Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Modalidade do trabalho: Ensaio teórico Evento: XXI Jornada de Pesquisa THE FOOD WE THROW AWAY

1 Artigo de cooperação interdisciplinar 2 Docente do Departamento de Ciências da Vida (DCVida) da Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (UNIJUI), Grupo de Pesquisa Biodiversidade e Ambiente (AMBIO), tutora do Programa de Educação Tutorial (PET Biologia/MEC/SESU) 3 Acadêmico do Curso de Direito da Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – UNIJUÍ 4 Acadêmico de Ciências Biológicas e Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – UNIJUÍ e bolsista PET (MEC/SESU) 5 Docente do Departamento de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais (DCJS) da Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – UNIJUÍ
Hardware Tuning Based Approach for Data Warehouse Tuning

The concept of the data warehouse has been emerging over the last few years, but with the new, faster computers and the reduction in the cost of disk storage, the data warehouse is finally becoming a reality. This paper first looks at what a data warehouse is, then at the characteristics of the data warehouse, and then at the data access patterns seen in the data warehouse.
CHAPTER-2 GENERATION OF SECURITY KEY USING ECG SIGNAL 2

The individual biometric identification has become very popular over the past two decades. There are many biometric traits that are used for verification and identification of an individual. Finger print, hand geometry, iris, palmprint, signature identification, face recognition, etc. have enjoyed tremendous success in identification and recognition of an individual and have emerged as powerful biometric traits in recent years. Biometric security systems accepts biological, physiological or behavior features of an individual for identification and recognition. In past few years, few more biometric parameters have been studied by the researchers such as electrocardiogram (ECG), footprint, DNA, vein pattern, etc. and have also been used for an identification and verification of an individual. To develop a good biometric security system, researchers are using two potentially complimentary security technologies biometrics and cryptography together for better results. Biometrics [1-6] uses the individual unique traits for recognizing a person with high degree of accuracy. Cryptography technology is used for transmitting the information on networks with high security [7-10].
Antioxidant Effects of the Biofield Energy Treated Novel Proprietary Test Formulation in Male Wistar Rats

Vol 4:1 pp19 Abstract To determine the antioxidant potential of the Biofield Energy (the Trivedi Effect®) Treated novel proprietary test formulation and Biofield Energy Treatment per se on male rats. The test formulation was distributed into two parts; one was denoted as the untreated formulation, while the other was treated with Biofield Energy by Mahendra Kumar Trivedi and denoted as Biofield Treated group. Besides, three group of animals were also received Biofield Energy Treatment under same conditions. The results showed that Malondialdehyde (MDA) was significantly reduced by 30.95%, 17.30%, and 45.76% (p ≤ 0.05) in the Biofield Treatment per se to animals at day -15 (G6), Biofield Treated test formulation from day -15 (G7), and Biofield Treatment per se to animals with the untreated test formulation (G9) groups, respectively compared to the disease control (G2) group. Moreover, Myeloperoxidase (MPO) level was altered by 65.57%, 41.27%, 51.18%, and 49.29% in the G6, G7, Biofield Treatment per se to animals with Biofield Energy Treated test formulation from day -15 (G8), and G9, respectively compared to the G2. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) level was significantly (p ≤ 0.001) increased by 81.47%, 95.87%, 74.66%, and 83.88% in the G6, G7, G8, and G9, respectively compared to the G2. Additionally, Catalase (CAT) activity was significantly increased by 31.69% and 12.28% in the G5 and G6, respectively compared to the G2. Further, glutathione (GSH) level was significantly increased by 12.54% in the G7, however; glutathione peroxidase (GPx) level was significantly (p ≤ 0.001) increased by 125%, 116.86%, and 174.42% in the G7, G8 and G9, respectively with respect to the G2. The body weight, feed consumption, water intake, and relative organ weight results suggest that the Biofield Treated formulation did not show any signs of organ-related toxicity and it considered as safe compared to the normal control. Histopathological findings also supported that the Biofield Treatment group did not show any treatment-related changes in all the experimental animals as compared with the normal control. Overall, data suggests that Biofield Treatment per se (The Trivedi Effect®) and Biofield Treated test formulation possess significant antioxidant activity in order to improve and boost the immune system. Therefore, this therapy could be useful for the management of stress and various immune-related disorders like a plastic Anemia, Pernicious Anemia, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Myasthenia Gravis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Addison Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Graves ’ disease, Reactive Arthritis, etc.
Elicitors ( Chitosan and Hyaluronic Acid ) Affect Protocorm-Like Body Formation in Hybrid Cymbidium

