Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Characterization of virulent Listeria monocytogenes isolates recovered from ready-to-eat meat products and consumers in Cairo, Egypt.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of some virulence genes distributed in Listeria monocytogenes isolated from ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products and consumers in Cairo province, Egypt. Materials and Methods: A total of 120 beef luncheon, chicken luncheon and frankfurter beef (40 samples, each) were collected from 10 different local shops situated in Al-salam city, Cairo province, Egypt. Stool samples were collected from 40 people who had the habit of consuming RTE meat. The suspected L. monocytogenes isolates were subjected to a multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for rapid speciation and virulence determination using primers specific for inIA, inIC, and inIJ genes. Results: Culture examination of all samples on Oxford media revealed presence of colonies characteristic to L. monocytogenes in 6 beef luncheon (15%), 4 chicken luncheon (10%), 1 frankfurter beef (2.5%) and 1 human stool (2.5%) samples. Species identity of L. monocytogenes was verified through the amplification of a 800 bp fragment with inIA primers in 2 out of 6 culture isolates from beef luncheon (5%), and 1 out 4 culture isolates from chicken luncheon (2.5%) samples. Statistical analysis revealed no significant difference between the occurrence of L. monocytogenes in different food samples examined (p>0.05). The virulence of these strains was ascertained by the presence of 517 bp and 238 bp fragments of inIC and inIJ genes, respectively in the isolates that contained the 800 bp fragment. The culture isolates obtained from one frankfurter beef sample, and one human stool sample were found negative by multiplex PCR for the presence of L. monocytogenes and its virulence specific genes. Conclusion: It could be concluded that L. monocytogenes are circulating in beef and chicken luncheon sold in Cairo, Egypt. Multiplex PCR is reliable for confirmation of L. monocytogenes. This study suggests the implementation of hygienic measures at all levels from production to consumption in order to improve food safety. Furthermore, authors recommended consumption of beef frankfurter or any RTE meat sold in their original intact packing due to low level of contamination.
Some Aspects of Nordic Umlaut and Breaking

1.1. The Scandinavian, or Nordic, languages, generally considered to be a separate, independent branch of the Germanic language family, and therefore to be the modern representatives of a single relatively uniform or homogeneous common ancestor-Proto-Scandinavian or Proto-Nordic-have, during the past millennium or so, developed rather differently. This has led to an ever increasing differentiation and diversity, the result being that, even if these languages are still, to a greater or lesser extent, mutually intelligible, they now differ from each other on a number of points, some of fundamental structural significance, some of more limited consequence. Although most of the characteristics by which these languages are distinguished at present are of comparatively late origin-from the last six to eight centuries-it is commonly assumed that considerable dialect differentiation of the Nordic-speaking area was present much earlier. For a long time, one of the earliest dialect differences in the Nordic area was considered to have arisen in connection with the development of the so-called u-umlaut. In contrast to the i-umlaut-the fronting of all nonfront vowels before an unstressed syllable with i or j-u-umlaut consisted in the rounding of all nonround vowels , i.e. i, e, e (created by i-umlaut), and a, before a syllable with u or w. The subsequent reduction and/or loss of unstressed vowels resulted in the phonemicization of the front allophones created by i-umlaut (y, 0, e), and later of the round allophones produced by u-umlaut, which either merged with the new phonemes created by i-umlaut (y < i, 0 < e, ? ) or became independent phonemes (( < a). ' The last change, however, presents certain complications. 1.2. Before an u that was subsequently lost, as well as before w lost or preserved, a was rounded; in the earliest Nordic writing, the resulting vowel is consistently written differently from a, viz. by the symbols 'o, ao', etc., including 'Q, which is the symbol used in the First Grammatical Treatise, in normalized Old Icelandic orthography, and in Nordic linguistics. Thus we find acc. sg. OIcel. Qrn, OSw. orn < PN *arnu, inf. OIcel. hQggua, OSw. hogga < *haggwan, with umlaut throughout the whole Nordic area. Before an u that was retained, on the other hand, we find 'o, Q, ao', etc. (e.g. in dat. pl. Qilum Iqndum) only in Icelandic manuscripts and those Norwegian ones which there is reason to believe are from Western Norway. But in East Norwegian manuscripts, i.e. from the East proper and from Tr0ndelag, and in Old Swedish and Danish records we find fairly consistently 'a' in this position (e.g. dat. pl. allum landum).
Association of fat mass profile with natriuretic peptide receptor alpha in subcutaneous adipose tissue of medication-free healthy men: A cross-sectional study

