Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Female Work Force Participation and Women Empowerment in Haryana

India is known as a country of diversity regarding the social, cultural and wide geographical variations. In the north and north-west part of the country, the strong patriarchal norms and the male dominance based social structure are the important constructs. Patriarchal social setup adversely affects the women’s social and economic wellbeing and hence in that social structure women are considered as second level citizen. Work participation rate of women has directly linked to the development of society or household. Haryana is one of the developed states of India, still being ahead in economic prosperity, much lagged behind in gender-based equality and male dominance in all dimensions of life. The position of women in the Haryana is no better than the other states of India. Haryana state has the great difference among the male-female sex ratio which is a serious concern for social science research as a demographic problem for the state. Now women are requiring for their holistic empowerment and that will take care of them for an enabling process that must lead to their economic as well as social transformation. Hence, the objective of the paper is to address the role of sex ratio, women literacy and her work participation in the process of their empowerment with special attention to the gender perspective. The study used the data from Census of India from 1991 to 2011. This paper will examine the regional disparity of sex ratio, literacy rate and female work participation and the improvement of empowerment of women in the state of Haryana. This paper will suggest the idea for focusing much intensively on the issues of women empowerment through enhancement of her education, workforce participation and social participation with people participation and holistic approach. Keywords—Sex ratio, literacy rate, workforce participation rate, women empowerment, Haryana.
Intelligent algorithms for reducing query propagation in thematic P2P search

Information retrieval is a relevant topic in our days, especially in distributed systems where thousands of participants store and share large amounts of information with other users. The analysis, development and testing of adaptive search algorithms is a key avenue to exploit the capacity of P2P systems to lead to the emergence of semantic communities that are the result of the interaction between participants. In particular, intelligent algorithms for neighbor selection should lead to the emergence of efficient communication patterns. This paper presents new algorithms which are specifically aimed at reducing query propagation overload through learning peers’ interests. Promising results were obtained through different experiments designed to test the reduction of query propagation when performing thematic search in a distributed environment.
Noise-Aware Subspace Clustering

The existing popular clustering self-reconstruction based models generally assume the corruption stems from a unimodal Gaussian noise, which makes the model insufficiently describe the noise. In fact, the realistic noise is much more complex beyond our assumption. Therefore, it may be unsuitable to consider the noises come from one source. Motivated by this, we propose the Mixture of Gaussian Regression (MoG Regression) for subspace clustering. The MoG Regression can provide an effective way to model the unknown noise distribution which approaches the real one as far as possible. As a result, the desired affinity matrix is better at characterizing the structure of data in real world, furthermore, improving the performance. We prove the diagonal entries of coefficient matrix are all zeros and our method holds the grouping effect. Borrowing the ideal from the minimum message length, a model selection strategy is proposed to estimate the numbers of the Gaussian components. In addition, we proved the asymptotic property of our model. In order to highlight the ability of modelling the complex noises we evaluate the MoG Regression model for clustering on the challenge datasets. The experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate that the proposed MoG Regression model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art subspace clustering methods.
Optofluidics in Microstructured Optical Fibers

In this paper, we review the development and applications of optofluidics investigated based on the platform of microstructured optical fibers (MOFs) that have miniature air channels along the light propagating direction. The flexibility of the customizable air channels of MOFs provides enough space to implement light-matter interaction, as fluids and light can be guided simultaneously along a single strand of fiber. Different techniques employed to achieve the fluidic inlet/outlet as well as different applications for biochemical analysis are presented. This kind of miniature platform based on MOFs is easy to fabricate, free of lithography, and only needs a tiny volume of the sample. Compared to optofluidics on the chip, no additional waveguide is necessary to guide the light since the core is already designed in MOFs. The measurements of flow rate, refractive index of the filled fluids, and chemical reactions can be carried out based on this platform. Furthermore, it can also demonstrate some physical phenomena. Such devices show good potential and prospects for applications in bio-detection as well as material analysis.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IMPACTS OF SOIL , WATER AND PHYTOHORMONES ON GROWTH OF RAPHANUS SATIVUS IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE JAUNPUR CITY

