Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Restoring Coronary Perfusion Pressure before Defibrillation after Chest Compression Interruptions

Background: Sufficient coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) to provide myocardial reperfusion is required for defibrillation success after prolonged ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest. Chest compression interruptions cause a precipitous drop in CPP. Objective: To quantify the ex- tent to which CPP recovers to pre-pause levels following chest compression interruptions. Me- thods: This was a secondary analysis of data from two similar IACUC approved protocols. A total of 105 Yorkshire swine were included and VF was electrically induced. After 10 minutes of untreated VF in the first study (n = 52) and 12 minutes of untreated VF in the second (n = 53), CPR began and epinephrine was administered approximately 2 minutes prior to a planned 10-second pause to record an artifact-free ECG waveform segment. Following this pause, CPR was resumed for 20- seconds prior to defibrillation. CPP data were extracted from three time points: 2 minutes after epinephrine delivery (CPP1); following the chest compression pause (CPP2); and immediately before defibrillation (CPP3). Our primary outcome was defined as the ratio of CPP recovery (CPP3- CPP2) to the drop in CPP (CPP1-CPP2). Results: Interrupting compressions resulted in a significant drop in CPP (29.8 mmHg [95%CI: 26.2, 33.4] to 6.8 mmHg [95%CI: 5.4, 8.2]). Resuming CPR for restored 83% (95%CI: 78%, 86%) of the CPP lost. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that 83% of the decline in CPP values during a planned 10-second interruption in CPR can be restored with a short period of precordial compressions prior to defibrillation.
The Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics of Host Range Definition in "Pseudomonas syringae"

Many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens of plant and animals harbor a conserved type III protein secretion system for the injection into the eukaryotic cells of host range determinants, or “effectors”. In Pseudomonas syringae, effectors are the products of avirulence and virulence genes, and the type III secretion apparatus is encoded by hrp/hrc genes, which are included in a large pathogenicity island with a tripartite mosaic structure. Individual effectors can have a dual role, depending on the plant host: they can either promote disease or elicit a defence response (hypersensitive response, HR) that diminishes virulence or restricts host range. There is strong evidence to support the belief that effectors act inside host plant cells and interact specifically with the products of plant resistance genes, to elicit the HR, or putative plant “susceptibility genes”, to elicit disease. Therefore, the capacity of a P. syringae strain to infect a given host, and hence host range, is determined by the sum of the individual activities (either positive or negative) of all the effectors that are injected into a host plant cell. Many P. syringae strains also produce other extracellular factors that could be involved in the interaction with the host, although only phytotoxins and certain hormones have been shown so far to increase virulence. Unlike effectors, however, their action does not appear to be host-specific.
High pT and jets predictions with PYTHIA and HERWIG in p-p collisions at √S = 14 TeV at LHC

High momentum direct photons and hadrons are produced at the LHC and the ALICE experiment measures and identifi es them with the help of its calorimeters and tracking system. This studydeals with the production of such particles in p-p collisions at √S = 14 TeVby using two Monte Carlo generators (PYTHIA and HERWIG) and Next to Leading Order (NLO) predictions. The results show a good agreement among them. Special attention was given to the production of direct prompt photons and the use of isolation cutsfortheir identifi cation.
A history of ostrich farming : its potential in Australian agriculture.

Ostrich farming originated in South Africa in the 1860’s. The Australian industry commenced in the mid 1870’s and by the early 1900’s there were several large farms throughout Australia. In 1914, following a world wide slump, the ostrich virtually disappeared from Australian agriculture but interest was revived in the late 1970’s. The industry is still in it’s infancy as there are only small numbers of birds and many problems have been encountered in production.
Progress in isotope tracer hydrology in Canada

An overview of current research in isotope hydrology, focusing on recent Canadian contributions, is discussed under the headings: precipitation networks, hydrograph separation and groundwater studies, river basin hydrology, lake and catchment water balance, and isotope palaeohydrology from lake sediment records. Tracer‐based techniques, relying primarily on the naturally occurring environmental isotopes, have been integrated into a range of hydrological and biogeochemical research programmes, as they effectively complement physical and chemical techniques. A significant geographic focus of Canadian isotope hydrology research has been on the Mackenzie River basin, forming contributions to programmes such as the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment. Canadian research has also directly supported international efforts such as the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Global Network for Isotopes in Precipitation and IAEAs Coordinated Research Project on Large River Basins. One significant trend in Canadian research is toward sustained long‐term monitoring of precipitation and river discharge to enable better characterization of spatial and temporal variability in isotope signatures and their underlying causes. One fundamental conclusion drawn from previous studies in Canada is that combined use of δ18O and δ2H enables the distinction of precipitation variability from evaporation effects, which offers significant advantages over use of the individual tracers alone. The study of hydrological controls on water chemistry is one emerging research trend that stems from the unique ability to integrate isotope sampling within both water quality and water quantity surveys. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Processing quantum information in diamond

