nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Body weight, haematological indices and intestinal morphometric of broilers provided with diets containing formic acid, butyric acid or their blends
Year: 2020

The study investigated the influence of dietary incorporation of formic acid, butyric acid or their blends on growth rate, haematological indices and intestinal morphometric of broilers. A number of 240 Lohmann MB 202 chicks were pass rounded to four dietary groups, including CONT (chicks taking in basal feed with no additive) BTRT (chicks receiving basal feed with 0.03% butyric acid) FRMT (chicks receiving basal feed with 0.1% formic acid) and BTRT+FRMT (chicks receiving basal feed containing 0.03% butyric acid and 0.1% formic acid) Weight of chicks and intake were measured every week, while blood sample was collected at day 21 and 35. At day 35, birds were slaughtered and small intestinal segments and digesta were collected. At day 21, body weight was bigger (P<0.05) in BTRT+FRMT than in other birds. Feeding the blends of formic and butyric acids resulted in higher (P<0.05) value of mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) at day 21. Feeding organic acids was associated with the lower (P<0.05) proportion of thrombocytes in broilers at day 35. Supplementation of butyric acid resulted in higher (P<0.05) serum albumin concentration at day 35. Butyric acid produced higher (P<0.05) levels of triglyceride as well as low density lipoprotein (LDL) in the serum. The mixture of formic and butyric acids resulted in higher (P<0.05) titer of antibody against Newcastle disease vaccine (NDV) at day 21. Feeding formic acid decreased (P<0.05) ileal population of lactose negative enterobacteria at day 35. Overall, dietary supplementation of the blends of formic and butyric acids resulted in improved growth and immune defence of broiler chicks.
Calf circumference, frailty and physical performance among older adults living in the community.
Venue: Clinical nutrition
Year: 2014

Lean body mass loss has been indicated as a reliable marker of frailty and poor physical performance among older individuals. We evaluated the relationship between calf circumference and frailty, physical performance, muscle strength, and functional status in persons aged 80 years or older.  Data are from the baseline evaluation of the Aging and Longevity Study in the Sirente geographic area (ilSIRENTE Study) (n 357) The calf circumference was measured at the point of greatest circumference. Frailty was categorized according to the present of slow gait speed, weakness, weight loss, energy expenditure and exhaustion. Physical performance was assessed using the physical performance battery score, which is based on three timed tests: 4 m walking speed test, the balance test and the chair stand test. Analyses of covariance were performed to evaluate the relationship between different calf circumference and physical function.  After adjustment for potential confounders, which included age, gender, education, body mass index, sensory impairments, cerebrovascular diseases, albumin, reactive C protein, interleukine 6, and cholesterol, physical performance (SPPB score: 7.27 versus 6.18, p 0.02) and muscle strength (Hand Grip: 32 kg versus 28 kg, p 0.03) measures significantly improved as calf circumference increased. The frailty index score was significantly lower among subjects with higher calf circumference (1.66 versus 2.17, p 0.01)  The present study suggests that among community dwelling older people, calf circumference may be positively related to lower frailty index and higher functional performance. As such, calf circumference is a valuable tool for guiding public health policy and clinical decisions.
Metal artifact reduction: standard and advanced magnetic resonance and computed tomography techniques.
Venue: Radiologic clinics of North America
Year: 2015

An increasing number of joint replacements are being performed in the United States. Patients undergoing these procedures can have various complications. Imaging is one of the primary means of diagnosing these complications. Cross sectional imaging techniques, such as computed tomography (CT) and MR imaging, are more sensitive than radiographs for evaluating complications. The use of CT and MR imaging in patients with metallic implants is limited by the presence of artifacts. This review discusses the causes of metal artifacts on MR imaging and CT, contributing factors, and conventional and novel methods to reduce the effects of these artifacts on scans.
PATULIN IN APPLE FRUITS: II. EFFECT OF APPLE TREATMENTS WITH SOME CHEMICAL SANITIZERS ON PATULIN PRODUCTION BY Penicillium expanusm
Year: 2020

