Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
STUDIUL PREVALENŢEI INFECŢIEI CU VIRUSUL HEPATITIC B ÎN POPULAŢIA ADULTĂ A JUDEŢULUI IAŞI

Correspondence to: Dr. Gabriela Zlate, medic primar gastroenterologie, doctorand U.M. F. „Gr.T. Popa” Iaşi Centrul de Gastroenterologie şi Hepatologie, Spitalul Clinic Judeţean de Urgenţă „Sf. Spiridon”, Iaşi Bd. Independenţei nr.1, 700111, Iaşi, România Tel: 0040 (0) 232 24 08 22; Fax: 0040 (0) 232 21 77 81 e-mail: gabizlate@yahoo.com. STUDIUL PREVALENŢEI INFECŢIEI CU VIRUSUL HEPATITIC B ÎN POPULAŢIA ADULTĂ A JUDEŢULUI IAŞI
Environmental factors influencing the use of habitat in the red fox, Vulpes vulpes

The seasonal variation in habitat selection and its determinants were assessed weekly for a sample of three dog-foxes and two vixens in an ecotonal area of the Tuscan coast, in Italy. The most utilized habitats were the maquis (scrubwood), meadows and pinewood. In the cold season the maquis was preferred to any other habitat, but in the warm months foxes made extensive use of meadows. On the other hand, no clear seasonal pattern of use was detectable for the pinewood. Food habits showed a seasonal variation: juniper berries were the staple food, forming by far the greatest part of the diet during the whole study, except in late spring through midsummer, when beetles and grasshoppers predominated. Availability indices for each main food category were calculated on a weekly basis. Distribution of juniper berries was found to be clumped, whereas insects were dispersed. It was also assessed that the former occurred almost entirely in the pinewood, while the latter inhabited mainly meadows and, to a lesser extent. the pinewood. Measures of fox activity in the three habitats were also taken. The fox diet correlated well to the seasonal abundance of the important food resources, which in turn was significantly correlated to meteorologic factors (temperature, number of rainy days). Surprisingly, the seasonal activity in the pinewood was inversely correlated to local food availability, i.e. juniper berries. This can be explained by the clumpedness of this food resource which, when abundant, allows foxes to become quickly satiated and to retreat to other, more preferred habitat such as the maquis. Such results caution against assuming that extensive time spent in a habitat is an indication of proportional feeding dependence on it.
Slang in Cameroon Pidgin English

Cameroon Pidgin English is one of the principal languages of inter-ethnic communication in Cameroon. Linguists and writers such as, Mbassi-Manga (1976), Menang (1979, 2005), Mbangwana (1983, 2004), Todd (1984), Ngome (1985), Echu (2003), Simo Bobda and Wolf (2003), Ayafor (2005), Neba et al (2006) and others have examined various aspects of Pidgin English in Cameroon. But as the language continues to grow and spread, there is need to continually tract it. This paper sets out to show the linguistic inventiveness, especially among the young and lively people, in quest of fresh, original, pungent expressions, to rename ideas, actions and entities in Cameroon Pidgin English. It highlights the morphological and semantic innovations of Cameroon Pidgin English slang items across speech and shows their originality of form and meaning. Focus is on their semantic fields, innovative word formation processes such as coinage (neologism), compounding and semantic extension, as well as their novel meaning and social value. All these juvenile qualities combine to give free rein to the impulse to play with the language, making it creative and refreshing.
Relationship building in health public relations: A case study of an NGO’s HIV/AIDS programme in Ethiopia

This in-depth case study of an Ethiopian antiHIV/AIDS health communication project suggests that the use of relational strategies by non-profits/NGOs in health public relations and health communication endeavours is beneficial. Specifically, this article evaluates the HIV/AIDS programme at its halfway point, with a goal to identify and use the lessons learned not only to provide guidelines for future work by this NGO and improvements in the district where the project was initiated, but also as a framework that would enable the programme’s expansion to other areas of the world and other humanitarian aid projects.
Red blood cell distribution width intimately correlated with clinical recurrence of atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation

Purpose: Red blood cell distribution width was demonstrated to be relevant to the incidence of atrial fibrillation in general population and new-onset patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting. Current study aimed to investigate the correlation between them following catheter ablation. Significant findings: Early recurrence of atrial fibrillation developed in 53 (24.2%) patients. There was a significant lower incidence of late recurrence of atrial fibrillation in patients who had no early recurrence of atrial fibrillation (24/166, 14.5%) compared with those who experienced early recurrence of atrial fibrillation (44/53, 83%). Left atrium diameter (HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.101.26, P < 0.001), pulmonary vein isolation (HR 0.15, 95% CI 0.02-0.97, P = 0.047), and red blood cell distribution width (HR 4.29, 95% CI 2.17-8.46, P < 0.001) were independent predictors for early recurrence of atrial fibrillation while left atrium diameter (HR 1.14, 95% CI 1.05-1.23, P = 0.036), red blood cell distribution width (HR 5.73, 95% CI 2.78-11.77, P < 0.001) and early recurrence of atrial fibrillation (HR 9.28, 95% CI 3.79-22.68, P < 0.001) were independent predictors for late recurrence of atrial fibrillation. Conclusions: Red blood cell distribution width is a predictor for early/late recurrence of atrial fibrillation following catheter ablation.
PLANT COMPETITION AND RESOURCE AVAILABILITY IN RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE AND FERTILIZATION

Variation in the intensities of above- and belowground competition is pro- posed to underlie changes in community structure associated with variable fertility and disturbance. Here we report measurements of light, soil nitrogen, and above- and be- lowground competition in vegetation that had received four combinations of fertilization and disturbance for 3 yr. Two levels of nitrogen addition (none and 17 g m-2 yr- ) and two of soil disturbance (none and annual tilling to remove all vegetation) were applied in a factorial design to 5 x 5 m plots (10 replicates) in a 31-yr-old field in southeastern Minnesota. During the 3rd yr of the experiment, community standing crop, light penetra- tion, and soil ammonium and nitrate concentrations were measured every 3-4 wk. Fer- tilization significantly increased productivity and tilling significantly decreased community biomass at the start of the growing season, indicating that the experimental treatments created variation in stress and disturbance. Transplants of Schizachyrium scoparium, a native perennial grass, were grown with no neighbors, or with the roots of neighbors, or with all neighbors in each combination of fertility and disturbance in order to examine competition intensity. In both undisturbed and tilled plots, belowground competition was the dominant interaction in unfertilized plots, whereas both below- and aboveground competition controlled growth in fertilized plots. The intensity of aboveground competition was greatest in plots with the lowest light penetration and declined significantly with increasing light supply. Similarly, belowground competition was most intense in plots with the lowest nitrogen availability and decreased significantly with increasing nitrogen availability. The intensities of above- and be- lowground competition were significantly negatively correlated. The total (above- and belowground) intensity of competition did not vary with fertility, but was significantly reduced by disturbance. Similarly, the effect of neighbor mass on transplant growth was significantly reduced by disturbance.
The Effect Of Powerpoint On Student Performance In Principles Of Economics: An Exploratory Study

Due to technological advances and media-savvy college students, the use of multimedia presentations on college campuses has increased rapidly. Both faculty and students think that multimedia presentations enhance learning. Empirical evidence supporting these perceptions is inconsistent, however. The purpose of this study is to empirically test whether multimedia presentation formats improve student learning of economics over traditional lecture methods. The results indicate that multimedia presentations can improve test scores significantly. Additionally, students who are above-average academic performers receive more benefit from multimedia presentations than students of below-average academic performance.
Analyzing Interactions between Japanese Ports and the Maritime Silk Road Based on Complex Networks

This article considers how the Japanese ports interact with the ports of China and along the 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) while they are embedded in the global port network, especially in the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. At a port level, it primarily uses connectivity analysis to analyze the port relations and significances in the maritime network. In contrast, at the network level, it applies the methods from network sciences to analyze the significances of these maritime networks and the interactions among the maritime networks of Japan, China, and MSR. This article extracts a large-scale maritime network from ports and vessels’ profiles and data of vessels’ Automatic Identification System (AIS). It then examines the relations among the networks (including Japan, China, MSR, and global ports) after defining the maritime networks, network generation schemes, and port network analysis tools. Based on the analysis results and findings, this study draws some implications for regional ports and shipping development and the global supply network.
Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations

We study the following class of double-phase nonlinear eigenvalue problems −div [φ(x, |∇u|)∇u + ψ(x, |∇u|)∇u] = λ f (x, u) in Ω, u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded domain from RN with smooth boundary and the potential functions φ and ψ have (p1(x); p2(x)) variable growth. The main results of this paper are to prove the existence of a continuous spectrum consisting in a bounded interval in the near proximity of the origin, the fact that the multiplicity of every eigenvalue located in this interval is at least two and to establish the existence of infinitely many solutions for our problem. The proofs rely on variational arguments based on the Ekeland’s variational principle, the mountain pass theorem, the fountain theorem and energy estimates.
MULTI PATTERN AND REPUTATION BASED SECURITY IN MANET

-Various routing protocols and techniques are being included in wireless network and making it an area for further research. Congestion avoidance and security are the major areas in Wireless routing which are having research focus. Improved Routing Security is being proposed in this work which will provide the routing protocol security using validating a node for identification which is being distributed to each node through protocol. Various researchers have identified the issues related with it and proposed various mechanism to solve this problem. This work proposes a new algorithm based on reputation and key based security for the MANET to improve the security. The basic algorithm is based on reputation value of the communicating node i
Survival characteristics of buried seeds 10 years after the eruption of the Usu volcano in northern Japan

In the crater basin of the Usu volcano, where the vegetation has almost completely been destroyed by 1977–1978 eruptions, a study was conducted in 1987 to determine the survival characteristics of buried seed populations. A total of 17 618 seeds were extracted from six 25-L former topsoil blocks by a flotation test. Data showed that even after 10 years burial by 65–140 cm volcanic deposists, 16.6% of the seeds, representing 25 species, were viable. There were few predators in the former topsoil below the thick volcanic deposits. Seed volume of most species was less than 2.0 mm3 and smaller seeds had a greater rate of survival than larger seeds. Seed survival rates of Poa annua, Rumex obtusifolius, Alopecurus aequalis var. amurensis, and Viola grypoceras were positively correlated with the thickness of volcanic deposits, suggesting that the most important factor for seed survival is stable soil temperature with little diurnal fluctuations. Absence of light may be an important variable in seed survival, but.
Improving the Security of Infrastructure Software using Coccinelle

Finding and fixing programming errors in deployed software is often a slow, painstaking, and expensive process. In order to minimise this problem, static analysis is increasingly being adopted as a way to find programming errors before the software application is released. Coccinelle is a program matching and transfor-mation tool that makes it easy for developers to express static analysis-based software defect-finding rules and scan software source code for potential defects.
Effect of Cigarette Smoking on CD4 count and Viral load among HIV patients attending treatment at Nebraska Medicine

Background Smoking is known to have a negative impact on both morbidity and mortality in people living with HIV (PLHIV). However, there is inconsistent information about the role of smoking on markers of HIV disease progression (CD4 count and HIV viral load). This study examined the effects of cigarette smoking on markers of HIV disease progression among PLHIV at Nebraska Medicine. Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted utilizing electronic health information of 604 PLHIV who attended treatment at Nebraska Medicine between 2012 and 2020. Multiple linear regression was used to model the effects of smoking on the mean change in CD4 count between the first two visits while adjusting for other covariates. Also, multiple logistic regression was used to model the effects of smoking on viral load suppression status (having <200 copies/ml at both visits or at the second visit versus having >=200 copies/ml at both visits or at the second visit). Other covariates were age at the first visit, sex, and race. Results The prevalence of current cigarette smoking was 40.7%. In the analysis of patients regardless of the Antiretroviral Therapy status(ART), older patients had less gain in CD4 count compared to younger patients (-1.16, 95%CI=-2.24,-0.067, p=0.03). However, older patients were more likely to be virally suppressed compared to younger patients (OR=1.02, 95% CI=1.003, 1.044, p=0.03). In the analysis of patients who were on ART, never-smokers had better gain in CD4 count compared to current smokers (OR=162.688, 95%CI=1.47, 243.88, p=0.0001). Also, females had less gain in CD4 count compared to males (-97.39, 95%=-188.29,-6.48, p=0.036).
Analysis of the cultural value of local livestock breeds: a methodology