Quantum computing is an attractive and multidisciplinary field, which became a focus for experimental and theoretical research during the last decade. Among other systems, such as ions in traps and superconducting circuits, solid state based qubits are considered to be promising candidates for use in first experimental tests of quantum hardware. Here we report recent progress in quantum information processing with point defects in diamond. Qubits are defined as single spin states (electron or nuclear). This allows exploration of long coherence times (up to seconds for nuclear spins at cryogenic temperatures). In addition, the optical transition between ground and excited electronic states allows coupling of spin degrees of freedom to the state of the electromagnetic field. Such coupling gives access to spin state read-out via spin-selective scattering of photons. This also allows the use of spin states as robust memory for flying qubits (photons).
Analisis Pemilihan Supplier Beras Dengan Menggunakan Metode Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Abstrak— Salah satu aktivitas penting dalam rangkaian supply chain perusahaan adalah pemilihan supplier bahan baku. Aktivitas ini dikategorikan dalam aktivitas strategis, karena peran supplier akan turut dalam menentukan keberhasilan perusahaan. Pemilihan supplier yang baik akan melancarkan seluruh proses produksi perusahaan, yang menghasilkan produk jadi maupun jasa yang berkualitas dan menghasilkan keuntungan bagi perusahaan. Apabila bahan baku yang disediakan oleh supplier berkualitas buruk, maka hal ini juga akan berpengaruh terhadap kualitas produk yang dihasilkan. Dan apabila supplier tidak bisa menyediakan bahan baku sesuai dengan kebutuhan perusahaan, maka dapat dipastikan bahwa jadwal produksi akan terganggu. Berdasarkan hal tersebut maka penelitian ini adalah menentukan supplier yang dapat memberikan performansi terbaik, berdasarkan kriteria yang telah ditentukan perusahaan. Upaya untuk menjaga mutu produk warung nasi “MN” perlu menyeleksi supplier bahan baku yang kompeten dan mampu memberikan bahan baku yang berkualitas, terutama bahan baku beras. Pemilihan supplier perlu dilakukan untuk mendapatkan kriteria supplier yang benarbenar mampu memenuhi kebutuhan warung nasi “MN” secara konsisten dan berkualitas. Pada penelitian ini kriteria yang digunakan dalam pemilihan supplier yaitu kualitas, harga, fleksibel, pengiriman dan responsiveness. Supplier yang memiliki performansi terbaik dalam menyediakan bahan baku secara keseluruhan adalah supplier 1 dengan nilai bobotnya adalah 0,68 (tabel 4.6). Supplier 1 sekaligus menjadi pemenangnya. Kata kunci—pemilihan supplier, metode AHP, kriteria pemilihan supplier
Latinos and Other Minorities in Los Angeles: Their Languages - eScholarship

In Los Angeles, among other ethnic groups, live Anglos, Latinos, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Iranians, Arabs, Russians, French and Israelis, just to mention a few. They use their native or heritage languages mostly to communicate with each other within their ethnic group. In fact, these speakers and their languages are not erratically intermingled, but grouped by ethnicity in different geographical areas in the city. In this paper, I address the social and linguistic similarities and differences of the minority languages most widely spoken in Los Angeles, which is a geographical point of attraction and irradiation in Southern California. In fact, major ethnic and linguistic diversity in the Western United States is localized in Los Angeles.
Histopathologic and apoptotic effect of nanosilver in liver of broiler chickens

Silver nanoparticles can destroy bacteria, viruses and fungi; therefore, it is recommended as a disinfectant and can be used as a drug in the treatment of some non-curable viral disease in livestock. The aim of the present investigation was to study the effects of nanosilver induced toxicity on the liver of broiler chickens. This study was carried out on 240 one-day-old male broiler chickens (Ross 308) in a completely randomized design (CRD) in four treatments at 0 (control), 4, 8 and 12 ppm levels of silver nanoparticles that was added daily to the drinking water with four repetitions within 16 separate cages and 15 birds in each pen. At the end of the experiment (day 42), 32 chicks were randomly selected and slaughtered thereafter, H&E, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining and light microscope was used to examine livers. Liver histopathology and H&E staining showed dose depended changes such as fatty degeneration, sinusoidal congestion, central vein dilatation, necrosis in hepatocytes and fibrosis. TUNEL staining showed significant (p<0.01) increase of apoptotic cells in groups 3 (8 ppm) and 4 (12 ppm). Data were statistically analyzed using ANOVA. Lesions and apoptotic cells in groups 3 (8 ppm) and 4 (12 ppm) were more severe than in group 2 (4 ppm). It can be concluded that higher concentrations of nanosilver (8 and 12 ppm) can induce sever lesions in chickens liver.
Banking behaviour and the Brazilian economy after the Real Plan: The post-Keynesian approch

