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The Near Infrared Prediction Model Of K-Value Of Channel Catfish Fillets During Freeze-Thaw Cycles, Qian Xiao-Qing, Zhu Meng, Shi Gang-Peng, Xiong Guang-Quan, Shi Liu, Wu Wen-Jin, Wang Lan, Wang Shun-Zhi, Ding An-Zi

Food and Machinery

To determine the freshness change of Channel catfish fillets during freeze-thaw cycles and establishprediction model using near infrared spectroscopy, Near Infrared(NIR) reflectance spectroscopy was used to collect spectral data of Channel catfish meat during 5 times freeze-thaw processing, meanwhile the contents of ATP-related compounds of fish samples were obtained by HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) to calculate the freshness of K value, then the quantitative prediction model of K value was established based on the optimal wavelengths using PLS (Partial least squares regression) method and verified by t-test. The results showed that ATP content declined rapidly (P＜0.05) from 2.15 to …

Research Progress On The Affecting Factors Of Heat-Induced Gelation Of Egg Albumin, Liu Xin-Ci, Lv Yun-Xiong, Sun Wei-Bao, Xu Fan, Yue Xiao-Xia, Zhang Gen-Sheng

Food and Machinery

This review summarized the microstructure, gelation process and the mechanism of gel properties of heat-induced from egg albumin. The effects of glycosylation, salt, enzymes, pH, adding NaCl or adjusting pH to synergistic glycosylation or enzyme on heat-induced gelation of egg white protein were discussed emphatically, and the research direction and application of heat-induced gelation of egg albumin were also prospected.

Research Status And Prospect Of Freezing And Thawing Technologies Of Aquatic Products, Zhang Ya-Jin, Jiao Yang

Food and Machinery

The principles, advantages and disadvantages of the traditional and novel freezing and thawing methods were elaborated, and the research status of the applications of freezing and thawing technologies in aquatic products were also summarized. The development direction of freezing and thawing technologies was then prospected in this review.

Research Progress On Fish Scale Collagen Edible Film, Li Yan-Long, Xiao Feng, Kang Huai-Bin

Food and Machinery

This study reviews the preparation process, properties (mechanical properties, thermal properties, barrier properties, etc.), modification methods, and applications of fish scale collagen films. The performance of the film can be significantly improved through molecular blending, but it is critical that the factors have not been studied in depth. Future research must solve the problems of film modification mechanism, aging mechanism, edibility, biodegradability, barrier property, safety, etc. from the perspective of industrial scale and commercialization, so as to make fish scales collagen films industrially feasible.

Modulatory And Toxicological Perspectives On The Effects Of The Small Molecule Kinetin, Eman M. Othman, Moustafa Fathy, Amany Abdlrehim Bekhit, Abdel-Razik H. Abdel-Razik, Arshad Jamal, Yousef Nazzal, Shabana Shams, Thomas Dandekar, Muhammad Naseem

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Plant hormones are small regulatory molecules that exert pharmacological actions in mammalian cells such as anti-oxidative and pro-metabolic effects. Kinetin belongs to the group of plant hormones cytokinin and has been associated with modulatory functions in mammalian cells. The mammalian adenosine receptor (A2a-R) is known to modulate multiple physiological responses in animal cells. Here, we describe that kinetin binds to the adenosine receptor (A2a-R) through the Asn253 residue in an adenosine dependent manner. To harness the beneficial effects of kinetin for future human use, we assess its acute toxicity by analyzing different biochemical and histological markers in rats. Kinetin at …

Niche Partitioning Of Low-Light Adapted Prochlorococcus Subecotypes Across Oceanographic Gradients Of The North Pacific Subtropical Front, Anne W. Thompson, Kathleen Kouba, Nathan A. Ahlgren

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic cell on Earth and contributes to global ocean carbon cycling and food webs. Prochlorococcus is known for its extensive diversity that falls into two groups of ecotypes, the low‐light (LL) and high‐light (HL) adapted ecotypes. Previous work has shown niche partitioning of the very abundant HL adapted ecotypes and subecotypes across oceanographic gradients including temperature, nutrients, and day length. However, niche partitioning of subecotypes within the LL adapted ecotypes has not been studied as well because they are less abundant and less accessible than surface, HL populations. Through high‐throughput, cyanobacterial‐specific, sequencing of …

Library And Information Science Research On Web Of Science Database From 2014 To 2018: An Overview, Dhruba Jyoti Borgohain, S.N. Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A country's progress in all aspects like economic, educational, medical, defense, living standards of citizens is possible only through research and the platform for quality research is a university. The generation of knowledge and its transmission has been a requirement for long term progress of a university which is having a direct impact on a nation's development. Universities through research make the highest contribution to a nation's industrial and business growth than any other academic institutions. Library Science evolving as an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field applying the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology,education, in two …

