Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of dietary enzyme‐treated soy protein on the immunity and antioxidant status in the intestine of juvenile Jian carp (
 Cyprinus carpio
 var. Jian)

This study was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that enzyme‐treated soy protein (ETSP) can save the fish dietary protein, and further investigated the mechanism for saving effect by studying the effects of ETSP on intestinal immune response and antioxidant status in juvenile Jian carp (Cyprinus carpio var. Jian). Compared with the high‐protein diet, results showed that decreasing 2% of dietary protein increased the protein carbonyl (PC) content, decreased the anti‐hydroxyl radical capacity (AHR) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and increased the relative expressions of pro‐inflammatory cytokine (p < 0.05). The low‐protein diet might impair the intestinal health, so as to reduce fish growth performance. After adding 1.5% or 2% of ETSP to the low‐protein diet, results indicated that (1) ETSP decreased the relative expressions of pro‐inflammatory cytokine and increased the relative expressions of anti‐inflammatory cytokine (p < 0.05). (2) ETSP decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) and PC content (p < 0.05), improved activities of antioxidant enzymes, glutathione (GSH) content, relative expressions of antioxidant enzymes and Nrf2, which were even much higher than the high‐protein diet (p < 0.05). All the above data suggested that optimal level of ETSP can save 2% of fish dietary protein which might be partly attributed to improve intestinal health through regulating intestinal immunity response and antioxidant status.
Implementasi Algoritma Cosine Similarity pada sistem arsip dokumen di Universitas Islam Sultan Agung

Archiving in University that have not been well organized will cause a problems, the documents need for structuring and archives properly in the systems for the good standard a universities. The most importance of ease in finding the required archives is an important reason why it is necessary to develop an archive search system that can facilitate and improve the process of searching the archived document. Apllying cosine similarity algorithm in Information Systems is a solution for University to organizing archived documents, results from this reserach is the systems can show the relavant document from database list with precision 88.8% and recall 76.1% from all the data in database.
Potential of Biotechnology for Livestock Feed Improvement: A review

Application of recent advancements of biotechnology in recent years allowed the use of non-toxic fungi to improve fibrous feeds like straw or poor quality roughages. In particular, the white rot fungi have been used because of their ability to digest in to usable product of the plant material. In addition, wide variety of feed additives, many of biotechnological origin are known to modify rumen fermentation in ruminant animals. They include components that can reduce methanogenesis, enhance propionic acid production, reduce protein degradation, improve microbial protein synthesis and inhibit protozoa. Among such additives are antibiotics, probiotics and specific substrates like pre-biotics. Moreover, due to advances in biotechnology, more effective enzyme preparations can now be produced in large quantities and relatively inexpensively. Therefore, supplementation of the diet as a means of improving nutritive value is becoming routine. Still another area of application of biotechnology is reduction of less important microbes from rumen and increase feed efficiency of animals. The ultimate goal of using biotechnology in animal nutrition is to improve the plane of nutrition through the use of enzymes to improve the availability of nutrients from feed and to reduce the wastage of the feed.
RanBP2/Nup358 enhances miRNA activity by sumoylating and stabilizing Argonaute 1

RanBP2/Nup358 is one of the main components of the cytoplasmic filaments of the nuclear pore complex. It has been speculated that RanBP2, which has an E3 SUMO-ligase domain, may alter the composition of messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complexes as they emerge from the nuclear pore and thus regulate the ultimate fate of the mRNA in the cytoplasm. Four separate missense mutations in RanBP2 cause Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy 1 (ANE1), which manifests as a sharp rise in cytokine production after common viral infections such as influenza and parainfluenza. However, how RanBP2 and its ANE1-associated mutations affect cytokine production is not well understood. Here we report that RanBP2 represses the translation of the interleukin-6 (IL6) mRNA, which encodes a cytokine that is aberrantly up-regulated in ANE1. Our data indicates that soon after its production, the IL6 mRNP recruits the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) bound to Let7 miRNA. After this mRNP is exported, RanBP2 sumoylates the RISC-component AGO1, thereby stabilizing it and enforcing mRNA silencing. Collectively, these results support a model whereby RanBP2 promotes an mRNP remodelling event that is critical for the miRNA-mediated suppression of clinically relevant mRNAs, such as IL6.
Skills and Sentiment in Sustainable Investing

