Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Antiulcerogenic effects of ocimum basilicum extracts volatile oils and flavonoid glycosides in albino rats

AbstractAntiulcerogenic effects of extracts, volatile oils and flavonoid glycosides of Ocimum basilicum leaves were studied in normal as well as aspirin-, acetic acid- and stress-induced ulcerated rats. Also, their effects on outputs of gastric acid, pepsin and hexosamines were recorded in normal and ulcerated rats. The aqueous, methanol and water-methanol extracts and flavonoid glycosides of O. basilicum decreased the ulcer index, inhibited gastric acid and pepsin secretions and enhanced hexosamines in aspirin-treated rats. The aqueous extract increased glucosamine but did not affect the output of acid and pepsin. The methanol extract lowered acid and pepsin output but did not increase the glucosamine level. However, the water-methanol extract decreased acid output, increased glucosamine, and did not affect pepsin. The flavanoid glycosides of O. basilicum decreased the ulcer index and the outputs of acid and pepsin, but increased glucosamines. Volatile oils of the plant were ineffective against stress-in.
Effects of small dose estradiol cypionate after artificial insemination on reproductive performance in Holstein cows

The goals of this study were to assess whether the injection of 1 mg of estradiol cypionate (ECP) at 13 days after service of artificial insemination (AI) increases fertility in the study subject and if the same dose injected in the near estrus (20 ± 1 days) after artificial insemination services changed the diagnosis in empty cows without affecting the ongoing gestation. Two experiments were conducted with Holstein cows: (1) In the first experiment, 110 animals were used in summer season and were inseminated and divided randomly in injected and non-injected groups (n = 55). At 13 days post-service, animals in injected group received intramuscularly 1 mg of ECP. (2) The other experiment was conducted during both summer and winter. Four hundred lactating Holstein cows were selected from first and second services. The pregnancy diagnosis were performed by rectal palpation on day 43, only in cows that had not repeated the artificial insemination. The injection of 1 mg ECP at 13 days after IA service does not affect ongoing pregnancy and increases fertility (p < 0.05). In Holstein cows that repeated the heat due the treatment, decreased significantly the proportion of cows that arrive empty to the diagnosis during the summer but not in winter.
Performance Analysis of Three Phase Induction Motor Drive using SVPWM Switching Techniques: Design Approach

Space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) technique has emerged as a most used modulation strategy for the voltage source inverter (VSI) fed AC motor drives. Avoidance of the main spectral annoyance, harmonics concentration around the carrier frequency and it multiples, is done by increasing the switching frequency to a band which does not contribute mechanical vibrations and acoustic noises. This results in tremendous increase the switching losses. A systematic evaluation of SVPWM switching patterns can guide proper selection of switching frequency and vectors. A Matlab based comparative analysis of all these SVPWM variants in terms of attributes such as total harmonic distortion (THD) in output line voltage, DC bus utilization and the harmonic spread factor (HSF) is reported. For this using space vector pulse width modulation method a multilevel inverter above two level inverter can be designed. This simplification reduced considerably the computation time. A two level space vector pulse width modulation method also used for three as well as five level inverter.
A DELAYED PARITY GENERATION CODE FOR ACCELERATING DATA WRITE IN ERASURE CODED STORAGE SYSTEMS

We propose delayed parity generation as a method to improve the write speed in erasure-coded storage systems. In the proposed approach, only some of the parities in the erasure codes are generated at the time of data write (data commit), and the other parities are not generated, transported, or written in the system until system load is lighter. This allows faster data write, at the expense of a small sacrifice in the reliability of the data during a short period between the time of the initial data write and when the full set of parities is produced. Although the delayed parity generation procedure is anticipated to be performed during time of light system load, it is still important to reduce data traffic and disk IO as much as possible when doing so. For this purpose, we first identify the fundamental limits of this approach through a connection to the well-known multicast network coding problem, then provide an explicit and low-complexity code construction. The problem we consider is closely related to the regenerating code problem. However, our proposed code is much simpler and has a much smaller subpacketization factor than regenerating codes. Our result shows that blindly adopting regenerating codes in this setting is unnecessary and wasteful. Experimental results confirm that to obtain the improved write speed, the proposed code does not significantly increase computation burden.
Transient Choroidal Thickening Associated with Hyponatremia

Copyright © 2018 The Korean Retina Society This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 2508-1926 eISSN 2508-3589 Journal of Retina 2018;3(2):92-96 https://doi.org/10.21561/jor.2018. 3.2. 92
Phylogeny, evolution, and systematics of the Galea musteloides complex (Rodentia: Caviidae)

