Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
CHANGES IN METAL HOMEOSTASIS IN EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED FATTY LIVER BY THE EFFECT OF SOUR CHERRY CONSUMPTION

Sour cherry ( Prunus cerasus ) is a favored fruit worldwide. Sporadic studies occurred to determine the metal ion content of this fruit. Nevertheless its effect on metal ion homeostasis has not been examined so far therefore, animal experiment was carried out to determine the changes of metal homeostasis in liver by the effect of sour cherry. Wistar rats were divided into four groups: 1. control animal with normal diet; 2. hyperlipidemic rats were fed with fat-rich diet (chow contained plus 2% cholesterol, 0.5% cholic acid and 20% sunflower oil); 3. rats were fed with normal diet + lyophilized sour cherry (0.75 g daily ad libitum); 4. rats were fed with fat-rich diet and lyophilized sour cherry. The experiment was terminated after 10 days. From the sample handed rat liver homogenate metal ion content was determined by inductively plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). Liver fragments were fixed in 4% neutral buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin, and 5 micrometer sections were cut and stained with hematoxylin–eosin. As a result of our experiment the concentration of metal elements were found to decrease significantly in the hyperlipidemic animals fed with sour cherry (Ujfehertoi furtos), although there wasn’t any significant result between the 1. (control animal with normal diet) and the 3. (rats were fed with normal diet + lyophilized sour cherry) group. On the basis of histological study it was established that the treatment with Fanal was the best, although Pipacs and Ujfehertoi furtos were also significant in liver regression of hyperlipidemic animals with fatty liver, therefore authors conclude, that sour cherry treatment is beneficial to lower the hyperlipidemy and fatty degeneration.
Influence of meteorological factors on rockfall occurrence in a middle mountain limestone cliff

Abstract. The influence of meteorological conditions on rockfall occurrence has been often highlighted, but knowledge of it is still not sufficient due to the lack of exhaustive and precise rockfall databases. In this study, rockfalls have been detected in a limestone cliff by annual terrestrial laser scanning, and dated by photographic survey over a period of 2.5 years. A near-continuous survey (one photo every 10 min) with a wide-angle lens has made it possible to date 214 rockfalls larger than 0.1 m3, and a monthly survey with a telephoto lens has dated 854 rockfalls larger than 0.01 m3. Analysis of the two databases shows that the rockfall frequency can be multiplied by a factor as high as 7 during freeze–thaw episodes and 26 when the mean rainfall intensity (since the beginning of the rainfall episode) is higher than 5 mm h−1. Based on these results, a three-level scale has been proposed for predicting the temporal variations of rockfall frequency. The more precise database and freeze–thaw episode definition make it possible to distinguish different phases in freeze–thaw episodes: negative temperature cooling periods, negative temperature warming periods and thawing periods. It appears that rockfalls occur more frequently during warming and thawing periods than during cooling periods. It can be inferred that rockfalls are caused by thermal ice dilatation rather than by dilatation due to the phase transition. But they may occur only when the ice melts, because the cohesion of the ice–rock interface can be sufficient to hold the rock compartment which has been cut.
Anomalies and the Euler characteristic of elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds

We investigate the delicate interplay between the types of singular fibers in elliptic fibrations of Calabi-Yau threefolds (used to formulate F-theory) and the "matter" representation of the associated Lie algebra. The main tool is the analysis and the appropriate interpretation of the anomaly formula for six-dimensional supersymmetric theories. We find that this anomaly formula is geometrically captured by a relation among codimension two cycles on the base of the elliptic fibration, and that this relation holds for elliptic fibrations of any dimension. We introduce a "Tate cycle" which efficiently describes this relationship, and which is remarkably easy to calculate explicitly from the Weierstrass equation of the fibration. We check the anomaly cancellation formula in a number of situations and show how this formula constrains the geometry (and in particular the Euler characteristic) of the Calabi-Yau threefold.
The effective temperature scale of giant stars (F0–K5) - I. The effective temperature determination by means of the IRFM

