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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ABILITIES OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE STAYED IN EDUCATIONAL PRE-SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE NOT ATTENDED ANY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
No full textThe current article is focused on the results of Comparative study of the abilities of children who have stayed in educational pre-school institutions and children who have not attended any educational system, realized by author. The study results confirm the fact that pupils who have stayed in the educational system from a younger age, have produced more words in the age transition clause – a phenomenon indicating a greater syntactic complexity. The pupils who have not attended the educational system thus far produced fewer words to a clause and less content words to a genre transition clause, also have demonstrated a less skilled use of lexical choice.STUDIU COMPARATIV AL ABILITĂŢILOR COPIILOR CARE AU FOST PLASAŢI ÎN INSTITUŢIILE DE ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNT PREŞCOLARE ŞI ALE COPIILOR CARE NU AU FOST ÎNCADRAŢI ÎN SISTEMUL EDUCAŢIONALÎn articol sunt prezentate rezultatele studiului comparativ realizat de autor al abilităţilor copiilor care au fost plasaţi în instituţiile de învăţământ preşcolare şi ale copiilor care nu au frecventat nicio instituţie de învăţământ. Rezultatele studiului confirmă faptul că elevii care au mers în sistemul de învăţământ de la o vârstă mai fragedă au produs mai multe cuvinte în tranziţia de vârstă – ceea ce indică o mai mare complexitate sintactică. Copiii care nu au fost încadraţi în sistemul de învăţământ au produs mult mai puţine cuvinte, de asemenea, au demonstrat o capacitate mai puţin califi-cată de a face alegerea lexicală.</p
Arabic Treebank : Part 1 v 4.1
No full textArabic Treebank: Part 1 (ATB1) v 4.1, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2010T13 and isbn 1-58563-566-9, was developed at LDC. It consists of 734 newswire stories from Agence France Presse (AFP) with part-of-speech (POS), morphology, gloss and syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the Penn Arabic Treebank (PATB) Guidelines developed in 2008 and 2009
Arabic Treebank : Part 2 v 3.1
No full textArabic Treebank: Part 2 (ATB2) v 3.1 , Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2011T09 and isbn 1-58563-590-1, was developed at LDC. It consists of 501 newswire stories from Ummah Press with part-of-speech (POS), morphology, gloss and syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the Penn Arabic Treebank (PATB) Guidelines developed in 2008 and 2009
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No full textAbstract : Recent functional, proteomic and ribosome profiling studies in eukaryotes have concurrently demonstrated the translation of alternative open-reading frames (altORFs) in addition to annotated protein coding sequences (CDSs). We show that a large number of small proteins could in fact be coded by these altORFs. The putative alternative proteins translated from altORFs have orthologs in many species and contain functional domains. Evolutionary analyses indicate that altORFs often show more extreme conservation patterns than their CDSs. Thousands of alternative proteins are detected in proteomic datasets by reanalysis using a database containing predicted alternative proteins. This is illustrated with specific examples, including altMiD51, a 70 amino acid mitochondrial fission-promoting protein encoded in MiD51/Mief1/SMCR7L, a gene encoding an annotated protein promoting mitochondrial fission. Our results suggest that many genes are multicoding genes and code for a large protein and one or several small proteins
Effects of Ramadan on food intake, glucose homeostasis, lipid profiles and body composition composition
No full textThe current study was sponsored by the Vice Chancellery of Research & Technology Affairs at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah – Iran (Grant no. 91058). The authors are deeply grateful to all participants for their time and blood sample donation. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Author contributions. Project design: SMN, JRS. Data collection: SMN, YP, SP, MD, PN, RM. Data analysis: SMN, RM, JRS. Writing paper. SMN, JRS.Peer reviewe
Changes in salivary pH following consumption of different varieties of date fruits
No full textالملخص: أهداف البحث: أظهرت الأدبيات أن استهلاك ثمار التمر يؤدي إلى تغيرات كيميائية في اللعاب، بما في ذلك تغيرات في قيم الأس الهيدروجيني. وقد أُجريت هذه الدراسة لتقييم تأثير استهلاك أنواع مختلفة من ثمار التمر على درجة الحموضة اللعابية. طرق البحث: جندت هذه الدراسة ١٥ طفلا (العمر من ٦-١٥ سنة) وطُلب منهم تناول قطعة واحدة من نوع معين من التمر (صفري ونبتة سيف وخلاص وسكري وصقعي) لمدة ٥ أيام متتالية. في اليومين السادس والسابع، أكل الأطفال ربع حبة جريب فروت (تحكم إيجابي) ومضغوا على كرة صغيرة من القطن المعقم (تحكم سلبي)، على التوالي. تم جمع عينات من اللعاب غير المحفز من الأطفال على الأقل ساعة واحدة بعد الإفطار كل يوم وتم تسجيل الرقم الهيدروجيني اللعابي. النتائج: عند مقارنتها بِقِيَم الأس الهيدروجيني قبل استهلاك التمر، لوحظ أدنى متوسط لقيم الأس الهيدروجيني اللعابي بين مجموعات التمور عند ٥ دقائق، بعد استهلاك الخلاص (٦.٢٦) متبوعا بالصفري (٦.٣١) ونبتة سيف (٦.