Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS OF CANOLA AFFECTED BY SULPHUR LEVELS AND APPLICATION TIMINGS

Canola (Brassica napus L.) a conventional oil seed crop, as winter season crop which can be successfully grown in Pakistan. Present research was conducted to study “yield of canola as affected by different sulphur (S) levels and application timings” at Agronomy Res. Farm, Univ. of Agriculture, Peshawar in season 201415. Canola crop was sown under sulphur levels of 30 and 40 (kg S ha) with three timing of S application (full at sowing, split application and rosette stage). Experiment was designed in randomized complete block design replicated four times. Results showed that more number of pods plant (278), grain pod (21), thousand grain weight (4.1 g), biological yield (3911 kg ha), grain yield (1317 kg ha) and harvest index (29 %) were significantly affected by different sulphur levels and application timings. Data revealed that equal split application at rate of 30 kg S ha ̄1 was more efficient as compared with full at sowing or rosette stage. From this study, it was concluded that yield and yield components were substantially improved by the split application of S at 30 kg S ha ̄1 at sowing and rosette stage.
ESTIMATION OF HETEROSIS FOR QUALITY TRAITS IN TOMATO ( SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM L . )

MANOJ KUMAR1*, V. SRINIVASA1, MEENAKSHI KUMARI3, MANISH KUMAR2 AND M. S. HEENA1 1Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, Mudigere (University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga 577 132, Karnataka, INDIA 2Division of Vegetable Sciences, ICARIndian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, INDIA 3Department of Vegetable Science, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur 208 002, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA e-mail: manoj000.hk21@gmail.com
Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases: A Review of the Clinical Presentation and Management at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki

Background: Gestational trophoblastic diseases (GTD) are potentially curable with retention of reproductive function once the correct diagnosis is made and treatment is commenced early with adequate follow up. Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the incidence, clinical presentation, management and treatment outcomes of gestational trophoblastic diseases in a tertiary hospital in Abakaliki, South-east Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive study of gestational trophoblastic diseases managed at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AEFUTHA) over a 6-year period. The statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 22. Results: The incidence of GTD was 4.6 per 1000 deliveries. Women who were less than 20 years and more than 40 years of age accounted for 5.9% and 23.5% of cases of GTD respectively. Women who were para 5 and above accounted for 76.5% of those who presented with GTD. All the patients presented with vaginal bleeding. Suction evacuation (76.5%) was the commonest form of treatment offered to women with GTD. The commonest complication was anaemia (94.1%). Maternal death due to GTD was 8.8%. Most (58.8%) of the patients did not turn up for follow-up. Conclusion: Gestational trophoblastic diseases has remained an important cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in our hospital due to poor compliance with follow-up. Call and recall system should be introduced in the management of patients with GTD to improve compliance to management standard.
Nonlocal effect of internal waves on the ocean surface

The effects of nonlocal connection between an internal wave field and centimeter- and decimeter-scale waves were studied using the JUSREX-92 data. Centimeter-scale wave parameters were measured by means of a ship-mounted, X-band side-looking radar, decimeter-scale wave parameters were measured with a two-dimensional optical device (the wave spectrum analyzer) and parameters of the internal waves were measured by a towed, profiling batfish operated by the Atlantic Division of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. The authors show that disturbed regions of centimeter- and decimeter-scale surface waves exist at distances up to 1 km away from the region of internal waves. The spatial period of the surface wave spectral density variations can differ from the internal wave length, but the magnitude of this difference depends on the relative direction of surface wave propagation. These variations in the spectral density of decimeter-scale surface waves can be explained in terms of a standard kinematic model of the action of internal waves on wind waves. The variations in the spectral density of centimeter waves is a result of a cascade mechanism: the surface flow caused by the internal waves transforms the decimeter-scale waves, which then cause the centimeter-scale wave variations. <<ETX>>
The British Psychological Society Personnel selection

The main elements in the design and validation of personnel selection procedures have been in place for many years. The role of job analysis, contemporary models of work performance and criteria are reviewed critically. After identifying some important issues and reviewing research work on attracting applicants, including applicant perceptions of personnel selection processes, the research on major personnel selection methods is reviewed. Recent work on cognitive ability has con rmed the good criterion-related validity, but problems of adverse impact remain. Work on personality is progressing beyond studies designed simply to explore the criterion-related validity of personality. Interview and assessment centre research is reviewed, and recent studies indicating the key constructs measured by both are discussed. In both cases, one of the key constructs measured seems to be generally cognitive ability. Biodata validity and the processes used to develop biodata instruments are also critically reviewed. The article concludes with a critical evaluation of the processes for obtaining validity evidence (primarily from meta-analyses) and the limitations of the current state of the art. Speculative future prospects are brie y reviewed.
Integrating cross-cultural interaction through video-communication and virtual worlds in foreign language teaching programs: is there an added value?

