cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eine Diskursanalyse von populistischer Rhetorik in Albanien und Österreich : Inhalte und Methoden
Creators: name: Lohja, Bora
Publisher: name: Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK) : Proceedings
Year: 2011

description: Dieser Beitrag versteht sich als ein Arbeitsbericht zum Dissertationsprojekt mit dem Thema "Populistische Rhetorik in der Politik. Ein diskurslinguistischer Vergleich zwischen Albanien und Österreich." Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt in der kontrastiven Analyse von populistischer Rhetorik in Albanien und Österreich in ihrer linguistischen Struktur, den verwendeten rhetorischen und argumentativen Mitteln sowie den allgemeinen Diskursstrategien. Im Rahmen der Untersuchung wird versucht, Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der diskursiven Repräsentation populistischer Parteien bzw. ihrer Führungspersönlichkeiten zu diskutieren. Die Darstellung der Inhalte und Methoden sowie die Ausführung einiger Grundmerkmale des Populismus, wobei es von den soziopolitischen Rahmenbedingungen in den jeweiligen Ländern ausgegangen wird, sollen Ziel dieses Artikels sein.
description: Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK) : Proceedings, 12. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NLK2011 Braunschweig)
title: Bonn Oriental and Asian Studies insights
title: Issue 02 (2023)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Yakar, Sümeyra
name: Gündüz, Zuhal Yeşilyurt
name: Bogen, Cornelia
name: Lê, Ngọc Hân
Publisher: name: IOA / BIGS-OAS
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ddc:000
subject: ddc:300
subject: ddc:950

description: The first article by Cornelia Bogen explores how a media campaign by the Chinese Communist Party affected perceptions of the ir handling of COVID 19 by the local population. The article further interro gates the values that under pin the nationalism distinct to China and demonstrates how these values were manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party to evade criticism in their handling of the pandemic. In the second article by Ngọc Hân Lê we travel a short distance to Vietnam to examine a collection of material representing the Han Viet class, a social class that existed during a time in Vietnam’s history that has been little explored so far. The artifacts under scrutiny were unearthed during excavations that took place in the 1930s, when Vietnam was under Chinese occupation. The article examines the historical background in which the se expeditions , which were conducted by a Swedish took place, offering a glimpse into how colonial archaeology functioned at the time. The issue’s first essay submission by Zuhal Yesilyurt Gündüz takes us to Turkiye, where we explore the nature of gold extractivism and its impact on the human and non-human populations of the country. In addition to emphasizing its environmental impact, this essay connects the neoliberal policies of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to its endeavors for continual capital growth, which is examined through the lens of gold extractivism. Finally, this issue of the journal features Sümeyra Yakar’s book review on Islam and Muslim Resistance to Modernity in Turkey by Gökhan Bacik.
Developing role models for engineering and sustainable development : Engineers Without Borders' Global Engineering Certificate
Creators: name: Lam, Jessica W.
name: Mah, Fraser J.
name: Meikleham, Alexandra
name: Miller, Patrick B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The presence of role models within the engineering community has long been an integral component of the education and cultivation of successive generations of the profession. As the profession continues to grow and evolve, new types of role models are required to reflect the changing nature of the world within which the profession exists. One such evolution is the creation of Global Engineers, professionals who are competent in an increasingly complex and globalized society. In this paper, we explore the function of role models in creating shifts within the profession in past decades and discuss the Global Engineering Certificate being implemented by Engineers Without Borders Canada at several Canadian universities to help develop role models within the Global Engineering space.
Evaluation of total Polyphenol, Flavonoid Contents, DPPH Radical Scavenging and In Vitro Cytotoxicity of Extracts from Codonopsis lanceolata according to the Concentration of Ethanol Solvent
Creators: name: Yong, Cho
name: Hee-Ock, Boo
name: Jeong-Hun, Park
name: Hag-Hyun, Kim
name: Soo-Jeong, Kwon
name: Moon-Soon, Lee
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: This study was conducted to evaluate the total polyphenol, flavonoid, DPPH radical scavenging, and the cytotoxicity in vitro on human cancer cell line by EtOH solvent concentration from
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
title: Brain Tumor Progression Assessment Using Multiple MRI Volumes
Creators: name: Shen, Yufei
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009

description: Predicting and assessing tumor progression is important in brain tumor treatment. We attempt to use machine learning techniques to achieve consistency in assessing brain tumor progression. This thesis presents a prediction method of brain tumor progression by exploring a large MR database, which contains two patients ' complete records covering all their visits in the past two years. All ten MRI series, namely, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) , diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) , fractional anisotropy (FA), fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), max eigenvalue (MAX), mid eigenvalue (MID), min eigenvalue (MIN) , post-contrast T1-weighted, T1- weighted, and T2-weighted, were co-registered to the corresponding DTI series at the first visit. Annotated normal and tumor regions were then overlaid to other registered MRI slices at the same visit. Intensity values of each pixel inside annotated regions of interest, at each visit, were extracted across all ten imaging series and concatenated to a 10-dimensional vector. Each of those feature vectors falls into one of three categories: normal, tumor, and normal but progressed to tumor at a later time. In this preliminary study, we focused on the trend of brain tumor progression during three consecutive visits, i.e., visit A, visit B, and visit C. A machine learning algorithm consisting of a multi-layer perceptron with an adaptive learning factor and a strategy for handling unbalanced data sets was trained using the data containing information from visit A to visit B, and the trained model was used to predict tumor progression from visit A to visit C. A floating search feature selection algorithm was also used to determine which MRI series is more effective for the prediction. Preliminary results showed that prediction for brain tumor progression is feasible. An average of 78.93% pixel-wise accuracy was achieved for tumor progression prediction at visit C. It was also found that some MRI series had only limited contributions to the prediction, increasing the accuracy insignificantly. In addition, this thesis also proposed a region growing method for brain tumor segmentation in T2-weighted MR images. The proposed region growing method makes use of two adaptive thresholds, which take into account the characteristics of the entire growing region and its growing front edge. Experiment results showed its superiority to some conventional region growing methods.
