Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative Analysis of Bacoside A Yield in Field Acclimatized and in-vitro Propagated Bacopa monnieri

Bacopa monnieri is a nootropic plant is extensively explored for their therapeutic efficacy for various neurological disorders. The active phytopharmaceutical component bacoside A, which is a mixture of four triterpenoid glycoside saponins is majorly responsible for its therapeutic properties. In present study, variations in the yield of four different bacoside Acomponents viz.b acoside A 3 , bacopaside II, jujubogenin isomer of bacopa saponin C and bacopa saponin C, with variation in culture conditions have been compared. In comparison to field acclimatized plant, the yield of total saponins varied differently among different germplasm of Bacopa monnieri . The specific growth rate of plant propagated in solidified MS (agar) media was ~ 12-15 folds slower than liquid media. Metabolic quotient (q) of MS liquid was ~15-30 folds higher in liquid media. A comparison of the growth rate and yield among MS agar & liquid revealed higher bacoside A yield among the plants propagated on MS agar but growth rate was significantly less than liquid conditions. No significant variations were observed in the total bacoside A content of BM-3 and BM-5, when propagated in MS liquid media (BMT-3 and BMT-5). However, insignificant reduction of total bacoside A was observed in BM6 and BMTL-6.Significantly high specific growth rate and metabolic quotient with comparable yield of bacoside A obtrude shoot culturing in liquid media as a suitable alternative strategy for large scale culture of this nootropic plant with insignificant variations due to environmental parameters.
To Discover Horror-Related Bustle on the Web Techniques using Data Mining

: An innovative knowledge-based methodology for terrorist detection by using Web traffic content as the audit information is presented. The proposed methodology learns the typical behavior (‘profile’) of terrorists by applying a data mining algorithm to the textual content of terror-related Web sites. The resulting profile is used by the system to perform real-time detection of users suspected of being engaged in terrorist activities. The Receiver-Operator Characteristic (ROC) analysis shows that this methodology can outperform a command-based intrusion detection system.
Choice Experiment Performed on the Fresh Black Slavonian Pig’s Meat: A Preliminary Study preliminarno istraživanje

SUMMARY Until now, no research has been carried out in Croatia into consumer preferences for a particular agricultural and food product by a choice experiment. Therefore, little data are available about Croatian consumers’ preferences for social concerns (sustainability, biodiversity, rural development and animal welfare) with regard to the consumer choice and behavior favoring local pig breeds, in this case the Black Slavonian Pig breed. A survey was the method used to collect the data, and a survey questionnaire was used as an instrument. The survey was performed on a sample of n = 100 Croatian consumers surveyed online using a hypothetical choice experiment. The data were analyzed using the three logit models: a multinomial logit model (MNL), random parameter logit (RPL), and an error component random parameter logit model (RPL-EC) in order to examine the consumers’ heterogeneous preferences for fresh ham meat of the Black Slavonian Pig. The results suggest that the Croatian consumers appreciated a darker red fresh pork meat than the one obtained from the Black Slavonian Pig reared outdoors and semi-outdoor. They also prefer a fresh meat bearing a geographical information label, such as the continental Croatia and continental Croatia + PDO, to a fresh meat without a label.
THE HIV-PROTECTIVE BYSTANDER EFFECT IN MACROPHAGES IS VIRAL GLYCOPROTEIN DEPENDENT AND LIKELY CONFERRED VIA UPREGULATION OF ISG IFITM3

During an immune response against a specific antigen, often during viral infections, T cells not specific to the antigen can be activated, a phenomenon known as bystander response. The “bystander response” has been studied extensively in T cells, but when examined for macrophages through the lens of HIV, it has a different outcome and is referred to as the “bystander effect”. The bystander effect is seen when macrophages are exposed to a primary infection with HIV and results in increased protection of these macrophages to a secondary infection with HIV. Based on earlier experiments in the Planelles Lab, we hypothesized that the viral envelope is responsible for the bystander effect. We tested this hypothesis by generating HIV viruses pseudotyped with unique envelopes and subjecting human macrophages with primary and secondary HIV infections to induce the bystander effect. The number of cells infected by the secondary infection was measured using fluorescent markers to determine the level of protection offered by each unique envelope. Our experiments showed a bystander effect protection level of 99% or greater with the envelopes supporting our hypothesis. The exact cause of the bystander effect is now being investigated to shed more light on this phenomenon.
Gut microbiome–derived β-glucuronidases are components of the estrobolome that reactivate estrogens