Abstract Organizing and implementing telecollaboration projects in foreign language curricula is not an easy endeavour (Belz & Thorne, 2006; Guth & Helm, 2010), as pedagogical, organizational and technical issues have to be addressed before cross-cultural interaction sessions can be carried out (O'Dowd & Ritter, 2006; O'Dowd, 2011). These issues make many teaching practitioners reluctant to try to integrate telecollaboration in their teaching, as they are more aware of the burden such initiatives might impose than of the benefits they might have for language learners. Within the European project NIFLAR1 we have tried to study the added value that integrating synchronous collaboration projects through video-web communication or Second Life might have in language learning. The study presented in this paper measures the oral communicative growth of language students, who were allocated at random to one of three research conditions: (1) the VC experimental group carried out interactions with native peers through video-web communication; (2) the SL experimental group carried out the same tasks with native peers in Second Life and (3) the control group performed the tasks face to face with classroom peers and had no opportunity to interact with native experts. Communicative growth was measured by comparing oral pre- and post-tests across conditions. Results show significant differences, the experimental groups outperforming the control group.
Correlation and Path Coefficient Analysis in Oat ( Avena sativa L . )

The present study was conducted during winter season of 2009-2010 with 90 diverse genotypes selected from wide range of germplasm being maintained at Forage Research Farm, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. The genotypes were analysed for genetic variability, correlation and path coefficients. Most of the traits had high mean values. High heritability along with high genetic advance (GA) was recorded for internode length (cm), number of tillers/plant, flag leaf length (cm), plant height (cm), axis length (cm), axis branch number, number of seeds/panicle and seed yield (g)/plant. High estimates of genotypic coefficient of variation and phenotypic coefficient of variation (GCV and PCV) were observed for internode length, number of tillers/plant, axis branch number, number of seeds/plant and seed yield/plant, suggesting that selection based on these characters would facilitate successful isolation of desirable types. Traits like number of leaves, internode length (cm), flag leaf width (cm), axis length (cm), axis branch number and number of seeds/panicle had positive and significant correlation at genotypic as well as phenotypic level with seed yield and the selection based on these traits will result in improving the seed yield in oat. Traits like number of leaves, internode length, flag leaf width, axis length, axis branch number and number of spikelets/panicle showed high direct effect on seed yield/plant. Selection for more number of leaves, axis branches and number of seeds per panicle along with broader flag leaf will be significant for the improvement of seed yield in oat. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Assembly process and optical performances for a golden laser spark-plug device

Abstract. The low-stress Solderjet Bumping technique was employed to assemble the optical components of an increased-robustness laser spark-plug ignition device using the low melting alloys 96.5Sn3Ag0. 5Cu and 80Au20Sn. A finite-element-method analysis, optical simulations, and a soldering parametrization test were performed to prove that different optical materials (sapphire, ECO-550, D-ZLaF52LA, TAC4, and N-SF11 glasses) could be fastened to the stainless steel body. The assembled spark-plug device featured a passively Q-switched Nd : YAG/Cr4 + : YAG composite ceramic medium and delivered laser pulses with energy variable between 2.40 and 4.70 mJ, with 0.8 ns duration, suitable for inducing air breakdown phenomenon and engine combustion.
Math Manipulatives: Making the Abstract Tangible

In order to succeed in mathematics students must develop an understanding of abstract concepts. Elementary teachers often use math manipulatives to represent concretely the abstract concepts that students are learning and to connect these concepts to prior knowledge. Traditionally, teachers and students used concrete manipulatives, however, in many contemporary classrooms teachers and students also use pictorial and virtual manipulatives. This article will begin by defining, and providing examples and potential applications of concrete, pictorial, and virtual manipulatives. Next, this article will present the theoretical foundations for teachers and students to use manipulatives in mathematics education. Finally, this article will review the literature on the impacts of teachers and students using math manipulatives. The author hopes that this article reveals the factors and conditions that may contribute to educators’ successes and struggles with using manipulatives.
Numerical modeling of free oscillations applied to superconducting-gravimeter data in a low-frequency seismic range

