Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Effects of Media Violence on Adult Right Prefrontal Cortex Functioning

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Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists

Stinkhorns, puffballs, the "corpse finder," deadly galerina, Satan's bolete, birch conks, black mold, the old man of the woods-the world of fungi is infinitely varied and not a little weird. Now, in Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard, Nicholas Money introduces readers to a dazzling array of fungi, from brewer's yeast and Penicillium to the highly lethal death cap. This is an entertaining book that also provides a solid introduction to the biology of fungi as well as much insight into how scientists study fungi in the lab and in the field. Readers will be intrigued by the many exotic fungi discussed. One fungus in Oregon, for instance, covers 2,000 acres and is now considered the world's largest organism. We learn of Madurella, which can erode bones until they look moth-eaten; Cordyceps, which wracks insects with convulsions, kills them, then sends a stalk out of the insect's head to release more infectious spores; and Claviceps, the poisonous ergot fungus, which causes hallucinations (the women charged with "demonic possession" in Salem in 1691 may have been victims of ergot consumption). Money also showcases the lives of famed mycologists-including Reginald Buller who wore horse blinders as he walked to work, the better to study luminescent fungi in his dark lab, and Charles Tulasne, the Audubon of fungi, whose illustrations of specimens border on art. And he recounts his own childhood introduction to fungi in Mr. Bloomfield's orchard, where trees and fruit were devoured by a rogue's gallery of bitter rot, canker, rust, powdery mildew, rubbery wood, and scab. Told with a refreshing sense of humor, Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard will fascinate anyone interested in the natural world.
Preliminary investigation of the properties of diclofenac potassium in SRMSbased tablets

The aims of the study were to formulate sustained release diclofenac potassium tablets based on solidified reverse micellar solution (SRMS) and to evaluate the properties of the tablets and compare with commercial diclofenac potassium tablets for sustained release properties. The SRMS was prepared by fusion using Phospholipon® 90H (P90H) and Softisan® 154 (1:1, 2:1 and 1:2) and characterized using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The tablets were prepared using validated plastic mold and analysed by determining the drug content, weight uniformity, tablet hardness, friability test, tablet thickness and diameter. In vitro drug release was studied in simulated intestinal fluid (SIF, pH 7.5). The DSC results of the SRMS showed endotherms at 67.0, 75.0 and 62.5 oC for SRMS 1:1, 2:1 and 1:2 respectively. The tablets exhibited stable thickness of 0.33 ± 0.02 to 0.34 ± 0.02 cm and stable diameter of 1.20 ± 0.01 cm. The tablets’ weight showed percentage deviation significantly lower than 5 % (p < 0.05) and friability of 0.05 to 0.11 %. The tablet hardness ranged from 5.00 to 5.10 kgf while, erosion time ranged from 36.00 ± 1.10 to 120.00 ± 0.32 min and increased as the concentration of phospholipid increased. The tablets complied with the BP standard for assay of active ingredient. Diclofenac potassium tablet formulations exhibited T100 % at 8 -11 h, while the reference tablets showed T100 % at 9 h. Therefore, diclofenac potassium tablets based on SRMS had good sustained release properties for once daily administration.
This is Biology

BIOL 5303 Introduction to Microbiology for Graduate Students (3 semester credit hours) Microbes contribute to major biogeochemical processes, live in environments inhospitable to other organisms, and may comprise the majority of biomass on Earth. They form beneficial symbioses with multicellular organisms and play critical roles in the development of those organisms. In contrast to these beneficial roles, certain microbes are global public health concerns. This course surveys the form and function of the microbial world. Instructor consent required. (3-0) S
Hyphal cell biology

The hyphal mode of growth The dominance of filamentous fungi within the ecosystem is attributed to their common mode of growth, extending as branched filaments (hyphae) which can rapidly spread across uncolonized substrates. The success of this growth habit for exploiting the natural environment can be judged on a number of factors: the extraordinary diversity of fungal species (estimated at three million, second only to the insects), their distribution in virtually every habitat on the planet and the parallel evolution of a similar growth habit by another important class of soil microorganisms, the prokaryotic streptomycetes. Clearly the ability of a microbe to rapidly colonize new substrates by concentrating growth at its apex, is well suited for life as a heterotroph in a heterogenous environment. Spore dormancy and germination Spores are products of both sexual and asexual reproduction and act as units of dispersal in fungi. The majority of spores germinate to produce one or more germ tubes and a new fungal mycelium when the spore settles on an appropriate substrate under favourable environmental conditions. When a spore is faced with unfavourable conditions such as lack of nutrients, low temperature, an unfavourable pH or the presence of an inhibitor (e.g. on a plant surface), the spore remains dormant. Spores under these conditions are exogenously dormant and will only germinate when the environmental conditions become favourable.
Breeding for chlorogenic acid content in eggplant: interest and prospects.

