Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
EFFICACY OF NEUTRALISED ELECTROLYSED WATER AND MILD HEAT AGAINST FOODBORNE PATHOGENS ISOLATED FROM FICUS CARICA

Problems with microorganism toxins in dried fig exports are becoming very important. Chlorine-based sanitizers are effective way of controlling microorganisms, but on the other hand their reaction with natural organic and inorganic matter may potentially form carcinogenic products. Therefore, different sanitizers for the disinfection of food and food contact surfaces are required as an alternative to chlorine-based sanitizers. Some earlier studies revealed that neutralised electrolysed water (NEW) may be a potential substitute for cleaning and sanitizing agents in packaged products. In order to make a contribution to solve toxins problems, the antibacterial and antifungal effect of neutralised electrolysed water (NEW) on the foodborne pathogens were evaluated in this study. Spores of Aspergillus flavus and Penicillium expansum were isolated from the surface of fig fruits. Escherichia coli and Bacillus cereus known to occur on the surface of figs were also evaluated. Vegetative cells and spores of bacterium and fungi were exposed to five different concentrations of NEW (100, 75, 25, 5 and 1%) at three different temperatures (22, 50 and 70°C) for 1, 3 and 5 min. According to the results, at 22°C, 1% neutralised electrolysed water exposure for 1 min effectively decreased the number of vegetative cells of E. coli and B. cereus by approximately 8.5 log cfu/ml and 6.3 log cfu/ml, respectively. At 50°C, 5% neutralised electrolysed water exposure for 1 min significantly reduced the A. flavus and P. expansum spore numbers by 5.54 log cfu/ml and 7 log cfu/ml, respectively. With the effect of mild temperature (22-50°C), low chlorine neutralised electrolysed water (9.22 mg/l 33.85 mg/l available chlorine concentrations) showed a strong antibacterial and antifungal activity against foodborne pathogens. As a conclusion, neutralised electrolysed water can be used widely as a sanitizer in fig enterprises, instead of high cost chlorine based disinfectants.
Desensitizing Efficacy of Foam Containing Potassium Nitrate 5% and Toothpaste Containing Strontium Acetate in Dentin Hypersensitivity: An Eight-Week Clinical Study

Background and aims . The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical desensitizing effects of potassium nitrate and strontium acetate in reduction of hypersensitivity. Materials and methods . Thirty eight patients who presented dental hypersensitivity were selected and randomly allo-cated into two groups. Group I: patients who were treated by potassium nitrate 5% foam, and group II: patients that were treated by strontium acetate toothpaste. Subjects in each group were requested to use their foam or dentifrice twice daily for 2 months. Dentinal hypersensitivity examinations were conducted at baseline using the visual analogue scale (VAS) and dry ice spray, first immediately after treatment and then after 4 and 8 weeks of using the products. The findings were analyzed using paired t-test and ANOVA test. Results . VAS score did not show any significant difference between the two groups before treatment. Analysis of study findings showed no significant difference between the two groups in each period of treatment (P-value> 0.05), but both groups showed significant differences before intervention compared to different intervals of treatment (time 0, 4W, 8W)(P-value Conclusion . Both potassium nitrate and strontium acetate are effective in decreasing tooth hypersensitivity and their desensitizing effect will increase by time passing, but none has preference over the other. Key words : Potassium nitrate, Strontium acetate, Tooth hypersensitivity.
Gender, household headship and children’s educational performance in Nigeria: debunking the myth of poor performance in female-headed households

This study examines how gender interacts with household headship to influence children’s educational performance. It evaluates the educational performance of children in senior secondary schools in Lagos, Nigeria by whether they live in male or female-headed households. The study shows no significant statistical difference in the performance of children in male and female-headed households, but shows that parents’ educational level, especially women’s formal education, influences their children’s educational performance. The study reveals that children’s educational performance is also dependent on support factors in the household. It also shows that though women heading households without partners may experience more constraint in terms of resources, they often strive to ensure that their children do not fulfill society’s expectation of poor performance. The study concludes on the need to empower household heads if their children must access knowledge, an important measure of human development.
Self-perception of quality of life and identification of alexithymia in failed back surgery syndrome patients

JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: A sindrome da falha cirurgica e uma das mais frequentes entidades nosologicas em uma Clinica de Dor e caracteriza-se pela manutencao persistente de queixas algicas lombares e/ou nos membros inferiores em individuos ja submetidos a cirurgia vertebral lombar. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a qualidade de vida e investigar a presenca de alexitimia em uma amostra de individuos com sindrome da falha cirurgica, e analisar as correlacoes entre intensidade de dor e presenca de sintomas de ansiedade e depressao. METODOS: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, exploratorio, comparativo, de corte transversal com abordagem quantitativa em uma amostra composta de individuos com diagnostico de sindrome da falha cirurgica (G1) (n=38) e um grupo com dor lombar e sem intervencao cirurgica (G2) (n=42) pertencentes a uma Clinica da Dor de um hospital escola. Os participantes foram avaliados pelo Inventario Breve de Dor e a escala de Alexitimia de Toronto. Fatores emocionais como ansiedade e depressao foram avaliados pelas escalas Beck e, a qualidade de vida pelo questionario generico WHOQOL-BREF. RESULTADOS: Apontaram escores medios significativamente mais elevados de alexitimia, ansiedade e depressao no G1 e pior qualidade de vida em todos os dominios, se comparado ao G2. Correlacoes significativas entre alexitimia e depressao (p<0,01) e qualidade de vida (exceto no dominio ambiente) e ansiedade/ depressao (p<0,001). CONCLUSAO: Os resultados destacam o impacto negativo que as variaveis psicologicas, frequentemente subdiagnosticadas, tem na qualidade vida. A melhor compreensao dessas reacoes emocionais pode promover uma atuacao mais eficaz do profissional de saude.
Action Research on College Students’ Learning Satisfaction of Incorporating Art Therapy and Spirituality into A Career Planning Course

The investigation of college students’ learning satisfaction for a new teaching model: Example of incorporating art therapy and spirituality into a career planning course. The subjects of this action research were 47 freshmen enrolled in the “Career Planning-Soft Power of Employability” course (10 males and 37 females). Two types of Likert scale questionnaire surveys were conducted before the end of the first semester. The Learning Satisfaction Questionnaire survey showed that the students’ response to the course was positive. Regarding the precursor activity designed for incorporating art therapy into the career planning course, the students’ average learning satisfaction was 4.45 with a standard deviation of 0.82, whereas their average learning satisfaction of overall curriculum planning was 4.34 with a standard deviation of 0.78. The results of open feedback forms showed that the incorporation of art therapy into the relevant activities of this course helped enhance the students’ concentration and interest in learning. In addition, the course was designed to enhance the effectiveness of teaching assessment. The results of the Teaching Assessment Questionnaire showed that the students’ average satisfaction of teaching in this course was 4.44 with a standard deviation of 0.78. Finally, this action research not only proposed specific suggestions for incorporating art therapy and spirituality into career planning course design and teaching method but also pointed out the direction for future action research on the incorporation of expressive art therapy into the relevant course activities of general education.
Constraints to profitable dry season tomato and pepper production in the Kasena-Nankana and Talensi districts of the Upper East Region of Ghana with emphasis on pests and diseases.

