Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A NEW RECORD AND A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS POA L. (POACEAE) FROM IRAN

Poa damavandica Assadi & Kavousi is described as a new species from Iran based on a specimen has been collected from high altitudes of Damavand Mountain. It belongs to the section Stenopoa subsection Stenopoa. The new species is compared with Poa araratica, P. sterilis, P. stepposa and P. rangkulensis as close affinities. Moreover, Poa glauca is reported as a new record from Iran collected from Mazandaran province.
A GIS-based Approach for Assessing Water Harvesting Suitability in a Badia Benchmark Watershed in Jordan

Dans les environnements les plus secs de l'Asie de l'ouest et de l'Afrique du nord (badia), la précipitation n'est pas suffisante pour la production de cultures, et la végétation naturelle a souvent été dégradée par surpâturage. Des techniques de collecte et de conservation des eaux de ruissellement peuvent améliorer la productivité d'eau. Pour développer une intégration réussite et fiable des techniques de conservation des eaux dans les systèmes agro-pastoraux existants, un bassin versant de référence a été établi dans la badia en Jordanie. Un système pour vérifier l'aptitude des différentes techniques de conservation des eaux au niveau du basin versant a été développé. Les critères physiques principaux pour l'aptitude de la collecte des eaux de ruissellement dans cet environnement étaient la pente, la profondeur du sol, la texture du sol, et le pourcentage de la surface couverte de pierres. Les critères ont été intégrés et une carte d'aptitude a été préparée dans un environnement SIG. Les investigations au champ ont révélé que l'approche appliquée est très promettant.
Revision of the production, phytochemical composition, and nutraceutical properties of Mexican oregano

Resumen El oregano es una planta de distribucion mundial, el cual esta representado principalmente por dos especies: Origanum vulgare (Lamiaceace) nativo de Europa, y Lippia graveolens (Verbenaceae), originaria de America. Mexico ocupa el segundo lugar como productor mundial de oregano con la especie L. graveolens H. B. K. Sin embargo, la mayoria de las especies explotadas son silvestres y su cultivo es aun tradicional y limitado. En este trabajo se presenta un analisis de las estrategias de propagacion, composicion quimica y propiedades nutraceuticas del oregano. Los fitoquimicos presentes pueden clasificarse en tres categorias: compuestos volatiles, lipidos y fenolicos. Estos componentes presentan diversas propiedades nutraceuticas entre las que destacan la actividad antioxidante, hipoglucemica, hipotensiva, hipolipidemica y anticancerigena. Los avances en el estudio de la composicion fitoquimica y su relacion con nuevas propiedades nutraceuticas hacen del oregano un producto de alto valor comercial con amplias aplicaciones quimioterapeuticas.
Avaliação de desempenho de um controlador SDN implementado como uma VNF

In the present work, we performed experiments with an SDN controller implemented as a virtual network function in the KVM and XEN open source hypervisors and compared the most critical performance parameters in relation to a native scenario in order to measure the degradation of performance caused by Virtualization. We use Cbench to emulate SDN networks and evaluate the performance and latency of the Floodlight controller. We found that controller virtualization in the KVM environment resulted in degraded processing of flows by 29%, showed an increase in response time of 22% and utilized the processor much less than the Xen environment, which despite having overloaded the CPU in 25%, was able to achieve the best performance, response time and the lowest use of RAM. Resumo. No presente trabalho, realizamos experimentos com um controlador SDN implementado como uma função de rede virtual nos hypervisores de código aberto KVM e XEN e comparamos os parâmetros de desempenho mais críticos em relação a um cenário nativo com o propósito de mensurar a degradação de desempenho causada pela virtualização. Utilizamos Cbench para emular redes SDN e avaliar o desempenho e a latência do controlador Floodlight. Descobrimos que a virtualização do controlador no ambiente KVM resultou na degradação do processamento de fluxos em 29%, apresentou um aumento do tempo de resposta de 22% e utilizou bem menos o processador em relação ao ambiente Xen, que apesar de ter sobrecarregado a CPU em 25%, foi capaz de atingir o melhor desempenho, tempo de resposta e a menor utilização de memória RAM.
THE AFFORDANCES OF TECHNOLOGY IN BUILDING THE ASEAN COMMUNITY THROUGH GRADUATE EDUCATION

