Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative Bioinformatic Analysis of the Proteomes of Rabbit and Human Sex Chromosomes

Simple Summary Due to limited proteomic data for rabbit spermatozoa and less comprehensive databases compared to humans, we conducted a combined bioinformatic analysis of the proteome of rabbit X (RX) and human X and Y (HX and HY) chromosomes to identify membrane-associated proteins, particularly those accessible from the cell surface, for potential applications in sperm sexing techniques. Our analysis found 100 (RX), 211 (HX), and 3 (HY) plasma membrane or cell surface-associated proteins, of which 61, 132, and 3 are potentially accessible from the cell surface. Notably, among the HX targets, 60 could serve as additional RX targets not previously identified, bringing the total to 121 RX targets. Furthermore, at least 53 out of the 114 potential common HX and RX targets chromosomes have been previously identified in human spermatozoa, emphasizing their potential as targets of X-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa. The utility of these proteins as targets of rabbit X-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa warrants further exploration. Abstract Studying proteins associated with sex chromosomes can provide insights into sex-specific proteins. Membrane proteins accessible through the cell surface may serve as excellent targets for diagnostic, therapeutic, or even technological purposes, such as sperm sexing technologies. In this context, proteins encoded by sex chromosomes have the potential to become targets for X- or Y-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa. Due to the limited availability of proteomic studies on rabbit spermatozoa and poorly annotated databases for rabbits compared to humans, a bioinformatic analysis of the available rabbit X chromosome proteome (RX), as well as the human X (HX) and Y (HY) chromosomes proteome, was conducted to identify potential targets that could be accessible from the cell surface and predict which of the potential targets identified in humans might also exist in rabbits. We identified 100, 211, and 3 proteins associated with the plasma membrane or cell surface for RX, HX, and HY, respectively, of which 61, 132, and 3 proteins exhibit potential as targets as they were predicted to be accessible from the cell surface. Cross-referencing the potential HX targets with the rabbit proteome revealed an additional 60 proteins with the potential to be RX targets, resulting in a total of 121 potential RX targets. In addition, at least 53 possible common HX and RX targets have been previously identified in human spermatozoa, emphasizing their potential as targets of X-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa. Further proteomic studies on rabbit sperm will be essential to identify and validate the usefulness of these proteins for application in rabbit sperm sorting techniques as targets of X-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa.
Particulate reactive oxygen species in indoor and outdoor environments : prevalence and health effects

Despite the fact that precursors to reactive oxygen species (ROS) are prevalent indoors, the concentration of ROS inside buildings is unknown. ROS on PM2.5 was measured inside and outside twelve residential buildings and eleven institutional and retail buildings. The mean (s.d.) concentration of ROS on PM2.5 inside homes (1.371.2 nmoles/m) was not significantly different from the outdoor concentration (1.411.0 nmoles/m). Similarly, the indoor and outdoor concentrations of ROS on PM2.5 at institutional buildings (1.160.38 nmoles/m indoors and 1.681.3 nmoles/m outdoors) and retail stores (1.090.93 nmoles/m indoors and 1.121.1 nmoles/m outdoors) were not significantly different and were comparable to those in residential buildings. The indoor concentration of particulate ROS cannot be predicted based on the measurement of other common indoor pollutants, indicating that it is important to separately assess the concentration of particulate ROS in air quality studies. Daytime indoor occupational and residential exposure to particulate ROS dominates daytime outdoor exposure to particulate ROS. These findings highlight the need for further study of ROS in indoor
Determinants of Consumer Purchase Intention Towards Cheeses with Geographical Indication in a Developing Country: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior

Purpose – The present study attempts to investigate consumer intention to purchase cheeses with Geographical Indication (GI) by employing the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of determinants as hypothesized by the TPB – attitudes, perceived behavioral control, social norms, together with the additional determinant of consumer trust in the labeling system – on consumer buying intentions. Design/Methodology/Approach – A structured online questionnaire was developed and distributed to respondents. The survey was conducted country-wide and 806 responses were collected. Findings and Implications – The findings of SEM analysis indicate that all latent constructs have direct positive effects on intention to buy cheeses with GI.
Traditional and modern processing of digital signals and images for the classification of birds from singing

