Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Redefining Residential: Trauma-Informed Practice: The Importance of Predictability in Residential Interventions

This is the sixteenth in a series of papers by the Association of Children’s Residential Centers (ACRC) addressing critical issues facing the field of residential interventions. The purpose of these papers is to stimulate dialogue and self-examination among organizations, stakeholders, policymakers, and the field. ACRC is the longest standing association focused exclusively on the needs of young people who require therapeutic residential interventions, and their families.
Advances in genome editing technology and its applications in poultry breeding

Poultry has always had a unique range of applications in a variety of fields. Despite being an extremely valuable model organism for research, its usage lagged as their development almost takes place within an egg, and incubated outside which makes it strenuous to approach and handle the zygote. The techniques of precise editing of specific loci in the genome using the programmable genome editing tools have nullified this lag of poultry species to be used as a research model. The genome-editing technique thus generates highly valuable and quality-improved poultry, purely based on primordial germ-cells, which are the progenitor cells of gametes, differentiating poultry species from that of the mammalian system. In this review, PGC-mediated genome editing in birds and their applications in the poultry field has been briefed.
Expression studies of fowl adenovirus penton base

The fowl adenovirus infections are responsible for high morbidity and high mortality in poultry flock throughout the world. There is no effective vaccine against these viruses. The present study was conducted to express penton base gene which is one of the major immunogenic proteins of virion. The penton base gene was amplified and cloned into plenti6/V5-D-TOPO vector system which is HIV-1 based vector. After transfection, the pseudotyped lentivirus particles were synsthesized which were found to be able to transform as into vero cells. The expression of penton base protein in vero cells was observed by immunofluorescence studies.
Analysis of physical properties and biochemical components in few honey samples in Southern Karnataka, India

Honey is one of the insect products, produced by different species of honeybees using nectar and pollen from different flowers. Honey shows greater variation in its physical property and chemical composition. India has immense potential for the production of different type of honey in the wild as well as from beekeepers in apiary. Locally available different honey are lacking scientific information on physico-chemical parameters, hence present study was conducted by following the standard methods. The pH, electrical conductivity, specific gravity, absorbance and turbidity in Clover, Jamun, Lychee, Coorg and natural honey exhibited significant variation (F=29.36; P>0.05) excepting the specific gravity. Moreover, the fructose, glucose, total protein, minerals and moisture content revealed significant difference (F=83.59; P>0.05) between Clover, Jamun, Lychee, Coorg and natural honey. Further, Calcium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium and Zinc concentration varied significantly (F=4.81; P>0.05) between these honey samples. All these results clearly indicated that Clover, Jamun, Lychee, Coorg and natural honey are characterized by specific physical property and chemical composition which is depended on geographical location, floral type and honey harvest cum processing methods at wild or domesticated conditions. Hence, locally available honey with different brand names is dissimilar, but with appropriate physical property and chemical composition, which is on par with the international standards and safe for human consumption in southern Karnataka, India.
Semiring optimizations: dynamic elision of expressions with identity and absorbing elements

This paper describes a compiler optimization to eliminates dynamic occurrences of expressions in the format a ← a ⊕ b ⊗ c. The operation ⊕ must admit an identity element z, such that a ⊕ z = a. Also, z must be the absorbing element of ⊗, such that b ⊗ z = z ⊗ c = z. Semirings where ⊕ is the additive operator and ⊗ is the multiplicative operator meet this contract. This pattern is common in high-performance benchmarks—its canonical representative being the multiply-add operation a ← a + b × c. However, several other expressions involving arithmetic and logic operations satisfy the required algebra. We show that the runtime elimination of such assignments can be implemented in a performance-safe way via online profiling. The elimination of dynamic redundancies involving identity and absorbing elements in 35 programs of the LLVM test suite that present semiring patterns brings an average speedup of 1.19x (total optimized time over total unoptimized time) on top of clang -O3. When projected onto the entire test suite (259 programs) the optimization leads to a speedup of 1.025x. Once added onto clang, semiring optimizations approximates it to TACO, a specialized tensor compiler.
Continuous beam steering by coherent light-by-light control of dielectric metasurface phase gradient

Continuous and reversible tuning of the properties of optical metasurfaces, as a functionality that would enable a range of device applications, has been a focus of the metasurface research field in recent years. Tuning mechanisms proposed and demonstrated so far have generally relied upon changing the morphology of a metasurface or the intrinsic properties of its constituent materials. Here we introduce, via numerical simulation, an alternative approach to achieve continuous tuning of gradient metasurface response, and illustrate its potential application to the challenge of continuous beam steering, as required for example in LIDAR and machine vision systems. It is based upon the coherent illumination of a silicon nano-pillar metasurface with two counter-propagating beams. Control of the input beams’ relative phase and intensity enables tuning of the individual nano-pillars’ electromagnetic response and thereby the phase gradient of the array, which in turn steers the direction of the output beam continuously over an angular range of approximately 9 degrees. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal
18.Niangpi Guite

