Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Molecular characterization of group A bovine rotavirus in southeastern and central-western Brazil, 2009-2010

ABSTRACT . - Silva F.D. F. , Gregori F. , Goncalves A.C. S. , Samara S.I. & Buzinaro M.G. 2012. Molecular characterization of group A bovine rotavirus in sou theast ern and central-western Brazil. Pesquisa Veterinaria Brasileira 32(3):237-242. Departamento de Medicina Veterinaria Preventiva e Reproducao Animal, Faculdade de Ciencias Agrarias e Veterina-rias, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho”, Jaboticabal, SP 14884-900, Brazil. E-mail: vete_fer@yahoo.com. brRotavirus is an important cause of neonatal diarrhea in humans and several animal spe-cies, including calves. A study was conducted to examine 792 fecal samples collected from cal-ves among 65 dairy and beef herds distributed in two of Brazil’s major livestock p r oducing re-gions, aiming to detect the occurrence of rotavirus and perform a molecular characterization of the rotavirus according to G and P genotypes in these regions. A total of 40 (5.05%) samples tested positive for rotavirus by the polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) technique. The molecular characterization was performed by multiplex s emi-nest ed RT-PCR reactions, which indicated that the association s of genotypes circulating in herds in Brazil’s southeastern re-gion were G6P[11], G10P[11], G[-]P[5] + [11], G[-]P[6] in the state of Sao Paulo and G6P[11], G8P[5], G11P[11], G10P[11] in the state of Minas Gerais. In the central-western region, the genotypes G6P[5] + [11], G6P[5], G8P[-], G6P[11], G [-] P[1], G[-] P[11], and G[-] P[5] were detected in the state of Goias, while the genotypes G6P[5], G8[P11], G6[P11], G8[P1], G8[P5], G6[P1] were circulating in herds in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The genotypic diversity of bovine rotavirus found in each region under study underlines the importance of characteri-zing the circulating samples in order to devise the most effective prophylactic measures.
Study of the Fragmentation of 3(2H)-Furanones by Mass Spectrometry

Fragmentation of 4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone, 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3(2H)-furanone, and 2(or 5)-ethyl-4-hydroxy-5(or 2)-methyl-3(2H)-furanone was studied by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and by gas chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. Experiments were carried out using unlabeled reference compounds and isotopically labeled molecules. The latter were obtained either by synthesis or through the Maillard reaction based on xylose and alanine or glycine. A general fragmentation pathway of alkylated 4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanones is proposed on the basis of cross-examination of the mass spectrometric data obtained from these different compounds.
Effects of higher order Taylor series terms on the solution accuracy of NI-RPIM for 3D elastostatic problems

Effects of higher order Taylor series terms of the nodal integration-radial point interpolation method (NI-RPIM) are investigated on the solution accuracy of 3D elastostatic problems. The nodal integration technique is based on Taylor series expansion and, generally, its first two terms are used. It is only applied to 2D elastostatic problems in the literature. However, in the current study, terms are used up to the 5th order and it is applied to 3D elastostatic problems. Integration domains are obtained with rectangular prisms. Three different case studies are solved with different support domain sizes and shape parameters. Their results are compared with the finite element method, RPIM with Gauss integration, and available analytical solutions. Results are discussed in detail.
Pacífico mexicano Recruitment of Porites ( Scleractinia ) on artificial substrate in reefs affected by the 1997 – 98 El Niño in Banderas Bay , Mexican Pacific

Mexican Pacific coral reefs were severely damaged by the sea surface warming observed during the 1997–98 El Niño. In Banderas Bay, massive coral mortality was as high as 97%, and the surviving colonies were exposed to sublethal temperatures and thermal stress. In this coral recruitment study we attempted to estimate the recovery and potential repopulation of corals in the Mexican Pacific. After the El Niño event, we used terracotta tiles to monitor the settlement of coral larval propagules at nine reefs in the region. The recruitment study took place from December 1998 to July 1999. Settlements of nine specimens of Porites were recorded at two localities. This is the first settlement record for this coral genus in the eastern tropical Pacific and the one with the largest number of specimens recruited during a study involving artificial substrate. The results indicate that these reefs do not totally depend on the arrival of allocthonous coral propagules from other regions of the tropical Pacific to maintain their development. This study also shows that corals maintain their reproductive activity despite the environmental disturbances. Therefore, sexual reproduction of reef corals of this region provides an effective alternative for the recovery of Mexican Pacific coral reefs.
Void elimination in screen printed thick film dielectric pastes

Figure 1 summarises the geometry of the wet screen printing process. A semi-rigid rubber squeegee pushes the paste through the woven wire mesh and onto the substrate and conductors below. Typical dimensions are indicated on the Figure. The pastes used are concentrated dispersions of particles with mean diameter 3 pm and maximum diameter 15 pm, and are rheologically complicated. Typically they are shear-thinning, display a critical yield stress (below which they do not flow) of Gc ~ 300 Pa, have density p ~ 103 kg/m3 and surface tension 1 ~ 40 mN/m. Holes in the applied paste layer can be classified as follows.
Observational Evidence of Winter Spice Injection