We document a positive Environmental Social Governance (ESG) premium amongst stocks with high socially unconstrained ownership (unconstrained investors are mutual funds, hedge funds and other investment advisors). This premium is not there for high socially constrained ownership. In fact, we find that constrained investors chase high ESG stocks with high abnormal returns. Once purchased, however, abnormal returns drop. The returns do not seem to be driven by consumption risk as they are especially high during the financial crisis. Instead, they are explained by a fact that we further uncover. The new fact is that unconstrained investors are skilled investors who research firms and are able to predict their future ESG scores. This earns them an abnormal return due to a sustainability premium. We further show that they are able to exploit this especially during periods of high climate sentiment and in times of crisis. In the process, we construct a new text-based sustainability sentiment measure and create both an ESG and climate factor that are useful for the asset pricing research community.
Mass spectrometry studies of resist trimming processes in HBr∕O2 and Cl2∕O2 chemistries

In a previous article, a parametric study of HBr∕O2 and Cl2∕O2 resist trimming processes correlated to x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses has been performed. The present article confirms the preliminary results obtained by XPS. Mass spectrometry experiments have established that the slow resist erosion rate measured in Cl2∕O2 trim chemistries is attributed to a competitive etching of the resist by atomic chlorine and oxygen, while in HBr∕O2 trim chemistries, atomic oxygen is the main etching species, bromine playing only a minor role. The etching of the resist by the oxygen species originating from the dissociation of HBr∕O2 and Cl2∕O2 plasmas generates the formation of volatile resist-etch-by-products such as CO and CO2, while the etching of the resist by halogen (bromine or chlorine) generates less volatile and heavier resist-etch-by-products such as CxHyBrz with bromine and CxHyClz with chlorine. Mass spectrometry has also shown that plasma conditions leading to a higher concentration of h.
Bone stress injuries in female athletes

Females are at a higher risk than males for bone stress injuries due to a number of unique intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors. Stress injuries can lead to significant morbidity, pain, time away from sport and medical expense making proper identification and treatment of bone stress injuries important. Stress injuries to bone exist as a continuum, and occur due to cumulative micro damage in bone that happens at a greater rate than bone repair. Female athletes have multiple unique risk factors that predispose them to bone stress injuries including nutritional factors and factors specific to female bone health. Most low risk stress fractures can be managed with a period of rest and activity modification whereas surgical management may be indicated in certain high risk or recurrent stress fractures. Having an understanding of the pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of stress fractures is important for all clinicians treating female athletes.
Electrocardiographic parameters in West African Dwarf and Red Sokoto (Maradi) goats

The aim of this study was to establish normal electrocardiographic (ECG) values for standard lead II in West African Dwarf goats (WAD) and Red Sokoto Goats (RS). Electrocardiographic study of 11 healthy WAD and 11 RS goats 10 months to 2 years of age was carried out with EDAN 10 Veterinary Electrocardiographic equipment. Record from Lead II showed the heart rate varied from 87 to 175 beats/min with a mean of 149.55 Â± 51.13 beats/min for RS goats; and 142-272 with a mean of 171.5 Â± 39.7 for WAD goats. The difference was significant between the heart rate of the two goat breeds (P
HEMTs à base de nitrure de gallium : évolution vers un nouveau système de matériaux, une nouvelle génération de composants

