Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effects of selected cyclooxygenase inhibitors on cardiovascular preparations in rabbits

The present study aimed at shedding some light on the pharmacological effects of two NSAIDs (one selective, that is meloxicam, and the other is non-selective, that is piroxicam) on cardiac contractility and aortic smooth muscle of rabbit as a farm animal species. Rhythmic contractions of the heart were established using Gunn’s apparatus (heart infusion assembly) and normal tone of the aortic rings was established using tension recording technique. The effects of graded increased concentrations of piroxicam and meloxicam on the installed organs were studied. The sites of action of piroxicam and meloxicam were also tried. The obtained results proved that piroxicam and meloxicam had concentration-dependant, negative inotropic and chronotropic effects on the rabbit's heart; and were without significant effects on aortic rings throughout the tested concentrations. The effects of piroxicam and meloxicam on the heart were not affected by pre-addition of atropine, and the effect of adrenaline was evident in presence of the tested drugs indicating the non-involvement of cholinergic and adrenergic pathways in their mechanism of action. The effects of the drugs might be then attributed to their direct effect on the cardiac myocytes probably via decreasing Ca2+ concentration. Data of the present study may indicate that piroxicam and meloxicam could be used effectively and safely in rabbits for their anti-inflammatory actions in small therapeutic doses. However, in large doses, they (particularly, piroxicam) may produce depressant effects on myocardial contractility that should be taken in consideration in case of introducing these drugs in therapy with larger doses.
NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS AND PATTERN FORMATION FOR ADSORBATE-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION MODEL

In Hildebrand et al., Self-Organized Chemical Nanoscale Microreactors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999), 1475-1478, they presented a model for describing the process of pattern formation in the catalytic oxidation of CO molecules on a Pt(110) surface. This paper is concerned with numerical computations for their model. We find out various types of pattern solutions which are classified into three classes, i. e. transient, evolutionary and stationary patterns. u(x;0) = u0(x); ‰(x;0) = ‰0(x) in ›: Here, › denotes a Pt surface on which the patterns are performed. In this paper, › is a square domain (0;L) £ (0;L). The unknown functions u(x;t) and ‰(x;t) denote the adsorbate coverage rate of the surface by CO molecules and the structural state of surface at a position x 2 › and time t 2 (0;1) respectively. d‰(‰ + u i 1)(1 i ‰) shows that the surface structure has two stable states. cr¢fu(1iu)r´(‰)g shows the advection of u over › induced by the gradient of the local chemical potential ´(‰) with mobility 1 i u. fe fi(‰) denotes the desorption rate of the molecules depending on ´(‰) and h the adsorption rate. ´(‰) denotes a chemical potential function of ‰, the suggested form of ´(‰) is
The Norwegian country cabin and functionalism: a tale of two modernities

The mountain or shore-side cabin (hytte) represents a common leisure form for a significant proportion of the Norwegian population. Its roots can be traced to the decline of farming society, growing urbanisation and an emphasis on the outdoor life as part of 20th-century state modernising projects. Throughout this modern history, and through periods of accelerated social change, the cabin has represented an ‘other’ form of domesticity. This paper makes the argument that far from representing an escape from post-industrial consumer society, the hytte prompts evaluation, comparison or negation of normative domesticity for its occupants. Many priorities such as getting back-to-nature and living the simple life are achieved best, paradoxically, through their material manifestation. Routine and rupture, and discourse surrounding farming culture artefacts are central in evoking contrast.
The Alea Reactive Dataflow System for GPU Parallelization ∗

The Alea reactive dataflow system represents a general, efficient, and memory-safe model for homogeneous programming of heterogeneous platforms. Programmers can describe computations as asynchronous dataflow graphs built from generic prefabricated or custom operations. The system is based on the . NET runtime system and allows to seamlessly target both CPU and GPU executing operations on either platform including multi-GPU scheduling. Language embedded GPU kernels are cross-compiled from . NET IL to GPU code. The dataflow runtime system takes care of efficient lock-free data management including garbage collection and performs just-in-time optimization of the dataflow graph.
Testing the purchasing power parity: evidence from the new EU countries

This article examines the validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between each of the 12 new EU countries vis-à-vis the Eurozone. Using the Johansen cointegration methodology for a period that begins from the mid-1990s and allowing for a structural break for the countries that joined the EU on May 2004, it is found that there is a long-run equilibrium relationship among the nominal exchange rate, the domestic prices and the foreign prices, for all the new EU countries. The evidence also suggests that the PPP vector enters the cointegration space for Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and Slovenia, which means that only for these countries the long-run PPP vis-à-vis the Eurozone is verified. For the rest of the new EU countries the long-run PPP is violated, may due to the fact that the currencies of these countries have been pegged to the euro and cannot reflect the inflation differences vis-à-vis the Eurozone.
Reliable Transmission on Wireless Sensor Networks with Delegated Acknowledgement

