Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Controlling Water Hyacinth in Lake Tana Using Biological Method at Green House and Pond Level

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the most dangerous aquatic weeds for Lake Tana. To minimize invasion; biological, chemical and physical control methods can be used. Biological control based on the use of natural enemies of the weed to discourage its development was the best option. Plant pathogenic associated with naturally infected Faba bean by fungus was conducted at different sites with the objective of study the pathogen city indigenous fungi on water hyacinth to manage its spread on Lake Tana. Infected fungus plant samples were collected from three weredas (Amba Gyorgese, Dabat and Debarke) around Gondar at 20 Peasant association (PAs), The collection were done for infected Faba bean leaves and roots and isolated using Potato Dextrose Agar medium. Highest disease incidence per plant was recorded in water hyacinth plants using Using Modified Naseema et al. (2001) disease severity rating scale by inoculated with Rhizoctonia solani spp. Aspergillus flavus, Tricothcium roseum, Fusarium spp and Aspergillus niger show high moderate disease severity and tissue death at green house and pond level. Those fungus were released on September 2016 to prepared open pond at 16m2 and water hyacinth was started severely attacked on November 2016, its disease incidence was 55% at 23˚C and humidity 39%, in December 2016 its disease incidence was 58.4% at humidity 31% and 23˚C, in January 2017 disease incidence was 65% at 26˚C and humidity 25% and in Feb 2017 not record disease incidence because all leaves are attacked and dry and Disease severity was 100%. However, in April 2017 due to the climate conditions becomes cold and rain the dried water hyacinth started make new shoot and at this time the disease severity was 90%. Some species of Fungi found in Faba bean leaf and root can eradicate the healthy water hyacinth at above 26˚C and at less than 25% Humidity.
Expressive Teaching Behaviour: Bridging The Gender Gulf In Secondary School Chemistry Achievement

This study investigated how the gap created by gender in students’ chemistry achievement (as evidenced from various researches) could be bridged. The researcher tested the use of expressive teaching behaviour on the achievement of male and female students in chemistry. A total of 178 SSI chemistry students (82 males and 96 females) in four mixed schools in Oyo state were involved in this study, which employed the quasi-experimental pre- test post-test control group experimental design. t – test analysis of the scores of male and female students that were taught with expressive teaching behaviour were not significantly different (t = 0.40; df = 176; P>0.05). Based on this, therefore, the researcher recommended the use of expressive teaching behaviour for the teaching of chemistry concepts and principles to students. This, the paper claims, would enhance the chemistry achievement of female students as well as their male counterparts.
Protective Immunity Against Challenge Infection with Trichinella spiralis in the Rat

Title Protective Immunity Against Challenge Infection with Trichinella spiralis in the Rat Author(s) Quan, Fu Shi; Bae, Jun Sang; Lee, Jeong Beom; Min, Young Ki; Yang, Hun Mo; Joo, Kyung-Whan; Cho, Sung-Weon; Lee, Joon-Sang; Nakayama, Toshiyuki; Sekine, Ichiro Citation Acta medica Nagasakiensia. 2007, 52(4), p.101-106 Issue Date 2008-03 URL http://hdl.handle. net/10069/16824 Right NAOSITE: Nagasaki University's Academic Output SITE
DRIS Norms for grafted and non-grafted red bell pepper in semi arid climate conditions in a greenhouse

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to compute and compare DRIS norms for grafted and non-grafted red bell pepper crops grown in semi arid climate conditions. DRIS norms were computed with 84 samples of first young mature leaves collected during developed stage. The experiment had a completely randomized block design, and the values obtained for each plant and each variable were considered as independent replicates. Thirty-two DRIS norms nutrient ratios and coefficients of variation (CV) were computed from N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Cu, Zn and Mn analytical results. The ratios P/N and K/N in grafted and non-grafted pepper plants, showed low CV and therefore may play a fundamental role in crop production according with the DRIS norms calculated, since as light modification in the nutrient concentration led to a significant change in the nutritional balance. In conclusion, DRIS norms are sensitive for grafted and non-grafted plants. This work may signify an improvement in the nutritional diagnosis of grafted and non-grafted red bell pepper in semi arid climate conditions under a shaded greenhouse.
Electrochemical determination of carboplatin in serum using a DNA‐modified glassy carbon electrode

