Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
FLOOD CONTROL STRATEGY IN SAMPANG CITY, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA

Flood always hits Sampang City every year and it causes the transportation disruption in Madura Island. The flood in Sampang City is caused by four main factors: the watershed (DAS) quality, the drainage system, the river capacity, and the tide. The flood control strategies that have been done are: the reduction of flood discharge peak and increasing the river capacity. However, these strategies have not achieved the significant results yet. Thus a new strategy is needed to solve the problem. The result of hydrography analysis shows that the discharge is dominated by the surface runoff, thus it indicates that the quality of DAS is very poor. Further, the land usage in DAS is dominated by the agricultural land such as the farms and the rice fields. Based on these observations, a new flood control strategy by controlling the surface runoff on agricultural land is proposed. The strategy is described as the technical activities in the form of utilization of the farmland partition as the temporary storage facilities. To achieve the maximum result, it should be followed by the following activities: a) increasing the capacity of interception and infiltration by the land conservation; b) increasing the capacity of the water reservoir on the land by raising the embankment design from 30 cm to 50 cm; c) shortening the water puddle time by constructing the absorption wells. The result of the hydrological analysis shows that the new strategy is able to reduce the flood discharge peak of 20% to 67%.
AURIN BPNet web interface user guide

BPNet is a program for the simulation and estimation of exponential random graph (or p∗) models on bipartite networks. This document is the user guide for the web interface developed for BPNet usage within the AURIN portal; documentation for the BPNet program itself can be found along with the original BPNet Windows application at http://sna.unimelb. edu.au/PNet. A description of the concepts and algorithms implemented by BPNet is given in Wang et al. (2009b); Wang (2013); a more general introduction to exponential random graph models for social networks can be found in Robins et al. (2007); Lusher et al. (2013). Other recommended reading includes Wang et al. (2009a), Harrigan (2007) and Pattison et al. (2011); much of the content of this guide is derived from these sources. A bipartite network is one that has two types of nodes, with links only between nodes of different types. Such a network can be used to represent the association between two sets of nodes, where each set is a different entity, for example between directors and companies. In this case a link between two nodes represents that a director (one node) is director of a company (the other node). More generally, such an “affiliation network” represents relationships between people and groups. We might also use a bipartite network to represent other kinds of two-level relationships, such as between people and places. By convention in social network analysis we refer to the two types of nodes as “A” and “P”, and in drawing networks “A” nodes are represented as blue squares and “P” nodes as red circles. As a running example in this guide we will use a collaboration network with 51 researchers and 43 projects; a visualization is shown in Figure 1. A link in this network represents that a researcher is a member of a project. Given such a social network, why might we be interested in building a statistical model (and specifically an exponential random graph model [ERGM]) of it? More detailed descriptions and arguments are given in Robins et al. (2007); Lusher et al. (2013), but we can summarize by saying that an ERGM helps us to understand how and why social network ties (links) arise, respecting the assumption that social network ties are likely to be interdependent. Potentially competing processes such as homophily, reciprocity and transitivity can be included in a single principled statistical model, which then allows us to determine whether there are significantly more or fewer of these types of substructures in the network than would be expected purely by chance. When we include attributes of actors (nodes) in the network we can also use the model to determine whether an observed property of the network is due to endogenous (self-organizing) structural effects or to node-level effects (such as homophily). The three main functions of BPNet are:
Rural Employment Scheme and Agricultural Wage Rate Nexus: An Analysis across States§

This paper on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has covered two objectives; one, whether the introduction of MGNREGS has increased the wage rates for agricultural labourers across the states and two, if so what are the factors that determine the growth rate of wages for farm labourers. The study is based on the secondary data on farm wages published by the Labour Bureau of India by gender and farm operation across the states and has covered the period 2000-01 to 2010-11. To present a comparative picture, the study period has been divided into two sub-periods, viz. preMGNREGS (2000-01 to 2005-06) and post-MGNREGS (2005-06 to 2010-11). The study has shown that the real wage rates have increased substantially during post-MGNREGS period as compared to preMGNREGS period for both male and female agricultural labourers in all the major farming operations. The rate of increase in wage rates has been found to be higher across the female agricultural labourers as compared to their male counterparts. The regression analysis has suggested that the average days of employment per household by MGNREGS, productivity of foodgrains, and road density have positively fuelled the growth rate of wages for both male and female farm labourers.
External root resorption: Different etiologies explained from the composition of the human root-close periodontal membrane