Gut microbial β-glucuronidase (GUS) enzymes have been suggested to be involved in the estrobolome, the collection of microbial reactions involving estrogens. Furthermore, bacterial GUS enzymes within the gastrointestinal tract have been postulated to contribute to hormone-driven cancers. However, to date, there has been no experimental evidence to support these hypotheses. Here, we provide the first in vitro analysis of the ability of 35 GUS enzymes from the human gut microbiome to reactivate two distinct estrogen glucuronides, estrone-3-glucuronide and estradiol-17-glucuronide, to estrone and estradiol, respectively. We show that certain members within the loop 1, mini-loop 1, and FMN-binding classes of gut microbial GUS enzymes can reactivate estrogens from their
for the Microbiology and Prematurity Study Group

OBJECTIVE: To relate Gram-stained smears, using the Nugent criteria, to quantitative and qualitative vaginal cultures in pregnant women. METHODS: Two independent evaluators using the Nugent criteria, a standardized method of Gram-stain interpretation designed to detect bacterial vaginosis, scored 104 vaginal smears from pregnant women. The quantitative and qualitative vaginal cultures were assessed at the same time and the results expressed as log 10 colony-forming units per gram of vaginal secretion. The Nugent scores were compared with the microbiologic ﬁndings. RESULTS: The prevalence of normal, intermediate, or bacterial vaginosis vaginal ﬂora as determined by Gram stain was 68%, 21%, and 11%, respectively. A comparison of the mean bacterial counts with the Nugent score showed a weak negative correlation for Lactobacillus species and a positive correlation for gram-variable and gram-negative rods. Additional analysis revealed a strong positive correlation between the mean bacterial
Seismic moment tensor resolution by waveform inversion of a few local noisy records-I. Synthetic tests

J. SilenL,’ P. Carnpw~~ . ~ and G. F. Panza2l4 ‘Geophysical Institute, Czech Academy ofkiences, BoEni 11/1401,14131 Praha 4, Czech Republic 2Unioersita’ degli Studi di Trieste, Istiruto di Geodesia e Geofsica, Via dell’llnioersita’ 1, 34123-Trieste. Italy 3Consiglio Nozionale delle Ricerche (CNR). Piazzale Aldo Moro, 1, 00185-Row, Italy 41nternational Center for Theoretical Physics, Miramar, Trieste, Italy
Impact of crushed sand on the properties of black cotton soil.

Black cotton soil is generally found in western and southern parts of India. Nowadays inefficient properties of soil are critical issues in highway projects. In that case, improve the characteristics of unsuitable soil is fundamental step for the construction. Pavement structure on poor soil subgrades shows distress causing the failure of pavements. Clayey soil usually have the potential to demonstrate and desira-ble engineering behavior such as load bearing capacity, high shrinkage, swelling characteristics and high moisture susceptibility. Stabilization of Clayey soil is usual practice for improving strength. Soil Stabilization performed the use of technique to adding a binder to the soil in order to improve the engineering properties of soil. This research work reports the improvement in the locally available clayey soil by addition of crushed sand. In this paper the experimental results obtained in the laboratory on black cotton soil treated with lost cost material such as crushed sand. A study is carried out to check the improvement in the properties of black cotton soil with crushed sand in varying percentage. The test results such as Sieve Analysis, Atterbergs limits, Specific gravity, Compaction test and Unconfined compression test at different proportions of crushed sand. The result shows that stabilized black cotton soil has improved the bearing capacity, lesser swelling and reduction in shrinkage has been observed.
DRFENet: Toward a residual network of dilated convolution for image denoising