Data from a superconducting gravimeter were obtained from the Geodetic Observatory Pecný (GOPE), Czech Republic, and compared with acceleration data from a broadband seismometer at the same location. We calculated synthetic seismograms for several pointand finite-source fast solutions of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake obtained from surface waves and tested them only against the observed gravity data because of high-noise levels in the low-frequency seismic data. We have obtained a good fit of the synthetic amplitude spectrum with the data up to 1.7 mHz without an additional increase of the moment magnitude. In this aspect, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake was similar to the 2010 Maule earthquake and not to the 2004 SumatraAndaman earthquake, where the free-oscillations studies resulted in an increase of the early Mw values. The degree-one mode 3S1 dominates the 3S1-2S2-1S3 triplet at the GOPE station.
Relating Left / Right Brained Dominance Types of Leaders to TQM Focus : A Preliminary Study

In this paper we relate left/right brain dominance types of leaders to TQM focus. Literature on TQM shows two distinct achievable results: continuous improvement and innovation. We hypothesize that left brained leaders emphasize continuous improvement; and right brained leaders focus on innovation. A pilot study of 111 Indian firms lent good support to our hypotheses. Keywords— TQM leadership, left brained leaders, right brained leaders, continuous improvement, innovation.
Terrorism, dread risk and bicycle accidents

Following the airplane attacks of September 11th, 2001 it is claimed that many Americans, dreading a repeat of these events, drove instead of flying, and that, consequently, there were extra car accidents, increasing the number of fatalities directly caused by the attacks by 1, 500. After the Madrid train bombings of March 11th, 2004, Spaniards, like Americans, avoided the attacked mode of travel, but no increase in car travel or fatal accidents resulted. Here we analyze behavioral concomitants of the July 7th 2005 bomb attacks on public transport in London. We find reduced underground train travel and an increase in rates of bicycling and, over the 6 months following the attacks, 214 additional bicyclist road casualties — a 15.4% increase. Nevertheless we found no detectable increase in car accidents. We conclude that, while fear caused by terrorism may initiate potentially dangerous behaviors, understanding the secondary effects of terrorism requires consideration of the environmental variables that enable fear to manifest in dangerous behaviors.
A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between mathematics-related affect and achievement in Finland

In this paper, a nationally representative longitudinal data of mathematics learning outcomes in Finland is analyzed in order to determine the direction of causality between mathematics-related affect and achievement. First, the results indicated that students’ mathematical achievement, emotion, and self-efficacy were significantly stable over time. Different models were estimated to test the reciprocal relationship between students affect and achievement. The results indicated that mathematics achievement and self-efficacy have a reciprocal relation, where the dominant effect is from achievement to self-efficacy. The results indicate also a weaker unidirectional effect from achievement to emotion.
Distance-weighted regularization for compressed-sensing video recovery and supervised hyperspectral classification

Title of Study: Distance-weighted regularization for compressed-sensing video recovery and supervised hyperspectral classification Pages of Study: 117 Candidate for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The compressed sensing (CS) model of signal processing, while offering many unique advantages in terms of low-cost sensor design, poses interesting challenges for both signal acquisition and recovery, especially for signals of large size. In this work, we investigate how CS might be applied practically and efficiently in the context of natural video. We make use of a CS video acquisition approach in line with the popular single-pixel camera framework of blind, non-adaptive, random sampling while proposing new approaches for the subsequent recovery of the video signal which leverage inter-frame redundancy to minimize recovery error. We introduce a method of approximation, which we term multi-hypothesis (MH) frame prediction, to create accurate frame predictions by comparing hypotheses drawn from the spatial domain of chosen reference frames to the non-overlapping, block-by-block CS measurements of subsequent frames. We accomplish this frame prediction via a novel distance-weighted Tikhonov regularization technique. We verify through our experiments that MH frame prediction via distance-weighted regularization provides state-of-the-art performance for the recovery of natural video sequences from blind CS measurements. The distance-weighted regularization we propose need not be limited to just frame prediction for CS video recovery, but may also be used in a variety of contexts where approximations must be generated from a set of hypotheses or training data. To show this, we apply our technique to supervised hyperspectral image (HSI) classification via a novel classifier we term the nearest regularized subspace (NRS) classifier. We show that the distance-weighted regularization used in the NRS method provides greater classification accuracy than state-of-the-art classifiers for supervised HSI classification tasks. We also propose two modifications to the core NRS classifier to improve its robustness to variation of input parameters and and to further increase its classification accuracy. DEDICATION To Laura et al. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It takes a village to raise a child. – Someone (presumably wise) Perhaps a politician invented it, but I prefer the romantic idea that this saying came up from the bosom of the savanna. If there had been such a thing as a Doctorate of Philosophy at that time, out in the bush among the lions and elephants, I think that the (perhaps imaginary) wizened elder would have said something different. Looking out across the crackling fire and into the eyes of …
The Guilty Couch Potato: The Role of Ego Depletion in Reducing Recovery Through Media Use