Studies were conducted into pests and disease problems of tomato and pepper in two districts of the Upper East Region (UER), namely Kasena-Nankana and Talensi in 2011/2012 irrigation season. Farmer interviews as well as practical surveillance and field diagnoses were employed in the studies. Farmers identified insects and diseases as the second most important production constraint after poor markets and prices that limit the production and hence profitability of these crops in the region. Whitefly Bemisia tabacci , leaf curl and mosaic viruses and vascular wilts were the three most important biological constraints mentioned by farmers and also confirmed from the our field surveys and diagnoses. Poor access to certified seed and high costs of agrochemicals are, in the view of most farmers, other important constraints that need to be addressed in order to promote profitable and sustainable production of tomato and pepper in the study area. Farmers lacked knowledge of alternative controls and generally relied on chemical sprays to cope with pests and diseases though these are seldom fully effective. In view of the well known adverse effects of pesticides on human health, biodiversity and the environment, it is essential to intensify educational and other awareness activities that would empower farmers to adopt integrated crop and pest management (ICPM) practices as alternatives to chemical control.
The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation

The problems of ‘lost in translation’ are well known. Yet some terms of English managerial vocabulary, which are perfectly translatable in other languages, remain untranslated. One explanation of this phenomenon is what Linguistic anthropology call negative semantic resonances. Semantic resonances focused on the issue of which meanings can or cannot be expressed by a single word in different cultures. In this paper, based on an organisational ethnography of Latin American expatriates working for an Italo-Latin-American multinational corporation (Tubworld), we analyse the resonances of the word leader/líder and director, direttore, capo, guida, coordinador, caudillo among a group of expatriates; all Italian, Spanish or multilingual speakers who use English as a second language in their everyday interactions. The paper explains how the different uses contribute to create a meaning of what a leader should and should not be; someone who leads without leading, sometimes a manager. The authors, an Italian native speaker who learnt Spanish during childhood and use English as his everyday language and a Spanish native speaker, argue that Italian or Spanish speakers not only avoid the words duce and caudillo (the vernacular vocabulary for leader, not in use due to the political and cultural meaning) but also the word leader/líder itself, as it resonate to the other two (violent, authoritarian, autocratic, antidemocratic leadership) but furthermore because the word, a lexical loan from English, failed to encapsulate the complexity of leading multilingual organisations like Tubworld.
Wind Tunnel Aeroacoustic Tests of Six Airfoils for Use on Small Wind Turbines: Preprint

Aeroacoustic tests of seven airfoils were performed in an open jet anechoic wind tunnel. Six of the airfoils are candidates for use on small wind turbines operating at low Reynolds number. One airfoil was tested for comparison to benchmark data. Tests were conducted with and without boundary layer tripping. In some cases a turbulence grid was placed upstream in the test section to investigate inflow turbulence noise. An array of 48 microphones was used to locate noise sources and separate airfoil noise from extraneous tunnel noise. Trailing edge noise was dominant for all airfoils in clean tunnel flow. With the boundary layer untripped, several airfoils exhibited pure tones that disappeared after proper tripping was applied. In the presence of inflow turbulence, leading edge noise was dominant for all airfoils.
Two Permian lyttoniid brachiopods from Akasaka, central Japan

Two lyttoniid brachiopod species, Coscinophora magnifies Cooper and Grant, 1974 and Leptodus nobilis (Waagen, 1883) are described from the Middle and Upper Permian limestones in the Akasaka district, Mino Belt, central Japan. The Permian brachiopod fauna of Akasaka is characterized by a mixture of both Tethyan and North American elements. The fauna is considered to have occupied a mid-equatorial region of the Panthalassa Ocean in Permian time.
What Motivates Managers? Evidence from Organizational Form Changes

We formulate and test several hypotheses on managerial motivation using organizational form changes in the real estate industry. We find that firms that switch to a more restrictive structure have increases in stock value and managerial ownership. Firms moving to a less restrictive structure have larger wealth effects when higher monitoring exists. Higher degree of financial distress and forced CEO replacement at the time of organizational form change are taken to be proxies for higher degree of (creditor) monitoring. The wealth effects are decreasing in the firm’s level of free cash flow at the time of organizational form change.
Bandwidth Selection for Recursive Kernel Density Estimators Defined by Stochastic Approximation Method

