Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
L-Carnitine and its use as a feed additive in poultry feeding a review

La L-carnitine existe dans les cellules animales, vegetales et dans les micro-organismes. Chez les animaux, elle est synthetisee en quasi-totalite dans le foie. Deux acides α-amines essentiels, la lysine et la methionine, interviennent comme substrats primaires durant la biosynthese et la vitamine B 6 , l'acide nicotinique, la vitamine C et les folates sont egalement requis en tant que cofacteurs. La L-carnitine joue un role central dans le metabolisme energetique principalement en transferant les groupements acyles du cytoplasme a la matrice mitochondriale en vue de la β-oxydation. De plus, la L-carnitine intervient dans la regulation des concentrations de coenzyme A dans le cytosol et les mitochondries, et dans la regulation des metabolismes glucidique et lipidique. La voie de biosynthese couplee aux apports alimentaires est suffisante pour couvrir les besoins normaux en elevage aviaire. Cependant, une supplementation en L-carnitine ou en precurseurs et cofacteurs devient necessaire en cas de demandes energetiques accrues (croissance, periode de ponte, stress environnementaux, alimentation enrichie en graisses). Bien qu'en general un apport alimentaire supplementaire n'ameliore pas les performances des oiseaux (prise alimentaire, croissance), la L-carnitine promeut une redistribution des lipides dans l'organisme, principalement chez les poulets, en augmentant la graisse intramusculaire et en diminuant les depots adipeux sous-cutanes et abdominaux, et en diminuant les concentrations plasmatiques de cholesterol et de triglycerides. Mais la L-carnitine ne modifie pas l'utilisation de l'azote. Chez les poules et les cailles pondeuses, la L-carnitine ameliore faiblement la production en œufs et l'eclosabilite des oeufs, mais elle modifie surtout la composition de l'oeuf: la quantite et la qualite de l'albumen sont ameliorees et les concentrations de carnitine dans l'albumen et le jaune sont augmentees favorisant le developpement embryonnaire. Neanmoins, de nombreux facteurs (conditions stressantes de l'elevage et de l'environnement, apport en graisses, especes, degradation intestinale.) compromettent l'utilisation de la carnitine et ses capacites metaboliques et pourraient rendre compte des divergences entre les differentes etudes experimentales.
Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers

Room-temperature ultraviolet lasing in semiconductor nanowire arrays has been demonstrated. The self-organized, <0001> oriented zinc oxide nanowires grown on sapphire substrates were synthesized with a simple vapor transport and condensation process. These wide band-gap semiconductor nanowires form natural laser cavities with diameters varying from 20 to 150 nanometers and lengths up to 10 micrometers. Under optical excitation, surface-emitting lasing action was observed at 385 nanometers, with an emission linewidth less than 0.3 nanometer. The chemical flexibility and the one-dimensionality of the nanowires make them ideal miniaturized laser light sources. These short-wavelength nanolasers could have myriad applications, including optical computing, information storage, and microanalysis.
Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission

Though malaria control initiatives have markedly reduced malaria prevalence in recent decades, global eradication is far from actuality. Recent studies show that environmental and social heterogeneities in low-transmission settings have an increased weight in shaping malaria micro-epidemiology. New integrated and more localized control strategies should be developed and tested. Here we present a set of agent-based models designed to study the influence of local scale human movements on local scale malaria transmission in a typical Amazon environment, where malaria is transmission is low and strongly connected with seasonal riverine flooding. The agent-based simulations show that the overall malaria incidence is essentially not influenced by local scale human movements. In contrast, the locations of malaria high risk spatial hotspots heavily depend on human movements because simulated malaria hotspots are mainly centered on farms, were laborers work during the day. The agent-based models are then used to test the effectiveness of two different malaria control strategies both designed to reduce local scale malaria incidence by targeting hotspots. The first control scenario consists in treat against mosquito bites people that, during the simulation, enter at least once inside hotspots revealed considering the actual sites where human individuals were infected. The second scenario involves the treatment of people entering in hotspots calculated assuming that the infection sites of every infected individual is located in the household where the individual lives. Simulations show that both considered scenarios perform better in controlling malaria than a randomized treatment, although targeting household hotspots shows slightly better performance.
The Effects of Footwear on Squat Movements