This paper addresses ego depletion as a mechanism influencing media-based stress recovery processes. Using structural equation modeling, relationships between ego depletion, procrastination, guilt, enjoyment, vitality, and recovery experience were tested using data from an online survey ( N =471). Results suggest that ego depletion may increase the risk of negatively appraising the use of interactive (video games) and non-interactive (TV) entertaining media as a form of procrastination. The resulting guilt is negatively related to the recovery experience associated with using entertainment. Therefore, ego-depleted individuals may benefit less from the psychological recovery potential of entertainment media, despite their greater need for recovery. These findings are an important step in understanding the pivotal role of appraisal processes for media-induced recovery and the entertainment experience.
A Unified View of Business Process Modelling Languages 1

Abstract. Understanding and specifying business processes is a challenge. Many different approaches have been developed, each with their own specific business process modelling languages designed to meet a business specific requirements. In practice, however, multiple business process languages are often being used within one and the same enterprise. This paper proposes a universal and language independent abstraction of the concepts of today's mainstream business process modelling languages, in a unified ontology based on an analysis of seven popular business process modelling approaches. Generic concepts are identified and a unified meta-model designed. An ontological analysis of the representational capability of this meta-model is examined in relation to the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontology. This meta-model is open to further extensions such as incorporating requirements or extending into a knowledge base. Keywords: Business process; Business process ontology; Unified business process meta-model; Business process Modelling; BWW ontology.
CrossInfoNet: Multi-Task Information Sharing Based Hand Pose Estimation

This paper focuses on the topic of vision based hand pose estimation from single depth map using convolutional neural network (CNN). Our main contributions lie in designing a new pose regression network architecture named CrossInfoNet. The proposed CrossInfoNet decomposes hand pose estimation task into palm pose estimation sub-task and finger pose estimation sub-task, and adopts two-branch crossconnection structure to share the beneficial complementary information between the sub-tasks. Our work is inspired by multi-task information sharing mechanism, which has been few discussed in hand pose estimation using depth data in previous publications. In addition, we propose a heat-map guided feature extraction structure to get better feature maps, and train the complete network end-to-end. The effectiveness of the proposed CrossInfoNet is evaluated with extensively self-comparative experiments and in comparison with state-of-the-art methods on four public hand pose datasets. The code is available.
Beyond Productivity Effects : Cash transfers and Investments in Education in Post-war Uganda

This paper looks at the secondary effects of a grant, the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed youth, while working in practice as an Unconditional Cash Transfer program. It kept a gender balance by mandating that the groups contained at least a third of female members. Overall, the intervention had a significant impact on education-related expenditures, increasing them by 11-15 percent, US$ 17-23, in the shorter and longer term (i.e. after two and four years). Specifically, men assigned to receive the grant increased total educational expenses by about US$ 32 both after two and four years (21-24 percent), whereas total educational expenditures of women in the treatment group did not increase. Female recipients seem to have not made more substantial investments in education, at least in part, because of stronger external influences, such as probable financial requests from other members of their YOP group. These results suggest that the intervention had on average a positive impact on investments in education, but it had a lower effect on women possibly due to its group-structure. 1 Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Nathan Fiala for sharing the data. This research received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n. 263905 (TAMNEAC). All errors and opinions are mine. 2 Applied Economist, World Bank, Education Global Practice, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, U.S.A. , mcalderone1@worldbank.org; and Research Affiliate with the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN)