Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Volunteers Supporting Children with Reading Difficulties in Schools: Motives and Rewards.

Research on volunteer mentor programs has demonstrated mostly positive outcomes for mentees. As a result, many schools seek to attract and retain volunteers to assist children in need of support. The researchers interviewed 26 adult volunteers (from Australian companies) who help children with reading difficulties and examined intervention effects on the mentors as well as their motives for participating.The researchers found three significant factors that motivated corporate volunteers to engage in mentoring activities: values, understanding, and enhancement. In working individually with children in need of help, the mentors recognized the significance of their mentor role (values). For successful implementation of the program, mentors needed to learn new skills and use them with the mentees (understanding). The interaction between the adult and the child facilitated growth and development for both mentor and mentee (enhancement). To benefit both mentors and mentees, these criti cal factors should be considered by schools to successfully attract and engage volunteers in mentor programs with a specific educational focus.
Adaptation of Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy in a 29 Year Old Female Patient with Chronic Major Depression and Antecedent Dysthymic Disorder Who Switched Under Combined SSRI/CBASP Outpatient Treatment into Bipolarity: A Case Report

© 2013 Oertel-Knochel and Schoepf, licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Adaptation of Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy in a 29 Year Old Female Patient with Chronic Major Depression and Antecedent Dysthymic Disorder Who Switched Under Combined SSRI/CBASP Outpatient Treatment into Bipolarity: A Case Report
Evaluation of Keystroke Dynamics Authentication Systems: Analysis of Physical and Touch Screen Keyboards

Keystroke dynamics authentication systems have shown promising results to be used in e-commerce and banking applications. However, this modality suffers from several limitations decreasing their widespread of use in daily applications. This chapter addresses the evaluation of keystroke dynamics authentication systems. The chapter provides an evaluation framework to be used when designing and comparing such systems. It also provides an analysis study of the collected features using a physical and touch screen keyboards. This chapter is dedicated to researchers and engineers who need to quantify the usability of their developed keystroke dynamics systems.
Effects of low dissolved oxygen on predation on estuarine fish larvae

Low dissolved oxygen concentrations, caused by density stratification of the water column and excess nutrient inputs, occur in many aquatic habitats. Laboratory experiments we conducted indicated that low dissolved oxygen has the potential to strongly alter the absolute and relative importance of a suite of estuarine predators of fish larvae. At dissolved oxygen concentrations 22 mg l ' , predation on naked goby Gobiosolna bosc larvae by an important invertebrate predator of plankton in Chesapeake Bay [the sea nettle scyphoinedusa Chrysaora quinqueclrrha) increased. In contrast, at the same oxygen concentrations, predation by 2 vertebrate predators, juvenile striped bass Morone saxatllis and adult naked goby, decreased. Changes in consumption of larvae most likely resulted from impaired ability of larvae to escape the scyphornedusa, and decreased attack rates by adult and juvenile fishes. Fish predators increased gill ventilation rates even at oxygen levels higher than those leading to decreased predation. However, we could detect no comparable change in behavior of the sea nettle even at 1 mg 1-', the lowest oxygen concentration tested The observed changes in trophic interactions occurred at dissolved oxygen concentrations that are not lethal during short exposures, and that commonly occur in the Chesapeake Bay and other eutrophic estuaries during summer. Thus, low oxygen has the potential to cause significant changes in the importance of alternate trophic pathways in estuarine systems.
Customized Innovation Policy for Regions

This paper poses the question of whether innovation policies are customized to meet the different needs of different regions and industries. The research questions are: (a) are the investigated innovation initiatives context-sensitive and customized to the prevailing innovation problems and hence, also, to what extent do they focus on overcoming specific bottlenecks of the respective regional innovation system and address system failures hampering innovation; (b) have innovation policies aiming to support specific industries recognized the differences and, if yes, have they been customized accordingly? The paper discusses emerging forms of local/regional innovation policy using Finland and especially two different industries (intelligent machinery and digital content services) in three different kinds of regional innovation systems as cases in point. The empirical research is based on data gathered (a) through 40 interviews with Finnish innovation policy-makers and (b) 91 structured interviews with firm representatives. Additionally, (c) interview data from another study with 53 national level innovation policy makers is exploited. The empirical analysis shows that, in spite of a shared understanding about the generic principles of the innovation policy and the investigated local/regional policy, initiatives are clearly customized to serve the up to date challenges of the specific regions and industries.
TRANSCRIPTOME AND PROTEOMICS INTERACTION REVEALS LOW SEED GERMINATION OF CYCLOBALNOPSIS GILVA TO SAVE FOREST ECOLOGY

