Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Photoperiod and Mating on Profiles of Seminal Fluid Peptides from Male Accessory Glands of Helicoverpa armigera

After mating many female insects undergo physiological and behavioral changes including inhibition of receptivity to further matings and induction of oviposition. These changes are modulated by the transfer of proteins from male seminal fluids during mating. Here, we identified a number of proteins in the seminal fluid secretion of the moth species, Helicoverpa armigera that undergo changes in accordance to photoperiod and are reduced or depleted after mating, thereby indicating a probable functional significance during mating. Changes in seminal fluid proteins were studied using LC-MS/MS and 2D SDS PAGE to identify proteins that are both up-regulated during the scotophase and depleted after mating. A total of 98 proteins were identified using LC-MS/MS, out of which the levels of 52 were up-regulated during the scotophase. We identified many functional similarities to seminal fluids from other insects. Thus, although seminal fluid proteins are amongst the most rapidly evolving proteins, the classes they represent are relatively conserved. The proteins identified were classified into 7 different functional groups: signal transduction; immune function; lipid transporting; gene function; cytoskeletal proteins; apoptosis; metabolism; the remainder of unknown function. More than half of the identified proteins were up-regulated during the scotophase with most at a level of up to 5 fold but 7 of the proteins were up-regulated to levels of more than 20 fold. Using comparative 2D electrophoresis MAG content was further studied to identify extracted proteins that are both up-regulated during the scotophase and depleted after mating and thus may be transferred to the female during copulation. Most of the identified H. armigera proteins bore high homologies to proteins in both the Bombyx mori and the Drosophila * Corresponding author: Ada Rafaeli, ARO, The Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel. Phone: 972-39683729; Fax: 972-3-9604428; E-mail: vtada@volcani.agri. gov.il ** current address: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 52 rafaeli et al. isr. J. entomol. melanogaster databases. The possible individual roles of these proteins in the mating process are discussed.
Biosorption of Reactive azo dyes from Aqueous Solution using Chitosan

A home-made chitosan from shrimp shells (Penaeus merguiensis) was used as biosorbent to remove reactive azo dyes, Remazol Violet dan Remazol Blue, from aqueous solution. The adsorption of the dye was investigated under different pH, adsorbate concentration, adsorbent dosage and contact time. Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models were applied and thermodynamic parameters were calculated. Equilibrium data fitted well with the Langmuir model. The most ideal condition for adsorption of reactive azo dyes onto chitosan was found to be at pH 3. The optimized method removes more than 97% of Remazol Violet and more than 82% of Remazol Blue. The results indicate that homemade chitosan can be employed as a low cost alternative to commercial adsorbent in the removal of dyes from aqueous solution. Keywords—Adsorption, azo dye, chitosan, isotherms, kinetics.
Effect of Therapeutic Guidelines for Bronchial Asthma on Adult Patients ' Knowledge , Practice , Compliance , and Disease Severity