Raphanus sativus an annual occasionally biennial, short stemmed herb with a rosette of lyrate is native of eastern India. A particular variety of Raphanus sativus named jaunpuri or newar grown in certain belt of Jaunpur city showed better growth in terms of length, girth and biomass at certain place and period of its growth cycle. However, this was not conspicuous in another cultivar of radish i.e. pusa chetki growing at the same site. Chemical analysis of water and soil was done by applying titrimetric methods. Hormonal analysis was done by using Mass spectrometer. It was found that the chemical properties of irrigated water, such as hardness, chloride content and electrical conductance, along with some physico-chemical properties of soil, such as nitrogen and organic carbon, supported the root growth of cv. newar 112.5% (length), 133.3% (girth) and 2077.5% (biomass) more than that of cv. pusa chetki. Among the three selected sites (Siddiquepur, Bhavrajipur and Mandi Naseeb Khan), Bhavrajipur and Mandi Nasheeb Khan provided suitable environment for better growth of cv. newar.
Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits

This study measures risk attitudes using two paid experiments: the Holt and Laury (2002) procedure and a variation of the game show Deal or No Deal. The participants also completed a series of personality questionnaires developed in the psychology literature including the risk domains of Weber, Blais, and Betz (2002). As in previous studies risk attitudes vary within subjects across elicitation methods. However, this variation can be partially explained by individual personality traits. Specifically, subjects behave as though the Holt and Laury task is an investment decision while the Deal or No Deal task is a gambling decision.
DISPERSAL OF TRILLIUM SEEDS BY DEER: IMPLICATIONS FOR LONG‐DISTANCE MIGRATION OF FOREST HERBS

Theoretical models of plant range expansion require the assumption of occasional long-distance seed-dispersal events to explain post-glacial migration rates. For the many forest herbs whose seeds are dispersed primarily by ants, there are few documented mechanisms of occasional long-distance dispersal, so models of forest-herb migration have been largely phenomenological. Here we show that viable seeds of Trillium grandiflorum, an ant-dispersed forest herb in eastern North America, are dispersed via ingestion and defecation by white-tailed deer. We also use data from the literature on movement patterns and gut retention times to model a deer-generated seed shadow, showing that most seeds dispersed by deer should travel at least several hundred meters from parent plants, and occasionally >3 km. Our results provide a mechanism of long-distance dispersal that has likely contributed to rates of post-glacial migration and post-agricultural forest colonization. Corresponding Editor: M. L. Cain
Clinical Predictors of No-Reflow in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction

Background The no-reflow phenomenon in the setting of primary coronary intervention for acutemyocardial infarction (AMI) is relatively common and is associated with adverse outcomes.The detection of clinical variables associated with this phenomenon beforethe procedure might help to adopt preventive measures and thus improve the results. Objective The aim of this study was to identify clinical predictors of the no-reflow phenomenonin the setting of percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation acutemyocardial infarction, prior to the procedure. Methods A total of 742 patients with AMI 60years, anterior infarction and delay to reperfusion > 3 hours as independent predictorsof no-reflow.ConclusionAdvanced age, anterior infarction and delay to reperfusion were independent clinicalpredictors of no-reflow. The confirmation of these findings in prospective studiesmight allow the implementation of strategies to prevent this phenomenon and eventuallyimprove the long-term clinical outcomes.
Nv β-actin and NvGAPDH as normalization factors for gene expression analysis in limb regenerates and cultured blast-ema cells of the adult newt , Notophthalmus viridescens