Avitourism depends on the understanding of birds and the intention of birdwatchers to see or hear a specific species. Increase of this activity strengthens the economy of communities and helps finance biodiversity conservation projects. Technological products that incorporate traditional and modern tools for signal and image processing facilitate the tracking, classification and observation of birds. This article has two approaches. The first one proposes and evaluates a lightweight classification model that uses feature vector extracted from the bird's song spectrum and is based on comparison of Euclidean distance between sample features and a set vector by species. The second approach adapts and evaluates convolutional neural network architectures for bird classification using the spectrogram of the bird's song. The methodology applied in both approaches consists of: pre-processing, feature extraction, classification and evaluation metrics. The main results are the feasibility of the proposed lightweight classification model with an accuracy of 0.8 and a loss of 2.32, and the feasibility of using convolutional neural networks with an accuracy above 0.9 and a loss of less than 1, in the ResNet50, VGG19, and InceptionV3 architectures, this using as a minimum 30 spectrograms per species during training. It is concluded that the model that best meets the needs of fewer samples and less computational resources required for training is ResNet50. Additionally, it is discussed to combine the two approaches in a hierarchical and hybrid classification model that allows to introduce in the reduction and classification layers of the neural network features of another type and of other sources.
Underwater Image Super-Resolution Using Frequency-Domain Enhanced Attention Network

Underwater images super-resolution (SR) is a challenging task due to underwater images usually contain severely blurred details, color distortion, and low contrast. Although numerous deep learning-based methods have been developed to solve these problems, these methods suffer from huge model parameters and computations. To address this gap, we propose a frequency-domain enhanced attention network (FEAN), supported by a series of frequency-enhanced attention modules (FEAM), for accurate underwater SR. Specifically, we start by utilizing a Gaussian filter to decompose the features into high and low frequencies and pass them to the FEAM. Then, in the high-frequency path, we propose a multi-scale attention enhancement block (MAEB) to extract rich image texture information. While in the low-frequency path, we perform a simple convolutional operation to realize the brightness and contrast adjustment of the image. Further, we devise a channel attention fusion block (CAFB) to integrate the enhanced high and low-frequency features to further strengthen the powerful representational capability of the network. Finally, we employ two convolutions to further modulate the features on the high-frequency path for effective color bias correction and detail enhancement. Experimental results show that our FEAN performs better than other underwater SR methods on the USR-248 dataset, with PSNR values of 29.97 dB, 26.23 dB, and 23.99 dB, corresponding to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 8$ </tex-math></inline-formula> scale factors.
Evolution and Development of Human Resource Management in Vietnam

120 Introduction . 121 Literature review . 124 Methodology . 129 Results . 132 Discussion and implications . 154 Conclusion . 163 References . 164 Appendix . 173 CHAPTER 5/ PAPER 2 – PERCEIVED FORMAL AUTHORITY AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE HR DEPARTMENT IN VIETNAM . 183
Influence of the Cross-Section on the Erosion Criteria for Partly Cohesive Sediments

Erosion of sediment mixtures, comprising cohesive as well as non-cohesive sediments, has been studied in straight laboratory flumes of circular and rectangular cross-sections. Erosion of mixed sediments depended on the mixture composition (cohesive material content), the type of cohesive sediment, and the shape of the flume cross-section. By increasing the cohesive material content, the erosion resistance of the sediment mixture also increased and the erosion pattern changed from ripples and dunes (noncohesive) to a groove or wavy surface (cohesive). In circular channels, the influence of the “side” walls on sediment transport is important, but the criteria for incipient motion seem to be the same as in the rectangular channels. Hence, sediment transport models developed for rectangular channels cannot be readily applied to circular channels.
A STUDY ON THE IMPACTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE DUE TO THE INCREASE IN THE CONCENTRATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS

In recognition of the growing influence of the aerosol effect in the local/regional climate change, in this work the aerosol properties are studied in order to estimate the direct aerosol radiative forcing. The aim of this paper is to call the attention for the biomass burning aerosols in the Brazilian Amazon and cerrado regions. Biomass burning is an important source of carbonaceous aerosols over the tropical rainforest. Various studies have showed that there is a large uncertainty in the evaluation of the aerosol direct radiative forcing due to incomplete knowledge of global aerosol properties and their temporal changes. Two radiative models are used to estimate direct forcing at the top of the atmosphere, at the Earth's surface and within the atmosphere. The results suggested that the increase in concentration of biomass burning aerosols may cause opposite effects: a cooling and a warming effect.
Pneumatic Exoskeleton Joint With a Self-Supporting Air Tank and Stiffness Modulation: Design, Modeling, and Experimental Evaluation

Electromechanical variable stiﬀness actuators (VSA) can store and reuse diﬀerent amounts of energy in the elastic element by varying the stiﬀness, but they are typically heavy for use in exoskeletons because they require more than one motor. At the same time, the use of pneumatic actuators in exoskeletons is suitable due to their high power-to-weight ratio and inherent compliance, where stiﬀness varies with applied pressure. However, the required air supply often compromises the portability of such systems. In this paper, a novel pneumatic exoskeleton joint mechanism (PEJM) is proposed that uses a pneumatic artiﬁcial muscle (PAM) as an air tank and a pneumatic cylinder to store and reuse energy and thus generate torque. The main innovation is that the PAM is independent of an external air supply; instead, compressed air from a cylinder is used to inﬂate the PAM. This is achieved by timely control of three air solenoid valves and air accumulation. Variable stiﬀness is achieved in two ways: by changing the pressure in the pneumatic cylinder and by contracting the PAM’s length. The mechanism and method of stiﬀness modulation are ﬁrst described analytically and then evaluated experimentally on an experimental platform where various functions, temperature eﬀects and leakage tests are investigated. The results show satisfactory performance and validate the theoretical concepts.
Management of rice seed during insurgency : a case study in Sierra Leone

Keywords: Technography, Oryza glaberrima, Oryza sativa, farmer hybrids, sub-optimal agriculture, farmer adaptive management, plant genetic resources, peace and extreme (wartime) conditions, local seed channels, selection for robustness, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Abstract Mokuwa, G. A. (2015) Management of rice seed during insurgency: a case study in Sierra Leone. PhD Thesis, Wageningen University, 267 pp. In large parts of West Africa small scale farmers rely upon the cultivation of upland rice under low input conditions in a great diversity of micro-environments. It has been suggested that formal research should consider the context within which farmers address their food security issues. But these contexts need further clarification for poor and marginalized farm households facing many challenges, including dislocations associated with political and social unrest, and civil war. The research presented in this thesis builds on earlier findings concerning farmer management of rice genetic resources under farmer low-resource conditions. It starts with a regional focus, drawing on methods from the social and biological sciences, concerning the human, environmental and technical factors shaping the character and composition of rice varieties grown by small-scale farmers in coastal West Africa (seven countries from Senegal to Togo) and then focuses on specific in-depth field studies undertaken in Sierra Leone. Findings show that farmer rice genetic resources were persistently and enduringly adapted to local agro-ecologies via strong selection processes and local adaptation strategies, and that these adaptive processes were largely unaffected by the temporary contingencies of civil war. It is also shown that even under extreme (war-time) conditions success indicators in farmers’ local seed channels remain robust. Farmers continue to select and adapt their seed types to local contingencies, and war served as yet one more stimulus to further adaptation. This persistent human selective activity continues to make a significant contribution to the food security of poor and marginalized farm households in the region. The major finding of this thesis is that selection for robustness among varieties of the local staple, rice, helped to protect Sierra Leonean farmers against some of the worst effects of war-induced food insecurity. In this sense, therefore, war may have served to strengthen and prolong farmer preferences for robustness, but it was not the cause of this preference. The marked diversity farmers maintain in their rice varieties is understood to be part of a longer-term risk-spreading strategy that also facilitates successful and often serendipitous variety innovations. In a world facing major climatic changes this local capacity for seed selection and innovation ought to be a valued resource for technological change. The present study provides a starting point for thinking about the improved effectiveness of institutional innovation strategies for farmer participatory innovation activities.
ISLAMIC INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF ENTREPRENEURS