This paper highlights the affordances of technology in building the ASEAN community through graduate education. Specifically, the paper shall focus on the development and the delivery of the ASEAN Studies Graduate Program being offered online by the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). The program hopes to develop graduates who can contribute to an enhanced and heightened ASEAN community’s consciousness and awareness of its ties of history, culture and bound by a common regional identity but celebrating diversity. The paper shall share the development of the program structure and of the course materials that was accomplished through the collaboration of five open universities in the ASEAN region bound by a philosophy that the commonly shared ASEAN aspiration and dynamics could only be well understood by the ASEAN peoples themselves through a system of knowledge and body of research and repository of data and information on the region in its individual member nations and in its collective character as a regional entity. Further the paper shall share the delivery of the program that is framed by the Open and Distance eLearning or ODeL philosophy characterized by openness, inclusion, resource sharing, access and equity of open learning and learner-centeredness, flexibility, active learning, interactivity, ubiquity, connectivity and constructivism view of e-learning. The paper shall conclude with the challenges of a graduate program within an ODeL framework.
Variations dans les réseaux de régulation chez une levure œnologique et impacts sur les propriétés fermentaires

Les souches Saccharomyces cerevisiae presentent une forte diversite phenotypique, notamment au niveau des proprietes fermentaires parmi les souches œnologiques. Les bases moleculaires de ces differences de comportements ainsi que les mecanismes d'adaptation a l'environnement œnologique sont encore mal connues. Les variations d'expression genique contribuent a cette diversite phenotypique, cependant les reseaux et les genes concernes sont peu decrits. Afin d'aborder ces questions, nous avons developpe une approche integree « genetique-genomique » qui combine la cartographie de QTL en fermentation alcoolique et les profils d'expression d'une population recombinee. La recherche de QTL d'expression nous a permis de detecter 1465 eQTL correspondant a des regulations locales ou distantes dont certaines regroupees en hotspots. Nous avons determine qu'une duplication d'un segment chromosomique est impliquee dans le controle de la cinetique de fermentation. Nos donnees ont revele que les perturbations d'expression concernent de nombreux reseaux metaboliques. Nous avons caracterise plus finement les sources de variations d'expression qui affectent les systemes de detoxification, et avons montre que les modifications de regulation de plusieurs exporteurs membranaires sont liees a des mutations dans des facteurs de transcription. Nous avons egalement decrypte les variations controlant les genes du metabolisme de la thiamine. Nous montrons qu'une alteration du senseur Thi3p, conduit a privilegier l'expression des genes de biosynthese de la thiamine chez la souche œnologique aux depens d'un gene de pyruvate decarboxylase. Ces travaux nous ont ainsi permis d'acceder a une partie des bases moleculaires responsables de la diversite et de l'adaptation des souches aux conditions œnologiques.
Chromosome Microdissection and Cloning: A Practical Guide

Part 1 Introduction to chromosome microdissection: chromosome organization cloning DNA from chromosome fragments. Part 2 Preparation of chromosome for microdissection: critical aspects of chromosome preparation reagents equipment protocols. Part 3 Methods of chromosome microdissection: methods summary of chromosome microdissection and collection of DNA cloning. Part 4 Molecular cloning of microdissected chromosomal DNA: cloning DNA from microdissected chromosomal DNA fragments direct cloning from microdissected chromosomal fragments ligation of microdissected chromosomal DNA with plasmid vector or linker adapter and PCR amplification PCR amplification of microdissected chromosomal DNA fragments by probing a complete recombinant library analysis of recombinant clones derived from microdissected chromosomal DNA determination of DNA insert size range determination of the percentage of recombinant clones containing repeat and unique sequences calculation of the percentage of microdissected DNA cloned chromosomal localization of recombinant clones using fluorescent "in situ" hybridization. Part 5 Applications of chromosome microdissection: analysis of PCR product of microdissected chromosome fragments recombinant DNA libraries from microdissected chromosome fragments gene transfer using chromosome fragments.
Medical Biochemistry: Human Metabolism in Health and Disease

