Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Anti-hypertensive and Antioxidant Potentials of Wheat Substituted with Two Underutilized Seed Flours

The effect of the addition of Moringa oleifera seed and African oil bean (AOB) seed flours on the minerals, antinutritional compositions, antioxidants and Angiotensin -1 converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition potentials on wheat based composite flour was investigated. The minerals composition of the composite flour was optimized using optimal mixture design of response surface methodology (RSM) by varying the independent variables as; wheat flour (50-90 g/100g), Moringa seed flour (5-25 g/100g) and AOB flour (5-25 g/100g). The results of the optmisation indicated that run 11 (50% Wheat/25% Moringa seed/25% AOB flours) had overall best Fe, Ca and Mg contents while run 1 (81.20% Wheat/8.68% Moringa seed flour/10.12% AOB seed flour) had the best Zn, P and Na contents. However, Na/K ratios of the optimum blends were less than 0.130. Run 11 had overall best antioxidant characteristics, closely followed by run 1 while the control (100% wheat flour) had the least antioxidant contents. The ACE inhibition property of cake produced from run 1 (with the least antinutrients contents and second best antioxidants contents) showed that addition of Moringa and AOB flours had positive effect on ACE inhibition potential of Wheat flour, which increased with increasing concentration.
P o S ( C D 1 2 ) 0 0 2 Chiral Perturbation Theory and Mesons

The talk contains a short introduction to mesonic Chiral Per turbation Theory (ChPT). In addition four disparate areas where some progress has been made in rec nt y ars are discussed. These are the last fit of the order p4 low-energy-constants Li to data, hard pion ChPT, the recent twoloop work on EFT for QCD like theories and the high order leadi ng logarithm calculations in the massiveO(N) nonlinear sigma model.
Distribution Feeder Scheduling Considering Variable Load Profile and Outage Costs

In a deregulated power market, customers would have more choices for their power service and the improvement of service quality has become a challenge to power transmission and distribution companies. Distribution system reliability that was traditionally considered within the planning activities is now incorporated in the operational environment. This paper presents study results of a multiobjective feeder operation optimization problem that considers how to balance network efficiency, switching and reliability costs in a distribution network. The proposed method divides annual feeder load curve into multiperiods of load levels and optimizes the feeder configurations for different load levels in annual operation planning. Customer load profiles and seasonal varying data of feeder section failure rates and customer interruption costs are considered. Numerical simulations demonstrate the time-varying effects on the optimal distribution feeder configuration and operation costs. A binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) search is adopted to determine the feeder switching schedule. Test results indicate that not considering time-varying effects and using only simplified fixed load and reliability parameters could underestimate the total loss to the utility and its customers.
Verification of Faulty Message Passing Systems in PVS Pilotto and White Vector Matrix Tree Mathematical

We present a library of PVS meta-theories that verifies a class of distributed systems in which agent communication is through message-passing. The theoretic work, outlined in [4], consists of iterative schemes for solving systems of linear equations, such as message-passing extensions of the Gauss and Gauss-Seidel methods. We briefly review that work and discuss the challenges in formally verifying it.
A study of alternative health care use for gastrointestinal disorders.

The discomfort and frustration often experienced by patients with gastrointestinal (GI) disorders may lead many to seek alternative health care (AHC). This study was conducted to describe AHC use by patients with GI disorders in a convenience sample (N = 73) from a tertiary hospital in Florida. AHC was explored within social exchange theory. Measurement instruments included the Alternative Health Care Gastrointestinal Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Alternative Health Care Use Questionnaire, and Alternative Health Care Advantages/Disadvantages Questionnaire. The study indicated that 32 subjects (43%) had used AHC for their GI disorders during the past 2 years. Most frequently used AHC included relaxation therapy, herbs, lifestyle diets, megavitamins, massage, and home remedies. There was a greater use of AHC by young persons (t = 2.39, p = .02) and by those not retired (chi 2 = 4.58, p = .03). AHC was associated with perceived rewards (r = .38, p = .03) and perceived profits (r = .38, p = .03). AHC was not associated with type or duration of GI disorder or other demographic variables. Subjects specifically cited benefits with relaxation therapy, vegetarian diets, spiritual healing, fish oil for inflammatory bowel disease, and use of milk thistle for hepatitis.
Experiencing Extreme Height for The First Time: The Influence of Height, Self-Judgment of Fear and a Moving Structural Beam on the Heart Rate and Postural Sway During the Quiet Stance