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different footwear (bare feet, flat-soled shoes, and weightlifting shoes) on balance during a barbell back squat in novice and advanced participants. It was hypothesized that i) weightlifting shoes would increase balance performance in the anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML) directions, and ii) advanced participants would demonstrate increased balance performance in the AP and ML direction compared to novice participants. 17 participants (9 novice and 8 advanced) performed 3 trials of a single squat repetition, using a 45lb Olympic standard barbell on a force plate, with bare feet, flat shoes, and weightlifting shoes. Squat 1 and 2 were used as warm-up repetitions and data was collected during squat 3 of each condition. Participants were characterized as either novice or advanced based on the number of training sessions they performed squats each week. Novice participants squatted with a barbell less than once per week, and advanced squatted with a barbell more than once per week. Balance performance was quantified by the percentage of time the centre of pressure (CoP) had the smallest displacement from the average CoP location. A chi-square test was performed to determine the statistically significant changes in CoP displacement between the 3 footwear conditions; accordingly, the post hoc significance interval was calculated to P0.0167). Using a 2-way ANOVA, no significant differences were found between novice and advanced participants’ root mean square values for normalized CoP in the AP or ML directions (P>0.05). Participants during the weightlifting shoe condition were found to have better regulation of balance compared to bare feet or flat shoes conditions. Additionally, it was found that novice and advanced participants did not regulate balance differently from each other during the squat movement.
Serotonergic compounds in panic disorder, obsessive‐compulsive disorder and anxious depression: A concise review

The recognition that antidepressants are effective in panic and anxiety disorders had led to the evaluation of drugs selective for serotonin uptake in an attempt to dissect the neurotransmitters responsible for panic disorder. Fluvoxamine is the best studied of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and recent double‐blind studies have confirmed earlier findings showing a reduced number and duration of panic attacks. In addition, fluvoxamine attenuates the ‘accessory symptoms’ of panic disorder such as depression and anxiety. Fluoxetine has only been evaluated in open trials, although these results are generally positive. Paroxetine has shown similar efficacy to clomipramine in a large, controlled study, although the other SSRIs have seldom been investigated. Fluvoxamine lacks the activating properties possessed by some SSRIs and this also makes it a useful candidate for the treatment of anxious depression. The efficacy of fluvoxamine in obsessive‐compulsive disorder has been established in several double‐blind, placebo‐controlled trials. In clinical terms, fluvoxamine is approximately as effective as clomipramine, but with a decidedly better adverse event profile. Fluoxetine has also proved effective in obsessive‐compulsive disorder, although a recent meta‐analysis suggests that fluvoxamine may be somewhat more effective. The other SSRIs have not been sufficiently well studied to justify conclusive statements.
Video scene title generation based on explicit and implicit relations among caption words

Titles of videos are the most important aspect to provide various services. Recently, scene based or video fragments based services have been launched. Since videos in such services are often automatically generated by segmenting a video, these contents cannot have their own titles. As a result, titles of the video fragments are annotated by human hands. To reduce the cost for manual annotation of video titles, this paper proposes a novel method to generate titles of videos by selecting informative sentences from closed captions. The proposed method utilizes explicit and implicit relations among words occurred in closed captions by constructing a stochastic matrix. And then, the proposed method picks important words up based on their weights estimated with TextRank. A title is generated by selecting a sentence with important words from closed captions. Experimental results shows several cases with well-known Korean TV programs.
Chemical vapour deposition of group-VIB metal dichalcogenide monolayers: engineered substrates from amorphous to single crystalline.

