Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antioxidant Activity from Various Tomato Processing

Tomato is one of the high antioxidant potential vegetables. Nowadays, there are many techniques of tomato processings instead of fresh consumption, i.e. boiled, steamed, juiced and sauteed. Every treatment of cooking will influence the chemical compound inside the fruits and the body's nutrition intake. It is important to conduct the research on antioxidant compound especially lycopene, ? -carotene, vitamin C, ? -tocopherol, and its activity after processing. This research has been done using the experimental method. Tomatoes were cooked into six difference ways, and then it was extracted using the same procedure continued with antioxidant measurement. The research results showed that steaming had promoted the higher antioxidant numbers (lycopene. ? -tocopherol, ? -carotene and vitamin C) and higher TCA and antioxidant activities in the tomatoes than other processings. It was indicated that steaming was the best way to enhance amount, capacity and activities of antioxidants of the tomatoes.
Ultra-Wideband Robust RCS Reduction with Triangle-type AMC Structure

A novel planar artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) structure is presented for ultra-wideband radar cross section reduction (RCSR). The structure consists of three different AMC tiles in a quadruple triangle-type chessboard configuration. By precise design, a 180°± 30° reflection phase difference between every two of the three units nearly covers from 3.98 GHz to 18.84 GHz to broaden the RCSR bandwidth. By this means, the scattered energy is redirected into several lobes and the measured RCSR for over –6 dB is achieved nearly from 3.62 GHz to 18 GHz with a relative bandwidth of 133.02% for both polarizations. Both full-wave simulation and measurement results verify the capability and potentiality of the proposed design for ultra-wideband RCSR.
Directors' Decision-Making Involvement on Corporate Boards

Using the full set of committee memberships for the directors of Fortune 100 firms (which I collect from annual proxy statements), I introduce a measure to capture the extent of a director’s involvement in discussion and decisions that affect corporate strategy. I document substantial variation in directors’ decision-making involvement both within and across boards, and I provide evidence that this more nuanced yet systematically available measure yields more powerful and better specified tests in examining the link between board composition, accounting performance metrics, and shareholder value. Overall, I argue that incorporating these differences in decision-making power has important implications for studies in corporate governance.
use Raman spectroscopy combined with chemometrics to classify low and high level DON-contaminated wheat and barley

a Office of the Texas State Chemist, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX 77841, USA b Texas A&M University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, TX 77843, USA c The University of Western Australia, School of Animal Biology, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, Crawley, Perth 6009, Australia d Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University, CheongJu, Republic of Korea
A Novel Knowledge Space Based on Optimization Hardness

This paper uses exhaustive disturbed particle swarm optimizer(EDPSO) as local search algorithm for memetic algorithm, and improves it by using a novel knowledge space mechanism. The innovative mechanismbased on two key points: 1. using effective high-frequency ratio (EHFR) as a novel indicator for problem features and a control parameters of density and range of disturbance, as same as fitness distance correlation; 2. Using the table of sampling spatial distribution to enhance the effective of disturbance behavior. Then, this paper regards. At last, the result of the comparative analysis between the test results of ant colony optimizer (ACO), differential evolution (DE), and OHBMA indicates that OHBMA shows better performance than ACO and DE.
Reconstructed H3N2 influenza virus predicted from influenza vaccine strains improved cross-protective immunity in mice

Hemagglutinin (HA) protein of influenza virus is a core antigen protein which induces protective antibody in hosts. But HA genes mutate rapidly. Every year, World Health Organization (WHO) selects representative influenza virus strains from the influenza centers worldwide for virus vaccine production. So, the selected influenza vaccine strains, can partly respond to antigen drifts of circulating influenza virus, especially the reconstructed H3N2 which induces the cross reaction. It is reported here using the Immune Epitope Database and the reverse genetic method on how to produce reassortant influenza virus based on the changes of B and D antigenic regions (B antigenic region: 156-160aa,187-198aa; D antigenic region:167-182aa, 201-215aa) of HA protein of seasonal influenza H3N2 vaccine strains over twenty years. In a mouse model, the attenuated reassortant viruses induced neutralization antibodies, cross-reactive T-cell responses, and were protective against different lethal influenza virus challenge. So, through the analysis of the antigenic regions of HA using computer and software methods, the reconstructed rB/D influenza virus mostly induced cross protection in mouse model. Key words: influenza, vaccine strains, antigen epitope, cross-protective.
Isolation and culture of neural stem cells from murine foetal brain.