Regulation of gut microbiota involved in the chemoprevention effects of Black raspberry polyphenols on colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Lili
name: Jiang, Bowen
name: Zhong, Chunge
name: Zhang, Lihao
name: Bi, Xiuli
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Frozen black raspberry powder has been regarded with interest as possible chemopreventive agents against cancer. Here we report that black raspberry (BRB) polyphenols administered with the diet to C57BL/6J mice for 12 weeks inhibited colon carcinogenesis induced by AOM/DSS. Polyphenol-treated animals had a consistently lower tumor multiplicies compared to controls. In AOM/DSS induced mice, the main bacterial strains in the faeces at sacrifice were pathogenic bacterium including Haemophilus, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica, whereas the microorganisms predominantly identified after the period of black raspberry polyphenols supplement mice were Butyrate producing bacteria. Inflammatory cytokines including IL-1, IL-6, IL-10, COX-2 and TNF-α were found significantly reduced in BRB polyphenols supplemented group mice. The most interesting finding is the epigenetic status was found could be modulated by the polyphenols, the enzymes SIRTs and DNMTs associated with acetylation and methylation were decreased significantly. Furthermore, the level of p-STAT3, β-catenin and their downstream targets were obviously down-regulated at protein levels by BRB polyphenols.
In conclusion, modulation of gut microbiota, reduction of inflammatory cytokines, and alterations of epigenetic status and the followed genes expression may all concur in the modulation of intestinal function and carcinogenesis by BRB polyphenols.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
Automatic Spoken Language Identification using a Time-Delay Neural Network
Creators: name: Kepecs, Benjamin
name: Beigi, Homayoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Closed-set spoken language identification is the task of recognizing the language being spoken in a recorded audio clip from a set of known languages. In this study, a language identification system was built and trained to distinguish between Arabic, Spanish, French, and Turkish based on nothing more than recorded speech. A pre-existing multilingual dataset was used to train a series of acoustic models based on the Tedlium TDNN model to perform automatic speech recognition. The system was provided with a custom multilingual language model and a specialized pronunciation lexicon with language names prepended to phones. The trained model was used to generate phone alignments to test data from all four languages, and languages were predicted based on a voting scheme choosing the most common language prepend in an utterance. Accuracy was measured by comparing predicted languages to known languages, and was determined to be very high in identifying Spanish and Arabic, and somewhat lower in identifying Turkish and French.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, Technical Report Recognition Technologies, Inc
Orbital-slective behaviour in cubanite CuFe2S3
Creators: name: Pankrushina, E. A.
name: Ushakov, A. V.
name: Abd-Elmeguid, M. M.
name: Streltsov, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using {\it ab initio} band structure calculations we show that mineral cubanite, CuFe$_2$S$_3$, demonstrates an orbital-selective behavior with some of the electrons occupying molecular orbitals of $x^2-y^2$ symmetry and others localized at atomic orbitals. This is a rare situation for $3d$ transition metal compounds explains experimentally observed absence of charge disproportionation, anomalous Mössbauer data, and ferromagnetic ordering in between nearest neighbor Fe ions.
HEAVY METAL BINDING AND beta-AMYLOID AGGREGATION INHIBITION PROPERTIES OF BLACK SESAME PIGMENT: TOWARD A NOVEL ANTI-ALZHEIMER AGENT
Creators: name: Eidenberger, Thomas
name: PANZELLA, LUCIA
name: NAPOLITANO, ALESSANDRA
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: We recently developed an improved purification procedure to obtain black sesame pigment (BSP), involving fat removal from black sesame seeds followed by an optimized hydrolytic protocol. BSP thus obtained displayed good antioxidant efficiency in several chemical assays.1 We report herein the heavy metal binding and the inhibition properties of BSP following simulated gastrointestinal digestion toward several enzymes implicated in the Alzheimer’s disease, as evaluated by chemical assays,.