Asthma places a large burden on affected patients and their families. Although asthma is a major cause of patient disability and in rare cases causes premature death, asthma morbidity and mortality are largely preventable when patients and their families are adequately educated about the disease and have access to high quality health care. That is, poor outcomes for patient asthma, such as hospitalizations and deaths, are at least partially sensitive to the quality of ambulatory health care. Aim of the study: to assess asthmatic adult needs, designing therapeutic and nutritional guidelines, and evaluating their effectiveness on improvement of the knowledge, practices, and severity of bronchial asthma as well as patient’s therapeutic compliance. The research hypotheses were that asthmatic adult patients receiving the designed guidelines will have significant improvements in their knowledge, practices, severity of asthma, and compliance to therapeutic regimen. Design: a quasi experimental research design was used with prepost assessment of outcome. It involved four steps; pre-guidelines, guidelines implementation, post-guided and follow up. Setting: The study was conducted in the outpatient clinic of bronchial asthma at Zagazig University Hospitals and Helwan University Hospitals. Subjects: The study was carried out on (60) a convenience sample of asthmatic adults consecutively recruited from the study setting, uses of inhaler. Patients with other chronic diseases were excluded. Tools: Four tools were used for data collection, 1An Interview form, 2An Observation check list, 3A Compliance assessment form 4An Asthma severity assessment scale. Results: There were statistically significant effect of bronchial asthma on patient’s daily life activities, work, psychology, self-image, diet and sleep. There was Improvement in knowledge, practice, decreased level of severity of asthma and therapeutic compliance after guidelines implementation. There was a positive coefficients change in knowledge score and guidelines intervention. Also there were negative coefficients change in the severity score of bronchial asthma and Educational level and Knowledge score. The study concludes that the developed guidelines have a significant positive impact on asthma patients' knowledge, practices, therapeutic compliance, and disease severity. This success is attributed to that the guidelines are based on needs assessment and integrate updated technology. Therefore, these guidelines should be adopted as an essential component of the care provided to asthma patients. Continuous follow-up together with selecting the optimal treatment options for each individual patient are recommended. The long-term effects of following the guidelines need to be further studied. [Nadia M. Taha and Zeinab H. Ali. Effect of Therapeutic Guidelines for Bronchial Asthma on Adult Patients' Knowledge, Practice, Compliance, and Disease Severity. Life Science Journal. 2011; 8(3):199-208] (ISSN: 10978135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com.
One Store, Two Employment Systems: Core, Periphery and Flexibility in China's Retail Sector

Research on 'flexible' or 'contingent work', derived primarily from manufacturing and production contexts in Western settings, has often been theorized in terms of a core-periphery model. Based upon ethnographic research on vendor representatives and regular store employees conducted at a multinational retail firm in China, we indicate that this model is insufficient to capture the complexity of employment arrangements in this context. This article delineates the coexistence of two employment systems and a quadrilateral relationship in which workers' interests sometimes overlap but often compete. Our research also indicates that institutional arrangements in China significantly affect the strategies that are open to firms and the consequent structure of employment relations.
X-RAY EMISSION FROM STELLAR JETS BY COLLISION AGAINST HIGH-DENSITY MOLECULAR CLOUDS: AN APPLICATION TO HH 248

We investigate the plausibility of detecting X-ray emission from a stellar jet that impacts a dense molecular cloud, a scenario that may be typical for classical T Tauri stars with jets in dense star-forming complexes. We first model the impact of a jet against a dense cloud using two-dimensional axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations, exploring different configurations of the ambient environment. Then, we compare our results with XMM-Newton observations of the Herbig–Haro object HH 248, where extended X-ray emission aligned with the optical knots is detected at the edge of the nearby IC 434 cloud. Our simulations show that a jet can produce plasma with temperatures up to 107 K, consistent with production of X-ray emission, after impacting a dense cloud. We find that jets denser than the ambient medium but less dense than the cloud produce detectable X-ray emission only at impact with the cloud. From an exploration of the model parameter space, we constrain the physical conditions (jet density and velocity and cloud density) that reproduce the intrinsic luminosity and emission measure of the X-ray source possibly associated with HH 248 well. Thus, we suggest that the extended X-ray source close to HH 248 corresponds to a jet impacting a dense cloud.
Scaling of precipitation extremes with temperature in the French Mediterranean region: What explains the hook shape?

Expected changes to future extreme precipitation remain a key uncertainty associated with anthropogenic climate change. Extreme precipitation has been proposed to scale with the precipitable water content in the atmosphere. Assuming constant relative humidity, this implies an increase of precipitation extremes at a rate of about 7% °C−1 globally as indicated by the Clausius‐Clapeyron relationship. Increases faster and slower than Clausius‐Clapeyron have also been reported. In this work, we examine the scaling between precipitation extremes and temperature in the present climate using simulations and measurements from surface weather stations collected in the frame of the HyMeX and MED‐CORDEX programs in Southern France. Of particular interest are departures from the Clausius‐Clapeyron thermodynamic expectation, their spatial and temporal distribution, and their origin. Looking at the scaling of precipitation extreme with temperature, two regimes emerge which form a hook shape: one at low temperatures (cooler than around 15°C) with rates of increase close to the Clausius‐Clapeyron rate and one at high temperatures (warmer than about 15°C) with sub‐Clausius‐Clapeyron rates and most often negative rates. On average, the region of focus does not seem to exhibit super Clausius‐Clapeyron behavior except at some stations, in contrast to earlier studies. Many factors can contribute to departure from Clausius‐Clapeyron scaling: time and spatial averaging, choice of scaling temperature (surface versus condensation level), and precipitation efficiency and vertical velocity in updrafts that are not necessarily constant with temperature. But most importantly, the dynamical contribution of orography to precipitation in the fall over this area during the so‐called “Cevenoles” events, explains the hook shape of the scaling of precipitation extremes.
Grounding Practice in Theory: The Development of a Literature-based Performance Framework in New Zealand Local Government

Performance measurement is a subject of some importance within the public sector. This study examines the design and development of a performance measurement framework within a local government department. It used a narrative case study approach to follow the process used by the design team involved. The design team began by examining the performance literature at a number of levels, and from this distilled eight design principles, from which they built a performance measurement framework. The design team encountered a number of challenges during this process; challenges they expected based on the literature. From the experiences of the design team, a number of hypotheses suitable for further testing have been derived. This study provides useful advice for performance measurement professionals within the public sector in developing frameworks grounded in theory, whether at the central or local government level.
Glucose -6-Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Malaria

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most prevalent enzyme disorder, estimated to affect 400 million people worldwide. Mutations in the G6PD gene, situated in the long arm of the X chromosome, result in different G6PD deficiency variants, producing a wide range of biochemical and clinical phenotypes, which can be further distinguished by differences at the molecular levels. Drug related haemolytic anaemia was first observed with the use of Primaquine, and was subsequently discovered to be caused by G6PD deficiency. The link between G6PD deficiency and malaria is further bolstered by the observation of the global distribution of G6PD deficiency being parallel with that of malaria. This observation led to the suggestion that G6PD deficiency has protective advantage as a defence against malaria. Different G6PD deficiency variants have different propensities to cause haemolytic anaemia on exposure to oxidant drugs. Knowledge of the different biochemical and molecular variants of G6PD deficiency is important not only between people in different continents but even between people in different regions of the same country. G6PD deficiency produces a wide spectrum of clinical disorders, whose observable differences can be due to different oxidant drugs, different infections, and even different age groups.
Low repetition rate 343 nm passively Q-switched solid-state laser for time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

We demonstrate a low-cost 343 nm solid-state laser delivering up to 20 μJ per pulse, with a pulse width of 2.3 ns at a repetition rate of 100 Hz. The 343 nm is obtained through a third harmonic generation of a passively Q-switched 1030 nm Yb:YAG laser with pulse energy of 190 μJ at 100 Hz and a pulse width of 5.4 ns. The IR-UV conversion efficiency is 10.4%, comparable to that achieved with mode-locked IR lasers. The light source is electronically controlled for easy synchronization with a detection circuit. The low repetition rate specifically targets applications exploiting the millisecond scale lifetime of lanthanides employed in fluoroimmunoassay measurements for time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Low repetition rate and even pulse-on-demand operation is demonstrated. © 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Cellulose Nanocrystals as Advanced "Green" Materials for Biological and Biomedical Engineering

