Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Pengaruh Penambahan Pegagan (Centella asiatica) dan Vitamin C terhadap Kandungan Hemoglobin dan Hematokrit Darah Ayam Broiler yang Mengalami Cekaman Panas (Effect of pegagan (Centella asiatica) and Vitamin C on Blood hemoglobin and Hematocrite of Heat-S

Penelitian ini dilaksanakan untuk mempelajari pengaruh pegagan ( Centella asiatica ) dan vitamin C terhadap hemoglobin dan hematokrit darah ayam broiler yang mengalami cekaman panas. Penelitian ini menggunakan 120 ekor broiler jantan umur 2 – 6 minggu, temperatur kandang dipertahankan 31.98 ± 1.94 0 C pada siang hari dan 27.36 ± 1.31 0 C pada malam hari. Perlakuan yang diberikan adalah 0% (K), 5% (P5), 10% (P10) kandungan pegagan dalam pakan, 500 ppm vitamin C dalam air minum (C), dan kombinasi 5% pegagan dan 500 ppm vitamin C (P5C), dan kombinan 10% pegagan dengan 500 ppm vitamin C (P10C). Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa perlakuan-perlakuan P5, P10, C, P5C dan P10C nyata meningkatkan hemoglobin dari 6,8 g/dL menjadi 7,5; 7,8; 8,0; 8,2 dan 8,5 g/dL dan hematokrit darah dari 19,4% menjadi 23,4%, 25,4%, 24,3%, 24,1%, dan 27,1%, berturut-turut. Hal ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemberian sebanyak 5% pegagan sangat efektif sebagao anti cekaman panas pada ayam broiler. Kata kunci: Centella asiatica , vitamin C, cekaman panas, broiler
Design in the World AND Our Work

: Design is a ubiquitous term in CSCL and the Learning Sciences, but neither discusses design methods in parallel to how design is represented in classical design fields. We examine the use of the word “design” in publications. On -going analysis explores published representations of design process at a finer grain size. We tentatively find a lack of problem finding, a scarcity of iterative design, and notions of customer needs in contexts are largely absent.
Students' Capacity for Autonomous Learning in an Unstructured Learning Space on a Mobile Learning Trail

: This research study investigates learner autonomy in the unstructured learning space on a mobile learning trail. Specifically, we examine how students leverage on knowledge resources and the physical affordances of the outdoor learning environment, to pursue their line of inquiries. Adapting Fischer and Mandl ’ s (2005) coding scheme for the content dimension, we coded two groups’ discourse, to examine the use of knowledge resource types. Analysis showed that contextual resources and the interaction with the physical affordances play a significant role in learners’ capacity to see relations between given case information and new conceptual knowledge, as well as, activating prior knowledge resources. Overall findings indicate that autonomous learning rests essentially on the learning design, the appropriate measure at pre-structuring, as well as, student-and-teacher readiness.
A non-linear K-means algorithm and its application to unsupervised clustering

A new partition criterion for pairwise clustering is proposed naturally in the probabilistic analysis framework. Its connection to the normal K-means algorithm is explained in two different views which also builds its relationship with the kernel approach introduced by Vapnik. Both synthetic examples and the challenging task of planar shape analysis have been given to show its efficiency in unsupervised pairwise clustering application.
The importance of adenosine deaminase in differential diagnosis of febrile seizures and seizures due to intracranial infections

Eighty patients aged between 3 months and 6 years who applied to hospital with seizures were included in this study. Twenty-two of them had bacterial meningitis, 11 viral meningitis, 6 tuberculous meningitis and 41 febrile seizures. Cerebrospinal fluid adenosine deaminase (ADA) values were 33.4±42.7 U/L in tuberculous meningitis, 4.50±3.18 U/L in bacterial meningitis. 1.89±1.83 U/L in febrile seizures and 1.4H1. 57 U/l in viral meningitis. The ADA values of CSF in intracranial infections were higher than those of febrile seizures (p<0.05). When ADA values in bacterial meningitis were compared with those of viral meningitis, they were higher and when compared with tuberculous meningitis they were lower (p<0.001 and p<0.05, respectively). There were negative correlation between glucose levels and ADA levels of CSF and positive correlation between protein and ADA levels in bacterial and tuberculous meningitis. We inspected that this correlation was more statistically significant in the tenth day CSF values. It was concluded that CSF adenosine deaminase was an important parameter in differential diagnosis of febrile seizures and seizures due to intracranial infections. [Turk J Med Res 1993; 11(2): 82-88]
Body Mass Index, Demographic and Socioeconomic Risk, and Protective Factors of Type 2 Diabetes Among Six Groups of Foreign-Born Asian Americans