Human capital in any society forms a significant part of livelihood framework analysis of the rural communities like that of the Karbi and the Kuki tribes of Karbi Anglong district in Assam. Alternatively, human capital is a collection of resources—all the knowledge, talents, skills, abilities, experience, intelligence, training, judgment, and wisdom possessed individually and collectively by individuals in a population. These resources are the total capacity of the people that represents a form of wealth which can be directed to accomplish the goals of the society, nation or state or a portion thereof. The main objective of this paper is to compare the quality of human capital in a traditional livelihood system like that of the Karbis and the Kukis in Karbi Anglong district. It focuses on the links between human capital and rural livelihood, looking in particular at the indicators that connect the two. This paper is mainly based on field study conducted by the author among the Kuki-Karbi tribe in Karbi Anglong District, Assam as a part of her research field work. The data generated in this paper is mainly based on primary sources collected by the author in the study area. The paper concludes that how human capital enhance the capacity of livelihood condition by comparing between the two tribes in terms of quantity and quality.
Narrative review of sleep and stroke

Sleep disorders, such as sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), insomnia or restless legs syndrome (RLS), are common in the general population and after stroke. In some cases, sleep disturbances are pre-existing, but can also appear de novo as a direct consequence of brain damage or due to stroke-related complications. Furthermore, some sleep conditions may act as a risk factor of stroke. This review explores the available evidence of the two-way relationship between sleep and stroke. Cardiovascular physiological changes during sleep are described, as well as the evidence on the relationship between stroke and sleep duration, SDB, RLS, insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), and circadian rhythm alterations. Potential changes on sleep architecture, and the links that may exist between sleep and functional outcomes after stroke are also discussed. Importantly, sleep-related disturbances may be associated with worse stroke recovery outcomes and increased cerebrovascular morbidity. It is therefore relevant that the bidirectional association between stroke and sleep is taken into consideration by clinicians taking care of these patients. Future research may focus on this mutual relationship for a better understanding of the impact of stroke on sleep, the importance of sleep in stroke incidence and recovery, and have further evidence on treatment strategies that may improve functional outcome after stroke.
E of genetic selection for milk yield on energy balance, levels of hormones, and metabolites in lactating cattle, and

Selection for a higher milk yield increases metabolic load via a higher yield per se and / or via physiological processes that facilitate milk yield, and it is difficult to differentiate between these two. Here, we aim to identify important pathways that contribute to the reduction in fertility following selection for higher yield. The associations between milk yield and fertility may run via pleiotropic effects, i.e. via functional pathways (for example related to intake), or linkage of genes and may involve changes in levels of hormones and metabolites. A number of studies have investigated the effects of genetic merit for milk yield on fertility, feed intake, energy balance and levels of metabolic and fertility hormones or metabolites. Differences in genetic merit were associated with differences in: (1) feed intake; (2) energy balance; and (3) plasma levels especially of GH, IGF-I, prolactin, progesterone, insulin, glucose, NEFAs and ketones. In the discussion we focus on the possible roles that energy balance, the growth hormone axis, and glucose together with insulin may have in the reduced fertility that is associated with high yield. The overall conclusion is that many minor pathways probably contribute, but that reduced metabolic fuel availability, rather than direct effects of hormone concentrations, is an important cause of poorer fertility with increasing genetic merit.  2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Pathological changes and immunohistochemical characterization of lung lesions in small ruminants naturally infected with Mycoplasma agalactiae

Respiratory ailments caused by mycoplasma organisms are considered as important diseases of small ruminants causing a serious economic impact. The present work describes the pathological changes in lungs of sheep and goat naturally infected with Mycoplasma agalactiae organisms. Pneumonic lungs from sheep and goat (n=30) were collected from slaughter houses and M. agalactiae was isolated from 8 cases. The histopathological changes in the infected lungs were hyperplasia of bronchial epithelium, hyperplasia of BALT (bronchus associated lymphoid tissue) and infiltration of mononuclear cells around the airways and blood vessels, suggestive of broncho-interstitial pneumonia. The presence of the organism in the lesions was also demonstrated by immunohistochemistry using polyclonal hyperimmune serum raised against M. agalactiae.
Macrophage membrane functionalized biomimetic nanoparticles for targeted anti-atherosclerosis applications