 BSP at 0.05 mg/mL efficiently removed lead, cadmium and mercury at 15 microM at pH 7.0 (>65% removal for cadmium and >90% for mercury and lead).2
 More than 80% inhibition of the acetylcholinesterase–induced Ab1-40 aggregation was observed in the presence of the bioaccesible (soluble) fraction from the simulated digestion of BSP, which also efficiently inhibited self-induced Ab1-42 aggregation and b-secretase activity even after extensive dilution.
 These properties open new perspectives toward the use of BSP as a food supplement for the prevention of neurodegenerative and oxidative stress based diseases.

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description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
A multi-national, multi-disciplinary, multi-platform course on rural sustainability
Creators: name: Mayer, Alex
name: Golden, Denise M.
name: Maher, Patrick T.
name: Stroink, Mirella
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The course approach was to foster learning from multiple disciplines and cross-culturally so as to understand sustainability concepts and issues in rural communities across North America. The course learning materials and activities included web-based lectures, journal articles and other readings, and a synchronous discussion session involving students and faculty from the six participating universities in Canada, Mexico and the US. The on-line, synchronous discussion sessions were designed to involve the sharing of knowledge among the participants drawn from world experiences, both personal and educative. The primary form of student assessment consisted of weekly reflection papers based on the course content, weekly discussion and their own personal experiences.
Influence of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and ascorbic acid (AsA) on heavy metal tolerance in plants
Creators: name: Kim, Yeonok
name: Kang, Hunseung
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Heavy metals induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and damage of DNA or protein resulting in cell death and plant growth inhibition. It is important to investigate mechanism of detoxification and tolerance of heavy metals to improve plant growth under heavy metal stress. Here, we elucidated that the effect of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the major polyphenol in green tea, and ascorbic acid (AsA) on heavy metal tolerance in Arabidopsis and tobacco. Germination and seedling growth in Arabidopsis and tobacco were inhibited by Cd, Cu, Zn, Ni or Hg treatment with their concentration. Exogenous EGCG did not affect Cu tolerance but ameliorated the inhibition of seedling growth by Cd, Ni, Hg but Cu in Arabidopsis and tobacco. H2O2 and lipid peroxidation greatly increased by these metals but EGCG ameliorated them suggesting that EGCG plays a role as an antioxidant. On the other hand, AsA application remarkably enhanced the Hg-inhibited seedling growth of Arabidopsis and tobacco. When Arabidopsis seedlings were treated with AsA and Hg, higher chlorophyll and lower H2O2 were determined in comparison to Hg alone treatment. Our results suggest that EGCG and AsA could protect plant cells from heavy metal induced ROS mediated toxicity.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
ISO 15189 e le Raccomandazioni SIPMeL Q19 (versione ridotta) ---- ISO 15189 and SIPMeL Recommendations Q19 (shortened version)
Creators: name: Pradella, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: •nuova ISO 15189•fonti SIPMeL•ISO 15189 CQI•NGS CQI•ISO 15189 + 20914 MU
Sleep and navigation in Drosophila
Creators: name: Flores-Valle, Andres
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neurowissenschaften
subject: Drosophila
subject: Schlaf
subject: Navigation
subject: neuronale Schaltkreise
subject: Neuroscience
subject: sleep
subject: neural circuits
subject: ddc:570

description: Sleep plays an essential role in life and is critical for the optimal functioning of the brain, for example in learning and memory. Drosophila displays many of the signatures of sleep observed in mammals or humans, including sleep homeostasis. Sleep homeostasis tracks the accumulating need to sleep during wakefulness, thus investigating sleep homeostasis will provide insights into why sleep is necessary for optimal brain function.
 In the fly brain, a neural control circuit for sleep homeostasis has been located in the central complex, a brain region important for navigation and spatial or visual learning. Since the same brain area is involved in sleep, navigation, and learning, it provides the opportunity to investigate the connection between sleep and navigation, as well as the influence of sleep on spatial and visual learning, at the level of well characterized, genetically identified neural circuits.
 To investigate this relation between sleep, navigation, and memory, this thesis first implements theoretical and computational models, which predict autonomous activity in the head direction system of the fly during sleep. Then, methods for improved imaging in behaving flies are developed. These methods include a setup for (semi-) automated dissection of flies, feeding, and imaging over multiple days during behavior; a method for volumetric imaging at high frame rates; a method for correction of brain motion during imaging; a novel virtual reality setup for learning in head-fixed walking flies; and finally a setup for combined two-photon imaging and learning behavior.
