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Identification and Distribution of Lactic Acid Bacteria During the Ripening of Şavak Tulum Cheese

This study was undertaken to determine changes in the flora of lactic acid bacteria during the ripening of fiavak tulum cheese and to identify the major species playing an important role in the ripening process. Tulum cheese was produced from raw sheep milk using traditional methods and ripened in plastic containers at 4 iC for 90 days. Samples were taken on days 0, 15, 30, 60 and 90 and analyzed for isolation and identification of lactic acid bacteria. A total of 783 isolates of lactic acid bacteria were identified. The results indicated that, in general, lactic streptococci were predominant within the first month of ripening and, then, replaced by lactobacilli. It is concluded that Lactobacillus casei subsp. casei, Lactobacillus plantarum from the family Lactobacillaceae and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris, Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis, and Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. cremoris from the family Streptococcaceae were the predominant species among the isolates, indicating that these species may play a major role in the ripening of tulum cheese.
Adenovirus Release from the Infected Cell as a Key Factor for Adenovirus Oncolysis

Adenovirus release is not triggered until late times after viral infection, when the adenovirus death protein (ADP) accumulates to induce viral egress. Thus, the natural rate of adenovirus release may hinder the spread of oncolytic adenoviruses. Several experimental approaches have provided evidence indicating that promoting adenovirus release can be used to enhance their therapeutic potential. This review briefly summarizes what is known about the mechanism of adenovirus release and describes three different strategies, ADP overexpression, apoptosis induction, and bioselection, which can be used to enhance adenovirus release. Finally we will discuss some of the future perspectives that will contribute to the better use of progeny release for the improvement of the antitumor activity of oncolytic adenoviruses.
Delay-Based Decoupling of Power System Models for Transient Stability Analysis

This paper proposes a delay-based method to reduce the coupling of the equations of power system models for transient stability analysis. The method consists in identifying the variables that, when subjected to a delay equal to the time step of the numerical integration (one-step delay), leave practically unchanged the system trajectories. Automatic selection of the variables based on a geometric controllability/observability approach and estimation of the maximum admissible delay are duly discussed. Such a one-step-delay approximation increases the sparsity of the system Jacobian matrices and can be used in conjunction with state-of-the-art techniques for the integration of differential-algebraic equations. The proposed approach is evaluated in terms of accuracy, convergence and computational burden, by means of the New England 39-bus system; a 21,177-bus model of the ENTSO-E transmission system.
Suckers of the Subgenus Pantosteus from Provo River and “Cottonwood Creek”, Utah

Abstract Contrary to the reports of several authors, Acomus generosus, a sucker of the subgenus Pantosteus of Catostomus, may have been collected in Big Cottonwood Creek or Little Cottonwood Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah, and possibly in Provo River, Utah County, Utah. Multiple Pantosteus species may exist in Provo River. Synonymies of the suckers that have been collected in Provo River and “Cottonwood Creek” are provided. A comparison of their morphologies shows several distinctions. There is a need for further systematic (including up-to-date biochemical) analyses of these catostomids.
Converging evidence suggests that the increased mortality related to depressive symptoms in patients with coronary artery

Previous studies emphasizing that psychological interventions and pharmacological medications may have a small effect on depressive symptoms in coronary artery patients, and no beneficial effects on reduction of inflammatory markers and mortality rates. Recently there is increasing interest in whether positive psychological states have predictive power over and above depressive symptoms for cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. The present study has intended to test and compare the correlation of plasma high sensitivity C-reactive protein and cortisol awakening response’s flexibility with positive psychological states and depression in 54 coronary artery patients. The results of this study indicated that the correlation between high sensitivity C-reactive protein and psychological states only for life satisfaction and subscale of hope "pathways in regard to goals" are significant. Moreover the correlations of cortisol awakening response’s flexibility with happiness, hope and depression were marginally significant. It is possible that directly building the positive psychological states may counteract negative symptoms and may also buffer against their negative biological outcomes. © 2014 Elixir All rights reserved ARTIC LE INF O Article h istory: Received: 16 February 2014; Received in revised form: 22 February 2014; Accepted: 1 March 2014;
MCCIP ARC Science Review 2010-11 Fisheries