Abstract Temperature and salinity (T–S) profiles from the global array of Argo floats support the existence of spice-formation regions in the subtropics of each ocean basin where large, destabilizing vertical salinity gradients coincide with weak stratification in winter. In these characteristic regions, convective boundary layer mixing generates a strongly density-compensated (SDC) layer at the base of the well-mixed layer. The degree of density compensation of the T–S gradients of an upper-ocean water column is quantified using a bulk vertical Turner angle (Tub) between the surface and upper pycnocline. The winter generation of the SDC layer in spice-formation zones is clearly seen in Argo data as a large-amplitude seasonal cycle of Tub in regions of the subtropical oceans characterized by high mean Tub. In formation regions, Argo floats provide ample evidence of large, abrupt spice injection (T–S increase on subducted isopycnals due to vertical mixing) associated with the winter increase in Tub. A simp.
An Analysis of Gödel's dialectica Interpretation via Linear Logic

This article presents an analysis of Godel's dialectica interpretation via a refinement of intuitionistic logic known as linear logic. Linear logic comes naturally into the picture once one observes that the structural rule of contraction is the main cause of the lack of symmetry in Godel's interpretation. We use the fact that the dialectica interpretation of intuitionistic logic can be viewed as a composition of Girard's embedding of intuitionistic logic into linear logic followed by de Paiva's dialectica interpretation of linear logic. We then investigate the various properties of the dialectica interpretation, such as the characterisation theorem, and variants of Godel's interpretation within the linear logic context. The role of contraction in extensions to classical logic, arithmetic and analysis is also discussed.
Antioxidant Activity of Jambhul, Wood Apple, Ambadi and Ambat Chukka: An Indigenous Lesser Known Fruits and Vegetables of India

Indigenous fruits such as jambhul, wood apple and vegetables viz., ambadi, ambat chukka were extracted with methanol and analyzed for Total Phenolic Content (TPC), total flavonoid content, ascorbic acid, anthocynin and antioxidant capacity such as ABTS, DPPH and FRAP assay. Total flavonoid content and total monomeric anthocynin were found only in jambhul i.e., 227.38 mg/g CE/g DW, 27.40 mg/g as cyn-3-glucoside as equivalent DW respectively. Increased TPC was observed in the order: jambhul>ambadi>wood apple>ambat chukka. Higher ascorbic acid was observed in order of: jambhul>ambadi>ambat chukka>wood apple. The antioxidant potential of above fruits has been rated in the order: jambhul>wood apple>ambadi>ambat chukka by DPPH and FRAP assay and for ABTS assay Jambhul>ambadi>wood apple>ambat chukka.
Changes in the Intestinal Mucosa Structure of Rats Caused by Pollen Administration in Diet

The aim of this work was to evaluate the microscopic changes in the small intestine of rats after administration of the pollen addition in diet. Experimental groups A, B and C (10 rats each) were given the addition of pollen in concentration of 0.2%, 0.5% and 0.75%, respectively for 90 days in food. Using the quantitative morphometrical methods, statistically significant increase of intestinal villi length (p<0.0001) and Lieberkuhn crypts depth (p<0.0001) in jejunum in the experimental groups A and B were found when compared to control without the pollen addition. In experimental group C we have found only statistically significant increase of intestinal villi length (p<0.0001) but statistically significant decrease of Lieberkuhn crypts depth (p<0.0001) compared to control group. The results of our work show that the addition of pollen in the diet affects the structure of the small intestine mucosa of rats. The increased length of intestinal villi could modify the absorption rate in the digestive system.
A formula for Segre classes of singular projective varieties.

The Segre class of a singular projective variety X is that of the normal cone of the diagonal in the product X x X. This class was introduced by K. W. Johnson and W. Fulton to study immersions and embeddings. In our previous work we related the Segre classes and the Chern-Mather classes for hypersurfaces with codimension one singularities and Xn c P2" with isolated singularities. In this paper we generalize these results to the case of Xn c FN with singularities of codimension N — n (N < In). The notion of Segre classes (of cones) has become of increasing importance as a key ingredient for constructing or analyzing various invariants, e.g., in intersection theory and group representation theory, etc. The Segre class treated in this note is the Segre class of a singular projective variety, which was introduced by K. W. Johnson (and W. Fulton) to study immersions and embeddings of singular projective varieties [4]. This is the Segre class of the normal cone C^{X x X) of the diagonal Δ in the product X x X. We call this class Johnson's Segre class, denoted by S*(X). Another well-studied characteristic class of a singular variety is MacPherson's Chern class, the existence of which was conjectured by Deligne and Grothendieck. R. MacPherson [7] constructed this Chern class, using Chern-Mather classes and introducing the notion of local Euler obstruction. A. Dubson [2] gave a more concrete description for MacPherson's Chern class C*(X) : Let S? χ be a (in fact, any) Whitney stratification of X with the smooth part of X as the top-dimensional stratum and let C^(X) denote the Chern-Mather class of X. Then ms •
Nutritional management analysis of the transhumant sheep and goat farms in the region of Sterea Ellada-Greece.

