CACN-1 is part of a protein network that influences somatic gonad development and function through alternative splicing or post-transcriptional gene regulation.
The prospect of the utilization of Non-Timber Forest Products from Setulang Village forest based on local knowledge of the Uma Longh community in Malinau, North Kalimantan, Indonesia

Hutauruk TR, Lahjie AM, Simarangkir B.D. A.S. , Aipassa MI, Ruslim Y. 2018. The prospect of the utilization of Non-Timber Forest Products from Setulang Village forest based on local knowledge of the Uma Longh community in Malinau, North Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 19: 421-430. The establishment of Village Forest status gives local people assurance to manage the forest independently, but also limits its utilization. Communities are given freedom in the utilization of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and environmental services, but they are prohibited to utilize timber forest products that can disturb and destroy the life of flora and fauna in it. The Uma Longh community utilize NTFPs to meet the needs for food, medicines, and craft material. The objective of this study was to know the prospect of the utilization of NTFPs from Setulang Village Forest. Data were gathered by interview, FGD, documentation, observation and field sampling in transects. The analysis method used in this research was CLAPS (Arquiza 2008; Bakkegaard et al. 2016). This research concluded that the NTFPs in Uma Longh community had good prospect so that the commodities included in the NTFPs category could be managed by the local community independently and sustainably, including Calamus sp. and Gigantochloa sp. In order for NTFPs to be available sustainably, the existence of village forest should be maintained, and this requires (i) the existence of government regulatory support that ensures its sustainability, (ii) the community support to comply with agreements and rules made, (iii) the availability of responsible management institutions, and (iv) the availability of adequate funding sources.
Interacting with Smart Devices - Advancements in Gesture Recognition and Augmented Reality

Over the last decades, embedded computer systems have become powerful and widespread with remarkable success. Besides traditional computers, such as desktops, laptops, smartphones, and servers, such systems have become part of nearly every technical appliance, for example, cars, televisions, and washing machines and thereby, an essential part of our lives. A common phrase for such appliances is “smart device”, a term which encompasses equipment to which one can digitally connect in order to exchange information and commands. Further, it can potentially sense its environment and process as well as act upon this measurement. Although computers and the devices containing them play such an important role, the way in which we interact with them has not changed much since the early days. Humans are required to control them in a manner very different from human-to-human communication. In particular, the possibilities to provide input to a smart device are mostly limited to traditional interfaces, such as buttons, knobs, or keyboards; or graphical representations thereof on displays. Technological progress in recent years in hardware, as well as in algorithmic methods, e.g. in machine learning, enables novel solutions for human-computer (or in fact human-device) interaction. Only recently, the use of speech has become practical and is used on smartphones as well as for home devices, incorporating a modality in the interaction process that is innate to humans and rich in expressiveness. However, for natural communication, other modalities, such as gestures, complement speech and may do so in human-computer communication, enabling simple and spontaneous interactions and avoiding the known social awkwardness of having to talk to devices. The adoption of speech and also other commonly used interaction methods, such as touch input on smartphones, indicate the relevance of considering further modalities in addition to the traditional ones. This dissertation contributes to further bridging the interaction gap between humans and smart devices by exploring solutions in the following areas: (i) Wearable gesture recognition based on electromyography (EMG): The touch of our fingers is widely used for interaction. However, most approaches only consider binary touch events. We present a method, which classifies finger touches using a novel neural network architecture and estimates their force based on data recorded from a wireless EMG armband. Our method runs in real time on a smartphone and allows for new interactions
Drosophila insulin-like peptide 1 (DILP1) promotes organismal growth during non-feeding stages

The insulin/IGF-signaling pathway is central in control of nutrient-dependent growth during development, and in adult physiology and longevity. Eight insulin-like peptides (DILP1-8) have been identified in Drosophila and several of these are known to regulate growth, metabolism, reproduction, stress responses and lifespan. However, the functional role of DILP1 is not fully understood. Previous work showed that dilp1/DILP1 is transiently expressed during the non-feeding pupal stage and the first days of adult life. Here we show that mutation of dilp1 diminishes organismal weight during pupal development, whereas overexpression increases it. Overexpression of dilp1 additionally increases body size of flies, but reduces stores of larval-derived energy, leading to increased feeding the first days after eclosion. No effects of dilp1 manipulations were detected during larval development. An earlier study demonstrated interactions between dilp1 and dilp2 in regulation of adult lifespan. Here we monitored the effects of dilp1, dilp2 and dilp1/dilp2 mutations on growth and found that only the single mutants displayed lower body mass. In recently eclosed flies, survival during starvation is strongly diminished in dilp1 mutants, but not in dilp2 and double mutants, whereas in older flies double mutants display reduced starvation resistance. Egg to pupal viability is decreased both after overexpression of dilp1, and in the double mutants. In conclusion, dilp1 promotes growth of adult tissues during the non-feeding pupal stage, likely due to reallocation of stored energy. This results in larger newly-eclosed flies with reduced stores of larval/pupal energy and diminished starvation tolerance and fecundity.
ASSOCIATIONS OF WEIGHT DISSATISFACTION ON DIET QUALITY, PERCENT BODY FAT, AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN COLLEGE STUDENTS

ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . v PREFACE . vi TABLE OF CONTENTS . viii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURE . ix THESIS: Associations of Weight Dissatisfaction on Diet Quality, Percent Body Fat, & Physical Activity in College Students Publication Status . 1 Abstract . 2 Introduction.4 Methods.6 Results.12 Discussion.15 Future Implications and Conclusion.21 Literature Cited.23 Tables and Figure.28
Increasing the Performance of a Sliding Discharge Actuator Through the Application of Multiple Potentials

Abstract : This work encompasses a comparison between a sliding discharge DBD actuator with grounded and AC biased sliding electrode driven at kHz frequency. The induced velocity in the bulk flow was recorded with PIV and compared for multiple potential splits between two test configurations and a baseline sliding discharge actuator over three test phases. In the first test phase, varying potential splits were examined between the primary and secondary electrode with the sliding electrode grounded. The potential splits induced a thicker induced jet than the baseline case with similar peak velocities on the order of 1.25 m/s at the 61 mm test point. The second test phase encompassed an examination of the effects of varying the potentials applied to the primary and sliding discharge electrode with the potential difference between the electrodes maintained at 15 kV. Induced velocities ranged from a low of 0.17 m/s to a high of 1.87 m/s. The data suggests that the induced velocity is primarily dependent upon the primary to secondary electrode potential split. Phase three examined the effect of applying an AC potential to the sliding discharge electrode. The induced jet decreases in height and the vertical velocity component decreases with an increasing bias on the sliding discharge electrode. Peak jet velocity increases with increasing bias on the sliding electrode until such bias reaches the ionization thresh hold of the bulk flow.
Graphene and its Derivatives-Based Optical Sensors

Being the first successfully prepared two-dimensional material, graphene has attracted extensive attention from researchers due to its excellent properties and extremely wide range of applications. In particular, graphene and its derivatives have displayed several ideal properties, including broadband light absorption, ability to quench fluorescence, excellent biocompatibility, and strong polarization-dependent effects, thus emerging as one of the most popular platforms for optical sensors. Graphene and its derivatives-based optical sensors have numerous advantages, such as high sensitivity, low-cost, fast response time, and small dimensions. In this review, recent developments in graphene and its derivatives-based optical sensors are summarized, covering aspects related to fluorescence, graphene-based substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), optical fiber biological sensors, and other kinds of graphene-based optical sensors. Various sensing applications, such as single-cell detection, cancer diagnosis, protein, and DNA sensing, are introduced and discussed systematically. Finally, a summary and roadmap of current and future trends are presented in order to provide a prospect for the development of graphene and its derivatives-based optical sensors.
Structuring Time in Human Lateral Entorhinal Cortex

Episodic memories consist of event information linked to spatio-temporal context. Notably, the hippocampus is involved in the encoding, representation and retrieval of temporal relations that comprise a context (Deuker et al., 2016; Tubridy and Davachi, 2011; DuBrow and Davachi, 2014; Ezzyat and Davachi, 2014; Hsieh et al., 2014; Jenkins and Ranganath, 2010, 2016; Kyle et al., 2015; Lositsky et al., 2016; Nielson et al., 2015; Copara et al., 2014), but it remains largely unclear how coding for elapsed time arises in the hippocampal-entorhinal region. The entorhinal cortex (EC), the main cortical input structure of the hippocampus, has been hypothesized to provide temporal tags for memories via contextual drift (Howard and Kahana, 2002; Howard et al., 2005). Recent evidence demonstrates that time can be decoded from population activity in the rodent lateral EC, putatively arising from the integration of experience (Tsao et al., 2018). Here, we asked how learning a temporal structure influences entorhinal event representations. Participants acquired knowledge about temporal and spatial relationships between object positions—dissociated via teleporters—along a fixed route through a virtual city. We analyze fMRI multi-voxel pattern similarity change from before to after learning in the EC. Object representations in the anterior-lateral EC (alEC) specifically, the human homologue of rodent lateral EC (Navarro Schröder et al., 2015; Maass et al., 2015), changed to reflect elapsed time between events. Holistic representations of the temporal structure in alEC related to memory recall behavior suggesting mental traversals of the route during retrieval. Furthermore, we reconstructed the temporal structure of object relationships from alEC pattern similarity change. Our findings demonstrate that the experienced temporal structure of events shapes representations in the alEC, potentially via the reactivation of temporal context representations derived from slowly-varying population signals during learning. This provides novel evidence for the role of the human lateral EC in representing time for episodic memory.
Moving beyond "the Media": Critical Intersections between Traditionalization and Mediatization

