Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
DNA-based identification and control of disease spreading mosquito species: A review

Harms caused by parasites such as mosquitoes are one of the severe health problems of people, particularly in those areas where unhygienic environmental conditions exist. The diseases caused by these insects lead to many severe diseases and even deaths affecting public health along with social economy and welfare. Consequently, the development of the successful implementation of identification and controlling strategies of these parasite species is one of the challenges of health departments of many nations in the globe. However, effective eradication of disease-causing mosquito specimens, especially immature or damaged individuals, is possible by molecular identification. As a result, cytochrome oxydase c subunit I (COI) gene-based method can play a role in identifying and assigning taxa to mosquito species and has worldwide importance. In sequence, in this review, we assessed the occurrence, spread of diseases, and COI gene-based identification status of mosquito species (Anopheles annularis, Armigeres subalbatus, Mansonia annulifera, Mansonia uniformis, Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Culex tritaeniorhynchus, Culex quinquefasciatus, Anopheles culicifacies, Anopheles subpictus, Culex gelidus, Ochlerotatus sp., and Anopheles fluviatilis T) as well as their control measures along with role of DNA barcoding on global scale.
Biosystems Diversity

Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University, Serhii Yefremova st, 25, Dnipro, 49600, Ukraine. Tel. :+38-067-919-15-93. E-mail: bandura.l. p.@dsau.dp. ua Pokhylenko, A. P., Didur, O. O. , Kulbachko, Y. L. , Bandura, L. P., & Chernykh, S. A. (2020). Influence of saprophages (Isopoda, Diplopoda) on leaf litter decomposition under different humidification and chemical loading. Biosystems Diversity, 28(4), 384–389. doi:10.15421/012049
Smart Home Environment Future Challenges and Issues - A Survey

The smart home automation is that the exploitation internet enabled devices remotely and mechanically management appliances such as lighting, heating system and security measures in and around your home. This papers talks about relative emission effects in Home Energy Management. Also the result outcome is that consumption of the electricity will be reduced towards green environment. Moreover, the research paper is considering the analysis of calculate the negative effects in environment due to full home automation system. While calculating these negative effects, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) should be in sum total. This study uses to analysis the electricity consumption for environment impact of Home Energy Management system (HEMs). The research article discusses home automation system consumes the energy for different devices connected for smart home. The maximum energy consumption in smart home network is smart plugs due to an uninterrupted supply. Therefore this research article comprises about home automation energy management that shows the balance energy consumption between the devices in a regular interval. Also this research article provides a future challenge tasks in security issues in smart home environment. Also the perception for smart home environment focuses the Interoperability, Reliability, Integration of smart homes and term privacy in context, term security and privacy vulnerabilities to smart home.
Compositional Quality of Mangoes By-product and Its Anticancer Activity in Human Cancer Cell Lines: An In Vitro Study

Significant amounts of mango by-products, such as peels and seeds, could be considered as a source of bioactive properties and promising applications. The current research was designed to estimate the compositional quality of both mango kernels (MK) and peels (MP), the anticancer activity on human breast cancer cell line (MCF7), human colon cancer cell line (HCT116) and normal cell line (VERO). MK was significantly higher in moisture, crude protein, total lipids and total carbohydrate contents than MP, while MP was significantly higher in ash and crude fiber contents. Ca, K, Na and Mg were the major elements in mango kernels and peels. Total phenols (TP), total flavonoids (TF) and radical scavenging activity (RSA) were, also, determined. The TP in MK and MP was 2829.25 and 2565.21 mg GAE /100 g, respectively. However, the antioxidant activity in MP and MK was 79.11 and 55.33 % respectively. Stearic acid (24.4 %) was the predominant saturated fatty acid in MK while oleic acid (44.34 %) was the main unsaturated one. Ellagic and pyrogallol were the most abundant phenolic acids in both MK and MP extracts through HPLC analysis. The highest flavonoid compound in MK and MP was the hesperidin component. The mixture of MK and MP powders showed a high cytotoxic activity against HCT116 (IC50=45µg/ml) and MCF7 (IC50=58 µg/ml). In addition, the by-products samples showed antioxidant activity on all tested cell lines. As conclusion, this study confirmed that mango by-products could provide a natural source of antioxidant and anticancer molecules and can be used as food additives and therapeutic agents.
STRESS ANALYSIS COMPARING EFFECT OF TWO DIFFERENT STRESS ANALYSIS COMPARING EFFECT OF TWO DIFFERENT CAD-CAM IMPLANT SUPERSTRUCTURE MATERIALS (IN-VITRO CAD-CAM IMPLANT SUPERSTRUCTURE MATERIALS (IN-VITRO STUDY) STUDY)