 The developed techniques are applied for the investigation of sleep homeostasis in neurons and glia. In particular, it is found that ensheathing glia, a type of glia in the fly brain, encode sleep need through their calcium dynamics with the dynamics expected of a sleep homeostat. Additionally, the dynamics of a neural population in the central complex that is modulated by feeding are reported. Finally, a neural population that encodes the traveling direction of the fly navigating in virtual reality is investigated. This neural population is found to exhibit autonomous activity when the fly is resting or sleeping, similar to activity observed in the head direction system in mammals.
 Overall, the methods developed here have a range of potential applications in monitoring brain dynamics in flies over long timescales or during learning. By applying these methods, this thesis contributes to an understanding of sleep regulation and navigation in the central complex by clarifying the role of previously studied neurons important for sleep, by discovering a sleep homeostat in ensheathing glia, and by describing the autonomous dynamics of neurons in the head direction system during rest and sleep.
CONTENT AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PROPERTIUES OF POLYPHENOLS IN HIGH- AND LOW-TANNINS FABA BEAN SEED APPLIED IN POULTRY DIET
Creators: name: Zdunczyk, Zenon
name: Amarowicz, Ryszard
name: Juskiewicz, Jerzy
name: Mikulski, Dariusz
name: Jankowski, Jan
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Composition and physiological properties of polyphenol fractions from faba bean with low tannin content (LT), compared with high tannin FB (HT) and soybean meal (SBM) was to investigated. In comparison with HT seeds, in LT ones two times less polyphenols content, higher ABTS and DPPH and but lower FRAP values was determined. Irrespective of the FB type seeds, SBM was characterized by a lower polyphenol content and lower value of ABTS and FRAP. Both types of FB seeds were used as a substitute for SBM at three dietary levels: 10, 20 and 30% of a diet for for growing turkeys. After 8 weeks of experimental feeding, biochemical serum parameters and liver TBA were determined. Differences in the content of polyphenols and antioxidant properties of faba beans seeds had no effect on the analyzed biomarkers, except for lowering effect on blood glucose level caused by low-tannin seeds. Most observed effects, irrespective to the applied dietary dosages, were connected to the dietary substitution of SBM by Vicia faba beans, and as the whole should be regarded as positive changes.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
Improving the content of phenolic compounds during malting process of quinoa seeds
Creators: name: Galván-D'Alessandro, Leandro
name: Dimitrov, Krasimir
name: Carciochi, Ramiro
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: In this work, Chenopodium quinoa seeds were soaked and germinated at 20 ºC for 72 h in darkness and 90 % relative humidity. After germination, quinoa sprouts were kilned at 50 °C for 24 h to obtain green quinoa malt, which was subsequently roasted in a forced hot-air convection oven at 100, 145 or 190 °C for 30 min. Samples were taken during germination and roasting to evaluate the level of total phenolic compounds (TPC, Folin-Ciocalteau method) and the profile of individual phenolics acids and flavonoids by HPLC. In comparison to raw seeds, germination showed increases of 20, 57 and 101 % after 24, 48 and 72h of process for TPC levels, whereas levels of 130, 265, and 128 % were observed after roasting process at 100 ºC, 145 ºC or 190 ºC, respectively. The highest concentration of polyphenols was achieved in extracts roasted at 145 °C for 30 min, confirming this result by HPLC analysis of individual phenolic compounds. Thus, malting and a moderate roasting step could offer a good strategy to improve the phenolic content in quinoa seeds, which could be used in the formulation of gluten-free foods and beverages with functional value.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
AdapMTL: Adaptive Pruning Framework for Multitask Learning Model
Creators: name: Xiang, Mingcan
name: Tang, Steven Jiaxun
name: Yang, Qizheng
name: Guan, Hui
name: Liu, Tongping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the domain of multimedia and multimodal processing, the efficient handling of diverse data streams such as images, video, and sensor data is paramount. Model compression and multitask learning (MTL) are crucial in this field, offering the potential to address the resource-intensive demands of processing and interpreting multiple forms of media simultaneously. However, effectively compressing a multitask model presents significant challenges due to the complexities of balancing sparsity allocation and accuracy performance across multiple tasks. To tackle these challenges, we propose AdapMTL, an adaptive pruning framework for MTL models. AdapMTL leverages multiple learnable soft thresholds independently assigned to the shared backbone and the task-specific heads to capture the nuances in different components' sensitivity to pruning. During training, it co-optimizes the soft thresholds and MTL model weights to automatically determine the suitable sparsity level at each component to achieve both high task accuracy and high overall sparsity. It further incorporates an adaptive weighting mechanism that dynamically adjusts the importance of task-specific losses based on each task's robustness to pruning. We demonstrate the effectiveness of AdapMTL through comprehensive experiments on popular multitask datasets, namely NYU-v2 and Tiny-Taskonomy, with different architectures, showcasing superior performance compared to state-of-the-art pruning methods.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, Published at ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2024
In vitro protective effect of the association of wine polyphenols, vitamin E and zinc on muscle fatigue and damages induced by physical exercise
Creators: name: DE POOTER, Ambre
name: CATTUZZATO, Laetitia
name: KERN, Catherine
name: DUMONT, Sandy
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Period of intense or prolonged muscle activity can cause a decline in performance as well as muscle weakness. If the weakness is largely and quickly reversible, it is named fatigue. If the weakness is slowly or poorly reversible and associated with structural changes, it is described as muscle damages and can lead to immediate and/or delayed soreness.