: Deep learning technology dominates current research in image denoising. However, denoising performance is limited by target noise feature loss from information propagation in association with the depth of the network. This paper proposes a Dense Residual Feature Extraction Network (DRFENet) combined with Dense Enhancement Block (DEB), Residual Dilated Block (RDB), Feature Enhancement Block (FEB), and Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Block (SIRB). DEB enhances the extraction of noise features in the initial stage of the network. RDB increases the effect of the concatenated dilated convolution by using skip connections to broaden the receptive field of the model. FEB connects the incoming noisy images to enhance local feature information. SIRB uses the attention block to learn the noise distribution while using residual learning (RL) technology to reconstruct a denoised image. We examined the performance of DRFENet in gray image denoising on datasets BSD68 and SET12. Then, we evaluated its color image denoising performance on datasets McMaster, Kodak24, and CBSD68. The experimental results show that the denoising accuracy of DRFENet is better than the most existing image denoising methods. The code will be posted on Github
Breastfeeding Techniques and Associated Factors among Mothers before Discharge: A Cross-Sectional Study

Breastfeeding techniques are strongly associated with the exclusive breastfeeding. It is the very key time to improve mothers’ breastfeeding techniques during staying in the hospital and delivery institution, but there is little study about in-hospital breastfeeding techniques in China. This study aimed to assess the breastfeeding techniques and its associated factors among mothers in hospital. A cross-sectional study was conducted in from March 19, 2018 to April 27, 2018. 153 mothers selected by convenience sampling technique were investigated by questionnaire survey, which includes the LATCH scoring system, the general information and breastfeeding behavior questionnaire, the breastfeeding knowledge questionnaire, and the Chinese version of maternal breastfeeding evaluation scale (MBFES). Factors associated with in-hospital breastfeeding techniques were determined by multiple regression analysis.
An Adaptive Fault tolerant Moblie Adhoc Network using Fuzzy Paraconsistent Logic

To construct a reliable mobile adhoc network one of the important design issue is Fault-tolerance. Due to the link failure, node failure, misbehaving nodes, network failure, power and energy consumption many types of faults may occur in mobile network. Numerous existing designs of ad hoc networks are based on the idea of non-adversarial environments, in which each node in the network is supportive and well-mannered. Several fuzzy logic based shortest route selection algorithms are developed but they failed to handle the contradiction rules are generated by inference system. It results in selection of incorrect path selection, which doesn’t able to handle the fault occurrence. The proposed work has the ability to accept the contradiction occurred among the generated rules for path selection and it treats them as a special case with the help of multi-valued logic termed as paraconsistent logic which contributes for selection of shortest route in case of faults.
An OTDOA based Efficient Algorithm for Location Updating and Connection Handover in BDS

- In this paper, a technique for efficient positioning of user equipment and implementation of connection handover for device to device (D2D) communication application is discussed. This D2D application, being addressed as Battery Deposit Service (BDS), is a utility for optimizing battery of smartphone by reducing energy consumed in communication over network. Addition of an energy efficient positioning & handover strategy for D2D connections will allow the system to perform better with an increased quality of service (QoS). The technique for handover is based on Observed Time Difference Of Arrival (OTDOA) positioning approach along with the Positioning Reference Signal (PRS), mentioned in Release 9 of LTE technology, to calculate the position of a User Equipment (UE) within a network and performing handover beyond certain threshold boundary. It is shown through simulations that the proposed scheme will reduce the probability of connection dropping, thereby improving performance of whole system.
Helium Formation in a Kaluza-Klein-Type Theory

L'abondance en 4 He primordial est determinee pour un modele cosmologique homogene et isotrope de la theorie de gravitation de type Kaluza-Klein a 5 dimensions de Wesson P. S. (Gen. Rel. Grav., 20) applicable a l'ere radiative de l'univers primordial.
co-transcriptome networks