Chlorogenic acid (5-O-caffeoyl-quinic acid; CGA) is an ester of caffeic acid and (-)-quinic acid with many beneficial properties for human health, such as anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective, anti-carcinogenic, anti-obesity, and anti-diabetic properties. This has raised an interest for the development of new crop cultivars with increased CGA content. One of the crops with higher CGA content is eggplant (Solanum melongena). There is a wide diversity for CGA content in cultivated eggplant germplasm, which is influenced by the fruit developmental stage, storage conditions, and environmental factors. Therefore, appropriate experimental designs are required for an efficient breeding. Several strategies are proposed for breeding for high CGA content such as intraspecific variation, selection among accessions, development of hybrids and lines with good agronomic and commercial characteristics, or introgression of the high CGA trait in A©lite lines. Some wild relatives, like S. incanum, present higher CGA contents than those of eggplant. Interspecific hybridization can be used to introgress favorable alleles from the wild species into the genetic background of cultivated eggplant. Fruit flesh browning, as a result of CGA oxidation by polyphenol oxidases, could be a side effect of increasing the CGA content in eggplant. However, experimental results indicate that the relationship between CGA content and fruit flesh browning is low or moderate. Furthermore, selection for low polyphenol oxidase activity might result in reduced fruit flesh browning. Overall, the available data suggest that the development of eggplant cultivars with improved functional quality resulting from a higher CGA content is feasible.
Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages: Comparing bilinguals and trilinguals

Abstract Many children grow up hearing multiple languages, learning words in each. How does the number of languages being learned affect multilinguals’ vocabulary development? In a pre-registered study, we compared productive vocabularies of bilingual (n = 170) and trilingual (n = 20) toddlers aged 17–33 months growing up in a bilingual community where both French and English are spoken. We hypothesized that because trilinguals have reduced input in French and English due to time spent hearing their third language, they would have smaller French–English vocabulary sizes than bilinguals. Trilinguals produced on average 2/3 of the number of words in these languages that bilinguals did: however, this difference was not statistically robust due to large levels of variability. Follow-up analyses did, however, indicate a relationship between input quantity and vocabulary size. Our results indicate that similar factors contribute to vocabulary development across toddlers regardless of the number of languages being acquired.
Gaia results for star clusters and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way

Abstract The second data release of the Gaia mission coupled with ground-based spectroscopic observations has allowed the determination of the orbital parameters for almost all of the Galactic globular clusters, as well as for the known dwarf spheroidal galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Moreover, it has led to the discovery of dwarf galaxies that were accreted by the Galaxy long ago and that are now completely disrupted. By exploiting their dynamics in combination with the globular clusters age-metallicity relation, we investigated the clusters-to-dwarfs connection. We found that about 60 globulars likely formed in situ, and associated those that were accreted to the dwarf galaxy progenitor they likely formed in.
Influence of stakeholder management and communications management in choosing of the best product achieve quality by Analytic Hierarchy Process method

This article investigate an analytical study of the stakeholder management and the communications management of Ready Mix Concrete, its importance and the role to identify, plan, management, engagement and control engagement in process of production to make decision about the best product achieve quality through the Analytic Hierarchy Process method (AHP) to compare criteria and variances pairwise comparison to choose best product meet with the requirements of quality management. The choice (best product) will determine the quality of actions that we can take without losses of costs for development of other products that can consume the time, effort and cost to correct or update its progress in the production process. Our choice of a product that reduces costs will help us to determine the tests and inspections that can achieve and have the most impact on quality (control and assurance). The Stakeholder management and communications management help us to determine criteria and variances as well as management. The author uses Expert Choice software for submitting goals, criteria, pairwise comparison of criteria and as well as submitting of alternatives. Moreover, the study of information base on the matrices of pairwise comparison to the alternatives with respect to cost, meet with standards, experience of functional manager, the reliability of engineering system, quality of human resources, safety and the analysis of the results based on sensitivity criterion, performance sensitivity, dimensional sensitivity, dynamic sensitivity, and the opinion of the experts, the best product achieve quality is Ready Mix Concrete more than other main products.
Prevalência de espécies de Eimeria em frangos de criação industrial e alternativa