The Effect Of Leaf Morphological Traits And Acidic Wet Deposition On Hydrophobicity, Steven M. Lott

RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences

Leaf morphological traits are the result of individual plants mutating and passing their heritable traits to offspring. These adaptations are typically vital for plant function, including the ability of a leaf to repel water. In this study, we investigated how cuticle thickness, stomatal density, and trichome density affect the contact angle of water droplets on the surface of a leaf. As a secondary objective, we compared the contact angles of an acidic solution with pure water to understand how solution acidity affects contact angle. We measured five plant species and 30 leaves from each species. We found that trichome density …

Mathematical Zendo: A Game Of Patterns And Logic, Philip Deorsey, Corey Pooler, Michael Ferrara

Journal of Math Circles

Mathematical Zendo is a logic game that actively engages participants in pattern recognition, problem solving, and critical thinking while providing a fun opportunity to explore all manner of mathematical objects. Based upon the popular game of Zendo, created by Looney Labs, Mathematical Zendo centers on a secret rule, chosen by the leader, that must be guessed by teams of players. In each round of the game, teams provide examples of the mathematical object of interest (e.g. functions, numbers, sets) and receive information about whether their guesses do or do not satisfy the secret rule. In this paper, we introduce Mathematical …

Principles Of Research Training In Teaching Classes In Physics And Biology, Risbai Khaydarovich Dzhuraev Аcademician

Central Asian Journal of Education

Exploratory learning, on the other hand, emphasizes the relativity of knowledge, and the entire learning process is permeated by an “invitation to discovery”. Thus, through the discovery of new questions, the child's situational activity is stimulated.

The article provides an expanded and in-depth interpretation of a fundamentally new type of education for education - research education. The principles of the new teaching model, the main elements of the educational program and the necessary set of characteristics and requirements, which must be met by a teacher who embarked on the path of research education, are formulated.

Identification And Robust Estimation Of Swapped Direct And Indirect Effects: Mediation Analysis With Unmeasured Mediator–Outcome Confounding And Intermediate Confounding, An-Shun Tai, Sheng-Hsuan Lin

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Counterfactual-model-based mediation analysis can yield substantial insight into the causal mechanism through the assessment of natural direct effects (NDEs) and natural indirect effects (NIEs). However, the assumptions regarding unmeasured mediator–outcome confounding and intermediate mediator–outcome confounding that are required for the determination of NDEs and NIEs present practical challenges. To address this problem, we introduce an instrumental blocker, a novel quasi-instrumental variable, to relax both of these assumptions, and we define a swapped direct effect (SDE) and a swapped indirect effect (SIE) to assess the mediation. We show that the SDE and SIE are identical to the NDE and NIE, respectively, …

Mapping The Immune Environment In Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma By Single-Cell Genomics, Nicholas Borcherding, Ajaykumar Vishwakarma, Andrew P Voigt, Andrew Bellizzi, Jacob Kaplan, Kenneth Nepple, Aliasger K Salem, Russell W Jenkins, Yousef Zakharia, Weizhou Zhang

Open Access Publications

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is one of the most immunologically distinct tumor types due to high response rate to immunotherapies, despite low tumor mutational burden. To characterize the tumor immune microenvironment of ccRCC, we applied single-cell-RNA sequencing (SCRS) along with T-cell-receptor (TCR) sequencing to map the transcriptomic heterogeneity of 25,688 individual CD45

Spatio-Temporal Variation Patterns Of Bird Community In The Oasis Ecosystem Of The North Of Algerian Sahara, Lasad Chiheb, Bensaci Ettayib, Nouidjem Yassine, Hadjab Ramzi

Journal of Bioresource Management

The spatial and temporal variation patterns of birds were investigated in the Oasis ecosystem of the North of Algeria Sahara. This contribution aimed to investigate the poorly studied bird fauna of Bousaâda oasis. The direct observation method was used for bird counts, adopted only during the breeding period. A total of 53 species of birds from 29 families and 16 orders were assessed in the different habitats of the Oasis (palm, fruit trees and, cultivated crops). The Passeriformes order was the most abundant represented by 35 species and 16 families. The relative abundance and species richness were recorded during our …

Copper-Ligand Clusters Dictate Size Of Cyclized Peptide Formed During Alkyne-Azide Cycloaddition On Solid Support, Rene Kandler, Samir Das, Arundhati Nag