Summary The article analyses the potential cultural value of local livestock breeds with the aim of identifying useful elements to both conserve and attribute value to them. Local breeds can be considered cultural properties in relation to their role as historical witnesses as they often play a central part in the agriculture tenures and in the social life of rural populations. Local breeds can also be likened to cultural properties because they contribute to the preservation of ancient local traditions. To analyse the historical value of a local breed, a methodology is proposed which is based on a set of parameters including antiquity, role in the agricultural system, farming techniques, role in landscape, gastronomy, folklore and handicrafts and presence in forms of higher artistic expression. To assess the role of the breed as a custodian of local traditions, additional parameters are proposed to evaluate its contribution in maintaining traditional landscape, gastronomy, folklore and handicrafts. The proposed methodology is applied to a set of nine local cattle breeds, covering a wide spectrum of farming settings. The analysis shows that consistent differences can be observed in the cultural values of local breeds, both as historical witness and as custodian, today, of local traditions. Zusammenfassung Untersuchung des kulturellen Wertes lokaler Haustierrassen: eine Methode Es werden lokale Haustierrassen auf Eigenschaften untersucht, die nutzlich fur die Erhaltung ihres kulturellen Wertes sind oder diesen einen solchen zuordnen lassen. Lokalen Rassen kann ein Wert als kulturhistorisches Zeugnis zugeordnet werden, da sie haufig eine zentrale Rolle im landwirtschaftlichen Besitz und im sozialen Leben der landlichen Bevolkerung spielten. Sie konnen auch als aktuell kulturelles Eigentum angesehen werden, weil sie zur Erhaltung lokaler historisch gewachsener Traditionen beitragen. Zur Analyse des historischen Wertes lokaler Rassen wird eine Methode vorgeschlagen, die auf mehreren Parametern aufbaut: Alter, Funktion im landwirtschaftlichen System und innerhalb landbaulicher Methoden, Bedeutung fur die Landschaftspflege, Gastronomie, Folklore und Handwerk, sowie deren Darstellung in der Kunst. Zur Beurteilung der Rassen als Huter lokaler Traditionen werden zusatzliche Parameter vorgeschlagen, um ihren Beitrag zur Erhaltung der traditionellen Kulturlandschaft, Gastronomie, Folklore und Handwerk zu erhalten. Die vorgeschlagene Methode wird auf neun lokale Rassen angewandt, die ein weites landwirtschaftliches Spektrum umfassen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass konsistente Unterschiede im kulturellen Wert lokaler Rassen beobachtet werden konnen, und zwar sowohl als kulturhistorisches Zeugnis als auch als Huter historisch gewachsener lokaler Traditionen.
Jasmonate-Responsive Regions in a Nicotiana sylvestris PMT Gene Involved in Nicotine Biosynthesis

Putrescine N-methyltransferase (PMT) catalyzes the first committed step of nicotine biosynthesis in tobacco. Tobacco PMT genes are activated in the root after wounding or by jasmonate treatment. In this study, a dual luciferase transient expression assay was used to show that the promoter of Nicotiana sylvestris NsPMT2 gene is induced by methyljasmonate in tobacco BY-2 protoplasts. An 80-bp TATA-proximal region was necessary and sufficient for the jasmonate response. We further demonstrated that a tetramer of the 24-bp sequence including a T/G-box within the region confers jasmonate responsiveness to a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S minimal promoter.
CONSUMERS’ ONLINE PURCHASE INTENTION: A STUDY AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION E-commerce is one of the crucial trading methods in the worldwide. Hence, it is important to understanding consumers’ online purchase intention. This research aims to examine factors that influencing consumers’ online purchase intention among university students in Malaysia. Besides, the most significant factor would be determined in this research and recommendations would be provided. Moreover, quantitative research method was used in this research by distributed online questionnaires to 250 Malaysian university students who aged between 20-29 years old, and has online purchase experience. The convenience sampling and snowball sampling technique would be applied in this research. In addition, the findings showed that trust, perceive usefulness and subjective norm has significant to predict online purchase intention. However, perceived ease of use and perceived enjoyment were not significant to predict the variance in online purchase intention. The findings also have revealed that subjective norm is the most significant predict factor. On the other hand, large sample size and longitudinal study are recommended for future research.
Galegine Content in Goatsrue (Galega officinalis) Varies by Plant Part and Phenological Growth Stage