We propose an automatic selection of the bandwidth of the recursive kernel estimators of a probability density function defined by the stochastic approximation algorithm introduced by Mokkadem et al. (2009a). We showed that, using the selected bandwidth and the stepsize which minimize the MISE (mean integrated squared error) of the class of the recursive estimators defined in Mokkadem et al. (2009a), the recursive estimator will be better than the nonrecursive one for small sample setting in terms of estimation error and computational costs. We corroborated these theoretical results through simulation study.
Remobilization at various grain sorghum genotypes response to impairment of plant photosynthesis using potassium iodide

Remobilizations of storage material from vegetative organs to grains compensate economic yield, particularly in drought stress conditions. In this study, the effects of impaired in the photosynthetic on remobilization percentage of sorghum maturity groups were examined. Treatments were arranged in a split-plot design as randomized complete block with 6 genotypes of grain sorghum (including short-, mid- and full-season genotypes) as main plot, and 2 status of plant photosynthesis including not interfere with the photosynthetic (normal conditions) and impaired in the photosynthetic through dehydration of the leaves and green parts of plants using potassium iodide (KI) in three replications. The experiment was conducted at the Agriculture and Natural Resources Research Station of Toroq, Northern Iran during 2010. The results showed that grain yield, biological yield, harvest index, remobilization percent were significantly different across sorghum maturity groups. The greatest grain yield, biological yield, harvest index and number of grains per panicle were obtained at M5 genotypes (6104 kg ha-1, 16010 kg ha-1, 38% and 60, respectively). Highest remobilization percentage transferred of the 9early genotype of the 532 / 5gr/ m2 and the highest percentage remobilization and highest remobilization efficiency to the 2Genotype of mid groups and 9early groups the range respectively 39/99% and 69/08 % . biological yield treatment of this non disorder in photosynthesis rate was 70% compared to the increased disorder. Correlation analysis that there was positive and significant correlation between dry matter remobilization accumulation with remobilization efficiency (P <0.01), r = 0.920) and percentage remobilization (P<0.01), r = 0.640)
GENERIC CONCEPT OF THE PHYTOSEIIDS ( ACARI : PHYTOSEIIDAE )

The economic importance of the Phytoseiidae motivated many scientists to work on the systematics of this family. One of them was the French acarologist Claire Athias-Henriot. In her first work, she tackled the question of supraspecific groupings within this family from an evolutionistic point of view, and suggested a system for numbering dorsal shield setae, that could be applied to both hypotrichous and holotrichous forms. She also looked for other characters, such as the ratios of the distance between the insertions of some setae on dorsal and sternal shields, the presence of macrosetae on legs, and the length/width ratio of the ventrianal shield. Following Dosse (1957; 1958) who used the shape of the insemination apparatus (spermatheca) for taxonomic purposes, she also adopted this character to define genera, initially without giving it a particular weight. Meanwhile, she also studied other gamasids, and in 1966 considered the insemination apparatus as the main character for distinguishing families of Gamasida. She distinguished the Phytoseiidae within the Laelapoidea (sic), by the type of insemination apparatus and the dorsal hypotrichy. In 1966, she adopted Lindquist and Evans (1965) chaetotactic nomenclature system in her "Contribution à l’étude des Amblyseius paléarctiques (Acariens anactinotriches, Phytoseiidae)". In 1967, she advanced the hypothesis that the insemination apparatus was best for defining phylogenetic relationships because it was less subject to hereditary modifications than external body parts that are in direct contact with the environment. One year later, Athias-Henriot published an exhaustive study on the insemination apparatus of Laelapoidea stating the taxonomic importance of this structure. She also studied adenotaxy and sigillotaxy in order to find characters to define natural lineages. In 1975, she studied the dorsal organotaxy of Amblyseiini in order to define species characters. Two years later she redefined the genus Cydnodromus emphasizing both the importance of the insemination apparatus and the evolution of solenostome gv3. In 1978 and 1981, while describing respectively the new genera Dictydionotus and Pegodromus, Athias-Henriot considered the insemination apparatus and the other characters as having the same weight. In 1983, Ragusa and Athias-Henriot redescribed the genus Neoseiulus; in this case the insemination apparatus was considered as the main character for the definition of the genus, with a series of other (related) characters.
Coping with powerlessness: The relationship of gender and job dependency to empowerment-strategy usage.