Abstract Purpose:Purpose: This study was conducted to evaluate the micro-strain around dental implant using two different CAD/CAM crown fabricated materials through strain gauge analysis. Materials and Methods: Materials and Methods: Five dental implants were fixed in a 5 previously drilled solid rigid polyurethane test blocks in the edentulous area with neighboring abutments mesial and distal printed out using special 3D Dental printer, Cyanoacrylate adhesive was then used to fix the printed-out part on to the polyurethane test blocks, creating the bounded saddle replicas. Ten CAD/CAM screw retained crowns were fabricated; five Enamic crowns from vita enamic blocks, and five zirconia crowns from presintered katana zirconium blocks. Each crown was cemented to abutment and screwed over the implant fixture. Two strain gauges were installed on their corresponding prepared sites to measure the micro-strains in the medium surrounding the implant. For each tested implant, loads were applied by a universal testing machine, micro-strains were recorded with the strain gauges and stress distribution around the implant was statistically evaluated. Results:Results: Micro-strain recording revealed a statistically significant difference in mean micro-strain recording applied in central fossa between Zirconia and Enamic, for both the buccal and lingual measurements, Enamic was significantly lower than Zirconia. Conclusion:Conclusion: The modulus of elasticity of restorative materials has a meaningful effect on forces applied to dental implant and transmitted to the supporting bone.
The deglutition act / swallowing reflex Question :

Background The deglutition act represents one of the most frequent motor functional processes in our body, which coordinates more than 50 pairs of muscles. It can be understood as a complex reflux event. In the wake state, we swallow around 0.5–1.5 ml of saliva per minute, mostly unconsciously. During deep sleep, salivation and swallowing activities are largely at rest [1]. In addition to regulating salivary flow, the deglutition act also appears to have an important influence on the regulatory and feedback mechanisms of the entire stomatognathic system. Since the lower jaw usually moves dorsally and the dental arches of the maxilla and mandible come into brief contact during the swallowing act [2, 4, 7], a physiological sequence of the swallowing activity is essential for controlling the masticatory muscles. During the physiological deglutition act, feedback is provided via the receptors in the periodontal attachment apparatus, as well as, those in the masticatory muscles and temporomandibular joint; this feedback is responsible for establishing impor tant control variables of the stomatognathic system, such as the rest position of the mandible when the masticatory muscles are relaxed. Each muscle works by shortening itself. However, a muscle which is constantly shortening (working) also requires information about what “length” it should maintain or set in the relaxed rest mode. Skeletal Figure 1 Shortly before the deglutition act: the back of the tongue closes off the oral cavity from the pharynx. The respiratory air can still flow into the trachea via the nose (redrawing according to [6]).
HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C in Incarcerated Women in a Metropolitan Detention Center in Northeast Brazil

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system cells, and causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Incarcerated populations have a recognized increased risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Objectives: The study was aimed to identify the frequency of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B/C in women incarcerated in a prison in a big city in northeast Brazil. Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional quantitative study. Methodology: The sample was composed of incarcerated women in a medium- to high-security prison in a metropolitan region in northeast Brazil. Between January and October 2018, 200 prisoners were interviewed to collect their socio-demographic data. At that time, a drop of peripheral blood was collected to perform syphilis, HIV, and hepatitis B and C rapid tests after informed consent was obtained. Results: The age of the women ranged from 19 to 62 years old (mean=32.85±10.4). The time of incarceration varied between less than one to 10 years (mean=3.6±2.1). The majority of the women were single (71.5%), not pregnant (97%), mixed race (68.5%), housewives (30.5%) and had an elementary school education (51%). Among the 122 women tested for syphilis, 24 were positive (19.7%). HIV was present in 4 of the 200 tested woman (2%), and hepatitis C was identified in 3 of the 91 tested patients. All 85 patients tested for hepatitis B were negative. When considering the time of incarceration, the results were not significantly different. Conclusion: Only the frequency of syphilis was high, at almost 20%, which is higher than those observed in other studies from other regions of Brazil and other countries.
GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN PRACTICES FRAMEWORK FOR PETROCHEMICALS IN EGYPT

- The aim of this study is to determine the extent of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices used by Shell and Co-operation (Co-op) Petroleum Companies in Egypt and to evaluate the effect of GSCM practices on the operational performance of both companies. A conceptual framework was developed to link the GSCM practices and operational performance. The framework
Scotland's Rural College Reducing soil erosion in smallholder farming systems in east Africa through the introduction of different crop types Muoni,