This paper aims at analysing--from a Post Keynesian approach--the Brazilian bankingbehaviour in the current phase of the business cycle that is at the semi-stagnation state of the economy. According to the Post Keynesian approach, banks are economic agents that have liquidity preference determined strongly by their expectations under uncertainty, managing their portfolio according to the tradeoff between liquidity and profitability. We argue that banking behaviour in Brazil has been determined by the specific institutional-macroeconomic context of the current phase of the Brazilian economy, with banks taking advantage of the high rates of interest and the conditions in which government has managed its internal debt. But at the same time bankingstrategies are determinant of the current phase since portfolio allocation has been dominated by a short-termist behaviour and high liquidity preference that have resulted in low credit supply and high banking spread.
STATISTICAL ISSUES IN NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING

High throughput deep-sequencing or next-generation sequencing has emerged as an exciting new tool in a great number of applications (e.g., variant discovery, profiling of histone modifications, identifying transcription factor binding sites, resequencing, and transcriptome characterization). Even though this technology has generated unprecedented amounts of data in the scientific community few studies have looked carefully at its inherent variability. Recent studies of mRNA expression levels found little appreciable technical variation in Illumina’s Solexa sequencing platform (a next-generation sequencing device). Although these results are encouraging, they are limited to a specific platform and application, and have been made without any attention to experimental design. This paper provides an overview of some key issues in data management and experimental design related to Illumina’s Solexa Genome Analyzer technology.
Development of Resource Saving Strategy in Economic Activity of Agricultural Enterprises

This article is dedicated to the development of an effective strategy for resource saving, to encourage the process of investing in resource saving technologies and the introduction of an efficient program for resource saving, especially in an agricultural enterprise, which has their own specific features. The basic idea behind most of the individual measures proposed in our strategy is to encourage efficient behavior in a way that it is compatible with an incentive while leaving the details of individual measures open and not making them mandatory. In this way the existing market mechanisms would hardly be affected. Resource saving strategy is built upon ecologically clean agriculture production and related practices to accelerate the application of preventive environmental strategies to processes, products and services to increase efficiency and reduce risks to humans and the environment. The efficient use of the production potential of agricultural production in a general form is an essence of resource saving strategy. Reducing the resource usage could be achieved only to the limits technology factors, which could be lowered by the introduction of resource-saving crop rotation, introduction of low-cost technologies and new varieties. Saving technologies aim at reducing direct labor, materials and production processes, environmental compliance impacts on land resources, improving the quality and stability of production and profit. Taking into account all the issues listed above, we in the article proposed concept of resource saving strategy in economic activity of agricultural enterprises.
Endothermy, ectothermy and the global structure of marine vertebrate communities

Birds and mammals are the leading marine predators at high latitudes, while sharks and other large fish occupy top positions in tropical waters. The present study proposes that temperature- dependent predation success (TPS) explains global patterns of marine vertebrate community struc- ture. Burst speed increases with temperature in ectotherms but is independent of temperature in endotherms. If capture success depends on relative swimming speeds of predator and prey, ecto- thermic prey will be more vulnerable to attack by endothermic predators at low temperatures. Conversely, high temperatures should enhance the ability of ectothermic predators to prey on endotherms. Pursuit-diving seabirds (penguins, auks and some cormorants) and pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) are ubiquitous in ocean waters with summer surface temperatures cooler than the mid- teens to low 20s (°C) but are virtually absent in warmer regions. We suggest that the near-absence of these animals at low latitudes is due to TPS, as warm water increases the difficulty of capturing fish prey and increases vulnerability to predation by large ectothermic and partially endothermic sharks. Pursuit-diving birds and pinnipeds are virtually absent from warm temperate and tropical waters, even where primary productivity and fisheries data suggest that food supplies are ample. This indi- cates that the low productivity that prevails in much of the tropical zone cannot explain the world- wide distributional patterns of pursuit-diving birds and pinnipeds. Endothermy in marine communi- ties increases with cooler temperatures and with animal size. Pursuit-diving birds and pinnipeds are sensitive to temperature limits and may suffer important range contractions as oceans warm.
Evaluating Web Services Functionality and Performance