There is evidence that location where high catches of cod, haddock, plaice and sole occur, as reported by UK commercial fishing vessels, seems to have shifted over the past 80-90 years. Climate change may be a factor but fishing and habitat modification have also had an important effect. Shifting distributions of fish, partly as a result of climate change are having an impact on the effectiveness of some fishery closure areas and on the apportionment of fishery resources between neighbouring countries (e.g. mackerel in the north-east Atlantic). New fisheries have developed for a number of warmer-water species including seabass, red mullet, anchovy and squid. The stock biomass of seabass in the Western Channel has quadrupled since 1985 from 500t, to over 2000t in 2004/5. ‘What could happen in the future’.
Bioassay Toxoplasma Gondii pada Kucing

Toxoplasmosis adalah penyakit yang disebabkan oleh Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma gondii adalah parasit intraseluler dari golongan protozoa dan bersifat parasit obligat dengan hospes definitif adalah kucing dan family felidae lainnya, sedangkan hospes intermediernya adalah semua hewan berdarah panas seperti ayam, sapi, kambing, babi, domba dan belakangan ini diketahui dapat menginfeksi burung, rodensia, ikan paus dan juga bisa menginfeksi manusia. Kebanyakan kasus Toxoplasmosis disebabkan karena mengkonsumsi daging yang mengandung kista (berisi bradizoit), takizoit (bentuk proliferatif) yang proses pemasakannya kurang sempurna atau daging mentah. Selain itu kontak langsung dengan tanah, air atau makanan dan minuman yang terkontaminasi oleh feses kucing yang mengandung ookista infektif. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menegakkan diagnosa Toxoplasma gondii pada ayam dengan cara bioassay, pada kucing melalui pemeriksaan ookista pada fesesnya. Diperiksa 5 ekor kucing yang bebas dari infeksi Toxoplasmosis masing – masing kucing selanjutnya diberikan organ ( hati, jantung, paru – paru, otak ) 25 ekor ayam kampung yang diperoleh dari Kabupaten Badung, Tabanan, Buleleng, Gianyar dan Karangasem. Penelitian dilakukan di Laboratorium Central For Studies on Animal Disease Fakultas Kedokteran Hewan Universitas Udayana dengan menggunakan metode pengapungan. Dalam penelitian ini, hasil pemeriksaan feses 5 ekor kucing yang diberikan makan 25 organ ayam berupa hati, jantung, paru – paru, otak yang berasal dari Kabupaten Badung, Tabanan, Buleleng, Gianyar, dan Karangasem, hanya yang berasal dari Kabupaten Badung dan Gianyar didalamnya ditemukan ookista. Ookista dikeluarkan oleh kucing mulai hari ke 6 sampai hari ke 11 dengan kisaran 200 butir/gram sampai 4350 butir/gram.
Selective Detail Enhanced Fusion with Photocropping

The display of a natural scene which exhibits high dynamic range (HDR) on a conventional low dynamic range (LDR) display is normally a challenging task. To solve this problem multiple differently exposed images are captured and fused together into a detailed image. In this paper, a ghost removal algorithm is performed to convert non-consistent pixels into consistent pixels and the corrected image is fused using a selectively detail enhanced exposure fusion algorithm. Thus a detail enhanced images is produced as a result. To this detail enhanced image a photocropping technique uses an unsupervised fuzzy clustering algorithm which converts the image into atomic regions. A manifold embedding algorithm is used for image-level semantics and image global configurations with graphlets or a small-sized connected subgraph. Bayesian network (BN) makes the photo into the framework derived from the multi-channel post-embedding graphlets of the image data. The cropping parameters are calculated by Gibbs sampling method and finally, the enhanced cropped image will be obtained.
BM3D Outperforms Major Benchmarks in Denoising: An Argument in Favor

The inherent physical limitations of imaging sensors lead to prevalence of additive white Gaussian noise in images which deters the feature extraction and analysis. There exists a number of denoising algorithms in literature, demonstrating their efficacy for removing noise while preserving feature details. At the crossing of functional and statistical analysis, one argues with new methods being devised quite frequently, whether the decade old BM3D is still efficient or not. While carrying out extended experimentation and evaluation for removal of Gaussian noise from natural images in terms peak signal to noise ratio, an argument in favor of BM3D has been presented in this manuscript.
Effect of feeding with some Atriplex species in complete diet on meat quality and carcass characteristics of Najdi ram lambs.