An electrochemical method for the determination of the anticancer platinum drug carboplatin using a DNA-modified electrode was developed. This electrode was successfully used for the electrochemical determination of carboplatin in serum samples of patients with ovarian cancer undergoing treatment. The electrochemical results clearly demonstrated that, for low concentrations, carboplatin interacts preferentially with adenine rather than guanine groups in the DNA and they can contribute to clarifying the mechanisms of interaction of platinum anticancer drugs with DNA. The pharmacokinetics corm ondIng to the administration of the drug was followed electrochemically and the detection limit in serum samples was 5.7 x 10 M. Due to a similar mechanism of reaction with DNA other platinum anticancer drugs can be determined by this method.
Diagnóstico sugestivo de transtorno da compulsão alimentar periódica em portadores de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 e seu efeito sobre o controle metabólico Presumptive binge eating disorder in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and its effect in metabolic control

objective: This study sought to determine the presence of diagnosis suggestive of binge eating disorder in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and to evaluate the influence of such disorder on the metabolic control. Methods : sixty-three patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and registered at the Diabetes and Hypertension Program of a Health Unit in the town of Balneario Camboriu, Santa Catarina, Brazil, were evaluated. The diagnosis of binge eating disorder was made by analysis of the Questionnaire on Eating and Weight Patterms – Revised. For the evaluation of metabolic control, 10 ml of blood was collected, and the serum glucose, glycated hemoglobin, tryglicerides, cholestrol and fractions were determined. Weight and height were determined for evaluation of national nutritional state, according to the body mass index. results: Among the evaluated individuals, 29% presented a diagnosis suggestive of binge eating disorder, with higher prevalence among females. The individuals with diagnosis suggestive of binge eating disorder presented a higher average body mass index value than the group without diagnosis. The serum concentrations of glycated hemoglobin (p = 0.02) and triglicerides (p = 0.03) were statistically higher in the group with diagnosis suggestive of binge eating disorder. Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, it is possible to conclude that the presence of binge eating disorder in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus favors an increase in body weight and has a negative influence on metabolic control, contributing to the early emergence of complications related to the disease.
Historical and present-day vertical movements on old mining terrains - case study of the Walbrzych Coal Basin (SW Poland)

The paper focuses on the analysis of vertical movements on old mining terrains in the final stages of mining and in the period after the end of mining. The study has been done for the Walbrzych Coal Basin area in SW Poland, which has been a hard coal mining centre until the mid-90’ties of the 20 Century. The study has been performed in geographic information systems (GIS) using national precise levelling data from three measurement campaigns in 1972, 1993 and 2014 spanning period of 42 years and using six interpolation functions, i.e.: inverse distance weighted, kriging, local polynomial, natural neighbour, radial basis function and spline. Accuracy of interpolation results has been analysed and maps representing vertical movements on mining terrains in the final two decades of mining and the two decades after the end of mining prepared with the interpolation function with the least error of estimation. The maps have been graphically correlated with plans of the abandoned coal mines and present day development of the surface. Differentiated vertical movements on old mining terrains ranging from 0.048 m to + 0,189 m have been observed in the period after the end of mining (1993-2014) indicating present-day secondary movements on these grounds. The areas of elevation in the second period are associated with the areas of greatest subsidence observed in the first period (1972-1993). ARTICLE INFO
MACE for Ayrshire conformation: Impact of different uses of prior genetic correlations

This study is a continuation of the study by Mark and Madsen (2002), who compared Ayrshire across country genetic correlation estimates for conformation traits using REML analysis with estimates from Gibbs sampling using three different prior beliefs. Previous results concerning the length of the burnin period were too pessimistic. Convergence of the Gibbs chain was assessed by the method of batching without accounting for the auto-correlation among samples. Taking the auto-correlation into account reduces the number of rounds needed for burnin from more than 200,000 to less than 10,000.
Mixed signals: why investors may misjudge first time high technology venture founders

This paper seeks to explain an unexpected result of a previous quantitative study which suggested suboptimal evaluation by investors of the human capital of first time high tech venture founders. A literature review revealed two possible reasons for this finding: biases/heuristics and signalling. Six investors across three countries (one venture capitalist and one business angel each from the US, UK and Israel) with experience in investing in early stage high technology ventures were interviewed using an identical semi-structured interview protocol. This research design is appropriate for research that seeks to reflect back unexpected findings of previous quantitative research on the subjects of research. Interviewees were first asked to state their own investment criteria, and then presented with the results of the quantitative study and asked for their views. Previous research suggesting a gap between in-use and espoused criteria, and extensive use of gut feeling in decision-making, was supported. Interviewees focused on harvest potential and de-emphasised measures of founder technology capability that predicted early survival and growth in the earlier study. The paper concludes by suggesting how investors might improve funding decisions in high tech ventures led by first time entrepreneurs, noting the study's limitations and making recommendations for further research.
Preference and Perceived Danger in Field/Forest Settings

