Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparative Production of Channel Catfish and Channel × Blue Hybrid Catfish Subjected to Two Minimum Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations

Abstract The effect of daily minimum dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration on the growth and yield of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus and channel catfish hybrids (female channel catfish × male blue catfish I. furcatus) sharing the Jubilee strain of channel catfish as the maternal parent was evaluated in a 234-d study in sixteen 0.1-ha earthen ponds (15,113 fish/ha). Ponds were managed to maintain a minimum DO concentration of 25% or 50% of saturation. The total consumption of 32%-protein feed at the high and low DO concentrations was 12,973 and 10,262 kg/ha, respectively, for channel catfish and 12,805 and 11,592 kg/ha, respectively, for hybrid catfish. The net yield of hybrid catfish (8,069 kg/ha) did not differ from that of channel catfish (8,037 kg/ha), but the mean individual weight of hybrid catfish was significantly greater. Net yield (8,740 kg/ha), individual weight (0.75 kg/fish), and feed consumption (12,889 kg/ha) were higher for fish in the high DO than in the low DO concentration treatment (.
SUR LE LARYNX DES MUSTÉLIDÉS

L'un de nous, dans line precedente note (Mammalia, marsjuin 1951), a signale l'existence, chez ie Blaireau, de deux cartilages larynges supplementaires, les pteroldes ou sus-arytenoidiens. L'etude du larynx d'auires Mustelides nous a permis de retrouver cet element anatomique et d'en preciser la structure histologique. Chez la Loutre (Lutra lutra (L.)), nous noterons sur le larynx les particularites suivantes. Le thyroide possede des alles tres etroites, inclinees en arriere, a elargissement superieur peu marque ; chaque aile presente une bosse tres saillante ä sä face externe et une corne posterieure tres longue ; comme chez le Blaireau, il n'existe pas de prolongement hyoidien et le meme trou anterosuperieur laisse passage au nerf larynge superieur. Les arytenoides
OCR for Printed Bangla Characters Using Neural Network

— Optical Character recognition is a buzzword in the field of computing. Artificial neural networks are being used to recognize characters for a long time. ANN has the ability to learn and model non-linear and complex relationships, which is really important because in real life, many of the relationships between inputs and outputs are non-linear as well as complex. Research in the field of OCR with Bangla language is not as vast as the English language. So, there is a scope of research in this area. It can be used to search and scan hundreds of Bangla documents within seconds and can easily manipulate the data. It is developed for various purpose like for vision impaired person where OCR software can help turn books, magazines and other printed documents into accessible files that they can listen. The limitation of traditional OCR are sufficient dataset is not available, all different font of characters are not available and there are lots of complex and similar shape characters for which accuracy not good. In our research, we first tried to make a dataset large enough so that we can train our neural network as they require big data to train. We built our own dataset of 2,97,898 Bangla single character images of different fonts . Then for implementing neural network we used Scikit-learn’s
Approach to model human appearance based on sparse representation for human tracking in surveillance

: In human tracking, sparse representation successfully localises the human in a video with minimal reconstruction error using target templates. However, the state-of-the-art approaches use colour and local appearance of a human to discriminate the human from the background regions, and hence fail when the human is occluded and appears in the varying illumination environment. In this study, a robust tracking algorithm is proposed that utilises gradient orientation and fine and coarse sparse representation of the target template. Sparse representation-based human appearance model utilises weighted gradient orientation that is insensitive to illumination variation. Coarse and fine representation of sparse code facilitates tracking under varying scales. Subspace learning from image gradient orientation is enforced with occlusion detection during the dictionary updation stage to capture the visual characteristics of the local human appearance that supports tracking under partial occlusion with lesser tracking error. The proposed human tracking algorithm is evaluated on various datasets and shows efficient human tracking performance when compared to the other state-of-the-art approaches. Furthermore, the proposed human tracking algorithm is suitable for surveillance applications.
A qualitative research study comparing nutrition advice communicated by registered Dietitian and non-Registered Dietitian bloggers