Thirty six Najdi ram lambs (average weight 23 kg) were equally and randomly allotted to four dietary groups with three replicates per group. The diets comprised a whole mixed control diet containing hay (C) and three diets, namely Atriplex halimus (H), A. lecucoclada (L) and both types of Atriplex (H+L), where types of Atriplex was incorporated to replace the hay alfalfa in control diet. After 70 days of feeding, 24 lambs were randomly selected, fasted for 18 h and slaughtered. Results indicated that diets containing A. lecucoclada (L) and Atriplex (H+L) were significantly (P<0.05) lower in warm and cold carcass weights than control diet. Dressing percentage, longissimus dorsi muscle area, body wall thickness, fat thickness, soft tissue and bone ratio were not significantly affected compared to the control. Fat percentage differed significantly (p<0.05) with Atriplex diet. Chemical composition of soft tissue was not affected by replacing Atriplex with hay in the diets. There were no significant differences for pH, meat color and taste panel between control diet and Atriplex supplemented diets. Results indicated that Atriplex can replace alfalfa hay, commonly used roughage in Saudi Arabia.
Impact of Trade on the Characteristics of the Digital Newspaper Market New Empirical Evidence from Francophone Africa

This paper provides a first empirical study of how openness to international trade in news products, a phenomenon largely facilitated by the digitalization of newspapers, may impact the characteristics of the information products available to consumers. Based on a case study of the entry of French media firms in Francophone Africa, we build a new dataset of more than 800 000 newspaper articles over the period 2005 to 2017. Using text mining techniques, we construct a five-dimensional set of newspaper characteristics to qualitatively analyze newspaper data. Our evidences suggest that the entry of French digital newspapers, which produce a relatively low share of local news and whose websites are generally uniformly targeting all Francophone African countries, lead to a significant decrease of the diversity of subjects treated by Francophone African newspapers, characterized by a strong and significant increase of the share of local news, and a small decrease of the total number of articles related to France. We also find a slight but significant impact of the penetration of French digital newspapers on two indicators of newspaper format, namely a small increase of the average frequency of publication of Francophone African newspapers, and a very small decrease of the mean wordcount per articles. We believe the specific format of the news displayed on the web, generally significantly shorter than printed articles and with a higher publication rate, could explain the weakness of the effect on these two indicators.1 1I would like to thank my advisors, Julia CAGE and Thomas CHANEY, for their time, constructive discussions and invaluable advice. I would also like to thank the many French media firms who provided me priceless circulation data and greatly helped me during data collection stage. This data is not directly displayed in the present research due to confidentiality issues. I am also grateful to Thilo KLEIN from the Statistics Directorate of the OECD, who first introduced me to text mining and web scraping methods. All remaining errors are mine.
DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR A SELF-OSCILLATING RESONANT CONVERTER BASED ON NORMALIZED ANALYSIS APPLIED TO A LOW POWER TOPOLOGY

This work presents a design methodology for resonant converters with self-oscillating switching with focus on low power and voltage applications. For this, the concepts of parameter normalization are used, in which it is possible to design the converter independent of the circuit variables, considering only the resonant characteristics such as quality factor, normalized angular frequency, among others. Applications involving low power systems, ranging from tens to hundreds of miliWatts, with energy conversion from alternative sources, also known as Energy Harvesting (EH) systems, have been the focus of several studies involving resonant converters. The use of such converters is favorably viewed due to the reduction of switching losses as well as higher power density because the used topology operates in a self-oscillating manner. The simulation and experimental results are presented to validate such theoretical analysis.
Recognition of the Susceptibility of Hydrogeomorphic Processes in Mountainous Watersheds through Morphometric Indicators and Field Reconnaissance