Background: Atrial natriuretic peptide increases lipolysis in human adipocytes by binding to natriuretic peptide receptor-A (NPRA). The aim of the current study was to examine the associations of NPRA mRNA of subcutaneous adipose tissue with fat mass, fat-free mass, body mass index (BMI) and arterial blood pressure in medication-free healthy men. Method: Thirty-two volunteers [age (years): 36.06±7.36, BMI: 27.60±4.63 (kg/m 2)] underwent assessments of body height/weight, % fat mass, fat-free mass (kg), blood pressure, and a subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsy via a surgical technique. Results: We found that NPRA mRNA was negatively associated with % fat mass (r=-0.40, R 2=0.16, p=0.03) and BMI (r=-0.45, R 2=0.20, p=0.01). Cohen’s f 2 effect size analyses showed a small effect size between NPRA mRNA and BMI ( f 2=0.25). One-way analysis of variance with Bonferroni post-hoc tests showed a tendency for mean differences of NPRA mRNA across BMI categories (p=0.06). This was confirmed by Cohen’s d effect size analyses revealing a large effect size of NPRA mRNA between obese individuals (BMI≥30 kg/m 2) and either normal weight (BMI=19-25 kg/m 2; d=0.94) or overweight (BMI=25-30 kg/m 2; d=1.12) individuals. Conclusions: NPRA mRNA is negatively associated with % fat mass and BMI in medication-free healthy men, suggesting a possible role of NPRA in the control of fat mass accumulation.
Incremental delay change due to crosstalk noise

In this paper we present efficient closed-form formulas to estimate the incremental delay change induced by capacitive interconnect coupling. We also analyze temporal correlations among switching signals and develop criteria for timing win¿dow alignment. Our approximations are conservative and yet achieve acceptable accuracy. The formulas are simple enough to be used in the inner loops of static timing analysis.
Effect of Radiation on Sexual Activity of Patients of Carcinoma Cervix *

Background: As the sexual activity of patients of carcinoma uterine cervix is effected by radiation treatment which may further ameliorate their later life by disturbing family sexual life. So it is important to study the effect of radiation on sexual life of these patients so as to take precautionary, preventive and rehabilitative measures to improve the afterlife of patients of carcinoma cervix treated with radiation. Objectives: 1. To identify the socio demographic and disease profiles of the study subjects. 2. To know the effect of radiation on the sexual activity of study subjects. Study design: It is an observational study. Study Area: Department of Radiotherapy Government General Hospital, Government medical college, Anantapuramu. Study Subjects: Patients of Carcinoma Uterine Cervix treated with radiation. Sample Size: 256. Study Period: 01-06-2015 to 30-06-2016. Results: It is observed that maximum 67.96% of study group belongs to middle age (31-50 years) with the mean 38.6 years. And related to sexual desire significantly maximum 71% of the study group belongs to 41 years and above age did not have quite a bit & very much desire compared 20.28 % belongs to 21-40 years of age group. And also with reference to overall sexual satisfaction about 33.36% of study group belongs to 41 & above years of age revealed that they did not have quite a bit and very much sexual satisfaction as against 56.77% belongs to 21-40 years of age group.
Pre- and post-Golgi translocation of glucosylceramide in glycosphingolipid synthesis

Glycosphingolipids are controlled by the spatial organization of their metabolism and by transport specificity. Using immunoelectron microscopy, we localize to the Golgi stack the glycosyltransferases that produce glucosylceramide (GlcCer), lactosylceramide (LacCer), and GM3. GlcCer is synthesized on the cytosolic side and must translocate across to the Golgi lumen for LacCer synthesis. However, only very little natural GlcCer translocates across the Golgi in vitro. As GlcCer reaches the cell surface when Golgi vesicular trafficking is inhibited, it must translocate across a post-Golgi membrane. Concanamycin, a vacuolar proton pump inhibitor, blocks translocation independently of multidrug transporters that are known to translocate short-chain GlcCer. Concanamycin did not reduce LacCer and GM3 synthesis. Thus, GlcCer destined for glycolipid synthesis follows a different pathway and transports back into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via the late Golgi protein FAPP2. FAPP2 knockdown strongly reduces GM3 synthesis. Overall, we show that newly synthesized GlcCer enters two pathways: one toward the noncytosolic surface of a post-Golgi membrane and one via the ER toward the Golgi lumen LacCer synthase.
Learning Latent Event Representations : Structured Probabilistic Inference on Spatial , Temporal and Textual Data