We have applied the InfraRed Flux Method (IRFM) to a sample of approximately 500 giant stars in order to derive their effective temperatures with an internal mean accuracy of about 1.5% and a maximum uncertainty in the zero point of the order of 0.9%. For the application of the IRFM, we have used a homogeneous grid of theoretical model atmosphere flux distributions developed by Kurucz (1993). The atmospheric parameters of the stars roughly cover the ranges: 3500 K 8000 K; -3.0 ; 0.5 . The monochromatic infrared fluxes at the continuum are based on recent photometry with errors that satisfy the accuracy requirements of the work. We have derived the bolometric correction of giant stars by using a new calibration which takes the effect of metallicity into account. Direct spectroscopic determinations of metallicity have been adopted where available, although estimates based on photometric calibrations have been considered for some stars lacking spectroscopic ones. The adopted infrared absolute flux calibration, based on direct optical measurements of stellar angular diameters, puts the effective temperatures determined in this work in the same scale as those obtained by direct methods. We have derived up to four temperatures, T J , T H , T K and , for each star using the monochromatic fluxes at different infrared wavelengths in the photometric bands J , H , K and . They show good consistency over 4000 K, and there is no appreciable trend with wavelength, metallicity and/or temperature. We provide a detailed description of the steps followed for the application of the IRFM, as well as the sources of error and their effect on final temperatures. We also provide a comparison of the results with previous work.
Psychometric properties of the brief questionnaire on smoking urges (QSU-brief) in a Dutch smoker population

textabstractAbstract We investigated the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the 10-item Questionnaire on Smoking Urges (QSU-Brief) in a Dutch smokers sample (N = 208). The questionnaire displayed good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alphas > 0.83), and scores were strongly correlated with three other rating scales for measuring craving, urge, and desire for cigarettes, and moderately linked to questionnaires that tap related constructs, such as cigarette dependence. As in previous research, a two factor structure was revealed. The first factor was best described by ‘the relief from nicotine withdrawal or negative affect with an urgent and overwhelming desire to smoke’, and appeared to be associated with negative affect, but not with positive affect. The second factor reflected ‘the desire and intention to smoke’, and was neither associated with positive nor negative affect. The factor structure, however, slightly deviates from the original, English version of the QSU-Brief, which might be explained by language differences. Overall, the Dutch translation of the QSU-Brief offers a reliable, valid, and multidimensional assessment of cigarette craving and appears suitable for use in a general population of young, Dutch adults.
Effect of Sevoflurane on Enzymatic Antioxidant Defense System in Guinea Pig Liver

Background and aim: Hepatic dysfunction after sevoflurane anesthesia has been reported previously. In this study, possible effects of sevoflurane on the enzymatic antioxi­ dant defense system was investigated in guinea pig liver. Materials and Methods: Three groups of seven animals were studied: I-control, II-sevoflurane, and Ill-oxygen. Animals in oxygen group were treated with 100% oxygen and animals in sevoflurane group with sevoflurane (1.5% v/v) in oxygen (100%, 2 L/min) for 30 minutes for consecutive three days. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) en­ zyme activities and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels were measured in the liver tissues of animals.
On generalized fuzzy numbers

This paper first improves Chen and Hsieh’s definition of generalized fuzzy numbers, which makes it the generalization of definition of fuzzy numbers. Secondly, in terms of the generalized fuzzy numbers set, we introduce two different kinds of orders and arithmetic operations and metrics based on the λ-cutting sets or generalized λ-cutting sets, so that the generalized fuzzy numbers are integrated into a partial ordering set, a semi-ring and a complete non-separable metric space. Again, through two isomorphism theorem, the relationship between generalized fuzzy number space and fuzzy number space is established. Finally, as an application of generalized fuzzy numbers, the concept of continuous generalized fuzzy number-valued functions is introduced. And it is pointed out that many results of trapezoidal generalized fuzzy numbers can also be extended to generalized fuzzy numbers.
Female Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: A Comparative with Developed Countries as Explorative Study