Introduction: This paper summarizes different conditions, which have a well-known influence on the resorption of tooth roots. It also highlights factors important for individual susceptibility to root resorption. Furthermore, the paper focuses on idiopathic root resorption where the provoking factor is not known. The Hypothesis: The several different disturbances causing root resorption can be either orthodontically provoked or acquired by trauma, virus or congenital diseases. It is presumed that all these conditions lead to inflammatory processes in the three main tissue layers, comprising the peri-root sheet. Evaluation of the Hypothesis: This paper explains how different etiologies behind root resorption and how different phenotypic traits in root resorption can be understood from immunohistochemical studies of the human periodontal membrane close to the root and thus, gain a new understanding of the phenomenon of root resorption.
Graph theory analysis of induced neural plasticity post-Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain

Chronic musculoskeletal pain affects the lives of over 50 million individuals in the United States, at a cost of more than $550 billion each year. Chronic pain leads to functional brain changes within those suffering from the condition. Not only does the primary pain network transform as the condition changes from acute to persistent pain, a state of hyper-connectivity also exists between the default mode, frontoparietal, and salience networks. Graph theory analysis has recently been used to investigate treatment-driven brain network changes. For example, current research suggests that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy(ACT) may reduce the chronic pain associated hyper-connectivity between the default mode, frontoparietal, and salience networks, as well as within the salience network. This study extended previous work by examining the associations between the three networks above and a meta-analytically derived pain network.Results indicate decreased connectivity within the pain network (including left putamen, right insula, left insula, and right thalamus) in addition to triple network connectivity changes after the four-week Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention.
The Amylose Content and Amylopectin Structure Affect the Shape and Hardness of Rice Bread

The properties of rice fl our and the qualities of rice bread made with vital wheat gluten were evaluated and varietal differences were compared by twenty-six rice cultivars of various amylose content and amylopectin structure to determine the infl uence of rice starch on rice bread. Rice bread made from high-amylose cultivars had a less concave shape, and there was a signifi cant positive correlation between amylose content and specifi c loaf volume (p < 0.01). Amylose content was also positively correlated with bread hardness. Among the high-amylose cultivars, cultivars with a higher proportion of amylopectin long chains yielded breads of harder texture than the breads made from those with lower proportions of amylopectin long chains, regardless of the small difference in amylose contents. Rice breads made from cultivars that had high pasting temperatures (PT) had harder texture than those made from cultivars that had low PT. Using three near-isogenic lines (NILs) for the Wx and Alk locus on the cv. Nipponbare genetic background, we found that water absorption by the rice fl our of NILs was lower than that of Nipponbare and that bread hardness values for all NILs were higher than the value for Nipponbare. These results indicate that amylose content and amylopectin structure affect dough and bread qualities, including water absorption, bread volume, shape and hardness, and that rice cultivars with intermediate amylose content and lower PT are suitable for making rice bread.
The Adaptation of a Bread Recipe to Quinoa Seeds Addition

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) originated in the Andean region of northwestern South America and was domesticated 3,000 to 4,000 years ago for human consumption. It is a pseudocereal with a high nutrient content which is increasingly used in foods such as breads with or without gluten, salads, main courses, desserts and beverages. Quinoa seeds represent a rich source of polyphenol compounds with antioxidant potential, fats, high quality proteins, calcium, magnesium and manganese, good levels of several B vitamins, vitamin E and dietary fiber. In this study we adapted a classical recipe of bread and added quinoa seeds. We established the optimal quantity of quinoa seeds to be added to the dough which does not have deleterious effects on the quality of the bread. We observed that by increasing the amount of quinoa we also had to increase the amount of water, in order to preserve the quality of bread. By adding up to 16% quinoa seeds (calculated as weight of quinoa divided by weight of flour x 100) the quality of bread didn't change. Adding above 16% quinoa seeds, the quality of bread decreased progressively. At more than 24% quinoa seeds the bread becomes unfit for consumption
Education, employment and participation to the labour market in a matching model of unemployment

The ageing of workers is a key factor to explain their different performance on the labour market. Employment rates by age generally exhibit a bell-shaped path, whereas unemployment rates by age are generally continuous decreasing. Over the past decades, unemployment rates have increased for all age categories, especially the youngest, whereas employment and participation rates have particularly decreased for two different age categories : the youngest and the oldest. We build a matching model of unemployment aimed at understanding these features.
Stability Properties of Thermoresponsive Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide)-Trypsin Conjugates

