Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Port related transport management and the governance of air pollution: A comparative study on emission standards between china and Europe and the position of ports

It can be observed that hinterland connections of ports have experienced an unprecedented growth over the last two decades due to the emerging economies in the Asian countries and the related process globalization. At the same time, this development has sincere negative effects on the natural environment, in particular emissions with a regional impact and emission with a global effect, in particular CO2 emissions. Addressing these issue is becoming more urgent but there are different approached to come to a coherent strategy. Emission standards are a promising tool as they can set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that is emitted into the environment. Therefor standards setting can be considered as an efficient way of direct regulation to realize objectives on the global, national, regional and local level as they do not only set limits (a constraint on behavior), but standards can also function as a positive impetus to stimulate technological development. This paper focus the role of standards from a port and hinterland transport perspective and it describes the various policy initiatives undertaken in China and Europe (who represent the biggest ports in the world) with respect to standard setting in transportation with the aim to improve the air quality in ports and the hinterland connections and the results of these efforts so far. The most striking conclusion is that, despite the sense of urgency, the public concern and the willingness of the government in China to address air pollution, standards are completely lacking. This is in contrast to Europe where clear standards are formulated for vehicle emissions even for the period after 2020.
Ernesto Carafoli Raffaele Lopreiato , Marta Giacomello and New Ways to Look at an Old Enzyme The Plasma Membrane Calcium Pump :

The 3D structure of the PMCA pump has not been solved, but its basic mechanistic properties are known to repeat those of the other Ca pumps. However, the pump also has unique properties. They concern essentially its numerous regulatory mechanisms, the most important of which is the autoinhibition by its C-terminal tail. Other regulatory mechanisms involve protein kinases and the PL of the membrane in which the pump is embedded. Permanent activation of the pump, e.g., by calmodulin, is physiologically as harmful to cells as its absence. The concept is now emerging that the global control of cell Ca may not be the main function of the pump: in some cell types it could even be irrelevant. The main pump role would be the regulation of Ca in cell microdomains in which the pump cosegregates with partners that modulate the Ca message and transduce it to important cell functions.
GASTROINTESTINAL , HEPATOBILIARY , AND PANCREATIC PATHOLOGY Regulation of the Histamine / VEGF Axis by miR-125 b during Cholestatic Liver Injury in Mice

From the Department of Research,* Central Texas Veteran’s Health Care System, the Scott and White Digestive Disease Research Center,y Scott and White Healthcare, and the Department of Internal Medicine,z Texas A&M Health Science Center, Temple, Texas; the Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedic Sciences,x Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy; CREST,{ Japan Science and Technology Agency, Yamagata, Japan; and the Department of Gastroenterology,k Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
Imprints of the 1755 tsunami in the Tróia Peninsula shoreline, Portugal

ABSTRACT Rebêlo, L. , Costas, S. , Brito, P., Ferraz, M. , Prudêncio, M. I. and Burbidge, C. , 2013. Imprints of the 1755 tsunami in the Tróia Peninsula shoreline, Portugal A large earthquake shook the offshore region of Portugal in November 1st 1755 with an estimated magnitude of 8.5±0.3 in the Richter scale. It lead to the massive destruction of the city of Lisbon, which was followed by intense fires. Although most of the detailed consequences of the earthquake and tsunami focused in Lisbon, the effect of tsunami destruction was also reported in other locations along the Peninsula coasts and Morocco. At Setúbal, located 30 km to the south of Lisbon in the Sado estuary, evidences of inundation were also documented, reporting wave heights that reached a first floor height. Despite the magnitude of the inundation in the interior of the estuary, there has not been reported any evidence of the impact of this event on the estuarine shorelines. In order to understand the consequences of such a wave on the sandy shores of the region, we explore the inlet shoreline and seaward exposed region of the estuary, the Tróia peninsula. To do so, we integrate multiple types of data and information: dune ridge position were extracted from aerial photographs, shorelines from the historical maps, shoreline progradation rates, Ground Penetrating Radar profiles and optically stimulated dating of barrier sediments. This information allows us to reconstruct the shoreline following the tsunami, documenting a greater impact towards the inlet where the water flow concentrate as it entered the estuary. The impact of the tsunami in Tróia peninsula translates on the erosion of about 1000 years of barrier deposits within the spit end.
Influence of different substrates on the formation of biofilms in a biofilm airlift suspension reactor