 The study aimed to investigate the protective effect of the association of wine polyphenols, vitamin E and zinc on muscular fatigue and damages on human skeletal muscle cells (HSMC) challenged with A23187 calcium ionophore, mimicking a physical exercise (patent application filed). Fatigue and damages were monitored by quantifying release of lactate and IL-6, and activity of creatine kinase.
 A23187 significantly increased the release of lactate and IL-6 and decreased the intracellular activity of creatine kinase in HSMC. The association of wine polyphenols, vitamin E and zinc was able to significantly protect the cells against the effects of A23187, in a higher way than the ingredients alone.
 The study demonstrated the ability of the association of wine polyphenols, vitamin E and zinc to protect muscles against fatigue and damages. Consequently it could contribute to the optimization of performance and recovery during physical exercise.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
FORMULATION OF GLUTEN FREE BREAD FRIENDLY FOR DIABETICS
Creators: name: Guglielmetti, Alessandro
name: Zeppa, Giuseppe
name: Del Castillo, Maria Dolores
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: To reduce the glycaemic index of gluten free foods maintaining their nutritional and sensory characteristics is nowadays a scientific challenge and the aim of the present investigation. To achieve the goal the formulation of a commercial gluten-free pre-mix was improved by adding as novel ingredients concentrated rice protein, inulin and  robusta coffee silverskin extract (RCSE) (del Castillo M. D. et al., 2013) enriched in phytochemicals presenting antioxidant and antidiabetic properties (del Castillo M. D. et al., 2014;  Fernandez-Gomez B. et al., 2016; Mesías M. et al., 2014). Breads were prepared following the instructions of the manufacture of the pre-mix in presence and absence of RCSE (controls) in an automatic bread maker. The bread characterization was performed by analysis of protein, total carbohydrates, sugars, total phenolic compounds, overall antioxidant capacity, activity of alfa-glucosidase and sensory analysis. A novel bread source of protein, high content of dietary fibre, enriched in antioxidants (2.23 mg eq. CGA/g of bread) and inhibitors of alfa-glucosidase (IC50 27 mg/mL) as well as with acceptable sensory quality was obtained. In conclusion, a novel food friendly for celiac and diabetics has been developed.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
IMPACT OF A BLACKBERRY EXTRACT AND SINGLE ANTHOCYANINS ON THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE OF HUMAN MACROPHAGE THP-1 CELLS
Creators: name: Cenk, Ebru
name: Pahlke, Gudrun
name: Oertel, Anne
name: Martens, Stefan
name: Matros, Andrea
name: Mock, Hans-Peter
name: Marko, Doris
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: A diet rich in anthocyanins is considered to be beneficial for health. Thus, investigations on anthocyanin-rich extracts and single constituents are of great interest.
 We investigated a blackberry extract, containing a spectrum of anthocyanins, in comparison to two sub-fractions comprising cyanidin-3-(6''-dioxalylglucoside and cyanidin-3-(malonylglucoside), respectively, regarding their impact on inflammation-related cytokine expression and secretion in human macrophages.
 Relative gene transcription and secretion of IL-6 and TNF-alpha were measured using quantitative real time PCR and human cytokine bead-based multiplex immunoassay, respectively.
Human THP-1 monocytes were differentiated with phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate into macrophages which were pre-incubated with physiologically relevant concentrations of blackberry extract or single compounds. Subsequent stimulation with lipopolysaccharides from E.coli induced gene transcription and cytokine release mimicking the inflammatory response. Cyanidin-3-(malonylglucoside) had no impact on LPS-induced IL6 and TNF-alpha expression. In contrast, the blackberry extract and cyanidin-3-(6''-dioxalylglucoside) caused further stimulatory effects for the transcription and secretion of IL-6 at higher concentrations ≥0.05 µg/ml. The secretion of TNF-alpha was increased as well by both, yet with no impact on the transcript level after 3 h of incubation.
