Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Acúmulo de antocianinas e características físicas e químicas de frutos de laranjas sanguíneas durante o armazenamento a frio

The aim of this study was to assess the content of anthocyanins in the juice and the physical and chemical characteristics of the fruit of eight blood orange varieties and of orange Valencia, and also verify the effects of storage of fruits at 10oC, for a period of up to 60 days, in the same parameters. The anthocyanin content was determined using a spectrofotometric method and ten physical and chemical characteristics of the fruits and juice were also evaluated before and during the storage. Under natural conditions all varieties showed fruits with low anthocyanin content in the juice. Cold storage during a period of up to 60 days enables a significant accumulation of anthocyanin in the juice, but in a different level in the evaluated blood orange varieties. Moro is the variety that showed the highest anthocyanin content in the end of the storage period. Except for two Sanguinelli varieties (Morocco and Polidari), the other varieties can be considered as similar as others and suitable for consumption. The storage of fruits to 10oC during the maximum period of 60 days significantly modifies only fruit width, juice content in fruits, soluble solids content and acidity of the juice.
Influence of electron accelerator irradiation on epoxy nanocomposites materials for spacecraft structure

a Space Technology Center, Cairo, Egypt b Polymer Chemistry Department, National Center for Radiation Research and Technology, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt c Solid State Physics and Accelerators Department, National Center for Radiation Research and Technology (NCRRT), Atomic Energy Authority (AEA), Cairo, Egypt d Materials Science and Technology Department, Military Technical College (MTC), Cairo, Egypt
Impacts of Urban Expansion on Welfare of Expropriated Peri-Urban Communities of Hossana Town, Southern Ethiopia

As demand for land increased over time, urban centers have been physically expanding their boundaries to surrounding rural and peri-urban areas by including additional land where people did base their lives in agriculture. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the impacts of urban expansion on welfare of expropriated peri-urban communities of Hossana town, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia by using propensity score matching method. Household survey research design with semi-structured interview schedule for a sample of 369 households (clustered in to 148 expropriated and 221 non-expropriated) was conducted. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from primary and secondary sources. In addition to household interview schedule; focus group discussion, key informant interview, transect walk, case story and personal observation were used as data collection tools. After propensity score matching, the per capita income of non-expropriated households is significantly greater than expropriated households. Therefore, urban expansion has significant impact on welfare of expropriated peri-urban local communities. Hence, it was suggested that rehabilitation programs should be developed to support the expropriated households to enable them appropriately use their cash compensation and remaining asset and prepare them for the new environment.
Population pharmacokinetics and probability of target attainment of meropenem 1 in critically ill patients 2 3

9 Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto 10 XV, n. 2. I-16132 Genoa, Italy; 11 Infectious Diseases Clinics, IRCCS A.O. U San Martino-IST, University of Genoa, Largo R. Benzi, n. 10. I-16132 12 Genoa, Italy; 13 Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Department Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, IRCCS A.O. U San Martino14 IST, University of Genoa, Largo R. Benzi, n. 10. I-16132 Genoa, Italy; 15 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Savi, n.10. I-56126 Pisa, Italy; 16 Section of Microbiology-DISC, University of Genoa, , Largo R. Benzi, n. 10. I-16132 Genoa, Italy. 17 18 19
Effect of Boswellia serrata Resin Extract on Cell-Mediated and Humoral Immune Response in Mice

Globally, Boswellia serrata is used by many different communities to treat various ailments including modulation of the immune system though with limited scientific evidence. This study was aimed at investigating the immunomodulatory and antioxidant effect of Boswellia serrata resins extract in rodents. Chemical characterization of the extract was performed for detecting the presence of secondary metabolites using pure boswellic acids as standard. In vitro antioxidant assay was performed by DPPH free radical scavenging assay and reducing power assay. In vivo study includes acute toxicity assay, delayed type hypersensitivity test, Hemagglutination reaction and carbon clearance test. Enzymatic action was used for the estimation of reduced glutathione (GSH), Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and Lipid peroxidation (LPO). The sheep red blood cells (SRBCs) are used as an antigenic material. Statistical comparison between different groups was done by using one way ANOVA followed by Benferroni’s test. Based on the findings from the study, it is concluded that the ethanolic extract of Boswellia serrata increased both the cell-mediated and humoral immune responses in rats. This could be attributed to the different macronutrients, micronutrients and phytochemicals present in the plant. The extract therefore has a potential therapeutic value in several immunosuppressing clinical disorders and hence the reason for its use in local communities to alleviate various disease conditions.
Special Issue In celebrating the 10th anniversary of JFAS

