Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Effect of chitosan application on plant characters , yield attributes and yield of mungbean

1 Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. 2 Crop Physiology Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Mymensingh, Bangladesh. 3 Scientific Officer, OnFarm Research Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Comilla, Bangladesh. 4 Department of Horticulture, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.
Is the Study Abroad (SA) Program Important for Indonesian Students?

This paper aims to investigate how the concept of language, culture, identity and difference work together in the implementation of the SA Program for Indonesian students and how important its application for them. Concerning the interrelatedness between the four concepts in the employment of SA program, it is found that there is a chance for Indonesian learners to create new cultures after having interaction and dialogues through English as the target language. They also construct their new identity as people who have high-skills in English, in which they are marked out differently by other people. Furthermore, regarding the importance of joining in the SA program, it is seen that the program is vital to improve students’ language skills, affect their cultural transformation and increase their level of confidence in using English. However, it should be applied carefully and put some considerations due to some challenges, including the limitation of English competence, the different of learning culture characteristics, the likelihood of crisis identity. Hence, all of the emerged insights above might be beneficial for policymakers of the SA program to revisit the regulation and enhance the quality of their guided SA program. Then, it may be useful as well for the SA program educators to design and employ suitable learning strategies to be suitable with students’ demands. Ultimately, it can be useful insights as well for students to be well-prepared before joining the SA program.
Effect of irrigation with dairy factory effluent on soil chemical, physical and microbial properties

The effects of irrigation with dairy factory effluent (DFE) on soil chemical properties and its consequent effects on physical and microbial properties of grazed pastoral soils were investigated in soils surrounding a dairy factory. Long-term DFE irrigation resulted in an increase in pH, electrical conductivity, exchangeable Na, K, exchangeable Na percentage and extractable P reflecting the use of phosphoric acid, NaOH and KOH as cleaning agents in the factory. Exchangeable Mg and aggregate stability, as measured by wet sieving, were both decreased by long-term DFE additions. Long-term DFE irrigation had no measureable effect on soil organic matter content (organic C, total N) but caused a decrease in the C/N ratio and substantial increases in microbial biomass C and N and basal respiration which were attributed to regular inputs of soluble organic C (e.g. lactose) present, as milk residues, in the effluent. There was no measureable increase in metabolic quotient caused by long-term DFE irrigation suggesting that it had not caused undue stress on the microbial community.
Impact of Slow Breathing Pranayama on Heart Rate Variability.

Background: Yoga is ancient heritage of India that has given man the answers to his spiritual and holistic search for perfect health and well-being. Pranayama, the fourth limb of ashtanga yoga, plays a significant role in maintaining the autonomic functions of an individual. In today’s world of cut throat competition everyone is striving hard to live a natural, healthy and stress free life. Pranayama is a simple and easier way through which one can reduces all his stress, tension and live a healthier disease free life. Aim: To elucidate the effect of slow breathing pranayama on sympatho-vagal balance. Material and methods: The study included thirty medical students both male and female of age group 17-21 years. Students practiced anulom-vilom pranayama twenty five minutes daily for three months. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is measured before, at 6 weeks and at 12weeks of pranayama practice. Parameters included in the study were High Frequency Component (HF), Low Frequency Component (LF) and LF/HF Results: There occurs a significant increase (p value <.01) in HF component and significant decrease (p value<.01) is observed in LF component and LF/HF. Conclusion: Anulom-Vilom pranayama plays a significant role in improving the various cardiovascular functions of an individual. Thus helps in improving the quality of life.
A Microeconometric Analysis of Households Saving Determinants in Morocco

Economic fluctuations, climate risk and a number of individual specific shocks leave households vulnerable to severe hardship in developing countries. Moreover, the credit and insurance markets are limited and the social coverage is weak. In this context, households saving is crucial to provide an insurance against the economic and social shocks. Additionally, a better knowledge of households saving behaviour could develop the potential to finance investments. This article provides an analysis of microeconomic factors which explain the household savings behaviour in Morocco by using a new survey. Household saving functions are estimated in order to test households' responses to income, monetary or non-monetary wealth and socio-demographic variables in urban and rural areas. Our results confirm that current income strongly affects the saving level whatever the home place. Surprisingly, the household’s size is significant only in the urban case: an additional person reduces the household saving. For the life cycle hypothesis, the results are not significant. Finally, we find that Moroccan women save more than men when we take into account the interaction between gender and income. Nevertheless, for highest income levels, we observe the opposite results. In the case of rural households, there is no statistically significant effect on saving behaviour from the ownership indicators of household’s lands or other real estate. The results suggest that the self financing of rural household activities may be due to the lack of access to formal financial intermediaries. Key-words : Saving, Morocco, individual data, microeconometrics. JEL classification : E21, D12, C3 * Institut national de statistique et d’économie appliquée (INSÉA), Maroc. ** Laboratoire d’Economie de Dauphine (LEDA), Université Paris Dauphine. *** Corresponding author : Laboratoire d’Economie de Dauphine (LEDA), Chaire Dauphine-EnsaeGroupama, Université Paris Dauphine Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris cedex 16 France Email: najat.el-mekkaoui@dauphine.fr
Lifelogging in User Experience Research: Supporting Recall and Improving Data Richness