Abstract:This article attempts to fundamentally reorient research on "folklore and the media. " After reviewing a number of ways this topic has been addressed, this article reconceptualizes what has been framed as the relationship between folklore and the media through notions of traditionalization and mediatization. Doing so suggests how folkloristics and media studies have moved in parallel ways in questioning com-monsense definitions of core disciplinary concepts and in examining how folkloric and mediatized subjects and objects are produced. Two examples scrutinize these processes from opposite directions: A reexamination of the Kinder-und Hausmärchen analyzes the Brothers Grimm's methods not in terms of their ability to mirror features of oral narratives but as creating authoritative practices for mediatizing tradition. The second examines how public health officials, medical researchers, epidemiologists, journalists, and laypersons collaborated in producing the "swine flu pandemic" narrative in just twenty-four hours in 2009. While the Grimms made traditionalization and mediatization seem to go together hand-in-glove, the H1N1 virus was mediatized as new, even as the narrative was traditionalized. The conclusion points to the productivity of rejecting reified notions of folklore and "the media" in favor of examining particular ways that traditionalization and mediatization intersect, both as analytic tools and as real-world processes.
‘Elbita’: variedad de tomate resistente a Begomovirus para condiciones tropicales

‘Elbita’ arises from the need to have tomato varieties adapted to the Cuban tropical climate for open field planting. It is a variety resistant to TYLCV-IL [CU], begomovirus of greater incidence in the country and tolerant to fungal diseases, such as Alternariosis. It has characteristics which allows it to be used as a cultivar for opening (seedbeds in August) and closing of the season (seedbeds in January) of sowing.
Chemical profile, total phenolic content, DPPH free radical scavenging and α-glucosidase inhibitory activities of cosmos caudatus kunth leaves

Herbs and medicinal plants are major sources of traditional or folk medicines for many countries of the world, including Malaysia. This study evaluated the bioactive potential of the leaf ethanolic extract and solvent fractions of Cosmos caudatus Kunth, in scavenging free radicals and inhibiting the enzyme α-glucosidase. In addition, their metabolite profiles were also characterized using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry. The bioactivity was found to be concentrated in the EtOAc and BuOH fractions which largely contained rutin, quercetin 3-O-galactoside, quercetin 3-O-glucoside, quercetin 3-O-xyloside, quercetin 3-O-arabinofuranoside, quercetin 3-O-rhamnoside, and quercetin 3-O-galactoside, as profiled by LC-MS/MS. It was further shown that the flavonoids glycosides contributed to the free radical scavenging and glucose lowering effects of C. caudatus leaves. The results indicated that the leaves of C. caudatus are a rich source of bioactive compounds and could be prospective materials for development of new anti-diabetic agents.
5-Year Survival in Gastric Adenocarcinoma with Epithelial and Stromal Versican Expression

Background & Objective: Gastric cancer is the second most frequent cause of cancer death worldwide, despite dif- ferences in incidence around the world. The majority of gastric cancer cases concern gastric adenocarcinoma, which has a fairly high 5-year survival rate when coupled with early-stage diagnosis. Versican, a member of the aggregating chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans family, is accumulated predominantly in the tumor stroma. The aim of our study was to investigate versican expression in gastric adenocarcinoma. Methods: In this study we investigated 80 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma who underwent gastrectomy. Each sample was obtained from paraffin-embedded resected specimens of the stomach after histopathological diagnosis. Patient follow-up was performed every 3 months after the beginning of data collection. Survival analysis was calcu- lated using the Kaplan-Meier method for univariate analysis. Results: Out of 80 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma, 76 cases (76.3%males and 23.7% females) completed the follow-up period. Positive versican expression in tumor epithelial and stromal cells was found in 39.5% and 22.4% of tumors, respectively. Shorter survival was observed among patients whose gastric adenocarcinoma expressed epithelial or stromal versican. Conclusion: In summary, the present study suggests that versican is likely a prognostic biomarker that predicts a poor outcome in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. Comprehensive studies with larger sample sizes are needed.