PREFACE vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix THE AUTHORS xi 1 INTRODUCTION TO METABOLISM 1 2 ENZYMES 11 3 DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION 38 4 GLYCOLYSIS 58 5 PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE AND THE TRICARBOXYLIC ACID CYCLE 77 6 ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION 89 7 THE PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY 102 8 GLYCOGEN 112 9 GLUCONEOGENESIS 126 10 FATTY ACID OXIDATION AND KETONES 141 11 FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS 162 12 TRIACYLGLYCEROL TRANSPORT AND METABOLISM 177 13 ETHANOL 191 14 PHOSPHOLIPIDS AND SPHINGOLIPIDS 199 15 EICOSANOIDS 218 16 GLYCOLIPIDS AND GLYCOPROTEINS 231 17 CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS AND TRANSPORT 246 18 STEROIDS AND BILE ACIDS 271 19 NITROGEN HOMEOSTASIS 290 20 AMINO ACIDS 305 21 SULFUR AMINO ACID METABOLISM 325 22 FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 IN ONE-CARBON METABOLISM 335 23 PURINES AND PYRIMIDINES 351 24 HEME AND IRON 372 25 INTEGRATION OF METABOLISM 393 INDEX 411
Estudio del potencial probiótico de lactobacilos aislados de fuentes naturales

El uso de los lactobacilos como probioticos se ha incrementado debido a sus propiedades beneficas para la salud animal y humana. Con el objetivo de identificar y obtener cepas nativas de lactobacilos para ser utilizadas como probioticos, se seleccionaron 9 lactobacilos aislados de diferentes fuentes naturales. Las especies de Lactobacillus fueron identificadas por el perfil de fermentacion de carbohidratos y por la Reaccion en Cadena de la Polimerasa utilizando cebadores especificos disenados a partir de los espaciadores intergenicos de los genes ribosomicos 16S-23S. Los lactobacilos seleccionados pertenecen a las especies: Lactobacillus plantarum, Lb. acidophilus, Lb. casei y Lb. fermentum correspondiendo en numero de cepas por especie 3, 3, 2 y 1 respectivamente. El potencial probiotico de estos microorganismos se determino por su estabilidad frente a pH basico, su tolerancia a la bilis y a su actividad antimicrobiana contra los patogenos entericos Listeria monocytogenes y Escherichia coli. Se encontro que Lb. acidophilus 4P-1 presenta las mejores caracteristicas probioticas por resistir mas de 24 horas a pH 3.5 e inhibir a los patogenos ensayados.
Fossil honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) from the Late Tertiary of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland

Abstract The honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) comprise one of the most characteristic, numerous, speciose and widespread components of the Australo-Papuan avifauna. Despite their present ubiquity, these birds have a meagre fossil record restricted to the Quaternary. Described here are the first Late Tertiary records of the Meliphagidae, recovered from Pliocene and Miocene sites of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland. These records are based on the tarsometatarsus, which in honeyeaters is one of the more distinctive morphologies among the Passeriformes. The Pliocene site at Riversleigh has yielded three specimens, one of which is particularly well preserved and morphologically inseparable from the extant Lichenostomus—Meliphaga. Specimens from three Miocene sites exhibit differences in size and morphology that indicate that at least four taxa are involved at this age.
Purifikasi DNA Manusia dengan Teknik Kitchen Preparation Menggunakan Ekstrak Jahe (Zingiber officinale Rosc)

Penelitian biologi molekuler di bidang kedokteran selalu melibatkan DNA atau RNA. Pemeriksaan DNA mengharuskan dilakukannya proses ekstraksi atau purifikasi DNA. Saat ini proses purifikasi yang tersedia adalah metode salting out; yang cukup rumit dan menggunakan banyak sekali reagen kimia, serta ekstraksi menggunakan kit dari pabrikan yang lebih simpel namun mahal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan cara purifikasi DNA yang mudah dan murah sehingga dapat memudahkan penelitian dan pendidikan di bidang biologi molekuler. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimental murni. DNA manusia diperoleh dengan cara berkumur-kumur selama 1 menit dan air kumur tersebut ditampung di dalam wadah. DNA dipurifikasi menggunakan teknik kitchen preparation menggunakan deterjen 1%, enzim protease dari ekstrak jahe (Zingiber officinale Rosc), dan etanol. Hasil eksperimen menunjukkan adanya lapisan putih keruh pada bagian atas tabung reaksi dengan volume ekstrak jahe 2,3 ml, 4,6 ml, dan 6,9 ml. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa ada proses penguraian DNA dari dalam inti sel dan presipitasi DNA ke arah lapisan etanol sehingga terbentuk benang-benang DNA berwarna putih keruh. Proses purifikasi DNA manusia dengan teknik kitchen preparation menggunakan sumber protease dari tanaman khas Indonesia dapat menghasilkan DNA yang dapat dinilai secara visual dalam tabung reaksi.
Polymeric Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems

Biologically Active Polymers Polymeric Matrices Liposomes Interactions between Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems and Biological Systems: Barriers and Opportunities PGG-Glucans: A Novel Class of Macrophage-Activating Immunomodulators A New *b-Glucan-Based Macrophage-Targeted Adjuvant Fluorescent Labeling of Heparins and Related Polysaccharides: Old Problems and New Solutions Design of Polysaccharide-5-Fluorouracil Conjugates Exhibiting Antitumor Activities Methotrexate-*g-Hydrazide and Divinyl Ether-Maleic Anhydride Conjugate: Antitumor Activity in Mice Succinimidyl Carbonates of Polyethylene Glycol: Useful Reactive Polymers for Preparation of Protein Conjugates Poly(*a-amino acid)-Drug Conjugates: A Biodegradable Injectable Drug Delivery System Transcellular Transport of Protein-Polymer Conjugates in Cultured Epithelial Cells: Release of a Protein from Its Polymeric Carrier During Transcytosis Opportunities for Protein Delivery by Aerosol: Absorption and Retention of Several Synthetic Polypeptides in the Lung Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrolytically Labile Poly(phosphoester-urethanes) Desaminotyrosyl-Tyrosine Alkyl Esters: New Diphenolic Monomers for the Design of Tyrosine-Derived Pseudopoly(amino acids) Kinetics of Controlled Release from Acid-Catalyzed Matrices Bicontinuous Controlled-Release Matrices Composed of Poly(D,L-lactic acid) Blended with Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Copolymer Amphiphilic Networks: Synthesis and Characterization of and Drug Release from Poly (N,N-dimethylacrylamide)-1-polyisoburylene Amphiphilic Networks: Synthesis and Characterization of and Drug Release from Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-1-polyisobutylene Cross-linked Polyacid Matices for Oral Drug Delivery Gastric Retention of Enzyme-Digestible Hydrogels in the Canine Stomach under Fasted and Fed Conditions: Preliminary Analysis Using New Analytical Techniques Cubic Phases as Delivery Systems for Peptide Drugs Lipid Microspheres and Lecithinized-Polymer Drug Delivery Systems Drug Delivery by Organ-Specific Immunoliposomes Novel Polymerized Vesicles with Hydrolyzable Linkages
Artefatos zoomorfos sambaquieiros do estado de Santa Catarina

O trabalho teve por objetivo analisar contexto, distribuição e atributos dos artefatos zoomorfos sambaquieiros de Santa Catarina. Para tanto, foram selecionadas as duas maiores coleções temáticas da Região Sul do Brasil, pertencentes ao Museu Arqueológico de Sambaqui de Joinville (MASJ) e ao Museu do Homem do Sambaqui, em Florianópolis. Durante o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, foram analisadas fontes primárias inéditas, como iconografias, manuscritos, pareceres técnicos (pertencentes ao Pe. João Alfredo Rohr) e os cadernos de Guilherme Tiburtius, onde ele faz a primeira descrição da coleção que carrega seu nome. Também conseguimos documentar zoomorfos inéditos em outros museus do estado catarinense e no Museo de América, em Madrid, Espanha, que recebeu esses artefatos em 1778, quando Florianópolis (na época Desterro) foi ocupada por tropas espanholas. A pesquisa fez uso da arqueo-historiografia sobre o tema zoólitos e utilização de equipamentos de precisão, como balança digital, paquímetro de aço e câmera semiprofissional, para o levantamento dos atributos dos zoomorfos estudados. Os resultados foram o levantamento dos sambaquis que apresentaram zoólitos; sambaquis com zoólitos como mobília fúnebre; e zoólitos fora de sambaquis; mapa da dispersão dos zoólitos no estado de Santa Catarina; tabelas de sítios/sepultamentos/quantidade de zoólitos/esqueletos/gêneros e fichas de atributos com dez campos específicos: 1) Características; 2) Número de registro da peça; 3) Local; 4) Procedência; 5) Dimensões; 6) Peso; 7) Classificação mineralógica; 8) Tipologia; 9) Estado de conservação; 10) Referências. Todos os dados nos levaram a considerar ainda o grande potencial de estudo arqueológico dos artefatos zoomorfos sambaquieiros; potencial de pesquisa, diante dos materiais inéditos encontrados, nas reservas técnicas dos museus do estado; possibilidades de estudos, fora do país, envolvendo os zoomorfos sambaquieiros.
The phylogenetic handbook : a practical approach to DNA and protein phylogeny