ABSTRACT Background: Regardless of credentials or expertise, anyone can disseminate nutrition information online, putting the public at risk of receiving unreliable and harmful advice. Registered Dietitians (RD) are nutrition professionals; however, it is unknown how nutrition information or advice online differs between RDs and non-RDs. The objective of this study was to compare nutrition advice communicated on blogs by RD and non-RD bloggers. Methods: A blog-ranking platform, based on search and social media metrics, was used to identify the top-ranked, English-language nutrition blogs written by RDs (n = 10) and non-RDs (n = 10) available through public domain. From each blog, the 20 most recent nutrition-related posts were selected, resulting in a final sample size of 400 blog posts (RD = 200 blog posts; non-RD = 200 blog posts) for qualitative document analysis. Results: Although two themes were found for both RD and non-RD blogs: nutrition recommendations and service promotion/sponsorship, several themes were unique to RD or non-RD blogs. For example, RD blogs were primarily lifestyle blogs that promoted healthy lifestyles. Whereas, non-RD blogs focused on challenging conventional medicine while promoting alternative medicine, establishing their credibility, and had conflicting messages. Conclusions: The internet is an effective tool for communicating nutrition information to a wide audience. RD bloggers can optimize their impact by providing evidence-based nutrition education, addressing current health trends, and making advice achievable for low resource populations.
Mixnet Face Recognition How Combing 2D and 3D Data Can Increase the Precision

Great breakthrough has been made on Classic 2-D face recognition in normal environment. The facenet [1] proposed by Google in 2015 has 99.65% accuracy on LFW dataset. It can be considered that the performance of traditional 2-D network in normalized environment such as security check and bank is reliable enough. However, the accuracy of 2-D face recognition will significantly reduce when processing angular faces or occluded face. This paper claims that the lack of depth information is the reason why the recognition ability of neural network is inferior to that of human beings under complex conditions. Furthermore, we have proposed a method, which can obtain 100% accuracy on both Texas and Bosphorus dataset by using both 3-D deepmap and 2-D rgb picture as input.
Signaling for Integrin α5/β1 Expression in Helicobacter pylori–Infected Gastric Epithelial AGS Cells

Abstract: Integrin expression in cancer tissues demonstrates its possible contribution to tumor progression, invasion, and metastasis. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is related to gastric cancer and gastric inflammation. H. pylori induced upregulation in expression of integrin in gastric epithelia cells. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are considered as an important regulator in the pathogenesis of H. pylori–induced gastric ulceration and carcinogenesis. Integrin expression may be regulated by oxidant‐sensitive transcription factors, nuclear factor‐κB (NF‐κB) and activator protein‐1 (AP‐1). The present study aims to investigate whether H. pylori in a Korean isolate (HP99) induces the expression of integrin α5 and integrin β1, and whether H. pylori–induced expression of integrin α5 and integrin β1 are inhibited in the cells transfected with mutant genes for Ras (ras N‐17), c‐Jun (TAM‐67), and IκBα(MAD‐3) or treated with DPI, an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase. As a result, H. pylori induced the expression of integrin α5 and integrin β1 in gastric adenocarcinoma (AGS) cells time‐dependently . Treatment of DPI or transfection with mutant genes for Ras (ras N‐17), c‐jun (TAM67), and IκBα(MAD3) inhibited H. pylori–induced expression of integrin α5 and integrin β1 in AGS cells. In conclusion, H. pylori activates Ras, NF‐κB, and AP‐1 and thus induces the expression of integrin α5 and integrin β1 in gastric epithelial cells. Inhibition of ROS production by DPI suppressed the expression of integrin α5 and integrin β1 in gastric epithelial cells. The results suggest the possible involvement of NADPH oxidase for ROS production in H. pylori–infected gastric epithelial cells.
Disturbance, habitat structure and the ecology of fishes on coral reefs