Tree species display wide range of heterogeneity in their size, type, dormancy and growth of seed. Data about variation in germination under natural conditions and tree growth in connection with mentioned attributes is of immense value to understand tree distribution and forest stand management. Studies dealing with tree seed germination can enable successful nursery operations and healthy seedling production. This may also increase the seedlings’ establishment in the forest restoration activities on destructed sites through native plant species. Successful germination is not only critical for plantlet establishment but also necessary for crop yield. As seed detaches from mother plant it desiccates continuously and selects suitable environment for germination activity. To understand the low germination rate in Cyclobalnopsis gilva molecular aspects of germination has been elucidated well with the integrated studies of proteomic, transcriptomic molecular biology. In this review, common and different aspects of seed germination including metabolic activation, transcription and translation regulation, have been discussed. This review will help to understand the transcriptomic and proteomic interaction of C. gilva which will be helpful to save the forest ecology and solve the problem of woody plants with low germination rate all over the world.
Fraud Firms and the Matching Principle: Evidence from Korea

This paper examines whether the degree of matching for poor-performing fraud firms varies depending on the strength of the causal relation between expenses and revenues. A stronger causal relation exists between revenues and operating expenses than between revenues and total expenses that include non-operating expenses as well as operating expenses. Fraud firms have stronger incentives for managing earnings. Given that managing earnings is easier when using non-operating items than when using operating items, the degree of matching is (not) lower for fraud firms than for non-fraud firms at the strong (weak) level of the causal relation between revenues and expenses. Empirical results suggest that the degrees of matching are different between fraud and non-fraud firms only at the strong level of the causal relation between revenues and expenses. This result implies that the investigation of the matching model at a strong level of the causal relation between revenues and expenses is more effective than that at a weak level of the causal relation, with regard to examining the degree of matching for fraud firms. This study contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the importance of the level of the causal relation when examining the degree of matching.
The Sobolev-Besov imbedding theorem from the viewpoint of semi-groups of operators

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Income and price as a barrier to organic food choice

From the barriers said to potentially hamper the further development of the sector, the consumer demand side and herein the high prices are handled as crucial. We reviewed the literature since 2000 regarding the role of perceived price and income. We find that self-report based studies nearly unequivocally find price is the primary barrier to choice, deviations from this appear to occur when researching organic consumers and developed organic markets. There are mixed findings regarding income, but representative studies tend to indicate a significant influence. Number and age of children and income level are found to impact the influence of income on intention to or purchase of organic food.
IMMU OMODULATORY ACTIVITY OF PO GAMIA GLABRA

Many herbal remedies individually or in combination have been recommended in various medical treatises for the cure of different diseases. However, the use of plant remedies, known to possess natural antioxidant, immunomodulatory and other activities, has increased in the last decade in human and animal medicine, as it is perceived as a natural approach to treat disease. Traditionally, leaves of Pongamia glabra are claimed to posses immunomodulatory activity and hence the reason behind evaluating the immunomodulator activity of aqueous extract of Pongamia glabra (AEPG). The immunomodulator activity of AEPG was evaluated by using various methods as Carbon clearance test, Effect on serum immunoglobulins and Cyclophosphamide induced neutropenia. In all these paradigms 400mg/kg dose of AEPG was shows more significant result than its 200 mg/kg of dose. These results suggest that Pongamia glabra can be used as immunomodulator.
ON THE SAFETY AND QUALITY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH TRADITIONAL BEVERAGES

The purpose of this review to provide an updated review on the safety and quality issues related to traditional beverages (TBs) namely Kunu zaki (KZ) and Zobo (Sorrel) drink (ZD). Recent findings have shown that Ochratoxin A has been detected in KZ, and Bacillus species were detected in ZD. However, Addition of Daniellin to KZ can reduce Ochratoxin A to a minimum level, and boiling and subsequent chilling at 4-5 °C of ZD can eliminate the Bacillus species. Hence safety and quality of beverages are the public health importance and have a profound impact on the economy of the society. TBs, such as KZ and ZD, are gaining acceptance in Nigeria and in many parts of the globe due to their affordability. Most people consume the TBs for nourishment, quenching thirst, especially in homes, restaurants, schools, tertiary institutions and joints where all sorts of soft drinks are sold. Therefore, the safety and quality of these home-based beverages is the great importance to the public health because the majority of the populace has direct access to them, but their production is not directly monitored by the government agency controlling the production and distribution of foods. This review aims to detail past, current and future studies and assessments for ascertaining the safety and quality of TBs, including processing, microbial and chemical methods and examinations. Production method standardization should lead to better production of safe and quality TBs to ensure the safety of public health.
Externalized ATP in intact erythrocyte suspensions: modulation and determination

