Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Comparación de inmigrantes y autóctonos en la experiencia del conflicto intergeneracional

Introducción: Los inmigrantes de segunda generación han de afrontar el proceso de aculturación viviendo en un país distinto al de sus progenitores; y a la vez experimentar los conflictos que surgen en la adolescencia (vinculados a la identidad, sentido de pertenencia y socialización de valores). Esto puede poner en jaque la convivencia familiar, potenciando discrepancias en temas como educación, expectativas, noviazgo o relaciones familiares. Se comparan las percepciones de las relaciones y conflictos con los progenitores entre jóvenes autóctonos e inmigrantes de segunda generación. Método: Se usa una encuesta para indagar tales diferencias relativas a discrepancias/ajustes intergeneracionales. 127 jóvenes “autóctonos” y 77 “inmigrantes de segunda generación” responden individualmente en una sesión de clase a cuestionarios sobre conflicto intergeneracional percibido (ICI, Chung, 2001) y vínculo padres e hijos (IPPA, Armsden y Greenberg, 1989). Resultados: Se encontraron diferencias significativas entre grupos de autóctonos / inmigrantes en aspectos relacionados con las creencias, las relaciones y el tiempo en familia. Pero no en otros aspectos que mostraban mayor grado de conflictividad relacionados con la educación o el noviazgo. Además, las relaciones vinculares entre jóvenes y progenitores no se dan igual para madres y padres, reflejando diferencias en dimensiones que son significativas. Los/las jóvenes inmigrantes empiezan a sentirse españoles (aunque no uniformemente), sintiéndose más identificadas con España que con el país originario de sus progenitores. Discusión y/o Conclusión: El conflicto intergeneracional presenta diferencias entre autóctonos e inmigrantes, aunque no generalizadas ni uniformes. La calidad de las relaciones padres-hijos muestra mejor relación en autóctonos sobre inmigrantes, y en madres sobre padres, aunque esto sucede en distintas dimensiones de la relación. El impacto de la aculturación en la relación/conflicto intergeneracional refleja tendencias e indicadores que deben seguir siendo investigados, en la medida que pueden condicionar la adaptación familiar y socialización en inmigrantes de segunda generación.
The sulfur budget and sulfur isotopic composition of Martian regolith breccia NWA 7533

The sulfur isotope budget of Martian regolith breccia (NWA 7533) has been addressed from conventional fluorination bulk rock analyses and ion microprobe in situ analyses. The bulk rock analyses yield 865 ± 50 ppm S in agreement with LA‐ICP‐MS analyses. These new data support previous estimates of 80% S loss resulting from terrestrial weathering of NWA 7533 pyrite. Pyrite is by far the major S host. Apatite and Fe oxyhydroxides are negligible S carriers, as are the few tiny igneous pyrrhotite–pentlandite sulfide grains included in lithic clasts so far identified. A small nonzero Δ33S (−0.029 ± 0.010‰) signal is clearly resolved at the 2σ level in the bulk rock analyses, coupled with negative CDT‐normalized δ34S (−2.54 ± 0.10‰), and near‐zero Δ36S (0.002 ± 0.09‰). In situ analyses also yield negative Δ33S values (−0.05 to −0.30‰) with only a few positive Δ33S up to +0.38‰. The slight discrepancy compared to the bulk rock results is attributed to a possible sampling bias. The occurrence of mass‐independent fractionation (MIF) supports a model of NWA 7533 pyrite formation from surface sulfur that experienced photochemical reaction(s). The driving force that recycled crustal S in NWA 7533 lithologies—magmatic intrusions or impact‐induced heat—is presently unclear. However, in situ analyses also gave negative δ34S values (+1 to −5.8‰). Such negative values in the hydrothermal setting of NWA 7533 are reflective of hydrothermal sulfides precipitated from H2S/HS‐ aqueous fluid produced via open‐system thermochemical reduction of sulfates at high temperatures (>300 °C).
Camel, Donkey and Horse Cheese Making with a High Transformation Yield by Natural Thickeners and Lactic Coagulation