The authors investigated preference, perceived danger, and fear for a sample of 70 field/forest settings. Predictor variables included perception-based variables (visual access, penetration, movement ease), information-based variables (mystery, concealment, refuge), and variables thought to intervene between concealment and danger (entrapment, rearview concern). All variables were rated by independent groups. Danger and fear were strongly positively correlated for these settings, but preference and danger had a more modest negative correlation. Factor analysis of the strongly intercorrelated predictor variables yielded two factors, interpreted as Visibility and Locomotor Access. Both factors were positive predictors of preference and negative predictors of danger. Further analyses suggested feelings of entrapment could mediate the positive relation between concealment and danger and that after controlling for other indicators of visibility, mystery has a positive relation to preference. In general, the role of visual and locomotor access in accounting for preference or danger reactions is highlighted by these findings.
Old Apprehensions, New Anxieties: A Study of Student 'Psychological Cost' in Traditional and Distance Education

Two hundred and four students enrolled at a Greek university in the Economics department were asked to estimate the costs for participation in traditional and in distance education. These costs included 'psychological cost', which this paper reports on. 'Psychological cost', such as stress and anxiety for each educational method, was estimated by students on the assumption that they would hire (1) an assistant to facilitate learning and using a PC in the case of distance learning, and (2) an independent expert to help the student understand courses and to overcome any stress associated with class participation in the case of traditional learning. It was hypothesised that the psychological cost for each educational procedure would decline with experience. It was found that for university students following a distance learning course, psychological cost declined with experience and familiarisation with elearning. However, psychological cost did not decrease with experience in the case of students following a traditional course. The latter finding may be partly due to constantly changing professors, classmates and expectations, and to the cyclical nature of academic stress in the traditional setting. In conclusion, it is suggested that a mixture of distance learning and traditional learning may be the soundest strategy, allowing the student to profit from the advantages of both distance and traditional higher education methods.
Some Macroeconomic Implications of Alternative Compensation Systems

A basic theme of this paper is the idea that some structural reform of employee compensation arrangements is necessary to make reasonable price stability compatible with reasonably full employment. In this view even the best designed macroeconomic policies are much too aggregative to get at the heart of the stagflation problem. The ultimate solution involves going inside the workings of a modern capitalist economy and correcting the underlying structural flaw directly on the level of the individual firm. Stagflation represents an especially intractable policy dilemma for macroeconomics. Without a decisive tendency of the economic system to remain near full employment, there is a strong prima facie case for fighting recessions by exogenously stimulating aggregate demand. But the usual Keynesian expansionary policies tend to impart an inflationary inertia that is difficult to choke off. And of course the basic strategy for fighting inflation is to cool down the economy by restrictive monetary and fiscal policy thereby increasing unemployment and closing the viscous circle. Because the practical macroeconomic policies for dealing with unemployment and inflation are so diametrically opposed, stagflation is a pervasive structural problem when, for whatever reason, there is basically an unfavourable short run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation. Economic policy tends to vacillate between expansion of demand to fight unemployment and restriction of demand to fight inflation, polarising the electorate and distracting society from dealing effectively with its underlying 'real' economic problems. Even the difficulty of attaining 'external balance' in foreign accounts is largely a spillover into the international payments arena of an inability to achieve an acceptable 'internal balance' between full employment and price stability. ' This paper takes what might be called a comparative systems approach to the problem of stagflation. At the heart of modern industrial capitalism is an incredibly complicated system of overlapping monopolistic competitors.2 A starting point for the paper is the realisation that the coordination difficulty which can cause some systems to suffer involuntary unemployment is not inherent in laissez faire private enterprise per se. It is closely tied to one particular property of a conventional wage payment system: namely, compensation of each firm's employees is stuck to an outside numeraire (whether money, or a cost of
Asymmetric shocks across European Monetary Union: can labor mobility act as an adjustment mechanism?

The paper looks at the degree of labor mobility across EMU member states, as according to OCA theory labor mobility has been emphasized as one of the adjustment mechanisms that can counteract the negative effects of asymmetric shocks that are still present inside EMU. Furthermore, the problem is considered also in the case of new acceding countries, since at a certain moment in time they must join EMU. The existing empirical results show that, at this stage, labor mobility does not act as an effective adjustment mechanism. However, continuous integration and labor market reforms might generate improvements on its functioning. Asymetric Shocks Across European Monetary Union 53
The Tilapia Agrifood-Chain from a Sociopoietic Territorial Approach: A Theoretical Proposal

In the state of Veracruz, Mexico, the performance of the Tilapia ( Oreochromis spp.) production system in the domestic market has been declining. Recent production results are lower than those presented in 1999, revealing that the production model adopted and used since 2001 is ineffective as a development strategy. The reason for the failure is that the model considers the technological production process as the central element of aquacultural competitiveness, without considering that production practices, marketing and consumption of goods are performed by individuals who decide and control their actions and are motivated by the values shared with their social group. This interpretation reveals the need for a new complementary conceptual framework, considering the system of production and consumption as a social self-referencing system. Thus, in this article, a model of an agricultural food-chain with a sociopoietic territorial focus on the development of the aquaculture subsector is outlined. The model is based on constructs having the following theoretical dichotomies: territorial agrifood, neo-institutional business, sociopoiesis and individual motivation.
Seiridium cardinale on Juniperus species in Greece