Penicillium expansum is a wide spread fungi found on apples that causes fruit decay and may lead to production of a toxic secondary metabolite, basically patulin. This study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of several chemical sanitizers against P. expansum NRRL 2304 and to establish sanitizing washing treatments that would inhibit P. expansum growth and subsequent patulin production on Anna apples destined for cider .Wash treatments with chemical sanitizers including NaOCl (100 to 200 ppm) Potassium sorbate (0.1 to 0.5% SO2(100 to 300 ppm) and acetic acid (0.5 and 3% The results showed that washing with NaOCl (200 ppm) delayed growth of P. expansum on inoculated apple discs but failed to completely inhibit patulin production. Acetic acid solutions (2 to 3% were the most efficient chemical against P. expansum and subsequent patulin production on apple juices. While no significant effect in patulin production was found by SO2 and potassium sorbate. The effect of pressing on molded Anna apple discs fruits was studied. The pressing resulted in a partially elimination of patulin in apple juices. Patulin in the final juices is dependent on initial the concentrations.
Sinapic acid and resveratrol alleviate oxidative stress with modulation of gut microbiota in high fat diet fed rats.
Venue: Food research international
Year: 2019

High fat diet (HFD) consumption induces oxidative stress and microbial dysbiosis, the latter of which plays a vital role in the development of metabolic syndrome. We hypothesized that sinapic acid and resveratrol treatment might be a potential strategy to ameliorate the redox state and gut microbiota composition imbalance. In this study, rats were randomised into five groups and fed a high fat diet supplemented with resveratrol (400 mg/kg) sinapic acid (200 mg/kg) or a combination of both polyphenols. Administration of resveratrol effectively reduced fasting blood glucose levels (p 0.05) and increased the HDL c levels (p 0.05) Reactive oxygen species and malondialdehyde levels were decreased in the colon (p 0.05) total antioxidant capacity was increased in liver (p 0.05) by sinapic acid consumption in HFD rats. Moreover, polyphenol supplementation impacted the intestinal microbiome at different taxonomic levels by improving the proportion of butyrate producer Blautia (p 0.05) and Dorea (p 0.01) in the Lachaospiraceae family and inhibiting the growth of bacterial species associated with diseases and inflammation such as Bacteroides (p 0.05) and Desulfovibrionaceaesp (p 0.01) Spearman correlation analysis showed that some oxidative stress variables were directly correlated with changes in gut microbiota. Our findings demonstrated qualitative differences between the treatments in their abilities to alleviate HFD induced oxidative stress and modulate the gut microbiota. These findings might be helpful to better understand the effects of bioactive constituents on nutrition for human health.
Louis Marin, Poussin and the Sublime
Year: 2011

In addition to his studies of representations of Louis XIV and a monograph on Philippe de Champaigne, Louis Marin (1931 92) is known to art historians for his analyses of Poussin, in particular The Arcadian Shepherds and The Israelites Gathering Manna, for which he drew on sources from philosophy, art theory and linguistics to carry out an investigation into looking, reading and representation. This essay looks at what happened next, when Marin turned his attention to the sublime in Poussin, a project that was unfinished at his death. The sublime is usually regarded as an unrepresentable experience, but Marin argued that in Poussin's case, while still disruptive, it was part of the apparatus of representation. This essay then discusses how Marin linked the sublime to Poussin's interest in variation and how he pursued his analysis of the representation of time by reinvestigating the role of ruins in Poussin's narrative paintings. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Bi Directional Center Constrained Top Ranking for Visible Thermal Person Re Identification
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Year: 2020