A central goal of studying host-pathogen interaction is to understand how host and pathogen manipulate each other to promote their own fitness in a pathosystem. Co-transcriptomic approaches can simultaneously analyze dual transcriptomes during infection and provide a systematic map of the cross-kingdom communication between two species. Here we used the Arabidopsis- B. cinerea pathosystem to test how plant host and fungal pathogen interact at the transcriptomic level. We assessed the impact of genetic diversity in pathogen and host by utilization of a collection of 96 isolates infection on Arabidopsis wild-type and two mutants with jasmonate or salicylic acid compromised immunities. We identified ten B. cinerea gene co-expression networks (GCNs) that encode known or novel virulence mechanisms. Construction of a dual interaction network by combining four host- and ten pathogen-GCNs revealed potential connections between the fungal and plant GCNs. These co-transcriptome data shed lights on the potential mechanisms underlying host-pathogen interaction. B. GCN the Defense/camalexin GCN in the Col-0 host a negative correlation in the npr1-1 host genotype. suggests that there are dynamics in the host-pathogen co-transcriptome that can be interrogated to potentially identify causational relationships.
DE NOVO TRANSCRIPTOME ASSEMBLY OF SOL I D SEQUENCING DATA IN CUCUMIS MELO

As sequencing technologies progress, focus shifts towards solving bioinformatic challenges, of which sequence read assembly is the first task. In the present study, we have carried out a comparison of two assemblers (SeqMan and CLC) for transcriptome assembly, using a new dataset from Cucumis melo. Between two assemblers SeqMan generated an excess of small, redundant contigs where as CLC generated the least redundant assembly. Since different assemblers use different algorithms to build contigs, we followed the merging of assemblies by CAP3 and found that the merged assembly is better than individual assemblies and more consistent in the number and size of contigs. Combining the assemblies from different programs gave a more credible final product, and therefore this approach is recommended for quantitative output.
CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF MICROBIAL ENZYMES IN WOOD CLEANING

This work aims to evaluate applying microbial enzymes in cleaning archaeological wood and their effect on its chemical composition, using different concentrations of two types of microbial enzymes; the protease and α-amylase. Earlier, a preliminary study investigated the possibility of using enzymes in cleaning archaeological wood and concluded that enzymatic treatment can be a potential method in cleaning archaeological wood and recommended that further research is needed to evaluate their effect on wood. Here, the colour change measurement was undertaken to assess the effect of the chosen concentrations on the colour of the wood surface. Moreover, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) was used to monitor the changes in the main components of wood; cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, as a result of different concentrations of the chosen enzymes. The results proved that the lowest concentrations of both enzymes considered the safest concentrations that can be used in wood cleaning. Besides, the increase in the enzyme concentration causes partial remove of lignin and promote the degradation of cellulose especially after aging.
A1-homotopy theory of noncommutative motives

In this article we continue the development of a theory of noncommutative motives. We construct categories of A1-homotopy noncommutative motives, described their universal properties, and compute their spectra of morphisms in terms of Karoubi-Villamayor's K-theory (KV) and Weibel's homotopy K-theory (KH). As an application, we obtain a complete classification of all the natural transformations defined on KV, KH. This leads to a streamlined construction of Weibel's homotopy Chern character from KV to periodic cyclic homology. Along the way we extend Dwyer-Friedlander's etale K-theory to the noncommutative world, and develop the universal procedure of forcing a functor to preserve filtered homotopy colimits.
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Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233030, Anhui, People’s Republic of China Background: Body-image dissatisfaction among children and adolescent has become increasingly serious, and may be the result of staged differences in the puberty-development process. The aim of this study was to compare differences in body-image dissatisfaction among children and adolescents at different pubertal stages. Methods: A total of 574 students aged 8–15 years were recruited from two nine-year schools via stratified cluster sampling, their secondary sex characteristics and external genital development examined, and body-image cognition surveyed using the teenage body-image annoyance questionnaire. This questionnaire covers body-shape, gender, sexual organ, and appearance dissatisfaction. Lower scores indicate a more negative body image. Results: Total, gender, and appearance-dissatisfaction scores in girls were significantly lower than in boys (P<0.05); however, sexual organ–dissatisfaction scores in girls were significantly higher than in boys (P<0.05). Girls’ gender-dissatisfaction scores before breast development Tanner II were higher than those after menarche (P<0.05); however, girls’ sexual organ–dissatisfaction scores before breast development Tanner II were significantly higher than those after menarche (P<0.05). Conclusion: The girls were more dissatisfied with their gender and appearance than the boys, and the boys were more dissatisfied with their sexual organs than the girls. The girls were more dissatisfied with their sexual organs before breast development Tanner II and more dissatisfied with their gender after menarche.
Directions and Extent of Flows Changes in Warta River Basin (Poland) in the Context of the Efﬁciency of Run-of-River Hydropower Plants and the Perspectives for Their Future Development

