Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Anxiolytic and sedative effects of a combined extract of Passiflora alata Dryander and Valeriana officinalis L. in rats

This work investigated the effects of a combined extract of Passiflora alata Dryander and Valeriana officinalis L. (EPV) in rats under going elevated plus maze (EPM) and open-field test (OFT). No effects were detected after acute or repeated (3 or 7-days) treatment with EPV (5, 10 or 20 mg/kg, by gavage), on the EPM or the OFT. However, rats treated for 15 day (20 mg/kg) with EPV showed increased percentage of entries and time spent in the open arms on the EPM without alter locomotor activity in the OFT compared to control group. Acute or a 15 day administration of diazepam (2 mg/kg, i.p.), increased the same parameters on the EPM and OFT. Acute treatment with 300 or 600 mg/kg of EPV, decreased the locomotor activity in the OFT. Results suggest anxiolytic and sedative effects for the EPV and reveal a wide dose range for the anxiolytic effect.
Proud to be Tukker. A Football Club and the Building of Local Identity: The Case of FC Twente Enschede

The paper analyzes the role of football clubs in the process of local identity formation in the age of globalization. The empirical base is drawn from the data collected during the fieldwork research conducted among the fans of the Dutch football club Twente Enschede. Twente is deeply rooted in the tradition of the city and the region, and at the same time involved in European international competition and global football transfer market, being exposed to pressures stemming from growing commercialization and multiculturalism in the world of football. The consequences of these processes for the local fans and local community are discussed in the article.
TRANSFERRING A^ (STRONGLY HOMOTOPY ASSOCIATIVE) STRUCTURES

The aim of this simple-minded "applied" note is to give explicit formulas for transfers of Aoo-structures and related maps and homotopies in the most easy situation in which these transfers exist. The existence of these transfers follows, in characteristic zero, from a general theory developed by the author in (5). The easier half of our formulas was already known to Kontsevich-Soibelman and Merkulov (2, 9) who derived them, without explicit signs, under slightly stronger assumptions than those made in this note.
A highly accurate collocation Trefftz method for solving the Laplace equation in the doubly connected domains

A highly accurate new solver is developed to deal with the Dirichlet problems for the 2D Laplace equation in the doubly connected domains. We introduce two circular artificial boundaries determined uniquely by the physical problem domain, and derive a Dirichlet to Dirichlet mapping on these two circles, which are exact boundary conditions described by the first kind Fredholm integral equations. As a direct result, we obtain a modified Trefftz method equipped with two characteristic length factors, ensuring that the new solver is stable because the condition number can be greatly reduced. Then, the collocation method is used to derive a linear equations system to determine the unknown coefficients. The new method possesses several advantages: mesh‐free, singularity‐free, non‐illposedness, semi‐analyticity of solution, efficiency, accuracy, and stability. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007
PHYLOPLANE ASSESSMENT OF LEAF AND STALK FOR CONSUMPTION AND MICROBIAL DIVERSITY OF SWEET POTATO ( IPOMOEA BATATAS ( L ) LAM . , CONVOLVULACEAE )

The nutrient and microbial contents of the leaves and stalks of two varieties of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. , Convolvulaceae) were determined using standard analytical methods in order to ascertain its quality as a food material. The samples were found to contain a diverse array of carbohydrates, proteins, dietary fats, crude fiber and ash containing mineral deposits with potential nutritional benefits. However, the quick perishability of the food material is a major constraint to its wider utilization for consumption and this was attributed to the microbial load in it. The leaves and stalks contained strains of bacteria and fungi whose analyses were determined using pour plate method. The purple variety samples had lesser numbers of microbial loads in it while the white variety samples had more microbial load in it on the pour plate method. The pour plate method is a microbiological procedure used for isolating and growing individual colonies of micro organisms in pure culture. Pure cultures of the isolated organisms were identified through their colony appearance and microscopic observation of the stained samples. Some biochemical tests were conducted for the characterization of bacteria isolates. The shelf life of sweet potato leaves and stalks can be ascertained knowing the particular microorganisms present. It is important that consumers of this food material always harvest cultivars that have no sign of deterioration and food safety precautions should be adhered to in order to avoid consuming the toxic anti-nutrients.
GO2OGS 1.0: a versatile workflow to integrate complex geological information with fault data into numerical simulation models