The effect of different C 1 carbon substrates (formate, formaldehyde, methanol) on biofilm formation in biofilm airlift suspension reactors was studied. The biofilm structure depended on the type of substrate. There seems to be a trend that more reduced substrates or substrates allowing a lower biomass growth rate lead to more dense biofilms. Variations in detachment forces (biomass hold up and carrier concentration) during the experiments affected biofilm characteristics and detachment. Detachment of biofilm biomass under non-growing conditions was studied. The detachment experiments clearly showed that detachment of a growing biofilm is larger than for a non-growing biofilm subjected to the same detachment forces. It is hypothesized that the growth zone of a biofilm forms a more weakly attached biofilm. A trend between biofilm density and the weakly attached fraction of biomass in the biofilm was found.
TIBS 1343 No . of Pages 12 Review p 38 g and p 38 d : From Spectators to Key Physiological Players

Although the physiological roles of p38g and p38d signalling pathways are largely unknown, new genetic and pharmacological tools are providing groundbreaking information on the function of these two stress-activated protein kinases. Recent studies show the importance of p38g and p38d in the regulation of processes as diverse as cytokine production, protein synthesis, exocytosis, cell migration, gene expression, and neuron activity, which have an acute impact on the development of pathologies related to inflammation, diabetes, neurodegeneration, and cancer. These recent breakthroughs are resolving some of the questions that have long been asked regarding the function of p38g and p38d in biology and pathology.
Quantum dynamics generated by the two-axis counter-twisting Hamiltonian

We study the quantum dynamics generated by a two-axis counter-twisting Hamiltonian from an initial spin coherent state in a spin-$1/2$ ensemble. A characteristic feature of the two-axis counter-twisting Hamiltonian is the existence of four neutrally stable and two saddle unstable fixed points. The presence of the last one is responsible for a high level of squeezing. The squeezing is accompanied by the appearance of several quantum states of interest in quantum metrology with Heisenberg-limited sensitivity, and we show fidelity functions for some of them. We present exact results for the quantum Fisher information and the squeezing parameter. Although, the overall time evolution of both changes strongly with the number of particles, we find that they have regular dynamics for short times. We explain scaling with the system size by using a Gaussian approach.
Automatic Stereotyping

Two experiments tested a form of automatic stereo-typing Subjects saw primes related to gender (e g, mother, father, nurse, doctor) or neutral with respect to gender (e g, parent, student, person) followed by target pronouns (stimulus onset asynchronv = 300 ms) that were gender related (e g, she, he) or neutral (it, me) or followed by nonpronouns (do, all, Experiment 2 only) In Experiment 1, subjects judged whether each pronoun was male or female Automatic gender beliefs (stereotypes) were observed in faster responses to pronouns consistent than inconsistent with the gender component of the prime regardless of subjects' awareness of the prime-target relation, and independently of subjects explicit beliefs about gender stereotypes and language reform In Experiment 2, automatic stereotyping was obtained even though a gender-irrelevant judgment task (pronoun/not pronoun) was used Together, these experiments demonstrate that gender information imparted by words can automatically influence judgment, although the strength of such effects may be moderated by judgment task and prime type
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Tracking individuals in surveillance video of a high-density

Video cameras are widely used for monitoring public areas, such as train stations, airports and shopping centers. When crowds are dense, automatically tracking individuals becomes a challenging task. We propose a new tracker which employs a particle filter tracking framework, where the state transition model is estimated by an optical-flow algorithm. In this way, the state transition model directly uses the motion dynamics across the scene, which is better than the traditional way of a pre-defined dynamic model. Our result shows that the proposed tracker performs better on different tracking challenges compared with the state-of-the-art trackers, while also improving on the quality of the result.
Gamification of Learning: Can Games Motivate Me to Learn History?

This article presented empirical finding of the effect of gamification for learning. Evidence in the findings of the empirical study that explores two education games that were developed earlier with a total of 64 participants was presented. The first game was a computer game with historical themes of Ken Arok and Ken Dedes of Singhasari Kingdom. The second game was an Android-based mobile game with Historicity of the Bible themes of Moses. Prior research showed that more than 50 percent of junior and senior high school students in Jakarta demonstrated their apathy to several subjects in their school. They also disclosed that they were having difficulty in following their class in particular with a difficult subject such as History subject. With the popularity of games, the gamification of learning was investigatd to enhance the interest of the students to master a particular subject. The results show that there is a statistical significance increase of the students score and interest in history subject in a group that was using the games to help them in the subject compared to a group that reading books about the particular subject alone 0.001 . Furthermore, the participants also reported that playing games was helping them to remember difficult names and event timeline in the historical events
Potential Immune Modulatory Action of Mesenchymal Stem Cell- Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Type 1 Diabetes