Products offered by entrepreneurs require some form of promotion so consumers will become aware of them. This means that integrated marketing communication (IMC) is an important field that warrants further exploration. The seemingly elusive concept of Islamic IMC defines the statement of the problem and encourages its study from the theoretical and practical perspectives. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine the IMC campaigns of students at a public university in the academic year 2022/2023. The scope of the study was focused on 13 campaigns that promoted products sold by 13 entrepreneurs. The research questions posed were: What made the Islamic IMC campaigns effective? Which models or theories were used to guide the Islamic IMC campaigns? Which Islamic values were used in the Islamic IMC campaigns? Grounded theory was used as the method to construct theory from data by using a comparative analysis. Themes and codes were derived from the data analysis. Most campaigns reported sales as being the main measurement of campaign success, whereas the campaign objectives guided by the AIDA model formed the important measures of success. Other components, such as awareness, engagement, advertisement recall, and food taste, were minor measurements of success. Twelve campaigns adopted the AIDA model, while one campaign adopted the Facets Model of Effects. Several combinations of Islamic values were used in the campaigns, with “honesty” being the most highlighted Islamic value by students in their campaign reports. The theory of the holistic components of Islamic IMC campaigns was derived from the data projecting the importance of the three components—self, brands, and messages—against the backdrop of sales as being the main measurement of campaign effectiveness and the AIDA model as the main model used to guide the campaign strategies. It is obvious from the study that IMC campaigns can be successful when conducted within Islamic parameters and that entrepreneurs are empowered when their IMC campaigns are effective.
The Santa Barbara, California, earthquake of 13 August 1978

The 5.1 M_L Santa Barbara earthquake of 13 August 1978 occurred at 22h54m 52.8s UTC. The epicenter was located 3 km southeast of Santa Barbara at 34° 23.9′N latitude and 119°40.9′W longitude with a focal depth of 12.7 km. The main shock was followed between 13 August and 30 September by 373 aftershocks that were located with the Caltech-USGS array. The aftershock zone extended 12 km WNW from the epicenter and was 6 km wide in the N-S direction, and it had a very clear temporal development. During the first 20 min of activity, all the aftershocks were located in a cluster 7 km WNW of the main shock epicenter. During the next 24 hr, the aftershock zone grew to 11 km in the WNW direction and 4 km in the N-S direction. During succeeding weeks, the zone extended to 12 by 6 km. This temporal-spatial development relative to the main shock epicenter may indicate that the initial rupture propagated 7 km unilaterally to the WNW, and the initial rupture plane may have been considerably smaller than the eventual aftershock zone. This smaller area suggests that the stress drop may have been significantly greater than that derived from the final aftershock zone. In cross section, the aftershock hypocenters outline a nearly horizontal plane (dipping 15° or less) at 13 km depth. The main shock focal mechanism indicates NNE-SSW compression and vertical extension. The preferred fault plane strikes N80°W and dips 26°NNE, indicating north-over-south thrusting with a component of left-lateral movement. Focal mechanisms for 40 aftershocks also indicate compression in the general N-S direction. For most of these events, the north-dipping nodal plane dips between 7° and 45°, with most dipping 25° or more, which is significantly steeper than the plane delineated by the hypocenters themselves. These observations are consistent with a tectonic model in which much of the slip during the Santa Barbara earthquake occurred on a nearly horizontal plane. The after shocks then might represent movement on a complex series of imbricate thrust faults that flatten into the plane of primary slip. Hence, the Santa Barbara earthquake may be taken as evidence for mid-crustal horizontal shearing in the western Transverse Ranges.
Targeting Cysteine Oxidation in Thrombotic Disorders