Falling from elevated surfaces is the main cause of death and injury at construction sites. Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports, an average of nearly three workers per day suffer fatal injuries from falling. Studies show that postural instability is the foremost cause of this disproportional falling rate. To study what affects the postural stability of construction workers, we conducted a series of experiments in the virtual reality (VR). Twelve healthy adults, all students at the University of Nebraska were recruited for this study. During each trial, participants heart rates and postural sways were measured as the dependent factors. The independent factors included a moving structural beam (MB) coming directly at the participants, the presence of VR, height, the participants self-judgment of fear, and their level of acrophobia. The former was designed in an attempt to simulate some part of the steel erection procedure, which is one of the key tasks of ironworkers. The results of this study indicate that height increase the postural sway. Self-judged fear significantly was found to decrease postural sway, more specifically the normalized total excursion of the center of pressure (TE), both in the presence and absence of height. Also, participants heart rates significantly increase once they are confronted by a moving beam in the virtual environment (VE), even though they are informed that the beam will not hit them. The findings of this study can be useful for training novice ironworkers that will be subjected to height and steel erection for the first time.
1 Tail-Anchored Inner Membrane Protein ElaB Increases Resistance to Stress 2 While Reducing Persistence in Escherichia coli 3 4

4 Yunxue Guo, Xiaoxiao Liu, Baiyuan Li, Jianyun Yao, Thomas K. Wood , and Xiaoxue Wang* 5 6 Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia 7 Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of 8 Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China, 9 Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 10 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-4400, USA 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +86 20 89267515; Fax: +86 20 89235490; Email: 19 xxwang@scsio.ac. cn 20 21 Running title: ElaB is a stress-related inner membrane protein 22
Epstein-Barr virus and infectious mononucleosis: what students can teach us.

Herpes viruses are a large family of agents whose members have long coevolutionary histories with their natural hosts. The product of that coevolution is a virus-host balance typified by asymptomatic or clinically mild primary infection, followed by virus persistence through latent infection of a specific cellular niche; thereafter, occasional asymptomatic reactivation from that niche allows transmission of infectious virions from the lifelong carrier to a new naive host. In certain circumstances, this evolutionary compact between virus and host can be disturbed and the full pathogenic potential of these agents realized. One such circumstance highlights the important role that host immunity has played in shaping virus-host coevolution; thus, herpes virus infections can be life threatening in transplant recipients whose cellular immune function has been impaired. Another such circumstance highlights the fact that virus and host have coevolved to accommodate primary infection occurring very early in life, once passively acquired maternal antibodies have waned; thus, changing the natural epidemiology of infection may also affect its outcome. An example involves Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), a Blymphotropic human gamma1-herpesvirus that is normally acquired by oral transmission from close family contacts early in life, at which time primary infection is almost always asymptomatic. Over the last century, in economically developed countries with rising standards of human hygiene, primary infection has become increasingly delayed until adolescence or later. In these circumstances, a proportion of persons present clinically with infectious mononucleosis (IM), an acute illness characterized by a quartet of symptoms and signs (sore throat, cervical lymphadenopathy, fever, and fatigue) that can range from mild to extremely severe in intensity and duration. For some time
Patient Suicide in Institutions: Emotional Responses and Traumatic Impact on Swiss Mental Health Professionals

The reactions of professionals after a patient suicide are still a subject of controversy in academic literature. This article reports on retrospective data about the aftermath experienced by mental health professionals working in institutional settings in Switzerland. Findings indicate that both self-rated emotional responses and traumatic impact were low for the majority of the 258 professionals surveyed. Variables that mediated the impact included the support received and the characteristics of the professional-patient relationship. No significant differences were found with regard to gender and profession.
Knowledge level of north Andaman farmers towards scientific vegetable cultivation practices - a case study.

In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, around 85% of the geographical area is covered under forest. The vegetable cultivation is practiced by N & M Andaman district farmers especially from Diglipur Tehsil as their main source of income during Rabi season in rice fallow lands. However, the productivity of vegetables is far below the level of mainland farmers. This is due to poor adoption of scientific cultivation practices by farmers. Thus, the present study was conducted in Diglipur Tehsil with 120 respondents selected from 8 villages using random sampling techniques. The results showed that 20 percent of farming community are youth and annual income of majority (47%) of farmers is medium and their education level is also very poor. These socio economic factors mainly attributed to their adoption behavior of cultivation practices. The vegetable cultivation significantly contributed (50 %) to the farmers income. Among the respondents 88 per cent respondents were un aware of precision farming techniques which play a vital role in enhancing the productivity. In plant protection management, farmers have no knowledge about identification of pests and use of appropriate pesticides for their management. The Farmers use available one or as given by pesticide dealers thereby they incur monitory loss besides yield loss. Thus the average productivity is low as IPM play a vital role in crop production. Further it was found that majority of farmers still depend on private dealers to redress the pest problems. The correlation analysis with farmer’s socio-economic factors and adoption of improved cultivation practices revealed that knowledge of respondents increased with the increase in their education and income. Educating the farmers through mass media training and demonstration will help the farmers in learning/adopting new technologies, which intern help them to increase their productivity level and their farming income on sustainable basis. Thus, it can be observed from this study that age, education and farming income influence much on motivation for learning and adoption level of farmers.
Role of platelet-rich plasma in chronic alopecia areata: Our centre experience