Trypsin was covalently coupled to poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAAm), a thermoresponsive polymer, through reactive groups of N-acryloxysuccinimide (NAS), which were incorporated into the polymer and the enzyme, respectively, prior to immobilization. Higher activity was retained for the enzyme that was coupled to the preformed copolymer of NIPAAm-NAS (conjugate I) as compared to conjugate II prepared by the other method. The conjugated trypsin was found to be more resistant to heat treatment than the free enzyme. Just the physical presence of the polymer had no significant influence on the thermal stability of the free trypsin. The activity loss in the conjugated enzymes during repeated precipitation/dissolution cycles was more due to incomplete recovery than to inactivation by temperature during the precipitation step. Conjugate I exhibited significant retention of activity after storage in acetonitrile and DMF, and was also used for dipeptide synthesis in acetonitrile.
Purification and characterization of an extracellular polygalacturonase from Lactobacillus plantarum strain BA 11

Lactobacillus plantarum produced extracellular polygalacturonase in a medium containing 1.5% low methyl-pectin (w/v) and 0.5% glucose (w/v) as inducers. The enzyme was purified (approximately 70-fold) by ammonium sulphate fractionation, Sephadex G-100 gel filtration and DEAE-cellulose ion exchange chromatography. Two peaks (PG I and PG II) of enzymic activity were obtained from the DEAE-cellulose column. The molecular mass of PG I was similar to that of PG II (32 000 Da). The Km values of PG I and PG II for sodium polypectate were calculated to be 1.63 mg/ml and 1.78 mg/ml respectively. Their isoelectric points were about pH 5.5. The pH optimum was 4.5, while the optimum temperature was 35°C for both PG I and PG II. The two purified enzymes had similar endo modes of action on polygalacturonic acid, as determined by comparison of viscosity reduction and reducing group release.
VAPYRIN-like is required for development of the moss Physcomitrella patens

ABSTRACT The VAPYRIN (VPY) gene in Medicago truncatula and Petunia hybrida is required for arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis. The moss Physcomitrella patens has a close homolog (VPY-like, VPYL), although it does not form AM. Here, we explore the phylogeny of VPY and VPYL in land plants, and study the expression and developmental function of VPYL in P. patens. We show that VPYL is expressed primarily in the protonema, the early filamentous stage of moss development, and later in rhizoids arising from the leafy gametophores and in adult phyllids. Knockout mutants have specific phenotypes in branching of the protonema and in cell division of the leaves (phyllids) in gametophores. The mutants are responsive to auxin and strigolactone, which are involved in regulation of protonemal branching, indicating that hormonal signaling in the mutants is not affected in hormonal signaling. Taken together, these results suggest that VPYL exerts negative regulation of protonemal branching and cell division in phyllids. We discuss VPY and VPYL phylogeny and function in land plants in the context of AM symbiosis in angiosperms and development in the moss. Highlighted Article: The VAPYRIN gene has evolved in plants that undergo endosymbiosis with fungi and bacteria. The nonsymbiotic moss Physcomitrella patens has retained a VAPYRIN homolog that regulates different aspects of developmental patterns.
Control of skeletal muscle fibres and adipose cells size in the flesh of rainbow trout

The distributions of the diameters of skeletal muscle fibres and adipocytes were studied in rainbow trout. The cellularity of perivisceral adipose tissues and subcutaneous ventral and dorsal adipose tissues were characterized more specifically. In these tissues, a population of small adipocytes was distinguishable from larger adipocytes. The same was observed in white muscle. The effects of extrinsic factors (dietary lipid in two different thermal conditions) and intrinsic factors (strains in two different saline conditions, growth hormone) on the long-term response of the cellularity of both muscle and adipose tissues were studied. The effects of thermal environment were tested on fish fed the same ration and the effects of saline environment on fish fed ad libitum. The mean size of white muscle fibres was relatively unaffected by the different treatments tested: genetic origin and dietary lipid in different environmental conditions. There were significant differences in growth rate due to genetic origin and saline environment. The possible involvement of hyperplasia in response to these different factors is discussed. Growth hormone supplementation enhanced the percentage of small diameter fibres indicating a role of this hormone in the control of muscle hyperplastic growth. The mean size of adipose cells was affected only slightly by the different treatments tested. An increase in adipose cell size with aging and lipid content was observed. The percentage of small adipocytes also increased with aging. Thus, it is proposed that the development of adipose tissues, and thus fat retention, both result from the recruitment of new adipocytes and from the increase in size of existing adipocytes. The hyperplastic process contributed significantly to the differences in fat retention due to different treatments tested (strains, thermal and saline environments). When partially substituting fish oils for corn oils in the diet, a large increase in the ventral adipose cell size was seen indicating a potential negative effect of n-6 fatty acids on cell proliferation. Growth hormone treatment, on the contrary, induced a decrease in the size of perivisceral adipocytes. Thus, diet and hormonal status affect adipose cells size through two different metabolic pathways: lipogenesis and lipolysis respectively.
Education priorities for voluntary organisations supporting parents experiencing perinatal loss: a Delphi survey.