Abstract The purpose of lifelogging is to help users collect data for self-monitoring and reflection. We have in this study explored how lifelogging technology (a camera and a heart rate monitor) can change user experience (UX) research, and we describe a novel approach. Data was collected for three days with four participants, and a 4–6-hours co-creation workshop with stimulated recall interview was held with each of them to create an experience timeline. The timeline includes self-reported key experiences, lifelog stimulated experiences, heart rate, decisions, and valence. The results show that the number of experiences in the timeline that come from data points stimulated by the lifelogging, are as many as the self-reported data points. Lessons learned include that the use of lifelogging produces highly detailed UX research, but it is very time consuming, due to the sheer amount of data.
Macroeconomic and Demographic Determinants of Demand of Life Insurance : A case of Kenya , Nigeria , and South Africa

Life insurance as part of the insurance business plays an important role in human’s life and the economy of a country. This is because it provides financial security to families, long term savings, and contributes to the economic growth of the country. However, there is no conclusive proof of what really determines its consumption. This study aims to explore the macroeconomic and demographic determinants of life insurance demand in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. We employ ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis of time series data covering the period between 1981 and 2013 in the case of Kenya, and 1981-2012 in the case of Nigeria and South Africa. The findings clearly show that both macro-economic as well as demographic factors influence the demand of life insurance for the three countries under investigation. However, some indicators, such as, GDP per capita, level of education and life expectancy reveal unexpected signs that suggest further research. Moreover, due to variations observed, we cannot draw a unique conclusion on factors influencing the demand of life insurance among the three countries under investigation.
Hemodynamic Correlates and Prognostic Value of VE / VCO 2 Slope in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Pulmonary Hypertension

Background: Impaired exercise capacity is one of the hallmarks of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but the clinical and hemodynamic correlates and prognostic value of exercise testing in patients with HFpEF is unknown. Methods: Patients with HFpEF (left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] ≥45%) and pulmonary hypertension underwent cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPX) to measure maximal (peak VO2) and submaximal (ventilatory equivalent for carbon dioxide [VE/VCO2] slope) exercise capacity. In addition, right heart catheterization was performed. Patients were grouped in tertiles based on the VE/VCO2 slope. Univariate and multivariate regression analyses were performed. A Cox regression analysis was performed to determine the mortality during follow-up. Results: We studied 88 patients: mean age 73 ± 9 years, 67% female, mean LVEF 58%, median N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) 840 (interquartile range 411–1938) ng/L. Patients in the highest VE/VCO2 tertile had the most severe HF, as reflected in higher New York Heart Association functional class and higher NT-proBNP plasma levels (all P < .05 for trend), whereas LVEF was similar between the groups. Multivariable regression analysis with backward elimination on invasive hemodynamic measurements showed that VE/VCO2 slope was independently associated with pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). Cox regression analysis showed that increased VE/VCO2 slope (but not peak VO2) was independently associated with increased mortality. Conclusion: Increased VE/VCO2 slope was associated with more severe disease and higher PVR and was independently associated with increased mortality in patients with HFpEF. (J Cardiac Fail 2017;23:777–782)
ENDOSCOPIC ARTEFACT DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION WITH DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK

Endoscopic artefact detection challenge (EAD2019[? ]) includes three tasks: (1) Multi-class artefact detection: localization of bounding boxes and class labels for 7 artefact classes for given frames (specularity, saturation, artefact, blur, contrast, bubbles and instrument); (2) Region segmentation: precise boundary delineation of detected artefacts (instrument, specularity, artefact, bubbles and saturation); (3) Detection generalization: detection performance independent of specific data type and source. We participated all three tasks of EAD2019, and this manuscript summarizes our solution based on deep learning for each task. In short, for task 1, we apply the improved Cascade R-CNN [1] model combined with feature pyramid networks (FPN) [2] to deal with multiclass artefact detection; for task 2, we apply the network architecture like Deeplab v3+ [3] with different backbones (ResNet101 [4] and MobileNet [5]) to segment multi-class artefact regions; for task 3, we used Cycle-GAN [6] and then perform image translation between training dataset and testing dataset to improve the model generalization of multi-class artefact detection. Besides, we apply unsupervised t-SNE [7] to visualize the date distribution to achieve targeted data reduction and augmentation before training detection and segmentation model; and finally, some effective strategies of model fusion and post-processing are also used to obtain the final results.
Negation in Morphology

