Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Nutritional interventions in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other late-life cognitive disorders

P. Agosti1, C. Custodero1, A. Schilardi1, V. Valiani1, A. D’Introno1, M. Lozupone2, F. Panza2-4, V. Dibello5, M. La Montagna6, F. D’Urso6, V. Solfrizzi1, C. Sabbà1 Geriatric Medicine-Memory Unit and Rare Disease Centre, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy; Neurodegenerative Disease Unit, Department of Basic Medicine, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy; Department of Clinical Research in Neurology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, “Pia Fondazione Cardinale G. Panico”, Tricase, Lecce, Italy; Geriatric Unit & Laboratory of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medical Sciences, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy; Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Section of Dentistry, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy; Psychiatric Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Eutrophication and trophic status using different indices: A study in the Iranian coastal waters of the Caspian Sea

The aim of this study is to assess the eutrophication and trophic status based on different indices and also reference threshold values in the Iranian coastal waters of the southern Caspian Sea (ICWSCS). The water samples (three replicates) were collected along four transects (off the coast from Anzali, Tonekabon, Nowshahr and Amirabad) between spring 2013 and winter 2014. The results show marked significant differences between the mean concentrations of DIN, TP, DO and Chl-a in different weather seasons (p<0.01) and high significant correlation with different indices in the ICWSCS. The mean of Trophic Index of Vollenweider (TRIXvollen.), Trophic Index of Caspian Sea (TRIXcs) and Technique Quartile Range of Trophic Index (TQRTRIXCS) values ranged from 4.43 to 5.05 (good, high eutrophication risk), 5.21 to 6.00 (moderate, high eutrophication risk) and 0.58 to 0.95 (moderate to high) in different weather seasons for these three indexes, respectively. The results of nutrients and chlorophyll-a at all four sampling locations when compared with the reference threshold value indicated that the ecosystem’s trophic status changed from oligotrophic to mesotrophic/meso-eutrophic in 2013-2014. All there indexes (TRIXcs, TQRTRIXCS and Reference Threshold Value methods) produced similar results and therefore, could be used interchangeably for the study area.
VISION BASED NAVIGATION FOR PROXIMITY OPERATIONS AROUND ASTEROID 99942 APOPHIS

The work presented in the paper concerns the analysis of GNC techniques enabling autonomous operations around an asteroid at close range to characterize its gravity field. The paper focuses on the navigation aspects and analyses two concurrent vision based navigation methods (EKF-SLAM and recursive Bundle Adjustment) from accuracy, computational cost and robustness points of view. Robustness enhancement by the additional processing of laser range finder data and a priori knowledge is examined. Current results are synthesized and discussed.
Meta-Analysis of a Very Low Proportion Through Adjusted Wald Confidence Intervals

Meta-analysis, which is a statistical technique for combining the findings from independent studies, can be used in many fields of research, having high importance in clinical and epidemiological contexts [1]. The meta-analysis for one effect size provides a precise estimate effect and increase statistical power by combining results of independent studies. In the meta-analysis, the pooled effect size measure (θˆ) could be seen as a linear combination of several effect sizes (θi, i = 1.k) of k≥2 studies
Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films with Very Large Charge Carrier Mobility Using Pulsed Laser Deposition

Large area reduced graphene oxide (RGO) thin films have been grown using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. A very large carrier mobility of 372 cm2 V-1s-1 has been observed in a PLD grown RGO thin film with a large sp2 carbon fraction of 87% along with narrow Raman 2D peak profile. The fraction of sp2 carbon and carbon/oxygen ratios are tuned through PLD growth parameters, and these are estimated from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data. The electrical properties of the RGO thin films are comprehended by the intensity ratios between different optical phonon vibrational modes of Raman Spectra. The photoluminescence spectra also indicate a less intense and broader blue fluorescence spectrum detecting the presence of miniature sized sp2 domains in the near vicinity of π* electronic states which favor the variable range hopping transport phenomena. This study on large area RGO thin films with very large carrier mobility fabricated by PLD process will be very useful for high mobility electronic device applications and could open a roadmap for further extensive research in functionalized 2D materials. *Corresponding author: Ariful Haque, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science and Center for Applied Science and Engineering, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897, USA, Tel: (313) 413-6681; E-mail: ahaque@ncsu.edu Received July 26, 2017; Accepted July 31, 2017; Published August 11, 2017 Citation: Bhaumik A, Haque A, Taufique MFN, Karnati P, Patel R, et al. (2017) Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films with Very Large Charge Carrier Mobility Using Pulsed Laser Deposition. J Material Sci Eng 6: 364. doi: 10.4172/21690022.1000364 Copyright: © 2017 Bhaumik A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
4.2 Spread the Word – The E ﬀ ect of Word of Mouth in e-Marketing