Visible thermal person re identification (VT REID) is a task of matching person images captured by thermal and visible cameras, which is an extremely important issue in night time surveillance applications. Existing cross modality recognition works mainly focus on learning sharable feature representations to handle the cross modality discrepancies. However, apart from the cross modality discrepancy caused by different camera spectrums, VT REID also suffers from large cross modality and intra modality variations caused by different camera environments and human poses, and so on. In this paper, we propose a dual path network with a novel bi directional dual constrained top ranking (BDTR) loss to learn discriminative feature representations. It is featured in two aspects: 1) end to end learning without extra metric learning step and 2) the dual constraint simultaneously handles the cross modality and intra modality variations to ensure the feature discriminability. Meanwhile, a bi directional center constrained top ranking (eBDTR) is proposed to incorporate the previous two constraints into a single formula, which preserves the properties to handle both cross modality and intra modality variations. The extensive experiments on two cross modality re ID datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method compared to the state of the arts.
SMITE: A toolbox for creating Psychophysics Toolbox and PsychoPy experiments with SMI eye trackers
Venue: Behavior research methods
Year: 2019

We present SMITE, a toolbox for the measurement of eye movements using eye trackers manufactured by SMI GmbH. The toolbox provides a wrapper around the iViewX SDK provided by SMI, allowing simple integration of SMI eye trackers into Psychophysics Toolbox and PsychoPy programs. The toolbox provides a graphical interface for participant setup and calibration that is implemented natively in Psychophysics Toolbox and PsychoPy drawing commands, as well as providing several convenience features for, inter alia, creating gaze contingent experiments and working with two computer setups. Given that SMI GmbH and its support department have closed down, it is expected that this toolbox will provide owners of SMI eye trackers with an important new way to continue to create experiments with their systems. The eye trackers supported by this toolbox are the SMI HiSpeed 1250, SMI RED systems, SMI RED m, SMI RED250mobile, and SMI REDn.
DNA Fountain enables a robust and efficient storage architecture
Venue: Science
Year: 2017

A reliable and efficient DNA storage architecture DNA has the potential to provide large capacity information storage. However, current methods have only been able to use a fraction of the theoretical maximum. Erlich and Zielinski present a method, DNA Fountain, which approaches the theoretical maximum for information stored per nucleotide. They demonstrated efficient encoding of information including a full computer operating system into DNA that could be retrieved at scale after multiple rounds of polymerase chain reaction. Science, this issue p. 950 A resilient DNA storage strategy enables near maximal information content per nucleotide. DNA is an attractive medium to store digital information. Here we report a storage strategy, called DNA Fountain, that is highly robust and approaches the information capacity per nucleotide. Using our approach, we stored a full computer operating system, movie, and other files with a total of 2.14 x 106 bytes in DNA oligonucleotides and perfectly retrieved the information from a sequencing coverage equivalent to a single tile of Illumina sequencing. We also tested a process that can allow 2.18 x 1015 retrievals using the original DNA sample and were able to perfectly decode the data. Finally, we explored the limit of our architecture in terms of bytes per molecule and obtained a perfect retrieval from a density of 215 petabytes per gram of DNA, orders of magnitude higher than previous reports.
Automatic collision avoidance of multiple ships based on deep Q learning
Venue: Applied Ocean Research
Year: 2019

As the number of ships for marine transportation increases with the globalisation of the world economy, waterways are becoming more congested than before. This situation will raise the risk of collision of the ships; hence, an automatic collision avoidance system needs to be developed. In this paper, a novel approach based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is proposed for automatic collision avoidance of multiple ships particularly in restricted waters. A training method and algorithms for collision avoidance of ships, incorporating ship manoeuvrability, human experience and navigation rules, are presented in detail. The proposed approach is investigated not only by numerical simulations but also by model experiments using three self propelled ships. Through the systematic numerical and experimental validation, it is demonstrated the developed approach based on the DRL has great possibility for realising automatic collision avoidance of ships in highly complicated navigational situations.
Production of Lipases from Dairy Industry Wastes and its Applications
Year: 2017