The morphometric parameters associated with hydrogeomorphic disasters such as debris flows, debris floods and floods in western Taiwan and Sichuan, China are analyzed in this study by employing the 5-m resolution digital terrain map and field studies. The drainage areas for debris-flow prone basins are within a wide range of 0.01-100 km. The morphometric parameters such as Melton Ratio (MR) and watershed length (L) are applicable to the identification of the debris-flow prone ravines. Through field reconnaissance, MR=0.3 can be regarded as the morphometric threshold for debris-flow basins in different regions, and their fan slopes are greater than 3 degrees. The debris-flow fan slope also increases with increasing MR values.
Demonstrating parasitic water mite-induced mortality in natural host populations

SUMMARY The truncated negative binomial distribution is used to demonstrate water mite-induced mortality in a field population of the mosquito host Anopheles crucians. Consistent changes in the parameters of this distribution and in the number of hosts expected in higher mite load classes as truncation is applied to successively lower mite load classes suggest that many heavily parasitized individuals were missing from field samples. These changes are not observed in distributions derived from an association between parasitic larvae of another water mite, Hydrachna conjecta, and the insect Sigara ornata, which is apparently immune to this parasite. Although the method discloses parasite-induced mortality that is non-linearly related to parasite load, it fails to reveal linear parasite-induced mortality in a hypothetical example.
A Low-Loss Balun-Embedded Interconnect for THz Heterogeneous System Integration

An interconnect for THz heterogeneous integration is proposed in this work. Two transmission lines deployed on a 40-nm CMOS chip and an IPD carrier, respectively, are coupled together to form a Marchand balun during a flip-chip packaging process. By doing this, the proposed interconnect can provide packaging and balun functions simultaneously. Two interconnects using the proposed idea are demonstrated with measured and simulated insertion loss of 0.9 and 1.4 dB at 169 and 340 GHz, respectively.
Soil‐atmospheric exchange of CO2, CH4, and N2O in three subtropical forest ecosystems in southern China

The magnitude, temporal, and spatial patterns of soil‐atmospheric greenhouse gas (hereafter referred to as GHG) exchanges in forests near the Tropic of Cancer are still highly uncertain. To contribute towards an improvement of actual estimates, soil‐atmospheric CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes were measured in three successional subtropical forests at the Dinghushan Nature Reserve (hereafter referred to as DNR) in southern China. Soils in DNR forests behaved as N2O sources and CH4 sinks. Annual mean CO2, N2O, and CH4 fluxes (mean±SD) were 7.7±4.6 Mg CO2‐C ha−1 yr−1, 3.2±1.2 kg N2O‐N ha−1 yr−1, and 3.4±0.9 kg CH4‐C ha−1 yr−1, respectively. The climate was warm and wet from April through September 2003 (the hot‐humid season) and became cool and dry from October 2003 through March 2004 (the cool‐dry season). The seasonality of soil CO2 emission coincided with the seasonal climate pattern, with high CO2 emission rates in the hot‐humid season and low rates in the cool‐dry season. In contrast, seasonal patterns of CH4 and N2O fluxes were not clear, although higher CH4 uptake rates were often observed in the cool‐dry season and higher N2O emission rates were often observed in the hot‐humid season. GHG fluxes measured at these three sites showed a clear increasing trend with the progressive succession. If this trend is representative at the regional scale, CO2 and N2O emissions and CH4 uptake in southern China may increase in the future in light of the projected change in forest age structure. Removal of surface litter reduced soil CO2 effluxes by 17–44% in the three forests but had no significant effect on CH4 absorption and N2O emission rates. This suggests that microbial CH4 uptake and N2O production was mainly related to the mineral soil rather than in the surface litter layer.
Privacy-Preserving Ddos Attack Detection using Cross-Domain: Challenges and Research