Les semiconducteurs a grande largeur de bande interdite et particulierement les composes III-N tels que le nitrure de gallium (GaN) et ses alliages sont, par leurs proprietes physiques et chimiques, de bons candidats pour la realisation de composants de puissance a haute frequence d'utilisation tels que les Transistors a Haute Mobilite Electronique (HEMT). Dans la pratique, cette realisation se heurte a des limitations technologiques et physiques. Ainsi, la problematique principale demeure la maitrise des etats de surface (pieges) qui degradent les performances en frequence des transistors. A l'heure actuelle, la solution privilegiee est l'utilisation d'une passivation de surface qui a pour effet de limiter les chutes de courant. Dans ce travail nous avons etudie les modifications de l'heterostructure AIGaN/GaN introduite par l'ajout d'un «cap» de GaN, et de meme l'utilisation d'une passivation in-situ obtenue par croissance LPMOCVD a plus basse temperature, l'objectif ayant ete de limiter l'influence des pieges sur les chutes de courant de drain en regime dynamique. L'impact de ces modifications a ete etudie tant sur la qualite cristalline des materiaux obtenus que sur leurs proprietes electriques. Cette etude nous conduit a conclure que la structure sans «cap» reste la meilleure structure pour obtenir les meilleures performances a condition d'utiliser une bonne passivation. Obtenir de fortes puissances est aussi etroitement lie aux densites de porteurs disponibles et implicitement a la densite de courant des transistors. Les proprietes particulieres du materiau ternaire AlInN, en particulier une polarisation spontanee plus importante que celle de AIGaN, nous a conduit a etudier un nouveau systeme de materiau, base sur ce ternaire. Les proprietes des composants obtenus se sont averees particulierement satisfaisantes. Pour la premiere fois, une densite de puissance de 6,8 W/mm pour une frequence de 10 GHz a ete atteinte sur ce type de materiau.
Comparison of Wet and Dry EEG Electrodes Based On Brain Signals Characterization In Temporal and Anterior Frontal Areas Using Audio Stimulation

Electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes are divided into two types: dry and wet. In wet electrodes, a gel or saline liquid is used to increase the conductivity value, however, it tends to dry over time. On the contrary, gel or saline liquid is not required on the dry electrode. The use of certain types of electrode in EEG influences Power Spectral Density (PSD) of brain signals. Therefore, this study compared the EEG signal produced by Emotiv using the two different types of electrodes and a specific stimulus. This study was conducted using Emotiv EPOC (wet) and Insight (dry). The Temporal (T7 and T8) and Anterior Frontal (AF3 and AF4) electrodes from both devices were used to be compared. An audio stimulus that contains a story was chosen followed by a small task related to the story. The data acquisition was performed in 36 minutes to maintain the stability of the two types of electrodes. Three minutes of recordings in resting condition were conducted on both before and after given audio stimulus. Audio stimulation followed by a small task was performed for thirty minutes. The data analysis has consisted of EEG data pre-processing using centering and filtering the data, followed by PSD calculation using the Welch periodogram with Hanning window. The result showed that the decrement percentage of PSD after stimulation from wet was higher than dry electrodes.
Measuring individual identity information in animal signals: Overview and performance of available identity metrics

Identity signals have been studied for over 50 years but there is no consensus as to how to quantify individuality. While there are a variety of different metrics to quantify individual identity, or individuality, these methods remain un-validated and the relationships between them unclear. We contrasted three univariate and four multivariate metrics (and their different computational variants) and evaluated their performance on simulated and empirical datasets. Of the metrics examined, Beecher’s information statistic (HS) was the best one and could easily and reliably be converted into the commonly used discrimination score (and vice versa) after accounting for the number of individuals and calls per individual in a given dataset. Although Beecher’s information statistic is not entirely independent of sampling parameters, this problem can be removed by reducing the number of parameters or by increasing the number of individuals. Because it is easily calculated, has superior performance, can be used to describe single variables or signal as a whole, and because it tells us the maximum number of individuals that can be discriminated given a set of measurements, we recommend that individuality should be quantified using Beecher’s information statistic.
Moment based approximations for arithmetic averages with applications in derivative pricing, credit risk and Monte Carlo simulation