Abstract As presently recognized, the genus Galea is composed of 3 species, G. musteloides, G. flavidens, and G. spixii. The most widely distributed species is G. musteloides (the common yellow-toothed cavy), ranging from southern Peru to southern Argentina and from sea level to over 4,000 m elevation. Our current taxonomic and systematic understanding of Galea is based primarily on morphological studies that have been limited in both taxonomic and geographic sampling. In this study phylogenetic analyses of sequences from the cytochrome-b gene were used to test hypotheses related to the content, limits, and systematic relationships within G. musteloides. Our data support restricting G. musteloides to the highlands of northwestern Bolivia, southeastern Peru, and extreme northeastern Chile. We elevate G. leucoblephara Burmeister, 1861, for populations occupying the lowlands of Bolivia and Paraguay to central Argentina, and we elevate G. comes Thomas, 1919, for populations from the Andes of southern Bolivia and northern Argentina. Our results also suggest the presence of a previously unrecognized form at midelevations in the southern Bolivian Andes. We find support for treating G. spixii campicola as a junior synonym of G. l. demissa and G. monasteriensis as a junior synonym of G. musteloides boliviensis. Most of the evolution of the taxa within the G. musteloides complex appears to have occurred in the Prepuna biogeographic province, with 2 independent vicariant events culminating in the separation of the G. musteloides, G. comes, and G. leucoblephara clades. Dating estimates suggest a late Miocene divergence between G. spixii and the G. musteloides group, followed by species-level divergence within the G. musteloides group during the Pliocene.
Toxic effects of prolonged endosulfan exposure on some blood parameters in albino rat

Endosulfan is a worldwide used synthetic insecticide that has an important role on management of pests in agriculture. The present work was undertaken to determine the effect of endosulfan on the haematological and haemochemical parameters of albino rats. Rats were feed with 5 mg/kg body weight endosulfan in mixed food stuff for 42 days. The studies were conducted on sexually matured male rats covering five groups of animals with control. Total counts of erythrocytes and haemoglobin were decreased and leucocytes were increased in treated group. Differential counts of leucocytes showed significant increase in basophils and monocytes. The levels of serum glucose, urea, creatinine and bilirubin increased significantly, suggesting that the synthetic insecticide had remarkable toxic effects on the haematological and biochemical parameters in the experimental animals. Key words: Endosulfan; prolonged exposure; haematology; haemochemical parameters; albino rat DOI: 10.3329/jles.v5i0. 7346 J. Life Earth Sci., Vol. 5: 29-32, 2010
Perspectives

Perspectives aims to widen the horizons of Business Information Review readers and to remind them that relevant information is to be found in many journals outside those dealing with the practice of information services and information and knowledge management. This first column of 2015 ranges far and wide. It begins with articles dealing with the application of visual analytics (including explanations of story boarding and also two-dimensional graph layout techniques for information visualization). An article on communication audits provides a reminder on the value of social network analysis – another area where visualization can yield surprises. When information is not indexed, it becomes invisible. The performance of information extraction and indexing tools is therefore critical, and this selection of articles includes research examining tools for the extraction of content from PDFs and thesaurus tools for the Semantic Web. Transnational knowledge transfer and organizational ambidexterity complete the collection.
Sodium Channel β Subunits: Anything but Auxiliary

Voltage-gated sodium channels are glycoprotein complexes responsible for initiation and propagation of action potentials in excitable cells such as central and peripheral neurons, cardiac and skeletal muscle myocytes, and neuroendocrine cells. Mammalian sodium channels are heterotrimers, composed of a central, pore-forming α subunit and two auxiliary β subunits. The α subunits form a gene family with at least 10 members. Mutations in α subunit genes have been linked to paroxysmal disorders such as epilepsy, long QT syndrome, and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis in humans, and motor endplate disease and cerebellar ataxia in mice. Three genes encode sodium channel β subunits with at least one alternative splice product. A mutation in the β1 subunit gene has been linked to generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus type 1 (GEFS + 1) in a human family with this disease. Sodium channel β subunits are multifunctional. They modulate channel gating and regulate the level of channel expression at the plasma membrane. More recently, they have been shown to function as cell adhesion molecules in terms of interaction with extracellular matrix, regulation of cell migration, cellular aggregation, and interaction with the cytoskeleton. Structure-function studies have resulted in the preliminary assignment of functional domains in the β1 subunit. A sodium channel signaling complex is proposed that involves β subunits as channel modulators as well as cell adhesion molecules, other cell adhesion molecules such as neurofascin and contactin, RPTPβ, and extracellular matrix molecules such as tenascin.
Evaluation of bone resorption after implant surgery: Analysis of short-term follow-up