: Word of mouth (WOM) is an extraordinary mechanism with which to spread information and disinformation. There is an interaction between WOM and eWOM, creating di ﬀ erent channels for the dissemination of information. However, this information cannot be controlled by marketers; at least this is seldom the case. Positive and negative comments are found in eWOM and they have a powerful in ﬂ uence on credibility, trust and persuasiveness, where in ﬂ u-encers play a main role. Brand reputation is shaped by the ﬂ ow of information and disinformation on the Internet. Social networks are a real tool with which to create and place information. A comment may greatly bene ﬁ t consumers, preventing uncertainty and boosting sales. eWOM disseminates both information and disinformation, and so internet users and marketers are faced with the problem of how to turn this to their own bene ﬁ t.
Spectrophotometric Evaluation of Heavy Metal Speciation in Lead-Zinc Mine Soil from Enyigba in Ebonyi State

Soil contamination by heavy metal poses threat to the environment and renders the land less valuable. The heavy metal speciation in a Pb-Zn mine soil of Enyigba in Ebonyi State has been studied using Varian AA240 Spectrophotometry.A five-step sequential extraction procedure adopted by Tessier, Campbell and Bisson was modified for the extraction of the various fractions of the metal. Results obtained showed that total heavy metals assayed were all higher than the WHO recommended limit in soil except Cu (1.79ppm) which is within the WHO limit of 2.00ppm. The highest concentration of Zn, Pb, Mn, Cu, As, Cd, and Cr were obtained in the residual (F5) fraction, 20.04, 11.68, 20.32, 0.68, 19.54, 0.70 and 0.56 respectively. While Fe has the highest concentration in the exchangeable fraction (66.24).
Extrinsic Job Satisfaction of Employees , Regarding their Intention to Leave Work Position . A Survey in Small and Medium Enterprises

The primary purpose of this study was to examine job satisfaction of employees working at Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) in Central Macedonia, Greece. A survey instrument including the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) and demographic questions was used. A total of 369 usable surveys were included in the analysis, representing a 61.5% response rate. In this study, the influences of the extrinsic job satisfaction factors regarding the intention of the employees to stay in the workplace are properly examined and the results are analytically presented. The computed Pearson’s correlations coefficients revealed that compensation, supervision – human relations and company policies were positively related with the intention of the employees to stay at their current work. This implies that low extrinsic satisfaction influences the leaving behavior of employees.
The role of Resilience in preventing drug abuse and perversions

Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate a new dimension of prevention that is called resilience. Methodology : The study seeks to find that resilient young people in similar economic conditions do not suffer from any substance or deformity. The method of this study was comparative causality and the statistical population included 18-29 year olds who were randomly assigned to 700 out of those who were overweight or delinquent and 700 healthy young people. Tools Measurement of the questionnaire (checklist) was made by the researcher and the scale of the relationship between male and female. Findings : The findings showed that healthy young people had a significant difference in effective factors in comparison with young people who were not healthy. Discussion: Regarding the most important personal and family factors that were discussed in this study, having the ideal ideals in young people is an effective factor in resilience and should be considered in educational and social planning. Family parents parenting skills, a positive family and intimate with children, adolescents and young people In order to establish parenting skills for interacting with children and childcare, we correct the field a research findings provide a new dimension of prevention that can be used to educate teenagers and youth . The present study is a comparative or case-control study in which 700 young drug users or poor offenders and the control group were the same number of healthy and poor people. Entry requirements were: aged 18 to 29 years, having at least elementary degrees and upper secondary education, being male and being poor (based on their monthly or family income). The tool used in this part of the study was a checklist for cultural, sporting, religious, and social activities and the existence of an aspiration for restitution in the form of 47 questions, which is here due to the limitation only to findings of the type of ideals and ideals It is enough to be shaken. In relation to the effect of the relationship between parents and children on the scale of the relationship between male and female, the Validity / Validity Scale was used. In Iran, its validity validity was confirmed, and in the form of 19 questions, whose reliability was calculated at least 92% by Predictor (2002), was used. Descriptive statistics and independent T-test and Chi-square test were used to study the findings. The main hypotheses were that there was a significant difference between the quality of the relationship between the old and the young, as well as the types of jurors and jurors of the young people of the poor families and the families of the poor, poor or poor. Because the size of the male-female child is also widespread, here too, the entry into the findings of the subscales obtained in the study is also avoided and only refers to the difference between the meanings of the two groups. For sampling, 700 young drug users or poor criminals in prisons were selected randomly from the same group of young and healthy controls.
Terahertz Graphene-Based Reconfigurable Patch Antenna