As structural analogues of graphene but with a sizeable band gap, monolayers of group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2, M = Mo, W; X = S, Se, Te, etc.) have emerged as the ideal two dimensional prototype for exploring fundamental issues in physics such as valley polarization, and for engineering a wide range of nanoelectronic, optoelectronic and photocatalytic applications. Recently, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) was introduced as a more efficient preparation method than traditional chemical or physical exfoliation options, and has allowed for the successful synthesis of large-area MX2 monolayers possessing a large domain size, high thickness uniformity and continuity, and satisfactory crystal quality. This tutorial review therefore focuses on introducing the more recent advances in the CVD growth of MX2 (MoS2, WS2, MoS2(1-x)Se2xetc. ) monolayers via the sulphurisation/decomposition of pre-deposited metal-based precursors, or the one-step reaction and deposition of gaseous metal and chalcogen feedstocks. Differences in growth behaviour caused by commonly used amorphous SiO2/Si, and newly adopted insulating single crystal substrates such as sapphire, mica and SrTiO3, are also comparatively presented. Also discussed are the essential parameters that influence the growth of MX2, such as the temperature, the source-substrate distance and the composition of the carrier gas (Ar/H2). Finally, an assessment is provided for viable future pathways for fine-tuning of the domain size and orientation, thickness uniformity, and the bandgap of MX2 and its alloys.
PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL EFFICACY OF LEAF EXTRACTS OF PITHECELLOBIUM DULCE

The present study was designed to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of leaf of Pithecellobium dulce against twenty pathogenic microorganisms. Leaf extracts of P. dulce were prepared in distilled water and organic solvents, viz., benzene, chloroform, acetone and methanol in increasing and decreasing order of solvent polarity. Agar well diffusion technique was used to assess the antimicrobial activity of leaf extracts against five Grampositive (Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis), seven Gram-negative (Aeromonas hydrophila , Alcaligenes faecalis, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella typhimurium) bacteria and eight fungi (Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae, Aspergillus terreus, Alternaria alternata, Alternaria brasicola, Alternaria solani and Alternaria vitis). The extracts showed variable inhibition zone (ranging between 7 to 27mm) against most of the tested microbes. Solvent extracts were found to be more effective than the aqueous extract. The most susceptible microorganism was E. faecalis exhibiting a zone of inhibition of 27mm. The broth microdilution assay gave minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ranging from 200 to 1000 µg/ml. The lowest MIC values were obtained against E. faecalis, indicating the susceptibility of the strain for all the extracts. Preliminary phytochemical analysis of different extracts revealed the presence of alkaloids, anthraquinones, flavonoids, cardiac glycosides, proteins, tannins, sugars, and terpenoids. The results of the present study indicate that Pithecellobium dulce extracts possess bioactive compounds having significant antimicrobial properties. Hence, the plant extracts can be subjected to further isolation of therapeutic antimicrobial agents for pharmacological evaluation.
Heart failure and kidney Crucial & Common pathophysiological pathways

Page 11 of 20 Heart failure and kidney Crucial & Common pathophysiological pathways Martin Rosas-Peralta1, Gabriela Borrayo-Sánchez2, Erick Ramirez Arias3, Janaí Santiago-López4, Eduardo Almeida-Gutiérrez5, Jose de Jesús Arriaga-Dávila6 1Head of Special Projects Area, Coordination of High Specialty Units; CUMAE-IMSS, Mexico 2Head of Evaluation and Accountability Division for Medical Care, CUMAE-IMSS, Mexico 3Head of Emergency Room. Hospital of Cardiology of the National Medical Center, XXI Century, IMSS Mexico 4Special Projects Area. CUMAE-IMSS, Mexico 5Director of Education and Research in Health of the Hospital of Cardiology of the National Medical Center Siglo XXI, IMSS Mexico 6Head of Medical Benefits of IMSS, Mexico
WATER VAPOR ADSORPTION ISOTHERM MODEL OF PORTLAND CEMENT PASTE