The objective of the present research was to investigate the intercalation of polymer-based surfactant, namely polyethylene-glycol (PEG) as a new montmorillonite MMT modifier inside the interlayer sheets of montmorillonite. A full microstructural characterization of the synthesized composites clays-polymers by XRD, FT-IR, TGA and DSC was performed. The XRD patterns and the FTIR spectra of the composites revealed that PEG was successfully intercalated into the galleries of MMT-Na since the basal spacing of the modified clay minerals was increased. The effect of the introduction of the clay on the crystallization temperature (Tc), melting temperature (Tm) and crystallization degree of PEG in the composites was prospected by DSC. The decrease of thermal stability of PEG in the nanocomposite, detected by TGA analysis is ascribed to the loss in the crystallinity of the PEG.
Prognostic value and interrelated expression profile of GINS complex subunits in lung adenocarcinoma

Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is one of the common pathological types of lung cancer, it has a poor 5-year overall survival rate. The GINS complex was found to be a core component of replication helicases in eukaryotes, and its abnormal function may lead to the cause of human cancers and other diseases. However, few attempts have been made to find an association between GINS complex subunits (GINSs) and LUAD. Therefore, in this study, we will attempt to explore the prognostic value of GINSs in patients with LUAD and the interrelated expression profile. In this study, ONCOMINE database, UALCAN and Human Protein Atlas were used to investigate the role of GINSs in LUAD transcription expression profiles. KM-plotter and DriverDBv3 database were used to analyzed the correlation between GINSs gene expression and prognosis. By using LinkedOmics database, we screened GINSs-related differentially expressed genes and performed GO, KEGG analysis on these genes. We found that all GINS genes are highly expressed in LUAD and are associated with poor survival of patients with LUAD, especially those who have a smoking history. Additionally, we found that co-overexpression of two or more GINSs was associated with poor prognosis, suggesting the GINSs complex may co-operate to promote LUAD progression. We had also obtained some GINSs-related kinase targets and transcription factor targets, which may serve as a future research direction. We propose that individual GINSs or combinations of multiple GINS genes may be potential biomarkers for the prognosis of LUAD.
Quantification of the European industrial heat demand by branch and temperature level

We present the first comprehensive estimate of the final energy demand for heat in all EU28 member states for the reference year 2012, differentiated by temperature levels, comparing two different approaches. Two different calculation approaches based on different data sets yielded estimates of the total final energy demand for heat in the EU28 of 8150 PJ and 8518 PJ in 2012, respectively. Approach 1 distinguishes between three different process heat (PH) temperature levels and results in final energy demand for heat <100°C: 2077 PJ, 100–400°C: 2214 PJ and >400°C: 3859 PJ. The second approach distinguishes between low temperature space heat and hot water (<100°C: 1161 PJ) and four different PH temperature levels with a resulting energy demand of <100°C: 1027 PJ, 100–500°C: 1785 PJ, 500–1000°C: 1679 PJ and >1000°C: 2865 PJ. The high share of high‐temperature heat illustrates the limits to the potential decarbonisation of industrial thermal processes with renewable energy sources such as (non‐concentrating) solar thermal, geothermal or environmental heat. Therefore specific information on required temperature levels is of the essence. This, in turn, points out the relevance of renewable electricity and synthetic fuels based on renewable power for a significant reduction of CO2 emissions from the industry sector in Europe. Considering current data quality, it is recommended to develop a consistent, comprehensive methodology to significantly improve the data basis on industrial heat demand. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
GuideBand: Intuitive 3D Multilevel Force Guidance on a Wristband in Virtual Reality

For haptic guidance, vibrotactile feedback is a commonly-used mechanism, but requires users to interpret its complicated patterns especially in 3D guidance, which is not intuitive and increases their mental effort. Furthermore, for haptic guidance in virtual reality (VR), not only guidance performance but also realism should be considered. Since vibrotactile feedback interferes with and reduces VR realism, it may not be proper for VR haptic guidance. Therefore, we propose a wearable device, GuideBand, to provide intuitive 3D multilevel force guidance upon the forearm, which reproduces an effect that the forearm is pulled and guided by a virtual guider or telepresent person in VR. GuideBand uses three motors to pull a wristband at different force levels in 3D space. Such feedback usually requires much larger and heavier robotic arms or exoskeletons. We conducted a just-noticeable difference study to understand users’ force level distinguishability. Based on the results, we performed a study to verify that compared with state-of-the-art vibrotactile guidance, GuideBand is more intuitive, needs a lower level of mental effort, and achieves similar guidance performance. We further conducted a VR experience study to observe how users combine and complement visual and force guidance, and prove that GuideBand enhances realism in VR guidance.
SENTIMENTS AND SEMANTICS: EVALUATING THE BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF REAL ESTATE USING CONTENT ANALYSIS