Negative markers are not a uniform category. They come in various types and, depending on their type, they take scope over a clause, a phrase, or just a word. Low scope negative markers (LSN) like de-, dis-, un-, iN-, non-, -less are bound morphemes and have therefore been mainly studied within morphology, focusing on the semantics of these markers (contradiction vs. contrariety), issues related to their productivity, and their combinability with certain categories. Wide scope negative markers (WSN), like not are often free morphemes and are usually treated within syntax. Thus there is a morphology-syntax divide when it comes to the treatment of negative markers. However, there are reasons to give up this divide and to uniformly treat negative markers within one module of the grammar. First, from a typological point of view, the bound-free divide of negative markers does not correlate with their scope. For instance, agglutinative languages have WSN markers that are bound morphemes attaching to the verbal base. Second, morphological processes, like suppletion or other types of allomorphy, can be observed in markers that show properties of WSN markers. Third, independent negative particles, like for instance the Dutch free morpheme weinig ‘little, few’, shares stacking properties with other LSN markers like un- and iN-. Fourth, both LSN and WSN markers are subject to the same constraint concerning stacking scopally identical negative markers. Fifth, syncretisms have been found across languages between WSN and LSN, allowing negative markers to be ordered in such a way that no ABA patterns arise, suggesting that the morphology of negative markers reflects the natural scope of negation and that there is a continuum between LSN and WSN markers.
Biodegradation of Atrazine in Fertile Nile Delta Clay Soil under an Intensive Multicrop Rotation Farming System

Biodegradation of atrazine in Nile Delta agricultural soils previously treated with atrazine under a maize cropping rotation system was investigated under controlled laboratory conditions. Two techniques were used to follow atrazine biodegradation kinetics: i) incubated soil samples and ii) soil suspension (slurry technique). An enrichment technique and atrazine agar indicator plates were used to isolate atrazine-degrading bacteria. Both tested soils showed high and similar ability to degrade atrazine, in which atrazine dissipated completely without detection of any metabolites in soil suspensions at 7 and 3 days after the first and second enrichment, respectively. Atrazine degradation rate constants (k) were significantly increased by repeated enrichment: they increased from 0.4 and 0.5 d after the first enrichment to 1.3 and 1.2 d after the second enrichment for Soil I and II, respectively. Also, atrazine biodegradation kinetics was strongly affected by atrazine application number where atrazine degradation rate constants (k) significantly increased by increasing pretreatment number. However, the atrazine half-life (T1/2) was decreased (but not significantly) by previous treatment times where it was 2.45, 2.32, 2.11, and 1.17 days for T0, T1, T2 and T3 soil samples, respectively. These data suggest the presence of an adapted microbial population in these soils able to metabolise atrazine. This hypothesis was confirmed by isolation of seven bacterial strains characterized by their capacity to degrade a high atrazine concentration in the presence of a carbon source. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
MARKET ORIENTATION AND LOGISTICS SERVICE PROCESS QUALITY : AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION IN THE LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THAILAND

This article is intended to study service characteristics of logistics service providers (LSPs) in Thailand concerning marketing environment. The first part of this article emphasizes theoretical review on market orientation and logistics service process quality that is essential to logistics service providers. Next, the study is on relationship between quality of logistics service process and level of market orientation of logistics service providers focusing on quality of logistics service process comprising of personnel contact quality, information quality, order accuracy and order procedure of logistics service providers in Thailand. An empirical research was conducted by the method of inferential statistics with 199 samples of logistics service providers in Thailand. The result of the research reveals that market orientation has a positive correlation with quality of logistic service process, personnel contact quality and order accuracy of logistics service providers with different level of market orientation in a statistically significant manner.
PERIOPERATIVE SERUM BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AND CARDIAC TROPONIN IN EMERGENCY INTRACRANIAL VASCULAR SURGERY