Adsorption and desorption isotherm model of hardened cement paste under 20 °C is proposed. Adsorption and desorption isotherm of hardened cement paste with different water cement ratio, temperature history, and different degree of hydration were experimentally studied. Based on the experimental data, following characteristics were derived: 1) BET surface are of adsorption process and desorption process has linear relationship, 2) Relationship between statistical thickness of adsorption and relative humidity is identical in the range below 40%RH, 3) t-curve can be derived from the relationship between statistical thickness of adsorption and relative humidity, 4) difference between statistical thickness of adsorption and t-curve has a linear relationship between Kelvin radius, 5) virgin desorption curve value less than 40%RH has similar value of those of desorption curve after drying pre-treatment, 6) virgin desorption curve has a linear relationship with relative humidity. Based on these experimental points, empirical adsorption model is proposed.
The Phylogeny of Colpodellids (Alveolata) Using Small Subunit rRNA Gene Sequences Suggests They are the Free-living Sister Group to Apicomplexans

Abstract In an attempt to reconstruct early alveolate evolution, we have examined the phylogenetic position of colpodellids by analyzing small subunit rDNA sequences from Colpodella pontica Myl’nikov 2000 and Colpodella sp. (American Type Culture Collection 50594). All phylogenetic analyses grouped the colpodellid sequences together with strong support and placed them strongly within the Alveolata. Most analyses showed colpodellids as the sister group to an apicomplexan clade, albeit with weak support. Sequences from two perkinsids, Perkinsus and Parvilucifera, clustered together and consistently branched as the sister group to dinoflagellates as shown previously. These data demonstrate that colpodellids and perkinsids are plesiomorphically similar in morphology and help provide a phylogenetic framework for inferring the combination of character states present in the last common ancestor of dinoflagellates and apicomplexans. We can infer that this ancestor was probably a myzocytotic predator with two heterodynamic flagella, micropores, trichocysts, rhoptries, micronemes, a polar ring, and a coiled open-sided conoid. This ancestor also very likely contained a plastid, but it is presently not certain whether it was photosynthetic, and it is not clear whether extant perkinsids or colpodellids have retained the organelle.
Effect of Mincing on the Quality Characteristics of Chevon Cutlets

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of mincing and added water on the quality characteristics of chevon cutlets. The lean meat was minced once, twice and thrice, respectively through 4 mm plate to evaluate the effect of mincing on physic-chemical and sensory parameters. A significant effect of mincing was observed with the highest scores for juiciness and texture for the products developed from twice minced lean meat. Thus, good quality chevon cutlets could be prepared by mincing the lean meat twice and with incorporation of 5% shredded potato and 3% added water from tough and less palatable chevon.
FORMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERS OF OMEPRAZOLE DR PELLETS: A STUDY FOR YIELD IMPROVEMENT

The main aim of the present investigation was to observe the entire manufacturing process and to find out the problems occurring during each step of the process and to rectify those. The study involves the improvement in yield by changing (or) rectifying the problems occurred in machine, man, method, material by keeping in mind various formulation aspects relating to it. Omeprazole is prototype member of new class of substituted Benzimidazoles, which inhibits the final common step in gastric acid secretion. In the present investigation, various formulation aspects were studied for developing a pharmaceutical equivalent, stable, cost improved and quality improved formulation of enteric coated omeprazole pellets comparable with innovator and optimize certain process parameters to get maximum yield of the product during large scale manufacturing. The basic goal of drug therapy is to achieve a steady blood or tissue level of the drug at specific site which will be therapeutically effective and non-toxic. In this context the delayed release pellets deliver the drug almost at a predetermined rate locally for a specified period of time at a specific site i.e. small intestine by reducing the adverse effects. Enteric coating to Omeprazole was performed by drug layering technique using conventional coating pan. Various formulation aspects like the effect of process parameters and also the concentrations of excipients were studied. Product’s maximum output was found to be 0.67-2.10 % increment during drug coating stage, 0.99-1.65 % increment during sub coating stage and 1.27 - 1.51 % increment at enteric coating stage.
A Proof of Correctness for Rococo

