Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improving the Nutritional Values of Cassava Pulp Through Supplementation of Selected Leaves Meal and Fermentation with Chrysonilia Crassa

This study evaluated the impact of fermentation with Chrysonilia crassa on nutritional composition and antioxidative activity of the mixture of cassava pulp and selected leaves meal. Cassava pulp (60 g) was mixed thoroughly with 35 g leaves meal of either cassava, M. Oleifera, or L. leucocephala, and inoculated with Chrysonilia crassa starter (5 g). The mixture was aerobically incubated for 3 days at room temperature and analyzed for the proximate composition, gross energy, true protein, antioxidant activity, and amino acid content. The fermented products showed higher crude protein, ether extract, ash, and gross energy but lower fibre content than unfermented cassava pulp. Both leaves meal supplementation and fermentation increased the true protein content of cassava pulp. Superior antioxidant activities and higher amino acids were observed in the fermented products than raw cassava pulp. In conclusion, supplementation of leaves meal in conjunction with Chrysonilia crassa-fermentation improved the nutritional values and antioxidant potential of cassava pulp.
Correction of a brow ridge deformity in a comminuted depressed skull fracture using a multiple-layered pericranial flap: the Persian carpet method

Frontal sinus fractures are common traumatic head and neck injuries that account for 8% of facial fractures [1]. Although there is no consensus regarding the ideal method of managing frontal sinus fractures, generally accepted indications for open reduction include a depressed anterior wall fracture, a displaced posterior wall fracture, or a nasofrontal duct injury [2]. Herein, we describe the treatment of a patient with a combined comminuted depressed skull fracture (FCCD) and naso-ethmoid-orbital (NEO) fracture that required open reduction. Since every component of the nasofrontal angle had been violated, accurate reduction based on adjacent bony landmarks was challenging, and a certain degree of postoperative deformity was anticipated. The authors devised a method for reconstructing the frontal bone and correcting the contour deformity using a pericranial flap.
NDT_A_306242 1725..1732

1Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jiamusi University, Jiamusi, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yichang Central People’s Hospital, The First College of Clinical Medical Science, Three Gorges University, Hubei, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China; 4Key Laboratory of Psychoseomadsy, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Town Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China; 6Mudanjiang Medical College, Mudanjiang, People’s Republic of China
Relationship Among the Tendency to Cyber-Aggression, Aggressiveness, and Empathy in Adolescence

Introduction. This study aims to examine the relationship among the tendency to various forms of cyber-aggression, aggressiveness, and empathy in adolescence. Cyber-aggression is understood as the deliberate infliction of harm on other Internet users. The forms of cyber-aggression are distinguished on the basis of a typological model of cyber-aggression proposed by K. Runions, which was first used to analyze the online behavior of Russian adolescents. Methods. The study involved 196 adolescents aged between 12 and 15 years. Empirical data were collected using the Cyber-Aggression Typology Questionnaire modified for Russian-speaking respondents, the Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire modified by S. N. Enikolopov, and the Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale by Mehrabian (modified by N. Epstein). Results. There was no relationship among the tendency to cyber-aggression, aggressiveness, and empathy, which would be universal throughout the entire adolescence. The tendency to cyber-aggression significantly correlates with aggressiveness after 14 years of age and with empathy after 15 years of age. Aggressiveness is not a significant predictor of adolescent cyberaggression; empathy determines the tendency to cyber-aggression (with a negative sign) only among 15-year-old adolescents. Discussion. We assumed that cyber-aggression has different psychological meanings at various stages of adolescence – cyber-aggression as a form of ‘social tests’ in early adolescence, which is not related to personality traits of an individual, and cyber-aggression as a manifestation of stable personality traits (primarily, lack of empathy) in late adolescence. Conclusion. We can draw a conclusion that there is a need for a differentiated approach to prevention and correction of adolescent cyber-aggression that takes into account its psychological meanings at various stages of adolescence.
The Perception of Green Facades and its Effects on Public Spaces’ Users

This article addresses people’s perceptions and evaluations of green facades in public settings across nineteen evaluation scales. It uses exploratory methods to investigate people’s personal constructs when evaluating green facades and uses statistical models to test two factors – design and plant color – addressing those personal constructs. Through immersive virtual environments, it explores whether people see green facades as an improvement to public spaces. The study measures the effects of different facade designs and plant colors on the perception of the facade itself and the public spaces in which they are placed. The effects of users’ stated predisposition towards green facades and the effects of sex are also tested. A compound evaluation grid structure of nineteen participants is provided. The results presented may aid urban designers in improving green facades’ design and implementation.
Comparing Internal Views of Performance: ASC 280 Segment Earnings and Non-GAAP Earnings