Making cheese from donkey and mares milk is considered unfeasible, due to difficulties in coagulation and curd forming. Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences 2nd edition (2011) reported that no cheese is made from equid milk. However in 2015 a pioneering study of Iannella have reported the first protocols for making fresh donkey and mares cheese, subsequently there have been only a few protocols by other researchers. Anyhow, the low cheese yield of these protocols together with a higher cost of production of the raw material currently limit practical application. Also the processing of camel milk into cheese is technically more difficult than milk from other domestic dairy animals which may relate to the poor rennetability of camel milk. Therefore, a research project was planned by Iannella which has developed a technological procedure to produce cheese from camel, donkey and mares milk with a high transformation yield by the use of locust bean gum, k- carrageenan and lactic coagulation in a dedicated process, thus with a mini mal adjustments in the manufacturing technology and equipment. The whey proteins of milk with this method are withheld and this improve the efficiency of making cheese and increase further yield of cheese however preserving body and texture similar of cheese prepared by conventional processes. In the near future this protocol or similar, they could represent a source of innovative cheese and the development definitive of a new commercial scale of cheese from donkey, mares or camel milk or from others minor milks at the same time improving food and animal biodiversity and therefore all the ensuing benefits.
Evaluating a Consultant-Delivered Behavioral Skills Training and Self-Assessment Checklist Package used in the Czech Republic

ABSTRACT Recently, the Czech Republic has moved toward establishing licensure and securing funding for the advancement of applied behavior analysis (ABA). However, the breadth and quality of ABA services remains limited. Most practitioners are providing in-home ABA services with irregular oversight, are working in regions without access to support and collaboration, and forming partnerships with parents that may result in dual relationships. In an effort to improve ABA provisions, a structured professional development curriculum was presented across six behavioral skills training (BST) workshops. Six practitioners working in the field of ABA and toward behavior analyst certification participated in the workshop series. In addition to advancing ABA in the region, the aim of the BST series was to pilot an adapted approach to professional development training using an extended format, practitioner-driven curriculum, and self-assessment checklist. The information was modularized and focused on the progression of establishing ABA services and development of skills associated with: moving through the intake process, assessment, behavior plan development, curriculum planning, and parent involvement. The validity and applicability of providing consultation services in this format for emerging behavior analytic markets was evaluated using practitioner-provided self-assessment. Despite limited data collection, the results indicate that the modified BST package was socially valid for the practitioners in the Czech Republic. This project may set the stage for future research in supporting new ABA practitioners in settings where the community of behavior analysts is small.
Engineering Microcapsules for Simultaneous Delivery of Combinational Therapeutics

The combination of chemo‐ and photothermal therapy is an effective strategy to improve clinical outcomes and minimize side effects. For simultaneously delivering chemo‐ and photothermal agents to the tumor region to exert their synergistic effect, an efficient and safe drug co‐delivery platform is in great need. Microcapsules (MCs) are promising drug carriers for local treatment of tumors. However, their applications in chemo‐photothermal combinational therapy have not been fully explored. Herein, novel doxorubicin (DOX) and indocyanine green (ICG)‐incorporated microcapsules (DIMCs) are reported for highly efficient delivery of combinational therapeutics. To obtain DIMCs with precise configuration and controlled drug release characteristics, the microfluidic double‐emulsion templating method is adopted and factors dominating the size and morphology of DIMCs are investigated. Under optimized conditions, DIMCs with well‐defined hydrogel cores and polymeric shells can be steadily prepared, which are hydrolytically degradable, allow for pH‐sensitive sustained release of the drug payload, and show excellent photothermal effects. The in vitro experiment shows that DIMCs exhibit significantly enhanced antitumor efficiency owing to the synergistic effects of chemo‐ and photothermal actives, showing great potential as a new therapeutic platform in local treatment of cancers.
Ultrasonic guided wave technique for monitoring cure-dependent viscoelastic properties of carbon fiber composites with toughened interlaminar layers

This study presents an ultrasonic guided wave technique for real-time monitoring of the viscoelastic properties of curing carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) with toughened interlaminar layers. The guided wave propagating in a unidirectional CFRP prepreg was measured. The energy velocity and attenuation of the guided wave were acquired by the Hilbert transform and continuous wavelet transform. The micromechanics of fiber composite and rule of mixtures for a slab model were used to express the material properties of the CFRP as functions of only the complex Young’s modulus of the resin. A transfer matrix method was performed to obtain the relationship between the energy velocity and the resin complex modulus and that between the attenuation and the resin complex modulus. The development of the Young’s modulus during curing was estimated from the measurement results using the relationship obtained in the transfer matrix method. The estimated complex modulus was compared with that measured by a dynamic mechanical analyzer to verify the validity of the proposed method.
Physicochemical, Phytochemical and Pharmacognostic Evaluation of a Halophytic Plant, Trianthema portulacastrum L.