1. Basic concepts of molecular evolution Anne-Mieke Vandamme 2. Sequence databases Guy Bottu and Marc Van Ranst 3. Multiple alignment Des Higgins 4. Nucleotide substitution models Korbinian Strimmer, Arndt von Heseler and Marco Salemi 5. Phylogeny inference based on distance models Yves Van de Peer and Marco Salemi 6. Phylogeny inference based on maximum liklihood methods with TREE-PUZZLE Korbinian Strimmer and Arndt von Haeseler 7. Phylogeny inference based on parsimony and other methods with PAUP* David L. Swofford and Jack Sullivan 8. Phylogenetic analysis using protein sequences Fred Opperdoes 9. Substitution rate calibration with TREECON Yves van de Peer 10. Selecting models of evolution David Posada 11. Analysis of coding sequences Yoshiyuki Suzuki and Takashi Gojobori 12. Splits Tree: a network based tool for exploring evolutionary relationships in molecular data Vincent Moulton 13. Data exploration and tetrapod phylogeny using DAMBE Xuhua Xia and Zheng Xia 14. Detecting recombination in viral sequences Mika Salminen 15. LAMARC: estimating population genetic parameters from molecular data Mary K. Kuhner.
The viable count : quantitative and environmental aspects

Contents: The Characteristics of Colony Formation. - The Normal Distribution (ND) Model. - A Kinetic Model of Colony Formation. - The Basis of Microcolony Formation. - Plate Counts from Mixed Populations. - The Analysis of Colony-forming Curves. - Statistical Aspects of Plate Count Data. - Practical Implications of the Kinetic (FOR) Model. - An Overview. - References. - Index.
Small Nucleolar RNAs Guide the Ribose Methylations of Eukaryotic rRNAs

This chapter provides a progress report on developments that should set the stage for dissecting the rRNA-ribose methylation machinery and for deciphering the role of these modifications in ribosome assembly and function. Interestingly, ribose methylations are far from being uniformly distributed within the universally conserved domains of eukaryotic rRNAs. The finding that small RNA guides specify the sites of ribose methylation in eukaryotic rRNAs raises the issue that RNA cofactors also could be involved in prokaryotes. Prokaryotic rRNAs have considerably fewer ribose methylations than eukaryotic rRNAs, with only 4 sites in E. coli. Two prokaryotic rRNA ribose methylases have been characterized so far that are each specific for a single site in rRNA. The presence of a complex repertoire of site-specific, trans-acting snoRNA guides sufficient to precisely target the modification through the formation of a common canonical duplex structure with the rRNA substrate strongly suggests that the enzymology of the reaction is quite simple, at least as to the variety of protein enzymes involved. snoRNA-guided ribose methylation of rRNA involves the formation of scores of 10-21 bp long intermolecular RNA duplexes along the elongating pre-rRNA transcript in eukaryotes. Analyzing the structure of the methylase(s) and pseudouridine synthase(s) involved in the modification of eukaryotic rRNAs, with particular reference to RNA editing enzymes, also recognizing double-stranded RNA structures could be illuminating.
Seleção fenotípica e identificação de snps em regiões genômicas ligados a resistência à ferrugem em Eucalyptus grandis

One of the major difficulties faced by the forestry sector, in Eucalyptus planting in Brazil, has been the occurrence of rust incited by Puccinia psidii Winter, due to the damage caused where the productivity of the attacked plants is greatly reduced. In this sense forestry companies has sought in forest genetic improvement programs, reduce production losses through genetic control. Thus, the study aimed to estimate genetic parameters, to evaluate the genetic gain by selection for partial resistance to rust caused by P. psidii in F1 progenies of Eucalyptus grandis under field conditions. Two experiments were carried with 88 F1 progenies of Eucalyptus grandis in the city of Itararé. The experimental design utilized was a randomized complete block design with four replications and five plants per plot, totaling 1760 plants per experimental field. At 30 days after planting date, was carried out the first assessment regarding the occurrence of rust by the rating scale. Four monthly evaluations were carried out from September to December 2014. Estimates of variance components and genetic parameters were obtained by REML/BLUP method using the genetic-statistical program SELEGEN-REML/BLUP. Genetic parameters found demonstrated a low genetic variability and high resistance to rust. The selection gains were satisfactory for this stage of selection.
Knowledge and Practices of Nurses in Intensive Care Units on Endotracheal Suctioning

1 MS Student, Department of Critical Care Nursing, Student Research Committee, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran 2 Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Nursing Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Health School, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran 4 MSc, Department of Nursing, Nursing Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan * Corresponding author: Leila Jouybari, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Nursing Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran. E-mail: jouybari@goums.ac. ir