There are many mysteries of the nervous system and neurodegenerative diseases. Evidences showed that neural stem cells (NSCs) play a crucial role in recovering nervous system, although this was not sufficient due to lack of cell number. This research was carried out to isolate and culture NSCs from murine foetal brain and our NSCs were cultured as floating and multicellular neurospheres. The neurosphere has been consider as an excellent tool to investigate the differentiation and proliferation of NSCs. Propagation of NSCs in vitro was essential for understanding neural cell’s fate and supplying a promising source for cell therapy for neurodegenerative disease. Serum-free medium with mitogens, N2 and B27 supplement was appropriate for NSC culture. To characterize candidate cells, we assessed stemness and stem cell markers by sphere formation assay, differentiation assay, and immunocytochemistry. The results showed that NSCs could develop as floating spheres; they expressed stem celllike characteristics and popular marker of neural stem cells-nestin, and differentiate into nerve cells. This population of cells was a promising source to studying neural stem cells and the treatment of neurodegenerative disease.
Factors Influencing Household Food Security Status

Poor nutrition can lead to reduced immunity, impaired physical and mental development and reduced productivity. The objectives of this study were to determine the Influencing factors on the household food insecurity status. This cross-sectional study conducted on 2500 households selected from Qaresoo region in the northwest of Iran. Household food security status measured by a validated short questionnaire including six questions and other required data (influencing factors) obtained alongside the validated questionnaire. Chisquare and logistic regression used for data analysis using SPSS software. Forty Percent of households suffered from low food insecurity and twenty percent had experienced very low food insecurity. Severity of household food insecurity increased with increasing distance from the city (Exp (B) = 1.05, 95% C.I = 1.03-1.07). It decreased with increasing centers that provides food (Exp (B) = 0.97, 95% C.I = 0.97-0.98) Residential infrastructure (Exp (B) = 0.99, 95% C.I = 0.98-0.99) Family size (Exp (B) = 0.92, 95% C.I = 0.87-0.98) and the presence of both parents in comparison the presence of single parent at home (Exp (B) = 0.46, 95% C.I = 0.32-0.66). Spearman correlation test also showed that mean per capita income had a significant inverse correlation with household food insecurity status. (Correlation coefficient = –0.3, P < 0.05). Socioeconomic factors were affecting the household food insecurity status. More studies seem to be essential in order to provide practical solutions to reduce the severity of food insecurity.
Stability conditions for the Bianchi type II anisotropically inflating universes

Stability conditions for a class of anisotropically inflating solutions in the Bianchi type II background space are shown explicitly in this paper. These inflating solutions were known to break the cosmic no-hair theorem such that they do not approach the de Sitter universe at large times. It can be shown that unstable modes of the anisotropic perturbations always exist for this class of expanding solutions. As a result, we show that these set of anisotropically expanding solutions are unstable against anisotropic perturbations in the Bianchi type II space.
Editorial: Positioning in narrative interaction