Protocorm-like body (PLB) production from hybrid Cymbidium Twilight Moon ‘Day Light’ was examined on a new medium, Teixeira Cymbidium (TC) medium in response to chitosan and other elicitors. TCPLB, the control medium specific for induction of PLBs, contained a unique set of microand macro-nutrients, 0.1 mg/l -naphthaleneacetic acid and 0.1 mg/l kinetin, 2 g/l tryptone and 20 g/l sucrose, and solidified with 8 g/l Bacto agar. Crude deacetylated chitin (i.e., chitosan), chitosan and hyaluronic acid (HA) had a pronounced effect on PLB formation, depending on the concentration, when added to TC medium without plant growth regulators (PGRs). In all cases, the performance was never better than TC, although 0.1-1.0 mg/l chitosan or HA produced more PLBs/PLB and a greater fresh weight than TC basal medium without PGRs. This indicates that both these elicitors could induce PLBs and thus acted as phytohormones. Peroxidase activity, a signal of stress induction, increased in PLB extracts of PLBs grown on medium containing chitosan and HA, peaking when these elicitors were supplied at 50 mg/l. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stochastic gradient descent‐based support vector machines training optimization on Big Data and HPC frameworks

Support vector machines (SVM) is a widely used machine learning algorithm. With the increasing amount of research data nowadays, understanding how to do efficient training is more important than ever. This article discusses the performance optimizations and benchmarks related to providing high‐performance support for SVM training. In this research, we have focused on a highly scalable gradient descent‐based approach to implementing the core SVM algorithm. In providing a scalable solution, we have designed optimized high‐performance computing and dataflow‐oriented SVM implementations. A high‐performance computing approach means the algorithm is implemented with the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model. In addition, we analyzed the language level optimizations and math kernel optimizations on a prominent HPC modeling programming language (C++) and dataflow modeling programming language (Java). In the experiments, we compared the performance of classic HPC models, classic dataflow models, and hybrid models designed on classic HPC and dataflow programming models. Our research illustrates a scientific approach in designing the SVM algorithm at scale in classic HPC, dataflow, and hybrid systems.
EFFICACY OF TAURINE AGAINST ALUMINUM MALTOLATE-INDUCED APOPTOSIS IN SH-SY5Y CELLS VIA REDUCTION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS, ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS, AND MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION

Aluminum (Al) is one of the most abundant elements on the earth’s crust and is used in various industrial applications. However, Al is known to be associated with various neurodegenerative diseases. Taurine is a free amino acid presents at high concentrations in the brain and is crucial for neuron development. Here, the protective effects of taurine against Al-induced neurotoxicity were investigated. Al, at a concentration of 600 M, induced apoptosis of and cell cycle arrest in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Additionally, Al induced a 55% increase in the levels of reactive oxygen species and inhibited mitochondrial membrane potential up to 60%. Al treatment also stimulated caspase 9 activities and Grp78 production. Furthermore, the expressions of neurotrophic genes including NDRG-4, BDNF and SIRT1 were inhibited. Hence this study revealed that taurine attenuates oxidative stress, ER stress and mitochondrial dysfunction and consequently protects against Al-induced cytotoxicity and neuronal apoptosis.
Comparative Study of Anti Hypertensive Drugs

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs. Materials and method: These four drugs were given to patients having hypertension. There were made four groups, each group consisted of 75 patients, total number of patients were 300, the study period was up to 60 days. The blood pressure was recorded at 15 days, 30 days and 60 days. Result: In all the groups the blood pressure decreased and maximum decrease was found among the patients with ibesartan, the drug ibesatan seems to be more effective as compared to other drugs. Conclusion: Ibesatran is more effective drug according to our study. However more studies are required to reach authentic conclusion.
Org Immune Control of HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection of the immune cells expressing the cluster of differentiation 4 cell surface glycoprotein (CD4 cells) causes progressive decline of the immune system and leads to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The ongoing global HIV/AIDS pandemic has already claimed over 35 million lives. Even after 37 years into the epidemic, neither a cure is available for the 37 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) nor is a vaccine discovered to avert the millions of new HIV infections that continue to occur each year. If left untreated, HIV infection typically progresses to AIDS and, ultimately, causes death in a majority of PLHIV. The recommended combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) suppresses virus replication and viremia, prevents or delays progression to AIDS, reduces transmission rates, and lowers HIV-associated mortality and morbidity. However, because cART does not eliminate HIV, and an enduring pool of infected resting memory CD4 T cells (latent HIV reservoir) is established early on, any interruption to cART leads to a relapse of viremia and disease progression. Hence, strict adherence to a life-long cART regimen is mandatory for managing HIV infection in PLHIV. The HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T cells expressing the CD8 glycoprotein (CD8 CTL) limit the virus replication in vivo by recognizing the viral antigens presented by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules on the infected cell surface and killing those cells. Nevertheless, CTLs fail to durably control HIV-1 replication and disease progression in the absence of cART. Intriguingly, <1% of cART-naive HIV-infected individuals called elite controllers/HIV controllers (HCs) exhibit the core features that define a HIV-1 “functional cure” outcome in the absence of cART: durable viral suppression to below the limit of detection, long-term nonprogression to AIDS, and absence of viral transmission. Robust HIV-1-specific CTL responses and prevalence of protective HLA alleles associated with enduring HIV-1 control have been linked to the HC phenotype. An understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the CTL-mediated suppression of HIV-1 replication and disease progression in HCs carrying specific protective HLA alleles may yield promising insights towards advancing the research on HIV cure and prophylactic HIV vaccine.
Atemporality of Coextension Paths