As eimerioses causam grave problema as criacoes de frangos, como, reducao do ganho de peso e aumento da conversao alimentar, gerando grandes perdas economicas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar a prevalencia e especies de Eimeria sp. em dois grupos, um de criacao industrial com a linhagem Hubbard tratado com Premix contendo medicamentos coccidiostaticos ate sete dias antes do abate e um de frango de criacao alternativa com a linhagem Redro Plume sem tratamento. Apos analise parasitologica de 100 amostras (n=50/grupo) comprovou-se a infeccao mista de sete especies: Eimeria tenella, E. necatrix, E. acervulina, E. maxima, E. brunetti, E. mitis, E. mivati, em ambos os grupos. Ocorreu distribuicao normal de oocistos somente no grupo comercial. O numero de oocistos encontrado na segunda amostra do grupo tratado foi estatisticamente diferente da primeira (P=0,023) e da primeira (P=0,016) e da segunda colheita (P=0,028) do grupo sem tratamento. E. maxima foi a especie mais prevalente no grupo tratado e sem tratamento.
Courtship diversification and the evolution of reproductive isolation in Timema walking-sticks

The genetic architecture underlying reproductively isolating traits may have substantial impacts upon the likelihood and pace of speciation. Recent studies of a key premating barrier, courtship, provide sufficient data to assess the degree to which behaviourally isolating traits are controlled by many or few loci, and to investigate whether the same loci underlie both intraspecific and interspecific behavioural differences. Of the behavioural courtship traits examined, 69% (25 of 36) were found to be mediated by few loci of relatively large effect. This apparent prevalence of major loci suggests that changes in courtship behaviour may often evolve quickly, which in turn may drive rapid speciation through premating isolation. Although both intraspecific and interspecific courtship differences are commonly controlled by major loci, intraspecific and inter-specific differences usually involve different loci or traits. This finding provides evidence that different sets of processes and genetic changes characterize microevolutionary change in courtship-related traits, in contrast to change during speciation.
Tensor Ring Decomposition: Optimization Landscape and One-loop Convergence of Alternating Least Squares

In this work, we study the tensor ring decomposition and its associated numerical algorithms. We establish a sharp transition of algorithmic difficulty of the optimization problem as the bond dimension increases: On one hand, we show the existence of spurious local minima for the optimization landscape even when the tensor ring format is much over-parameterized, i.e., with bond dimension much larger than that of the true target tensor. On the other hand, when the bond dimension is further increased, we establish one-loop convergence for alternating least square algorithm for tensor ring decomposition. The theoretical results are complemented by numerical experiments for both local minimum and one-loop convergence for the alternating least square algorithm.
Comparing Emotional Intelligence and Self-esteem in Secondary School Students of Punjab

This study was intended to explore the correlation between emotional intelligence and self-esteem of students studying in the secondary schools of Pakistan. The study explored the role of various demographic variations among students such as gender, grade and family’s socioeconomic status in defining their levels of self-esteem and emotional intelligence. The study used the Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) and Self-esteem Questionnaire (SEQ) to measure emotional intelligence and self-esteem, respectively. Using multistage random sampling technique, 300 students studying at various secondary schools located in four districts of Punjab including Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Attock and Mianwali were selected. The findings revealed that there is a strong and positive correlation between self-esteem and emotional intelligence. The results of t-test revealed that there is a significant difference between emotional intelligence and self-esteem scores of boys and girls. Similarly, ANOVA results also showed differences in scores of emotional intelligence and self-esteem with respect to grades and family income. The findings of this research are beneficial for school teachers, psychologists, counsellors and school administrators and highlight the need of preparing the psychological profile of students. Both self-esteem and emotional intelligence are deemed crucial for learning and personality building of young adolescents. Therefore, policy makers, school administration, parents and teachers must expend collective efforts to create a healthy social and psychological capital for Pakistan.
Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks

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Distribution and Virulence Diversity of Phytophthora sojae in China

By investigating occurrence of Phytophthora root rot in fields and isolating P. sojae from diseased plants and soils, the distribution of P. sojae in China was surveyed. In addition to northeast region, P. sojae existed in Huanghe-Huaihe basin and Yangtze basin too. Eighty- three isolates of P. sojae isolated from different areas were identified on virulence using 13differential soybean cultivars, abundant virulence diversity was found in P. sojae. The greater diversity in virulence of P. sojae was in isolates from soil than from plants. And the greatest virulence diversity of P.sojae was found in Yangtze basin.
Effet des hautes pressions sur les indicateurs de maturation de la viande et d'altération du muscle de poisson