Background: intracranial bleeding is often associated with a large variety of cardiac derangements, ranging from mild regional wall motion abnormalities to frank cardiac insufficiency. There are well known associations between severe SAH and acute ischemic stroke with new occurred cardiac insufficiency. Some authors report cardiac abnormalities in major head trauma with intracranial bleeding. Method: we conducted a prospective study during 2012 with all intracranial bleeding presented to our department and subjected to surgery, but with no prior history of cardiac disease. cTNt and NT-proBNP were measured preand postoperatively and we also recorded electrical changes on a 12 lead ECG, and echocardiographic changes (regional wall motion abnormalities and left ventricular ejection fraction). Results: from 82 patients submitted to emergency surgery for intracranial bleeding, 37 had a cTN I>0.3 ng/ml (45%), 57 (69.5%) had a significant increase of >200 pg/ml in NT-proBNPover normal values as reported by hardware manufacturer and these levels were incrementally related to SAH severity (Hunt and Hess scale and Fisher scale), to GCS and midline shifts for intracranial hematoma. Numerous patients with increased cardiac troponin had also ECG abnormalities (QT prolongation, various arrhythmias) decrease under 50 % of ejection fraction and ventricular wall motion abnormalities as noted on echocardiography. Conclusion: Cardiac injury is incrementally worse with increasing intracranial bleeding severity and associated with persistent QTc prolongation and ventricular arrhythmias. Regional wall motion abnormalities and depressed ejection fraction were recorded early in the course of disease and persist to some degree in the majority of those affected. RÉSUMÉ
Studies on the influence of the addition of percentage quantities of CH 4 to pure xenon

In the present work, relative measurements have been performed for the EL yields of xenon and xenon-mixtures in a uniform electric field driftless GPSC. The operational parameters of the detector, including amplitude, energy resolution and drift velocity, were measured as a function of the reduced electric field in the scintillation region. For an E/p of 3.5 V/cm/torr, the energy resolution has values of 8.1%, 8.3% and 12% for pure xenon, 99.5%Xe + 0.5%CH4 and 99.0%Xe + 1.0%CH4, respectively. The scintillation amplification parameter for pure xenon was used as reference to obtain the relative EL yields of 68 photons/kV for xenon with 0.5% of CH4, 38 photons/kV for 1% of CH4 and 15 photons/kV for 2.2% of CH4. This reduction in EL has to be taken into account if the addition of CH4 to xenon is to be considered.
Exploring Spanish pre-service teachers’ talk in relation to ICT: balancing different expectations between the university and practicum school

Abstract Information and communications technology (ICT) now plays a prominent role in pre-service teacher education programmes across the globe. Despite this emphasis, research indicates that pre-service teachers’ use of ICT is often less than expected, even though they express positive opinions of its benefits. This study aimed to explore pre-service teachers’ views of ICT and consider the function of their expressed opinions. This longitudinal study, using one-to-one semi-structured interviews, was conducted with pre-service teachers on entry and on completion of a one-year Masters programme in Spain. The pre-service teachers held quite traditional views of teaching and learning, presenting teaching in an either–or manner – either ICT supported or non-ICT supported. They also spoke positively about ICT while simultaneously expressing reservations about it. The article argues that these contradictory positions may be a result of the need to navigate two competing environments, the higher education institution and the practicum school, where expectations of ICT use may differ. The article explores this performative function of their talk.
Understanding regional tourism impact when data is scarce : dealing with the absence of a regional Input-Output table 1

There are many regional economies around the world which dependency on tourism as an economic source of income is vital. The study of how these economies are transformed by tourism, nevertheless, faces a big problem: Poor or inexistent data. We use the case of Salta province, in Argentina, to show how regardless of bad data problems, relevant insights can be found. Based on survey data and location quotients methodology we build a Social Accounting Matrix for Salta. This estimated matrix allows us to apply input-output and CGE models to understand the relevance of tourism in the region. 1 We are grateful to Mrs. Ana Cornejo and Mr. Ricardo Quiroga for crucial help throughout this study. We also thank the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Province of Salta and InterAmerican Development Bank for allowing us to use data collected during the Project Development of simulation models for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Economic Impacts of the Program “Sustainable Tourism Development of the Province of Salta” (IDB loan No. 2835 / OCAR). Finally, the support of Camila Sachella, Diego Born, Sergio Passamonti, Gustavo Vega and Gonzalo Sereno were very important in the process of designing, building and processing different households and production surveys.
Beam dynamics of the ESS linac

The ESS linac will deliver an unprecedented 5 MW of average beam power when completed. Beyond the 90 MeV normal conducting front-end, the acceleration is performed using superconducting structures up to the design energy of 2 GeV. As the ESS will send the beam to a fixed tungsten target, the emittance is not as important a factor as in injectors. However, the losses have to be studied in detail, including not only the average operational loss required to be of less than 1 W/m, but also the accidental losses, losses due to failure and other potentially damaging losses. The commissioning of the ion source and LEBT starts this year and will continue with the RFQ next year. In this contribution we will discuss the beam dynamics aspects and challenges of the ESS linac. (Less)