Background: Cellulose is a ubiquitous, renewable and environmentally friendly biopolymer, which has high promise to fulfil the rising demand for sustainable and biocompatible materials. Particularly, the recent progress in the synthesis of highly crystalline cellulose-based nanoscale biomaterials, namely cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), draws significant attention from many research communities, ranging from bioresource engineering, to materials science and engineering, to biological and biomedical engineering to bionanotechnology. The feasibility of harnessing CNCs’ unique biophysicochemical properties has inspired their basic and applied research, offering much promise for new biomaterials with diverse advanced functionalities. Purpose: This review focuses on vital issues and topics on the recent advances in CNC-based biomaterials with potential, in particular, for bionanotechnology and biological and biomedical engineering. The challenges and limitations of CNC technology are discussed as well as potential strategies to overcome them, providing an essential source of information in the exploration of possible and futuristic applications of the CNC-based functional “green” nanomaterials. Conclusion: CNCs offer exciting possibilities for advanced “green” nanomaterials, driving innovative research and development in a wide range of fields, including biological and biomedical engineering.
DETECTION WITH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Text detection is an important preliminary step before text can be recognized in unconstrained image environments. We present an approach based on convolutional neural networks to detect and localize horizontal text lines from raw color pixels. The network learns to extract and combine its own set of features through learning instead of using hand-crafted ones. Learning was also used in order to precisely localize the text lines by simply training the network to reject badly-cut text and without any use of tedious knowledge-based postprocessing. Although the network was trained with synthetic examples, experimental results demonstrated that it can outperform other methods on the real-world test set of ICDAR’03.
Thyroid cancer in a patient with a germline MSH 2 mutation

Lynch syndrome (HNPCC) is a dominantly inherited disorder characterized by germline defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes and the development of a variety of cancers, predominantly colorectal and endometrial. We present a 44-year-old woman who was shown to carry the truncating MSH2 gene mutation that had previously been identified in her family. Recently, she had been diagnosed with an undifferentiated carcinoma of the thyroid and an adenoma of her coecum. Although the thyroid carcinoma was not MSI-high (1 out of 5 microsatellites instable), it did show complete loss of immunohistochemical expression for the MSH2 protein, suggesting that this tumour was not coincidental. Although the risks for some tumour types, including breast cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and prostate cancer, are not significantly increased in Lynch syndrome, MMR deficiency in the presence of a corresponding germline defect has been demonstrated in incidental cases of a growing range of tumour types, which is reviewed in this paper. Interestingly, the MSH2-associated tumour spectrum appears to be wider than that of MLH1 and generally the risk for most extra-colonic cancers appears to be higher for MSH2 than for MLH1 mutation carriers. Together with a previously reported case, our findings show that anaplastic thyroid carcinoma can develop in the setting of Lynch syndrome. Uncommon Lynch syndrome-associated tumour types might be useful in the genetic analysis of a Lynch syndrome suspected family if samples from typical Lynch syndrome tumours are unavailable.
Phylogenetics of Impatiens and Hydrocera (Balsaminaceae) Using Chloroplast atpB-rbcL Spacer Sequences

Abstract Balsaminaceae are a morphologically diverse family with ca. 1,000 representatives that are mainly distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics. To understand the relationships of its members, we obtained chloroplast atpB-rbcL sequences from 86 species of Balsaminaceae and five outgroups. Phylogenetic reconstructions using parsimony and Bayesian approaches provide a well-resolved phylogeny in which the sister group relationship between Impatiens and Hydrocera is confirmed. The overall topology of Impatiens is strongly supported and is geographically structured. Impatiens likely originated in South China from which it colonized the adjacent regions and afterwards dispersed into North America, Africa, India, the Southeast Asian peninsula, and the Himalayan region.
Optical binding of electrically small magnetodielectric particles

An ensemble of spherical particles with arbitrary dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability was considered in the dipole approximation. Each particle was described by complex electric and magnetic polarizabilities. A computational approach based on the coupled dipole method, also called the discrete dipole approximation, was used to derive the optical force experienced by each particle due to an incident electromagnetic field and the fields scattered by all other particles. This approach is general and can handle material dispersion and losses. In order to illustrate this approach, we studied the case of two spherical particles separated by a distance d, and illuminated by an incident plane wave whose wave vector is normal to the axis of the particles. We computed the optical force experienced by each particle in the direction of the beam (radiation pressure), and perpendicular to the beam (optical binding) for particles with positive and negative refractive indices. We also considered the effect of material losses.
The Sex Ratio and the Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate in the United States during World War II