The red-spotted newt has the ability to fully regenerate complex structures by creating a pool of dedifferentiated cells that arise in response to tissue injury. An understanding of the mechanisms involved in the regenerative ability of the newt is limited by a lack of characterized assays. This deficiency includes the cloning and validation of housekeeping genes for normalizing gene expression data. We describe the cloning, characterization and real-time quantitative PCR evaluation of the normalization potential of the newt homologues of cytoplasmic β-actin and GAPDH during newt limb regeneration and within the blastemal B1H1 cell line. Nvβ-actin demonstrates a heterogeneous expression during limb regeneration and may be associated with differentiation state. The level of Nvβ-actin expression in B1H1 cultures under conditions of myogenesis and serum resupplementation varies with the treatment. NvGAPDH is ubiquitously expressed during limb regeneration and within B1H1 cultures and does not demonstrate overall variations in expression levels. Thus, NvGAPDH is a more appropriate normalization factor in gene expression analyses during limb regeneration and treatments of B1H1 cultures.
EVALUATION OF A HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS GENOTYPING ASSAY FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING IN TANZANIA kandali kapie

Mucosal high-risk Human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) has been identified as the primary factor in causing cervical cancer, the most common cancer in women of low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Cervical cancer screening, incorporating the HPV test shown to be more advantageous than screening by visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) alone. However, due to resources constrain these countries could not afford the available HPV tests. We, therefore, validated a cost-effective Multiplex PCR HPV (mPCR) assay, a recently developed assay for detecting sixteen genital HPV, fourteen HR-HPV and 2 low-risk genotypes. We postulate that this HPV multiplex assay will be at least as accurate as commercially available genotyping methods to detect HPV types (16,18,30,31,33,35,39,45,51,52,56,58,59 and 66) and two low-risk (LR) type 6 and 11. The assay demonstrates high sensitivity and specificity in detecting single and multiple HPV infections. Compared to a World Health Organization (WHO) validated assay, mPCR had an almost perfect agreement in detection of the sixteen HPV genotypes, 98% (102 out of 103 per samples); coefficient of agreement () value of 0.955 and 96.5% (110 out of 114 detection events);  value of 0.923. This assay may help in assessing cervical cancer in Tanzania and other LMICs when used together with Pap smear. In the second part of the study, we evaluated a mPCR melt-off assay for detection of the sixteen HPV mPCR products. We performed a two-step experiment; PCR amplification followed by a Real-time PCR melt-off assay using SYTO 82 Orange fluorescence dye in instead of Syber Green. We postulated that the assay could detect mPCR amplicons and would distinguish a few different genotypes of HPV, in a single reaction, if the amplicons had unique melting profiles. The assay was able to detect each of the sixteen HPV amplicons by their unique melting temperatures (Tms). When tested in triplicate experiments, each HPV amplicon gave consistent Tm measurements. However, we discovered that the assay could not clearly distinguish Tm peaks of more than 3 amplicons in a single sample. Instead, Tm peaks were merged together when there was less than a 1C temperature difference of the Tms of the amplicons. Clear Tm peaks were observed when the Tms of the respective amplicon Tms were at least 2C apart. The assay could still be simplified to detect one or two of the most abundant HR-HPV genotypes found in Tanzania. We predict that this assay would be cheaper than any commercial DNA test and could be used to triage women with lesions by helping to predict their risk for developing cervical cancer hence improve management of these women.
Records of four non-indigenous marine species, south of Koroni (Messiniakos Gulf, Peloponnese, Greece).

Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman and Boudouresque 2003 (Bryopsidales, Caulerpaceae), Percnon gibbesi H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Decapoda, Plagusiidae) and Fistularia commersonii Ruppell, 1838 (Syngnathiformes, Fistulariidae) are reported from the coast, south of Koroni (Messinia, Greece). Sphyraena chrysotaenia Klunzinger, 1884 (Perciformes, Sphyraenidae) is recorded for the first time for this region. The crab Percnon gibbesi is very common along the coastal stretch northeast of Kalamaki beach, while regional observations of Caulerpa racemosa, Sphyraena chrysotaenia and Fistularia commersonii are occasional.
Phytochemical and in-vitro antibacterial effects of the partitioned portions of Bauhinia rufescens Lam stem bark extract