ABSTRACT. This study examined the association of body mass index (BMI), demographic variables, and self-reported type 2 diabetes among Chinese, Filipino, South Asian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese adults. A sample of 3,204 Asian American respondents born outside of the United States was selected from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey. Logistic regression was used to estimate the relationships between BMI, age, sex, marital status, education, poverty level, years in the United States and self-reported type 2 diabetes. The findings revealed that Koreans had the lowest prevalence for type 2 diabetes and South Asians had the highest. Type 2 diabetes had a statistically significant association with BMI and demographic variables but varied across ethnic groups. Due to sampling variations, no meaningful results were found in the Filipino and Japanese samples. BMI and older age are common risk factors for type 2 diabetes among Asians, but whether sex, marital status, education, and years in the United States are risk factors varies among ethnic groups. Culturally specific prevention programs for type 2 diabetes are important for Asian Americans. Given the diversity of cultures and demographic and socioeconomic factors across the Asian American populations, future research should not combine all ethnic Asian groups into 1 sample.
Optimized digital receiver for flexible wireless terminals

The future development of mobile terminals will be driven by the enormous service potential of next generation systems and by the need to continuously widen the users choice with respect to access, service, and content by means of any terminal equipment. In order to fit to these requirements novel architectural concepts for wireless systems are needed. In this contribution a flexible, digital receiver architecture with highly optimized components is introduced. It is shown how the A/D-converter and the filtering stages, which are the most critical components in such a receiver, can be optimized by using a properly designed /spl Delta//spl Sigma/-modulator and novel digital filtering stages. These filtering stages perform decimation and channel selection together and consist of a special class of wave digital filters. Due to this concept a number of advantages are obtained and a very efficient realization in VLSI-technology becomes feasible.
Real-time Audio-Visual Media Transport over QUIC

We consider the problem of how to transport low-latency, interactive, real-time traffic over QUIC. This is needed to support applications like WebRTC, but difficult to support due to the reliable, unframed, nature of QUIC streams. We review the needs of low-latency real-time applications and how they have been supported in previous protocols, then propose a minimal set of extensions to QUIC to provide such support. Compared to a raw datagram service, our extensions provide meaningful support for partially reliable and real-time flows, in a backwards compatible manner.
Therapeutic Potential of Plants and Plant Derived Phytochemicals against Acetaminophen-Induced Liver Injury

Acetaminophen (APAP), which is also known as paracetamol or N-acetyl-p-aminophenol is a safe and potent drug for fever, pain and inflammation when used at its normal therapeutic doses. It is available as over-the-counter drug and used by all the age groups. The overdose results in acute liver failure that often requires liver transplantation. Current clinical therapy for APAP-induced liver toxicity is the administration of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), a sulphydryl compound an approved drug which acts by replenishing cellular glutathione (GSH) stores in the liver. Over the past five decades, several studies indicate that the safety and efficacy of herbal extracts or plant derived compounds that are used either as monotherapy or as an adjunct therapy along with conventional medicines for hepatotoxicity have shown favorable responses. Phytochemicals mitigate necrotic cell death and protect against APAP-induced liver toxicityby restoring cellular antioxidant defense system, limiting oxidative stress and subsequently protecting mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation. Recent experimental evidences indicat that these phytochemicals also regulate differential gene expression to modulate various cellular pathways that are implicated in cellular protection. Therefore, in this review, we highlight the role of the phytochemicals, which are shown to be efficacious in clinically relevant APAP-induced hepatotoxicity experimental models. In this review, we have made comprehensive attempt to delineate the molecular mechanism and the cellular targets that are modulated by the phytochemicals to mediate the cytoprotective effect against APAP-induced hepatotoxicity. In this review, we have also defined the challenges and scope of phytochemicals to be developed as drugs to target APAP-induced hepatotoxicity.
CyberSTEM: Making Discovery Visible Through Digital Games

: The purpose of this demonstration is to present how video games can communicate cutting-edge science research topics to a new generation of players. Researchers in the Games, Learning, and Society Center (GLS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison collaborated with partners at the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery (WIDs) to develop and refine a suite of educational video games to explore topics such as limnology, virology, regenerative medicine, and ecological science rarely studied in the realm of educational spaces. Several games develop collaborative participatory science skills while expanding games based learning into adult informal learning. The presentation will begin with brief history of CyberSTEM implementation, followed with a hands-on demonstration of the iterations in the most current form, and will close with a audience discussion of the direction of CyberSTEM and its social network.
Bayesian Approaches to Segmenting A Simple Time Series