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the amounts of marginal bone resorption around the implant that occurs after the implant surgery before the prosthetic loading by evaluating the patients who received implants in oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic.Material and Methods: Two hundred and fifty-three implant surgeries that were performed in the period from 2016 to 2017 were included in this study. The panoramic X-rays taken immediately after implantation and before prosthetic loading at 3 months were evaluated. The marginal bone resorptions around the implants were measured and these values were compared with respect to the gender of the patient and the size of the jaw areas.Results: Implant surgeries were performed on a total of 91 patients (50 females and 41 males). The mean age of the patients was 46.03 ± 12.13 years. One hundred and forty-four implants were evaluated in male patients, while 109 implants were evaluated in females. Marginal bone resorption around the implants in males was observed to be statistically significantly higher than in females (p=0.00). There was no statistically significant difference (p=0.76) between the resorption values of mandible and maxilla. Resorption values in the molar region in the jaws were significantly higher than the amount of resorption in the anterior region (p=0.17). Conclusion: In this study, the marginal bone resorption around the implant was assessed between the implant surgery and the prosthetic loading, where it was found to be 0.24 mm in mandible and maxilla. In addition, both jaws were observed to have the lowest resorption amount in the anterior region and the highest resorption amount in the molar region.
Contrasting distribution patterns of invasive and naturalized non‐native species along environmental gradients in a semi‐arid montane ecosystem

Questions: Mountain systems have high abiotic heterogeneity over local spatial scales, offering natural experiments for examining plant species invasions. We ask whether functional groupings explain non-native species spread into native vegetation and up elevation gradients. We examine whether non-native species distribution patterns are related to environmental variables after controlling for elevation and, thus, driven by niche processes. Location: The Wallowa Mountains, northeast Oregon, USA. Methods: We surveyed non-native plant species along three mountain roads and into the native habitat matrix to assess the extent of invasion success along distance from roadside and elevation gradients. We used GLM to predict single species occurrence probabilities, LMM to examine differences in distribution patterns among functional types, and pCCA to examine multivariate responses of the non-native community to ecological variables. Results: Probability of occurrence of the eight focal invasive species was not significantly related to distance from the road, but declined with elevation. Nonnative species with annual life history strategies were more restricted to lower elevations than perennial species. Non-native species considered invasive occurred at lower minimum elevations than naturalized species. Shifts in the species composition of the non-native plant community were related to changes in soil and climate variables. Conclusions: Our results suggest that invasive species have similar patterns of habitat associations and spread from roadsides to interior vegetation zones, whereas naturalized species partition environmental gradients in this semi-arid montane ecosystem. Furthermore, annual and invasive species groups occupy lower elevations and perennial and naturalized species groups have invaded further up the mountain roads and into the native vegetation. Thus, functional groupings may explain contrasting distribution patterns of non-native species and could be used to inform management strategies for non-native species.
Predictions for Commercial Poultry Nutrition

ABSTRACT The meat and egg industries have undergone remarkable change over the last 30 yr, and it seems that this will continue, albeit at a slightly reduced rate, over the next 10 to 20 yr. The Americas and Asia will continue to meet world demand, and the only real challenge to the dominance of global poultry meat production will come from the swine industry. Broilers and layers in general are remarkably healthy, and we are now seeing unprecedented low levels of mortality. Our current success is due to genetic selection, availability of efficacious vaccines and antibiotics, and a growing awareness of the importance of biosecurity and general farm hygiene. An emerging area of concern in poultry nutrition is the accumulation of Zn and Cu in soil, and this may attract legislation regarding manure composition. Likewise, there is emphasis on quantitating NH3 release from many industries including agriculture. We are unlikely to see any major change in nutrient needs of broilers and layers over the next 20 yr. On the other hand, diet formulation, feeding programs, and production goals are continually changing, and these factors affect the work of poultry nutritionists. Our future roles will be governed by the need to accommodate ever-increasing genetic potential, the demand for simple diets devoid of most pharmaceutical products, and the effect of poultry products on human health. Traceability of meat and eggs is inevitable either through legislation or through marketing strategies. Such traceability will require accountability of the composition of poultry feeds. At best, quality control programs at feed mills provide information that is incorporated in a historical database. The feed industry will be compelled to develop real-time feed analysis.
Does Repeated Exposure to Critical Situations in a Screen-Based Simulation Improve the Self-Assessment of Non-Technical Skills in Postpartum Hemorrhage Management?