In this thesis we consider three different financial applications that involve arithmetic averages of a stochastic process, whose distribution is unknown, therefore the related problems preclude explicit true solutions. We propose moment-based approximations and study problems in exotic derivatives pricing, credit risk and random number sampling and show that this kind of solution can efficiently reduce the computational cost of already existing methodologies in the literature. The first chapter of the thesis presents momentbased approximations as well as some relevant technical details, including some facts about the so-called moment problem, common approximations techniques, a literature review linked to the use of moments in finance and numerical illustrations. In the second chapter, we propose accurate moment-based closed-form expressions for the price of Asian options when the underlying asset price is represented by a mean-reverting stochastic process with jumps. In the third chapter, we introduce an efficient methodology, based on moment matching, for the calibration of the default intensity, which is modelled by an exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and apply this result to the calculation of Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) in presence of wrong way risk for interest rate derivatives. In the fourth chapter, we consider the problem of simulating stochastic volatility models. Exact simulation schemes have been proposed in the literature for various models, but these are not computationally efficient due to the need to simulate the time-integral of the variance process, whose distribution function is not explicitly known. In this case, we show how to compute the moments of this and develop a new simulation methodology which achieves an exceptional runtime-accuracy balance compared to some exact simulation scheme. Within the spirit of the first chapter, we revisit in the final chapter the pricing problem of Asian options for a double exponential jump diffusion model where the jump intensity is a stochastic process of Hawkes type. This dynamics has been introduced in the literature to model the jump clustering phenomenon, which is widely observed in financial and commodity markets. We derive the characteristic function of the integral of log-returns and focus on the evaluation of geometric Asian options.
TEORIA INSTITUCIONAL NO SETOR PÚBLICO: MAPEAMENTO E ANÁLISE DE CONTEÚDO DAS PUBLICAÇÕES

A Teoria Institucional tem sido utilizada no meio academico para embasar estudos organizacionais, fornecendo explicacoes para questoes complexas das organizacoes e das mudancas por elas sofridas. Assim, o artigo tem por objetivo apresentar os resultados do estudo que buscou realizar um mapeamento e analise de conteudo de um conjunto de publicacoes que utilizaram a Teoria Institucional no setor publico. O levantamento das publicacoes foi realizado em quatro bases dados, resultando, apos processo de selecao, em 12 artigos alinhados as delimitacoes postas pelos pesquisadores. Para esse portfolio bibliografico identificou-se o periodo, os periodicos, os autores e os artigos de destaque. Tambem foi desenvolvida analise de conteudo, com vistas a reconhecer quais sao os temas pesquisados, metodos de coleta de dados, objetivos, resultados encontrados e correntes da Teoria Institucional utilizada nos artigos. Identificou-se, dentre outras coisas, que os estudos que utilizam a Teoria Institucional na administracao publica sao prioritariamente com o tema de governo eletronico e reformas contabeis e que a corrente mais empregada e a Nova Sociologia Institucional.
Concentration of Carbon Monoxide in an Enclosed Parking Garage

The findings of this preliminary study could be indicative of all other Kuwait car parks. The extension of the enclosed car park facilities situated in the heavy building cellars will in the near future allow the results of this study to determine the predicted air quality standards and their associated issues for a first time. Further work is required, however, to establish more precisely the relation between the regular CO rates. In order to determine the exposure levels of those who operate on these included facilities, the long-life control of CO levels inside enclosed garages is important. In a follow up analysis, it is important to analyze and assess the connection between the CO rates and their health effects.
TiO 2 thin films grown on SiO 2 -Si(111) by the reactive evaporation method