Traditional distributed database transaction applications within large organizations often involve a large number of resources. In this case, people and DDBMSs distributed over a wide geographic area, may introduce conflict between heterogeneous systems. Web services (WS) provide solution for this problem since WS have an independent platform, independent language, and independent object model. This work presents WS application to access heterogeneous and distributed database via horizontal data fragments that is designed to be reliable, flexible and scalable. It describes the setup of SOAP server and applications based on the SOAP for end user client. In addition, it allows the publishing of WS descriptions to submit user requests (goal) to retrieve the required information. Here we evaluate the functional, behavior and performance of WS among possible different alternatives with real-time and execution parameters. Implementation details and case study experiments are presented along with the corresponding results.
Association of beverage consumption with obesity in healthy adults

Arab Journal of Nutrition and Exercise, Vol. 1, No. 1 Published on 7th April 2016 Abstract Background: The increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been found to be an important contributor of calories in the diet. Whether there is an association between the increased consumption of SSBs and the high rates of overweight and obesity is still questionable. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship of weight status and beverages consumed of adults in a residential compound in Abu Dhabi. Methods: Forty nine out of 65 residents form Al Reef Villas in Abu Dhabi agreed to participate in the study. Initial assessments including beverages frequency questionnaire and anthropometry measurements were completed for all participants. Participants who were identified as high beverages consumers were invited to a one-month intervention aiming to limit their beverages consumption. A final assessment was completed for all high consumers of beverages at the end of the one-month intervention. Results: 55% of the subjects were overweight or obese, and 51% had abdominal obesity. 73% consumed 100% fruit juices with no added sugar, 65% consumed soft drinks, and 60 % consumed plain milk and milk products. The majority (69%) consumed tea beverages rather than coffee beverages. There was no association between weight & beverages consumption. The mean energy percentage from beverages was 14.2 (± 11.1) among all participants. 53% were considered high consumers of beverages and 47% (n=23) were considered low consumers of beverages. The one-month intervention showed a significant decrease in % of calories from beverages and weight in the overweight & obese intervention group ( p <0.001 and p <0.05) respectively. Conclusion: This study highlighted major health problems in Abu Dhabi including high rates of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity. The one-month intervention was effective in reducing the energy percentage from beverages and weight of the overweight and obese participants, but no association was found in this sample between beverages consumption and overweight and obesity.
INTEGRATION OF DYNAMIC PRICING AND OVERSELLING WITH OPPORTUNISTIC CANCELLATION

We extend the concept of dynamic pricing by integrating it with overselling with opportunistic cancellation option, within the framework of dynamic policy. Under this strategy, to sell a stock of perishable product (or capacity) two prices are offered to customers at any given time period. Customers are categorized as high-paying and low-paying ones. The seller deliberately oversells its capacity if high paying customers show up, even when the capacity is already fully booked by low-paying customers. In that case, the sale to some low-paying customers is canceled, although an appropriate compensation must be provided. A dynamic programming approach is applied to formulate and solve this problem. We develop two models for continuous and periodic pricing, depending on the frequency of price changing. The advantage of this system over dynamic pricing model is investigated through some numerical examples. We also study some structural properties of the optimal policies.
Demographical Study on Emotional Intelligence Among the Faculty Members with Special Reference to Business Schools in India

In the management education, the idea of emotional intelligence has legitimate applications and significance for the way the faculty members educate and the way they see their part in adding to the prosperity of the students. The faculty having emotional literacy has a high degree of self-control and is also able to exert a high degree of influence over others. Such a man can identify with others viably and his practices reflect confidence, sympathy and lucidity of thought and judiciousness. In concurrence with the ascertained importance of emotional intelligence in the working of faculties in the education system, the present research is an attempt to studythe level of emotional intelligence of business school faculty members with respect to age, gender, qualification, designation and marital status. Faculty members’ emotional intelligence was accessed with the help of Emotional Intelligence scale developed by Anukool Hyde and Sanjyot Pethe and Upinder Dhar (2001). The descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The sample of 545Business school faculty members from various macro and micro cities of India has been selected adopting convenient sampling technique. The data obtained from the survey has been analysed using t-test and one-wayANOVA. The study reveals that a significant difference exists between age, gender, qualification, designation, marital status and emotional intelligence of the faculty members with special reference to business schools in India.
Maximum Temperature in Dry Surface Grinding for High Peclet Number and Arbitrary Heat Flux Profile

Regarding heat transfer in dry surface grinding, simple asymptotic expressions of the maximum temperature for large Peclet numbers are derived. For this purpose, we consider the most common heat flux profiles reported in the literature, such as constant, linear, triangular, and parabolic. In the constant case, we provide a refinement of the expression given in the literature. In the linear case, we derive the same expression found in the literature, being the latter fitted by using a linear regression. The expressions for the triangular and parabolic cases are novel.