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in the treatment of chronic alopecia areata (AA). Material and Methods: This is a prospective study that was conducted at Kamal Hospital, Kaushambi in which 20 patients who attended the outpatient department were enrolled for the study. All the patients had h/o patches and taken various line of treatments for a duration of 2 years. All the patients were biopsy-proven positive for AA disease. There was no randomisation done since all of them were healthy young adults. The patients’age ranged from 25 to 35 years, and none of them had any co-morbidities. Results: Of 20 patients, only one patient had a relapse. None of the patients had any side effects, and all of them tolerated the procedure well. Conclusion: We wish to conclude that PRP has a definite role in treating AA infections. However, still more long-term follow-up, studies are required for further validation of results and labelling it as a 100% cure for people suffering from AA with recurrences which are so common.
MR imaging characterization of postischemic myocardial dysfunction („stunned myocardium”︁): Relationship between functional and perfusion abnormalities

Stunned myocardium has been detected in patients treated successfully with thrombolytic agents. The hypothesis of this study was that fast gradient echo (GRE) imaging could be used to characterize the regional functional and perfusion abnormalities that are indicative of myocardial stunning. This study was designed to monitor and correlate the extent of wall thickness and perfusion abnormalities as determined by fast (segmented k space) cine and contrast enhanced GRE imaging, respectively. Dogs were subjected to left circumflex (LCX) coronary artery occlusion (15 min) followed by 30‐minute reperfusion (n = 8). Perivascular flow probes were used to continuously measure flow in left anterior descending (LAD) and LCX coronary arteries. Short‐axis inversion recovery prepared fast GRE and cine images were acquired at baseline, at occlusion, and at 1, 10, and 30 minutes of reflow. Regional signal intensity and percent systolic wall thickening were determined at 26 equally spaced circumferential positions to compare the extent of functional and perfusion abnormalities. During occlusion and reperfusion, the ischemic region was demonstrated on contrast‐enhanced images as a hypointense and hyperintense region, respectively. During occlusion, the extent of the perfusion defect (32% ± 2% of the circumference of the equatorial slice) correlated closely (r = .74) with the extent of contractile dysfunction (35% ± 2%). After reperfusion, there was transient recovery in the percent wall thickening (26% ± 4% vs 36% ± 4% normal), coinciding with the reactive hyperemic response, but this was followed by a significant decline in wall thickening at 10 minutes (19% ± 4%) and 30 minutes (12% ± 2%). Fast MR imaging may be useful to monitor postischemic myocardial abnormalities after thrombolytic therapy and the response to pharmacologic interventions.
Molecular basis for structural diversity in the core regions of the lipopolysaccharides of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica

Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are unique and complex glycolipids that provide characteristic components of the outer membranes of Gram‐negative bacteria. In LPS of the Enterobacteriaceae, the core oligosaccharide links a highly conserved lipid A to the antigenic O‐polysaccharide. Structural diversity in the core oligosaccharide is limited by the constraints imposed by its essential role in outer membrane stability and provides a contrast to the hypervariable O‐antigen. The genetics of core oligosaccharide biosynthesis in Salmonella and Escherichia coli K‐12 have served as prototypes for studies on the LPS and lipo‐oligosaccharides from a growing range of bacteria. However, despite the wealth of knowledge, there remains a number of unanswered questions, and direct experimental data are not yet available to define the precise mechanism of action of many gene products. Here we present a comparative analysis of the recently completed sequences of the major core oligosaccharide biosynthesis gene clusters from the five known core types in E. coli and the Ra core type of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and discuss advances in the understanding of the related biosynthetic pathways. Differences in these clusters reflect important structural variations in the outer core oligosaccharides and provide a basis for ascribing functions to the genes in these model clusters, whereas highly conserved regions within these clusters suggest a critical and unalterable function for the inner region of the core.
The endocrinology of menstruation – a role for the immune system

