Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
USED AS PRIMERS AND PROBES IN THE AMPLIFICATION AND DETECTION OF SARS CORONAVIRUS

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ENVIRONMENTAL FATE OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN NAGOYA PORT

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, called PAHs, were widely distributed in environments with human activities such as burning of fossil fuel. For instance, Benzo(a)pyrene, one of PAHs, is a strong mutagen and carcinogen , and some of PAHs metabolites have endocrine disruption activity [1][2]. Therefore, studying PAHs concentration levels and fate in environments is important to assessing PAHs exposure to organisms including human being. Physical-chemical properties of PAHs vary widely by their ring-number. The higher ringnumber PAHs have higher hydrophobicity, the lower vapor pressure and higher toxicity. In general, PAHs with high ring-numbers, adsorb to fine particles due to there high hydrophobicity, and behave like particle [3]. After PAHs are discharged to the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuel etc, the deposition of PAHs occurs to land surface with fine particles, before the accumulation on road surface etc. The particles flow into rivers by runoff, eventually are transferred to sediments of lakes, bays, harbors and ports [4]. Consequently, organisms in aqueous environments were also exposed to PAHs adsorbed onto fine particles. In Japan, PAHs are not listed in the environmental quality standard. PAHs were detected at high levels in sediments of ports and harbors, where chemical compounds are transferred by dredging and soil capping. In this study, to clarify the environmental fate of PAHs, field observations in Nagoya port was conducted together with adsorption, desorption and degradation experiments in aerobic and anaerobic conditions by using sediments obtain from Nagoya port. Mass balance model was applied to the data from field observation and laboratory experiments to consider the environmental fate of PAHs in Nagoya port.
ON THURSTON’S SHIFT COORDINATES AND STRETCH LINES

This paper has two parts. In the first part, we study shift coordinates on a sphere S equipped with three distinguished points These coordinates parametrize a space e T(S) that we call an unfolded Teichmüller space. It contains Teichmüller spaces of the sphere with b boundary components and p cusps, for all possible values of b and p satisfying b + p = 3 and, in fact, in general it contains several copies of such a Teichmüller space. The parametrization of e T(S) by shift coordinates equips this space with a natural polyhedral structure, which we describe more precisely as a cone over an octahedron in R. Each cone over a simplex of the octahedron is interpreted as a Teichmüller spaces of the sphere with b boundary components and p cusps for fixed b and p, which is furthermore equipped with an orientation on each boundary component. There is a natural linear action of a finite group on the unfolded Teichmüller space, and the quotient space is an augmented Teichmüller space. We decribe sereval aspects of the geometry of the space e T(S). Stretch lines and earthquakes can be defined on this space. Pairs of pants and their geometric structures are building blocks for studying general surfaces. In the second part of the paper, we use the shift coordinates to obtain some estimates on the behaviour of some stretch lines in the Teichmüller space of a surface obtained by gluing hyperbolic pairs of pants. We use the shift coordinates to express stretch lines in terms of Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates. We compute the Fenchel-Nielsen twist parameter associated to a stretch along a lamination whose leaves spiral along a particular pair of pants decomposition. We deduce the disjointness of some stretch lines in Teichm/”uller space. We study in particular the case of a closed surface of genus 2. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification: 32G15; 30F60; 57N16; 53A35; 30F45.
Valorization of Plant Extracts by Encapsulation in Lipid Nanosystems for Application as Potential Insecticides

Plants have been used for centuries to treat diseases and are considered an important source of new antimicrobial agents. Plant extracts can be obtained and their composition determined, being widely employed in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. A less explored and potential application is the use as green insecticides/insect repellents, as an alternative to current pesticides. Despite the desirable properties, many of the isolated components (phytochemicals) present limitations on their use, due to high volatility and easy degradation when exposed to air. Nanoencapsulation techniques arise as promising strategies to allow the preservation and controlled release of plant extracts. In this work, a series of plant materials, Phytolacca americana L. , Tagetes patula L. , and Ruta graveolens L. , were subjected to Soxhlet extraction using various solvents and times of extraction. The extracts obtained were submitted to biological studies, to assess their potential against the insect cell line Sf9. Encapsulation assays in lipid nanosystems were carried out, with encapsulation efficiencies higher than 70%.
The Impact of Perceived Organizational Support on the Quality of Educational Services at Arab Universities