 The results clearly show that single as well as combinatory effects might be of relevance for the immune-stimulatory impact of the blackberry extract.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
OPTIMIZATION OF ULTRASOUND ASSISTED EXTRACTION OF HESPERIDIN FROM ORANGE PEEL
Creators: name: Montero-Calderón, Abigail
name: Carbonell Capella, Juana M
name: Frigola, Ana
name: Esteve, Maria J
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Genus Citrus contain high levels of polyphenols widely known for having antioxidant properties; their presence can be greater in citrus peel than in fruit pulp. The main flavonoid in orange peel is hesperidin. On the other hand, conventional extraction of phytochemical compounds using organic solvents produces high pollution, which is why 'green' extraction techniques are required (1). The aim of this investigation was identify the optimal conditions to extract hesperidin from orange (Citrus sinensis) peel using ultrasounds and environmentally friendly solvents. A comparative analysis was carried out employing response surface methodology for the following variables: power, time and ethanol percentage in water. Orange peel was cut in squares of side 0.6 cm and ultrasound treated (Qsonica), citrus peel extracts were passed through a Sep-Pak® cartridge (Phenomenex) and then analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography into Agilent 1120 system LC (Agilent-Technologies); the chromatographic peak was compared with standard hesperidin (Sigma-Aldrich). The optimum extraction conditions were as follows: power 400 W, extraction time 18.95 min and ethanol 22.8% in water; the maximum concentration of hesperidin was 113.02 mg/100 g. In conclusion, the results evidence that ultrasound-assisted extraction is an effective and non-conventional technology suitable for citrus waste valorizatio.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 4 (2016)
Making environmental impact assessment as an integral part of project objectives for sustainable development in construction project implementation
Creators: name: Keftin, Namala A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a management mechanism used to predict the effects of actions on the environment with a view to providing mitigation measures and determining whether a development action should go ahead. The United Nations Environmental Protection (UNEP) set the baseline for countries to adopt EIA as a tool for environmental and project sustainability. Most countries adopted and enacted the law in their peculiar forms. However, the effective implementation as the case of Nigeria, with specific reference to the infrastructure sector leaves a lot to be done. The objective of the paper is to demystify and establish the justification for the integration of EIA with building construction project process to secure the environment from threats of construction impacts. A survey of some companies in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and two other states to determine whether institutional framework for the implementation of EIA existed was made. It was found out that of the nine (9) organizations contacted, only one (1) had EIA Department, buttressing the fact that no institutional framework for implementation is in place. Furthermore, data for a period of 10 years of registered and approved EIA projects was obtained from the Department of Environment (DOE), Federal Ministry of Environment (FME), Abuja. The data from 1995-2005 shows that a total of 479 EIA projects were registered and 275 were approved in the period. The housing and urban development sub-sector could only account for two (2), raising an alarm that need to be addressed.
IХ-ХХ ASR BОSHLARIDA TARIХIY SHAHAR MARKAZLARINING ARХITEKTURAVIY RIVОJLANISHI
Creators: name: Sotvoldiyev, Azamatjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ХХ asr bоshlaridagi vilоyatning arхiv ma’lumоtlarida shaharda ХVIII-ХХ asr оralig‘ida bunyоd etilgan 50 dan оshiq madrasa, 250 dan оrtiq masjid, kо‘plab minоralar, хоnaqоlar va 20 dan kо‘p me’mоriy inshооtlar bо‘lganligi qayd qilingan. ХIХ asrda fоtоsuratlarga muhrlangan Ismоil Maхsum, Matkarimbek, Yоr оtaliq, Qоzi kalоn, Iskandar pоshsha, Said Ahmad hоji, Shоh Mansur nоmlari bilan atalgan оbidalar ana shu tariхiy yоdgоrliklarning bir qismi  hisоblanadi.
Density functional study of atoms spatially confined inside a hard sphere
Creators: name: Majumdar, Sangita
name: Roy, Amlan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An atom placed inside a cavity of finite dimension offers many interesting features, and thus has been a topic of great current activity. This work proposes a density functional approach to pursue both ground and excited states of a multi-electron atom under a spherically impenetrable enclosure. The radial Kohn-Sham (KS) equation has been solved by invoking a physically motivated work-function-based exchange potential, which offers near-Hartree-Fock-quality results. Accurate numerical eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are obtained through a generalized pseudospectral method (GPS) fulfilling the Dirichlet boundary condition. Two correlation functionals, \emph{viz.,} (i) simple, parametrized local Wigner-type, and (ii) gradient- and Laplacian-dependent non-local Lee-Yang-Parr (LYP) functionals are adopted to analyze the electron correlation effects. Preliminary exploratory results are offered for ground states of He-isoelectronic series ($Z=2-4$), as well as Li and Be atom. Several low-lying singly excited states of He atom are also reported. These are compared with available literature results -- which offers excellent agreement. Radial densities as well as expectation values are also provided. The performance of correlation energy functionals are discussed critically. In essence, this presents a simple, accurate scheme for studying atomic systems inside a \emph{hard} spherical box within the rubric of KS density functional theory.