The human endometrium displays characteristic features, both structural and functional, across the menstrual cycle. It is the sex steroid hormones, oestrogen and progesterone, that drive the endometrium through the different phases of the cycle. Oestrogen and progesterone act sequentially to regulate cellular concentrations of their respective receptors, this interaction initiates gene transcription. Thereafter a cascade of local events prepares the endometrium for implantation, but in the absence of pregnancy, progesterone withdrawal leads to menstruation and cyclic repair. Withdrawal of progesterone from an oestrogen-progesterone primed endometrium is the initiating event for the cascade of molecular and cellular interactions that result in menstruation. Progesterone withdrawal first affects cells with progesterone receptors. Early events in the menstrual process are vasoconstriction and cytokine up-regulation. The activation of lytic mechanisms is a later event and involves cells that may lack progesterone receptors, for example, uterine leucocytes and epithelial cells. Hence progesterone withdrawal results in a local increase of inflammatory mediators and the enzymes responsible for tissue breakdown. The total complex of local factors implicated in normal menstrual and aberrant menstrual bleeding are yet to be fully defined.
Optimization of the revenue of the New York city taxi service using Markov Decision Processes

Taxis are an essential component of the transportation system in most urban centers. The ability to optimize the efficiency of routing represents an opportunity to increase revenues for taxi drivers. The vacant taxis cruising on the roads are not only wasting fuel consumption, the time of a taxi driver, and create unnecessary carbon emissions but also generate additional traffic in the city. In this paper, we use Markov Decision Processes to optimize the revenues of taxi drivers by better routing. We present a case study with New York City Taxi data with several experimental evaluations of our model. We achieve approximately 10\% improvement in efficiency using data from the month of January. The results also provide a better understanding of the several different time shifts. These data may have important implications in the field of self-driving vehicles.
An economical method to extract chondroitin sulphate-peptide from bovine nasal cartilage

Nakano, T. , Ikawa, N. and Ozimek, L. 2000. An economical method to extract chondroitin sulphate-peptide from bovine nasal cartilage. Can. Agric. Eng. 42:205-208. Utilization of animal by­ products by extracting useful material is ofeconomic importance in the livestock industry. This report describes a simple low cost procedure to release chondroitin sulphate (CS) from bovine nasal cartilage without introducing any chemicals except acetic acid used for pH adjustment. More than 70% of total CS in nasal cartilage can be released as CS-peptide by incubation in water at pH 4.5 and 37°C. This is likely the most economical method currently available to extract CS from cartilage. Endogenous proteinases are probably involved in the release ofCS. The extract is boiled and dried at 90°C to obtain a crude CS preparation. The purity of CS can be improved approximately 1.4 fold by anion-exchange chromatography. This information may contribute to the development of a low cost method of preparation of CS for commercial purposes.
A TECHNIQUE FOR EMPIRICAL ESTIMATION OF NON-STATIONARY SITE EFFECTS OF GROUND MOTIONS USING THE MEYER-YAMADA WAVELET

We propose a new technique for evaluating empirical site effects in time domain, extending the concept of Birgören and Irikura (2005). They developed a method for estimating site effects in time domain using the Meyer-Yamada wavelet. They evaluated coherent site effects by averaging wavelet coefficients for many seismic records. After that, Akazawa and Irikura (2007) improved reliability of the procedure by automatic synchronization of the S-wave phases. However, site effects consist of coherent and incoherent signals. For this reason, their procedures that use simple averaging, lead to an underestimation of the site effects. In this study, we propose a new averaging technique to evaluate both the coherent and incoherent signals. The applicability of the proposed technique is demonstrated for log sweep wave and the observed seismic records.
Inheritance of fertility in cattle inseminated artificially.

Abstract Higher conception rates were obtained in both virgin heifers and cows when the following estrus characteristics were present at insemination: good standing heat, presence of heat mucus, intense red color of the internal portion of the vagina, easy cervical passage with a pipette, good uterine contractions, normal ovaries and follicles, and soft follicles. Precise determination of these estrus characteristics was difficult, and heritability estimates ranged from 0 to 0.24. Consequently, an improvement in fertility by selection of these characteristics would be uncertain. Heritability and repeatability estimates of nonreturn rates after first insemination in virgin heifers in herds with low fertility were 0.17 and 0.23, respectively, and nearly zero in herds with good fertility. Thus, the use of nonreturns to first insemination for virgin heifers in herds with low fertility appears to be more valuable for fertility improvement through selection, because 1) these data can be obtained very easily and 2) this measurement determines the fertility complex better than other traits evaluated.