29 On low-input smallholder farms of Kenyan upland landscapes, erosion of nutrient rich topsoil 30 strongly affects crop yields. Where maize (Zea mays) is intercropped on erosion-prone slopes, 31 intercropping can potentially reduce soil erosion. The objective of this research was to quantify 32 the contribution of crops and crop mixtures of different growth habits to erosion control and their 33 influence on above ground biomass and earthworm abundance as indicators of soil function in 34 smallholder farming systems under a bimodal rainfall pattern in Western Kenya. The experiment 35 involved five treatments, namely maize (Zea mays)/common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) intercrop 36 (maize intercrop), maize/common bean intercrop plus Calliandra (Calliandra calothyrsus) 37 hedgerows and Calliandra mulch (Calliandra), sole Lablab (Lablab purpureus), sole Mucuna 38 (Mucuna pruriens) and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) intercropped with maize (during the short 39 rains). The experiment was conducted over three consecutive cropping seasons and the cropping 40 system had significant effects on soil loss, runoff, water infiltration, earthworm abundance and 41 above ground biomass and crop grain yield. The Calliandra treatment had the lowest runoff (11.6 42 – 17.2 mm ha) and soil erosion (31– 446 kg ha, per season) in all the seasons, followed by the 43 Mucuna treatment. Lablab was affected by disease and showed the highest soil erosion in the last 44 two seasons. Infiltration was highest in Calliandra treatment, and earthworm abundance was 45 higher under Mucuna and Calliandra treatments (229 and 165 earthworms m, respectively) than 46 under other crops. Our results suggest that including sole crops of herbaceous species such as 47 Mucuna, or tree hedgerows with mixtures of maize and grain legumes has the potential to reduce 48 3 runoff and soil erosion in smallholder farming. Additionally, these species provide a suitable 49 habitat for earthworms which stabilize soil structure and macropores and thus potentially 50 increase infiltration, further reducing soil erosion. 51
Failure to respond to a coral disease epizootic in Florida: causes and consequences

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first observed in September 2014 near Virginia Key, Florida. In roughly six years, the disease spread throughout Florida and into the greater Caribbean basin. The high prevalence of SCTLD and high resulting mortality in coral populations, and the large number of susceptible species affected, suggest that this outbreak is one of the most lethal ever recorded. The initial recognition and management response to this catastrophic disease in Florida was slow, which delayed the start of monitoring programs and prevented coordinated research programs by at least two years. The slow management response was a result of several factors that operated concurrently. First, the Port Miami dredging project was ongoing during the coral disease epidemic and dredging rather than SCTLD was blamed by some managers and local environmental groups for the extreme coral losses reported in the project’s compliance monitoring program. Second, this blame was amplified in the media because dredging projects are intuitively assumed to be bad for coral reefs. Third, during this same time State of Florida policy prohibited government employees to acknowledge global warming in their work. This was problematic because ocean warming is a proximal cause of many coral diseases. As a result, the well-known links between warming and coral disease were ignored. A consequence of this policy was that the dredging project provided an easy target to blame for the coral mortality noted in the monitoring program, despite convincing data that suggested otherwise. Specifically, results from the intensive compliance monitoring program, conducted by trained scientific divers, were clear. SCTLD that was killing massive numbers of corals throughout Florida was also killing corals at the dredge site – and in the same proportions and among the same suite of species. While eradication of the disease was never a possibility, early control measures may have slowed its spread or allowed for the rescue of significant numbers of large colonies of iconic species. This coral disease outbreak has similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and there are lessons learned from both that will improve disease response outcomes in the future, to the benefit of coral reefs and human populations.
Atmospheric convergence zones stemming from large-scale mixing

Abstract. Organised cloud bands are important features of tropical and subtropical rainfall. These structures are often regarded as convergence zones, alluding to an association with coherent atmospheric flow. However, the flow kinematics is not usually taken into account in classification methods for this type of event, as large-scale lines are rarely evident in instantaneous diagnostics such as Eulerian convergence. Instead, existing convergence zone definitions rely on heuristic rules of shape, duration and size of cloudiness fields. Here we investigate the role of large-scale turbulence in shaping atmospheric moisture in South America. We employ the Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE), a metric of deformation among neighboring trajectories, to define convergence zones as attracting Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCSs). Attracting LCSs frequent tropical and subtropical South America, with climatologies consistent with the South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ), the South American Low-level Jet (SALLJ) and the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). In regions under the direct influence of the ITCZ and the SACZ, rainfall is significantly positively correlated with large-scale mixing measured by the FTLE. Attracting LCSs in South and Southeast Brazil are associated with significant positive rainfall and moisture flux anomalies. Geopotential height composites suggest that the occurrence of attracting LCSs in these regions is related with teleconnection mechanisms such as the Pacific-South Atlantic. We believe that this kinematical approach can be used as an alternative to region-specific convergence zone classification algorithms; it may help advance the understanding of underlying mechanisms of tropical and subtropical rain bands and their role in the hydrological cycle.
Study of the flux tube thickness in 3 d LGT ’ s by means of 2 d spin models