Well recognized for its role as the energy currency of cells, ATP plays an altogether different role in the mammalian vascular system. Erythrocyte-derived extracellular ATP is fast gaining recognition as a vital vasodilator in blood; stimulating a rapid widening of blood vessels when released into the circulation. Currently, the primary technique employed to determine the concentration of ATP released from erythrocytes is the luciferin-luciferase chemiluminescent assay, which is both robust in signal and specific for ATP. However, the assay is subject to interferences inherent to working with erythrocytes, such as the presence of hemoglobin, which filters the emitted chemiluminescence signal. At the outset, the current work examined the luciferin-luciferase chemiluminescent assay in the microplate format and evaluated the parameters necessary to determine ATP in suspensions of intact erythrocytes. Based on the methodological considerations which arose from the examination of the assay, the concentration of ATP in suspensions of intact erythrocytes was compared to that of their supernatants. It was determined that the ATP released into the supernatants of erythrocyte suspensions represents but a fraction of the ATP which is externalized and accessible for enzymatic reactions. Known stimuli of ATP release, including CO2 and hypo-osmotic stress, were also used to compare the sensitivity of erythrocytes obtained from humans to those from rats, a common pharmacological model organism: human erythrocytes proved to be more sensitive to stimuli than rat erythrocytes. Ultimately, a method for measuring ATP in suspensions of intact erythrocytes was developed, and the possibility of two modes of erythrocyte release was discovered. The erythrocyte has long been held as a sensor within the vasculature, and this work underscores the growing importance being placed on the erythrocyte’s role as an effector through the regulation of the release of the vasodilator ATP
EFFECT OF ADDITION OF NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM FERTILIZERS ON BIODEGRADATION OF CRUDE OIL BY MARINE BACTERIA

Role of marine bacteria viz . Marinococcus albus, Methylobacterium mesophilicum and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in bioremediation of crude oil contaminated Alang sea coast has been evaluated in the present study. Optimum concentrations of inorganic nutrients N, P & K as urea, super phos and potash fertilizers respectively on growth and degradation has been determined. Addition of optimum concentrations of N (1%), P (0.5%) and K (0.01%) in combination significantly enhanced biodegradation by 22 to 32%. Bioremediation studies indicated that a Bacterial consortium (BC) exhibited maximum growth and degradation on addition of optimum concentrations of N, P and K. Maximum effect in increase in growth was on a BC (0.54 mg/ml) whereas, maximum effect on increase in degradation was on N. otitidiscaviarum (31.9%). However, complete degradation was not possible due to the presence of recalcitrant molecules and accumulation of toxic metabolites during biodegradation. Three isolates can successfully be used to formulate a successful bioremediation strategy for oil contaminated marine environment.
From Humans to Dogs and Back: The Translational Lesson of Metronomic Chemotherapy

The main priority in veterinary oncology is to maintain patient quality of life. It is important that new chemotherapy strategies aim to minimize side effects, thus making the treatment attractive for owners as well as their pets. Metronomic chemotherapy has been shown to have an important stabilizing effect on human cancer (including chemotherapy-resistant disease) resulting in prolonged clinical benefit. In addition, this form of treatment has been shown to have positive effects on the quality of life of patients with various types of cancer. These positive effects are obtained without any indication of high grade toxicity. Moreover, low cost and oral administration (which reduces the need for hospitalization and enables patients to stay at home longer) are key characteristics of this schedule, offering important advantages in frail subgroups of patients (e.g., old patients) for whom new therapeutic options are greatly needed. From another perspective, use of metronomic chemotherapy in dogs could reveal new and innovative schedules that could be applied to humans. Veterinary oncology cases treated with metronomic schedules represent the unique opportunity to ethically investigate novel drugs or combination treatments that may be highly translatable to the human community. The aim of the present review was to describe how this new form of treatment has evolved in canine patients thus far.
Oscillations and traveling waves of calcium: a simplified model

We construct a heuristic model of calcium oscillations in pancreatic acinar cells. The model is based on the two-state model of Sneyd et al. (Sneyd, J., A. LeBeau and D. Yule, 2000, Traveling waves of calcium in pancreatic acinar cells: model construction and bifurcation analysis, Physica D, in press) and is similar in spirit to the FitzHugh reduction of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. The simplifled model successfully reproduces the oscillatory behavior and wave behaviour of the more complex model. In particular, the simplifled model provides an example of a simple, physiologically relevant model that has a T-point and an associated spiral branch of homoclinic orbits.
3. HAEMATOLOGICAL AND SERUM BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS

Blood parameters are considered to be patho physiological indicators of the whole body and are important to diagnosing the structural and functional status of the fish exposed to toxicants (Adhikari 2004). The evaluation of haematological and biochemical characteristics in fish has become an important means to understanding normal, pathological processes and toxicological impacts. Blood indices are often subject of variation depending upon stress and environmental factors (Hlavova, 1993).
WP ECON 10 . 05 The wage gap between immigrant and native workers in Spain : an analysis using matched employer-employee data

