Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Redescriptions of thirteen species of chewing lice in the Brueelia-complex (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae), with one new synonymy and a neotype designation for Nirmus lais Giebel, 1874

Thirteen species of chewing lice in theBrueelia-complex are redescribed and illustrated. They are:BrueeliablagovescenskyiBalát, 1955, exEmberizaschoeniclus(Linnaeus, 1758);B.breueriBalát, 1955, exChlorischloris(Linnaeus, 1758);B.conocephala(Blagoveshchensky, 1940) exSittaeuropaea(Linnaeus, 1758);B.ferianciBalát, 1955, exAnthustrivialis(Linnaeus, 1758);B.gliziBalát, 1955, exFringillamontifringillaLinnaeus, 1758;B.kluziBalát, 1955, exFringillacoelebsLinnaeus, 1758;B.kratochviliBalát, 1958, exMotacillaflavaLinnaeus, 1758;B. matvejeviBalát, 1981, exTurdusviscivorusLinnaeus, 1758;B.pelikaniBalát, 1958, exEmberizamelanocephalaScopoli, 1769;B. rosickyiBalát, 1955, exSylvianisoria(Bechstein, 1792);B. vanekiBalát, 1981, exAcrocephalusschoenobaenus(Linnaeus, 1758);Guimaraesiellahaftorni(Balát, 1958) exTurdusiliacusLinnaeus, 1758;G.lais(Giebel, 1874) exLusciniamegarhynchos(Brehm, 1831). Redescriptions are made from type material where available. Holotypes are identified in Balát’s material when possible, and lectotypes are designated forB.blagovescenskyi,B.breueri,B.glizi,B.ferianci,B.kluzi,B.kratochvili,B.pelikani, andB.rosickyi; a neotype ofNirmuslaisGiebel, 1874 is designated. BrueeliaweberiBalát, 1982, is placed as a synonym ofBrueeliaconocephala(Blagoveshchensky, 1940).
Anti-inflammatory effect of medicinal plants used by rural people of Azhagar Hills in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India

Anti –inflammatory is the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling. Anti-inflammatory drugs make up about half of analgesics, remedying pain by reducing inflammation as opposed to opioids, which affect the central nervous system to block pain signaling to the brain. The present study was mainly focused on Medicinal plants of Rural areas used as Anti- inflammatory activity in Azhagar hills of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India. It has been shown that 24 Medicinal herbs belonging to 20 families are used as Anti- inflammatory activity. Traditional medicine system have been followed by rural people used to cure even Unknowing diseases with symptomatic. Traditional healers in rural areas have well identification of medicinal properties of medicinal plants through which diseases can be cured.
Environmental Fate Studies on Certain Munition Wastewater Constituents - Literature Review

Abstract : The objective of this study was to perform a literature review on the transport and transformation processes that may affect the environmental fate of 11 munition wastewater constituents. Estimates of kinetic rate constants for volatilization, sediment adsorption, biodegradation, photolysis, chemical oxidation were made from available literature data. Recommendations for the further elucidation of environmental fate are made to fill the gaps identified in the literature review.
Essential oils and prebiotic on broiler diets as feed additives

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of a combination of essential oils, prebiotics and antibiotics on broiler production. The treatments consisted of a normal diet meeting the nutritional requirements, and diets with a 5% reduction of nutritional requirements, supplemented or not with antibiotics (En+Sal) (10 g ton-1 enramycin and 125 g ton-1 salinomycin) or a blend of essential oils (EOFOS) (oregano, anise and lemon) plus fructooligosaccharides (125 g ton-1). A total of 1,152 male one-day-old broilers were randomized by weight and distributed into a 2*3 factorial design, consisting of six treatments with each treatment containing eight replicates of 24 birds per experimental unit. The Student-Newman-Keuls test was performed at 5% probability. Broiler performance was evaluated at 10, 21 and 42 days, intestinal morphometry was evaluated at 21 days, microbiological cecum counts at 33 days, blood parameters at 35 days and carcass and cuts yield at 42 days of age. Broilers fed reduced diets had a reduction in performance (P 0.05) of growth promoters and diet type on the Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium populations within the gastrointestinal tract. There were no differences for duodenum or ileum villus heights (P > 0.05). Broilers fed EOFOS showed higher villus height in the jejunum at 21 days. There were no effects on blood parameters of different diets and growth promoters (P > 0.05), nor on carcass and cuts yield, abdominal fat and relative liver weight (P > 0.05). Broilers receiving the normal diet with EOFOS showed higher villus height in the jejunum at 21 days when compared to the normal diet with antibiotics and the normal diet without growth promoters. However, there were no effects of growth promoters and diet type on broiler performance at 42 days.
Molecular analysis of Ulva compressa (Chlorophyta, Ulvales) reveals its morphological plasticity, distribution and potential invasiveness on German North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts

ABSTRACT To resolve historical misinterpretations of species descriptions and to comprehend the morphological diversity together with the distribution of Ulva compressa Linnaeus in northern Germany, a morphological and molecular study was undertaken of recently collected specimens and herbarium vouchers. Phylogenetic analyses from sequences of the plastid encoded tufA gene confirmed that U. compressa is abundant along the German Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts. We were able to genetically confirm the presence of U. compressa in the Baltic Sea below salinities of 15 PSU. However, we detected morphologies agreeing with the attached and branched tubular type material only in the North Sea, while U. compressa on Baltic Sea coasts indiscriminately exhibited a very distinct morphology of sheet-like thalli that were always unattached, with the exception of one collection site. Drifting forms were also frequently detected in the Wadden Sea, but not on the island of Helgoland. The tufA sequences of attached and tubular forms of U. compressa from the German Wadden Sea were identical to the drifting sheets found in the Wadden and Baltic Seas and the sequence divergence was extremely small at ≤0.9%. The proliferating, blade-like thalli of U. compressa appear as a nuisance ecotype that is able to form massive accumulations associated with oxygen depletion. Mass accumulations were observed to cause severe damage and increased mortality of habitat forming Zostera and Ruppia populations.
BetaScan2: Standardized Statistics to Detect Balancing Selection Utilizing Substitution Data

The recently reported statistic β detects balanced haplotypes without the need for genomic data from an outgroup species. Here we present an extension to the method that incorporates between-species substitution data into the β statistic framework. We show that this approach outperforms existing summary statistics in simulations. We also present the variance of β with and without substitution data, allowing calculation of a standardized score. Besides providing a measure of significance, this enables a proper comparison of β values across varying underlying parameters, a feature lacking from some related methods.
Cooler: scalable storage for Hi-C data and other genomically-labeled arrays

Most existing coverage-based (epi)genomic datasets are one-dimensional, but newer technologies probing interactions (phys-ical, genetic, etc.) produce quantitative maps with two-dimensional genomic coordinate systems. Storage and compu-tational costs mount sharply with data resolution when such maps are stored in dense form. Hence, there is a pressing need to develop data storage strategies that handle the full range of useful resolutions in multidimensional genomic datasets by tak-ing advantage of their sparse nature, while supporting efficient compression and providing fast random access to facilitate development of scalable algorithms for data analysis. We devel-oped a file format called cooler, based on a sparse data model, that can support genomically-labeled matrices at any resolution. It has the flexibility to accommodate various descriptions of the data axes (genomic coordinates, tracks and bin annotations), resolutions, data density patterns, and metadata. Cooler is based on HDF5 and is supported by a Python library and command line suite to create, read, inspect and manipulate cooler data collections. The format has been adopted as a standard by the NIH 4D Nucleome Consortium. Cooler is cross-platform, BSD-licensed, and can be installed from the Python Package In-dex or the bioconda repository. The source code is maintained on Github at https://github.com/mirnylab/cooler
Range limits in sympatric cryptic species: a case study in Tetramorium pavement ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) across a biogeographical boundary