The author would like to express her thanks to Rosabeth M. Kanter, J. Richard Hackman, Cheryl Tromley, and Mark Shanley for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. Special thanks go to David M. Mangini for his statistical assistance. The anonymous reviewers and editors of ASQ also provided useful feedback on the article. A critical-incident interviewing method was used to determine the strategies employed by men and women in organizational situations. Ninety-eight male and female participants provided an example of a frustrating workplace situation in which they were powerless because they were dependent on others and the action they took in response to the situation. Measures of job dependency, taken as a measure of relative power for each job, were also assessed. Chi-square, correlational, and log-linear results indicated that while men and women did not differ in the relative power of the jobs they held, women tended to use an acquiescence strategy to a greater extent than men in coping with their powerlessness. When examined, relative job dependency, however, had a greater effect than gender on the use of this strategy. ,
Detecting planets around very cool dwarfs at near infrared wavelengths with the radial velocity technique

Context. Radial velocity monitoring of very cool dwarfs such as late M- and hot L-dwarfs has become a promising tool to search for rocky planets as well as to follow-up planetary candidates around dwarfs found by transit surveys. These stars are faint at optical wavelengths, as their spectral flux distribution peaks at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. For this reason, it is desirable to measure the radial velocities in this wavelength regime. However, in the NIR there are only very few medium- and high-resolution spectrographs available which are mounted at large telescopes. In the near future, high-resolution spectrographs for the NIR will be built, which will allow us to search for rocky planets around cool M-dwarfs and L-dwarfs from radial velocities monitoring. Methods. Stellar atmosphere synthetic models for an M- and an L-dwarf with temperatures of 2200 K and 1800 K, respectively, and a theoretical spectrum of the Earth's transmission in the spectral range from 0.9 to 2.5 \mum are used. We simulate a series of Doppler-shifted spectra observed with different resolving powers and signal-to-noise ratios, and for different rotational broadenings of the dwarf. For different combinations of the input parameters we recover the radial velocity by means of cross-correlation with a high signal-to-noise ratio template and determine the associate uncertainties. Results. The highest precision in radial velocity measurements for the cool M-dwarf is found in the Y band around 1.0 \mum, while for the L-dwarf it is determined in the J band around 1.25 \mum. We note that synthetic models may lack of some faint absorption features or underestimate their abundances. Conversely, some instrumental/calibration aspects that are not taken into account in our estimations would rise the uncertainties.
Conséquences de la tolérance au broutement du bouleau glanduleux sur les ressources alimentaires du caribou

To understand plant-herbivore relationships, we need to study both how plants respond to herbivory and how their response influence resource availability for herbivores. Our goal is to study this interaction using migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and the american dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa Michx) with a simulated browsing and nitrogen fertilisation experiment. Our results showed that birch is tolerant to moderate browsing pressure, as it can regrow following browsing. This tolerance is independent of nitrogen availability supporting the expanded predictions of the limiting resource model. Despite compensation, resource availability for caribou, however, declines with increasing browsing pressure. Our study increases our knowledge of the caribou-birch interaction, in the context of caribou population declines in Nunavik and Nunatsiavut.
Overexcitabilities and ADHD in the Gifted: An Examination

Gifted children and adolescents can display behavioral characteristics similar to those exhibited by children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), leading to potential issues with misdiagnosis. The overlapping characteristics between giftedness and ADHD are often seen as anecdotal or to only exist in theory, such as that explained by Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration and his notion of overexcitabilities. There is a paucity of empirical data to support this perceived relationship between ADHD and overexcitabilities. This study provides empirical support for a relationship between ADHD and overexcitabilities within a sample of gifted adolescents. Implications are discussed.