Abstract This paper reviews empirical studies relating communities of coral-reef fishes to the characteristics of the underlying habitat, and the effects of habitat disturbance. Many contrasting patterns in the relationships between fish communities and coral cover, habitat heterogeneity or topographic complexity have been described, including strong effects of particular habitat characteristics (both positive and negative), as well as those finding weak or no relationships. In addition, a whole range of potential responses to different kinds of disturbance, including hurricane damage, crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster planci) outbreaks, and El Nino-associated coral and sea urchin die-offs, have been described. Few workers have attempted to test among alternative models about the importance of resource limitation or responses to disturbance, so critical hypotheses have not been tested. Potential generalizations may be obscured due to a number of problems faced when making comparisons among existing studies. These include the enormous variation in the magnitude of changes to habitats observed, restrictive assumptions about the form of relationships between fish and habitat variables, inadequate descriptions of habitat and fish community structure, a heavy reliance on ‘natural’, pseudoreplicated experiments and a plethora of different numerical and analytical techniques. We conclude that the search for generalizations would be facilitated by a greater attention to theory and clearer statements of the hypotheses being tested. Evaluation of the general importance of fish-habitat interactions must await the application of common observational and experimental methodologies to a wider range of fish taxa and locations.
Semi-automated construction of a knowledge graph with template

The Internet has massive data and a large number of relationships describing various entities and entities. HTML pages with semi-structured and structured data are important data sources for building knowledge graph. This paper proposes to construct a knowledge graph based on a template semi-automatically and construct a lure template by filling the template as a data source to realize the domain knowledge graph by extracting the triple data in the multi-data source through the attracting template. And build an application platform to provide a domain knowledge graph, reduce human participation to achieve efficient construction of knowledge graph.
Tratamiento con ondas de choque en síndrome doloroso del trocánter mayor

Introduccion: El sindrome de dolor del trocanter mayor afecta del 10 al 25 % de la poblacion. A veces presenta una dificil resolucion con tratamientos convencionales. Objetivo: Analizar la mejoria del dolor y satisfaccion de pacientes con dolor en trocanter mayor despues del tratamiento con ondas de choque extracorporeas piezoelectricas. Metodos: Estudio retrospectivo cuasiexperimental aplicado desde junio de 2015 hasta junio de 2017. Se examinaron pacientes mayores de 18 anos con dolor durante seis meses, refractarios al tratamiento conservador y sin desgarro del tendon en ecografia. La profundidad del foco fue determinada por ecografia. Se realizaron tres sesiones de tratamiento, frecuencia semanal y revision en tres meses. Se recomendaron autoestiramientos y cese de deportes de impacto. El dolor se cuantifico aplicando la Escala Visual Analogica antes y despues de cada sesion y a los tres meses. La satisfaccion se midio a los tres meses con la Escala de Roles y Maudsley. Resultados: Muestra de 70 pacientes, 91,4 % mujeres, edad media 58,94 anos. Se aplicaron 2000 pulsos por sesion, densidad de energia media 0,46 mJ/mm², mediana de profundidad de foco 25 mm y frecuencia 8 Hz. Media de dolor inicial 7,1 y final 3,13. Media de mejoria relativa de dolor a los tres meses 52,43 % ( p < 0,05) y satisfaccion con el tratamiento excelente o buena (63,1 %). Conclusiones: El tratamiento con ondas de choque piezoelectricas con soporte ecografico es seguro y eficaz a corto y medio plazo en el sindrome de dolor trocanterico, con mejoria del dolor en 82,6 % de los casos. Normal 0 21 false false false ES-TRAD X-NONE AR-SA /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:. 0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD; mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD;}
The efferent fibers of the thalamus of Macacus rhesus. I. Lateral ventral nuclei

Roussp ('07) was among the first to study thalamo-cortical fibers in the monkey. He described fibers going from the lateral nucleus to the parietal and posterior frontal region. Sachs ( '09) produced lesions in the thalamus and studied the ensuing degenerated tracts by Marchi staining. IIe found that the anterior portion of the lateral nucleus had efferent connections with the superior frontal and precentral gyri, while the ventral nucleus had connections only with the prea id postcentral gyri, He further found a dorsoventral topowaphical arrangement of the thalaino-cortical fibers ; those from the most dorsal part of the lateral nucleus extended to the leg. area of the cortex and those from the most ventral part, or lower ventral nucleus, extended to the opercular area. Other connections of the lateral nuclei were short fibers to the adjacent regions of the thalamus. Minkomsky ( '23) studied the thalamo-cortical connections of the monkey bjremoving portions of the cerebral cortex and later studying cellular degenerations in the thalamus. He concluded that the lateral nucleus had the following connections : The posterior extremity with the superior parietal
Seed variation in wild radish: effect of seed size on components of seedling and adult fitness