Summary Seiridium cardinale, the cause of cypress canker disease, was found on Juniperus foetidissima, J. excelsa, J. oxycedrus and J. phoenicea, in a number of natural juniper woodlands in Greece. The presence of infections was sporadic in most cases, with a limited number of plants affected by the pathogen. At one locality in the Prespes Lakes region of northern Greece, however, the incidence of infection was very high, especially on J. foetidissima and J. excelsa. The identity of S. cardinale was confirmed using morphological characters and comparisons of DNA sequences for the b-tubulin gene region. The pathogenicity of S. cardinale isolates from Juniperus and Cupressus was verified in cross-inoculation trials on both potted and field grown plants.
Day 4 embryos should not be underestimated in IVF.

Background: 2-3 and Day 5 fresh and frozen-thawed embryos are most frequently used in ART, while the results of Day 4 embryo transfers are seldom reported in the literature. However, the use of Day 4 embryos in clinical practice increases flexibility when choosing the embryo transfer day, and enables avoiding embryo transfers on weekends. Methods and findings: We conducted a retrospective cohort study (1.1.2009-31.12.2014) comparing the clinical outcomes of fresh Day 3 (n=1371), Day 4 (n=360) and Day 5 (n=326) and vitrified-warmed Day 3 (n=635), Day 4 (n=175) and Day 5 (n=654) embryos. The live birth rates of fresh Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 embryo transfers were 26.5%, 31.4% and 24.5%, respectively (p=0.026). The miscarriage rates were 16.6%, 11.7% and 23.0%, respectively (p=0.017). The live birth rates of Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5 vitrified-warmed embryo transfers were 22.0%, 30.9% and 22.6%, respectively (p=0.024). The miscarriage rates were 21.6%, 15.9% and 27.8%, respectively (p=0.049). Conclusions: The results of the present study show that Day 4 embryo transfers produce good clinical outcomes and can be considered for wider utilization at IVF clinics.
INFLUENCE OF SUBSTITUTION OF PEAT WITH IRANIAN ZEOLITE (CLINOPTILOLITE) IN PEAT MEDIUM ON FICUS BENJAMINA GROWTH

This experiment was designed to characterize the effects of size and concentration of an Iranian clinoptilolite zeolite on the growth of Ficus benjamina (starlight) in peat base media. Ficus benjamina was stock rooted and grown in a peat consisting perlite (2:1 v/v) (P: Pe), zeolite (10, 20, 30 and 40 v/v %, two sizes 0.5-3 mm and 3-8 mm) instead of peat in P: Pe (2:1 v/v) media. Ficus benjamina was grown in the substituted media for 10 month under fiberglass cover greenhouse, with 4 pots for each treatment. The control consisted of P: Pe alone without zeolite. The results showed that the substitution of 10-30 v/v % zeolites in control did not result in significant difference (p ≤ 0.05) in shoot and leaf fresh weight, shoot and leaf dry weight, shoot dry weight, leaf dry weight in comparison to control. Instead, substitution of 10-40 v/v % zeolites instead of peat significantly increased media electrical conductivity (EC). There were no positive correlations between Ficus benjamina growth and the amounts of mineral-N in potting mixtures or concentration of nitrogen in leaves of plant. Zeolite particle size significantly increased the pH in comparison with the control. With Regard to the high relative price of peat with respect to natural zeolite, zeolite substitution in an amount of 10-30 vol. % is economically preferred.
A SUBSTELLAR COMPANION TO THE DUSTY PLEIADES STAR HD 23514

With adaptive optics imaging at Keck observatory, we have discovered a substellar companion to the F6 Pleiades star HD 23514, one of the dustiest main-sequence stars known to date (LIR/L* ∼ 2%). This is one of the first brown dwarfs discovered as a companion to a star in the Pleiades. The 0.06 M☉ late-M secondary has a projected separation of ∼360 AU. The scarcity of substellar companions to stellar primaries in the Pleiades combined with the extremely dusty environment make this a unique system to study.
Impact of Control Type on Firm Growth in Taiwan

In this research we work with cross-sectional data for 300 Taiwanese corporations to find possible impact of control type on firm growth. We model firm growth for these corporations with and without growth constraint that is incorporated in our models using discriminant analysis dividing corporation data into two groups S and W. Our results from the models that do not incorporate growth constraints show that the variable Profits/Sales is statistically significant and is positively related to the firm growth. The results do not change much for class when we analyze data for the two classes, i.e. S and W separately using the models that encompass growth constraints. However, for class W, Debt/Equity is the only statistically significant variable which is positively related to the firm growth in Taiwan. S