This paper provides a theoretical economic framework to study the effects of changes in the sex ratio on the out-of-wedlock birth rate in the United States. We model the demanders and suppliers of sexual relations as potential mates and the relative i°pricei± of human sexual relations as the promises implicit within a traditional marriage (marriage, fidelity, wealth transfers, child support, etc.). We examine an instrument for the implicit i°pricei± of sexual relations, namely the out-of-wedlock birth rate. We show that the reduction in the number of available sex partners for women during World War II decreased the i°pricei±iain terms of marriageiathat remaining men had to pay for sex. One result of this lower i°pricei± is an increase in the number of children born out-of-wedlock during the war. According to our regression results, a reduction in the sex ratio of 10 males per 100 females in the U.S. population during World War II increased the out-of wedlock birth rate by six to ten percent.
Fabrication of Hydrophobic Films from OFCB Monomer by Plasma Polymerization at Atmospheric Pressure

Octafluorocyclobutane gaseous monomer is used to fabricate hydrophobic films on glass substrates. The plasma polymerization deposition process was carried out at atmospheric pressure in nitrogen carrier gas. The coplanar type of DBD plasma source was used to activate PE-CVD process. The preliminary results are published where stable (4 days) hydrophobic layers have been coated with contact angle of values about 100 degrees. The prepared films were analysed by contact angle measurements, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and moreover simple test of stability was done to evaluate prepared samples. These surface analyses confirmed the applicability of the coplanar type of DBD plasma source for deposition of octafluorocyclobutane hydrophobic films at atmospheric pressure.
Serological and virological investigation of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus infection in cattle with abortion problem.

Bulgular: Arastirmada 41 (%17.9) serum ornegi seropozitif, 4 (%1.7) lokosit ornegi BVDV antijen pozitif olarak belirlendi. BVDV antijen pozitif bulunan 4 sigirin 2 (%0.8)’si seropozitif 2 (%0.8)’si ise seronegatif tespit edildi. Antijen pozitif/antikor negatif hayvanlar 2 hafta sonra tekrar orneklendi. Seronegatif sigirlar icin ayni sonuclar elde edildi. Persiste enfekte olduklari belirlenen bu hayvanlar kesime gonderildi.
Analyzing Problems and Prospects of Buckwheat Cultivation in India

Buckwheat is a multi-purpose crop grown widely at higher elevations in the Indian Himalayan region. Buckwheat contains high amounts of antioxidant compounds, mainly rutin (a flavonol glycoside) with several medicinal properties. The physiological and biological properties of rutin include anti-oxidation, anti-inflammation, anti-hypertension, vasoconstrictive, spasmolitic and positive inotropic effect. Out of 20 species reported world-wide only two, Fagopyrum tataricum and F. esculentum are cultivated in India and elsewhere in the world. The majority of the varieties grown are farmer’s own selections, however, five varieties have been released through the All India Coordinated Project on underutilized crops. Besides, around 911 germplasm accessions have been conserved in medium term storage at Shimla; 837 out of these have also been maintained as base collection in the National Gene Bank. Although buckwheat has diverse uses as food, medicinal and industrial plant, the area under its cultivation is decreasing at an alarming rate mainly due to changing cropping patterns, migration, low productivity, changing food habits, and lack of alternative uses/ products. Screening of germplasm for biotic and abiotic stresses, restructuring of research and development activities towards value addition by exploiting its potential as fast food, medicinal and beverage plant and awareness of its food and medicinal value at grass root level are some of the new thrust areas for expanding buckwheat cultivation. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________