Several preclinical studies have shown potential immunemodulatory properties of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) in type 1 diabetes leading to phase I/II clinical trials. Immune-modulatory properties of MSC have been mainly ascribed to their secretome. The extracellular vesicles (EV) have emerged as paracrine mediators of MSC actions. In fact, MSC-derived EV have been shown to carry proteins and nucleic acids capable to mimic the effect of originating cells. In the present short review we discuss evidences for contribution of EV to the immune-modulatory properties of MSC and mechanisms involved. In particular, EV were shown to inhibit T cell response to the glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) islet auto-antigen by inducing a shift of lymphocytes from Th1 to Th2 phenotype.
thrombosis in vivo ) inhibits inflammation and Desmodus rotundus the vampire bat ( Desmolaris , a novel factor XIa anticoagulant from the salivary gland of

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Standard Body Weight and Serum Estradiol and Progesterone Concentrations in Response to Total Lysine Content in Female Broiler Breeders from 14 to 42 Days after Hatch

This study was conducted to determine the total lysine requirement for female broiler breeders from days 14 to 42. Two-hundred and ten female broiler breeders were used in a completely randomized design with 6 replicates per treatment and 5 chicks per pen under restricted feeding. The contents of total lysine used in this experiment were 0.68, 0.72, 0.76, 0.80, 0.84, 0.88 and 0.92% in the diet. A basal diet was formulated to meet or to exceed the Ross 308 female broiler breeders’ nutrient specifications except for the lysine. Body weight and feed intake were measured to calculate feed efficiency, and body weight uniformity was defined on a weekly basis. One chick per pen was randomly selected to collect blood samples, organ and an abundance of sexual maturity associated miRNAs (miR-21, mi-26a and mi-375) in the plasma was measured on day 42. Increasing total lysine contents in the diet improved body weight gain and feed conversion ratio from days 14 to 42. The combined values from the two models for BW, average daily gain and feed efficiency were estimated at 1.04, 1.00 and 1.21% total lysine, respectively. Total lysine contents did not affect the ovary weight, serum estradiol-17β, serum progesterone and plasma urea nitrogen or the expression levels of the three miRNAs on day 42. Therefore, the results from the current study indicated that female broiler breeders fed on 0.68% total lysine could achieve the recommended BW, suggested by field practice when data were fitted into the overlapped point of linear-, and quadratic-plateau models.
BAFF: B cell activating factor belonging to TNF superfamily BAFF-R: BAFF receptor BCMA: B cell maturation antigen FCS: fetal calf serum FCM: flow cytometry FITC: fluorescein isothiocyanate HCMV: human cytomegalovirus HFL-1: human embryonic lung fibroblast-1 ODN: oligodeoxynucleotide LD50: half letha

Background: Previous studies have suggested that B lymphocytes can be polyclonally activated by human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), and individuals infected by HCMV exhibit characteristic features of an autoimmunity disease. B cell-activating factor (BAFF) plays important roles in the survival and differentiation of B cells; however, few studies have examined the potential role of BAFF on B cells infected by HCMV. Methods: HCMV virus strain (HCMV AD-169) was concentrated by normal methods and used to infect microbead-purified tonsil CD19+ B cells. Cells and supernatants were collected at the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th day of co-culture, respectively. Cellular phenotypes, including expression of BAFF and its cognate receptors (BAFF-R, TACI, and BCMA) were detected by flow cytometry (FCM); cells apoptosis rates were also examined by FCM; and IgG titers in supernatants was detected by ELISA. In parallel, neutralizing anti-BAFF-R antibody was applied to observe the effect of BAFF/BAFF-R signaling on apoptosis and the IgG secretion ability of B cells stimulated by HCMV. Results: LogTCID50 of 3rd and 4th generation of HCMV was −3.54 and −3.28, respectively. FCM results showed that the purity of CD19+ B cells was >98%. BAFF-R was highly expressed and upregulated on HCMV-infected B cells (93.5%–99.3%), compared with B cells prior to HCMV infection and uninfected group; while BAFF-R expression gradually decreased with time and to the lowest level at 5th day (81%) in the control medium-only group. In contrast, expression of TACI and BCMA gradually increased during culture in both HCMV-infected and medium-only control B cells. Furthermore, the apoptosis rate of HCMV-infected and medium-only control B cells did not vary significantly during culture, but IgG secretion ability of HCMV-infected B cells significantly increased over time while no changes were observed with the medium-only control. Importantly, the apoptosis rate of B cells significantly increased when BAFF/BAFF-R signal was blocked prior to HCMV infection (P < 0.05), although no significant changes of IgG levels were observed (P > 0.05). Conclusions: BAFF-R was consistently expressed on B cells infected by HCMV. Enhancement of BAFF/BAFF-R signaling decreased the apoptosis rate and extended the survival of B cells.
Seroprevalence of Peste des petits ruminants Antibodies in Sheep and Goats after Vaccination in Karamoja, Uganda: Implication on Control