In the context of climate changes, factors that determine the distribution patterns of European species of the ubiquitous ant genus Tetramorium were investigated. The study took place along a steep North‐South climatic gradient across the boundary between the European Continental and Mediterranean biogeographical regions spanning 460 km along the Rhône valley, France. Ants from 1690 Tetramorium colonies were collected in 19 sampling zones. Species were identified using an integrative approach based on a two‐step process combining nuclear DNA (14 microsatellite markers), morphological examination and mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase I sequencing. The impact of climate on species distribution patterns was tested using bioclimatic variables. Species discrimination was successful, despite a complex situation with cryptic species, inter‐specific hybridisation and uneven sampling across species. Our results showed a strong effect of latitude, temperature and rainfall on the distribution of three of four species. Tetramorium semilaeve was found only south of the boundary, in warmer and dryer sites; Tetramorium caespitum extended north and 70 km south of the boundary and favoured colder sites with strong seasonal variation. Tetramorium immigrans was absent from the northernmost sampling zones and favoured warmer and wetter sites. Tetramorium moravicum was mostly found close to the boundary, but without significant climatic preferences. The fundamental role of climate as a factor limiting the ranges of these species at a major biogeographical boundary is confirmed. Monitoring range limits of these strongly climate‐dependant species may offer exciting insights on the impact of climate changes on species distributions.
Bimodal in vitro release from polymeric matrix tablets containing centralised drug cores

Un comprime matriciel presentant une liberation bimodale du principe actifa ete prepare afin d'etre utilise pour compenser les variations dans les taux d'absorption en fonction des differentes regions du tractus gastro-intestinal. Des noyaux a base de theophylline (30, 50 et 75 mg) ont ete places au centre d'une matrice constituee d'un melange d'hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, de lactose et de theophylline. Chaque comprime renfermait 150 mg de principe actif reparti entre l'enrobage matriciel et le noyau dans les proportions respectives de 4/1, 2/1 et 1/1. Des essais de dissolution in vitro ont permis d 'etudier l'influence de differents milieux de dissolution et des conditions hydrodynamiques sur la liberation du principe actif. Une liberation bimodale est obtenue mais l'intensite de chaque phase depend de la teneur en principe actif du noyau et de l'enrobage matriciel. La vitesse de dissolution augmente notablement en milieu pH 7,8 et en milieu renfermant un surfactif non ionique. Cependant, la vitesse de dissolution est diminuee (± 32% liberes apres 6 h) dans un milieu de viscosite elevee. Une liberation sequentielle peut etre obtenue a partir de comprimes matriciels d'hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose renfermant un noyau central.
Evaluation Des Connaissances Des Populations De La Région De N’Zi Sur L’utilisation Des Plantes Alimentaires Dans Le Traitement Du Diabète De Type 2, De L’hypertension Artérielle Et De L’obésité (Centre-Est De La Côte d’Ivoire)

Les maladies metaboliques et cardiovasculaires sont impliquees dans la survenue du syndrome metabolique (SMet). Les plantes alimentaires peuvent etre une alternative importante dans leur prevention. L’objectif de ce travail est d’evaluer les connaissances des populations de la Region du N’Zi qui se trouvent au Centre-Est de la Cote d’Ivoire. Ces differentes plantes alimentaires ont un benefice sante sur le diabete de type 2, l’hypertension arterielle et l’obesite. Les enquetes ethnobotaniques menees dans cette region, aupres de 554 personnes, a l’aide d’un questionnaire d’enquete, ont permis de recenser 24 plantes alimentaires utilisees dans les menages contre ces composantes du SMet. Parmi elles, Moringa oleifera (36,90 %) et Parkia biglobosa (25 %) sont les plus citees et les plus consommees. Les populations s’accordent plus sur leur utilisation (FCI=0,91) pour traiter ces maladies endocriniennes nutritionnelles et metaboliques (diabete de type 2 et obesite). Les plantes recensees dans la presente etude pourraient etre utilisees comme aliments fonctionnels dans la prevention du diabete, de l’hypertension arterielle et de l’obesite. Metabolic and cardiovascular diseases are implicated in the occurrence of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Edible plants may be an important alternative in their prevention. The objective of this work is to assess the knowledge of the populations of the N'Zi region in the central-eastern part of Cote d'Ivoire. These different food plants have a health benefit on type 2 diabetes, arterial hypertension and obesity. The ethnobotanical surveys conducted in this region, involving 554 people, using a survey questionnaire, using a survey questionnaire, identified 24 food used in households against these components of MetS. Among them, Moringa oleifera (36.90%) and Parkia biglobosa (25%) are the most cited and most consumed. There is greater agreement on their use (ICF=0.91) to treat nutritional and metabolic endocrine diseases(type 2 diabetes and obesity). The plants identified in this study could be used as functional foods in the prevention of type 2 diabetes, arterial hypertension and obesity.
Comparison to Changes of Lake Ice Phenology and Air Temperature over Northern Europe, Tibetan Plateau and Mongolian Plateau