The purpose of this research is to examine and compare the motivations and obstacles that female entrepreneurs face developed and developing countries around the world this document will compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the two countries. Female entrepreneurs may have the same motivations in developed and developing countries as well as they have same obstacles they face. The research review will also attempt to support developing counties and overcome through the obstacles they face.
Exploring the Cognitive Effects of Persuasive Messaging on Students' Perceptions about Accounting

One reason students do not major in accounting is the perception that accounting is dull and boring. Through the lens of media richness theory, this study explores how perceptions can be changed by promotional media. The results show that promotional media aimed at perception change can influence perceptions about accounting if the message is presented with rich media that incorporates auditory and visual stimuli. Positive changes in perception occurred through an affective response which influenced perception directly, and influenced perception indirectly through increased involvement with the details of the message. The results of the study offer theoretical and practical contributions.
The Proliferation of Legalized Gambling: Implications for Health Education

Abstract Legalized gambling is growing substantially and provides both a dilemma and an opportunity for those in the health promoting professions. Gambling represents a form of economic development and, for certain segments of society, improved health and quality of life. On the other hand, gambling is a known addiction, with a host of sociological problems associated with its practice. Consequently, a number of opportunities and responsibilities emerge for health educators. This article provides both background information and suggestions for professional development, and begins a dialogue in the health education literature on this largely neglected and misunderstood topic.
A pruned dynamic programming algorithm to recover the best segmentations with 1 to K_max change-points.

A common computational problem in multiple change-point models is to recover the segmentations with $1$ to $K_{max}$ change-points of minimal cost with respect to some loss function. Here we present an algorithm to prune the set of candidate change-points which is based on a functional representation of the cost of segmentations. We study the worst case complexity of the algorithm when there is a unidimensional parameter per segment and demonstrate that it is at worst equivalent to the complexity of the segment neighbourhood algorithm: O(K_max n²). For a particular loss function we demonstrate that pruning is on average efficient even if there are no change-points in the signal. Finally, we empirically study the performance of the algorithm in the case of the quadratic loss and show that it is faster than the segment neighbourhood algorithm.
Studies on Specific Nucleotide Mutations in the Coding Region of the ATP6 Gene of Human Mitochondrial Genome in Populations of Papuan Province-Indonesia

Studies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants of normal human and related to the disease has been conducted. Several variants of human mtDNA nucleotides in Papuan-Indonesian has been identified that include genes that encode proteins: ND2, ND4, ND5, CO1, and tRNAs and the region that do not encode protein (D-loop). The aims of this study is to create a database of normal human variants of Papuan and its translation products, while the aim in particular is the amplification of fragments of 4.1 kb of human mtDNA and determine the nucleotide sequence. Here we showed that the number of nucleotide sequences of the three Papuan samples of human muscle cells that successfully determined the sequence is 3195 bp, which includes genes of ND2, COII, tRNA-Lys and ATP8 to 100% homology to sequences rCRS, and ATP6 gene there are two mutations are found in two samples G9053A and G9192A on one sample. G9053A mutation causes amino acid change serine to asparagine, whereas G9192A did not cause amino acid changes. Based on comparison of the MITOMAP data, all samples showed no presence of nucleotide variants associated with diseases.
"Be with your passengers on every step of their way" - Production of a CreateTrips TravelBook Creation Guide for Airlines

