Study on the acceptability of the food bar from tongka langit banana (Musa troglodytarum) with addition of walnuts

The objective of this study was to analyze the acceptability of the food bar from tongka langit banana with the addition of walnuts through testing organoleptic properties, a completely randomized experimental design with one factor replicated twice was applied with treatment was a concentrate of walnuts 0%, 5%, 10%, and 15%. The organoleptic tested were color, aroma, taste, and texture using the hedonic test, hedonic quality test, and plural comparison tests. The results showed that the tongka langit banana food bar with a walnut concentration of 15% had the best level of acceptance with a hedonic value of 2.8 scent color 2.72, taste 2.7, texture 2.8 which all included criteria approaching the hedonic quality value of color 2.4 (slightly yellow), aroma 2.75 (close to a banana-scented), taste 2.65 (close to hard), plural color values of 2.12 (slightly yellow from R) aroma of 3.5 (the same is good), 2.95 taste (close to better) and 2.35 texture (a bit hard) compared to commercial food bar soyjoy banana (R)

The Impact of Stuttering; How Can a Mobile App Help?

Trabalho apresentado em 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference, 26-28 outubro 2015, Lisboa, PortugalThe mobile application BroiStu was developed due to the need of having a better insight on the impact of stuttering on people who stutter's everyday life. This paper presents a study on this application, verifying which features of impact of stuttering found in scientific literature are included in the application and making a comparison with a similar application. Furthermore, it also summarises a user study conducted with a first panel of experts. New findings and obtained results are discussedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Kajian Penambahan Konsentrasi Susu Skim Terhadap Mutu Minuman Yogurt dari Limbah Air Cucian Beras Lokal

Water from the washing of rice during rice cooking process is considered wastewater. This rice cleansing water contains nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and B1 vitamin which alternatively can be used to make yogurt drink with the addition of skim milk. The purpose of this research was to obtain the exact skim milk concentration to produce the best quality of yogurt drink from rice cleansing water. A completely randomized experimental design with three levels of skim milk concentrations i.e.: 5, 10, and 15% with three replications were applied in this research. Observed variables include total acid, protein, fat, and total bacteria content, as well as an organoleptic test (viscosity, consistency, flavor, and taste). The 10% skim milk concentration was found to be the best treatment resulting in yogurt drink with total acid, protein, fat, total bacteria content of 1.11%, 3.54%, 1.55%, and 1.50 CFU/mL respectively, viscosity and taste of the organoleptic of the drink were 3.15 and 3.25 subsequently. Keywords: rice cleansing water, skim milk, yogurt drink &nbsp

Conjunct Agreement and Gender in South Slavic: From Theory to Experiments to Theory

Agreement with coordinated subjects in Slavic languages has recently seen a rapid increase in theoretical and experimental approaches, contributing to a wider theoretical discussion on the locus of agreement in grammar (cf. Marušič, Nevins, and Saksida 2007; Bošković 2009; Marušič, Nevins, and Badecker 2015). This paper revisits the theoretical predictions proposed for conjunction agreement in a group of South Slavic languages, with a special focus on gender agreement. The paper is based on two experiments involving speakers of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) and Slovenian (Sln). Experiment 1 is an elicited production experiment investigating preverbal-conjunct agreement, while Experiment 2 investigates postverbal-conjunct agreement. The data provide experimental evidence discriminating between syntax proper and distributed-agreement models in terms of their ability to account for preverbal highest-conjunct agreement and present a theoretical mechanism for the distinction between default agreement (which has a fixed number and gender, independent of the value of each conjunct) and resolved agreement (which computes number and gender based on the values of each conjunct and must resolve potential conflicts). Focusing on the variability in the gender-agreement ratio across nine combinations, the experimental results for BCS and Sln morphosyntax challenge the notion of gender markedness that is generally posited for South Slavic languages

When linearity prevails over hierarchy in syntax

Hierarchical structure has been cherished as a grammatical universal. We use experimental methods to show where linear order is also a relevant syntactic relation. An identical methodology and design were used across six research sites on South Slavic languages. Experimental results show that in certain configurations, grammatical production can in fact favor linear order over hierarchical structure. However, these findings are limited to coordinate structures and distinct from the kind of production errors found with comparable configurations such as “attraction” errors. The results demonstrate that agreement morphology may be computed in a series of steps, one of which is partly independent from syntactic hierarchy

Association of MAPT haplotype‐tagging polymorphisms with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: A preliminary study in a Croatian cohort