In this paper, we present a review of on hand IDS (Intrusion Detection Techniques) for DDoS assaults. Interruption discovery framework is a well known and computationally costly task. We additionally clarify the essentials of interruption identification framework. We represent the present methodologies for Intrusion Detection framework. From the expansive assortment of proficient procedures that have been created we will look at the most significant ones. Their qualities and shortcomings are likewise researched. For reasons unknown, the conduct of the calculations is substantially more comparative as not out of the ordinary.
Nutritional manipulation of the fatty acid composition of sheep meat: a review

SUMMARY Sheep meat is characterized as being high in saturated fatty acids and low in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), attributes that are regarded as being disadvantageous within the human diet. Despite fresh forage being a particularly rich source of 18:3n−3 and vegetable oils being high in 18:2n−6 and 18:3n−3, the process of biohydrogenation in the rumen generally results in proportionally less than 0·1 of these essential dietary fatty acids (FA) reaching the small intestine. Increases in muscle content of 18:3n−3 of 1–2-fold have been achieved by supplementation with oil, or oilseeds, whilst increases of 1–3-fold have been obtained from grazing grass compared with concentrates, but in general the polyunsaturated to saturated FA ratio (P:S) in sheep meat has remained low at approximately 0·2–0·3. Substantial improvements in the P:S ratio of up to 0·57 and increases in muscle and adipose tissue levels of 18:3n−3 of up to 4 g/100 g FA can be obtained, but rely on protecting dietary PUFA from biohydrogenation. Additionally, increasing tissue supply of 18:3n−3 will result in only a small improvement in muscle concentration of the nutritionally beneficial 20:5n−3 and 22:6n−3, with meaningful increases relying on a dietary supply of these very-long-chain PUFA. An alternative strategy to improve the human health attributes of sheep meat is to decrease tissue levels of 18:0 by increasing the activity of stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), although the response is often relatively small. Despite the apparent negative impact of ruminal metabolism on muscle FA content, the process of biohydrogenation is often incomplete and several of the intermediaries can have positive effects on human health. Within these intermediaries, future increases in tissue content of cis-9, trans-11 conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may be obtained by increasing tissue supply directly, although a greater response may be obtained by maximizing tissue supply of trans-11 18:1 and elevating the action of SCD. Production of a FA profile in sheep meat that is higher in PUFA, particularly the advantageous very-long-chain PUFA, and with flavour and eating characteristics that meet specific market preferences, is a suitable area for research.
Systems Biology of Mitosis

In mitosis, `surveillance control mechanisms' regulate transitions across the several stages of cell division. The so called `Mitotic-Spindle-Assembly-Checkpoint (MSAC)' and `Exit-From-Mitosis (EFM)' are examples of such mechanisms. MSAC ensures the correct segregation of chromosomes by preventing cell-cycle progression until all chromosomes have made proper bipolar attachments to the mitotic spindle through their kinetochores. EFM ensures that each of the two daughter nuclei receives one copy of each chromosome. Both mechanisms are seemingly regulated by the so called `Anaphase-Promoting-Complex (APC)', bound, in turn, to either `Cdc20' or `Cdh1', which are associated regulatory proteins. APC remains inactive during metaphase. In the transition from metaphase to anaphase, and only after all chromosomes are attached, a newly formed `APC:Cdc20' complex mediates the ubiquitination and degradation of the protein `Securin'; this leads, in turn, to the activation of the protein `Separase', the dissolution of the so called `Cohesin Complex', and, eventually, to chromatid separation. `APC:Cdc20' also mediates the initial phase of `Cyclin B' proteolysis. In the transition from anaphase to telophase, APC:Cdh1 completely ubiquitinates `Cyclin B', thus inactivating a protein called `CyclinB:Cdk1-Mitotic-Kinase' and triggering the exit from mitosis. Both MSAC and EFM prevent chromosome miss-segregation and aneuploidy, and their failure eventually leads to cell death; both mechanisms have been implicated in cancer.