A cross sectional survey was carried out to determine the prevalence of ant ibodies and seroconversion to Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) in small ruminants in Karamoja region, Uganda. This region recently experienced serious outbreaks of PPR prompting vaccination interventions. A total of 316 sera samples (210 of goats and 106 of sheep) were collected from small ruminants with history of vaccination, no vaccination and unknown history in five districts of Karamoja region. Competitive enzyme linked immuno- sorbent assay (cELISA) was performed to detect the presence of antibodies against PPRV in serum. We found an overall PPRV specific antibody sero-conversion of 55.26% (84/152) (among Vaccinated), seroprevalence of 11.65% (2/17) (in Unvaccinated) and 53.33% (80/150) for shoats with unknown vaccination history. Sero- positivity in shee p w as 51 . 89 % compared to goats with 57.62%. Among various age groups, 1-2 year olds showed higher sero-positivity (68.57%). Kaabong and Moroto district had highest sero-positivity of animals (78.33%) while Abim district had the lowest sero-positive animals (20%). From this study, it can be concluded that the animals in the region are not fully protected and this is particularly so in districts like Abim. There is need to find out the reasons for the poor protection levels and come up with measures to address these problems in order to improve protection against PPR.
Participation to Public e-Service Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Public e-service has mainly been advanced by government perspective in mind but less attention have been given to other participants’ consideration including citizens’ participation. Therefore, there is improved interest in how to integrate citizens’ views on development process of public eservices. Citizens’ participation believed to bring value to various system development projects. However, the existing research has shown that introducing user participation (in this case is citizen participation) to public e-service development can be challenging. The study literature review aims to investigate factors that influence citizens’ willingness and ability to participate in public e-service development according to three user participation theories: User-centered Design, Participatory Design and User Innovation. The result will gives benefit to the government in understanding the factors that influence citizen participation and also they could build the more appropriate systems that fit into citizens’ needs
Enterprise innovation in China: Does ownership or size matter?

In contrast to previous papers, where in these two important aspects of innovation were delved separately, this paper analyses the effects in unison by using the most comprehensive data on Chinese enterprises- World Bank China Enterprise Survey (2012). Our dependent variables are innovation performance measured in various dimensions: the probabilities of R&D expenditure, staff training, product innovation, process innovation and management innovation. Our key variables of interest are ownership based on largest share (SOE, private and foreign) and firm size based on the number of employees. The analysis is based on panel data approach with different dimensions added (city, industry fixed) and the interaction of ownership and size variables. Major findings suggest that SOEs and domestic private enterprises are much alike in innovation participation, but different in innovation diversification that leads to ownership specific innovative advantage. Foreign enterprises are innovative in most of the innovation measurements. Size if positively correlated to innovation. We also find that as the size of enterprise increases, ownership specific innovative advantage is subject to changeable. That implies ownership and size should be examined jointly rather than separately. The result also shows the effects of ownership and size on innovations are uneven geographically and industrially.
Context-switch effect produced by the ambiguity of the meaning of a cue

One experiment analyzed whether context dependency of a flavor-illness association depends on the extinction of a different flavor-illness association in rats. There were two sessions per day, one in context A and the other session in context B. A half of the rats were allowed to drink distilled water within context B, while the other half of the group spent the same amount of time in context B without access to water. In context A, half of the subjects received conditioning and extinction of flavor X, while the other half did not received extinction. Then conditioning of flavor Y was conducted for all rats in context A. Finally, testing of Y was conducted in context A for half of the rats, while the other half received the test in context B. Results shown that extinction of flavor X affected the recovery of subsequently acquired information about flavor Y regardless the treatment received in context B. This data is consistent with Attentional Theory of Context Processing.
Competitive inhibition of copper amine oxidases by vitamin B hydrochloride in chickpea

A B S T R A C T Copper amine oxidases (CAOs) catalyse the oxidative de-amination of biogenic amines which are ubiquitous compounds essential for cell growth and proliferation. The enzymes are homodimers containing both topaquinone and a Cu(II) ions as cofactors at the active site of each subunit. After extraction and purification of chickpea (cicer arietinum) amine oxidase by chromatoghraphy, Km and Vmax of the enzyme were determined to be 3.3 mM and 0.95 mmol/min/mg, respectively, using a Lineweaver-Burk plot. In this study, the interaction of chickpea diamino oxidase with vitamin B hydrochloride was studied. Vitamin B hydrochloride (Thiamin) by Ki=8 mM acted as competitive inhibitor of the enzyme.