Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Bioassay-guided isolation of the antioxidant constituent from Cassia alata L . leaves

Panichayupakaranant, P. and Kaewsuwan, S. Bioassay-guided isolation of the antioxidant constituent from Cassia alata L. leaves Songklanakarin J. Sci. Technol. , 2004, 26(1) : 103-107 Using DPPH radical scavenging assay to investigate the antioxidant activity of crude methanol extracts from the leaves, flowers and pods of Cassia alata L. found that the leaf extract exhibited a stronger antioxidant activity than the extracts from the flowers and pods. On the basis of DPPH radical scavenging assay-guided isolation, the methanol extract of C. alata leaves was separated by silica gel vacuum chromatography and Sephadex LH-20 gel filtration chromatography afford a light yellowish powder (CA1), which was identified as kaempferol. This compound exhibited antioxidant activity (ED 50 9.99 μM) that was six times stronger than that of BHT (ED 50 57.41 μM) and fifty eight times stronger than that of emodin (ED 50 578.87 μM).
University of Southern Denmark A Quantitative Analytical Method to Test for Salt Effects on Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

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Hadith's source of reference finder browser extension / Mohamad Hafiz Khairuddin … [et al.]

Hadith is referred by Muslims after Al-Quran which contains words and acts of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Fast growth of internet and social media technology makes the Hadith not only can be found and read through from the internet but it is also can be shared and went viral as well. This creates an issue where people shared it on the internet does not make sufficient research on the authenticity of the hadith as well as its source of reference. This could lead to a possibility that people might mistakenly share a fabricated hadith over the internet. The dangers of sharing false hadith has been warned by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in Sahih Al-Bukhari, Book No. 3, hadith no 109. Hadith's Source of Reference Finder Browser Extension is designed to help the internet user to check if the hadith that they found on the web has a valid source of reference. With this browser extension, even though it cannot replace any hadith experts to validate the authenticity of a particular hadith, it can promote a more cautious approach to the society when dealing with any hadith found on the internet. It is intended to encourage the internet users to at least, search whether a particular hadith found on the internet has a valid source of reference before they want to share or viral it over the internet. The designed browser extension uses Google Chrome browser as its platform. System Development Life Cycle is used as its development methodology to properly construct the browser extension. The browser extension prototype enables the internet user to check the reference source of the hadith by inserting a copied hadith text from the internet into the extension‘s text input box and the output will be displayed along with its similarity percentage of the original text. This paper discusses on how ICT technology can be used to encourage the public to take the initiative to check the source of reference pertaining to any Islamic material found in the internet.
Monetary stages and frameworks of emerging EU members

The paper reviews the monetary stages and frameworks towards the eurozone (EZ) for emerging EU members. At the first pre-EU stage, three monetary frameworks were identified, whereas at the second pre-EZ stage, the emerging EU members combined ER targeting with the rigid/fixed exchange rate regimes (ERRs), on the one hand, and inflation targeting (IT) with the ERM II, on the other. The last stage of monetary convergence assumes monetary nonautonomy within the monetary union as a rigid ERR, where the ER and monetary policies are sacrificed as countercyclical instruments. Countries with rigid ERRs are more prone to macroeconomic overheating, performing worse under a crisis impact compared to the floaters. The difficulties to maintain stability under a rigid ER environment, such as the monetary union, as well as the inherent vulnerabilities of the EZ, are crucial for the delayed entry of some EU members into the ERM II.
INDALOG: A Declarative Deductive Database Language

In this paper we present the main features of a deductive database language named INDALOG based on the integration of functional and logic paradigms. As most deductive database systems, INDALOG allows the handling of negation, higher-order functions, grouping operators, support for aggregation, handling of non-ground facts, and support for indexing structures on both extensional and intensional relations of a database. Moreover, we present the semantic foundations of this lan-
Recent advances in basic and clinical research on the prevention and treatment of the metabolic syndrome and related disorders by the use of olive polyphenols