In the present era, the main pollutant derived from the industrial waste waters are organic and inorganic substances, present either in solved or in suspension, with different degree of harmfulness. The dairy waste is basically organic and slightly alkaline in nature, when discharged in to streams without treatment, result in rapid depletion of dissolved oxygen(DO) and encourage the growth of algae i.e. eutrophication (Forsberg, 1998).Due to the overuse of surfactants in dairy, the waste can become unnameable to the biological treatment. The treatment of dairy wastewater, so that it is microbiologically and chemically acceptable for use in flush and irrigation applications, is of great importance (Ibekwe et al. 2003) Every Dairy industry is having particular characteristics of effluents. By the effective treatment of effluent several microbiota were identified and adapted to the wastewater physical chemical conditions to metabolize different organic compounds in to simplest form (Mihaela Palela et al. 2007) The current review focuses on utilization of some of the microorganisms involved in fast biodegradation of the organic compounds majorly lipids which have wide range of industrial applications. K e y w o r d s
Escaping financial crises? Macro evidence from sovereign wealth funds' investment behaviour
Year: 2016

This paper investigates the determinants of the investment activity of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) at a macro level, with special emphasis on the possible reaction to a financial crisis in a potential target economy. The analysis relies upon a specially built proprietary database, which encompasses 1,903 acquisition deals spanning the period 1995 2010 and involving 29 out of the 79 existing SWFs. According to a three step modelling approach, we find that this class of investors prefers to invest in countries with a higher degree of economic development, larger and more liquid financial markets, institutions that offer better protection of legal rights, and a more stable macroeconomic environment. Most importantly, and in stark contrast with the existing empirical literature on other major institutional investors, SWFs seem to engage in 'contrarian' investment behaviour, i.e. increasing their acquisitions in countries where crises hit. The results are shown to be valid if we consider both the likelihood of a country being the target of SWFs' investments and the amount SWFs choose to invest in each country. Capital flows stemming from SWFs' acquisition activity worldwide may therefore have a stabilizing effect on local markets during periods of financial turmoil, protecting the targeted countries from foreign shocks instead of propagating them globally.
Benefits and burdens: family caregivers' experiences of assistive technology (AT) in everyday life with persons with young onset dementia (YOD)
Venue: Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Year: 2018

People with dementia and their family caregivers may benefit from assistive technology (AT) but knowledge is scarce about family carers' (FC) experiences and involvement in the use of AT in everyday life.  To examine the FC roles and experiences with AT as means of supporting people with young onset dementia (YOD)  Qualitative interview study with follow up design. Repeated semi structured interviews were conducted with 13 FC of people with YOD, participating in an ongoing intervention study investigating the families' use and experiences of AT in everyday life.  Six main themes emerged: (1) timely information about AT; (2) waiting times; (3) AT incorporated into everyday living; (4) AT experienced as a relief and burden; (5) appraisal of AT qualities and (6) the committed caregiver.  The study found benefits for the FC, especially with simply designed AT, but also several barriers for successful use. A committed caregiver is vital throughout the process. Users will need professional advice and support, and occupational therapists may have a significant role in the process. Interventions implementing AT must be based on analysis of the needs of the person with YOD and the carers: their capabilities, preferences, embodied habits, and coping strategies. Implications for Rehabilitation Committed family carers (FC) play an important, often decisive, role in providing support for the person with young onset dementia (YOD, onset <65 years) to use and benefit from the AT. The simpler the AT, the better. The AT should be introduced at "the right time" before the cognitive and adaptive reduction is too great. The "window" for implementation may be short. AT has potential to ease caregiving and give relief for FC. However, many barriers, difficulties and problems must be attended to. A system for individualized support over time is necessary for implementing AT for this group.
La Enfermera Comunitaria focaliza la resiliencia del escolar ante la violencia para el fomento de la salud escolar y familiar
Year: 2009