Author Joona-Matias Stedt Degree programme Degree programme in Tourism Management, (Matkailun liikkeenjohdon ko.) Report/thesis title “Be with your passengers on every step of their way” – Production of a CreateTrips TravelBook Creation Guide for Airlines Number of pages and appendix pages 42 + 11 CreateTrips is a Finnish start-up company that provides a platform for a smartphone application with the same name. With the application, users are able to create and publish their own travel plans, whereas bloggers and companies are able to publish their own travel guides called TravelBooks. CreateTrips plans to attract airlines to publish TravelBooks via this platform. The objective of this product thesis is to create a business-to-business marketing brochure for CreateTrips. The brochure should attract airlines to publish their own, branded CreateTrips TravelBooks. The means used are showing how this can positively influence the airline customers’ brand loyalty and guiding the airlines into producing content that it suitable for TravelBooks and social media. The theoretical framework studies the topics of the success of smartphone travel applications, creating contagious social media content that users are keen to share, consumer behavior of smartphone users, business-to-business marketing and brand loyalty, from the viewpoint of how it is formed, built and connected to brand exposure and long-term customer relationships. The thesis also contains a qualitative survey to 14 preselected participants representing different air traveler categories; holiday travelers, business travelers, backpackers, travel bloggers and flight crew members. The survey was conducted as an open questionnaire to gather ideas and opinions of real users of what kind of content they would like to read from airlinepublished TravelBooks. The results were implemented alongside with the theoretical framework in creating an efficient and visually appealing brochure that fills the objectives planned. The final product is a 6-page B2B marketing brochure done to match the CreateTrips visual brand. Its structure and layout are supported by the theories of B2B marketing and its content encourages airlines to publish their own TravelBooks by shedding light on the brand benefits and making the content creation easy by introducing the ways to target different traveler segments. The final product received very positive feedback from CreateTrips.
A Quantitative Investigation of Thermosonics

The objectives of this study were to investigate the relationship between the ultrasonic vibrations of a specimen, with a vertical surface crack, and the thermal response. The heat required to be liberated by the defect to obtain a detectable surface temperature rise was modelled analytically for energy liberated only at the crack tip and over the sides of a crack. Experiments were carried out on a nickel based superalloy plate with a vertical surface crack. The strain around the defect and thermal image were measured simultaneously. Parameters were varied to change the strain to enable a correlation between the strain and surface temperature rise. From this the energy released from the defect was estimated using an optimisation algorithm.
Relationship between Body Mass Index and Body Fat Percentage

Background; Obesity is a worldwide epidemic. According to the latest reports India is the third most obese country in the world. Obesity is a condition with excess body fat to the extent that health and wellbeing are adversely affected. As the obesity is associated with increased mortality and morbidity, assessment of obesity is important. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a widely used tool to gauge obesity. There is difference of opinion whether BMI is a reliable indicator of body fat percentage. Aim and Objectives: To assess the correlation between Body Mass index and body fat percentage. Material and Methods; Study was conducted in adult male of age group 35-45 years. Height and weight are measured. BMI is calculated using the formula BMI= Weight (kg)/ Height (m2). The study group is divided in to three according to their BMI. Group I, II and III consists of subjects with BMI less than 25, with BMI between 25-29.9 and BMI above 30 respectively. Fat percentage is assessed by hydro densitometry. Statistical methods ANOCVA, Kruskal – wallis test and correlation analysis is used to compare BMI and fat percentage Result: In my study, I found a correlation between Body mass Index and fat percentage. Conclusion: Body mass index is a fair indicator to assess fat percentage.
Hemodynamic Forces Effective in Reshaping Vascular Geometry