Seed mass in wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) varies up to sixfold within single fruits. The impact of such variation on subsequent growth and fecundity was studied. Seeds from single fruits were used to minimize genetic differences among individuals. Weighed seeds were planted close together in a disturbed area typical of Raphanus habitats. Large seeds (> 6 mg) were more likely to emerge as seedlings than were small seeds (<4 mg). Seed size had no effect on emergence time. Seedlings from large seeds grew more rapidly and produced more flowers than did those from related smaller seeds. Results from the field experiment contrasted with those obtained in greenhouse growth studies, where seed size had no significant effect on final plant size. This study points out two factors that have led to inconsistent results in previous studies of seed size and seedling success: (1) differences in the timing of growth measurements, and (2) the presence or absence of competitive inequities among neighbors within the experimental design.
La influencia de la confianza y satisfacción del cliente en la intención de uso de los servicios bancarios por internet: un modelo estructural

Las entidades financieras ofrecen cada vez más servicios a sus clientes a través de internet. En este entorno, el objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo influye la confianza y la satisfacción de los usuarios en la intención de uso de los servicios financieros en línea. De este modo, se propone un modelo conceptual resuelto mediante PLS-PM (Partial Least Squares). Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la confianza del usuario depende de la seguridad del sistema, la utilidad y la competencia de la entidad financiera, y pone de relieve el impacto de la confianza, la facilidad de uso y el diseño en la satisfacción del usuario con los servicios financieros en internet.
PHOTOSENSITIVE PHENOMENA OF NITRILE HYDRATASE OF Rhodococcus sp. N‐771

Abstract— When the washed cells of Rhodococcus sp. N‐771 were incubated at 5°C in the dark under aerobic condition, their nitrile hydratase was inactivated after several days. Most of this activity was recovered by light irradiation. The speed of inactivation in the dark was affected by incubation temperature and amount of oxygen supply. Under anerobic conditions, however, this reversible dark inactivation was not observed; the photoirradiation of the cells irreversibly inactivated the initial cell activity by about 15%. The enzyme activity of the cell‐free extract of the inactivated cells can also be recovered when photoirradiated. This process did not require oxygen, and was not prevented by dialysis. However, the enzyme of the cell‐free extract could not be inactivated by dark, aerobic incubation nor by photoirradiation after dark anaerobic incubation.
Purification and characterization of a ferulic acid esterase (FAE-III) from Aspergillus niger: Specificity for the phenolic moiety and binding to microcrystalline cellulose

An inducible ferulic acid esterase (FAE-III) has been isolated, purified and partially characterized from Aspergillus niger after growth on oat spelt xylan. The purification procedure utilized ammonium sulphate precipitation, hydrophobic interaction and anion-exchange chromatography. The purified enzyme appeared almost pure by SDS-PAGE, with an apparent M r of 36000. A single band, corresponding to a pl of 3·3 was observed on isoelectric focusing. With methyl ferulate as substrate, the enzyme had a specific activity of 67 IU (mg protein)-1, pH and temperature optima of 5 and 55–60 °C, respectively, and a Km of 2·08 mM and a V max of 175 μmol min-1 (mg protein)-1. The enzyme was also active upon methyl sinapinate, methyl-3,4-dimethoxy cinnamate and methyl p-coumarate, but not benzoic acid methyl esters or methyl caffeate. Similarly, Streptomyces olivochromogenes FAE showed activity against methyl ferulate, methyl sinapinate and methyl p-coumarate, but at a level 420-fold less (on methyl ferulate) than the A. niger esterase. No activity was detected against the benzoate methyl esters. For both enzymes, this shows the necessity for C-3 on the phenol ring to be methoxylated and the aliphatic region of the substrate to be unsaturated. The specific activity of FAE-III on destarched wheat bran was 31 U (mg protein)-1 in the presence of Trichoderma viride xylanase and 3 U (mg protein)-1 in the absence. Apparent pH dependent binding of A. niger FAE-III to microcrystalline cellulose was also demonstrated.
Genetic characterization of heterothallic and non-heterothallic Armillaria mellea sensu stricto