Drilling into data to understand real estate as a financial investment is one of the primary considerations of property research. This paper is designed to shed light on some of the newer and more innovative studies by highlighting the use qualitative data and content analysis to enhance our understanding of real estate. Particular attention is placed on Latent Semantic Analysis, sentiment analysis and ocular tracking as stand alone methods as well as supplements to conventional pricing models.
Investigative study on the role of the Toxo 5699 gene in the Toxoplasma gondii lytic cycle using the CRISPR/Cas9 system

The focus of the current study was to disrupt the Toxo 5699 gene via CRISPR/Cas9 to evaluate the effects of gene disruption on the parasite lytic cycle. In the present work, a single plasmid expressing both the guide RNA and Cas9 nuclease together with a selectable marker of human dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) was introduced into Toxoplasma gondii. Targeted disruption of the Toxo 5699 gene was carried out via the CRISPR/Cas9 system and confirmed by PCR, sequencing, and immunofluorescence microscopy. Disrupted and nondisrupted control parasites were allowed to invade HS27 cell monolayers and plaques were counted. The average number of plaques from three replicates per group was obtained between the disrupted and non-disrupted T. gondii RH strain and was compared using a onetailed t-test. It was observed that there was a significant decrease in number and size of plaque formation in the Toxo 5699 gene disrupted parasite line. This is an indication that the Toxo 5699 gene may play a role in the lytic cycle of the parasite, particularly during the replication phase and thus would be a novel target for disruption or silencing. The Toxo 5699 gene presented in the current work is an important part of the T. gondii lytic cycle, therefore meriting further inquiry into its potential as a target for further genetic-silencing or disruption studies.
Major mid-Cretaceous plate reorganization as the trigger of the Andean orogeny

Introduction Global plate reorganizations are inescapable events in plate tectonics and must episodically occur. A major mid-Cretaceous plate reorganization marked the final dismembering of Gondwana leading to consolidation of the major present-day continents and oceanic basins. In those times occurred the physical disconnection between South America and Africa as well as the separation of Australia from Antarctica and India from Madagascar. Precise dating of this widespread event is precluded by the lack of seafloor magnetic anomalies from earliest Aptian to the end of Santonian. However extrapolated ages of 95 ± 5 Ma have been assigned to changes in relative plate motion in the South Atlantic Ocean, southwest and southeast Indian Ocean, and Weddell Sea. It is worth noting that the pole of opening for the Central Atlantic does not change for the Aptian-Santonian time interval, suggesting that the mid-Cretaceous plate reorganization mainly affected the former Gondwana region. The hotspot (HS) fixity axiom was intensively used for many years for tectonics and geodynamics analyses, in particular to determine plate motions with respect to the mantle. However recent findings point to failure of the fixed-HS hypothesis, indicating that the emerging, more realistic scenario where sub-lithospheric melting anomalies move and deform in concert with flow in the surrounding mantle need to be allowed for assaying tectonic and geodynamic models. In this report, a moving-HS model (O ́Neill et al., 2005) and paleomagnetism are applied in the analysis of the mid-Cretaceous plate reorganization and its implications for the development of major present-day orogenic systems in general, and the Andean Cordillera in particular.
A Novel Concept for the Synthesis of an Improved LiFePO4 Lithium Battery Cathode

This paper describes the synthesis and the properties of a kinetically improved LiFePO 4 cathode material. The novel aspect of the synthesis is based on a critical step involving the dispersion of metal (e.g., copper or silver) at a very low concentration (1 wt %). This metal addition does not affect the structure of the cathode but considerably improves its kinetics in terms of capacity delivery and cycle life. Such an enhancement of the electrochemical properties has been ascribed to a reduction of the particle size and to an increase of the bulk intra- and interparticle electronic conductivity of LiFePO 4 , both effects being promoted by the finely dispersed metal powders. This improved conductivity favors the response of LiFePO 4 , thus substantiating its interest as new cathode for advanced lithium ion batteries.
Financial Analysis for Profitability Improvement : A Case Study of a HMMA Supplier

