Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Morphoanatomic aspects and phytochemical screening of Plinia edulis (Vell.) Sobral (Myrtaceae)

Plinia edulis (Myrtaceae), popularly known as "cambuca", is a Brazilian medicinal plant employed in the treatment of stomach problems and throat affections by the "caicaras", fishermen of coastal localities. Aiming to contribute with the species knowledge the leaves of P. edulis were analyzed macro and microscopically and the chemical composition of the volatile oil was determined using a combination of GC/MS and retention indices. The antimicrobial assay and the phytochemical screening of the aqueous ethanol extract of the leaves have been performed to correlate the secondary metabolites and the traditional use. Leaves present morphological characteristics of others Myrtaceae species and some particularities, such as the circular idioblasts in number of 2 to 4, scattered perpendicularly at the adaxial surface, with druses or prismatic crystals. In the volatile oil fifteen components have been identified, of which epi-α-cadinol (21.7%), α-cadinol (20.2%) and trans-caryophyllene (14.2%) were major. The phytochemical screening of the aqueous ethanol extract showed the presence of substances with pharmacological interest, such as flavonoids, tannins, saponins and terpenoids but, despite of the presence of these classes, the extract did not inhibit the growth of Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus in a concentration of 1,000 mg/mL.
“ OMICS ” LANGUAGE METAGENOMICS IS IN WAIT FOR PRECISION MEDICINE AS A NEW CLINICAL FRONTIER : FOCUS ON COLORECTAL CANCER

With the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the rapid development in genomics such as the highthroughput genomics technologies we are now in the „postgenomics era‟. The concept of precision medicine which is an emerging approach evolved over time and was popularized only recently for to disease prevention and treatment considering the genetic makeup and environment of each individual. In principle, “precision medicine” integrate multiple -omics profiles, such as genomics, pharmacogenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, metagenomics and "exposome" together with lifestyles factors in an effort to improve the prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders to make more tailored diagnostic and therapeutic strategies to a particular patient with different monogenic and multifactorial polygenic complex diseases, such as colorectal cancer. Knowing that a significant percentage of many cancers are induced because of microorganisms, future studies in metagenomics will undoubtedly reinforce to explore the role of human microbiota in cancer development contributing significantly in understanding the disease at molecular level.
User Behaviors and Attitudes Under Password Expiration Policies

Policies that require employees to update their passwords regularly have become common at universities and government organizations. However, prior work has suggested that forced password expiration might have limited security benefits, or could even cause harm. For example, users might react to forced password expiration by picking easy-to-guess passwords or reusing passwords from other accounts. We conducted two surveys on Mechanical Turk through which we examined people’s self-reported behaviors in using and updating workplace passwords, and their attitudes toward four previously studied password management behaviors, including periodic password changes. Our findings suggest that forced password expiration might not have some of the negative effects that were feared nor positive ones that were hoped for. In particular, our results indicate that participants forced to change passwords did not resort to behaviors that would significantly decrease password security; on the other hand, their self-reported strategies for creating replacement passwords suggest that those passwords were no stronger than the ones they replaced. We also found that repeating security advice causes users to internalize it, even if evidence supporting the advice is scant. Our participants overwhelmingly reported that periodically changing passwords was important for account security, though not as important as other factors that have been more convincingly shown to influence password strength.
Motion Panoramas

In this paper we describe a method for analysing video sequences and for representing them as mosaics or panoramas. Previous work on video mosaicking essentially concentrated on static scenes. We generalize these approaches to the case of a rotating camera observing both static and moving objects where the static portions of the scene are not necessarily dominant, as it has been often hypothesized in the past. We start by describing a robust technique for accurately aligning a large number of video frames under unknown camera rotations and camera settings. The alignment technique combines a feature‐based method (initialization and refinement) with rough motion segmentation followed by a colour‐based direct method (final adjustment). This precise frame‐to‐frame alignment allows the dynamic building of a background representation as well as an efficient segmentation of each image such that moving regions of arbitrary shape and size are aligned with the static background. Thus a motion panorama visualizes both dynamic and static scene elements in a geometrically consistent way. Extensive experiments applied to archived videos of track‐and‐field events validate the approach. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Identifiability of Piecewise Constant Conductivity

Consider the heat conduction in a nonhomogeneous insulated rod of a unit length, with the ends kept at zero temperature at all times. Our main interest is in the identification and identifiability of the discontinuous conductivity (thermal diffusivity) coefficient a(x), 0 ≤ x ≤ 1. The identification problem consists of finding a conductivity a(x) in an admissible set K for which the temperature u(x, t) fits given observations in a prescribed sense. Under a wide range of conditions one can establish the continuity of the objective function J(a) representing the best fit to the observations. Then the existence of the best fit to data conductivity follows if the admissible set K is compact in the appropriate topology. However, such an approach usually does not guarantee the uniqueness of the found conductivity a(x). Establishing such a uniqueness is referred to as the identifiability problem. For an extensive survey of heat conduction, including inverse heat conduction problems see (Beck et al., 1985; Cannon, 1984; Ramm, 2005) From physical considerations the conductivity coefficients a(x) are assumed to be in
Controlled Fabrication of Noble Metal Nanomaterials via Nanosphere Lithography and Their Optical Properties