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), lossless data is one of the crucial parts for transmission between communicating nodes. Though End-to-End data retransmission has evolved as a reliable transportation in the Internet, this method becomes inefficient in WSNs due to wireless communication, and resource-constrained sensor nodes (hardwareand powerlimited). Focus on studying factors affecting reliability, and searching for efficient combinations of the possible options might improve reliable data transmission. In this paper, we propose an efficient Overhearing based reliable data transfer protocol in WSNs by introducing Selective and implicit Acknowledgement. As a result, the new approach can provide reliable data transfer efficiently based on ACK/NACK method. We also compared our present scheme with the existing one and observed that our scheme achieved a superior performance in WSNs.
The Intervention and Regulation of Pornography: Internal Punishment,Negative Externality, and Legal Paternalism

This paper explores whether the intervention and regulation of pornography can be justified from the grounds of internal punishment, negative externality, and legal paternalism. Our investigations were based on questionnaires collected from students and visitors in a HK university. The results point to a severe build-in punishment, a weak perceived negative externality, and a weak legal paternalism associated with the consumption of pornography. Taken together, the intervention and regulation of pornography can not be substantiated on those grounds.
Amino acids composition of pollen grains of some medicinally important plant species

Natural plant products as nutrition supplements have gained lots of attention these days. Among different plants products, apicultural products such as pollen grains are widely used as medicines and dietary supplements due to presence of essential nutrients like amino acids, proteins, flavonoids and alkaloids. As the composition of different essential and non-essential amino acids defines the accurate nutritional value, the present study focuses on composition of free amino acids in pollen grains of some medicinally important plant species viz., Bauhinia purpurea, Bauhinia variegata, Cassia biflora, Cassia fistula, Cassia glauca, Cassia saimea, Delonix regia, Hibiscus rosa sinensis and Melia azadirach. 18 different amino acids were analyzed using amino acid analyzer. Among all plant species, it was observed that Cassia fistula had maximum number (17) of amino acids. The order of different plant species on the basis of number of amino acids was Cassia fistula (17) > Melia azadirach (16) > Bauhinia purpurea (13) = Cassia biflora (13) = Hibiscus rosa sinensis (13) > Bauhinia variegata (12) > Cassia glauca (11) = Delonix regia (11) > Cassia saimea (10). It was found that four amino acids viz., aspartic acid, asparaginine, βAlanine and alanine were present in all plant species studied.
CORRELATION BETWEEN MIXING HEIGHT AND CONCENTRATIONS OF AIR POLLUTANTS IN THE TAIPEI BASIN

A LIDAR system was used to measure the depth of the atmospheric mixing layer over Taipei, Taiwan in the spring of 2005. This paper presents the variations of the mixing height and the mixing ratios of air pollutants during an episode of air quality deterioration (March 7-10), when Taipei was under an anti-cyclonic outflow of a traveling highpressure system. The consistency between the changes in the mixing height and in the ambient temperature implied that the mixing layer dynamics were dominated by solar thermal forcing. In addition, the synoptic condition is dominated by a high-pressure system within which advection and convection were inhibited, causing the mixing layer to be shallow in the afternoon. As the cap of the mixing layer descended substantially in the afternoon, reduced dispersion caused the concentrations of primary air pollutants to increase sharply. Consequently, the pollutant concentration exhibited an anti-correlation with the mixing height. The results indicate the critical role of the mixing layer dynamics in the formation of a pollution episode, and demonstrate the application value of the LIDAR technique.
Multipartite entanglement and frustration

Some features of the global entanglement of a composed quantum system can be quantified in terms of the purity of a balanced bipartition, made up of half of its subsystems. For the given bipartition, purity can always be minimized by taking a suitable (pure) state. When many bipartitions are considered, the requirement that purity be minimal for all bipartitions can engender conflicts and frustration will arise. This unearths an interesting link between frustration and multipartite entanglement, defined as the average purity over all (balanced) bipartitions.
Assessing the Welfare of Cats Housed In Cages

Introduction Statistics indicate that large numbers of cats in the US will be confined in cages each year. Domestic cats are the nation’s most numerous companion animal; current estimates suggest that there are 95 million pet cats. Many are housed at veterinary hospitals for medical treatment. Annually, 3 million to 4 million cats enter American shelters, and an additional 13,000 are used in biomedical research. Because caretakers have an ethical obligation to provide an appropriate housing environment that promotes animal welfare, it’s important to understand how to assess the well-being of cats kept even temporarily in cages. Cat welfare is most accurately gauged by evaluating physiology (e.g. heart rate, respiratory rate, and stressrelated hormones) and behaviors (e.g. body posture, grooming, and hiding.) However, in situations where behavior is the only available metric that can be measured, individual cat welfare can still be accurately assessed (Rochlitz, 2013). Reliable behavioral indicators of caged domestic cat welfare include sickness behaviors, social behavior, general activity, and cage condition, and are described in this paper.
ELECTROMYOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF HAMSTRING RESISTANCE TRAINING EXERCISES