The practice of traditional medicine is based on hundreds of years of belief and observations and analysis, which help in the development of modern medicine. Today interest in herbal drugs is increasing primarily based upon the idea that herbal medicines are safe, inexpensive and have less adverse effects. Each plant drug possesses unique properties in terms of its botany, chemical constituents and therapeutic potency. In folkloric medicine, plants are used for curing various diseases mainly based on popular belief passed on from generation to generation. For e.g. Costus pictus, known as ‘insulin plant’, a member of Costaceae family is used as a munching dietary supplement for International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 05 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Comparación de lípidos sanguíneos entre pollos de engorde y gallinas ponedoras

Objective : To compare serum levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and high density lipoprotein cholesterol between broilers and laying hens. Materials and Methods: the present is a cross study, descriptive and analytic. Data was analyzed using simple ANOVA, the program Statgraphics Plus 5.1 was used. The study was performed at Universidad de Caldas in Manizales (Colombia). After fasting, blood from 30 broilers (Cobb 500 line) of 35-day-old and 40 laying hens (Hy-Line W-36 line) of 26-weeks-old. Serum levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol and high density lipoprotein cholesterol was measured by enzymatic colorimetric methods, direct method (detergent + N,Nbis (4-sulfobutyl)-m-toluidine) was used for the lipoprotein cholesterol. Results: Between broilers (Cobb 500 line) and (laying hens (Hy-line W-36 line) was significant difference in serum levels of triglycerides and in serum levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol (P 0.05) Conclusions: Despite differences in gender, age, and production system among broilers Cobb 500 line and laying hens Hy-Line W-36, no differences were found between serum total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol.
A review of the thermal biology and ecology of molluscs, and of the use of infrared thermography in molluscan research

In an era of global change, thermal biology and ecology are becoming increasingly popular topics in invertebrate research, including molluscs. However, this area of research is still very limited, essentially due to the intrinsic spatial limitations of traditional single-point temperature measurements (e.g. thermocouples, iButtons and infrared thermometers). This is not the case, however, with infrared thermography, which has the desirable attribute of producing images that allow for simultaneous measurements of multiple molluscan individuals, species and communities. Infrared thermography allows for spatial and temporal monitoring of microclimates at scales relevant to individual organisms and hence may represent a first step to bridge the gap between field-based approaches (typically spanning from centimetres to tens of metres) to climatic scenarios (typically coarse-grained, i.e. 10 × 10 km). This review first provides a brief history of infrared thermography, followed by a description of the fundamental physical properties and quantities that bridge the gap between the physics of heat transfer and the physics of infrared thermography. We then thoroughly review the thermal biology and ecology of molluscs, and the previous biological and ecological applications of infrared thermography—including the very few in molluscan research. We provide detailed recommendations related to the proper use of infrared thermography. Finally, we discuss the potential applications of infrared thermography in molluscan research, based on case studies involving both terrestrial and intertidal molluscs, with emphasis on its use as a tool for monitoring impacts of climate
Space vector modulation control of a Z-source 9-switch power inverter based on two virtual three-phase inverters for electric vehicles application

ABSTRACT This paper deals with space vector modulation of a Z-source 9-switch inverter for electric vehicle application. Indeed, the Z-source 9-switch inverter can supply two induction motors of two-driving wheels electric vehicle. The proposed electric vehicle powertrain composed mainly of a Z-source structure contains inductances and capacitors, and 9-switch power inverter forms two virtual three-phase inverters. So, the Z-source 9-switch inverter structure minimises the number of power switches, the volume and therefore the cost of the electric vehicle powertrain. In this context, an adapted space vector modulation of a Z-source 9-switches inverter is developed in order to ensure simultaneously an independent control of two induction motors and boost the output voltage of batteries. Experimental and simulation results have been carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed system.
What Explains the Gap in Welfare Use Among Immigrants and Natives?