This study demonstrates a peripheral role of time conceived as an object of perception in mental processing of fictive motion expressions. More specifically, this study focuses on a specific category of fictive motion used for representation of static spatial configurations, which is referred to as coextension paths. Frequencies of language patterns found in the BNC indicate that at the conceptual level coextension paths tend to be processed as atemporal expressions of spatial extension. An apparent absence of temporality in coextension paths can be attributed to the basic conceptual difference between static physical objects and force-dynamic events. Since space is fundamentally static and globally accessible in nature, language users are inclined to express fictive motion without reference to the temporal axis. The results indicate that there exist two cognitive modes of processing coextension path expressions.
Acute and Subchronic Oral Toxicity of Fermented Green Tea with Aquilariae Lignum in Rodents

Green tea is generally considered safe, but there have been concerns regarding side effects relating to the main component, catechins, especially hepatotoxicities. We have previously shown beneficial effects of fermented green tea with Aquilariae Lignum (fGT) via an oral route in diabetic and obese models. Thus, the toxicological safety of fGT was assessed at limited oral doses for a rodent. Mice or rats of both genders were orally administered distilled water as a control and fGT at 2.0, 1.0, and 0.5 g/kg. There were no mortalities or gross abnormalities in the fGT groups for 2 weeks following the single oral dose in mice. No fGT-relevant abnormalities were found in postmortem and histopathological examinations, suggesting LD50 of fGT at more than 2.0 g/kg with no specific target organs. There were also no fGT-relevant mortalities or abnormal signs in the repeated oral dose for 13 weeks in rats. In the fGT groups, no body weight changes or daily metabolic changes were found, and hematological and serum biochemical ranges were normal. The postmortem and histopathological examinations revealed few fGT-related abnormalities in most of the organs including the liver, although slight lymphoid cell hyperplasia in the lymph node was observed in a few rats with fGT at 2.0 g/kg. This may be secondary to increased immune response to the highest dose because there were no histopathological lesions or organ weight changes. It suggests nontoxic safety of fGT at up to 2.0 g/kg, which provides useful information for clinical use.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF SALT TOLERANCE IN FIVE VARIETIES F 2 GENERATION MATERIAL OF WHEAT Ass

Improving crop tolerance of salinity is one way to maximize production on irrigated land in arid and semiarid areas where the salinity of soils and irrigarion water are problems. A screening and selection techniques were used to examine variability to NaCl tolerance and to improve salt tolerance in five population material. A total of 4-6 of individuals were obtained from 5,000 seeds of each of the five F2 population sample with improved salinity tolerance in a sand experiment in which samples of the progenies of selected individuals were grown at 100 and 175 mM NaCl. There were differences between individuals in the five F2 populations and between selected wheat lines in their overall sensitivities to salinity. The progeny of those individals selected and seedling produced significantly higher total dry weight and in all cases except one were superior in yield at maturity when compare to the yield of the F2 controls. میھاربإ لیعامسإ ينادھشملا نسح * ملاس قازرلا دبع نیدلا فیس ** * ءاذغلا ایجولونكتو ةیعارزلا ثوحبلا ةرئاد ایجولونكتلاو مولعلا ةرازو ** رابنلاا ةعماج – ءارحصلا تاسارد زكرم
Self Attention in Variational Sequential Learning for Summarization

Attention mechanism plays a crucial role in sequential learning for many speech and language applications. However, it is challenging to develop a stochastic attention in a sequenceto-sequence model which consists of two recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as the encoder and decoder. The problem of posterior collapse happens in variational inference and results in the estimated latent variables close to a standard Gaussian prior so that the information from input sequence is disregarded in learning process. This paper presents a new recurrent autoencoder for sentence representation where a self attention scheme is incorporated to activate the interaction between inference and generation in training procedure. In particular, a stochastic RNN decoder is implemented to provide additional latent variable to fulfill self attention for sentence reconstruction. The posterior collapse is alleviated. The latent information is sufficiently attended in variational sequential learning. During test phase, the estimated prior distribution of decoder is sampled for stochastic attention and generation. Experiments on Penn Treebank and Yelp 2013 show the desirable generation performance in terms of perplexity. The visualization of attention weights also illustrates the usefulness of self attention. The evaluation on DUC 2007 demonstrates the merit of variational recurrent autoencoder for document summarization.
Nature tourists ’ concern for the environment and response to ecolabels in Oulanka National Park