Transhumance is the seasonal movement of herds between different summer and winter pastures. The main reason of practice of this farming system is the need for a more efficient exploitation of vegetation to meet the nutritional needs of the reared animals. The aim of this paper is to investigate nutritional management practices of transhumant herds in the region of Sterea Ellada. In the analysis, emphasis is given in the calculation of the coverage of nutritional needs of the reared animals by supplementary feed, translated as Metabolized energy (ME), Digestible Crude Protein (DGP) and Dry Matter (DM). Nutritional management is studied in four basic productive stages of ewes and dams. All necessary data were collected from a sample of 140 transhumant herders, via an exhaustive questionnaire that covered all aspects of the production of the farms and managerial practices. Data were subsequently analyzed with descriptive statistic methods. Analysis reveals that grazing tends to be the main nutritional source as approximately 30-50% of the needs of the reared animals on lowlands and more than 90% on uplands is considered to be covered by grazing
FINANCIAL REPORTING QUALITY FOR BANKS IN EGYPT AND THE UAE

Quality of financial reporting is recalling being in the focus of the accounting practitioners and academic because of the occurrence of several recent accounting scandals such as BT Italia (CNBC, 2017), Tesco accounting fraud scandal (Fortune, 2017) and Obsidian Energy Ltd. (SEC, 2017). The main purpose of financial reporting is to provide useful information to the internal and external stack holders i.e. management, investors and creditors. The term useful financial information used in the accounting literature refers to the level of the quality of this information as represented by certain fundamental and enhancing characteristics (IASB, 2010). Enormous benefits have addressed in the accounting literature for the quality of financial reporting and of these are, Houcine (2017) using a sample of 25 Tunisian listed companies over the period 1997-2013 studied the impact of financial reporting quality on corporate investment efficiency and found that the consequences of financial reporting quality are better resources allocations and investment decisions. Koo et al. (2017) studied the impact of financial reporting quality on the corporate dividend policy and found that financial reporting quality as a governance tool motivates managers to pay dividends through fixing the free cash flow problems. The results of the study of Lin et al. (2014) indicated the positive impact of financial reporting quality on firm performance during the global financial crisis in the UK. Martínez-Ferrero (2014) on a sample of 1960 companies from 25 countries over the period 2002-2010 examined the impact of financial reporting quality on corporate performance. The results indicated that there is a positive relationship between financial reporting quality and financial performance. Martínez-Ferrero et al. (2013) investigated the impact of financial reporting quality on corporate social responsibility based on a sample of 747 international listed nonfinancial companies over the period 2002-2010. The results revealed that companies with featured by financial reporting quality are more conservatism and avoid earnings management practices and hence more socially responsible. Abstract
Coupling inhibitory populations: from phase-locking to chaos

Synchronization of neural oscillations has been hypothesized to play an essential role in the large-scale integration of the activity of distinct cell assemblies in brain. Experiments consistently show that synchronous periodic rhythms emerge, disappear and organize themselves spatially across multiple local areas, oscillating coherently with dynamically evolving phase relations [1]. The strong irregularity of cortical neurons response in vivo combined with a significant degree of synchrony in the temporal fluctuations of neuronal activities hints as well to the existence of less regular oscillatory episodes, possibly associated to intrinsically chaotic dynamical states [2]. In this work we explain in a unified way the generation of local oscillatory activity in inhibitory interneuronal networks, the spontaneous development of phase-locked configurations in networks with patchy connections, and, finally, the transition from periodic to aperiodic oscillatory regimes [3, 4].
Subculture as Mediator: The Counterculture Student Subcommunity.