Abstract Goatsrue is a member of the Fabaceae family, native to Europe and western Asia. It contains the toxic alkaloid galegine. The objective of the study was to describe galegine concentration in aboveground goatsrue plant parts and total galegine pools over phenological growth stages. Twenty goatsrue plants at four locations were selected and a stalk was harvested from each at five stages of phenological development and separated into parts. Plant parts were freeze-dried, ground, and analyzed with liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Galegine concentration was significantly different in plant tissues; reproductive tissues had the highest levels of galegine (7 mg g−1), followed by leaf (4 mg g−1) and finally stem (1 mg g−1) tissues. Galegine concentration and pools varied over plant tissues and phenological growth stages. Galegine pools (dry weight by concentration) or the total amount of galegine per stalk were lowest at the vegetative growth stage (2 mg stalk−1) and increased until reaching a maximum at the immature pod stage (91 mg stalk−1). The pools decreased nearly in half (48 mg stalk−1) by the mature seed stage. Like galegine pools, galegine concentration also reached a maximum at the immature pod stage (4 mg g−1), and decreased by nearly half by the mature seed stage (2 mg g−1). The increased levels of galegine pools at immature pod stage corresponds with the time of meadow hay harvest, implying that goatsrue is potentially most toxic at the phenological stage when it is likely to be harvested as a contaminant in meadow hay. Nomenclature: Goatsrue, Galega officinalis L. GAGOF; galegine, 2-(3-methylbut-2-enyl)guanidine.
Effects of Environmental Heat Stress on Reproduction and its Management in Chickens

The effects of environmental heat stress on reproduction in chickens were reviewed to find out the associated physiological changes and the interplay of the physiological events, after which the role of certain measures in the management of heat stress were identified. The normal rectal temperature for chicken is 40.6 43.0 C with 45 C as the upper limit of safety. The rectal temperature begins to increase when the ambient temperature increases, but this is prevented by panting to increase heat loss by respiratory evaporation of water. Chickens are said to be heat stressed when their body heat builds up during high ambient temperature. The physiological responses associated with it include respiratory alkalosis from panting, reduced feed intake and efficiency, reduced absorption of calcium, decrease in secretion of thyroid hormones, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, and increased secretion of glucocorticoids, luteinising hormone and follicle stimulating hormone. Consequently, heat stress produces decrease in anabolism, increase in catabolism and insulin resistance, loss in body weight, delayed sexual maturity, reduction in number and quality of eggs, infertility in male and female chickens and reduced hatchability of fertile eggs with the greatest effect being on the number and quality of eggs produced. The impact of environmental heat stress remains a challenge as it affects reproduction in chickens and researches in this area are necessary to support increased productivity of chickens in hot semi-arid regions.
Deep Networks for Image Motion Estimation

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been very successful in a variety of computer vision tasks, especially on those linked to recognition. Optical flow estimation has not been among the tasks CNNs succeeded at. In this paper we construct CNNs which are capable of solving the optical flow estimation problem as a supervised learning task. We propose and compare two architectures: a generic architecture and another one including a layer that correlates feature vectors at different image locations. Since existing ground truth data sets are not sufficiently large to train a CNN, we generate a large synthetic Flying Chairs dataset. We show that networks trained on this unrealistic data still generalize very well to existing datasets such as Sintel and KITTI, achieving competitive accuracy at frame rates of 5 to 10 fps.