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the world leading cause of dementia. Early detection of AD is essential for faster and more efficacious usage of therapeutics and preventive measures. Even though it is well known that one ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E gene increases the risk for sporadic AD five times, and that two ε4 alleles increase the risk 20 times, reliable genetic markers for AD are not yet available. Previous studies have shown that microtubule‐associated protein tau (MAPT) gene polymorphisms could be associated with increased risk for AD. Methods: The present study included 113 AD patients and 53 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), as well as nine healthy controls (HC) and 53 patients with other primary causes of dementia. The study assessed whether six MAPT haplotype‐tagging polymorphisms (rs1467967, rs242557, rs3785883, rs2471738, del–In9, and rs7521) and MAPT haplotypes are associated with AD pathology, as measured by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) AD biomarkers amyloid β1–42 (Aβ1–42), total tau (t‐tau), tau phosphorylated at epitopes 181 (p‐tau181), 199 (p‐tau199), and 231 (p‐tau231), and visinin‐like protein 1 (VILIP‐1). Results: Significant increases in t‐tau and p‐tau CSF levels were found in patients with AG and AA MAPT rs1467967 genotype, CC MAPT rs2471738 genotype and in patients with H1H2 or H2H2 MAPT haplotype. Conclusions: These results indicate that MAPT haplotype‐tagging polymorphisms and MAPT haplotypes should be further tested as potential genetic biomarkers of AD

Концептуальное моделирование вспышек лесных пожаров на основе онтологического подхода DataMining. Часть 1

Протестовано геліоцентричну гіпотезу причин спалахів лісових пожеж. Знайдено докази кореляції між раптовим надходженням заряджених частинок з боку сонця і виникненням лісових пожеж із затримкою від одного до чотирьох днів. Проведено порівняльний аналіз методів ANFIS та нейронних мереж у задачі пошуку функціональної залежності між виникненням лісових пожеж і факторами, що характеризують сонячну активність. Використано декілька методів аналізу (методи усунення сезонності, R/S-аналіз, DataMining) для встановлення потенційних зв’язків між коливаннями певних параметрів, що характеризують сонячну активність, і виникненням лісових пожеж з урахуванням затримки в часі. Знайдено наявність взаємозв’язку і розроблено прогностичний сценарій, який засновано на ANFIS та нейромережевих технологіях. Ці методи, в деяких випадках, дозволяють досягнути точності прогнозування до 93%.The heliocentric hypothesis of causes of forest fires outbreaks has been tested. We found evidence of correlation between the sudden arrival of charged particles from the Sun and the occurrence of forest fires with a delay of one to four days. In this research, the comparative analysis was made between ANFIS and Neuron Networks in the task of searching a functional dependence between the occurrence of forest fires and the factors which characterize the solar activity. For this purpose, we used several methods (R/S analysis, Hurst index, DataMining) for establishing potential links between the influx of some parameters from the Sun and the occurrence of forest fires with lag of several days. We found an evidence for a connection and developed a forecasting scenario based on the ANFIS and Neuron Network techniques. This scenario, in some cases, allows to predict occurrences of forest fires with up to 93% accuracy.Протестирована гелиоцентрическая гипотеза причин вспышек лесных пожаров. Найдены доказательства корреляции между внезапным поступлением заряженных частиц от солнца и возникновением лесных пожаров с задержкой от одного до четырех дней. Проведен сравнительный анализ методов ANFIS и нейронных сетей в задаче поиска функциональной зависимости между возникновением лесных пожаров и факторами, характеризующими солнечную активность. Использованы несколько методов анализа (методы устранения сезонности, R/S анализ, DataMining) для установления возможных связей между колебаниями определенных параметров, характеризующих солнечную активность, и возникновением лесных пожаров с учетом задержки во времени. Обнаружено наличие взаимосвязи и разработан прогностический сценарий, основанный на ANFIS и нейросетевых технологиях. Эти методы, в некоторых случаях, позволяют достичь точности прогнозирования до 93%

Monoaminergic neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease

None of the proposed mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) fully explains the distribution patterns of the neuropathological changes at the cellular and regional levels, and their clinical correlates. One aspect of this problem lies in the complex genetic, epigenetic, and environmental landscape of AD: early-onset AD is often familial with autosomal dominant inheritance, while the vast majority of AD cases are late-onset, with the ε4 variant of the gene encoding apolipoprotein E (APOE) known to confer a 5–20 fold increased risk with partial penetrance. Mechanisms by which genetic variants and environmental factors influence the development of AD pathological changes, especially neurofibrillary degeneration, are not yet known. Here we review current knowledge of the involvement of the monoaminergic systems in AD. The changes in the serotonergic, noradrenergic, dopaminergic, histaminergic, and melatonergic systems in AD are briefly described. We also summarize the possibilities for monoamine-based treatment in AD. Besides neuropathologic AD criteria that include the noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC), special emphasis is given to the serotonergic dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). Both of these brainstem nuclei are among the first to be affected by tau protein abnormalities in the course of sporadic AD, causing behavioral and cognitive symptoms of variable severity. The possibility that most of the tangle-bearing neurons of the LC and DRN may release amyloid β as well as soluble monomeric or oligomeric tau protein trans-synaptically by their diffuse projections to the cerebral cortex emphasizes their selective vulnerability and warrants further investigations of the monoaminergic systems in AD