description: 30 pages, 7 tables, 7 figures
Building spectral templates and reconstructing parameters for core collapse supernovae with CASTOR
Creators: name: Simongini, Andrea
name: Ragosta, Fabio
name: Piranomonte, Silvia
name: Di Palma, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The future of time-domain optical astronomy relies on the development of techniques and software capable of handling a rising amount of data and gradually complementing, or replacing if necessary, real observations. Next generation surveys, like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), will open the door to the new era of optical astrophysics, creating, at the same time, a deficiency in spectroscopic data necessary to confirm the nature of each event and to fully recover the parametric space. In this framework, we developed Core collApse Supernovae parameTers estimatOR (CASTOR), a novel software for data analysis. CASTOR combines Gaussian Process and other Machine Learning techniques to build time-series templates of synthetic spectra and to estimate parameters of core collapse supernovae for which only multi-band photometry is available. Techniques to build templates are fully data driven and non-parametric through empirical and robust models, and rely on the direct comparison with a training set of 111 core collapse supernovae from the literature. Furthermore, CASTOR employees the real photometric data and the reconstructed synthetic spectra of an event to estimate parameters that belong to the supernova ejecta, to the stellar progenitor and to the event itself, in a rapid and user-friendly framework. In this work we provide a demonstration of how CASTOR works, studying available data from SN2015ap and comparing our results with those available in literature.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Ro-vibrational energy and thermodynamic properties of molecules subjected to Deng-Fan potential through an improved approximation
Creators: name: Nath, Debraj
name: Roy, Amlan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate solution of the Schrödinger equation with Deng-Fan potential is presented by means of Nikiforov-Uvarov method. A modified Pekeris-type approximation is proposed for the centrifugal term, from a linear combination of the $r \to 0$ and $r \to r_e$ limits. It can potentially offer a series of approximations (depending on an adjustable parameter $λ$). The existing approximations in the literature can then be recovered in certain special cases. Its efficiency and feasibility is demonstrated by a critical comparison of eigenvalues produced at various $λ$'s for four molecules, \emph{viz.}, H$_2$, LiH, HCl and CO. Analytical expressions are derived for energies, eigenfunctions and the thermodynamic properties such as vibrational mean free energy, vibrational free energy, vibrational entropy and vibrational specific heat. The effect of quantum correction on partition function and thermodynamic properties is discussed by including the correction up to 10th-order, for H$_2$ and LiH. The effect of $λ$ parameter on these properties is also studied.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
MIT Ideas Global Challenge and D-Lab lessons in mentoring, transdisciplinarity and real world engineering
Creators: name: Murcott, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper reflects on the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge and D-Lab pedagogy over the past 15 years (2001-2015). The MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, a program of the MIT Public Service Center, is an annual invention and entrepreneurship competition that awards up to $10,000 per team for innovative service projects. IDEAS student teams work with a community partner on projects that are designed to improve the quality of life of underserved communities globally. Since its founding in 2001, the IDEAS Competition has awarded more than $600,000 to 132 teams. “D-Lab – Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Innovations for the Common Good” (“D-Lab-WASH”) is a MIT course offered for the past 10 years within a curriculum of over 20 D-Lab classes in international development. This author has mentored several hundred student teams, including 26 IDEAS Global Challenge winning teams. Eighty-one percent of these IDEAS winning teams have been led by women students. In common with the wider family of D-Lab courses, D-Lab-WASH is structured around hands-on, field-based learning and real-world engineering. This paper provides several success stories of student teams that have implemented their innovations and addresses the following Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD) conference themes: • Reconceptualizing Engineering Education: How are these two engineering programs, IDEAS and D-Lab, reconceptualizing engineering education to incorporate sustainability? What role does trans-disciplinarity, leadership, and humanitarianism play? What is best practice? • “Walking the Talk”: How do we monitor and continually improve IDEAS and D-Lab? What are the institutional supports and challenges?
Feasibility of studying astrophysically important charged-particle emission with the variable energy $γ$-ray system at the Extreme Light Infrastructure -- Nuclear Physics facility
Creators: name: Lan, H. Y.
name: Luo, W.
name: Xu, Y.
name: Balabanski, D. L.
name: Guardo, G. L.
name: La Cognata, M.
name: Lattuada, D.
name: Matei, C.
name: Pizzone, R. G.
name: Rauscher, T.