In the last two decades, the concept of metabolic syndrome has gained widespread consensus as a powerful hypothesis that unifies the metabolic factors underlying the development of both cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In recent years, the incidence of these pathological conditions has involved an increasing number of young people, even though, together with cancer, they represent the main clinical emergence in aged people. However, in addition to age, the relevance of lifestyle, including physical exercise and alimentation, in the etiopathogenesis of these diseases has gained momentum in the medical community. In particular, T2DM, defined together with obesity (Diabesity) as the XXI Century epidemic, is a so-called wellness disease that can be prevented by an adequate lifestyle and treated, in the preclinical stage and at the onset of the clinical signs with the pharmacological therapy possibly implemented with a diet rich in plant polyphenols. T2DM accounts for about 90% of diabetes cases worldwide and in the past 50 years its incidence in the world has increased significantly, and in parallel with the growth of obesity, from 30 million in 1985 to 135 million in 1995 and 217 million in 2005. It has been calculated that in 2013 there were approximately 368 million people diagnosed with the disease compared to around 30 million in 1985 . Therefore, the World Health Organization has recognized this disease as a global epidemic. In Italy, T2DM has been calculated to affect about 5 million people, of which around 3.5 diagnosed. The insurgence of T2DM is mainly caused by a combination of factors including diet, lifestyle, endocrine Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been defined, together with obesity, the XXI century epidemic and, together with cardiovascular disease, concurs to define a pathological condition known as metabolic syndrome. T2DM can be prevented by an adequate lifestyle and treated, in the preclinical stage and at the onset of the clinical signs, by a diet rich in olive tree polyphenols, in addition to the pharmacological therapy. Studies on animals and humans suggest that olive tree and other plant polyphenols contribute significantly to most of the beneficial effects associated with the Mediterranean diet including reduced cardiovascular disease, T2DM, cancer and aging-associated neurodegeneration. These studies suggest the possible use of plant polyphenols in dietary supplements as nutraceuticals useful against the metabolic syndrome and related conditions, particularly T2DM. The present review summarizes the scientific data on the healthy virtues of the olive polyphenols that support such conclusion.
Children Affected by HIV and AIDS in the Aftermath of the Successful Control of an HIV Epidemic : The Case of Thailand

The first AIDS case was detected in Thailand in 1984. A decade later, HIV had spread to the general population; a June 2000 HIV serosurveillance survey showed that the low rate of reduction of transmission via commercial sex had led to the spread of HIV to low-risk partners and children. Indeed, the prevalence of HIV in pregnant women was 1.74 per cent in 1997 and increased to 2.02 per cent in 1999. This has inevitably given rise to HIV infection among children. The Thai Working Group on HIV/AIDS Projection (March 2001) indicated that approximately 4,000 Thai children are being infected with HIV each year. The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) estimated that 63,000 children would be directly infected with HIV and 47,000 would die of AIDS by the year 2000. It was also estimated that by the year 2001, over 289,000 children under the age of 15 would have lost their mothers and by 2005, this figure would have risen to 380,000 (UNAIDS, UNICEF and USAID 2002).
VEGETATION , CLIMATE AND SOIL OF THE UNIQUE PURDIAEA FOREST OF SOUTHERN ECUADOR

Purdiaea nutans (Clethraceae) is a small evergreen tree scattered in montane forests of northern South America. In all known localities the species usually occurs sparingly, except in the Reserva Biológica San Francisco (RBSF) in southern Ecuador, where P. nutans is the dominating tree at elevations of between 2150 m and 2650 m. The abundance of largestemmed, over 300-year-old individuals of P. nutans in the RBSF indicates that it is an old-growth forest. We explore the reasons for the occurrence of this unique forest type by comparing vegetation structure, climate, and soil of the Purdiaea forest with other upper montane forests in the region. We conclude that the exceptionally abundant occurrence of the species at RBSF is due to a combination of topographic, geological, pedological, climatic, and historical factors. The very broad upper montane ridges in the RBSF, very poor soils derived from the nutrient-deficient geological substrate, very high precipitation, and historical disturbances, including major past fires, have apparently permitted the development of the large stands of shrubby vegetation dominated by P. nutans. Accepted 20 December 2007.
Social Capital and the Firm: Evidence from Agricultural Trade

Social capital is seldom used as an input in the theoretical modeling of economic production processes. However, the returns to social capital in a real world with transaction costs might be as important as to labor, physical or human capital. Evidence from Madagascar shows that agricultural traders rank the importance of relationships for success in business higher than input prices, output prices, and access to credit or equipment. It is shown that traders use social capital to overcome transaction costs through a reduction in information and search costs and through substitution for poor market institutions. Moreover, the significant effect of experience in business on performance of the traders is for a large part explained by the accumulation of social capital over time. Controlling for labor and physical capital, traders who do not develop the appropriate social capital, do not grow. * Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Heverlee (Leuven), Belgium. Tel: 16-32-1615 E-mail: bart.minten@agr.kuleuven. ac.be Department of Economics, Stanford University; currently at DECRG, MC3-535, the World Bank, 1818 H Street N.W. , Washington DC, 20433. Tel: 202-473-9174. E-mail: fafchamp@leland.stanford. edu 1 We benefited greatly from conversations and comments from Jean-Claude Randrianarisoa and Eliane Ralison. Special thanks go to Ousmane Badiane for obtaining funding for this research. We acknowledge financial support for data collection from the United States Agency for International Development.
Gaydar: Facebook friendships expose sexual orientation | Jernigan | First Monday