٣٦) والصقعي (٦.٤٤) والسكري (٦.٤٥). وقد أظهر الخلاص (٠.٤٧) أعلى فرق في القِيَم المتوسطة، يليه السكري (٠.٤٥)، ونبتة سيف (٠.٤٤)، والصقعي (٠.٣٨)، والصفري (٠.٣٥). وكان الرقم الهيدروجيني للعاب الذي تم جمعه بعد أكل ربع جريب فروت هو الأقل، بينما أدى مضغ كريات القطن إلى زيادة درجة الحموضة اللعابية. الاستنتاجات: أظهرت هذه الدراسة انخفاضا في الرقم الهيدروجيني للعاب بعد استهلاك التمر، وإن لم يصل إلى القيمة الحرجة. تشير هذه النتائج إلى أن التمور لا تحمل تأثيرات ضارة على علامات اللعاب. Abstract: Objective: Consumption of date fruits leads to chemical changes in saliva, including variations in pH values. We conducted this study to assess the effect of the consumption of different types of dates on salivary pH. Methods: We recruited 15 children (aged 6–15 years) who were instructed to consume one piece of specific types of dates (Safree, Nabtat Seif, Khalas, Sukkari, and Segae) for 5 consecutive days. On the 6th and 7th days, the children consumed a quarter of a grapefruit (positive control) and chewed on a sterilised cotton pellet (negative control), respectively. Salivary samples from unstimulated kids were collected at least 1 h after breakfast every day and the salivary pH was recorded. Results: When compared with the pH values before date consumption, the lowest mean salivary pH value among the date-consuming groups 5 min after salivary stimulation was noted after the consumption of Khalas (6.26), followed by those after consumption of Safree (6.31), Nabtat Seif (6.36), Segae (6.44), and Sukkari (6.45). The highest difference in mean values was observed for Khalas (.47), followed by those for Sukkari (.45), Nabtat Saif (.44), Segae (.38), and Safree (.35). The pH of saliva collected after grapefruit consumption was the lowest, whereas chewing cotton pellets led to an increased salivary pH. Conclusion: This study showed a decrease in the salivary pH following date consumption, but not to a value as low as the critical value. These findings suggest that dates do not have detrimental effects on salivary parameters. الكلمات المفتاحية: تمر, درجة الحموضة, اللعاب, السكريات, ثمار التمر, Keywords: Dates, Date fruit, pH, Saliva, Sugar
Awareness, practices and perceptions of community pharmacists towards antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship in Libya: a cross-sectional study
No full textBackground: Community pharmacists play a vital role in promoting appropriate use of antibiotics in the community. This study evaluated the practices and perceptions of community pharmacists towards antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, and antimicrobial stewardship in Libya. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among community pharmacists in Libya using a 47-item validated, pre-tested online questionnaire. Data was collected from December 2021 to February 2022 and was analysed using descriptive and inferential analyses. Results: Of the 114 questionnaires included in the analysis, 54.4% were females, 78.1% had < 10 year working experience (78.1%), and 81.6% had a Bachelor of Pharmacy. Most (78.1%) strongly agreed/agreed that community pharmacists have an important role to play to reduce antibiotic resistance. Overall, the participants had a moderate perception towards antimicrobial resistance (median score: 21.5; IQR [16-28] out of 35.0). More than 40% supply antibiotics when patients requested them specifically, because if they do not supply them, patients will just go to another pharmacy. About 47% strongly agreed/agreed that if a patient cannot afford a full course of antibiotics all in one go, they will give them a smaller amount that they are able to afford at that time, even when a longer duration of treatment is required. Most (66.7%) had no previous involvement in antibiotics awareness campaign due to 'I have never heard about the campaign' (48.7%) and 'I do not have enough time to participate' (22.4%). Overall, the perception towards antimicrobial stewardship was good (20 [13-25] out of 25.0). Raising awareness of rational antibiotic use, including antimicrobial resistance, among pharmacy students (83.4%) and patient education by pharmacists in community pharmacies at the time medicines are supplied to patients (81.6%) were the most common strategies to improve rational use of antibiotics in community pharmacy. Conclusions: Community pharmacists in Libya recognise their role in reducing antimicrobial resistance. They had a moderate perception towards antimicrobial resistance and a good perception towards antimicrobial stewardship. However, inappropriate antibiotic practices were common. The most common strategies to improve rational use of antibiotics in community pharmacy were raising awareness about the rational antibiotic use among pharmacy students and patient education by community pharmacists at the time antibiotics are dispensed to patients. Regulations are needed to restrict dispensing antibiotics without prescription among community pharmacists. 2023, The Author(s).Scopu
Author response: Deep transcriptome annotation enables the discovery and functional characterization of cryptic small proteins
No full textFood portion sizes and their relationship with energy, and nutrient intakes in adolescents : the HELENA study