name: Zhou, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the environment of a hot plasma, as achieved in stellar explosions, capture and photodisintegration reactions proceeding on excited states in the nucleus can considerably contribute to the astrophysical reaction rate. Such reaction rates including the excited-state contribution are obtained from theoretical calculations as the direct experimental determination of these astrophysical rates is currently unfeasible. In the present study, ($γ$,p) and ($γ$,$α$) reactions in the mass and energy range relevant to the astrophysical $p$ process are considered and the feasibility of measuring them with the ELISSA detector system at the future Variable Energy $γ$-ray (VEGA) facility at ELI-NP is investigated. The simulation results reveal that, for the ($γ$,p) reaction on twelve targets of $^{29}$Si, $^{56}$Fe, $^{74}$Se, $^{84}$Sr, $^{91}$Zr, $^{96,98}$Ru, $^{102}$Pd, $^{106}$Cd, and $^{115, 117, 119}$Sn, and the ($γ$,$α$) reaction on five targets of $^{50}$V, $^{87}$Sr, $^{123,125}$Te, and $^{149}$Sm, the yields of the reaction channels with the transitions to the excited states in the residual nucleus are relevant and even dominant. It is further found that for each considered reaction, the total yields of the charged-particle $X$ may be dominantly contributed from one, two or three ($γ$,$X_{i}$) channels within a specific, narrow energy range of the incident $γ$-beam. Furthermore, the energy spectra of the ($γ$,$X_{i}$) channels with $0\leq i\leq 10$ are simulated for each considered reaction, with the incident $γ$-beam energies in the respective energy range as derived before. It becomes evident that measurements of the photon-induced reactions with charged-particle emissions considered in this work are feasible with the VEGA+ELISSA system and will provide knowledge useful for nuclear astrophysics.
description: 11 figures, 17 pages
Supplementary document for Specific refraction-index increments of oxygenated hemoglobin from thalassemia-minor patients are not significantly different than those from healthy individuals - 6092684.pdf
Creators: name: Shin-shyang, Huang
name: Lin, Yang-Hsien
name: Wu, Shang-Ju
name: Sung, Kung-Bin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Measured refractive index of PDMS and thickness of microfluidic channels
Evaluation of materials impact on sustainability for buildings
Creators: name: Orozco, Javier
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The use of materials in architecture is lacking a systematic approach allowing the adequate comparison of performance from well established criteria and international standards. This situation is critically complex when the evaluation is developed at a design stage. Sustainability of materials in architecture requires a thorough analysis on the concepts of the ecology of contemporary construction, and the relevance for the final user. This effort involves identifying standards, databases and user profiles for defining requirement attributes of our existing anthropogenic stock of buildings while formulating design strategies that contribute to reuse and recycling of building materials and components. After considering all relevant information a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach is introduced for the correct evaluation of materials in the sustainable building. This paper provides an academic guide for a systematic approach to this evaluation. Materials are compared and ranked from the building systems perspective, through the previously defined LCA approach. The impact of hybrid materials is also explored as an alternative strategy for the architectural use of materials today. At the final stage the relevance of materials in the overall evaluation is performed through commercial software solutions and incorporated to the design. Life cycle engineering design (LCED) is the key and comprehensive procedure to realize manufacturing industries sustainable development. This paper puts forward knowledge management architecture of LCED based ontologies and multi-agent system. Relevant conclusions are identified for the design and use of new materials in architectural design which are implemented into relevant courses at UPV.
PROPOSING EFFICIENT WAYS TO PLAN THE USAGE OF TRAIN LOCOMOTIVES
Creators: name: Masharipov Masud Numondjonovich, Umirzaqov Davlatjon Dolimjon o'g'li, Ozodboyeva Zebo Zohidjon qizi, Asatullayeva Nozima Akromjon qizi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Annotation: The main factor influencing the choice of a rational type of train locomotives is the consumption of fuel and energy resources. At the same time, the parameters of cars and transported goods have a significant impact on the value of consumed fuel and energy resources on train traction. The article proposes innovative ways of using locomotives and the way of planning. Based on this distinctive analysis and tables are proposed.

Key words: locomotives, operation, railway sections, scientific work, train
BP-MAC: Fast Authentication for Short Messages
Creators: name: Wagner, Eric
name: Serror, Martin
name: Wehrle, Klaus
name: Henze, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Resource-constrained devices increasingly rely on wireless communication for the reliable and low-latency transmission of short messages. However, especially the implementation of adequate integrity protection of time-critical messages places a significant burden on these devices. We address this issue by proposing BP-MAC, a fast and memory-efficient approach for computing message authentication codes based on the well-established Carter-Wegman construction. Our key idea is to offload resource-intensive computations to idle phases and thus save valuable time in latency-critical phases, i.e., when new data awaits processing. Therefore, BP-MAC leverages a universal hash function designed for the bitwise preprocessing of integrity protection to later only require a few XOR operations during the latency-critical phase. Our evaluation on embedded hardware shows that BP-MAC outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of latency and memory overhead, notably for small messages, as required to adequately protect resource-constrained devices with stringent security and latency requirements.
description: ACM WiSec'22