The study into the chemical contents and in-vitro antibacterial effects of the portioned portions of the methanol stem bark extracts of Bauhinia rufescens Lam were evaluated in some Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria using the hole-in-plate disc diffusion technique. The methanol stem bark extract was successively portioned using solvents of grade polarities: n-hexane, chloroform, ethylacetate, n-butanol and water. Qualitative phytochemical components of these portions were determined using conventional protocol and the overall results indicated the presence of flavonoids, saponins, resins, cardiac glycosides, cardenolides, aloes, anthraquinones and phlobatannins in one or more of the portions. Test microorganisms include Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae (Gram positive); Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp. and Salmonella typhi (Gram negative) bacteria. The diameters of inhibition zone on the Gram positive bacteria was found in the range of 10.33 ± 0.17 (residual aqueous portion) to 28.00 ± 1.00 (n-butanol portion) while on Gram negative organism the values ranged from 10.83 ± 0.17 (residual aqueous portion) to 29.33 ± 0.17 (chloroform portion). The results revealed that most of the portions were highly sensitive on S. typhi with highest MIC/MBC values of 0.78/1.56 mg/ml (n-hexane and ethylacetate portions) and also 1.56/3.13 mg/ml (chloroform and n-butanol portions). The extracts showed equal MIC/MBC data of 1.56 mg/ml on B. subtilis exhibited by n-hexane, ethylacetate and n-butanol portions. The activity index (AI) showed that all the portions were more sensitive to S. pneumoniae and E. coli when computed with erythromycin and Gentamicin respectively. N-butanol portion had the highest AI against B. subtilis (77.90 %), S. pneumoniae (69.86 %) and S. typhi (57.62 %); chloroform recorded higher AI against E. coli (91.74 %) while ethylacetate portion had AI of 88.63 % against Klebsiella spp. when computed with ciprofloxacin. These portions were found to be more sensitive to Gram negative than gram positive species studied. The study further confirms the use of the part of B. rufescens in some parts of Northern Nigeria as a remedy against diarrhoea, dysentery and other related diseases whose causative agents are most of the organisms tested.
Age-structural Transitions : The Identification of Demographic Dividends

Demographers and economists have become increasingly interested in the nature and significance of changes in the age-structure of populations as they shift from being relatively ‘youthful’ to relatively ‘old’. This is not just because they worry about the consequences of the later phases in this transition, but also because they see benefits or opportunities in the preceding phases. Demographers and economists have, however, taken rather different views of the demographic dividends or bonuses which have been associated with certain kinds of age-structural transition. This paper highlights important features of the transition process too much neglected by economists.
Customer Expectation, Satisfaction and Loyalty Relationship in Turkish Airline Industry

In recent years, the development rate of aviation industry in Turkey has ascended faster than the rate of the worldaviation industry. The number of airlines has been increasing with the supports of Turkish government to vitalizethe aviation sector. Therefore, for airline companies, understanding passenger expectations, satisfaction andloyalty relationship has become very important because of tough competition in the industry.The main objective of this study is to find therelationship among the above mentioned variables in Turkishairline industry. As data collecting method in the study, 5-point Likert type self-report questionnaire includingdemographic variables was used. The survey was conducted in June and July 2012 with voluntary participationof the passengers waiting in both the domestic and international lines’ areas in four main Turkish airports. Thedata was collected from 421 domestic flight passengers and 400 for international flight passengers. To analyzethe data, structural equation modeling was applied.The results showed that reliability and facilities had a significant positive effecton customer satisfaction. Inaddition customer satisfaction was found to be a significant determinant of customer loyalty. Based on thefindings, some suggestions for airline management were made and also study limitations were discussed.
An Overview of Brucellosis in Cattle and Humans, and its Serological and Molecular Diagnosis in Control Strategies