Accounting standard setters assume that investors benefit from the disclosure of financial information used by firms for internal decision making (“internal views”) and standard setters propose expanding the use of internal views in segment reporting. However, prior research provides little insight regarding the characteristics of different internal views that make them useful for investors. We compare two internal views of performance, segment profit/loss determined by ASC 280’s Management Approach and non-GAAP earnings, to provide insight regarding the benefits and limitations of internal views. Using a sample of firms’ segment profit/loss and non-GAAP earnings from 2003-2018, we find that the two internal views are usually different. Both earnings measures are more decision useful than GAAP net income; however, non-GAAP earnings is more useful than segment earnings. Additional analyses, including an experiment and hand-collected non-GAAP segment earnings, indicate that the purpose of the Management Approach yields earnings measures focused on controllability, rather than persistence, which impairs the usefulness of segment earnings for investors.
Design and implementation of bi-directional converter with internet of things control based reading

In this paper, a new technique to monitor and control bidirectional DC-DC converter was designed and implemented precisely. A prototype of a complete system is verified with efficient communication capabilities. This system is realized by integrating the internet of things (IoT) operating system and the bidirectional DC-DC converter. The IoT communication facilities further develop and extend the platform for this system. The DC-DC converter with the soft switching technique will then convert the battery voltage to a high voltage of 380V inverter bus in emergencies via boost converter mode. High-frequency toroidal transformer has been used for power level shifting and isolation between the primary and secondary sides of the transformer. The closed-loop control scheme is implemented in software by using a high-performance 32-bit STM32 micro controller. IoT technique is used to find current, voltage and perform the communication smoothly through Wi-Fi sensors to complete the design of the system. The results of the proposed system prove the effectiveness of the proposed system with high-performance specifications.
Role of high sensitive c-reactive protein and serum uric acid in coronary artery diseases: a case control study

Background: Coronary artery diseases (CAD) are considered to be the major public health concerns throughout the world, including India. Despite significant improvement in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention, CAD remains the most common, acute, and chronic illness, which is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. Methods: To estimate the serum uric acid and hs-CRP levels in coronary artery disease cases with diabetes mellitus and hypertension and compare with the healthy individuals. Results: The mean serum uric acid levels were raised in cases (6.1±1.54 mg/dl) compared to the controls (5.16±1.007 mg/dl) which was significant statistically (p<0.008). The mean hs-CRP levels were raised in cases (7.1±8.122 mg/dl) compared to the controls (0.185±0.254 mg/dl) which was highly significant statistically. Conclusions: Measurement of the levels of hs-CRP and serum uric acid in CAD might help in identifying the patient at increased risk of mortality.
Transcriptome comparison of physiological divergence between two ecotypes of Portulaca oleracea

Drought caused by global climate change and population growth has been one of the main factors restricting plant growth and development. Drought is mainly the lack of water in the soil provided to plants and it can have adverse effects on the metabolism of plants. However, plants can adapt to the drought stress mainly through three adaptive strategies: morphology (reduction of leaf area, leaf shape, wax content, efficient rooting system, stability of yield and branch number), physiology (regulation of transpiration, water use efficiency, stomatal activity, and osmotic adjustment), and biochemical reactions (accumulation of proline, polyamines, trehalose, increase of nitrate reductase activity, and storage of saccharides) (Haworth et al. 2013, Ammar et al. 2014, Conesa et al. 2016). In response to water stress, abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation is one of the key adaptive mechanisms (Pennisi 2017, Phillips and Sussman 2019). The rapid development of molecular biology in recent years has promoted research on the regulation mechanisms of plant responses to the environment at
Methods of Analysis of Riboflavin (Vitamin B2): A Review

Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is a component of vitamin B complex and multivitamin preparations. It exhibits several physical properties, such as light absorption, florescence emission and electroreduction. These properties have been used to develop spectrometric, fluorimetirc, electrochemical, chromatographic and electrophoretic methods for the assay of riboflavin in pharmaceutical preparations and clinical samples. In addition to these enzymatic and microbiological methods have also been used for the assay of the vitamin. The fluorimetric methods are much more sensitive than the spectrometric methods. Chromatographic methods have the advantage of separation and simultaneous determination of riboflavin and other components of vitamin preparations. All the above mentioned methods have been reviewed.
Effectiveness Comparison of Using Macintosh Blade and Mccoy Blade For Endotracheal Intubation In Anesthesia Residents

Introduction: Laryngoscopy is one of the critical points in the intubation process and a mechanical trauma that provides noxious stimulation, affecting cardiovascular, respiratory, and intracranial changes. Practitioner competence is a significant factor that supports laryngoscope intubation procedures. That can influence the intubation duration and amount of mechanical trauma besides caused by laryngoscope type. Objective: To analyze the effectiveness of using Macintosh blade compared to McCoy blade in intubation laryngoscopy by Anesthesia Residents. Materials and Methods: This research is an experimental study in adult patients who underwent elective surgery at GBPT Dr. Soetomo Hospital. Intubation did by Anesthesia Residents at levels 5-9 using Macintosh or McCoy Laryngoscope and chosen randomly. The data of laryngeal visualization (Cormack Lehane), hemodynamics (blood pressure, pulse), pain scale (qNOX), intubation time length, and pain scale data (VAS) after extubation were taken during intubation laryngoscope. Result and Discussion: The study was conducted on 28 samples that met the criteria. Anesthesia Resident's competence levels based on the semester in both groups laryngoscopes were not different (p 0.868). Based on laryngeal visualization data laryngoscopy, the McCoy's blade had better visualization with CL 1 at 85.7% of the samples and p-value 0.020. This good visualization makes it possible to speed up the laryngoscope-intubation in the McCoy blade group with a significant difference of time compared to the Macintosh blade group. Hemodynamic parameters, there were significant differences for hemodynamics increase. In the Macintosh blade group, the blood pressure and pulse were significantly increased after laryngoscopy intubation. The pain scale during the intubation procedure, which was rated based on the qNOx score, showed a significant increase in the Macintosh blade group with a p-value of 0.003. The postoperative pain scale (VAS) was smaller in the McCoy blade group compared to the Macintosh group (p-value <0.001). Conclusion: The ability to use both laryngoscopes at some levels of Anesthesia residents was equally good, and the use of McCoy Blade is more effective than Macintosh Blade in the intubation laryngoscopy procedure.
Level of Roselle Flour (Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn) on the Quality of Pork Jerky

The purpose of this research to determine the level on the quality of pork jerky (aroma, texture and TPC). The research design used was a complete random design (CRD) with 4 treatments and 3 replications, and continued with MannWhitney test. The sensoric data used hedonik test according to Kruskal-Wallis method. The treatment consisted of R0 = without roselle flour, R1 = roselle flour 5g, R2 = roselle flour 10g and R3 = roselle flour 15g. The results showed that the addition of roselle flour 5g, 10g and 15g gave a significant difference (P <0.05) to the aroma and TPC values while the texture had no significant effect (P>0,05). But the best texture value is at the level of 10g roselle flour. Conclusion, The level of roselle flour influences the value of the aroma of jerky and can reduce the total bacterial growth in the pork jerky. The best activity level of 15g roselle flour can reduce the lowest total bacterial colony.
Multimodal Neural Machine Translation System for English to Bengali

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) systems utilize additional information from other modalities beyond text to improve the quality of machine translation (MT). The additional modality is typically in the form of images. Despite proven advantages, it is indeed difficult to develop an MMT system for various languages primarily due to the lack of a suitable multimodal dataset. In this work, we develop an MMT for English-> Bengali using a recently published Bengali Visual Genome (BVG) dataset that contains images with associated bilingual textual descriptions. Through a comparative study of the developed MMT system vis-a-vis a Text-to-text translation, we demonstrate that the use of multimodal data not only improves the translation performance improvement in BLEU score of +1.3 on the development set, +3.9 on the evaluation test, and +0.9 on the challenge test set but also helps to resolve ambiguities in the pure text description. As per best of our knowledge, our English-Bengali MMT system is the first attempt in this direction, and thus, can act as a baseline for the subsequent research in MMT for low resource languages.
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF BLOOD FLOW IN ANEURYSMS USING A TWO-PHASE MODEL

Computational fluid dynamics is utilized to understand the hemodynamics of aneurysms. In this study, two-phase blood flow was numerically simulated by a discrete phase model using the Lagrangian approach, with the blood cells representing the particulate phase and the plasma representing the continuous phase. Three patient-specific aneurysm geometries, namely, two saccular aneurysms located in the bifurcation of the basilar artery and one fusiform aneurysm located at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery and of the external carotid artery, were investigated. Wall shear stress (WSS), oscillatory shear index (OSI), and relative residence time (RRT) were determined from the simulation. The two-phase blood flow simulation revealed a high WSS (>3.0 Pa), a high OSI (>0.2), and a long RRT (>8) in the mediumand giant-sized saccular aneurysms. By contrast, a low OSI, a low WSS, and a short RRT were observed at the aneurysm dome of the fusiform aneurysm. However, at the bifurcation point, a high WSS and a long RRT with low oscillation were observed.
The bacterial symbionts Wolbachia, Cardinium and Spiroplasma affect gene expression and survival of their spider mite host and impact distinct induced responses in plants

Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva. nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible.
Slavery Discourse in Brazil: the case of Banco do Brasil (1885-1902)

Objective: The article aims to study the slavery discourse in Brazil at the end of the 19th century through the financial statements and annual reports of Banco do Brasil between 1885 and 1902. Method and approach: Specifically, we carry out a critical analysis of the discourse of Banco do Brasil's financial statements and annual reports between 1885 and 1902 using concepts from Karl Marx's political theory: reification, commoditization and dehumanization. Main results: We argue that the ideology practiced in relation to the slave shows the superstructure necessary for the structure. We suggest that the discourse employed reified the slave, considering it as a thing, commoditizing the slave, including its exchange value, as an asset, as a guarantee, depriving it of all forms of human dignity (dehumanization). Contributions: By studying accounting with a critical purpose, we can contribute to other uses of our discipline, such the employed discourse and its dialectics in accounting practice. Therefore, the discourse is justified and makes slavery part of the national ruling class's conception of the world, which must permeate throughout society. Originality/relevance: This paper contributes to the understanding of how accounting, including its discourse and concepts can be used by the ruling class to justify racism and slavery in Brazil.
NSS_A_265946 783..790

1Department of Rehabilitation, Zhongshan City People’s Hospital, Zhongshan 528403, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Zhongshan City People’s Hospital, Zhongshan 528403, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Neurology, Zhongshan City People’s Hospital, Zhongshan 528403, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China; 4Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310006, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China
Comparative study of conventional Pap smear and liquid based cytology as a screening method for cervical cancer

Background: Pap smear is the conventional screening procedure for cervical cancer. Liquid based cytology has been developed as a cost effective alternative as it has a short screening time, better morphology and clean background while also providing residual material to test for HPV DNA. Therefore this study is undertaken to know the role of Liquid-based cytology in evaluating pre-malignant and malignant lesions of cervix. Objectives of current study were to study the distribution of various cervical lesions on liquid-based cytology and compare them with conventional Pap smears. To know the role of liquid-based cytology in evaluating pre-malignant and malignant lesions of cervixMethods: This study included 200 women attending to gynaecology OPD and the samples were taken for both conventional cytology and liquid based cytology. The smears were studied in detail and were interpreted as per The Bethesda system 2014 of reporting pap smears and results are recorded and compared.Results: The commonest cervical lesions on pap smears by liquid-based cytology are NILM-reactive changes (N=92, 46%), NILM Candida infection is seen in 9 cases (4.5%) and trichomonas vaginalis infection in 5 cases (2.5%). Unsatisfactory smears on LBC is less when compared to conventional smears as the coefficient of correlation is significant with p value of 0.000422 (<0.05). The number of cases with a diagnosis of ASCUS is reported more in liquid-based cytology (9 cases) when compared to conventional Pap (8 cases). The number of cases with diagnosis of HSIL, SCC is reported more in liquid based cytology (7 cases) when compared to conventional Pap (4 cases). Epithelial cell abnormality were easily diagnosed on LBC smears with significant p value of 0.002414 (<0.05). Conclusions: Liquid-based cytology has advantages of fewer unsatisfactory smears and better detection of epithelial cell abnormalities when compared to conventional Pap smears. LBC is better for the screening of premalignant and malignant lesions of cervix even though it is costly.