Print this article HOME ABOUT LOGIN REGISTER SEARCH CURRENT ARCHIVES ANNOUNCEMENTS SUBMISSIONS Home > Volume 14, Number 10 5 October 2009 > Jernigan Public information about one’s coworkers, friends, family, and acquaintances, as well as one’s associations with them, implicitly reveals private information. Social networking Web sites, e–mail, instant messaging, telephone, and VoIP are all technologies steeped in network data — data relating one person to another. Network data shifts the locus of information control away from individuals, as the individual’s traditional and absolute discretion is replaced by that of his social network. Our research demonstrates a method for accurately predicting the sexual orientation of Facebook users by analyzing friendship associations. After analyzing 4,080 Facebook profiles from the MIT network, we determined that the percentage of a given user’s friends who self–identify as gay male is strongly correlated with the sexual orientation of that user, and we developed a logistic regression classifier with strong predictive power. Although we studied Facebook friendship ties, network data is pervasive in the broader context of computer–mediated communication, raising significant privacy issues for communication technologies to which there are no neat solutions.
Drive&Act: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Fine-Grained Driver Behavior Recognition in Autonomous Vehicles

We introduce the novel domain-specific Drive&Act benchmark for fine-grained categorization of driver behavior. Our dataset features twelve hours and over 9.6 million frames of people engaged in distractive activities during both, manual and automated driving. We capture color, infrared, depth and 3D body pose information from six views and densely label the videos with a hierarchical annotation scheme, resulting in 83 categories. The key challenges of our dataset are: (1) recognition of fine-grained behavior inside the vehicle cabin; (2) multi-modal activity recognition, focusing on diverse data streams; and (3) a cross view recognition benchmark, where a model handles data from an unfamiliar domain, as sensor type and placement in the cabin can change between vehicles. Finally, we provide challenging benchmarks by adopting prominent methods for video- and body pose-based action recognition.
Myocardial Infarction Treated With Thrombolysis : Results From GUSTO-I Risk Factors for In-hospital Nonhemorrhagic Stroke in Patients With Acute

Copyright © 1998 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 1998;97;757-764 Circulation Simoons, Gabriel I. Barbash, Eric J. Topol and Robert M. Califf Thompson, Joel M. Gore, W. Douglas Weaver, Harvey D. White, Maarten L. Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Christopher B. Granger, Michael A. Sloan, Trevor D. Myocardial Infarction Treated With Thrombolysis : Results From GUSTO-I Risk Factors for In-hospital Nonhemorrhagic Stroke in Patients With Acute http://circ.ahajournals. org/cgi/content/full/97/8/757 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is
Exploding the Dark Heart of Chaos

This paper, with its associated graphical software and movies, is an investigation of the universality of the cardioid at the centre of the cyclone of chaotic discrete dynamics, the quadratic ‘heart’ forming the main body of the classic Mandelbrot set. Using techniques investigating and exploring the continuity, bifurcations and explosions in its related Julia sets, we demonstrate its universality across a wide spread of analytic functions of a complex variable, extending from the classical quadratic, through higher polynomials and rational functions, to transcendental functions and their compositions. The approach leads to some interesting and provocative results, including decoding dendritic island periodicities, and multiple critical point analysis, leading to layered Mandelbrot set ‘parameter planes’, and intriguing issues of critical point sensitivity in the irregular structures in the Mariana trenches of the more complex functions.
Adaptive Backstepping of Synergistic Hybrid Feedbacks with Application to Obstacle Avoidance

In this paper, we show that the hybrid controller that is induced by a Synergistic Lyapunov Function and Feedback (SLFF) pair relative to a compact set, can be extended to the case where the original affine control system is subject to a class of additive disturbances known as matched uncertainties, provided that the estimator dynamics do not add new equilibria to the closed-loop system. We also show that the proposed adaptive hybrid controller is amenable to backstepping. Finally, we apply the proposed hybrid control strategy to the problem of global asymptotic stabilization of a compact set in the presence of an obstacle and we illustrate this application by means of simulation results.
Exploring the usefulness of bluetooth and wifi proximity for transportation mode recognition