Brucellosis is one of the most common contagious and communicable zoonotic diseases with high rates of morbidity and lifetime sterility. There has been a momentous increase over the recent years in intra/interspecific infection rates, due to poor management and limited resources, especially in developing countries. Abortion in the last trimester is a predominant sign, followed by reduced milk yield and high temperature in cattle, while in humans it is characterized by undulant fever, general malaise, and arthritis. While the clinical picture of brucellosis in humans and cattle is not clear and often misleading with the classical serological diagnosis, efforts have been made to overcome the limitations of current serological assays through the development of PCR-based diagnosis. Due to its complex nature, brucellosis remains a serious threat to public health and livestock in developing countries. In this review, we summarized the recent literature, significant advancements, and challenges in the treatment and vaccination against brucellosis, with a special focus on developing countries.
The prevalence and determining factors of comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS and condom use among adolescents in Sierra LeoneData from DHS 2013

Introduction: Adolescents are among the most vulnerable groups to HIV in a society and information regarding their sexual health including HIV is inadequate. This study aims at assessing comprehensive HIV knowledge and condom use among adolescents in Sierra Leone and their determining factors.Methods: Adolescents aged 15-19 from DHS Sierra Leone 2013 were studied. Analysis included comparison with DHS 2008 and assessment of potential predictors for both outcomes. Statistical tests include Pearson’s chi-squared test and logistic regression analysis.Results: Prevalence of comprehensive HIV knowledge was 30.2% in 2013 compared to 26.9% in 2008; higher among secondary/higher education (AOR2 2.34, 95% CI 1.90-2.89) and lower for rural (AOR2 0.83 95% CI 0.69-0.99), married/cohabiting (AOR2 0.65, 95% CI 0.50-0.84), middle wealth (AOR2 0.70, 95% CI 0.56-0.89), no accepting attitude to HIV (AOR2 0.57, 95% CI, 0.45-0.72) and unknown HIV status (AOR2 0.66, 95% CI 0.56-0.78). Prevalence of condom use was 8.6% in 2013 compared to 10.6% in 2008; higher among males (AOR2 2.93, 95% CI 2.14-4.01), Christians (AOR2 1.58, 95% CI 1.14-2.16) and adolescents with multiple sexual partners (AOR2 1.67, 95% CI 1.13-2.41) and lower for primary school adolescents (AOR2 0.43, 95% CI 0.18 -0.95). Conclusion: Comprehensive HIV knowledge increased and condom use decreased in 2013 compared to 2008 and several determining factors of both outcomes were identified for DHS 2013. This study enables targeting vulnerable groups and provides comparable findings which are informative in planning for broad objective of lowering the burden of HIV/AIDS in the society and adolescents in particular.
Results of the Electrolysis Percutaneous Intratissue in the shoulder pain: infraspinatus, A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: The Electrolysis Percutaneous Intratissue (EPI®) is a novel technique that provokes a local inflammatory process, allowing the phagocytises and affected tissue to repair. Objectives: The work is aimed to: a) verify the effectiveness of the EPI® when there is shoulder pain, b) locate where the EPI® should be applied, c) and find the possible interaction between the trigger points and the tendon pain. Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Institute of Physiotherapy and Sports. Method: A double randomized experimental longitudinal study was conducted on four groups of 10 people aged 34-47 years with pain in the shoulder. In the first study there were three intervention groups and a control group. In the second study, the group with the best results in the first study served as a control group. Measurements: The variables measured were the perceived pain and the restriction for abduction, internal and external rotation. Results: Although the three intervention groups improved respect to the control group when the EPI® was applied, the results show that the EPI® is more effective when it is applied in all detected trigger points and to tendon pain. Conclusions: The EPI® is more effective if applied in the infraspinatus muscle and the tendon than applied only to one of the two structures, when both structures have pain. Limitations: The study could have tested the involvement of different structures and its related biomechanical implications. It could have also considered more variables.