The current study explored the impact of perceived organizational support on the quality of educational services at Arab universities. The descriptive analytical approach was used with a total sample consisting of 215 participants, from Jizan University, and participants from the International Islamic Sciences University. The results of the study showed that the level of both the perceived organizational support and the quality of educational services in universities, the study sample was medium. The results also showed a significant impact of the perceived organizational support on the quality of educational services at Arab universities. In addition to that, there are significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0,05) in the quality of educational services level (quality of academic and administrative services, and the quality of facilities and equipment and quality of reputation) at Arab universities that can be attributed to (gender). And no significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0,05) in the quality of educational services level (Quality of academic services, quality of administrative services, quality of facilities and equipment and quality of reputation) at Arab universities, that can be attributed (to experience and work nature). The study recommended the necessity of raising the level of perceived organizational support and raising the quality of educational services at Arab universities.
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*These authors contributed equally to this work Purpose: A lack of early diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets has led to poor prognosis for gastric cancer patients. However, the analysis of cancer-associated genomic data has been shown to be effective in identifying potential markers. Recently, the long noncoding RNA LINC00365 and SCGB2A1 gene (as known as mammaglobin B) were predicted to be co-expressed in gastric cancer based on the Gene Expression Omnibus database. However, their precise role in gastric cancer tumors is still not clear. Methods: The expressions of LINC00365 and SCGB2A1 in gastric cancer tissues were investigated using qPCR and their expressions were detected in a gastric cancer tissue microarray by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemical staining. The functions of LINC00365 in BGC-823 and MGC-803 gastric cancer cells were tested using the MTT assay, flow cytometry, colony formation assay, EDU staining, immunofluorescence and luciferase assay. Results: We found that LINC00365 and SCGB2A1 mRNAwere both expressed at low levels in 30 cases of gastric cancer. Gastric cancer tissue microarray analysis indicated that LINC00365 and SCGB2A1 were expressed at low levels in tumor tissue, and low expression of both factors correlated with shorter survival time. Functional studies showed that LINC00365 overexpression significantly inhibited gastric cancer cell viability through the impairment of proliferation rather than the promotion of apoptosis. Furthermore, overexpressed LINC00365 upregulated SCGB2A1 in gastric cancer cell lines. Immuno-fluorescence and luciferase assay analysis indicated that LINC00365 overexpression inhibited the NF-κB prosurvival signaling pathway. Consistent with the effects of LINC00365, SCGB2A1 upregulation also reduced cell survival and inactivated NF-κB. Conclusion: Collectively, our findings revealed that SCGB2A1 may be the target coding protein regulated by LINC00365 in gastric cancer. LINC00365 and SCGB2A1 may function as tumor suppressors and may serve as potential prognostic and therapeutic markers in gastric cancer treatment.
DONUT-PROSPECT Overview : structure of DONUT-prospect

The socioeconomic importance of housing and its mediumand long-term investment returns requires a significant effort to predict future dynamics to ensure that the different real estate market agents make the best decisions. Furthermore, the territory structure and the lack of information and transparency of the housing market mechanisms also influence its understanding. There is a variety of literature, in the field of spatial economics that gives theoretical basis for predict housing prices and attributes valuation. However, these analytical models are subject to criticisms because of their inability to integrate the variability of exogenous factors. Therefore, predictions of housing prices and attributes valuation may be affected by not considering the spatial and temporal evolution. Foresight analysis, which will be the main focus of this paper, can be considered as a complementary and useful tool to these analytical models. The paper presents an Integrated Decision Support System– DONUT-Prospect, designed as a decision making framework that combines technically informed subjectivity (foresight analysis) with more rigorous models (econometric models). This empirical application has been developed in the context of a local housing market (Aveiro – Ílhavo municipalities), providing outcomes about the evolution of social and economic phenomena, as well as the heterogeneity of both supply and demand side: the former regarding housing prices and features; and the latter considering the type of consumers. An important result of this exercise is the estimation of housing characteristics and its hedonic prices in 2030, i.e., a picture of the housing market in 2030. In short, DONUT-Prospect presents a way to combine two main foresight techniques (scenario analysis and Delphi surveys) with a traditional hedonic housing price model. The methodology is supported on the assumption that it is possible: i) to discuss strategies in the context of great uncertainty; and ii) to identify trends and assess future evolution. The work is organized in 3 parts: i) description of the structure of DONUT-prospect; ii) presentation of how each dimension was implemented in the context of the integrated model; and iii) main outputs and result discussion. The main results show that DONUT-Prospect is useful in generating consensus between different real estate market agents, particularly because the traditional communication channels are weak and strongly conditioned by the lack of public available information and transparency of the housing market mechanisms.
An Effective Live Video Streaming System

------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------A number of commercial peer-to-peer systems for live streaming have been introduced in recent years. The behavior of these popular systems has been extensively studied in several measurement papers. Due to the proprietary nature of these commercial systems, however, these studies have to rely on a “black-box” approach, where packet traces are collected from a single or a limited number of measurement points, to infer various properties of traffic on the control and data planes. Although such studies are useful to compare different systems from end-user’s perspective, it is difficult to intuitively understand the observed properties without fully reverse-engineering the underlying systems. In this paper we describe the network architecture of Zattoo, one of the largest production live streaming providers in Europe at the time of writing, and present a large-scale measurement study of Zattoo using data collected by the provider. To highlight, we found that even when the Zattoo system was heavily loaded with as high as 20,000 concurrent users on a single overlay, the median channel join delay remained less than 2 to 5 seconds, and that, for a majority of users, the streamed signal lags over-the-air broadcast signal by no more than 3 seconds.
Recruiting Intensity over the Business Cycle

We investigate how recruiting behavior changes with labor market tightness, using data from a national survey of employers who hire recent college graduates. We find that employers are more likely to increase recruiting intensity when they believe the labor market will be tight, even if their firm is not increasing hires. Employers are more likely to reduce recruiting intensity when they believe the labor market will be slack, even if their firm intends to increase hires. We also see these patterns in recruiting intensity, and intensity per vacancy, when looking at changes by year rather than subjective beliefs. We find the primary margins of adjustment are the number of on-campus career fairs, the choice of where to post jobs, internet advertising, starting salary increases, and the use of signing bonuses. We see suggestive evidence that employers adjust the length of time between interviews and making an offer. We find that vacancy yields are relatively stable in the 2011-2016 period, suggesting that employers effectively adjust recruiting measures to keep the flow of hires close to the number of vacancies. The fact that employers appear to adjust recruiting intensity in response to labor market tightness could partly explain the sluggish recovery of hiring in the aftermath of the Great Recession. ∗University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, eforsyth@illinois.edu †University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and IZA, weinst@illinois.edu 1
Diagnosing Hypertension Among Adults; A Study Based on Prevention-Management of Primary and Secondary Hypertension

Hypertension is a great challenge for the public health professionals across the world, as it is a major risk factor leading to congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, retinopathy, and renal disease. Therefore, the study aims to diagnose hypertension among the adults in Al-Riyadh district, Khartoum state of Sudan. The study investigated the prevention and management of primary and secondary hypertension. A cross sectional population-based study was conducted among 138 adult individuals aged between 16 and 75 years. The participants were selected using random sampling technique and each participant completed self-administered questionnaire to assess the prevention-management of primary and secondary hypertension. The mercury sphygmomanometer with standard cuff was used to take measurement of arterial blood pressure. The diagnosis of hypertension among the adults showed that its prevalence in the area of Riyadh was 28%. The highest proportion of hypertension (13.7%) was recorded among the patients aged from 45 and 60 years. There was significant association of age (p-value = 0.001), social status (p-value = 0.001), stress (p-value = 0.010), and diabetes (p-value = 0.050) with hypertension. The present study has highlighted the significant factors associated with hypertension that encourages the public health professionals to carry out awareness and prevention programs.
Précis of “Cognition does not affect perception”

How does the mind work? Though this is the central question posed by cognitive science, one of the deepest insights of the last half-century is that it has no single answer: There is no one way the mind works, because the mind is not one thing. Instead, the mind has parts, and the different parts of the mind operate in different ways: Seeing a color works differently than planning a vacation, which works differently than understanding a sentence, moving a limb, remembering a fact, or feeling an emotion. In characterizing and individuating these ‘parts’, there may be no more foundational distinction between types of mental processes than the distinction between perception and cognition — what we see vs. what we think, want, say, or do. How do seeing and thinking interact? And how do they fail to interact?
More Than First-Order Developments of Convex Functions: Primal-Dual Relations