Abstract. We offer a versatile workflow to convert geological models built with the ParadigmTM GOCAD© (Geological Object Computer Aided Design) software into the open-source VTU (Visualization Toolkit unstructured grid) format for usage in numerical simulation models. Tackling relevant scientific questions or engineering tasks often involves multidisciplinary approaches. Conversion workflows are needed as a way of communication between the diverse tools of the various disciplines. Our approach offers an open-source, platform-independent, robust, and comprehensible method that is potentially useful for a multitude of environmental studies. With two application examples in the Thuringian Syncline, we show how a heterogeneous geological GOCAD model including multiple layers and faults can be used for numerical groundwater flow modeling, in our case employing the OpenGeoSys open-source numerical toolbox for groundwater flow simulations. The presented workflow offers the chance to incorporate increasingly detailed data, utilizing the growing availability of computational power to simulate numerical models.
Free radical scavenging potential of some Indian medicinal plants

Indian medicinal herbs and plants are used since ancient times to treat different diseases and ailments as these natural products exert broad-spectrum actions. The present study was aimed to explore the hydrogen donating and hydroxyl radical scavenging potential of methanol extract of 10 medicinal plants belonging to six families including mimosaceae, Apocynaceae, moraceae, sapindaceae, rutaceae and meliaceae using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and plasmid nicking assay, respectively. The total phenol and flavonoid content of these extracts was also estimated using Folin-Ciocalteu and colorimetric assay respectively. It was found that methanol leaf extract of Koelreutaria paniculata, Acacia catechu and Mimusops hexandra showed strong inhibitory activity whereas that of Hamelia patens exhibited moderate DPPH radical scavenging activity at concentration of 200 µg/ml. However, methanol extract of Swietenia mahogoni, Murraya exotica, Murraya koenigii, Alstonia scholaris, Ficus benjamina and Sapindus trifoliatus exhibited weak hydrogen donating potential in DPPH assay. The methanol extract of these plants was effective in plasmid nicking assay and the activity was found to be correlated to the phenolic and flavonoid content in these fractions. These results emphasized the benefit of the phenolic compounds rich plant extracts and thus augmented the urge of in vivo studies to further confirm the beneficial effect of these extracts.
Exploring the Writing Process of Indonesian EFL Students: The Effectiveness of Think-Aloud Protocol

The objectives of this study were to explore the writing process of the Indonesian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students and to find out the effectiveness of using think-aloud protocol to understand the writing process. The data were obtained from six proficient EFL students who were doing Postgraduate English Language Studies Program in Indonesia. The participants were selected based on the following criteria: had completed a minimum of two academic writing courses, had written a thesis in English, had taught English for more than two years and considered as proficient writers based on IELTS result. The finding of the study showed that all of the participants went through the following writing process: prewriting, planning, drafting, pausing, reading, revising, editing and publishing. In addition, the think-aloud protocol had different effects on the participants. Five of the participants admitted that the think-aloud protocol had a positive effect because it helped them in organizing their thoughts and ideas. However, only one participant found thinking aloud made her difficult to focus on the writing task due to the demand to verbalize and write at the same time. Keywords: think-aloud protocol, writing process, proficient writers, English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
ANMAC-Based Energy Development for Wireless Sensor Networks Incorporated With Mobile Cloud Computing

Aiming at providing mobile users with the WSN data gathered by the powerful cloud computing exploiting the advantages of evolving mobile cloud computing with respect to wireless sensor networks. Current scenario presented with the below limitations.1. The specific data mobile users request usually depends on the current locations of mobile users 2. Most sensors are usually equipped with non-rechargeable batteries with limited energy. Planned Angle based Medium Access Control (ANMAC) protocol that avoids each issue through medium access tables in the nodes that keep track of the locations of the destination nodes in addition as all act neighbours. During this paper, elaborated performance analysis of ANMAC considering totally different topologies and traffic eventualities, and we show that SDMA cannot be totally exploited while not a smart computer hardware. Proposed ANMAC with Location based programming (ANMAC-LS) and compare its performance with alternative sensible antenna approaches and omni 802.11 MAC. Tend to prove the potency of location based programming in wireless networks with sensible antennas, and that we conjointly show the consequences of antenna orientation on turnout, mistreatment realistic antenna patterns and ANMAC protocol.
Spillover from marine reserves: the case of Naso vlamingii at Apo Island, the Philippines

The use of no-take marine reserves as fisheries management tools is controversial. A major expectation of marine reserves is that they will become net exporters of adult biomass (the 'spillover effect'). Herein, we show that the biomass of the surgeonfish Naso vlamingii tripled over 18 yr (1983 to 2001) in a reserve at Apo Island, Philippines. Over time, the biomass of N. vlamingii increased by a factor of 40 outside but close to the reserve boundaries (200 to 250 m) but not at greater distances (250 to 500 m). In 2000/2001 hook-and-line catch per unit effort (CPUE) for N. vlamingii was 45 times higher within 200 m of the reserve boundary than for all other fishing grounds combined, with 62.5% of the hook-and-line catch records being recorded within 200 m either side of the reserve, in just 11% of the reef fishing area. This comprises some of the best evidence that reserves can benefit fisheries by spillover.
An Empirical Study of Distance Metrics for k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm

This research aims at studying the performance of k-nearest neighbor classification when applying different distance measurements. In this work, we comparatively study 11 distance metrics including Euclidean, Standardized Euclidean, Mahalanobis, City block, Minkowski, Chebychev, Cosine, Correlation, Hamming, Jaccard, and Spearman. A series of experimentations has been performed on eight synthetic datasets with various kinds of distribution. The distance computations that provide highly accurate prediction consist of City block, Chebychev, Euclidean, Mahalanobis, Minkowski, and Standardize Euclidean techniques.
Tamanhos de partículas e índice de seleção de dietas fornecidas a ovinos formuladas conforme o NRC (1985) e o NRC (2007).

Parte da dissertação do primeiro autor financiada p elo ETENE/BNB. Alunos do Programa de Pós-graduação em Zootecnia da Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú/ Embrapa Capr inos e Ovinos. Bolsistas Capes, e-mail: helioa.costa@gmail.com ; jullyzootecnia@gmail.com; delanozootecnia@gmail.com Pesquisador da Embrapa Caprinos e Ovinos, Sobral, C e rá, Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq . e-mail: marcosclaudio@gmail.com Professora do Curso de Zootecnia da Universidade Es tadual Vale do Acaraú. email: alinelandim@yahoo.com. br . Aluno do Curso de Zootecnia da Universidade Estadua l Vale do Acaraú, Bolsista PIBIC/CNPq. E-mails: nielyson@gmail.com.
Multistage Investment Actions with the Emission Cap

To achieve the emission reduction target in 2020, China plans to establish a nationwide carbon trading market during 2016–2019. It is therefore an important but difficult task for policymakers to set emission allowances and allocate them among entities. There are three alternative allocation rules, which vary from free of charge to full auctioning. For business managers, the question is whether one of these rules meets the emission cap at the minimum cost. Based on China’s emission-abatement target, this paper examines the optimal investment and analyzes its implementation in different allocation rules. A new model is developed to formulate enterprises’ emission reduction pathways and the cost-minimization problem with the emission cap. The results show that the magnitude of enterprises’ emission reduction is positively related to their innovation potential; neither auctioning nor being free of charge can make enterprise’s individual emission-abatement investment in accordance with the optimal level; enterprise’s individual emission-abatement investment is sensitive to efficiency, budget cap, and environmental benefit. This paper discusses simultaneously their policy implications for China.
Energetic neutral atoms at Mars 2. Imaging of the solar wind‐Phobos interaction

[1] The interactions between the solar wind and the neutral gas from Mars' moon Phobos and from the Martian exosphere are examined in order to check the feasibility of the energetic neutral atoms (ENA) remote sensing technique applied to Phobos' environment. Both solar wind and Mars exosphere models, as given in the literature, have been used. The density distribution of an outgassed neutral oxygen population located at Phobos' orbit has been simulated via Monte Carlo integration. Images and energy spectra of ENA, escaping through charge exchange processes, have been reconstructed applying a line of sight integration method. The performed simulation shows that the ENA signal originated from Phobos' environment is faint while observing far from Phobos location; anyway, it could be detected in some particular Mars-Phobos vantage point configurations. The possibility that the neutral oxygen outgassing rate might be estimated through ENA signal deconvolution is briefly discussed.
The Comparison of Silver and Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles Biocompatibility on L929 Fibroblast Cells: An In vitro Study

Background and aims: Nano particles are tiny materials (<1000 nm in size) that have specific physicochemical properties different to bulk materials of the same composition and such properties make them very attractive for commercial and medical development. In contrast to many efforts aimed at exploiting desirable properties of nano particles for medicine, there are limited attempts to evaluate potentially undesirable effects of these particles. Therefore, there is a pressing need for careful consideration of benefits and side effects of the use of nano particles in medicine. The purpose of this research was to compare the nano silver and hydroxyapatite nanoparticles’ biocompatibility on L929 fibroblast cells. Materials and methods: To evaluate the biocompatibility of nano silver and hydroxyapatite nanoparticles (nHA), L929 fibroblast cells were cultured on a 96-well plate. Cells were exposed to nHA and nano silver at the following concentrations: 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 ppm after 24, 48 and 72 hrs. Later, for measuring the biocompatibility of materials, MTT method was utilized.ANOVA test was used for statistical analysis. Results: None of the nHA experimented concentrations were toxic, but vitality of cells exposing to nano silver particles were the least after 24 hours and increased after 48 hours and ANOVA analyze indicated that there was significant difference between groups (p<0.05). Also the result showed nano silver particles at concentrations more than 20 ppm within 24 and 48 hours are toxic to fibroblast cells and it was significant (p<0.02). Conclusion: NHA were more biocompatible rather than nano silver particles on L929 fibroblast cells.
Ethics in Field-Based Research: Contractual and Relational Responsibilities.