Lake ice is a sensitive factor for the Earth’s environment and climate change research. In the comparative study on climate change to the Earth three-pole (Antarctic, Arctic, and Tibetan Plateau), the lake ice phenology can be used to represent seasonal climate changes. In this paper, the lake ice phenology and the corresponding daily temperature for 48 lakes in Northern Europe, Tibetan Plateau and Mongolia Plateau were used as the typical case for comparative research. Based on passive microwave remote sensing data. The results showed that the average lake ice cover duration experienced a consistent decreasing for the three regions from 1978-2018. However, in the northern Tibetan Plateau, though the lake ice cover duration showed a shortening trend from 1978 to 2000, it displayed a prolonged trend from 2000 to 2018. Moreover, the air temperature changes of the lake area had a significant correlation with the changes of ice cover duration in each region, and the change of 0 °C isotherm in the Northern Europe lakes are more sensitive than the Mongolian Plateau and the Tibetan Plateau. The air temperature played a major role in the change of lake ice phenology, but there were still other factors that affected the lake ice phenology changes, especially in northern Tibetan Plateau. By comparing the analysis of the ice cover duration in the three regions and the effect of air temperature on the lake ice cover duration change, it provides more evidences for the study on climate change research in different regions.
Organotins in Biology and the Environment.

Abstract : Tin chemistry has been the subject of much research effort in the last few years. Elemental tin possesses two allotropic modifications, forms a wide variety of intermetallic phases and inorganic compounds, and has an extensive organometallic chemistry. Basic studies in organotin chemistry are stimulated by the obvious close analogies and interesting differences with the even more extensive chemistry of the cognate organosilicon compounds, and with the vast body of organic chemistry, and also by the success with which a large number of modern physical techniques can be applied to organotin compounds.
Acoustic and Thermal Insulation of Nanocomposites for Building Material

يهدف البحث الى تعزيز خصائص العزل الحراري والصوتي لمادة متراكبة بوليمرية، مصنعة من خليط من (الأيبوكسي+بولي استر) كمادة أساس ,ومدعمة بكلا من الصوف الصخري والاطيان النانويه. تم استعمال طريقه القولبه اليدويه لتصنيع المصبوبات، حيث تم خلط الأيبوكسي والبولي أستر بنسب مختلفة تبدأ من (50:50) % لتصل الى (100-90) للايبوكسي والبولي استر على التوالي. بالاعتماد على اختبار الصدمه للعينات التجريبيه تم اختيار افضل نسبة خلط وهي نسبة (80-20) للأيبوكسي والبولي أستر على التوالي حيث حصلت على اعلى مقاومة صدمة،وبناءا عليه تم أختيارها كمادة أساس. تم بعد ذلك تدعيم المادة الأساس بالأطيان النانوية (كاؤلايت) بكسر وزني (7.5- 5) % ، هذه العينات تم تصنيعها بصورة هجينة ايضا بعد اضافة الصوف الصخري بكسر حجمي (10) %. اوضحت نتائج اختبار العزل الصوتي ان الخليط المدعم بالأطيان النانوية بكسر وزني (7.5) % يمتلك اعلى قيمة للعزل الصوتي حيث كانت (99.8) db عند تردد 100 Hz وصلت إلى (101.3)db عند 10000Hz، وهو أقل بكثير من القيم التي تم الحصول عليها من العينات الغير مدعمه، والتي بدأت كثافة الصوت عند(107.2)db ووصلت إلى (108.7)db، في نفس النطاق من الترددات. تظهر نتائج الموصلية الحرارية أن الخليط المثالي التي يحتوي على (7.5) %wt، يمتلك اقل قيمة للتوصيل الحراري التي هي (0.443)W/m.C°
Evaluation for Energy Savings in Occupancy Lighting Control using Vision-based Motion Sensor

In this paper, we aim to evaluate an occupancy lighting control by using vision-based motion sensor compared with passive infrared (PIR) motion sensor. Our results showed that vision-based sensor improved detection accuracy by 21.7% and detected small movement of occupant more accurately than PIR sensor. We also conﬁrmed that vision-based sensor enabled to reduce oﬀ-delay, which is introduced to prevent undesired switching oﬀ light, by 7.92 min (74.8%). As a result of simulation for occupancy lighting control with vision-based sensor and PIR sensor, vision-based sensor enabled to improve energy saving rate by 8.9%. Additionally, we discussed disadvantages of vision-based sensor conﬁrmed in our experiment and considered solutions for them.
Effect of pre-treatment and heat treatment on tensile and thermal behavior of Parawood strands.