Chemistry

Peptide and peptidomimetic cyclization by copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction have been used to mimic disulfide bonds, alpha helices, amide bonds, and for one-bead-one-compound (OBOC) library development. A limited number of solid-supported CuAAC cyclization methods resulting in monomeric cyclic peptide formation have been reported for specific peptide sequences, but there exists no general study on monocyclic peptide formation using CuAAC cyclization. Since several cyclic peptides identified from an OBOC CuAAC cyclized library has been shown to have important biological applications, we discuss here an efficient method of alkyne-azide 'click' catalyzed monomeric cyclic peptide formation on a solid support. The reason …

2021 Pittman Scholars Announced, Mary Ashley Canevaro

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New Insights And Enhanced Human Norovirus Cultivation In Human Intestinal Enteroids, Khalil Ettayebi, Victoria R Tenge, Nicolas W Cortes-Penfield, Sue E Crawford, Frederick H Neill, Xi-Lei Zeng, Xiaomin Yu, B Vijayalakshmi Ayyar, Douglas Burrin, Sasirekha Ramani, Robert L Atmar, Mary K Estes

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are the leading cause of epidemic and sporadic acute gastroenteritis worldwide. We previously demonstrated human intestinal stem cell-derived enteroids (HIEs) support cultivation of several HuNoV strains. However, HIEs did not support virus replication from every HuNoV-positive stool sample, which led us to test and optimize new medium conditions, identify characteristics of stool samples that allow replication, and evaluate consistency of replication over time. Optimization of our HIE-HuNoV culture system has shown the following: (i) a new HIE culture medium made with conditioned medium from a single cell line and commercial media promotes robust replication of HuNoV strains …

Lis Research Productivity According To Gender, Vinay R S Mr., Sampath Kumar B T Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose-The present study aims to explore the publication trend, authorship pattern and research productivity by male and female authors in the field of Library and Information Science research.

Design/Methodology/Approach- A total of 571 articles published in selected three LIS Emerald journals viz., i) Library Management, ii) New Library World iii) Performance Measurement and Metrics during 2009-2018 are downloaded from Emerald group of publishing. The data related to the author’s gender, affiliation, university and country are extracted and saved in a separate file for further analysis. Influence of gender was assessed with respect to at individual and collaborative level. The …

Mirna-15b And Mirna-125b Are Associated With Regional Aβ-Pet And Fdg-Pet Uptake In Cognitively Normal Individuals With Subjective Memory Complaints, Andrea Vergallo, Simone Lista, Yuhai Zhao, Pablo Lemercier, Stefan J. Teipel, Bruno Dubois, Bruno Dubois, Bruno Dubois, Walter J. Lukiw, Harald Hampel, Hovagim Bakardjian, Habib Benali, Hugo Bertin, Joel Bonheur, Laurie Boukadida, Nadia Boukerrou, Enrica Cavedo, Olivier Colliot, Marion Dubois, Stéphane Epelbaum

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

There is substantial experimental evidence for dysregulation of several microRNA (miRNA) expression levels in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). MiRNAs modulate critical brain intracellular signaling pathways and are associated with AD core pathophysiological mechanisms. First, we conducted a real-time quantitative PCR-based pilot study to identify a set of brain-enriched miRNAs in a monocentric cohort of cognitively normal individuals with subjective memory complaints, a condition associated with increased risk of AD. Second, we investigated the impact of age, sex, and the Apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) allele, on the identified miRNA plasma concentrations. In addition, we explored the cross-sectional and longitudinal association of …

Diversity, Ecology And Therapeutic Properties Of The Medicinal Plants In Ziban Region (Algeria), Nouidjem Yassine, Hadjab Ramzi, Khammar Hichem, Merouani Sakina, Bensaci Etayeb

Journal of Bioresource Management

With the aim to assess the floristic population diversity, distribution and therapeutic properties in the Ziban region (Algeria), a survey was conducted along two successive study years in the main area. The objective of this study was to contribute to the knowledge and description of this plant groups with exhaustive inventory spontaneous vegetation. In order to study the dynamics of medicinal plants, we used a quantitative method based essentially on the classic technique of linear surveys and floristic inventory using the minimum area method. The results showed that the floristic procession of medicinal plants is represented by 21 species belonging …

The Food Diversity And Choices Of Archachatina Marginata Raised In Concrete Trench Pens, Ebere Julein Okafor-Elenwo, Osarunmwense Precious Otote, Osazee Ekundayo Izevbuwa