Since ancient time, noble metal has been used to make ornaments, jewelry, high-value tableware, utensils, currency coins and medicines due to its brilliant metallic luster, stability in air and water and anti-bacteria and anti-fungi properties (Jain, Huang et al. 2007) (Erhardt 2003; Daniel and Astruc 2004; Brayner 2008; Maneerung, Tokura et al. 2008). In fact, noble metal is also valuable due to its unique physicochemical properties, the highest electrical and thermal conductivity, the lowest contact resistance, and the highest optical reflectivity (particularly in ultra-violet region) of all metals(Edwards and Petersen 1936 ; Hammond 2000). Its d-electron configuration endows them with active chemical properties, for example, 3 variable oxidation states for silver, the most common of which is the +1 state, as in AgNO3, the +2 state as in silver(II) fluoride AgF2, and the +3 state as in compounds such as potassium tetrafluoroargentate K[AgF4], and suitability as catalysts by losing one or two more 4d electrons (Dhar, Cao et al. 2007). Silver and gold have the stable face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structures but readily absorbs free neutrons due to its massive nucleus, which make them good absorbers for nucleus raidation. These unique features have enabled them to be applied to diverse applications such as those mentioned above, medical and dental applications, photography, electronics, nuclear reactors, catalysts, clothing and foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver). The intrinsic features of noble metal also endow their nanoscale species with attractive physicochemical properties due to the size and shape effects, including unique optical properties (e.g. Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance: LSPR; Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering: SERS), catalytic/electric properties and bio-functions (Percival, Bowler et al. 2005; Jain, Huang et al. 2007; Schwartzberg and Zhang 2008; Zhou, Qian et al. 2008; VoDinh, Wang et al. 2009). Although ancient people used some features of Ag or Au nanocolloids (e.g. optical property) in fabrication of ceramic glazes for lustrous or iridescent effect in ancient Persia, they did not realize that these effects were due to nanoscale effects from size, shape and surface morphology dependent physicochemical properties of silver materials (Erhardt 2003; Brayner 2008). As materials science has progressed down to nanoscale, the unique properties of nanoscaled noble metal materials are only now being recognized and realized intentionally. These properties have shown vast applications in
Workplace Integration: Key Considerations for Internationally Educated Nurses and Employers

Integration of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in the workplace over the long term, has not been a clear focus in nursing. The role of the employer organization in facilitating workplace integration for IENs has also not been emphasized in research. The overall aim of this paper is to highlight findings from an instrumental qualitative case study research informed by critical social theory, which examined workplace integration of IENs. The study explored what is meant by ‘integration’ and how the employer organizational context affects workplace integration of IENs. A purposeful sample of twenty-eight participants was involved. The participants included: stakeholders from various vantage points within the case organization as well as IENs from diverse backgrounds who were beyond the process of transitioning into the Canadian workplace—they had worked in Canada for an average of eleven years. Four methods of data collection were used: semi-structured interviews; socio-demographic survey; review of documents; and focus group discussions (FGDs). Thematic analysis methods guided the within subcase analysis first, followed by an across subcase analysis. FGDs were used as a platform for member-checking to establish the credibility of study findings. The resulting definition and conceptual framework point to workplace integration of IENs as a two-way process requiring efforts on the part of the IENs as well as the employer organization. This paper elaborates on selected themes of how beyond transition, workplace integration entails IENs progressing on their leadership journey , while persevering to overcome challenges. Organizational factors such as workforce diversity, leadership commitment to equity and engagement with the broader community serve as critical enablers and the importance of workplaces striving to avoid common pitfalls in addressing the priority of IEN integration are also discussed. This paper concludes with implications and key considerations for workplace integration of IENs.
Facile Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide Wrapped Nickel Silicate Hierarchical Hollow Spheres for Long-life Lithium-ion Battery

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Cell Selection Using Recursive Bipartite Matching

Wireless communication network consist nowadays of multiple standards, as well as cells of different sizes and coverage. Providing the best connection in such environment is a challenging task. We propose a new approach of solving the cell selection problem in heterogeneous networks. The method recursively applies efficient algorithms for bipartite graph matching to provide the final solution.
Expression of RNA Nanoparticles Based on Bacteriophage Phi29 pRNA in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis

OF THESIS EXPRESSION OF RNA NANOPARTICLES BASED ON BACTERIOPHAGE PHI29 PRNA IN ESCHERICHIA COLI AND BACILLUS SUBTILIS Currently, most of the RNAs used in lab research are prepared by in vitro transcription or chemical synthesis, which can be costly. In vivo expression in bacterial cells is another approach to RNA preparation that allows large scale production at a lower cost. However, there are some obstacles in bacterial expression, including RNA degradation in host cell, as well as RNA extraction and purification. tRNA and 5S RNA have been reported as scaffolds to circumvent the degradation problem. These scaffolds can not only make the RNA product survive in the cell but also increase the stability after extraction. The packaging RNA (pRNA) of bacteriophage phi29 is a small non-coding RNA with a compact structure. The three-way junction (3WJ) region from pRNA is a thermodynamically stable RNA motif good for constructing therapeutic RNA nanoparticles. The 3WJ can not only integrate multiple RNA modules, but also stabilize them. Here I report a series of approaches made to express recombinant RNAs based on pRNA or 3WJ in bacteria, including 1) Investigating the mechanism of RNA folding in vitro and in vivo using 3WJ. 3WJ-based RNAs were expressed in E. coli using pET system. The results show that the folding of RNA is affected by both overall and regional energy landscape. 2) Expression of an RNA nanoparticle harboring multiple functional modules, a model of therapeutic RNA, in E. coli using a combination of tRNA scaffold and pRNA-3WJ. The expression was successful and all of the RNA modules were functional. 3) Expression of pRNA-based recombinant RNAs in B. subtilis. This is a novel system of expressing recombinant RNAs in Gram-positive bacteria.
Heating condition effects on thermal resistance of fifth-instar Amyelois transitella ( Walker ) ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae )

Successful development of a thermal treatment protocol depends on reliable information on fundamental thermal death kinetics of targeted insects under different heating conditions. The effects of heating rates (1, 10, and 15 1Cmin ), pre-treatment conditioning (30 1C+6h), and the difference between long-term laboratory cultures and recently isolated cultures on thermal mortality of fifth-instar navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Walker), were studied using a heating block system. There was no significant difference in insect mortality resulting from heating rates of 10 and 15 1Cmin . Temperature control at 1 1Cmin 1 was more uniform than for the other heating rates, resulting in reduced variability for insect mortality. The mean mortality at the heating rate of 1 1Cmin 1 was significantly lower than for the two faster heating rates only at 48 1C+30min. The pre-treatment conditioning of fifth-instar Amyelois transitella enhanced their thermotolerance only at certain temperature–time combinations. Fifth-instars from long-term laboratory and recently isolated cultures were equally susceptible to elevated temperatures. Therefore, thermal death kinetic information obtained from the long-term laboratory cultures can be used to develop thermal protocols against field pests. r 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Feasible Routine for Large-Scale Nanopatterning via Nanosphere Lithography

Due to the unique electronic, optical, catalytic and biological properties, well ordered nanostructures have attracted enormous interest. They have potential applications in photonic crystal devices (Yablonovitch, 1987), large-density magnetic recording devices (Chou et al., 1994), novel electronic devices (Schmidt & Eberl, 2001), synthesis of DNA electrophoresis mediate (Volkmuth & Austin, 1992),nanocontainers (Chen et al., 2008), surface-plasmon resonance biosensors (Brolo et al., 2004), antireflective coatings for solar cells (Yae et al., 2005), and etc. Such broad applications of nanostructures were intimately associated with their unique properties, which are sensitively dependent on their size and/or shape. It is well-established that magnetic (Shi et al., 1996; Zhu et al.,2004), optical (Aizpurua et al., 2003; Larsson et al. 2007), electrocatalytic (Bratlie et al., 2007; Narayanan & El-Sayed, 2004), optoelectronic (Chovin et al., 2004), data storage (Ma, 2008), thermodynamic (Volokitin et al., 1996; Wang et al., 1998) and electrical transport (Andres et al., 1996; Bezryadin et al., 1997) properties of the nanostructures are affected by the shape and the size, as well as the interfeature spacing. In general, there are two approaches to realize ordered nanostructures with desired size, shape and arrangement. One is the “bottom up” approach on pre-patterned substrates (Zhong et al, 2007; Zhong et al., 2008). The other is the “top-down” approach (Ito & Okazaki, 2000). Both of these two approaches are always based on lithographic technology. In the first approach, lithographic techniques were employed to fabricate various patterned substrates, on which ordered nanostructures can then be realized by subsequent growth of desired materials. The main reason for this approach is to suppress defects in the nanostructures. In the second approach, ordered nanostructures can be directly fabricated by lithographic techniques. Several standard lithographic techniques are frequently exploited to fabricate desired surface nanostructures, including holographic lithography, electron-beam lithography (EBL) and ion-beam lithography (IBL) (Arshak et al., 2004;Ebbesen et al., 1998; Ito & Okazaki, 2000). Recently, a new extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography was developed, which is a potential candidate for achieving critical dimensions below 100 nm (Service, 2001). In addition, there are some other lithographic techniques applied in the fabrication of nanostructures (Haynes & Van Duyne, 2001). However, fabrication of nanostructures in a regular arrangement over large areas is still a major challenge in modern nanotechnologies. There is substantial interest in developing new technologies to facilitate pattern fabrication.
Nutritional status and specific leaf area of mahogany and tonka bean under two light environments