This study evaluated the EMG activity of the hamstring and quadriceps muscle groups during resistance training exercises commonly used for training the hamstrings. Subjects included 34 collegiate athletes. Hamstring and quadriceps MVIC and 6 repetition maximum loads were determined. Data were collected 72 hours later, during the performance of 6 randomly ordered exercises, including back squats, seated leg curls, stiff leg dead lifts, single leg dead lifts, good mornings, and “Russian curls. ” Data were analyzed using RMS values normalized to MVIC. A one way repeated measures ANOVA revealed that significant differences existed between several exercises. Additionally, the ratio of hamstring to quadriceps co-activation was significantly different between all exercises.
Imitation of the Ion Diffusion and Ion Pumping Mechanisms of a Living Cell by Nanoporous Alumina Membrane

Diffusion and pumping of ions are two major mechanisms of the ion channels in real cell membranes. The main goal of this research is to imitate the ion diffusion and pumping properties of a real cell membrane using the inorganic porous alumina membrane. The diameters of the pores on the membrane, typically ranged from 10 nm to 100nm, can be controlled by the type of electrolyte used to fabricate the alumina membrane. An electrochemistry bath that used the alumina membrane as filter to separate solutions with concentration gradient was built to investigate its diffusion and pumping properties. Experimental results indicated that the ion diffusion and pumping mechanisms of a real cell can be artificially imitated by the inorganic porous alumina membrane.
An experimental study of nanoflagellate bacterivory

Heterotrophic nanoflagellate Pseudobodo tremulans (4.8 to 7.0 µm) and heterotrophic bacteria, isolated from coastal waters in Ubatuba, SP, Brazil, were used in experiments to analyze quantitatively the relationships between bacteria and nanoflagellates. The meaning of these results for the role of heterotrophic nanoflagellates in the Ubatuba coastal ecosystem is discussed.
Damping model-free analysis of a stochastic multi-scale frame element for earthquake engineering applications

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Damping model-free analysis of a stochastic multi-scale frame element for earthquake engineering applications Pierre Jehel, Hugues Vincent, Thomas Rodet
Framing the Conformal Window

The location of the lower edge of the conformal window for the non-Abelian SU(3) gauge theory has been the subject of debate for many years. In this thesis we present strong evidence in favor of a conformal window that includes theories with Nf = 8 fundamental fermions. We study the symmetry restoring zero-temperature (bulk) and finite-temperature (thermal) phase transitions that are known to exist for theories inside the conformal window and QCD respectively. We use probes of chiral symmetry breaking and confinement in combination with lattice simulations to locate the lower edge of the conformal window between Nf = 6 and Nf = 8. Furthermore we show that the anomalous dimension of the scalar glueball operator can be useful as a novel probe of the mechanism underlying the emergence of the conformal window. In particular it may confirm a UVIR fixed point merging scenario in favor of predictions made by perturbation theory and large-Nc approximations, or vice versa. Finally we introduce lattice upscaling as new technique to reduce computational costs of lattice simulations.
Internet of Things ( Iot ) To Conference Efficiency and Economy In The Application of Agricultural Supplies

Food production has become a global concern and has attracted the attention of agribusiness producers and entrepreneurs in light of forecasts of rising demand, which is expected to reach 9 billion consumers by 2030. Given this scenario, grain crops gain relevance and boost the development of technologies. In this perspective, the Internet of Things making use of advanced technologies, emerges as a real possibility capable of improving the efficiency in the application of Precision Agriculture techniques and expand food production. The article demonstrates through the simulation the losses that can occur during the planting of soybean in the process of seed deposition if there are inaccuracies, in order to demonstrate the advantages of application of IoT in agriculture. The Internet of Things has a high potential to increase efficiency in the application of precision farming techniques. The attention to the processes of maintenance of the machines is fundamental, since these procedures will impact directly in the performance of the equipment, as well as in the agricultural productivity. The use of technologies in agriculture can avoid losses in the productive process, increase the possibilities of gains and the conditions of exploitation of the areas of planting.
Real Estate Valuation According to Standardized Methods: An Empirical Analysis

Appraisals are needed for decision-making and for performance evaluation. Knowledge on the accuracy of valuation methods is of general interest for banks and investors. We assess the accuracy of the German Regulation on Valuation with monthly data on appraisals and prices for commercial apartment houses in Berlin, Germany from 1980 to 2000. The appraisals are compared with outcomes of the simpler capitalization method and are ranked better according to several prediction error measures. Nonparametric density estimates give the error distributions and investors can decide which method is preferable. Eventually, we explain short-run deviations between prices and appraisals by incompletely appraised object-specific factors and by market indicators.
An Accurate FFT-Based Algorithm for Bermudan Barrier Option Pricing