The segmentation problem arises in many applications in data mining, A.I. and statistics. In this paper, we consider segmenting simple time series. We develop two Bayesian approaches for segmenting a time series, namely the Bayes Factor approach, and the Minimum Message Length (MML) approach. We perform simulations comparing these Bayesian approaches, and then perform a comparison with other classical approaches, namely AIC, MDL and BIC.
Circuit design techniques for low-voltage operating and/or giga-scale DRAMs

As use of battery-operated machines, such as hand-held computers and PDAs, becomes wider, low-voltage/low-power DRAMs are required. Low-voltage technologies are also required in giga-scale DRAMs with scaled-down voltage. This paper describes low-voltage circuit design techniques to meet these demands.
Heuristics for Determining Equivalence of Program Mutations.

Abstract : A mutant M of a program P is a program derived from P by making some well defined simple change in P. Some initial investigations on automatically detecting equivalent mutants of a program are presented. The idea is based on the observation that compiler optimization can be considered a process of altering a program to an equivalent but more efficient mutant of the program. Thus the inverse of compiler optimization techniques can be seen as, in essence, equivalent mutant detection. (Author)
Exon 2: Is it the good police in familial mediterranean fever?

Objective Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common autoinflammatory disease. Most of the identified disease-causing mutations are located on exon 10. As the number of studies about the effect of the exonal location of the mutation and its phenotypic expression is limited, we aimed to investigate whether the exonic location of the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) mutation has an effect on the clinical manifestation in patients with FMF. Methods Study population was derived from the main FMF registry that included 2246 patients from 15 different rheumatology clinics. We categorized the mutations according to their exon locations and retrieved the clinical and demographic information from the database. Results Patients having the MEFV mutations on exon 2 or 10 (n:1526) were divided into three subgroups according to the location of the MEFV mutations: Group 1 (exon 2 mutations), Group 2 (exon 10 mutations), and Group 3 (both exon 2 and exon 10 mutations). Group 2 patients were of a significantly younger age at onset, and erysipel-like erythema, arthritis, amyloidosis, and a family history of FMF were more common in this group. Conclusion Patients with FMF and exon 10 mutations show more severe clinical symptoms and outcome. Exon 2 mutations tend to have a better outcome.
Visual Saliency in Video Compression and Transmission

This dissertation explores the concept of visual saliency—a measure of propensity for drawing visual attention—and presents various novel methods for utilization of visual saliency in video compression and transmission. Specifically, a computationally-efficient method for visual saliency estimation in digital images and videos is developed, which approximates one of the most well-known visual saliency models. In the context of video compression, a saliency-aware video coding method is proposed within a region-of-interest (ROI) video coding paradigm. The proposed video coding method attempts to reduce attention-grabbing coding artifacts and keep viewers’ attention in areas where the quality is highest. The method allows visual saliency to increase in high quality parts of the frame, and allows saliency to reduce in non-ROI parts. Using this approach, the proposed method is able to achieve the same subjective quality as competing state-of-the-art methods at a lower bit rate. In the context of video transmission, a novel saliency-cognizant error concealment method is presented for ROI-based video streaming in which regions with higher visual saliency are protected more heavily than low saliency regions. In the proposed error concealment method, a low-saliency prior is added to the error concealment process as a regularization term, which serves two purposes. First, it provides additional side information for the decoder to identify the correct replacement blocks for concealment. Second, in the event that a perfectly matched block cannot be unambiguously identified, the low-saliency prior reduces viewers’ visual attention on the loss-stricken regions, resulting in higher overall subjective quality. During the course of this research, an eye-tracking dataset for several standard video sequences was created and made publicly available. This dataset can be utilized to test saliency models for video and evaluate various perceptually-motivated algorithms for video processing and video quality assessment.
A unified approach to stable adaptive force/position control of robot manipulators

In this paper, a unified approach to stable adaptive force/position control of robot manipulators is proposed, which is practically implementable credited to the utilization of the recursive formula of the robot regressor dynamics. The proposed approach is capable of estimating unknown dynamic parameters in real time as well as controlling both the position and contact force of the robot tip in a stable and unified manner. The proposed algorithm has been implemented on a PUMA 560 manipulator.
Diagnóstico ultra-sonográfico de piometra em cadelas