Understanding the mobility patterns of large groups of people is essential in transport planning. Today's assessments rely on questionnaires or self-reported data, which are cumbersome, expensive, and prone to errors. With recent developments in mobile and ubiquitous computing, it has become feasible to automate this process and classify transportation modes using data collected by users' smartphones. Previous work has mainly considered GPS and accelerometers; however, the achieved accuracies were often insufficient. We propose a novel method which also considers the proximity patterns of WiFi and Bluetooth (BT) devices in the environment, which are expected to be quite specific to the different transportation modes. In this poster, we present the promising results of a preliminary study in Zurich.
Intelligent Classification and Analysis of Essential Genes Using Quantitative Methods

Essential genes are considered to be the genes required to sustain life of different organisms. These genes encode proteins that maintain central metabolism, DNA replications, translation of genes, and basic cellular structure, and mediate the transport process within and out of the cell. The identification of essential genes is one of the essential problems in computational genomics. In this present study, to discriminate essential genes from other genes from a non-biologists perspective, the purine and pyrimidine distribution over the essential genes of four exemplary species, namely Homo sapiens, Arabidopsis thaliana, Drosophila melanogaster, and Danio rerio are thoroughly experimented using some quantitative methods. Moreover, the Indigent classification method has also been deployed for classification on the essential genes of the said species. Based on Shannon entropy, fractal dimension, Hurst exponent, and purine and pyrimidine bases distribution, 10 different clusters have been generated for the essential genes of the four species. Some proximity results are also reported herewith for the clusters of the essential genes.
AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

The purpose in this research is to evaluate the economic viability of (a) a crop insurance programme for small scale farmers and (b) an Income Equalisation Deposit (IED) Scheme for commercial farmers. Hail insurance is provided by the private sector in South Africa but crop (drought insurance) programmes, after a promising start, failed to attract customers largely because of high premiums. An area insurance plan (farmers are insured as a group) is shown to be more appropriate especially for small scale farmers growing dryland field crops because risk is systemic (drought related) while adverse selection, moral hazard etc are overcome. Individual crop insurance will not be viable due to the cost of farm visits (verification of claims) and the non availability of information (information cost problem). An analysis of time series data shows that insurance premiums even for area insurance will be high because of the high variability in yields and the concomitant high expected claims. As a large part of the cost to government goes to administration of crop insurance it is recommended that an Income Equalisation Deposit (IED) scheme be considered. Under an IED scheme, farmers are permitted to deposit funds in good years and income tax is only paid on withdrawal in a bad year. An IED has been considered in the past in South Africa but rejected largely due to tax implications. Conditions have now changed while various countries (Australia, Canada and USA) are promoting this scheme. During 2000, tax consultants in rural areas in South Africa were interviewed about circumstances under which they will recommend an IED. An experimental design was used to draw a sample of consultants in order to allow for main and interaction effects in the statistical analysis. Discriminant and logit analysis (n=192) showed that consultants would recommend such a scheme to high risk farmers with low debt and farmers with higher net farm income. Interaction effects showed that the scheme will be particularly recommended to high risk maize (corn) farmers, a farming sector that has been devastated with droughts in the past. A policy recommendation is to make an IED scheme available to both small and large scale farmers with the government making also a contribution in the case of small scale farmers (as in Canada) which can be phased out as net farm income increases. These risk policy risk management strategies are seen as pro-active rather than the past reactive measures of substantial state assistance since droughts are common on the African continent.
Behavioral Competence On Enterprise Success Of Women Enrepreneurs In Bungoma , Kenya

Women represent more than a one third of the world population and their contribution to the development and transformation of a country in terms of value creation and job creation. Behavioral competencies are critical in ensuring enterprise success for women entrepreneurs. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of behavioral competencies on enterprise success of women entrepreneurs in Bungoma County, Kenya . Competence based theory provided a theoretical basis for the study. The study adopted a post-positivism research. The study design was explanatory survey, whose target population and Sample size was adopted from a thesis.Data was analyzed quantitatively using Structural quation modeling techniques. The study found a significant relationship between behavioral competence and enterprise success (β=0.16, CR=2.402; p=0.016) , however behavioral competence had strong effect on success of women entrepreneurs.In conclusion, Women entrepreneurs must pay attention to behavioral competencies if they are to be successful in business. The study recommends replication of this study in other areas such as SMEs and micro enterprisers as well in other regions in Kenya.