An efficient and accurate numerical method, which is called the CONV method, was proposed by Lord et al in [1] to price Bermudan options. In this paper, this method is applied to price Bermudan barrier options in which the monitored dates may be many times more than the exercise dates. The corresponding algorithm is presented to practical option pricing. Numerical experiments show that this algorithm works very well for different exponential Levy asset models.
Substructure of the galaxy clusters in the REXCESS sample: observed statistics and comparison to numerical simulations

We study the substructure statistics of a representative sample of galaxy clusters by means of two currently popular substructure characterisation methods, power ratios and centroid shifts. We use the 31 clusters from the REXCESS sample, compiled from the southern ROSAT All-Sky cluster survey (REFLEX) with a morphologically unbiased selection in X-ray luminosity and redshift, all of which have been reobserved with XMM-Newton. The main goals of this work are to study the relationship between cluster morphology and other bulk properties, and the comparison of the morphology statistics between observations and numerical simulations. We investigate the uncertainties of the substructure parameters via newly-developed Monte Carlo methods, and examine the dependence of the results on projection effects (via the viewing angle of simulated clusters), finding that the uncertainties of the parameters can be quite substantial. Thus while the quantification of the dynamical state of individual clusters with these parameters should be treated with extreme caution, these substructure measures provide powerful statistical tools to characterise trends of properties in large cluster samples. The centre shift parameter, w, is found to be more sensitive in general and offers a larger dynamic range than the power ratios. For the REXCESS sample neither the occurence of substructure nor the presence of cool cores depends on cluster mass; however a weak correlation with X-ray luminosity is present, which is interpreted as selection effect. There is a significant anti-correlation between the existence of substantial substructure and cool cores. The simulated clusters show on average larger substructure parameters than the observed clusters, a trend that is traced to the fact that cool regions are more pronounced in the simulated clusters, leading to stronger substructure measures in merging clusters and clusters with offset cores. Moreover, the frequency of cool regions is higher in the simulations than in the observations, implying that the description of the physical processes shaping cluster formation in the simulations requires further improvement.
II . I . 5 Hydrogen from Water in a Novel Recombinant O 2-Tolerant Cyanobacterial System

We have knocked out the native hydrogenase (Hox) • in cyanobacterium Synechococcus 7942. This knockout mutant has been used as a recipient for transferring O2-tolerant hydrogenases. We have purified • Thiocapsa O2-tolerant NiFehydrogenase from Thiocapsa roseopersicina. Polyclonal antibodies specific for this hydrogenase have been raised and used to verify heterologous hydrogenase expression. We established two efficient systems for transferring • foreign hydrogenase genes into the cyanobacterial recipient. We have transferred totally nine structural and accessory genes of Thiocapsa hydrogenase into the recipient through homologous deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) recombination. Hydrogenase expression in the host has been verified. Our study reveals that the novel environmental • hydrogenase shares similar maturation mechanisms to those of Thiocapsa O2-tolerant hydrogenase. We have searched global ocean sampling (GOS) • metagenomic data for novel hydrogenases. One novel hydrogenase has been cloned from environmental DNAs and heterologously expressed in T. roseopersicina. The hetero-expressed hydrogenase is active and is highly O2-stable. This represents the first report of identifying a novel O2-tolerant NiFe-hydrogenase from environmental microbes through a metagenomic approach.
Matrizes Geradoras de Autovetores para Construção de Transformadas de Hartley Fracionárias

In this paper, we propose a method based on generating matrices for constructing eigenvectors of the discrete Hartley transform (DHT). The obtained eigenvector sets are characterized and employed in the definition of a fractional DHT (DFrHT). A real-valued version of the DFrHT is then presented; since the number of free parameters of such a transform is greater than that of the corresponding Fourier transforms, its usage in image encryption may provide advantages related to the robustness against certain cryptographic attacks. A preliminary evaluation regarding this possibility is performed in the final part of this work. Keywords— discrete Hartley transform, generating matrices, eigenvectors, fractional transforms.
The Application and Significance of Discourse Cohesion and Analysis in Practical Teaching of Foreign Language

The text cohesion and analysis have an important meaning in the practice of English teaching. It is the essential basis to get the clue of the text developing, deepen the understanding of the article, cultivating the students’ ability of logical thinking, and do a good job at the important foundation to improve the quality of foreign language teaching. So, it’s not an ignored strategy to master the theory of discourse cohesion and discourse analysis in the foreign language teaching, and the dependable guarantee to raise the quality of the foreign language teaching.