A B-mode ultrasonography (SCANNER 450 (5MHz), Pie Medical, Netherlands) was used either alone or associated with laboratorial and radiographic examinations in 33 bitches with clinical diagnosis of pyometra. The increased uterus appeared as a well defined tubular structure with diameter ranging from 0.5 up to 4.0 cm. The uterine lumen was less echoic than the wall, with evident echoic shinings. There was an accordance between the increasing in the viscosity of the vaginal secretion and the echoigenicity. The ultrasonographic diagnosis was possible in 31 bitches (94%) confirmed by laparotomy and autopsy. The B-mode ultrasonography can be used in the diagnosis of bitches with pyometra.
Digital platform in Italy. An analysis of economic and employment trends

Digital platforms can be distinguished into capital and labor platforms (Guarascio and Sacchi 2017). The former (e.g. Airbnb) connect customers with sellers (or renters) who sell goods they own directly. The latter, on the other hand, immediately connect customers and service providers. Services that can be carried out in the physical (gig-work) or virtual world (on-demand work). To these platforms must of course be added the global players operating in sectors as advertising and retail: Google, Facebook and Amazon. Following Farrell and Greig (2016), the key features characterizing all types of digital platforms can be summarized as follows:  provision of an online place (platform) where supply (service providers or entities offering goods) and demand come into direct contact, reducing search and transaction costs;  ability to operate through the platform at any time and, in many cases, from anywhere;  possibility to pay a pre-determined price for micro-transactions that can be considered as minimum components of more complex tasks;  intermediation and management of payments for any type of transaction.
Heat-induced inhibition of phosphorylation of the stress-protective transcription factor DREB2A promotes thermotolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plants have evolved complex systems to rapidly respond to severe stress conditions, such as heat, cold, and dehydration. Dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 2A (DREB2A) is a key transcriptional activator that induces many heat- and drought-responsive genes, increases tolerance to both heat and drought stress, and suppresses plant growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. DREB2A expression is induced by stress, but stabilization of the DREB2A protein in response to stress is essential for activating the expression of downstream stress-inducible genes. Under nonstress growth conditions, an integral negative regulatory domain (NRD) destabilizes DREB2A, but the mechanism by which DREB2A is stabilized in response to stress remains unclear. Here, based on bioinformatics, mutational, MS, and biochemical analyses, we report that Ser/Thr residues in the NRD are phosphorylated under nonstress growth conditions and that their phosphorylation decreases in response to heat. Furthermore, we found that this phosphorylation is likely mediated by casein kinase 1 and is essential for the NRD-dependent, proteasomal degradation of DREB2A under nonstress conditions. These observations suggest that inhibition of NRD phosphorylation stabilizes and activates DREB2A in response to heat stress to enhance plant thermotolerance. Our study reveals the molecular basis for the coordination of stress tolerance and plant growth through stress-dependent transcriptional regulation, which may allow the plants to rapidly respond to fluctuating environmental conditions.
Effect of passive and active recovery from supramaximal exercise on blood lactate levels in male athletes

Introduction: One important factor of fatigue occurrence among athletes, following heavy sport activities, especially sports activities with short time and the maximum speed and intensity, is the accumulation of lactic acid in blood. The need for athletes to achieve natural conditions and to prepare for the next activities, methods of disposal lactic acid are very important. The purpose of this study was to study the effects of passive and active recovery with a severity of 55, 60 and 65 percent of maximum heart rate, on levels of blood lactic acid. Material and Methods: This semi-experimental study was carried by 60 male athletes' students who were divided randomly to four groups. The first group included 15 subjects of group programs for passive recovery and the second, third and fourth groups off the state quarter program for active recovery with highly active 55, 60 and 65 percent of maximum heart rate, respectively. Groups acting Cunningham test began to test blood lactic acid in four stages (before the activity, immediately after the activity, 5 and 20 minute period recovery). The measurement was done by a hand lacto – meter. Results: The mean amount of blood lactic acid during resting time in four groups and also immediately after the activity was not significant, but 5 minutes after recovery as well as 20 minutes after recovery difference between groups was significant (P<0.001). Mean blood lactic acid 20 minutes after recovery of passive group was significantly higher and that of group with 60 percent maximum heart rate was significantly lower (P<0.001) than other groups. Also the rate of the decrease in lactic acid level within 5 to 20 minutes after recovery in group with 60% maximum heart rate was significantly more than group 55%. The rate of decrease with group 65% maximum heart rate was shown to be significantly more than group 55% with maximum heart rate (p <0.001). Conclusion: Our findings showed that active recovery from supramaximal exercise had a better effect than passive mode in reducing blood lactate levels in male athletes. Moreover, active recovery with a rate of 60 percent of maximum heart rate had a better effect than those of 55 or 65% maximum heart rat. Keywords: Lactic acid, Rrecovery, Passive recovery, Active recovery, Athletes