The fact that Spain has witnessed a sharp increase in the number of immigrants over the past decade has generated considerable interest, particularly as regards wages earned by immigrants in host industries. We analyze whether controlling for both observable and unobservable characteristics of employers —in addition to individual variables and the economic context— makes any difference as regards the debate regarding the existence of wage differences between immigrant and native workers in Spain. As we show, doing this considerably reduces (or even eliminates) the inequalities found in previous research, thereby questioning the results attained by previous studies on this issue.
A Comprehensive Look at the Possibilities of Edible Insects as Food in Europe – a Review

Abstract Possibilities of edible insects use in European countries, are now an increasingly debated issue. Insects in Asian, African, Central American and South Central American cultures are mainly nutritional components. This review mainly describes the species of insects that are suitable as food in Europe and other developed countries. This comprehensive work addresses the issue of eating insects, especially considering the nutritionally important factors. Risks are also mentioned, as well as allergies, toxicity, and other aspects of the breeding and use of edible insects. Insects play and will play important roles in the future in various fields of research, exploitation, breeding, etc. This review provides a comprehensive current and future view of insects as a valuable foodstuff.
Phytoaccumulation of heavy metals and protein expression by different vegetablescollected from various parts of Khyber Pukhtunkhawa Province, Pakistan

The present study investigates heavy metal uptake and protein expression by different vegetables collected from various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province of Pakistan. Statistical analysis of the data showed that maximum concentration of Cd, Cr, Ni, Zn were found in radish and spinach, respectively, collected from Peshawar. Maximum Pb and Mg accumulation were found in cauliflower and pea at Swat followed by coriander at Haripur and minimum Pb uptake was noticed in radish taken from Nowshehra. Highest Cu uptake was detected in spinach at Nowshehra. Data regarding Cd, Cr, Pb, Cu, Ni, Mg and Zn concentration in water samples gathered from different sites of KPK indicated that maximum concentration of Cd was observed in Swat. Maximum Cr and Cu concentration were measured in water samples from Peshawar while maximum concentration of Pb and Ni were detected in water samples from Haripur. In case of soil samples, maximum Cd, Cr, Mg and Zn uptake was observed in soil sample at Nowshehra. Maximum Pb and Ni concentration was found in soil samples collected from Peshawar. Cu concentration was observed to be the highest in soil at Swat. Protein profile of different vegetables i.e. cauliflower, radish, carrot, turnip, pea, spinach, coriander and garlic sampled across five different sites showed that uptake of Cd, Cr, Pb, Cu, Ni, Mg and Zn by these vegetables caused the expression of numerous polypeptides.
Leptospiren-Infektion bei Katzen in Thailand

In Thailand, leptospirosis is considered an emerging disease in humans and animals. Many species can shed pathogenic Leptospira, including domestic cats (felis catus), which might be able to pose a risk to humans. There are no studies on Leptospira infections in cats in Thailand, but in other countries, it was demonstrated that cats can shed pathogenic Leptospira with high prevalences. The aims of this study were to evaluate whether outdoor cats in Thailand shed pathogenic Leptospira in their urine, and to determine antibody prevalence and risk factors associated with Lep- tospira infection. Two hundred and sixty outdoor cats were prospectively recruited. Urine samples were tested by real‐time PCR targeting the lipL32 gene of pathogenic Leptospira. Urine was additionally cultured for 6 months in Ellinghausen‐McCul- lough‐Johnson‐Harris medium to grow Leptospira. Antibodies against 24 serovars (Anhoa, Australis, Autumnalis, Ballum, Bataviae, Bratislava, Broomi, Canicola, Celle- doni, Copenhageni, Coxi, Cynopteri, Djasiman, Grippotyphosa, Haemolytica, Ictero- haemorrhagiae, Khorat, Paidja, Patoc, Pomona, Pyrogenes, Rachmati, Saxkoebing, Sejroe) belonging to 16 serogroups were determined using microscopic agglutination tests. Risk factors were analysed by Fisher's exact test. Urine samples of 2/260 cats (0.8%; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.1%–2.8%) were PCR‐positive, but none of the 260 urine samples were culture positive. Leptospira antibodies were detected in 14/ 260 cats (5.4%; 95% CI: 3.0%–8.6%) with titers ranging from 1:20 to 1:160 (sero- vars: Anhoa, Autumnalis, Celledoni, Copenhageni, Djasiman, Icterohaemorrhagiae, Patoc). Cats aged 4 years or older were significantly more often infected with Leptospira than younger cats. No other significant risk factors were found. In conclusion, out- door cats in Thailand can shed DNA and, possibly, viable, pathogenic Leptospira in their urine, although at a much lower prevalence than expected when compared to countries with similar climate. Thus, cats can be a potential source of infection for people. Further studies are needed to determine the role of cats in transmitting this zoonotic disease in Thailand.