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of pre-treatment and heat treatment at varied temperature and time on tensile and thermal behavior of Parawood strands. A three-way factorial experiment was employed with ten replications. The factors are (1) pre-treatment conditions of three levels (oven-dried strand, EMC strand, boiled strand), (2) temperature of heat treatment of four levels (170 o C, 180 o C, 190 o C, 200 o C) and (3) time of heat treatment of four levels (15 min, 30 min, 45 min, 60 min). The specimens prepared from the heat-treated strands were tested in tension parallel to grain and analyzed using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Moreover, the specimens were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to reveal its internal structure. The results indicated that the Parawood strands subjected to the pre-treatment by boiling in water (100 o C) for 30 minutes and subsequently heat treated in a hot air oven at 190 o C for 30 minutes yielded highest tensile strength of 57 MPa and highest toughness of 0.75 MPa. The resulted tensile strength and toughness of boiling pre-treated strands are about 30 and 79 percent higher than those of the oven-dried pre-treated strands, respectively. The specimens subjected to the aforementioned treatment also required highest capacity of endothermic heat of 215 J/g for decomposing its modified crystalline structure. This study suggested that the pre-treatment by boiling in water for 30 minutes, followed by heat treatment at 190 o C for 30 minutes, could increase tensile strength and toughness of Parawood strands by increasing its modified crystalline regions (a cellulose crystalline region reinforced by hygrothermally modified lignin and hemicellulose molecules).
Bone Repair via Osteon and Bio-Oss: A Comparative Histological and Histomorphometric Animal Study

Corresponding author: HR Mahaseni aghdam, Assistant professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Implant Research Center, Dental Faculty, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Email: hamidmahaseni@gmail.com Background and Aim: Autogenous bone grafts are considered the gold standard although they have several disadvantages, leading to a search for suitable alternative graft biomaterials. This study evaluates the histological and histomorphometric properties of regenerated bone in defects in rabbits following the application of two commercially available xenografts (Bio-Oss and Osteon). Materials and Methods: This animal study was carried out on 14 New Zealand rabbit calvaria. Four 6.5-mm critical-size defect (CSD) models of bone regeneration were formed in each surgical site. The first defect was filled with Bio-Oss, the second with large Osteon (L-Osteon), the third with small Osteon (S-Osteon), and the last one remained unfilled (the control group). The cases were sacrificed. Bone forming properties (amount of new bone formation, inflammation, and foreign body reaction) were observed at 4and 8-week intervals through histological and histomorphometric examinations. The Friedman test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Wilcoxon test for multiple comparisons were used for data analysis. The level of statistical significance was set at 0.05. Result: There was no statistically significant difference for regenerated bone among the four groups (P>0.05). The L-Osteon site showed more inflammation and foreign body reaction compared to the other groups. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that Bio-Oss and Osteon appear to be highly biocompatible and osteoconductive and can thus successfully be used as bone substitutes in augmentation procedures.
Ribosomal protein imbalance launches a C/EBP-based program to preserve tissue integrity

Genes encoding ribosomal proteins are expressed at rate limiting levels, rendering their biological function highly sensitive to the copy-number variation that results from genomic instability. Cells with a reduced number of ribosomal protein genes (RPGs) are eliminated, when intermingled with wild type cells, via a process known as cell competition. The mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are poorly understood. Here we report the function of a CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein (C/EBP), Xrp1, that is critically required for the elimination of cells with a hemizygous RPG genotype. In such cells, Xrp1 is transcriptionally upregulated by an autoregulatory loop and is able to trigger cell elimination. Since genomic instability is likely to cause the loss of a haploinsufficient RPG, we propose a molecular model of how RPGs, together with a C/EBP-dependent transcriptional program, could preserve the genomic integrity of tissues.