Atherosclerosis (AS), the underlying cause of most cardiovascular events, is one of the most common causes of human morbidity and mortality worldwide due to the lack of an efficient strategy for targeted therapy. In this work, we aimed to develop an ideal biomimetic nanoparticle for targeted AS therapy. Methods: Based on macrophage “homing” into atherosclerotic lesions and cell membrane coating nanotechnology, biomimetic nanoparticles (MM/RAPNPs) were fabricated with a macrophage membrane (MM) coating on the surface of rapamycin-loaded poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) copolymer (PLGA) nanoparticles (RAPNPs). Subsequently, the physical properties of the MM/RAPNPs were characterized. The biocompatibility and biological functions of MM/RAPNPs were determined in vitro. Finally, in AS mouse models, the targeting characteristics, therapeutic efficacy and safety of the MM/RAPNPs were examined. Results: The advanced MM/RAPNPs demonstrated good biocompatibility. Due to the MM coating, the nanoparticles effectively inhibited the phagocytosis by macrophages and targeted activated endothelial cells in vitro. In addition, MM-coated nanoparticles effectively targeted and accumulated in atherosclerotic lesions in vivo. After a 4-week treatment program, MM/RAPNPs were shown to significantly delay the progression of AS. Furthermore, MM/RAPNPs displayed favorable safety performance after long-term administration. Conclusion: These results demonstrate that MM/RAPNPs could efficiently and safely inhibit the progression of AS. These biomimetic nanoparticles may be potential drug delivery systems for safe and effective anti-AS applications.
Innovative Approaches to Increase Service Life of Poplar Lightweight Hardwood Construction Products

During the second half of last century the forestry-wood chain has evolved and today ecosystem services in a sustainability framework are important. Forests are intended to provide services for the bio-economy, human health, biodiversity and climate control. An increased need for more renewable resources both for material and energy use has initiated extra interest for the potential to produce more lignocellulosic biomass, in short to increase wood production. One option is to provide in complementary production in planted forests. Both forestry and agriculture can take part in this. The cultivation of poplar hybrids in the temperate regions is a key option for the current and future bioeconomy. These fast-growing trees are producing lightweight hardwood with a low natural durability, but with an important potential as construction material especially as engineered wood products. All wood protection methods are of interest to be evaluated for this wood resource, making it suitable even for high quality applications. Poplar, for many reasons, has been nominated as hardwood with the best potential to perform similarly as softwoods for applications in wood construction. Benchmarking with wood species like spruce is relevant for several engineered wood products like plywood, LVL and even CLT. Wood treatments to increase durability have evolved from traditional wood preservation towards modification techniques such as thermally modified timber. Innovative poplar based products have been assessed on their performance and are designed to fit for purpose in relation to a specific combination of use class and service life. Introducing innovative poplar based construction product for green building requires adequate testing tools. Performance based assessment should allow to integrate different protective measures. Related to moisture dynamics and the linked fungal decay risk, opportunities to extend service life are manifold. Treatment can be differentiated e.g. for cladding (building envelope) and loadbearing construction components. Simple or sophisticated modification processes can alter the equilibrium moisture content. The use of wood based panels and new engineered wood products allow for better moisture control impacting fungal decay risk, but also alter the probability of insect damage. This paper intends to present several innovative poplar based construction products and show some cases of benchmarking in relation to an integrated service life approach.
The expression of tumor suppressor CYLD in specific neoplasias

The tumor suppressor CYLD is a deubiquitinating enzyme that acts as a negative regulator of several signaling pathways including NF-kappa-B and MAPK activation pathways, by affecting the function of important mediators. CYLD regulates several cellular processes such as immune responses, inflammation, cell survival, proliferation and differentiation. The tumor suppressor function of CYLD seems to be cell-type specific and it is important to delineate its involvement in the homeostasis of specific tissues in order to understand and exploit its role in oncogenesis . In this review, we summarize existing data on the expression and alterations of CYLD in certain types of lung and colorectal neoplasias.
Feeding potential of zigzag beetle on sucking insect pests of brinjal