BACKGROUND There is a reliance on voluntary organisations in healthcare. Education is necessary to keep up-to-date with best practice. The authors' aim was to identify education priorities of voluntary organisations that support parents who experience pregnancy/perinatal loss, to inform the development of an education day. METHOD A modified Delphi study was undertaken to identify education needs. There were two Delphi rounds, inclusive of free text, where voluntary group experts reflected on responses in order to develop a consensus among the group. RESULTS There were 12 responses to Round One and seven responses to Round Two. From a list of 10 subjects, Round One identified 64 sub-topics, which were then determined as essential, desirable or not relevant in Round Two. The final 55 sub-topics were included in the education day. CONCLUSION This study identified educational needs of voluntary organisations. A standardised approach was necessary to develop an education day that is responsive to their learning needs.
Inheritance of Leaf Epicuticular Wax Content in Rice

Leaf epicuticular wax (EW) is a trait related to drought resistance. Epicuticular wax content is low in rice (Oryza sativa L.) relative to other crops, but great differences among rice cultivars have been observed, as great as 100%. Traditional drought-resistant upland rices have relatively higher EW content than modern irrigated lowland rices. Our objective was to determine the inheritance of leaf EW content and the prospects for increasing EW levels in improved cultivars. Field, screenhouse, and phytotron experiments were conducted to quantify the EW content in eight rice cultivars (.)
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures of Utilizing Person-Generated Health Data in the Case of Simulated Stroke Rehabilitation: Development Method

Background Person-generated health data (PGHD) are health data that people generate, record, and analyze for themselves. Although the health benefits of PGHD use have been reported, there is no systematic way for patients to measure and report the health effects they experience from using their PGHD. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) allow patients to systematically self-report their outcomes of a health care service. They generate first-hand evidence of the impact of health care services and are able to reflect the real-world diversity of actual patients and management approaches. Therefore, this paper argues that a PROM of utilizing PGHD, or PROM-PGHD, is necessary to help build evidence-based practice in clinical work with PGHD. Objective This paper aims to describe a method for developing PROMs for people who are using PGHD in conjunction with their clinical care—PROM-PGHD, and the method is illustrated through a case study. Methods The five-step qualitative item review (QIR) method was augmented to guide the development of a PROM-PGHD. However, using QIR as a guide to develop a PROM-PGHD requires additional socio-technical consideration of the PGHD and the health technologies from which they are produced. Therefore, the QIR method is augmented for developing a PROM-PGHD, resulting in the PROM-PGHD development method. Results A worked example was used to illustrate how the PROM-PGHD development method may be used systematically to develop PROMs applicable across a range of PGHD technology types used in relation to various health conditions. Conclusions This paper describes and illustrates a method for developing a PROM-PGHD, which may be applied to many different cases of health conditions and technology categories. When applied to other cases of health conditions and technology categories, the method could have broad relevance for evidence-based practice in clinical work with PGHD.
A novel longitudinal interprofessional ambulatory training practice: the improving patient access care and cost through training (IMPACcT) clinic

ABSTRACT Few graduating health professionals choose primary care. Trainees satisfied with continuity ambulatory experiences are more likely to pursue primary care. The authors developed a longitudinal interprofessional ambulatory training program to improve team-based care and encourage primary care careers. The Improving Patient Access Care and cost through Training (IMPACcT) clinic, launched in 2016, includes physician, physician assistant, pharmacy, and psychology trainees. Residents, faculty, and interprofessional trainees complete “on-service” weeks together. Co-located administrative team members coordinate care and lead team “huddles. ” Interprofessional signout facilitates patient follow-up. The initial evaluation included process and quality indicators compared to the traditional resident practice. Learners reported increased perceived competence in interprofessional communication and teamwork after completing their training. Clinical quality outcomes suggested improved provider continuity and arrival rate compared to traditional resident practice (56.5% vs. 32.9%; 66.3% vs. 62.2%, p < .01). Patient satisfaction was higher in the IMPACcT clinic in the areas of coordinated care and team functioning. Ten of eighteen physician graduates in the program chose further training in primary care compared to 20 of 150 graduates not in the program (55.6% vs. 13.3%, p < .01). Implementing a longitudinal team-based ambulatory interprofessional training practice was associated with improved continuity of care and improved patient satisfaction indicators.