We investigate the gap in welfare use between immigrants and natives over a 24-year period using the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 1995 to 2018, spanning periods of economic recessions and recoveries, changes in welfare policy regimes, and policies towards immigrants. A novel contribution of our research is to adopt the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition analysis to study the effects of demographic factors, macroeconomic trends and policy on welfare use gap between immigrants and natives. Our analysis leads to three main findings: one, if immigrants had the same demographic characteristics as natives their participation in means-tested programs would have been much less overall and much below those of natives. This finding holds true across broader measures of welfare receipt capturing cash and near cash programs and health insurance as well as participation in five specific safety net programs. It also holds true across periods of economic recessions and recovery. Second, we find evidence that the business cycle impacts immigrant and native welfare participation differently. Immigrant participations in Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program and State Children’s Health Insurance Program are more sensitive to the business cycle than native participations. Three, we find that changes in program eligibility explain only a modest proportion of the immigrant-native gap in welfare use. A possible explanation for this finding is that changes in eligibility rules have affected only specific immigrant populations (e.g. new immigrants) whereas our analysis pertains to all immigrants.
Climate Change and Social Perception: A Case Study in Southern Italy

The consequences of climate change can involve various ambits and be very severe. For this reason, the social perception of climate change is a fundamental issue since it can influence the decisions of the policymakers, by encouraging or discouraging political, economic and social actions. In this paper, a sample of 300 interviews, collected through a standardized questionnaire and carried out among two municipalities located in southern Italy, was exploited to investigate the perception of climate change. Specific issues, regarding perceptions about climate change, concerns about its impacts, level of information, behavior and actions, exposure to extreme natural events and trust, were addressed to give answers to the research questions: (i) Is climate change perceived by the population? (ii) What is the degree of the community resilience to extreme natural events and climate change? As the main findings, this survey highlighted that the spatio-temporal dimension affects population perception, suggesting that some issues, such as correct behavior towards the geosphere, the sustainability of anthropization processes, community resilience and disaster risk reduction policies, can be very central and useful to mitigate the effects of climate change in population and society. Moreover, climate change perception varies in relation to contextual factors, including media communication, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, knowledge and education, economic and institutional factors, personal values and, finally, psychological factors and experience.
Quaternary structure evaluation tool for protein assemblies

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the single worldwide archive of experimentally-determined three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins and nucleic acids. As of January 2017, the PDB housed more than 125,000 structures and was growing by more than 11,000 structures annually. Since the 3D structure of a protein is vital to understand the mechanisms of biological processes, diseases, and drug design, correct oligomeric assembly information is of critical importance. For example, it makes a difference if the protein is normally a dimer and not a monomer or a trimer or a tetramer or a hexamer in nature. Unfortunately, the biologically relevant oligomeric form of a 3D structure is not directly obtainable by X-ray crystallography. Instead, this information may be provided by the PDB Depositor as metadata coming from additional experiments, be inferred by sequence-sequence comparisons with similar proteins of known oligomeric state, or predicted using software, such as PISA (Proteins, Interfaces, Structures and Assemblies) or EPPIC (Evolutionary Protein Protein Interface Classifier). Despite significant efforts by professional PDB Biocurators during data deposition, there remain a number of structures in the archive with incorrect quaternary structure descriptions (or annotations). Further investigation is, therefore, needed to evaluate the correctness of quaternary structure annotations. In this study, we aim to identify the most probable oligomeric states for proteins represented in the PDB. Our approach evaluated the performance of four independent prediction methods, including text mining of primary publications, inference from homologous protein structures, and two computational methods (PISA and EPPIC). Aggregating predictions to give consensus results outperformed all four of the independent prediction methods, yielding 86% correct, 9% incorrect, and 5% inconclusive predictions, when tested with a well-curated benchmark dataset. We have developed a freely-available web-based tool to make this approach accessible to researchers and PDB Biocurators (http://quatstruct.rcsb.org).
Cold-hot coupled waves in a flowing magnetized plasma

Nonlinear coupling of cold and hot waves in a flowing magnetized plasma is analyzed with the Vlasov equation. An analytical solution is obtained for cold waves of a small amplitude (weak flow) and a long wavelength. The distribution function is obtained by integrating the kinetic equation along a perturbed phase-space trajectory for a time-varying plasma flow. The kinetic description presents a generalized dispersion relation that involves resonances depending on cold and hot wave dispersions. Coherent fluid motion leads to radiation peaks in addition to the cyclotron harmonics, where the wavenumber of the cold wave determines the peak frequencies. The peaks appear narrow when the wave propagates perpendicular to the time-averaged flow while they become broad due to the Doppler effect when the wave propagates parallel to the flow. Fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations corroborate the theoretical predictions. The dispersion relation and resulting wave spectra provide information about plasma parameters and flow properties.