Background. Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal death in the world. Non-technical skills (e.g. communication) are now recognized as a contributing factor to medical safety. In the field of simulation, screen-based simulations are currently very popular with computer/technological development. This study evaluates a screen-based simulation device, PerinatSims, developed to improve technical and non-technical skills in PPH situation. This experiment hypothesized that exposure and repetition of training with PerinatSims would improve the self-assessment of non-technical skills, and therefore increase the ability to manage PPH. Methods. The primary endpoint was a self-assessment of non-technical skills during simulation session of PPH on a digital simulator. Twenty French midwives performed three of nine 25 minutes sessions of PPH screen-based simulation. Four self-assessment questionnaires were administered at the end of each simulation session: a leadership/team working questionnaire (BAT), a negative feelings/emotional questionnaire (DASS-21), a Flow questionnaire and a mental load questionnaire (NASA-TLX). Results between sessions were compared using a repeated measures ANOVA followed by a Bonferroni post hoc test. Results. The study showed a positive evolution during the three screen-based simulation sessions: an increase of leadership and team working self-assessment, an increase of Flow sense, and a decrease of negative emotions (anxiety and depression in the DASS-21 score). Significant decrease of stress was found only between the second and the third sessions, and significant differences in the NASA-TLX were observed only in two dimensions, Performance and Frustration. Conclusion. A repeated exposure to PPH situations with a screen-based simulation tool improved the midwives’ self-assessment, especially for leadership, team working, emotion management and Flow sense. Furthermore, midwives had a very positive feedback on the device. They highlighted the desire to use PerinatSims more often to be trained to PPH management, for technical as well as non-technical skills.
Prion protein hereditary amyloidosis: parenchymal and vascular

Abstract Prion protein (PrP) amyloidosis is a feature of Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) and prion protein cerebral amyloid angiopathy (PrP-CAA). GSS and PrP-CAA are associated with point mutations of the prion protein gene (PRNP); there is a broad spectrum of clinical presentations and the main signs are ataxia, spastic paraparesis, extrapyramidal signs and dementia. In GSS, parenchymal amyloid may be associated with spongiform changes or neurofibrillary lesions; in PrP-CAA, vascular amyloid is associated with neurofibrillary lesions. In the two diseases, a major component of the amyloid fibrils is a 7 kDa peptide, approximately spanning residues 81–150 of PrP.
Structure–stability relationships in networks combining mutualistic and antagonistic interactions

The relationship between the structure of ecological networks and community stability has been studied for decades. Recent developments highlighted that this relationship depended on whether interactions were antagonistic or mutualistic. Different structures promoting stability in different types of ecological networks, i.e. mutualistic or antagonistic, have been pointed out. However, these findings come from studies considering mutualistic and antagonistic interactions separately whereas we know that species are part of both types of networks simultaneously. Understanding the relationship between network structure and community stability, when mutualistic and antagonistic interactions are merged in a single network, thus appears as the next challenge to improve our understanding of the dynamics of natural communities. Using a theoretical approach, we test whether the structural characteristics known to promote stability in networks made of a single interaction type still hold for network merging mutualistic and antagonistic interactions. We show that the effects of diversity and connectance remain unchanged. But the effects of nestedness and modularity are strongly weakened in networks combining mutualistic and antagonistic interactions. By challenging the stabilizing mechanisms proposed for networks with a single interaction type, our study calls for new measures of structure for networks that integrate the diversity of interaction.
Indonesian Omnibus Law in Taxation

Lucky Kartantoa*, Prasetijo Rijadib, Sri Priyatic, aLecturer at Accounting Programs, at Faculty of Economics And Business, Widya Kartika University, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, bLecturer at Undergraduate and Master Programs, at Faculty of Law, Bhayangkara University, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, cLecturer at Undergraduate Programs, at Faculty of Law, Bhayangkara University, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Email: a*kkplucky@gmail.com, bkaplucky@gmail.com, cvinluck2002@yahoo.com
Effects of dark chocolate Intake on Physical Functions in Japanese Subjects

Introcuction: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of dark chocolate consumption on physical functions (blood pressure, the fasting serum lipid profile, cognitive function, and markers of oxidative stress and inflammation) in Japanese subjects. Methods:The clinical trial included 385 healthy Japanese subjects aged 45-69 years, who were not taking regular medication and had no history of allergy to cacao. All subjects ate 25 g of dark chocolate for 4 weeks, and 347 subjects completed the study. Results:The backgrounds of the subjects are as follows; the average age was 55.0 ± 6.5 years, and BMI was 22.5 ± 3.2 kg/m2. Body weight and BMI remained almost unchanged during the 4 weeks. Consumption of dark chocolate was found to decrease systolic and diastolic blood pressure significantly, increase HDL-cholesterol, and improve a marker of cognitive function (brain-derived neurotrophic factor [BDNF]). Subjects with 8-hydroxy-2’-deoxyguranosin (8-OHdG) concentration ≥ 10.52 ng/mg creatinine at baseline (the highest quartile) were found to have a reduction of 8-OHdG (a marker of oxidative stress) at the end of the study. We also observed a reduction of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) concentration after consumption of dark chocolate by subjects in the highest quartile (hs-CRP ≥ 620 μg/L) at baseline. We assessed quality of life using SF-36v2®, and the scores indicated improvement in the health-related quality of life. Conclusion:Our study has shown that daily consumption of dark chocolate decreased blood pressure, and increased HDL-cholesterol, BDNF and the score for quality of life. It is anticipated that regular consumption of polyphenol-rich foods should lead to a decrease in the incidence of atherosclerotic disease and improvement of cognitive function.