Journal of Bioresource Management

Archachatina marginata is an economically useful gastropod, scientifically proven to be of huge benefit to human’s health and wellbeing. Food varieties of A. marginata hunted from the immediate environment of Ovia North East, South-South, Nigeria, were investigated to select the most appropriate, in terms of preferences and availability. The study was conducted for five months (May to August, 2020) during the rainy season. Ten snails were selected from the wild with weights ranging from 340.21g to 355.32g and heights of 11.8cm to 13.3cm at the point of collection. The snails were housed each, in an escape-proof trench pen, covered with …

Owls In Islam And Pakistan: Loopholes And Suggestions For Conservation And Management Of This Highly Ecologically Important Niche, Mubasher Hussain, Jamil Akhtar

Journal of Bioresource Management

Due to their vital ecological significance, owls drew the attention of several groups working on wildlife protection and conservation management across the globe. Hence, certain legal provisions have been articulated in the wildlife protection acts of the advanced countries to ensure full legal protection of wildlife including owls. Although there are certain laws concerning the protection of wild life in Pakistan, the specific and consistent legal provisions are still required for owl’s full protection. This article highlights a dire need of the articulation of such provisions respecting the prohibition of owl hunting on several religious, legal and ecological grounds.

Ascorbic Acid (Asa) Improves Salinity Tolerance In Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.) By Modulating Growth And Physiological Attributes, Hasnain Ishaq, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Azeem, Mehwish Mehwish, Muhammad Bedar Bekhat Naseem

Journal of Bioresource Management

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important staple foods. High concentration of sodium chloride severely affects plants in general and wheat in specific. In this study the ameliorative effects of ascorbic acid (AsA) against sodium chloride stress were investigated in two commercial wheat cultivars (Galaxy 2013 and Akbar 2019). Experiments were conducted in three replicates. Two levels of salt (0, 150 mM) along with exogenous application of ascorbic acid (0, 30 mM, 60 mM) were applied at three leaves seedling stage. At the establishment of treatments, data regarding physiological, biochemical and yield attributes were …

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Inhibition Of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Secretion By Dimethyl Sulfoxide And Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate In Human Monocytes, Darcy Denner, Maria Udan-Johns, Michael Nichols

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Works

BACKGROUND Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), including MMP-9, are an integral part of the immune response and are upregulated in response to a variety of stimuli. New details continue to emerge concerning the mechanistic and regulatory pathways that mediate MMP-9 secretion. There is significant evidence for regulation of inflammation by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), thus investigation of how these two molecules may regulate both MMP-9 and tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) secretion by human monocytes was of high interest. The hypothesis tested in this study was that DMSO and cAMP regulate MMP-9 and TNFα secretion by distinct mechanisms. …

Patterns Of Cilia Gene Dysregulations In Major Psychiatric Disorders, Wedad Alhassen, Siwei Chen, Marquis Vawter, Brianna Kay Robbins, Henry Nguyen, Thant Nyi Myint, Yumiko Saito, Anton Schulmann, Surya M. Nauli, Olivier Civelli, Pierre Baldi, Amal Alachkar

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Primary cilia function as cells' antennas to detect and transduce external stimuli and play crucial roles in cell signaling and communication. The vast majority of cilia genes that are causally linked with ciliopathies are also associated with neurological deficits, such as cognitive impairments. Yet, the roles of cilia dysfunctions in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders have not been studied. Our aim is to identify patterns of cilia gene dysregulation in the four major psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia (SCZ), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), bipolar disorder (BP), and major depressive disorder (MDD). For this purpose, we acquired differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from the …

Preliminary Report On Comprehensive Evaluation Of School Lawn Quality, Qing Zhao, Zhenhua Qu, Yanxu Zang, Jie Liu, Yanhui Zhang

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Prospect Of The Vetiver (Vetiveria Zizanioiaes) Industrialization In Southern China, Hao Hong

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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The Effects Of Late‐Fall Mowing On The Performance Of 6 Buchloe Dactyloides Varieties, J. Z. Niu, X. L. Sun, He Zhou

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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The Best Laid Plans: How Dmca Sec. 1201 Went Awry, Smothering Competition And Creating Giants,And Where We Go Now, Tyler Fabbri

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act with the express intention of protecting the intellectual property of copyright holders from the growing threats of digital piracy and information sharing brought about by an increasingly digital society.

Among the law’s many provisions is §1201, which works to prohibit circumnavigation of digital protections copyright holders may put on protected works—in essence, innovators or competitors would be unable to develop technology or programs to bypass security measures put into place by primary creators. While this provision seems facially reasonable, it has effectively served as a means to quash adversarial interoperability.

Adversarial …