The radiation properties of a copper-patch antenna designed for resonating at the frequency of 0.7 THz, which is used in aerospace applications, is presented. These properties are then compared to those of a graphene-patch antenna presenting the same dimensions. We show how the use of graphene, as a tunable material, allows to dynamically modify the frequency of operation of the antenna as well as its radiation pattern. Our results show that the return loss peak reaches −29 dB, at the operating frequency, which is almost twice the value obtained with the copper patch. This increase in the return loss peak is also accompanied by an improvement in the gain of the antenna from 5.73 dB in the case of the copper patch to 7.16 dB in the case of graphene. We focus our interest on how the reconfigurable radiation properties of the graphene-patch antenna are directly related to the graphene surface conductivity.
Seasonal Variation of Physical Activity in Community-Living vs. Residential-Dwelling Older Adults

Background and Purpose: Although physical activity (PA) is important for all ages including older adults, participation may be influenced by weather variation and access to programming. Our primary aim was determine if PA participation is influenced by season and place of residence. A secondary aim was to compare objective and subjective measure of PA participation. Methods: Participants included older individuals (age>65) living in a residential retirement community (RR) with access to an on-site fitness facility (n=7) and additional volunteers (n=9) who lived at home and traveled to exercise at a nonresidential community (NR) activities center Accelerometers were used to measure daily PA during the summer and again during the winter. Results: PA for the NR group was higher in the summer (268.4�73.7 min vs. RR=186.8�68.0, p=0.039), but not in the winter (NR=261.8�92.6 min, RR=182.0�72.5, p=0.082). No within-group change in PA was noted from summer to winter for either group (p>0.05). The correlation between subjective and objective measures of PA was low (r=.262). Conclusion: Access to appropriate facilities and programming serves to help older individuals maintain PA levels despite seasonal weather variations. The low correlation between objective and subjective measures suggest a need to re-evaluate methods of tracking PA participation by older adults.
Towards Effective Communication Technique for Energy Efficient Internet of Things

Internet of thing is concept and significant in emerging global Internet based wireless paradigm and empowering the Machine view of this present reality and consistent association. Internet of Things (IoT) is envisioned to bring together smart objects connected through Internet and exchange information in efficient communication techniques. Smart objects enabling integration and interconnection of the devices and cyberspace. IoT is a sophisticated technology ,as it is broad inter-disciplinary technology. And hence there arises continuous problem of limited source forcing us to use hand held devices with preserved battery charged smart devices. Energy Efficient Internet of Things(EEIOT) method could change and enable internet of things more encouraged to communicate information to the cyber world in better way.
Security Aware Congestion Control Mechanism on SPLIT-TCP over MANETs

Wireless Ad hoc Networks TCP wrongly attributes packet losses due to the high Bit Error Rate (BER) locationdependent contention, unidirectional links, dynamic topology and the inherent fading properties of the wireless channel to as congestion. It causes an overall degradation of throughput; it especially affects connections with a large number of hops, where link failures are more likely. A number of cross layer solutions such as TCP-F, TCP-ELFN, ATCP, TCP-Bus and SPLIT-TCP has been proposed. Among them Split-TCP is well suited because this scheme converts longer TCP connections to multiple shorter TCP connection, in order to achieve greater Throughput. Another major issue at transport layer is security and few solutions has been proposed so far to provide secure communication and congestion control at the Transport Layer. In this paper we have proposed a security aware congestion control mechanism for MANETs that not only improves performance using SPLIT-TCP but also provide security at Transport Layer.
The give and take of food sharing in Sumatran orangutans , Pongo abelii , and chimpanzees , Pan troglodytes

http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.anbehav. 2017.09. 006 0003-3472/© 2017 The Association for the Study of A Proximate factors of primate food sharing, in contrast to its evolutionary explanations, have received little attention. Active food sharing is considered prosocial, since possessors may benefit others by spontaneously passing food or by reacting to ‘signals of need’. However, in contrast to passive sharing, active food sharing is rare in most nonhuman primates. Surprisingly, previous research showed that captive Sumatran orang-utans actively share food more frequently than chimpanzees and bonobos, and hence, appear more prosocial. Yet these comparisons with the two Pan species were relying on previously published studies, which differed with regard to methods and food types used. Here we used the identical procedure and food type to compare the food-sharing behaviour of 10 captive Sumatran orangutans and 18 chimpanzees, in situations where individuals could monopolize a sharable food source. We focused on communicative behaviours used to initiate food transfers, and assessed whether and how much food was transferred in response to these initiation attempts. In both species, most transfers were initiated by taking the food, resulting in passive sharing, while active sharing by offering food or after requesting it occurred only rarely. However, orang-utans differed from chimpanzees in several aspects. Because the food was mostly monopolized by the adult male, orang-utans attempted to initiate food transfers more frequently, resisted more to taking attempts, and were less likely to transfer whole food items. In both species, requests were less likely to result in food transfers, indicating that in situations involving access to food, they do not necessarily respond to ‘signals of need’. We argue that in addition to instances of active sharing, other factors such as the degree of food monopolization, response rates to ‘signals of need’, and the quality and quantity of transferred food need to be considered to gain a more detailed picture of prosociality across species. © 2017 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Application of cholangioscope-compatible retrieval basket