TiO2 thin films were grown on silicon substrates using an electron-beam evaporator. Grainy TiO was used as the evaporation material. Temperature substrate during TiO2 growth was relatively low (about 150 °C), what is important for many optoelectronic devices and multilayers mirrors. High vacuum condition allows to maintain clean surfaces substrates before and during oxide growth. The morphology of titanium oxide thin films was ex situ investigated using atomic force microscopy operating in contact mode, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffractometry, and by means of a contact angle analyzer. The influence of annealing treatment and exposure to UV–VIS radiation on the morphology has been also discussed.
Yogyakarta Urban Middle-Class Sufism: Economic, Political and Cultural Networks

The phenomenon of strengthening religious activity in the urban middle-class society in Yogyakarta Special Region in the last decade has been remarkable. The shift from the traditional Sufism to the model of piety associated with this middle-class Sufism further reinforce the middle class's religiosity. This study focused on the problem of the middle-class Muslim community when involving in Sufi practices. Through an in-depth interview with Sufi members and observation on their Sufi practice, this study shows that the urban middle-class Sufism pattern in Yogyakarta places emphasis on aesthetic-symbolic values. On the one hand, the tendency of religious patterns of Muslim communities is a form of negotiation between the values of spirituality in Islam and the forms and practices of global culture. On the other hand, the Sufi practice constitutes negotiation of the models of piety with economic-business motives. This Sufism is not institutionalized in conventional Sufism, commonly known as sufi order (tarekat) such as qadariyya, naqshabandiyya, and shattariyya, among the most popular Sufi order. Middle-class Sufism frames their distinctiveness in the form of economic, political, and cultural networks.
Does Choice Cause an Illusion of Control?

Previous research suggests that choice causes an illusion of control—that it makes people feel more likely to achieve preferable outcomes, even when they are selecting among options that are functionally identical (e.g., lottery tickets with an identical chance of winning). This research has been widely accepted as evidence that choice can have significant welfare effects, even when it confers no actual control. In this article, we report the results of 17 experiments that examined whether choice truly causes an illusion of control (N = 10,825 online and laboratory participants). We found that choice rarely makes people feel more likely to achieve preferable outcomes—unless it makes the preferable outcomes actually more likely—and when it does, it is not because choice causes an illusion but because choice reflects some participants’ preexisting (illusory) beliefs that the functionally identical options are not identical. Overall, choice does not seem to cause an illusion of control.
Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Western Labor Markets : Empirical Evidence from Field Experiments

Previous research has provided compelling evidence for the existence of racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor market (Heath and Di Stasio 2019; Quillian et al. 2017, 2019; Zschirnt and Ruedin 2016). So far, however, it has been unclear whether all racial and ethnic minority groups are equally affected by hiring discrimination. Also, much research has been largely descriptive, providing little insights into the sources of racial and ethnic discrimination in hiring. Using a meta-analysis and a cross-national harmonized field experiment, this dissertation provides new evidence about the extent of discrimination against different racial and ethnic minority groups as well as some of the factors that may affect racial and ethnic discrimination in hiring. This dissertation finds that black and non-western minority groups face higher levels of discrimination than western minority groups. These findings suggest that those who already occupy a vulnerable socioeconomic position in society face the highest risk of discrimination in the labor market. Furthermore, the present study provides more insights into the sources of racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor market by considering the impact of diagnostic information about individual productivity, indicators of group productivity, and the social environments wherein hiring takes place (i.e. national- and regional contexts). Broadly, the findings seem to indicate that overall levels of racial and ethnic discrimination cannot be explained by a lack of productivity-relevant information in application materials (cf. Agerstrom et al. 2012; Koopmans et al. 2018; Vernby and Dancygier 2019) nor by indicators of skill differences between racial and ethnic minority groups. The evidence here rather suggests that racial and ethnic discrimination is related to (employer perceptions about) origin countries and the broader social context in which employers operate, such as national and regional contexts. All in all, these findings indicate that different contexts of reception (Portes and Rumbaut 2001) can have a strong impact on the distribution of labor market opportunities among different racial and ethnic minority groups.