Oxidative stress increases the risk for clinically significant thrombotic events, yet the mechanisms by which oxidants become prothrombotic are unclear. In this review, we provide an overview of cysteine reactivity and oxidation. We then highlight recent findings on cysteine oxidation events in oxidative stress-related thrombosis. Special emphasis is on the signaling pathway induced by a platelet membrane protein, CD36, in dyslipidemia, and by protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), a member of the thiol oxidoreductase family of proteins. Antioxidative and chemical biology approaches to target cysteine are discussed. Lastly, the knowledge gaps in the field are highlighted as they relate to understanding how oxidative cysteine modification might be targeted to limit thrombosis.
THE MODEL OF MIGRATION’S INTEGRATION IN SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF SIBERIAN REGION BY MEANS ELECTRONIC LONGLIFE LEARNING EDUCATION

In this article we describe the implementation of lifelong learning in the multicultural environment of the Krasnoyarsk Region. We show the model of migrants’ integration in the socio-cultural environment of the Siberian region and their response to the electronic life-long learning education platforms. The research was part of the project initiated by the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RHSF) [1].
Ecogenomics approaches to assess the bioremediation capacity of soils

Het opsporen van organohalogeen-reducerende bacterien: ecogenomics benaderingen om de bioremediatie-capaciteit van de bodem te beoordelen. Organohalogeen-reducerende bacterien (OHRB) zijn efficiente afbrekers van organische chloorverbindingen, zoals gechloreerde ethenen, chloorfenolen en andere gehalogeneerde alifatische en aromatische koolwaterstoffen. Desondanks, lijken deze organische chloorverbindingen te volharden op verschillende locaties. De reden voor dit gebrek aan afbraak kan worden toegeschreven aan het ontbreken van OHRB in voldoende aantallen of aan verkeerde fysisch-chemische omstandigheden voor hun groei en activiteit. Derhalve is er een dringende behoefte aan snelle, robuuste en gevoelige methoden die het voorspellen van en het toezicht houden op het bioremediatie potentieel en de activiteit van OHRB mogelijk maken. Moleculaire monitoring en modelsimulaties werden toegepast om de in-situ afbraak prestaties van een on-site dechlorerende bioreactor te bepalen en zijn invloed op de vervuilingsspluim. De toepasbaarheid van dit systeem werd getest in verschillende verontreinigde bodems.
Effect of Micronutrients on The Two Qatari Date Palm Cultivars Shishi and Lulu Through in Vitro Technic

Plant tissue responds to nutrient media due to the plant cultivars genetic diversity. The objective of this research is to determine the effects of micronutrients on date palm growth and which of these micronutrients are critical for improving growth combined with Paclobutrazol or without on in vitro of elongation stage. In vitro growth of two cultivars were determined by varying five treatments that included minor salts (EDTA-chelated iron, CuSo4,) alone or combined with Paclobutrazol. The effects of these five treatments on plantlet length, trunk thickness, rooting number and Chlorophyll A, B was investigated. The results obtained after three months showed that, increasing copper sulphate on MS elongation media combined with Paclobutrazol was more effective for increasing the trunk thickness as well as rooting number compared with normal MS level. While poor response was found when Fe was increased in the chelated form of Fe-EDTA on MS elongation media. For cultivars, Shishi gave the highest plantlets length as well as root number. The maximum content of chlorophylls A and B were observed when copper sulphate was increased on MS elongation media with cultivar Lulu. The survival rate after 3 months was related to the medium used during the elongation phase, the survival of plantlets reached to 98.66% with cultivar lulu at the acclimatization stage.