Besides the medical education, simulations became an attractive diagnostic method in some clinical cases. Recent advances in computerized image processing bring new practices entitled as “patient specific simulation” to the agenda. One of the successful applications which examines hemodynamic forces as a result of the interaction between blood flow and vessel wall constitutes the topic of this study. In this study, the terms and laws which provided a theoretical basis for the hemodynamic forces in circulatory system were evaluated from the biophysical point of view. With this perspective, the concepts of fluid viscosity and blood flow in elastic vessel were emphasized. The impacts of height and vessel diameter differences on flow conditions were discussed in terms of Bernoulli and continuity laws. Viscosity effect and the other factors that may impede the fluid flow were discussed in accordance with Poiseuille’s law. The relation between transmural pressure and dilatation in elastic vessel was evaluated considering Laplace law. Then, the dynamic forces in radial and axial directions occurring during fluid flow were defined. Clinically, it is important to know the interactions between blood and vessel wall endothelia. Current in-vivo methods are not suitable for the measurements of spatial and temporal patterns of these interactions. However, classical engineering method of computational fluid dynamics, recently, took place in medical simulations that made it possible to calculate the hemodynamic parameters for every volume element defined in three-dimensional anatomically realistic vessel model. Patient specific simulations that are believed to be the core of the future project of “clinical diagnostic expert systems” will be an important tool in prescribing patient specific treatment and in the assessment of complication risks. With this perspective in this paper, we discussed the theoretical background and elucidated the role of hemodynamic forces in vascular pathologies.
Cooperative Control of Regenerative Braking and Antilock Braking for a Hybrid Electric Vehicle

A new cooperative braking control strategy (CBCS) is proposed for a parallel hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) with both a regenerative braking system and an antilock braking system (ABS) to achieve improved braking performance and energy regeneration. The braking system of the vehicle is based on a new method of HEV braking torque distribution that makes the antilock braking system work together with the regenerative braking system harmoniously. In the cooperative braking control strategy, a sliding mode controller (SMC) for ABS is designed to maintain the wheel slip within an optimal range by adjusting the hydraulic braking torque continuously; to reduce the chattering in SMC, a boundary-layer method with moderate tuning of a saturation function is also investigated; based on the wheel slip ratio, battery state of charge (SOC), and the motor speed, a fuzzy logic control strategy (FLC) is applied to adjust the regenerative braking torque dynamically. In order to evaluate the performance of the cooperative braking control strategy, the braking system model of a hybrid electric vehicle is built in MATLAB/SIMULINK. It is found from the simulation that the cooperative braking control strategy suggested in this paper provides satisfactory braking performance, passenger comfort, and high regenerative efficiency.
DETERMINING FUTURE DEMAND: STUDIES FOR AIR TRAFFIC FORECASTING

The world has seen a rapid increase in air traffic and movement of passengers in the past two decades. Within Asia-Pacific itself, the number of aircraft departures saw a growth of approximately 200% in less than 10 years [1]. Air traffic forecast models would be useful in predicting the growth of air traffic in the future, so as to facilitate the development of technology, operations and infrastructure for the aviation industry. This paper aims to study air traffic models and find the best approach for air traffic growth in Singapore. This paper applies the forecasting methodologies to predict the air traffic growth and checks the growth within region by using simulations and modeling.
Asymptotics of the critical time in Wiener sausage percolation with a small radius

We consider a continuum percolation model on $\R^d$, where $d\geq 4$. The occupied set is given by the union of independent Wiener sausages with radius $r$ running up to time $t$ and whoseinitial points are distributed according to a homogeneous Poisson point process.It was established in a previous work by Erhard, Mart\'{i}nez and Poisat~\cite{EMP13} that (1) if $r$ is small enough there is a non-trivial percolation transitionin $t$ occuring at a critical time $t\_c(r)$ and (2) in the supercritical regime the unbounded cluster is unique. In this paper we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the critical time when the radius $r$ converges to $0$. The latter does not seem to be deducible from simple scaling arguments. We prove that for $d\geq 4$, there is a positive constant $c$ such that$c^{-1}\sqrt{\log(1/r)}\leq t\_c(r)\leq c\sqrt{\log(1/r)}$ when $d=4$ and $c^{-1}r^{(4-d)/2}\leq t\_c(r) \leq c\ r^{(4-d)/2}$ when $d\geq 5$, as $r$ converges to $0$. We derive along the way moment estimates on the capacity of Wiener sausages, which may be of independent interest.