Study was carried out on Feeding potential of Zigzag beetle on sucking insect pests of brinjal. Observations on the fecundity, fertility, adult emergence, longevity and mortality were recorded. The results indicated that average pre-copulation, copulation and post-copulation periods were higher on aphid compared to whiteflies and thrips, whereas on thrips were most least. Oviposition & postoviposition periods showed quite similar pattern i.e. higher on aphids and most least on thrips. The mean fecundity/female was extended on aphids compared to whiteflies and thrips while, maximum incubation period showed the same pattern. The results further revealed that the percent male emergence of Zigzag beetle was most least (36%) on thrips and highest on aphids (50%) and female emergence was highest (70 %) on aphids and most least (40%) on thrips. The average life span and feeding potential of male and female on aphids was highest on aphids compared to whiteflies and thrips which showed that aphids were most preferred food and thrips was least preferred prey for male adults of M. sexmaculatus. All larval instars showed similar pattern whereas, 3 and 4 instars were found more voracious than other instars. Overall data shows that female adults lived longer and consumed more sucking pests of brinjal than male adults of M. sexmaculatus. Whereas, The average feeding potential of female was more compared to male adults.
Application of SAX in temperature monitoring of friction welding

In this work,we introduce the new way to find problem in frictionwelding.SAX is a new way to find discords. Symbolic aggregate approimation(SAX representation) is a time series dimensionality reduction technique which benefits from its brief represention in dimensionality reduction and high-performance lower bound distance algorithm. In friction welding process, temperature is an important index to judge whether the machining is normal or not.SAX method provides a fast and efficient way for temperature detection, which can quickly find the abnormal region of temperature data.This method can quickly detect the location of the abnormal area and find the cause of the exception.
Field efficacy of different insecticides against aphids (Aphis gossypii Glover) in chilli

Field studies were carried out during Rabi season of 2016-17 and 2017-18 at the Central Horticultural Research Station, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar in randomized block design with six insecticidal treatments which were replicated four times and tested against aphids in chilli variety “Utkal Ava”. Among them, sequential spraying of acephate 75 SP @ 1.5 g/l + neem oil @ 2.0 ml/l, fipronil 5 SC @ 1.0 ml/l + neem oil @ 2.0 ml/l, imidacloprid 70 WG @ 2 g/15 l + neem oil @ 2.0 ml/l and cyazypyr 10.26 OD @ 1.8ml/l proved to be superior than other treatments in effective management of aphids infesting chilli. Further, cyazypyr 10.26 OD @ 1.8 ml/l was found to be the least effective treatment against this pest.
AN INVESTIGATION OF INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DECREASE OF STUDENT ENROLLMENTS IN SELECTED PRIVATE HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS IN RWANDA

This study adds on the available literature on higher education with regard to student enrollments. The purpose of the study was to find out institutional factors influencing the decrease of student enrollments in 6 selected private higher learning institutions in Rwanda. This study adopted a quantitative research design. The study used a sample of 370 undergraduate students that were selected using stratified sampling technique. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire in the form of likert scales. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics (percentages, frequencies, means and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (simple linear regression). The findings revealed that institutional factors have a significant influence on the decrease of student enrollments in private higher learning institutions in Rwanda. Seven institutional factors were found to be the most influencing. These are namely: (1) inflexible and unmarketable programs, (2) high costs, (3) inflexible payment modalities, (4) students’ poor living conditions, (5) poor internet connection, (6) institutional bad location and (7) inflexible academic rules and regulations. The study recommended that managers of private higher learning institutions in Rwanda should be aware of the factors influencing the decrease of student enrollments and devise sound strategies to improve on them. The study also recommended that managers of these institutions should make sure that a survey on students’ satisfaction level is conducted regularly in order to identify the students’ problems and solve them accordingly. Article visualizations:
Hybrid model predictive control for mineral grinding ?

The mining industry is in search of control strategies that allow the consideration of a global optimization of their processes, ensuring their stability. This has led to the application of recently developed control techniques on large-scale systems in the mining processes. One of the most important process of the mining industry is the mineral grinding, as the product particle size impacts, in a significant manner, the recovery rate of the valuable mineral in the separation stages. As a solution, a hybrid model predictive control (HMPC) is presented; this control approach maintains the product particle size on a defined range and minimizes the specific energy consumption, maintaining the grinding plant in a stable operation. As a comparison, a conventional model predictive control with an expert supervisor to handle discrete events was developed, showing HMPC is a suitable solution that can used in the grinding process, handling both discrete and continuous dynamics and events with one controller.
A STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF ICT ENABLED GADGETS AND SCREEN ADDICTION AMONG MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Smart phones are become the reflection of our techno culture. The smart phones are become an integral part of our lifestyle because of its innumerable features like internet and infotainment platforms. Many researches show that the new age disorder ‘Nomophobia’ is on the rise across the globe. Narrative Literature review method has adopted for the study in which peer-reviewed journals selected for the study. The study based on secondary data which are published journals and books related to new media and gadget addiction of engineering students across the globe with a special emphasis to Indian journals. Around 80 articles have identified for the study.