The subject of this paper concerns the remainder term in the first-order development of a (finite-valued) convex function. We study functions for which this term is comparable to a squared norm and we relate it to the corresponding remainder term of the conjugate function. We show that a convex function satisfies a quadratic growth condition if and only if its subdifferential satisfies a linear growth condition. Finally, we define a new concept of “tangential regularization”, involving a local decomposition of IRN , along the subspace where the function is “smooth” and the subspace parallel to the subdifferential.
Oral hygiene practices, dietary habits and dental caries experience among primary children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study

Background and Aim: Dental caries is a preventable disease; however, public health efforts are hampered due to limited information on associated factors in vulnerable populations. Our study aimed at estimating and assessing dental caries prevalence and experience and identifying key risk factors in association with oral health practices and dietary habits among primary school children living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods: 355 male and female Saudi primary school children aged 6–9 years participated in this crosssectional study. The study was conducted using a 31-item self-administered questionnaire followed by oral examination to assess the caries experience. SPSS software version 22 was used for data analysis. Results: The severity of caries prevalence was different depending on the type of teeth whether deciduous or permanent. For deciduous teeth 52.1% had caries, while permanent teeth had 82.5%. All in all, the DMFT score was 1.19±1.43 and the def was 3.74±1.43. Multiple individual factors were significant particularly when are compared to caries seen in deciduous teeth. Conclusion: Dental caries were more prevalent in primary school children, and individual factors were predominantly associated with the disease.
Abstrak–-Software Defined Radio (SDR) adalah suatu teknologi pemrosesan sinyal yang mengoptimalkan pemakaian PC sebagai perangkat pendukungnya. Pengaplikasian SDR pada sistem komunikasi dapat memungkinkan adanya kemudahan dan fleksibilitas di dalam rekayasa DSP tanpa perlu melakukan perubahan pada h

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a signal processing technology that optimizes the use of PC as a device supporting. With the application of SDR in wireless communication system so it will provide possibility and flexibility on manipulating DSP without the need of hardware changes. SDR modems are designed to take advantage of Digital Signal Processor Starter Kit (DSK) TMS320C6713 for baseband signal processing. In the implementation phase, the DSK is programmed directly using Matlab Simulink integration to build a system of modulation and demodulation Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK). Sampling frequency 8000 kHz is used with a variety of bit rate of 1 kbps and 2 kbps.
Bioactivity Assessment of Some Borate Glasses Containing Copper

Modified bioglasses were prepared by full replacement of SiO2 in Hench's patented bioglass by B2O3 together with samples containing successes additions of CuO (0.2 to 4%). The bioactivity behavior of the prepared borate glasses was analyzed by immersing the glasses in simulated body fluid (SBF) and measuring the appearance of hydroxyapatite (HA) through combined FTIR spectra, X-Ray diffraction and Scanning (SEM) techniques. After immersion, FTIR spectra reveal the appearance of the far IR split band with two peaks at 550570 and 620-650 cm -1 after immersion of the glasses in SBF solution. It is observed that the progressive increase of CuO, ingresses the intensity of this characteristic peaks which are due to the formation of calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite) and this increase ceases after 1% CuO reaching to constancy or slight decrease. XRay diffraction analysis supported the FTIR results. Also, SEM images show the appearance of the modular texture known for hydroxyapatite.
The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India

Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy, an unexpected and unforeseeable exogenous variation, to causally identify the effect of social networks in determining trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data from rural South India and control for individual characteristics (personality traits, cognitive ability) that could influence network formation and trust, finding that social interactions have a significant effect on trust among men, as well as across castes. Among lower castes, who live in homogeneous neighborhoods and relied on neighbors and employers to cope, extending one's network lowers trust in neighbors. Among middle castes, who live in more heterogeneous neighborhoods and relied predominantly on other caste members, a larger network size leads to greater trust placed in kin among employees but lesser in neighbors. This paper thus shows that social interactions can foster trust and highlights the importance of clearly defining in- and out-groups in trust measures within highly segregated societies.