Structured probabilistic inference has shown to be useful in modeling complex latent structures of data. One successful way in which this technique has been applied is in the discovery of latent topical structures of text data, which is usually referred to as topic modeling. With the recent popularity of mobile devices and social networking, we can now easily acquire text data attached to meta information, such as geo-spatial coordinates and time stamps. This metadata can provide rich and accurate information that is helpful in answering many research questions related to spatial and temporal reasoning. However, such data must be treated differently from text data. For example, spatial data is usually organized in terms of a two dimensional region while temporal information can exhibit periodicities. While some work existing in the topic modeling community that utilizes some of the meta information, these models largely focused on incorporating metadata into text analysis, rather than providing models that make full use of the joint distribution of metainformation and text. In this thesis, I propose the event detection problem, which is a multidimensional latent clustering problem on spatial, temporal and textual data. The event detection problem can be treated as a generalization of the topic modeling problem where events can be considered as topics that are augmented by location and time. Preliminary models can effectively learn the representations of major events covered in a corpus of Twitter data and can also be used for various prediction tasks such as predicting the spatial coordinates, time stamps of the documents as well as estimating life cycles of new born events. The approaches proposed in this thesis are largely based on Bayesian nonparametric methods to deal with steaming data and unpredictable number of data clusters. The research proposed will not only serve the event detection problem itself but also shed light into a more general structured clustering problem in spatial, temporal and textual data.
The effects of habitual negligence among families with respect to pediatric burns.

BACKGROUND In this study, scald burns in a Turkish population (0-16 years of age) were studied with reference to their occurrence and common causes. METHODS Of the burn victims hospitalized at the Burns Unit of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital between April 2001 and December 2003, 354 patients were aged 3 months to 16 years and 228 (64.4%) were male. RESULTS When burn causes were examined, scald burns were the primary type, reported in 77.7% (275) of the patients (p < 0.001). Scalds were the most frequent burn agents in the pediatric population. Tea is a traditional beverage in Turkey. It is consumed especially at breakfast and throughout the day until late at night. Tea in Turkey is steeped and brewed for consumption. As brewing and steeping is a time-consuming process and the tea is served hot, the appropriate level of care regarding the hot tea is neglected. Consequently, tea carries a serious potential to cause burns in this country. Of the scalded children, 93 scald burns (33.8%) were due to the tea itself or to the boiling water used in steeping tea, and 87.1% of these children were preschoolers. The mortality rate was 7.1% in the hospitalized children group. CONCLUSION Traditional behaviors may sometimes have some serious unexpected consequences. In households where family members tend to ignore an ongoing problem, governmental and non-governmental organizations should consider taking preventive measures to protect the children from the devastating consequences of such negligence.
Self-synchronization of concurrent processes

Introduces a unary "self-synchronization" operation on concurrent processes that synchronizes concurrent transitions within a process. Standard parallel synchronization and communicating action refinement operations can be reduced to simple combinations of self-synchronization and unsynchronized noncommunicating operations. Modifying familiar fully abstract process semantics, so that actions are replaced by action multisets (steps), typically yields semantics that are fully abstract for processes with self-synchronization. <<ETX>>
Bioenergy from sustainable forestry : guiding principles and practice