The availability of single-operator cholangioscope-compatible accessories for object retrieval has been limited [1]. We present four cases where a recently introduced cholangioscope-specific basket (SpyGlass Retrieval Basket; Boston Scientific, USA), approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was used for object retrieval under direct visualization. Patient 1. A 29-year-old woman with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and a biliary stent that had been retained for 4 years was referred for stent removal. The initial removal attempt failed because of significant stent angulation and proximal stent migration (▶Fig. 1 a); an additional stent was placed to assure drainage prior to referral. The impacted stent (▶Fig. 1b) was captured under direct visualization, using a cholangioscopic basket, and removed intact (▶Video 1). Patient 2. A 45-year-old woman with a biliary stent presented for removal of the stent after cholecystectomy. Cholangiography revealed retained large cystic duct stones (▶Fig. 2 a). The stones were fragmented with electrohydraulic lithotripsy (EHL), and the fragments were captured in the cystic duct, using the cholangioscopic basket, and removed (▶Fig. 2b, ▶Video 1) [2]. Patient 3. A 34-year-old woman who was 28 weeks pregnant presented with acute pancreatitis and biliary colic. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) revealed cholelithiasis and distal common bile duct (CBD) stone (▶Fig. 3 a). She underwent endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) without fluoroscopy [3]. EUS confirmed the MRCP findings (▶Fig. 3 b). Cholangioscopy demonstrated a mobile yellow stone, which was captured using a cholangioscopic basket under direct visualization and removed (▶Fig. 3 c). An extraction balloon was not used because of concern about impaction of the mobile stone when fluoroscopy would not be used. Cholecystectomy immediately followed. The patient had uncomplicated delivery at term. Patient 4. A 52-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease [MELD] score 17) presented with cholecystitis and choledocholithiasis. The patient was not considered to be an optimal surgical candidate. Cystic duct clearance was achieved with multiple stones being captured and removed using the cholangioscopic basket under direct visualization (▶Fig. 4) [4]. The cholangioscopic basket is a useful accessory for object removal under direct visualization and has expanded the therapeutic uses of cholangioscopy.
sAPP α Rescues Age-Linked Decline in Neural Progenitor Cell Proliferation

Neurogenesis is thought to play a role in cognitive function and hippocampal plasticity. Previous studies suggest that neurogenesis declines with aging. However, the onset and mechanism of declined neurogenesis are not fully elucidated. Here we show that the major decline in neurogenesis takes place during adulthood, prior to aging. Decline in neurogenesis takes place in both the subgranular layer of the dentate gyrus and in the subventricular zone, and is primarily due to reduced number of fast-proliferating neural progenitor cells. Importantly, this decline can be rescued by intraventricular injection of recombinant soluble amyloid precursor protein (sAPPα) that regulates neural progenitor cell proliferation in the adult brain. The counterpart sAPPβ, a product of the amyloidogenic cleavage pathway of APP, fails to exhibit a proliferative effect in vitro and in vivo, in equimolar concentration to sAPPα. These observations suggest that adulthood is an appropriate time window for an intervention that upregulates neurogenesis, such as enhancement of sAPPα levels, for the prevention of declining brain plasticity and cognitive function.
Big Bath Accounting using Fair Value Measurement Discretion during the Financial Crisis

The measurement of fair values, in particular the valuation of Level 3 positions, is complex and figures are difficult to verify. Due to the financial crisis, markets for certain financial instruments have become illiquid, and as a result, fair values are even less reliable than usual. At the same time, banks have recognized substantial losses on financial instruments at fair value. This paper therefore examines whether the discretion in fair value measurement is used for the purpose of big bath accounting during the financial crisis. We construct a sample of 552 U.S. bank holding companies and handcollect data on unrealized Level 3 gains or losses for the time period from Q1 2008 to Q1 2009. Using a similar research design to Beatty et al. (2002), we find evidence that banks exhibiting poor pre-managed performance levels report significant higher discretionary Level 3 losses. Furthermore, these banks are more likely to switch in the subsequent quarter from non-managed negative earnings to reported positive earnings, which is consistent with the big bath hypothesis. The results contribute to the recent debate surrounding fair value accounting. They indicate that fair value measurement is used to manage earnings, despite extensive disclosure requirements, and confirm concerns with respect to the reliability of fair values in non-active markets.