Over the last two decades, researchers in narrative have increasingly turned to ques­ tions of identity (e.g., Bamberg & McCabe, 2000; Brockmeier & Carbaugh, 2001; De Fina 2003; De Fina, Schiffrin & Bamberg, 2006; Bamberg, De Fina & Schiffrin, 2007; Georgakopoulou, 2007; Bamberg et ah, 2011; De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2012, ch.6; Holler & Klepper, 2013). While Labov and Waletzky’s seminal study had sparked off an interest in structural properties of narrative (Labov & Waletzky, 1967), both the rise of interest in autobiographical narratives (Schütze, 1981, 1984; Bruner, 1990) and the discovery of the performative properties of narratives (Bamberg, 1997a, 1997b) paved the way for an understanding of narratives being a primary site of identity construction. Coining the concept of “narrative identity”, scholars even went as far as claiming that life is a narrative and that identity has the structure of a life story (Bruner, 1990, p. 99-139; McAdams, 2011). There is much to put forward in favor of a biographical and narrative approach to identity: The temporal unfolding of identity in terms of constancy and change, the interpretive and reflexive nature of identity as a meaningful subjective structure, the historical­ ly situated, experientially based unfolding of the identities of the individual and its relationship to others (cf. Bamberg, 2011). However, there is a huge gap between the abstract, theoretical concept of an all-encompassing “narrative identity” and the concrete, situated stories people tell or write (Lucius-Hoene & Deppermann, 2000). From a methodological point of view, “narrative identity” is not much more than a postulate, which is hard to relate to any specific discursive activity of a per­ son said to have this identity. This is so for many reasons:
Effect of in ovo feeding of butyric acid on hatchability, performance and small intestinal morphology of turkey poults.

The aim of present study was to investigate effect of in ovo administration of butyric acid on hatchability, performance, and small intestinal morphology of turkey poults. Fertilized eggs were subjected to injections with butyric acid (10 mg, 20 mg and 30mg dissolved in 0.5 mL of deionized water) on the d 7 of incubation. Hatching traits, Body weight gain (BWG), feed intake, and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were determined during experiment.Small intestinal morphology included villus height (VH), crypt depth (CD), and villus width (VW) were measured at hatch and the end of each rearing periods. Finally, the results of the present study indicate that the weight of newly-hatched poults was significantly greater when butyric acid were administrated, in comparison with control groups.But, in ovo feeding (IOF) caused lower hatchability than in control group (not-injection eggs) (P<0.01). Poults from IOF showed better weight gain and FCR (0-42 day of age), when compared to poults hatched from control (P<0.01). The IOFB significantly increased VH for duodenum, jejunum and ileum at both hatch and starter period. It was concluded that IOFB may affect VH of intestine at hatch and starter (posthatch) period in turkeys. Also, IOFB can improve performances.
Pathogenesis of Acute Renal Failure Induced by Iodinated Radiographic Contrast Media

The use of iodinated radiographic contrast media, to improve the visibility of internal organs and structures in X-ray based imaging techniques, can cause Acute Renal Failure, commonly called Contrast-induced Nephropathy (CIN). The pathogenetic mechanisms responsible for contrast media nephrotoxicity have not been completely elucidated; knowing them, however, is very important to prevent CIN. All pathogenetic factors that have been suggested by many authors are discussed in this review, including haemodynamic changes, formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), role of Nitric Oxide (NO), the role of adenosine and endothelin and cytotoxicity of contrast media, and the intracellular Ca2+ overload. Clinical conditions favouring the occurrence of CIN are also mentioned, including dehydration, salt depletion, reduction of ‘effective’ circulating blood volume, pre-existing chronic renal failure, and diabetes mellitus.
Analysis of Energy Consumption Patterns of Households in Urban Ethiopia: The Case of Nakamte Town

This study looks into households’ energy consumption patterns in Nakamte town, Ethiopia. The objective of the study is to analyze household energy consumption patterns for the main energy sources (fuel-wood, charcoal, kerosene and electricity. The study used household-level survey data collected from 120 sample households in Nakamte town. A two- stage sampling procedure which consists of simple random and systematic random sampling techniques was employed to select the sample households. Descriptive analysis of the data shows predominance of traditional energy sources in household energy mix which has environmental damage such as deforestation, soil erosion and declining agricultural productivity, and loss in the natural habitat for the wildlife in the hinterlands. Since household energy transition is still at an early stage, the government of the country should harmonize energy policies with poverty reduction objectives and strategies. Increasing income, influencing households’ energy choice and improvement of modern energy accessibility will play a critical role in the transition of households from traditional to modern energy sources. Keywords: energy consumption, energy transition, Nakamte town
Does the composition of the board matter? On the relationship between corporate governance and value creation