: This paper presents changes in the ﬂow of 14 rivers located in the Warta River basin, recorded from 1951 to 2020. The Warta is the third-longest river in Poland. Unfortunately, the Warta River catchment area is one of the most water-scarce regions. It hosts about 150 hydropower plants with a capacity of up to 5 kW. The catchment areas of the 14 smaller rivers selected for the study differ in location, size, land cover structure and geological structure. The paper is the ﬁrst study of this type with respect to both the number of analyzed catchments, the length of the sampling series and the number of analyzed ﬂow characteristics in this part of Europe. The analysis of changes in the river ﬂows was performed with reference to low minimum, mean and maximum monthly, seasonal and annual ﬂows. Particular attention was paid to 1, 3, 7, 30 and 90-day low ﬂows and durations of the ﬂows between Q50 and Q90%. In addition, the duration of ﬂows between Q50 and Q90% were analysed. Analysis of the direction and extent of particular ﬂow types was performed by multitemporal analysis using the Mann–Kendall (MK) and Sen (S) tests. The analysis of multiannual ﬂow sequences from the years 1951–2020 showed that the changes varied over the time periods and catchments. The most signiﬁcant changes occurred in the low ﬂows, while the least signiﬁcant changes occurred in the high ﬂows. From the point of view of the operation of the hydropower sector, these changes may be unfavourable and result in a reduction in the efﬁciency of run-of-river hydropower plants. It was established that local factors play a dominant role in the shaping of river ﬂows in both positive and negative terms, for the efﬁciency of the hydropower plants.
Chair-Stand Device for the Assessment of Elderly Patients in Risk of Frailty

— Frailty is an intermediate state in the ageing trajectory, preceding the onset of disability. It can be assessed via clinical, cognitive, nutritional, and physical performance components, whereas one component of physical assessment is measurement of lower limb strength. We propose a device for measuring lower limb strength based on the 30s sit-to-stand test (30s-STS) in an autonomous environment. The device is based on an ultrasound sensor that is mounted on the backrest of a chair and measures the distance to the back of the patient. A signal processing algorithm was developed with a dataset of healthy subjects and evaluated prospectively with geriatric patients. Results of evaluation show that measurement for geriatric patients is poorer than expected. Thus, we plan to re-train the algorithm with additional geriatric patients, and to study further the complexities of the 30s-STS analysing aspects such as the inter-observer-variability of reference annotations. The new algorithm will be evaluated as part of a clinical trial with 40 elderly patients at their dwelling. The clinical trial will also assess the acceptability of such a device in a home setting.
Some recent results on support vector machines

An isolator fan fastener for securing a cooling fan housing to the interior chassis of a computer is described. The fastener is comprised of a pin made of a hard impact resistant plastic and an isolator grommet made of a soft resiliently flexible plastic. The pin is frictionally engageable with the isolator grommet. In operation the isolator grommet is preinstalled in the fan housing. Insertion of the pin through the chassis and into the isolator grommet completes the mounting. An isolator fan fastener in accordance with the invention yields enhanced acoustical properties when compared to prior art fasteners.