This paper reports on a 1992 study that examined a' group of 16 students and non-students, all paid workers at a university's food co-op. The purpose of this study was to understand more about the lives of counterculture students, their beliefs and values, and preferences and politics, specifically as those factors relate to their educational experience. While the study began as an exploration of students' perspectives, it became obvious that "student" was not easily defined. Workers in the co-op during this study were at various stages of education. Some were currently enrolled, some had dropped out for a period of time, others had dropped out permanently, and still others had graduated and chose to remain employees of the co-op. The study focused on the meaning that counterculture students and non-students find in the educational experiences they have had, and how that meaning fits within their lives. It showed that counterculture students are not especially comfortable when they are confined by the structures o0a traditional college education. Some were able to navigate those expectations, others were not. Most enjoyed the intellectUal stimulation of an academic environment. The food co-op in which all the respondents worked wds a place that provided them some respite from the expectations of higher education and society. There they were able to play out the three significant themes of their lives: (1) education; (2) community; and (3) social responsibility. These interconnected themes are driven by values consistent with those most often associated with the U.S. counterculture. Contains 19 references. (Author/DK) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Subculture as Mediator: The Counterculture Student Subcommunity Lee Burdette Williams
De Volta para o Futuro: Excesso de Peso e Câncer Colorretal

O aumento da incidência do câncer colorretal é considerado um dos mais evidentes marcadores da transição epidemiológica e nutricional decorrentes de mudanças sociais e econômicas que proporcionaram a adoção de estilo de vida de países desenvolvidos em países com, até então, alta incidência de cânceres relacionados a infecções. Ao analisarmos as tendências de ocorrência do câncer colorretal em nossa população e a prevalência temporal de fatores de risco como consumo alimentar, atividade física e excesso de peso, podemos imaginar o cenário para o Brasil nas próximas décadas. É preciso que as autoridades de saúde pública exerçam vigilância constante sobre os comportamentos alimentares e práticas de atividade física para que o cenário encontrado nos EUA não se repita no Brasil dentro de 25 anos ou menos.
Validating an Irish-Language Version of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test — Second Edition

Introduction: This study translates and assesses the psychometric properties of an Irish-language version of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test — Second Edition (Wilson et al 2003), a screening measure for memory impairment in adults. Method: All four versions of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test — Second Edition were translated to Irish and administered to a sample of 21 participants aged 21–64 years. Equivalent translation of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test — Second Edition was achieved through multiple translations and back-translations of the instrument and field-testing with both bilingual and monolingual participants. Findings: Strong evidence of concurrent validity was clear from the results. Test—retest reliability of the measure proved to be low in comparison with the English version. In general, the four parallel versions seem to be of equal difficulty, and the Irish version of the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test — Second Edition was no more difficult than the English version. Conclusion: The results support an Irish Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test — Second Edition as a valid test of everyday memory. Overall, the reliability of the tool is acceptable, but results must be considered cautiously due to the preliminary nature of the study and given the small sample size.
Childhood bilingualism and metalinguistic skills: Analysis and control in young Swedish–English bilinguals

Abstract Several scholars have claimed that childhood bilingualism may enhance development of linguistic awareness. In the present investigation, metalinguistic ability is studied in terms of the dual skill components outlined by Bialystok and Ryan (1985): control of linguistic processing and analysis of linguistic knowledge. A total of 38 English–Swedish bilinguals, assigned to two groups according to relative proficiency, and 16 Swedish monolinguals, all aged 6 to 7 years, received three tasks: symbol substitution, grammaticality judgment, and grammaticality correction. Effects of general bilingualism were found on tasks requiring a high control of linguistic processing, thus replicating previous findings. The results indicated that a high degree of bilinguality may also enhance the development of linguistic analysis. Moreover, it was found that certain metalinguistic skills – especially control of processing – were more readily applied in the subjects' weaker language.
Altruism without reciprocation in children

The focus of this paper is on altruism and coordination among children. A special form of altruism (ethical altruism) is investigated by means of experiments. The definition of altruism used here follows from A. Seni? ½s concept of obligation, i.e. behaviour that produces advantage for someone whose welfare is not important for the agenti? ½s well-being. In this sense, the paper investigates altruism without reciprocity. The experiment discussed was originally developed to test adult behaviour, whereas the experimental subjects in this case are two samples of children aged respectively 9 and 12 years old. The aim of the analysis was to verify whether the findings of the previous experiments with adults were confirmed when the subjects were much younger.
The Effects of International Fragmentation of Production on Trade Patterns: an Empirical Assessment ∗

Does fragmentation of production affect the trade patterns of different countries in similar ways? In contrast with current theories of vertical specialization, attempts to provide empirical evidence on this question have been based, in the vast majority of cases, only on a statistical analysis of trade flows. I propose a general equilibrium model of trade and fragmentation that allows me to capture the effects of vertical specialization on the export performances of different countries in individual sectors. It is a comprehensive framework, which combines comparative advantages (both of the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin type) with other characteristics of the economies (sizes, market structure, investments in R&D) and takes into consideration the role of the employment of domestic and imported intermediates in the production of exported and non-exported final goods. The model is used to explain the differences in French and Japanese exports of manufactured goods (relative to US) toward other OECD countries over the period 1980-1994. In particular, the model highlights the propensity of France to vertically specialize its activities in order to fill possible gaps in terms of innovation and TFP, while the negative impact of fragmentation on Japanese exports shows a disinclination to use imported intermediates in the production of the exported goods.