National parks and other protected areas attract increasingly tourists in Finland, which highlights the importance of sustainable tourism. Various international initiatives, ecolabels and certification programs, such as PAN Parks in Europe, have been introduced to promote sustainable nature-based tourism. Often tourists are also given responsibility to prevent negative impacts of their activities. This paper examines the role of nature tourists in developing sustainable tourism in protected areas: How concerned are they for the environment? How do they consider environmental aspects when travelling? How do they respond to tourism ecolabels and certifications? The paper is based on concurrent interview and survey studies conducted in Oulanka National Park, one of the certified PAN Parks in Finland. The paper indicates that only a small proportion of tourists are highly concerned for the environment and interested in ecolabels, and aim at travelling in an environmentally responsible way. Nature tourists’ lack of response to ecolabels and environmentally friendly behavior undermines their role in developing sustainable tourism. Therefore, the study results emphasize the role of regulation, incentives and guidance in implementing ecological, socio-cultural and economic sustainability in tourism companies and destinations. Nature tourists’ concern for the environment and response. 28 NGP Yearbook 2010 of sustainable tourism is based on the idea that tourist attitudes, choices and behavior about the environment critically influence sustainability and should therefore be taken into consideration (see Swarbrooke 1999; Weaver & Lawton 2004). Especially in sensitive nature-based destinations, tourists are often given responsibility to prevent negative impacts of their activities. The type of tourists and tourist activities in natural areas play an important role in determining environmental impacts (e.g. Törn et al. 2009). Thus, research is needed to find out whether the growing segment of nature tourists in protected areas concerns for the environment and travels in an environmentally friendly way. This paper examines the role of nature tourists in developing sustainable tourism in protected areas: How concerned are they for the environment? How do they consider environmental aspects when travelling? How do they respond to tourism ecolabels and certifications? The aim is to present the variety of nature tourists’ environmental views and behaviors. The paper is based on the most important findings of concurrent interview (Puhakka in press) and survey studies (Puhakka & Siikamäki forthcoming; see Ylimaunu 2009) conducted in Oulanka National Park, one of the certified PAN Parks in Finland.
Trivia Score and Ranking Estimation Using Support Vector Regression and RankNet

Dialogue systems have been increasingly important these days. In particular, non-task-oriented dialogue systems are studied because of the success of neural network approaches such as seq2seq models. However, these models tend to generate simple responses such as “yes” and “ok. ” To construct a dialogue sys-tem that holds users’ attention continuously, we need to generate utterances that capture the interest of the user. In this paper, we propose a method to extract trivia sentences for the purpose. Trivia information perhaps adds a surprise to users. Therefore, capturing trivia information is beneﬁcial for dialogue systems. We estimate a trivia score of a sentence by using machine learning approaches, Support Vector Regression (SVR) and RankNet. We obtained 0.79 and 0.78 on SVR for the nDCG @5 and RankNet for the nDCG @10 , respectively. We focus on the subject word in each sentence. The method with subject information outperformed that without subject information; 0.79 with subject information vs. 0.64 without subject information on the SVR for the nDCG @5 .
An efficient in vitro plant regeneration system for Cichorium intybus L . – an important medicinal plant

An efficient method for totipotent callus formation and whole plant regeneration has been developed for chicory (Cichorium intybus L.). Totipotent calli of chicory were induced from cotyledon, leaf, hypocotyl and root explants on MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of IAA, IBA, NAA and 2,4-D at 0.5-10 μM in combination with BAP (2 μM). These calli were transferred to shoot regeneration medium containing MS basal medium with different concentrations and combinations of BAP, KIN and IAA. Maximum number of shoots was obtained on MS medium with BAP (4 μM) + IAA (1 μM). The shoots were rooted on MS medium supplemented with IAA, IBA and NAA. Rooted plantlets were successfully established in the field after hardening.
Acquisition and Classification System of EMG Signals for Interpreting the Alphabet of the Sign Language

—Taking into account that in Peru, there is an increase in people with difficulties in speaking or communicating. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru (INEI for its acronym in Spanish), around 80000 people use the gesturing language. For this reason, this research proposes to use the electromyography (EMG) signals to detect the hand movement and identify the alphabet of the sign language to provide essential communication to people who need it. The idea is to classify the signals and recognize the letters of the Spanish alphabet, interpreted in the Peruvian sign language. The results show the classification of the 27 letters of the alphabet with a general success rate of 93.9%.