Cette etude porte sur l'influence du procede par hautes pressions sur la maturation de la viande et sur l'alteration du poisson, en s'appuyant sur des indicateurs proteiques. L'objectif principal est de caracteriser l'effet des hautes pressions sur l'activite des proteases responsables de la degradation du muscle de bar (Dicentrarchus labrax L. ) et de bovin (Biceps femoris), mais aussi sur la texture, la couleur et la microstructure. Les echantillons sont pressurises entre 0 et 500 MPa pendant 5 minutes, et conserves a 4°C. Les differents systemes proteasiques intervenant dans la degradation post-mortem du muscle (principalement cathepsines et calpaines) ont ete quantifies apres un traitement par hautes pressions et au cours du temps post-mortem. Il a ete montre que la sensibilite des proteases aux traitements dependait de la famille de proteases, des conditions de pressurisation, de l'origine et de la nature de l'echantillon (extrait ou muscle).
A REVIEW ON THE ROLE OF HEALTH GIS IN MAPPING AND MONITORING PUBLIC HEALTH

The geographic data frameworks in the restorative field (Medical GIS) have turned out to be incredibly valuable in understanding the tremendous picture of general wellbeing. GIS (Geographic Information System) is a helpful apparatus that guides and aids wellbeing research, wellbeing training, arranging, checking and assessment of wellbeing programs that are intended to control and annihilate certain hazardous illnesses and pestilences. GIS is being utilized for everything from Urban Planning to promoting, most as of late specialists and researchers are hoping to GIS to gather data in the wellbeing field. We can comprehend the two contrasts and likenesses in populace wellbeing everywhere throughout the world.
Detecting Black-box Adversarial Examples through Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-perturbed inputs aimed to mislead classification. This work proposes a detection method based on combining non-linear dimensionality reduction and density estimation techniques. Our empirical findings show that the proposed approach is able to effectively detect adversarial examples crafted by non-adaptive attackers, i.e., not specifically tuned to bypass the detection method. Given our promising results, we plan to extend our analysis to adaptive attackers in future work.
Identification of commensal bacterial metabolites that enhance the integrity of the gastrointestinal barrier

The objective of this research was to identify metabolites produced by commensal bacteria that enhance the integrity of the gastrointestinal barrier (GIB). The integrity of the GIB is mainly determined by the complexity of interactions between tight junctions of opposing epithelial cells of the GI wall. This was measured using an in vitro bioassay, consisting of a monolayer of intestinal epithelial cells grown on a membrane. The trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER) across this monolayer was measured to determine the strength of the tight junctions. Preliminary results showed that a commercial probiotic product caused an increase in TEER across non-differentiated and differentiated monolayers by 178 ± 61% and 40 ± 9%, respectively. The maximum increases in TEER obtained with conditioned media fractions (media fractions containing components secreted by the probiotic product) was between 23 ± 6% and 43 ± 4%. The conditioned media fraction containing components less than 3 kDa accounted for the total activity of the whole conditioned media. Metabolite profiling of active conditioned media compared to inactive conditioned media using fast-LCMSMS identified numerous metabolites that may be responsible for this positive effect. Future work will isolate the candidate metabolites and screen them for GIB enhancing activity both in vitro and in vivo.
The paradoxical effect of 1,4-naphthoquinone on the process of cell death induced by hydrogen peroxide in rat thymocytes

1,4-Naphthoquinone (NAPH) is found in diesel exhaust particles and it is an active metabolite of naphthalene, a fumigant insecticide. This compound is known to cause oxidative stress. Therefore, it is plausible to suggest that NAPH increases cell vulnerability to oxidative stress in an additive or synergistic manner. We tested this possibility using rat thymocytes with flow-cytometric techniques and appropriate fluorescent probes. NAPH attenuated the increase in cell lethality induced by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The combination of NAPH and H2O2 promoted the transition from normal cells to apoptotic living cells, but attenuated further transition to cell death. Thus, the process of cell death induced by H2O2 was not completed in the presence of NAPH. However, NAPH did not attenuate certain lethal cellular events such as decrease in the cellular content of non-protein thiols and increases in intracellular Ca2+ and Zn2+ levels, induced by H2O2. The inhibitory effect of NAPH on the increase in cell lethality induced by H2O2 was also observed when caspase activity was suppressed. In the present study, the mechanism underlying the NAPH-induced attenuation of cell death in cells affected by H2O2-generated oxidative stress was, however, not fully elucidated. Since both H2O2 and NAPH elevated intracellular Ca2+ and Zn2+ levels, and since Zn2+ is known to partly attenuate Ca2+-dependent cell death, the intracellular interaction between Ca2+ and Zn2+ may complicate the process of cell death induced by oxidative stress.