This paper studies the effect of corporate governance on value creation for listed companies. It also examines whether the fact that a business is owned or partly owned by a family has an impact on this variable as well as the behavior of companies at different stages of the economic cycle. Our research makes use of a dataset consisting of the companies in the IBEX-35 for the period 2005/12. It carries out a sub-analysis for the periods 2005-2008 and 2009-2012, to evaluate the effect of the crisis. The results indicate that neither the presence of women on boards of directors nor family ownership affect value creation in the companies analyzed. The size of the entity revealed a statistically significant and negative coefficient for the entire period under analysis. However, recorded profitability revealed a statistically significant and positive coefficient only for the pre-crisis period and not for the later period. In contrast, board size and the percentage of independent board members are both relevant and reveal a positive coefficient for the crisis period. Although its starting point is agency theory, complemented by resource dependence theory, the paper resorts to the sociological theory of the strength of weak ties, to explain its results. Gender diversity and family ownership do not seem to have an impact on value creation, while the level of independence of the governance bodies has a positive effect throughout the crisis period. This result supports the notion that board structure is much more relevant in difficult and challenging times. In addition to increasing the number of independent directors, it is also crucial that a minimum percentage be reached in order to influence the board and generate value. According to the empirical evidence, in times of crisis, it seems advisable and more efficient to increase board size with more independent directors, regardless of gender. Gender equality does not harm value creation.
Supersymmetry breaking and Nambu-Goldstone fermions in interacting Majorana chains

We introduce and study a lattice fermion model in one dimension with explicit $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetry (SUSY). The Hamiltonian of the model is defined by the square of a supercharge built from Majorana fermion operators. The model describes interacting Majorana fermions, and its properties depend only on a single parameter $g$. When $g=1$, we find that SUSY is unbroken and the ground states are identical to those of the frustration-free Kitaev chains. We also find a parameter regime in which SUSY is restored in the infinite-volume limit. For sufficiently large $g$, we prove that SUSY is spontaneously broken and the low-lying excitations are gapless, which can be thought of as Nambu-Goldstone fermions. We then show numerically that these gapless modes have cubic dispersion at long wavelengths.
Voltage Source Inverter Fault Detection System Using Time Frequency Distribution

Open-switch and short-switch in a three-phase voltage source inverter (VSI) have a possibility to fault due to problems of switching devices.Any failure of the system in these applications may incur a cost and risk human live. Therefore, knowledgeon the fault mode behaviour of an inverter is extremely important from the standpoint of system design improvement, protection and fault detection. This paper presents detailed simulation results on condition monitoring and fault behaviour of VSI. The results obtained from the developed monitoring system allows user to identify the fault current. The developed system showed the capability in detecting the performance of VSI as well as identifying the characteristics of type of faults. This system provides a precaution and early detection of fault, thus reduces high maintenance cost and prevent critical fault from happening.
Underpricing of private equity backed, venture capital backed and non-sponsored IPOs

We examine underpricing of private equity (PE) backed initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on a major US stock exchange between January 2000 and December 2009. The authors identify 265 private equity backed IPOs and compare these with concurrently listed venture capital (VC) backed and non-sponsored (non-PE/non-VC backed) IPOs. Private equity backed IPO firms tend to be larger, more profitable and are underwritten by investment banks that have propor-tionally greater share of the underwriting market. The results indicate that, on average, private equity backed IPOs experience a significantly lower level of underpricing than venture capital backed or non-sponsored IPOs. The authors posit that the presence of a private equity firm as a client divesting through the IPO induces the investment bank to reduce expected underpricing, because private equity firms tend to be continuing and lucrative clients of investment banks. Thus, the results extend the evidence on the relative power of participants in IPO deals.
Regulation of Calcium Signaling by STIM1 and ORAI1