This paper discusses improving profitability by a Hyundai Motor Manufacturing America (HMMA) supplier company by reducing labor cost through restructuring process. PA, one of suppliers of HMMA, had suffered from business loss after initiated business in the US. The company has restructured its business process. The company’s business reengineering efforts has resulted in reducing the number of employees and impacted on financial statement. We hypothesize that business process reengineering is the key factor in saving labor cost and labor cost reduction is effective in improving profitability of PA. We explore the company’s profitability improving efforts through business process reengineering and show the result of the efforts with financial ratio analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. INTRODUCTION PA is one of suppliers of Hyundai Motor Manufacturing America (HMMA). PA Korea, the head company, opened this oversea branch in 2010 by purchasing an existing manufacturing company. This branch had suffered from business loss in the first couple of years. The top management of the company started restructuring by business process reengineering in 2011. One of the notable results of business process reengineering was change in the number of employees. The total number of employees was 182, when the company initiated the business in the US. This figure has been reduced up to 134 sometimes. Generally, manufacturing companies can improve profitability by reducing the material or part cost, operations cost, labor cost, and other cost or by raising price of their product. PA doesn’t have barging power either as a customer or as a supplier. PA is one of the first tier venders of Hyundai Motor Manufacturing America. The company is a supplier to Hyundai and also a customer to the second tier venders. PA doesn’t have authorization to negotiate price to its suppliers because it is a branch of its head company, PA Korea. The head company negotiates price with its suppliers. PA receives parts and materials from the second tier suppliers at the price decided by the head company. With this reason, PA can’t reduce the cost of goods sold by reducing part or material cost. Table 1 shows the percentage of part and material cost in the total cost of goods sold and in the total income. Percentage of part and material cost in the total cost has increased continuously. However, it is not because of increasing part and material cost. Because labor cost percentage has decreased, percentage of part and material cost to the total cost of goods sold has increased relatively. Percentage of part and material in the total income has changed, but not much different except from 2010 to 2011. This table indicates that part and material cost has not changed and not affected the company’s profitability. Table 1: Part and material cost ratio Year 201
CONSTRUCTING PLACE, DIRECTING PRACTICE? USING TRAVEL GUIDEBOOKS

Although the internet has rapidly expanded its utility for the traveller/tourist, published guidebooks, tangible and portable, remain the major source of information for most people. Guidebooks function as ‘culture brokers’, mediating both place and the travel experience itself for the reader, and can be considered part of a system of cultural production which often re-presents dominant discourses about the Other. Only a limited amount of academic attention has been devoted to the content of guidebooks, and most of this has focused on publications relating to non-Western destinations. This paper considers two interrelated functions of guidebooks the construction and narration of place (and people), and the direction of travel practice/experience – by examining the textual and photographic content of a set of guidebooks to Edinburgh. The process of selecting some sights and activities for inclusion in a guidebook necessarily omits others, and those included are ‘narratively marked’ as worthwhile and therefore important to, or even definitional of, an approved travel practice. The style of narration employed by guidebooks and their methods of interpellating the traveller/reader are part of how they convey their authoritative and ‘circumscribed’ versions of place and of travel practice. Reading a travel guidebook is of course a ‘performative’ act, and while most work on the topic has acknowledged the reader’s interpretational role in creating meaning from travel texts, this paper begins to address the questions of why and how some of the guidebooks’ representations are accepted and others modified or even rejected by the individual reader/traveller.
Network – Based Bill of Quantities (NetBOQ) vs Conventional Bill of Quantities: A Comparative Evaluation

Used in one form or the other in the cost management of construction projects all over the world, the issues of format, content, and practicability have remained major criticisms of the conventional bill of quantities, hence the objective of evaluating the suitability of different bill types in this work. The above criticisms become serious when viewed against contemporary clients’ increasing demand for, among other things, better accuracy, predictability of project time and cost, process transparency, and better value for money expended for professional services. Using data sourced from experts in bill preparation and use, this paper shows that a network-based bill of quantities is better suited to perform the basic functions of a bill, and for meeting clients’ needs since it makes time explicit, and its content follows real life construction sequence.
EFFECT OF APPLICATION TIME AND RATES OF FOLIAR FERTILIZATION ON THE VEGETATIVE GROWTH, FLOWERING AND SOME MINERAL CONTENTS OF Brassica nigra

This study was carried out during two successive seasons of 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 to study the effect of application time and rate of foliar fertilization with complete fertilizer solution containing 20%, 20%, 20% of N, P and K at the rates of 2, 4 and 6 g L on vegetative growth, flowering and some chemical constituents of Brassica nigra [L. ] Koch. All foliar fertilization treatments exhibited remarkable significant effects on plant height, number of branches, number of leaves, number of inflorescences, herbage fresh and dry weights, inflorescence fresh and dry weights and seed yield dry weight when compared with untreated plants. Chemical analysis showed that the highest content of N, P, K were obtained, in general, from plants sprayed with 4 g L of the complete fertilizer solution sprayed either every 10 or 20 days. Concerning the micronutrient contents (Fe, Mn, and Zn) in leaves of B. nigra [L. ] Koch, foliar fertilization resulted in significant effect on Fe, Mn and Zn in leaves when compared with untreated plants. The highest content of chlorophyll a and b in leaves was found in plants sprayed with complete fertilizer solution at the rate of 4 g L . Generally, the maximum increase in the studied parameters resulted from spraying plants with 4 g L of complete fertilizer every either 10 or 20 days. So, economically the results recommend spraying mustard plants with 4g L complete fertilizer 20-20-20 every 20 days.