The desire to abolish the gap between research theory and classroom piactic.e has sparked an increasing interest in field -based research among science educators. Although most researchers are aware of the standard meanings of informed consent and confidentiality, and there are some codes of ethical principles published by such groups as the American Psychological Association, these codes provide little help with the problems that may arise in field work. Traditional approaches to ethics in research, focusing on the rights of subjects versus the benefits of the research, were written to serve traditional research methods and are inadequate for addressing the dilemmas of field-based research. This paper discusses the relationship between ethics and methodology, commonly used procedures and contractual obligations of social scientists. An approach to ethics that focuses on particular human relationships rather than general principles is suggested. Stressed is the notion that researchers siould consider their commitment to the support of science educators xid learners when making decisions concerning what to research. (CW) ****** ****** * *********** **** ***** t ************ **,*** *********** ******** Reproductions Jupplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ********** ************************************ *********** ****** ******** Ethics in Field-based Research: Contractual and Relational Responsibilities Nancy W. Brickhouse Department of Educational Development University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 Bitnet address: bfh01827@udacsvm U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educatonai Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI )(This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization onginadng C Minor changes nave been made to improve reproduct,on qual. y Ponts of view or npmions stated in this docu meat do not necessarily represent official OE RI posIon or policy 'PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Nancy Brickhouse TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)" A paper presenteC for the panel discussion "Ethics in Field-based Research" at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, San Francisco, March, 1989. 2 BEST COPY AVAILABI. F
Workload Schedulers - Genesis, Algorithms and Comparisons

In this article we provide brief descriptions of three classes of schedulers: Operating Systems Process Schedulers, Cluster Systems, Jobs Schedulers and Big Data Schedulers. We describe their evolution from early adoptions to modern implementations, considering both the use and features of algorithms. In summary, we discuss differences between all presented classes of schedulers and discuss their chronological development. In conclusion, we highlight similarities in the focus of scheduling strategies design, applicable to both local and distributed systems.
DEVELOPING AN INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA CD FOR ENHANCING FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION

The use of media is important to support the listening teaching and learning process. The teacher needs an appropriate media in order to make the students to be active and creative in the learning process. The use of media in the teaching and learning process will help the teacher and the students engage together to get the achievements much better and also help the students to learn by themselves. This study presents the steps in developing the interactive multimedia CD for enhancing fifth grade students’ listening comprehension and its influences on the listening teaching and learning process. The data presented suggests that teachers need to develop the material used in teaching process since not all the materials are provided and suitable with the students’ need and need to learn how to design and develop multimedia material by using various computer programs since the use of multimedia can increase students’ interest and motivation in learning process. Besides, it also can influence students’ awareness, attention, inquiry and discovery, and communication ability in the listening teaching and learning process © 2012 Universitas Negeri Semarang Info Artikel Sejarah Artikel: Diterima Agustus 2012 Disetujui September 2012 Dipublikasikan November 2012
Prevalence Of Methicillin-Sensitive And Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci In Intensive Care Units In A University Hospital

Aim: The intensive care units (ICUs) are burdened with a high frequency of nosocomial infections often caused by multiresistant nosocomial pathogens. Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) and Staphylococcus aureus are reported as important causative agents of nosocomial infections. The objective of this study was to identify frequency of methicillin resistant and susceptible staphylococci from the various clinical samples in ICUs, and to investigate resistance patterns against various antibiotics used broadly for treatment. Methods: Originating from four selected ICUs and burn center in a University hospital, a total of 241 staphylococci strains from blood, respiratory tract, urine and wound sites were processed in our central laboratory to assess their occurrence rates and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles. Susceptibility tests of isolates were performed according to disc diffusion method recommended by National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS). Results: Staphylococci strains were isolated from 40.4% of the patients in ICUs. The rates of methicillin resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus were 24.1% and 9.96%, respectively. Out of 241 isolates, 14.5% methicillin sensitive CoNS and 15.8% methicillin resistant staphylococci were isolated. The highest staphylococci isolation (47.3 %) was obtained in cardiovascular surgical ICU which is followed by general surgical ICU (45.1%), burn center (39.8%), coronary ICU (39.4%) and internal ICU (33.9%). There is statististically significant difference between surgical ICU and internal ICU. None of the isolated staphyloccocci showed resistance against vancomycin. Penicillin resistance was found to be 100% in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains while it was 76% in methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. There is significant difference between two groups. Conclusion: Frequency of staphylococci was found to be high in patients treated at intensive care units. Antibiotic resistance patterns of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains were found to be quite higher than that of methicillin susceptible staphylococcci.