No full textObjectives: This study aimed to investigate the associations between portion sizes (PSs) from different food groups and energy, as well as nutrient intakes in European adolescents. Methods: A sample of 1631 adolescents (54.2 % girls) were included from the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional (HELENA) study. Mean food PS was calculated by dividing the total intake of the items by the number of eating occasions of these consumed items. To determine the key items for analysis, foods were ranked by frequency of consumption. A one-way between-groups analysis of covariance was used to test for significant differences in means across tertiles. A multivariable linear regression analysis was carried out, adjusting for age, sex, maternal education, body mass index, and using country as a level.& nbsp;Results: Energy intake increased with elevated intakes of energy-dense foods. Large portions of rice and other grains, starch roots and potatoes, and meat substitutes, nuts, and pulses were associated with increased car-bohydrate and fiber intake. Larger portions of cheese and butter and animal fat were significantly associated with a higher fat intake. Lower intakes of some vitamins and micronutrients were noticed with consumption of larger portions of high energy-dense foods, such as desserts and pudding, margarine and vegetable oil, and butter and animal fat. Conclusions: Large food PSs may be associated with positive energy, as well as macro-and micronutrient intake. Moreover, the findings from this study may help the future development of dietary guidance in gen-eral and specific to PSs, and support targeted strategies to address intakes of certain nutrients in European adolescents. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Food portion sizes and their relationship with energy, and nutrient intakes in adolescents : the HELENA study
No full textObjectives: This study aimed to investigate the associations between portion sizes (PSs) from different food groups and energy, as well as nutrient intakes in European adolescents. Methods: A sample of 1631 adolescents (54.2 % girls) were included from the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional (HELENA) study. Mean food PS was calculated by dividing the total intake of the items by the number of eating occasions of these consumed items. To determine the key items for analysis, foods were ranked by frequency of consumption. A one-way between-groups analysis of covariance was used to test for significant differences in means across tertiles. A multivariable linear regression analysis was carried out, adjusting for age, sex, maternal education, body mass index, and using country as a level.& nbsp;Results: Energy intake increased with elevated intakes of energy-dense foods. Large portions of rice and other grains, starch roots and potatoes, and meat substitutes, nuts, and pulses were associated with increased car-bohydrate and fiber intake. Larger portions of cheese and butter and animal fat were significantly associated with a higher fat intake. Lower intakes of some vitamins and micronutrients were noticed with consumption of larger portions of high energy-dense foods, such as desserts and pudding, margarine and vegetable oil, and butter and animal fat. Conclusions: Large food PSs may be associated with positive energy, as well as macro-and micronutrient intake. Moreover, the findings from this study may help the future development of dietary guidance in gen-eral and specific to PSs, and support targeted strategies to address intakes of certain nutrients in European adolescents. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the associations between portion sizes (PSs) from different food groups and energy, as well as nutrient intakes in European adolescents. Methods: A sample of 1631 adolescents (54.2 % girls) were included from the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional (HELENA) study. Mean food PS was calculated by dividing the total intake of the items by the number of eating occasions of these consumed items. To determine the key items for analysis, foods were ranked by frequency of consumption. A one-way between-groups analysis of covariance was used to test for significant differences in means across tertiles. A multivariable linear regression analysis was carried out, adjusting for age, sex, maternal education, body mass index, and using country as a level.& nbsp;Results: Energy intake increased with elevated intakes of energy-dense foods. Large portions of rice and other grains, starch roots and potatoes, and meat substitutes, nuts, and pulses were associated with increased car-bohydrate and fiber intake. Larger portions of cheese and butter and animal fat were significantly associated with a higher fat intake. Lower intakes of some vitamins and micronutrients were noticed with consumption of larger portions of high energy-dense foods, such as desserts and pudding, margarine and vegetable oil, and butter and animal fat. Conclusions: Large food PSs may be associated with positive energy, as well as macro-and micronutrient intake. Moreover, the findings from this study may help the future development of dietary guidance in gen-eral and specific to PSs, and support targeted strategies to address intakes of certain nutrients in European adolescents. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)A