The genetic variation of Armillaria mellea sensu stricto was studied within and among non-heterothallic populations from Japan and Africa, and heterothallic populations from Europe and North America, using somatic incompatibility tests and RAPD analysis. Non-heterothallic isolates from Japan and Africa were divided into four somatic compatibility (SI) groups (A, B, C and D). SI group A contained half of all Japanese isolates and all African isolates. SI groups B and C each contained four Japanese isolates and D contained one isolate. All European and North American isolates were clearly separated from each other by somatic incompatibility tests. From the RAPD analysis, three distinct groups were separated (non-heterothallic, European and North American groups). The non-heterothallic group was divided into three subgroups (Ia, Ib and Ic). Subgroup Ia and Ib corresponded to SI groups A and B, however, Ic contained SI groups C and D. Subgroup Ia, in which 12 of 14 isolates had the same haplotype, showed a little variation. Non-heterothallic populations were less variable than heterothallic populations. The distribution of the isolates belonging to each SI group overlapped within Japan.
Multiple ε-Promoter Elements Participate in the Developmental Control of ε-Globin Genes in Transgenic Mice*

To delineate the regulation of the human ε-globin gene, we investigated ε-gene expression during the development of transgenic mice carrying constructs with ε-promoter truncations linked to a micro-locus control region (μLCR). Expression levels were compared with those of μLCRε mice carrying a 2 kilobase ε-promoter and βYAC controls. ε mRNA in the embryonic cells of μLCR (−179)ε mice were as high as in μLCRε mice suggesting that the proximal ε-promoter contains most elements required for ε-gene activation. ε mRNA in adult μLCR (−179) ε mice was significantly lower than in the embryonic cells indicating that elements involved in ε-gene silencing are contained in the proximal ε-promoter. Extension of the promoter sequence to −463 ε decreased ε-gene expression in the definitive erythroid cells, supporting previous evidence that the −179 to −463ε region contains an ε-gene silencer. However, the ε-gene of the μLCR(−463)ε mice was not silenced in the definitive cells of fetal and adult erythropoiesis indicating that additional silencing elements are located upstream of position −463ε. These results provide in vivo evidence that multiple elements of the distal as well as the proximal promoter contribute to ε-gene silencing.
Phytochemical and in vitro Antibacterial Evaluation of the Ethanolic Extract of the Stem Bark of Entada africana Guill. & Perr and Sarcocephalus latifolus

Aims: The phytochemical composition and the in vitro antibacterial activity of the ethanolic extract of the stem bark of Entada africana Guill. & Perr. and Sarcocephalus latifolus, on Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis were investigated . Study design: The plants stem bark samples were collected from Idu, Industrial Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and were characterized by Mrs. Jamilat at the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja, Nigeria. The bacterial isolates were obtained from the Microbiology Laboratory, Anambra
Protein kinase C modulates the motional properties of its lipid cofactor DPH-diacylglycerol

The motional properties of DPH labelled diacylglycerol (DG) in vesicles have been investigated in the absence and presence of its biological target: protein kinase C (PKC). In the absence of PKC the extent of ordering and rotational dynamics of DPH-DG turned out to be considerably different from those of DPH labelled phosphatidylcholine (DPH-PC). When DPH-DG was dispersed in membranes containing 10 mole % of phosphatidylserine (PS), addition of PKC led to an immobilization as judged from a slower fluorescence anisotropy decay. This effect was not seen when PS was replaced by PC or in the absence of calcium indicating that negatively charged lipids and calcium are required for interaction between PKC and DPH-DG. Furthermore, the specificity of the interaction of PKC with DPH-DG was compared with that of the control choline lipid DPH-PC.