STIM1 and ORAI1 proteins are regulators of intracellular Ca 2+ mobilization. This Ca 2+ mobilization is essential to shape Ca 2+ signaling in eukaryotic cells. STIM1 is a transmembrane protein located at the endoplasmic reticulum, where it acts as an intraluminal Ca 2+ sensor. The transient drop of intraluminal Ca 2+ concentration triggers STIM1 activation, which relocates to plasma membrane-endoplasmic reticulum junctions to bind and acti- vate ORAI1, a plasma membrane Ca 2+ channel. Thus, the Ca 2+ influx pathway mediated by STIM1/ORAI1 is termed store-operated Ca 2+ entry (SOCE). STIM and ORAI proteins are also involved in non-SOCE Ca 2+ influx pathways, as we discuss here. In this chapter, we review the current knowledge regarding the role of SOCE, STIM1, and ORAI1 in cell signaling, with special focus on the modulation of the activity of kinases, phosphatases, and transcription factors that are strongly influenced by the extracellular Ca 2+ influx mediated by these regulators. Palmitate induces ER calcium
El agrupamiento perceptual en conflicto con el código de escritura.

Las representaciones formales de la musica, entendidas como un modo de representacion interna que se construye en terminos de los codigos musicales que provienen de la teoria musical, resultan cruciales para el dominio del lenguaje que se requiere del musico profesional porque constituyen el nexo entre las experiencias internas y sus incumbencias en el proceso de comunicacion musical. Las principales dificultades en el desarrollo de tales representaciones ocurren cuando la informacion proveniente de las experiencias internas rivaliza con la proveniente del marco teorico. En estos casos la persona se ve inclinada a construir formalizaciones personales que carecen de valor comunicacional y por lo tanto resultan descaminadas para la adquisicion del lenguaje musical. En el marco de la Catedra de Educacion Auditiva -Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Nacional de La Plata- hemos observado que, en las etapas iniciales del desarrollo de las representaciones formales del ritmo, suelen producirse contradicciones entre el codigo de escritura y las representaciones internas. Este conflicto ocurre cuando la percepcion agrupa de un modo diferente a la escritura. Mientras que el agrupamiento ritmico en el codigo de escritura se organiza por tiempos y en compases, con figuras fuertemente orientadas a las relaciones binarias, la percepcion agrupa sonidos en relacion a diversos componentes de la musica. Las dificultades iniciales relativas a la representacion formal del ritmo se vinculan mas a la representacion externa que interna, debido a que la representacion externa se basa en la estructura metrica y no en los agrupamientos perceptuales. Las dificultades en la representacion formal del ritmo se suscitan por la incapacidad de los sistemas graficos de capturar todas las variables que inciden en las representaciones internas. Este trabajo tiene por finalidad presentar la contradicciones que se generan entre el agrupamiento perceptual y el codigo de escritura y propone un modo de abordar esta problematica para el desarrollo de las representaciones formales del ritmo en las etapas iniciales de la formacion audioperceptiva.
AARE 2008 Complex curriculum and pedagogy 1 Complexity Theory: Supporting Curriculum & Pedagogy Developments in Scottish Physical Education

This paper describes how complexity theory principles relating to self-emergence and connectivity have been employed to inform our recent developmental work in Scottish physical education. We suggest that these complexity principles have purchase in postmodern times characterised by uncertainty, multiplicity, and contradiction (Fernandez-Balboa, 1997). We cite examples from the development and delivery of a Developmental Physical Education Programme in Scotland to assert that complex learning principles (Light, 2008; Morrison, 2008) can be employed to structure curriculum and pedagogy endeavours. These examples from practice highlight the ways in which a complexity-oriented learning approach provides a challenge to hierarchical, reductionist, and behaviourist notions of learning which have long held a strong foothold in the field of physical education (Light, 2008). At the same time, we pay attention to critical questions which have been raised regarding the practicality of structuring educational practice with emerging theories such as complexity theory (Davis & Sumara, 2006). * Corresponding author. Physical Education, Sport and Leisure Studies, The Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, St. Leonard’s Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ, Scotland, UK Email: mike.jess@ed.ac. uk AARE 2008 Complex curriculum and pedagogy 2