List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Rationale for Forest Energy Production. 2. Fuel Resources from the Forest. 3. Production of Forest Energy. 4. Cost of Wood Energy. 5. Environmental Sustainability of Forest Energy Production. 6. Social Implications of Forest Energy Production. 7. Policy and Institutional Factors Affecting Forest Energy. 8. Framework for Conventional Forestry Systems for Sustainable Production of Bioenergy. Appendix 1. Units Equivalents and Conversion Factors. Appendix 2. Acronyms. Subject Index.
Reproductive Diapause and Life-History Clines in North American Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Abstract Latitudinal clines are widespread in Drosophila melanogaster, and many have been interpreted as adaptive responses to climatic variation. However, the selective mechanisms generating many such patterns remain unresolved, and there is relatively little information regarding how basic life-history components such as fecundity, life span and mortality rates vary across environmental gradients. Here, it is shown that four life-history traits vary predictably with geographic origin of populations sampled along the latitudinal gradient in the eastern United States. Although such patterns are indicative of selection, they cannot distinguish between the direct action of selection on the traits in question or indirect selection by means of underlying genetic correlations. When independent suites of traits covary with geography, it is therefore critical to separate the widespread effects of population source from variation specifically for the traits under investigation. One trait that is associated with variation in life histories and also varies with latitude is the propensity to express reproductive diapause; diapause expression has been hypothesized as a mechanism by which D. melanogaster adults overwinter, and as such may be subject to strong selection in temperate habitats. In this study, recently derived isofemale lines were used to assess the relative contributions of population source and diapause genotype in generating the observed variance for life histories. It is shown that although life span, fecundity and mortality rates varied predictably with geography, diapause genotype explained the majority of the variance for these traits in the sampled populations. Both heat and cold shock resistance were also observed to vary predictably with latitude for the sampled populations. Cold shock tolerance varied between diapause genotypes and the magnitude of this difference varied with geography, whereas heat shock tolerance was affected solely by geographic origin of the populations. These data suggest that a subset of life-history parameters is significantly influenced by the genetic variance for diapause expression in natural populations, and that the observed variance for longevity and fecundity profiles may reflect indirect action of selection on diapause and other correlated traits.
Oral Motor Impairment in Children With Feeding Difficulties.

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IgA Class Endomysium Antibodies in Dermatitis Herpetiformis and Coeliac Disease a

Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is a vesicular skin disorder with characteristic histologic features (PMNs, microabscesses in dermal papillae adjacent to the vesicles) and disease-specific immunopathological findings (granular or fibrillar IgA deposits most commonly found in dermal papillae) usually associated with gluten-sensitive enter~pathy. ~. ’. ’ Cases with linear IgA deposits in the basement membrane zone (BMZ) have been referred to by various names: “DH with linear IgA deposit^,"^,' “lgA bullous pemphigoid,”’O or “polymorphic variant of bullous pemphigoid. ”’ It is becoming increasingly evident that this disease is a distinct We refer to it here as “linear IgA bullous dermatosis” or LABD. Detailed reviews appear elsew Two types of antibodies have been detected in sera of DH patients, notably anti-reticulin antibodies (ARA) with reported frequencies of 5-1 8% and anti-gliadin antibodies (AGA) in about 40% of the cases. However, these antibodies occur predominantly in coeliac disease and are chiefly of IgG class: ARA have been reported in 38% of adults and in 59% of children; AGA in 40% of adults’ and over 90% of ~hi1dren.I~ Both types of antibodies are occasionally detected in diseases other than with gluten-sensitive enteropathy. ” This report sets forth the first findings on IgA class antibody reacting with endomysium IgA-EmA of smooth muscle, particularly of monkey esophagus. We have found these IgA-EmA in a significant proportion of patients with DH, coeliac disease, and other gut diseases but not in cases of LABD. We have also shown that both IgA-EmA and IgG-AGA can be detected on monkey esophagus in the same serum sample by the indirect IF test.
The crystal structure of taramellite

The crystal structure of taramellite has been redetermined on the basis of new chemical analyses which revealed the presence of boron and chlorine. The X-ray di-ffraction data were measured with a single-crystal automatic di-ffractometer. The electron density maps computed using the new structure factors and the coordinates of the previous structure allowed location of the atoms of boron, chlorine, and oxygen which had been overlooked. The coordinates of all the atoms were refned anisotropically: the final conventional R factor was 0.028 for taramellite from Rush Creek, Califomia and 0.033 for taramellite from the type locality of Candoglia, Italy. The main structural feature of taramellite is a borosilicate radical (B2Si8O27)t6-, which is formed by two rings of four Si tetrahedra connected by a B2O7 group sharing two oxygen atoms with each ring. Chlorine atoms occur, with incomplete occupancy, between adjacent borosilicate groups. The chemical formula derived from the new analytical and structural data is: BaoMeo(BrSirOr? )O2Cl" where 0 s x < l. In the Rush Creek sample the principal octahedral Me cation is Tio*, in the Candoglia sample Fe3*.