La mision educativa institucional es cada vez mas imposible de lograr ante los problemas de violencia intrafamiliar y escolar, situacion que es retomada por el grupo de investigacion Control de Calidad de los Procesos en Salud para promover el entorno cultural saludable en la promocion de la Resiliencia que incida en la adopcion de comportamientos saludables y prosperos. El estudio se realizo en una escuela de la comuna cinco de Valledupar Colombia. Es una investigacion cualitativa etnografico con diseno de "Grupo Focal," para analizar todo el contexto del escolar afectado en las areas social, afectiva y personal permitiendo develar el dignificado de la Resiliencia El rol de enfermeria comunitaria debe favorecer el desarrollo de la capacidad humana del nino que vive en violencia continua para enfrentar, sobreponerse y ser fortalecido o transformado por las experiencias de adversidad" (Grotberg, 1995) como tema central del presente estudio, precisando posibles mecanismos que apuntaron al desarrollo de la autonomia para su autocuidado y adaptacion de la disciplina, la mediacion, la competencia social, entre las mas relevantes favorece la funcionalidad del hogar, entornos saludables y escuela saludable por parte de un equipo transdisciplinar.  Competencia cultural, enfermeria comunitaria.  The institutional educational mission is increasingly impossible to obtain in the presence of domestics and scholars violence, this situation is taken up by the investigation group 'Quality Control in Process Health' to promote a healthy cultural environment in the promotion of resilience that affects in the adoption of healthy and prosperous behaviors. The study was conducted in a school in the district five of Valledupar, Colombia. It is an ethnographic qualitative research design focus groups to analyze the whole context of the affected school in the social, emotional and personal unveil the dignified allowing the Resilience "The infirmary role in the community must benefit the development of human capacity of children living in continues violence to confront, overcome themselves and be strengthened or transformed by experiences of adversity" (Grotberg, 1995) as a central subject of this study, determining precisely possible mechanisms that to pointed up the development of autonomy for themcare and adaptation for discipline, mediation, social competence, between the most important, favoring the home functionality, environment and school healthiest by a trans disciplinary team.  Cultural competence, community nursing.
End to End Question Answering Models for Goal Oriented Dialog Learning
Year: 2019

The task of Next Utterance Classification in dialog learning highly resembles that of Question Answering, but there has not been much attention to applying models across the two fields, especially not in more practical dialog modeling scenarios. Hence, this paper presents end to end Question Answering (QA) style models for the goal oriented dialog system task in Dialog System Technology Challenges (DSTC) 7. We first provide a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of the newly introduced Advising dataset and show the heavy reliance of the data on an external Knowledge Base (KB) of course offerings. Based on such analysis, we model the dialogs with popular approaches from both dialog and QA literature, and show that QA methods perform comparably well to the former, despite they were designed for a fairly different task. We mainly compare Hierarchical RNNs (Serban et al. 2017) and a modified version of the BiDAF model (Seo et al. 2017a) We then employ large scale KB query methods from DrQA (Chen et al. 2017) to incorporate external knowledge into the dialog. Furthermore, contrary to a recent previous work (Tao et al. 2018) we show that Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo) (Peters et al. 2018) do significantly improve the performance in dialog systems without fine tuning.
2LE 12 All nanomat batteries: A new cell architecture toward ultrahigh energy density and mechanical flexibility
Year: 2018

The forthcoming ubiquitous electronics era, which will involve widespread use of flexible electronic devices, IoTs and electric vehicles, is in urgent need of advanced power sources with reliable/sustainable electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility. Here, we demonstrate a new class of all nanomat (Si anode/Al 2 O 3 separator/OLO cathode) Li ion battery (LIB) full cells based on 1D building elements interweaved heteronanomat skeletons as a simple and versatile cell strategy. The well tailored heteronanomat cell architecture allows for the formation of 3D bicontinuous ion/electron transport pathways and the elimination of metallic foil current collectors, leading to exceptional improvements in the energy density and mechanical deformability that lie far beyond those achievable with conventional LIB technologies.