Studies on nutritional status and leaf traits were carried out in two tropical tree species Swietenia macrophylla King (mahogany) and Dipetryx odorata Aubl. Willd. (tonka bean) planted under contrasting light environments in Presidente Figueiredo-AM, Brazil. Leaves of S. macrophylla and D. odorata were collected in three year-old trees grown under full sunlight (about 2000 µmol m-2 s-1) and natural shade under a closed canopy of Balsa-wood plantation (Ochroma pyramidale Cav. Ex. Lam.Urb) about 260 µmol m-2 s-1. The parameters analysed were leaf area (LA), leaf dry mass (LDM), specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf nutrient contents. It was observed that, S. macrophylla leaves grown under full sunlight showed LA 35% lower than those grown under shade. In D. odorata leaves these differences in LA were not observed. In addition, it was observed that S. macrophylla shade leaves, for LDM, were 50% smaller than sun leaves, while in D. odorata, there differences were not observed. SLA in S. macrophylla presented that sun leaves were three times smaller than those grown under shade. In D. odorata, no differences were observed. Nutrient contents in S. macrophylla, regardless of their light environments, showed higher contents for P and Ca than those found in D. odorata. The N, K, Fe and Mn contents in S. macrophylla leaves decreased under shade. Finally, we suggest that the decreasing in leaf nutrient contents may have a negative influence on leaf growth. The results demonstrated that the tested hypothesis is true for leaf traits, which D. odorata, late-successional species, showed lower plasticity for leaf traits than Swietenia macrophylla, mid-successional species.
Parallelization of the ISAAC Code

ISAAC is an open source multi-block numerical simulation application code. The aim of the parallelization of the ISAAC code is to enable scalability onto large numbers of processors where that parallel version is applicable to as wider range of parallel systems as possible. This should allow as many users as possible to exploit parallel execution on their own parallel systems. The scope of this work was restricted to a basic multi-block parallelization using message passing communications (e.g. MPI) with OpenMP directives automatically added by the ParaWise/CAPO [1] computer aided parallelization (CAP) environment to allow parallelism within each block to be exploited. This scope prevented the development of an intra-block message passing parallelization due to the significant effort required for this to be implemented.
Investigation of Anti-biofilm Effect of Syzygiumaromaticum Plant Extracts against Oral Pathogens

Given the incidence of oral disease, increased resistance by microorganisms to antibiotics, adverse effects of some antimicrobial agents currently used in dentistry.Therefore, this work was performed to estimate the antimicrobial activity of both the aqueous and ethanol extracts of Syzygiumaromaticum against oral pathogens. The activity of the S. aromaticum was evaluated by broth microdilution method determining minimal inhibitory concentration and biofilm adopting microtitre plate crystal violet assay. The results showed that the MIC values of the aqueous extracts against all oral species ranged between 12.50-25mg/ml, while the MIC value of ethanol extracts was ranged between 6.25-12.50mg/ml.All clinical isolates were capable of biofilm formation in various amounts.The aqueous and ethanol extracts of the S. aromaticum presented anti-biofilm activity against the oral pathogens, the best inhibitory effect on Staphlococcus. epidermidis which was (68.3%), as compared to the inhibition percentage of aqueous extract which was (59.2%) Also, Candida albicans was demonstrated the better results in ethanol extracts 67.61% as compared to aqueous extract which was 60.31%. Finally, the ethanol extract of S. aromaticum appeared the better results of antimicrobial activity and ability to control biofilm
Machine learning in manufacturing: advantages, challenges, and applications

The nature of manufacturing systems faces ever more complex, dynamic and at times even chaotic behaviors. In order to being able to satisfy the demand for high-quality products in an efficient manner, it is essential to utilize all means available. One area, which saw fast pace developments in terms of not only promising results but also usability, is machine learning. Promising an answer to many of the old and new challenges of manufacturing, machine learning is widely discussed by researchers and practitioners alike. However, the field is very broad and even confusing which presents a challenge and a barrier hindering wide application. Here, this paper contributes in presenting an overview of available machine learning techniques and structuring this rather complicated area. A special focus is laid on the potential benefit, and examples of successful applications in a manufacturing environment.