This paper presents a proof of correctness for Rococo, a new concurrency control protocol for distributed transactions. Rococo can achieve strict serializability without the cost of blocking or aborting. It executes a transaction as a collection of atomic pieces, each of which commonly involves only a single server. Servers first track dependencies between concurrent transactions without actually executing them. At commit time, a transaction’s dependency information is sent to all servers so they can re-order conflicting pieces and execute them in a serializable order.
Estimating three-axis contact force for fingertip by emitting vibration actively

Recently, various sensors that estimate contact forces are increasingly studied, and we expect this to accelerate the development of intuitive operations for user interfaces to sense the contact force of the fingertip in the robotics field. However, it is difficult to measure the contact force without mounting the device on the fingertip, which can hinder natural movements and reduce tactile and thermal sensations. Therefore, we propose a method for estimating three-axis contact force using vibration. We emitted the vibration with an actuator and the contact force was estimated using the vibration propagated through the human body. We succeeded in estimating the three-axis contact force of the fingertip using linear predictive coding by support vector regression. We conducted several evaluation experiments and confirmed the feasibility of the proposed method in estimating three-axis contact forces.
Use of visual range measurements to predict fine particulate matter exposures in Southwest Asia and Afghanistan

ABSTRACT Military personnel deployed to Southwest Asia and Afghanistan were exposed to high levels of ambient particulate matter (PM). However, quantitative ambient exposure data for conducting health studies are limited due to a lack of PM monitoring stations. Since visual range (VR) is proportional to particle light extinction, VR can serve as a surrogate for PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 µm) concentrations. We used data on VR, relative humidity (RH), and PM2.5 ground measurements collected in Kuwait from years 2004–2005 to establish the relationship between PM2.5 and VR. Model validation obtained by regressing trimester average PM2.5 predictions against PM2.5 measurements in Kuwait produced an r2 value of 0.84. Cross validation of urban and rural sites in Kuwait also revealed good model fit. We applied this relationship to location-specific visibility data at 104 regional sites between years 2000-2012 to estimate monthly average PM2.5 concentrations. Monthly averages at sites in Iraq, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Djibouti, and Qatar ranged from 10 to 365 µg/m3 during this period, while site averages ranged from 22 to 80 µg/m3, indicating considerable spatial and temporal heterogeneity in ambient PM2.5 across these regions. These data support the use of historical visibility data to estimate location-specific PM2.5 concentrations for application in epidemiological studies. Implications: This study demonstrates the ability to use airport visibility to estimate PM2.5 concentrations in Southwest Asian and Afghanistan. This supports the use of historical and ongoing visibility data to estimate PM2.5 exposure in this region of the world, where PM exposure information is otherwise scarce. This is of high utility to epidemiologists investigating the relationship between chronic exposure to PM2.5 and respiratory diseases among deployed military personnel stationed at various military bases throughout the region. Such information will enable the drafting of improved policies relating to military health.
Robust target detection, tracking and following for an indoor mobile robot

Target detection, tracking and following is viewed as one of the most essential topics in mobile robotics. In this paper, we develop a robust target detection, tracking and following system for an indoor mobile robot. In the system, target detection relies on real-time histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) feature extraction and effective support vector machine (SVM) classification. Particularly, a novel and fast target tracker is designed to track detected target. The designed tracker improves traditional spatio-temporal context (STC) model by extracting middle-level feature rather than raw pixels, which is capable of tracking target better than traditional STC tracker under the circumstance of illumination changes and partial occlusion. Furthermore, proportional, integral, derivative (PID) motion control strategy is also employed to conduct robot to follow target safely and robustly. Overall system is evaluated on Pioneer3-DX mobile robot equipped with Microsoft Kinect. Excellent experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of developed system.