We study the flux tube thickness in the confining phase of the (2 + 1)d SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory near the deconfining phase transition. Following the Svetitsky-Yaffe conjecture, we map the problem to the study of the < ǫσσ > correlation function in the two-dimensional spin model with Z2 global symmetry, (i.e. the 2d Ising model) in the high-temperature phase. Using the form factor approach we obtain an explicit expression for this function and from it we infer the behaviour of the flux density of the original (2 + 1)d LGT. Remarkably enough the result we obtain for the flux tube thickness agrees (a part from an overall normalization) with the effective string prediction for the same quantity.
Sustainable supply chain management drivers and outcomes: an emphasis on strategic sustainability orientation in the food industries

Nowadays, due to the quick increase of population, degradation of the environment and social disparity moving towards sustainability is an indispensable issue. Aside from this importance, paying attention to sustainability provides opportunities for firms to be innovative. Previous studies largely focused on identifying drivers that enhance the firm capacity to innovate new products and services. However, less attention has been paid to sustainability orientation as a direct driver of a firm’s innovativeness leading towards long term business performance. In this study, sustainable supply chain drivers, strategic sustainability orientation and firm performance have been evaluated. The mediating concepts such as corporate environmental management and corporate social responsibility impacting the relationship between strategic sustainability orientation and firm performance have been tested too. The results illustrate that employees’ motivation and managerial attitude have positive impacts on strategic sustainability orientation and on the other hand strategic sustainability orientation with the mediating roles of corporate environmental management and corporate social responsibility has a positive effect on firm performance. This study was conducted on 120 Iranian companies that are active in food industries by using the SEM method.
A HYBRID APPROACH FOR INTRUSION DETECTION USING K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK

Network intrusion detection is an important process in this era due to the increase of cyber violations. In this article, a hybrid approach which utilizes K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm and Artificial Neural Network to detect intrusions, is proposed. NSL-KDD dataset was used for the study. Initially, data preprocessing was carried out. Encoding was done as the first step of the pre-process which was accomplished using one hot encoding. Then, features were inserted into feature scaling which was done using Min-max normalization. Feature reduction is the final step of the pre-process which was achieved using Principal Component Analysis. Subsequently, K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm was used as binary classifier that classify data into normal and abnormal classes. Then, the abnormal class was further classified into four major attack types using Artificial Neural Network. Finally, the model was evaluated and results show that the model has high accuracy and very low overfitting and underfitting.
A retrospective cohort study to evaluate the relationship of airway hyperresponsiveness to type 2 biomarkers in persistent asthma

irway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a hallmark of persistent asthma measured using direct or indirect airway bronchial challenge testing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the putative relationships between type 2 inflammatory biomarkers, airway geometry (FEV1 and FEF25-75) and specific IgE (RAST or skin prick) to AHR. We performed a retrospective analysis of our database (n = 131) of patients with asthma. Of these subjects, 75 had a histamine challenge and 56 had a mannitol challenge. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) and specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) but not blood eosinophils were significantly higher in patients with AHR to either histamine or mannitol. FEV1 % and FEF25 - 75 % were significantly lower in patients with AHR. Elevated Type 2 biomarkers including FeNO and specific IgE but not blood eosinophils were associated with AHR. Highlights: FeNO and specific IgE but not blood eosinophils are raised in patients with airway hyperresponsiveness.
Rumination-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Chronic pain remains or reappears for more than 3 to 6 months, and it is influencing 20% of the global population. The pain catastrophizing affects pain intensity and psychological conditions of patients with chronic pain. Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (RFCBT) targets rumination as the key component of pain catastrophizing. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of RFCBT on depression, anxiety, and pain severity of individuals with chronic low back pain (LBP). Materials and Methods: In a randomized controlled trial, 30 patients aged between 20-55 years with diagnosed chronic LBP were chosen by convenience sampling and randomly allocated into intervention and control groups. All patients used their prescribed medications for pain management, but the intervention group received 12 weekly sessions of RFCBT, which was manualized psychotherapy to change unconstructive rumination to constructive rumination. Depression Anxiety and Stress scale-21 and chronic pain grade questionnaire were administered as pre-tests and re-administered after 3 and 6 months as post-test and follow-up assessments, respectively. Results: RFCBT significantly reduced depression (F1=23.01, P=0.001), anxiety (F1=25.7, P=0.001) and pain severity (F1=7.17, P=0.012) in patients with chronic LBP. Conclusion: RFCBT may offer benefits for treating patients with chronic low back pain when added to their usual pharmacological treatment. This benefit may be the result of targeting rumination as the key element of pain catastrophizing.